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| CHAS. v Drnn in l 9il IH OUR S' is the most complet iH. 1 9 J. & P. Coats Spo Cotton 4 Cents Spool. LOW DEATH RATE FOR THIS STATE EXPERT AN 41YZSE NEW YITAL STATISTICS Federal Bureau Says From Now on Law Requiring Reports Will Be Enforced. f" The State. While the South Carolina vital statistics report for February meets with the expectations of federal experts who have the bureau in hand, it is l. still below the normal and it is J thougl-t that the lack of experience and knowledge on the part of those V In each county, especially the undertakers, is the cause of the low death rate. This condition, however, in the opinion of Clifton C. Jermane, an exi pert federay statistician, has been common to all States upon first complying witih the vital statistics law. I Only the death rate for February in f :Saut3a Carolina has thus far been com' "pnted. The returns indicate a rate of i 13.1 per thousand inhabitants, as com1 pared with 13.4 for January. There were 1,610 deaths in February, exclusive of still-births; t!:e rate is based 1^ on an estimated population for July 1, 5915, of 1,607,745. indulgent at Vlrst. W ' Mr. Jermane has become deeply: f interested in the effoft to have tie entire State recognized as within the reg-! istration area as already through his i*ecommendation the government has accepted returns from tl:e cities of j iColumbia, Greenville and Spartaburg kin addition to Charleston, which has had a vital statistics law for many years. Looking to that end, Mr. Jer 0 mane has written to all undertakers who handle bodies, as follows: "Thus far the attitude of the State T>oaTd of health toward those failing to file certificates of deaths as required L" "by law has been patient and tolerant, W not that there has ever been any inF tention to let such offenders go scotfree, but in order to allow a reasonable time for all to become familiar w\ . the law. "This office is of t'lie opinion that tf:e * limit of leniency has been reached, " beyond which the operation of the L low, automatic as resards the ia n ux MM . w A imposition of penalties. This is menB tioned, not as a threat, but simply as a statement of fact." ^ Mr. Jermane has also written to all registrars in Lancaster county, asking - their co-operation in obtaining better returns from that county. For February the death rate, according to returns from the country, was 3.2 per thousand, which is very low, even as M. STIEFF and see this new cr FRI THE NI nnnmBBBBBaannBi ENTIRE S RGENi tock ;e. Every article id new and right No o I d shoddy 10 doubt passed 10 to !?NO SIR. You e GOOD, and be- l0 * r% l nqualitied guaranyou buy I RE CASH. 101 I ANHFl luii/m compared with the State death rate of 13.01, which is also low. Mr. Jermane realizes that t'cere are many difficulties to overcome, which time alone can cure, but he is anxious to make the time short and place South Carolina at least on a par with, preferably ahead of. the sister State of North Carolina. Death Rates ('oiuputed, The death rates for Columbia, Charleston, Greenville and Spartanburg, now in the registration area, are 27.9, 28, 23.2 and 18.7, respectively. These rates are based on an estimated population of 45,000 for Columbia (which 'Mr. Jermane considers conservative), 60,427 for Charleston, 17,788 for Greenville and 20,745 for Spartanburg. T:e counties showing a rate of over 15 per thousand, Class A, are: Abbeville, (Charleston, Florence. Georgetown, Greenville and Spartanburg. Class B, witih a rate of 12 to 15 per thousand, includes 'Bamberg, Beaufort, Berkeley, Cherokee, Chester, Greenwood, Hampton, Jasker, Orangeburg, Sumter, Union and York. Class C, i with a rate of 9 to 12 per thousand, consists of Anderson, Barnwell, CalI houn, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester, | Edgefield, Fairfield, Horry, Laurens, 1 Lee, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Saluda and Williamsburg. Class Z, with a rate of under nine per thousand, includes, Aiken, Chesterfield, Clarendon. Colleton. Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexington, iMarion, Marlboro and Richland. Cotton Hteller Than Goods. Charlotte Observer. [ The man has not yet been born \ j who understands the ways of cotton, j ! and it is coming to pass that the j i coma ctatomont will annlv tr> thp waVS , , -rr-j , ; of cotton goods. The contradictory j situation in tV:e market is best explained in the declaration of a New England spinner, complaining about, the low price of goods, to the effect that he could sell his raw cotton now j for more money than he could sell the I goods. He has cotton in his store-! house for wfcich he paid 12^ cents a I pound, and which he could sell at 13 cents, but if he makes it into staple goods, lbe must sell the goods on a basis of 12-cent cotton. Print cloth goods are selling as low as when cotton was at 7 cents, and this very situation was described in The Observer by a Xorth Carolina manufacturer last fall. Of course tl:is condition is not steadily maintained, but it occurs often enough to keep the mill men in trouble. ?? Meanest Man. He?'How old are you? She?I've just turned 23. He?0':, I see?32.?Boston Transcript. i i : Piano Ma eation in Pianos M E DRAWING BOO IjWdLKKI TOCK BE rv iif U1 VI Specie EXTRA SPECIAL, WE 10:30 and 2 to 2:30, 8c Dress EXTRA SPECIAL, T to 10:30 and 2 to 2:30, 9 spoo pvtoa corn a t c lua i i\n ji i-v/inb, j to 10:30 and 2 to 2:30, 10 yard (son m MAIN STREET :: j CHARTER FOR ROAD ALGESIA TO GREENWOOD I i The Savannah Piedmont and Western Hallway Company Granted Commission by Secretary of State. i Having a minimum capital stack of 1 $30,000 and a maximum capital of $3,j 000,000, the secretary of state Thursday issued a commission to the Sa' vannai; Piedmont and Western railI way. i he company proposes to conj struct a standard gauge railway from the town of North Augusta, on tir.