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The People's Journal. LOCAL ITEMS. -}Vhatever the heart does is done well.. -fl'is quite a lively time with th.e "hare now. -Thursday, the 25th inst., is Thanksgiving day. --Every drunkard's ivifo knows thWIbre is a devil. --ead the advertisement of B . xifu this week. j-e,-Col. J. E. Hagood, of Charles ton was in town last week. "Corn shuckings are quite num erous over the county now. .-The Academy at this place is being recovered by the trustees. ---L. C. Thornley has treated )iin.Melf to a nice, new "wheel." Read the advertisements in the.JOURNAL and profit thereby. -The farmers are having fine weather for gathering their crops. , r Will gtawart, of Porter, has tretted himself to a nice new bug - Miss - Sanders, of Wal i!,,wisited at J. C. Alexander's asV wek .-Life Insurance agent, O'Neal. is registered at the Hotel do Thorn ley this week. James T. Porter, of WVestmin ster;-visited his brother, Dr. F. S. Porter this week. -The Town Council will soon nt in rock steps from the post ofMoe to the court house. -Miss Maude Ashmore is on an extended visit to Miss Beulah Chiles, of White postoffico. -These autumn days are so still that you can hear a bill collector's fgtsteps a quarter of a mile away. --A meeting of the trustees of thb- several districts of the county was held in the court house Satur day. -The photographs of the Pick. .ens Rifles are now ready. All who %want one will please oall and got dhem. -The Old Folks Singing Asso oiation will meet with Fairviow church the second Sunday in this month. ---Married, on the 3d inst., Mr. W. A. Clyde, of Easley, to Miss Major, of Greenwood. Rev. J. T. Llyde officiated. --W. W. F. Bright was dispen ser-in-chief, on Thursday last, Dispenser Baker having important burps at home. -T1~h. Liberty Township Sing ing Assoolation will moot wvith the Flat.-Rock church the fourth sabbath in this month. -THE JOURNAL comes out aboead ,of time this week, as the p)rinters 4ill attend the State Fair, which ,convened the 10th inst. --Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Boggs, of I1FIort Hill, visited the latters par .ents, Mr. anid Mrs. Jeremiah Loo per1 Saturday and Sunday. -W. F. Hendricks, of Table Mountain, was in town on business last week an4i reports the health of$hat community generally good. -Married, October 31st 1897, Mr. Adolphu9 Bagwell to Miss Emma Pace. Megistrato Jones in bis efficient nmanner officiated. All .of Pickens county. -Magistrate Jones, of Dacus ville Township, reports cotton alabout gathered in that section anid that gathering corn is the order of the day now. --.-Will Holden, who was com mitted to jail week before last on a'charge of obtaining money under falso pretenses, was released last week. Hie proved out of same. --Rev. J. E. Foster filled his regtlar appointment at Secona Baptist church Sunday, andl preanehod an able andl instructive :sermon to a largo and attentive .congregation, -Mr. A. C. Edens, of th'. Qolen .ey valley, brought to this offico :$aturday, several laurel blooms whaich he secured on the 5th inst. 'This is something very unusual for the. time of year. ---W. R. Major and1 family, who live near town, left Wednesday, the 10th inst., for Piedmont. We are oryto lose such an estimable family from our midst and hop1) . b~ey will be pleased with their new home. -The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Sutherland died on the 4th inst., at 4 p. mn. Tfhe fu neral took place the day following at Holly Springs church. The b)e reaved parents have the sympa thies of many friends. -We have been requested by several parties to ask of the sev eral ginners of the county the numb~er of bales of cotton ginned during tihe year 1897. Let the JOURNAL know by the 15th inst., on a p'ostal card, so same can be puablished for information of oth --A meeting of tihe County Su pgyisors will be hold in Columbia in