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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-01-27
Itt ms From the Kersha,U Era,

Ittms From the KershaW Era.
Messrs. e. M. Estridgc and A.
Il. Rollings went to Florida last
week on a prospecting tour.
MIR. and Mrs. j. A. Beck
ham, Of Union spent from Satur-
day to Monday with the former s
parents, DR.. and Mrs. II. S. Besk>
ham.
Miss Lilly Floyd, eldest
daughter, of Mr.. r. S. Floyd,
was married Sunday to Mr.. Jeter
Hammond b. Rev. r. j. Black
mon, pastor of Fork Hill church.
AT the election yesterday for
town officers Capt. j. V. Welsh
was elected Intendant, and Il. j..
Gregory, w. l.. Croxton, F. p.
Truesdel and II. E. Reese were
elected Wardens.
We are very glad to note
the marked Improvement in the
condition of DR.. r. S. Beckham
and Mr.. Wesley Nc. Horton,
both of whom appear to be stead
lily improving.
Mr.. w. Il. Witherspoon, an
old time friend of the editor, who
is with the Heath Banking 6 Mer-
camille Co., Mt Lancaster, was in
town last week on business con.
pe;ted with the firm at this place.
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Big Removal Sa|c.

We will move into the new handsome NasOnic
Building, now occupied by Stevenson & Porter, as
soon as it can be gotten ready for us. In the name
time we are gOing to sell goods cheap. We wish to
reduce our stock before moving than we have lot
Of winter goods that Must be sold anyhow We will
not carry over winter goOdS===tey must be sold at
some price. Come to our store any day in January
and you will find warm bargains that will do your
pOCkebOOk good.
Sell Goods SARaLtSs aSs ssss Of 5.e2 COST s1s ,ss %
overcoats that we will take pleasure in giving away
fnr tr;fln try nc and Snn If we dn mt mnan huS;=
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-Thp ChorlOfta Navr. of a

The Charlotte News of a re-,
cent date says that DR.. w. O.
Nisbet will commence the erec-
tion of n handsome residence on
his lot on North Tryon street in
the early part of the spring.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-01-27

Mr.. j. w. Poovey of Long
town, visited his son, DR.. G. W..
Poovey, here the past week
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T. r. Gland ,,oynd INTO /

E. E. Cloud moved into his
new store room in the Masonic
building yesterday. Lookout for
his adv. In next issue. Porter &
Stephenson now occupy the room
vacated by Mr.. Cloud.
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State of South Carolina,
COUNTY OF LANCASTER.

pYJ E. STEWMAN, ESQUIRE,
ID Probate Judge,
WHEREAS, j. Milleu McMurray
mGde suit to me, to grant him Letters
Cf Administration ot the ES. ate Of and
effects of VIM. n. McMurav. deed.
THESE ARE THEREFORE to
cite and admonIsh all and singular the
kindred and Creditors of the said lvm
n. McMurraY, deceased that they he
and appear before me, in the Court OF
Pre- bate, to be held n Lancaster G. III
:. :! on February 3rd after publica-
ton thereof at II o'clock in the fore.
noon, to show cause, ifany they have
why the snid Administration should
not he granted
Given under my Hand, this 10 day
of January Ammo Domini, 1904
J T. STEW MAN,
Probate Judge.
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Notice..

