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Severely Shocked by l. lightning

During thunder storm Wednes-
day afternoon in the upper sec
tion of the county lightning ran
into the residence of Mr.. j. NJ.
Slagle over the phone wire severe
ly shocking his daughter, Miss
Beulah Slagle and his grand chill
dren, Mamie Lee, and Carl De-
laney. The phone was in the
hallway and Miss Beulah and
the children were on bed in a
room, the door leading into the
hallway being open. Miss Beu-
lab was badly shocked and was
speechless and unconscious for
half an hour or more. One of
the children was also severely
shocked. The phone was de-
molished but no damage was done
the residence.
The same afternoon lightning
ran in over the phone wire a. the
residence of Mr.. j. M. Nivens,
ln the same vicinity badly shock
ing his wife, one of his children
and his mother,in law, Mrs
Susan Orr.
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An Estray Mule Taken Up

An Estray Mule Taken UP
On Saturday last an estray
black mare mule, apparently SIX
years old, with a split ear or
marked ear, vas taken up by me,
which the owner can get by pay,
ins for this ad., and expenses of
keeping said mule.
j. L. Brown,
Montgomery, s. G.
Aug. 1, 1902.-2ti.
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The Best Prescription for Matarta
Chills and Fever is a bottle of
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic. 1t
10 simply Iron sud Quin,ne and
tasteless, No Cure No Pay.
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WANTED. Scrap iron OF every
description and old machinery.
Any kind of fire wrecks or stocks.
Write for particulars. Address
j. B., Garfunkel, Columbia, S. G..
Jolly s, 19O2-1m.
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You KnOsO What You are Taktn0
When you take Groves Taste
less Chill Tonic because the form
ula is plainly printed on every bot
tie showing that it is simply Iron
and Quinine in a tasteless form.
No Cure. No Pay. soc.
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There was delightful german
held in the armory on Monday
evening, gracefully led by Mr. Joe
Young of Charleston and Miss
Florence Brown of Lancaster. -
WiDnsbepo News and Herald.
Mr.. Arthur b. Robinson left
yesterday to visit relatives in
1orkville. He will leave there
Monday for Clemson College
where he will attend the Farmers s
Institute to be held next week.
A complete list of the success
ful contestants for the scholar
ships in the Winthrop Normal
and Industrial college WAS pub
lished in the State of Thursday.
The winners of the scholarships
from this county are Misses Han
nah Mobley and Marie Craig.
The social event for August in
Charlotte will be the marriage of
Miss Bertha Oa' es and Mr.. w. H
Twitty, on the Goth. The mar
rage will be quiet home affair,
only the relatives and intimate
friends of the parties being pre-
sent. Charlotte Observer.
The little 7-year old son of Mr..
Reedy McAteer at the cotton mill
had two of his fingers blown off
and his hand badly lacerated 10y
the explosion of dynamite cap
Tuesday afternoon. He had got
ten hold of the cap and short
piece of fuse and making a small
hole in the ground buried the CAP
and was lighting the fuse when
the explosion occurred.
Mr.. A. j. Evans went to Heath
Springs last Tuesday on visit,
returning home Monday accom-
panied by his family who have
been spending some time thero.
Rock Hill Herald.
List of letters advertised for the
week ending, Friday Aug. 9th.
Miss Lottle White, Miss Matte
Dnkins, Miss Mary Gladen, Mr..
S. j. Hinson, Mir. John Nanell,
Mr.. Lewis Wells, Mr.. JIG. Ever
ett, Mr.. Jim Franklin, Mr..
Wachen Clan, Mr.. !. H. Murray.
Belle Nance, p. M.
R,v. A. N. Brunson, the be,
loved pastor of Trinity Methodist
church, returned last week and
occupied his pulpit Sunday. Mr..
Brunson has been absent for about
three months, owing to the crit
ical illness of his wife, who has
been for some time at the John
Hopkins hospital at Baltimore.
She is now at her fathers home
in Laurens county and is improv-
ing and it is hoped she will be
able to return here in few weeks.
(;or. Colum bia State.
SchoOlfie'd Dead
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To Let for Repair

To 1IoC IOr NOpalr
will let to the lowest bidder
at the bridge on Monday, 11th
August, 1902, at 10a. m. the re-
pairing of the bridge over upper
Camp Creek near Mr.. j. A. p.
Sistare's. w. Q. Caskey,
Co. Supervisor.
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lFor The Ledger.
Happenings About o. X.

