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1Efe Zbbertiger abseription Price is $1.00 Per Year Payable in Advance. Published by &DVERTISER PRINTING COMPANY Laurens. 8. C. Advertising Rates on Application. hittnaries and Card of Thankst One Bent a word. 'ntored at the postofice at Laurens. A. C, as second clasa mail matter. LMA'ENS, S. C., FEB. 23, 1910. The county delegation is to be con mended for allowing an appropriation for the county fair. There is hardly an other expenditure listed upon the sip ply hill that is calculated to be of more real benefit than this one and one that effects such a large proportion of the citizenship of the county. The fair, while very successful in the past, hag had but a straggling and struggling existence, much li need of solid finan cial support. This alpropriation, then provides for the fair's greatest need and should give It such an impetus that the next fair will prove larget and more proiltable than any that la preceled it. 'Ihe whole city sympathizes with lIev. and Mrs. C. P. llankin in the loss of their only Sonl. Sirickler lankil was an unusually tine boy, manly Couriagemis and true, yet so Iti let andl u nassuming as almost to escape atten tion. \Wlierever known he was ad mired for his splendid qualities. Pure in his words and tlhouiglhs. upright and honorable in his deeds. he was a lead er among the boys and admired by his elders. A great consolation to his parents will doubtless he that his lift and even his death were not in vain, for his untimely end cannot but serve to inpress aliong his young friends left behind the beauty and good that Is In -uhell a life as he lived and the honor that righteousness wins. Tl0 IGsl \T" RC It can hardly he said that the legis lature just adjourned held a notable session, though it. may be said that. its accomplishments are worthy of much notice. The session was a noticeably (quiet and orderly one, free from the spectacular, where brilliant flashes gave way to painstaking work. To our liind two measures passed at. this session holding out mnuch rIom ise of good are the hills providing for the Torrens system of land registra tion and the one providing for a con inission to study rural credits. The two systems naturally oualgi to be con sidered together as both of them will be Most benficia lwhe wlen lo ring to gethler. One of' Ithe grealt pr I olemls facing tile younig witCI hoyC oul the iiou t r ain ~C tod :,y i i th a of 0rdi tithwhe t ageI cti ( tited onl' his ownll llactounin. Tese11 i wo Iy.-ts when WOin O ai o 51lii41 w i heC i re IC ii'th11i e grs. t111( i 111(ite ielet th ill hth raisialo oftle age iit wortil~t years icman ufacturIf etablishments wlill wortk adYat, ae ofliie (that PCsowy i ll ion law n1ow~ in for'ce the clhlren thrownvi Alit of CImp1loymen111t wiill be0 thr iown inIto school Instead. Man o1'(f them11, we feel surne, hlave deslired thle lpportuIini ty to go to schIoo l anyway and now theoir hlopes will 110 realized. We are a little skepltical ablouit thle good effects of ouitlawinlg the South eastern Tariff Associatiloll. We (do not know illuchl abou0t1 insur iance rates, but we have in mind1( what hlappened to oil when tile Standiard (ii (Company was dissolved. Whlen tihe warehouIise lill was passedl last year' we gave ourt endiorsemnent to thle warehlouse idea. Trhe present sys temn, froml all appearances, is proving its worthl andh we were glad to see It continued iby tile legislatuire. WVe woulid like to see It stnengthlened in a way that would mlake its receipts unqules t!onah!e SeCurity'. The liquor- legislation has to our mind been too radical. WVeshould have had a year of test from agitation durinlg whlichl to give a tr'y-oult to tile iliuor laws we already lhd. Ilowever, sinece the suiccess of tile laws depend ulpon tile suppliort given thenm by tile public1 it w~ould~ he0 wise to discontinu~e discussing thleml andi giving our whlole attention to enfrorcinlg thleml. Thlat will be our1 policy. Our own (delegation seems to hlave done ver'y conscientious work. Thiey were foulnd in their places at most times and apparently gavo much thought to their duties. And so, wile the session was not a notable one it was a fruitful one. LEGISLATIVE SESSION ENDS SUNDAY AT DAWN (Continued from Page One.) how much can be said in a few words. The entire Act consists of exactly twenty-five words, and reads: "No child under the age of 14 years shall be employed in any factory, mine or textile establishment of this State after January 1. 