The BATESBURG ADVOCATE A TRI-COUNTV PAPER. HS i vHI.1 '? IOOI BAT6SBUR0, S. C.. FRIDAY, OfXcMB^t0 1009! ) have about four carloads of Western Oats, j ^5 2.000 s-ishels if Appier Oats and a thousand bushels j 2 of Carolina r istprool Oats which we are selling at ' close , o ices. j C Write for price list. ! - 1 ? I nr'irU & I .owrance. inc. u x^r jq. jt m. m ? ? ? - - ? y , ^ i ? \VH <1 KSALH SEbbSMEN, * COLUMBIA, S. C. 1 \ **w. * ww wwffl aww www www i 1 " 5lm | A MONEYED MAN NJ V may be of two kinds. One who has inherited money and one who has I DON'T THINK TOO BIG. ! a?"^?JS; , 'Begin way dawn .yvith the pennies | I r. , in.tflh'a dimes tifsd the dollars. They nre the seeds of fortune. Tiiat is the ( |only way money grews. firing your j kwY APJ money seeds to gM IHZHNS [SANK I gun Batesburg, 5. C. j / \1/ interest, and start you on the ; n r > id to prosperity. i ^ >:> >:>:3 m st jus IRESENTS GALORE. ' i; t) o.iy your friends an Xmas gift > a i i tnai ii.is is the place to come. i i.si n.i* tii.it lias ever come to Batesburg. ) )i i n >nds, Watches, Rings, Lockets, . i i i, Sterling Silver, Flat Ware, i 11 c.ieapest to the most elaba,i be had lor the money. i , iKi v v *11 :i ice n-\ vvli-il \;/ui - " ? ???. ;vni w .11 I I. r TO PLHASK, . " X )XES, i . . 4 i. v 10 > IT HO J I0W JO R. .W'C wC-G C-C-G ??G GCG ?< WS OF 1 | C0TT0HMAMET. RafttaKiir/v Gnnt 1A 1 A vutvoi/ui 5 U|/Ui All tbooe having visitors will confer a favor g?? upon tba Advocate by sending in tholr names on or before Thursday of each week. ? I,, ll Personals g I Rev W T Hundley. Rev N N Bur*"3 tor. and Mr J R G Cconer left on 5* i Tuesday for Anderson to attend the _ Baptist Convention. ^ Miss Mabel Tarrant arrived Tuesday from a visit to Rock Hill and g Charlotte. g Mr and Mrs E A Horne were vis* itors to Mr and Mrs W A Crouch g Sunday. mu Miss Lizzie Cullum returned Monday from a visit to her sister. Mrs g Flunked in Graniteville. g Hon Geo Bell Timmerman is jC spending awhile in Jacksonville, g Fla. Mr W T Tarrant returned Sunday from Columbia, g Mr D P Bodie and Miss Vyola 2^ left on Tuesday for a business trip g to Americus Ga. o* kcv ^ u Lantey is attending Con *- tercnce in Abbeville this week. ^ Mrs Fay Lynch left on Tuesday > for her home in Hertford, N C ?5$ Mr Jno W Gibson of Sneads, Fla % was a recent visitor here. ^ Mr D K Jones of Columbia was 35 here on Sunday. Mrs Annie Tarrant was a visitor Sf? to relatives in Columbia on Sunday. Messrs S B and Fred Cartledge gy retui..ed on Sutiday from Tavarcs Fla. ^ Mrs D B Busby of Monetta was in town shopping Saturday. Mr Jno C Crouch returned t. /.u^ gusta on Sunday. *' Miss Hattie Etheredge took in gX' the Williams-Graham wedding in ^ Columbia or. Wednesday. fcK , After a visit to Mr and Mrs T B fb? Kernaerhan Mrs John W?1pv ' art anri little Eathcrins returned to ^ Columbia Monday. Col E F Strother spent Monday in Saluda. ^ Clerk of Court Frank W Shealy of Lexington paid our town a visit on Tuesday. Mrs C E Craven spent Wednesday in Columbia. Mrs Annie Kawl has returned from a visit to her brother in Huntington Fla. Mr and Mrs W A Crouch returned Monday from a visit to Ward. Mrs G F Norris and children of Cateechce are visiting relatives in | town. I Mrs T J Kernaghan of Columbia was a recent visitor here. Miss Mae Hite is sperding a j while with her sistei in Blackville. 1 FRIE DIARY AID WALL f ALEHDAR FOR OUR READERS Wc take pleasure in announcing that any of our readers can secure a pocket diary for 1910 by sending 4 one-cent stamps to D. Swift & Co., Patent Lawyers, Washington, D. C. | The diary is bound in a beautiful stiff red cover, contains 96 pages, gives the amount of corn, wheat, oats, tobacco, aad cotton produced in each State, 20 pages of other valuable information, such as business laws, patent laws, business forms and population of all States and cities: worth 25 cents. For 3 one-cent stamps, we will also send a tine wall calendar 10 x 11 inches. Send 7 one-cent stamps ^ for the diary and calendar, worth J fully 40 cents. HREE C( MISTRIAL IN 6L0TER CASE THE JUDGE DELIVERS A LECTURE OH JURY DUTY OF SOME LEHGTH UNFAVORABLE REPORT CIRCULATED 8JOTH CAEl Llli HOT THE OKLT EYE WITSES8 TO THE IILUIG JOEY STOOD USE TO TEHEE A large number of our citizens have just returned from Florida where they have been attending the second trial of T. S. Glover for the murder of Edwin S. Rawl. It will be recalled hat Mr. Rawl was shot ( at a lumber camp known as Alco about one year ago; and from the 1 statement of the only eye witness, < Allen Perry, a South Carolina boy, > the killing was without legal justification. However, theie was another mistrial in rssr i