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THE ADVERTISER. Subscription Prico-12 Mouths, f 1.001 Payable in Adrauce. W. W. BALL, Editor. published by advertiser printing company laurens. s. c. Rates for Advertising. ? Ordinary advertisements, per square, one inser tion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Liberal reduction made for large advertisements. Obituaries: All over 60 words, one cent | a word. Notes of thanks: Five cents the line. Entered at the postoffice at Laurens, S. C. as second class mail matter. LAURENS, S. C, OCTOBER 16, 1907. WAREHOUSE PRICES. In Greenwood the two warehouses are in a controversy. One of them has re IW M^Uie price of storing cotton to 10 f jh?nth; perhaps the other has ^Tor will follow its example. T*hv /djeems to be some feeling in the matter but if cotton can be stored and insured for 10 cents a bale a month, - ?that ought to be tho price and it is pleasant to observe that there is com petition in the business. At the same time, farmers should remember that j the warehouseman is entitled to a profit. If the prices are cut too low, the ware house in time will have trouble and go out of business. Nor should it be imagined that becauso a little company earns ten or twenty per cent, even, one year its profits are too high and its rates ex tortionate. A small company must, to succeed, earn bigger profits than a large company. When a bad fire or other disaster comes along, its entire earnings for years may be wiped out. A com pany of any kind with $20,000 capital in Laurens might be earning 100 per cent, a year and yet its stock might be re garded as mighty poor collateral for loans in Charleston or Savannah. Why? Because small enterprises are not looked upon as stable investments by outsiders. Outsiders always consider that big profits of a little concern may disap pear in a short time. We here in Lau rens know that we have uncommonly strong banks and on our local market the stocks sell high, but what would their stocks bring in Richmond? Per haps twenty dollars a share less than they would bring here. The smaller the concern, the larger proportionately should be the amount of profit put to the surplus fund for protection against hard times* Wo do not pretend to know what the charges should be for storing cotton but there ought always to be competition. The warehouses, whether they be own ed by bankers or farmers, should not attempt to do business for less than cost and a fair profit, and the test of cost and profit is the average of a period of years, five or ten, not one year's success. If the farmers of Greenwood build a warehouse and handle cotton at so low a figure that they can earn no profits, they will become disgusted and sell it and the stock will pass into the hands of other people. The differ ence between 10 cents a month and 15 cents for storing and insuring cotton is tremendous-?fifty per cent. "LICKER" IN CHARLESTON. Governor Ansel and Attorney General Lyon have been fighf ing the blind tigers' in Charleston mighty hard lately. Their men have been getting evidence upon which five or six leading whiskey sellers of the unlawful kind have been enjoined from selling liquor. If they disobey, they will be imprisoned for contempt. The Governor and the Attorney General do thiB because of the difficulty of find ing juries that will convict tigers in Charleston. Of course the injunction method will be effective?so long as it lasts. We doubt if it will last though. It may be that we shall have a Govern or some day who will not cars, whether whiskey is sold by blind tigers in Char leston or not. We have had them of that kind during the days of the state dispensary; though we supposo some of our friends will find that hard to be lieve. The plain truth is that no whiskey law is going to be enforced in a com munity that the people of the commun ity don't wish enforced. If the people of Laarens county generally believed that there is no more wrong in selling whiskey than in Belling Hour, the sup-1 pressing of blind tigers would be very difficult. A large proportion of the peo ple of Charleston look on the whiskey selling business just as our grandfathers here in Laurens did. Sixty years ago, the best merchants in this county thought nothing of selling a jug of whiskey from their village and cross roads stores. Consider the trouble that tmcle Sam has in putting down moon shiners in the mountains. The injunction is a civil process. It will not do in the long run to use it as a