Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WE ARE OFTEN ASKED/ what is the best Eczema Rem y. We always recommend .. - b 'RAMo MAnn el EC'lFE)IA REMEDY u TAX EXECUTIONS State of South Carolina, S County of Laurens, City of Laurens. By virtue of tax executions directed U to me by J. C. Owings, Mayor, I will I sell at public outcry to the highest bid der at.Laurens C. I-I., S. C., on Sales- I day in Semptember, being the 4th day of the month, the following property g to wit: Against Harriett Gary: One house and lot bounded on the north by John W. Fuller, east by Jersey street, south by Joe Hunter and Lewis Thompson aid west by Dr. Maxwell. Against Frances Woody: One house and lot on Sullivan street, bounded by C. & W, C. R. R. Co.. Jno. D. Boyd and others. Also three beds, one bureau and wash stand, seven quilts, cooking stove and sewing machine. Against Drayte Shell: One house and 1 lot, bounded on all sides by property of Mrs. Rosa I. Caine. Terms of sale, cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. If terms are not complied with, property to be resold at risk of defaulting purchaser. JAS. T. Crews, Chief of Police, City of Laurens, S. C. August 8 1916. 3-3t N. B. DIAL A. C. TODD DIAL & TODD Attorneys at Law Enterprise Bank Buildings, Laurens, S. C. PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS Money to Loan on Real Estate-Lon' Time. C, v. Featherstone W. B. Knight FEATl EIISTONE & KNIGIIT Attorneys at Law Laurens. S. C. All ainsia sa lutrusted to Our Can Will Hiame' Prompt and Careful Atten. tion. Ofite' over P'almetto Bank (Mr. Fe urstone will spend Wednes day of "ich week in laurens.) Simpson, Cooper & Babb Attorneys at Law. W I 1rtcUe In all State Courts ProPt f1utention Given All Business Dr. T. L. Timmerman DENTIST Laurens, South Carolina OfBce in Peoples Bank Building. CHICHESTER S PILLS T38 DIAMioND OnAND. yeadi sknnna yetafs . tso. a J. TROY CsohRAWFl yoRD LUES U TOR E Plats, Traclings, Ildue Prints, Etc. Phone 2601 Clinton. S. C. A. 0. HART LAWVYIR Roomas 205-207 Masonic Temple Postofilco Box 685 Greenvlle, S. C. Prompt attention given all business Practice in all COURTS. Whenever You Need a Gleneral Tonic Take Urove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteles: chili Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains thea wellknown tonic properties of Q UININI and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drive. out Malaria, Enriches the Blood atu lluilds up the Whole System. 50 cents [( yhou do you are ai dicious adver II ~~ you adadsctIe in a I! ~ )~timper that is read by everybody ina b t eritor. wn ELLS GIRLS TO PROPOSE. oung Woman Who is Studying Blaok smithing Gives Her Reasons. Ames, la.--Miss Turn A. Iawk. Iowa p tote college's 'only girl student of lacksmithing, has further dgmonstrat I her versatilliy by winning the fac. ity cup for the best extemporaneous tidress, and she did It with the sub bct, "Why Vomuen ShlouklJ'tPropose." tl "'There are three reasonstvhy women ai liould propose-physleal. spiritual and e Loral," said Miss Hawk. "I ask you, Is there any reason why strong, able bodied woman should a ot support a husband if she chooses? O To; only a time worn p'ejullce rears I tself against such a pri edtre, s "For the spiritual reasonr. there is the t reat saying, 'Whatever ye would that d non should do unto you. do ye even so o them.' As women should rightfully d to the manager of the oldest of all In- t titutions, the home. Is it any more ban fair that she should be permitted o ask the mai of her Ideals to help ter found and operate that home? Must voman, because years of common prac ice have established a custom. wait hen she is ready to begin her life vork because only the men who are lot her ideal will propose?" BIG CATCH OF SHARKS. Apollo's Crow Hooks and Kills Nine toen-Captain Gets Turtle. Baltimore. - Catching sharks and shooting immense sea turtles was the j pastime enjoyed by Captain Thomas rhomassen and his crew during the voyage of the Norwegian bark Apollo. now in port with manganese ore from 1io Janeiro. Nineteen sharks, the largest eleven feet long, were captured and dispatched by the ship's crew. "It was on Juno 4," @aid Captain Thomassen, "that nur t us sharks hovered about the vessel, lighting each other for the refuse from the ship's galley. I made a hook about twelve iches long on a two inch line, balted it with pork and fastened it to a two inch rope. The bait hardly reached the water when a shark swallowed it, and the tussle began. That day we caught seven of the' monsters. "It took five men to hoist a shark to the ship's deck. After killing the shark with an ax its fins were removed and the carcass thrown overboard. "A large sea turtle was sighted about 200 yards front the vessel on June 10. I took a shot with a rifle and struck a vital part." KISSING NEGRESS COST $3.50. Young Man Who Saluted Her Was Put Under Arrest. Pittsburgh.