The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-05-08
Happenings in and Around Piedmont

Corn and cotton that was planted be-
fore the recent rains has "come up'
good stand, and the crab-grass-it's up q
good stand, too.
There are very few farmers. if any,
in this section that are done planting In
fact, some are not more than half through
planting yet. Small grain crops are i'm
proving, but IL there is anything like an
average crop made there will have to be
a considerable outcome in them.
Mr.. Charley Smith, inventor and paten-
groceries, drugs, confectioneries, ETC., etc.,
will leave tomorrow for st. Johnsbury,
VT, to confer with the Fairbanks and
Howe Scale Companies in regard to SELL
ing his patent. There are two beams to
the scale, one with the price Of any arti-
Gle from cents to AZ cents and fractions
of a cent, the other beam begins at one
and runs to two hundred. If q person
wants ten cents worth of any article
which is worth 35 cents a pound, set the
weight on the price beam at IS and the
weight on the cash beam at 10, and put In
| the scoop enough of the article to balance
the weight and you have the required
| amount. So you see with this scale you
can accurately weigh any amount of any
thing up to two dollars worth Of any
6IClCl0 WOItu w II CoQIe d pOuuO1
great deal better than on the common
grocer's scale. It would be almost inn
possible to weigh exactly ten cents worth
of. candy or anything else worth thirty
| five cents pound on common grocer's
scale, for you see by counting it you
would get At OF, which com mon gro
GERS scale will not weigh, and conse-
auently you would only get quarter of
q pound, as he would not be able to weigh
the fractional part of an ounce required
to make the exact amount, and could not
afford to give the five ounces, and 30 on.
We hope Mr.. Smith will be successful
with his invention and realize hand
some fortune from it.
The health Of our community is very
good in fact, we hear Of but very little
sickness except perhaps few old chronic
cases. Mr.. Jacob Martin Is suffering with
cancer on the face. We hope he will
be able to get out soon again.
There ia considerable preaching going
on at Piedmont now. Rev. Mr.. Marsh,
assisted by Rev. Mr.. Subiet, of Sumter,
s. c., have protracted meeting at the
Piedmont Baptist Church. Rev. s. J..
Cowan has his tent up in the suburbs of
the town and is conducting q revival
meeting at; intervals, and Rev. Mr.. John.
son has his tent pitched near King street
in Piedmont, and has began to preach the
doctrine of the Seventh Day Adventists.
see an article in the Atlanta Constitl.
tion headed, "Figures do not lie." And
goes on to give the difference in the
assessed value Of property in the several
States in 1898 and 1894. Now, I want to
give the readers of the INTELLIaENCER
8 problem to solve, and we will see
whether figures do lie or not. Perhaps
our School Commissioner can give US
some light on 1.-THE is good in grammar,
and Is always very kind and prompt to
correct us in our grammar. The prob
lem Is this: A. and B. went to market,
each carrying 12ducks. A. sold his ducks
two for dollar, making, Of course, six
dollars for the IL ducks. B. sold his
for dollar, making four dollars for the
twelve, and ten dollars for the whole a
ducks. Now, Of A's. ducks at for q
dollar and of BIS. at 8 for dollar, would
be for dollars or 40 cents each. The
next day A. being sick and unable to go
to market sends II ducks by B., who also
had IL of his own, which he disposed Of
as whole at the same rate that they did
the day before, viz, five for 2 dollars or
forty cents each. How much did he get
for the "a ducks at that rate? If he did
not get ten dollars, why was 1t? when he
sold them at the same rate per duck and
per five ducks. SQUIRE FEwEL.
MdU 9Th. 1895.