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The Lexington Advertiser
THE ADVERTISER PTB. CO., Publishers.
LEXINGTON. : : MISSISSIPPI
Maj. A. M. Harvey, of Topeka, was
nominated for congress, on the 21st,
by acclamation by the democrats of the
First Kansas district.
The Cuban government has awarded
to the Munson line the fast mail con
tract between Havana and St. Louis,
via Mobile. The steamers will fly the
Cuban flag.
The Citizens' Bank of Enid. Okla.,
one gf the largest at that place, closed
its d<x.r. on the 20th. and Paul F.
C<Kli*r. of Guthrie, tfie territorial--bank
sjioner, has taken charge.
The Employers' association of Dps
M oines, la., which has locked out all
union employes, has prepared an ulti
matum, iht substance of which is an
open shop policy in Des Moines.
Lndv Constance Mackenzie, niece of
the duke of Sutherland ami well kuown
in the United States, was married in
London to Sir Edward Austin Richard
son. Bart, of Pitfour, Perthshire, on the
19th.
S. P. Gage, a former banker of Clin
ton. Ia.. was found dead in bed in his
room in Chicago on the 19th. Death
was dn,e to gas escaping from a jet sup
posed to have been accidentally left
open.
The St. Louis election contest case of
Butler-lleynolds is not likely to be
taken up this session of congress, the
genera! eagerness for adjournment
overranking the desire to settle this
matter..
Emil Roeski, the fourth member of
the Chicago tar barn bandits, was found
guilty, on the 2flth, of the mu,rder of
Otto hander in his saloon, on July 9
last, and sentenced by the jury to life
imprisonment
Mrs. Carrie- Nation.the saloon smash
er, arrived in Chicago, on the 21st, and
will commence an engagement at a
dime museum. This is her first ap
pearance in such capacity. Her salary
is $300 a week.
The Montana Stock Growers' associ
ation, on the 20th, adopted resolutions
calling upon Montana's representatives
In congress to aid in the movement for
an investigation of the methods of the
meal trust, so-called.
Peter Neidermeier, Gustav Marx and
Harvey Van Dine, the car barn rob
-Vrs and murderera were hanged.on the
22d, each swinging off alone into eter
nity. Eight murders were thus ex
piated on the gallows.
Wendell Gast, a prominent German
business man, of Boonville, Ind., died,
on the 21st, of grief over the death of
his wife and daughter. His wife died
last month of grief over the daughter,
Three deaths have occurred in three
months in the family.
Thomas Dennison, of Omaha. Neb.,
prominent in local politics, Was, on the
20jtfc, indicted by the grand jury on
charges of robbery and receiving stolen
goods in connection with the robbery,
12 years ago, of William L. Pollock,
3f $17,000 worth of diamonds.
An nit cresting feature of the open
ing of the St. Louis exposition, at
noon on the 30th instant, by the presi
dent by wire from the White Hou,se,
will be the firing of a national salute
of 2L guns , by a battery from Fort
Myer, to be stationed in the president's
park, south of the White House.
A cyclone passed over portions of
the Panhandle on the 22d. The home
of R. C. Hardy, at Wichita Falls, was
blown to pieces, and several houses in
the country nearby were demolished,
but no loss of life is reported. A num
ber of horses and cattle were killed,
and the damage is said to have been
extensive.
An appeal from the verdict in the
St. Louis circuit court, in the case of
Robert M. Snyder, convicted on a
charge of doodling in connection with
the Suburban deal, and sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary, was ar
gued before the supreme court at Jef
ferson City, Mo., on the 21st. A deci
sion is expected within a month.
Capt. John J. IJealy was arrested in
Chicago, on the 21st, ti,pon information
from New York charging him with
grand larceny. Healy was one of the or
ganizers. of the North American Trad
ing ft Transportation Co. and is
widely khown. Capt. J. J. Langan, of
the Nev. York detective bureau, is the
complainant against Healy.
