Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'RYC?JINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14. li)(>:i. vm.VTMw YVYVH. HA ?? ' ffERE IS THE SORT OF One that hm style and finish ; that ?ts and stays fit aU taut! a Summer 8wt made for wear, not simply to loo* |t. Ton Wt find such Clothes as t^^OS6? S?JK' Lwn. They are made by HABT SCHA?FHER & M&BX, Ind are priced at $9.00, $10.00 and $12.50. The uerfeot Tailoring'.of these Snits make them equal to fceD^lnrtomw?r^ atcne-?hird less than custom ta?er Tgood assortment of other Summer Clothes at $M?, 6.00, $7.00, $7.50 and ?8.60. < Wearing the Smile ?That Won^ G I? a sure sign that yon are pleased with the way the [orld is serving yon. "^eyfwe are wearing that sn?ler for )nr patronage so far this season has been veiy liberal, and; |o, all of yon seem to be weil pleased with what you got Un ichange for your dollar. We want to broaden that smile we are telling you about, | id to help you wear one equally as broad as ours, by offering >u a new lotof A 1ST WHITE GOOES, v PERCALES, bn to twenty yard lengths, thirty-six forty inches wide, the same pric? yon haye been paying for short lengths, ^perfect and narrower goods. Come to our Store and let us show you what value really ! If you can't come wrfte for samples. Send us your orders. McCall Bazar Patterns. ?ravi : vyn vnm ix vu. STow is the time your Baby needs a BABY O?JSRIAGffi i^^on ns for what yon want in that line or the PTOKI* ! ES FURNITURE CO. Funeral Directors and Undertakers. STATE HEWS. 1 > -r~ ' ? - The "Woodruff cotton mill will increaso its carita stock from $250,? OOO to $500,000. - The oldest soldier in South C?re Una i8 James Powers, of Richland County, a veteran of four wars. - From April 1902 to April 1903 the sum, of $526.04 was expended by the city of Abbeville on account of smallpox. , '-Supervisor D. D. Padgett, of Edgefield county, 37 years oid, drop* ped dead on the streets of Augusta, Ga., on Wednesday. -- Io about sixty days the internal revenue department will commence the payment of the rebate tobaooo claims in this State. - Lightning killed a negro* and a mule Wednesday .while in the field ploughing on the farm of W. G. Rico, Jr., near Curo naca. - Tho faat freight trains on thc Southern Railway have begun to carri peaches from Aiken and Ridge Spring to tho"Northern markets. .- Vast deposits of tin are Raid tc abound n o ar King's m o u n tai n. A well known official of the U. 8. geol?gico survey makes the statement. - The Graniteville cotton mill, on< of tho oldest and ' largest, in the Stat? and tho South, has shut down on ac count of the high prise of cotton. . .- The Masons of Florence at at early day will ereot a temple to eos $10,000. The lot has already beet purchased and arrangements perfect ed. - Pusey Davids, an aged negress was etruok by lightning and instantl; killed while sitting at the window o her shanty on St. Helena Island, nea Beaufort. . - The report of the directors o the Abbeville furniture factory show that the company made a profit of 2i per cont on its capital stock of $25,00i during last year.. -- Mies Lola A. Turner, of 8pai tanburg county, is suing her father Charles A. Turner, ? for alleged il treatment and oruelly beating hoi Damages of $10,000 are asked for. -L. H. Hankinson, of Beech Ie land, had? ob w bitten by a mad do, abouts year ago. Sue went mad few days, ago and had to be killed The same dog bit a little negro, but b is all right ' so far. ' - Union, who some time ago vote* to lax herself for the support of tb proffered Carnegie library, has af pointed committees to take charge c the matter and the library will b placed at an early date. - Ttie Citadel Cadets will hoi their annual encampment at Roc Hill this year, from 15th June t 1st:July. Col. Coward and Majo White have visited that town an s elected the grounds of the high eon oe for the,camp. -r Carey Styles, white, was tried, i Greenville last week for killing Vfal^t MoOarroll, at Highland, Greenvil! County, on the 19th