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| ^ LOCAL DOTS ] ?Cotton brought lii cents on this market yesterday ; cotton seed, 30 cents. Attention id fli * ? l*' - . > \?nrviOU l/\J lUT* J. C. Edwards's new announce inent in today's paper. ?Chief of Police Hunter has been laid up for a day or two wiil? an attack ot rheumatism. ? Games Brothers moved their 8to' k of goods this week from the Hunter building, which they have occupied for some time,into the corner store room in the Moore block. ?Mr. Thos. L Hilton, Lancaster's new policeman, was instrumental one day this w?ok in in creasing tne town's revenues to the extent ol $.'J7.?fines collect ed horn a party of card players. ? Dr. Geo. W. Jordan, an aged physician who died at his home near Rodman 'ast Saturday, wawell known to Lancaster's old citizens He studied medicine here over fifty years ago in the office of the late Dr. R. E. Wylie, grandfather of Mayor Wylie. ?Mr. Patterson Crawford has accepted the position of baggage master at the Southern depot to J succeed Mr. W. W. Pegram, who has been promoted to yard mas ter. Mr. .Tntm nirkini I v ...... vy lUUVi j Willi IT" cently heldj that position, will probably have work in Laneas ter.?Chester Lantern. ?The Franklin Circle has two laudable objects in ^iew for the coming year, Library work and raising money for Industrial School that will be built at an early day. Members of the Cir cle are now rehearsing a splendid drama that they will present in ^ a lew weeks. They ask the patronage of tlie town in their wor thy cause. ?Both Wednesday's and today's Ne^vs havo bean gotten out under difficulties, so lar as the work of the editor is concerned. Though he moved into his new quarters, in the Springs block, last Saturday, his editorial room has not been fit for habitation this week, it being still in the DO-session of olaaterprs unit nuin. ters. The editor, therefore, lias been obliged to do his work this week in the printing oflice or wherever he could find an unused table and writing material. District Stewards* Meeting. The stewards of the Rock Iiill District of the Methodist Conference will meet in Kock Hill next Tuesday, 30th instant. The Lancaster board will be represented at the meeting by Maj J. M. Riddle. To Move Today, ll the weal her permits, the Lancaster Publishing Company will begin today the removal of its extensive newspaper and job priming plants into its new quarters in the Springs block. It will probably take two or three days to effect the chan^_, bu' there will be no interruption in the publication of The News and in the dispatch of job work, both going on as usual. I . PERSONAL President 6. VV. Ilea*I), ol the Excelsior Granite con punv, was in town ihis week. Messrs Sylvester Shute and Hugh Arant, ot Mississippi, arrived h- re Wednesdav to visit relatives. Mrs. Clias T. Connors returned Wednesday nighi from a visii to her daughter in Columbia, Mrs, J. N. Span 11. Superintendent of Education W. M. Moore visited several schools in the eastern portion o the county this week. Mr. John Van Lamlingliam hard urned from A'lanta, Ga.. where lie spent awhile with his mn, Mr. Ralph Van Landing I.am, and lias nsun.ed his work, . I having luiiy recovered from the injuries ne received 111 tlie recent street cur accident.?Charlotte Observer. The I'assiiu/ of the Oltl llevlew Office. The old Review office was moved this week by its owner. Mr. Ernest Moore, to another part of town, where it is to he need as a cMtaiie. Its removal was not exactly the tearing lown of an old landmark, like the old buildings that had to give way to Col. Springs's new block, but, all the same, it is no spring chicken, so to speak. The Drinr.innd I m. r1*' or main part of the building, the printing ollice proper, was built nearly half a century ago by t lie late William A. Moore, as a law office, which ho used for that purpose until his death, some ' twenty-five or more years ago. i After the de itfi of Mr. William i Moore, hi* son, Mr. Ernest Moore, ; occupied the building as a law I office. In January 1884 if was 1 rented by Riddle & Connors, who < bad jus! purchased the Lancaster ; Review, as a printing ofiice, and j it was continuously used for such purpose up to the lirot ot October I last, when the publication of < The Review was discontinued.? I What was known as the editorial 1 room, running parallel with Gay 1 street, was built in 1884. It was t occupied uninterruptedly from < the day it was finished up to last i Saturday by the writer, lor many years as editor of The Review t and for the last few months as editor ol The News. i ? r.n c r(l([ IftCf/ Had ItualnesH Klsewhere, 1 By fhe way, did you see three men?Mayor Wylie, Insurance j Agent Witherspoon and the editor of The News?come tumbling y out of the oflice of the Lancaster ( News about midday Thursday ? You didn't ? Well, it was be- ' ... 8 cause you were not on Main street at the time, and your failure to C be there accounts lor your mis 1 sing a sight th it was truly spec j tacular and well worth seeing? ? Yes, the parties named actiiallv J t fell over each other getting out of that office. The falling in of ? the roof, in a (lame of fire, could 1 not have made thera hustle out tai-ter or more furiously. The cause of their hasty exit ? The trouble was just this. One { of the printers in the establish* H raent had just bared his arms t ' ' ' ' ' "If 'I i' "i i ' ' i ' REM I A Gre Don't let this sale ? make it to your intc and find that we ha year. They must 1 ????? Cotton Go 5c Standard Colicoes, no\ Gc Checked Homespun, n 7 l-2c Madras Ginghams, 8 l-2c Outing, now (> l-4c 10c Outing, now 8 l-3c. 10c Flannelets, now 8c. 10c Cotton Plaid, now 7 1 l> Dress Goc You can find a good se Goods in our place and we l i goous at zo per cent, un price. This is a great fea have got to buy dress good: Don't forget tha and after that date fourth door from I E. i The Store showing an eruption that looked suspiciously like smallpox. The aforesaid trio at once concluded that smallpox it was, so they "vamooshed the ranch" without ceremony. It was surely a wi'd find rapid race for the open air md tall timber. Some people may foolishly think that Mayor Wylie and the ?ditor are getting up in years, but it they could have seen the lightning-like evolutions of our ittle legs on the occasion referrid to they would have promptly ;onciuaeJ that we ire still very nuch in the ring. f/e?i'// Freeze?