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L?cal M attars Mr. L C. La/.en by is visiting relatives nt Redford CMty, Vu. Mr. JSCl>rasuk Mooie went over to Greenville yesterday. Mr. .1. A. IFasseltine, of Miami, Flu., is visiting relatives here and ut Kershuw. The Tahernaele school opened Monday with Mrs.' \V. O. Winn as teacher. Miss Sadie MSOirdell is visit, ing friends at Clinton, S. C. Mr. W. T. Williams and family are spending this week at Cleveland Spi iugs. There wili ho a basket pic-nie at Douglas school house next Sat^ fT> urduy, August Oth. Everybody invited with well tilled baskets. _ The union services next Sunday night will bo hold in the Baptist church. Preaching by Kev. Chalmers Frtfser. Married, on Sunday last, Aug. 3d, 1002, Mr. W. Ed. Wilson and Miss Martha Taylor, all of Dry Cr ek. The tirst open boll of cotton reported to us conies from Mr. lien E. Blackmon's- of the Primus section. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Cauthon have returned home from a week's visit to~relatives ut Heath Springs and Oakburst. Mr. Abner Hood, wifo and children from Thyatira, N. C., are visiting relatives in the Unity section. Miss Nannie White returned to Hickory G?ove Monday after spending two weeks with her brother, Rev. J. Meek White, at U^iity. Mr. H. Mines has returned home, his father having about re covered from his recent serious illness. Mrs. J. F. Clyburn and children are spending this week with relatives in tho Van Wyck section. There.will be services in the Episcopal church next Sunday at 11 o'c'ock a. m. and 5 p. ni., conducted b'- Rev G. Cope Williams, of Blacks our g. Mr. Oscar Stewman of tho ? # Elgin section, accidentally shot himself in the hand Saturday afternoon while handling a pistol at bis home. During the absence of Mayor Wylie in New York City and the absence of Councilman Lazenby in Virginia, Councilman Paul Mooro will act as Mayor pro tern. V _ Mr. and Mi ft. .J. C. Reed, Mr. S. D. Faulkner and daughter, Miss Fannie Boll Faulkner, of Sardis, N. C.t arc guests of Mr. S. VV. Craig of the Sincerity neighborhood. Sacramental meeting at Gill's Creek A. R. P. church next Sabbath at 11 a. m. ? Preparatory services on Friday and Saturday .At the usual hour. Morning congregation will ha*e dinner or lunch each day. Married, at Osceola, by T. W. Secrest, N. P.. Julv 29. 1902. Mr. V. O. Kincher nnd Miss M. B. Miller, Uoth of Mecklenburg oounty, N. C. On July 31st, . >y the same official, Mr. 11. CDuckelt at d Mis# M. E. Keoter, of Wa\haw, N. O., were also w married. ' 4 gK. .y * ' * ~ '* jr i ? - y ? i . 4 Kditor Chilli of Tho ^Enterprise' and his' daughter, Miss .Joyce, spent the p ist week nt Virginia' Beach. Editor llainol of the Kershaw' Era returned home Saturday from a visit to his s-ister in Paducah, Kentucky. Mrs .J. S. McKeown and sister MUs Bessie .Jr rdan, are visiting relatives nt ComwelTa i11 Chester i county. Miss Aubrey Villenouvo of At- I lanta, is visiting her grandparents at this place. The following old vets left yes. 1 torday for Greenville to attend 1 the State reunion: \V. G. A. 1 Porter, W. B. Bruce, S. K. Usher, M. K.Jordan. ( Mrs. W. W. Love, Pales- < tipe, Texas, is visiting her uncle, < Maj. .J. M. Kiddle and family. It ' is her first visit to South Carolina ? since moving to Texas sixteen < years ago. She will spend a 1 month or so with relatives in tho State before returning to Texas. ( i Magistrate Mobley of ileuth Spring* turned