Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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:' ; " H ' *. ; -y-' .. .. * * , ... / JSi. ' * 1 / V ' . I \ THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. .1 ' ' - ' ' *' < * it Bepresontatiue Reujspaper. Souera Lexington and tite Borders ot tne Surrounding Bounties Like a Blanket, r ^OL. XLI, LEXINOTON, S. Ch WEDNESDAY JULY 26 1911 38 |*?< j'A; . W : . % ???,, t jjb LEXINGTON TO HAVE NEW SCHOOL HOUSE < ' ' ????? ??? ? ? nAVtm AJA AAA WIIiL tUM ADUI/1 9iV)VW Also Slate Aided High School?Wnat it Means to Lexington and thi People of the County. By the overwhelming vote of 77 to4 11 the citizens of Lexington School district No. 1, embracing the town of ' Lexington, on last Thursday declared for the issaance of bonds to the amount of $10,000 for a new school building. In the same election the people declared, also, for a State-aided high school, the vote on this issue being 79 to 9. Thus Lexington goes to the iront ranks of progressive towns in South Carolina, leaving only one ooort house town in the State, Beaufort, that has not made special provisions for the education of its children. j The result of the election 'means ' - that Lexington is to have one of the most modern and up-to-date school buildings in the state. It means that every child residing in the district may receive an > edncation absolutely free of charge so far as tuition fees are concerned. It means, too, that * every school boy and every school girl in the county of Lexington wno can enter the seventh grade, may finish in oar school withoat cost to their pa rents, so far as the tnition fees aie concerned, thus holding oat to ener w V- * ' * f |'Eg.1 G1 "w. zz I0?0 MAIN 8TREI Solicits a Share getic students the opportunity to procare an education under the beautiful roses of our educational system. It is now "up to" the board of trustees to select and procure a suitable site for the erection of the building? a site that will be in keeping with the progressive spirit that prompted the votftrs in nastinc t.hpir hallnf-.a fnr thp issuance of the bonds. That the present site is most unsightly for a school building of the character proposed to be erected, is obvious to those who fliave the best intorests of the town and school at heart. This new building should undoubtedly be placed on grounds sufficiently large to guarantee a safe playground for the children, and at the same time afford an opportunity to make the surroundings attractive? so attractive that those who visit our town may see our good works and benefit thereby. The present grounds i afford neither of these accessories. It was only during the last session that one of the children, while playing, fell < and broke its arm. < It is to be boped, therefore, that the ; trustees will secure a new site and erect a new building that will be a , credit to the town and a living monn- , ment to the progressive spirit of our , town, so that the voice of the people ] will not have been in vain. j Sunday School Picnic. < St. Stephen's Lutheran Sunday ( school will have ? picDic next Tues- ( day,; August ,1, at Mathias' Mineral Springs Tha^tahday schools of the tiiwn onrl PAmmnnirv ftTft mrdiftllv in- C vited to participate. c wvwwwwwv DRE * ' ' 1 and1 and quar i 1 T1 MN CI of 01 ings 1 ingto 1 G. DR y . , - V * r-\ " *: *:v> w . r % | F r > '' -'-V"r r .. ^vwwvwvm'W LOBE BBT G( . IL^OITCKiTOnS IT, of Your Valued Pati STATE NEWS. There will be a reunion of the Con federate Veterans ot Salnda county at the courthouse on August 2nd. The Jonesville Manufacturing company plant will be sold before the courthouse at Union on August 9th. The plant consists of a cotton mill of 15,000 spindles and 400 looms, a knitting mill and 108 acres of land. The B. F. Johnson company of Richmond, to whom the board of education ( first awarded the contract for supplying readers for the public schools, backed out, and the board on Friday 1 gave the contract to the Heath company for the "Heart of Oak" readers. 1 T. E. Carroll, overseer, shot and killed Sam Howard, colored, in Marlboro county on Friday. The two men had a difficulty and the negro got his ] gun to shoot, but Mr. Carroll got him ' first with a repeating shotgnn. i Dr. B. F. Duckefct, a leading citizen of Greenwood, died at hishomein that ^ oity on Thursday night, aged fifty-two pears. ' L. E. Owens, a prominent business ( nan of Winnsboro, died on a Southern brain near Orange, Va., on Friday 5 rhile on his way to Johns Hopkins c hospital, Baltimore, for an operation, e Ee was 43 years old and unmarried. J Seboarn Self, a white man of Lan- * master, fell into a well fifty-two feet * Jeep on Thursday and escaped with >nly a few bruises. Louis C. Levin, a lifelong resident >f Columbia and Confederate Veteran, i lied on Friday of heart trouble. 