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SAY YOUNG KEN 1 ARE i IG'.WAVMtR' * i AUTHORITIES HOLD WHITE YOl'THS AM) >EGRO Brfdere Guard With Empty Gun Ar ? ni.j i xr *xl, rp...lv rests .uen i nir^eu nim i?u Robberies. The State, 6th. iFrank Cooper, aged 18. John Driggers, aged 15, both white and John Franklin, alias William Wessinger, a negro, said to come from Alabama, are in the penitentiary awaiting trial for highway roibbery and carrying concealed weapons, as a result of a hold-up at the Western end of the Columbia, Newberry & Laurens trestle yesterday morning about 9:15 o'clock, which itself was a sequel, so the peace officers hold, to the tin eft of a pistol and a sum of money Wednesday night from the desk of J. W. Nipper, superintendent of the Palmetto iMill comnanv ! Confess/on Reported. i When Cooper, Driggers and FrankJin were arrested about 10:45 o'clock yesterday .morning at the Broad river bridge, where Melton Lorick, the bridge guard, had stopped them at t?e point o." an unloaded, single-barrel shotgun, they had in their possession two. 32 calibre Colt special pistols, one .32 calibre Smith & Wesson nistnl n?w bolsters, a large flashlight, a chisel and $26 50 in money. H. E. Koon, rural policeman, said yesterday that the three had confessed to the hold-up before 'himself, Sheriff McCain and J. C. Robbins of the penitentiary guards, who had brought the bloodhounds. The negroes who were thus (held up in daylight while on their way to t'he fair in Columbia were Lev,'is and Essie Jackson, Odel, Xels, Guss and Lewis Kyzer, all employes on the farm of T C! UnfPm /n ?1- - - - v. k_>. nuuuiau ill Uiic i/u(a;ii r tjl lx section of Richland county. Mr. Koon said that 'he was notified of the hold-up asbout 10:30 o'clock. He sent word to Lorick to look out for them at the upper ibridge, and then called for Sheriff McCain and sent for tfhe bloodhounds. Soon after he arrived at the C. N. & L. trestle, ihe received word that Lorick was holding" three men at the upper 'bridge. After confessing. Cooper, Driggers and Frainklin were taken to the penitentiary, to await trial at the Januaryterm of the court o ' general sessions. P/stols Identified. One of the Colt pistols found in the possession elf to'e three was identified late yesterday by Mr. Nipper as the one stolen Wednesday night from his desk, along with a sum of money, between $25 and $27, and Mr. Nipper also identified one cf the o.her pistols as belonging to iMiss Telia Driggers, sister of Jo:n Driggers. Mr. N toner said last nis'ht thnt hp ho_ lieved most of the money recovered had come from his desk at the Palmetto mill. Young Driggers, he said, has been an inmate of tfce State reformatory at Florence. T.':e superintendent's 'desk at the Palmetto mill was forced with a chisel of the same size, so the superintendent says, as ft at taken from the three prisoners. OPEN LETTER SPEAKS TO COTTON PLANTER The Record, 5th. | Mr. Farmer, if you think your lot an unusually hard one, as the resuH j o? the European war, the following letter, from the Nash Hardware Co., of Fort Worth, Tex., will give you something to think about and make 3rou ffeel more cheerful. The facts are undisputed, for coton or any other commodity is worth no more than the price current on t)he market. Read the letter, written by the president of the Nash Hardware Co., Charles E. Nash. It is vorth passing to your neighbor: ( We are not in the cotton business, but we know enough <to say that an article or a commodity is only worth what it will" bring when it is offered fnr oola Tf Q />Qnfc inOT? r\Ann/1 1V1 iJUi V* Xi. V Vtuto pvuuu, vx even 7 cents per pound, is all that a farmer can get for cotton, then that is all cotton is worth regardless of what it costs to raise it. It is said that a farmer cannot raise cotton at less than 10 cents per pound, ! yet 'a great many thousand farmers 1 get rich or, at lea^t independent raising it at 7 cents per pound, and that was when everything