The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-08-16
A Full Line of Fresh Tur-
nip Seed for Fall Planting.
All Varieties, at the Bazaar.

attendance upon tie sessions of our
Summtr School ard is stopping with
Ju7ge S. P. Wipgard.
Mr.. George seastrunk, of Granite
Vile, who is a contractor Of large
experience and has number Of i'm
portart contracts on hand, was IN
town Monday and called to see us.
We are requested to state that
there will be picnic at Steedman's
August 10, 1899. Everybody is in
vited to come and erjoy the day.
Music and dancing will be part Of
the program.
We hereby offer the Dispatch
twelve months free, as premium to
the person sending US the largest
watermelon and six months free 10
the person sending the sweetest and
best. Let the watermelons roll in
at once.
The Governor has offered a reward
! OF 500 for the apprehension and
conviction of the party or parties,
| who buried the barns and stables of
Mrs. Alice Lowman, in the Fork, on
the night OF June 10Th.
Mrs. Ella Cromer, nee Hammer,
with her charming daughter, Miss
Lottie, and SOD, Quincy, have return
ed to their home in Saluds, after e
pleasant visit among relatives ard
friends in Lexington.
The children of Providence (Luth-
eraD) Sunday school will give 8
basket picnic on Saturday before the
fourth Lords day in this month, to
which the Sunday schools of this
place have been invited.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Joseph
Lown was struck and killed by
lightning last Thursday afternoon,
about 4 o'clock, during a thunder
storm, while hitched near the store
of Lown G. Co., SAKE Gotha Mills.
The cotton market is active but
the prices are not what they should
be to be remunerative to the pre-
ducers. Yesterday the following
prices prevailed at the places named:
Columbia, 6 cents; Augusta, s.;
Charleston, 5.
The Rev. Mr. Sojourner, the Metho
dist Circuit Rider of the Leesville
charge, preached a very interesting
sermon in the Methodist church at
this place last Sunday afternoon on
the theme of the rich man and
Lazarus.
Daring these harvest times the
farmers should prepare the best
specimens Of their products for ex-
hibition at the County Fair, and the
housewives, also should prepare
specimens of their handiwork for the
same purpose.
DR.. Lewie Griffith, late Assistant
Surgeon of the Second South p Caro-
lima. regiment, has been named by
Governor McSweeney, together with
three other South CArolinians, for
appointment in the volunteer army
of the United States by the Secre.
tary of War.
Messrs. Johnstone & Welch have
been employed to assist the prosecu-
ton of the persons charged with the
murder of Mr.. W. Pat Bowers at
Little Mountain. The accused will
be tried at Lexington at the next
term of the court,-Newberry Herald
and News.
Mrs. J. E. Morgan died at the
home of Mr.. G. O. Morgan Of Carl
isle last Friday morning of typhoid
| fever. Her remains were inferred at
C.dar Grove cemetery Saturday by
Rev. Roof. Oar sympathies is ex-
tended to the family and friends in
their loss.-Our (Summi) News
Letter, August l6.
Prof. O. D. Seay and Miss Ell n
Hendrix, who gave such universal
satisfaction for the past two terms,
have been reelected Principal and
Assistant Principal of the Lexington
Classical Institute for the next term
which opens on Monday, September
18th.
Fow is the time to think about
sending your daughter or son t.
some good boarding school. Give
the claims of the Lexington Classical
Institute due consideration and you
will be convinced that this school is
the one to enter your children.
Prof. 2. T. Brodie, highly gifted