The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, May 21, 1909, Image 3
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FRIDAY, May 21. 1*09 ,
Our Batesburg boys have the ball
fe\ er bad and many of oui gen n
?ex have contracted the fever
Judging from the crowd that witness
the games at the fair grounds
Farmers are crying for rain, he
roads are deep in dust and the
weather man makes half hearted
promises The crops need
water an s if the drought keeps up
it will in many cases shorten the
crops, especially that of corn.
Cotton is still on the rise and
while the platform is not as much
crowded as heretofore the fleecv
staple continues to come in. Many
tarmers held for ten cents which
they have realized, but few, when
they saw that the market was going
higher held, and are still holding.
May their judgment be good.
Batesburg will have very shortly
fifty two street electric lights. Some
of the arc make and others of a new
pattern lately manufactured and of
the i?.-seeQe
V IS & . LC2K 0 t t
of towns oi S124 so : r y Hjjhlis
concerned rn. v > c.
night are bright and cheerful to belated
travelers.
The investigating committee of
the State dispensary is now in session
and if we are not greatly mistaken
there will be some good reading
of a spicy nature shortly for
the perusal of the public.
The committee have now all the
power needful at their command
and all those who have been secretive
or shy about giving information
will now have to come out and
tell what they know about certain
transactions or be handled for contempt
of court. The committee
have had many obstacles to surmount
and overcome in the past,
but the attorney general has stuck
to the matter with a bull-dog tenacity
that is seldom found in a
man holding a public office. If Mr.
Lyon's predictions fcome true, and
certain evidence is proved he can
get for the asking any office within
the giving of the people of South
Carolina without any effort whatsoever
on his part. Let the good
work go on.
OUR NEXT COUNCIL
We announce in this issue the
names of the men who will serve on
the city council for the next two
years. With the present mayor
and a council made up of men who
have proven themselves worthy of
confidence there is no reason to be
icvc mat our town anairs will not
? ably managed and conducted a
ong lines of economy and progressveness.
If we are not greatly in
error our voters will not for a minn;e
think of scratching a single name
on the ticket. E?ch an! every one
4 of the men mentioned are in favor of
better road and street improvements,
a clean town, suppression of lavvessness,
good sanitary arrangements,
efficient police protection
ind the general advancement of the
own's good.
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VETERAIS SPECIAL TO MCIPH18
TCB1. YIA SOUTHERN
* RAILWAY
For accommodation of the Confederate
Veterans and visitors to
I Memphis, Tenn on the occasions of
! the reunion June 8-10, the Southern
j Railway will operate a special train
known as the "Veterans Special." j
Leaving Columbia at 1;P.M Monday
June 7th running via Newberry,
Greenwood, Helton, and Greenville,
thetice Atlanta and Birm-ngham nr-!
riv'ng Memphis abo it noon June 8th
jTnis special will be composed c f;
first class coaches and Pullman
sleeping cars and will ; e in ;h?rgc
of Brigadier ,? : ;-.r ? Zi ;m : man
Dav's .n i Stall ?e ^a,) mied l.y
t .e c>tate S oonsors and Maids < f i
H >nor. Sou.hern Railway .jasjeng
representatives will give special attention
enroute.
For further information apply to
ticket agents Southern Railway, or
J. L Meek, A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga
W. E. McGee, T. P, A. Augusta Ga.
PELION NOTES.
Crops are looking fine considering
the dry weather.
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Quite a crowd was in our little
town Saturday and Sunday attending
quarterly conferen.e.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lybrand of
Swansea spent Saturday and Sunday
with Mr. D. F. Shumpert.
Mr. J. O. B. Lucas is having his
house plastered this week.
Miss Ruth kneece has just returned
from Limestone college.
We were very sorry indeed to
hear of the death of Mr. Zack Sturkie
this morning.
ur. u. K. Kneece spent Saturday
in Columbia on business.
Pelion has been accommodated
with another Rural Raute, Mr. J. H.
Laird is the carrier.
The Pelion Bap.ist church will
be dedicated the 4th Sunday in June
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I * van vine, IN. and Return.
Account of National Association
of T. P. A." S.f May 31-June 5th,
tickets on sale May 25 29 and 30
and for train suheduled to arrive
Asheville before 3:00 P. M. May 31
i909, final limit 30 days from date
of sale. Stopover privilegas.
Black Mountain and Ashville N. C.
and return.
