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rIR.1 AT BENNETTSVILLE. Half of the Business Section Swept Away-Heaviest Loser is A. J. Matheson. News and Courier. Be!L1nvilule. January 24.-Ber net::l.e was visited by the most d( strer Vt fire in it.S list)V this morr ii the 1sis:1ess section an fem: fe b:m'd ".mest.* .r:du-es <' the w l.urned to the ,ro lnn ent: n a rs f .e weon $150.,1) and . 20.f0. eF evn ,'Iein"' it a hiig> . : Iarter af a m;i()i . At'u half t:s c (1vereI by i:ura<I T e '.: ne b: !-: (l IStric"t I elu:35: C! b: ::luO's :nep e yth 11li: 1 -. . 31a1- i : vIl,c.k. \.'li:(' lii-. .1.''"(i?i'1ert,v .: Sie;ic': of the Bennetts ville ::::.1 (ie:aw R ailroad, stor? roul of M =r. Rouse & Bostic. the Mar boro u . .:mpany. ofices of th Scott 1. i'Irf er' Conpany. off ices of J E. ?s=e::ccr. the Music Room and th, Amii: tirm. all valued at about. $25. 00: .:d ins e:'d f(.r $1t0.000. In ad dition t!;, store rooms of E. D. Moor( vat:iG(ltO0. and insured fo ab'; ~ t. 'i0: the two offices of Mrc Fr:.n11k C'T :1mi. valied at $1.200. ani ina:c <r $.e 5 :1h,'o rooms C. F. Exum. valued at $18.000. an, insu:-ed fIr $11.000; and the stor rom a f S. .1. Pearsen. valued at 3, 000 and insurance $1.400: and the tw offices owed by Dr. W. J. Crosland ain t at about 2.500. and also par tialy insured, were burned. The butiness firms which were burn ed a :d the amount of their st'oek wit] nmau eo were: Marlboro Drug Com pany. st n' k of $14,000 insured for $9, 000: Pearson's jewelry sore, stock o $3.000. insured for $1,000; so Brown's fnruiiure store. s:-k of $7. 000. in :i,r"ed for $3,300- Lrcery 'stori of F. I.. Hamilton, stoi: of .6.500. in sured for $4,500: Exezie: IHardwar< Com:iyx . stock of $10600, inre for .(; 000: Livingstoi s law offe vz0nd about $3.000, insured fo $500: d:fl offices of P. E. Stockton valued at $1,200, insu-rei for $500 20th C;,ntury Library, lt.oks wort. $1,200. insured for $700: Bennetts ville Social nlub, furn:iue worth $2. 500, insured for $1.500; J. E. Spencer stock of $1.500, insured for $500; music room of Mrs. Carlisle, worti $600. insured for $330; Mercer. Rous. & Rostie. stock of a?bout $3,000, insur ~ed for $1.600; book store, stock of *$2,800, insured for $1,700: Town. send 's office., damage- estimated at $300: damage to E. C. Morrison 's shop $500. iThe large store of Crosland & Co, across the street. was damaged to the exte'nt of $2,000. McC'al'l-Weath erly Coimpa.ny also suffere~d -iamage, as .did J. T. Douglas, Baldwin and some others. T.Th ofies of the railroad and the lumb7er company were also burned, but the amount of their loss is niot known. The Bell 'Telephone C"ompany had r-ome of their wires torn d'own, as did also the eleet:ric line. It will take betwee'n $1.500 and $2.000 to re store the;e. Several young men h.ad furnished room' in the annex to the hotel and all their e.ffeefs were burned. The hiandeom2e residence of Judge J. F. Hudson, valued at $6.000 and i.nsnredi for $4,200, was burned. T~he other three houses and their -vaia as well as insurance were: The -Bristow House, va.lue $4,500, insur *,nee $2.250: residence of Ed Rowe. value $2.500, insurance $1,500; the reside'tee of C. T. Moore. valued at $2,500 and ins'ured for $1,000. All of xthese, as well as the majoriVy of tihe ~furni'shings and out houses, were burned to the ground. The residence et J. T. Medlin was badly damaged. There are smalle-r losses that cannot yet be given. Just how the fire originated is not known. It was first diseovered at 5.30 tis morning by Mr. J. F. Jones, the proprietor of the Skye Hotel, who was awakened by the smell of smoke. Going into the shall.