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Iff^' ' I THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. |||; $. Representative Newspaper. Sneers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrcundinp Sounties Lihe a Blanket. fe VftT. TTTVTT- : ~~ LEXINGTON, S. C? WEDNESDAY, MAY 29. 1807. io~ ??? WHMIII I v ^ ?????? i lilifclfcx; -<u ? OeSSSSSeSSSeSSSSSSSSSOO* | I; You are welcome at I I s : THE HO B !| Do business with ui 1 |> the satisfaction of knoi 2 <| ing cared for by an ins | > supervision. We will 5 jl posits as gladly as lar S i! to save. To know and | || will be a daily benefit I g ;! P. W. OSWALD, ALFRE] r . 2k ;? President. (?'rom ?>a^esoui^. To the Editor of The Dispatch : ? The Presbyterian congregation this town began on Sunday, May ' a series of protracted services whi will continue during the entire wee Rev. R. G. McLees, State evangell for the Synod of South Carolina, assisting the pastor, Rev. Richard Gillispie. Rev. Frank H. Wardh has charge of the music. Good co gregations attend both morning ai evening services. W- Messrs. John Bell Towill and W.. Cooner are attending the annual s< sion of the grand lodge of Knights - Pythias, now in session at Anaerso] Rev. A. P. Pugh, of Mississip] filled the pulpit at the Baptist chur Sunday evening and preached an e cellent sermon to an attentive cc gregation. Carroll J. Ramage, a member the Saluda bar, was in townThursd on legal business. Mr. J. Walter Dreher has repaint ' his dwelling house situated on the h Willing toad. This dwelling is one the most beautifully locatea in tow It takes men like Mr. J. Walter Di her to make a town, and he is doi his best to make Batesbmg one of t beet towns in the State, i T: Mrs. Dr. W., P. Timmerman a little eon are visiting relatives Peak, Mrs. Timmerman's forn " " home. Mr. Bhodes H. Oooner, a student the Edgefield Institute, is at home 1 the vacation. Mr. M. B. Edwards went to Wai Monday night to hear the address Hon. D. S. Henderson to the studei of Wards High school. Messrs. L. D. Cullum and W. Bates, of this place, registered at t Jerome hotel, Colombia, on Sunda; Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Ctdlum, of I gusta, spent Sunday here as t guests of Mrs. J. C. Cullum. Mrs. John Bell Towill is visiti her sister, Mrs. E. D. Blakeney, Kershaw, S. C. Geo. Bell Landrum, Esq., of Jol ston, was here on business Thnrsda Mrs. Jesse M. Malpass is visiti relatives at Bennetteville this week May 28, 1907. C Letter From Arkansas. To the Editor of The Dispatch: After a very long silence I co: Anna mrtffl with mv mPSSafffi for 1 . good old Dispatch. I feel sure tl some of my old time friends will glad to know that I am still living. We are having a very wet, co backward season for planting crops, and it seems that onr farm* can never finish planting. Febru* and March were ideal farming mom with as, bat April and May have be too wet for farm work. Gardens are very poor for the s< son, but berries and fruits will C plentiful in onr section; and in probability we wilj not starve even we do make short crops. The lumber and timber works ; disappearing from our midst and ne ly all of the young men are followi after the works. We cannot hire laborer for less than one dollar a six bits, <fl.75) per day and board. The price of horses and mules 1 gone out of sight. A very comm mule will bring $150, and a team Normans will bring $500. The lumbermen have cut nearly of our timber, pines, oaks, hicko gum and ash, and in fact they hi gotten all that will square ten inch I very much deplore the idea oi county dispensary for my dear < Lexington county; but Mr. Editor,* condition, after all, is worse tfc yours, for we have local option a jug trade. Cocaine, snuff, whisl and a pistol makes up a young ma outfit nowadays in Arkansas. I i speaking generally of the put works. We have very good society the country away from the luml camps. I am glad to get the dear old I patch again. It brings a mess< from my dear old childhood ho every week, and that will help keep me alive and moving arouna. I will stop now and write aga Success to the dear old Dispatch. J. Pingree Simons Eaglette, Ark., May 25, 1907. Large crowds are attending t commencement exercises of the P metto Collegiate Institute. ... x, J. . '"J... .i* Gi TXT. J31 leao MAIN STKEJ Solicits a Share OOlMtJSjjf ME SINK! : : ji | 3 and you will always have j fl wing that your funds are be- S j ditution that is under State i g receive your smallest de- > f ge ones, and will help you i 8 I be known by a good bank J S to you. > | D J. FOX, X. F. OSWALD, < g