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Uttl MatMt'e ^OINTMKNTS OF KKV.J )* V) ITK , Julty, 1st ami 3(1 Kabbatii , vJISN re^k, 2d and 4th Sabbath. II in I I'loiaiiit Hill, "I 'did 4tli Bubbalh, ( til. ? Miss Hello Clylnirn is visit ' ing hv"t sister, Mrs W S Tayli r, in Charlotte. ? The Daughters of the Confederacy will sorve dinner for tho public t?n Monday and Tuesday 1 of court week at 11 reasonable 1 price. The funds will go to in. crease the Confederate monument fund. I ?Mrs A .J Bass and her little nieco, Francella Caldwell, of Nor- ! way, S. C., are guests of Mrs ,1 1' Evans. I ?Mrs L S Strait is visiting her parents in Ckoster county this , week. ? Mr Oscar .Villiams, of Now ? York City, is on a visit to his parents, Judge and Mrs D A < Williams, at this place. I ?Miss Maggie Creushaw, of I Van Wyck, is visiting her sister, < Mrs J F Clyhurn. ? Miss Brennie Thompson, of ' Riverside, is visiting relatives at 1 Mt Gilead. ' ? Misses Bessie and Ellen J or- * dan are visitiner relatives at Com- 1 Hm, in York county. ?Mr. J. F. Gregory visited hia paieds at Taxahaw Saturday and Sunday. ilia mother who has been quite-ill, is some bet- 1 ter. ( ?The time for paying taxes with the 7 por cent penalty expires today. Tomorrow accord I ing t'.i the law, executions will be issued and placed in the bands ot : the sheriff. By paying your t taxes today you will save consid- i erahle expense. ; ? We are glad to learn that Mr 1 J Wren Tillman, who has been ' under treatment of Dr Pryor at ' Chester for several weeks, for 1 some derangement of the diges. tive organs, is much improved 1 uod was exacted home Monday 1 night 1 ?The pension board for Lancaster county has forwarded its report to Columbia. '21 applications were passed upon favorably and should Bone of them bo turned down hv the Sluln Iwmid lht??-? will be just twelve more pension- 1 ers for this county thon were on ' the roll for lust year, nine having ' been dropped from the roll by 1 reason of death. ? Mr. Jume.i Lowry, of Lun ' caster, and Miss Rebecca Wright, who lives near the Highland Park Mill in this city, were married Wednesday night at 8 o'c'ock at ^ the home of the bride's father by Rev. W. B Duncan. ? Rock Hill Herald. i ? Au up-to-date market is be- | ing opened in the Cunningham ( Store room recently vacated by Deitz Bros. The proprietors are Messrs L S Elliott, 8 W Heath mid - ? Watkins, the latter of ( Curoden and having had sixteon | years experience in the business. Meats, dressed fowl, butter, eggs, | vegetables, otc., will be there for ( you when you want them. The ( proprietors expect to make it equal to uuy city market. ?The capitation tax of 50 i cents on all dogs to be expended ' for school purposes in the county < where collected ought to increase the school funds of Lancaster county $804 50 for the ensuing fiscal year, there having been 1,- ' 609 <logs returned for taxation in this county last year and presum- ' ably as many have been returned this yoar. 71,713 dogs wore re turned in tbe State, the capitation tax on which would amount to 1 935,856.50. ?Subscribe to The Lodger. [tubbed Wlillc lio Stent On Sunday night Inst Mr Lester *> Stai'ues, who lives about seven inilos North of t< wn. was robbed >f $21.60 in inonoy and his ;;is Lol while ho slept The money ??n* taken from a pocket of his pants, which wcto hanging at the head of his bed, while the pistol was taken from the mantel board in his bed room. A negr boy, Will Thomas, who was hired to Mr Starnes and who slept m the cook room on the premises, ran nff that nii>ht and has not been heard of since. Mr Stat ties is certain that the negro slipped into his room and committed the theft as there was no other cause for his leaving. lUforts are being made to ascot tain the wlmte ibouts ot Thomas. It is said that he once lived about Concord, N. C., and came to this county from there. Suit for $50,000 