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]FLOCAL DOTS ^ nh rffi Cottou, 11^ eta; eeed 25 eta. ?Next Sunday, Jan. 19th, is the anniversary of CT?n R V Lee's birthday. ?Mr. John W, Walters, of the Tradeaville section, presented us Monday with a nice apple, the last of last yeai's limited crop. H-a called meeting of the An- j tioeli Masonic Lodge will be held Satu-day afternoon at 1 o'clock, to o some work in th6 Second Degree. ?Most likely when the Maekey opera house is finished Lancaster will be included in the itinerary of some good theatrical troupes ? at least by another season. ?Maggie Jackson, a colored woman of this vicinity, fiister of Georare Mc.Tlwn.in. a wnll_L-nrt??? colored farmer, died Friday. Her body was taken to Elgin Sunday for burial. l/f ?Cupid Harper, an aged colored citizen, who is said to have been over 100 years old, died Monday on Mr. J. A. Cauthen's plantation in the Cedar Creek section. ?Mr. W. G. A. Porter has moved from the Dixie neighborhood to the John F. Blackraon place near Dwight, which he has purchased. lie ha9 sold his Dixie property to Mr. Alexander McGuirt, who lias moved there. ?Mi-s Mary G. Orr, a popular and attractive young lady of Rock Hill, dauehtor of Mr. \V. J. Orr of th it city, will be married on Feb. 27ih to Mr. Thomas F. White, a prominent young busi noun man ol ataanil " V O "V" ?'MU VI UbUV-O 11 u . ?The assessment committee will meet at Hopewell church Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock? The board of stewards consists of H. O. Steele, J. T. Flvnn, T. L. Williams ; and the committee of J. E. Porter, T. S. Riddle, R. J. a Flynn, J. R. Wallace, J. A. McGuirt, L. H. Barr, T. P. Williams. ?Mr. Minor Baker, who runs a store at the cotton mills, had $14. in change stolen from him Monday morning. The money was in a shot sack and was taken from a counter in the store, where Mr. Baker halitout making change tor a customer. It is thought that he forgot to put it back in the till after counting out the change. ?The many friends in Lancas tor, her old home, will regret to learn that Mis9 Mary B. Ilam mond, who now lires with her sister, Mrs. Meng, at Locahart, has been desperately ill, and though somewhat better when heard from a few days ago, her condition is still critical. She was attacked with the grip just before the holidays. ?Lee Mcllwain, colored, undertook to drive across Rum creek, just beyond Mr.B. H. Bennett's place in the Jones Cross Roads section, last Saturday afternoon wjiile the stream was swollen by heavy rains. His wagon was upset and he and his mule had a narrow escape from drowning. The contents of the ^ wagon were washed down the creek, but everything was recovered except a sack of flour. THE LANOA |j PERSONAL ^ Dr. R. 0. Browu spent Sunday in Marion. Mr. H. B. Pardue, of Fort I xjawu, wmh iu town yesterday. '1 gMise Emma Boyce is visiting frieuds at Heath Springs.?Rock Hill Record. ! Mr. Clarence Garvin, of Goldsboro, N. C., is visiting his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Garvin. Mrs. A. II. Greene, of Lancaster, is visiting Mr. und Mrs. Gib Greene, on Johnstou street.? i Rock Hill llerald. Mr. John T. Stevens, of Kershaw, president of the Lancaster cotton oil company, was in town Friday and yesterday. Miss Bertha Stcgnor, of Antioch, is visiting her brother, Mr. Oscar Stogner, win) now lives at i the Lathau Place in this vicinHy. t Mr. Frank Hunter, assistant { postmaster, went to Charleston (yesterday afternoon to see ins i uncie, SherilFJ. P. Llunter, who is still sick in that city. Senator T. Y. Williams and Representatives Geo. W. Jones and W. P. Robinson have gone to Columbia to attend the session of the General Assembly which bogau yesterday. Mr. John C. McDow, of Charleston, has been spending two or three days in Laucastor, his old home. He returned to Charleston Monday afternoon. We are indebted to Mr. McDow for a nloosionf /*ol! ... I.: l- - ^.%/iVUUlll \yrtll WU11W ill COW11 Mrs. J. E. Poors, of Columbia, wiio Jirts> boon visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Pay sour, rej turned home Monday. Iler sis| ter, Mrs. J. F. Boswell, of Burkeville, Va., who has also been spending some time with her parents, will return home today. I Mr. Ivy Ferguson, one of Lan caster's clever and popular young men, who until recently has been connected with the Lancaster Mercantile Company's dry goods store,left Monday for Pouglikeepsie, N. Y., to take a course in bookkeeping and stenography at the Eastman College. Mr. J. Wash Stogner, one of the hustling larmers of the Creek | section, returned Saturday fiom la two weeks' visit to relatives in j Georgia. lie was in a railroad I accident on his return trip, but J escaped unhurt. Mr. Stogner's son, Mr. li. L. Stogner, has also returned from a visit to Cheraw. Mr. J. llarvey Flynn, a former citizen of this county, now living near Monroe, was in town Mon | a ay and yesterday. It was his first visit here in three years and | he was amazed to see the extent of Lancaster's growth in that length of time. We aie indebted to Mr. Flynn for a pleasant call | Monday alternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mackerel I, father and step-mother ot Mrs. Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McCarley and Mr R J. McCarley, her uncles and aunt, of Winnshoro; Messrs K. J. and J. 8, Mackorell, of Yorkville, her brothers, and Mr. Robert Mackorell, of Hartsyille, a cousin, at tended the Mineral and burial of Mrs. llicks hore yesterd alter noon. .STEfc NEWS, JANUARY 15, 19C The Alleged Yeggmen Still Held, * Being Unable to Chive Bail" Preliminary Hearing on 30th The five men captured near Vanwyck on suspicion of being I safecrackers and lodged iti jail t here, and who were subjected to o a thorough examination by Post- s office Inspectors Gregory and a Haverstadt, as related in the last ji issue of The News, were Satur- ' day, one at a time, taken before d U. S. Commissioner l*aul Moore, e at the court house, who read to s them the charges preferred bv t the government officers, namelv. h breaking into and robbing Pel t z-*r and Seneca postofhces. The r defendants denied the charges. v The commissioner announced t that he would grant the men ii bail in the sum of $10,000 each, e in default of bail they were remanded to jail. The date for e their preliminary hearing was ? set for the 30th instant. While c the suspects were in the court 1 room auo'her eft'>rt was ma le to t photograph them, which was ? only partially successsul. The 0 post office inspectors lo't here e Saturday eveuin^, but will no n doubt return in time far the pro- o liminary hearing. H Death of Mrs. John Vtaxico. h Mrs. Emma Plaxico, wife of ^ Mr. John Plaxico, a well known ^ citizen ot York eonuty, died Mon- a day night at their home near ft Yorkville. She was a daughter n oi the lute Richard Cousar, of J Lancaster county, and was aboul I 33 years of age. Her husband ^ and six children survive her.? She also leaves a brother and two 1 sisters, Mr. N. B. G?>usar and Mrs. J. Clark Robinson, of this county, and Mrs. Newman PI ax- \ it>,\ nt Vn.lr u. ?i \t... fc v*'j x v/1 n. uu. vuuaai It IIU 1U13. | Robinson left here Monday after- v noon, in response to a message v calling them to their sifter's bed- ^ side. * Mrs. Plaxico was a lady of many ' christian virtues and was great- ' ly beioved by all who knew her. * She was a consistent member ot the A.R. P. church. M v > v Veterans to lieceive Crosses Saturday. ^ We have been requested by * the Daughters of the Oonfeder- ^ acy to republish the list of vet ^ erans to whom crosses of honor will be presented next Saturday, 18th instant, at the court house, between 12 and 1 o'clock, which is as follows: John Aycock,Jim Rowers, Robert Conyer, M. |( M. Caskey, J. M. Crenshaw, J. W. Denton, John C. Foster, J. e W. Gardner, 0. Gardner, 6. H.!(j U. Graham, S. H. Ilargette, C. 0. Horton, Marls Horton, T. S. t Riddle, T. J. Reeves, W. A. H Streate, L. T. Stroud, Wilson Threat t, H. J. Thompson. f Th? Auditor'* Appointments. j County Auditor Horton is t now making his annual rouuds t of the county taking tax returns, c llo will be at Taxahaw today, u Wednesday, at Flat Creek church tomorrow, Dr. C. C. Welsh's ^ Friday, and at Primus Saturday until 12 m. On Monday of next week, 20th instant, he will be at Llaile Gold Mine; Tuesday and Wodneflrlav- 91 si and 99ml at. ^ Kershaw; 23rd at Iloatli Springs; 24th to 1 p. m.,at Pleasant Hill, . and on Monday, Jail. 27th, at ^ W. T. Vanlandiuiham's. >8. 'The Noble Outcast"?Its Successful Presentation in Lancaster by Kershaw Amateurs. The entertainment here last rriday nijdit, in the school audiorium, by Kershaw's company if amateur players was a decided nccess in every particular. It: ccordance with announcement ireviously made in The News, The Noble Our oust" was the raraa presented. All the actors utered heartily into the true pirit, of the play and the rendiion of tiieir respective parts was ighly creditable indeed. Morv lian one performer displayed eal histrionic talent, and this iras particularly noticeable 111 he personation of .lack Worthagton by Capt. J. W. Llaaiel, ditor of the Kershaw Era. A large ami appreciative audince greeted our Kershaw friends, nd on all sides may be heard omplimentary remarks about ho happy manner in which hey acquitted themselves. The ;ross receipts amounted to $T>8.0 As heretofore stated, the ntertainmeut was given to raise noney to help in the purchase >f seats lor tne Kershaw graded chool auditorium. The complete cast of characors was as folio v.