Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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stfo> We wish to thank our patrons for their business last year, and for the confidence they placed in us. We have tried to deserve the CONFIDENCE of the community by using in our preparations and prescrip tions only the purest, freshest drugs. We verify every prescription we fill and make no mistakes. And WE NEVER SUBSTITUTE. COME TO OUR DRUG STORE. PALMETTO DRUG CO. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA FOR SALE! Nice tract of 9 acres with a new 6-room cot tage and bam at Cold Point known as the Dr. Jones Place. Good'Farm of 142 acres near Barksdale Sta tion with dwelling, i wo tenant houses and out buildings, known as James Todd Place. A bar gain at $18.00 per acre. Good 6-room house and lot in city of Laurens near square. House in good repair. A bargain at $2,250.00. 30 acre, fine Farm, all in cultivation, one mile of Princeton fronting Dr. Gilkerson's place, at $40.00 per acre. 100 acres, fine farm, known as Polly Franks' place, four miles above Laurens. 1G7 acres in Spartanburg county, near Mus grove Mill. See us at once for prices. 113 acres of land known as Monroe land, join ing lands of T. J. Mahon. See us for prices. 47 acres near Tumbling Shoals, and Prospect church, known as Watkin's Place. See us at once. j Home Trust Company N. B. DIAL, C H. ROPER. President. Sec. it Treaa. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA YOUR FALL AND WINTER Cleaning and Dyeing SHOULD BE DONE NOW. ii We are better equipped to render you prompt and efficient service than tver before J Footer's Dye Works umberland, Md. \\ Always Safest and Best NO WIND OR WEATHER can harm the complexion, treat ed with our soaps, creams hnd face powders. For they ^ive health, vigor and daintiness \to the skin, removing all dirt.,Jail effects of sun, wind or rain. To use them is to assure the perfor mance of every woman's duty, which is to look and to stay beautiful. Dodson-Edwards Drug Co. Agents for Norris' Candies. HUMAN CHILDREN WITH FATHER DURING THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Highly Colored Description of Trans fer of Children Sent out from Edge* Held and Later Denied by Brother of D. IL Tillman, Jr. Colombia, Dec. 2G.?Under tbe ngreo ment between 13. H. Tillnian, Jr., and his divorced wife. Mrs. Lucy Dugas. the two little children of this couple went today to spend ft week with the? father at Trenton. About, this matter the local afternoon newspaper car ried the following this afternoon as o special from Edgcflcld: "Crying piteonsly and calling for their mother, at the same time resist ing vigorously, the Tillnian children. Douschka and Sarah !Jtavk, who. by order of the Supreme Court, shall spend a week at Christmas time Witt their father, B. R. Tillman, Jr., of Trenton, were given to their father this morning. "Mrs. Lucy Frances Dugas, mother of the children, did not give the chil dren to her divorced husband. She re mained at her home, Edgewood, near Edgcflcld, and sent the children to a drug store in the town accompanied Ly a nurse and friend. B. R. TJJJman, Jr., accompanied by his brother and attorney, H. C. Tillnian. of Greenwood, came to Edgefleld in a buggy and got nis children. "Sarah Stark Tillman. the young l est girl, cried loudly and resisted be ing transferred from one buggy to another. The oldest girl was more composed and did not offer any re sistance, though she cried. "Immediately after securing his Children Tillman and his brother drove in the direction of Trenton. The chil dren continued crying as they were carried out of the town. "A 'arge crowd witnessed the trans fer of the children. It was a new thing to historic Edgefleld and interest was intense. "By order of the Supreme Court Tillman can keep the children a week during the Christmas holidays and at certain other tim^s. When the attor neys representing both sides conferred h"re several weeks ago In regard to ! fixing the order of the Court, Mrs. Du gas asked that she he allowed to have the children for Christmas Day. Till- ; man's attorneys refused the request. ( Being unable to agree on this and sev eral other points, the attorneys ap- < peared, informally, before the Supreme Court, and that tribunal directed that the mother should have the children for Christmas Day, but that they should be given the father the day after Christmas. "Mrs. Dugas planned to make her children's last day at her home a hap py one and she did it. A great Christ mas tree was given them yesterday, and it was loaded down with pres ents from many friends. "There were no presents from B. R. Tillman. Jr. The tree was set in the old parlor at Edgewood, the historic home of Governor Francis Bickens. Dozens of candles lighted up the tree