device to convict people of crime, there by abolishing, to that extent, trial by jury. Meanwhile the whiskey situation in Charleston is improving. Gradually the people are coming to the conclusion that their county dispensary system gives them a measure of local self govern ment and that it will prove profitable. A sentiment in favor of obeying the law is slowly but surely growing up. In time this sentiment may become so strong that blind tigers will not be tol erated. But they will not be perman ently suppressed by injunctions issued at the instance of outsiders. Of course the Governor and the At torney General are perfectly sincero in their intentions. Possibly their activ ities may help in the work that the law abiding people are doing, but the dan ger is that they may arouse resentment by their interference. The blind tigers In Charleston have no friends in Char leston except themselves. So long as the State dispensary with its graft con tinued, nobody in Charleston was dis posed to bother with tho tigers but now that an honest system is being conducted, the feeling is strengthening every day that the law ought to bo obeyed. By tho way, although nobody has t to jail for getting loot out of dispensary, th< garies in various places are making two or three times as much money compar atively as the state sub-dispensaries made. How is it that in Charleston the dispensaries, with plenty of tigers still going, are earning three times as much money as the state dispensary earned? Why is a similar condition of affairs shown in Columbia? What became of the millions that the state dispensary ought to have made? If the concern had been managed effici ciently and honestly during the thirteen years and a half of its life, it would have turned into the state dispensary enough money to have paid off the state debt, or thereabouts. IMMIGRATION AGAIN. The opinion of Attorney General Bon aparte against the legality of state as sisted immigration changes the charac ter of that question, so far as South Carolina is concerned. The experiment of cotton mills or others paying money into the hands of our state immigration bureau with which to pay tho steam ship passage of Europeans cannot be repeated. If a steamship line between Charleston and Trieste shall be estab lished, it will be done without the sub stantial assistance of tho state of South Carolina and the state will be helpless to prevent its establishment. Business men, including cotton mill, iron, mining and other companies, can promote the establishment of as many European steamship lines to Charleston or other ports as they wish and the state can have nothing to do with it. The only office of the state immigration bureau in future would be to assist the United States immigration officials in excluding the admission into the country of unde sirable people. Meantime Col. Watson's bureau is accomplishing good results in advertis ing the resources of the state and in ducing the settlement of thinly inhabit ed parts of the state by native Ameri cans. We were informod by a gentle man of Beaufort a few days ago that a number of northern men had been led to come to Beaufort during the past year and to buy lands through Col. Watson's publications. The people of Laurens should remem ber that the whole state is not so densely populated as their county is. Beaufort pounty, for example, has only 6,000 or 7,000 white people. In late years wealthy northern men and companies have purchased great hunting preserves in the county, of many thousands of acres, so that northern men own now a big slice of the whole county. Col. Watson does not bring them to the state as investors. The people brought here by his bureau make homes in the state. We need new settlers in the lower part of South Carolina so that millions of acres shall not fall into the hands of a few rich men who will create a kind of land trust. It would be al most impossible for any man or set of men at any price to acquire 30,000 acres in a single tract in Laurens county and it would be a misfortune for the county if it could be done. But that is possible in Beaufort. Georgetown, Horry, Hamp ton and Colleton and it has actually been done. White settlers are sadly needed in those counties, where the ne groes are in a majority of six or seven to one. Alice?Pimples and other blotches are supposed to be caused from acid stomach A simple remedy and one that gives you a fresh blooming complexion is Hollis ter's Rocky Mountain Tea. 30 cents, Tea or Tablets. Dots