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Raging With Unrestrained Fury
And Is Still Unchecked.
HAS DESTROYED ALL THE LARGE
STORES IN WHOLESALE DISTRICT.
Involving a Loss Which Has Al
ready Reached Over One Hun
dred Million Dollars.
FIRE DEPARTMENT POWERLESS
TO MAKE ANY RESISTANCE.
Situation So Desperate That Build
ings Wore Dynamited to Pre
vent Spread of Flames.
POSTAL TELEGRAPH AND WESTERN
UNION BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
Department Aided By Engines From
Washington, Philadelphia and
Wilmington.
Daily Record, American, Sun and
News Put Out of Business.
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tnlal uml I'nit
Co .'a Miitmlve Office lltiftltlft»K«
The Ci
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Were Destroyed.
Down
The Fire Km Still
It locks of Building* With
Irresistible F«
Cutting
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 8, 2 a. ra. Mon
day.—At this hour the fire is utterly
beyond control and the residential dis
tricts are in imminent danger.
The burned area is three-quarters of
a mile long and from two to eight
blocks wide. More than fifty blocks of
business buildings have been con
sumed.
The Monumental theater is burning
and the lire has reached Jones Falls.
Directly opposite lies the old residen
tial section of the city. It is thought
nothing can save it.
The firemen are absolutely power
less to stay the sweeping of the
flames. Almost all the telegraph of
fices are burned and the city will soon
he cut off.
While it may be days before an ap
proximate estimate of the damage can
be made, it is believed that the loss al
ready aggregates $100,000,000.
Latest Estimate*.
PROPERTY LOSS .$100,000,000
LIVES LOST .
PERSONS l\.It RED ....
HI II,DINGS REINED ...
FIREMEN KILLED ....
burned,
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 8.—The fire
which broke out a few minuses before
It o'clock Sunday morning in the
wholesale dry goods house of John E.
Hurst & Co. has raged with unre
strained fury continuously, and is
steadily eating its consuming way east
ward on Baltimore street, after having
destroyed almost all of the large stores
and warehouses in the wholesale dis
trict around Hopkins place and all the
buildings on both sides of Baltimore
street from Howard to Holliday street,
from Charles and Baltimore to Charles
and Lexington, and on Fayette street
from Charles to Holliday, including a
total of about twenty blocks of the
most modern and substantial bujldings
In Baltimore, involving a loss which
cannot now be estimated, but which
has certainly already reached $30,000,
000 or $40,000,000.
Dyniiiiiltr- Used to Check Fire.
After since about. 6 o'clock, when
darkness came, the fire department, al
though aided by engines from Wash
ington, Philadelphia, Wilmington and
the surrounding suburbs, has been ut
terly powerless to make any effective
resistance to the consuming ef&ment,
though for houys as many as 400
streams of water were thrown into the
flames- Indeed, so terrific has. been
the heat ever since the fire started,
and so dense and suffocating the vol
ume of flying sparks and burning cin
ders, that it was difficult for the fire
men to stand long within fighting dis
tance of the flames, while early In the
afternoon several tracks and engines
were hopelessly disabled by Umbers.
At 7 o'clock the situation was so des
perate that Chief Horton decided that
the only thing left to do was to dyna
mite buildings at threatened points,
and thus prevent, as far as possible, a
further spread of the flames.
l-'lre Department Kelpie...
In pursuance of this plan, a number
of buildings on South Charles street
between German and Lombard were
blown u,p. Subsequently the splendid
structure of J. W. Butts & Co., notion
dealers at Charles and Fayette streets,
was dynamited, and then the Daily
Record building, Ross' drug store and
otners. But this heroic remedy merely
delayed, but did not seriously impede
the onward march of the conflagration,
and for two hours or more the fire de
partment had stopped, practically
helpless and resourceless.
t nion Trust Hull'll nit Hu rne'l.