-Raymond Watkins, twen ty years old, of Ilomeville and his com panions were standing on a street cor ner in Munhall terrace recently chat ting and joking when one or Watkins' friends bet him $1 he did not dare to kiss the first girl that came along. Watkins put tip the money and soon got his chance to win a dollar. Estelle Stanton, a negress, eighteen years old, living in Munhall terrace, walked along an instant later, and Wat kins seized his opportunity, accosted the young woman and kissed her on the cheek. Watkins then turned to his companions and collected the dollar. A few hours later he was taken into custody on a charge of disorderly con duct preferred by the girl. Watkins paid the costs. $4.50, and was freed. Thus lie lost $3.50. TO FIDDLE FOR VOTES. Missouri Girl Will Help Her Father's Campaign. St. Louis.-When Williamn C. Askin, a banker of Salem. Mlo., anlnouniced his candidacy for thle liepublican nomnla tlon foir secretary of state his daughl ter, Miss IBernice Woleott Askin, was inl New Yoirk. rThe newvs of her fa thler's canldldacy, however, brought her back to Miissonlri withl the announlce ment that she will accompany himn on his campaign Withl her violini. "F~athler has5 done munch to aid me in Iny musical edlucation," said Miss Ask In at tile homle of a friend in St. Louis, "and now thlat he wvants to be secre tary of state I am going to do all I can for ima. I tuay accompan~y him over the state duriing his entire eamn paigml If I do I shall take my violin along anid enter'tain the voter-s." READ BY VOLCANIC LIGHT. Could See New,spaper Print In Glow of Lava From Maunaloa. Il[onolulu.- Maunlalon, whlech was in eruptionl In Mlay, irecently broke 0out againl. A flood of l-lvaiwichI burst forth at ani elevation of' '7,000 feel flowed downa thei mlounltaln side. tray cling solItwest alt the rate of mihout ai amile an1 hour'. rTe floodl or lav 'a divledlal fol lowvinga two chmannaels. 'Te glow liltnlntated thle ethlea liica pe-l alt uni-tht. Newspai'pterti 4-ouhl bie remd 1by its lih Theli course tae.n by411a te lava was i that~ naen byl.aaa thlast- Ireittus Pr'p tn Ibu 'n CCro eats no- Te sea Cis aboul (i2t mi le r Ip toe n I t.i h 2his2?iI.4 d te2'ln,4 4n1 C tehit tle Ii rop22 Irt y ofl vlue~i het~1 wee. 1 at;.Iv M114- Wer22 uar?;:ro( alco enI~u Glorim 1 and2 Then\4l 11 tot Up'to We'ek.'le 2411 1122 | v ('-) (' oaslti filli aV l( ((illh flt 'd a nllItal|-ar '.rt ls(sI let L -ltes.M 0,000 BEES LOOSE IN WOMEN'S BALLROOM plarist Turns Out Swarm Before Club Members, but No Stings Follow. Cleveland, O.-In the nursery story to queen twat i the parlor eating bread nd holey, but even Mother Goose ner r saw 10.000 btees 101se in it billroom. But the litter sight was seen recently rhen Ernest It. Hoot ot' Medina, hee 1ld ioniey expert, shook out. a swarm f bees into the white and gold ball 00111 of the Wouau's club, this city, to how members of the club how enslly he little honey makers may be han led if one knows how. There were swift glances toward the loor when Nit. Hoot proposed to open he little case that held the bees. "Don't ie in the least afraid. They will not ting you even if they should happen to ight on you," promised Mr. 10oot. Ile scooped up it handful of the bees >ut of the thick, moving brown imass, tut them i his lint, clapped his hat on its head and went oil with his talk. IWO BEDS REQUIRED FOR A GIANT BOY OF 151 Prisoner Measuring Six Feet Four Was Cause-of Worry to New York Children's Society. New York. - Children's society oil cials had all kinds of trouble with fifteen-year-old Theoxlore Olsen, who stands six feet four inches in1 his socks. This young giant had not been able to find a bed iii the place that would lit him. Ile had been sleeping in two beds placed together, with the cover pieces out. Subterfuge had been dis covered to nike Theodore lit one of the children's bathtubs or to lind one to fit hin. Olsen was arrested after he had cnll ed the janitor of an apartment house here to help 1hun extinguish a blaze that lie admits he started in the dumb waiter shaft. lie says he had started flive similar fires in the upper west side, but had always extinguished them himself, because his desire was not to see the engines dash by. but just to see the blaze. Theodore left school because of the embarrassment caused by his abnor mlal size. Ile became a delivery boy for a grocer, aid he says that after delivering an order on the dumbwaiter he would start a blaze at the bottom of the shaft among the old papers and other waste that lie frequently found there. Theodore lives with his imr ents in this city. MAY BOYCOTT A DEADBEAT.I.. Merchants of Topeka, Kan., Plan to Organize For That Purpose. Topeka, Kan.