Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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t 1 THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. \ &Eepreseiitatioe newspaper. gocers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties Like a Blanket. TTftT. TTYTTT J " LEXINGTON, S. C? WEDNESDAY. JUNE 16,1909. 33" ? I The HOME N /\i* | c wr US i Capital Stock Liability of Stock! Protection'to Depo OFFERS I Every safe-guard know] security and safety of th Highest rates of intere LOANS WHEN THEY ARI v;-r Sg *Safety Deposit Boxc i ? ^ % y*<<* *- V . ^ 1892. . Lexington i LEXINGTO: J Capital, Surplus and U 5 per cent interest pa being computed semi-annua receive^. Commercial accounts al Ample facilities for ha - account will be appreciated Safety deposits boxes fo % W. % i Did You Begin I! v > * IF NOT BEGIN A NEW YEAE OPEN A CHECKING ACCOU* Try paying your bills "with checi can keep track of expenditures, i end of the month. NO BETTE1 NOW. : : ALL BUSINESS? FUL ATTENTION. The Bank IK. L. LYBRAND. President IBank < : : : CHI The Bank Tl This bank aims to give you checks for you?furnish dra always ?lad to assist you in 1 with this bank, which make positors. Our certificates of We cordially invite the far their banking with us. J. S. WESSINGER, Presidei I; tJKuurvLA \ NEW BRC 7 We Want your business. / your money with us until yoi 4 times a year. t J. C. CUICNARD, A Vice-President. DIAMONDS are the most interestin? of all Jewels. They hav< figured in history poemi and songs; been tne caus< of deaths without num x ber, provided ready monej ?all the while serving as beautiful ornaments. Buy Diamonds from us and receive best value foi for you money. SYLVAN BROS. Jewelers, Silversmiths, Optician! Ccr. Main and Hampton St. /~t CJ /"< | 'vULL MtilA. o. \j. DENTAL NOTICES Dr. R. G. Killingsworth, Denti: Will be at Pelion, Friday and Sati day, Jnne 18 and 19 6 "W. IE3 Id^O MAIN 8TRE1 Solicits a Share IATIONAL BANK iXINCTON. 125,000.00 tolders $25,000.00 tsitors $50,000.00 TS CUSTOMERS a to modern banking for the eir funds. tst on time deposits. NEED THEM AT REASON,E BATES. is For Rent, $1.00 per year. 1909. Sayings Bank, N, - - S. C ndivided Profits ?30.000.00. id on savings deposits, interest ily. Deposits of $1.00 and over so given special attention, ndling your business, and your i . r rent, $1.00 per year. P. R00F^Prew|l$pt ai*d Cashier he New Year Right? ? RIGHT?RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN rc WITH US AT ANY TIME. : : ;f, and note how much more easily you ilso have a much larger balance at the R TIME TO BEGIN THAN?RIGHT GIVEN OUR PROMPT AND CARE of Swansea. B. E. CRAFT, Cashier. \ Df Chapin LPIN, S. C. : : : iat Accommodates i good services. We cash out-of-town fts for sending money way. We are rasiness matters. Make your deposits s a point of good treatment of its dedeposit bear interest at 5 per cent. mers as well as the business men to do % it. J. P. HONEYCUTT, Cashier tOKLAND, S. C. m It is our desire to please. Leave fttj u need it We pay interest four m L. S. TROTTI, President 0u| Fiaed For Not Working. George Porter, white, and Henrjr Strother, a negro, were tried before Magistrate Thos. L. Harman Sat> urday afternoon for failure to work * the public road. The warant was 5 ! sworn out bv Mr. Simon Tavlor, over * seer on the public road between Lexington and Barr. Both were convicted f and a fine of $5 each and all costs. * Porter refused to work, it is said, on account of having a crippled hand and I because he had never paid poll tax. * The negro claimed a9 his reason for not working that he had not worked the roads at all in a year and that he did not believe that he was liable to work on the road in question. Fifty Acres Fine Cora. Mr. G. A. Guignard, of Brookiand, has the finest corn in the county, it is said. There are fifty acres in vhe field. His farm is on the 9t, old Jas. S. Guignard place below lr- Brookland, and i? attracting the at2t tention of all passereby. 1 LOBE DRY G( ^dsrcszTOi 3T, ) of Your Valued Pa | Court Proceedings. |, The regular rammer term of court fKSc onnrif.iT rtnntroriof? nn MAndnv IV! VVUUWJ VVM T VUW? V4J ATAWM?-**J morning with the Hon. Robert Aldrich, of Barnwell, presiding. Solicitor Timmerman and Stenographer Anderson were at their posts. Clerk Shealy had everything in readiness, and the machinery of the court was soon set in motion. There was a noticeable absence from the court room of the manly form of Sheriff P. H. Corley, who is still unable to attend to his duties in the court room. Sheriff Corley i9 unquestionably one of the most popular officials in the county, and he was besieged with callers all day. Deputy Sheriff Miller, however, was "on to his job," and filled the sheriff's place with the ease of a veteran. The grand jury returned true bills in the following cases: John Dreher, Eliza Eleazer, "Dump" Gantt, Bessie Dreher, alias "Nucky" Eleazer, and Lula