mass meetirg Of the Republican
party OF Lancaster county will meet
in Lancaster on February 4, 1904. at
10 O'Clock a. m Full attendance de-
sired. f. r Massey Inn
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town, visited his son, DR.. G. w.
Poovey, here the past week.
County Supervisor l.. j.
Perry took in the good roads con-
vention In Columbia the past
week.
-Rev. T. A. Dabnev has rents
ed the W. d. Jones cottage and
will move his family from Rock
Hill back to Lancaster this week
Married, on Sunday last, by
Notary Public Sapps, Mr.. John
Marks and Miss Clara Wallace,
daughter of Mr.. w. H. Wallace,
of the Newcut section.
"A letter to Mr.. Jos. F. Greg
ory, of this place informs him of
the illness of his son in law, Mr..
r L. Mason, in Atlanta, Ca, of
smallpox.
members of the w. o. w.
should remem Der to be at the meet
ing next Friday night.
MIR. j. p. Allison realized
$685. for one bale of cotton one
day the past week. Had he held
it until this week it would have
brought him over 800.
Willie Corners, an operative
at the cotton mills here, had one
of his hands badly lacerated in
the machinery last Wednesday,
neeessitating the amputation of
one of his fingers.
Mr.. j. Wren Tillman wore
a big smile on his face yesterday
morning. He had just gotten Is
cents per pound forthe remnant
of his cotton CROP bales.
Joe Dsnlap, col, was con-
victed of breach of contract before
Magistrate Caskey in two cases
the past week and sentenced to
80 days or S25 fine in each case.
The State Supreme court
having finished the business of the
term, took a recess from last Sat-
urday until April 18th. Asso
clate Justice Jones is at home to
spend the time.
Don't forget the basket sup
per which the ladies of Shiloh con
grsgation will have at the residence
of Mr.. John D. Taylor at Craigs-
vile next Friday night to raise
money to inclose the church yard.
MIR. Jas. A. Cauthen had q
yearling drowned in Camp creek
last Friday. He undertook to
drive his twenty odd yearlings
across bridge whlle the creek
was swollen when several of them
plunged into the cresk above the
bridge and were washed down un.
der it. He was lucky not to
loose more of them.
Some boys, operatives at the
cotton mill, had difficulty just
after knocking off from work last
Wednesday evening. The boys,
Henry Aiken, John Jones, and
Luther and Albert Jordan, each
received wounds in the affray,
knives and rocks being the woap.
ons used. Two of the boys were
right badly cut but they are all
able to be at work agaie.
Mr.. Jake w. K'ight. of the
Greek section, narrowly escaped
losing bis home by fire one
day the past week. The roof OF
his kitchen caught afire from the
stove fue and the shingles on one
side wore entirely burned or torr
off before the flames we're extin.
guished. One of MI. Knight
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rock, which was being hoisted
from we'll he was digging, fall
ing back on him on account of
the rope breaking. The accident
occurred Just across tho county
line, in Chesterfield.
The Rev. w. G. Ewsrt was
duly installed as pastor of the A.
r. p. church at Yorkville last
Wednesday msrning. At the
same time he wa. given call to
preach Sunday afternoons at He.
bren, country church near York
vile.
"A quantity of cotton seed
have been sold here the past week
or SO since tho price of seed ad-
vanced to 80 cents. Perhaps the
farmers are making mistake to
dispose of them even at that
price.
Lula, the little colored girl
who was so badly burned by the
overturning of lamp while play
ing with another child in a room
adjacent to the kitchen at the
Cunningham hotel about two
weeks ago, died OF her injuries
last Friday evening.
Representative Williams in,
troduced two bills in the House
Monday. One to give Lancaster
county an additional magistrate;
the other to allow the county to
issue SSO,Q00 bonds to retire
other bonds which will soon be-
como due.
Mr.. j. w. Welsh of Longs.
VILE won prize of IS in the At
lanta CONSTITUTIONS cotton ssti,
mate contest.
Died, on Saturday morning
last, of paralysis, Mr.. Mode
Dcas, aged about 81 years Mr..
Dess had been paralyzed~ about
two years. He leaves a widow
and five or six children. His re-
mains were inferred at Pleasant
Plain church.
Mrs. j. j. Hull is quite sick
with an attack of the grip at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. H.
L. Parker, in Bishopville, whith-
er she had gone two weeks ago
for n visit. Mr.. Hull left the
city Tuesday for the bedslde of
his wife. Rock Hill Herald.
The Rev. j. M. White will
preach at Shiloh next Sabbath
at 1 80 o'clock a. m. and at
Lancaster, in the A. r. P.
church, at night.
Rev. w. F. Estridge will
preach at Beaver Creek church
Sunday, Jan. 81, as II O'Clock
q. m.
At the regular Meeting of
the county board of commission
ers next Monday they will con-
slider the advisability of abolish
ing the chain gang in this county.
1t will hardly take them long to
decide the matter if we are cor
rectly informed that the terms of
all but two or three of the con-
vlcts have expired. The plan of
the future will probably be to
hire the convlcts to Chester or
York county both of which coun-
ties have gangs sufficiently large
to warrant the expense of keep
ing them up.
Having recently invested a
few thousand dollars in modern
road machinery, portable engines,
rock crusher, roller, etc, the
council of Lancaster is now hav-
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Local III alters

APPOINTMENTS OF REV. j. NJ, WHITE,
Unity, LIST and Sd Sabbath.
Giiis reek = anU 4th Sabbath. IL
a. m.
Pleasant Hill . and 4th Sabbath,
a p m.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10

FOR Rents room house for
rent on the Goth. Cali at ] H. Bre-
micker 7ar znd street. 1887 p
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10
Another Factory
Crystal Ice Cream Factory Will
Build A $40, 600 Plant.

