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K ? & Bepresentatioe Beurspaper. Sneers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding bounties Lihe a Blanket. VOL. XXXIII. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1903. :j(i - GLOBE DBY GOOBS COMPANY, TXT. s. n^o^TC^oro^T, TES., -ek, 10A2O MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, 8. C. Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. October 13tf % If Lever Sells j tbe Shoes. i STYLES RIGHT UP TO THE IMINUTE. Dear Madam: A year ago we bad so many people in the store Easter week that quite j a good many did not get waited on. We don't know who the folks were, and to make sure we are sending you this word to say that this year we are j fully prepared to premptly wait on all comers. We are very proud of our spring stock and want to say that we are particularly strong on OXFORDS | for Ladies at $1.50 and $2.00. E LEVER, | "THE SHOE MAN," 1603 Main Street, i COLUMBIA, - s. c. i Fob* 6?lj. " ? . DR. F. C. 6ILM0RE, DS1TTIST, Located at no. 1510 main street. over Husemann's Gun Store, Columbia, S. -where he will be glad to see his former as well as new patients. T\_ ? .-II UAt in X/Ii UUUIUIC wui uoa? jLiaimnpi uvwi iu Lexington on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 14th and 15th, to accommodate patients who find it inconvenient to call at his Columbia office. January 23, 1901?tf. SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS, \ Suppose you write to us for prices before placing your order for these lines. Our prices will prove of financial benefit to you. i Our goods will win a regular customer, where once tried. SID BUIWMUO BOX 240, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. October 98?ly. fit Pays to Visi Tra< TJPP'S iPM It will pay you well to come to < and when here it will be to y make our store your headqu the work of remoddling 01 yg pleted it will be one of 31 ranged Department To make room eo tl on we have ] (( ZBsitrerrn-sl^ : If you can't came to see us, writ mail orders giving the proa new and stylish in goods foi SPECIAL MILLINERY S We will prepay mail, express or freij or over to any point within a radius 01 .IDE JAMES I 1644 and 1646 Main Si M COLUMBIA, Dots from South Fork. To the Editor of the Dispatch: At last the farmers in our section are looking and appearing more pleasant. Crops have made great improvement. The warm days and ?' * 1 Ll lU. nigacs nave urougub wo uuaugr. Cotton is looking first rate and corn is improving every day. Some weeks ago the general opinion was that it wa^damaged to such an extent that it CGuld never come out but since the wet weathsr ceased and the seasons i became more regular, the corn has tnrned green and is tasseling and shoots out finely and we all are in hopes of realizing a pretty fair crop: The farmers have had a great deal to contend with this year. In the spring when the time came for planting corn it was too wet to plant and when the time for planting cotton arrived we had both crops to plant and this made confusion, both needed work at the same time. Wet weather came and the result grass. I heard a practical farmer say the other day that this would be one year that he would lay by his crop in the grass. There are a few more of us that will do the same thing. Well, we are thankful, or ought to be, for what we have. ; ^ There are a good ifnany prophets and told you sos about yet, and the old adage, that man is never satisfied is true. Give some of the farmers the world and many of them I would want somewhere else for a potato patch. I heard'one of our discontents say the other day that he was looking for something awful to happen. Such hot weather was a forerunner of something bad. Says I, what you reckon it will be ? God knows, but I believe we are going to have a drought and then again, this hot weather is a mighty good sign of hail. I tell you, I am skeered every time I see a cloud rising?been a good many about, you know. Says I, my friend, whereabouts on this territorial luminary do you live ? 'Bout twenty miles above here. Thank the good Lord for that. Being you are so uneasy about His work, maybe He will give you a taste of it and let us alone. The good book says: Love thy neighbor as thyself, and we are able if we try to comply to a certain extent, but when it comes to trouble and calamities, f. rinlnmhia. and H W WAA JTHT at Hi Tin STORE.! 3 Columbia to do your shopping HI our advantage and profit to arters. We have just begun ^ ar building and when comthe most completely ar- ^ Stores in the South, sat theworkcan go put on some ^ L.O"W I=XlC3S. M ,3 :n ?i? ? -c11 ?