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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-04
work of Chamber of Commerce.

Work of Chamber of Commerce.
A plan whereby the chamber Of
commerce of Greenville will speno
something over $4,000 a year in de
yeloping the farming interests OF the
county, thereby proving itself a Pic
neer in this state in this. work was
worked out at a meeting OF the de
partment of agriculture, at which Mr.
w. L. English, superintendent OF the
farm demonstration work in Soutf
Carolina, was present. The plan Is
for the chamber of commerce to Sc
cure $1,000 from the National Asso
citation of Grain exchanges during the
next two years. In order to get this
fund, it will be necessary for at Least
81. 900 to be raised locally. The de
partment of agriculture will reques'
the chamber of commerce to appropri
ate this sum a year for two, years 1o'
The work of this department. TINS
fund. with that obtained from tne
National Association of Grain Tx
changes, will make possible a grea'
advance in the work of developing
Greenville county's farming interests
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-04

1t always costs more to acquire a
crouch than it is worth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-04

Distance sometimes lends enchant.
ment to a mans view Of his mother.
in.law. ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-04

The first time a young man is in
love he honestly believes he means
what he says.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-04

ITCH Relieved in so Minutes.
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion for all kinds OF
contagious itch. At Druggists. Adv.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-04
Class,

"How would you describe these let
tiers of a chiropodist?"
I'D class them as foot notes"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-04
South Carolina New Enterprises.

South Carolina New Enterprises.
The secretary of state has issued I
charter to the Hillcrest Ant1pellagra
Corn Products Company Of Columbia
with a capital of $4,000. The officers
are D. Sam Cox, president and treas
urer and j. S. Garland, secretary. a
charter has been issued to the Han
over Restaurant Company Of Charles
ton with a capital of $4,000. The Off
GERS are L. C. A. Roessler, president
and treasurer, and j. w. Mindermann
vice president and secretary. Inc
Greenville Baking Company Of Green
Vile has been commissioned, with {
capital Of $4,000. The petitioners ar
J. H. O'Neall,lJ. A. Cureton and P. F
Cureton. A commission has been Is
sued to the Jacksonboro Lumber Co.
Of Jacksonboro, with a capital o:
$4S, 600.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-04

Not According to Rule.
Her emotions Ire ungrammat1cal.'
what do you mean by that?"
Gall her moods are tense"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-04
Iall Roome-Billboards are

~ annoying.
fIandlady-They don't worry some
bple I know, half as much as board
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31

Kindly pay up your back subscrip-
shion to the Bugle-then you'll have ii
often your mind and so will we.
IF you want results advertise in the
Bugle, which is regarded by everybody
in this end of the CO. as the best ad-
vertising medium in Bingville.
A little shower of rain would cool off
things and wouldn't do no harm to
CROWN things either. Let US have rain.
LiRe Green had a curious thing to
happen to a chicken last Sunday. Lige
was chopin some wood to bid a fire
with last Sunday morning, when he
struck a knot in a piece of wood that
was tougher than ennythink, so Lige
he swung the axe around his head with
a oath, vowing he would cut through
that knot or bust, when the axe head
flew often the handle and cut off a
hens head who was pottering around
the woodpile, slickern a whistle. Mrs.
Green cooked the chicken for Sunday
dinner. Lige says he wishes to goodness
this would happen oftener, then they
would have chicken at their house often
er.
Miss Phronicia Wilkins give seleckt
birthday party to a few of her lady
friends last Tuesday and served tea
and crackers. Phronicia didn't say what
particular birthday it was. Phronicia
amt said much about her age sinst her
10Th birthday, which occurred about IS
years ago. Suffice to say, Phronicia amt
no spring chicken any more
Mrs. Matilda Dewberry baked two
BURBERRY pies last Satterday, which was
burnt on the bottom. Matilda left one
on our desk which we ct with great
eusto at one sitting-all except the burnt
part. Thanks, Matilda, call again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31
Locals

