Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cracker Eating Contest EflliceCy deinds 1argely on the way we eat and dIgest food. We desire to kinow who is tihe best eater in this community. In order to discover this4 there will be a CRAC(KER-EATING CONTEST in our store SATUllDAY AlTIERINOON, March 27th, beginning promptly at :1 o'clock. Each contestant will be provided with a hbg containing 21) enickers. On, of tle apointell judges will give tle word. and tihe one who first finishes eating Al I the crackers will Ie given a Pocket Killfe and 10,000 looster Coipolns; second prize 8,000 Biooster Coupons; third; 6,000 lBooster Coupons; fourth, 1.01111 Booster Coulpon s: fifth, 2,01)00 looster Con )s. Each and ev i'ry coin testalt who iiters will Ibie given 1,000 looster Coupons, pro viding lie eat.- ai leaist 1) ceiacekers. l'roviding th1, wiinier is in a fit condition to receive it, lie will h' giveil the li'Olc't Knif and 1II01 Booster Coilpons as 8001 Ms tlao judges ) announce te wiiie. .\ll conIet.-ails should ente'r their namles as soon as )OSSible. We inivit you to lmi.' to our store e(cl Patlrday afternoon between now and Nlach 27, and practice. We'll furnish the cralkcers. Thilte ('iIin'n 's L eteto' Contest will close Saturday, March 27. Brinlg in youri1 letters before '1hat ti-:1 e. .\luse I(iext S.li alr1y hy soie llooster. Call and see us. Who will t(liti oulr windows iex; wveIlk--5-,000 con )))s. STAND)ING MONDAY HALL'OT 1OX COUNr. FlR'ST-41iss May Roper S iCON.Dl---Niss Lena lRoundtree Tl'l ii R .\-r. Eva Teague Pot'RtlliIss l uth Patton Others following closely. THE BOOSTER ST RE J. C. BURNS & CO Irregulaw Powels When the bowels (on d -.r ;t.iy fills the system vithl impurities which .: feel bad. DR. M. A. SUNIMMONS Vegetable Liver Medicine Is a fine old Bowel Purifier Under ks excelk'nt cathnirtic inience th1 owel movi rnw; become regular and healthy, the liveri it iiorated aid th' stemawh 3 reth'ned. 'When thle syitm lis been cleansed of all hi!!a is matter yn (i iet.rI . ''le mind becomes alrt and t-urful, 0he digation glod and the Ilv trong and vigorous. Puy only tle penu ine It is Iput upi inl a hndsomc lithographed till box, with the picture of Dr. M. A. Simmons on thei front panel. Ask for the Tin Box. Price 25 Cents. C. F. SIMMONS MEDICINE CO., Proprietors, ST. LOUIS, MO. Special Train Tours Independent Trips Tours One Way Through the Panama Canal and Special Train Overland TO THE, California Expositions DURING JUNE-JULY-AUGUST VIA THE Seaboard Air Line Railway The TPours willl consumire 26 to 50 days, Including ALL EX PI'NSES, such as Railroad and Steamnship faures; Pullman andI Stateroom~ berths; dlinhig car aiid steamship meals; the hilghest class hotels on Amnericap plan, excepting Los Angeles and San Franicisco) where rooms Oinly are furiiished; attractive sightseeing and side-trips. Many Diverse Routes Including D~enver, Colorado Springs, Cripple Creek, Pike's Peak, Royal (Jorge, Salt Lake 'City, Yellow.stonue National Park, Grand (Canyon of Arlzona, Orange Groves or Southern California, San Dilego, Los Angeles, Coast. of California, Sani Fraincisco, Portland, Seattle, Puiget Sound, Victoia Vancouver, tile Canadian Rocky Mountaiins, St. Paul and Chicago. All trainis 'tquiipped with ALL STEEL Pullman draw.ing room, stater'oom comparl~tmen01t andl observation cars and (liners for thle texlsve use of onur parties for the eiitire trIp. Persounally conduct ed1 and satisfactory chiaperonied. Ladles unescorted assuiredl of ev cry attention. TIhe hilghiet class of servIce and the 'l'MST OF EVERY TIillNG" everywhere. Writ e for Look let and det aled In forma tionl. Gattis Tourist Agency Tourist Agents. S. A. L. Ry. Re1egh, N. C. * THE NEW 0QUNTY, * Tho movement for a new county, to be formed out of tile lower section of Greenville and the upper section of lIaurens counties, has been revived, and once more will the citizens Inter ested make an effort to have a county of their own. It Is not the intention of this paper to object to this move iment, but, at this time, ncrely to call attention to certain pilases of -the prob 1em. In the announcement of the iass meeting which will -be held at Fountain -Inn oil 1tha afternoon of .