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Jill Kinds Siloes Sold at $4.50 and $5 00. iii u R T & ? K A Correct Shape ?hoes. $4.00 Sor Mon ar?-Up-to-Date, Swell Styles and AW Loathers. For women at $3.00 are beauties. women at $2.00 and $8.00 are popular sellers. v.J.-.. We have Footwear for all sises and conditions of man nd womankind. These cuts represent only a few of our popular styles. Come and see the entire line. Yours truly, ^STMesale and ?tetail Dealers in Local News WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15. 1903. " Spring chickens are in demand at fancy prices. The measles are prevalent in some eec tiona of the conn try. So far tho fruit crop in thia sectivn is alriff.t and in abundance. Miss Hattie Loo, ot Fair Play, hi in tho city visiting friends and relatives. The moon rose in beautiful eclipse on Saturday nhwht shortly after eon m?i? Isham H. Harrison, of Walhalla, spent several days in the city tho past wee?. The straw hats this season are anita attractive. The price is about aa asnal. The United States District Court convenes at Greenville next Tuesday, 21st inst. I Mrs. G. Frank Bamberg, of Bam berg, S. C., iain the city visiting her parents. . Wm. N. Miller, of New Iberia. L?., is spending a few days ir. tho city vis iting relatives. v Aa .Memorial Day, May 10th, comes on Sunday this year, it will be observ ed on Saturday, May 0th. In some sections of the County the farmers are complaining that the rust ic damaging their wheat crop. The date for the Confederate Vete rans Bennion in Columbia has been changed to May 12tfa, 18th and 14th. Last Sunday waa a lovely Easter and the pretty girls had a fine opportunity to display weir new hats and dresses. C. Cc Featherston, Esq., accompanied by his two little daughters, of Laurens, 8. C., is in the city visiting his parents. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered at V?rennos Church next Sunday at ll o'clock a. rn! A local weather prophet says that tibe fruit crop is now saxe and that we will have an abundance of fruit this summer. The Bank of McCormick, of wi-i.,h B. F. Mauldin, of this city, is presi dent, has been in operation two years an 1 its stock is worth t" .Kev. J. D. Chapman, D. D., will spend next week at Sanders ville, Ga., assisting in a series of meetings to be ??ld in the Baptist Church there. Farmers have begun work in earnest. Tori can hear the guano distributor on every side. Some have planted corn already while others will plant this week. The congregation of Grace (Episco 8al) Church has decided to erect a new ouse of worship, and a committee is now- soliciting subscriptions for the building fund. . Mrs. Evaline Archer, accompanied by her grand-daughter, Miss Mary Lewis, has gone to Birmingham. Ala., where she will spend a f e >; weeks vis iting her son, L. N. Archer. Gov. Heyward has appointed Maj. J. N. Vandiver, our clever and efficient County Supervisor, a delegate from thia Stete to the National Good Hoads Convention, which will meet in St. Louis on the 27th inst. Col. E. H. Aull, editor of the New berry Herald and News, spent last Wednesday night in Anderson and as eisted in the organization of a tribe of the Improved Order of Bed Men at the Anderson Cotton Mill* ; ^ Wallace S. Norris, who bas been posa spinner at the Anderson Cotton I Mills, has resigned and gone io . Lex ington? 8. C., whare lie has accepted the position of aaperinrsndent of card ing and spinning at the Lexington cot ton mill. A big convention of cane growers is tomeetin Macon, Ga., the 6*. 