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THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH.
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A Bepresentative Newspaper. Covers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Counties Like a Blanket.
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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
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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
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We have just rec<
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broke. Come to set
you want as right pri
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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!
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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."
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^ived Car Load of
and Mules, well
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; us and get what
ices.
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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
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"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
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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.
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