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L THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. ? . ? . I K|.: & Bepresontatiwe Newspaper. Sowers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties Lihe a Blanket. ' ^ ? - ? ? ? _ ||f, VOL. XXXX. ' LEXINGTON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY APRIL 20 1910 ~ 25^ 1. I ft MO] BSift DEPOSIT IT WHEN I YOU HAVE A ^ flTTTITlT TTQ VJU |<HU F iSUivrni?u I HOME NAT* HI OF LEX I TO DEPOSITORS | i Wc offes the best securit ' r ; i * I time deposits and saving TO BORROWERS ' I We furnish the "needfnl ^ 1 estate security at cheap* i _ Sehro&dor-StMls. . ; . | : Mrs. Mary Schroader and Mr. Sidv Bey Steele were quietly married on ^ ~ - * - - A i.1 Sunday afternoon atrne nome 01 me . Officiating clergyman, the Rey. A. R. j Taylor, a few miles from town, f The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Powell, and is a young j woman of gracious disposition and charming personality. She has a large circle of admiring friends. The groom isa popular clerk of Meetze & 8on, and by ciose attention to his du< ties has won the confidence and es\ teem of his employers, and numbers his friends by the score. The happy young couple will com, - mence housekeeping at once in their attractive new home on Depot street. ' Shopping Week in Columbia. This is shopping week in Columbia and we want to urge upon those of our readers who visit the city this ?? week, the importance of patronizing those merchants who advertise in The Dispatch. By shopping .in Columbia this week your railroad fare will be refunded at the rate of four miles for ? eveiy dollars worth of goods you buy. You must, howeyer, get a receipt from the railroad from whom you buy your tucket, and present it to the merchant after purchasing your goods. Ssath of SCrs. Taylor. Mrs. Polly Taylor died at her home * near Boiling Springs church yesterday and will be buried at Boiling Springs today at 10 o'clock. The deceased was about 78 year9 old and is survived by three children, one son and two r. - daughters. I LET US S BMHnBSjaMaMaHHHBBHHBaHtnxmnBBBl j|j w:- N IE.. G. Dret 8 Ontfittars lor Men and Boys. p ??a? h1j nam ihuii.jjimt* / fi "W- !E3 ItJiiO MAIN STREi Solicits a Shar< WEY """ j $ BORROW IT | $ WHEN 1 $ IN NEED, I $ FROM I HE I ONAL BANK I CINCTON | y with liberal rates of interest on B s accounts. g " at all times on personal or re&\ B jst rates and on easy terms. |j Bradford Family Will Leave Lesiagton. Everybody in Lexington regrets to lose the Bradford family, who have " > m?nr vaara Kaan a rvavf, r\f flip IV/1 OV UiUUJ VVW44 ? V % ?w town. The family will leave this week, some going in one direction and some in another. Miss May Bradford will go to New York, where she will make her home with her sister, Mrs. Edwards; Mrs. P. T. Brodie and chi dren will make their home for the present with Mr. P. E. Brodie, near Leesville, and Miss Helen Bradford will remain at Clemson, where she holds the position of secretary of the agricultural department of Clemson College - r They will carry with them to their new places of habitation the best wishes of the entire populace of Lexington, and it is hoped and confidently expected that these estimable peo-_ pie will again ca9t their Jot amongst 118. , J. 0. Whittls is Jsil. J. O. Whittle, a white mail, is in jail charged with breach of trust with fraudulent intent, he having been arrested at his home near Ridge Spring on Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Miller. \ ft Jesse Brown, a farmer of Aiken county, is the prosecutor, and it is illeged that Whittle applied the sum of $5U, paid to him by Brown to buy corn and other supplies, to his own use and skipped bis contract. "he best line of 1 llothinp in Ameri- 1 & ? i for the price, | Griffon Clothes.5' We are agents for Walk- | vev and Crossett Shoes, 1 etson and Mo-Name Hats. I In our Furnishing De- | irtment you will only find | e best. We sell the best I akes at the same price as | hers. i lui iTwancw wain inw.',u? i jim^ypriTyr*?; V T-M'<w?r-' ?mn^r n?-?? rm m ?rnmtwit^ac..wxju^i '4/* WT & 0?*3 1 Leivirg ion, S. C | jffHI'JAJI it. 4>'JEjV JUS II ll?llll-lll ?wr Mm WTTIffl LOBE BBT GO moitczitoi; GT, s of Your Valued Pal Col. D. J. Naotts oa the Issues of the Day. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I read with sadness ana sorrow the references in your columns of another secession from our county of a portion of our citizens to seek the advantages and blessings elsewhere they should find at home. For Lexington to preserve her present proportions and dimensions will require more than mere talk and the filiing of your columns wi. h dangers of leaving us and seeking a home elsewhere. A start and aim at last to do our duty and show to these dissatisfied portions that we can give the redress and relief for which toey sigh and an immediate effort to show our good intent, is all , that can save our territory intact and prevent the invasion which is threati ened and prevent the secession which is impending. These people have a i right to bo dissatisfied and we have > given them a just cause to lament their grievance and to complain of our neglect. The southern and western portions of the county have not done their duty to the Congaree and Broad river areas of our county. These people suffer under severe disadvantages in a struggle to make a living. It is now too late to live in a land of ferries and toll bridges and toll gates?that day should be relegated to the past. In 1892 and 1893 when I represented this county in our general assembly I tried to do my duty hs I believed it on this question and in your columns, on the stump and in the legislature I struggled to try to prevent this same collapse. I introduced a bill to buy cue oia Driages or ouna a new one ni> Brookland and making the tax heavier on those living near and lighter on those living farthest away. I wrot^ several articles in your paper detailing the advantages of this course and strived to show that the advancement would outstrip the costs and expenses, and in your columns and in addresses 1 advocated the ultimate end of owning the Broad river bridge and building at least one across the Saluda for the citizens in the Fork to reach their county seat without such expense and delay. Your columns will show that j I feared then this same calamity and offered this as the only solution of tbi9 | question iu tl e future. I believed tnen and do still that such a course is the only riddance of this evil. I believed then and do still that Lexington offers better invitations than Richland could extend to investors in nice homes adjacent to city life and city business, and I contended that the increase in valuable buildings and home9in our county would 9oon offset the initial expense of giving these people franchises, anc&to lose this territc ry would necessarily encumber the remaiuder with an.additional iucrease to meet our county government expenditures. Just this neglect lias already given to South Carolina Calhoun county, and to continue this kind of political lunacy will still minify our size and magnify our expense on the rest of the county. Columbia was once willing to go its nart in f.hiq river tariff and Lexington should proceed to keep in line with progress whether Columbia does its part or not. I fear the time has past for Columbia to do what she once would have done. Let us assure our citizens that we are as competent to care for our citizens as Rich land is to Crtre for hers or for any additional accessions. Our county ha9 a great future and we have a goocly land or it could not have so successfully combatted bad roads and these needless : burdens. We can't depend on the I ehaingang and the convict camps for good roads, lor the people need them and the people should go the expense to build them, and to build and equip better academies and schools for cur future uplift, and we can get it in no ether way. A change of name will not assist them in these blessings and will not arrive at a verdict any sooner or to any greater efficacy or right. The free silver rage and otner political dogmas have had their da}* and have played their hand and have retired from the scene and we are learning that the homely questions are far irightier and far more momentous to us and our future than these national questions about which we he ar so much fretting in campaign seasons. The time is near when our politicians will have to change their cry and advocate the common place and trite questions to our home life; such as better roads, better schools, better academies and better unci more public service, more respect for law and its enforcement and a compulsory system of getting our children into our public schools. These are the uplifting, advancing. common sense and practical questions of our day and of cur eventful future. To withhold these progressive and elevating questions and lose this territory from sheer earelessne-s and want of tin ill and rebuild or keep in a state of preservation these Chinese walls of Asiatic stagnation i3 poor business and bad public policy. As a business question it is a tailure and as a public meatusc it end- in lo-s ami defeat finally. An extra h vy will result finally to toi.t our b.llo in re grievous ami galling than the amounts now needed to carry out this proposition to our people's interest, and we will finally he driven to those ends in the fiuish or lose more territory 10 adjacent counties and be finally left .