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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1905
Page
2
Display notes a large spring silk collection in Lancaster with low prices. Highlights include 27 inch Red China Silks at 50 cents, two toned Tafetas, chiffon Tafetas, and black 36 inch taffetas with prices from 95 cents to 1.10 per yard. Limited Japanese silk and assorted dress patterns offered at reduced rates.
Our line of wash goods is one of the finest collections ever shown in Lancaster. Anyone needing wash goods should buy from us before purchasing elsewhere to secure the best quality and value.
Big sale on voiles at 20 cents per yard for 12 to 10 pieces with 15 cents voiles as long as they last. 90 inch Irish Linen extra heavy priced at 89 cents per yard, valued at 1 81?50. 62 inch pure Irish Linen finished set at 25 cents, with a listed price of 39 cents.
Mr. W. Nisbet of Van Wyck reports the new brick store building of Messrs J E Nisbet & Company at Van Wyck has just received finishing touches. The large, substantial structure reflects credit to the firm and to Van Wyck and upper Lancaster County. Prospects for the firm are favorable with Mid E Nivket named as popular manager, formerly with the Morrow Heath Company, gaining many well wishers locally.
Charlotte N C March 98 Special John Parks Black five year old son of Mrs John Black of this city died today at noon from burns received days before. The bus with several playmates was striking matches for sport. His clothing caught fire and before assistance could reach him he was fatally burned.
A rural health promotional item urges prompt action for coughs and chest irritations and cites W. C. Barber of Sandy Level Virginia as an example. It endorses Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds as a cure after other remedies failed. The ad touts the product as the greatest sale in cough or lung medicine with trial bottle offers and lists Crawford Bros J F Mackey Co and Fanderburks Pharmacy as sellers with prices 50c to 1.00.
Nashville March 27 Govern or Frasier vetoed a bill raising the governor salary from 4000 to 5000 and resigned to accept a United States Senate seat. John J. Cox, speaker of the Senate, was sworn in as governor. Frasier also signed the anti race track gambling bill making betting on tracks illegal with the law to take effect next December.
Lancaster county commissioners met to decide reestablishing the chain gang after its abolition. Funds are lacking this year and salaries increased, leaving little money for operation. They consider hiring convicts to Chester if Lancaster cannot use them, and plan to start road work Monday while seeking options.
A pithy aphorism asserts that chastity mirrors veracity in women, while all men are broadly labeled liars. The line blends gendered moral claims into a provocative generalization about truthfulness and virtue.
The census bulletin lists the 1905 cotton crop at 18,597,782 bales including linters and half bales. It equates to 13,584,457 bales of 500 pounds with 13,103,447 square bales, 296,151 round bales, 104,317 island bales, and 242,942 linters. running bales total 13,745,857, with 192,275 running bales yet to be ginned. State tallies show Alabama 1,458,966. Georgia 1,980,151. Texas 3,134,677. Mississippi 1,738,638. Louisiana 1,105,466. North Carolina 743,404. and others.
The advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a quick pleasant and certain cure for headache constipation and indigestion priced at 25 cents. Crawford Bros J F Mackey Co and Funderburk Pharmacy carry the remedy.
The Charleston grand jury will not indict a blind tiger keeper based on the evidence presented. A Florence jury previously cleared a man who pleaded guilty to an offence when indicted, with the man saying he would rather face a fine than be called a liar in court.
A historical item notes Foley's Honey and Tar includes two opiates and will not substitute like most cough medicines. It also mentions Refuse Substitutes Sold by Funderburk Pharmacy in the same notice.
A wry reflection on marital reform and patience. The speaker dismisses the idea that a wife can change a husband through constant lecturing, noting this climate is ill suited to such reform efforts.
In Spartanburg on Magolia Street a white man about 35 to 40 years old died after a fall or blow while returning drunk to his lodging. He lingered after a head wound and brain concussion was ruled the cause. A fight over money and a portrait was alleged. In Travelers Rest Elijah Atsett lost a leg under a revolving conveyor at an oil mill. surgeons amputated between knee and hip and he is reported hopeful.
A fragment notes a proverb about a woman holding a baby in each arm being harder than holding her tongue. It presents a rough, possibly humorous line attributed to Castonia with no clear date or event. The text is incomplete and contains no identifiable organizations or locations beyond the name Castonia.
General Stephen D. Lee announces the death of Mildred Lee youngest daughter of Robert E. Lee in New Orleans. The obituary praises her intellect education travel and devotion to Confederate veterans describing her as a representative of southern womanhood and a loss to the south.
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