'p"'e III your columns to speak oi
the things which have happened
and the people who have come and
Igone in the O. X. section for the
Ipast week.
We once had most flatterino
prospects fer crops but the long
drought has cut them short and
with plenty of rain we cannot hope
for more than three parts of an
average crop. However, we still
have some men who effer corn for
sale. Our section always hustles
up near the lead.
MIR. Ellis Marsh of MarshviIle.
N. T., sp?nt several days with his
friends in this community the FIRST
Of the week.
Mrs. Hugh Miller of Charlotte
and Miss Birdie Funderburk of
Monroe are visiting the latter s
parents this week.
Misses Bessie and ictoria Sher-
rill will visit relatives around O.
X. next week.
One of the most delightful so.
clal events of the season Game off
at the residence of Mr.. r. P.
Plyler on Wednesday evening the
7th. At about three o'clock the
young people and old too began
to gather at Mr.. Plyler's home TO
spend the evening in unalloyed
pleasure. The number swelled
until it reached seventy five.
1t was very warm evening for
the Evening Party but the people
knew that royal welcome awaits
ed them so they came regardless
of the heat.
Crokinole, Carum and Croquet
were the most important games of
the day. All the young Joined in
these harmless pastimes and the
merry laughter which filed the
Hickory Grove told better than
words that all was peace and
pleasure there.
An additional feature of the
patty was regular watermelon
feast. In this young and old
Joined most heartily. There
were several who sought to lead
in the eating but it was almost
unanimously conceded that Mes
srs. Bundy and MILAN Plyler
tied in this race, having outstrip :.
ped the others by half a melon
each. After several hours of de.
lightful entertainment the crowd
dispersed. Messrs. MILAN, Lonzo
and Edd, Mr.. Plyler's oldest sons
proved themselves to be charming
entertainers, and Mr.. Rance Ply
Ter was at himself. He carried
with him, mlrth and good cheer
through the whole crowd. He is
honestly the most hospitable man
we have met and all who we're
there can testify the same thlng.
Words refuse to express how we'll
we appreciate his kindness and
openheartedness towards each one
of us on that occasion and at all
times. His life has been a roy
of glsdness to those whom be met.
1t is natural with him. From his
bountiful hand he has given out
those things which are the main
spring of life, and hunger has been
driven from a thousand mouths by
the generosity of this noble heart
ed man. He lives for hamanity's
sake and if We had more such
hie minded, openhearted men
there could not be found man
without a shelter, a woman
unfed nor a child un-
clothed in this wonderful land of
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Local NJ alters