Bert D. Nortoni, of St. Louis, de
parted for Washington, on tho 20th,
where he goes to accept the position of
assistant afiorney-general Of the''Unit
ed States for the post office depart
ment. The position pays $4,51)0 a year.
At the present time Mr. Norton! is as
sistant United States district attorney
under Col. D. P. Dyer at St, Louis.
The world's fourth Sunday-school
convention,opened, on the 19tU, in a
huge tent outside Herod's (Gate,at Jeru
salem. Archdeacon Sinclair delivered
the opening sermon, taking for his
text Matthew. chapter 21, verse 15. The
attendance included 800 Americans and
500 British. Many other delegates from
all quarters of the globe were present.
The schooner racing yacht Ingomar
owned by Morton F. Plant, of New
York, started from Bristol, R. I., on
the 20th,, in an attempt to make n rec
ord-breaking (pli»' across the Atlantic.
Southampton, Eng, Is the yacht's des
tination. Ingomar is ia command ol
Capt. Charles Barr, who successfully
defended the America's cup with the
Reliance and Columbia.
The sttm of $15),158 in cash was, on
the 19th, turned over to the Guardian
Trust Co, of Cleveland. 0, as assignee
for the Federal Trust Oo., by
representatives of Geo. F. Clewell,
former cashier of the latter bank,
Who was. a few day* ago, afrestefl in
St. Joseph, Mo., oh the charge of em
bezzling the bank's funds. The amount
named has been raised by Cltwell's
friends, and it is stated makes good the
latter's shortage It. Is believed the
care against him will now be dropped.
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PRACTICALLY A MIRACLE
Horace Wilson Falls Ninety Feet
Into the Mississippi River.
Rescued H> Two Mrs to it Skiff and
Uic 'Three llMcoeil By a l uff
When sinking.
St. Louis, April 23.—His own grit
and the heroic work of the crews of
a ferry boat and a tugboat saved the
life of Horace G. Wilson, bridge work
er, who, after falling 90 feet from
Eads bridge swam more than a mile
in the cold current of the Mississippi,
wits pick oil up by two men in a skiff,
again resitted, witli hia rescuers,
from the skiff, which was sinking, by
the crew of a tugboat.
Hundreds of persons saw the man
drop from the bridge into the river,
sink far out of sight and come up
again; thousands, crowding to the rail
ings of ferryboats and bridge, saw the
gallant fight for his life.
Wilson is now at the city hospital
with only a sprained thumb as an in
jury. He will be sent home.
Wilson is 28 years old, and of mag
nificent physique, with broad shoulders,
deep chest and muscles of steel.
During the repairs on the bridge he
has been employed as an iron worker,
his work taking him into the network
of girders and cables under the floor
of the bridge near the third pier, which
Is some 200 feet from the cast shore.
He had received orders from his
foreman and lowered himself to his
working place under the floor of the
bridge, 90 feet above the water.
Wilson had been at work a few min
utes when he made a misstep on the
iron, covered as it was by the falling
rain.
Charles White and Edward Stevens,
the two men who went to his rescue
in the skiff, are congi'atulating them
selves on their providential escape
from what seemed for a time a sure
case of drowning for all three.
and*
SHOT WiFE. KILLED SELF.
Trnsedy Folli
and Dpvotloi
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to IIiikh By a
St. L<
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St. Louis, April 23.—Mentally unbal
anced from years of study and devo
tion to bugs, Oswald Deutseher shot
his wife in the head and blew out his
own brains with the same revolver.
The tragedy occurred late Thursday
night at Deutscher's home. Deutseher
was 45 years old and his wife 32.
Ludwig Giesecke, the woman's
brother, who had gone out to buy a
lunch, returned to their rooms to find
Deutscher's body on the floor and his
wife sitting in a chair across the room.
"He shot me." cried the woman to
her brother, and spoke no more, for
the bullet had gone through her mouth
from jaw to jaw, and her vocal or
gans were rendered useless. She may
recover.
