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FOUR Brighter Outlook For The Future is Helping Business in Aiken Now "With Good Management Everybody Will Pull Through,” Says Bank President— Farmers Turning to Hogs and Stock Raising as Solution of Problem Bankers and Mer chants Not Complaining and Farmers More Cheerful. Aiken, S. C.—There htp ,'implp algrm here of o relaxation of the strain on business im’idem to the depression due to conditions arising from the war In Europe. There Is evident an Improvement In the temper of the people—traroatde, perhaps, to a determination on the pr.ri of the farmers to make the most of tie situation, to groap the oppor tunities afforded to establish them selves on a sounder 1.-rmia, and horn of the knowledge that while the agri cultural revolution is working Itself out no man but who ran somewhere STEAM HEATING SYSTEMS and Hot-Water Uniting Plains repaired .11-,! put <n first-class working order. Valves. Automatic Air Vsves In « .. It, the very Pest quality. Expert id*- nn-fitter for this work. Telephone us today Phone 477. THE HENRY HUTT CO.. 611 Broad Street, SArLTY FIRST WHICH? are you looking for Par te In Counter Olassee, are you willing to wear cheap glasses just because they sre cheap, do you consent to having your eyes tampered with at the risk of their Permanent Injury. W. take ss much Intereet and pride In fitting glasses to the faro as we do In fitting lenses to correct defects, frame fitting Is an aft, you get the best here. PROF. P M. WHITMAN, Assisted hy Mr. L. A. Williams. Optometrists snd Opticians. 214 Seventh St. Established ISBI Presents Worth While Hartz Mountain Canaries Genuine, best singers, we’ve ever had. Canary Cages A fine lot at low prices. Incubators and Brooders Encourage your chil dren in poultry raising. Bulbs and Potted Plants. N. L, Willet Seed Co. AUGUSTA, GA. Help Us Improve Your Service Al! .1 * It is a serious annoyance to answer the telephone only to be told that it is the wrong number. Every effort is ex erted to prevent it. Operators are trained to connect the num ber given them and such errors on the part of operators are minimized by close supervision and discipline. Telephone users who call numbers from memory, with out consulting the directory, a> ft responsible for the majority of these occurances. Other subscribers who speak Indistinctly or with their faces turned away from the tele pnone are large contributors. Every subscriber can help prevent such annoyances by using the telepnone properly. We ask your co-operation. i SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CO. pull through safely Considering that a few weeks : go when things were at their worst, there existed here as else where a mental as well as a physical and material, depression, the brighter outlook on the future Is an improve ment which Is having a beneficial ef fect at the present. Saturday Aiken was crowded. The business slreets of the town presented ihetr old-time appearance. Country people flocked to town. The retail •merchants were kept busy. It iivas more like a Saturday, nearer n nor unl Saturday of this season of the t ear than Aiken has had this fall, per haps. While little cotton Is being sold, there Is little complaint from banks and merchants throughout the county because of inability to collect ac counts. As a rule, the farmers have either sold enough cotton to ease their creditors or have made satisfactory arr;.ngrmente concerning their obllsra t lons. As a matter of fart people are realiz ing here, aH (hey doubtless are In oth er sections, that they are pulling through even better than they thought for, and that perhaps acounts for the Improved mental condition. Tourist Season Will Help. An Aiken bank -the First National— last week distributed among a good number of members of a Christmas savings club practically $5,000. To improve local business conditions, Aiken Is anticipating during the next few months one of (he best tourist seasons in the history of the resort. Already numbers of winter residents from the north and east an opening their homes here, though tho season Don't Merely “Stop” a Cough Slop tho Thing thnt f'nn.ri I* nail llii* Cough will Slop Il.rlf A cough is rcnlly one nf mir bent friend*. It warn* u* that there in in flammation or olintruction in n danger oun place. Therefore, whan you get a lull cough don’t proceed to done yourself with a lot of d rut's that merely “ntop” tlie cough temporarily by deadening the throat nerves. Treat the cause—heal thn inflamed membrane*. Here in a home made remedy that pets right at the cause and will make an ofmtinutc cough vanish more quickly than you ever thought po*- sible. l’ul 2'4 ounces of riner (.'if) ecntn worth) in n pint bottle and III! the bottle with plain granulated sugar syrup. This gives you a full pint of the most plcaHunt and effective cough remedy you ever "used, at a cost of only 54 cents. No bother to prepare. Full direction* with l’inex. It heals the inflamed membranes no gently and promptly that, you wonder bow it does it. Also loosens a dry. hoarse or tight cough and stops the formation of Phlegm in tlie throat and bronchial tubes, thus ending the persistent loose cough. I’inex is a highly eoneentrated com pound of Norway pine extract, rich in guaiaeol. and is famous the world over for its healing effect on the membranes. To avoid di“appointment ask your druggist for “2U ounces of Pinox.” ami don’t accept anything else. A guarantee absolute satisfaction, or money prompt ly refunded, goes with this preparation, /he I’incx Co.. Ft. Wayne, lnd. ROOFING We are still doing the Roofing and Sheet Metal Business. It is not necessary to come to us with your Roof troubles; just call us over the phone. We will take the load and the worry off you, and the cost will be satisfac tory, and the work guar anteed. There will t»e no come-back to nny of our work at your ex pense. McCARREL SUPPLY COMPANY Phone 1626. 