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The Lexington Dispatch. Wednesday, October 14,1903. PENCIL AND SCISSORS. Wayside Notes Gathered Here and There by a Dispatch Man. Send an exhibit to the county fair. Bead the Clerk of Court's sales in this issue. We are haviDg ideal Indian summer days. When the County fair is opened the band will begin to play. Mrs. Eugenia Hendrix visited relain PnlnmVlio loof. tCOoIr 1U V/U4UUiM?U ?i?wv *v vva*? Come to the County fair young man and bring your sweetheart. t These braqy days remind us very forcibly of the approach cf hoary headed winter. Mr. G. J. King, of Witt's Mill, was among the visitors at this office last Thursday. Do you want a good 22 calibre riflef If so, come and get one cheap, at this office. Mrs. Mamie Muller has moved to ber father's, Major H. A. Meetze, where she will in the future reside. * Friend Elias Metz, a prominent citizens of Irmo, dropped in to shake hands with us Friday. CaDt. Black, the efficient book c keeper at the penitentiary, called to see as while in town yesterday. Now is the time to plant an advertisement and the Dispatch is a fertile field to plant it. Mr. Davis Weed, a live and progressive farmer of Irmo, called in to see as while in town. Mr. P. D. Meetze, one of Ballentine's respected citizens called to see as while in town Saturday. H. L. Oswald has a complete line of heavy lap robes, which are going at bargain prices. Mr. JLrthur Metz is building him a house in Barnwell oounty and will reside there when finished. Sergeant Clay Roberts, of the' penitentiary guard, is on a visit to relatives in and around this place. The friends of the State fair are looking for a large attendance during the week commencing October 27th. ; Mr. Cheatham, of the Edgefield Chronicle, was in town yesterday and graced our sanctum with his presence. Mr. Jas. Connor, of Sand Mountain, this county, is among the interested spectators upon the Tillman trial. The small folk are saving up their niokles to pay their way into the circus, which will show in Columbia on October* 31st. Mr. John J. Fox, Jr., left for Augusta, Ga., last Thursday to accept a position with the Augusta Lumber Company. Buy your clothing, shoes, hats, dress goods, ehirts, trunks, harness, saddles, etc., from H. L. Oswald. He will treat you right. Mr. Charles Connor, formerly of this county, but now a resident of the State of Florida, was in town last week on business. Dr. J. J. Robb, of New Brookland, died last Wednesday and was buried in Elmwood cemetery in the city of Columbia Thursday. We have again made arrangements whereby we can offer to cash subscribers the Dispatch and the Home and Farm for Si-25 a year. Our line of fall and winter hats cannot be surpassed. They are nobby and give the wearer a dressy appearance. Meetze & Son. Every one who can should make an exhibit at the County Fair. Not only exhibit, but attend the fair to see what your neighbors ar6 doing. This is about the only opportunity that the people of the county have of meeting together, so be sure and attend the County Fair, opening next Tuesday, 20th. Mr. S. F. Wheeler, a son of Mr. Henry Wheeler, of this county, has purchased the Columbia hotel, in the city of Columbia and it will be run by him in the future. Don't forget that the County fair opens next Tuesday, the 20th inst. Rev. D. A. Sox, of Carrolton, Ga., called to see ua last Friday. He is pastor of the Lutheran church in j that town and a prominent school j teacher of that place. Young's dry goods store, Lever's | old stand, Columbia, is the place to j do your trading when hunting bar- j gains in dry goods, notions, etc. 1 ' " _* a.i 1\ ? "iUonaiKe unarms us tuat iutie will b9a Sunday school celebration at Oak Grove Baptist church on October 24th, being the fourth Sund&v in this month. While attending the County fair next week be sure to visit The Home Bank and see their modern banking room, fire and burglar proof safe and vault and safety deposit boxes. Dr. W. H. Timmerman, President of the First National Bank of Batesburg, was in town Monday hearing the arguments in the Tillman murder trial and while here dropped in to see us. During the County fair the cffice | of the Lexington Dispatch will be opened to receive entries of every dollar doe the paper. Call and get a receipt for your entry. Dr. Charles Perryclear, of Orangeburg, is visiting friends in town. Dr. Perryclear resided in this place once for a short time and was head clerk in the drug store of Dr. J. E. Kauf-1 manp, now the Kaufmann, Drug Co. The best line of the most fashionable and durable shoes in town can be found at Meetze & Son. Call and see them before purchasing elsewhere. Mr. Chariss H. Drafts, who has held a position at the Wheeler Hotel, at Hendersonville, N. C., during the summer, is at home to spend a short vacation when he will go to Columbia to accept a position at the Columbia Hotel. "Strength and vigor come of good food, duly digested. 