Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SEE THESE NIFTY COLUMBIA WOOLENS Buy a suit of clothes tailored to your measure, mad-; from very special woolens, you to select yours from hundreds of patterns now on display at this store. Our autumn display is in its first freshness and beauty and we have some extraordinary values in woolens from which suits arje being made to measure at $15 - $16.50 - $18 - $20 and $22.50 These are going rapidly. Come and select your suit before some of the patterns are sold out. We have nothing but the newest and classiest of foreign and domestic woolens in our display, lt delights the eye, and the clothing we make proves a source of constant delight and satisfaction to the wearer. If the above prices do not please you, remember we tailor clothing to measure at practically any figure you may wish to pay. cSO to $40.00 Columbia Tailoring Company F. M. UNGER, Manager A. DEANE, Asst. Manager 122 W. Whitner Street * ELECTRIC CIT * _ i * Items of Interest and Person * Wireless on the S Palmetto Had A Hood Show. Tho manager of tho Pi ". * thoa tro naid last night that t' . 0 well tilcased In every respect v. .ti L..o show I they have been playing for th hist week and they feet that the public ap preciated the attraction. The Frank ford ft Manzi company put up an ex hibition equally as good If not better Ibm any yet seen hero and if the com. ing week's bill ut thc Palmetto ls up to that of the week Just ended the pat ronage will be good throughout tho week. I BIJOU ...THEATRE Monday's Program. REDEMPTION .IMP 2 reel feature of the rugged mountain life featuring Wm. Shay Violet Mersereau, Wm. Welsh and Robert Henley. iN AND OUT.STERLING Comedy with Max Asher. PATHE WEEKLY...... .NEWS All the latest current war news from Europe. Coming Tuesday "The Million Dollar Mystery" No. 16. Coming Wednesday "The Kai ser's Challenge." 2 reel actual war drama, this being the first real fighting scenes taken in the great war in Europe. . Coming Thursday, "The Trey O' Hearts" No. 5. Y SPARKLETS * _ * lal Mention Caught Over the *? itreets of Anderson * No Time Lost lu Spoking Luw. Evidently I). J. Hicks ?OPP not be lieve In letting the grass grow umlei Ula feet, according to a statement made Saturday by the officials of thc street rullway system. On circus duy in Anderson Mr. Hicks* team wae struck by a street car and lils mule was killed. Yesterday tho Southern Public Utilities Company reeeivod no tice from Martin, Oreen & Enri?'that their llrm had been retained by Mr. Hickfl and that any adjustment of the matter would have to be made through thom. Foot Ball Game Was Called OIT. Every student at the Anderson High School and especially the members of the football squad experienced keen disappointment Saturday morning when a telegram was rocelved from the Wofford Eitting school conveying the news that the game for next Mon day afternoon would have to be prost ponsd. No explanation wa3 offered for this action, although the letter sahl that a game to be played on October 19 could Iv arranged. Members of the A. H. S. team wish thc public to un derstand that the postponement of the game was made necessary through no fault of the local players. o Cotton Took Another Slump. The price of cotton continues ll to drop and Anderson farmers take ''. a tighter hold on every bale overy|!tirae a fraction of a cent ls chopped off. Saturday local buyers were offering only 7 1-8 cents\per pound and practi cally no cotton was offered for sale. Anderson fui Tin-; n y that they will get 10 cents or starve and if they keep up their determination they will even tually get their own price. o . ?.Pst1* Drew Goes To (Jreein Hie. "Pat" Drow, the clever Blnger who has been at the Bijou theatre for the last two weeks, will leave thia morn ing for Greenville where ho will slog h*' at the Iiijou theatre during thc com ing fortnight. Mr. Drew says that he never Baw a town ho liked better than f ho doe? Anderson and he will be gen uinely pleased to come back here at . no distant dste. Ile made many friends in Anderson and they will all welcome IiIH return engagement. ?