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local Matters ?1*to at Blaekmon's Market all the time. tf. ?Newman Piano for sale cheap. Apply at this office. ? Mr. It L. Long of Old Fort visited relatives here this week. ? Mr. E. A. Cloyd, Of Augusta, Ga., visited his brother here, Mr. W. Fr Cloyd, this week. ?Miss Jane Cuskey, of Cataw ba, is visiting her brothers, Messrs W. Q., and J. Davis Caskey, in the Newcut section. ?ur. ?j. Hi. ttuiledge auil Auditor .J. A. Cook spent several days with Mr. Gus Sunders of Hagood this week in a piscatorial euting in the waters of Halle's creek. ?Attention, Poultryraen! Fresh Ground Bone Meal for sale at Blackmon'8 Market. ? Mr. R. E. Mcllwain had a gyod horse to die Wednesday uiuruing. ?Capt. B. J. Withorspoon is visiting his son, Dr. B. J. Withorspoon in Charlotte. ?Mr C O Goins and daughter, of ltock Hill, visited relatives here this week. ? ?You had better see us before you spend your CASH. We've got some bargains. Lancaster Mercantile Co. ?Mr. William Weaver and Misa Ellen Morris, of tj^e vicinity of Matthews, were married on last Friday by Magistrate D. K. Hall of Indian Land. ? Have you tried the nice drinks that Charlev is serving at the Funderburk pharmacy? Ask Charley for a curd which will entitle you to 25 drinks at the foun tain VUtUi ?Dina Barnes and Nanuio Cunningham, two colored women from the country, were arrested Wednesday l?y J^oliooman Purdue for stealing three pairs of shoes from the Funderburk Co. They jyere taken before Mayor vVylie who imposod a tine of $6. on the for> mer and $3. on the latter. They paid up. ?J. M. Riddle, Jr., 1. W. Williams and Chas hTCarter went to Chestor Thursday to witness the match game of buseball bo iween (jhestcr and the Chicago Stars Ladies" Baseball Club. The score was 3 to 8 in fnvof of Chester. ? Send >our LMJNDltY to the Lancaster Hotel. All -puckages promptly attended to. Luce curtains and table linen included. Try the Model Steam Laundry. Thoknic Tillman. April, 4-1 m. Agent. ?The past few days have been unseasonably cool and there was considerable frost yestorduy morning. Snow is i ('ported to have fallen in the'county Wednesday night, lyednesday tfternoon a bail sterm visited tho Catawba vicinity just across the river. ** Gardeners are a little blue over their present prospects. ?The present schedules on the Southern and the L. & C., give Lancaster the b6st mail facilities she has ever had. Subscribers to the News and Courier are especially delighted as tbey got their papers ten hours earlier since f ? the change. ?The commencement exercises of the Pleasant Valley High School will take place on the 22nd Of lVltlV Ppftf Uuilou lilo no ? m Jk v?? **UI?V3 UUU UIO UO' sistunt, Miss Eva Potts, together with their pupils, are making oxtensive preparations for the occasion This school enjoys the reputation of being ono of the host in Lancaster county. Foley's Kidney Cure mukos kidneys and .bladder right. Don't delay taking. T. Eugene Funderburk, druggist. uT l ' . . fy 1 ' % ? Miss Mayo Hasseltino,the attractive daughter of J. W. Hasaniline, is very ill at the home of her sifter, Mrs S. K. Hinson. Miss llasseltiue is one ??f Kershaw's belles and all wish her a speedy recovery.?Korshaw cor. The State. "Strength and vigor come of good food, duly digested. |4Forco' a ready-to-sorvo whout and barJoy food, adds no burden but sustains, nourishes, invigorates." ? Letters advertised as remaining in the post office at Lancaster uncalled for for the week onding April, 25, 19(73. Hie as follows: Miss Anabel Robertson, Mr& T. W. Catoe, Mrs. R C. Davis, Mrs Isabella Anderson, Mr. M. 6. Carter, Mr. S. B. Hammond, Mr. Robert S. Floyd. Belle Nanue, p. m Foley's Honey aud tar contains no opiates, and will not constipate like nearly all other cough medicines. Refuse substitutes. T. Eugene Funderhurk, druggist. ?-If "fog itwMaich, frost in May" prevails, or avails, this year, then look out for a frosty time next month.?Cheetor Re porter. ?The Pleasant Valley correspondent to the Fort Mill Times says that Mr. I). O. Potts has purchased the Miller track of land adjoining his plantation and will convert it into a hunting and fishing ground for the general public. The correspondent further says that Mr. Potts has six pigs in the pen that he expects to average GOO pounds by hog-Uilling time, and that he also has un incubator that can hatch chickens faster than they can be stolen at the present rate by chicken thieves at Fort Mill. The Beat Prescription for Matarn Chills and Fover is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply Iron and Quinine and Iusteiess, No Cure No Fay. N - -4- - j 1 4 s Attention Confederate Veterans Camp Lancaster, No 11 Every Confederate veteran who bus ever been enrolled in Camp