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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-31
The BEST In SHOES

When you are ready to buy SHOES
will viii be pleased to have You come and
let us show you what we have. We
have the QUALITIES, the STYLES,
the LEATHERs, and we know that
Our PRICES can't be beat for Like
Qualities. Every Shoe we sell Is
Guaranteed to Be ALL lsathsr--if
Not You Get Another Pair.
There are quite lot OF Extra Good
BARGAINS on Our ODDS AND ENDS
SHOE coUNTER-Espeoiaiiy in Low
Shoes. Better See Them.
Come and See Our 0oods-it Gives
Us Pleasure to Show Them.
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YOUNG MAN WANTED
FOR SALE OR RENT.

u OR office work. Apply by letter
II and address Office Work, care OF
The Enquire Office.
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j. Q. Wray, The Leader
G.. Ill. O'AEARY
wanted

Everybody to know that have the best
line of MATTINGS that I have ever
shown. Not an unsightly pattern In
the lot-Three New Patterns just In
all of that good kind usually found at
my place. Call and inspect them be-
fore buying-it win pay you.
Window Shades (no seconds) rs
Cts. to $1.00 Each, and good assort-
ment Of colors.
Cottage Rods-oak, Cherry and
White-l foot lengths. White In
foot lengths for larger windows.
Globe Wernicke Sectional Book
Cases furnish q home for your books
on the installment plan-A Section or
two at time.
See the Perfection OIL Stove for
your summer cooking.
G. H. oLEARY.
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FOR RENT.

DICKSON HOUSE, Kings Noun
Drain street, next Garrison.
c. e. SPENCER.
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Protraeted Meetings.

A series of meetings will begin at
Glover Baptist church on Wednesday
night, September s, at s o'clock, and
another series Of meetings will begin
at Enon Baptist church on Friday
morning, September II, at II O'CLOCK.
The pastor will be assisted by Rev. b.
]. Woodward, one of the state evan
gelists Of the Baptist church.
w. E. Lowe, Pastor.
IN re st
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Ghe Cotton Market.
Yorkville, August 31.-Cotton 12a.
New York Cotton.

New York, August S0.-Spot cotton
closed steady: middling uplands 1880;
middling gulf 1915; sales 400 bales
Futures opened and closed steady as
follows: Aug. 12.42; Sept. 1888; Oct
12.45; Nov. 1916; Dec. 12.61; Jan;
1881; Feb. 1882; March 1885; April
1856; May 1851.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-31

policy In your Company, and after
carrying 1t awhile, the results being
satisfactory, took another one, which
led to my taking two more in later
years.
My very high opinion of the Mutu-
al Benefit has been emphasized by the
information you have given me since
I made my last application, from
which learn that the Cash Values
guaranteed in my old policies have
been increased. The increase being
very substantial, would be very well
come to any one who might desire to
realize on his insurance as an asset
during his lifetime.
Very truly yours,
Henry Wollman.
G. F.. Clapp. Pres. II. e. Lutz, Sec.
40 Downs Block,
Seattle, Wash.
July Is, 1908.
H. M Grinnell, Esq,
State Agent, Seattle, Wash.
Dear SIR
1 beg to acknowledge receipt this
day Of policies in The Mutual Benefit
Life Insurance Company, Of Newark,
N. J. bearing date July 8, 1908, aggre-
eating thirty thousand dollars, which,
with twenty year endowment policy
No. 334,1 for twenty thousand dol
lars, which has been in force a num-
ber Of years, make a total Of fifty
thousand dollars insurance now car
ried by me with your company, being,
I am informed, the maximum amount
assumed by The Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance on a single risk. Some years
ago I had a policy in the company
you now represent for ten thousand
dollars, and the dividends received
during it's life and the prompt settle
ment Of said policy teach me to be-
lieve that while there is no specula-
ton in The Mutual Benefit Life poll
cies I consider there Is no safer or
more conservative investment for my
family, in case of my death, or for my
old age, should I live, which accord
ing to the opinions Of your medical
examiners and actuary I bid fair to
Thanking you and your Company for
your prompt attettion in forwarding
policies, believe me to be,
Very truly yours,
Cyrus F. Clapp.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1909.
Sperial Aotitss.
York Baptist Association.

