Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. V f > i X v.*? M „ *x-.. , c f. Ifr LIKE RAKING i v ' . IN HONEY % * «. to buy your garden tools and implements here. You Jsave money on every article you buy, whether it be a lawnmoWer, a rake, spading fork, path edger, hoe, watering pot or wheelbarrow. THESE GARDEN TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS o • are the best of their kind and will) last for years. They make the work and expense of gardening very light. Prove it by test. Gothing itterns. M< i THE . e©0K-GREEN I FURNITURE COMPANY We beg to annonuce to the buyers of Colleton County that we carry a full line of all kinds of Furniture and House Furnishing Goods, which we sell for CASH OR CREDIT. EASY PAYMENTS. In Furniture we have anything you need, in suites or single pieces. Trunks, etc. In House Furnishings we have mat tings, Rugs, Portiei;8, Lace Curtains, Window Shades, Table Cloths, Stoves and Wares. we have Ladies Dress fen’s and Boys’ Clothing. In Fact, Anything , you need to make your home attractive and com- fcrtable. „ NAMEYOilR WANTS, DUR CREHT IS GOOD. yon *» adl, or let ms know and wt wffl come to tee you. COOKGRffiL COMPANY NEXT D00I TO THE PRESS AND STANDARD, «.! • .* • • A REPLY TO MR. BEACH. To the Eli tor of The Press and Standard: Kindly allow me space in which to reply to a letter signed G Alliert Beach, published in your issue of August IS. The author of the bray seems to have not only anyone n Being an a < g*** yer you t-houM have knt»wn thi.- When 1 called at the office 1 found Mr. tinftin there and told Twin ot your promise. He said >«<u had mentioned it and asked Kim if it was necessary for you to do so. and that he had told you it was not compul sory, but you could do so if you wished. Mr. Griffin acted very courteously in the matter and readi ly consented for me to use the origi nal report you had left at the office of The Press and Standard, instead of going to the trouble of making a copy, and when" the original was taken back to his office he placed his signature to it and said he would have your attest placed on the re port when you came to town the fol lowing week. When 1 requested of you, Mr. “aforesaid” and “aforementioned’’ G. Albert, the privilege of making the copy of the quarterly report, 1 thought it possible that you might be conforming to the law as set forth in Section 802 of the Civic Code of South Carolina, which is as follows: “It shall be the duty of the county supervisor to cause a record to be kept of all the proceedings of the board of which he is hereby mode chairman, as well as a record of all contracts entered into with said boards, as provided in this article, which said records shall be kept open for public inspection.” Or that, perhaps, you had fulfilled your duty as clerk and book keeper lor the supervisor an^l the board esi*ecially in view of the ill- health of the supervisor and observed the mandates of Section 807 of the Code, which says: "The commissioners shall keep in their office a "Kile Book,” in which all c aims presented for their considera tion shall be entered by their clerk, designating ths date of filing, by wnom presented, to whom such claim belongs, and the character and amount thereof. The clerk shall number said claims in the or der in wrnch they are tiled, audited and allowed, from number one up wards. "A memorandum of the time of presenting such claims and the names of the persons in whose* names they are made out, and by whom presented, shall be entered in the minutes of the board.” Had you, the "aforesaid” and “aforementioned” G Albert, had these prescribed records brought up to date-, as they should be, J should have needed no copy or transcrip tion ui your report, but could have secured all the information desired had you allowed me access to them. You state, Mr "aforesaid” ami "aforementioned” G Albert, that you ’’still had ten days in which to redeem my (your) promise to Mr Hammond,” after you had delivered to The Press and Standard the re port. Are you not aware, sir, that a broken promise is a hard thing to redeem, and that surreptitously delivering the report to The Press and Standard was a mighty poor start at redemption of your violated word? You extracted the milk of the cb- coanut, G Albert, when you wrote: “as I did not care to furnish it to him until it had been published in The Press and Standard.” I was at that time editing a newspaper that was desirous of giving to its readers a much delayed report of one of its