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f * J5AK plow 4> Absolut* Makes light, flak biscuits, rolls, mi Makes hot bread w are qualities pecu I have found io an omers.ftOYAL BAKINO POWDER OO., 1 * MARKETApril 28, 1900. & COTTOK. Strict good middling, 9\ Good middling Strict middling Middling pro duck. Butter (good), per pound, 121* Vggn, per doxen, 8j*| Chickens, 18 to 20 Corn, per bushel, 00 Hams(home raised),per pound 10 Shoulders (home raised),per lb... ... 8 8atur<luv. April 28. 1900. Short Locals. ?Mr W R. Miiuunv <if Diifl .. . " ley was in town this week. ?Misses Virgie and Itosa Hough of Fort Lawn visited Lancaster this week. Y ?Mrs. O. A. Osborn of BlacksT ' burg was in town a couple of days this week. ^ ?Mr. W. J. Snipes, of near Lancaster, lost a fine horse from colic on Thursday last. ?There will he services in the A. R. P. church here Sabbath morning at 11 o'clock, but none at night. ?Rev. J. W. Little will preach at New Hope, first Sunday in May, at 11 o'clock and at 3 o'clock at Strait's school house. ? Dr. II. V. Massey of Mathews, N. C., has been visiting \ his daughter here, Mrs. S. M. Burns, for several days. ?Mr. William Banks, the talented and popular young newspaper man of Columbia, was - married Wednesday to Miss Laurena Louise Vance, daughter of Col. S. W. Vance of that ' V city. They are spending their honey-moon at the groom's old home, Rock Hill. ?Thos. F. McDow, Esq., of the Yorkville bar, was in town yesterday between trains, slinking hands with his numerous friends. Elsewhere in this issue lie announces his candidacy for solicitor of this circuit. Mr. McDow is well known to our people, he having been horn and raised in this county where he lived until a short while after his admission to the bar, when he moved to Yorkvillo for tin practice of his profession, lit jr was elected to the legislating from that county, and he madr a good member. X 1 c * c G^gx* j IISG ll DER r < sly Pure y, delicious hot iffins and crusts. 1 holcsomc. These 1 liar to it alone. * i I the Royal Raking Powder superior ?C. Gorju, late Chef, Delmonico's. i 00 WILLIAM 8T., NEW YORK. ^ ?Joe William*, a well known ^ and respected colored man died H Thoraday night. ?Mr. Charles H. Burns return ed this week to his home in ^ Washington. ? Mrs. I, P. Roddev in visiting I her sister at Yorkville, Mrs. R. J Mackerel. ?The union meeting with the f Kershaw church, having convened ^ yesterday. Lancaster will be well be well represented today and f Sunday. . ?The Masons of the town and ; county are preparing to celebrate t St. John's dav, June 25. The pre liminary annauncements and the the committee of arrangements will appear next week. f Mnrrioft A nnl Ol lOOO M? ? ?. ^ o|'i u mi ^ E. B. Hugyins of the L. <fc C. rail-* ( way crew, and Miss Peari Threatt, sister of Mrs. Lula Plyler, of Kershaw, at whose home the ceremony was performed by 1 Rev. Mr. Betts. The happy couple c went by the afternoon train to the home of the groom at Rich burp: to spend the honeymoon. J they will reside in Lancaster, Mr. r W. J. Cunningham'R cottage. j ?Miss Kate Laney, repre- i senting the well known II. Par- 1 melee Library company, of Chi- f cago, is in our city interviewing j our citizens in regard to mak- f ing our town a Station of this s great institution. We earnestly e hope that all those who can ap- I preciate the privileges and hen- 1 efits of a fresh up to date s library brought to their doors i every three months will not let this opportunity pass. If it is securbd it will be one of the best investments our people have ever made. t ' The C'oiiutft Convention. The county Democratic convention will be held on the 7th of May, that being "the first ' Monday in May," as provided by the constitution of the State ' Democratic party. J. F. Nisbkt, Chmn. Co. Dem. Extv. Com. 1 <' (!?