Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ip ? MARKET^ May '22, 1900. COTTON. Strict (rood middling, 9?^ Goad middling Strict middling VI iddli r*ar. PRODtJOK. Butter ((rood), bit pound, 12)$ P?*" doten,. 10 Cbiokens, 18 to 20 Corn,-> per bushel, 00 Hamsfhouie raised),per pound 10 Shoulders (home raised),per lb., 8 Saturday, May 26, 1900. Short Locals. ?Early oats are coloring for the sickle. ?Mr. \V. A. Blakenoyof Kershaw was in town yesterday. ?Dr. W. S. Moore of Heath Springs was in town Thursday. J ?The work of slating the roof of the Baptist church here is about completed ?Mr. Chas. Parker of Westminister is the guest of Mr W. H. Clark. ?Mr. Alva Springs of Oklahoma is visiting his brother here, Colonel Springs. ?Miss Nellie Hickliu of the Cedar Creek section is visiting friends and relatives in the city. ?Miss Josie Taylor, of Craigsville, is visising at Clerk of \\r cj r X)?i.? vuui m ?? . o. u x urtur a. ?Mr. A. P. Brown, 0110 of Heath Springs prosperous merchants, was in town yesterday. ?Miss May me Mackey went to Camden Thursday to visit her cousion, Mrs A. W. Butler ?Wild strawberries are ripe and are coming in rapidly. The crop is said to he a good one. ?Mr. S W. Rhea of the Gregory-Rhea Mule Co.. Columbia, was in town two days this week buying more mules. ?This community .was visited Thursday afternoon by a good rain The northern portion of the county got it heavy. ?The school fund of Lancaster county will get this year as her share of the dispensary profits $ 1,465 04. ?Mr. B. W. Creed of Rock Ilill, was in town Friday-advertising the Sam Jones lfecture ?Miss Ola Hammonds, one of Heath Springs charming young ladies, is visiting friends here this week. ?Lancaster Court House Ai~ L liance will meet on Thursday, Juno 7th, at 3 o'clock p. m. Members will please take notice. J. F. Nisbet ? Miss Edna Gregory returned Thursday from an extended visit to relatives and friends in Kershaw. ?Mrs. H. U. Parker and daughter, Miss Anna, of Bishopville, is visiting the former'* sister, Mrs. G. F. Payseur, hero. ?Rev. A. T. Jamison is now in the city making arrangements for taking charge of the orphanage the first of June?S C. Baptist. ?A great many of the young folk were disappointed about the Sunday school picnic which was ^ to have been at Chester on last . Thursday, but which was postponed. Tlw. A M to w ference which recently met in Columbus, Ohio, elected five bishops, viz : K. V Tyree of Tennessee, M. M. Moore of Florida, C 8 Smith of Tennessee, (3. T. Shaffer and J L Copping of Philadelphia ?Capt. B. J. Witherspoon, who spent the week in Charlotte, was robbed of two or three dollars in silver while in a dense crowd trying to board a street car. The silver was in his pants pocket. He had his other money in another pocket. ?Mr J. B Maekorell has purI chased and put into his store this week a very handsome onyx silver-trimmed soda foun. tain surmounted with a beautiful mirror, and he is nowserving the "si/zing" drinks as fast as they are ordered. ?Commencements will be the order of the day soon and then the pretty girl gradua es will he not wanting?A blacksmith shop was burned in the St. Luke neighborhood on Tuesday evening last. There was no insurance on the building. ?Mr. A. F. Duflft. has returned and will reopen bis market and restaurant. lie has been making arrangements to start a tannery here. ?Mr. II. G. Mcllwain has moved into the Dr. Poore dwelling till he can rebuild. Mr. S M Mat his occupies a portion of the same dwelling. Sam Jotittn Le tare*. Sam Jones will lecture in Rock Hill on the evening of the 31st inst., on the subject, ''Manhood and Money". A special train will bo run over the S C. & G. E., passing Lancaster at G 55 p. m., round trip fare 80 cents. Lamp Exploded. While Mr. F, M. McAteer and family were at supper Monday night the lamp caimbt tire, Mrs. McAteer attempted to blow it qut but the blaze was two large and she set it down in the door of the kitchen, when it exploded, but for the timely assistance of Mr MA't'i's brother there would have been a very serious fire. Four Mills Voted. Pursuant to