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Local Matters. Horn, to Mr and Mrs \V T Gregory, Thursday, Sept 14th, 1899?a son. Mrs II B Pur Due, and daughter, M iss Maggie, are visiting relatives at Edgemoie, S (J. Dr E C Brasington, of Haile Gold Mine, spent Thursday night with Mr M H .lohnson. Capt. A. McManus returned Thursday from a visit to friends and relatives over in Chesterfield county. Prof T N Rhodes, has moved into the II J Gregory house on the corner of Catawba and Meet~ ing streets. Miss May Brock, of Chernw, one of the new teachers in the graded school, arrived Thursday. She will board at Mr W McD Brown's. Capt .Jno M Perry, of the Tank section, has moved his family to town. They occupy the Davis house on Ounlap street. Miss Rosa Patton, of Catawba, one of the new teachers in the graded school, has arrived, and will board at Mr W B Knight's. Lost ! On Thursday last, a sterling silver brace locket 44M" ens graved on one side. Finder will please leave at this office. At the regular communication of Jackson ljodge A F M, Thursday night, Messrs H M McCrorey and F T Funderburk were made Master Masons. Mrs Mary Johnson, widow of the late Marion Johnson, of the Antioch section, is critically ill with fever Her life was despaired of yesterday. A large audience witnessed the "Georgia Cake Walk" at Cunningham's opera hal! Thursday night. Dennis and his partner, wo understand, took the cake. The male members of the Unity congregation met at the church Thursday and re shingled it. The ladies furnished the dinner, and the "shirt sleevo pic-nic" was greatly enjoyed. Married, on Sunday last, by R F Adams, Notary Public, Mr. Wm. Black mon and Miss Coral Robertson, daughter of Mr. W K ..II *1 - %-4._ L i?ui'ci imiut u11 ui iiju /\mmen section. Mr Porter of \\ innsboro, ban rented one of tho Johnson store rooms und will open a largo stock of dry goods in it. He left here for tho Northern markets yesterday. Work on the enlargement of the Cunningham hotel is finished, which gives nine additional sleep ing rooms and a nice large hall. The new rooms are now being carpeted and nicely furnished and the new apartment* are about ready for the travelling public. Lancaster haa about as nice a ho. tel as is in the upper part of the State. Superintendent Maker returned home Wednesday and everything is in readiness for the opening of the graded school on Monday. Kight new pupifs from beyond the limits of the school district were ehtolled yesterday. The school certainly has an excellent corps of teachers for the next term and we expect to see the most efficient work accomplished. Send your children oh time Monday morning. It is important for them to be on band tbe Very tirst day. Wm Curry, one of the darkies committed to ja;l charged with being implicated in the row at the negro camp ground, was discharged from custody Thursday on giv ing bond for his appearance at the next term of the court of general sessions for this county. Two very large additional warehouses are being erected at the I factory, which, when completed, will make seven commodious ware houses on the premises. The mill company has also just completed a very large reservoir for holding water to avoid using muddy water from the creek in tho boilers when the stream is swollen. Newspaper men are agreed that men who do not subscribe for their tmnoru Imi ? !.?? 1 ^ J. ? |.~.w, "><i II UVf ICO'I lUUUI very carefully, are about the hardest jajople in the community to please. They never have trouble with their good paying subscribers or hear any harsh criticisms from them. ?Ex. I)r. W H Wakefield of Charlotte, N C, will be in Lancaster at Cunningham Hotel on Friday, Oct tith, for this one day only. His practice is limited to the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Two More Arrests. Wm Reeves and .lames Clark, colored, have been arrested and committed to jail, miking nine negroes now in jail charged with complicity in the row at the camp ground in which two white men j were seriously shot. Hied of ParalysisMr Wm J Heckham of this county, died suddenly, of paralysis, at the home of his son, Mr George Heckham, at Winnsboro, 1' on Sunday morning last at 5 I o'clock. Ho was 78 years of age the day of death. His remains were interred in the graveyard at the Methodist church in Winnat % i. boro on Monday last. Wanted! Tennis and Hands tor lCailroad Work Mr C L McManus will leave ; for Columbia Monday morning with his teams to join the parties who left here last week to grade on the extension of the Southern J Railroa 1 from Casey's to Perry's. ! Mr McManus has received notice i to bring more hands. Parties | wishing to go should see him today. He will pay 50 cents |>er day and hoard