-: Mrs. Lee, liKs Loute Ban on; France Lee, lisa Amy Gasque ; Sadie, (maid t Col. Lee's) Miss Willie Draf,n; Jerry, the tramp, J. W. IIalcl; Col. Lee, Rodgers Magill; ack Worthing'on, J. II lamel; James Blackburn, \V. O. Jrox'on. tenth of Mr*. Martha Jluf/intt. Mrs. Martha Hagins, the aged aother of Mr. John M. Hagins, ied on his place at Elgin last laturday night She was the ridow ot Siiiton. HaginB and pas in her 94th year, having tassed her 93rd birthday in Au ;ust last. She is survived by wo sons, Mr. J. M. Hagins, ot Glgin, and Mr. James Hagins, of laffney. Mr. Hagins was both kind learted and generous and was 'ery active for one of her ad'anced years. She was a mem ler of the Methodist chnrch. The emains were buried at St. Luke iunday. Vhe Countj/'tt Financial Condition. The county board of commisioners has made ite estimate of xpenses for the present year, ,nd has recommended to the ucislutive delegation the amount f levy it is thought will ho nectary to raise sufficient funds to Let ray expenses. It is a lact worthy of note hat all outstanding claims gainst the county have been ?aid. In other words, the coun y enters upon the new year free rom debt, except of course, ts bonded debt. The levy ho past year was sufficient o meet all demands, not only urrent expenses, but some past indebtedness as well. Vhe Meeting tit Pine Grove School Iftnitte Saturd.au It is at Tine Grove school Louse, near Douglass church, nd not at Cedar Grove as pro. 'ioufly published, that a meetly will be held next Saturday fternoon, ?t 2 o'clock, to organise a Farmers' Union. Our inorwiant was mistaken as to the tamo of the school house. ' 5 Hobinfion-Montf/omerf/. Mr. Julius Robinson and Miss Ida Montg miery, daughter of Mr. Milburn Montgomery, wore married Sunday at (lie home of Mr. William Robinson. The ceremony was performed bv Magistrate B. F. Phillips, of the cotton mills comniunitv Growth of the Farmers' Union in Lancaster County. Lancaster promises to be, it if. is not already, the b inner comty of the state in tin matter of Farmers' Union organizations. Four months ago there wasn't a union in the county, while now there are seventeen and the membership of all of them is 8'eadily increasing. Still ano her union will be organized next Saturday, at Pine Grove School house. Death of Little Girl. Little Mis: Pearl Beckham, daughter of the late W T. Beckham, died at an early hour last. Saturday morning a' the home of her mother, Mrs. Addie Beekham. in this vicinity. She wa> six veirs ot Hire nert hor - ? dea'h was clue to ail attack of pnoum* nia. The remains were buried Sunday in West Side cemetery. STATE OF SOU I II CAUOLINA, COUNTY or LANCA8TEB. In the Probate Court, By J. E. Stew man, Esquire, Probate Judge Whereas, Nancy it. Sullivan and John \V. .Sullivan have made suit to me to grant them Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of itobert M. Sullivan deceased. THESE A HE, THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said 'tobt M. Sullivan dec'd, that they bo and appear beforo me, in the Court of Probate, to bo held at Lancaster Court House, on the doth day of January, nex* after publication hereof, at 11 O'clock in the forenoon, to show UMUae. "if au > thu^ have, tauj ihe said Administration should not be granted. (iiven under my hand, this 11th day ot Jauuaiy, Anno Domini, J. E. HTEWMAN, Proliato Judge. January 14tb, 11)08. State of Booth Carolina County of Lancaster In the Probato Couit, By J. E. Stewman, Esquire, Probato Judge WHEREAS, The First Trust and Savings Bank of ltock Hill, S. c., made snit to me, to grant it Letters of Administrate n of the Estate of effects of Frank Walker. THESE AUE THEREFORE to cite and admonish all aud singular the kindred and credit<trs of thu said Frauk Walker deceased, that they bo and appear before me, in tlio Court of Probato, to be held at Lancaster Court House, S. C., on Tuesday, Jan 28tli, next, after puldication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not he granted Given under my Hand, t,liis ISth day of Jau., Anno Domini, !9t>8. J. E. STEWMAN. Piobate Ju-'go. HARRY HINBS ATTO R N EY-AT-LAW Omcca in Springs Block, Ovur Cloud's store LANCASTER, S. C. i?J? - ..r.sr=rr:~z? Business Notices. fCP'All Notices inserted under this head at tlie rate of OX K CENT A WORD for each insertion. No notice to be counted less than 25 words. Store room near southern depot for rent. Apply to K. K. NVyhe. The Gregory-Hood Live .stock Co., receiv od Another car of select under, yes terday Be sure to call and moo them. W e will gin oil Tuesdays only until further notice. Lancaster Cotton Oil Company. 1 will sell at my home, 5 miles east of Lancaster,.Ian. 30 1908 at 10 o'clock he f ?lb wing person I property, 8 head horses, 4 head of cattle, corn, fodder, wagon and huggy, farming tools, household and kitchen furniture Mrs. S K. Hough. I Do you take The News?