-lloxmli est Weather of the Season. About tho roughest weather )f the seas >n struck this section Thursday night and yesterday, [t rained continuously tor many lours, the water freezing as last s it fell. Hundreds ot tree iranches in and around 'town ,vere broken off by their heavy ;<>ats of ice, and in some instan:es the trees themselves JJwere irostrated. An unusually |fine hade tree in Mr. Marion] Withirspoon's yard fell Thursday light. But by long odds the heaviest oser by the freeze is Mr. J. T. HioniasBon, proprietor of the elophone system, whose wires ind po^ts are down in ever}7 lirection. It will take consider ible time and hundreds of dol ars to lepair the lines. The mral route c.iiers were inable to make '".eir trips yeserday, and th re is some doubt ibout their being able to do so oday. ' uri OVAL ?s SUO by without making i irest. We have just fu ive too many goods foi >c sold. Listen to the ods Lac ? o ? 1 and Jackets. V L ' 1 to close, and wil ? 'r move the goods, , now 5c. , j Cloth l_9c i A great redu< $6.00 Suits, n 10.00 Suits, n Dds 5 00 Ovcrcoj (>.00 Overcot 10.00 Overcot lection of Dress i)on't let thi will sell you the I need of clothin der the regular I space to mentio st for ladies who i jire offering, so 5. I them to you. t this sale will close ji we will be found in 7irst National Bank. I. CLC That Keeps Prices in Reach of Itfiitli of Mrs. ./lit ins fihinkmnii. ' Mrs Mary Black toon, wife of Mr. Julius Blackmon, of this place, died Wednesday, of consumption. Her health had been failing for some time. She was a sister of the late William Sapp and was about 30 years old. She was a member of the Baptist church and leaves a lur?;e circle of relatives and friends to lament her untimelv death. Mrs. Blackmon's remains wore buried Thursday at Camp Creek church, after funeral services conducted at the home by Dr. Boldridge. A Greenville Lad's Horrible Fate. Greenville, January 20.? Special to News and Courier: Ollie Smith, 12 years of age, fell into a steaming vat of mash a- d was literally cooked, lie can not live through the night, the, physicians say. The boy was feeding cows from a coal vat, and as he watched them eat the boiled corn meal ho leaned against a post, supposed to protect him from the steamimr vat. The post, j:avo wav, and h? f*di in, only his head and one t-houlder being held above the boiling mass of meal fotir teet, deep. When pulled out he dashed him self into a cool mountain stream in the hopes of easing the pain. When his clothing was removed most of the skin came with It Thfl NflWO I)oes Job Printing lllu llCniJ for others. Why can't we do yours? ?????? ?. ^ Sale r1 tr.J ? V_y JL Jk k J is a call. \Ve will nished taking stock r this season of the reduction in prices : lies' Coats Ve still have a few of these II make the price so as to ing Bargains ition in Clothing, ow 4.95. ow 6.90. its, now 3.90. its, now 4.95. its, now 6.90. s onnnri unil \r cm K\r ir - II "V f->^' "J > 11 1,1 ig. It will take too much n all the great bargains we call on us and we will show j| tNIJARY 31st, | the Springs block, ! Everyone. J I T5 * _ j .Dusmess lNOiices. tw All Notices inserted under tins head at the rate of ONE CENT A WORD for each insertion. No notice to be counted less than 25 | words. SALESNEN WANTED to look af| ter our interest in Lancaster and adjacent counties. Salary or Conimis^ sion. Address Clover Oil and 1'aiut C Cleveland, O NOW is the time everybody enjoys a good drink of Coffee. Call at Dennett's and get your winter sunnlv. 2w. WHILE unloading a car of mules Wednesday night one got a way.Think it is a small black mare mule. Any information leading to the recovery or if mule is delivered to us or to the Kershaw Livestock Co., we will pay a liberal reward. Gregory llood Live Stock Co. Jan, 2d. 1 'JOG. FOR RKN'T ?My '2-story, Groom dwell, iug on Main street, two blocks from court house. Or will sell on easy terms or excluing" for well improved farm near town J.J. itlackniou. 1-24-1 in < IIOP'E Burred Plymouth Rock Rgfr for null-, r>-i ivnts l??r lo, at the yard J. ' i lockett 1-211 re A STRAY mule l'ig, white UD^ - A spotted, ahont 5 months old, ta' ?rJjj& mill community awaits owner. W. P. ("askey. Magistrate. , a LOST?Saturday in to\fc / ,J ( '' memo ruin trim account book & ""jr Finder will please return t Sunlit f son ... v. j _______________ ' le A if TWO good Sccond-lmi ia(i I* Apply at The News Offl ^ WANTED ?Brig John flp. man from Lancaste. ve'il'S pare for paying positi J 1 in ment Mail Service. Bt fveral cull- *-. itapius, ia. 1 Notice of Dischar Nlids to 7 Notice is hereby given tha ^ ,, dersigned.as Executor of the A. Thompson, deceased, will, o "rtliv 28th day of February, 1906, make u tinai return a* such Executor, and ap ply to the Probate Court for Lanuas ter county for a final discharge. J. K. Thompson, Executor of the Will of J. A. Thompson, deceased, Lancaster, .3. C., J a a.'20, 1906?td,