Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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POLICY HOLDERS TO GIYE PROXIES ASSOCIATIONS MAKE AN AP PEAL THROUGH PRESS. Representatives are Named.-Organ izations Take Steps to Carry Out Instructions of the Meetings Held Last Month. The associations of policyholders of; the New York Mutual and New York: Life are actively at work to secure! the proxies of the policyholders, the primary purpose for which the asso ciations were organized. The associa tions have been unable to secure a list of the policyholders, as the com panies refuse to give the lists even to such an organization, and -thit posi tion has been sustained by the courts: as proper in a recent decision. Hence the associations have had to appeal, to the policyholders through the press. The Mutual Life Policyholders' as sociation has sent out the following: "Policyholders of the Mutual Life Insurance Conpany of New York will: do well to communicate with Mr. F. H. McMaster, Columbia, S. C., secre -tary of the South Carolina Associa tion of Policyholders. ''On the 18th of January, in Co lumbia this association was formed, with'Gen. Wilie Jones as president; Mr. Samuel H. Wilson, of Charleston, vice-president, and Mr. F. H. McMas ter. of Columbia, S. C., secretary; and an executive committee, consisting of Messrs. T. M. Mordecai, Charleston; J. C. Sheppard, Edgefield; J. Allen' Smith, Abbeville; Ellison Smyth, GIreenville; Leroy Eprings, Lancaster; D. D. McColl, Bennettsville, and C. Fitzsimons, Columbia. Col. Leroy, ,Springs as a trustee of the company, and it is the pulpose of the South Carolina association to have him rep resent their interests at the annual; meeting in New York of the Mutual Life Insurance company on the first Monday in June. To cover the neces sary expenses of the association a: membership fee of $1 is asked. ''As the Mutual Life Insurance company dJias declined to furnish a list of its policyholders in South Caro-' lina, letters cannot be setit directly to the policyholders; but all who hold policies in this company are reques-: ed to let that fact be known to the -secretary, Mr. F. H. McMaster, at Coumbia, when a blank proxy will be, *sent them." The New York Life Policyholders' association has sent out the follow ing: To the Policyholders of the New York Life Insurance Company: Following the instructions of the! association formed in Columbia on the! 18lth of January the execut4ive com-! mittee of the New York Life Policy holders' Protective association has en d5eavored to secure the proxies of the: policyholders of the company in South, Carolina for the purpose of having them represented at the annual meet-I1 ing in New York in April. lInmed iately after the formation of the as sociation an official request was made, by the president of the association I for a list of the policyholders in this State and after correspondence with the homie office, it is evident that we cannot secure gueh a list from the company. Meanwhile the- agents of j the company hake been instructed to secure proxies in the name of Messrs. Strajis, Claflin and Mackay of Newi York and many of the policyholders of, the company in this State have given their proxies to the agents in the namne of these gentlemen. While desiring to work in accord with the officials of the company so long as their efforts are directed to the con servation of the interests of the poli- i cyholders, the e,xecutive committee considers that the original plan of the association should be adhered to and that the policyholders, in order to be fully proeeted, should give their proxies to the three trustees se lected by the committee in accord with the resolution of the meeting held on the ,18t,h of January. This f committee consists of Messrs. T. B. Stackhouse of Columbia, L. W. Park er of Greenville and Jas. A. Hoyt, of' Cohinbia.