relatives at Fort Lawn.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. X. Rolllnss
visited their former home at Oak
hurst this week,
Mics Bessie Mackey is visiting
her sister, Mrs Butler, in Rich
mond, Va.
Some colored boys captured a
weasel while playing in branch
near town Wednesday.
Miss Lily Floyd, of Kershaw,
is the guest of Mrs.. j. f. Rut-
ledge.
Mrs. j. G. Robinson and chll-
dren, and Mrs. N. b. Csusar are
visiting relatives in York County.
Mr.. T. b. Cra,g is laying lnm-
her on his lot recently bought
from Mr.. l. T. Hunter, prepara-
tory to building Mt au early day.
At meeting of veterans of
Gil's Greek township Monday
afternoon Mr.. w. u. A. Porter
was elected township member of
the County Pension Board.
Rev. j. w. Cantey Johnso u
formerly rector of the Episcopal
church at this place but who now
has pastoral charge in Birming>
ham, Ala spent few days here
with friends this week.
The Billings grocery in the
Riddle block has sold out to the
Williams Hughes Co., and MIR. r
Miles, the clothier, will move in
to the storeroom thus made va
cant.
Married at this place on We'd
nesday, August 9th, 1902, ny
Rev. Chalmers Fraser, Mr.. Claud
Remedy of Rock Hill, and Miss
Luls Walters. The happy couple
left on the afternoon train for the
home Of the groom.
Miss Allie Vaughn left Monday
for visit to her father, who lives
inLancaster. She was accompanied
by Mrs. George Laursy and child.
Rock Hill Herald.
Dan Montgomery, COL, was
convicted in Magistrate Caskey's
court Wednesday of trespass af-
ter notice and fned $40 or 80
days on the gang. On being re-
fused a new trial he gave notice
of appeal to the Circuit Court.
Misses Ella and Maud Robin
son of the Sincerity section are
spending this week at their uncls's
Mr.. w. d. Robinson's in town.
Misses Willie Poovy of Fair
field and her nephew, Master
foovsy Winstead, of Nashville,
N. G., are visiting DR.. Poovey's
family at this place.
Died, at this place, Wednesday |
August 6, 1902, Of cholera infan-
tum, the infant son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. n. w. Plyler, aged abost 81
weeks. The interment took place
Thursday morning in the town
cemetery.
The county campaign will open
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No-To-B Bac for FIFTY Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit euro, makes wealt
men strong, blood pure 500. q. All dI rggists
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the Ono Day Cold Cure.
Kermotts Chocolates Laxative Quinine for
cold in the head aud sore throat. Children take
them like candy.
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Rev. j. w. Cantey johnson
formerly rector of the Episcopal
church at this place but who now
has pastoral charge in Birming>
ham, Ala spent few days here
with friends this week.
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The county campaign will open
next Tuesday at Bela,r. From
the character Of the candidates We
bespeak clean, nice campaign.
We believe they are oil gentlemen
above reproach and above cjrcu-
lating or permitting to be circu-
lated reports detrimental to the
reputation of competitor. With
this introduction from the editor
We are sure the people will give
each and every candidate a re-
spectful hearing and will pay no
attention to slanderous reports
should any be started on the re
putable men Offering for Office in
this county.
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Married at this place on We'd
nesday, August 9th, 1902, by
Rev. Chalmers Fraser, Mr.. Claud
Romedy Of Rock Hill, and Miss
Luls Walters. The happy couple
left on the afternoon train for the
home Of the groom.
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The Billings grocery in the
Riddle block has sold out to the
William.- Hughes Co., and Mr.. r
Miles, the clothier, will move in.
to the storeroom thus made va-
cant.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-11-27

VIM. Ubelaker, President of the Lake
View Lodge Of Foresters, writes from
1897 North Clark ST., Chicago, ILL.,, the
following letter:
The Pesnns Medicine Co., Columbus, o.:
Gens@asn-For years past when I
have been exposed to wet or inclement
weather, my chest would hurt me and I
wou1A AaFo serious indigestion, u I
would - Laid up for a day CT two, caus-
ing insszNesaience and pain.
One eG nay lodge friends advised me
10 try &sgana, as it had helped him, and
I found Aat 8 bottle cured NE.
IF feel badly now I at once take two
Or thres sezas, ana I find 1t keeps me in
fine keE&3A Peru1a is worthy o. every
ones eaz&z&ence.-WM. UDGIxAkER.
It Is sszey just ordinary good, common
sense - provide against inc1ement
weather. II you have the slightest cold,
cough, saeeztng, or any other indication
that you are "under the weather. s few
doses a6 @aguna will put you right.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-11-27
AN OLD CITIZEN

From Kansas Visits His Old Home.
Friday morning Mr.. /. P. Garris
came In on the early Southern train
from his home in Kansas. Mr.. Gar
ris was raised in the Pikeville Sec
ton Of this county, and is a brother
of Messrs. Jonathan and Gray Garris.
Mr.. Garris went to Kansas and settled
there t~hirty-ffour years ago, and this
is his first visit to his old Wayne
county home since he left it a third
of a century ago..
AS one talks with Mr.. Garris and
he asks about this one and that one
and the other one, and the answer
comes, s'nearly all of them are Dead"
how deeply the impression is made
that human life, after all, is but a
span-the child of to-day is the man
of tomorrow, then middle age and
old age, and then we ego the way Of
all the earth"
MI. Garris says that they have
made @ fine crop Of corn in Kansas,
and when he left home it was SELL
Ing at thirty-one cents per bushel,
which is considered there a very
high price.
Whm Mr.. Garris settled in Kan
sas thaFe was not a sprig of timber of
any kind on the 100 acres of land
which he obtained of the govern
ment. He went to work to set out
trees, which are now of good size.
Fe has his grandson, a boy Of Is
years Of age, with him, and the boy
is greAsfy taken with our woods,
which he calls groves. He has never
seen anW woods before this trip.
It ig plain to see that Mr.. Garris is
glad to get back to his old home, and
that while his interests are in far
away Kansas, he still loves old North
Carolina. He will remain here. Wis
iting relatives, until the first of jan
uary.
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DEATH OF A GOOD CITIZEN.

