Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LAND AND WATER! I See me about selling that property of yours or about buying before you buy. Get my plan it never failes when I can get a buyer. I have a lot of choice property in Clinton for sale, write or phone me and see if I can interest you. P. S. jeans CLINTON, S. C. BELL PHONE, NO. 75 Buy a Farm Now! In the fall of the year is the time the to buy a nice farm, you will soon have to plan for next years work, so come let us show what we have listed. We have recently had :;;>::!;? exceptional nice farms listed for sale ranging from 21 to 200 acres. Prices from $15.00 on up. We have farms all over the county wi ll located as to Neighborhood, Churches and Schools and we can please from our list. Laurens Trust Co. C. A. Power, Mgr. Real Instate Department. 5 it \t Your Kidneys need attention at this time of the year. Dike's Kidney Pills, 50c, are excellent for kidney and bladder troubles, lame back, rheumatic pains, urinary diseases, etc. Nothing else quite so good as Dike's, Agent for Huyler's I Dodson-Edwards Drug Co Laurens, South Carolina CORTRIGHT IOORTRIGHTMETAL SHINGLES equally protect the house against lightning, storm, flying sparks and the waste of wear. It is the only roofing that fits?laid in half the time?no solder, no seams, fewest nails, least cutting. If you want the best roof money can buy?a roof that will last as long as the house?let 1? show you samples of the four styles of Cortright Metal Shingles, and houses right here that have been covered with them for years. FOR SALE BY Brooks & Jones, Laurens, S. C. ITEMS OF INTEREST IN SOUTH CAROLINA Culled And Condensed for Busy Readers RESUME OF PAST WEEK Current Kreuts of Interest in This State Selected and Briefly Noted For Advertiser Headers? Qreenv?.le,?Census Supervisor Qeo. M. Pritchard and his assistant. Mr. Jas. H. Price, are busily engaged in preparing to take the thirteenth cen sus in the fouth congregational dis trict Just now Mr. Pritchard is at work dividing the district Into enumer ation districts. Bach enumeration dis irio.t will be covered by one enumera tor. .6 soon as the district is properly subdivided, Mr. Pritchard will submit his recommendations to the census bu reau lor the appointment of enumer ators. Greenville county w ill ho divided in to aboUt forty districts, and therefore, the supervisor will have about that many appointments for Greenville county. Spartanburg county will be split up into something like forty-live districts, with an enumerator in each subdivision. Laurens county will have about twenty-live districts, while t'n ion county will be subdivided into twenty enumeration districts. Alto get her Mr. Pritchard will make some thing like one bundled and thirty ap point limns of enumerators. The actual taking of the census will begin on April 15, I!)|0, and must he complete within thirty days. The su pervisor has been very careful in mak ing bis geographical divisions, so as not to give any enumerator a territory which he cannot cover in the time speciiled. Spartanburg, President Henry M. Snyder of Wofford college announces a gift of $10,000 to Wofford by 10. 1.. Archer of this county. The gift came unsolicited and will he used in the erection of a much need ed dormitory building at Wofford. Mr. An lu r is a farmer residing near the city, He has represented this coun ty in the general assembly as State senator and is one of the public spirit ed men of Spartanburg. lie is well known throughout the State. Greer. A sad and fatal acc ident oo CUred here hist night when Fli/abet h, ilie :! year old daughter of Mr. and Airs. W. M. Thompson, fell from I chair, running a pencil into her thMvit The little child, suffering severely, 1 in gored until nbcui ) o'clock today whon she passed away. Rli'/.nbotll was a beautiful child, dearly loved by all who knew her. Th.' bt reaven parents have I he deepest sympathy of this entire community, Columbia. Mrs Oscar Land, who was accidentally shot by her husband yesterday morning, was resting very quietly at the Columbia hospital last night when Inquiries as to her condi tion were made. It was said tit the hospital that while the wound received in painful, it is no! considered danger ous by the physicians in charge. The accident occurred yesterday morning at the Land home. 120". Wayne street. Mr. Land had been shooting at some pigeons that had been annoying the household, ami is said to have playfully pointed the nun at Mrs Land who was slightly ill and was re dining on a bed. Mrs. Land pushed the gun away, the weapon being dis. Charged as she did so. The bullet) j entered her body ami it was feared that a lung had been penetrated. Oscar Land in an engineer in the service- of the Columbia, Nowberi'i & Laurens Railway company and is well known and quite popular in Columbia and the many stops along his ' run *. Now berry .?-Colo L. Beluso was elected mayor of Nowllorry, defeating Mayor .1. .1. Lnilgfni'd, Who has served for two years. Mr. Pleuse received 31G votes, ns against 2X0 lor Mr. Longford. i Littlo Facts For Farmers. A government report says that In the United States '2.000.000 cattle die an nually from dlseuRe, exposure and neg lect. This country always feels un comfortable when statistics of waste are brought up. After timbers have been cut from the log they should be dried as rapidly and evenly ns possible so as to remove the moisturo und prevent chocks. Wood should not be placed In contact with Mm- ground until It lias boon thor oughly dried; otherwise some fungus will enter and cause rapid decay. Here ore some facts worth reruei.i bering: Fifty pounds of butter make one Iii I. in; 100 pounds of fish make one quintal; 200 pounds of beef or pork mako one barrel; 5 pounds make one keg; 100 pounds make one cask; 25 pounds make one barrel of soap; 280 pounds make one barrel of salt; four inches make one hand; 010 acres mako one square mile, and 30 square tulles make one township. You will find the largest and best line of Sideboards, made of Solid Oak, beautifully finished In different de. signs and sizes. 