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VOLUME NO. 52. LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. WEPNESjftWv AUGUST 2, 1922. NUMBER 41.
I Candidates Are
Getting In Line
With throe more days in which to
enttsr the primary this year* there is
already opposition in all of the moro
important races with the exception of
that of probate judge.
For the IIooho.
TjO date there are six candidates for
the house of representatives from
j .Lexington county, two having come
cut since our last issue. They are:
I HoA. D. Ernest Amick of Lexington,
at present a member of th-5
hou*e.
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Hon. McK. Barr of Ratosburg, also
a member of the present delegation.
Hon. S. E. Smith of Swansea, who
has represented this county in the
general assembly before.
P. J. Wessinger of Brookland, a
merchant.
John P. Shealy of Lexington, employed
by the Lexington Manufacturing
Company.
Chas. E. TayjOr of Lexington, who
at one time served the town as mayor.
Lexington county sends three rep>
reaentativea to the "general assembly.
' therefore there are two seeking each
place.
For County Treasurer .
W. J. Smith is asking reelection as
county treasurer. He succeeded C.
E. Leaphart in tiiis position in the
last primary, and has been attentive
J to duty and conducted the office well.
Harry D. "Wessinger of Chapin is in
fVir, for treasurer. Mr. Wessin
j ger hcW the position of cashier of the
Bank of Chapin for a number of years
and is well fitted for the office he
? seeks.
For Auditor.
W. D. Dent is seeking reelection as
auditor. He has held the office for
a number of years and has made a
conscientious and efficient officer.
I), f.. Shealy is announced a candidate
for auditor. Mr. Shealy was in
| the race for treasurer two years aso
and made a good run. He is well
(tualiiied to fill the place.
t . So far Walter F. Hook has no op^poaitfdn
for this-offiee of Jt:probate
T judge. He was elected to this office
in a special election last summer to
fill out the unexpired term of the late
i. Judge George S. Drafts.
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For Magistrate.
It Three have announced for magist'
'rate for the First district which inludes
the town of Lexington. They
ll arc J. Arthur Harman, R. J. Hook
;iml Lewis B. Roof. Sim L. Hcndrix,
i he encumbent, will not seek reelec}
t-ion
.J. W. Hook is running for magis|
trate of the Irmo district.
IS. M. Martin is a candidate for
f- magistrate in the Sixth district.
In the Fifth district there are two
candidates for magistrate, the en^
eumhent, C. It. Rish, and Boyd F.
Berry.
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A number of others have been mentioned
as possible candidates" for the
several offices, and it is expected that
.j before the time for filing pledges expires
next Monday noon there will be
others in some of the races at least.
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^ TEACHERS ELECTED
FOR NEXT SESSION.
I At a meeting of the board of trustees
of the Lexington schools held
Monday teachers for the coming year
were elected, and all of Those asking
reelection were retained'.
Those elected to teach the different
grades were:
Miss Mary Wingard. first grade;
Mrs. J. A. Seasc. advanced first;
v*' .Miss Vera Corley, second grade; Miss
\iinto I ./ah Th vim- \f iuu
Kate Shull, fourth grade; Miss Nell
Hill, fifth grade: Miss Emma Miocker,
sixth grade; Miss Madoua Btgby,
seventh grade.
High School.
Miss Elnut Coskrey, Miss Ethel
Drchcr, Miss Ellen Hendrix. S.
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Addy, agriculture; Mrs. E. It. Hoof
and Miss May Hois Boozer, music;
Mrs. J. D. Carroll, expression; l'rof.
H. E. Whittle, superintendent.
The next school session will begin
i> on Monday, September 4.
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FAIR \XI) 'CUE AT WHITE KNOl.L.
The annual fair and cue at White.
j' Knoll (Union) will be held ut the
school house August 31 .
This event is looked forward to
with? great Interest by those of the
community and this year promises to
be of greater interest than lust.
