Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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When something bocomes wrong with your stomach, look out! It is the seat of many troubles. If You have gas on your stomach, heartburn, and a heavy, tired feeling, BEWARE. Much so-called heart disease is only STOMACH disease. Gas in the stomach causes a pressure against the heart, makes a palpitation and often causes death. We can supply the medicines your doctor prescribes. Come to OUR Drug Store. PALMETTO DRUG CO. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA IMPORTANT VALIKS Mm IL Cheap School Supplies Dearest in the End CHILDREN don't use their belongings like you do. Unless their things are well made they never last long. Only the best in school sup plies is cheap. We specialize in that kind at this store. All the Children like our Gcods. Bring them in to-day and let us show you. Pencils, Pens, Pen Staffs, Ink Pencil Tablets a,nd Ink Tablets Ray's Pharmacy Dial Bldg. Laurens, S. C. Gasoline and Kerosene ?Sold in air-tight Iron Drums. Convenient to handle. ' Deliver in small quantities in city. ' v R. M. Eichelberger Agent Gulf Refining Phone 33 SEVERAL FACTORS DEPRESS COTTON Favorable Weather, Balkan War, and Other Condition* have Tendency to Send Prices to Loner Level?New York Review of Market for Week. New York., Oct. 18.?Prices have recently entered new low ground owing to favorable weather over much of the belt, continued large re ceipts, the war In southeastern Eu rope, th? fe?.r '.bat larger powers may become Involved In the struggle and finally heavy selling partly against actual cotton by the South. Also spot houses have in some case resumed Belling. Wall Street houses and the west have also sold. To the great majority of people here the drift of prices h?s seemed to be in evitable downward owing to the en ormous receipts at Texas points, the Mississippi river, tho tendency to In crease crop estimates and the no ticeable falling off In exports and spinners taking as compared with those of last year. If there should be a spread of the war In Europe tho effect it Is believed would be to cause a very material decrease In the con sumption of American cotton In Eu rope, especially as the cotton crops of Egypt, India and Russia are larger this year than they were in 1911. The disturbed condition of the Eu ropean bourses at times has added to the general depression. Southern farmers have been reported as of fering cotton freely. Spot markets as a rule have lacked snap. Hut for all that there are those who believe that the decline hns gone too far and that sooner or later there will be a big rebound. They believe that the mous proportions. They believe short interest has assumed enor that the market Is sold out and over sold and at the first sign of wide spread killing frost prices will move upward, stimulated not only by a big demand by overcrowded shorts on both sides of the Atlantic, but also by the excellent condition' of the cotton goods trade both at home and abroad. These observers declare their Inabil ity to understand why cotton should continue to be depressed with gen eral trade in this country increasing by leaps and bounds. Toward the close of the week the fear of frost In Texas, the calmer feeling regarding the war In south eastern Europe, the big spot sales in Liverpool (14.000 bales on Friday) and covering of shorts caused an ad vance in market believed to be heavily short. LYDIA WADKLNS. She was a lonely old lady, who de voted her time to her cows, pigs, and chickens. She was accompanied in her strolls over the settlement by her bodyguard, Rod, a big black cur dog. who guarded his mistress day and night. You have often heard this ex pression: "Not worth shucks in Au gust." Shucks were so plentiful that there was not much market for the.m The neighbors would give Lydia all she could pack home. She would take a bed sheet and tie it full of shucks and put it on her head, and lug It home to feed her cows. We rented the Lanford farm one year and put the whole place In wheat. Mrs. Wadklns was put in the Monroe house to keep th stock off the grain. Father went up to look after the crop and called at the house to see how things were getting along. We heard something trotting over the floor In the adjoining room and he asked the old lady what was making so much noise. She replied It was nothing but big rats. Well, they walk mighty heavy! On looking Into the room h found two pigs capering over the room. On another occasion we were go ing down to Friendship to preaching. Passing by Mrs. Wadklns' cabin Moth er heard a spinning wheel singing a perfect tune. She ordered the driv er to stop and s*he went to the house and asked Mrs. Wadkins what in the world she meant by working on f>un d??'