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EARL C. OWENS Veterinary Surgeon Laurens, s. c. Horses and Cattle Treated w Ith the most improved instruments and the most modern methods Office Phone 202 Home Phone 74 ! B M MS WE BUY AND SELL MS 1 REAL ESTATE! | List your property with us. We think we know values in City and County Property. Business entrusted to us will re ceive expert and careful attention. See us. We offer for sale brick house, and lot on Jail street. Authorized to act as Agent, Trustee, Receiver, Guardian, Executors and Ad . . ? 7 ministrators. V N. B. DIAL, President. C. H. ROPER. Sec. & Treas. Home Trust Co. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA 3? t 8 COAL! Did You Give Us Your Order for Your Coal? If Not, We Want to Figure With You. REMEMBER We send a ticket with each and every load of coal. This insures you against being charged with coal which you do not get. / We handle only one grade of coal the best. This insures you against getting a cheap grade of coal. For there is a difference in coal. We give a small order the same attention that J we do a large one. J.W.&R.M Eichelberger The Coal Men of Experience I Office Phone 33 , Night Phone 276 I You Wonder Why Your neighbor's table is always filled with such delectable and seasonable things to eat and why it is that it always seems so easy for her to fix up something nice on the spur of the moment. t THERE'S A REASON? It'i! this:?She is wiser than you because she sends her special orders to MAHAFFEY & BABB And tells them to Fill them out with a Few Choice Articles that are nice for this season of the year. Try us. "WIELD ENGINES m BOILERS "Have Stood the Teet of Time9' ?'or in point of DURABILITY and are Beat Adapted fy Cotton Olitaf in fact, where Heavy Duty is *M for prices on Saw Mills, Shingle Mills,etc. ? carry for immediate shipment the Beat rs, ranging from 12 H. P. to 160 H. P. .oday for our illustrated catalog. i SONS Ct., Vets Mi toad Off let, NACOM, M. JM? 307 W..< trmU Str**. OMrWM?. H. C. (T.KRK EXAMINATION, POST-OF PICK SERVICE. Place of Examination, Laurons. s. c, Dato (if Examination July 5, 1911. The United States Civil Service Commission announces that on the date and at the place named above an examination will he held for the position of clerk In the post oMce at that place. By an executive order of September 30, 1910. effective December J. 1910, positions of clerk In post olllces of the tli st and second classes not there , tofoi'O Classified were Included In the ' classified competitive service. The ! positions of clerk referred to nie. with I few exceptions, in tlrst and second class post olllces which do not have free City delivery, and at which, there fore, city carriers are not employed. Examinations are announced as va cancies occur or are contemplated In post offices, and from the resulting registers of ellglbles selections for ap pointment are made, unless it Is de cided in the Interest of the service to fill the vacancies by reinstatement, transfer, or promotion. The examina tion hereby announced is only for the post office In the city named at the head of this announcement, and will be held only at that place. Clerks in olllces of the first and second classes arc divided Into six grades, as follows: First grnde. sal ary $G0O; second grade, salary $800; third grade, salary $900: fourth grade salary $1,000; fifth grade, salary $1. 100; sixth grade, salary $1,200. Clerks at first-class olllces will be promoted successively to the fifth grade, and clerks at second-class offices will be promoted successively to the fourth grade. All promotions will be made at the beginning of the quarter following the expiration of a year's service in the next lower grade. No promotion will he made except upon evidence sat isfactory to the Post-Office Depart ment of the efficiency and faithfulness of the employee during the preceding year. When a (dork falls of promo tion because of unsatisfactory service he may he promoted at the beginning of th" second quarter thereafter, or of any subsequent quarter, on evidence that his record has been satisfactory during the Intervening period. Clerks of the highest grade are eligible for promotion to the higher positions in their respective ofllces. Auxiliary employees are paid for ac tual service at the rate of 30 cents an hour. Such auxiliary employees, how. ever, are required to work uot less than two hours daily, and may serve as substitutes. They are eligible for appointment as clerks of the first grade. Substitutes are paid at the rate of 30 centa an hour when serving for ab sent clerks, and they are eligible for appointment as auxiliary employees and as clerks of the first grade. The examination will consist of the subjects mentioned below, weighted as indicated: 1. Spelling (twenty words of aver age difficulty in common use) 10. 2. Arithmetic (simple tests In addi tion, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, common and decimal fractions, and United States money) 20. 3. Letter writing (a letter of not less than 125 words on some subject of general Interest. Competitors may select either of two subjects given) 20. 4. Penmanship (the handwriting of the competitor in the subject of copy ing from plain copy will be considered with special reference to the elements of legibility, rapidity, neatness, gener al appearance, etc.) 20. 5. Copying from plain copy {a simple test In copying accurately a few print ed lines In the competitor's handwrit ing) 10. 6. United States geography (rela tive to the boundary of States, and to capitals, largest cities, rivers and other bodies of water, and the loca tion by States of prominent cities, etc.) 10. 