The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, June 20, 1900, Image 3

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local Matters. A very heavy rainfall is report ed inthe Dry Creek section. The biscuits will always burn when starch is substituted for soda, so says "Our Jiui." Miss Kitty Dunlap of Rock Hill, is visiting Misses Susie Duolup and Irene Cunningham. Mrs Nancy Leonard, her son, Mr Samuel Leonard, and Miss Dilly Dukes, of Gainesville, Fla, are the guests of Mrs S P Adams, of Heath Spring. The court of General Sessions for Lancaster county will convene here next Monday. The criminal docket is light and a few days will finish up all the business. Presiding Elder Bays will preach here Friday night and also on Sunday. He will hold the 3d quarterly conference for Lancas* ter Station immediately after service Friday night. Mr Carl Foster, of this place, graduated from the South Carolina College at tho session just closed. He returned home the past week. Mr J D Winstead of Nashville, N C, spent a day or so here this week shaking hands with his old friends. They were all glad to see hini. Mr W T Gregory visited Cheraw Saturday. His wife, and jyirs *i w rorter, who have been visiting friends there, returned home with him Monday. Census enumerator B Cunningham finished taking the census of the town yesterday. He will begin today taking the census outside the corporate limits. The first water-melons of the season were received here last Friday by ,J B Mackorel. They came from Florida and went like hot rukes. Mr J F Clyburn is here on s visit to his family. He will prob abiv not return to Columbia, hav in?r accepted a position here after Aug. 1st. Since the second day of the county Norma) Institute the following teachers have been enrolled, making thirty-tyvo teachers in regular attendance; J Watt Pi zer, Jos K Connors, H N N'-'ict, Miss Mamie Stover, Mr* Lily Richards and Miss Nettie Price. Wanted! At this oflico,?information as to the whereabouts of a mi-placed hand-satchel containin'.' some accounts and other pa|>ors. I ho cotton seed oil mill is still being talked about. Everybody ll.A ncriim iu SOW ii1hi 11 wouk1 t)6 8 paying investment and a wonderful benefit to the county. All thai is nocdod is for some one to assure the people an experienced roan can he gotten to run it,and then head the subscription and pass around the list. Miss Lottie Chafee, a daughter of Mrs N O B Chafee, formerly of this place, but now of Augusta, Ga, was married at the residence of her mother, June 12th, 1000, to Mr Alfred C Hammond. The many friends of Miss Lottie, at this place, join the Ledger in iti hearty good wishes for a long and happy life. at?? ?i>si with OMtMWti Oulr Otatnto. ?vt mmMpmIm Imm. Mft.a*. ROftO,lui.?' i?HIirthal Mrs. P G McCorkle's condition is vt ry much improved.?Rock Hill Herald. Died, on Saturday afternoon last, infant child of Mr. and Mrs. W L Games, aged about 7 months. , It's remains were interred at Tabernacle Sunday. The Heath Dunking and Mor, cantilo Company will reduce its stocks before stock taking t;me. If you don't believe they aro closing their eyes to profits read the prices they quote in their new add. to-day. They are put along in contrast with their old prices and it looks like giving things away. They also make a terrible ( slash into the price of furniture. Threo car loads has just been re ceived by them. Call on them early and see what the Cash will do. Fall In Line ! The new school building is the thing We find, with few exceptions, our people all fayor it. It will be romenibered that the establishment of a graded school here was vigorously opposed by some of our largest taxpayers but they aro among its strongest frionds today, and we find most of ' them right in line for the erection of a school building to cost at least $ ft, 000. We figure that an addi tional levy of 1 mill tax ($1. on the $1,000 worth of property) in 1 i the school district for ten years 1 will pay the interest annually and retire bonds issued for the purpose. Who, within the radius of the school district, will not i ' have his property enhanced in . value more than ten times the | amount of the tax he will pay, by the erection of a handsome, com modious school building, to say nothing of the improved health of the children. We want everybody to fall in line in this matter. ' If you can't see beyond your nose, don't consult your judgment but follow the lead of progressive, public spirited men. Probably 1 you pulled back and reared and : pawed and snorted and kicked against the establishment of the 1 school but after the first year you saw your folly, and to day, per hups, you wo the last man in k Lancaster who would vote against the levy for the support of the school. An imposing school building constructed with a viev* to proper ventilation and light is as much a necessity in this communis > ty as an\thing we can imagine