the State House, on November 10th' for the purpose of discussmng the road question. This meeting should result in much good, in fagt . should be held every year. anid we hope that the Supervisors w.ll attmid -Road Clork's sales this weok. -Miss Alma Kay will teaoh the Six Mile school. -A watch has boen invented that runs 45 days. -Three may keep a secret if twc of them are dead. -Thero are now 750 prisonorl in the State Penetentiary. -Will Nicholson, of the Keo woo side, lost a fine cow last week -Waiting to be whipped is th< most uninteresting period in boy hood. -Mr. Hfirry I.oslie, of London county, Virginia, is visitii:g at Col 0. L. Hollingsworth's this weok. -Mr. W. T. Moaros, who was hurt 'in a runaway scrapo some timo ago, is able to I'o out again. -R. L. Gilstrap and three chil. dren are still very low with ty phoid fever at his home in Pied mont. -Thero arc very few mon who are homoloss, hut there are a groat many who are at home less than they ought to bo. -A good article is rarely doar itt the price isked. A bad one is costly on any terms. Soo that you receive what you call for. -'ho cabbage and applo crop in North Carolina this year seems to be of a large quantity, as the wagons, loaded with the above vegetables and delicious fruit, pass es through town ovory day. --Did you say you wanted your "Photo" taken? If so, Eugono T. Andorson, the photographer, will only be hero two (2,) weeks from the 10th instant. If you want any work in his line done give him a call. -John Patterson was before Commissioner Thornlcy Saturday for illicit distilling, but the evi dence was insufficient and he was discharged. J. M. Kelloy was also betoro him for removing and re tailing and was bound over to court. -Cenitral has had another big fire. About one hundred balos of cotton, bought by R. G. Gaines, a cotton buyor there, were burned Sunday. They wore sot on fire by a passing engine. The loss is be tween throo aid four thousand dlollars,which tho Southern Rail way will havo to pay. -Priestly Maxwell, a farmer living near the Easley bridge, died Thursday morning the 4th inst., at 1 o'clock. I-o was stricken with paralysis F'unday night and never rallied from the attack. A short while before his death he became unconscious and (lied while in that condition. Hie wvas 62 years old and had always lived quietly anid alone on his farm, having never been married. WVell known in both Pickens and Greenville coun ties, he wits highly esteemed and( had fewv enemies. Four sisters survive him and they reached his bedside just before lhe (lied. Mr. Maxwell was a man of frugal hab its and leaves quite a valuable esta to. The body was taken to Pendloton, the old home of Mr. Maxwell, for interment. --Country store advertising is improving, and as it improves it grows more and more interesting andl all th~o better for the interest it excites. It was formerly of lit tIe con sequence, because country storskeepers took little interest in this department of their own bus iness. The ad vertising wvas un polp ular, was negl.cted and regardled as a bore, but it wasBconsidered an expense rather than a scourco of pIrofit. S4hrewd me~n have taken the advertising expense account from the blacklist it formerly oc cup)iedl and plut it in the light, so that we can plainly seo just what its value is and its probablle and1( p)rofltable returns. -Money is now spont, not grudlgingly, as formerly, but freely and voluntarily, and in some instancos? lavishly3. That none may be thrown away the qjuality of country store advertis ing should be carefully3 consideredl and overy help toward good1ness adlop ted. NotIc. The D)acusvillo Camp of Confed erates Vetorans will moot at Loop. or's Gin on Saturday, November the 13t h, 1897 att 9 o'clock k. mn. All miemb ers aire ('arnestly request ed to be l)rosontt as businoss35 of im-n p)ortancte to the Camp needs atton tioni. lBy orde(lr of