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No. 10652,
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
'Office of Comptroller of the Currency.
Washington, D. C., Oct 27, 1914.
WHEREAS, by satisfactory evidence
presented to the undersigned it has
been -made to appear that "THE LAU
RIENS NATrIONAL BANK" in the CITY You cannot afford to trust valuable Car
of LAURENS, in the county of LAU
RENS, and State of SOUTH CARO- pets and Rugs for leaningto methpds that
LINA, haa -complied- with all the pro
visions of the Statutes of the United are incorrect and uTafe. Our methods are
States, required to be complied with
before an association shall be author- safest an
Ized to commence the business of
banking; revival o , them
NOW. THEREFORE, I, JOHN SKEL- new and damage the
TON WILLIAMS. Comptroller of the
- "'11HE LAURENS NATIONAL BANK"
in the CITY of LAURENS, in tl)e coun- w possible
ty of LAUTENS and State of SOUTH
CAROLINA, is autho~re to com
OA0 ~~tris~dtoa po schemes.
mence the business of og as pro
vided in Section Fif no hundred
and sixty-nine of the lsed Statutes Foo
of the United States.
CONVERSION of The Bank of Lau
I'N TICSTIMONY WHECREOF witness Awy aetadBs
my hand and Seal of offlde
(Seal) this 27th day of OCTOBER,- CubradM.
Comptollerofsth Currncugs --for leaning - met dstha
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BATTLE BULWARK
IS BLOWN UP
Another of Large English Fightiug Ma.
chines Goes Unier the Waves. In.
ternal Explosion.
London' NoV. 27.-It was officially
announced here that the British bat
tieship Bulwark ad been blown up
off Sheerness. Only twelve men out
of the 700 or 800 on board the Bul
wark were saved.
According to the admiralty, the ex
plosion which resulted in the destruc
tion of the Bulwark, is believed to
have originated in her own magazine.
The -announcement of the disaster to
the Buywark was made by Winston
.Spencer Churchill, first lord of the ad
niralty, shortly before 4 o'clock
Thursday afternoon.
The explosion which destroyed the
Bulwark occurred at 7:56 a. m. A vice
admiral and a real admiral who were
at Sheerness reported that they were
convinIced tlt the disaster was caus
ed by a 'magazine explosion. There
was no upheaval of the water. When
the smoke had cleared the ship. had
entirely disappeared.
An inquiry will be held today and
the admiralty believes that it may
:hrow some light on tWe occurrence.
Mr. Churchill, speaking in the
house of comnons eoncerning the dis
aster, saild:
"The loss of the ship does not
sensibly affect our military position,
.ut I regret the loss of life, which was
very heavy. Only twelve men .were
iaved. All Yhe officers and the rest
of the crew, which, I suppose, amount
ed to 700 or 800 perished."
The force of the explosion aboard
the boat was so great that houses In
Sheerness and even in Southend, sov
en' miles away, and on the other side
of the Medway, were violently shaken.
The people fled into the streets in
alarm. When the great ship blew up
dense clouds of smoke and flame shot
into the air. The vessel disapperaed
beneath the waves in three minutes.
So terribly was the Bulwark rent that
It was impossible to render her any
assisrance. Immediately after the ex
plosion the vessel was blotted out by
smoke, and as the veil slowly lifted a
handful of men were seen strugg ig
In the water. Small craft rushed to
their aid and picked them up Someu
of the crew were badly mutilated. A
touch of the dramatic was added to
the catastrophe by the fact that the
band of the Bulwark was playing when
the explosion came.
The disaster occurred while the Bul
wark was lying at anchor off the naval
port of Sheerness, neath the mouth r-f
the Thames, but the officers of the
port scout the public impression that
the vessel was the victim of a German
submarine. This seems to be support
ed by the absence of an upheavel in
the water, as the first lord of the ad
miralty explained.
Although only fifteen years old and
no longer ol the first fighting line,
the Bulwark still was a usef;,l unit.
The loss of the ship, howeve'r, was
nothing comp~ared wIth the fieavy loss
In trained oficers and men with whose
relatives Mr. Chiurchill expressed in
the house of commons his deep) symp)a
thy and sorrow. The Bulwark, in her
early career, was quIte a favored ship.
F'or a long tIme she was the fiag3hip
of Admiral Charles Beresford in the
Mediterranean.
The British battleship Bulwark, 1.3
000 tons displacement, was laIid do-i
in 1899 and completed in 1902. Sh~e
was -i11 feet long, 75 feet wide and
dIrew 19 feet of water. 11er armfamlernt
consIsted of four 12-inch, twelve 6-inch
gnums, sixteen 12-pounders, sIx 3-pound
er's and four submerged torpedo tubes.
She had a complement of 750 men.
Sheerness Is on the Thames, at the
mouth of the estuary of the Medway.
It is 35 mIles down the river from
fAnmdon.
The loss of the Hulwark, accordling
to a Central News dispatch received
todhay from Chatham, was due to
an accidental explosfon while ammu
nition was being loaded on the war
ship.
