The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, January 13, 1904, Image 5
Local Matters
API'OI N I'MKMTH OK HKV. J. M. WHITE.
Unity, l*t and 3d Sabbath.
(.lilli . rtv k, 'J I mill 4lti Sabbath, 11
a. m.
Pleasant Hill, 2 i mid 4tli Sabbath,
4 p. m.
/ the onlj
Candy,
/ A trial
will convince you. At
Mackorell's.
?Fay your Subscription 4o the
Ledger and be happy.
?Mrs. E. C. Carpenter will
leave today for Henrietta, N. C.,
to viait her mother.
?Mrs. R. B. Mackey of Heath
Springs is visiting her father's
family at this place.
?Mrs. J. B. Mackorell will
go to Yorkville today to visit her
|iai cu to.
?Married, Jany. 10, 1904, by
Rev. R. J. Blackmon, Mr.
Hinson and Miss Lda Ellis daughter
of Mr. G. W. Ellis.
? Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Robertson, Jan. 10, 1904, a
daughter.
?Strayed or stolen! One black
horned cow, brown strip down
back. Suitable reward for return
to H. Mines.
? Mr. J. E. Welsh of Longs ille
returned to the University of
Maryland last week to resume his
studies in dentistry.
?Messrs. John Welsh and
Lawrence Stuart of Monroe,spent
several days here with friends this
week.
?Mrs. Jas. W. Miller of Jsfferson,
S. C, is riaitiog her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. F. Gregory,
at this place.
? Senator Hough and Representatives
Williams and Potta left
Monday for Columbia to attend
the session of the legislature
which convened yesterday.
?The Lancaster Cotton Mills,
the L. & C. Railroad and The
Bank of Lancaster declared the
uaual semi-annual dividends this
month.
Vf r Pi*nefnn I? VI
ml. j. ivvi.WU ?*.* lUUL/HUlOl
who has been visiting his aunt
Mrs. Mary Manea returned to his
home at Bathuno Saturday.
The ladies of the Methodist
church will serve oysters in the
Kiddle building next Friday
evening from 6 to 9 o'clock.
There will be services in the
Episcopal church next Sunday
at 11 o'clock, a. ra. and 4 p. m.,
conducted by Rev. G. Croft Williams.
The Stewards of the Rock Hill
District, of the Methodistjchurch,
will meet in Rock Hill next Wednesday
morning, 20th instant,
at 10 o'clock.
There will be a basket supper
Wednesday night of next week,
20th instant-, at the A. R. P.
Manse at Unity. The public is
ordially invited to atteud. The
proceeds will be used'to buy desks
for the Unity school house.
?Sammie Snipes, son of Mrs.
Nannie Snipes died at the home
of his mother at the Highland
Park mill Sunday and his body
was taken to Kershaw Monday
for interment.?Rock Hill Jour
Dal.
?The Rev. J. W. Wnlli*cr
rt >
formerly a member of the South
Carolina conference but for 16
years a missionary of tho Methodist
church in Brazil, is in the
city. Mr. Wolling is here for a
stay of several months in the
States.?The State 9th inst.
Generul Stephen D. Lee has assumed
the duties >19 commander
in-chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, made vacant by tho
death of Gen. J. B. ^Gordon.
? Mrs. D. Schwarlzman and
little daughter Esther,of Marion,
S. C., are visiting tho former's
sbter, Mrs. R. Miles, at this
place.
?Born, to Mr. and Mrs H. F.
McDonald, Jan. 11, 1904, ason.
?There will be a hot-supper,
oysters included, given at the
residence of Rev. S. N. Watson,
next Friday night, Jan. 15th.
The proceeds will go to theBaptisb
church. Everybody is cordially
invited.
?Married on Sunday, Jan. 10,
1904, at the home of the bride's
father, Mr. John Hunter in the
mill village, Mr. Marshall Privett
and Miss Lottie Hunter. At the
same time and place, Mr. John
Hunter, Jr., was married to Miss
Robert Privett. Rev. Mr. Catoe
norfnrm^ft tho p?i-omnnv "t l>nth
I ? ?w. UJ t?V "UUI 1
marriages.
n
Admitted to 1U1I in tlio Sum oi'
$3,000.
The application for bail by iMr.
C. B. Skipper, charged with the
murder of Mr. Jas. B. Caskey on
Christmas day, which was made
before Judge Gage at Chester the
past week resulted ia the granting
of the application last Saturday
morning. Tho bond was
fixed at $3,000. Mr. Skipper
left Saturday afternoon for
Baltimore, accompanied by hit
wife, to spend a week or so with
relatives.
i/o mil unni une 01 'l'licsc l'.an- j '
tations? j t
200 acres, 4 miles North of i *
i
town, nice tw3-story dwelling, 3 i
tenant houses, good outbuildings, ri
hree-horse farm open.