over $12.00 to], the treasurer Monday, collection 1 , of tines for the past quarter. < Mrs. Lizzie lloddey, wife of Mr. W. 11. lloddey of Rock llill, j ( mother of Miss Mary lloddey of , this place, died last Sunday. She \ was about 50 years of age, an 1 , excellent christian lady, and leaves , her husband and four children surviving her. ( Sheriff Hunter and Policeman i Pardee surprised three colored gamblers in the woe sma' hours 1 f Sunday morning, Henry Perry Frank Lowry and Baxter Hart. ? They plead guilty before Mugis- i trate Caskey Monday morning and got ttOsdays each or pay a tine < of $5 each. All planked down i the wherewith oxcept FraKk. Ernest Sims and .John Gums, two young white boys, wore oueh convicted before Magistrate King j Monday of assault and battery and each sentenced to pay a tine of $5. or spend 15 days on the1 g*0? ? I j Mr. Adam Ganson, of New I York City, is here on a visit to J the family of his brother, the late I lamented Wm, Ganson. Hois! one of the executor's of hia brother's will, ^he widow being thej other. The will was probated j yesterday and the executors qunidified. Magistrate King of Cedar Creek 1 township made his settlement with the county treasurer Monday for the past quarter, turning over $30.80, amount fines, etc., collected. Pursuant to call the Confederate veterans of the county met in the c:>urt houso Monday. \V. G. A. Porter, chairman of the committee on enrollment presided and Capt. L. J, Perry acted as secretary. After distributing the books for enrollment and instructions how to proceed to the several township committees on enrollment, a resolution was adopted asking each towuship chairman to Lai ? uiudiiii^ in 1119 respective township at the earliest possible day and proceed at once with the work. It is urged that the committees tr^ and complete this work by Nov. 1st, as the township enrollment books nre expected to bo handed over to the Clerk of court by ?hat ciato for refolding in the county enrollment book. The fleet Prescription for Materia Chills and Fover is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply Iroji sad Quinine and tasteless, No Cure No Pay. i x j Mttrricd, nn Sunday last, at Unity ebuuch, l?y Kev. J. M.. c j, White, Mr. Witi K. Taylor and 'pjM Miss Ada Bradford of Fort Mill, nn jve S. C. Mr Taylor is a clerk in 8hj>,,;( clothing department of the L. M. |j|w,.|; t/o'sand is i no ot Lancaster,h /V model young men. The bride was lias licon teaching school in this jcounty several years and is at jjved present teacher of the Osceola (||1] ,j. school. Both are very popular ^j10 |jt and have many friends who join fho Ledger tn congratulations and best wishes for a long and , r o pec i ii happy- life. ^ Smj County candidates are reuind- ',u'? ed to pay their assessments and I,lt() lilo their pledges to abide tho re- 3'e8^ei suit of the primary with tho n,rtfi. Bounty Chairman by Tuesday, 1 12th instant. Any candidate wbo..s*ri?