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THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. ||% & Sepresentatiue Remspaper. Sovera hexingtan and the Snrders of the Surrounding Sounties Lihe a Slanhet, K VtlT. YYYVTT LEXINGTON. S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1907. 16~ ? ?H . I Local Option Prevails. After a long discussion of the dispensary question?for 40 days, we might say?the South Carolina Legislature at its last hours killed the State dispensary and adopted the CareyCothran local option bill, the Senate passing the bill oy a vote of 23 to 8, and the House by a vote of 68 to 28. This bill gives each county their choice between county dispensaries or prohibition, and closes every dis' pCnsary and beer privilege in the State, until certain requirements of the law shall have been complied with. ??n some .counties the local dispensaries will reopen in a few days. The eqnnties now having dispensaries will continue as heretofore until the next general election* and all petitions for v an election must be filed with the county supervisor p;rior to May 1, of said year. All liquor in the county iff dispensaries will be taken charge of; by tne commissioners appomted by the governor to wind np the affairs of the State dispensary. The county board of control will buy stock from the State dispensary. O i, It is the duty of the sheriff and his deputies, magistrates, constables, police, city and town officials to enforce the provisions of the act. Gov. Ansel has appointed the five commissioners to take charge of the affairs of the JState dispensary, who will close the same out at the earliest possible moment. They are: Dr. W. J. Murray, of Columbia; Q. K. Henderson, Aiken; B. F. Arthur, Union; Avery Patton, Greenville, and John McSween, Timmonsville. T -m i Aa $18,000,000 Mortgage. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 15.?A mortgage for $18,000,000 was filed here today by' the Seaboard Air Line railway. It is to run for 30 years and is made in favor of the Morton Trust company and James I. Burke, trustees. The mortgage is to secure 30-year, 5 per cent, gold bonds, and the proceeds are to be nsedfpr betterments of- the road and its equipment. - r--'. - HBHHH5HH5pB?H555555HH55H5555553E5HaE55 fm iftoi*m^*+^*+^*?2Z igri '0 ' * , VI 1^ i[| 5S5ZZ??? 1 N Si 1 I H" , * 1M l?iiy i II * y fj .13 i life i i|i . i? v II 1 |I !:' ,-: :;; - . - ' ' L V " I ? ^ ! | < I < i I * > K m< jK I | * < i * > > M < i < jn* > > r flTroTmnnjnrn 4? g: n 16SO MAIN STBEI Solicits a Share Gastsn Gleanings. To the Editor of The Dispatch: We have had fine weather the past week, and the farmers are stirring early and late. C. H, Hartley, our efficient postmaster, has been indisposed for a few days, but at this writing is much better. What young R. F. D.' boy started to carry his best girl to church and his horse not being used to carry the male with a female before, struck for v . .r i 1 i. J mgner wages ana simpiy sat aown i and awaited further developments? The strike was called oft by the fe male being transferred to other locomotive power. We are sorry to note the sad news that our esteemed friend, W. A. Derrick, has had a relapse and at this writing grave hopes are entertained for his recovery. Still, while there is life, there is hope, and we trust that he will recover. By the time this reaches the readers of the Dispatch, the patrons on R. F. D. No. 3 here will have put the proposed roads in ample order for the service and the inspector sent back to establish the route. Congressman Lever has done all >in his power for this service, and is still doing all he can to have it established. It is now up to the people to fix the roads, and this will be done at once. One of the busiest men we know of just now, is our newly elected county commissioner D. H. Craft, Who is hustling and having the roads put in firstclass condition. Since our last letter the orange buds have bloomed .along the route, and shed a fragrance upon the desert air and several hearts nave been made to beat as one. On the 10th, Buel Boone and Miss Ellen Goodwin were married by Rev. S. P. Shumpert. On the morning of the f3th, S. S. DeLoach, . of Qtiincy, Fla., and Miss Lillie, the youngest daughter of our depot agent G. A. Goodwin, were married bv Rev. J. F. McGill. A well spread" table was burdened with all the good editjles and carrier No. 1. did justice to pi hpjp jggpjg ggppjg pjp IFfTF EAT V i ' \ i I' / For this week < During this time DRY GOODS, . CROCI at prices to suit t we have served < opportunity lasts nsnn.nn i ^ 7 ? ? ^3l*e4( j gggggggasa ran X3CX imiiitiiiiii *? ! U? HP fc irtfr .**i <*it> tii i LOBE DBT 61 J^L0^T0^ZT02: 5T, - i of Your Valued Pal | THE FIRST BEPOSI 4 It draws to itself the <0 formerly scattered. It star ^ and creates a fund which ^ ^ dependent. MAKE THAT I THE HO^J J % Lexingt< ^ F. W. OSWALD, ALFRED J. dP President. C'WWWWWW' 1 m the occasion. On the evening of the 13th, jnst as dark set in there appeared at the parsonage of the officiating minister, W. B. Fallaw, Norton Carter and Miss Ada Day, who were married id the presence of a number of young people. All these young people are prominent and popular. They start out in life under bright skies and we wish them long, happy, prosperous and useful lives. In the issue of 7th of February's State appeared these words: "Negroes in Richland county, almost within sight of the State capifcol, are in desperate condition.'5 At Arthur's about five miles from