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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-07-23
BARBECUE COLUMN.
Barbecue.
Delmar Barbecue.

ON TUESDAY. JULY 29th, 1902, WE
" will furnish our annual barbecue with
refreshments, at Delmar, S, C. We earn
estly request both Lexington and saiuda
candidates to be present and entertain the
crowd. Rates for dinner reasonable. Every
body come and spend pleasant day with
US.
A. L. EARGLE.
J. C. SWYGERT.
Jolly 9th, 1872. 3w31.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-07-23
'Cue.

WE WILL GIVE A FIRST CLASS
W barbecue in Brookland Park. Cam
paign Day, August l6, 1902. Sweet music
and delicious refreshments will be furnish
ed throughout the dav.
WILLIAMS & KIRBY.
July % 1902 4w40 pd
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-07-23
Barbecue.

WE WILL FURNISH A FIRST
wv class cue and refreshments, about
% miles south of Iewiedale, known as the
Minis Old Mill Place, on the 4th Saturday
in July. being the 26th day, 1902
Candidates and the general public are in
vited. Music will be furnished. Dinner
rates cheap and a pleasant day is promised
all who may attend
N. S. CIRCUIT & SONS,
July 7th, 1902. 3w37 pd.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-07-23
Barbecue.

WE WILL FURNISH A BARBECUE
w and refreshments at New Brookland
on Saturday, the 18th day of August, 1902.
Everybody is invited to come, hear the
candidates speak aud enjoy GOOD dinner.
NJ. P. GUNTER.
GEORGE W. LIBRAND.
July 81, l902,-4w40.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-07-23
Barbecue.
Barbecue.

T WILL FURNISH A FIRST CLASS
L barbecue and refreshments at Pelion,
on Tuesday, the 18th day of August. 1902.
Candidates and everybody else invited to
come and have good time.
JOSH J. SHEALY,
July 16. 1902. 4w39.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
COURT TO DECIDE WHO
CAN FILL VACANCIES
Regular Political Committees Desire to
Know Their Powers in the
Matter.

The question Of whether regularly
constituted committees of political par
ties can fill vacancies on the official
ballot will be settled by the supreme
court today. Attorney General Douglas
has held that this could not be done
under the election law, but after Civ
ing out such an opinion, he expressed
the wish that the supreme court would
settle the point.
Yesterday Chief Justice Start signed
an order directing County Auditor
Scott, Of Hennepin county, to appear
before the supreme court at 10 o'clock
and show cause why the name of FL
wood s. Corser should not be placed on
the official ballot as a Democratic can
dldate for representative in the Forti-
eth district.
The application on which the order
was issued sets up that Cerser is a
Democrat and a qualified elector in the
district. and that there was no candi-
date on the primary election ballot for
the Office for representative from this
district; that the regularly constituted
committee Of the Democratic party of
Henncpin county presented the action
taken in nominating. Corser for the Of
flee to the county auditor of Hennepin
co1'nty, and at the same time offered
the fee of $50 as provided by law.
The county auditor refused to accept
the nomination papers and hence the
appeal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
TO ERECT LABORATORY
: ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
State Board Of Health and Regents
VIII Ask Legislature for APP
preparation.

At the quarterly meeting Of the state
poard OF health yesterday, a PROPOSE
ton was Endorsed and a committee
appointed to act Jointly with the re-
gents Of the state university in Sc
curing from the legislature an appro-
prlation Of $125,000 for the purpose of
erecting building to be used for
pathological and archaeological work.
Rough plans of the proposed struc-
ture, which will be Of brick, 70 by 40
feet, and three stories high, were pre-
scented. The state board is hampered
In its laboratory work by want of
proper room, and, backed by the board
OF regents of the university, it is ex-
pected the legislature will consent to
the appropriation for the new building.
The plan is to erect the new building
on the university campus.
The proposition to secure a certified
milk standard through the county
medical boards, in connection with the
state board of health, was discussed.
The idea Is to have the medical So
c1eties fix the standard for milk, and
then, through the societies, keep it M
The secretary was directed to notify
the officials of Eden Valley that the
construction of a water supply system.
with surface wells, would not be al
lowed.
Discussion as to the pollution of wa
ter supplies at Harris, Alexandria and
st. Louis Park was taken UP, but no
definite action taken.
Bills to the amount of $500 for
smallpox expenses were allowed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
MILITIAMEN FINED FOR
NOT ATTENDING DRILLS
hree Members of Company c Absent
Themselves for Period of Six
Weeks.

