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AS OTHER A-nderson's IProgres James A. Hoyt, Jr Anderson, May 26.?Anderson is a peculiarly appropriate place for a bauIrerV couventiou, inasni teh as the bauks if thi.) oity and county have aobieve? a noiabls record. it ii csid* ihat in proportion to pop ulation Auderaor. has a larger bank ing capital than ivny other interior town in South Carolina. Whether this be true exactly or not cannot be uaid from the information at hand, but it is well known that the business of banking has for many years been profitably conducted in this city of growing, thriving Piedmont, and this fact is largely due to the confidence and patronage which the farme/s of this superb farming county have ac corded these home instituions. The National Bank of Anderson was organized in tho year 1872, when South Carolina was anything but a prosperous State, and when there were anything but prosperous times just ahead. Its capital stock was $50,000. The president was Col. Joseph X. Browa. who had carved his name as a gallant soldier in war and then proved his fitness for leadership in times of peace. The cashier was Mr. J. A. Brock and the. assistant cashier was Mr. B. Frank Mauldin, the recently, retired president of the State Bank ers' Association* The National Bank of Anderson was successful from the start and for 19 years paid a dividend of 12 per cent. In 1891 it stood eighth in banking value in the United States and third in tht South. In that year it was determin-j ?d to liquidate and organize another bank, not a national bank. The bank wound up its affairs; and the stockholders were paid $475 for every $100 they had put in. The Bank of Anderson was organ ized as the sucoessor of the National Bank of Anderson. Col. Brown vol untarily retired from the presidency and Mr. Brook was elected president and Mr. Mauidin made cashier, Col. Brown being elected vice-president and attorney, and these gentlemen now hold the positions just named. The capital stock is $150,000, and every yeat of its existence the Bank of Anderson has paid 10 per cent, its surplus now being $150,000. The Farmers' and Merchants' Bank was organized in 1888, with the late R. S. Hilles president ?nd Mr. J. R. Van ciiver as cashier. The capital was at first $50,000 and it was subsequent ly i noreaaed to $100,000. It has paid 10 per cent, regularly and its surplus is *iow $120,000. Upon the death a few months ago of Mr. Hill?a gentle man whom Anderson misses sorely? Mr. Vandiver was made president, and Mr. J. Boyoe Burriss was made cashier. The Fopple'? Bank was organized only six years ago with a capital stock of $100,000 and with Mr. Fret well, as president?and Mr. Fretwell is capital stock himself* This .bank has paid a dividend of 8 per cent, regularly and is doing a good business. The cashier is Mr. John N. Bleckley. An institution which is an adjunct in a senBC to. the Farmers' and Mer chants' bank is the Farmers' Loan and Trust company, whioh was organ- ! ized in 1902 with a capital stock of t75,000. Mr. R. S. Hill was the first president of this institution- and on his death Mrs Vandiver succeeded him in that position also. A glance at the banking business of thie community takes in only part of the field unless some mention is made of the banking ) institutions throughout tho county of Ander son. The Bank of Belton,. at Belton, was organized in 1899 wit a capital of $50, 00O and its surplus is; now 30,000 and 11 has been paying 10 per cent. The officers arc: B. A. Lewis, presided; Ellison A. Smyth, vice-president, and W.E. Geer cashier. Th? Belton Saving bank is capital ized at 25,000, having been organized in 1903, ?he Farmcra' Bank of Belton *?b also organised in 1003. the eapV l^H^^QpO.. Judge W. F. Cox y\vnmWl^Bm^t Ashury O. Lst imer is vice?pre?id?nt and John A. Horton is cashier. At Hones ?fcth the Citizens? Bank J-s organized jn 1900 with L. Ai Brock as president, J. C. Milford as rtce-prasident and P. W. Sullivan cashier. The capital ia $35,000 and Ibe baok. <it*r paying 8 per cent, for the fiVf/years of its existence, now h?8 e surplus of $17,000. The Bank of Honea Path was or ganized 10,1903 with R. M. Shirley President, J. D. H?mmert vio?-preBi ?ant and T. R. Fin?ey cashier. The oat?tsl is $25,000, and the surplus is aotf a'bo?t $4,000, Bank of Pendleton, in the up P*r sectWof the county, was estab lished in 1809 with a capital of $30, $ SEE US. s is Sure and Steady. ., in Columbia State. 