University of South Carolina Libraries
THE ADVERTISER. Subscription l'rlce-12 Months,$1.00 Payable in Advance. Rates for Advertising.?Ordinary ad vertisements, per square, one insor tlon, $1.00; e ueb subsequent Insertion, 50 cents. Liberal reduction mado lor large C\erlif inr-enlf. Obituaries: All over GO words, one ceut a word. Notes of thanks: Five conts tbo line. W. W, Ball, Proprietor. Kotored at the pos'oftlcc at Laurcns, 8. C, as Sicoud class mail matter. LAURENS, S. C, May 3, 1905. Tree Delivery iur Laurcns. Do we want it? The Advertiser believes all do, and we can get it by work. Our Postmaster is doing all lie can to improve our mail facilities but he needs the help and co-operation of every citizen in the community. Free delivery is given only to those offices whose cash receipts reach an amount decided on by the Department. While the receipts at this office have shown a steady gain for the past three years we can increase the rate of progress by concerted action. An increase of one thousand dollars per annum would raise this office to a grade above its present class and entitle us to a better build ing, more room and other' improve ments, but an increase of three thou sand dollars would give us free city de livery and ultimately a federal building, costing not less than fifty thousand dollars. Every man in town can help towards this end. How? By doing any and everything that will swell receipts. Let every corporation, merchant, law yer, doctor, preacher and individual use the government stamped envel opes. We are in the printing business and printing envelopes is a part of that business and furthermore we do not be lieve that the Government should enter into competition with its citizens in any line of business, but what wj think or say is not going to make it discon tinue the printing business and we are willing to subordinate personal gain to further a movement meaning so much to the public welfare. We can still print letter and note heads for you. As a matter of fact, the government sells printed envelopes of note, letter or le gal size, cheaper than any stationer can sell the same quality for imprinted. For $10.60 you can get 500 of the usual size with return request printed and your name. The stamps on these represent $10.00 of the amount that you have to spend anyway. Then the convenience of always having a stamp at hand saves time and worry. You have to buy stamps. This plan only means buying a few more at a time?that's all. If a stamped envelope is misdirected, re opened, or spoiled, the government re deems the stamp, so you lose nothing. Another way to swell receipts is for our clothiers and shoe dealers, druggists and grocers and all others who at any firv>~ --~tst i-....vl Unjr ?\JVllo from manufacturers involving the send ing out of printed matter bearing their cards, to have the mailing done here and not from the home office. Suppose they offer to circularize your trade for you. Lot them send you 500 or 1,000 pieces of advertising matter, allow $5. or $10. for postage, if at one cent each. You address the booklets and mail them out from here. But some one says: "I don't want that bother." It is nothing in addition to what you are already do ing- You have to make up and furnish the manufacturer a mailing list. The same work would address the envel opes. If we have a merchant in town who would retard the wheels of pro gress and the betterment of an impor tant public service, because he is averse to attaching the .stamps THE adver tiser offers here and now to do this work for him free of charge and fur nish a certificate from the postmaster that so many pieces of matter have been mailed. There is no use to hope for free delivery as the result of politi cal favor or congressional influence. It does not come any more until your of fice does the prescribed amount of annual business. Then we will get it without influence or favor. Let's have it. * About Newspaper Men! From the esteemed Greenville News this is taken: "A good many newspaper men who Work eight een ' hours a day without a complaint can readily concur in the opin ion handed down by Justice Beckham." Wc have yet to See the newspaper man who works 18 hours the day, ex cepting the cases hereinafter