A. 3. Raudenbush, a member of Com
pany G, First regiment, N. c. S. M,
was taken in custody yesterday by a
deputy sheriff and hauled before Mai.
Seebach, who held court in the office
of the adjutant general at the state
capitol
Under the military code Mai. See
bach is summary court officer of the
First regiment and is given power to
hear and determine cases where the
offenders are guilty of infractions of
military discipline.
R&udenbush and two other members
Of Company G have absented them
selves from weekly drills for a period
OF six weeks. The trio were ordered
to report at the armory last Monday
night, but only one put In an appear
ance. The offender who appeared and
was given hearing was fined So by
Maj Seebach. Yesterday a warrant
was issued and placed in the hands of
deputy sheriff, who arrested Rauden-
bush and took him before Mai See
bach, who fined him SIS and costs. Mai.
Seebach was much annoyed when he
learned that the case had been made
public.
81 suppose the deputy sheriff tipped
the case off," said the major, land I
am very sorry, as the boys are of re-
spectacle families and the publicity
will be annoying to them. I would have
rather paid $50 out of my own pocket
than had the matter made public. The
names of the three members of the
company decline to give OUT
W to a late hour last evening the
deputy sheriff had not taken in Gus
tody the other member of Company @
for whom he had warrant.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
YOUNG DENIES THAT
FORGERY ACCUSATION
Well Connected Man Is Arrested on
Charge of Passing Bad
Check.

w. S. Young was arrested yesterday
at the Merchants hotel, where he has
been staying since Oct. 8, on a charge
of attempting to pass a forged check.
Young Is tWenty-siX years of age, and
halls from Boston, where his STEP
father Is said to be a well known bank
er. His case was continued in the
police court till today.
The arrest was made on complaint of
George r. Kibbie, proprietor of the
hotel. Young had given check for
$40 in part payment of his hotel bill,
and on investigation this was found
to be a forgery. The check was drawn
on the First National Bank of Brain
erd, Mimi, and purported to be signed
with the name Of the president, A. q.
Ferris.
Young Is a we'll educated man of
good appearance, and tells a plausible
story. He claims to have received the
check from John G. Motto, in whose
company he made the trip from San
Francisco to st. Paul two weeks ago.
Note, he says, borrowed $50 from him
during the trip and repaid him with
the check, which he declared he had
just received from Mr.. Ferris. Young
also claims that he did not offer the
check in payment of his hotel account.
but merely asked the clerk to have 1t
collected, and If it proved good to de-
vote the proceeds to his account.
The police say that Young has some
reputation as a writer and newspaper
correspondent for Eastern periodicals.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
CHEESE. BUTTER AND
EGGS ARE CORNERED
Prices Are Going Up and There Is
~, Prospect of Greater
Advance.

If rumors that were rife on the
streets yesterday prove to be founded
, on fact it would be wise move for
the prudent housewife to stock up in
butter, eggs and cheese. For rumor
says that the big packers and others
controlling the cold storage facilities
are going to corner these commodities,
and rumor further says that the corner
will become evident within very few
days. That there might be a corner in
several weeks, in fact all summer, for
prices have been unusually high, and
it was said that they were high be-
cause the cold storage men had buy
ers all through the Northwest, taking
practically the entire output. But a
corner in cheese was never thought of
until within few days, when prices
shot UP a cent a pound without any
particular reason. Now it develops
that the manufacture Of cheese for the
year is almost at an end, the product,
coming from so many different
sources is in the hands of a compare
lively few people, so that 1t can be
easily acquired. From a reliable
source comes the information that
every effort is being made to get con-
troll of everything in sight, and 1t is
predicted that prices will go up in
bounds within the next few days.
Butter and eggs are quoted cent
higher with the advent Of the cold
snap, and, should the temperature
continue to hover around the freezing
point, there is every indication that
prices will advance rapidly.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
MAYOR WILL VETO IT
HIS HONOR FLATLY OPPOSED TO
REPEAL OF SMOKE ORDINANCE
Says He Will Not Affix His Signature
to Measure of That Nature-No
One Will Me MoIested If He Tries to
Do Half Way Right.

