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* * *4*o*... * o 4 e e e * Local and Personal Mention. 4*4 * 0* * 44** 4.* .. *4*e 'Mrs.. J. Anna Stevens, of Bethune, is visiting Mir. S. M1. Wilkes and fam ily. Allss Harriet .J. Clarkson, of Colui bia, is visiting Dr. and 'irs. A. J. Christopher. ir. I. W. Davis, of Fountain Inn, spent Sunday in the city with Mr. and Mirs. It. E'. Ilughes. Airs. J. E. .lcc)onald and Mlr. .Joh Little, of Columbia, spent Sunday in the city withi their mother, Airs. J. It. Little. Miss Vivian Hiuff, Who is teaching in Batesbur'g, sircnt the week-end in the cty wIth her parents, Mir. and Mr's. Anrz. Huff. ,.Nir. John Wilke. is taking in the Thirtieth ')ivislon reunion a s the guest of Preston Westmilor'elaid, foriml erly with tire hititler Guards. Mi's. J. V. Smith, 'Mrs. II. C. Fuller and Edwini uller and A i rs. Cora WIrarton, of Spartanhurg, visited Ai's. J. T. A. I .allo w, at Iishonrir Sun day. .\iss ILattie Ehicelberger, 1who has been principal of the school at Norris, for the past t wo years. left last week to as*1umeic her dillies for allothr year, having heeloelected for another terrm. Mr.- L. S. Ilolt returned M1'onday to Leesville after spending several days in the hogpital here where lie had his tonsils remrioved. 'Mrs. Bolt leaves to day to join him. Mai. Paurl S. Arior, connected with the Var Savirgs depart-ment of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, has been spending several days In the city. 'Messrs. Ilarry Thames and Billy Royal, of 'Charleston, spent Sunday af it'r'noorn in tire city with Dr. and Mirs. II. K. Alken, on their way from Charleston to the Thirtieth Reunion at Greenville. Mir. and '.lrs. R. B. Watts, of Colum bia, Mrs. 'Mollie J. Ballow, of Blacks burg, Mr. M. F. Wharton, 'Mr. and Mrs. 0. T. 'Ballow and LMr. ad Mrs. M. 0. Ballow, of Cinion, visited Mr and Mrs. J. T. A. Ballew, at Lisbon, Sunday. Sergt. M1elvin Abercrombie, who has been overseas with the A. E. F., reached New York last week and is again at his Ioie a few nilles in the country whier'e lie is receiving a hearty welcome by friends and relatives. Irs. 0. II. Simnions and daughter, Aliss Louise, and \liss Loule Aar'tin, visited i. aid Mrs. J. T. A. Ballew, at Lisbon, Suiday. M"'. and Mrs. J. W\'. ell(le'son ard i'. and Mr's. Ed. Ilicks wer.e also visitors there, Mirs. Hallow haviig Just, rec.'tlurt'ne(d from the hospital. Mir. Ed. 'imllpson, a forimier resident of this city but nopw connected with a hotel at ruthrrfordtrton, N. C., spent ionida night in the city and was giv ''n a hearty greeting by his friends. '.\r. S impson rode down 'wil soldier friends to attend the itairunion in Greenville ard could not resist tle t ermpt1ation11 of c'orm ing oni dow~'n to I au r'enis brefore' returr'inrg to iris dirties ini been stationed at PhliladelIphia since r'ecei vinig Iris comm iss Ion as a lieu1 Senianit scoon a fteri' the t'nr ited Slates cin t'red tire war, spe~Jnt severial1 days at Iris hiomie ini thIe coiunty last, week on hiis way to (Campll Gor'don whiere lie was o receive Iris d ischrarige Mlonday. (Caprt. ('uniininightamr Itas necep lt ed a 'positIion "'Ith Wellington & Scat's, a lar'ge teix lle concern of Itostoni, .\ass., and will go there ve'ry soon. 'Mi's. J1. P. Simpisori, hter siter', M\r's. Thiedford, anrd daughiteris, M\isses L~utcin andu .\nnie, left Th'lursday for Jackson vIll, i'ta.,'where they will make threit' hiomre ini thIe futrne. i'Tc'y cwer'e ac (compaid by3 cir's. A. W. C'ockrell, Jri., whoc has baeri v'Isitin rg threm for sev eral weeks. On their way down threy st olpid over in Columnbbla to v'isit Gov'. anidc I\t's. 1i. A. Cooper. 'lhe dedp a rture m ofi \irns. Simpson and~ famrilly is a sornce of keen r'egr'et to their marry f'riemrt.a here where thtey were elosely Idenitlied with thre r'eligiouts and so cial life of the cily and whre the late D r. Shtnplson sprent hris life as a irae ietng physician. The Sinrison horme oni i~ast 'Mai street hits been lilur ('hased by, Mt'. lar'ioni J. S-1mnpson, w~ho w'ill mo~ve into It ini the Immnediate fur sture. StIllwell-Jonesa. ~liss Nancy Stillw~ell arid M'. WIl 11am E. Jones, of Mlountvile, were urnitedI in the holy h~otnds of mautr'irmoniy at the residence of 11ev. A. E. 11ol1cr, Turesday a ftetrnoonr at 5 o'clock, the Rev. Mir. hloler offieatling. M\Iss St iilwell is the fIfth (laughter of .