A good dinner, music, refreshments
aad intertainment for all.
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BANKERS SUPPORTING ,
COOPERATION WELL, \"
Columbia, July 31.?Assurances I
from the bankB of the state that they
will support the South Carolina Cotton
Growers' Cooperative association
to the limit are being received dally,
officials of the association said today.
Letters were received yesterday from
over 100 banks, they said. stating
their desire to coperate with the organization
in every way possible.
Many of the banks have signified
their intention of launching rigorous
advertising campaigns in behalf of
the association and. of doing everything
in their power, to encourage
those t'arny?rs who huve not yet done
so to sign the contract.
Tito Commercial Bank of Newberry,
of which John M. Kinard is president,
has already begun a campaign
of this nature !n Newberry, the Newberry
papers having carried in their
last issues large advertisements by j
their bank endorsing the movement
and urging the farmers to join.
"After a thorough investigation of
the coperatlve ?* arkoting plan," says
the statement >e bank, "we wish
to state that w \rtily endorse it
I and without hos. o. ? further, advise
every cotton g. *?/. in this and
adjoining counties to . * they have
not already done so.
"If tne plan wasn't a g . ne. our
government would not have <?, ?d to
loan the assocaltion $10.00*.^., ^ur
South Carolina.
"We are going to back the association
to our limit, and in doing so, we
fed that it means a Ions step forward
in bringing independence and prosperity
to the farming industry and
putting it upon a more secure and
solid foundation.
"We believe tho farmers need to
adopt more modern and more business-like
methods, and unless they do
this there can be no hopes of lifting
their occupation from its present depression
and putting it upon the organized
and systematic basis that
other enterprises rest upon. We see
in coperative marketing the first
and most solid hope for accomplishing
this. We look upon it as sensible
! business-like effort^lo incrlfnse "
cultural prosperity and think that
farmers should join with each other
in this enterprise. If you haven't
joined, don't stand back and let your
I "neighbor do litis work for you. Cooperative
marketing in our opinion, is
here to stay, and we are al! going to
benefit by it. Therefore, don't wait
until tho last drive is made but join
I in now with your neighbors and
friends and sign.
"It has been reported that the
credit of farmers might be injured if
they joined the marketing contract.
Don't be afraid of tliis. for if you existed
under the old plan which has
caused so many to lose their credit
we assure our customers and friends
that their credit will not be injured
with us in the least account of signing
the markting contract nor do we
believe their credit will lie injured
with any other husines institution.
"Cooperative marketing spells prosperity
to all of us, and we want to see
the county sign up 100 per cent
strong''.
ii.Minwrf: at boii.ing spiuxuk.
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The readies' School Improvement i
league of Moiling Springs school will
give a barbecue on Saturday, September
2, at the school house. Ail candidates
are invited to he present. The
proceeds arc for the benefit of thej
school.
IIKUI*: FOK A DAY.
United States Marshal S. J. Leap-!
hart came in Tuesday afternoon lroni !
Charleston to spend a day at home. '
Mr. Ueaphart is kept very busy at^
present and returned to his duties In j
Charleston Wednesday night.
I'lllSCIliliA (Til H.
The I'riscilla club will be enter- |
tained Thursday afternoon at;4:30 o'clock
at the home of Mrs. II. A.
Whitten .
THANKS.
The Dispatch-News fbrOe is indeht|
ed to Mr. Van Wihgnrd for'a fine
watermelon. Mr. Wingard raised I
some fine melons this season, some
weighing as much as 64 pounds.
BOX HUD It CLUB.
Mrs. hi. K. Mitchell will entertain
j the Bon Heur Club Friday afternoon
j at 4:30.
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Death Claims
Great Inventor
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Sydney. N. S., Aug. 2.?At Hup?$l
on Friday on the crest of Belnn
Brcagh mountain, the body of Dr.