?211 acres, 2 miles North of
town, good two story dwelling,
outbuildings, etc. Apply to
T. S. Carter, Agent. j
Church Notice ! !
Bad weather prevented my 1
keeping my last appointment at j
Douglas. Providence permitting, j
I will preach there next Sabbath, j
as usual. Jos . T. Dendy.
Kilied by His Wife While Asleep
In Bed.
A private letter received in
Rock Hill from Dallas, Texas,
gives information of a bloody affair
in that State several days ago,
in which some of our ro.iders will
#??i u :?i l t ? i? ! ?
iooi inuvju luioi wHi. uuuii rorier i i
vrav born and raised in the Wax- t
haws section of Lancaster county, I
but was well kuo^n in this city. i
He wsnt to Jacksonville, Fla., |
some years ago and there married <
a woman whose name we do not t
know. They removed from there t
to Texas, but as he and his wife i
did not agree, they parted. La- \
ter they became reconciled and ]
renewed their relation as man and t
wife. A few nights ago, for i
some unexplained reasen, the wife i
arose from her bed, securing hor f
h-isband's pistol fired upon him i
and-killed him instantly. Mrs. e
Porter was arrested and is now t
in jail.?Rock Hill Herald. t
Too Much Gambling.
c
"Yes, there is too ranch gambling,"
said Col. Leroy Springs, j.
of Lancaster, the well known cot- ^
ton mill man who was in the city ^
yeaterday. "And Charlotte was j
not the only town that has been ^
hurt by tho reaction. Down at n
my home, men?small manipula- ^
tors?were about 160,000 ahead #
cf the game on one day. The
next they wore ubout $20,000 behind.
That's the usual way.
JNObody but a rich man can afford
to gamble on cotton. The rest ^
who dabble in it remind mo of
a
people who borrow money to com. Q
pound interest."?Charlotte Ob orvor,
11th. ,
Germany has decided to main- j<
tain a atrict neutrality in cane of p
war between Russia and Japan. f
Fewer gallons; wears louge?Devoe *
coins From The Era.
Mrs. J. VV. llumcl is visitin g
lor uaother tit Lancaster.
? lv L). Blnkonoy, Esq , left
Sunday for Ohio on professional '
easiness.
? Mr. M. S. Asheley of the
Kerihaw telephone office is put- (
Ling in a control at Heath Springs j
? We are glad to learn that Dr
tl. S. Beckham continues to ini- <
irove a little and is now allowed
o sit up several times during the ]
lay in an invalid's chair.
?Young Oscar Catoo who was |
iccidentallv shot hv his brother .
* I
vhile out hunting, as noted in
he Era last week, is now able to
up again.
?There is still no material im? |
irovement in the condition of t
Son. J. N. Estridge, who la still
rery critically ill at his home at i
White Bintr.
?The Hartaville Messenger of '
he 7th inst says that postmaster
Simon Beckham, who is a son of \
Dr. It. S. Beckham, of Kershaw, I
ook charge of the Hartsville post- <
office .Jany. 1. i
? We are very glad to an- J
lounco a marked improvement in
he condition of Mr. Wesley Mciorton,
who was so seriously in
ured by falling from the roof of ?
lis house, lie is being nursed
>y a trained nurse from Colum- |
)ia.
?Col, L. C. Hough and his
jrotbor, Mr. A. II. Hough, spout
ast week in Honea Fath visiting
heir brother, Dr. C. N. Hough,
vho is critically ill. Dr Hough1#
nnlady is of such a fatal type that
lis life is despaired of.
The Iloartlessuess of a Husband.
A heartiest; hue hand, one Jasper
rlyder, hailing from Hcssemer
3ity, but who has boen living in
Lancaster with his wife Dora,
jnme to Rock IIill Thursday afornoon
by train accompanied by
lis wifo. Upon arriving here he
ook the woman into the waiting
ooni and leaving, said he would
eturn later, that he had business
.0 attend to. The confiding wolian
took a seat while her false
ord took his departure, and going
3111 to the train and crossing to
:he opposite side of the railroad
e embnrkcd, and when the wife, '
*vho was ft good looking woman ?
ted apparentlg very worthy, was t
'riandless -and monoyless. Sho *
' mained in tha waiting room un? j
il after night for bar husband, ?
t)ut he never came. Becoming 1
alarmed, she made inquiry of i
puesers by, but received no tilings
of the man whom she had J
.rusted. She was in great dis* ?
rets, naturally sa, and a sympa- 11
:hizing workman of whom ahe *
iad made inquiry took her to his c
loma wkare she remained until (1
he next day, when she came *
vith her tale of woo to the mayor, u
vha was unable to do anything i]
? J
br her officially,but taking her to H
he depot eaaily secured by sub- r
icription enough money to send l'
ler on to the home of her bus- e
>and. When the money had been <1
'iven her she buret into tears
, . . . J
ind was sincere in nor expression tI
>f thanks. o
We relate these facts to show
tow heartless some creatures in
he shape of man can be to those b
lepeadent upon them. This fel-alu
ow, if the woman's word can be bl
lepended upon, ought to serve a t*
lumber of years at hard labor on at
he chain gang.?Rock Hill Her- jjj
Id.
