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o . b r \ V 3t \ / / SPECIAL NO. 1 Full 36-inch yard wide unbleach ed Sheeting*-round thread and •very even woven. These goods would be a bargain if we asked > eta per yard for them, but we have decided as an August busi- nete tonic to price them for ''one wwk * t Sc Yard SPECIAL NO. 2 A very high grade check Home- fpiin—round thread, absolutely fast - colors — in neat shirting checks and sheeting plaids a very useful artble of merchan dise and superior to checks orfcr- ed elsewhere in town ab be, anjj as go<id as those offered at 7c. We have closed w ith the mills for hales. Spot cash moved them. 5c Yard SPECIAL NO. 3 v A38*inch unbleached drill never saw one before over 28 inches. This piece of goods we consider the greatest value for the money we have ever offered. We only succeeded in getting a vary-lim ited Quantity of this fabric, and you must move quick if you want them. IQc Yafd SPECIAL NO. 4 Here is a surprise—it was for us when we made the mill the offer, andshould be equally sur prised when you see the goods. A nice evenly woven Chambray, and apron checks in mill rem nants, good fast colors, and spec ial beyond comparison. While they last {J c Yard SPECIAL NO. 5 At an auction sale of dry goods wy put in a bid without any idea that we would get »the goods. They wore knocked down to us at a vary low paiaa, hence we are offering ybu ihoM standard, fast color dark Calicoe?, equal to any ~ ior good . s .i. n .’ tocl ‘ 5c Yard SPECIAL NO. 6 Cotton is now’ up higher than it has been in years. We wanted some 36-inch white window Scrim to retail at oc per yard. We wrote to every jobber we could think of. At last wo found the. goods, but only 20 pieces. Good lace. stripes, full yard wide," 5c Yard -n ** • . » . - • We have the finest equipped dry goods storo in the county, and our Rest 'Hoorn is now Iteiug used by the ladies of the country, for whom it.was buitt. It aff .nls us the* very keer.est ideusuro to hear their very many expre.-H'ns of appreciation for the beautiful rest room we have installed for thlir jiK usOrc and convenience. Jf'K’O’S- I’OrtM/AR STORK r.4-*u!tt d iii his death. The son now, >< k up the work, preparing the Among the i uMic wotka of the plans and overseeing the construe- UnitejLStetes, a country certainly in j u-.f.. 1 he caisson for the Brooklyn the fore-front for mechanical talent towef'-vias sunk in 1871, and'that for j and enginering feats, a principal t'i*Ne* Yo& side in 1S72. These; place has been given to the great; .^na t;lle*l with material for the! Suspension Bridge over, the strait f Kir.iiations, w.ere sunk pneumatical? known as East BivCr, lietween New l;v and the viilent compression of York and-Brooklyn. It is the most i u jr iijuriHl. and ultimately caus'd stupendous structure of the kind in 'nc* dt-a. h of several workmen. Mr, the world, stretching in one enor-^i ,0:11.11^ himself, after a supervi-! mous span fqr mure than a mile, and ..f two ye^rs. was stricken with , coupling the two cities, as with diar fofm of paralysis known; band of steel, into that “Greater ,< tj.,. '’Vain?..nr disease/* Though lg| New York” which competes with »,iy helple-s in a phyricil ® London for the palm of the largest a -, r:.< nvnui power? city. The width- of the bridge is . c mni -t. ..ml h > cuid sti , fully eighty-five fact, and contains a m. •« central promenade for foot-pas?en- t ; u . gers. with a single track on either '< , . ; , ..