000, and it has paid 10 per oent. its surplus now being about $5,000. M. M. Hunter is president and J. J. Sitton is cashier. The Bank of Williamston, at Wil liamston, was formed in 1000 with a capital of ?20,000; it has paid 8 per cent, and its surplus now is $6,000. The president is James 1\ Gossett and the cashier is JO , M. Lander. At Pelzer the Chioora Savings Bank was established in 1886 with a capital of $20,000, and its surplus is now twice that amount? $40,000. Gapt. Ellieon A. Smyth is president and J. A. Hudgins is cashier. At Starr, on the Augusta road, th?v Bank of Starr has a oapital o* *i?t- ' 000 having been established this year. Its officers are: A. S. Bowie, presi- ' dent, J. B. Tandiver vice-presi dent, and W. A. Hudgins cashier. Tho Bank of Iva was also organized this year, the oapital being $15,000. T. G. Jackson is president, J. E. Watson is vice president and H. 11. Sherard is cashier. The recently retired president of the Bankers' Association, Mr. B. F. Mauldin, has a right to bo regarded as a typical banker if the extent of his banking interests is a criterion. It has already been stated that he is the cashier of the Bank of Anderson. He is also an officer in eaoh of several banks in neighboring towns, though outside of Anderson County. Mr. Mauldin is president of the Bank of Due West, which was estab lished in 1900 with $8,500 capital paid in. This bank now has a surplus of $7,500. Mr. A. S. Kennedy is vice president and cashier. The Bank of Hodges is another in stitution of which Mr. Mauldin is the president. It was established in 1904 with a oapital of $10.000 paid in, and now has a surplus of $2,000* The vice-president is E. S. Tinsley and the cashier is B. S. Hodges. The Lowndesviiie Banking company in Abbeville County, as are the two above, was organized in 1904 with a paid-in capital ' of $12,500. Mr. Mauldin is president, Mr. T. D. Cooley is vice-president and B. H. Mosely is cashier. In 1900 the Bank of MoCormick was established with a oapital of $25,000, and now has a surplus of $15,000. Mr. Mauldin is the presi dent,\Mr. G. E. Britt is cashier and Mr. G. E. Bradley is nrslecant cash ier. The secret of the banking suocess of Anderson is not difficult to ascertain. Anyone who is familiar with the business conditions of the county will tell you that it is largely due to the fact that the farmers believe in the banks and patronize the banks, being both stockholders and depos itors. As Anderson is now, and has always been, an esc el lent agricul tural community, this means a great deal. . "Auderson," said a banker of this city, "was the first county in South Carolina to put the farmers on a cash basis. Today practically all the far ming business of this county is con ducted on a cash basis, and we re gard the f armor a' loans no tho best class of business that comes our way, They are usually prompt to pay. They deposit in the banks and this increases our resonrcea aud our busi ness to a tremendous extent. The deposits in tho banks of this city range from $800,000 to $1,000,000." "The farmers, then," it-was sug gested, 'Wo in pretty good condition in this county?" "Tes, they are. Nearly all of them pay cash, and if any of them need a loan their neighbors endorse for them, and that is all the security they need to get money at the bank. The land lords endorse for their tenants and the Hen businessis practically un known here." One of the largest merchants of Anderson . confirmed this statement, and asserted that so .far as. Anderson county was concerned tho lien law had been practically repealed. Ho said ho could remember the time when ho had to persuade a farmer friend to de? posit his money in the bank but that now the farmers and the banks are on the most friendly terms and this con-, dition is of great Kelp to the farm er. Keferring to tltu present condition off the farmers, it is stated that the farmers have held a large number of bales of cotton of last year's crop and one banker stated that many of the farmers who have cotton hold over 1m abundantly able to hold it another season through. The farmers of An* derson county are thoroughly in line with the - recent movement to organ ise, and the organisation in this county is said to he strong and iutel liftoritly directed, but no esti?