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|"C * kB I ADM! TH I This Pic PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. j ?Miss Franke Folk spent last r\veek in Charleston. ?Dr. J. J. Cleckley spent a few days last week at Durham, N. C. ?Miss Nell Brown, of Anderson J visited Mrs. J. J. Cleckley last week, j ' ?Dr. H. J. Stuckey spent a few: days this week in Bishopville visiting relatives. j ?Mrs. C. W. Rentz, Jr., of Black-1 ville, is spending this week in the city with relatives. ?Miss Mattie Culler, of Aiken,! spent a few days last week in the city i with Mrs. C. J. S. Brooker. I ?Miss Annie K. Butler, of Atlanta, milliner for LaVerne Thomas & Co., arrived in the city Sunday. ?Mr. A. Rice is spending a fewdays in Baltimore buying spring and summer merchandise, editions on. ?Mrs. John R. Ray and daughters motored to Olar Sunday to attend the McCormick-ftay wedding.?Barnwell Sentinel. ?Mrs. L. C. Rice, of Denmark, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. W. Gilmore Simms, this week.?Barnwell Sentinel. ?Miss Estelle Rutledge. of Atlanta, milliner for Hooton's Ladies Store and Millinery Parlor, arrived in the city Sunday. ?Mrs. C. J. Field and children returned to the city Tuesday from High ' . Point, N. C., where they spent a fewdays with relatives. ?Messrs. Frank Folk, R. T. Fairey, and J. J. Heard, of Bamberg, were in the city Sunday.?Walteiboro Press and Standard. ?Mr. J. J. Roach, district manager of the Southern Bell Telephone company, of Aiken, spent a few days in the city last week on business. ?Mrs. Lizzie Wright, of Bamberg, is spending a few days with her son. ' Mr. H. A. Wright, on Lovell street.? Orangeburg Times and Democrat. ?W. D. Bennett, Esq., of Ehrhaidt. acompanied by his son. Rob ert, passed through Walterboro today en route to Charleston, where Mr. Bennett will take treatment at Baker's sanitarium. Mr. Bennett has been there for several weeks and feels much improved by his treatment.?Walterboro Press and Standard. MAF Whether 44Greatest of all. Bigger t "A sensation"?Louis De F /'Stupendous and Wonderfr <4T?rmol fp flip "RlVth f>f a AJVjUUJL t V ** vaa ? * "Abounding in pictures of n * Ard?t remarkable picture ( "A mighty Spectacle"?Bu PERFO ISSION: Adults, 50< [I EL ture is in Guaranteed Co ?Mr. C. J. Field returned Tues- ^ day from Washington, where he at- j tended the inaugural ceremonies. ?Mrs. Ralph Goolsby and chil-.* dren, of Denmark, are spending a * few days with her mother, Mrs. T.j < E. Stokes.?Orangeburg Times and j i Democrat. I < ?Miss Alma' Ackerman, assistant j . milliner for Hooton's Ladies Store j and Millinery Parlor, after spending: some time in Atlanta, returned to the * city Sunday. i ?Messrs. Jones A. Williams anu, i A. W. Knight and Colonel W. A. j 4 Klauber left for Washington Satur-; i day. night to attend the inaugural j ceremonies Monday. j ?Mrs. Annie G. Hays returned j Sunday night from Pensacola, Mo- 4 | bile, and New Orleans, where she < | viewed Mardi Gras, in company with 4 ; Miss Hays, of Bamberg, S. C. Mrs. ^ | Hays on the return trip accompanied ! Miss Hays as far as Jacksonville.; | Mrs. Hays enjoyed the trip very,4 j much.?Appalachicola (Fla.) News. < That Settled It. < Commissioner Dillon, apropos of ; his success in the New York milk 4 strike, said to a reporter: < "The trust had dictated to the < farmers so long it thought it could , I dictate to them forever. But the ^ ! farmers got together, and from then ! on they took the initiative as completely as the lady in the story. "One club man said to another, pointing with a shocked look from the club window toward a lady in an , ultra-modish skirt: " T thought you said, George, that ; you'd never consent to let your wife j wear one of those outrageous gar- i ' ments?' !; i "'Yes, so 1 did,' George replied,: ('but my wife overheard me.'"?i | Washington Star. QUA RT-A-MOXTH ACT. ' i How It Will He Affected by Propose*! j Federal Law. Columbia, Feb. 28.?The "quart-a-! | month" law, which will be effectivei in this State April 2."