Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A Happy andProsper s New Year To the Farmers To the Merchants To the Mill Employees 'N tI.'T'ceachers .1 I octors id All - avin9 4count with us and tch your Dollars grow. Inte'ret on Time Depos' S. Bank of entral Central Established in 1893 A Happy New Year We greatly appreciate your patronage in the past and solict your business for 1923. f !t We deal in Hay, Dairy Feed, Cotton,'Cott n Seed, Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls. High Grade Fertilizers, Fs and Cattle. W. T. Eae CENTRAL4 Send Us Your Job Printing Three Car Loa s!! Sany date. First class e cars on hand and can be boug ' hig~ t. Touring, Roadsters, Co pes, Se dans, Trneks and Tract rs e O'DEL MOTOR CO. OLIBERTY, S. C. FOR SALE OR TJ ADE A god Caf '>orRestaurani business, 190ated, ear southern depot Easley CaX 1L.JE. Ailgood, Ownei VETERAN NOX HUNTER MGORNE PASSING OP FAVORITE MOUNDS Greenville' News. Central.-R. G. (" t") Gaines, 72 year old resident of Central, is per haps the leading fox hunter of the state in the number of chases engaged in the game bagged and the number of years on the hunting trails of Dixieland. Since he was a boy about the foothills of Pivkens county, Mr. Gaines has felt a supreme thrill in following a pack of hounds and each year has engaged in a number of hunts. This year, for the first time, Mr. Gaines has taken but little part in hunting, although he has ordered a number of fox from Florida, which he expects to liberate between now and the Christmas holidays. The fact that he is 72 years of age is not the principal reason that Mr. Gaines has taken but little part in fox hunting this fall. He is still hale and hearty and one would never take him to be three score and twelve years of age. It is sentiment more than any other which prevents the feeling of enthusiasm on mention of the chase, aswas formerly the catse. About a year ago Mr. Gaines and W. J. Rankin, who resides south of Central, went on a hunting trip to the Waterce bottoms of Kershaw county. The two hunters carried along a total of ten dogs. It was such an expedition as had been en gaged in on a number of other oc casions and the hopes of each were raised high. Joined at' Camden by several other persons, the party left for the big chase. While on the Wateree the boat in which the dogs were being carried capsi'zed and six of the ten animals were drowned in the whirling waters of the Wateree. The dogs would not have gone down to a watery grave but for the fact that they were chain. ed and when the boat capsized the hunters were unable to rescue more than four of the ten. Disheartened by the loss of six valuable dogs, the hunters continued into the swamps, where additional (logs were also secured. While con tinuing the chase two of the remai'n ing four dogs belonging to the Cen tral men went into the swamp in pursuit of game and never returned. It was with but two of the ten dogs as well as heavy hearts-that the two hunters returned to Central to. tell of their unfortunate trip. Mr. Gaines is widely known over the state and in many other secions of the south. He has hunted large game in virtually every county of the state at one time or another. His greatest catch, made a number of years ago in the mountains of Oconee co.unty, wvas seven fox in five morn ings. "I still like hunting and the chase has the same tbirill as ever," he said ~n discussing hunting," but the tun timely end of m9 (logs has served to dlampen my enthuisiasm when it comes to taking more trips to the lower part of the state." Mr. Gaines has alwanys kept a paEck of from eight to a dozen dogs, but the eight he has now are likely to receive the bulk of their training on the red hills of Piecns county un less their owner undergoes a change of mind, following the death of his former pets. Jim Robeits, wvh odied in An M'rsor some time ago, was declared to tbe the leading fox hunter of the state upuntil that time. He and Mr. Gaine5 were intimate friends, having engaged in a number of hunts to gether. SENATOR DIAD IS HELPING FAR.. MERS OF SOUTH. The U. S. Government is now hold ing about 25,000 short tons of sodium nitrate which will be sold in a shor't time in lots of 100 short tons or more. Senator Dial has addressed a letter to the Secretary of War which is as follows: "It has recently come to my at tention that you are at an early date to receive h. the sale of 25 thousand short tons of sodium nitro~te out of the stock n'ow held by the Government, located at Old Hickry Ordance