( n DrfadfNl ( ?M. Morion Kooke, manager for T. M. * Thompson, a large Importer of tine i millinery at lfl/W Milwaukee Avenue, . i Chicago, says: "During the late ' , severe weather I caught a. dreadful } cold which kept me awake at night and made me unfit to attend my work ^ during the day. Due of my milliners 1 was taking Chamberlain's Cou Kh 1 , Remedy for a severe cold at that time, which seemed to relieve her so quick1 ly that I bought some for myself. It * acted like magic and I began to im . prove at once. I am now entirely well > and feel very pleased to acknowledge t its merits." For sale by J. F. Mac key , A Co. 1 ro Be married. Mr. R. Lather Bell of Westdllo, and Miss Maud Beckham, laughter of Dr. R. S. Beckham >f Kershaw, will be married on Thursday, May 3, 1900. The :eremony will take place at the lome of the bride-elect and will >e performed by Rev. W. A. Betts. The State Board of Education. The governor has appointed ;o constitute the State hoard of education the following: II. P. \rcher of Charleston, G. L. Knight of Graniteville, J. I McDain of Due West, H. T. Cook )f Greenville, A. It. Banks of r% 1- TT 11 tir ? ^ lvock. mil, w. A. brown of Marion, T. M. Razor of Orange)iirg. The governor is ex-ofieio chairman of this board and Mr. McMahan, State superintendent of education, is ex-oficio secretary. In Interrntitifi Exhibit, Inter' eHtinylu Exhibited. The exhibit of old curiosity (hop at the residence of Mrs. M. f. Perry this week has drawn arge crowds of people who were nuch interested in the superb collection of relics and curios. The exhibit was in charge of Mrs. Bacock, of Chester, who harmed the spectators with her nteresting accounts of the incient articles there to be seen, kittle Eliza Wylie personated kittle Nell and looked awful weet and Capt. B. J. Witherpoon was little Nell's grandather, with the gaming pro>ensity left out. 7anninff I'latit to tie Et<tabU*heil at. .tone/* X Iloatl*. The first canning outfit to he (stablished in Lancaster county or canning fruits and vogeahles for commercial purposes s to he located at Jones X Roads, mcl Mr. Geo. W. Jones is to he ts promoter and proprietor, dr. Jones lias already got the lecessary building ready for the nstallment of the furnaces and canning equipments, and this veek he visited a canning plant it Plylers, N. C., similar to the me he is constructing, to get lome "points" as to the conitruction and the operation of canning plants. He will have he plant ready for this year's :rop, even for the earliest of it. Situated in the midst of a jood fruit-growing section as fones X Roads is, this enterprise should prove profitable to dr. Jones and to the community n which it will he located. Those who have a surplus of ruits and vegetables, as most >eople of ton do at one timo or mother during the summer, can ell them to Mr. Jones for his istablishment, and in that way >oth they and the canner will >e benefitted. This enterprise ihould succeed and we believe t will. His Choice of a Word. 41 You look robust," remarked ho lady of the house. "Are row equal to the task of sawing vood?" "Equal isn't the word, madmi," replied the pilgrim, as he esumed his journey, "I'm sulerior to that." Railroads and Floods. Mobile, Ala., April 26.?Now here is no change in the sit union on 1110 Moone and Vdiio Railroad. Most of the breaks lavo been repaired, but the va?hout at SI 111 but a has given nuch trouble. Superintendent Marshall, of he Louisville and Nashville, vires as follows : "We expect to un trains through to New ()reans Friday night, April 27.' YORK ITEMS. Re?. R. D. Perry's Suit Against the Seaboard for $20,000 Darn ages Reing Tried?New Ri?er llridge in Sight. York's Cotton Mills Increasing Their Capacity. To The Staio. Yorkville, April 14.?The board of county commissioners met today and awarded the contract for the construction of a steel highway bridge serous the Catawba rivet, at Sutton's Ferry, in the eastern part of this county. There were eleven bidders present and the bids ranged from $7,G50 to $8,500. The contract was given to Geo. H. Crafts of Atlanta, Ga , his bid being the lowest. The contract for building the two apDroaches to the bridge was award ed to J. N. King of Ninety-Six, on a