The Crystal Ice Cream Company
has been incorporated with cap
ital stock Of SO, ,ooo
The contract for a brick building
2sx5o, has been let to Herndon &
Cowan. 1t is to be completed by
March I6.
The building is to be erected
near the Crystal Ice Company s
plant. Itwil be equipped with the
best and most modern machinery
for manufacturing ice cream.
The following are the officers o.
the company: H. B. johnson, presi-
dent; w. S. Tinsman, vice presi-
dent; Frank Brown, secretary anc
treasurer.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10
Dots From DuttOn

Everyday that the ground is not
frozen plowing is being done.
Our people appreciate, chicka-
sha enterprise in improving the
road leading out TO the Maupin
bridge. They market their pro
duce and buy supplies III Chicka-
sha and find good road a great
benefit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fiseer went TO
Chickasha, Sunday returning
Monday afternoon.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Ong, who lives seven miles North
east of Chickasha Feb. 7, ten
pound girl. DR.. Paul Sanger Of
Dutton in ATTENDANCE. DR.. Sanger
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Deboys OF riS
9th inst
Miss Ellie Comet dismissed
school at noon last Friday OH ac
count ofthe serious ILLNESS of he
little sister.
Some of our good people wer
depressed when the price of cottoi
went down. They though at shigl
price would to some extent pa,
them for their trouble in gather
ing cotton in the winter.
John Nichols, who married re
Gently is hauling lumber fror
Chickasha for a new residence.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10
Co. Operative Association.

The Chickasha Cooperative AS
sociation held another meeting
Monday night. A constitution
and bylaws for the Association
were adopted. The work OF soil
citing subscriptions for stock Is
progressing nicely. The associa-
tion expects to incorporate with
a capital stock of $4,000. The CO
operative store will be openee
as soon or about $1,000 Of thecapt
tai stock is paid up. The associa
ton meets again Friday night.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10

The Baptist Labies Aid Society
meets Thursday at 2;3o
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10
GhiGkaSaW StOCkmGn
Letter From Secretary Haley
Chickasha Will Give The
Stockmen Grand
Time.

Scott Jones is III receipt Of the
following letter from o. f. Hayley,
secretary Of the Chickasaw Stock
mems Association. Mr.. Green,
whose name occurs in the letter,
is chairman Of the board of direct
ors Of the Association. For the
benefit Of all who may be interest
ca, " 9 seiiI enyr mar nnfifsnsrIa ~
preparing to make the meeting Of
the stockmen a grand occasion.
The Commercial Club has appoin-
ted a committee consisting of H. B.
Johnson, President Of the First
National Bank; B. P. Smith, Pres
rent Of the Citizens National
Bank; and H. L. Jarboe, Of the
Chickasaw Trust Co, TO formu-
late plans for entertaining the asso-
ciation. 1t may be definitely stat
ed that Chickasha will leave moth
ing undone to make the meeting
the greatest in the history Of the
association.
Mr.. Haley letter is as follows:
Gainesville, Tex. Feb. 9, 1904,
Mr.. Scott Jones.
Chickasha, Ind. Ter.
Dear Sir:
Replying to yours Of the 6tf
inst. The date Of the next annual
meeting of til. Chickasaw Stock
mems Association to be held al
lChickasha, 1. 7. is April the Ioth
(the third Tuesday, l have haC
a number Of inquiries as to whethei
or not Chickasha was going t
have a fine stock show in connect
ion with our meeting, the same
Purcell did. / think it would b'
a winner and a good drawing care
for Chickasha. Please look into th'
matter and let me know as early a
possible. Mr.. Green called me u
over the the phone yesterday AM
requested me to write you in re
gard 10 this matter, and also as
you the feeling Of the cattlemei
in regard TO our next annual meei
ing and etc.
Hope we can have a rousin
good meeting at Chickasha, al
sure we can. Kindly let me hes
from you as early as possible
regard to this.
Yours truly,
!, O. F. HALEY
d Secretar,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10

Reports have come from NARROW,
Minco and Rush Springs that Con
federate veterans at those places de-
sire to unite with Joe Shelby Camp.
Adjutant Coss authorizes us to
state that they will be welcomed to
the camp here. Anyone desiring
to become a member of Joe Shelby
Camp, please communicate in per
son or by letter with 7. J. Goss
Iadjutant, chickasha, I. 7.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10

