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I I - ^ Jl Crocketville Annual Picnic Wednesday, August 11, ’09 Everybody are cordially invited to at end the 261b Annual Crocketville Picnic on above date. Come and l rng your baskets. Don’t forget the date. ^ Dancing in the day and the uslial Ball at night. Musfc'by first class band. Speaking by Prominent Speakers. The H. & B. R. R. Co. will run special trains. Regular Tare will be charged. COMMITTEE: P. H. Gooding, T. H. Tuten, L. B. Tuten, H. W. Lightsey t J. J. Bowers, J. J. Keerse, L. E. Rivers, L. G. Blocker, C. S. Blocker, W. Fred Lightsey, P. E. Terry, W. E. Thomas. SPREAD OF THE RURAL TELE LECTURE BY REV. L. M. HIERS. * PHONE MOVEMENT. ' - ' ■ Kveryone is familiar with the rural , telephone. Almost a!! know that it is a comparatively recent -develop ment of v hfe in the country ami that the movement for communication amontf farms ami for better connec tions between rural and city distrets has.increased wonderfully within the past few years. Yet to those who o are itjnorant of the real statistics the figures of the latest telephone census are nothing short of startling. For instance, take the statement of the census that in the period from 1902 to 15# 17 the number of T it* following lecture was deliver- ed by Uev Luther M. Hiers, at the ose of a Iffjitlays meeting held at ^ Evergreen.-which closed last Tue>- ‘‘ day night. Fhere are two sides to the ques tion temperance and intemperance, and there are two classes of men with which to .lea! when dealing with this question. You hear a great deal about men “standing on the fence,” but this common expres- j sion is deceptive, for there are no 1 men "on the fence,” but every man \ occupies one side or the other, and 1 when you soe a man w hom you be- I lieve to l»e "on ;he fence,” it i^ only rural telephone stations in tke entire t u ..u 1 ^ a man who hasm>t the moral courage I After All, It’s the Oven which determines the quality of /he range. The oven in a Prin cess Range is one of its strongest and most distinctive features. It is of exclusive and patented de sign. and mechanically superior to all others. The bottom is seamed to prevent warping; the side next to the tire box is lined with heavy as bestos and protected against burn ing out by an extra steel plate. The heat is evenly distributed to bake well in every jiart, and the interior is carefully aluminized, making it light, bright, and cleanly. Princess Ranges sell on merit. They embody all the desirable good points of other ranges and possess five exclusive and excelling patented features of their own. Their patented fire-box con struction guarantees better results with less fuel consumption than any other range on the market. If you investigate a Princess first, you’ll buy no other! country increased 449 i*er cent. Peo ple are used to calculating percent age, w hether for interest or business profit purposes, at four, five or six per-cent.-Seldom any more. A man who says he can get 449 per cent.' out of an investment w ill be regard ed with suspicion. There w’as a man in New York City just a few years ago who advertised a speculative scheme which he guaranteed would bring in an income of r>2t) |>er cent. They called him ".')2b-per-cent. Mil ler.” and he was sent away for swindling. Rut it is an actual fact that whereas in 15*02 there were but 2*W,5#W rural ‘phone stations in the UnitedJStates, five years later there were 1,464,773. The census figures show that the South had a great share in this de velopment. The increase in the South Atlantic States was 4<i9 j>tr ... . . , f *r ttu cent, and in the N.yth Central]. , ju>t th States it]was 367 per cent. The ae-, tual figures, however, mean more; than percentage, and show how the j movement spread through each one of the'states. Relow is a table show ing the total number of rural telephone stations in each southern sta f e in l!»o2 and on December 31st, 15*07, the latest date for w hich figures are available. to declare his p sit on. There is r o trouble in deciding this question. If you are in doubt as to which side is right just slip up to Cod and whisper in his ear; “Dear Father, on which side of the question do you stand?” Or look to Jesus on the cross and ask Him where He stands. Ask all the good women of Colleton county where they stand-all the mothers and w ives and all the hungry children where they stand, and with them you may take your stand and 1 fetj confident that you are right. Another plan for you to-solve the question ft to find out who is run ning the di^perjsary end what they a 1 **' running it for.** Is it helping our * young men to become letter citizc ns. 1 Is it helping your daughters to .