public servants. You, the servant of that servant, attempted to further delay the publication of the document,to suit the convenience of a paper favored by you or your master, but lacked in the. manly qualities which should have made you come out on the level and say you were endeavoring to prevent me performing my usual stunt of secur ing and publishing news a week in advance of my com temporary, even though the article was desired by me for publication as pure news matter and was paid advertising to the other paper. My aforesaid and aforementioned friand, I hope your future kicks, so Aar as they are aimed at myself, will be S4 weak as was your bray in Ttaa Press and Stai 4* d in its tame of August 18. • - E. F. Hsmlpond. * August 21. *1 ,4* disregarded the common courtesy of answering an offending paragraph in a newspaper in which it was printed, but he appears to have even forgot the name of the paper. In reply to the bray, would say that, in attempting to explain away the apparently deliberate and inten tional falsehood made to me in re gard to the furnishing of a copy of the supervisor’s quarterly report, the “aforesaid” and “aforemention ed” G Albert not only wades further into the mire of falsehood, but makes for himself a good excuse for any mental weakness he may display as well. In the heel of his assinine com munication he states that "If l.were Saul of old, sent out to hunt my father’s asses, I would go back and report,” etc. He would have done no such thing. Had his father de sired an ass, and he were near, the father would merely have said: “George Albert, come hither.” The man confesses in his letter a lack of the most ordinary mental capacity when he says that when a boy he “used to shoot an old musket with about seven drams of powder.” Probably the firing in his boyhood days of an old musket charged with such an overload of powder, ac counts for the apparently addled condition of the “aforesaid” and * “aforementioned” G Albert’s brain at the present time. Mr Beach, the "aforesaid” and "aforementioned” G Albert, says: “He came to my office Friday, July 23rd, : ^nd asked if I could furnish him with the refx’rt- 1 told him that 1 did not have it ready, but would assist him on Saturday or Monday to get the rejiort.” Correct. I did go to the supervisor’s office Friday, July 23. 1 also went there every day the office was open after the quarterly meeting of the county commissioners’ on July fi on the same mission. Also it is j equally true that the "aforesrid” and “aforementioned” G Albert did promise to give me a copy of the" report as soon as he could prepare it. Having in mind Section of the Civil Co<J* of South Carolina. 1 i even went so far as to volunteer my j services to G Albert in assisting him ( to prepare the statement, so as to secure a copy, thinking that he, as j the supervisor’s clerk, knowing the supervisor who was sick and unable to attend to the duties of his office, was depending on him, intended to get out the report in the time priori bed by law. and wishing to secure a copy of it for publication in the paper 1 was at that time editing. Section 767 of the Civil Code is mandatory and is as follows: The supervisors of the state are required to publish in some newspaper pub lished in their respective counties, at least in one issue thereof, and within fifteen days after each meet ing of the county board ot commis- ioners at which claims are audited, a full statement of the claims audited by said board at its meeting immed iately preceeding said publication. The statement shall show, as pub lished, the file number of the claims, the amount allowed, the nature of claims or services rendered, and the name of the claimant. On Saturday afternoon, the day following the one mentioned in the letter, I met the “aforesaid” and “aforementioned” G Albert on the street and he made the voluntary statement to me that he had jusi met the former business manager and now editor of the local news paper so styled by the forgetful “a- foresaid” and ‘‘aforementioned” G. Albert and had told him that he had up to that time been unable to spare the time from his farm work to pre pare the report, but would furnish me.with a cofe “jest as soon as I (Beach) can FIX it”. The “aforesaid” and “aforemen tioned” G. Albert goes on to say: “To my surprise, in the lame of the local newspaper, the publif was informed that this aforaaaid, E. F. Hammond, (don;t frryt de- - mantled a copy o?