Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I SOUTHERN ANNOUNCED | f ITS REDUCED RATES. Officials of Road Send Lettor to Railroad Commission?Rates Ef^ fective April 1. Columbia State, 3rd. The Southern railway, through sev| *eral of its officials, yesterday notified the railroad commission that the rales f in South Carolina as proposed by j President Finlcy sonic time ago would \ go into effeet about April 1, provided the offer was formally approved by ?)}jthe commission. Action will bo tak,K?n at the meeting' of the commission Sloday and the offer accepted. The lotM^Ser filed is practically the same as ||Mhat filed by the Atlantic Coast Line Mifcrvcral days ago and repeats tiro offer yi'madc by President Finley. The ofJji for includes the following': IT "Tn the State of South Carolina a pijflat intrastate passenger rate of 2 1-2 WK,cents per mile; children under 12 and Mover 5 years of age one-half of above JSsralc; children under 5 years of ag'e yspfree, when accom]>anicd by passenger ? paying adidt fare; provided that 7* wherever the amount of the ticket' at ffv the prescribed rate will amount to Many figure between the two multiples ] Mof five which is nearest the price of W the t'oket at the rate above mentiona|. ed or in the event that the amount i W equidistant between the I wo niullipies of five the price charged for the ticket shall be upon the basis of thv higher of these two multiples of five, a minimum charge of 5 cents with the I right to make an extra charge of 15 r cents, provided that the said fare, including the 15 cents, shall in no case exceed 3 cents per mile, against any person boarding a train at a point s whore a ticket might have been purcha?;d. Provided, further, that after 6 a reasonable trial, mat is, a -'.rial of y not less than 12 m< ntlis. the same j* shall be found not to be reasonably remunerative, application shall be II made the railroad commission of 1^ Souf.i Carolina t<> increase the said passenger rate of 2 1-2 cents per mile, and if the said commission shall fail or refuse for 30 days after sai l application, by this company, to give w relief to which this company considK ers itself entitled to receive, this r company shall not be deemed to in any way have surrendered any of its <' 'leaal rights to relief in any court of i competent jurisdiction and its right $ to such relief shall not be impaired or prejudiced in any way by this agrec' inent, nor by the fact that said rate had been put into effect an;l given a atrial under this agreement. This tick'Mpt carries with it the privilege of free ^ transportation of 200 pounds of bag^\',\gage. fe: '1 To issue, within the State of WSoulli Carolina, during the said trial ?peri()il of 12 months, mileage books J|?f the following character at the folMf'lowing rates: "('0 A 2,0000 mile book for intraJjR state travel in Smith Carolina, interchangeable with such of the solvent i roads of Die State as will consent j j therto, at the rate of 2 cents per mile, 1 subject to a minimum of five miles, ft good for heads of firms or their emffiployes or officers or employes of corJ&porat ions; the book to carry not ex3wjccediiig the names of five persons, | Jc'ltheir names to be furnished and in- j ^Jjscrtcd in the book at lime o! purfigi&hnse. But this ticket will he conl'injSsw^d to the use of one )>erson at oni yyMjme and carries with it the use of pjjP^arec transportation of 150 pounds of J ^aggage. "(b) A 1.000 mile book to ind.vi- j i ;| icliKils at rate of 2 cents per mile, suh' M ject to mini'uum of five miles, good M | only for travel by purchaser, whose name shall be inserted in book at m? j time of purchase and good only for V. 4 intrastate travel in South Carolina f and inter-changeaible with such of m the solvent roads of the State as will consent thereto. This book carries uK with it the privilege of free transporjjf tation of 150 pounds of baggage. "(e) A 500 mile book to be issued < to heads of families and to depend- I ent. members thereof for intrastate fc travel, good for passage only over . the Southern railway, the names to | %r~ be furnished and inserted in the book j .'v at time of purchase. This book is to | be sold at rale of 2 1-1 cents per mile. j with a minimum of two miles lor each j passenger carried and carries with il fy)., the. privilege of free transportation of 150 pounds of baggage. "(d) All of said mileage books not ; transferable and to be limited to use | for one year from date of purchase [? and the usued portions thereof reI deem able if presented within GO days after expiration thereof, on the basis W<; of charging 2 1-2 cents per mile for f | the portions used." '? Those present." at the meeting yas> terday werei S. 11. tlardwick, passenger traffic manager: W. IT. Tay. loe, assistant passenger traffic manj ager, and R. II. Hunt, general passenv ger ayen.1. Among Ihe local official:; al j (lie hearing was 1>. Ij. A buoy, the diI vision counsel. Thei railroad commission today will ?