Lancaster is earnestly requested to attend a meeting of the Camp lo be lield on Thursday, April 30, 1903, at 11 o'clock a m., to elect delegates to both the State and IJ. (J. V. re-unions. f By order of B. J. Witherspoon, commander. J. E. Stewman, Adjutant. ? County Supervisor J. O. Darby sold to Mr. S. B. Lathan last Thursday the entire cotton < crop, 28 "bales, grown on the poor house farm in 1902. The price realized was 10.06^ cents per pound: total amount, $1212.63.?Chester Reporter. ?At Springbteine Mill,-'Tuesday afternoon, Mr. George Fuu? derburk, one of the employee , was painfully hurt by the breaking of some port of the machinery, one of his legs being broken. Prompt medical attention was given him and the patient is doing well.?Chester Reporter. Cursed Judge on The Bench. Jackson, Miss., April 21.?The supreme court has affirmed the death sentence of James Burns, convicted in the circuit ^ourt of Covington county on the charge of murdor, and tho'dateof execution .is fixed for the 9th of Juno. Burns is a white man, formerly a citizen of Massachusetts, and was cenvicted of killing a companion in a railroad camp near Williamsburg. When the jury returned a verdict of guilty Burns surprised the court by cursing Judge Enochs, " who was presiding, in a most abusive manner. The appeal was taken merely as a means of delay, no bill of exceptions 01 suggestion of error hnvimr hftp.n 0 I with tho court. ' \ ? V Craii; Mcl.wain At tho homo of Mr. and Mrs It E. Mcllwain at this place, on Wednesday, April 221, 1003, at 1:30 o'clock p. m., in tho prcsoncc of tho family, some of tho nearest relatives and a few of tho intiuiuto friends of the bride, Mr. Rdnert E Craig, Jr., and Mihs Annio Louise Mcllwain were united in the holy bonds of wedlock, Rev. Chalmers Fraser, pustor of tho Presbyterian church, assisted by Rev. G. A. Blackburn of Columbia performing the interesting ceremony. After tho ceremony an elegant wedding dinner was served, and at 4 o'clock p. m , the happy bridal couplo left on tho L. & C. for their future homo in Columbia," _ ai. a i i? i ? ^un jujg wiin mem mo nest wisnes of the young bride's many friends in Lancaster. The groom is a young man of sterling worth imd is connected with the Armour Packing company, ami has the hand and heart of one of Lancaster's most popular and highly esteemed young ladies. A it Aged Negro Man I>ios Sud denly. Coronor Caskey held an inquest yesterday over tho body of Hamp Cauthen, col., at this place who died suddenly yesterday morning, supposedly of heart disease. Hamp was about 80 years old and has been feeble for t a long time. He got up and made on a fire yesterday morning as usual and took a seat in front of it. Suddenly ho became ill and before ho could bo removed to his bed 1 ifo wasoxtinnt. H?mr? ? r ^ will be remembered us the teum ster of The old firm of Twitty & ( Beaty between this place and 1 Charlotte, N. C., from which ^ point nil goods were hauled on . wagons before the building of a railroad to this point To The 0;<1 Soldiers.* f A picture of every survivor of the Confederate army in Lancaster county is wanted, and will be taken free of charge by W. A. Davis, the artist, until May 20th. Mr. Davis took photographs of j about 100 vets rally day but ho ic anxious to get all ho can to add to the picture he is making to present to the Veterans associations of the county. Ho would like to ' have every veteran in the county . in the group. Remember to call at his art gallery and he will take your picture free of charge any time before May 20th,~nnd that is anxious to do it. I Negro <lirl Burned to Death < Lizzie Hammond, the 10-year- I old daughter Of Robert Hammond, colored, living on Mr. B. Cunningham':} place in the Eastern" suburbs of town, was so badly burned by the overturning of a ( small tin lamp between 8 and (J < o'clock Tuesday ni?ht that she { died of her injuries shortly atter < midnight. Iler grand-mother ' had left the room only a few inin- 1 utes before to carry supper to a sick woman living near when the | child run out the door screaming, < her clothing all ablaze. llor 1 clothing was burned entirely ' off and her body so badly burned that large pieces of the skin peel- i ed off. Dr. W. M. Crawford was summoned und did whut he could to relieve her suffering. She told him that a largo rat hud knocked the lamp off of the man- J tel board on her and set her cloth* c ing fwiro and that she had tried to [ extinguish the tiro by rolling^on the beds and had set both beds afire. Coroner Caskoy held an t in<]uest Wednesday over her re- * mains and the verdict was in ac- 1 cord with the above facts { Foley's Kidney Cure ( makes kidneys and bladder right. ' ? 