The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, September 21, 1904, Image 3
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Olll* t i(? U, if i >111 ' hii Sanliath. 11
m.
I'li-ismt Hill il l 'in I llli ShIi1>;?iIt
p. in.
When yon want Candy,
When you think of Candy
When you go to bet Candv
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get at
Mackorell's.
? Cup4.. ). 11. Fitzpatrick of
Washington, Ga., is hero for a
few days on business.
Q ? The Lancaster Chapter I). C.
will serve dinner on Monday of
court week at the usual price.
? Mr. 11. W. Outon of Monroe,
isitcd his son, .1. N. Outen, this
week.
? Prof. Guinea of the Welsh
Neck High School visited this
county in tho interest of his school
this week.
? Rev. Chalmers Frnser and
Capt. J. (!. Foster left yesterday
for Fort Mill to attend the meeN
irg of Bethel Presbytery.
? Mias Allie Hood has gono on
a visit to her sister, Mrs. \V. D.
Gamble, Miami, Fla , and will
probably spend the Winter there.
?The Bethel School, taught by
Miss Daisy Horton of Heath
Springs, closed Friday and Miss
Horton left for her homo Monday.
?The ice cream festival at
Sipps X Roads Saturday night
was a big success. The proceeds
will t>e used to purchase a handsome
pulpit Bible for Bethel
church.
?The sympathy of the community
goes out to Dr. and Mrs.
G. \V. Poovov in the loss of their
little babe, Mary Elizabeth, whots
death occurred about 4 a ni., last
Sunday, Sept. IS, 1004, ago I 2
weeks and 2 day a.
?Tbo school at Heath Springs
opened Monday with a large en.
rollment. The teachers arc Prof.
fl Ml -n % mm '
n. i. *jox, principal; j\lrs. JN. I".
Wade and Miss Alice Mnckey, assistants.
The rninistois of the
town were present and inudo short
and appropriate talks at the opening.
?The new otlico building ot
the Lancaster Cotton Mills is completed
and Secretary and Treasurer
Waddy C. Thomson and his
corps of assistants moved into it
yesterday. It is up to plans and
specifications in every particular
and no mill in tlio State has of.
fices more attractive in appearance
or convenient in arrangement.
? Ueuben Mack, Mary Jordan
and Daisy Jackson each paid #10.
int n M n<riutrutn I'nwLnu'u nmifl
... n ? J "
Monday for disorderly conduct
in lieu of nerving 30 days on tin
gang. Charley and Emma Gamhh
also paid tines of $5. each in 1 let
of ten days scrvico on the gang
for disorderly conduct.
We are requested to announce
that a meetiug of the patrons o:
the St. Luke school district wil
be held Wednesday, Sept. 28th
atone o'clock p. m. A full at
tendance is desired, as importan
matters are to he attended to
among them the selection of (
aita for new school building.
At - :.. - u.:.i ... -j! .i
?n.t n ujcuiiii^ r nuny cii lilt
trustees of tho school district the
following teachers wero elected fo
tho colored graded school: Frinct
pal, M. D. Loo, reelected; assistant
touchers, M. I). McFurland, o
Cheraw; Katura Fai ker, of St
Matthews, and Lydiu Mcllwain, o
Lanc aster. 'I lie trustees have thi
week received a shipment of tift;
new double desks for tho branch o
the white graded school, locate*
at the Lancaster Cotton Mills.
? Mr. M. U: Btunsoti, representing
tho News unci Courier,
was in the city yesterday.
? Mr.Jud H. Usher of Dwight
has u relapse ?f fever and is re
ported quite ill"!
? Mr. Tlianev I lowers of the
Primus section is reported very
low with fever. Mrs. Preston
Black mon of tlio same neighborhood
is touch bettor.
?The protracted meeting at
Pleasant Plains Baptist church
closed Sunday. Twelve were re- 1
coived into the church by baptism
that day. A call was extended to
Rev. T. A. Dabuoy to continue as
pastor for another year.
