Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The'Bank Thai *. |. This bank aims to give you gco< '* ' 0 checks for you?furnish drafts fc H always glad to assist you in busin I " with this bank, which makes a p ** B positors. Our certificates of depc sJa We cordially invite the farmers fc their bankina wirh us. . * B J. S. WESSINGER, President. .1 BROOKLAP m NEW BROOi ll% We Want your business. It is jrr/ your money with us until you n< rJM times a year, 'iw ? eiiteMAort \ j US* Ma Ml MMIMn#?l?V) * ' Vice-President. Did You Begin The IF NOT BEGIN A NEW YEAR RI< OPEN A CHECKING ACCOUNT Try payiDg your bills with checks, a can keep track of expenditures, also end of the month. NO BETTER TJ NOW. : : ALL BUSINESS GIY FUL ATTENTION. The Bank c R. L. LYSRAND. PrMldwit] { YalnaMa Iropatty Changes Sands. Mr. J. Simon Caogbm&n has pur chased the store building and lot now oooapied by H. N. Kaminer & Co., from Mr. H. N. Kaminer, the purchase price being |3,500. T is is one of the most desirable piece? of property in town, and is being improved by Mr. Caughman. Biofc lien Lynched. Ada, Okla., April 19.?Two hundred citizens of Ada, nearly all of them of the better class, thoroughly disgusted with the 14justice" meied out to criminals in the smaller towns of Oklahoma, early today took from jail and hanged four wealthy landowners for the murder of Deputy United States Marshal A. L. Bebbitt. The lynched men were J. B. Miller, Fort Worth, Tex*?; B. B. Burrell, Dancan, Okla; Jesse West and Jos. Allen of Canadian, Texas. Gi T7\7". 3=2 IOAJO MAIN 8TREI Solicits a Share ?????? LBANKS r the United States laws, as zent Supervision, makes them lental commodity are you now Better bring it to "The Home e perfectly safe and promptly >ver $116,000.00. TIONAL BANK NCTON. ' 1909. lyings Bank, - * s. c rided Profits $30,000.00. j m savings deposits, interest' Deposits of Si.00 and ov^r. i j t :iven special attention. ing your business, and your j nt, $1.00 per year. IOOF, President and Cashier Chapin i S. C. : : : 1 Accommodates I 1 services. We cash out-of-town K >r sending money way. We are g ess matters. Make your deposits ? oint of good treatment of its de- H >sit bear interest at o per cent. as well as the business men to do ^ J.^.HOyEYC^ Cashier Jjj JDBANKTI (LAND, S. C. 1! our desire to please. Leave pUj eed it. We pay interest four V L. S. TROTTI, %l(j President fil< f New Year Right? GET?RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN VITH US AT ANY TIME. : : : nd note how much more easily you have a much larger balance at the [ME TO BEGIN THAN?RIGHT EN OUR PROMPT AND CARE>1 Swansea. B. E. CRAFT, Cashier. Soth Passed Away. Only Two Hours Between Death of Man and Wife. The News and Courier says news was received in Laurens Thursday morning of the death yesterday of Mr. and Mrs. Brown Whitmire at t leir home at Young's Cross Roads, about three miles southeast of Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Whitmire were both ill with pneumonia, and early yesterday morning Mr. Whitmire passed away. A few i ours latter Mrs. Whitmire died. Each was about 50 years of age. K. of P. Names Delegates. At a regular meetiDg of the Lexington Lodge Knights of Pythias on Wed- ] nesday night, Dr. P. H. 8healey and Mr. Heber Barre were electrd delegates to the grand lodge which meets in Charleston next month, -witt Hon. D. P. Efird and Mr. Karl F. . swald alternates. LOBE DRY Gt 35vd:o3^rc^'ro2< 2T, i cf Your Valued Pat "I?' " MBS. AKKOB SPOSB TO LABGB AUDISNCB. Georgia State Presideffl Delivered . Interesting Temperance Talk. For one hour and forty-fire minutes Friday night Mrs. Mary Harris Armor. ^^..24 TXT#\*M?nta Ptivtaflan preilUVlil U1 UiU ff l/Ui?U O vu* Temperance Union for the State of Georgia, spoke to an andience of 500 men, women and. children .in ? Roofa Hall. The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. N. N. Burton, pastor of the Baptist church in this place and himself one of the strongest believers in and workers for temperknce in the State. The hall wa9 decorated with many handsome flowers, the work of the women of Lexington. The Lexington band -furnished delightful music, which lent pleasure to the occasion, and a bevy of charming women surrounded the speaker on the stige. In a few well chosen remarks the Rev. John W. Neeley, pastor