From Pea Ridge. Pea Ridge, Oct. 15. ? Miss Pollie Jeans has returned from a visit at Ora. Miss Mary Johnston of Clinton visited on the Ridge, Sunday. Among these who attended the Wood ruff Fair from the Ridge were: Miss Leaf Weathers, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Blakely, Dr. ?. F. Godfrey. Mr. S. R. Sloan and Mr. Thaddie Blakely. Miss Lydie Sloan visited in* Laurens last Saturday. Miss Eliza Malone visited in Laurens recently. Mr. and Mrs. Steven Taylor of Lau rens, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. E. San ders last Sunday. Mrs. William Sloan of Laurens was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Sloan last Saturday night. A Certain Cure for Croup??Used for Ten Years Without a failure. Mr. W. C. Bott, a Star City, Ind., hardware merchant, is enthusiastic in his praise of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. His children have all been subject to croup and he has used this remedy for the past ten years, and though they much feared the croup, his wife and he always felt safe upon retiring when a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy was in the house. His oldest child was subject to severe at tacks of croup, but this remedy never failed to effect a speedy cure. He has recommended it to friends nnd neigh bors and all who have used it say that it is unequaled for croup and whooping cough. For sale by Laurens Drug Co. Clinton Wants the Synod. Clinton, Oct. 11.?The Presbyterian church of Clinton h.v. elected Prof. A. E. Spencer as its delegate to tho synod, which meets in Anderson this year. He is instructed to invite the synod to meet in Clinton in the year 1909 and to hold special service to commemorate the 400th anniversary of tho birth of John Calvin, who was born July 10, 1509. There is every reason to believe this re quest will be granted. Afflicted With Sore Eyes for 33 Years. I have been afflicted with sore eyes for thirty-three years. Thirteen years ago I became totally blind and was blind for six years. My eyes were badly inflamed. Ono of my neighbors insisted upon my trying Chamberlain's Salve and gave me halt a box of it. To my surprise it healed my eyes and my sight came back to me.?P. C. Earl, Cynthiana, Ky. Chamberlain's Salve s for sale by Laurens Drug Co. Negro Train-Hand Killed. Jim Smith, a colored train hand on one of the freight trains on the Green ville & Laurens road, was kill at Ow ings station last Friday afternoon by being struck in the chost by a bumper while working between tho cars. He was a Greenville negro. Coroner Watts held the inquest. Prevents and^^ures constipation, Stomach and WEh?I trouble. Makes digestion oasu^R Bwhat. Hollister's KuvkvM.mgM ?Nfc^.'Uicts. STOP SELLINQ COTTON. Mr. E. D. Smith Begs the Farmers to Stand Pat for High Prices. [We publish below Mr. E. D. Smith's important interview, which was crowded out of last week's issue.] "Hold your cotton." That has ever been the advice of Mr. E. D. Smith. Now he adds: "Keep on holding." When he saw yesterday morning how the reports to the department of agri culture had verified the claims of the Cotton Association that the crop was short and that tho price was ridicu lously low, he was wrought up to the boiling over pitch when he saw that the gamblers on Wall street were pushing the price down and giving the lie to their own excuse of the past? "We must yield to the law of supply and demand." "It is robbery. It is an effort to take the money out of the pockets of the people of the South just as a pick pocket would do," said Mr. Smith. They know that this is 'debt paying time in the South' and they think they have us at their mercy, but we will give them a fight which will show them the spirit of the South is yet too proud to yield to them. "Supply?it is short! Demand ?Why, I am informed that the mills are sell ing their product at a price which would bo profitable if cotton were be ing purchased at 18 cents per pound. " 'Hold your cotton." That is all that I can say to the farmers of South Carolina. And all who will hold arc urged to let me know that they will hold and how much they will hold. It will require just a few lines on a postal card addressed to our office, room 510, Skyscraper, Columbia, S. C. "The government report, both as to condition and number of bales ginned, was even more bullish than the friends of higher prices really anticipated, 67 on condition and practically a half mil lion bales less ginned to date than last year confirming the