Lexington Standard

THE LEXINGTON STANDARD. Great Fire Sale Now Open Enormous Stock Marked Down Nobody ever did and nobody ever will have the chance at such fine goods at the Low Prices Quoted Twenty-five Salesmen insure prompt service. No Goods exchanged. No Goods sent on approval. No Goods sold on credit. Early purchasers will have choice, and we will let only twenty people in at one time, and select those nearest the door. GRAVES, COX & CO. NINTH YEAR Great Sale No Enor Stock Market Nobody ever did and no chance at such Low Price Twenty-five Salesmen in No Goods exchanged. No Goods sent on approval No Goods sold on credit. Early purchasers will have only twenty people those nearest the do GRAVES, established in 1867 FOR FINE WATCH and CLOCK WORK GO TO J.N. Williams, OPPOSITE OPERA HOUSE. preserve your Eyes If Sight Is Failing. FASH FOR OLD GOLD AND SILVER. Bernard J. 1911 by W. H. W. Wendelman, 9. 4. OVERLOADED Overloaded with Bargains for the Feet. Pre Right in it with Protection for Your Pedals. Bests for Men and Boys and Over- seasons for Men and for Women—real arm, real healthful, real discour- ing to doctors—and Rubbers for the whole family. Wintry weather is hard on Shoes, but that is what our goods at this time of the year are made for. For Ladies we have some of the sweet and most fashionable shapes modern to wear. The heavy welt ties are just the thing to wear during the bad walking season. Light Shoes, Patent Leather, and like, we keep a tall stock just the same. Some people will have them the coldest weather. We can suit you Come and give a trial. Sample Shoe House 4 West Main Street. --- Graduate Optician, Keeps a Full Line of Jewelry. WATCH, CLOCK and JEWELRY REPAIRING It's a Matter O' Money To you to trade with us. We can guarantee you satisfaction in every respect. Our goods are carefully selected and are the best to be had. Our Prescription Department receives our special attention, as Accuracy and Precision Constitute our Motto We have an especially fine line of Pefumes and Toilet Soaps: Mountain Violet.....5c Buttermilk Soap.....5c CALL AND SEE THEM. Coopers' Drug Store MA1N AND BROADWAY. TELEPHONE 459. Mardi Gras. This year's festivities at New Orleans occur The preparations made have never been equalled. Round trip tickets to Mobile and New Orleans via the Will be on sale at One Fare for the Round Trip, with liberal return limits. The train service is the finest in the South. Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleeper Cars Cincinnati to New Orleans daily with change. Vestibulated Limited Trains. Fine Gate, Pa ler and Observation Cars on the day trains. Free Books and Maps. W. P. RINERSON, G. P. A Cincinnati. R. C. O. BENJAMIN, Editor and Proprietor. Spirit of the Press. Mississippi's new governor goes for the lynchers with a vengeance and suggests that the Legislature enact laws whereby the county in which a lynching takes place shall pay to the family of the victim a large sum of money as indemnity. This will stop the business; for the Mississippi hoosier don't want to be taxed for killing Negroes,—Mobile (Ala.) Press. ***** If the Negro can manage to be a friend to himself his future is secure. He must learn the value of time and money. To waste either is equally foolish. There are traits which we must leave off. Mean, little, petty jealousies cause much of our present condition. Let us be men of honor, or get out of the way and let men of honor come by.—Selma, (Ala) Record. R. C. O Benjamin, the able editor of the wide awake Lexington Standard defines the stars and stripes in this country thus: "Stars are for the whites and-stripes are for the blacks." If the blacks will only learn to be independent, they can stripe the whites also with their ballots. Urge them to action, Brother Benjamin.—Pioneer Press, Martinsburg, W. Va. The Negro who has not in him the business qualifications to earn a living is a dependent, a pauper, and is undesirable as a citizen, no matter how much useless information he may have lying loose in his cranium. One trouble with us as a race is that we are not enough interested in our standing among other races. We are too easily satisfied and not very anxious to get far away from the old landmark. We dress well, we look well, and talk well; but in far too many cases that is all there is nothing behind it. We need good stores and business houses of every description. We must get money.—Blioxi (Miss.) Gazette. --- The Negro who thinks he is "actin" like de white fo'ks" and who refuses to patronize Negro establishments, is a fool. A white man patronizes his own race first. Who ever heard of a white woman talking about not allowing a white dressmaker to sew for her, or a white shopper refusing to buy at a white store, or a white teacher refusing to read a white newspaper? Nobody, and nobody ever will. White people have sense. They know blood is thicker than water, and so knowing, they act along this line. The Negro does not need to talk so much of race love; he needs to shut up and work, and subscribe for his race paper.—The American Guide. --- R. H. Fitzhugh, General Manager of the Colored Orphan Industrial Home, of Lexington Kentucky, and is well known for his long and ardent labors in behalf of the race, argues at length in the Lexington Standard that the Negro of the South, except for the social barrier and its natural effects, "is already as free and unbounded as any man in the land. As an agriculturist or skilled machanic." he says, "he has not only an open, unobstructed field, but his services are in such unavoidable demand that, to a very great extent he controls the scale of wages under which he is employed." He also argues that "it is only the vicious and idle of the race who get into trouble." It must be admitted that the South is the natural home of the Negro. Those who urge him to scatter over the various States of the North and South overlook the fact that his industrial opportunities are almost entirely eliminated in these far-away sections, except in a few isolated instances. With the superior opportunities portrayed by Captain Fitzhugh, there should be a bright future for the Negro in the South—Denver (Colo.) Statesman. **** The Negro newspaper is the black man's only forum where an impartial hearing is guaranteed. It is not a luxury, but one of the most pressing necessities of this age. The Negro who refuses to sustain an honest race journal is blind to his best interests. Colored American, Washington, D.C. More than that. A Negro who refuses to sustain an honest race journal is more often than otherwise, not only blind to his best interests, but so prejudiced and chock full of cussedness that, even if he sees the good in a Negro journal, he pretends that he does not see it, and is never so happy as when engaged in the nefarious work of crippling the influence of the paper and speaking ill of the men who make sacrifices that the race may have this most effective champion of the rights and liberties of a long oppressed and proscribed people — The Progress. Two Omissions. A Negro preacher had just concluded the ceremony which united an old Negro in matrimony for the fourth time. The silence which usually follows an occasion of this kind was broken by the preacher in his effort to relieve the embarrassment of the attendants. "It is usually the custom," he said "for the preacher to kiss the bride, brt this time we will omit." The groom gave his young wife a healthy smack and turning to the preacher said: "Parson, it am usually de case fer de groom to give his parson somethin', but dis time we'll omit" And he walked away from the astonished preacher with his bride on his arm. — Memphis Scimitar. They Saluted the Flag. A Negro color sergeant of the Forty-ninth Infantry gave some white soldiers of the Forty-second a lesson in respect for the flag, in Honolulu. A large crowd of white soldiers stood at Hobron's corner to see the colored regiment go by. They did not notice the flag at all. The color sergeant rushed up to the crowd. "Are you American soldie's?" demanded he, "Yes," they said. "Then salute this flag and be quick about it." In a jiffy all capes were off and the salute was given. A white commissioned officer was on the sidewalk. His cap came off with the rest and he showed that he felt the justice of the rebuke.