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v- l I \: ■ 'trz * . PAGE EIGHT THE PRESS AND STANDARD. WALTERBOBO,&C. JANUARY 7. Safety For Yoiw* Money we is always an intensely absorbing question But that is the least of our claims on your attention. We are doing a progressive banking business, and are prepared to serve your banking needs with thorough ness, care, and a consistent courtesy -offering every pos sible accommodation in harmony with sound business principles. Such a service should have interest and value for you. DEPOSIT WITH The First National Bank PERSONAL MENTION Hon G. W Way of Mt. (’armel was In town Monday. J K Grav**. *Jr *of Charleaton HptMit Sunday In and n»*ar Walterboro F. L. Kinney la in St. Louia thia week on bunineaH. * • • ^ F. J. Merry, one of Smoaka’ proa- peroua buaineaa men, was in town Monday. C C. lliott of Round had business in town Monday. W. F. Breland of CottaReville called to see us while in town Fri day. • • • M. If Carter of Hendersonville was In town on business Friday. • • • Hon. W. f>. Renncftt of Lodge was in town Monday. • • • t Mrs. Josh Garvin and Mias ilenerea Liles of Jac-ksonboro were in town shopping Friday. • • • H. H. Durant of CottAgeville had huaineas In town Friday. c M. Risher of Rofi-nd was among those in town Friday. In w as K R. Smith of Route town Friday^ • • • Kv H. Griffin of Ruffin, Rout” 2, ealled at our office on Monday morn ing. • • • Mr. and Mra J. P. Walling, for merly of Islandton but now of Lake Alford. Fla . spent the holidays in Colleton with relatives • • • Miss Miriam Du Bola, formerly of this city but now of Savannah, visit- ec^ friends here this week. W. O. Jonea, one of Ashton’s pros perous merehants, called to see us whic h in town today. • • • Mra. M. A. Stokes and chilcfren have returned to Savannah, after spending the holidays with Mrs A. K. Reach. • • • Vernon Padgett has returned to Wofford College* after spending an enjoyable holiday with his mother. Mrs. Blanca Padgett. • o • • Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. This remedy has no superior for coughs and colds. It is pleasant to take. It contaiua no opium or other narcotic. It always c'ures. For sal” by all dealers. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK waLterboro, s. c. Showing its Steady Growtli For the Past Seven Years Years JAN. 2nd, 1908 JAN. 2nd, 1909 JAN. 2nd, 1910 JAN. 2nd. 1911 JAN. 2nd, 1912 JAN. 2nd, 1913 JAN. 2nd, 1914 Deposits $78,754.98 $83,824.18 $122,631.56 $123,598.59 $124,604.72 $142,260.77 $187,173.33 Resources $112,587.13 $112,323.61 $151,133.04 $154,859.97 $155,517.60 ~ $188,284.89 $253,792.75 INCREASE FOR 1913. Deposits $14,912.56 Resources $65,507.86 THIS MEANS THAT WE HAVE THE CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE, INSPIRED BY SAFE, CONSERVATIVE METHODS NOW AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW YEAR IS THE TIME TO START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH US C. D. May B. G. Price B. G. Willis DIRECTORS: R. H. Wichman M H. Hiott B. H. Willis J- G. Padgett A. H. Wichman - * E. Hubster G. C. Brown I. M. Fishburne T J Jacob O’Quin c?f Hcyndersonvill** watc in twon Saturday on business Mr. O’QuUi killed a hog last Wednes day weighing 4b0 pounds gross. This hog was only 18 months old. Hon. J. L Robertson, of Rounn called to see us while in town Mon day. Rev. F. (). S. Curtis, who spem the Christmas holidays very peasant- ly in the city of Greenville returned home Wednesday. rice: ■cnees ■•■ cast as utnss. n t« h* cheipe*! tod tw»t food. ICO wav.ot it* ini it at evorv meal every day. Ill SWIM 14.71 direct from where it i« (rows. Ni e. clean, whole grain.. Send check or money order. SMitS Vlirl. OtvOrlttM No. Six-Sixty-Siz Thi* is S prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS 4 FEVtR. Five or sit doses Will break any esse, aad if taken then ss a tonic the Fever will oot return. - It acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c KKV. WALTKK BLACK ‘ WHITEN FROM SEMINARY THE COUETON BANKING COM .. The Oldest Bank In County, Wishes Its Patrons and Friends A Happy arid Prosperous New Year. WE MADE IT SATISFACTORY AND SAFE. OUR FRIENDS MADE IT SUCCESSFUL AND SURE. John F. Lucas, Paul Sanders E. L.' Lemacks. H. W. Black, Ji R. Ludlow Fraser. On tf,,. Subject of The l»l«lnherite,l Knight. One dark and stormy night in the month of October 1885 Ellas Albert vivas first saw the n-s. Miss CUuiltu Beach, one of Mt. Carmel’s charming young ladies, was in town shopping Monday. For Weakness and Lou of Appetite The Old Standard general atrengthening tottic, (.HOVE’S 1 ASTELESSchill TONIC.driwaout Malaria and bullda op the ayatem. A true tonic and aura Aupetuer. For adulu and children. Wc. In Arranging our Large Stock of Good* which we have recently bought we have run across several odds and ends which we must move at very low prices. Thus beginning with the New Year we will inauguarte ourlarge i ii i UXIfilE • ti Five Cent Remnant Sale This will consist of remnant pieces of dry goods in all colors, styles and grades, and much of it la the higher priced goods, be included. Several other articles useful in the home will Our Shoe