Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Birnie s Drug Store, 6 W. Liberty St. Bumter, S. C. -Dealer In Pure Drugs and Medicines, CHOICE PERFUMES and fink n ULI f ARTICLES, combs and BRUSHES, PATEKT MEDICINES and DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, a PI LL LINE OP CIGARS and tobacco. :: :: :: OUR MOTTO: PURE AND RELIABLE GOODS. IK Our stock is complete and we cheerfully solicit your patronage. :: :: :: LIME. CEMENT, ^\J^C^^^^ tjqv froin Ulce Flour. Ship fftuff.'.Bran. nay. Vrldlll, MlxedCow and Chicken Foed. Horses. Mules. 1?"??? '"I ^^g^ *? Order Too Largo Or Too Small. ^gj?f Booth-Harby Live Stock Co. SUMTRR. SOUTH CAROLINA. "Time and Tide Wait for no Man." But the Fanners' Bank & Trust Company is always waiting with the goods. Having the largest capita! stock of any bank in the county, and a steadily increasing surplus, its prepared to tike care of you and wants your accouut. The Farmers' Bank and Trust Co. C YOUR BANK ACCOUNT; OUR DESIRE. Your Satisfaction ; Our Pleasure Your Need; Ours to Supply Lift Talk it Our THE PEOPLE'S BANK. Capital $50.000 12 W. Liberty St. Sumter, S. C ? J The Bank of Sumter, Sumter, S. C. Capital and Profits, $14#,000.00 HEED OUR DAN OER SIGNAL! *Uop putting your funds In stocks and honds, hank* etc. where they are at the mercy practically of the management of th? company or Institution. Put your funds where they will ? irit attuhatautlal return'with ?.'jeolute safety, viz I No. ** !*outh Main St .Lot ih] m\ eight mom dwelling, all MOMfl .con veoleneew, good urn ami <%t ?t>lo. No sii > Ham M but?of 9k\ltm?m awolllag. ail bo4ni Jpmv? linen I..Is Is Main Mre, I 1'roperty und very nose In. I hi Wi i( 11 ? i '? ? a ve , n 11 ? si x mom dwelling, N 9 North Malern Ave., nice six room cottage. We have ?oii? very choice country property tor sah-, that is worth Investi? ert In? wool.I 11? plt'hiMMl to ,linw you any or ?II V: ' prl. e? itnd terins. apply to SUMTER REAL ESTATE i INSURANGE CO., Farmers' Bank & Trust Co. Bldg. Sumter, S. C. BARACA8 AM) l?RILATHEAS, Hold Monthly Meeting und Elect OSseSfl fOff Six Months. un Tuesday evnlng, the Uaract and Phllathea classes, of the First Baptist church, held their usual monthly business meetings in their respective class rooms. TThe feature of the occasion, was the semi-annual flection of others, which resulted as follows-. Phllatlieaa ^'resident, Miss [rma Nettles, \ u <? i reside it, Miss Bads Bcay. Teat her, Miss i.ydia Richardson. Assistant Teacher, Miss Lhwie Bmoot Secretsry, Miss Luclle Baker. Assistant Beeretary, Miss Agnes Sparks. Treasurer, Miss Nell Khame. Assistant Treasurer, Miss Time Stakes. Reporter, Miss Mae Cuttino, Baraoaa President, Mr. B. A. Montague. Vlee-Presldcnt, Mr, W, A, An? drew s. Tea her. Mr, J. H. Scarborough. Beeretary and Treasurer, Mr. H. I l. Wltherspoon. Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. J. Ryan White. Reporter, Mr. Allen Richardson. Alter the business session, a de? lightful hour of social intercourse was spent in the dining room, where a light supper of sandwiches, crack? ers, pickles, celery, and coffee was served. The two classes are prospering very nicely, hut with the coming the new year, special efforts are go? ing to he made for further advance? ment, and we hope for great things Bach class Is to be divided into two section w;ith a captain to lead. Color buttons, of red and blue, are to be worn respectively. The Philathea captains are, Miss Julia Stiles for the Blues, and Miss Mae Cuttino for the Reds. Te Baraca captains are yet to be elected. These, with a sub? ordinate corps will vie in good natured rivalry for the largest num? ber Of new members, and the best attendance from now until ext April. The competition promises to be one of interest. A Class Banner, is to be? the reward for the winners, and also some form of entertainment to be given by the defeated sides, conse? quently, a hard fight for