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Largest Circulation—Guaranteed-of Any Country Weekly Published in the State of Mississippi.
| VOL. LXVJI
LEXINGTON, HOLMES COUNTY. MISSISSIPPI. THURSDAY, MARCH, 31, 1904.
NUMBER 1.
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Keep Your Money at Home!
W e will sell you any article you see advertised in any catalogue for less money. If yon
don f t believe us see for yourself. Ever since the inauguration of our business it
has been our aim to make and keep this store the headquarters for tasty dressers, ladies or
gentlemen. Our stock this spring in quantity , quality, selection and style far surpasses
all of our previous efforts and it is with pleasure and pride that we invite our lady and
gentlemen friends to inspect our line of merchandise and we wish all to remember that we
will gladly show anyone through whether they wish to purchase or not. Among many
other things we have
For the Ladies
For the Gentlemen.
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The most beautiful creations in millinery that good taste, fine
material and careful study can poduce.
A lovely selection of FANS at all prices, from the ones we
give away up to $7.50 each
Shirt waist sets and Novelties
The largest and best line of clothing in town.
Fischeimer & Fischel Crash-Worsted and skeleton lined suits.
Fit equal to tailor made garments and we sell them at half the
price. . .....
A full stock of mens' high grade Trousers of all sizes and prices.
Just in—our spring supply of Belts
Our summer Underwear department is especially strong. We
have Shirts and Drawers in imported French Balbriggan, pure
linen net. Fancy Lisle thread and Nainsook.
We guarantee to show you the prettiest and best line of shirts
either full dress or fancy, that you have ever seen in Lexington
Every size anu style in the famous Uougiass and Edwin Clapp
shoes. Low cut and Tans are stylish now. We have them.
The famous
Beautiful Laces, fancy and silk Hosiery
A full line of ready-to-wear garments such as Shirt Waists,
Skirts, Suits, etc. .....
Beits of all kinds
All the latest novelties in Dress Goods and Trimmings, and
we wish to say here that our facilities for constructing fine dress
es and garments are unsurpassed;we will take your measure and
guarantee a fit on all dresses and garments we have made
Every kind of Ladies Underwear.
You'll never be disappointed when you come here for novelties
in neckwear. We have the prettiest four-in-hands and spring ties
we have ever shown. . ....
We have the exclusive sale of the Queen Quality slipper
and our stock of Slippers and low cut Shoes is now complete.
We can fit and please any customer who is fastidious in footwear.
We have* large and well selected assortment of Lawns—White
Goods—Linens, Percales, Dimities and other lines of Spring goods
Straw Hats, Derbys, Felt Hats—Everything in Hats—Men's
straws this season arcespecially attractive. We have some styles
that are entitely new. The material never having been produced
before this season. ... ...
PICKENS-BAftRETT COMPANY.
Lexington, Miss.
Come to os for
High-Grade Boggles,
Love Wagons.
Groceries of all kinds
at
Wholesale Prices.
j Mississippi Press Association.
H Secretary J. G. McGuire, of Yazoo
m\y, has sent the following circular
Q/ttej- to all members of the Missis
Ippi press:
I"To members of the press—The
'flirty-ninth annual session of Hie
•ississmpi Press Association will lie
flld at McOomb City, Monday and
Bucsday, May 16 and 17, 1904.
Xic headquarters of the association
I McComb City will he the Mc
■oughlin Hotel, at which a rate of
fl per day has been secured.
Meetings of the association will he
n the opera house, which has been
Indered by the citizens of McComh
The
ty
"The first session will be called to
der promptly at 10 a. in. Monday,
ay 16, by President R. B. May.
ther sessions will be held that
ternoon and nigld, and the follow
g morning and afternoon.
"Monday night, after the cxer.
ses at the opera house, tbc associa
te will attend a banquet. Tues
ij afternoon a carriage drive o'Ver
e city and other cnteitninmeuts
ive been provided.
"Tuesday night at 10:10 o'clock
iose who have secured transporta
tion through the secretary will leave
in sleepers for the World's Fair in
St. Louis, where every courtesy has
been extended by the management.
"Tho program for the meeting in
McCombCity is now being prepared.
A number of practical subjects by
practical newspaper people will be
presented. In addition to this ad
dresses will be-delivered by Gov.
James K. Vardaman, Congressman
John S. Williams, Chancellor R. B.
Fulton of the State University, and
Prof. J. C. Hardy, president of the
Agricultural and MecbanicalCollegc."
Driven to Saicide.
Miss Ellen McMillan, a defenseless
girl at Walnut Ridge, hanged herself
at that place a few days ago because
of the shame and humiliation she felt
at being mentioned as the cause of
the separation of a married couple
It was asserted after her death that
she was entirely innocent of the
charge. The man who started that
false and slanderous report is himself
guilty of a crime that should condemn
him to a life of remorse. This poor
girl valued 1 her good name above all
else, and when she realized that it
was being made the subject of seu
sational gossip her courage failed
and black despair clutched her heart.