*? o nuu ?c *yui giauij uu YUUT iptest attention. Everything a the ladieB and their homes. ALES NOW GOING ON. 1 gbt on all purchases amounting to S5 : COO miles oi Columbia. fl i LTAFP COJ breet, Corner Blanding, - ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ?. c. p NOT GETTERS MORE GOOD1 NOT S SAME GOOD 0We challenge all t claim if t CASH IS A CARD THAT WH TiTBTTO'R.NrTWIfm TO WIN* IS . MEET US AT "THE FOUNTAIN C MAIN STREETS, C W, D, Bai I'm for letting my neighbor have it. every time. I'm agreed with the nigger that prayed on the Charleston green on the night of the earth quake: "Lord stop shaking us and if you want to shake anybody, shake 'em way over in Egypt." Seif is the first law of nature and I am a law abiding citizen. I have not been able to look around this week, consequently I can't Bay anything about our tobacco friends. Madame rumor says they are gathering and housing some of the tobacco. Mr. R. B. Barr has some of his relatives from East Florida, visiting this week. Mrs. Smith, daughter and grand daughter. It is reported that there is a probability of the R F D stopping. Of all the blessings vouchsafed us by the government, the R F D is certainly among the best. No one knows this better than the farmers distant from the cities and town. I | hope and trust this is not so. Hoping a continued success for the Dispatch. H. July 12, 1903. Convict Killed Near Columbia. Columbia S. C., July 11?Two convictB at work ou the state farm in Lexington tried to escape yesterday afternoon, and as a result one of them is dead and the other dangerously wounded. Both men were negroes, one, Perry Horton, serving a five years' sentence from Lancaster, who ; was killed, and the other, George ! Mance, serving eighteen months from Greenville, who was wounded. The men made the break in the afternoon, surprising the guard and succeeding in gaining the woods. After the other convicts were locked up. a search- | i neofn xt> o Q nrorflni7dH ATlH t H A ! VJ n uu u j. ^ v. > > >. >uv , men were tracked to what is known j as the Swygert place, about sis miles J from Columbia in Lexington county. Here Mr. B. L. Swygert joined in j the search armed with a double bar- j reled gun. Going through a strip j of woods the convicts were seen running, and Mr. Swygert called for a j halt. They kept running and Swy- | gert fired both barrels, killing Horton and wounding Mance. Both men were brought to Columbia this morning, accompanied by the guards and Swygert for the inquest. U'l SAME MOM. ICE. IS FOR LESS MOM, ? i n io disapprove tms hey can. EN PLATED BY A MAN HARD TO BEAT. THIS CARD. -0 JO.," CORNER RICHLAND AND OLUMBIA, S. C. The Good Old Time Religion. To the Editor of the Dispatch: We are a blessedv people in these times, but we see many discouraging signs. I trust it will not be amiss for an old timer to pen a few lines on the good old time religion that makes a man happy soul and body. I will give a short sketch of what the old time religion has done. I can very well recollect the year 1852 when our good fathers and mothers went from house to house holding prayermeetings and exhorting the young to get religion. The time soon came following these earnest efforts when Union church was organized with about twenty-five members under the care of Rev. Rauch. He preached and worked in the church with full power for two years during which time maDy were brought into the church and to Christ. At the end of two years he got so feeble that he was compelled to give up the churchRev. Wertz then took charge. He was a great revival worker, having a protracted meeting in the church every August. During those glorious seasons there would come preachers and exhorters and laymen from all directions, asking no questions? "How their fodder would be pulled and where they could hud a comfortable place to stay."?But the question was "How many souls could they be the instrument of being converted Their full purpose was to bring full salvation to the youDg. I can look back and rejoice to see the love that was in the church in those happy days. In this way Rav. Wertz worked in Union church for 17 years during which time he built up the church to a high standard. This is not the way so much now. The questions often asked are: "Is there any money in it?