Usa) Matltiv
? Frost here yesterday mornink;,
but il is not thought uny dam
ago it us been done to gardens or
the fruit crop
? Mrs Ollic Motz of Rock Hill
is the guest of Mrs M J Perry.
?Miss Mamie Clyburn, of
Lancaster, is visiting her cousins,
Misses Mattie and Ada Clyburn
near Hailc Gold Mine.?Kershaw
Era.
? The Franklin Circle will begin
next Monday morning the
work of improving the town
cemeteries. The Town authorities
will cooperate in their commendable
undertaking.
?Hon R E Allison, of Lancaster,
passed through this morning
on his way to Columbia to have
his eyes treated by Dr Moore.?
Chester Lantern.
? Dr It N Vanlandinghum and
family, of Hurtsville, came up
Wednesday to visit relatives hero
, and in the county. The Doctor
returned home yesterday but his
family will not return for several
weeks.
? Married, by ltev J M White,
Wednesday night, April 5. 1905,
Mr Samuel Wallace and Miss
Doru iielk, daughter of the late
Reeeo Belk, all of the Unity section.
? Mrs ? ? Wells, who recently
cume to this county from
Georgia, died at the home of her
kinsman in the Unnn church
neighborhood on the 28th ult., of
consumption. Her husband and
one childsurvive her. Her remains
were interred at Union church.
?Mr Horn, a representative
of the census bureau at
Washington, is spending several
days here getting up statistics for
the department of the manufacturing
enterprises of the county.
?Two excellent young men
of this county graduated in pharmacy
from the South Carolina
College of Medicine, with the degree
of Ph. G., at Charleston, last
Wednesday. They were Messrs
J Robert Belk of this place, and
1>1~1 ~ t r? t - " ?
jjiukc is.oDertson of Heath
Springs. They arrived home yesterday.
?The bonds recently voted for
school purposes have been sold to
the same firm in Atlanta who hold
the bonds issued for the construction
of Kershaw's water works
system, and the contract for build
ing the new school building has
been let to Granby and son of
Greenville.?Kershaw Era.
?C. D. Jones, Esq., will short1__
- i ? - -
iy move into nis elegant new otfice
rooms now being fitted up
over the stores of the HeathJones
Co. The ladies have secured
the rooms over the Masonic
building, now occupied by Mr
Jones, for the public library and
reading room and the books and
furnishings of the library association
wilL be moved there from the
graded school building as soon as
Mr Jones vacates.
?It is indeed a pleasure to note
the great improvement in the
condition of Mrs J W Hall, of the
Belair neighborhood, who for
several weeks past has been at Dr
Pryor's Sanitarium at Chester for
treatment under the noted and
successful specialist. Mrs Hall
has for many years been in very
feeble health and much of the
time a very sick woman. The
latest news from Chester is to the
effect that she will soon be able
to return home, and what is still
better, Dr Pryor says that she
will soon be entirely well and a
strong and healthy woman again.
Her many friends, who have manifested
such a deep interest in the
result of the treatment of her case
at the hospital, will be very much
gratified by this news.?Waxhaw
Enterprise.
VK
?Three hail storms within 24 C
hours is something novel, but
Lancaster has certainly had such h
an experience. A heavy wind t?
with considerable rain and hail b
came upon us very unexpectedly tl
Wednesday afternoon about 4.30 ti
o'clock, again that night at 8:30, s
and the following day at about a
2:30 p. in. Each time the ground tl
was covered with little balls, the p
largest being no larger than small t
sized marbles. a
? Notwithstanding the weather, ^
tht, ladies turned out well to the ''
millinery openings of the Heath- a
Jones Co., and the L M Co., last
Wednesday, though many who ^
put i tf their visit until evening
were badly disappointed in failure {
to get out at all. Many are the .
compliments we have h'jard paid
the displays of tho duinty coticep- ^
tions nf tho artistic milliners of J
s
these two enterprising establish- ^
meuts.
o
?Mr William King, who lives w
about two miles southwest of this n
place, lost his barn and its entire e
contents, consisting of one hun- M
dred and fifty bushels of corn, r
fourteen sacks of guano some f,
roughness and a lot of farming
utensils, by fire last Friday evening.
The cause of the fire was I
supposed to have been a flying
spark from the chimney of his
residence, as the fire was discov- r
ercd in the roof of the building. ?
