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local Matters, Mr. and Mrs .1 A Stewman are visiting relatives at Anderson. Thero was a very enjoyable fish stow at Landsford last Thursday. Mrs. J A Miller and Miss Pearl Miller ate visiting relatives at Heath Spring. Born, to Mr. ami Mrs. S N Ballard of this county, Wednesday last, a daughter. Misses Julia, Hannah and Maude Mobley arc tho guests of Miss Mamie Clyburn. Mrs. .1 E Taylor and children left yesterday for Harmony, to spend a week or so with relatives. Miss Maggie Williamson will return today to Bain college at Mint Hill, having spent a very pleasant vacation at homo. Chan. D Jones, Esq, attended the meeting of the Southern In dustrial League in Atlanta this week. W A NT EH* An n*nn( T - ai AJil 11 ^ c* canter for Camdeu Steam Laundry. E A N in bet & Co., Props. Camden, S C. Mr. W T Gregory carried his little daughter Lola, to Columbia this week for treatment under a specialist for defective hearing. Rev. and Mrs. A A James o? Pacolot, S C, spent a few days | this week with their daughter, Mrs. A C Will iainson at Craigville. Letters advertised for the week 1 ending July 20, 11)00: . Oak Hill School, Mr. Chearles 11 Coutr, Miss Emely Baker, Mr. John McCollongh, Mr. John McDaniel, j Mr. Bob Moore, Mrs. N E Hilton. Belle X ance, r m. Send your Laundry to Camden New Steam Laundry. We are as well equipped as any Laundry in ' the State to give prompt service! and excellent finish. E A Nisbct & Co., Props. Camden, S C. We regret to learn that our old friend, Mr VV A Howell of tho Tank section, who has buffered of appendicitis tho past month, does not improve and his condition is considered precarious. An infant child of I)r and Mrs Kdgar McDow of Heath Spring, waa buried in tho family plot in the new cemetery at this place Thursday afternoon. It died the night previous. * Sheriff Clyburn'a residence narrowly escaped destruction by t;rn i - * mm i >uv UI'IMIl 1111(11] liisi IlllirSOilV. is supposed to have caught from u spark from tbo stove tluo. But for the timely discovery of the tire the building could not hare l*?on saved The road from Cureton's ferry to the top of the hill on this side is reported to be impassable. There is said to be some bad places on the River road also. The over seers will confer a favor on the travelling public by looking after bad places in the roads. The annual alliance meeting at Tirjsah, York county, will be held this year on August 2 and 3. Secy, of Agriculture Wilson will be present and will talk on agricultural topics and tliis in itself will draw a largo crowd. President llartzog, of Clenison, will also make an address. Cedar Camp of Van Wyck, Woodmen of the World will unviol the monument oreeted to Sov. C A Reckham at Camp Creek cemetery, on August 1st, at 11 a m. All neighboring W O W camps and everybody arocordially invited to be present. Rev. W C Ewart will uiake the address. .1 M Yoder, Con. Com. Dr. .James Evans, Chairman of the State Board of Health, arrived on the up freight yesterday morning and visited the small pox patients near Kershaw who are being attended by Br. W C Twitty. He pronounced the disease small pox and approved the treatment being used as well as the precautions that are being taken I to guard against a spread. He left on the down freight yesterday afternoon. ? Kershaw Era. Kershaw will not be without a school. The special lew failed to carry but its citizens deeply interested in education have deter mined to establish a good school on the subscription plan. T .1 Gregory, J I Bowers and W F Brewer aie the trustees. Prof. T Rhodes has been elected as principal and will be given two assistants. Kershaw is assured of a good school. m Chain iiuiig Recruits. Tuesday afternoon Magistrate I Caskey sent Sam Dixon, col, to tho gang for 30 days. Offence ? violating laborer's contract. The same afternoon, for assault and battery, ,Iohn Caston, col, also got a sentence of 30 days from the magistrate. John Sadler, col, for beating bis wife, was sent to the chain gang Thuisday for 30 days by M agistrate Caskey. A Ourrien Fete There will be a lawn party at the residence of Mrs .J M Hood, White Street, on Tuesday, .July '24th, beginning at 6:30, and continuing until eleven at night. It j will bo for the benefit of the j Methodist church. Admission free. A small amount will bo charged for refreshments. An orchestra of home talent will discourse tine music during the evening. Ki&ery preparation is going forward to render the occasion one of rare attractiveness. The public is cordially invited to attend. " Some Facts l(elati\e to the