W. TV. Field, Commander. W. W. F. Bright,_Adjutant Commmissionaers M1eetIn;c. Tha Board of County Commis sioners met Fridamy the 5th inst. andl E. F. Looper, T1. A. WVilhiams, J. J. Lewis, H. C. Shirley, W. B. Jones and J. E. Boroughs w'ore presen t. All potitions for neow road1s and changes to 1)0 heard at the Docem. A petition for changes on thi road from Robt. Lathem's to Farr's Mill wals pre'(sented. To be heOar( at neoxt meeting. A petition for changes on thn road from Naomi Clayton's placi to G4assaway bridge was presentod1 Petition granted anmd the Super visor is authmorized to lay off th< road on the most pracf*ical route free of cost to the county. Examined claims. On motion thes Supervisor was anthorizedl to build a four roon -ctaefrteshrf tteji Liberty Locals. What is going on in and around Liberty. (Correspondent to the JOURNAL.) Liberty, S. C.. Nov. 8th 1897. -There are a few fine turnips ini this section. -Cotton still comes in at a lively rate and has gone to five conts. -The school is improving in numbe s considerally since cotton has been picked. -The farmers are gathering in the top bolls of their cotton and gathering their corn. -Rev. V. H. Workman atten ded the meeting of the Presbyterian Synod this week at Darlington. -Some few have taken up their sweet potatoes and report early varieties pretty fair. much bettor than the lato varieties. --Thore is a good chance hore just now for somen'man with a fain ily of children to send them to school. One good house for sale. --H. C. Shirley and family have returned from an exteneded moun tain trip. They went as far as Asheville, N. C., and report r splendid time. -The cotton seed bring bettor prices than the cotton and the Oil Mill is getting them in lively. The Oill Mill Co., shipped a tank of oil this week. -A little daughter of Arch Smith, is very low, being paralized in one side. Mr. Smith is very unfortunate, having lost his wife last weok after a long lingering illness of about a year. -Constable Wyatt, of Green ville, sold a crop hero to-day that had been levied on by a firm in Greenville. The same crop was levied on by some of the hands for labor rendered in making the same, and it was sold under a pro test. Now for another law suit. -The doleful moaning of a few lending members of the mystic circle over their many short coin ings, at a little "pow wow" the other night, was extremely amus ing. They were planing some wonderful schemes for the future, it seems. -Contractor, King reports the piers finished for the new bridge over the Twelve Mile river near Thos. Gassoway's and says he will finish the wood work right away. This will give another new road to this town and we hope a better one than some others in that sec tion. -Whoat sowing is about the next most important thing on the far mer's docket. There is guano here for those who haven't suflicient home-made fertilizer for their wheat crop), and lackey is the man who will have the money to pay for it after he gets his rocciplts all --Life is too short and space too valuable to Lake more thani p)assing notice of a howvling man gey 01(1 flea bitten "Gray" hound, with a record for villiany a. black as the hinges of midnight. So let her roll. Little elue but lies may be expected from much. I think the ball will soon close as I can hardly ever see a piece of the rag. I do not propose to be forced out by straight out lies of "Gray.'' I will smile and pass something cresp. I do not propose to disgrace the page of THE~ JOURINAL with their names or paper unloss they oome at me over their own signature. C, Sheriff's Sale. STPATE OF" SOUIJI CARO[lINA, Ccounity of IIcken,s. J S. A. Gosnioll, Plaintiff. va, Mary A. Smith, D)efendant, By virtue of a D)ecretal order madec in the above stated case, by the HIon. 0. WV. Buchanan, Pre siding Judge, on the 26th of Oc tober 1897, I will sell for cash to the highest bidder at public sale, at Pickenis court house, South Carolina, during the legal hours of sale, on the first Monday in December 1897, all of that tract of land lying and being in the County of Pickons, in the State of South Carolina, ad joining lands of Susan A. Gosnell, Mary A. Smith and others. Sup p)osed to contain from ten (10,) to fifteen (15,) acres, being a part of the tract of land conveyed to Mary A. Smit h by Wim. Duke on the 24th (lay of March 1870, lying on the West Side of the old1 Pumpkintown Road. Purchaser to pay for dood for same. J. 11. 