NOT MUCH OF A SUCCESS
One of the Steamship 1,1 1
cIiflMod by Piorpoikt Morgai
.Make* First Report.
Par
Liverpool, April 23.—Frederick Ley
land & Co., (ltd.), the first British
line pufehased by J. Pierpont Morgan
when forming the shipping combine,
have issued a report for the 13 months
ending with December. The directors
say that" even after drawing $f,347,500
from the reserve, it is only possible to
pay the preferred dividend for six
months,
the reserve to $325,000.
The directors attribute this result
to the epidemic of foot and mouth dis
ease in New England last year, stop
ping shiimients of livestock therefrom,
and to the inadequacy of Atlantic
freights.
This withdrawal reduces
WANTED FOR GRAND LARCENY
John J. Healy, Arrtnted In Clilpirgo,
Wanted In New York For
l.urccny of
New York, April 23.—John J. Healy,
who was arrested in Chicago, at tho
request of the New York police, is
wanted in this city for the alleged
larceny of $8,239 on September 27,
1902, from the Central Alaskan Ex
ploration Co. Anticipating efforts to
fight extradition, the officers here have
wired full information regarding the
case to Chicago and also have sent
certified copies of the papers in the
case.
THE STRIKE * IN HUNGARY
Little DiK]M>filtioii SImmyi
Hungarian Railroad Striker* to
to Work.
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Budapest, Hungary. April 23.—The
railroad strikers are now showing lit
tle disposition to return to work unless
their demands for increased pay are
conceded.
Premier Tisza announced in the diet
that as a result of the conferences there
appeared little prospec t of a settlement.
Chilli Burned to Dentil.
Decatur, 111., April 23.—The eight
ycar-old child of Henry Hall, a farm
er living north of this city, was burned
to death Thursday evening. The child
was following the father, who was
burning cornstalks, and got In the
fire.
Emil Ulrich a Parrlclile.
St. Louis, April 23.—Conrad Ulrich,
who was shot by his son Emil, at his
home, Tuesday night, died at the city
hospital. His son is still in custody
at the four courts. The coroner will
hold an inquest.
Wamliip at Evaanvllle, Ind.
Evansville, Ind., April 23.—The tor
pedo lxmt destroyer Lawrence arrived
here Thursday evening, and all boats
ind factories along the river gave her
J! hearty welcome. Fully 2,000 persons
lined the bank3 as she steamed into
port.
Preacher End* HI* Life.
St. Elmo, 111., April 23—Rev. Mr.
(Cane, who lived three miles south of
Herrick, killed himself by shooting
rhnrsday. He leaves a widow and sev
eral small children.
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI
Items of Industrial Interest Gleaned From All Over the State.
Notes and Comments.
BY H. E. BLAKESLEE.
Capt. W. H. Hardy, of Hattiesburg,
one of the veteran industrial workers
of the State, has taken a great inter
est in the introduction of Spanish to
Imcco in the piney woods country, and
expresses himself as confident of the
success to attend its culture if at
tempted. Three years ago he secured
a small portion of seed and planted an
eighth of an acre. The yield was
abundant, being pronounced by those
versed in tobacco culture, as far bet
ter than they had even seen in West
Virginia or other tobacco producing
States. From the tobacco saved, Capt.
Hardy had several thousand ci
gars made for distribution among
his friends, and they were pro
nounced by connoisseurs as equal
to anything they had ever smoked
at any price. A drawback to
the culture of tobacco with people not
versed in handling it is the trouble in
ascertaining the proper time to cut
and the handling of it afterwards. This
is proposed to be overcome if a goodly
number of farmers or truckers would
plant a crop by employing an expert
in this line to take general supervision
of all the crops. The plan is a feasi- I
ble one, and the writer hopes to see
it given a fair trial by the people of
the sandy belt throughout the State.
Every acre of this land is especially
adapted to the culture of tobacco, and
experience has proven that it will pro
duce superior to any other country
where it lias been tried. What we need
is. for some of our people to branch
out on these new lines, make a suc
cess of it and set the example for
their imitative neighbors who are from
Missouri, and have to be shown.
