Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-" '' ; wHv-. '" \. m " - - - - ,.. ^ . ^ ' ?l|f lambrrg l^ralb ffe Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1907 One Dollar a Year 'W$i IN THE PALMETTO STATE ( SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. J r I State News Boiled Down For Quick ( k Reading?Paragraphs About s Men and Happenings. t rln his pnnual message to the legis- j lature Governor Ansel will ask that , - ? -1 ? J < me tax levy ue uicreaseu su mat, State may get out of debt. A census taken for the purpose of t compiling a new city directory, gives the city of Columbia a population of 41,000, including its suburbs. The negroes of the city of Orangeburg have organized a bank with a capital of $10,000. The bank has already opened its doors for business. H. H. Evans is a candidate for mayor of the city of Newberry. He is "Hub" of dispensary fame, he of the beaver hat, etc. He was mayor of Newberry some years ago. Florence is to have free city mail \ delivery, so says Inspector Irving of the postoffice department, who has been investigating the situation there for the past few days. Prof. Jno. G. Clinkscales has an' i ? ;n L. 3; nouncea mat ne win not do a wmuii date for the United States Senate, bat will continue his work of developing th? young men of the State. < Smith Williams, a well known i white carpenter of Spartanburg, was ' run over and instantly killed by a i passenger train on the Southern < Kailway near that city last Saturday < ni&ht. ^ Governor Ansel has appointed sev- 1 t eral dispensary constables for Charleston county. Headquarters will 1 be established in the city, and it is < proposed to wage a vigorous warfare 1 against the blind tigers. At a heading Tuesday Governor ' Ansel granted the request of Cal- [ houn county to amend their petition 1 and change their survey so as to J leave out the town of Cameron. It 1 | seem that St. Matthews is going to 1 ; be a county seat. The Aiken Baptist convention, at J j its annual meeting at Clearwater i church last week, passed a resolution k . calling upon the legislative delega- 1 tion of that county to support a prohibition measure at the coming ses- ] f , sion of the general assembly. | Dick Spivey, white, killed a negro ] named Henry Farrell about two \ '# miles from Kingstree last Saturday 1 [. afternoon. They met in the road i and a quarrel ensued over the right ? fc..S?- Tk/wr nffonlro^ ao/?h ftfllOT* 1 [ Wfljf. 1 UCjr awiov/ixw vavn vvmv* j | with knives. The negro was cut to ! | death and Spivey was badly cut up. ( J. Fraser Lyon, Attorney General, | says that he is making preparations to push the railroad merger suit in 1 South Carolina and that he would I try to get the general assembly to ,V pass a bill this winter allowing him i $30,000 or $40,000. It will take this ; B much, he# thinks, to pay the expenses , of the suits. J? The State board of canvassers was to have heard the contest in the 1 Chesterfield dispensary election case , last Friday, but could not do so on account of the absence of several fe members of the board. Thursday, October 26th, has been set for the i hearing. It will be remembered ()ii<nanoimr n?QO XJA+oH flllt 1 ([ - iJRIt UiC UlOp^liOOl J ff UU T VWM VV?v .by a large majority, but the dispensary people contested the election. A negro boy about fourteen years old was arrested in Marion county last Thursday, charged with attempting to assault a little white girl ten years old, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Atkinson. The little girl was returning from the mail box, and when she saw the negro approaching her through the woods, she became frightened and ran towards home, screaming as she went. The boy says he did not follow the child but went in a opposite direcjfc tio'n. In the case of Elizabeth J. Bussey against the C. & W. C. Railroad the ! Supreme Court handed down a decision affirming the finding of the lower court, which awarded the plaintiff $15,000 for the death of John C. Bussey, a section hand, who was killed by a freight train running into his handcar as he was pull1 mg up grade around a curve near Woodlawn station. The railroad claimed that Bussey was guilty of contributory negligence in failing to send out a flagman ahead, but the eourt finds that this rule was generally violated with the knowledge of the officials and therefore cannot be \ pleaded. State Treasurer Jennings has not nmr <-\-f fcfnlan Hrmds nre ([ JCU UOU ?ii.? W* wiv UW1VU vv..v>. J sen ted him for exchange for stock certificates, except that one held by Edward Ehrlich, who brought the mandamus proceedings. There are eight of these bonds now out, and it is expected that suits will be filed against State