The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, June 29, 1910, Image 1

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THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. & fcepresentatiee Bawspaper. Betters hexingtun and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties Lthe a Blanket* | | VOLTXXXXT LEXINGTON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY JUNE 29, 1910 3fT & I \ *??? I?^ DEPOSIT IT WHEN YOU HAVE A SURPLUS, WITH fi t HOME NATI of le; TO DEPOSITORS We offer the best securi time deposits and saving I TO BORROWERS H We furnish the "needfa estate security at cheap H if f PRIVATE DINING RC 0 M Metropolitar a m/M 1 ! b&d I ANU LARVi V N THE FINEST IN THE STATi 1538 Main St*oet Oyi m COLUtoB B Regular Dinn M Lancb Ticker":$1.10 fo $l,$2.o I ALSO CAPI I 1210 Main Street O VL Two Best*Places in the Cit; . // ^ CAL b UNION Iff AT] Mi/ Columb] If Dire' A. F. LEVER JOS. NOR 1 J. H. M. BEATY C. L. KIBI G. P. LOGAN J. W. NOR ^ AARON DAVID D. A. SPJD I Paulr f\i Ji a 8I\ W I 1 : : : CHAP I The Bank Tha This bank aims to give you gc I checks for you?furnish drafts B always glad to assist you in bus I with this bank, which makes a K positors. Our certificates of de ^ I We cordially invite the farme B their banking with ub. P J. S. WESSINGER, President. HHHBIHBHnH I Plant Your D< They will yield a sure I SAVINGS DEPARTMEN I good or bad, and, if the "I I the principal as well as th( I mediately had. I Only a small amount I Let us start the Saving Ha I THE ST$ I COLUM1 E Wm. Barnwell, President. ^ John T. Me T! ($f Month / / Door s On w Sly be c J. T. COLEMAN Mgr. Charleston, S. C. V THE PRUDENTIAL INSURAI Incorporated as a stook oomp John P. Dry don, President. 6] "W\ 12:, lOsiO MAIN STREE Solicits a Share I WEY I $ BORROW IT I $ WHEN | $ IN NEED. | $ FROM | HE I ONAL BANK 1 KINGTON I ty with liberal rates of interest on $ fs accounts. I | l" at all times on personal or reaj | e9fc rates and on easy terms. I ' i )OM FOR FAMI LIES ^ i Restaurant ? EST IN THE CITY B E QUICK SERVICE jg posite Columbia Hotel M IA, S. C. M ier 35 Cents g 10 .or $2.,$0 tor 2.50,*5.75 fo.$5 jM ITOLCAFE I DDoiite Oner a House m r? , - H y Coffee Made by Steam =^v l at [onalbahe ia, S. C. ctors vood n. h. dpjggers jer e. g. cook wood w. p. hamrick \TEY e w. wilson ^ F Chapin I IN, S. C. : : : | t Accommodates i >od services. We cash oat-of-town 8 for sending money way. We are 8 iness matters. Make yonr deposits 8 point of good treatment of its de- | posit bear interest at o per cent. rs as well as the business men to do I J. F. HONBYOUTT, Cashier I ollars With Us I harvest of interest in our | I, whether the season be | fcAINY DAY" should come, | 3 interest earned, can be im- | is needed to open an account. I ibit for you. 1 MAELSBitf S UC I 3IA S. C. I Geo. L. Baker, Vice President 8 lton, Cas.Vier. ? ie Prudential ly Income Policy is the eparting Comfort From yrhch side wil| your famifter vour death? - - - ? + ALFRED J. FOX, Special Agent, LEXINGTON, S. C. MCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, any by the State of New Jersey Home Offloe, Newark, N. J LOBE DBT GO . 2v?02STCICT0:N :t, of Your Valued Pat: Hon. C. XI. Bird Addresses Letter to County Ezeoutive Committee. To the Members of the County Executive Committee of Lexington County: This letter is addressed to you to in dace you to think of and consult with your neighbors, and to b&prepared to act on the following proposition, which, with your consent, will be presented to you at your first meeting. The proposition is that you place at the foot of the county ticket for the approaching primary, the following: ; "For twenty-fivj thousand dollars [ for building two free bridges, one ( across Congaree River at Columbia, I and the other across Broad Riyer J above Columbia, to be raised on fiye I notes of five thousand dollars each, j payable in 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years at not more than six per cent, interest. Columbia township, or the city of Columbia, to raise as much as fifty thousand dollars for the same purpose. Yes, No." A levy of one mill on our present assessment each year will raise enough to pay one note and the interest on all. The man who pays $4.00 taxes now would pay with this additional levy $4.33, and he who pays $6.00 would pay $6.50. The situation is this: There is much dissatisfaction