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At ASNOFF' Summerton, . South Carolina. STOP B- 0CON 8f.1 Over $12,000 worth of new, staple and up-to-date Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Notions, Dry to be sold in six weeks. Our entire stock and fixtures are to be offered to the buying public and merchants ofSmerton, S. JC., re gardless of cost and worth. This is the only opportunity you may get in a lifetime to get good goods at less than wholesale cost. The goods must be sold, there is no way out of it. If we cannot sell it here we will put it in the New York auction houses for your merchants to buy and sell to you again. The time is near at hand when the buying public are getting acquainted with business methods and we hope you will not overlook the opportunitiy of gettn qoods at LESS THAN COST. This stock must be sold and we are not going to dilly-dally about pirices, first come first served. If you are smart you will come and buy your goods while we are in the market. If you do not want bargains you better stay at home or trade where you have to pay a high price. We want sensible people, people knowing a bargain when they see it. If you don't want to buy stay away and don't crowd the store for nothing, as there are plenty of smart folks who will come to this sale to take the advantage we offer them. The time is short for the disposition of such a large stock, so we will ask the buying public to come soon and avoid the rush. This extraordinary sale is now open and will be open till the first day of February. Selling Out at l. K. ANOF ...Summerton, 5. C. THE RELIANCE LIFE INSURANCE UC, PITTSBURG, PENN., Has complied with the State- laws of 44 different States, confines its operation to the United States. Issues every conceivable form of insurance and has a number of attractive features that have never been embodied in any other con tract. Is the Only Company that Issues the Famous Self-Sustaining Policy. 1st. It provides for cash loans; 2d. Cash values; 3d. Incontestible after one year; 4th. Paid up values; 5th. Thirty days' grace after the first premium is paid; 6th. Extended values; 7th. The paid up values participate in dividends; h. It has a Total and Permanent Disability Clause, That is if the insured becomes totally disabled by disease or accident the pre mnium ceases and the policy is automatically paid up for face value, the privilege and benefit remaining the same as if the premiums had been regularly paid by .he insured. 9th. It also provides that if the policy-holder should make ten hayments on the 20-payment plan and cease paying premiums the company will Day his estate $1,000 for every $1,000 applied for should the insured death occur iuring the second 10-year period and will not deduct a single premium from the face of the policy. 10th. Should the insured continue to pay his premiums dur ing the second 10-year period and if death should occur during the second 10 years the company will add every premium to the face of the policy that has been paid during this period and pay it in cash plus the face of the policy. 11th. This policy can only be obtained from Reliance Life of Pittsburg, the company having the LARGEST ORIGINAL SURPLUS to policy-holders oA any CO.MPANY IN THE WORLD-A SURPLUS OVER THE RESERVE AND ALL OTHER LIABILITIES OF OVER ONE MILLiON EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. Its Board of Directors is composed of recognized financial ability and busi ness integrity, it is officered by practical and experienced insurance men. The right man can secure a position by applying to JAMES H. REED, President Reliance Life Insurance Co., Pittsburg, Penn. SANITA .TION. S. L. KRASNOFF, Undertaker, L. W. COX, Funeral Director. I Open day and night to meet the demands of the needy. Our Un- I dertaking Establishment is complete in every respect. We carry : Coffins from $2.00 to 825.00; Caskets from $10.00 to $300., finished and : 2 draped in the most artistic manner. We have Hearses for both white Z C and colored people. Residences, halls, rooms and contents disinfected by the most ap- : C proved methods of modern science, destroying all contagious and in- : C fectious germs of every nature. Respectfully, 8. L .Kr rcf rianning, S. C. WE HAVE in stock the best assorted lot of BUGGIES ever brought to this market, from 845. up to $85., and feel as sured we can please anyone who wants a good, comfortable Buggy. We have also