men tioned. We have observed newspaper men at their work in many cities and towns and have been associated with them. We have heard numbers in an off-hand way tell of their strenuous and never ending exertions but we know of none who can coolly count more than eight or ten hours of actual work. We remember the case of one young man in this State who for a year or two worked 14 or 16 hours the day for six days in the week and part of the time for seven days in the week. Nev ertheless that boy found time to spend eight or ten hours on the railway train. He had a sweetheart in a distant town and would travel 300 miles in order to spend three hours in her company. By the way, she was worth it. The boy's strenuous day ended and he has had plenty of rest in recent years. During his whole newspaper life he probably averaged nine hours the day of gen uine work but he was the hardest work ing man for a part of the time that we have known. All of us know what it is to toil 10 hours In 21 once in a long time. It is our belief that no man can "stand up" to more than eight hours each day of earnest intellectual labor, with the mind concentrated on the task, more than six days in the week. True, a newspa per man, under the lash of circum stances, may strive severely for a time but in most cases ho obtains a rest af terwards either a rest in a hospital or a vacation. It is a confirmed habit of newspaper men to talk about their terrific toil. A reporter loses two nights' j.leop hand ling a warm convention and imagines that ho is carrying the earth on his shoulders. Then he "puts in" six hours u day talking about it for six weeks, The hard feature of newspaper work is the confinement. One can't get away from it. The newspaper is a liv ing thing. It must not stop breathing. The men in the office and on tho street are the lungs. The lungs cannot get out of the chest. Good newspaper men are ill paid. The capable newspaper man is usually an editor or the head of a department in a daily office. In a weekly newspaper, he is a business man and mechanic as well. Tho capable and trained newspaper man gets a fair salary for his work?as much per hour as salaried men get in most other trades. But he gets nothing for the responsibility he carries. The outsider has no dream of the anxieties, the disappointments and tho bitter heart-burnings over mistakes and blun ders that the newspaper man exper iences. The man who puts 2,000 words a day into cold print, or passes upon the correctness and propriety of ten thousand words a day that others write, and has the record to stare him in the face next morning and for all time must make blunders. Moreover, his blunders are easy to discover. He generally dis covers them himself?when it is too late?but the outsiders are glib to em phasize and point them out. The book keeper can make but one kind of mis take. His work may be bard but if he balances his books, responsibility ceases. The newspaper man, with all the manifold problems of life and so ciety before him to be recorded cor rectly, cannot know when his books are balanced. Good newspaper men are not numerous and the majority of men in the business receive as high wages as they would receive if they were in other employment. j What we have said is not directed at the Greenville News. Judging from the newspaper printed in that office the members of its statr work 19 hours each day. It is an exceptional newspaper. * ?1 Told You So." Elsewhere it will be seen in this paper that a young lady in attempting to board a train at the station in this city fell and was injured. We are free to confess that we are disposed to blame the Railroad for the accident. Young ladies are not addicted to playing pranks with railway trains ami when one goes to thestation in this city during the incoming or the outgoing of the trains there can be no wonder that a stranger and particularly a young lady should become confused and subject herself to injury. We are very glad that it was no worse and if there is not an improve ment made in the conditions it will be a great deal worse some day and then we will all say "I told you so." * The opportunity to obtain a first class Church school will come before the peo ple of Laurens. This school in time will be a great college for girls. It will have the support of a strong Church constituency. A (iood Suggestion. Mr. C. B. Wainwright of Lemon city Fla..has written the manufacturers that much better results are obtained from the use of Chamberlains Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in cases of pains in the stomach, colic and cholera mor bus by taking it in water as hot as can be drank. That when taken in this way the effect is double in rapidity. "It seems to get at the right spot instant ly," he says. For sale by Laurens Drug Co. and Dr. B. F. Poscy. 