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Ijcal Walters. Mrs W F Cloyd and daughter, iMiss 14 id lie Cloyd, are visiting friends at Buy kin. Sheriff L M Clyburn spent Sunday with his brother, Hon \V U Clyhurn.- Kershaw Era. Tivd lino .lohtnt' I?U ? ?? aativ HVItJVJ ^ >1 I I (I young calve* for sale. Apply to J 11 \Y Stevens. Mrs Lou E Kiddle lias Ween elected teacher of the Dix ie school for the term of 7 months. Born, to Mr. and Mr^. \V II Porter, at this place, Sunday, Juno 10, 1900, a daughter. Mr. Chas. E Carter, of the Spartanburg Free Lance, is here spending a few days with relatives. Maj. B F Miller and J T Green, Esq., are attending the commencement exercises of Worford College. Dr T .J Strait had n tine colt to drop dead in the harness last Thursday evening, near Camp Creek on the Coylo road, from overheat. Cadets Ed Gregory, Perry tt f I l/ii- ' ' mncKey aim utKe warier arc at homo from Clomson (College for tlio Summer vacation. There will he preaching at Beulah church on the third Sabbath of this month (17th day) at 3:30 o'clock p m. Contractor W S Langlev has closed a contract with the DcKalh Cotton Mill at Camden for the erection of twenty 4*room cot Uiges. Capt. 1 W Moore came home and spent several days the past weak. Ilis health is somewhat improved since his sojourn at Thermal City, N (!. List of letters advertised for the week ending June 12, 1900: Henrietta lloen, Kate Uuey, Josephine Melri, H F Peardoff, l4 Park. .J F Gregory, v m. M rs. ,1 W Condor and Mrs. S W Hhen, retained to their home in Columbia yesterday, accompanied by OSa, Estello and Jack Gregory, who will spend a few weeks with them. Mr. Claude J Henry left for Hickory, N C, Sunday, where he wua joined in holy wedlock yester day to one of Hickory's most charming daughters. He was accompanied by his frieud, Mr A J Cunningham. 9 Dr. T .1 Strait has tiled hi* pledge with tho State chairman and is in the race for Congress from this District. Mr. Finleji has also tiled his pledge. The Doctor and Mr. Finley aro the only candidates for the nomination from the Fifth District. Heath Spring Alliance will meet Saturday June liltlt ut 3 o'clock. All members are re. (jnested to l?e present. Businessof importance. D NV Hendrix, Sec. Mrs .1 (i Howze has the editor's thauks for a mess of the tinest Irish .potatoos wo have seen thin season. She sends up ten or twelve bushels to market here every few days and finds ready wale for tbem at fl.20 pec bushel. jJT Have you forgotten to day your subscription to Ledgerl la . , _ j 4r X "y.. ^ y JJf? ^'r. -w There will l>o a meeting of the Alliancemen of the Camp Creek neighborhood at Camp Creek church on Friday the 22nd of June at 4 o'clock p m for the purpose of reorganizing Camp Creek sub alliance. Brother J F Nishet w ill be on hand to assist in the organization. "All old members and others who would like to belong to the alliance are requested to be there on that day. \V M Blackmon. The sill) committee* for the big j masonic celebration and pie-nic are actively engaged in interesting everybody in the importance of bringing full baskets on the . . 1 occasion, dune 2dd instant. They hope tho public at large is equally interested and will not only at I tend but pack their baskets' well, I for the largest crowd ever assembled at Lancaster is expected that day, and it is desired that every man, woman and child shall be abundantly fed. All persons sending or bringing baskets arc requested to have baskets and! lutes both marked. Ladies on j the committee will call on the chairman, Mrs. Brown, for badges. ? w? WP.I. /^oleaster Investment Company i no secretary of Mate yesterday issued a commission to T Y Williams and Chas L) Jones as corporators of the Lancaster Investment company, which is to buy and sell teal estate and per sonalty, discount commercial paper, loan money, etc. The capital stock is to be f 10,000.? ( J 1 ho State, 10th inst. j Lancaster Circuit Quarterly Conference at Camp ! Cieek fourth Sunday, June, and the Saturday before?