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Local Matters f ? 'OINTMKNTH OF HKV. J. II. WF1TK. Jolty, 1st and 3d Habbath. GilH v reek, lid and 4th 8abbath, 11 fc m. Pie want Hill, 2 I ^nd 4th Kabbath, V ?? J When yon want Candy, 1 rfhen you think of Candy t When you go to bet Candy < /L ~ iet ?t MackoioL ? -mrmanm inmm*mm+mam??+m\mh:ha? ?Nice cottage for rent. Ap- f ply to W. J. Cunningham. ] ?Mr. J. D. Hardin of Norfolk, c Va., visited bis parents hero this wock. c ? Maj. and Mrs. J. M. Riddle 8 went to Yorkville yesterday to e spend thanksgiving with their daughter, Mrs. It. J. Mackorell. s ? Mr. W. VV. Parks is moving c this week to the Hood place at ^ Craigsville recently purchased by him. 1 ?Mr. E. C. Carpenter is raov- v ing to the Barron cottage where ? be -vill ho pore convenient to his n work. ^ ?Mrs. Ira B. Jones went to Rock Hill Monday on account of c the illness of her daughter, Miss Bess Jones, a student at Winthrop ? College. ?Just received?one Car load ^ Rice-meal for feeding stock. Will ell cheap.?W. P. Bennett. ?Rev. S. N. Watson will , d preach a thanksgiving sermon at ^ Antioch church tomorrow at 11 a. ^ m. d ? Mr. C. L. McManus went to Columbia yesterday to attend a j farmers' meeting. d ?Married, on Sunday last, Q Nov. 20, 1002, by D. A.' Wil- ^ liams, N. P., Mr. John Ray and _ Miss Leon Huntei. c ?Don't forget the union Thanksgiving services at the Baptint church and lot your contribu- 0 tu>n for the orphans be libera!. Everyone ahould read the article ^ on our fourth page, "Let us be ^ Thankful." g( ? Rev. Mr. Eutztniuger, mis- 1 R sionary from BraSil, will preach in the Baptist church next Sundav, c morning and evening . ( ?Cotton went otf one-fourth of (. a cent here yesterday afternoon, j The staple brought 9? all morning 0 but dropped to 9^ in the after- ^ noon. v ?Mr. W. J. Culp had two nice h hogs killed by an L. 3c C. train one day this week. The largest t weighed over 200 pounds. T ?Mayor R E. Wylie left o Monday for Slimier to attend tbo o fall festival this week. He will v spend a few days with his old t friend Qand college class mate, o Hon A. K. Sanders, at H^good, t before returning borne. ?State constable Perry seized 1 tix gallons of whiskey in the Van t Wyck section last Saturday af- 11 ternocn It seems that the tigers \ have been doing a thriving busi- t ness in that section lately. ? Married, at this place vester- p day morning by Rev. T. A. Dab- b ney, Mr. Judson (Jlark and Miss, c Delia Knight, daughter of Mr. t Jake Knight. f ? Miss Alia Fewoll returned ^ from Lancaster Thtmday orening c where she has boon employed c for several months as stenographer. in tho law office of Williams & Williams - Rock dill Rrcord. t ?189 acres, 5 horse farm open)j t good buildings, about. 50 acres ( in woods, two past ores wired in t Vill be sold as a whole or div* t ded into two Iract-. About 7 o < 8 miles Northeast of town. A bargan. Call on T. S. Cartar, j Agent I >, i - Mrs. .1. T. Groon is Attuding tho Charleston full estivul this week. - Mr. W. S Langley went to Spartanburg Monday on business. ?Oak Hill School will open Vlonday tho 2Sth, with former Peacher, Mr. Dun Lancy. ?Managers of State and Couny election can get their pay by tailing on County Treasurer W. J. Catilhen. .1 Wren Tillman. ?The McCardell school will >pen on tho 28th instant, with Miss Mitchell of Uock Hill as eacher. ? We received a pleasant call roin our pood friend Mr. F. G. 3orry, of Liberty Hill, on \lonlay. ?Remember that the telephone IHce, post ollice, bank, and .11 places of business will bo closd tomorrow, Thanksgiving. ?Mr. W. .J. Chorry has been eriouslv ill from a congestive V O hill but wo are glad to learn was letter yesterday. ? We are requested to state hat the farmers of the county pill meet here on the first Monlay in December for the purpoie if electing delegates to the Cotton J rowers convention at Columbia. ?An engine of the LAC. road ladly damagoSaturday night by a ar getting away from the South rn while shifting on the L AC. rack and running into the engiue phich wa9 standing on the track at be water tank. ? Mrs. W. J. Hammond, of Ivath Spring, who baa been snening a few days with her nieces, Irs. A. J. Evans and Mrs O. K. Villiams, returned home yosteray morning.?Rock Hill Record ? Married at"the home of J. T. ,anev on Ebenezer Avenue Thurs*y evening, Nov. 17th , at 8 