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Cbt $rtss anil ^tanbarb TWENTY-NINTH year. W. w. SMOAK, JR. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. -TERMS— -41.00 80c AUfAYS IIAOVAICE. Pvbllahed erery WcdaeMUy. at Walterboro, S. C. Eatrred f>t the Walterboro, B. C., Poetofflce m aecond-claae matter March ,t 1879, under Act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY. FEB. 10. 1909. Here will The Frees and Standard the people's rights maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain. T Mr Farmer, mix a little brains with your fertilizer this year. Plant plenty of grain. Now is a Rood time to sow oats in that cotton patch. Does Senator Griffin mean that one cannot eat the "head and ears" Mil last? < A new fence around the Metho dist church would add greatly to the appearance of this church. The work done by the Legislature ao far reminds one of what has been done by our Civic League. They have met and met. We commend the bill of Senator Griffin to sell the Confederate home in Columbia and add the proceeds to the 1909 pensions. It ought to pass. Mr Com mins says that we want •ne of the Agricultural High Schools and not reasons why we cannot> get •ne. That’s it. Take notice, Mr Legislator. To Senator Griffin: Suppose the market man has a call for the head •f a hog, for instance, before he aells any of the other meat, can he aell? Our idea of having one policeman in the day one at night has met with favorable comment. It occurs to us it is the only business like thing for Coimcil to do, and we urge the pas sage of such an ordinance. C. M. Galloway news editor of the Columbia State has received the ap- pointment as private Secretary to Senator Smith, Mr Galloway is a young man of energy, poise and ability and will make a good secre tary to our Senator. We congratu late both. The present school building in jures business in Walterboro. Peo ple like to come to and trade with a live town, and a live town would not put up with this building. This ..is an unpleasant truth, Mr Business Man and what are you going to do about it? Hendersonville, School District has voted unanimously for a High school. Williams has gotten $300. this year; New Hope carried the election but for lack of a building could not use it this term but will next. Walterboro’" could have it also by turning over a hand. Now Is the time. Hendersonville is alive educatian- ally. Prof Farrow says the next move is to combine several districts together m a High School district and then Hendersonville district will vote bonds for a High School build ing. The Trustees and Prof Farrow are hustlers. Other sections of the county would do well to sit up and taka notice.. ’ j > * . , « MUST BUY THE HOME PAPER. . A aoovt or aMce of yatmg giria at Boavenrille, lad., have formed a league to'f)r.*mote refinement among young men and. among other things, have resolved to marry no man who drinks, smokes or chews and who does not take the home paper. Drinking is considered the chief evil smoking and chewing come next, while the young women assert that when a man does not take the home paper it is evidence of a want of in telligence and that he will prove too stingy to provide for a family, educate his children and encourage institutions of learning in the com munity.—American Press. We desirelo commend The Com moner, William Jennings Bryan’s paper, to our readers. We are of- fering it now in a club wit!) The Press and Standard for $1.50 per year. It is worth it and no $1.50 you spend this year will pay you bet ter. Mr Farmer, subscribe to a good agricultural paper. You can get the Southern Cultivator and this paper one year for $1.50; Progress ive Farmer $1.35; Home and Farpn $1.35. Any of these will be good. Take one or more of your trade papers and read it or them. As will be seen elsewhere in this issue, Senator Griffin has introduced a bill to make a change in the ap pointment of the dispensary board of Colleton county. We do not know the provisions of this bill, but we think the present plan a very good one. that is to allow the mayors, the delegation and ttie school board .1 + each to elect a member of the county dispensary board. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? The old bell at the Academy (?) has rotted from its moorings and, falling, been broken to pieces; the rear stairway has been condemned as too dangerous to allow any of the pupils to use it; the windows and doors are broken and shattered; the ceiling cracked and falling; the desks tottering and broken; soap boxes have to be brought by the children in order that they may have seats; and this in the county seat of Col leton county—the largest county in the State! The above are some of the physi cal defects in our apology for a Temple of Learning. In addition to these defects and they are serious oaes there are some more tar-reach ing and disastrous in a moral and mental way. There is no one these days who for an instant doubts the effect of environment on the de velopment of mind and character. That these two hundred pupils at tending the Walterboro Graded school will take away from their associations with this unsightly and uncomfortable makeshipt is too true. What