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Local Matters 11 i.i i i Highest market price paid for luiltm- and eggs. ,1. B. Muckorull. Dr. T. ,1. Strait visited tela tive.N tit Chester county this week. Mr. and Mrs. .1.M. Yodor, of Van VVyek, .visited frieuds and relativos hero this week. Miss Grace Beamy spent this this week at the Charleston exposition. The fire brothers, Millen, Ed, Broswell, Dudley and Douglas Plyler, of tho O. K. section, took in the exposition this week. Five vacunt town lots at a bar gain If j ou mean business np|Xly to T. S. Carter. ^ Mjss HattieMcQueen, of Columbia spent this week with Misses Mary and Bess Jones Misses Mamie Clyburn, Ada Clybnrn, Mattie Clyburn, Jnnie and J^essie Johnson, students of the Claremont Female College, are at homo to spend the summer vacation. J. M. Riddle, Jr., Will Cloyd, C. V. Carter, Thomas and E. S. Bennett will return today from the Charleston exposition. Mrs. McKinnon of Waun, Tex as, and Miss Lola Heath, of Charlotte, N. C., are the guests of ? Mrs. J. M. Heath. Miss Monnie Bruce and Miss Elizabeth Miller of Heath Spring are visiting Miss Mabel Bruce here this week. A tenant house on Mr. Berry Mohley's place, near Heath Springs, occupied by Jim Sheilds, col., was burned by an accidental fire one day this week. Shields lost nearlv all he had. Mr. S. A.Kell is here this week. His old friends are glad to see Sam again. He is representing the E. M. Andrews Co., of Charlotte. Associate Justice Ira B. Jones, who has been spending this week at his home here, will return to Columbia today as the supreme court will reconvene Monday, having been adjourned this' week on account of there being 110 cases tn be heard from the first circuit. Mrs. Strait sent to this office this week a strawberry which would likely have taken a premium at the Charleston exposition had not our office deril got to sampling it before it got into the editor's hands. It was fully as large as a large sizo^ien egg. The editor returned from Char lotte Thursday where he went to witness the unveiling of the monument erected to the memory of his former class mate at the C. M I., Lieutenant W. E Shipp, of the 10th cavalry, who was killed at San Juan, battle of Santiago, on July 10th, 189S, and to attend a reun:;.A of his old school mates. It is needless to say that be enjoyed the meeting of his old friends. Mr. S. E. True, writing from Hot Springs, Ark., te The Rock Hill Herald, has some nice things to say about our former young townsman, Mr. W. E. Massey, who was well and favorably known here. Ho is the proprietor ot a large grocery store there, and Mr. True says "Will is the same jolly,clover fellow as he was when he left Chester, some twelve years ago". He is now married and has a pretty home at Hot Springs where his South Carolina friends are always warmly wel corned and hospitably entertained. Death of Miss May llammoiKl. Miss May Hammond, daughter of Mr. S N. Hammond, of Russell Place, died shortly after noon yestordav, of fever She had heen unwell for some time hut only hecame seriously ill a few days before her death. She was about 21 years of age and a consistent meiio her of Heaver Creek Baptist church. Her remains will lie interred at Beaver Creek church to-day after funeral services hy Rev. S. N. Watson. l>cntli ol'nit Aged Citizen Mr. Calvin Hall of Indian Land died at his home near Pleasant Valley Thursday morning May, 22, 1902' of paralysis, at the advanced age of eighty-five years. He leaves a wife and eight ichildren: two sons, D. K., and J. VV. Hall, and six daughters, Mrs. Jorusha Harrison, MrsM. B.Alexander of Texas; Mrs. G. B. Collins, Mrs. F. M. Collins and Mrs. Carrie Pettus, of Indian Land, and Mrs. Lilly Schooloy of Ark; also 56 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Mr. Hall had heen a member of the Methodist church for more than fifty years and was a good citizen. His remains wore interr . ed at Harrison church yesterday a Former Laucnsrian Dies in Florida. Our old friend, Mr. J. L. Tillman, of Van Wyck, received a letter this weok informing hiui of the death of his near relative, a double first cousin, Mr. William Dixon Tillman, which occurred at bis home in Florida May 17th, 1902. He was 75 years of,age aud was born in Lancaster County and reared to manhood in Tank, near the Catuwbi Falls, and left the slnto in Nov. 1856 with his father, mother and seven brothers and sisters, together with the mother ol Mr. J. L. Tillman and her family. Shortly after moving to Florida ho married a Miss Zetrow in that State, and his wife with eight children, all grown and married except one, survive him. He was a prosperous and influential citizen of his adopted State and the few