?, is exciting ai [good deal of interest in South Caro-j ; lina, and letters which are coming j i into Governor Manning show that i ; some who at first were opposed to I : the law think that, in the light of the | i ' bone dry" amendment to the post-: j office appropriation bill by congress,! i it would have been worse, from onej ! standpoint, if the legislature had not enacted the quart-a-month law. If! the old "gallon-a-month" stands! lCH9tl You Want lian tl/e Birth of a Nation 'oe, in New York World, il"?New York Tribune, ition"?New York Telegrap] larvelous beautv"?New Yor )f war that the screen has sh rns -Mantle, N. Y. Evening ] RMANCES 4 I c; Children, 25c. EN mdition and Will Come * &. ?TI J" 1 lie f Hartford Fire I f ? Came Back t f " t 11 Am Prepared to W t T T ? Do you believe i f NESS and RECU V* I can protect yov you want my pa % SWAP" | In A V3? ITAVJT V/ JL when the proposed federal law goes j into effect this State will be absolutely "bone dry." As it is the j quart-a-month" law will stand, in the view of authorities, because it is tor medicinal purposes, thus coming j in the federal law. There is not a very good under- j standing of just what the proposed, federal law allows in the way of im-l portations of whiskey and wine tor j medicinal, sacramental, scientific! purposes but it is believed here that; the South Carolina statute will not) be disturbed by the proposed federal i act. The quart of whiskey allowed! for medicinal purposes strictly, and1 only males over 21 years of age and women who are heads of families are permitted to get the quart after they go before the judge of probate and make affidavit that they need it for medicinal purposes, and obtain a permit on payment of a fee of ten cents. It is known that the "quart-amonth" did not meet the ideas of the governor for in his message to the general assembly he favored reduction of the amount of whiskey, and wanted some beer and light wines. The medicinal attribution was not his i AND : War or P< y a i -N. Y. Evening Journal. 1. k Sun. own"?Chas. Darton, New "S Jail. 4 >. M. AND 7:3< fo extra charge for F THI to Bamberg Direct Froi Old t X nsurance Co." I 0 Me Again Y . X rite Your Insurance i ? n PREPARED- % .'ROCITY, if so f 1 from fire, and V tronage, "LET'S % v 1 X )irkinsnn I *i idea but was born in the committee of free conference between the senate and house, which were trying to reconcile the bone dry sentiment of the house and the quart-a-month prescription bill of the senate. The main features of the new act in the opinion of the governor over the gallon-a-month are in the strengthening of the measures for its enforcement. The limiting to the heads of families will do away with the negro women nuisance of getting whiskey, l'oi so great had become this complaint that the negro ministers of Columbia had petitioned the city ; pnnnrii tr? take snme steus to remedy j the situation. It is felt that under the new law I it will he almost impossible for blind i tigers to get much if any whiskey. Under the old gallon-a-month statute I the tigers could rent" names and I get a good stock of lio,uor and one ; of the complaints in Columbia was i that this was what was done in many ! instances. Under the new law it is believed that the "renting" of names i i wilhbe almost if not quite eliminated. I for it will be easier for the officers of i the law to check up the records. 10th I eace?bee 1 ION" An rork Evening World. ra / K ) P. M. I Reserved Seats now on sale 9 ATREI mm in the Ideal Theatre in Columbia I RK^Hw 8)iiMHBM^lBMBBEBBIWBWtt^8MBMH^s^^^W!!BiB^M^^^B I This man put his money * ii\to a . ^JIKet- rich-quick lp Scheme. > co let you^^ f ^ I the "ground floor" of some proposition look out! if you I don't you will be biting at a "Get-Rich-Ouick" Scheme B which will "mop up," in a short while, all of the money E it has taken you a lifetime to get together and then fl where will you be? B Feel free to come in and ask us to about any business proposition, either from afar or a home, whether you are yet banking with us or not. What we tell you will be CONFIDENTIAL. There are too many swindling schemes going around. We are "wise" to them. Put YOUR money in OUR bank We pay 4 percent interest on savings accounts. Peoples Bank Of course, there is widespreadj encouraged to seek changes to that sentiment in South Carolina for ab-.end. solute, iron-clad, hone dry pronibi-j Governor Manning has been given tion and undoubtedly if the present1 a fund of $50,000 with which to enquart-a-month act does not almost force the prohibition laws and if the bring this to pass the legislature at local county authorities are unable or its session in 101$ will very probably; neglect to enforce the laws the gov enact a "bone dry" act. On the other ernor can send in constables to eaten hand if there is too great a reaction, the violators. The law enforcement against such stringent legislation and fund is not limited to the mere enit does the cause of temperance harm forcement of the prohibition laws, those who want an allowance of lightj but is for all laws, a point which is of wines and beer for beverages will be I more than passing significance. 1