—Hawaiian Flag Vinegar Ferments. Cincinnati, Jan. 25.—At the Main Street Colored Baptist Church, Covington, Tuesday night, when Rev. Peter Vinegar, of Lexington, who had been invited to preach a special sermon, staggered to the pulpit, a stout "mammy" in a front seat exclaimed: "Sit down, you ole fool. You's drunk." Pastor Vinegar paused, clenched his fists and roared: "If I am drunk I'm not—" and he used a vile epithet. "How dare yo' make such insinuations? Yo' ain't got the sense of a rabbit, 'deed yo' ain't. Drunk. I is a virtuous man, an' lives with mah own wife and brothers an' sisters. There's powerful few in dishey church which can say the same. An' dat ain't no lie." Men and women arose indignantly and a movement towards the pulpit was made. "Keep quiet," yelled the preacher, 'or I will contaminate the entiash congregation." The threat averted further trouble An attempt will be made to have Vinegar dismissed from the ministry. TAKEN FROM LIFE: This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky hair shine. It is also the only pomade that emits the hair from out and makes it grow. Sold over 40 years and used by thousands, warranted hair pomades are available. The first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair is the Ozmanized Ox Marrow, the genuine never fails to keep the hair pliable and the genuine never fails to keep the hair gentlemen. Meganly perfumed. The great advantage of this wonderful pomade is that it stays in hair as home, Ozmani to its superior and lasting quality it is the greatest producer of a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 2 oz. Sold by Ozmani. For more information, Money Order for 2 bottles, express paid. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave, Chicago, Ill. (In Afro-American Newspapers 1898-1901, no.20) RD. Fearless, Independent and Honest. EVERY WEEK Adler's Stock Must be Reduced Office of Williamson & Son, Contractors and Builders. Mr. Louis Adler—Dear Sir: In order to make the necessary alterations in your store in time for your Spring Clothing Business we must go to work by February 1 Please arrange to give us possession by that date and oblige yours truly. WILLIAMSON & SON. (Dictated by J. R. W.) (Per I. W.) To Make Room for the Workmen Popular One Price Shoe Corner We have, therefore, made prices that will beat any ever named in Lexington for such Strictly Reliable Makes Of the Most Modern Footwear Bunched in Five Lots Now Worth Ladieg' Shoes $0 95 $1 15 $1 35 $1 80 $2 15—$1 50 to $3 50 Misses' Children's 35 65 95 1 15 1 35 50 to 2 50 Men's $0 95 $1 15 1 40 1 80 2 40 2 90 3 50 1 25 to 5 00 Boys' Shoes 75 95 1 25 1 50 1 75 1 00 to 2 50 Ask for the Price that You Want For Samples see our Show Windows as you pass by. On special racks inside at one-half and even one-third their value are Bargain Hunters' Odds and Ends ADLER'S, Cor. MAIN Streets. OUR ANTE- INVOICE SALE On all Goods Is in Progress We Place All Garments in Our Cloak and suit Department AT A CUT PRICE EVERY Price Cut. Day this Week. Garment in our big stock Jackets, Golf Capes, Collarettes, Tailor Suits, Skirts, GO IN THIS SALE Hawkins & Sweeney 9 West Main, Lexington, Ky. R. C. O. BENJAMIN, Editor and Publisher. DEVOTED TO THE POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS OF THE NEGRO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. The Standard publishes what it please regardless of race, color or sex, every Saturday morning at 60 West Main street, Lexington, Kentucky. Notices of birth, marriages and deaths, and of church and society entertainments, will be published free, but they must be of limited length. Subscribers changing residence without notifying this office will be charged for papers going to old address whether received or not. Anonymous articles stand no chance of insertion. Sign your name. It will be detached in type, if desired. Delinquents, for three months, may expect their paper to be stopped without further notice. Business matters pertaining to the paper should be addressed to The Standard. Communications for publication must reach us not later than Thursday. Entered at the Lexington postoffice as second-class mail matter. Write proper names plainly; other words can be deciphered. Do not permit your modesty to prevent you writing about yourself, if you think it will interest the public. Do not hesitate to stop us on the street, be you man, woman or child, to give us an item. We want local news and you can greatly assist us in gathering it. It is impossible for the editor, with a large and growing law practice, and other multitudinous duties, which often take him away from Lexington, to cover a city of 35,000 people, nearly half of whom belong to the race represented by this journal. Saturday, January 27, 1900 NO ENLARGEMENT NOW. At the close of the past year we promised to enlarge the Standard to twice its present size at the beginning of this year. Negotiations to this end were then in progress with a Pittsburg firm to supply one side already printed with the news of the world, but the price of white paper has gone up from 40 to 60 per cent, owing to a trust having cornered the wood pulp from which it is made, and it will be impossible to increase the size of the Standard without increasing the price, and impecunious subscribers would never stand that. We must now give a collector $33\frac{1}{2}$ per cent, and let him nearly run his legs off to collect each pittance from city subscribers, but when a hundred tell him to wait until next month the money to pay for white paper, and the many other expenses that go to make a newpaper, must come from other sources. The Standard could not live on the patronage it gets from the race it represents. This is remarkable in a city of 16,000 Negroes, surrounded by densely populated towns, but it is true. Were it not for the liberal patronage of white advertisers, and the job printing from Negro customers who give preference to a race office, the paper would soon be compelled to cease publication. If you are not ashamed of being born black, patronize the white merchants who advertise in your race paper. They are your friends; they want your trade. Do not, however, neglect your own tradesmen who advertise, if they are in the same line. LATIN LEARNING LOST. Education is a good thing to have. It is what the