-l/tuni t/i n um :j 11 pmImIp fif ihr-? mumiifi DBS GOIFAI r, CHE3., ironage. Polite and Pr( cant county we once possessed. To be able to boast of having the smallest tax leyy in the State and allowing these issues of life and death to us to go nncared for and unhonored strikes me as a poor policy and but little in it for our credit. The enormous expenditures on our public institutions where so few numerically considered, are reached and benefitted are out of proportion to the minimum expenses bestowed on measures where so many are concerned and should receive more consideration at our hands. While I am not advocating a reduction to these public trusts, I would urge more care for the lesser interests at home and if either must be neglected there is no question with mo as to my duty. We are in a position to offer the best home of any county for the final location of the hospital for the insane. We are nearest to our capital of any of desirable sites for these unfortunates of our native land, and I am one of those men who believe that in public effort , and enterprise God blesses those communities who do mo9t lor men as he would individuals in a private capacity. We have natural advantages yrhich the world can and would use an , effort and inclination on our part would give it a send off. There is no cause for our surrendering our capacity to some other party, who are no more Capacitated than ourselves to do for good. To giye U9 any advantages Richland would run up our taxe9 to reimburse for the outlay and we can * . i tii * i. _ r\ 11 j ao tnis wicn equal grace to iticniana and save her the trouble and our citizens the chagrin. v r D. J. Knotts. Swansea, April 18. Hr. Henry Kleokley Dead. Another old soldier has answered the final roll call. On Monday morning at half past six o'clock Mr. Henry Kleckley, after a severe illness of three weeks, and after a life well spent and full of years, passed into that Great bourne from whence no traveller ever returns. He was a Confederate 3oldier and fought^ for the southland during the war between the Sections, being a member of Co. K. South 0 rolina under Capt. W. D. M. Harman. At the close of the 9trife he returned to his home near Lexington and engaged in the pursuit of farming, which occupation he followed until death. He was a member of Zion Lutheran church for many years and was one of its strongest pillars. He is survived by his wife and five children as follows: Frank, Melvin and John Kleckley, and Misses Elizabeth and Ellen Kleckley. Also by the following brothers and sisters: Thomas, David, Jacob, James and Reuben Kleckley; Mrs. Frances Buff and Mrs. Marv Hendrix. His remains were laid to rest in the family burying ground, near his late home, yesterday morning at 10 o'clock i with funeral services conducted from ! the home by the Rev. J. A. Cromer. The deceased was 73 years of ago. Death ci Mrs. Skull. Mrs. Louisa Slmd died at her home in the Rooky Well section on last Wednesday following an illness of several months duration. Mrs. Shell was 67 years of age, and is survived by her "husband and three sons. She was a most lovable character, being a woman of high traits of Christian character and devoted to her family and friends. Her body was laic to rest in the cemetery at Shiloh Methodist church, of which she was a devoted member, on Thursday incrning in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends, with funeral services conducted by the Rev. Mr Folder. I Had Seven Gallons Left Messrs Leachman & Edelin, Graft-on, \V Va, liad been selling a paint, which they thought well of; and this had occurred. They had sold a customer 13 gallons of it to paint his house. A lew years later, they sold the same man Devoe lead-and-zinc the same number of gallons to paint the same house. IJe had 7 gallons left. The point of the tale is: 11 galions Devoe paints an 13-gallon house. Of course, that isn't all. Why docs 11 gallons Devoe go as far as 13 gallons ot other paint"? Because it is ah paint, ail true, no sham, and full measure. But that isn't all. Devoe lasts longer. No, no; von haven'r got to wait ten years to find that out. Ten thousand pe pie know it. They think a heap c.f Devoe. There's no difficulty in sb< wjng our townspeople what to expect of Devoe. ?10 will paint a ?15 house; and Lite paini'il last twice as Jong. 10 Dr. .Daniel to Leoturo. Dr. J. \V\ Daniel, of Columbia, wi'.l lecture in the Methodist church at Inno on the nigr.r of the 2S?h, using for his subject, "The llome." Everybody cordially invited. There Has Recently Seen Placed J:i nil t!i i? u_r s*m*vs an nroinnti *. i?l ;w.in ln?r|) I?nr;? f .f \Y. 