of August lat and convicted of manslaughter. Hi brother Fm?ry was tried as nooes?or and acquitted. - Balley, in Aiken oounty, was al most completely wiped out by fit one day last week. The fire was caw ed by a bursting lamp in a millinei store. Only a few isolated dwelling wore left fr; tfc? village, which hud population of 2?2 persons. - After being out cf the State si months H. L, Lloyd, of Dalling toi has been arrested in Texas and willi brought back to this State to stat trial for th? forgery of a promise) note to the amount of. $162 on tl People's bank of Darlington. : - The trustees cf the Gibbes b quest bought at Charleston the site * the Old Grand opera hoiiso on Moe ing street and will ereot on it tho a Institute which was presented Charleston by the late James Gibbo Mr. Gibbes lett in his will more thi $100,000 to the city of Charleston. - The contract has been let f furnishing oroBSties for the rebuildi: cf the railroad from Greenville Marietta, kno *n as the "Ssramp Ri bit" ro ad - ^hion ?rac abandoned yee ago. The road will be built by a b lumber company that has bong thousands of acres of timber at t foot of the Bino Ridge mountains. - G. K. Russell, of Walhalla, w went to Union to do some plumbi for the Barr Hardware Company, Greenville, was instantly killed the explosion of a drum in a so iouotain which was being teoharg by Kugene Soafe, who.was not bu Russell was watching the filling oft drum and when it exploded it tor hob in his skull six or oight incl long. - On April 8 Julius Matthews, i morly of Marion, led to Hymen's al the girl of his ohoioo. He carri his bride, Miss Lilly Staivey, to I loo, Whare lifo'a journey began m auspiciously. Three weeks ago i v?as stricken with fever, which en< in her death last week. Jmt siS ; weeks from the day of their marris claim her bridal robes, her moi ! >iu?i?ri were carried to and ?nterrec ; the family burial ground near town of Marion. - A few nights ago groans juste side the house awoke the family .WV T. MoFali, at Pickens, and uj investigation the unconscious bod] Graig Mauldin, aoollogo student nephew cf Mr. MoFoll, who was BOC ing tho night with him, was fo lying on the ground under a Wind Being afflicted with somn?mbula tendencies, young Mauldin wal out a seoond story window w asleep on to a shed, and- from tl fell tc tho ground, a distance of feet, sustaining serious Injuries. GENERAL NEWS* Eight thousand barbers are out ou a strike in the city of Chicago. - An earthquake in Asiatic Tur key destroyed a tcv/n and killed hun dreds of people. -- Arrests have been made of post masters in the Philippine Islands for robbing the government. - A mob of men in Newoastle, Wyoming, lynched a rancher for mur dering a man and his wife. - Thousands .of poople in Kansas are being rondored homeless by floods. The situation at Topeka is desperate. - Eight trainmen were killed on. Wedn?sday in a collision of two freight trains on the Southern near Bryan, Ala. - A tornado destroyed the house of W. B. Wilson near Hereford, Tesas, on Thursday and his wife and baby were killed in it. - President Samuel Spenoer an nounces that the Southern railway will bo double tracked from Washing ton to Atlanta. - A largo tobacco warehouse back ed by Andrew Carnegie is to be start ed in Riohmond and operated exclu sively by negroes. -- The boll weevil has begun opera tions in Southern Texas. It oan be counted upon to keep down the supply ofeotton in the West. - Mrs. Tho?. Countess and her servant Margaret Morris were instant ly killed by lightning at Moridianville, Ala., on Wednesday night. - It is probable that the national, SOlitical conventions will be. held ?a t. Louis, next year, as the delegates will be able to take in the exposition. - The attorney .general of Texas has taken steps to break up an alleged insurance trust aud has entered suit againt fifty-nine foreign fire insurance companies. ' - Mrs. Adeline Patti will revisit America in November. She will sing sixty nights for $5.000 a'night. . Ber notes will be