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"w f*' Fjnam^* Mercbaets ^|)t||) ^STiESSl^ **VOL XXI KING5TREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 7,1907. NO. 6 POSITIVELY r i being completed we find we have a lot of remnants in Dry Goods, that we offer at Reduced Prices. We also offer 20 per cent off in Boys' Clothing:. .S h r> 0 S We bought at low prices before the advance in lA*ithf?r trnnds and (rive our patrons the benefit of the ^farmer bas?s of prices as long as our present stock lasts. Pants! j m Fantg! Big of Stock of Men's and Boys' p? Pants at rock bot torn prices from $1.23 ID $1.50 TO $3.00 AND $4.50 for the best quality. Groceries. We pride ourselves on having high class Groceries in every line and we deliver orders within the corporate limitsHoping to help you toward prosperity in the New Year by supplying your needs at the lowest pricesYours for business, ^People's pi ercantile % No Display Advert'.*. FARMERS' INSTITUTE AT UNGSTREL CLEMSON CAR ATTRACTS MANY?SCHOOL CHILDREN WENT THROUGH IT?INTERESTING LECTURES. Kingstuee, Ftbrnary 5:?The Clemsou car tame up fiom Georgetown on Monday morning and was sidetracked just norrfi of the station. All day it was thronged by visitors who displayed interest in having the exhibitions explained to them by the professors in charge. The party consisted of Prof J N Harper, professor of agriculture and director of the experiment sta- { tionf Cot J S Newman, Prof W S, Morrison and Prof C S Dogirett There were two exhibitions, lu the morning the farmers' institute' at the court house attracted more! than a hundred farmers despite a day of had weather. It was cold and rain} all day, but many farmers came from distant points iu the country. Kingstiee has manifested interest ever since the car arrived. Many ladies went through the car today and the school children were taken down by grades. This proved a fur more satisfactory plan than last year when they were taken down iu a body, thereby crowding the car fcoNrK X is not establis g <?It IRequdu I (lor M B a uui k/ivxu after ye O 3=3easc3a.s V We keep the stock in every wa O raunity. The best of every thing i A the attention perfect and the price Sf already familiar with our way of d< O make it profitable for you to oeeoir Q =HEALTHS X DEMANDS PURITY and ST V YOU USE. X A fl j is a Licent 8 Dr. Mut y business u x 10(17 Means morc Patro Q IJUI The person who r 0 Complete line School I X ?always o Agent for X nb ' late Bon Bor iuu arc always wcicuiuc. ouiit X6 " J. B. v Physician anc Q LAKE C] Cash is 1 At this season t pocket book is til the reins. If it's a Horse we can fill your m Ill BUCJUIES, I ESS, L AP R0B1 KETS, all the lies we are headqnarti VISIT OURSTABI WANTS AND WE LI ^_ F. C. Tl ^lirLg-st / v ;emsnt Changed Unles lejond its (he. T'j * arrange j ; luent wji? i > tin* i??re-ig!i! ??i" i I Vol" I let ilea. All tli** CU'ni.-tsi j*;ir:\ expressed i themselves a> ii iigiii"d a? w--i. as mi prised by the phenomena! y:i ?-v?h ! <'f Kiligstiee. The ear goes :r<un i ere to Lake, , , r . | City. 'I lie iiitire iarv is nea"i ig its j ! end, which couies <>n the 15th in - j stant at Ckesterfi Id. A'l hands I are feeling the strain of the long! it 'tiijt, which I'egau a! Le?.-*ilie on! I January 3 I lie work has Ken con-j j grunt and Ii s covered the entire low ! ' conntrv. 1 - ' -- .i .,1 I'rot Harper toid ycs'?ri v now j .-oils were formed. Nearly all Sot till Carolina soils were formed by rock ; disintegration The soils wlpch were formed by ra; i I curients of water j have a coarser gravel in them and hence the nearer t >e coast one {joes the tiner the toils. The main difference between sand and clay 11 tint clay c ?ntai is more siliciteof aluminum, and it absorbs other ingredients. For instan ', iron rust clings to its surface and imparts the red Color obs rveJ i-?i western South Carolina. Cay s-ilsj contain more potash and more phoaphoiic acid. He then went on to tell hi* hearers of the value of hninus to a 6oil ? how it. air-orbed and retailed moisture and how it contained huuiic ae'U SengeI hed in a day X *?? Titna?? g ijoyed the confidence of Q blic for many years, the Q ersons patronizing us year cS 3 "Wli.37" g | v suited to the needs of the com- * s carried, the assortment is large, O s JU>T RIGHT. If you are not iing business, we think we can J\ ie acquainted. U >ECURITY= X RENGTH IN THE DRUGS X i >ed Pharmacist, doing a legal busi- X ha drug line and we insure safe Sr e compounding and safe prices. Q lake no safer investment than to do uth us. Sr ns for our store. \f\fT] X uns can read this. IjUI V Jooks and Statloneru X >n hand.? X ict Cigars (Havana made) X Chocolates and Choco- rS is. Q off this new year by coming to Respectfully yours, * 'RANT X I Pharmacist, 0 ITY, S- C X xxxxxxxxxxxxQ Sconomy. lie man behind the e mail who holds or Mule you want eed. WAGONS, IIA ItUS, HORSE BLAN;t oil the market, ;rs. -ES, TELL US YOUR , DO THE REST, liOMAS ;xfce, S. O, is Copy Reaches Us t which changed th tricalcate of phosphoric acid into die ilrate, thus rendvoiii" it more so'nb'e for plant foc?d. Soils tititl'-r water gained little in fertility bee m?e the nitrogen was liberate 1 as fast a* i' wa- collected bv denitrofvinj bacteria. It was of the most importance toj drain lands in the low-country; this was the first and most imperative duty. After the wnter was drawn off, then go to work to prepare a humus. To accumulate homo. it was absolutely necessary to rotate crops. Plant oats, peas, corn, rye and snch things in succession. The roots of these would accumulate a humus. He said that farmers must stop sending cotton seed meal out of the country, as it was the cheapest nitrogenous food on