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TOWN ACROSS RIVER The Realty Corporation Will De velop Property Over There. Lots Will be Sold and People En couraged to Build und Live in the New Town. The Evening News says "an enter prise which promises to do much for this city in the way of improv ing certain sections in ana around this place has just, been organized with a capto I stock of ?15,000 and known as the Orangeburg Realty Corporation. Three very prominent gentlemen of this city are the corpo rators of this concern, it is stated, and they are Col. W. G. Smith, Dr. H. E. Reeves and Mr. S. H. Crum. Besides these gentlemen it is under stood that there have been interested in the plans of the corporation north ern capitalists, and that -the plans which are laid down by the concern are of a broad scope, and will be along lines, that will improve certain I property that are now and will be the holdings of the concern. ?'The first tract of land that will be improved by the corporation is a tract just beyond the corporate lim its of the city, and situated on the wst side of the Edisto river, and on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad at a point near the present coal chute of that railroad. It is proposed to have this property surveyed and cut up into town lots and streets' laid off. The lots will be sold, and it is under stood that after the lots have been paid for, the company will still con tinue their plans to aid the lot own ers to erect houses. The plans are to commence now what will at some time be a surburb of this city, as it will be easily accessible to Orange burg. The settlement is to be known as Riverside Park, and there is no doubt that the lots when offered for sale will be bought up at a rapid rate. "In order to place the new sur burb within easy reach of the city of Orangeburg, it is proposed to open up Glover street on to the river, and to span the river at this point by a bridge, and thus on to the River side Park, which will be just across the river from the Glover street bridge. This will place the new set tlement within a few minutes walk of the main business section of the city. The low land in and around this point will be drained off, and every means used to make the prop erty and surroundings attractive. "In speaking with one of the incor porators of the corporation, he stated that a station would be granted the new town by the Atlantic Coasj Line railroad, and that the park would be put in a position to enjoy municipal rights. The promoters intend to get right in behind the .scheme and to offer special inducements to purchas ers of property in "the^new park. "Already there have been many who have spoken for lots in the new park, and it is understood that some of the lots have been promised. The corporation will not, however, offer for sale any of the corner lots on any of the streets. These it will reserve for their own use, and at these points there will likely be erected large stores suitable for business houses. "Although no regular plan has been announced as to how the lots will be disposed of, it it likely that they will be sold on the installment plan, and thus there will be many who will take advantage of securing some of this property. There is no doubt as to this first tract being soon disposed of, and the company will direct their attention to the develop ment of some other tracts. The corporation is at present cap italized at $15,000, but it is under stood that when it become necessary, this amount will be increased. The cutting up of the pi perty into town lots will soon be started and then doubtless there will be a date fixed when they shall be offrd for sale." Give Us The Facts. It is rumored that the finances of the county are in bad shape and that the deficiency is very large. As there is about to be a change in the Sup ervisor's office, we hope a full and plain statement will be made. If we mistake noi, it was claimed in the last campaign that the county was free of debt and everything was in apple pie order. If the county is cow as heavily in debt as reported the people should know how it came about and who is responsible. If is is not in debt as reported it should be made hnown. Turn on the light. To Have Another Delivery. Postmaster Webster has stated that, beginning today, he will re sume the afternoon delivery of mail by carriers. The city has been de prived of this service for several months on account of the late arri vals of the afternoon trains, making it necessary for the carriers to re main out after dark. The days are now longer and the delivery can be made as provided by the department This will be good news to the people living a distance from the postoffice. That Forfeit Money. The Business Men's League will take steps to secure the forfeit money put up by--the projectors of the elec tric road, and has informed Mr. J. J. Timmis, of New York, that after April 1 the People's Bank, of this city, where the money is deposited will be called upon to surrender the same to the Business Men's League In accordance with the agreement en tered into. Getting up an Entertainment. The members of the Military Band propose getting up an entertainment In a few weeks for the benefit of the Band, which needs, some funds to pay on instruments that have been bought. We