want to repeal the smoke ordi-
nance, en-" unused Mayor Smith yes
terday as he read T h G ! o b and his
eye rested on an item to the effect that
the assembly committee on streets ia
vored the temporary repeal Of the
smoke law.
''Well. If they do, 1t will be without
my assistance" remarked his honor,
speaking with some force. want to
set st. Paul back about ten years,
guess
But they say 1t is only temporary,
mayor
Temporary nothing. Just let the
law alone. No one is going to be mo-
Tested If he tries to do halfway right
l am In perfect sympathy with the
health department in it's intention Of
being lenient during this coal strike,
but there are some people you can't be
len!ent with There is a smoke stack
just opposite this court house that is a
disgrace. The owners have been using
the poorest kind of stuff for fuel, and
that even when there was no coal fam
inc. wonder they are not prosecuted.
Il know Of one party" continued his
honor, "who bothered me to death be-
cause he thought he was being prose-
cuted for permitting his chimney to
smoke. He put in a smoke consumer,
and now l don't believe there is a
stronger advocate Of the smoke law in
the city today than he is. He says he
is saving money"
The proposed repeal Of the ordinance
will come before the two. bodies next
week for consideration, but Mayor
Smith announces in advance that the
measure Will not receive his signature.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
SWITCHMEN CONFER
WITH RAILROAD MEN
Situation Continues Grave, and No So
luton Is Yet Ar
rived at.

The situation produced by the
switchmen presenting their schedule
to the Northern Pacific is becoming
grave. 1t Is intimated that the COM
pany refused to accept the schedule
proposed by the committee, but no au-
thoritative statement has been issued
by the sWitchmen or the railroad. 1t
is understood that the SWitchmen are
demanding an increase of 5 cents per
hour, or an average Of so cents per
day, but no official declaration has
been made. At the second conference
yesterday between the committee and
the general superintendent Of the
Northern Pacific, no satisfactory re-
ply was delivered. The switchmen say
that they will not compromise.
There are now in the city repre-
sentatives from every yard on the
Northern Pacific system, from Duluth
to Tacoma, and they are in conference
with Grand Master Hawley. The
grand master directs them, and they do
the negotiating with the officials them
selves.
A meeting was held last evening at
which representatives of all the roads
attendance. They observed strict Sc
and their assemblage was character
lied by earnestness and determination.
Arrangements have been made for
meetings with the other roads. A
committee of Omaha employees will
meet General Superintendent A. W.
Trenholm today, and committee of
Great Western switchmen will meet
General Superintendent G. A. GoodelI
Thursday morning.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
URGES PROSECUTION
OF EDMUND R. WARD
Insurance Commissioner Dearth joys
. the Memory Of Hennepin county's
Attorney.

Insurance Commissioner Dearth has
written County Attorney Boardman,
of Hennepin county, requesting that
official to prosecute Edmund r. Ward
for alleged violation of the antirebate
clause of the life insurance statutes.
Ward, while the agent of the Prpvi-
dent Savings Life Assurance Com
pany of New York, issued a policy Of
$4,000 on the life Of Swan J. Turn
blad, Of Minneapolis. The premium
should have been $205.30 for the first
year, but Mr.. Ward obligingly accept
ed s61.59, or 80 per cent Of the pre-
MUM.
The premium was paid in May, 1901,
and when the second payment was
due Mr.. Turnblad was in Europe. His
private secretary made the second
payment in full, but when the assured
returned he demanded a return of the
money, which he claimed had been
paid under a mistake.
The penalty for a violation Of the
law is a fine of not less than $500 nor
more than $1,000.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15