treasurers, Messrs. W. T. C. Bates, W. H. Timmerman and R. H. Jennings, the last named now being in office, for the amount lost by the defalcation of the clerk. The bonds given by the treasurers are good for 20 years and Dr. Timmerman stands to lose about $10,000 through the suit. The losses of Messrs. Bates and Jennings will not be heavy and the suits will attract general attention. RESULT OF PROHIBITION. jeorgia to be Made Part of South Carlina Revenue District. Columbia, October 16.?United states commissioner of internal revenue John G. Gapers, here on a visit, ays, that effective January 1 next, lie office of revenue collector of Georgia, held by H. A. Rucker with leadquarters at Atlanta, wili be ibolished and that State placed unier the jurisdiction of the South Carolina collector, Major Micah leiiiuns, wiiuejc acauquai icio c*v Columbia. Mississippi will be attached to Ala)ama, with the collector's headquar;ers at Birmingham. The North Carolina jurisdiction vill not be disturbed, as that State, >n account of its immense tobacco business and numerous distilleries, )ays?the government about $3,000,KK) a year. It is estimated that Georgia's colections, which have been about 5600,000 a year, will drop to $40,000 inrloT nn nPY+. VPflT. South 4iAUV& V4MMAVAV** ^ w Carolina's collections, which amountsd last year to $600,000 under the State dispensary, dropped this year, 'or the fiscal year ended June 30, to >300,000. Death of firs. J. 1*1. Felder. Mrs. J. M. Felder died in this city Sunday afternoon after a short illless. She was fifty-four years old. The burial took place Tuesday mornng at the family burying ground >n the Charleston and Augusta road, i few miles below town. The services were conducted by Revs. A. J. Foster and Peter Stokes. Mrs. Felder was a Miss Hooton before her marriage, being a sister )f Mr. D. F. Hooton, cashier of Bamberg Banking Company. She was a devoted Christian, and mrl Kppti a member of the Baptist ;hurch here for many years. She s survived by her husband and seven ihildren, four boys and three girls, Jie youngest of whom is about ?rown, as well as numerous relatives. The pall bearers at the burial were: Messrs. C. R. Hooton, C. B. FVee, Jr., C. D. Felder, J. E. Felder, [. B. Felder and E. A. Hooton. The strength and beauty of a good woman's character is never shown so plainly as in her discharge of the duties of wife and mother. As to how nvingly and devotedly she lived for tier home and her children-is best attested by those who loved her so tenderly and so well. Truly she was a devoted wife and mother, and she has left a place vacant in the borne which can never be filled. To those who are so sorely bereaved we extend sincere sympathy. School Day., School day will'be observed at Govan school house on Saturday, Oc tober 19th, 1907. Among' the prominent speakers invited to deliver addresses on education at that time are: Col. J. J. Dargan, of Gen. Sumter Memorial School, Statesburg, S. C.; Messrs. J. F. Carter and J. Aldrich Wyman, of the Bamberg bar; Mr. Allard H. Gasque, Superintendent of Education of Florence county; Rev. S. P. Hair, of Blackville. The purpose is to help raise funds for better equipping the school. Let everybody in the community be present. Remember the day and date. J. E. Chandler, Principal Go van High School. Cotton Warehouse. The meeting for the organization of the warehouse company was not i > i ir J :? ?? ? neia Monaay morning, as a sumucm number of the stockholders were not represented in person or by proxy. Another meeting will be called as early as possible, of which due notice will be given. Our people seem to be somewhat indifferent as to this warehouse proposition. While they seem willing to take stock, they have not shown the proper spirit as to orgaizning the company and getting down to business. It makes little difference to us. We have spent considerable time at work on this matter, with no hope of any direct financial gain, and if the farmers and business men can do without a warehouse, it is certain that we can. It's up to them now. We are done talking and working for it. Prof. Rice on Board of Education. Gov. Ansel yesterday appointed on the State board of education Prof. H. F. Rice of Aiken to succeed Prof. J. E. Boland, who resigned some time ago. This appointment from the second district was first offered to Hon. Jno. C. Sheppard of Edgefield, who declined to serve on account of the vigorous protest of the State superintendent of education, Mr. 0. B. Martin, and Prof. Rice was after wards offered the place. After some consideration he accepted and his commission was forwarded him yesterday. Prof. Rice was a member of the Aiken county board of education and has taught school