About the best advice we can \\
;ive the legislature is to kill the
roposition to increase the num- "
or of judicial circuits and the sal %
ries of dispensary directors, pass
no or the other simple measures? m
bout which we can give iostruc- *
ions later if desired?then adaurn
to meet again in 1900, for a ^
leriod not exceoding -10 days, and ^
or a like period every two years ft|
hereafter.?Chester Lantern.. ft
Lottor to A. B. Ferguson.
Lamashr, ?>'. C. '
Dear Sir : There aro several
\vay9 of choatiug in milk. An 1
old-fashioned way is to water it. I
Nobody waters it now. A hotter J
way is to take out the cream ?
rich milk with the cream taken
3Ut is as good as poor milk with f)
L18 cream all in. t
But we needn't go into parti- is
julars. ti
You don't rob your milk and
pour customers.
Paint is as easy as milk to
;heat with. Good paint is as
are as good milk ; for human
lature is much tbo same in milknen
and Daint men.
* You are just and true with
/our milk ; so are we with our
laiut. I)evoe lead-and-zir.c is
,wice as good as mixed piants :
There's twice as much butter in
G
Mr. J. T. Ladd, Choraw, S. C., ,
writes: -1
"When Mr. Evans painted his :
louse with iJevoe, he figured on y
iow other paints covered and had
mough left to paint three large
ooras. lie was so pleased that j
le has used Dovoe on two other j
louses " |
Yours truly, ^ I
F. E. Devoe& Co.
J6 New York.
PUBLIC SALE 1
OF 1
A valuable and verv productive plan hi- i
ion comprising two tracts, situated in the
Waxhaw District of Lancaster comity, ^
South Carolina, and known as the Waxhaw I *
Plantation or Witkerspoan Place, and j ^
[Jureton Lands, respectively, the former he- I
ng 12GG.J acre., more or less, and the latter \
172 acres, more or less, in area, and both j
iracts adjoin. This land is about 9 miles i
from Lancaster court house, on the Char- j
[otte road and also not very far distant ^
'rom Waxhaw on Seaboard Air Lino. The ; ,
loil is red clay and very fertile. This plan- ( -|
at ion is also well adapted for stooli-raising. j J
The Waxhaw plantation is the historic 4
birth-place of ii neral Andrew Jaokson. j "
The undersigned own rs will sell at pub- .
ic auction, on Monday, the first day of ,
February, 19oi, in front of the Court House I
loor at ono o'clock p. m. at Lancaster C. J I
II , 8 O., all those two tracts ot land:? j I
Tho first thereof being all that pieco, par- ! I
:el, tract or plantation called tho Waxhaw ?
Ltl&ni?tun, containing about 1206J acres, 1
mo:e or less,as the survey made 1 y Chailes
if. Itagsdale, surveyor, lying an.l situated
n Lancaster county, afon said, on both
sides of "Vaxhaw creek and adjoining lands J
if Estate of Samuel 11. Massey, deceased i
ind others, being the same land or planta* k
ion mentioned or described in a deed from
lames J), faskey, Sheriff for Lancaster |
;ounty to Judson A Ilasscltjno and N. Cf I
II. Oliafee, bearing date tbo 0th day of 1
September, 1869 and recorded in the otlico I
if the Register of Mesne Conveyance for ^
aid county in Rook U. pages 501 and 595; ~
icing also the farstly described lot of laud f "
n deed dated the first day of July 188o and ^
coordcd in tbo ottiee of the said Register ;
>t Mesne Conveyance in Rook C. pages 111 ^
to, from David Wissenfeld to Joseph
'riedenwalk and others f]
The second thereof being all that piece,
lareel or tract of lanrt situate and lying in /
Lancaster county, aforesaid, containing 372 j *
cres, more or less, bounded by tlioStinson 4
ind and lands that formerly belonged to i
lasselline and Cbutee, also tracts No. 1,3
nd 5 of the estato lands of Eliza B. Cure- |
lureton, deceased. For a more particular J
ascription see plats made bv D. P. Robin. I
,
nn D. S., '31st December 1873 of tbo estate H
inds of Eliza B. Cnrcton, deceased, desig
ated on said plats as tracts No. 2 and 4 beig
tbo same tract* of land conveyed to said
lasseltine and'Chafeo by J. R. Hunter,
lu riff, on tlio 13tli day of May lg71 and
ecorded in said Register office in Hook A
age 41, and beiog the fifthly dosjribed lot
f land in the said deed from David Wies- ^
ufeld to Joseph Frie lenwald t.nd others, j?|
ated and recorded as aforesaid. L
The Waxhaw Plantation, firstly above M
escribed lias been sub divided into six ji
acts, and, if not sold as a whole, will be B
ll'ered in tracts according to a plat, a copy 1*
T which can bo seen at the offco of the L
,ancestor Review. w
Tlie improvements consist of tenement i
ouscs and ontbuldings scatered over the ?
nd.