PHEATONS two seats, for one or two horses; also the best lot of we have ever handled before. The PIEDMONT WAGONS is a leader with us. We have a large lot on hand, and will guaran tee satisfaction to those who place their trade us. We have passed now into our sevecth y ear, and to see small periods like the past before we quit the trade with the people of Clarendon and adjoining counties. W. P. HAWINS & COMPANY Musical Note. A gentleman at a musical party - where the lady was very particular not to have the concord of sweet sounds interrupted, seeing that the fire was'i going out, asked a friend In a whisper, "How could you stir the fire without interrupting the music?" "Between the bars!" replied the friend.-Home Notes. There is no duty we so much underS rate as the duty of being happy. -Stevenson. In extending our Annual Fall and Winter Death From Lockjaw never follows an injury dressed with g t t Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Its antiseptic dially extend to them an invitation to visit and healing properties prevent blood our store whenever they come to Sumter, and poisoning. Chas. Oswald, merchant of Rensselaersville, N. Y., writes: "It make it their headquarters. cured Seth Burch, of this place, of the ugliest sore on his neck I ever saw.'' Cures, Cuts, Wounds, Burns and Sores. this season than ever before, for the reason, 25c at The Arant Co. Drug store. we have extended our delivery markets, al I wavs in close touich with the mills, it puts us In the Air. in position to keep above the market quota Farmer Greene (who has been ions, and our patrons cret the benefit of this knocked down by a balloon anchor) Gol dern 'em! ri' hev th' law on 'em! advantage. Cotton is the product upon which Whar's th' sheriff? Farmer Brown- ou farmers must depend, and although tie No use kicking, Josh! Them crittersI10 No se ickngJos! Tem riter crop of this year is not so good as last year, is above the law, I reckon'--Houston Postby a mutual working tog-ether the farmer and Post0 It merchant will come out on top. start In time-French Proverb. The various departments in our store are star Intim.-Fenc Prver. ~filled with N--ew, Clean Goods and the pur Floos te bdy ithwar, gowig ~ chasing public can certainly supply its needs Floods the body with wvarm, zlowing vitality,makes the nerves strong,quick- l here. Come and inspect our full Line of ens circulation, restores natural vigor, makes you feel like one born again. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35c. Dr. W. E. Brown & Co. 'Thre00__ cDry Goods. There is a right way and a wrong in the picking up of a horseshoe. I was where we have a corps of experienced sales walking with a country bred boy along ma a Somerset lane and saw one lying in the crumbling summer rut "There is goods, and prove that we are up-to-date in a horseshoe," said I. The lad sprang sl a forward, but stopped suddenly before his fingers touched the iron. "But I S O S won't pick it up," said he, "or I shall spoil your luck." It may perhaps have been only a point of etiquette, but he There is no store in the city of Sumter assured me that a horseshoe of my with a fuller or better stock of Shoes, and as finding could bring luck neither to him nor to me If he touched it before me.- we contract for these goods direct with the London Standard. factories we are prepared to make the "show ______ ___ ~down" that we can save you money by An Awful Cough Cured, buying from us. "Two years ago our lit girl had a touch of pneumonia, wI left her with an awful cough. Sh had spells C R O C E of coughing just like one with the whooping cough and some thought she whoigcog n sm hugtseOur Grocery Department is the equal of would not get well at all. We got a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem- ativ concern in tie State. We handle both edv. which acted like a charm. She stpped coughing and got stout and fat," writes Mrs. Ora Bussard, Bru- sale and retail. We make a specialty of sup baker, Ill. This remedy is for sale by plying small dealers with everything in the The Arant Co. Drug- store.00 grocery line. Come to _,ee us, as we keep August. everything, and the best of attention "August," the name of the month, isuaranteed. Respectully, accented on the first syllable. "Au gust," the adjective, is accented on the secoid syllable. This Is due, no doubt, to the fact that, though both started B R O S ., from the Latin "augustus," they have