Delegates and visitors coming to
the York association by rail will be
met at Pineville, N c., II they will
notify Jas. F. Boyd, Fort Mill, S. G.
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THE GARDNER GOVERNOR CO
Engine and Pump Governors.

Engine and Pump Governors.
Quincy, ILL.,, Oct. %, 1908.
Mr.. R. H. Sabin,
Chicago, Ill.,,
Dear SIR
In reply to your letter as to how
came to take out the last policy Of
$4,000 in The Mutual Benefit Insur.
ance Company, making total amount
of my insurance in your Company,
$4,000, which is the limit they car.
ry on any one life, will say.
In 1890 I took out five duplicate
policies in as many different compa.
nies as a test, to be a guide in plac.
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SPECIAL TAX ELECTION

To Be Held at BIairsviIs School
Houss on August 81, 1905
NOTICE IS hereby given to the quail
~ flied voters Of School District No.
10 (Blairsville), that an election will
be held in said district on TUESDAY,
AUGUST 81, 1909, at which election
the qualified voters of the said school
district will vote for or against a
special levy of THREE MILLS for the
support Of the schools Of the said dis
trict The polls will be opened at 8
a. m, and closed at p. m. Eligibil-
ity to vote is limited to those who pay
other than poll taxes and who must
exhibit registration certificates and
tax receipts.
]. A. MALONEY,
H. J. SHERRER,
A. E. LATHAM, Trustees.
&C st
- WOOdmen OF the World Monthly
Receipt Books at The Enquirer Office.
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CONTRACT TO COVER BRIDGE
Office of the County Board of Com
missioners of York County.

Office Of the County Board OF Com-
missioners of York County.
Yorkville, S. c., Aug. 81, 1909.
OTICE is hereby given that on
IN Wednesday, September Is, 1903,
at IL o'clock a. m, a contract will be
let to the lowest responsible bidder
for the covering Of the bridge over
Crowder's Creek at Riddles Mill.
The contractor will be expected to
furnish everything needed, and infor-
nation as to the manner of doing the
work will be given out at the letting.
Right to reject all bids is reserved.
Successful bidder will be required to
enter into bond for faithful perform
ance in double amount Of his bid.
By order Of the Board.
GLEN F. GORDON, Supervisor.
Hazel Grist, Clerk of Board.
70 TT st
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-31

ing insurance in the future. After
watching the dividends for nineteen
years, decided could not do better
than to place with The Mutual Bene-
At Life Insurance Company, the linn
1t which they would carry.
Yours truly,
]. w. Gardner
ERNEST L. WOODWARD,
LIE Roy, N. Y.
December, 7, 1907.
Dear Sir:
I have insurance in number Of
companies, including $4,000 in the
Mutual Benefit, $4,000 in the Con-
necticut Mutual, $4,000 In the Prov
ident Life and Trust Company, and
smaller policies in number Of other
companies. AS the result Of actual
experience with these several compa-
niles, will state that my insurance In
the Mutual Benefit Is the best and
most satisfactory that I carry, and I
will be pleased to recommend your
Company to any one seeking life In
surance.
My only regret is that the Mutual
Benefit will not write more than $780,
900 on a single life.
Yours very truly,
e. L. Woodward.
To Mr.. A. s. Johnston, Gen. Agt.,
Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
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- Fancy Blotting Paper for fancy
work at The Enquirer ONCE. Largo
sheets-f0ur cOlors.
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APPLICATION FOR
FINAL DISCHARGE.

FINAL UISOnAfS0As
A LII concerned will please take mo-
n tice that I have made full set
tlement with the Probate Court OF
York county as Executor OF the estate
of G.. L. MCNEIL, deceased. and that
on September 8, 1909, at II a. m,
will apply to the Hon. L. r. Williams,
Probate Judge Of said court for q final
discharge from further liability on ac-
count of said estate.
s. NJ. MCNEIL, Executor
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HerndOn & Gordon.
JUST ARRIVED

JUST ARRIVED
New lot Of Tinware and a New Lot
of Jelly Tumblers.
See us for the Best, Made
Hame Strings-They're strong.
See US for STONE CHURNS-they
are lots better than wood-going, too.
One lady has bought more than 50
worth of "FINO" Coffee-She got an
excellent grade of Coffee, and besides
she got many nice dishes. See them.
We sell the Best Flour, Meal, Meat,
Hams, Lard, Molasses, Salt, Irish Po-
tatoes, Hominy, the Best Teas and
Coffees, Sugar, Rice, etc.
We sell Candies and everything In
Confectionery.
Smoke our "CINCO" Cigars-good.
HERNDoN G. GORDON.
HIDES.
Prices fair; not quite so high as two
weeks ago. / pay up as they go up,
and pay down as they go down.
w. II. HERNDON.
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Law Offices of
WOIIiMAN & WOLLMAN
on Arnx.r Un.lr