and we hope the entire community will bo able to see it. i ^ Forward. Oniric Itiirlit. Mari-li ! With the beginning of tho new 1 century Lancaster will be at the 1 threshold of a most glorious opportunity. What our town is to become depends upon the life, ' activity and progressivenoss of 1 its citizens. Muny think that the '' building of a million dollar cotton mill will only add a few thousand population in the way of mill operatives and occasion the establishment of two or three more j stores to compete for tho trade of ^ those new operatives. Such can see no better future for our town I than its past has been. But the > wide awake man sees more, fie I sees a prospect limited only by 1 the progressiveness and public I spiritedness of cur present inhab* itants. Ilad you thought of it? A million dollar mill will spin * non r> 1 ?/ oil ho or?t uunuj mm i?iio vuviuu i ammi ill ' Lancaster county. Cotton will roll in here from every direction. > It should tie the best market in > the State. Trade would increase, > probably double in a few years t time. New mercbat ts wiil come | in. Men with capital will come and establish new enterprises. More cotton mills, oil mills, spinning mills, and all kinds of enterprises willjbe run by electricity generated by the Landsford power company. Lancaster will be a city. But hold, we are going too fast. It all depends ?DEPENDS upon your ability to comprehend the situation. In this day monied men consider the comfort# and con?I veniecces of life in selecting a homo. If Lancaster is to attract such she must align herself wtyh, other progressive towns of the State and country. With the great advantage an electric power plant, capable of developing 20,00C horse-power, within eight1 miles of our door will give us, will we throw away the opportunif U ? W al/a lie* ? m+j || t?AU U JO OIOO|llUg ones. Give the subject some thought. Intelligently studied, you must l>e convinced that without the comforts, conveniences and educational advantages of the more progressive towns, Lancaster will remain what she is. Perhaps you feel no interest in her growth. Then you must be either an alien or a pauper. What must we do? First, take the necessary steps to extend the incorporate limits of the town to one mile in every direction from the court house. Work with all your might to this end. If this is accomplished, then ask for an election, and vote to issue town bonds for water works, electric lights, macadamized streets and the building of a handsome town hall. Probably a Fatal Difficulty Last Sunday ufternoon, at the colored Baptist church near Newcut, Sid Alsohrooks and another negro named Williams, had a difficulty in which Alsohrooks was seriously shot, receiving a wound in his stomach which it is supposed will prove fatal. Dr. Sapp is attending the wounded negro. Williams tied immediately alter the shooting in the direction of North Carolina. o? LEI U Ulli Lilt? THEE M-lalfe' We mention a It low prices you c ours and other s remnants that s< .very best 12 1-5 8c a yard. All o the Shirt waists our fine dollar v Our splendid col our prices and ; ol spending youi Now we cl 1,000 Men's $1 'gains at 25c, no iter They have been charging y< 1100 piecea of furniture at a great Coma and aee. -Heath ] k Thfi Masonic Celebration. The big masonic celebration of the four lodges in Lancaster county next Saturday, will eclipse any celebration of the kind ever held in any county in the State. I Six lodges of adjacent counties have been invited and are expected to be here. The Lodges will all meet at Masonic Hall at 11 a m, the procession will be formed by Chief Marshal Crawford and his assistants, and marched to the 1 . Academy grove. There they will he entertained with addressee by the Most Worshipful Grand Master Orlando Sheppard, of 1 Edgefield, Post Grand Master J T Barron, of Columbia, and W Bratton DeLoach, District Deputy Grand Master, of Yorkville. A8 has been stated before the public is cordially inrited to be present, and the largest gathering ever assembled in Lancaster iw expected that day. The speaker's stand has already been erected and ! the contract let for the construe- ' tion of a table that will accommodate the whole crowd. Every- ' body is going to bring full baskets and the picnic dinner will be the 1 largest ever seen in this county. ' Won't it be nice? Come one, come all. West Point Cadetsliip. Senator Tillman wishes in known 1 that he has been called upon to ' name a cadet for West Point by 1 July 10. He proposes to make ' the appointment by competitive examination, and all candidates will be required to report at the South Carolina college on July 3, at 10 a. m.?Yorkvillo Enquirer. A Lancaster Enterprise. A charter was granted today to the Lancaster Investment company , the capital of which is $10,000. T Y. Williams is president and J Charles D. Jones is secretary and i treasurer.?Columbia Record 16, 1 inst. : LOOSE