?Waxliaw Kntcrprisc. a
g
?Mr J W Hall, a prominent ^
citizen of the Belair sccticn, is another
large farmer who is making
a big reduction in his cotton acreage
this year. lie had 84 acres
in cotton last year and used 17
. tl
tons of guano. This year he will
have about 35 acres in cotton and H
will use only 5 tons of guano. He w
will plant a large corn crop in- C
stead Mr Mall also furnishes the '
information that other farmers in "
his neighborhood are actually
making a large reduction in the
cotton acreage and will plant corn
instead. This being the case, the ; j
prosperous and well-to-do people J j,
of the llelair section are likelv to ! 1
J u
come out in good shape next fall. o
'?The election held in Jeffor- w
son last week on the question of s
issuing $7,500 worth of bonds for p
the purpose of building an up-to- fi
date school building carried al- it
most unanimously. ? Cheraw g
Chronicle. fi
? The orereisos of tho Bible and e
flag presentation by tho ,Fr. O. U. w
S. M to the Dixie tcbool comes ?
off today. J'
? Mr. Will Roddy has been an- f*
II
pointed carrier on R K 1) No. 4,
rice Mr. ?I F Hunter who resigned ,
1
jo trtko he postmastership. Mr.
Roddy made hi- initial trip yes- <j
terday.
? Miss Delitha Lovett, an operative
at the cotton mill here. S
aged 31 years, died Thursday
night, April 6th, 1905, after an 3
illness of two weeks. She wus a
daughter of M L Lovett of the a
Rtchlani mill, ut Columbia. Her f<
father rcachod her bedside shortly ft
before her death. Her remains w
were interted >esterday afternoon t(
in Wostside cemetery. si
? For sale! King's Improved ci
Cotton Soed. Apply to B. Cunningham,
Lancaster, S. C. t<
$225 Reward. j*
A Reward of $25 will be paid
for the*arr? 8t and confinement ir, ^
any prison of the person of Modie
Thomas, colored, who escaped
from the County chain-gang on ?
Saturday evening, April 1st, 1905
He is about 21 years of age,
A Lfkllf fv foAf 1 fi 1 n/*KAU
nwuuv u icut x v/ mv/viro Dit'Uh
I fl
dor built, will weigh about 150 ! j
pounds; color: light ginger-cake.
If arrested notify Sheriff John P.
Hunter or mysjlf. ^
M. C. Gardner,
Supervisor Lancaster Co. ,P
Lancaster, S. C., April 4, 1905. jN
Iiiht a Woulil-be>Traiu \Y:ock?r (
SlictiH Hunter id satisfied thut
o has fcunri the party who at
jmptod to vvurlc the L & O train i
ist Friday. tie found living in
ho vicinity of where the obstruc- (
inn was placed en the track a I
mull negro hoy, whoso feet ex- ]
ctly fitted Iho tracks made hy
ho party who placed the 6-inch
ieco of rail into the opening he- i
ween two rails of the hack. On
ccount of the hov's tender ago
o will likely not ho prosecuted
nit will he nllowe 1 to go with a
ound threshing by his mother.
Vho at IlcathSpriiigs will Vouoli
for This?
A t ravel tnor mnn rntnurbpil tiprw I
ho other day that ho had been
11 llealh bprings last week nnd
reminded of the fall of the
ear by the cotton wagons on the
tweets He also stated that the |
urmers in that section were not (
nly not holding their cotton but ,
>ero preparing to plant as much
s ever, even those who had pledg- ,
<1 to reduce their aciooge so
inch to iho horse were getting (
ound it by adding an extra horee (
or this year's crop.?Yorkyille
'lew Era
>catli of an Age<l Citizen of the
County 0,
Mr C 1) Williams, an aged and |
especttd citizen of tho Flint
tidge community,died on Monduy
fternoon, last, April 3d, 11)05,
ftcr several weeks illness of grip- i
le was about 70 years of ago '
nd leaves a widow and ono child
in viving him Ho served with
tie Confederate_arm y in one of !
io companies which went from
bis county throughout the war
nd mado a good soldier. He
ras a moiubcr of Union llaptist 1
hurch. His remains were in- '
sired at Fork Hill Tuesday after- (
oon. 1
The Newspaper. <
Any man cm take a newspaper. <
t is the cheapest thing he can buy. <
>ery time a ben ciucks and has |
lid an egg his paper is paid for i
lut week. It obmes to you every i
reek rain or shine, calm or ?
tor my. No matter what liapuns
it enters your door a welcome
neflu, lull of sunshine, cheer and ?
