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m . Short Locals. I = Wednesday, Aj>ril 1, lOOIi. #*? ?Sundav. th? 19.i l? w KImu ter. ?Miss Lilly Beckham lias ac cop ted a position in the sloro o: F under bur k Co. ?Rev. W. C. Winn of Taber nacle preached in the Methodist church here Sunday morning. ?The Bedford 'Rhone com puny have put in a new line foi several miles up the Now Cm road. ?For Sale?A now drop top 5 drawer machine, for cash 01 on installments. Apply at tin y. Enterprise oflice. ?Rock Hill has a weathei prophet who predicts that al 1 the fruit will be killed by acolc J spell this month. ?Miss Maggie Caldwell ha; accepted a position in the dr} goods department of the Lan caster Mercantile company. ?I)r. J.J. Ilagins, the opti cian, will he in Lancaster Apri Oth and 10th. Lyes examinee free. Be on hand and get . good pair of glasses. It ?Dr. W. F. Laney, who ha; receutly taken a post graduate course at Charleston, was ii town several days last weeli prospecting, and he may local* here.* ?Last Tuesday Henry Magi! and Henry Allsbrooks had a difll culty just outside of town ii which the former was snot'by lh? lalter, the bnl) ranging thrujgl the front of the abdomen. ?A series of meetings will b< held in the Methodist churel here next week, commencing x^unday morning. The pastor Ibl . >v. W. II. Hodges, will bo as ^ Sitft&d by Rev. Mr. Watson o Chester. W.S ?The dwelling of Mr. James Allen of near Catawba Junctioi * was accidentally destroyed bj fire Monday night. He savei most of his household effects The loss is about $500 with n< insurance. ?No one ever thought tha Ladies and Misses Hats could evei be sold at the prices Bayseur ii selling them. 3t The State board oT Educatior has appointed as the board oi education lor Lancaster count} the following: A. C. Howell, L T. Baker, H. E. Cofley. ?There will be an election it Van Wyck on the 8th (nexi Wednesday) to decide whethoi or not a special tax of 2 nulls shall be levied and collected loi school purposes in that district ?Cards are out announcing the approaching marriage ol Misi Emma B. Connor, daughter o Mrs. Henrietta Bailey Connor formerly of Lancaster, now 01 lioily Hill,and Mr. Herrv Budget! of Holly Hill on the 8th of April ?The Lancaster Mercantile I Co's spring millinery opening takes place today. The new milli s tier, Miss Brent, has been busy * ever since her arrival preparing tor this occasion and they will show a tine selection of the 1 at est styles of hats. Head their invitation in this issue. ?Hev. Chalmers Frasei preached at Heath Springs Sua day. Ills church was closed rm WAS thn RntlMet r?liiii-nl vliose pastor went out Satin* day to attend the Union meet ing at Camp Crook church. ?You had better Bee us be fore you 6pendj your CASH We've got some bargains. Lancaster Mer. Co. ?Mr. II. L. Hough, a native of Lancaster county and roceni i graduate of the Atlanta schoo of Pharmacy lias accepted t I position with Mr. John llougl . as proscription clerk, lie bo ^ gan work last Monday. Thh t I 4 young man has had several tlu . years, practical experience, his Though having the same name tor we arc informed that he is not wa - related to Mr. John Hough.? au Greenwood Journal. iii ?Tho Rock Ilili store display windows and the advertising col- />? . limns of The llerald indicate that spring trade will be on a hig boom this season.?Rock llill ' " llerald. Judged in a similar man- ^ t nor, tho public would conclude " ( that most oi Lancaster's mer- ( - chants had shut up their shops f and (piit business. ir, ?Our Air. J. M. ilood is al jmi ways in the market to buyiwl , mules and cattle, and don t |m r you forget it. i>tl 3 ' Lancaster Mercantile Co. }l ?"Strength and vigor come Mi r of good food, duly digested, rai 1 'Force,' a ready-to-serve wheat! tin I and barley food, adds 110 burden, tin but sustains, nourishes, invig ri\ 3 orates." 3-25-tf. 19 Attention, J*oultrj/men ! ,1 elc Fresh ground Rone Meal for 23 j hens, for sale at S. T. Rlack- 27 i men's market. 