supremacy |s anticipated. There is now a movement on foot to build a Baraca and Philathea Hall; some of the most Influential men of the church are interested and great enthusiasm is manifested by all. We have every reason to believe, that In the near future, the building will be a reality, for Baracas and Phila theas, 'do things." Reporter. James B. Knotts, his wife and BenJ. H. Knotts, of North, s. C, have been arrested In Washington for attempted blackmail. The intended victim was Harry ?. Rosenthal, a prosperous merchant. Just make a few comparisons of our prices?our qualities, to realize that we prefer to convince you by "deeds" that our Fine Furniture cannot be bettered In quality?in price. We don't wait for others to set the pace?we le>ad in giving most for the money. Why not do your shopping early and have the best choico? Witherspoon Bros. Furniture Co. . . HUNT'S . . . L Kill 1 NING Is tin* one unfailing scientllV dressing which Instantly relievos ami permanently cures ail hurts, cuts, burns, bmlSOS, sprains and wounds of every kind. I'aln leaves at once because the air is exeludcd, and the oil COVcHng acts as artificial skin. The quiek? est, fastest healing oil known? HI NT'S Lh.HTNINO ?HL. 25 cents and 50 cents bottles. All Druggists Always A. B. RICHARDS Ml on l\l CO., Sherman, rexas Sold By sl Bl Il l's DRUG STORE Tili: christmas fund. Programme of Sunday school Mas* Meeting, December 18, 1910. lit Mlnutei SniiK Service. Prayer, Mr. Bartow Walsh. Song. Reading Scriptural Selection? Mr. Secretary Birchurd. Song. Address, R. D. Epps, Esq. Solo? Miss Beaufort Brand. i leceh irg Gifts. During pasting platei?special mu? sic.) Benediction? Rev. J. B, Wilson. Wants to Help Some One. ?For thirty years J. F. Boyer, of Fertile, Mo., needed help and couldn't And it. That's why he wants to help some one now. Suffering so long himself he feels for all distress from backache, nervousness, loss of appe? tite, lassitude and kidney disorder. He shows that Electric Bitters work wonders for such troubles. "Five bottles," he writes, "wholly cured me and now I am well and hearty." It's also positively guaranteed lor Liver trouble, dyspepsia, blood dis? orders, female complaints and ma? laria. Try them. 50c at Sibert's Drug Store. shout course in agriculture: Clemson College Inaugurates Valuable Work for Farmers. Clemson College will offer a short course in agriculture beginning Jan? uary 4th, 1911, and continuing six weeks. The aim will be to give good, prac? tical instructions on soils, fertilizers, tillage, farm Implements, cotton and corn breeding, corn judging, cotton grading, stock feeding, judging live stock, dairy cattle, dairying, and hor? ticultural subjects. Other topics will be discussed in special lectures. The expense will be $10 per month lor board, each individual furnishing his own sheets, pillows, and blankets. For further particulars write to W. 11. Perkins, Director, Agricultural Department, Clemson College, S. C. Take Care! ?Remember that when your kid? neys are affected, your life is in danger. M. Mayer, Rochester, N. Y. says: "My trouble started with a sharp shooting pain over my back which grew worse daily. I felt sluggish and tired, my kidney action was irregular and infrequent. 1 started using Foley Kidney Pills. Eacn dos? sccrr^d to put new life and strength into me, and now I am completely cured and feel bet? ter and stronger than for years." W. W. Slbert. Gen. Boyd Stricken on Train. Columbia, Dec. 16.?On the train from Charleston this afternoon Adjt. (Jen. J. C. Boyd suffered a stroke of apoplexy. His condition Is regard? ed as serious tonight. Piles Cored in 6 to 14 Days. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of itching, blind, bleed? ing or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50 cents. 