Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ A THE DISPENSARY SOLVEN’ Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera & Diarrhea Remedy Almost every family has need of a reliable remedy for colic or diarrhea at some time during the year. This remedy is recommended by dealers who have sold it for many years and know its value. It has received thousands of testimonials from grateful people. It has been prescribed by phy sicians with the most satisfactory results. It has often saved life before medicine could have been sent for or a physician summoned. It only costs a quarter. Can you afford to risk so much for so little) BUY IT NOW. I FOR SALE CHEAP! ^[Two hundred Type writers taken in part payment for Olivers. Remingtons, Smiths, Underwoods, and afl 1 other makes. Write for prices. :: : : : :: J. E. Crayton & Co. Charlotte, N. C. Julyso-pd The Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker, Commissioner Gives Facts And Figures. Columbia. July 24.—Mr. W. O. Ta tum. State dispensary commissioner, today gave out the following state ment: "Ttecentlv a number of papers, and Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, candidate for Attorney General, asserted that the dispensary was insolvent: that if it were put in liquidation it could not pay Its debts. At the time this state ment was made. I came out in a card asking a suspension of judgment and asserting that the dispensary was per fectly solvent. I said I could produce the figures to prove that the dispen sary was amply able to pay every dol lar it owned. I have the figures to more than sustain my contention and will submit them in this statement. It took much time and lots of work to go through the great mass of ac counts at the State dispensary and prepare a condensed statement show ing exactly the condition of the in stitution. I could not expect the newspapers to publish all the figures in their columns, but l invite any citi zen, particularly Mr. Lyon and the editors of the papers which question- e* the solvency of the dispensary to call at the State dispensary and examine for themsleves the books and accounts, and so verify the statement I have prepared. Now here are the figures, condensed to the point where any mind can grdsp them and any memory retain them: Cash Balance of Nearly $100,000. “On June 1. 1906. the State dispen sary owed for whiskey, beer, etc., a total of $735,886.94. Since June 1 and up to and including July 21, 1906, there has been paid on the above ac counts a total of $451,005.61, leaving a balance of $284,881.33. But of this balance, $197,388.67 is not yet due, which leaves the amount due on old accounts $87,492.71, and the State dis pensary had on hand at the close of business July 21, a cash balance of $96,518.76, or $9,026.05 more than enough to pay all accounts then due. “However, when the new board of directors was restrained by order of the dispensary investigating commit tee from paying old accounts of the dispensary, instead of letting the dis pensary funds lie idle, they discount ed a niimber of new accounts, by this course making .an extra profit for tho State of $3,908.32. Of the ac counts so discounted, an aggregate of $79,119.76 would not have bfen due on or before July 21, so had not those accounts been discounted the cash balance on that day would have been $175,638.52, or $88,145.81 more than enough to pay all accounts due at that time. “On July 21 the State dispensary owed for whiskey, beer, supplies, etc., $443,225.34, thou#: only $87,492.71 of this amount, as stated above, was due on that date. Any assertion that the dispensary is not solvent and could not pay out every dollar it owes if it went into liquidation seeps ri- Wlll furnish your Building Material »f the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices No. 1 heart pine Shingles and Laths, Guar anteed Pure White Lead and Zinc, and Pure Linseed Oil. Nothing better to paint your house with and coeta less than mixed paints. When In need of anything In the building line, call and see us; we'll treat you cour teously and make your estimates tor nothing Tv. Baker, MANAGER. 1785 1906 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON. Charleston, S. C. 121st year begins September 28. Letters, Science, Engineering. One scholarship, giving free tuition, • to each county of South Carolina. Tui tion $40. Board and furnished room in Dormitory $11 a month. All candi dates for admission are permitted to compete for vacant Boyce scholar ships. which pay $100 a year. For Catalogue, address Harrison Randolph, President. July 10 to Aug. 17.