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SPRING GOODS
$ 1.00
LADIES,
see Otir Belts,
Bags, Purses,
Laces*
Pictures
We are pleased to call your attention espec
ially to the following lines which we will be
so glad to show you*
Free
Shoes.
Dry Goods.
Boys Clothing.
Shirts.
Millinery.
We have
received the
latest
things in
Spring Shoes
for Men
Keith's Konqueror
This department is
especially attractive, A
great deal of the goods
has been received. Miss
McLean has received
many compliments on
her selection and the
prices are right be
cause all of our Dry
Goods were bought
before the advance.
Our Spring
Line has just
been opened
We have a full Line,
just received of the
latest novelties. We
are proud of the line
and ask the privilege
of showing it to
you.
As we have always
will give
attention to
done, we
special
this department. The
Milliner has arrived
All styles
and will be glad to
show the New Spring
styles and talk over
Spring Hats with
all Ladies' who will
All prices
Suits $J.OO
to $5.00
Pants 50 to 75c
$1.00
to
$3.50 and $4.00.
$1,50.
call.
Lexington Dry Goods Co.
WHOLESALE
RETAIL
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THE LEXINGTON ADVERTISER.
The Advertiser Publishing Company,
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Official Journal ol Holmes County,
(With the Durant News.)
Official Jou
Official Journal of TcKula.
PUBLISHED THURSDAY MORNING BV
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■■Ured at the Lexington pOBtotfin*
matter of the>econd,ola8H.
Thursday Morning, Mar. 10, 1904.
W# are authorized to announce the follow.ng
•aadldates, subject to the action of the Demo
•ratlc rotors In the Municipal Election on
April 4th, 1904.
FOR MAYOR.
R C. Me Bee.
FOR MARSHAL.
J. A. Brown.
B. S. Noel,
FOR TREASUKER.
c. L. Keim.
P. A. Llndholm.
The Panama treaty was ratified by
a vote of 66 to 14. Every republi
ca* and half the democrats voted for
the treaty^_______^^_
"How cheap should beef be?" asks
the Chicago Chronicle. We think the
price should be only nominal and ol
a credit.—Memphis News.
The price is a matter of indiffer
ence, getting it on a credit is the rub.
Major Vardaman says that he
bad rather be Governor of the great
State of Mississippi than to be King
of England. Evidently he likes his
job.—Commonwealth.
That is a matter of taste, largely
dependent on how a man is raised.
From the number of oil wells now
discovered in Mississippi, will, it is
feared, put the price of oil below the
cost of production. Mr. J. E. Odum,
a prominent and reliable citizen, seven
miles south of Collins, discovered a
rich mineral oil on his place. Mr.
Odum had better place himself in
communication with the Laurel,
Lyons Oil Company, at once.
President McKinley effected a num
her of reciprocity treaties with many
of the leading nations of the world.
These treaties were sent to the sen
favored by Roosevelt as
well as himself. Their ratification
would have greatly relieved our tariff
burdens, but the senate was engaged
ia much talk about nothing and al
lewed the treaties to Jdie in the com
mittee reems.
at*,
Capt. D. G. Pepper was a guest at
the Wabash a few days this week.
The appointment of Capt. Pepper on
the levee hoard is very pleasing to
his many friends here. This is one
among the many of Governor Varda
man's wise appointments.— Belzoni
• N < , 'us.
St. Louis World's Fair Commission
think it will require 10,000.000
gallons oi water each day, when the
fair is opened for visitors. The esti
mate as to the quantity of beer a day
it will require has not been given out.
ers
The people who were brought into
the corporate limits of Larger Lex
ington have the benefits of our longer
school term and railroad privileges,
for which the town paid, and will
enjoy all the benefits incident to the
new school building and other town
conveniences under contemplation,
all the more when they know and
feel they are contributing their share
to the general fund that keeps them
up.
While some United States senators
were proclaiming their devotion to
our national development and to im
proved relations with our South
American neighbors, in their fight
against the Panama treaty, they were
utterly oblivious of the fact that
treaties which had been negotiated
with the South American republics,
and which would have aided us vastly
in that section, were allowed to die
in the senate committee rooms with
out any apparent effort to bring them
forth.
