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|T > ' I ?. Representative Reurspaper. Batters Lexington and tha Borders of the Surrounding Bounties Lihe s Blanket. VOL. XXX2L LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY OCT. 5. 1910 49 - ii ? i?? i iiMiwim wn ! ? uiwii i imi rr *mnmum mm mm *mc wammrnKmmaamKnmottmasmmmammmmammmmmKnK^ *r*w7wrm*m mmmmnmgwmmmmmmnmgmmm: wamm wmammm h??ne "W- 2=:. ^COiTCI^T'On^r, TIES., r... loao main street, Columbia, s. c. ^ Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. October I8tf . _ \ i MONEY I' ' J* ' " I DEPOSIT IT $ BORROW IT |; / WHEN $ WHEN j I , YOU HAVE A $ IN NEED, SURPLUS, WITH $ FROM | / I f THE I HOME NATIONAL BANK OF LEXINGTON I TO DEPOSITORS j| *J* ' A. An U A We offer the best security witn iiDerai rates Ui JUUCIGDC VU H | fi time deposits and savings accounts. | ll TO BORROWERS | Kj We furnish the "needful" at all times on persmal or real I S estate security at cheapest rates and on easy terms. [i -H -v B |? 1892. 1910. . Lexington Sayings Bank, f LEXINGTON, S. C| Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits $35,000.00. js *x_ 5 per cent, interest paid on savings deposits, miciesi bein computed semi-annually. Deposits of $1.00 and over received. Commercial accounts also given special attention. Ample facilities for handling your business, and youi * < account will be appreciated. Safety deposits boxes for rent, $1.00 per year. W. P. ?00P President and Cashier flff Beginning Monday, October 10i i 55 sell our entire stock of Clothing * ii* ! Goods, etc., at greatly reduced pri< before moving into our new store, but we are compelled to reduce ou make some very low prices. Here $ 15.00 Suits at $ 11.50 12.50 Suits at 9.50 10.00 Suits at 8.00 8.00 Suits at 6.00 5.00 Suits at ^ 4.00 4.00 Suits at 3.00 I 2.50 Suits at 1.90 1.50 Suits at 1.25 I 1.25 Suits at 1.00 mm QTFFI. RANGES AT i' - d 'a J kr Jl >11 ? I We carry at all times a complete ies and the prices are as low as an>; Buggies. Wagons, Harness, etc. o QUICK before these goods are so prices we are offering them at. I ljj SWANSEA' ------- I Plant Your Dollars With Us 1 They will yield a sure harvest of interest in our | SAVINGS DEPARTMENT, whether the season be | good or bad, and, if the "RAINY DAY" should come, | * 11 ii l x 1 ^ ^ 8 I the principal as well as tne interest eameu, v;an uc mi- g mediately had. I Only a small amount is needed to open an account. Let us start the Saving Habit for you. THE STATE BANK COLUMBIA S. C. Wm. Barnwell, President. Geo. L. Baker, Vice President John T. Melton, Caskier. (Bank of Chapin 1 : CHAPIN, S. C. : I The Bank Thai Accmomodates I This bank aims to give you good services. We cf sh out-of-town R checks for you?furnish drafts for sending money way. We are I always glad to assist you in business matters. Make your deposits I with this bank, which makes a point of good treatment of its de- I positors. Our certificates of deposit bear interest at 5 per cent. I We cordially invite the farmers as well as the business men to do I their banking with us. I J. S. WESSINGER, President. J. P. HONEYCUTT, Cashier I * th and lasting for 20 days we will M lt Shoes, Hats, Underwear, Dry n :es, in order to reduce our stock J This is not a "below cost" sale |Jf| ~ mmrtnrr Cinr] will Ijlil fjl IT SLOCK. uc1u11 iiiwviiig unvt " ia^, are a few of them: M $ 3.00 Hats at $ 2.25 & 2.50 Hats at 1.85 j|g| 1.50 Hats * at 1.20 .50 Dress Goods at .40 WW .25 Dress Goods at .20 j 1.00 Shirts at .85 Jk(| .75 Shirts at .60 ||g| .50 Shirts at .42 j f $21.00. $23.00 AND 825.00 ?? : line of Staple and Fancy Grocer- fflli or?n rrt\7f* \7^n A1 qo rarrv uuu.y LCIIi ^i y j v i. aauvy ^x j fiTtenyi f the very best makes. COME |fl| Id as they can't stay here at the W Yours for Bargains, SUU'JLH ^AKULIINA. ARE WE JUSTIFIED? Perhaps we ought to be satisfied with present achievement. But, you know uthe more a man gets the more he wants/' This being true, we are then justified - 1 - - - 1 - ? ? ? k ^ va J /\/^i *\ /\ /\i r^ll tr n/\ m r? a A i?>/\ Ill soliciting new uusmebs, anu essj^euiaiij ou, smuc; vv^ are so well equipped to handle it. Citizen's Bank of Batesburg, Batesburg, S. C. y NEW BROOLKAND, S. C. % We Want youi- business. It is our desire to please. Leave ylt iff your money with us until you need it We pay Interest four ^ Lm.I f times a year. ju fife J. C. CUIGNARD, L. S. TRCTTI, <r> Viee-President. President ft ??il??^??fcr* ' Railroad Man Killed Doctors Met Mon itty. By Circus Employes The Lexington county l Sot. i a nr.li! ? m ? ciety held its annual meeting :i MonPaul A. Williams, 19 years of age, day. The meeting was the t?st and freight clerk of the Southern railway mogt j^ggiy attended eyer held, in Columbia, was murdered and robbed gevera^ /ery interesting papers were about 2.30 o clock Sunday morning rea(j j)f ^ar(jf 0f Columbia read a while ndiDg with^ his fnena, J- ^ paper on hookworm, and Dr. Boyd, of Weekly, also of Columbia, oc the first Columbia, read a very instructive paper section of the train which carried the on "Rura| sanitation." Immediately JJ.lace circus to Augusta, after the business session, a banquet The body was discovered lying: beside was held in the Masonic hall. This the track, between Gilbert and Sum- wag Qne Qf the most briPiant and ennut,, by Conductor Thrift in charge of j0yable