Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TWO CHARLESTON HAS POCKET PEDDLING Which Keeps.the Force of State Constables Always Gussing. SEIZING CONTRABAND GREATER THAN EVER I ! ! Vincent Chicco Among' Those Slated for Trial Before the Court. (Charleston livening Pest.) ioi h'ur.e;.:;, cf th. State 10ai in Charleston, reports that the' civs of the last six or scv( n days .0 the heaviest that have been * . , ; iotal of more than .$M)0 at present retail rate, having' been cheated in that time." The liquor seized is still stored in a room over th constable's office on Court House i square and as the law requires the st\r'f seized in this manner to be held thi ty days before it is destroyed! wi'i be several days yet before the city sewers are moistened with the( various brands of alcoholic beverages. U appears that the coming term of' the criminal court will be confronted j v.'th a long list of alleged dealers in i icit booze who have been summond r trial. Vincent Chicco is one of the n .)st recent defendants charged with violating the prohibition law. "V'ncWet peddling," said to ho in operation here, is so called when the cus tamers of a blind tiger are not perr tted to buy or drink on the premis< < but make their purchases through :: middleman who, working tor the ? ..!er. carries one or two half-pints! ;.i a time in his pocket. When his| jager stock is sold he replenishes it ;.t the tige?\ while constables are not . oking. Asked how the dealers get enough T*?:uor to make any money on since j dispensaries went out of business, Okie (' I tunc;; n drew from a pi gooniv.be cp, l is desk a slip of paper on rich is written a long list of names c~ led from express packages of^ V ? 7.0 in one gallon lots. The names . c: :i not he found in the directory. v ~ I F 10 of them are H. Four, C. .lane,. . i Fay, C. Lank, II. Whole, P.. Front, V. Srven, K. Agent, J. Oats, W. Bar, W. Tiv.ee, H. Straw, W. Pease, H. First, J. North, O. Halee and K. Roe. A bill understood to he at present up for the consideration of the LegiA.ature which will make it lawful for : .e constables to examine and inspect the books of common carriers. The S picnic Court has ruled this unlaw( liiuli-il' ! Iln tvo^nnl e ' <? c , Ul O.ief Duncan. o A Million Nickels Fen* a Million | Testaments. I Tie nir-kela to provide u million T; > laments { >! a million soldiers are! ic rang- in steadily to the World's Sun t :.y School Association office, 21(> al- ;ropolilnn Tower, New York City.! ?A woman, in Fort Worth., Texas,I writes: send onc-te: th of my first earnings, and I hope it is not too1 ( n.\e to be of use for the cause in v.v.ich I'had hoped if) have a part." t Ano hej writes from Chicago: "My' lAtlo boy, six VC'S'ss old, hearing| through the papers that more bibles; were needed for the soldiers, wanted < to save all his pennies to send to you, ' .' J you could send five testamnts to| th soldiers." ( One Sunday school superintendent j distributed pennies in the school and a.-ked the children to grow nickels j from them. This school later sent in ' a contribution of $23.18. j; ^ cannot i:e (tredI by lo^hl applications as they cannot' Teach the diseased portion of tho ear. j There is only one ~v:\y to rare doaf-j noss, and that is by constitu io-na.1j remedies. Deafness i? caused by an! inflamed condition of the mucous linings of the Eustachian Tunc. Wren this tube is inflamed you have aj rambling sound or imperfect hearing.; :.nd when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and (inloss the in-, flammation can be taken out and thisl tube restored to its normal condition,! hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing hut an in-" flamed condition of the mucous sur-: laces. We will give One Hundred Dollars! ror any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls; Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars,1 free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE Chief Justice Covington has honored a requisition from Gov. Manning of South Carolina for the return to Greenville county of Sampson Williams, a negro, charged with the