Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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800a0068 88 18 Local and Personal Mention. 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Mr. Marion Wilkes spent Sunday here with homnefolks. Magistrate G. P. Woods, of Fountain inn, was a visitor in the city Monday. 3Nr. C. H. Pettus, of Greenville, was in the city Monday on business. Mr. S. D. Mahaffey, of the Eden sec tion, was -in the city Saturday. Mrs. D.K. Iuniphries spent Suiday In Spartanburg visiting relatives. Rev. Lu6ius Compton, of Ashville, N. C., was -a visitor in the city Monday. Mr. M. T. S4impson of Cross 11111 spent Monday in Laurens on business. Mr. W. J. Fleming of Ora was here on business yesterday. Hon. J. W. MeCown, of Florence, spent the week-end in the city as the guest of Solicitor R. A. Cooper. Mr. J. I. Wasson, of Cross Hill, was in the city Thursday looking after business affairs. "Uncle Jack" Glenn, who is now making his home in Clinton, was a visi tor in the clIty yesterday. Mrs. L. 0. Balle has returned home nfter a visit of several weeks in Phila delphia. Mr. J. B. Odell of Ware Shoals w among the business visitors in tile city last Monday. Mr. W. ID. Boyd from near Mount v!lle, was aiong the visitors here Mon day. Ir. J.1. H. Lynch, Sr., from Clinton Route One was a visitor here last Monday. Mr. G. W.'Shell will leave today for Gainc.,ville. Fla.. to accept a position with the Interstate Life Insurance Co., Mrs. Jack Young and daughter visit ed Mrs. Mary Copeland for awlilie last week. ' MNr. F. So. Dullre, of Columbia, spent Monday and Tuesday in the city as the guest of Mir. and Mrs. Carlos It. Moseley. ( Mir. Alfred ). L. Bc .sdale, general manager of the Southeastern Life lin a!nce Co., of Greenville, SpiLt yes terlay in the city. -Mr. T. L. F. Sunerel who has been a subscriber to - The Advertiser since the first issue, caime in Saturday an(] dropped another doliar in the till. Mrs. Clara A. Dick, National Coun ciloi of the Daughters of America, speit several days last week in the city as the guest of Mrs. Dan Doughty. * Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Todd and Miss Maggie Todd left yesterday morning fir St. Petersburg, Fla., and other southern points where they will Spend the remainder' of the winteri months. Messrs. Tom McDaniel and Henry Shell left Monday for Catawha, S. C., where they hnve neceptel positionis ith a lar'ge engineering fli'm hbuildinag an electric poweir plant at that pioint. Mr. and Mirs. .J. N. Blurgess, 'of Spart'ianbhurg, spent a part of thir m hioneCymioon in tis city last week visit 'ing .\esirs. C. M. aind W. A. Burgess. Whii l( here they were the i'ecipients of' s-everal delightful social affairs. W. Hi. H oldei', of this city,' who has had a piosit ion as receiving clerk in a big pack house ini LeeCsburig, 18a., since Novembei', has1 acceptedl a position wvith the AX. C. L4. Ri. .R1. In Fia., between Mir. W,. G., 111ll who was with Powe IDrug Company her'e for a long time and recently located in Florence, spent Monday hei'e eni'oute to his home ini Owings Station, wheri' he lias acceptedl another position. eRev, Iand Mirs. M. L. Lawson, spient awhile in thoir old hiofe, Camden, last week to be at the bedlside of a very sick frienud. On returning home thley stopped in Columbia to -attend tihe Di ble Conference in session there: D)EATHI OF D. M. STIBLINO. Tied Suddenly in Greenville of an Ov. erdose of Opiate. Body Brought Here for Burial.' Mi'. D. M. Stribling, of t'his city, died s'1ddenly in Greenville Wednesday af ternoon supposomly from an overdose of opiate self-administered. At the time of his deatah lhe was in a boarding h'ouse where ho had gone tihe day he fore complaining of being unell. Hie was discoveredl in an unconscious coui dition Wednesday mor'ning when ho wasU called to catch a ti'ain. The couun ty physician was called to give him attention, blut nothing could be done to saxe his life. Ho was birought here Friday andl the body interred in the local eemete y with religious services. Mr. Sti'ibling was at one time a de liuty sheriff and hiad many fiends in the county. It ia thought that lie took the opiate during a fit of melancholia causedl by worry over ill health and fhannal i Aulties, CALLED TO TEXAS. Rev. W. R. Minter Has Accepted Pas. torate In Austin, Texas. 