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We BATESBURG ADVOCATE , ] A TRI-COUNTV PAPER. 'J f 1 ESTA8LISHED, 1901 BATESBURG, S. C.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 11th. I91qT ,nftPBD . f ALL THE NI $ GEORGIA RAILROAD BANK, if Augusta, Ga. Capital and Surplus - - $650,000.00. T "' -1 5 This bank solicits the accounts of Firms, Cor3 porations and Individuals, extending every f accomodation consistenl with good banking. "'WflrAfift^AWWVWYVVYVVVVTrvvvYirrwvYvinnnmrrv v v ?. ->?)?)))))) ?>?)?)?^>^^^ ?*?*?}: | FRESH GARDEN SEED. ^ Frost proof Cibbage plaBts, Red Bliss, Early Rose -nd V Irsh Cobbler seed Potatoes. it Red And White Onion Sets \ 4 - II???? ?? ????? * ' Our garden seed are grown by one of the most reliable seed v" houses in the COUNTRY and are guaranteed to give ^ ' satisfac1 ion-Cabbage plants are strong and healthy, being grown C' in open air.-And our seed potatoesare select Main gr own potatoes.-Try our seed and you are sure to be pleased. # RIDGELL DRUG COMPANY. ^ (The Home ?f Pure Seed and Full Weight.) B*t?nbarr. 8. C. MM MM MM MM MM MM W k s Wagon and :s Carriage Material - -3? :? We have everything manufactured in wagon ^ and carriage material, and are giving this depart<** . ! ?* input <>i our business narflculnr attention this year. ! , , ^5 We have ready tor prompt shipment spokes and , rims, hubs, cross bars, axles, blacksmiths tools and j *2 all other wagon and carriage material. Send (or a 1 descriptive price list; we can take care of your orders j | Lorick & Lowrance, ^ S WHOLKSAl.K SBF.DSMF.N, COLUMBIA, S. C. j \ Htm ff. WAV MWM iWM' WW WW 1 TTuji-i, " \1/ A MONEYED MAN V fK may be of two kinds. One who has inI/' herited money and one who has E'' saved money. M DON'T THINK TOO BIG. } Begin way down with the pennies and the dimes and the dollars. They the seeds of fortune. That is the monC'V ^rows* ^r'n" y?ur mm CITIZKNS !*\NK p of Batesburg, S. C. We pay interest, aiul st:irt y >u on t!ie yMlsai mk && ** m ~m mn a. . 1 I ! ? * WKliBB ART STORM yjoUUM HI ^, S. i '. BUI: I. rs | |)1(V'f)p \ fr{ I W.11,1 1'. 1*1 AND TAl'KMTKY I 1/1 i / A i * \ _ l_V ' I \ | AND NOV I.T.I IMl'OUTHI) flOODH A. Bl'K'UI.Tv lKTKRiOl! AND *X I'KI. ?'!? 11< t h> - l'.lN.I.JI OUT <>K CITT WORK SOLICI TKI) PICTURE FRAMES MADE TO ORDER. - * - -J? w ' ",l - ' - "?^ FOR RENT t FADM lO^XS Large store on Ma.a Street. Bc..tl Loans negotiated upsn imp. location in Batesbnrfp larrr.s rea'I farms, payable in annual install, sonable. I No commission. Bcrrotver? Dr. L. W. M tckell, i actual cost of perf ctir.g loan. Batesbure, S. C. {?rther information, apply to m B. Palmer & Scr, 1?. O. Box f ^ ? Phor.e 108o. Offie, Sylvan I "KING GAMALEON. r4^ Columbia, S. C. Will stand for service army atab les in Ridge Spring, S. C. during j have left my *'. airs in the 1 this season. Write for particulars d Mr. J. W. Cooner. Left som and price. ?ocl: *jr s,tlc' anybody inter J. A. Clarke, vill cull ok him. .. J. G. Coot Manager. EWS OF 1 \ COTTON MARKET. jE ttatesburg Spot 15. ?|- All those* liavliiK visitors will eonfor u favor MC| ii*in the Atlv?**ate by semling In their imniowou ?r before Thursday of each week. I ?? ; | Personals 5E Mr W P Rooi of Lexington was 5c* a recent visitor here. 5* Miss Enise Rawl has returned | from a visit to Columbia. f!? Mr E J Hite spent Sunday in Johnston. Mr E W Attaway of Saluda was ^ ? i here on Saturday. vyj Mrs J G Darby arrived Tuesday v ' from a visit to Rock Hill and Chesv 1* ter. V/| i Mr John C Crouch of Augusta s r | * ^ spent Sunday in town. v'/ Misses Carrie and Cornelia Glenn v '/* left Tuesday for a visit to friends in Augusta. V ^ ' Mrs T J Kernaghan of Columbia was a visitor here this week. Mr S Goldberg of Augusta was v ^ in town Tuesday. . Mrs Z T Cook syc?<t Wednesday in Columbia. C Miss Lula Lowman left on Mon5^ day for a week's visit to her parents ml at Irmo. SE Miss Annie Lee Ethereage left 3E Wednesday for a visit to Columbia 5E and North. Mrs W H .