Columbia, the negroes are needing food and their stock is dying for something to eat. These negroes are renters and have been trying to farm. If these lazy negroes?for I veritably believe the greater number of thJfh are lazy?would come over here_ and contract with some farmers I~ could point them to, I am satisfied at 4 iiuiniinmintn ^ ^ ^ ^ SPt( >nly we will conti we will make pric SHOES, HAT! (ERY, GLASSW he customer. Asl luring the past Worth of S o / Ington H lfH??MUTU?imi -*^ -~-i . * * IOSS COMPAB T, TIES., ZL^^wILT^ Lronage. Polite and Pr< vwv www w? T IS A MAGNET. I small change which you 4 ts a growing.bank account ^ vill finally make you in- ^ JMJRBJL JJJJirUOH 1UUAX ^ [E BANK, 5311, S. C. V FOX, K. F. OSWALD, ^ Cashier. Ass't Cashier. ^ WW ww www the end of the year they would be in better condition, financially speaking. Billy Felix. Feb. 18, 1907. Several Silled in Wreck. New York, Feb. 16.?The White Plains.and Brewster express, a six-car electric train on the Harlem division of the New York Central and Hudson River railroad, jumped the track at a curve near Woodlawn Road, in the Bronx tonight, bringing either death or injury to probably three score of its 150 or more passengers. * At 9:45 o'clock the police reported that they had removed 17 bodies from the wreckage and that there might be other victims in the ruins of the train. Of those removed to hospitals it. was d<wu uiicLu a uu-gcxi iiuu perxxxtps uuuuxe that number would die of their injuries. Parafin candles for sale at the Bazaar. . gg gggggggajgs SSSpSSSSBSSSSSS ill v? nue our Great R jes on our entire s1 >, CLOTHING, ARE and TINIW i the hundreds of t few days, and cc hoes at Be I Bs h IT,,. fL.C3"ZEjZEB1 C OJ.UMBIA, X. t ompt Attention. Df>toh#?r 181 | l Only A Changs of Base. The friends of sobriety, order and true democracy have very little, if anything, to rejoice over in the closing up of the State dispensary, and ! the opening up of county dispensaries, j The principles of the one are of ne- ; cessity the principles of the other. Democratic government was not ; founded as a trade. Our forefathers ] never dreamed that the glorious heri- \ tage which they purchased with their j blood would be so perverted. But j alas, their memory has been despised, i their names abused and their worl# set aside. Spoilsmen must have measures suited to their purpose and 1 here's their cry: Give us legislatures, . give us judges, and our work will be j done, not as the people want it, but i as we choose. Under this cry, and to I this end the dispensary was thrust j upon us. Spoilsmen have been made j rich; criminals have gone unpunished; ; autocrats have sneered at the will and j wish of the people. And now that j patriots and statesmen, who for years i have stood aghast at the truculence j and buffoonry that has so often been on exhibition, are awaking, the base of operation is changed for the dispensary from the State to the county. Nobody has proved that the same conditions which prevailed at the State dispensary will not prevail at the county dispensary. It is said that "human nature is"the same the world over, and when put under the same environments it will act alike ninety-nine times in a hundred." This is not disputed, and can therefore safely predict the result of county dispensaries. They will be used as fortune builders, and place getters, by that class of men who do not fear God or regard men. Will an effort be made to have no dispensary in Lexington? As is generally known one such effort was made more than a year ago, and the petitions, like the male children at the time Moses was born, perished at the hands of the Supervisor and his counsellors. The more than 1300 m?n whose wills were thus murdere I by *2* g 52. gS51 iimmmmmjuc mm VHH B V eductidn Sale. . [ bock of HARRWARF. v s *bv a b a awmj IRE satisfied people >me while the slow Cost. . c. ny^p" mjiqp * *?* *?* <Tjf *7*it* jijMi 1 > A ?4l*f*at^ :; < the Supervisor; unlike the murdered male children of Israel, may yet be ' living and desire again to be allowed to exercise a privilege accorded in the act transpiring the bore of operation. * For one, I say, let us try it again. AH men are not autocrats. * Power does not affect all men alike. Let us give Supervisor Koon an opportunity to order an election in Lexington county to see whether the people want such an institution as a county dispensary und#r the new law. I would suggest that the petitions be gotten up by townships'and each petitioner give his prec^ict. Joab Edwards. Leesville, Feb. 18, Took Man for Roosevelt. Chicago, Feb. 15.?A well dressed man, evidently of unsound mind, entered the central police station in the city hall today ana attempted to shcofe Capt. P. D. O'Brien of the detective bureau. The man placed a revolver close to Capt. O'Brien's head, saying: "You're Roosevelt, ain't you?" Oanfc. O'Rrifm snrantr nr>. lrnrvotpd x? ? ? ~jr - ? .r * ?^ the man down, and took the revolver away. He was at once attacked by the insane man, but after a desperate fight subdued him. With the assistance of other officers the man was placed in a cell, where he became extremely violent, it being necessary for several officers to hold him on the floor to prevent him from dashing his brains out against the wall. Later he was removed to the hospital for the detention of the insane. Nothing found on the man indicated his identity. Orangeburg County Eighth. Orangeburg is a great cotton producing county. 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