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Largest Circulation—Guaranteed—of Any Country Weekly Published in the State of Mississippi.
NUMBEK 2.
VOL. LXVI!
LEXINGTON, HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI. THUltSDAY, "AP1UL 7, IDOL
Money at Home!
will sell yoi* any article yon see advertised in any catalogue lor less money. If yon
don't believe ns see for yonrself. Ever since the inant oration of onr business it
has been onr aim to make and keep this store the headquarters for tasty dressers, ladies or
gentlemen. Cm 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
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For the Gentlemen.
For the Ladies
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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 1 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 and style in the famous Douglass and Edwin Clapp
shoes. Low cut and Tans are stylish now. We have them.
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. . ....
The famous
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 on.s
give away up to $7.50 tjach ....
Shirt waist sets and Novelties
we
Beautiful Laces, fancy and silk Hosiery
A full line of ready-to-wear garments such as Shirt Waists,
Skirts, Suits, etc, . . • • '
Belts 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 unsurpasscd; we will take your measure and
guarantee a fit on all dresses and garments we have made
Every kind of Ladies Underwear.
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 are especially attractive. We have some styles
that are entitely new. The material never having been produced
before this season. ... ...
COMPANY.
IS-BAPRETT
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Lexington, Miss.
Groceries of all kinds
Come to os for
High-Grade Buggies,
Love Wagons.
at
Wholesale Prices.
A Letter From Rev. T. C. Wicr.
The weekly visits of The Advertiser
to the homes of former Lexingtonians
living at Booneville, Miss., are
occasions of interest and pleasure to
every member of our
four years' residence in the goodly
and "classic town of Lexington" drew
with the bonds of a firm friend
ship to many of its people.
We had not the opportunity to say
good bye to many of our friends on
leaving Lexington, being busied with
preparations for moving to a distant
part of the state. This communica
tion, however, is not written as a
valedictory, to say farewell, but as an
Easter greeting and assurance of
kind remembrance to those we have
■ow
household. A
us
left behind us.
We are glad to hear a good report
Rev. R. A. Tucker,
of our successor,
and bespeak for him the esteem and
kind appreciation characteristic' of
the Lexington people towards those
He is
who serve them as pastors..
worthy and well qualified.
The Lexington Advertiser, bearing
the same title I believe it had when
I first made its acquaintance with the
veteran editor, ably assisted
the tripod, comes to our home a
same
on
We
welcome and pleasant visitor.
read with pleasure its mention of the
names of friends and places, familiar
as houiohold words; read jts adver
tisements and of the improvements
going on in the town. Of improve
ments, notably, the securing of a pas
senger depot at the "crossing," the
electric light plant and the new
school building.
The good people of Lexington we
shall ever cherish pleasantly in the
cabinet of memory, from ' the com
mander and comrades of Camp 398,
U. C.V., to the bright-eyed school girls
and school boys; the young men of
respectful bearing and citizens gen
erally; the fair young women, amiable
and cultured; the members of our
own congregations and members of
other churches, often met in frater
nal association. All are pleasantly
remembered, with best wishes and
prayers for liiuir temporal and spiri
tual welfare.
But perhaps some of our Lexington
friends would like to know where we
are at. Well, we are at Booneville in
Prentiss county, on the Mobile & Ohio
Railroad, twenty miles south of
Corinth and about one hundred and
twenty miles distant from Lexington.
Booneville is a lively and improving
town of twelve or fifteen hundred in
habitants Its people are satisfied
with their own town and have confi
dence in its future. There are sub
stantial brick stores and some very
elegant private residences. The
Presbyterians have a neat frame
church; the Baptists an excellent
brick church with a very tall steeple.
The Methodists lost by fire a compar
atively new brick church less than
three years ago, but they promptly
set about rebuilding, and now occupy
a very handsome brick structure,
built in modern style and resembling
in its interior arrangement the Meth
odist church at Lexington. The pas
tor and family are comfortably domi
ciled in a new parsonage home among
a kind and appreciative people,
imping for a pleasant and profitable
year.
T. C. Wier.
Habitual constipation is the door
through which many of the serious
ills of the body are admitted. The
occasional use of Prickly Ash Bit
ters will remove and cure this dis
tressing condition. Sold by Swinney
& Stigler.