else that he raised was sold at a very muctii lower figure than is ruling today. Besides this, he didn't get $7 per bale for seed as he gets today. we give you tne ioncwmg comparisons: He buys a :hoe ;:or 50 cents that usee! to cost 75 cents. He buys a file at 15 c?nts that used to cost 35 cents. He buys a single tree at 35 cents that used to cost 50 cents. He buys a sweep at 8 cents tfeat used to cost 15 cents per pound. He buys a plier at 75 cents that ; used to cost $2. , He buys nails at 4 cents that used to cost 5 cents per pound. He buys wire at 9 1-2 cents that used to cost 10 cents per pound. He buys hames at 50 cents that used to cost 75 cents. He -buys traces at 45 cents that used to cost 75 cents. He pays 60 cents for picking where i e used to pay &i. He borrows money at S per cent to 10 per cent where he used to pay 12 per cent and 15 per cent. He sells wheat at 81 that used to bring 60 cents. He sells oats at 50 cents that used to bring 18 cents. He sells corn at 75 cents that used to bring 15 cents. 'He sells hay at $14 that used to bring $4. He sells turkeys at $2.2"5 and some times $4 that used to bring 60 cents to To cents. He sells chickens at $3.50 that used :o sell at $1.25 to $1.50 per dozen. He sells a horse at $150 to $225 that used to sell from $50 to $100. When he was confronted with the above conditions he bought land on timP />lPsrpH it fcknpprt it cnnri paid for it, raising cotton at 7 cents per pound. But if, indeed, he is making less profit this year than formerly, the same condition is true with you. and with us, and with the business world at large. He ought rot to put himself in the attitude of a mendicant, or, as the Indian, a ward of the government. He ought to be a good' sport. He ougi:t to take his losses just as manfully and as gracefully as the rest of us are doing. While the above figures are not absolutely correct, nevertheless, they are accurate enough to demonstrate that the .:armer is getting the best of tbe situation and is enjoying life while the balance of us are bweating blood. A man has ?.n unquestioned right to speculate on his own money, but he has no right to speculate on tl~e other fellow's imoney. The 'farmer has a right to hold' his cotton till aoomsaay, 1: ne uoes not owe anything; but he has no right whatever to hold his cotton to the financial embarrassment of 'the retail merchant who since spring has clothed and fed ftis wife and children and furnished him with the (means with whicfa to make that cotton. It is hard1 on the farmer to 'be disappointed ab'out the price which he thought he was going to 'get, hut it is a wohle lot harder on tie retail merchant to go ftroke because the farmer won't sell his cotton anri nav "his hnnpst rights Thp conditions are not half as hard on him as on the retail and wholesals merchants who are losing hundreds and thousands of dollars 'because the farmer, by holding his cotton, has stopped the entire machinery of business. Xor is it -quite as hard on him as on the thousands o: hungry men and women which his bad business judgment and rebellion at fate has thrown out of employment, and, in many cases, on the charity df the world WT f\ piio-rrncf f r\ wiawaK/* IKt ?? c ou5gc>:t lu uicj wiio.iius gcucraii.v, and we insist on our customers, especially, pressing the .armer to sell his cotton an?d ipay his debts that the retail merchant may pa^ his defots, and that we may also pay our debts. These remarks may appear to you somewhat 'gratuitous; at the same time, tbey are well worthy of your thoughtful consideration. Respectfully, IChas. IE. Nash, President Xash Hardware Co. Evidence of Bus/ness Rebound. Co'umbia Record. Evidences are multiplying that the season of depression in tfce United States, and especially in the Southern States, due to the European war has; reached its nadir and is rebounding to normal conditions. We have had our sur'.'eit of se'f-commisseration, of crying over SDilt milk and rfi'iisine- tn be comforted, of consoling and coddling each other, of indulgence in all the various dreams cf lifting ourselves out of our Slough of Despond fcv the bootstraps, but our good healthy redblooded manhood refuses longer to dwell in t!':e house a: gloom and mourning. In spite of us our spirits rebound and we are drawn out of ourselves, out of our gloom into the bright 2-enial liifp-snvinpr cnn chin a /vP fVna w -?