10-19-mwf. The frame work for the wire hood over the standplpe has been set in place and it is probable that with a few more days work at the top of the tank all of *he wire netting will be set in place and the work comple pleted. With the completion of the hood it will be impossible thereafter for cows to drink out of the tank, this being the cause given by several prominent men of the city that has made the hood necessary. ?When you have a cold get a bot? tle of Chajnberlain's Cough Remedy. It will soon fix you up all right and will ward off any tendency toward pneumonia. Tris remedy contains no opium or other narcotic and may be given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. Sold by all dealers. The annual mass meeting of the Sunday schools will be held in the Presbyterian church at 4 o'clock Sun? day afternoon. If you cannot attend send a contribution to the Christmas fund for the poor of the city. ?Worse than an alarm of fire at night Is tre metallic cough of croup, bringing dread to the household. Carefcl mothers keep Foley's Honey and Tar in the house and give it at the first sign of danger. It contains no opiates. W. W. Slbert. The ) toys' Corn Club of Sumtet County needs twnty-nlne othe friends just like the McCallum Realty Company. Electric Bitters Succeed when everything else Hails. In nervoua prostration ano female weaknesses ihey Hie the Supreme remedy, as thousands have testified. FOR KIDNEY,LIVER AND STOMACH TROUBLE it is the best ir^.ii me ever ?oh\ over a druggist s countei GIFT Ci Buy Nunnally's bee she knows they are Always fresh and pure "None like W y Nunnally's" INSURANCE COMMISSION RE. PORT. Commissioner Needs Permanent Of? fice Quarters?Now Ha< to Move Twice B Year. Columbia, Dec. 17.?Of the sum of $14 1,000 collected this year by the in? surance department, $ 14,14? j was col 1 ted specifically for the maintenance of the department. Of this fund about $8,400 was used. This state? s'- ? made in a section of the annual re? port of F. H. McM aster, State insur? ance commissioner, which will be sent to the general assembly. According to the report, there are now within the State 58 mutual pro? tection associations, life, tire, live stock and hail; 11 industrial life in? surance companies; two stock tire in? surance companies; one stock hail in? surance company; one bonding com? pany and one level premium life in? surance company, f?r a total ot 81 domestic companies to be examined by the insurance department. There are doing business in the State foreign companies as follows: Thirty-eight level life insurance com? panies, 83 stock tire insurance com? panies, 35 miscellaneous companies, IS fraternal insurance associations and 30 mutual fire insurance compa? nies, a total of 204. The commissioner in his report calls attention to the fact that he is forced to move twice each year on ac? count of the convening of the legis lature. The commissioner refers to the removal as "a fearful inconven? ience" and takes the position that the fund derived by the State from the in? surance department is ample to pro? vide permanent rented quarters. Bank? on Sure Thing Now. ?"I'll ne-Ver be without Dr. King's New Life Pills again," writee A. Shingeck, 647 Elm St., Buffalo, N. Y. "They cured me of chronic con? stipation when all others failed." Unequaled for biliousness, jaundice and debility. 25c at Slbert's Drag Store. J. J. Jones, the lawyer who killed Abe Pearlatlne at Branchville Wed najd y has been admitted to bail by Associate Justice Gary. Ends Winter's Troubles. ?To many, winter is a season of trouble. The frost bitten toes and fingers, chapped hands and lips, chilblains, cold sores, red and rough skins, prove this. But such troubles fly before Bucklen's Arnica Salve. A trial convinces. Greatest healer of burns, boils, piles, cuts, sores, ecse mn and sprains. Only 25c at Slbert's Drug Store. Chief Bradford was notified by wire today that three prisoners escaped from the Bamberg county jail Thurs? day night. Saved From Awful Death. How an appalling