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g. Bepresentatiue Newspaper. Eouers kexington and the Borders of the Surrounding bounties Like a Blanket. VOL. XXXII. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. 1902. NO. 22 . ? I llabflssi wowhh m Inure jJ=V i i ^ DEAR MADAM: If you will v e r ; | one pair of Our '"HIGH SCHOOL WALKING SOOTS" i you'll alwavs want them. j ' 11 ? jj. 1 1 r | we reany aon i h.uu? nucw? L they are the ; L "BIST IS THE WOULD" r bat we do know that there is not! , another shoe in the land tnat will match ' . these Two I>ollar Shoes I FOR WOMEN k ; within Fifty Cents a pair. t BRING YOUR FEET AND "TWO DOLLARS ! IFVFR. |"THr'sHOE MAN," 1603 Main Street, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. Feb. 6?lv. | . C. M. Efied. F. E. Drehzb. EFIRD &DREHER, Attorneys at Law, LEXINGTON, C. K., S. C. Tier ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE 1 Yt Courts. Business solicited. One member of the firm will always be at office, Lexington, S. C. .Tnnfl 17?6m. Albert M. Boozer, Attorney at Law, COLUMBIA, c. Especial attention given to business entrusted to him by his fellow citizens o{ K Lexington county. Office: 1609 Main Street, over T. B. , Aughtry & Co. ' February 23 -tf, i DS F. C GILMORE, ZDZZ ZCZTZST1 Located at no. isio main street. over Huseinaun's Gqii Store, Columbia, S. C., where he will be glad to see his former as well as new patients. I Dr. Gilmore will oe at Dratts Hotel in I Lexington on Tuesday and Wednesday, | May 13th and 4ih. to accommodate patients who hnd it inconvenient to call at j his Columbia othce. January 23, lyOl?tf. THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS THE r a ti u n cftiinu. | THE PROOF OF THE i MEDICINE IS THE L TAKING. HILTON'S LIFE FOR THE LIVER ANO L KIDNEYS will verily every claim made lor it. Test it by a trial of a 2oc. bottle It makes last irieuas wnerever once usea. ana becomes the medicine ot the household. It is pleasant to take, acta pleasantly and causes one to leel pleasant. It is the best quickest remedy for the ft cure of kidney ?. toles. lame back, disordered livor ana derangement ot the I stomach and bowels. p BOTTLES, 2wC., yCc. &nd SliOO. I Wholesale by the MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia. 8. C. For Sale at THE BAZAAR. May 15?ly. F ^Ji--t.wnaa3siad|i nffl CURES WHERE AIL ELSE FAILS. Ba m Best Cousrh Syrup. Tastes Good. Use f*? By in time. Sold bv drugzists. k, r A &J > ' - , k' 1<320 MAIN STR %4 Solicits a Sh 17ew Commutation Road Law. i i To the Editor of the Dispatch. Please allow me space in your 1 worthy columns for a few words concerning road work. 1 Some of our Legislators are always ^ makiDg had matters worse. It was ' a hard matter to keep our public ( highways in a good condition before : the last session of the Legislature * cut the commutation tax to one dol- ] lar. Now it will be worse. No one can blame the hands for paying one 1 dollar in order to rid themselves of ' eight days road duty. Their work ^ is worth a lot more than twelve and * a half cents per day at home on their * i *r> ? L - ?:ii L ti,? t xaniis. j>uu wuu win tut? uuxaijuy for bad roads, the Legislators or I? Mr. Editor, I want to know, ^ through your columns, from our ? Senator, or from our Represenatives, k who introduced such a bill. "We are aDxious to know that far sighted, I large minded fellow, who can see how ^ all the public roads can be kept in c good condition with the meagre sum that tiDgies into the coffers of the ^ Board of Commissioners from the c "one dollar" commutation tax. Sup pose all the hands in Lexington v county pay this one dollar tax, how 8 many miles of road can we hope to ^ "put in good condition" with so small an amount? Aside from that, the 8 road law says that it shall be the ^ duty of the Commissioners to ap- c point Overseers, and these Overseers ^ shall warn out all who are eligible to ^ road duty and snaa put trie roads m | ? traveling condition. If all those i ^ who are eligible to road duty are ? exempt frcm eight days labor on the ^ public highways by paying one dol- 8 lar, how many hands can we expect * to hire to fill their places at 12^ cents * per day ? I should say it would take * quite a financier to work out the problem upon such a basis?pay out c a dollar to get rid of eight days work ^ and then work eight days to get it back. That's wise legislating. Since this road law has been changed to what it is now, it would 1 be the means of teaching those who introduced and supported it, a well learned lessoD, if they were forced to take charge of the roads all over the State and keep them in a good condition on their twelve and a half cents per day system. If there r should have been aDy cbaDge in this j law it would have been wisdom if the c tax had been raised. Such a pro- j c cedure would have been the means j of better roads. Next year I reckon it will have to be changed again, for I know the established precedent of annual changing cannot be broken, looa +] !?? Sinlnna linvo nnfliinrr fr? ? 