or 00 cents and laborer tind himself. He can also place several teams at $2. per day | and hoard. Attention Merchants ! A newspaper whose columns oveflows with advertisements of business men has more influence in attracting attention to building up a town than any other agency that can be employed. People go where there is business. Capital and labor go where there is un enterprising community. No , power on earth is so strong to build up a town as a newspaper well patronized, and its power should ho appeciatod.?T Do Witt Talmage. | Not loo to Debtors of W Uhiinoii ( Notes, accounts and other indehtednesH to me were not includ- | ed in the sale of my mercantile j business to Heath Springs A Co., ; and all parties indebted to me, 1 either by noie, account or other j wise, must come forward and settle at once. Mr. ft. T. Ilealy or , myself will be found at all times i in the office of my former estab- 1 lishment Where parties can settle \ with either of us. Respectfully, W. GANSON. i F?y your rabtcripiton to ! Lkim.KK: I I The Disappearance of Miss Masse} Recalls a Similar Disappearance Forty Years Ago. The sudden disappearance oi Miss Virginia Massey from hei home at Dudley, S C, recalls thf disappearance of Miss Mary Anr Stephenson, from her home, neai Pleasant (irovd camp ground, ir Sandy Ridge township, about forty years ago. Miss Stephen son started to visit a neighborom afternoon, and as she did not re turn home that night, her parenti became alarmed and went to th< home she was supposed to bo visit ing and not finding her there, gen eral soach was instituted for her For days the search was kept uj and no effort was spared to tine the missing girl. DayR and weeki passed, but no trace whatevei was found. Forty days after sh< left home and a long while aftei local Beach was given up th< young lady was found in a larg< body of woods. She had beei lying under the roots of a largi tree which hud been blown <lowi and had had a spell of fever. Shi found some water in the hole lef by the uprooted tree and had l>eei drinking that and had eaton th< bitrk and leaven from tlie twig around her. She lived for a nutn her of years after he? strange ex perience. It Is a very strangi story but all the older (ample liv ing i the Pleasant Grove sectioi vouch for its truthfulness. ? Mon roe Enquirer. The S C & G Extension. A special to The Charlotte Ob server from Rutherfordton. N C savs: The South Carolina Georgia Extension Railroad Com pany, which has, as stated sora days ago in The Observer, ^ithe been sold to the Seaboard o Southern, ?s going to complet their line at once. The Gaffne; Ledger of yesterday says: tlM \V O Lipscomb, Gaffney's bij railroad contractor, is in the citj on business. He says that yester day he signed a contract with th South Curolina & Georigiu Kx tension Company to grade tei miles of their road betweei Marion anil Johnson City, Tenn.' The Monroe Oil and Fertilize Co is increasing its capital stocl to $30,000 instead of $25,000 u tirst proposed. $27,300 have al ready been subscribed and tin remainder will soon be. Mucl of this stock is being taken hi people away from here, whiel shows that others besides our se'ves have faith in Monroe. M B I) Heath of Charlotte, has late Iv taken thirty shares. The com panv has decided to put in an in plant, and will begin the nmnu facture of ice next spring. Tin preparatory work is going oi rapidly. The two wells havi been finished, furnishing over 20, l*WlO <?ul / 1 ! !_ Li.v i^nuwim jici unjr. < I1I1UIIU will begin next week.? Monro* Journal. Our advice to planters to holt their cotton is more than justitict hy the department report. Then hus never been so great and snd ilen a slump in the crop prospects und the figures fortunately com* at a time when but little cottoi has passed out of the hands of thi producers. The advance in pric* yesterday was but slight, and na Iurally so, since the bears wil yield bnt grudgingly until the> btftr from Neili ami Liverpool Hut further and greater advance! must come, and it will be a sacri lice to sell cotton at present figures. Taking everything intc consider at ion?the short crop, th< increased demand and the great pip between the present prices o1 fibre and fabric?it seems certair that before the season is over cot ton will go above seven cents possibly to ei^ht. It is a greiit >argain at six?The State. 