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• f'. I I /I ) Not A Tack —Not A Nail Billiken Shoes Are made with out a tack or nail; t f the soft est, -toughest leather known. .cn broad, sensi- Me, ini; r- vcj f.- t- f rm — ’he m jst per/cs.t child's *h * ever made—The one sh e a child out grow*. B.uv “Billiken” Shoes and let the children r« mp and play to tb< if heart’*, content w :th< ut an noyance to you, in- ‘ jury to the home or disc* mfort to tlicm- telvcs. The growing feet of children are easily irritated by stiff sole* or narrow shoe*. “Billiken” Shoes are made by special ists in the largest shoe factory in the world, devoted exclu sively to the manufacture of Children’s High Grade Shoe*. The soles on “Billiken” Shoes ire Pure Oak Flexible Leather—the softest and most pliable leather kn .vn, being especially prepared to w ithstand hard service. The absence of nails, tacks, etc.,, prevents the children scarring the tl.crs and furniture. The soft soles render the shoes n i»e!e>*. Flexible soles make them as comfortable as a moccasin. The durable leather makes them as lasting as a man’s heavy shoes. And they arc extremely styliih. Get your dealer to show you “Billilccns” McElroy • Sloan Shoe Co. St. Louis, Mo. 25 SILK SAMPLES FOR 10c We have thousands of New Clean Silk Samples (1'rummers’ samples) all approximately the same size, 2J by 6 inches. Just the thing for crazy quilts or s* fa pillows. Se»d 10c mi Stiver or Si amps Hooey Back if aof Satisfied BICKER MERCANTILE CO. Silk Exchange Bldg. St. Louie, Mo. \ l /^\UR packages, sold through your *own home millinery store, contain elegant materials and full instructions, for making beautiful latest style hats for all occasions. Any woman or child who can "sew can make a stylish “mithnered" hat the first time. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send us the name of your local dealer and we will mail you C atalog with pictures of the new Fall and \\ inter styles. FASHION MILLINERY CO. 3860 Olive Street St. Louis NO. 13. T CONFERENCE «liM MiniMer* l«enve for An nual fopference. JOSEPH GLOVER MEETS TRAGIC DEATH SUNDAY On March the llth, 1ft72, was formed a partnership out of which has grown * One of the Greatest Shoe houses in the World that of the Hamilton, Brown Shoe Co. ( with an annual business of approximately $13,000,000.00 It has truly been said that Mr. A. D. Brown was the father of the shoe manufacturing business in St. Louis. 1 le started with a capital of $23,000.00, and in a little more than forty-three years this little business, without a single dollar from any other held, has become the present institution, which has approximately 5,000 employes and has paid them over $4 3,000,000.00 in wages, an average of $1,000,000.00 pey year. Our.employes and families, if located in one place, would make a yity of almost 25,000 inhabitants. / . ••• \ We Operate Seven Big Specialty Factories With a Capacity of A Pair of Shoes Per Second, or 60,000 Pairs Per day Methodist ministers of the South Carolina »Conference Ms week in attendance upon mua| conference at Florence, •ssions of this conference will | ue during the week and will ate with the reading of the ssignments next Monday. It known whether all the mtn- tn charge of charges in this will he returned, hut, it U tood there will be some s. B. L. Knight, who has been e year at Hendersonville, has 0 the 1’pper South i’arollnx erne, and’ this will necessb new pastor for this charge, f'has. It. Smith, who has »t Walterhoro only one year andny afternoon for the con- It ts expected that he will irnrd. other ministers from this or having charges in th»s... arc Uev J. 