are sure that the pub lic will give the Band a rousing bene fit when the entertainment comes off. COL. BANKS HONORED. Presented With a Loving Cup By His Committee. The State says one of the pleasant incidents of the pres ent session of the general as sembly was the presentation Thurs day of a handsome silver loving cup to Representative J. A. Banks of Or angeburg, the chairman of the ways and means committee, by the other members of that committee. Mr. Banks has worked hard to make a record while in charge of this, one of most important parts of the gen eral assembly, and his committee has been an unusually harmonious one. But Mr. Banks had not an inkling of the pleasant surprise in store for him when the committee met Thurs day morning. Mr. Dick was selected to make the presentation speech and in a few words he told of the high esteem in which the chairman was held and hoped that the cup would be accept ed as a token of the love and es teem of the members. Mr. Banks, in receiving the cup, expressed his appreciation, and made the statement, much to the regret of his friends, that he would on ac count of business reasons, hardly ask for legislative recognition from the baby county, "Calhoun." However, the other members of the committee state that Mr. Banks must come back, even if it is necessary to elect him State senator and send him to the upper brauch of the general assem bly. The cup is a handsome one and is engraved with the date and the en time membership of the commit tee. * I JUMPED HIS CONTRACT. Guy Gunter Leaves Sumter and (iocs to Rock Hill. Guy Gunter's action in jumping his verbal contract with the Sum ter club and signing with Rock Hill has> met with criticism from the lovers of the popular national game in Sumter. Sumt2r has found that Guy is a tricky as a circus mule. A letter from Sumter says "so much confidence was reposed in Gun ter that he was not signed up last season, and it was not thought at ail necessary to enter into a written contract with him this season, but he was handed all of the correspondence papers and contracts and authorized to complete the organizaton of the Sumter team. "While the Sumter association is not losing any sleep over the loss and feels absolutely no uneasiness about getting as good a man as Gun ter to manage the Sumter team, still the officers of the Sumter club nat urally resent 'he way that Gunter treated them. "Had Gunter asked for his re lease he would- have been turned loose and no doubt with regret, as he has been a successful manager and player. Sumter people are de termined to have a penant winning team and will not fail to put up the cash for mis purpose." Norway Town Election. The Norway municipal election was held Friday, resulting as fol lows: Intendant, J. A. Weathersbee: wardens, J. F. Bates, H. H. Holder, J. H. Benett and R. D. Davis. Mr. J. L. Glover, former intendant, de clined reelection. Messers. Weath ersbee, Holder and Bates were re elected as wardens. The day passed off very pleasantly, though at times there seemed quite a little excite ment and a great deal of enthus iasm. The Planter's Bunk. Orangeburg has five banks now but another has been organized and will soon be ready for business. The board of corporators are Messrs. W. G. Sease, Wm. C. Wolfe. J. A. Ber ry and W. K. Sease. The capital stock will be fifty thousand dollars and the bank, which will be known as the Planter's Bank, will occupy the store now occupied by Mr. H. E. Reeves. It will be handsomely fitted up. We wish the new bank great success. Will Get the Place. . The Orangeburg delegation in the Legislature has recommended Mr. A. F. Fairey to the Governor as the successor of Mr. Olin M. Dantzler, who will resign the office of Super visor about the first of Apri' Mr. Fairey has served as County Com missoioner two terms and thorough ly undertsands the duties of the office. He will enter upon his duties about the first of May. Drank Wood Alcohol. Julia, the two year old daughter of Col. and Mrs. D. 0. Herbert, by some means got hold of some wood alcohol that her elder brothers had been using as fuel for a tow "engine and drank a little of it on Sunday morning. When first discovered some fear was entertained that the little child might be seriously affect ed, but such happily proved not to be 'he case, and she is now alright. Broke His Leg. Pike, the four year old son of Capt. and Mrs. J. A. Berry, while playing with other cMldren on a joggling board in the yard of his home 'on' Friday, fell off and broke his leg. It is a painful accident, and the lit tle fellow will suffer some pain from It. but we are glad no permanent injury will be sustained by him. Bank Examiner in Town. Bank Examiner Giles L. Wilson and hi3 assistant. Mr. Rhame, was in the city the last two days conduct ing an examination of the banks here. He found them all right. Did You Ever! Did you ever buy an "Everbearing Peach Tree" that never bore at all? Well loqk out, or the next fruit tree agent that come along may sell you one. ; THE t^cAL CONTESTS. Filed By Dantzler, Meyers ami Prio leau for the Fees. March 24 is the day fixe for hear ing the contests filed for the seats of Mess. Legare, Patterson and Lever by the three negroes, who claim to have been elected to congress. Aaron P. Prioleau, who has been figuring some in the