The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, September 28, 1904, Image 1
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$ VOL.. XXXIC LEXIXGTOX S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1904. 47.
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Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention.
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We have Shoes for everybody,
The big man and the tall?
{ ^ For those who wear them very larg6.
And those who wear th6m small.
We have Shoes for the merchant
prince,
The Banker and the Farmer too,
For the Parson and the lawyer
Anri a nail* nr on fnr TOD.
We have Shoes for the hoary sage,
Or the infant on mother's knees;
Oars are the kind thai wear the best
* And are always sure to please.
We have Shoes for the school boy.
To run and tag bis mate,
Or Shoes for the blushing lover
Hanging o'er the gate.
We have shoes for the cowboy
Of the wild and wooly West,
> . And Shoes for the sporty dude
Who always buys the best.
To be continued.
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LEVER. *SHOE MAN.
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Men's
Fall Furnishings
MY STOCK IS NEW AND COMPLETE
IN :
Neckwear, Gloves Underwear, Half Hose,
Handkerchiefs, Shirts. Knox <fc Stetson's
Soft and Stiff Hats. Snit
Cases, and Hand Bags. White
and Fancy Teste.
SUm MADE TO ORDER.
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A FIT GUARANTEED.
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HABERDASHER,
1514 MAIN STBEET COLUMBIA, S. Q.
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COLUMBIA,
Fearful Accident.
Through the careless of an engineer
on the Southern Railway, and bis
disobedience of orders two trams carrying
a heavy list of passengers collided
near Hodges, TenD, on September
24th, sending fifty four people to
death, and mangling aod maiming
and injuring 320, several of whom
will die. The claim of failure to see
either the station or signals could not
be set up by the engineer of the
west-bound train were be alive to enter
a plea of defence, ae the accident
happened in broad daylight and, according
to the best information obtainable,
be had the orders in a little
frame in front of him, as his monster
of iron and steel rushed by New
Market and scon after came upon an
east-hound passenger train, making
for New Market in compliance with
instructions to meet the west-bound
train, which carried the sleepers from
the blast for Knoxville, Chattanooga
and other Southern cities.
The possibility exists that the illfated
engineer may have been asleep
or that death bad suddenly taken the
sight from his eyes before New
Market was reached. Bat nothing
is known save that the orders were
not obeyed. The trains were on time
and not making over thirty-five miles
flic imnoA> o a thor rnnn/1.
C1U UUUt j JO!) l/uo iLu^auu aa < uuj iuuuu
ed a curve and Cime suddenly upon
each ofcber was frightful. Both engines
and the major portions of both
trains were demolished, and why the
orders were disregarded or misinterpreted
probably will never, be known,
as the engineers of the two trains
were crushed, their bodies remaining
for hours under the wreckage of the
monster locomotives, which but a
short time before had leaped forward
at the touch of their strong hands
upon the throttle.
A PASSENGERS STpRY.
John W. Brown, of Kogersville,
Tenn, a newspaper editor, was in the
rear coach of the west bound train.
When the fearful jolt came, he said,
ail the seats in tne car were torn
loose and people aud seats were burled
to the front end of the car. When
he recovered the shock he beard the
screams and groans of the injured
and dying in every direction.
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"1 i I? ?06 car, uaiu iur juruwn,
uas soon as I could, and walked to
the main part of the wreck. Is was
the most horrible sight I ever witnessed.
I eaw a woman pinioned by a
peice of split timber, which had gone
completely though her body. A little
child, quivering in death's agony, lay
beneatn the woman. I saw the child
die, and within a few feet of her lay
a woman's head, while the decapitated
body was several feet away. Another
little girl, whose body was fearfully
mangled, was calling for her
mother. I have since learned that
she was Lucille Conner, of Knoxville,
and that both her parents were killed,
I heard one woman, terribly maDgled,
praying earnestly to be spared for
ND STOVES.
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posite City Hall,
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her children, bar. dea*h relieved her
sufferings in a few minute*.
"Both engines Hcd all of the
coaches of No 15 were literally demolished.
rbe smoker and baggage
car completely eo. The sleepers remained
oo the track undamaged.
Both engines lay to the north of the
track, jammed together into one mass
of indescribable ruios. The cars
which were demolished were piled on
the wrecked engines."'
Register aad Vote.
Daily Item.
Tbe Republicans, it is predicted,
will put out candidates for congress
in every district in this State in which
the negroes are numerous and will
do so for the purpose of contesting
the election of tbe Democrats who
are elected. They will try to induce
white republicans of intelligence and
some degree of respectability to become
candidates to the end that the
republicans in congress may have
some shadow of excuse for unseating
the Democrats. Wben a candidate,
like Dintzler, of OraDgeburg, goes to
Washington to contest the seat of a
well qualified man like Mr. Lever,
the fair minded republicans are not
prepossessed in favor of their brother
republican from the South, and are
not willing to go to the length of
violating their ideas of right and jus
lice 10 UDseat a wormy representative,
though he be a Democrat, to seat an
ignorant negro. The plans of therepublicans
are of no concern to us,
some Democrats may say, but that
would be a mistaken idea, for we are
vitally concerned. We mention these
rumors concerning the republican
plans for the purpose of again emphasizing
the necessity for every Democrat
to register and vote at the general
election. If the Democrats do
their duty and vote in the general
election, as they do in the primary, it
will be impossible to unseat our representatives.