0. McDaniel, Sheriff Pickons County. nlov4 97. YELLOW FEVER P'REV ENTED) BYx TAKING "Our Native HERES'' the Great Blood Purifier and Liver Regulator. 200 DAYS' TRE A T MENT $1. Containing a Regisitered (Guaranitee. :1 page Book anid TVetim,onials. FREE. Senit by mail , postpaid. SrohIlily -iby Agents for 'The Alonzo~ C. Bliss comipany, no44.Washington, D. C. COTTON Is selling at or below cost and we sympathize with the farm. ing people, as we have had some rxperience "long that line ourselves. A short crop and a low price is a double calamity. He can't expect the people to pay even a liberal profit on their purchases under existing Circumstances, We are willing to divide our Profits and in this way do all we can to tide this emer gency. We do not boast of the lar gest stock, but we do boast of as Good Goods and at as low a price, if not a little lower than the other fel.. low. Try us and be convinced that what we say is true. Yours for trade, FrcUiiil & I1Olth'iC~S, Pickens, S. C, ort14 97. McF ALL'S P"-BUDGET&m#a --OF PHUN aid PHAX FOR THE PHOLKS. Mr. Editor: We havo just opened up a new lot of Ladies Capes, and have a nice line of Trimmed Hats and Sailors for Ladies and M isses to arrive this week. Come and see them. Tell all the Pholks to come. Now is the time to fix for cold weather. Our stock in this line is complet a. Jeans cheaper than ever before. Outmgs, Flannels, Velvets, Gloves, everything. Shoes, Rubbers, Macintoshes, Overcoats, Umbrellas, Oil Cloths, down stairs, up stairs, every whole, full up. Furniture and Stoves, nice, new and cheap. Axes, Hlatchets, Iron Wedges, Corn Shellers, Wheel Barrows, Grind Stones, Iron, Steel and Nails, Rims, Spo'.es and Hubs. AND SEE HERE, whilo I think of it. A good many of the BOYS came in last month and "PAID UP," and that was8 right, but there are sev eral more who don't seem to have the moral courage to come, because they can't "PAY Ur." That is wrong. It strikes mo that since Ii have car ried themn from year to year through all these many hard years, that they should give me the benefit of their cash trade, and not run off to Ham. burg with it. Don't it seem that way to yo-? I wish you would men tion this. Probably they haven't thought of it. It would look better in TIxM and they would FEEL bet ter and it would do me a uight o' good. You might send 'em a copy of your paper and maybe they will read1 this. WV. T7. .M'Fall. EARE Making WAGONS and BG0 GIES in our new quarters near' the Livery stable and can fit you up in the wvay of a neat substantial Wagon or Buggy, one or two hor'se. OUR PR ICE S are equal to five cent cotton. All we ask is for you to give us a trial and be convin ced. Repairing of Wagons and Buggies a specialty, Yours for trade, DUCKWORTH & PALMER, Proprietors, oct2-97m6. Pickens, S. 0. Notice to Trespasers. All persons are hereby warned not Itc hunt, ibah er in any wy trespass on out disear1ing ti no tice wil e prcuted D. E. Hendricke, Dr. w. T. Field. Joe n. Findley, .ewme aB. V. Farmer, Fresh and New Is our entire stock of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, CARPETS, MATTING and SHOES. Our stock this fall in all the above lines is the largest and .most com= plete we have ever had and ever shown in one house in' Greenville. We extend to all our friendra cordial invitation whein' in Greenville to give us a call. We have some rare bargains .to offer. A few we will mentton. The best all wool filling-Jeans 10 oz. 25 cents. The best all wool filling Jeans 8f oz. 20 cents. 