The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-12-07

Dixie Lodge No. 80, I. O. 0 F i,
will give q complimentary oyster
supper at Drafts Hotel on next
Thursday afternoon.
Remember that Meetze & Son
keep everything good for Christmas.
Call to see them before you buy.
There will be a representative
gathering of farmers of the State in
Columbia to morrow, at which the
cotton situation will be considered.
The painters are now at work on
the dwelling of MIR. T. P. Meetze. on
Lower Main street and that of Hon.
S. P. Wlngsrd in the suburbs.
Christmas purchasers should re-
member that H. M. Wingsrd has a
big stock of Christmas goods. Gall
to see him, he will sell you cheap.
Mr.. Johnnie Ballentine, young
and industrious farmer Of up on
Saluda, was in town trading Monday
and gave US pleasant call.
MIR. P. 81. Corley, constable, sold
mule on last Wednesday to fore
close mortgage. It was bought
by County Treasurer Shealy for S65
For your Xmas candle, nuts, fruits,
etc, call on Ballentine & Co, before
buying elsewhere.
Mr.. Henry W. Fulmer has given
up lucrative government position
to come home to tendsrly care for
his aged mother and father on the
old farm.
Lexington's portion of the diepen-
sary profits for school purposes is
$l,6622 26. The Comptroller General
has sent his check to the Super
intendent of Education.
If you need watches, clocks or
jewelry repaired call and see Simon
P. Smith, Lsesville, S. 9. All work
guaranteed. 3w5pd.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. George have
been on a visit to their SOD, William
D. George, at Laurens, S. c., where
the latter holds lucrative position
with the Watts Cotton Mill.
Communion services will be held
at St. Stephen Lutheran church next
Sunday morning. This service will
begin at II O'Clock and the public is
cordially invited.
DR.. E. K. Hardin is reported to be
seriously i'll at bis home in Batesburg.
He is being treated by DR.. Thinner
man of that town and DR.. Frontiss
Of Ridge Spring.
Mr.. j. Simon Caughman has bee n
reelected dispenser at this place and
MIR. Frank Frick was elected for
Chaplin and there was no election for
the one at Gilbert. Mr.. j. A. Mayer
for Peak.
They arrived q lew days ago-one
and half dozen trunks and three
dozen satcheIs, telescopes and suit
cases of all kinds and grades-at the
Lexington Department Store
Young Mr.. Charles Henry, of
Countsville, was in town yesterday
selling cotton and trading. He is
one Of our promptest paying sub
sc,ibers and called in to settle up.
Mr.. Jas. W. Stewart has resigned
his position as travelling passenger
agent of the Seaboard Air Line rail-
road with headquarters at Columbia,
and is now business manager of the
Evening Record.
The copy for the change in the
advertisement of the Bailey Cope.
land Co, Columbia, reached us too
late to change this week; in the
meantime, however, when you want
real bargains in clothing, go there.
Mr.. Abram L Solomon formerly
of Columbia, died in New York re-
Gently. He will doubtless be recall
ed by many of our people as a mer-
chant wac did business on Plain
street near the then Central Hotel.
Dixie Lodge No. 81. I. O. O. F.,
has sold to MIR. A. J. Fox the vacant
lot next to it's Hall on Church St.
We understand that Mr.. Fox will
improve it by the erection of a
modern dwelling.
The Grimug Brothers Company. of
Macclenny end Jacksonville, Fla, who
have large orchards, nurseries and
truck farms in the Northern, central
and Southern part of Florida are on
the lookout for some good, steady
white farm hande, young men with
fsir education to work on their plan
tations and learn the business. They
say thai the South Carolina boys they
have with them are so satisfactory
that they want more.
The County Board of Control was
in session Monday.