Dreher, negroes, charged with assault and resisting arrest; Rufus Reeves, a negro, charged with larceny from the person; Amos Dickerson, a negro, incest; John G. Darby, assault with intent to rayish; Ralph Clarke, housebreaking and larceny; Quitman Gayden, seduction; The first case called for trial was that of John Dreher, Eliza Eleazer, "Dump77 Gantt, Bessie Drcner ana Lul&Dreher. This was the case where the negroes resisted arrest and ran Constables L. L. Roof and Pierpe Shealy out of the field with a shotgun and hoes. ' They were later arrested by Sheriff Corley and Deputy Sheriff Miller. They had no lawyer and consequently pleaded their own, cause. They asked the witnesses for the prosecution a number of questions, which were quite amusing. They were convicted in short order, but Judge Aldrich deferred passing sentence antil later in the week. Quitman Gayden, a young white man from New Brookland, was next pat on trial for seduction. The young woman in the case is Miss Corie Estelle Lucas, of the same town. Both belong to prominent families, and the caBe attracted a great deal of attention and was hard fought. The mother of the unfortunate girl was the first witness for the prosecution. She was followed by the young woman herself. Miss Lucas is an innocent -i_* -f- i a _ _ a.J. i* ? lOOKing gin anu. is attractive 111 every feature. She told her story in a. straightforward manner. She told how Gayden had seduced her under his repeated promises of marriage. She made a most excellent witness, sticking to her story in the main through a grilling cross-examination. Her brother testified that Gayden had promised him to marry his sister. The defendant denied promising to marry the girl, but admitted telling her brother that he "would do what was right if they would release him from under bond.' The jury has had the case since 4 o'clock yesterday, and a mistrial is almost certain. The case of John G. Darby, charged with assault with intent to ravish is set for trial this morning. This bids fair to be one of the most sensational ca9e9 ever tried in this county. Mr. Darby is chief of police for the town of Batesburg, and is said to be held in the highest esteem there. The woman in the case i3 a widow and operates a boarding house in the same town. The defendant is represented by Efird & Dreher; of Lexington and Col. E. F. Strother, of Batesburg, while Solicitor Timmerman will be assisted in the prosecution by E. L. Asbill, of Leesvil e. Although this is the first time Judge Aldrich has appeared in Lexington, he has already won the hearts of all with whom he has come in contact. He is the soul of courtesy, yet firm in his decisions, and dispatches the business before him in a manner that attracts the attention of all. He is, without doubt, one of the ablest jurists in South Carolina. All Lexing ton is glad that Judge Aldrich is here ^ Baseball. Tnere will be a game or baseball on the diamond at the tair grounds next Saturday afternoon between Lexington and New Brookland. This will be the best game of the season. M COBPAI ST, Tie., tronage. route and rr COLUMBIA WOMAN FOULLY SLAX Throat Cut and Head Crushed With Axe. Equals Maude Alien Murder Mystery. The Columbia police have another Maude Allen murder mystery in the finding early Friday morning of the body of Mrs. Victoria Griffin in a well at her home on Sumter street. There was an axe gash in the top of her head and her throat wa9 cut from ear to ear. She was murdered in her kitchen where the axe and a bloody : razor belonging to her son weretound. i Five men have been arrested so j far. ? Three are her sons, all cotton mill operatives, the fourth is G. Wash Medjin, a former boarder and the fifth 1 ' is a barber named Luke Lewis, formerly of this county, who kept company with the dead woman's daughter. The three sons of the dead woman has been released. Mrs. Griffin's husband was murdered in Georgia several years ago by his business partner, Dennis, at a turpentine farm. The whole murder is shrouded in the deepest mystery. The children of the dead woman declare that their mother killed herself; that she had been a sufferer from cancer for several yeaas and that she had often said that she was going to kill herself. Brit on the other hand, the police assert that it wa9 a murder outright, as it would have been impossible for the woman to have struck herself in the head with the axe, cut her throat with a razor and then walked to the well, jumped in and pulled the cover to the well shut. All efforts to clear the mystery have proven futile so far. _ Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Kaminer. j Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Kaminer, of j Ryal Province, Philippine Islands, arrived in Lexington on Monday to spend six weeks with the former's relatives here. This is the first visit Mr. Kaminer has paid Lexington since he left to join the Spanish-American war. He has had phenominal success in his