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ppSC ' ' . ' ' . f THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH. A Representative Newspaper Covers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Counties Like a Blanket. VOL. TT.ttt LEXINGTON, S.C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1913 48 S * 1 I^^MSWll .X 1 A?B??????B? Court Closed Saturday. The fall term of the Conrt of Genereral Sessions for Lexington County came to a close late Saturday evening, after .having been in session for two solid weeks, during which time many cases were disposed of. On Thursday Arthur Boozer, a negro, wa9 tried and * acquitted on the charge of assault with intent to rape. The prosecutrix was a negro girl 17 years old. The defendant was represented by DePass I & DePass, ana Colcock & Colcoek, of Columbia. The next case called was that of John Sligh and Leo Summer, two negro9 charged with housebreaking and larceny, the direct off^ ence being that they entered the store of Geo. A. Sumiander, at Chapin, some weeks ago. After deliberating for several hour9 the jury returned a verdict of guilty, recommending the mercy clause. They were - each sentenced to serye six months at hard - labor upon the public works of Lex Home 1 V The first step in buvin the Savings Account, home of his own. A sa1 bank, with regular depos provide the money for one. The sooner you be live in your own home. THE HOME N A LEX1NG1 Capital $25,000.00. -1 Samuel B. George, Pres., Alfred J. Fox, > 'Ui. ier, K | BROOKLA | New Brook | DIREC 1 J. G. Guignard, E. W. 5 R. N. Senn, Henry | A. D. Shull, L. S. 1 | ADVISOR'S $ Frank W. Shealy. James A. ?969S96se9Kse9esesese9ss?s? CHLORAZO> B Malaria attacks tbe liver, kidne: hB Rheumatism attacks the bone? an H Malaria is just as serious as any < 95 Some of the symptoms are lassiti M whites of the eye9 slightly tinge; Br lack of appetite, constipation, au^ H and you must keep off chills ai I Every bottle sold on a guarantee I 1 Price, 50 9 HUDCINS D H OPPOSITE P< ^9 9 AGENT AG] B For Dr. Hes9 For Pensl B Stock and Poultry B Remedies. B When you have a prescription to ? B by.trusting it to us. | Columb: ???????????????? When Next Call an d see our new bui Main a nd Gervais streets, as a depositor if you see f whether you do that or nc acquaintance. UNION NAT] Coiurobi ^^^2^55552 MvaaannlalZa ( "W. 2 l?d() MAIN STl* I Solicits a Sha ington County, or a like period in tb State Penitentiary. The defendant were represented by Ernest U. Shea! Esq., and Col. J. Brooks Wingard. On Friday morning J. A. Blackwe der, of Newberry, former president c the Bank of Chapin, wa9 placed o trial upon the charge of violating th State banking laws, it being allege that while president of the Bank c m _ i j ?~ - L/Hapin lie lutiueu. to uilusch auu i enterprises in which he was interestei amounts far in excess of what the la^ provides. This was the hardest fougb case of the term, both sides bein represented by able and aggressiv counsel. The State was represente by George Bell Timmerman, the bril liant prosecuting attorney of the ele\ enth district; J. B. Hunter, Esq., c Newberry, and Ool. J. Brooks Win gard, of Lexington, although the ill ness of Col. Wingard forbade his ap pearing in the court house. The de fendant was represented by Mes9r Making g or building a home is Kvervnne should have a rings account with this lits from the income, will the first payment upon gin, the sooner you will TIONALBANK roN, s. c. Resources $250,000.00 Jas. J. Wingard, V. Pres. ?? ^ a a n 1 . ? . uswaia, assi. uasmer. ?6S6S696969696S?i96SC96S69l ND BANK j land, S. C. ! rORS: ! Shull, G. A. Guignard ! Buff, F. L. Sandel ! rotti, P. J. Wessinger ' r BOARD: ! Summerset, G. G. Moseley ??I II 1 JE MALARIA ys and digestive organs, just as g d inuseie3 of the human system. iiseas> on the human calender. |*ide, a yellow tinge to the skin, the ? d with yellow. Poor dige9t;on, ? r of t-liese symptoms are a waiv ag & id fever, with CHLORAZONE. jg ;o cure, or your money back. E c Bottle. | RUG STORE, ? OST OFFICE. I 3NT AGENT I ar Remedies. For Belle Meade & Sweet Candies, 5 the only candy that I passed the pure food law. B ill von will not make a mist,at ft K La, S. C. 1 in Columbia Iding on the coroner of We should welcome you it to open an acconnt, but )t we want to make your [OHTAI* BANK o q r ia, v^. - - i iLOBE DRY 0 a. SHJ'S", ref >" * T "? ^.