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I . .« . r Do you want a suit of clothes that will lit. well, look well anil wear well? If you do, I have them for Men, Youths and Boys. COME IN AND SEE THEM Shoes Shoes Shoes The “BATTLE AXE” kind. I have been selling this kind for ten years, and know they are good. They are made right as to style and workman ship. Will give satisfaction to the wearer and comfort to the feet. HOW IS THIS? % Cotton very near to 15c and I am selling 20 yards of good HOMESPUN for $ 1.00. This Homespun is good heavy Homespun in short lengths, 38 inches wide, at 6c per yard or 20 Yards for $L00 nw: JR. OXJinY IS A GOOD ONE I ANNOUNCEMENT TAYLORdNADY BUGGIES HUNTER BUGGIES RUSSELL WAGONS All sizes in both one and two herse. HARNESS, LAP ROBES, ETC. Every Buggy and Wagon Sold Under Guarantee. Garload of WAGONS Just Received See Our Stock Before You Buy. Wakerboro live Stock & Vehicle Co. H H. W. BLACK. JR. M»o»««r H Our Millinery Opening was the largest and * most successful we have ever had, an i our customers seemed all to b«: pleased with the season’s latest. : v- .V: : / - . Our stock of Millinery and Dress Goods is most complete. We shall be pleased to have you visit our store. : : : MRS. W. Lr lea,>, “ c A. BLACK MILLINERY STO The fotlowinf io an extract the able article of Cot. J. G. Pafeett in the write-up of Walfeerboro in The News and Courier Oct. 27. Lack of apace prevents more of article being given: « We have at last come into our own reapecting our public highways. The Legislature at the semkm of 1900 provided s two-mill tax on all tho taxable property in the county and a commutation tax of two dollars oa all persons liable to road duty in the county, for the purpoee of building sand-clay roads. This provkfam raised a revenue of nearly twenty- two thousand dollars, and the county board of commissi oners now have the county finely equipped with teams, and road machinery, etc, all! of whom have been under die imme diate management and control of an expert sand-clay road builder, who has completed more than three miles of the finest roods in the State. The Act provided that the work on the roads should begin at the County Seat and build out to the county lines, this the board will endeavor to do. At the present writing they ace now building a model or demonstra tion roa4 on the highway leading Jjfrom Walterboro to St. George for a ' distance of one mile over the sandi est and heaviest road in the county. This ^special piece of work is now being skillfully supervised by one of the best and most competent experts in the service of the National Gov ernment without cost to the county in so far as his services are concerned and indeed it is a model piece of professional work, and, whe i com pleted, we have no hesitancy in say ing will be the most beautiful and substantial piece of road in South Carolina. ' It is more than twenty-five feet wide and the sand and clay are mixed in proper proportions, thoroughly combined, and the road njeely shaped. Our people are thoroughly aroused and very enthusiastic on the subject of good roads, both town and rural section. 1 he citizens of Walterboro have subscribed over two thousand dollars for the building of the same 11,081 P°P u ** r cities character of roads on the main roads within the city limits, and this fund is now being called in for the pur pose of commencing operations. This latter shows that the people of Walterboro are greatly in earnest, a great many of the citizens contri buting fifty dollars each. At the last primary election we elected a delegation to the legisla ture who favored a bond issue for the county in the sum of two hun dred and fifty to three hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of building these sand-clay roads and we are practically certain of the en dorsement of the bond issue by the people. One of the popular pians for oper ation to have the county complete ly mapped showing the location and character of each public highway running through every township in the county,, and the law provide that all moneys derived from taxa tion in the respective townships shall be expended in that township from which it was collected. Have the roads classified according to their importance to the public as Class A B. C. D. etc., and that the road building shall be comlnenced in each township on the road leading through the townships at the same time, having regard to the continu ance of the road worked v In that way every section of the county will he benefitted at the same time and in the same way. The actual con struction will he unier the super vision of a bonded expert sand clay road builder and engineer. The law to further provide that the funds shall be disbursed by a commission composed of three of the best and most thoroughly reliable business men in the county, who shall be ap pointed by th£ Governor upon the recommendation of the Senator and Representatives. No money to be paid out except upon the warrant of • he engineer. n * plan Our people are becoming before and Wc are aim not mmindful of the float importance of drainage in oar county, aad have gone systemal eally to work in that directioa, hav ing organised a good-roads aad drainage league in the coupty,under the State organization, the leader ship of which m this country, being in the haixk of one of the moot er- thusiastie. zealous and patriotic men in the county, Mr. W. W. Smoak. We propose to dd the best we can with the means af hand, and rhall remember the familiar quotation: “The lofty oak from a small aconi grows,** and we believe that the time is not far distant with proper push, agitation and representation in the General Assembly and in the halls of our National Congress we will receive