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/ ) ♦ te. Ill TWELVE PAGES TWELVE PAGES H f> <«=s> 9 SECTION ONE LEXINGTON, HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI. THURSDAY, APRIL 2tt, 190«. VOL. «1> NUMBER 2 ! Panama Hats ••• see Genuine Panama Hats will be worn very extensively this season. We have just received a large assortment of the very latest shapes in Genuine Pan ama Hats from $5.00 to $ J 5.00, other kinds 50c to $3. v HERRMAN BROS. CO. Something New in Jewelry is finding a home here all the time. v The store is hardly the same on any two successive days. Selling makes gaps in stocks; buying fills them up again. So looking herb is alwa ys worth while. Our values and styles al ways interest the careful and artistic buyer. Our invitation is extended to everybody and it is al ways in force. P. A. Lindholm, PHONE Jeweler. l»y. m LEXINGTON HOTEL, p. p. kisti.hr, prop. First-Glass Accommodations. Clean Beds. Good Meals. Lexington, Mississippi, 7 THE ORIGINAL, THE OLDEST THE BEST KNOWN and th. most popular all over the South. It •member the Duma aud tnsUt on . ... m 1 IctCrams & Candies ^Alwayj: Pure DELtCIOUS^XOTS FACTORY , -r"" igi-tr-f i ■' 1 Swinney A Stigler Local Agents. W.G. CROTTY Dealer in Foreign and Amer ican Marble and Granite. All work finished and lettered at the quarries and shipped direct. Give me your order and save the middle man's commission. Old monuments renovated and repaired. Iron Fence a specialty. > LEXINGTON, MISS. I r*nin .nr' the coM-cnre that dees tba UKIr=l I work In b hoars, and will '■** % * 4 * m not make youslck. Try it , J. Z. MORRIS Livery Feed and Sale Stables $ & ■ 1/ 'VI Safe, Speedy Horses Stylish Carriages Satisfactory Service J. Z. M 0 R R 1 S TIN SHOP Having bought the Baxter "Wilson Tinshop and moved into the west room of the Hoskins' Building, I am now prepared to do all kinds of Tin repair work, make your Stove Pipes, Roof Flanges and Caps, Bored Well Buckets, Sand Pumps, Tin Valleys, put Gutters on your houses and do Tin and Galvanized Roofing. Thanking you for your liberal patronage in the past and asking a continuance of same, I am yours to serve. W .W. HOOPER. 7 JAMES&J GRAHAM, MEMPHIS 0] [wagons ..^Southern made for Southern •work, they are standard throughout the South. If you •would know why they outsell and outwear other wagons send for our illustrated descriptive catalogue covering farm wagons, lumber wagons, log wagons and dump carts.. Hardware-Lumber Co., Local Agents. IDRAYING I am prepared to do hauling promptly —in any quantity. Atten tion of a personal na ture will be given all favors. I can be found most anywhere on the public square or orders can be telephoned to No. 80. > V. C. ASHLEY. ♦ ♦ 4 M » * »■»■< I 1 - I-H-H -H - M - M -H" Earn More . Don't envy tbe high salaried ones. Take < onr course to actual business and become < , Sltted to earn big money yourself. Our rata- <» It trite the truth. < ■ ■ I , loguelefi ■U IIHItS <• coil F6i; , ******** ! LEXINGTON CHORAL CLUB MEETS The Choral Club met with Miss Morris on Tuesday afternoon, and had a full attendance and a very profita ble meeting. The club will meet next with Miss Nettie Watson, on May 8th, 1906. The following programme for three months, beginning April 24th, comprises readings in Wagnerian i study, with piano selections from the the same master. 'Sketch of Wagner's Life," Mrs. W. L. Jordan. Piano, Selected. may 8th, 1906. Suggestions for Wagner Study, "The Mythical," "The Historical Structure," Mrs. D. W. Beall. Mrs. L. D. Pepper. "The Spiritual Forms and Methods," Miss Morris. Miss McCain. "The Musical," j Selection limited to } ( two minutes each, l Piano, "Oh, How Sublime." Misses Lindholm and Watson. MAY 22nd, 1906. "Wagner's Influence on Piano Composition," Miss Nettie Watson. "Poetry, Painting and Music Combined in the Wagner Drama," Piano, Selected, as is on Miss Wilburn. Mrs. Hal. Gilliam. JUNE 12th, 1906. Roll Gall Answered with Quotations from Wagner's Works. "Wagnerian Operas," Tannheuser. Miss Herman. Piano, March from Tannheuser, Miss Fannie Eggleston. JUNE 26tii, 1906. "Lohengrin," Piano, "Wedding'March from Lohengrin," Miss Emma Stansbury. July 8th, 1906. "Flying Dutchman," Piano, "Spinning Song,' Mrs." Downer. Miss Durden. Miss Eggleston. JULY 24th, 1906. "Parsifal," Piano, Selected, Mrs. Mary Beall and Mrs. Stanfield. Mrs. I. B. Pickens. Letter to Alderman Pepper, Lexington, Miss. Dear Sir: There are these five ways of badness in paint: U) stuffed-oat with chalk, or some thing like that; (2) barytes, better than ehalk, but no covering to it; nobody knows it's there; (3) benzine in the oil, or water, or other such stuffing; (4) too thin—too much liquid, what ever it is, for the solid; (5) short measure; Now will you buy by the price per "gallon"? We