Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I We Hope You Attended Our Great Sals Yesterday. If You Did Not. Do So At Once. It Is An Event You Simply Can't Afford to Miss. ?90S SUMMER SKIRTS. 50 Lino-net te Skirts shown in white, black, tan and navy, made in latest design, perfect'ond well fitting. Value $1.50. Sale price....$1.12 50 Extra Fine Linen Skirts made with five deep Merry Widow Folds, sells at $2.50. Sale Price .. . .$1.82. 25 Rich Panama Wool Skirts in black, navy, blue and brown, all the newest models, perfectly tailored. Value $?.50. Sale price ... ..$4.88 -i~-: HEATHERBLOOM DROP SKIRTS. 35 Fast Black Heatherbloom Drop Skirts the kind that looks and rustles like silk. Made with 3 deep raffles, very full and perefct fitting. Value $3.50. Sale price .. . . .. . . $2.20 25 Fine Heatherbloom Skirts, guar. anteed best quality Heatherbloom good $2.50 value. Sale price . .$1.88. 50 Fine Sateen Drop Skirts made of extra fine weave cloth, several rows of deep ruffles, excellent $1.50 value. Sale price.98c Here are more facts and figures-more object lessons in practical econo mies, more opportunities for timely investments-more reasons why you should attend the Great Combination Sale. Assortments were never larger-qualities were never higher-styles were never better-and assuredly, emphatically, prices were never lower-or even ap proaching present standards. Here you find bright, fresh, crisp stocks of remnants-a bountiful array of choice bits-a splendid showing of Summer goods of all kinds-things needed now which will cost you double after this sale closes. Why delay? PARASOLS. Prices that will make you smile. 25 richly colored Ladies' Parasols, pretty natural wood handles, full as* sortment of colors. Value $1.25. Sale price. . . .. . .85c 25 Irish Linen White Parasols, both with plain and embroidered edges. .Natural white wood handles. Value $1.50 to $2.50 Sole price $1.28 BAGS AND BELTS. ' Don't these prices tempt you. 300 Ladies' Fine Silk Elastic and Leather Belts. A manufacturer's lot ranging in price fxvm 50c to $1.00. Sale price.10c. 50- Leather Bags, both in medium and long shape, all made on strong frame. Values 50c to $1.00. Sole Price..33c. 100 Manufacturer's Sample Hand Bogs, made c. best quality leather, full assortment of styles. Values 75c to $2.00. Sale price.59c. 10 CENTS A YARD. 2000 yards Extra Fine Fancy Lawns, Swisses and- Dimities, all fine qualities, worth from 20e to 30c a yard. .A big Mill End special. Wonderful bargain. 10 CENTS A YARD. 7U CENTS A YARD. ?--I i ; 1200'yards Fine Soft Chambrays and Dress Ginghams. The lot in cludes solid color Chambrays and stylish striped Ginghams. Won derfully low priced. 7U CENTS A YARD. 10 YARDS FOR 65 CENTS. 1000 yards of Soft Longcloth, 36 inches wide. Comes in Mill Ends or 10 yards, sells at 10 cents a yard. One piece to a customer. No more, no less. 10 YARDS FOR 05 CENTS. 4 CENTS A YARD. 3000 yards Fine Sea Island, full 39 inches wide*. Comes in Mill Ends of 5 to 20 yards. Excellent for all Sea Island uses. Mill Sale Price 4 CENTS A YARD. EXTRA! EXTRA!! SPECIALS. Each day for several days we will throw out for 5, 10, 15 minutes, goods at prices that the mercantile world call giving away. OUR LOSS?YOUR GAIN. +1' xU> EXTRAORDINARY! 600 yards pure Linen Suiting, all desirable colors, very stylish, sells at 20c. Sale price..12c. 300 yards colored Cotton Suitings, big range of colors, washes well, sells at 12 1-2 c. Sale price.8c. 600 yards i.iessaline'and Satin Taffeta Ribbon, all desirable colors, 4 to 6 inches, sells at 35c. Sale price. . .. .19c. 100 Baby White Muslin Caps, made with handsome embroidery, all new designs, 50c and 75c value. Sale price. 400 yards Linen Torchon Laces and Insertions, all fresh stock, mostly 10c values. Sale price. .,. .. . 300 dozen pearl buttons, best quality goods, all perfect and highly polished, never sold for less thon 10c. Sale price. 300 spools Coat's Colored Crochet Cotton, sells at 5c. Full 200 yards. Sale price. . Soe. . 4c. Don't Delay Your Attendance. Every Department' in the Store is Represented. We never do things in a half hearted manner. ...THEODORE KOHN'S... OZR-A-HSTGrEZBTTIRGr, S. C. WASH GOODS. The big mills needed the money as never before.. Prices cut no figure with, them. Here are your savings: 900 yds Exquisite Colored MuU Swisses und Batiste in wonderfully pretty stripe and check designs, fresh from the mills, made to sell for 25c. A Big Mill E'id Special. Sale Price. . ..12J?c. 600 yds Dainty Marquisette, a silky sheer Fancy Colored Lawn, lovely spring colorings in stripes and dots. Value 20r Sale Prceice.12c. 750 yds Floradora Musilns, the kind that is fast color and designs that arc stylish. Sells now at 10 cts a yard. .Sale price.6i?c. 200 yds Black Check Mulls, L>oks like silk, .very handsome and very stylish- Sells at 30 cts. A Big Leader. Side Price.JL^c. 350 yds. Silk Chiffon Voile, looks like $1.00 silk goods, exquisite plaids and checks. Sells special at 25c. Sale Price.'