! MIR. L. L. Bryan and Mrs.
vi. L. Griffin are now in
! St. Louis buying the spring
stock Of Dry Goods, Millin-
cry, Etc, for L. L. Bryan.
Any special orders sent
them will receive prompt
attention. Care Of Carleton
: Dry Goods Co.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10

One big lot Of Embroideries aud
Insertings to match on good lawn
and cambric from | inch to S inch
es wide in beautiful new designs,
worth up 70 2oc yard, Monday
Another lot Of Embroideries on
Nainsook and Cambria Insertings
to match, from to 10 inches
wide worth up TO SIS cents a yard
Mondays special price, per yard
Another big lot Of Val and Torch
on Laces from to 4 inches wide
Beautiful in designs. Worth up
10 i5c a yard Monday 5 price
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10
Building South

The Topeka and FL Reno Tele-
phone Co. has received part of the
material for beginning work on its
southern extension. Lines will be
built 10 NARROW, Duncan, Com
manche, Suggen and adjacent
towns. The company IS heading
for Fort Worth. Work on the
Southern lines will be pushed as
rapidly as possible.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10
Stockholders Meeting

The stockholders Of The Chicka-
saw Trust Company held meeting
last night at which the following
officers were elected. w. III. Gil
key, president; E. B. johnson, vice
president; H. L. Jarboe secretary
and treasurer M. G. Cannon and
B. z. Kelley, assistant secretaries
and treasurers. The fnll board Of
directors is as follows; H. B. John
son, J. w. Speake, Clark Ruther-
ford, E. B. Johnson, NJ. c. Can
non II T. Jarhoe y K Wooten
W. II. CiiASCy, fa..-7 ~.
cashier Of the Bank Of NARROW.
The officers elected areall careful
and capable business men and th'
interests Of the company will b
we'll cared for at their hands. Th
Chickasaw Trust Co. has just clos
/ ed a prosperous and successful year
1t is capitalized for 500, 900 an
its business has been steadil
growing.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10
Japan Scores First VlGtOry

Port Arthur, Feb. 9. japanese
torpedo boats attacked the Russian
feet here during the night and
three Russian ships we're badly
damaged. The japanese, who
tins scored the FIRST success, of the
war escaped unchanged.
III consequence Of the attack by
the japanese torpedo boats, martial
law has been proclaimed here.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10
Mrs. SOutnWick's Lecture

Mrs. Jessie Eldridge southwick
gave her lecture on Macbeth" to
an appreciative audience at the
Christian church yesterday after
noon
The lecture showed profound
scholarship, and the readings witt
which il was illustrated brought ou'
strongly the dramatic power which
Mrs. Southwick showed in her re
cital on the previous evening
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10
chokashas Prospects Becoming Brighter
It's Too Late

to think Of insurance when your house or store
is burning up. The time for thinking about il is
now, when everything is apparently ali right.
Let US make you out policy in
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10
Chickasha Gas and Power COMPANY Organ
lied with $l5o, 10000 Capital Stock.
WORK WILL BEGIN TOMORROW!
The Company Means Business And Will
Push The Work.

The Gas Plant is be built. It fact.
The first step n construction will be
Articles Of incorporation today the chckasha
Light and Power Co.
The capital stock Of the company Sr5o 10000
The officers of the company
Sam Davidson, Of Fort Work, president
H. B. johnson, yice-presdent,
Frank Brown, secretary,
w. S. T'nsman treasurer
The above with Goe Hovey vcepredent Interstate
National Bank Of Kansas City directors
chas. M Fechheimer is generel counsel Of the company
The newly organized company bought the gas franchise
granted Fred A. Gale of Chicago The H. block
3os has also been purchased which the plant
expected that the work of constructing plant
pushed rapidly the company complete its plans
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-02-10

For SALls-1 Mimeograph, |
standing desk, 1 Edison automatic
numbering machine. Address, P.
0. Box s38 1888
The Tupelo journal., 1904-01-15
STUDIO GOSSIP.

