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II 6The Great Annual Riddle What To Get For HerIs easiest solved at this store We have on display

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rsk to inspect our showing of Holiday Goods which excels in extensiveness and distinctiveness any previous showing hereto fore nacre in Lancasterhie that we youwith feeling f pardon prideand nzs that everything isready it is a i300H ndkerehiefa 05cts to 350Fine Linen Prices 75c to NeckScarfs 35cts to 350SULadies Fancy Umbrellas 350 to 850

Felt HOUSP Slippers A 150 to 175 NeckWear 25cts to 75cts It

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Coats 500 to 1748 Fine Shoes 150 to 400 Skirts 498 to 15Suits 998 to 24 98A Handsome line of Ladies Embroidered Corset Covers that you must not fail Co see from 175 to 350 Fine Furs 65U to 1500 Hosiery 25c to 225 Gloves 25e to 2 00

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Toilet sets Rogers Oyster Ladles

I Rogers Soup Ladles Rogers Table IDeserts and Tea Spoons

Carving Sets Turkey Roasters Savoy Chicken Roasters

Granite Roasters Alluminum Kettles Sauce pans Pie p

Muffins pans lasts for years and will not tarnishIi These goods are all sold at right prices We can savemoney come in and try us

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Attractively Boxed Style Shopping Early

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IDr Porter will make you laugh

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Look now at mv bi stuck of Xmasand Holiday goods Mselden Bros

Santa Claus bas teft his Toys atWards for the little folks to pick them

I out Ityou like oratory bear Dr J W

If at the courthouse Tuesday13 Mi 8 P

I am coming MI2 P M nextBros Santa Claus

The music pupils of Miss MinnieWalsh will give a recital at the Coll ¬

ege Friday Dec 23 The public is cordiaily invited to attend

It is requested by the pres of theLadies Working Society all who are-

selling goods will make an extra ef¬

I fort to dispose of them before the lastmeeting of the year which will be the2Cth of this month This will also bethe time for the anual election of of-t ieers

Sale Of Staifwd Preperty

Hughes and Swinebroad the Lancasrter Real Etite Agents report that-they sold for Harvy Helm a splendid

I lot in Stanford to Mrs Nellie BallouI fur 81GOO whe will build on the lotj We regret very much that Mrs Ballo-

uII going to leave Lane ster

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COST75 Mens suits in small sizes ranging

in Prices from 1000 to 1500 will close

at the very low price of 348

A new line of silk Suspenders silksocks and neckwear suitable for XmasGifts at cost

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I The soft drink ordinance passed the

council last meeting night It is pulI

fished on the fourth page of the paper

Judge Walker is making thing s

move along in court Many small cases have been disposed of There werno very important ones to come up

Old Santa Claus is In town See theadvertisments in the Central Reconfrom now until Xmas and you can decide what to buy and where to go tolookIIYour Christmas bakinj will be satis

if you use BALA RDS QBEFLOUR B < dson and Dunne

guarantee it to please you Phone 26

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Pepdatira of Keaticfey By Decades For

Last 120 Y-ears1790i3fiT1800 22005

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imj CowHssiwers AppointedI

Judge Walker appointed as JuryCommissoners for tba Garrard Circuit I

MessersjAThe people can rest assured that the

jury wheel will contain only such I

names as these gentlemen believe willmake honest conscientious and intelligent jurors

Three more suitable men could nothave been found for the importantplace than the gentlemen selected by

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Is WhoIWH contest is presentedon the 3rd pageofThe Central Record

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today ia the II Who Is Wbo puzzle

advertismentsThereopportunity for you to

secure a cash award of either five threeor two dollars just find out Who IsWho There are 24 adveittamentsbusiness men of Lancaster alone beingrepresented No names are men ¬

tioned in any of the advertismentsbut in each one will be found sugjestlons that will aid one in seekingwhether individual firm or corpora ¬

tionThere are three cash awards To

the person furnishing the most com-

plete and correct list of names andnaming the best written advertismenta cash priza of five dollars will be paidFor the second best list three dollarswill be paid For the third best listtwo dollars will be paid In the eventthat two or more people tie for thefirst prize tbeu the second and thirdprizes will be annulled and the total often dollars will be devided equallyamong the tielng contestants Eachadvertisment is numbered thecontestant should set downthe number of each advertisment fol ¬