for a number of years, having a practical knowledge of educational matters.? The State. If taken patiently and persistently will relieve the most obstipate cases of indigestion, constipation, bad blood, bad liver no matter how long standing. That's what Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will do. 35 cents, tea or tablets. H. F. Hoover. V COUNTRY NEW? LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered AH Around the County and Elsewhere. Ehrhardt Etchings. Ehrhardt, October 14.?Cotton came in brisk last week, and found a ready market at good prices?selling at the close of the week at ll|f Rev. J. H. Wilson was in town several days last week. He preached a fine sermon Sunday afternoon at the Ehrhardt Lutheran church to an appreciative congregation. Several went possum hunting last week. They caught two possums and one coon. They say that the first possum they found was up a small tree. They cut it down and a bird dog was the first one to get hold of Mr. Possum, so he took the game and ran off in the dark and so they went to cutting other trees down in search of the possum, and did not find that the dog had the possum until they cut five or six, the dog laughing at them all the while. One of the vrmno- man was out all Sundav. hunt ing coon tracks; says he found where twenty-four coons went into Mr. Geo. Kinard's pindar patch last night. Says he saw where they wTent in and out. Wonder how he counted them? . Dr. J. L. Copeland is trying to work up an interest in the new railroad from Ehrhardt to Denmark by way of Bamberg. He has some success, but nothing like enough to build one mile. Our moneyed men are somewhat afraid that the railroad will be another enterprise like the cotton oil mill at Bamberg years ago, so don't bite at Bamberg town's enterprises much. Dr. J. H. Roberts was called to Allendale last week to see the remains of little Loadholdt Roberts placed in his last resting place. Little Loadholdt is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Roberts. We extend to the bereaved parents our sympathy. Jack Frost was very near us last night; any way he left his card, stat ? J i - A i u : j mg tnat ne wouiu give us a c?aii swn. Death of Mrs. Pricher. Mrs. May Smoak Pricher was borr in Varnviile, December 15,1887, and died October 11, 1907. She was married to Henry Pricher with whom she lived a helpmeet for severa] years, but now she is no more, foi God has called her away to be with him in that mansion above. She was a daughter of Mr. Fred and Mrs. Julia Smoak, of Varnviile, S. C. She leaves a husband, one smal child, a mother, two sisters, and a brother to mourn her departure. "Blessed are the dead that die ir the Lord, yea saith the spirit anc their works shall follow them." The interment took place Satur ' * ? ? *f>i i _ J. il O 1? day, uctODer, iztn at uie omuctiu Cross Roads Baptist church at foui o'clock in the afternoon, in the presence of a large circle of friends The services were conducted by Rev C. E. Walker, of the Ehrhardt cir cuit. Honor Roll Govan High School. In order to obtain a place on th< honor roll, pupils must make ai average of ninety per cent, on al branches of study, must be regula: in attendance, and have perfect de portment. The following pupil merit a place on the honor roll fo: first month, ending October 11th: High School?Misses Lizzie Collins Leda Williams, Nettie Nimmons John Kennedy. Sixth grade?Jessie Zorn, Corrii Kennedy, Letha Collins. Fifth grade?Herman Zorn. Third grade?Julia Kennedy, Cor rie Collins. Gilmore Lancaster. First grade?George Kennedy Curtis Lain, Harry Kennedy, Clyd Kittrell. in i lemunam Tribute to the memory of my be loved wife, Jane S. Counts, who wa taken from me by the decrees o I Providence two years ago to-day the 16th day of October, 1905. Ah most noble woman, thou art gone and I am never to look upon tha face whose lovely smiles so ofte: greeted me, and whose hand neve failed or refused to minister to m sufferings. While you are to-da in the full enjoyment of your rewar I am left alone in this world t breathe out a few more days in lone liness, grief, and mental suffering No more fitting or appropriate word could I use in this little tribute tha the words penned by my life-Ion friend and brother, Dr. Lucius Cuth bert, in his letter of condolence written just after the death of m loved one, and but a few days befor he, too, crossed over the river Jo] dan: "God gave you a true helpmeet i your sainted wife, and God has bee gracious in sparing her to you 1< | these many years, and then, my pooi I broken-hearted brother, it will nc be long before you will meet her i . that land where the inhabitant neve . says I am sick/' T. J. Courts. Bamberg, Oct. 