'Rev. W. R. Minter. D. D., who isweil known in Laurens has been called to the Pastorate of the irst Presbyterian church of Austin, Texas, and has ac. cepted. Dr. Minter, hits been pastor of the Presbyterian church in Lincoln ton, N. C., and being well known here it is needless to say that he is very popular with his congregation. lie !s a brother of Mrs. N. B. Dial and Mr. V,. P. Minter of this city and of Mr. J. 1. Alinter of Sedalia. Besides these he has many other relatives and many friends in Laurens who are interested in his success, 1le will leave for his new home about the first of March. Clinton Pulile Building. - Mr. Mattox, a representative of the fcderal government, was in Clinton Monday examining prospective. sites for the location of the new post-oflice which Is expected to be erected therc early in the future. A .mass meeting of citizens was held Alonday night to go over the site suestion with limln in order to gauge. the sentiment of the town as to the is;t desirable location. Althouyh no definite decision was ar, rived at, a primary was held on the (luestion as to which side of the rail roads would be most popular. This resulted in a vote of 59 to 10 In favor of the north side, so The Advertiser was informed yesterday. Mr. Mattox gave no definite information as to the progress being made in the fight for the Clinton bullding, but the citizens Caere took his presence as a favorable indication that something wotild be done very soon. Moved to Gray Building. The Dixie Flour and Grain Company, wholesale yrocers, have moved into 0the store-room heretofoer occupied by R. C. Gray & Company. Mr. Gray has moved his store two dooes above his old stand. DENOUNCES HEIl OF OIL KINGID031 Miner Scores Yoing .ohn D. Rocke. felger. Also Assails Board. New York, Jan. 29.-John 11. Law .On, executive board member for Colorado of the ulnited line Work ors of America, testifying today he fore tle i(lndustrial relat ion1sqomi :kI 'ion, attacked the testiiioniy of .Johnl ). Ilockefellor, .r., and tile methods and iIrposes of the Rlockefeller foua Aan. Mi:. iLawson told of the shoot lng of striking minlers in Colorado and the shattering of miners' homes a:i.I of how hundreds were tirnied out into the desert in 1903 without food or Water, while others were riven over tho snow Covered m1otistails. lie vigoroisly arraigned Mr. Rocke fe!!er for his confessed lack of knowl edge of conditions among the workers or the Colorado Fuel and Iron com 1iany. The philan th ropy of Mr. Itocke fel. ier, Mr. ILwson referre to, as t(oi lows: "'I ealth for China, a refuge for' birds, food for tile Belgians, pen sions for' New Yor'k widows, univer'sity tininog for tihe elect -and1 never ai t houight or' a (dollar~ for' thlousana'g oi meno, w~omien and clhilren who sta:Ired in Color'ao, for I le wlidows robbhed of huishands(1, cihlldren of thelir faithier Thl'er'e are thousands of Mr. Rocke fchler's eniployes in Colorado who wish to God1 they wecre in Belgium to hec fed, or a bird to be tend~erly enared for." Iteviewing that part of Xir'. Rocke feller's testimony in whlich he said le hiad received1 only $371,000 in divi dends in all on his stock in the Cobo rado1 conipany, Mr. Lawvson sald: "It was only und~er questioning that lie canfesse that his father had r'e ceivedl $8,889,000 from .his bonds, and that the assets of the company were~ $23,000,000 in excess of liabilities and that this item did 'not take in priopi erty values of some $19,000,000. Nor~ did lie mention the vast holdings that the company refuses to eveloji." Mr. Lawvson then discussed Mr'. Rockefeller's views on unions. "In, theory at least," Mr. Lawsona said, "~Mr. /Rlockefeller' agrees to the principal of unionism. All that r'e miains8 is~to give this theory lpurpose and effect. The United Mine Work eras is the one organization that rep.. resents' labor in this great indlilstry. I insist th~at Mr. Rockefeller ce:n not give effect to this new point of view except with, cooperation of the UnIted Mine Workers. Our ogn Areat dlesire is for hasting industral''peac.. We rejoice that after all thiese years Mr. Rockefeller is at last disposed to con-. sideri and confer witivthe worker-i his coampany oficials have dhespised, ig niored andi endeavored to crush." New 'anmdidant6' Attention is c'ailed to the announce ment of Mr. V. hi. Adams for A lder'mani, which came in too late to be