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- ' ' 4 Uk Xn Maker |ilcws (SEMI-WEEKLY.) Mi:i>.\i:si)AV, NKPT. U, 1U0N. The memorable "Sherman freshet" was knocked int> a r\r-r% l^tk/1 linf Kf I llU ll 1 ?1 t: t UVtaCU IKiU IJJ ?14V uvvw *. 'HO' week. No receipt-* vet tor the Bryan campaign lund. Wha's t t>o matter with Lancaster?nothing but tight wads here? Japan h^s decided to postpone until the year 19!7 her international exposition That lets us out By that time we'll be either too dead or too poor to taUe it iu. Look out for a big crop ot "skeeters" as one of I ho un pleasant results ot the recent torrential rains, unless all pools of water shall be promptly drained off. According to an exchange, a Mr. Peck married a Miss Ilenn in Pennsylvania a few days aco. j It is t" be hoped tilut the bride isn't destine i to have a peck o! trouble on her hands. Next Monday. Sept. 7, being a leiral holiday?Labor Day?the mail carriers will not make their usual rounds. The association of this county, as noted elsewhere, will meet at Kershaw on that day. An English scientist lias discovered that fumes from motor cars are the tine^f possible disinfectant.?Augusta Herald. That's .-ome consolation io editors and ni-'gers. S nee tlie "smell" i!? all lliey get out the high-priced benzine buggies, they ought to be flail to know that they are at least getting their ''disinfectant'" tree. S 'turd iv we saw a irctuie n: ilie old-time ox car* which l.uira-'ii i- beginnim.' t > use ?Uock Ilill Ilerald. 1: : ui an\ ox tv.r! > ii -r ;.!??u s, \vi. c 1 w iouut, he df,i -r- to dim s . *t the ?dowo i in the whole push h your o <1 str-tt ear - t.ned mile. Ii \t { id v. 1 fit--. 1 av. i u - - day ol f t i .*-v month. h d ?- n the time for . i.e .'ioi ..no ot .u sec ?nd | ri :: ty, instead f next Tuesday, ti. v < in the t ?v.n.would h. v he n exce di . lio]it, especially i Uo<- . Hi 1, owino in the < x- "U* of a l.?rj?e p*rt ot th-* p j ui;i i n to ih woods in order 'on-cap* lire iav:?h and n< ver :i lin.' ilteini n>f the punctilious bi'l coll-ctoi>. A worker on the NVa-hinc1 m !feral i i- name<l I?u;e M.iyh<Uii explain* why I ii r paper h a* s?? :inr.\ Mbon fc ;i !< i I . ? A ii ier.s 11 M aiI. W'iiti ri_Bit have you i<? mi im> any "bones" abnu t'? ily I tin wa \, wonder it tie* f??!i.? v t-vor ha i i one felon. But at tiiis rate he'll soon become a bone <?' content ion. We would urae upon ilie voters the import nee oi tiirnuw out at the polls next Tuesday, in Pay of the -ecuul primary. Toe liist election settled but comparatively few of the c ntests. A -seat 111 i he lotted Suites Sen a' e iJ yet to b filled, the highest ( Ili e within the unit ol the people. A State superintendent of ' duration ano a r dlroad com inia-ioner are to oe cuosen, ana a congressman from I hit distri a nominated. And la.-t, but by no means leant Irom a local standpoint, choices are to be made lor several important county offices?such as offices of supervi tior, auditor, superintendent of education, coroner, as well as THE LAN two Representatives in Hie J legislature. Two magistrates are also to be elected. Let every voter suspend work long enough Tuesday to go to the polls and cast his ballot for t1 those candidates who in his t judgment are best lilted to fill f the positions to which tlioy as- R pire. A light vote sometimes J munis the dnlpat ot the best men v in tho race. v a Seven homicides in <50 days? that's Newberry's record. Critics had better hold up on Lancaster ?ud train their darts on ^ Blease's home countv. J. c 8 Lancaster has reached navigation. Voters had to pole their c boats to reach tho polls. It had been observed that Lancaster was moving toward water.? Chester Lantern. { Not simply 4,movius: toward water," contemporary. Lancas ter has been sit tins: ri^h t up on CI the water wagon for nearly three \ ears. I If the published report of the assault on Editor Crist in Yorkville be true, and thev stand uni ( contradicted, it was the most v brutal outrage that has been c committed in tho State in years. 