The death Of Mr.. Giles Kornegay,
a we'll known citizen Of Wayne
county, highly esteemed by all who
knew him for his stole integrity, and
a farmer who never made a bad
crop, occurred Tuesday a. M, in the
10th year of his age, at his home in
Dudley.
He leaves a wife and ten children,
a vide circle of relatives and many
friends. MI. Kornegay was a brave
Confederate soldier and was in SER
vice at the close of the war, and his
return home was SO long delayed
and no word coming from him-that
ne was taken for dead and accord
ingly an administrator was appoint
ed and his estate settled up in full.
Just about this time Mr.. Korne-
gay arrived on the scene, gave an
interesting account of his chequered
wanderings in his efforts to get back
home, accepted the settlement of
his estate in good spirit and often
spoke of it as a practical joke in his
subsequent years.
He is now, at length, gone to "his
long home," full of years, and with
sheaf ripe with good deeds for the
inheritance of Eternal life.
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ACCIDENTALLY SHOT,
BOYS FORM "INDIAN CAMP
ING GROUNDS"
The Outcome of Which Is a Severe
Shoulder Wound Inflicted Upon
Young George Prichard by
a Companion With a
Gun Which He
KNOW WAS A

Another very distressing ecu
renee has been caused by a gun
which was thought not to be loaded.
Several young boys, between the
ages of II and Is years, were play
ing Indians out near Bellvue, on
Saturday afternoon. They had their
camp and were guarding it with all
the alertness of the Red Man of the
Western plains. In the camp were
several fire arms, which were sup
posed to be empty, and which were
leveled on intruders with all the ac-
curacy of aim which the young
gentlemen could command. During
the afternoon young Geo. S. Prich-
ard, Jr., who belonged to a hostile
tribe, approached the camp and was
ordered to halt by Frank Castex, Jr.,
who in the meantime leveled a gun
on Prichard. Jake Mayerberg, who
was some distance away, and who
knew that this particular gun was
| loaded, shouted at Castex not to
! shoot, but the warning came too
late. When Castex snapped the
! trigger-which was all that he in
tended to do, as he thought the gun
was not loaded, the same as the 9TH
ers in camp the gun fred and the
| whole load Of number s shot entered
the left shoulder of George Prichard,
who was not more than IS inches
away from the muzzle of the gun.
Pritchard did not fall, but told the
boys that he was shot, and asked
them to pull off his coat. All the
boys assisted and bound a handker-
! chief over the wound, from which
the blood was flowing freely. Prich-
+. ard showed considerable nerve and
walked near a half mile toward
home before he became exhausted
and had to wait for a vehicle to take
him home, where medical attention
was summoned and his wound at
tended to. On examination it was
found that the muscles which control
certain movements of the arm. had
been torn away and that the boy will
never be able to use the arm to adj
vantage, even if it gets well. The
doctors are trying to prevent an am
putation of the arm, which was
thought at first would be necessary.
! Young Prichard is resting very
well to-day and it is believed that
f his splendid nerve and plucky en-.
durance will enable him to pull
through the ordeal without serious
complications.
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bride and groom leaving this morn
ing on a bridal trip North and the
other members of the party return
ing home. The happy young couple
were Mr.. F. W. Dixon, n
of the leading young men Of that
section, and Miss May Faircloth, one
of the most popular young ladies of
Greene county, who married yester-
day afternoon, at the home of the
bride, and left soon afterwards
for this city, accompanied by
Misses M. w. Dixon and Pearl Her
ring and Messrs. D. w. Dixon and
J. NJ. Ormond.
The old holly trees which are so
abundant on the woodlands in this
section, and for which there is no use
except for Christmas trees during the
holidays have turned out to be valu-
able property that furnishes employ
ment to a number of people. The
branches of the trees, loaded with
red berries and green leaves, are cut
off and shipped by the "a load to
Northern cities and sold at a good
price for decoration purposes, for
which they are splendidly adapted.
Numbers of people are now engaged
in cutting these brances from the
trees while others find employment
in making boxes in which to pack
the branches. Several car loads have
already been shipped from this Sec
ton and new recruits are being adj
ded to the number already in the
business. Nc one will suffer from
the slaughter of holly trees except
the robbins, which bird depends
mostly upon holly berries for winter
food.
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..Fewer Gallons; Wears Longer, ,,