^.lls and children spent the week-end at Pelion. Dr and Mrs J A Watson spent Sunrlnv in \A7orAc . J ... . . ...wo. Misses Delia Hartley and Lessie ^ Quattlebaum spent Sunday in Lees? ville' ? Mr Mims Hartley of Columbia K spent Sunday in town. Mr and Mrs Y S Holsteln of R FD 1 were in town shopping Saturday. Dr and Mrs T A Quattlebaum are in Batesburg. Mr Willie Miller of Trenton spent Sati rday night in town. i VfJL ^ Miss Essie Etheredge spent Sun?T day last in Leesville. % _ Kev W T Hundley has returned % from Virginia. j Master Branch Whitten and Mary /ft Elizabeth returned Sunday from the 3? Columbia Hospital where t h ev t* underwent an operation for appenfJicitis some few weeks ago. j Mr C M Rhodes has returned aome after a trip to Jacksonville, Savannah and points further south. Mrs N Rogers Bayly has rcturn'* . *d from a trip to Charleston. f I 1H il MILL I FOR BATESBURG. f t % ^ One of the largest mercantil' leals ever put through in this sec ion of the state was when E. Jone: lompany so'd their immense stock .-.o erics, hardware, vehicles ami ettik: :s to Tne L. D. Cullum Cc.,i ' [ 1 f\ -V I 1 lUltVl tUoii* "An, 1 ...*11 1 ? ..... ..mi vuvii j;uuu w.:: ana mluencc. This will practically put the supply business of these two large firms under one head, and give to llatesbur/: what it has long needed, a first > i iss oil mill, and it is the present intention of the stockholders of E. .tones Company to organov d /c 4!ui t?r ct such a plant in the nts. n;.?r future. | pay The remaining large dry floods, For sh ? s, clct..! g and other stocks in John t^e K. lonca Co. dry goods depart282, e t wiil, it is thought be thrown luild- on he mo:kef to the consumer and clo ' J out : cgardless of prices. The E. Jo C \, has not decided at "ands this writing just exactly what dise live position will be made of it. ested Subscribe for The Advocate now rier* --$1.00 per year in advance. A ^ ^ H REE C 2\*0. YJKi. i Report of the Condition of I he First National Bank of Batesburg, at Batesburg, in the State of South Carolina, at the ?2close of business, January 31, 1910 % Resources. Loans and Discounts $107,398.08 Overdrafts, secured J ...1 A C-7 C.t aina uuaciui toi.ui U. S Bonds to secure circulation 25,000.00 Premiums on U. S. Bonds 500.00 Bonds, Securities, etc 980.21 Banking house, Furniture and Fixtures 14,281.04 Other Real Estate owned 10,641.73 Due from National Banks (not reserve agents) 31,607.42 Due from State and Private Banks and Bankers, Trust Companies and Savings Banks 1,656.46 Due from approved Reserve Agents 17,534.94 Checks and other Cash IteniS 224.27 Notes of other National Banks 440.00 Fractional Paper Currency, Nickels, and Cents 226.49 Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz: r Specie 4,765.40 Legal-tender notes 500.00 5,265.40 Redemption fund with Ut S. Treasurer (5 per cent of circulation) 1,250.00 TOTAL 217,463.65 Linbilties Capital stock paid in $23,000.00 Surplus fur.d 6,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Expenses and Taxes ~ ~ * 1 1 O i A r- As: paiu IZ.OHD.HO National Bank Notes outstanding 24,300.00 Individual deposits subject to check 110,195.07 Time certificates of deposit 32,993.83 Cashier's checks outstanding S 2? 629.29 TOTAL 217,463.65 State of South Carolina. County; of Lexington, ss: I, Ira C. Carson, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly ?wear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Ira C. Carson, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th dav of Februarv. 1910. J. R. Un^er, Notary Public. CORRECT-ATTEST: T. P. Kerna^han, S L. M. Mitchell, , I . 