51 Tlu- grand jury of York county H should take a band in the mat- s ttr No one questions, of course, ^ I he responsibility of an editor tor c what ho says in his paper, but a resort to methods aUin to those c ot the cowardly assassin to ob- 1 tain satisfaction lor real or tan- c cied grievances should not be ^ tolerated in a civilized countrv 11 c t Despite the warnings and f pleadings of the papers ot the ? city, Charleston give a majority g of tier votes to Blease No one f supposes tor a moment that c Chariest onions really consider j i tiie Newberry man better suited t for the otliee ol governor than'e the incumbent. Some other t reason, therefore, must be found t toi their acti n. I)?e-- i? not lie s in th fact that Ci >\ Ansel has> r.rio i li> niiiv' I l'ii illicit iiu it . of liquor hi that city, thus incurring the enmity of tho numerous blind ti^re:-. th ir p ? r->n> ui i -vi.i|. a hi/T it wili t o J al'e 11 at tii 1e \v -s much 1 1 vuoruis kic i- ^ very :m h * g vt-ruor i .i 1 . bite* oi in.junc-1 ri-. up 1 .. u 1 1 -: <i win - ;! y e ler>, < v ii th in w- pay i'* ' pi i i'-tio if we mi stake r.ot,'* u' in-' uch pr >c alur . If An- 1 - i' c< nip tra v.- y in'iit v > m J .r es! .in ca i b c .rrc t y as- 1 cribed t i tie war.'are waited o\ i him again t Ino inlaw ul ihjpioi | i ! ir llic in tlie city, am thin : mil 1 i crc iiiablc -iiuatroi ?>t all'air > is levealed there. I'. show* that ' tiie b st. lahi li 114 eitj/ms ot | the c >mmunit> are <lcci le.ily in the in nority. In other words,L ti nt titc | olni' S of the grand o'd citv is controlled bv a whiskey elcmen' that defies bo'h State uid municipal taw . j i Farmer Killed by Mule. l'lckens -special in Sunday's, Slate: 1 -aac l)nrham,a promi-j nent farmer nf 'his county who i i i w i i. c:.. \f ;i.. ! ' V t rj J|1 I Il? ^ 1 A 1MUU II, .v.is killed ve-tfulav ? yeuiii" by : mule he hal bm.i plowing. In j (ry;nir to alight I; -in ihe mule [iiis I etc Im c iinn entingled with one of the trac-J chains and tho i mule run about 200 yards. I running Mr. Durham was .jerked under th" mule and stitnped t<? death. Kolol will, ina very abort time, en- I ahic the stomach to do the work i: should do, und t tie work it ahoiild do is lo digest all the food you eat. When t he stomach can't do it Kudo! does it or it ami in the meantime the atom, ach is getting stronger and aiile to take ii(> its regular natural work again. Kodol digests all you eat. It makes the stomach sweet and it is pleasant to take It is sold here by I 1' M t J. | j. r. i*iacKrjf a tu. w-H| CASTER NEWS. SEPTE I kmusing Incident of North I Carolina Republican Con- ! vention Recalls Another. Char otto Observer: One ? be mo t amu-bn^ incidents o! I lie convention was earned by a reak < f raii.d. Kev. Harris lallinckrodt was introduced toI ud^e Adams as I he minister yho would open tbe convention vdtb prayer. When Mr. Adams announced him he called him Kodenberg". That wasjuita rick of llie mem or v. A we.l tnown North Carolina negro vas about to bo introduced to peak in a town oi the State one lay by a prominent citizen, who poke iu the most flowing terms >t the speaker, saying among ither things, that his name was i household word but wtien lie jot reaily to call it he could not lo it. Turning to a friend on J he 10s i it in, anil making a I011-' ie] of his hands, he asked in a out! whisper: "What is the L?d negro's name? ncidents of the Pdood?Negro's family Swept Away Columbia special in Sunday's Charlotte Observe;: Near So. :iet> Hill yesterday Joe Brown, j l neuro livinr* on