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DEATH OF JOHN WM. GIBSON. Good Citizen of Cross Roads Section Has Passed to His Howard. Townville, Oct. John William Gibson died at bis home near Cross Roads on Oct.

past. He had been in declining hea.Uh for about one year, but was able to be up and look utter bis business about his home, end was not thought to bc seriously ill until about a month before his death. Mr. Gibson hail lived lu Oconce county all his life, and died within Ave or six miles of the place where be was born. The Immediate cause of his death was cancer of the throat.

His suffering for about two -weeks before his death was Intense, but he boro lt with great patience and with Christian fortitude. Mr. Gibson was 70 years old on Sept. 7, and was a man of remarkable strength for his age, before his last sickness. He was twice married.

His first wife was Mary H. Mason, daughter of Rilas Mason, deceased. To this union eleven children were born-J. E. Gibson, of Lavonla, E.

A. Gibson, of Seneca; Arthur, Mrs. P. s. Cloveland, Hampton deceased), labu in, Preston, Webb, James, Dewey, of Cross Roads; Mrs.

Dock Rnggs, of Near Townville. His second wife, who survives him, was Redie Cromer, daughter of Ezra Cromer, deceased. To this union three children wero born, these being Jack, Faye and Frank. Besides his wife and children ono brother, Bob Gibson, of Oakway, and four sisters, Mrs. Lena Campbell, of Walhalla; Mrs.

Janie Lawless, of Oakway; Mrs. Anna Cain, of Denison, Texas, and Mrs. Eliza Cain, of Tyler, Texas, survive him. Mr. Gibson was a farmer and took a great interest in bis farm.

In bis passing away Oconee bas lost a good citizen, the church a good deacon and helpful member, bis wife and children a good, kind and considerate husband and father. The funeral was conducted by his pastor, Rev. L. M. Lyda.

Services were held in the Cross Roads Baptist church, after which bis remains were laid to rest in Cross Roads cemetery. The floral offerings wore beautiful and numerous. There arc many frineds in various sections of our county who will learn of bis death with sorrow, and who will join with us, in extending to the bereaved ones sympathy in their hour of sorrow. MOTHER'S IWM For Expectant Mother? USED BY THREE GENERATIONS Warri rca BOOKLKT OM MOTH a RHOOD MO TM BABY, ri aa DMDPIKLO luauLATOR DIPT. ATLANTA, OA.

Man Killed Instantly in Auto Crash. (Greenville Piedmont, 20lh.) Jamos C. Davis. 24 years of age, of Ware Shoals, was Instantly killed about. S.tfO o'clock last night when the automobile in which he was driving crashed Into a tree on the Duncombe road nepr thia city, throwing the man imo the obstruction.

Mr. Davis had been up to Tuxedo during the day and was returning to bli heme, accompanied by Erskine Knight. Davis was driving tho car when tho accident occurred. It is thought that when tho car passed from the top-soil portion of the road to the concrete part he lost control of the machine. Mr.

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Wilsons Will Volo by Mail. Trenton. X. .1.. Oct.

2 1 -President and Mrs. Wilson will not go to Princeton lo vote at the gonoral election nest month. Thia was learned Willi the announcement to-day thal bo'h had applied to tho Mercer county election board for ballots, which will bo malled lo Ibo White House on Oct. ul. USE "DIAMOND DYES" Dye right! Don't risk ma1 orial.

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Got Him. Philadelphia, Oct. man giving his name as Poler McMahon, of Yonkers, N. with his wrists scarred hy a rope and his back bearing the marks of a whip, left a northbound Pennsylvania railroad train here early to-day and sought tho po-' lico for medical attention. He says he was seized and whipped Monday night a few miles outside of Trenton, S.

after he attempted to assl-'t Miss Florence Powell, of Aiken, S. In a settlement which involved a division of her father's estate. I His underclothing was stiff with blood, and besides lash marks, his body and neck bore the marks of ropes, with which, ho said, his tormentors had attempted to hang him. Police here are investigating his story of attempted lynching ana mistreatment. McMahon, who ls 35 years old, said he believed his assailants were adopting the methods of the Ku Klux Klan.

He said he was seized when he left the train at Trenton, S. and was driven Into the country in an automobile. At the point where his mistreatment occurred, ho said, eight men wearing white hoods gathered around and beat him. "They threw a rope around my neck, then tried to put the other end over a tree, but it would not reach," McMahon said at the Hahnneman Hospital to-day. "After a severe beating the men told me thoy had decided to let me go.

blindfolded me," McMahon continued, "putting a hood over my head exactly like the ones they wore, then led me to an automobile, and wo drove to a house, where I was fed. They callod a physician to examine my wounds. "Then they drove me to Denmark. S. C.

They gave me money to buy my ticket to New York, after making me promise I would not return. All tho way from Denmark to Washington some one cam.e into tho car occasionally, and, after looking at me, retired into another coach. This man acted as guard to see that I did not leave the train." McMahon said that he was too weak to leave the train at Washington. He told tho police ho was a friend and advisor of Miss Powell. He said her father lives at Aiken and is president of a bank.

Recently, according to McMahon, the father made a division of his property among his children. Florence rowell's share was $50,000. "I did not believe that was sufficient," he said, "and she and I went to Aiken last week to see if we could not get a better share for her." McMahon described movements in South Carolina and tho "feeling engendered by the interest he fook In the case, which resulted In the alleged mistreatmnt; McMahon nlso said that one of the men who boat him asked if he woull sign paper saying Miss Powell was incompetent to handle her own or her father's affairs. This he refused to do and was beaten with clubs. A rope was tied around his neck, he said, and he was dragged for a long time.