^,cr roads on |J,o proposition of reduced rates, "Bill Simpson" on oTtal^c Houses. o Hie lull (or: Tlic article on "Cilies Against Homo," X rvnd in your paper a short lime aw vt.| me' l(, tin iik j si?f# " V.'.'S only lately, J saw one of the Jca.liug iarm era i:i tl,j- community o'.'/'V 11 rV,^C' catalor , ca.no c?talogue hoifce. homo with him. 1i happened that I ^as (.raw,, into a discussion of this quest,on with him and I was actually surprised to hoar him express himself as he did. In the first place, feel proud of the fact that 1 have ' over patronized one of these com earns preference to dealing with our home merchants. Probably o,n reason why T have not felt incline 1 ?? send my trade away from home is because, if has only l,cen a few years since I found my financial condition such that it became necessary for me to arrant with some one to carry my account over a crop season. In I net, it has not been more than a ve-ir since T found it necessary to run an a short lime and Tam not ?.,l< " foigetlul dt: aecommodai,s 1(1 ?rder fror> n catalogue house and send I hem the money with the order when our home merchants have been good enough to extend credit to me when T nee led it. Hut I ;,nn not n.is influence has been Hie only one to cause me to v<-adc entirely at home. T know if r. or any of my^ neighbors. want to buy somefinnr if they would only go to one of our home merchants and tell what tliey wanted, he will furnish it to us just as cheap as we can got it from a catalogue house. Xow. 1 don't mean w,? ^ us have first ,|a.-s goods at a price we would pay them for second .-lass goods. but I mean that for lite same class of .roods they will sell [is just as cheap as those other fellows. Tn figuring (ho cost of goods r?m catalogue houses. w0 don't want to loro-et to fi.uuiv in the cost of so:id,n"" 1,10 money and paying the freight or express. If it j* anything liable to need repairs, our hom? merchants can gel them for us. but it is almost impossible to act them f,om a catalogue house. Of course Mie merchants in our town cannot afford to sell us ffoods jMst as cheap as those catalogue houses and wait six months or a year for their pay when these other concerns require us to send the cash with the order, or as >001, as the v-' orls are receive J. They could not 'ord to do tiiar. I rmtrinber when one ot our neighbors met with a loss of nearly everyt'li;,- he had on earth and when we started out to take un a collect ion for him every merchant in our town, and. in fact, in three Jowns around us. contributed something. Xo one thought of asking a catalogue house to help out on this hino. Of course T can imagine how much good it would have done to nave asked I hem to. T am not a philanthropist and I am J rank to say if anything could be paved ,n the l,o:ig run from buying Ji'om the catalogue houses. I mi-dil\}w" llm,k about it. but I do not I,e<>"\e you save one cent. I know it is a "uglily hard matter for a merchant. > "'"M. out even on sugar. When "< pHls me or any of my neighbors a 'lo lars worth, it must weight up (0 ;l dollar s worth, but when anw of us 'my a hundred or s? pounds from a catalogs,*- nouse il ran lie just a little ' and we think, of course, it has silted tfiiou-.'h the bag something is I he cause of it and we let il go at I know of one of my neighbors buying a cook stove from a catalogue 1'o'im-. \\ hen the stove came it look?( ll,st racily like the picture in the catalogue, in fact, it was like it only il weighed about one-half or twot'?rds as much as t!,o same sl~/.e stove would if it ),nd been bought from one hardware men. My neighbor lo|,i '??' " was the last thing |,e would ever buy away from home, because he know he was stuek on the s<ove. for it was j?s| like the picture iUu] 111,1 i "ml il was j, !is>|,| weight stove did not. give him any excuse for 'vl" !' *inco thou I was felling one of our hardware dealers >' !,l,d he paid lie could have o?t Hie man the same weight stove and delivered it to him at about *|.f>() less than what it cost my neigjibor, counting the freight. f expect the editor can see I am not much of an advocate of buying from mail-order concerns and I don't believe any one else will l,e if they (boron-lily investigate before buying. Il wont cost any of us anything to see our home merchants before send inJ''" order away, and (hen if we don't like I lie price they offer to us wo can use our ow? judgment. If Hi is does not got into the waste haskel you i?e\fho:;r f?,m )n(. Hill Simpson. 