1 M. K. Rutland, D rectors. TEE !S AIKEN OOUii'i ilAHf. Ate STABLES Of MR. FRJi t BUSH BURNED SUNDAY NIGHT Aiken, February 7.?News v. \ brought here to-day that the ba 1 and stables of Mr. Frank Bush, liv ling near lilicnton, were burned tie w : Sunday night. The news carne ir the way of a telephone message foi the county bloodhounds, and though particulars aie rather scarce, it i: learned that the origin probabb was incendiary, and that the sus pected parties were negroes. Track found very near the scene led t this conclusion, and other thing pointed to the incendiary theorj 'On the receipt of the message th hounds were immediately dispatch , ed to the scene, but nothing h: been learned as to sthe chase. OUNTIES MMWl BANDITS ROB PASS ENQERS. GO THROUGH MISSOURI PACIFIC TRAIN IN KANSAS TURN TRICK IN NEAT STYLE. | ENTER CAR WHILE TRAIN IS SPEEDING ON. SECURE SMALL AMOUNT OF BOOTY AND MAKE OFF. Pittsburg, Kan. Feb. 5?Three undentified men held up and robbed .he passengers on an cast bound Missouri-Pacific train cast of here to light. They were unmasked. About 100 and a small amount of jewelry a ere taken from the passengers. The robbers boarded the train on he outskirts of Pittsburg and rode intil the train was near Cornell, Kan, I here they eloped from their scats lacked Conductor Garrlty into a Conner, and drawing revolvers, warned him not to call for assistance. One of the robbers then covered the passengers with two large revolvers. | "You will now prepcre to give up your valuables," he said. My partner here will pass among you. Please be quick. The "partner" thereupon produced a gunny sack and started on his collection toui. From each passer. Igor he took everything o? value I Money, watches, diamonds and ringr all went into the sack. One woman screamed and fair.-.u' The collector calmly lifted a i!i from her finger, pickc ' her p r c if from the floor, an J. passed on to th< next victim. Throughout the rob' t: y the tiair sped on. None of the csc.v tx.. , the conductor knew of the rc tit: *Vhen the lights in the town of C'c nell loomed into view several of tl? passengers at the rear of the c ach who had not been reached by tk< robbers, hoped they would escape with their valuables and began placing them back in their pockets. But they were disappointed. Just because the train stopped at the station the robbers did ont hurry away, The robber with the gunny sack stripped the last passenger in the car of hi: .foods and then they dropped eff the train and disappeared down at. alley into the tov.r. No n'terrnt was made to rob iht express car. Sheriff Merriwecther and a seou of deputies soon began searching foi the m. n.'ihoy are belived to be ban gerson of the. mining c; mp in he northern part of the cc untry. ALLEGED THIEF ARRESTED. l'X-ksiok ornu.u Ducuvns J R WILSON BY ACCSi.: NT. Lexington, Feb. 7?Charged with 1 the stealing of a set ot wagon har ness, a bridle and buggy whip, J. K1 r Wilson, a white man, lodged in jai i Saturday night, having been arrestee by Deputy Sheriff Miller in Colum ' bia Saturday afternoon. The prose / cutor Job Shumpert, of Boiling Springs Township, and the crime is alleged to have been committed 01 s the 26th of February last year. The 0 .varrent for the arrest of Wilson was issued by Magistrate Harmnn some s nine (hiring last July, but Wiisor r. could not he apprehended, it was bj e accident De >utv Sht r:i Miller rai across him in Columbia yesterday l" Wilson is a married man and ha is several children, lie c'a ms that hi his family is now living it. the 01 ympia Mill village in Columbia. > CONDE * <8 V?\ U. CSUIMAH1K. I'rvti. IW. B. Gui i || Heating a mA v If Com 1 COLXJAd ? Contracts T* No Cortra< | And None THE OBSERVER. J Exit Peary and Cook-Balling and Pinchot have appeared on tl stage. This is a great day for vegetaria Ihe question of meat-economy co: ceins him not at all. Our legislature could do no moi Wiser thing than to enact into ia the marriage license bill, Sout Carolina has taken a splendid posit oft the divorce question, yet there absolutely no bar to the making c a contract which in South Carolir cannot be legally annulled. IT lionse requirement will make ft | saner, safer, happier, marriages. The Observer still lives, thoug fed" two weeks or more his bodil wtwkneas hab had a curtai;ii.g effe< ;iecd the product of his thougl Peltry. Thoughts are pecuiu utyw. y. They arc mind product and ti e mind has for its physic; Jiiis o. acti\ity the brain. 11.ci s i vcr> clsst relation hetwom ii v_- h\:l;r.d the i hysical. 