Alexander Graham Eell, who died
this morning at his summer home
will be burled in a spot chosen by the
inventbr of the telephone himself.
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The grave of the venerable sciential
the immonaity of whose life work wnf
attested by scores of telegrams which
came today to the Bell estate from the
w nrl <1'? nrnminpnt fliriirps. la nt .1
point overlooking the town of Baddeck,
Capo Breton. The sweeping
vista from the mountajj -i top, so admired
by Mr. Bell streclies,.far-"ovei
the Bras d'or lake: sunset, chosen at
the moment when the body will become
forever a part of tho sturdj
hills, gilds the waters of the lake until
they are really what their name
means?"the lake of the arm of gold.'
Alexander Graham Bell lived to see
experiments which he began with ?
dead man's ear less than 30'*years age
result in a means of communicatlor
for millions of long distance telephone
conversations dally in all parts of the
world. The possibility of talking
over a wire, ridiculed then as a dreair
by almost everybody except Bell, became
during his lifetime a reality
commonplace and marvelous.
Tho Bell basic patent, known in the
records at Washington as No. 174, IC5
has been called the most valuable
single patent ever issued in the whole
history of invention. There are to
day over 13,000,000 telephone instru
ments through which billions of telephone
conversations are carried or
each year.
Bell spent three years in- nigh
work in a cellar in Snlem. Muss. Hi:
m.oney needs were mei L-y Gardiner G
Hubbard, hia future father-in-law
and Thomas Sanders, the owner o]
the cellar. As he worked he begai
to see the possibility of eonveylni
speech over an electrically charged
wire?the telephone. He used a deac
ma.u>.oar-fcw ^.transmitter... Jj. ; .
"If r can make u deaf mute talk,'
Hell had declared. "I can make iror
talk ."
His first success came while testing
liis instruments in his new quarters
in Boston. Thomas A. Watson
Hell's assistant, had struck a olocl<
spring at one end of the wire, and Bel
was electrified to hear the sound ii
another room. For 40 weeks the instrument
struggled, as it were, foi
human speech. Then on March 10
1876. Watson became almost insam
with joy when he heard over the win
Hell's voice saying:
"Mr. Watson, come here, I wan
you."
On his 29th birthday. Bell receivet
his patent. It was at the Centennia
exposition held at Philadelphia, tw<
months later, where men of scienta
the world over who had come to ex
amine and study the numerous inven
tions exhibited, saw Professor Bel
give a practical demonstration of th?
transmission of- the human voice b;
electricity.
/ One of the curious things about tin
invention of the telephone is that Bel
knew almost nothing about electricitj
when he started. He knew a grea
deal about acoustics, though, and tIn
formation of the human organs o
speech and hearing. Bell was eallec
to Washington once when he was ii
tho slough of despond and took tin
opportunity to call on Prof. Josepl
Henry, who knew as much about electricity
and the telegraph as any mui
then alive. Henry told him he hai
the germ of a great invention.
"But." said Bell, "I have not go
the electrical knowledge that is neees
xary."
"Get it," said Henry.
Bell did get some of it?enough.
"Had I known more about electri
city and less about sound," he said
"I would never have invented the tele
phone."
KILLS ALLIGATOIt .
Mr. W. S. Shealy, living ubou
seven/ntiles from Lexington near St
Matthews school house, killed an alii
gator last Saturday weighing 5
pounds and measuring ('? foot 4 inches
It had been near the house interfer
ring with Mr. Shealy's chickens an
was less than 200 yards froin th
house when killed. The alligutn
had been shot several times befort
the healed places showing.
GOOP '^ftuMENT
ijf IiEXINGTON.