r? Oi i, I ing nine to three, so we are in'orm . ed by those preserd, inrterd of eleven to one as fom.trly published. The friends and relatives of Mr. Rawl, who have been to Florida or this case, say that numerc us unfounded reports have been circula- ^ ted throughout the county in which 1 the trials were had derogatory tc the deceased and fa* orable to tr.? defendant. The'/ s*5; uis 1 a". so persistency d. c ij.at aubougr ''j both the dei'tndj'nt an i the deceas- i ed were ei ti e strangers in that c county, a nurnle; of juror" disqualified themselves to serve *n the case by stating on examination that t they had foimecl and expressed o- , pinions relative to 'he case, and ^ some went so fa-, as to say that they ^ had been introduced to the defend- i ant since thev herai^e ii welcome their friends to visit their ' s ore whether you buy or not. FOR RENT j The Norris place about one mile of Batesburg. One large dwelling * house and several tenant houses, i Four horse farm in cultivation. Apply J. B. Norris,c Columbia, $. C. *' ii 1 V i u t: * *' .jl 3UNTIES LEAGUE AT I 10ITH0REHCI PEOPLE OF A1KER COUITT TOWS ^ BAUD TOGETHER TO PRETEHT DISORDER AND PRGStCD 'E LAWLE8S Aiken, Dec. 8.?The people of pj Montm?renci hav? Kan/I?fl fnrr??Vi?? into a league for their mutual protection against public disorders. The le gue now has as members a number of the best people of the community. Each of them has pledged to support the league, and to pay a share of the expenses necessary to prosecute all persons guilty of disorders. In the past it has been the habit of some persons to get drunlc, shoot guns, and curse in the highways there and the people hive de- ^ cided that it has gone on long eW; neugh. So far as is known this is ^ the first organization of the kina ev- ^ er organized in this part of the :? ; State. d-c tan Mice fresh citr.n, hand cleaned Pir by :u rants ?nd seeded raisins for your wjj Xmas fruit cake at Ridgell Drug Co. No hoi THE OBSERVER. ? __ I In the words of Graver Cleveland | Dr. Cook has gone into a state of at i nnoc jous desuetude. or ( Mext thing Uncle Sam will have rcC he Nardil Pole annexed to hi^clo? * i^r rumen*. with Dr. Cook as provinsor ;ial governor and Lieutenant Peary Qf , : ur.nander the > of occupai.on Alt pul While the advance in the price of at ] :>tton has added millions to the vea.lth of the South, still the advan- ;n :e i 1 the price of everything else me iasc:us^i increased expenditures. sc' \bout the only thing that hasn't ^C1 Bo< rnnr un is wares, ' * " col por The redoubtable T K is in the but unglcE of Africa, but Congress will will :onvene just the same. When the battle ship South Car>lina coe? into commission, it will tes _____ ? Vc] je the largest American war vessel as i ifloat. wei pul Things are really nonnal in Cental America. That particular part __ Df our great continent seems to sub- II sist on resolutions. If the politician could be silenced the negro problem would not be < such a problem after all. A little ' wa Eire kindleth a great matter. - - 4 Mesdames W K Shealy, L S Wat to kins. J B Watkins and Miss Lowman of Irmo, primary teacher in the t,n Providence school were visitors de- .. lightfully entertained by Mr and fr; Mrs J WThrailkill Saturday. Mrs M E Home contemplates ?r visiting her daughter Mrs Wingo of \? Jo Campobella at an early day for an ; * i idefinite stay. Qf The services at the Baptist church j Sunday a m were touching in that pas.cr Edwards who tor more than ' has served the saints faithfully and ^ we 1 te 1 Jered his resignatir b to go into effect Jan 15th 1909. cc p'DP an m i CQNDEI JOCKEP.W ASHING TON PLAN FAILS OOTHERN NEGRO 01 riXHOLDERS SLATED TO GO. I'SIBEST TAl'T TO APPOIK NEGROES TO OrFlCE IN THE NohTH; INSTEAD GF IN THE SODTH, ACCORDING TO POLITICAL G0:SI? IN WASHINGTON. Washington, Dec. 8.?That Pres ;nt Taft is going to aj p nnt Nor ;rn negroes to office rather th-ji uthern ores is the irformatioi iich has been pretty th^roughlj ci:ssed among the politicians o ?shington ai d elsewhere sinci oker Washington was here las ek. As the result of this policy s expected that the regrets ir : South who are holding inipor t offices will, as heir u?n s ex e, be displaced for the most pari whites, and in turn recognitior 1 be given to colored men in the rth. The list of colored mer Iding important officto in the nth under the Federal Governnt includes the following: Robert Smalls, collector of cusis at Beaufort, S. C.; Henry A ckcr, coilectoi of uilcjiicd icvenue Atlar ta, Ga; Joseph Lee, co?lectd? internal revenue at Jacksone, Flu.; Nathan H. Alexander, ister of the land office at Mont rn-ry A1 Hi Thorns S V. Mo A U iatci elver