3t st< t ?? ? nu it hat irir.hu Sai/s. Mi i I n his almanac, Hicks said of ' theclosingdavsof March : "Wo " o V > will name Friday, Saturday and i Sunday, the 27th, 28th and j1^1 i 29th, rts the central days of a i in i * j i I CO I danger period. Among the 1 things ho said would probably! occur theil wore rain storms1 \ I and high winds. * Referring to the first part <*>f Up\ April, be says look for cluing* , ,,,. to warmer, south wiuds, high j to> , humidity and rain about the l*t ov "x to 2nd, possibly not ending he- j on P fore the 3rd in this portion ofjw] ' the country. Then more rainLv] ' from the 9th to the 11th, about ov f which dates lie says there are wc reasons to apprehend storms of SO] forceful character. From the cjp 1 17th to the 21st, look for "April an 1 showers," hlack clouds and cp j short, sharp thunder showers, jj|; says this prognosticator. He jf * leads us to believe that there } will not he an abundance of cp rain during April. W1 Cc r ^ One tieason. This excellent reason for the 1,1 1 scarcity of farm hands is eiven 1 by tho Lancaster correspondent trj of tlio Charleston News and Courier: ca Several reasons for the scar foi t city of farm ljibor were recently sei p given in this correspondence, . but tliero is another which has M< thus far escaped public notice, ph Reference is had to the heavy mortality among the negroes E< ' during the p.ist few years. The i I>? number of deaths due to one ch ' cause alone, consumption, is j tic > startling. One of Lancaster's let 1 undertaker- said i few d ivs ago.wl t that he had sold forty collins L)( since tho first of January, and 3*0 s that nearly all of them were for wl : negroes, and of that number sti exactly 20 of the collins wore for iui ' colored victims of consumption. r . ? . | foi Operation Performed, Mr. A. B. Ferguson came to .1 Rock Hill from Lancaster Sun- K< . day night accompanied by hislFi son, A. B., who i* about twelve w; years old. The boy, it will be th ' remembered, was a great suffer-1 su er from hloort poison in one of pa hi* Tegs about two years ago,tho on affliction being so serious that Ot his life was despaired of. That tfc ' was when his father and family on | lived in this county near Cure- by I ton's forrv. lie lias never re- i\ii covered from the trouble and of i recently his leg has been grow- sti t ing crooked. Monday ho was co I taken to the Kock Jlill hospital i lo> i and an operation was performed po i by Dr. Fonnell, assisted t>y Dr. j rei - Lynn, an inch or more oi dead; ex i bono being takou out. lie stood j ga i ^ > operation well am1 yesterday i the p i condition was very satisfac ' that y. After the operation he was < ,s removed to the home of his suit i nt, Mrs. Ida Iluey.?Rock of Hi 11 Herald* clain tt'oe's /'Vtreatttts tor April. was Planters in the south may r^j ( >k for hot, dry weather this , )iith, excepting a few locrsil | owors. The latter part of the | ,' ,, mth will he unfavorable for I ^ f ' nving crops,, especially over i j ^ north. 1st to 3d, hot atuljj^ r v. 4th to 7th, a storin will | teiv from the Pjiritio 1 deli will cause a slight distur- Lp.^' nee and local thunder showers. I no]jc i to llili, fair-. 32th to 14th, e(j j storm will form west of the ami .ssissippi river, causing heavy U1)011 ns and dangei' of Hoods over , . 3 Mississippi Valley, and local under showers east of the rer. .15th to IStli, hot wave. I,, th to 22d, a stonn forming jj; er the Mississippi Valley, mov- New: * southeastward, will cause (pctc> >udy weather and local rains. cr0p d to 2('?th, hot over the south. wou] th to IlOtli : on the 27th a ,jie . >rm will form over Texas, sjlcm iving northward, west of the! ttik? ! ssissippi river, causing a cold savs ivo and danger of snow oyer na^ . issouri Valley, heavy rains L,Ilt or the lower M ississippi Valley 1 tj1( n d eastward to the Ohio Val conn The month will (dose with I j)(M. c Id . cloudy weather. I sohl A v l*nets, Vot !W<nlf ' fore, Mr. II. J. Melveown of.thei in of \\r. O. McMoown it Sons, ichinists, of Cornwell. was in . ' iVn last Wednesday. He came . er to start up the gasoline l' 'V' gine of the Entkupuisk oflice iirh is just from their shops (.'"S lere it litis been thoroughly !.niK erhauled and which now ..lo^' u*ks tis well as it ever did, in (m, no respects better than it ever x\01 1. Messrs. W. O. McKeown c\en d his three sons are fine mainists, machinists that are, i0,*e e poets, born, not made, and \,l^ 3 any of our readers have any 1,1 cc ad of machinery they wish j anged, repaired or rebuilt, . 