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Ladies a a Or too tired or too busy to buy the ma terial, we invite your attention to our Ready Made Waists. We have quite a large variety, Popular Sty les! Popular Prices ! White Lawn Waists At $1.00, $1.25, |? $i.eo, $2.or, $2.80, $3.00. y. I 4... . ? I m f ff ? fj. Waists At $1.00, $1.25, $1.50. Black Satine Waists At $1.00, $1.25. Elegant Black Mohair Waists Price $2.50. White Linen Waists lilli lp I Brown Linen Waists $2.00. mm $2.00, A more up-to-date line of Waists cannot be found in this ar Black \Silk Waists At $8.00, $5,00, . $6.00, f Axe exceptional values. ladies will save time and worry, as well as money, by jfting through our Stock of Beady-io-Wear Waists. Your* truly, EME mm Wholesale and Retail Dealers ia X . enera.1 Merolian<iise tl ?lTOKIi?fiiOKr. S. CV Local News WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22. 1804 S. M. Wolfe is in Sumter for a brief stay. Jone weddings aro becoming to bo quite fashionable. Miss Anna Cunningham ie visiting friends in Charleston. ' Capt. Alex BIcBee, of Greenville, was in the city on Monday. Misa Nelle Harris, of Calhoun, is visiting relatives in the city. J/iaa Mabel Brown, of Atlanta, is visiting relatives in the city. Hon. G. H. Mahon, mayor of Green ville, was in the city Saturday. The supply of spring chickens ia not equal to the demand in the city. Mr. and -Mrs. R. C. Webb left Mon day for a trip to Northern pointa. ; Mrs. M. E. Paget, of Ridge Spring, is visiting her son, J. M. Pnget; Esq. Mrs. W. E. Atkinson is viailiug rela tives in Richbarg, Chester County. Levi N. Geer has moved into his new residence near the new oil mill. Mrs. J. E. Norris and children, of Ensley, are in the city visiting rela tives. C. F. Jones has gone to the Northern markets to replenish his stock of dry goods. The threshers have started and the fine wheat crop assures them a good business. Mrs. S. D. Brownlee and daughter, Miss Clive, are spending some time in Asheville. Clarence A. Smith, of High Point, N. C., is visiting his sister, Mrs. J. W. Quattlebaum. Mrs. Leila Spindle and children, of Richmond, are visiting the family of G. P. Browne. Miss Mattie Gammell, of Atlanta, Ga., is in the city visiting the family ox J.1 L. Arnold, sr. Miss Rosa Reynolds, of Greenwood, is the gueBt of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. DaviB for a few days. A number of our people are contem plating spending a few weeks in the mountains this summer. Miss Zoe Broyles is spending a few weeks at Pickens visiting her grand uncle, Capt. W. T. McFall, Prof. J. Scott Murray, of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., has come home to spend the Summer vacation. Hon. I. H. McCalla, of Lowndesville, who is a candidate for Congress, spent a few da j s in the city last week. Miss Pearl McGhee, of Starr, spent a day or two in the city last week visit ing Mrs. S. E. Holland's family. There are two valuable crops that can be profitably planted in July. The late Irish potato crop and tho rutabaga crop. The family of B. Frank Cray ton have zone np to Join him on bia farm near Townville, and will spend the Summer there. The "gocd old summer time" bas surely come. According to the alma nacs yesterday was the last day of spring. Miss Nettie Symmes has returned to her home at Greenville after an ex tended visit to her sister, Mrs. C. A. Gambrell. Some of the farmers tell ns that the dry weather has seriously injured the watermelon crop in some sections of the county. With this issue The Intelligencer en ters upon its fortieth vol?me, and feels as vigorous and active as it did in its youthful days. Mr. and Mrs. J. Temple Ligou have returned from their bridal trip to Asheville and other points in Western North Carolina. An important notice to the stock holders of the Farinera' Alliance Ex change of South Carolina is publised ip another column. Misses Mamie and Belle Norris, who have.been attending college in Spar tanburg, returned nome last week to spend the vacation, Mrs. A. Ii. Welch and Miss Della Burris, of Anderson, 8. C., visited the family of Dr. W. I. Hailey thia week. -Hartwell (Ga.) Sun., A bank waa organised a few days ago at Mount Carmel, in Abbeville County, and B. Frank Mauldin, of this city, Was elected president. Master Douglas Featherstone, of Laurens, S. C., is in the city spending a few weeks with bia grandfather, J. C. C. Featherstone, Esq. Wm. C. Sherard, of Abbeville, who baa been visiting bis old homo m this County, ?pent awhile in the city yes* tordoy on hi a return home. Hon. D. H. Mcgill, ono of Green wood's popular and prominent citizens and lawyers, spent a day or two in the city last week attending Court. Miss Mary McCoy left yesterday for her home in Charleston. She will re turn in September to resume her duties as teacher in the graded schools. Our townsman. J. H. BasB; left Mon day for Marah ville, N. C., in response to a telegram announcing the serious illness of his father, who lives there. Miss Carrie Spearman, who has been attending the Peabody Normal College in Nashville, Tenn., returned home a few days ago to spend the Summer va cation. It is rumored that a party of capital ista from the North are considering the question of erecting a cotton waste mill in Anderson with a capital- of ?200,000. The Ninety Six correspondent of the Greenwood Index says: "MisaBetsie Cray ton, one of Anderson's prettiest girls, is visiting her pretty consin, Miss lone Weir." Col. James Canaler, of Tirzah. S. C., "the jolly candidate for Railroad Com sioner," spent a few days in Anderson last weekrseeking old friends and mak ing new ones. ???""'