Law Offices of
WOLIIMAN & WOLLMAN
20 Broad St., New York.
March 13, 1908.
Mr.. F. s. Treadway, Representing
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.,
1877 Broadway, New York.
Dear Sir:
I have received the policy recently
applied for through you, and, find
same entirely satisfactory. This
makes the fourth policy I have In the
Mutual Benefit. I applied for this
policy, as I did for the others in your
company, without solicitation on the
part Of any agent or representative Of
your company.
One Of my methods Of finding out
about a ompany is asking the agents
of other companies; I hear all their
arguments against 1t and then make
up my mind. After having gone
through this process, I took my first
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-01-15

AS soon as stuck. the feathers should
be plucked rapidly and all removed
before the animal heat leaves the fowls
body. The breast and thighs being
the parts where the skin is most easily
torn, thse parts should be picked first,
always beginning at the neck and
working toward the thighs, pulling out
small handouts at a time.
Dry-picl1ing leaves the skin with it's
natural color, making it more attrao.
tive TO the consumer. After being on
the market for some time, dry picked
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-01-15
HOW TO EXAMINE POULTRY.

1t is very important to health that
the poultry should be fresh when
bought, says The DelineatOr. This
condition can be judged by the sweet
smell and also by the absence of
moisture on the outside skin. The
primeness of the flesh can generally
be told by plumpness which shows it's
elasticity when it is pressed. The
end of the breast-bone should bend
easily. If the bone will not bend, the
bird is too old for roasting. The flesh
of young poultry is of a pinkish color
and transparent texture.
Turkeys are young when the legs
are smooth and black, the spurs short,
the skin finely grained, and when the
toe joints break easily on being turned
backward. They are fresh when the
feet are pliable and in good condition;
when they are plump and wide across
the chest and heavy in proportion to
their legs. The cock bird is best suit
ed for roasting and the hen for boil
ing. Chickens are selected as turkeys
are.
Ducks and geese are young when
the bills and feet are yellow and the
skin fine and free from hairs: a coarse
hairy skin and red legs and bills de-
note old birds.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-01-15
MADRoNA POULTRY FARM.
Happy, Handsome, Hardy, Hus

Happy, Handsome, Hardy, Hust-
1ing-Houdans, Buff Orpingtons. Buff
Cochins, White Wyandottes, White
Minorcas. Barred Rocks, Indian Run
ner Ducks. All of these breeds great
est money makers on the farm. Have
bred them for years to lay, weigh,
win and pay. Large, vigorous, early
maturing, heavy winter layers of fine
large eggs. A rooster from us will
double the value and productiveness
of your flock Foundation stock very
reasonable. Grand male birds, $3.50
to So each Hens and pullets. $3.50
to 81. Fine fertile eggs, $3.50 TO s3
per setting; 81 to S12 per 100. Want
your trade and can please you with a
square deal at honest prices. Core
spondence or advice a pleasure. Ma
drona Poultry Farm, H. 3. Orr, Jr.,
Sec. Box 4, Richmond Beach. Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-01-15

Let us now sum up what we have
learned: 1t costs the average poultry
man in the vicinity of $3.50 a year to
keep a hen. 1t costs the farmer not
more than $1.00.-American Poultry
Journal.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-01-15
POULTRY DEPARTMENT