-7 O* * *-"0 V/ \s i. open, and we will soon feel 'happy and thankful to turn to our tasks, whatever they may be, or whatever the conditions off the time may suggest as the activities best calculated to make the most of the wealth of opportunities and resources with which Providence has so richly blessed us. ??Tost of our embarrassment here in the South has been due to a lack 1 -* ^ vi. tuuuucutc 111 uurseives, ol conndence in tte future, to imaginary ills and impending evils that may never happen?that will neiver happen if we but discard our fears and turn to the tasks and duty of the hour. Let us practice economy, pay our debts, resume our accustomed confidence in each other and turn our hands vigorously and cheerfully to whatever we man find to do and our present troubles will vanish like the memory of a bad dream. In other words, let us "Get Busy," in the words of t'.'.e title of a small pamphlet dealing vigorously with the existing situation, issued and signed by Wright 'Willingham, president of the Rome, Ga., O amber of Com-! merce, that has been called to our at- j . - ....... . . tention. President wniingnam s siy.e of handling, the subject is so striking and hap-py t: at, despite the virile vernacular wlich distinguishes it and which in places is more forcible than polite, we reproduce the following extract from it: For more than one hundred ypars the United States have made the proud boast that this country could live re gartiless of any exigencies that might exist in other parts of the world; t' at this country, bounded as it is on th-e oje hand by t?.:e Pacific ocean and on the other by the Atlantic, separated thousands of miles from the "Yellow Peril;'' on the other hand separated thousands o. miles from tue heterogenous elements of Continental Europe?the rest of the world migLt go to hell if they chose to do so, and still we would be basking under the sunny skies of America?t':.e land bubbling over wtih milk and honey and hog and hominy. (And now, my fellow citizens, we have an opporunity to illustrate the declaration made by e.ery hill-bil.ie or?tcr of the last century or more, from the mountains of New Hampshire to ?~e plains of Florida, and yet here we are, the average one of us, going around like a mangy dog, whining about "The War." You can hardly get an audience with a man on any other subject and nine-tenths of the people seem Lo be unicr the impression that somebody has cl^ne them or their folks a serious i'pury. The question at tins hour is not "Who hit Billie Patterson?'"?but are the American people?the Southern people, a lot of pale face molly-coddles, with skimmed goats' milk flowing through fciieir \eins, or Lave they inherited rh3 rich red blood of our American sires who le.t their blooiy loot print on tue n'-zsu vtn.cp u. 'Virginia, when George Washington led them on to a victorious deliverance from the yoke of English royalty? These men who because they had sand in their gizzards instead of grape nuts, and guts in fbe;r bellies instead of tape worms. i True, we may navo to abandon some of our twentieth century luxuries. It may be necesary for us to adjust oinselves to a new basis of living?'but should we surrender?True it is some oli1 our folks may '.lave to divert to some extern; tV stream of gold that -has for tfc las: ten years" flowed from our vaults and into the rnffAre rv Mr FVirrl Mr Packard. Mr. Buick and .VIr. c'axon, and other esteemed fellow countrymen to the north of us, 'but we can still raise mule colts and Jersey bulls and get there somehow, evm though it