Negro race in its present condition needs but much depends upon the sort of education. The average girl prefers the attention of a guitar-playing youth who has no visible means of support and who travels on his shape, to those of a carpenter or blacksmith. It seems to be a question of fine clothes and supposed learning. The result is that the non-working man, after he marries, has to be supported by his wife. There is a sort of education that is to be kept far from our schools. It utterly spoils people. A girl pounding at the piano --- or giggling at the gate with an idle dude, and the mother at the washtub or took stove, is a sorry sight. When it makes both vain and lazy it ruins them. This thing of filling our boys with Greek and Latin is a criminal waste of time and money. There is no real need of it. The child should understand the fundamental principles of a common school education, then let him, or her, take the hand training. It's not necessary, however, that young people may know how to do any given thing—as carpentering, blacksmithing, printing, serving, cooking—but that they may know the value of work. Hand training quickens mental faculties that no sort of mere text-book drill awakens, and this is one of its chief blessings. Hand education helps to keep the brain balanced. There are some old fogies who will have no industrial teaching in their schools. We have some such in Lexington who in order to make the unlettered parent believe that they are learned, tell them that work-teaching and book-teaching can not go on together. Such teachers are absolutely too ignorant to understand that the greater the educational needs of any people the greater their need of not only being taught books, but of being taught to make a living. We have in the Standard office a boy of 15 who goes to school in the forenoon and works in the afternoon. He is well up in the common school branches and understands the rudiments of Latin, rhetoric, and algebra, but the knowledge he gains as a typesetter, deciphering, punctuating and correcting the spelling of scores of different kinds of manuscripts, the privilege of reading over two hundred newspapers from the leading cities of the land, the instructions given him in both the press and composing rooms, correcting proof, and coming in contact with prominent men from all over the country, is worth more to the boy in six weeks than the Latin he learns in the schools in six years. In fact, this young printer is better posted in general affairs than are some teachers, for they read nothing but the ordinary text-book and rarely come in contact with anyone except their pupils. There is absolutely nothing in the Latin business in the common schools but a waste of public money and stunting the growth of the child. Latin is a dead language. Let it sleep. No nation speaks it now. The mental discipline it affords can be obtained in the great scramble for daily bread. As a foundation for English, if a boy enters a trade or profession requiring it, he can study Latin privately after leaving the public school, or in some higher institution of learning, but do not force it on him otherwise. Lillian Allen Benjamin. "Oh, child, new-born denizen of life's great city, upon thy head is shed the glory of the celestial morning." The editor of the Standard is as "happy as a big sunflower that nods and bends in the breezes." His first born, three years ago was a boy; and now 'tis a girl, and she tips the scaies at ten and a half pounds. Dr. J. M. Allen is the gentleman who assisted the little stranger in making her advent into this world. It is a question after she grows up and finds out what a terribly wicked world this is, whether she will thank the Doctor for the part he played in the drama. However this may be, the little "gal" is here and the mother, who is resting easy, desires to return thanks to the efficient trained nurse, Miss Cleek of the Good Samaritan Hospital. It is said by the ablest physicians of this city that Miss Cleek stands in the front rank of her profession. Mrs. J. W. Valentine, Mrs. Greenbury Jackson and Mrs. J. Alex. Chiles were among the guests who attended the debut of little Miss Standard Mrs. Chiles now has charge of the little to while the editor is out trying to collect subscriptions to buy gruel and swaddling clothes. Miss Benjamin's little brother asks that she be christened Lillian Allen, in honor of his first sweetheart and favorite playmate, Lillian Chiles, the little daughter of Lawyer Chiles; and of Dr. Allen, the good man whom Master Robin says brought him a darling sister. Already congratulations have begun to come in. A white friend hands us these lines: "He was a great composer And editorials he could write, The danger of conceding political rights to the Negro is not half so great as the danger of withholding them. Courtlers Near the Throne. Queen Candace Court I. O. O. C., held their initiatory and degree meeting on last Thursday night. State Worthy Grand Counsellor, R. C. O. Benjamin lectured and gave instructions on the degree work. This Court is presided over by Mrs. Ella Henderson assisted by an able corp of officers and an earnest and interesting set of members who seem determined to make their Court the banner one of the State. At the meeting on Thursday night after the degree work had been gone through, the table was set and everyone present enjoyed a sumptous repast. A number of the brothers of Blue Grass Lodge, K. of P., who had been invited were present and not only ate but enjoyed themselves gazing and smiling at the good looking sisters. Among the male visitors were Brothers Thompson, Nelson, Hueston and several others. Lawyer Smith and John Snowden who are members of the Court were there also. Of course J. C. Jackson was there for when ever it is announced that there is going to be something to eat, Jackson is sure to turn up. If there is one thing that Brother Jackson enjoys more than all other things it is free eatings. Industrial Club Festival. The event of the week was the second meeting of the newly-organized Industrial Club held Monday night, ostensibly for the purpose of finishing up its business left over from New Year's Day, but, strictly speaking, for the avowed purpose of analyzing the contents of two large pails and three large platters. The buckets proved to contain oysters fresh from their ocean bed, and the other receptacles three large turkeys whose fattening days were over. If the table had been a garden patch and one had gone over it with a two-horse mower it could not have been thicker strewn with celery. Then there was fat 'possum with sweet potato trimmings, a pair of real 'coons baked to a turn, pickles sweet and sour, chow-chow, and other delicacies of the season, constituted a feast fit for the festal board of royalty and one long to be remembered. There was no wine. The long table had seating capacity for forty-one persons. Among the merry feasting throng were: Henry White, Theodore Richardson, Andrew Scott, Sam Underwood, Clark Pepper, William Hayden, M. T. Clay, George Goodwin, John Brown, Green Boone, James Scott, Porter Jackson, George Hart. John Tyler, Samuel Lee, Andrew Brown, Howard Miller, Samuel Smith, L. C. Smith, Henry Lyons, P. L. Parrish, Frank Buckner, George E. DePrad, Ed Williams, Ed Dandridge, Willis