\March the 2nd, are c.ertain stiftements which should be carefully considered. This, for instance, is a paragra)h In tile news story carried In the Fountain inn Tribune: "Knowing, then, that tile pro posed bonds will ultimately be is sued, and feeling that such an issue is unjust and designed to work a liard ship upon the oultlying districts of Greenville county for tile sole ben 0iil of Greenville city, mien of the low er section are determined to do cv erything in their power to draw out of a government where they are taxed witlhout representation or considera tion. .The occasion, then, for tills new agi tation, is in par1t at least, tile proposed bond Issue of $950,000 for permiallent improvement lin Greenville county. ilit will th1e eitizens of lie loweir sec Iton1, eveil though they succeed ill forming a new county, thereby avoid tie taxation which will be necessary to pay off the bon1ds? Unless they formll tILe proposed countliy before the bold issuie is effective, or before it b)e (,omeiis a det, it will be incumbent ill) oil theill to pay* their proportional'! share of the taxes, just as if they were a 1pat-of Grevlecounty. Thiey will under such circi nstances, be paying lie taxes of i County which they are lot citizels fi. The South Carolina Constitltion of 1895, provides, aiong other things, a1s follows: "All new couties hereafter form ed s11111 bealr a just. apportionment or the valid illdbetediless of the old coui ty or counties frolli which they have been1 formlled." The proposed bond Issue will be o ective, if it Is to become effective lit all, within a year, an( how can a new (oility bp. formed Ili a lesser period of time thall this? The Constitution iln Article Vil, sectionl 1, pirovides as follows inl re gard to nwcounties: "The Gen1eral Assemly11 1111 VS tablish Iew cou(nOtties ill thep following a:n111r: Whenlever on1e-third of the itialified e lectors within the area:i of (1a1ih sectioni of aln old couity pro posed to ie (lt. off to form a new countly Shuall petitionl the governor01 for thle vreatilonl of a new%\ countly, setting f1h11 ItII l'ouliiell's and showinig (opliial e witil tie lrir emilllilli .Its of t1hs Article, the, governlor. Shall or-der, :ll election,. withinl a reasonlable tim14 hereaf ter, by the (11<il fied elector's withi the i oo sed ara,' ill whi h (1(!c(i tley shali vote 'Yes' or 'No' tlpion' the ilt tiv lioni of (cating ( li n w o nt:iId at th sal 4.1( eltion the (piestionl of a nam 11(n a e iuntyv ;(. se i for sn h ouily Shall bo sbhilitted to thw elvecors." .\rticle Vil, section '2: "If l wo-thirds. o i t1 the ( t1;111ifie d t Iletos in I a t sl 1h .lect~in shall , vt 'Y i s' u1:1on S( <(tit tions, th4n the G( n ral A - s o lbly at it iext Seoieron sh1ll i ;eu. alish such w n * *"v' .1.l ing 1,rom1 theSe provisionis o f the4 Const:itutionl, it appear that thev 11t-oposedl couu e tld niolth- fot fund ir ofni lt puli dilb, of Gree' I linvil county. A w r as t he tx tin h par ofth \lr sct~iof ;he~ Donary which lu y b e i fpy ap r xm tl ten p r .fent of ,-- th / z Memlbers of the Southl Carolina Methlodist conference figured accu r'ately in determining the 11110 of de miarcation between tile two confer enices created at 'the Sumnter conlfer' ence. Th~ottghi tile South CarolIna or LoW er' con ference approximates nlearly South Carolina conifer'ence, it has tile tadvantage of the latter ini mlember' shilp by only about, 600. Accor'ding to in formnation1 su~pplietl b~y the R1ev. ,J. W. Kilgo, D. D.,~ pre' s11 lig elder1 or the~ ColumIilbia dlistIrict, l)'1'e S'outhl C'ar'oina conifer'enee hias taxes of Greenville county. That is a liberal estimated, for .the city of Greenville and the corporations of the county, most of which are out side of the lower section, pay seventy-eight or eighty per cent of the taxes of the county. Surely this ten per cent. is not a burdensome debt tosplace upon the lower section, especially when one considers tile benefit which 'that section, in con mlion with all other se'tions, will en joy. The lower section will have roads built just as good as any other section. Its voice will! be heard just as the voice of any other -section having a shiinilar number of inhabi tants. Tie contention that the city runs tile county, and that the roads 'are for tI, "sole beneit" of tle city, does not receive accept-ance without argument. Why are the roads for the sole benefit of tile city. The farmers will pay but approximately 'twenty per Cent of the cost of the roads, and certainly they will receive more than twenty per cent. of the value from them. It is unreasonable to say that the city will be the sole beneficiary, for how can the rural districts b left, out of the -prosperity which will conc from a development of them? The city will prosper, of course, because of the better roads; but the country will prosper more. I)oes the city run the county? No, it is the 'majority of the