1917." There was no need to say more. Another suggestion of Governor Manning's that will be studied from a legislative standpoint is how rural credits might be introduced to advan-. tage in this State. There were sever al proposition offered, all of them hav ing merit, but too detailed to be ab sorbed and the General Assembly ap pointed a commission to make a care ful study of the situation, and if in the meanwhile something practical can be worked out and the people can be edtu cated to the possibilities of the rural credits system, a beginning might be made at the next session of the Gen eral Assembly as a result of the pres ent agitation. Another step forward was made In the ext',nsion of support for the rural graded school by taking into the fold schools in the towns and cities that consent to accept chidlren as pupils otherfi-:0,10 's nw-yt from the rural districts. An appro priation of $120,000 is carried this year for the purpose of subsidizing these SChools. There can be no question of the hold that the State warehouse system had upon the members of the General Assembly. Whatever ('ommissioner M cbaurin asked for was granted. Whether this be a tribute of Mr. Me Laattrin, as an individual, or Whether it is to his administration as warehouse comm1 issioner, o:' to the systen itself. and its posshilities, remains to be de veloped. One thing is certaitn. antid that is that the warehouse systet has a ;otclh hol(1 on the political situation in this State today. One of the essential Const ructive iiiasur'e that failed looked towards the establishment of a State highway coms imission or some other method of ha r" monizing and developing the road building of this State. 'l'lte majority of the members apparently favored sotne State system, but they Conhi Inot auree upon any one method of hand liI this situation, were afraid of the name "commission," amI had to ni counter the desire of each county to hold ite revenue frotm the proposed automobile license and thereby for the time being a State-wide system failed. This will come in time. ('oust itut tonal amendments had rough skating, and all of them fell down the first time they tried to roll round. There were three proposed ialmen(mltents to the fundamental law of S-late-wide import'ance: l'irst. I le one looking to woman's suffrage; see ond onie looking towards biennial ses sions, and third, the Wolfe proposi tion, which contemplates the granting of divorces tinder certain conl itions. Neither of these three ideas got, by first base. One of the measures that excited considerable debate and in which there was the only suggestion of a lit buster, was on the bill which excom muinicates the Southeastern Tariff As sociation from South Carolina. This action it. Is suggested is a sequtel to the contention of the warehouse com missioner on the matter of tie in:urt ance rates. This, added to the al leged arbitrariness of the rate-makipig bureau, persuaded the majority of the legislators to chase the Tariff Associa tion out of the State, and South Caro lina is for a second time going to try some method of handling fire inst; - ance rates without a central rate-mak Ing bureau in this State. IUnder ih(, terms oif the Act as amended in the II otise thle insur an2CC comi ssioner' is gIven hIe ilghit to review till tIre in surt c rSiC ates, subject to summary: I'~ l1.c tory lnsuan12CC' Ass0ciat (in are e'x 1in 'd: a;tdl it Is 1povied that nothI inig rointained in the Act shall he hel to) inltefer wCiI aniy 1istiianCe llacedl b~y (ol' I4thoug thle wtarehtoilse comilS Tlhero was