7. Reading addresses (test in noting with pen or pencil, on a printed sheet of addresses, differencea between the printed addresses and the written ad dresses of which they are a copy) 10. Total.100 Applicants must have reached their eighteenth but not their forty-fifth birthday on the date of the examina tion. The age limits are waived, how. ever, in the cases of persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability result ing from wounds or sickness Incurred in the line of duty. Male applicants for the Post-Office Service must be at least 5 feet 4 inches In height in bare feet, and 125 pounds In weight without overcoat and hat; otherwise their applications will be canceled. Female applicants are not required to be of any specific height or weight. Applicants for the Post-Office Serv ice are required to be physically sound and in good health. The Post-Office Department has advised the Commls. slon that no person who If affective In any of the following-named par ticulars will be appointed to the po sition of clerk in the Post-Office Serv ice: Hunchbacks; persons having de foctlve hearing, sight, or speech; per. sons blind In one eye;?one-armed, one handed, or one-legged persons, or those having crippled arms or legs, or those suffering from asthma or hernia, except that deaf mutes and persons with defective speech or hearing may he appointed to the positions of mail clerk, distributor, and directory and forwarding clerk. Applications from persons not entitled to examination on account of physical defects will be canceled. Other physical defects may debar persons from this examination when in the judgment of the Commis sion such delects would render tho person unfit to perform the duties of the position for which examination is held. Married women will not be admitted to this examination. This prohibition, however, does not apply to divorced women or women who are separated from their husbands and support themselves. This examination is open to all citizens of the United States who coin ply with the requirements. From the ellglbles resulting from this examination it is expected that certification Will he made to existing and future vacancies. For application Form 1371 and "In structions to Applicants," address Postmaster at the Laurens, S. C. post office, or the undersigned. No application will be accepted un less properly executed and Hied with the undersigned prior to the hour of closing business on June 14, 1911. Qeo. S. Uonnell. Sec'y Fifth Civil-Service Oist. Atlanta, Ga. Issued May 21. 1911. Makes Kt cry thing New. Old kitchen chairs, old furniture, old closets, old bureaus, when worn out made new again at a cost of 15 to 20 cents with a can of either Home Finish Domestic Paint. Home Finish L. & M. Varnish, or Home Finish L, & M. Varnish Stain. Directions for use on each can. Any body can use It. Get it from J. H. & M. L. Nash, Lau rens; J. W. Copeland Co., Clinton. Itheumntlsm find Illood Diseases Tho cause of rheumatism la exces? uric acid in the blood. To cure rlteu niaUsni tins acid must be expelled from the system, Kheumutlsin Is an inter nal disease anil requires an internal remedy. Rubbing with oils and lini ments may ease the pain, but they will no more cure rheumatism than paint will change the liber of rotten wood. Cur** Hheiimntlnni To Stay Cured. Science has discovered a perfect and complete cure called Rheumaclde. Test ed in fhtmdreda of cases, it has effected marvelous cures. Rheumaclde removes the cause, gets at the Joints from tho Insldtj, sweeps the poisons out of the sy.Mt.-m, 'tones up the stomach, regulates the bowels und kidneys. Sold by drug gists at 50c. and $1; in the tablet form at 'l?r. and 5oc, by mall. Booklet free. rtobbltt Chemical Co.. H'ittlmore Md. Get* At The Joint? KruM The Inside. LAUREN'S DRUG CO. Lauren*, S. C You can get the very best Garden Seed I Irish Potatoes and Onion Sets at Dr. B. F. Posey's These are fresh and the kind that grows. I Dr. Posey's Drug Store "Purity at Posey's" Laurens, S. C. Piles! Piles! Piles! Williams' Indian Pile Ointment will cure Rllnd, Bleeding and Itching files. It ab sorb* the tumors, allays Itching at once, acta aa a poultice,/gives Instant relief. Williams' Indian Hie Ointment la pre pared for Piles and .Itching of the privat? pnrta. Druggists, mall Mo and |1.00. WILLIAMS MFO. CO., fror.?. Claralantf. Ohio LAURENS DRUG. , ?>. I,Bureau, S. C. LAYS ASIDE THE DARTS 0And \ TAKES Another Weapon :: CUPID recognizes another factor?one of higher potentiality?and realizes that in its affairs there must;; be money. Why don't you start to save now; so you will be ready when cupid calls. THE BANK3^ L?U RENS LAURENS, S.C. ACME IqUAUTYL When You Buy Paint Here It is like buying directly from the company operating the largest paint and varnish plant in the world?the makers of the "Acme Quality" paints, enamels, stains, varnishes. You con get exactly what you want in the ACME QUALITY kind for touching things up, painting inside or outside, or for any other use. In buying, ask for the new authority?"The Acme Quality Painting Guide Book." NICHOLS & ROPER Laurens, s. c. r <=m Buyers Guide and Classified BUSINESS DIRECTORY Merchant Tailors! Compare Suits made by me with other suits you see. Ask your buddy about it. D. ISACOFF Harness, Horse Goods and Vehicles! The difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the breadth of it. If you deal with JOHN A. FRANKS there is no danger of falling into either. ELECTRIC SUPPLIES Come In and see about the West Ihouse Hugged Tungsten Lnmps and) let us reduce your light hill. W. P. IIUDGENS Tinning. Roofflng and PLUMBING! S. S. BOYD Plumber and Tinner Dealer in Plumber's and Tin ner's Supplies. Upstairs opposite City Hall. MONUMENTS ! P. F. Baxter & Son Marble and Granite Dealers Qcorfia, Vermont and Italian MARBLES |Winsboro Granite kept on yard all tbe time at Newberry, S. C. STEAM LAUNDRY! We wash everything but the Baby. Put your duds in my suds. The best combina tion in Laurens. Laurens Steam Laundry GROCERIES Delicacies of the Season For all the Delicacies of the season KENNEDY BROTHERS is the place to go. Laurens' Up-to-date Grocers BOTTLING WORKS! We are the sole bot tlers for Coca Cola, the famous drink. Coca Cola Bottling Works PRESSING CLUB! Call FERGUSON & CULHERTSON Pressing Club tor Cleaning, Piessing and Dyeing. All Alterations promptly and neatly done. Membership fee $1.00 per month. Telephone No. 254. Advertiser Printing Co. "The Quality Prlatshop" Specialist in Every Class of Job Work