Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, April 30, 1919, Image 1
I[. GREAT CROWDS
S' k ATTCNiEV DEVIV1!
IgL il 1 I diw; i\ij v i ? hjl/
K[' Union Revival Growing in Interest
fe/ Each Day?Evangelist Danner a
-Wbnderfn! Speaker. ? Prof.
Durham, Song Leader, and
1 *3- ; Prof. Landrum, Blind
Pianist, Charm
E- Great crowds are attending1 the,
| Union Revival services now being conj
&>>, ducted under the large tent in the rear]
K' of the C. E Taylor Furniture store'
vTt"he climax was reached on Sunday
N-1 night, when upwards of one thousand
Bp-'* ^1 - I
persons^ many of them ccming for a
ILj. distance of fifteen miles, crowded the'
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hig tent to its full capacity to hear
I!-?, the evangelist. Many persons stood
Ig on the outside and listened attentively
L- to the distinguished divine's dis-j
course, which was one of the best
jp ever heard in Lexington. "The!
p Story of the Cross" was the subject
|^-^of the speaker^ and his word paintings,
f were beautiful and effective, the |
large audience being swayed into rapt
attention by the eloquence of the
||1KV speaKer.
H" "Lite a Serious Proposition ' was
fed the subject of another strong and elo?
quent discourse on Monday night.
. Prof. Ehirham, song leader^ and
H Prof John Landrum, the blind pianist
D| are charming their hearers with de- j
; itghtful music?perhaps the best that
flBp: has ever been heard here.
Bjv The meetings will be continued
HN-. E&j throughout the week at least^ perhaps
K longer^ and much good has been acMfe..
complished. The visitors have won
the hearts of all Lexington by their
christian -bearing, and it will be re Kf^'gretted
when the time comes for them
W^m._ to make their departure.
Pfey> REV. WD QUICK
fc CONFIXED TO BED.
Spj It is with supreme regret that we
nEiil announce the illness of the Rev. W D
Quick, who has been confined to his
home'for the past several days. The;
^P^^^rayers of all 'Lexington will go up;
Ht?r.|?.' for his complete and early recovery; '
r.o man is hold in "higher esteem
BP*:P.BCALLISOX 1>IES IX FINANCE
p^;=/T. C Callison a leading attorney of j
H B?; fee Lexington barf a member of the;
law firm of Timmerman Graham and
Ura^nfe - r*. *
|Hg?^^ P'\)aIlison, has been notified that his
Hgp: j^&rother P. B Callison died April 7, at
j|?l5ffi*^G& hospital in Prance from cerebro
1BP| RflttTOfagitis. He was just 23 years of
and was a bright young man with
a promising future^ loved and adnnr|
ed by all who knew him. He was;
^HEp!;borr and reared at Callison the old,
ilrou^ Bg?*oinest^ad in Greenwood county, and;
^^^^^ when America entered the great Eu-,
'ropean conflict Mr. Callison immedi-j
SH^^rsately volunteered his service and was,
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^^K;seot to France, where he experienc-j
jro|p dd much activity on the Western
MM [Front. He was preparing to sail for
5B?j| the United States when he contracted
cerebro meningitis^ passing away on
'April 7th. Thus another brave young
South Carolinian has made the su
preme sacrifice.
IH COTTON MANUFACTURERS WANT
RESRICTIONS REMOVED
- . New York, April 25.?A resolution
i demanding' that ''all government restrictions
on private business, not
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x found necessary before the war? be
hj' hr.medlately removed was adopted at
. the closing act of the annual conven1
tten of the National Cotton Manufac- i
tnrers' Association here today. The
association also went on record as re^jgarding
as a fallacy "any declar?:%ation
that a declining cotton out
TV-'
put will Ibe for the eventual good of
k .the employees of the trade^ believing
that America can best provide em.
ployment by increasing its product
T.'l and lowering its cost of manufacture.
BW Frank Shove of Fall River, Mass
tras elected president for the ensuing
year.
PREPARES TO COUNT
NOSES IN UNITED STATES
Li. Rogers is director of the
census and he is preparing now
z'xto put 90^000 enumerators at work in
H|mm.- - January taking the decennial census
of theUnited States. He's signing up
^HK^ the 400 supervisors for the job and
1,500 clerks jfor the bureau in Wash
ington.
TO RESIST RAISE
IX TELEPHONE RATE
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; Railroad Coram is> ion Mas Sot
Received Notice.
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i Chairman Slicaly Thinks Public
Utilities Should Bear Share of Burden?Fifty
Towns Affected.
The State April 28.