8. M. ft E. H. Wllkea ft Co Farm and Garden PLAN FOR DRYING FRUIT. An Evaporator Takes the Placo of Old Method. The old way of drying apples, poaches and other fruit In tho sun Is not always desirable on account of the worms and hugs getting Into the dried product and also from the fact that much loss results from the un certainty of the went her. Then the fruit Is of bettor quality when dried In the evaporutor. A few dollars' out lay and a little time spent in the didl season, when other farm work Is not pressing, will be all that is necessary to construct an evaporator that 19 equal In all the essentials to one that would cost many times that amount. One corner of some outbuilding prop erly arranged with the heating stove to furnish tho heat and you have the A HOMBMADB FRUIT DllIKU. beginning already, for you will have two sides already built, but it would be more accessible If constructed in tho center of the room. A very convenient size is four feet square with a small door near the tloor to permit access to the stove and another door three feet or more from the floor, which is the full width of the evaporator and reaches to the cell ing with hinges at the bottom, so that it may be let down on to some support and so form a shelf when open. The stovepipe should be arranged In the form of a spiral so as to throw off as much heat as possible, and this may be accomplished by using com mon elbows and a few short joints of pipe. Set the first elbow on tho stove opening and turn tho next one hori zontally, making at least one circuit of the compartment within a foot of the top of tho stove, completing an approximate circle about three feet in diameter. Thon the pipo may be car ried outside through a convenient opening and run un. either on the in side of (he main bunding or outside. Only one set of trays may bo used in ihis evaporator, and these will he held in place by cleats nailed to tho inside at such Intervals as will allow the trays t<> slide one above tho other and should extend from just abovo the ? oil of pipe to tho ceiling. Tho trays when filled with fruit are put in and removed through tho largo upper door ami uro so constructed that they fill the space entirely, being four feet square. Tho trays should be mado so that they can bo used either side up. Eight pieces of lumber one and one-quarter Inches squuro and four feet long with a piece of half Inch mesh galvanized wire netting four foot square are the materials used for one tray. The net ting stretched and nailed between the two pieces make n good reversible Hay four feet square and one and one quarter inches deep. lion One Doctor Successfully Treats Pneumonia. "In treating Pneumonia," says Dr. W J. Smith, of Sanders. Ala., "the only remedy I use for the lungs Is Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. While, of course, I would treat other symptoms with different medicines, I have used this remedy many times in my medi cal practice and have yet tailed to lind a case where it has not controlled the trouble. I have usod It myself, as has also my wife for coughs and colds repeatedly, and I most willingly and cheerfully recommend it as superior to any other cough remedy to my knowledge." For sale by [.aureus I h ug Co. We are commanded to turn tho other cheek when smitten, hut if he smiles the second cheek you are at liberty. Km A I.a me Mack. When you have pains or lameness in the hack bathe the parts with Chamberlain's Liniment twice a day, massaging with the palm of the hand for hve minutes at each application, Then dampen n piece of flannel slight ly with this liniment and hind it on Over the seat of pain, and you may he surprised tO see how quickly th<' lame ness disappears. For sale by I.an rens DruK Co. Our Holiday Line of Christmas Goods is Larger and More Select This Year Than Ever Before Enlargement Necessary In order to better display our exceptionally line line of Holiday Goods and for the benefit of our customers, we have enlarged our store room and are now using the Second Floor of Our Building as a Display Room All our friends arc invited to visit this department and select their Christmas (lifts. Von will find here the very latest in toys for children; the most appropraite gifts for young and old. Dolls at 5 cents to $4.oo Come early; the stock is now on display. Karly Shoppers Get The Choice. PALMETTO DRUG CO. Laurens, S. C. WALL STREET ARITHMETIC io mills make one trust. 10 trusts make one combine. io combines make one merger. io mergers make one magnate. i magnate makes all the money. The Original Step Toward Becoming a Magnate is the Step Toward a Hank's Door to Lay by YOUR FIRST SAVINGS. Enterprise Bank Laurens, S. C. Wishes to Aid You to Become a Magnate >2 I? I Quality and Price | ^ Touch these two points in the combination and you ^ ^ have opened the money saving values here. 4& |J| Ladies' Sweaters in limited quantity, market value $3.50, J| price $2.50 while they last. yU *d , . 4r Kt* Ladies' Bleached Ribbed bleece I iiderwear in sc - m A crate pieces at 25c. Extra large and heavy quality at 50c, ? A Ladies'White or Scarlet Ribbed Wool Underwear, 1^ separate pieces. Children's White Cotton and Wool Vests Ladies' and Children's Winter Hosiery. ?2 ?2 Get a pnir of Sandow Stockings into your Boy's Shoes A ?2 |g and flirtliCl trouble will be avoided. :? :? :? No advance prices 111 Cotton or Wool Flannels asked 4 1^ here, and this applies to all Wool Dress Goods in modern jj? :? & and ' ;gh grade quality. IW. 0. WILSON & COMPANY % Laurens, S. C. Repair Siioi* We are prepared to repair Automobiles, Gasoline Engines, Electric Motors, Electric Generators, Electrical Wiring, Door Bells.? Agent for StudebaKer Automobiles" Swygert & Teague South Harper Street, Laurens, S. C.