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The Lexington Dispatch, j : I Wednesday, February 18,1903. PIHCIL AND SCISSORS. Wayside Notes Gathered Here and There by a Dispatch Man. The cold wave is with us. Fires are again comfortable. "King Cotton'1 has been dethroned GARDEN SEED, at the Bazaar. Let your main crop b3 hog and hominy. V*. v . I Get your garden spots ready for early planting. Farming operations are held up by I the incessant rains. Prepared cocoanut, fresh and Bweet, at the Bazaar. The fature of Lexington is guileded with bright promises. The health seeker can find a salubrious climate in Lexington. ' The restaurants and hash houses did a rushing business Monday. The signs all foretell an abundance of all kinds of fruits this year. The whole country is to day writhing under the blizzard's icy grip. Bsv. M. J. Kyzer gave us a pleasant call while in town Monday. Rev. J. G. Graichen's brother, of Winchester, Va., is visiting him. The recent heard rains have put . our roads in a deplorable condition. { Genuine "Aristock Maine" seed Irish potatoes for sale at Able & Able, Leesville. Are you seeking a beautiful site for a home? Then come to Lexington. The electrict display in the heaven's Monday night was a beautiful sight to behold. The chain gang will go from this place to do some repairs on the State road:. Myer's Royal Spioe, a famous stock <powder, for sale at Able & Able, Leeavilie. The jonquils, the earliest of the spring flowers, are blooming pro. foaely in many flower gardens around town. According to the number of people in town Monday, our merchants did but little boaines. Fresh Baker's bread, cakes, crackera and everything nice to eat, at the Bazaar. There is a great scarcity of shoats hereabouts and those having them are not disposed to sell them for love or money. '' * See change of the advertisement of W. F. Steiglitz, Columbia, and when you wane any article in the Bportm&n'e line, give him a call. The town was full of people Monday who were here in attendance upon court as jurors, witnesses or Bpectatore. It is a current rumor that the middlebarg mills will be moved from Batesburg to this place and its plant greatly improved. The best farming and agricultural j implements on the market can be ; found at T. B. Aughtry & Co. Colum- ! bia, at the most reasonable prices. This will doubtless be a robinless year as but few, if any, of these welcome little winter visitors have been seen in these parts. The small boy is inconsolable. We are still in the market for ^ cotton seed, at full value. Bring ma all your cotton seed. Will eitte. pay money or give meal in exchange. TV "P "R II JL. JLV^V** We learn that Mr. W. L. Gable was severely injured by the premature explosion of dynamite, while blowing up stumps at his home near Irene yesterday. Col. G. T. Graham, the prime mover in the Lexington and Columbia Electric Railway project, left for New York the firet of ifce week in the interest of the road. Mr. J. W. Meezte, the faithful chain gang guard for many years, dropped in and renewed his paper yesterday. He will pull the bell cord over a mule this year. Do you want the best farm wagon on earth for a little money, or any - other1 high grade vehicle as cheap as the cheapest, go to T. B. Aughtry & Co. Columbia. J Friday, the 20th, inst, is the lust day in which to make your tax re| turns. After that day parties who have failed to make their returns wil. I i have 50 per cent, penalty added to those of last year. Lexington offers the best opportunities for the home seeker thanau> other county in the State. This is no idle boast, but its truthfulne*?hao hccn Hma ?nl aaain demon strated by actuil experience. The admittance fee for school | children to the entertainment tomor I row evening in Roofs Hail, is 10 j cents. This entertainment is to be | given by local talent for the benent ! of Ballentine Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. | Solicitor Thurmond dropped