placed withi the other cards. It will be found on nien fnnur. GEN. MARION'S LEAP FOR LIFE Tradition Declares That the Famous "Swamp Rat's" Horse Cleared Fence Elqht Feet High. General Marion w'as a native of South Carolina, and the theater of his military exploits was the coast region of that state. The strength of his constitution and his long familiar ity with the trying climate of that low lying country enabled him' to endure hardships that few men could have resisted. General Marion was slender and not very tall, and ho rodo when in Aerv ice an extremely swift-footed and pow erful horse. When in fair pursuit, nothing could escape, and when in flight, nothing could overtake him. Once he was almost surrounded by a party of dragoons, and had to take refuge in a cornfield. The field, which lay soeveral feet lower than the ad joining land, had formerly been part of the, marih. General Marion en tered it at the upper tide; the dra goons who were in chase of him leaped the fence also and were only a short distance behind him. His only possible way of escape was to leap the fence at the lower side. To drain the field of its superfluous water, a trench had been cut around that part of the field four feet wide and four foet deep. The mud and clay removed in 'cutting the ditch made a bank on its inner side, and on the top of the bank was a fence. In all, the top of the fence was near ly eight feet above the level of the field, and the ditch four feet wide, ran parallel with it on the farther side. The dragoons knew the nature of the obstacle, and believed that it was impossible for their enemy to pass it. Accordingly, they pushed for ward with loud shouts of exultation, calling out to him to surre'nder or perish by the sword. Marion, however, spurred his horse to the charge. The noble animal, as if conscious that his master's life was in danger, approached the barrier in his finest style, and with a bonnd that was almost supernatural cleared the fence and ditch completely, and recovered himself without loss of time on the other side. Marion instantly wheeled about, discharged his pis tol at the astonished dragoons, and then, turning his horse and bidding them . good morning, departed. Youth'9 Companion. Leprosy In North America. In adopting a resolution favoring a bill before congress for the establish inent of a national leper colony in the United States, the rather startling statement was mado that the number of lepers in this country was es timated at between 300 and 500. There must havo been a great in crease of theso cases within the last quarter of a century if these figures are correct., and it is high time that soie p)ovisionl for segregating ' tho lepers in a placo whero .they can re ceive humano treatment was made. The lepers in the colony at Malo kal, lHawali, aro comparatively happy in spite of their afliction. They have companionship, sanitary quarters, the most scientifle treatment, and overy thing possible is dlono to make their lot endurable. It is almost impossible to imagine what a leper in this coun try, conined alone in a shack and treated much as the lepers wecre in Biblical times, must suffer. it 'would be more humane to put him out of his nib ery at once. There a're only about 20 lepers in Engiand, and1( yet a leper colony is to 1)0 establIshed there in a dlesertedl part of the county of Essex. The latie Lor~d Strathcona left a beqiuest of $25,000 for .thiis purpose. Surely if there is need of a leper colony in Englan~d, where there are only 20 cases, there is much more need for one in tihe United States, where there are bo tween 300 and 500 eases, isolated but widely scattered.-Argus. Latest Laundry Novelty. A bench eqIuipp~ed with an electrical ly driven washer and wvringer anld having space to accommodate two rinsing tubs amid a clothes basket, is a new invention. The motor is lo cated under-tihe bench and dgives the washer amid wringer shafts through belts. Thie wringor is supported on horizontal slides so that it can be moved from tub to tub. The outlet for draining the tubs is~ threaded so thlat an ordinary garden hose may be attached thereto and the water cen Aucted to a drain, The platform for supporting the clothes basket can be slid out of the way when not in use. The portion of the bench on which the rinse tubs rest may be raised when wringing so that the tubs and