The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-04-17
To those living

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The copy for change in the ad,
vertisement of Lever, The Shoe Man.
of Columbia, was received too late
for this issue. In the meantime.
wher you want shoes, 60 there.
Miss Helen Corley charmingly en-
tertained her little friends at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
P. II. Corley, in this place last Mon
day afternoon, it being her birthday.
Lilac was the favorite flower which
adorned the bosom of fair woman
last Sunday. Nearly every one had
spray of this lovely and delicately
perfumed flower pinned to her hos
som.
OF the twenty-nine prisoners con-
victed at the recent term of court
for Richland county, two of them,
negro lads, were sentenced to terms
in the State Reformatory in this
county.
Harris Lithia Water corbinsted
in soda, ginger ale, coca cola, etc
Delicious drinks. Served at the
Bazaar fountain.
What is Lexington doing toward
getting up a county exhibit for the
Charleston Exposition? Chester, her
old time rival at the State Fair, has
thrown down the gauntlet. Will
Lexington pick it up?
There is some talk of the location
of plant for the manufacture of first
class brick at this place in the near
future. We have an excellent article
of raw material in abundance and it
only requires little energy and
pluck to develope it.
Rev. Mr.. Reid, the evangelist OF
the South Carolina Synod of the
Presbyterian church, is announced
to be at this place about the second
Sunday in May, when be will con-
duct a series of meetings.
Mrs. Newton, an organizer for the
Woman's Temperance Union, made
two addresses for the cause of tenn
prance in this place last week, the
first being at the Methodist church
last Thursday evening before large
audience and the second in the Bap.
tist church on Friday evening.
When the polite and aceommoda-
ting E. L. Wingard dons his blue
uniform, covered all over with big
brass buttons, of the free rural mail
delivery Of your Uncle Sans Post
Office department, he will strut as
proudly as peacock in all it's glory
of full plumage.
The local lodge of Masons is pre-
pairing to paint the old town red on
the 30th inst. It will doubtless be
an occasion memorable in the history
of the town and will mark All epoch in
masonry fraught with pleasant recol-
lections and an increased interest in
the work of this grand old order,
which has come down to US in all it's
pristine glory through the mossy
corridors of cen turiee.
At a municipal election held in
Leesville last Monday the following
were elected town officers: H. F.
Hendrix, Intendant; D. L. Gunter,
J. G Able, W. E Crosson and E. j.
Etheredge, Wardens. This is a
strong combination, being composed
of we'll known and successful busi-
ness men and the interests of the
town should prosper under it's ad-
ministration.
We regret to learn that Mr.. Ben
Buckley, of the High Hill section OF
the Fork, recently had the misfortune
to lose his dwelling and almost its
entire contents by fire. We have
not learned the origin of the fire.
The neighbors and friends of the
unfortunate man have come to his
assistance in substantial manner.
Just received fresh lot of fine
shirts and suspenders, which will be
sold at wholesale prices. Shirts will
range in prices from Is cents to 81
and suspenders from 6 cents to so
cents. You will never again have
such bargains offered you. We will
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suspenders and more than l25 styles
of shirts. Be sure to call early and
get some of these bargains as they
cannot last long. II. L. Oswald.
We understand that Mr.. James W.
Corley has leased his lands about
Tarrar's Springs, about one mile
below this place, to party who will
open q rock quarry there. It is said