*' and "How well prepared can I go.v About this time the pastoral charges came on and also the custom of stauding in prayer. The book of worship came into the church too. There was a great deal of dissatisfaction in the church. Some left the church on account of this, but we as a church stiil held to the old time religion, which makes a man happy eoul and body. We have had many times in those years to mourn and many times to rejoice over. Let us take fresh courage. Let us remember the good old times we have had in prayer meeting. I know we have a minister who will stand by the good old time religion. Brethren let ub, one and all, pray for the meeting in August that the church may be revived and the back sliders may be reclaimed and sinners convicted. It is our privilege to have full salvation and let us go expecting it. L*t us lay aside all things that hinder and come together with one purpose, to see souls saved. Oid Timer. Lsesviile, S. C Batestarg Items. The Dispatch is in receipt of the following news items over the grape, vine telephone from our sister town on the Ridge: The landscape gardeners are beautifying the grounds of the prospective tourist hotel. John Bell Towill, the genial bacbtbr editor of the Advocate, is rusticating, with other editors of the State Press Association, at White C? j. C : TXT- iUnl Wrt ofcoue opniigH. wo nuaw iusi uc will Dot fall a victim to the bewitch ing glances of some mountain nymph, but return to his home heart whole, marry some sweet Lexington girl and be happy the balance of his life. During the absence of Editor Towill, Postmaster Kneece will hold down the arm chair of the Advocate and keep the machine well oiled. The strong arm of the law was recently stretched hitherward and raked in about thirty gallons of greased lightning and pop skull which was stored contrary to law. Dr. E C. Ridgell has been shipping some V6ry good peaches to Charleston, and the city folk have been enjojing milk and peaches twice a week. ** ** i J- . mm - - A. camp sxeaaman xo o&sex. The Ninth Annual meeting of Camp Steadman, No. 668, U. C. V., will be held in the court house at this place on Tuesday, August 11th, 1903, at 10 a. m. A full attendance is earnestly requested as officers will be elected and other important business in connection with our organization attended to. M. D. Harman, Comd'r. Geo. W. Reeder, Adjt. * i Let us have that dollar you owe us. f U bun ' 'Shoes as STYLE, LIGHTNESS AND STRE LINED IN OUR Spring and Sm FOR MEN A Every shape and all kinds of leather are ofTe whole truth about the.-e shoes would ; believe your eyes DYEING and Cohen's SI 1636 MA1N2ST.. < Attend the Summer School.. The Stammer School for Teachers will be held at Lexington from July 21sc to August 18;b. I earnestly desire that ail teachers who can will attend. The instructors will be Prof J. R T. Major, of the Batesburg Graded school and Dr. Robt. A. Law. The school will have able 9 instructors and those who attend ?* 11 t*" iiwii/ik Vv/if t/iv wm ue ucueutcu nuu muv/u ucuti. prepared to do successful wori io the several schools in which they might teach. There is no compulsion upon the teachers to attend this school, except the regulation of the State Board that a certificate (which expires in two years; shall not be renewed without a new regular examination, unless the teachers attend the Summer School when such is held in the county, or "shows to the State Board of Education some satisfactory reason for not doing so.'* Owing to this regulation it will be necessary for those whose certificates expire to attend, and those who do not belong to this, I hope and feel sure that if they have their school work at heart and desire to do good and efficient work, will grasp the opportunity if they possibly can do so. There will be no examination for new certificates at the end of the school as held before only renewal of old ones, however those who desire to secure new certificates at the regular examination in September, will be greatly benefited by the work done in the Summer School. The work will be the study of matter rather than of the method. The course of iustruction will be Algebra, Geography, History, English Grammar, Pedagogy, Composition and Literature. The text books to be used have already been published in a fnrmpr ThnSG who haven't the books can get them at my office. / Board can be secured at two dollars per week. Will be glad to assist any one in securing a boarding place if nolified. Let all attend who can and if possible be on hand at the opening. Very respectfully, John S. Derrick, Superintendent of Education. Bottled Ginger Ale, Sarsaparilla, Strawberry and Plain Soda on ice at the Bazaar Fountain. NGTH MOST SKILLFULLY COMi NEW LINE OF inner Footwear.. 7 NDWOMEX. ,~35 ... , ired at very moderate prices Telling 'hs 3eein like tulsome praise. C me m and when in our city. L CLEANING toe/Storc, (9 JULU Am blA, 5. U.