1) Bell. Kuffln;|in . S. I*eslie, Smoak*; - KeV. tl. MtH. t’ottageville; Iti'v. F. K. . Lodge: Kcv Paul K rros- »dItcv. Shuford Feldi'r. dt Kills Himself by Accidental Dis* charge of Gun While In Boat Near Jacksonboro EATH INSTANTANEOUS Two I a ukU From Shot (inn Enter Head of Young Man and Body Falls Into Water. Jr During the forty-three years of our business we have shipped a grand total of over $237,000,000.00 Worth of Shoes A tragedy which has shocked the entire community was the acci dental killing Sunday afteruoon of young Joseph (Hover at BlachofT’s plantation near Jacksonboro by the peridental discharge of a Ran. Mr. .(Hover and J M. McKcnxte wore In a small boat in one of the ditches a rice field. Mr. Clover sitting in the rear of the boat was rowing. Vpon reaching a turn in the ditch. Mr. McKineU* states that he noticed that Mr. (Hover stopped his cars and almost immediately he l eanl the discharge of a gun. Quickly glancing hack he sa" Mr. (Hove- In a standing posture, falling into the water, with the top of his head shot oft Mr. McKenzie endeavored to reach the falling body but could not follow ing''appeal Is vouched prevent its falling into the water, persons of repute, and if any (The effort t"* nreVent this eaused the of The Press and Standard { boat to upscr . 1 Mr. McKenzie was is also thrown into tb >‘er. which fortunately was not more L.:r» four om It May ('oncern: ( feet in deapth. He succeeded hi so well known as "the shut-, getting the body into the boat which and author” tliaj I feel was pushed to the bank, and after introduction to the read-, sometime he was able to get assist ance. Going hack to where his au tomobile was lefL^ Mr. McKenzie ts to Purchase a Typewriter > aid the yourfg man. it an,] will lie appreciated: Concern: We are Quality shoemakers—We have studied Why? Because Quality — worked on Quality—thought Quality — until we know nothing else but to make Quality shoes, and this trade mark stands for Quality stronger to-day than ever before. Go to the Hamilton-Brown dealer in your town and ask to see the Season's New Designs and Patterns. * Hamilton, Brown . Shoe Company ST. LOUIS. U. S. A. et al this paper is not necessary; •ihprt sketch of niy life and • ill not he out of place, in tiled to run it what is to follow, a shut-in, in my thirtieth I am not able to do manual the body. f any kiniL I to where he had left hut it got stuck In the mud. and it was sometime before he was able to get the bndv in and am self-edu- make the return trip to Walterhoro. *ntjr years The killing took place about live they reai he 1 Walter* Ter w i| longer turn ouTTf to impress editors favoniF therefore, have to gt-t er. M-opIc everywhere have le nil-. kind me. oftei v poverty pinched mo t anil ds v. • to urgent in tl * * oi.i t ihulion tCom a n i n tdi .in r I as I to lift nit* i i \ -id f an )tf»- 1 a help erod by any of the representatives in the general assembly, has been dft-eusse,i at length by the. people of the county, ai d it now appears that it will be presented to the cit izens in meeting on next Monday. During the last two years, this younty has had some good roads built, and the taste of them i.s so sweet until progressive citizens are considering the means of extending them to all parts of the county. It is realize/ that lack of funds rais»-,l by direct taxation will make tin impossible for years to come, and tb** experience of othet counties in th:^ Htnte and elsewhere wtih iuclu a proposition is being cited in far or M the bonding of the county <n a si Mh umt amount to ron dm* ?' good nN over the entire rnuyr*- T’ i 1 *« of t!i' d»-l <• : t !'.