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;v. ? ....... TH1 LEXINGTON DISPATCH. H - : -- '-...^ w % ?p_ "A; _ . . ... - pi ??? ?~ & Eaptasjcmtatitfe JSawspapar. Sonars Laxington and tba Sordars at tha Snrrouruiinp Sowitias fcifce a Slanfcet, i i i.'., zr 1M >YOL. TTTT LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY AUG. 17, 1910 42 p? & GLOBE DRY GOODS COMPANY. a Iff "W"- ES- 3^03^tc^:xo3it, tk., iv?^uXT^a-Eie. jftb |^; 1?A20 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, 8. O. Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. October istf I MONEY I vi DEPOSIT S $ BORROW 'IT 1 WS3E5T *t> WJDEN f I' ' YOJJ?A'VE 'A $ I3? NEED, | SEKRLTT6, TO3 $ FJSOM S Ml THE I i HOME NATIONAL SANK OF ??XINCTON I g| | . TO WEPOSITSRS ' 1 f We offer/x-be best seocrity with liberal 'Kites of interest on | jg: * i rfeme'depoeits and sewings acco&nt-e. B Hi I TO BOttHOWSRS I I" '^Fefarmsh the "a?ee;"ul" ataiii times on??persoDai or rea^ jg ^ I -estate security at eheapest rates and on easy terms. i mi?J ==========^^ - FpiartYfur SlollanTliSitl^J^ 1 TfeSywill\jield assise harvest <<jf interest in our I Is SAVIMffi ?EBAKTMEHT, wtet&er the season be I I igood orfead.^aSi, if the *?RAINY DAY" hfecuid eome, J I the priarigpdl.'aswell as Iks interest ?M?efl,oean be im- I 1 ?ediate#y feati. 1 | Oniya-smd&l amountfe needed tocpenaitaceount 1 8 let'us startttheS&avingBabit forypu. I I THE STATE BAim I : 1 jrCOLUHHA & CL I Hm. BmwtOH JPronjflrnt. Geou I*. Mtaer, ^Ytee Psrcriaent :-V>. I ' \XS6hnK Xrfton, Oathier. A## , ; -. ggpgBS?-g==--i-=BgaB .> - . .. ?^=====5==?=s=r^====^==s? | CAtLAT J - lUnmxr37A130NALIUU^ P \ Columbia, S. C. iDireefors k . A. IT. LEVEE JS06. NORWOOD N. H. ?KEGGERS | ,i J. fljM. BEATS" e&. KIBLEE E. G. COOK ' G. P.tEOGAN A. <W. NORWOOD W. P. HAMRIGK ; AAB&N DAVID ?. . &. SPIVEl" E W. WILSON ^ ^ ij_imiiw ^-TTTT - "_ "' ^ \ \ Sank of Cfcapin |fi 1 : : : CHAPITT, S. G. : : : I- I He Bank Hat Ac&sfimodates ; r flj This bank aims to give yon,good services. We cash ont-of-towza yv checks for yft&i?furnish drafts for sending money way. We are I always glad to assist yon in business matters. Make yoar depoeits I S ?witb this baol;, which makes & point of good treatment of its deft i df^sitors. G?r<certifieates of deposit bear interest at 5 per cent. , , | We cordiafty ijavite the farmers as well as the Easiness men to do w v< I 'ijfeeir banking with us. * ft jJ. S. WESSOW5ER, President. J. P. HONEYCUTT, Cashier J f 1 BROOKLAND BANK, I I m NEW BROOLKAND, S. C. gl I ;-v;/ We Want your bu&ioc&s. It is ow desire to please. Leave yt\ k yottr jnouey with us sofcS you need <:i We pay interest four ^ B Sjg times .a year. ^ K M J. C. CtMCNARD, L. S. TROTTd, V? Mg Vice-President. President wl I Vamilv Reunion. I of the wedding march, by Mrs. J. C. 1 ' i At f. The aunal family reunion of Mr. and f *5?'Parcy ^ncerea int; P*r; . Mrs. T. S. Harman, which was held a j u : o f1 ' ;>' few days ago, was attended by about Mi T a;i^ *1*^r* J??^ 200 peopLe. A bounteous barbecue Tinda) \?;? pntV. ir1! -J?"!!?st ; - dinner was served in the grove in front jr h tu*? Kneece with Mr. of the house, and wtil late in ^n-?S^J^S SZ? n? 4 the evening the crowd remained, L t T L mfnaliniy with eachofcher and talkintr w-^*1 ."le man of her choice. The im> of the many pleasures of the long ago. ?h^h\vas re^h ?r J Last year Mr. and Mrs. Harnfan ? ft ' *% ^fa?f Maf;SooT3a ve ? The bride- b>' "? "?* personality, Zlto mile mZ? their ha9 Wf" 3 tosl ?&?*** who *iU j fa only connections and friends at these 'bf^ $ annual reunions. gratulated upon winning so lovely a 1 ' * bride. They received many presents. ^ An ordinary case of diarrhoea can, Those who attended the wedding as a rule, be cured by a single dose of from Pelion were: Misses Rnth Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar- Kneece, May Rish, Viola Shumpert, rhoea Remedy. This remedy has no Mrs. J. C. Fort and children, and Mr. superior for bowel complaints. For Dan Kneece. A. B. C. gale by All Dealers. Pelion, Aug. 15. a \ Gardner-Fogle. To the Editor of The Dispatch. Buy it now. Now is the time to buy At the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera ? ?f s n?olonk. and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is almost I1 -4 Gardner, near rouwui ? w , . Sunday, August 7, was solemnized the certain to be needed before the sumi . marriage of their daughter, Leila, to mer is over. This remedy has no suL Mr Cleveland Fogle* To the strains perior. For sale by All Dealers. f mighty throng. "You people have heard time and