Following the rapid destruction of
the palatial commercial buildings in
the wholesale district the cyclone of
roaring flames burst Into Baltimore
street, licking within a few minutes
the seven-story Mullins hotel like an
insatiate monster and rapidly rolling
with irresistible force both eastward
and westward, cutting down wholesale
and retail houses, manufactories,
shops, jewelry stores, furniture empo
riums and restaurants. At Charles
street the remorseless tide swept on
down Baltimore street, and also turned
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Into Charles street, where it qujckly en
quired the eleven-story Union Trust
building, starting eastward on Fayette
street. By 6 o'clock occupants of the
Daily Herald building, at Fayette and
I St. Paul streets, and of the Record
building, opposite, were compelled to
vacate by the onrushing flames, as
were the occupants of the Calvert and
Equitable structures, two of the most
massive office buildings in Baltimore.
Down Baltimore street a parallel
wave of roaring, crackling flames
swept, consuming everything in its
course, speedily reaching the Evening
News bulling, from which the em
ployes had to hastily flee, though not
until valuable records had been re
moved- Shortly thereafter the Conti
nental Trust Company's fourteen-story
building took fire. A block below the
American newspaper building was en
veloped in such clouds of sparks and
I day. Meanwhile, the Sun had been ar
ranging to print its today's issue in
its job office, which is situated at a
distant point from the path of the
fire.
burning splinters that the employes
were ordered out.
So it is certain that the Herald and
American will not get out issues to
ing financiers and business men are
scurrying in and out of their offices,
bearing packages or placing valuables
in conveyances
r> i „n .a! „„
During all these hours the pyrotech
me display has been magnificent and
imposing beyond the power of painter
to depict. Vast columns of seething
flame are shooting skyward at varying
points of the compass and the firma
ment is one vast prismatic ocean of
golden and silver-hued sparks. Great
multitudes of people line the streets,
awestruck with the panorama which
is being enacted before their eyes.
KlnnnclHl Dlntrlct Doomed.
The financial district, including
banking and brokerage firms on South
and Gorman streets, seems to be now
doomed, and scores of the city's lead
AliMolutely llpyond Control.
At 10:40 o'clock the roof of the
building occupied by the Associated
Press took Are, and the employes were
compelled to vacate, though they had
time to take away with them their
telegraph instruments, typewriters and
other valuable equipment. They found
refuge in a branch office of the West
ern Union Company, on Gay street.
The prospect is that this office will
have to be vacated in a few minutes,
as the flames are breaking west and
east and volumes of sparks and blaz
ing cinders and splinters are flying in
every direction. At this hour the fire
is absolutely beyond control and all oc
cupants of buildings in the center of
the city are rapidly moving their val
uables.
Seventeen Reported Injured.
The city hospital, corner of Calvert
and Pleasant streets, is removing to
other hospitals as rapidly as possible
the twenty-four patients in that insti
tution.
brought to this hospital, most of them
firemen. They were suffering from
burns, scalds or lacerations. Nearly
every physician in the city is in the
fire district. So far as known at this
hour no one has been killed.
Militia Called One.
Detachments of the Fourth and
Fifth regiments have been called out
and patrolling the streets in the vicin
ity of the fire, guarding property and
keeping order.
Fortunately thus far the conflagra
tion has not reached the residence por
tion of the city, but fires are breaking
out in East Baltimore, and the indica
tions are that the residence streets
are doomed.
Halt
Seventeen Injured were
>re .* Ohio Htill'llntt llurned.
Indications are that nqt a single
morning newspaper will be able to get
out an issue this morning, with the
possible exception of the Sun, which
has an auxiliary plant. There are five
morning papers here—three English
and two German.
The Baltimore & Ohio road office
building has been destroyed, as has
also the Maryland Institute of Art
bqilding. At 11:45 o'clock the tempo
rary custom house adjoining the post
office caught fire.
v York to Send Engines.
New York, Feb. 8.—Fire Commis
sioner Hayes announced at 2 o'clock
Monday morning that a force of five
engine companies was ready to start
for Baltimore at once and were only
awaiting word from the Pennsylvania
railroad that a special train of flat cars
was ready to start from Jersey City.
