Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Earners & Merchants ^m^4 . ,4* M 0 .?z?g?s T.? y-g 11 4IhJ iti^iVlrrt ' '"pKtw*s^r^ ?s,7,00#-90 U J1P Lr villi 11 III KL/ 0 jL JLJ f0L XXI KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROUNA, FEBRUARY 28.1907. -NO. 9 % POSITIVELY Every- j thing We had in the way of Dry Goods, Dress Goods, i Eaces, Embroideries, Etc, was honght before the recent sharp advance in prices and we ean to pive oar customers the heneflt of the difference in price. The lines we carry ctnid scarcely he honght today for what we sell thea, hat we have not Increased the price on any article hal actually marked down a nnaher of IhlOffS. It yon wait a swell pair of1 Shoes see onr ."Kill Mil!" ' for Men at $8.5* and $4.M. *aJ fkllina mm r?i lavivi vbii?iv nv receanead the J^TRACE MARKER Star Brand Shoes. #> handle other cheaper grades of ; shueo. hn! these are oar leaders. We la vie attention lo oar elegant lines or Dress Shirts, Hosiery and Underwear for tan, Women and Thlldren. I Stylish Low Collars I " Sitka" and 'Bryson" are perfect fitting I collars, and their (rood lines of style keep I them constantly in demand. I FOR THE CORLISS-COON COLLARS which arc world famous we are exclnsire agents. Latest effects in lace curtains and curtain material, also we bare a 1st of 75c. Roller shades marked down to 40c. Keep warm by buying one of oir blankets?they are all wool aid more than a yard wide Laces and Embroideries. ' New Slock 5c laces ?nd embroidery ? 'J 1 *>? Idle* MD?lll? orntner RVIHR " t? 1"4V| IVV ?|?auui j ^vau^ at 7c; 12 l-2c polo? at 9c. We hare the sroods aud oar prices are rlsht. Give as a call. People's Mercantile Company., KINGSTREE, S. C. No Display Advertisement Changed Unle: WHY PAY 'rAVCC - ; \y T J On Land You Don't Specially Need? J g DON'T YOU THINK I * * J It would be good business to sell J I * some of your land and invest your 5 I j monev? ; I | DO YOU WANT TO SELL? | 1 ; No matter where located we can sell ? j for you and it will pay you to see u*. * s Stall Bros.. ReaiE,tat^5:?:N c 5 f ?? ? ?? .?.u6?-vv, ? * ?# T j ^ HilM *N 44444444-3444444444444444^ m ii n??????M???? |conm^nce| X is not established in a day X g Requires Tta@-~ g V fin i'Hntin ^as enJ?>'ec^ confidence of Q q II \ flPP pu^^c f?r many years? Q o II i? III [Isame PersonsPatron'z'n?us year O X UU L/IU1U after year. cS v ZESeascrts g V We keep the stock in every way suited to the needs of the c< m- Ja O munity. Tne best of every thine is carried, the assortment is large, \J /V the attention perfect and the prices JU>T RIGHT. If you are not /S pr already familiar with our way of doing business, we think we aan * CJ make it profitable for you to "become acquainted. \/ g =HEALTH SECURITY= X X DEMANDS PURITY and STRENGTH IN THE DRUGS X V YOU UHE. X X ft ft ft j is a Licensed Pharmacist, doing a legal busi- X X fill MM K A Ml ness 'n '*ne ar"' we insure safe y O III iJ UildillL <^ru8*? safe compounding and safe prices. Q X VI | VltlltViM You can make no safer investment than to do X y business with us. V 0 |Q()7 Means more patrons for our store, jfifil Q V I Jill The person who runs can read this. I Jul V x fiomntota line Softool Books and St,atIonern X X ?always on hand.? X O Arrnnl fnr Lygia Perfect Cigars (Havana made) X Q flPufll JOl Montagu's Chocolates and Choco- Q 5 6 late Bon Bona. Q X You are always weloome. >tart off this new year by coming to X X see as. Respectfully youw, X X J. B. DVRANT, 8 O Physician and Pharmacist, O 0 LAKE CITT, S. C. O ! Cash is Economy. At this season the man behind the pocket book is the man who holds the reins. If it's a Horse or Mule you want w e can fill your need. In BUGGIES, W A GOVS, lit It NESS, LAP ROBES, HORSE BLANKETS, all the best on the market, we are headquarters. VISIT OUR STABLES, TELL US YOUR WANTS AND WB LL DO THE REST, F. C. THOMAS 3 g. GL Death of Mr. S. D. Bryant. Notice. ,ri Pursuant to the plan of working Died C n Ihursday, Febi aary j(Mlds advocated by me during the last 14, 1907, at his home five miles campaign I now call upon the citizens , , ~ j * r ta of the county to meet and agree upon below Gourdins, Mr otephen D some suitable and competent overseei Bryant, aged 63 years. The breach five mile section, who will be ,. . . . , , appointed as such by me and whose (hitfuneral services took place on ies will be to see that each person liable to c^oir^ov frkllntrino- at Snttnns road work either works or pays. The | uatuiuuj ivi*v _ church in the presence of a d overseer's salary will be agreed , r i x- upon by the board by at a number of sorrowing relatives d,lU.. Thefe r,-cu,nm datioi,s I and friends, the services being- want forwarded to me by March 20, conducted by Rev Prosser, 1907 at latest Now fellow-citizens. pastor Greelyville Baptist this plan being inaugurated for the , , purpose of improving our highways church. and keeping them in proper condition i The immediate family left by aml making every man do his duty, I ' the deceased consist of his wife ur,?e upon yon notto 8tand on a nion* {the aeceasea consist or ms wire eytarvconslderatlon, but select a man and four children. Who will work for the upbuilding of the Mr Bryant was a Confederate roads and let us all work together in veteran and had many trieuds making them better than they have throughout the county. *ya been be,ore- s j sinoletaey, B. County Supervisor. 