Coles, Thomas McClure, Zach Jones, G. P. Russell and E. L. Cunningham. A white man of Lexington, who has had many kind words for Negroes, and often taken their part against carping critics, says that it is not so much the "color line" as it is the "odor line" that causes him to hold aloof from the race. Some Negroes stink—yes, that's the word—and some do not. Those who do should not be sparing of soap and water. Wash well, wash often, or get somebody to scrub you. Therein much of the virtue lies. If all else fails try neutralizing perfumes and keep cool. Senator Morgan of Alabama has made his quadrenial speech on the Negro question and has covered himself with the usual infanny. The preference of such sy'logistic grymasts as Morgan and Tillman of South Carolina in the United Senate is painful infliction upon the Nation. They don't read and of course is not informed, and the sooner these nincompoops die and go to L the better it will be for the Nation. Some one suggests that the United States make the Negroes a present of the Philippine Islands. The Standard ceartily concurs. Let us take the islands, go there, establish a government, then sell out to England or Germany, and return home and loaf all summer. Last summer the railroad companies took certain Negroes on excursions for pay. This winter the city authorities are taking them to the soup house for nothing. The Negro wants protection but to get it he must protect himself and regard any man or party an enemy who impedes his forward march. Here MILLER You'll find the best Men's $10 to $15 Boys $5 to $10 Child's $2.50 to $5 Suits and Overcoats MILLER BROS. CLOTHIERS. LEXINGTON NY. EQUAL TO ANY BEER BREWED IN THE LAND Both in Quality and Flavor. LEXINGTON BREWING CO. Blue Grass Grocery Company. 67 East Short, 266 East Main and Corner Spring and Maxwell Streets. Telephone 465. Goods Delivered Promptly. Leaders in Low Prices. Rafes Reasonable . . . . . Best Attention to Guests 411 W, FIFTH ST. J. WHITE, Prop., Cincinnati, O. ONLY ONE CHANGE OF CARS CINCINNATI TO SAN FRANCISCO 4 DAYS EN ROUTE New Orleans, Houston, Galveston and all Texas and Southwestern Points are easily and quickly reached via New Orleans or Shreveport, over the Queen and Crescent W.C. Elincerson, G.P. A. (Clintonall. From Cincinnati and the North. 89 Miles Shorter than any Other Line Cincinnati to New Orleans. Vestibuled Limited Trains, Through Pullmans, 24 Hour Schedules. Only One Change Cars to Jackson, Vicksburg, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, etc. THE BEST LINE TO CHATTANOOGA, BIRMINGHAM, NEW ORLEANS, IS THE QUEEN AND CRESENT ROUTE. Maine Corn 8c, Winter Luxury 10c, a can. Tomatoes, 4-lb can 8c, 2-lb can 6c. Blackberries 7c, White Cherries 25c. Bartlett Pears 19c, California Peaches 18c. Little Nell Pears 5c, Wegner Pesis 15c. Maine Mince Meat, per pound 10c. Flour, Patent 25-lb 55c, Family 25-lb 50c. Best R. & H. Asparagus per pound 30c. Royal Baking Powder per pound 45c. Condensed Milk per can 10c. Armour's Canned Soups 10c. Oxtail Mock Turtle Consomme, Boston Baked Beans per can 7c. Succinat, Corn and Beans, per can 9c. California Evaporated peaches Pound 10c. Raisin, Lay-12¾c, Muscatel 19c, a pound. Prunes, Turkish 10c, California 7c. Evaporated Apricots per pound 20c. Oyster quart 25c, Cranberries quart 8¾c. Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Potatoes cheap. KENTUCKY CENTRAL Berea College EFFACING SECTIONAL LINES 674 STUDENTS FROM 22 STATES An Unsectari From good Kentucky Industrial work which make a student's expe Geo T Fairec The America An Unsectarian Settlement of College Students From good Kentucky families, and from the North, with Normal and Industrial work which reaches all classes. Location and management make a student's expense very reasonable. For particulars address Geo T. Fairchild, LL D., Secretary, Berea, Ky. The American Mutual Aid Association Of St. Louis, Mo. ident, Sick and Death Benefits Weekly. You pay you promptly whenever you get hurt. It is the Best Company for everybody to insure Free Medical Attention to its Members even Call on GEO. H. GUINN, Oraganizer. 7 to 8 a. m. 12 to 1 p. m. 5 to 6 " 7 W. Short Street. Lexington, R STORE. We Have STOCK, Drugs, Patent Medica, Toilet Articles, Etc. STREET—TELEPHONE 654—LEXINGTON, MRS. M. A. KETCHUM. Upper Street, LEXINGTON G. B. JACKSON, Ha ches Wigs at reasonable prices. A MPOOING, MANICU and is not excelled as a er a Call at West Main Street. SIMPLE AS A ROGERS & CO., UPPER WAT ARE THE DING GROCERS in CENTRAL KENTU GLANCE at their handsomely equipped and w store in the very heart of Lexington's throbbing special center, and an inquiry about prices will everybody that it is to their advantage to trade has been said in the papers of late. BLACK MAN'S BUILD give him all he can carry for little more. FORE you buy elsewhere remember that they w to carry a large stock of Fresh Fish, Chickens, a in season. Their line of Canned Goods, Dried Staple and Fancy Groceries, Cigars and Tobacco. Pays Accident, Sick and Death Benefits Weekly. It will pay you promptly whenever you get hurt. It is the Best Company for everybody to insure in. Free Medical Attention to its Members everywhere. Call on GEO. H. GUINN, Oraganizer. OFFICE HOURS 7 to 8 a. m. 12 to 1 p. m. 5 to 6 " 7 W. Short Street. Lexington, Ky. -BALLARD'S PHARMACY- Prescriptions from any Physician Accurately Filled by Skilled Pharmacists. Pure Drugs, Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, Etc. 78 MILL STREET—TELEPHONE 654—LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY Wigs, Hair Switches, Waves and Bangs, Hair Repairing at Lowest Prices. We carry a full Line of LADIES, MISS ES and CHILDREN'S, Corset and Waist, Belts and Buckles, Hair Pins, Pom- dour, Side Combs and Neck Combs. LATEST STYLES. MRS. M. A. KETCHUM, MRS. G. B. JACKSON. Hair Dresser, Furnishes Wigs at reasonable prices. Also does SHAMPOOING, MANICURING, Give her a Call at 60 West Main Street. Chiropodist. AS SIMPLE AS A-B-C J. B. ROGERS & CO., UPPER AND WATER STREETS. LEADING GROCERS in CENTRAL KENTUCKY AGLANCE at their handsomely equipped and well stocked store in the very heart of Lexington's throbbing commercial center, and an inquiry about prices will convince everybody that it is to their advantage to trade there. Much has been said in the papers of late about THE BLACK MAN'S BURDEN. They give him all he can carry for little money. BEFORE you buy elsewhere remember that they never fail to carry a large stock of Fresh Fish, Chickens, and oysters in season. Their line of Canned Goods, Dried Fruits and Staple and Fancy Groceries, Cigars and Tobacco, SOLD FOR PRICES THAT TALK SH will work wonders. They have a special price every best Coffee in the market. If you are a wishing for a store where you can buy everythin grocery line at the most reasonable prices you sho ROGERS & CO. Up W CASH will work wonders. They have a special price on the very best Coffee in the market. If you are a wise person looking for a store where you can buy everything in the grocery line at the most reasonable prices you should call. J.B.ROGERS & CO. Upper and Water Street A ARE THE Is up-to-date and will be for themselves, CITY AND VICINITY If you have visitors from other towns of whom you are not ashamed— If you give or attend a social function either at home or abroad— If