9 yds all woul twilled 'red Flannel for $1.00. A 25c. all wool twilled Red Flannel for 15 cents. A heavy Outing in all colors and black and white 5 cents. All wool cassimere, the 50c. quality 35 cents. Table Damask fast colors 20c. a better at 25 cents. Beat Sea Island 23 yds for $1.00. Heavy I Drilling 5c. worth 6 cents. Dress Ginghams 5 cents and up. Cotton checks 4 cents. Best apron Ginghams 5 cents. Best Indigo Calico 23 yds for $1.00. Calico for 81 cents. A better at 4 cents. The best Calico for 5 cents. 38 in. all wool Dress Flannel all colors 25 'cents. 50 in. Black Briliantine 40 centy worth 75 cents. 30 in. Dress Flannel all wool 18 cents. Prettiest line 25c. Novelty Dress Goods in Greenville. 10-4 Blankets white and colored 45 cents. Capes $1 and up. Carpets and Mattings at prices lower than yott ever bought before. SHOES! SHOES!! We have put in a complete new stock and can fit you in anything you want. 'Give us a trial and see if we won't save you 15 per cent. Remember we have no old stock to put oil' on you, but everything new and fresh. We have only mentioned a few of the many Bargains that abounds in )ur store. Call and be convinced that the place to buy your goods is AT LJDAD F 17\ LEA D1Ac .INN LOW PRICOZES. NOw Store, New Goods, NEW - PRIGES. YES, everything new and stylish, as well as durable, will be found in my store at Calhoun, Pickens County, S. C. When the trading public of this locality are in need of first olass GOODS, I invite you all to visit my stoic and examine my stock and prices. A look will convince you that this Advertisement ig no Humbug. My stock comprises the latest styles in DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES, HATS, CLOTHING, HARDWARE, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE AND FURNITURE. I will make a specialty of Shoes and keep in stock all the leading styles for Men. Women and Childreo. I also have a well stocked GRO CERY DEPARTMENT. You will always find everything fresh and at. tractive, at the lowest possible figures. My present line of foregoing goods include "VALUES" that are in demand every day The prc inducements are 'as strong as the quality of my goods are attractive. I amn determined to be " Leader of Low Prices " in this locality and serve you politely and aittentiv ely. Respect rull y, F. I. OARTEL. Doyle Building. CAL HOUN, 8. 0. mar18-97y1. NWP. S -A car load of No. 1 Tiimothy Hay, at $1 a hundred -4STORE. ~~ CHOCK FUJLL OF GO1ODS. Boug Mht direct from NEW YORK, by an experienced buyer. The nicest selection we have ever had. Our s ock in laiger than ever before and we are carry. mny now a little of everything. There is no better market thani Pickens and nobody is more anxious to please tban we are, We ask you to come to see us. The market price paid for cotton and produice. Yours truly, J. McD, BRUCE. FALL AND WiNTER Goods at A. K. PARK'S, Greenville, 8. 0. All invited to come to my store and see my Immense stock. Time was spent in searching the Nor thern markets securing the Right Oods and Right Prices and now seeing how well pleased my customers are, am satisfied that I succeeded. I am new prepared to shew you a magnificent line ot all the latest effects in Fall and Winter Goods. Notwithstanding the talked of ''Higher Prices." I bought my goods so I can seil themn in accordance with the present low price ot cotton In Dress Goods I am with the first. Any one who can be suited at all, can be suited here., A season of new and wvonderfulty beaatiful weaves is before us,. and to stimulate early fall trade we are offering Special Bar. gains in these goods, prices ranging from 10 cts a yard to $1.50. To ap preciate the prices yen will have to see the gloods. In trimmings I have the latest Braids, Velvets, Silks and Jets to matck any goods we sell. The best stock of