affairs of the kind ever held Southern freight teain No. 1^ Sunday in LeXingrton, and many besides the morning about 10.30 o clock Tnere member8 of ^ fraternity enjoyed the was a bullet wound in the right eye. hoSpitality of the doctors. At the Coroner B. D. Clark, held an inquest afternoon session the following officers later in the day at Gilbert. The ver- were chosen: Dr. R. E. Mathias, diet of the jury was that Paul A. Wn- president; Dr. F. G. Roberts, viceliams came to his death by a gunshot pfe9ident; Dr. J. J. Wingard, secrewound at the hands of parties un- tary aD(j treasurer. It will be of inknown. , . . interest to state that Dr. Wingard has J. C. Weekly wa9 the only material been repeatedly elected secretary for witness and he told a dramatic story , geven consecutive years, which is but of the shooting of his friend by three an jn(3ex to the high esteem in which white men, and how he escaped by hid- be by t.be members 0f the soing under a piece of canvas. ciety. rru pockets searched. j)r w"ingard was prime mover in The pockets ot young Williams were the organization and it is due largely found turned wrong 9ide out. In them to his efforts that the society has dea blood-stained one dollar bill yeloped into one of the most helpful which his murderers tailed to find, organizations in the county. His watch and about *o, which Weekly ipbe dinner, which consisted of barsa^s \\ lljj^ns had when he ieft Co- becue meats, principally, with fruits, | lumbia.^re missing. One of his ices and cake for desert, wa9 prepared shoes had been taken off. by ]yir< Eli l. Corley, who sustained The body of the murdered man was j^is reputation as a successful culinary carried to Columbia. His parents, for- a.rtist. merly lived in Columbia, but moved ' ? to Uhe.is, Ga., a few months ago. Young Williams was to have been dlSflTIlC l^lHtHCr married in December to Miss Marie Accidentally Shot. Weaver, of Charleston. . * On Tuesday morning the young man A most distressing accident occurwas buried in Columbia. Several red near Chapin at an early hour Fnhundred persons, friends and acquaint- day morning, when Mr Charlie Lmdances of the family, were present and ler was shot by his brother-in-law, the floral offerings were numerous. Mr. J. Frank Shealy. Tne two men Among the most beautiful floral con- were chasing a beef m the pasture of tributions was the one sent by the fel Mr. J?bn Dreher The animal lowclerks of Williams in the freight was wile and would not be roped It office Mingling their grief with the was finally surrounded in a thick broken-hearted father and mother, swamp, Mr. Lindler and Mr. Shealy Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Williams, were Mr. be"?? opposite directions. They ar.d Mrs. T. J. Weaver of Charleston, decided ^ to shoot tne cow and Mr. parents of Miss Marie -Weaver, the Shealy nred upon the beef missing his fiancee of young Williams. Miss ' mark and hitting Mr. Lindler in the Weaver was rendered very ill by the chest and stomach. The injured man news of the untimely end of hersweet- w is carried r? .is home where an opI 1,^.,-r _]i,,1 wa-s unable to undergo the era.n r .is performed^)} .sr. Know! 2W51 James Hunt, Mgr. | glad to learn that he is doing nioely. trip to Columbia. Their wedding day ^ll> C and Dr. Wessniger, would have been announced before c* the - urk. An examination of the the end of the year. wound revealed the fact that the inSheriff P. II. Coriey, and his broth- tcstiues had been punctured in six er, C'. E. Corley, both of whom went Peaces by No. 8 shot. Last reports to Augusta on Sunday night as soon aTe that ^ie wa9 doing very well, as the crime was made known, 4c-* compained by H. T. B. Boye, inspec- Chapin High School tor of suecial service Southern Rail- ? * _ _ . way, Washington, D. C.; S.G. LaFar,' HclS uOOu Opening, special agent Southern Railway, Char-' The Chapin High School opened on leston; N. H. Bollock, special agent the morning of the 2Sih of September Southern Raiiway, Columbia ; J. I). with a large enrollment. Mr. J. S. Ehney, special ofllcer Southern Rail- Wessinger opened the exercises with : way, Columbia, and E. J. Armes, ar- scripture and prayer, after which Mr. rived on the late train from Augusta R. W. Frick delivered a very instruc1 L?,*?/vinn? 10 rvr?c/hnnru * ? f f i \. m f u l lr lidSt illL'liL, Ui- J-v/ piiov/nviuj ^- H > Lui.a.t whom are white A number of these The following is the faculty: Prof, are witnesses, some of them being eye Odus C. Kibler, Newberry, principal; witnesses to the shooting, it is said. Miss Maude Farr, Chapia; Miss MagSheriff Corley, as well as the officers gie Shuler, Irmo; and Miss Echel give all the credit for the capture of Ciine, Irmo. the men to Chief Elliott, of the Au- After November 1, no student will gusta police, and his entire force. be received in the first grade. It is likely that a preliminary will ? be held at an early date, although no ^ 1**^,-1,,. announcement to this effect has yet Mr* George Doing ?*. . been made. Mr. Will D. George, . iPuiO -? Mills, son of Mr. Erby Gt :e. who Ginnery Notice. was painfully injured by a piece of After October 8th, the Lexington timber foiling 011 his leg several days Ginnery will run only on Thursday, ago, is in the Columbia hospital, where ftnrf Satnrdat of each week. he underwent an operation. We are