Bffe v> ' fe1 lispatrir-^ws [S] -' ' ?? ?? ? ' ??-??mm-?* ? WmisMM^^ - . &fee X LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1921. NUMBER 20. PmiWE no. si [4m'. - ' ' , . b Fmmm0 ft WlffiETiffiRE I MONDAY NfGHT of Potato House end I Will Be Ductused. ill -} Attendance WUbed. tant meeting of^rjners, those interested in the tack, w.ffi be at the WiteaN, m. The purple of the community cannery i any surplus true* ev of the depfaijirton In I redacts geneo*uy n 'si . larger than XMphal Willi in Lexington | i-fcisea seriouajproblem bot the surplus. It 'is tl^is problen^ can be Ushlng smalLQommunn which every stocka producer and canha to be dift^pe&T of al market ery has been in sucy .since 1917- and the the event that suffl I ?ting here tin automobile party will ffoftftd to make the trip telfiioree, ftiidance of Geo. -P. HoffC allege, -and James W> Shealy, EOty demonstration agenfc^'It. is posed to have a party of injsted visit- Elloree to get first-hand wmatlon as to the operation of - Another important' matter which B will be taken, up at this meeting will Bp^; be the establishment at Lexington of sweet potato^fSjpThese houses are : ''Ip&OW in operation* to a large extent ?> throughout the lower pe^rt of the state it is said that potatoes now being ^B&^^&pped from them are^rfjaging $1.50 K:p%v bushel on the northern markets. ^Ba^^frliile it is possible to keep potatoes ^B^^HStfrly well when banked it is found ^B||&i Impossible to ship such potatoes withheavy loss, which has been elimifl i. p&ted by.|SS' give full details. 1$ CATCHMAN REAPPOINTED % " ?PJ7NTT GAME WARDEN. iP&M. Cau^hman has been recom& ..-J X. w , Jj " *. ' : . aded to Governor Cooper for ap5'; o v>r ; ktment as county game warden for tngtcft county. Mr. Caughman has M to 0* -position for several! ps and under bis . administration revenues have increased until the ; year they were something in e^x'!hf'T4,000.00. one-half of which. 1 * vhnAl fund. I PAULINE HOOK WINNER IN CONTEST. Pauline Hook, who lives near rookland is the winner in the to represent Lexington county nrbia Palmafesta week, M&rch < Lpril 2. The vote was as fol Pauline Hook KT06 Annie Cauehman 1314 Pearl Lorick 704 ; Cathryn Berly 607 Bppy-".PJiAY AT LONG BRANCH. "Turn of the Tide" will K at Long Branch school No. Hp] New Brookland, Saturday j^^S^He|^'f)4arch 19. Also refreshments rved. Come one and all | COUNTY BOARD NAMED UNDER NEW ACT W. H. Witt of Swansea, J. H. Hiller of Chapin, J. M. Barr of Leesville, and B. H. Barre of Lexington will constitute the new board of county commissioners, under the county government act passed at the recent session of the legislature. It is not know when the new hoard will take office, but it is presumed that it will not be long. Under the new act, which was published in full 'n a recent issue of this paper, the powers of the board are very much enlarged* The gentlemen named above are all well known throughout the county and are among the most substantial citizens of the sections in which they live. Mr. Witt is president of the Bank of Swansea, besides being engaged in other dihes of endeavor. Mr. Hitler is a leading merchant of Cha? ? j o?tonn P1U> 6 ttUU C11JUJD | ; of a large circle of friends akd' customers. Mr. J. M. Barr is likewise one of the leading business men of Leesville, where he is general manager of the Leesville j Casket Co., manufacturers. Mr. B. H. Barre of Lexington is one of the leading business men of the county seat, where he is manager of the Lexington Light and Power Company and has other large interests. The new board of commissioners will have equal authority with the supervisor in making contracts and paying out county funds except that in emergency cases the supervisor is authorized to contract for work not I in excess, of $50. The law requires \ # 1 that betore any work is paid for it must be inspected and approved by: the commisisoner in whose district it is done. 1 Realizing that the success of the new plan was to a large extent dependent' upon the kfnd of men -seJected for these important posts, the delegation brought strong pressure to! bear upon the gentlemen named toj accept the positions. They are being j congratulated upon being able to per- i suade these gentlemen to act. CULBERSON?BOUKNIGHT. i .... ... Union, March 6.:?A beautiful home wedding was celebrated Tuesday at tlhe home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Culberson when their daughter, Anna Belle, beiame the bride of Simon D. Bouknight of Lexington. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. B. ph' k. < The bride wore a coat suit of brown cloth with hat / and accessories to match and wore a corsage of roses and ferns. She is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Culberson and is an unusually pretty and attractive young woman. She has been prominently identified w'ith the social and church life of Union and-will be greatly missed. ;Vtr. Bouknight is a young man of splendid traits of character. * Con 1?chnnroroH 11 r>nn graduations nave a>.v..v.v. ? them and at Lexington a warm welcome awaits the young couple. ST. STEPHENS EVANGELICAL* LUTHERAN CHURCH. Divine services "on Sundays at 11:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Divine Bervices on Wednesdays at '8:30 p. m. On Sunday. March the 13th, the moaning theme will be: "Christ, The Great High Priest" The evening theme will be: "The Unfolding of jGcd's Love." For Wednesday, March the 16th, the theme will be: "Christ Feels Forsaken." A most cordial invitation is extended to the public to aamHpAJL aiiciiu wivBv ARTHUR B. OBENSCHAIN, Y Pastor. DEMONSTRATION WORK , WILL BE CONTINUED. Although at one time it appeared that the legislative delegation would {fail *o provide funds for continuing the 'arm and home demonstrat{en a'crjc they were finally prevailed upon ' V???inVi?iq r\t this Jm to KCCp up UUiu Uiaui liVU ~m r - portant work and the necessary funds were provided. Mr. James W. Shcaly is in charge of the tarm demonstration work and Miss Annie Cau^hman supervises the i home demonstration work. BOX PARTY AT MACEDOX. , There will be a box party, cake walk, and other amusements at Macedon school house Friday night, March 11. The public is cordially invited to attend. Girls may bring boxes. S COUNTY MONEY 1 IS APPROPRIATED I Taxes for 1921 will be 5 1-2 mills lower than for 1920. They would * 1 A 211> - nave Deen hihi lower uy * im.us> cAtcyi for the fact that this levy had to be provided to meet past indebtedness of the county. Under the terms of the county supply bill the treasurer is authorized to borrow ?55,000.00 to pay< all past indebtedness and to levy four mills annually until this is paid. Including this four mills the levy for county purposes will be 12 mills as against 14 1-2 for 1920?a reduction of 2 1-2 mills. The state levy will be reduced from 12 1-2 to 11 1 2, while the two-mill state road tax was suspended, making a total of 3 mills eduction fo?* the state. I As will be seen from the terms of i the supply bill $60,632.75 is provided for running the county in 1921. The levy authorized is insufficient by some $20,000 to raise the amount appropriated, but it is believed that the additional revenue that will come from other sources will be sufficient. The county supply bill in full is as follows: Section 1. That a tax of seven and one-half (7 1-2) mills is hereby levied upon all the taxabl4 property, in the county of Lexington for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 1921, for the amounts and purposes hereinafter stated, respectively: Sec. 2. Item 1. Roads and Bridges:? ' . * # 1 Cross country roads . $12,000.00 Convicts and maintenance of road working organization .. li,000.00 Total $24,000.00 Item 2. .Salariesi? Clerk of Court/. $ 350.00 Sheriff 1,100.00 Treasurer 600.00 Clerk to Treas. urer 500.00 Auditor 600.00 # Clerk'to Auditor : 250.00 aupennieuaeui ui Education .. 1,200.00 Attorney 100.00 Physician 250.00 Coroner 200.00 Postage for Clerk of Court 50.00 Supervisor?salary 1,500.00 Supervisor?Expense account. 300.00 Supervisor?districting county roads 300.00 County Commissioners at $200 each 800.00 Clerk to Board of County Com missioners ... 300.00 Judge of Probate 200.00 Superintendent County Farm.. 600.00 Chaplain to Poorhouse, Jail and Chaingang ... 100.00 Magistrates* Constables: District No. 1... 150.00 District No. 2.... 125.00 District No. 3.... 125.00 District No. 4... 125.00 District No. 5.1. 125.00 District No. 6... 125.00 District No. 7... 200.00 Magistrates: ! District No. 1. .. 225.00 District 29?' 2... 155.00 District No .3... 156.08 District No. 4... 155.00 Districi No. 5... 155.00 District Nr. 6... 250.00 District No. 7... 400.00 Total ... $11,370.00 Item 3. County Boards:-? Board of Education ..... ... 100.00 Board of Equalization .. 400.00 Board of Registration, 50 each >150.00 Total $ 650.00 Item 4. Jail expenses, including dieting prisoners 3,000.00 Item 5. Jurors and witnesses 7,000.00 Item C. County Home, poorhouse and poor 1,000.00 Item 7. Post mortems, in- quests and lunacy 500.00 (Continued on Page Five.) RURAL POUCE APPOINTED Geo. Asbill of Leesville, L .A. Lown of Brookland and S. A. Mathias of Irmo are to be rural policemen for Lexington county, under the terms of an act recently passed by the legislature, providing for two or more rural policemen. Under the terms of the act the appointments are to be j made by the governor upon the rec| ommendation of the legislative dele! gation. The gentlemen named above ? have been recommended by the delej gation and appointed by the governor I and will doubtless assume charge of their duties at once. The act under which they will operate is as follows: | Section 1. That a Bural Police ' system be, and hereby is, established I in and for Lexington coHnty, to be I composed of two or rrfore Rural | Policemen to be appointed by the | Governor, upon the recommendation I of the majority of the Legislative j Delegation of said county, to hold j office for one year from the date of i appointment, or unless removed as j hereinafter provided. Sec. 2. That the said Policemen shall be able-bodied men of good habits and not addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors or drugs. That said Rural Policemen shall be subject to i removal by the County Supervisor | and the County Commissioners, or a majority of them, at any time. Sec. 3. Duties.?It shall be the duty of said Policemen, under the general control and direction of the Sheriff of the county of Lexington, to patrol and"poli9e the county, espec-' ially in rural districts, and to protect i ? onil nrnaomi+P violations Of the criminal law of every kind, mak| ing arrests upon their own initiatives, I as well as upon complaint or inforI mation and to report all of their acts j and all known, or suspected, vio'aj tions of the criminal laws to the Sheriff as often as necessary in each | c&se before Magistrate or General j Court of Sessions, and on the first i day of each term thereof, and report I to the Solicitor the condition with ! reference to lawlessness in the county, and during the term of General Sessions Court to be subject to the direction of the Solicitor: Further, The said Policemen shall patrol the entire county at least once a week by section assigned to each by the Sheriff, remaining on duty at night when occasions or circumstances suggest the propriety theerof, to prevent or deter crime or to make an arrest; and they shall always be on duty ; for not/less than ten hours per day, or more, except when granted occasional indulgences or leave of absence by the Sheriff. They shall frequent railroad depots, stores and other public places where people congregate or disorder is probable or vagrants may be loafing or alcoholic w-.ni. Via onld ho rtoforl nr civon 114UVX O lliaj UC oviu, wv*vvk W4 O * ' ^ away; and they shall as often as practicable ride by homes that are off the public highways and in lonely parts of the county, especially such as are without male protection, and shall use every means to prevent or detect, arrest jind prosecute for breakers of peace, drunkenness, using obsene or profane language, boisterous conduct or discharging firearms on the public highways or at any public place or gathering of private home, carrying weapons contrary to law, gamoung, setting out fire, violations of the game and fish laws, cruelty to animals or children or the virtue of chastity of any community or violation of the Child Labor Laws, lynching and for the violation of any and every law, for the preservation of the peace, good morals and good order of the community. Failure to aid any Policeman shall t be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall be dealt with as is prescribed by law. Said Rural Policeman, when necessary, shall make arrests without warrants and carry offending parties before the nearest Magistrate and a warrant of arrest secured and the case be disposed of according to law. Sec. 4. That each of said Policemen shall be paid a salary. "Of fifteen ^hundred ($1,500.00) dollars per annum. navable in monthly install ?- *- ments: Provided, That each of said Policemen shall provide himself with means for riding over the county, and shall bear all expenses incurred while in service, ' including equipments, police suit, billets, fire arms, and all LYCEUM COURSE CLOSED WITH CONCERT MONDAY The concert at the Lexington school auditorium on last Monday evening closed one of the best balanced and most generously patronized lyceum courses held in Lexington. The course was made up of five numbers, no two of which were alike, and every one of which was produced by capable talent in a pleasing way. For the entire course there was a small deficit amounting to something like fifty dollars, but this the committee cheerfully made up, and the stage is all set now for the opening of the 1921-22 season, for which the course has been booked, and the committee wishes to assure those interested that the numbers selected for presentation here next season will be of the same high class as those of this year's course. The committee also Wishes to thank j you who supported this year's course, j and state that the sum of seventy-! nine cents will be turned over to the School Improvement League as the amount left in the treasury after paying all expenses. CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER. ourprise was expressed here ry .'Ilends at the news in this mornings paper :hat John L. George had oeen convicted of manslaughter in the Edgefield court. Mr. George, who i was a railroad man, is a son of Cap\ S. F. George of this county. He was charged with shooting A.. R. Brown in February, 1917. The case was tried once before and the defendant , ^entencea uui on appeal c pdy was conveyed to the city hall, where it lay in state until 11 p. m. Departure for Bowling Green, the statesman's home town, will be made at 7 a. m. tomorrow. Interment will be held at 2 p. m. An old Flemish pitcher sold in New York the other day for $180, but a * :?