2-28-2t - ) ' . ' ' .'4 ' ' ..tf ' " . ss Copy Reaches Us 1 HISTORY OF THE STATE DISPENSARY. SOME CF THE EVENTS LEADING TO ITS DOWN-FALL-BRICE LAW THE ENTERING WEDGE. Columbia, February 24: -South Carolina has had one week of absolute prohibition. During thnt week there may have sprung up two bliud ligers where one blind liger grew Ivfore, and during that week the jug trade may hav? increased by a jugful, but at any rate there has beeu less for the police to do, and the Recorder's court it) Columbia has been very tame. There hate been no complaints of wholesale violations of the law anywhere. On Saturday evening in Columbia, it is a sight to watc'i t ie dispensaries?or it used to be a sight. Negroes, most of them laborers who have knocked off work, go in and out by the dozen and there is a croud standing before the doors. This sight was lacking yesterday evening, and, it may be that some o t lit-se negroes took home more money and more groceiies than they have been doing, whether or not there were blind tigers to be patronized. The shutting down of the dispensary 8. stem was so much of a surprise to most peisons that many were caught without the little dram which they hike for their stomach's sake, and in seme cases it was really a hardship. One old woman came into the Goveri or's office pleading for some whiskey for a sick child, and nearly all the dispensaties h ?d similar requests. More Ibiiii one instance of this sort was personally observed. But tu seventeen counties of South Carolina the closing down of the dispensary system gave no such surprise. Tn seveureen of the most populous and prosperous counties the dispensary was alriady a tiling of the past. Marlboro and Gri-enwood have always been without dispeusaries, and gradually under the Brico law fifteen others ridded themselves of ihe institution. The ; Brice law was the beginning of the j Carey-Cothrati law. That is to le.,v if ,c iIip luenl unt.ion law CU ? | lb ?? W ??? M?w . W W... ? permitted to be enacted under the dispensary regime. Senator Brice, whose fight against the State dispensary deserves everlas ing remembrance. was not the first to try to get a local option law passed. Mr John R Harrison, who sat in the house and voted quietly for the Carey-Cothran law. advocated something of the kind when he was a candidate for governor in 1898. Senator Appelt introduced a bill of this kind to 1899 or 1900, aud Senator Archer, of Spartanburg, did the same, if the writer's memory is uot at fault. If one of these bills had passed the State dispensary system might have been preserved, probably it would have been preservea and perfected. The most bitter enemies of the dispensary were willing to accept the Appelt bill and cease the fight on the dis pensary system if it were enacted. ' Hut ihe dispensary regime was obdurate. It would not yield an i inch. There was no concession. . "After us the deluge," they said, and the deluge has come. The opposition to the dispensary > at first came principally from the towns, where the barnwms had been closed and the municipal , whiskey interests were put out of power. The piohibitionists, with some exceptions, never liked the dispensary law, aud in 1899 or thereabouts, when the local optionists, under Col George Tillman and tht prohibitionists, under Mr Featherstone, had both gone down riofpAf h#>fnre the disnensarv | 111 f*v*vwv ~ A " ' J jy Tuesday, Noon, Pr< forces, there was a plan conceived to decrease the opposition of the towns to the dispensary. This plan coinu'sted iifchanging the law so as to give the towns a larger share of the profits, and it was put through the legislature under the leadership of Senator S G Mayfield. Standing on the Y M C A corner one night, Senator M&", field told the writer of his purpose and told him to watch its effect, which would, he said, be to bring over to the supI port of the dispensary the voters of I the towns. He was a true prophet, ; and for the last few years the towns, Columbia chief among them, have favored the State dispensary system for the reason that the officials and politicians did not see bow thej could get along without the profits to run the town government. Io? oiden tally, it may be remarked that the dispensary had been killed by the same plan? giving (be towns the chance to get even larger profits, as they surely will do under the county dispensary scheme. But after 1898 the fight against the dispensary was left to the pro hibitiouists, and many of them al that time supported the dispensarj as a step towards prohibition. On' of th^most brilliant opponents ol Senator Tillman and the dispensary, not a prohibitionist, told the writer in the summer of 1900 that if th< d'spensary was not defeated thai year liit-re was no use e*er to fighi it any more; that it was a settlec J i question. inere seeniru uuijm justification for that prediction dnr iug the next few years. Unfortunately, (be gentleman who madi the remark did not lire to see ho* the people have changed theii minus. In 1902 the dispensary wus no an- issue in the campaign and it 1902 and 1904 a dispensary gorernoi was elected by anti-dispensary met as well us dispe sary men. But tb< legislature elected in 1904 hat eft-n the handwriting on the wall. At the time when the oppoeitiot to the dispensary seemed thoiongh ly disorganized, defeated and with ont hope of revival a delegation o citizeus carue over here from tb< town of Saluda. There had been i carnival if crime in Stluda, as | sail I ts and murders, and the respou eilnlity was laid at the doors of th< I dispensary. The citizens sent ove j this delegation to ask the Stat j board of control to close the Sa.'ndi dispensaries. 