Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I' J Lft f w r u< r! ;:r [: :rui ft . 'Zsfa*s : ^ I ; jfe- f ? ; * ' i ? Kidney Trouble for !\ < Willi:*m Bailey, ]>a<! Col. Erie. No. ) inently identified with many of the t '> Chicago and New York, a:ui seorclar i1 in the former city, hu.l lor r.eari\ i! i 'i troubles. i1 Within a short j?eriod he has lit! ?S present healthy conbrjon i< attribute<! remedy. Washington cliinat* is n.?i S troubles, yet by r. :i: us u-e of th" (' excellent phy>i ul condition, a . (i Tliis brief statement of facts, wit hot L i1 to tell the w). -t ry, which the Pen K<! it so chooses, U lieving. a< I do, that ii W V good. William Bailey, |t Kidneys Affeclcd?Back Weak. y Mr. M. Broderh-i:. Secretary and , Treasurer Local Union No. 4?fi, Inter-j national Brotherhood of Teamsters, ; writes from 433 E. 4t)th St., Chicago, 111., W tuuuns. i?"1 "1 have been suffering from a weak back and kidney trouble for some time, and have been able to find relief only through the use of Peruna. 'During the winter season I usually keep a bottle of your medicine in the houee, and by taking a dose at night I am feeling fine the next morning. "Some of my friends assure me that Peruna is equally as good for their varb loos ailments as it is for my complaint; but I do know that for kidney trouble 1 and suffering from a weak back it has W> equal."CoM Settled in Kidneys. I Mr. Joseph Klee, 215 East 4th St., If Topeka, Kas., writes: a "My wife took Peruna for liver trouble I and a run-down condition incident to I ?< ??>?? f I KINGSTREE GRADED AND i I : HIGH SCHOOL NOTES, ^f^The Wee Nee literary sorietv 1 held its first regular meeting of this session in the society hall on Friday afternoon, September 24, '09. On account of the very j disagreeable weather quite a ] number were absent. i The query for the afternoon was: "Resolved, that arbitration is the best way to settle ^ I disputes." The decision was a : ? ? ? ? ?.U!/.Vi I : I HCt upsju lllV.il L11C pi S.OIUV ui | ji voted in favor of the negative. We were very glad to have the i following new members: Misses i Marian Hurt, Hallie Hinds, j Alice and Jennie Lee Stackley and Sue McKnight;. Messrs1 Mordaunt McConnell, Sam John ' and Donald Montgomery. We trust that the society will prove a mutual benefit to them as ' well as us. We hope to have a ! large attendance next meeting. - On Monday morning Miss J M Mary Swann, a member of the ! ML glass of 1908, and Misses Clara W.Montgomery and Ada Brockingmm ton, members of the class of W 1909, paid their last visit to W their beloved alma mater. They left Tuesday for Winthrop Col where they will pursue l|f^heir studies further. I Misses Juanita Coward and Rpberta Coker, also alumnae of ttfis school, spent a while with us Monday morning. S Miss Florence Mcintosh, a B young lady of the ninth grade, B spent Saturday and Sunday with Her parenxs ai vv urn man. We are sorry to report that 'Mr Alexander Rodgers, a member of the tenth grade, is sick, j *^We hope he will soon be able to | return to school again. , How could we, the members ! oHfche graded and high school, help improving ourselves by the example cf industry set before us? On Monday after! noon?what do you think??onej - of the teachers was caught in| the school yard hoeing for dear j life. j i ' r IKlOl* Icn. A. F. Haw icy, of Washing* , D. C.. write.: *-i have usedPe* ta and find it very beneficial kidney tronb.'e, end especially ,:^n J catarrh^ & mgen-a- f naivicy. iearly Thirty Years. j CJ. Union Veteran l.eg ion. and prom / ;ront la'-or protective a--oi*iati??n?s in ) y i f one of ti:'- largest associations ) irty years Seen ai'licted with kidmy \ :i p-r and- I : > try l'crnna, and bis ( if l ? his judicious use of that gr.at ? orioudy had f.?r kidni'V and liver \ remedy he is c>w quite <aired and in ) :t ? x iteration or hyperbole. appears / ma Uompar.y i- authorized to u-e. jf <( y so doing it will he for the general <' 5S 1 St., N. K.. Washington, 1>. '[ tl>e satne. A few Unties built up her health and strength. "1 took l'eruna for a cold which settled in my kidneys, giving me much pain. In two weeks I was much better, and in a few months I wac well." For Liver and Kidneys. Mr. W. LI. Armistead, Cumberland, C. II., Ya., writes: "Your Peruna has cured me of chronic catarrh of long standing. 