* fails to tile thoir pledges by tho late above mentioned will tie out 1 >f the race. The fact that a uioke candidate states in his announce- ('( inen't in tho papers that ho will open, ibidc the result of the primary duty ii imounts to nothing and is really man h unnecessary. office i beep i Tho Waxlmw and Shiloh Bible slin*~~ Socioty held its annual mooting ,pj last Saturday at old Woxhaw 44 All*, church. Tho address was doliv- 4l_ Bred by Kev.J. Krflrtll, of Guth~ "l""1 'abuse ricsvil'e. The collection amount- , , 3d to $55. Mr. J. 1*. C. Caskey lud Mrs: ?J. A. 1*. Stature were . ' Accorc made life nionibers of tho Amen VlOW li can Bible Society. The old ofli, . . , coat l cers of tho society were re-elected, ... . , ... ,, . ( hrist. vlz: Rev. \V. C. Ewurt, prosi- ^ ^ lent; J. E. Craig, vice-president; . .. I. 1*. C. Caskey, 2d viceprosilent; W. L\ Robinson. secretary; you /, N. B. Cousar, treasurer. ^yji( disastrous lluil Storm V*' tie she A severe wind, rain and hail un<j q, storm visited the Bruce section i No On lbout three miles West of Heath I I Spiings Monday aftoi noon doing In Th considerable daniago. The dwell- the K ing of Mr. Lucius Bell was razed from its foundation and badly Speciu wrecked l>v tho wind. Kortun-; t en; ately none of the family were at strangi homo at the time. The crops of pcned Messrs. A. 1*. Horton, B. C. auto .\ Hoiton, YV. 1*. Mackoy and L. 1*. ( bathin: Maekey .wore totally destroyed by j the in the bail. Great damage was also and c< done to the crops of Messis. W. ! search It. Bruce, ?J. Samuel Bruce, S. .T sold h Canthen and other^ Corn, .cotton of E:e ncr even the pea crop eseapod. was c . irin? ' I the 6> Two Death tn One lloitseliohl. j j,.. tj10 A few months ago Mr. Colum- j bus Beckham moved with his family from the Heath Springs | section of this county to Colum- j^ul bin. They were theu in their usu- J rn js (j ulTmalth but the sad news comes i |)in.|s , that lust week death entered the , sj,ow ? household and father and son have ; (jcilii,s been taken hence. Mr. Colum-qqj cu bus Beckham died on Monday of ' 0jU)|eri last week and on Friday follow- tj10 ol] ing; his son, Elbe Bcckluim, aged ! t^el.c | about 20 years, was also stricken ! urcj,j|, down. | es of ( Mr. Columbus Bcckluim was an It is old and respected citizen of this vvcro i county. He was born May 16, j numbr 1827, and was in his 76th year. 28,00' In his young manhood ho-mar- and eij ried Miss Matida Davis. Ton ju Mm children were horn to them, seven S/tltiM or wDom with his widow survive him. The surviving childron ore: ^ Messrs. John, Simon, A. T., ietK c? Thomas and James Beckham, Cure, M rs. Wren Jones and Miss Mm- j nie Beckham. Mr. Beckhanf ^,l served in the confederate army II 1 for three years and uiado a good ' 110 years soldier. 11 is friends in the conn- ' III ra 1 KC< ty will l>o sorry to learn of his which death and will sympathize deeply ing foi with Mrs. B., in the loss of hus- keepin hand and ?on in less than a week's timo J Aug. I Eanrat?Tonr It^wnU With Cuscaret*. f Cnndy Csthurtlc, euro constipation forever. Ooarar If C. J. druggists rof una mouaw. aieu siro ' 4 ' > | . v The First Bale. Yjjg a i I o ?t o 11, .Inly 31.> first bale of new cotton d hoio toilav, having been m! I<y l\ W. Fan ell ol l ,K; ville to F W. Wagner It weighed .?7 1 pounds. It assed as good middling and or 1 o cents. The bale aril week earlier limn the us- * nc? and 20 days earlier than st bale of last year. *lnsl' m lion 1.":.. ? i > i 1 ' 1 ? riiM naic. v' * 1 to 1 he Stale. conn iter, Aug. The fu>t >t new cotton \v:ts Wrought Prn) own :i11(I sold on this market mmc day, by Mr. W. A. How- mert It was ??.iht !?y l.