-he saw smoke is s.uing from the direction of the music room, nd he immediately awoke the guests and sounded the alarm. All got out of the hotel safely except Mr. J. J. Heckart. the president of the Bennettsville 'and Che'raw Railroa,d, who was delayed somewhat until it it we. too late to descend by means of the stairs, whi.eh were already on fire. Consequently he jumped .from his windo~w to thfe ground. sustaining painful injuries. ~Some of the gurest~ did not have time to put on thei cloth.in.g and all of their persona. belongings were lost. All of Mir. Jones' furniture, value<d at $2.000, but on which he carried to ins"xrance, was burned. The flames spread rapidly fron the music room to the rest of thi building and walls were soon corn ing down with a crash. Stor afer store in this bloci nd the .loqimh of gunpoW s~ dei1a :d:nesores showe3l th1' 1he Aire w'is 1e".ni' in its work T buek,t bri-:lde made gallant -r :o che.k t'. flames but in - i o: pa:-tie:Vly the entire - 'n(k w as in ruin' - t' t iin'- te flanies had '': n ' w l mklhre the (1 b1uO of *Y. istow, located I on. Parsona-:e >:2-. tlh, rear 'of i th huteIl. (ak'-' rr'-lm ;ome of the Iner :m1s :k'. 1,nd in an in (re:ib1e h;'rt ti:e it, too, was in rui11:'s. other fire broke out on the roof of Juha1 :~J. H. Huds'on's house nn t1 : me t ::' e; : nd ( ff er )ui na111 -1n:x\ Two hon<es. O("enpied "1" .repee e ively. by dl.Ruw anti C. T. -Moore. -?allt!: e a!m)went up. The )lcmket hri.r-ade had gotten - t'ha en::ine to the next louse, which e was occupied by J. T. Medlin. anld - after a hat d fight s'ueeeded in ar resting the pr ogress of the fire. A - steady stream of water kept this - house safe and -brousht the work of destruction in this quarter to an end. i S1:(r-fty after this fire again broke Soit 'on Darlinuton sireet. below the Mal:c:s: block. and by t he lime it f e:-ekcd t,: mre :-.tore rooms and offices had been consumed. A e double brick wall checked the prog - ress of tie flames, and protb:aibly 3 sa.ved the entire eastern section of the city. which for a time seemed - donoed. ? was after 9 o'clock this morning when thei last' 1laze was - extinguished and the citizens began ' to breathe easy. - There was :ro way of fighting the - fire, as there are no water works E here, and the bucket brigade, al l though rendering fine service, was - powerless in. the face of such a ! blaze. People did all they could in - helping to save property, and- to t lem' is due the fact that no more houses were burned. . The merchants and others who were burned out are moving into new quarters a.nd are preparing for a continuance of their dbusiness. T:he t people are extending all possible aid to the sufferers and everyone is be ing ooked after. A WOLF HUNT. An Extemporized Affair in a Minneso ta Forest. A fe wycars ago, in the. Northern part of Minnesota, wolves often be came an intolerabile nuisance during t'he winter and' reiports of n'umbers hav'ing been seeni led five of us to conclude thrat we needed a little rest and recreation and that a wolf hunt would fill the long felt wiant. The scene of action was on the Mi sissip pi river wit!hin fifty miles of St. Anr tho:iy Fa.lls, at a pilaee where a low h. ttom. covered with trees and thick undie16rush, reached baek from tire river half a mile to the cliff, almost peCrpendicular in places, spra,ng trees and bushes, finding root in the ma.ny cracks and crevices. For miles back from the top of the cliff lay a roll ling, hearvily timbered country, the Iwhole forming a most beautiful re-1 treat for wolves. Not one of the party owned a~ dog that would have been of the silghtest use, .and even if we had possessed one not onle had the least idea of how to hunt wolves with or without dogs. The various arms of the crowd would hare made a g'ood collection for somre gun store win dow. It was a few days after New Year's1 the th'ermonmeter registering 8 deg. be low in the sun, when we reached the edges of the timiber. Joe, who wore a pair of Indian snoivshoes, and I, who had a pair of Norwegian. skis, got along very well, but Harry, who weighed over 200~ pound's, broke t.hrouzh the .erust at every step. After holding a pow-wow we decid ed t'o work down the bottom till din ner tiime, then~ back up throuh theI timber a!bove. Giving my skis to Ha-ry he and George followed the river ban'k, Billy took the centre, while Joe and I kelpt in 'close to the clff. For perhaps an hour we silent'ly worked our way, when a shot from Billy's express put us all on the qui vive. Hearing no whistle,he signal acrreed upon in case one of us saw wolvet-and be.ing only