-uo side for rapid-transit cars, flanked^i>, uni.i,,. on the extreme right and left by . t roadwayWor vehicles. It is support- ed by four enormous cables, each composed of over five thousand gal vanized w ire^. closely wrapped into a diameter of about sixteen inches. Nearly ten years before the work of construction was actually begun, the bridge was designed by John A. Rotbling. a Prussian by birth, and the inventor of wire suspension bridges. Mr. Roebling had, at ’this time, already distinguished himself as the builder of the first suspension bridge across the Niagara chasm; and of the still greater structure across the Ohio river, between Cin cinnati and Covington, the longest of its kind by one thousand feet at s- We ftave just returned from Baltimore and New -York, where we purchased a very full line of newest an i most Up-To-Date FALL MILLINERY GOODS. Will Move- Into New Store This Week. .: '♦* . \- '* > We will/move to ov.r "New Store next dpor tci Taylor’s this week, where we shall be pleased to see Qur fr endk. \ x * We dosire to thank our patrons tor their very liberal patronage through the nine years .we have been-at our old stand, and ask a continuance. •; o Miss Bertie Stevenson, of Virginia, will be with us this season as our ^i’liner. Shj is. experienced and comes highly recommended. \YE WILL CARRY • • • ■» . , * - - Czze Patie/ii H?ls This Se^scn. /n. »r. <1 vet i W/A . Athn t'.rui-, 1 i i v%, t • e c n \ u;i 1 i* 4% C i the *v uay,- ■> i that 'her llUSo jm/.s 1 -' . d IV . t i kail l .. the' \ i ■ -! j fittvix •u hb,r ... ^ an.. careful study of the mat-; T- W L> v a ,U322/ ^ ter, she developed a genius almost equal to that of himself and his father. By her help; the paralized engineer continued for five years to furnish plans for the bridge, almost all of which were drawn by his wife. At length in 1876, he recovered his health and the use of his limbs, and the work went forward in his hands to complete success. He has lived to win the praise and fortune due to his ability and perseverance. , * The great Bridge, £as it bears its living tide over the tidss of the sea, is a rrtonument of these three lives. And as we consider them^so inter- the time it was built. He was assist- blondest in the union of a common ed in his work by his son. Washing ton A. Kot-bjing, who had inherited the father’s engineering gepfus. ‘-The person.*; hist*'»y o£1he• R'<eb- lings, is highly interesting. While ; lining the f >undatb*ns of on<> of the* purpose, we find not „ the least wot thy the woman (unknown to fame) whose wifely devotion am meek courage made possible t/ie grand achievement of the two /men. It is i’t resting to recall ih'ot Mr shore-pi-rs -f tlX Brooklyn Bridge. 1 Rxfbling married as h July 22, :^6'*/fne fathi r re.'Avcd an‘j Mrs. K-rrow', former injury \vt>ich caused lockjaw, and t b»»ro. nd wife Walter- 1 T 1 SOME REFLECTIONS ! HEN YOU WANT FRESH CRACKERS ESE BUTTER ETC. 3 / $ D r- 1 e ’ ’ 'T'tr'M ii ; wl <1 + + than ^-LE be: X:111 ^/Editor The iPress and. Standard-ll, G00& ROADS; GOiUMN 7 i guess there are ipunv citizens voting"!; 1 — ^ in tne primaries now who do not\r<-' THIS COLUMN WILL COMAIN .EAClJ ,m tuber the convention plan of non*- Wf[K p fRT » N £ NT ROARKS, ON inatm- • -Ivors for toe cmnty and pcrnirM Stan , and . ..ir e tne cur t aol ot Hu . "i JuLL.I. two syseems wilf not b* out of place.' _ , ' '■** I'/ .• r the cvtivcntion system the Quxn’.iBi’f(ons Inmtlu Olk Si.<i- t twti: !up dub? met and elected their uax IsSi.-K. b*‘st rrtvn rs derrgate- to tne county ———-— cni.v-'m ndi, ,M.> ,e tl.-• c-uii'y ti Lot ~ '5;q H’!;;:.' «j> (in q* P. itn.s w* wa.-1 i 'aiiiii'.csl *oiid ‘1b«- wrv, i*est luoiieiei n >l a ilelegates to the ERKSH FROM THE EG UN LAIN ’AND ALL FOUNTAIN DRINKS.” . GOODS DELIVERED PROMPTLY SHOES :: GROCERIES ; or Duality an 1 Good S« rvii;«*.