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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1905
Page
2
Lancaster county awaits annual meeting of colored farmers on Feb 9 1905 at the school building. President M D Lee urges unity and questions whether colored farmers gain in the North or South. Delegates discuss labor, education, and cotton policy amid war news from Tokio and local industry concerns.
Russian admittance of retirement at Sandespas follows reports of Koropatkin breakthrough. In South the cotton market shows a paradox with hundreds of bales unsold yet farmers unpressed for cash. Mill presidents insist on delivery at 84 cents amid a 6.75 local price, signaling a potential shift in cotton exchange practices as bankers and growers seek price stability and risk reduction.
A fragmented advertisement promises Murray's Acts to ease coughs quickly, touting faster relief and a bottle offer. The text is garbled but centers on a medicinal remedy with brand name Murray. An implied drugstore setting and product claim appear amid broken OCR.
Lancaster representative Foster opposed Josh Ashley's measure to end the state bureau of immigration and agriculture. The Columbia correspondent notes Foster pressed for immigration favorable laws, arguing necessity for workers in cotton mills and farms. He defended the bureau as protection against immigration and urged maintaining it amid disputes over compulsory education and taxation for schools.
Raleigh January 28 The North Carolina general assembly adopted a joint resolution urging state congressional representatives to vote for the Hepburn-Dolliver bill prohibiting interstate whiskey shipments into prohibition territory.
In Bennettsville on January 29 the two year old child of George Crosland, a wealthy farmer, burned after pulling a lamp and oil onto its head. Mrs Crosland was in the kitchen and the father left briefly to investigate a barn noise. The child, still clutching the lamp, caught fire and died after three hours of suffering at 9 o'clock.
The Heath Jones Company announces liquidation for estate settlement of JAS M HEATH and invites bargain seekers. New ownership renovated stores of Heath Banking Mercantile Co with divisions for groceries gentlemen’s furnishings dry goods and millinery offering great inducements to customers.
For the next thirty days a local store offers a bargain counter on broken boxed shoes. Not old goods but current stock from makes such as DREW SELBY GODMAN and others offered at first cost to clear Spring inventory.
Abundant stock offered at actual cost for spot cash with large price reductions. Rush to inspect and choose any rail of clothes at establishment to see bargains firsthand.
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