time again," said the speaker, "by candidates 'send me to i the legislature and I'll do so and so,' J and when you send them there they . sit like knots on a log, immovable. I haye no promises to make except that if you send me to the legislature I will not sit quiet when im J- a l - 1 - a. 3 T :n < COUNTY CAMPAIGN OPENED AT IRMO. Small Crowd Heard the Candidates at :Initial Meeting and Little Interest Displayed?Annexation and Free Bridges of touch Interest in Fork. BY D. R. HAl ..WANiJER. Tke Lexington county campaign is now'in full swing. The'first meeting vras"held at Irmo, in the famous Dutch j Forfr, onx Wednesday last, where About 250 of the sturdy yeomanry ; came out to hear the candidates fire | their initial guns. ; 5?he meeting was entirely featurei Hess, save now and then the explosion 1 of a boom of "hot air7' by some of the ! speakers. Eut this was the opening of the 1910 campaign and it was but ectural "that the candidates should . make an occasional "brake." It ; most always takes the "boys" two or ; three .days to find out the sentiment J of the people, and the careful politii ^ian usually guards his words and ! stays on the "defaasiye." But this i was not the case w&h all of the aspir1 ants at Irmo. Some of them began to -$rip and tare" at?tfce very beginning ; <ft their speeches, with the result that MSie andienoe gave them a "call [j :iown. County CMman EHrd. | fThe meeting was presided over County Ohalrmaa D. *F. Bflrd, who, -after a brief invocation by the Ber. JI. -S. Riddle, made a wringing address, fa which he thanked the people of : bezington coimtyforahe many honi': ora they had throat upon him in the past. "Fellow cfcJastia," said he, ! *Solj-days of political f*peech-making jh? over for the present, but I oousa i before , you today, as your. county \ ch&irevan, to; formally ^pen the campaign of; 1910, and<I trust that from thia-very. meeting: there will be the wannest feeling between all of the candidates, and I hope that all of the candidates will be accorded a respectr ! fol aad attentive bearing Qn every ! stuas^p in the county- .This, I know, fcfeey will receive, beeause it is a characteristic of the southern gentleman, ! Sooth (Carolinians and Lexicgtonians. Eaeh man is entitled to his opinion and, raraember after all, m-7 fellow citizens, that when the race is over, no matter what the result, we will all 1 join hands and work for the common ! srood of ??rand old .Lexington." Mr. E&rd then announced that all of the candidates ;for the Houae had signed the pledge in regards to the proposition for freeing the Congaree and Broad rarer bridges, which was published in rthese columns last week. Allowed ZO,Minutes Each. * The candidates for legislative hon; ors were allowed )?0 minutes each,, '! while the candidates for minor offices j; .were given 10 misyifces each. The first speaker was Joseph h. \ Amick, candidate for reelection to <t&e House. Mr. Amick thanked the i people for their suffrage two years : agou when he was elected on the first ] ballot. Mr. Amick told of his first experiences as a legislator. He said that (the boys were teilicg it for a joke that he did not know where to put his ? hat when he first entered the State rr nmi i _ 11: i-U _ or House. Aiiey are teuing tuau ?.? .* joke/' be .said, "but I want to tell you it is the God's truth." Ho said ; that the new men always experience embarrassment, but that liis embar; rassment was above the average, be' cause his name began with the first . letter of the alphabet, which made it - incumbent upon him to cast the first ' ballot on any measure coming before the House. He favors good roads and better schools, but is unalterably opposed to giving the higher institutions of learning so much money; is opposed to so many scholarships and fought with might and main the bill which purported to establish 124 scholaiships in the University of South Carolina. Capt. L. W. Redd. Capt. L. W. Redd, made bis maidriTklifinnl or>nAnV? O f Trmo if Cll ^UXIUlViai 0|XCCV/U t?u XIUIU) <v was a good one. He said at the outset that he had no promises to make, because there are 124 members of the house and that if he was elected i he would be but one man among that portant legislation is on, aim x win c guarantee you that it will not take me two years to find out where to hang my hat.