national aid in this great and important measure. We are told that in all of our low- country we are the victims of that muchly dreaded enemy to mankind, malaria, the source of infection be ing the (anopheles?) mosquitoes. This much has been done by the National Government. It has. aim, convinced us that the sole breeding place of these mosquitoes is in the stagnant waters in our lew-country. Now, we believe, if the government had the right to wage war against the yellow fever variety and expend hundreds of thousands of dollars for his extermination in Cuba, Manila and the States, they have equally ss much authority and a greater rea son to aid us in stamping out the great pest in our low-country. They were eminently successful with the yellow fever variety, and we know here from experience, in a limited way, that it can be accomplished with the malarial type. In addition to making us healthful and hardy, it will open up one of the richest and most productive areas of land to be found anywhere on the face of the earth. The garden spot of South Carolina now lie* under cover of water which, with proper drainage, could and would be inhabited by our best people .and would go a great way in setting the great hue and cry of “back to the fahns” from our i. yE have moved opposite the Court House ▼ ▼ and invite you all to come and see our new store, our new stock and the same old friends. ♦ 4 .• Our store is the people’s store—the BIG STOKE . <r ' - * you hear so much about. The store where your DOLLARS GO FAR THEST. • Si- We.leave it entirely to you to judge the value and quality of our goods. We are satisfied to let YOU decide that you get a square deal on every purchase made with us. „ • • / We also have a lot back of The Press and Stand ard adjoining our lot that we are pleased to offer . you at all times. * J. M WITSELL S UP PL Y CO. D( What if said of Colleton County and South Carolina, may lie said of most of our Southern States. We want the water o(T Colleton County lands. When this is done, we will have the greatest trucking lands in the world; and as it is now, we are the home of the “Cabbage King/’ our county in one small section fur nishing over three hundred and fifty solid carload.* of truck to the rail road company in a single day, and this shipping is earned on for months during the trucking season. This being accomplished with only partial drainage in a limited terri tory, what would we do in this in dustry if our truck lands were prr • perly drained? Then the advantage to be derived from it would not be confined alone to the people of the county, but to the entire country, State and Nation. It would afford opoortunities for investment along all the avenges of the trade, that of production and transportation and guarantee employment at more than living wages to thousands of wage earners. Prosperous, happy, con tented and healthy peeple would im mediately flock to this section, af fording as it does every contingency to make a people satisfied. This great time is bound to come when.the hills and sandy lands will be given up by man to the beasts of the woods, and man in exchange will demand and reclaim the low, fiat, swampy lands with their natural fer tility of^oil, suitable, when drained, to the growth and productiveness of any vegitation that can be cultivat ed by the hand of men. In onLr to interest the General GovernmeQt to activity, it may be that besides tho health side of the proposition, it may oe necessary to divide the spoils | with Uncle Sam, divide our holding! with the Government or issue bonds j for the purpose of drainage the | 'drained property to be ours when< the bonds are redeemed —some such ! ‘•GET - THE - HaBIT” BOV Y0OR GC0DS AT ' ' 1 9 Charleston Surprise Bargain Clothing and Shoe House We have just received a fresh stock of CLOTHING AND SHOES - X •: - . . and also a full line of Ladies and Gents Furnish- injrs and Dry Goods 'and Fancy Goods to save money on at Walterboro’s Headquarters for SURPRISINGLY LOW PRICES I. SOBEL, Manager WALTERBORO s.e. American Fence iJjl 1 y- Walterboro Oil Mill (LICENSED BUYERS OF SEED COTTON) Bring your remnants for cash at highest market price. Will gin cot- ton every day. Prompt service. NOTICE. f * | hereby b;t*d that I forbid . order jena'iy of the law any ' me by .lock _p>>n my i-mi io Broxioi r<«o*oip*t hia.-bcoa X Knada K- M. Thomaa. ! Ruffin, S C , Jane 1, 1010. I jr Thtvcounty hoard of commission e^ are to retain the chain gang and ointinue to repair bridges and roads in a temporary manner and have charge of the county government as heretofore, excepting* only, do tem porary repairs on the highways and bridges. These, briefly, are the things we are now doing and con sidering in respect to our highways. Combine the Fence and the Bor and get r the Dollars American DoDarg v FOR SALE BY YARN BROS. 60. and W. W. eONE, Ledge, S. <2. r are on the subject aroused as never thoroughly awake You can hetr words of commenda lion on every side about Congress man Lever’s oiforts to hit] us in the matter of opening up commerce- on the beautiful Klistp., liiver in our county. This m auxili ry to the sub ject under discussion, the Edisto t>ung one of the main exits for most of our surface water here. •4* ' SNIDER PERSONALS. O' l Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Getsinger at tended the State Fair in Columbia la.-t week. -r Bennie Benton, of Florida, is visit ing relatives in this section. Henry Drawdy and Otis Herndon have returned from a visit to Eutaw- ville. B L. Yarn has been quite ill! for several days and ix still confined to his room. The many friends of Mrs. W. C. Brant will Ih» sorry to hear of hfir continued illness. She has been uek for nearly six weeks. Cor. II iiti I H t i I 11 1 .. / f'* I