? Miss Berch Fundeibutk
daughter of Mr. W. ,1. Funder
1
hurk, of O. K. entered the grad- .
eJ school here this week. She !
will hoard at Mr. .1. C. Kllioti's.
? Born, Sept. 17, 1004, to Rev
and Mrs. R. J. Blackmon, a son. '
?The negro campineoting at
Stocl llill in tho upper edge of
this county was a very disorderly
an air according to all reports. In
all, hovgd negroes vrere sbot during
the mooting which closed last
Sunday. Only one, however, was
seriously wounded.
?The ministers of both town
and county, regardless of denon *
ination or color, are invited to at
tend a ministerial counsel at the
court house on the 5th day of October
at 10 o'cIock.
1. (J. Clinton. ,
? Loiters remaining uncalled
for in the post office at Lan-,
castor for the week ending Sept. '
17th, 1904, are as follows:
Misses Maggie Creighton, Maggie
Outlaw, Mrs. Nannie Vernon,
Mrs. M S. Hudson, Messrs. J.
W. Coward, J. C. Farmer, Jas.
Harris Baskon, John Elliott, Battio
Duvisom, Frank Couch, Robert
Grciile, John Hilnud, G 11 Builes.
J. M. Stewart, P. M.
i
?On next Friday, Sopt 23rd,
8 o'clock p. m., at Franklin Circle
room, gnided school building,
there will be a public meeting of
citizens for the purpose of organizing
a Library Association, the
object of winch is to establish and
maintain a public library. The
members of Cranford Club, Frii
day Afternoon Club, Lancaster
Chapter J). C., the Commercial
i Club, .<Vankin Citcle, and all
; citizens of the community are
i earnestly invited to nt??iwt I*
expected that the meeting will bo \
addressed by prominent citizens. 1
Mm. Ira 1>. Jones,
" A. K Bun'is,
44 T. S. (barter, / j
'4 M. J. Perry, j
44 \V. M. Crawford,
j
44 Oliver Blactrmon.
44 K. S. Hines,
'I - 4 J. B. ItiacUorell.
t Items From Kershaw lira
? Messrs A. It Boilings, J.H |
5 Crow and Solomon Johnston left,
> , Saturday for Florida.
1 ?Miss Fannie Horton, of
Heath Springs, left Friday for
Columbia, whero she has boen
* chosen one of the teachers in tho
^ Hvatt Park school.
1 '
? Mr. V . F. Hrower, who bus
been in declining health for some
t time, whs taken to Johns Hopkins
hospital, Baltimore, Monday of
j last weofc by Dr. J. E. VV. Hallo
his family physician.
, ?.Jim Watts a colored boy
j about 17 years of age, foil from a
v bicyclo while riding it Saturday a
J week ago, and the fall was follow
- cd by paralysis from which he
f died Saturday morning.
. -Tho infant daughter of Mr and
f Mrs. J. A. Hilton, born July 2 4th
s disd So;>t 14, was buried thofol/
following day, Thursday. The
f funeral service was conducted
I at the grave by Kov. .1. T. Den*
<iy.
\
< >11' Tor Sc' ool.
Misses vl'try Barnes G reer,
Nannie Todd nti<l Adello Lctnmond
left yesterday for the Laura Sun
dei land m hool at Concord, N. C.
Miss Gteen expects to graduate
from this school this session.
? Messrs. 1*??u' Ross Moore and
Ralph Foster returned to the S. C
College yesterday.
? Mr. Bunyan McVianus and
Miss Ola Funderburk of the
Tradesvillo section, and ,1ns. S.
Belk, of Taxahaw. will leave this
week for the Welsh Neck High
School at Harlsville.
