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I A A THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. ; . . - __ ? ! ????^?? -& Nepresentatioe Newspaper. Bowers Lexington andthe Borders of the Surrounding Bounties fcihe a Blanhet. - ynT ttttt LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1909. 2tT M s , aThe HOME NA1 I OF LEXII I ISSUES $25,C . B Wo will make loans to our patrons 1 DEPOSIT ftrnment w ;< fl ? ?? SAMUEL B. GEORGE, President. ALFRED J. I y r . 1892. Lexington Sa LEXINGTON, Capital, Surplus and Qndii V" 5 per cent, interest paid ( being computed semi-annually, received. Commercial accounts also c Ample facilities for handD account will be appreciated. Safety deposits boxes for re W.P.I . v > / I I There comes a time in evei I pointer?a helping hand to gi I ^^A^AAAAAA^AAAAAAA^^AAAA^ I THE FIRST NATIONAL 8 is the pointer that will hei 1 worries if you will begin th< I ment today. I Bank of 'I : : : CHAPI] I The Bank Thai This bank aims to give you goo< checks for you?furnish drafts fc always glad to assist you in busin 8 with this bank, which makes a p 9 positors. Our certificates of depc 9 We cordially invite the farmers 9 their banking with us. I J. S. WESSINGER, President. . fBROOKLAT M NEW BROOI m We Want your business. It is \m your money with us until you n< Mm times a year. fife' J. C. CUICNARD, 1 th Vice-President. Did You Begin Thi IF NOT BEGIN A NEW YEAR R] OPEN A CHECKING ACCOUNT " Try paying your bills with checks, t can keep track of expenditures, also end of the month. NO BETTER T NOW. : : ALL BUSINESS GU FUL ATTENTION. i / The Bank < R. L. LYBRAND, Pr??M?n( 6] w. 5. iaaO MAIN 8TBEE Solicits a Share TIONAL BAN Kg NCTON. I lAA IM MAMPV 1 FVV m mviita 5 and depositors on good security. aey in this bank. The U. S. Gov rill see that it is taken care of. B POX, Cashier. | iRL F. OSWALD, Asst. Cashier. B 1909. lvine's Bank. - s. c fided Profits $30,000.00. m savings deposits, interest Deposits.of S1.00 and over liven special attention. ing your business, and your nt, SI.00 per year. tOOF, President andCashier ' pone's life when he needs a tide him to his destination. I t ^VWWVWWWWSAAAAA^SA BANK of BATESBDB6 * r% i Lp you over luture nnanciai | 3 use of its Savings Depart- | Chapin I tr, S. C. : I Accommodates I 1 services. We cash out-of-town H >r sending money way. We are I ess matters. MaKe your deposits n dint of good treatment of its de- I >8it bear interest at 5 per cent. I as well as the business men to do a J. F. HPNEYCUTT, Cashier S * 40 BANK, i (LAND, S. C. || our desire to please. Leave ^|y eed it. We pay interest four go L. S. TROTTI, President fcjtj I New Year Right? [GrHT?RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN WITH US AT ANY TIME. : : : md note how much more easily you have a muck larger balance at the IME TO BEGIN THAN?RIGHT rEN OUR PROMPT AND CARE>f Swansea. B. E. CRAFT, Cashier. LOBE BET 60 . 2v??isrciz'z:ois :i\ of Your Valued Pat The Annexation Again. To the Editor of The Dispatch: T koiro mo/I with mnr?h inf,prp?f", thft X V 1VWVI TV AVU MAMVM W WWW articles in The Dispatch on the annexation question, and with your permission I will add something to what has been said. "I believe in discontent. I believe in that discontent which makes a man, if he is a farmer, strive to be the best farmer in the country; I believe in that discontent which makes a man, if he is a doctor, strive to be the leading doctor in his profession; I believe in that discontent which makes a man, if he is a merchant, strive to be the leading merchant of his town." The above is an extract of a speech of Hon. A. F. Lever which was deliv- j ered at the closing of a school in the Dutch Fork. If he stood at that place today I think he would say: "I believe in discontent when you live in the poorest county in the State, but why this discontent when, financially, you are in the best?old Lexington?" As the little word tax seems to create more discontent among men than any word of its size in our language, I shall say something on taxation first. "Taxes will be lower when the Fork people go to Richland." Everybody has heard that, I think, from some of those who favor annexation. Turn over one page and look on the other side of Broad river. A Columbia man (his name if you want it) said to a strong advocate of annexation: "Don't you know your taxes will be higher if you annex to Richland?" "T WOULD RATHER PAY MORE ! TAX and be near the court house," was his reply. A former Lexingtonian who now lives in Richland and represented that county in the legislature last year, can give you some facts in regard to taxes in Lexington and Richland. Property across Broad river is assessed at about double the valuation of property in the Fork. Is there a man who believes that Richland board of assessors will leave the valuation of property lower in the annexed territory than property is assessed across the river? The higher the valuation of property the lower the mills and vice versa. The people of the Fork have been tax-burdened, but a railioad tax is the cause and not Lexington county. The sheriff of Newberry county says we derive much benefit from "our road," but his people are paying tax on an imaginary railroad through the air, which may never be built. (Newberry is the county some of the Fork people think of joining, hoping to find low taxes. How were we led to believe that the time had come for us to vote a railroad tax? By leaders who knew (?) j that the tax on each would be SO