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Philadelphia Sends AssiNtunee.
Philadelphia, Jan. 8.—In response to
an appeal from Baltimore for help,
Mayor Weaver Sunday evening sent
six fire companies and 150 policemen
to that city on special trains. The six
fire companies, each of which took
along a steamer and a hose wagon,
were augmented by extra men from
other compnies
I'oMnfll'M- IlnlldinK Iturneil.
Washington, Feb. 8.—A dispatch re
ceived from Baltimore at 2 o'clock
a. m. says the fire is still raging
fiercely. The postoffice building is
burning; also the $4,000,000 court
house. The Holliday street theater
has been blown up with dynamite and
the United States express offices and
central offices of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad are burned.
WAR MUNITIONS SEIZED.
Tliey Were Landed at Puerto Plata*
Santo DomlnKO, F«
nf Gen. .Ilmlnez.
the l«e
Cape Haytien, Hayti, Feb. 7.—Muni
tions of war intended for Gen. Jtminez,
the Dominican revolutionary leader,
were seized at Puerto Plata, on the
northern coast of the republic of San
tiago Domingo, after having been land
ed there by the steamer New York,
from New York, January 30.
The RilM.lan 1'aclflc Sqiindron.
New York, Feb. 6.—A Russian officer,
New York, Feb. 7.—A Russian officer,
who has lately returned from the far
east, is quoted by the Moscow corre
spondent of the Times to the effect
that the Russian Pacific squadron pos
sesses at least two submarines.
ItM). nml Arm Broken.
111., Feb. 7.—Fred
Mascoutoh,
Schultz, 26 years old, was probably
fatally hurt by falling coal in the Kolb
coal mine here Friday. A doctor was
summoned and reduced the fracture of
five ribs and an arm.
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Mississippi State News
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Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil.
We give below a description of
the origin and life habits of the
the Mexican boll weevil, at this time
so much discussed and dreaded by
the cotton farmers of the South.
The article is from the pen of Prof.
Glenn W Herrick, entomologist of
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j interest to our readers, and is as foi
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cottoa within the last twety years that
has caused as much general uneasi
ness as the Mexican cotton boll wee
i vil is now causing. Moreover, every
; indication points to the fact that this
I is the most serious pest that has ever
[ attacked the cotton plant in America,
j The value of the cotton crop to this
j State and the fact that this insect has
now entered the State of Louisiana in
the Mississippi experiment station,
which we believe will prove of much
'Probably, no pest has appeared on
at least two points, make it almost
imperative that every cotton grower
should know something of the boll
weevil, its appearance, habits and his
tory.
"The weevil, originally, came from
Mexico and probably crossed the Rio
Grande about 1893 and the year fol
lowing it attracted considerable at
tention in Texas by its destructive
ness. 11 is a S re y isl » beetle, rather
chocolate in color when mature, and
ig from one . fourth to three-eighths of
an , nch , n , enBthi The weevll has a
j ] on g bunt snout, and the back, sides
and legs are covered with fine hairs,
"The eggs are laid in the squares,
forms or bolls by the parent beetle.
The young grub that hatches from the
egg, Immediately begins to eat out the
tender inside portions of the square,
form or boll. The squares in which
the grubs are living 'flare' and fall
to the ground. The grub, after eat
ing and growing for two or three
weeks, turns to a quiet, whitish look
ing object inside the square form, or
boll. This is known as the pupa. Af
ter about one week the adult weevil
comes forth and soon begins laying
eggs for another generation of wee
vils.
"The weevils pass the winter as full
grown beetles in cracks, crevices, etc.,
uider the bark of trees, and under all
kinds of trash and rubbish about the
farm and in the gin house and other
out buildings. They also hide among
cotton seed, in partially grown bolls,
and in the ground about the roots of
cotton stalks. All the eggs, grubs and
pupa that may be in the squares,
forms, or bolls in the autumn are kill
ed before spring by the frosts. Only
the mature weevils are able to sur
vive the winter, and many of these,
that go into winter quarters in the
titumn, are killed before spring.
