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THe CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK ...Yesterday Entered upon Its Era of Greater Prosperity... No Bank in the county had a better record for 1913 than The Citizens National Bank. No Bank in the county has a more promising future, and No Bank anywhere stands more ready or more able to serve you. J. H. ANDERSON, J. F. SHUMATE, J. R. SHELOR, J. R. MOSELY, L. H. THOMPSON, President. Cashier. Asst. Cashier Asst. Cashier. Bookkeeper. CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAROLINA RY. The Augusta Short Line Arrives: Departs: No. 5.-11:40 a. m. No. 22-6:00 a. m. No. 21- 3:45 p.m. No. 6-3:35 p. m. Information, Schedules, etc, cheerfully furinshed E .WILLIAMS, T. B. CURTIS, General Pass Agt. Commercial Agt. Augusta, Qa Anderson, S. C. Labor Savers Whether yon employ a servant or not, laborsaving de vice* in the home will pty. Household affairs run more smoothly-more work can be done. Situations tn such houses are more sought after and more persistently held on to. Labor Saying, Time saving, Comfort saving devices pay in the end. YOU KNOW THE KIND WE MEAN ? ' ?" i j ...... ? Vacuum Cleaners, Irons, Sewing Ma chine Motors, Fireless Cookers, etc. SOUTHERN PUBLIC UTILITIES CO. Bijou ...THEATRE TODAY'S PROGRAM. THF. FALSE URI DK Virtor ti reel production featuring Florence Lawrence OH! YOI' CITCY Crystal Comed) featuring Penrl Wh!le te m in ir Monday- -MO HF KN BANCKS, Victor I nl\o:s;:l Tango Picture. Fro gram subject lo change. ELECTRIC ... THEATRE TODAY'S PROGRAM. CALAMITY ANN IN SOCIETY American Comedy FOK HER M H OT H KIP'S SAKE Kay.fie? Orama TRICKED HY A I'll OT0U HA I'll Reliance. Fourth reel to he selected. Coming tomorrow t SRI) REEL OCR MUTUAL GIRL Mutual Movies Make Time Fly. OK PALMETTO * THEATREv oooooooooooooooo o oj o TOWNViLLE NEWS. o o oooooooooooooooo Special t? The. ?uiri?iMen?er. Townvllle. Feb. 25.-Rev. W. B. Hawkins filled bis regular appoint ment at the Baptist church last Sun day morning and evening. Rev. W. 8. Meyers at the Methodist church last Sunday evening and Hov. W. T. Hol lingsworth ut the Presbyterian church tn the morning. We have services here every Sunday. TODAYS PROQRAM 3 Reel Special Hand Colored Fea ture. Tito Reproduction of which cost $200,000.00. Fourth Reel to be Selected. 4 Big Reels-10c -"S** THE XAN THAT PCT THE MOTE _ IS MOVIES. We ure glad to see Hrs. S. R. Hel ler and NV. T. limit able to be out] ami resumo their1. Work after their re cent illness. We are very jtlad to recelvo news from W. C. King, who is stopping In Florida, that hts health ia very much Improved and that he expects tu re-1 turn home soon. Those who attended the State Sun day school convention which met at Anderson were: Rev. W. B. Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Barle, Mr. and Mrs. J. I). Babb. Mrs. Amanda Campbell. Messrs. J. P. Ledbetter. T. B. Junes, J. H. Bruce and Albert Hawkins. Several Interesting talks were made| here at the Baptist church last Sun day by .-se who attended the con-1 ventton. The talks made by our sup-| crintendent waa much enjoyed. Mrs. E. C. Asbill has as her guest this week her sister, Miss Peterson ot] Laurens. We are pleased to learn that Mrs. E. M. Brown wbO'tatn"the hospital Inj Columbia is mUch"botte'r. Dr. Wldeman. a noted physician of j Andersen has recently located hero. '--. PREMIUM OFFER.