the call of tho board of trustees, a meeting of taxpayers was held in the court house yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock and a tax of 4 mills was voted for school purposes for she next scholastic year. The old hoard of trustees was unanimously elected, as follows: B P Miller, W. J.Cunningham, W T. Gregory, Chas. T. Connors and J. E. Taylor. After the meeting adjourned, the hoard of trustees met and organized hy the .election of Major B F Miller as chairman and Chas T Connors as secretary and treasurer. Il'i 11 tit fifth'm llf itntn .iii/l ftth'lli V " gettce to lie in Our Midst. Lancaster will have more pretty girls to the square inch Mon clay lor a tew hour than any other town of its size in the country. As will us seel) by <t copping from the Hock Hill Herald. Pres ident D. H. Johnson of Winthrop college will bring the students and professors ol that institution on an excursion to a point near here (at Mr. R. J. Harper's three miles south of here) Monday morning to witness the eclipse of the sun. That over, the party will come back this far and stop over here for a few hours. Lan caster should feel highly honored by a visit from President Johnson and his girls. Mrs. Nance 1'ontmaster. Mrs. Hell Nance has been appointed postmaster or post mis tress, (it you prefer it that way) lor Lancaster. The other applicants were Mrs. Foster, Messrs. Joseph Clark and \V. F. Swearin gen. She will lake possession as soon as her bond has been made and approved. Post master Gregory who, with his ac comtnodating assistant, Miss A1111 in Gregory has served for the past, four and a half years, is ready to turn the ollico over to Mrs. Nance as soon as she is rea lv for it. The public does not yet know who her assistant Will be. Ley It rotten. Mr. A. J. Bass, Section Master .... !.? 1/ f. i? i .> mi iiit? r. vv i . iwiiiiuttd iti Norway, and formely of this place, while going homo late Wednes day afternoon his hand car jump ed the track throwing him be tween the crossties and breaking his left leg in two places between knee and ankle. One of the col ored sections hands was thrown on top of him thus causing other injuries. At this writing he is getting along very nicely. FOR MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN. ? ? Two from Women llrlpnl Through tlio "ChM(? of l it. " by I.ydla K.JPlalM Intiu's Vegetable Compound. " Dkah Mrs. Finkiiam :?When I first wrote to you I was in a very bad condiiion. I was passing through the ch inf*e of life, and the doctors said 1 had bladder and liver trouble. I had su Tered for nine years. Doctors failed to do me any good. Since I have taken i'j> dia E. Finkham's V ^getable Compound, my health has improved very much. 1 will gladly recommend your medicine to others and am sure that it will prove as great a blessing to them as it has to me."?Mlts. (Jko. II. Junk, U01 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Relief Came Promptly "DeXh Mrb. Pinkham :?1 had been under treatment with the doctors for four years, and seemed to get no better, I thought I would try your medicine. My trouble was change of life, and I ?> ? any uiui i never nacl anything help me so much as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Relief came almost immediately. I have better health now than 1 ever had. I !et 1 like a new woman, perfectly strong. I give Lydia E. Pink ham's Compound all the credit, aud would not do without her medicine for anything. I have recommended it to several of my friends. There is no need of women Buffering so much for Mrs. Pinkham's remedies are a sure cure."?Mahai.a Buti.kk, Bridgewater, III. Another Woman Helped " Dkar Mas. Pinkham :?I Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound duving change of life and derived great benefit from its use."