-stion js unders»frt*f> t.) be -: • ill ii/'portant matte rs. Tins woui'l - n'tjng. for ^Instfmrt’ons, w : • * v as a ch*ok on the otfice and them, - so far a< pan I*** learned, b*- wain'.! nss 't materially the highway it pledged or having taken atn rom: il-sionei in performing the i t.ieti ^ on-'the question. Tht* f-ie.-tion< assigned to Mtn. This I * i o p fjKft i e *> will probably ov t - e •’ o*l of solving- the problem shadow any other tii he d*s' iis^<'<l .n would le* in*-\p**nsi\e an*l compel the mas- meeting; and considerab’* ♦•nt. e!ect*-d offl'-ials being respon- int'.*fe,st is being ^timtilated in It ■ ible to tb* people not only for the with more and more citizen-*. -Mict a(lminisj.ration of the affairs expr.-ssiiiR themselves as luing in t ejr ofbee but also in a mens* faror of ty. If action he taken at nr - for tb* general (ondu*t of tiie the General Assembly in January on livis-ue^-- of the county, causing ’his proposition jt witi-.r*'s'ilf purely economy combined with good busi- from the holding nf this mass meekness judgment t<» he practiced in trt i nese ii dins xi n- iicm t*i in* «fii \ “ii- ienc<y the travelling public. This <hange is^dijrought about by the term ination of the contract between the roads, and efrom a belief on the <-f the extension road that it ran operate the trains more cheaply than the (’oast Lin*- is doing. board of ,lir. yrbt s or supervisory committee frpfii the other county of ficers upoTK which hoard the fore man Of >? •' gr.rfid jury woul,] serve as a pteniber The idea as express ed call- for a supervisor ,(<mmiit** i<*i’sitting ot two county of('ofaIs. the p •■i-sii'T an*l ; lid it or having b* mi aggest»‘fT, and the fcrein.Tn Tf tl'** gran'l jut\. whos«* duties wouM be io -iipCivi-* the afTaii** of the f P . of highway commissioner, a ! \..mi ror.f* vring with him in .VI I I »•«««*»» » i • . ix i i t« , ♦ • .. i « . hoi o. se-eondaiy superinten*!*nt W F. Willis. Cottacoville, a*lii!l su|ieiintendent. J. I> 1'ti-ey. Round. |*ii.m! : : *1 ! i i« t sMo. 1 W W. Smoak. Walterlxito. p • idciit district No 2 V <’ I’adgett. Smoak-, pr* l*Jit di-trift N'<> 2, I> M. Vatat, Lhi hardt. r»r* d- nt di-t “i< t No I J .1 Padgett. Walti'bnii'a w * electeil e\e* uti\*' comipiit**- a. l ii** Jos. M Moorer. n i-fgn* ’ The resolutions <>*ici iitr*'i* I 1 M i\'at-n clnirnian. etlcii-*! the t* ' o J vug ieso.lntions, which were ’ le,| In a tisiar vot^v* 1! Tb: » a rHt'r vot<> o* j I *> giv* n I** fh*- good peopb * tirhoro jtlr the excellent v* hi* !> tf V\ ha\*- «>nteriaii,i eorpvintion ami lo“ their ahapi' JrOsnMalitv to u-: That a \ot*- of .-fliaiil-. given to Tlie pc s ajvtl Ston 1 city limits <>f my crippli I ••an h is ^lt tiated and ('hd-e, slopp hoth Pjrl.d owner t a“e th* 1 Tollow in;* I G. Padgett ^ than f W vay, \ty cd rba a;a .' • t ing and the opportunity afforded foi the expression of\puhli senti- nicnt and county desire , •There are many other topics which are being discus ••d. titnong these the form of countv eoYernment comes in for a liberal fraught with and onpont un handling the office such grave liabilities Hiesxto fh** p« ople The sto* k law being discussed and probably a resolution will be introduced looking to the calling of an election on this que tiofi l-aln- cational matter*- are being talked portion of opinion At the lastj meeting of the General Assemble the J of and the county’s pd-ucational of- offli-e of Township (’omnii-Toner feers wrll prolMtdy have soine in- was abolished, and the ent're man- 'novations and reforms to present to the fieople generally an*l to the <b'l- egation AH in all this appears rf> be a great get together meeting of powers are too plen- th“ people of the county for tie* 1 purpose of considering the common the devising of njeans ■igement of the county's financial ’'flairs was vested in the Highway f ontmissioner. There " are niaov ho think his . v . and many are suggesting f°rent form of government On** j welfare and member of the delegation, it is un -and legislation looking to the pro- derstood, favors the formation of a J motion of the public good. ; i d a d ‘ •ii' lie of i for its gereifnis ei vt* e in ing iliis convention and. i heart v w hob- -ortbsl coopei .it im editor. Mr. W \V SmoiiK. 2. That we move a vote or * ir sincerest apjirecipli(*n for i 1 ' *’’ dent services rendered by tl**- St i' - Sunday Si Inxd Association, tin d'-’h Mr R 1> Webb, the gene*:! • !*■ tary. a;»d Mis- Agnes Hav* rel. * b- nient^rv superintendent 4 That we move that Poll, toft county set as her aim in co intv Sundae school work, the field Star -tandard. \ L.-* railroad to Ritters, froi il’hes. thence following the dirt toad hy way of Moineaus cross roads the Pringle Rend, f om theme a straight line to the Harta Cudda mad. -an 1 along that road to th Walterl orb; from Jb* rue a -trrdht line to ti e boginning, Tills (jiStlict bet w * «■ n (»r* .iL Sw ant;i * (’reek with, :* naturul ways. Tl><> principal in 1’ e pTopO e.j Ugt r i*-t It II WWiinan. 1 Wichtnaii. J. Peurifoy, R; T II ■’i* t. S smoak. W 4l. Gruber, “'PaiilJdtn < is.* K l.. L* niaejet? and GXv*. I.in ' ■ ii'l<‘iIn ail'Ktion to/fr* .• •••<■ uyniiv small Iia< t ml o w '^■'disti ieL" e-mat m i io, iV-hoiii jiA'- U'-aitilv in* f.iv,..-. ,, 1 I'loposif Ion i Th ns if i* < viiceted iImI th, .car of 1 n 17 will witness th* lici: :*' n* inf the realization of the ^ri-at dmam for year in this tertjitory. that i - a w * 11 drained coastal plain, w '* t! * many small farms and - exf«]]enti lands well cultivated by thoq * ml of owners. A • onipnehetisixe plan of i drainage, eohsistently <ariie*l out will ‘'convert, this entim State and j the rno\enr<vd will be given great impetus, it i hop*d, by tUv sucres^ of this first district ip <Mine as from the depth.*: in the darkest tv ver forget tie- t wer e my cause laid be- worbl. the p*-i.|»le would see' at happiness in some in«xis- lld he mine s much as I could l shrank iblb it> Not as a hegga v ish to make myself known: vould 1 give in return th* 1 t I have to give fnr vain*- , than to say to the public. am. help mq up.” fore I have struggled on all weary, heart-breaking >»ar to learn to write for pay, an*l I ban almost icailied ttie goal of pi' toayr’s de-lre. Never again ehall th** liurd**n. and resporsibillties of *1 life -*-<-in preate- Mian in bear. - o ■ „ Kn< oin ^g* d 1>\ The State and s* \ • ral olhei gond pa|»ers whUh ha\ pubjislied iti< story and appeal for « ont iitnitjffns wTtti -wliieh to Inn : typ»*wei1'cr fi-i me. a mmement In 1 ft* ,| w la. ! b**|- fat to ' *1 cc* ‘I b * nse enough to Inn (!**• -writinV machine . N'*»W I c . *1 not *H * e* d a W ri* I v it limit a go**,] ' \ p* writ r <ven *f I did not hav* w ri i i'a nami* * , f kindly ask every reader of paper to help me 1*.| ope l*\ cu tributing to ipv < ih'w riter fun* You ma> semi monex in am v :• mo-1 convenient to von and • II prompt I v acknoubil*’* nvi con triluti**!!. \'ld ,, a- ■ •’It* n Iton.-", "StiuGI F 1» 1. Ito.x II. Filbert. Sy(\ death by the arcT a gun in tils own hands. No blann* attaches to Mr. McKenzie in tlv> matter, and while *1he tr.agefly ia deeply t*< In deplored, it la looked upon as one of those haptotilrit 1 which will ever t*e inexplicable. I* is supposed the yotttjg man raw a ehntue to qill a duck, and pteqed up the gun.