SMALL that we would not feel it, and the railroad would pay more tax into the county than we paid out. Here they caught us with the "tax bait." Do you remember one of those railroad orators from the Lower Fork who said we could not have good schools because we had no railroads t Prof. D. B. Busby had gone to Leesville where there was a good school on a railroad; Prof. C. W. Welch had gone to Texas; Prof. had gone to Virginia, all because we had no railroad and, therefore, no good schools in the Fork. Here a leader caught some with the "school bait." We voted that railroad tax and have not seen those fine schools spring up, and now annexation leaders tell the people of the Fork that they must go to Richland to have good schools. Is that the way to get good schools? Wait till Richland gets ahead of us and then get on the banks of Broad river and look across at her schools and decide to go over? What is meant by the term, "better schools?" If reference is made to the buildings, they can be had by using more money. If better teachers is meant, they can be secured by offering larger salaries, and if longer terms make better schools, then that calls for more money; so more money makes better schools in Lexington as well as in Richland. How many farmers can .spare their children more than six months in the year in the school room? Suppose the Fork people go to Richland and have nine months schools who would get the benefit of a nine months term? The men who are able to send their children the whole term. Most of the schools in this county have more money than they are using because the children's help is needed on the farm, this being true, how will the Fork people be benefitted by going to Richland? Did an annexation leader tell the people of White Rock that they would get a lot of money for schools from the poll tax of all those factory people if they would annex to Richland? If a school trustee does 'not know that the poll tax of a district goes to the school of that district, I hope some one will inform him before he makes another misleading speech to the good people of White Rock. I am slow to believe that he does not know it. Another argument the leaders of annexation use is: We will have good roads when we go to Richland. Have they told the people that those roads and bridges in Richland cost over thirty-one thousand dollars last year and thirty-five thousand has been appropriated for this year? Have any of the leaders informed the people that it cost money to move dirt in Richland just the' same as in the I IODS con?AN r, TZS., ironage. Polite and Pr< Dutch Fork? Bub a writer to The State from the lower Fork, under the non de plume of Fair Play, says nothing is being done to improve the roads of the Fork, while the sand roads are being clayed around Lexington. Is Fair Play aware of the fact that a private citizen had a pair of i _ i 1 it i i muies ana a nana on me roaa eignteen days hauling clay on that road near Lexington? Does Fair Play know that a private citizen above Lexington rode till he secured three hundred dollars for claying a road? Does Fair Play know that the old Augusta road above Lexington was clayed by private citizens who received aid from the county? Does Fair Play know that five hundred dollars was raised by subscription to clay the road from Lexington to Red Bank? "The hills have been high for man's mounting, The woods have been dense for his axe, The stars have been thick for his counting, The sands have been wide for his tracks. The sea has been deep for his diving, The poles have been broad for his sway, But bravely he's proved by his striving. That'Where there's a WILL there's a way.'" I venture the assertion that not one road overseer out of ten in the Fork* has worked the time the law requires ( and not one man out of fifty has insisted that the law be carried out, yet we hear enough about wanting good roads to make a man sick. How are we to get them when citizens do not want to labor on public highways, nor do a number of them want their mules to work on the road? How are we to get them when people object to the cbaingang keeping so many mules and so much machinery? How are we to get them except by taxation, to which they object again. A lot of people are like some of the candidates, who ' sought high places, were last summer; In favor of better schools, better roads, better everything, but opposed to any more taxation. Another argument for an annexation used by the citizens of the Lower Fork is: They hope to get a free bridge to Columbia. I do not censure them for wanting a free bridge, but would that free bridge benefit anybody much except those near Columbia? Fair play finds fault with the location Of the steel bridge at Wyse's and I see where he is right. One bridge can not meet the demands of the traveling public, but if we had had a supervisor with better judgment, and not so much 4'back bone" of which he boasted on the stand at Irmo last summer, the bridge would have been built as nea1* Lexington as was possible to get a suitable place on the river to locate a bridge, which would have acccomodated more people than any place that it could have been builfc. But why argue about the steel bridge to the annexation people who hope to get rid of this tax when they go to Richland. If annexation will cancel the steel bridge debt, then I have been misinformed. For the sake of argument let us suppose that it would; let us suppose that annexarion would mean no more railroad tax. I hear that some believe this?no tax of any kind when the Fork people go to Richland? I ask you as reasonable I DIITI AMFVe 1 AllLAllUd * * On account of re] | will give extremely 1 | ness and Robes, also % K P. Guano Dist % Howard Guano ] * * Cotton and Corn * % Cotton and Corn t Texas Middle Bu % Gladiator Stalk ( I BIG CI I PAINT YOUR E * * * % Cut Prices on Su: % Cut Prices on Sui t Cut Prices ou Sui ft mmm Mi 1 1 1 T"% T1 TV * two stuaeoaKer j*. jr. ij, | Get a bottle of C. N. Kil * Be sure to see me before ( M. E w t R * < ft ftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftft ftftftftftftftftftftl [Y, Gr IE IE5, COLUMBIA, N. O ompt Attention. i iifl Auu *s wort^ only hal - 'Wi'-j-ll? there is at least t^ 1 V-'wi.