?Maky E. James, 136 Coydon St.. Bradford, Pa. Changed to New Field of Labor. Rev. I. C. Clintion returned Wednesday from Washington where he went to he present at ?u,. *: -1-- t " vuc iiincuil'J, Ul KIU iV. .VI. 1'j. /i general conference. The Bishop informs us that he has been transferred from the South Car olina, Palmetto, North Georgia and South Georgia conference to th d of the Western North Car oliua, Tennessee and Floiida con ference. Rev 0 C Petty sue cet ds Bishop Clinton. From the Cheater Reporter. A postal card received here M< ndoy morning from Mr. E. C stated t!?at lie and Miss Berth' sailed on Saturday from New York on the steamer Mars dam. Senator Hough of Lancaster was in the city last Saturday. As will be seen in our Candidates column, be announces himself a candidate for Solicitor. Mrs. Belle Nance has been ap pointed postmaster at Lancaster. Her many friends in Chester, her former home, heartily congratulate her. The office of sheriff of Fairfield must he a odiMerintr nriv.e fc'wrlo r ? r" "'h'" candidates tor that office are an nounced in the News and Herald; two ol them are brothers. "It is with a good deal of pleasure and satisfaction that I recommend Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and I)it>rrhoea Remedy," says Druggist A. W. Sawtetle, of Hartford, Conn. "A 'ady customer, seeing the remedy ex| osed for sale on my show case, said to me; "I really believe that medicine saved my life the past summer while at the shore,' ami she be can e so enthusiastic over its merits that I at once made up my mind to recommend it in the future Recently a gentleman came into my store so overcome with colic pains that he sank at once to the iloor. I gave him a dose of this remedy which helped him. I repeated the dose and in lifteen minutes he left my store smilingly informing me thnt lie felt as well as ever." Sold by J. K. Mackey A Co. A (Herman chemist lias just si own that the human blood contains an average of about 0.05 per cent, of iron. Now accord ing to Weber and I,oilman's expei intents upon 4 two criminals who were weighed and decapitated ami all thoir blond washed fro-li I heir veins, it wis found that ono pound of blood was present for every eight pounds of body. It will be seen theiefore that a person weighing 1 <50 pounds eon tains nearly one ounce of iron. As the Sheriff Would Hun It. ' Next week we will begin run ning this paper as Captain Kidd would have run it. Delinquent subscribers mov expect a call from us with their accounts stuck in the muzzle of a six shooter. Otherwise this paper will be rui ning as the sheriff would run it."?Howersville Clarion. Sf te Scheduled. The State Executive Com mi t!? < has arranged a schedule for the Slate campaign. It opens at Orangeburg on the 14th of June < aid winds up in Columbia on August 22nd. It will be in Lan caster on July 25th. Wmthrop Will Co to Lancaster. By direction of President I). B. Johnson, Professors Breazeale and Abbe went to Lancaster last Sat urday and selected a hill about four miles southeast of the town, through which the S. C. & (1 Ex. road passes, from which tlie faculty and students of Winthrop I will view the eclipse next Monday morning. Arrangements have been made with the railroad authorities for a special train, which will leave the college grounds at 6 30 o'clock in the morning, ar riving on the grounds at about 7 o'clock. Alter the eclipse the students will go to the town of Lancaster, where they will remain several hours, returning to the college in time tor dinner at 1.30 o'clock. There will be room on the train for a few citizens and application should be made at. once to Presi dent Johnson. The point selected for observa tion is immediately on the central line of totality. 'However, the eclipse will be total in Rock Hill, but. the darkness will not be as intense as along the central line ? Rock Ilill Herald. What You Want? 1HAVE made arrangements to receive ?uhsOliptlons for 1*h0 Weekly Constitution of Atlanta. The Home and Farm?one of the best papers a (aimer ran read; Itae Tbrloea-Week Now York World. The Sunny South. Frank Munsey's Maffaztne. The Ladles' Home Jour* nil. The Saturday Evening Cost. The Saturday nia ie, The Chicago Liedger. if there is anv ot her magazine, paper or periodical deal red, I will endeavor to Ret It for you at publishers prices. Respectfully. R. A. LONG. Hock Box (11 Lancaster. S C. Notice of Discharge. NOTICE