Judge J. F. McCool is right. Liti
gation in our state has not increased
in the last twenty years, and lawyers
who go about much know it to their
sorrow. In a few localities there has
been a very marked increase, but in
many others, our county for instance,
there has been a very decided de
crease in both civil and criminal
business. This is true in a majority
of counties. Sometimes a congested
docket comes from a slow judge, and
at others from not holding longer
sessions during the day, and allowing
lawyers and litigants to waste time.
Redistricting should be done to equal
ize labor. Nothing more is required.
Judge McCool has our very populous
district and has time to spare, and
said, he could take in other counties
if others thought themselves over
loaded.
Some of the officials of Santo Do
mingo, it is reported, are willing to
loan the St. Louis fair commissioners
Christopher Columbus' bones for ex
hibition, for $100,000. Wouldn't any
other old bones, properly encased and
labeled, answer the sane purpose and
not cost the commissioners over two
bits.
Under the redistricting bill, Holmes
county will be in the 4th judicial dis
trict. In it our circuit court will
convene on the 4th Monday in March
and September, and last three weeks
if business requires- Our sister coun
ties in the fourth district will be
Washington, Bolivar, Sunflower and
Leflore.
Judging from personal experience as
well as observation, it is easy enough
to blow in money and create debts,
but it gives a debtor a foretaste of
hell to pay out. Better go slow.
The people are in no hurry and you
are not fooling them by not raising
the taxes and ordering an issue of
state bonds.
Those complaining of the slownsss
of starting the electric lights can
console themselves that there are no
bills' to pay until the lights are
started, and as the Electric Light
Company receives no pay until the
lighting is in operation, the complain
ers may rest assursd no time will be
fooled away in constructing the plant
that will furnish them light.
The Meridian Star got it wrong
when it stated that a law and order
league was formed in Holmes county
and is at work to run out blind tigers,
and found that some officers were in
league with these criminals, one offi
cer getting $25.00 a month from
them as hush money,
foregoing is news to the people of
Holmes, who would like to be supplied
with a bill of particulars, giving
names, dates and places. The Star
doubtless got us rnixe! with some
other county.
All of the
Hon. B. G. Humphreys, congress
man from this district, will be a can
didate for renomination. Having
done well in this his first term of ser
vice, he should receive a second term
without opposition. As a member of
the Rivers and Harbors Committee
he is in a place to render more help
to his constituents than any other
congressman from Mississippi. Ex
cepting Jno. Sharp Williams, he has
the most important position of any
member from our state, and has done
more valuable work in that direction
than any other since Catching's time,
Gov. Vardaman, taking legislative
proceedings as an indication, has lit
tle influence with the present legisla
ture. It must have been his first
dash out of the box, recommending
an appropriation of $250,000 to finish,
further adorn and beautify the new
capitol and grounds, that caused the
legislators to think, and put their
ears on the qui vive for future nu
merous propositions of the same sort.
American missionaries in the far
east, it seems, are again in trouble
and are calling on the United States
government for protection. Would
it not have been » wise measure for
them to have moved their headquar
ters to a more peaceable section of
that country, or if really bent on
doing good, join the Re'd Cross So
ciety, in which position they could
have impressed the little heathens
with the sincerity of their professions.
The best and most successful mission
aries during the war between the
states, were the sisters of charity,
who when nursing sick or wounded,
never asked who it was, Yank or
Johnny Reb, whose condition they
tried to improve and whose sufferings
they sought to ameliorate, but did all
they could for all alike. We heard
many of our soldiers on their return
from northern prisons say, that the
only pleasant and kind words they
received while in the power of their
captors was from the sistere of char
ity, and that if they ever joined a
church, it would be the Catholic.
Let our missionaries do like the sis
ters, or return to the', Philippine F»l
ands, where, when the little devils
refuse to be converted they can give
them the water cure.
Many of the members of the pres
ent legislature seem utterly bereft of
business sense The Senate, usually
regarded as the conservative half of
that bodv, at this session uses less
judgment than the House. The last
legislature increased the pension ap
priation to $200,000, and the present
Senate amended it, and wants to ap
propriate $500,000 for pensions.