."". Married, at tho home of the bride, in this city, on Thursday afternoon, Jnnn 10,1004. nv. fier. D. W. Keiic-, Mr. JamesGriffin and Miss Grace Shirley, all of this city. Miss Marion Wilcox, the pretty little daughter of onr former townsman, W. Ai. Wilcox, of Elberton, Ga., is in the Sit?'vlsi ting hergrandparents. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Tolly. MT yo?io Dobbins, of Royston, Ga., came ?er to Anderson last week to attend the funeral of J. Lawrence Mc Gee's little eon, and spent a few days her? with friends. , i/aj.T. H. Russell, of Williamston. ia in tho city visiting tho families of bia sons, W. W. and D. H. Russell. Ile is now one of Anderson County's oldeet citizens, and is holding his own remarkably well. Invitations have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. Gadsden J. Bee, of this city, to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Bee, to Mr. C. Moody Mc Clure, on Monday evening, Juno 29tb, at their home on Uiver street. Miss Gertrude Sanders has returned to her home at Anderson, 8. C., after having spent the past term here at school. While here, ehe made many friends, who will regret very much to see her leave.-Augusta Chronicle. It ia nt a tod that several persona io Oconee County who were found guilty in the Federal Court at Greenville of violating the federal liquor laws, wero allowed to go home and work tneir crops, and servo their sentence in Au gust. 3. O. Jackson has resigned his posi tion as street overseer in order to give his time to his candidacy for county supervisor. Ile is succeeded by John Erskine, whose experience as assistant to Mr. Jackson will make him a capa ble oilicer. Jira. Mary Keith, who has beou spending several months at Saulsbr.ry, N.C., with her daughter, Mrs. Ove. mau, baa returned to Anderson. MIK. Overman, accompanied by her noice, Miss Flora Chapman, of this city, leave shortly on a trip to Europe. Dr. Jas. N. Anderson and wife, of Tallahassee, Fla., are visiting relatives and friendo at Williamston and other sections of the County. Dr. Anderson is a professor in the Florida State Uni versity, and has many friends in An derson County who are delighted to see him. h. P. Smith's excursion from Wal halla to Charleston left hero yesterday morning with moro than four hundred passengers aboard. With those he will nick np at Belton and Honea Path, Mr. Smith probably entered Charleston last night with more than five hundred passengers. . John W. Todd, of Seneca, and Albert W. Todd, of Charleston, are announced as candidates for the House of Repre sentatives in their respective Counties. These gentlemen, who are brothers, are natives cf Anderson, and their friends here would be more than pleas ed to see them elected. Married, on Wednesday morning, June 13, 1904, at the homo ot the bride's father, B. P. Wilson, Esq., in this city, by Rev. J. D. Chapman, Mr. Wm. S. Div ver and Miss Nellie G. Wilson, both of this city. After the ceremony the bride and groom left on a short trip to the exposition in St. Louis. Marvin M. Mann, a recent graduate of the law department of the South Carolina College, has been in the city for several days with friends. He has decided to locate here for the practice of his profession, and hao opened an office in the poBtottice building. He is a son of Hon. W. D. Manu, former sheri!!'of Abbeville Cpunty. Miss Minta Pressley, of Septus, who has been attending the Co-Educational Institute at Edgeiield, S. C., the past cession, has returned home to spend the summer vacation, and ia cordially welcomed by her many friends. She had a most pleasant stay in Edgefleld, and was more than pleased with the Institute and its able faculty. A telegram was received in the city yesterday afternoon by John R. Ii roy lea announcing the deatn of his nephew, Robert B roy lea, a son of Dr. O. R. Broyles, formerly of this city. The y ou UK man was employed as a nagmau on tho Southern Railway, and waa ac cidentally hilled while in the discharge of his duties near Knoxville, T?nn. No particulars were given. Invitations have been received in the city to the marriage of David C. Clark, of Union, and Miss EsBie Paco let Jones, of Gaffney, which event will take place next Wednesday morning, 29th inst., at the home of the bride. Mr. Clark is the eldest son of Elias lt. Clark, formerly of Anderson, and has many friends here who will