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NO. 52. LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1922. NUMBER 36.
mnegro Kills
m Early on Sv
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K Early Hill, negro, shot and mortally
w&unded John Geiger, another negro,
early Sunday morning, from which
wounds the later died Sunday night
about 9 o'clock.
^ "^SIT'and several other neroes had
|B attended a party near town Saturday
HaUght, and the car in which they were
returning home early Sunday morning
H..
became disabled. They went to the
borne of John Geiger, who lived in
Hawaii, and asked him to carry them
home, about six miles in the country
offering to pay him for the trip. It
|B H said that when they had gone sev
oral miles Hill refused to pay for the
H trifkr and Without but few words
pistol and shot Qeiger. At j
coroner's inquest yesterday the
^vdi^/?iye<$ritne88 to the shooting was
those in the party shortly
H frofote the shooting testified that
S'thera had been no bad feeling be ^jyeen
thh'two that they knew of. The
ya?vrecessed yesterday and
Mpsrjii be roontinued this afternoon at
to hear . the testimony of James
fe^jAfter the shooting Sunday morning
Jf^Bhdaer wap carried to the Good
B^atejtJUrHan hospital in Columbia and
^upijMHlted upon, but his life could not,
^ He died" about 9 o'clock ,
Kexington Mont,
and is now ^
hn T. Kamiworked
with
called to Joba'j*
-.1 found htm with ' a gun
I 4jnd in the left" side, between
and .tenth intercostal apace
about four and one-half
Iriwn' the median line. This
ag^bl&t Entered the body and lodged in
of the back on the left
Jri^^^nncturing the istestsnesrseveral
John Cteiiper died. When I went to
jr see'he said'that Early Hill had
him, and had ehOt him for nothm?T"
4^hat he had shot him because
i< Ir^ll Sjfrnd h 1" to pay him for carryfh*
frtiHet to be a 32?it may!
liaitt lmeu'a ' 38 caliber. It was a'
good big bail.
Sim L. Hendrix, being duly sworn,
testified as follows: Geiger said Hill
had shot him, Early Hill had shot
him for nothing. Said "Old John is
gone, never will get up, will die." He"
said about the same thing Dr. Roberts
told you.: He said that they
.-,:";<5am? over and woke him up and got'
,
him out of his bed and told him he
^V^rantCd to hire him to take him home.
Sr^He got up and carried him home and
he would not pay him for carrying j
I<im up and that they got into a row !
that he shot htm. He said James j
^ s ^WRJams was with him when he shot j
him- I do not know whether he said f
t anybody else or not.
L Will Meetze. colored, being duly,
!\ swwn* testified as follows: I was
with them the last part of the night
fei'f.jjhfore day in the morning. Well, |
that morning I was coming from
home, from Mr. Roscoe Caughman's, !
*?da car was in the road, I thought1
Hy'-Jfc was Emorj', but he says ''This is
Biztfber". I said. "How about carryB
ing me back to the camp?" He said,
B ^"We are waiting far John Geiger who
B'- has gone for some gas. I have some
^-.^caare hoys here and will carry you". '
other One
inday Morning
tee." I asked him if he was going to
carry them boys". He said, "Bubbei
will carry them, I have nothing bu1
my stripped". He said, "You want
to go?" I said, "Yes". He said, "II
Bubber cannot, I will." He got ie
his car and come up the road and
taken us and carried us on to the
river. When we got there, all got
out and paid him and they turned
around." They had two pistols playing
with them. I told them thej
ought not to play with them. He
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said, "We will give them to James"
and when they left, James had both
of them. John gave his to James,
and Early gave his to him. That is
all I know.
Silas and Joe Leaphart testified
about as Will Meeize.
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WHITE MAN 'KIMLiS
McOORMICK NEGRO.
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McCormick, June 26.?Richard
Sims, negro, was shot and killed this
morning near Parksville by W. T.
Wood, a white man. Mr. Wood, ac%
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cording to the testimony offered at
the coroner's inquest this morning,
shot in self-defense, drawing his pistol
only after he had been attacked
by the negro. Mr. Wood's left arm
was broken by a blow from a shot
gun, wielded, witnesses say. by the
negro Sims.
Mr. Wood came to McCormick after
having his arm dressed and this
morning surrendered to Sheriff Leroy.
The coroner's jury, investigating
the killing, brought in a verdict
that the negpO came to his death by a
gunshot wound at the hands of W. T.
Wood, the dead negro was considered
a desperate character.
The killing grew out of an attempt
qb h? jwrfootf Mr. Wood and
Self and W. P. Langford, two other
tfhite men, to settle a dispute between
the negro Sims and John Lee, another
negro, living about one and a half
miles from Parksville. The wives of
the two negroes quarreled yesterday
and Sims, according tr the negro Lee,
threatened yesterday to kill him and
this'morning, Lee said, carried a gun
to the field with the avowed in tenA
A. iVtMAQ f
tion 01 carr^mg uui. mc
From Information received here the
Lee negro lived on the farm of, W. T.
Self of Parksville and Richard Sims
went into the field this morning
armed -frith his shotgrun to await the
arrival of Lee, whom it was alleged
he swore he woud kill on sight. Lee
on learning of the presence of Sims
in liis field went to Parksville and reported
the matter to his landlord. W.
T? Self. Mr. Self, in company with
W. T. Wood and M. P. Langford,
went to the field where the negrc
Sims was waiting and tried to get him
to go to the home of Lee to talk the
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jspatter over and et their differences
sefhed. When the three white mer
reached the field the negro, they say,
ordered them not to approach him
apd drew his gun on them. They
assured him that they had not gone
there to create a disturbance but tc
get the differences between him and
Lee settled and they succeeded ir
getting him to put his gun down and
talk with them in an effort to reach
an adjustment of the differences.
wnen.Mms put ms guu uuwn .ui,
Langford picked it up and unloadec
it. Mr. Wood then took the negrc
by the arm and started in the direction
of the nero Lee's home. As thej
proceeded down the road Mr. Langford,
it was testified, overtook them
carrying the negro's gun in his hanc
and walking along beside Mr. Wood
and on the off side from Sims. Tht
negr6. witnesses said. suddenly
reached over, grabbed the gun fron
the hands of Mr. Langford and begar
beating Mr. Wood with it. The Sim;
negro is aout SO years of age anc
stronger than either Mr. Wood oi
Mr. Langford. it was testified, anc
succeeded in striking Mr. Wood sev
eral blows with the gun barrel, one-o:
the^M^ws breaking Xlr. Wood's lef
ajrnvlppt above theorist, rue negro
wiEta^es.said; continued beating^*1*
wftit$ Ta*.n and Mr. Wood dre-v?\\hii
^the negro to^ de^th^
WOMEN URGED TO j
SIGN CLUB ROLLS. !
The Dispatch-News ' has received
the following letter from Mrs. Richard
Williams, state chairman of the
League of Women Voters, and we
( pass it along to our readers:
"JMy dear :vir. r,auur:?jviiuvwu&>
that men of your profession are, as a
rule; particularly interested in con:
tributing to the public welfare, I am
' taking the liberty of writing to ask if
( you will make a special effort to get
the women of your county to enroll
^ and vote in the approaching election.
"The timidity and indifference of
the newly enfranchised voter will, in
I many instances, outweigh her sense of
. responsibility in the matter, unless
, she is made to realize fully that it is
, a moral obliation to vote and that
voting is not a question of preference
j but a bounden duty.
"Though conscious of the fact that
you ask no reward for this effort
other than a realization that you have
I rendered a service to your state, I can
not refrain from expressing my gratitude
for anything that you may be
able to do in getting our women to
the polls on August 29.
"Very truly yours,
1 "MRS. RICHARD WILLIAMS,
> , "Chm. S. C. League of Women Voters."
(, ENROLL
FOR THE PRIMARY
. "' Citizens of South Carolina should
" U . * ...
[ f enroll in their township club or ward
i club in order to participate in the
primary election next August. The
. books for enrollment are now open
and will remain so until the last Tuesday
in July,
i According to the rules of the Democratic
party -of South Carolina, the
, qualifications for membership in any
club of the party in the state and for
voting at a primary election are as
folows:
"The applicant for membership, or
voter, shall be 21 years of age, or shall:
become so before the succeeding: general
election, jsi.nd be jt_. white Xtoyftt,
crat. He shall be a citizen of the
TTftltfeU States and of this state. No
person shall belong to any club or
vote in any primary unless he ha?
resided in the state two years and in
the county six months prior to the
succeeding general election and in
the club district 60 days prior to the
first primary following his offer tc
enroll: Provided, That public school
teachers and ministers of the gospel
-irk
iif charge of a regular organized
church shall be exempt from the pro(
visions of -tips action as to residence,
; ,lfX)ih,Brwi9ie /qualified."
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OPPORTUNITY TO
ENTER CLEMSON.
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The attention of young men inter- sested
in a technical education is directed
to the Clemson scholarship an1
nouncement appearing elsewhere in
? this issue.
> ' Lexington county is entitled to 4'
1 four-year scholarships and 1 one-yeai
scholarship. Last session there were
no young men from this county at
1 Clemson on scholarships.
For the session of 1922-23 there are
i
4 four-year scholarships and one
One-Year Agricultural Course schol-j
arships vacant in this county.
>
I A college education, viewed merely
as an investment of time and of moni
, ey, is equal to an estate worth thous- |
I
ands of dollars. Viewed, however ,
L
from its highest sense such an educa-i
tion prepares a young man for great-!
est service to his country and places!
' him in a position to enjoy some of the j
* good things of life. Education fits-j
-i
one for a life whose possibilities are j
limited only by his capacity and his j
' character.
1 BOLL WEEVILS PLAYING
i HAVOC WITH COTTON. i
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Reports from over the county would
jj indicate that the boll weevils are!
i- much more numerous than ever be-!
:! fore, and that anything like a crop!
1 of cotton is absolutely impossible. It!
r| is said that the weevils were in the;
1 j fields "waiting for the cotton to come !
-1 up .and that they are working on the
f:.small cotton before it starts putting!
t on squares. The chances are that
>?, VQry'littie/cofcton will be raised in Lex?
ingrtoh t^iis ^ear-.
'' BOX HEUB CLUB.
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i Mrs. C. js!. ' Leaphart will, enter-;
J ,tain the Bon .Heur club Friday dfter-j
;* noon-*t 5 o'clock. . V i
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INTERDENOMINATIONAL SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION, JULY 9.
The Lexington County Interdenominational
Sunday School Convention
will be held in the Sandy Run Baptist
church at Gaston, on Sunday, July
9th, at eleven o'clock in the mornin?;
and two-thirty in the afternoon.
All Sunday Schools are invited to
have delegates present. A banner will
be given to the Sunday School having
the largest number of delegates from
the lonest distance. A picnic dinner
will he served on the grounds, and
everybody is reauested to brine- a well
filled basket.
The speakers will be experts in Sunday
school work. If the interest in
your Sunday school is lagging, be sure
to come and get some new ideas, or
find out how to solve your problems.
If it is successful, be just as sure to
come and tell others how to make
theirs successful. It is strictly interdenominational,
and delegates from
all Sunday Schools in the County will
be welcomed.
In next week's Dispatch-News the
program will be printed, and the
speakers announced.
J. D. CARROLL.
County President.
FIVE MEET DEATH
FROM SUFFOCATION.
Hartford, Ark., June 25.?At least
five members of a picnic party were
suffocated today in an abandoned
mine near here. Three others, who
attempted to rescue the victims, were
overcome and are reported to be in
a serious condition.
The mine which had not been in
operation for six months is located
six miles from Hartford. It is believed
the deaths were caused by an
accumulation of biack damp.
The death resulted "from a small
boy's exploring expedition, it is said.
The hoy entered the mine and is supposed
to have opened a door leading
into the abandoned shaft. When he
failed to reappear other members of
tho^-party. who were, .picking black*
berries nearby went, after him and
were either killed or injured by the
poisonous vapors.
FROM ROUTE S.
The girls from Boiling Springs district
who are attending the demonstration
short course at Chicora College
are the Misses Sarah Stork. Bernice
Wingard, Lerone Taylor and
Vera Taylor.
Litlte Veriillian George of Columbia,
after a week's stay with her little
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L'OUSIUS^ r mill max mi utui rw;
has gone to spend a while with her
grandmother, Mrs. F. R. Wingard.
Mrs. Abram Stork, after attending
the state demonstration short course
at. Winthrop College has returned tc
her home near Edmund..
Mrs. F. R. "Wingard, after spending
a fortnight with her daughter
Mrs. Abram Stork." has Returned
home.
M, P. George, Jr., of Columbia
spent a few days last week with his
cousin, Abram Stork, Jr.
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WHERE TO EAT ON" THE
GLORIOUS FOURTH.
For the hungry ones there are advertised
three barbecues for the
Fourth of July which should be ample
to satisfy all with good appetites.
'Cues will be given at the fair grounds
at Lexington, at Red Bank and ai
Gilbert. The one at the fair grounds
will be given by Messrs. W. S., G.
L., J. A., and J. E. Harman; the
one at Red Bank by S. F. Rowland
and J. W. BalLington. and the one al
Gilbert by the Ladies' School Improvement
League.
FIRE IN" COUNTY.
The home of Mr. .T. W. Davis was
destroyed by fire Saturday morning
between 10 and 11 o'clock, with a
total loss of the building and all contents.
Mr. Davis' home was one ol
the nicest in 'he county. He hac
some insurance, but not enough tr
cover the loss. The origin of the fire
is unknown.
CHANGE OF BUSINESS.
Mr. O. Willard Wingard has purchased
the Lexington Meat Markel
from H. E. Wingard and will continue
to' supply the market with fresh
tender meats?also- furnish meals
sandwiches, etc.." and will apprec|at
a share of the business of the towr
j^nd community.
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County Politici
Start?F
Politics in Lexington s,o far as local
offices are concerned are slow to get
1 under way this year, so far only four
candidates have announced definitely
for the several offices. The heavy
' assesment placed by the executive
committee probably caused some to
refrain from offering.
While the assesment for the several
offices seems high, it was necessary,
for the committee will have to raise
l the money to defray the expenses of
the primary, and the only way thi?
can be done is by assesing the candidates.
1 Mr. S. E. Smith, cashier of the
Peoples Bank of Swansea, has announced
for the house of representatives.
Mr. Smith represented Lexington
in the house some years ago.
and made an able and conscientious
officer.
Mr. W. D. Dent, the present auditor.
is again in the race for reelec
tion. He has served the county well
in that office for sixteen years, and
according to the comptroller general's
office, is one of the most efficient
auditors in the entire state. He it
usually the first auditor to finish with
f COTTON CAMPAIGN
TO BE REOPENED.
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With approximately 440,000 bales
1 of cotton already signed up, a vigorous
campaign to sign up 109,000
additional bales will shortly be
launched by the South Carolina Cotton
Growers' Cooperative association,
officials announced yesterday. The
campaign will be conducted during
[ the months of July and August and
every effort will be made to secure
. the signatures of several thousand
- more farmers to the contract.
The report of the auditing commit
; tee or trie association snows mai up
. to May 15^ a total of 433,524 bales
I had been signed. Since that date ap,
proximately 7,000 bales have been
signed.
The number of bales signed by
teounties up to May 15 follows: Abbeville,
6,139; Aiken, 9,046; Allendale,
I,985; Anderson, 18,619; Bamberg,
4,570; Barnwell, 4,017; Calhoun, 24,'
136; Cherokee, 14; Chester, 9,242;
1 Chesterfield, 10,901; Clarendon, 8,212;
Colleton, 1,049; Darlington, 26,363;
Dillon 17,243; Dorchester, 7,746;
s Edgefield, 4,985; Fairfield, 7,592;
, Florence, 9,588; Greenville, 12,719;
Greenwood. 10,416; Hampton, 240;
Horry, 25; KerShaw, 10,523; Lancas;
ter, 6,977; Laurens, 17,446; Lee, 18,>
983; Lexington, 5,891; McCormick, 4,t
297; Marion, 7,010; Marlboro, 36,890;
Newberry, 9,070; Oconee, 4,560; Orangeburg,
37,960; Pickens, 6,070;
Richland, 12,194; Saluda, 2,404; Spar|
tanburg, 14,197; Sumter, 25,586; Union
3,077; Williamsburg, 3,347; York,
II,620; State Farm, 575.
' South Carolina now has the second
largest sign-up of any state in the
belt. The sign-up of an additional
150,000 bales would make this association
the largest in the belt, H. C.
Booker, secretary of the association,
.i said yesterday.
i Plans for handling the 1922 crop
>| are being perfected now, Mr. Booker
| said. The board of directors is
| weighing carefully each sten taken
M realizing the importance of the
:i board's duties.