new field, having held several positions of honor and trust. He is now treasurer of Ryal Province at a salary of $4,500 per annum. Mr9. Kaminer is a charming young woman. She is a native of Oregon and a woman of culture and refinement k-They have been 011 the road two months and, while the trip was thor- | onghly enjoyed, it was tiresome, j Their little daughter was taken sick , on the journey, but it is hoped that the clime of Lexington will agree with her and that she will soon be : well. AUTOMOBILES I wish to annoi Lexington county f Automobiles, and a at close prices and c thing for the sand a test. " High wheels, which makes them < man who wants a c price. I want to figure contemplating buyii live in the county, h I also sell the I power on earth to ri with any size engine U M | ri. iVI ! L !L? COLUMBIA, S. C. ompt Attention. SIM A 00 Kv^!;> worth only hall ? *>- there *s at least ^ ;,'JvPut temptation 01 ;Vc^Bw.V.cash in [*, V Citizens B h j bates: sOL ^ >7 It?s afer there a 01^ox* Start your have. Make it a If HV V^ pay all bills by ch hHbwp! ^ ^or y?urseif ev HHUHKj]|9 We pay interest WK U. X. GTJNTER, IIH P, A. c. ! w] The Stats Farms. Col. D. J. Griffith is sustaining bis past excellent reputation for large j yields on the State farms. The Col. ? made 1,000 bushels of wheat on eighty 1 acres. This wheat will be ground at j the roller fiour mill of Mr. E. J. t .George in Lexington. There was a c total yield of 20,000 bushels of oats on ^ the State farm. Col. Griffith is mak- t ing the best superintendent the penitentiary has ever had. The prisoners are all in the best of health. Mr. S. A. Miller, who is in charge of the State farm in this county, c made six hundred busheh of wheat, c 2,000 bushels of oat9, and has a fine r corn and cotton crop, well cultivated. J Mr. Miller is said to be one of the t be9t managers in the State, and his u work is appreciated by his superiors. t e Silled The Sheriff. t i c Floresville, Tex., June 12.?Retugio 0 Jaureque plunged a sharpened spoon handle into Sheriff Wright while the sheriff wa9 placing the black cap on Jaureque preparatory to hanging him 1 for criminal assault. The sheriff will \ die. A deputy dragged the criminal 5 back on the scaffold and executed him I without the black cap. ^ m . a Lost Oats in Froshot. \ Mrs. D. J. Griffith was a heavy loser e by the recent freshet, which caused ii the streams to overflow. Lots|of oats a were totally washed away. Messrs. Childs, Ehrlich, Clarke and i others, on the Richland side were t likewise heavy losers. i? - MIMfflT ince that I have accep r\r th<* Infprncihnnii 1 H Ui HIV XXI LVX JLIIAI.XV/11W.A m prepared to sell the >n easy terms. This i nd rough roads. Th solid rubber tires, j sasy and quick to repa rood, reliable automo 9 7 i with every man in t ig an automobile. N et me figure with you. nternational Gasoline an your machinery. : you want. Yours foi !. WINGi .exington, S. C A nniMffiltiy fMk. ? f LLAR IN HAND s f as much as one in the bank. For ["1 Od in 4V10 lonnn+olirtw 4TI < 4 T ivv iu vu? b&uipiakiv;il IU opcuu it it of your way by depositingjyour iank of Batesburg, BURG, : : : S.C. ny way than in your safe or cash account today with what you rule to deposit all your cash and eck. You'll find you have more ery time you balance your books, on time deposits quarterly. pres JONES, Cashier. M. CARTER, Asst. Cashier. Bynum Not to Be Tried. It is stated that Ed Bynum, the nejro who shot and dangerously woundjd Sheriff Corley a few weeks ago and yho is now confined in the State pentpnti arv trill r?nf ! ?*? of. fViia ;erm of court on account of the conlition of Sheriff Corlev, who is not veil enough to look after the trial of he case. Mr. W. P. Roof. Mr. W. P. Roof is spending a few lays at Glenn Springs, having gone >ver last week to attend the annual neeting of the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' association of which ie i9 a prominent member. His nany friends will be glad to learn hat he was elected a member of the xecutive committee of the assoeiaion. Mr. Roof is one of the most sucessful cotton mill men In this section f the State and is deservedly popular. Ittempt to Wreck Automobile. A dastardly, but futile, attempt to vreck an automobile was made on Sunday night about six miles above ^exir.gton on the Augusta road. Vhile Mr. Sam P. Roof was speeding .long in his handsome Buick car with Messrs. Sam J. Leaphart, R. D. Smith ind C. E. Leaphart, Mr. Roof observd a pile of rails across the road just a time to slow up enough to prevent . terrible accident. The surroundings showed conclus* vely that it was a deliberate attempt o wreck an automobile. The matter 3 being investigated. AUTOMOBILES ted the agency for arvester Company's m to reliable parties nachine is just the ey have stood the >imple mechanism, jr, all appeal to the bile at a moderate he county who is 0 matter where you Engines, the best 1 can furnish you r Business XRD, m . 1 .