join us in extending him congratulations. Mrs. Jane McFall was bitten by a dog. supposed to be mad, at Due West on Tuesday afternoon, 14th inst. One of her arma was badly lacerated. Mrs. McFall ia the mother of Mrs. Dr. J. C. Harris, of th'o city. She came here Wednesday and next morning went to Atlanta to be treated. She has many friends in Anderson Count/ whom we join in wishing her a speedy recovery. The storm which passed over a part of Brushy Creek section in Anderson County on the 9th did its greatest dam ages in the neighborhood of Mr. I. W. Pickens. On his place it blew down a tenant house in which Jack Ellison, colored, lived, also the ell of another house oce?nica by Barries Hallams. A valuable horse belonging to Mr. Pickens was killed by a stroke of light ning jost before the storm.-Easley Progress. John Webb, a negro about 25 years of age, who was employed by J. 8. 'Fowler, dropped dead last Friday af ternoon on Church street, near the Central graded school building. A lady, who lives near there, saw the negro fall, and he was dead before any one reached him. Dr. J. C. Harrie was calle I to the negro's side, and, after examining him, pronounced the cause hean failure. No inquest was held, as the Coroner did not deem it necessary. The Associate Reformed Presbyte rians in and around the city will meet the second Snnday of Joly for the pur Eose of forming an organisation and nilding a house of worship in the city. It is proposed to abolish the church at Concord, near the city, and consolidate the membership there and in Anderson into one organization. Rev. R. A. Lammas has been sent here for the Nummer, and will have charge of the preliminary work of organizing the new congregation. The County Normal School for teach ers opened Monday morning with an attendance of 68. This is the largest attendance for the first day in the his tory of the summer school, and it is expected that more than 100 will be enrolled before tb? end of the session. The instt uetora are. Prof. T. C. Wal ?on. pedagogy and literature; Prof. P. t. Grier, mathematics; Prof. R. D. Epp* civics arid history; Miss Fannie Wideman, music and drawing; Miss Lottie Crosby, primary methods. Rev. j; E. James 'Jas been called to the pastorate of the Central Presby terlau Cbnreb. This action was taken by the congregation last Sunday. Rev. Mr. James is a graduate of Princeton Seminary, and his recent visit here im Sreseed the congregation, before whom cpreached, as a young man of great ppwer and eloquence. For several months he has supplied the Presbyte rian Church at Easley, . It is expected that be will accept, and that in a short time he will enter upon his work. Messrs. W. B. Magruder and P. & I K. Crowther have commenced the erection of a two-story brick building op their iota adjoining each other ou i McDufke street, just in the rear of Tho Intelligencer building. Tho Messrs Crowthers building will be about 40x50 feet, and will beoccupied by the Couu ty dispensary. Mr. Magruder's build ing will bo between the Mesara. Crow thers building and the dwelling house on the corner, and will contain two store-rooms 20x40 feet, with a large cellar under each room. In a special dispatch, under date of the 20th inst., the Washington corres pondent of the Greenville News says : "A South Carolina man has been issued a patent by the United States patent omeo for an automatic threading de vice for loom shuttles. The inventor is an Anderson man. Robert L. Cum nock. Mr. Cumnock has nssigued forty-nine hundreds of hia interest to James A. Rrock aud Robert E. Ligon, also of Anderson. Mr. Cumnock's in vention may be of great interest to tho cotton mill people of tho State.'' Moses Ashley, of tho Lovel Land section, celebrated his 00th birthday on the 7th of June. His children, grand children and great-grandchildren gath ered at the old home place to celebrate tho event and set up an elegant picnic dinner for the patriarch and there was moro than euough to satisfy the family of tifty who were assembled. The day was auspicious and everything passed oil'pleasantly. Mr. Ashley is in vig orous health and spent the next day ut work in the field shocking wheat. He is a good citizen and appears to have years ahead of him.-Abbevillo Me dium. Tho many friends in the city of Miss Ethel Fincnnoon and Mr. Oscar Aahe will be pleasantly surprised to hear of their wedding, which occurred Wed nesday morning at 8 o'clock at the bride's home, the ceremony being per formed by Rev. W. S. Hnmiter of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Ashe is an unusually pretty lady, and aa Miss Fin cannon was very popular among a large circle of f rieuds. Mr. Ashe formerly lived In Franklin, N. C., but recently moved to Anderson, where he holds a fine position. The wedding was a very quiet one, being witnessed bv the im mediate family of the bride and groom. -Seneca Farm and Faotory. Last Saturday afternoon while bath ing in Saluda River, near Pelzer, with several of his friends, Ernest Bagwell, a young man