The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, April 07, 1909, Image 1
THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH.
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& Bepresentattue Newspaper. Sorters Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding bounties Like a Blanket.
vftT. tyytt ~~ ^LEXINGTON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 7, 1909. 23"
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are the safest places to bank,
well as the most rigid Goveri
so. In what kind of dope or
investing your spare change?
National Bank" where it will
repaid you with interest.
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Lexington S
LEXINGTON,
^ Capital, Surplus and Uni
5 per cent, interest paid
being computed semi-annual!
received.
Commercial accounts also
Ample facilities for han<
account will be appreciated.
Safety deposits boxes for:
W.P
I There comes a time in ev
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pointer?a neipmg nana to
THE FIRST NATIONA
is the pointer that will I
worries if you will begin t
ment today.
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S checks for you?furnish draft8
u always glad to assist you in bus
8 with this bank, which makes a
B positors. .Our certificates of de
, 8 We cordially invite the farme
8 their banking with us.
1 J. S. WESSINGER, President.
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We Want your business. It
j[/j your money with us until you
times a year.
fe4 J. C. CUICNARD,
W> Vice-President.
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IF NTT BEGIN A NEW YEAR I
OPEN A CHECKING ACCOUNT
Try paying: your bills with checks,
can keep track of expenditures, al?
end of the mouth. NO BETTER '
NOW. : : ALL BUSINESS G1
FUL ATTENTION.
The Bank ?
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Solicits a Shan
XL BANKS
for the United States laws, as
anient Supervision, makes them
mental commodity are you now
Better bring it to "Ihe Home
[ be perfectly safe and promptly
Over $116,000.00.
VTIONAL BANK
[INCTON.
1909.
ayings Bank,
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iivided Profits $30,000.00.
on savings deposits, interest
y. Deposits of $1.00 and ovei|
i eriven snecial attention.
lling your business, and your
rent, $1.00 per year.
. BOOF, President and Cashier
reryone's life when he needs a
guide him to his destination.
L BANK of BATESBURG
lelp you over future financial I
he use of its Savings Depart- I
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>od services. We cash out-of-town
for sending money way. We are
iness matters. Make your deposits
, point of good treatment of its deposit
bear interest at 5 per cent.
ts as well as the business men to do
J. F. HONEYCUTT, Cashier
ndbankTI
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is our desire to please. Leave
need it. We pay interest four ^
L. S. TROTTI, W
President ftlj
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6 new rear Kip?
LIGHT?RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN
WITH US AT ANY TIME. : : :
and note how much more easily yoxi
o have a much larger balance at the
TIME TO BEGIN THAN?RIGHT
:YEN OUR PROMPT' AND CAREt>f
Swansea.
B. E. CRAFT, Cashier.
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of Your Valued Pa
BRIDOB CONTRACT
NULL AND VOID.
Messrs. Efird & Dreher State That
the County Cannot Legally Build
Bridge Across Saluda River?Have
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50 NOimea me uarouna engineering
Company.
Messrs. Efird & Dreher, the attorneys
for County Supervisor Langford,
on Saturday wrote the following letter
to The Carolina Engineering Co.,
of Burlington, N. C., who were awarded
the contract for the construction
of the steel bridge across Saluda river
several months ago:
Carolina Engineering Co.,
Burlington, N. C.
Dear Sirs:
We had hoped all the while that
some way would be found by which
the county authorities could agree for
you to prosecute the bridge contract
made last year with the Supervisor of
Lexington County, but we are sorry
* 0 say, after a very careful investigation
of the whole subject, that the
contract is such that it cannot be enforced
against the county, and although
the present county authori
ties, as we are informed, are anxious
to have the bridge erected across the
river, they are in no condition to do
so, for the reason that they have * not
now the funds, and so far as the outlook
now i9 they will not have them
during this year. We have so advised
the Supervisor and he instructs us to
9ay to yon that his intention i9 to
build a bridge across Salucia river during
his term of office and that he will
bend every energy to commence the
work at the earliest possible date.
He instructs us further to say that
whenever he gets ready to build the
bridge, if agreeable to you, he would
be glad to make some contract with
you by which you could be compensated
in part, if not in whole, for the
work you have already done on the
bridge.
Yours very truly,
Efird & Dreher,
Attorneys for County Supervisor.
At a meeting held between the representatives
of the bridge company,
Supervisor Langford and his attorneys
about ten days ago, Mr. Langford
authorized Messrs. Efird & Dreher
to make a thorough investigation
of the bridge contract and see if there
was any possible way in which the
county could legally accept the compromise
offered by the company for
the completion of the work. After
making a thorough examination of
the contract and the law governing
the building of bridges, the attorneys
have reached the conclusion that
there is no way in which the county
can legally accept the compromise.
