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? > . r & fiepresentatiue fietuspaper. Sonera Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties hike a Blanhet. VOL XXXIY\ LEXIS GTOA, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27. 1904, 12. ^ GLOBE DRY GOODS COHf ANY, f&a , Jm "W. 13L. ZL?02TCICT02>T, CT?5_, ^E-A.^T-A.C3-EI2, t?JW> MAIN 8TBEET, - -- -- -- - C OLUMBIA, H. O. Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. If ! iedlAer-wei^ht Prices. I October tstf J > I I I ! Once 1 ! A child knows a thing he remembers it, bat his mother always forgets that ! cheap shoes are not chesp shoes.* She's been stuck time j I and time again, thinking she j would save a quarter, but ene will keep on trying. o i First Class ' School shoes here j cost $1.00, $1 251 and $1.50. Ac- j cording to age of | child. They are | worth having. LEVER, j "THE SHOE MAN," ' 1603 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. j * Feb. 6-ly. DR. F. G. GILMORE, DEiTTIST, Located at no. 1510 main street. ! over Husemann's Gun 8tore, Columbia, 8. C., where be will be glad to see his former as well as new patients. Dr. Gilmore will be at Drafts Hotel in Lexington cm Tuesday and Wednesday, February 9th and 10th. to accommodate patients who find it inconvenient to call at bis Columbia office. January 28, 1901?tf. Fine Chickens. Large fine black langshavg and White Leghorn Fowls. Some beautiful Cockerels and Pallets Woald be fine for mixing on the farm. Eggs for hatching per setting of 13 f-ggs?Langshang 75c; Leghorn 503. Call and see them or send yonr order. Satisfaction guaranteed. DISPATCH OFFICE. |9 Best Coutfh Syrup. Tastes Good. Use 1 TAFPS DEFAR vl> ?TB | GREATEST Si T' We need more room. ( ^9> such an extent that we nms Jjrv play our beautiful goods. W gg| store next door to us aud the i ^ ing down the dividing wall, jiv Dirt and unless we get rid of rjp play we will have many arti THE GREAT 1 Z& Is just now at its height I thousands of beautiful UN dreds and hundreds of yards sorts. Besides these there and Edgings, Laces and Rib the regular prices. We hav< hundreds of these Undermu' cording to material, from 10 now sell more to make roori Send in your orders at once. ^ SPECIAL SALES IN EA To further reduce the sfc offer special inducements in ? pay you to order right now. ^ We prepay mail, bipress ^61 amounting to $G 00 or over si miles of Columbia. jj aHEJAMEyiri Columt it Peak ITews. j To the Editor of the Dispatch: Mr. Ei. WessiDger and family have moved to their plantation Dear j Pomaria where he will farm this year. Mr. W. M. Wilson is pawiDg lumber for the erection of a warehouse next to the new Depot. Last Friday was a dark and gloomy ^ day with a heavy downpour of rain " that lasted nearly ail day. The farmers in this section, encouraged by the high price of cottoD, are preparing to plant more this spring than usual. Already, wagons are coming in for fertilizer?. Mies Enoise Cjunts is visiting relatives in Peak. Mr. Bright Lindler spent last ] Monday in Columbia. Mr. Hamraett Counts, of Uoion, is visiting relatives in this community The election of Dr. J A. B. 8cherer to succeed Dr. Cromer as President of Newberry C>llegp, and his acceptance are a source of much pleasure to the many friends cf the College in this communitv. C Mr. W. M Wilson made a flying busiDeFs trip to CrosR Hill last week. Quantities of lumber and shingles I are beiDg hauled here daily for ship- | ment to otber'places. - \ Mrs. G M. Stock retnroed home on Satorday from Whit mire's where she visited the family of Dr. Douglas j Mrs. Mac D Busbart, of Blvtb- I wood, came np on Saturday to visit | relatives. Mr. John Busbart spent a few days id Columbia last wp*?k. Mr. Ben WilsoD, of White Oiks, came home on Sunday to spend the day. c Master Francis Douglas, of Whit- < mire's, is spending awhile with his ? grandmother, Mrs G. M Stuck. ] The people have stopped gram- j bling since the Southern R. R has ^ resumed the old schedule. E. Baptist 3?eetiags. The Upper Division of the Lexington Baptist Association will meet at Lewiedele on next Saturday, Jan. 30, at 10 o'clock a. m. The Lower Division will meet with the church at Swansea on the same ? day, as above s>a*ed i rurur PTftoc ii imeni oiunc m iLE OF All. | ? _m Ihir business has grown to Pgj t have larger space to dis<e have therefore taken the Bfljjg carpenters are at work tear- i There is a lot of Dust and gjj|| lots of goods now oe> dis- |g|$ L-les badly soiled. ipj ;VIIITE SALE ;; h and we have on display &?& DERMUSLIXS and hnn- $M ; of new White Goods of all BP are miles of Embroideries fl| bona all at less than half jfjf? e already sold hundreds and ^ ilins ranging in price, ae- pe? c to $15.00 each. We must a. Don't delay a minute. 15 Right now. <ERY DEPARTMENT. ?|| ock all over the store, we every department. It will |5 or freightpurehwes lipped within a. radiu- of COJ j^Sg PAPP COMPANY, 1 da? S. C. jg| ? Do You Want to Prosper in 1904? If so, yoi will visit THE FOUNTAIN CORNER MAIN AND RICHLAND STREET3, Columbia, - - - S. C FOR YOUR Dry Goods and Shoes. LADIES' Ready to Wear Hats a Specialty \ ye contracted for all our cotton goods whei cotton was low. Tho Fountain, Corner Maio and Richland Streets, I0LUHBXA, S C. W. D. BATES, Manager hraoil AacI Calfl HI Dill VIKM WniB AT SWANSEA, S. G. I have a $6,000 stock of goods and they must be reduced to $3,000 within the NEXT SIXTY DAYS. Now in order to convince one and all I ask you to call and see that I mean just what I say, for instance : J2 yds. white homespun. *. '. $1.0( JO lbs. standard granulated sugar, .' $1.0< ? ? ? /"v . .2 lbs. good green cottee. ". ipi.ui .00 lbs. table salt *. \ '. 