statement that the crop was steadily deteriorating in con dition and that there was not and would not be as much to gin this year as last by possibly 2,000,000 bales. This amount is about correct as the per cent, of decrease in condition shows, and the ginncrs' report certainly con firms this estimate. Yet the 'professionals' take it as a joke and proceed in the face of these conditions?that should warrant from 3 to 4 cents more per pound than it is bringing- to deduct a dollar a bale from the cotton now going on the mar ket. Every argument, all statistics, the law of supply and demand, nil in favor now of higher priced cotton, the South through her cotton organizations demanding a higher price, yet these j gentlemen see fit to taunt them with this added insult to-day of a 20 point drop in the market. Is it possible that the business men and farmers of the South are going to have it proven to a certainty that the cotton gamblers can determine what the revenue of the South shall be and what shall be the personal wages of every individual in the South? Or will they take this occasion to prove that they are masters of the situation? "The situation would be ludicrous if it did not involve so many interests vital to the South. As said in my ar ticle of last week, the only possible answer is?to slop selling cotton. "The bankers and merchants of the South as well as the creditors of the South should co-operate now in help ing the South to win this fight. This is the first time when conditions are such that we will be in the position to prove our friends and remember them. "Once more let me urge every man who has cotton to report to me on a postal card the number of bales he is making and how many he will hold from the market. Reports are coming in now. I want them as full as possi ble so that I may tabulate them and give them to the public for the benefit of all parties interested." The State, Oct. 3rd. "Pneumonia's Beadly Work had so seriously alTected my right lung," writes Mrs. Fannie Connor, of Rural Route 1. Georgetown, Tenn., "that I coughed continuously night and day and the neighbors' prediction consumption?seemed inevitable, until my husband brought home a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery, which in my case proved to be the only REAL cough cure and restorer of weaK, sore lungs." When all other remedies utterly fail, you may still win in the battle against lung and throat troubles with New Discovery, the REAL cure. Guaranteed by Laurens Drug Co., and Palmetto Drug Co. 50c. and $1.00. I Trial bottle free. Oispcnary Sales Increase. The dispensary sales Saturday amont ed to $1,635, and for the week a little over $3,200. It is estimated that the October sales will approximate $15,000. The patronage outside the borders of Laurens county continues to increase and it is believed that nearly half of the whiskey sold here now goes out of the county. Boing Business Again. "When my friends thought I was about to take leave of this world, on account of indigestion, nervousness and general debility." Writes A. A. Chis holm, Tread well, N. Y., "and when it looked as if there was no hope left, I was persuaded to try Electric Bitters, and 1 rejoice to say that they arc curing me. I am now doing business again as of old, and am still gaining daily." Best tonic medicine on earth. Guaranteed by Laurens Drug Co., and Palmetto Drug Co. 50 cents. If you have not bought a Heater yet, be sure to seo our line in different sizes for wood or coal. S. M. & E. II. Wilkes & Co. The Judge Uses Forceful Language. Judge W. P?. Simmons of Fincastlo, Va., told the reporter that L. & M. Paint was used on his residence in 1882, and held its color well for 21 years; he furthermore said that 3 years ago he was induced to use another paint and is sorry he did, because the other paint didn't make ? od. The Judge will now always use L. & M., because he knows if any defect exists in L. & M. Paint the house will be repainted for nothing. The L. & M. Zinc hardens the I.. & M. White I .ciil and makes L. & M. Paint wear like iron for 10 to 15 years. Actual eost of L. & M. about $1.20 per gallon. Donations of L. & M. mado to churches. Sold by J. H. & M. L. Nash, Laurens; Clinton Pharmacy, Clinton. ll-2t NOTICE For the Appointment of Public Guardian. Take notice that at the expiration of this notice, the undersigned will apply to one of the Circuit Judges of tnis State for the appointment of O. G. Thompson, Probate Judge for the county of Laurens in the State of South Caro lina, as Guardian of John Quincy Hol lingsworth, a minor, who has no general or testamentorary guardian ana whose estate consists of about $600 in money to which he is entitled from the estate of his father, J. H. Hollingsworth, de ceased. J. FRANK COLEMAN. October 7, 1907. 