\r. arid Mrs. D). 1I. Stillnvell, a pros5 pei'oust far'mir of nre~u Mlounttville, and has manny nolhe tr'aits of character which are greatly admir'ed by all. 3M. .Jorin Is a clerk at '1iipp Bros.' store at Mounitville, where lie has been for thre .past three ye'ars, wvithi the exlcption of five mnonthis that lie fspe(nt ini the 4mry, and ist well like~d by all. These yourhg people have the hear'ty cnnr'nturlatlonn of theIr many friends. OLD HICKORY MEN ENDORSE PEACETREATY (Continued 'from Page One.) a two day reuilon of the Old Hickory association whlch began hero today with more than 5,000 members present. All the sieiakers denotnced Bolshev ism and said the returned soldIers wotuid -bo the leaders to suppress such dangerous elements and that they are to bo relied upan to aid In peace and reconstruction. Indieations tonight, based on good authority, are that Asheville will be Selected as tle place of tle next re union and Ihat Col. Hol mes 1. Springs who recently troyed tio Greenville from Georgetown, will be elected president of the associat ou. lie commanded the supply trains of the Thirtieth division. Prank 11. Brown or Knoxville will be elected secret aIy and1'3 t le asu1 rer' i f the report of the committee on tin nit tions ..; atll.t d. The most thrilling address of' tIe tay was delivered by General Tys6 , conlimandt Ier of the Fifty-ninlt h infan otry bl'l-adie of the Thirtieth division. who broueH th" vast eltering aldieti-e to its foi wlhln le declared 11ut "The Thirlieth1 division ;broke the Iliiden hurg lilie, tnd broke it iist." le as srted that the platool Comllman11lders, and mien1 dei'Vrvd Itore credi thant After paying a beaitifll tribute to the mieni of the Thirtietl and welcoli ing tihemit home in a beatitfil I message. Governor Cooper said: "There is an other reason'A-hy we are happy to wel Comt e you home. Now that you are back you will find great issues con fronting you within yotur states and your nation. Because of your demon stated character I feel justifled in making this nppeal, that. you attack niuarcly thC prol ems that arise foi lowing the declaration of peace and during the tiie of reconstruction. The nation soon will be back to normal conditions but normal does not inean conditions as they existed before the war. You will write a new declaratton of independence. You will face a new war of righteousness against greed, of justice against oppression. The challenge comes today to face a new enemy, which may seek to underinine tle government for which you fought so valiantly. The men of tile Thirtileth division 'will see that their battles in France have' not been In vain." Governor Cooper Scored Bolshevism and othler sinister organizations aimed at the very foundation of our dem oracy. lie referred to tile problems of education that will be one of the greatest for solution in the near fu ture. TWO NEORMES DIE ATi' 3M01S IA NIS liacks (hargedii uintih Assnult Taken frtomti Aialabama1f Officers and Lyicited. .\iontgomlery, Ala., S.-ept. 29.-Two~v no gros, '.\liles Phifer anti Roert Cresky, the latter a retirned soldier, were tak en froti Mlont gomery countiy otlicinais aboutt I ive miles fromi iIs city and 1 l edi thtis aftU rn00n. T1he nigrtoes wCIre liein tWCarr ied to I1 l 'Stale iisoin at We'-tlsidw. tor safe-l[t'tping whetn a masked mobi forced tiihe liters to lay tdow n theirt armts, and thten led thle ne grtoe s abtitt 100 ya rds into thle w oodts a t(dt opened't fire oin thlemi with shot gluns and~ pistols. Ilothi inegroes were't elharged w i it crt iminal alssauIlt on l'a rIier in thle (day thle I wo negrtoes hadt be'en granited a preliminary hieart I i behind cltosed (lootrs, andi theirt trials htad bieen set foir nex t FrIiday 3. After the action of the trial judge htad bc'en known, it is said that organ Iza tli o the muoh was then itnrder woi'd net be 111, ii \Mont gomiety bt. iirobablt)y be cartied to sotme othIter hail nearby, the leadtersl sutrtmised thtat thle Weitumtpka lprisont woutld lie thle One selIected. 