-e Sa- j vannah river, opposite Augusa, to the City o* Greenwood, a distance of 60 mi'e?. T'^e Detitioners askine for a charter for the company are J. Peyton Clark, S. H Mc-Ghee, Kenneth Baker. Mr. CJjirk is of 'New York city, the ';llu-r petitioners being citizens of Greenwood. The road will use steam or electricity. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS i Will Receiye Warm and Cordial Welcome and the Best Newberry Hospitality Has to Give. Newberry is alive with plans for t e great convention of Sunday school workers. wMch will convene April 20 I | 22. This is the thirty-eighth annua1 j convention, of the South Carolina Interi denominational Sunday School associi ation, and it is expected that it will 1 be one of the largest and best in the [ I history of the organization. i The main sessions of the convention | will be held in the Lutheran church, of which Rev. E. Fulenwider is pastor. V e departmental conferences will be held in t'e Methodist, Baptist. Presbyterian and A. R. P. churches. The music of the convention will be under the direction of C. Harold Low| den, of Philadelphia. Mrs. E. B. Setz! ier, of Xewberry, is chairman of the j music committee and l as a splendid j committee associated with her, which wi'l be responsible for the organiza! tion of a brge choir. Major 'T T. Hyde, of Charleston, president of the association, will preside at a)I the main sessions of the convention. Rev. \V. H. K. Pendleton, chairman of the State executive committee, will preside at ti':.e annual meeting of the committee, which will be held on Thursday afternoon, April 20, at 4:30 o'clock. This meeting will be followed by the annual banquet at which the fifty-four members of the executive committee will be guests. At tf'e morning session of the convention, there will be practical talks on methods of work from leading Sunday school workers and educators. The afternoons will be given over to conI ) nufacturer ake our store your I KS TOaTHE CHILI DRUG C( ING SOLI 1 Mkm v a 1 Sales :dinesday, march 31 PiinaKam* 10 v?rrl? for 25r HURSDAY, APRIL 1 Is of J. & P. Coats Cotton for ATURDAY, APRIL 3 Is 8c Sea Island for 35cIY gooi NEWBERRY, S. C. j ferences, and the evening sessions will ; be inspirational. I The Thursday afternoofi session will ' be one of the most interesting of the whole convention, when Dr. Patterson Wardlaw, of toe University of South Carolina, will present "The Educational Forces of the State Helping to Provide Religious Education.It is expected that Bishop W. A. Guerry will make an address on that afternoon, | and delegates from all the leading coli leges are expected to be present. A story hour for the children of Newberry will be given one afternoon by Mrs. Samuel Burts, of Spartanburg, and a special meeting for teen-age boys and girls will be held at the same Tour by Dick . Grest.am. Special rates will be granted by the railroads, and Newberry is preparing to entertain the 500 delegates with the same splendid spirit of hospitality that has made her famous as a convention city. Wheat Prices and Bread. Collier's Weekly. The wheat in the hands of tlbe American farmer?is it to be seized by the government to depress bread prices? That is practically what an embargo on its exportation would mean. Before taking so unprecedented a step, even when suggested by Mr. George W. Perkins and Mayor Mitchei, of New York, it will be wise for the government; ro stop, iook ana usieii. The farmers, as ti':.is is written, receive at their railway stations from $1.40 upward for their wheat, fn Chicago May wheat has sold at $1.41 1-4. after touching a point almost 20 cents higher. This should be considered by those who fix their eyes on the price of bread only. We have just weighed a "pound" loaf bougVt at the corner gro- | eery. It weighed three-quarters of a pound in its sanitary wrapper. How much are the people of the cities paying for the bread in a bushel of wheat I at this rate? Good milling will convert from 70 to 73 per cent, of the wheat into flour?and we have good millers in the United States. IA busTcel will yield about 44 pounds of flour. Seven pounds of flour, according to the j requirements of the best bakeries, j must yield nine pounds of i ead, or j 57 pounds of bread tr t'ne bushel o:' wheat. This means 76 loaves of the size now sold in our neighborhood. Mayor Mitchel was justly concerned, for in New York city t!':e loaf sold for some -days at 6 cents. The city's poor were, therefore, paying $456 for the flour in a bushel of wheat! When the by-products are taken into account, the ultimate consumers are paying more than three times for their wl:eat what the farmer gets. If the government will attend to