University of South Carolina Libraries
? mmmmm? ???iW? THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. ^ ry K . _/ \y?. * v^J< i : A Bepresentative Newspaper. Covers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Counties Like a Blanket. - ___ ? ?? I ^ . ? VOI^XLI. LEXINGTON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1911 50 > TAX NOTICE Office of CouDty Treasurer, Lexington County, Lexington, ?. 0., September 30, 1911, For the convenience of taxpayers, I " will attend the following places for the purpose of collecting taxes for the present year. Books will open at 8 o'clock in the morning and close at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Gaston, Tuesday eve. 'Nov. 7. Swansea, Wed. and Thnrs. Nov. 8 & 9 Pelion, Friday Nov. 10., all day. / Stead mac, Tnea. morn., Nov. 14. ' Samaria, Toes, eve., Nov. 14. Batesbnrg, Wednesday Nov. 15. Leesville, Thursday, Nov. 16. 8nmmit, Friday, morn,, Nov. 17. Gilbert Priday, eve., Nov. 17, Irmo, Tuesday, morning Nov. 21. Ballentine, xuesaay evening inoy. ax. White Rock, Wed. mom., Nov. 22. Hilton, Wednesday, eve. Nov. 22. Chapin, Thnrs. and Friday, Nov. 23,24 Peak, Saturday morn. Nov. 25. Ed Addy's, Wednesday Nov. 29. Keisler's Store* Wed. eve. Nov. 29. < Brook!and, Saturday, Dec. 2. LETT. For 8tate Purposes * 5% Mills For Ordinary County Purposes ... 4 Mills For Past Indebtedness .... 2 Milis Special County . (bricUses) . . 1 Mills For Roads . . . 2 Mills For Constitutional School Tax.... 3 Mills ; . Total 17% Mills Special School Levy Pis. No. 1 4 Mills Special School Levy i'is. Mo. 15 8 Mills Special School Levy Pis. No. 18 8 Mills Special 8choot Levy Pis. No. 25 2 Milis Special School Levy Pis No'84 2 Mills Special School Kevy Pis. No. 87 2 Milis Special School Levy Pis No.42 2 Mills Special School Levy Pis. No 75 2 Mills Special School Levy Dis. No. 66 8 Mills Special 8ehool Levy Pis. No 88 2 Mills Special School Levy Pis. No. 26 2 Mills Special School Levy Pis. No. 85 2 Mills Special 8chool Levy Pis. No. IS 2 1* iU-s Special School Levy ids. No 23 2 Mills Special School Levy Pis. S o. 17 , 2 Mills Special School Levy IMs. No. 63 2 Milis Special School Le*yDK No. 12 2 Mills Special School Levy Pis. No. 7 2 Mills Special School Levy Pis No 48 2 Mills Special School Levy Pis. No. 30 2 Mills Special School Levy Pis. No. 84 2 Mills Special School Levy Dis. No. 85 2 Mills Special School Levy Dis, no. 71 2 Mills 8pecial School Levy Dis. No. 16 2 Mills Foil Tax.. 8i.oo > rimmmntat.inn road tax for 1912. two t' ? dollars, isreceiyed at the same time as other State and county taxes. Bead instructions below before remitting: According to law the County Auditor will add tbe following penalties: On January 1st, 1912, 1 per cent, penalty will be added to those who have not paid. On February 1st, 1912, an additional 1 per cent, will be added to those who have not paid, making 2 per cent, penalty for February. Still an additional 5 per cent. panalty will be added on March 1st., making 7 per qeat. penalty to be paid by those who have not paid by March 1st, 1912. Tax Books will close March, 15,1912. When remitting give each township or school district your property is in. Giye one name in full, not initials. Very truly, E. L. WEJGARD, Treasurer Lexington County, S. C. Trespass Fotice. This is to notify all persons that' - trespassing on the lands of the undersigned is forbidden. All persons violating this notice will be punished according to law. > ; '' W. H. Hendrix. Mrs. H. J. Hendrix. * H. E. Drafts. J. J. Long. ^ Oct. 3, 1911-4w52 ? ?? ? Cotton Li Fields. ~ In some sections of the county tin re is just lots of cotton open in die fields. MahX p-itcaes have not had a boll picked * id hands are bard to find?at anypritc. ... ' \ ??????????r, ' *vc \ ? ^ wr v v HI mm W W jt r I U W ^ Bsmv^ iiiirfci ..TTX?i We have just rec< good farm Horses broke. Come to set you want as right pri ^LKSVILI NOTICE?Cards of thanks are publiblied in The Dispatch at the rate of one-half cent a word; obituaries, 100 words free, one-half cent a word for all oyer one hundred. Tributes of respect, one-half cent a word. No ex-, ceptions to this rule will be made. Bound Trip Excursion Bates Via Southern Bailway. Batesburg, 3. C., and return. 85c. Accounfc\Tri-County Fair, Oct. 17-20, ' 1911. Tickets sold Oct. 18 to 20, 1911, inclusive, good returning Oct. 21, 1911. Batesbnrg, 3. 