1 thank you so much for your advice. I think it is a great medicine. It will do all that you recommend it to do. Re=ides, I can recommend it to cure all liver and kid ney troubles." Chronic Kidney Trouble. Judge C.J. Park, K. F. 1). 1, Huckhe&d, Ga., writes: "For a long time I was troubled with catarrh of the kidneys, and after taking Peruna I feel like a new man. I think it the greatest catarrh medicine of the age, and believe it will cure any case of catarrh on record." Matters at Moody. MomJv. September 27: - Farmer; are all busy picking cotton. There is a great difference in the energj displayed when cotton is bringing 12] cents as compared a ith 8 cents, the price last year. The tobacco crop has all been gathered and sold. The high pricef received for tobacco through this section will induce many to plan! this crop next year. When bacon sells for 12i centi a pound and with the experience of having to pay $1.25 a bushel foi corn during the summer, it is high timp lor our farmers to considei the proposition of raising theii own "hog and hominy." Our popular road engineer Mi .J J Graham, was here Saturday t< let the contract for a bridge across Johnson Swamp. Rev T J Rooke, of Lake City, tilled his regular appointment at Spring Gully Baptist churcl Sunday afternoon. Red Coon. Keep Tbem Posted. Are our merchants prepared tc meet the competition,constantly growing more attractive to Hit unthinking,of those alluring fall catalogues from the metropoli tan department stores'? Of course the bargains at home are better when you con sider that the home mercharn gives you personal attention and the chance to return goods thai are not what was represented But the public forgets and the trade has to be drummed. The only efficient drummer for the home merchant is the local newspaper.?Ex. A A arrow Escape. Edgar N Baylies, a merchant oi Robinsonville, Del, wrote: "Aboul two years ago 1 was thin and sick -? ' 1 :f i and coughed an tne ume anu u i did not have consumption,it was neai to it. I commenced usiDg Foley'* Honey and Tar, and it stopped mj cough, and 1 am now entirely well and have gained twenty-eight pounds, all due to the good results from tak ing Foley's Honey and Tar." D C Scott. Old papers for sale at this office. 'the farnum case REVIEWED. I lIS SCATHiXG TERMS THE COLUMBIA STATE DENOUNCES JURY THAT FOUND DEFENDANT GUILTLESS. Twenty-four l>??n r?> before the. (*:<-hi;tnil county jury found .lames S Farnum of Charleston guiltless of bribery. an attorney fur Farnum sol< mnly assured those twelve men that a verdict nf *uot utility" would lie indorsed by the people of South Car-1 ? * i r . i *. .. ... * I olir.a. ,Meinoersoi mar jury may noi ' be susceptible to public opinion: he: cause of the station and environment 'of the large majority of that jury a i State-wide storm of censure ami a i hurricane of denunciation from all the elements of shocked righteous-1 j ness may be impotent to affect them, j ! because unheard. But if thev have : regard for enlightened public opin-j' ion, tn<x^*ori::tio:i, the contempt, j the ridicule, the sn < rs, the gibes) .and wrath tha* will !? imaped up-' , on tiieni and upon Kiehland county j1 bv an indigo uit p*op].*, loving good 1 government, will shock them mto . r? a eon- *ion<:.e-.s that their art of c.\- : cm-rating Farnuiu no* indorsed j bv appreciable elements of in-, Jtelligence or virtue. ; Shorn >)f verbiage, t:m State of I South Carolina, indicting James S ; I iFarnnni for bribery, proved that j Furnnm was president of tlie Consumers' Beer Bottling Company of Charleston, and the representative in this State of th? Anbueser-Busch Company, and a string of li?p:or 1 | com pan ifs. j The State proved that Joseph 15 Wylie was elected a member of the dispensary board of directors in 19(H); that he was approached or ''sounded" by Farnuni before his election, Director Wylie and Farnum entered into an agreement by which < Wylie was to secure orders from the ! board tor liquors soldi by Farnum's ! houses, and that Farnum was to i pay him so much p?r ease or barrel, i The Commonwealth proved that *; Farnum's beer and liquor houses got ! large .orders from