*4 ? *! *?,i t>cvy3..* tj e j Efird and Prefer, of t-'r.e local bar, and . . ' T? -.1. TJ r-r !<? !-.i .?? :3 XVUUt'lL 15. It c:cn, <.. ! i lie ui u.u.iy j bia Bar. Aft:-r a trial lasting through J Friday and Satuiday, the jury returnj. ! ed a verdict of guilty, and the defend,f | ant was sen:r-ne?d to pay a fine of n | $1,000. or serve 12 mouth* at hard e j labor. Mr. Euro at or.ro gave notice d of aa appeal to the supreme court, and j the prisoner was released on bond in 0 J the sum of $1,5000. There are two ^ other charges of a similar nature all ^ growing out of hi? connection with the t Ohapin Bank, resting against Mr. g Blackwelder, and these will be called at a subsequent term. e d - CIST OF THE i: WEEK'S NEWS >8 Front Page Stories Retold in Paragraphic Form. I INTERESTING MINOR EVENTS By Telegraph and Cable Roll In the Important and the Inconsequential, but to Each Is Given i Its Proper Space. I | gmmRTiiutiiritiiiiinnitnntinniintniiuiniminiiHitiniiiimmiinmumMititfS | Washington riiuiiuiiiiiuiiiuiiiiiiimiiiHiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiuiuiiiiUtUHiiiiiaiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ Secretary McAdoo has deposited in national banks $24,159,000 of the Governments $50,000,000 crop-moving fund. The South has received nearly i all its quota. Deposits are now being made in the Central West. As a reward for services he has rendered the government as engineer of the Panama Canal, Colonel George .W. Goethals will be advanced to the rank of Major General. There has been $20,000,000 crop moving money put into the banks of the South and West by the Treasury Department at Washington. The Bureau of Immigration's report Arrrn 4-V* AWrt TTTQrQ 19S 9A.A l'mmiirrant CUU TV O IUC1C ntit xwu,u? aliens admitted to the United States during July. ? Slf1l!IFIIII!liilllllinilllllllilllllUlilllllUillllllll!UnnilMIIU1ll!IIIIUII|!llllllHI!| X I Personal R I Rillllllllllll!llllllllllllllimilMIIIIIIIIIIIIimillllllll!llllllllU]]lll!llll!IUIlllllHlllliE K Rufus and Norman Gaynor will proi vide for their mother, who got an !I income of only $3,000 under the late .*2 j Mayors will. The widow is now not f) ; likely to contest for her dower rights. Z i Louis Windmuller, the aged banker ; of New York, was declared iucompe 5 j tent by a jury in Long Island City and IT, ; conservators were appointed to care I ft?r hie ectnTP 5 ! General Porfirio Diaz, who was re)j' ' ported to have left Santander for ! Mexico, lias *cvurned to France from , | that port, when :e ho had gone to see I his daughter embark for Vera Cruz. Clarence J. Tinker, divinity student ^ j at Harvard, arrived at Boston, after 6 ! riding on a bicycle from Fenton, I Mich., a distance of 1,100 miles, in 15 days. | General Several thousand miners struck in the southern Colorado coal fields, demanding a recognition of their union. Columbia University leg a its 160th year with an enrolment of 10,000 students. I Harry Thaw's mother, in Concord, N. H., spoke of William Travers Jerome as "a human hyena." The Rev. Ulrice Jones, 38 years old, drowned when itricken with I heart failure while swimming in a i Y. M. C. A. pool at Scrantcn, Pa. The parents of the 1,500 striking ' high school students of Syracuse, N. i Y., held a mass meeting in which they denounced the management of the ' schools. The City Council of Cumberland r; Md., passed an ordinance providing | for the employment of an engineer : to report on tLe establishment of an electric plant. ; Morris Wexler, of New York City, \ pleaded guilty in the Federal Court, Si to a charge of white slavery and was ll eentenced to 18 months in the penr : tentiary. The Weather Bureau issued a report showing that flood damage in the United States during 1912 was $16,300,000, of which 70 per cent, was done in Ohio and Indiana. At the Progressive State Convention in Baltimore, Georg L. Wellington, of Cumberland, Md., was nominated as the Progressive caudi date for United States Senator. MS GORFAN \rr TTr*- ~\/T A 7>T_A >?e V cv c* w ^ V jcac atx* ^0 <*. *d?