Reserve Depot, Jackson v'iilo, Tennessee. I notice these sales are to be In lots of one hundred short tons or more. "I have received numeirous ler'ers from persons in my State, asking if sofaething cannot be done to .have thes* stocks sold in smaillep amounuts. The brotiblo seems to b.4tat 'while this .matetial is most sotely *oeded In :te South, the sales are to be in. a a96.. large lets that the people who *eo4 thisi material maeht .swill eI ther inet be 'ahie te' t it' a61iali o r 'neelsbly be forced to ay essier bitant prices for it after it has beet passed through many different hands, In other words, an operator' buying one hundred tons and getting good title to it would be able to charge almost anything lie might- wish for it, and before it reaches the poor farmer-the man who really needs it-the price will be too high for him. "Could you not dvise some method by which this material already lo ceted in the South, might be shipped to certain points, say, Atlanta, Ga., Columbia S. C., Jacksonville, Fla., and other cental places :n the South, and there,sold or distributed through the Governient's representatives? "This matter appeiTls to me strong. ly, inasmuch as the farmers in our State are now facing a most serious crisis because of the low price of cotton for some time and the ravages of the- cotton boll weevil, and I think everythig should be done to enable them to make their next crops at the lowest possible liga're. There is no better way to do so, in my judgment sian to place this sodium nitrate in their hands at a reasonable price, as above indicated.'' Senator Dial is right about this. If the War Department would listen to the advise of our senator the small farmer would be greatly bene.. fited. SHERIFF'S SALE By virture of act'No. 38, section 27, page 74, passed by the General As sembly of the State of South Caro lina, approved Feb. 24, 1917, I will sell to the highist'bidder in front of the Court House at Pickens, S. C. on Frid , Decei ber 29th, 1922, at. 11 o'clock a. One Buick Six adster Automo bile Motor No. 666 Said automobile waa\ confiscated while being used i the illegal trans portation of alcoh :c liquors on Dec. 8th, 1922, in viola ion of said act.. TERMS: Cash! R. R. ROARK, Sheriff Pickens County. Dec. 8, 1922. Under the Holl9 Bough E WHO have scorned each other, Or injured friend or brother, In this fast-fading viar; Ye who by word or deed, Hlave made a kind heart bleed Come gather here. Let sinned against and sinning Forget their strife's beginning. And join in friendasip now; 13e link~s no longer broken. ie sweet forgivenosa spoken, Under the holly bough. Ye who have loved each other, Sister and friend and brother, in this fast-fading year; Mother and sire andl childi, Young man and mialdeni mild, Conme. gather here. And let your hearts grow tender, As memior'y shaltl ondier l'sach past uinbrokeon vow; Old loves and younger woning Are sweet in the renowing, tUnder the holly bough. Ye who have nouirtshedr sadness, Es'trangedl from hope and gladnese in this fast-fnditng yenr; Ye with ~r-burdened mind * M~datal n from your kind Cerma. gather hero. Let not the useless sorrow P'ursue your night nnud morrow, Jf o'er you hoped, hope now Take heart, uncloudi your faces, And join in or "embraces. Under the hi~y boughg. -Charles Mackai', Burns and scalds I MENTHOL ATUM cools the pain and heals the bliste !iAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS VE OLE'MOMAN EiN WEA~iN' Mol/'NtN' TWN.LLt MiS$ LUCY. G)B 'ER 'DAT LOUID WAIS' TTfH6R PAY EN LAW, MAN! SHE AIN' WEAHIN' MOt/NIN' NO MO'* -CeP'N JES' FoU )L WAIs' 'DOWN! -not to dissipate on idle resolutions which will nov i other hand-a sincere desire to build up an independe ones and your own old age, will be its own resolution. This institution wishes you succes s in such resolves and1 to serve you in fulfillment of huch worthy endearors. We appreciate your past business, and wish for you a 1o peo s Year. Y J Pckes Batk We wish all our customers a Happy anc Prosperous New Year. Keowee Pharmacy' R. E. Lewis, Prop. Phone No. 24 TIC I Will sell at Public Auction at my home at the Jim Durham old home place near Six Mile, S. C. on Saturday Dec. 30, at 10 a. m. the follow1g de cribed prop erty: HouseholE nd Kitchen Furniture, 1 For Ncar, 1 Milk cow, 3 Shoats, ~i lot eprn and roughness, cotton seed ahd plow tools. J. 0. DURHA M HOGS Wern w have opi hand a car load of Hog or butchering, broo d sows shoats. Can be seen 'it ur barn ' at anytime. // a D. G.:& Thomas R. O'Deli I4BFSTY, S. C.