400 STUDENTS AT CLEMSON. There Would Have Been <500 hut for Lack of Room?200 Turned Awav. i Special to The Observer. ' Clemson College, Sept 14 ? ' President Ilartzog authorizes the ? following statement: ' There are now over 400 stu' dents matriculated and every room M in the barracks is full. About 200 * applicants were refused. Had * thore been dormitory room the at5 tendance this session at tho open ing would have exceeded 000 t udents. We regret very much * that wo cannot receive any more > students at the present time. A I few vacancies will occur this * month, resulting from failure t< " enter the desired classes. Students 5 desiring to fill vacancies that maj * occur hereafter should write or * telegraph before coming. ) 1 TILLMAN APPOINTED CAP TAIN. i ^ He is to Lead a Company to tho Philippines Composed of South Carolinians and Indians. 3 5 Washington Sept 14?James H Tillmnn, son of ex-Rcpresenta tire Tillmnn of South Carolina, ami who served as colonel of the Second South Carolina Volunteers, * ? in the Spanish war, has been promised by the President a captaincy in one of the new volunteer regiments. Colonel Tillman came to Washington hoping to raise an Indian independent company of * scouts. The President did not ? approve of forming any indepen k dent command at this time, but i . ' ~ said there was no objection to en' 1 * * ' ' * ' b listing a certain proportion of Inf dians in a company which he f authorized Captain Tillman to b organize. A A Girard, formerly f of the Rough Riders, has beer r named as first lieutenant of CapS tain Tillman's company. r Germany and France aro botl 3 in favor of disarming," said Giz '|zam. 44Ate they?" asked Kildofl 11 in surprise. <4Germany is in fa1 vor of disarming Franc eand France is in favor of disarming Germany ? Life. ' ririnnrxn 'ptecpTl :| ? Your H H Youth 0 II II LJ If you are young you nat- p4 L 1 urally appear so. LJ Pfl If you are old, why ap- IV Lj pear so? kJ - ! M Keep young inwardly; we L 1 wm will look after the out- Pfl T I wardly. LJ > ; You need not worry longer Pi ft J about those little streaks of pJ TJ gr?y; advance agents of age. f j gAyer'sg "Hair | W 1 I * V Kl vigor B will surely restore color to if gray hair; and it will also f J give your hair all the wealth and gloss of early life. A J Do not allow the falling of ri your bsir to threaten you mA longer with baldness. Do not be annoyed with dandruff. Pi We will send you our book LJ on the Hair and Scalp, free fl upon request. ii MMb tm ta# Dmmtmr. ki do uq? obt*yi all tha b?n*- 11 tho VUo'r, writ* th? doctor about It. gl Mafcabir tint* u aab? *r Li with your ftntril ifittfn which M r i maj he uilfy r?BioT?a. L 1 Tickled because I < pain. 1 can do the same foryoi effects result from my extract pleasant ness and satisfaction in I've the experience, the "knot doing all branches of scient.fic de Speeial atteniion given t Work. No charge for examim Or J. E. Rutled j LANCASTEl The Rosemary Knitting Mills, | at Barnwell, are now turning out j; j about 1,000 pairs of half hose weekly and behind their orders, 'I I> i'too. ' STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA > COUNTY OF LANCASTER, 1 . I n the Court of Probate. 1 ( By (-haw. I). Joiiph, Judge of Probate. I whereas, John (' Mohley has | j made suit to me, lo grant him Lette.s ' of Administration on the estate of and ( effects of Buaan Duncan, d* ceased. it THESE ARK THEREFORE lo Cite arnl admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of I he saiil Susan Dun s< can, deceased, that they he and up- () pear before nie, in the Court of Pro . hate, to he held at Lancaster, C. H , on September 18?.h next, after pubi lication thereof,- at 11 o'clock in the foreuoon. to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should no', he granted. Given under iny Hand and Seal this , 4th day of September, Anno Domini, I. 1889 , . M , CM AS. D JON ES, J" *' Probate Judge. Summons For RElief. ? State of South Carolina, Court Com County of Lancaster, j inon fleas. J. C. Foster, Plaintltt", against r W H. L Porter, as Administrator of Derelict Estate rfD. M Croeketr. |j deceased, and Derelict Kstate of I, Bl ! E (Crockett, deceased, and R H. Crockett. K. C. Crockett aud Nannie Williams, as heirs at Law of I). M. m Crockett, deceased, and L. K.Crockett, dr ceased. tj* To the Defendant Nannie Williams: You are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this r] action which is tiled in the otflee of s ?the Cl-rk of Court of Common Plea- g for aid county and to serve a copy of | H ' your answer to ttie said complaint on j r the suOseriber at his ottlce tn town of K rshsw, H C , within twenty days t 1 after 'he service hereof; exclusive of a the day of such service; aud if you ^ fail to answer tlie complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaint it! in this j action w III apply to the Court for the relief d munded in this complaint. I: Dated August 1'H A 1) 1*99 J. Harry Foster, Plaintiff's Attv. c < :: | fo Nannie Williams, Absent Defend- 1 . ' | ant : 5 J Take notice that the Summons and I ji'omplaint in the above entitled action s has tnis day tieen ti ed in niy ? Hire at M( | /.ancasn r C. H . K (j. , ; August 28. 