The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-06-13

Me-. Newell Lee ls sSendlDg
short while with his wife at the hom'
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. D
Harman.
We were pleased to receive a visi
from mary prominent citizens of thf
county and elsewhere, during the
week.
Hon. W. 81. F. Rast, Swansea't
popular business mar. WAS in towr
Monday and Tuesday in attendance
upon court.
An examination for applicants fol
teacher's certificates will be held ir
this place on next Friday, beginning
at 9 o'clock a. m.
Mrs. Eugenia Hendrix has just re-
TUNED from q pleasant visit to rela
tives and friends in Leesville and
Bstesburg.
Wanted-A job as engineer (sta
tionary). Well qualified. Address.
Lester Carson, care of Lexington
Dispatch.
The friends of Mr.. Harry Roberts
are glad to see him on the streets
again after his dangerous and pro,
tracted illness.
For the best buggy and wagon
material, either for building or re-
pairing, go to T. B. Aughtry & Co,
Columbia.
Mr.. G. L. Beard, Editor of the
Carolina News, Chapip, was in town
Monday and Tuesday and gave US a
pleasant call.
Notice is given in this issue that
D. M. Drafts and F. L Corley will
give their annual barbecue at the
usual place on July %.
The friends of Maj. b. A. Meetze
present his name to the voters OF
the 1st Judicial District for re-elec-
ton as Magistrate.
Scott Harman and Eugere Little
will give first class barbecue at the
residence of Mrs. Adrian Little, one
mile east of this place on July 7th.
Miss Anna Eliz abe th Miles, one OF
Msrion's fairest daughters, has been
visiting Mrs. G P. R obinson, Of
Irmo, and Miss Annie Shuler. Of
Selwood, s. G.
Wig Davis, colored, was fined S25
or 80 days on the chain gang by
Magistrate Meetze for assault and
battery on Corrie Norris last week.
He paid the fine.
Mr.. Thompson, who is charged
with having killed a negro in self
defense near Brookland sometime
ago, surrendered himself to Sheriff
Caughman last week.
IA. Muller, E-q, prominent
member of the Lexington Bar, has
decided to enter the race for Solicitor
of the 5:h Circuit and so announces
himself 10 this issue.
There has been post Office estab-
lished at Hon. W. II. Sharpe's, en-
the Perry extension Of the Southern
Railway, by the name of Edmund,
with Claude G. CAN'T postmaster.
We acknowledge an invitation to
attend the dedicatory ceremonies OF
the New Law building of the Wash
ington and Lee University to the
memory of John Randolph Tucker,
on Tuesday, June 18Th, at Lexing-
ton, Va.
Our young friend Cadet T. Frank
Rawl has our thanks for an invita-
ton to attend the Joint Debate Il
the Literary societies of the Patrick
Military Institute at Anderson, S. G
which took place on June 11th.
Last week some malicious person
shot a valuable COW belonging to Mr..
E. B. Roof, while it was grazing in
his pasture. When she was discov.
cred she was dead and beside the
gunshot wounds there were several
knife cuts en- her body.
In order to make room for a rew
stock, J. ". Long is cferipg his
present stock of shoes at cost. HI
is cffering great bargains in the
balance of his stock. 1t will pay
you to call and inspect his goods be
fore purchasing elsewhere.
Judge J. Walter Mitchell, recent.
of this county, but who has been re
siding in Rchland for some time, La
been elected by the board Of contro
for that county, Clerk to Dispense
Price in Columbia.