The South Carolina railroad commission
will not permit an increase in
the rates on local telephones by the
Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph
Company without a contest^ stated
.'Frank TV. Shealv chairman, vesterday
I A press dispatch printed yesterday
| morning announced that the Southern
'Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company,
I had filed with the Georgia railroad
commission a revised sliedule of rates
giving the ompany about a IS per
| cent increase in telephone rates on
[business and rsidence telephones. A1
though the dispatch said that the
I schedule ad been filed in eight other j
'Southern Stats and in Indiana andi
Illinois, the South Carolina commission
up to this afternoon had not re- J
1 ceived its copy
The telephone company announced'
that it was filing its new schedules on
order? from Postmaster General Burleson
director of the United States
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telegraph and telephone administra
tion. However, it was stated that if
orders had not been received from the
government for an increased rate,
there would have been a revised sche
dale filed^ it being held by the company
that an increase in rates is necessary.
The Southern Bell's associate
line^ the Cumberland Telephone &
Telegraph Company, likewise announced
the filing of a new schedule for
increased rates.
In January Postmaster General
Burleson filed a schedule of increased
long distance telephone toll rates
which averaged about a 20 per cent, in
crease. This rate^ as far as it affects
intrastate business will be tested in
the United States supreme court by
the National Association of Railway)
and Utilities Commissioners. The
case will be .heard on Monday ? May 5,
according to announcement received
V>y the South Carolina commission a
few days ago.
Although what procedure will be un
dertaken by the South Carolina commission
was not divulged yesterday, it
is probable that as soon as the revised J
schedule of rates s filed with the com !
mission^ possibly tomorrow a precmptory
order prohibiting the increase
will be issued on the Southern Bell
Telephone & Telegraph Company.
Should the corporation disregard this
order, then the matter will be handed
to Attorney General Wolfe for relief
in he couts. It is probably that he
first legal gun fired will be in the
shape of injunction proceedings.
'The commission has no knowledge
of why rates should be increased at
this time^" said Chairman Shealy. "If
reasons of this kind exst, not only the
commission but the patrons of the
Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph
Company^ shoud know what they are.
If an increase is absolutely necessary
the people of South Carolina as well
as the commission should be fully apprised
of why such conditions exist,
and to this end the commission proposes
to use every effort available to
see that the patrons of telephone lines
in South Carolina have a right to protst
in the usual way.
"The commission is surprised at the
preemptory method of the Southern
Bell people in attempting- to increase
its rates without first notifying the
commission^ which 's necessary under
the laws of the State of South Carolina
and the rules of the commission.
*The cmrnission and the people of
South Carolina have been extremely
lenient with all public utilities, includ
ing the Southern Bell Telephone &
Telegraph Company^ during the war
period, but we can see no reason why
this State of affairs should continue!
to exist. The Southern Bell officials;
themselves can but agree to this state;
j ment. The service rendered 'by all
! public utilities in South Carolina has
! ,
| not been up to the usual standard.
I but the people as well as the commis!
si on have been willing to concede
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many of their rights to aid in the win!
ning of the war. but^ at this period of
i transition from war to peace condii
tions. the public utilities must bear
i their part of the burden as well as the
j people have born and are bearing
j then- part of the burden. The commission
realizes that the people anu
the utilities are copartners in the present
readjustment and not profit at
| the expense of the other. This is the
J reason that the commission contends
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| NEWS NOTES OF j
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! Cauntv Sksran: Write ike League *
| ef Nations?Seal it With
a Bond
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| MRS. C. J. RUCKER, Chairman J
| MISS ETHEL I. BROOKER, Publicity i
/ Chairman.
! The Victory Loan is launched and ,
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j our county is rallying to the colors as ,
lit always does. A splendid report jf
| was in by Friday from Mrs L D Cul ^
! lum of Bates-burg^ who is chairman of j 1
her township. In one day Mrs Culj(
lum and Mrs Thompson sold $5,550',]
worth of bonds, and from a letter re j
I ceived from Miss A J Hill^ publicity j
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! chairman we learn that the work of;i
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I organization is so complete in this,
j township that the goal will be easily
reached.
A big rally will be held at Batesburg
on May 9th and Mrs Cullum urges the
cooperation of everybody.
The Rally at Swansea on Saturday
[April 26th was attended by an enthusi j
! astic crowd. Bonds were sold to the
amount of $3,000 during the meeting
Messrs. Johns and MoXally of "Wash
! ington, D C two sailors^ who are sent
out by the Treasury department to
work in Souh Carolina during the Victory
Loan drive .were present and did
fine work. Judge Frazie Lyon of Co
lumbia made an appropriate address
and presented the German helmet^ the
valuable trophy awarded to Robert
Kerr of the Swansea High School, for
having given the beset slogan. Robert
received the helmet with a truly patriotic
little talk.