No Action Taken as Yet. Augusta, Oct. action has been taken by the authorities of Edgofleld county or Aiken county, so far as could be learned here to-day, in connection with th? alleged whipping of Peter McMahon, of Yonkers, who arrived in Philadelphia to-day and told the police he been mistreated by masked men near Trenton, S. C. Citizens, it is said, did not deny that McMahon was ordered to leave.

Another Side to tho Case. Yonkers, N. Oct. McMahon, who reported to the police1 of Philadelphia to-day that he narrowly escaped death at the hands of a band of masked men near Trenton, S. hhs been absent from his home hore for several months.

Yonkers police officials, acting at tho request of the Philadelphia authorities, interviewed Mrs. McMahon and her three children, who live here. Mfs. McMahon said that she had not heard from her husband since he loft Yonkers early In the year. McMahon was formerly employed hore as a hostler.

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persons woro killed and twenty injured, three probably fatally, when New York Central train No. GO. eastbound, sideswiped train No. westbound, two hundred foot west of the union depo' hero at noon to-day. A switch, thought to have been thrown by members of a section gang working at tho scene of tho wreck, is believed to have caused the accident.

None of tho (load wore from the Southern States. The westbound train had just left tho depot, and the eastbound train, a Cleveland-Buffalo express, was coasting Into tho slation when the crash came. A car on tho eastbound train suddenly leaped from the rails and crashod into tho Pullman, tearing its steol sides away as if thoy were paper. The occupants of" the car were hurled from their seats and thrown into a mass as the heavy Pullman topplod ovor with tito open side up. tho Quinina That Doss Not Affect the Head Because of Ita tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUIN i NU is better than ordinary On In lue and does not cause nervousncs nor ringing In head.

Remember the full name and look for the signature of B. W. OKOVB. 30c. "Drop your dollar for Democracy." BURIAL FOR YOUR Every human being desires ant bodies of tho dead nnd hns on int that the remains nro not in a resting pince.

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J. ANSEL. Oconee Lands FOR FOR SALE fllO-Acro Farm, nine milos north of Walhalla, 8. near Oconee Station, on public road and rural nullo, in ono milo of good school. This place has four good farm houses, wells, barns and other out buildings for each house; throehorse crop under plow.

Two hundred acres of this land is rough, but well timbered-mostly hardwood, with some pine. Two big past uri's for cattle; ono good hog pasture, all wired and in good repair. Fish pond on place. Good orchards at all four of tho houses. Thirty-five to forty acres of good bottom land.

All good, strong red soil, splendidly adapted for cotton. Fino combination stock and cotton farm. Terms to suit purchaser. Price, $20.00 per Acre. -FOR SALE210-Acro Farm, on head-waters, of Little Uiver, five miles from Salem, 8.

forty acres of good bottom, ten acres of good cotton land. lins good crops of cotton an growing, thisyear, place lias two wired in and in good repair; one cheap -I-room house and outbuildings; two good fishing streams on place; 400,000 feet of good saw timber, mostly pine. This place ls on public road and rural route. Good water-power on place, suitable for grist mill. Good school in half a mile.

Terms to suit purchaser. Price, $25.00 per Acre. IN ADDITION to the above 1 havo a number of Farm and Timber Tracts listed for salo; also some Town Lots. If interested in Land in any shape, call on or write J. F.

HEBDEN, WALHALLA, S. O. CITATION NOTICE. The State of South Carolina, County of V. F.

Martin. Judge of C. H. Miller has made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of tho Estate of and Effects of H. C.

CHILDERS, DeceasedThese are, therefore, to cito and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said H. C. CHILDERS, Deceased, that they bo and appear before me, In the Court of Probate, to be held at Walhalla Court House, South Carolina, on MONDAY, the first day of November, 1920, after publication hereof, at ll o'clock In the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal this 16th day of October, A. D.

1920. (Seal.) V. F. MARTIN, Judge of Probate for Oconee County. South Carolina.

Published on the 20th and 27th days of October, 19 20, In The Keowee Courier, and on the Court House door for the time prescribed by law. Oct. 20, 1920. 42-43 Battery Park Sells for $750,000. Asheville, N.

Oct. was made yesterday of tho salo of tho Battery Park Hotel hy the Coxe estate, heirs of E. W. Grove. The consideration is understood to have been around $750,000.

The now owner will not. get possession until Jan. 1, 1921. The purchase of this hotel give.s Mr. Grove the Grove Park Inn and the Manor.

In a statement issued immediately after the transfer was made Mr. Grove says no will at once erect a 250-room commercial hotel hero to cost half a million dollars. ECZEMA MONET BACK without queationif Hunt's fait? In the treatment of Ec Tetter, Ringworm, Itch, Don't bec om 8 discouraged became other trent oient? failed. relieved of auch You can't loa? on our Monty Batt, Guaran tia. Tty it at our ritk TODAY.

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MRS. DORA J. LONG, Executrix of the Estate of William I. Dickson, Deceased. Oct.

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Customers" is Our Motto. toto THE ATTENTION OE EXECUTONS, Administrators and Guardians is callod to Sections 3648, 36 19 and 3765, Codo of Laws of South Carolina, Vol. 1, in regard to making annual returns. V. F.

MARTIN, Judge of Probate, Oconeo Co. Oct. 20, 1920. 42The English prayer book has remained virtually unchanged since tho year 1662. rn un SUPPING? i Lady Who Dedra That il More lui They Would Be Spared it and Worry.

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