in to | see us yesterday morning. He is | looking well and hearty and is the same genial and social fellow that has characterized his intercourse with his fellow citizens heretofore. Call at Able & Able, Leesville, and examine their stock of new shoes before buying. Samuel Li. Kiwi bas been appointed Crier for the Court, and E. A. Kleckley, P. H. Seay, W. M. Caughman and C. P. McCartha are the Constablee. Daniel Hajes is the ticket boy. The trains have lately been arriving on Schedule time, and while our mail facilities are not as perfect as we would like them to be yet there is a great improvement and we now have no just cause for complaint It is currently reported that F. F. Herndon, E q , private Secretary i f Congressman Lever, has resigned and has formed a law partnership with Messrs. Spears & D.-nnis aDd will be the partner located at Bishopville. "Klondike1' is the most enterprifing preacher in the county. He has "hung out his shingle" as an expert in the matrimonial infirmatory, where people suffering from an affection of the heart will be treated at moderate charges. The Lexington and Columbia Electric railway, is now almost an assured fact. The business men if Columbia us well as the chamber of commerce should give this enterprise a most liberal and sub istantial encouragement. Mr. C. W. Connor, formerly of this county, but now of Lent on, Fla., where he is engaged in the manufacture of naval stores, was in town Thursday on bueiness looking hale and hearty. The Dispatch will following him to his new home in the Land of Flowers. Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kid neys will cure dyspepsia. Undoubtedly soils in many sections of the county are admirably ad ipted to the cultivation of the finer grades of tobicco. In the Fairbanks section tobacco culture has passed its experimental stage and that it can be remuneratively cultivated is now an absolute fact beyond all peradventure. Chapin Items. We clip the following news items, ! which are of interest to many of our ! readers, from the Carolina Newef of ! date February 12th: j Mr. J. W. B. Lever, whose illness ! was mentioned in these columns last ; j week, died Monday at the home of I his daughter, Mrs. ChapmaD, near Peak. He was in his eighty-second year and was greatly esteemed by all who knew him. Mrs. E. B. Roof and her two ; children are visiting Mr. J. S. Wetj singers family. Mr. Samuel Roof, of Lexington, ; is visiting the family of his uncle, j Mr. J. S. Wessinger. | Col. G. T. Graham, of Lexington, j was in town today. Mr. T. M. Brown and Miss Clyde j Clark, two popular young people of ! i . 1 3 . T -I . I i our town, quieuy arove 10 l^utie j Mountain Monday night and were ; united in marriage by Kev. J. K. i Efird. It was a case of 4,Love j laughs at locks and bars." May joy. peace and prosperity be their life's : p( r:ion. Go to the Bazaar for your fresh j garden seed. I Don't forget the old man with the fish on his back. For nearly thirty years he has been traveling around the ^nirl ic cftll frnvfOmo* * v wi ivi) uii vi jl *.j \*j v a * *. v a w > wii *'<^9 bringrincr health and comfort O O wherever he ?oes. To the consumptive he brings the strength and flesh he so much needs. To all weak and sickly ! children he skives rich and ! strengthening food. To thin and pale persons he gives new firm flesh and rich red blood. Children who first saw the old man with the fish are now 'grown up and have children of their own. He stands for Scott's Emul sion of pure cod liver oil?a delightful food and a natural tonic for children, for old folks and for all who need flesh and strength. SCOTT & EOWNE, Chemists, 40P-415 Pearl Street. New York. 50c. and $1.6o; all druggists. A Xatural Quextion. The small boy. accompanied by LU father, was looking at tin- display in the window of a big store on Broadway. where all manner of wearing things were on exhibition. In one corner was a great rack decorated with .a brilliant collection of socks and bearing the sign, "Half Hose, Half a Dollar." The small boy studied it for a full minute. Then he called his father's attention to it. "Say, pop," he inquired, "if half hoseare half a dollar, are whole hose a whole dollar?" "I suppose so," laughed the father, | though lie well knew that the boy's mother had a pair in silk that he had paid $4.OS for and which she insisted I she had obtained at a bargain because they were marked down from .