The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, October 01, 1913, Image 1
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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
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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
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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.
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Samuel B. George, Pres.,
Alfred J. Fox, > 'Ui. ier, K
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5 R. N. Senn, Henry
| A. D. Shull, L. S. 1
| ADVISOR'S
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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
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B Stock and Poultry
B Remedies.
B When you have a prescription to ?
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Main a nd Gervais streets,
as a depositor if you see f
whether you do that or nc
acquaintance.
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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
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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
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lits from the income, will
the first payment upon
gin, the sooner you will
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JE MALARIA
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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
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ar Remedies. For Belle Meade &
Sweet Candies, 5
the only candy that I
passed the pure food law. B
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in Columbia
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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.
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Front Page Stories Retold in
Paragraphic Form.
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INTERESTING MINOR EVENTS
By Telegraph and Cable Roll In the
Important and the Inconsequential,
but to Each Is Given
i Its Proper Space.
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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.
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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.
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. . 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
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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
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| BEFORE this BANK got it's CHARTER and became
| A NATIONAL BANK
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| 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
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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. ?
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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.
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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.
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