-Attorney General S. M. Brewster has announced a ruling that the merchants of a city or the state could form a trust or order a boy. cott against the deadbeat. The Topeka merchants have worked out a scheme whereby each mierchaunt is to make a | report monthly of his customers who do not pay regularly or have not satis factorily adjusted their accounts. These repotts are Ithen to be forward ed to every other mer-chant in thie local aussociatioii, aiid they are to r'efuse credit to any3 or those 011 the liac'klist. Thieire 1are some1 lawvyers whlo have held that tile mnerchiaints could not formi ani aissocitiont to boycott the deaidbeat wvithout vIolating the anti-trutst lawts. Th'ie p~ln of tihe Topekai orgaiizaltiotn was suibmiitted to thie aittorniey genierail, and lie hias advised the mlerchanits that such an organlizaitioni would be legal. CATTLE FEAR DOG. Herd Ran Over a Horse and Buggy In Their Terror. Arliington, Ky. - E. WV. Benson of Bardwell had a novel expmerienice the! other day. While drtivinig alonig the road out of Barlow, Mlr. leiisoni saw a herd of yearlings ahead or him turn into a lane. lin a few seconds lie also noticed a dog snieauking in the direction of the cattle. The dog miade a dive fotr the herd, and tiiey made a r'uni foir the road, ar rvig there just as %i t. henson drove up, and the caittie ran over thie horse and buggy, knlockedl, the horse down andit cint near tiur1 mning thle buggyovr In t heir mad1( hashte to get aiway fromn the dog one or thle calves fell, going unerth uigfey. 1i. ltinsonl say Itils is (t-he it.l tim~e lie waIs ever run overt by ai lhrd ofIci Intte. HER BARE L.EGS SHOCKED. L4~ace'kingless Woman Almost Caused Riot lii Cinciinnati. Cilnini;:- (I. -The 1ey(s of down.u soI iketsl il the s. :. :1 i14blv dies ewi l'll'4 hilA' 3 o841114' . o i or Rait Cz'arie Awa:y C .. hid1 hI'Y .-,s teil ii sch1 a ' '! ra t'- a , i t h : i u . T \Vhat will you a talking machine duction or Edison's new Re-Creation? COME TO US examples of Edison's New Music's Re-Creation in a The N E W Arthur Middleton of the Metropolitan, has a voice of bass quality, yet running very high into the baritone almost to the tenor register. He. is o of the many great artists who have d e mo nst r a ted by actual comparison that Edison's Re Creation of an artist's work can not be distinguished from the original. Hear Edison's Re-Creation of Middleton's wonderful voice, then hear Middleton at the Me tropolitan, or when the great bass is on concert tour. FLEMING I Laurens, So Somethiu New Ev 1S*SoS*1 This is an age of many New Remedies foram' PrOU~TU the falt of thousanda of aufferers f' 5LOOD ties, remains ylth the old re repuN. wa woe by is retained by uous s The vegetable purity and supe. woho ave take in recegied Iy d a nd recommended by them to all an bf a fro b nlood dia see are om o th bodal wo, nenemies-but will azel give way to the Influence of S. S. S. Cat the Genuine S. S. S. at Your Drugglat. Spartanburg Roller Ship your wheat to us. In exc will ship you thirty-six pounds of fourteen pounds of brgnd per sim of clean dry wheat. Must conta onions nor smut. You p y freighi we pay freight to you. l aia ' s r of lading. Spartanburg Roller Spartanburg, - - - NOTICE FARMER Dixie Boy plow p its at 85c p Say how many yo wanlt. We also mnake1 th wiygs (2 size Ot'der la\y Fromv G' EEWOO .RON have' and mechanical repro r invention and actual AND HEAR A7 NT A .fart. 1 es, LNew ra1r new and wonderful art EDISON _ 4 3ROTHERS uth Carolina _________ SUMMONS FORl RELIEF. Stale of South Carolina, D County of Laurenas. COURT OF COMMON PLU AS ititude of ills. Butl aint om blood impuri- laint liable S. S. S. Its lames Peterson and Stead Peterson merit an d and the heirs at la and devisees the same contin e-vice to humanity. Stead Peterson, names and rest d (euces unknown, Defendants. o0 To the D~efendan~ts James Peterson, 4 '~~ Steadi letersoni atil the Heirs at law -50 - n eieso ta eesn YEARS Yo eheeyunlndad Coty llepooundsont o Lu in no sid wilodheseod ayo t ugstto1( auso ereandPYo repaidertoth :adbimlanto Mill Carolaoiinathntwntdy hSg e tat f othCroia Matine Wfsiso, c Plaintiff i ti .lmef uPeternandi tea copait.ro and poundsirs at w fnddeise fno wid oSutea Pesn,* name. an rs-t ttousand (itead~lf Petrs o admiheration. re ai il and deise S out tarlitrson ou t re h resu n edndre 'toired to antwer tesola n ilth aio oh statewhc as efilet on thesfie of the erk o te or ad renis in sall tate ongisi the ndedo Anut96 and toe~i~i' luser ~a~ copy Mor you aswer. toi th i d c omplain1(1 t on e th:. Isusc ibt h is ol(ceut hoLaen, Sout Carol in a w ithi tweny df as o~h da of suc cer ice; i a d i o actin wil ap ly t th e u t iOfo i. relif deande iv th claint.11wh F.P McOWA Angust.:5nd'1916. 3-3 Stae f Sut CarolinaC' County of Laurens Si ..' *