-pd. BIDS WANTED. Sealed bids will be received at the office of J. L. Walker, county super intendent of education, until 3 o’clock P. M. on Saturday, August 4th. for the erection of a school house in school district No. 12, known as Pleasant Grove school, building to consist of two rooms, 20x36 and 20x30. Trustees reserve right to re ject any and all bids. , W. J. Daniel. W. A. Haas. D. L. Allison, Trustees. Julv 23-27-30; Aug. 3. HOLLISTER’S Rocky Mountain Too Numb A Busy Medicine tor Busy People, Brings Golden Health «nd Renewed Vigor. A epeciflc for Constipation, Indigestion, L.lv«t *Dd Kidney troubles. Pimping, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath, Sluggish Bowels, Headache and Backache. Us Hocky Mountain Tea in tab let form. 36 rents a box. Menu Ins made by Hollistkh n<tuo Com pant, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM ti,d bMiitines the I'iuiimAm S luiurUnt growth. Falls to Bcator# Gray Hair to Ita Toothful Color. Cura, scalp diraAM-i a hair lauliw. Aic L jUKl|lj»,»i Druggla, BANNER 8A LYE the moat hading aalva in tha world. FOLmHONET^IAR a to pa tin* ootagh and K*al<sl«s saga dlculous. wlK'ii the assets of the in stitution are compared with that to tal of Its debts. “On July 21, the total of Its debts was $443,225.34. to meet which it had easily assets of $900,000 In round fig ures made up of $95,519.76 cash on hand, about 665,000 of stock In the State and county dispensaries, real estate which cost $56,360.56, sup plies of bottles, seals, corks, etc., ma chinery and office supplies. If all of -its assets were sold at fifty cents on the dollar they would be more than sufficient to pay its indebtedness. In the above I have given the value of the real estate at Its cost price, but It must be remembered that it was bought before the tremendous boom of recent years in the price of Co lumbia real estate. The opinion of real estate men, architects, and the county auditor of Richland county is rtliat a very conservative estimate of the present value of the dispensary real estate would be $150,000. Ac cepting that figure would make the dispensary’s assets a million dollars with which to meet the debts of less than $450,000. Far from being in solvent, if the dispensary were closed out it could pav every cent It owed and hundreds of thousands of dollars into the school fund, to which It has contributed in the Last ten years $1,251,697.60. besides paying $3,991,- 325.49 to the towns and counties In the same period, a total of $5,343,- 023.12. “That is the condition of the dis pensary today. The facts given above sustain mv contention that the dis pensary is In better condition today than ever before. When I took charge of the dispensary in March. 1904. the dispensarys’ condition was shown by the following statement complied on February 29. 1904: Quarterly statement of State dis pensary for quarter ending February 29th. 1904: Assets—Cash In State treasury February 29th, 1904, $17,680.25: teams and Wagons. $64; supplies (In ventory Feb. 29th, 1904), $34,828.08; machinery and office fixtures. $6,- ° 10.06; contraband, (Inventory Feb. 29th. 1904). $1,472.47; real estate, $52,860.56; merchandise in hands of dispensers Feb. 29th. 1904, $400,558.- 86: merchandise (inventory of stock at State dispensary, Feb. 29th. 1904), $490,036.69; suspended accounts. $2,- 896.24; personal accounts due State for emntv barrels, alcohol, etc., $5,- 830.78; total i asets. $1,012,537.98. Liabilities—School fund, $519,664.- 12; personal accounts due by State for supplies, whiskies, wines, beer, alcohol, etc.. $492,873.86; total lia bilities. $1,012,637.98. “It will be noticed how little cash was on hand at that time. The amount of stock was $890,000 In round figures, or $225,000 more than on July 21. 1906. Of that stock about $350,000 was represented by an ac cumulation of hard stock which had not been worked off since the Insti tution began business This has been worked off during my administration, and the present stock contains hardly $20,000 worth of anything except new. fresh and salable goods. This alone represents a tremendous Improvement of conditions In the last two years. “Besides. In the liabilities as rep resented In the statement of Febru- Bucklen’a Arnica Salve The Beet Salve In The World. a: y 29th. 1904, there was over $800,- 000 of accounts past due, some of ' im as much as six months over- o This condition compared to the itement for the present day ought to be convincing to any reasonable mind of the improvement of the financial condition of the dispensary. “The school fund is not a <l/ebt of the dispensary, but it’s profit and loss account. It is less understood than any other feature of the disoensary. This article is too long to perpiit mg to stretch it further bv adding an explanation of the school fund. I will give such an explanation later in another article.” General Wylie Jones also gave out the following statement today: “After reading 1 Commissioner Ta tum’s statement, and after having ex amined the balance sheet of the books of the Institution. I sav without hes itation that I regard the present con dition of the finances of the institu tion as in better shape than at any time during the last ten years. I was chairman of the board from April 1, 1896, to April 1, 1897, and also a mem ber of the hoard by appointment of Governor Heyward about six months in 1903. and I feel that I am thorough ly familiar with the affairs of the dispensary.” “Wylie Jones.” WHO WHIPPED WOMAN? Solicitor Sease Orders a Thorough Investigation. i Union, July 24.