Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Classified Want Advert Twenty-five words or Ieee, Ono 1 Six Times $100. All advertisement over twenty-fli word. Kates on 1,000 words to don. No sd versement taken for less If your name appears tn the tele your want ad to 321 and a bill will prompt payment. WANTS NOTICE-We are now prepared to do your grinding of a'.l kinds Qf feed stuff-cotton stalks, corn stall's, shucks, straw, grain, etc. Price 20c per cwt Strictly cash. Anderson Mattress and Spring Oed Co. WANTED EG??-Use Smith s Laying Mash properly and you ?alli get the eggs. During tb?' wirier an egg mash is a necessity. Airman Smith, Seedsman, l'houe 4l'4. WHEN UNEXPECTL? detained down town for luncheon, you cannot do better than drop In hero. A light lunch or a substantial meal. Culsino and service O. K. and prices Just ss attractive as our food. The Lunch-, conetic-dtf. POLES-Wagon and Bu g j-, y poles new and second hand. Paul E. Stephens. FINE FRUITS-Wo carry the largest and most complete assortment in tba otto-keep 'em moving. Fresh Florida oranges, grape fruit, ap ples, bananas, wholesale and re tail. J. K. Manor. Phone 323.-dtf. ooo o ooooooooooooooc o o o Why don't your Clock run. o o Keese can make it run. Ito re- o o ward if not.-dtf. o o o oooooooooooooooooo LEGAL NOTICES Delinquent Road Tax Notice. All dlnlenquent road tax collectors are provided with on official receipt book with'numbaa, and stub n um bes attached; Pay :u?mt>ney to collectors unless you.?<.c the official receipt as above provided or. J.: MACK KINO, ti County Supervisor. ! NOTICE TO tREMTORfP AH persons having claims against the estate of D. B. Webb, deceased, aro hereby notified to present them properly provan to tho undersigned within the time prescribed by law, and,, .those indebted to make scttlo ItU'tit. MRS ELIZA WEBB, Executrix. NOTICE Of the Annnal Meeting of the Board of Comity Commissioners. ' The annual meeting ot the Board Ot-County commissioners for Ander son County will bo held In the Super visor's ofllce oa the first Thursday I Columns ising Rates imo 25 cents. Titree Times CO cents, e words prorata for each additional Le used lu a mouth mad? on appll than 2G co3ts, cash In advance. phone directory you can telephone bo mailed after Its Insertion for ofter tin; first Monday In January, j 1915. All persons holding demands of any kind against the County not previously presented to tho Hoard are j required to file the name with the j Clerk on or before the first day of january, 1915, so that they may be examined and ordered paid nt tho an- ! nuul meetliiK. J. S. ACKER, Clerk of the Hoard. Dec. 2nd, 1914. NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persons having claims against j tho estate of Tolliver and Nancy M. Bolt, deceased, are hereby notified to present them properly pi oven to the! undersigned within the time proscrib ed by law, und those Indebted to ' make settlement. W. hi BOLT. C. F. HOLT, Executors. I PROFESSIONAL! CARDS C ?IL FOB FHT I?. BUGGS . ! . Dentist . Office? 413-4 ir? y leckie j Bldg. * Associated V?'ub ? Dr. IV. ?. Chbolm l'houe 346.J Anderson, S. C. * ? SA VUE & BALDWIN . J ARCHITECTS * * BlecaJey Bldg. Anderson, S. C. * * Cltixens National Bank Bldg. * * Raliegh, N. C. * BOILERS. TANKS. STACKS, ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY AND SUPPRJES, REPAIRS PIPE, GALVANIZED ROOFING ! LOMBARD' IRON WORKS . Augusta. Ga. * At Catholic Church. ? St. Joseph's Catholic church. De cember 25th, Xmas Day. feast of tho nativity of our. Lord. Mass and ser mon at 11:45 a. m. Public always wel come. The Cost Telephone DID you ever think kow mu? the telephone right-of-way i Your telephone instrument, ?diff?rent parts, ig only the entrai of the vast equipment necessary Your line is connected with tl reaching every state in the union wire, cross arms and insulators ir ground conduits, manholes, cable cities. You have the use'of switch t> of $100.000.000. You enjoy the ven lions which make possible u Your service is safeguarded I building, testing and repairing li all times the prompt attention ol How can such a costly servio .0 low that all can afford it? Only by its use upon a sha*e-a millions of subscribers, and by th tn construction and operation, opportunity lor ruinous exrrav economy is as essential