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' ^^^^^ z^^/^^ * ' BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 1901. VOTJTMR Y*YVTi___i?n ? "At Christmas pjay and have good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year!" IF YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS INCLUDE SOMETHING Suitable for Gentlemen This Store's offerings should interest you? Below you will find a partial list of what we have to show you for your gentlemen friends. Any article will be an acceptable Gift for man or boy. The Goods are the best, and the prices-well, you can see for yourself. Neckwear. Perhaps you think nothing suitable can be bad for half a dollar. That is a mistake. We have SCARFS, BOWS, FOUR-IN-HANDS, PUFFS and IMPERIALS Innumerable at that price. Then we have an exceptionable line of TIES at 25c. Lawn Ties for evening wear, just the thing for Christmas and New Year parties (two in enameled pasteboard box) 50c. Gloves and Handkerchiefs. These are, perhaps, the most acceptable Gifts-articles that make a good show for little money. Our Gloves are priced from 50a. to 02.00. At 81.50 we can give you as good a pair of Gloves as a man would care to wear. For the same money balf dozen Hemstitched Linen Handkerchiefs. Silk Hand kerchiefs in great variety-25c, 50o, 75e and $1.00. OJLAJLX its* No more acceptable Gift than Shirts could be thought of. No man ever had too many of these. We have them in all styles, white or colored, laun dried or unlaundried, 50c to 81.50. Christmas wouldn't, be Christmas without the Stocking, and Hosiery seems about ks appropriate and useful a Gift as one could wish for. Gocd Swks at 81.50 par dozen ia black, brown and fancy colora Something better at $3.00 per dozen in all the fancy shades. At 50c per pair wo BUOW a beau* tiful assortment of Lisle Thread Half Hose in all new patterns. Prices, like the Goode, are right. ' \ Collars and Cuffs. We have them in as great variety as scoops-the price, whatever you ike to pay. 2,100 Linen Collars only 81.50 per dozen. 2,100 Linen Curfs ?nly 25c per ; mir. Make a note of the size and style, whether s tandi u g or ?urned down Collars, tho old style "button," or the more stylish link Cuffs is Iftired ' Underwear, Nignt Robes, ; Suspenders, Hats, Caps, Umbrellas, Shoes, Suit Cases, Overcoats, Mclntoshes, Odd Trousers, Garters, or a Useful Presents these for father, husband, brother To* son, fia we have some bargains to show you. Come inland look what we have-then go and look elsewhere. We have nfldenco in our Goods and our prices, and we invite the est comparison. Any article purchased here as a Gift can exchanged after the holidays if desired. ANDERSON; S. C, STATE NEWS. - A radish weighing 7k pounds was grown by a farmer in Bamberg county this fall. - The Legislature will meet on tho second Tuesday in January, tho 13th day of the month. The students of Wofford College will have vaoation this wintor from December 13 io January 3. - Petor G. MoEaohern, a farmer of Hamer, Marlboro county, got his hand caught in a gin and bled to death. - The Spartanbnrg grand jury is hot after the railroads for working their men in that county on Sunday. - Charleston is putting up a hot fight against the Southern Road for a discrimination against her on aceount of rates. - The polioo stopped a marriage at Union. Tho would-be bride was only 13, and her parents objected to hor marriage. - Annie Spill, a eolored teaoher in Bamberg, has boen sentenced to hard labor in the county jail for one year, for forgery. ~ Tho annual reports of tho several railroad systems in this State show an increase in the total income of over half million dollars. - Rob Davis, Jr., of Greenville, was aooidentrlly shot and killed by Sam Levi, while out hunting. Davis was 17 years old and a popular young man. - The citizens of Lan?as> cr aro much alarmed over the smallpox situ ation in their town, and general vac cination has been ordered for the past ten days. - M. Roper, of Lake City, 6old 12,500 pounds of tobacco in Florence on Wednesday for $1,000. It was raised on 16 acres, and he has still 2,000 pounds left. 1 The voters of Columbia have al most unanimously voted for the ?B-' suance of $250,000 of 4 per cent, bonds, with which the city is to bnild a sys tem of first olass water works. ' - Tim students of the South Caro lina Medical college came out vica rious in their fight againsta policeman in