Look up the photographer's "ad" in
this issue.
Cecil Rhodes Scholarships.
The written examination for the
first Cecil Rhodes scholarships for
Mississippi, will be held at the Uni
versity of Mississippi in the Jefferson
Building, beginning promptly at 9
o'clock a. m., Wednesday, April 13,
1904, and continuing on that and the
following days until completion. Six
papers will be given in the examina
tion, for each of which two hours
will be allowed.
As soon as the report of the ex
aminers is made the chairman of the
Committee of Selection will be fur
nished with a list of the candidates
who have passed and are therefore
eligible for appointment, and the
committee will then proceed to choose
the scholar for the year.
Dr. S. A. Steele.
Dr. Steele lectured here at the
Methodists church Tuesday and Wed
nesday nights. Good Rouses greeted
him on each night. The proceeds of
the lecture will be used to paint the
inside of the Methodist church. Dr.
Steele sustained his reputation as a
lecturer. The audience thoroughly
enjoyed themselves.—Belzoni News.
He lectured here, too.
Let us send you a sample of
our
roasted coffee. Gwin Bros.
Why He Wanted a Bible.
On McKinley's birthday President
Roosevelt, the cabinet officers and all
the Washington officials wore pink
carnations. The memory of McKinley
was in many minds, and many were
the McKinley anecdotes that
pensively told.
Congressman Dick, of Akron, said:
"McKinley was always good to the
poor. When he lived in Canton he
had each winter a great stock of
blankets, shoes, potatoes, Bibles, etc,
that he would distribute where they
were needed most.
"One day he gave a Bible to a
newsboy. He would not have ven
tured upon such a gift as this had
not the newsboy asked for the book.
"I am glad," Mr. McKinley said to
the lad, "that you want a Bible. Are
you not happy now that you have
gotten one?"
"Yes, sir," replied the boy, "I know
a place where I can trade it off for a
a fiddle."—Buffalo Enquirer.
A kidney remedy that can be de
pended on will be found in Prickly
Ash Bitters. It heals and strength
ens. Sol d by Swinne y & St igler.
Phone Williams' beef market for
steak for breakfast.
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Special Correspondence
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To The Lexington Advertiser By oar Washington Corres
pondent.
Washington, D.C., April 5,1904.
"It creates a widening circle of
weariness in my neighborhood to
hear all this talk of a conservative
candidate for President on the demo
cratic ticket, when the average man
does not know what he means when
he uses the word 'conservative' in
this connection," said the Hon. Frank
E. Shober, of New York, a member
of Congress from the Harlem district.
"If he means by 'conservative' that
the man must have brains sufficient
to understand what would injure the
real business interests of the country
and steer clear of it, then he does
know what the word means and I
quite agree with him- If, on the
other hand he means that the candi
date must be a namby pamby, milk
and water, wishy-washy, negative and
altogether colorless man who stands
for nothing and who has never ut
tered a word that can be construed
into his position on any public ques
tion now agitating the people ofjthe
country, then I am unalterably op
posed to him and his kind of a candi
date. I cannot understand how men,
who pretend to know anything about
the game of politics, can advocate
that sort a candidate in the present
circumstances. * That manner of can
didate on the democratic ticket in
competition with the present occu
pant of the White House and who
undoubtedly will be the republican
candidate, a man who is the very
apotheosis of strenuosity,1 positive
ness, aggressiveness, bullheadedness,
a man full of color, who fills the pub
lic eye would have about as much show
of winning as would a one-legged man
at a kicking match, and the man who
advocates that kind of candidate on
the democratic ticket knows about as
much about politics as a hog knows
about navigating a ship. To attempt
to defeat Roosevelt with that kind of
a candidate would, in my opinion, be
like trying to stop a cyclone with a
quiet closet prayer. What we want
and need is not conservatism of the
mushy kind, but radicalism of the
right sort. We want a man who is
radical for the right, radical for equal
U. C. V. Meeting
'Proceedings of the Regular April Session of Holmes
County Camp, Sh(p. 398, U. C. V.
Minutes Holmes County Camp, No.
398, U.C. V., held April 4th, 1904.