^' Capt. Redd stated that he was born in Aiken county, but had been a resident of Lexington j j county for 20 years. Favors good roads and more of them, free bridges i and everything that has a tendency to ' advance the material progress of the county and that will redown to the i good of of all the people of Lexington county and South Carolina. ' Co!. J. Brooks Wingard. Col. J. Brooks Wingard, the next speaker, "began by saying that he hardly knew what to talk about, when someone in the audience shouted, "Talk about free bridges; that's what we want." Col. Wingard stated, in 1 reply, that the free bridge question ( was now up to the people; that it was in the shape of a referendum and the matter, he thought, would be settled at the coming primary. He said, how- 1 ever, that he was in hearty accord with the present plan to free the bridges and that he would cast his vote for the $25,000 to make them free. Taxation and good roads are issaes, he said, but unless we are willing to pay for good roads we will never have them, because it is impos1 alble for the chainmne to do all the work. He Is in facer of creating a road fund, and believes in an honest and economical administration. Col. . Wj^gard waxed-qoste -eloquent in disousekig education, as ho pleaded for a livelier interest in our schools. He asserted that parents should visit the schools in which their children are being taught. "We, as parents of South Carolina," said he, "are not doing our duty in the home. In the schools you can make a good citizen, but not a good man. This can only be accomplished in the home." Hon. Isaac Edwards. The Hon. Isaac Edwards began with a catchy joke, after which he stated that he had only come to Irmo to have a heart-to-heart talk with his friends, and to extend the right hand of fellowship from the sand hills to the good people of Dutch Fork. He paid a glowing tribute to this section and to Lexington county, as a whole. "In the bloody sixties Lexington was t.ViPrA '' "Tn T,o-vincrfrvn nrmrif.xr 1 ' was there, and in the 'SCs, when the great reform movement was brought about, Lexington county was there; and in all of these fights the people of Dutch Fork had helped to carry the , banner on to victory.'' Mr. Edwards I then entered into a discussion of the ] annextatiou question, by reading fig, j nres from the comptroller general's i { report, in which it was shown that the ; tax valuations of Richland county are ; more than the tax valuations of Lexngton county on, an average. At this . juncture the speaker was interrupted by a few seemingly strong advocates of annexation to Richland, and the presiding officer, Dr. J. L. Shuler, pleaded with the crowd to give the speaker a respectful hearing, whether they were in accord with his views or not. Leaving the annexation question, Mr. Edwards stated that he was in favor of good roads, good schools, and local option As to the liquor question he always had believed that every man i had a right to drink it, and that every , man should have a right to sell it. , Mr. W. R. Lowe. Mr. W. R. Lowe, of New Brook1 laud, was the next speaker. He began , | by thanking the people for their votes ] two years ago, and declared that the ( encouragement he had already re- j ceived, led him to believe that he was ( going to be elected on the 30tb of August. If elected he promised tc be in his seat all the time looking after the interests of all the people of Lexington J county. Said he would not make any f promises for the purpose of riding into 1 office, neither would he use money or a whiskey to buy the vote of any man. I Favors better rural schools, free bridg- t s and good roads. As to the liquor fc ME WE JUSTIFIED? Perhaps we ought to be satisfied with present ichievement. But, you know uthe more a man gets the more he wants." This being true, we are then justified :n soliciting new business; and especially so, since we are so well equipped to handle it. Citizen's Bank of Batesburg, Batesburg, S. C. 1892. *1910. Lexington Sayings Bank, LEXINGTON, S. d Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits $35,000.00. 5 per cent interest paid on savings deports, interest * ? 