"These insects increase during the
summer very rapidly. It has been es
timated that one pair of beetles will
give rise to over three quarters of a
million of weevils before October. It
is necessary then, that the cptton
should mature as early in the season
as possible before the weevil has be
come so abundant.
"The dangers of importing this in
sect into the State of Mississippi are
very great. We have seen that the
adult insect hibernates around gins
and out houses and among cotton seed
and baled hay. Moreover, Prof. Mally
says, 'the egg is deposited so late in
the season that the larvae barely has
time to eat into the seed before the
boll opens. Hence the cotton is some
times gathered and ginned before the
larvae has become full grown,
consequently often happens that adult
weevils are found ia the seed later
on. Nothing is easier than that this
insect should be carried from place to
place in shipments of cotton seed,
cotton hulls, baled cotton, baled hay,
etc.
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"In the face of the above facts, the
need of an efficient system of quar
antine is too obvious to need dis
cussion."
New Canning Factories.
The Gulf & Ship Island road ex
pects to establish no less than a doz
en canning factories along its line
within the next few months, and a
promoter has been employed to or
ganize stock companies among the
citizens of the various towns along
the line, the railroad taking a good
portion of the stock in each enter
tlius launched. The truck
prise
farming industry is being given a
simultaneous encouragement, and
the towns along the road will be an
important factor in the early fruit
and vegetable market during the
spring and summer.
Killed for One Dollar.
Because Sherman Fox would not
pay a debt of one dollar he was shot
and killed, last week near Arkabittla,
in Tate county, by a companion
named Andrew Brown. The latter
had been empowered to collect the
debt, which it is claimed Fox owed
to a negro woman, and Brown was
urging immediate payment, declar
ing that if it was not settled by the
following day he would kill Fox.
The parties met the next morning,
and true to his word Brown shot Fox
down, death resulting instantly. He
is now in jail at Senatobia.
Will Widen Narrow Gage.
Contract will be awarded within
the next few days for the widening
of the narrow gauge track of the
Gulf and Chicago division of the
Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City road,
running from Pontotoc, this State,
to Middleton, Tenn., and commonly
known in that section as the "Doodle
Bug Line." Several prominent con
tractors have inspected the road
within the past week with the view
of submitting bids. 1
Hearst Sentiment Growing.
Hon. Wallace McLaurin, Demo
cratic national committeeman, ar
rived home last week from Wash
ington. "The sentiment in favor of
the nomination of W. R. Hearst for
president is growing steadily among
the Democrats of the North," said
Mr. McLaurin, "and he is undoubt
edly the leading candidate today. If
nominated I believe he could be
elected, for he has a habit of getting
things when he goes after them."
Mules Die With Pneumonia.
The cold weather Mississippi has
been experiencing is proving some-1
what fatal to live stock, which is un-!
used to such extremes of tempera
ture. Report comes from laurel
that a carload of thirty tine mules,
en route to that plate from St. Lou-j
is, were stricken with pneumonia,
and twelve of the number died dur
ing the journey, while the others are
in a bad fix. It is claimed by the
consignee that the mules were al
lowed to lay over a day in the stock
yards at East St. Louis while the
thermometer at that place was near
the zero mark.
Infanticide on the Increase.
The crime of infanticide, hereto
fore somewhat unknown in Missis
sippi, especially among the whites*
seems to be on the increase. Within
the past week the bodies of two mur
dered babies were found by the
Jackson police, and a similar find is
reported from Aberdeen, where the
dead body of a young child was
found in the yard of a citizen living
in the northern part of town. In
neither of the three instances have
clues been found to the identity of
the perpetrators._
Will Reappoint Mr. Pepper.
Gov. Fardaman has signified his
intention of reappointing Hon. D.
G. Pepper of Lexington as one of
the members of the levee board for
the Yazoo-Mississippi district, and
it is understood that he is one of the
very few of the old members of the
two levee boards who will be re
tained. Mr. Pepper has been prom
inently identified with levee affairs
for many years, and is one of the del
egates before congress to urge the
passage of a bill providing for gov
ernment control of the levees.