'Force,? a readyto-serve wheat and barley food, adds no burden, but sustains, nourishes, invigorates." Mr. Brown, editor and proprietor of the kew Sentinel of Barnwell, and connected with the constabulary department of the State dispensary, has been in attendance upon the trial of Col. James H. Tillman and gave us a pleasant call Friday. POlEYXKlKiEYCURE Hakes Kidneys and Bladder Right Before another issue of the Dispatch the Tillman trial will in all probability, be settled one way or another. At this time it is an impossibility to forecast the verdict, but from the concensus of opinions it will either be a mistrial or an acquittal. If you want a nice buggy, don'i fail to see H. L. Oswald's stock. He has the largest and most complete line to be found. Prices are the lowest. We have been informed that Mr. J. M. Malpass, of BateBbnrg, intend 4 shortly to move to Marlboro county. Mr. Malpass was our correspondent at Batesburg and was recently a , prominent and successful business man of that place, but sold out his business interests to the New York Backet Store. A fine line of all kinds of hardware and cuttlery, including iron, Steele, pocket and table cuttlery, guns and ammunition atT. B. Aughtry & Co'a , Columbia. Constable W. L. K. Johnston is makiDg quite a reputation as a detective and an alert and active officer. On last Friday he and a posse cap- j tured 32 gallons of "booze'' at ; Authur's station, between this place ; and Columbia, consigned to J. TV. ! Wingard, a clerk in Drafts' Lunch Room on Washington street in Co ! lumbia. A terriffic hurricane visited the j middle Atlantic coa3t on Oct. 12,doing i great damage to shipping in the path j of the storm and the cities and towns i along the storm swept coast also j suffered great damage. Ann r.f q iorr?oof Kocf Imno I VUVJ ui vw idigcoi auu ucot iiiico of wagons, buggies and other vehicles ! is carried in stock by T. B. Aughtiy j & Co, Columbia. If you want a j stylish turnout that is built to wear, j call on this firm. Come to the County fair next week, j A complete equipment for one mile telephone line, for sale at an extremely low price. For further particulars apply at this office. BONE FOOD Soft and crooked bones mean bad feeding. Call the disease rickets if you want to. The growing child must eat the right food for growth. Bones O O must have bone food, blood must have blood food and so j on through the list. Scott's Emulsion is the right treatment for soft bones in children. Littledoseseveryday give the stiffness and shape that healthy bones should have. Bow legs become straighter, loose joints grow stronger and firmness comes to the soft heads. Wrong food caused the trouble. Right food will cure it. o In thousands of cases Scott's Emulsion has proven to be the right food for soft bones in childhood. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists. 409-415 Pearl Street, New York, 50c. and $1.00; all druggists. .-x ? rogre?nivc tluttor. A very rich man once bought a news- j paper. It was an afternoon newspaper, and he was interested in it for a month or two. One of his ideas was the publication of a noon edition that should contain more news than the noon editions of his competitors. He thought hard on this problem and finally decided it would be a great stroke to print the decisions of the United States supreme court at 12 o'clock each Monday when the court was in session. This plan was complicated somewhat by the fact that the supreme court does J. x a-M TT not meet mini noun. nuwuxer, uie editor was equal to 1he emergency. He telegraphed to his Washington correspondent, "See the supreme court at once and have them meet at 11 o'clock so we can get the decisions in our noon edition."?Saturday Evening Post. A DiKcriminatlngr Dor. "Yes. the neighbors complain about my dog." "Does he bite?" "Xo. he's too affectionate. He has the reputation of being a judge of beauty, and every time a pretty woman passes along the street he frisks about extravagantly." "I should think the women would like that." "Yes; but there are only two pretty women on the street, and the others complained."