Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. I * ? r ?* " 9 ^ j f,?r m r i - - * 11 ~ ~ t . i - - ? - - - - - .. .... - 1 1 - - 1 i 11 ' " ?' 11 11 & Bepfeaeotatiee Retsspapaf. Sows h&xtn&osi and tha Ear dots at (he ftmomdiag Soontios tiie a BJanket I wra. TIT LEXIWQTOy, 8. c, WEPHROTAY MARCH 1. 1911 17 I % '-Vs r> > f?m > ' ' i : ; j I HfE ROllW E^ ; ~~ lex?n ' i Sjj / e j! $Cash Capital... TEotal Resouic * - :l I ? ' This Bank is Chartered by GOVBBNMEi ' Supervision Commercial *j '' ' ' i Your Money 4?'' " - . v ' f !, j OarlW "" > ?======r-===^^ ' 8 .... - uitfiyuu j\i c X A. LEVER JOS, v t JJH. M. BEATY C. L 7 G. P.: LOGAN J. W [ &.O. BLACK B. < [ \ > '^^255*S555!52SSISSI^3SS5IS5S5SSS . .S?SSS?89S9e9??S9S9?9S . I BANK B! .-*>2 (K 1 ?.Just :as Easy to C $ Though Y ^ 3# 'DEPOSIT1 part of youi ear I Brool > J New M) AWE CARRY i FIRE AND B< J <SSS9SSe9S^9?9SSSS??i >* Bank r V Tb f?an!r r 9 This bank aims to give Eg checks for you?furnish fj always glad to assist you \rith this bank, which ir 1 positors. Our certificate g We cordially invite the their banking with us. 3 8. WESSINGERv Prei The Old ; Aiitfxetino { [ Spring Sh< LetUsAns] ' Lexington, We Sell the B$st i At Right Prices. GI w. s. KttfO MAiN 8TREE Solicits a Share ? J 1 " ~ ~~ I NATIONAL BANK KJTON, S. C. \ ' j. I ; $ 35,m.m es Over <1185,000.00 -a Strong, Safe Institution the UNITED STATES *T, and under Government od Savings Aooonnts Invited When Ton Want It < lotto; "SafttyBefare Profit' 1 V . w i-CALL AT ATIONAIi BAItfK Jolumbia, S. C. ki up . NORWOOD N. H. DRIGGERS ,KIBLER E.<j. COOK . NORWOOD W. P HAMRICK A..SPIVEY C. H. BARRON . . I . r mail: 1 )pen an Account With Us as I irku T ivpri MpYt Door. 1 |5 ?uu ... a < t .* ? ' v. - ? ^ niDg9 TODAY. Bring it, send it or mail it. ? S Idand Bank i Brookland, S. \# g JACLAR INSURANCE. f t of ChapTn 1 IHAPIN, S. C. : : :? I Tl??9 A?k?Miflmiul9ioe I IHSft NWlliviwvwuiwv you good services. We cash out-of-town drafts for sending money away. We ar8 in business matters. Make your deposits takes a point of good treatment of its des of deposit bear interest at 5 per cent, i farmers as well as the business men to do sident. J. F. HONEYOUTT, Cashier ? J 7 yes, * werlt IL ? i\Te are showing the best line of ring and Summer Shoes and Oxfords fo a, Women and Children, thai we have ?r carried. till the leading makes and St-vles to se. j / t from, and the prices are bound to please 3. We sell the famous Hunt Club Shoe men. Jail and make cn inspection today. SARD . s. c. ?? PiTNj^ Groceries ^ \ ^ V iOBE JBY 60C T of Your Valued Patr John Black To Go Free, j j [COiumDia Kecoraj. Governor Blease commuted, Monday, the sentence of Major John Black of Columbia, former director of the State Dispensary, to five years in the penitentiary or a fine of |2.000. Major Black was tried at Chester in the fall of 1910, on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the State, and upon conviction?the co-defendants, Jodie M. Rawlinson and J. Lee Solomons being acquitted?was sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiaiy. Governor Blease's action of Monday effected the commutation of this sentence by allowing the alternative of a i fine. This exercise of executive clemencX | in Major Black*s behalf recalls Gov- ! ernor Blease's often repeated declaration on the stamp, "I stand by my friends," and his statement in the senate, when it was proposed to allow the attorney general a special fund for the prosecution of dispensary grafters, that John Black was his friend and he intended standing by liitn; "and if necessary I wiJl go to the penitentiary with nim." Acceptance of commutation by Major Black terminates, automatically, his pending appeal to fhe supreme court. The law books say also that "acceptance of a pardon has the same legal effect as a confession of guilt or of the existence of a state of facts from which judgment of guilt would follow (Enc. L-w, Vol, 24, p. 579), and the same authority says: 'ginna H-?a nwentanflp nf ft nftrdon admits the recipient's guilt, when a pardon is accepted, pending an appeal, its acceptance operates as an admission that the criminal was rightly convicted and therefore constitutes ipso facto a waiver of exceptions taken at the trial." Pardon and commutation are classed as of a piece. In this case the appeal had not been perfected and thus the practice outlined for dismissal of the appeal need not be followed: "So where a pardon is granted, accepted and brought to the attention of the court, pending an appeal, the appeal will be dismissed." "The criminal," says the law books, "cannot be forced to accept a pardon." TEXT OF THE ORDER. 