A regular meeting of this camp
was opened with prayer by W. W.
Lunsford. The roll was called and
the Minutes of the last meeting were
read. Comrade R. H. Gage was re
ported to have died at his home near
Richland, Sunday morning at 4 o'clock.
The commander appointed Comrades
W. M. Broadaway, C. Oltenburg and
W.W. Lunsford, to prepare a suitable
memoriam on the death of Comrade
Gage. Minutes were read and ap
proved and the camp was closed with
a benediction from Chaplain W, M.
Broadaway.
F. A. H owell, Adjutant.
Robert Gage died at his home
R. H. Baker, Com.
Local News
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Happenings of Interest to Home'People 'Briefly and Enter
tainingly Chronicled.
Mrs. George A. Wilson entertained
a few of the young people of our
growing little city in an elegant man
ner at whist Monday evening. A set
of duplicate boards were played by
all present, resulting in Mayor Cun
liffe McBee winning the gentlemen's
first prize, a beautiful sofa cushion;
Miss Jessie Wyatt won the ladies'
prize, a beautiful vase. Miss Mamie
Wyatt drew the consolation, Easter
lillies in a decorated pot. Dr. Jte
Alexander won the booby prize, a
large rooster. The entertainment
was unique in every respect and thor
oughly enjoyed by all so fo fortunate
as to be present.
Mr .W. A. Henry and J.W, George,
leading attorneys of the Yazoo bar,
attended our court Monday.
If you can't think of any thing for
dinner phone Gwin Bros.
justice to all and special privileges
to none, radical for the enforcement
of all laws on the statutes regardless
of individuals, radical for the uproot
ing of the criminal trusts of tke
country and for legislation that will
insure the just and proper distribu
tion of the wealth of the country,
radical for honesty, radical for a
proper revision and reduction of the
tariff schedules of the present iniquit
ous law that gives shelter to the
trusts, radical for proper reciprocal
treaties with foreign countries, radi
cal for economy in public expendi
tures and the proper conservation of
internal improvements, radical for
Jeffersonian simplicity and pare
democracy, radical for all that steads
for good government and that will
best conserve the best interests of
the business men of the country who
are within the pale of the law.
With a man who is radical in those
things, a man who does things and
who is not afraid to come out every
day in the year and proclaim that
these are his ideas and he stands for
them and is radical for them and will
press them on the Congress of the
nation if he should be elected, we caa
win. With such a mu we can hold
every democratic vote in the country
and draw to us the votes of millioas
of men who have hitherto voted the
republican ticket, to-wit: the working
men of the nation.
The last congressional election
taught us that the democracy must
go to the great labor centers of the
country if it wants to make gaias ia
the election this year.
There is where we made all oar
gains in that election and the mas
who can hold all that labor vote ia
the next election Is the man who will
win. The great majorities he will
roll up in the great centers of labor
will more than overcome the norma!
republican majorities fa the ether
sections of the hitherto republican
states and the victory will be ours.
The only man, in my opinion, who caa
do this and who is radical in standing
for the above is the Hon. William
Randolph Hearst, of New York."
Charles ▲. Idwards.
near Pickens, Sunday morning at
4 o'clock, and was buried in Pickens
cemetery she next day. Bob Gags,
during the war between (be elates
belonged to Company K, 99th Mis
sissippi regiment,Walthall's brigade,
army of Tenneeeet. He was a good
soldier and did service nntil disabled
from a gunshot wound received In
battle. He was sixty years of age
when he croessd over to join the
silent bivouac of his somrades. He
was a member of Holmes County
Camp No. 398, TJ. 0. ▼. He leaves
a wife and seven children, for whose
great sorrow and Irreparable be
reavement the writer joins hie com
rades in offering their deepest sym
pathy.
Read all tbs "adz" to ibis issue
until yon come to the photographer's
and read it twice: If yon don't get
the idea read thrice.
Babbi Abram Brill, of Greenville,
will lecture and hold services at the
Opera House next Sunday nlgbt at
8 o'clock p. m. All are cordially
invited to attend.
Noel White received the appoint
ment of Captain-Commissary on ths
regimental staff of Col. S. Mont
gomery of the First Regiment Mis
siseippi National Guards. It Is now
Captain White.
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