(23d and 'i 24th.) Lecture on China at St. Luke (Elgin), third Sunday morning. Collection for Foreign Missions. H I) Lucas. An Old W oman l>ro|>|?e?l?Den<l. \)n Monday a'tcrnoon, Carry Thomas, an old colored woman, uped about 70 years, living on Mr. J E Porter's place was found dead in the yard. Coroner \ oung ' held an inquest yesterday and the jury found that t-he died from natural cause*. ' A Former l.aiicnsti'iaii Slurried in 1 Spur iuubur^. Mr Walter V Ingram, formerly of this place was married lust Sunday afternoon to Miss Annie Mitchell of Spartanburg. Immediately after the ceremony toe young couple hoarded the train for Greenville where they will ! make their future home. Mr Ingram ih row connected with it . '?- * * mr waies Moani laundry id 1 Greenville. We wish him success and many years of connubial bliss. Supposed to lla\c lliid Hydroi pliolda. ' On Friday last Mr. C-FTillmnn ' of the Tank section, had a mule > to die supposedly of hydrophobia. > It would bite at anything which came in reach. A little son of Mr. Tillman's was bitten in the back by the animal, breaking the I skin nearly two inches, but as he 1 was bitten through his clothing it > is thought the poison could not be 1 conveyed to the child. A madstone applied the same day failed to adhere to the wound. It also 1_ ! A. A I I 1 J-t?I- A oil unmoor mini) hah rainy lore a 1 chicken to pieces. Jf the mule was ever bitten by a rabid animal 1 no one knows of it, but Mr. Tillman found a dead dog under his 1 house recently that ho thought might have died of hydrophobia, and possibly might have bitten the mule. Pay your subscription. Beginning of tlie Room. Simultaneously with tho building of the million dollar mill comes tho announcement of big changes at tho Lancaster Mercantile Co's stables. Tho wiog of the building on the Eust side is to be torn away and replaced with a huge two* story glass front building?35x' 35 feet. It will be handsomely finished with both elevator and stairway and both tho upper and lower floors will be used fur ex hibiting tli? handsome lines of buggies, carriages, harness and tnachiner, carried in stock by tliein. Some changes will also he! ... made in the main building of the I stables and the entire lot will be shedded and cut oft into mule pens. A Negro Woman Wliiteeapped. Shortly after 12 o'clock Satur I day night the cries of a woman | aroused and alarmed our citizens j in the vicinity of the depot of the j S C & (m Ex Railroad. A mob, j said to have been composed of Rome young white men whose [ faces were blacked, went to the home of Eliza Mobley, col, and while one of the party held fupistol on her husband, tho others gagged the woman and took her to near the cattle pen on the railroad where after administering an uu-I | merciful beating, sho was shot in the side of the face. When the | shot, was fired the mob hastily Hod and it is not known whether . it was fired by one of tho mob or at it by some one attracted by tho cries The woman had used some very insolent language to a young lady here who had no relatives even living in the State, and hence | the visitation of the mob. This | community thinks the woman de~ served castigation but this com| mnnity does not approve of mob I violence. Any man who av< nges an insult to a lady, no matter by whom given, if he does it openly and bravely will receive the coin* ' mendation of this people, but the good people of our community can never approve of mob law. -SPRING - u -?HEATH -] FOUK MONTHS A (JO We 11 I .eventually we would have tho <4Li< Our