Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Subscription Price is % 1.00 per Yoar Payable \n Advance. S. K. BONKY, Editor. PUBLISH KD BY ADVERTISER PRINTING COMPANY LAURKNS.S. C. ?ATKS KOR ADVKRTI3ING. ? Ordinary advertisements, per square, one inser tion, $1.00; eaeb subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Liberal reduction made for large advertisements. Obituaries: All over 50 words, one cent a word. Notes of thanks: Five cents the line. Entered at the postofiice at Laurens, S. C. as second class mail matter. - LAURRNS, S. C. AUGUST II. 1009. MISPLACED BLANK. Several newspapers In the state have had a great deal to say about State Bank Examiner Wilson, in connection with the recent defalcation at Ander son: some have (ensured him for not discovering the thelt while others have ? declared him wholly without blame. Before expressing any sentiment on the situation, we have made close in quiry Into the matter to learn just the systotn employed by the examiner and If It is possible for a hank official to make sway with funds and the shortage not be caught In the regular cheeking up. Some people are under the impression that the examiner goes over the bank's hooks only, and that be does not count the cash, both i t the teller's desk and that deposited in the vault. This is wholly Incor rect, for the lirst art of the examiner when commencing his chocking Is t<> count all the cash. All the hanks keep paekngt a of money in their vaults, thai possibly are not touched in the course of a month or more. All these are ? ttrefully counted. Wo tin I. upon Investigation, that a cashier or assistant cashier can very easily make awaj with the funds of a hank. Iiis pilfering extending over several months, without being found otii by the haul-: examiner. For in stance, when there is hill one Official In the hank who has charge of the cash, tin; cashier usually, thousands of dollars of this reserve amount de posited III the vault may he taken without detection. Then again, through the system of loans, the < ash ler may have on bis books a number lot "hones" loans, he having taken the ?\xact amount from the cash; bis ? .hooks will balance. Through these .^methods the man In charge of the ,>cash may default for months without 1 'being detected. Of course when the i bnnk examiner comes around, which is just about twice a year, he will find the shortage in the rash; or If the boR'is loans look suspicious, this sys tem will be detected, But In all this six months, the stealing may no on undisturbed. The only way to prevent these de falcations Is for the hank to let the cash br> handled by ai least two em ployees, the cashier and bis assistant, or possibly the teller. Then a theft j from the vault reserve fund will be \ detected when the balance is struck I In the afternoon. Again, the duty of , bank directors is to investigate the loans at regular intervals. This will prevent a long-continued stealing through that menus. Bin when the newspapers blame Mr. W ilson for not finding the shortage in ihe Anderson case, I hoy are guilty of placing blame Where blame is not due. We do no! know v. l.et her or not Mr. Ilollemau had exclusive charge of the cash ia his bank, hat it hiiud have been so. Very likely his defalcations hail he. n going ( ;i for possibly less than sis months, and realizing thai the examiner, who was in the city that very Snturdnj would itetccl his short age? On Monday, he left before the ex amination was begun. The hank is to bin mo for the occurrence if it al lowed Mr. Ilolb man io handle the rush without assistance. Or if the defal cations were (hrougli the bogus loan means, tho directors are to h'nhve for not investigating the loans. There is no system of examination that will make i>: nk official, or any one else for thai matter, hon Vet tho banks themselves can make it more diillcult to steal, and could pro ven! long-continued, defaulting bv tho proper appnriloiunenl of office duties. ? * ? ill.'./.im; i HE v> \v. The time is not Within our recollec tion when the subject of good roads was not a vital ami present one. Politicians have rant el .about them on ??very stump in the country; some of our officers have done a valuable work In temporarily improving tho main thoroughfares o.' the country. The newspapers have preached the Rospel ?jf good roads from time Immemorial. Dot still we have bad roads. We con tinue to pay the heaviest of all taxes: fead roads. Like every other movement. It takes time to arouse the proper sentiment tc bring about definite results. But it seems that tho time has been very, very long, indeed in this matter of per manent road improvement. Has it not come? Is not today the accept ed time? Without fear of contradiction we assert that never wan there such en thusiasm over the subject as right now. All over the state, men are talking good roads; associations of various kinds and names have been formed to further the cause. It's