calamity in his family was prevented is told by A. D. McDonald, of Fayettville, N. C. R. F. D. No. 8. "My sister had con? sumption," he writes, "she was very thin and pale, and had no appetite and seemed to grow weaker every day, as all remedies failed, till Dr. King's New Discovery was tried, and so completely cured her, that she has not been troubled with a cough since. It is the best medicine I ever saw or heard of." For coughs, colds, lagrlppe, asthma, croup, hemorrhage or bronchial trouble, it has no equal, 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Slbert's Drug Store. The work of putting in the sewer and taps on Liberty street from Main to Sumter street has been commenced and in a few days it will be ready for the sprinkling <>f street oil. Woodruff Has $30.000 Fire. Woodruff. 1 >ec. 15.?Woodruff sus? tained a $30.000 tire at an early hour this morning. One whole block burn? ed and there was not more than $7,000 Insurance on the burned dis? trict. Send us your Job work. PATENTS -?? ?? v_'?? ' ' ' _k?_L PHOCUR^l) AND DErENOEo. ? ' " 1 model, )rt? llikt - i ?1 ?. 1 "i' <? \ l ? : l ,i i. 'i tii'l ? ?'? <? I' l'"i'l. Free auVkt*, how to owelfl potent*, trade nnuk*. ? pjrrtghu . . ,N ALL COUNTRIES. Rusints& Jt'i t tt'i/k Washington sai'tt m.>><< v >>>i I 't. ?; Iki f if?*/. Patent and Infrlsftment Practice Exclusively. Write or < "inc t.> tin nt 613 Nlnt? Mr**, nn> Vn\ui FtaUt ^t*nt Offlc*. WASHINGTON, D. C. \NDIES ause you know and the choicest made, and deliciouslygood. NT. SI BEUT. CORN CLt'B PRIZE FUND. List of Those Who Contributed Money to Encourage the Boy Farmen this Year. County Superintendent of Educa? tion S. D. Cain furnishes for publica? tion the subjoined list of those who contributed to the fund raised by him by popular subscription for the purpose of offering- prizes to be com? peted for by the Sumter County Boys* Corn Club of 1910. The manner in which the fund was distributed and to whom the prizes were awarded has already been published. Hank of Sumter. $50.00 Mr. R. I. Manning. 25.00 O'Donnell & Co. 25.00 Farmers Union. 50.00 Farmers Bank & T. Co. 25.00 Sumter Savings Bank. 25.00 Osteen Publishing Co. 50.00 F. 1). Knight. 50.00 H. L. Scarborough. 10.Ou W. D. Frierson. 10.00 Booth-Harby L. S. Co? Set harness, 14.00 Du Rant Hardware Co? Gun, 16.00 Burns Hardware Co? Plow, 8.75 D. J. Chandler Clothing Co? Suit, 25.00 Sumter Clothing Company? Hat, 5.0' Sumter Hardware Co.? Horse Collar, 2.50 Charles Gates, a white farmer of Jacobs, Rlchland County, committed suicide Friday morning. Foley's Kidney Pills What They Will Do lor Yog They will cure your backache, ttrangthen your Mdney?, cor recturiaojyirregulaxitioo, build up the worn out tissues, and eliminate the excess urio sold that causes rheumatism. Pro* rcat Bright'* Disease and Dia? bates, and restore health and strength. Refuse substitute*. SIEBERTS DRUG STORE. Are You Looldna for a Position? We can offer you good Paying Employment that you will enjoy and at home. Write to-day The Batterlck PaSttshlng Co. I ] nuttertck BuiMlnj. New York. N. Y. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Patents Designs Copyrights Ac. Anyonesanding asket-n and description nay nulokly aacert.-ou our Ol H free whether an invention is probably piUeiitfthlejC^wniOPtm tionsstrtctlycmthlentwl. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest airenrv for securing patent?. Patents taken through Miiun A Co. receive 'p'cicd notic*. without clmrvo, in tbe Scientific American. A handi<.n?alr lllnstrated weekly. T*rce?t otr < ulatlon of any sciontluc journal. Tern,*. f3 m ?year: four m. ntlia, |L Bold by all new ixWIera. MUNN & Co.36,I"?**"'- New York Branch OSJOS. ?25 F St.. Washington, 1). C mmxsm swssaeasa j Era 3 Ib W1 IE n>*? JH| pctj?g-^gatmu* rs ; LI ? W ' ? ? ? IgjH isp < 50^8 $100 ^ OLD& I* TWAl BflTTlE fREt AMDAILTHMJATAND LUNG TROUBLES GUABAN't'EED SATiSFACTOfif OR MONEY f?EFUHD*TU.