7th and ?th of JHayr and Gov. Heyward his ap pointed toe following delegates to the meeting frhm this County : John T. Greene, J. F. Fant, J. D. MoElroy, Jae. H. Anderson andL. O. Dean. - Watch your Irish potatoes as they come np. A few bogs will supply a neighborhood. Paris green, two ounces tv a pock of slacked lime, will kill thea. Thea? are several Unas of insect killers on tho mark-it which are said to'be good. The Stat? Board of pensioners met in Columbia a few days ago to com plete the work of 'rectifying rolls. E5OOO samoa will be on the approved Hst. It ia officially stated that by the ls| of May the money will bo placed in the hands of Coally, officiate for dis tribution! , Hon. James M. Sullivan left yestor for Atlanta, where to-day he bo married to Miss Harriet Eliza beth DuBose, ot the homo of the bride's parents. The bride ia well known in Anderson, where she has been engaged aa a teacher in our grad ed schools, and is a most excellent? ac complished young lady. . News reached here yesterday of the death on tho 4th inst, at Woodstock, Ga., of Mrs. Maxy E. Latimer, wife, of the late Dr. H. Latimer, and sister of Bev. M. McGee, of this place. Mrs. Latimer was raised near Little River Church, Abbeville County, and went with her husband to Georgi* about forty years ago. She was a'oont 81 years old and for along toe had been a devout member OL the Methodist Church.--Honea Path Chronicle. Invitations have been issued by Col. and Mrs. J. B. E. Sloan, of Charleston, to tho wedding of their daughter, Miss. Loila, to EdVrin L. Johnson, of Mem phis, Tenn.- The marriage will be celebrated at 8.80 o'clock on the even ing v of the 21st at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. Johnson was Qnartermaster-Sergeant of Co. C., 1st S. C. Regiment, which went from thia city during the Spanish-American war to Jacksonville, Fla,, and is a most , worthy young man. The trastees of School Distriot No. 14, in Hall Township, have decided to consolidate the schools of their dis trict into two centrally located schools. These two schools will be located at Carawell Institute and Now Hebron, each of which will be. in charge of a principal and as many assistants as necessary. The trustees will arrange to have those pupils who reside two miles or more from their nearest school house transported to and from the school each day during the torro, which can be done, > they claim, at a nominal cost.' This 2ew arrangement will go into effect at the opening of the next school term, and will bo -watched with interest throughout tho county. The advantages to bo derived from such an arrangement aro apparent at once to any one who knows anything of school wort - und we believe lt will result in great improvement to the educational interests of that district. Mts. M. E. Reese spent a few days in Seneca the nast week visiting her mother, Mrs. L. ?. Cochran, who is seriously ill. Miss Valeria Clinksca.es will give an entertainment at the close of her school at tite Grove next Friday evening, 17th inst. Everybody is invited to attend. The city has purchased from J. Feaster Brown seven and one-half anea of land, adjoining Silver Brook Cemetery. It will be added to tho Cemetery. CE. Tolly, R. M. Smith ?nd E. J. Lewis wem *o Columbia loot Monday to attend the Grand Lodge of Bed Men of the State, which .convened there yesterday. Dr. W. H. Nardi-?, sr., weat down to Sumter last Jiunday to attend a meet io? fit the State Board of Health, of which he is a member, and the State Medical Association. Rev. J. T. Mann will preach at the Cox Mill every third Sunday at 8 o'clock p. m., iuBUMui o? at ii a. m. as formerly. The public is cordially invited to attend the services. ?hiquola Lodge, Knfghtsof Pythias, will hold its regular convention to-1 morrow evening at 8 o'clock. All the members are urged to attend as there are eight or ten candidates for the first rank. Rev. H. R, Murchison will preach in the Presbyterian Church at Flat Bock on the fourth Sunday afternoon at 4, o'clock, and will administer the holy communion. The public is invited to attend the services. On Sunday night, Monday and i?on day night this section waB visited by heavy showers of rain, and all the wa ter courses are very high. On Monday afternoon there was a light fall of hail, bat no damage resulted. Miss Nell Deal and Miss Annie Archer were two attractive visitors to our town last Sabbath. They are accomplished ' "hollo ! girls" of the Anderson Telephone Company, and were visiting Misses Stella and Ethel Fin cannon. - Seneca correspondent Keowee Courier. Senator Latimer has appointed BenJ. P. Gossett, of Williams ton, to the po sition of midshipman in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., from the State at large. Mr. Gossett is a son of James P. Gossett, of ! Williams ton, and is a most worthy, ex I collent young man. I J. Beese Fant bax resigned as Agent in this city of the Charleston and Wes tern Carolina Railway, to take effect lot Juno next, and Hon. James M. Sullivan has been Appointed his suc cessor. Mr. Sullivan will serve ont his term of office as Mayor of Ander son. Mr. Fant will engage in the mercantile business. Ata meeting of the City Connell last Friday nignt a franchise, for fifty ?