We went and made up new batch
of paste last wk being as our batch of
old paste got to be SO oderiferous that
we couldn't skeercely stay in the office
with it, and when we had to stir it up
to use some of it we was obliged to
stir with one hand and hold our nose
with tother. We dug hole in the
ground back of the office and buried
the old paste.
Eph Higgins, our accommodating P.
M, is good cal SWEET up over the de-
crease in the sale of postage stamps dur
ing the past quarter. Eph says his sale
of stamps has fall off turrible and as a
result he amt kept the Bingville P o.
open moren 8 days per wk. for the past
week. Eph says he's agoing to pay Bing-
vile folks back for not buying more
stamps, and that now when they want
stamps they can't get en- Seems to us
Eph is ackting purity high and mighty
about this. Suppose some person should
write on and complain to the P. M.
General at Washington how Eph's acIt-
ing?
Brad Peters while cutting wheat one
day recent run into a black snake with
his reaper and cut the blamed snake
right in two in the middle. Brad says
that either end of the snake would of
made fair sized snake
Subscribe for the Bugle. 1t gives all
the home news, all the births and mar
riages when there is any, and everything
else that's fit to print. No home COM
plete without it. If you don't take the
Bugle your home amt complete.
Amzi Gool<ins, who fit in the Sivil
War received his penshion money last
wk and has been living purity high sinst
When Amzi gifts his penshion money he
makes it fly for few days and after
that he amt got enuff to buy tobacleer
with until his next penshion money
comes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31
TURRIBLE THICK
That's What Potato Bugs Has Be-
came In Our Midst-Them as
Has POtatoze is at Their Wits
End to Git Shet of the Bugs
They Be a TurribIe Pest

. The potato crop in and around Bing
vile promises to be very slim this VI
being as the potato bugs has ct up mos
of the potato tops above ground ano
ennybuddy with emmy sents knows that
potatoze won't do any good when the
blamed potato bugs goes and eats al
the tops often them.
Bige Barker has been bothered tur-
rible by potato bugs this year. Bige
has two acres of potatoze planted at the
lower edge of town and when the potato
| bugs begin to show up on EN- Bige he
undertook to pick all the potato bugs
often the potatoze every day, but it
wassent no use.
Bige says the potato bugs on his
potatoze was thicleern blueberries on
Sawridge Nominating and they seemed
to come Eastern he could pick EN-.
Bige picked a 2 gal pail full of potato
bugs one forenoon, and when he went
to look over the tops he had jest picked
often he says there was jest as many
more waitin to be picked. By this time
Bige's back ached him so that he give
up the job in disgust and was so mad
that he give the 2 gals of potato bugs
that he had picked vishious fling and
scattered EN- all over the potatoze agin
and then went home in disgust. This,
of course, was foolish thing to do.
Biee then sent to the CO seat and got
S lbs of Paris Green and MKT this up
with flour and water and sprinkled the
potato tops with it, but as fur as Bige
can see it diddent hurt EN- a mite.
Bige says on the contrary the bugs
seemed to kind of thrive on the Paris
Green and fat up, and as result Bige
has quit using any more Paris Green
on his potatoze-he says he'll be dog
goned if he's a going to feed a passel
of hungry potato bugs on Paris Green
tia. he's got to pay Is cts per ID. for
and go 81 II to the co seat for it be-
sides. Bige says if them bugs needs
the potatoze worsen he does they can
have EN-.
Hen Weathersby, prop. of our gen
eral store, says he amt mite surprised
that the potato bugs is so thick in Bing
vile and vicinity this yr. Hen says
that last spring when he was lool1in
over his books he heerd noise behint
him and when he looked around there
was the great grand-uncle of all the
potato bugs ever born perched on the
back of his chair. Hen says this
was the biggest potato bug he ever
seen in his life and he calkiiates it
was lookin over his shoulder on his
book to see jest who had bought seed
potatoze.
We ca1kilate, however, that this is
one of Hens jokes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31
EDDYTORIUu