While making this investigation it
was revealed that at the time the contract
was awarded there was not one
dollar in the treasury. The funds in
hand, even for ordinary county purposes,
were totally exhausted, and no
appropriation or special levy for the
payment of the amount covered by
the contract had been made; nor had
any act of the General Assembly been
passed authorizing the county commissioners
to borrow money for such
purposes, and that there is now no
law allowing the commissioners of
this county to borrow money, and
under Section 377 of the criminal code
it is a felony for a county official to
contract beyond the funds in hand.
The next move in the case will be
awaited with increased interest.
Suit Against C. N*. & L.
We learn that Dr. Geo. R, Harding,
the celebrated painless demtist of Hyatt's
Park, (Columbia, S. C.) has recently
entered suit against the C. N.
& L. Railroad, to recover damages for
Vynhip- nrinnlf^rl in n nrillisinn nn fbo 1r?tV>
r? ^--rr"v^ -? ?* ?
day of March, 11#07, near Prosperity,
S. C., from which the doctor has been
a great sufferer and said tc have caused
him loss of time and money. Claim
and damages $25,00P, Melton & Bohser,
Columbia, are his attorneys.
Communion Cervices.
There will be communion services
at Pisgah next Sunday at 11 a. m.
Sunday school at 11 a. m.
DOBS COMPA?
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tronage. Polite and Pr
W. H. P. Bast Passes Away.
Lexington county was shocked and
grieved on Sunday morning when it
became known that Mr. W. H. F. Rast
had died suddenly at his home in
Swansea, on Saturday night, at 10
I A'/\1 Aolr Tf V%n/1 Knnn fA* cAmn
u uiuvii* 11 uau ucc/u aiiu n n ivi ovui^ j
time that his health was failing, but
no one dreamed that he would so soon
be called upon to answer the final
summons. Several months ago he
went to Florida in the hope tbat his
health might be restored, and his
friends thought that he had been very
much benefitted. He was on the
streets of Swansea, Saturday afternoon !
and was apparently as well as usual.
Mr. Rast was about 55 years of age.
He represented Lexington county in
the State Legislature for three terms
from 1890 to 1S96. Honest in his con-*
victions, with an ever earnest desire
to serve the whole people, he made an
ideal representative and soon endeared
himself to the people of the entire
county. Retiring from public life, he
gave his entire time to his farm and
mercantile business at Swansea. In
t is he was highly successful, but few
men standing higher in the business
wjrid.
Ha was a high-toned Christian gentleman,
a prominent layman of the
Me hodist church. His remains were
laid to rest at Calv ary church, about
five miles east of Swansea, on Sunday
in th? presence of a large assemblage
of sorrowing relatives and friends.
He is survived by his widow, who was
a Miss Varn of Colleton county, and a
niece of the late Rev. E. A. Wingard,
of Columbia; three children, two
brothers and two sisters; also by his
norarl mnfclior TVTra T.rmitt W Raat
He was a good man and certainly
will be missed at Swansea; devoted to
his family, true to his friends. In
his death the county has lost one of
her noblest sons, and a substantial
citizen. Peace to his ashes.
Corlsy-SDof.
This evening at 6:30 o'clock the
beautiful new home of Sheriff and
Mrs. P. H. Corley, in east Lexington,
will be the scene of a pretty wedding,
when their youngest daughter, Miss
Lila Mae, will become the bride of
Mr. Carl Anderson Roof. The ceremoaey
will be performed by Rev. J.
A. Cromer, and a brilliant reception j
will follow the ceremony.
The bride-elect is a young woman of j
unusual beauty, and has always been !
a favorite among Lexington's young? r j
social set. Mr. Roof is the eldest son j
of Mr. and Mrs. E. Belton Roof and is
one of the most popular young mm
ever reared here. He is a graduate of
the Citacel and is at present holdirg
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| 1509 Main Street.
a very responsible and lucrative position
in the Columbia postoffiee.
The bride and grcorn will leave on
the 9 o'clock train to-night for Columbia,
where the}* will make their future
home.
Another Big i
down my fouildini
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p Buggies was $75.00 now only
utors was $9.03 now $5.00.
anters was $3.50 now $2.50.
ributors was $5.50 now $3.50.
ers was $6.50 now $4.00.
rn Planters was $15.00 now on
istake if you let this chance sli]
;tock in spring time they need a
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alf as much as one in the bank. For
twice in the temptation to spend it.
out of your way by depositing|your
Bank of Batesburg,
iSBURG, : : : S. C.
; any way than in your safe or cajh
:r account today with what you
a rule to deposit all your cash and
check. You'll find you have more
every time you balance your books.
;st on time deposits quarterly.
I, Pres.
C. JONES, Cashier.
7M. M. CARTER, Asst. Cashier.
EASTER
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Easter Outfit is
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have seen our beauOxfords,
Pumps,
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The daintiest, tini- j
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everyone.
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NOTICE.
] have a good weeder for gaie
cheap. G. B. TAYLOR,
2w24p Lexington, S. C., Route 5.
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