Underwear and Hosiery that I eveir carried. In heavy g,oods, such as Jeans, Kerseys, Cassimers, Wool Flannels, Cotton Flannels, Shirtings, Sheotings, Bed Ticking, &c. I am right at the front with quality and price. SHOES. Thie stock is my GREATEST PET, ''Once a Customer Always a Customer." Women's Shoes from 75 cents to $3.00 a pair. Men's Shoes from '75 cents to $5.00 a piir, Childrecn's Shoces all grades and prices. I do not claim to be the only maan who soils good 8shoes, but I do let.the other fellow sell all the sorry ones. Here arc a few instances how I can save you money and give you groat satisf*Coi. 1 yd. wide all wool Dress Flannel at 25 cents. A good wOOl jeans att 12* cents. An all wool Jeans the best in the market at 250. All wool Red Twilled Flan nel at 12ic. 2500 yds. yard wide Sheeting at 4c. Can't be bought any. where for lens than 6 ets. A last word. Don't buy your goods until you have seein mine and if I fail to Pleas0 you, notliin g ur. Greenvll.~ S~V. W'. Notice to Oreditors. 8TATE OF $OUTH CAUCIINA, County of Pickene. } Enps. Freeman, ot..al., vs. W: B. Freeman, et. .l. In Common Plcas. In pursuance 6f ant order made in the .above stated oae by Hon. O. W. -Buchanan,. - . residing Judge, dated 27th day of Octo ber 1897. - - NTo$iee is hereby .gvenj to all the,creditors of the lnte :James F. Freeman, that they must prove their clains and file 'them with me on or by the Iss day of December 1897, or be barred. This 28th Oct. 1897. J. M. Stewrrt, Clerk of Court. nov4 97. Notice to Creditors. STATE OF'SOU'HH CAROLINA, 1 County of Pickens. . Newton Oats, et. al., vs. Rufus C. Roper, et. al. ,In Common llg,as. In pursn nce,of..n pMjr"ado in the above stated case by Hon.O. W. Buchanan, Presiding Judge, 'dated 27th day of October, 1897. Notice is hereby given to all pereons having any domands against the Estate -of Rufus Oats, or the Esiaite of Marv Oats, deceased, to proyp tld establish such demands before me.on or.by the 1st day of December next, or be bar ied from any claim against said Es tate. J. Mtowart, Clerk of Court. This 28th day of Octobcr, 1897. nov4'97. Notice to creoi1ors. BTATE OF SOUT[I CAROiliNA,1 County of Pickens. Susan Stewart, vs. Robert Stewart, 'et. a,l. In Comnon l as. In pursuance of a rder made in the above stated caseby Hon. 0. W. Buchanan, Presidng Judge, dated 20th of October 1897, and on file hi 'tl Clerk's office. Notice is hereby given to all the Creditors of the late John Stewart; of the cou.nty and State aforesaid, that they must prove their claims against said Estate on or by the 1st day of December next, or be barred, as provided in stid order. This 28th October 1867. J. M. Stewart, Clerk of court. noy4 97. Sheriff Sale, $'TATE~ 01 SOUTH CARQ)LINA, Cont,y of licekens. C. L. Hollingswvorth, Plaintifl. vs. Amanda Hunt, et. a)., Defendants. Foreclosurd of Mortgage on Real -Estate. By virtue of a Decretal order made ia.the above stated case by the Hon. D. W. Buchanan, Presiding Judge, an the 26th day of October 1897,- I will sell to the highest :bidder at Pickens court house,.South Caroia an Monday the ola 6th day of December 1897, during the legal hours of, sale, for sash, All of that tract of laud lying and being im the State ap C ounty aforesaid, adjoining land~ j IJ. K. 1athem, 1Frank Hlogsed, 'te Tfvaline Hunk pleoe, on MwishJ'p .'h Hunt lived at the time of his he'i'ha, and others, containing fiftpriirne -(69) acres more or less, which is' the' tract of land conveyed by C. L. Hollings worth to T. J. Hunt on the 16th of April 1894. Purchaser to pay for his deed. 3. H. G. McDionieh, niov4 97. iheriff 1Pickens Co. THAT THE BEST Green Coffee Five pounds for $1.00 is IlNE. THAT those 10 cent Salmon and 10 cent Tomatoes are the Best. THAT All kinid of Goods at MORRIS' aro choapor than his competitors. Quality 'considered it wll payyou to go. his- J.rince. A.M. MORRIS, Pickone, S. C. Now brick store. ot14 97y