Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ft i 11 >} ii t WE SINCERELY HOPE YOU WILL FN inv r\/pov •HARD TIMES." MAKE OUR STORE HEADQUARTERS WmLE A^^n^r ^ AND F0RGET W AB ° UT FITTED UP A REST ROOM FOR LADIES AND CHU nRFM^n ,,^ , ™ E CHA UTAUQUA. WE HAVE BOTH COMFORTABLE, PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE T ° MAKE Y ° UR STAY IN W,LL,ST . 0N MEN'S FURNISHING DEPARTMENT. Celebrated "Styleplus” Suits, $25.00 to $35.00 | " . » ' ■■ —'iff*' Knox Hats, none better. Walkover Shoes speak for themselves. Vindex and Lion Shirts. Lion and Triangle Collars. Interwoven Hosiery. *' i. LADIES’ FURNISHING DEPARTMENT; Just received, new shipment of Voiles in all the latest patterns. Also embroidered Organdies, which are very’much in demand right now. Complete stock of Millinery, with com petent milliner in charge, the only one in the county. Whether you buy a new Hat or have your old one^trimmed over, you will receive most courteous attention and the price will be all that could be desired. Walkover Shoes for Ladies. Red Goods Shoes for Children. • • cpr Complete stock of House Furnishings, Groceries, Farming Implements, Shingles, Fencing, etc., at Lowest Prices. We buy at all times Peas, Corn, Potatoes, Cotton, Cotton Seed and other farm ilroducts at highest possible price, paying casfi for same. ' . . . , Our Sweet Potato Department is in charge of a competent man. We are making improvements in ouFten thousand-bush- el curing house with a view of taking care of all of the PORTO RICO potatoes grown in this section./ Strongly urge planting noth- * ing but genuine Porto Rico, disease-free plants, even though you have to destroy your present plants and order ne^ ones, which can now be bought at reasonable prices. ^ '> * •' w. H Department Store Williston, South Carolina Four Singers and Players on Chautauqua Program ~ Worry, Doubt. Foar and Apprehonaion Make tho Physical Organism Sus ceptible'to Disease., Since hM of the cHN of the IhmI.V «re more or less intelligent ami we think no» unlv with the hrain but with the entire physical oruiinism, we chii read ily see that our thriitclits nud coiivit- tlons must affect, aceordinn to their nnturV. all of the<o odls. \W .can think health into them or we ran ihiuk % disci) ve. What have you been telling these little cell minds in your body, my «| friendV Have you heen tillinj; them wi<Thworry and a^iviety rrpnrdliu; your, he.ilth, fOiir, rvitlt dread, with ap prehension 7 Hu\e. you heen lilling then with (louhrr.-\rtth uncertainties. doom (>f your aldlity. Ia«k of fulth, lark oi^^elf-eonildeiiee? Wffwi tliey are apparently sick, perhi/ps the tints of your negative tlioughts, your discoiirHgim^juoUdis, your despondency, an'* yoti. going tfr think into them more despondency more tliscourage- ment. more hojielessuess, or are you going lo stimuiate them^with hope, faith, contidenro, exoectancy of better things ‘to come? Are you’* going to radiate " health info them, optimism, joyV—Orison Xwett Manlen, in Chi- Capital $50,000 Surplus $10,000 cago L»aily News. Four taleuletl. vivacious artists couipose Mte Artists Four couipimy. which! will lie heard here at the coining Kedpath Chautauqua. The Artists Four give a program of great variety, combining orchestral, voent and si»eciul imvclty features’, and every number is given witly a bright ness and sparkle which will make this company long remembered in the com uiunity. The Artists Four company is Juki one of many attractive feat urea on tbu year's big Chautauqua program. HAVE BRIEF SPAN OF L!f'_ Most Placer Mining Camps Flourish for a Little While and Then Pass Into Oblivion. Kxceptions lo the rule governing mining camps, hectic activity and quick decay, an* Helena, site of a one-time noted placer camp, ami (lie tine city of Denver, where, in-the sum aver of I808, Jatuet. H. Pierce panned out a little gold from a sandbar near The mouth of Cherry creek. « ttiacov ery that tired the expectations of thousands and started tho hiatoric rush to Pike’s peak country. The tine and pn*gressiv e^jcily of, Lewiston, Idaho, la anotlu^r exception to the rule of oblivion that has l»oon the almost unfailing fale of placer camps. While, strictly speaking, I«ew iston was n«f a placer camp, bnt the entflttlng point, at the head of steam- Vout navigatUut, foe the stampede Info the ctchr-vvaier region, in the-early 'dds, it vvn< :» pltrcer camp-in other resixcls. and in the wild spirit of early- da’v gold httnfing. W ith the stilling away of itie steam ship Victoria, hearing o“*0 Nome resi dents, most of wtioiii annonncod their. pnrposi* nevet to return, (ite brooding spirit of melancholy came in with -the long, long winter. Again tin* ‘‘vvutfV long howl is heard on Ouualnska’a lonely slioi-e,” atid rite little .remnant of populutUm is ten wiih meuiories amt disappointeil hopes. Yet a few. will ding lo Itn* liesorteil Ixmch to the T • ' la>t bveatlt ojr life, for such is the t.ulailing 1 record <*f every fntnotu* entup^ to live over ~ngaht in memory, througli the tot.g nretic nights, the stirring scenes of ’id years ago.-^Spit kane Xpokcsniau-HevievV.'-. - 1 - / - ■ Advertise in The People. Holland’s Day of State. Although t fhe l)nrch an* very demo- cmtic they still' cling to the pageantry that surrounds tlte.movement* .of their queen on days of state. A case in point being the opening day of their parliament, which Is quaintly ceremo nious. The queen rides in a gilded car riage'' through the streets of The Hnsrue to the old Knights’ hall in Par liament square, and with crown on her head and her gold-braided, prince consort ar her side sits on the throne. At this .cereipouy the Dutch cabinet, ministers are compelled by tradition to wear giddy uniforms resembling an old-time minstrel man in an admiral's hat,. After this one day of pomp the miiitsters and members of parliament put on their working clothes and get down to business, while the queen, who prides herself on being a typical Dutch woman with domestic Pastes, lays her . crown aside for anotlier year. _ x The Bank of Service , YET UBERAL ■ X A FORTRESS FOR DEPOSITORS. A FRIEND TO BORROWERS. x •X ♦ X 5 PER CENT. PAID ON SAVINGS, COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY. NO AG- COUNT TOO SMALL TO RECEIVE COURTEOUS ATTENTION; NONE TOO .... _ X • ■ LARGE FOR US TO HANDLE TO YOUR ADVANTAGE. OUR CONFIDENTIAL AY r**'-- IS AT YOUR COMMAND. If any woman na»l all the sh«* wanted, the rest of the^ women would have to go a rou nd in^baVrelH — Sugar City (Colo.) • • > . (liris may shut their eyes while be ing kissed, as a scientist avers, but you betcha they don’t when it comes to selecting the engagement ring.— Richmond find.} Item.