1 hv: ;(*! u i: e.r.tss has a j renounce i.t t i v < !. tl e n.iid, particular! i-.i *. mii ii ir. question is natural! \vik through lack of grey-ir.ntt< e nourish it. Now, the Obseivt w .uld not like any cr.e to insir.iu.t tbit his mind is weak, lie himse might recognize it. ar.dackncwledg it but he is like other people, an ;ou know how other people are ; cut intensely personal n atters. 1; a'i the foregoing as it may, the 01 server would simply say that bcdil rv.irj csitic n in the rtcent past hr 1 erin mental lethargy wliic .l turn has caused the cuitailrriei .rein before mentioned, 'ihis b .-ay of explanation aid apology ; t is, it these two things aie i t my and in place. ihete is no mcie impel tart off ... in a county than the b'upeiinlt lent of I -'dues tie r, yet the nt 1 i: y of Dillon *n her sehtcli :e ;alailo: has prcpcLt d the r.api.i :m of s?x huuo.col >..< wiio :is>c .ny v.agc. Lh.t sti >! It i^cless to criticise Dillon. It mig c said that she is following the c a nple o; l.cr elder sisters. Ihroup o ;t the sttUc the salaries of tht important officer1- are still ri. lie ale ly sir,all. Surclj we people do r 1 seriously think cf what cur cour } ;uperi:r.undents k.;vc i j do. : ur< hey do not think ot the mar.-ni: ing, woman-making, citizen-mak a gencies, subject to their supen ' ion. Surely the people do not real ) i that these men are 1 ey who sho ; guide and direct, who should ' vise ind cour. el, who should b< 1 the eachers help availing insp ' tion. True, conditions are irnpr ing, but ever, yet I am forced tc * lieve ha* as between cduc. ioi every other human interest cdi tion is at a big discount NSED 1 xm j i: It. HEYWAUD. ?> . &Ttom. & marin & Co*|j' j nd Plumbing ig tractors & [I3IA. S C S ? l-i-' iken Anywhere. j*" jts too Large. 81 ' ^ Too Small i MISSIONARY INSTITUTE W f AND LAYMEN'S CONFERENCE -. -* The Preacher's Institute and Layn. men's Conference for Columbia n- District will be held in the Batesburg Methodist church, February 13-15. Rev. S. H. Booth will preach rc at 7:30 P. M. Sunday and Rev. C. w A. Norton on Monday at the same h nour. The exercises on Tuesday j. will be held from 9:30 A. M. to 5:30 js P. M. with an intermission of two jf hours for dinner. Speakers from ia all parts of the District will make ie addresses on different phases of )r missions. The time from 11 a. m. to dinner heur will be devoicu entirely to discussions by the laymen, h Large delegations are expected, y and every one in the community is ,j invited to attend. u I \ \ " TEE RED SPIDER 'i I "i t I V.'e are glad to state in this issue I hat through the effort's of Congress1 ran Lever, U. S. Representative I rein this district the United States I Jcpartment of Agriculture has tak, I en up the destiuction of the red . I spider cn cotton. This is a very im;i I portant problem in the crcp of this , I section, as it is estimated that the 1, J annual loss to the farmer will reach , I many thousands o* dollars. Mr. t 1 Lever has been working for several j. | vcars to secure an experimental labIt | oratory in this vicinity, and we are 5. I nformed that the work has now v I been started, and will continue I -hrci {. bout the present season. Mr. i I i lv. Strother has kindly donated a .11 : 'ge piece of land for the field ex^ I nimcnls, and the woik will be in _ ! hrrge of Mr. II. lL Wilson, an Ag.1 nt cf the United States Euieau of I Entomology. Mr. Wilson has estabI .ished a laboratory in Eatesburg and c. I he will gladly cooperate with any , I of the < otton giowers as to experiI r.cr.':.l itrr.ee its. lie wishes to sc1 'urc as much infotmaticn as possiI V.c qn the extent of the c'rnrgc f.-* aistd in previous jesis trdhe as ; Pi iccia.c i ry facts or advice sj whi h cm be t i\tn to him. x ?? miHEWS PliRCBAStS A NEW PIANO >r.? ot 1'r. M. C. Matthews who has for son e t.me beer, conducting business r. North Augusta returned home ast Friday. He has just given his laughter a new and handsome piano in; 'dr. Matthews is looking v.e'.l and j . '..cm all reports is doing v.e'?. lize u.d m^Lli to succeed mr. imi cv- Auffhsta, Ga., Feb '.?W. F. . McGiv has been a pp. inter division ..... ; : er rptr.t of the Sou hern and a. wa>, wi h headc;vart<rs at ( har,ca eston, S. C., vice J. C. Lusk, reigned. \ *