11 T* 1X_ -A / A J bein computed semi-annually. i/epouu ui #i.w auu gvw received Commercial accounts also riven special attention. Ample facilities for handling your, business, and your account will be appreciated. Safety deposits bones for rent, $1.00 per year. W. P. POOF President and Cashier' problem, Mr. Lowe stated that he had be forecasted at this stage of the game, always been a prohibitionists, and, Hon. C. M. Effrd. therefore, m in fevor of the passage At the conclu9ion of the offlcial ?8t of a State-wide prohibition law. Bat, 0f candidates, Hon. C. M. Efird, who however, he was willing to leave the {g the father of ^ preaent plan to ^ question for all of the people of the bridges, briefly addressed the audience, State to decide in an election for that making clear the meaning of the propopnrpoee alone. sition. Mr. Efird opened the eyes of Mr. R. L. Shuler. many when he declared that the Fork Mr. R. L. Shuler, of Brookland, was has a right to representation in the the last of the legislative candidates to management of the C. 3T. & L. RailJ speak. He said that he was on his na- way, and that the road belongs to the tive heath and that he would not at- different townships to the extent of tempt to make a speech, that the peo- the amount of bonds owned by tne pie knew him and that he knew them, people. Mr. Efird made a masterful He thought the people were soon go- presentation of the whole situation ing to settle the annexation question and received close attention, satisfactorily. Mr. Shuler favors good At the conclusion cf his address, a schools with the least possible expen- meeting was called for Friday, the expenditure of the people's money. 19th, at 10 a. M., for the purpose of He also favors good roads. chosing a representative to look after OTHER CANDIDATES* the people's interest in the railroad The candidates for County Treas- ... . T ,, ? . j -d t t*7? The candidates spoke Thursday at urer, J< M. Malpass and E. L. Wing- ^ ' . i u j j .. Hilton. Fndav at Chapm, Saturday ard, spoke m the order named, the ' , . . T rr t 4-u u- at Pine Ridge, Monday at Ioor Hayes, former thanking the people for their , . . . . *. , yesterday at A. Taylor .s and today at votes two years ago and pleading for -L / , ... , . J . . nr TXT' A Pelion. At Chapin the candidates their support again. Mr. Wmgard ^ A promises to retire from the office after wef ed b^mofe thaff J*008" another term and read a list of figures P^?P e* mos 0 ^ om ^wne to which he compiled, showing the con- ear ongressman ever and to take dition of the county's finances. a look at the man who is opposing him. Dr. Ray was given a respectful Mr, W. D. Dent. hearing, while the little Congressman County Auditor Dent, who is running Was given the biggest ovation eyer unopposed for re-election, spoke brief- accorded any candidate for political ly, thanking the people for the confi- office in Lexington county. dence repposed in him in the past and _ assuring them that he would continue Democratic ClllfjS. to do his whole duty in the future. , . . _ . . Representative Lever returned FriJudge of Probate. . . , , . ,. , day night from the campaign by way Mr. Iorr Hayes and Hon. George S. of automobile thoroughly drenched but Drafts, candidates for Judge of Pro- triumphantly carrying two of the bate, nest spoke. Mr. Hayes recited iufthi9 __ _ . , , country as a token of affection from the fact tiiat Mr. Drafts has heid the people of Holly Hiil where he office for 26 years, consecutively, and spoke on Thursday. The ears are asked that he be elected in his stead 1 sixteen inches long, unusually c ., , , ^ t-v ?* large in diameter and fully filled out. for the next two years. Mr. Drafts After Ids speech M. C. Edwins on bethanked his auditors and felt confi- half of the friends of the Congressman 3ent that he would again be their took the stand and in a speech compl> ffioice on the 30th of August. mentary of the work done by Mr. Lever for the agriculture of the State, County Commissioner. presented these two ears of corn with the admonition that they should bo Messrs W. L. Addy, S. Rufus Smith, used by him as clubs with which to fno. W. Smith, James Caughman,and beat down his enemies, and when not D. A. Jefcoat, candidates for County used in this manner they should be for . . ' , J him an inspiration for continued effort Jommissioner, addressed tlie voters. jn behalf of the farmers of the State. Mr. John G. Boozer, who is also a can- ? jit-ate, was absent. Seemed to Give Him For Magistrate. 3 New StOmaclr. Wallace E Lorick, E. T. Ranch and "I suffered intensely after eating ar.d r , TT OL , , . 4.u no medicine or treatment I tried seeinrohn H. Shealey, who are m the race ed to do any good ? H M# or Magistrate of the third district, Youngpeters, Editor of The Sun, Late iresented their claims. Mr. Ranch is View, Ohio. **The first few doses cf it present holding the position, and Chamberlain's Stomach and LiverTat, t-i fovi 1- lets gay e me surprising relief and the dessrs. Lorick and Shealey are seeking 8econd bottle geemed to gi ve me a new o defeat him. This race promises to stomach and perfectly good health." >e a spicy on3 and the winner cannot For 8 i^e Dealers,