. . >. . .10c 1000 yds Paris Tissues Colored Ba tiste, all 'the latest designs direct from the big mills. Lawns that will sell at bargain price for 15c' Sole, Price. . ..10c, GLOVES. Long gloves at very short prices. 250 pair Pure Silk Gloves in white and black excellent gloves at bargain price. 12 button length at 85 ? cents. 16 button length at 08 cents. / 225 pair Kayser Famous Double Tipped Silk Gloves, in white and black, the finest fitting and best wear ing glove in the world. $1.75 12-button length at $1.28 $2.00 16-button length at $1.48. 190 pair extra Fine Kayser colored double Tipped lO'button silk gloves, all rick Spring colors, value $2.25. Sale price.$1.65 200 pair Imported French Kid Gloves, a fine showing in black, tan, grey, brown, white and black, worth $1.00 and $1.25. A chance to save 48c on a pair. Sale price.77c HIGHER PRICES. Why the Farmers Should Stand by Their Guns and HOLD THEIR COTTON. Strong Argument for the Cotton Groweire and Against the Middle Men. Five Months Before the New Crop Will Move and the Middle ,t Men Short on Their Contracts for / Delivery. We commend the following letter from Mr. J. E. Wannamaker of St. Matthews, to the careful perusal of all who are interested in the pros perity of our Southland: Although I do not claim to be a prophet, 'or the son of a prophet, I venture to assert that cotton should not be sold in the present low mar ket; first, because of the moral effect upon the farmers themselves. I need not tell you how for forty long years the middle man, the speculator and the gamblers have made a foot ball of cotton; how for the time being, he has set at nought the great law of supply and demand, and thereby rob bed the cotton producer and the South of millions of money; how the farmers tamely and ignobly submitted to this thraldom until a few years ago the slumbering manhood of the South asserted itself, and at New Orleans made a new declarations of indepen dence. I need not tell your readers how steadily our organization has grown, how bitterly it has been fought by the New York and other cotton ex changes; all these things are matters of history. To surrender now, four to five months before it is possible to put new cotton in quantities in the market, would be to take counsel of our fears, to show the white feather, to play into the hands of our enemies and to invite defeat now and here after. Then, again, it is not the time to sell cotton, because the low prices prevailing would entail too great S nancial loss upon those who hive risked all for the'common good. It is well known that the last crop was made at high cost. Mules, wagons, fertilizers, farm supples of all kinds, including labor; all commanded high prices. Then, once more, it is, not time to sell cotton because conditions present and prospective warrant much higher prices. "But," says some one, "I am willing to gmit that the moral effect of selling out now would be bad, and that the loss would be heavy on those who have held; but let us face facts. Is it not true that the depressing in fluence of the panic still lingers .That the sale of mill products is slow? That many mills are running on re duced time? That the buying capacity of the world seems to be diminished? What are the chances for higher prices?" I answer, much of what you say is doubtless true; still, with firm holding of the remnants of the crop I believe the chances of I'igher prices are first class. When fertilizer mills have more goods than they can sell they maintain prices, ware house the surplus stock and cut down produc tion. The diamond kings do the same.same, we are told. When the cotton mills find prices for their pro ducts too low they often warehouse their stock and curtail their output. These are wise men. Shall not the farmer profit by their example? Then, remember, trade is steadily moving toward the normal, even in this country, where the depression has been greatest. In England, I am informed, the export trade has ap proached close to the figures of last year for some time. England is wide awake. Note these straws: Liverpool, May 7: Cotton, spot, good business done; sales 20,000 bales, of which IS,000 American; re ceipts 1,000, no American. Futures opened easy and closed steady. "Liverpool, May S: Cotton, spot, in active demand and a good business done. Priceo IS to 20 points higher. Sales of the day v ^re l.'