Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Red Iron Racket Cheapest House on Earth Is now almost giving away goods at prices so low you will wonder how can they do it. _ _Now for the Sweeping Out Prices Have you tried our fine parched Coffee 15c per 11). 7 pounds Parched Coffee for f i.oo 16 lbs. Sugar $i.oo to lbs. Good Coffee Si.oo Don't pay Si.on for Standard Patent Medicines. We sell 'em for S^c, save 13c. 50c bottles 42c, save 8c We have all the Pest .Standard Medicines. 1 Big Wash Pan 1 Pi- Pie Pan 1 .Set Nice While Plates 05 ?5 39C $1.00 Sri White China Plates 50c 3 boxes Searchlight Matches 10c 15c plug Tobacco, Baby Ruth, Thorough Bred toe loc Bottle Lemon or Vanilla K\ tract 08c 5c Bottle Lemon or Vanilla K.\ tract 04c 5c Cake Fairy Sonp 04c 5c Cake Pummo . kin Soap 04c 10c Cake Glycerine Soap 05c Big Jar Yasolene 05c 2 Big Cakes Victory Washing Soap 05c 2 good Handkerchiefs 05c Special for Saturday 6c good yard wide Sea Island ,| 1 e 6c good Cheeked Homespun | 1 c 6e good Ginghams and Cham bray ? .} '/-c your gain. We are sweeping out goods this week at unheard of prices. 6c good Calico 04c 5c and ioc Laces, Valencines and Torchons, only 03c Saturday will he your last day lo buy these under cut prices. Buy Clothing, Hats, and Shoes This week at a sacrifice. < >ur loss, m Balls Tinea. 1 1 Spool Thread, (iootl 1 Spool Best Thread .!,S Nut Megs 12 Cakes Victory Soap 50 Shirts 51 .00 Shirts $1.39 Pants $1.68 Pants $2.2 s Pants 05c 02c 04c S3.od Pants #1.89 ^ #<|.00 Pants ?3.19 1 $4.50 John P.. Stetson Hal, this i wee k $3.1 h ) Men's 1 lats 2.00 " $2.91 i 05c ,.2S 25c 35c 69c 93c $1.19 r.oo " 75c 2 Straw 1 lats 2.09 I.89 ' 1.19 i 79c ( 3?n% 05c Clean Sweep this week. i < Special this week only < 3 Cakes Pairy and P I.50 Soap U >i Toilel < 1 < >c Hurry up and avoid the rush for they are all coming to RED IRON RACKET LAU RENS, SOUTH CAROLINA W p :in> iii.'ikinc monev for vnu.---.l- C. It. fic Co MK COTTON ( HOP IS I)KTER10RATING. 01 kt Crops Suffering from brought Lisi of Interesting Waterloo Personals. aterloo, Aug. IS. Owing to the ( inued dry spell the cotton crop in < ( Hue haa been cut ofT 50 per cent. '! dry weather is making cotton open iarl,\ in some sections. All forage crops i onsidorably cut oil'. Mr. I L. Dendy, who has been in 1 mhiil for some time, has decided to move his family there and will make I be change about Sept. 1st. Mi i s. Long & Culbcrtson are over ling t heir ginnery here and will have plant in splendid shape for the new crop. Mr, Marvin Whnrlon, of Columbia, i v nil his cousin, Prof. S. VV. Puckett, for a few days. Messrs. II. I). W'inn, W. II. Culbert VV. W. Campbell and Postmaster Harri are at home from Crecnville and I raveler's Rest. Mr. and Mrs. II. C. Fuller are at from a visit to Mr. .lohn Sims and family at Central. Mrs. W. P. Uoyd and children, of lie, are wild the family of Moj. I I:. Anderson fur a few weeks. Mi ,L Casper Smith is visiting her .. Mrs. A. c. Keller, in Greenwood. Kugene Walker, of Applcton, is Hj< a few days here witli his sis ler Mrs. L. L. Dendy. Mr. and Mrs. ChnHoS W. Anderson, of S|.lanburg, visited relatives here fni \ i'1'al days lasl week. ? o|, .lames T. Harris and family, of inhil5g, came down last WCOk and vvi i " Hi'' guests of relatives for several Mr. Wilson Harris, of Clinton, is in Prof. Joseph Sheoley, of Townville, ,|n m Sunday in town. flunks il Saved His Life. I in- M. Nelson, of Naples, Maine, ,i\ in a recent letter: "I have used Dr, New Discovery many years for i ind colds and I think it saved jjjv I have found II a reliable rem ,K for throat and lung complaints and s'otdil no more he without a bottle (ban would he wit bout food." For nearly . ii\ years New Discovery has stood al i In id of throat and lung remedies. | \ ii preventive of pneumonia and1 |er of weak lung -, il has no OOtinl. I imder guarantee at Laurens Drug I hi.I Palmetto Drug Co.'s drug . fiOc. and $1.00, Trial bottle ' SOLVED THE PROBLEM. The Simple Secret of Blowing the Big Glass Globes. Rmperor Nicholas wished to llhunl Ante the Alexander column in a grand m vie. The ?,l/e of (he round lamps to he used for the purpose were Indicated and the glasM>h ordered at the manu factory, where the workmen exerted themselves in vain and almost blew the breath out of their bodies in the endeavor to obtain