to its operative uso of the facilities prc That the Bell System comb -f~l_JS_ iwauniwD nnii nnifiiyiiijr, so pw. no other land and under no o the telephone become such a sea SOOTHERS 2?LL TELEPHONE Btade or h&vcvcr far apart g Sf. Sf, Sf. Sf. Sf. Sf, Sf. Sf. Sf. Sf, Sf, Sf. ^ * ELECTRIC CIT * _ * Items of Interest and Person * Wireless on the S liriiuf If ul Sen lees Wer? Held tn Midnight* IJiuutifui and impressive wero (lit* 3erv|< ea held at midnight in Grace Episcopal church. The Holy Kuchar ! ist WUK celebrated. In addition to the special ('hristniuH music, thc choir I was? vested for the first time. Then entered In procession in the church lcd by the'Crucifor with, the Proces sional Cross. The midnight servicos I were prc reeled by on organ recital be ginning ut 11:30 o'clock, given hy Mr. Tully of Greenwood. The Hov. C. II. Jordan, rector of the Church of th? Resurrection, al Greenwood, \ preached (he sermon at the midnight service. The attendance nt the service j was quite lui gc, considering the char-] acter of thc weather. Services will be ? held this morning at 8 o'clock and at ? ll o'clock nt Crace church and on St. Stephen's day, which is Saturday. ?-o ? - l'ostofliee Will He Open Today. For the accommodation of the gener al public, thu postoff?co will remain open aud the curriers will make j their usual deliveries and collections I of mull matter. With the exception of] ti dinner recesH from 1 to 3 o'clock, tho windows at the postofflce will bo open throughout the day. The malls at the postoftlco have been heavy this ' year, in fact, heavier than ever before, j but in spite of this thu matter has j been kept moving und there have boen no delays in the handling of the same. Itebip Knees Arc Postponed. It WUK announced yesterday that owing to thc had weather which hud : existed for the past several days, in ak- j lng the streets nil but impassable, the , rclny race hud been planned for this morning under thc auspices of the I Voting Men's Christian Association, i would bo postponed. The race was to have taken place at ll o'clock this morning, the course extending from a point two ndlcs down Main street to the Y. M. C. A. building. Six teams of six men, each team representing one of tho cotton mills of Anderson, were to have participated in the case, .Viils Closed Down For Christina4;. The Drogon, Anderson, Equinox, Orr, Gluck nnd Townsend mills closed down yesterday at noon, to remain idle until next Monday morning. The Riverside and Toxaway mills closed down' last Saturday for the holidays. The mill people appear to appreciate the rest which Is being given them. Mrs. J. H. Llttlo ?~~ Died Yesterday. Friends and acquaintances through out Anderson county of Mrs. Mattie Little will, be grieved to learn of her death, which occurred yesterday at noon at her hojae in the Roberts sec tion. Death waa due to pneumonia. Mrs. Little was 70 years of age: She ls survived by several- children, these being Mesdames L. A. Bolt, J. A. Gray and B. F. Chamblee, all living In that section, and Charlie Stone, who lives in Georgia, and Messrs T. L. und J. T. vif the Roberta section and C. H. wbo lives in Texas. Mrs. Little was a member of the Roberts church, and Ibo funoral services will be. held there Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock. She was Hie widow of J. H. Little, who died July 10. 1911,_ of a r Call eli it costs to give you anywhere, at all times? 'which consists of 130 ice way to your share in making a cal!, te great Evil highways, -with ita poles, copper i the country; its under* vaults and cables in die Dards costing upwards benefits of countless in* niversal telephone talk? >y large torces of men nea. You command ?t : one or more operators. ? bo provided at ?ta* ind-share-alike basis by e most careful economy A plant so vast gives agunce; and 'judicious success aa ia the co* rvided. ines the maximum of -T 1- ?*1?? (no* t\\m? ??