exhibit of Trimmed Hats outr here, tlx; original conceptions of o j Stock of Children's Trimmed Ilst> RICH AND ELEGANT SPRING Crowds of ladies around them ing them, hundreds are still eoinin GREATc Buying in such large (pianti | ways gone as soon as they arc unpi shades anil new patterns. Our stores f novelties of evei ; departments. < We used both. ? success. Our pr trade here. -Heath I Work to Begin Soon 011 the $1,000,000 Cotton Mill. The initiatory steps for the building of tho million dollar cot. ton mill at this place, were taken last Friday evening when the Directors of the Lancaster Cotton Mill met in the President's ollice, over the hank, and unanimously passed a resolution calling a special . meeting of the stockholders, for , I the second Monday in July, to < increase the capital stock from j 1 S 1 1 nun #.. 1 1 n>i\ /-?/"?n <- ' f V iwifijWVV^V'IV UIMXJUIl J the capital to bo issued in 7 per i I cent preferred stock. It goes j without silking that the action of ( the stockholders will lie unanimous. The object of the increase I is to add to the plant and make it i a million dollar mill. The new I building will be erected Kast of i the present building, will be four i stories high, and just four times iu size. r.oth the common and preferred stock in tho increase of the capital has ali been subscribed for, arrangements having been j made with capitalists abroad to; take all that is not subscribed for 1 by home investors. Work will j commence at an early date and will be pushed to completion with all rapidity possible. When com- i pleted the mills will have (50,000 spindles and 1,000 looms. The additional mill will be operated by electric power generated at Land-ford, arrangements being ( completed for the development of this power. The building of this ! mill will mean much for Lancaster. It will give employment to about 1,200 more operatives and will ! increase our population by several thousand. Kven while in course of construction it will he a great hone tit) giving employment to; many and putting quantities of money in circulation. _ Col. Springs, who is an in^ dofatigablo worker in the huild- 1 ing up of Lancaster, and to whom Lancaster is indebted more than " ARRIVAL it ww a; BANKING & FOURTH aide our initial Itow to an appreciate Hi's Share" of the trade, hut we lm<l ' .wv WftS OUR 1 'V\Jl3l3 ? Acknowledged hy f) ivalftd any to tie found anywhere. itr Miss Thoin has no rival for Beaut stylish and dainty, prices cheap. SHOWERS OF GREAT VALUE I i all the time. Entirely new, so ( ^ for them. iATHERING OF \ ities for our nine stores, Yorkvillc, ncked. Do you Know that we art l*i V k ire memii} span ry kind Take a ( iood judgment i Small profits on 11 ices are so tempti Youi Nanking & to any other person for its prosperous hank, its successful mill audits advancement iilmi.' other lines, is at the helm, which makes the undertaking an assured success. \ CAIt I > riCO.M MR R(>I)I>hV 1 would have the people of Lancaster and community to know that 1 did not havcanything what aver to do with the all'air of S.iturday night as has heen reported, ind I can ho vindicated hy the i l>e-4 authority. I loft my oflicc at, eleven , /clock Saturday oveninu and went direct I v homo and did not know anything of the un|>le:tr>niit j i flair until Sunday a m. I make Ihis statement in older that mv name may not f>e associated with matters of this kind Is. T. Koldey. CASTOR! A For Infants and Children. Tha Kind You Have Always Sought TimcIm iV I Aaiii inatioii. The Summer examination of applicants for teaener s cci tilientes will ho held at Lancaster court house on the loth of .lone, within the usual hours. Applicants will furnish their own stationery. J 11 Thompson, Co. Supt. of Kducation. May 1, l'.iuo. Canning Outfit lor At <?. You ran rot a running outlit, with full instructions, to ran all of your fruit and vegetables for $10. If you want one write mo at Lancaster or call at the Ledger offieo. C L Mr Man us. The One Day CoicJ Cure. For co'il in the hi a<l ami mire throat vise Kermott's Chocolates J.axativc Quinine, the "One L?ay Colli Cure." S CROWDI tK liHAItV, L JWERGAM1 MONTH. re public that has since vhowered u I no idea that wo woul^l cominancl it MILLINERY OPE iends and foe, as being the best d And the rarest Foieign and New y and BecoiniiignetiS. OUll 1*11 Mourning millinery for Spring. N FEW SPRING GOODS. 'heap,*so pretty. Ilundreds'huv m in. m. m w**. m n n n m w m lyOWDEKHJL BA Lancaster and Kershaw, and soiling i soiling piles of Press (iood# and \ iling will) newn< rip around our c uid cash dictates nan} sates, is tlx ingly low, lliat it v*aa'A^oHai llv ^ v mj ^ i Mercai^ t -v ' V 1 ."W L iJlk i\ i> tJ ill . iVotiro for Mwtiriff of Stork* holders of the Lancaster Cotton Mills. I>V UK'O'.jU l<>\ of the UohmI of J I>i ectors of the L-uhms'?-r "otton Mills mn Instruct-"! to issu-* a call f??. a no elint; I tie- -t? en li. mJ.-1 . of the cor no a ioti to me* ' in the ? !!! ?* of iho President (Hmk Ho l<li i?-oii 'he nth ?<n of Jufy (Seen -I Mnmlty) 1900 a Kl^vi o nViiirK i in 'or i ii 11 11 it ise o! con.s.dcri g it Lu?o ll'ioo uuaiiim'ois'y i> s- j i I'V Is-' Hourd ?' Hi odors a 11 i*>iin; (lie i ?*i .s of ' i* > n ii'al stock "f I ic e o |n?r ion Pom $hi i' (Ml (Id (j? i - nt cm|lit I > '(i ?! (I HO'i ' to In- <iivol <1 into l in i in-*es hi stock, on hull'(>Vm ? o i.o : lo he I'. 'orroil" stock, the nth r ha! ($"io i,oo on) 10 |> mi too i !< of til - it |> if alum. iho ' lV-ft* I'-il" -to-U ' lie ilin i I io a 11 i-1 i 111 i*i it* nl <i He vi*ii (7) i er cent per out nil v|. <iiickli il are here'ty to itie I ' ? Ii" pie en . or ie,.r?"?r i* liy r \y a' s-iiil mri i >.i .1, Ii ur IIH til -I, 1* oxies III UK' Ii lil < wii'i ?i S.-cteturv o ? in- hour ui me t u r IJy o ! r of' :io r i I' Dir ? urn. \VAI)I> V I'll-M-o;, S-e el.try an I Treasurer. .1 line 11 lit r> i . . . . ur ... rt3% SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, < < >? ! tm :;. *v A 15 , K. - . A M . '.I, !', I. 1. i nui'iop Spring ? it * ri for Tea hers ! '? urii.on p r-; ;{:> Oun v olunieH i i.hraiy; i-xc lit lni nr?lniii!?, rl s ?r o - \ in< -illin, ii tiriniii v itllihiie er i||i,<|h 1: ti n ?|o. ?. 11 r !* > S IS i -i - i'i ; I i.i ki|] 11 mi h ?l to t \ . I |m |*,x list s in SIT-'i a ion 1 i riiti il /*i?, 11 Irom for -live An I ueil Net ils entei it- i'*re- M in an < 'i. --> w 11 lion x ?in i ii at in . ICnt I'tlliee a|i-t .Vol' i.n" Sel iilarsliip Ixxaii. 11; t i> .:s Ii eiery e >ui ty eat, Kriilny, .Inly l'u. ii'n , I?v (' iMty * ll|n?i I ii i en iet11s A', x hi SHtoa opens Sepf, l'.IOO. I?' ir i ni if g'U- ml ', > l'( WOODWAKI) l?iesi?lent t. w. s cn o O-o F.DLa. - i . Ik fully ? (|tiip|ieil, ? il ipialitleil, himJ HO'ieilH * our Mirveye NOTICE. \ I.!. rrcil'<ONs 1 v nEHTKT) TO Ik* ( . late i.f .Mais (!?* <" s (I arc lirMtli. to M-flle I Ik* wi'i ?* ut oiiie Ami all p r.^ous 11?? <liiin rl ?ims attain-f h?' mid Mary Oililiiiu will i?U* ?. ?** I'll1- imiI ilit* ?s.1111o ?lllly I'ltfsieil t<? llit* iiu?'*>ihi. u- tl lMvid < J K itiibi<-l. Kxi-cutor. l-'i.rt Mill, d * Vni v 22. 1000. *uy your swbsoripiton to L K i m ; K U! NG US! r? it * i?' /*** I ILL UU.P? s with its favors. We know that so soon. NING MBHBAY isplay ever shown in Lancaster. ? York Patterns aro to??l>o produced l/m^i 4i?f r ntt' i>:~ IK. l\0 Alll'i \ mil lug 0 bought them, hundreds lire wearRGAjNS. ; so close, because the goods are'alto ? Vaist Silks? \\ e have the rare ss in notions and lot Iting and shoe 1 eai'lv mir?c!iase. v I 5 ?ii id ill ? star to is a pleasure to I TILE CO.