0., and return. $1 20 Account Batesbnrg County Fair (colored), Oct. 24-27, 1911. Tickets sold Oct. 28, 24, 25, 26, and 27, 1911. Good returning Oct. 28, 1911. AS WELL AS large ones are welcome here? you need not wait until your business has assumed great proportions before opening a Checking Account, DO SO TO-DAY. Our patrons regardless of the I amount of business done, receive ? every courtesy in all matters of I business entrusted to us?and J there is nothing in safe banking j ? we cannct perform. Talk it over ? with our cashier. ? CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK, COLUMBIA, s. c. FARMS! FARMS! ' "</> " " If you want to buy a good farm at right price anywhere in South Caroli i , call on or write us. If you want to sell your farm quick for cash, make your price right and we will sell it for yon, no matter where located. We sell choice , city property, too. Dickert & Eargle, 1507 Main Street, Columbia, - South Carolina. "Always Hustling." |jj^ ^ived Car Load of and Mules, well 7 > ; us and get what ices. & Smith, LE, C. BOWSERIS BITTEN= He Sits Down on Cat Sleeping In a Chair. THEN HE MAKES LOUD HOWL Accuses His Wife and the Cook of Plotting Against Him and His HapninMt Rafuses to Go to Picture . Show and Talks of Early Death. By M. QUAD. . [Copyright, 2311, by Associated Literary Press.] MR. BOWSER had come home balmy. He had called Mrs. Bowser dear and praised the dinner. He had observed that he pitied the man who had no pleasant home to return to after the labors of the day. He had smilingiy hinted that after he had finished his cigar they would take a stroll down to the moving picture show. Mrs. Bowser was happy, the cook was happy, and if there had been a cricket on the hearth he would have burst into song and kicked up his heels. Then the blow fell. Mr. Bowser felt so balmy that he decided to sit down and cross his legs. He walked over to 'the easy chair always reserved for him and fell backward with a grunt An instant later there was a yeowl to chill the blood, and as the sitter leaped to his feet the family cat scurried across the room and made a dive for a window. The contented feline had curled up in the chair for a nap previous to going ^ j "it's that villainous cat." otit and striving with the night world, and Mr. Bowser had not noticed her when he sat down. "What?what is it?" asked Mrs. Bowser as he danced around. "The cat," he shouted?"the miserable, contemptible, infernal, villainous cat!" "But didn't you see her?" * Expects to Go Mad. "No, no! Do you suppose I'd have sat down on her if I had seen her? Confound her, she's bitten me?yes, sir, bitten me?and who is to say that I won't go mad?" "It's probably just a slight dig of a claw. I hardly see how you could have sat down without observing her." "Oh, you don't! I suppose I must go around the house peering into every chair and passing my hand over it before I sit down! By the great horn spoon, that beast dies tomorrowF She nn +horo nn niirnnsft to cot in a V Ui. iV/U UJ^/ IUVA V V ^ x bite on me, and I may be raving- mad in a week!" "I shouldn't fear. A cat bite doesn't drive anybody mad." "No, you wouldn't fear. It's not you that has been bitten to the bone, and so you don't care. Where is the ungrateful wretch? She shall not live another hour!" He rushed down to the kitchen and out into the back yard, but the cat was not to be seen. When he returned to the sitting room Mrs. Bowser asked: "Well, let us go down and see the motion pictures and forget all about it" Cat Sought Revenge. "Go nothing! Go nowhere!" he shouted. "Do you think I have no feelings? Am I a block of wood? I come home here this evening glad that I have a home to come to. I look forward to a pleasant three or four hours. I address you tenderly and lovingly. I almost suggest that we raise the cook's wages. With a glad song In my heart I sit down. Then what happens?" "Va? cu nu th<* pat." answered Mrs. Bowser. , *T do?I do! That old yaller eyed sen of a gun was there In waiting for , me. She saw me. She knew I was gotog to sit down. She knew her revenge was at hand. And now I'm a bitten mam. Ob to the picture show? Go riding on the cars? Go anywhere? No? thrice no!" "I'm sorry the cat was there." "Yes, and Cain was probably sorry after he killed Abel. The cook should have come up here and looked into J the chairs. That should have been your first duty when we came up ; from dinner. Did either one of you do it? No! You left me to be bitten and clawed and to go to a horrible death. When I begin to rave you will probably smile at my sufferings/' "As I said, I am sorry, but"? Finds Many Grievances. "And there are other things I wish to mention," continued Mr. Bowser. "Why has the gas bill jumped up all of a sudden? Who has been burning gas in the daytime to spite me?" 