—The alleged whip ping and shooting of Mrs. Harriet Hoburn is now being officially investi gated. and though arrests have not .already been made. It Is probable that they will be in a few days. The whereabouts of the woman are also being followed closely now. and it is thought that in a short while she will be located, and a signed state ment of the affair secured from her. The following special from a West Springs correspondent has been re ceived today: “Magistrate L. P. Bogan, of Bogans- vi’le township, went into the Coler aine section yesterday to investigate the whipping of Mrs. Hariet Hoburn an'* her two small children. He would have gone to the scene sooner, but it being over the line in Glenn Springs township, Spartanburg county, he knew it to be out of his territory. Several days ago. however, he was in structed by Solicitor Sease to inves tigate the matter. “Magistrate Bogan, when asked if he secured any valuable (evidence, said: “I did. but I don’t wish to make it known until a warrant is sworn out and the parties arrested. 1 talked with a number of the best citizens In and around Coleraine and tried to get them to sign the warrant. All said it ought to be done, but seemed to be afraid to do it. “I learned that Hariet Hoburn was raised and married in North Carolina. 'Waht part I could not learn. That atfer being married four years, her husband died, leaving two children. That wages being low at that time for what work she could do. she could not support herself and child ren. and drifted to these parts, and was laboring honestly for her living up to the time she was whipned.” “Night coming on Magistrate Bogan was not able to complete his investi gations. and in company with the cor respondent will return to the Cole raine section today for further infor mation. It is the opinion of Magis trate Bogan that the gfulltv parties will soon he brought to justice.” Deputy Sheriff C. C. Sanders went to Spartanburg Friday, and in compa ny with Deputy White made a thor ough search of all the mills. At Beaumont they found J. N. Roberts, who wa* alluded to in Ponder’s state ment as having been written to by Mrs. Hoburn. Roberts said he had received two letters when the woman first reached the neighborhood, but had heard nothing from her since then. He said he first met her on the road and spoke to her. as thev were going in the same direction. She told him she was from Tennessee and w, as going back to her sister In Co lumbia. He intimated that he thought her rather a loose character. Up until a late hour today no one had been committed to jail here., charged with the whipping of this woman. A Ghost Story. Under the date of March 6. 1806, the Annual Register tells how a butch er of Stretford, in Lancashire, had dis appeared during a then recent flood ar-i how rumors spread out that an apparition had been seen near a cer tain local pool of water. Some gave It the form of an uncanny dog. others that of an equally mysterious man who uttered blood curdling yells, and It was told, that even when nothing else was seen, cattle refused to drink at the pond, and horses trembled as thev passed It. At last a town meet ing decided to pump the pool dry. It was done, and there, sure enough, was the butcher. CHEAP EXCURSION RATES via SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Rates open to all. On account of the special occasions mentioned, the Southern Railway will sell round-trip tickets to points named below at greatly reduced rates, as follows: To Asheville, N. C. and return.—Ac count Convention Commercial Law League of America. Tickets on sale July 25th to 27th, limited to return August 8th, 1906. An extension of this limit to September 30th may he obtained by paying a fee of 50 cents and depositing ticket with special agent at Asheville. Rate, one fare pin- 25 cents for return trip. To Athens. Ga. and return.—Ac count University Summer School. Tickets on Hale June 30th. July 2nd, 9th and 16th. limited to return 16 dayj from date of sale. An extension of th'q limit may be obtained by deposit ing ticket with special agent at Athens and paying a fee of 50 cents. Rate, one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. To Denver. Colo., Colorado Springs, or Pueblo, Col. and return.—Account annual meeting of B. P. O. E. Tick ets • ualu July 9th to 14th, limited to return August 20th. Very cheap. Write for rates and full particulars. T© Knoxville, Tenn. and raturn.