ke(en2 in terest In thle liIa vi sins 0f thi s Act as pa~ssedl. whlat is known as the douct rine of contributory ne4gligeni(ceil a applied to rail roadl etm loyees was aba;ndoned, aiii to ia large (extent thle feder'al statte withI refer enec to r ilr oad liabliIty was accept - ed as tile statute law of South ('aro lina. The opptoniens of the bill se ctured ani ame~ndmlent by which; it was miadeC llain0 that the da mages to he collected shld~i not inludet~l what is known as puinitive dlamaiges. At th~e outset of th~e session, it looked as if thle couinties that wer'e not elever' enough; to dispiose of all of their liquor by the fir'st of ,January last were go ing to be left with souveniirA. Some of thec prohlibit Ion lecader's began to iuge hat thle coutiehs that had not (4old their liquor were to blame and that if th~ey lost thlat they would have to censur'e th~e county hoards and not the General Assembly. One by one the counties securted the' consent of the House to the adoptIon of bills which allowed the individual countIes to dIspose of their stocks of unsold liquors outtside of th~e State. This might have been accomip1lished ini a general bill, bult uindler the rutles of the iHouise what are known as strictly local bills seen; to have th~e right, of the way, and fi'st one county secured the rIght to sell its liqutor outside of the State through tihe 0o41 county boards, and then another adopted that pilan tuntil It became unanimotus. but in each case a separate Act was passedl. The tnew county of McCormick was aiithorized, if the Su;preme Court ap pr'oves, pruactically withou;t opposition. --August K~ohn in News and Courier. A NNOUN('ES FOlR 'TRIEASUltEI, Mr. floss DI. Yoiung W1'h. Statnd For lRe-Election. Mr'. Rloss D). Yountg annotinces in this Issue of Th le Advertiser his candidacy for r'e-elcction to the oflce of tr'easurer of Lauarens Coun;ty. Mr., Young was elected to the position lie occupies four years ago, this year' ending his second term in offien. * R ABUN NEWS. * " " " " f " S* S " " e S " " S Rabun, Feb. 21,-Mr. Elwood Saxon is sick at this writing. 'Miss Edna Owens visited Miss Mar gie Holder of Green Pond community last week. Miss Jenovec Babb of Eden section visited Miss Allie Babb Wednesday. Mr. Dennis Owens was in Greenville several (lays last week on business. Mr. Dunk Nesbitt of Piedmont is spending several days with his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Cheek. Mrs. Stewart Malahon and little chil dren visited Mr. and Mirs. Claude Ma hon Wednesday. We all enJoyed a fine sermon from our new pastor, Mr. Washington, Sun day evening. The young people enjoyed a "Leap Year" party Friday night at the home of Misses Rucia and Matha Wolff in Shiloh section. Bro. Walter Baldwin Is to be or dained at Rabun first Sunday morning in March. Miss Lizzie Mahon visited Miss Sal lie Wolff of Shiloh section Saturday night. Mrs. Charlie Saxon visited her moth er Mrs. Pleas Bolt of Merna section Friday. Miss Marie Mahon, Rucia and Mar tha Wolff of Shiloh section visited Miss ue ( Gray of IEden section Sat urday night. LIittle Saraih Saxon attended the "candy pulling" at M\r. and Mrs. .lim Simerel's of ilkory T'avern, Satur day. \i'. and Mis. Smith Martin sipent Sunday with .\r. and 'Mrs. Tfully Babb. Mr. Tully llabb and son and (laugh te'rs made a business trip to Greenville Monday. 31llins-,tones. A ppialachia, Va., Febh. i.-.M r. .J. C. .Jones of this city and Miss (Get'tie Lee Mullins, of Appalachia, Va., were united in marrilage Thursday night, i"ebruary 3rd, at S P. M. The groom is a prominent young business man, now located at Appalachia, as store manager for Sands & Co., Inc., whose service he has been in for several years. The bride is i very popular and charming young lady and noted for her manly charms. They have the best wishes of their many friends. NOTICE! El'feetive March 1st. all bills are due the Ir'st of the month followi ing pur chase unless speciady arranged other ( ise. Statement nil ie rendered on the 1st of month and unless the ae count is paid or satisfactorily ar ranged by the 15th of the month, no further credit will be extended. ..No necnimts mni:.i he opened in 1916 1 hose I 15 accounti has not been paid. The I rge amount of capital neces sary. ; . handle. our varions depart mentt , and our increased. business "make .the above rules necessary. Our buyers haie just returned from the Nort.hern markets. We will have the largest and best assortmitents we itle ei er shoi n. lWe soli'it your pittr otage. 