'clock, Thurlow Belk,of Monroe, [ C. and Mies Bessie Ogburn, f Plains, S C , Rev. W. T. Hunan officiating. ?Rodk Hill Record. ? Mrs. C. R. Foster has movd to the residence on the corner f Dunlnp and French streets, re-! ontly purchased by her son, Dr. Jail \ Foster. Mr. W. M. j "unton has purchased the "Wat on home/ vacated t?y Mrs Foster | d will move tksrc ?t once. ?Mr. Alex West of Kershaw ounty has purchased the old 'Stevens home place" from Mr liles and will move there shortly, dr. Giles is looking about for an- \ ther place. iJe may possibly) urchase a home in town We ' ' I mold gladly welcome him and' lis estimable family here. --Paul Welsh, colored, from his place, who pleaded guilty last j peek in the court at Yorkville, I if an attempted criminal assault n a colored girl at ltock Hill, p: s sentenced to four years on he public works of York county, r a like term in the State penientiary. ? Solictor and Mrs Henry and lttle daughters Helen and Mary ift yesterday morning ior Marsta, 111., to visit Mrs. Henry's )arents and the St. Louis exposi ion.?Ubester Lantern. I was unable to meet my ap (ointment at Douglas last Sabiath, on account of haviog to onduct a funeral at Kershaw in. he afternoon at 3 o'clock.? >rovidence permitting,there will ie preaching in that church ou ny next regular day at 11 o'lock, a. m., Doc. 18, 1904. Jos. T. Dendy, Pastor. It is said that there will soon ie further agitaUon of the project o form a new count) nou^ the Jeorgia lino, the proposed county o be formed from portions ofEdge ield, Greenwood, and Abbeville Jountios. OA8TOHIA. thA st Da Kind You Have Always Boitf ?Mr. \V. b. Brewer, of Ker- ^ shaw, ?lio?! of canter of thb liver, lust Saturday night, 19th Nov. 1904, aged 55 yean. Mr Brewer ^ was a good man and citizen and ^ was one of tho largest landowners in this portion of tho state, owning v about tS,0()0 acres. A widow and 8 niuo children survive him. * ? May Bell, tho little 3year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Cauthen of Heath N> Springs, died on Monday morning ^ last, Nov. 21, 1904, of fever. ^ Their littlo sou is also quite ill* M rs. J. M. Cauthen and Miss Florence Bell of this place, eislers ^ of Mrs. Cauthen, went down Monday to attend tho burial. ? On Saturday morning last, ^ shortly after breakfast, ex-SherilT ^ L. M. Clyburn and his family be- ^ came desperately 111, and but for the timely arrival of tho futnily physician the results might have . been serious. Tho family had partaken of sausage which hud been kept in an uir light vessel ^ for awhile and afterwords exposed ^ to tho atmosphere, and to this ^ is attributed its poisonous effect. Three of the family, tho sheriff's wife, his daughter Miss Mamie, and Mrs Hoik, bis wifo's mother, are still unublo to bo up but are much improved and, we are glad tii to learn, out of danger. sc One Negro Kills Another. q, In the Primus section last ,Sat- w urday night John Mnssey was shot in the forehead and instantly th killed by John Blackmou. Both of parties are colored. Blackmon was arrested and lodged iu jail by Sheriff Hunter on Sunday. It d< seems that the negroes h id traded pistols and that Massey became dissatistied and demanded that so Blackmou at least give him bis 8C cartridges back. Blackmon said ho would get the 11 in him if ho w fooled with hinu They separated and an hour or so later in the j , night thoy met in the road when in I pj the shooting occurred. Au in- 0t quest was held Sunday, the jury finding that Massry canio to his ?< death from a pistol shot wound th indicted by Blackmon. j I,1,' ' i'< Items From Kershaw Era. ! ti> ?The Kershaw Oil Mill has , ginuuu to iuio date, Nov. 20, ex- ; t,! actly 400 bales of cotton more fo than to the same date of last year ?K. T. Estridgo & Co. at I3e- it thune lost their barn and stables by fire last Saturday, the loss j* sustained by them amounted to Gi several hundred dollars. One l" horse was burned. 