&to of the reduction of acreage could be se cured?though the- rains are matting the acreage at prescsi. There is one ootton warehouse in this city?to the success of which Mr. Lewis W; Parker referred in his re marks the other day. This ia the Farmers' Warehouse oompaoy, of which Mr. R. E, Ligon is the mana ger. It does a good business and has paid dividends regularly. The ca pacity is about 5,000 bales, and last fall the warehouse could not hold all the cotton there was to be stored, and the cotton mills carried the over flow. The productien of Anderson county is normally about 45,000 bales but last year the production ran up to 57,000 bales according to the govern ment reports. This county, it is thus seen, ig one of the largest cotton pro ducing counties in South Carolina. But its farmers are not cottontots by any means. It is also a large cotton manufac turing county. Tho fame of its cot ton mills ban gone far abroad. The Pendleton Manufacturing company was organized with private capital as far back as 1835?one of the oldest ootton mills in the state. The Pel.ter mills are known the world over for "Heir produot, and Pelzer ia perhaps '.he largest exclusively cotton mill town in the State. The Brogon mill in the oity of Anderson is not yet so famous but it deserves to be, for it is a unique institution among the cotton mills of South Carolina and in point of construction and production is well worth seeing and describing. The list of cotton mills in this county is about ar much as can be given in the space at the disposal - of this artiole, but this of itself is very } informing. The Anderson cotton mill has a capital of $600,000; runs 70,000 Bpindles and 1,864 looms; employs 1, I 200 hands and oonsumes annually 18, 000 bales of cotton. Tho product is 4 to 7 yards sheetings, converted into tine print cloths. The president is Mr. J. A. Brook?whose name appears at the head so many Anderson en terprises. Tho Brogon mill?of which more extended notice will be taken later? has a oapital of $600,000; runs 25, 000 spindles and 1,000 looms; employs about 1,000 hands and consumes about 10,000 bales of ootton. Its produot is the unique feature?outing cloths, etc. The president is Mr. Brook and the vice-president and treasurer is Mr, B* ?. Ligen. Tue mill gets its name from the. two names, Brook and Ligon?Bro-gon. The Corona mill, knitting, ia cap italized at $13,000 and it makes a medium grade of Misses and chil dren's hose. This president is Mr. Geo. W. Evans, a young business man. The Cox mill is capitalized at $200, 000 and runs 25,(00 spindles with a consumption of 5,000 bales of long staple ootton, making fine long staple yarns. The president is Judge W. :F. Cox. The mill during last year doubled its capitis. r" 3ck and its plant. The Gluok mill is capitalized at $600,000 and runs 25,000 spindles, turning out several grades of cotton cloths, some of them mercerized, moat of them 40 inch-wide goods weighing 11 yards to the pound or 36 inch goods weighing 1Q yards to the pound. Some of the brands are bleached and others are converted into print cloths. The first president of the Gluck mill was the late Mr. B. 8. Hill and his successor is Mr. K. Ligon. Of the Orr mill the late Col. James L. Orr was president and on his death ! his brother, Dr. 8. M. Orr, v?as elect ed to suooeed him. The capital is $800,000; it has 56,536 spindles and 1,450 looms and makes 3 to 5}-yard sheetings for the expert trade. The Riverside mill was at first cap italised at $112,000, with 10.000 cpiudics, but recently the capital was inoreased to $225,000 and the number of spindles and espaoity doubled. It makes 20's to 30's yarns and warps. The president is Mr. D. P. Me Breyer. The Townoend mill has a capital of $50,00 and runs 5,000 spindles, turn ing out twine, carpet warps, cones and tubes. The mill is the personal prop erty of Mr. H. O. Townsend. The Toxaway mill is just across the Blue .Ridge Hail way from the River fide mill and Mr. MoBrayer is also president of this mill. The capital is $200,000 and the number of spindles j is 12,000, making fine print cloths. Outside of Anderson oity, but within Anderson County, are a num ber of mills, some of them large ones. They are: Bellon?Capital, $700,000; spindles 152,000; produot, sheetings and twills; president B. A: Smyth. 1 Hone* Path?Capital, $400,000; spindles, 40,000; produot, broad print cloth; pr?sident, J. D. Hanmett. Pelzer?Capital, $1.000,000: spin il?s ;. 