3 HER / AKE this means that they have i brick building < will welcome all tl all the new onei f ters. it the same time v ie ]Largi ewest ?: tea^pest othing, Shoes, Hai ever carried by ou n : : : kx;a ** e iiivirc iuu EHER LEXINGTON, SOUTfl ^wwwwvww IODS COHPAfl % Tie., ronage. Polite and Pr( I Lawrence Hester and Max Arnold, yjunsr men of Greenwood, will leave in a few days for North Dakota to worK in tne immense wneat neias 01 that state. The object is threefold? to make money and to get the experience and see something of the world. The Lutheran Sunday School normal of South Carolina will meet in the city of Florence the 1st, 2nd and 3d of August. There will be about seventyfive delegates present and they will be entertained by the people of Florence. About five hundred names have been signed to a petition asking fora special term of the court in Anderson to try Samuel N. Hyde, who murdered his'' wife and her father. The regular term meets late in September. Mrs. Grace Lancaster has been awarded $1,500 damages against the Southern for injuries received while getting off the train at Spartanburg Junction. She sued for $20,000. Samuel McConnell of Anderson aged ftfty, wa9 badly hurt on Saturday in in automobile accide it. His skull was fractured and a large piece was taken )ut by surgeons. He may get well. Mrs. Caroline Aiken Robertson, vife of McBnde 0. Robertson, fell lown the eieyator shaft at the Loan md Exchange bank in Columbia on Saturday and was killed. She leaves iwo daughters who are students at the College for Women. FOR SALE. Forty (40) head of well bred pigs, ^.pply to J. J. Fox, Lexington, S. C. ;9 -wwwwvvwv & cc 5 of announcing noved into their on Main Street le old customers s, in their new 7e will show you 3St9 Kid tlte JLd ? n. e bs and Furnishr store in Lex All to Come. & CO [ CAROLINA LWWWWWVW " - 1 "Ir'i ?' .. / r .. >. . "v. ' ' ' H * * \l \ I | |^J C OLUMBIA, W. C, >mnt Attention. OA*ghgr 1st" NEGRO LYNCHED ; FOR HIS CRIME ! C k HIS FATE NOT CERTAIN t ] c Attempts Assault on Prominent Young t Woman at Mt. Cro an, in Chesterfiei; County. i C r\ n * n 1 f a li A Cfrt ^ A ^ Uj" V> Cfcl tu JL <LIU Cheraw, July 25.?Following an attempt to assault a young woman in 9 Mount Croban, a small town near t here, a negro from North Carolina, whose name has not been learned, is 1 believed to have been lynched. The r attempt at assault was committed at c noon yesterday, and all day yesterday ( and last night parties of frenzied men ? searched the woods for the criminal, t Parties of men returning this morning t were noncommittal as to whether the \ negro was caught or not, bnt it is pre- e sumed from the bearing of the pursu- c era, that the negro was caught and t lynched in the woods near this section The victim of the attempted assault is one of the most prominently connec ted young women of this community, and the crime stirred up unusual anger and excitement. 1 Sheriff Douglass of Chesterfield was c on the scene, but was unsuccessful in c capturing the negro. ] ? j t Edmund News Notes. ; s Special to The Dispatch. > ^ j t Edmund, July 25.?Mrs P. J. Ivev s u "E -so MPAm wwwwwww <? ../V/ - 4 f s visiting relatives in Johnston. Col. W, H. S ier;e and sons, Dr.. Say F. Sox an i Henkle Shealy at;ended church at Eoiling Springs Sunday. A large crowd of farmers attended ;ho farmers' meeting at Edmund last Friday. Mr. J. B. O'Neill Holloway ieliyered a good address on the beneit of a Union. Quite a crowd of young people from jexington and Edmund will go to Savannah to spend suuday. Mr. Eugene Reeder, who has been ipending a few days at home, has reurned to Knoxville. Things are humming around Ednuud now as there are only a few nore days to prepare for the coming >f Governor Blouse on the 29th. The \ Governor will be met at the depot by i brass band and conducted to the bar>ecue grounds, where an old-fa9hioned >arbecue dinner will be served, after vhich the governor will speak. Evirvbody is looking forward to this oc :asion with keen interest and ple&sire. A Siskit. To Lay Cornerstone. The corner-stone of Mt. Herman E.. 1,. Church will be laid on next Satur- ' lay at 3 o'clock p. m. The address >n this occasion will be made by the itev. C. A. Freed, D. D., of Columns. The dedicatio i will follow on Sunday at 0:30 a. m., the sermon to >e preached by the Rev. B. D. * We9inger, of Gilbert. WWWVVW> jmyI dipse Champion^ ? lELk J (, |; ?\ \' V f"