birds appear fresher. When the artery
in the neck is not properly cut before
sticking and plucking the fowl, the
blood does not leave the skin, but re-
mains there, giving it an Objectionable,
bluish-red appearance. Fowls killed by
disocating the neck can be dry-pickeo
nearly as easily as those killed by
striking the brain.
ScaId-Picking.
In order to leave the skin in the best
appearing condition after scalding, the
temperature of the water should be
just below the boiling point. This tenn
perature is best obtained by bringing
the water to a boil and then letting
it go back below this point. Next, the
fowl, which has ueen previously killed
and bled. should be grasped by the
head and shanks and plunged into the
water, using care to keep the head and
shanks out of the hot water. The fowls
should be moved back and forth in the
water for a moment, until the feathers
lift because of the contraction of the
muscles, and then removed. If scalded
too long, the hot water cooks the skin,
which takes on a dark color shortly
afterward.
Cooling.
AS soon as the feathers are removed,
the carcass should be submerged in ice
water and should remain there until
all the animal heat has left the body.
If the animal heat is frozen from the
body directly after the fowl is killed
and picked the keeping qualities of the
meat are greatly augmented.
Shaping.
AS soon as cooled, the carcass should
be placed on it's back in the shaping
board with wings folded over back and
legs pressed down against the side. 1t
is left weighted down in this position
for a few hours, until the body parts
remain in the above position.
Packing.
All that is left now is to pack these
carcasses in barrels, or preferably in
boxes If it be in the summer time,
chunks of ice should be chucked in be-
tween all the carcasses. The practice
of wrapping each dressed fowl in
parchment paper makes the package
very attractive and brings ready sale
for it.
Dressed poultry, specially fattened
and prepared in this way, invariably
tops the market and returns to the pro-
Queer the greatest profit as well as
| earned satisfaction.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-01-15

Prove to yourself that our engines
will do your work. Well send it on
thirty days trial and it will do the rest
No expense to you and no obligation to
purchase if it fails to come up to our
claims. Get the catalog today. Perine
Machinery Co, Seattle, Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-01-15

husbandry. prepared for the New York
Produce Review readers a brief state
ment of the instruction given by the
poultry department of the New York
State College of Agriculture at Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y, to it's stu
dents in fitting and preparing poultry
for market. He says.
Fattening.
Before killing poultry for the market,
il is advisable first to fatten it by
special forcing methods. For this pur-
pose suitable pens and coops of fowls
are provided, so that students may
practice and compare the benefits of
crate fattening and machine examining
methods with the more common trough
fattening method. The fowls are forced
for Il period of about three weeks on
a soft ration consisting of one-half
cornmeal and combination of two or
more Of the following: ground wheat,
hulled oats, hulled buckWheat and bar
ley. with the addition of 10 per cent
meat scraps, all mixed up rather sloppy
with buttermilk or sour milk. These
feeds should be ground very fine; the
more like flour, the better. The prac-
tice of fixing the ration with the milk,
ten to twelve hours before feeding, in
order that the feed may soften and be
acted upon more easily by the fowls
digestive fluids. is desirable.
After three weeks of this forced feed
ing, the fowls are not only fatter and
plumper of body, but also have a ten
derer, juicier flesh, due to the rapid de-
posits of fat under this system of forced
feeding. If the fowls are forced for a
period much longer than three weeks,
the good work is often undone, the
fowls going off their feet SO to speak,
and losing flesh.
Now that the fowls are properly fat
tened. the question is to dress them
for the market in the best possible
way. Before killing, the fowls should
be tasted for "a hours, in order to les
sen the possibility Of decomposition.
Killing.
OF the many ways of killing, two
only are advocated:
First-DisIocaton the prod
uct goes to a private trade, with head
off and entrails drawn, the fowls neck
can be dislocated at the base of the
head. The blood then collects in the
loose tissues of the neck and head m
stead of dripping and splashing around
VI, Ill aJo Sc
removed with the neck and head, after
the picking is completed,
Second-Sticking the Brain.-The
other and more common practice is to
kill by piercing the brain and severins
the artery in the neck. The bird is
usually hanging. The operator grasps
it by the head in such a way that the
head rests in the palm of his hand and
the finger and thumb of the same hand
are in position to hold open the mouth
of the bird while sticking. In this po-
sition he first cuts the artery of the
neck, so as to allow the blood to start
while he is striking the brain. Next
he finds the slot in the roof of the
mouth with the point of his knife ana
directs his thrust in a line just below
the eye. The thrust should be quick
and sure, the object being to strike the
brain before the fowl contracts it's
muscles and sets the feathers. When
the brain is pierced, the fowl gives a
peculiar, muscular conVulsion, gener-
ally accompanied by a quack. This
loosens the feathers so we'll that dry
picking is comparatively easy.
nr.-Dinl<i.an.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-01-15
PREPARING FOR MARKETING.

