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Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C? THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1906 One Dollar a Year . |
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IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
. KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Pungent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
V E. D. Smith, president of the South
Carolina cotton growers' association, was
married in Florence last Wednesday to
Miss Annie Branson Farley.
J. H. Pope, Jr., who killed Mont D.
Ihly, in Hampton connty some time ago,
was tried in the criminal court there last
week and found guilty of manslaughter.
He was sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary. Notice of appeal was
given.
W, J. Sowell, a white man living at
Langley was struck by an express car on
t the Augusta-Aiken electric road last
Thursday night. He was walking on
the track at a~curve and the car could not
be stopped before striking him. He died
Friday morning.
It is said that Tuesday's election in
Richland county may be declared illegal
and another held. The tickets are said
not to be of the right size and there were
other irregularities, all resulting from
carelessness. We have no doubt but that
the elections were loosely conducted all
over the State.
Judge Hydrick refused a new trial to <
-the negro McCoomer, and the white man, j
Spivens, who were convicted in Sumter
last week of the murder of J. ?. Gaillard,
Jr. They were sentenced to life imprison
ment in the penitentiary. The attorney ;
for the white man says he will appeal to j
the State Supreme court. j
Wm. Bennett, the negro who was convicted
at the last term of the court of
general sessions in Beaufort county of
the murder of Mr. Geo. M. Harvey, an i
aged white man, at the Blythewood place '
on Lady's Island in that county on the <
26th of last August, was hanged in Beau- <
fort last Friday. The execution was quiet 1
withnnt inniHpnt I (
The strike of the machinists in the !
v shone of the Southern Railway has been
settled, and the men returned to work 1
Monday. The wages offered by the com- 1
pany prior to the strike are to be accepted, 1
and the difference between this scale and .
that demanded by the machinists is to be j
arbitpted. The adjustment took place in
NewnTork last Friday.'
Mrs. Virginia Durant Young, editor of
the Fairfax Enterprise, died at her home
' in Fairfax last Friday afternoon at five 1
' o'clock after a short illness of pneumonia, i
She is survived bv her husband, Dr. W. J
J. Young. Mrs. Young was well known <
N and popular all over the State, especially !
among the members of the Press Associ-" 1
ation, who regret to learn of her death. 1
The German immigrant ship, the Wit- (
tekind. arrived in Charleston last Sun- j
day. Most of the immigrants were car- '
ried to the upper part of the State to the '
v %... cotton mill districts. A number of people
in the low country who wanted house
servants were disappointed. It is said
the immigrants showed up well and
seemed to be a desirable class of population.
Another ship load may be brought
oversoon.
p FAMOUS STRIKE BREAKERS.
The most factious strike breakers in the
; land are Dr. King's New Life Pills. When
liver and bowels go on strike, they quick- ]
]y settle the trouble, and the purifying
-. ' work goes right on. Best cure for constipation,
headache and dizziness. 25c at
Hoover's Drug Store and J. B. Black's. ]
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TAX NOTICE.
The county treasurer's office will be J
open for the collection of State, county,
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SCllOOl ana &11 omer taxes irurn tue tutu
t day of October, 1906, until the 15th day
of March, 1907, inclusive. I
From the 1st day of January, 1907, un
til the 21st day of January, 1907, a penal* i
ty of 1 per cent, will be added to all nn- \
paid taxes. From the first day of Febru* ]
ary, 1907, until the 28th day of February, (
1907, h penalty of 2 per cent, will be added ;
to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of
March, 1907, until the 15th day of March,
1907, a penalty of 5 per cent, will be
added to all unpaid taxes. i
The following is the levy: <
For 8tate purposes, 5 mills. i
For county purposes, 4 mills. I
Constitutional school tax, 3 mills. J
Total, 12 mills. <
SPECIAL 8CHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14,5 mills. ,
Binnaker's No. 12, 3 mills.
Clear Pond, No. 19,2 mills.
' Colston, No. 18, 2 mills.
Cuffie Creek, No. 17,2 mills.
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UenmarK, no. si, o mum. I
Ehrhardt, No 22,2 mills.
Govan, No. 11.8 mills.
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16,1 mill.
Hopewell, No. 1,3 mills.
Hampton, No. 3,2 mills.