Charleston for making an.unneces sary ajreBt of one of their number. - There is a mau living not many miles from Camden who haB a family of niuo boys, the youngest one now being about grown and as large as* his father, and a doctor has never been oalled in to see one of them. - The President has reappointed Jeff. D. Richardson as postmaster at Greenville. It will be remembered that Mr. Richardson was appointed during the last session of Congress, but the appointment failed of confir mation. - A. G. Waite, a merohaut of Sen eca city, was ran over and killed by vestibule train 38 at Westminister one day lase week. He mistook the vestibule for 40 on whioh he expected to return to Seneoa and attempted to oross the track in front of the train in order to raa?h th? platform. Ho was knooked down and met his tragio end. - There is a movement on .foot at the South Carolina College to seoure for its library a colleqtion, as nearly complete as possible, of all books writ ten by South Carolinians. A special aloove has been set apart for this South Carolina literature, and it is the earnest desire of the promoters of the plan to include the writings of the living and the dead, and of na tives non-residnts of the State as well as residents. - Tho governor has received a let ter from F. H. McFarland & Co., of Weatherford, Tex., asking about graz ing landa in this State, saying that they wanted to purchase between 10, 000 and 40,000 acres of suoh lands if they dan be gotten cheap. The gov ernor gave the firm some names of people with whom to correspond, but he makes the letter public in order that any one who knows of suoh lands or has them for salo may correspond with the firm. - Robert T. Love, a well-to-do far mer, who lives about 12 miles west of Yorkvillo, found a nugget of gold on his farm one day last week that weigh ed 58 pennyweights. Test of the nug get by the loeal jeweler proved its genuineness.- Mr. Love says that the nugget was picked up from the sur face of the ground in a cultivated field. There is authentio record that at a point about six miles from Mr. Love's farm, in 1854, some miners found a nugget that they sold for nearly $5,000. - The new county craze has struck Orangeburg. Thore are rumors of a possiblo attempt to form a new coun ty from portions of Berkeley and Orango burg counties, with probably Holy Hill or Eloree as tbe county Beat. Whether an aotive effort to this end will be made or whether it is sim: ply a suggestion it is not definitely known. Several attempts have been made in tho past to out the county, but the people have always voted against ouch propositions, and at this time it would no doubt prove & very difficult matter to dismember Orange burg. .- Mun Hargrove, a young white mau, was arrested ir Laurens and taken to Greenwood, ohtrged vi th aiding ?nd abetting is the robbery of a white farmer named'Wells at Ware Shoals, on November 29th. Jim Fast, a negro, was arrested as a principal and a negro woman was also arrested. It ia said that Fast implicates Har grove. It tv said that $60 and a watch were taken from Wells. The story is that Wells was lured to a private place and that robbers held him and and rifled his pocket. Hargrove ?laims Chat ho w&a not in or near Ware Shoals at tho time. GENERAL NEWS? - The inorease in wages of all em ploy?s of the Southern Railway system is good news for the South. - Live stock is perishing in Color ado, where the drought lof last summer left the ranges bato of grass. - While trying to save tho life of her pet dog Mrs. Margaret Boish was instantly killed by an express train at Patterson, N. J. - Mrs. U. S. Grant, wifo of the late President Grant, died at her home in Washington, D. C., last Sunday night, aged 76ye?.r*>. - Thoro hats been a series of earth quakes in Manila. Ono shook was se vere. ,It lasted fifty-eight seconds. No damage was done. - W. W. Savago of Minneapolis, Minn., paid $60,000 for the famous {>aoer Dan Patch that belonged to M. 3. Sturgis of New York. - The investigation in tho ooal strike is bringing out some pitiable stories of tyrany and oppressions on the part of tho operators. N - Fifteen regiments of soldiers in the Philippine Islands aro to return home, the same number of regiments in this country relieving them. - In the trial of a divorce oase be tween an Indiana couple at Chamber* I lain, South Dakota, on Friday it came out that the woman had been married