Cashier. Ass't Cashier. > jf Col. HoTdIjs Will Visit Old Lezingtoa. j? Col. John F. Hobbs, of New York, J v a native Lexingtonian and grandson r1 of the late Senator John C. Hope, * will attend the commencement at . Newberry college. Miss Ethel, his i,8 9-year-old daughter, will accompany him. Mrs. Hobbs and their infant LW daughter go to the Colonel's summer villa in the mountains of New York. QQ Mrs. Hobbs has been very ill with malaria and her physicians forbid her f" coming south in summer. Col. Hobbs expects to spend a month in the ? South and will pay old Lexington court house a visit. He is very fond of the old town, and expects to be here the first week in June. He baa just been elected chief ruler of the famous Thirteen Club, of which PresWonf. T?nnaAVP1t nnrl PlT.Prpni^pnt, Cleveland are members, and Wm. ' Jennings Bryan is an honorary member. Tne Thirteen Club has over 500 members. Four hundred of them of a 0Pec*a* tilain to Washington on 01 April 13th and were received at the White House. Lezingtonians will be glad to see again the face of the man who is the 0 most noted traveler of this day, who , has been around the world nearly five ~t times and who has done most of this ** exciting globe trotting since he was ier last in Lexington. br D. &. Thompson Commits Suicide. '? Fort Mill, May 27.?Dr. David Glenn lfcg Thompson ended his own life here this morning about 2 o'clock by cutting n his throat with a razor. The deed y.' was committed in rear of his home in fe a back lot. -" His devoted wife is prostrated and a heavy gloom is cast over the entire town by the death of this popular young man and able physician. He was so devoted to his work that he became a slave to it and, through laboring night and day to keep up " with his large practice, he began to y* resort to stimulating drugs to keep up s his strength and this led to his final undoing. He had a noble heart and a mena to an ana couia never say no to a supplicating hand. He was 29 years of age and was a Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias me and Woodman* He was married about four years ago to Miss Effie ia* Culp, a daughter of the late T. G. Culp, and she has been a constant and faithful helpmeet to him in his 13 work, and now, in her hour of saddest alj bereavement, the hearts of the entire erg community go out to her as one in iry their feelings of deepest sympathy. uhs * * ;en Injunction Asked For BicUand Board. A hearing will be had before the supreme court next Monday on request -t for a permanent injunction restrainingthe Richland county dispensary board from bottling beer in competilre tion with H. E. Watts and J. B. Letton, who were licensed as bottlers bv the board when the county dispen! saries were first established. This is probably the final step in the fight for control of the beer trade in aas Columbia and will result in an interL0IJ pretation of the right of a board to 0 bottle beer, which is of general in,, terest throughout the State. Chief aJ Justice Pope yesterday issued a rule to show cause why permanent injunelve tion should not be granted, but no re. straining order was issued.?The State, a 28th. Old . ? , jTn To Store Cottoa. ind Mr. E. D. Smith, president of the rox7 firm+.h Oomlina ^^rr^wp r<a, ns n's sociation and Southern organizer, has am issued an important address, in which die he urges the need of warehouses in r in which to store cotton, and for lending ber money to all members of the association. The matter is, . indeed, an im>is portant one, and should engage the tge attention of every farmer in tne South, me When the farmers learn to stand toto gether in every undertaking that pertains to their welfare they will have in. the cotton situation well in hand. Snow in ITorth and West. We notice from exchanges that snow fell in northern and western :he states on the 27th, and this, of course, 'al- accounts for the cool snap in South Carolina. 4 . * LOBE DBY GO . ivdioisrcsi'ronsi ST, i of Your Valued Pati PALMETTO COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE CLOSES. Largest Crowds in the History of the School Attend Exercises?Twelve G r a d uates Receive Diplomas ?Rev. Leslie Delivers Fine Oration?Pretty Women and Handsome Gowns greet the Eye on every side. Thft annual commencement ex ercises of the Palmetto Collegiate Institute began in the opera bouse Sunday morning with the baccalaureate sermon by Rev. A. S. Leslie, the beloved pastor of the Methodist church at this place. The speaker took for his theme: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we v shall be." 