The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, December 20, 1902, Image 3
Local Matters
?.Just bought big lut Khuji
Ciikai*. See us before you buy.
Lancaster Mercantile Co.
? Preaching ut Unity at 2:3t
p. m. Sabbath instead of 11 a, in.
us usual. Every body invited.
?Our Poet cigars are neatly
put up in suitable boxes for Xiuas
presents.
Fonderburk Pha; inacy.
?The Pleasant Valley members
of the J. O. U. A. M. lodgt
are rehearsing for an entertainment
to be given duting the holi
days.
?Go to Lancaster Mercantile
Co. and buy goods cheap. They
have cut prices to reduce stock.
?The students oil attending
the various educational institutions
in the Stato are all expected home
today to spend the holidays.
?Don11 forget that the storee
at Lancaster will be closed Christmas
day and the day following.
Any purchases you havo to make,
make them beforehand.
?AU persons indebted to me
must settle by Jan'y. 1st.
J. E. Rutledge, Dentist.
?Married, on Tuesday night,
Dec 16, 1902, by Magistrate
King of Cedar Creek, Mr. Anderson
Caskoy and Miss Marj
Taylor, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth
'Taylor.
?Xmas is coming just arounci
the corner and your friends wil
appreciate a nice serviceable gift.
R. Miles' is the place to get il
cheap. Read his adv.
?You can now get all the
"pound calico" you want at
Williams Hughes Co.
?Rev. W. H. Hodges, tht
next pastor of the Melbodisi
church, will arrive here this even
ing and wili preach tomorrow
both morning and evening.
? Have you paid your subscrip
tion to The Ledger? If not, wh}
not? Don't you know the editoi
needs it? You will make bin
happy by paying it at onco anc
ff-el hannv vrtiirnolf #r?hotrinn
?,-r, J *
. discharged an honest obligation,
?The best Perfumes to b<
found are at Funderburk's Pbnr?
macy.
?Rev. J. M. White will pieaet
at Gills Creek A. U P. churcl
next Sabbath at 11 a. m. All tin
members of said congregation an
c5 O
adherents cordially invited to at
tend Business meeting aftci
preaching.
?Mr. J. M. Willeford an?
family have moved from For
Mill to Lancaster, where Mr
Willeford has the position o
head machinist in the big nev
mill.?Fort Mill Times.
?Tbo famous White Knigh
cigars are to be found at Funder
burk's Pharmacy
? We aro pleased to welcouu
back to Lancaster our old friein
Mr. C. F. Tillman. Ho move<
with his family into the telephone
building this week and will opei
a boarding bouse. The past yea
he has been bring at Rock1
Mount, S. C.
?Tbecase of Jennie C. Hughe
against School District No. 37
which was appeuled from thi
county, was argued in the Stat
Supreme Court last Wednesday
John T. Green for appellant; Er
nest Moore in reply for respon
dent.
?Mrs. J. M. Anthony and ohil
dren, of Westville, visited Mrs
J. F. Addison this week. Mie
Nannie Fletcher, also of Westville
cann up with them and will rc
main with Mrs. Addison throng
the holidays.
?$1.50 Fui Collarettes rcdui
ed to 50 cents; $2.50 Jackets rc
duced to $1 50; $5.00 Jacket
reduced to $3.98
Luncuster Mercantile Co.
a Cliribitn.vi present? That is
what most you j ladies ai\? a^kr
ing themselves now. Don't (lis*
f uppoint her. What will you give?
Come and scj our stock, and it
will help you decide that question.
11. C. HOUGH,
Coiner opposite Lancaster Mercantile
Co'8 Store.
. j ?Our Mr. .J. M. Hood is al
wuys in rue mar K el to purchase
mules and cuttle. Ai d don't you
' forget it.
Laocuster Mercantile Ce>.
?11. C. Hough's stole and the
[ Fonderburk Pharmacy, on the
* c irner, are crowded with good
' things suitable for gifts on all occasions.
' ?Mr. J. H. W. Stevens, of
* Cheraw, was in the city yesterday.
?Mrs. It. N. Vanlandingham
of Hartsville, is visiting relatives
here.
' ?Mr .1 L Tillman, Sr., of Van
Wyck, is here to spend the holidays
with his children.
1 ?Miss Grace Brasington, of
* Camden is the guest of Mrs. L.
M. Clyburn, en route to Trudesville
to spend the holiday with her
uncle, Mr. Butler Funderburk,
and Family.
' ?Married, on Sunday last,
i Mr. John Ferrell son of Mr. W.