be at a lower rate of speed. I True it may be, that our women folks may have to suspend ti:eir sufIfragette convocations for a brief spell and resume the monotonous business of looking after the babies and knitting sox for &:e men?but th.'s is ihe way they used to do and they ma iag-?d to live, through it. i True it may be, that our rich Dads I won't have quite as much money to spen'd on their boys in the way of j Piedmont cigarettes, patent leather 'shoes, and ice cream clothes, and it may even be possible tJ':at the boy will have to iearn something about selfdenial and physical labor?but this is tJhe way they used to do, and several of them managed to live through it. Take for instance, Abraham Lincoln and a. ';ew other cheap skates. j True it may be, that some of our farmers will be driven, against their will, to the production of hog and hominy, peas and potatoes and surghum and cider?ibut that is ti:.e way they used to do in the old days and some of tfoem managed to live through it. j True it may be, that the insincere n r? tt'V? /\ V* r? e* Kaa?? f AA/^iri Or f n i yuiniv;<.ciii w iiu uaa Lfccii iccuau5 iuc "Dear People'' on glittering generalities and' pleasant platitudes may be called upon to deliver the goods instead of honeyed phrases?but this is the way they used to do in the old days and t':e country managed to survive it. There is more truth than poetry in what President Willingham says, and much profit can be had to most of us ,UJ Lf.Lll.ilI.15 H V*C1. ,>ews From St. Ph/Kps. St. Philips, Nov. 9.?Tiie low price | of cotton has crippled the businers in ' our little town considerably. We hope that it will soon make a rise and ev' ery thing: get new life. All the talk , we can hear is war and hard times. The farmers are busy preparing the land to sow their grain. There is going to be a lot of wheat sowed in this community. That means we are going mrmmermmamu jk . i 'jjiwjj m nm. ll in\-A"".E'S G 1 ' 1 ' ' ! ~ - unrated,? v :^li;-te!y! T U) he* dv sire.l p Afl / . -K ' . . s> . - '- ' i r;M I i i . i--1? t \ ? < v I I -.A" ***' I i I ? ' o u f F : " ^ n m%- r Full i j ^ ; r; (1 ;ess coi ' .i i\t f'\ i 'i fk ^paid to i i ^ ' ^ ? Twili make nvr?,r vo-i pulj the vOrk fr>i ,<J us th' \ <;: y- ars to pro,:ii Iasidu 6 you ol ^usiaction, tir JUST SAY, "SKND 2 FULL QUAR1 J 2 FULL QUA in v ^ and enclose certil \\V pr-^-v cv p. <s< on ;dl Ada:ns oi *3 Wlj ski.-.-. !... n C - d- .js, etc. Tvvil IS I I f A 71 ,?! 1 ; < V_>< Ij L i l'i ' ii t -iJ I ^ * / > r T T T / ' X 1 T^V 1 1 ! SJ K1LHMU1N1J, n j ' * ?< nm**' m wji i mjM^rmMsmammmaammKma W jmu 111>' n raia?a?w to raise our flour and not depend on III ; buying so much. U| iSt. F.:ilips new graded school and church are moving along slowly but m J they will begin the work in the near m future. Mr. Walter Wicker made a 'large crop of peas and owing to the scarcity i r.f noao Vio invitoH hie sisfprs and i brother to come and gather their seed, j In one day he had 18 hands pick: ing peas. He said it reminded him of the days of his childhood. Mr. ^ Wicker said 'lie believed it would be : ner a very good idea if more o'f the neiga- achi bors would do likewise. jypr i life, Mr. Edwin Halfacre ::as purchased SOm a shingle mill. He says he is ready to on \ it serve the people. to 1 Mrs. Mary Counts has been very noti low but we are glad to say she has con( * ?M improved some at this writing. j ^ , Miss Lula Lominick, of XevvDerry dow college, spent Saturday night and whc Sunday at home, Miss Maybelle Asbille going with her. _ 1 .Mrs. W. F. Ruff spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Kibler. cast i (Mr. Clifford Lominick spent Sunday 1 with his sister, Mrs. H. D. Ringer. toni RED CROSS SEAL COMMIS- VOU! I ?TAV fiV ftAT'TH f A RflT.T\ A vicil gua: rails 'Columbia, Nov. 9.?In sipite of un- , . . t or usual conditions the work of toe Red Cross Seal commission in South Caro lina is progressing successfully. The magnitude of the undertaking may be Thei