-Any one who will send ua three yearly subscribers, at 11.60 each will receive a year's au scrtptlon free to THU PIEDMONT M ?AZINB. A rt dr?? The Piedmont Magasine, Andersenr&' C. In the future Chicago aldermen ?ho refuse to pledge their'opposition to bills inimical to thc motion picture Industry will be ablacto have tba name flashed on thaAcrcenes in film houses throughout Chicago, if a plan proposed at a recen?beettng of the Am w a ?m ?n? Proteo. ? ?r*LcsguS o? Il linois, Is carried auk. . !" Electric CH Items ai Interest and Personal leKH (In HIP Sti Helter Stork for Anderson. The farmers of Anderson county are an ready to grasp an opportunity und a? wide awuke to recognise a chance for advancement a:: any class of peo ple on the earth, and they lui ve been quick to heed the teachings of J. T. Watt of Clemson college regarding better live stock. Mr. Watt has BUC ? eecded In impressing upon the people of this section that "more and better live stock"' Is the Beeret of success for the farmer, and as a result a called ; meeting of the Anderson County Live Stock association will be held Tues day morning at ll o'clock in the rooms of the "bamber of commerce. At tnis meetlr *r Watt will discuss with the plann present the question of taking a trip through the western states In an endeavor to buy some high-grade steck for Anderson farmers The Snow, the Snow The Beantifal Snow. The heart of the small boy and girl -and, truth to tell, their fathers and mothers, In some Instances-were made happy yeaterday afternoon when i tnow began to fall about 1 o'clock. The fall was utlil continuing last night and the ground was covered to a depth of several inches, this being a greater fall than had been recorded in Anderson for this winter. Many excursion? after rabbits will today be staged and bunny will fare badly. The coal and wood men of the city wore broad ; miles of delight throughout tho! day and several of them ftgurei on some business investments they had been hoping tc make. WIM rWlcmenf"" important Committee. Secretary Whaloy of the chamber of commerce said yesterday that he plans to supplement the important can varying commit', JO of that body,* V'hteh will today tak" up Its xl ut lex.1 The present committee ls composed or A. a Farmer. M. M. Mattlscn, W. W. Sullivan, O. H. Dalles and Pierce Browne. Several other well-known; business men of the city will be added to this Hst. and the work will bc com pleted a:. speedily as possible ! CanvuKs Today Hy Committee. A canvassing committee of. the' An-, dcrson chamber of commerce will to day mako an onslaugh; on the people of the etty, visiting the buBlnesa houaen and securing their pledges of PU port to the Institution for the com-' lng year. . Secretary Whaley said yes terday that thc business men of the city were now evincing great enthu Klasm over the work being done by the Anderson Hoo8ter association, and the committee anticipates but little trouble in securing pledges today. j Hay hy Day (?rou lng Better. "I have been taking this paper ever sinco it urns known as tho Gazette." said Kdwin Whitten of Pendleton, Route 1, "and I certainly intend keep I lng on with it aa long aa lt continues i to improve." Mr. Whitten, who was tn the city yesterday, aald that the peo I pie of his section are of thc opinion J that every Issue of the paper ls .an improvement over the last, and that I they are welt pleased. Drug Store Makes Improvement H. The Owl dmg store has Just In stalled one of the handsomest soda fountains ever brought to Anderson. The dew fountain ia of modern can-, stru<?Ion>ndad?s d great deal te Kg appearance of this popular store. To-, gethsr with that fact lt la absolutely sanitary sod conforms with every san itary principle. The fountain le quite au expensive fixture. Maybe It ls *he~ Moire the Merrier. T..E. Howard, the well-known and; efficient manager, of the Western Union Telegraph company In Ander-! son, haa announced that he would be . dee-lighted to accept the appoint-j mept as postmaster at this place. In ' Other W?rwa, ?ir. Howard yesterday, I said that he waa going after the job, y Sparkiets Mention fanght OTf>r the Wire? .et'ts of Anderson. j and that he had great hope? of being able to land lt. He ha? a'large clrcjo of- friends, who will put forth every effort to help hin). Hoy Ritten Hy Bulldog. Having attacked the small son of L. N. Geer and done him serious in jury, a vicious bulldog belonging to a negro numed Reece waa yesterday killed by Patrolman Stuart of the po lice force. The dog showed no signs cf huvlng rabies, but it was thought best to kill nun ih order to prevent a repetition of this" occurrence. PREMIt'M OF>Ef"' - Any one who will send us three yearly subscribers at $l.r?0 each will receive a year's subscrip?oht ttffe?fo'.TT?K?"PlEDNSONT BIG TIME FOR TH? SHRINERS Anderson1 ^n WuV Attend the National Gathering to Be. Heir! in Atlanta. - : ;v . ' ,1 . ill '.