J. Ferrell, und Miss Ola Barker,
t daughter of Mr. Richard Barker,
all of this county.
?Baxtor Robertson, son of
5 Mr. W. D. Robinson, vho stays
in the Bennett grocery, accidentally
fell in the stoie last Wednos- j
, day and broke one of the bones of
^ his right arm about the wrist.
?The County treasurer received
a check yesterday from the
' Comptroller General for $724.81,
being Lancaster County's share;
- in the distribution of the special
t school fund.
r ?Ed Sanders,.cel., was seut
j to the chain gang by Mayor Wyj
lie yesterday for 30 nays for stealing
a packago irotu the buggy of
* Mr Mike Sowell, whose horse Ed.
- was holding while the latter was
> attending to some business in a
store.
? Dr. W. 11. Wakefield, of
Charlotte, N. C., will be in Lancaster
at tho Cunningham Hotel,
1 on Wednesday, December 24th,
* for one day only, llis practice
1 is limited to the Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat. On this day the
. doctor's fee will be reduced onehalf.
?Since it has boon made known
that tho Governor and Comptroll
ler General have announced that
. they positively will not extend
f the time for paying taxes this
v your there is a pretty good run
on tho treasurer's office. The
treasurer has been kept busy the
t last few days. Only about ten
- days remain in which to pay with
out the penalty.
, ?Mr. Mack Tillman, of Van
j Wyck, was in town Thursday and
informed us of the hold up of a
' man near the water tank at Osceo
ola the night before by two negroes
a with pistols who relieved him of
r $7.50 in cash. The man was well
dressed and claimed to be from
Virginia. He had struck camp
and had built a fire to spend the
s night there when the hold up and
} robbery occurred.
s ?The ladies bazaar for the Cou
o federate monument fund, which
. was expected to run all this week,
met with such success that it sold
out Its entire stock of fancy work,
etc., by Wednesday night and
closed up shop. The nice little
I- sum of $177.00, was realized in
(# tho two days and nights it was
open. Hurrah for the ladies !
j | ?Mr. E. S. Honnett, who was
thrown from his buggy by his
mulo running ofT about two weoks
1 ago and badly hurt, has boon here
' under the treatment of Dr. McDow
all this week. Ho (suffered
j, intensely?appendicitis having ro^
suited Ir ni the \ehiclo passing
oxer and i.raising the lower portion
of ids body. Ho was able
to bo taken homo yosterday.
| Items From Kershaw /?ra.
?Drukeford, colored,
Or !.>i 1 \ iv "i. U H < ! hi*. Iv ?r
ln-l we- k. It w v i giied i>2;?
pounds.
? Mr. S. I<\ llougli accidcntully
shot liimsdf through Iho
hand Monday of last week fooling
with a piotol.
?In an altercation last Satut'
.. * i ~ t n /*
uigin, mr, iv. 15. tjroxiou
shot Pall I Clinton, colored, indicting
a flesh wouud iu the log.
?Mr. Hunter H. Morton, son
of our esteemed friend, Mr. W.
S. Morton, was married the 10th
inst. to Miss Lula Bowers, daugh
ter ot Mr. Geo. A. Bowers. They
were married by llev. J. C.
Chundler at the Heath Spring
parsonage. Wo extend our congratulations
and wish them much
unalloyed happiness.
?The Kershaw masons will
have a gala day Friday Dec. 20th.
They will have their installation
ceremouies public in one of the
churches at 3 p. m., to be follow
ed by the conferment of side degrees
in the afternoon at tbo lodge
room, and a banquet at the hull
in Ashe's brick building at G p.
m Rrnm flini'o fUoo n*?ll 1
Ml. A * v/ui viiviv i UVJ Will UUjUUI U
to their lodge room again and will
confer the side degrees on the
wives and daughters of Mason?.
? Letters advertised remaining
uncalled for at the Lancaster postoffice
for the week ending Dec. 20,
1902, are as follows: Miss Julia
Smith, Miss Ida White, Miss llc?
becca Johnson, Will Shaw, Ed
Sane, It. L Steal nor, O. H.
Watson, Thomas lteeves, L. T.
Mann, W. A. Paysen, W. G.
Hayes, Belle Nance, p. m.
?The State of ypstorday announces
that John Dougherty, the
missing stone cutter irom Chestor,
Pa., mi account of whose mysterious
disappearance will be found
in this issue, died in the Richland
county alms house August 31st.