130,000; product, sheetings, shirtings and drills for the export trade; president,-E. A. Smyth. Pcndleton?Oapital, $65,000; spin dles, 3,120; product, carpet yarns and special ti-j; president, Mr. A. JvvBit ton. Piedmont?Capital, $800,000; spin- j dies, *5&,500; product, 3 %o -4 y??dj sheetings and drills, president, Mr. W. K. Beattie, succeeding recently the late Col. Jas. L. Orr. Williamston?Capital, $400,000; spindles, 20,000; product, line sheet ings, president, Jas. 1'. Gossett. All the abovo figures are taken from a pamphlet printed by the Chamber of Commerce and revised to date by tho secretary, Mr. A. M. Carpenter, and it is believed they are substantially correot. Many of tho visiting bankers went out to 8co the Brogon mill and so sur prised and delighted were they with what they saw that a few words about this establishment will bo of interest to the general reader. Tho mill is built for the manufac ture of colored napped fabrics and I dress goods. Some of the looms carry ! a6 high as 12 color/, and "the Ander son flannels" are becomiog celebrated gn the market. The market docs not afford a prettier "outing cloth" than this mill makes. But not only in its product is the mill notable. Its equipment is of the latest and the mill is kept in the best of condition. Built in 1903, it is as clean as a new pin. Ths motive power consists of a pair of Allis-Chalmers cross compound oondensing engines, 30x0-1x00, cap able of producing 3,000 horsepower. Two batteries of 72zl8 inch horizontal tubular boilers; seven boilers in each battery. The dynamos to furnish the electric lights for the plant are located in the engine room, together with an auxil iary engine for pilot lights and mo tive power for repair purposes. The picker building is 170 feet long, 7G feet wide and two stories high, and is arranged for 10 complete sets of Kitson picking machinery, together with a complete waste picking depart ment. The carding room is located on the first floor of the main building, and is most complete in equipment and ar rangement, being arranged for 1S0x45 ; inoh Whitin revolving flat top cards; j 28S deliveries of Whitin drawing; 28 Woonsocket slubbers; 40 Woonsocket intermediate fly frames, and 80 Wood- , socket fine fly frames. The spinning, spooling, warping and slashing occupy the floor above the card room, which is well adapted for the purpose, having' a monitor roof extending the entire iength of this room, which is 564 feet long and 130 feet wide and is arranged for 50, 000 Whitin spindles, 12 Whitin spool ers, 32 Draper warpers, 10 Cohoes slashers, all driven from below, which with the other necessary applianoes for a colored mill, makes a most com plete department. The spinning and weaving are on the same level, being separated by a fire wall, and this weave shed is worthy of special mention, and it is the latest development in sawtooth mill construction, and gives an ideal light for the purpose wanted. This room is 460 feet long by 205 feet wide, and arranged for 1,728 looms, nearly equally divided between Dra per and Crompton and Knowies. All of the machinery on this floor is driven from below. The first floor of the weave shed is occupied by the repair shops, dye house, napping and finishing depart ments. . The dye house is a model in itself, and shows what can be done in this department, both as to location and economy. A visitor would be sur prised at the absence of steam and moisture, as the arrangement for ex hausting the steam and carrying away. the waste water is very complete. The dye house and picker building are equipped with an elaborate blow ing system, .the cotton being blown Iinder ground from the picker build ing to the dye house, dyed and re turned in the same manner. This de partment has a oapacity of 20,000 pounds daily. The finishing depart ment is a new departure for Anderson in shearing, calendaring, napping, tentering, machinery, etc. The officers of the company are: J. A. Brook, president; Hobt. ?. Ligon, viee-president and treasurer; O. J. Brock, seoretary and assistant treas urer; R. L. Camnock, superintendent. The board of -Mrectorc is as follows: J. A. Brook, itobt. ?. Ligon, Fred G. Brown, J. E. Barton, O. S. Sulli van, B. Q. Ligon, Geo. W. Evans, all of Anderson; G. M. Whitin of Whit ins vi lie, Mass., and Andrew D. Joner of Baltimore, Md. The cotton mill story of Anderson is something that can bo written of other towns in South Carolina in differing degrees but there is one in dustry that has been developed here to sn extent not equalled in any other geotion. Those who read the reports ' ? ^ ^ fl , 11 HOW 6EB5? Mi Peoph with Weak Siornaohs Ii Nearly all disease germs that find lod?s*at in the system gain entrance with the air we breathe, or through our food and drink. If the etomaoh and digestive ograns be weak, so that food does not readily digest, thev will contain a sour, slimy fermenting mass, an ideal spot for the disease'germs to g?'