prints of late, and who once figured in jail for robbing the mails, is contesting the scat of Le gare. Isaac .Myers from somewhe e about Alken, is contesting the seat of Patterson, while A. D. Dantzler contests Lever's seat. All three of these negroes have contested before, and, finding if profitable, have done it again. They each get ?2,000 al lowed by congress to any one who files a contest. The wonder is that there are not a dozen negroes every time, instead of one iu each district. All they have to do is to get up and run, then file a notice that they were rightfully elected aud cheated out of it. It is not uet-essary to get votes at all. The election committee of the house, which will hear the con testants, will have some fun out of the negroes who appear before them and then vote unanimously to throw their cases away as being without any justification. * i WANT THEM IMPROVED. The Service Rendered by Public 1*1 il ity Corporations I'nsatsfaetoiy. At a meeting of the Business Men's League Friday night the Southern Express, the Western I'nion and the Bell Telephone Company each was the subject of severe criticism and condemnation on account of the ser vice which is being rendered the peo pple of Orangeburg. Several months ago the League took up these matters with the several companies, with the result that only one of t'.?em, the telephone company paid any heed to the requests made. The telephone service was con siderably improved, and this condi tion lasted for some time, but recent ly there have been -a number of com plaints, principally regarding the night service.. A committee was ap pointed to confer with the local man ager of the company, with a view to having the matter properly presented to the officials, who have heretofore seemed disposed to grant all reason able requests. The service has been improved, but not to a degree which is dmanded.by the patrons. The Southern Express Company has ignored a former request from the league to improve its service to the extent of having the office remain open continuously during business hours and delivering all packages within the city limits. Delivery is now limited to Main street, which is very unsatisfactory, and at times the office is closed during the business part of the day. Once more the sec retary of the League is instructed to take this matter up with the ex press company in an effort to have the deficiencies supplied. Efforts have been rpeatc-dly made to have the Western Union Telegraph Company give this city an unbroken service from S A. M. until 8 P. .M.. but so far without success. The company simply refuses to comply on the grounds that the business here does not warrant two operators, i he people are inclined to take a different view of the matter, however, and will insist upon their demands being con sidered. Orangeburlg Business Directory. On the second page of to-day's pa per we publish a business directory of Orangeburg from a to z. Look over the different houses whose cards appear in this directory, and when in need of anything in their line give them n call. The directory was worked up >y Mr. C. E. Grimes, the pressman of the Times and Dem ocrat, and it is nis affair he buyng from us the space the directory occu pies. This is our only connection with the matter. Next Lyceum Attraction. The next Lyceum number will be the Marietta LaDill Co., and will ap pear at the Academy of Music Wed nesday evening. These entertainers, four in number are from Canada and have the reputation of being of the best attractons on the platform to day. No doubt a large crowd of our people will greet them Wednesday night. The entertainment will be gin at 8.30 o'clock. Maker of New Counties!. It was stated on Saturday by a citizen of this county that Mr. Welch had offered to get them a new coun ty if they would pay him two thous and dollars for the job. We suppose his idea is to so run the lines that enough voters who are opposed to the new county will be disfranchis ed that there would be no chance t^ defeat the project. We do not be that this trick can be worked again. There Will Be No Court. At a meeting of the Har on Mon day it was decided that the Spring Term of Court be postponed because some questions might be raised on account of some of the jurors drawn to serve live in Calhoun County ter ritory. The Court will be held later. Because of the postponement the ju rors need not attend. Lenten Service. Rev. T. Tracy Walsh, former Rec tor of this parish, will preach at the Church of the Redeemer on Wednes day night at 8 o'clock. He is the first of several visiting clergy who will preach on each succeeding night during Lent. The public Is cor dially invited to attend this and any of the Lenten services, especially the Wednesday night services. Teacher's Meeting. Remember the meeting of the Teacher's Association at the court house on Saturday at eleven o'clock. A full attendencc is earnestly desir ed. PARCELS POST PLAN Will It Protect Local Trade on Rural Mail Routes. Proposes to Carry Homo Town Pack ages at Itate With Which Outside Concerns Cannot Compete. Tliat there are two sides to every question is generally conceded. While in many communities there is great op position to the extension of the parcels post as recommended by Postmaster General Meyer, the postmaster general