Want Harbor Improved.
The citizens of Natchez are en
deavoring to get a special bill
through congress making an appro
priation for the harbor at that place.
Natchez* was slighted in the report
of the house committee on rivers
and harbors, and petitions have been
sent to Congressman McLain of the
Fifth district and Congressman
Ransdall of Louisiana, the latter be
ing a member of the committee on
rivers and harbors, urging them to
get through a special measure before
the adjournment of the session.
Park Work Stopped.
Capt. Rigby of the Vicksburg Na
tional Park commission states that
owing to the lack of available money
under the emergency appropriation,
only the park commissioners, stenog
rapher, and a couple of laborers, who
will be made to repair washouts and
other park road work, will be re
tained on salary between now and
July. The national park work will
otherwise be stopped.
Coming to the Front
The Rankin farm, which has usu
ally been a drag to the penitentiary,
and which at one time it was thought
advisable to sell, came to the front
this year with $6,000 to the good, be
sides the men taken from that camp
earned $6,438.99 grading the capi
tol grounds. This i6 the best show-,
ing Rankin farm has ever made.
8tite Committee.
Chairman C. C. Miller of the
Democratic State executive commit
tee has not yet taken up the matter
of calling a session of the committee
for the purpose of arranging for a
State convention to name delegates
to the national convention.
State Land Sales.
State Land Commissioner E. H.
Nall reports land soles for January
amounting :o $11,407.14, which is
far in excess of the record for the
same month last year. Of the total
amount, $750 was for trespasses and
$152.50 for fees.
Asphyxiated by Charcoal Fumes.
Will Mileski, a Bohemian oyster
man, was smothered to death last
week at. Biloxi from the effects of
charcoal gas. He built a charcoal
fire in the hold of a schooner, and
went to sleep, leaving it burning.
Fridge Takes Oath.
Arthur Fridge, cf Ellisville, who
was appointed adjutant-general of
the Mississippi National Guard, took
the oath of office last week before
the clerk of tire Supreme Court.
Pardons Wanted.
Gov. Vardanian has been peti
tioned to grint a pardon to T. B.
Keene, convicted in the Circuit
Court of Ytzoo county of larceny
and sentenced to the penitentiary
for three years. He claims to have
been under the influence of liquor
when the felony was committed.
The governor has also been petition
ed to grant 3 pardon to Will Lee,
convicted in Lincoln county of at
tempted murder.
Looki Like Murder,
The Scott countv authorities are
wrestling with what appears to be a
murder mystijry. A day or so since
while a party of sportsmen were out
hunting they found a hat tilled with
buckshot holes, a small mirror, a ra
zor and a handkerchief lying in the
woods, nil covered with blood. A
diligent search was made, but no
body was discovered, and no further
clues have yet been developed. Thu
spot was in a dense, wild region
GOODS RECEIVED SAME DAY AS). ORDERED FROM
Leon Hesdorffer
LIQUOR DEALER
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Fine Imported and Domestic Wines* Liquors
Gins, Brandies, Etc,, of all Prices; Qualities
Hesdorffer's Private Slock per quari $1.00
Hesdorffer 'm Pare Rye
Kentucky 'Bell* Bourbon
Old Glory Ry*
GiU Edg* Straight Whiskey per gallon $2.00
TTie Famous 'Red Top Rye per quarl $1.25
Pete Cooper Rye reduced price per quart $1.50
Hurry HL, Club recuced price **
Old Monopole Rye
Old Silas SNloore
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75c
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$1.25
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Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded on Any of These Bra n d s .
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE, NUMBER 74.