* The total enrollment for the coming
primary il? Lexington county was 5,517.,
the latest in the History of the
county, jjb'ithose enrolling about
one-sixtmnsijre the newly enfranchised
V women. men enrolled about as
.heavily aa'hOretofore and the increase
due to tjve women who took ad van'
tfcge of theVninetoenth amendment to j
the constitution, and who will partici- j
111 jwnmig ?iecuons lot* tnoir
1 first tiniOi.
t '/The entailment by preeincts will bo |
published next week
The eott'cfy campaign will open next
'Tuesday fit Summerland and metings
t will bo hteldifrom time to time until
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Che CO.untjfrJias been covered. The folr
lowing1 ljiiat^feo- has been arranged
, for th>. candidates: Summerland, August
8*,:WlilJam8 Cross Roads. August
r 10j .,BrooW.',,August 12; Saxe Uotlut.
. August 12,'night; Summit, August IB;
s Pond Braneh, August 17; Chapin,
? Augupt ISJ^Pellon, August 22; Swansea,
August'24; Brookland, August 2G.
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L The time"for filing pledges to enter
, the primary.will expire next Monday
, at nfion. -r
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NORTI^BDISTO DOTS. NO. 87.
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, The health o fthis section does
. splendid.
We haw Just had another trash
moving ra^jj?
Mr. a'fftrfi. M. J. Jefeoat visited
their mother, Mrs. J. J. Bans,
^ Saturday afternoon also Mrs. Charlie
5 Glenn is up- from Charleston visiting
- her mothei", Mrs. J.J. Barrs.
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'My. Grj|nvylee Spires was home
* Saturday Jtnd I aid Miss Iva Craft a
pleasant <au Saturday night.
Mr. Clifton Klrklnnd called on Miss
1 Viola Rutland-Sunday afternoon.
1 Remember services at Ebenexer
church on Second Sunday morning at
' 11 o'clock apd fourth Sunday afternoon
at .4 o'c'ock.
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The meeting at Salem church last
week was ,n success anil enjoyed by
j all.
We a?*e any the.*-Mi*. Shealy
. is certainly'vitiing good work in the
( corn club at lldisto also Miss Caughnian
is doing her best in the sewing
j and gardening dubs.
' j NEWS FROM ST. MATTIIKWS.
j j We have been having plenty rain
for the past while.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Steele and
r sons visited the former's parents, Mr.
>aud Mrs.. A. D. Steele. Sunday.
; Mr. and rMs. Ollie Keisler and
f children visited Mr. J. M. Keisler
! and family Sunday.
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t Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Iveisler and
little daughter spent Sunday at his
j parents, Mr. and Mrs. .1. A. Keisj
ler's.
y Miss Oil-lie Keisler spent a short
; j w hile Sunday afternon with Misses
. Mae and Lessio Crout. Quite a nuni_
I her of lolks from around here attendj
| ed the Children's day exercises at
? Pleasant Hill Saturday.
y Mr. and Mrs. Webster Steele visited
his brother, Mr. S. 1,. Steele at
5 "Lexington, Sunday.
1 Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Crout and
son. Callison, spent a short while
t1 Sundav .afternoon at Mr. J . A. Keial
e lers.
fi Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Mi-Cm-tha
1 ! worshipped at Bnoii Sunday.
i| Messrs. J. D. McCartha and W.
b J H. Keisler and families attended coni
ferenco at JCazareth last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. s. S. McCartha and
i sons spent Sunday afternoon at Mr.
1 Ollie Kyzer's.
j Mr. and Mrs. l.ewic Price and
t children visited Mrs. I-. ice's father's.
- | Mr. .1 . D. McCartha.
Mr. Bodie Gillian spent Sunday
i with Master Grover and Cork KeisI
j lor.
Mil. H.VIjIjENTINK Wllili
hKAVF. I,K\IX(iTO\.
I Mr. Jesse S. Ballentine. who for
j some time has heen assistant manager
of tlie Bank of Western Carolina,
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t has resigned that position which took
. j'effect Tuesday. Mr. Ballentine will
_ | go to Johnston Monday, where he as7
sumestmanagement of the Edison
* ' Motor Company. Mr. Ballentine has
-'been a valuable man in xthe bank
d here, and his place will not be easy
e to fill. He has numerous friends
r j here, both in business and social lite,
who regret that he is leaving:, but who
J wish him well in his new place.
