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SUMMERTON L[TTER TOO LAT[ FOR LAST WEK Dear Editor: Thought I would send in -Mew items for your paper, and if they meet with your approval you might publish " same; if they do not 'copie up to re quirements, guess your waste basket is big enough to take care of them. We have been so very busy over on this side of the county ever since be -fore Christmas that I haven't had any time for mixing with the people. Hence, I hardly know "Who's who and what's wl.r t." I do know though that there have been some big stunts pull ed off in the "business block" of out town. Of course you very well know that we have more than one such block, but I mean the Main Street sector, that wot enter when you come over right straight from Manning. And, by the way, I guess you have never seen anything of thi:; place ex cepting the Main street district, and if this is all you have seen, you cer tainly have something to live for, as we have several streets that -have Main "beat to a frazzle", to quote Col. Roosevelt. Well the changes in the business line of our city, if I under stand correctly, are as follows: The Sumemrton Mercantile com pany, of which Mr. C. M. Davis was president and owne of most of the stock, and which was the largest mercantile house in Summerton, was sold a few. days agj to Mr. J. E. Da vis and his business partner, Mr. Spro'tt, who c p. rat 's a big memcantilc establishm.ent and ginnery at Davis iitation. Tlhe Sununelrton1 Mercantile company was the oldest, as well as the largest business concern in Summer PLANT TI 10,000 ' Tobacc 4 1-2c. TI KA TZ FOR BA BE ST Reasonial Nothing but the into our prescriptior pounded just the wad RUBBER GOO TOII andI a full and STATI We A MODERN S( We keep a CIGARS, TOBACI BROWN'S II Below Bank of Manning. Why Stiffer with th<4 Try a dlozen of our CA P At 50< If they don't cure y< just tell us and we will %ladly refund y< Could anything be f PHONE 61. ton, and drew business here that nat urally belonged to other towns. Hence, it played an important part in the building up of the place. Mr. H. C. Carrigan, Jr., formerly vice president and manager of the concern, I understand, will' be identi fied with the McClary Broadway Cq., in what capacity I do not know. This concern also enjoys a tremen dous business in general merchandise, fertilizers, cotton, etc., and operates a large ginnery also. Now, with Mr. Carrigan in the business, guess they must intend going, "some more.i' Guess Bill McClary, who has grown to be such a financier, will now devote most of his time to "his bank". which is a new enterprise only. a few months old, I believe, but it is the biggest thing I ever saw for its age. Why? It is able to stand on its legs, notwithstanding the heavy load in the way of deposits, and I hear it will ac tuolly be walking as soon as a home can be had. Of course, our old bank-Bank of Summerton- is still at the old stand, enjoying a big business. There is just too much money over here for one bank to handle. Sum merton certainly can have two if Manning can support four. We had a carnival here last week, and I guess it carried off a bunch of money. "It "got mine" O. K., but I had a good time. It afforded the first opportunity for me to spend a nickle since my return from Asheville, N. C. nearly two months ago. You know, Mr. Editor, this is a -mighty good town. What little of the Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System The Old Standard general atrenethenin? tonic GROVE'S TASTI.E55' chili TONIC, drives out ralnrin.enrichcs the b oodand builds upithesys tern. A true tonic. For adults and children. 60c )BACCO! rARDS o Cloth IE VARD I7FF'S RGAINS. DRUGS IT )ye Prices very best materials go s and they are com I your physician says. DS and IET ARTICLES complete line of DNERY. have )DA FOUNTAIN Full Line of 2OS and CANDIES. RUG STORE, Manning, S. C. 'Grippe ? ElPP E SULES ~. a Dozen. ~ur money.' airer ? MANNlN. S.: C. 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Women who suffer from nervousness, "heat flashes,'' backache, headcehes and "the blues" should try this far ious root and 'herb remedy, Lydia E Pinik harm's Vegetably Zompound. D-- that remained after the great shaking up a couple of years ago has been finally wiped ou. There seems to be more light; the people are seing things; tigers are not only no long er blind but they seem to have gotten in the right road, and if you chance to meet one now you wouldn't know it, for they seem now to be real good, law-abiding citizens. dir. Editor, have you ever thought seriously what a terrible affliction it v'cold be to be blind ? With all these lovely things around us in nature: the beautiful moon and stars in the' heavens; the beautiful stars on the stage and on the streets and every where. It is certainly enough to touch the heart of a villain to be walking along the street, especially in these days when there is more to see than ever bforc, and meet up with a poor blind man, feeling his way along with his stick, or being led by a little boy. Yes, a blind man can always have my last dime; they have been welcome to it, and always will be, so long as I am blessed with sight. For the chances are that you or I ,or anybody that has pity on the blind will be rewarded, and what I mean is right away, at that; if we help the blind in the right spirit. The thing was pictured to me in Asheville some years ago, of what a terrible thing it must be to be blind, and of the willingness of most men to help the blind man. I was standing on the corner of Patton avenue and Park Square, where the street cars transfer, and there was a big crowd of people coming and going. I think there was a big convention in the city, and there was an unusually big crowd o fmen at this point, for if there is anything to see that is the place to see it. Just about time for the cars to leave, a most beautiful woman, "some queen," came tripping up the avenue to catch the car. She was all beauti fully gowned, and, of course, a woman like this is the most beautiful sight for any man to see. Well she was dressed according to the fashion of several years ago, when the dresses were worn pretty narrow, and hers wvas unusually so; and of course this causedl her trouble when it came to her stepping upl on the run ning board of the car. Three times she made a dlesperate effort to get aboard the car, and it is needless to say that tht, onlookers were much in terestedl in the performance. Finally she trippedl and fell, andl there she wvas; couldn't get up on account of the tight skirt. After the conductor and motorman had lifted her up to the car andl the car. movedl on dowvn Patton avenue ,the crowd still wvatched the car, hoping, I suppiose, that the poor woman would try to get off at the next stop, but it wvent right on, andl w~hen the big crowd of. men that were looking on turnedl aroundl to go on their way, there stood the poor blind man. Just to think ,he was right at the showv, and saw nothing. But Ire smiled a plenty when the quarters, dimes and me~kles commenced to d p in his tin cup. It seemedl to come verI the men in a flash that there was a poor man that hadn't seen this beau tiful woman and everybody wvent (Iowa in his p)ocket for something for the poor fellowv. Some even wvent so far as to borrowv from friends in ordler to "(do their bit." Well, as I stated before, I haven't been out of the store enough to see, or to hear much about any visitors that might have been in our midlst. Mr. A. Plumer Burgess and~ family have returned to Sumerton after be ing awvay for several years. and we are certainly very fortunate in having them wvith us again. Mr. Burgess is state insp~ector of fertilizers, which necessitates his being away frq home most of the time (luring te movement of fertilizer. Miss Sallie Andlerson spent a few (lays at home, returning to Orange burg last night. The high school in which she is teaching had to close for a few (lays on account of the fuel shortage. Summerton, S. C., 1-22-18.F.A c ROBBERS MAKE BIG HAUL Unmasked Men Escape with $11,000 In Louisiana Alexandria, La., Jan. 28.-Two un masked men today held up R. V. Young, assistant manager of the Cal cascieu National Bank at Oakdale, La., near here, compelled him to open the valut and escaped with about $1 1, 000, accordIng to telephone messages received here. WHOLESOME GROCERIES AT MODERATE PRICF.$ OUR GROCERIES WILL SUIT YOU TO A "T." 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