about 21 years of ago, was drowned. A pet dog bnd been car ried cut into the river, and while at tempting to get back to land, it got tangled in some brush and was in dan ger of drowning. Bagwell went to its rescue, got into very deep water, and before his friends realized his condi tion he sank out of their sight. Every effort was made to find his body, hut it waa not found until Sunday morning. The deceased was a worthy, industri ous young man, and highly esteemed by his friends. His parents died seve ral years ago. The Federation cf Women's Clubs had a delightful and interesting moot ing in Newberry last week. Miss Va nna Brown, of thia city, waa elected Treasurer to ser^e the ensuing year. The annual meeting next year will be held at Union. The Newberry Even ing Telegram, ia speaking of some of the delegates attending the Conven tion, sayB : "One of the most inter ested members of the Convention ia Mrs. Cora Ligou, of Anderson. She has been the recipient of many cour tesies and attentions while in New berry. Mrs. John M. Patrick, one of the delegates to the convention from Anderson, is the wife of Colonel John M. Patrick, the assistant adjutant and inspector general of South Carolina and is a very charming and handsome woman." A Farmers7 Institute will be held at Williamston on July 11th. There will be speaking in the spring park at 10.80 o'clock a. m. and at 2 p. m., when Prot. J. S. New man and other Clemson pro fessors will deliver addresses. At night in th -?liege Chapel there will be a me j menially tor the ladies, with talkoou uomeand school adornment, horticulture and home dairying. In the afternoon at 4.80 o'clock there will be % game of baseball. Abroas band will furnish muBic throughout the day. The committee invites everybody to come and bring well-filled dinner bas kets, watermelons, peaches, etc. The candidates, too, are invited to attend. The occasion will no doubt attract a large crowd from both Anderson and Greenville Counties. The school at the Anderson Cotton Mills closed last Friday with appro priate exercises. The Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union of this city has fora number of years given a medal tor the best declamation on the subject of temperance, and the exercises each year consist of speeches andi songs bearing on the liquor traffic. Two medals were offered this year? one for a boy and one for a girl. The winnora were Hiss Eunice Brooke and Master Bret Ayers. The medal? were pre sented by Rev. 8am. T. Creech. Miss Icey Craft won the prize offered by the principal for the oest record in at tendance in the third and fourth gradee. The mill school runs fora term of ten months, and the past ses sion has been a very successful one under the care of experienced teach ers. ANNOUNCEMENT. . Having sold the entire Sewing Ma chine branch of my business to Messrs. H. E. Todd. & Cb., recently of New berry, 8. C., I take thi$ opportunity of extending my sincere (hanks to ail who . have favored me with their patronage, and to commend my successors of the new firm, who come to our eily with the highest endorsements as honorable and reliable gentlemen, and who will con tinue the business at Ute old stand, No. 117 North Main Street. I liave retained, and will continue, the Music Department, and with new additions to cur Stock can offer better inducements than ever before to those who may contemplate the purchase of Piano*, Organs, or anything pertain ing to the Music business. Respectfully, C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. FOR SALE-Tin Roofing, lu fine con dition, $1.50 per tquare. Cover your outbuildings at low coat. Inquire of J. H. Casey, over Bank of Anderson, or foreman at Patrick Institute. 52-4 fBiarset?ss ts Asthma Sufferers. "I have bad asthma for threo* or four years and bav? tried about all tl a cough and asthma eurea io the market." sav? Daniel Baute, of Ottervllle, Iowa, ' and have receleved treatment from phy <doians lo New York and other ettie*, but got very little benefit until I triod Foley's Honey and Tar which gave me lame ditto relief and I will never be without it In my. hnuve. I sincerely reoommerfd lt to all." Evana Pharmacy. . -FOR Warmer Weather I ? Such as Sacks, In smooth Worsteds (top-no tckers for style) and rough) Homespuns (always right.) We have them in a multitude* of tasteful mistures, fresh from the Stein-Bloch benches? Four button, three button, English (square away fzont) sin? gie and double breasted. Why be tailor-troubled, when you can be fitted as soon, as you are sized ? jj Our experiment station is open all day. Chas. B. Hall Co. CUT PRICE CLOTHIERS. -??E==3W?^?^?^a#sr - Contemplating a change in our business on July 1st, an?v in order to reduce our stock by that time, we offer our entire, stock of Clothing, Hats, Shoes* Men's Furnishings, AT A DISCOUNT OF (mm pea IiVll&t Remember, we haye no shelf-worn Goods to show you. - Everything Fresh and New. Sale commences Monday, May 30th. G? As REESE Marble Front, Next to F. and M. Bank.