Other speakers weie Rev J R McKit .
trick and B K Craft Chairman of the
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mo?n*s committee who both made1 ,
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short, well chosen talks.
Lexington must go over the top
with this Victory Loan^ so rally now?
let's finish the work before the drive
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ends on May 10th In the words of our
Rtntf* slntrnn Tho barrnsre is down I i
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lets drive! .,
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SHOT CLOSES CASE t
IX DIVORCE COURT )
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Chicago, April 25.?A divorce case 1
in Judge Brothers' court came to a t
dramatic close this afternoon when \
'Mrs. Elmer R Simpson shot her hus- c
band wo was on the witness stand, 1
through the mouth inflicing a probably
fatal wound. 1
Simpson was testifying quietly. Sud \
denly his wife leaped to her feet. \
"That's a lie,' she cried, and fired. ?
Simpson crumpled up in the chair, t
blood oozing from his mouth. Mrs 1
Simpson was arrested and court ad- c
journed.^ i
MAJ. H E BUNCH 1
DIES IX ACCIDENT
South Carolina Officer Killed at Camp
1 Mills. i
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i Camp Merritt^ April 27.?<Maj II .E c
Bunch of Charleston S C a medical of X.
ficer attached to the One Hundred and '
Sixty-eighth Infantry, who recently re '
turned from service oversas and Pri i
vate Joseph Phillips, a Texan^ attach (
| ed to the casual battalion here, died at c
j the base hospital ody of injuries re- c
Iceived Friday nght when two jitneys t
I collided near the reservation. The 1
! death list now numbers six s
Aftr an autopsy performed today, t
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County Physcian Ogden expressed the t
belief that the two drivers, arrested 1
after the accident, were going at 50 1
miles an hour. t
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MAD IMJG KILLED 1
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Policeman Harmon shot and killed
a supposed mad dog on Main street!*
Sunday afternoon and the dead bodyj'
of the canine was not removed fronij1
the spot until, Monday afternoon?as I
soon as Mayor Keisler learned that *
the dead dog had not been removed *
from where it had been killed he at
once had the dog carried away and)
! buried.
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7>erlin, April 2">.?A state of siege
has been proclaimed in Saxony. j ^
tbnt in nil instnaces of this kind hear-:
| ings at which each party concerned j
I has the opporunitv to protect his orjt
j their interests." i(
i Approximately 50 cities and towns ji
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j in South Carolina will be affected by|?
| the. revised schedule of increases in
| telephone rates. i 1
two litti.E ohii s
to death
:Ionca Path Ci:i!i<rc-a Lo-c Lives in
Barn Cotton Takes Tire
Honoa Path April 2.".?The homes
, T I> I i .1 T?- If **. * ' ---
i i ?j iv uusi aim w ii munroc ware
shocked yesterday in the death of a
laughter from each. The little girls
four and five years oid, were burned
to death when the barn in which they
were playing caught and burned to
the ground. The fathers of the children
were in town on business and
thre was no one near enough to the
barn when it caught to render any assistance.
It seems that .Mrs Lust had left
mine matches in the fork of a tree
riar the wash pot where she had had
some washing done and the children
ook them and were playing around
:hc barn. In some way in their play
)no of the matches struck the tic of a
>alc of cotton and set the cotton on
T'Iipvp wnrp sAVPrnl rhilrlren
present and the two who lost their
ives were over behind some of the
Dales of cotton, which were under a
dosed shed cf the barn.
When the fire started all way of
escape for the two little girls was cut
>ff. Bv the time the children's moth
*s reached the barn it was in flames
ind they were unable to render any
iclp. In a few minutes the little ones
lad burned to death.
Little Jenie Lust was one of seven
children of Mr. Lust while Mr Mony
oe only had two children and loses
lis little daughter^ Marie. Mr Lust,
;he owner of the barn, lost nine bales
>f cotton two or three tons of
tuano, all of his feed for his stock a
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mggy and carriage and some farm im
dements.
HOTHBR AND THREE CHILDREN
BURNED TO DEATH
Reidsville, N C April 26.?Mrs. A1
'red Scales Galloway prominent in so
ial life of the town and state, and her
hree children were burned to death
sarly today in a fire which gutted
heir home on Main street.
The children were Lou^ aged eight
-ears; Sallie, aged five and Allied Jr
Lged three. The fire was discovered
ibout three o'clock this morning by
tirs. Galloway, who was sleeping up
.tairs. &he went downstairs to give
he alarm and then hurried back to
ler children to save them. It was in
his attempt that she lost her own life
JVhen her burned body was found af
er the fire had been conquered^ it
vas in a kneeling position by the side
>f the bed^ as if in a kneeling position
>y thes ide of the bed, as if in prayer.