— Account Summer School of South. The Most Popular Chew Made There is real enjoyment in chewing SCHNAPPS tobacco. That’s why it has won millions of chewers every year, until now more is sold than all similar tobaccos. _- SCHNAPPS, the most popular prod uct of the Reynolds factories, is man ufactured in the very heart of the Pied mont tobacco belt, known to the world as producing tobacco with an aroma so delightful and appetizing that it introduced End popularized the chew ing of tobacco. The Clean, Chew is manufactured by the cleanest and most healthful processes ever devised, under the direction cl men who have made the chewing tobacco business a life study, and who have managed the R. J. Rey nolds Tobacco Company since 1875." Only choice selections of thoroughly cured leaf are used in SCHNAPPS, and expert tests prove that this class cf tobacco requires and takes a smaller amount of sweetening than any other kind of tobacco grown—and that it has a wholesome, stimulating and satisfying effect on chewers, besides being the most economical. There are a great many imitations claiming to be “ just as good ” as R. <1. REYNOLDS TOBACCO SCHNAPPS but there is only one ge/t* ?:.:r v SCHT PP3. Be sure the letters on the tag, and under thft tag, spell S-r -h-n -a-n-p-R. There are more pounds cfCCKN APPSche .vrd every year than die to'..id unoLiic cf all similar kinds. I- revenue statistics show that Swh^.L-l’o and others cf the Rey- r.u.d3 . wen enough chewers in or :* t? make a net gain of F.bj p yj a qu: n .t million pounds, cr one- t rd cf fee entire increased consumption in the United States on chewing and smelting tobacco. SCHNAPPS is made and sold every where in 5c. cuts and 10 and 15c. plugs. CO., Winston-Salem! N. C. Tickets on sale June 30th. July 7th, 14th and loth, limited to return 15 days from date of sale. An extension of this limit to September 30th may be obtained by depositing ticket with special agent and paying a fee of 50 cents. Rate, one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. To Lexington, Ky. and return.—Ac count National Grand Lodge United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of Mysterious Ten. Tickets on sale July 29th to August 1st. limited to re turn August 5th. To Mexico City, Mex. and return.— Account International Geological con gress. Tlck-ets on sale August 14th to 31st, limited to return 90 days from date of sale. Rate, one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. To Milwaukee, Wis, and return.— Account Grand Aerie Fraternal Or der Eagles. Tickets on sale August 10th to 12th. limited to return Au gust 22nd. Rate, one fare plus $2.00 for round trip. To Monteagle, Tenn. and return.— Account Monteagle Bible Training School. Tickets on sale June 29th and 30th and July 3rd and 5th, limited to return August 31st. Rate, one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. To Nashville, Tenn. and return.— Account Peabody Summer School for Teachers. Vanderbilt University Bib lical Institute. Tickets on sale July 5th to 7th, limited to return 15 days from date of sale. An extension of this limit to September 30th may be obtained by depositing ticket with special agent and paying a fee of 50 cents. Rate, one fare plu" 25 cents fo- round trip. To Omaha, Neb. and return.—Ac count Meeting Baptist Young People’s Union of America. Tickets on sale July 9th to 12th. limited to return Julv 18th. An extension of this limit to August 15th may be obtained by depositing ticket with special agent and paying? a fee of 50 cents. Rate, one fare plus $2.00 for round trip. To Oxford, Miss, and return.—Ac count Summer School University of Mississippi. Tickets on sale June 30th, July 7th. 14th and 21st, limited to return 15 days from date of sale. An extension of this limit to Septem ber 30th may be obtained by deposit ing ticket with special agent and pay- in" ,a fee of 50 cents. Rate, one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. T© Richmond Va. and return.—Ac count Meeting True Reformers. Tick ets on sale September 2nd to 5th, lim ited to return September 13th. Rate, one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. To Roanoke, Va. and return.—Ac count Meeting of National Firemen’s Association. Tickets on sale August 12th to 13th, limited to return August 31st. An extension of this limit to September 15th may be obtained by depositing ticket with special agent and paying a fee of 50 cents. Rate, one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. To 8an Francisco. Cal. and return. —Account National Educational Asso ciation Convention. Ticbetg on sale June 29th to July 6th, limited to re turn September 15th. Very cheap. Write for rates and full partlculara. To Tuscaloosa, Ala. and return.— Account Summer School University of Alabama. Ticket'- on sale July 2nd, 3rd and 9th, limted to return 15 days from date of sale. An extension of this limit to September 30th may be obtained by depositing ticket with special agent and paying a fee of 50 cents. Rate, one fare plus 25 cent! for round trip. To Washington, D. C. and raturn.— Account meeting Christian Congress. Tickets on sale June 29th. July 2nd and 3rd. limited to return July lltb. An extension of this limit to August 11th may be obtained by depositing ticket with special agient In Washing ton an.1 upon payment of a fee of 50 cents. Rate, one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. For full particulars regarding above call on any Southern Railway ticket agent or write R. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston. S. C. DID YOU KNOW Smith Hardware Co. Made Harness, Repaired Harness, A nd MadeOld Harness Look New? ^ Try us. We make the best. 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