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Annual Rally
Center Union
Large preparations are in the mak
ing for the Center LTnion rally on Sat
urday, August 5, at which time thi
people of Lexnigton and some fron
outside will be treated to a clay o
pleasure and profit. This annua
event, which, was started in a smal
way several years ago, has grown t<
bo one of the largest gathering
staged in I^exington county each year
to which thousands of people go
l^ast year there were in attendant
upwards of 2,000. and a still larger as
semblage is expected this year.
At each annual gathering speaker
of wide experience and reputatioi
are on hand with a message wel
worth hearing and the coming even
| will lie no exception. To date thre<
j men of known ability have acceptei
invitations to be present and delive
addresses.
Mr. D. C. Badger of the Unitei
States department of agriculture ha
accepted an invitation, and will speal
on "Dairying." Many of the people o
this territory will remember hin
pleasantly, as he has addressed Lex
ington audiences on former occasions
Mr. N. K. "Winters, also of th
United States department of agricul
ture, will be present and spenjt o
"Soil Building." Both of thes
j speakers are experts in their line.'
and will bring messages well wort!
hearing.
The other one who has acceptei
| the invitation to take part in th
I program does not need any introduc
' tion in Lexington. lion. A. Fran!
j Lever, a native Lexingtonian, wh
I represented this district in congres
for a number of years, and later wa
a member of the Federal Farm Lou
board, and at present is president o
the Joint Stock and Farm Loan ban
of South Carolina, will address th
gathering on "Farm Credits". Wit
men like these, with hroad visions an
a good knowledge of general condl
tions, the people are assured of a da
of ijrofit ^ ' I ^
Aside from the wfceech
be served a picnic dinner.
NEWS FROM ROUTE 5.
The health of his community is fin
at present.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Caughman an
family, accompanied by Mr. Caugh
' man's mother from Columbia spen
the day with Mr. and Mrs. W. A
Smith and family.
Miss Louise Steele entertained th
Sewing Club Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Roberts is spending a whi*
with her daughter, Mrs. W. A|
J Smith .
Mr. \V. L. Itawl. Misses Loui^
Lindler and A Hie Haltiwanger ai
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Smith from P.
gah Luther League attended the d?_
trict conference at St. Stephen's Su_
day.
Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Evans, aceof"
panied bv two lady friends *rcy^
Batesbnrg spent Sunday afterno
with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Smith. ^
Mr. and Mrs. Cline Taylor, ai
children spent Sunday with Mr. at
| Mrs. Oliver Smith and family.
| Mr. and Mrs. Sidney McCartl
] spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. nnl
1 Mrs. Ollie Kyzer. '
Messrs. Harold Roof. Harold an
J Asbury Smith and Miss Mary Loi
| Caugh man visited Misses' GenevieV
and Duvall Smith Sunday evening.
j Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Smith, M
1'arlile Smith and Miss Grace De
i worshipped at Bethel Sunday.
I Mr?. W. I., itawl and little son. S
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t .f. visited the former's parents Su:
day.
M A.I . M . I). IIA KM \ N HONORED
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j We notice in the organization (
| South Carolina Division of lf. C. y
I that W. A. Clark. Columbia, Majot
General Commanding, has appointe
on his stuff, M. D. Harman. Assistar
j Paymaster General, with rank c
Major, who will so be obeyed and rt
j spected.
C1III.I) BREAKS ARM.
Little Jack Calfison, the two an
I one-halt year old son of Solicitor an
Mrs. T. C. Callison. suffered
, broke.n arm late Tuesday afternoo
! when he fell from a ladder whil
[ playing at the home of his parents
The little boy is doing as well as ooul
I be expected.