Well, here we are right on the
threshold of September, or to be
more accurate this is the first day
of September and the beginning OF
Ottum. My, how time f1iesl Il
don't seem but little while sinst
last spring and not much longer
sinst September yr ago.
This eddytoriul is to be wrote on
the subjeckt of "Ottum-Its Cause
& Effeckt."
In the first place Ottum is caused
by summer disappearing. When
summer disappears something has
to take its place, SO Otturn steps in
and continues until snow flies.
There is four seasons, spring, sum-
mer, Ottum and winter. And of
all the seasons we hate to see OF
tum come the worst.
The coming of Ottum aI1us re-
minds US that it won't be long until
winter sets in and we hate winter
like cat hates soap. In the winter
the snow falls several feet deep in
Bingville and vicinity, and it gifts
cold enuf to freeze the horns often
n1u1ey COW and the north wind
almost blows a hole through fell
Ter, and we, in common with the
rest of the inhabitants of this town
wastes all our energy in tryin to
keep from freezin to deth until JOY
Gus spring comes into our midst
agin.
Not only that, but our printing
ink runs slowern cold molasses and
everything about the Bugle offs
seems to be froze up, inclooding the
offs towel. which gifts as stiff as a
board so that when you bend it in
wiping your Ease its liable to break
in your hands.
Ottum is also the saddest and
most melancholy time of the yr
It's turrible sad time for us when
we stop to think that most of our
subscribers has their crops gethered
and sold and that in spite of this
fackt the dead beets amongst EN-
amt paid us a red cent on back
Subscriptions, on which they owe
us anywheres from So to SIS.
That's why Ottum makes us feel
that life is snare and a de1ooshion
and that what's the use living any
how?
Miss Sally Hoskins, our talented
poet writer, promised to write us a
pome on "Ottun" for this ishue,
L..G - A. 1o-A .~,s~,:& CoI1x, .1,,,,a %-,
the offs and explained that owing
to the faclt that she was having a
new dress made for herself by Miss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31

Phoebe Hi1derbrand, our stylish
dressrnaker, and was so busy hav-
ing fits, being as she had had five
fits in two days and was to have
three more fits, she hadn't got to
writing a pome on "Ottunn" and
calkilated she wouldn't have time
to do SO for wk or two.
This was a turrible disappint-
me11t to s, being as some of Sally's
PONIES have appeared in the columns
of the Bugle in the past and have
been commented on very high by
lovers of good 1itterachoor. Sally
has wrote two or three PONIES
which has appeared in the co. seat
papers and she has what you might
call a nashional reputashion. In
view of the faclSt that Sally amt
wrote no pon1e on Ottum we print
below pone on the same subjeckt
by some famous orthur whose
name has excaped US for the mo-
ment, and the words of the pome
has also almost excaped us, but as
we remember it the same runs
sornethink as folders:
The melancholy days has cains-
The saddest of the year;
1t amt so a1Oful cold as yet,
But zOGit til zsinter gifts herei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31
BUD WELL BEHAVED

Bud Hinckley who amt quite right in
his head amt done nothing much outen
the way recent except to boiler Fire
Fireip tother day and szeer the Bing-
vile Fire Dept. most into fits. 1t is too
bad that Buds reason has tottered on
her throne as you might say. If she had
dent tottered Bud would be as bright
and smart and intelligent as the rest OF
US, whereas now he amt got emmy sents
at all skeercely. Bud knows enuff to eat
three square meels day, and that's
about all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31
Lem S Store Teeth

Lem Quigly has been awful bothered
lately by his teeth aching him. So at
last Lem got disguised and so he made
to a dentists and had every blamed old
tooth in his head puld out and ordered
a set of store teeth.
Lem went to the CO seat several
times to get fittings and last wk he
went for the last time and brung the
store teeth back to Bingville in his
mouth. The teeth man Lem got the
teeth from says they are turrible good
fit, but Lem says they feel queer and
out of place in his mouth.
Lem says they would feel a good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31
Hez Is Afeard

Hez Gookins says its been so dry for
SIGH a long spell that he looks for a
thunder shower with turrible lot of
lightning along with it most any day
now. Hez says he cant abide thunder
shower with lightning being as it makes
him so nervous.
This amt no news to ennybuddy in
Bingville. Everybuddy hereabouts knows
that Hez is a turrible coward about
lightning He allus pulls down the
blinds and goes to bed in a bed that
has feather tick on it and pulls the
covers up over his head and lays there
and shivvets until the thunder and
liphtnin is over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31