Department the offers for the next few weeks unheard of val .:es in footwear for every member of fumil}. We have them for the man, woman boy and girl, and your whole family can be fitted at our store. The latest styles will be offered at the very lowest prices, and it * will l»e to your advantage to look over our offerings before making your purchases. Exceedingly Low Prices will prevail in our other departments, and you will save money by learning immediately that the Ackermans' Store is the one which combines style, grade, and serviceableness with the lowest prices. / . .. „ liRht of this ^orlrL He was a frail child at the first, but by the careful attention of his parents he soon becam and vigorous. strong In less time than a year he was walking and at the end 'it the second year he could siv a;- most anything he wished to sav One dav h” asked his mother for an apple just before dinner ^nd his lit tle sister Josephine was with him Mrs. Vivas gave them both an ap ple saying ‘ Ellas, don’t eat your ap ple now. for dinner is on the tabl” and we will eat as soon as Mr. Vivas '’omrtt The wait was too long for fho children. Mrs. Viva, ka',ked into the parlor and caught them eat ing the apples "Ellas” said Mrs \ Ivas, ’ didn’t I tell you not to ”af 'our apple until after dinner?” ^ es m was the prompt repty. ‘Mamma, I am not eating mv apple Josephine and I traded." hie Brick Store Monday, Wednesday And Friday. White Meat By Piece 10 Cents "x. 21 Pounds of Sugar for $1.00 1 around the stump he will continue to receive money from his sister; bu* If he goes through the stump he will have a hard road to travel-pennil“ss. But the decission must he made and made at once-ahd how? He was troubled. Ellas’ parents were both Roman (’athollcg. Mr. Vivas was one of th” leading (’atholics of Barcelona Spain-thaf city being his home, in Gentice Psychology we learn that child nature is so .plastic that It can be moulded Into any religious form. —Christian. Mohamme-ian. Catho lic, etc. As all the home inffuenc'-s. as well as the church influences, tended toward the Catholic church the hov naturally became a Roman Catholic. He aft nded the Catholic school in his home town, and here is where he learned the fundamentals of his education. The bov finished this school when h n was fifteen and then he attended the College of Barcelona. Taking a fancy to the study of Chemistry he specialized In the laboratory work. How«ver. taking the B. 8. degree at tne end of the fourth year. During these four years of college life many things were experienced by the boy. Ellaa’ father and mother both died leaving the boy an orphan. Mr. Vivaa was a wealthy man and he had already fixed hta will ao that each one of hta children sltould get an eaual portion of his estate and money. But. aa tne t>ov was not aa yet twenty-one ana tne will was ao flx»d that he could not get h<s share until he was of ag6 it was all turned over to hia oldest alster to manage who was to use It in aena- Ing the boy to school and when he became of age to turn the remainder over to him. In hia nineteenth year Ellas heard the Rev. A. B. Budd. a Baptist mis sionary. preach. Never In alL h!s life had he read so much aa one word from the Book of books The min- later took as his text Matt. 11: 28-20 "Com” unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest Take my yoke upon you. and luirn of me for 1 am meek and lowly in heart aii-yye shall find rest unto your soulv /For my yoke is and my b/rriei: ;*» light ” Rev. lex ns sins Mechanically he opened his Bibl" and bv chance It opened at the ROth Psalm. He began to read and soon he was at the 15th verse. “And call upon me In the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shall clorifv me.” The Book closed and he fell upon his knees. He pray n d. At the close of his effectual fervent pra>”r asked himself. "Whai was the battl” of Marathon, compared to the fact that upon that battle-field the world gained the first dawn of the gigantic truth that all men are free** What was the struggle of the Dutch during their t n rrlble thirty years war. compared with the bene fit which mankind has since received from the firm establishment of the fact that each soul shall be free to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience? "The bat tle is fought and won.” he audibly cried out to himself, "the victory Is mine.” Immediately he wrote his sist n r that the Lord had called him to preach and regardleta of her sending him the much needed money he would obey hia Masters call. This la the last letter he has ever written to Barcelona. Spain. Not having sufficient money to remain a student at the V’. P. I. Ellas was forced to leave school during the month of Peburary. his Junior year, and begin working. With all the economy poeslbe—and a Spaniard knows how to be close—he had ac- cumlated enough by that fall with little odd Jobe to take the honored B. A. degree at Richmond College.