seen from the size o-f ti_e order for ORO seals and advertising material, wrhictf ands the American Red Cross association has recently shipped to the commis- 0 sion's headquarters at Columbia. The order consists of 250,000 seals, 20,- Giv< 000 envelopes, 5,000 slips and 2,000 cards. The active selling season for ! the seals is from Thanksgiving to I It jOhristaias. During November this ' goc great mass of material will "be distri- i sho' buted to Uhe many pulblic spirited men j frie and women throughout the State, who thai Jioto ftAncontD/1 tn Q /\t as ae'P.nt.S. As mor m a. t ^ vvuwvu wvu w *-?w ?o ~ . u/v*. | evidence of t:e hearty spirit of co- in t operation met with on all sides may jyj be cited the fact that the Southern c., i Express company agreed to handle the , ed commission's shipment free of charge, pair I The Red Cross Christmas seaf | aisc booth was conducted at the State fair1 and week before last in Columbia. Plans j iy ; are on foot to maintain similar booths v,*er at the county fairs, notaibly in Spar- ' jy. taniburg and Orangeburg. j trie (The whole .movement takes on new Interest from tibe fact that a special j abo j an;ti- tuberculosis conference for the cur | South is to be held in Atlanta the a sv j last weetk in Xoiv ember. Prominent at ] South Carolinians in various sections thai of the State are being invited to at- an(j tend. Reed Sfriith, executive secre- and tary of the Red Cross Christmas Seal bac' commission has .been appointed one of wer the vice presidents of this conference, j p sim OO'If '^05 '352 'sraij stubs sq} JB SIB3H P^B UIBJ saAaijaj qio iJaiiB^H opdastjay s.-xsjaod Doa jq biqBipj pjo 'injiapuoAi aqj Aq paano sjb ._ \3atpaB}s Uaoj Aioq jo JdUEiu ou 4s3sbd }sjoav sq? " ^ sjno ;4uo^ ssrpsiuaa 'ss^s PiO ssjfiq Co.. ramKMRBG9?3SE9IKS'CWHEKW9B^^HMHMmHHB! ??a can? ?? ET-ACQUAINTE vi!l stert you on the road to \vh lie p c^ire tells the ?ory and i!" . it's ev/y to prove 1:- send I >t?t-. kcz'-.vrrrr;<*; *sr * ny.v^,4.9 D n 0 I'" "p V*-' V'*v?\ jT'^PtK * /V" -\ / ,? *f\ *~A r. v ;-. . . ! /, r y, , T , 13 - /I liE^Sl M2Sa?a^ -;i ; ;CL/'VKt' I ': "i@ tr *, ; v cLARKE*Sl f; lf^ /il ! ?r'd ,1 \ WM rag W&k 1fee*5 j <-.=.* .,?; -_. ij ;-Whiskeys / ?s^* ? "'^-v-V j ' --' ?3 - . . c I , - /'-,.| I IVUO?. 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Write f<>r our ( 1 save >\>u m racy. % JZ T> P -r O C\ 1\ aL ot owl he Sourh's Grearest Mat/ Older rme and Whiskey Merchants i mammmmm bww? swm IOIHER GIVES OUT > .Yo lat Then??The Family Suf- d00r fers, the Poor Mothers Suf- jsami fer?Mrs. Becker Meets 1*?^ I his Distressing biiuanon. mak, ollinsville, 111.?"I suffered from a mucvous break-down and terrible head- year es, and was tired all over, totally r^]e n out and too discouraged- to enjoy , but as I had four in family and UP 2 etimes eight or nine boarders, I kept with working despite my suffering. you I saw Vinol advertised and decided *. try it, and within two weeks I ced a decided improvement in my UP t< iition and now I am a well woman. ' He !rs. Ana Becker, Collinsville, 111. R here are hundreds of nervous, run- .. i._j xu: . _ .-i... tie a n, overworK.eu wumeii m mis vicinity i are hardly able to drag around and amoi i we are sure would be wonderfully ^ i efited by Vinol as Mrs. Becker was. me he reason Vinol is so successful in ding up health and strength in such >s is because it combines the medici- was tissue building and curative elements kidn :od's livers together with the blood an(j :ing, strengthening properties of i ( ciron. We ask every weak, ner- Jswa i, run-down man or woman in this concl litv to trv a bottle of Vinol on our P1VP1 rantee to return their money if it Q. j to benefit. , j?3 Sale In Newberry. 5 C.. !? Gildf* ?. ' * Weeks. 1 |mS cure i j r \v caKucss and or Appetite I Old Standard general strengthening tonic, ^ ^ VE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out neig iria and build9 up the system. A true tonic j sure Appetizer. For adults and children. 