'Tis needless to say that this 5 ermon was one of the best ever hetrd in Lexington; for Rev. Leslie is noted for his powerful oratorical efforts and on this occasion he handled his subject with more than usual e^rnestnestness and vigor. For about fortyfive minutes he held the undivided attention of the enraptured tbrong, which filled the immense build'ng to standing room. He gave the young graduates some good food for thought and laid great stress upon the fact that this was the beginning of their career, and that their usefulness in life would depend altogether on what course they pursued. He urged, with all the earnest- [ ness of his soul, that each one of the graduates take the word of God as their guide and walk circumspectly with Jesus Christ at all time s and under all circumstances. The sermon ? throughout was full of good advice, " and if those who heard it will heed ; the words Spoken, their success in i life will surely be attained. MONDAY MORNING. Monday morning at 10:30 the exer cises of the primary department which consisted of music, recitations, dialogues, drills,&c., were attended by < a large audience, who are ever anxious to hear the little ones. The Srogram, this year, was an unusually iteresting one and showed that great pains had been taken by those in charge of this department. Indeed the exercises were fine and no matter what opinion you may have of the larger pupils it cannot be denied that the small children did themselves proud in each performance. I' MONDAY EVENING. Monday evening at half-past ^ight o'clock the house was jammed and packed with a mass of humanity, anxious to take in everything that came from the stage. The exercises ! were opened with a short invocation by Rev. W. H. Hiller, of the Lutheran church, after which the followingprogram was most successfully carried out: Drafts Boozer, recitation, "In the Hayloft," was exceedingly well delivered for a boy of his age. Miss May Amick, piano solo, was well received, and showed careful training 011 the part of her teacher. Dialogue, "Object Lesson in Ilisfrvrv " hv spvpra l lv?vs and cnrlfl. was J J " * J WW W WWW*. WW W ' good; each member performing their part with credit to themselves as well as their teachers. * "PIink, Plank, Plunk," was sung, with telling effect, by several young ladies and boys. Miss Zula Meetze, recitation, entitled "Childhood," made a deeided impression upon her hearers. Miss Gladys Dent, recitation, "Sixty Years Ago." Little Miss Dent is a graceful speaker and her delivery was perfect. Music, Miss Bettie Keisler and chorus, "When the Harvest Moon is Shining on the River." This was unquestionably one of the distinct hits of the evening. Each of the^ young ladies being dressed in white*; ~ their , voices as soft and sweet as the "Mocking bird," brought storms of applause from the crowded bouse. "A Musical Picnic" formed a real picture on the stage, boys and girls appearing, some with picnic baskets; others with buckets of water. Every one connected with this play performed their parts well, and it was one of the enjoyable events of the evening. RionDreher, recitation, "The Country Boy," was delivered in a most happy and pleasing manner. Miss Mary Su9an Roof, piano solo, "Rosy Sunset Hour." Little Mary Susan is, indeed, a bom musician, i possessing many or tne natural inj stincts of her mother, Mrs. E. Belton | Roof, who is one of the finest musicj ians in the State. The "Silver Star Drill" was a beau! tiful sight to behold. Miss Pearl Taylor rendered most j effectively a piano solo, entitled "For| get Me Not." Misses Katie Winganl and Ernestine Barre, in a vocal duet, "This and I That," with their melodious voices i pleased the large audience, as was j evidenced by the prolonged applause I which followed. i Misses Florence Corley and Pearl I Taylor rendered beautifully and sympathetically on the piano, "Happy I New Year." The "Vestal Virgins Drill" closed the exercises for the evening. All the young ladies being beautifully MS COMFAS TIB.., m m m m ronage. Polite and Pro ^uEssEflEF^^^^I^. ?v flHj HARM i This picture shows an interior view of B Dispatch office in the rear. This Stc keeps a full stock for his extensr Fishing Tackle, Statione and elegantly gowned made indeed a striking picture on the stage. TUESDAY EVENING. The exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. A. S. Leslie. The following young men and young women delivered their graduating addresses and received diplomas. The program follows: Miss Florence Corley, Salutatory; Gussie Barre, "America a World Power;" Perry