- ? a. _i? first-class young American piumer will bring a good deal more.?Providence Journal. other necesssary equipment. Sec. 5. That each of said Policemen, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall enter into a bond approved by the Board of County Commissioners in the sum of two tinnoon/1 (floo.ooi dollars, condi tioned for the faithful performance of his duties. Sec. 6. That said Rural Policeipen shall not accept a cash bond under any circumstances, except as specifically instructed by the Magistrate? and shall not compromise any case. Sec. 7. That it shall be the special duty of said Rural Policemen to enforce the prohibition laws within the county of Lexington; outside of incorporated towns, *or wherever the Sheriff may direct. ? That all m*ior Acts and parts of Act inconsistent with this Act be. and the same are hereby, re-' pealed. Sec. 9. That this Act shall fro into effect immediately upon its approval | by the Governor. MUST REDUCE COTTON ACREAGE Columbia, March 7.?That the only hope for the salvation of the state from financial ruin lies in a drastic cut in the cotton acreage this year was the unanimous opinion of the conference held here last "Wednesday at >vhich were, present representatives of the South Carolina Division of the American Cotton Association, The South Carolina Bankers Association, the South Carolina Development Board,- the South Carolina Press Association, the South Carolina Commercial Secretaries Association andt the South Carolina Automotive Trade. Association. . . The conference was called by the South Carolina Division of the Amer?? an Cotton Association and Governor Cooper presided until the selection of a chairman. Mr. Bright Williamson was hosen as chairman. speaKers inciuaea crovernor Cooper, Governor R. I. fanning, R* C. Hamer, R. B. Stackhouse* J. Skottowe Wannamaker and others. The one theme of the meeting1 was that unless, the acreage in cotton in the state is cut to a point where only onethird of the cultivated lands of the state are planted in cotton that the state is facing the most distressing financial period in its history. The speakers pointed out that there is absolutely no hope for a fair price for cotton unless only one-half of a crop is raised, this year. The production of over a half crop this year would, mean that cotton would bry^g only about five cents a pound It Ktf CATY1D Ci sneak was uctiai cu kjj avttiv ?? i T& ers that too gloomy a picture Of present conditions could not b ?'palnted. \ Reports at the meeting were not very favorable as to the prospects for a reduction In this state. It was brought out that while some farmers are planning to reduce others are V"' not. The situation was threshed out from every angle and it was decided that the bankers alone could enforce an acreage reduction by refusing to extend loans to those who do not reduce. FIVE TRACTS LAND SOLD BY CLERK. * v Pive tracts of land were sold at public outcry by the clerk of court Monday of this week, which was salesday. The prices brought are generally considered as pretty fair, under the circumstances. The following pieces of land were sold: The Hartley place in Black Creek i town*hip containing 626 acres was ! bid in by C. L. Wilcox for $11,100. Ot). C. M. Efird, attorney, bid in for j $500.00 a lot in Cayce on which the ' [ McDuffie lumber mill was located. | W. D. Dent, as agent, bid in for $1, 175.00 a tract of 65 acres in Hoilow Creek township. Barrett Jones, as attorney bid in for $1,200.00 a tract of 100 acres near Pelion. For $300 Barrett Jones, attorney, ibid in 88 acres in Black Creek township. Autos Go Low. , Sheriff E. Austin Hoof also sold at auction two automobiles under foreclosure?one a Maxwell and the other an Overland?which brought $20 and respectively. ' ' ' t v ? GEORGE JOHNSTONE HIES AT NEWBERRY HOMJE. ''" The news from Newberry of the death of Col. George Johnstone, who for some years has been in feeble health, will bring reret to m&tiy people in this county, where Col. Johnstone was well known and popular. Col. Johnstone was one of the most eminent lawyers in the state and until his health failed enjoyed a large practice ' throughout the state. He appeared in many important cages befo*-e Lexington juries, ampng others the Tillman-Gonzales trial. . Col. Johnstone was a Confederate veteran and was 75 years of age. He served one term in congress. FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY. All persons interested in a pub? ' * r ar-a. nc j_aorary iui urAiugi-vii uiv asked to meet at the school auditorium Thursday afternoon, at 4:30 o'clock. J. W. BALLENTINE, Supt. of School. A