Register aDd vote.
We Have $31.16 Apiece.
The amount of money in circulation
in the United States is now greater
than at any other time in the
history of the country, the aggregate
being $2,558,279,984 Notwithstanding
the loss in volume through the
loan to the Cuban Republic, this
totalis $169 378 806 more than on
September 1,1903
Bised on the estimates of the
Treasurv experts of a population of
82,098,000, the amount in circulation
if equally distributed would give each
man, woman and child in the United
States $31.16
The per capita circulation has risen
steadily at a faster rate than the
population bap increased. Oa September
1. 1903. it was $29 90; on the
same date m 1902 it was $28 55: for
1901 it was $28 18 and for 1900 it
was $26 85, wbile on September 1,
1898, it was $23 96, an increase of
23 per cent, in six years.
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f \ T wii you are
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V^Jn jjM i f\ mixed Cheviots
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THE. PRINCETON
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M. L. R1NAJ
1523 Main Street,
Reflections of Billy Felix.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
The backbone of summer seems to
be broken and the cool winds of the
north begin to keep sign among the
pine boughs.
Cotton has been opening rapidly,
the farmers are gathering it. the ginners
are ginning it, the merchants
are buyiing it and the farmers ?
well be seems to be satisfied with ten
cent per pound.
Mr. J. G Fallaw can now be found
behind the counter of Mr. J. C
Reynolds of Swansea, where he will
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be delighted to see his old friends
?LIU uuotuuicio
Every white voter in South Carolina
should prepare himself for the
general election, go to the polls early
and vote for Judge Parker and A F.
Lever.
I am in bed on my back and have
been for three days aod the probability
dow is, I may be here several
days more. My hands are nervous,
blistered and eore from plowing up
millet, stubs. Oh! my, what hard
work that is. One good thing I did
not have many to turn out. Something
less than a quarter of an acre.
Such a fodder pulling I had in that
patch. Three hands in there two
weeks off aDd on?off more than on
?finally'I got it to the cane mill;
three days grinding aDd cockiDg.
Here is how much I got from the
patch: One barrel, 284 gallons, 2
kegs each 5 gallons, one jug 1? gallons.
The miller's toll, whicn was
the 8th, which you Eee run it up in
the figures of 45 or more gallons on
less than quarter of an acre. I weDt
for some of the syrup, but I took
good care to keep the bung end in
the opposite direction. Now we can
feast on new syrup and sweet biscuits
made from flour manufactured at Mr.
George's fine roller mill.
Wonder how maDy of the succ'essful
candidates can face the dear people
two years hence with the consciousness
of having done their duty.
Yours for success and mine for
locomotive power. Billy Felix.
Gaston., 8. C., Sept. 23, 1904.
Dots from Brookland.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
We are moving along nicely in our
town.
Messers C. T. Weed, C. R Costner,
N. Gr. Gable and J. E. Addy are taking
instructions by mail in a course
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01 CO lion caruiug auu apiLiuiug iiulu
Scranton, Pa. They are preparing
for any kind of mill work, which
| means six or eight months hard
; study.
| The I)uek mill is running six days
i in* a week and is using more cotton
j than any other mill in the State. Mr
i L. I. Guion, as superintendent, is a
| moving mill man. The mill is runj
ing ten to twelve bales of cotton
I more per day than it did under any
j other superintendent.
Messrs. Stalling k Awtrey are doYOU
READY?
ready tor your FALL S(JTT we're ready to
ew ideas in colorings, and the late kinks in
ke-up of our FASHIONABLE CLOTHES,
ost reliable houses in America.
IlllTf Rfl T?I TT
- the choicest things to slip away from you.
)T than the quality justifies Men's fancy
, Cassimeres and Worsteds, cut in corrtct
$12.50, $15, $18.50.
and $20.00.
i makin? Suits to order charges one>r
the same patterns and then cannot
. A word tc the wise is sufficient.
Order by Mail.
refund Money if not Satisfactory.
II Ti TI,e
iLlX*^ Clothier.
COLUKSJA, S. C.
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| iDg a good dry goods business here,
j Oar soldier boys were delighted
| with their M&nassas trip, and were
! glad to have with them Col. M. D.
Harman on the old battle tields.
Messrs. stalling &. Awtrey are
making arrangements to light our
churches with electric lights.
The canal is very low.
We need ruin badly.
Conference has passed and our
TTloif a??o mm AnAAln U A A n
vionuio auu uui pcupic uau a pj^acuui
time. Boy.