?w and spread through the whole system. If you suffer with headache, back of tho Bankers' convention saw that tho chairman of tho entertainment committee was Fred G. Brown, who is known far and wide as a genial fellow. But he is also a shrewd busi ness man, a developer of no mean ability. The Anderson Phosphate and Oil company is an enterprise which owes its success to his manage ment, Mr. Brown being tho president. Very little can bo /vrittcu about this enterprise for lack of available ligures, but it is sufficient to say that the company owns a chain of cotton seed oil mills iu this section which havo been phenomenally successful and which are outside the trust. Last year tho company paid out in divi dends $8^,000. The mills owned and operated are: Tho Farmers' Oil mill and tho FSxcelsior mill, both at An derson; who Bolton, Fendleton, Wil liamston and Honea Path mills and the Moneyniok mill at Pel/.er, all iu this county; the mills at Seneca, Piedmont and McCormick. Besides these thero are several independent oil mills in the county. Then there are roller mills and many of the most improved ginneries. Themuc! dpal growth of Anderson is a topic to which a whole chapter could profitably be devoted. Here the work of civio improvement, which has taken such hold all over tho State, has shown its best fruits in the exceed ingly tasteful adornment of tho Court House Square; a work which won the prize offered by Tho Ladies' Home Journal of Philadelphia last year. The square has not only been beauti I fied with flowers and trees, but the streets on the square are laid with brick and mudholes aro no moro. Tho work of street improvement is being pushed all over tho oity and now ?hat the town has waterworks, sewerage and a street railway this^street work oan be carried to completion. The street railway was built within the last year and there are five and one-half miles of track in use. Tho company is the Anderson Traction company, which is controlled locally, and the venture is paying, the stock being quoted at above par. How rapidly Anderson is growing and what it means to its citizens is well illustrated by a faot which is related by a gentleman who knows whereof he speaks. Less than seven years any a young business man of tho town, who was then a clerk in a cloth ing store, bought for $550 six and one-half acres of land in the edge of town, about three-quarters of one j mile from the Court House. Now he is selling from this tract half-acre lots for $300 each. In other words, he is now getting $1,600 an acre for land that cost him less than $85 per acre; that is to say, h? is getting hi I money back 20 fold after six years. ! There need be no wonder that the olerk of seven years ago is now a full partner in a paying business of his own with $8,000 investment in stook I of Anderson ootton mills. He is a sample of what Young Anderson is doing. ? This has become a lengthy story but the whole has not been told. White Man Sits Down To Walk. The Western Indians, although not fond of work, do not approve of indo lent white men. Tho "heap good white man," in their estimation, is the white man who works hard; and to sit by and watch him as he toils seems to afford them never-failing pleasure. Some young "warriors" of theBlaok foot tribe sat in the shade one day, watching a group of laborers who were constructing a grade for a branch railroad in Montana. They were com menting upon the workmen and their work, when a bioyolist, the first that they had ever seen, oame riding along the newly completed grado. He had got off the train at tho last station, and was going to the for? "a little far ther on. The Indians watched che wheelman without a word until he passed beyond a knoll, whioh hid him from view. Then they expressed their sentiments concerning him. "No good white man 1" one remark ed. "No," answered another, with great soorn; "heap lazy white man?sits down to walkt" , ?i- ' igr ,a\>\ ,? ? How unhappy the lot of a board* iog house landlady. Strawberries no sooner get cheap than the boarders be gin to kick for peaches and water melons, ? True politeness requires more at tention to the feelings of others than to mere forms. ? About the only reason a woman has for marrying a man is?because. 