$5.? ! New York Times. Ah Exception. "You know," said the woman suffragist, "they say 'the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.' " "Ridiculous!" cried Ilenpeek. "I'm sure my hand doesn't rule the world." | ?pliihulolpliia Press. ? Yes, G-ive Him a Call. Wen Phtt, of C )lu:ubia lms ja^t received his first shipment of fine spring drees goods, notions *nd millinery embracing many cf the latest novelties of the sefteon. While ins Stock is out ILe lu: ge-t in tb? city yet be carries a fine lioe of dress patterns of the most fashionable weaves and texture and his notions and mi linery goods cannot be surpassed in qui i y. When you want any .standard article in drees appartl give Mr. Piatt a call. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nuree in the Children's Home in New j York. Cure Fcverishnes.-, Bad Stomj acb, Teething Di"?udn>, move aLd I regulate the Bowels and D<stroy | Worms. Over 130 000 testimonials. They never f?il. At all druggist.*, 25c. SiLupie Free Address Ail?-n JS. i O msted. Le 11 jv, N 1. 15 DR. F. C. GILMGRE, iD^isrirzsa:, Located at no i.",io main street. over Huseru-iuu's Gaa Store. CoJuojj bin. S. C., where he Will be glad to see his ; former as well as new patients. Dr. Gilmore will oe at Kuminor flote1 in I Lexington on Tuesd-u and Wednesday, j March lOtli and 11th. to accommodate ; patients who iiud it inconveoitnt to cull at j his Columbia oltice. January 23. lbtll?1<. i j Money to Loan. \ \T/rE ARE PliE PAR ED '10 NEGOT1V? ate loans promptly i> >mns ol *34)0 1 and upward, on improved farming lands in Lexington county. 1 org lime and ta>y terms. Mo commissions }Jorrov*er pavs actual expenses ol preparation o> j-operx. 1 IlOMAts ,t GiMlLts Columbia. S. C. October 1. The Dura Strength, Dura! distinguishing fea Sold on their mer draymen, lumber < try. We keep an hrvrsff t.n tliA hftmri w w w W V * ? ? w w w *. tons. Just receiv in the last three "N wagon on earth fc MULE I !fa.e 11.3 xgrest ai 3FO' Gregory 1115 PI February 14?ly. Mio Hie Hi, LEXINGTON, S. C. LITERARY. SCINTIFIC AND CLASSICAL COURSE. Nt XT SESSION OPENS SEPTEMBER 8. Vocal and Instrumental Music. Trained Teacher?. 2U6 Students Enrolled Last Session. Expenses per Se-.sion $60 to $80. Send lor Catalogue to 0. D. SEAY, Principal. July 30, 1902. LEXINGTON MARKET, CORRECTED WEEKLT BY THE MERCHANTS. Bacon Hams, per ft 13 8ides. " " 10% Shoulders. " 12 Butter, per ft. 20 Eggs, per doz 20 Turkeys. per lb 8 a 10 Geese, per pr 70 a 80 Chickens, per head 12,1? a 30 Beeswax, per ft 15 a 20 Beef, per ft io a 12% Pork. " " 10 a 12% Tallow, per ft 4 a 5 Lard, per ft 12% Flour, per cwt ? 200 a 2T0 Corn, per bu - 05 Peas, " " 0? ?o Uttu-, Fodder, per cwt 90 Sweet Potatoes, per bu 35 Rice, per lb 4 a 6 VEGETABLES AS1) FRUIT. The hi {jest market prices paid for Fruit and Vegetables at all seasons. COTTON MARKET. Augusta,?Middling 9J? Charleston?Middling 9'4. Columbia,?3Iiddling 9'4. Lexington.?Middling y'i. naval stores. Savannah, yesterday's market?Spirits J Turpentine, firm 53 cents. Rosin, steady. Land Sale. By co- ssnt of the heirs and distributees, who will promptly execute tl e deeds, I will offer for sale to the highest bidici, b lure uie court bouse door, wiihiu tne legal hours of sale, on the tirst M< n jay io March next, the foiiowing described real es ate, towit: All that piece, parcel or trfct of land, situate, lying ana being in the County of Lexington and State aforesaid, containing ninety (90) acres, more or less, and adlun/it: /-, t-t a a t, h>4rf I Lii u ^ iauuo v* ?? vf ? ?