1 \; V / , V s WE TRUST YOU! We put a Victor or an Edison in your home now, and you pay for it a little every week. You wont miss the money, and he first ihirg )cu knew the instrument is yours. VIGTOB - EDISON We will arrange it today if you come in. Salter's Art and Variety Store, Newberry, S. C, AVALUABLE PLANTATION FOR RENT. We will 1*0111 for the year 3008, the farin of 33S acres of land situated about one mile east, of Silver Street and owned by the estate of Win. W. Spearman. There is open upon the place about a four horse contract and I made lliis year 50 bales of cotton, i lie place will be rented either for money or bales of cotton. Apply to the undersigned. M. A. Carlisle, John C. Goggans, Executors of Win. W. Spearman. Newberry, S. C., Dec. 31, 1007. LICENSE TAX DUE. Notice is hereby given that city licenses f;>r the year 100S are now due and must be paid at once. By order of city council. ?T. J. Langford, Eugene S. Werts, Mayor. Clerk and Treasurer. rfcTo. Yfhm P i qxj i o Prosper Paid Up Capita! Surplus and Individual Stockholders' Liability For protection of depo H. C. Moselizy President. W. W. VVheller, Cashier. Better a conservative inter return when wanted, than a hi* about the principal. A National Bank is a safe De makes it so. Likewise our Be of prudent conservative manag DIREC G. W. Bowers. J. A. C. Kibler. R. L. Luther. M. A. Carlisle. J. H. Hunter. J. P. We allow 4 percent. p< Department, interest fnw^m ? ortOTc? FLORID. During These Cold \ V Would be just the thi living, Superb Trains and Tickets which offe sible for a pleasant anc For full information your nearest Ticket Ag W. J. CRAIG, Pass. Traf. Manager, WILLING" At Wholesale Prices} Bananas, ; Oranges, Apples, and all sorts of Fruits, h Q also Homemade t( c Candy. ti | w; '.iirmuai QBBBfimiivu t ? CHARLESTON & WESTERN CARI OLINA RY. I | Schedule in effect November 3rd, 1907 ? j Lv. Newberry (0 N & L.) 12:46 p. m. j Ar. Laurens .1:52 p. m. j Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 p. m. j Ar. Greenville 3:40 p. m. ! Lv. Laurens 2:07 p. n.. j Ar. Spartanburg 3.35 p. in. j j Lv. Spartanburg (So. My.) 3:40 p. in. ! Ar. llendersonvillc (5:25 p. in. I Ar. Asheville 7:30 p. m. v | Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:00 p. m. g IAr. Greenwood 2:56 ]). in. , | Ar. McCormick 3:55 p. in. Ar. Augusta 5:40 p. in. C< Note: The above arrivals r.nd departures, as well as connections with other companies, arft given as information, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, Cen. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Gft. Geo. T. Bryan, Greenville, S. C. p Gen. Agt. 6934 $'1 a cP*. wa nil - * ity, S. C. - $25,000-00 ( ; P/ofits S6.000 OO / ss . . $25,000 00 ( si-ors. \ M. A. Carlisle, Vice-President Geo. Johnstone, Attorney. est o i your deposit with its sate ih rate and a feeling of doubt j ;posit. Government supervision | >ara of Directors Is a guarantee ement.' :tors: W. P. Pugh. Jno. B. Hellers. W. A. Moseley. j Geo. Johnstone. H. C. Moseley. Bowers. 3r annum in our Savings payable semi-annually' g 4--CUBA * ! r I A/inter Months A Trip \G i A LOUS I LIE ^ ng to make life worth 1^ >, Excellent Schedules r every advantage pos- <6' i attractive trip. 61 or pamphlets call onjY ent, or write T. C. WHITE, Gen. Pass. Agent. TON, N. C. j / Money jmesl >f payment/ accumulate a fund n which interest is is at maturity. ; rent. If you want me take a Security ey for any purpose It pays. itant Secretary and r Boyce and Adams land Brothers. fflESTSBI 00. % s. c. r e c e i v o y o u r m o n e y, Bank, a Convenient i Bank. we. want you satisfy yourself and >unt with us. Time Deposits. M. L Spearman, Cashier. W. B. Wallace, Ass't Cashier, r, Alty. 3Kvi t w . Qn'-YiMT: *? iv e 11 :a w vuxMi axeemeas SOLVETD AT NEW 5PR.INC ' ARE GOlMG loBUY :ADV NOV7, IN EVERY ID PATTERN-TO SUIT "ESUSTER (3ROWN/. i m y.?. . . .u. .?rmt^^TrfT d J WILL FIND A NEW MAKE YOU HAPPY. >U IN COLOR. IT WILL if ILL r"IT YOUR BoDY, ,^*E. WHY NOT THEN AT CAN f'lT YOU IN LIT YOUR EYE, FIT cPOCKET-booK? T/5 $ J S.OOTO $2 5.00. N*S aSUITA5 $ J 4.00 TO S $13.50 TO $20.00. $ J 0.00 TO $ ] 5.00. :N\S ,5 U IT aS $2.50 TO LY, ART PERRY Co., We Lend TO Buy He We provide easy terms c We enable borrowers to 1 Monthly Installments, o llowed to meet obligation It is cheaper than paying } 3ave money to buy a ho Contract. If you want to save imon ike a Security Contract. Call on A. J. Gibson, Ass 'reasurer, at of vice, come treets, next door to Cope Newberry In looking for a Bank to ou want to find a Safe I ank, an Accommodating ) consider this Bank and ome in and open an accc We Pay Interest on . D. Davenport. President, dw. R. Hipp, V. President. G. B. Crome I ^ that th \ . J\\ SUIT You VY\V\\ ; '5 ALL Ri \l W STYLE AN UJnr^l AMYTASr ^ SPR,N<V " SUITS <j3 1 GUT IN OUR STOKE Yol PRIN6 ,5UIT THAT WILL HI'5 ,51/1T WILL PLEA,5E Vc IVE You 6ooD WEAR; 17' \ ND IT WILL rir YOUR PUR 3ME To THE .STORE TH VERY WAY?? 7'HAT CAM OUR BoDY, AND FIT Your KUPPENHEIMER &CO. SV\ >AAC HAMBURGER & Soj $2 2.50. CHLOaSaS BRo*5 & Co. SUIT iUFFoN 5R AND SUITS OUN6 MEN'S AND CHILDRB $ J 2.50. RESPECTFUL EW U i - J < j ? i i i i?