of public moneys at JackMiss: "Walter L. Cohn, repistti ihe land office at New Orleans ;xanc'.er B. Kennedy, receiver 01 jlic moneys at New Orleans; Johr Bush, receiver of public money Little Rock ["he c >urse tht President wili takt he r. atter of appointing colorec n is 1 keiv to be illustrated in th< rction of a successor to W. 1 rnon, register of the treasury D'rer T. Washington and cthu ored leaders have given their sup t to J. C. Napier of Nashville, it appears that the Presidem I probably select p colored mar m the North. Washington was in this city a few rs ago, and it is said tha,. he proed when he learned that neithei rnon nor Ralph Tyler, the latter l!i. t it . % iuuuwr ior ine navy department re to be ousted. Neither of thes? 1 with Washington. P. H. McG. ARRIED YNTOLUM BU On Wednesday of this week her is solemnized a marriage : mucl erest to this town and coir.munit e high contracting parties bein r. Arthur S. Jones of this plac d Miss b'ae Lynch of Hertforc C* The marriage was quite a surpris the friends of both parties an i lgratulations are wafted after thei A ?- - ?* n nwau mcir return. Arthur Jones is a member of th Jones Co., and numbers h ends by the score. The bride is one of the mo: aceful and handsome young ladi< be found anywhere, and M nes of all men should be the ha{ est since he has secured the pea great price. After the marriage Mr. and Mr nes left Columbia for North Ca ina the home of the bride, froi ere they will take a bridal tour 1 'ashington and points north, This writer extends his heartie mgratulations to the happy coup id he wishes to remind Arthur th; ay comes in December. NSBD I- LETTER FROM MR. GIbBS I , WHAT BE SITS ABOUT THE R<>AD ' FROM LEXIRGTOH TO LEE8TILIE The Kexington Dispatch has received the following letter from Mr. A. M. Gibbs, proprietor of the GiLfc s _ Machinery Comnanv of CaImm ? ? J , ? N/WIIUJUU I * which will be read with interest by many of our people: "We have noted your edit ti? reference of the 24th to the r- ?bs between Lexington and Leesvilk-, and wish to advise that we brouj ht two cars through the country fioni Atlanta to Columbia at the close oi - the automobile show in Atlanta. "We agree entirely with Mr. Harth a that the only difficult portion of tl.e i road is between Lexington and Leesl ville, and that is unquestionably-bad f "We are certainly glad to know : that Supervisor Langford intends * putting this piece of road in fir.- c class condition, rr.d all of the Lte.s of the roads in your county ate . grateful to you for keeping the rnatt ter before the public, i "In addition to this, the "Ilugaboo' swamp road needs and should ha\e ' attention and could be put ip. very ' a 5 * * * good condition at litije or no cosr. As it is, it is full of cfeep holes f r about a mile or so. The road bed, though, is hard and, as stated, can : readily be repaired and put in ve y satisfactory shape. Yours truly. "A. M. Gibbs." : TRIBUTE OV RESPECT. i Resolutions adopted by tl e members of the Middleburg Sunday t School in memory of M iss Cora Whitman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. n Saturday Nov. 13th in the 20th yeor of her age. Whereas, It has pleased our Heav' enly Father to remove from our r . nidst our beloved sister and covorker in the church and Sunday , School Miss Cora Whitman, who lied at her home in this town Saturday, Nov. 13th . therefore be it resolvedFirst-. That we thp menK?rc w .... .MVAMi/ViS VIA. the Middleburg Sunday school,.bow r in snbmission, knowing that He r doeth ail things well. Second-, That in her death we ; have lost one of our most faithful workers, She was ever ready to labor with us in every good work. That while we sorrow over her dc. parture, we recognize it is God's will. Third-, That we will try to emulate in our lives her bright and cheerful spirit in suffering, and her c many virtues and excellencies of h character. y Fourth-, That we all, officers, ? teachers and pupils of this Sunday e School, tender our heartfelt sym1. pathy to her family in their great sorrow, praying that God will ktcp ie them through life and the promi? s d of the Savior comfort them in their : hour of bereavement. Fifth-, That copies of these rese olutions be sent to the Batesburg 's Advocate, Saluda Standard and Southern Christian Advocate for S* LI!--.' ' - yuuucauon ana a copy be sent to ;s the family. r- j L. B. Whittle, I For Committee. rl s-j FOR SALE r A very desirable piece of city m property in the heart of Batesburg >0 known as the old Green place rrd now owned by Mrs. B. F. Bates on st Peachtree street. Two seres imj proved by dwelling. it Apply to Mrs. B. F. Bates, Batesburg, S. C% .