Account Southern Student Conferance
Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A
Tlinf* Q..9H 1 QHQ An coU +
Asheville, June 7,8,9, and to Black
Mountain June 9, 10,11. Final limit
returning June 23, 1909.
Charlottesville, Va. and return.
Account Summer School University
of Virginia, June 18 - July 31
Tickets on sale June 15,16.17-28
July 5, and 12. Final limit returning
15 days after date of sale.
Los Angeles, Cal. and return.
Account B.P.O.E. Convention
July 11-17. Dates of sale May 31,
June 1, 2, Final limit Oct. 31 1909.
Louisville, Ky. and return.
Account annual session Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine June *-10, 1909. Dates of
sale June 5, 6, 7, return limit June
17 1909.
Memphis, Tenn.
Account annual remion United
Confederate Veterans Jure 8-10,
dates of sale June 5, 6, 7, return lim
it June 14. with exters'on to July 1st
by depositing ticket and paying 50
cents extra. Stopovers.
Seattle, Wash, and return.
Eccount Alaska- Yukon Pacific.
Exposition. Tickets on sale May 24
until Sept. 30th final limit returning
Oct. 31, 1909. Diverse loutes with
stopover privileges.
Excursion.
Summer rates in effect May 29th
to Sept. 30th final limit Oct. 31 1909
Convenient schedules and superior
train service at all points in all directions
via Southern Railway.
For information and detail, call on
a.v* -*gent of the Southern Railway
or address: T. L. Meek. A. G. P. A.
Atlanta, Ga. or \V. E. McGee, T. P,
. A. Augusta. Ga.
THE BAT
QUICKWORK.
A number of detectives were lounging
at headquarters awaiting assignments
and swapping stories. All but
one had told of some puzzling uase
_that he had solved and he was called
upon to help the party pass the time.
"Come, Billy," said one of the
number: "Don't sit there mum when
we're giving experiences. Tell us the
most difficult case you ever tuekled."
"You've all been giving thai kind
of cases. Suppose to vary the entertainment
I give you tho easiest case
1 ever tackled and you fellows guess
how I solved It?"
That's a good idea. Proceed."
"It was a case of identification, not
one to discover a criminal, though 1
solved that, too. afterward. When 1
was on the secret service force of the
town of Yardley a telephone came
from a farmhouse a dozen utiles In
the country that the dead body of a
man had been discovered lying beside
a road so stripped and mutilated
as to be unrecognizable. They
wanted a police force sent out to attend
to the matter. The captain told
me to take the patrol wagon and a
man or two and drive out to the
place where the body lay. 11c charged
me especially to find out the name
of the murdered man, since it is bothersome
for the police to keep a body
and it's bad policy to bury it without
identification.
"We drove out to the farmhouse
lroin which the telephone was sent,
where 1 found Parmer Bowers, who
led ine half a mile down the road
and showed me the body. Whoever
had done the job had taken great,
precaution to conceal the identity of
his victim. Why he diu so afterward
gave me a clew by which I brought
him to the gallows. The outer clothing
had been taken off the body, and
there was not a mark anywhere on
his undergarments. A small bit of
material bad been cut out at the bottom
of the shirt bosom, where shirtmakers
usually plaee the owner's
initials. As to the face, it had
been mutilated beyond recognition. I
looked for some defect em the body,
like a ntede or a birthmark, but there
I was nothing of th? kind. Ne> dog
whined beside his murdered muster.
indeed, there was no living thing
.(bout him.
"1 confess I was puzzled. The only
way 1 could see to find out who the
man was was to take the body to the
..olice station, publish the facts and
wait for claimants. Hut this was not
what the chief wanted. So I did a
hard job of taking in surroundings
and in fifteen minutes hit on an expedient.
Two hours and thirty minutes
after 1 arrived on the ground 1
had brought the murdered man's son
from a distance of fifty miles to his
father's body, which he identified at
once beyond the slightest doubt.
.v. vw mtic was no such article
of any kind whatever. Then
one man guessed that the cat mentioned
belonged to the dead man and
had his name and address on the collar.
The reply to this was that the
cat belonged on the farm where the
barn stood. Then there was a guess
that the man's son knew where his
father was and came of his own accord.
This would not do, for Hilly
had sent him a message to come and
where to come to. One superstitious
detective guessed that the murdered
man's ghost gave the necessary information,
and another suggested
that it was a case of mental telegraphy.
Finally every man gave up the
conundrum and asked for the solution.