Quail- : tieation of Voters ami Itulcs tiovoriiin^ the I'riinary Flee, t ions Registration certificates will not be necessary in the primary olee- | tion, but voters are required to I have their names on the Democratic club roll at least five ?'ays before the primary election, j Kuoh and every candidate shall tile with the county chairman iV pledge in writing and pay lust assessment to the secretary and, treusuror or to the county chairman not later than the day of the i tirst campaign meeting in the county. Any candidate failing to comply with the above rules will not be in the race. .I F Nisbet, Chm Co. Dem. Kxecutivo Com. .Mill Not Iff ! Ply lor & Hayes have their grist and (louring mills in fine condition and are turning out only the best grades of meal and llour. Kvery day from now until Sept. 1st will he mill day. Canning Outfit for $10. You can get a canning out (it, with full instructions, to can all of your fruit and vegetables for $10. If you want ore write me at Lancaster or call nt the Ledger office. C L McManua. j Mrs VV P Bennett and children are at Cleveland Spring this week "Modus," a tine bull dog of Deputy Sheriff Wilson's, was i poisoned by some rascal a few nights ago. Mr Broadus Porter will roturn ; to Macon, Ga, today to complete the commercial course at the, Ga.-Ala. business College. Muskrats fire doing groat dam J age to corn on Hanging Rock Creek. Messrs Lewis Cauthen and ,)as B Bennett have made war on the varmints twice the past week, Killing seven muskrats and three minks. The following young ladies con* tested for the Winthrop scholarship in the competitive examination held in the courthouse yesterday: Misses Roso Moore, Pearl Hammond, Connie Davis, Hannah' Vlohley, Nora Hough, Anna Bennett, Eunice Beaty, Josie Taylor and Marie Craig. Caston Died From Hoi ton's Shot. Special to The State. Camden, .July 18 ? A telegram was received here today stating that Burwell Caston had died in Charleston. Caston ivus shot in the leg in this county some months ago hy Luther Horton. At the last term of court Horton was tried for assault and hattory with intent to kill. He was convicted of assault and hattery of a high and aggravated nature, and sentenced to imprisonment or pay a tine of $25. He paid the tine. Caston having died within less than a year from the time the injury was intlicted Horton will he held for murder. PAflTOniA. B?&ri th* /) Ktnd You Have Always Bought i LEI Join the TUFP 1 IJLLilY U-liUg 1 We mention a 1c low prices you ci ours and other si remnants that s<i very best 12 1-2 8c a yard. All oi the Shirt waists 1 our tine dollar ? Our splendid col our prices and i of spending your Now we cl< 1,000 Men's $l< gains at 25c, iur Her They have been charging; yo 1100 pieces of furniture at a great \Jomo and see. -Heath E 0 Contract bet for IJrlck lor tlie Naw Factory Mr. A Tanner of Spartanburg, has taken a contract to make 4,000,000 brick for the new factory building and started a force of hands at work yesterday, digging dirt. He will operate two brick , machines with a capacity of severul hundred thousand per week in? work will be pushed us rapidly as possible and it is expected to have the machinery placed within twelve months. Dr \V K Aiken, an aged and \ respected citizen of Winnsboro, | committed suicide Wednesday | night by taking morphine. He J wus a brother of the late Col l> ^ Wyatt Aiken. , , The quarterly report < f the operations of the State dispensary r shows the net profits to be about { $51,000. The constabulary cost 1 over #*,000 and the seizures ( amounted to a little over $1,000. I Beware of the man who liasu't i ' suflicent merit of his own to stand : on and builds himself up by tear- ' ing some one else down; for sooner or later he also will be wrecked ' upon the weak foundation on w hich 1 I _ * hp crecieu. It pars to stand on your own merit. It pays hotter f to have merit to stand on. ? Ker- ( shnw Era. ' Ed Ballard, an 18-year old colored hoy at Winnsboro, was committed tc? jail Tuesday charged with attempting rape on a young j lady hoarder at the NVinnshoro j ^ notch EDITOR'S AWFUL I'l.lOIIT i F M Hig gins, Editor Seneca, < 11 Is., > News, was atHicted for! years with Files that no doctor or j 1 remedy helped until he tried j Bucklen's Arnica Salve. He writes , two boxes wholly cured him. l?'s ; the surest Pile cure on earth and , the best salve in the world. Cure guaranteed. Only 25 cents. Sold byCrawford Bros'druggist. ' 1 LOOSE ^ Throng t 'S MONEY 1 iiiui is drawi"8 inn lots and e m. What they lia mi mm buy tliem tore's prices. 