The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, February 28, 1906, Page 4, Image 4
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J NO. A. COOK, Skc'Y. and Tukas. p"
J. M. KIDDLE, J it.. BUSINESS Manaqek. ?r
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Entered as second-class matter, Oct. 7. IPOs
at the postolllce at f.ancastor, S. C., under Act ti
of Congress of MJffch 8, 1879.
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Wednesday, February 28, 1906. .^
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t i ;D k.. ,i ..i t ? c j . i
jli 10 a. uau piau iu itrtJU it
preachers too high; it makes
them sassy as we!! as extrava II
gantly liberal. See tlie effect ol L
that pounding on our ministerial p<
friend in Heath Springs last pj
Friday. m
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An unprecedented compli- ^
meat has been paid Senator
Uf
Tillman by the Republican con,mittee
ol the Senate which has ,
had under consideration for
some time the Hepburn railroad
rate bill. He was selected, on A
last Friday, by the committee t<>
report the bill to the Senate, j)r
which he did Monday.
in
UA North Carolina man has th
discovered that whiskey will kill in
rats. The very idea of wasting \y
whiskey in killin grats!" I|e
We do not recall the paper -t
from which the above was clip ag
ped, but it sounds like the
Anderson Daily Mail. The man, .
1^'f
by the way, who writes the
paragraphs lor that journal is a
genius.
THE DEPOT SITUATION. ol(
of
We are frequently asked ^
whether the bill Representative ,
. . ch
Poster succeeded in getting .
through the House, requiring the j,
Southern to build a new depot at
Lancaster, ever passed the Sen ,
th
ate. The fate ol the measure ?
lias already been published in
The News, but tho fact has evidently
been overlooked by a />(
number of our readers.
v?0 *i.~ u:ii 1 > -*
xoa, me lilii J'ilMSfCl OOM1
bouses, but, through the South
em's influence, it was amended kr
in the Senate so as to allow the io
railioad company until the first mi
rot next January to comply with Ci
its provisions. In other words, vc
Lancaster must be content to HI
put up with tbe Southern's mit- ye
rlnf\At foAilif ma ? 4
V* i*?y? v; 1ICIU iur UV
the remainder of this year at .Jo
least, unless the company sees II'
fit to voluntarily make some im- br
provement in the meantime, ol
which, in the interost ot common w<
decency and humanity, it should
do. ki
The writer had occasion to go oil
to the depot last Saturday night, coi
to meet the passenger train duo hii
>re at 7 55, and ho found condi
>ns there iust as ihey have
ten represented to be bv The
ews. lie did not expect, ot
>urse, to see a new depot or
ly substantial repairs oil the
d dilapidated ouo. but he did
cpect to see some improvement
i the matter of conveniences
id accommodations for the
mefit of the traveling public,
e had hear J, for instance, that
mps were burned without
ludes or chimneys. In the detriment
lor white passengers
ie lone lamp without chimney
at dimly burning. A person
luld scarcely tie distinguished
i the room ati<l the smoke troni
L0 shadeless lamp was so ollen
ve that ladies and others wait
ig on the train had to stand
itside in the dark on the nar)w
platform. A lamp on a
ost between the depot and the
ack had been lighted, but it
ent out before the arrival of
>e train. Fortunately for the
aiting crowd a hotol porter
ime up with a lighted lantern
ist. before the train rolled in,
hich enabled them to see where
*J.T H Vf U
Now that's (he kind of service
le mighty Southern is giving
ancaster, one of the most imortant
points on its line in thi>
art of the state. Such accomodations
would disgrace even a
ag station. Appeal to the railtad
commission, did we hear
ime one suggest ? What's the
te ? Will somebody please tell
i what that body is tor, anynv
?
Shootinu at Catawba Fat I a.
Joe Williams, colored, was
ought to the city yesterday
id lodged in jail. lie is suffer
g from a gun shot wound in
e shoulder, which he received
a general fight at the Falls
ednesday. He is not at all
icided as to who shot him, and
will probably never be known
a number of negroes were enged
in the tight.?Chester
intern.
Little fjirl lindlt/ Burned.
Little Daisy Eliis, the 5 year1
daughter of Mr. J. B. Ellis,
this place, was painfully
irtied a tew days ago, by her
>thes catching lire while stand,
g by the grate. Miss Cora '
Jiinington. who was present,
is also badly burned about '
e hands in extinguishing the
mes that enveloped the child
"nth of Mr. Fletcher 111 nek well,
n Wei! Known Citizen of Flat
Creek.
Mr. ,J. F. Black well, a welt
iown cili/en ol Flat Creek
wnship, died last Monday
orning, at his home near Flat
eek church. lie was the
ungest son of the late Jamos
ackwell and was about 18
ars of age. lie leaves a widwho
is a daughter of Mr.
din Bird, and several children.