-o (.'minni: Mt ."thu: Will Oruw Crowds. The announcement was made Sat urday by Rev. Dr. John P. Vines, pas tor of the First Haptist church of An ', derson, to the effect that a series of revival meeting.! will begin at his j church on Sunday, October 18. Dr. ?.Vines has secured the services for ! .this meeting of Hr. Lindsey J. Willlam i s.ion of St. Louis, one of the most not ied liaptist divines in the United States. ..The meeting will attract large crowds land Dr. Willlamston will he greetetl by apprechttlvo audiences. Police Getting A Needed If est. The Anderson policemen got s much needed rest Friday and Satur day.-.That they worked and worked hard on circus day ls an acknewledg I ed fact, nineo the fines Friday morn lng amounted to about $250, but on the following day there was not a single arrest ronde and Saturday splendid i order was maintained. The evll-doerB were conspicuously absent and the "cops" had a chance to loaf on the Job throughout the day. Honieseekers to do On Excursion S. W. Westbrook. Industrial agent or he Georgia aud Florida railway, and E. Key, representative of a Georgia ?arm company, were engaged yester lay in making plans for running an excursion train from this city to points in Southeast Georgia. The trip has boon planned especially for I the benefit of Anderson county plant ers dejirlng to change their location j and to settle elsewhere. The Georgia and Florida railroad is behind the , scheme and their industrial agent says I that when Anderson planters see the fertile fields of Georgia and Florida they will be willing to stop and locate. The Georgia and Florida runs from j Augusta, Ga. to Tallahassee, Fla. j m -o (>rd Manager I Here Saturday. A. J. Langford, manager of the harlotte office of the Ford Motor Car Company, waa in Anderson Saturday ^omtenjjn^jv^U^Ajrc^^ representative of the Ford cdsppany. Mr. Langford Hays that his company J business has picked up wonderfully within the hist few weeks andthat officials of the Ford company say that business will be normal again in a mutter of fiftin-n or twenty days. He said that he was well pleased with ? the manner in which Mr. Todd is hand ling Anderson county. -O First Fine On New Traffic Law. Automobile drivers and other vehi cle drivers around Anderson may have thought. that thc city officials were jest lng 'when it wus announced that the traffic laws of driving to the right must bo observed. Possibly some be lieved that the officials were In ear nest but certainly many did nat. How .ver, as that may be, several arrest3 have been made within the last few days on this charge and one defend ant was fined S5.00 in police tourt a morning or so ago for disregarding the Instructions of the officers. After a few days tho drivers will come to realize that it ls geling to cost them something every t'.me they violate the law. -o Ila fl road Men Among hitor*. Hal Kina rd. Industrial agent of the Georgia railroad with offices in Spar tanburg, spent Saturday in Anderson in thc interest of his road. Mr. Kimmi succeeded Tohn Ferguson, well known to Anderson people, who died not long ago. Mr. Kinara says that he likes Anderson fine and thinks this would bo a good place for hts office. -o All the Children Enjoyed Service. The special service? for the child ren of Anderson, held Saturday morn ing In St. John's Methodist church, at tracted a lares number of the young people of the city and they all enjoy ed every minute of the affair. The ser mon preached by Rev. John W. Spcake made a deep impression upon them and Mr. Speake says that he considers this particular service one of the best he has ever hcl"" \-o New Iden at Local Store.' The Olympic ice cream parlor has Introduced an innovation In the way of serving o^f* drib's*. Having reached conclusion that ordinary glasses are not as sanitary for drinking purposes as they might be, this up-to-the-mln ute store has received a large mini bor of paper cups in which they are serving drinks at their fountain. The proprietDrs of thc atore say that th? public is well pleased with the idea. Anderson Boy Hus Made Goad. Ensign S. Haden Geer, who was gnrn and raised in Helton, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Geer, who left some woks uso for China, hai geon promot ed to commander in chief of tho .Wa tte fleet. Thia news wu3 cabled from Shanghai, China, September 24, to the United States. Commandor (Jeer will be stationed at tho Phllliplae inlands, and he should have retched there thc lirst of September. Commander Geer han made wonder ful r i^reBs in one year. He ls only 24 years old and his standing m thc United il:fete* navy is 0 r-i.