Obituary.
Daniel E. SbulJ was born October
30, 1843, and departed this life
September 24. 1904. He was married
to Miss M E. Weesinger, January
30, 18G8, and to them were
born three daughters add one sod,
twelve grandchildren; two dead.
He joined the M. E Church South
in early life aDd lived a consistent
life. He enlisted in Company H.,
20th Regiment, and was a good soldier,
as his Capt. Roof remarked who
was present at nis funeral. He
leaves a wife, mother and many rela
tives and friends to mourn his loss.
Peace to his memory.
N. S Younginer.
Court.
The jury in the McDaniel murder
case, alter being out seven hours,
brougat in a verdict of 'mot guilty."
After nassiuff sentences as follows
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the Court of Sessions closed:
Boston Jone*, 3 months or $40.
The fine was paid.
Wm. Lytes, for housebreaking and
larceny; three years on the gang.
Abranam Lincoln Sheppard, for
burglary; live years on the gaDg.
The regular rail terra of court of
Common Pleas opened Monday morning
and Judge Purdy promptly began
the despatch of business. There are
fifty-one jury cases on the trial docket
with only one week allowed us for
the term. Heretofore we were given
three and sometimes four weeks for
the fall term, but the last Legislature
changed the law so as to give us only
one, and it is a hardship on litigants
I as well as the cause for special terms
of court.
The first case tried was brought
for John P. Price vs. Southern Raili
way Company. Mr. Price claimed
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damage-s ior personal injury, - naving
; been struck and thrown to the ground
| by a moving passenger train in Lees|
ville, while alighting therefrom, on
i December 23, of last year, but the
| verdict was against him.
I The next jury trial was begun !
J yesterday morning, entitled Simon
and Janip Mfk v*. D. F. Etird, |
! brought by Martin & Sturkie aod !
| defended by Edrd & Dreher and J. B. ;
i Wingard Toi? is * personal injury I
| damage suit. Verdict for defendant.
The housekeepers feel the need of a
| green grocer in town. There is
J money in ibi- bu?iDess for someone.
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Every Pair C
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j They are here and of cour.-e are beauties bee
and Low Cuts. Blacks and Tans, All Leathe
invited to call wnen in the city and inspe
Cohen's Sli
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Local Items.
Register Monday and pin your
last tax receipt to the certificate so
as to be in readiness to vote for Lever
on the 8ch of November. This is
important, so attend to it at once.
A commission has been issued to
the Batesburg Telephone Company.
The capital is $500 and the petitionera
are W. P. Timmerman and J.
Frank Kneece.
Wanted?Prospective buggy buyers
to know that I am agent at ibis
place for the celebrated Rock Hill
Buggies. Call and see them and get
prices. W. H. Donley, Gilbert, S. C.
The ladies of Lexington and vicinity
are cordially invited to call on
Mrs. Alice Timmons and see her
beautiful line of stylish trimmed hats
for fall and winter wear. The prices
are right.
Mr. Frank Roberts, of Providence,
who graduated at the Palmetto Collegiate
Institute last May, left today
for Charleston where he goes for the
purpose of attending medical lectures.
We invite the attention of our
readers to the advertisement of E.
Jones, Batesburg, on the 2ad page
of this issue. He says if you want
to save money give us a call when in
that town.
The firm of Sligh & Allen Company
will open for business on Oc
tober 5, with a fresh and Dew stock
of dry goods aDd millinery at 1638
and 1640 Main street Columbia.
In looking around for a place to
purchase your fall dry goods, notions
and gents' furnishic *, don't forget
that N. A. Young, Columbia has a
nice stock from which to make your
selections.
We learn that Judge Simon Wingard,
who lives in the eastern suburbs
of the town tried the expriment of
picking cotton by moonlight one
night last week. We failed to learn
the result of the experiment.
Twelve Mile creek is said to be
lower at this time than ever known
before. Mr. E. J. George cannot get
water enough to run his flour mill
and gin at the same time and as his
wheat interest is much the largest
he has been compelled to stop operating
his gin for awhile.
Miss Naoma Stuart has accepted
a position in the millinery department
of J. L. Mimnaugh & Cu's.,
popular store, Columbia, wtiere she
will be pleased to serve her Lexington
friends with the prettiest display
j of new bats and trimming, ijaaies
be sure to call and see her when in
the city.
A large lot of new fall dry goods,
notions, shoes aDd millinery is being
received by W. D. Bates, Columbia.
These goods are fresh from the
looms and factories and represent
the latest products in these goods.
They are certainly lovely creations
and will please the most fastidious
( taste. Call and see them when in
' the city, at the Fountain.
Buy Your
SPRING SHOES
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COLUMBIA, S. C.
i/ther Shoes Sold and
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aus* they are Keith Konq lerors in High
srs, Uniou Mide. Yoi ar.? respectfully
ct these goods. Quality guaranteed.
ioc Store,
501 UMBIA, S. C.
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