M la tilu/i tinr3ima/1 l??? * '
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others, Mr. D. L. Blackwell, 1
Kershaw, and Mr. R L Black 1
ill, of Flat Creek.
Mr. Blackwell wan a Rood,
ndhearted man and had a large :
clo of friends and acquaint an i
3 who will regret to learn of I
3 death. ]
THE NEWS IN BRIEFI !
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Mrs. Nintt Dupiee, the young
woman whose throat was recent
!y cist, near Atlanta, and who
said the deed was done by a
negro, lias sinca acknowledged
that the wound was self inllictd.
In the destruction by lire of
college buildings Saturday at
Gambier, Ohio, three bovs lost
their lives and a number ot
others were eeriou-dy hurl.
W. K. Vanderhilt, Jr., one ot
America's well known million,
aires, received rough treatment
Saturday at the hands of indig
nant peasants in Ported* ra.
Italy, because his automobile ran I
over a boy. Vanderhilt drew j
a revolver, but the peasants
jumped into his vehicle and j
kicked and cuffed him about j
until he was finally rescued by
the police.
Elizabeth Robertson, the 14- j
year-old daughter ot Mr. J
Caldwell Robertson, of Colum
bia, was killed in Henderson
vine, IN. U., Saturday, by Hie;
falling of a stone pillar of a gate j
on wliicli she and several ot her I
children were swinging.
Little Helena Dorsey, 3 yearold,
of York Pa, was held on a
red hot stove and then hasted
wi'h boiling water by Lillian
Thornman, 13 years old The
child ol course diedWill/
Page, a negro, was shot
to death and It is body cremated
Saturday near Bienville, La., by
several hundred men, tor at- 1
tempting to assault a 11 year-Ill
old school girl, Sarah Gaut. ~^
There is sumo talk of John L
McLaurin running against Sen-.'On
ator Tillman next summer. J
Col. J. I). E. Sloan, of Charh s- ^ ^ a
ton, who was well known through j w '
out this section of the state as a | en
dealer in lertilizers, died last i c',
i U8, '
Fndav. I A
J J M
Hon. David 11. Henderson, Ohm
formerly speaker of the national ii
house of renresentatives, died ' ,x*
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Sunday. > 1
! liny
The Student Volunteer Move. K?i>
ment will assemble in Nashville
this afternoon. between 4000 ^
and 5000 delegates are expected :
to attend the meeting. y,M
Mr. Needham Pitts, manager i Mr<
[>f a saw mill near Oxford, N. U., I win
had his skull crushed in the mill i(iv<
Saturday. iWr
Mrs. Cora Carpenter, a beau-!
tiful Ohio woman, said to he ol '
a prominent family, has been ar ! slia
rested in that state oil the charge , " e
of train wrecking. I P'ei
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A bill has been introduced in
Virginia legislature to impose a
stamp tax of one cent on all 11
1 1SSt!
chocks for the benefit of Con <>i i
federate veterans.
Joliann Hock, the man who is |;,J,
said to have murdered a dozen or , v"r
tv <1
more wives, was hanged in Chi- tint
,. . us m
cago i< nday. i?
E. W. Ray, a young whi'o I,1,!",'1
man irotn Augusta, Ga., was
convicted in Columbia Saturday mail
ol stealing a bicycle. Ho was ,ifcr
sentenced to the penitentiary j' 1'
lor two years.
foil i t
King Edward, of England, is at tii
seriously ill. The doctors have "Vi
made him give up the use of to
bacco, to which ho lias been a
lile-loug slave.
The Line is Busy!
Busy bees make honey,
Busy men make money.
Bees select their favorite flowers,
Men select that store of ours.
Why will you pay $2.50 for flour when you can get
MAGNOLIA
so nice, white and light for $2.30??98 pounds to sack.
Weight, price and quality guaranteed.
Fresh Cream Cheese 20c lb, 2 lbs for 35c, or 3 lbs for
50c. Car corn we had advertised nearly gone. We expect
another soon. Don't forget those New Orleans
Molasses. We have a few half barrels left, per gal. 30c. <
Rrino- vnnr hnme-raised hams to us and trade them for
goods or money. Seed Tick Coffee going like hot cakes.
Our Java Coffee, put up in milk pails, out. Will have
more soon.
DRY GOODS
Gentlemen's Dress Shirts, each 25c.
Ladies' Heavy Skirts, each 85c and 95c.
Genuine Sweet Ore Overalls, each $1.00
Heavv Plow Shoes, per pair $1.10 and 1.25
Heavy Outing, 10c kind, per yard 8c.
Narrow, but good quality Outing, per yard 5c.