the grocers, J Has loaned us o j solid mahogany i headquarters. )REN. I on our iioors is orai . up-to-the-minute, goods that have r through many sales get goods that ar r sides, you get our ui tee with everything j SALE PRICES A r ! JMrAIN Y iHHBHnnaaHMBHanBi D AT OU1 \ V? T ^ / Save Cash R | ceiptsfoi 29c Asso larger i IS CO. [J ! the bakers, the millers, the railways, tne elevator men, ttte board or traae, and all the others who are getting more than $3 out of wheat, and then stand before the farmer with proof that the pound loaf can not be sold at cents, t) e farmer will take his medicine. And not until then. For until the government can do this, it can not come with clean hands before the man who produced the wheat in the sweat of his brow. Tl:e best solution of whatever wheat scarcity there may exist is to let only the law of supply and demand send up the iiripo r?f whpnt TTnripr cii^Vi pnnrii tions the farmer will sow in wheat every available acre everywhere, fertilize it. care for it, garner it in, and place it on the market. Ib the Land of Si-rambled Names. "I care not who writes the songs of a country if I can name its cities,'' said the Galician patriot. So he shook up 297 consonants and a single vowel in a peck measure and drew out 23 cities, a district and two villages.?Cleveland 'Plain Dealer. "Why are you so crazy to take mud batr.s? There's nothing the matter with vnn *' "It's this way, doctor. I was brought up in a lace collar and a Faulteroy j suit, and I always vowed that I would I get my share of playing in the mud some day."?Kansas City Star. | j NOTICE OF ELECTION IN RUTHER, FORD SCHOOL DISTRICT, NO. 23. Whereas, one-third of the resident ! electors and a like proportion of the i resident .freeholders of the age of i twenty-one years, of Rutherford School j District, Xo. 23, of the County of j Xcv.'berry, State of South Carolina, j have filei : petition with the County I tJoara or mcucauon 01 .Newuen-j uuuu- i ! ty, South Carolina, petitioning and rei questing that an election be held in | said School District on the question I of levying a special annual tax of two j mills to be collected on tbe property i located in the said Sotool District: I Now, therefore, the undersigned, [ composing the County Board of EduI cation for Newberry County, South Carolina, do nerebv order the Board of Trustees of the Rutherford School ' :oo m on ^lcvHon An 1 ! 1^1511 ILL, iW, wU, 11/ nv/ivi N.4WV4W44 the said question of levying a two mill i tax to be collected on fc-e property located in the said school district, which said election shall he held at Ruthj erford school house, in said School District No. 23, on Friday, April 9, 1915, at which said election the polls shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the Board of Trustees of said School District shall act as managers of said election. ne of their 1915 Pianos for Field _ 4 * I 5 Your e^ister Re r premiums, rtments than ever. e Lion Brand Collars 1 A n j iv oenus During this Sale Only such electors as reside in said School District and icturn real or personal property for taxation, and who I * exhibit their tax receipts and registration certificates as required in general elections, shall be allowed to vote. i Electors ravonng ti. e levy 01 suoa tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes" written or printed thereon, and such elector opposed to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seal on March 22, 1915. GEO. D. BROWN, S. J. DERRICK, J. S. IWtH'EELER, County Board of Education for Newberry County, S. C. NOTICE OF ELECTION IX BELFAST SCHOOL DISTRICT, NO. 57. WJ:ereas, one-nird of the resident electors and a like proportion of the resident freeholders o the age 01 twenty-one years, of Belfast School District, No. .57, of the County of Newberry, State of South Carolina, have filed a petition with the County Board of Education of Newberry County, South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held in said School District on the question of levying a special annual tax ot two mills to be collected on the property located in the said School District: | Now, therefore, the iindersigned, composing the County Board of Education for Newberry County, South Carolina, do hereby order the Board r\ f fTrtistpoc nf t o Sfhrvfi! district, Xo. 57 to hold an election on the said question of levying a two mill tax to be collected on the property located in the said school district, which said election shall be held at Belfast school house, in said School District Xo. 57 on Saturday, April 10, 1915, at witic-h said election tfce polls shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the Board of Trustees of said Schol District shall act as managers of said election. Only such electors as reside in sail School District and return real or personal property for taxation, and who exhibit their tax receipts and registration certificates as required in general elections, s?ball be allowed to vote. 17*1 ~ ^ ~4-T 4-nv caeuiuis idvu'xug me icv^ t>i suw ta.v shall cast a ballot containing the wor>l "Yes'' written or printed thereon, an1 such elector opposed to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seal on March 22, 1915. GEO. D. BRQWJN", S. J. DERRICK. J. S. WHEELER, County Board of Education for Newberry County. S. C.