Mr. .J Ivn . I o o ell's pl?ce, lost his wile and 1 ieveral children. They had (a- 1 ten refuge with him in the top >t the house, which was swept iway. Brown caught in the top1 >! a tree. His wife and all the hildren were drowned. A big :rowd that stood on the river >ank at I'o.zer Wednesday to yatch the raging waters pass >ver tlie dam saw a buggy with wo mules pass over the dam, olio wed a iit'le liter by a l>ug;v and a mule with a trunk (trapped to the back, followed ilrncst immediately by the bodv )f a little white child. It was mpossible to re-cue die body of he child. On the whole, how>ver, loss of fife so far has been xceedingly small. It is feared, loweyer, that the flooding of the iwamp lands will drown many, icgi oes. Domestic Tragedy in Fla. TalTh isse . Fla, Aug. 30 ? i . _.i ... m :i Kiio'> ilia an ray j i<i mnin ai !us place J iui Dune t ti was kill-! a. I lives' Ration lias consumed ill (1 i\ t'> determine wlie her the nan \ a- sho' by one Harv^v, \ ho w s v si in/. it ti> - Dunctn ionu?, oi" ?>y the wife 01 '.Vui )untan, a brother of illload man. llirve.* and Will hmcan an 1 his win- were all ar esteil. ?ir-. Dune hi, iho the aecusi, ,vas s lit in the in lane asylum n moil toduv, having nivcii vioh-n' ivinptoms of der,nineuiont Did Negro and Daughter Struck by Lightning. Swninshoro, (Ja., Aii/usi 2h ? Dm in<' ;? severe electrical <ioim ?<<! yestordav afternoon a tenant house <>n ilie larm ot D. \V, Durdcn, (?i this < unity, was -truck by lightning. and :t-. two c tipant", an aged negro and In* daughter, were botn pr >t<ably killed, Afier the storm w.t> v1 *r, a neglib >r wen' tli negro's [Mb.u 'O s e nini on some busi oh.-h, and. te his utter surprise, lie lound th" old negro sitting i ioc' in a rocking chai , rigid in death. In another part '?i the room lie sound the duugl.'ei in an unconscious c >ndition. Big Fire in New Orleans. V a ?if I irUmu A ill/ '{I I It ito winch broke out in the centre ot the commercial district here this afternoon swept oyer portions of three blocks, destroying a large number ot wholesale houses, manulHC'uring plants and small stores. Originating at Bienville and Chartres streets, the Hames I MBER 2. I9Q8 ?==*=== |' Y1R EA ; ' ! ! =rr= | | : I t The careless worl money as fast at but the sober man who hs ly to provi and who forward ft kind of a fut to spend less tl and saves the a This bank accepts . inore and pays i ^ rate of 4 per | pounded four ti | : j M J I | rirst 1 | LANCAST fh- - ? ^ OBEl m i ~ I I U I c\ d | Ce'o{ I fe l l , j *V. L(rn\ | | .<?iuy S // /in r/ia / BUILDING LC AND LAB 7 k o k'*! their way north a> far an (Jen'i r>'pet ami west toward lioyal, b.in^inu about a property loss "i between one ami two million dollars before ?hey were finally subdued. Misses Minnie and l.ela Witinorc of of Wingate, N. accompanied by Messrs. I'ink and Kdgar < rl(Vin of Marshvillo, N. who have been visiting Misses laila and < ?la 1'ylor of Dixie, have returned home. \ I . ;l ==fl DMIItlPQ II . ImllYUO | : ! I i cer spends his > he earns it, thoughtful is a fami de for looks j >rsome u re, tries I | urn he earns j ? difference. j > one dollar or ! nterest at the j cent, com | iines a year nal Bank ER, S. C. |l % rf: Tsk* I 0 ^ ^ L JT Z " *** 3 x ion <& to. wmmmm emcy7? ^jiltt' rr w~amm imp / . Vwv// Ci sfafe. )TS : M LANDS FOR SALE Hi/tiams .... ? ~ I SjH-riaf \ntici s. Tin' |ml k>ii*i anil I rusloes ??i" t ho ('raiKsv ill** school an* rei|ucsted In inot'l at the scliiMil house tomorrow (Thursday) at 'J |>. in. /.ion Farmers' I ninii will incft Saturday at ...'III p. in. All members please Attend, business of importance. W. II. I'Allin'K, I'res't. The lluford farmers' I'nion will meet Friday afternoon at I o'clock. The 1'. I>. f. will meet at Mrs. J. N. Crockett's Thursday at 3 p. m.