murder cf Alfred Brechman November 20 lust. Andrew J. Bethea, lieutenant governor, returned to Columbia last week from the Cord peace crusade to Europe. Actual construction work on the Greenville county court house will begin early in February. The Laurens county delegation! has introduced a bill providing for the erection of a r.o.v jail, the cost not to exceed S MO.000. \v ihiam F. Stevenson, the Cheraw attorney, has definitely announced his candidacy in the Democratic primary next Summer lor member of congress from the Fifth district. Mr. Stevenson was a candidate in the last | I * * R. W. l/mp, of Conway, is visiting tho family of 1>. II. Gasque.?Mullins Enterprise. Miss Edith Rabon, of Conway, was the guest of Mrs. P. A. Harrelson last w ee k.?Mullins Enterprise. The board of directors of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce has adopted resolutions opposing the enactment of the 2-cent mileage bill, which has passed the house and has been sent to the Senate. In connection with the work of the United States department of agriculture and Clcmson College to control wilt in South Carolina, several farmers have bred and grown a surplus of high-grade wilt-resistant cotton seed which they now have for sale. Assistant Postmaster Richard T. King, Jr., received a telegram from Senator E. 1). Smith stating that his nomination to be postmaster at Georgetown, to succeed General S. M. \ v O ti'U U ?i < 1 4- I K t . nAfi /??nn IT (II U, ? I.U IUUI ICll'lt'lCII 11 lO I COi V,lUltion, had been confirmed by the Senate. 13. V. Levis, who is tho proprietor of a small country store out on the Darlington road, near Florence, who. was convicted last term of court on a J charge cf selling liquor and whose sentence was suspended until January! 1st. 191(5, was arrested and carried | before Clerk of Court J. A. Muldrov who read to him the sealed verdict handed down by the Court in the case mentioned. o SCIATICA'S PIERCING PAIN To kill the nerve pains of Sciatica you can always depend on Sloan's Liniment. It penetrates to the scat of pain and brings ease as soon as it is applied. A great comfort too with Sloan's is that no rubbing is required.. Sloan's Liniment is Invaluable for' stopping mt.sk alar or nerve pain ofi any kind. Try it at once if you suffer! vdth Rheumatism Lumbago, Sore j Throat, Pain in Chest, Sprains, Rruis-i es, etc. It is excellent for Neuralgia' I IT-- 1 - I - .1- I I T. anu ncatiacne. ?-x*. at an wrug'gasts. ?adv EVERYDAY v>. BX\rfKr:iyiat,i.iiuiMBin THANKSGIVING! , ?bw?an ii iiiiwiMrnifwrrruMi ? How good everything tasted when you' were a child! 1 low you looked forward to ; Thanksgiving Day, and the other days when the family had extra good things to CAt! Wouldn't you like to have an appetite 1 like that now? If you had such ant appetite, and if your! food digested as well a* it did in l hose days,, wouldn't you be stronger, healthier, hap- j pier? j Every day in "thanksgiving day" to; those whose digestive or^ana are kept In' perfect order by DR. TRACKER'S Liver and Bleed Syrup! This famous old. reliable reir.cdv acts 1 directly on the Liver, which is the real Kulcr of the stomach anil bowels. When the Liver is made active, and the Low of bile is properly regulated, the stomach and bowels just can't help doing their work as they should. Jf you want a keen appetite, if you want your food to taste good, jf yOU want! your food to digest properly, and so strengthen you, if you want to be free! from all the pains and discomforts of indi-1 gestion, by all means let this wonderful medicine take hold and help you NOW. Your dealer sells 50-cent and S1.00 lx>i> tles. Start on the road to good health to-day. THACHER MEDICINE COMPANY* ? Chattanooga, Tennessee* THE HORRY IT WHAT OTHER PAF A Square Deal. Tote fail*. That is an old-fashioned; Southern gentleman's vernacular for a "square deal." Where is all that square deal we used to hear so much! about from its self-consecrated j apostle? Is he handing it out to the; impossible Mr. Wilson or the unutter-i able Mr. Taft.?Wilmington Star. Busted. Our Midea of a "busted bubble" is; the Ford peace expedition.?York News. Powerless Here. But even the legislature can't prevent the mercury taking a drop when it feels like it.?The State. I Not Too Did. r.vcry now and then we conclude; that v.v don't know as much about the newspaper business as we might :,"o\v an 1 then we think of what Elbert Hubbard once said: "Noah .vrs six hundred years old before he k 1 iw how to build an ark. Dor.': lose your grip."