16,1907. FIGHT AT NEGRO FROLIC. ^Vhite Han Shot Thursday Night in Saluda County. Saluda, October 11.?A white man named Hall, hailing from Oconee county, and for some time past working at the saw mill of Mr. Giles Chapman, near Chappells, in this county^ was shot last night at a negro frolic in that community. Three balls took effect, but none of the wounds are thought to be fatal. Drs. IfpWLrepir o n H Woforo off PnHpH VllTTl I IVtl OilU TTUW-&U WVWA?v?vv> and found one wound in the right leg, shattering it, another in the back and a flesh wound in the abdomen. The shooting is said to have been done by a negro named Butler. Our New York Letter. There are 100 women in New York city who spend $35,000 a year for dresses. There are 12,000 that spend $14,000 each, and 6,000 that spe. d $5,000 a piece. The average annual cost of the New York woman's cloth; ing is $295. This is not a lar^e sum, ' but is the figure on which balances the thousands who do not spend $20, and the scores who spend $35,000. ; A dress for the latter costs imore 1 than the entire expenses of the family of the former. As high prices as $9,000 for a sable fur, $70 for a hat, $12 for shoes are ; paid. Many of the women have 25 ; hats a season, a dozen pair shoes, etc. Ball and dinner dresses cost these hisrh livers $700 to $1,200 each, and they have more than one. "Hie reader mukt not picture in the mind that this represents the city as 1 a whole, while the number sounds large, yet there are so many others ; here who exist on the $20 to $500 1 outlay for clothes, the extremists are as single pebbles on the seashore 1 among the sands. An interesting study is the list of "lost and found" articles appearing 1 in the papers daily. In such a mass of people these articles reach thous1 ands daily, owing to the rush and ; bustle of the city as its millions of souls go hither and thither at the i mnin New York cate. One woman ' left on the car a "grip," containing $225,000, yet took care to take with ; her a suit case in which perhaps*was $15 worth of wearing apparel. A man lost one of his shoes, how he failed to miss it causes wonder, but not to the mind of a resident; the i latter knows it is possible Jto lose 1 and not miss even a limb, if painless; 5 so absorbed must be the mmd while i in the great vortex. Thousands car1 ry lunch boxes, these are lost by the hundred. Shows what must be on l one's mind where he forgets his lunch. Eye glasses, walking canes, I umbrellas, love letters, pocket books, , even babies are among the lists at times. I Your correspondent is just back i from a trip up in Connecticut, the State of "Yankee ingenuity," made i famous by the "wooden nutmegs" I that were made and put on the market, palmed oif on the public foi - genuines. Thrift and enterprise are ; visible on every side, flourishing facr tories, beautiful homes, good roads, - fine farms, all going to show the . energy of the populace. Slow going Southern sections (ii - there are any left) would do well tc ride through Connecticut for inspiration. One thing is noticeable, saj what you please of the South's farrr 2 h^pds, they can plow straight rows i the Yankee plow-man is deficient ir 1 this, but he drives the plow at i r faster gate which may account foi - this. s In the North the mule is seldon r seen, the ox never. The superioi intelligence of the horse is the rea , son. In the congested street sec >, tions, the mule would not penetrate wind around, get through as th< 2 horse. Drays are not used, as elsewhere huge trucks carry the enormou; - loads, the writer has counted one o: these carrying 200 barrels at on< 1 3 , loau. e The finest draught and drivinj horses of the world are brought an( seit to New York because of the de mand for such here and the bij prices they bring. | The city's population is made uj * of perhaps 70 per cent "out of town' ? born. To bring a man down fron ? his lofty perch you have only to ge !? him to talk and thinking of his child t hood days; home, mother. Recollec n tions of the past cool the heate( r brow, quiet the raging mind, stil y the rushing limbs, and with the y knowledge of its effect the writer fre ? quently practices this to see the effect 0 it is a weapon to use, a means t< i- reach an end, a wedge that "splits.' > In the Bowery mission, "tne nrs s thing that arrests the eye on enter n ing is a placard, "How long sinc< ? you wrote mother?" All the song l" sung, prayers uttered, sermons de livered, combined do not do the goo< y this placard does. It brings the ma] e to a halt, instantly mellows his hard " ened heart, prepares it in a mor receptive attitude. Take a seat nea n the entrance, watch them as the; nf enter, study them as they read it ) the effect is soul moving and uplift ? ing. H. W. Finlayson. 