Whispering tongues had poisoned the
yery air she breathed and death be
came preferable. What infamies
have been heaped on the innocent
and defenseless! What misery has
invested the frail and sensitive be
cause of the vile slanders and unjust
reports that have been put in circu
lation by those who are mehn enough
not to care! The blood of this poor
girl is on the head of the man who
started the slander that drove her to
the grave, and the ghosts of a mil
lion such crimes are ever stalking
abroad denouncing the punishment of
those who are guilty.—Democrat.
Appointment of Code Commissioners.
The members of the code commis
sion, Chief Justice Albert H. Whit
field, of the state supreme court, Hon.
T. C. Catchings of Vicksburg, and
Hon. W. H. Hardy of Hattiesburg,
1 have signified to Governor Vardaman
their acceptance of the appointment
made by him, and they will meet
within the next few days to organize
and lay out plans for their work,
mapping out what each is to do and
the best means for proceeding with
the large task that is before them
Despite the fact that the legisla
ture overlooked the matter of making
an appropriation for 'the paying of
these commissioners and failed to pro
vide for any expense money, a sten
ographer, stationery, or for the print
ing of four hundred copies of the
code authorized by the lawmakers
to be distributed among the members,
the commissioners will proceed to
their task.
A better commission for the state
could not have been selected, abler
lawyers and jurists could not have
been secured, and the now code will
be a perfect work in every respect.—
Jackson News.
A Coal Mine Discovered.
It has been supposed for some time,
that coal existed in Clarke county
and recent discoveries in the land
owned by Warren Crosby, about four
miles north of Quitman, have devel
oped the fact that a rich vein of coal
runs through his land. After making
this discovery, a few specimens were
analyzed and proved to be the genuine
article. Messrs. C. F. Hahn and C. J.
Schlevoight, of this place, have leased
the land where the coal was discov
ered and we are informed that pre
parations will begin at once to learn
the size of the bed. It has long been
supposed that hidden under tho fer
tile soil of Clarke county there exist
ed untold wealth of minerals which
were only waiting to be discovered to
make the owner immensely wealthy.
Oil also has been discovered at Enter
prise and while the attempt to open
up a well proved a failure, another
trial might meet with the most grati
fying results. Oil has also been dis
covered at the Crosby place where
the recent coal discovery was made.
The business men of Quitman should
organize a stock company and develop
some of these rich mineral fields in
which Clarke county abounds. "Noth
ing ventured, nothing gained." —
Quitman Globe.
We are sorry the Board of Super
visors didn't see its way clear and
purchase the book-type writer for
the Chancery Clerk. Its cost in our
opinion is largely overbalanced for
the work it does and the book space
it saves. Any one having occasion
to frequently nse the county records
will bear us out in the advantages we
claim for this machine. It will save
its cost in books in two years.
$1.00 Timothy hay 1 , bran, oats, corn
and Purina. T. W. Smith & Sons Co.
White Lady pens.
•I. A. Stausbury.
Special Correspondence
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To The Lexington Advertiser By our Washington Corres
pondent.
Washington, D. C., Mar. 29, 1904.
There is a disposition here on the
part of many democratic senators to
fight the appropriation asked for by
Secretary Cortelyou, of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. They
say that he does not hesitate to ask
for money galore, hut that he does
nothing and so far has apparently
made no attempt to do anything to
obtain facts concerning the opera
tions of the trusts in this country
with the view to the widest publicity
and the passage of legislation to curb
them when found to be in the crimi
nal class and out of the reach of the
legislation now on the statute books.
For that very reason there may be a
spirited debate in the Senate on fur
ther large appropriations for Mr.
Cortelyou's department. There is
also talk of the resignation of Mr.
Cortelyou.
In this connection there is much
talk here anent the interview with
the Attorney-General of the United
States immediately following the
Northern Securities merger decisUn
by the Supreme Court. There is an
unwritten law here that the president
and the cabinet officials cannot be
interviewed, and no matter what they
might say to any newspaper man
here they would not be quoted in the
papers without their full and free
consent. So, the conclusion is irre
sistible that the Attorney-General
sent for the representative of the As
sociated Press in order to say what
he was quoted as saying the very next
morning after the merger decision
was rendered. That interview was
clearly a "sop" to the trusts. In
order to allay the rankling feelings
of the trusts over the merger deci
sion, he gave it out in clear and un
mistakable terms that this was to be
the last fight of the administration
against the trusts and they might
rest easy the balance of the year, or,
for that matter, the remainder of the
time that Roosevelt occupies the
the White House or that Knox is the
Attorney-General. In the language
of the Attorney-General, the adminis
tration "does not intend to run amuck"
with the business interests of the
country. If that does not mean in
substance what I said above then I
1903 Cotton Crop
Final Government Ginning Report a Very Bullish c/lffoir.