himself fakes occasion to present "'the other side" in this statement: "It doos not seem to be understood by many of our people that we have a parcels post at present. The rate Is 10 cents a pound and the limit of weight four pounds. To illustrate the Incongruities that exist, any indi vidual entering the pos;ofiice in Eos ton or in any other city or town in the country with two parcels, each weighing four pounds, can send one parcel to New York for 04 cents, while fur the other parcel, which is addressed to some one In a foreign land and goes via Xew York, lie will have to pay 48 cents, for the reason that the rate to foreign countries is 12 cents a pound, while the ratio to our own people is 10 cents a pound. Should the pack ages weigh four and a quarter pounds each the one addressed to the friend in New York would have to be refused by the postmaster, while the one addressed to the person in the foreign land would be accepted and would be forwarded to Now York and then sent on to its destination. The parcel for the for eign country would be received in most instances even if it weighed ns much ns eleven pounds and was sent to any one of twenty-two countries. Therefore I assume that our represent atives in congress will realize that they cannot afford to stand for a policy that compels our own people to pay 4 cents more on packages to people liv ing in the United States (and even then permits them to send only four pounds) than on packages to residents of twenty-two foreign lands, for which they need pay only 12 cents a pound and which weigh up to eleven pounds. "Two interests are opposing the ex tension of parcels post in this country ?the express companies and the coun try retail merchants. The latter fear that the mail order house will derive a bene fit to their own disadvantage. It is in connection with the country retail mer chant that I desire to speak especially. "I recommend the establishment of a parcels post on rural routes which will meet the objections of the small storekeepers and retailers. This will be a boon to our rural population and to the storekeeper, as the latter can receive his orders by mail or telephone and dispatch the desired merchandise by the rural carrier. The fanner will be saved from hitching up his horse and losing the time he needs for plant ing or harvesting his crops, and it will enable the storekeeper to increase his sales and meet the requirements of modern trade. If my recommendations are adopted it will cost 12 cents a pound for the mail order house to send par cels to the rural delivery patron from any city postoOice. while for delivery from the distributing otlice of the ru ral route or if mailed by a patron of any rural route for delivery to a pa tron on the same route or at the dis tributing postotflce of said route the charge will be but 5 cents for the llrst pound and 2 cents for each additional pound up to eleven pouuds or 2"> cents for a package weighing eleven pounds. Iu Germany the small storekeeper has uot this advantage in competing with mail order houses, but he hau adapted himself to the situatiou and in many instances has become the agent in his town, thus supplying the people with goods which he could not keep in stock without a great outlay of money." A bill embodying the suggestions made by Postmaster General Meyer has been introduced by Senator Bum ham of New Hampshire. It is under stood that this measure also has the indorsement of President Roosevelt. The bill provides for the establishment of a domestic rural parcels post at special rates of postage for the deliv ery of foodstuffs, dry goods, drugs, books and other merchandise. The rate of postage Is to be fi cents for the first pound and 2 cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof and on par cels weighing iess than one pound as follows: Two ounces or less. 1 cent; -over two and tinder four ounces, 2 cents; over four aud not exceeding eight ounces, 3 cents; over eight aud not exceeding twelve ounces. 4 cents; over twelve euhces and under one pound, 5 cents. There are more than 38.000 free rural delivery routes, giving a daily postal service to over 15,000.000 country people. I Montebello to the Front. The little town of Montebello, our nearest neighbor beyond the Boyle heights section of Los Ingeles, Is go ing to dispute with some of our older centers of population for the distinc tion of having the best planted streets. It has held meetings, decided to plant the whole town plat to uniform species and appointed a good live com mittee who are even now purchasing the 1.500 trees necessary to make a complete job of the vast Montebello tract, says the Los Angeles Times. When this gigantic co-operative plan has seen a few years' active growth, there will be found an object lesson on the value of uulform street tree plant ing which will have no superior In southern California. Fares Reduced. The Atlantic'Coast Line and South ern Railway have decided to reduce their passenger fare to 2 1-2 cents a mile to go into operation April 1. These roads, we are glad to state have made this reduction voluntarily in South Carolina which will make the sa\lng all the more thankfully received by the people. It is always far better for the railroads ana the people to work in harmony because what is for the interest of one