1 Governor Blease issued the commutation without comment, merely dii recting his private secretary, Mr. Alexander Rowland, to make out the usual form. When this had been signed in duplicate, a copy was placed in the drawer whtre documents intended for the inspection of newspaper *nen are deposited. The paper reads: "Whereas, at a Court of General j Sessions and Common Fleas, begun I and holder, at Chester County at the | November term, 1910, before Judge } (special) Ernest Moore, one John Black was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the State and was sentenced to five years in the State Penitentiary, now know ye: 4'That for divers good causes and considerations me hereunto moving, I haye thought fit to commute, and by these presents do commute the sentence of the said John Black to live years in the State Penitentiary, or pay a fine of .'.-/Wj "CO L. Bisase, Governor." The commutation is dated the 27th of February, the 135th year of the Independence of the United States of . America. Fro!. Lindler Seriously 211 The xuMiy friends of Prof. S. S. { Lindier w'M be pained to learn that | he is seriously ill with pneumonia at ? his home oh Hollow (Jreek. Pro!', j Lindler was forced to give up his ] ot'.ooi inoru than a week ago and has been growing worse ever since. In addition to the physicians who are daily in attendance at his bedside, Miss Altee, an experienced trained Durse from Columbia, is also in attendance. w** Mcstze On 4 noon Mr. Lonnie T. Dtie: ^C/.zie WPf-a were quieilj .a at the home of the brio-, 'a father, Mr. S. T. Weed, at Irmo, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Mr. Roof. IDS COUP AH! , T23., .... 4 onage. Polite and Proi Whiskey Constables ?2 Enforce Factory Laws. Governor Blease has made factory * *- 4-V.^v n-liiol-nir f.iin c_t. a - Ill.SptUliUrS UUJ Ul LUC n"iar.tj ble?. Tnat is in addition to keeping down blindtigers the constables are required to visit all factories at least once a month and report to the governor. It will be the duty of whiskey constables, besides enforcing whiskey laws and others, to secure statistics relating to all drprrtments of labor in this state such as the hours of labor cost of living, supply of labor required estimated number of persons depend-^ ing on labor for their support, the statistics to be classified as follows: Agricultural, in manafactnri.ig and mechanical industries, in transportation an*! in nlerinal and all other skilled and unskilled labor not above enumerated. The whiskey constables will also be required to give Lstics as to the amount invested .1 lands, buildings, machinery, material, and means of production and distribution generally. The number, age, sex and condition of persons employed: the nature of j their employment, the number of I hours of labor per day and the wages i 1 received in each of the industries and j employments enumerated, j There are many other duties of the j factory inspectors, such as ascertaining the sanitary condition of factories and all other manufacturing plants where five or more people are employ ed. Subscribe for the Diapatch. | ^ BKEE ill (fl's il IP NE' 11 Low Cut |||- New Furr ifl Otii We can, after years ilQf: be had in this count ^}'Zi select your pattern. - '#mlm I .GKBI3, COLUMBIA, ??. C. ?>- mrk.4- A iipt xillculujul, October istl ARE WE JUSTIFI Perhaps we ought to b \ achievement. But, you know H more he wants.7' This being tri in soliciting new business; and e are so well equipped to handle i' Citizen's Bank o Batesburg, 1892. Lexington Say I LEXINGTON, Gapifal, Surplus and Urtdivide 5 per cent, interest paid on bein computed semi-annually. D< received. jg Commercial accounts also give: Sf Ample facilities for handling account will be appreciated. Safet~ deposits boxes for rent,! W. P. BOO Tiurn rnn onm jiro run arm ??- 1911 I We take pleas! ||p ure in extending yg? to our customers 1 I I -i r j ' \ Yr^j - 2nd rncnns an in- I sjf viiat:cn to inspect \y .. f 1 f v tiie ioitGWing lines i,\ now complete. i o I V ri?J8T% f"v mm u a vJ JTHSS .vest shapes and color lishmgs, Shii'is, Neckwt * TsHfi^iflr Opiisrf ? i3l k. L ^ i 1 i ^ i J* ?tv - 1 ~ ~~ ~ *=Jf C cf experience, offer you the v ry. Come and Jock through our We will guarantee to please yc & ro' rni I tur : satisfiedjwith present he more a man gets the le, we are then justified specially so, since we t. f n.i i__ i Baiesourg, a c. 1911. ings Bank, 8. 0 d Profits $35,880.00. savings deposits, interest eposits of SI.00 and over your business, and your. fcl.00 per year.. P President and CasKieir f 4. $ -m I# -^ ., : ?'i / ,.- ' v-V'/ #$$ i-iV; ^ /;%. 3m^? I_' %i' ' > W//'T:frp -^v\ * n Irit "NO NAME" HAT |&| GHATS f W(T < -*tkt ' eafhers if :ar, Etc. ??* rrsp^f S? A'Vw"". ery best value to y.^C Hue of \V oolens, ?T>^ "*11 v" w?r . w W--, ar? e~'-ly- 1 site IgiTshfji :%\kE. 8, BfBFCilS 44= &CD.'S Ladies' ^ Fins Tailurmg Spring Salts & fatfWi Ml I" I? *