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K v ' ? ' * ~~ . '"j WeBATESBURG ADVOCATE A TRI-COUNTY PAPER. ESTABLISHED 1001 BATESBURO, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 9. iq09. STOPPER ANNUM ALL THE NEWS OF THREE COUNTIES CONDENSEDT j - - _ i - V ???????S?S????S???????? o 8 GEORGIA RAILROAD BANK. 8 8 Augusta,Ga. 8 4) O Capital and Surplus - - Soso.ooo.oo. O <* ? : L_. OW This bank solicits the accounts of Firms. Cor- O ft q porations and Individuals, extending every Jf f$ accomodation consistenl with good 45 & banking. ?! %y 81, ; i Dollars Vanish ; v |y i t With mysterious rapidity when you 35 j '?/ , j) have them handy to spend: It seems rag ; i K V ' * Cllr'h '1 thinii' f/\ cnonil <tnn \t\r tlitc- m? ! ! _ . , 11 iiiuv I'' O^/VIIU Wilt IU'1 lllld WV \1 \\ 'h. or two for that. You wouldn't feel like 3 | x 1 I 'J spending if you had to draw a check on fyfc C,T,ZENS BANK I of Batesburg, S. C. a)* M&m That is a strong reason why you ! j ^ should open an account there. It pre- < i '\ ^IhhI vcl,ts use'ess spending, which is the jS ma'n rcason why most people have no COCO C????????????????? O o I or New Buildings ? O We carry the finest line of Hardware to he found in any store. Architects, Builders and J? J* Contractors will find our line of goods the new J? est in design, the most adaptable and improv- J? }2 ed, and of liighest standard of merit in uuality 5J ? ;iiul durability. O || BEST READY ROOFING KNOWN. JJ; 5J VTLCANITE HOOFING: Vulcanite Rubber Hoof- 5J 19 ill.. io * ~ All /II. 1 au.i|ai;u lUl UBC UU All UlilSSOS OI I > 111 l( i 11 l^K, V 45 Flat or Steep roofs, such as Factories, Foundries, 45 45 Freight Houses, Machine Shops, Freight (';ir Bo?u's o Farm Bit ildi ugs. Best lor ALL BUjUMNLS 45 j where Bconomy and Durability are desii. i. 4) ?| ? Lorick & Lowrancc, - 8 <> Phone. 79, 791 and 166. 9 8 COLUMBIA, S. C. ? \\ Mark Twain 4) 8 Says "You can't tell by looking at a frog how 4) 4) far it will jump" Nor can you tell by looking at the 4) 4) picture of a watch how far it will run. Let us show 45 45? you the watch, and then we are right {here to make 45 45 it run if necessary, and we will adjust and regulate it 45 it \ t r 111 lit (.nKlt" -? * ^ f ."?* / II Will 111 yi^ui ?iauii5 iUin Keep periect tune. 4)1 0 C, L. Jones, Jeweler and Optician, i) Batesburg, S. C. S ~ COTTON MARKET. Mr D K Jones spent Sunday in I Seivern. ISatesluirg Spot I2c. . Mr Carl Drafts visited relatives All those having visitors will con- in L?sville Sunda"' fcr a favor upon The Advocate by Mr G c Holstein of Monetta was sending in their names on or before ^ere ^unJayThursday of each week. Mr W W Miller returned lrorn Springfield Sunday. 1 t | Mr W C Bates spent Tuesday in I er SOna 1 S Columbia. ? Mr A C Jones has gone to the'j Mr Helton Boylston of Augusta nt>rthern markets. 5 is spending a few days with Mr J B Mr John F Steadman spent SunHartley. day in Columbia. I." ? 1? 1 r* 1 mtaais neu vrarucugc ana itcu Mr ]jUgh O'Neal of Augusta was Wise spent Sunday in Columbia. here to see his mother who was very Mrs H G Cullum spent Wednes- ill. day in August >. j^r cur^j3 Galium who is with the Miss Edith Spann is visiting in citadel Minstrel spent Sunday with Aiken. homefolks. Mr and Mrs M 1! Edwards Mr and Mrs. W. II. Timmerman turned Mrs L C Hartley M.sses Delia a, d (rom Columbia s>turday. Anna 1 lartlcy returned luesday from Lexington. Misses Tullie Branch and Elvira Judge Robert Aldrich of Barn- Whitten left yesterday for Aut^sta. well spent Sunday night here on his Mr Kellers Mitchell spent Saturway to Salu la. i day in Ciraniteville. i 1 PROTRACTED MEETING 11 METHODIST CHURCH A special meeting will be held a the Methodist church begnning nex Monday night and