39-3t WANTED-You to list your property for sale or rent with M. Ii. Copeland. o jx. szi Ks? o ret. T>1 j^... Bears tho The Kind You I'?? ? ; SCHEDULES C. N. & L. Railroad Co. Schedule in effeet November 21-jt, 100*1 : No. 62 No. 21 No. 85 PassonKcr Mixed ox- Freight ox Dnily coptSun- co-.t. Sun day day I,v Columbia 11 10 am 5 15 pn) i00 am nr Newborry 12 36 urn 7 05 p m 3 45 a m ar Clinton 122 pm 8 15 p m 5 25 n m nr Laurens 142pm 8 45 p m 6 00am No. 53 No. 22 No. 84 Lv Laurens 2 02pm 7 00 am 5 20 pm nr Clinton 2 22 pm 7 30 am 6 00 pm ar Newberry 3 10 pm 8 35 am 7 05 pm ar Columbia 4 45 p m 10 30am 0 15 pm C. H. OASQUL. Ak'cnt. NOTICE! Wo want ovory man and v/omon In tho United States lntoroKted In tho euro ot Opium, Whlskoy or other dni? habits either for thomselvcs or frlonds, to >mvo onoof Dr. Woolloy's hooks on these dis eases. Writo Dr. B. M. Woolh-y, Atlanta, Oa., Uox 287, and ono will bo sou t you froc LAIKJH AND GROW FAT. texas justice Between the devil and the deep sea was the white man who was arraigned before a colored justice in Texarkana for killing u man and stealing a mule. Said the justice: "Use got two kinds ob law in dis Court?do Texas law and the Arkansas; now which will you hab?" Prisoner?"I believe I'll take tho Ar kansas." Judge ?"Well, den, I'll dis charge you for stealin' do mule and hang you for killin' de man." Priso ner?"I guess Judge, I'll take the Texas." Judge ?"Well, den, I'll dis charge you for killin' de man and hang you for stealin'do mule,"-- (Natl. Corp. Pop.) wanted the receipt. ? Beck (des pondently): "I said something my wife didn't like and she hasn't spoken to me for two days." Peck (eagerly) "Can you remember what it was you said?" ? Cleveland Leader. ENJOYED his dheam "I certainly did enjoy your sermon," said the hard case, who seldom attended church. "Indeed!" replied the minister. "And which part did you enjoy the most?" "I guess it was the part where I dreamed I had a million dollars." ? Philadelphia Ledger. she was worried.?Tho minister: "My dear madam, let this thought con sole you for your husband's death. Re member that other and better men than he have gone in the same way." Bereaved Widow: "They haven't all gone, have they!"?Tit-Bits for those who have cei.errated. When your heels hit hard and your head feels queer, And your thoughts rise up like froth on beer, And your knees are weak and and your voice is strong, And you laugh all night at some darn fool song; You're drrnk, that's all, you're drunk. ? Selected. Amoricus Times-Recorder: An At lanta bride is deserted by her 00-ycar old hubby because she insisted that he should read the Bible, and wouldn't let him smoke in the house. To be easily trained, the boys must be caught early. A new VERSION. Old Mother Hubbard She went out anil rubbered Now neighbors were just moving in "I'll just take a peep, My, their furniture is cheap!" She said, with a satisfied grin. ? Montreal Star. hopeless. Visitor at Insane Asylum: What is behind that iron door with the big pad | lock on it? ' Guard: That's where we keep the dangerous characters. The man in there now tried to read "Frenzied Finance" and the "Simple Life" at the same time. ? It's the little colds that grow into big colds; the big colds that end in con sumption and death. Watch the little colds. Dr. Woods Norway Pine Syrup. ?O Si.. E3 .'