-vi Bros., l'1" cents and was graded as middling. nge(l ^ ^ ho hi the people of Soutli ( arolina v,''?i dim Tillman governor, they (-' ^ > it with their eyes wide ''dni Idle press has done its Cl,l*n a showing what manner of e is. His unfitness for any ''K 1 a the gift of (lie people has XN"'1 mule plain as the noonday l'lt! 1 Columbia Record. ecrnt _ r, tions Columbia Record siys: crno Charles .Feffcoat isan^ siciai iti/.v'ii who has been roundly mad< d' by the newspapers,#\vhich dud<j ^nominated him as a deeper- lengl murderer and a horse thief. sous ling to the w ly some people mcn< t, this shows that Mr. ,JetV clem s a high-tone l, honorahle, sidci ian gentleman." And ought phas sleeted governor, by way of fusei cation" and "promotion.tenet . _ _ Di Inmr It imt You arc Taking stuiu en you tako Grovo's Taste- at tli bill Tonic because the form- jn p, lil'linlv* ni'inlml <> ? t ' i y u,n- cilttr iwing that it is simply Iron ninine in a tasteless form. ^1C5 * ire. No Pay. 50c. the s e Belly Of A Fish Reposed 'j'l in" Lost by a Young Lady, les, W. 1 to The State. Fort carce, Aug. 1.?A very scvc e and lucky incident Imp- a,ru | last Monday. Several years t]k, liss Bessie Seay while in ,a,st. 2 in a pool of a stream had isfoitune to lose herring ou^ iu!d not find it by diligent i,alu then. Monday a fisherman culu me carp to M. T. II. Auld j)llst itovcr and whilo the cook leaning the lisli the same vas foun.l in the stomach of ^ >h. The ring was identified (jcsc owner and delivered to her. ^ny olera in the Philippines. j ji .1 nly iila, Ang. :i?While choleecreasing in Manila the re- , i c -eceiveu rroin uio provinces i large number of cases and ^ Last Saturday there#woro \ Aucr ses ana 525 doatbs from i in the provinces. Since itbroak of the epidemic ^ iave been throughout tho elago a tota! of 21,408 casholora and 10,105 deaths. % w T believed that many cases U lot reported and tho total | t of cases is estimated at i Forty*eight Americans w. . ~ n Oi i jjhtcen Europeans have died aila since tho outbreak. m A cat fhc Couh and il'orks off (he Cold. ativo Bronio Quinine Tabre a cold in one day. No No Pay. Price, 25c. ** ? o~ ship tray Mule Taken U|? ,ini' Saturday last an estray ^ol * mare mule, apparently six old, with a split ear or Now d car, was taken up by mo, the owner can get by pay- Fi r this ad., and expenses of 1D0S ig said mule p p J. L. Brown, Montgomery, S. ('. t, 1002 ?2ti. ,hlly cauur fo-To-11a? for I''lf|.y Con tit. ltiyl tobftoco habit nire, maUcs wc.-i'i _ mrTblootl puro. 50c a. All ill wKau. "Stir " ? . - % * ' * . S P. OP COTTON SPED OH. & FOOD. lame Into General Use and Why it ned in PopuJarity*"lt is Safe and Wholesome. tho earliest l^il>1o times to t,he . . day nations ?>f tho countries lint,' tho M dlt 'tianeaii have 0 oil nC tho on\o ouo of their 1 arti'les i.r dli l. It Is used 1ti ng* opqrailoi s and replaces tho ii'l laid of iho nations In northope. Thorn is no uuostlou but Governor Refuses THB us 195Pardon Dr Maxcy Lee Howit? Gai Young Physician \\ ho Killed i Father and \Vhose Claim of present Accident" Wasn't .Accept. S5E?u8i t.,| prlnelpn v ull cooki . butter ai em Kun Ft ate, 5th inst. what a useful ai to governor yesterday acted never re ly in the matter of the peti- (.t* the "i fat takci lor u pardon tor l?r. Mttxcy regulates * 4 1 t\ i- 4 'nno v?f ifc, convicted 111 Darlington try up ly in 181)1) and sentenced to Vtcioof I imprismmicn* in the State \vo?hiivi tcntiary noon convictioipof 1,11x0,1 a! 1 ^ prepared ler wilh a recommendation to people 01 realise t v. It will lio remembered southern , . ... , . . 11 lM lru' this bright r.cd promising produce ig physician shot and Killed his plant.1 h'i father with whom he hadlivcd n,0'R\vM'i ring also a physician. It was tic- '"/-.'