too glad of something to relieve the monotony we all hurried over to bill and found him' fastening a fine specimen of t.he horned owl to the back of his belt. After a few words we were .about to return to our places when Billy, with a wild yel1, begran a war dance, his! hands behind him in a vain attempt~ to get rid of his game. Billy's owl wn-s far from dead, having ibeen only stuin-i ned, and on coming to 14d sunk his claws deep into the nearest flesh. -Every time the 'bird swung against Billy's legs 'he would peck at his -avs Billy11 letting ont ta wilder howl THE COLLA4R SCENE t each nip. As well as we laughing we released him rame. It was past 1 o'clcek v:h down to lunch a,t the spii we had arrang~ed to meet--ti ll sat down except Billy, ferred stbanding, f.;r rea.: known to hims'elf. Afterv linmibed the bluff. Harry wa he far side of i(he timiber eemed advisable to have h reat a range a possible, fo afety-next to him carne hen Billy, Joe and I keeping the edge of the cliff, so as t to keep an eye on the bott1 we had covered perhaps t hen Joe Held up his hand autiously to the edge. T oment there was a erunch, e.we'nt with a, whoop. Run tard, I waos just in time to s ody, that seemed to be mo. nd legs, revolving in a cloud lunge out of silght n a dri oot of a steep slide of se r a hundred feet, where t lowving over t:he top of the~ 1 illed in level. As eavy ar ag, it nmade a smooth ehute, a break from top to bt om. illed him I (believe T- mv. caughed; the next instant t1 as the other wtay, for my j ed and away I went, shooti 1 Joe's track. It was a sw ao snow flying in o my f own my neek, as I covere round in g give-ni time tha: id before or ever want to hen came a leap into the ai s though I fell niles-ani~ igle-fashion. I dived kereh hat seemed fathoms of sr roved to bIe onlyr ab'out one. nothered, I pawed my way e greeted with loud yells o r by Joe, who had .already Id himself, and Hianry, who, -amrinex alone. !had come up >0 see me perfor'm what he >mne very Z-raeful gymnra: ren hiaving the nerve to beg: over. About 4 o 'eoek, Harry, Je :opped to rest in. the bottom e coulee, sitting down on t road thaat led out into tihre Te hakd no:t seen either of t to since lunch, tho-ugh we ha 3ily's rifle once or twice. While we stat there lamen ak of wolves and game in -e heard the peculiar "1a ~eorge's goose gun, tihen in nne the craek of Billy's ri: [1 stz,rted to our feet as a sa r came doYwn the road. La s move slowly and Harry ha t on his feet when thre olves sprang past Joe and ahed plumb into him, rol] .er and over in the snow. :ey reached the mouth of i Joe and I fired and had the on of seeing one turn end nd drop.. George a.nd Billy soon ea ~ae4 bringing a wolf. Geoi r seen the wolves crossing ec further up; his shot turr own the road, where, as ifb d Billy, he dropped one. J ivided honors on the third had both shot at and hit I rvolf. Tat night at w steamed he~ city with our three wolfe ery onie was p)erfectly sati' de day 's fun except Harry, not pulled the trigger once. f r chorused, "Let us 'be dul u1!''_.em+ and Strem. . . . . . .. .. .. .*<. ...* .. ............ -. .. .... j.... . .. .. .. IN "TUE HEIR TO ThE ROORAI." oudfrTHE STANDARD1 from his nwe sat, AEIUS CO is, we BEG S TO ANNOUCE: who pre-j is best i Its warehouse receipts are regarded rd we as the highest c-ass <f bankable collateri1 sd et 2 If money can be borrowed on any-j .thing it can be borrowed on the receipt it being of The Standard Warenouse Company. im at as 3 Banking institutions are familiar general with the methcds and strict business Ge* g,principles and financial standing of The Gere,sandard Warehouse Company, and seek Snear to its receipts as a basis of loans. be able 4. The idientical cotton that you place s below, in the warehouse is returned upon sur render of receipts .o miles. 