Damages The administrator of the estate if Mr*. Annie S. McManii3 whose :iomo was at Wilmington, N. C., aas brought suit in the York :ounty court against the Seaboard A.ir Line Railroad company, f-?r ?50,000 damages. This hiiit is for tho killing of Mrs. MeManns n tho wreck near Catawba Juneion on tho 9th of iust September ind is in tho interest of her husband and three minor children, nil laughters Messrs. Wilson & Wilson of ;his city have boon employed to arosecuto tho suit and it is expected that tho case will bo heard at ho coming term of court.?Itock Hill Herald. Money in Diversified Farmb g "I can make money farming md never raise a pound of cot:on," said a prosnerons farmer 11 our presence yesterday. "Ten rears ag he conlinu d, "1 was ilniost overwhelmed with debt. I bad been raising ail cotton and tho bopo of extricating myself from lebt was almost abandoned when L began diversified farming. In Ihree years after I began it 1 found myself out of debt and a little money to my credif, and I baye been getting along very weli over lince. I would advise till farmers to pursue tho course I have." The gentleman who was talking will not permit lis to use his narm\ When asked what he hud Hold from his farm Ihc past your bolides cotton bo stated that us yet bo bad only sold half of his cotton, hut that ho had sold over f>800 worth of other products such as hay, corn, fodder, c ib? huge, potatoes, butter, eggs, cattle, fowls, otc. 4 Yoj," be said, "I have it itemized1' and ho pro seeded to give the amount of each be has sold. He works a tonrborse farm and had made forty bales of cotton on smoothing ovor that many acres When asked if be would reduce his cotton acreage this year he promptly replied. lties, one fourth, whether other * Jo or not." We could tell of the improvements this gentleman has made on bis farm within the past few years, nf the handsome residence ho has built, and also the number of 3hildren ho now has in collego, ate., but to tell ull this would probably be equivalent to giving bis namo which we promised him not to do. The idea we wish to impross is that there is money in Jiversified farming ? Cloud has returned from the Northern markets. See his new adv. in this issue. ?The following names were unintentionally omitted from the honor roll of the graded school published in our last issue: 3d grado - scholorahip, lluth MoCar flel 1; attendance, (for hk month*) Maude Clyburn, Zelma Johnson, Maude Moore, Elliott Springw, Pearce Horton. "A Carolina Heroine." Lancaster cor. Tho New? and J Courier: Miss Blanche Cousar, a brignt Lancaster girl, has recently ncc< pled tho position of * Moil-! grapher and typewriter for ' I). W. Alucrman & Sous' Co., t of Alcwlu, S. C. Her history ie c an x'-mpl ideation of what evcD ^ a girl may accomplish whou im- ^ bu"(l with tho doteriDination to bo the architect of her own for- * tune I Ah a child Miss Cousar was t ambitious to acquire an oduca j tion, but, beiug without means and having t > wor* for a living, her prospects were anything but 1 encouraging. She soon found * a way, however, to overcome all e difficulties. I'm* plan was to c attend the Lancaster graiied ^ school during the day and to work at night in the cotton 8 mills Slu had to walk a mile .8 tf.a the **o!iool and a tnilo from her ^ home to the mills That was a p hard, vury hard task for ? child, t] studying r.'i d ly and working .j nights ; but for one with little Blanche Coursar'b courage and h resolution it meant success. ? Notwithstanding the fact that tl she had but little time to prepare 0 for her recitations, she was one p of the graded Fchool's honor ^ graduates a year or so ago. After finishing school sha de- " voted her entire time to mill f work in older to make enough money to i n?hle her to gooff tl and take a business course, ? which she did 'ast fall, going to 8 the Welsh Neck High School, of g Hartsvillo. Sho recently