-I This committee is pledged to vote the South Carolina p.oxies for .the - protection of the policyholders. The committee will also vote the proxies a.nd work for the election of Gov. D. -C. Heyward as a trustee of the comn pany at the annual meating, as in structed by the association. Policyhiolders desiring to cooperate with the association in the manner outlined will fill out a proxy as given below and send.to any.one of the com mittee nazned therein. T. B. Stackhouse. President. ~ Jas. A. Hoyt, Seeretary. Form of Proxy. Knov all men by these presents. That T. , of the city of - in the county of - and State. of South Carolina, the insured under policy No. issued by the New York Life Insurance company, do hereby con stitute and appoint T. B. Stackhouse, L. W. Parker and Jas. A. Hoyt, .znd each of them, my true and lawful at torneys, for me and in my name, place and stead, to vote as my proxy at the annual election of *trustees of the New York Life Insurance company, to be held in the yeai 1906. With full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and *onfirming all that my said attorneys-or any one of them. or their substitutes, may law fully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. All of the powers of this proxy may be exercised by such one of said persons as shall attend said election or any adjournment thereof, or by a majority of those attending if more than ohe shall attend. This proxy shall be invalid after the expiration of 11 months from this date. I hereby revoke all my former proxies. In witness whereof, I have hereun to set my hand and seal this day of , 1906. Signed, sealed and delilered in the presence of The Situation. The situation in regard to the an nual meetings of these two compan ies is becoming very -interesting, and there are being made strong efforts to secure proxies for these occasions. Mr. Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston speculator, claims that he has enough proxies to control the elections in both .companies but this claim is not believed to be sound. However, as stated in the circular of the New York Life Policyholders' association, the agents of thit. company all over the country have had instructions to se cure proxies in the name of three New York business men. This has never been done before in the history of: the company, - the annual meetings eretofore having attracted little or o attention and the policyholders aking very little interest in the mat ter. The recent revelations before; he Newv York investigating commit ee, however, have aroused the policy olders to a realization of the fact hat the conduct of the companies is n their hands and the present man gement has gone to work to make ure of the company by gettinig prox es through the agents. The association of policyholders eek to give the holders of policies1 ~he opportunity to be represented at he annual meetings by men whom he policyholdeirs know,- from their wn State, who have no personal in erest in the matter other than the rood of the companies and the benefit f the policy-holders. While. the nethod which they have had to adopt :o secure the proxies is an indirect e. it is believed that there will .be any responses, as the insuring pub ic is now fully alive to the neces ~ity of the proper representation of he policies at these annual meet gs. To Spot Holders. About the middle of last November he Souther Cotton association ad Ried all spot holders to demand fif een cents per pound, basis middling, 'or the balance of the unsold portion f the present crop and pledges were1 ~sked for ninety days. The Main 1th Cotton convention held at New )rleans, La., January 11-13, 1906, assed a resolution unanimously ndorsing the movement for fifteen ~ents and advocated the continued olding of the unsold portion of the rp for that p)rice independent of he 90-day pledging. The executive enuuittee of the association sub)se uently endorsed the action of the onvention and all spot holders wer ~arnstly asked to stand firm until maximum price of 15 cents was o'f ered. Remember one year ago cot on sold at seven cents per pound in ebruary and advanced to over ten ~ents early in July in the face of a 4,000,000, bale crop. This year the ~rop is 3,500,000 bales less. Consump ion is far greater this year than ast, and the prices of all lines of ~otton goods abnormally high. If ;he small balance of the cotton now ield is sol~d for~ fifteen cenits, the hoe crop will not average ovei L 1-2 cents per pound. Receipts rill soon drop off heavily and a ~troger market will be had. Do not rush your cotton on the arket, but hold it and win out in the ;reat struggle that is on between he spot holders on the one side and ~peculators, spinners and buyers on he other. Yours truly, Harvie Jordan, President, ~. C. A. GENERAL ROBBER' I. LEE. King Edward VII and President Harry St. George Tucker, of the Jamestown Exposition, Dis cuss His Fame. The following editorial taken from the Providence, R. I., Journal, Sunday