311IN'T'EI R('OMA.\N Y. FIV E l)01,L.\ hS PE R: NOID. "t0eor'gia C(yelone"~ to lie r Lec tire att t~iray ('ourmt-Oinigs S'chool antd De('ies ..nyone11 to (Go to .leepi Willie it. i'pshmiaw, knmown as the '"Georgia ( y('lone"', is to delivet' a lee turet' at thle (Gray C'ottrt-Owinugs school buint 11jg Thuirm msday evenIng, thle 21 th, at S o'Clo('k. lIeI has beeni secured by the ladies5 of thle school iimrovetment as ;oelation to lecture oii some topmle ap pr'opriate to time occasion), onme that will be0 edutcallonal as wiellI as entem'tain ing. Time lectur'ei' guai'antees to hold the at tent ion of his hear'ei's and has [ifferedi $5.00 to any oman who finds it possible tQ go to sleep whmile he is talking. Anm adimission fee of 15 cents wvili be0 charged to adults and( 5 cents 1o chtidr'en. Tihe ipeopile of tihe comn mmunity amid sum'mounding terruitor'y are livitedi to attenid and( enjoy time even ing's enter'tainmenit. Ropp-ilrooks. A marr'iage or widle intei'est took ilace at the residence of Rev. Hi. L. B~aggott in Gray Court last evening, when Miss Leila Ropp became the brmide of Mi'. William Brooks. Only a few friends wei'e present for tihe cer'e mniy, which was5 lerformed in an um pr'essivo manner' by tihe ibride's paistor', R1ev. Mr. Baggott. Mr's. Brooks is the dauighmer of Mm'. Latn Ropp) of (Gray Court and is a younig lady of many at tr'active qualities. Time gm'oom is a wecll known and pr'0llotros young faramer' of time Eden section and has hunndureds of friends thriounghmout tihe county who congratulate him on hIs happliness. In Critieal Coundition. Time latest reports last night fr'om time bedslide of Mr's. A. J. Christopher stated that her condition had not im iproved, and that she was In as cr'itical a condition as could ho. Box Supper at Prospect. There will be a box supper at the Prospect school next Friday at 8 o'clock, to which the public ia cordial ly invited. The proceeds will be de voted to the improvement of the school. * * $ SPECIAL NOTICES. $ * $* For Sale--50 bushels pure Tool's Cotton Seed and 50 bushels Simpkins Prolific, $1.00 per bushel. Rt. V. Irby, Ialurens, S. C. 31-It For Sale-Thoroughbred O. I. C. pigs seven weeks old, weigh 30 to 35 lbs. Price $7.50 each, $12.50 a pair. W. Col 1er Curry, Gray Court, S. C. 31-It-pd Eggs-S. C. Rhode Island Red, White Leghorn and Brown Leghorn eggs for sale. $1.00 for 15. T. Houston Babb, Gray Court, R. F. I). 31-5t-pd For Sale-A few settings of eggs from my pen of S. 'C. Rhode Island Reds, bred from birds bought from Lester Thompkins of Concord, Masg. Price $1.25 per setting of 15. J. MeD. Moore, 579 E. Main St., Laurens, S. C. Phone 165. 31-tf Ladles-You are invited to call and see the beautiful new spring and suth mer styles and dress goods which I now have on display. Mrs. Geo. S. McCravy. 30-2t Notice-The ginnery of the Laurens Oil 1111 will gin on Fridays until further notice. 30-2t For Sale--Land, pigs, shoals for sale. Only practical subsoiier on the mar ket, two-mules, one hand does the work of four mule~s and two hands. It works behind any plow, fastens to hea rn of front plow, subsolis furrow then leaves all your clay under top soil where it belongs. Your land won't "et hard, get better stands of cotton. etc. Will demonstrate with pleasure. I am selling fertilizer for the Ander son Phosphate and Oil Co. See me be fore you b y, I can sell you as cheap as anybod.' Tom M1. Shaw. :0.10t Mil'h f'ows---ln the next few weeks I will have several cows fresh In milk for sale. Also about hundred tons of nanure. .J. F. Ilarney, at Enterprise National Dank. 30-2t For Sale-Practically new rubber tire top buggy. Also 100 bushels Big Boll Cotton Seed at $1.00 per bushel. Also for rent: entire upper floor of iay house. E. W. Copeland, bareans. 