kind of men will be sent forth U compete in business and professional life with those trained with better surroundings? Will their minds be developed sym metrically and orderly? Will their characters be spotted? And how about the future of the girls in traMfing here? Can beauty of thought and purity of soul be in culcated in this dirty and dilapidated shack? We fear the consequences of these psychological laws which in their workings are as sure as fate. Yet Walterboro parents seem in different to this condition of affairs, If this school were located at Island- ton, Youngs Island, Ashton or some remote place in the county Walter boro parents would be excusable for such indifference, but when it is tbeir children going to school in THEIR town, it becomes a personal matter to each one of them, and thus personal in its responsibility. Who is responsible for this failure —this lack of effort to secure a bet ter building and thus build up an in terest in education in Walterboro and Colleton county? Is it the news papers? We think not for they have done all they could to arouse It- terestaad action. Is it the teachers? To the Cotton Grower# of Colleton County: I have received an order from an Exporter for 150 bales of good middling cotton and 75 bales of the lower grades. This man needs the cotton to fill a contract *and he needs it badly. He has made me a liberal offer if I can furnish the goods. n To all who have cotton to sell now I offer top notch prices until the above contract is filled. Yours truly, 11. It. SHAFFER, COTTON BUYER. Prof Betty worked faithfully a year ago to secure signatures to a peti tion to bond the town for a school building. The teachers are all in favor of it. Is it the Town Council? We think not, though there are those who say the present Council has thrown a damper on the recent movement for bonding the town by certain*remarks anent the license system. Is it the Trustees, or the patrons? We would say, both. The Trustees have all.shown themselves willing to aid in the movement by signing the petition but there they stopped. They have not taken hold of the matter and pushed it as men who are at the head of our eduac- tional interests should have done _or should do.- They should be aggres sive leaders in this movement, never ceasing till this labors result in a new school. To them the people look for leadership, and rightly so. The patrons are likewise responsi ble for conditions being as they are. They have not urged the Trustees by word or deed to move in this matter. They have shown utter in difference to the needs of their children, and have not shown an interest in their present comfort or future welfare. All power rests ultimately w’ith the people, so we suppose we shall be forced to con clude that the patrons are responsi ble for the present tumble-down school house. Now, Trustees and Patrons, what are you going to do about it? Your children are suffering now and will suffer laterr 7 The responaibility will rest with you, and there are other responsibilities we would rather shoulder than this. The remedy is within reach. It is as easy to have a new school building to open 1 next session in as to have the present one. It will have to come through a bond issue. There is no other way. So the thing to do is to get busy and get the new building. The petition has a number of names already on it, the others can come easily. Will you get them? The people trusted you enough to elect you Trustees. Are you worthy the trust? Your answer must lie jn your actions. What will you do, Mr Chairman? Mr Trustee? Mr Patron? MAKES WORK EASIER. WALTERBORO PEOPLE ARE PLEASED TO LEARN NOW IT I DONE. It’s pretty hard to attend to duties With s constantly aching back; With annoying urinary disordera Doan’s Kidney Pills make work easier. They cure tackacbe. They cure kidney ilia Mrs Thomas Groves, Cotton Mill District, Walterboro, 8. C. says; “For several months I suffered al most constantly from dull backaches, accompanied by pains through my loina 1 was hardly able to get aronnd to do my work and at times would have to lie down. I could cot rest well at night and felt tired and listless in the morning. Doan’s Kid ney Pills which I procured from the Walterboro Drug Co. banished the backaches, strengthened my kidneys and improved my health.’’ For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents Fester-Milburn Co, Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name- -Doan’s—■' and take no other NOTICE. The appropriation, for the different echcoi diairict. will be the pame aa for laat aeasion. T:nateea will pieaae take notice and govern tbemaelvee ac cordingly, H W Black, Sr. Co. Sapt. of Education. Walterboro, Feb. 2,1909. 2 3 3t Master’s Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Colleton County, In the Common Pleas. P W Risber, et ai vs. Ruth Kis her. By virtue of the Decree of above court herein, I will sell at public outcry before the courthouse in Wal terboro, on saleeday in March next. (1909) within the legal hours of sale, the following described Realty: All that tract of land situate in the county and State aforesaid, con taining eight hundred (800) acres, more or less, and bounded, noitb by lands of P W Risber, known as Shephard tract; east oy lands for merly of Peter Rents, Handy Hen derson, and Mauldio; south by lands of Mauldin, and w«st by lands fdr- merly of R D George. Terms of sale—One half cash, balance in oae year, secured by bond and mortgage of the property surf, bearing interest at 8 per cent per annum from day of sale, with option to purchaser of paying all cash. Purchaser .to pay for papers. G G HENDERSON, NOTICE. 