Gentlemen's Collars each 5c.
Now, gentlemen, ladies, boys and girls, we mean business.
Come to see us, and if you don't buy we will let
you be the doctor and we will take the prescription. i
j. c. EDWARDS I
Bennett's Old Stand.
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-ors for Second Week Mr. W. T. G:e?ory, of i lie ^
lMjg following petit jurors were Gie^orv-llood Co., returned Ill's
wn ye.-terdsy (or the second wee,t 'r,,m a '''p to Atlanta.
3k of Hie approaching March Mr. and Mrs E. H. Steele are
n o' cnurt : | visiunijr in t;oiumm;?.
B Mnng >. E W HUtan, Poter McMad* ' ??
\\ W Morton, J W L?>ng. Jno T Howell, i
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Sample copies sent upon rei
week from his trip to New quest Address,
k. Mrs. Jones, his wife, and I
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i Ira H.Jones, Ins mother, * *
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> accompanied nim, slopped '
; B""more ?'' LANCASTER & CHESTtft
. railway company
LditorJ. W. Hamel, ol lv r schedule in m-m-may so. i9.?.
i daily kxcei't susda"
,W, was in town vestevday. wksthound
are indebted lo liim for a fer Lmicuster tiilu.im 34br>m
Lv Fori I. i wu s 40 u in 4 15 i> co
iisalit fall wl.ile here. U'!!^lll,! \*>vm
i.\ Kith Mug i n u in | 46 p m
Ar o'lHirtlc; ~ 30 a iii ;> 15 p rr
Art Imrlotte?Sou.Ky... yftf?uin 7 00 piv
Meeting of Assessors. ^lirsirk'?
kasthound
If 'I'oWln-llilm mill SI If. i 111 Itnurilc III i I .V I .....I. O... .... .. .
,, IV.V on;> am ;< IU ?? m
mors lor the I ownships in the f'ounty i.v h irloito?-sou.'tv Hu.S .> ni ft on o ui
niicaster will meet at their usual plnees l,v CliesTer ....... . . 9 no a m 8 1 i> m
iicetinc <>ii the tirst 1'nesday in Muieh '*v Itlcbbonj p to a in m :iv n rr.
,. ,<i r L.V ItiiM'umv lln VfcOa in S li> I' to <
V . , . ..... i . .. , '<v Kurt l.a'-n 10 00 am 8 50 o in
is the duty of 1 ownsln p una Special a r I.uncus tor 10 :t0 a ni 915 i ">
ils of assessors to runviiKH each nn?l m^\i.-rri7ws "
V return of Itonl slid Personal proper- ,,,lll.v?1..l, ' * ..
'..,, . .. .. <.11 Ej*TKIt?Southern, Seaboard, and Caro>1
their respective tonio hips in o ilei Una & NorUi-Western Railways.
i dividual retiiins may ho equali/nd |..\N? AST1SU?Southern Railway.
airly as possible. A. 1 . Mel.l'ltK, iSupenntendeni
every instance where a niiitcrial I.KKOY SPRINGS. President.
ige in the return of any individual
in.11on" hundred noi'nrs and
, ili?* assessor* will loop a notice of i nr\
chalices made and foiwzrd ennui l>v U vlLiU
to the ('muity Auditor so th .t notice ......
he Hont to the partus s.. raised in ?.r- 1(1 U,e Overseers ol the lhiche HiKhw. ys
tluit llu* iiix|iM>er n ay li ivo tin* op-) ?* ( onnly :
alii y to niipear hetnvo the ' otllity j j nsU you nil to warn out yonr hands oit
d of Fajuiiliz itioii, winch said fountv 1 eacli section of road and work veur r" nl
d nl l i|ua i/ itiim will no et <m the | good between now and the Ifih ihiv of
h I'ltes-hiv in Meicti Cz7 h lost 1 111 (' i ?' -
, | . lim n, mi you i' ii nil make A tiiiod r< j it
e office ??t Hi- i oiiiity Auditor ?t lain- | on th first Alomluv in Ipril, hh th? gr iinl
r f ontf 1I-.H-.0 K. f Ijii'v u quint* y??u to do I'lio ioihIh ii.hnI
to i In triueii ' I I o\vn>dii|t mid Speeiul wort I. iiid I hope I will not )iav<- to
i k of \sh'"sots, me <\ officio itietn- ! imvo tiny trouble with mivot the overm-cm.
of the County Itonrd of I'tjUAliz ition. Take due M/the end work vonr roudn.
.Iito A ? ook, I M ('. (iA|{f?\Klt.
And, i.iiti.- o . ( oiiut^ .itipoiv.sor. i
Feb Zllh, f'JvG. I l-'ohiunry 17, l'JOG, lm 4