Heyward, No. 24,2 mills.
Lees, No. 23,4 mills.
Midway, No. 2,2 mills.
Oak Grove, No. 20,2 mills.
Olar, No. 8,4 mills.
All male persons between the ages. of
twenty-one and sixty years, except Confederate
soldiers or sailors, who are exempt
at fifty years of age, are liable to a
poll tax of ohe dollar. Capitation dog
tax, fifty cents.
Parties returning property in more
than one school district will not forget to
ask for receipts for each district. I
I will receive the road commutation
tax ($2.00) from October 15th, 1906, until 1
March 1st, _1907. JNO. F. FOLK, :
Treasurer rsamoerg uouniy.
Bamberg, S. C., October 2,1906.
TRESPASS NOTICE. i
All persons are hereby warned not to
enter on my lands for any purpose whatever.
Hunters, *book agents, peddlers, |
and all persons trespassing will be prosecuted.
H. A. HUGHES.
Ehrhardt, S. C., October 23,1906. 1
TRESPASS NOTICE.
| JA11 persons are hereby warned not to
enter on my lands for the purpose of
hunting, hauling straw, or for any other ,
purpose whatsoever. Trespassers will be
prosecuted. J. B. ELKINS.
Bamberg, S. C., October 15, 1906.
Did as He Was Told.
An amusing instance of "literalmindedness"
was afforded not long
ago by ^ bell-boy in a hotel in Washington.
One of the guests, a congressman
from the west, had hurried to the
hotel clerk's counter. He had just
ten minutes in which to pay his bill,
reach the railway station and board
his train.
When he hastily had transacted his
business with the clerk and had turned
to dash out of doors, it suddenly
occurred to him that he had forgotten
something. "Here, boy!" shouted
he to a diminutive negro on the
bench, "run to room No. 18 just as
quick as you can and see whether I
have left a box on the bureau, But
hurry as I have only five minutes."
The boy rushed up the stairs. In
two or three minutes he returned
out of breath. "Yes, sah," he panted,
"you left it, sah!"
What is a Gentleman?
The question always comes up: What
is a gentleman ? Some say he is a man
with a silk hat, and others a man with a
smooth tohgue. But men connected with
the newspaper trade have a canon of
their own. "Mr. Editor," said a patron
one day, "how is it you never call on me
to pay for your paper? " "Oh," said the
man of types, "we never ask a gentleman
for money." "Indeed," the patron replied.
"How do you manage to get along
if they don't pay." "Why," said Mr.
Editor, "after a certain time we conclude
he is not a gentleman, and then we ask
him for it."
A YEAR OF BLOOD.
The year 1903 will long be rembered in
the home of F. N. Tacket, of Alliance,
Ky., as a year of blood; which flowed so
copiously from Mr. Tacket's lungs that
death seemed near. He writes: "Severe
bleeding from the lungs and a frightful
cough had brought me at death's door,
when I began taking Dr. King's New
Discovery for consumption, with the result
that after taking 4 bottles I was completely
restored and as time has proven
permanently cured." Guaranteed for sore
lungs, coughs and/colds, Hoover's Drug
Store, J. B. Black. Price 50c and $1.00.
Trial bottle free.
Millinery, Dry Goods, Notions, Etc.
I have bought out Mrs. M. L. Counts's
millinery, and have moved same over to
my store. I am daily receiving new
goods. Have just received a lovely line
!)f ready-to-wear, also hats of every description
and have others to come. Also
have a complete line of dress goods and
trimmings, laces, embroideries, linen,
irawn work, muslin, underwear, in fact
everything that you need. Will be pleased
to have you call and inspect my goods,
ind will appreciate your patronage.
Respectfully, J. A. 8PANN.
Bamberg, 8. C., October 31,1906.
New Advertisements.
Ga.-Ala. Business College?Help.
F. E. Copeland et al?Trespass Notice.
E. T. LaFitte?For Sale.
Sam Harrison?Wanted.
G E. Hutto?Citation for Letters of
Administration on Estate of Mrs. E. A.
Folk.
W. A. KLAUBER.
Klauber has had special sales in time
past, but the great sale he will have from
November 14th to 24th will be the most
stupendous affair ever attempted in this
part of the oountry. Read the big ad. in
this issue, and be sure to be on hand dur^
ing the sale.
DR. W. M. BAKER.
Dr. W.M. Baker, air eye specialist, will
be at the Mayflower Inn next Monday,
November 12th, and if you suffer with
?? - /Mtrohim o aq 11 Uo la o irvroHrt.
JTUUr CJ CO, glfcuiiu a vau, uv 417 ? gtuuu
ite of a celebrated college in Berlin, Germany,
and also from a college in Philadelphia.
Give him a call next Monday.
He will only be here for the one day.
J. A. 8PANN.
J. A. Spann has a new advertisement
in this issue, which will be of great interest
to bargain seekers. He has a tremendous
stock of goods and they must
be turned into money, no matter what the
loss may be. He inaugurates bargain
days Monday and Tuesday of each week,
and special prices will prevail on these
days. The first bargain sale is on for
next Monday and Tuesday. See the ad.
Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy a Guaranteed Cure.
If you suffer from dyspepsia or indigestion
in any form of gas, belching, bitter
taste, offensive bad breath, dizzy
spells, sour stomach, heart flutter, nausea,
gastritis, loathing of food, pains or swelling
in the stomach, back or side, deepseated
kidney or liver trouble, they will
disappear after taking Tyner's Dyspepsia
Remedy, made especially to cure dyspepsia,
indigestion and stomach troubles,
even the worst cases. Tyner's Dyspepsia
Remedy expels the gases and sweetens
the breath, cures sick headache, colic
ind constipation. Druggists or by express
50c bottle. Money refunded if it fails to
sure. Medical advice and circular free by
writing Tyner Remedy Co., Augusta, Ga.
Negro Conference in Colombia.
Columbia, October 30.?A call signed
t>y leading negroes throughout the State
has been issued for a conference on the
race issue, to be held here on January
23 and 24.
The speakers advertised as likely to
address the gathering include Governor
Heyward, Mayor Gibbes, Booker T.
Washington and Bishops Coppin and
Baiters. The time for the conference
was arranged so as to have the members
of the legislature hear the speeches.
Richard Carroll, Thos. Miller and
others are back of the scheme.
Your stomach churns and digests food
you eat and if foul, torpid, or out of order
your system suffers from blood poison.
Hollister's Rocky Mountain tea keeps you
well. 35c, tea or tablets. H. F. Hoover.
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Itemg Gathered Ail Around
the County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, November 5.?The farmers
of this section are somewhat put out
about the sudden decline in cotton. The
crop has been about sold from this
section, not more than 10 per cent, of it
remains in the farmers' hands yet. Some
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reports Dave it tDat oo per cent., ui iuo
crop for 1906 remains to be gathered yet.
Any one traveling about in this section
would report other than the 65 per cent,
report. The situation is tough with our
merchants, who bought quantities of fertilizer
for the farmers from the various
companies. Now these notes are maturing
and they have nothing to pay with.
The bank notes have taken three-fourths
of the crop made and about 25 per cent,
is about the amount the merchants have
collected or will when they get all they
can. The situation is serious.
Evangelist Leitch commenced his
aeries of sermons in the Methodist church
at this place on last Thursday night. He
has been giving sister bosh, sister flyspeck,
sister run-down stocking at the
heel, and whiskey drinkers, bricks so far.
Mr. Marshall does the singing, which is
enjoyed by all that hear him. Well, all
these sisters are needed to make our
world complete and without them we
could not see their actions and avoid being
similar characters.
Gala week, is all that one can hear
talked on our streets these days. What
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kind of a dress ana wnai siym um, cw.,
will be appropriate for the occasion.
Well, I hope that all who go to see the
sights will enjoy themselves as much as
they anticipate.
All of oar sick folks are getting better
and we hope soon to see them out on
oar streets again.
Mr. George H. Folk lost his horse last
week. Mr. Folk carries mail on roral
route No. 2 from here and boards with
Mr. Jacob Ehrhardt. He was watering
the horses in the lot; his horse made an
effort to kick the other horses away from
the trough. Mr. Ehrhardt had recently
gotten a young horse, and when he approached
the trough he took a hand in
the kicking frolic and resulted in kicking
Mr. Folk's horse so hard until it died the
next day.