seven times and the man 36. - Twenty-one persons lost their lives by fire in the Lincoln hotel, Chi cago, on Thursday morning before daylight. Most of the victims were visitors attending the stock show. - Charlotte, N. C.,'has boen visit ed by pestilence in the form of small pox in ii very malignant type. Many deaths have ocourred from it already and it is feared the trouble will be come wide-spread. - A large tank of oil exploded on a steamship while at her wharf near San Francisco, breaking the ship in. two. Twelve men were killed and a large number seriously injured. The property loss is placed at $200,000. - At Derby, Conn., in a fit of rage because his mother rebuked him and Sotted his younger brother, little ames MoSheehey, 3 years old, threw himself into a tub of boiling water and was so terribly scalded that he died. - A business block in the heart of Atlanta'.waa burned on Tuesday, 9th inst., with a loss of more than half a million. Among the heaviest losers were JaoobB Pharmacy and the P. H. Snook & Austin Furniture com pany. - Estimates of appropriations to run the government during the fisoal year 1904 submitted to congress by the secretary of the treasury show the amount to be $589,189,012.30. which is more than $30,000,000 less than the appropriation for 1903. - Lucky Baldwin, the well-known California sport, was born in Hamil ton, O. He is now there arranging for the removal of the house in wnioh he was born to California, that he may die under the roof that sheltered him when he entered the world. - It appears that nearly six per cent, of all the deaths in the United States are duo to accidental injuries, but it is even more astonishing to learn that the probability that a per son will meet with some disabling in jury within a year is about eleven times greater than ohanoe of his death from any and all causes during the same period. - The committee in charge of the erection of a monument to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart in Richmond had determined to order a pedestrian statue of the noted Confederate fighter, but it has found that it would cost only $12,000 ad ditional to mount the general on a horse, sod an equestrian statue has accordingly been deoided upon. Gen. Fiuhugh Lee is president of tho mon ument association. - Seventy-five operatives of a Lan caster, Pa., factory went on a strike a few days ago. It appears that they had no fault to find with their wages er their hours of work. They were making fairly good incomes and were without a grievance, until the owners of a factory put a negro "boss" over them to surperv?80 their work. They declared they wouldn't stand the in dignity, and walked out'. :- The retirement from the United States Senate in March next of John P. Jones, of Nevada, will leave Wil liam Boyd Allison, of Iowa, the sen ior Senator in unbroken length of service. He first took his seat in that body on Maroh 4. 1873, and by subsequent elections has served con tinuously ev * sinoe. Immediately previous to that he served four terms continuously in the National House of Representatives. .-The United States government will issue a new 5-cont stamp to re ?resent the Union of the North and outh and the obliteration of section alism. On the stamp will be a pic ture nf Abraham Linooln, and in the background two draped female figures are seen representing the two sections, the North and South. These figures are clasping hands Over the likeness of ! Linooln, showing The uniting again of ! the North and the South. I - Tho Board of Health of Passaic, N. J., oity bas discovered that lead penoils used in the looal public schools are the main oause of the large num ber of cases of diptheria in . that oity. More than eighty oases have been re ported. The students in the public schools receive a pencil eaoh day. Before school closes these are collect ed and put into a box together. The contagion comes, the officers say, from the children putting the penoils into their mouths, after other children have done the same thing. Staging Convention at Mt. Springs. Editors Intelligencer : Tho ?nal rog piar meeting of tho Brushy Creek Sing ing Convention for the present year was held at Mt. Springs Church on the fourth Sunday in November. Tho day was spent both pleasantly and profitably by many lenders anti lovers pf Kood inuBic. Tho lnrgo number of leadorH waa moro noticeable at thi? meeting than nt any former ouo of the Convention's history. To name them all would virtually be u repetition of their names us published in notices of former meetings. Tho music throughout tho whole pro gram was delightful, but special men tion might bo made of several beauti ful quartettes sung by Prof. J. A. Dur ham, tenor, his sisters-Adu, soprano, and Zoe, alto-and Prof. Leslie base, with Prof. Lendorman at tho organ.! 