.JV-mi >od at the trial that Dr. Max- <iu.?ntm< found to 00 was under the influence of i? fancy In tins u >1" at tho lime and ho has i>ii lucre m 1 1 1 finding led from Iho hrsl that Ihe tcrtousiy b. , , of whicl * an accident, niatcriui i*aso lias been one attracting thAlimit spread attention in view of 1!J'1 l1"' 1 ? lllCilgO iromincuco of tho parties con- a,J 1,1 1 titration 3d. Recently strong peti- which 1 J , P 1 tluit the were presented to tho gov- entirety 1 in behalf of the young phy- many V n, but Solicitor .Johnson 5jii< 11<j no recomniondation and fjalu^nf jo lionet sot out ar some 's > luiilty r Lb Htttl very strongly the roa- <>f t'*e 1 7 0 J nil oil ol why ho could not rccom- off very ' ... . Modern 1 the exercise or exectilivo this we oncy. After carefully con- ^ViVtlit'iti. ing til's matter in all its iV/barrc es tho governor yesterday reI to interfere with the sen- al1,1? Vut soaloa c 3 of tllO court. ' our best evorywh r. Leo has been of great ns>i- ? r < 0001 0 addedw :e in tho medical department ,;ils ,,y , # nil- M'l (1 o State prison, and Ins work rm>i?i in i -iii * i only bet iO hospital has been of such a r.ainimv suits ?C actor as to receive mention in .p..iinn-n uitiual pcpoi^jif the officers to !nViV II* ?enoral assembly. \ Vi'ViT ? [>[D a _ nml tna / sary mi inrsday morning Mr..1.1'. Bui- si)'\ 0X1 J " The iti of lMcasant Vwllov, sold Mr. fii?nui t arc duil B. Me achate, buyer for the unt or ... uso of c AJ111 M tg. ( onipany, titty- .*?.! tii.< n bales of cotton at an aver }!r- .iVo t: price per pound oft) 1-5 cents. uVi'i' iV.i cotton was ti part of the crop IInd "Vl1 1 4 n."' Yiinn* d on Mr. Bailes' plantation ,ott0>? x 1 # furnish year. Mr. Bailcs is now witliany marketable cotton on Is, an incident which litis oc- * d only four times during the 1,3 5 tliirty-.stevcn vctirs. ?Fort Times. ^oii 'ANTKD. Scrap iron otevery IMIilinii fill/! nl/1 in.n.KmAio I ? ? ix i \' I \ I IllitUUIIIUI ) . U ; kind of firo wrecks or stocks. Le for partieulais. Address \i\l |j >. Garfunkel, Columbia, S. C. LIT '8, 1902 ? I in. SIV Let for Repair l ull I will let to tlu; lowest bidder nble sin to bridge on Monday, 1 1th ust, 1902, at 10 a. m. the re-. . . , , . , to s 1 ?.J mg of the bridge over upper n ip Creek near Mr. J. A. 1*. to ape's. W. q. Caskey, j A ( Co. Supervisor. M VKKSITY W0FF< OF NORTH CAROLINA. THIS 11 lv\ I > lie Stale's Ldm-attonal Sys 'die dent. *110. 'letnlc f)rpartm-nft I j'i i(\ MtiliciiH*, I'hfti'limci/. I"' r jI tM no. hnndPArl mill oiirhl uthnlav. ; ? r, ^ s. Free tulion to teachers to Ministers' sons. Loans r|,s B,friV ho needy. StmlcnfH. . > / iHHtxur tor# j p ' Dormitories vYuter A'orks, Who Central I lent ins; System. stop, f ill t? nn begins September S, comple: Address, looks V EN ABLE, l'ni:si i?f.\r, her sec Chapel Hill, N. (7 Novv Li . gans m ~~m' bead ac 1 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmaZSa ^.y j|J(1 Tne One Day Cold Cure Cr'awfn rniott's Chocolates I.axativc Quinine for ' i lite head and sore JlMroat. Children tako key iC ( like candjr. J- a . \ J%. A T i ~1 ' *' * ' J ' , v^c'iaDio on is a most nil healthy urliclo of diet. Wo ad of dyspepsia and troubles illar nature among tho people L.evunt, doubtless because the i as a necessary part of a well I diet is always taken as a rotable oil. In our own counto within the last few years been used but little as an ar? Jiet, except by Europeans