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"It's & Cinch tt STANDARD OIL TO ISSUE NEW STOCK The. next time yoijbuy calomel ask for The purified and refined calomel tablets that sure • nausealess, safe and sure. Medicinal virtues retain ed and improved? Sold * only in sealed packages. Price 35c. THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN FITTING GLASSES E. B. GARVIN OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 8:30 a. m. to l.i:50 i\m. 1:50 r. m. to G p. m Office Commercial Bank Building T ypewriter Ribbons, Carbon and Adding Machine Paper. Scaife’s Book Store One Hundred Million Dollars of 7 Per Cent Preferred Stock Offered at Par, New Stock Non-Voting and to be Cnmnlatir#. New York, July 25.—The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey today an- nounced a proposed Increase In Us capital stock by $100,000,000, which virtually doubles the present capital- zation. The new stpck will be at 7 per cent preferred, but non-voting, and twill be offered to present share holders at par. The tpurpose of the issue, which is You are invited J. B. FRONTIS JEWELER CLINTON, S. C. Life Was a Mrs. F. M. Jones, of Palmer, Okla., writes: “From the time 1 en tered into womanhood ... I looked with, dread from one month to the next. 1 suffered with my back and bearing-down pain, until life, to me was a. misery. 1 would think 1 could not endure the pain any longer, and I gradually got worse. . . Nothing seemed to help me until, one day, . • • J decided to TAKE VALUE OF SAVINGS BECOMES APPARENT Onn of Groat Lesaona of War Is That of National and Individual Thrift, Now Rapidly Growing Now that the new German govern ment has accepted the Inevitable, and haa officially signed the peace terms dictated by the allies and the coun tries associated with them, the great est and moat disastrous war that aver •courged the world is ended. For nearly five years the world haa baan topsy-turvy. The things that were needed yesterday are no longer required, and the activities of the great war establishments and muni tion plants are being diverted to the manufacture of Implements of peace. There must now be a readjustment. Governments that ha^p thought in bil lions and spent money with a lavish hand, must retrench and think in mil lions and even smaller amounts, and must gain a new perspective. Viewed in the retrospect the twit played by America lu the great world war is one of the most glorious chap ters in history. And in the making of this brilliarft history the plain Ameri can citizen played a stellar roll. The mountains of munitisns, the equip ment for the millions of soldiers, the great ships that carried the m«n across the ocean, could not have been provided had not‘the common people of America provided the money. Much of this money was obtained through the sale of Liberty Bonds and War Savings and Thrift Stamps. This great volume of monev has not been wasted. First it brought perma nent peace to the world, and now that real peace is hero, every cent that was so Invested will come back to those who aided their government, and it will come back with interest. This war that is now hAppily ended bar taught the people the value of sav ing. They weqf into the saving game as much through patriotism as anything else. -But now that they are reaping the returns, and see that what they did with a patriotic motive Is a real foundation for future fortune, they have gained a new confidence in their country, and they will continue to buy the securities the Treasury De partment offers, and will make the country many-fold more prosperous than it would have been had not the war instilled the lesson that will prove Invaluable in future years. CANNOT LOSE MODIFY IF INVESTED WISELY Funds Put Into War Savings Stamps Are Absolutely Safe and Yield Handsome Profit to Holder Government securities afford the safest and most practical-investment in the world. A War Savings Stamp is a promisory note for $5 if redeemed at maturity, or for the original coet of the stamp plus accrued interest if -re deemed before maturity. It was only after America entered the great world conflict that the small wage**earner In this country was af forded the opportunity of investing In government securities; of becoming co-partners with the government That there are today more than 20,000,000 holders of government securities is a fact which speaks for itself. " When you buy a War Savingf Stamp you are helping the government. To be able to make a loan to the ffovern ment, even as small as the sum repre sented by a War Savings Stamp, is a proof of patriotism 11 and also a practi cal manifestation of that spirit of na tional thrift and individual savings which has come to us as a perpianant heritage from the war. ubject to approval—by—tfee—chare- holders, is to provide for the ^‘vigor ous prosecution of the department campaign which the company planned during the war and launched imme diately the armistice was declared. The new financing , will be under- writte'h by J. P. Morgan and Com pany, and will constitute the first public offering ever made by any Standard Oil Comfiahy. In that respect aS-Wfeli gs other | unusual features the project marks a radical departure in the general fi nancial policy <*f the world's largest oil producers and refiners. The new stock, which wil take the form of a 7 per cent preferred cumu lative npn-votlng certifle, will be list ed on th^ stock exchange. This wil] be the first Standard Oil security to be openly traded in on the floor of that institution. A detailed