450 Broadway, New York. n sr New cotton mills are to be erect ed at Rock Hill, and Sitnpsonville Greenville county. OIL MILLS IN TROUBLE. I THEY ARE NO* MAKING ANY MONEY THIS SEASON. < The Price of Seed is Very High and , There Has Been a Slump in the Price of Oil. ] Columbia, Oct. 10.?There were several prominent cotton seed oil ' men in the city for a conference yes- ; terday. They had nothing to give out for publication, but they appeared to be worried. The price of seed 1 M il _ - -1 is advancing wnne mere is a siump in oil. "I could not run my mill," said i one well known manufacturer from the eastern part of the State, "if it were not for the fact that I had sold oil in advance. I had a contract for 45 cents and oil has gone to 37 cents. Otherwise I would lose $2 on every ton of seed crushed. "The oil mills are in a serious predicament. They can't stop work, for that means ruin. The machinery would go to pieces and the labor would become demoralized. Labor is costing us from 10 to 20 per cent more. We can't quit buying seed, AM* 1m1 *ta?o tit/miW Ko^nmo His. I 1U1 UUi UU jrcio nvuiu wvw<uv gnsted and quit. And we can't exist on the present prices. I know some mills which are losing $3 to $5 on every ton of seed manufactured. "Some people think the oil mill businecs is a bonanza. I assure you it is not. Some small mills have been known to clear in one year a profit nearly equivalent to the entire capitalization. But there must be conditions favorable to such success. Such conditions do not exist today. Unless the price of oil should advance I do not know what will become of us." Negro Shot by Sumter Man. Sumter, Oct. 13.?Richard Goodman, colored, was shot twice yesterday afternoon by Lawrence Wogaman, a white painter,/>ne ball passing through the negro's wrist and another striking him in the mouth. It was thought last night that the negro would probably die but he is 1 ?" ?Ji-i. , getting aiong wen, wicu uu inunctions of fatal results. It appears that Goodman pulled Mr. Lawrence Wogaman's father off of his wheel while he was riding through an alley off Hampton avenue and was beating him and had cut old man Wogaman in the neck with a knife when young Wogaman came up and fired upon the negro. It is said that Goodman had had several rows before the shooting occurred, and was in a drunken and quarrelsome state, although it is said that , ordinarily he is a quiet fellow. It is said that old man Wogaman had done nothing to precipitate a difficulty with Goodman. Lawrence Wogaman has been placed in jail. Prof. Hand's Visit. Prof. W. H. Hand, of the South s Carolina University, made an official visit to the Bamberg graded school , Tuesday. He came as the represen! tative of the State board of education looking into conditions and needs : of the high schools established under > the high school act. He came unan* nounced, but his visit was the more r appreciated by teachers and pupils, i He spent the entire day visiting each . room in this department. It is i hoped that as a result of his report l the State board will increase the al* lowance made to this school. In a private conversation with the editor, 1 Prof. Hand said he hoped the school * here would get an additional ap propriation. He went to Denmark - yesterday to visit the school there. 9 j Pastor's Conference. The regular monthly meeting of > the pastor's conference of the Barn3 well Baptist association met at the * Baptist church here Tuesday. This - being the last meeting before the association convenes, a general surj vey of the field was taken, which ' shows a general growth of the work, * especially in missions. Rev. G. W. r Garner, pastor of the Barnwell church, delivered a most instructive J and inspiring address on "Home Missions" at 8 p. m. At the close of 1 this service the B. Y. P. U. gave an t offering of $10 to home missions. Wants to Exhibit Deformed Child. ! Columbia, Oct 9.?Z. W. Walker, a a Kershaw county farmer living near I Camden, is here trying to make ar. rangements to exhibit during fair 3 week a queer human freak of nature, * the subject being his own 16-year. nlrl rlancrhtpr. ? ? "She is 16 years old, well develope ed, well formed, of good sight and s good hearing, but sha has never suckled, never talked, never walked, 3 never sat alone and never chewed a q mouthful of food. Raised her on . liquids," said he, speiling off her ace complishments and wonders. Mr. r Walker said he spent all his possesy sions raising the child and is now try; ing to make a living by. exhibiting jl her. The only true constipation cure must begin its soothing, healing action when it enters the mouth. HoOister's Rocky Mountain Tea restores the whole sys t tern to a healty, normal condition. 