in the vicinity of the two bridges on the Lexington side, on account principally, that they must pay bridge toll to get to market. The day of toll bridges ie past, and Lexington county must either pay her part to get these bridges made free, or likely lose a considerable part of its taxable property. The sections now proposed to be cut from Lexington into Richland county near these bridges contains more than ?1,000,000 of taxable property. If this territory i3 cut off it will require one mill more on our present county levy to raise the amount now raised for county purposes. The present assessment is in round numbers ?5,300,000. The levy for county purposes, including road fund, is five mills, which will raise ?26,500. If ?1,000,000 is taken from this assessment, leaving ?1,300,000, it will require a levy of six mills to raise ?25,800. The proposition amounts to this: IS IT BETTER FOR THE COUNTY TO PAY ONE MILL FOR FIVE YEARS AND SATISFY OUR PEOPLE, OR TO LET THEM GO AND PAY ONE MILL MORE OF TAXES INDEFINITELY? It is very doubtful if our people would be in better condition in Richland than in Lexington. The Richland taxes for county purposes this year is only two and onohalf mills. The estimated expenses of that county for this year is $105,000. Of this amount, the estimate is the County Dispensary will pay $50, 000 to the coanfcy, or practically oneBy the I 5 I TCTFKT. Ladiea Panam jj A-/lO X il/l> 3(i-in. Perjanii | Dress Lawns, large and small ligur 1 SHEETS ANDI I Sheets 72x90 inches, extra good... Pillow Cases, large size, good value. Ion nr Qillr r!]r?voo ?rV>ifn Wi. All a v?4v? coj \ir iniv 5 v*?Ladies Lisle Hose, 25c value.. 15c 3 Lonsdale Cambric the yard Best 36-inch Bleaching 40-inch Sea Island, he?.vy and line,! Fancy Madras, 25c value Men's Dress Shirts, big lot sampl $1.00 values all to go at Big lot of 50c suspenders, all to go 25 Art Squares 9x12, worth iG.OO yot Don't Fail to Se Corner 1 Si OSS COMPAN1 r, te., ronage. Polite and Proi | half. Tbe county received from the County Dispensary for the year ending April 1, 1910, $42,929 38. But the County Dispensary depends on the game of politics, if a prohibition Governor is elected this year, the County Dispensaries will be abolished. In that nase it will reauire a lew of at least five mills in Richland county to raise its estimated county expenses of$105,000. But taxation does not depend alone on the levy. The assessment i3 an important factor. The average assessmint of farm lands in Richland county is $4.86 per acre. In Lexington county it is $2.74 per acre. The taxes on an average acre of land in Lexington county with a five (5) mill levy is 13.7 cents, and on an average in Richland county with a two and one-half (2%) mill levy, is 12.1 cents. If the dispensary be abolished in Richland county, then her county levy must be raised to at least five (5) mills. This would make the tax in Richland, then, on an average Richland acre, 24.2 cents as against 13.7 cents on an average acre in Lexington with same levy. It is estimated that the public school fund of Richland county will receive this year from the County Dispensary at least $33,000. If the dispensary be abolished and the amount now raised for the public scnools is to j be continued, it will require a levy of ! two (2) mills more, either in the | whole county or by school districts, i Tf in not oertnin that Columbia township will make these oridges free without assistance from Lexington. Some of the business men of the city say they will not vote for the bond3 unless Lexington does her part. Is it not better for us to do our part and secure the bridges free, than to do nothing and have our people go to Richland, and maybe not get ,free bridges and not benefit themselves financially? Very truly, C. M. Efird. Candidates Will be Here ITezt Wednesday. On next Wednesday, the Cth of July, the candidates for State and national offices will be in Lexington. The campaign opened at Sumter on last Wed- i nesday, and the \ a :y has since been on the go. A surprise was sprung at the last minute by the entrance of Barnard B. Evans for attorney general in opposition to J. Fra9er Lyon, the incumbent. The race between these gentlemen is growing more fcpicy every day. Everybody in the county who can possibly do so should come out to hear the candidates next Wednesday. Following i9 the official list: -o n T ~ rur. uuvcruuf uic ju. Dicaac, uuun T. Duncan. C. C Featherstone. F. H. Hyatt, Thomas G. McLeod, John G. Richards, Jr. For Lieutenant Governor?E. Walker Duvall, Charles A. Smith. For Secretary of State?R. M. McMan Who Alvt iwnna???nm a and Voile Skirts $') value. .SI .79 J iner Cloth ITiC value the "\arri...8'c I es best 10c value for the yard 5c j >ILL0W CASES ~ i 39c 10c ck and colors, sold for $2 pair.. .69c lien's 25c half hose your choice. .15c | s" valves'" . 