'I he beard calmly in formed the delegation that there wa nothing in the dispensary law whicl gave the board or any one else ^ power to close a dispensary exce'p temporarily?unless ihe board foum that a dispensary was being ran a a financial loss. There was notbinj in the dispensary law which too k ji to consideration the possible effec of the dispensary's business upon th morals of a community only the ef feet of the dispensary's business ujvoi the profit accouut of the institutioi was considered. In that Saluda delegation was ; young lawyer, who had come a spokesman for the citizens. He wa good and mad when lie left the boari room. He had never been in poli tics, did not care much for it, bu be swore as he left that buildirj that he would not cease to fight th the State dispensary system unti either he or the dispensary was dead Saluda has always been counted-1 | dispensary county, but Senator B ! W. Crouch, representiDg Saluda cast his vole the other day for tb< bill to abolish the State dispensa ry. It was the sort of tyranny of wliicl Senator Oronch was the victim tha day which cansed the dispensary'i downfall. Senator Brice introducec his bill to allow a county having i dispensary to vote upon the questioi of closing or continuing the dispen eceding Date of Issue/ I j sary and seeing that the bill was go , | ing to pass, the dispensary element i; in the legislature amended it so as to make its operations as difficult as .! possible. Then under the Brice law Cherokee teok the lead in closing , i the dispensary and within two, years ./ i fourteen others followed suir. . After the Brice law came the Mor> gan bill, which, in 1906, passed the ' i house of representatives by a large majority and was killed in the sen. ate by a small majority. Then came . > ' the campaign of 1906, which is too recent history to record here, <J>d then came Governor Ansel and the J . general assembly of 1907, including i Jim Carey and Tom Cdlhran.?"J. 1 H."in News <& Courier. froi vmnrs caipci . k Wllllansbuf Stadeit Tells Ml the t Wofford College, February 25:?Notwithstanding the freesI ing weather here the college ' rg boys keep up their spofts and e x penence more of pleasui e than discomfort. Friday evening last . an interesting game of basket- , . j . ball was played in the city Y. M. > C. A. ball between the Spartant burg and Augusta teams, the score being 15 to 27 in favor of 1 Augusta, much to our surprise. > As Friday, the 22nd inst., t Washington's birthday, Was a t a holiday , we students rested I our book-worn minds. ' On the evening of February - 21st a grand and eloquent J - lecture was delivered in the -v^ s auditorium of Wofford college ~~ r by Hon George D Wendling of r Washington, D. C. He is one of the greatest speakers on the t platform to-day. His subject ? was '-Stonewall" Jackson,"the - - " ? -'*? r ureatest ana Jtsest 01 an ameiw ? can Generals." The great aujn6 ence present considered it the 1 best lecture ever beard here. j The new postof?ce building, 1 of which the corner-stone was * laid on Washington's birthday ' one year ago, is nearly comf pleted. It will be one of the e finest in the South when ficish1 ed. A large and spacious opera. , 4 house is being rapidly cone structed on N. Church streets . M The jolly athletic students are a now practicing to forn^ the j base ball team of Wofi:'ord^4ff>?the following season. We all f hope Wofford will win all the ' , games played in the Intercolt legiate association. 'JS j In the college auditorium, ' t Friday evening, February 22, r y beginning at 8:30 o'clock, the a annual oratorical contest was ? I held between the Calhonn, Care lisle and Preston literary socie ties. The speakers were: Messrs a L K Jennings and C E Klugh, a Calhoun; M C Foster and C Sv Bethea, Carlisle; W W Carson,, a Preston. The medal was award 8 ed to W W Carson, and he is to s representlWoffordatFurmanuni? 1 versity. Music was rendered by - the Spartanburg orchestra and! t after the exercises a reception I was given in the Preston and e Calhoun literary society halls 1 and a jolly time reported, as well, as "Cupid's effects." a Well, Mr Editor, if this escapes the waste basket, I will try > again. e Good luck to you. . H. T. P. j It is a. well known, medical fact that pine resin is most effective in 1 the treatment of diseases of theblaa- V ' der and kidneys. Sufferers from 1 back ache and other troubles due to i faulty action of the kidneys findrex lief in the use of Pine-ules. $1.00 buys 30 days treatment.?Sold by m WL Wallace.