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Some of the newspapers in South
Mississippi are persistently urging the
growing of ribbon cane and the manu
facture of syrup therefrom, proving
from actual experience that it is a
profitable crop and one that is espe
cially adapted to that section of the
State. The Times, at Gulfport, in its
last issue, has some pertinent matter
on the subject. It is shown that in
the piney woods asection the cane
grows well ami produces abundantly
a splendid syrup that brings top notch
prices on the market. W. J. Quarles,
of Long Beach, says: "I do not know
how much cane syrup I get to the
acre; have never kept count, but I
know that as high as 700 gallons have
been made ami sold right here from a
single acre, although that is doubt
less above the average. This syrup
brings from 40 to 50 cents per gallon
in barrel lots. Some fertilizer is re
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quired, but not more than $10 to $15 i
per acre." Another gentleman from
Bay St. Louis says: "I had one half I
acre in sugar cane that turned out 150
gallons of syrup, after saving seed for
an acre another year. The syrup was
sold on the local market for 50 cents
per gallon. Owing to the drouth I
do not consider this a fair average."
Another correspondent states that he
made from two acres of sugar cane 884
gallons, that brought him $442, or $221
to the acre. The land on which this
cane is grown is not very well suited
to cotton, but. has a strong clay founda
tion well adapted to the retention of
fertilizers fog the growing of nearly
all crops. It can be bought at a very
reasonable figure and ^ offers cheap
homes for thousands of 'families seek
ing such. The climate is very mild,
rarely ever being cold enough for ice,
and the atmosphere pure and healthy.
The section mentioned certainly offers
great inducements to people looking
for cheap homes in a great country,
where lands will appreciate in value
and a permanent market be assured
for the product.
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A friend in Blue Mountain, after
registering a kick for recognition of
the wonderful advancement being
made by his town, concludes with the
following personal reference:
"I think your 'Greater Mississippi'
department the best feature of the
newspapers', and calculated to do a
great good in stimulating Mississip
pians to greater efforts in building up
their State, also to bring^its resources
and advantages to the favorable notice
of people on the outside."
This is the object of the depart
ment exactly. If only one good family
can be induced to locate here and
help bring some of our land into cul
tivation, or one factory be located for
the use of our crude material, the
writer will feel fully repaid for the lit
tle trouble experienced in getting up
the matter.
Just after every disastrous fire in
the State there is a big* noise made
about better means of combating the
flames. Every town has had this ex
perience. It is too late to lock the
door after the horse has been stolen.
A system of waterworks costs but
little to the individual members of
a municipality, is a great convenience
as well as a necessity, and the town
with one thousand people or more j
without such a system is a back num
her. Build water plants and be pre- j
pared for any emergency that may ]
arise. Winona is the latest sufferer ,
in this line and her people are now ]
talking of some means for fighting fire. |
The property loss in her recent fire
would have gone a long ways toward
putting in a plant if it would not have
built it. There is no better invest
ment that could lie made and all towns
should have them.
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There is a little cause for complaint
with ,a great many Mississipians that
could be easily corrected. They know
too little about their State and when
asked for information are too slow or
uncertain in giving it. Post your
selves about it, get a goodly store of
information at your tongue's end for
use oil the instant, make up your mind
that we have the best State in the
Union and have a dozen reasons to
prove this always on hand. Then
when the opportunity affords you will
not be at a loss for something to say
and it can be said with a zeal and con
viction that will have weight with the
party asking for it.
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The- oyster industry, one of the
greatest in the State, will not play out
in a few years for want of the beds, aB
some people seem to think. While
great inroads are made on the oyster
every Jeason, a plan of renewing the
beds has been adopted and more
grown to take the place of those tak
en out. Shells are planted every year
for the young to attach themselves to
In the grounds just fished over. This
season the commission has just de
cided to plant 40,000 barrels In the
various waters affected. By this means
the grounds are kept well stocked and
one of our greatest industries made
perpetual.