furnish our agents with a state chemist's certificate of analysis that tells what's in Devoe. Yours truly, F. W. Devoe & Co., New York. General Summary of the Weather Bul letin, for Week Ending April 23. The mean temperature for the week as a whole, was from one to two de grees below the normal. The weath er grew gradually warmer as the week advanced. Both maximum and mini mum temperatures were higher dur ing the latter part of the week than during the forepart. The nights were cool, and up the 18th night tempera tures were generally in the forties, but subsequent to that date minimum temperatures were higher and maxi mum temperatures were near or above eighty degrees. The 22nd was the warmest day. Clear weather pre vailed throughout the week with the exception of the last two days which were generally partly cloudy to cloudy with a few light local showers in the central and northern counties. There was an abundance of bright sunshine. No high winds were reported. Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Arnold, of Broz ville, were here Saturday on a trading trip. G. C. Reid, our efficient and de servedly popular deputy sheriff, was at Durant Saturday in an official ca pacity. Notice to All Privilege Tax Payers. Notice Is hereby irlveo, us required by Sec tion 111 of the Privilege Tax Laws of ISO*, that all privilege tax licenses, exeept those Issued to railroads and retail liquor dealers, will ex pire during tbe month of April and must be renewed for twelve month during the month of May. Unites the licensee are renewed dur ing the month of May, 1. Is made the duty ol the fax collector to collect double the amount of the original tax, and as he Is left without • < • < > <» < ■ ■ any discretion whatever In 'he mutter, I trust tha' all privilege taxpayers will promptly come forward, procure their licenses during the month of May, and save me tbe necessity of enforcing the heavy penalty. W. W. WILBURN, Tax CVIector <• I "An effort has been made here to re duce the contest to a factional con test and to array behind two of the candidates a prominent political fac tion. Its purpose was to make these two candidates appear in the lead,and in that way eliminate Mr. Noel from the public mind, because the friends of these two candidates had much rath er they would run in the second pri mary against each ether than for their candidate to have to run against Mr. Noel. recognize the purpose of this move ment, it is having little or no effect. Everybody knows that Mr. Noel takes pride in the fact that he stands on his own bottom, and his friends know that he is strong enough to stand there without leaning for aid in any faction. He has the courage to fol low his own convictions, and the bold ness to speak them out. without trim ming or dodging. His vigor and in dependent individuality and his public service in behalf of all the people, have given him a general strength, which cannot be pulled away from him. In some counties he will receive more votes than all the other counties put together, and in a very large number he will lead the field. i Hot-Breads Light and Sweat are made with ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure AntWdyspeptici may be eateo without inconvenience even by persons with delicate digestion ROYAL BAKINO POWOift CO., MEW YOMU HE TALKS FOR NOEL. (From Jackson Sunday News.l Hon. S.N.Sample, of Holmei, is one of the most intelligent and compe tent members of the legislature. He has large business interests and has shown a particular talent for practi cal legislation. He is thoroughly de voted to the candidacy of Hon. E. F. Noel, for governor, for whom he has been active and energetic, and with the view of promoting Mr. Noel's can didacy lie has talked with ten times as many visitors to the capitol as the average legislator, sounding senti ment in the different sections and urging Mr. Noel's candidacy. He, above all other members of the legis lature, is best qualified to speak of what the public sentiment of the state is on this interesting question, and the following is a fair statement of his views; "At a considerable sacrifice to my business at home, I have been at the capitol practically every day since the session opened. 