They've tried to force grape nuts
down our threats. They've lombard
ed us with shredded wheat biscuit,
peanut gravel and battered us with
Battle Creek beans. We have been
immersed in flood of cereal patents,
and even the water tight inner seal
has failed to save us. We must stand
together and serve an ultimatum, and
then, presto-the tide will be stemmed.
Our shops are beginning to look more
like hay, grain and feed emporiums
than groceries. BY the immortal
shades of Patrick Henry, give US lib
erty or give US bankruptcy"
Such in effect was the sentiment
expressed at the meeting of the St.
Paul Retail Grocers' association. The
assemblage tackled the breakfast food
problem with a determination to fight
for emancipation from the Cutting Of
their stores with widely advertised
prepared cereals. The special COM
plant is that the articles are so ex-
tensively advertised that the grocers
are compelled to handle them, with
the result that when they get half a
hundred different brands in their
stores they have small room for any,
thing else.
In consequence much of the stock Is
left on the hands of the dealers, whose
assets dIC leISt UeCOHllllS D. DSduIlluA
array of Autographed paper boxes,
bearing pictures of hilarious babies,
rejuvenated old men and corpulent
grandmothers.
when I start in to sell some Of
that stuff 1 feel like the press agent
for Ponce de Icons fountain Of
YOUTH" said one merchant.
Must Look Happy.
eff you feel sick you dare not look
it," remarked another, "else your
customers will wonder why you don't
take a few injections of your Won
derful cereal restoratives."
Finally, it was decided to confer
with the jobbers, with view to Sc
curing an agreement with the manu-
facturers, whereby money would be
refunded to the retailers for stock
which they fail to sell.
why" said one member, "when I
walked into my store the other morn
ing 1 saw breakfast food to the right
of me, breakfast food to the left of
me-beautifully encountered. Mine
not to ask the why; mine but to see
profits shy, I stood and wondered,
what will the finish be?. I think I'll
soon be up a tree if there's nothing
refunded" f'
After which the members filed sad
ly out into the chill night air, and ru-
NOR has it that some of them forth
with sought an establishment wherein
food may be had for the grabbing and
where there is no suggestion of the
breakfast cereal in sight.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15

Frances r. Rolph married Colin G.
Taylor Sept. 25, 1887, and obtained a
divorce from him in the Ramsey coun-
ty district court on June 9, 1898. Nine
days later she was united in the bonds
Of matrimony to Stephen R. Schneider,
and yesterday the district court again
came to her relief and set her free.
Nelly Sones and Edwin G. Topper
were married March 5, 1891, and di-
vorced on the wife's application to the
district court Oct. 8, 1901. The same
day the divorce was granted the sue
cessful plaintiff, waiting at Des Moines,
Iowa, for news Of the entry of the de-
cree, bowed her neck again to the mat
rimonial yoke and was married to
Frederick w. Steeg. Her divorce for
divorce from her second husband was
begun about six months after the we'd
ding day, and yesterday came to a sue
cessful conclusion in the Ramsey coun-
ty district court.
In each Of the cases tried yesterday
before Judge Otis the injured wife told
a movable tale Of abuse and neglect,
and the court granted her prayer for
freedom. The noteworthy feature Of
these suits is that each of the success
full plaintiffs had told substantially the
same story Of cruelty and abandonment
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15

regarding a former husband the court
had broken the CALLING chains of mar
riage, and each had made haste to VEN
ture anew In the matrimonial lottery.
Probably no other days record in the
history Of the Ramsey county courts
can produce a double coincidence like
this. f*tcty 2
Began at Seventeen. 81
When Frances Rolph plighted her
troth with Colin Taylor she was a pref
ty girl of seventeen. After eight years
to a day of married life she began suit
for divorce. The case did not come on
for trial till June, 1896, and as the lus-
band made no defense the Wife's story
Of desertion, after a long course of
cruelty. won the credence Of the court
and a decree. This was on June 9, 1896.
The second marriage occurred the
18th of the same month. The first hus-
band was piano tuner. For her sec
ond provide Mrs. Taylor accepted a
"spieler" with Barnum & Bailey's show.
The match was no more successful
than the first. The husband took his
wife, in 1900, to visit his relatives in
Indiana, and in April, of that year, as
she told the court yesterday, he left her
and her twelve-year- old son-the child
Of her former marriage-with the sum
Of % cents, in a rented fat in India
napOI1S, While ne IOllO@eu lAe 81
est show on earth to Germany.
Since that desertion the wife had re-
ceived nothing by way of support from
her undutiful husband. The only time
she had seen him was in September Of
the present year, when he turned up
in st. Paul penniless as barker for
one of the attractions at the state fair.
He had come to her parents house at
513 Wabasha street one night drunk,
had been taken in and sheltered, had
admitted his misconduct toward the
daughter of the house. but had made
no offer to return to her or provide for
her. No defense was made to his Wife'S
action, and Judge Otis order findings
for the plaintiff.
Tupper Was Her First.
Nelly Sones was twenty-one when
she made her first matrimonial ven
ture, and her alliance with MI. ripper
lasted ten years before he, metaphoric-
allv speaking, took to the woods. The
marriage occurred at Minneapolis, but
when the decade had passed the wife
was living in, st. Paul, while the nus
band was found for the service of the
summons at Moorhead, Mimi. so lar
had they drifted apart. The decree OF
divorce was awarded on the ground OF
deSertion.
Inc second marriage Ildy We Soii al
most to have been furnished forth
with the funeral baked meats of the
former match. 1t was solemnized on
the day the decree of divorce was en-
tered that broke the bonds uniting Mrs.
and Mr.. Topper. But, notwithstanding
the glowing expectations which led the
newly unwed woman to throw herself
so soon into the arms of Mr.. Steeg,
the second marriage quickly proved
far more unhappy than the first.
Mr.. Steeg was a man of intelligence
and good standing in his profession as
an engineer, but he evidently Lacked
some of the attributes that women
deem desirable in their husbands. The
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
incorporate to Do Business.