An Atlanta concern announces that
j after a long time and much money
spent in experimenting, it has at last
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produced a fine grade of writing pa
per from cotton stalks,
for making the paper has been estab
lished and the work is now beyond
the experimental stage. It is an
nounced that lower grades can also be
manufactured from the stalks and ere
long it is promised that a large per
centage of the paper used in the
United States will be made from cot
ton stalks. And, again, it has been
proven that an article which has al
ways been considered of no account
will be used in the future and net the
owners a nice profit.
A factory
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Only a few years ago it was that the
lint was all that was salable of the
cottou crop of the South. Since that
time the seed have proven one of the
most valuable portions of the crop and
now it is announced that paper is
being successfully manufactured from
the stalk. This leaves only the burs
unused. It is now in line for some
man to find a use for them and there
will be nothing wasted.
There is an opening in almost every
county in the State for a handle fac
tory, to use the small hickory and
ash. These factories cost but little to
install and use timber that could
hardly be utilized for any other pur
poses. Small timber is the besl for
handles, being tougher and more dura
ble, and that of quick growth is fur
superior to old timber of slow growth.
There is a supply sufficient to run fac
tories as mentioned for years and
years. The timber in question is be
ing cut from land to clear it and is
generally almost a total loss. Every
county town ought to have a handle
factory to work it up, thereby bene
fiting the town and the farmers who
have the timber.
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Maben has organized a stock com
pany with a capital of $150,000 for
the purpose of building an oil mill
and fertilizer factory. This looks pret
ty good for Maben. Although it is
comparatively a small town, there are
some big people in it. Oil mills bene
fit. not only the stockholders, but the
surrounding country as well. Many a
poor spot of land adjacent to mills
has been made rich in the past few
years by feeding stock on it. Then.
too, the farmer saves transportation
on his seed to the mill and buys his
hulls and meal for a price less the
transportation, it always was the
height of tolly for our people to send
their seed to the cities to be crushed
anc * then have the meal and hulls
shipped back to them for use in feed
ing and fertilizer. Keep it all at home
is the proper thing to do.
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The village of Blue Mountain, up
in the yellow pine region of North
Mississippi, is experiencing a period
of great prosperity. It is situated in
a most peturesaue spot and surround
ed by a good country. The Blue
Mountain Female College for girls is
one of the largest private institutions
in the South. A commodious brick
building for a private school for young
men is being erected and will open its
doors next fall. The town is bounti
fully supplied with pure water from
numerous springs that flow from the
mountain side, the merchants are up
to-date in every respect and the peo
ple of the community as good as the
State affords.
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Work of surveying the interurban
electric line from Greenwood to Black
Hawk, in Carroll county, will be begun
right away. The stock company for
the purpose of building the line has
been regularly organized and the first
assessment paid in. The route to be
traversed is almost level and little or
no grading will be necessary. The road
is designed to carry freight, as well
as passengers, and will, no doubt,
prove a paying investment to the
stockholders as well as a great boon to
Greenwood.
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If one firm in Jackson paid $2,000
in two months to a Tennessee firm for
dressed poultry, why don't some man
near Jackson put in a poultry farm
and dress them for market?
man in Tennessee can raise them at a
profit and ship to Jackson, how well
ought the Jackson man to do without
having to pay transportation charges?
If the
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"Push Mississippi" on all occasions.
It is a duty you owe yourself as a citi
zen of our grand old State. Your ob
ligation is not all to yourself, but to
your fellow man as well. A word of
praise spoken at the right time and
in the proper manner may be worth
untold amounts to the community if
which vou live.
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The hustling little city of Osyka, in
the southern end of the State, held In
election for waterworks recently and
voted them by a majority of over six
for to one against. Tho spirit of pro
gress has permeated the entire State
and news of good work conies from
every hamlet.