[ In announcing the campaign to
>! sign up more cotton, it was said that
I i quite a number of farmers over the
:! state had indicated a desire to join
.. the association now that the directors
| had been named and that the board
| had decided to give them this oppori
tunity. The more cotton sold through
I
! the association, the more effective
will be the results obtained by the
>' association, it was said.
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.! COUNTY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
?: WILL MEET MONDAY.
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, I' The Lexington County Medical AsI
- sociation will meet in the court house
i Monday. July 3. All members urged
! to attend.
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i NOTICE VOTERS OF CROMER
j DEMOCRATIC CLUB.
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The committee will be at Oak Grove
school house Tuesday, July 4th. hours
f^orn 5 to 8 o'clock p. m. After "that
? date napies will be enrolled at my
i .residence.
| JULIAN D. CROMER. Sec. "
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Slow to
ew Announced
the work of the office and get ready
for the settlement with the comptrol4ler
general. On account of the time
for paying taxes being extended, the
work has been retarded this year, but
he is up with any of them.
Mr. W.J. Smith, treasurer, is asking
for reelection. He has served
only one term, but in the time he ha,a
been in the office he has shown himself
well qualified to administer the
duties with care and accuracy.
Mr. Walter F. Hook, who was
elected probate judge last year to
serve out the unexpired term of the
late Judge George S. Drafts, is asking
for the office again. M. Hook has
made an efficient and accommodating
officer. With the assessment of
seventy-five dollars with fifty per
cent additional for the winner for the
offices of auditor, treasurer and judge
of probate, it is doubtful if there will
be much opposition in the three
races.
The race for the house of representatives,
with only one candidate so
far and three places to be filled, there
will of course be more announcements.
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PLEASANT HILL DOTS.
The health of this community has
improved since last writing except
Mr. Ernest Long.
Mr. Reuben Taylor and family also
his mother, Mrs. D. L. Taylor spant
Sunday with Mr'; Drayton Taylor and
family.
Mr. Lamar Stuckman and family
of New Brookland spent Sunday with
Mr. D. L. Taylor and family.
Mr. Eddie Taylor and family spent
Sunday afternoon at J. Z. Taylor'a?
Mrs. J. D. Taylor is spending a
few days with her son, Mr. Callie
Taylor.
Mr. Grady Craps and family, Berley
Leaphart and family and Edgar
Price and family spent Sunday afternoon
at D. L. Taylor's.
Mr. James Long and family spent
Sunday at Mr. Simpson Taylor's.
Mr. Wilile E. Taylor and family
spent Sunday with Mrs. Taylor's sister,
Mr. and Mrs. Loid Alewine and
family of the Verona section of Saluda
county.
Mrs. J. D. Taylor dined Sunday
with her mother, Mrs. Tom Anderson.
There will be Sunday school next
Sunday at 10 o'clock. Everyody ia
invited.
CAUGHT IN NEWBERRY.
Dave Black and John Brooks Koon,
; white, residents of Lexington county,
were lodged in the Newberry county
jail Saturday afternoon on the charge
of transporting 5 1-2 gallons of corn
liquor. The car in which they were
riding and a 32 pistol were confiscat,
ed by the officers. The seizure was
| made by Deputies Taylor and Havird
j and Motorcycle Officer Quattlebaum
i of Prosperity. These parties will be
tried in the town of Prosperity, the
state court and in all probability the
I
! United States court.?Newberry Her1
aid and News.
AUTO WRECK.
j A truck belonging to Corley Bros,
j and being driven by a negro, accom}
panied by several other negroes, col,
lided with a Buick touring car just
! above town Saturday night and several
of the occupants of the truck
were more or less injured. The
j Buick was not damaged to any great
j extent, but the Ford truck is a com:
plete wreck. How the negroes es
I
j caped death is a wonder.
WILL SERVE C'REAM.
j The Ladies' Aid Society of Mt.
| Hebron church will sell ice cream at
: Mr. Lonnie Shull's store on Saturday
evening*. July 1. from 6 to 9 o'clock.
BIRTHDAY DINNER.
A birthday dinner in honor of Mrs.
Harriett Sharpe will be given at Gaston
on July 9. The public is invited
to attend with well filled baskets.
Soft-coal prices have beejn fixed at
the mines; but -will probably be overhauled
en route.?Denver Eipresfc.