% ty. - ?w .... ? - titer management has rvant of the masses. AND TELEGRAPH CO. wf? Sf? Pf* 9fr 9f> ?fr 3(* ^f* ^ V ^& ^ Y SPARKLETS * _, * al Mention Caught Over the * breets of Anderson * I'n I icc m ii II Aiken ls Bereaved. Friends of Private and Mrs. M. S. Aiken will be grieved to learn o? the death of their little 17-months old son. Lawrence Orr, which occurred at their home on Johnson street at C o'clock yesterday morning. Tho child , lind been ill but a short while with pneumonia. The funeral services will I be held at the home Friday at ll ; o'clock, and interment will be at BU I vcr Brook cemetery. (?Inning in County ? Is Fur Behind. Figures furnished The Intelligen jeer yesterday by L. A. Holt, govern ment agent in charge of the collection lof '.oUon ginning statistics In this county, show that up to December 13 I there had been ginned &1.G61 bales of cotton in this county. The number of bales ginned for the corresponding period lOBt year were 66,482. -o Home Hogs Are These. AV. V. Freeman, a farmer of An derson county. living in Brushy Oi-ek township, hus killed two immense "porkers." In November be slaught ered one, weighing 440 pounds. This month another went the way of all good hogs Info sausage, spareribs aud cracklings'. The secoud ono weighed 637 pounds. Express Office * Did Big Business. Yesterday was a busy day with tho employes of the local office of the Southern Express company. Through out the day there was a great crowd gathered about the counter, many of them inquiring anxiously if their "packages" had come. A number we.e disappointed, but .tho majority receiv ed what they had gone there for. - Farmer Will Tate Ills Trade Elsewhere. A farmer coming to town yester day through , the rain and mud de clared upon arriving hero that he believed hereafter he would go to Belton to do his trading, ns the streets in thc city of Anderson were in such frightful condition it was too great a strain upon his stock to pull a ve- 1 hiele through them. "I get along al right," he said, "until I strike the city streets and then I And it almost im possible to reach tho center of town." Was Busy Day In Treasurer's Office. Yesterday, was an unusually busy day with the county treasurer,- scores of persons calling to psjr "tribute to Caesar." As the county offices In the court house will be closed until next Monday, taxpayers have bat four days left in which to pay tax without pen alty. As generally known, delinquents have to pay 1 per cent for tho month of January, 2 per cent for February 1 and 7 per cent for the first half of March, after which matters are turn ed over to the sheriff. Making Survey of Railroad Linea. Principal Assistant Engineer Cruik shanks and his assistant, a Mr. Flythe, have been at work for the past few days in tho freight yards of the C. & W. C. railway making a survey for the . lines for purposes of appraisement in t accordance with an ucl of Congress i of some time ago. Theft ? engineers are ( employed by the railroad but are com piling this data for the government, t They are well equipped for the work, i having with them' a private car and < a kitchen car. The engineers have : gone home for tho holidays but will : return to their work Saturday. JIBS. W. A. IIUDGENS, Editor Phone gt? Dr. and Mrs. Adam Fisher of Char lotte are visiting Mrs. Fisher's moth er, Mrs. She lor on Society street. Mr. David McBrayer of Davidson College ls here to ?pend Christmas with Mrs. R. E. Ligon. t Beautiful Home Wedding Yesterday. At half past one yv terday after- j < noon at the home of the bride's par- , ants, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Jackson, on South Main street a pretty home wed ding occurred when their daughter.{j Mary, became the bride of Mr. LiUius Schumpert. The wedding waa marked by ita simplicity and Informality, only h a few ot the nearest relatives being | ] present, among whoa? waa the great grand parents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. W. hf. Bolt ot Portman. The i house was beautiful tn Its Christmas < decora tiona of holly and mistletoe < with bells and wreaths everywhere. The parlor where' Ute ceremony wa? performed was particularly pretty. Infi one corner was a Christmas tree, with roany, small electric light? among the branch?s with long garlands of green Just ld front ot this tree the sweet and BOlomn cr-^rnnnr, by Re* W. B..uawklna of Townvllle. An interesting little fact In connection With thia was that Mr. Hawkins mar ried both the bride's parents, and grandparents. The wedding march waa played by Miss janette Bolt ot Townvllle, a young lady. Just 13 years old. The bride wore a lovely tailored suit of dark blue with hat and