--- ley, H T. Dooley, J, P. Dooley. the Arehard t Tract, and the Boczer lauds, being k part ot the H. T Dooley lands set out in the c'eed on record in Book T. page 6-S, and shown by plat ot E. Lown. Surveyor. | All that piece, 'parcel or tract ot land situate. lung and being in the county of Lexington rl d Stata aforesaid, containing i one bu ired and forty-eight (14fi) acres, more or less, and adjoining lands of Jas. | P. Dooley, Mrs. A. M. L'-aphart, J. J, j ' Lown, George M. Corley ana the Home { ; Place, and being the Arehardt place sold by ! ! F. P. Meet z 3 to M. D. Shull by deed in j I Book 4 GG., page 434 and sold by M. D, j | Muni to J. K. Doolet, by deed in Book j j IL". page 141. All mat pitco. parcel or tract of land j 1 situate, lung and being in the County of [ Lexington and btate atoresaid, containing J eight)-one \M) acres, more or less, and adj j iuing 1-tuds ol H F. Dooley. John W. i Grtgoi), Mrs. A. M L-.nphart and J. P. j Dooley, and being a part of the lands con- t j vemlby b* M. Roof. .Sheriff, to J. K. < ; DooJt-y. September olh, IbTl, by deed in ; Book X pate 44?> : j T?KMc??One half cash: balance in one j )ear, with interest iron: day of sale, so- ; j cured by bond of the purchaser and mcrt- ' j gage ol tli i premises sold. Purchaser to I pay lor papers, SAMFEL B. GEORGE. February II, 19t3: 3wlO. j One Minute Cough Cure For Coughs, CoMs and Croup* EGrove'i I the test 25 years Does this record c Enclosed with every be 1 ble and. Ligkt Running ICKORY WAGON bility and Honest Construction are tures of the "Old Hickory Wagon." its and highly praised by the best companies and farmers in this couny size you want from the light oneiest wagon that will hold up several ed another car load (our third car 1 reeks). A complete line and the best >r the money. OUR STOCK OF IS AND HORSES? nd. ^Eost Complete Scoclo to "tea inno. in tHo.=? State. -Khea Mu le Co., jAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. M,R. Hartley & Co,, f!T,nTHIWft See our stock of Men's, Youth's sod Children's ClothiDg. The very latest in SPRING STYLES AND WEAVES. Will save you from one to five dollars a suit on Columbia prices. GENTS' FURNISHINGS. M : t The best aDd moBt complete line of Shirts, ,Neckwear, Collars, Hosiery, Underwear, Etc., ever sold in LexiDgton. , HATS. The "Jefferson Guamnteed Matin Spring Colors and Shapes are tbe best at $2 00 and $3 00. Every hat warranted. Also a complete line of Men and Boy's Staple Hats at lowest price. SHOES. Here you get the best Shoe that money can buv in tbe George D. Witt linp?A.H 6tyles, Men, Women and Children's. A trial will make you a customer. LHIH.l.D.-LEMIH DEPOT FITZMAURICE FlTZMAURICE 1704 AND 1700 MAIN STEEET, COLUMBIA, - - - S. CTo onr lriends in Lexington we extend a special invitation when in Columbia to coma and see us. We will do as we say?save your hard earned money, and save a heap of annoyance in lookiog lor what you want. It will be impossible for you to buy goods as cheap or as good trom anybody else. It is an hourly occurunce to hear people > a; I am sorry I bought. But too late tor that time, but not too late lor this time. See us lor your wants in our line, as we tell )0U. DRESS GOODS, j SILKS! SILKS!! ! 50 pes Half Wool Henrietta, only 10c a yd. 30 pes J Fan cv Waists and Dress Silks, 75c, 30 pes Fine Plaids. 30-inch, on v 10c a yd. sold at $1.00. 20 pes Fancy 40-inch Suiting. 20c a jard 35 pes Black Silk, Armcres, Peau De Soie, 30 ncs 30-ineh All Wool Henrietta, 25ca >d r ? w ran etas toi \v edding Costumes. We can. 20 pes ^ hip Cords, oniy 00c., sold at <5c. fix liny kind ol a dress. 20 pea All Wool Granites at 50c. Domestics sold at co?t. In This House Merchants Sold at Wholesale Only. January lo. i Tasteless Chill Tonic 1 Average Annual Sales over One and a Half Million I >f merit anneal to vou? No Core. No Pay. 50c. I ttJe is a Tea Cent* package of Grove's Black Root. Liver Pills. Jf * ? -? . " ' " ^ ' ll- jf '