Mr. Joe I. Copeland and wife are visiting
his son, Dr. J. L. Copeland.
Mrs. Bettie Kinard and Mrs. Jacob
Ehrhardt went to' Bamberg last week on
business.
Mr. Chas. Ehrhardt went to Bamberg
Sunday on a visit.
Mr. John F. Chassereau has the painter
at work on his dwelling.
There is some talk of our having the
freight train to stay over night here and
carry an accommodation coach attached
to it so passengers can go and come on
it This is a cood move if the railroad
people will only move it in that direction,
and will be taken advantage of by the
traveling pnblic.
Mr. G. Calvin Fender, a prosperous
farmer of our section, brought me as a
sample a hen's egg just twiee as large
as the largest eggs we get from our yards.
The egg measures three inches long, one
and three-quarter inches in diameter, six
inches in circumference, and weighs
three and three-quarter ounces. # Jee.
Ehrhardt News.
Mr. R. Miller has discontinued his
branch store at Lodge, having moved his
goods back to his store here,
Mils. T. W. Dannelly and little- grand
daughter are visiting Mrs. I. D. Copeland,
of the Midway section.
Miss Carrie Walker, of Colston, was in
town last Wednesday.
Mr. John Frank Chassereau is treating
his house to a new coat of paint.
Mr. C. R. Clayton went to Olar last
Wednesday on business.
Mr. G. L. Kinard paid Bamberg a flying
visit last Monday.
Mr. W. W. Warren and his family went
to Orangeburg last Friday.
Mrs. Pate is still kept from school, on
account of the continued illness of her
little daughter.
Ot.nnrro itIia Vina hppn inN rmr mm
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munity for the last six months in the
clock business, went to Augusta last week
and brought back his bride, It is hoped
that Mr. and Mrs. Strange will continue
to make Ehrhardt their home.
Mr. Dexter Platts, of Ritters, was in
town last Thursday.
Rev. Tom Leitch and Mr. Marshall are
conducting a revival meeting here in the
Methodist church now. The meeting will
likely continue all of next week.
The school has been running for more
than a month, and our local book dealer
hasn't all the school books yet, and it
isn't his fault either, as the books have
been ordered for a month. The fault appears
to be with the State depository.
This unexplainable delay is very annoying
to both teacher and pupil, and much
valuable time is being lost.
Marvin BisHor.
Ehrhardt Graded School, Nov. 3,1906.
G. Frank Bamberg has a lot of horses
and mules on hand, and they will be sold
at attractive prices. Be sure to see what
be will do for you before you buy.
WHITE MAN BEATS HIS STEPCHILD.
W. E. Cookson Fined for Cruel Treatment ol
Child That Cannot Walk or Talk.
Columbia, November2.?Charged
with cruelty, mistreating his threeyear-old
stepchild, W. Edward Cookson,
of 62 Taylor street, faced Recorder
Stanley this morning and was
sentenced to pay a fine of $40, or to
serve thirty days on the chaingang.
Cookson was arrested yesterday by
Patrolman Barton and Detective
Broom. He had been informed that
he was going to be locked up, and
was preparing to leave the city when
the officers caught him.
The child is deformed and cannot
either walk or talk, and Cookson evidently
disliked it for this reason.
He beat the child unmercifully and
knocked several teeth from its
mouth. He admitted his guilt this
morning, and seemed sorry of his
deed, while the recorder seemed
sorry that he could not punish him
more than he did. The child has
been turned over to the Salvation
Army, and that organization will see
that it is carefully nurtured into useful
maturity.
Branchville Brevities.
Branchville, Nov. 1.?Miss Lillian
Reeves, who was mysteriously
killed in Charleston Tuesday night,
will be buried here. She was the
only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
D. B. Reeves. Mr. Reeves and son
left yesterday for Charleston to
bring the body to Branchville for interment.
Some years ago Miss
Reeves marri^ Mr. Lewis Selke,
who at that tin was operator for
the Postal Compu-v here and later
moved to Bamberg, but owing to
some family dissensions they separated
and she left soon after for
Charleston to live.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Limehouse
will soon move to Rowesville to re
side. Mr. Limehouse until recently
was connected with the Edisto Lumber
Company, but now occupies a
position with a saw mill at Rowesville.