gloves to match and carried a bouquet of narcissus and-ferns. Immediately af ter the ceremony th? ?nesta were des lightfejlly ?ud Informally entertained ai a reception. Mrs. R. A. Buchanan and Mr?. 8. D. Jackson assisting Mr. and Mrs. Jackson In receiving end en tertaining. Miss Leila Buchanan and M3e? Leia Mel ?es gracefully preelded Turkish Warshi PT- TS-4 J- ) ' " . -~"7~ Tho Turkish warship Messeudieh vas sunk in tho Dardanelles by a British cubmarine commanded by Liieut-Commander Norman B. Hol >rook in tho most daring exploit ot lie war. He sent his Uttle vessel, he Bil, of which those shown here ire sister ships, through a field of. nines. He dived under five rows of n the dining room and hero an ele gant turkey course dinner , was sorv zd. Pretty hand painted wedding bells were the souvenirs and were finned on by little Misses Lula May md Celestine Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Schumpert left on the I 1:50 train for a visit to Mr. Sebum- j lier t's relatives in Newberry, who | ?ero prevented from attending tho: wedding by the serious illness of his j 'ather and sister. Mrs. Schumpert. la a pretty and at tractive young lady, and Mr. Schum- ' pert is being heartily congratulated, j rle holds a responsible position with t the Southern Public Utilities Com pany and ls a young man of energy! md worth. Among the out of town guests here I 'or the wedding were: Mrs. M. E. Mc-! [JCCE, Misses Lula, Irene, Edna andi iylvene McLees of Centerville, Mr. ind Mrs. R. A. Buchanan of Pondi e on. Mr. and Mars. Hugh Schumpert >f Lowndes ville. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Buchanan,- Mr. W. E. Buchanan and Miss Loila Buchanan of Au tun. Mr. ind Mrs. Paul Norris of Roberts. Misses r.uth and Lois Wells have ;one to Atlanta to spend Christmas, with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Holleman and Miss Alice Copper will spend Christ in Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. T. L..Cely leave today \ or the former's, home in the upper ?>art o? the county to. spend Christ nas. They will also go to'Greenville or a short stay before their return. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Wilson of } reen ville will spend Christmas with ae latter's brother, Mr. G. H. Bailes. Miss Nelle finley ts in Atlanta vis ig friends. Gen. and Mrs. M. L. Bonham willi ad the.holidays lu Grecnvile with r. and Ure. P. A. Bonham. t Mr. and Mra. James Prince of TUuis jury are expected today io spend Christmas with Mrs. H. M. Prince on 3rr street. Mr. "Wallace Pryor of Monetta, S. C., a visiting his sister. Mrs. Manly Wit-, ion. Miss Carri Fretwell has returned tom a visit to friends in Charleston.1 Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Griffin, Mr. and WrsL James Adams, Mr. and Mrs. W. r. Griffin. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Griffin if Belton are spending today with Kr. am? Mrs. R. A. Moseley. Frieds of Mrs. J. J. Norris and ?thar relatives here will *be interested (n the following announcement: Searle-Hi ll Wedding. On Thursday, December 17tb. at the aome ct Mr. and Mra. Fred A. Bas lette, 82 Oreen Lane, occurred the ?redding of Edward C. Searle ot Southampton. Mass-, and Miss Linie Hil. daughter of F. O. Hill of Vittoria. Macon County North Carolina. Bev. Putnam Web be f of North Andover, ip Sunk in Most Daring mines and after torpedaeing the old ; war vessel fled to safety. He was fired at often and at one time bad I to remain under water for nine i hours. The Messudieb was a very old boat, having been built at Blackwall, Eng., lin 1874, and reconstructed ot Genoa [in 1903. She waa 332 feet "long, 69 was tho officiating clergyman. Miss Hill cai".