? "Why honey! I have lost the day of the week. I thought it was Saturday I will put up my wheel and cards and keep enough of Monday to make up the time I have worked on Sunday." No doubt these lonely old people would often lose the days of Che weok. Haves Leg of Boy. "Jt seemed that my.,14?-year old boy wbuld have to'lose his leg, on account or an ugly ulcer, caused by a bad bruise," wrote D. F. Howard, Aquone, >N. C, "All remedies and doctors treat ment failed till wo tried Rucklen's Ar nica Salve and cured him with one box." Chi res burns, bolls, skin erup tions, piles, 25c at Laurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. NOTICK. Dissolution of Partnership. The law firm of Cnnntn & Black noil has been dissolved. ..ohn >L Cannon now occupies the offices formerly oc cupied by Cannon & Blackwell, and H. S. Khickucll Im now located In the Barksdalo Building In the office form erly occupied by Sheriff .Inn. D. Ow Ings during rebuilding of Court House. ll-4t HILLSIDE NEWS. * Hillside, Oct. 21.--HIllBide had a great many representatives, at the fair at I-aureus. Hillside gave several erhibits and carried off the blue rib bon with them. Among those who at tended from this section were: Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. WeatherB, Clyde Weathers and Miss Emmie Woods, Marvin Tolil son and Miss Carrie Woods, Krskine Woods and Miss Alma Knight, and Messrs. Floyd Weathers, Robert Woods, Chas. Adalr, J. W. Woods, 10. C. Peden, J. A. Adalr, J. A. Peden, J. T. Adalr, H B Nelson and G W. Adalr. S. B. Eskew made a business trip to Greenville, Friday. Our corn club hoys are busy gath ering their corn. One of the boys made 40 bushels, another 33, and an other 43. There arc several more boys yet to be heard from. One of our farmers, S. B. Eskew, lo making considerable "extra money" In products, other than cotton. This year he cultivated a small patch of sweet potatoes?Just about 2 acres. From this patch he has already reap ed several score of dollars, besides ho Isn't near done gathering the crop. Mr. Eskew nlBo has a small turnip patch, and has already sold $10 worth off It, and he says he can't even miss them. Mr. Eskew also raises tine hogs. He is an Ideal truck farmer. His every day's work helps to push Hillside to the front, and helps to make It one of the best, if not the best, farming section In South Carolina. Jerome Hiatt has bought a farm of 26 acres near Fork Shoals, and will move onto it In the near future. His farm here will be rented. Edward Chasman of Dabbtown will be a Hillside citizen next year, it is said. Almost everywhere you go you hear the farmers saying that the yield of cotton will not be over two thirds. If the price were lf>c instead of 10c, there would remain some chance for the man with one suspender over his shoulder, but with the price so low, and continually dropping what In the deuce is going to become of those farm ers whose absolute conlldencc was put In cotton in 1912. Living costs more this year than last. Fertilizer, .ast spring, sold at a high figure. Food stuffs, all the year, have been soaring skyward In price. This calamity Is a disaster that seems hard to over come, but it must, and will be, over come. This disaster will make us wise, and help us to avoid the next one, by raising some extra pork, and producing more corn. Don't let the seemingly hard times loom up as un surmountable, Just grin and keep on, and keep on. You'll find flowers some day, where there are thorns now. * LAST YEAR'S LESSON. * Cotton, selling last fall for eight or nine cents a pound?before it was known Just what a "whopper" the crop was?Is now selling for eleven cents (nearly twelve) And this, de spite the fact that the official statis tics now show that the crop was over 16,000.000 bales?bigger than anybody dared predict In the beginning. The advance has come after the great bulk of the crop has passed out of the hands of the men whose sweat and labor brought it into being. Mil lions and tens of millions of dollars that should have gone to enrich the plain farmers of the South have gone Into the hands of speculators, mer ihants and cutton buyers. Rut for last fall's stampede to sell ?the'wholesale flooding of an already satisfied market?the farmers might have gotten eleven cents last fall as easily as the speculator gets It now. It was a risk to take, because as Henry Grady said, "Cotton is a darn fool/' but The Progressiv? Farmer did take the risk of continually urging