1 CLOSING S IJUT \ Our entire ,, S t o c k of u Winter Goods Not at Cost, lint 10c on the Dollar 1; w Less Than c; COST. * Our $12.50 Suits now at $0.50. ~ Our $10.00 Suics now at $7.50. Our $ 5.00 Suits now at $3.50. Our $ 3.50 Suits now at $2.50. All of our BOY SUITS now at 10c on the Dollar less than they COST us at the Factory. A BIG REDUCTION in Men's ind Ladies' Shoes. Don't forgot to call and see us. \\c don't want to carry over any if our winter goods, therefore his explains why wo arc selling LOc on tho Dollar Less Than Cost. T\ it #r 1 K. MILES'; Iii Riddle Block* < M ? ?r 'ucg-raMBgrTilii ?i i i I ?I u*?ar.ci* Anotlier Molineux Case. g T Pensacola, Fla., April 21.?Ho- ? nod L. Morgan of Elgin, III., |! lied suddenly Monday afternoon U it his country homo six miles from this city. He received a V lackage of prepared food by mail ? ind within 15 minutes after eat- jfj ng was dead, llis mother and A wife miraculously escaped death, ft Lhough they only tasted the con- g icnts of tho package. The food j ivas in an original package, wrap- $ ped in white paper. Tho pos- |j nark is too indistinct to give the ? ^flicers any clue as to tho place |I| from which it wno mailed. A OR HAT SENSATION. There was a big sensation in V i *i beesville, Ind. when VV. H. Brown if that place, who was expected to ? lie, had his life saved by Dr. King's New Discovery for Conmmprion. He writes: ' I cndur I 3d insutferable agonies from Astli- | ma, but your New Discovery gavo "" ne immediate rolief and soon thereafter effected a complete jure." Similar cures of Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis and arip are numerous. It's the peeress remedy for all throat and mng troubles. Pi ice 50c, and ?1.00. Guaranteed by Crawford Bros'., and ,T. F. Mackey Co. Druggists. Trial bottles free. Snow in Sorth western Virginia. Koanakc, Vra., April 22.? Snow fell throughout southwestirn Virginia today. Two inches s reported at Bluefield W. Vn ?Tho Ledger, Atluntft Constiution and Homo and Farm or S Mithcrn Cultivator will be sent for one year, and two estimates $iven in the $10,000. port rejeipts contest /or$2.. Remit with intimates to Tho Ledger, Lancaster, S. C. \ ^ 9 on I\ti u> If nut Vvii ure Tiikfuy Wlu*n you take (Jrove's Taxless Chill Tonic because the for m a is plainly printed on i v : v hot II o showing that it is sr.np:\ l.? : .;ni id Quinine in a tustolos i > 1.1 I mc o Cure. No Bay. f>Oc. JSh ' Co ? Wanted! To buy scrap am on, all kinds of Metals, and ,'l!! ides of every description. Will ly highest market ju ice. Bring ? my shop. * I J. l'VPattkuson, "~ Lancaster, S. C. i^ar. 4, 1003?2m. cu It's What You S That Mai You can save money hy buyinj ur business has been much better sii ml wo thank all our customers for m o know how to appreciate your trad died on us for goods come right alon leased with our treatment. Biggest bne of Ku<*s ever showr ) $5.00. Big lot of remnant Carpet f everything in our line, and it will ] uy. .P0RJF.R & S] Iu Masonic Building. For Druc ANI si Call at the Conn T. EUGENE FU Sept. 3, 1*302. '*:r *'rr^e^^e^z-sssrrrs^rr- mtsrygrz**f ijK.T-" -*t?--Ktt--_?r.'3- .;-jxr' Ming J11 Prune 1 A nice lot to go ( California Peaches olina sun dried Aj tine fresh Cakes ai California Lemon Cling Pe; let Pears and White Chi ready for table use. | ICE ! ICE ! Ico from now on in any size it to your interest to bi J. B.Maci ( -?::< -ex *ar? -ex / IQFFINS. m|p We now have and will continue V complete line of ( burial CASKETS. Or all sizes and qualities, fr< COFFIN up to Hanflsomc CALL and seo us or send us y fortunate as to have a death in Within the it I T 4 ' S illlfSSliT rfl LANCASTER, S. C , Kttice of Discharge. Notice is In reby given that ut a. in., \ j til *Jt?, 1903, I will iko inv linn! ittui n anil settlor ut us Guar inn of mv son, K. loey Till mull, to the I'robnte urt for Lancaster county, S. C.. 1 apply to sniil court for u final charge us such Guardian. A N N 11: K. Tl I J.MAN, (tuurduin. Mar. 24, 1903? td. oley's Money and Tar res colds, prevents pneumonia. avc kes You Rich. i y ypur Fl'RNITUUlO from us. ico wo opened than we expected. uniug c)ni- ousincss grow, and o. To all who have not as yet g and you will bo tnoro thffh 1 in this town? prices from.25c cheap. We have a big stock pay you to sec us before you rEPHENSON. 19 Lancaster, 8. C. }S 5 JNDRIES ?r Drug store. NDERBURK, DRUGGIST, raacasr*: am ivs r xt : moca :>. ;.*2,.. >:;x<? -i>SSiXX> o !J| lusmess, s ' >lf CHEAP. l!i , North Car- ft >ples, lots of id no end to g aches, Apricots, Bar- m erries, Full Syroped ffl i rr LM t t ill 1 v li 1 quantity. Will make * ly Coupon Books. KORELL. 1 & ?X? XX? -r- iin o o o o o o COFFINS. in stock, to keep, a 'OF KINS and ir stock embraces )in the plain, cheap METALLIC eases, our order when so unyour family. PRICKS VC1I of ALL. Oct. 15, 1002.?tf.