]. Charles Aztec, formerly of Cleve-
a commission from the vatican to paint
a portrait Of Plus X.
The pope has promised moral and
material help for the erection of a monu-
ment to Leo XIII. on the top OF thu
Lepini mountains, which encircle Car
pineto, his predecessors birthplace. A
committee has been formed, and will ask
for the support of the Catholic notabil-
tiles in the different countries.
Kansas will place in statuary hall at
the capitol at Washington a statue of
the late Senator John J. ingalls,. The
model represents a figure of heroic size,
erect, and the head thrown slightly
back. The figure is clad in an overcoat
thrown open and a long coat buttoned.
Hanging in front are a pair of eyeglasses
and in n hand is a manuscript-the
other rests on a column. The statue will
not be- completed for at least a year.
By near of collections taken annual
ly among the pupils of the public schools
OF Cape May county, Pa, for seven years
a fund has been raised for the erection
of a monument to the memory of John
Grace, a revolutionary scout on Wash
ington's staff, and of whom Washington
said: British gold cannot buy him."
The monument will be placed in the
cemetery at South Dennis, where
Grace's remains are inferred, and the
unwilling will occur on next Memorial
day.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-01-15
WEDNESDAY,, JANUARY 6.

The features of today's session of
the legislature were the reading of
the governors message in both houses
and the adoption of a concurrent reso-
luton in the senate urging the speedy
ratification of the Panama canal treaty
n calling upon Senators McLaurin
and Money to use their best endeav-
ors to this end. The resolution was
introduced by Senator W. B. Walker
of Monroe and was unanimously
adopted after some discussion.
The first bill introduced in the new
legislature is senate bill No. 1, by Sen
ator Smith, of Warren, eatitled, IAN
act to divorce the judiciary from poll
tics" The bill caused something OF
a sensation as indicative OF hostility
on the part of some of the senators
TO the recent judicial appointments OF
Gov. Longino. The bill is in two sec
lions, as follows:
section l. II the governor shall
appoint any person to any judicial Of
fee under any promise, expressed or
implied. that such person shall cleo
ioneer, use his influence or vote for
said governor as a candidate for Unit
Cd States senator, or any other office
to be filled Immediately after the ex-
niration OF the term of office of said
Governor, he shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor in Office and shall be sub
iect to impeachment, and shall, upon
conviction, be removed from Office.
"Section 2. If any Judge of the Su.
nreme Court, circuit judge or chancei-
Tor, while filling a judicial office, shall
The Tupelo journal., 1904-01-15
New Guard Equipment.

Adjt.-Gen. Henry has sem out a gen.
eral order to the commanding officers
of the three regiments of the Missis-
Springfield rifles with which they are
now equipped to the armory in jack
son, and after their receipt the com
panies will be equipped with the new
Krag Jorgenson rles furnished by the
wal department, in pursuance of the
Dick bill, placing State militia organ;.
cations on a higher footing and max
regular army.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-01-15
THURSDAY, U z.
In the House.

Speaker Thomas called the house to
order at 10 o'clock and it was led in
prayer by w. w. Cody of Yazoo.
Messrs. Hicks and Evans, who were
absent on the opening day, presented
themselves at the bar and took the
oath of office.
A resolution offered by Mr.. Hoyle
of Lee was adopted, providing for the
appointment of a joint committee to
visit the governors mansion and as
certain by a personal inspection what
was needed to put the place in first
class repair. The speaker named the
following committee from the house:
Messrn. MCGEE, Brown and Miller.
By Mr.. Suddoth: Making an ap-
preparation to defray the expenses of
the legislature. Appropriations.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-01-15
FREAK HAP PENINGS.

Six babies were born in five days at
1913 La Sale street, Chicago, one girl
weighing IL pounds.
Muskrats burrowing under the wa
terworks at Derby, Conn, flooded the
town and caused property loss of $780,
900.
At st. Paul, Mimi, a woman tried
to commit suicide by swallowing six
copper cents, but the method was
found to be too cheap.
Miss Frances Petit, Of Galway, N.
Y, got judgment at Albany for SO, 900
for the 1896 kisses given her in IA
years by the village blacksmith.
L. Oliphant Dodge, owner of a fiat
building in Omaha, was granted a writ
of injunction restraining Mrs. E. Berge,
a tenant. from talking to other oocu-
pants of the fats.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-01-15
No More Sunday Selma.

The retail liquor dealers of Vicks-
burg and Warren county, realizing
that public sentiment is against any
WHICH they operate, have decided to be
good. They held a meeting last week
and adopted resolutions pledging
themselves to hereafter conduct their
business holorably and according to
law. and to see that each OF the var
ious cities in the State enforce the
spirit and letter OF their resolution.
and most emphGtically in regard to
Sunday trading.