111 n< ?Supt E. A. Thios of the Mail o lil Gold Mine attended the marriage an i>, of Miss May NcNinch to Mr.Samuel B Smith inCharlotte last week w Mrs. Smith is a sister of Mrs. w. J. Thies. * ? Mr. E. G. SpilUbury, of New York,o former suporinten- NV dent of Haile Gold Mine, spent Friday night at the mine. ?Mrs. Sarah Morton and son ^ Dr. E. i<. Morten, of Meath v Spring spent Thursday in town y with Mr. Chalmers B. Horton. r ? Dr. L. T. Gregory carried 11 his little son to Charleston yostorday to have him operated on for enlarged tonsils. The Following are the official v figures of the recent election in u this county, as deolarod by the 5 olection commissioners last Tuesday : For state and county tickets, 1456 ; Presidental electors : Democratic, 1504; Republican, 60 ; Congressional: Finley, 1502 ; White, 70; Constitutional araendments: Biennial sessions of legislature, for, 800 ; against, 184: Municipal; bonded indebtedness, for, 772 : against, 114 : Local road laws, for, 999: agaiust, 77: Ropeal of section prohibiting local road law, for, 877 : against, 90. L Uumlwl uO\> ill Ike Cot ton .Mill School. A1, a meeting of the trustees i'riiluy afternoon another teacher Jiss Katharine Foster, was elecod for the Cotton Mill school, thich is a branch of the (traded chool. The teacher force of the iilliTSchool is now double what t was last year, the present dinner being four. The increase ras made necessary hy the notaly larger attendance of pupils, rhich was brought about by house j house canvass in the mill vilige by the superintendent, ('apt. kipper, and the teachers. The uthorities aro doing everything i their power to induce their peralives to send tnoir children 3 school. By their efforts, aided y 'he teachers, nearly one huuIred new pupils have been onrolld during; Ihe past two weeks. The school's {21 cutest need now } a suitable building and slops 'ill no doubt be taken to erect no. Col Springs, prcsidont of 10 mills, has generously offered ) donate a site and to pay half le cost of a modern school hou <e. -Lancaster correspondent News ad courier. Arbor Day in Lancaster. Arbor Dav was celebrated hers in a beauFnl manner last Friday by the Graded shoot. Supt. A. 11. Hanks proposed to the lildren to celebrate this clay by planting eOA oti the campus of the splendid new hoot building. In- accordance with reiest the boys of the higher grades brought oin the forest six lino young willow-oaks bich were planted in places selected on e school grounds, with due ceremonies at 0 o'clock Friday morning. After planting e trees 400 school cliildreu and about I Of our citizens assembled in the auditorium the school building,wlu ro tlio Arbor Day Lercisos suggested by State Superintendit Martin were held, 'these consisted of tree "Ong bj the first grade in charge of iss Nora llougli, followed by recitations, iclamations an l beautiful songs by the bier grades. The music was conducted by iss Stewart, who is in charge of the music ipartiuent of the school, and sho deserves uch credit for the manner in which tlio mgs were executed. Another feature of the occasion that derves special mention was an essay on the trees of South Carolina?their beauty, inds and Value," by Mr. Dan Lauey. It us full of thought well expressed. The owning evcut of this occasion was the llontbA address delivered by Kev. W. G. evillo, D. D., President ol the l'resbytcrriau College oi South Carolina. Dr. Nevle's address was ar. eloqueut plea for the reservation of our trees, and the necessity planting uioro trees, llo spoke of the anty of trees, tlio comfort they afford us, id the utility given by them in adding ;alth to our country and in various other ays. His recent trip to Europe gave him e opportunity of comparing tlio condi3Us of the forests tliero and here. Ito uto 1 that the trees of Europe were small id riot to be compared to our Kings of tlio arest, the oak and pine. His appeal to o young to plant trees now lor future mirations was both eloquent and earnest r. Neville made a tine impression upon 0 Lancaster people and the T .an east or hools piade a line impression upen hint, r he complimented Supt. batiks and his ile corps of tcacliors, 011 tlio excellent or>r of tlio pupils and the iople in having a man in charge their schools who bail done already so uch for fducatiou in the State, and was >w so earnestly engaged in the good work. 0 was surprised to know that Lancaster til fitK) 6r moro*whito cliildion in the raded Schools, and congratulated thorn 1 having such a lino corps cf teachers If the tqwn will obscrvo Arbor Day as eniisiasticAllv as did the school and begin nv the planting of trees it will not bo long 1 it will be a City beautiful. The trees were immAit for Dr. Neville. id the live trustees, Col. Leroy Springs, resident of the Board; Clios, T. Connors, 