30-5t For Sale---mal] farm at Narnie, on Greenville road. .1 miles northwest of I.aurens. Apply to A. N. Itramlett, Laurens, S. C. . 30-2t For Sale--Mrs. Virginia Caine's home on South Hiarper street. 29-3t Notice-I forbid anyone hiring or harboring Giles Suber, colored, as he is under contract with tme for the year 19111 and left me without any Just cause. Anyone doing so will be pun ished to the full extent of the law. I) L. Boozer. 20-3t For Sale-Pure White and Brown Leghorn eggs from mily prize winners, $1.25 per setting of .l5--"the hen that lays is the hen that pays". Grover C. Roper, Laurens, S. C., Route 6. 28-5t-pd Frost Proof Cabbage Plants-Early .Jersey Wakefield, Charleston Wake field, All Head, Succession and Flat Duteh, 90 cents per 1,000. 15 cents per hundred postpaid. W. Y. McNeill, Wa terloo. S. C. 25-12t-pd Call in and inspect our recent shipment of horses and mules. These are the best-grade Ten nessee mules and are ready for work. GRAY-EASTERBY MULE COMPANY Martin's Stable, back of Enterprise Bank *** . . . . . .. ... .. * * ANNOUNCE3f '. * I respectfually annroaunce myself a candIdate for tihe office of Treasuarer of Lauarons County and pledge myself to abide by thec result of theo Democratic prIiar'y. L. F. McSWAIN. I haereby annoaunce nmyself a candl (date for' the office of Sheriff of L.aurens County subject to tihe rules of the Decmocratic primary. 0Ol10. C. IIOPUINS. I herteby announce myself a candia date fotr r'e-electiona to thme office of Treasuarer of Laurens couanty and promaiso to abade by the resuita ol h Deamocratic primary. ROSS D. YOUNG. New Spring Arrivals! Ladies' Spring Suits and Coats are arriving daily. The latest and + choicest styles and colors in Taf- + fetas, Serges, Silk Popline, Wool Poplins and Garbadines, have been * * carefully selected and are now on display in our ready-to-wear de- " * partment. A look will convince you that we have a line unexcelled in quality and value to offer from $10.75 to $24.75. I Davis-Roper Company i Outfitters for the Whole Family. CALOM[L SICKENS! IT'S HORRIBL[! DON'T STAY BILIQUS, COSTIPAT[D I guarantee "Dodsdn's Liver Tone" will give you the best Liver and Bowel Cleansing you ever had. Calomel makes you sick; you lose a under my personal guarantee that it day's work. Calomel is quicksilver and will clean your sluggish liver better it salivates; calomel injures your liver, than nasty calomel it won't make you If you are bilious; feel lazy, slug- sick and you can eat anything you gish and all knocked out, if your bow- want without being salivated. Your cla are constipated and your head druggist guarantees that each spoonful aches or stomach is sour, just take a will start your liver, clean your bow spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver cia and straighten you up by morn 'iv instead of using sickening, sal- lug or you get your money back. Cl ivating calomel. Iodson's Liver Tone~ circ glitdy take Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You'll know it because it is pleasant tasting and next morning because you will wake doesn't gripe or cramp or make thor up feeling fine, yoru liver will be work- sick. ing, your headache and dizziness gone. I am selling millions of bottles of your stomach will be sweet and bow- .Dodson's Liver Tone to people who els regular. You will feel like work- have found that this pleasant, vegeta ing. You'll be cheerful; full of vigor ble liver medicine takes the place of and ambition. langorous calomel. Buy one bottle on Your druggist or dealer sells you a my sound, reliable guarantee. Ask ;0 cent bottle of Dodwson's Liver Tone your druggist about me. aski Yic ad ou can no e reMveTcet forythe o ngwhe mangan huas ofing ste. or ovr rm heewel nwnl strarts our L lanurbow EUEK DUGCOngW DrU O. 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