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SAVINGS LIFE
SOCIETY * *
PROVIDENT
ASSURANCE
146 and 348 Broadway, Hew York
EDWABD W. SCOTT, President
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SIX YEARS' ADDITIONS FROM OFFICIAL STATEMENTS
71 THE COMPANY HAS DOUBLE ITS INCOME fifl
6 TREBLED ITS ASSETS QUADRUPLED ITS RE- 9
9 SERVE TEN-FOLD INCREASED ITS EXCESS OF IN- o
6 COME OVER DISBURSEMENTS ^ 2
Policies issued to meet the wants of all amounts $100 to $50,000
AGENTS WANTED
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JAS. H. FUQUA* JR.* General Agent*
HOLMES COUNTY BANK BUILDING, LEXINGTON, MISS.
For Information as to
Rates Apply to.
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INSURANCE AGENT
Fire and Cyclone Insurance
MISS.
LEXINGTON,
An ideal Shopping Place
is found her*. Ladies' will appreci
ate that on their first visit to the
store. The stock of goods carried is
particularly well assorted and being
selected with care the design, work
manship and finish of various arti
cles of
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Jewelry
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offered is highly pleasing. There'*
a very pleasing line of
in Gold, Silver and
The
much to the charm of a costume.
little novelties
other metals
are not expensive, but add
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JEWELER and J1LVERSMITH
P. A. LINDHOLM.
NEW MAJONIC ANNEX...
Hayes,
Beechwood Emulso-Hypo
WITH IRON.
Makes Fat. Strength, Blood Bone and Muscle
If you are tired, broken down, despondent, worn out, pale, losing
flesh, have no energy, do not feel like arising in the morning for
the days work, you need a bottle of this wonderful medicine.
Five Hundred bottles of this Emulso-Hypo has been sold in one
County in Tennessee in the last two years. Physicians presoribe
it. druggists sell itl People praise it, and we guarantee it.
One bottle sold, sells a dozen. If you buy a bottle and tako it
according to directions, and it fails to do you any good the druggist
is authorised to refund you your money, one dollar, and charge
that dollar to us. We have never had a bottle returned.
Read what the editor of the Southerner, Okolona, Miss., says:
Shoffner-Hayes Medicine Co.. Paduoab, Ky. In 1901 my
mother commenced taking Hayes Beeohwood Emulso-Hypo with
Iron when said her lungs were so badly involved that she woula
not likely be alive but a few weeks. It improved her so rapidly
that she was soon in good health for one oi her years. I wish you
the success you deserve with your Beechwood Emulso,
Yours truly, Aaron O. Davis.
Shoffner-Hayes Medicine Co.,
PADUCAH, KY.
For Sale By B. S, Beall.
DRS. STANSBURY A ALEXANDER.
Surgical and Mechaaical
DEN TIST8 .
Rooms 2nd floor Muonic Building.
Every operation pertaining to Denlstry.
oareruUy and skillfully treated. Teeth ex
tracted without pain. Gums heal rapidly.
Day Phone 86. Night Phone S4.
G. C. PHILLIPS
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Lexington, Miss.
Office in the building south of the
J. M. Sargent store.
Offloe 'phone 51. Residence 'phone 73.
R. H. BAKER, Jr.
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON
Lexington, Miss.
Offloe over the Bank of Holmea County,
P. D. HOLCOMBE
Dentist
Rooms
Up itsln la McCain Building -Taeth
Extracted with little pain.
HOOKER ft McBEE,
Attorneysat Law
Offloe Bank of Holmes County up-ettlr*.
Lexington, Miss.
S. M. SMITH
TACKET T ft SMITH
Attorneys at Law
Orrics: Front suit of rooms
- McCain building,
Lexington, Miss.
W. V. TACKETT
the now
W. L. DYER
Attorney at Law
Offlce noiith of the J. M. Sargent
building.
Lexington, Miss.
S. F. NOEL A. M. PEPPER B. S. BLMORM,
NOEL, PEPPER ft ELMORE,
Attorneys at Law
Offloe upstalra Is oourt house
Lexington, Miss.
F. L. BOTT
PHYSICIAN * SURGEON
Lexington, Miss.
Offlce in the McCain ButldlnE
Residence 'phone 111
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