11 ito In tli pen (fmitlomoo ' ?VV vw ?.??VOV w'-UlU 1I1U11 <fl . rnwell, S. (J. 1)0''1 a hn *" ' 1 stain > the Com mini I'teas Court. was The following cases were rL ed last wees : amp] Robert Buist tfc Co. vs. Lan- one < ster Mercantile Co. Verdict most r plaintiffs for $07.40 by con m>t s at of defendants. 28th R. E. Wylie vs. Lancaster put I 31*. Co. Verdict in favor of a m aintilf for $21.00. ^ nigh Eliza Kennington et al vs. and i I Catoe et al. Verdict for Apri 1 Catoe, colored, who set up sulUc kiin to certain lands in ijues his , >n by right of his being the few 1 jitimate son of Minor Catoe, I corn n> lie alleged was married to to g '1 Catoe's mother about a nicel ar prior to his ( Del's) birth, crop lich was at a time when a late it lite was in force permitting farm termarriege the races. this Heath 11. <fc M. Co. vs. J. C. well. Verdict for plaintiffs r full amount claimed. E. G. Secrest, as receiver of . . A Milt...* .?r i'.. r ~ri Divi i i uivii v* v/*/., iwi iiiih i y ui 1 Tsha-.v, against tho Hartford :i^tor ro fnsuranco company. This 11088 is an action to recover $ 1,400, ovor b amount of a policy of in- was ranee issued by said com c'll,r riy to said tirin .Ian. 1, 18!?7,M',st their stock of merchandise.!('1' ^ i tlie 1st of Nov. J 897, Hilton |to M Co. gave a chattle mortgage; ^ the stock of goods covered m> this insurance to Amos ow 11 ingo for $5000. On tho l.'Ith 1 ',r8t November the goods were do-J v oyed by lire. The insurance; '* Cl mpany refused to pay the |or v is on tho ground that their C'avc licy had been vitiated and idered null and void by tlie lie edition of the chattel mart- Sprii go upon the stock covered by and ! * that theyWere h:ullv nijs.l Misses liessie i. Public Weigln-r NDbot ! Jo,ies visi,y,i their i that ho Has weighed of! b.urK ,asl week? year's crop up to i:i.? pros I ounP? ime 1 1,500 hale*, and that Mr. tt|nl Mrs. 1 > is still some eott m in the *Pe,,t several daj try unsold. The to-ai uum with their daught >f bales of the crop of 1 *.?01 Maekcy. on this market was onljfJ Mrs. A. C. Bar ). It will 1>" s'- n, th"ft' Lawn was in tov that the <" >p of I'.i > _> '. js last week shopping exceeds that of 1by her friends. ) bales, which number wiilj i\[r# <j. (J. NelslrfT y ho increased to ::.??on hy|gpent Monday and into all of last y on* - crop I ins sister, Mis. Iv. irkotcd. i jins place, r the pasi two or throe Mn> , Spri it has ratite. miw eon U HaUm arcc, insly thronghour this 4vc- , ? * , .. n. J . . " , V her Aunt. Mrs. Oat causing the crooks .?> over and a suspension of farm . ,, The ground u> t 1 J",01: K h\ Sh?r ly dry last week for farm- Dke laber"acle llu 0 get a few days' pi niching ^r* on It will now ta'e -evral ants> were in Lanca of sunshine to put tin- ^oil ^r* and Mrs. J. mdition for work to He ro- tended the closing nl. The delay is vexatious Tabernacle High S 'armers may find comfort tH^ir old iiome at i svor, in recalling tlo ir <?x Mrs.Ellen Broom nice of four years ago. \\ lion Tenn., is visiting e crop was made not with- Mrs. Martha Blac ling the fact that plaining place, and Mrs J greatly delayed bv an nil- of the Primus sect lly wot spring. j _The Jr. O. U lring that year, for ox- hold its annual St* le, Mr. John Lee I iliiuan, ln Laneastertni tl: )f this county's old.-i and m0uih. The delegi successful fanners. 