10-2t Quinsy, Sprains and Swelling Cured. "In November 1901, I caught cold and had the quinsy. My throat was swollen so I could hardly breathe. I applied Chamberlain's Pain Balm and it gave me relief in a short time. In two days I was all right," says Mrs. Cousins, Otterburn, Mich. Chamber Iain's Pain Balm is a liniment and is especially valuable for sprain and swel lings, fror sale by Laurens Drug Co. FINAL SETTLEMENT. Take notice that on the 28th day of I October, 1907, I will render a final ac- | count of my acts and doings as admin istrator of the estate of Eugene Stone deceased, in the office of tho Judge of ] Probate of Laurens county at 11 o'clock a. m. and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as j administrator. All persons indebted to said estate) are notified and required to make pay ment on that date, and all persons hav ing claims against said estate will pre sent them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. W. H. Whitner, Administrator, Sept. 24, 1907. Bitten by a Spider. Through blood poisoning caused by a spider bite, John Washington of Bos queville, Tex., would have lost his leg, which became a mass of running sores, had he not been persuaded to use Buc.k len's Arnica Salve. He writes: "The first application relieved, and four box es healed all the sores." Hcales eyery sore. 25c. at Laurens Drug Co., and Palmetto Drug Co." ?FOR REAL ESTATE BARGAINS -IN OCONEE COUNTY CHOICE FARMS, TIMBER TRACTS, BUSINESS and RES IDENCE PROPERTY -WRITE JAMES H. DARBY, Real Estate Dealer, WALHALLA, S. C., Office Peoples Bank* HELP IS OFFERED TO WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE Wo earnestly request all young persons, no matter how limited their means or education, who wish to obtain a thorough business training and good posi tion, to write by first mail for our great half-rate offer. Success, independencoand probable fortune arc guaranteed. Don't delay. Writo today. The Ga.-Aln. Businois College, Macon, Ga. MONUMENTS. If you are in need of a nice Monu ment for loved ones I am prepared to furnish it to you at very reasonable prices. Sec me. J. WADE ANDERSON, Laurens, S. C. Anderson & Blakely BROKERS Real Estate Renting Stocks Bonds Burglary Theift and Fire Insurance Anderson & Blakely Brokers West Main St- LAURENS, S. C. * Friction ? i? Causes Wear. Rlib two pieces of wood Jl^ together, notice how the 5^ ^ friction thus made wears ^ |J even upon wood. |g q> Suppose your linen col- ^? lars and cuffs were rub jj^ lied by two hot rolls nil ^ der excessive pressure? ^ which is the process used J^l to obtain a high gloss finish?do you not sup- ^fc fR pose the resulting friction & would cause wear. t? Domestic finish?our finish?cannot be obtain- ^ ? ed upon a machine which A ^1 operates with any friction J| ^ between the goods and y %k the ironing rolls. That's why it is so much easier ? ^ Upon the goods. ? LAURENS STEAM 8 LAUNDRY t>2 ? JP Best Hy Test. ^ |J Phone 60. Lauren?, S. C. ^ / Real Estate OFFERINGS 488 acres land, bounded by J. H, Abercrombie, Enoree Kiver, J. P. Gray, O. C. Cox and others, known as the old Pr Person home place. Price $7,500.00 V 2 acres land bounded by lands of W. P. Harris, Enoree river, J. H. Abercrombie and others. Price $2,000.00 203 acres, known as the Badgett place, joining lands of Watts Mills. Can be divided to suit purchaser from one acre lots to 100 acres. Prices and terms made right. 97 acres land, bounded by Gus Milam, Ed. Adair and L. C. Tribble, dwelling, one tenant house, good barn and out building, price $2,250.00 200 acres land, Waterloo township, bounded by lands of estate of W. T. Smith, J. It. Anderson and Saluda riv er. Price $2,500.00. One lot in city of Laurens, nicely located, six room cottage, containiug 5-8 acres. Price $2500.00. 268 acres in WaterlooTtownship, nice dwolling, two tenant houses, good out building, bounded by lands of J. R. Anderson, ?. C. Smith and others, known as the home place of the late Dr. J. R. Smith. Price $3,500.00. 200 acres land, bounded by lands of Mrs. Jesse 'league, Jno. Watts, Dr. Fuller, dwelling and tennent houses, 4 horso farm in cultivation. Price $5,000.00. One lot in city of Laurens, bounded by lands of Mrs. Hall, 60 feet fronting public square, 335 feet deep, 2 store rooms. Price $1,250.00. 