'the trustcaa of .chool diatric'.a will pieaae take notice that the law pr> videa that the teacher, ahall make an annual report the laat month of .chool which ahatl accompany the laat •chool claim for aalary. No claim ahonld be approved by the traatee. uo- lea. v .och report aocompaniea. This ia neceaaary in order that the en rollment for next aeaaion may be re viaed. H W Black. Sr, Oo. Bnpt. of kldocalion. Walterboro, Feb. 2,1909. 2 3 3t. NOTICE A meeting ot the patrons and all per sona holding property in Hendersonville School dlatiict, has been ordered by board of tmitees of said school die rici, to meet at M. B. Marvin’s store Friday February 27th 1909, at ten oclock, A. M. for the purpose of fixing the school levy for next year of said district G. E. H. Moore, Secre'arv. Hendersonville, ' ^ 2 e 09 NOTICE. On and after this day we will pay one dollar per hondred weight J for cotton seed, equal to twenty dollars per ton delivered at our mill and ex change fifteen sacks meal for one ton teed, and fonr tons halle for one ton seed. Halls will be eold five dollars per ton. Mwii at twenty-five dollars per ton, atrickly cash. Walterboro Cotton Oil Oo. Walterboro, Feb 1. 1909. 2 3 4t ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE. Oo the 19rh of February, 1909 1 will make my final return aa administrator of theeataie of C W Bennett and im mediately thereafter will apply to Pro bate Judge for my Letters DismUsory as said administrator B R B ‘nnetf. Administrator. Jan. 19,1959 Heavy, impure blood mike, a muddy, pimply oomph lion, headaches? nanaea, indigestion. Ttiu biood make. yon weak, pale, sickly. Burdock Blood Bit ters make* the blood rtch, red, pore— r> stores pern cl health. Unity Lodge No. 55, A F M holds its regular oommwn tea Lions Uh Fridgy in each month at 8.00 o’eloo, p tn. All visiting Brethren are cordially invited, to attend. P.M. BUCKNER, W. M. N. G. MORRILL, gec’y February 8,1909. Master. Rtvolis At Cold Btem- “Yoor onlv hope,*' ask! three doctors to Mrs a E Fisher, Detroit, Mich sal fertag Irons severs rectal trouble, lisa la aw operaitoa," “ihea I asad Dr Ktaw’s New Lite mils.” ahu writes. ' tiU wholly car el" They preveat Appaa Bcith, oars Uoasnpsiloa. Headache JMo at Jao AFE3SL0F OUR SPECIALS: Thornhill Single and Double Wagons. Rock Hill Buggies. % <?* Keen Kntter Tools Oliver Plows-one and two Horse; Chattanooga Plow's, Alaska Ranges Harness, Saddles, etc. Wire Fencing—Car Load Just In. ANYTHING IN HARDWARE. A. Wichman & Son THE LEADING HARDWARE STORE. I REDUCTION SALE FOR MONTH OF JANUARY. O Children’s Stockings were 10c and 12 1-2C now 8c. Ladies- Kid Gloves were $1.00, now 90c. All winter stock in Dress Goods and Millinery •a. . . /I—"'"' greatly reduced during January. * « w kk * ft ft ft s ft ft MRS. W. A. BLACK» Pine Millinery. Walterboro, S. <2. i nnna a— I 0ABBAOB PLANTS I am the cabbage plant man. Have h^td several years experience in the plant business at Green Pond. I know ^the kind to plant for gardening and have them at usual prices. Send me your orders. Lots of ’oooat $1.25. Special prices on larger lots. Shipped C. O. D. G. S. ARNETT. GREEN POND. . : : S. C. 101 raid wi or 1 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, IN BANKRUPTCY. IN THE MATTER OF B L JONES, BANKRUPT. To the creditor# of K. L Jonee, of ▲ehton In the oonnty of Colleton, nod dietrlct nf or Meld, a bankrupt. Notice te hereby given that n n the 4th day of February A. D. 1909 the aaid B. L. Jonee was duly adjudicated bank rapt; and that the Ant meeting of l-u oreditora wiM be held at Walierbor. .m the 13rd day of February 1909, at It o’clock M. at which time the aaid credi tor* may attend, prove their claim - .am po'at a traatee, examine the b« u< up', ami taaaarct each oi««r buMeee* hs ui.»y properly oome before mid meeu « H'lidera Gtuwee. Referee la Ba* hrwi.tcy. Yaumaaee, February 8 th, 1900 ^ ■p*v*»* ■ ateP hHBMM ■sop T THE REAL NATIONAL ISSUE The last time I was at home my little boy stood by me to say with a laugh, “Papa, Pm almost a man. ” For a moment J was almost as happy as he in the thought, ani then this cloud came: Ev-tv inch he growe taller, every day he grows older, brings ne irer the time when lie will go out < ii the streets of a city th it ot..-na more school* to mak* hHTi i devil than it does to make bin. a man.—Jno B Finch. Boon* Of Lon* Lite. A Fr- .i h i r*t. r loaf Ufa. His h < t>-> blood. Bat long •>f A ’ • >io*iu had proved Blactrio Bii- jrokmg* Ufa sad maha* It worth It pariflaa.oatiehos sad vttal- iz-« tha Mood, rebuilds araeied aarv* ‘ • iis. impart* Ilf* and tom* to th* aa- • traeymaa*. Its a gedsaad to »ick aad debilitated paopla. traable had btightediay ■oath*,” write* W " Ooahlag, M*., "Bat sand aw aottnly.” Oaly 88a, at Jam ■5