?Yo k News. Hot Air Sellers. A promoter is a fellow who can sell hot air for a good money. Handshaking year.?arion Star. Prosperity Sign. Everyday headline in Southern .... . i<P. 1 - :i- rii . " i.t-w nwtijjvi a . i^murging lis l'lllTil. j Selected. Deduction. Of course we don't know what Mr. Bryan's real views on preparedness are, but we notice that he never goes; on the lecture platform without put-' ting a trusted man on the gate.?Co-, lunibia Record. Easy Game. Almost every American who doesn't expect to volunteer, or who is beyond the probable limit of possible conscription, will favor intervention in Mexico.?Exchange. Beat the Record. Mexico should, beyond a doubt, be given the world prize for disorderly ( conduct?Evening Post. i Tln^ To II Still another gem: Now is the time to pay your subscription.?Times & . Democrat. Cheap Enough. The Ford trip it is said wiil cost, by the time it is completed .SMfiO.OOO.1 That wiil after ail be the price of onlyi about a thousand of the cheapest jit ney busses?Greenville Piedmont. at . ' j In Cold Weather. 1 There is no bosom friend these' days like a good thick undershirt.?! The State. ?? 1 I Thrift. 1 The papers of the country are tak-i ing notice of the springing up in all the cities and towns of what is commonly known as the Christmas Savings Club. It has become a new feature of general banking and is proving a popular one.?Charlotte Observer. I IS SHE THE PEOPLE OF THE GENEROUS PAIRO CORDED US Dli 191 8ER OUR THANKS, DURING 1918 YQU W INESS AT THE SAME OL PARED THAN EVER TO S Todd vilT ERALD, CONWAY, S. C. 'ERS ABE SAYING Independent. Up, up, up the gas is going. One of the great merits of a pushmobile is its independence of gasoline quotations.?Charleston Post. Why Sr.\i!e. Why smile at the woman who "wears the pants"? Quite often she earns them before she wears them.? County llcord. Very I.a test. We admit this didn't originate with us but it is so good we pass it on? "the latest Ford joke?Andrew J. l'othea.?York News. In the Same Boat. "I quit my party.'"?Teddy Roosevelt. "Me, too."?William Jay I?ec. "Ditto."?H'y Ford-?Daily Record. Si/e Up First. If you nr." con .em.ol.uing becoming a ?:idr.i? for any oiheo this year, please g< t in j ur proper class. Remci iber that there never was a v-'* man big <_ a ug'n ?. a S 10 job. Size yourself up and then go to it!?Marion Star. Mostly Fools. War owes its success to prejudice, passion, greed and ignorance?and fools.?Times & Democrat. o rS?S53laRa?SigsI^iIga5gl S HORRY COUNTY 1 g TRUST COMPANY 1 13 L. D. Magrath 5 sp* Manager. gjjj Real Estate si 53 Real Estate Loans m 53 Bonds fa ss Insurance sa Yd m rs sa msa sa M sa sa sa sq' ipopulMmechmics ? A&AGAZINB.. 300 ARTICLES-300 ILLUSTRATIONS TT'EEP informed of thd Wood's Progress ir. 1 v Engineering, Mechanics and J:i7e?tion. Fo Father and Son and Ail the Family, It oppealt to all classes?Old and Young?Men and Woirien. It If tho Favorite Magazine ia thousands of * homo throughout tho world. Ou." Forelm Corr '-jr.onde.its :iro const antly on the watt h for ttungc now ttii-I iatervating and It if Written So You Can Understand It l lio Shop Notes a)opart:nont (20 Paged contain* Fraction 1 II ints for Shop Work nnd en-;y .ways for the i \yiuaa to <lo things aroun'l tho Homo. Amateur Mechanic* (17 Pages) for tho Ho' ? on<l Hirls who Hkc to nr.ko thing.