con- t eluded her studies thora and is o now filling the responsible posi- u tion referred to at Alcolu. v For otm of her tender age and tl limited experience, Miss Cousar [\ writes remarkably well, her vo- tl cab ilary and descriptive powers ft boing really wonderful. Her (j school compositions were of such f, decided merit that more than one ]j was published in the local papers at the request of the then superintendent, Mr. L T. Baker, now at the head of the Mount Ziou Institute, Wmtiaboro. a q I tenis From Kersliiwv Era. z ?Dr. S. G. Hutledge and Miss s I<la Trusdol wore married Sunday afternoon at tho homo of the y bride's grandmother, Mrs. Sea- p born Truesdel, I)?. E. F. Kice v officiating. Tiio congratulations . 1! and host wishes of the Era are extended to tbem. p ? Mr. John E. Hough lias been oleetod dispenser at Camden. Mr. d Hough is tho eldest eon of Mr. A. s VI I t iv uougn, mo ivorsnnw dispenser. h Mr Giovor C. Welsh will l?o his a clerk They will probably take ii charge ibis week. - Miss Fay Cook, daughter of P Auditor ?J. A. Cook, of Lancaster, a visited the family ot Hon. W. U. c Clyburn near Hailo Gold Mine last week. Miss Ada Clyburn acconi- ^ panied her home Saturday. ? Little lioy, the infant son of \ Mr u;;d Mrs. 1). W. Belk, aged t eighteen months, died the 10th inst \ of measles and was buried in tho d Kershaw cemetery Saturday after- v noon. Tho funeral service was t conducted by Dr. E. F. Kico. 1 a i # e-4 round Gold in Abundance r u A special to The News and Cour ier from Lancaster, March 11th, c says: Mr. Moore, a mining expert from Colorado, who is now connect! d with tho Blackmon gold mine in this county, which is being worked bj a Charleston com- pany, made an examination yes- I terday of Mr. J. D. Nisbet's plan- c tation, some miles north ot Lan- * caster. Ho found gold in abun- t dauco and predicts that it will I prove to bo ono of tho richest mines in the country. ? Mass Meeting Monday. 1 The farmers and others inter- t estod are reminded of the fact c that a mass meeting will be held c at tho courthouso next Monday, ? 20th instmt, at midday. J Everybody in sympathy with t the present farmers' movemout s is especially urged to attend.? fl President Smith ftud*;TrGaaurer Hyatt, of tlio State Association, t havo been invited to bo present I and to make nddrosaes. e T. J. Strait,- t Pros Co. Association. i Geo. W. Jones, t County Secretary. r Great Enterprise on Foot, Spocial to News and Courier. Yorkville, March 12 ?You ;orrespondenj i? relinI>1 y infortnei Ihat parlies interested in the Cu aw ha River Company have ro icntly acquirod n controlling in crest in what ia known as Monn ain Island shoal, located on C.v awba River, in Gaston County, ^orlh Carolina, twenty tivo 01 hirty miles ahovo the site of theii iresent plant in York County, md that a similar plant will be reeled there as soon as prectica >le and that a third plant is to be rectcd without delay by anothei oinpany in which tho Dukes ol ho American Tobacco Compauy re interested on the same stream it Catowba Falls, which is said tc 10 tho most magnificent wutoi lower ?n the South and cno of lio best in Amotion, something ike 60,000-horse power being tlx; mount believed to be available, nd then the combined power of ie three plants is to be available ver a circuit of wires taking in oincaster, Winnsboro, Cnester, 'orkville, Clover, Gastonia Dalis, Charlotte, Fort Mill Rock I ill, and back to Lancaster. The combined power of the areo plants, if fu'.ly developed, rill be in tho neighborhood of 0,000-horse power and will bo nilicient to operate about three imes as much machinery as is ow in operation in all the towns lentioned. The gentleman from rhotn your correspondent got his information said that he got I direct from Dr Wylie, and that hat gentleman did not so much s intimate that there was any oubt as to tho ultimate successul carrying out of tho