running aboui eleven days. The first three days thp nasfnr* of frh^ frown Rmc Wi. Hundley, and Cantey will do th< preaching. On Thursday, 15th Rev E. S. Jones, of the South Carolina Conference will arrive and preacl morning and evening to the close o the meeting. All the christian peopl< Df the town are urged to join in pray cr for this meeting. FOR RENT. A large store building fronting or Main and Grani'e streets. Kent rea >onable. Di L. M. Mitchel > Mr Tom Turner of Vaucluse anc Mrs Irene Cook of Bath are th< quests of Mr and Mrs Clintor Rhoden. Miss Essie Stokes is visiting Mr; Veal Gunter at Seivern. Miss Mattie Etheredge of Colum bia is the guest of Miss Hattie Eth eredge. Prof W E Black left Wednesday for Winnsboro and will go on t< Charlotte N C Saturday. Miss Hattie Bess Cullum returnet from Trenton Saturday. Mrs Furman Quattlebaum return ed Tuesday from Seivern. Mr Sidney Holstein of Monett and Mr Pyles of F"la were her Tuesday. Mrs Eugene Azetta is visiting he parents at Clouds Creek. Mr Ernest C Harman is visitin; relatives in New Brookland and Co lumbia. Mrs Strickland and children o Columbia visited Mrs W H Hodg this week. Mr Leland Youngblood is visitinj his parents in Charlotte N C. Miss Effie Gunter is visiting he sister in Leesville. Mr Thompson Long of Batesbur, K F D was in town Wednesday. Mrs Flora Youngblood left fo Spartanburg Monday where she wil make her future home. Tj Tr*ii ' " mis i\o5s rvunngswortn or v^oium bia was the guest of Mrs W I Hodge this week. Misses Carrie and Cornelia Gleni are visiting in Augusta. Mrs I B Merry and children ar spending sometime in Augusta. Miss Geneva Jones has returne< Irom Jonesville. Mrs H F beaver and childre: have returned to Augusta. Mr Ira C Carson spent Sunday a New Brookland. Misses Zailee and Elizabetl Rhodes returned to Augusta Wed nesday. Misses Theora and Erline Bodi were recent visitors to Ward. Mr L C Etheredge of Columbi was here Wednesday night. Mrs Julia Holston of Edgefiel paid Batesburg a brief visit thi week. Mrs I I R Murchison and childre returned to their home r.r Bishor ville WeflnMftair Mrs W H Marvin an'! ch!!''rn hare returned to Charles'? n Mrs F E CulV'Ti and children a' vi^ 1 *inj? relatives in Atlanta. Mr Virplnus Cnllum was a recn visitor to Lexington. > Dr. E. C. Rider1! spoke at th Assembly hall in Ne-.v Rrooklan* on Sunday last. Dr Ridgell made a very earnest aj peal for prohibition. Misses Jessie Oxner and Narcist Verdie Steele of Cohimba hav been the delightful guests ol Mi? Enise Rawl for a few days. r RIDGE SPRING DEFEATS THE SEM. INOLES. ' ' THE FIRST CINE LOST 6T THE I BATESBURC BOTS THIS SEA SOH. 1 1 j On Tuesday afternoon the Sem? inoles played Ridge Spring on the c Batesburg grounds. The grounds were muddy and slippery but the Ridge boys put up a game that astonished even their own home rooters. The score was 6 to 15 in ^ favor of Ridge Spring but not eveD 1 with such a one sided game was - their any ill feeling and the Ridge 1 boys went home covered with glory having defeated such terrors of the diamond and the Batesburg fellows I just came home and said nothing. : WANTS WATERWORKS j > CITIZENS OF LEXINGTON HOLD J EUTHUSiASTIC MEETING. ? Lexington July 4?An enthusias- t tic meeting of the citizens of Lex- p ! ington was held Friday eveaing, the a 3 purpose of which was to further con- p sider the proposition of the town's 1 i securing waterworks and electric lights. The committee appointed at i the last meeting a few weeks ago to p inquire into the cost of installing a t waterworks system made its report. I a It is estimated that the cost will be t c something like $15,000. and the com j mittee recommended that the chair- I x man, Mr S. J. Leaphart appoint a < committee