should be for the interest of the other. THE PRESENT HOT SPELu Is a Record Breaker As the Record Will Show. The high temperature of Sunday was a record breaker for the first decade of March, having risen :o (85 degrees. The previous highest temperature for the same decade of arch was 84 degrees on the 3d and 4th in 1S99. This was followed in about two days by a minimum tem perature of 31 degrees, causing what greenness that had appeared to turn jto withered black. The highest March temperatures 'in the last 21 years occurred on the 22d and 23 in 1804, followed on the 24th by a minimum temperature of 24 degrees. The trees were green with tender foilage, which was com pletely destroyed. Roses were in full bloom and the rare spectacle was pre sented of full blown roses encased in a half inch covering of clear ice, rain having fallen when the surface temperature was below freezing. In that year fruit was largely destroyed and many forest trees in which the sap had risen burst their bark and died from the effects of the sap hav ing frosen beneath the bark. The present hot spell is not gener al, the temperature in the upper Mississippi valley having been from zero to 1S degrees below zero Sun day and the line of freezing temper atures carried along the Rockies to the Mexican border south of Arizona. The entire cotton belt shared in the unusually high temperatures during the last few days. Calhoun County Contest. The Calhoun County Contest is now in the hands or a Washington lawyer who has had considerable ex perience in the United SfatesSupreme Court. He has been employed by the dsfranchised voters to look into the matter. He is certain that if the Court assumes jurisdiction in the case it will declare the election null and void, but he is not certain that there is a Federal question in the is sue. This is the phase of the ques tion he is now considering. If he thinks the Court will assume juris diction the case will be pushed. In case the court assumes jurisdiction [and declares the electon null and void that will end the matter, even if officers have been elected in the new county. Doing a Good Work. Mr. James Henry Rice, as repre sentative of the Audubon Society, is doing a good work which ought to be encouraged by all who believe in protecting our game and other birds. The wanton slaughter of game birds by hunters and the killing of song birds by the small boy should be stopped at all hazards. There are not so many mocking birds as there were twenty years ago, and every thing should be done to encourage the nesting and raising of young birds by these sweet singers which have always been one of the chorms of our Southland. New Styles for Easter. The McCall Company, fashion pub lishers and makers of the celebrated McCall Patterns, have issued it beau tiful Colored Fashion Sheet, seperate and distinct from the regular month ly Fashion Sheet, illustrating many attractive styles for Easter. We have a limited supply of these sheets, which we shall be glad to present to our customers while they last. In quire at our McCall Pattern Depart ment. J. C. Ransdale. Died in Florida. J Mrs. Mamie Peake Wightman wife of Mr. W. E. Wightman. formerly jf Charleston, died at Tallahassee, Fla., on last Saturday, and was inter red at Tallahassee on Sunday. Mr. Wightman was at one time connec with the Atlantic Coast Line Railway and lived at Elloree. Mrs. Wight man had many friends in this coun ty who will regret to hear of her death. Valuable Book. We are very much pleased to re ceive from Commissioner E. J. Wat son his "Handbook of Souih Caro lina." This book contains a great deal of valuable information about South Carolina and should be sent broad cast over the country where we desire to attract the attention of people who are seeking homes and have money to invest. Paid Us a Visit. Mr. Guy Shockley, publisher of the Calhoun Advance, and Mr. L. IM. Bates, who sometime:? "holds (down" a case on the same journal, 'called in to see The Times and Dem ocrat plant on Saturday. We are always glad to see ?members of the press gang, and these yo ing gen tlemen have a cordial iuvitaton to cail again. I Magnzines at Lowest Rates. I Anyone wishing to subscribe to any magazines can get then cheaper I through the Orangeburg Subscription 'Agency than through the publishes. Orders can be left at the Book Store. Home Made Sugar. Mr. Harvie Collier presented us [on Saturday with a pure specimen of home made sugar. It was a light 'brown and would be moat excellent for coffee. Don't Be Fooled. No gentlemen, don't flatter your self that Spring has come to stay, because she has not. There is some more cold weather to come yet. - Gone to New York. Mr. H. C. Wannamaker, the effi cient and courteous cashier of the People's Bank has gone on a business trip to New York and other Northern points. Death of a Veteran. Mr. G. W. Hudson, of 88 vTest Glover street, died Friday morning. He had been sick for some time. He was a Confederate Veteran. DYEING OK GARMENTS. How Women Can Do It Successfully at Home. If a little nnTu'TiuO thought are giv en to the fixing up of things that have begun to look dowdy and soiled, you cannot imagine how it will repay you. says the Chicago News. The process of dyeing has become so easy that al most any woman can do it successful ly at home unless the