of the Methodist church introduced the speaker. Mr9. Armor told the 9tory of "how Georgia went dry" from beginning to end; how the women of the Order which she represents had worked and prayed in and out of season for a prohibitory law against the legal sale of whiskey. She scored the daii^ press rtP lion Cfofo fny nnhlicliirfr mialp'irlinc i *'* ? o statements about the law not being enforced and cited statistics to show that all manner of crime was on the decrease since prohibition went into effect, and the decrease in the sale of whiskey. She paid a glowing tiibute to the editors of weekly newspapers in Georgia, and to Fred Seely, editor of the Atlanta .Georgian, "the greatest daily in the State." She ridiculed the idea of having to have the revenue from the sale of whiskey to educate the children. Since prohibition went into effect "Georgia had paid off her teachers for the first time in the history of the State," and she referred to the report published in the daily press 021 Friday sent out from Atlanta, showing the increase in appropriations for education in Georgia during the past year. Mrs. Armor closed with a strong appe.il to the women of Lexington county to work for prohibition in the election in Augu:t, declarthat "if the fight was lost it would be the fault of the women.7' Mrs. Armor is a magnetic speaker. She lias all the fiery eloquence of Tom Watson, Georgia's great Populistic leader, and speaks at the rate of 250 words a minute. She is earnest and sincere, and is unquestionably one of the greatest speakers in the world. Stats Pension Money To Be Distributed soon. The State pension board holds its final meeting today to arrange for the distribution of the $250,000 appropriated by the general assembly. A9 soon as all I of the applications have been formally appio /ad, the lists havnig already fceem prepared by Miss Kate Maher, the efficient clerk, the money will be sent at once to the clerks of court.?The State 20th. Death of Mrs. TaylorMrs. Sarah Taylor, the beloved wife of Mr. Henry W. Taylor, died at her home near the depot on Friday morning at 11 o'clock, after a lingering illness extending over many months. Her remains were laid to rest in the family burying ground at Summit on Saturday afternoon in the presence of a large assemblage of sorrowing relatives and friends. Rev. E. L. Lybrand performed the last sad rites. ? m 1 -? ? ? ? CA Af 1 .ttira. xayiur wan auuuu w ;cmo v. j age and is survived by her husband, i ? | Warmly Welcomed. Mr and Mrs Sidney Dreher of Lexington, and Miss Robie Morgan, of Morgana, spent the week's end with the family of their uncle, the Hon. Wra. J. Thurmond. Mrs Dreher, a bride, was Miss Bertha Morgan, sincerely beloved Ly everybody welcomed 1 er and her husband with extremes!; coidiality.?Edgefield Chronicle. IOSS (IMP AS T, TIB., ronage. Polite and Pr< W, C. T. XT. ORGANIZED. An Earnest Appeal to the Women of #eategl>n to folly Around the Colore. To the ^Editor of The Dispatch; * On last Saturday, April 17. through the influence of Mrg. Mary Harris Armor, president of the Georgia Wo-, man7g Christian Temperance Union, a W. C.T.* U. was organized in our 'town. We began with ten members, and at our first meeting we received two new members. We do hope and pray that every lady will feel the great responsibility resting upon her own sonl and not be content until she has united in this noble work. It certainly is a cause that has God's blestinoM nnnn ifc nnH no ono tipoH fhinV she will have cause to regret having enlisted in- the great army that i9 fighting for prohibition all over this home-land of ours. L'et 6aoh one go in earnest prayer to our Heavenly Father before she | says "No, I will not join or .have anything to do with it." Let us all lemcrnber that we have either fathers, brothers, sons, husbands, and we all have friends we wish to be pure and truq; and how can man be pure and true when the brain is enraged? And let us not forget that many a fair woman has falien from her high and holy life because of alcoholic drinks? Every lady is invited to join jn this work. Let us work with a will to ! persuade every voter to te brave enough to walk out on a dry ticket, holding himself abo?*e derision. Jome and join us, and we will willingly aid any one in organ in big a W. is. f. I'. in their com in unity. There i.