?The following young ladies
left for Wir.threp C(?llege yester
day: Misses Josephine Foster,
Min Jones, Bessis MoManus,
Jessie I'oiter, Callio Sowell, Julia
and M'aude Gregory, Boss and
Maine Jones, Clarice Knight,
of t!iis place, Miss Carrie .Belle
..p i?' ?
. UU^IKIII ?li IVCI'SIIUW.
? Misses Carrie and Etta Bowhug
left Monday for Limestone
Institute at CJafTooy, S. C.
? Messrs J as. II. Ilamel,
t.ewis Duncan, Marvin Conely,
Wells Vaughnn and Claude Sapp,
son of I). F. Sapp, of Sapp X
Koads, returned to NVofford Col
lege tliis week.
? Miss Itoxy Carnes, daughter
of T. W. Carnes of Sapp X Roads,
has gone.to the Wolford Fitting
school at Spartanburg.
? Miss Nannie Irene McCardoll
left Saturday to spend several
days in Laurens with Miss Lilian
Irby, and from theie she will go
to the College for Women in Coin
m his.
?Misses Ina and Jessie Lathar,
daughters of Mr. J. F. Lathar,
Miss llattio Craig, daughter of
Mr. S. W. Craig, and Mie? Louise
Taylor, daughter of Mr. S. D.
Taylor, left Monday to enter
Jones Seminary, at All Healing,
N. C.
? Misses Dessie Stewart and
Minnie Plyler will leave for Columbia
next week to enter the Columbia
Female College.
Notice to Farmers.
There has been general} complaint
from exporters of cotton
and mills in regard to extra bagging
being put on cotton, which
has caused them to issue no.ic.is
to all buyers that they will not
receive cotton with more than G
yards of bagging and G ties, any
tiling over this will bo deducted
from gross weight cf cotton.
We the undersigned will have
to bo governed by the above, and
we as'< all farmery and giunera
to comply with same, as we have
instructed the public weigher to
deduct for any excess bagging
over tho above amount.
Lancaster, S. (J , Sept. 10, '04.
Lancaster Mer. Co.,
Heath B. ?fc M. Co ,
Alex. Sprunt & Son,
Per W.
? A'o are selling a great many
goods regardless of cost. Come
and see before you buy.
Lancaster Mercantilo Co.
- In tho second primary in
Kershaw county, J. S. Trantham
was elected Shonff, D. M. McCaskill,
treasurer, W. F. Kusael
Auditor and J. M. Sowoll supers
visor.
Macfeat's Busim-sn ii?o
^
been commissioned in Columbia,
$2,500 being the capital stock.
>Somc of Columbia's prominent
men are behind the concern, and
it will doubtless bo even more
successful than in the past.
A New .Jersey Hriitorn Testimonial
M. T. Lynch, Kditor of tho
Philip-Inn tr, N. .1. Daily Post,
writes: ["have u-od nmny kinds of
medicines for coughs and cold in
my family t???t never anything so
rood as Foley's Honey and Tar.
1 cannot say too much in praise of
it." Sold by Funderbnrk Pharmacy.
*
"Ti Hon." Poss Thompson.
loo Charlotte <):)-( rVi.r s iy> .
Charlotte lias within In r limita
noted man. During recoil-!a
st ruction days lie was tvico a 1
member of the lower house ot
the South Carolina legislature. 5
I In- name of Por.s Thompson is
written in the records of tin 1 *a I on
-to State. That same legi?da- 1
tor, the same Toss, is in Char- '
lotie, living here and doing well.
"Ihck np dent lines, nigger,"
a hit of a black hoy said to tl^u
driver of tin4 Central hotel 'bin- <
yesterday. Little did the brat (
know that ho was talking to the (
Hon. ross Thompson, the form- (
it political ! uider of Lancaster county.
But it. was Toss?the t
j lion. 1'osh Thompson. He is the I
regularly appointed driver of the 1
Central Hotel 'bus. That posi- t
ti iti is not as exalted asVoeing i
chairman ot the committee on 'I
privileges of the South Carolina
legislature, but it is safer for a
negro.