garment be ex remely intricate iu its style and elab orate as to trimmings. However, the small things of a girl's wardrobe can be handled at home very successfully. Take, for Instauce. your chiffon veils that are soiled and faded. These veil ings should first be washed in a warm suds and dried. Auy druggist carries a full line of reliable dyes, aud a ten cent package will dye a pound of goods. The dye sbould then be pre pared and the veils dipped to the de sired shade aud Ironed dry. Another thing that can be success fully handled at home is the coque feather boas, which fade so quickly in the summer and have become soiled from the dust. Wash these first as you would the veils by making a suds, and dip the boa up and down until all the dirt has disappeared. Now dry it aud then dip it iu the dye. Take ft out In the open air and keep shaking it until it is quite dry. This will require'fif teen or twenty minutes, but if you do not shake it dry the feu: -rs will liang heavy aud lose their flnl'.'j appearance Ribbons dye very e:;siiy at bu.ae. .-.nil all the soiied i;1 ns left over from the summer seaso:i can be dip ped a dark shade and woiu belts, hair ribbons, etc. This is p . irui: ! neatly a season where one tone io be ing carried out iu gowns, and this means that all laces which go to trim a dress must be dyed that color. Lav ender dresses are trimmed with laces dyed the same shade. Brown laces are seeu made up iu eutire guiinpes to be woru with the new shades of brown broadcloth suits. To carry out this idea you must first buy the goods then buy the amount of lace you want iu pure white or ecru. Take a sample of the goods aud the lace to auy reli able dyeing establishment, anil they will dye it the desired shade. Hats are made of this dyed lace, and much of It is used in trimming the fashion able Japanese sleeves. Let the woman at home who wants to try her band at this work get a ten cent package of dye at any drug store aud begin on something that Is not par ticularly valuable. Make the dye and test its color with a piece of old rag that is clean. Go slow at first, and with each time you will find that your success has grown and that in this way you cau keep your little accessories iu a nice, fresb condition. Home Trade Philosophy'/" Every man who spends $2 around home where only a dollar was spent before is a benefactor to his race. Plenty of men who froth at the mouth when they discuss the centrali zation of government are fostering the centralization of trade by patroniz ing the big mail order houses which try to gobble up the business of local merchants. One way to stand by your own town Is not to sit down and write orders for goods to be shipped from the city when you can buy them to just as much ad vantage right-nt home. A town with no business has no busi ness to be a town, and it won't Le a town very long after Its business Is eliminated by too much dallying on the part of its citizens with the mail order business. The citizen who patrouizes home In dustries without seeking an excuse Is the spurkle in the wiue of life, while the one who prefers to spend his mon ey outside of his own community Is j the dregs. Town Planning. Iu au address before the congress of horticulturists in Jamestown some weeks ago a speaker said. "It Is the duty of village improvement societies and park superintendents to direct their attention to the preparation or (towni plans rather than to expend all their efforts and money on a small area or other minor improvements at | haphazard or upon general clearing up operations, street lighting and the like that should be executed by the towu officers through their regular appro priations." He added that public spir it, wisely directed by a well thought out plan, could transform n town In from five to eight vents, but he said there must l>e locally a leader In the movement "who Is hie enough to grasp the whole conception aud persistent enough tu hold fast against criticism until It is well under way." This means self sacrificing effort at first, but ultimately It is sure of general ap proval, und happily almost every town contains such a leader. Studying a Town's or City's Needs. The Municipal Journal reports that the Spokane chamber of commerce has ?utlined the following topics for dis cussion at public meetings: The plac ing of shade trees oj residence streets aud their maintenance, adoption of artistic styles of bridges and ap proaches, artistic and practical schemes for river bank Improvement, erection and supervision of statuary, fountains and other ornamental works In parks and at intersections of boulevards and thoroughfares, consideration of a uni form method for cleaning and sprin kling streets. al>olItion and removal of all obstructions to streets and side walks, more artistic gas and electric light posts and other public utilities situated in or encroaching upon streets and public places, regulation of bill boards for the purpose of their grad ual elimination, especially In the resi dence districts, and more effective ar rangements of street lighting. This Is a very comprehensive review of Im provement needs. A Good Man and True. Without intending to reflect on any candidate who is in the race for Treasurer of Calhoun County, we would say that our old friend, S. E. Owen, if elected, would