- ears was granted lo Dr. George E, loughlinand his associates for thc Surpose of building the Anderaon reenville electric car lino from thc city limits to the Court House Square. A franchise for a city system was not asked for at thia time. i The Seneca correspondent of thc Keowee Courier says : Miss Eleanoi Wardlaw is in Seneca for a few weeki before continuing her journey to Ari zona, where she will join the othei members of her family. She has been attending the Greenville Female Col l?ge the past bession. Her many friendi here regret her departure, bnt wish foi her a pleasant change of the home. . Abraham Clark diod at his home ii Greenville last Monday morning, agec CO yeare. Mr. Clark onco lived m thii city, where he married Miss Mattie Wilcox, who, with two sons and om daughter, survives him. He waa en gaged in the marble and granite busi ness, vas au upright, industrious man and hr . many friends In Anderson wai Will regret to hear of his death. . * Ata meeting of Camp Stephen D. Lee, Confederate Veterans, held ii this city lost Saturday of ternoon, Col J. N. (Brown and J. P. Sullivan wer elected delegates to the State Beunioi in Columbia, and Dr. W. H. Nardin Sr., and J. W. Thompson delegates t the Reunion in New Orleans. Mis Mittie Tribble was selected as spouse for the Camp at the Bennion in Cc lumbla. Sidney B. Payne, a prominent ci tizo of Boston, accompanied by Jfessn Archie Kelly and J. Shaw, : of Liver pool, England, spent a day or two i Anderson last week. These gentle mea are electrical engineers, and cam to Anderson to inspect our electric! 7?lant, which ranks as ono of the bec in the United States. The gentle men expressed themselves as bein mora than pleased with- their reoeptio and what they saw in Anderson? ? . ,i . * v. Thomas H. Enbanks, a promlnex citizen and farmer, who lived abor tan miles south of S on o ca, committe suicide last Sunday morning by cul ting-lils throat with a razor. Til cansa of the rash act is unknown. ] seems that he went ont Sunday mon lng to take a walk and failed to n turn, home, and in the evening a part w?Lt Out in cearch of him and xoun him dead in an old field. He was man about 45 years old, with a wii and one child. The verdict of ti coroner's jury was that he came to h death by his own hands. Last Thursday afternoon the eng aeer corps of the Tennessee. Georg and South Carolina Railroad, which : projected to run from Chattanooga i Anderson, reached this city. Col. V B. Frink, of Chicago, one of the pr? motera of the road, arrived in the ci the day before and spent several da; here in consultation with tho chief ei gineer and getting all the papers shape. He declined to make pun! any of the coinpanyvs plans in refe ence to building the road, but said would be built without delay. Last Sunday evening about. 7 o'cloi the barn of D. - 8. Maxwell, sr., at 1 residence on North Main street, w destroyed by fire. D. S. Maxwell, j had gone into the barn with a lon te: to feed the burses and cattle, when tl lantern exploded and set fire to a lot hay. The firemen responded prompt to the alarm, and did good work saving the buildings near the bar The horses and cattle and t ome of tl contents of the barn were saved. W Maxwell estimates his loss at abo $400, on which he had $250 in saran c The Bamberg Herald of the 0th ins says: "Mrs. H.S. Dowling happent w?th'a very painful but fortunate n?t a?rions accident last Mond* morning. In descending the ateos Mr-.Pooser's residen co she fell ai dislocated her right arm at tho elbo< At first it was thought