Corley, "What America Has Done for the World;" Miss Hessie Harman, "Hampton;" Miss Minnie Kleckley, "To the Women of the Confederacy;" Miss Sudella Kleckley, "Tl*e Light on Deadman's Bar;" Walter Leslie, "Intellectual Progress;" Miss Vernice Meetze, "Carolina;" Miss Grace Redd, "The Story of a Stowaway;" Miss Bertha Seay,. "Retrospection;" Jesse Wingard, "Value of Reputation;" Miss Ernestine Barre, Valedictory. All of the young men and young women handled their subjects so well ! that it would be hard to even try to i make distinction between them. The ] young ladies were handsomely gown- | ed and a more beautiful set of young i women could not be* found in South J Carolina. We fee 1 that these young j graduates will help to make the future j destinies of our country, ana ic tney continue to follow the good training they have received* at the Palmetto Coliegiate Institute success will surely crown them. The diploma# were presented to the graduates by Rev. W. II. Htfier, in j an appropriate address, in which he | gave them some good advice. He j pointed out to them the all important; thought of higher and nobler arnbi- : tions, that this is only the beginning ! of their education; that higher edsi- j cation i9 what the country demands, j and especially is this in the South I where a great demand lias arisen for j men and women who have reached I the top of the ladder in their various j callings in all walks of life. The exercises will come to a close j .this evening with a plav entitled, j "The Deacon," which will be the | best yet. i The commencement will beoontinu- \ ed in our next issue, as it is impossi- j hie to get ail of the program this I week. ? ?#. i Wcmac Sills Fcsl. Last week Miss Lou Dunbar of Black j creek, shot and killed a fox, the | second of the kind she ever saw, and { the first gun she ever fired. Poxes i had been catching chickens, carrying j away about twenty-five in one night. | Pinally they come in the day time, when Miss Dunbar picked up the gun and with a successful shot stopped this fox's depredations on their poulXI o .TT m<mv 17/iiinrr larlipa OfLTi 12 Jf 11U W JL.Li.CLX l J j VUiib " ^ V boast of equal courage and bravery? Wsssingsr Dots. To the Editor of The Dispatek; The small grain in this section is better than we expected sometime ago. A fairly good crop will be harvested. The farmers arc up with their work, having about finished planting. A large crowd went from this sec- j tion to the commencement exercises j of the Little Mountain school. The i exercises by the students were good I and the speech of Congrr vsman Lever j was greatly enjoyed by ever}7body in ! attendance. i The Bank of Chapin is nearing com- i pletion. Mr. H. B. Wessinger is having some ! improvements made on his dwelling ; house. W. j Y J& f i.G-ZE3S3, C OIJJMBIA, !S. C impt Attention. Or^nhar 13 :an's bazaar, Lexington, s. arman's Bazaar, Santa Clans Headq >re has been for years the pride of G. M pe trade in Fruits, Confectionaries, Far try, School Books, Patent Medicines 2B0GBAMME Of Commencement Exercises of Leesviile College, June 2-4,1907. Friday,.May 31,1:30 p. m.?Primary Department exercises. Sunday, June 2, 11 a. m.?Baccalaureate sermon, Rev. W. I. Herbert. 8:30 p. m.?Sermon, Rev. W. H. Hiller., Monday, June 3, 11 a. m.?Alumni exercises". Instrumental Solo?Miss Mary Derrick. Address?Prof. Jas. L. Mann, Ph.D. Vocal Solo?Miss Mayme Padgett. Essay?Mrs. W. P. Yarborough. 8:30 p. m.?Address, Hon. E. D. Smith. Tuesday, June 4, 10:30 a. m.?Annual concert; Senior class. Graduating exercises. Miss Celestial Ruth Able, A. B.; Miss Frankie Elizabeth Herlong, A. B.; Miss Maude Lenore Spann, A. B.; Miss Minnie May Crouch, Art; Miss Cecil Mitchell, Art. Award cf Medals; Delivery of Di piomas, 3:30 p. m.?Address, Col. J. J. Dargau ^ Browned at The Locks. Mr, James Drennen, an employee Oi the Southern Bell Telephone company in Columbia, was drowned in the Congaree river near Columbia, Saturday morning, at the upper government locks on the car.a I. In company with two friend*, both linemen., 3>rennen went to the canal to fi9h. The door of the lock bridge was locked, and they went up the idver to Smith's branch where Drennen undressed. His friends begged him hot to go into the water, 'bat he decided to swim aeross and come back on the bridge and unlock the doer so he and fe friends could set theAshing lines. His friends knew nothing more until they heard his cry for help, which owing to the treacherous waters, they were unable to give, and he went down in despair. Constable Silted by Kegro. Mr. Oiarence Gist, constable