6 I I have received several cards and ; letters from Overseers saying that if ? it were necessary for this tax to have j been changed at all, it should have j been raised tc four dollars. It is ] certain that such a change would not ! have put the Board of Commissioners j j in 3uch an embarrassing position, j How the roads are to be kept up now j -j under such measly legislation I can- j t not see. We call on the wise author i and supporters ot that bill to explain, i r P. H. Craps, Supervisor Lexington County. ' ? 8 Annual Missionary Meeting, j t The Columbia District Foreign Missionary Society has just closed its j 1 annual meeting at Irmo in the M. E. | ] church, April (b.h. It was certainly i c a blessing as well as pleasure to attend such a meeting. We had our 1 State Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Hum- 1 bert, also Mrs. Tony, our District f EC. ^OaTCKTXC EET, are of Your Valued . Secretary, with ue. Both very intelligent. nnble. Christian ladies and are so full of missionary zeal. Mrs. Humbert gave us several interesting talks on the great need of foreign missions. There is much to be learned from all she says. One ; the visible results was the organisation of a nice Juvenile society imong the children, and a few new members to our W. F. M. Society. The children seemed to be deeply J nterested in everything Mrs. Humbert said to them, especially one little x>y, (Thomas Shealy), who seemed \ ;o drink into his mind and soul every l; -t-- r U? .DlUg 8U6 ??UU. JL l/LliUK L1C 13 gUlUg io make a 9plendid worker. Dr. W. W. Daniel, of Columbia Female College, gave us a fine misiionary sermon Sunday morning and Sunday night he seemed to be so mbued with the Spirit that he sur)assed his morning sermon. He vas perfectly eloquent and held the :ongregation almost spellbound. We are much indebted to Mrs. C. 3. Stanley, of Columbia, for most of >ur music. She very kindly consented to help, and she plays well. She vith one of our members gave us a ioIo and duet, both of which were 'ery much appreciated (so lam told) Our Epworth Orphanage was replented by Miss Ethel Jackson. We earn from her report that they are , loing good work among the children here in many ways. They have a , l"uvenile society among the children, . ;nd some are very muen interested. )ne little girl has expressed her 5 jreafc desire to be a Doctor in some leathen land. I hope that she may < ome day go and carry healing to the >ody, and show them the one who teals the soul, while she ministers to heir bodies. We hope much more good may ome out of this meeting than has >een shown. We will bo glad to have another neeting of this same kind when our ister societies see best to give it to is. One Who Attended. Irmo, S. G, April 7, 1902. ? mQ - o ? Buckshoal, N. C. Four years ago I was helpless vith a misery in my back. I could lot turn myself in bed. I was treatid by my physician, but he did me 10 good. I took one bottle of Dr. j Baker's Female Regulator and it j lured me. I think there is no m&di:ine on earth like it. Mrs. Emma E. Myers. For sale at the Bazaar. White Bock Whittling^. Co the Editor of the Dispatch: I Superintendent of Education, Jno. 5. Derrick, and wife and Misses Haggie and Eva Derrick, worshiped it their old home church, Bethel. , ast Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Greever, of Columbia, visited at the parsonage 1 ast Wednesday. The road from White Rock to i Lever's Ferry is still in a bad condiion. Farming operations are backward >n account of cold and rain. Rev. 0. B. Sbearouse has accepted l call to the St. Jacob's pastorate, tnd will take charge of the work the irst of May. v cujvjjcu iuc i;iuoijj? c^aticc ui tfr. R. P. Site's school at Spring : 3ill last Friday night. It was truly sreditable. By some accident, little uCincsy" iliddle was severely burned one day i ast week. She has been doiDg badly i or some time. S. C. B. dist, Patronage. Polite anc A Negro Desperado's Deadly Work. Tuscumbia, Ala., April G.?la a desperate battle, fought near this place today between a sheriff's posse and Will