Such an increase on & treasury al*
ready overdrawn is gross and sense
less extravagance- Besides, part of
the present pension money goes to
deserters end played-outs, while the
real homeless and deserving had the
greatest difficulty in being provided
with a shelter. This whole pension
business seems to be under the pull
system. Beauvoir is the place to
make the genuine deserving, maimed
and friendless Confederate soldier
comfortable, and yet this legislature
is trying to avoid doing anything for
it, hut wants to spend a half million
of dollars on a number of men not
entitled to a cent. It is about time
for those old Confederates who stood
by their colors to the end, and who
do not ask nor would accept anything
even if tendered, to see that the de
serving only will receive pensions
hereafter. Every one asking a pen
sion should be required to write out a
history of his service, giving the date
when he joined his command and when
and how he ended his service in the
army, and have it attested by officers
or members of his company. Every
county in the state had its bully boys
who made a very sorry showing dur
ing the war.
Tlie Jackson News of Monday re
Idles the cajfture of a lotot beer aud
booze from blind tigers in Jackson
by llie police, and its wanton de
struction by Mayor Hemingway and
his chiet of police. The capture is
alrignt, but having it poured out is
wanton. Not less than a half-dozen
bills should be introduced at once in
the legislature by some of its nervy
members to stop it, and hereafter
have all captured wet goods distrib
uted among the sick and poor, in
the towns raided. The mayor, like
the doctors during the war, could
lmvo a sick call at 8 o'clock in the
morning and measure out a dose for
each as they presented themselves.
Think of the pains and suffering it
would still and soothe and the sink
ing spirits it- would raise to their
maximum. The enlistment of the
News in this matter would doubtless
be appreciated by. Jackson's aiiiug
(f indigent.
an
If tho Legislature lino the nerve
to raise Appro print joint nbove tbe
State's revenues, ii ought to have
the nerve to raise the State's tax
levee to meet the appropriations
thev are milking, and not doilue be
hind a bond issue. Posterity will
have enough on its hands to pay
without having the present Legisla
ture loading them up. Such legis
lation is preposterous.
The issuing of $1,000,000 in bonds
now means that posterity shall be
made to bear part or the whole of
the expense of building the new capi
tol. The capitol was built and paid
for by the last administration, and
the present one has had over $1,000,
000 in cash in its treasury. It is
nothing more than the issuance cf
bonds for current expenses of gov
ernment, the wisdom of which can be
equalled in that other State instil u
tion northeast of the now capitol.
Much talk has been occasioned be
cause of the infrequent marriage.!
that are being celebrated recently,
so that it causes no few remarks
when even negroes pair'off. As is our
custom on the eve of going to press
we interviewed our court officials on
their legal transactions of the week,
and asking our always pleasant and
obliging circuit clerk as to the re
corded number of marriages he re
plied, none, as usual; as we were
about to leave, he seemed to
himself as from a dream, and said,"Oh
yes; I- camo near forgetting, I* did
issue license to a couple of bow
legged and cock-eyed negroes this
week, that is the man was bow-legged
and the woman's eyes tilted heaven
wards."
arouse
Trespass Notice.
This Is to notify the public that my lands
below described are posted aealiist Imntlmr,
fishing and trespassing ol any kind or nature.
8W *4 sec 351, T 10, R 1 wo J t; all sec 84, T 10, K 1,
west; all sec 35, T 10, K 1, west; all sec 7, T 10,
R 1, wcat.
All trespassers will be prosecuted to tho full
extent of the law.
It. E. Warfield.
Trespass Notice.
This Is to notify the pub'lc that my lands be
low described are posted against hunting, fish
ing ard trespassing of any kind or nature.
Lots 0,11,12,151,14, part lot 15, Sec 1. T 1«, R 2
wp*t; lots0,4. 8,0,14,15. Seo 2, T 10, R 2 west;
all sec 12, T 10. K 2 west; N K.Soo 18,T10,R2
west.
All trespassers will be prosecuted to tho full
Jos. Bobweiliort,
Silent Shade.
ex'ont of the law.
Trespass Notice.
This is to notify tho public thut my lands be
posted against hunting and
fishing and tresspass of any kind or nature.
Lots 2,3 and 24, See20, T 10, R 2 w, 274 a.
All trespassers will be prosecuted to the full
extent of the law.
low described
L. D. Pepper.
Administrator's Sale.