The story teller resumed:
"Among the doves in the cot/ h>
said "I RRw npvorn I nf n dllfni-nnt
breed entirely from the rest. They
were fraternizing with the others going
and coining to and from the cot,
but not at all like them. The reason
why 1 noticed these apparent strangers
was because 1 have always had
pigeons on my barn at home, and 1
had never seen this variety before.
I had seen pictures of them, but I
couldn't remember the breed.
"While I was thinking a boy came
up to the crowd carrying a wicker
basket with a cover, lie said he had
found it a short distance up the road.
I couldn't see any connection between
it and the murdered man unless
possibly be had been carrying
something in it. Why it occurred to
me I don't know, but I connected it
with the pigeons.
"Suddenly 1 recollected. They
were carrier pigeons. It's wonderful
how rapidly sometimes one idea
will lead to another. Suppose these
interlopers had belonged to the murdered
man? Without waiting to
think about the improbability of such
a contingency I went to the barn,
climbed to the dovecot, caught a carrier
pigeon wrote on one of my
cards, 'Come at once to Bowers' farm,
one mile east of Garretsville,' tied it
to the pigeon's leg, carried him
away from the liarn and let him go.
"That pigeon must have flown with
incredible swiftness, lie was received
by the family of the murdered
man who owned him and who was
when killed taking his birds out on
a trial trip. Fearing something had
happened, the oldest son was commissioned
to answer the summons.
An express train left Just in time for
him to catch it, making hut one or
two stops before reaching G-rretsI
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Wea Lh of the United States.
The wealth of the United States today
is $120,000,000,000 or more than
that of its two nearest competitors,
i ftreat nritaln and France, combined,
livery successive sunrise sees $10,0-0,000
added to the market value or
the tangible property of the United
States.
ESBURQ ADVOCATE. May 211909
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.Six?? "few Ujp
There is no better nsset a man in
eft, possess than a clean-cut, well-dres:
cP appearance. Many a man has tailored
? to the conlidence ol absolute strange
ored his way through coldness and <
^ tailored himsell into lite opportunitie
jHjfc* tractiveness ol good clothes.
Good clothes are not necessari
^ clothes, but they are tailored cloth
{p clothes that lit you; your body and
a 1 it> ; clothes that agree with every li
^ of your physique. Only a tailor can t
?P like these! And here is a world tamo
tion of tailors waiting to tailor clot
^ And here we are, in your own town,
<P" take your measures. *
111 ('hieago and New York.The It
% operate the two largest and hest orj.
oring establishin nts in A nieriea.
These are tailor shops in the fullest sense <
every Royal garment is cut and draped to fit i
,ft, the order of the man who is to wear it. In thi
500 strikingly handsome and exclusive cloth \
your inspection. Think of that- a half athoi
cloth, in every imaginable design, weave and
even the most exacting man fail to suit his ta<
mour collection like this. And every pattern
WOOL. Wc want to make your Spring sui
j- make it even if we must risk its whole cost on
cP~ being able to suit you. Call on us to-day.
Merry & Jon
eft. Dealers in Royal Tailori
cP Old Niit'l lkink IVltPg. Next totiarhe
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Frofessioii.il Dinner Taster. I
An out-of-the-way profession for a J f \\T'
woman Is that of dinner-taster She I W C W 1
King's Son in Almshouse. lithe I h
Wanilo, son of the late Hehanzlnr
once" King < !' Dahomey, not being on AHvPftl
any Frem li state pension list for two
years past, has been kept at the almshouse
in Hilda, but now the French - _
government has provided him with a
pension of $lf> a month. i.lllo ;i(l\
ftfi.OO for
Mania for Things English. l'iuilo il<i\
In remote villages of the Salzkani- ^( * ,
niergut, Hungary, the mania for j '^.i
things English is so strong that tho ' " l?tu
postboys frequently remove Eugllsh Dn lit < 111
stamps from letters and substitute Mr. .loh
Hungarian, thus delaying the deliv- ('hurlot I <
ery ?f tt Olironktle,
('harlot t<-:
A Paradise for Hunters. oi'S of (hi I
T.ions an* plentiful in Portuguese I ,. ' '
East Africa, and flint region is a *?*' " 1 -M
paradise for lumters of big game. lh'ioijs S\ i
In some sections the authorities otter < ( " will
a reward for each lion's head brought CN)!it?'Sl in
in. and thev permit the hunter to j . i?k)<|
keep the skin. ' ' ,, ' '
_ < mo. Sejitf
Queen Eugenie's Ambition.
Queen Vie*n t Eugenie of Spain is
i t u'lf I f. i.. J?. J .i.