is hereby Riven that on the 26th day of June, 1000, th undersiRnvu will make a hnut return to the Probate Judge of Lancaster County and applv to sal 1 court for a tlnal discharge as administrator of the estate of W. J. Hlucktnon deceased. K L BLACK MON. SUSAN MI. At K MON May 26th, l#00. Administrators. Hones, Horses, Horses. We have just received a carload of number one Horses from At laid a, every animal having been carefully selected in person by | our Mr. Eiiiuii. In ihe lot are Rome ot the finest. horses ever brought to this mftrket. If you want a good saddler, or a good driver, or a good combination horse, now is your time to get it. We have just what you want and need, so call and see for yourself. Wo take pleasure in exhibiting our stock, or well as vehicles. We will either sell or swap, and will sell either for the cash or for good paper. ELLIOTT & CRAWFORD. Xotlce-IjHucnater Untried School. To all whom it may t'oncern : Take notice that pursuant to a petition signed hy ten voters and freeholders resident in Lancaster School Dit-tricf, we. the undersigned, Trustees of said District, do hereby call a public meeting to he composed of all those voters who arc resident in and return for taxation in said District real or personal property of the value of not l^ss than one hundred dollars, to assemble in the Court House at Lancaster, rt. C.t on Friday the 25th daj of May, 1900, at 4 o'clock p. in., for the purpose of electing a chairman nun snri-mr)' tit itniu meeting, live trustee?* of said school District and of determining' what special fax, if any, not to exceed tive mills,shall he levied, as the majority present shall decide, on all real and personal property within said School Disfrict for the ma'ntenanee of the puplic schools of said District. This May 7, 1UOO. B. F. Miller, W.T. Gregory, W. .1. Cunningham, J. E. Taj lor, C. T. Connors, Trustees of Lancaster School District. Winthrop College Scholarship and Entrance Examination. THK examination for th1' award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop College 'in*' for the admission of i <-w students will lie held at the County Court House on Friday, JtllyiMlt at I' a m. Applicants must n??t tie less than fifteen years of aire. When scholarships ato vacated ufier July yoth they will tie awarded to those malum? the hlvho-t average at this examination. The cost of attendance, inclining ho-.ud, furnished room. he-it, light and washlnv j Is only Mi per morth For further Information and a oat ilogtitt, addre s I'it km D It JOHNSON. Itock Hill, S. C. *. TllRONG OUR S EVERY THE people know w gains. Our salespe< the run. Many custc their turn to be ser K 1: 11.. 1 0 iiciv^ iiLciany pdrai ^ Time merchants can' ^ and it has not taken 4* it out. Cash buyers i & they can do the be si". % c* Now For Unj | SHOE U t (? In order to reduc J we offer the great ^ $3 shoes in tan, vici ; * $2. SO. Th e entire 1 ? ^ i erry & Co s. $3 s $ black, at 52 25. Ladies', \ low-cut ties and slipper ^ They must be sold at sor time to buy shoes cheap I Doing a T $ 0 < 01 n. I Diiue Dl t 4 Our clothing sales havi yet we have some of tho \ so come quick before the still have some of that jc ^ ly imperfect, at 50 cents j That Stock 0 ^ To Arrive T J Wc are nearly sold on ^ but will get a fresh su f then we will be able to >1 J Wc find it pays to sell ^ prices. We are .doing ^ business ever done in L; I THE GAI $ CASF 2* Lancaster, S. C TORES DAY. 'here to find barople are kept on )mers have to wait ved. Our prices yzcd competition, t compete with us them long to find . mt"ll 1*3 11 \r <ro AV?? V?1 w%- a M J ^ V/ V V I1V/ 1 Drecedented iRGAINS. :e our shoe stock W. L. Douglas ind Russia calf at ine of Craddock, hoes, in tan and misses and children's s regardless of cost, lie price. Now is .the reraendous isiness. e never been so large, se great bargains left, jy are all gone. We >b lot of pants, slighton th(^ dollar. f Millinery 1^2 ~ TTT 1 HIS VV UtSJS.. t in this department, pply this week, and supply the demand. I millinery at bargain .1 1 j i i me largest millinery mcastcr. SISON I STORE. # ?