Reynolds, a negro desperado, two members of the posse were killed and seven wounded by the deadly fusillade of the negro, who afterward was killed and his body thrown in a burning building. The dead: Hugh Jones, Bob Wallace, Will Reynolds, colored; The wounded: Sheriff Gassaway, mortally; Will Gassaway, mortally; P. A. Prout, fatally: J. K. Payne, seriously; Jessie David, Jim Finney, Robert Paterson. Early today, accompanied by Will Ga3saway, a deputy sheriff went to a negro settlement "Knardtowr,v to arrest Will Reynolds, on a charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses. The negro was barricaded in a house and opened are with a Winchester, mortally wounding Sheriff Gassaway and Will Gassaway, who was some 300 yards away. As soon a9 the news of the encounter reached Tuecumbia, a posse left for the scene. Owing to the location none of tha cfficers could venture within the open space. Dynamite wa3 procured and the house in which l 3 ~ j u: * tut; urgtu uuu luiwueu uiuistsu was fired upon but to no effect. At 1 o'clock Capt. Simpson of the Wheeler Rifles arrived with 12 guns and 1,000 cartridges which were distributed among 12 picked men. This company was stationed around the house and riddled it, but the negro had taken refuge in the cellar and returned the fire, killing Jones and wounding Finney. Coal oil was then procured aud after four hours of hard work the adjoining houses to that in which the negro was were fired. At 8 o'clock tonight the house in which the negro was located was fired by I t TT'J t n 1 V "1 * J1 tiie ? neeier ismee, wno naci arrivea on the sceDe. The negro tied to a shed and reopened fire, killing "Wallace and wounding Davis but. fell in the next volley from the posse and militiamen. The crowd, numbering 1,000, seized the riddled body and threw it in the burning building. "Wallace was killed while advancing on the negro, who shot him through the body. His body fell in the burning debris, but was recovered. Davis, Wallace 3nd Falkner were the men who fired the building. Relic seekers badly mutilated the body. Three houses were burned in the efforts to reach the negro and several horses were killed in the battle. Tonight it is reported that the sheriff and his brother have no chance to live. So deadly was the negro's aim that it was possibly an hour before the body of Prout could be recovered. Not a shot was fired by Reynolds that did not tell when those whom he was firing on could be seen. The excitement all day was intense. Fully 2,000 people from Florence and Sheffield were here and every surgeon in the town was pressed into service. No uprising among the negroes is anticipated. ITs-srs from Calla. To the Editor of the Dispatch: The weather is quite changeable. There i3 some sickness in this community. Farmers are busy preparing their land for a crop. Easter was very dull with us. It seemed a-s if the hers were on a Btrike. Mrs. Frances Coogler, who has COLUMBIA, 8. i Prompt Attention. Oct< been quite sick for several weeks, we are glad to say, is up again. ! Mr. John Busby accompanied by \Tr .Tim h a r\man tttqo 1 Vi o mi oaf. r>f 11X1 IflLU VUapLUUUj U UU IJ-IV-, ^ UVyUU V* j his aunt, Mrs. Ann Coogler, last j Sunday. I Mrs. H. H. Eleazer made a visit 1 to relatives in the sand hills last ; week. j Misses. Bessie and Tillie Coogler i visited their sister, Mrs. A. A. Meetze, I last week. i ! The school at this place is progress| ing nicely under the care of 0. F. I Nunamaker. Mrs. Anu Coogler is spending a i few days with her mother at Selma. Mr. M. L. Bouknight, who is at{ tending Newberry college, has come i home to find the rabbits. Misses. Myrtle and Eva Bookman, accompanied by their escort, Mr. H. E. Mclntire, attended the Easter tmnf of Trmn Mr. Johnnie Busbardt of Dear I Newberry, is keeping a cattle farm on Broad river and. resides with his aunt, Mrs. Sallie Bookman. Misses. Lottie, Carrie and Saliie Eleezer attend service at Shady Grove last Sunday. Success to the Dispatch. Puer. o You Know What You Are Taking TVhen you take Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on every bottie show mg that it is simply Iron and (famine in a tasteless form, No Cure, No Pay. 50c Dots from Ballentine. To the Editor of the Dispatch: The health of our community is very good at present, with the exception of Mrs. S. J. Puddle, although we are glad to say she is on the road of improvement. | Small grain that the cold has left is looking fine. | Farmers of this.section are very , i busy beginning their crop3. They J j are somewhat far behind on