1 have personally conferred with every member of our body, which fairly represents public sentiment, and this legislature, if it had the power, would elect Mr. Noel on the first primary. The greatest number of heated local fights over the creation of new counties, changes in county seats and the creation of dou ble court districts in the history of the state and many matters of acute public interests have brought to the legislature crowds of people from dif ferent sections of the state; and as everybody has noticed, I have talked with the visitors about the guberna torial outlook. At least half declar ed Mr. Noel to be the favorite in their sections, and I ain convinced beyond doubt that this is true in counties not having a candidate. Since those who are posted "In the last campaign, Governor Vardaman made bis third, and Judge Fritz his second, race for governor, and each began with numerous prom ises of support made in previous years. Toward the close of the cam-1 paign the impression was put forth that it was a race between the two,, that Mr. Noel's strength was small' and local, an impression that caused ex be ol the of A DEPLORABLE AFFAIR. Between seven and eight o'clock last Sunday evening, a horrible trage dy was enacted at Durant, as the re sult of which Marshal R. B. Jenkins, Night Watchman B. M. Crow, and K. N. Thornton are dead. It appears that a week or ten days prior, Thornton, who was conduct ing a meat market, was arrested on the charge of the illicit sale of liquor and tined fifty dollars and costs. He signified his intention of taking an appeal to the circuit court, and was given the privilege of going out to secure sureties for his bond. In stead of doing so. he decamped. Sunday, he returned, however, and was promptly arrested and incarcer ated in the municipal jail. 0. 0. Tur ner, a brother-in-law of Thornton, made the required bond, and the lat ter was released from custody be tween five and six o'clock. After being liberated, Thornton made promiscuous threats of killing Jenkins, Turner, Mayor Hamilton and others; provided himself with a 45 caliber pistol, and stationed himself in front of ('. 0. Turner's bakery. Marshal Jenkins was notified of his I threats, and later came down in com pany with Night Watchman B. M. Crow, who was just going on duty for the night. They met Thornton in front of C. 0. Turner's, and Jenkins demanded of Thornton to give up his gun; the latter said he had no gun. Jenkins said lie did, to which Thorn ton replied, "It's a d—n lie," and im mediately drew his gun and opened fire on Jenkins. Crow advanced to Thornton to disarm him, but the latter grabbed his right arm with his left, and continued firing. The first shot shattered Jenkins' right arm, but he took his pistol, which he had also drawn, in his left hand and fired two or three shots, one of which took ef fect in Thornton's body. The second shot by Thornton shattered Jenkins' hip and caused him to fall. Crow re ceived three shots from Thornton one of which went through the stomach and one through the thigh. On hearing the fusillade, C. 0. Tur ner came rushing out of his place of business, armed with a pistol. Seeing Thornton pointing his pistol at Jen kins' prostrate form for another shot, he called out: "My God, don't do that." Thornton immediately turned his pis tol toward Turner, but the pistol was locked and he could not pull the trig ger down. Turner at once opened fire, the first shot passing through Thornton's hand, three others in his body, one of which pierced his heart, killing him instantly. Jenkins and Crow were immediate ly conveyed to Mr. Jenkins' residence, and medical aid summoned. Owing to the extreme seriousness of the wounds, Dr. J. A. Crisler, at Memphis, was telegraphed for to assist the local physicians, and arrived at 3:30 o'clock Monday morning. Both men were operated upon, Jenkins' right arm Re ing amputated, but the effort to save their lives proved unavailing. Crow died at 1 o,clock and Jenkins at 1:30 Monday, his fol in of I. in in 1. am of of S. of J Crow made a dying statement im plicating J. W. Ward, a hardware merchant. Ward was accordingly placed under arrest and owing to the prevalent excitement, was brought over through the country, to Ijexing ton for safe keeping; the preliminary trial was set for today. Crow's remains were taken to Eth (Continued on Section Two) absolutely thousands who would have voted for Noel to vote for one of the other candidates. Then there were scores of telegrams and telephone messages sent on the day of the pri mary, in some localities, declaring that Mr. Noel had withdrawn, and in others, that he had conceded defeat. Notwithstanding this, and though it was his first race, out of less than one hundred thousand votes cast, about twenty-five thousand were for Mr. Noel. He starts in the next contest ten times as strong as before, and | against candidates who have never ; made the race before. With all the other candidates but one eliminated in the first primary, he will draw more votes from those who fail to en ter the second primary than anv oth er candidate mentioned, cam-1 , ... . . ., no ^ *' deceived again by the cry two,, that his support is small and local, or small' that he is anything else except in the j front of the contest." The people ENTERTAINMENTS AND LOCALS. Mrs. A. M. Pepper was hostess of the Whist Club Saturday. There was a fnll membership pres ent and guests filled the fifth table. Mrs. G. A. Wilson. Jr., and Miss May Pepper assisted the hostess. Refreshments in two elaborate courses were served. The high score souvenirs went to Misses Haverkamp and Floyd Wilson, and the consolation was cut by Mrs. Joe Eggleston. Mrs. G. A. Wilson, Jr., cut the guest prize, a dainty fan. Mrs. Louis Pepper will lie hostess of the next Whist Club meeting. The 8. 