February 4, 1906, shows how (lose the sections of our re-united country have grown, and what pleasure it gives to all to hear our great men of either side praised by foreigners: King Edward and Jamestown. It is always in terestini to read a firsthand account of a meeting be t4een a royal personage and a plain American citizen, especially when they come together in a friendly, in formal way. when it is permis-sible to lay aside official ceremony and talk without th rest raint which it imposes. Then it is that opportunity is afford ed to take the true measure of the sov ereign and see what kind of man he is beneath his royal robes. This pleasure was enjoyed very re-, cently by Professor Ha-ry St. George Tucker, of Washington and Lee Ulni versity, formerly Congressman from Virginia, who in his capacity of Presi dent of the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 had an interview with King Ed ward of England. The iature of Mr. Tucker's mission to Europe, which is to seek the co-operation of various., sovereigns in the forthcoming cele bration of the three hundred anni versary of the founding of the first white settlement in America, as well as the especial cbrdiality of his let ters of introduction and his own win ning personality, brought him to the notice 'of the King under the most favoring auspices. Possibly to these causes was due the disposition of Ed ward to put his best foot forward. However that may be, he was most gracious to his untitled visitor and, what is particularly to the point, spoke admiringly of our great men, and expressed a willingness to do what lies in his power to make the app)roaching' celebration at historic Jamestown a spectacular, sentiment al and finanei"bl success. Skillfully but somewhat slowly run ing the gaimilet of official flunky sm, Mr. Tucker was greeted with the tmost cordiality by the King, who, fter the hand-shake,' said, with pos sibly more cordiality than is always shown by a Seventh Assistant in Washington: ''Sit down; sit down.' He stated that Great Britain would be properly represented at Jamestown and, after a conversation reminiscent f the memorable days when as Prin e of Wales he visited the United States, spoke of certain American oldiers, aead and alive, and gave his pinion of their genius as compared ith that of other military chieftains f history. What 'will be apt to cause surprise nd perhaps provoke controversy is hat when reference was made to ord Roberts as the foremost soldier f England Mr. Tucker compared him o General JQseph -E. Johnston, whom Ee t h~glt--he closely resemble.Y It s evidently the opinion of King Ed-: rard, as indicated by as observation rOppedl in the course of the inter iew, that Lord Roberts is more comn ~arable to General Robert E. Lee. uht Mr. Tucker, true to Southern ~radition, and with the loyalty of the ~enuine Virginian, replied: ''No, our Majesty, we do not think any ody resembles General Lee." One must admire the ingenuous' ood nature with which the King re ~eived this -frank, if excusable, boast,~ ud the kindliness of his.nature which d him to reply that he hoped Lord toberts would attend the exposition o that Americans would have an op >ortunity to judge for themselves of he estimate put upon him by the :ngish people. Having in mind the* ~riendliness of Edward 's reception of hew .Tamiestown Commissioner there is1 ust itien tion for the hIope, moreover,. hat the King was sincere in respond ne to tile suggestion that as he had )lantedl an oak beside Washington 's omb) at Mt. Vernon oneC of his house ~houd repeat the compliment at amestown, for he scratched on at ablet near at hand -a memorandum, ~ayng as he did so: "That is a capi Lal idea." It was Lor~d Roberts who in the ~ourse of many courtesies personally ~xtended to Mr. Tucker said to him' hat while Lord Wotseley places Gen ~ral Lee ahead of any soldier since tl!e lays of Bonaparte, an estimate which rmis guest did not dispute, he believed ~hat ''the most remarkable product of! he war between the States" was stonewall Jackson. - However true hat may be, and whatever it may ean it seems safe to say that th ~eputation of America, the fame of' ier great men and the commendable ause of Professor Tucker's foreign ur will not suff'er as a result of the ffhol e: e.t between the King of ?ngland and this true-blue Nirgini Ii a,. I Mrs. Cosev-Has yer husband any, infloooence s Mrs. H1ogan-Begobs. 