iterest. It opens the door of the
rent world and puts you faoo to 1
ice with its people and its great i
vonts It khorteus tho long (
unter nights. It is your advisor J
os-dper and friend. No man is |
ist to his children who does not f
ivo them the local paper. No man i
i good to himself who does not x
iko a newspaper.?Greenville s
lerald.
truck by Falling Limb and Inctantly
Killed.
pocial ro l'hj State
Bowman, April 6 - About 12.0
o'clock today Thus J Jackson,
3ii of ,1 E Jack-on, a young mun
bout 2 iyears old, who lives about
3ur miles from hero, was driving
wagon of fertilizer homo and
'ben he got about a mile from
iwn a limb of n falling tree
truck him on the sole of the head,
ausing instant death.
His duath caused u great shock
3 the community as be was a
oung man just starting out in
fo and a rocent graduate of Geor
ia-Alabuma Business College at
iacon Ga.
?Call at L. M. Co'8 and get
'loridora cotton seed.
T W. McMurray.
? 8 good milk rows for sale.
D.Glenn, It F D No 1
an easier S. C.
?For rent! 4-room cottage,
pply to YV P Bennett. 3t
?FloridoraCotlon Seed, 75 cte
er bushel. H M Gulp, H F. D.
o. 4, Lancaster. 3t
Conductor Killed by His Brakeman.
special to Tho State.
Orangeburg, April 5 ?Contactor
Charles Oliver of the ' .
Southern luilway freight which,
loft Colombia for Charleston at j ,
8.25 o'clock this morning was
struck and killo-1 about 4 o'clock
this afterno >n by his hrakeman,
WiIlium Miektl, at Stilton, three
milos above Orangeburg. Mickle
is a young white man about 21
years of age and says his homo is J
ut Camden. The conductor is ?
about 30 years of age, married
and goes out front Charleston.
Mickle has a stub in his left
shoulder a little over one inch in
depth, which was inflicted by ^
Oiver during tho difficulty.
Mickle says that tho conductor
became provoked with him in connection
with his efforts to remedy
a hot box, which delayed the train .
and that tho conductor stabbed I
u: -i *
nun wimoiu provocation. Ho |
Bays that ho had nothing whatever
with with which to defoud himBelf
from tho assault of tho conductor
and that he retreated about
the length of the engine, then he ^
picked up from the ground nn
iron, between one and two feet ,
in length, and threw it at tho condoctor,
hitting him on tie head
The conductor was killed by this j
blow, his skull was crushed.
The fact of tho killing was tele- ^
phoned hero from Stilton, aud j
Sheriff Dukes, with n deputy and
Chief of police Fischer started towards
Stilton to apprehdnd the 1
slayer. A short distance from
rangeburg thoy met Mickle on
his way to Orangeburg on foot
to surrender to the sheriff. Mickle
started immediately ufter the
altercation to walk to Orangeburg
down tho railroad track, to 6ur-< I
render to tho sheriff, and was
informed after ho reached this city
$f the death of the conductor.
After he was taken to the sheriff's '
jflice, tne wound in his shoulder
>vas dressed by Dr nydrick.
Mickle appears to regret very J
lmch.thc death of tho conductor
ind seemingly feels deeply the remit
of the unfortunate difficulty. (
Horrible Accident
Special to News and Courier.
(.horaw, April 5.?Mr E E
Donaldson, aged 47 years, lost
lis life a few minutes after 4 tt
>' clock yesterday afternoon at
he saw mills of the W L Clement v
dumber Company, near Society
Hill. Mr Donaldson tripped and c
ell into a wheel making two hunIrcd
revolutions per minute, and t
vus horribly mangled, causing initant
death. His home is El wood c
Lnd.
8
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A Living \
Monument.
If we were to assemble all
those who have been cured of
heart disease by Dr. Miles'
Heart Cure, and who would
to-day be in their graves had
not Dr. Miles' been successful 0
in perfecting this wonderful *
heart specific, they would populate
a large city.
What a remarkable record?
a breathing, thinking, moving
monument, composed of human
lives,?that for which every '
other earthly possession is sac- I
rificed. v
The Miles Medical Co. re- fi
ceivc thousands of letters from
these people like the following:
"I feel Indebted to the Dr. Miles'
Heart Cure for my life. I desire to call
the attention of others suffering as I
did to this remarkable remedy for the
heart. For a lonff time I had suffered n
from shortness of breath after any
little exertion, palpitation of the heart;
and at times terrible pi*In In the region
of the heart, so serious that I feared
that I WOuld some time Jron dend unnn
the street. Ono day I re <1 ono of your
circulars, and Immediately went to
my druggist and purchased two bottles
of tho Heart Cure, und took It
according to directions, with the
result that I am entirely cured. Rinco g
then I never miss on opportunity to
recommend this remedy to my friends
who have heart trouble; In fact I am
a traveling advertlament. for I am
widely known In this locality."