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The Ladic
dially invited
NERY GOOI
Tuesday a
Our talein
weeks in New
we are sure he
11
X UCSUtt)' Will
conducted a in
Repeating
dies of a warn
He/ith I
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STATE NEWS. | I
I
? n?e Sis-t he-.r.l <?f health will p
ask tin Ic^i 1 .'us* pus-, u St to <1
compulsory vaccination law at tho n
coming session. d
? Arlliiir Klutz and Bertha
Sapp, of Salisbury, N. C., who |t
wore recently married at Uoek 0
: liill, are both in jail at Salisbury tl!
j ?tho former charged with biga- ri
my, and the hitter for fornication
and adultery.
Ci
? AJ r. Tom L. Johnson is to bo
a candidate for mayor in tho op- I ?
I'
preaching city election at Rock q
Hill. '
?The town council of Cheraw
has placed the contract for electric
lights. ^
?The Olympia mill company y
of Columbia has ordered 1,200
turkeys and will present the head .
ji
of each family of operatives at the
mill with one for Xmas.
?Chief Justice Mclver is re- ^
portod critically ill at his home <
in Cheraw and it is feared may
not live until the heginiog of the
O D
now year.
?The Sheriff of Richland county
has recently purchased three ve
ry tine well trained bloodhounds.
?$2,200. was subscribed to
* 1
the 2?Mh century fund for education
and home missions by the
A. R. 1*. congregation at Chester
O D
last Sunday.
?Gcurgo Williams, col., died
of smallpox at Fort Mill Friday
night last.
Telegraphic News Items Boiled ]
Down.
Negroes are leaving South
Bend, lnd., because of feeling
agaiiist them by the white people.
Sixty-three persons were frozen
to death in Hungary during
the last three days.
Rov. Charles M. Beck with, D.
D., was yesterday consecrated as
XlNERY
sday and I
MEMBER
;s of Lancaster, ai
to attend our F
)S on
md Tuesday Nig
ted Milliner, Mis'
York City selec
;r display of new
be quite the tinesl
lillinery business.
; the invitation ai
ii welcome, we ar<
Mo
Banking &
Episcopal l?i>h?>p of Alabama.
Among ih" c*outi ntuti in of
mslira-1?" - ' the '-i a"> I'hnrsay
weie V. M Kiha. " Behottsville:
C. J. Shannon, Camen.
Tlio interstate comhierce comlission
recommends amendment
f the interstate commerce law so
3 to prevent the combination of
nil roads.
A step was taken Thursday in
jngress looking to the enforcoicnt
of t!ie anti trust law. It is
roposed to appropriate $500,00
for that purpose.
The leading citizens of Veneuela
advise President Castro to
ield to superior force. Full
owcr has been given to United
dates Minister Bo wen to settle
he differences with the least prendice
possible to Venezuela. A
j .rship of Admiral Dewey's tleet
as been sent to Minister Bo wen.
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FOR Tf
?r HOL
In Selecting your URESENTi;
BEST THINGS in Neckwear.
Handkerchiefs. Gloves. Fane]
lars and Cuffs.
Umbrellasto |:k'"s"""
E^T* You are invited to call ai
R.MI
The Barg;
OPENIN
'uesday N
30TH, 1
tid adjacent cou
ALL OPENIN
lit, Next, Sept,
ting our Mill ill*
and Fashional
t of any season
id again .assurii
^9
st Respectfully.
: MERCAN
ei.ov x~ xv rv ADPIUI
Kings as Christmas liitts.
Kings are still I
the must pop?.
Krn^Su W 1 u of GIFTS.
, . g> % \
ISatniuiiv sj, for tlioy cud be * i
worn always and where all can ' *$*>
sco tlioni. I hnvo just openbd a- ^
lurge assortmont of the newest *
ideas in RINGS. Prices to suit "
* *
any purse. II. C. Hough, corner
opposite Lancaster Mercantile Co.
Store.
Dissolution Notice
The Firm of Funderburk Ce.
will on Jan. 1, 1D03, hy mutual
consent of the parties composing
said firm-- A. L. Funderburk and
15. l. 1< undoi burk?bo dissolved.
All parties indebted to us by
Note or Account will please come
forward and settle AT ONCE, or
make satisfactory arrangements.
This notieo is intended for all
who owe us.
Respectfully Yours,
Funderburk Co.
Dec 12, 1002.?3w.
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IDAYSI
> remember that wo carry the
Silk Handkerchiefs, Linen
{ Half Hose, Dress Shirts, Col3
most fastidious \ip
ad see us.
t
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ain Giver.
g;ight
?4
902.
uties are eorG
of MILLI<tn
IAAA
, OU, I9U?.
spent several
3ry stock and
i>le Hats next
sincefvve have
lg all.) the La-^
TILE CO.