of three to canvass the < town with petitions to secure the 1 necessary signatures tor ordering an election, on the proposition of bond- i ing the town. i The matter of securing electric < e was deferred, pending developments : which it is thought will enable the < y town to secure lights at a very small cost. It seems certain that the town r will secure water .vorks, and not in a 1 far distant future. I HAVING KILLED WIFE 1 ; NEGRO KILLED : HIMSELF. ; 1 BODY or HAN WHO ALLOWfD | TRAIN TO HUN OVER B1MIDEN-" " TIFIED AS THAT OF JOSH CREW ' ( e Aiken, July 5?A party of Aiken j men returned late last night from j Denmark, where they went to iden- 1 tify the negro who was killed by the train. The gentlemen found that the n negro was Josh Crews, who foully , murdered his wife Thursday afterit noon. The identification was perfect and there remains no doubt about the negro as being the one who was wanted in this county for this mur1_ der. Sheeriff Raborn was one of the e party, and two of the near relatives of the negro were with him. a They report it was surely suicide. They say the negro deliberately made himself a palate or temporary 1 ' bed upon the railroad trafck, upon" s which he laid down to await the coming of the train. n It is stated here that the negro had killed two p<rtons previous to this killing. It is now stated he was wanted in Alabama for killin a wife pre"1 viou to this one. and also that he had killed a negro in Georgia. It was doubtless the fear of having to stand trial for one or all these crimes that caused him to end it all. Notice of Hlection. There will be an election at Hulon If I . school house on Friday July 16J from 2 to 4 o'clock p. m. for the purpose cf voting to repeal the )- # special 4 mill tax levy for school purposes in district number 19. ta G. M. Adams, 'e Chas. 11. Kneece, 5s J. P. Copeland. Trustees. BATESBURG AND1 LEESTILLE PROGRESSIVE 1 tF THKY WORK TOGETHER THEIR EFFORTS WILL BE CROWNED WITH SUCCESS. Mr. Editor:I trust that you and an indulgent public will pardon this inoffen;ive intrusion upon their attention ince I have long since been interestid in the welfare and progress of his particular section of our much ? >eloved country. 3 I know of no community superior- * y blessed to this one. We have wo thriving towns, Batesburg and * -eesville, within a stones throw of c ach other, each of which are pur- 1 ueing the "even tenor" of their 1 >rogress independently of the other c rhey ought to work together. There * s no telling what progress could be ' ittained if they should combine 1 heir efforts for the benefit of both c daces. It would mean commercial * idvancement and industrial im- 1 >rovcment, and I trust a moral up- 2 ift for both places. ^ I do not propose in this article to ' mdertake to outline any definite t dan of action. I simply desire in v he quiet of the summer months to * jring the matter to the attention of he go?d citizens of both towns; J \nd leave to minds better qualified :or the task, duty and pleasure of Dutlit.ing and putting into execution i plan of action. This much I will venture, however, that a great deal :an be accomplished, if the right nen will get behind a progressive < novement. There has not been a ; :omrnunity in this state that hrs|< ,nade marked improvement in any ] direction where the people were not 'pulling together." Let the people of Batesburg get rogether for Batesburg. Let tl ? people of Lccsville get together foi f ??e?;v!lle. Then let the people of DOth towns unite with each other and the people of the surrounding | territory for the benefit of all the :ommunity, and, if that ii done, I make bold to prophesy, though I im not a prophet, that in a short while there will not be a fairer or a ( arighter jewel in the diadem of our . state than this blest section. Let 5ur motto be "one for all and all for * )ne in the march onward and up- j ward for all that is good for Hatespurg and Leesville and the people who live adjacent." Mr. Editor, these thoughts are advanced with the devout desire ( that they may be of some slight benefit to a people loved by one who for the purposes of this article is pleased to style himself "Progress" "THE SEMINOLES VICTO- 1 RIODS IN FIRST GAME" i In a very exciting and snappy game of baseball, the Batesburg Seininoles won the first game from Winnsboro yesteiday afternoon on he latters g ound by a score of 2-0. The feature of the game was the fast playing of the Seminoles and tht e*rpHf?nr t>ifrhini? Knrm#?r (r\r i Seininoles, who did not yield a hit. and striking out 1*S Winnsboro batters. Smith also pitched good ball.1 The second game of the series will be played this afternoon. Score by innings: Batesburg, 001 010 000 K 2 H 3K 1 Winnsboro 000 000000 ROHOE 4 Batteries-Batcsburg, Farmer-Hartley Winnsboro Smith-Bye. THANKS , Mr. and Mrs. J >hn J. Fox an 1 family deep!) sppreciate and desire to thank their many friends of. Batesburg for their kindness and expiessions of sympathy at the burial o f their beloved daughter. CONGRESSMAN LEVER AT HOME DOES HOT EXPECT CONGRESS TO ADJOURH BEFORr, AUGUST 1 Lexington, July 5.?Congressman \. F. Lever arrived in Lexington yesterday afternoon. Mr. Ernest M JuPre having brought him over rom Columbia in his automobile, j tfr. Lever is looking well and it < loesn't appear that he has lost any : jreat amount of sleep over his vote 1 >n the tariff. He predicts that con- 1 jress will not adjourn before Aug- : ist 1. He says, though, that it is 'Pttirur mii/Htv Vint iti "li im>tnn ind there is no tel ing what effect his will have on the members. Mr. Lever spoke to large and enhusiastic audience- in Orangeburg :ounty on Friday and Saturday of ast week. He will leave here tonorrow for Williamston, Anderson :ounty, where he will make a speech o the farmers on Wednesday, 1 1'hursday he is scheduled to speak n Clarendon county, and on Satur- : lay, the 10th, he speaks at Chapin, : his county. He has an invitation 1 0 address a gathering of farmers at 1 big farmers' rally to be held at ' (Valterboro, Colleton county, on the 2th, but this invitation has not ' >een accepted, as it is not known 1 vhat day he will be called back to 1 Washington. iON. JOSHUA W. ASHLEY. SR., ON DISPENSARY OR NO DISPENSARY. Mr. Ashley lives in Anderson :ounty and is a farmer and merchint. He has had experience with ^ispensay and now they have none. Read what he has to say about it. LETTKR TO DR. RIOGELL FROM I'llR. ASHLEY Honea Path, S. C. June 17, 1909. Hon. K. C. Ridgell. My dear sir: I received your most .velcome letter. Will say in reply as :o dispensary or no dispensary, here is such a great difference that I hardly know how to express my;e'f. I know we are much better off -vithout the county dispensary. We lave but very little drinking in our :ounty especilally in the country iince the dispensary has been done iway with in my county. There has been only one murder ;hat 1 know of that whiskey was the :ause of. Now I am in favor of no dispensary. I don't see how any good man :an vote for whiskey to be put belore our good men that cannot control it. I prefer no dispensary as a farmer or any other occupation. Hoping you great success in your future days. I am your friend. Joshua W. Ashley, Sr. FOR RENT 5 room house for rent. Central part of the town. Nice garden. Apply to E. L. Hartley. A CONFEDERATE VETERAN Mr. rteo. W. Wise, a color sergeant in the Confederate army is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hite at, their home here. Mr. Wise has with him as trophes of the battle a flag that figured in the battles through Virginia and the west, and also the coat that was worn by him through the Confederate army. The coat has a bullet hole in the collar and the flag shows many signs of hot engagements, i Mr. Wise's home is now in Augusta where he has been for many years. Subscribe for The Advocate now $1.