you go to other towns on a mission of business or pleasure— If you buy or sell houses and lots, lands and live stock— If you know or hear of a marriage, birth or death— If you know the whereabouts of former citizens— Report names, facts and figures briefly to this office on a postal card, by messenger or personal call, for publication. George DePrad is not a Frenchman. Elder Bowen of Millersburg was in the city last week. James R. Page and Mary H. Harris were married by Magistrate Graves January 18. Mrs. Hattle Byrd who died at Coving on this week was brought to this city for burial. Mrs. A. W. Redd who has been in Covington for several weeks past has returned home. Rev. W. L. Johnson of the Congregational Church is a wide-awake pastor and intellectually up-to-date. It is reported that Mr. Henry Tandy has left the Methodist church and joined the Seventh Day Adventists. Albert Brook and Flora Matthews and Daniel Williams and Lou Whalley secured licenses to marry last week. F. C. Caldwell says some one stole his night-hawk mare from her stable in the rear of 26 Eddy street Saturday afternoon. Susan Steele, aged 40, while peeling potatoes Thursday at her home, 167 Dewees street, fell from a chair to the floor dead. The funeral of Mrs. Sallie Washington was conducted by Rev. S. P. Young at the residence of Mr. Lewis Shores, 121 Upper street, Tuesday. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee of fifty people will be at the Opera House Tuesday, January 30. A spectacular feature will be the "Storming of San Juan Hill." Mr. Elijah Chinn of Cincinnati was in Lexington Wednesday and Thursday on a visit to his father, Isaac Chinn, who is very sick at his home, 419 North Market street. Miss Sarah J. Jones, the white lady barber, has moved from South Broadway to the Clarendon Hotel Building, as is attested by some neat cards she has had printed in the Standard's job department. George Boatright and Will Lacey, just entering their 'teens, love mice, fat chickens. They are accused of raising some—from the roost of Charley Tyler. They are under bond to the Circuit Court. Prof, J. E. Wood, the Danville educator, known to many in Lexington, is an aspirant or Delegate from the State-at-Large to the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia. He stumped Kentucky last fall. Mrs. Ellen Daniel of 10 East Fifth street gave birth to a fine baby boy at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. The fact that the new-comer was a son, instead of daughter, was a glad surprise to the family and friends. Mrs. Priscilla Walker has arrived home from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Sallee, at Detroit. Her son, Charlie Walker, who has been at school in the Michigan metropolis, previous to his illness, returned home with her. He has already improved. Alex White, aged about 28, shot and wounded Dora Bradley, his mistress at Nicholasville Monday, and then blew out his own brains. He had been living with the woman peacably for several years but of late became insanely jealous of other men. He died as the fool dieth. Fred Shreve, 17, drove a hog worth over $4, belonging to his employer, James Simpson, to the city and sold it, pocketing the money. Stealing a hog worth $4, and over, is a penitentiary offense; under that amount is only petit larceny. The same applies to a calf over and under $20. --- Minister W. F. Womack of the Constitution Street Christian Church requests all members in good standing to report their names for re-registration tomorrow. Rev. George W. Bolling of Elizabethtown will be in Lexington next Monday to assist Rev S. P. Young in his revival services at the First Baptist Church on Dewees street. Henry Davis has a wife who neglects to close a door, as many another careless woman does. He chastised her rather roughly and his mother-in-law, an appendage which every well-regulated family ought to have to prevent life becoming monotonous, had him arrested. "Now he is sorry that he spoke." The meeting of the Married Ladies Social Club, which was postponed on account of the death of Mrs. Lizzie Young, sister of the President, has been set for Monday night, February 12, at the residence of Mrs. Priscilla Walker, 53 Campbell street. A full attendance is desired as the election of officers will be a part of the business. Brutus Clay and George Gay will manage another Concert and Cakewalk at Ladies Hall on next Tuesday night. January 80. Masters Plutus Perkins and the twins will again illustrate the poetry of motion to breathless spectators, and they won't be small 'taters either. Songs by West End Quartet and strains by East End String Band. Admission 10 cents. Refreshments will be served by Mrs. Carwell. Gill Gordon will manage a hop and cakewalk at Ladies Hall Monday night, January 29. Master Lovester Taylor will lead, and Dicer will be ready to walk against anyone. Music will be furnished by Casey's String Band and there will be fine refreshments. The Klondike girls will be there but they will not be as cold as that region. A handsome cake and two bottles of wine will be awarded; prizes can be seen in Straus' window. Admission 15 cents. Jerry Lewis will be ticket seller and James Gay floor manager. Russell School, each grade separately, have been looking into the camera of a photographer this week. All these pictures should be preserved for future generations. It will be interesting to the child of forty or fifty years hence to tell of the time when grandpa and grandma attended Russell School. Prof. Russell, his corps of able assistants, and most of his pupils, may then be taking their last long sleep. Upon the back of each group should be written the date of taking and the name of each person. Marshall Taylor: 15, black, and Tom Nichols, 14, white, have been arrested for taking lead and brass fixtures from the Lexington Plumbing Company and copper wire from Davidson's bicycle doctor shop Sunday. Monday night detectives arrested Ed Peyton and Lee Lewis for taking $35 worth of copper from the Kentucky Copper and Iron Works; also Ed Hall and Frank Johnson for taking brass fixtures from the old steam fire engine stored in the abandoned work house. These Negro boys must want to go to the Reform School. They may not find it such an attractive place as some may think. Porter Jackson, farmer, says two ladies have lately come to him for coffins, confusing his name with that of Porter & Jackson, undertakers and liverymen. Six years ago, when the firm first started in business, an old lady approached the young man on the street, saying "Allow me to congratulate you, my boy, on engaging so extensively in your new business." The individual name can not well be changed except by act of the Legislature, but the firm might be reversed to Jackson & Porter, especially since the resident member, although the junior, is so popular and energetic. Elder Samuel Buckner of Bourbon county is probably the oldest 'Negro preacher in Kentucky, says the Paris News. He joined the Christian Church under Elder John Rogers who baptized him. He has heard Alexander Campbell, Barton Stone, and other noted ministers, who have preached at Cane Ridge Church in bygone days. Elder Buckner is between 80 and 90 years of age and is the father of 11 children. He still preaches when the weather is not too bad for him to