50( t boxes, 10c star lye, .' *. '. Shoes, Hats, Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, to no end at and below cost. Come and be convinced. YOURS FOR SIXTY DAYS, PAUL E. HUTTO, s s. c. m YORK RACKET STPll Batesburg, S. C. Bargains! Bargains! r>? nmvna v tavttadv it ,?;n of 1UU1.TI/.II, xj., nrc wax L'aci ab and .Mow ill Til Cost every article of WINTER GOOES in our Big Stores. This is no fake sale. We mean to tarn the goods into money, and make room for our ImmnnoA \nmiiff Illllllvliw Dj'l 11 IE i J Will. New York Racket Store. F \TESBlRO, 8, C. I ^ I Batesburg ITotes. | To the Editor of the Dispatch: I Oar community was very much grieved to learn of the death of Msj H. A. Meetze. The Major was well and favorably known by nearly all of our Deoolo and his visits to our town, which formerly was quite often, was j always a pleasure to us. ? Another death which was exceedingly painful to our community was that some days ago of it^v. J. M. Xorris long and lovingly known by a great many persons in Lexington county. He had reached the ripe old age of 87 and had been a faithful minister of the Gospel for a great many years. He had served most all i r\ T.nrinort am in ^ I'lit) UUUIUUCO 1 LI JLJCAiugtvu IU some capacity, and when too old for ^ the pastorate he preached whenever practicable regardless of financial rewards or pay of any kind, as a friend of the poor and oppressed. He waB in advance of any man I ever knew and the eaciifices he made to help thoBe who could not help themselves, if known and printed, would probably - fill a volume that would do hcrfcor to one of 'rod's noblest^creatures. He was a brother tf that Ripe Veteran | of the cross, Rev. A. Pope Norris, f who survives to still coy aloud from Zion's watchtowers. Prepare ye, the ways of the Lord make his paths straight Occasional. I Have You Received seed? . i Washington, D. C., Jan. 11, 1901. Dear Sit: I am sending yon a number of ^ packages of garden seed; which I * would be glad to have you distribute 3 as equally as you can among the 3 people of your community who will i r? most appreciate them. Having only ^ a limited number of packages, and it ! being impossible to send to everyone in the State. I have thought best to adopt this method, in the hope that the seed will reach the largest number of people, and do the most good. If anyone who has not received p seed will write me, I will try to supply them. fours very truly, - A. C. Latimer. t ? ?-?s Jl // ^ i Nothing but Solid Let Every Pair ( We have a larger stock than ever before. A < We give a pair of $3 50 shoes every Mature ing lucky unmbfrs, g( Cohen's Sli ? 1 1636 MAIN ST.. C A Terrible Ezplosion. Pittsburg, Jan. 25?From all tbat can be learned at this hour between 1*0 and 190 men are lying dead in the headings and passageways of the Harwich mine of the Allegheny Coal ? ? ~ /^1 - ^.1* *b/\ nl f nf o CULU [JUL) Y 811 UUfB WK'A, LUC ICOUil ui <* terrific explosion today. Cage after cige has gone down into- the mine and come up again but only one miner of all those who went down to work this morning has been brought to the surface. The rescued man is Adolpb Gunia and he is still in a semi-conscious condition at the temporary hospital at the rude school house on the hillside above the mine. In addition to the miners who were at work when the explosion occurred, it is now believed by practially all of the men of the rescue party who come up the 220 foot vertical shaft for a warming and breathing spell, that Selwyn Taylor, the Pittsburg mining engineer, who plotted the mine and who was the first to reach tbe bottom after tbe explosion Happened, is now amoDg the list of dead. NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL Pittsburg, Jan. 2G?At 12:15 this morning Robert North and Michael Cain of the rescue party, came to the surface and reported that Mr. Selwyn Taylor had been found alive aDd that 75 of the miners had been located, the majority of whom it is be'ieved are alive. ^Tearing Completion. The brick work on the Department Store is now about completed and the building will soon be turned over | to the carpenters and plasterers for completion. This building is quite an ornament to our town. Tbe brick front is a very handsome one and tbe owners of this structure, as well as the workmanshiD. should receive the ! praise of our people. Mr. H. L. Oswald is the manager of this enterprise and is a thorough business man, having had a number of years experience in this business and will no doubt make it quite a success. - ??? ! Dalirquent, we would be pleased to have that cart wheel you owe us. So send or bring her in. Buy Your WINTER SHOES OF COLUMBIA, S. C. ither Shoes Sold and 3-uaranteed. Coo pou given ^ith every 25 cents purchase, lay night tm'il Chiistmas to parties hold>od when presented at loe Store, COLUMBIA, S. C.