'c. niul Treas ; and Messrs W. T. Gregory, '. J. Cunningham and T. S. Carter. ^ | ^ J reparod to <lo the Work. 1 have put in a gasoliuo engine ith which to run my sausago and )ne mill, and am now better preared than ever to nerve the public rith the beat meat to bo hud. I ave also attached to my engine a rood Jaw, and can saw and split our wood on very short notice, ight in your own yard. Call me ip-niarket phono 43, rosidentce 5G 2f S. T. Klackmon. Tribute of Respect. Many than lis to the friends who were so ;ind to as daring the illnoss and death of uy father, Mr. W. L. Bird, who died Nov, 1, UK 1 Farewell father. r father , thon wast mild and lovelx , Gentle aR the summer broezo, feasant as the air of evening , When it float# among the trees. ?eaceful bo thy silent slumber. Peaceful in the grave so low; Niou no more wilt join our numbor; Thou no more our songs shalt know. fet again wo hopo to meet thee, When tho day of life is ilod; Chen in heaven with joy togroet thee Where no farewell tear is shed. father, givo joy or grief, givo ease or pain, Take life or friends away, lut let mo llnd them nil again In that oternal day. M. D. II. ' "WAN' 1 want voui* vis / want your w ants to me. If you w ant Fa If you want Cr< If you want Cli If you want Gli in fact, if you w thing; in these 1 in Celery ail Oread alwavs fw Yours, j g A SAJ isfinsured to VAL1 KMC. Q*^j[ ?1 A Or other goods One inlujlit us well have no watch a keep tune, do not fo >1 with the F.ikoi about watches, and whose guarantee i ten on. Come to tho WATCH HOC uro getting, and wuero every dollar ^ It pays to buy the best watch you i body can afford a pretty good one. Ask to see tho $1.00 Solid Gold I $10.00 Double Gun and the 10c Conn B. STILL LE Wwarcslill leader* In Wigh elan* ni?r< urive ea"h day t/i give our customer? aon uny olli-r merchant. Tno raason trt clai than our competitors, wf have no idla peo Theieforo w<i have no bijj salaries to pay nefH. Listen to our prices. S 1 L 30 inch Black Tafl'ata Silk, guaranteed t< cheap at $1 oO. our pr'ce, per yard, SI.If), in Brown, Navy, Garnet, Green, (.'ream i yard only 071 cent'. Black Beau de soie ? yard, our price $1.39. MESS 54 inch Broad G'li.th al( wool in Blacl 1>hrk Red, the$l kind, our pri< a per yard piece each of thoaeo4 inch Broad Cloths ii ing at, the yard, 09 cents 54 inch Snitin mixtures, worth $1,25?we oiler thaai as -I AOKl Ladies you had better come and get yoi and color. Remember we bought a samp than you can buy tliem any place in towi ltlankcts and Remember we carrv u full lino os thi (lie right piice. Blanket* froai 7-7> cent4 cents to $2.00 CI.OTI $ 18.00 Suit wo offer for 15.00 44 44 44 44 12.59 % 4 4 4> 4 4 4 4 10. 00 44 44 4 4 44 5.00 Boy1# Suit wo offor for. . 4.00 44 4 4 4 t 4 4 4 4 3 50 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 44 2. 40 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 4 4 2. 00 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 . 1 , 75 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 1.25 4 4 4 4 4 4 44' 44.. . We have many Bargains that wo apace so we invito yon to come and E. E. 1 -vr "i"ff"? I Li 'I ' 1 JElLM ants aiu" ii you sup^Iiiea come noy Groceries, ockerv, ina ware, ass ware, rant most anyics, come to me. <5 Bredc Steam i* - * lliUVllU! WElt iSFftCIION everyone who purchases WATCH " from llOUGll. t till us a poor one tlwit docs not r, or dealers who know nothing is not worth the paper it is writSK whore you know what you ;ets n dollar's worth of goods. ; in afford. At my prices any1 have all grades, ling, the $4.00 Singlo Gun, tho ter. C. Hough. ADERS ?kaiuliss at the (sweat prices. We nettling better for ! ? * money than in we cm soli you geoils cheaper iple with us?we are all workers for someone to laok after our busi ft s r> wear and no split. would be Plniu Tatlet* Silks 19 inches wido and Wliito, the 75c goods, at the Jilk, .".fi inches wide, worth $2 per tOODS j, Ji:uo, Tan, Green, llrown and , S7A cents. Wo still havouemall n all colors S5ceuta that wc nro sell gs in Navy, Garnet and Brown long as they last, per yard SI. 10. i-:ts a Jacket while you can got your lit ?le line and you can buy them A less i. L <Joilli01*tl?4. i*se gooisand can soil them to you at a pair to $6.00. Comforts from 75 HINOr. $14.00 12.50 0.00 (>.00 3.90 2.00 2.70 1.95 1.4S 1.25 SO could mention but we havo not see for yourself. Cloud.