Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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We are prep improved Far mortgages to r -, iterest. For parti4 Messrs. Purdy TH BTI to use this year is a mixtuide of equal parts of Acid Phosphate and Cottoni Seed Meal. This mixture will analyse NINE per cent. available Phosphoric Acid, anid THREE AND ONE-HALF per cent. Am rnonia, and nearly if not quite ONE per cent. Potash. Weare prepared to furnish both the above materials and also Blood andi Tanikage. and we solicit inquiries. MANNIN OIL ILL Manning, S. C. Our Representative is ~ as near as~ your postollie or 01 o(ur telephlone. A . eard1 ori a long distatee catll, and ourI serice~a is at yourJI TYPEWRITERS RENTED. Writing Machines Repaired by Experts. We carry a full line of Oftlee Fixtures and Supplies and1( are' sole dealers in 1. C. SMITH & BROS'. TYPEWRITERS. (The "'Si lent Smith") and .SHAW-WALKER FLING CABINETS AND FIXTURES. aoM as OFFIC I SUPLJ 0. 57 Broad St. - - Charleston, S. C. TH / LUN ared to hand m Lands in un for five ye :ulars see o & O'Bryan. IUTHERN ATLANT ,HOW MERCHANT GERNERT HELPED HIS COMMUNITY We believe it will be better for all of us in the South to get that "Old Man of the Sea," the crop lien sys tem, o ffour shoulders. Then diver sification of crops will also help get our people on a acsh basis. And the results will be just what Merchant R. K. Gernert, of Cloud Chief, Oklaho ma, said after etting diversification oing amon his patrons there: "I converted a lot of poor credit custom ers into good cash customers." In fact, the following extract from Mr. Gernert's experience, as reported by him, seems to be wvorth giving in full: "I now began to cooperate with the farmers from whom I was going to make my money. I securedi the agency for a cream separator, and selecting some of the more prospe rous farmers, I beg~an to talk dlairy cowvs. It was the hardest kind of work to interest our cotton raisers in this source of revenue; in fact, I am only nowv, after ten years, getting the cream business going good. , Butj have made a lot of good cash custo mers out of some mighty poor credit customers. I got hold of several poorly adlvertised separators, at first; but I soon saw it would pay me to secure a weli-advertisedi cream sepa rator. I sold five separators last week. I sell separators on install ments, the customers paying so much a wveek in cream. This looks easy, and it is easy for the farmer. He pays for his separator out of his cream ithout missing it. andl forms the habit of coming to Gernert's Store about three times every wveek in the year. I have farmer customers who sell me as high as $16 worth of cream a wveek. "Having sold my customers cream separators, it become necessary to find a market-faL the cream. Cloud Chief is ten miles from a railroad, andl in summer time cream is highly perishable. I bought a team and my clerk and I took turns about dleliver ing cream at the depot and bringing in freight. "Once getting, the farmer interest ed1 in dlairying, it was easy to create a demand for better dairy cows. Two years ago, I introdlucedi pure-bred Holsteins, and now (dairying will soon mean 'ready cash' sure enough. "I pursued the same tactics with incubators. I buy as high as twenty cases of eggs and 1,000 of poultry a uday. Last Christmas, I bought $159 worth of turkeys from one woman." TIhis is a good illustration of how a merchant may help build up-a com munity. As the friend said who sent us this clipping: "This is an illustra tion of what rural merchants must do in the future. Selling is only half their business; they must buy as well." This sentence only echoes what has now become the common appeal of farmers to merchants: "If we buy from your, shelves, you buy from our farms."' In fact, should not the wise mer chant see for himself that there may be a profit In buying corn and leav ing the money among patrons at home as well as in selling corn and sending the money away to men who will never come In a thousand miles of his store '-The Progressive "y s t i et't iF i<,}Z' , a t - i +i i 1+ae 2 7. {lt " . " P.t, t ? "; 1e3 5 s' .}7.t( 44 1 L fjy r, >,r }k Cj a 1t 7r } r < V ft . , Yt t ' /" {- . .." +fSyyyy-iY a t. 7a \ 1A ( . IZ{ rira L r1t 7%: 4 1 L if r f < .011 ti L f.i? 1t :t u "t r, t Y 1 S i pp N ^ } y 5 " 't L t} r S W } , ,- ?A: tT /(lS 9 .L.1 }IL r, 7t ri{f ; 1 r r!7 \ 1 i ti 9 'N7 } r '7 5 Sti_'_ t . , r .r ,r1. 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The purpose of "South Carolina Come-to-Sunday School Day" is (1) To arouse the entire state to the value of the Sunday School. (2) To rally each Sunday School for more aggressive work. (3) To bring into the Sunday School on this day thou s-ands of people who do not ordina rily attend, andl to make every effort Lo retain them as permanent mem bers. We. therefore, call upon all Sun (lay School officers, teachers and membe~rp in South Carolina to join in this concerted effort to build up the Sunday School cause of the State.,'In particular we make the following' re qluests: 1. Study carefully the leaflet en titled "South Carolina Come-to-Sun dI'r School Dp y," which explains the ulan, how to frepare for th~e day, and how to secure the best results from it. (This leaflet was printed in the November Promoter, and may be se cured by writing to the South Caro lina Sunday Selfbol Association, Spartanburg). 2. Plan at once to have your school observe this dlay.' 3. Pray for God's guidlance and blessing upon the plans made and the efforts put forth. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Ar.. kansas, will observe this (lay with' South Carolina. We ask your co-ope ration in making it a great success in our State. John D. Cappelmann, President; W. HI. K. Pendleton, Chairman Execu tive Committee, B. H1. DeMent, VIce President; W. S. Morrison, Vice President; D. D. Jones, Recording Secretary; S. T. Reid, Treasurer, and W. I. Herbert, 1Horace L. Bomar, F. M. Ellerbe, T. M. Lyles, R. E. Boggs and S. T. Lanham, Members of Cen tral Committee. O NOVEL WAY TO RAISE. FUNDS FOR THlE POOR Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 17.-Gover nor Tom C. Rye today operated a traffic officers semaphore on a down town corner, holding up traffic while business men and young ladies sold papers to occupants of vehicles to raise a Christmas fund for the poor. Over $4,400 was raised. It wil be used to provide for food and clothing which will be distributed next Sun day. Cough Medicine for Children. Mrs. Hugh Cook, Scottsville, N. Y., says: "About five years ago when we were living in Garbutt, N. Y., I doc tored two of my children -suffering from colds with Cham~berlain's Cough Rtemedy and ~found t 1st as repre tented .in ever way. It promptly checked their coughfng and cured their- colds quicker than anything I ever used." Obtainable everywhere. --Adv.