-e- i ; cure better husbands and your sons better w ives? If >o then ‘Oand firm ' dispensary, but if it is doing j reverse to this, then vou do OUR NEW HOME We have always been striving to make the buying of Men’s and Boy’s Clothing and Furnishing Goods just as convenient as it is possible to make it, and in the con struction of our “Concrete Block” building, we think we have accom plished that purpose. We have greatly increased our space, light, ventilation, and added °ther modern features necessary ^ for a better and more convenient way of displaying Clothing and Furnishing Goods for Mankind. In short, we now have the most up-to- date Clothing Store in Colleton Comity State Maryland Virginia West Virginia North Carolina Georgia *'1* Florida! 2h3 Total. South Atlan tic States 11,2»!8 Kentucky 2,15*7 Tennessee 1,902 Alabama 25*1 Mississippi. 041 Louisiana 132 Arkansas 155* Oklahoma 27ft Texas 12,177 19ft' AN ENJOYABLE DANCE. To the yoong men of the town be longs the distinction of having j^iven one of the most enjoyable informal dances of the season at the Y. M, C. A. building last Friday evening, July 23rd. This dance was given in honor of the visiting young ladies of the town, judging from the way the couples tnerrily glided over the floor, everyone seemed to enjoy it to the utmost. Those present were Sanders, Helen Lucas, Emmte Stro- hel, Helen Cohen, Lillian Fanner, Dollye Price, Carrie Powell, Louise Lowry. Lucy Williams, Edith Lucas, and Hattie vonLehe. Messrs. .Bennie Sanders. C. H. Fraser, Fuller Fripp, W. G p Hyrne, Harold Fripp. Paul Baxley, D. B. Peurifoy, Vernon Padgett, M. G. Gruber, A. S. Karesh, H, W. Anderson. andJ. H. Crosby. ^ ASKS YOUR HELP. To whom it may concern: I. James P. Graves, am soliciting assistance to enable me to take treat ment at a hospital, and the doctor advises me to go to a hospital. - I am now in my sixty-eighth year, and 1 united with the Methodist church in 1&59, and have always, since then, endeavored to live a con sistent Christian life and treat my fellowmen right. I served three years in the Con- Arline I federate War. and I am now an in- mi vilid. 1 was bom in Hendersonville in same County, and everybody either knows me or knows of me, and I do not think they can say any harm of me, only that I have been a cnople. I have a little boy working in the Cotton Mill. He is fifteen yean old, and cannot more than support him self. I am an invalid and cannot help myself only with one hand. Atoaiting the call of the Lord,'for I am ready at any tune, and I ask your help in God’s name. the reverse and bring all your pow ers, in church and in state, to bear agairst this awful degenerating crime-breeding evil. "Whatsoever a man sow.th that shall he a!>o reap.” This is us true j today as if it had fallen from the lips of God on ini-s morning s >u w. We are all scattering seed of some kind: Every step we take throws seed of some kind about us (good or 5.073 bad.) It is impossible for one to 15,155 think, speak or act without scatter- • >4 234 ; idg some kind of seed, hut what 1 kind is it? And then you have noted '■ | that sued sown produces, not only a like crop but it miltiplies many 1,7S5 • times, so that the kind of seed we l sow becomes of the greatest im- ^ portance. Sow whiskey and reap drunkards, and the next crop of ft..b*9 drunkards will produce a larger 13,051 crop, and so the world rocks on to 10,063 ruin, to sin, and to Hell. 5 415* Some men say that prohibition does not prohibit but that is as black a falsehood as man ever told, 1,2ft** for if i: does not prohibit then it is 12,4**3 not prohibition. When you select a 24 b74 s** °f dean gentlemen to office and .,’^2 throw those rum suckers and politi- ,l cal cowards back to the plow and the axe and hoe, you need have no fear but that prohibition will prohi bit. Not only will it prohibit the sale of spirituous drinks, but it will prohibit political corruption. Some men say that we must have the dispensary for its revenue There is no business man outside of the whiskey connections, but who would tell you that, from a financial standpoint, that the dispensary does more to demoralize business than floods, famine and flame. But“to say nothing about that, and to admit that we receive some revenue from it, Stop! Ask yourself the question, who pays the revenue? Are you go ing to sit down in idleness while the widow and orphans, the hungry children and starving mothers fill the coffers of your county treasury? * ertainly no man is going to do that. The dog-like man may wear such a collar, but v a real man, true and brave, had rather feed his flesh to the vultures of the battle field than to prosper at the expense of these poor unfortunates. Sow sobriety and truth reap a We will greatly appreciate your around and looking over OUR NEW HOME. coining THE W. G0HEN STORE. I “T he Store That Always Makes Good.” WSc-' Total, South Central States 7,829 115,905 These figures tell very graphically tie story of the activity of the southern farmers, Wherever the telephone