Mrs. Galloway was 30 years old Her
lusband is a traveling salesman He
vas at home for last Sunday and de
>arted Minday morning for Greenville
>. C which is liedquarters in his terri
ory 'Mrs Galloway was Miss Eva
Larris before marriage, the dughter
>f the late H C Karis^ pioneer tobaccn
St.
kV. Q JACKSON'S BARN AM)
STABLES BURNED
The barn stables and corn house of
IV. Q Jackson a well known planter
>f the Edisto section of Lexington
junty was totally destroyed by fire
Thursday night about 10 o'clock.
The family had been to Columbia
Thursday returning about dark and
ifter supper one of Mr Jackson's
laughters going on the back porch
liscovcred that the barn was afire.An
ilarin was immediately raised and the
teighbors responded but it was too
ate to save anything. The fire destroying
the lot and all outbuildings
ogether with 800 bushels of corn and
hree bales of cotton. Deputy sheriff
W M Laird went to the scene of the
'ire immediately and soon found
:racks behind the barn which led to
:he house of a negro living on the
Tackson plantation. After comparing
he tracks with the shoes worn by
he negro be was placed under arrest
md brought to Lexington and lodged
n jail.
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Mr. Jackson has many friends
hroughout the county who sympahize
with him in his loss. He is one
)f the largest and most successful
banters in Lexington county an.u nas
ilways taken a leadng part in public
iffairs.
RXTFRTA T X MKXT AT CROSS
ROADS.
There will be an ice-cream supper,
fish fry, box party, cake walk etc: at
ffoss Roads school house Saturday
tight May the 3rd.Lemonade will be
served also.
Everybody come and have a good
time
j YANKS AND TANKS i
VICTORY LIBERT
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S .muei B. George, Coun'.y Chairman,
Has Arranged to Have !
j Big Monster Fighting Ma- |
chin:sin Lexington.
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^ os the Tanks are coming- and the *
Yanks are coming for the big Victory!;
Liberty Loan Demonstration to be/
field in Lexington on Sunday and 1
Monday, May 11 and 12. County!*
Chairman Samul B George has just;(
completed arrangements for the big *
tanks the latest weapons of modern '
warfare, to appear in Lexington so
' 1t
that the people might see, first hand, j how
the American boys forged their |(
advance into the enemy's lines on the I
battlefields. !{
The government is sending out | 1
delegations of fighting men in differ!
tne sections of the State for the pur-.(
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pose of arousing the people to a real- 1
ization of what the winning of the war | 1
reallv means to us as well as to all j 1
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other nations of the earth; and no j 1
feature of the campaign has proven1
so interesting and instructive as the ; 1
boys with the tanks. The tanks have j1
already appeared in numbers of placeo|(
and, Mr. George is counted extremely\y
fortunate in being able to place Lex-jA
insrton on the itinerary. i *
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Arrangements are now being per- 1
fected for a big demonstration, the t
plans of which have not been fully 1
completed^ hut will be announced in (
time for everybody in the county to (
come to Lexington and help give the (
boys a royal welcome.
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GODFREY D. HARMON'
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Godfrey D Harmon Sr, Aged 79,
years died at his home Monday night
of paralysis. :Mr Harmon was reared r
in the St John community, Lexington (
County. In early life he joined the St
John Lutheran church where he held;
his membership. In the beginning of
the War Between the States he joined
the Confederate army and was a mem
, ber of Company K. Thirteenth South; ,
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Carolina Regiment He served through j
out the entire war under Stonewall
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Jackson part of the time. At the (
close of the war he was married to
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Harriet Dominick of Newberry Coun
ty. To this union ten chldren were
born nine of whom are living Mr. ?
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Harmon served one term in the legis
lature.
The funeral services were held this
aftrnoon at the Prosperity Cemetery ?
by the Rev C J Shealy of Grace Lutheran
Church. Mr Harmon is survived
by his wife and the following (
children: Mrs J B Black, Mrs. J j|}
Amick of Chappells, Mrs W C Adams j t
of Wilmington JN u. Mrs u u snumi
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pert of Yonges Island, Miss Madge ^
Harmon, F J Harmon T J Harmon of
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Newberry W B Harmon and Godfrey
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D Harmnn Jr '
Pie is also survived by one brother
Dr. James Harmon of L?exington Two c
brothers Dr John Harmon and Fred
Harmon and one sister Mrs Margaret
R Nichols, preceded him in death sev e
i eral years ago.