to whoever desires hard cider. I
know it is aginst the law to sell
Intoxicating drinks, but the way
do it is as folders: You go to Sim
Wilson, who lives next to me and
leave some money. Then will
find out how much you left and
will fill up vessels with hard cider
according. Then you come to me
and l will make you a present of
the hard cider free GRATIS, for no.
think, whereas you simply made
Sim present of the money. Then
/ will go and get the money from
Sim and no questshions asked.
This method avoids violating the
law. have consulted Anne Hill
yer, our leading legal lite, and
Anne says l can't git ketched
doing as per above. Also Seth
Dewberry, our lion hearted town
constubble also says he wont a
rest me, and | desire to say that
Seth is at libberty to come and
git drink of hard cider any time
he desires same. This hard cider
of mine is the real old tanglefooe
stuff has turrible lot Of kick
to it. Deacon Butterworth told
me complementary that its the
best hard cider he ever drunk, and
the Deacon wouldn't say this UNI
less it was true, becuz he is one
of the stanchest pliers of the
Bingville church. You will allus
find me at home becuz sinst have
opened this hard cider 1 am afeard
to leave home for any length of
time less someone will break into
my cellar and steal the hard cider
often me. If you desire hard CT
der see me at onct becuz l DOM
think it viii last long.
Yours for hard cider,
ENOS COOPER.
BingVille.
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cal better to him if he could carry EN-
in his pocket Lem says he amt
learned to eat with EN- as yet, being as
when he bites on ennythink they git
all snarled up in his mouth and buckle
on him and he's got to take EN- out to.
keep from swallering EN- whole. y
We persoom, however, if Lem is
pashient he will in time learn to eat
with his store teeth, and that instid of
having a strange feeling to him they
will feel very familiar in his mouth.
It's all in getting used to EN- in our
opinion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31
LAFE TUX HIS TIME

LATE Whittacre walked from Bing-
vile to Snake Bend and part way back
last Tuesday morning when the Their
mometer was 100 in the sun. Several
yrs. ago LATE had sunstroke and hes
been afeard ever sinst that he might
have another, so he took his time walk
ing to Snake Bend. and stopped to rest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31

in the shade so often and so long at a
time that it TUX him from morning til
night to make the round trip-and part
of the way back he got lift when Abb
er Haines come along in wagon and
hauled LATE most mile before he
turned often the road. Its only three
miles to Snake Bend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31

HEH WTNT@E rs az. eSAiD LAST SPRING
VIXEN EtE WAS LooNI% BOOKS
HE - EGRD a eeAInT run AND WIEN
AG Geokg0 ARoONO G
UNCLE or AL THE
PERcHGO BACK CHAIR, AND NE
CALkI LATES 1T LooKIH MS SAouL OF r
SEED PoTATozE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31
HARD CIDER
FOR SAIL!

have opened up barrel of
hard cider which l put up last fall
and | am going to
RETAIL SAME OUT BY THE
PIT, OF. & GAL.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-06-03
ENDS TRAGEDY BY
SHOOTING HIMSELF
Farmland Kills Mother -in-LaW
and Fatally Wounds Wife.

Buffalo, N Y, June 3.-Angered be-
cause he believed the influence of his
wife's family had caused her to leave
him, Earnest F. Staples, aged thirty
five, a farmland, killed his mother-in-
law, Mrs. M. Fillmore Brown, and
probably fatally wounded his wife.
He then chased his father-in-law, Nj.
r. Brown, through the fields in his
night clothing and when Brown elud-
ed him sent a bullet through his own
head, dying instantly. The tragedy
took place on the Brown farm at An
COLA, twenty-five miles east of here.
Staples quarreled with his mother
in-law ten days ago and was ordered
from the place. He tried to induce
his wife to join him but she refused.
Just prior to the shooting he crawled
through a wf.dow In the bedroom
where his wife and her mother were
sleeping and opened fire on the de-
fenseless women. His first shot killed
his mother-in-law. Then he sent four
shots into his wife's body, infiicting
probably fatal wounds.
While he was reloading his pistol
his father-in-law fed from the house.
Staples chased him, but Brown eluded
him and sought help. Armed farmers
found Staples body lying in field a
short distance from the house.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-06-03
MRS. BELLAMY STORER BUSY
Takes Another Rap at Candidacy oi
Colonel Roosevelt.