'iTe party3, iitmherhiing1 twetnty-five tieti, all mausked, made its way to a point ot the W\ethmnlka toad abiot fiv" tm!les enlst of thle clity and there e await ed the atrriv~a o f thle sh er lff'5 car enct tying the iprisoniers. Whieti t:e 'ar' cairrying the two negrocs( wh'ch )watS altctompi ited 1by thrtee dIeputiy sheti ffs, rolled up to thie spot selected by the leaders of the mob, thle latte bc'ilockedl t he road and demiandted custody of t hell' prisonier's. lHesist ance was useless in thle face tif shot guns and pIstols. Depiuty Rher 1ff Frtiz'zel, one of the gua rds, decelaredet. They wet'e disarmedi, a guard left wiih them and the iiegroes hust led ou t of the enar about 100 paces off thle roadl where they were loosed a ndld( to ru n. 'iTough ly fr'igh tened antd real - izing te fate iihat .w'as uplon iihemi, I the negroes madec little or tno effort to get taw'ay and the imetn openied fire with pistols anii diot gunts. Pifer' was at most instanly k illed, being riddlIedt ft'otm head to hteel, iwhile Crtoskey was likewise shot utp,'htut surivived for fIve hur ms. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Dnvs Drugists refund l'nnnety if PA74 ' to euro Itchin'. ' imtent'ylt re ALWAYS WARNING OF RAIN Birds, Insects, and Weeds Foretell Downpour to Those Who Are at All Observant. The shleplterd a iong his sheep or the laborer on I the fari will not hesi tate i1 his reply to the often asked questlon, for these ien of the fIelris are almiost unennnily weathier wise. Their barometer is not only the moon, the clouds. the stars, but also the beasts, birds, nweels and weeds. The following sIgns, anong others, warn the countrynin (of file coning rain or storins, " 31. 1'. M." wriles In the con tinlentll editIon of the London T1he shrill cry of tih pwttone(k scremn Ing from tile fa3rinynrd gitte. A herd of cows prone onl the meadow, insteil of grazing on the Pasture. Lamb1112s lenItII II. 22nn1 frolleking with extra vigor in the fold. Ducks balanced oii their heads in a pool with only their tilln111d a portion of theilr backs aplwvaring abiove the watter lInI). A flight of swallows skinmming low. Siniolo asieiding it a strailght lin from the chliinney. The cotintied sound of croa litin frs froin thlie diths. The 1antagoInistit. conditioln (if the bees4 round the hlve . The sIlence of sin tginig hirds it the woods. The 1111wril (IIt the bIniks witl Its seniet Iblossnils vclstel Igalist the on iuiiit (f the storn. The extra brillinne of the stars (on the' eve or rin1). The haze 2round the r(unn. SpNers seeking refuge wv1titlit the cotIitge (or the brIn. The tintlsill Ily list inct roar of the train lieard fromn afar. POET.,WAS ERRATIC GENIUS Thomac Chatterton Did Marvelous Work Before His Suicide at the Age of Eighteen. That narvelous boy poet, Thomas Ciatterton, a youth with wonderful attanments but w'hose genius was er ratic, died before he was 18 years old, on Aug. 25, 3770, by taking arsenic "in anticipation of a slower death by sta-rvatilon." Froi his earliest childhood, C'hattep, toil Iii it glastly fanillarity with the Idea of suicide-, aind amnong his papers preserved in the 11rl1ish Inuseuni is a last will mnd testiinent. "l'Cxccutcd in the presence of Ontislence, the 1-Ith of April. 1770." full of the wildest wit and proftanilty. While there 1s a pe culiar interest to till lie wrote, lie I. hest renlemeied ats tle itithor of the so-called "Itowley Pt(i'ns'." which numn ber nearly four-score, "Klinour tindi Jugn" being the only (ie whichI ap penred during the lifetime. Sonie of them possess that beality of iiaglin ation with which we issocilate the work of Kents and Coleridge. These poets, its well as tosetIi and Villiani Morris, owed Imtucl to Chatterton. During the last few mionths of his life he worked with it hundred hands and poured forth satIrle poems, poll tical essnys, hurletes, letters in the style of Junius, and medinted writing n history of' Engltaid. F'ur i t line his prosplects seemed'r to brnighten, and1( while maity eitoirs were willIng to used his itnric(le's and11 gave htln t prais, few were willing to paiy for them. *Why the Moon's Phase. Thte light oIf t' moon~l is (due entre ly to reflection (If thle light of the. sun3, ititd te diffteent pihases oIf the m3oon13 