.OOO, of which 1-1,200 American; receipts 1,0 )0 boles, no Americin." Here arc some facts which shoald not be lost sight of. While a good many mills lur c curtailed their out put, this is offset, to a certain extent, by the new spiudles which are snerri ly humming away for the first lime this year. And let ro one forget that there were 2.00?.000 bales of cotton less mude in this country la^t year than the year before, and that India also fell short 2,000,000 bales. Then mark well thfs fact, which is very sig nificant: The cotton manufacturer ig nores the farmer and buyes his sup plies of raw cotton, by contract, months' ahead, sometimes a year ahead, from middle men. Higher prices now for raw cotton would not hurt, but help the mills. These mid dle men are shrewd, smart men. They have no cotton, but sell short to the mills. They utilize the New York Ex change in all their trades. The New York Cotton Exchange is the arch enemy of the cotton planter. The distinguished editor of the Saturday Evening Post has declared that n inetenths of its activities are pernicious. And now comes United tates Corporation Commissioner Her bert Knox Smith, who in a report published last Monday, says: "However this me be, the New York Cotton Exchange, if it can not exist under a just and equitable sys tem, has no excuse for existence at all. The present New York system of fixed differences is uneconomic, in defiance of natural law, unfair, and j like all other efforts to defy natural law, results in such complex and de vious effects that the benefit of its transaction accrues only to a skilled few." To returti to the middle men; who have sold short to the mill3. They come into daily contact with the far mers through their agents, who cov er the whole cotton belt. They play daily upon the hopes and fears of the cotton farmer, always taking their cue from the New York Cotton Ex change, and have grown strong and waxed fat in their successful dealings with him. If the truth were known bales of cotton are now sold on contract to the mills by these middle men for May, June. July, August and September delivery. Suppose, Mr. Editor, the farmer realized the true situation; suppose he quietly put his cotton in a <;ood ware house and went about his i usiness. cutting down his cotton acreage, putting in more corn, harvesting his small grain, increasing his pasture lands and truck patches; wouldn't there be something doing in the cotton world? Wouldn't the price begin to jump? Would't the world wake up out of its slumber af ter all it must not go naked? Mr. Editor, I tell you the manufac tuie of cotton and the civilization of the world go hand in hand! (But, says some one: "The farmers will plant the earth in cotton this 3*ear." Let not the manufacturer, nor the middle man, nor the speculator pin their faith too strong to what, the fool farmer may or may not do. 'Paul may plant and Appollos may water, but God alone givetn the increase,' is<as true in material as in spiritual things. Already in the wisdom of Providence, by frost, by flood, by cool nights and withering, blighting winds, cotton has been killed outright and stands badly broken the length and bre.idth'of the cotton belt; and yet sti?.it has to run the gauntlet of flood and drought and frost. "Three 's oany a slip uv: Me cup and the Hp." Mr. Kciitor, I believe we are fight ing in a great cause, a cause which embraces the financial, industrial and economic welfare, and, therefore, the educatiou?i and spiritual welfare of all our people of the entire sunny South, "n view of all I've done and tried to do, no matter what the out-1 come may be, I feel that I can adopt a;; my ovai the motto of the disting uished Rnbbi Elzas: "Men .say I've failed; I have not fail ed. If I have brought truth to men, they'd not receive, 'Tis they have failed, not I." J. E. Wannamaker. St. Matthews, May 0, 190S. No Use to Die. "I have found out that there is no use to die of lung trouble as long as you can get Dr. Kings New Discov ery, says Mrs. J. P. White, of Rush boro, Pa. '"I would not be alive to day only for that wonderful medi cine. It loosens up a cough quicker than anything else and cures lung disease even after the case is pro nounced hopeless." The most reli able remedy for coughs and colds, la Tlppe, asthma, bronchitis and hoarse ness, is sold under guarantee at Dr. J. G. Wannamaker, Mfg. Co.. drug store. 