The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, February 20, 1907, Image 1
THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?"
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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. According to the
latest reports she was eighth in producing
tne largest number of bales of
all the counties in the world. In 1905
she was second.
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