Lancaster Court House Car Load of Horses Stirs Alliance Meeting
Alliance will meet in the Lancaster court house on Thursday August 2 at 3 o'clock. KE Everall serves as Secretary. Orangeburg anticipates a strong candidate in Dr Wolfe for the next legislature, likely to head the ticket for the county. Dr Wolfe is described as less than forty eight inches tall, weighing seventy five pounds, wearing a number St hat. CoJ Purcell seeks bets on McSweeney’s governor races with payouts ranging from 500 to 1900 dollars.
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Lancaster Court House
Alliance
Court House
KE Everall
Orangeburg
Dr. Wolfe
Coj Purcell
Newher
McSweeney
Local visitors and weather mark a quiet Camden week
Local residents report visits from Miss Lula Hunter in Kershaw and Miss Bessie Mackey in Camden while Mr JC McDow of Charleston visits family. A Thursday storm brought general rains and damage to the central telephone switchboard. Camden Steam Laundry solicits customers and notes operations at Nisbet & Co. Marble yard moves to Ledger Office lot. A kitchen fire near Tradesville narrowly missed a blaze. Aged citizen Alogram dies near Riverside. services planned. Union services scheduled for August across churchs. The Thief is captured and money recovered. Thomasson to face grand larceny charges. Mill business at Plyler & Hayes continues with Sept 1 as mill day.
State Alliance meeting votes to operate stock exchange
The thirteenth annual State Alliance meeting at Columbia voted to continue the Alliance exchange suspended last year. Lancaster county delegates BE Miller and J F Nisbet led the vote to withdraw about 8000 dollars to return to subscribers while 10000 dollars opposed. A new board of directors was elected with old officers reelected except Keitt replaced by Nisbet. O P Goodwin of Laurens was named National Alliance delegate for February 1901. Measles plague mills families in town with several deaths among whites and blacks last week.
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State Alliance
Columbia
BE Miller
J F Nisbet
Lancaster County Alliance
State Alliance Exchange
Exchange
Alliance
Keitt
Lancaster
O P Goodwin
Laurens
National Alliance
Washington
McLendon Shoots Baldwin at Baldwin's Store
Bennettsville July 25 BF McLendon shot W J Baldwin in the side near the heart in front of Baldwin's store. McLendon fled as a posse pursues. Baldwin fired back as McLendon retreated through Munnerlyn and Lide's store. Baldwin's condition reported as doing well.
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Bennettsville
W J Baldwin
BF McLendon
Baldwin
McLendon
Baldin
Munnerlyn & Lide
Heath Springs Local Notes Rich in Change and Church Activity
The Ledger correspondent reports refreshing rains aiding crops, new livery and feed stables under construction by Springs Banking and Mercantile Co with G W Bowers directing. Churches resume fervor, Miss Fannie Horton returns from Kershaw, and local trips note Camdon and Camden visits. A Presbyterian minister resigns due health, a baby boy born to Mr and Mrs D Croxton, and several candidates in town.
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The
Springs Banking and Mercantile Co
G W Bowers
J Henry Pherrell
Presbyterian Church
Therrell
D. Croxton
Dr 100 Detchon's Ants Diuretic Cures Sleep Incontinence
A testimonial style note claims Dr 100 Detchon's Ants Diuretic helps both old and young with sleep related moisture. Marketed as arresting the trouble at once, it is sold by JF Mackey & Co, Druggist, Lauaster, SC.
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Woolford
J F Mackey & Co
Lancater
Detchon
Diuretic
JF Mackey & Co
Lau Aster
Indomitable health tale and mob action in Florence
The notice cites Dr King’s New Life Pills offered at Crawford Bros Drug store. A Florence mob mass meeting demanded sheriff action after two negroes who assaulted a young woman were kept at bay, with Senator Aderton presiding and resolutions condemning the incident. One of the alleged assailants, Kim Livingst on, died in the penitentiary following gunfire. A farmer near Columbia weighed an Irish potato for subscription payment.
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Dr King
Crawford Bros Drug Store
Florence
Senator Aderton
Kim Liveingston
Ursday
Carload of good broke horses offered for sale or swap
Lancaster Mercantile Co announces a shipment of well broke horses available for sale or trade with boot and tear swap terms. Come see them before they are picked over at the Lancaster market. Also notes Bucklen's Am'ca Salve cures a leg sore in ten days and offers general use for wounds burns boils pain or piles with guaranteed results. In other items, ex Governor Curr of North Carolina dies by lightning in Floventer county, and a fatal shooting over a baseball dispute in Colleton county, both incidents involving Black men.
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Lancaster Mercantile Co
Hom Hood, Mana
Poa Danforth
LaCie
Bucklen
Crawford Bros Drugist
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Lula Hunter
Kershaw
Bessie Mackey
Camden
JC McDow
Charleston
Nettie Hilton of
JE Rutledge
TC Hicks
Blackstock
J Wo Poovey
Farrfield
Ady
Mr Elizabeth Heath
T A Edwards
Lewis Dunlap
Lans
Camden Steam Laundry
Nisbet & Co
A J McNinch
Ledger
Dr Crawford
McNinch
C . Petty
A M E Zion Church
D L McPherson
Abbeville
Asheville
T W McNeeley
Tradesville
Alogram
Riverside
Waxhaw Church
Union Services
A R P Charch
J H Boldridge
Methodist Church
Chalmere Fraser
Revy
HR Blakeney
Elliott Thomasson
Mrs B
Thomasson
Connor
Mr Blakeney
Plyler & Hayes
Luncaster
CL McManus
Rock Hall
Blease
Crawford
Camden Messenger
the Ledger
Heath Springs
Dniels
Mr Caldwell
Fannie Horton
A P Brown
Prof Cameron
Bismarg Heron Nerve
Curr
North Carolina
Floventer County
Robert Jivenr
Joe Huger
Colleton County
Beare
Flava
Anna Bignatere Z Jiltes Lek
Aurres
Laurens County
Waterloo
Will Parker
Delia
Ulief IN Sin
JB Muekes & Co
Lanost
Weil
Huty
Tan
Segrast
University OF North Carolina
Peay
Mees
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