ber arm w broken, but after a full examination was found ?hat euch was not the eas She was carried home on a stretcher) quickly as possible, and Dre. Bia? and'Bronson attended her. She getting a&yug very nicely, and h friends will be glad to know that t! injury is net so serious as was at fit supposed." Mrs. Dowling is a dane tex'ot Mn. W. S. Sharpe, of this cit and han many friends here who w regret to hear of her accident. i ii nil . ?ifii iiisi mimi i i II ia linn L. P. Smith, has gone to Aiken to at tend the annual session of tho Grand Lodge of Knights of Honor. Miases Rosa Tribb'e and Nellie Wil son are attending the State Conven tion of the King's Daughters in Co lumbia. The annual meeting of tho stock holders of the Riverside Manufactur ing Company will be held at theofflco of the Company tomorrow at 12 o'clock. Our correspondents are again re 2nested to send in their news letters i ame to reach us not later than Monday night or early Tuesday morn ing. Laat i/ondsyCounty Superintendent o*.,^auation Nicholson went to Rook Hill, S. C., to attend a meeting of the Southern Educational Board. Ho will return and bein his office Friday. The Dixie Chanter, United Danzh-, tera of tine Confederacy, of thia city, have sent to the Wade Hampton mona- 1 ment commission a check for $20 as a contribution to the monument fund. Last Saturday night about 0 o'clock the barn ot the Superintendent of the Riverside Mill was burned? lt is not known how the fire originated. The loss amounts to about $300. Rev. 1 '.. C. Ligon, of Nowborry, was in the c?ty last Monday on his way to Presbytery, which convenestoday at Eaaley. He looks hale and hearty and was warmly greeted by his many friends in Anderson. The fermera are progress.ng slow with thei.* farm work on account of so much rain. With all tho backsets they have hod, the farmers are not discour aged and are taking advantage of every opportunity to push forwrvul their work. James F. Fant has purchased the home place of the late N. K. Sullivan, at the corner of South McDuflieand Hampton Streets. The lot contains i about four acres and is a most desira ble piece of property. Six thousand dollars was the price paid for the pro perty. The election on the question of is suing the street improvement and school bonds was held yesterday and resulted in a big majority for both is I ones. The following was the vote : Street bonds-Yes, 147; No, 40. School bonds-Yes, 148; Ko. BU. Car young townsman, Monroe Hanks, has sold his, house and lot on Green ville street to Benjamin Pearman, and has purchased the home of the late Julius Poppee, on South McDuffie ?St., which was bid off on Salesday by D. A. Yandiver. A white man and a negro got into a row at Glenn's Store, near the city limits, last Satnrd'.y afternoon, and the fermer cat c. u latter with his pocket knife, i . dieting a painful wound in the baok. The white man, who was drnnk, was arrested and locked up. Maggie May, the ll-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vance Casson, died at her home in Martin Township on Sunday, 5th inst., of pneumonia, and was buried the follow ing day at Ebenezer Church, Rev. N. G. Wright condncticg the funeral ser vices. Our young friend, Wm. M. Archer, who haB been employed in the ticket i office of the Bine Ridge Railroad in this city for several years, has been I transferred to the office cf the Auditor ' of the road in Greenville. William is an industrious, worthy young man, and io held in high esteem by the rail road officials. The Secretary of State has issued a eomndsslon to the Townville Cotton OU Mill, which will have a capital of $25,000. The gentlemen interested are LIN. Geer, W. A. Bowen, J. W. Shirley, P. S. Mahaffey, Jr., Dr. W. T. Hunt, of Townville, L. M. Mahttf fey, of Dean, and James W. McCarley, of Seneca. Lambert W. Jordan, of Seneca, died last Saturday afternoon at Johns Hop kins Hospital in Baltimore. His re mains were brought to Seneca oa Sun-, day and interred. The deceased wa? 64 years old, and leaves a devoted wife, fo .r sons and one daughter, who, in their sore bereavement? have t-ie sympathy of many friends in Ander son. General M. L. Bonham waa the guest of our city a few days of the past week. The General fooks well, and his bright smiling face, affable manner and hearty hand shake win for him friends wherever he may go. The people of Abbeville hoid him in the lighest esteem and are always glad to see him and extend to him a hearty greeting.