Boss Thompson is about- tincolor
of Booker T. Washington,
and has grey eyes. The white
people and the negroes like him.
"Yes, sir," he said to Mr. W.
C. Heath of Monroe yesterday,
"the life I now lends is better. Pi
11 ia true that I wore a silk hat
ami biled shirt it) them days,
but the man with the red shirt
corue and I know that it was
time for mo to git. As Hampton
| came in on cno side of Columbia, |
j I went out on the other,
j "As chairman of that commitI
tre 1 made something extra 1
j saw that others were getting
'dough on the side and made up
my mind to look out for Toss.
I The recommending of one bill
brought mo in $1,300,I gave the ]
other niggers $10 apiece and
kont the rest.*'
1 Puss came to Monroe from
, Ciiostei , and shincd slices and
worked as a porter for the (llou;
coster house for a time, from
here lie went to Moon-sville. He j
' worked there till ho came here. j
The Hon Po-s Thompson, ]
member of the legislature frr..nj*
Lancaster comity, durin the-1!
years 1866, 1867 and 186 j.
Fuss" lias imp1" d OR the j
Observer repot tor. lie was never
a member of the 1 gislmore from
this enunly. but was always an
1 accomplished liar.
?
L^ttor to ' Lancaster Lawyer.
I.'inciistii', S. C.
i 1 ); ! hr: As your business
is . * people into and out of
t: . >1. , suppose you consider
their paint ;it niaKivs 'em almost !
a much trouble a-^ money,except
j of course ma'rimony.
Tliey buy poor paiut a good
jdeul ; they don't i. can to; they
don't mean to; thev don't know
any better ; they buy without .
1 tninlcing. Bad paint isn't good.
, It looks good enough for a year;
jthen it begins to get rusty ; biP
|changes so slowly, ono don't
notice it.
Looking isn't all. Tho busi:
ness of paint ij to keep a house
'dry inside, tho wood ari l iron of
j it; keep it from r nting and rustj
ing. Takos good paint to do it.
J Good and bail paint are sold
; at ono prico or about that. One
'can't go by the price at all; 09
! with l awyers, thc? price lias
j nothing to do with goodness or
badness ; and costs are worse
! '
; yot; the painter and sheriff
i come-in for their share.
But the probability is that a
1 man, who paints with Devoe,
will conie-out on top.
Yours truly,
F. W. DhvokA Co.
1G
Lancaster Mercantile Co. sella
! our paint.
YY HA 1 Is LIFE
; In the last analysis nobody '
; knows, but we do know that it is
under strict law Abuse that law .
even slightly, pain results. Ir^
regular living means derangement
of tho organs, resulting in oonsti
I pat ion, Ileadac'no or Liver trouble
Dr. Kings new life pills quickly
re adjusts this It's gentle, yet
thorough Only 25c at Crawford
llros. J. F. Maekey tfc Co , an !|
Fiinderburk Plmrmttey.
Foley's honey ana 7a, j
for children,soft ,st'rc. No opiate'
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Notice o? Hie Public.
1 will hold '! i;i jk - ii t ;c
ounty. l'in in* tonic i 1 not
Plea-ant Hi I for 11.v when
iohU <1.
!. Montjronier \ 'a ko\.
;cpt. 'Jo tf Coroner 1 j C
Notice of Increase o? Capita!
Stock.
Notice is hereby "iveu that a
pecial inoetin;.: of the stockhnld
is of the KnlcrprPe Mercantile
'onipmiy, of llcuth Spring-, S.
will be held tit tho oIliac of
aid company :il 11 eatli Spring-, S
, on tho 20th day < i October,
[ 1)0-4-. at tho hour ol' i" o'clock a.
n , for the purpose oi cot -idcring
lie question of inert using the captn!
stock of said Corporation to
Ihwntv-two Thousand Dtllara
$22,000.)