(X) per ye3r THREE COLUMBIANS HAD NARROW ESCAPE Three Columbians had a narrow escape from drowning at Wrightsville Beach Saturday morning. Messrs. John Cain, Robert Jennings and William C. Farber were out in a launch, being the only occupants of the boat save the crew. In attempting to cross the bar, instead of going out into the inlet, the boat struck a sadd bar and was broken i p. Mr. Cain was asleep in the bottom of the boat when the accident occurred and by the time he was aroused the boat was filling with water. The three occupants of the boat and 'he crew scrambled to the sides of the launch and held on for over one hour. "It seemed like an age," said Mr. Cain, in telling of the accident. "There was no chance to sw.m. We were a good quarter mile out from the nearest lnnrtincr an rl W 1 -- Uiisj IUV L/iVdlVUD were hitting us hard. We held on. fjettintr considarably bruised up and were taken in by another boat. This same boat went out in 10 minutes to sea with the rising tide. It was a narrow escape for us." Mr. Cain is considerably bruised about the body as are Messrs Farmer and Jennings. Mr. Jennings nas a bad ankle also. The mistake made by the boatmen was in attempting to cross the bar at the time they did. TWO MEM ARE WOUNDED IN EDGEFIELD FIGHT. IULF A GOZF.N RETURNING FROM RACES NEAR TRENTON ENGAGE ISANArFKAY.NO RRESTMAOE Edgefield, July 5.?Disputing over a horse race which they had just witnessed near Trenton Saturday afternoon three white men became engaged in an altercation and two of them received wounds which may prove fatal. The injured men are Albert Busbee, a railroad fireman living at Edgefield, and a former named Bob Murrell, "Ab" Jackson anrt V-.'c Vimoct .VJ wiiv* Uiv/uivi U1 V JUiU IU have done the shooting, Ab wounding Busbee four times. After the row Jackson made his escape. With a shotgun Murrell returned Jackson's fire, but without effect. The men were returning to Trenton after attending the races at a track about two miles from Trenton, wher" the dif ficulty took place. Murrell and Jackson are farmers. Albert Busbee, one of the participants in the difficulty near Trenton Saturday afternoon, was brought to Edgefield Sunday morning cn a stretcher. Although shot four times once in the back and three times in the left arm, he is not, as was at first thought, fatally wounded. He talks freely about the affair and says that one John Carpenter and Bob Murrell having a shotgun, which he attemped to use: That Busbee succeeded in quelling the fuss; That Murrell and himself left for Trenton in buggies: That they were overtaken by one Kipley and Ab Jackson and the difficulty was renewed: That he t,Busbee) again interferred in the capacity of peacemaker: that Ab Jackson came up behind him and in the back and as he tVl hot him again three times. 1 r. ncs ? n be says, a brother oi -Ab c. c up and shor Miurell, the latter reic'ving a wound in the left hip. One Joe Ripley took part in the trouble, with a knitei but did no damage. Mu.rtll and Carpenter will recover. As yet no steps have been made to arrest Jackson and it is not known whether he has fled or not. A TOURING PARTY. An automobile party are spendirg a short while here until the weather clears off. Those in the party are Representative Chas. H. Smith of Florence I Co., W. H. Lowman, S. S. Car oil I and Cbas. L. Smith.