plan outncd. S. M. G. Letter to J. A. P. Sistaie. Lancaster, S. C. Dear Sir: Some think we take , good deal of risk in inviting omplaints of Devoe lead-and ipc?we authorize our agent tc efl it under this guarautee : "If you have any fault to find nth this paint, either now ic utting it on, or hereafter in the rear, tell your dealer about it. " We authorize him todo what i right at our expense." The following story telle how ittle the risk is : J. H. Ashor & Co., hardware ealers, Rhiuebeck, N. Y., have old Devoe from '76 to now ave sold thousands of gallon? nd have had just one complain! q all this time. Three sides of a house were lerfect; the fourth was as bad ,s the three were good. Fvrvlanafion T* uniw/v/J * 1> - xu A^iauaviviu 1 u i mucu tut light before the fourth side wai laioted ; and the painters didti' vait for the wood to dry. What is done in such a case ' Vhatever the dealer, who sole he paint, considers it fair to do Ve leave it to bim. He may no< to exactly what we should do i ve were there ; but we are no here. The best we can do is t< save it to him. Yours truly, il F. W. DevoeA Co. Lancaster Mercantile Co. sel iur paint. Big Floods in California. Los Angeles, Cal., March 13 ?The Seventh street bridge ovq ^os Angeles river fell today larrying with it into the floodiwelled river 12 to 15 persons wo of whom aro believed to bavi >cen browned. Flood conditions in Los Angele ind vicinity are the worst knowr n many years. Los Angele; iver, flooded by tributaries frori he mountains and from the higli lountry where heavy floods hav >ccurfed, is bankful and has reacl id the highest point known in 15 rears. Much loss has been susainei by the city from damaged treets, broken storm drains anc ewers. Along the coast various othei owns have suffered. At Santi donica two piers were destroye* ind the damage along the shor< here is estimated at $200,000 Vt Long Beach tho lamuge to thi vharf and to small boats is esti nated at $20,000. PLA --THE 25 PE Mndi ill' fnl r In the verv best i > ket grown seed III ; TOES, lied Ti While Blis, Pee id 1 Hebron and others 1 ces, Onion Hets ant j at MACKOI UIUV M.- ~J III? nm iiciy man gnu rruma The NeW Yo Becauso it is the strongest company i ecausc its policies protect 0110 id111 i< ecause it has over 300 million asset I Because it lias over 380 millions Itesc ?cause it paid in dividends in 100-4 t ecaus3 it is purely mutual. It has i Because its nssetts belong to the poli ecause it does not invest in stocks ai ecause its policies contain only or premium " Because the insmed leaves to his wide a law suit, ecause its policios are incontts'ablo Because it paid in 1004 #40,000,000 ecause it is the best estate you can ecause it gives you the best protect for tho money. Because you can't afford to carry anythi > best. t t Call on J. E. BLACKMON of Lan i plication. [ SPRING r Our buyer has j i from the Nortlic where he selecte [ choicest and up-to; Sprime anil Snn f ever brought to Ia These goods are I}, and in a lew i have tliem on di! cordially invite o come and inspect < ; DOMESTIC S s 36-inch Andrew ? >8 Domestic, 10 yd: I 36-inch Brown fS] e cents per yard, i Checked Slomespi i 4 1-2 cents. 1 Good Calicoes, or ' m [ 4 1-2 cents per ; ! E. E. C NT R CENTlim \m%t selected marLlSU POTABliss, ess Beauty of i at lowest pri 15?as'iie? seed CELL'S. 9 Staid Insure in rk L(iie. it tho world. >n families. rvo Fund. ver $5,000,000. 10 capital stock. cy holders. ml industrial securities ic condition "payment of iw or estato a legacy and not and nonforfeitable. to its policy holders, leave to your family, lion and investment combined ng else when you can get the caster and give him your apgoods just returned ir? Markets d one of the date lines of m Us in caster. ; arriving daidays we will splay and we tie and all to iiiir goods. FECIALS. hoggins' Ble. s for 89 cts. Iieeting 4 3-4 iiss, per yard, etty patterns, yard. LOUD