-?a ? * i?- * . r- - t? . r 1 f' * '. ?"t < p-, . , - V '-* <r-. -> *"- ?' r >' * * a-i -..fxiajCc/# L *ii.L>?- <*.&, U ji. i <; . . Representative Borland, of Missouri, introduced a bill intended to legislate out of oflice members of the Lincoln Memorial Commission, among i l-them ex-President Taft. t ; Joseph and John Hill were shot and killed and their brother Bige | i wounded in a l'amiiy leua near urand i f i Ci.ain, 111. .Mrs. Xelson, a housekeeper, de! talned at Police Headquarters in New- , ; ark. X. J., as a confessed robber of j ; her employer, hanged herself there ! ' j while the matron was absent, i Jacob H. Schiff and Henry Morgen- ; ! than testified before the High Court ; of Impeachment, Albany, that they ! ! placed no limit on the use of their j | contributions of $2,500 and $1,000, re- j j 6pectively, to Mr. Sulzer at the time j of his candidacy for Governor. Two bandits, who were mere boys, rifled the mail car and blew open the express safe on Alabama Great Southern train o. 7, near Cottondale, Ala., and escaped with booty variously estimated at from a few hundred to one hundred thousand dollars. Edward Scully, an assistant fore- * man of the Street. Cleanine Denart ment, was killed in Brooklyn by a runaway horse which he seized, preventing the animal from injuring school children in its path. State Superintendent of Public Works Peck testified at the impeachment trial that Governor Suizer had urged him to commit perjury relative to his contribution during Mr. Sulzer's campaign. Ambassador Morgenthan, recalled, said the Governor had urged him to be "easy on him" and treat the Morgenthau contribution as [ e personal affair. | Four boys were born to Mr. and i Mrs. Pearl Yates of Centralia, 111. The first world's championship baseball game will be played in New York, October 7. Hog cholera has cost Minnesota farmers more than $4,000,000 this season. water nas Deen i?t 11110 me uppei chamber of the Gatun lcck for the i first time. i The 400th anniversary of the discovery of the Pacific by Balboa was celebrated at Panama. Verner S. Belyea, of Worcester, Mass., died from injuries received in ' a football game, the first fatality of the season. A monument was dedicated at j Washington's Crossing, N. J., to mark | the spot where Washington crossed i the Delaware in 1776. ! 1 Mrs. Susan Rose, of Fulton, Me., was found guilty of killing her husI band, J. H. Ross, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. T)r W .T Reattle. of Littleton. N. | H., was killed instantly when struck | by an automobile at a crossing in I Bretton Woods, N. H. ! Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, has I been turned over to the city authori| ties and will be known as the Uni, | vereitv cf Akron, i Martin Sherida*., the all-round athletic champion, hrs been promoted to 8 first grade detective, with a salary of | j $2,250, on the New York police force. I , ; Samuel Gompers and executive 1j j members of the American Federation e of Labor expressed their approval to $ President Wilson or* the appointment j . cf Yv". E. Yv'ilson as Secretary of | j Labor. ! Irwin DeRaney, an engineer, was j g | struck and killed by a train in the | j i Lackawanna yards at Hoboken, N.