It is understood that the Edisto
Lumber Company, at Edisto, will
shut down this week. The condition
of things there is quite vague, but
anyway Branchville will regret this
unfortunate affair and soon hopes for
the mill to recommence active business.
This mill meant a great deal
to the interests here on account of
the labor required for its maintenance.
It is capitalized at $50,000 and
the majority, of the directors are residents
of Charleston.
Mr. W. P. Appleby is erecting a
commodious residence on upper Edwards
street. Mr. Lawrence Gressett
has the contract.
Mr. J. E. Byrd and family, of Farrell's,
Bamberg county, have moved
to town and are occupying a house
lately bought of Mr. J. D. D. Fairey.
Mr. R. F. Risher, of Colleton county,
has also bought a house in Branchville
and will shortly move thereto.
It is understood as a fact that Mr.
Rufus Reeves, of Dorchester county,
will build a residence next to Mr.
Eugene Hunter's, on Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Black will
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SOOn occupy tiitr nuuac vataicu kjj
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Limehouse.
Mrs. Rachel Smoak is critically ill
at the home of Mrs. D. E. L. Westberry.?Orangeburg
Evening News.
A Widow's Gratitude.
A woman living in the village of
Milford, N. Y., who recently lost her
husband by death, sent the following
communication to an Otsego county
newspaper:
"Mr. Editor: I desire to thank
the friends and neighbors most
heartily, in this manner, for the
united aid and co-operation during
the illness and death of my late husband,
who escaped from me by the
hand of death on Friday last while at
breakfast. To the friends and all
who contributed so willingly toward
making the last moments and funeral
of my husband a success, I desire to
remember most kindly, hoping these
few words will find them enjoying
the same blessing. I have also a good
milch cow and roan gelding horse,
eight years old, which I will sell
cheap. 'God moves in a mysterious
way His wonders to perform. He
plants his footsteps on the sea and
rides upon the storm;' also a blackand-white
shote very low."
Harmons Admitted to Ball.
Clinton and Bertha Harmon, white,
who shot and killed R. E. Wells at
McCormick recently, have been admitted
to bail by Associate Justice
Gary in the sum of $3,000 each. The
two men killed Wells because he was
too intimate with Clinton Harmon's
wife. Harmon went off to work at
Asheville and left his wife at his
father's where Wells was boarding.
He was seen going into her room at
night and admitted that he had been
there before. When the husband
returned he was informed of the
state of affairs, and Wells was. advised
by the father to leave the
country. He did not do so, and a day
or so later the two Harmons went
to his saw mill where he was at work
and shot him, both emptying shot
guns into his body. His pistol was
found by his dead body with one
empty shell in it.
More white men have been hung
in South Carolina during the present
I year than in the past ten years.
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County Dispensaries Pay Big Profits.
Georgia has had long experience
with countv dispensaries. The Athens
Georgia dispensary is older than our
State system. So the financial results
with these institutions in counties
across the Savannah is of special interest
to us who are about to adopt
the older system.
Dispensaries are located in fifteen
of Georgia's counties. Some weeks
ago we gave figures showing that in
Terrell county, with a population of
15,000 the profits average from $20,000
to $24,000 per year; and ih Floyd
county, population 33,113, the profits
.average nearly $40,000 per year.
These Georgia county dispensary figures
are somewhat astonishing when
one remembers that the six dispensaries
of Beaufort county, population
35,495, make a profit of only $11,763
under the State system.
We have just received from the
clerk and treasurer of the city of
Athens, Georgia, a statement giving
a summary of the business of the
Athens dispensary for the three years
ending January first, 1906. Athens
is the county seat of Clarke county.
The city's population is 11,018 and
the county's 17,708. There is no other
dispensary in the county.
The summary of business of the
Athens dispensary shows that from
January 1st, 1903, to January 1st,
1906, the total net profits were $110,880.23,
and that the stock on hand
increased $9,726.57. This is equivalent
to a net cash profit of $36,960.07
per year, and a net profit in cash and
liquors of $40,202.27 per year. The
sales averaged a little over $178,000
per year, of which the average net
profits were over 22 per cent. The
expenses averaged less than 7 per
cent, of the sales.
