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a 8 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8888 * H Local und Personal .Mentlon. 8 ; 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 a ; John N. Wright, .1r., of Spar'tanburig, spent tho week.-end in( te lcity witlh his father, J. N. Wright," Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bolt and dauglih ter, .\ll's .\ ary 1,olt, and .\1s Kat h .lCe AIe-:anader were hopping in the city Friday., Mir. J. P". Gly and daughti'er, .\liss Olivia, two sons, Rloy and Talmadge, and .\ i'. Belle Gray, of Shiloh, were visitln in the city Satlr'day. -irs. L. H. (11 Ch wning and little son, Harris, are vilng i rs. Chewnillg's sistor, .\ a. .1. G. ulilvtivan and Mr. Sul livan, on South riarper street. Post master J. A. Clardy has Iimi proved suliclently to be at his oilice a few' hours dumring the day. 1Ils many friends are glad to see im111 out againi. , \Iss Anna Prentiss, woli is teach Ing at Fountain Inn, spent the week eni in the city with ] her mother, Mirs. Gage, who has been visiting Mrs. Gar rett. \It. and Mrs. Eddie Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Wasson motored down to Goldville last Sunday and spent the day with their kinsman, Ir. and Mrs. M'. 1). Chancy. 31s. iston Mledlock, of the lBabb town community. who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the hios pital. londay, has passed the danger ous period and is now improving rapidly. The friends of .i\,. Stanley Crews, of this city, will be interested to learn that he is now employed in the oflice of The Ndgefleld Advertiser, where his uncle, Mir. Ed. Crews, has been for several years. Dr. Kinox Sinipson, who is now lo cated in .Jackosnvllle where lie is building ui) an enviable reptuation as a surgeon, spent several days last week in the city with his mother, 'Mrs. Alary l. Simpson, on Mast Main street. Ir. and Mrs. 'Harold 1. Smith and little son, formerly of Greenville, have moved to the city and are now occupying tlie Davis home on West Main trcet. Mr. Smith Is the agent and general manager at the Watts M I !s. succeeding Mr. L. It. Kerr, who has gone to lisherville, Alass. .Postm1aster Clardy is inl iceipt of advices fro:n t Ihe army recruiting of flcer i Savann.h, Ga., that It is the polIcy of the var department to dis chiarge from service at the termina 'ilon of the emnei'gency all men w\,ho have enlIsted in tle regular ariy sincev the declaratioln of war, or Who now ienlist. This polItty also applies to the.national guard. Mirs. iosa 1. 'ailie and son, Mr. Earle Caine, and dauiglitors. Mrs. A. D. ray, Mrs. Walter Hi. Powell and MIss es losa and Toecoa, motored last Thurutday to Colimihia where Mr. Eiarle CaIlno cnl isted In the Darlington oi palny of liart svilie. IIL was not pass (!d by thiv physiclalex mn rh w - er, and rturneil-ld with the party the saie day. hicav .U ;ch is Se~ven liel.on! .*\ 0(ow'd tof "yoiing bdoodis" in Smit t & I At tie's it ore Sat uday ihti w.ere $7,000,u00,000. "'l imv muchl is $7,t000, t)0i,000t anyway "' '"\\'hat will Iii do?' "'Ilow big is iil?''" "Ci you1 ima:n' tiat muchel money' oni youri salanry?"' .\ nothI cir fellow with an eye for figurtes andu ('ompar:1isons; got. out his lioncul and1( begana to figurei on sonic wring p a jiei andi del Iveired hi imself thsl Ii1 ld3 1(e't ing around and1( scra1tchuing his head awh~'ileI be ihlileve t hat skIeen of-your U nele SamuiieI's sil ver dol lais w'll wecigh a pioundi. Dy dividinig $7,000, 0010,00)0 biy $1 I;, we have 4137,500,000, thle number or pounds which the loan will make in silver'. Then dlividilng I his by 2,000 puounds, we find that It will make .21,875 beling the weight of the loan In tons. Now, one or the biggets coal car's oin thie C., N. & L. railroad will standl up under about a 50f-ton loan. Ther'efores by dividing your number of tons by the amount which each one of thIs tru'ink systemi's cars will cai'ry, we find t hat we wouldi have thle freight yard ihere which "'Boa" Clarke and .hohn (IIIkerson iireslde over choaked up ith -137.5 car loads or silver dlol lar's. Of cours'e t hey wouldn't stay piled up long with thi1s Pair' arouind, hiut sitpposing t hat thle (ermn s wer'e up abhonu