In the air. Good roads! Good roads! And among the foremost agencies that have created this sentiment are the thousands of autOCuoblttstS and auto mobile associations over the country. As we all know, the Atlanta Journal New York Herald scout ears in their passage through the states, if they did nothing more, seemed to create a Strong desire among all the people to improve the roads through the country. And now In this state, the Columbia Record has sent cars Into the various counties, blazing the way. urging good roads, establishing n cap ital-to-county route. The effort Is to get the people interested, then the county officials: the counties, then, CO-operatIng, can In a short while, build permanent roads connecting with encu other, and forming this great route from Columbia to each county seat in the state. It will build up Co lumbia; it will build up every county seat; it will be ' meflcial to every farmer In the sb Here in Laurent '. Tuesday night In a (lilt;, i meetl '-t >vas appointed a Committee composed of a representa tive from ea< h county between Green ville and Columbia whose effort shall be to properly present the ms tter be fore the authorities of the counties, get the sentiment of the people behind them, and get a main highway built from Columbia to Greenville, by way of n v' erry. Clinton, Gray Court, Fountain Inn an i Simps?nville. Th|s committee will hold a meeting soon j and definite plans for the campaign will be formed. Messrs. .1. Adgar Smyth ami Hi a. Cooper aro the rep resentatives of this county on that commit! "Good roads" is the gospel that these auto clubs are preaching; they have gotten the ear of the people, and 1 it v. ill not be tnany years before we j see th.> results of their werk. They are blazing the way. We notice that President Hummett j of the Orr mills In Anderson says the $."?0,000 shortage will in no wise crip- j pie the mill, since it is worth $1.500, 000. Looking over the tax values in j this stat ?. we see however that the i Orr mills of Anderson are assessed at only $1SO,000, or 32 per cent of the value as estimated by President Ham meit. Talk about taxes? There's j no use to talk until the matter of as- j sessments is looked Into. ? ? ? But cotton mills .ire not the only properties that are returned at too j small a figure. There are farm lands all over this staf * that cannot be bought for $10') per acre; they are | assess.si at $."..00. How many taxpayers In Laurens return their "personal property" at more than $'J00? ? ? ? Some days ago a very busy business man of this city said: "When I go home, I go there to free myself of business; but I can scarcely get seat ed at supper or dinner before some body rings me up over the telephone to 'talk business"". Moral: Learn when to use a phone. ? ? ? In The State Is appearing a series of a-tales written by Mr. A. S. Sal ley, ,lr.' on "StoutIt Carolina Genealo gies". The Prltchard and Wilkinson fnmille . with a.any of their branches, have been the subjects of ilie three papers that have been printed. Not ortly are tho articles of genuine his toric;,; value but they sStout 1 !>?? stim ulative of tin Interest it. persohjfvi and fa mil history. .Moreover, the artl eh - si nulii prove of wide anil general lit I ere iM it frequently happens that they disclose to readers the:: descent from or kinship with families of Which these reader's nave heeti Ignofnnti Mr. Snlley has earned a reputation as one of the fftOst accurate and Con scientious Writers in ! is field in the cor.:.fry. The article printed July 2??th was of special interest to Hdgofleld read ers as it tel.'* of the descent of the late Goveri or Krami-s W. i'ickens from the Wilkinson family, Kvery article will nj)pda1 especially to peo ple In one or another pan of the state. ? ? ? OUR BLUE LAWS. f)OWn In Newherry there's a writer it: The Herald ami News, who calls himself 'The I Her". In every issue of this Interesting newspnpor, appears a column or so of very Interesting comments on current events, such as an idler would be expected 10 make. Last Friday's piper contained the following about the Sunday observ ance laws In Laurens: "Over in Laurens they have a Gun ( day law that will not permit a resi dent to buy a cl?ar on Sunday but a stranger or visitor can purchase such necessary supplies*. A visitor was at the hotel tho olhor Sunday and a elt SHAKE INTO YOUR 8HbE8 Allen's Pc >Ea*e, a powder. It care* painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails, and in sUotljr talteethe sting oat of corn* Ana bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen'? Foot- Base make* tight or new shoee '&e\ ea* jr. It la a certain care for sweating, callous, swollen, tired, aching feet. Try U to-day. Sold br all DrugjrUts and Shoe Store*. By mall for tSc. in stamp*. Don't aoofot any mbtUutt. Trial p?ek#gu PBJSX. Address Ailed ?. Olm? ted, Le Hoy, M. T. Izen walked up and Bald to him. 