35 cents, tea or tablets. H. F. Hoover. NEGRO FOUND SHOT DEAD. ?????? t Body on Railroad Track at Barnwell. Alleged Gambler Arrested. Barnwell, October 13.?Considerable excitement prevailed here today. Messrs. Emmett Goodson and Eddie Harrison, while strolling' up the Coast Line Railroad this morning found a dead negro named Robt. Wilson lying on the side of the tyack. They immediately notified the coroner, who proceeded at once to investigate the case. n t n. j_x J ? jjr. Cj. Li. ,rati?rsuii uutuc uic autopsy, and found that the negro came to his death by a pistol shot, the ball entering the head on left side half an inch in front of the ear and penetrating the brain. It was developed that a large number of negroes were on the railroad just about one hundred yards west " of the trestle over Turkey Creek gambling. ,';fm Sheriff F. H. Creech has under arrest the following: Israel Burrows, Sam Brown, Mose Templeton, Dave Strong, Landrid Felder, Hunter . Daniels, Tom White, Arthur Wilson, Amos Allen, Watson Fickling and Wflitps The coroner's court is now in session^ and will continue most of the Bills are Issued. The attorney general has notified former State Treasurers Bates and | Timmerman that Ke looks to them for immediate payment of the amounts for which they are liable on the bonds purloined by Bond Clerk Zimmerman during their administrations. The amount for which ** ** i- li-Ll. *1 AAA . ' ur. Jtsates is name is wivu $517.50 accrued interest. That assessed against Dr. Timmerman is $10,000 with $4,218.75 accrued interest, the incumbent treasurer, is lia- . , ble for $1,000, with $292.55 accrued interest, but has signed his intention of paying up immediately, without legal process. Each treasurer is under a bond of $90,000* which holds good for twenty years. About the Herald. This newspaper does not like to bloifr its own horn, but we want to let the people of Bamberg know M that out-of-town patrons appreciate a well-printed, attractive paper, with p the advertisements set up in good * style. There is no question but that a good newspaper helps a town as much or more than any other one . agency, and we are not displaying a vulgar egotism when we say that The Herald would reflect credit on a much larger city than Bamberg. We have had numbers of advertisers outside of town to compli -i. 4-U w r\e\ f rvo rv/i>? nTQ arot IQCIll US UU uic um payv/x tt v gw out and the attractive manner in which their ads. were displayed, and we publish in another column an ex- ^ tract from a letter received last week, It is the same with our job work customers. Time after tune have they written us letters saying: how well pleased they were with the . ^ work we send out. Of course we charge a little more than some print- ' ing houses, but the work we do is worth it, for we take pains with every job and use good paper. But* ^ we don't charge more than the work is worth. We are not getting rich. as some people seem to think. We manage to pay our debts by working ||j very hard, watching expenditures - 'M closely, and living within our income ?things every business man ought to do and must do if he- would be successful. We only mention these things because some people in Bamberg seem I not to appreciate our work, and we jwant to let them know that other j people do. Death of Mrs. n. B. Jones. Mrs. Fannie Varn Jones, wife of ' Mr. Marvin B. Jones, died at the home of her mother, Mrs. M. B. Varn, in this city Sunday morning - about one o'clock, after an illness of . only a few days. She was twentyfour years old. The interment took place Sunday afternoon at South-end cemetery, Rev. Peter Stokes, pastor of the Methodist church, conducting the services. The pall bearers were Messrs. C. W. Rentz, J. A. Murdaugh, C. A. Dean, Jas. Mitchell, Norman Kirsch, and R. M. Bruce. Mrs. Jones was a daughter of the late M. B. Varn, and had a large circle of warm friends by whom she will be sadly missed. About two years ago she was married to Mr. M. B. Jones, and she is survived by her husband, her mother, and two brothers. She was a young woman of fine character, and she leaves a place vacant in the home which cannot be filled. She was a consistent and faithful member of the Methodist church. Appreciative Advertiser. We take the liberty of publishing the following extract from a letter received from an out-of-town advertiser: "We received the issue of your paper showing our ad. yesterday. We think the ad. very attractively set up, and wish to express our appreciation. If you continue to set ads. up in this manner, we see no reason why your paper should not become one of the first, if not the first, county paper of South Carolina."