--' vlv.'.V' Put temptation 01 [ ^Citizens! j| BATES J 2 i IPs safer there i fiL ^ox* start y?ur have. Make it a ? Bp pay all bills by cl left for yourself e1 jfcBgifflUi We pay interes jlHy U. X. GUNTER men would you feel that you had been true wj your county, tiuo to jom Dutch Fork friends, true to yourselves, when you remember that your ballots helped to elect a supervisor who placed the bridge tax on us; when you remember that your ballots helped to place a railroad tax on the Fork people, I say could you with a clear conscience, sit on the other side of a boundary line and look over at your tax-burdened friends and say: "Let the galled jades wince." The citizens of the Lower Fork have another reason for annexation. They do their trading in Columbia, which their fathers ana mine did, and the people across Saluda do the same thing. Business in Columbia is the only thing the Fork people have in common with Richland county. Lexingtonians are an independent people whose social and political interest are identical and have been for nearly two hundred years. It does not take a prophet to see *!? * mnona hv UUifrU QiUJLlCAaviUil iligauo uvuiiiiuwivu vj Columbia, y#c Fair Play seem9 not to see it when he says: "The Fork is the caudal appendage'' to the dog when it comes to the benefits, but nearly the whole dog when it comes to paying taxes." Does he not know that there i9 nothing to be gained by moving "che dog" from Lexington to Columbia, which means a bigger dog; then cut off part of the caudal appendage having a big dog with a bob tail, which will be more easily wagged? This mutilation of the "caudal appeqdage" would be the worse ever seen on a map, but I hope never to see it. The Dutch Fork of Lexington county has an individuality of its own, but tnis same territory as a part of Richland county means nothing. There is absolute indifference in Columbia about annexaaion, for those people know the past history of the Dutch Fork and have no desire to CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 I CLEANING modeling my building, n low prices on Buggies. >big cut in Farm Implei ributors Was $9.00 Now $7.00 Distributors Was $6.00 Now $4. J Planters Was $16.00 Now $12.5 Planters Was $15.00 Now $10.0 Lsters Was $5.00 Now $4.00 Gutters Was $35.00 Now $25.00 JT PRICES ON I [OUSE NOW AND PAY FOR II FEW PRICES ON SURRIES: rrey ftubber Tire Was $165.00 N rrey Steel Tire Was $125.00 No5 rrey Steel Tire Was $85.00 N ow , Mail Wagons at less than first i Is every insect that crawls on m you buy anything in my line, ours for Bargains . RUTL iTESBURG, S. ?*******#***?***??* ?*#**?**< 4. J* ILLAR IN HAND f as much as one in the bank. For ivice in the temptation to spend it. at of your way by depositing your lank of Batesbur g, 1BTJRG, : : : S. C. mv way thamin your safe or cash account today with what you rule to deposit all your cash and aeck. You'll find you have more irery time you balance your books, t on time deposits quarterly. , Pres. . JONES, Cashier. rM. M. CARTER, Asst. Cashier. State Renews Lease Of Salu&a Canal. Messrs, G. A. Gnignard and L. I. Guion have renewed there rental of the oiabaiuda canal in Lexington county, a few miles west of Colombia. An arrangeement was made with the State sinking fnnd commission fonr years ago by which the water conld be rented for a term of four years, provided a certain amount of improvements were made. The time expired a few days ago and an annual fee of $200 was again contracted with the State for four years under the same conditions, It is understood that land will be secured near the canal and the power de veloped by Mr. Guignard and his assistants.?The State. Wounded Wife's Heroic Deed. Albany, Ga., March 13.?Desperately wounded in an automobile accident 10 miles from here and almost blinded by blood streaming from two long, deep wounds in her scalp, Mrs J. T. Donalds of Blakeiy, Ga., rushed her VmoKorxl oomrvnotir ininro/1 'Vlia m'tir IJUOUailU) OVyi IV UOIJ 1UJUAVU| W U??AU VAVJ for medical treatment late this afternoon, after lifting the car from his unconscious from and repairing the mechanism so the machine would make the trip. In the accident Mr. and Mrs, Donaldson were hurled beneath the car, but the woman managed to extricate herself. She lifted the machine from her husband by the use of a fence rail. Has Put la Sky Light. The Lexington Savings Bank has ju9t put in a large sky light, which is quite an improvement. The interior is being freshly painted which adds greatly to the appearance of this popular institution. yp SALE i * mst have room, so * 1 * Wagons and Har- | nents. S v * * 15 t A 0 % 0 I * * * >AINT 1 r NEXT FALL. | * fow $125.00 * w $100.00 t $65.00 t cost. * an, beast or plant. * Your price tuys the goods. * AND I c ! I? 4 ???> *?**?**?*?