t'eenvilIlI and heard that all this "kale" was down hiere at Launrens and nobody statnding watch but these two estimiaip -gentlenien, and then sutpp)ose thatswe decided to miove it off towvardo Charleston. Then, and in that case, to lie exact, the cai's strung out dowvn the line would m'ake a train about 17,000 feet long, or long enough to stretch from the depot to and be yond Parks Station, called among the elite "Brand". And then gotting back to our lesson in division, we figure that by dividing the number of cars, 437.5, bthe number of cars ordinarily haul ed1 on local freight trains, 20 cars to the ft'eighit, we 'find that It would take 2t full trains and another train of arbout 17 cars to haul it away." 'At this point someliody interruptedt to say "Give me that part of a train and I'd be happy" and the meetinA' broge. ,up to allow a customer to .bt& ,A hat. ~ TO CONFER DEUliR ; ON jJ()E J()HNSON Erskine ('ollege il ('onfer Degree of LL. ). on ilstingiushed Ju . ('eremony of So.etiity. It will be Doector .(ili;ohis as well ais .udge Joinson1 after' the Kr'i'akine c0omm lienceme!t'!nlt this year, For MrSk ine College has an nouiced (hat iI .Iiune it w1 conf r he honor'airy degree of A. ). on its emileilt alumnus, 'IIit. ed 81tatv., District .1ldge .losopl T .Jlohnoni of the \Vsen District of Soutil arolina. Judge Ji:oon was "alitated 'rIo:n, lhI'Skinie mnny yrI ago and was forierly represeltat ive in Congress from this district. As Doctor of Lawsi, )r. .loinison's costlileis will be the regular silk gown of the doetorate, witI full round, open sleeves, faced with vel vet, bearing three bars of veIvet on Ile sleeves, witi a hood trimmed in the lI'rskile colors and 1 irimed Withli plr-ple, represetinthg .legal tea rning. The headgear is a mortarboard (ap witi a purlple tassel. At the samte time Ersk ine will con for tile sa me title 01 .Judge John 11. Miller of liirminghamin, who will de liver tlie Commencement address. .itdge Mlc'le is said to be "o1 of the leading attorneys an(] jurists of Ala baia." 'ihe confortment of an11 honorary de gree is a ceremonial of great solemn nity. The honoree Is formally pre sented to the president. of tle college by a member of the facility and the president, often in .'Latin, in well chosen Words sketches the public ser vice of the reciplent and then 'on fers the degree, While the hood is ad jlsted.-Greenvill3 News. Blig shipment of Sewing Machilne Needles just received. Needles for all machines. S. M. & E. H. WILKES & CO. * * * OTHEl SCHOOL FAIIR PIlIZES * *' * In the exhibits, not regular class room, at tle school fair. Bethany won first place, Central second, and Wood row Wilson thlird. The followinig pu wil won the hitte ribbons in th:ese ex ii s: Cliton, El izabet h Douglas. IFden, Polly Whaml. Central, Ma'y .1o Parsoni, i ester il rition, Katileen Pulley, Allee R i'l ards, Alien Stewart. Kula Osborne, Evelynl Hurdelle, Lotie I; r-egotory. llethanty, Zel ma (Gwin. l1111h Cooper. .\nie Hoberis. El a Edwards. [Wuhy M~lwards Gra;elln, Pallie Edlwards, DIwlght (win, King lbeckllam, Elmier Phillips, Clayton W\addell, Casini Le"opard. Lanrord, .l attic Moore. I it trica ne, .\lat v Stv Simpson, Iat - tie Mae Horo, Elizabetli Copeland, Mar ty Whl t mire, Prance Ilor'toni, .1oh n William Copeland. 17and'! , prings, R(-1h1,h W righ"lt. 0hi1h Mlae llella.111 Iiartimony, Lola .\Map '11las. .3ll. Hvelhel, Felicia Stone, .lnie L'ee :tonle. ikm Elie ('ook, lithet K more, .\Iltuntvi IbI., .blane.liryson, .\ar's'Fuil l'r,.\iai'ion Nelsen, William Kalilier'. ILa ngst on. Inrle IDorm:ian, Mack r'oian. L aurtens, ii ermani .lihn son, 11 arr'iet Tlodd, Marie Gene Gray, M~argar'et S. Ricehardson, Clarence A'lrit, .Mary Lou Ferguson, Jieanet to Moore, Coccoa ClIarty. Woodrnow WIlson, MaggIe Craddock, iRemeli Hoid, Nell Cheek, Mrs. Reid. LIsbon, El ber'ta Tieague, ala Youlng, Ladeler' Fuller', Mlary Young, (Chas. Edward 'Mlin, Rubiy S'rouise. liartksdiale, Sara Year'gin, EdIth Year'gin. Lydia -Mills, 'Ruby WIlson, Laura Woffor'd, Ella Belie Wilson. Patton, Duckett Davis, Lynette Hen ry, Lawrence Smith, Miartin Godfrey. hIckory TPaverno, Coniway Bolt, Ern est Bolt. The fol lowIng pupils1 won red~ rIb bons: C'lintoni, Sara