. ?3J 3=2. UT /\. - BM? ico /? Kind You Have Always Bcitf'i R. (j. COl.EMAN & CO. The only Licensed Undertakers, Funeral Directors and Embalmcrs in the County. Telephone and telegraph orde rs a speciality. We carry a full line of all Funeral goods; our stock of Coffins and Caskets is complete and the best that has ever been brought to the city. Our funeral car is an improvement on the old tyle hearse. Everything is new and up-to date. Our prices are fixed to suit our patrons. In the city we deliver the coffin or casket at your residence, the box at the cemetery. ,Out of the city we will deliver by the first train at your nearest railroad station, all charges pre paid. When funeral goods are obtained of us and we conduct the funeral, the following work is gratis: we destroy all unpleasant odors of the sick room, re move all swelling and stop all purging of the corpse, and when the cause of death is from any contagious disease, we will disinfect the sick room anrl kill all poisonous germs of disease, which is highly important for the protection of the family. Any intelligent physician will confirm these facts. 121 N. E. Cor ner Public Square, Laurens, S. ('. Office 'Phone 214; Residence 218. Burial League of the United States, Cash Capital $100,000, Home Office, Pittsburg,iPa. If you think in case of death that $100 would be worth anything te you, go and see R. G. Coleman & Co., Undertakers, Funeral Directors and Embalmcrs. at Laurens, S. C, who are instructed to honor our drafts. 34-8t W. Q. Wilson & Co. Opens This Week Another Shipment of Printed Muslins in stylish designs. Indian, Persian and Mercerized Goods in White. Table Damasks from Irish looms made of pure flax, warranted to give satisfactory wear. Oriental, Val and Torchon Laces, Edgings and Insertions in Hamburg, Nainsook and Swiss, Not tingham, Cambric and Oriental All-Overs, the Latest in Silk Belts, Children's White Lawn and Silk Caps, Several Cartons Ribbons in desirable Shades and Widths at W. Q. Wilson & Co. OUR THANKS Are hereby extended to the thousands of customers who so liberally patronized our Great Honey Saving Sale. Realizing that your support alone could make possible the success of such an undertaking;, we spared no effort, either in the preparation or conduct of this sale, to merit that sup port, and make this the Greatest Bargain Event of the Season. How well we succeeded is best attested by the hundreds of satisfied customers who thronged our store each day. While our stock was somewhat depleted by the enormous quantity of merchandise disposed of during this sale, we are receiving new shipments daily, and each department is being kept up to our usual standard of completeness. In fact, our stock is now practically new, and we are able to offer greater inducements than ever in up-to-date, Stylish Merchandise. COME AND SEE US N. B. Dial. A. U. TOOD. DIAL & TODD, Attorneys and Coun sellors at Law. Enterprise Bjnk and Todd Omco Build Ing. L A ? RKNS, S. C. ~W. C. IRBY, Jr., Attorney at Law, LAURENS, S. C. f J. R. Hellams 1 DEALER IN I MARBLE AND GRANITE MONUMENTS Gray Court, S. C. Highest Grades and Einest Work manship in Granite or Italian, Ver mont and Geogia Marbles. Designs and estimates furnished on applica tion. V m ? ?.J W. B. KNIGHT, Attorney at Law. Strict attention to all business entrusted. Oflico hours 9 a. m. tt> f> p. in. Ofliee second floor Simmons' Block. cU SEi T1 C3> 31./% . Boars tho /? ^ ^Y-J ? >V '? :'. > 0'-'!'f,'>' DU. CLIFTON JONES Dentist OFFICE IN SIMMONS BUILDING Phone: Office No. 86; Residence 219. Simpson, Cooper & Bobb, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all Stato Courts. Frompt attention fjivon to all busine -s. MORE GOODS FOR SAME MONEY SAME GOODS FOR LESS MONEY Red Iron R LOST' ^CS' time *?st iS ^0I1C f?rever- Why waste time searching for Bargains elsewhere - when you know in your own heart that RED IRON RACKET is the place to save money? You don't have to strain your eyes looking for Bargains here. They are so plentiful in RED IRON RACKET, it makes no difference which way you turn, the bargains are looking at you. Red Hot" Prices Prevail in "Every Department" of this House f>,000 yards good apron Ginghams at 3 1-2 cents per yard. 6 cents Ginghams. Our price 5 cents. 9 cents Ginghams, fine quality. Red Hot Trice, 7 cents. 2,000 yards, fine India Linon, worth 12 1-2 cents. Our price 10 cents. 