@ &DAAOAASS ~ A<Ol4S eTs,
The secret is out and GoIdsboro can
go on living just as if the riddle had
never been asked.
No it can't, either. Goldsboro is
not going to be what it was before.
It's houses are going to be brighter;
its people a little more prosperous
they are going to have some of their
money left to buy other things with.
The answer to the riddle is this:
you can paint a building with fewer
gallons of Devoe Lead and Zine paint
than with mixed paints, and it will
several times as long as a build
ing painted with lead and Oil mixed
by hand.
There's proof abundant of it all
over the United States. There will
soon be proof abundant of it in Colds
boro.
What will people do with the rest
of their money?
Smith & Yelverton sell this paint.
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Indictment Weather Brings
Coughs, Colds and Catarrh.

fnc7emeaf weather begins when
aafnzaa ends. The great objection to
oar climate is that it aLternafes be.
tween the heat of the tropics and the
rg0rs of the Arctic.
The system becomes relaxed by tie
effects Of the heat, ard the first cold
snap of winter soWS tie seed OF
thousands Of cases of chronic catarT5
which in & large per Ceas. Of cases VIII
end fatally.
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Mrs. Lavina E. Walker, who holds tho
highest state Office OF the Ladies Of the
Illinois g.. A. r., which is Department
Chaplain, writes the following letter.:
WESTERN SPRINGS, ILL.
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.s
Gentlemen lyon have my sincere
gratitude for placing before suffering
women a medicine which has proven
such a blessing as Peruna has.
81 have used it myself when much
worn out, and found most gratifying
results, and g number Of the women of
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TIMELY COMMENT.

The ARGUS is glad to see a grow
ing disposition among the press of
the State to take up the question of
diversified crops-that has long been
urged by this paper-and give the
farmers the benefit of their observa-
ton and views along this particular
line.
It is now the time of year for the
farmer to give thought to the pitch
ing of his crop for the coming year,
and it is therefore in order for our
brethren of the press to say what
they have to say now, in order that
their farmer readers may have the
benefit in time to use it for their
guidance and advantage before the
planting season passes.
Apropos, the Raleigh Post of Sat
urday has this to say, that contains a
wise precept and timely pointer:
"Mr. Harry Waters, of the Atlantic
Corst Line, which system now mean
ders through every portion of the
South from Baltimore and the Ohio
to the Gulf, in a recent interview
says the South never was so pros
! porous as now, that besides her
large money crops which have sold
Or are selling for good prices the corn
! crop is abundantly sufficient for all
home demands, and that the E'next
| ten years will be the most prosper
Gus era in the history of the South"
"With three and a half decades of
! trials. tribulations and troubles of
one sort or another we believe we
! can agree with Mr.. Waters in the
| statement that the Old South has at
last entered upon a decade of such
| prosperity as it has not heretofore
enjoyed, more general in its benefits,
more substantial in its foundation.
There is a small cloud, at this writ
ing, no bigger than a mans two
hands but there, which has made it's
appearance upon the horizon, that
portends record-breaking tobaccoan and
cotton crops next year. With an
abundance of corn and its auxiliar-
les for home living, the people can
stand most anything, either in big
or bad crops, but the money con-
sideration for the labor expended
will oe disappointing and unsatis-
factory. If the farmers could just
hit upon a few more crops of cotton
and tobacco no larger than those of
the past two or three years, with all
the other food-stufTs and numberless
~by-products which the section is ca
pable of producing, the Southern
farmer and people of the section gen.
orally would be the richest, taken as
a whole, of any agricultural people
on the globe"
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Executors Notice.

Having qualified as executors of
the last will and testament of J. J.
Casey, deceased, we hereby notify
all persons having claims against said
estate, to present same to under
signed for payment on Or before No
vember 22nd 1908. All persons in
debted to said estate will please make
immediate payment.
This 21st day of Nov. 1902.
ELLEN CASEY,
VIM. CASEY,
Executors.
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Administrators Notice.

Having. qualified as administrator OF the
is hereby given to all persons indebted to
said estate to come forward and settle the
same Immediately. Parties holding claims
against said estate viii present them to the
undersigned for payment on or before the
21ss day of Nov. 1908. or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery
This 21st day of November 1909
W. E. TALTON, administrator.