-Abbeville Press and Ban ner. The competitive examination for the Annapolis cadetship from the Third Congressional District was held in this city last Wednesday. There were eleven applicants from the various Counties in the District, but only eight of them stood the examination. Wm. E. Russell, of this city, won the 8rite, and his alternates art> M. 8. hirley. of thia County, Earle H. Jones, of Abbeville, and Wm. Spioles, of Greenwood. Poplar Springs Church, in this County, will be dedicated next Sun day, 10th inst. The dedication sermon will be preached at ll o'clock a. m. by Rev. Dr. Bailey. At the conducion of the sermon there will be a recess of one honr and a half, and in the after noon Rev. E. R. Goss will preach. The song service will be conducted by Prof. J. T. Milford. The friends of the congregation are cordially invited to attend the services. Some of the good women of this city have organized the "Humane 8ociety of Anderson" for the prevention of cruelty to animals, to relieve want, dis tress or enfferin.?, and to perform and do any and all kinds of charitable and humane works. The corporators, to whom a charter has been granted by the Secretary of State, are Mrs. A. E. Weekley, Mrs. Ella Laughlin, jj/rs. Mary E. Ligon and Miss L. C. Hub bard. Trigaloo Tribe, No. 88, Improved Order of Red Men, was organized at the Anderson Cotton Mill last Wednes day night by Great 8achem J. H. Hair, of Newberry, assisted by several other prominent members of the order from other places. The following ofli cers were elected : Prophet, E. J. Lewis; Sachem, J. S. Hamby; Senior .'Sagamore, L. M. Murphy ; Junior Sag amore, J. W. Norris: Chief of Re cords, 8. E. Honca ; Keeper of Wig wam. E. H. Poore; First Bannan, J. R. Norris; Second Sannop, R. D. Hender son; First Warrior, J. Olin Sanders : Socond Warrior, A. B. .Hamlin; Third Warrior, I. Geisberg ; r :rat Brave, L. L. McCarty ; Second Brave, E. h. Bailes; Third Brave, Oliver Bolt; Gurrd of tho Forost, C. F. Snipes; Gnard of the Wigwam. M. D. Smith. The tribe starts off with forty mem bers._ m m m_ Refined, up-to-date people always want the beat. GALLAGHER BROS. are HC knowledsed to b? among the beet PHO TOGRAPHERS in the South. They do sot waste their skill on cheap, fading ii HOW ABOUT YOUR Easter Fixings I ?TjFlT wo have them for tho HARD TO FIT I ' * \ AND J t Jy HARD TO PLEASE. J -yJ^gZk Suitings that the leading fashion V|| 7\ \ designers have produced for this I A \ I season* I \1 DAreSadmired by all Fashionable ?BA5<3M^ J 1 dressera. m'^t? Ul It's just as easy to buy an un-to Muce(01^^ dato as a last Bea0On one? We rw? Bhow a11 tho newest weaves, color C?i?M* ingB and fabrics that are cut by Fashionable Clothiers. Prices to suit the purchase. $5.00 to $22.501 NOW FOR THE Summer Footwear, They are displayed on our counters. Patent Viol Oxfords. Patent Leather Oxfords. Correct Toes and Lasts. $2.00 to $4.00. HALL BROS. Clothiers and Furnishers. South I?ain Street. $?8,000 Wort! OP STAPLE DRY GOODS : SHOES To Close Out at a Great Sacrifice. THE undersigned having purchased the Stock of D. C. Brown & Bro. will put the entire line (except Groceries) at EXACT COST. The owners of this Stock have been connected with D. C. Brown- & Bro. since its MK *piency in 1892, and we hs ve never before offered to sell at Cost. We have decided to go out of Dry Goods and Shoes and to sell GRO CERIES ONLY, hence this sacrifice eale. We have as well selected line of SHOES as the city affords-every pair to go at COST Our DRY GOODS consists chiefly of Staples, which were bought before tho advance in cotton goods. It will pay you to see these Goods before buying. Yours -truly, DEXTER GROCERY COMPANY, -SUCCESSORS TO D. C. BEOWN & BRO., South Main Street, - Anderson, S. C.