-,'el Ik how to make Wireless and Telegraph Onttit*. KugtnOs, Boats, Snowshoe*. Jowelrv. Hoed Furniture, etc. Contain* instructions for tho Mechanic, Curnpor an?l Sportsman. St.3D PER YEAR SINGLE COPIES. ISc Ordor from your noiraZ?.il?i or tflroct from tho publisher. Sample copy will ho cont on roquest. POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE 6 No. Michigan Avonuo. CHICAGO B HORRY COUNTY FOR IMAGE THEY HAVE AC-1 5 AND WE 8EG TO TEHILL FIND IIS DOING BUS.D STAND, BETTER PREIERVE YOU. KI & UU. e, S. C. ' * " ' j f' FOREIGN ITEILn GATHERED AND CONDENSED | FOR EASY RE A DIN G j Granting of independence to the Phillipines in not less than two years and not more than four years may be favored by the Wilson administration. Great Britain's "trading with the enemy" act is vigorously opposed by the United States in representations prepared for presentation to the British foreign office. President Wilson began efforts to speed up tlie legislative machinery of congress to clear the way for action on the preparedness programme. William J. Bryan issued a statement denying published reports that he. intended following in the wake of the presidnt on his trip through tno Middle West, making a series of . Speeches in answer to those of the president on preparedness. Advices received by the Yaticiun are to the effect that the condition of Emperor I'rancis Joseph is grave?, ' i A bill Kllii'fiw) .wl !n' Snn'it Hi- Till man, chairman of tho senate nav\al comniitteo, to prevent private contractors from using in the manufacture of war munitions for any foreign power plans of or specifications furnished by the navy department in connection with the making of munitions for the United States has been drafted by the department and agreed I upon in tentative form by Secretary j Daniels and congressional leaders. After being hung up in the senate committee on postoffiees for about two weeks awaiting t he favorable ac-. tion of Senator K. D. Smith, the U. S. senate confirmed the nomination of W. H. Coleman to he postmaster at Columbia. j o MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW. A sluggish liver can cause a person an awful lot of misery. Spells of dizziness, headaches, constipation and biliousness are sure signs that your liver needs help. Take Dr. King's New Life Pills and see how they help tone' up the whole system. Line for the; stomach too. Aids digestion. Puri-' firs the blood and clears the complex- j ion. Only 23c. at Druggists.?adv. -<> NOTICE OF SALE. ; t Under and by virtue of the decree and Judgment of tho court made by Ms Honor, S. W. G. Shipp, Presiding .Judge, in the case of P. C. Prince, I Plaintiff, vs. C. M. Reaves, Defend-, ant, and dated tlte 27th day of i December A. D., 1915, I, the under- i rigncd J. A.. Levis, Sheriff of Horrw'| County, wlil sell at public liileiloil 10 ( the highest bidder before the Court House door at Cor.way,- in Horry J County,, ami State of South Carolina, during legal hours of sale, on salesday in )*'?bruary next, it being the 7th day of said month, all and singular those certain lands situate in Horry County, and described as follows, towit: Six (G) lots of land, in the town of Doris, in thrt County of Ifor.y and State of South Carolina, lying on the West side of the Atlantic Coast Dine Railroad and on the South side of Patterson Street, being portions of a -e4-yeiy4 rahr^nimr hrahrth rhtrah conveyance from P. C. Prince to C. >D Reaves by deed dated June 10th, A. I)., 1912, and numbered as hereinafter stated on a plat of said proper ly made oy J. l>. (iore and duly recorded in connection with said convey ance, to-wit: First: Lots Number two (2) and three (')) each being 25x70 feet and when taken together are 50x70 feet and bounded as follows: North by Patterson Street, West by Lot No. 1 owned by P. C. Prince, South by Prince Alley and East by Lot No. 4 owned by C. O. Dixon. Second: Lot number five (.">) bound ! ed on the North by Patterson Street,1 o.i the West by lot No. 4 owned by C. O. Dixon, on the South by Prince Alii ? .. i -' " ? icy, a: 1?i on ino raist ny lot Ao. (? ownOil l\v P. C. Prince. Third: Lots Number nineteen (10) twenty (20) and twenty-one (21) fronting on Broad Street, number 10 occupied by the C. M. Reaves mill house, numbers 20 and 21 are unoccupied, these three lots taken together are 75 feet front by 02 foot and 0 inches deep and bounded North by Prince Alley, West by P. C. Prince, I South by Broad Street