'Tilil (1 \s il's. t*:t' l'*?l .M ill? tifny's An-I i nhii: Leal It is tile only* cm lain regulator. *.,>ni?*K!y re i'-v. s ]? ? ale wen lines t\s n:i<l Iia-'kachc. Kidney, Bladder ami Urina?y troulnos. At ail druggists or bv mail .V) . San p'e free. Address, l'he Ho her e ray Co., Le iioy, N. Y. . \ ' ? * * UlL * 1 . % ^.<3-EB, COLUMBIA, H. t >mpt Attention, STATEMENT 0] Citizen's Bank BATESBUKG At the close of busin< RESOURCES. Loans $116,760 65 Over Drafts 1,150 00 Stocks 530 00 Furniture and fixtures 2,051 00 Banking house 5,376 42 Due from banks 12,902 87 Cash and cash items 9,558 95 Total 148,329 90 i j STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, < 1 Before rae came A. C. Jones, Casi being duly sworn, says that the abc condition of said bank, as shown by Sworn to and subscribed to befor< BARI 1892. Lexington Si LEXINGTON, Capital, Surplus and Undi 5 per cent, interest paid being computed semi-annually received. Commercial accounts abo Ample facilities for hand! account will be appreciated. Safety deposits boxes for r w. p.: I9 Bank o1 : : : CHAP The Bank Tha Thi9 bank aims to give you go checks for you?furnish drafts always glad to assist you in busi with this bank, which makes a positors. Our certificates of de] We cordially invite the farmei their banking with us. J. S. WESSINGER, President. faU cm* AP& $jr s (ft l i ,bHUUftLAI Kg NEW EKOO yjW We Want your business. It i: nj your money with us until you i MM times a year. M J. C. GUIGKARD, Vice-President. yiimanjmmmjiim. iiJM?a..TU!iLM.?iuJMMLUE-LJ^LiM Em&a&sMBE&s&w&nBBEBBm I Plant Your D< f They will yield a sure J SAVINGS DEPARTMEN' p good or bad, and, if the "I I the principal as well as the J _ j? 7 _ _ ,3 $ mediately nau. I Only a small amount i | Let us start the Saving Ha I THE STM I COLX/MI ? Wm. Barnwell, President, p John T. Me! f i, r r t??mi... . - n iiifiiB? i mm, I 9 i ?? BMB? j' PWWCTTWWWWnBI III mn~TTTTWn T ?i n "Ml IIIIIW tt I I ? I fey fx \i\ ( f U?e snj i \ L$Mw$? / 3^'D es^ Abso!u cos.> ss I J. T. COLEMAN" Mgr. ! Charleston, S. 0. THE PRUDENTIAL. Ik'SURAJ Incorporated as a stock comp lihn F. nruri^rt PrpciHi*nr ' M" * ^ - * ? CONDITION OF of Batesburg, , : : : S. C. ets March, 25th, 1910. LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $30,000 00 i Surplus 2,000 00 ! Undivided profits 8,800 27 i Re-Discounts 5,700 00 j Bills payable 20,000 CO I Deposits and certificatas of dep >sifc 86,042 37 i Due to.banks 727 2o Total 148,329 90 i J County of Lexington, trier of the above named bank, who, ye and foregoing statement is a trne the books of said bank. A. C. Jones, e me this the 25th day of March, 1910. tET JONES, Notary Public for S. 1910. ayings Bank, S. C> Lvided Profits $30^0.00. on savings deposits, u ' rest . Deposits of $1.00 ana over given special attention. Ling your business, and youi ent, $1.00 per year. ROOF, President and Cashier mmmmmmmmmmmsmmmaBBmqg F Chapin 1 IN, S. C. : : : 1 f Accommodates od services. We cash out-of-town for sending money way. We are ^ ness matters. Make your deposits t' point of good treatment of its de- fi posit bear interest at 5 per cent. :s as well as the business men to do \ J. F. HONEYCUTT, Cashier | M r\ E3ASMS/ ?-:>! I^S Uf B3MS^lf\3 n KLAKD, S. C. ^ s our desire to please. Leave need it We pay interest four jcui L. S. TROTTI, W President i miwaKustaaKBKmuaaaBtamBJiasmimsa ollars With lis 1 harvest of interest in our | I, whether the season be $J tAINY DAY" should come, I ) interest earned, Can be im- |1 & I is needed to open an account $ bit for you. | ite bank i JIA S. C. ^ Geo. L. Baker, Vice President [ton, Cas-ier. M wmW pw? ?i i'ia?i wimni^ii ?? MI i mm > T wvw?wi .' W/JML??YBOBWKI. JWfWWWWMPIIBW IWWtl fTrygtlffWBIBCTer : i Prudential j suranee policy contains J mates. Ever/ item is | lieHy guaranteed. The >3 So w. | ALFEF.D J. FOX, Spscia! Agent, [ LEXJKG70K, S. 0. J ^CE COMPANY Of ARSENICA. I any by the State of Msw Jersey j Home Office, Newark, N. J \ V' , r *' -