and the large parlor and the scene was beautiful. The old parlor at Edge wood has not been the scene of such merriment since the days of the fif ties, when the belles and beaux of that time danced at the great balls the Plckenses used to give. Several small friends of the two Tlllrnan girls were Invited to share the pleasure and all of th*> children made things merry. "Old Hanta Claus did not forget the Tlllrnan children and he made their* hearts happy by bringing them many dolls and toys." Under the agreement between the parents, Mr. Tlllrnan will have the children for a week at this season, when they will be returned to the care and custody of their mother, Mrs. Lucy Dugas. Says Children are Happy. To the Editor of The State: I hare seen the story published in Thursday's Record and Friday's News and Courier with reference to the Tillman children. I havo made it my rule to practice law in tho courts and not In the newspapers, and it is my habit to ignore newspaper articles which reflect on me or my family. But this story in so full of error and false hood that I can not allow It to go un corrected. Tho Tillman family has too many friends In South Carolina and our affections for these little chil dren is such that it would he unfair to allow them to be used as an Instru ment with which to put us in a false light. From the beginning tho desire of the Tlllmans has been to avoid as far as possible allpubilcity or notoriety in this matter. Tho young lives of these children have already been crossed by too many shadows for them now to be made tho target of misrepresenta tion or slander. When Mr. DePass, representing Mrs. Dugas. and I. rep resenting my brother, had our confer ence in Columbia about ten days ago, ho expressed the fear that the children would refuse to go to Trenton and Would create a scene. In view of the sworn statement of Mrs. Dugas that she had not taught the children to hale their father or his people, I thought the fears of Mr. DePass un founded and told him so. Shortly af terwards I received a letter from De Pass & DePass stating that the chil dren would he sent to Penn's drug store in Edgefleld at 10:30 on the morning of December 20. 1 then sus pected that it was the intention to give the anticipated "scene" as public a setting as possible and have it writ ten up in graphic style for the pur pose of creating sentiment against the decision of the court in allowing the children to spend a part of the time with their father in Senator Tin man's home at Trenton. For the sake of these innocent little children, who can not protect them ecIvcs from the designs of other peo ple, I wrote at once to DePass & De Pass protesting against the choice of such a public place and asking for the sake of peace and decency that the children be sent to some other place and also that they designate any private residence in Edgefleld, or If preferable we would send a mutual friend out to Edge wood to get the children in a quiet, decent way. If 1 had my files at Greenwood I would like to publish this letter, be cause it would show our attitude In the matter better than anything that can now be said. To this letter I have had no reply from DePass & DePass or any one else. Consequently my brother and I went yesterday morning to the ap pointed place?Penn's drug store on the square at Edgefleld. The children were brought there and we received them from the i.egro nurse who ac companied them. Neither child made any resistance and the older child did not cry at all. The younger one crle I for her nurse to accompany her to Trenton (as was natural). At no time did either one of the children cry for their mother, but the younger one was crying for the nurse who was with her at the time. Before we bad driven 200 yards she had stopped crying and we drove on to Trenton. There were several people In and around the drug store at the appoint ed time, but I have no way of knowing if they were there to see the transfer 5f the children, ("crti lnly we had told no one to be there, nor had we made public where or when the children were to be delivered to us. My brother naturally sent no pres ents to the house of his former wife He had been told by her that he can not go there even to see his children when they are sick and whether or not he shall have the privilege is now before the supreme court. His Christ mas gifts and manner of giving are private masters with which the public has no concern, but It will not. be amiss to add that the children are now at hH home In Trenton, and that he and his family are enjoying .their presence. It has been a long tlmo since I have seen three happier chil dren than these little girls and my ov/n little child. It would be hard for a stranger to believe, that It has been three years since they were together at