>>? I-1 , 'I'LI In all parts of 'thc Cn ?ted States members of tlie .Mystic Shrine are pre-j paring" to. go to Akanta lu May to at-1 tend thc Imperial Council. South Carolina .ia to send a great ' delegation and in th.s Mate's party wll b found ninny merijjber* from Ander- j : son. Concerning the plans which are even now being completed for the j trip, tho Spartanburg Herald says: I I "8partanburg will be the point of I . mobilization for the Shriners of the ! j state who will visit Atlanta, where j the meeting of the Imperial Council, I Nobles of the Myat.c Shrine will be? held from May 10 to 14. The special | j train over the Southern Railway bear-? lng thc Shriners wilt leave spartan - [burg about lu::'0 o'clock . Monday night. Mriy lt, niching Atlanta about 5 p'oloek the morling of the next day. Returning tho . spoclal" wll depart from Atlanta about midnight, Tues day. May 14, a riving Bi Spartanburg about 6 o'clock the next morning. While l4>Atl:Uita lee? Pullman cars composing tue train will be "parked" and will, bo used as- sleeping quarters Ly-- their ' occupants: , 'The Southern railway ia desirous of maklrfg the special* from this city tie largest to be narked In Atlanta oaring the meeting. The train will be in charge of lt. C. Coiner, etty pas senger and ticket agent, who will leek after the comfort of the passen gers. Delegations of Shriners from YorkvlHo. Chester, Rock Hill, Colum bia, Sumter and other pointa will meet in Spartanburg and take the special tra?na which will pick up tho Anderson and Greenville Shrlhera at Greenville." PORTY THOFSAND TAKE PART " IN .Mt Ul ILK'S MARBI GRAS Mobile, Ala.. Feb.' 2a.-On tho sec ond day of the Mardi Gras celebra tion in Mobile, representatives of thc four railroads entering Mobile esti mate the number of visitors Urns far at 40.000. . 1 he general masking opened at dawn and the real carnival spirit pre vails. The features today were - the parade by the Knights of Revelry, whose floate represented "Music of the Ages," parade of the King of the Mardi Gras. Emperor Felix. 3rd, and the, comic cowboys. The carnival comes* "lo a close tonight with' ? pag eant of the Order Of Myths. LEATE FOR RICHMOND. Rock Hill. Feb. ?5.--Presldent D. ?B. Johnson and several members of ?the Winthrop faculty have . gone to ! Richmond to attend tao meeting of ?the department of superintendent of the National Educational association. ?Dr. Johnson ls on tho program for an address on "Rural School Improve ment/' while Prof. C H. Weeks will also talk on this .subject. Prof. Weeks will abo talk on "School Gar dening in America." ' "f.*!*1.*., V. ."V. ."" Records for From Eight to/Twen ty Years Broken. TRAFFIC HINDERED i Some I'lnce'. Have First Snow of Any ConM'iiuenfe Recorded for Past Twenty Years. Atlanta. Ga.. Feb. 25.-The South and the Southeast tonight shivered in the gr.p of a general Enow storm, which blanketed t!:e Atlantic sc i board as far south as Southern Geor gia, and readied to the gulf States. Weather bureau records for from eight to twenty years were broken. Falling temperatures accompanied the storm in many sections, the snow turning to sleet. W-'.iile no serious interruptions of traffic were reported , early tonight, many trains were behind their sche^ dules in locnllt es wherr* the snow fall wnB - heaviest. , The heaviest snowiall was reported In Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi and North Carolina and South Caro lina. At .