^nd during this time It was not unuaai to see the hoy bent over a tub of Oak Grove News. Editor The Press and Stan Please allow me space in paper for a line or so. Miss Louise Leach and Mist trude Hudson of near Waite sp”nt last week with Miss Avant. , Luther Avant and sister, Mis nie, visited Brant’s Sunday J last Sunday. Miss Lucile Beach of Walt* spent last week with friends a Grove. * Miss Maud Bracin of Beauf spending sometime with frien Ritt°r. Miss .Marie and Claude Com of Ijlack Creek are spending time wit\i friends at Beaufort Miss Ahnie and Charlie Wee Round sp,tnt laat week with f near Walterbord Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Butler, last V/a<l(neBday wthl the la parents. Mr. and Mrs J M. Avi Classy F His Stomach Trouble's Over. Mr. Dyspeptic, would you no to feel that your stomach tre were over, that you could eat kind of food you degired wltiio Jury? That may seem so un to you that you do not even hoi an ending of your trouble, bu mit us to assure you that it is altogether impossible. If < esn be cured permanently, and sands have been, why not : John R. Barker, of Battle ( Mich., Is one of them. He "I was troubled with, heartburn digestion, and liver complaint I used Chamberlain’s Tablets,, my trouble was over.” Sold I dealers. Changer In the Colleton County phone Company. - - - . . ... Beginning with the new yea dirty clothes or tosee a hot gasoline ColIeton County Telephone Con smoothing Iron In his hand. Oh. he j ma( i e several changes In its opei didn’t mind work. Any and department. Hart Williams of labor was honorable to — ‘ . , . . I terboro has b”en appointed ma why? Just to make an honest dollar. ' and haB takf>n rh Mr wi] Would to God that the world were is a man of prar(lca , experien tilled up with just such men! This is how the Spaniard finished eoll”ge. Is it right to marry? If so, should ts\ a man marry at any time in life he ( - 0 anv chooses’ We'will leave thes” lines- ; ‘ the telephone business and is a \ man of the fin”st character , believed that the customers o Rudd weer oi/t* explain tha: alone could /erg'.- e us our That :t v .ts/mpe.- <!••’* ’or or.** human being to pray off o- forgive th * si;<s- of another human being That We tat/und ought t » pray for others, but th” pardoning was God’s part. Thu boy listened very attentively to tb<“*e great truths as the preacher delivered them and at the close of the message Ellas surr”ndered to Jesus This new step in the boy’j life was kept secret from his family and friends. On the sly Jje secur'd a Bible and read a portion of it each t -Mi uuansweigl. However i th‘ ir confidence bv giving the lost his- heart during his last y*’0 r | service. Miss Florrie Smoak. \yfio has the efficient day operator for a will approve of his pointment and that he will day. However never refusing his . o the Th B d<k(free i ailt sister to attend her to h“r church...— '* 1 . ... In this wise began Ellas Albert Vivas to first serve tbe loOrd During his twentieth year the boy came to America in ord o r to further specialize in Chemistry. He attended th” V’rgiata Polytedmic ln- situte entering the Sophomore clasi. In his f*>cond year he felt a call to the ministry and wrote his sister con cerning the matter His sister hast! ly answered his letter assuring him that if he turned Protestant sb** would not s”nd him another cent of nqiney and that she would see to it th»t none of the estate her father had left would ever be hi«. Now Ellas was up against a stump-to use a slang expression. If he goes at Richmond College and thus short. !;. after getting his degree h«* got a girl also. Isn't it marvelous how the hearts of boys and grils have at- fij-iiy 'or each other? Well. t*n»* Spaniard got married. H” married _ a Mi-s Pndie. daughter of Rev J. -V operator wilLbe Mrs Broderick, •Pudie. who was at that time eneageu j 8 a ( j aU jthf^ r n f j Lawren in Sunday-school supply work Rev. many years, d-sires a rest for while, and her position has given lo Miss Ambrosia Varn o city. For tho present the z Pudie. like most other preachers, did not have much loos" chuge to rattle in his pocket; but by sSriflCe he has been able to assist his son-in- law in getting a Seminary training. the .WalrerboroLtimber Co. Broderick has had a number years experience in operating a photf* exchange in Nw York and will, no doubt, prove an at modating and efficient operator yeit and by s”curlng a position as teacher in a night school at the city Y. M. C. A. he is back at old Louis ville again this year working for the Th. M. degree. We see from this meag”r sketch of this noble life great lessons for us Bowing down before images such as the image of the Virgin Mary. etr. Is not paying resp”Qt* to God For mality is not worship. Counting beads is not praying. Jesus and Hi* 'alone can pardon us of our sins This Godman is the truest friend man has. Johp 15:13 "Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for hts friends.” * Wt B. IN NOT A “(T RE-ALL” for horses, cattle, etc., etc. Bl IS A VALUABLE TREATM FOR HOGS AND POULTRY It does what we claim it does: to the seat of heg cholera tn by KILLING the germ and the an improvement from tbe first t ment- ANTIKOL is not a aerum; i taken into the system through food and drinking wslter, in ao ame with directions in each pad Sold and guaranteed by Shuptrine Compan: SAVANNAH. GA. Price 51.00 bj mail, postpa a