the dispensary r board of directors. [1 The State of Sonth Carolina prov,' ed that during eleven months DiI rector Wylie received fi^pi Farnum J and others, similarly ' Hit with* 5 more than twenty-eight thousand 5 dollars. : The State of Sooth Carolina pioved that Wylie received from , Farnum at one time a draft for > , $1125; that said draft was, by . Wylie's request, made payable to , Henry Samuels, now mayor of r Chester, a friend of Wylie's aud a r business agent ui rarnutn s; mat said draft was given to Samuels by Wylie to be cashed; that Samuels gate Wylie $1,125 in money, $1,120 of which was immediately deposited by Wylie to his credit in a Chester ban k. ' The State proved that James 8 Farnum, president of a bottling company and liquor agent, personally attended all the sessions of the dispensary directors. All the foregoing was proved by the uncontradicted testimony of the > former director, Joseph B Wylie. 1 In corroboration, the State proved " by Henry Samuels that he was iu ' Columbia with Wylie about the time of the date of said draft for $1,125; that he returned to Chester " with Wylie; that Wylie gave him the draft and asked him to cash it; that he had cashed other drafts for * Wylie; that the following Mouday ' (that being Friday) he handed Wy' lie the cash?$1,125. In further corro oration, the State of South Carolina proved by ' Robert Gage, cashier of the Com1 oiio/xol TlotiL- nf ('hosfpr that hp lliCil/lrtl tv VA v/uvwbv* j *M%*v MV had upon the date specified, cashed a draft for $1,125 drawn upon the t Consumers' Beer Bottling Company : Charleston, and pajable to Henry ? Samuels; that said Cashier Gage | marked with red ink a $100 bill 3 before giving it to Samuels; that f Joseph B Wvlie later brought $1,120 , to the Commercial Bank of Chester ? for deposit, and that the 8100 bill, marked by Cashier Cage, was included in that deposit. In further corroboration the 5 State of South Carolina proved by bank officials the passage of that draft through Columbia, an'! if* | pavment in Charleston by iho Con- [ sit liters' Heer Uottiing Company, | nf wlii.-h .Tames S F irnuni is pre.-:-j ilon r. '!'<> b-?st ol oar undorsun ling. j the cro-s-exuniiiiation dill not shake 1 the Common wealth's ca-e at asing'e point, nor wa> claim to that effect HI,u!i- l?v the i Tilt- defense ' ib-r-d no denial of a single allegation by the prose- ; 1 en t ion, Neither Farnutn nor any f unii.i^c liij 11ifilt file .stand " No explanation was offered of that. $l,12.r> diaft. No explanation was j offered of why drafts for large sums I intended for an executive officer of! i the State were handed to that officer. ' j but made payable to a third party, i No tffort was jmde to prove a legitimate transaction, or to disprove the charge of bribery, supported by the most direct and positive evi- j dene. U'hen the indictment was for bribery, and when the evidence was , the debauchery of a public official and buying through him, for his' private gain, a tremendously In- \ crative business, to the exclusion of j ail honest competition, James S; Karnum, reported to have made! from a million to a million and aj h'llf i!i?lhir? nnr of f ran J:H tifoiH ! with the South Carolina dispensary, sat dumb. His only spokesmen were n us worn attorneys and special pleaders whom c.is limitless thousands secured from Charleston, Anderson and Columbia. And a Richland county jury, sworn to liinl according to the law ; and the evidence, after one ballot, writes a verdict of "not guilty!'*? 77/? >7i'te. Notice to Teachers. On account of so many of the county schools not being open the lirst meeting ot the Williamsburg county Teachers Association will not be held ne.vt Saturday Oct 2nd. Due notice will be given as to when the meet:ng will be held. .t <ihovers Colbert, PresWCTA. || Five Years || of Heart Trouble Cured by j | Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy 1 "Before I began taking Dr. I Miles' Heart Remedy I had been I suffering from heart trouble for I over five years. I had pains in E my left side, and under my I shoulder blade, could not sleep I on the left side, and was so short I of breath the least exertion I would bring on the most distress- ? ing palpitation. I had scarcely takeu