7 cents, yard wide Bleaching (no starch) 6 cents. Ladies Fine Dress Goods for hot Sum mer time, 5,000 yards (worth 12 1-2 to 15 cents) your choice now 10 cents per yard. Big Line Blue Denims and Cottonades, Sea Islands and Checked Home spuns at way down prices. Big Lot Men's Sun Hats for everyday 10 cents. Swell Line Fine Dress Hats, Straw, and Fur, up-to-date in style, 23 cents to $3.47. Clothing! Clothing! The Finest Line of Clothing ever shown in the city. See our Montgomery Suits $3.98, $4.75, $6.59, $7.50, $10.00. ^12.47 to $15.00. You can save from $2.00 to $3.00 on your suit in buying at Red Iron Racket. Ladies Slippers, big values, White, Tan, Black, 48 cents, 09 cents, 98 cents up to $1.97. Ladies Shoes 79 cents, 98 cents up to $2.75. Men's Shoes and Slippers, all styles, all colors, 48 cents 98 up to $3.80. 15-cent plug Tobacco, Schnapps, Sweep Stakes, Early Bird, Hickory, Silver Dime, Brown's Mule. Our price, 10 cts per plug. Red Hot Prices, 17 cakes good laundry soap for 25 cents. 5-cent long bar Laundry soap. Our price 4 cents. 5-cent box Celluloid Starch. Our lower price 4 cents. 5-cent box Search Light Matches, I cts 3 boxes Search Light Matches, 10 cts 1,000 Gee Whiz Matches, 5 cents. 5 cakes Oriole Bouquet Toilet Soap, 4c. 2 big cakes Victory Soap. Red Hot, Re. 3 sticks Good Fuck Bluing, 5 cents Needles, Pins, Key Chains, 1 cent each. 2 Clay Pipes, 1 cent. 1 set fine Silver plated Knives and Forks $1.48. 1 set Nickle plated Knives and Forks 69 cents. 1 set fine White Plates, 29 cents. 1 Molasses Can, 10 cents. 1 big Dish Pan, 10 cents. See in our Bargain Basement 5 and lo cents Tables. See our Embroidery tables, 5, 7 and lOc. 35 Ctfl Silk Four-in-hand Ties, cents. Big Job Bows, G cents. Big Job String Ties, 10 cents. Big Job Men's half Hose, assorted colors, 5 cents. Big Job Pocket Knives, 5, 10, 13 and 25c Good Calicoes at 4 cents. 30 pounds of Rice for $1.00. _ 3-pound package of Soda, good, 10 cts. 10 pounds of good Coffee for $1.00. Millinery! Millinery!) O, my, it's just beautiful and prices are :=o low, 23c, 48c, 75c, 98c up to $3.50. Ribbous! Ribbons! big values, lc, 3c, 5c, 7c. Sc, 10c to 23 cents per yard. Men's fine Dress Negligee Shirts 18c, 25c, 39c, 48 up to 89. Breaks all records in Shirtdom. $3.50 <>ak Mantle Clocks, eight-day clock. Our price $1.94. Big Fine Gentlemen's fancy Summer Vest. Special, 98c, 1.25,1.69, $2.18. Jewelry, Watches, Chains, Fobs, Collar Buttons, Cuff Buttons Big Values. U-Come-Sce. $1.00 Watch. Our price 61 cents. $20.00 Gold-filled, guaranteed Ladies or dents Watch, Elgin or Waltham movement. Our price $12.97. All Standard Patent Medicines " $1.00 bottles " " 79cts '? BOclS bottles " " 39cts " 25cts bottles " " 19ets We soli nothing but the best standard Patent Medicines. Big lot Ladies' Bleached Vest for 5 cts Men's and Boys Caps, 5c, 10c, 18c, 23c. Ladies' Underskirts, big value, 48cts, 69 cents, 98 cents. Dre Skirts and Shirts Waist at less money prices. "Six S pecial Bargain Days In a Week. One Price to AIL Same Goods for Less Money. Grandest Line Real Values Under the Sun. It is a strain for you to look for Kar$ jains in other houses, where they are few and far between. It is easy for you here where the Bargain s are so plentiful that wherever you turn they are looking at you. 5AM13 GOODS FOR LESS MONEY Red Iron Racket Two Stores That's Making Laurens and Greenwood Famous by Selling Same Goods for Less Money. ?6? i iitMiiiiiifrffjhiwBywwii jui s&mmmwm?mmmmmm Charleston (Schedul Lv Laursna Ar Grcenwl Ar AugUBt^ Ar Andersc Lv Augusttq Ar Allendal Ar Fairfax Ar Chariest! Ar Beaufonl Ar Port Kol Ar Savanna! Ar Waycrosl Lv Laurens Ar Spartanhl Lv Lauren-, j Ar Grcenvilh Arrivals: Augusta and pm; No. 52, da termediatosL except Sund; intermcdiaU I 2, daily, from ediate statioi C. H. Gasque, G. T. Bryan. ( Ernest Willia T. M. Emersc DA There a in a hen First-fr TRUSS. Second - that doe; We gu fit and wea TRUSS. Try on PALM ET Special Nc'j,?,ce*>0 8Ult fin.'" line <.( Spri of all the u'i .si timoo. P* n's nj up. Sni - made up. A lit is alts' Invite you to j. only $1.00 pe.- 1 ter bu ldlng. . Hard, 2 ^" a vJ y Wanted- i, Pine Wood on delivered at Li* \\ J. w.. yLaurcns, S. C.I V WE NOV* LATE^ STV*j Don't let Ea' witlit Flemiii *3a Vs TH". HRGG /.C S AW HBAOOCK- Kino Knoij Bfl AX!> H : i I M JOIUS'KRV . t'OTTj M \KIN< ? v..' SHI MioniNnuVt ? ?? liir.iw, ? M A . Colwtnbl The Qijitti ? c.:;:;