Opportunities in Mississippi are only
limited by the capacity of the people
to take advantage of them. There is
something here for all that go out af
ter it In the proper manner.
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Almost every town in the State has
enough Idle capital to start a dozen
manufacturing plants. Idle capital is
worth nothing to any one, unless it
be satisfaction to the owner to know
that he has it.
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Preparations are being made to
build three more skyscrapers in Jack
son during the summer. Two of them
will be department stores and the
third a bank building. Two five-story
buildings are now in course of con
struction and, with three for sure, and
possibly four more, the Capital City
will be moving about right.
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If you have faith in your home State
and community, take advantage of
every opportunity to let others know
about it.
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This is the time to do something for
the State of Mississippi. An oppor
tunity is afforded by the St. Louis fair
that may not come again in a lifetime.
Our State has a very creditable ex
hlbit and the different communities
ought to have some descriptive mat
ter for distribution among thoue at all
interested. Some of the towns have
expressed a determination to net upon
this suggestion and others should do
Lowest Prices
Pure Drug's
Best SHill.
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. On tills Basis we ask Your Prescriptions.
We keep only one Grade of Drugs . .
THe Best
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of toilet articles, perfumery, writing tablets s ad faaff
stationery, schoolbooks, cutlery, paints, oils, varnishes,
cigars, high-grade chewing and smoking tobaccos.
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BUILDING*. .PHONE Mol SS ^
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Fresh Drugs
Every thing that we carry In etook le new
and Freshg no shelf worn Goode. We oarry
a complete lino of everything found b a first
olass Drug Store. Gall to see us.
In the C. A.
Pitchford Bldg.
East Side of
Poblic Square.
T.J. JORDAN
Proprietor.
Lexington Drug Store
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SPRING HARDWARE
We have increased oar stock and are receiving out Spring
Goods by the Car load sach as
Ranges,
Cutlery,
Crockery,
Shelfware,
Glassware,
fact we keep in stock a complete assortment
forget we are agents for the New ..Capital Wagons, also for the John Deer
Plows and Brinly's Goods. Before you place your orders call on os and save
money.
Nails,
Plows,
Plow Fixtures,
Barbed Wire,
Graniteware,
Harness,
Fire Arms,
Cooking and
Heating Stoves,
Reed's Anti Rust.
of all Hardware. Don't
In
Beall (EL HooKer.
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you 6an Do Wltuout
ft Good
Hardware
Manu Stores
But you oan't do without a good Hardware Store.
To a housekeeper It lo ao essential as tho house
Itself. The sto«ik Is made up ef many things In*
dispensable to tho homo, farm and the workshop
suoh ao ........ ... .
store
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Is s necessity In any community.
Don't break down your hard
ware store by buying from other
stores. Don't orde" off after
anything kept in my ine before
getting my prices. The needs of
the v 'tohen and dining room met
to the advantage of tbe pooket
book.
Stoves, Rang**, Grates, Heavy Hardware, Pumps, Piping, Baiting and
Engine Repair Parts, Guns, Loaded Shells, Cartridges, Shot, Powder. Caps,
Bridles, Collars, Boggles, Harness, Saddles, Blankets, Wagon dear, Wagon
and Buggy Spokes and Rims, Thimble Skelna, Buggy Shaft and Potaa, Cart
Shaft*, Wooden Churns, Stone Churns, Jars and Crooks, Pocket and Table
Cutlery and Sbelf Hardware, Homo-made Tinware guaranteed better thaa
any yon oaa bny elsewhere. Tin Roofing and Guttering dons to ordtr
ihavh a tin and repair shop in connection in charge ai
AN EXPBRT WORK If AN. SELECTION IS EASY. 8TOCH ATTRACTIVE.
a Buriwa BAXTER WILSON.
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Bemcmber this when you are in need of... .
Drugs, School BooKs, Stationery,
Paints, Oils, Window Glass
l J • or anythu.. Kept tn a first-class drvg store.
^STICKING TO
FACTS and
ftKHT DR1CBS
Is the rspv>
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