'The bill is 00 cents less than last month," said Mrs. Bowser. "Even if it was higher you alone would be to blame for it. Last week you lighted the gas in the storeroom to look for something and left it burning for three days." "And about tbe coal, Mrs. Jtsowser. Do you realize that we are burning just as much in the range as during the winter? It is being burned or sold or given away?you can tell which." "We are not burning half what we did in the winter." "And the grocery bills, Mrs. Bowser ?the grocery and butcher bills. They are going up by leaps and bounds. The cook is either throwing meat and groceries into the alley or you are i feeding a dozen families at my expense. I have said nothing about it heretofore, but I tell "you it must be stopped at once." "The bills for meat and groceries are much less than last winter," quietly replied Mrs. Bowser. Was Himself to Blame. Mr. Bowser walked to aud fro and tried to think of something else, and ajreetly it came to him, and he said: "The other day I found a table knife In the grass in the back yard. That shows how this house is runwaste and destruction on every hand! By jinks, when I think of it I?I"? "It makes your blood boil, of course, and yet it was yon who carried the knife out there to cut a piece off the clothesline." Mr. Bowser started to jump up and down and roar, but be remembered that he bad used the knife cut there and therefore suppressed the roar and substituted: "When I wanted to put on a clean shirt this morning I couid find nor.e. I suppose they have all been sold to the ragman." "I heard you banging arotfnd. You naT0 SIX suirts III uuiiuw umwa of the dresser. You v.*ere locking in an old trunk in the storeroom." That was another on Mr. Bowser, but it didn't down him. He waited a minute to catch his breath and then said: "All summer lpng the iceman has been cheating us out of five pounds of ice per day, and you haven't said a word about it. On the contrary, you have taken a secret satisfaction in seeing me robbed. Is there a husband in America who would stand these things as I have?" Must Blow Off Steam. "I have seen every piece of ice weighed, ,Mr. Bowser, and we have got all we paid for. Very often the man has thrown in an extra chunk." "But that last ton of coal. I don't believe there were over 1,800 pounds. 1 am sure we were cheated." "Well, you went to the yard for it. Why didn't you see it weighed?" "And when I am bitten by an infernal old rackabone cat, Mrs. Bowserbitten in my own house, bitten by your cat, bitten by a cat undoubtedly mad?what do you do? Do you rush to the telephone and ask the doctor to come at once?" "Do you?" "And I won't stand it?I won't stand it!" he shouted. "Mrs. Bowser, this is the dead line. I shall not contest your divorce, and the alimony shall be arranged for." And he rushed from the house, and Mrs. Bowser read for an hour and then went to bed. She knew her Bowser. He must i*?YA Ms "spells" or bust. Salt. Salt production is about the oldest industry in the world. In Italy, the cradle of the salt industry, it has tppn manufactured commercially for 2.500 years. Salt is so necessary to existence that in some parts of the world tribes will sell the members of their families in exchange for salt Salt has been the cause of wars, and so important has it always been considered that in some places the passing of salt is established as a token of friendship, and women throw salt on a visitor as a friendly greeting. In some countries salt is so scarce that it is obtained through the ashes of grasses and a species of palm and other plants. While salt is produced in almost every country in the world, it is stated that nowhere can salt of such purity be obtained at anything like the cost for mining as in Louisiana.?Manufacturers' Record. Fought For Peace. Doctor?Did that medicine I gave you agree with your stomach? Patient?Yes, finally, bnt it raised an awful row before It came to terms. In Tuna. "What a rasping voice that lawyer hasP' MNo wonder. He's filing charges."? Baltimore American. CBUIMBIA LUMBER MAXU ACTURE] Sash, Doors and Bi Finish, Pine, Cypi Flooring, Ceiling, Weatherboarc and Window F: COLUMBIA : : All new, fresh goods, the lat Mr. Ayoub has just returned ern markets where he "See newest and latest styles and season. Such bargains were Ladies, Gents' and Children'; Hats, Caps and Notions of ai ftivA tis a r?all "Wo o-narflnfAP 'W * T V MkM WW W ^ M>V%A WW V W Goods. Afex %qh!s, Pre 919 Gervais St, Three Doers? Colombia, Mftui. -mae. jiT.jmr rmrwin?w f iii^iri.'jj^jr ! n? in mi ?a Store [Your WITH? TE . > *?. STANDARD WAR! AT i COLUMBIA, AndsYou can borrov receipts at low rate of T7/-vr? i r-i rv? nti An i*rr?i4-/rk jl vji liiiui luauuii pui m COLUMBIA,* CLOSING 01 The^entire Stoc McCartha, of B will belclosed out reduction in pri mencing October Above stock co Groceries, Dry Goo 41* W1 anoes, l J. W. Mc Barr, HMnHMMMHHannni and MFG. CO. RlS OF inds, Interior ess and Oak ling, Moulding Door rames SOUTH CAROLINA 1 r rm imx mnma ;est of the season. [ from the north>oped in" all the novelties of the ! never offered in s Clothing, Shoes, U descriptions. please you in prices and sprisfsr, sbove S. A. L. Depot s. c. Cot f on. [E - S. 0. 7 money on its j J interest. to re i r ; v. 5k of J.W. arr, S. C. at a great ce. Com17tk, 1011. nsists of >ds, Notions, tc. S. .