companions of his youth still surviving in this county will regret to learn of his death. Items From Kersliaw Kra. The phone line from Kershaw to Jefferson has been completed. In addition to the phones at Jefforsnn tt?Ar? w nn? A.I*. A C WW. V ?W wuv U V 1T?1 . n* VJ. Mungo's near Taxabaw, Mr. E Motz's at Brewer Mine and Mr, \V A. Ingram's at Plains. During the thunder storm Wed nasday night a hoe hanging in > tree in the yard in rear of the Methodist parsenage was struck by lightning and split off length wi-o, the part torn off being split inte splinters. The tree was tin I touched. The Lancaster Ledger notes at an indication .of the scarcity ol money that the sales of th< dispensary were 25 per cent less last month than fer the sam< month last year. Well, perhaps ii is due to a scarcity of money, if so it denotes a deplorable scarcity, for their dram is usually the las! thing the drinkers cutoff in then enforced practice of ecomony, But, by the way, it is 'a geoc time to say that it is evidence o the fulfillment of the propheciei of long ago that the dispensary it a step io the direction of prohibit ion, and that we are now aboul to realize that which has bder such a long time coming, the de crease in the consnmptionof liquoi which this system was to usher in All over ten linos in an announ cement is charged for at regain rates. Our $2. rate is for an an nouncement of ntt nioro than tei lines. ISIF Subscribe to The Ledqf.ii Items IV in ICock 11III Herald Mr. W. 11 Beckham, ot' Lan ouster, is a visitor at Iho homo o of Ins brother, Mo] T. B Beok hum. He is accompanied by hi niece. Married, at the home of th bride's parents in this city, yes terday (Tuesday) morning, at S:,T o'clock, by Rev. J. S. Rcasley Miss Mamie, the eldest daughte of Mr. and Mrs. J. .1. Hull, am Mi. Humbert L. Parker, of Bish opville. After the marriage Mr and Mrs. Parker left on the South ern train for Bishopville, when their home will he. ? M iss Lillier Stevens lias tender erod to the board of trustees hei resignation as teacher of the fourtl grade in our schools. Mis: Stevens has met with success ir her work here and her resignation will bp received witbregret by tin patrons and management of th< school. She will not leave tin profcssiQn, however, but will do vote herself to primary work There is a wider field for promo tion in that work, and we fee sure that with her many admir able qualifications, of person, o character and of mind shq wil make a success of the difficult bu important work she expects tc take up. Mr. J.W. Belk, of Dudley, 8.0 whose son, James Belk, was kill ed by lightning on tbo 14th inst, an account of which we gave la*i week, was in town yesterday ami told us that the crystal aud whoh lace ef the wutch, which his soi had in his vest pocket when In was killed, was melted, and tlitr his knife was also melted. A strange thing about the yonnj. man's death is that he had a pre monition of death and at noon tin. day before he was killed Lo wrote in a blank book, "Doar Mother:After one more day I will be better off.7'?Monroe Enquirer. * S You are in Thursday and 1 this opening tin play of 8priug careful buying I o experience a been searched i ever shown in I ; age is not stiflic ' deserve it by of 1 price. The slij alone ?o far as Here you wil ; mer good., in Si > goods in merce suits. 50 style 1 Doited Swiss ai I ?these are scar -Mi * 150 pieces of ff hite fancy Mi 'are opening uf ' tions to supply I where else in r pers. - Heath MONT PELEE AGAIN IN VIOLENT ERUPTION aj Whole Island is in a Pani and Worse is Feared, 0 I"nitctl Stalos Officers and War i ships Render Fine Service in Resetting the Inhabitants. 1 Fori do France, Isle of Maitin 14110, May 21. ? Yesterday's erup lion from Mont Foleo was violon B ! in the extreme. Colossal column of volcanic uialter was ejectc from the volcano, which rained ^, huge, redhot boulders, many fee t in diameter on the rnins^ of St I Pierre and the country noar i r i i t ! from an enormous elevation ant I with fearful velocity. The vol I canic clouds advanced until tlie^ reaenou tort de trance. The spectacle was appalling nn< sublime and beyond description The whole population of Fort d France was thrown into a frenz; I of panic, during which soldiers | police, meu and women, all terri f tied, frantic, weeping and prayinj | rushed through the streets, whih t overhead the glowing, tiery cloud ' rolled relentlessly and ruine< down stones, still hot, amid th swirling ashes. The steam launch of the Unite< States cruiser Cincinnatti tool ' some refugees to the French cruis I , ? er Suchet and nearly 100 person ' sought refuge on the Cincinnat 3 and 011 the United States specifl steamer Potomac. At t o'clock the