fill an engage-He was raised by Walker Buckner's grandfather. Elder Buckner says he never was in court but once and then as a witness. Hurrah for the Pythians! At a regular session of Blue Grass Lodge No 11, Knights of Pythias, held Monday night January 15, a resolution was unanimously adopted giving the Standard all of the printing for the Lodge for a period of one year. The Standard returns thanks, and in this connection desires to state that it has a splendidly equipped job printing office, as well supplied with first-class material as any in Lexington. There is no reason why the other-Lodges of the city should not emulate the action of Blue Grass Lodge. Build up your race enterprise. Our job patronage comes almost wholly from Negroes, or does not come at all. The more printing you bring to this office the better able we will be to defend your rights in the Standard, the organ of your race. Maceo Club Entertained. Miss Susie Leyton of Ohio street opened her home to the Maceo Club and its friends Friday evening of last week. The officers of this popular social organization of the younger set are W. W. Wallace, President; Henry Guthrie, Secretary; and Eddie Slaughter, Treasurer. Other members present were J. O. Showes, Will Merritt, Ben Richardson, Will and Rob Roland, Will Harden, Gaz and Sant Showes, Gar and Ed Jackson, Charley and Jake McCoy, Frank Williams, Hensley and L. Hill. Their girl guests were Susie and Ella Leyton, Ella J. Shoes, Sarah Bridges, Katie Carter, Sue E. Martin, Mattie Graham, Nettie Brooks, Nellie Wilson, Martha Carneal, Mary Sight and Mary Curd. Refreshments were served just before midnight. Little Sparrow Lodge. At the last regular meeting of the Little Sparrow Juvenile Lodge officers were elected to positions as follows: Maiden Princess—Mary A. Tatman. Financial Secretary—Ella J. Shores. Recording Secretary—Vinie Hayes. Trea-urer—Emma Price. Youthful Master—Shelton Tatman. Chaplain—Ella White. Marshals { Simmie Adams. Frank Lindsay. Supporters { Connie Harris. Ernest Matthews. Outside Doorkeeper—Willie Fisher. This useful organization is a branch of the powerful and popular United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mystersous Ten. It is beneficial to boys and girls and has a large and increasing membership. The regular meetings are held the fourth Monday in each month. The newly-elected officers will be installed at the February meeting. LOVE IS BLIND To all the faults of the loved one in every- thing but untidy or soiled linen. A dainty man draws the line on that—but not the clothes-line, for she lets us draw that. To look immaculately neat and presentable, and have your collar, cuff or shirt irre- proachable in color—or lack of color—and finish, bring it to Kentucky Steam Laundry, W. N. CROPPER, PROPRIETOR. 13 and 15 South Upper Street. TELEPHONE 210. JACKSON & HATHAWAY. OF LATEST WINTER HATS And bounets, and are fully prepared to furnish the trade with anything in the Millinery Line, at the Lowest Possible Prices. Don't forget this store. No. 38 West Main Street. Call and see their stock and compare prices before buying. JACKSON & HATHAWAY. TRY THE "NEW HOME" SEWING MACHINE. WRITE FOR CIRCULARS showing the diff. ferent styles of Sewing Machines we manufacture and their prices before you purchase any other. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO. ORANGE, MASS. 18 Union Square, N. Y. Chicago, IL. St. Louis, Mo. Dallas, Texas. San Francisco, Cal. Atlantic, Ga. FOR SALE BY THE STANDARD, 50 W. MAIN. JNO. W. Parrish No. 47 NORTH BROADWAY, Is Head Quarters for Spring Chickens, Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. PHONE 549. ```markdown ``` L. H. Saunders, Sanitary Plumbing and Gas Fitting. 69 East Main Street. A Good Point About Our FOOTWEAR If there is one thing above another for which Bassett's Shoe Store is known it is the reliability and worth of our footwear. We have no room for shoddy shoes, together with cheap workmanship—the kind that always gives trouble to the purchaser. Our footwear is more carefully made in every particular—the material is carefully selected—the making is carefully done—the designs are artistic and up-to-date. This kind costs a little more in the beginning, but is much cheaper in the end. But our prices are reasonable and it always pays to inspect our goods and get our prices. Men's Shoes Of proper weight for cold-day wearing. High grades makes—but not priced. $3 is enough to pay. Women's Shoes Seasonal sorts. Ours offer sure protection against cold sidewalls and the cliff of fall winds. Many styles, many kinds. $1.50, $2.00, $3.00, $3.00. Boys' Shoes The kind that will stand all kinds of thumping and banging. Send in the bry himself; we'll serve him hoe-ctly as we would you. $1.00. $1.25. $1.50. $2.00. Girls' Shoes Nest,pretty, well-built, made for service and for good looks. They are easy to wear—and easier to buy. $1.50. $2.00. $2.50. Other shoes Wee ones for toddlers' toes—warm felt and cloth ones for older feet—are here in plenty. "Everything in footwear tells it all in brief." S. Bassett & Sons. Lincoln Lodge of Masons, No. 10, meets First Friday in each month. John L. Tandy, W. M., J. W. Coleman, Secretary --- THE MOST WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Ever Made for the Thin. Bank of Melbourne BEEF MARROW HAIR POMADE A PERFECT HAIR DRESSING Delightfully Perfumed: WILL MAKE-CURLY HAIR STRAIGHT. Nothing equal to it. Positively the very best preparation on the market for straightening, lavaging and beautifying hair. It is the best hair care and hardness that it can be used every day with perfect satisfaction. It softens the hair when hard and dry, prevents it from breaking or fraying, and enhances the roots and it gives renewed life and vigor, often starting a new growth and restoring the hair to its natural color. Full coverage of hair is $24 and $30 for three 360 bottle for $1. Send money by postoffice money order or registered letter. Write your name and address plainly. Agents wanted. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY CHICAGO HAIR POMADE CO. 171 Aberdeen ST. CHICAGO Louis Zinzer DEALER IN FURNITURE Stoves Carpets Curtains CHEAPEST PLACE IN TOWN 46 and 48 North Upper OFFICE GREEN BAY COAL & FREED CO. The Golden Rule Coal AND FeedCo., Furnishes Coal and Feed in both large and small quantities. Best Qualities. Call at their places of business corner Dewes and Short Streets, or, as special-attention is given to all orders, telephone 435. Manager Curry School, Has good buildings and beautiful location. The best school in the North for colored people. Normal, Music, Literary, Theological, Shorthand and Typewriting. Business-Industrial. Experienced teachers and low expense. You can complete Shorthand, Typewriting and Business in one school year. Boarding Department connected therewith. E. W. B. CURRY, Principal. BULLETTS Restaurant 222 George Street, Cincinnati Meals First-class at all hours. George Bullett, Proprietor FOUSHEE'S All Prices INE FITTING Cheap and good. OOTWEAR $5 prize each week COLORED trade SOLICITED.. 