t of the ear th and3( 11he sun. Wlhin there is a new moon3'h, hal f ot' the sur3 fnve of the' moon Is illutnnted, but ft' greateri Ioton is 3urned't frint t he enarth anti only a3 de'liete I criesenut 01) iIears' to us5. A:t te first q uarter, ha311f of thle il ilmiated 8surfatce is t urne'd toward tus, uilnd at lie fifteethI <ihty 3 tt' moon0 reaesi138i a(3 po int ite hiea&v ens dliret'fly3ii oppoite 3 t itat withlih thle 513n occuples. She is then31 it opposi-35 titn, and3( thle whoiile o)f thle llluiateditIt su rfatce is lturniedt to(Iwarii 1us,3 ani we3. unlly13 d ecrteasing In size, or rathe less3. and21( less oft tih' illuiiiintiedip part being I urnied towar Ih li ar(' h.3 Bets in History. (iels a tre ob'.'o frtniB o3Stf men. wer tnulesI niil etrs aigo, 23e before~l hell 23iit ai llomeg'ira ne 13331 t'ht~13kIle hti'm of the robe''-- the robPhe of ephlotd. Ifel Is hav e 51itumo(III'd .t'ldiers5 to airuts and13 ('hirist Inus to chutirchl. T'hey hav ~e rung fIr's 2and( tul32s1. On the thirdi diy of l'astler itn ".SfI l l'32,(' i('rlnc were inn2to 'redin enIti b~Ihilo lby .Johni of I'rceti'ti at the ringing~ of' &ielllian vt'm pe(rs. (In thlip 2-1iithiny oPf Augutst, St. Iiithnolinew's (1bly. 123 1572, hltl s rn in~a the massnere ofp 1Pt ,000titllltgue nts'. At 13th lie iof Nob''1s triumlph 2w3th 31ne11 dlit '12 '2ull. II' 3'ls ( Pro andJ Con. "Tihety ltll'' womeni( hiave nto strntiIh oft 3lhiiater. "Thii 'i's what 3 stiy. Ilidi yoult evei' to Jlowder'3 her nose?'' "No, sIr. I nitvt'r did3. it dlo you Rtuppose she is going to mlect any'hody in mildnir wh'io enn see wvhether or- not her nose is shiny?"-Birningharn Age Heratd. 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Manager Tyler, if the Opera Ilouse, said yester-lay that he believed that play-goers of I aurens and vicinity .will have the opportunity next .Monday. night of witnessing one of the very best farce comedies that has ever vis ited this city and really will see for the firaf time a shov: that is destined to tal its place among the iitost sue cessfulI. Contrary to Impressions wItich might he gained from fhe title, Mlr. Tyler said, the show is not of the "vamite" sort. "The Nauighly Witr is making a li11 in engagenntt oi itc-: way to North Carolina andt Is only playing tile Iarg er cities. Last Wednesday it showed in Augusta and the follo(wing crtiicism was written of it in Thursday mnorn ing's Augusta Chronicle: "The Naughty Wife." a Selwyn VOmII edy by Fred Jackson played to a full house at. the GrandI last night. and proved to be oie ot the most delight fttl surprises of siveral' Seaoils. It had iven ionpared with several of the poular farves of the past few seasons, In the advance notices, Int. it was far and away (leverer than any or its pre'de'cessoI. The liines of the play sparkle fromo he-inning to l'd, and Ihe situaltions are not only mirth provoking id the extrele, but de:!ght fully surprising, the only event, oi the entire three aets happening as It coul have been foreseen, being the happy ending. The -play is Iresented hy a cast of elgh I very (lever people: leeva ( 'eent Wood asils loive, the girl wife wlo gets lonely and bored beattse her ltusland Weaves her too mutch alone, and who because she has nothing to do. gets i entangled with Darrell -eMKnight (well called in tlie program a "phil anderer") was delightfutil, and palyed i te pal to perfecti on. (;ordon 11rld as the husband had a hard part to make in anty way nat Itural--he Iwas so Very much wisi anti afr seeing than husbands as we (now (t I i real life- -hut he Is an ex tremnely clever11 actor and got. away withl It in [lne shape, having ite sym pathy of the auilence witi him all the line. In the opinion of lte dralamatic critie of the Chronicle tlils Is destinled to lbe the most successful of tle Iany sue eessful farce comedies associated with the Selhyn name. a------ AND ------ BST VALUES In Fall Merchandise Otur Fall Stock of Merchandise of every description is now ready for display and we are proud of the Goods we are able to show. In spite of the scarcity of goods we have succeeded in buying the most bea iful and serviceable lines we have ever carried. 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