who tde their homes In our midst. clung to the traditions of our westers and used the hard fats 1 from liog-i and cattle. The l" this country are beginning to lielr mistake. Throughout our t States we have trees, small \ but great in numbers, which a fruit far more wonderful ? olive, we refer to our cotton l. liber clothes the world, Its Ids an oil which is unrivaled noss and purity by the ilncst ol' the pressed olive. seed oil was Ye fined in small a prior t > the Civil war. It i way to Europe and canto bark bottles mixed with olivo oil. ally sa's the production of the. a I rniihlly. flro.it quantities lIn ir way to Chicago lit mysinarked packages, the contents i properly blended with other , traveled all over the world In i of lard. . the year ixx7 It was discovered amount ol" lard shipped from greatly exceeded the weight le hogs reei ived and an lnveswas instituted by Congress trough t forth the information product of the cotton seed was unobji < iionahlc as an article and liable to be preferred by that of the hog. For various our people have always been f?l against the oil itself, though arge quantities of It in the lard compound. This prejunn doubt largely due ,to the c lining methods used by many Manufacturers who turned out f unpleasant fluvor which gave disagreeable odors in cooking, si ience lias shed Its rays on at product of our section and is now produced in enormous \s, absolutely free from odor ur and almost colorless. Shipped Is it tlnds its way Into the larg shops of the country, where the place of many tons of lard i" i . I'm kcl in hcrmlllcally ans il is invading kitchens of families. Ii is making friends ore. The ureally extended use u se.'.l oil in the household has oatly to the wealth of our farmmaking a suie market for all which they can produce. This crease in the use of the oil has .11 made possible by improved m"Hinds which were the relong. patient and expensive exIs hy the leading company la in ess. Such experiments could made hy the combined recentered In a large corporation an command the needed brains terials and furnish the nocesiney outlay to conduct cxpenicriinents on a practical scale, inner of the south has no better halt the large companies who v striving to improve the prodlis cotton seed and extend the i?tton seed oil as a food product, most successful of these coniin the manufacture of these =i is the Southern Cotton Oil y, whose works are at Savani.. and who have headquarters icral olliccs in Columbia, S. C.. ill, da.. Atlanta, Oil., and Char- ' . t\, any of which will gladly information. E. Q. McUOW, Ol \N it ml ATA W HA I H )l'SH, itli Side, l'|? Stairs. OF KICKS s. DAY AM) NKill IM1011O IMS. ^ TO COLLEGE UiTANHURG, S. C. S'Vl?i;i;, M. V., lMtKslDKNT College Courses. Favorrrouudings. The best in5. . *aary oxpouces from SlbO i for tho your. For eatar other information apply i A M HVV ELL, Secretary. 3RD COLLEGE FITTING SCHOOL Alt I'ANl'.I'ltC, S. 0. mt now building. Carention to individual stuUoard and tuition for year, All information given by A. M. DlTRE, Head Master. *3 rturo ia on every 1h>n of tbo genuine ivc Bromo'Quinine Tablets ly that cures it cold in one day *-T LOOK A'l II Kit nco canio that sprightly nultlcss skin, rich, rosy xion, smiling fane. 8I10 rood, feels good. Here's re . She uses Dr. King's fo Dills. Uesult, nil or tive, digestion good, no les, 110 chance for "blues." m voui>e!f. Only -5c at id llroy. and A. 1*'. Mack'o's. * - ' I