'iid;|>er about 50, and tart His ploughs until the ,or them a good tin of March, on which day h<' Order is very stroiij lis hands in ploughing in 3w ground. During the 1' ' t another wet spell* in, TIIREK J'A/'KIt it was not until the PMh of 1 that the ground Ix caimj 7Vie nontly dry for him : > <tart Week Charlestoi ploughs again. Within a t'oueier oue Y< weeks, however, lie had His SO. tint IlllK" t .1 >i 11 I I ' . . , . .... I \t'_ I i U[> I ?> e nave compi ;oo<l stands and crowing ments with tho (Jli y. lie made a nd?,ndid and Courier by 1 that year in spi i* the enabled to tarnish 1 planting. And I.sneavtor and the Twice-a-\V ers may hope to d-> as w ell I the News and Cour year. year, which must L _ lin advance. Sam >. ,, that paper will b< o/ Consumption. ? ' subscribers, and \ r. I. Luther Wils.ui .d" the many wji| take ad^ i? section died last Saturday liberal clubbing oth noon 'alter a liri?itr ill-] iar price cd tho i of consumption extruding! V0II kn0w, is iW more than two years. 11 * | 0f t|1(. Semi-Week buried Sunday at Ihu- well Courier, an oight-p ch. lie was twice married, Lj|# [>u{ underth to Miss Mary lJlack w lm, rangement you gi several years ago, and then {or .+ 1.50. i ss E1 Ion \Y i 111 a m - .<!:: u g h ter ; r. James I I. William^ of tlie i k section He 1eav< s a wid-j \ movement is < nd four children, one by the port, a iMr^e numt wife and tore#* lo ilu- ivt ....... ; ' i coolies inio Mexico, i*as a member of Unity A.11. lurch ami leaves one hrutlitrho lives in Charlotte, a CAPU1 'ling salesman. _ _ Cures Cokls, v. 8. N. Watson ,,f Heath anJ an Hcadai lgs was in town last I- riday ,, , , ... Saturday.' Sold at all l)i _.?_J olicy of insuiMii' ". Since! TiltJ Visi time the Mungo mortgage ,, ., .. . , . . P ? Mr. r. D Barron set aside by the court iu ;t i . .t , . . . 4, , , . , visited his brother I irought by other creditors ilton & Co. The plaintiff .Mr. 0. II. Uags?! led tli.it ilie mortgage hav- Vl"? ui4S M'vv,> ,> teen set aside, tic policy Mrs. S. M. Burt still a binding obligation i Mrs Maud- Cause he part of the company. Dr. K. F. Ilort defense moved for :t noti Springs was in to1 which was.granted, Judge Mr. Goo. C. He zler holding that whilt; vill^ vyas in town mortgage was null and void wee|t. r as 111., olho.- t,v..iu.M-. of Mrs J ,, Ulll ) 11 (V ( i? VVPI'O I', I I. 'I'll...! ? Hill v i s i t e?I relat; is, nevertheless, a vain in oen,jv nent as between Hilton A: * ' ... . c, mil Muiiko, anil il..-r. f., ?, Ulauohe Si its oxocuilon vitiatial lite haw, N. C., i. vwi y of insurance, as foiiti-ncl- l' . ? the defendant company, ^r- J?8? ] which were the grounds daughter, Mrs. J. which the motion for 11011- lversuaw. was made. ?L)r. E. C. Bras ? . w ! to move back to I Cut ton Cr??. Camden. I Mr. W. A. Beck iincaster Corrc<p.>ndnn(fe shaw is in represeil i and Courier: Many ore York Lile. d last fall that t'm '.onon Col. W. A. Neal of last \eai Innn-diout^ was jn town one da d not exceed the ,M-op of] lhe iutere8t ol road ear previous, In;' r"-ults| ... ... ot Rock Hill asi week, hile ot' Ross SIerday . is is visiting 11. uti of H6ath ivn week, nth of Yorkone day last Day ot itock ives here renitli of Waxting Miss Dot s vis.ting his V. Hamel, at . . $ ington is soon Cershaw from .ham of Kerling the Nevy of Anderson y last week in machinery, atul May me sister at RichMrs. J. P. \ T. Twitty >', s last week .Vf| e' here, / $ V netl of Fea J/ /n ^ v. aiiX. isiliug .> * r , ol Camden, Tuesday with 1> \* /* n. loung, ol ngs has gone ompanied by II of Concord, p, principal of :h School, and e ol his assitster Saturday, M. Stewart at; exercises of cliool, visiting he same time, of Knoxville, ; her sisters, kmon of this laron Adams ion. . A. M. will ite convention v ic 28th of this *tes will num< we bos pea K le. The local g here. S .1 WEEK ^ / the Ttrice-tli A etc* ttit 11 or fur Only leted arrange, arleston News ivhich we aro ho Entkhprisk reek edition ot ier lor $ 1.50 a >e paid strictly ijilo copies ot > unit In mm ve Irust that vantage ot thU ?r. The reguJPTKKI'RISK, a* year, and that ly News and age paper, id is clubbing aret them both on loor to uu?er of Oliine9Q [)!NE LaGrippe, ches, etc. pugstores.