- work to be done, and done quickly, for soon the question of whiskey or prohibition will be settled, perhaps for decades, wet or dry. Oh, Father, may it be a dry county and a cliy State! L^t us be up and doing. Our society elected the following officers: Mr9. M. D. Harmau, presiJ iwt \TlOC \fo "! WT J iltlOO Ana* y IT 11 T idsnt; Miss Beanlah Fox, corresponding secretary and treasurer; Mrs. L. E. Count-, recording secretary. May God bless and help every man, woman and child to say: "Yes, I am ready and willing to help, and wiil vote as I pray." Mrs. L. E. Counts, Recording Secretary. Lexington, April 20, 1909. Sara and Stables Burned. On Friday night between 10 and 11 o'clock, fire destroyed the barn and stables of Mr. Jasper Taylor, a prosperous farmer residing about three miles south of Gilbert, together with corn, fodder, peas guano, cotton seed and a fine mare valned at $200.00. The fire is thought to have been the work of an incendiary, and the sheriff's office was notified. Deputy Sheriff Miller responded to the call with his usual promptness, carrying with him one of the county's bloodhounds. The dog carried a trail for a few hundred yards, losing it the edge of a swamp, and the chase was given np. Mr. Miller did not reach Mr. Taylor's until abont twelve hours after the fire and the trail was too cold for the dog. Mr. Taylor's loss is said to be abont $1,200 with no insurance. Htut By Falling Tree. Mr, Ben Kaminer, of the Edmund section, met with a serious accident on Friday. While cutting logs alongside of another, it 6eems that both trees began to fall at the same time, and while trying to get out of the way of one tree he ran directiy under the other, the tree falling across one of his legs, bivuking both ixjnes below the knee. Dr. E. P. Derrick attended the ir j:;.- > man and at last accounts ho was iv >u-.r easy. * * ^ At The Lyrio. The Lyric theatre in Columbia i* offering without a doubt the finest vaudeville performances ever seen iu tha*eitv^^TTou can lauah and erow fat all - ? *- w at the same time. The crowds continue to increase and as the festival draws near all eyes are watching the Lyric programs. Go to the Lyric while attending the music festival. i ??MBM?MMBI?B??MM IY, ^CrlEIES., COLUMBIA, 8. C ompt Attention* Prober lr TjSggf Too feflEV* 13 wort^ only hall c is at least tv temptation ot '* \ Citizens E ^ Jj BATES m '2 It's safer there ? j 6ox. Start your *yA have. Make it a BPx / A pay all bills by cl ^ft for yourself e^ | We pay interest |H ^ ^ j TT. X. GUNTER, Demonstration Work Progressing Nicely. | The government, farm demons'ra- | tion work is progressing nicely on the I farms around Lexington. Hon. E. J. | l Watson, eonimhsione.-of asriculaire i of South Carolina, a:id Pro:. Ira W. j Williams, in charge of t!)e govern- J men t farm demonstration work in this i State under Dr. Knap;, were here j yesterday on an inspection tour. Mr. Watson took several photo- i I graphic views of vetch patches, as > well as a photograph of a drove of j beef cattle. j Doth^.ro highly elated at the prog- J ress that is b Jng made by rvfr. G. A. j Derrick, who has charge of the work j on this side cf the river. Both stated I that >Ir. Derrick is The right man ?in j the right place. "The veurh, under ( the supervision of Mr. Derrick, is the 1 prettiest we have ever seen anywhere on sandy land." said these gentlemen vesterdav. j . I We hope to he aole tc give a brief insight into the practical work thai1 is ; actually being done nr. iho govern- ' m?nt farina in this etmjiLy in oar next. ! I aS U '. I Columbia Music FostirnL j Columbia, April 20.?Special: As the time approaches increasing interest is being taken in the plans for the festival to be held in the Columbia theatre, on Thursday and Friday of this week. Season tickets for the three concerts are in great demaud and it is believed from the outlook t day that the seating capacity of tl e theatre will be tested 10 the utmost at a . onno CUUIl pci With the Philarmonic orchestra, Dresden, Germany, 65 men, there will be a full chorus of 200 voices, and a children's chorus, 200 voices, conducted by Mr. George S. Kitredge, College for Women, and Mr. W. G. Utermoehlen Columbia College, will be a quartette of famous artists, Jomelli, Langendorff, Dawson and