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sad Experience. The Corn?I see they are trying to corner cotton. The Wheat?Yes. poor fellow. It's the first downward step. They'll turn him into a novel next and then dramatize him.?Memphis Commercial Appeal. The Muse ami Pegasus. When in her jaunty habit goes Myrtilla for a canter. My thoughts forsake the ways of prose And run to rhyme instanter. Beholding her. how could there b* A surer inspiration? Are not Pegasus and she The proper combination? Her pony in my fancy seems A winged beast, whoso pinions In safety bear my dream of dreams Across I.ove's wide dominions. The slender quill wherewith I write. Transformed, becomes a feather From Pegasus, and so delight And dream are mine together. Line upor. line the rhythmic pace Is what Myrtilla makes it; The song is hers whose perfect grac* To melody awakes it. Hers be it evermore to choose A lyric or an idyl. And mine be it to love my muse. And Pegasus, her bridle! -Life. l'ho bucalyiitn* Tree. When the world's supply of coal is exhausted, which is not a matter for immediate worry, the eucalyptus tree may he grown as a substitute. This eucalyptus stores up more of the sun's energy than vny other tree (1 per cent of thitt reflected on the unit of nrea), and in South Africa it has been found cheaper to raise it than to import coal. An acre of eucalyptus plantation Avill produce each year the equivalent of thirty tons of coal. His Mimical Taxtc. "You never applaud at a concert.** "No." answered Mr. Cumrox. "If I j enjoy a piece well enough to applaud it | I know by ihat fact that it isn't the sort of music that mother and tin girls j would approve of my applauding."? j Washington Slat*. Convictions that remain silent, are i neither sincere nor profound.--I-'.aIzac. Speech inn kin it*. "What do you think of my speech?" j said the aspiring young orator. "Not bad." snid the cold man of ex- ; perience. "I devoted a great deal of 1 bought to | it." "Yes. that's a mistake young men j are apt to make. You put thoughts into your speeches instead of telling | the audience slories." Annette Dorothy is certainly a lucky girl. Sim must have been horn with a gold spoon in her mouth. (Jenovieve Yes. and from all indications I should judge it was a tablespoon. Cincinnati Kiiquirer. ii i ???MMPWUMWOMJUP I WILL BE FOUND | I fV: i] " l! : i ':i nJ-PU-.-r' > ii j..'.!''1,' ? .It ',- i- u , .??< ?. -j. OLD HICKORY WAGOfl of our cou Gregory=Rh 1115 PLAIN STREE February 14?ly. ' ? WE OFFER < BAGGING 500 per cent, profit to farn prices befc OUR 1ST SHOES, DRY G00I IS COMPLETE Ii\ EV BUGGIES EVER OFFERED IN AG? LEXINGTON. TBAOc MARK W. I\ LEXOCTON, - $8 Solid Osk Bureaus F. B. Glass 19x24. [ 1 00 Dining Chairs, c* $5.95, ! Rockers to match, 1 5 10 Solid Oak Bureaus, F. B. Glass 20x24, j 12 00 Folding Lonagi $8 50, j Large Arm Bookers, c 12 Solid Oak Bureaus, F. B. Glass 24x20, i K. Safes, 2 50, 3 1)0 a $10.00 ! Bed Springs, 1 00, 2 * 6 Sold Oak Beds, 6 feet high 4 90 j Lace Curtains, 1 00 t< * o Solid Oak Beds, 5 feet high, $4 10. i Stoves, all ware comp " 4 S^lid Oak Beds, 4 feet high, 3 25. K. Tables, 1 50. 1 75 " 3 Solid Oak Beds, 3} feet high, 2 50. j Extension Tables, sol "? 5?? f ?P'ar ?*ds- h|" a"d. d"k' $2"?- Bab Cradles. ! 00. 75c. 3 slat Back Cane Seat Oak Chairs. 60c. J Goc. 3 slat Back Split Seat Oak Chairs, 50c. ^lce Mattresses from 4 50 oak f., 8 Day Clock, guaranteed,, 2 90. Sideboards from 9 75 AND LOTS OF OTHER BA We want your trade and v to se ma u w m m ? 1231 MAIN, STREET, C COLUMBIA, - - - E.G. OOOE Make your orders. v o isia | ( Grove's Tastel 3 has stood the test 25 years. Average A I bottles. _ Does this record of merit appeal Enclosed with every bottle is a Ten Cent* p< l AT OUR PLACE. T.. m *Iji iiHii* IS are first in the hearts mtrymen, OQ- Mule Co., T, COLUMBIA, S. C. ?000 BALES A.ND TIES, iers. Don't fail to get our >re buying. OCX OF IS AND NOTIONS, ERY DEPARTMENT. \ WAGONS " ROOF, s. c. i Paai^niimii^P I I rUKNIIUIft! I me seat, oak, 85c. \ Beautiful Hall Rack from G 00 aud up. !5. | shades, lots ol them, 23c. was 10c. 3H, 10 00. | Shades, aud good ones. too. ' >ak, 2 00. ! Nice Bed Spreads Jarge size 98c. was 1 50. ,nd 5 00. Large Heavy Bed Quilts. 1 60 was 2 50. 50, 3 50 and 5 CO. J See our Lamps, 1 00 was 1 50. 0 1 50 per pair. t See our Rugs. ?6x72, 1 (X) was 1 50, lete, 8 25, 10, and 12. j See our genuine Smyner Rugs. 30x60, 1 98 to 2 50. J was 2 50. id oak, 3 90 to 10 00. ste our Iron Beds, 3 50 was 5 00. Sec onr Nice Pictures, 1 00 was 1 50. 1 90 up. See our White Bowl and Pitcher. 90c. was up. 1 25. RG-AINS IN FURNITURE. trill treat vou right. Come e use )?POSITE Y, M. C. A.. - - - - - s. a ' I [. Manager, J We guarantee satdion. d ess Chill Tonic 1 nnual Sales over One and a Half Million I to you? No Cure, No Pay. 50c. I ackage of Grove's Black Root* Liver Pills. B j i I 1 J 4