'e's under it all the time.-New Sun. ''Patching and darniug, as usual, are you?" said the caller. "Yes," answered Mrs. Lapsling, "I tell Sam uel I save him a good deal of money by beingr so mendacious.''-Chicago Tribune. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that we will make a final settlement on the estate of Jacob Singley, deceased, on Tues day, the sixth day of March, 1906, at 11 o'clock, A. M., in the Probate Court for Newberry County, South Carolina, and will immediately there after apply for a final discharge as ex ecntors of said deceased. Geo. S. Mower. -J. C. Singley, as surviving Executors of the last will and testament of Jacob Singley, deceased. Newbery, S. C., January 29, 1906. OPERA HOUSE Earhardt, Stewart & Wells, Mgrs FAREWELLITOUR MELVILLE B. RAYMOND CARTOON COMEDY Buster Brown With the Original New York Cast and Production Master Gabriel America's Most Talented Toy Comedian as BUSTER Supported by the following well known; Players: George Ali, Al. Lamar, Chas. A. Loder, Burt Jordan, Gordon Sackville, Chas. Vaughn, Ada Gifford, Vida Perrin, Nan Dodson; Rosa Crouch, Jo-. sephine Rellis, Rhea Lusby and .a Talented and Well Drilled Chorus. It's a play for Ages. SEE RAYMOND'S' SCOTCH FUSILEERS A Tremendous Sensation in all the. Metropolitan Cities. What is Bromonia? Read the following carefully: If you have consumption or some of the* contagious forms of blood poisoning we cannot cure you. We don's pretend to cure you. You need the indivi<dual treatment of some skilled specialist; but if you are run down in general health if you have dyspepsia, are subject to fainting spells, a victim to in somnia, biliousness, kidney or liver trouble, catch cold easily, if your system is in that* condition 'thait you may become .an easy prey to the disease germs of pneumonia, la grippe and the various epidemics, if you are bothered with constant headache, loss of memory, general ly impaired vitality, we can help you, and, if you follow our direc tions, render you immune against sickness. Most skin disease can be cured by the use of "BROMO NIA" "BEOMONIA" is to the hiuman system what the scrubbing brush and soap are to the dirty wash bowl. It aids Nature to resumae normal action. W. E. Pelham & Son guarantee that, if you will write to The Bro monia Co., New York, giving your full name and address on the cou pon at thle bottom of this column, you will receive a full size pack age without any' cost to you what ever. Write name andi address plain ly. Be careful to address The Bro monia Co., N~ew York... .. .. .. FREE EEOMONIA 'COUPON. Name ..................... City ....................... State ...................... Street Address............... My disease is ............... If you think Bromonia is what you need and do not care to send coupon, you will find it at all first class druggists .25 and 50 ets. the bottle. Special sale being held by W. E. Weiham & Son, Exclusive wholesale agent's for Newberry,S.C. and WHISKEY H ABITS cured at home with out pain. Book of par riulrssntFRE tBcuar seOL LE. ABlnta . Me18 . PrLEr Ste. Atlaat, ~ Once 1~N. Pry.r street. A STEP TI "One thing is forev thing is SUCGESS." A well ordered accou important step to su( start an account here a will be encouraged by count semi-annually ol interest. The Coini Nxew 7)e2 "The Bank for The, Drug For Gade 7.Gn Ladet'I WodsI Al Papers~ Tha g exprecs ar h Ladeths Cn wilgAdyll wihouP a tager of ~ modr anye son s reol thesai pla and Ware for boo Let Usodr PHon Yu iFOR1 i P A U. - ) UCCESS er good; and that one nt in a good bank is an cess. One dollar will mnd your efforts to save the addition to your ac 4 per cent compound rc iaI Bank, Your Savings." Right Store iSeeds that> rard.en Seeds. rden Seeds. dated 1906. ag a New Home? cupied a.t this seaser. in :ications for their zew that a person ust hge~ smeral deal honue is constructed. our Plumbing? ao us toplan the plumb igof your home,I donc~rmnthe iirst tim2. We~ but execute al!!c - ~, ,'i*. trats o.n thie mos approved sanitary ~ ijj~lines-enebcy thex m o sc t expe:-Ience-d and competent me-. chanics an'd use the very best Eix:ures t mad - namely A 'tandar'd" Porce lain Enameled Baths. Lavatories. If you donot find it convenient to call in per.son, write or phone us and we s and other lterature on the suibiect@ advise, however, tha't you inspect) iisplayed in our showroom. Ask C rbig."6 Pree upon request. A LE BY iL:' eb er, SC.(/