Hastings. Other attractions of the Columbia Music Festival week will be: Arts and Crafts exhibit, College for Women, 22-23: Students art exhibit, Columbia College, 22-23: Tarantella gerraan, 21: opening ball, Columbia Festival Ball club, 22: Baseball, 22-23-24. Many out of town entries will be J made for the automobile races to be held on the 21st., under the auspicesof the Columbia Automobile club. There are a number of handsome new running machines in Columbia which will be given a try?out on the race track and owners of cars in other towns ase invited to enter the contest. The prizes will be well worth winning T;.ere will be special railroad rates rem all stations in South Carolina and Columbians are making ready to welcome friends from ail parts or tne .State. J. A. F. District Convention. The fifth district convention I. 0. O; F., meets with Congaree Lodge, No. 50, Columbia, on April 29, at 8 o'clock p. m. An inter< sling program has been arranged, and any third degree member is entitled to attend this convention. Every lodge is urged to send one or more delegates and it is the duty of each noble grand to see that his lodge is represented. \ tf LLARINHAND f as much as one in the bank. For rtfce in the temptation to spend it. it of your way by depositing|yo**r lank of Batesln l mrna . . fc n n ?? WMV) .4 4 V Wl my way than in your safe ot cash account today with what you rule to deposit all your cash and leek. You'll find you have more rery time you balance your books. ; on time deposits quarterly. Pres. JONES, Cashier. 1 M. M. CARTER, Asst. Cashier, Stats Farmer: TJnioi Mass 2?-33-ing Called President ILirri*, of .'he Slate Farmers Union issued the toho dug call for a mass meeting of the < cunty union cf fleers and other members of the union to be held in Colon.bh. on the evening of the ihUci;: 1UA i the county presidents are especially requested to ruot Lv/ith the state executive committee on Thursday, April 29th, at 6 p. m. in the city of Columbia, for tne p. r,>ose of consulting together in refer n*oe to the hand ling of the cotton crop of J9C9, and such other matters as may be useful for the upbuilding of the in ion is scouring a more com->k te vg.ir iz;.tiou in all the counties of the sta <. "As ma.)v of the c*unly secretaries and county business agon's as can conveniently do so are rc quested to attend also together with as many members of the union as can come. "A mass meeii sg is desk ed for discussion and consultation. "13. HARRIS, President South Carolina Slate Farmers' thiiois. "J. \V 11 {Th"ER Ri;ID s.e. Treas." A, So^ocl Fcr Broolzla^dThe public-spiritedcifi::-:nsof Brookland are very much elated over the rv suit of yesterday's olc<-tloli on the question o: issuing ?10,000 in bonds fi r the purpose of erecting a new school building. 1: is probable ?J at the lot will to donated. The vote was 65 to 4. There are now in a t i cance about 300 pupils, and the new buih ing is to accummo :aiu w. i?i;s3 v t ra nouseai is the principal. Trustees are D. J. Dcuglasj, P. I. Sex and H. J. Hutto. There is some tal * in Brookland of annexation to Columbia-carrying a slice of Lexingto i to Columbia that section from Congaree creek up to Saluda river on a line with the proposed cession of the Dutch Fork to Richland.?The Statf, 18th. Stockman Case Again. Samuel W. Stockman will not go to the penitentiary for some time yet, and may probably never serve a day of his seven-year sentence for having killed his son-in-law, Hampton J. Hartley, during Christmas, 1905. His attorneys, Messrs. Graham & Sturkie and Ex-Senator Sharpe, will ask for a re-hearing of the case before the supreme court. Should this plan fail it is very likely that the case will be taken up before the United States scpreme court, although this has not been decided upon by the attorneys, it is said ti at Solicitor Timmerman ?nd Messrs. Eflrd & Dreher. attorneys for the State, will strenuously object to a rehearing, and it will be a legal fight to the fiuish. the like of whioh. has not been 6e ? in this county for years. The final rjiul; v ill be awaited with interest. Harried. Ayril 18th, 1909, at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Bac man yzer, on Black Creek, Mr. George C. lark and Miss Corrie zer wer u to in the holy bonds of matrimony, Rev- B. D. Wessinger officiating.