To make the comparison perfectly
clear let us summarize our figures in
parallel columns:
County Population Profits
Beaufort, S. C. 35,295 $11,763
Clarke, Ga. 17,708 $36,000
Terrell, Ga. 19,023 $24,000
Floyd, Ga. 33,113 $40,000
We advise the citizens of each
county to compare these facts with
the parallel results of State control as
shown in these counties. See if your
net profits are as much as 22 per
cent, of the total sales, and the expense,
state and county, is not more
than 7 per cent. Such comparison
will show what enormous tribute
this State has been paying to the dispensary
lords for over a decade.
Not long ago a wholesale liquor
dealer of Atlanta upon looking over
a list of the purchases the South
Carolina dispensary board had just
made, jumped up from his chair and
with a forcible exclamation said:
"Why sir, I have heard of the prices
you people were paying, but I never
dreamed it was as bad as that."
Pounding his desk to emphasize his
earnestness, he continued: "If your
State will purchase all it liquors from
me at those prices I will pay
$500,000 a year for the privilege, and
give any bond demanded to make
good."
The corruption and mismanagement
in our State dispensary has affected
not only our morals, but our
pocketbooks as well.?Beaufort Gazette.
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Maaier s Association uipmucu.
In accordance with a call of Dr. O. D
Faust, a Dumber of the fiddlers of Bamberg
connty met here last Monday to organize
a connty association. This organization
is patterned after the Georgia associations,
of which there are a number
in tbat State.
An organization was effected by election
of the folio wing officers? Dr. O. D.
Faust., president; G. W. Garland, first
vice president; W. L. McPhail, second
vice president; Dr. E. Eirkland, third
vice president; John F. Folk, secretary
and treasurer; executive committee, J. B.
Black, W. D. Sease, Jno. D. Turner, W.
H. Varn, and H. W. Adams. Another
meeting will be held soon, and no doubt
a contest will be arranged for at an early
date.
Harried in Orangeburg.
Mr. F. H. Miller, formerly of Orangeburg,
but now of Bamberg, was married
in that city last Friday morning, Novem
ber 2nd, to Miss Florrie Smoak, a daughter
of Mr. J. R. Smoak. They were married
at eight o'clock that morning at the
Baptist pa'rsonage by Rev. ?. M. Lightfoot,
soon after taking the train for Bamberg.
They are boarding at Mr. Sam
Harrison's. Mr. Miller is first assistant
at the electric light plant here, and they
will make this town their home.
The South Carolina Methodist annual
conference is to convene in Columbia on
Wednesday, November 28th.
Mr. P. W. Farrell, of Blackville, died
at a sanatarium in North Augusta last
Monday. About ten days ago bis wife
died. Mr. Farrell was originally from
Charleston, and had been a prominent
business man of Blackville. He was a
brave and devoted Confederate soldier
during the civil war.
HAD A CLOSE CALL.
"A dangerous surgical operation, involving
the removal of a malignant ulcer, as
large as my hand, from my daughter's hip,
was prevented by the application of Bucklen's
Arnica Salve," says A. C. Stickel, of
Miletus, W. Va. "Persistent use of the
salve completely cured it." Cures cuts,
burns and injuries. 25c at Hoover's Drug
J Store and J. B. Black's.
Negro Woman Shot.
In a general row last Saturday night
at the house of William Isaacs, a negro,
who lives near the depot, his wife, Estelle
Isaacs, was shot in the left breast bat not
seriopflly wounded. John Wesley, a
negro, was arrested for the shooting bat
was released on bond. It is generally
supposed that her husband did the shooting
while trying to shoot Wesley. It
seems that Wesley went to the house and
Isaacs thought he had no business there,
and in the scuffle which ensued when
Wesley tried to enter the house, the pistol
was discharged with the above result.
Flower Show.
There will be a flower show in the _ U
store on Main street, recently vacated by '...V
Mrs. M. L Counts Thursday afternoon, 'Mi
the proceeds of which will be applied to
the Confederate monnment. This is a * . Jg
most worthy cause, and it is to be hoped M
that everybody in town will come and
patronize this entertainment and encourage
in a material way those who are
j striving so hard to raise funds for a '
monument to our noble dead. In addirtion
to many beautiful chrysanthemums,
there will be pot plants for sale?princi- . ' M
pally ferns and begonias. Also great 1$
quantities of home-made candy. Every-* %
body is cordially invited to come.