- North eight years i ago and attended school nt Wesleyan i Academy, Wilbraham, where she spent i three years and was graduated with , highest honors; afterward gratuatlng at Springfield .Hospital Training School for Nurses after three years training. It was when she was fol lowing ber vocation of trained nurse that the romance began. Among those present from out of < town wero: Orlando C. Searle, the i Ku t r, and tho Misses H. Bessie and Ethel J.' Searle, sisters of the bride-J groom; Miss Harriet C. Searle and; Miss Adah E. Beiden all of Southamp-.1 ton; Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Allen and j their daughters, the Misses Virgie E. { and Ethel L. Alien cf Wcsctfteld .1 Mass.T Mr. and Mrs. Park W. Allen',' and Miss Margaret Louise, their;' daughter, also of Westfield; Mist Hoi- j? en Sherill of Richmond, Maes., and j, Mr. F. A. Hall (guardian pf the bride !. and uncle of Ute hostess), and Mrs. !. Hull, of Danbury Conn. !, Mr.JSearle is the owner of the woll i known 300 acre Searle fruit and dalry ,, farm at Southampton, where six gen- j, era Hons of Sea rle's . have been born, i and li/es in succession. Among his ^ fruit trees are over 700 fancy apple ' i trees, the product of which la mostly I < shipped to foreign countries. . j] There was a large and valuable, dis- ' \ play of wedding gifts. Including cut : t glass and china. Ahe silver, linen, and : 1 other table and honeshold articles. '< pictures, etc., and a number of gold |i coins of generous sice. ' M The young couple w'.-.i be at home j after January 15th, at Southampton, ? ' Moss,-Springfield (Mass.) Republl can. . 'j' ' Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Eddie Bar- ] ton. Jr., December 24, 1914. a dough- j ter-- ? Dr. and Mrs. Adam Fisher and chll- ! dren are spending the holidays with. . MTB. Fisher's mother, Mrs. Rr- W. , Shelor, on Society street j, ANTIQUITY OF TOYS ? Through Alt Ages Children Have Used ?i Sante Playthings, j, Vp to the present nothing with'! which man has had to do In the pro gress and development of the human race, has changed as little aa toys, ' saya the Mothers' Magasine. ?' Ages ago Infantile Egypt played 1 !" " - ' L J. - '. 1 . ?!?.'. 1J_L'.JLiaii ? ? ? . mmm MTmWKWMKf??FmVMt xploit of the War.. feet beam, and of about 10,000 tons burden. She bad a speed of seventeen and a half knots, and ber main battery consisted of two 9.2 Inch guns in turrets and twelve 6 lnch . guns ia battery. In the war with Greece in 1912 the Messudieh was reported badly damaged in a naval battle in the Dardanelles. She carried crew ot 600 men. with dolls, boats, balls, dishes, wa jons, mlnatore horses and other ani mals. Tho little Greeks and Romans amused the&elves with much tho. same playthings, except for the fur ther possession ?of a rattle, which some wise Grecian gentleman very kindly invented for them. We know this from the chance words of a few early writers, from the sculptures which have been saved af the different ancient nations which represent children in . the act of play ing- and also from tho fact that p.jT toys, closely analogous to many toys of today, have been found in the tombs of the children of bygone ages -dolls, balls, tops and tiny dishes, added to which there were small warlike "implements for the boys, such as javelins and bows and ar rows. rd|j In tho Metropolitan Museum ot Art, lo New York, there is a fascinating terra-eotta boat, completo to the inviUest detail, lt was found in the tomb of an Egyptian boy of 4,000 years ?go. , , . Take the doll, one of the few of the very old toys which fit into the modern scheme vjf playthings that teach, as girls always have and al ways will play with dolls because they develop and foster the birthright of svery woman, mother-love. The Egyptians made dolls of earthen ware, metal or stone. Sometime", arma md legs were made solid with th? body sometimes separate ano u.tauu sd hy a string. The pre-hlsvorlc .Pern rians had pieces of bone wrapped lil doth, a male doll, being Identified by the blanket over his shoulders, the female by a petticoat. Horace makes mention of the stick loree of the Roman children. MissalB )f the middle ages, picture little peo )le still astride such makeshift steeds md the. ordinary riding horse of the mltnary child remained a stick with ? horse head until late tn the seven centh century. One hundred years later we find horse forms with cur ains around them, ro that the child nay run on his own legs beneath the .haltering drapery. Just as clowns in he cireua of today. . Early in the lir.eteenth century, rocking horses :am? into fashion, after which, In 1847, horses ware shown st the >ench exposition covered with hair md very natural in'form- the torse as we know him today. Merry Christmas,to all the college itudenta who have come home to ipettd the holidays with loved ones. N VTH i N G U STv> ? V E R Y W?j? R ? t. COMPANY ' Nc? Y?NK ?rrv