their grandfather's. The public knows ere this that we have been as patient es possible tn this matter and out of feeling for these little innocent girls we hnve allowed to go unanswered many of the false hoods which have been published In this case. But fair-minded people must be disgusted with this latest at tempt to stage so sacred a thing as a child's love for its parents to create a maudlin sympathy when It can not accomplish anything save the further exploiting of these little children. The supreme court has decided this lease and has exercised much wisdom > Its decision. It Is the intention of my brother to live up to the letter and spirit of that decree, hut I can not allow any one to put him In nn nbso-J lutcly false light without entering a vigorous denial, and It might as well be understood once nnd for all that none of us Intend to allow these little girls to be lied on or made tho pawn* in an unfair attempt to make the peo ple believe that they would naturally hate Iheii paternal relations. We re sent and will resent any attempt to create false sentiment at tho expense of the present and future wolfare of these two little girls. H. C. Tlllman. Trenton, Dec. 27. A Hero In a Lighthouse. For years J. S. Donahue, So. Haven, Mich., a civil war captnln, as a light house keeper, averted awful wrecks, but a queei fact Is, he might have been a wreck, himself, If Electric Bitters had not prevented. "They cured me of kldne> trouble and chills," he writes "after I had lakm other so called cures for yearai without benefit and they also ImproWd my sight. Now. at seventy, t am feeling fine." For dys pepsia, Indlgeayon, all stomach, liver and kidney troubles, they're without equal. Try thorn. Only HO cents at Lau rens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. D?N6ER FROM GRIPPE Xies in That Cough and Weak, Worn-out Condition. Grippe, pleurisy, pneumonia, these are greatly to be feared at this time of the year. To prevent grippe from being fol lowed by either pleurisy or pneumo nia, it is important to drive the last traces of it out of tho system quickly. Our advice is to take Vinol, our delicious cod liver and iron prepara tion without oil, and get your strength and vitality back quickly. Mrs. A. A. Grabill, of Strasburg, Va. says: "Grippe left me weak, run down and with a severe cough, from which I suffered four years. I tried different remedies., but nothing seemed to do me any good uoMT I took Vinol, from which I \recerved great benefit. My cough is aimrist entirely gone, and I am strong and well again, and I am glad tc recommend vinol to others who suffer as I did." Try Vinol with tho certainty that if It does not benefit rou we will girt, oaek; your money. LAUBENS DBUG CO. ? Laureu?, S. C. TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS! We lhank you for your business this year and hope you will give us a liberal share of your trade next year. We shall ever en deavor to treat you right and sell you good Goods at a liv ing price. Wishing you one and all a Happy New Year. Your friends, AND THE BOYS Laurens, S. C, STARVATION luo not to lrtck of food but lack of digos don. RmufihtttVn tho ro?ult of laok ot nourishment duo to the non-assimilation jf lood- in other words Dyspepsia. Tho 8R0VER yRAHAM DYSPEPSIA REMEDY 1? a Specific for nil disorders arising from an impair od iHgemilve Hytem. Itgivoa luttunianrunm rrlifif and positively eurem. " I am 36 years old/ Fur eighteen years I suf fered from Dyspepsia, and experienced all the lisirc-ssintf Hjmpioms associated with that terrible Incase. 1 consulted a number of physician* and was treated for eight months by an eminent for >ign specialist. .Temporary relict was all I re eived. My pastor insisted on my trying your Jyspepsla Remedy. That was ten months ago. ' have not had any trouble with my stomach 10 .he past seven months. Am now perfectly wall ind know that my recovery was directly due to he u..e of your truly valuable Remedy." Mrs. A. M. Upright, Syracuse, N. Y. Vrial .-i/o, 25o.; larger sizes, BOo. and $1. GHOVCft an aham co./inc.) newburoh, n.y. LAURENS DRUG CO. Lnurcns. S. C. Jno. W. FerfpMon C. C. Featheretone W. B. Knight PEKOUSON, PBATHBR8TONB & KNlflttT Attorneys at Law Laurett?, S. C, Prompt and carafwl attention given toall boateoM. Office Over Palmetto Bank. OVER 66 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trade Mark? DeaiON? Copyright? Ac. Anyone sending a sketch and description may qufokly asoartaln our opinion free whether an Invention M probably nalenlnhla. Communlrrt mtlon I* prnbal)ly nalenlnhla. Co sslrlotlyr-oiindniilf.il. HANDUMK O sent fiee. Oldest aaenny for sncuring pa itente taken through Muiiii ft Co. ?Inns 1 Patent? taken through Muiin ft Co. reoelve $f4tUU notkf, without ohnrge, iu the Scientific American. a