J. H. BOWMAN,
Manager of Lebanon Democrat,
Nashville, Tenn.
Dr. Miles' Heart Cure Is sold by
your druggist, who will guarantee that
the first bottla will benefit. If It fella
hs will refund your money.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
P L A ]
THE 25 PE1
Iteilnetioi of (Ml
In tlie very best s
ket grown seed IR
TOES, Red Tr
White Bliss, Peerl*
Hebron and others
ees, Onion Sets and
at MACKOI
WHY Lvery Man and Womai
The NeW Yc
Because it is the strongest company i
ecause its policies protect one millic
ecause it has over 390 million assett
Because it has over 380 millions Rose
ecause it. paid in dividends in 1904 i
ecauso it is purely mutual. It has 11
Because its assetts belong to the poli<
ecause it docs not invest in stocks at
ecause its policios contain only on
iremium "
Because the insuied leaves to his wido
a law suit,
ecause its policies are incontestable
Because it paid in 1904 #40,000,000
ecause it is the best estate you can
ecause it gives you the best protect
for the money.
Jecause you can't afford to carry anythu
best.
Call on J. 10. BLACKMON of Lam
ilication.
DISPLAY OF SPI
VVe have now showing one of the grei
lOODS ever on display in Lancaster.
SILKS
This will bo a great Silk soason. We
,t underselling prices.
27-inch Red China Silks Lyons dyed a
/earing silk at 50 cents.
Two touncd Glace Tafetas in all tho 1:
xtremely popular for shirt waist suits at
The nev Chiffon Tafetas two tone effocl
ier silks sold anywhere at #1. Special |
Special assortment of d?ess patterns of
hecks, stripes and novelty mixtures, wo
Natural Japanese silk 20 inches wide,
ell. Big value 24 cents. 27 inch Chil
lost popular slik of the season, #1 grtul
atfeta we are guaranted per yard 95c. 3
ii a 1 if tr rvn?? ?row/'. 1 "1 ft J n LI""'* ^
Uttiitj J/UI jroill IV* OVIUIU Uincti J.
t $1.00 per vftrd.
WASH GO
Our l'oo of Wash Goods are one of tbc
if goods ever shown in Lancaster and an
his line will do well to see ours before t
BIG JOB m
10 piecs 20c voiles, as long as they las
Voiles, as they last, per yard 10c. lion
rish Linen, extra heav}. .lust the thing
yorth $1.50, our price 89 cents. 36-n
inish, worth 39 cents onr prico 25c.
BIG JOB IN SHI
500 Mens' Shirts, sells everywhere fo
ents.
Wo have added this lino to our store i
how and tho prices arechoapor then you
E. E. C
NT^
R CENT on
km
selected marISH
POTAiumph
Bliss,
ess Beauty of
at lowest priI
Garden seed
CELL'S.
n Should Insure in
>rk L(ife.
n the world,
in families.
.8.
rve Fund,
jvor $5,900,000.
10 capital stock.
:y holders.
id industrial securities,
e condition "payment of
\v or ostato a legacy and not
nud nonforfeitable.
to its policy holders,
leave to your fanily.
ion and investment combined
ig else ?vhen you can get the
caster and give him your apKING
GOODS
itest collection of SPRING
%
>
have the moat popular thing
II colors. This is a splendid
>est combination of colors,
50 cents.
t in suit patterns. No pret-.
p-ice per >ard 69c.
soft tine Tafetas silk in neat
rth from GO 75 conts at 50c.
We have only 100 yards to
Ion Taffeta in black Only,
e at 75c. 36 inch black
6-ioch black taffeta the $1.50
*eau do Soir, the $1-25 grade
wis
> greatest collection of this
y one uieding anything in
my ing.
VOILES
t, for 12$e. 10 pieces, 15c
o'a the real thing: OOanch
for lartios' shirt waist suits,
ich pure Irish Linen, sott
IRTS
r $1.00, Your choico for 00
iiEW
kHiA
in<l have a beautiful line to
i can buy them elsowhere.
LOUD