earth. Eighty (80) per cent of the meal when fed to cows was returned io the form of manure. When meal .vas sent out of the country it vrent to buildup otliei countries. Farmers should stop feeding cot ton sexl hulls, costiug from *7 U>$8 a ton, and feed ensilage instead, costing $3 a ton. We could make corn ensilage as cheiply as any country in the world if we would only UUIIU CIIV/'. Prof Harper then took np the diary industry and said no country in the Western world afforded finer opportunities fortue successful conduct of the diary business. Prices were good and the only thing n cessary was to get tine strains of cattle and gaadually breed up fine herds. Prof. Harper went ful ly into the subject of selecting d ii r animals, selecting the Jersey the typical dairy cow and telling how to select a good hull. The lecturer was detained for 30 minutes a"ter he had finished, answering questions from different farmers. Col J. S, Newman ga?e an unu-....11.. .olL- nn ?? a ?rt-ir?n ll nr. il? OUtfllY 11IIC utm vii .v.. .M.>. an Applied Seience," The world was made for man to possess and enjoy. Orod had given man two looks. The tirst was the Bible, through its inspired writers. The second wa3 the book of nature, which man read through understanding People': Kingstree MEINHJ N1 % 1 ' jy Tuesday, Noon, Pre ami study. Tin- relation of the cognate sciences to agriculture was taken up and ! discussed in detail. Botany was ionel3eld and this treated of what were the plants useful and harmful to us, -iiid the uses of each. Entomology, or the study of insects, " as also invaluable as pointing out insect friends ahd enemies of man; how t-? combat one and cultivate the other. Chemistry and geology each played important parts as did mineraleiry and zo ology. Farming- was not the result of i. i u..j. xi 1. c i I cnance mn me resuii <u law. j cai blight came in a definite way and was caused by bacteria; the farmer should know how to fight this. Likewise the Sail Jose ecale should be understood and fought out. lie went further and stated that ( farmers should 3tudy to develop all the resources which Dature had provided. God had given the world to man and had given man reason to understand it and to enjoy it. This was a great lecture on a moat faacinuting theme and was of great value to the community. At night there was a Ieci^e on | iudusiri.n education by Prof. Mor-| rison, of the deportment of history of Clem80ti College; a stereoptican exhibition by Prof Doggett and a talk on beautifying home and grouudaby Col. Newman. The entire community has enjoyed this visit from Clemson on wheels and hopes for a repetition of the same next year.?News and Courier. Administrator's Sals- ; lender an order of the Probate Court dated February 4, 1907, 1 will offer I for sa'e ?t Staples Lake. S C.. on the 1st dav of March, 1907, at 12 o'clo k, m. the following personal property belonging to theestate of Jno Teevlri. deceased, to wit: Five head of cattle, six hogs'two carts, one bu~g.v and I farming and implement? Terms of sale,cash. II VaNKEUKK.Y, Admini t'a'or E-t. JNO TEKVIN. 2-7-81. It is i well known medical fact that pine resin is most effective in the treatment of diseases of theblad dei and kidneys. Sufferers from back ac uud other troubles due to faulty action of the kidneys hod relief in tne use of Pine-ules. $1,00 buys 30 days treatment.?Sold by W L Wallace. 1,0 m. It's a Harvard Brarn They are the kind tl The cold days are |jj^^ with a "Harvard B f missing a good feeli Sold by= > Mercan k 0 '9 .ey Axe 2^a,d.e 3 1RD, SCHAVI EW YORK and SAVANNA \ * * ' - ^ceding Date of Issue. TWO NEW STORES. * Mercantile Establishments of Stackley and Courtney about Completed. Two more mercantile buildings are about finished and ready for occupancy, viz., those of Messrs L Stackley and P S Courtney, Mr Stackley's building is o? the corner of Maiu and Academy stieeta, on the site of the old wooden structure where he did business for many years. The new store, besides being most advantageously situated, is, in the , opinion of many, the handsomest mer1*1 -i I 1! 1 i. * i.l_ _ A canine estaousnmeni in ine ravu. It will be remembered that when Mr Stackley first put]up thisstructnre the storm came and leveled it to the ground, but he plnckily went to work aud put it up again even better than before. Such is the spirit of New Kiugstree that nothing can stay its progress, and that is the trne secret of success whether it apply to individual or community. Mr P S Courtney is one of our most popular aud enterprising young business men and for push or energy it would' be haid to find his peer. His new store is neit door to hie present place of business and his numerous friends life glad _ to know that he will shortly be under his own rr*>f in the wav of a nluce of business. He will in the snmmer conduct an "Ice-cream Palace" and trnlj from the plans he now has in mind his place, though not so very large, will be palatial in elegance and comfort. Graded School Department Most of us enjoyed going down to the Clemson college car Monday and looking over the many interesting things which the students have made. The seventh grade had an algebra examination Monday. The first meeting of the Wili liamsbqrg Teachers' association !was held here last Saturday. Two very interesting subjects were discussed by Supt P P Bethea, Supt Graham McCullough, Prof E B Hallman, Rev E E Ervin, Rev J E Mahaffey and several others. The tenth crade wore long faces Tuesday?physics examination. 00 to 1 1 suit he is wearing. ) Fit hat give satisfaction in rWear J Price \ i here, if you are not fitted out rand" Winter Suit, vou are ing thai: belongs to you. tile Co., 5. C. 337- ?. . . &C0. I H. ';' -J