Of being mil sidoretl the best-dre-M'd _
queen in 1C111<>; Her figure has im- wllclM*
proved great 1> since she was a girl Mann I
The bigot ia often a big it. Artistic S
Sticff Mel
Five Millions for a Tomb.
The Empress Dowager of China Is 5
feeling the weight of her years, and
Is anxious to have her last restin ; SoulfltM*
place made ready before she Is "invited
to become a guest of heaven." cSomething
like one million pounds J
has alrciuh been spent on the pro- , ^
f.osod mausoleum, west of Pokin, ,
designated "the happy land of a
myriad years." North China Her- Q ||
Rid, Shanghai.
Death of Glass Snake.
A glass snake owned by E. V. M ('lit i<>[
Windsor, of ilurnet, England, r<?contly
died after a continuous fast .
of 237 dnys The lust time the sunk > * ? ???_?
wan fed was ou June 1, 1904, when
It ate a small frog. From that time
until lta death, on February 2, 1905, Imolosio
although repeatedly offered food. It Ev. i>. t
Jte nothing. Until a weok before p i
ath It appeared In good health j p.vS |an.i 1 i.,,
i And wai at times lively. The bod/ tp,. S(>;|
showed no sign* of emaciation. j |Ur it |?.
t )i < preasuri
It 1* wonderfu'. what r comfort*- two and on. )
ble doetrlne the survival of the ft*. irj(.|, (|lM
{tact is to tboso who survive. ,
~ on the piston c
Hello Mame! 1 thought you got la
yards of that remnant r.obon?" Que.n Aiexan
"So I did, hut the floorwalker penal- ,j ( v
i/ed me 10 yards for slugging.''?1-ou- woni tiv
i.sville Courier-Journal. j onslol,
... - , . | and in which "Yes,
Ilrown. Is always getting the ((, h ,
cart before tho horse " ' ,;ir, .
"My dear boy. don't be archaic; rrhjs ()|
owadadys we say getting the smell (|
before the automobile."?IJfe. H 1(M
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rWtW REAL EST7
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^ Town Lots
i'4iI One nice hou
f m vian<^ ^?**acres
'r'; imi^tjin Batesbarg f
^ yi s sale or will tra
T^I&mfor farm land.
Prompt Service
this ape can With us it is a quick
sed personal If you want to buy,
I his way in- ^ we'll get it.
as ?has tail- If yOU Want to sell,
distrust- has ^
4 Batesburg 1
ly expensive v
es they are w. j. mccartha, manage*
your personihe
and curve jjk Bat<
nake clothes _
US oipJUIZa- .ofr?. .rvay. s*&r-.
lies lor you. W W ^ & * * &
waiting to ^ p.
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Utilized tail- ^ ITLOOSl1
of the term; for
the measure and 'T^
is store there are 'fy S" 11111
>atterns awaiting * Mill
isatul samples of V" .
coloring. Can ? ck . \ - , 1^'
>te in an enor- -*W&
is ALL PUKE Jo ?fr. V
t. We want to C- '4" . -J
the chance of >pies,
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' 1 ' ' " romplinu-nt <?r seems to nio you sit 11
" it. who always hail tlrelv too Into with my daughte
"Don't worry about that, air,
blled Nervey. "1 never require
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fTE BARGAINS
iproved
j Farm Lands.
I Three elegant 'arms within
np,tour miles of Batesburg.
I Well watered. In a good
state of cultivation. A
splendid water power can be
l/i~?i -
I uuvuiupeu 011 one.
01 Iract No. 1 contains 33 acres and
t a 4-room house.
00 Iract No. 2contains 172 acres and
new dwelling.
Tract No. 3 contains 125 acres and
comfortable house.
Terms of sale One-Fourth
(WSl 1, balanee on time secured
hy mort^a^oot"premises.
; sale and a cheap price,
let us know what you want,
see us, we'll sell it.
leal Estate Co.
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3anks, Pirms, Corporations and i
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SUITS FO?
YOUNG MEN
Youny HH'ii like to keej
111> with t he procession. The\
want the thiny in suits.Thex
like new styles, and we now
have ready, a luaynilieent
k i! isplay of new spriny suits,
it All the new fabrics and
si lades.
$12.50 $15, $18.50
Siny le and double 1 >reaste?I
complete I.ne Kuri)ishinys,
1 1 at s, 1 nde " wea r, etc. ('all
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Till: CL<, i i;IEk,
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