farmers to hold for better prices. We predicted that cotton would be twelve cents by spring, and If the crop had been no bigger than conditions thea Indicated, It would have gone to twelve before now. Even with a 16,000,000 bale crop, It is nearly twelve. And our readers who followed The Progressive Farmer's counsel, refusing to be frightened by the declining market or by eight and nine-cent offers have profited notably. The big le?Bon that seems to atand out Is the need of warehousing and gradual marketing?putting the crop on the market thron i a period of twelve monthB Instead, of n period of three. "The laborer is worthy of hla hire," and this spring's advance should have gone to those who earned the wealth, not to those who merely traf ficked In It.?The Progressive Farmer. When you have a bad cold you want the best medicine obtainable so as to euro It with as little delay as possi ble. Her* is a druggist's opinion: "1 have sold Chamberlain's Cough rein edy for fifteen years," says Enos Ix>l lar of Saratoga. Ind., "and consider it the best on the market." For sale by all dealers. Think it over Hhvp von ever* said to yourselft **If I only had A THOUSAND DOLLARS NOW." Husiness o/ianoes are opening up ?/i<f offering themselves to any of tis and nil of us very frequently und the man who gets the ehnnee is THIS MAN WHO HAS Tim MONEY to take it. Start n bank account with us now. l*e prepared for n ehnnee. Do YOUR bunking with US. We pny interest in Savings Department. Make OUR Hank YOUR Hank Enterprise Bank Laurens, S. C. JY. H. DIAL,, Pres. C. //. ROl'llR, Cashier MOSS WHTOEfekV TENANT? Buy A Home With Rent Money! The average renter pays for his place every eight years but the laud lord still owns it. Why Pay Rent? YOU PAY AS RENT 125 Acres wifchin one mile of public square, well improved. Will cut into 10, 15 or 20 acre lots. Easy term. 46 Veres, more or lesB, adjoining lands of C. D. Moseley, Mrs. Cain and others, one and three-fourth miles South of I.aureus C. H., with good tenant house and in high state of cultivation for $45.00 per acre. One 6-room house and lot fronting on Mack St., containing three fourths of acre, more or less, for $800.00. On easy terms. One acre lot with one 2-room houac and one 5-room house front ing Jennings St. Price $700.00. One 4-room house on lot 100 x 150 near Watts Mill for $1,100.00. 553 Acres, known as the Tom Smith Farm, between the waters of Reedy River and Suluda, well improved. Will sell as a whole or cut up to suit purchaser. Terms reasonable -apply for prices. 127 Acres of land on Greenwood county side of Saludn River, adjoining land of Helton Day and others. Price reasonable and'terms easy. ;rAi~ 178 Acres near Mt. Olive Clinch. Cheap and on easy terms. One-half interest in one uf the finest, lime quarries in the South. Four miles of Ware Shoals. Cheap on easy terms. At $120.00 per year in 10 years. $1,581.68 At $120.00 per year in 25 years. . $6,583.72 At $240.00 per year in 10 years. $3,163.36 At $240.00 per year in 25 years. 13,167.43 We will cut nny of the following into such size tracts as you desire. Wc buy at wholesale and retail land out to suit the small buyer : Splendid farm and ginnery at IOkom, containing K>0 acres, and good dwelling, outhouses, otc, 2*0-horse engine and 10-horse boiler, two 00 saw gin, all in good shape on easy terms or all cash. About 100 Acros noar Walts Mill, known as the. Hadgctt Land. 240 Acres located near Reedy River Powor Company, on Reedy River, and known as tho Dorroh Place. Price, $12.50 to $20.00 por acre, depending on numbor of acres and location. 23 acres at Anil's cross roads, choap for quick sale. 10 acres near Watts Mills, al! improved, for $1.500.' half cash. 105 acres, a part of J. N. Clardy tract, $8.00 por acre. Ootthe bar gain now. O.'l acres noar Ora, 8. C. with good dwelling house and all necossary outbuildings, good orchard, good level land, churdh and sohool conve nient. Terms and price reasonable. 11 acros near Watts Mill well-improved. See us for price and terms. Several houses and lots near "Watts Mill. We also have for sale about Twenty-two Acres of land within the corporate limits of the City of Laurons, known as Grays HIH, whioh we will sell in small building lots, at reasonable prices, A good many of these lots have cottages on them. Remember that we cut off any number of acres de sired by purchaser and give auy reasonable time in which to pay. We want to make it possible for every white farmer in Laurens County to own his home. Laurens Trust Company R. A. Coopkr, President. C. W. Tune, Sec. & Treas. Anderson ft Hlnkeley, Managers Real- Estate Sales.