1899. I ^ W S. L. Porter, C. C. C. P L O Sep. 1 tiw. Notice to I >chtors and Crerlitors ol Grccn Culp, Dccciim'iI. I ' \ I,L PERSONS INDEBTED TO j /x the esta e of Green t 'ulp, deceaserl, ' , > will C"tne forward at once and make * rett'c-ment to the undersigned Per1 sons having claims ;uaiiist said estate , will present them, riuly verified to the undersigned. (). W POTTS, Executor. ]> Aug 22, 1899?lm. j i Notice to Debtors ami Creditors q of I* >1. I'lylcr, Dcccusctl. ALL Persons indebted to the estate of P M Pl\ler, deceased will come forw ar i at once and make -ettle ! ment with t ie undersigned. Persons , ^ having claims against said estate w ill i I nresent them, duly verified, to tiie undei signed. W. B. PLY LEU. Geo. W PLYLERi Executors. TRESPASS NOTICE. E All persons are heiiery warned not to trespiss by walk| tnp, tiding, hunting, fishing, hauling T wood, Itghlwood, or trespassing in A any way on my lands in Pleasant HiII ^ township, bounded by John Rohinvnn, J J Bridges, estate lands of J H st Vfc'ighan, estate lands of GeoT Bailey 01 and others. The law wdl be enforced |( against any and all persons disregardI ing this notice. Mrs M K Cauthkn. ; Aug 17 1899-1 m. ~ NOTKIK OFniSCIUIlfifS. _ o J TUOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN is Va that on the 29tb day of August, re 1&99, the undersigned as executor of Is the will of John T Mackey, deceased la Will make application unto ('has D di Jones, Judge of Pi oba'e in and for the ti< ooiinty of Lancaster and Hfate of South ffcro ina, for a final discharge as such , efceentop J F MACKEY. Executor. k July 29, 1899. 3?d. 1 extracted his tooth without u. Neither pain nor after ing. My methods suggest stead. vhow" and .ne facilities for ntistry at the least cost. ,o Gold Crown and Bridge it ions and estimates. ge, Dentist. t, s. c. tuggies. Buggie?; Buggies galore ? Buggies good, Buggies heller, liug^ gies Best Biggies Big, Buggies little, Buggies on c\ery story? Busies for comfort and Buggies to last. run wk have ill BUGGIES IffjiV ALMOST WITHiuuq out numbery )f all grades and at prices rung:g from $30 for a good top bugy on tip. In fact, jnst at thi? cason wo are making a specialty f BUGGIES Our large week y sales is the secret of our being hie to sell a good BUGGY for O LITTLE MONEY. o M continues to grow in popular favor. IVI?RV 1100 1 ( J1 V 1_J n I HORSES. 'FRVIPF STYI ,SH yl_jn V1UCj turnouts and careful drivers. Plenty of Wagons and Harness, too. all and >ee us. LLIOTT & CHAM Fill!I). he Lancaster Graded School PHE ANNUAL SESSION OK the L Lancaster Graded School will bein on Monday, Sept IS, 1399, at 3:4 in The Superintendent will be at In- school house on tbe loth, and 16tb rom 10-1*2 a m, lo enroll new pupils ,nd transact other school business. [Yachers are requested to meet on the 5th. Sept. at 9 a m. Pupils must come prepared for regir> pr work on the first day. Reasonab'e tuition fees will be barged pupils who reside beyond the imits of the School District All puiils will be required to pay a monthly ncidental fee. Boys ami girts from a distance de~ iring to attend this school can teadily eeure cheap rates i f board here in rivate families. For further information address R. F. MILLER, Chr'm Board Trustees, or Cn.\sT CciNNOPS Sec and Trees. Lancaster, S tt, Aug 14. '99. ot> Printing. Law Briefs, Minutes, nil kinds f Blanks, Bill and Letter Heads, Envelopes, and all kinds of Job Yinting done in the host stvle nd at lowest prices. Call at The .knc.ku ollice and sec samples of iv work and get prices. 1IUGH WILSON, Abbeville, S. C'. 1) 1 n i i rss mm nunner c?tnce. HE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.. o Widest patronage and fullest equip>ent in its history. Faculty 887 tudcnts 4tto; 8 Academic Courses: Elective Courses; 3 Professional i;uin)ih, in l.?w, 111 medicine ami in harmxcy. New huildinvs water orks, splendid libraries, laboratories, tc Advanced classes open to women, nil ion $(>() a year: board $s a month, mple oppoitunity for self-help, chnlarshships and loars for the needy, ree tuition for teachers. Hummer school forteacheis. 24 inructors, 147 students. Total enrolls ient t>41 For illusfated handbook and cata-> >gue, address, PRESIDENT, ALDERMAN, Chapel Hid, N. C. REGISTRATION NOTICE. HHE PUBLIC W 11,1, TAKE notice L that the Registration Rooks wil] s open, at the court house for the gistntion of parties ent itled to regter under the Constitution, on the t Monday in each month, until 90 lys preoeillng ti e next general eleeon VV G A PORTER, chairman Board Registration L C ancastor. R C Dw4 mn. * r" ''Mi