'Buy me a quarter's worth of cigars'. The visitor at first did not understand what bis friend meant, but he bought tiie cigars and the resident gave him ; the quarter with which to pay for them. Well, now. I have no patience with any such sham and hypocrisy and such pretense at goodness by Btatute. Metier not have any such laws. That is what 1 mean by say ing ll at I am not in favor of too many Sunday and blue laws". The Idler should have stated that the incident above referred to oc curred at the hotel, for that is the only place where cigars can be pur chased at all, by even visitors In the city. That exception is made doubt less because guests at the hotel are Strangers in the City and are not sup pose,! to know about the regulation and will no doubt fail t.j provide themselves with these necessities. Besides many of them arrive in the city after night on Saturday. But the point The Idler makes is that our own citizens evade the law in the manner described and it is this "sham and hypocrisy" that he has no patience with. He doesn't believe in trying to make peopla good by stat ute. That is the same old argument that is used in behalf of the sale of Whiskey; it is old and threadbare; every politician and would-be writer takes it up and imagines he has struck ;< snag tl:al the "prohibition ists fUlinnl get over. The fait thai on ? man it: Laurens lias evaded the Sunday cl isici ordinance convinces Tho l ller and his ''.!; that the law is no good; Since our "blue laws" have fon<? Into effect there are hundreds >.' ( ur citizens who have learned to , .>: ?>, i'.e themselves with cigat*3 and such things (?:: s. turdny. it is now i habit, whereas before, they waited in'l' Sunday morning to make these utrtdmses. The drug clerks are now given a little rest < n Sunday; there net that continual serving of cold Irinks. and there [3 no one in I.aurer.s who can conscientiously say that the dd way WHS better. The idler ought to gel out of New berry once in n while, Bee a little of the world and Iben make his com- | meats on such subjects as this. LVewberry'S way is not the only true | and Correct manner of doing things. Laurens' Sunday laws are all right, even if one or two fellows do get around them sometimes. And again W3 a>k. what lasv is there that is not sometimes violated? ? ? * "TH1X, IY1IITK HA NIKS*. "Chaplain", said a young criminal in a state prison.holdlng up his thin, white hands, "these hands never worked; do you think they can learn to work"? That WS8 the secret of that young man's criminality. And Idleness today Is one of the principal causes of crime. Unless boys and girls are trained to honest work they are bound to gravitate towards crime und poverty". Wlille the above, from an exchange. Is true in a large measure, it is just as senseless to argue that a man's hands must be hard ami horny for aim to be honest, as it is to contend that Idleness does not promote mid encourage dishonesty. Manual labor Is not essential to honesty: it is a great aid. however. Kmploymenl of some kind is necessary to usefulness in life; the class of Idlers we we find, particularly In the large cl ies. con tribute nothing to their age, are con sumers without producing anything. As a rule they are a menace to the community. .Marie Corel 11 once asked. "Are the poor alone to possess the old World vir,ues?" One Is likely to believe thai she spoke almost a truth. Yet. we believe it utterly silly in argue thai manual labor alone Is conducive to honesty. The foci thai the young criminal, above mentioned, had thin. Willie hands Is not damaging evidence it was n? sin. lie could knve worked with his bend just as honestly worked with bis head jsut 08 honestly and uprightly as wit'i bis bands, and been as great a blessing to his fellows. He used Ills head to wrong purposes. Hut don't start up the foolish cry that the fellow with "whito hands" Is a criminal. ? m. Ncftovrnn in Kdsrcueld. Mr. Wm. It. MCClOWan, the younu I,aureus gentleman who has been vis iting Mr. James T. Bacon, loft for his home on Monday morning, after hav ing attended and enjoyed all three of Kdgefhdd's great distinctive picnics. When be saw the three thousand peo ple at Lanbam's spring, bis eyes be gan to stretch; when he saw the five thousand at Centre spring, they popped: find when he saw the seven thousand at Harmony, they popped clean out of his bead. We are gl a 1 to say that ho bus promised to come back at this same, time next year.? Edgefletl! Chronicle. I OUR SPECIAL NOTICES. | Notice?High Grade Jack will stand at Horse Creek farm this season; good colts? I have, some?see them at my farm. Fee $15.00. M. B. McCuen. l-4t. Notice ?I hereby forbid any one to trespass on my placa in any manner whatsoever. If caught doing so will prosecute to extent of law. J. N. Wright. Laurens, S. C. 52-2t j For Sale?200 cords of pine wood. Will sell delivered or on the ground (three miles from Laurens and four miles from Clinton). M. L. Copeland. I For Sale -6 well-bred, non-register- ! ed Shropshire Huck Lambs, for sale bv Dr. A. C. Fuller. l-2t. For Sale -1(17 acre farm in Spartan- j burg county, on Enoree river; magni ficent pasture. Terms easy. N. B. Dial. 2-2t. i hills Fleas-Cures the worst case of marine?Bicaise's Manse Cure. Not j poisonous. Ftdl line Bicaise's Ho? Remedies for sale by the Laurens Drug Co. 2-2t. Found -One pair nose glasses, ou Main street near opera house. Call at Advertiser office. 