handsomely tllnstrated weekly, fr?rest clr rotation or any cnlenllUo Journal. Terms, ?3 a rear 1 io?r months, sl. Sold by all newsdealers. year i fovr mont Braach Ottos Simpson, Cooper & Babb, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all State Courts prompt attention given to all business. NOTICE OF THE County Treasurer Tho Books of the County Treasurer will be opened for the collection of State County and Commutation Road Taxes for fiscal year. 1912. at the reasurer's Otllce from October 15th. to December 31st. 1012. After Decem ber Slot, one per out will be added. After January ..1st, two per ceut. w 11 be added, and alter February 28th., seven per cent, will be added till tho 15th day of March, 1913, when the books will be closed. All persons owning property in more than one Township are requested to call for receipts In each of the several Townships In which the property la located. Tills Is Important, as addition al cost and penalty may be attached. All able-bodied male citizens be tween the ages of 21 and 60 years of age are liable to pay a poll tax" of $1.00 except old soldiers, who are exempt at 50 years of age. Commutation Road Tax $1.50 in lieu of road duty. The Tax levy is as follows: For State purposes.5% mills For Constitutional School Tax 3 mtlls For Ordinary County purposes 3 mills For Interest on Railroad Bonds 1 mill For Road and Bridge Bonds 3 mills For Court House Bonds .- ..2 mills Total.17% mills Special Schools?Laurens Township. Laurens No. 11.7 ?Iiis Trinity Ridge No. 1.4 mills Maddens No. 2.2 mills Narnle No. 3.5 mills Baileys No. 4 .. .:.2 mills Mills No. 5.2 mills Oak Grove No. 6.2 mills Ora No. 12.4 mills Special Schools?Youngs Township. Youngs No. 3.2 mills Youngs No. 2.4 mills Youngs No. 4.4 mills Youngs No. 5.3 mills Fountain Inn No. 3B.15 mills Lanford No. 10.6M? mills Ora No. 12.4 mills Youngs No. 1.3 mills Central No. 6.2 mills Special Schools?Dials Township. Green Pond No. 1.4 mills Dials No. 2.3 mills Shlloh No. 3.4 mills Gray Court-Owlngs No. 5 .. ..4 mills Barksdale No. 6.2 mills Dials Church No. 7.2 mills Fountain Inn No. 3B.15 mills Merna No. 8.2 mills Special Schools?Sullivan Township. Mt. Betnel No. 2 ..3 mills Princeton No. 1 ..3 mills Poplar Springs No. 3.4 mills Rabun No. 4.4 mills Hendersonvllle No. 5.4 mills Friendship No. 6.2% mills Brewerton No. 7.3 mills Sullivan Township R. R. Bonds 4 mills Merna No. 8.2 mills Special Schools?Waterloo Township. Waterloo No. 14.4 mills Mt Gallagher No. 1.3 mills Bethlehem No. 2.2 mills Ekom No. 3.4 mills Centerpoint No. 4.2 mills Oak vllle No. 5.3 mills Mt. Pleasant No. 6.2 mills Mt. Olive No. 7.2 mills Reedy Grove No. 8 .. r.2 mills Special Schools ?Cross Hill Township Cross Hill No. 13.6 mills Cross Hill No. 1.2 mills Cross Hill No. 2.2 mills Cross Hill No. 4.2 mills Cross Hill No. 5.2 mills Cross Hill No. 6.2 mills Special Schools?Hunter Township. Mountvlllc No. 16.4V4 mills Hunter No. 2.2 mllle Hunter No. 3.2 mills Clinton No. 5.6 mills Hunter No. 8.3 mills Wadsworth No. 4.2 mills Special Schools?Jacks Township. Odells No. 6.3 mills Hurricane No. 15.3 mills Shady Grove No. 2.3 mills Special Schools?Scuffietown Township Langston Church No. 3.3 mills Scuffietown No. 1.2 mills Lanford No. 10.6V6 mills Ora No. 12.4 mills Prompt attention will be given those who wish to pay their Taxes through the mail by check, money order, etc. Persons Bending in lists of names to be taken off are requested to send them early; and give the Township of each, as the Treasurer is vory busy during the month of December. ROSS D. YOUNG, . County Treasurer. October 2, 1912.?td. FINAL SETTLEMENT. Take notice that on the 27th day of December, wo will render a final account of our acts and doings as Administrators of the estate of R. J. Adalr, deceased, In the otllce of the Judge of, Probate of Laurens county at 11 o'clock, a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from (/iir trust as Administrators. AnV person Indebted to said estate ar.' notified and required to make pay ment v?n that date; and all persons haying claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. > Mrs. Minnie C. Adnlr, Rhett P. Adalr, Administrators. FINAL SETTLEMENT. Take notice that on the 20th day of January, 1013. I will render a final ac count of my acts and doings as Ad ministratrix of the estate of J. O. Ph'lllpa, deceased, In the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens county at 11 o'clock, a. m., and on the same day will iapply for a final discharge from myjtrur.1 as Administratrix. Any \pA-aon Indebted to said estate arc i'oHfl4d and required to make pay mem, on/that date; nnd nil persons havlualegilittfl agalnPt said estate will present Ihom on or before snld date, duly pA/vnn, or be forever barred. Mrs. Annie Boyd Phillips, Administratrix.