hid of $595. The work in to be completed by October 15th next. The York Cotton mills last year trebled the capacity and building" of their mill, and have now concluded to further increase their capacity 30 per cent,., raising the number of spindl.s from 10,000 to 13,000. The** have just purchased 60 acrea of additional land to be URed as a pasture for the operatives, and have built a number of new cottages, some of them two story tenement houses. I'llih .year they have erected a very neat and com modious chapel, which is occupied every Sunday by the different ministers of the town, and have a prosperous Sunday school under the management of Mr. P. M. Grimes, superintendent of the mill. The court of common pleas is in session this week. There is only one jury case to be tried, and that is of considerable importance. It is the esse of I?ev. Robt. D. Perry of Chester coun ty sgainst the Seaboard Air Line railway. Suit is brought for dam ages in t.?e sum of $20,000 for in juries received while on board the Georgia, Carolina and Northern train, at Catawba Junction, in November, 1898 The case will probably occupy the tune of the court for couple of days longer f b n f a xr TKo r\l o in i AT ta ?An viiuu wu wj . a nv; piaiui in acs l u ^ resented by Messrs. Jas. F. and Jno. K. Hart of this place and the Hon. Geo. Johnstone of Newberry, while the counsel for the defendant railway is Messrs. J. Lyles Glenn of Chester and Wm. W.I McCaw of Yorkville, The plaint iff is not present at the trial, be ing confined to his bed, near Uloolr ofAnlr aj i nvy n n i w w rv . TWO CANADIAN CITIES RAVAGED BY FLAMES. Hull Destroyed and Ottawa Suffers Terribly, the Loss Estimated at $20,000,000. Ottawa, April 27.?F i v e square miles of territory burned over; more than 2,500 dwellings, factories, mills, stores and other buildings destroyed, entailing a loss estimated to reach $20,000,000 and between 12,000 and 15,000 men, women and children homeless, is a summing up of the havoc wrought by the fire which has been raging at Hull and Ottawa since yesterday morning, and at midnight was not completely under control. Most of the lumber piles in Ottawa and Mull have disappeared and arc! now mere heaps of charred wood and ashes. Six churches and schools, a number o' mills, the IIull waterworks, the Hull court house and jail, the postoffice, the convent? almost every business place ami about 1,000 dwellings and shops in Hull have boon destroyed. Indeed practically nothing of Hull is left but a church and a few houses beyond it. An Oklahoma editor propones to send messages around the world without the aid of wires. The trick is easy enough. He will send them by mail. Tffte Pinkham Is a proud and poor/oss record* It is a record of cure* of constant conqiiGL't over obstinate ills of women; ills that deal out despair; suffering that m.eny women think is woman's natural heritage; disorders and displacements that drive out hope* |^Lydii^E!"Tlnkh?m'?"veget^^ cures those troubles of women, red robs mensi. 'uatien of Its tr 'rors. No woman need be without the safest md surest advice> for Mrs Plnkham counsels women free of charge* Her address Is Lynn, Mass Can any woman afford to Ignore the medicine and tho advice that has cured a ml:**on m ."'3ic?? VEM8U8 QUE8TI0N8. "How old are you? Are you married, single, widowed or diV'Ar/?n/l 9 Te lmuL'A "/oi 1 5 t?/? ? v/i w . a.o in* y vu in ?' in your own ; and, if so, is it mortgaged or free? What is your occuption, and how many months out of the year are you employed? Thsee are some of the pointed personal questions which will ho asked of Chicago neonle O i A, during the taking of the twelfth census of the United States, which will hegin June 1, and end June 15, 1000. The years 1900 and 1901 will constitute the greatest censustaking era in the history of the world. .Besides this country fourteen of the principal European countries are to "count noses," hut the census of the United States is to he more extensive than that of any other nation. The last census cost $11,271,r.nn <??,i ft..... .i? | i^vv (umi iiiv/i ^ mail niAt y l HUHI ?n.nrl men woi'P oninlovod in * * making it. This census will be even a greater elFort. The law requires that the census shall he taken between June 1 and June 15. As two of these (lays fall on Sunday, but thirteen working days are left. | In towns of less than 8,000 inhabitants, and in the country the whole of June is allowed. Fiditor F.ntkri'Kisk.] The director of the twelfth census is William P. Merriam, former governor of Minnesota. Several objectionable questions which were asked of all citizens by census enumerators ten years ago will be omitted this time. For example, per sons suffering from any chronic disease will not he required to disclose that fact. The answers given her toforo have proved utterly valueless from a statistical standpoint. These are the questions which you will he called upon thus to answer this year : 1. Surname, Christian name, initial. 2. Residence, street, number to house. 3. Relationship of each member of the head of the family. 4 ( 'iJnl' nr men 5. Sex. <>. Ago at last birthday. 7. Tho Day, month ami yeni whoa born. 8. Aro you single, married widow, widower or divorced. 9. Number of years married 10. How many children. 11. Number of children liv ing. 12. Sex of these children. 13. Where were you horn? If in the United States, give State or Territory ; if of foreign birth, give name of the country only. 14. Where was your father born? Your mother? (Same conditions as the foregoing.) 15. If of foreign birth, when did you come to the United States? 15. How many years have you resided in the United States. 17. Have you been naturalized? IIow many years since you became a citizen? 18. What is your occupation, trade or profession? (This question applies to persons 10 years of age or over.) J ilow many months during the year are you employed? 20. How many months have you attended school? 21. Can you read? 22. Can you write? 23. Give main facts concerning your education. 24. I)o you own the house in which you live? 25. Do you rent the house in which you live? 26. If you own the house, is it free or mortgaged? (The same question applies to farms.) ? Chicago Record. KEEP A SINGING. (With Apologies.) . No storms on the ocean are sweeping. ? 4 The weak are not pressed by the bold; At home no mother Is weepUg, The son Is not missed from the foes: None of our loved om s are dying, And praycis most truly prevail, Nor close to the pricks are we lying; So wo'U praise Him?He'll never fail. This earth Is no "w >e of sorrows"; Happiness truly comes nigh. And joy with each to-morrow And Hu savs. "fear not. It Is I Him light o'er tho world is beaming Anil nruyor must, truly avails; His word full of lovo is gloaming. We will praise Him?He never fails, g J. HKNKY THRRBKLU Heath Spring, S. C. Weekly Cotton Statistics. Liverpool, April 27.?Total sales, all kinds, 39,000; total, Amor. 38,000 ;Englisli spinners' takings 05,000; total export, 10,000; import, all kinds 65,000 ; import, American, 45,000 ; stock, all kinds 047,000 ; stock, American 540,000 ; quantity all afloat, American, 110,000 ; total sales on speculation 100 ; total sales to exporters 000. Mrs. Freedom (to star hoarder:) "Could you suggest any improvement, in my menu ?" Hoarder: "Well, you might try the experiment of transferring the respective qualities of the pftlTitn mwl ( Kutt^kt* ^ w'.iv/v/ i? n\t tuv ?/?u in. 'Phone No. 25 OR CALL ON , S. M. Mathis & Co., For Can nod Toniatoos, Blackberries, Ponchos, Juno Pons, Apples, Krout, Pineapples, or , ~ 1_ I 1 c II . n <ui\ Kiiin hi neavy trrocenes, Fruits, Tobacco, Candy, etc. WANTED! Fggs, Chickens, Butter, or any kind of farm produce that can be turned into money. We pay r highest market price. . S. M. Mathis <& Go. ??_____________ Menstruation made Ketfulnr and I'alnlesn, And Pains .11 Sides Hips and Limb* cured by Simmon* Squaw v'ino Winn or Tabletn Mothers wlahini; atoul healthy Kir!., should give them bimmons Squaw Vine Wine or Tab * te\t? as tbey approach puberty. _ j?