wringer are brought into a more con velient alation for this operation. Electrical World. Distinguishell New Engiander. George Edward Ellis, a distin guished New England clergyman and educator, was born in Boston 100 years ago. He was the son of a prom inent Boston nmerchlant and shipown or. After graduating from Harvard college in 1833 lie took a course at the Harvard Divinity schlool. In 1837 he went to Europe and spent a year in travel and study, 110 attended the coronation of Queen Victoria and vis ited tile pope of Rome. Upon his 10 turn to America lie was ordained to the ministry and Installed as a pas. tor of a chlurch in Charlestown, Mass. In 1857 ho accepted the chair of sys tematic theology ini Iarvard college. Doctor Ellis wrote a number of works on history amnd theology andl was a frequent contributor to magazines and periodicals. Hie died ini Boston at thb age of nirth'v yar. BIG COTTON CONVENTION DALLAS, APRIL 28-MAY 1. Every man, concerned in the best interebts of the Southland. owes it to himself to attend tho big Cotton Convention to bo held in Dallas, April 28th to May 1st. This will be a monster rally, at tended by thousands of peopl In all walks of life, and from all parts of the South. . The Convention will doubtless place prominently before the world the won derful work being accomplished by the Southern States Cotton Corpora. tion, in establishing a stable price for cotton, and a dependable market sys tem for the future. The convention will be held at the Fair Park coliseum, and aside from the advantages of a trip to Dallas, the broadening benefits derived by con tact with leading men of the South concerned in cotton, cannot be est* mated. Reduced railroad rates. --EGGSACTLY -- FOR WINTER EGGS t FEED LAY ORE EG GIASH Prepared from Clemson College Formula, plus ulfalfa; sejentiflcal ly proportioned, containing all of the necessary elements for egg formation; ingredients "clean and fresh, thoroughly mixed and blend ed in modern feed npixer. $2.50 per 100 lbs. delivere It'i S. C. 12-quart galvanized waste and clog proof hooper with order for 300 lbs. Manufactured by G. G. PIKE P. 0. Cox 172 COLUMBIA, S. C. Colds and Croup in Children. Many people rely uipon Chamber lain's Cough RIemedy Implicitly in cas es of colds and croup, and it never disappoints them. .lirs. 1. 11. Thomas, Logansport, ind., writes: "I have found Cha In berla in's Cough RIemedy to he the best medicine for colds and croup I have ever used, and never tire of recommending it to my neighbors and friends. I have always given it to my children when suffering from croip, and it has never failed to give them prompt relief." For sale by all druggists. Prol of t our this are that goo4 .usp stor< Barn Our Big Sale'a Next Saturda Isw DINING TABLES The kind that appeals to the particular Shown in all Woods and Popular Finishes I PRICED TO PLEASE. I5 SEE OUR GREAT DISPLAY Plain Oak Tables from ..................... $5.50 up QuarteredOak Tables from ........$13.50 up Mission Oak;Tables from................$19.,50 up Mahogany Oak Tables from......... $24.50 up Sif, Eight and Ten Feet Lengths to select from, 42, 45, 48, 54, 56 and 60-inch Tops. Over 20 Styles and Prices to select from. Call and see them. S. M. & E. H. WILKES & COMPANY Y' 11 COLD IS DAN4r.II 'S. Internal Cranips, Nervous Weakness BlEAK IT 1'11--NOW. and inisery produced by the irregular it les froiti wi h 1(1 otuiet sutffer callt be A Cold is readily catching. A ru1n- likly llecked an I htealt y cond i down systetin is siiscepticle to geris. I'ons restored through the use of IR)l. You owe it to yourself and to others SI.MMON'S SQUAW VINI WlNICE. It of your. biu selold to Light tlie germts is , remerly for women otnly. It is a at ontee. Dr. IBell's Pinle-Tar-lI oney lhne (laxvored pleasaitt remedy, nets is file for Colds and Cotights. It. loos- m11iidly int the stotmclh and does a eis the M1u1couts, stops the Cough and grand(1 work in briigintg back IealIth, siootheS the Atings. It's giaraniteed. strentgtht and cheerfituliness. Price $1.00 Only 25c at youi riggist. per hottle. Sold by all druggists. ably you haven't bought any he Bargains offered during Sale; if you have not, come week and get yours. There many excellent values left are bound to appeal to your I judgment. Come and let rove that every article in our e is priced to make it a vill Close iy Night