5. In case of fire your cotton is paid nd crp for at market value, and you have no e n.n difficulty as to insurance, the full in an vrsurance being maintained by The Stand n oer ard WAREOse Comany nig for- 6 All insurance on cotton is main ea-dark taied at full value in the highest class Larms EngSlish and American Insurance Comn Rf seio't aiThe Standard Warehouse Company , t at the is absolutev independent of any other ssty-five organization and conducts its affairs upon | ,jstrict business methods. -it sno: I8. The paid up capital stock of The 1uff. of a Standard Warehouse Company is $350, 4 form. 000 oo, and the company is absolutelyi . . safe,. and its warehouse receipts ecme ahead of the stockholders. Har t 9. By having a number of Standard a b :-lo Warehouses constructed so. a. to comply e lau h :with insutrance regulations and econo a,nd ov mies in general management The Stan esp-dard Warehouse Company offer the cheap ralong est rate compatible with sound business ft rush, methods,. ample insurance atnd the full cea est protection~ of its receipts. nd . The Standard Warehouse Company 1imore is anxious- to-hwve all cotton of farmers 1I ever and others storeo, and offers the most gain, comple-te protection and encouragement 'for favmers desiring to hold their cotten. -I felt 11. Rates will be farnished u-pon ap spread plication to- Mr. J. D. Wheeler,. local o int manager Standard Warehouse Company, w, but Newberry", S. C. Almost AVALUABLE PLANTATION FOR out, to 1T. .. We will rest for the year. 1908, xtiet the farm of 338 aeres.of land situated tie about one mila east of Silver Street in time and own-ed by the estate of Win. W. termed SSpearman. There is open upon the ies .helace about a four h.orse e:ntraet and m;ade this year 50 bales of cotton. e The >)lace will b-c rented either for oali-mon-ey or ba:ies of cotton. Apply to . ieo the undersigned. ottoms. John. CGoggs~, e other Exaeubo. of Win. W. Spearma2L id heard Newber, S.. C.,. Dee.. 31L 1907. ting the eneral OPERA HOUSE FO&RBENT.. g' of Sealed bid1s will be received by the .minut3 Town Connieil of Newberry, S. C., un le. We til 12 o?elock M.,. Feby 5th, 1908, rift pat- and them opened, for rent of the ge 'hod- Opera House, NewiVerry, S. C., for . hardly three years. grayish Fo1 2urther ~information apply to me and the dierk and Treasurer, Eng. S. ng him Werts. Bef o'r e ccmleeRespectfully, atisfae- J. J. Langford, ver-end Attest: Mayor. meu, Eug. S. Werts, a-e up, Clerk and Treasurer. . . ehad he cou dcc them $15 SAYH I ypass- - utm r fo IOUIg' OSIOfr e samc FOR THE NEXT 40 DAYS. !We will sell our excellent $8o Organs at ONLY back to 56. our $9o Organs for oNLY s7-ys. tir Nv i-ns. ev- 190, alance Nov. 19 d.adecceitih . finterested, clip this a.a nis twt d W1th1 vcur letter asking for catalog and price lis.t ho had - Ir you want the hest organ on eartb. <ion't S delay, but write us at once and sare $r5 and make r which home harmonious. y thank Address MALONE'S MUSIC HOUSB, t'hank- oSuba AN OcA. The early huyer g Our stock is being daily by the arrival seasonable goods. LACES--Valencien Irish. Cotton Suitings fancy designs and c Ginghams, best gr; colors. Percules, Lawns, I Buy wisely, theref C,&O.S. MU YOUR BAB TLHE CWE'D3Y SAl Capital $50,000 - - No Matter How Small, C The Newberry SaN vill gve it careful attentio ipplies to the men ard the w JAS. McINTOSH. President. JONES' GRC S, B. Jones. Proprli DEALER IN ST APLE & FANCY GROCElR Confectioneries, Fruit, Cigars Phone 212. Newberry, S. Dear Madam Housekeeper: We wish~ ~ention to our stock of Fanc ~roceries and solicit at les rour potronage during this 3 We feel safe in saying tha ,he most complete that is o1 hat we can serve you in a s ier. We will ever keep in mind >ortanlt points: quality of rice modorate priceS. If you are not already a c r'e would be pleased to add 3 ist of satisfied customers. We wish 1908 to be our ban rou join us in making it sol Yours for busi Jone 'ets the best. replenished s of new and nesand Baby in neat and olors. ade and good ,inens, etc. ore buy now. WER CO. IKING! Surplus $30,000 Matter How Large, ings Bank n. This message romen alike. J. E NORWOOD, Cali!er. CE RY, JS, PRODUCE, and Tobaccos. C., Jan, 17,'1908. to call your at y and Staple st a portion of rear. t our stock is' fered here and atisfactory man three very im toods proipt ser us tomer o f our s 'ou to our long ner year. Will ness, ' Grocery.