In tli3 matter of the estate of J. E. Stmifb Id,
deceased, J. R. Watson, administrator. No. 880
on the General Docket of the Chancery Court.
In pursuance of the authority vested In nre
as Administrator of above estate by a decree
of the Honorable Chancery Court of Holme*
county, Mississippi, rendered at the March
Term thereof in loot. I will, hh such adminis
trator, on Monday, the -1th day of April, 1004,
within the hours prescribed by law, and in
front of tr.e Court House in the Town of Lex
ington, offer for Bale to ttio highest bidder for
cash the lund hereinafter named, being part of
the estate of said decedent, to-wit: An undi
vided one-half Interest in S y> see. IP, and
SW Y\ sec. 20, and W ^ * 00 . 29, and all sec 30,
and W Yi and S E Ki see. 32, and S W V4 see. 33,
all In Y. 1H, R. 1 W. The minimum price for
said land to he $ 0 , 000 . 00 .
And also the following, that tract of land
conveyed by II. H. Rhyne to J. E. Stanfield, the
same bcinjj fully described in a deed from said
Rhyne,recorded In Look IP, page 731, of the
land records of aloro.*>uid county In ihe office
of the Chancery Clerk. The minimum price
for said land to bo $2,250 00.
And also the following, that tract of land
conveyed by B. F. Garnett and wife to J. E.
Stanfield, the same being fully described In
the deeds from said Garnetts, recorded in book
21, page <13, of the aforesaid records, and that
tract conveyed to J. E. Stanfield bv Isaac Nel
son, the same being fully described In the deed
from said Nelson, recorded m book 20, page
209 of the aforesaid records. The minimum
price of said land to be $3,000.00.
Ail of the above named lands being In the
county of Holmes, Mississippi.
Witness my hand, this, the 9th day of March,
J. R. Watson,
Administrator.
1904.
3-10-4t I.C..V)
Disolution Notice.
Tho co-partnership heretofore existing be
tween J. F. Wilburn and W. W. Wilburn, of
Pickens. Miss., under tlie firm name of Wil
burn Brothers, is now dlsolyed by mutual con
sent. J. K. Wilburn will have oharga of the
tiooks and all parties tnJebte I to the late (Inn
will please settle with him
Wo wish here to
express our thunk* to the people of Pickens
and surrounding count ry for the liberal share
of pntronape given us for thoeo many years.
J- F. Wilburn.
W. W. WIUIUKN.
Referring to the abov
I announce that I
have bought the Wilburn Bros, stock of goods
and will continue to do a general merchandise
business at the old stand under my own name
1 solicit the business or patronage of
old friends or the old «rm and the public gen -
orally.
the
Youth toe business
J. F. Wilburn,
•kcnn, Mlsa„ March 10,11104.
Trespass Notice
This Is to notify the publio tlnu my lands be-,
low described are posted against hunting, Ash
ing and trespassing of any kind or nature:
l/Ots 13,14,15 and 111, See 16, T 16, R 2 west,
133 a; lots 4, 18,19, 20 , 21, 23, 24 and 26, Sec 18,
T 16, H 2 west, 388 a; all except lot 2 In Wash
ington county, See 22, T18, K2 west, 1247 a; lots
1 and 12 to 23, lue. and 25 and 20. 8ec 26. T 16,
R 2 w,ll6t n; lots 1,2 and 3, 8ec 26, T 16, R 2 w,
318 a; lots 1 and 0. N^ lot 7, Seo 28, T 16, R 2 w '
122 a.
All trespassers will be prosecuted to the ful
extent of the law.
-
D. G. Pepper.
Trespass Notice.
Ibis I® to not Ry tbe public that my la nils be
low described are poslcd against hunting, Ash
ing and trespassing of any kind or nature:
8 E >4 and E«8W 4.4 Sec 13,T 18, it 2 w, 240a
lots 11 and 13, Seo 14, T16, R 2 w, 41 a; lots 1
and 3 to HI (no , Seo 23, T 16, It 2 w 568 a- «,V W
and W« NWMSeo24.Tl8.R2
0, 7,8,9,10 and 11, Hoc 20, T 10, It. w,.«o.
All trespassers will bo prosecuted to tho full
extent of tho law. u. (I. ft a. M. Pepper.
240; lots 4, 6,