10c 7b; c )ress Gingham each per yd 5c 10c es, all colors and sizes, 50c and 39c at 25c Lr choice $3.50 j - BAB m*. M : W, V. B fain and Richland Streets, I .a-Ezs, COLUMBIA, H. C, A A A A A cnpt Attention. October i?rl ?????m????? ARE WE JUST Perhaps we ought t< achievement. But, you kmr more he wants.*' This bein^ in soliciting new business; ai are so well equipped to hanc Citizen's Bank Batesbur, 1892. Lexington Sa LEXINGTON, Capital, Surplus and Undiv 5 per cent, interest paid c bein computed semi-annually. waaaS TT/* /I 1QW1VCU. Commercial accounts also g Ample facilities for handll account will be appreciated. Safety deposits boxes for re: W. P. II ? ? Cown. For Comptroller General?A. W. Jones. For State Treasurer?R. H. Jennings. For Adjutant General-W. W.Moore, ; Charles Newnbam, J. M. Richardson. For State Superintendent of Education?J. E. Swearingen. For Attorney General?B. B. Evan?, J. Fraser Lyon. j For Railroad Commissioner?James Cansler, G. McDuffie Hampton, G. H. I Mahon, 0. C. Scarborough. For Congress?1st district, Geo S. Legare, J. H. Lesesne. 2d district, L P. Bovlston, Jas F. Byrnes, C. W. Garris, J. 0. Patterson. 3d district, Wyatt Aiken, Julius E. Eoggs. Coke D. Mann. 4th district, Jos T Johnson. 5th district, Thos Butler, D. E. Finley, J. K. Henry. 6th district, Geo "W. Brown, J. E. Eilerbe, P. A. Hodges, B. B. Sellers. 7th district, A. F. Lever, W. W. Ray. Examinations Friday. On next Friday, July 1, examinations for scholarships and entrance into the several colleges of the State will be conducted by County Superintendent of Education A. D. Martin. Read the advertisements of the different colleges offering scholarships elsewhere in this paper. PCIjra ? 50 Mai)-Tailored Suits for la cheap at 7.50 to 10.00, Friday, 150 handsome tailored waist sold for 1.50 and 82. your cho Big lot of Ladies Vests worth 2 Big lot of Ladies Vests 15c valu MEN'S C] You can easily save ?5.00 on a su at ?S.50 to ?12.50. You are paying ?1 yourself. I will match any 25c Sox ?6 00 Trousers at ?3.50, $3.50 Trousers for ?2.75, $2.00 Trousers for Columbia, South C 1FIFI1? mm u o be satisfied with present w "the more a man gets the ? true, we are then justified ad especially so, since we He it. of Batesburg, g, S. C. 1910. lyings Bank, - - S. CI ided Profits $30,000.00. m savings depot-'. interest Deposits of $1.CC >md over iven special attention ng your business, mA youi at, $1.00 per year. bOOF President and Cashier Mrs. Reuben Hamas, Dead. Mrs. Carrie Harman, beloved wife of Reuben Harman, died at her horns in this town on Thursday atternoon, after an illness of only two days. On Tuesday evening she was taken with an attack of acute indigestion and gradually grew worse until the end came on Thursday. The funeral was conducted from St. Stephen's church Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, by the Revs. Browr, Quick and Counts. The interment wa9 in St. Stephen's cemetery. She wag forty years of age. She is survived by her husband and six children, five of whom are mere tots. She is also survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam R. Meetze, and two sisters, Mrs. A. M. Harman of LexingtoD, and Mrs. Wallace E. Lorick of Irmo. She was a good woman, a devoted wife, fond mother and true friend. ' For the little motherless children and grief stricken husband much sympathy is expressed. Reader, if you are behind with your paper send your dollar by mall if ycu are not coming to town. Every dollar help9 to pay necessary expenses. ==^ urnmerl or Less | is is dies, in white, biown and blue j: O.W n/l.nr Alrm/l.n' of 1(11 If k^uuiucl > I JUU lJVtct> c?t. . - >yv.vv >p s iii Linen Lawn and lingerie j| ice 85c 1 5c your choice 10c ie, your choice for s.Jc NOTHING. it. We are showing some fine suits | 4.00 to $18.50. Come and see for in the city'for 15c $5.00 Trousers for $3.00 $2.50 Trousers for $1.75 $1.50 2 Sells It For Less larolisa 4