10 >Id fast at (> cts, o !c Percales, new lr 8c fancy Dimi were fflne. So w raist for ,Oc, and lection o ladies foods with any st cash here. >se our eves to i 00 Straw flats f< iv going at ftc. e's Good I u fancy prices for furniture lately, reduction. Our 2 store rooms are 1 Nanking & .AM . 114 or The Ledger. ^ I The City on The Smd. Hot, dull, dry und dusty. S \V Heath and Sid. b llinson , ire in Yorkville on business. It M Yau?rhiin and daughter, i diss Fannie, are visiting in Ilurtsille. Dr. It C Brown and C A Foster I pent Monday in town. They vere the guests of the former's icphew, S W Ileath, .Jr. 80 quiet are the tunes in this lection that one may distinctly hear :he day break and occasionally the 1 i?iht fall. Excepting the politic :ommotion of course. At the convention of 1 lunging Ruck Lodge, Knights of Pythias. I'ucsday evening, M S Wither spoon, R II Mackc and <V 15 l'witty were introduced to the nysteries of Knighthood and Dr. W 'l'witty was given the degree ?f Esquire. The State campaign, pursuant .0 special urrangementf will meet it this place on Tuesday next. A arge attendance is anticipated. The ladies of the town will present Col .J A Iloyt, a banner in ctken of their ssiinnort ? " *I I? " Your correspondent ih uracil to id vise for the information of those contemplating participating in the ipproachirg I??ttTe of ballots, that J C Ilorton, Sr. and the irrepresible and well known "Doc" Horton, are identical and the same individual. There seems to he sotne^eonfusion, us to who C C Horton, Sr. is. Bur roll Custon, who was shot t)V Luther Horton, of Lancaster county, near Westvillc, in Ker ihaw county, *s previoully noted, iml recently removed to Charleston hospital to have an operation performed on his wounded le<i, died in that city on 17th inst. Richard Rustle. Kershaw, July ll)th, lttoo. The Ono Day Cold Cure. For colds and sore throat aw Kertnott's Chocolates Laxative yuininc. Easily taken as candy and quickly cure. TOUR CA ?f TV. "? ? F4- T1 -[ERE FOR ; near. We niusi verj thing that ve sold for anil i for. See the dif .000 yards of yj in* price now is . est sfj les, fast c ties are yours fo e will give them our 50c waist Shirts must folio (i?'e, and you wil profit and throw >r 25c and (H)O < Jews for 1 Wo will stop that now. At a Bi illed to the ceiling. We are goi i MERCAf^ Si.OU I Jlili /a iN ^ U iij. Kev. (i T Harmon, pastor of the Buneombe Street Methodist Church in (ireenville, has givet $500 to tho twentieth century fund which the southern churcb.it raising. IIOW's I IIIST We ofler One Hundo U Dollars Heward fur any ea e u- ? a arr'i thai can* not he I'uretl l?v Mai 's < ata-th ( ure. K J CHKNEY it: < <>., Props To leoo, () We the undersigned have kn >wi F J Sheuey for the ta-t to years, ane believe him perfectly honorable hi all business transactim s and tloumiully able ?o carry out any ?>l> gations mad? by their li in I Wksi .v I lit!axi Wiioli sail- Druggist, ' oleilo, O Wamumi Kisnan Makvik, Wholesale hiu.uis s, Toledo. O, Hall's Catarrh * lire is taken iie t rna ly, acting dire ly ui?on the Moot' and mucous aurfaci s ?,f the avstem, Price. 75c per hoi'e -old by at! Druegists, Testimonials f-ee. Hal 's Family Pil's <iv tne best Mjjmyvaras.nne. > rr?< ta??? NOTICE ! N()T I K IF II KliKl(V OIVMN l> the Supervi*ois of t'iicsterllenlailii Lancaster counties that they vvil* let J the contract to loiii i >? new bridge over 1 j\ neh's rivei at Conk's mill U the lowest le.-p'Uisib'M bidder on Monday the 3<Hli, July lOon at lb o'clock k m. at saitl mill <*m.ddiou and st?ecifications wit' he made known at "aid time and place 'I he tign* to reject any and till hijs is hcrei.y reserved. M ? (ia'dner, K T King. July 15 PKM> Supervisors. T. W.SECikSF, oUitVtYllft, (isrwii A < < L fully etpiipped, ami qualified, ant solicits your surveying THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLiRk THE HEAD CF THE STATE'S E QUCATIONAL SYSTEM. Three academic courses leading ti Degrees. Professional courses In Law, Med. cim* and Pharmacy cummer School for Teachers ; Scholarships aufi j Loans to .Needy. Tuition $60. 1 v j Ministry, Minis* ' ler's Sons and I Teachers. I 512 students besides lftl in Summer School, Its leat hers in ihe faculty. For catalogues ami information a<L ?1 r* ss F. P. V FX ABLE President. Chapel Hi'l. X. C. lSH. J>? Buyers. YOU. t be rid of broken , shows haodliiig. >vhat ridiculously Ference between ml-wide percale 5c a yard. Those olors, must go at ! H I*1* *- m. v? iiiiat.. i a big drop. AI slashed to 25c w suit. Compare I see the wisdom on our counters Cloth Hats, barSTou. ig Stile wo bought .'t solid car loada, nrr to put lh? lifp out B '"v I TILE CO. ? iw- > -