*a hammerless one. which was discharged bv coming in ertn- tact with the bottom of the boa* The' gun was iicover**! and it wa * , found that both barrels had been ! fired. Mr McKenzie was a clout, friend of the deceased and he is terv" rihly broken over the tragie* , en<JiflR of this trip. , ' Joseph Bellinger Gloyef was a bright young man^JTaviug just juissed his majority^ being a Ilttl' 4 more than 21 veal's of age He was a son of Mr *hd Mrs. J. B. Glover. Sr. His death is greatly deplored. nd expressions of sympathy have been numerous. The funeral was held Monday af- teinoon at his father’s residence In the presence of a large number of his fibml and relatives., Rev. R L Hood conducted the funeral services, winch w.-'ie fol’nwed by interment in Live <>:ik cemetery. Tl/ pall liCai* ’ w* re A Z Sears*jif^ M Mai b v. R ■ niond I’altepson, <’ J Bearh. M: iv.y BadmtL ami Walter Sandifer. y/ FROM HONOU’LU R BOX PAHTV \T SMDFBS The School Improvement A'-o riation of the Sniders school will give a box party oti Friday night. Dec 1 beginning at 7 o’clock The public i- cordially invited. G B Herndon. of was in town early this Herndon Is selling the trie lighting system homes. Kitta wville. week. Mr Deleo Klecv for country I \\ FILING * , - Nfoiiniuetit l'nv(*il<*«l Sunday at —(tn*ek (Vnu*tery. Molleton YV*ith appyOpriattv is-remonieg, tb<* presenrx* of ;• large numger countv. Much credit for the statu of this district necessarilv- goes ,o 'Y’.odmen and mter.^ed spectators, the executive seretarv. S L Be|d.. , ^' "^ument recently Retell v and the other officers of the Ko.tth- ^ 0 " r Krav “ ‘V ' * rn Carolina Association who have!‘W^* a deceased niemlM^ was so consistently presented this F re : itf ,nv ^- <i’»'te ;i number of prom question for the last few months. •’r.d St-ndaf'd leys nd- iilis* i iber to its li-ts this W M :i \ in.-oj Honolulu, a-nt in a tudney, order for a siibscription to The ! * THandard * HHl” has • nds in Cotbdoti wjio will t,. ktio'.. that he has goo*l in his far western home. far Ue-liun that it took hl|» let- twelve davs to reach its degtl- nhMin. It will he recalled that Mr. Marvin graduated f’om Clerilgotl j College, eb*< i ileal department, and after marrying Miss Mary Cooaer, In! who was h teacher in the W:\ltet- of j boro sehoo1.\vvent out t,o thy IJOV- aiian Islands to accept a position with the Hawaiian^ Kleidrb' Com- pany. Ltd., whi* h pnetiion he has held since. He has received many promotions and is todav high up inent VS’ (t W. members took part j in Hie management of this company, in the unveiling ceremonies, assisf- Dis. TO BF M \BBIFD •*d by the Omega Degree team in charge of (^a|>t. J. K. Morris. C. N. Langdale, deputy organizer for Invitations have tieett issuml to « olleton couaty. made the principal the marriage of Mi*s Annie LuciV address; the f*de being r*-ad by R Thomas and Mr/ John Clinton M Jefferies. Esq. J. J Fender Hogge. on Wednesday afternfmn. acted as Councillor Pomniandei- Dee. 2ftth, at Hie home of the bride’s»The ceremonies were very impres- parents, Mr and Mrs. J F. Thoftvns *tve and were well Carried out, near RiU4*r B. IL Smith, of Bamberg county, was In Walterhoro Monday, Mrs. At*** Bennett, of Lodge, wan in town Monday on business and also visiting relative*. Thinking of these things, make* the writer of this, who was a ftdlow hoarder at Mrs. Henderson’s popu lar hoarding house at the time Hal and Miss Conner were there, fg>d that he is not quite as young as h** on* e was. Terupus Digits, eh. Ha’? Walter Brinale, of Charleston, was in Walterhoro Friday. Mr. I’pngle is a prominent hanker and business man of that city, and also owner of Considerable property la Walterhoro. /\