Potomac wen to investigate matters, and all re poi ts agree that Lieut. Bonj. B ' McCormiek, the commander o I the steamer; did great work. 11 went in close to St. Pierre an 1 found that city had been bombard ed with enormous stones from th : volcano and that tho ruins lei [ standing after the li-st great die 1^ T 7%.T I' IX 11\ viteu to our grt Friday this week b best yet. Com vlillincry. This by our expert mi nd splendid tast< to bring before ) Lancaster. We lent reason to y< lering superior i 'litest look over quantity, assortii II find the onl; c< ilks, Dress Good rised Silk Zephj is of French P ad Organdies. , ce now. i flniiik I fin J UUUtlft l lll white goods i*l adran, French o ? enough all-ovt the County. hi{ Tailored Skirts. Banking *L aster bad been nearly razed. Millions of tons of ashes then covered I. the ruined city. Further south small stones hud q destroyed the houses or the brave villagers who had stuck to their homes. Lieut. McCoiniek took on board the Potomac ISO tcfugees, the oldest of whom was 72 years and the youngost three days old. The lieutenant fed them and brought _ the party to Fort de '''ranee. This work of rescue was dillieult and I dangerous. 8 It is reported thut the whole d population of the island is fleeing I towards Fort de France. The consternation prevailing is indescribable. Mont Polec is still very [t . threatening. . j See announcement \Y. T. Van. I landingham for Treasurer. r i ^ j 1 Letters advertised for the week ending May 24. Mr. John Koberson, Manager of Fntertainmont f> Hull, Manager Opera House. y\ Belle Nnnce, M. - j A handsome monument of gi iVoodmen of tho World design * I has been erected ut tho gravo of 8 our lato lamented young towns 1 ( man, Mr. .James H. liickson. It 6 will be unveiled by the Woodmen but the date fortbc unveiling has 1 , not yet been decided upon. b i Vacancy at West Point s A competitive examination, to i till a vacancy of scholarship in the United States Military Academy at West Point, will bo held at , Yorkville on Thursday, June 19th, 1902. For further information write Hon. D. K. Kinley, j- Washington, D. C. e A. C. Unwell, Co Supt Kd., Lancaster Co, S. C, Pay your subscription one o year in advance and wo will send t you the Home and Farm free one l- year. I. 10 0 iat Openin ^alc , April 3d and 4th le and you rtili se exhibit is the re! Iliner, Miss Mac 3 t. The markets ou the tinest an know that asking >u for giving it, bi inducements in st our stocky will si nent, style and pr .W ?. K* ^ s and Wasli (*oot p?*s, very desirabl 'ercales, Lovely 4 few assortment Mitts! I aid muslins and s rgandies and per; >r l?tubt oilier ie>~. U values, such as Dress Waists a & Mercae j Tillman hns held his convention, adopted his platform and made bis 1 rules for the State campaign. He has called off hut of course has not adjourned. Tillman is always in session.- Charleston Post. of Cod l.iver Oil is the means of life, and enjoyment of life to thousands: men women and children. When appetite fails, it restores it. When food is a ! burden, it lifts the burden. ! When you lose llesh.it brings i the plumpness of health. When work is hard and duty is heavy, it makes life bright. It is the thin edge of the wedge: the thick end is food, lint wh.u i> the use of food, ' wit en v hate it, and can't di! ' . emulsion of Cod l ivcr t h i. the food that makes you forget your stomach. If yon have not tried It, send for i rid sample, its agreeable taste will I . n. orise von. 1 QCOTT X. nrvU/Mn /M ~ - 4 wv/w ix ov-f w in n:, \^nnmisio, '.CO Pcu. . r;;r et. New York. SOc. and Sl.OO : all druscists. ?BII IIBI1 II . . Notice to Contractors The trustees of the Lancaster School District will receive scaled proposals until Tuesday, June 3d, for the erec tion, in the town of Lancaster, of a two-story brick school building, with basement. Building to contain ten clasr rooms, an ollice, a library and an auditorium. Plans and specific cations may be seen on and after 15th inst., either at ollice of the undersigned, Lancaster, IS. C., or at ollice of C. Wilson, Architect, Columbia, S. C. The contractor will be required to give a j Security Company's bond in the I cum C;-. r\i\i\ rn._ _i-1 . I .-urn ? * mo rigm 10 rc' joct any and all bids is reserved, Chas. T. Connors, Sec and Treas Hd Trustees. *) a i, which occurs i. We will make e our grand dissuit of weeks of iartin, a milliner of the S^ast have *ay of millinery ; for your patronlit that we must vie, qualit} and tow that it stands * v> o ^ vr firing and 811111. Is Pretty wash le for waists and Rastiste Lawns, of linen suitings *!ifrinnpil Ractiiitp mj w - -njm ww n ? ?.? ?. sian Spawns. M V Edgings, I useryou can get no ml iioiisc wrap1TILE CO.