at Oarlisle, sixteen miles from Union, v*as tthnt ar?rf IrillpH hv n nefrro nullraan " '"u ~O I porter, Arthur Davis, of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, last Thursday. Constable Gist arrested Davis for being rowdy at a baseball same, and he became incensed over this and later met Gist on the street a?id deliberately shot him. The negro tied "but was litter captured and lodged in 5ail. Largast Foreign Trade in Sis* tory of Charleston. Jt is said that the value of the imports of Charleston will be the largest this year in the history of that city, aggregating in round numbers about $3,000,000. This shows that Charleston is rapidly coming to the front as a seaport town and that her business is increasing in all lines. Transfers cf Seal Estate. mi- - r_|j JLJUe 1U1AVWlug, 1UU1 rotate have been recorded in the Cleri: of Court's oftice since our last issue: Samuel F. Wheeler and others, executors, to Martin L. Wheeler, 1.1S1 57-100 acres, partly in Newberry and Lexington counties, for 826,723.51. R. W. and P. M. Frick to J. E. Koon, lot in Chapin for $I,6'JC. Concrete Stone Contracting Co. to H. P. Seigkr, lot in Butesburg for $225. L. Belton Roof to Tally R. Keislc-r, lot in Lexington for $500. i tt } Vr/' 'O'\'i K ' .'** I ' +' $ ;$, >, ? S&* ig! '^^Sami^BI- :< I i; jj "V ) 8 c. garters, also an entrance into The [. Harman, Proprietor, who always icy Articles, Toys and Notions, , Toilet Articles, &c. Dots From Hebron. To the Editor of The Dispatch: Fine rains in this section which we are very glad to see. The truck farms in this section are 1 rather poor. Early Irish potatoes are almost a complete failure, the April freeze and continued cool nights having done much damage. Oats have improved wonderfully in the last few weeks: wheat is spotted, part of afield being ruined entirely; the other part good; however, we are still in hopes. Our new church building at Hebron is nearing completion. We have enjoyed having our good friends, John J. Taylor and Simon P. Little, with us while working on the building. Work has been suspended for a short time, Mr. Taylor going to Richmond to enjoy the reunion. Oh! for good roads! But can we ever have the roads we need without some uniform system of taxation? Then you say our taxes are high enough now; but what could pay the people better than a little tax money I rightly applied on the roads? If the } people generally would take an inj terestin better Vends, as 9omefewdo, j we would have good roads all over j the county. No supervisor can do his besc without the co-operation df | all the people in the county. Let ! everybody cio their whole duty in this ! At T \\T | yj I ftSJK/y.1 JLUtkllC. ?? Serious 'uprising in China. Three Americans Burned. | Swatow, Province of Kwang Tung, j China, May 27.?A rebellion has brokI en out at. Wong Kong, in the Uping I district of the Onin Chu prefecture, j All the civil and military officials at i Wong Kong have been assassinated and three Americans burned. The local revolutionists, who were joined by natives of the neighboring | provinces, concentrated for their ati tack on the officials without being j inoltsted by the populace. The miliI tary commander here has mustered ; the station guards and started for the I scene of the outbreak. Steps are be-j ing taken by the local police to pre-, vent excesses here. Admiral Li, with the Kwang Tan and Mee Poo, on board of which are I detachments of troops, is proceeding j to the scene of the uprising in the i Uping district. And according to 1 dispatches native rioters have desI trnyed the German mission station at j Lien Chow, near Pak Hoi. The rnis sionaries escaped. The German gunI boat Ittiz, reinforced by twenty | marines from the gunboat Tsintau, i has left Kong Cong for Pak Hoi and I it is expected that a British gunboat 1 ?ill + 1.^4- - : "VVili iiiso uc scut 10 man pn, +" 3 S7egro Silled at Salley. Melborn Adams, colored, shot and killed another negro, David Marshall,, in the vicinity of fealley, Aiken county, Friday. Immediately after the shooting Adams broke his single-barreled, gun over the head of AngelineCorley,. j at whose house the tragedy oecurrea, j and she is not expected to' live. I Sheriff S2iot Dsspsrats ITcgro* Yesterday morning at Cayce Sheriff j Hood of Fairfield county, was forced j to shoot a desperate negro, Frank Johnson, who was wanted fcr assault i with intent to kill, and for whom he had a warrant. The negro was pullhis gun when the sheriff shot to save ! himself. Johnson will probably die, } four bullets having perforated the in| testines. i