the desired size. Tho commission must lie executed that was self evident but how? A great premium was offered to the . one -who could solve the problem. Again the unman bellows toiled and puffed. Their object seemed unattain able, when at last a long hoarded Itns Mian stopped forward and declared thai he could do It; he had strong Itlllgs, he would only rinse his mouth first with a little water to refresh them. Fie applied his mouth to the pipe and puffed to such purpose that the vitreous ball swelled and puffed nearly to the required dimensions, up to them, beyond thoin. "Hold! Hold I" cried tho lookers on. "You are doing too much. And how did you do it all?" "The matter Is simple enough," an swered the long beard, "but, first. I where Is my premium?" And when he clutched the promised bounty he explained. He had retained some of the water In his mouth, Which had passed thence Into the glowing ball and then, becom ing steam, had rendered hhn this good service. Idle Curiosity. "Why uro you calling up the various hospitals'/" "My friend Knigglchnt assured mo he'd pay me that $."? today or break a leg, and I want to tlnd out which leg he broke."?Kansas City .lournal. Easy. T.ady (on street) Do you know whero Johnny Tucker lives, my little hoy? 1 I.title Boy?He ain't home, but If you give me a nickel I'll find him for yon. : Lady All right. Now, where In he? 1 Little Bey?Thanks. I'm him.?Judge. The Other Half Is Waiting. One of the most pitiable sights in tho j world Is that of people who are using only a small bit of their ability while tllO rest of il is wailing to be used. It Is still Ineffective because of the many little weaknesses or peculiarities, tho bad habits or the lack of preparation Which handicaps and makes practically Ineffective the whole life. How pitia ble to Bee splendid talent, line ability, everywhere tied down by comparative ly little things I?Success Magazine. MAMMOTH CAVE. It Furnished the Saltpeter For th? War of 1812. There Is an Interesting hit of history connected with I ho cave. Fow Ameri cans are aware that It heipud to save the country In the war of 1812 by fur nishing saltpeter for the manufacture Of gunpowder, hut such is the case. The powder used by Old Hickory In whipping the llritish *<> handsomely at 1 New Orleans in 1815 is Bald to have hcen made with saltpeter from Mam moth cave. As early as 1SO0 a Mr. i Fowler obtained, it is said. 100,000 pounds of niter from the twenty-eight limestone caverns that had then been discovered in Kentucky. in 1800 Dr. Samuel Brown of Lex iltgton rode a thousand miles on horse hack to Philadelphia to lay hoforo the American Philosophical society,'In sos sion there, the farts ahotit the pres ence of niter In these caverns. Raying that Iho deposits would ho especially vnlunblo In case of war with any for eign power. Brown did not mention Mammoth cave hy namu at that time, and the probability Is, as local tradi tion assorts, that II was .first discov ered hy whites In 1800 when a hunter named Douchlns or Hutchlns entered it in pursuit of a wounded hear. Hay aid Taylor says It was first discovered In 1802, hut does not give his author ity. The only value set on It at llrst was for tin1 nitrous earth It contained. For this a Mr. McLean paid $40 for Iho cave ami 200 acres of land around its month. McLean fold It to a Mr. GatO wood; ho to Messrs. (!ra/.l and Wllklns, who dorived a fortune from tho saltpeter made there during the war of 1812. Tho emharfro cut us off from any other supply, and the output of saltpeter from this cavo enabled our manufacturers to mako sufficient pow der to carry on the War.?-New York Pott. A Bungler. lie was a twentieth century hustling blllldor, and under his auspices collages and buildings seemed to spring up llko mushrooms. "PleftSO, sir," said one of his fore men, rushing up to him ono morning In a stale of mental collapse, "one o' tho new houses has fallen ('own in the night." "What!" ho roared. "You mean to say that one of my well built, deslrablo residential houses has come to y/rcf'.' Ah, 1 suppose you took the scaffolding down hoforo you put on the wall pa per:" "Yos, sir." "Well, what can you expect, you rank outsider? Call yourself a fore man! <Jel off the works! You'rs sacked!" London Globe, Job Printing! 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