^J., I | after making his last run, prepara- | I tory to retiring on a pension for life. Secretary of Wgr Garrison upheld the action jf the superintendent of the Miliary Academy at West Point in depriving several cadets of privileges for hazing lower class men. D. 0. Wheeler, president, and J. B. Sloan, cashier of the Exchange Bank | and Trust Co., of Memphis, have been arreste-1, charged with misapplying $4,477 of the bank's funds. In order to prevent an automobile L from going over a precipice, at Great Barrington, Mass., a chauffeur turned it into a pile of rocks, causing injury to the 14 occupants. Vennon Belvea, of Greenfield, Mass., was fataly injured in a football game ) between Norwich University and j Holy Cross teams. This is the first I victim of the season. > James A. Allen, the Independence League candidate for Mayor of New 1 York, offered to withdraw from the I li-l.-i tr T _ 1. _ 11., ... VT{f UCltei in lavor Ul JUIIII ruuui 1?1U- I chel, the Fusion candidate. j ' Bert Thenning, of Buffalo, N. Y., 1 died of heart disease while riding on a motorcycle with his wife. The motorcycle overturned, but Mrs. Thenning was uninjured. 1 Governor Foss asked the Massachu1 setts Public Service Commissicn to ' make a sweeping investigation of the New Haven Railroad's relations with the Legislature under the ftfellen 1 management. He points to the my3- i ' | terious expenditure of $337,000. I A Y, " . !w Q-BS, COIjITMHSA. : ?. nipt, Attention, -T :sr! I IIMTHITHimMIIII Ml IMIMMB llll I IWIIIBII !!! !! IWIBIIMIII * ! IWIW | BEFORE this BANK got it's CHARTER and became | A NATIONAL BANK P I'M ? ?? | if had to satisfy tho U. S. Government at Washington that all of the'provisions of tho National Banking Laws had been complied v. iih. Every since that time frequent and rigid examinations have ?been made by the'Government. Every time the Government calls for a report, an accurate statement of the affairs of the PALMETTO NATIONAL BANK i9 published in this paper. We want you to know all about us. When you do we believe you will make OUR BANK YOUR BANK Tlif! Pahiielto National Hank, OF COLUMBIA, S. C. Wilie Jones, President. J. P. Matthews, Cashier I ? g the;old reliable E I The Carolina National Bank K 9 United States, State, County and City Depository. B (I Capital stock $300,000 00 SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. 5 9 Surplus profits 155,000 00 gjl 9 Liability, of stock- Interest allowed at the rate of re g holders 800,000 00 4 per cent, per annum, payable g| Prnt.po inn to Opn^a. Quarterly, February. May. Au- 12 H itors $7-55,000 00 ! gust, November. W jfl The new banking House is provided with a modern Fireproof H m Vault which is protected by an Electric System installed by the J9 9j Electric Bank Protection Company of New* York City, and is made K 3 thoroughly burglar proof. ? SI It has also installed a complete set of safety deposit vaults which B| B are offered to our customers at reasonable rates. V e are prepared to HI 3 afford every facility and accommodation which one's business justifies m m ?OFFICERS? m m W. A. CLARK, President, JOSEPH M. BELL, Cashier, ffi a T. S. BRYAN, Vice President. JOHN D. BELL, Asst. Cashier. ? kI RANKiHF rtUAPIM 1 t B^it mum ?i v I CHAPIN, SOUTH CAROLINA. Make this] Bank your Bank by doing your business through it. In this I way you {will kbe helping yourself, your neighbor and your community. J. S. Wcssinger, Pres. A. T. Mayer, Cashier. I DIRECTORS: J. S. Wessinger, S. X Clark, ^ W. B. Williams, II. C. Shealy, JjP. M. Frick, N. Z. Sease, ? ?J. ?. Rohinson A.*l\ Mayer. ! J, W. Wessinger. p i ? 1 4- Per Cent. On Savings Accounts. t gjPer Cent. On Time Certificates. I jg m n ncn nrsiT iMTrDcnT 11 4 run ulKv i . in s cncni Compounded quarterly on Savings Accounts. Safeguard your earnings and secure such service and protection as you cannot obtain elsewhere in Lexington county by depositing your money with us. This strong bank, with its capital and surplus amounting to more than $550,000.00, renders a personal service to every depositor and especially invites your account. GROW WITH A GROWING BANK. BANK OF WESTERN CAROLINA I Head Office: Aiken, S. C. II mr t m_v w r : T? l 81 II IU. Li. iU2tUUgCl. Ju^AlJJg LUJLl XHaii'JLL ||J w , SZSS '. a?? IIHi T-i?iil? II PI JJBWiWWUI Jill WMWWPCT?