*4ha- anpAriridor’s ‘ report, and 1 question the right he had, more than any other dUten, to demand • copy qf this report”. You are quite right, I had no more right than any other dtizen to have access to the public records of the office in which you are supposed to work, hut, acting in the interests of a large number of the cititizens of the county , I expected you to recog nise the right of tne Gvil Code says pi ABOUT AT)VERTISISG—XO. 6 If It Fits You Wear This Cap a, » » ■ o By Herbert Kaufman * . 4 * ^ • Advertising isn’t a crucible with which lazy, bigoted and incapable merchants can turn incompetency into success—but one into which brains and tenacity and courage can be poured and changed into dollars, ft is only a short cut across the fields—not a moving platform. You can’t "get there” withont “going some.” It’s a game in which the worker—not the shirker—gets rich. By its measurement every man stands for what he is and for what he does, not for what he was and what he did. Every day in the advertising world another day and has to be taken care of with the same energy as it’s yesterday. The quitter can t survive where the plugget has a ghost of a chance. Advertising doesn’t take the place of busi ness talent or business management. It simply tells what the business is and how it is managed. The snob whose father created and who is content to live on what was handed to him can’t stand up against the man who knows he must build for htmself. What makes you think that you are entitled to prosper as well as a competitor who works twice as hard for his prosperity? Why should as many people come to your store as pat ronize a shop that makes an endeavor to set their trade ancl shows them that it is worth while to come to its doors? Why should a newspaper send as many c»s- tomers to you in half the time it took to fill an establishment which advertised twice as long and paid twice as much for its publicity? This is the day when the best man wins— after he proves that he is the best man—when the best store wins, when it has shown that it is the best store—‘when the best goods win, after they’ve been dcmo?istrated to be the best goods. If you want the plumyou can’t get it by lying under the tree with your mouth open waiting for it to drop—too many other men are willing to climb out on the limb and risk their necks in their eagerness to get it away from you. It is a mans game—this advertising—just hanging on and tugging and straining all the time to get and keep ahead. It is the finite ex pression of the law of competition which sits in blind-folded justice over the markets of the world. (Copyright, 1»0». by Tribune Company, Chicago.) NOTICE. her** Notice )> hereby given that after all tolls and telephone are payable at central office. COZAR1’ BINNS. Manager. .August 18.1909. YEMASSEE LOCALS. YemasseeAug. 21, Special:—Mr Phil Yarn passed through Salke hatchile Sunday evening on his way to Beaufort. He was accompanied by his charming little daughter tfrel. There will be a festival at the Mewville school house Thursday evening, Aug. 26th for the benefit of the Baptist parsonage, cake, cheam and other dainties »wUl be served. Mr Harry Weekley who has been engaged in truck farming db t)ahiels Island for several yean wftl open a store at Salkehatchie this wadfe. 1 ' * 9 m 9 -:r .*-> < UNCLE PAUL NmUrgA* Ruffin, Aqg. 28.—Spasi Paid Bryan” died here mofnlng at the graat old’aga ME lOf yuan. “Uncle Paul” warm* 1 of theaa good old negroes wKo had the ropeet of all who taneW' hkg^ both white and colored. He was opted for his honesty, uprightness- and> good Y, .Klag'sNaw.LUpfta* CONGRATULATES DON'T. WORRY.” Smoaks, Aug. 23.—Special: Wp arc glad to see Ruffin writing again. We would say to the town of ’’Don’t Worry,” write often. We certainly enjoy reading the jots. We were exceedingly glad to see that the literary society of Bells is doing so well. Every neighborhood should have one. They are educating and edifying. But some of us do not ap preciate our opportunitiee enough to do anything in that direction. 1 am in favor of anything that will edu cate. Oan one sum up the innumer-' able benefits of an education? To the eoc'ety I would say I wish every possible. Go on up, for surety you will accomptieh fellow * will be A.P.S. TKimaALVlTL The Ceromtariooem uf met Tuesday to < the prohibit la, the only ar cieenan VtL'2Lm Road*, win ' poll net reported . gave 6 for prohibition and 8 for the dfspensaiy. The State board of caavaM meet Thursday at Oohnubir dare the results of the al fhe dtamnsarieB wiB paariMf ha opened X m i