account j j of the continued rains. Pallentine seems to be a very prosj perous little place. I-, i3 noted for i its lnmlipr tvnnri anr? prnss tip Vnisi ' ness. j Mrs. H. H. Eleazer and children 1 from Cilia visited Mrs. G R. Shealy's 1 family last Saturday night. I A great many people from around j here went to High Hill last Sunday ! and report a very large congrega* ; ! tion. j Miss loez Riddle has returned i home from GastoD, where she has ; j been teaching pchool. I Our school at this place closed last j ! Friday evening and we surely regret j j ! the absence of our teacher. Misses Gertrude Bobb and* Jossie 1 Riddle boarded the train for Irmo | ! last Saturday evening to attend the | Missionary Convention at that place. I Mr. and Mrs. R W. Haltiwanger, j from near Columbia, are visiting the family of Mr. D. W. Ballentine, of i i i i k y T? l tins place. Apple rnossom. . April 7, 1902. * ^ Mothers! Mothers! Mothers! How many children are at tbis sea- ! ' son feverish and constipated, with j i bad stomach. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children will always cure. If worms are present they will ! certainly remove them. At all druggists. 25 cts. Sample mailed Free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, j N. Y. i f * ' ' Please settle for your paper. c., i Dber istf Sir Party Instructions. The following circular has been issued to Democrats in the State by SpprpforT7 finntor /if fli/i vvu? J VIUUIVI) Ui IUO CACl/UUIC committee, explaining the mode of reorganizing the party, as required by the constitution: Columbia, S. C , April 4th, 1902. To the Democrats of South Carolina: For the benefit of the Democratic voters in reorganizing the Democratic parity this year the following information is given: The State democratic executive committee has instructed the county chairmen to issue a call for a meeting of the respective townships and ward clubs to be held on the fourth Saturday in April. When convened, these clubs shall each have a distinct title, "The Democratic club" and shall elect a president, one or more vice-presidents, a recording and a corresponding secretary, and shall have the following working committees of not l?>ss than three members each: a committee on registration, an executive committee and such other committees as may be deemed expedient. Each club shall elect a member of the county executive committee, under the control of which the clubs Rhall hft he-Id tnorethpr nnd nnevafo -~D -- The county executive committee shall elect its own officers, except the chairman, who shall be elected by the convention. These officers need Dot necessarily be members of the committee. The clubs shall elect delegates to the county convention?one delegate for each twenty five members and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof. The county convention, when assembled, shall be called to order by the chairman of the executive committee, and the county convention shall proceed to nominate and elect from among its members a president, one or more vice-presidents, a secretary and a treasurer, and shall be held on the first Monday in May. Thft ennntv ennvpntinn rViaII pWf, ? ? .J ?? . ? delegates to the State convention, each county being entitled to double the number of delegates a& it has members of the general assembly. The State convention has been called to meet on the third Wednesday in May in the city of Columbia at 12 m. Each county convention must, at the meeting on the tirst Monday in May, elect a member of the State Democratic executive committee. Each county delegation to a State convention shall have power to fill any vacancy therein. The State convention shall be called to order by the chairman of the State Democratic executive committee. A temporary chairman shall be elected by the convention. and when organized shall ' o elect a president, vice-president from each congressional district, two secretaries and a treasurer. U. X. Gunter, Jr., Sec. State Dem. Ex. Com. ? Why Take Any Chances With some new and untried medicine for such serious troubles as diarrhoea, cramps, dysentery, when you should know that for over half a century Painkiller has cured millions of cases ? Look out for imitations, there is only one genuine, "Perry DavisV' - The New Mail Route. A letter from Congressman Lever ' says that the Inspector in charge of IayiDg out a second rural free delivery from this post office, will reach here about the 20th inst. This route will go from here towards Mr. W. Q. M. Berley's. in mi mil ii wi ?nmm?win him him in mi inn?i Mimir?Ti