statement to the stockholders from A. C. Bed ford, chairman of he board, summariz es the proposed issue as follows: “The poicy of the company has been to finance its growth from current • earnings, but in view of conditions now existing and having regard to the present necessity of the diversion of a considerable proportion of these earnings to excess profits and other war taxes, your directors feel that it is advisable to increase the capital employed in its business by the amount of the proposed issus of pre ferred stock. It is the intention to utilize this netf capital in the financ ing of the further development of the company’s equipment and resources^ which plans are already under way. * £ GRAND. OPENING" 4 • * 4 ■ * . * • Saturday, August 2nd % Pianos, Talking Machines, • . . i r and Organs WANTED—To l>uv Liltertv Bonds and Building & Loan stock. See . GUY (’. PITTS. Opposite Bailey's Bank SAVE the LEATHER LIQUIDS a/?c/PASTES - For Black,\Yhife.Tan«x/ Ox-Blood (dark brown) Shoes KEEP YOUR SHOES HEAT SHOE POLISHES .mwmWm ■ ‘C^.FFOALLET CORPORATIONS LTD. BUFFALO^ N.Y. • v The Woman's Tonic “I took four bottles/* * Mrs. Jones goes on to say, ''and was hot only greatly relieved, but can truthfully say that I have not a pain. . . “ It has now been two years since I tookCardui, and I am still in good health. . . I would ad vise any woman or girl to use Cardui who is a sufferer from any female trouble/' If you suffer pain caused from womanly trouble, or if you feel the need of a good strengthening tonic to build up your run-down system, take the |dvice of Mrs. Jones. Try Car dui. It helped her. We believe It will help you. AQ Druggists •-V PAYING OFF THAT MORTGAGE Theodor* Roosevelt said: “Thrift is Merely the nae of hard common senae In the spendlnc of money.” Paying off the mortgage on the installment elan by buying War Savings Stamps is ona of the sees of this hard com mon aenae. Not only does this plan offer a prac tical way of saving small amounts of money, but email amounts may be earning interest as soon as they are set aside toward the collecting of the* larger sum. This interest in turn matertalty helps to reduce the $ per cent interest rate commonly charged on mortgages. When the mortgage cornea due it may either be paid off in whole, or in part and ftenewed, the method' of saving through War Savings Stamps being employed until the principal is liquidated. WEALTH OF NATION GROWING RAPIDLY „ In Washington some of those ex perts, who are masters of figures and who have a mind attuned to statistics, frequently dig up queer things. One of this type has figured out that, the total wealth of the*U.nited States is $30Q,000,000,000. Then he figures out the new wealth produced annually, which he terms "net income/’ This gets into j}izzy figures, too. He esti mates that last year the national wealth increased $18,000,000,000, which he admits is going faster than the normal Another Washington official points out that one of the befit ways td conserve this national income in wealth is fo> individuals toJbuy War Savings Stamps. - ONE BATE PLACE FOR LIB- ^ ERTY BONDS—THE BANK- PUT YOURS THERE “May the vast lutiire not have to lament that ypu neglected 1L M Buy Thrift SUmpa and War Saving! Stamps. Is the glne on the back of War Sav ings Stamps. .flavored With peppermint or wtntergreen?/ Buy one and End iA, The Cumberland (Md.) Eve ning Times prints the following, which should be a reminder to * all wtoo are iy>w keeping their * Liberty Bonds or War Savings* l Stampp in boxes around the house or in broken tea pots or in mattresses: Mrs. William B. Dever. wife of Fireman-Engineer Dever, Baltimore and Ohio railroad, of Rowleeburg, W. Va.; threw $1,- 850 worth of Liberty Bonds into the Cheat river, back of her boma, by misUke, with rubbish she x bad cleaned from theiP home. The valuable bonds have not been recovered although a diligent search of the Cheat river bottom in that vicinity has been made. ~ W, E. Dever’s great .loss of bonds has a parallel- W. W. I Wood, Baltimore and Ohio rail road engineer, lo‘f $150 worth of Liberty Bonds from his pock et. They were a $100 rid $50 issue. Wood intended to deposit the bdhds in a local * bank. They have not been lo cated. A laborer unloading a car of 31 coal at Paw Paw, Saturday, found a $100 bond in the coal. It ia thought to have dropped from the pocket of a car londer at the mines. The laborer ^re ported the matter to the com- < > pany's station agent at Paw Paw. It Is said, with a view of returning it to 1U owner- Buy Good Furniture for Your Home EE ~' s U gives more pleasure than anything else that money could huy. = . It becomes “a member of the family” associated intimately .jvith EE motffer*dad and the children. It’s influence is^always Tor good. EE We pride ourselves on the splendid quality of every piece of Furni- S ture we offer._ ^ H There is nothing better manufactured at the Price—oftentimes at a H higher price. H Here you have the largest and most comprehensive stock in the EE State to select from. ~ —— j EE Everything that is worth while in things for the home—at Prices §§ that you can’t duplicate. .a i ■ § .... Car-load after Car-load of Home Furnishings for this Fall’s trade has already arrived and ready for your inspection; other shipments arriv ing daily. . • There will never he a better time to purchase those articles you need for your home than from our present stock. ..... We invite you to call and see our display. S. M. £ E. H. Wilkes & to LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA -»