Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ? : ;V 1 ' aBrVf g 7 V p. IS STItr^ Bispatrh-afcius |n?? VOLUME NO 52 " LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1922. NUMBER 39. Ic ' ' -. - - " ' - : " - . ' I Enroll Now-Next Tuesday Last Day-Enroll ' " I ' y_ .'*% ' . ImataalRaUy Coder Union large preparations are in the mak|| Ins for the Center Union rally on |r % Attgust 5, at which time the people of Lexington and some from outside wiH be treated' to a day ol pleasure acne proru. rots annua; | *: e?^6t, whicl| ^was'started in a small M- way several years ago, has grown, to be. "one", of the largest gatherings 0- staged in Lexington county each year, L W wm^ thansan^ of people go. Last l yearJ therfe were in attendance upward* of and a still larger asthig^year. fj|v . -ei?fc ungual gathering speakers fc' of -wide experience and reputation are Ha messafie well worth gp^-^ei^tg-and the coming event will be Pyl^fe4Mbd?ttoB To date three men of ability har<. accepted in vita|-v tions to he present and deliver ad-D. -C. Badger of the United Stateddepartment of agriculture has an invitation, and will speak essau^es well worth % '.' ?'r-:^ak^m "trom the speeches there will barhecne and picnic din S 7-r"/">!- >N. ByCU ST. ADBY, Infractor of Vocational Agriculture, Lexington High School. : The farmers of South Carolina should not narrow their ideas down to the steo of their own plantation, V but they should broaden and expand them by observing the work of othera-in the same occupation or by ; meeting ?4?h a group of fellow workv JfF* ideas and experiences. It M tor this reason that business men {%hd the farmer is a business man) in aH lines have annual meetings to observe the forward steps made by oth ; ers. Farmers from adjoining counties - ' ' " and adjoining communities have vis[.ited one another to see some new things that others have put across and have been benefited very* much &' by the knowledge so gained. The farmer cannot live unto himself alone, By.,. , ~jt' . * but. ia?*order to make progress within out resulting a loss of money, the farn?er should exchange experiences with Jthe man who has started into some : ' 9 ' new line without previous knowledge, i By SO doing, many a farmer wili not encounter the same loss. For that reason at this time of year ?'/ when the work of the farm is more jp or less slack, the farmer should visit other farmers and attend farm meetir ings to see what is being done in th pv section adjacent to him. Try it this E&- - summer. You will be rewarded for Bp the time SDent. ff-V BARN DESTROYED BY IAGHTXING AT SWANSEA Pfi/ Swansea, July 17.?Messrs. Witt m.f, Bros. lost a large barn by lightning last Friday evening. The barn was pi. with oats, barley, corn and .fsripL implements. They estimate gjf their loss at $5,000.00 with no insurjp. ance. 'The fire occurred between 5 and 7^o'clock, during a severe elecU trical iwf rai^. storm. TUESDAY- LAST DAY OX WHICH TO EXROLL. The men and women of Lexington ' county who are eligible to enroll on the Democratic club books are urged to do so at once. The books will close on Tuesday, July 26, and those who have not signed the rolls at that time will be debarred from participating the coming primary. ' Below is published a list of the clubs in the county with the secretary ,-'of. each club, to whom the voters may 'go for information about enrolling. Batesburg?J. B. Ballentine. Boiling Springs-?J. S. Miller. J Boylston?W. H. Hook. ' Brookland?R. L. Shuler. r Brook?Fi L. Addy. Gayce?G. T. McDowell. Chapin?R. J.? Frick. ^ \ .. < Cromer?Julian Cromer. ' Croufs Store?Walter Seigler. Edmund?Julian Sharpe. Gaston?V. L. Goodwin. ' Gilbert?R.' L. Price. Hollow Creek?Jno. C. Price. Irmo?Jno. W. Younginer. ,_ ' Irene?J. F. Sharpe. LieesVille?H. A. Meetze. Lexington?W. D. Dent. , * Maceiionla-^-L. Derrick. t O W Smith. ) S. Clark. f. Oak Grove?Charlie Gunter. i Pelion?M. A. Sharpe. v vptee Ridge?P. B. Lindler. ' Pond Branch?J. M. Sharpe. | Pool's Mill?? .A. PoOle. Finey Woods?J. D. Bickley* ' Poplar Springs?B. O. Smith. r Rish'.'oii-?B. F. Berry. ' Ridge Road?John Swygert. v Sarmirid^?R. V. Kirkland. Sandy Rsn?T. L. Williams. r St. Matthews?L. M. Steele. Steeclmari-?R .G. Abie. St. Andrews?C. J>. Jffeetze. r "Sharped ^Hl?J. E. Sharpe. . . SobftinStr^W. A. Hare. ' Swansea?A. P. Jackson. ^ MAR^ITTIN'G OF COTTOX. Y'+rg. ; > . v. M ... Columbia .July 17th.?The South i Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooper atiye association has made arrange-, --ments with, the War . Finance Corporation for an advance of $10,000,090. This money wiU.be used in making ; advances to the members of the association. Each member will receive S5 per cent of the -current market value of his cotton at the time he delivers his cotton to. the association.. ' With the financing problem solved, all officers elected:;-and many of the. technicaf heads chosen, and the headquarters practically in shape for occupancy, only the warehouse problem remains to be solved and the. associa' tion will be ready to function. No | trouble is anticipated in securing j ample warehouse space. Owners of warehouses all over South Carolina j have tendered their space to the assoi * elation for ita use if needed. Now that the association is about ready to function there are many far:j mers over the state who have dej cided to join. There was a steady inflow of contracts last week and the number is expected to increase each week from now until September 1 ( when it will be necessary to close the' ( membership books. 1 During the past week there has been a steady stream of visitors from every section .of the state to association headquarters and without exception they have told of the strong loy- ( alty on the part of the members in their respective sections to the asso- , ciation and of the growing enthusiasm for cooperative marketing. AT RED BANK The Missionary Society of the Red Bank Baptist church will give an Ice cream festival and other refreshments at the school house, July 29, beginning at eight o'clock given for the benefit of the church. The public is cordially invited. We earnestly request the candidates to come and speak for us. CLUB MEETING. 'I Mrs. W. E. Humphries was hostress to the Priscilla club Thursday af'ternoon. A delicious salad course was served. The club will meet with Mesdames Sligh and Moorman next Thursday afternoon at 4:30. BATESBURG SEWS. Messrs. C. E. Leaphart of Lexington, trustee of the L. D. Cullum , Company bankrupt stock, and W.. L. Bennett, auctioneer of Columbia, were in town Wednesday of last week and sold the bankrupt stock at public auction. The stock of goods was purchased by Mr. J. C. Cullum at about 80 per cent of the appraised value. T i^iioran Snmmpr school for church workers commenced its session on July 12th and close Wednesday, July 19th. Dr. H. A. McCullough of Columbia is the director of the school and under his management it has been a success from the start. Nearly 200 students are in attendance and the corps of teachers is one of the best to be found in the state. The Batesburg Board of trade Monday afternoon gave the faculty and students of the Summer school an informal reception in the grove at the Methodist churches. Brief addresses of welcome were made by the pastor of the various denominations in the town which was responded to by Dr. P. E. Monroe, president of Summerland College and Dr. H. A. McCullough of Columbia. Many eminent persons of the denomination in different sections of the state have been hefe attending the school the past week. Hon. H. T. Fulmer and Hon. A. J. Beihca, candidates for Congress, were in town for a short while Wednesday of last week. Mr. Fulmef made a brief address to the members of the Woman's Club, while in session at the Batesburg hotel "Wednesday afternoon. Mr. N. Alford is spending his vacation in Virginia this week as the guest of_ his former pastor, Dr. E. Pendleton Jones. Miss Vera Merchant >.of New > B'rookland was the attractive guest of Miss Pliny Timmerman Sunday afternoon. / i -??^ ? If yon want to vote sign the club roll before the 25th. V *.> '* ' ? . PROGRAM CENTRAL CONFERENCE, JULY 2?-27. Following is the program which has 1? ? ~ 'Ua r*a?fro1 Prtn oecil pirpai cu LUi tuu vvuuai ference of the South Carolina Syi\od which will meet at Nazareth church, Rev. O. B. Shea rouse, pastor; July 26-27, 1922: . . ... .. . Wednesday 10 a. m.?Organization. It a. m.?Sermon by Rev. J. A. Shealy, followed by the holy-communion. ' Intermission. Discussions: (1) How Should the Church Deal with Unfaithful and In-* consistent Members?Dr. Jas. D. Kinard, Judge C.J. Kinball; (2) The Vicarious Atonement?Dr. J. W. Hrorine. Thursday. 9:30 a. m.?Devotions?Dr. P. E. Monroe. Business. Discussion: (1) The Need of More Pastors, a Challenge to the Young Men of the Church.?Dr. W.^H. Greever. Rev. P. D. Brown: . . (2) Dur Colleges and the Educational fund?Dr. McCullough, Dr. Monroe, Dr. S. J. Derrick. Speakers will please be brief. Persons coming by train are requested to notify Pastor O. B. Shearouse, Lexington. Last call to enroll. Sign before the i 2.: th. An Athlete. | "Although you considerably out-1 weigh your antagonist, you seem to \ have had the worst of the fight," said j the sympathetic old gentleman. "I was out of luck when I struck him." replied the man who was nursing a ' broken face. "Nobody told me he'd been playing for years in a jazz orchestra." g #? ' ^ % Club rolls close the 25th. ^ ? AMEN. To the Editor of The Dispatch News. Please allow me space in your paper to say Amen to what Dr. James Harman and J. O. Hallman have said about the tax question. TAXPAYER. PERSONALS. ' * V '** Prof. Julian C. Miller, prior to returning to his work in the Agricultural College, at Raleigh, N. C., has left on visit to his best friend at Trenton, N. J. Mrs. Thelma Howze of Palmetto, Florida, grandaughter of Col. and Mrs. M. D. Harman, is back after a very pleasant visit to her uncle's over in Augusta. Mr. Subscriber, please look at the label on your paper and give it your attention if you do not wish to miss the paper. Rev. Arthur Ballentine, originally of the Fork, now serving the people of Earhardt, S. C., in divine work, . in passing through town Monday, on | his way on a visit to the old home I stopped in a few moments to see us. ! Mr. Paul Fulmer, one of the most I clever and substantial citizens of Chapin.'i and two of his much admired / daughters, were visitors to our town Thursday?last week. !-. Mrs. H. L. Schofield, in from Florida, while here Monday, kindly renewed her paper. Like a letter from home. Mr. Harry F. Rawl, his wife, daughters, Myrtle and Jimmie, motored up to Rock Hill, Winthrop College Summer school, Sunday, to visit daughter, Olga, who is taking the summer course in teaching. " M^ss Belle Kaminer of Spartanburg, is visiting Mrs. Addie Kaufman ^ and relatives here. Mjr. S. J. Leaphart made a flying i call home this morning and returned i to Charleston, Mrs. Leaphart accom panying him for few days. Sam George, Jr. left on Monday for Cleveland, Ohio, with Henry Wienges of St. Matthews. They are driving through by way of Washington and Pittsburg. Mr. Wienges has some of his race horses on the "Great Lakes Circuit" this season, and will he awity for-so.me time. Miss Mattie Powell of Graniterille ! is visiting her sister, Mrs. Sidney Steele# and other relatives here. Mrs. Mr G. Sarratt and her son# Goode, have returned from a delightful auto trip through the country to Blacksburg to visit her father-in-law. Miss Antoinette Russell, the attraci tive daughter of Dr. Russell of Columbia. spent last week end with i Miss Blondelle Harmon. Miss Martha Kyzer delightfully entertained the Flapper Club at her home on last Friday morning. I Misses Sara Seay and Annie Julia j Riley, after visiting friends and rela| tives in Columbia, returned home J Friday. ; COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION SOON BE READY TO FUNCTION. Columbia, July 10.?With the administrative officers elected and the general manager and other technical officers named the South Carolina Cotton Growers Coperative Association will soon oe ready to function. Last week the board of directors | made further progress towards the I completion of the organization of the j association. W. R. Scarborough, cashier of the Bishopville National Bank and one of the best known bankers in South* Carolina, was elected* treasurer and Arthur Mazyck, of Bennettsville, manager of the Pee Dee River Cotton Company, was elected general sales manager. Mr. Scarborough in addition to being one of the best known and one of the ablest bankers in the state, is also a large planter and is himself a member of the association, having been one of the first planters in Lee county to sign the contract. Mr. Mazyck is regarded as one of the best cotton salesmen in America. He has been in the cotton business for the past twenty-five years. He was j in the Mississippi Delta for seventeen years. Eight years ago he came to Bennettsville and later accepted the position of general manager of the j Pee Dee River Cotton Company and i due to his ability as a salesman that company has made a wonderful rec-1 ord. Messrs. Mazyck and Scarbor-1 ough will enter upon their new duties! at once, it is announced. Applications for -membership in the association have been coming in steadily during the lasc ten days, it was announced, many farmers having decided to join after seeing who would condtifc$ the affairs of the association. * y S. C. GROWERS SIGNING PLEDGE. :\iore man a tnousana &outn taro lina farmers have joined the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association as a result of the campaign which reached 52 towns of the belt. Four 'towns have just gone solidly cooperative and Aynor, Kingstree, Flor;ence and Timmonsville have closed ali open floors. Florence the headquarters town of the Association, after closing ail auction warehouses last week, is putting ' on the most intensive drive yet attempted by any city of the State. The number of contracts reaching headquarters has increased week by 'week, as committees of business men and bankers from Mullins, Timmonsville, Kingstree, Florence and other centers have toured the country for new members. ' Tobacco farmers are now thorouh"ly roused to the need of organization for marketing and leaders o: the association prophesy that another 'thousand growers will join with the big Cooperative in a few days that r i q r-v> o r r\ A iinrncsf "1 cs t rt?^nri a A c i cmam lu aIu^uol 101, v> uc?i u;c sociation will refuse to accept any contracts l'or the crop of 1922. T. C. Watkins, Jr., Director of Warehouses for the Association has expressed his satisfaction with the warehouse situation. He now has over 65 warehouses ready for operation in the South Carolina beit. Dr.. J. Y. Joyner, Chairman of the Warehouse Committee, Senator J. A. Brown, Director from North Carolina, 'W D. Hill and E. T. Bondurant from Virginia, and John Blanks of Kentucky are leading and speaking in che drive which reaches Bake City, 'Conway, Cades, Cowards, .Lamar, Pamplico, Marion, Mullins, Nichol3, Orlanta, Loris, Lake View, Fairmont, Whiteville,.4 Dillon and Lumberton this week. .. . ' ** m ? ALL THAT COUNTED. J' "A tiny tongue of land extending P*%Arv\ CI f i n rlAatnn tn LLUlll X^l V/au UCl ttv 1U V/A4Uiiwgvvu bv I the beautiful bay formed by the confluence of the Ashley and the Cooper rivers is all of South. Carolina that has counted in the past," writes Ludwig Lewisohn in THE -NATION for July 12, in an article which he calls, "South Carolina; A Lingering Fragrance." Mr. Lewisohn, who is the dramatic editor of THE NATION, spent his early years in South Carolina, and has drawn a memorable picture of his impressions and affection for the state in his new book, "Up Stream". The present article describes the state from a rather more detached viewpoint, taking for its keynote the old literary Charleston. It is the seventh article of THE NATION'S series, "These United States," which has attracted wide attention with its studies of Marland, Mississippi, Kansas by William Allen White, etc. Mr. Lewisohn eulogizes the old l Charlestonians, who "loved letters / and learning and romance,". ^ the Charlestonians who charmed Henry James and Owen Wister, in the era when in Charleston "everybody