SOFTI FL~UFFlY HAIR IS
FIRST A ID TO BE AUTY
,If your hair is not fluffy, soft and
lustrous, is falling out, streaked, fad
ed, brittle, or full of dan tuff, and if
the scalp itches, do not Ink it must
always be that way, for retty hair is
only a matter of care nd the use of
the proper halr dros ng. Your hair
is like a plant-Vif eglected it soon
dlies, whmile wit tlittle attention it
keeps fresh and eautiful.
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ration that supplies just the elements
needed to invigorate the hair roots and
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andl falling, hair, It is the ideal hair
tonic and scalp treatment--contalns
nothing injurious and is delicately per
fumed.
Tle Laurens Drug Co. or any drug
gist{( can supply you with Parisian
Sage--it is inexpensive. You cannot
he disappointed with this delightful
and helpful toilet necessity, for it will
surely givo your hair the beauty and
charm ot youth,
Gas.
Who first used the word "gas" and
why? Merely because of the supposed
resemblance of the product of burn
ing carbon to the "chaos" of the
Greeks. "This spirit, hitherto un
known," wrote the experimenter Van
Helmont in 1648, "1 call by the new
name gas, and I call it so because,
being untamable, it is scarcely distin
guisbable from the chaos of the an
cients." A glimpse at modern gas do
vces will show how far removed
from untamability is the gas of today.
Pleasures of the Table.
"Then I commended mirth, because
a man bath no better thing under the
sun than to eat, and to drink, and to
be merry."-Ecclesiastes, 8: 15. "And
I will say to my soul, 'Soul, thou hast
much goods laid up for many ybars;
take thine ease, eat, drink and be
merry."-Luke 12:19. "What advan
tageth it me if the dead rise not? Let
us eat and drink, for tomorrow we
die."-I. Corinthians 15:32. "Let us
eat and drink, for- tomorrow we shall
die."-Isaiah, 22:13.
When You Sneeze.
The custom of saying "God bless
you" to a person when he sneezes
originated among tho ancients, who,
fearing danger from it, after sneezing
made a short prayer to the gods, as
"Juiter, help me." The custom is
mentioned by Homer, the Jewish rab
bis and others. Polydore Vergil says
it took its rise at the time of the
plague in 558, %.hen the infected fell
dead, sneezing, though apparently in
good health.
Wagon With Sails.
In 1622 one of the wonders to be
seen at The Hague was a wagon or a
ship or a combination of both. A
traveler of that time wrote: "This
engine hath wheels and sails, will
hold above twenty people and goes
with the wind, being drawn or moved
by nothing else, and will run, the
wind being good, above fifteen miles
an hour upon the even hard sands."
Couldn't Fool Him.
The farmer had bought a pair of
shoes in the city shop. "Now, can't
I sell you a pair of shoe trees!" sug
gested the clerk. "Don't 'git fresh
with me, sonny!" replied the farmer,
bristling up; "I don't believe shoes
kin be raised on trees any mor'n I be
lieve rubbers grow on rubber trees or
oysters on oyster plants, b'gosh!"
Right Sort of Schoolmarm.
"Too much sympathy is mi'placed,"
says the Atchison Globe. 'An Atchi
son man lately expressed concern be
cause a young lady school teacher had
as many as forty little pupils in her
room to disciplino and worry over.
'Why, I wouldn't part with a single
one, was her indignant answer, and
her eyes were actually tearful."
British Fish Harvest.
Sixty-two varieties of fish, including
great white flat fish, red shell fish,
tiny freshwater crayfish, silvery sal
mon, dark skinned eels, and yellow
dried haddocks were ranged in the
aisle of the Church of St. Magnus the
Martyr, Billingsgate, E. C., the other
Sunday, at the harvest thanksgiving
serviCe.
Had His Number.
The newly accepted young man was
"making up" to his sweetheart's im
pish small brother. Willie, evinicing a
desire to inspect his watch charm, the
visitor lifted Willie to his lap. In a
pause of general conversation \Villio
piped, shriliy: "Am I as heavy - as
sister Mabel?"
What She Meant.
"My second husband is no more like
my first one was than day is like
night." "But remember that you
should never speak ill of the dead."
"Oh, I had no intention of doing that.
On the contrary."-Houson Post.
Oratorio Popular in Germany.
Oratorio, ever since the (lays of
Handel, has enjoyed extensivo culti
vation in Germany. E0very city of im
portance has its oratorio society, and
many of these choirs have become
justly celebrated,
British ColumbIa's Timber.
With the exception of Siberia, Bra
zil a:4 the northwestern United
States, British Columbia's timber
weal~Ji is reported to be unparalleled
in any other country.
As a Rule,
Willle-"Paw, what does argument
pro and con moan?" Paw--"Trhe pro
is your convincing statement, and the
con is what the other fellow uses, my
son."
Truth and LIfe.
Where the seeking of truth begins,
always the life commences, tee; so
aeon as the seeking of truth is aban
doned life ceases.-John Rtuskin,
Her Good Wishes.
A woman prisoner's greeting to an
English mag,istrato: "Good luck to
you, old sport! May you never want
for a shilling or a shirti"
Daily Thought.
Every man's life is a fairy tale writ
ten by God's flngers.-Iians Christian
Andarann.
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Offiee over Palmetto Bank
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BA NK OF L AURENS BL1DO.
In offiee (fcently occupied by John-M.
Cannon, deceased.
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