The Koenig Hardware company, of
Howard Lake, Wright county, filed ar
ticles of incorporation with the secre-
tary Of state yesterday. The capital
stock is $4,000, and the incorporators
are Gustave Koenig and Clarence III.
Corey, of Howard Lake, and w. B.
Geery, Of st. Paul.
The S. Hage Lumber company, Of
Madelia, Watonwan county, also in
corporated, with capital stock Of
100000, and Silver Hage and G. S.
Hayes, of Madelia; F. G. Gleason, of
st. James; Emar Toenberg, of Hanska,
and Andrew Hattren, of Truman, as in
corporators.
The Swedish Mission Church of East
Chain. Martin county. has been incor-
porated, with Andrew Rehnquist, A. M.
Sandblom and ]. p. Hallstro as trus-
tees.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
wife yesterday recited a catalogue OF
woes ample enough to fill a novel.
He Flourished a Gun.

Mr.. Steeg, who was formerly COM
missioner Of streets, under City Engi-
neer Clausen, took his wife to live on
Summit avenue, but the honeymoon
was hardly past when he began to
break the furniture in his new home,
to manifest inexplicable jealousy of
his spouse, to flourish a revolver and
threaten to take his life and hers, and
to write her letters full Of contrition,
if not of cash.
The plaintiff told Judge Otis that
his conduct had become unbearable.
She had returned to her home, when
he had sent her the following COM
munications:
at, Frederick w. Steeg, do hereby and
hereon solemnly promise and swear that
I will not hereby from now on do any
thing to beloved wife or myself:
Of. w. Steeg."
t'Nell-Please do keep rings and pouch
do so for my sake; am not myself any
more-duty and love is too much for
me. Words cannot express how I felt
when you left poorly clad as you were
I went after you, but too late. Forgive
me, Nell, it was too cruel on my part.
Write to me before night so that I may
see day once more, for the sake Of the
three little orphans do it..
'Let me know when you will be here
to pack up and I will make it a point
not to be here, or tell me how we best
arrange it.
The court found the plaintiffs allie
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
SELBY CAR COLLIDES
WITH A LAUNDRY WAGON
Vehicle Is Put Out Of Condition and
Driver Slightly Injured.

An east-bound Selby avenue car col
lided yesterday afternoon with a de-
livery wagon belonging to the Elk
laundry, at Fourth and Market streets,
tumbling the driver into the street and
smashing the front end Of the wagon.
Fred Halsted, the driver, was slightly
cut about the hands. The horse escap-
ed without injury.
The delivery wagon going north on
Market turned to go west on Fourth as
the car was nearing the corner. The
motorman slowed down, but the wagon
could not clear the car. 1t was picked
UP on the fender and carried several
feet. The front windows Of the car
were broken.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-15
LITTLE GIRL A VICTIM
OF MISCHIEVOUS BOYS
They Push Mary Eckert Off Fence
and She Suffers Broken
Arm.

Two boys pushed little Mary Eckert
over a. fence on which she was sitting,
near the Van Buren, school, yesterday
morning. The fall featured her right
arm near the elbow.
The child was ON her way to school
and sat down on an iron fence to rest.
While she was sitting there couple
of boys came along, and, thinking to
brighten her, gave her push. She fell
heavily upon her right arm. The girl
was taken to the home of her father,
Herman Eckert, 1876 Maple street,w
Dr. Plondke set the arm.