-.rd lu bc pround of. Johnson Gol Drain Contract. At a meeting of the special commit tee of city council, appointed for thc purpose of having constructed a stonr drain from South Main street dowt Market street to Peoples street, mel Saturday morning and awarded th? contract for the construction of th< drain to W. W. Johnson. His bid wai for brick, $2,150 and for concrete, $1, ?25. rt is understood that the draii matter has retarded the work of tb? C. & W. C. railroad and since it ha: been settled it is presumed that th? work will gv. abeid. "-o- "~ Working for Foreign Trade. The Anderson Chamber of Com merce distributed to large in an nf ac turers in Anderson's territory copie: Df an interesting traffic announcemen made by thc Southern Ry. willi refer i-nco to South American business. Thi announcement contained some vcr; valuable information, and additiona copies of same may be obtained fron Hommercial Agent L. B. Harris, car iho Blue Ridge Ry., In this city. Will Use Road Signs. B. O. Evans & Company, who ar liberal users of, newspaper advert?s lng and who always get splendid re suits from their advertising of what ever nature, Saturday placed a con tract for 2,500 square feet of big srade metal slgnB-outdoor nr roa ?igns-which will be used on th more prominent thoroughfare.- lead Ins Into Anderson. All these slam will bc of the newest style and of the very best materials. They are tb be manufactured by a local concern, which is a sufficient guarantee that they will be all right as is everything else "Made in Anderson." .51 'I1 "I* *t"'I* "?'^14- 'I' ^ * "I1 "i1 . e*'I1 'I' "I1 '51 I Personal ? t i Hubert Smith, of Chedder, was in the city yesterday for a few hours. John T. Bryant, a well known trav eling man of Gaffney, was In the city yesterday. A. H- French, of Charleston, has been spending a few days in the city on business. A. M. Lumpkln, of Columbia, was among the guests at the Chhiuola ho tel yesterday W- J. Orr, of Rock Hill, spent yes terday in the cit, on business. C. C. Kay, of Townvllle, wau in An derson for part of yesterday. Reece Fant, of Townvllle, spent a few hours in the city yesterday William Whittaker, of the Flat Rock section, was in the city yesterday fc\ a few hours. Alvin Cowan, of Martin township, was among the visitors to the city yesterday Mite May Hlnnant, of Pendlctoi was 'shopping in the city yesterday. W. C. Petrie, of West Pelzer, was in the city yesterday for the teacher's meeting. Jaiwco Ci itr??^ *, o? Ute Rock ?v?i?is section, spent yesterday in the city . Brown Warlaw, of the Broai?7.?y section, was in Anderson yesterday on bujsiness. J- H. Wrght, of F.ock Mills, spent a few hours in the city -yesterday. C. C. .TniiM ?nil v. w r?v.?Tv.v.i Starr, spent a few hours? in the city yesterday. Miss Ethel Cole and Miss Gertrude Mahaffy, of Pendleton, were shopping in the city yesterday I Miss Robbing, of Townville, anent j yesterday in the city with friends. J. E. Horton, of Belton, was among the well knovra visitors to i'ae city yesterday. Henry Moseley, of Downdesviilo, spent yesterday in the city on bunl ne3s Mliis Aileen O'Donnell has roturncd from a visit to friends and relatives at Asheville, N. C Frank Skelton, of the Roberts sec tion, was in the city yesterday for.a few hours. ? _ If A- Todd, of Starr, spent part o? yesterday in the city on business. Mrs. J. Ki Anderson, of Anderson, R. F. D., waja in the city yesterday for a few hours. Mr- and Mrs- Major McCown have returned from an extended trip to Florida points. The forty-five acres ad vertised here for the last few days was sold today for CASH. . . We still have the tract of forty-two acres, seven miles above the city for sale-on easy terms. Anderson Real Estate & Investment Co. E. B. li ort on, Pres. L. S. Horton V. P. W. F. Marshall, See. At TH IE PALM ETTO ail this Week B. M. GARFIELD PRESENTS : "THE CANDY r-IDI c" MONDAY '.Too Many Wives" A Play That Has Made Million? Lau gh. 12 Big Musical Numbers. 8 Pretty Chorus Girls, ll People. P lenty of Dancing. Pretty Costumes. Movies FOP Monday : "Foggs Millions." Two reel special featur?. (Drama) .. Vitagraph "Fable bf Two Mandolin Players'9. ( Drama) .._.. ?ssan#.y "Thc Vases of Hymcan" (Comedy). .Vitagraph ntire Change of Bili Nightly