Wham. (Centr'aI, Th'leo. Osbortne, Ja nie IHell Osborne. Utethany, Antie Rbobert,s Clayton WanddellI, Clarence Tlinisley. Iuritilane, lessie Savage, Wrleifor'd Nabor's, Reeder' WhItire. Iickory Tavern, Coia Bolt, .Janle Ilaldwin, Conway IHolt. Sandly S pring~s, Maud Poole. Mount Bethel, Ethl Cook. Ekomn, 'Mar'garet Caldwell, Lorie Cooper, WVelborn Caldlwell. Miountvile, Caroine Motes, [Inez i:'hli ler', 'Ralph Maxey, 'Malcolm Gr'ant, Ebenezer, Alice Tucker', Jim -Davis, A. J. hlughes. LIsbon, L.adell Fuller, Etta Spr'ouse, J. C. -Martin. Barkedale, 'Macle Lovet, Edith Wof ford. Patton, Lynette Henry, Leonard God frey, Youngs, Arthur Maxwell. J. DI. Park anid family, of Green wood, visited Mrs. S. D. Childresu and Yahily Sunday. FIRST REUGIENT STILL ENCAMPED AT STYX L tedt that the iirst Battalion vill I Stationed fin the Upper Part of the State. Visitorn from Laurens to Columbia durin t lie la' weel reiport that tile boy t ;0Camp Aloore are i 1lne mettle and awailing orders for fu rther nmove mnt, III heeiiing with military CIS O it, litIle is being said :1s to the fit iure movenwen t U of tle troops and t11c new.paer. are not printing informa :mI whiiit may have leaked out. How ever, it is generiially believed that the 'outhi Carolina boys wiii not he ear rIed away froim their own state for sonme time to come. The Advertiser has received from Columnbia a ist of the iembers of the coimlly and those whose applications were tiried down after the company reached Columbia. 'ile namliles of ihose vhio were turnei (own, before laohv I.aurens are not givenl, though Ie Adverlser expects to print this list also at aI early date. 'ihe follow lug is the list as received yesterday: Captain, Arthur Lee. 1st. Lieutenai, 2nd. Lieutenant ). It. Simpson. Joe F. Smith Non-Commissioner Oflicers, 13. A. Sullivan H. T. Barnett W. M. Snoddy. C. F. Alexander L'. S. lHolt W. F. Martin .1. 1'. Caldwell J1. L. Prince M. P). Sumlerel (1. L. Templeton C. -Weather .1. T. Whaley Privates, ..T. kCrews .1. Lt. Parrott .1. it. Ledford W. L. hirton W. Ii. A. Baldwin L. II. Bagwell .1. W. Barnett W. C. Bol. 1). .1. iluwhanan (". bll 11. Camlpbell L. 1. Corbinl .1. W. Cirall er I. nn a I ln .T. Umisnh~vI S. C. I(eIlo.Ik A. I'.. Q1u 1crel .1. Rle d ford 11. Walker L. P. Walker It. S. Ayers .1. aI".11rniett h.la r11on o. Hobo C. C. Brown .1. C. ilutler L. C. (oggins C. '. Craddock v", IA., .\.' \'. 1:;a rdsH \V. V. -:u o I-. P. V. IlIartin L. P. .\loon I. C.Pou er R. 1. i(lk an S. L). ('atsh ('. P. l:l.dwing X. (.goy WJ. A. lI mtr aa .X. Huningo N. K.i des X. . Fleing A. .l. Mlaer WI..GrMoory .l. I). OSoitelaw .. P iunter ' l'f.-W. Koernngo W. I). K ing WI. T. Helam A. M.hiooe P. Mcoet (1. Mclitoc I. . Sields W. Panintel J. A. Powersat A1. DX. Piow'ers T. TI. Rei A'. Rhodein Pi. Robertso WT. H.nXorth a .1. .\. Sullovan .l .Turnerno couto eed .a . anon . T. Flls T.eillJi aso Whit R. Wobeman J.o J. Coard Turned down on accountl ofxaend-n Jamnes F.lannan . F. Fuwllr White L. R3obert T. F. Pwhtel Carrol C. Smith Beautiful Reed Fiue New Line- Just R c e DO,, 0s D ll k 3 Piece Suit, $46.00 Upholstered In Fine Tapestry---Lamp and Table to Match Splendid quality, strong and durable, yet light in weight-finished in nut brown color. Call and see our spring line of home furnishings. We believe you will agree with us that it is the best to be found in the state. S.L%1 tNp .., SMH Wilkes&Co PALM BEACH SUITS CLOTH SUITS 7-The Idea B-an i. All of the ncccssities of life have ad vanced rapidly in price since the wa.r began~---food, clothing, shoes, hats, ecz.A * Clothes 7 represent an idea that not even these momentous times have been able to\ to overcome. The buying public appreciates a consis tent policy---the business of Styleplus makers doubled last year.\ Volume and concentration have made manufacturing economies possible and so that increased costs have been offset. Still all wool fabrics, the same distinct ive style and careful tailoring, the same guaranteed satisfaction, same price, $1 7. The bigger-than.the--tinmes idea has made good-~-you can still be well dressed for) $1 7; the price remains~ the same. 4 This is the Styleplus Store. _ D AVIS-R OP ER CO. L aurens Best Store ECLIPSE SHIRTS1 AA AHT