3EABES START, ?s>*. .>jt!'j>* * ( a CsBttssal State of Donner. ' sehe, variable appetite, nausea, gnaw ing at the pit of the stomach, sallow skin, heart-burn, furred tongue, sleep lessness, and general debility, it shows that the stomach has been overworked and weakened. A fifty cent box of Mi-o-tfk tablets will give quick and speedy relief. Ask Evans Pharmacy, one of the most reliable drug firms in Anderson, to show you the strong guarantee under which they asll Mi-o ca. i ! i when you have lost MT YOUR CRIP^ on tho affaira of lifo and your business wins dull and your WITS an> dull?take from :\ to 5 Hv dale's Liver Tablets, one at a tun?', au liour apart and you will bo aurprised tln> next morning to'aei how bright and clear everything will be. You will begin your day's work with *?> niueh added vim ami vigor that you will naturally Increase ymir bunluewt Kuccoflsby the weight of personality you will beablo to infill in'o every detail. The formula of itydulc'ri Liver Tablets Is one of the most effective combinations knoun to modern medical acience, (j_ >',,l,r '.ht r in k<*h1 working order,and nine-teutl \ till you ?f\ in ihiM condition, l>ut take Itydnlu'H Liver Tablet ? tii-ilrst time you r?H?l ilull and dUtuclined to grapple \\ itli tho routine duties of lifi>. By taking a Ktit<-li (tablet)ln time you'll Rave both worry nnd tabteUand avoid ill health. Kydale's Liver Tablet** are enny t otakc pleos.ua in effect, always satisfactory in results. 60 cuooolate-coateA Tablet* lu a cou veulent box, cents. M'f'd by tho RADICAL REMEDY CO., Hickory, N. C.x FOR SALE BY EVANS PHARMACY. Wanted to Buy, Good, Flat Land, in good state * of cultivation and well im proved. . Wanted to Sell. 132 acres, Hall Township?40 acres in bottom lantls that will yiel'l 1000 bushels corn. Fair improvement. 118 acres, Savannah Township, known as Evergreen place. Well im? proved, good orchard. 84 acres, Hopewell Township. Teuaut house, barn, ifec. 45 acres S? cultivation, balance woods and old fields. 152 acres, Rock Mills Township. Price 81200. 06J acres, Broadway Township. Well improved. Price 82"\0O 87} acres, Varennes Township? improved. 200 acres, Fork Township. JOS. J. FBETWEIX* ANI5BI?80N, ?. C? ._ . - ? B" THE SOUTH'S GREATEST SYSTEM1 Unexcelled Dining Car Service. Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on alllTrains._ ConvenientlSchedules on all Local?Trains. . WINTER TOURIST RATES are now in^eflect to all Ftorida^ Point? For full information as to rates, routes, etc.^consult^ncarest Southern Railway Ticket Agent, or R. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agenl, Charleston, S. C. QU, Big ipt M This Establishment has been Selling: IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring all that time competitors have come and gone, bat we have remained right hero. We have always soJ4 Cheaper than any others, and during those long years wo have not had one dis satisfied customer* Mistakes will sometimes ooour, and if 'at any time wo found that a customer was dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made him satisfied. This polioy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and last ing, and we oan say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the coufi denoe of the people of this seotion. We have a larger Stock of Goods ihm season than we have ever had, and we pledge you our word that we have never sold Furniture at as olose a margin of profit as we are doing now. This te Eroven by the faot that we aro selling Furniture not only all over Anderson 'ouoty but in every Town in the Piedmont seotion. Come and see us. Your parents saved money by buying from us, and you and your ohildren can save money by buying here too. We carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line, G. F. TOLLY &:80N, Depot Street The..01dl.Reliable.Furniture;Dealerf' WE have moved our Shop and office below Peoples' Bank, in front \>i Mr. J. J. FretwelTs Stables. We respectfully ask all our friends that need cny Roofing done, or any kind of Repair work, Engine.Stacks, Evaporators, or any kind of Tin or Gravel Roofing to call en ns. sa we are prepared to do it" promptly and in best mauner.B?olicitingN'our patronage, we are, _ ... * Respectfully,! BURRISS A DIVVER.