Throng < fS MONEY ] 'j is drawing IIIIC lots ami e iw. What tliey ha an now buy them tore's prices. It! >ld last at 6 cts, o 2e Percales, new in* 8c fancy Dinii were ;><ine, 8o w vaist for Jbc, and llection of ladies ! goods with any st cash here, ose our eyes to wu stra?v Hats t< >w going at &c. e's Good I ou fancy prices for furniture lately. ; reduction. Our 2 store rooms are Banking ? / Heath of Mrs Knight. M rs. Knight, wife of Mr M F Knight of the Plensant Plain sec tion, died on Thursday last after a short illness of typhoid dysentery She was a member of Flat Creek Baptist church, and her remains were interred there Friday after funeral services conducted by Rev T A Dabney. The First Bloom. Mr. U A McManus of Chester.~4 4 ~ ?u? n I1G11I VU'IIIIJ BCUt it UOIKH1 oioom to this office yesterday which was plucked from a fourteen acre field on the Ifilh. The young man who brought it reports that Mr. Mc., has lots of blooms. Porter Bros * Stock Sold. Mr. Roeoe Williams, Trustee, sold the bankrupt stock of Porter Bros, here at 12 o'clock m., yes., terday. The stock was bid in by T Y Williams, E>-<j , Attv. for the Heath B & M. Co. at 75J cents an the dollar of the inventory cost j which was $2,838 42. The Lan? j aaster Mercantile Co., bid to 75. The stock will be moved at once . to the store of the B. &V1. Com- j pany. fanning Outfit for $1(1. You can get a canning outfit, with full instructions, to can all i)f your fruit and vegetables for ? 10. If you wnnt one write me at Lancaster or call at the Ledger office. C L McManus. | vw Have you forgotten to Jay your subscription to Ledger? ' i BRIDGE TO LET. | rHE CONTRACT TO BUILD a new bridge over Boar Creek near lh?* Lancaster Cotton Mill, wi'l he let lo the lowes' responsible bidder 011 Tuesday, the iwenty sixth day of June 1900. at 10 o'clock, a m Plans and specifications will tie made known at the letting. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved M C (JAPDNKR. Co, Kuja-r. FOUR CA V >f Thirfty HERE FOR ; near- We in list verj thing that ve sold for and \ for. >ee the dil I.OOO yards of ya ur price now is i est stales, fast c< ties are yours fo e will give tliem our 50c waist Shirts must folio oa*e, and you nil profit and throw or 25c and 60() < ffews for 1 We will stop that now. At a Bij fillet! to the ceiling. We are goi !t Mercm Ti.v<? 1 un ni^ii DM. tor Mootlnj; of S(ock<> holders of the Laiiciistcr Cotio* Mills. HY RESOLU1ION of the Board ?f Dliectors or the I?aneas>er ? otton Mills i am instructed to jssue a call for m meetP'ii f the Stock lioldei* ?T ihe corj o H ion to meet in the office o' I he President ( Bank Building} on ihe 9th da of July. (Second Monday) at Eleven O'clock a m for the purpose or coustderh g a Kesotuiion unanimously p as5d by the Board of Direetors ad\ islng the increas- of the capital stock of tliec trituration from $I50.( 06,0(1 (present cap)I 1 ) to $1,000 000 00 t? he divided into t*'o classes of stocky one half ($5oo,ooo.oo) to he '"Preferred" stock, the other halt ($ooo,oo\oo) to be common s ock of the corpor .-iiiiiii, me I'reterred" sto< k to helimited to a punitive dividend ofsevea (7) percent per annum. x 11 Stockholder* are lierehy no ified to be present, or represent by proxy at said meeting, at tiie hour named. Proxies must he fil"d with tlieHecretary netore the iiour of meeting By older of the Hoard of Directore. WADDY C THOMSON, Secretary and Treasurer. June 11th, 19o>. 1801 ? 11MK). SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. COl,UMBlA,H.O. A. B., B. m , A M , f,L. B . L i. Courses- Hpring Courses free for Teachers Fourteen Piofessors; 33.000 volumes in library; excellentlaboratories, class-rooms, gymnasium, infirmary, athletic grounds Tuition $40, other fees $18, a session; tuition remitted to needy atudenis. Expenses $135 to $175 a session t'ertifl-d /*upils from forty-five Accredited Hchools enter its Freshman Class with ou? examiuatio , Entrance ami Normal Scholarship Examinations held at every county feat, Friday, July 20. 1000, by County Superintendents A'ext session opens Sepf, 20, 1900. For catalogue, address, FC WOODWAItl) President T. W. SfcCRtST, SURVEYOR, 08? EOLa. K. C. Iy fully equipped, and qualified,aaa solieitH your surveying NOTICE. Alt, persons indebted to lie estate of Mary Ribbon, deceased are berebv notified to settl* the name at once And all peraen: holding claims against he said Mar; Ribbon will please nre-ent the aam-'e duly attesred to the undersigned David G Kimbrcll. Executor. Fort Mill, SC. May 22, l'.KH). *^"Pay your subscription ttLkdrbbI SH. >? Buyers. * YOU. ;be rid of broken shows handling* vliat ridiculously Terence between ird-wide percale 5c a yard. Those triors, must go at r 5c. It's time a big drop. All slashed to 25c.. w suit. Compare I see the wisdom on our counters Cloth Hats, barITou. ^ Sale we bought 3 solid carload*, ng to cut the life out of priom. r *. (TILE CO.* i