643 Broad Street. Announcement I wish to anounce to tny friends and to the public gen erally that I am again located at my old eland, Reynolds •treet, Just opposite Clarke & Butt, and am in a better posl tlon than ever to eerve them. 1 have metalled the meet modern and up-to-date machinery for Automobile repairing and guar antee satisfaction. M\ 14 year* experience In the automobile re pair buelneea »nd the eloee study 1 have made of It puta ire In poaitlOß to give excellent service, which I do. All work receive* my personal attention and thoae dissatisfied with any work will have their money re funded W. C. GUNN EXPERT AUTOMOBILE RE PAIR WORK. m REYNOLDS ST RE IT. CITY. rl . does not fairly begin until after the Christmas holidays. A new tourist hotel—the Highland f’ark—erected at a cost of upwards of SBO,OOO, all local capital, on which the finishing touches are now being put, will open January Ist. The resort will be crowded this win ter and well Into the spring months. Improvement at Wagner. Mr. K. H. Jackson, president of the Bank of Wagner, at Wagner in this county, was in Aiken a few days ago, and stated that the outlook for the farmers in that section scorns brighter than a few weeks ago. About one-third oi the land in the Wagner section has been sown in grain stated Mr. Jackson, who added that the cotton acreage will be very materially curtailed next year. Not so 'much fertilizer will be used on tho acreage that Is planted In cotton, and this, too. will naturally reduce produc tion The merchants of Wagner, Mr. Jack son said, feel more confident over the present outlook. "Everybody will pull through with good management, ’’ added Mr. Jack son. Choaper to Buy Cotton. Mr. A. W. Reynolds, among the more progressive farmers of Aiken county, declares that unless there is a material Improvement In the cotton market be fore planting time he will not only cut tils acreage but will probably not grow any cotton at all another year. If.' said Mr. Reynolds. "T can buy cotton from the speculators cheaper Hum I rin produce It, It will be folly to raise any cotton for the more we ruise the less we will get for that which we are holding over until next fall.” Mr. Reynolds will raise hogs next year, and feedstuffs to fatten them. Mr. Daniel Orosland Is slocking his farm near Aiken with cattle. Mr. Fabian Bush lias transformed the old fair ground into a small stock farm. LIFE SENTENCE, STOLE II HAM Governor of Michigan Orders the Parole of State’s Most Widely Known Prisoner. Lansing, Mich. Covernor Ferris has ordered the parole of Michigan's most widely known prisoner, Lewis Oliver, a "lifer'' in Marquette, known as the man who was sentenced for life for stealing a ham. Oliver w"s sent to Marquette by Judge Howard Wiest of the Ingham < ounty circuit, under the habitual criminal net. It was Oliver's third conviction for burglary. In 1891 Oliver was sent to Jackson for three years for burglary. In loss than three years he was back. The second time tho judge sentenced him to ten years in Jackson, and warned him that if he came buck a third time he would get a life term, under the law. The sec ond sentence began March 2.1. 1894, and on March 28, 1904, Oliver broke Into a store and stole two hams and what cash was in the drawer, $8.50. He wanted to plead guilty but Judge Wiest refused the plea. Oliver was convicted and smiled at the sentence when it was delivered. < 'ommentlng on the matter Judge Wiest said: "The Oliver case was the one case in my life in which I was treated un justly. I was paraded all over Mich igan and In fact all over the country as the Judge who sentenced a man for life for stealing a ham. Such was not the ease and any person who knew anything about the ease knew better, bill many people did not know and hold the sentence against me until this dav." 101 NEW VESSELS. Washington. American merchant murine has hern augmented by 101 vessels with an aggregate tonnage of :’.H1.07R tons up (o Dec. 12 by the ad mission to registry of foreign shins owned by Americans. Eleven vessels were admitted In the last two weeks under the new law. These include the • passenger steamer Maracas, the tank ! steamers Petrollte. Corning, Gargoyle, i Princeton. Somerset and Caddo, the I freight steamer Georgians, the shops I'.rittsh Yoeman and Poltaltock, iTtid the bark Edna M. Smith. 1 CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY FARES CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY | Commencing Pec. 16 to 25 Inclusive, and Pec. 31st and .lan. Ist. tickets on sale to alt points via CENTRAL OF GEORGIA R’Y. with final return limit Jan. 6th. CITY TICKET OFFICE. PHONE 62. 215 Jackson Street. MEN WHO Are Weak. Despondent and Discouraged You who are suffering from Ner vous Debility, Rheumatism, Kicfnev, Bladder, Reotal Troubles, Constipa tion, Organic Weakness, Blood Poison, Piles, etc., consult me and I will tell you promptly if you can be cured. Where hundreds have gone 'a a safe place for you to go for the right kind of treatment. 