2 Valuable Furia For Sale.?We are offering for sale the Ludy Blakeley Home place at Ora. S .('.. containing 200 acres, more or less, one of the most desirable farms In the un coun try. Said lands will be sold at pub- : lie outcry at Laurens 0. H? on 1st Monday in October. This land can be purchased privately if desired. For further Information address L. P. Blakeley. Ora. S. C. 2 Wanted. Several bust 1 in? young men who wish to make not less than $2.00 per day by selling a valuable, useful article which almost sells itself to all classes of people. Experience is desirable but not requfred. This is your chatte* to make some money honestly during your spare time. Call to see me Friday, the 2?'ih. inst. at !:?:: Laurens street. P. B. v.. Lau rens. S. C. 2-2t For Cotton Welcher? I hereby an nounce myself as n candidate for Cot ton Weigher at Cross Hill. S. C. an I solicit the votes of my friends. .lohn C Hill. You will always find here the lar gest and best line of Window Shades in different sizes and colors, made of the best Quality of material and at prices you would have to pay for a cheaper quality at other places. S. M. & E. H. Wilkes .?;- Co. Three leading Huropean steamship companies have combined to establish ?i regular service between Hamburg, Rotterdam and the Canadian ports of St. John and New Brunswick. NOTICE OF FI.F.l TIOX. State of South Carolina. Laurens County. Whereas petitions signed by more than one-third of the qualified elect- i ors and free holders residing in the Hunter School District. Hunter Township, No. 3, Laurens County. South Carolina, asking for an elec tlon on the question of Levying a Two i (2) Mill Tax upon property in said School District to be used for School purposes have been filed with the j County Board of Election, an election I is hereby ordered upon said quebtion, said election to he held on the 21st' day of August. lf>0ft. at Bock Bridge day of August. 1009. at the Oakville School House, under the management of the Trustees of the said School District. Only such electors as return real or personal property for taxation, and i who exhibit their tax receipts and ] registration certificates as required In general elections shall be allowed to vote. Those favoring the Tax shall vote a ballot containing the word "Yes" written or printed thereon: those against the Tax shall vote a ballot containing the word "No" written or printed thereon. Polls shall open at the hour of 7 o'clock In the forenoon and remain open until the hour of 1 In the after noon, when they shall be (dosed and the ballots counted. The Trustees shall report the result of said election to the County Auditor within ti*i days thereafter. GEORGE L. PITTS. 2-21 Co. Sunt, of Education, IF YOU WANT THE BEST FOR THE LEAST pay [cash and trade at a cash store. J.W. Payne The Cash Gfocef Next Door to Palmetto Bank. PHONE, NO. 183 The Drip of Water soon wears away the hardest stone and iii it's result the Savings Account is beautifully demonstrated. The little amounts regularly deposited soon mount up and it is not long before the sum is of sufficient proportions for something worth while. Start an account with us at once. You will be surprised how much you can put aside and scarcely miss and for which one rarely has anything to show. We pay 4 per cent, interest. Enterprise Bank Laurens, S. C. Down in Egypt Von will find Corn, Oats, Hay, Flour, Fresh Water fire und Corn Meal, Cotton Seed Meal, Brau and Shorts, Chicken Feed, also a full stock of Molasses, Syrups and Fresh Hams. In Dry Goods we carry a nice line of .Shoes, Brown Sheet in.;. Bleeching, Overalls and other .Staple Dry Goods. Frtces always right. J. H. Siallivan Laurens, S. (\ Our Grand Clean Sweep Sale has just been all that we could wish and just to think it is just started good and our bargains are still numerous so join the crowd and be made glad that you spent your hard earned dollars with us for we will stretch it out and when you get home and ex amine the goods you will be so glad you come. Come Saturday for our bargains will be great, a lot of new goods on the road. Several pairs of Ladies', Men's, Children's, Low Cut Shoes still on sale at half price. J. L. Hopkins Laurens, S. C. Annual Mountain and Sea shore Excursion x August 18th, 1909 via Charleston ? Western Carolina ^ Railway. To Spring and Mountain Resorts in North and South Carolina. For rates etc., call on ticket Agents or address Ernest Williams General Passenger Agsnt 807 Broadway, Augusta, Ga. >v