wrote." Touching lightly on the modern industrialism of the cottonmills, which he feels has spoiled the tradition of the state, he relates anec; dotes of the old families who made i this fine culture, and who were and j are, he asserts, "when every deduction has been made, among the most civilized of Americans." ' The Nation is an important national I weekly of liberal views, published at j 20 Vesey Street, New York. Essays on j the other states are in preparation, j including articles by Sherwood Anderson Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Robert Herrick and others. By Request. When the band had finished playing, a tired-looking diner beckoned to the conductor. "Do you play anything by request?" he asked. \. "Certainly!" replied the conductor. "Well, then," retorted the diner, Club rolls close the 25th. It is everyone's duty to enroll for the primary. Zion Pastorate S. S. Picnic The annual picnic of the Zion Pastorate Joint Sunday schools will be 'held this year on August 3 at the residence of the late Rev. J. A. Cro L mer. This annual gathering was t started thirteen years ago by the Sunday schools of the churches served by the late Rev. Cromer, and has grown from year to year until now it is one 'of the largest gatherings held and is looked forward to with much interest. The following program has been arranged by Messrs. G. B. Wingard 'and D. Frank Efird, the committee, [ 'for the gathering this year: \ 11:15 A.M. 1 Hymn 65. Prayer by Rev. O. B. Shearouse, ''Lexington. ' Hymn 202. |' Address of welcome by Mr. J. L. i Drafts. Lexington. , Hymn 84. Address by Rev. K. A. Kistler, 'Lexington, f Hymn 175. Address by Rev. H. J. Black, Co[ lumbia. \ Hymn 96. ' Dinner at 1 p. m. 2:15 P. M. '' Hymn 121. - - - ^ r T\ *r% Address dy nev. cj. j. oua, u. xs.t 'Hickory, N. C. *' Announcements. Hymn 208. ' Benediction. Games by the children. FORD RET AID SALES MAKE NTEW RECORD. y Company Reports Total Sales Havt Reached 5,709 Machines a Day-. 0 0> Retail sales of Ford cars, trucks and tractors established a new high record during June, when, according to a statement issued from the Ford Factory at Detroit, an average o?-6y- , 709 machines were sold daily. ' Ford sales have been shoeing a 'constant increase each month this year: June being the highest in the "history of the Company with a total 'of 1448,459 cars, trucks and tractors. Of this number, 6,054 were sold by the Ford Company of Canada and 9,435 b ythe various European Ford Companies and South American Branches, reaching purchasers in practically every civilized country in me wunu. With the closing of business for* June, Ford records disclosed the fact that total sales for the first six months of 1922 were well over the | I half-million mark, the exact figures being 652,261. This is also a new high record as it is considerably in advance of any previous half-year period. . July Ford sales are expected to equal, and probably eclipse June. The estimated output of cars, trucks and tractors has been placed at 151,767, altho dealers have requisitioned more than 200,000. Ford oficials state that every attempt has been made to supply their dealers with sufficient cars to fill their orders, but that for the past three months, prompt deliveries have been impossible with some of the types The demand for Ford enclosed cars has been especially hard to meet, due to the ever-increasing popularity of the Coupe and Sedan for ail yeararound use. A reflection of general business - - - - -1 _ o conditions is seen in tne recora ot Ford truck sales, which show an increase of eighty-four per cent over last year. Merchants and farmers alike have come to recognize the utility of the motor truck in cutting transportation costs and speeding up deliveries, and the fact that they are buying nearly twice as many now as a year ago clearly points to better business conditions. At the present time Ford is employing 75,000 men in Detroit. III. . " I Newedd?"I'm afraid we're going to find it hard to get coal." * . Mrs. Newedd?Oh, dear! I do wish they'd plant larger crops in the coal fields."