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THE FARMERS OF AMERICA j
STANDIN G WTTH THE SOUTH ,
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Denver?Removal of government i
restriction on the marketing of the t
cotton crop and reduction in acreage
planted to cotton were urged at thej
meeing of the Farmers' Educational
and Co-operative Union of America in
convention here. Speakers pointed ^
out that a more diversified farming n
plan would aid in development of the <;
South? which has 'been handicapped; (
by confining farming operations to.
cotton.
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TENSION BOARD TO HOLD FINAL r
MEETING! j
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County .Pension rsoaru win utai m
j the Probate Judges office on Thursday. 1
May Sth at 10 o'clock A M for final *
action on all applications for the pres- t
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ent year. 1
M D HARMON t
. D. T HARE i <
JAS. E RAWL
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Pension Commissioners.
GEO. S. DRAFTS Secty.
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STOCKHOLM April 25?British I
y
and American firms are reported to i
have contracted for large purchases of (
German goods at Hamburg.
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COMING FOE BIG
I LOAN MAY II, 12
l-'AKM IS TOO Dl'LIi XOAV
SAY SOJ.JViKRS i>.\i Iv FROM
ARMIES
"The farm's t"?o dull. I went home
:o see the folks but I can't stay
.here. The city for mine'
Thus a young soldier just returned
from France, discharged from the
irmy, a farmer boy by raising spoke
lis lament to Mr. Clark in charge of
:he United States employment oiTice
n Columbia. And a great many discharged
soldiers have taken the saino
>osition with regard to taking work
>n the farms.
The demand for farm labor is great
;aid Mr. Clark, and yet there are not
enough men to supply the demand.
The men from the army in so many
rises he said, do not want to go back
:o the farms. They have seen the
?ay lights of Paris or the American
?ities and thev know the world and
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lesepite the fact that farm v.ages arc
-unning as high as S3 a day they are
iot willing to go back to the plow and
:he hoe.
The greatest occupation in the world
s that of the planter. He feeds the
vorld, and yet the number of them is
liminishing. "I don't' know what
vill happen if all the soldiers who
vere farmers refuse to go back to the
soil," said an official of the employnent
service. '"Of course some of
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lie soldiers are going back to their for
tier occupation as planters. In some
lases the men want to get back to the
>ld home place though the number
>f those who do not is great."
The leal office of the federal employ
tint service states that they can use a
?rcat many farm laborers and that
:hey have offers of good pay for them
rhe wages in many cases are as high
is $3 a day, and this means oil the
'arm twice what it means in the city,
rhe greatest opporunitv hat was ever
inened to young men s is said_ is of
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fered them on the farm today, and the
slogan has he en suggested^ 'To the
!arni young man. to the farm."
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The employment service officials
state that tliey believe farm work is
iust what the returning soldiers would
find satisfactory because of the outloor
life they have been living. An
effort will be made to prsuade the
soldiers seeking employment to take
,vork on the farms.
rOLKT HOUSE WORK
BEIXG PUSHED
Work on the remodeling of the
;ourt house is being rapidly pushed
>y Contractor Hutto of Brookland.
Vhen completed there will be a great
ieal more room and the offices will all
lave fire-proof vaults, which will insure
permanent safety of the public
ecords. It will be several weeks yet
>efore the job is completed.
ANOTHER STUDEBAKER.
Mr Grover C Sharpe, of near Gaston
>ne of the best farmers of the lower
section of the couny purchasd a big
?ix Studebaker from the Millor-Snel;rove
Auto company last week. This
mterprising Lexngton firm has placid
a number of cars recently. and
lave many prospects in sight. Mr
tester C Miller is proving a good sales
nan, and the Studebaker people
should count themselves fortunate in
leing able to place their agency with
he Miller-Snelgrove Auto Company.
GOO I >WTX?SHUMPERT
Miss Bessie Goodwin and Mr. John
Shumpert were married at Mr Ben
Sharped on Sunday April 20^ 1919.
dr. Shumpert is the son of Rev D P
?humpert^ and Miss Goodwin is the .
laughter of Mr FYank Goodwin, both
>f Gaston.
The young couple after the marriage
vent to Bethel church to preaching
tnd from there to Rev. D P Shum>ert's
for dinner and then off on
heir honeymoon.
They went to Washington then to
Baltimore and from there to Arlingon.
Va. then to New York returning
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o Cavce on Fridav morning where
hey will stay for a while. We all
visit the young1 couple much success
ind a long and happy life.
A FRIEND.
TYPEWRITER FOR SALdii
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May be seen at Dispatch-Xe\vs o:hce
intil Saturday night of this week.
Jome quick
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