‘ .. ,4- ■■ a.e SOME OF COR BARGAINS ARE AS FOLLOWS: Confcntirn, where the .State ticket ( | t . n ^ yoi-s nomi*inted and delegates elected j; 1 t. AekeTinan, Cottageville, vice ^t'> the National convention, where pre .ident. Guns, single^and double barrel, ham merless and with hammer fi;cm $4.50 to $45.00. • Rifles, 22 and 32 calibre, single shot automatic and repealers frotft $2.00 to X™ $20.00. W. W. Sm- A- f. i.'i ' , L /y IT president wa/ nominated. A yet chain of power, extending the j perfect link by link from the voter to the White House, which prevented the possibility of any unworthy or it - competent person Hopping into office by chance. Now compare this w ith the primary L. hi. Jones, Walterboro; secretary. 0 OR'S GREEK ITEMS :tors Creek, Sept. 2. Special -The farmers around here are tieginning ^ to smile over their snow white fields of fleecy fiber. We were very sorry to learn pf Big Slock New Goods Have; just completed the interior of my stofq\ enlarging and remodeling it, so.a^ to accommodate tl/* largest stock of merchandise T liave fever earriecn Thjs very complete ock consists of , ’ system. When the campaign opens the illness of Julius Breland, but the candidates.'spring up all ever the >«-|f he wtU 8«m U; out aKam woods. at)J the fact he no h( , n0 ,. e( | t of jo nior FeJ! a... guest guarantee against hid election. last Sunday The. case of James Carts!er^ in the “ mt. and Mrs. R A. Iforndon piesent race for Railroad fommis- ,,f puffin spent the day very si m i r it pro-f of this statement, pleasantly at Jme home, of .R- IF ry where arc v<-.ti»’g for him ’predand la^Thursdgy. no nu.-oti for doing so Mr. amlXlrs. A. 1 enderand .. . r *1 man Is h-! .4 hi Id rep \i-sitcil .the laMer’s par- J . ! >' Air Riflcr HahcI :’r' C'7 f V-A .. . —<i»v* i.T * / * ktJ J 4 A V' » • cV SI. 00 ia\v of y r * y ’ * o dm T s ago. fr, J. ‘S;.. .tit i'i id 1 us *.• •ml.'. :r it' ;ajf ’A : l\ . j • ; k.. s. • 4 hi 3Jr*' > a ; A i 1 i.e / DRY GOODS NOTIONS CROCKERY • -» Priaus to suit the ti’tv r MRS, W. A. BLACK. THE LEADING MILLINERY * T O / / / w as- BUGGIES and WAGOHS A Specialty. A. Wichinan & Son Walterboro, S. C. II i'V \r-<. r v*- » ; i. -. , . - i Ik;# of r: 1 1. i\* M i tt," 1 t»j,e.u ’ . and ihcii ha.e M>in ’thighOu’*-*'go before- t:. A ! LMinmiitec with ;t sworn 1 I that we.have ignored thm law, ana , that we were gri«t frauds. “Kvil to , him whr> evil thinks.” But woe un- ; to him who yierjures himself. Poli- M t r s A U L 4 ' ,r i > c'SfcZi’, LSiv 1 her ::v ’ >* r 1.11 »,1j Jist v/* - k. Tf "AV. O, Thompson" and »ur ( I>xly t ■ iiassed through c - 4 , v e ri .n a few days ago. it 1 Mis s Wilma Breland HATS AND SHOES GROCERIES TINWARE ip re invite 1 to fill and lUr -•/ % yf A , i r r~* mp / 1 - i-A-OR tv —i Km 1 ii/u L Jil R( »1 NT AV \ ( A h a r qC- uU * ITT. STOCK ()i‘ 1 • ) 90 timed home after sriending with relatives and- friends near IslandOn. i] State Mission Day was observ ed at Doctors Creek church last NOTICE. «S • ’ ^ Notice U hereby given that I forbid, wndor penalty of the law, any treepM** ing by etock spon my urm In Broiton Townebip «titepheoB X Road*. F. M. Thomaa. Rafln, 8 C, Jaw* 1,1*10. To te 1 •»« •yetem Conic aad builder, Itcb' licb! Itch!—Scratch! “cXtch! Tba more von ecratch ike worse the neh. TjT Doen’e Oinwaent. It aaree pbm, iibW*. aay »»ln itching. Ail dreggim mU it. Uca. lunatics and yearling ticks are 1 Sun( ,^ r The proKram was car ed out in aver good collection f . h«ve goo*l apretite had a n that is left o (he primary system, j rie(1 ou( j n a verv n j ce wayi an d ^ l«i I Rou ” d - «• J - »• u - ' a Itood collection was contributed; The Walterboro and Sfnoaks base ball teams csossed bata on the local diamond yesterday, the visitors were victorious to the tune of 13 to 1. @5 MEN’S AND LADIES’ GOODS » . LADIES’ HA 1S i t AVE HAVE THE LARGEST STOCK WE HAVE EVER HAD AND CHEAPEST PRICES. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. W. B. W. Z. Ayer, accompanied by hia wife were here saleaday. Mr. Ayer did very good business. A| Li! 3 HI ■ ! J Hi M n j # M J