*vl*con. Ga., the precipita tion renched a depth of six inches while an almost erjual amount was reported at Augusta and Savannah. In louisiana and Mississippi the snow began falling about noon and at mid fall it had been recorded from a trace in the extreme south to six inches In the northern section. Ther mometers at New Orleans, Mobile end ?;hrr gulf pointu hovered about the freezing noln? and thc snow melted as it fell. In addition to A heavy snowfall in South Carolina, the country around Charleston was covered with a coat ing nf ice and sleet. Snow changed to sleet late in the day causlnc prog ress on tue streets of the city to be difficult, both for pedestralna and traffic. Birmingham, Montgomery and other Alabama cities were affected by the mow storm. VMore than four inches fell In the former city. While snow fell in the southern part or. North Carolina, low tempera tures in the northern part of tho State as well aa Tennessee and Vir ginia showed thc precipitation to be Jight. XIM Wost of Mississippi. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. .26.-While the Southeast and Central. Gulf States today shivered, with ' some sections experiencing their first snow and- sleet storms in years, fair and comparatively mild weather prevailed west of the Mississippi river. At Okla homa City, the weather bureau sta tion thermometers recorded 42 de grees above zero late today. Shreve port, Lo., reported the weather "pleas ant"; and throughout Texas the weather was moderating after a few sensationally low temperatures ia the extreme southern portion of the State laat night Bor the drat time in years the mercury dropped below the fgreczing point during the night at Corpus Christi and Galveston re ported the heaviest anow storm in twenty years. Heaviest Fall In Recent Tears. Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 25.-beginning at 5.:30 p. m., snow baa been falling here steadily and .at 8 o'clock had reached a depth of. two laches. This ls the only appreciable snow fall of the winter and bids fair io be the heaviest for two or three years. Tho mercury, howe vr, ls around thirty degrees. , Coldest In Forty Years. Lynchburg. Va, Feb. 25.-The -another bureau ^effBprAMM n here registering nine degrees last ntght, Lynchburg today experienced thc coldest weather on February 25 since the establishment of do government record fn 187?. There waa JO snow here today, Sleet and Rain Ia Charleston, Charleston. S. C., Feb. 25-Two Inches of snow today fell here. The snowfall . was followed by a sleet and rain atorra and the city tonight ia covered with a glass coating of tee. The snowfaii waa the heaviest in fif teen v?ai*j? Heaviest Slaee ItM. Birmingham, Ala. Feb. 25.-Four inches of snow today, the heaviest ince 1904. Thc snolw began at 5:40 .'. m., and continued without sousing until 4:30 p. m. Hei luil of Sleigh Hells. Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 2."?.-The jin gle of sleigh bells was heard In Knox ville tonight for thc first time in years. Snow which began falling this afternoon continued tonight. The temperature is mild tonight and con ditions seem good for a fall of seve ral inches. Worst Sinre ISM In Savannah. - | Savannah. Ga., Feb. 25.--Weather, such ?s not been experienced here; since the blizzard of 1899, hit Savan nah this morning and. accompanied ' by sleet, enow and cold north winds,' covered the city with an icy coat. j Macon, Ga., Feb. 25.-The weather | bureau stated that six inches of snow had fell in -Macon at six o'clock. It is still snowing and indications are that it will continue for another 12 hours. All records . .here have been broken. I All of the county schools are to be closed tomorrow because of the Enow, it was stated tonight. Jackson's Miss., Fob. 25.