New York, June 3.-The exigencies
of the presidential campaign has
drawn another chapter of the Dear
Maria" letters from Mrs. Bellamy
Storer of Cincinnati, arch enemy of
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt since he,
as president in 1906, recalled Bellamy
Storer as ambassador to Austria Hun.
gary.
In her latest contribution, contained
in the current issue of Harper's Week
ly, Mrs. Storer claims that she per-
suaded the late President Mckinley to
make Roosevelt assistant secretary of
the navy.
An alleged account Of how she and
her husband, invited to Oyster Bay
by Colonel Roosevelt in 1896, were
there begged by him to plead his cause
with President Mckinley, then at Can
ton, O., and how she successfully per
suaded President Mckinley to appoint
Roosevelt assistant secretary, al
though the president personally
thought Roosevelt "hothead" and
"harum-scarum," who was always
getting into rows with everybody" I"
are some of the things Mrs. Storer
tells I'm the latest contribution.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-06-03
ULTIMATUM Sent
GENERAL 0R0zCO
VIII Be Held Liable for Safety
Of Americans.

Washington, June 3.-Marion Letch.
er, consul at Chihuahua, Is carrying
out Secretary Knox's instructions by
visiting Orozco, the Mexican rebel
leader, and informing him that if he
makes good on his threat to withdraw
the protection he has given Americans
in the revolutionary belt that he per.
sonally will pay the price to the Unit.
ed States.
Letcher's instructions are to give
Orozco this warning in the stiffest
possible terms.
The ultimatum is taken here, not as
a warning of Intervention but that
Orozco will be regarded as a fugitive
from American justice IL any Ameri
can citizen is harmed by his soldiers
There is thought to be considerable
danger to Americans left in Northern
Mexico should Orozco relax the disci
pline he has maintained over his army
The increasing gravity of the Mex
lean situation came up for considera
BILE discussion in the cabinet meeting
Rioting has broken out in the city
of Oaxaca and the situation there Is
known to be serious, but a strict cen
sorship of the telegraph has prevent
ed accurate information reaching
Washington.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-06-03
ASKS DAMAGES OF 100000
Lillian Graham Brings Suit Agains'
Millionaire Stokes.


New York, June 3.--Lillian Graham
wants 100000 from w. E. ID. Stokes
proprietor of the Hotel Ansonia, be
cause he had her arrested following
the pistol play which she and Ethe
Conrad and the millionaire sportsman
participated in at the Varuna apart
ments June last
Miss Graham instituted a suit fol
that amount in the supreme court ano
1t was stated that Ethel Conrad will
sue for the same amount as soon as
her lawyer can have guardian named
for her, she being under age.
The suit is the direct outcome OF
the arrest of the women on Stokes
charge of attempted murder. He went
to the Varuna apartments to meet
Ethel Conrad
He had a row with the two girls
and was shot and wounded in the legs
He accused them with having demand.
ed 5000 from him for compromising
letters and alleged that when he re
fused TO pay the money they shot
him.
The girls were indicted and after a
sensational trial, filled with scandal
were acquitted. In her complaint in
the damage suit the Graham girl de
clared that Stokes statements against
her and Miss Conrad were false and
malicious"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-06-03

nesses before the house judiciary COM
mittee in the impeachment investiga-
tion of Judge Robert w. Archibald of
the commerce court resulted in orders
for the recall of two and probably
more witnesses.
That the testimony of Watson and
Williams has been fatty contradicted
since they testified is the opinion of
many committeeman.
Explanations will be demanded.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-06-03
ONCE VETOED BY PRESIDENT
House Democrats Bring in Cotton
Tariff Measure Again.

Washington, June Representa-
tive Underwood at the direction of
Democratic members OF the ways and
means committee, reintroduced the
cotton tariff revision bill, which was
passed by the house and senate at the
extra session of congress and vetoed
by President Taft.
The Democrats contended the bill
would reduce the average ad valorem
cation duties to 27.06 per cent, as
against an ad yalorem of AIS per
cent In 1911 and 1912 in 1910.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-06-03
SUCCESSFUL TRIAL FLIGHT
Vanlman Tests Airship in Which He
Hopes to Cross Ocean.

Atlantic City, N. j., June 3.-With
six passengers aboard Melvin Vani
man made a successful trial flight IN
his dirigible Akron.
He ascended early in the morning
and after attaining a height of about
1000 feet cruised about for an hour.
Vaniman acted as navigator; Cal
win Vaniman, his brother, was In
charge of the middle propellers; Fred
Almus had charge of the aftermosi
propellers, while George Brilliant
handled the forward pair Walter c
Guest looked after the equilibrator
The other passenger was A. III. Upson
Akron, O.