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BATE8BU RG N KWS.
Children's day was observed Bunt
day by the pupils arid teachers of St.
Peters Sabbath school near town.
The exercises consisted of songs, recl_
tationa and addresses by the pastor,
_ Dr. V. Y. Boozer, and others. The
a superintendent, Mr. Berley V. Shealy,
i is. doing a good work in this school
f and his efforts are meeting with sue- t
1 cess each year. This church Is prob1
ably the oldest in this feection of the
3 state.
? Hon. ?Holly Li. Harman, referee in
the case e( J. T. Perry vs.Mrs. Sal
lie Mabus and E. It. Mabus, was in
e town last Wednesday talcing toatl- ^
-1 mony in the cane. Tlmmerman &
(iraham represented the plaintiff and
3. E. L?. Astyftl, the defendants.,
1 I Rev. J. M. Kneeco", a well known
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| pastor of the Baptist denominatlo*
I and a former resident of this town bat.":
s lor the past few yens living at Eoos3
ville, died suddenly at Steodman Satr
urday morning where he had gone to
represent his church at the Union
d Meeting benig held at that place. He
a had heen in failing health for a numc
1 ber of years but his death came as a
f j severe shock to his family and friends. *
II | He was about Go years of age and had
- resided in this section all his life,
i. The remains were interred tri tho
e Batesburg cemetery Sunday afternoon
_ in the presence of a large crowd of
tl j relatives and friends. The funeral
p services being? conducted by his pas,
tor of Leesville assisted by the pastor
h of the Batesburg Baptist church. "THe
is survived by his wife, several child*
rr n and grand children and was a son
of the late Jacob Ivheece of Aiken
county,
^ Mr. Bee C. Gunter, a prominent
n 1 business man of Ivnoxville, Tenn.,
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13 was here on a visit to his mother, Mrs.
a U. X. Gunter, a few days last week,
n Mr. J . Elbert Timmerman, ft
f Johnston, spent Thursday and Friday
k In town with his brother. Dr. W. P..
e Timmerman.
h Mr. Ira C. Carson returned Mon- ^ 4
d day from a brief visit to relatives &?
- Johnston.
V ' Mrs. Holly L. Harrhan and children
of Lexington visited -relatives
If %^>Wedi^uyV-' 'l
Mr. Watson Timmerman returned
Monday from a business trip to Pleasant
Lane in Edgefield county, his former
home.
e Messrs. L. C. Cullum and Eldridge
Cullum have returned from an
d extended trip to Washington, D. C.
>1?nAtiY&?"rWdYieei?'"bvhe-quart jars I
Bafe, Economical $8.75
al Prices Also on
JD PRESERVING KETTLES /
JARS, IDEAL GLASS TOP |i
UBBERS, JELLY GLASSES ^
:tention to Mail Orders ;
:ICK BROS.
Columbia, S. C.
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ioxt Sunday on Delightful
)F PALMS
ritlF FROM l.KXINf.TON, s. c. '
ootl (July 011 Train
ingtoii 9:32 P. >1. Saturdays [ .
via Columbia
urlcston 7:55 A. M. Sundays
igood leaving (Charleston 5:15 p. m Sun- |j
Monday following date of sale. No bag- 0 /
1 In parlor or sleeping ears. ? <
K AND FROLIC AT TI1E SEASHOIIE?
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,(l Fishing and V.'ater Sports. See Historic
i Moultrie and Sullivan's Island
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it _
?< hnd 1 ickets
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..iys and Sundays limited to reach original
night Tuesday fallowing date of sale.
hearing final limit October 31, li?22, now
Seashore Resorts. Stopovers. For pari
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i TICKET AtSKXTS
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le | Mrs. t . T. tieorge will entertain
i. 'the Ladles' Aid Society of Mt. Horeb
d ' Methodist church Saturday afternoon
| from 4 to 5:30 o'clock.
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