50c and'$1.00. Trial bottle free. ? Don't be afraid of pleasure. It is necessary for good work. If you haven't the time to e.:ercise regularly. Doan's Regulets will pre vent constipation. They Induce a mild easy, heathful action of the bowels without grining. Ask your druggist for thru. LUc. ? MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE DISPENSARIES IN ORANGEBURG COUNTY FOR MONTH OF APRIL. 0 , AH Stock is. Given at Consumers' Prices. Dispensaries at Fort Motte, S. C.. .. [Branchille, S. C. . Livingston, S. C. . [St. Matthews, S. C. . ? Onmgeburg, S. C. . Springfield. S. C. . Elloree, S. C., Total Invoice including stock on hand first day of month. .$2,973.75 . 3,448.20 . 3-.690.60 . 5,937.65 .10.519.65 . 5,169.80 . 4,092.05 Total.$35,831.70 Total sales. $1,107.85 1.789.05 1,0S0.05 2,310.65' 6,941.30 880.85 1,467.95 $5,577.70 Operating expenses of each dispensary. I 73.01 106.33 S3.02 123.62 206.88 84.60 97.57 $77.'.03 In?. breakage. 12.15 IS.10 7.60 ? 14.30 30.40 12.85 6.45 $101.85 Consumers Stock on hand last day of month $ 1,853.75 1,605.05 2,593.75 3,609.25 3,547.95 4,191.20 2,617.65 $20,018.60 State of South Carolina, Count;.* of Orangeburg. Personally appeared J. G. Smith, T. R. McCants, L. A. Carson, Members of the Orangeburg County Dis sary board, who being each duly and severally sworn, deposes and says that the foregoing statement is true and correct. Sworn to a*9g subscribed before [me this 7th da) of May, 1908. J. H Claffy, N. P., S. C. ^Fp^T^ ,'' _I_-_i Best Healer in the World. Rev. F. Starbird. of East Ray mond, Maine, says: "I nave used Bucklen's Arnica Salve for several years, on my old army jund, and other obstinate sores, and find it the best healer in the world. I use it too with great success in my veterinary business." Price 25c at Dr. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co., drug store. It's a pity to see pecple neglect in dications of kidne> ? ? >iadder trouble that may resn'1 Jlright's disease when FoleyV i.lne" Remedy will correct Ii. .aritjes and strengthen these r:-: <;.. Take Foley's Kidney Renn?:' i the first signs of danger. A. C r:?kes, Lowman Drug Co. WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED Some men just wont foot a bill j without kicking. Ii is nobody's business how much of your own time you kill, but you I have no right to even cripple other people's time. Weak women should read my ,'Book No. 4 For Women." It was written expressly for women who are not well. The Rook No. 4 tells of Dr. Shoop's "Night Cure" and just how these soothing, healing, antiseptic suppositorii s can be successfully ap plied. The Hook-, and strictly confiden tial medical advice is entirely free. \\ rte Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. The Night Cure i> sold by Dr. J. G. Wan namaker Mfc Co. What a woman can't stand about he unmoral part of gambling is if you lose. Never say die! fry L. L. L. Buy Lowman's Liver Lifters. Take Lowman's Liver Lifters. Use Lowman's Liver Lifters. Try Lowman's Liver Lifters. Harris Lithia Water. For salu by Lowman & Lowman. DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little liver pills. Sold by A. C. Dukes, and A. C. Doyle & Co. .Municipal Notice. Office of City Clerk and Treasurer, City of Orangeburg, S. C, May 9, 190S. Notice is hereby given that the City Council will enter into an elec tion for one policeman for the city of Orangeburg, at (he next regular meeing of that body to be held Fri day, June 12, 190S, at S:30 o'clock; at the City Hall in said city.. Ap plications for the above position must be filed with the undersigned at or fore 6 o'clock, p. m. of the said 12th day of June, 1908. By order of the City Council. L. H. Wannamaker, 5:15:3. City Clerk and Treasurer. Another lot of those invincible Schacht ball-bearing bugles, on wood or ?ir? wheels, the oniv perfect ball i bearing buggy made. Our Stock in other lines are com plete, and is as fine a line as is car ried anywhere, consisting of the fol lowing makes: Babcock, Parker, Peid |mont, Wrenn. Oxford, Hackney; Tay lor and Cannady, Carmichael, Ratter man & Luth. When in need of any thing in the vehicle line call in and see ours. We can please you. L. E. RILEY. Hail! Hail!! Did come and will again. Everyone takes an umbrella when it is raining. A wise man protects Iiis cropa wi'h a policy that defies HAIL for weeks. You I?iiry jour :non-y in the laud with Cotton and Grain and it takes fro ii 3 to S minutes for the Hail to destroy it all. see John F. Mew bou-ne, Ageut for Carolina Tail In surance Co. ;j:7:2 J. STORES SALLE Y, Attorney at Law. No. 11 Lai ton Building, Law 3-2 7-3m Range, Oraugeburg, 8. C.