50c j tit iJKii!i3WS 13 rfiuarjsmii Srv ^ Added Praise.. Their Statment* j this Are Convincing. . is gratifying for us to read such d news as the following, for it ws that the experience of our nds in Prosperity is the same as * ; of many Newberry mei and woi who have spoken out si heartily hese columns:'Will frc t m Wheeler. Prosperity. S. . says: "My kidneys were diswieran<J for a long time, causing terriblB and is through my loins and limbs. I _ ) had a constant ache in my back ' and on some occasoiDS, I could scarce- ,, all i 5et about. The kidney secretions e unantural and annoyed me great- SO I consulted several physicians and d a number of kidney remedies, but <N? nrtt im-nr/we* in ithp leas:. I had ders HU W V ' V ? ? ut given up the hope of aver being and ed, when my son-Jri-iaw procured ceas lpply of Doan's Kidney Pills for mi on t Newberry Drug Co. He had read Prol t they were good for kidney trouble on 3 induced me to try them. I did so o'clc af:er Ihad taken two boxes, the iatel kache had left and my kidneys miss I e normal." rice 50c, at al1 dealers. Don't ply ask for a kidney remedy?get n's Kidney Pills?the same that . Wheeler had. Foster Milburn Oc Props, Buffalo, N. Y. 4-t. D OFFEf| | I iskey satisfr.c- ^ || JM IvJ IciStC iOdVCo ^M|j|p ui tivs lodav. fjj jifj 1 'mi inr^-: gT*"-T*T. 'TrrrrtK1 JST.Uk^ .jcusxu .'^j ^ ..an -.imr' >.;j i hpt i ^ I n ever set a giow 01 j??g SHIPPED EXPRESS Wm rn Express for $3 20. itful anticipation the )f we speak?its taken '.vf FULL GUARANTEE ]| ier today?right now! > j E > OFFER" | WHISKEY M WHISKEY ":g? - a o, ^ flU :omp!ete Price List of Wines, I <JS, Inc.-1J VIRGINIA ] i Make Friends By -I Recommending a I Reliable Kidney Medicine I >ur representative called at imy |ffi yesterday meaning to leave a B Die of your noted Swamp-Roo^ 0 I am certainly pleaded to see In TT71/+" f Vm firm vihn >yju.y \?/ K/U u. "ua *** -A* *iMw j-,. as a medicine which has done so ['4 ti for me and my family. A few 'f s ago I was suffering from a terpain in my hack and when I was 3' tround the house I had to walfe ill my body bent nearly double. If |j| ?<ad placed a thousand dollars ||| e my head I could not straighten |j| 5 get it. H ?aring d? Dr. Kilmer's Swampy f| T c-onf frv win for o cflm.nlo .nd-from the effects of fctat small^Kj lint I was sure it would help mej|H bought one bottle and it has crareM.;||| ortly after that my husband who Wm\ a coal miner, was suffering from ey trouble and could not work j I sent for some of Dr. Kilmer's Kg mp-Root. He was in a tecfiWe flH Lition, but as the doctors had not I a me any reiieti, I had more faith HH wamp-Root and it was well found :or it am tne worK ana a xer ia?a few battles he was completely Kg d- ll daily recommend the use of H mp-Root to any friends and B tibors. Sincerely yours, ' ;$j| Mrs. Jcfan Nordquist, 111 . Galeton, Penna.* . J.;j i'orn and subscribed to before Me, flj 14th day of May, 1912. W. D. Allen. J. P, Jm Letter to SiMMS Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bfnghamton, X. Y. ?|H ind ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,, 11 j-ha.mton, N. Y., for a sample size mm le. It will convince anyone. You In o 'KAAVlfl.t Af valnaMf* PI aiOU IPWiH u UVVU4VV W. ? rmation, telling about the kidneys Bj bladder. When writing, be sure r^j mention Newberry Semi Weekly f| ild and News. Regular Urty-cent ill one-dollar size bottles for sale at B irug stores. H TICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT if ___ ' x Is >tice is hereby given thac the un- il igned as executors of the last will Bf testament of Alfred Denson, de- Jgf ;ed, will make final settlement /be esftate o? said deceased in >ate Court for Newberry coun'tyWjpi Monday, November 30, 1914, at llBgjg >ck in tfee forenoon, and immed jltH y thereafter apply for letters dis J?||| ory as such executors. James Denson, Jno. A. ^ Denson, . Columbia D. DensMp^S ExecutorBpll^H rtober 30, 1914. ' jffl' lUPI^I