and East by Dillon Street. TERMS of Sale, Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. Conway, S. C., January 11th, 1910. H. H. WOODWARD, * Plaintiff's Attorney. ?. J. A. LEWIS, Sheriff of Horry County. ' She Will J Recover I So her doctor said. Her friends and neighbors felt sure of it too. They have used Peruna themselves and know of its merits. That old cough that had worried her for years and years, for which she had taken all sorts of cough H medicines, has disappeared. Peruna is doing the work. She will recover. Indeed, she has recovered. Ilor inmn is Mrs. William Ilohmann, 2 7 04 ^Lincoln A Chicago, Ills. She had suffered with catarrh of the bronchial |H tubes an;l had a terrible cough over since a child. As she got i older grew worse. She H 1 coughed both winter and sum- !..d sit on i night. Could not sleep. "Put all that i 1 '-ft in*' now. Peruna has Lcured me." There aro others, and there is :i reason. m ii 11 11 i ii " lini in ii i WATER POWER IN J CONTROL OF FE I Eighteen Corporations H^S| One Half of Country's Hy- I -I . I: - n ' urauiic resources B Washington, .Jan. 21.?Control orB the country's water power used inS public service corporations has passerlfl into the hands . i* a coir.pal vB group o) itions ; ifl "almost endless maze of inter-connc-B tions," according to a special reportB sent to Congress today by the Depart-B ment of Agriculture. I Mighteen corporations are shown toB be in control of more than half of theB water power employed in operation ofB public utiliti s while more than ione-B quarter of it is controlled by thesp six,I Stone and Webster Management A.s-M sociation, .Montana Power Company,? l'?..w r-> .. ^i.in kAJiiiniii" v u pumilOU, I'.. W.H Clark and Company Management Corl porntion. Southern Power Company? and Hydraulic Company of Niagara I Falls. Of these the Stone and VVeb-B ster Company is the largest holder of water power control aocf af-B ter the first six the Pacific Gas andl F.lectric Company, the Pennsylvania? Water and Power Company and thel Pacific Light and Power Company arel next in extent of control. T'H Secretary Houston called particu-l lar attention to the "marked tontiencyl tOvt'fU'd association or community^ of? interests, particularly between the I principal holdings coinpani^s." deelttr- I ing this feature could hot be viewed I without concern. Mention is IV.ado I of the relations between water powdv I companies end New York, Boston and I Philadelphia banks through commit- I tee dirovtoru4; s and oflicers. I The report r su?t< I from a re sol u- I tion asking information, passed a1 '.he I hist session of Congress. The sc re- I t?'.r\ made no recommendations he- I cause none were requested, but it Is I expected the report will be used for I guidance in preparing legislation af- I fecting water power developments. I "The movement toward con central! tion," says the report, " is found irh al^B sections for the United States. Forfl the ten yaers of 1902 to 1912 the rate(| v? < ./in i iiL a; ion was nignest in tiv^B South Atlantic States, which had 1 three times as great proportions of commercial stations in 1912 as in 1902 Since then the extent of concentration was greatest in the Westrn States. Kitty per cent of all primary posvfer of all kin h in the mountain States in 1912 was owned by public service corporations; ">4 per cent in the Pacific States. Today pub'ic service corporations own 90 per cent of all the primary power in these two groups of States." I o 1 .Mexican Conference. } ( Pmownsvillo, Texas.?Robert V. 1^squcira, personal representative of Gen. Carranza, is here preparing for a general conference of Mexican officials in Juarez, at which will be discussed, according to a recent statement, measures affecting the welfare of Northern Mexico. I loth civil and military odicers stationed in Northern Mexico will attend, it is said. The problem presented by the activities of Villa, the possibility of revolution and the task of keeping typhus in bounds to prevent a closing of the border by American authorities will be among the subjects to come before the conferenece. k