'I he Church was filled to its utmost, with many in tho yard who could not get seats. Besides a tall representation from the churches of our own Township, we noticed many visitors from our neigh boring township, Williamston, whilo the towns of Poker, Williamston, Pied mont and Easly were also represented. Notwithstanding tho fact that during the past six months many sarcastic re marks have been uttered and sharp criticisms written for publication, both in open-faced objection to "Sunday Singings," and whilst some have been directed squarely at the BruBhv Creek Convention, and, furthermore, by min isters of the Gospel who claim them selves to be men of God, called and or dained to do His bidding, yet this Con vention, since its organization lust May, has done much good toward the im Srovement of both Church and Sunday chool music in this Township. This truth is clearly shown by the fact that the churches of Williamston Town ship, seeing tho good of our Conven tion and with a determination uot to bo out-classed in the way of singing, have set apart tho first Sunday in De cember for tho purpose of organizing a Township Convention. They extend ed our Convention a special invitation to meet with them on their first meet ing at Beaverdam Church ou the Sun day mentioned above. Th i H truth wus further demonstrated by another spe cial invitation to this Convention from Rev. D. W. Hiott, pastor of Mt. Pisgah Church, to meet tho Liberty Conven tion at Mt. Pisgah on the second Sun day in December in a special meeting of song service. Both invitations were accepted and it is hoped that the Con vention was well represented nt both places. These two proofs are BU dicion t to any man, though be may be a preacher who is so narrow-minded as to write some such articles as have appear ed in the columns of our County papers ?lur ing the past year, that "Sunday Sing ings" are not such a curse as has been tried to be shown. The next regular meeting will be some time during the spring of next year, of which due notice will be given in the columns of the County papers. R. A, Gentry, Sec. B. C. S. Convention. Nov. 27. 1902. P.S.--Since the above was written many of the Brushy Creek Convention have had tho pleasure of attending the organization and first meeting of the Williamston Township Convention. We are glad to see the interest mani fested by our neighbors for the im provement of music and sincerely trust they will be successful in tnie uoble undertaking. R. A. G. The State Pension Laws. In view of some changes in the State Eension laws the comptroller general as issued a circular denning what the changes are. The pension boards elect a commiesioner, whose duties begin the first of January. He is to have charge of all applications and they must be made to bim. As it takes time to do this the time of the meetings of tho board has been changed from the first Monday in January to the first Monday in February, and at that t'-ne they will pass upon all applications submitted to them by the pension .vin - missioner approving or disapproving the applications. Another meeting will be held a month later to verify the lists submitted to them by the commis sioner and they will then be forwarded to tho comptroller general. No appli cation will be considered except they come before the pension commission ers. The commissioner is required to be in his office every Saturday during January. Pensioners as a rule have not taken cognizance of these changes in tlie law, and as it is the intention of the State board that every feature of the law shall be strictly enforced, it ia important to those directly interested to note tho changes. Brushy Creek Items. The weather to-day is cloudy with a fino mist falling and freezing. Our peoplo are getting ready for Christmas. Most of them are done picking cotton ano sowing small gi.tin. Mr. Vandiver, with hi? gang cf con victs, is doing a good job on our roads, although the raia makes thom very boggy. Wo had tho pleasure of visiting at Mt. Pisgah yesterday (Sunday), and listened to a grand sermon delivered by the pastor. Rev. Hyatt, aud some beautiful singing rendered by mem bers of the Brushy Creek and Liberty conventions, which met there. T. Y. Bridges, nnd family visited his brother, W. C. Bridges, Sunday. It is reported that several of our friends, are going to end a long court ship on Christmas day. We will leavo it for tho reader to guess In what way it will happen. Tenderfoot. Dec. 15._ History of Old Stone Church. The Old Stone Church Association has decided to compile and have pub lished a history of the Church, which will no doubt bo very interesting. The proceeds from the sale of the nistory aro to bo used as a fond for the preser vation of the Church building and cemetery. " . " " Prof. Brockett,.of Clemson College, will prepare the history of the Church and its interestig surroundings. He is thoroughly fitted for the performance of this "labor of love." Any porson having information in relation to the old Church, the life and services of General Pickens, of his son, Thoms* Pickens, governor of South Carolina, or any person connected with the old Church or who may be buried jin the cemetery, are requested to forward the same to Prof. R. M. Blackett as early as practicable. OFFICE OF JOS. J. FRETWELL, Successor to Bleckloy & Fretwell, - DEALER IN - , HORSES AND MULES, BUGGIES. WAGONS, HARNESS, ETC., ANDERSON, S. C., October 21,1902. DEAR SIR: Our recout advertisement, in which we offered FREE TICKETS to the ; CIRCUS, was lushly appreciated, ns has booti fully demonstrated by tho j payments that we have received since October lat. NOW we propose to go further, and GIVE AWAY more than 8200.00 worth of VALUABLE PRESENTS, to thoso of our Customer* who have paid their indebtedness in fall since September 1st, last, or tho30 who make payments on their indebtedness to the amount of $25.00, or who purchase from us from October 15th, up to and including tho 22ud of Dacembar next, and make Cash payments on same, in like amounts. Read carefully our proposition printed bolow thia letter, and do not neglect to avail yourself of this LIBERAL OFFER. These Handsome Presents will ba on exhibition at ou? Stables after November 1st. Yours very truly, JOS. J. FRETWELL. BERAL OFFER. ALL partios who have paid their indebtedness in full, siuce September 1st, or who pay us 825.00 on their indobtcduees from October 15th, to and including December 22nd, next, will bo entitlod to a chance ti obtain cue o? the following VALUABLE PRESENTS. Tho same applies to all of our Customers who purchase Goods from us within dates named, and who pay us 825.00 in Cash thereon. This applies only to indebtedness and purchases for STOCK and VEHICLES. Following is a li9t of our Valuable Presents : One Nice Driving Horse, worth. $100.00 One Nice Buggy, worth. 65.00 One Set Double Harness, worth. 25.00 One Sot Single Buggy Harness, worth - - - 20.00 One Biding Saddle, worth -. 10.00 One Biding Bridle, worth. 5.00 One Saddle Blanket, worth. 2.50 Numbered Tickets will be given you at time of payment or purchase, und a Committee of disinterested persons will be appointed to conduct the distribution of Presents. JOS. J. FRETWELL. ?.2 FREE BOOKS. The hoi der of this Ticket is entitled to any one of a Large Selection of Books from MOODY'S COLPORTAGE LIBRARY, After having purchasedlgoods to tho amonnt of $3.00. - "WILHITE ?STWICEEITE; DRUGGISTS, ANDERSON, - - - SOUTH CAROLINA. We take no riskB and handle no poisons, Every Coupon brought to tho Store is worth 5c._ 4 5 i 5 I 25 I 25 i 25 i 25 ? - > ? ? 1 ? Christmas Times DEMANDS Christmas Gifts ! We suggest the following as being useful and appropriate : Rags, Art Sf/uares, Lace and Tapestry Curtains, Blankets and Quilts, Jackets, Furs and Muffs, Shawls, Scarfs, Table Dainask, Doilies, Napkins, Towels, Centre Pieces, Hosiery, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Umbrellas, Purses, Bags, Brooches, Belts, Stick Pins, Combs, Brushes, Perfumes, Soaps, Etc. A Gift for the man : Shirts, Cuffs, Collars, Half Hose, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Ties, Suspenders, Etc. When in Town doing your Xmas Shopping come over to our place. You'll find something that will please. B&. Also, remember we are offering good bargains in HEAVY WIN TER GOODS, Etc., and advise that you be with us between now and the Holidays. Agents McCall Bazar Patterns and Royal Worcester Corset?.