-Mississippi j today was covered with a mantle of snow. It began falling at 4:30 this' morning and lasted until noon, cover ing the ground generally throughout the State to a depth cf two inches, j" * * * THE DAY IN CONGRESS * ******* * ***** ? February ; 25, IOU Senate Met at noon. Secretary Bryan discussed treaties ! and Mexican affairs before the for clga relations coiraulit?e. Debate was resumed on the post ?nico appropriation ' bill, Adjourned at ."I-.LT> p. m. to noon Thursday. House. Met at noon. InterRtat? CQlfiSX?rce C^TiUiiaioner Meyer testified on thine Sims bill to regulato the issues of railroad se curities. Louis D. Brandeis discussed inter locking directors before judiciary committee. . Henry Vollmer, of Iowa. Democrat, sworn In as represenative, succeed ing tho late Irvin S. Popper. Adjourned nt 5:25 to noon Thurs 0 . twit M \ gr (fi ii] $ & * W?ker-MieElmojIe News. . o e "Education ls the birthright OT ev ery child." This was In the minds of the citizens of this* community when Walker-MicElmoyle school was estab lished. The school, we believe 1B do ing Its best to accomplish the purpose for which it was founded. The principal thia year is Miss Jo sephine Hickson of Rock Hill. She haa proved herself to be a teacher nf ability. The trustees have indeed been fortpnato In securing th? services of one of such experience and capability. The tenth grade, this year, la doing excellent work. There are in toe class of '14 only two boya and two girl!, bat smallness* In numbera does not denote smallness In other resp<-cts. The young people of this class show signs of ability and If after ?ney have finished the course livra ?ney puraue their studies In schools of higher rank we see nothing to hinder t ie develop ment of educated mea and women citizens who will be of s?tte service to the community in which they live. On? of the most interesting features of the school ie the athletic league, which the young men ef the BC.*JO1 eave organized - among themselves, here are boys In thc league who promis- to be good athletes. The School improvement Associa tion which was organized under the di rection of Miss Carlington ta under full way. Thu organization ls a source of great benefit to the school. On the evening of the 27th, beginning at 8 o'clock, the association will en tertain at an oyster' supper . at the school building. For the benefit of those who are not ''specially fond" of oysters another course will be served.! th? object of thia supper ia to raise money for school Improvement. AU are cordially invited to come. OUR NEW PRICE LISTS OF Snmmer-Flbwerlng Bulbs Are'Now Beady. Do yon Want One! /NBERSON FLORAL CO. SS3 Marshall Ayenne l'hono 252L Member's of Florists Telegraph . ' Dellrery <? ? ?> . "' ' A "Chance of a 'Llfe-tlnic Eyesight is Precious . It Is iread?F? lo be blind. Blindness coiu>s In three ways: Accident, Dis ease and Neglect. We hare arranged with toe celebrated DR. J. E. LITTLE FI ELI) President bf the leading chartered Optical College to spend three days at oar place of business, giving yon the opportunity of a lifetime to eon? salt this eminent Specialist FREE OF CHARGE I If jen J? ~?! ?-ed slnssrs ss wffi iel. ' you so. If you do we will be glad to stand back of every sale, lui nt for* get the date. I Thursday, Friday and Saturday A regular $10.00 Examination Free, 2*.w?^l#E*N METHODS Iv ALTERH.KEES? & COMPANY The Lending Jewelers and. Opticians Condensed statement of the finan cial condition of the BANK OF AN DERSON, Anderson, B. C., at the close of business January 13, 1914 aa shown by the regular report made to the State Bank Examiner. ' RESOURCES Loans and Discounts . .9 990.287.46 Overdrafta .'.. ..S5.912.09 Bonds and Stocks. 6,860.00 Real Estate.'.... 25,640.09 Cash and dne from Banka 131,395.13 Total J .?.8 1,219.984.09 LIABILITIES Captial 8tock.8 160,0 Surplus. 150.0 Undivided Profita" (Net).. ?3,47? Dividends Unpaid . i,78fl Deposits, Individual 8764,871.62 DepoaitsJSank 64,851.88 829.723.27 Ollis Payable . 25.000.00 Total..8 1,219,984.68 Interest compounded quarterly en Savings Accounts, The Bank far the Carperatlon-tb* Firm-the Indlrldnal-fa fact fer er erybedy. Come In and pay ft ? vtett, THE BANK OF ANDERSON, Andersen, H. C Tne Strengest Bank. In .tb? .(tandy SAFE SOUND PROGRESSIVE