too high for the aver ago Amerioan ear. - There were 35 heat prostrations in New York oity ou Wednesday, seven of them proving fatal, arid there were three deatha from sunstroke the sal day in Philadelphia. - Terrible details of suffering and death have been reported-as a result of a famine in Kwangsi. Chino. Owing to three' successive failures of crops, people are dying-by the hundreds. - General John 8. Mosby, the fa mous Confederate cavalry officer, who is ut prosont nt Montgomery Ala., is enjoying excellent health', with ap parently many years of activity before him. - A train on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad was wrecked by the spreading of rails. The engineer and fireman Were killed and- tho engine, mail coach and two passenger coaches wore demolished, r - Andrew Bailey Young,-of Bel mont, N. H., who is 91 years old, still lives in the house in which he was born.. He and his wife celebrated the sixty-sixth anniversary of their marriage, last week. - The estate of Captain William Dunovant, who waa killed io Texas last year, has just been appraised at $691,126.50. There are 3,500 aores in cate, 3,000 in rico and tho balance in cotton and corn, the: Whole acreage being 11,000. --News comes of a horrible disaster in Armenia Thursday. An earth quake destroyed the town of Malas quierd, two thousand people, includ ing seven hundred Armenians, and .four hundred soldiers in garrison, being killed. - Mrs. Effie L. Carson, who shot and killed Robert Rigoby in Macon, Ga., some months ago for making slanderous remarks about her. has been acquitted. When the verdi ot of the . jury was ancoUneedthere was con siderable applause. - It xs estimated that there are close on to 200,000 men idle in the diff?rent boroughs of Greater New Yo.k as a result of strikes ordered by different unions and the lookout de oided upon by material and contrac tors in their fight against tho union's. - The Supreme court of the United States reversed the decision of the Supreme court of. North Carolina, whioh stated that a suit in which the Southern Railway was concerned could not be moved from the State. The Federal court held that it was a for eign corporation and the case was re movable to the'Federal ooa:t. - A lot of young fellows in an Ohio town had a good time with a tramp lest week. They- took him into a shed, gave him a good bath, shaved him and out his hail*. They then bought a new suit of elothes, white shirt and standing collar and dressed him out complete. But whon they attempted to burn his hobo clothes he objected and fought for .them with suoh desperation their suspicions were aroused and upon searching they found ??MAA ....J tm il.. ../v.* YA.WV up.U VUV WM?. -- A singular ease has oems to the notice of the physicians io Charlotte, N. C. ?T. T. Rushing, of that oity, has a little son about two years old, Who has always been very delicate. He appeared to suffer greatly with his -throat for a few months, and then his lungs seemed, to be affected; 'twas feared he had consumption. A few days ago his mother noticed some thing hard on his back just below the I shoulder, and touching it found a needle, which ?be pulled out without any trouble. The needle was very rusty, and the child must have swal lowed it when he was very yonng. The little child bids fair to bc very healthy now and bis case is exoitiog a good deal of ictercit. Townville Notes. Bov. John M. Landor, a missionary from Brazil, was unable to fill his ap pointment at this place on a<u?or>nt of sickness in his family. His brother, Prof. Lander, of tho Willinnistou Fe male College, delivered an eloquent lecture on Christian education. Prof. J. E. Chatham, ot Abbeville, principal of tho High School at this place, has returned home to spend va cation. 