Crop does not exceed 10,045,614 Standard Bales.
Washington, March 25. —The final
report of the census report upon
cotton ginning showing the total cot
ton production for 1903, gives the
following:
Number of commercial bales, in
cluding linters, 10,339,558 against
11,275,105 for 1902.
The following table distributes the
crop, exclusive of linters:
In the United States 1,205,073
commercial bales; 9,359,472 square
bales; 770,208 round bales; 75,993
sea island bales.
The total crop reduced to a com
mon basis as to size of .bales, is an
equivalent of 9,851,129 five hundred
pound bales, as against 10,630,945
five hundred pound bales in 1992.
The number of bales, counting
round as half bales, including linters,
was 10,014,454 against 10,784,47.
The equivalent bales of five hundred
pound standard, including linters,
were 10,045,614 against 10,827,168
in 1902.
The square bales upland crop, re
ported from ginners which aggre
gateJ 9,359,474 shows a decrease of
633,193 from 1902.
Round bales upland crop reported
from ginners were 770,208, a de
crease of 211,056.
The bales of sea island cotton re
ported from ginneries were 75,393, a
decrease of 29,660 and the bales of
linters reported from cotton seed oil
mills were 193,485, a decrease of
1,738.
These statisics were collected
through a canvass of the individual
ginners of the cotton states by 631
local special agents who found that
30,218 ginneries had been operated
do not know the meaning of the lan
guage of the average national politi
cian and my work here has been in
vain. ( have maintained all along
that this is exactly what the people
of the country might expect from
this administration. It has been en
deavoring with might and main to
get the people to believe it was "agin"
the trusts, but the decision of the
Supreme Court, by a bare majority
vote against the merger, was as much
a surprise to the Attorney-General as
it was to the criminal combine in
volved in the decision, hence he made
haste to get to the trusts of the
country with a disclaimer that they
intended to pursue the matter further.
The interest here in the next demo
cratic presidential candidate does not
abate in the least. The strides being
made by the Hon. William Randolph
Hearst is almost the ■ sole topic of
conversation wherever politicians do
congregate. Almost every day brings
news of his capture of some more
delegates or of some man of promi
nence in the party councils coming
out for him. The Parker men
thoroughly demoralized and his band
wagon here is nearly ready to hang
out a sign, "standing room only.'
The old politicians of the party are
dazed and do not know what to make
of it. Hitherto they have always had
things their own way in fixing up
conventions and sending delegates.
They have just begun to realize
that the people of the country are
taking a hand in this affair and that
are
they are not in it. They must either
get out of the way or get run
In their despair they are beginning
to talk of taking a candidate from
the South and the names of Senator
Joseph W. Bailey of Texas, and the
Hon. John Sharp Williams of Missis
sippi, the brilliant floor leader of the
democracy in the House,
tioned. In speaking of this matter
to me the other day a prominent
member of the House said: "John
Sharp Williams would make an ideal
candidate and an ideal President of
the United States, if it were not for
the fact that he would not be running
two weeks before the Mississippi
ptitution would be the sole issue in
the campaign.
over.
are men
con
And there you are.
Charles A. Edwards.
for the crop of 1903, compared with
30,948 for 1902.
In the final canvass for this crop
where ginners had not finished ginning
they were requested to prepare
ful estimates of the quantity of cot
ton which remained to be ginned at
their establishments,
mates, amounting to 75,401 commer
cial bales, have been included in the
totals of above.
care
These esti
Peonage Charges in Kemper County.
Word reached here from Kemper
county that the citizens of that
tiou are highly indignant over the
arrest and indictment of five citizens
of that county by United States Mar
shal Edgar S. Wilson and deputies
on the charge of peonage.
Neighbors of the men placed
der arrest, and who are now at lib
erty under bond in the sum of 91,500
each, state that the charges are abso
lutely groundless, and that the in
dictments are the result TSf a piece
of spite work of a man living in that
neighborhood. Till parties indicted
are among the most prominent cifci
zens of the county, and have hereto
fore enjoyed very high standing.—
Clarion-Ledger.
If the parties indicted are inno
cent as their neighbors claim, the
court will not sustain the indictments.
But should their guilt be proven, a
reform movement will be instituted
in their several cases, as was done
In Alabama. Being prominent is all
tho worse if guilty, as they set a bad
example to the mediocre in their
several communities.
Red cherries at
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J. A. Stansbury's.
New Madrid, St Charles seed corn
at T. W. Smith <k Sons Co.
Pure maple syrup at Gwin Bros.
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