arrived by different routes. The ad "August," commemorating the Roman emperor's title, Is the French "aout" and the middle English "augst" or "aust." "July" us'ed to rhyme wit "duly." even In Johnson's time, as it had done centuries earlier and as It doesally sountherntScotnlanditatothts visi Curious French Market. There is a curious old market near Headquarters for Paints and Oils. Paris in which everything is sold at secondhand. Working girls can fit themselves out there from head to foot. As a writer says: Mimi can sell her old felt bat and buy a straw one, exchange her old dress for a new one the public generally to come to Sumter and, if she likes, buy a steak and a and look in on our tremendous stock salad for her dinner, a paper bag of i ofHardware of all kinds, tools of every fried potatoes, sweets and some flow- C description. When you -need anything ers for her window. Democracy Is king here, and no more attention is paid to in the Machinery supply line, we can the millionaire who is looking for furnish just what you want. something marvelous which he may We handle the best Beltings in the pick up cheap than to the man' with a country. wooden leg who wants a new boot inOur Paint and Oil Departments are exchange for a dozen sardine tins, five full. Try our famous Japalac. gloves and a stocking. Farmers, you can save money by S buying your Wire Fencing from us. A An Alarming Situation We are headquarters for all kinds frequently results from clogged bowels of Sporting Goods, and we can beat and torpid liver, until constivation be W them all in Harness and Saddles comes a chronic. This condition is Ladies, buy your new Stove or known to those who use Dr King's New Life Pills; the best and gentlest reu- Range from us. Let us show them to lators of stomach and bowels. Guaran- 0 you. teed by The Arant Co. Druggist. Price Our long experience gIves us an M 25c. n1: 2D~. ____ ____ - ~advantage, and we can safely say thai T~rsewe can p~lease the trade. Terse. First Ward Leader-Do you have an n to trouble keeping your voters in line? Second Ward Leader-Oh, no; a word to the guys is sumcient.-Philadel SUTER, hiC Rec6rd. _________________ ___ The architeets of Most air castles oc- Y U p ,Blig garet pntifent.-eW rlensMachinery Supplies, Belting, Etc. Picayune. Following The Flag. When our soldiers went to CubaHand ththe Philippines, health was the most important consideration. Willis T. MYor-an, retired Commissary Sergeant U. S. A., of oural foute 1, Concord, ain N. H. says: dI was two years in Cuba anditwonyearstin the Philipinesh and New Discoverishojuonsuwptionuwhich. being subject to colds, I took Dr King's kept me in perect health. And now, V in Nw Hampshire, we find it the best tins medicine in the world for coughscolds, aR e bronchial troubles and all luFg diseas-f es."W areraheadquarters for all kinds. Trial bottle free. Sold at The Arant es." Guaranteed.lPrice5Haraeds$1.00Saddles. C, Buy now while the chance is here. Weare Took the Wrong Hou>e. offering Special Bargains that will open On one of the southern railroads your purse. there is a station building that Is com monly known by travelers as the small J hesIlasMTR DryC est railroad station In America. It IS Irv oo s Of this station that the story Is told Machner sup p s. Bl n Etc that an old farmer was expecting a chicken house to arrive there, and he Clothing, 5kirts, Jackets, ~ sentone of his hands, a newcomer, to fetch it Arriving there, the man saw tIy*e. the house, loaded it on to his wagon .aists, and started for home. On the way he met a man In uniform with the words at prcsthat wiii will astonish you. Re "Station Agent. R on his c. oncord "Say, hold on. What have you got member, buying right is money saving. on that wagon?' he asked.lpnsun "My chicken house, of course," was Don't wait, con and see for yourse k"Chicken house be Jiggered" explod ed the official. fTdat's the stateont- PRICES. Ultlea' Home.TouroL T Sick Headache Cured. cls brockhda ' ruls ad lbyn deasg- uMN ment of the stomach and by indiges- D I.S 00. ck edrugstoei cause by w hiedheranansger.-e r T tion. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liv or Taonts rret fthes disorders and N XT TO POSTOFFp gE. teffecis a stationBbutling these tabcom ason knsw the frtriar o the s- - eatse appetion thattck stoy be tordld . 9 Sndstedfr- ome.an wh wouldn' mry ifchcen houd, and couldn't wasshedS : KI dH ET" GUAIi IT Yth BARGIANSS3 4 would.ace urd