Executive Committee Meeting. ^
The county Democratic executive com- )
mittee here last Monday morning in the
court house, Hon. H. C. Folk, county l
chairman, presiding. The committee met . |
to consider the contest made by J. H.
Zeigler in the matter of the race for magistrate
at Fishpond. In the second primary
election J. H. Zeigler and T. J. s |
Rentz, Jr., were the candidates for mag-,
istrate at Fishpond, the other candidates , J|
being eliminated in the first primary. . 3.
Rentz won over Zeigler in the second race ^
by a small majority, and Zeigler protested
against the committee declaring Rents . |
the nominee of the party, as he (Rents) . ?
had not filed his campaign expense aa- ' '
count as provided by law. The committee
voted to leave the entire matter
with the appointive power, there not being
a majority of the members present A*
that day.
A petition asking for a hearing before y J|
the full committee was filed by Zeigler
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Mr. Folk upon this petition. In the J'. M
meantime the State committee had passed
on this very point, that body deciding
that no votes should be counted for a
candidate who bad not filed this account.
Both men were represented at the meeting
by attorneys, Jno. R 'Bellinger representing
Zeigler and ?. T. LaFitte representing
Rentz. The committee de- '. i
clared Zeigler the nominee, there being ' M
nothing else to do under the ruling or x
the State executive committee. i
Accident Near Denmark.
, Last Sunday afternoon' an accident ^
happened near Denmark, in which tiro ;V.3?
young people had a narrow escape from
death. Mr. J. B. Guess, Jr., and Miss " M
Blyth, one of the teachers in the Denmark $
graded school, were out' riding on the
road between Hightower's mill and Den- 43
mark and at the crossing pf the Atlantic
Coast Line their horse - was1 struck by a
fast passenger train. At this crossing. '..j
there is a deep cut and they could not - ^
see the train coming. The horse had just
gotten on the track when he was struck ^
by the engine and killed. The front part
of the buggy was broken up badly and
both of the occupants thrown out and
badly bruised. The train was stopped
and the young man and the young lady
were carried to Denmark on the train. It
was certainly a narrow escape.
Tuesday's Elections.
Elections were held in many States
Tuesday, and the results so far show that
theT)emocrat8 will increase their repre-. &
sentation in congress- materially.* As
usual Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut,
New Hampshire, Michigan,
Iowa, and other States went Republican
by large majorities. In New Tork Chas.
E. Hughes, the Republican candidate for
governor, was elected, aeieaung w. xv.
Hearst by about 40,000 votes. Hearst 1
carried New York city by about 74,000
plurality.
Taken as directed, it becomes the greatest
curative agent for relief of suffering
humanity ever devised. Such is Hollis- * }3
ter's Rocky Mountain Tea. 85c, tea or
tablets. H. F. Hoover.
Electric Lights.
The fly wheel for the large engine at
the electric light plant arrived last Thursday
and it has been put on. The plant
will soon be ready to run. Our people
have been very much disappointed and
inconvenienced on account of the delay,
but it is to be hoped that they can soop , t
dispense with their oil lamps. A. few
matters are yet to be straightened out,
but in a week or two the plant oaght to
be ready to run.
MADE HAPPY FOR LIFE.
Great happiness came into the home of
S. C. Blair, school superintendent, at St.
Albans, W. Va., when his little daughter
was restored from the dreadful complaint
henames. He says: "My little daughter
had St. Vitus dance, which yielded to no
treatment but grew worse until we tried
Electric Bitters; and I rejoice to say three '
bottles effected a complete cure." Quick,
sure cure for nervous complaints, general
debility, female weaknesses, impoverished
blood and malaria. Guaranteed by J. B.
Black, Hoover's Drug Store. Price 50c.
Mr. T. C. Neville, foreman of the Charleston.
News and Courier and possibly
one of the oldest printers in the State,
died at his home in that city last Wednesday.
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In every clime its colors are unfurled
Its fame has spread from sea to sea;
Be not surprised if in the other world,
You hear of Rocky Mountain Tea.
H. F. Hoover.
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