Voters who run it. Political power is not grant ed according to'area in acres, but ac cording to population. Shoadi an iso lated district, having some few hun111 I-- voters, but more acreage than Greenville city be allowed the same voice in th- government that the city has? That would ie undemocratic. A democracy recognizes men, rather than acres. If the people of the lower section desire to fori a county, that is their own business, and they havo' a perfect right to do so. But when they go about this work, they should consid er all the phases of tile, (Illostioll, some of which phases have been sug gested above. Do tey prefer to stay in Greenville county and derive bene fit from the road improvement; or to withdraw and contilibute theli' ten per cent., or whatever the per cent may be, toward the roads of Green ville county? Is it possible for them to have a new county formed before the bonds become a public debt? These are a few of the questions for the mass meeting to consider.-The Green ville News. T.TIlIRED FEEIING. Do Yoi Continthuallly Feel Slugsish1, If youl (o, it is probably caused by your' liver. When the liver fails to perform its fulletions properly, tihe systein becomes elogged with ipoisol o0u mateir, that we'oighas you dtown mnentally anld physically. The liver gets ouit or order Very eas ily and if* neglected, (1hroniC trouble 11sually reslts. Don't delay if yol feel badly. You knowingly lay your self open to life long'. pain, wh.tenl you1 allow yoIrself to colittinie I11 in a mrun (oll cndition. Cure youirelf (uick lIY ah with a I d thive naural veg etabe rmed , I~r-V r-lnx. It hlas all 1he effectiveless, bu t otil te offect of valoineol. Golitino Lii-Ver-lnx b1earls. thie lio n'ss and sInau of 1'. K. lregh ad ' it I. Ituatranteed to give satisf'action1 0o i 1m1n11%, refnlldtd. tI1sit on It. 1or sal' by .urd ben l D(g ' to. 1,aies shiold take( Ilt. SI.\l.\ON'S QAWVINIC1 WINIC for all Irregi ]arHIlls It relieves qui1ckly and re toematurlal conditions". l'ri1en $1.00 Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly IThe Old itandardt general strengthening tonie, Gn.vt's TLA5TF.ElS8 chill TONIC, drIves out Malaria.enrichets the blood.nnd builds up the Bys. temn. A true tonic. Foir adulta nud ch)ildren. 50c I erIshilp oft ('huirihes ini 'Two Divisionis iter .lee'ting. with th ftrso *(the Suth aro 4 ,8 Thi doe not inld, h n cres mo~esi thouhoutRth twe 30 rad ,0. andl the finesofth e South Carocn f4renc. Thi doInclud uples thein pr'eaced amrconnetroughot tile church wthroun otthe at1sthsfe. 0 Nieeen 0 aonte are,000.rte iTher aUper 14outharina tConfper ande 13t5 in the South 'Ciarcona coerene. Richildig county1m 3s33h ineteeony euni broken abtou'ot oe thtird of tis being in tihe Upperl C00t frncn. Spring Pigs . will be vigorous and healthy if you keep the sows in condi zi IlhA tion with Prats Ana Regilator r Pkgs. 25c, 50c, $1.00; 25 lb. pail $3.00 An indispensable tonic before and after farrow ing. Increases flow of milk, improves digestion and the general condition of the offspring. After weaning give it to the little pigs to prevent in digestion and worms. Swine breeders have long recognized the value of Pratts PA Is Animal Regulator as a disease Remedies preventive and tonic. Dip and Dlctnfotant CZoin Remtd a Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back H1alin Olntmnt Pratts outry Regulator is a neces nIent' eitv I W to instn'e healthy chicks. no'r'"a n EPk . 5c, 50c, 60c, $1.00; 25 lb. pail $2.50. Eye itanody 'fuse substitt ten; insist on Pratts. A Bag Ointment Get I's-ails Steel. 1oo1k J. C. Shell & Co.; J. A. Franks; Todd, Simpson & Co.; A. L. Mahaffey. Destruction Of Values After taking inventory of stock find we have too many Winter Goods on hand. While it is possible the most severe weath er is yet to come an opportunity is offered to those who are not provided to secure Winterwear at much below market value. Only a limited number of Blankets on ( hand--these are offered at prime cost to close. W.GWilson& Co THESE LENSES DO NOT TOUCH YOUR EYELASHES - Their deep curve leaves plenty of room, and allows the edge of the lense o fit close to your - eyes. Yo can forget this an noya ce if you wear Toric 6 Lenses -We shall be glad to TOIUCe tell you more abort them. LENSES, B. W. L0CKNER, Optometrist WITH FLEMING BROTHERS Laurensa, S. C. MNis jud ed by the clothes he wears. His like ise judged by his Stationery. This fact l~ig true, why not have the best ? You Oe* be sure of getting the BEST by sending yr next order to The Adverti ser Printing ompany at Laurens.