has gone it Ihas brought with it better living, an increase in the productiveness of the farms and money-making opportunities for the agriculturalist that were not dreamed of before. In 1902 the ‘phone was not a new thing-it was used in all lines of business in the cities and on the more prosperous farms and ranches all over the coun try. But when one considers that in this five-year period the number of rural ‘phones jumped from 94 to 5,073 in Maryland; from 270 to 24,874 in Oklahoma, and from 159 to 12,403 in Arkansas, the manner in which telephones were popularized and raised from the station of a rich man's luxury to that of an everj-day harvest of manhood and purity. necessity of all the people can u. - When >-ou go to the polls next month K F I remember that you are not fighting readily understood. men, you are not voting against The census, though its results have inan, but you are fighting the only recently been published, does! neatest enemy that man ever had. not bring the actual conditions quite < are vot!n ^ against the enemy of ■ I _rw 1 • x-jhii art* rwjlninrr tatowin «\«it SEMINARY An Idea Home School for Girls in the Piedmont Belt of South Carolina Unsurpassed Given individual attention to each Stndent. School family limbel to 40. 7 Id- ntructora. Coniers degree* ol A. B accredited bv State Board of Education. Building comfortable. Modern convenience* $i:tt pay* all charge* for o le year. Rooms. Table Board and Library. Chartered 1884. For catalogue addreea RKV. B. G. CLIFFORD, D. D., UNION, S. C. NOTICE. v , ^ ‘I There will be a special meeting of ! the Horae Pen Load Union No. 589, , on Saturday, the 31st, at 4 o’clock Courts office. P- m. All the members are especi ally requeeted to be present, as some very important baaine« will be be fore the Union to attend to. J. L. Yours truly, James P. Graves. P. S. All contributions, if any, ca b? Pent to this office or thejClerk of The beet Dills made »re DeWUt’e Little Early Rieere, the famoas little Itvei pills. They ere email, gentle, pteueot ea»y to te**_ aad set promptly They ait told by Wiiterboio up-to-date. No figures are available for the year and a half since Decem ber 31, 1907, but the increase in the number of rural ‘phone stations has been even more marked that in the five-year period to which the statis tics refer. The statement is made by the Western Electric Company, the largest manufocturers of tele phones and ‘phone equipment in this country, furnishing ell the instru- menu and apparatus used by the Beil system, that in the pest six months 80,000 of their new rural telephones were add. Thejeaspn for this growth are not hard to find. Life on the farms used to be irksome-distances •'were so great. The telephone is the anni- h lator of distance. As one farmer expressed it, “I am next door to everybody I want to talk to. That telephone puts my isolated farm in toe heart ox things.” Many times s farmer has bean saved a. long trip to town; has been able to get the doctor or the veterinary wrgeon in a hur- S , where without .telephone eojmec- m he would have been hnlrkte God; you are helping to stamp out that demon that has tostered crime and nurtured deformity m our midst all these years. - * Vote with God . and good. Vote for sobriety ancT sanity. Vote for prosperity and pleasure of all. Stand for the Glory oi God and the good of God and the good of man. Rev Luther M. Hiers. * Aullville, Mo. A BIRTHDAY DINNER , Stokes, July 26 —The relatives and a few fi Ends of Mr. and MrsD. W. Nettles of Doctor's Creek, sur prised them Saturday by coming in to the number of about one hun dred, bringing well • filled dinner baskeu, to celebrate their birthday a. This was also the anniversary of the birth of their only son, George. A jolly good time was had by everyone. The coffee was fine. Ask J. M. Black or Dan Netties if thig is not true. G. R1L F J B Kinard of Ruffin R. nere among those who had in town yesterday. ' LITTLE J. C. PADGETT DEAD. Capt. H. D. Padgett was called to St. Augustine, Fla. last Thursday on account of the extreme illness of his grand-nephew, J. C. Padgett, who was very ill of lockjaw, caused by having accidently shot himself in the left hand with a toy pistol. Mr. Padgett returned Monday, and a telegram was received after reaching home announcing the death of the little boy Monday afternoon. The deceased was the twelve year old son of the late Daniel Padgett, Jr., of Smoaks, S. C. BIG RMICTION • SAIL We are now offering all of our low quarter shoes AT COST. We*mean just what we sav, at COST. The well known Browfi Shoe Co’s brand at cost. We have just received an enormous shipment of fall shoes, so must close out the balance of the Summer goods* It means money to you to see us before you buy any shoes. J M WITSELL SUPPLY CO. ADMINISTRATRIX’ SALE. '. 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