55 acres, dwelling, good well water, 4 miles north of Laurens, bounded by lands of Henry Mills, Lucy Mills, and Ludy Mills. Price $1,200.00. 48 1-2 acres of land, good dwelling, one tenant house, barn and out build ings, bounded by lands of Pill Irby, Billy Brown and Dr. Davis and known as the Davenport place. Price $1,500.00. 810 acres, more or less, bounded on north by W. A. Simpson, east by II. II. Mills, south by Ludy Mills, west by Burns and others; fifteen horse farm in cultivation, 200 acres in forest, ton room dwelling, 8 tenant houses, good barns and out buildings. Price $10.00 per acre. 290 acres near Ware Shoals, bounded on the north by J. M. Oulla, on the east by Turkey creek, on the south by H. P. McGhee; known as the Brambletl place; well improved. Price $25.00 per acre. 200 acres in Chesnut Ridge section, bounded by lands of Mrs. Jessie Martin, Jno. Watts, Dr. Fuller and others. Dwelling and tenant houses. Four horse farm in cultivation. Known as the Fannie Iludgens place. Price per acre, $25.00. Part of lots No. 8 and 9 Convercc Heights, City of Spartanburg, S. C. Price $1000.00. Ten acres in the town of Lanford, bound by J. R. Franks, and others. Price $750. 39 1-2 acres bounded on the west by S. O. Leak and Laurens R. R., on north by the railroad and others. Three ten ant houses, good well of water all in cultivation. Price $2900. 2 acres land in the City of Laurens, on West Main Street, bounded by prop erty of Mrs. Catharine Holmes and oth ers. Price $1,300. 88 acres in Young's township, bound ed bv lands of John Burdette, S. T. Garrett, W. P. Harris and others, 60 acres in cultivation, good dwelling, two tenant houses. Price $1,850. 101 acres land, Young's township, near Martin's Cross Roads, good dwell ings and outbuildings. Price $2,500. 52 acres land, Young's township, near Martin's Cross Roads, good dwellings and outbuildings. Price $12.50 per acre. 189 acres land in Laurens township, known as the Mat Finley place, about 4 miles from Laurens, 7-room dwelling, .'5 tenant houses, all necessary outbuild ings, ISO acres in cultivation. Pri-je $5,260. One 40x80 lot with two-story frame and metal roof store room thereon, in town of Owings, S. C. Price $650. One lot 71 x 301, more or less, front ing on Sullivan street, adjoining lot of J. M. Philpot. Good six room dwelling with city water. A bargain. $2,250.00. Eight room dwelling and 1 acre lot, corner Academy and Irby streets, Lau rens. Modern improvements. $1,600. 127 acres land, seven room dwelling, one tenant bouse, good out buildings, within two miles of Maddens Station. Price $1,200.00. 153 acres land, one-fourth mile ofl Warrior creek church, good dwelling; 'J'> tenant houses, good out buildings, gotvd pastures well watered. Price $31.00 /m acre. Can make easy terms. / 87 acres land in Hunter townsliip, good improvements. Price $18 per sture. 62 acres inside Of incorporate linyfts cu* the town of Gray Court. Good improve ments. Price $36 per aero. / 147 acres of land two miles Jenst of Gray Court, known as the Garre/t place. Price $2,000.00. / 62 acre:, land, two dwellings/ and out buildings, one mile of New Harmony Church. Price $35.00 per acve. 33 Acres land with 6 room cottage in side corporate limits of Lfiwn of Gray Court, a bargain at $1,500; 150 acres of land wit lue. 1 lie corporate limits of town of Gra.' Court, with dwelling and 3 tenant h< iisos bam and out buildings; als< lin rocK quarry in good working order, pi ice $4,000. 15 acres of land, bounded by lands of Albert Ramage, Bee Blakely and others. Price $50 per acre. / 3 acres of land in .'town of Fountain Inn, 6 room dwelling, 'barn and out buildings, price $3/000. ' 100 acres of located between Alma and the old Edon/pOSt?mce, with dwell ing and out buildflngs, price $2,260. 15 acres land/in town of Fountain Inn on Shaw street. Will be divided into 3 acre lot:, with one acre front. $200. per acre. 49 acres laud 2 miles oast of Fountain Inn, 2 tenar t houses and good outbuild ings, price $1,470, 97 1-2 acres of land, beautiful five room cottage, pood farm, two tenant house ;, boundod by lands Of J. J. Man ly and E. II. Riddle and others known as the Glenn placb. Price $3,500.00. 52 5*8 acres land, with cottage and barn, bounded by lands of Mrs. Lewis Burns, Mrs. Clemy Garret I and M. B. Leopard and others. Price $1,750.00. 