c. A. Rogers, instructor in poultry
husbandry. prepared for the New York
Produce Review readers a brief state
ment of the instruction given by the
poultry department of the New York
State College of Agriculture at Cornell
University. Ithaca, N. Y, to it's stu
dents in fitting and preparing poultry
for market. He says.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-01-21

NAN9& worn, , " 'eeo or SALT Proper dose ,+oh,o
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-01-21

I suppose by the time they reached
the man whom | had knocked down
that he had recovered and hurricdly
told them of what had happened.
They did not stay with the man whom
| had shot, but came on i'm hot pursuit
If me. They were not mounted and
were making better time down the
rough mountain than | was.
At last they came SO near that | saw
that | must abandon my horse. ]
jumped to the ground and gave him
hard slap with the butt Of one of my
reyolvers, which started him on down
the valley. while ! scrambled up the
more than forty feet when | heard my
pursuers coming closer and closer. ]
quickly hid behind large pine tree,
and in few moments they all rushed
by me. being led on by the rafting
footsteps Of my horse. which they
heard ahead of them. Soon they be
gan firing in the direction of the horse.
as they no doubt supposed was scat
cd on his back. AS soon as they had
passed me I climbed farther up the
steep mountain. and, knowing that |
had given them the slip and feeling
certain could keep out of their way,
at once struck out for Horseshoe
station. which was twenty-five miles
distant. had very hard travelling at
first, but upon reaching lower and bet
ter ground made good Roadway,
walking all night and getting into the
station just before daylight. footsore,
weary and generally played out.
| Immediately walked up the men of
the station and told them of my ad-
venture. Slade himself happened to
be there, and he at once organized a
party TO go out in pursuit of the horse
thieves.
We had brisk ride and arrived In
the Immediate vicinity of the thieves
'enue1' jug - - ANU - - !. -
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-01-21

to the popularity OF the ShorthOrp
COW OF milking propensity. Always
In demand at $50 or higher she costs
actually no more to produce than the
thirty dollar scrub, and the latter il
always conspicuous In the market.
while the sixty dollar cow is denied
the representation It merits There
comes markctward never ending
procession Of wretched bovine speci.
mems, poor performers at the pail and
worthless when becfsd. They had q
legitimate value at only one stage Of
their career. and that was when they
could have been profitably vealsd. By
intelligent breeding methods good
COW could have been produced instead
and the breeder profited In the aggre.
gate to an incredible amount.
Nothing herein contained Is to be
construed as disparaging the special
dairy cattle. The Holstcin. the jersey
and the other dairy breeds all have
their spheres Of usefulness, but the
milking Shorthorn Is distinctively the
COW for the farmer and especially for
the small dairyman. The cheesemaker
and the butter manufacturer find the
special dairy cow best suited to their
purpose. but there is little market do.
mand for such cattle. especially when
they are merely grades. On the other
hand. present and prospective demand
for the healthy, doclle, milk producing
Shortnorn that Is worth as much for
beef as n steer when her days Of use.
fulness as milk producer are over
warrants the assertion that the supply
will always lag behind The west By
eliminating the scrub cow and breed
ing Shorthorns VIII adopt policy 80
profitable that abandonment would
never be considered.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-01-21

"Ninc bandits chdrgcd tor the door"
ably they assisted him In their de-
structlon. But with his faithful bowie
knife he never falicrcd until all was
quiet, calm and slill, for he had struck
savage blows. following the devils up
one side of the room and down the
other and into corners. striking and
yelling until lie felt sure that every
one was down.
IIickok was wounded by three bul-
lets aud eleven buckshot and cut in
thirteen places. II was six months be-
fore wild Bill" fully recovered from
the results Of what was one OF the
most thrilling exploits in border story
one that Is not created by the ro-
manccr but IS we'll authenticated
that "Nild Eli" in single banded con-
fit Killed ten men. men of the most
trs,cratc character
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-01-21
Don't Take the Risk.

When you have bad cough or cold
do not let it drag along until it becomes
chronic bronchitis, or develops into an
attack of pneumonia, but give it the
attention it deserves and get rid OF it.
Take Chamberlain Cough remedy
and YOU are sure Of prompt relief.
From small beginning the sale and
use Of this preparation has extended 10
all parts Of the United States and to
many foreign countries. Its many re.
markable cures of coughs and colds
have won for it this wide reputation
and extensive use. For sale by Owl
Drug Store.