a half bottle of the Heart Remedy before I could see a marked change in my condition. When I had taken six bottles I 2 was cured." I MRS. C. C. GORKEY, ( Northfield, Va. ! I li there is fluttering or palpi- j ( tation it is an indication of a j 1 weakness oi the nerves and mus- / cles of the heart. It is not neces- | sarily diseased?just weak from ' over-work. The heart may be j ( weak just the same as the eyes, ! I stomach or other organs. You I ( can make a weak heart strong j j by taking Dr. Miles' Heart Rem- J edy. Get a bottle from your J druggist, take it according to di- ( rections, and if it does not bene- ( fit he will return your money, j ii Citation NoticeSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, J COUNTY OF WILLIMSBURG. V By J' M Brockinton, Esq, I'robate | Judg?\ ' Whereas,.! M ?ook made suit to me ( tw grant him letters of administration 4 fcum testamento annexo) of the estate J of and effects of Dick Richard Moore. ! [ These arc therefore to cite and ad* j inonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Dick Richard Moore, deceased, that they be and appear before me in the court of probate to bo field at Kingstree, S C, on the 4 th day of October next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 20th dcy of September. Anno Domini 1909. 4 Published on the 23rd day of Septem- J ber, 1909, in the County Record. ( P M Brockinton, | 9-23-2t Probate Judge. ! \\ Old papers lor sale at this of-1 J fice. 11 Tonic or St imeiHant ?l There is an immense difference between a tonic and a stimulant. Up one day, way back the next: that's a stimulant. Steady progress day by day toward perfect health; that's a tonic. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is a tonic, a strong tonic. The only Sarsaparilla entirely free from alcohol. Do not stimulate unless your doctor says so. He knows. Ask him. Do as he says. J.c. Aver Co., Louell,Mass. [kinstipation is the one great cause of sick-headache, biliousness, indigestion, bad ireath, debility, nervousness. Has your doctor ever recommended Ayer's Pills to you9 rKKTREE GHADED AND HIGH SCHOOL, 1 | . Kings tree, S. C. j j High School Department j { Hoys and Girls prepared for College or for Hiw:ness Life, s i PURE WATER, EIGHT INSTRUCTORS, J I HEALTHFUL LOCATION. FINE MUSiC DEPARTMENT. > \ HIGHtS( IIOOL \N\E\ recenth' competed with brautilui | ^ and spacious Auditorium. ^ > AMPLE ROOM FOR BOARDING PUPILS. i ? TERMS REASONABLE, > j ^ Fall Term Begins | \ Monday, September 13. I i For information apply to > | J. (j. COLBERT, E. C. EPFS, J ? Superintendent. Clerk Board Trustees. > \ Kingstree. S. C. I ? The Superintendent's ottice will be open } f Friday and Saturday, j SEPTEMBER 10 and 11, J \ from 9 to 10 a m and from 5 to G p m for the enrollment of > \ pupils. \ I STOLL BROTHERS |WE STOCKS WE BUY B N D S BUY : Avin our\ AND 9 i nnu - - ? ; sell LANDS sell; I ; 11 It will pay you to always see us when you have any business of this kind. f&* OFFICE OVER BANK OF WILLIAMSBURG ?? II I jssesesesesessseswsssescsjj 2 FREE! FREE! FREE! 8 0 For the next few days we are going to give awav a nice large Ur f\ 10x20 Picture?OIL PAINTING mounted in frame? &) A FREE to every purchaser of a [A 'wmraqu W " W i"l WJ X X X V J?J jr ^ C'ome and get a picture before they all go. Only a few left. [A M When we say free we mean free. AMERICAN FENCED r) We have a large stock of this fence on hand in all heights, w) A American fence is built on the elastic, hinged joint principle, the [A W\ moat scientific, practical and perfect fence principle known. It gn '1 yields to great and sudden pressure but returns again to the jL M original shape. Thoroughly galvanized and protected against ^ f) weather. There is practically no limit to the strength of Amer- w) A ican fence. The American farmer has declared American fence (? i) to be the best and is backing up his judgment by buyiog it more A\ 'A largely every year, until fully eighty per cent of the fence bought TA Jx and built at the present time is American fence. * jn Ring 35 for What You Want. dh wi A full line of 4R COFFINS AND CASKETS jK always on hand. Services rendered M\ I JDj&TZ- OK NIGHT. X S Remember the place. Yours far "biz," UP k Kingstree Hardware Co. X