2-17 acre." land, with dwelling and out buildings, near Boyd Mill, known as the Bra? Boyd place, bounded by the Sanford/estato, Mrs. Maggie Todcl and Dr. J. K. Donnan. Price $1,500.00. One house and lot on Gulliver street, in toWn of Fountain Inn; seven room, I two-story building. Price $1,400. 7 1-8 acre land, dwelling, barn and out-buildings, in town of Duncan, Spar tanburg county. Price- $925. 87 aeres of land with good improve ments and well timbered. Hunter Town ship. Price $18.00 per acre. 8*4 acre lot, Fountain Inn, 5 room house and good 0U( buildings, wired in with good strong wire. Price $900. Laurens Trust Co. Laurens, S. C, or J. N. LEAK Mgr. Real Est. Stocks and Bond Dept. GRAY COURT, S. C. QUALITY FIRST a THEN PRMCE. || Wh*t is the proper I* order of things in || considering a pur J? chase of $i || Jewelry or || Silverware. || Ninety-nine people out of a ?? jj hundred must rely absolutely ## 2? on the person who serves 3* them, and the store where ?Jjjj; they are purchasing. ^ ^JT Our aim is and always will SX be, to sell no article which we i*2v *ff cannot fully guarantee. The ^Hr ?i** quality is just what wo repro- ?}' sent it to be. 3* * a v i fl 11 a a ? ii _ ? i Fleming 1 Bros. I ? 5* 4 RELIABLE JEWELERS ^fr^^?*?^^?*?^M<?#?^^^^<^''1'^^')^*''^''^,??1^ ? ? OOOOOOOOOOOOOI 8 *' Specials For Saturday Ladies Ready to Wear Waists 50c to $l.oo. Ladies' Long Cloaks $3 to $8. The best Outing in town 10c yard. , Q Shoes for the wt ?Ie family 25c to $4. Be sure you see the line of Lamps in the 5 and 10c Store. r The Ideal / Family Medici lie Chest. Wo carry a full and complete lii^c of all the Standard Family Medicines. We make it our aim to carry only the best and those that are worthy of being in a First Class Drug Store. I f you have been wondering how to get that medicine you saw advertised, try this store. We novor substitute. We have no "just as good," you get what you ask for here. Our prices will show you how to economize and save money. Dodson Edwards Drug Company Laurens, S. C. ?? TIMETO PLANT % ?8 . . . f S Rye, Barley, ? Jj Vetch, Crim- ^ son Clover, J?* Burr Clover, ? Rape, Lu- ^ t cerne, etc. ? M ?-?? Jj New Stock of |J ^> these seeds ? just receiv= j, ? ed. j, ?s _& 5 Kennedy |j ?I Bros. S> ?2 & /is # Thanksgiving and Possum Dinner_ Free Invitations to a big Possum dinner on Thanksgiving Day at the Lumber Yards and Vehicle Sheds of H. a GRAY & SON. Bring your Possum with you or send it the day before and we will have it cooked and fur nish the bread, taters and coffee and pure spring water from Hudgens' spring. No joke anout this. We will have a Possum barbecue if the Possums get here and we hope they will come in time to be well prepared.and lots of them. Let us hear from you in time to get ready for this occasion. Come and let's have some fun while we eat Possum and 'taters and return our thanks for good crops and big prices for cotton. / Respectfully, . E. GRAY & SON Heat and Cold These are two extremes to be avoided. The dis carded fan lies motionless, the natural currents of air circulating on an October day justifies seeking a preventive from cold. Here is opened some warm numbers in Ladies' and Children's Underwear, they come in separate pieces. Knit Underskirts, Zephyr Shawls and Mufflers. HOSIERY Ladies' Hosiery in wool, plain and small rib bed cotton, and cotton fleece lined. FOR MISSES AND CHILDREN. In three grades hard to duplicate at these prices, 10c, 20c and 25c the pair. Test the value of this hosiery between linger and thumb before making a selection elsewhere. W. Q. Wilson & Co. School Books and Supplies. We call special attention to the extra thick pencil tablet for 5c. One good thick tablet for ink and two post cards only 5c. Get all your school needs filled here. Palmetto Drug Co $000000000000000000000000 8 Open a Savings Account at THE BANK OF LAURENS for your child orgrandchild. The little hook you receive, made out in the child's name, will serve as an excellent Holiday Gift. This act of yours may prove the turning point of the child's life, as the book is calculated to encourage habits of saving among the young folks. The Bank of Laurens The Bank For Your Savings. #000000000000000000000000; I/O II AGENTS - - - A SUCCESS "The Old World and Its Ways" Wm. Jennings Bryan f>7f> Imperial Octavo Pages. 251 Superb i Engravings from photographs taken by ( ?>l. Rryan. Recounts his trip around the world and his visits to all nations. Greatest book of travel ever written. Most suc cessful book of this generation. 41,000 called for in 4 months. 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