.1. A. Ilridgcs,
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? . ?? . i .1111 int i,
10 (J. (Jroxton,
I Jerry M-iMoy,
10 M. C'roxlon,
I?<?iird oi l)ii cv'.>:...
>lason Fruit J;
and Tops.
Also Fruit Jar
A Bargain in
Next Sixty Days.
Buy you a In
Vandyke enameled
Yours
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io utiy goon morcnanutsu
ready for l'all business closing on!
shipment. A good season's busin
remnants and odd pieces th d we
store this week. It may he the vc
anxious to get i id of and will t iki
^'w.T^Vi >~rv >
0IUj& d&ai
We have a good stock of gooi
make low prices for S jptotnbor.
50 cents goods, special price 3;> c
soft fabric fast black, the yard '25
rose has been selling at 75 cents,
ing better: special vai'.io 50 cents.
40 IK CH DRE
one of tlie best clothes wo ha\
rah serge, very line and soft, w
30 inch new Yebolien, two c
the yard *25 cents.
45 inch suitings, splendid for
TAILOR M/
,Vo liiivo just received ft ;? > ??1
shirts. One of the best numbers
[>f plain prey material at
nil wool mixtures at$'J.50, e |ua! t
TAN OXFORDS A V COS l\
L AN OXFORDS at cost. Only :
year size la pone.
Wo are still makitvr ft R!': K1
e.iits and Pai.ts At SPECIAL PRI
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Treat in : t 111-.' ?ii<s.? a: 'I
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< :!! | ???n! j ! iv<l tlay or
i i'.' lii (>i)i i < aw foul ilros.
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' I'll nuo: OlVt \ N 17'i; tto iiloniH
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I Ba;ir? : *> I'dvieration
1'AYS !i VUCi: DIVIDENDS
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lU'ilidii \V : . 'Hi -:i' isf.ictinu
'nu' ->t > :<'u 1 y . mi r- ' a. l> ing Mil'
\ ill ?st |?r el :ii; I < y luivo no Hiiperio s
1 tlHlrilot . 18 drill 111888. No
;other )'.i i i<' o l>t*'tor uilvrint'.;
li 'cr now ami prepuce
i 'i v.tivo i i n. Out* finiluatoH
: : (leui <1 1.? t UK a - i t you, \\*r
; i ? i-ti* I humlr.-tls -ihoy art* in
We otl'or special rates
I M I'U'.S. t liu-ines^ College
( Will>ia, S. ( .
| An.'. l'.Mi I tf.
irs, Extra Ralurco
Wrenches.
Tobacco for the
lilt boiler of ihe j
ware, acid proof
> Respectfully,
m rp-g
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THE PLACE
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L stock unci making room for early
e>< lvtj hits left u <jiiitc :i lot of
will sell vo"e Visit our
;i*V thimj V !'i I' ' 1 w ' are must
2 your price.
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a.' Qsojijiiip.ia
Is 8uiliibi'' for SI-iris ;m 1 Suits ami
1 >liic'v lirillintiu -hut lust.ro the
uits. oti inch Poplar clot it, :i now
cents. 1-2 i h host 1 domestic Mel
for )Oil w> ; :;i. 1 fii-t '<1 ick noth
ISS DE ALMA
'o ever s >11 ;.t . l.oo ~> inch Su$1.00,
sj'O.-i.i! the v 1 T"> rents.
>lors, X-ivv v.! (;.i . l?l(r ,!()H
in ikir..? ciris, ilu yard cents.
\DE SKIRTS
I lit) t.f iiV'.iimu price walking
is ti perfect {iiI'?s_r, wc.ll made skirt
l'here :i!'0 s mi very pretty -kirts of
o the average $.V01) Skirt.
Wo arc closin r out our stock of
tl? Mit on .! nip. (' ill before
'N, ! >d. or <'iif !v, and hoes'
Civ
Cloud.