lowing that of the name of the firmwhich he or she believes it implies

The awards will be made by wholly

disinterested judges whose names willbe announced latter an official list of I

the names of the advertisers in theWho Is Who contest has been made

out and will be used by the judges

Use only one side of the paper andmake the list as legible and neat aspossible lists may be submitted tothis office by mail or otherwise untilDec 14 tb one has equally as good achance i n submitting the list in thelast hour as in the first The awardswill be announced and the correct listof advertisers will be published in TheCentral Record one week romtodayDecember 16 th all lists should be addreswd to the Who Is Who contestmanager care of The Central RecordLancaster Ky Mail or send tq thisoffice the contest is open to the worldand nobody Is barred So get bus atonce and secure sotne easy

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money tDont tall toad to YoUr list whose

ad you think is the best as tbi will beconsidered a part of the contest

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To Lexington

Mtny of our people are taking theirtobacco to Lexington to sell Mr EC McWhorter left Wednesday with16000 pounds See the large tobaccoad on last page of paper Why cantwe have a tobacco warehouse in Lan ¬

caster

Decrease

Tha cencus returns show that Gar ¬

card county has 148 less people nowthan in 1900 The population of Gar¬

rard county in 1900 was 12042 In 1910 I

only 11894 one thing that accounts forthe decrease is that there are fewercolored people here now than ever be¬

fore Hundreds cf them have left I

Garrard county for Cincinnati andIndianapclis The returns for thecity of Lancaster have not been recel ¬

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Lexington Tobacco Sales

To give the people ofGarrard Counties an idea as to pricesIon our market we will say that up tothis time we have only sold four orlive crops from those counties on ourHours including crops for the follow ¬

big persons Ballard and Gillard ofPaint Lick which averaged 1335Levy Pendieton of Teaterville average

14 04 and Osc r Hager of Teatervilleaverage S 1040 These we consider on-

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averaged good crops of tobaccoStrip your tobacco out carefully andplace on the Central Warehouse floursand ve will insure you the highestmarket prices

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ReasonIfrom Kentuckyabout 60 per cent over we weare nut only not gaining m proprotioito other states but are really not as

iubicative of progress as we were duiiug the years 1890 to 1300 The peicutitage of increase in Ky isthan that of any of the StatessmalleIreported with the exceptionsNew Hampshire Missouri and ¬

mont so the time has come to investi ¬

gate the conditions of this good oldcommonwealth and see where in thefault lies As we look back over thelast few years of the history of ourstate we find many disgraceful hap¬

penings This very decade was ustiered in by Dili GJJ I Tayler contestand assassination of Guy Gobel alsoKy during these years was advertisedwurld wide by assassinations in Brethitt county then came the night rid¬

ing in which the bodies of citizenswere tinged lives taken and propertydestroyed The out side world wasliven ground to believe that Ky guartoted protection to neither life norproperty Our state can not hope to-

go forward with this disregard of lawmd ordor let us have betterroadsbetter schools enforcement of law andorder and more equitable system ofTaxation and in this way the manyother good natural resources of Kywill attract capitol to our state and in¬

vearslthattented to meet each other and declareKy the best place on earth but factsmd figures do not prove this as Bro-

AJJ Dunlap of trankfort Journalays Ky needs to get up and make a

wise about something else than wbiscy horses and pretty wome-

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Yaid Marcee bought of Albert Darton a 2 year old filly price 140

Mr and Mrs Tom Turner of Lex-

Ington have returned home after aislt to Mr and Mrs Noah Marcee

The Speaks Bros sold a lot of high Jgrade tobacco to some parties at Lex-

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getting for it 7 cents per poundMir Lewis Rout of Monticello who

pas been the guest of Mr T D Chesnut is now with Mr J W WoodsLexington

Pastor Heilbron of Lexington filledthe pulpit Sunday at Pleasant Grovechurch and was the guest of the Miss-

es Dunn wuile hereAt a recent meeting of the Juve

nlleMusic Club Miss Bettie Brunerwas elected President and Miss Cecil-

Bowling Secretary

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cwhere to be in front of our store atII vlL2 oclock next Saturday and get a 0

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theIStrongestandWagon made See me before you buy

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Tbl CITIZENS NATIONAL BANKOf LANCASTER KY

CAPITAL 50000 SURPLUS 25000B F HuDeoir Cashier

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