8. Club will claim Mrs. Robt. Gwin as hostess at their next meet mg. The ceremoney of baptism was ad ministered in St. Mary's church Sun day afternoon by Rev. Dr. Boykin, to Dorothy McBee. claims Mrs. mother, and Mr. A. M. Pepper and Mr. I. B. Pickens for god fathers. Capt. and Mrs. S. D. Gwin nounce the arrival of their grand sons in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gwin, of Tchula. Mr S. L. Burwell is greatly missed in social and business circles. That abundant success will crown Ids ef forts elsewhere, is already assured. Mr. Ki Harrington and Miss Har rington were guests of Mr. and Mrs. 1. B. Pickens last week. Mr. E. J. Nayler, of St.. Louis was the guest of Mr. J. C. Pickens last week. Messrs. Howard Pulliam and Lath am Ray, of Greenwood, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. 1. B. Pickens for the McBee-Wilson wedding. Mr. Ernest Purcell, cashier of the Delta Bank of Greenwood, was the guest of his aunt,Mrs. P. A. Lindholm, for the McBee-Wilson marriage. Mrs. Sarah Wright, of Jackson, is visiting her mother, Mrs. E. M. Wil son. This dainty maiden A. M. Pepper for god an Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gilliam, and Miss Gilliam, of Tchula, were guests of Mrs. Hal, Gilliam, on the 19th. A farewell hop was given for Mr. S. L. Burwell Monday night when his young friends met at Sargent's Hall and made marry making a veil to hide their deep regrets. Dr. and Mrs. Phillips and Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Smith, and a host of friends spent a most enjoyable evening Satur day. Owing to illness the honorees, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Phillips, of Bir mingham, were detained, to the regret of all. The Phillips home was bril liant with electric lights and beauti fied by flowers. Mrs. C. W. Smith, of Greenwood, and Miss Mildred Smith served punch in the reception hall.' Friday afternoon the S. T. W. Club met with Miss Mary Dyer, and was entertained in a very charming man ner. Besides the club members those present were: Misses Lula, Annie and Mary Beall, Clara and Fannie Eggles ton, Katherine Searson; Mesdames Tom James, Archie Pepper, Robert Gwin, Louise Pepper, Millie Gwin, Dave Sutton and Joe Eggleston. Mrs. Louise Pepper scored the highest, and received a gold hat pin with filigree work. The lone hand went to Mrs. J oe Eggleston, a silver hat pin, and the consolation, a handsome white gauze fan, to Miss Katherine Searson. The S. T. W. Club will meet with Miss Nellie 1 Hirden on Wednesday af ternoon. Morton Levy is expected to visit the home folks next week. Friday evening Mias Mary Dyer en tertained the "Rose Buds" with pro gressive euchre. Those present were Misses Eloise Watson, Julia Watson, Annette Levy, Nelle I)urd?n, Fannie McCain, Mattie McLeod, Adele Her bert, Katherine Searson; Messrs. Joe and Herrman i^evy, Baxter Wilson, Ben Searson, Otho Hooker, and John Edgar McRae. Miss Julia Watson was awarded the first prize; Baxter Wilson the second, and Miss Nellie Durden cut the consolation. Delicious refreshments were served. All left never to forget the pleasant evening that was spent. T. L Barbour and W. i. Pickens went to the Crescent City on business yesterday. Mrs. Albert Roach spent Friday last in Howard, visiting. Col. J. M. Johnson, of Acona, spent Saturday and Sunday with T. W. Evans and family. in it the en cry or the ONE PAIR OF EYES TO A LIFE TIME YOIJR EYES MAY NEED ATTENTION— Need it badly; it is a bad policy to abuse them by neglect. YVby don't you give it to them? You put it off from day to day, Do you know the risk you run? Every day's delay means added danger to your health and eyesight. I can provide glasses to meet every defect of vision and my charges are moderate. NO CHARGES FOR CONSULTATION. M. E. FRITZ. Optometist, Dr. of 0, Adv. Oph Office upstairs Bank Annex Building, LEXINGTON,MISS. 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DYER ATTORNEY AT LAW Lexington, Miss. Office south of J. M. Sargent Building. E. F. NOEL II. II. ELMORE A. M. PEPPER NOEL, PEPPER & ELMORE ATTORNEYS AT LAW Lexington, Miss. Office upstairs in Court House. A. R. HUTTON ATTORNKY AT LAW McCain Building Lexington, Miss. B. C. SEITZLER DEPUTY COUNTY SURVEYOR Lexington, Miss, Is Prepared to Do Official Work Office in Holmes County Bank Building.