54 East Main Street. Get a copy of "One Hundred Distinguished Leaders" at this office for 25 cents. Portrait and sketch of each individual. MAN ABOUT TOWN I Would Like to Get —Five thousand new subscribers. Ed Chenault to start a real estate business. —Everybody to bring their printing to this office. —J. F. Burton to give our citizens another Opera House treat. —School teachers to visit the parents of the children they teach. —An agent in every city, town and village in Kentucky; a liberal offer to a good worker. —The city to have better streets and sidewalks in all neighborhoods where Negroes live. —Men who puff and blow about race pride patronize a race enterprise in preference to any other. —Certain Church people to think more of Christ and shout less of their neighbor's private business. —Mmes. Jackson & Hathaway's millinery store crowded with customers every Saturday night. —Persons owing more than three month's subscription to kindly pay the same before February 15. —A large and lucrative patronage for George Hart, the Colored Orphan Industril Home shoemaker. —Goodloetown, Branch Alley and Chicago Bottoms rolled into one large ball and dumped into the Kentucky river for purification. —Certain parents to find out where their daughters spend a great deal of their time, much to their discredit, sometimes to their dishonor. —A contract with every secret society in Lexington for one year's printing. We can save you meny. The K. of P. has already contracted. —One hundred Negroes with from $50 to $100 each to take shares in the Cuban Land Company. In fair Cuba a few black dollars bring a large white income. —The Industrial Club to prepare to entertain distinguished visitors to the Annual Fair next September, and also treat the public to a Harvest Home Carnival. —Our school teachers and ministers to writing new ideas for the betterment of the race; such would be gladly received and published free of charge. Sign your name. -Every reader to out this out and mail to J. W. Valentime 60 West Main street with a twocent stamp for free sample of the best Laundry Bluing in the market. It will pay you to send today. -The Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association to establish some real business enterprise in which our young men and women who have finished their schooling could find profitable employment and become active and useful factors in the body politic, working out the future salvation of hundreds of able minds, skillful hands and ingenuous brains which without correct guidance and material aid from some source will dwindle into nothingness. CORRESPONDENCE CORRESPONDENCE Our Country Cousins. MADDOXVILLE, KENTUCKY, January 22, 1900 Mr. Elijah Morton is quite ill yet. Mrs John Holeman is able to be out again. Mr. Robert Warfield is progressing nicely in his grocery. The I. B. & S. T. Lodge is very dutiful to her sick members. Sunday was a very nice day, and people gathered at church same as summer. Our Sabbath School is improving nicely, new officers were elected for this year. The Standard is highly appreciated in this community, and many speak of taking it. The young people of the U. B. S., are speaking of giving a concert, in honor of their new hall. Mr. G. W. Schooler is manager. We are proud to know that the sick in our neighborhood are improving. Mrs. Mary Winchester is able to be up again, after a long illness. The Mighty Metropolis. CINCINNATI, OHIO, January 24, 1900. H. B. Brooks, the Freeman representative, of 625 Walnut street, is suffering with rheumatism. Mr. Smith has returned on his run again after a week's illness Mrs. Kemp is still on the sick list and does not seem to improve. Mr. and Mrs. Underlain left for Washington where they will reside in the future. The Thirty-second Anniversary of Zion Baptist Sunday School was held last Sunday afternoon. The principle speaker on the program was Hon. W. H. Parham, a leading Negro lawyer of Cincinnati, and formerly a member of the Ohio Legislature. Mr. Alex Madison of 733 West Court street is quite ill at his home. The funeral of W. S. Tiedale took place at the Episcopal Church Tuesday January 23. He was buried with Pythian honors. The Evangelist Preed is helping Dr. Curry in his revival meetings. Mrs. S. B. Mayweather has moved her residence to 913 John street. Mrs. Fannie Butts has returned to New York City, after a two weeks stay with Miss Mirando Smith of 4281 Sixth street. Miss Nora Gross, teacher at Washington. Ky., who was visiting her aunt Mrs. Nora Taylor, has returned to her school. Mr. Samuel Clark is very much improved in health. The Elks will give their first grand ball on January 31. Rev. Porter of St. Louis preached his farewell sermon Sunday evening. He has been helping Rev. Harris in his revivals. Baptising was a part of the service at Zion Church last Sunday evening. There were two happy souls united with the church. The revival at all of the churches are doing good work. D. W. Clark is representing the Royal Benefit and Life Insurance. Hello Cincinnati! This is the Lexington Standard. Our collector will be over in a few days, please be ready to pay him for your subscription up to date, and kindly oblige. Good bye. NICHOLASVILLE, KENTUCKY, January 16, 1900. As there yet remains a place called Nicholasville we desire it to be heard from. It is the only anti-electric light city in the State, and on account of its poor lights it is sometimes called the lightning bug village. We live in hope of having electric lights if the Board of Councilmen will ever decide that the city is financially able to afford an electric-light plant. Rev. J. W. Clark, pastor of Baptist church has organized the Y. P. B. W., which meets every Sunday at six o'clock. Mrs. F. B. Daugherty, President. Messrs. M. D. McInham and D. D. Arnold have returned to Wilbertforce O., where they will attend school. Prof. James McInham will close his school Friday at Keene Miss E. B Martin has recovered from a short illness. Miss C. S. Brown will return to Indianapolis in a few days. Mr. Fleman Block and wife purchased the grocery store of Gilbert H. Miller last week, and are selling at rock bottom cost. J. O. Levingston will remain in Cuba until Spring. Mrs. J. W. Waide entertained her Sunday School class from six to eight Saturday evening at her residence on Main Cross Street. Rev. J. M. Turner, the Presiding Elder preached a very interesting sermon Sunday at the A. M. E. church. C. M. CRUTCHER Houses of the Lord SUIT SALE Constitution Street Christian Church. Preaching every Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday night at 7:40 o'clock. M. F. Womack, Minister. Gunn Chapel, M. E. Church, corner of Dewees and Locke streets, Sunday school at 9 a.m. Preaching at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Rev. H. C Buckner, pastor. Residence 200 Dewees street. Asbury M. E. church, corner High and South Mill streets. Order of services: Sunday school 9:00 p.m. Preaching 11 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Strangers welcome. J. H. Ross pastor. Residence 260 East Short street. Pilgrim Baptist Church, corner Mill and Walnut streets. Rev. Richard S. Adams, pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Preaching at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.; also every Wednesday night. Prayer meeting Friday night. Quinn Chapel, African Methodist Episcopal—Evans Street, Yellmantown. Sunday School 9 a.m. Services 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Class Meeting on Tuesday and Friday nights. Rev. W. C. Jonee, pastor. Residence, 51 Lee Street. First Congregational Church, West Short street. Rev. W. L. Johnson, pastor; residence 216 West Second street. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m.; Mrs. E. K. Johnson, superintendent. Song and prayer service Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Christian Endeavor Society Sunday at 6:30 p.m. All are invited to these services. First Baptist Church, corner Short and Deewes streets, Lexington Ky. Order of services Sunday school 9:30 a.m. Preaching at 11:30 a.m. 8.00 p.m. Prayer meeting on Tuesday and Thursday nights; S. S. Teachers meeting, Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m. Church meeting, first Thursday night in each month. Strangers cordially invited to regular services. Rev, S.P. Young, D.D. pastor. Residence 15 Correll street. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, corner Maxwell and Patterson streets, Lexington Ky. Order of Services Sunday school 9:30 a.m., Preaching 11:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. Choir practice Thursday 8 p.m., Preaching Wednesday 8 p.m., Prayer meeting Friday 8 p.m., Literary Tuesday 8 p.m. Communion the fourth Lords Day 8 p.m. Strangers and friends are invited to attend Rev. J. B. Anderson, Pastor. Residence 252 South Upper Street. TO SUNNY FLORIDA. Double Daily Trains via the Southern Railway. For the present Winter Season THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY with connections, presents the most superior schedules, through car-service and transportation arrangements generally, ever offered to the traveler to Southern Resorts. DOUBLE-DAILY TRAINS from Cincinnati and Louisville, in connection with the Queen & Crescent Route, via Chattahooga, Jesup and The Plant System. THROUGH SLEEPING-CAE from Cincinnati to Jacksonville, with convenient connections from Louisville, via Knoxville, Asheville and Savannah. This is the scenic Route through the Mountains of Western. North Carolina—"The Land of the sky." Also through Sleeping-cars from St. Louis to Jacksonville, in connection with the L. E. & St. L. Railroad, (Air Line), via Louisville; and through Sleeping-cars from Kansas City to Jacksonville, via the K.C. F. S. & M. Railroad, in connection with THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY, via Birmingham, Atlanta, Jesup and The Plant system. The fast Kansas City-Jacksonville Limited, only thirty-eight hours fast Kansas City to Jacksonville. All Agents of connecting lines sell through Winter Excursion tickets via THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY to the Resorts of Florida and the South. Maps, schedules, booklets and information mailed free to any address by WM. H. TAYLOE, Or Asst. Genl. Passr. Agent. C. A. BAIRD, Louisville, Ky. Traveling Passenger Agent. A Daylight Ride To Memphis. The Chesspeak and Ohio Railway can now offer its patrons a new train service to Paducah, Memphis, New Orleans and other points south that will prove satisfactory in every respect. The Fast Express train leaving Lexington at 8:20 a.m., daily connects in the Union Station in Louisville with the Illinois Central Limited leaving Louisville at 12 o'clock noon arriving at Memphis 10:50 p.m., same evening and at New Orleans at 10:00 a.m., next morning. In addition to the regular Vestibuled service, this train will carry a Pullman Tourist Sleeper which will leave Louisville every Monday and Friday and running through to San Francisco with out change. This train is in addition to the Fast night Line leaving Louisville at 9:40 p.m., for Memphis, New Orleans and all Texas points. Division Passenger Agent. Underwear Fleece-Lined Heavy Balbriggan PER SUIT ..... 89c See Windows LOEVENHART'S Unredeemed Diamonds, Ladies' and Gents' GOLD-FILLED WATCHES, Rings, Jewelry, Etc. Money Also Advanced ON ALL ARTICLES OF VALUE. D. ADLER & SON, 17 South Upper, Lexington, KY IT IS THE BEST Ask Your Grocer For CREAM FLOUR Made by Lexington Roller Mulls Co. J08. LeCOMPTE, Manager. Take pleasure in announcing to the public that they have made expansive improvements in both departments of their business and are better prepared than ever to supply the wants of their customers. Their stock is large and complete in every particular, and they invite an in- spection of their goods and a comparison of Prices with any other house in the city. They guarantee perfect service in any department. OFFICE RESIDENCE T-E-L-E-P-H-O-N-E No. 364. No. 648. OFFICE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT DON'T FAIL TO CALL and see stock before buying. ERMS reasonable, prices the lowest ROSS & WILLIAMS, The only Colored Undertakers in the city who have prices to Suit the times Charity begins at home, so we, your home Undertakers and Livermore, begin business at home in order that we may be a help to our many friends, and they may be help to us. 'We are doing business strictly for ourselves and by ourselves. We can furnish you with anything in the Undertaker's line. The best hacks will furnished you for funerals. We make no delays when called upon. Nice for hire with the very best driving horses. Give us a call. 44 West Vine Street, Lexington $10 Scotch Cheviots Blue Serges Fancy Worsteds And Clays Regular $12 to $15 Suits WINTER Underwear Fleece Heather PERFECT See Windows LOEVEN D. ADLER & SON A Unredeemed Dis Ladies' and Gents' GOLD-FILLED WATCH Money Also Ad ON ALL ARTICLES OF D. ADLER & SON IT IS THE B Ask Your Grocer For CREAM F JOS. LECOMPTE, PORTER & JA ```markdown ``` Take pleasure in announcing to the public that improvements in both departments of their business than ever to supply the wants of their customers. In the Livery Depos They have New Carriages, Surreys, Traps Buggi In the Undertaking D Their stock is large and complete in every part,pection of their goods and a comparison of Price the city. They guarantee perfect service in any OFFICE RESIDENCE T-E-L-E-P-H-O -OFFICE OPEN DAY AND A. F. WHEELER, 44 North Limestone DON'T FAIL TO CALL and see TERMS reasonable ```markdown ``` HIRAM ROSS. ROSS & WIL The only Colored Undertakers in the city who have Our Motto Is C Charity begins at home, so we, your home Undertakers, at home in order that we may be a help to our help to us. 'We are doing business strictly for We buy our Goods from one of the the World and can sell at the Ve We can turnail you with anything in the Undertaker, furniabied you for funerals. We make no delay for hire with the very best driving horses. Give 44 West Vine Street THE STEIN- BLOCH DOUBLE BREASTED SACK Copyright 1890 Stein Plastic CHART'S E OFFERING some exceedingly LOW PRICES IN diamonds, ES, Rings, Jewelry, Etc. advanced VALUE. N, 17 South Upper, Lexington. Ky. ST LOUR Made by Lexington Roller Mills Co. manager. JACKSON, BERTAKERS AND LIVERYMEN, they have made expensive less and are better prepared. artment and first-class Horses. department car, and they invite an in- with any other house in department. N-E No.364. No.648. NIGHT. BRUNKS, LACE CURTAIN CLOCKS, CARPETS. Nice Center Tables 50c Fine Rugs $1.25 up Picture Fasels 50c up ock before buying, prices the lowest HENRY WILLIAMS LIAMS, prices to Suit the times. charity. and Livermen, begin business my friend, and they may be themselves and by ourselves. Largest Factories in my Lowest Prices. line. The best Hacks will be when called upon. Nice rig is a call. Lexington