make a good officer. We have known him for Jo these many years, and we have al ways found him true blue in all re spects. HOW ABOUT THE WELL What Sort of Water Are You Drinking This Year. Is it Putv, Use Plenty of it Inside and Out and You Will Peel and Look Better. "What sort of water are we going to drink this year," is a question that concerns every reader of this paper, for upon the water we are going to drink depend the health and even the lives of very many of us. We commend the following extracts from a letter written to the Progressive Farmer by Dr. H. F. Freeman on the subject of drinking water: "The water we drink goes to make more than two-thirds of the blood which (lows through our veins. The blood has about four functions to perform. This stream of blood is the medium which receives from the outer world the different matters which go to make us well or sick. As it passes through every part of the body, the various tissues of the body take out of this ruddy stream the materials necessary for their nutrition and health, it is the med ium which takes up or asorbs the dead or refuse matters from the var ious tissues and carries this poison ous or dead matter to the various or gans whose business it is to throw off and out of the lody this dead ma terial. It warms, moistens and in vigorates the whole body when healthy. "Now you see the need of pure water, for the water you drink is making two-thirds of the blood from which so many fever and ague germs come. How about your drinking water? Is it pure? Many hundreds of cases of sickness and death have been traced directly to contaminated water. Are you concerned about it? Do you know that this water you drink is carrying into your blood the germs which it contains? That is just what is being done. And if it were not for nattire"s forces while strong and vigorous, you would soon he .-ick. But let some of these nat ural forces get wrong, a screw loose or a tap off, and you are sick at once and the doctor has to come and tighten things up and set these forces to going again. This costs more, though, than it does for you to clean out your well. "The time to clean out a well is not when the water is lowest, but when the well is full to overflowing When the water is low in the well it then should' be the purest, as it all comes from deep down in the ground. But when the well is full of water it has run in from all the little water drains and especially through those nearest the top of the ground, and many times it gets in from the top of the ground. Now this rush of water from the top and through the earth's pores carries along with it all the impurities in reach. Many times the death germ is taken into the well this way. Now when you draw all this water from the well when it is full, you bring out the germs carried in by this rush of wat er. We drew all ours out a few days ago and left a pure stream of water rushing in near the bottom. Clean up about your well and raise the earth around it so the water will run off. Don't have pig holes and chicken holes about the well. "I know of an incident or two which happened not so far from here. A tenant had a nice horse when he moved to a place where the well water was bad. This norso soon af ter began to look bad and to get in had condition generally. This continued during the year, and the man moved to a place where the wat er was wholesome and gucd. The horse soon got back to his old self and remained so afterwards. This was true also of the family. "My friends, when your cow, horse, pigs, or chickens are not doing well, examine your water supply, and make sure that is is all right. I was called to see a sick member of a large family. I at once advised the man to clean up around his home and fill up the puddle holes. He paid !no attention to this advise. Several of the family were sick and one died during that summer and fall. "If you feel bad and look bad, ask yourself what kind of water you are drinking. Have you done anything for the last three or five years to supply your family and stock with pure, sweet water? There are a great many families who look pale and bad all the time. Much of this is caused by bad, germ-laden drink ing water. All of you readers who have not been In the best of health now for sometime, just look into the condition of your drinking water. Then after you know it is pure, use a plenty of it inside and out and you will feel and look better." Very Sad Affair. Last Tuesday at Cottageville B. R. Jackson was accidently shot by J. O. Jacques, Jr., Trom the effects of which he died in a few hours. It seems that Mr. Jackson had gone over to the hon.e of Mr. Jacques, and while there they were lookf-ig at a pistol supposed to be unloaded. While it was in Mr. Jaque's hands it went or, the ball striking Mr. Jackson in th" lower abdomen. All was done for the wounded man possible, but it was of no avail. Before he died Mr. iicksou made a statement to the effect that tho shooting was en tirely accidental and absolved Mr. Jaques of all blanu in the matter. Mr. Joques Is discon olnte and ta'res the death of his relative and friend very hard. Mr. Jackson was a prom inent farmer in the Cottageville sec tion. He was 45 yearn ;.a'-. s 9 'fe and six ctild ? He ?.va: rek to Mr. Jartuei td was on ? : mott frien'". '-run 1 uh him.