2 Mrs. B. S. Fant has been quito sick for tho past fow days. J/iss Helen Speared is spending awhilo with her sister, Mrs. J. B. Fel ton, at Ho noa Path. Calhoun Harris, of Anderson, spent Sunday with hie father, J. C. Harris. Bliss Mattie Bruce, who has befen attending the Brenan college nt Gain ao ville. Ga., has returned home to spend vacation. Messrs. E. S. Mahaffey, Jr., James MoCarley, Alec Bowen, J. C. and Mrs. Boggs wont on the excursion to Atlan ta last week. Allen Marett, and family, of Fair Play, visited C. D. Uiles SuDday. Rev. B. E. L. Campbell, ot Laurena, visited relatives in this vicinity quite recently. Mr. Wright and daughter. Miss Hat tie, of Fair Play, attended the lecture here Sunday. Mrs. W. W. Woolbright visited her father. B. Bagwell, at Seneca. Louis Ledbetter, of Anderson, is spending awhile with his grandmother, Mrs. E. E. Ledbetter. Messrs. Henderson and Graham, of Anderson, were in this vicinity quite recently. . Messrs. L.O. and J. B. Bruce attend ed the Sunday School Convention at Seneca last week. There will be prayor meeting every Sunday night at the Baptist Church at this place. All are cordially invited to attend? Pansy. * " ' am Lownde&viUe News. Miss Elizabeth Wyobe, of Elberton, who has been visiting Miss Ethel Speer, left Saturday to viBit friends at Easley before returning home. Tho Lowndesville High School closed last Thursday and on Friday a picnic was given in the grove near the Meth odist Church. Hon. Isaao ifoCalla and Congressman Wyatt Aiken made short speeches. For the past two years the sohool has been : successfully taught by Profs. J. F. Harper and H. T. Brooks. Prof. Harper was- reelect ed for another term, hnt Prof. Brooks declined reelection, as it is his inten tion to enter a ??edical College next term. Miss Kathleen Norry ce, of Anderson, is visiting J/lss Nellie Bowman. Mrs. Weston Harper is vi bi tin g Mrs. P. B. Allen at Starr. Mr. Clarence Young, of Anderson, spent Friday with the family of Mr. J. T. I -\timer. Miss Macio Bell, daughter of Mr. Jas. Bell, who was carried to Augusta a week ago and operated on for appen \ dicitis.ls doing nicely, and will soon be able to return home. Mr. and Mrs. Ardra Pressley came down from Anderson yesterday to spend a few daye vi th Mr. Caleb Clink scales'family before going to Cincin nati, where Mr. Pressley has accepted a lucrative position. Dr. T. O. Kirkpatrick has returned home after having taken, a special cour36 in medicine.* . Miss Lil Huckabee has returned home after a visit to friends and rela tives in Verderey, Greenwood and Ninety-six. Messrs. J. F. Barnes, Heard and Wy che, of Elberton, spent yesterday in town. Dr. J. E. Watson and S. B. Sherard, of Iva, attended the picnio here Fri %ne 1. _ Vedei. . Harris Bridge Items. We have been blessed with a little shower of rain, which was beneficial to all the farmers. John Wilson, of Oconee, has been visiting his brother, J. J. Wilson. Ira Cannon, of Abbeville, was the welcome visitor of friends and loved ones here. Come again, Mr. Cannon, we are always glad to see you. The crops look very well in our sec tion, considering everything. Clem and Claud Harris attended the union meeting at Neal's Creek last Sunday. Surely some attraction must be down there for these yoong men. J. C. Holder and little daughter, Savannah, visited her grandfather, S. A. Hutchison, at Elberton, Ga. Will Knox went on a business trip to West Union last week, i Mr. aad Mrs. Jim Harvin, of Ander son, recently visited the family of Mr. and Mrs. John Brown. The following went on the excursion to Atlanta last Wednesday: Messrs. Clem and Claud Harris, Allen Brown, Sam Buchanan, John Green, John Mc Clellan and Foster Mullikin. Jim McCellan and pretty daughter, Miss Nellie, of Anderson, visited tho former's sister, Mrs. Oscar Harris, last Sunday. ' Mrs. Bettie Campbell has the finest garden this scribe has seen. Mrs. ampbell is a popular and up-to-date gardener. A Maiden. Flat Rock News. - We are glad to state that we have had a fine rain. The farmers haven't had enough rain in four weeks lo bring up cotton until yesterday (8unday) wnen we had a good season. Dr. B. A. Thompson has moved his family back to the country, having moved to Anderson last fall to school his chiUren. . . . .' _ A njad dog was killed near Anderson last week. The little folks had netter be very caret ol how they play on the side of roads. . , , . S. L. Stevenson has reached homo from j9f (ami, Fla., where he has been for some time. . " ... J. E, Carter, of Hartwell, Ga., visit ed his mother's family last week. Miss Corrie Thompson has been very sick at Charleston, where she is attend ing school. , . . ' 1 Hiss Lucy Carter is improving af tor along illness, much to the joy of her friends. , ._.?, _ Henry Brown and wife visited near here last Sunday. Blue Eyes. MONEY TO LOAN-A lew thousand dollrra to lend oo Land for clients. Ap ply to B. P. Martin, Attorney-at-Law. Ditching Shovels-Alf kinds and at lowest prices. Sullivan Hardware Co. have ten patterns of Shovels from whloh you can toke your choice. wivxa.^a. T XXX- XIV/* UV? Still Moving Albu YES The Biggest Spring Trade of our Lives. Satisfied customers ls the secret of it. ?filmore than the worth of your dollar or your dollar back. We are making a speoialty of Ladies' Black Dress Goods This Spring, and my ! the quantities we are selling. WHY ? Because we are fixed on them. Selling price given at tho Store and not in the papers, as it would take too muoh time and space to list them all. COME ONE, COME ALL, And see how muoh CHEAPER we are than others. To look at our BLACK GOODS means you, will buy. Watch this space. Good things to tell you from time to time. N Yours to please, ALL SORTS OF BIG BARGAINS ! QWE are making SPECIAL PRICES on Goods in all De partments* Note particularly our prices on Hardware and Stoves. They are lower than ever before made in this market on the same class of Goods. TOOLS. Steel Square.75o Iron Square.45o 6-iaob Try8quare..10o 6-inoh Toy Brass Band.20o A good Hand Saw.3o9 A better Hand 8aw. .?.^ 75o A Guaranteed Hand Saw.1.15 Cast Nail Hammer. 10o Steel Nail Hammer.25o 5- inch Sorew Driver.10c 6- inoh " ". 15o 8-inch " " .25o A small Hatohet.. 5o A larger Hatchet....10o A larger ami better Hatchet.15o Our bebt ?u.tcuot.25o 6-inoh Monkey Wrench.. .23o Hand Saw Fiieo. 5o 12-inoh Mill Saw Files.15o 14-inoh Horse Shoe Hasp.25o 4-inch Pliers.. lOo 6-inoh Pliers. 15o Cutting Pliers..25o and 35o 25-foot Tape Measure.25c 10-inoh Brace, 50o kind.25o 10-inoh Ratchet Brace, $1.00 kind 50o 10-inoh Batohet Brace, nickel pla ted, $1.25 kind.75o Bitts for above Braces.5o and up Briok Mason's Trowel. 55o Pointing Trowel. 20o Pincers. lOo Oil Stones, large size.25o Spring Door Hinges, complete... 15o Garden Trowels. 5o Spading Forks...?.......?-. 5o Weeding Forks.5o Taoks, per box. lo Sure Catch Mouse Trap. So 5- holo Tin Mouse Trap. 5o Sure Catoh Kat Trap. lOo Hat Raok.lOo Towel Roller. lOo Egg Porcher.lOo Egg Beater..2o to 100 Porcelain-lined Lemon Squeezer.. 25c Spring Cork Sorew, 25c kind.lOo Water Coolers.$2.25 to $2.50 Compare these prices on Ice Cream Freezers ; ?-Pint Ice Cream Freezer.$1.25 2- Quart Ice Cream Freezer. 1.45 3- Quart loo Cream Freezer.1.75 4 Quart Ice Cream Freezer.2.00 6- Quart Ice Cream Freezer.2.50 8 Quart Ice Cream Freezer.3.25 Heavy Hotel Tumblers, set.35o Fly Traps.12o and 15o Spring Balanoes. lOo Door Bells.25o Dinner Bells.5o to 500 Whitewash Brushes.5c up to 25o Briok Butter Moulds.30o Aluminum Table Spoons, set.... 6O0 Aluminum Tea Spoons, set.30o Coat and Hat Hooks, dozen.15o Kitchen Cleavers. 25o Knives and Forks.45c RANGES AND COOKING STOVES. CD Our leader in RANGES are : THE MARBLE CITY. S27 60 on mc THE MAlttiLE CITY-larger. 9*. 'g In COOKING STOVES our leaders aro : THE PET.... .... 8 00 SOUTHERN STAR..... 1200 The difference in nrioes is really the only difforonoe betweon these Stoves and Ranges and other "high grade Stoves and Ranges add at $40.00 and $50.00. Get one of our Stoves or Rangos and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that, though your neighbor' paul a bigger prioe, she has nothing ^et'*r' Yours always truly, * JOHN A. AUSTIN AND THE MAGNET, And the 5c and 10c Store-The Man down nest to^he Post Office that Sells the Beet.