TERMS OF SAT,E:-One fourth cash, i
alanco in equal yearly instalments of one, |y
vo, three, four and five years, or all cash |j
, the option of tbo purchaser; the credit ?
lymonts bear interest and to bo secured T
t the satisfaction ot the owners. p
Wiesenfeld &, Co , ft
7oG Fidelty Ruilding,
Ratlimoro, Md. U
'illiam ('arnes, of Dwight, Lancaster J|
'ounty, S. 0., Auctioneer. g
OA0TOIIIA. .It*
^Ihe Kind You Have Always Bought i fi
I
xm>.?>.m.ali? ?ii . *
rouKnw It'na You re Taking m
When you take Grove's Taste M
i8s Chill Tonic because the form ii1
la is plainly printed on every hot- 8
e showing that it is simply Iror |,j
nd Quinine in a tasteless form B
fo Cure. No Pay. 50c. 2
GREAT
Improvement. v'
Uavo just received a large stock 1
f shoos. From the best Brogun ^*
r> tho nicest Patent Leather that '1
s made. Wo save von from 25 J"'
ten
[) 50c a pair. j
Respectfully, ,
Cherry & Co.
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1 teal Seas
We have had
For which we heai
Friends and patroi
ill a very happy 1
rear durum- 11H)
C~t "
jerely trust that
or get to huy gooi
BARGAIN * STO
you will get belt
more of them for t ii
llian y?u possibly
elseii!
Itiwiil I
We will move into the
Milling, now occupied by 5
,0011 as it can be gotten read}
ime we are going to sell gooi
educe our stock before movir
if winter goods that must be
lot carry over winter pood<?=
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;ome price. Come to our sto
ind you will find warm bargi
locketbook good.
Sell Goods! Ef!
ivercoats that we will take
or a trifle, try us and see
less.
E. E.CL
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j IT IS A PLEAfc
! TO (
You
I
I WELL, I 1IAVE ir IN T
i FRESH PRUNES, FIGS, 1
| CITRONS, OATMEAL, SIJ
creamof wlleat, postu s
stitutk,) grape nut, ca
all kinds
CELERY. CELEf
every week just from ktilamazc
you want in the grocery 1 n>
J.B.Maci
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si.'-u nit yviNJN i
Ir /:?. : : ?t*3 -. 7T. '1 JFL. m
ire tbe 1 1 - V u Ha ; Always bought
ihiable Real Estate for
Sale.
will hi* * 1 fit* <? ?ti? ""i?
- - x <?% (m i t ?nc rjaitr
j following tsiuiy hauls of Joseph
irk, deceased:
I'hu lot near t' e cotton mill, ad"
ningthootd M. L, Leminr.nd lot,
whicli there arc several Hto?es.
I'he lot in roar of the i'resbvlerian
urclt, containing: about 1 acres.
lot near the narrow g uge overail
bridge,
lot land, about 130 acres, near Os
>!a, known as tlie K/ell Mine tract,
Vpplv to the undoisigned at once,
JANE M. CLARK,
c 18, 03?tf. Executrix.
iOHSY TO LOAN
huvc made art angoments.by which
an negotiate loans of $300.00 and
wards on first mortgages on im>ved
cotton farms at 7 per cent in*
est on sums of $1,000 CO and over,
I s t>er cent interest on sutns of h ss
in $1,000.
so commission churged, only a'ren"
lanle fee for abstract of title.
It. E. WYLIE,
(HE,
a busy season
*tily thank our
us. We wish
mil jirosperous
I, and we sinyou
will not
ds at SCLUDS
HE," where
er goods and
lg same money,
can anywhere
IliSi.
tbll9
i new handsome psonic
itevenson tk Porter, as
i for us. In the name*
ds cheap. We wish to
ig than we have a lot
sold anyhow. We will
=they must be sold at
ire any day in January
tins that will do your
HESS OF COST. We
i good stock suits and
pleasure in giving away
if we do not mean busi=
r\ TT T~\
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HE EATING LINE. j'J
? AIS1NS, CURRENTS, ?
REDED WHOLE WHEAT, ?
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IWTjO AND jUUAUltrJKM OK $
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tY4 CELERY, I
a ^
>, iti fact,'most anything [?1
o. Coino to sec me, $
iORELL. |
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