1 uae the latest PERI’MS and BACTEKINB in the treatment of obstinate cases and so licit esses that others huve been us able to satisfy. 1 successfully treat ll’.ood Poisoning, Ulcer*. Skin Dis eases. Kidney and Bladder Troubles. Piles and Rectal Discuses. Unnatural Discharges and many diseases no; mentioned Free consultation and ad vice. Hours. 9 a. tn. to 7 p. m. Bun days, 10 to 2. DR. GROOVER 504-7 Dyer Bldg., Augusta, Ga THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. 11 A?A HORSES FOR THE BELLIGERENT NATIONS Pittsburg, Pa.—Since the belligerent nations of Europe began buying war horses in this country, 11,414 horses have passed through Pittsburg on their way to Atlantic coast ports. They oc cupied 519 cars and traveled on fast freight schedules. That the agents were not in a hurry, however, was proved by the fact that while the law provided a rest of five hours in Pitts burgh, horses were often kept here several days. On such waits the ani mals were branded with the mark of Big Price Reductions —— AT Silver’s Toggery Shop 990 BROAD STREET Fancy Christmas Packages of the Newest in Men's Wear Our famous $3.00 (t j "7 C All Arrow Brand Collars value Men’s Hats l« * O while they last, each .. .I wC All Pajamas and ArE* > Night Shirts vrT GOTHAM SHIRTS All Styles and Colors s!.°° OCp $1.50 Vi 0C $2.00 <l*l Ctj Patterns "uu Patterns V I'tU Patterns 0 l«Uu A Comj)lete New Stock of the Latest Novelties for Men SILVER’S TOGGERY SHOP 990 Broad Street THE NEW ORLEANS ITEM A G NEWMYER iUSiNfSS MANAOC* U THOMSON / *l|i»UN7 •UfttCSl •'AftA-GfO N*w Orleans, La., Nov. 23,1914 Messrs. A. B. Caster & Co. New Orleans, La. Gentlemen: I believe you will be interested in a little story of Faith in the South— a rather unusual story at this time: Tlio Gibbs Preserving Company of Baltimore, whom you mustknow favorably as Producersof the famous BULLHEAD Brand CATSUP, and the equally famous BULL HEAD Brand PRESERVES, are spending a large sum of money in Twenty five Southern Cities to advertise their Products. They are using fifteen to twenty thou* and lines of News paper Advertising Space in this City this year. They are using the same amount of space in twenty-four other Southern Cities. Recognizing that the trade condition arising out of the pre sent cotton situation is a transient one, they sent their money into our section of the Country. lam of the impression that you will agree with us that they are deserving of any reciprocity and evidence of appreciation that we maybe able to send their way. Therefore, I am going to suggest that you purchase right now a stock of the Gibbs Preserving Company’s Products in recognition of their sticking to the South when the South needed them. Their attractive Advertisements in this Paper, backed-up by the high quality of their Products, is bound to move their goods from your shelves. No doubt you have daily calls for these goods. Yours truly, NEW ORLEANS ITEM, . It occurs to the undersigned that the letter printed herewith, 1 w A * which is one of a great number sent out by the business man ager of the New Orleans Item to retail and wholesale grocers of New Orleans, will be a matter of interest to the whole South, and therefore we are print ing it as a paid advertisement in the newspapers of twenty-five Southern cities as part of our advertising campaign. GIBBS PRESERVING COMPANY BALTIMORE, MARYLAND the country to which they were con signed. The first consignment was received here Oct. 14 and there are at present in the stock yards several hun dred horses which will be sent east this week. The horses are the finest that French and English agents were able to buy. Apparently there was no ef fort at concealment concerning their destination as they were in some in stances consigned to men with mili tary titles. LAY OFF YOUNGER MEN. Toledo, Ohio. —To give the older em ployes an opportunity to make a living during the winter months, several of the railroads entering Toledo have laid off a number of their younger men. Reduced traffic has caused the roads to reduce their train crews to the low est possible number and many em ployes are now on furlough. These have been advised to find employment elsewhere until they are neded back in the service. It is pointed out that the railroads obligated to give their em ployes an opportunity to make a fair living wage hence they are obliged to law rfff the younger men. ruESDAY, DECEMBER TV. A. B. Saxon & Bro. 566 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA, GA. LOWER THAN EVER No Fake Prices We offer from stock in store, best selected goods, at following prices, until sold: 14 box 3c Raisins for * OUC 14 box 4c Raisins for ObC 14 box 5c Raisins QC for ObC 14 box 6c Raisins SI.OO 30-40 Prunes, per | r 60-60 Prunes, per “10l pound I&2L 1/2 box 4c Raisins OP for 1/2 box 5 c Raisins $1.60 16 ounce Cluster 1 C Raisins UC 16 ounce Seeded 10l Raisins 1« 2 C 10 Per Cent Discount on all cash sales on above prices. Special Prices to Merchants. Fulghum Seed Oats, Tea, Coffee, Flour Buckwheat, O. K. Lard, Butter, Blue Stem Plain Wheat Flour, Georgia Syrup,Maple Syrup, and our assortment of can goods, unsurpassed. We solicit your patronage, and guarantee satisfaction. Give us a trial. 566 BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA, GA. GET YOUR GROCERIES TOMORROW HERE. A, B. Saxon & Bro. PHONE 529.