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The Lexington Ptspitch Wednesday, Jnly 7, 1915. c ~ ? " 9. X. Habxak, Editor sad Publisher D. E. Halttwanges, Associate Editor Entered at tbe Post Office at Lexington, S. 0., as seoond class matter. ?????a????????B?? ??? Some men are so impartial they cuss the dog, the cat and the wife ^11 in the same breath. If General Huerta is really pining "for his old time sulphuric activity tie might swap jobs with the devil. Take another brother. To tell your enemy to go to hell is but to -expose your ignorance of modern i conditions. * - v To the merchant whose goods are worth selling, advertising is like molasses taffy?the more you work j it the better it gets. And everybody likes taffy. It has been whispered around that 0/\n?olaa koo AnTU* JUld WVU UVIlAaigo Ituw WIV.4V o-" done it?spooning: in the Dutch Tork. The new machine for keeping up ^the roads after they have been ^worked by the chaingang has at last arrived. Supervisor Corley is giving it a try out on the roads in the Dutch Fork, ' The town council is doing one ^good thing. By removing the well? :the public pump?from the middle of the jstreek the city council is doV ing away with a dangerous object. Two or three automobiles, if we are not mistaken, have already come th contact with this obstruction, and that on& |ie machines were damaged isia miracle. Main street, with the exception of *the pump in the tower end of town, will be free and open, and automobilists will have 'V.* ;V ** > ? ? ' >% ~ > ' * \ * A " * ,"??*.> J ' r. i?* t ip ^ occasion to sing, Praise God from whom all blessings flow/' The city board of health has a ^re&t mission to perform?if it Will Ijust get busy.^This is the seaso^of body should realize the importance of cleaning up their premises and keeping them clean, It* is understood, however, that the chairman of the board is going to start an inspection of ail premises within the town's limits at an early date; and unless the premises are found to be ; "In a strictly sanitary condition, the . ordinance pertaining to the matter of cleaning up will be put in force and effect at once. It behooves all residents to get busy at once and see to it that it will not be necessary for the health officers to condemn your premises. Besides, you will be liable to a fine?or both fine and imprisonment?for not complying with ~the -ules of council and the city board of health. The Ladies' School Improvement League of Oak Grove District, Miss Lottie Cromer, president, has raised -$250.00 within the last sixty days for making improvements in the building and grounds. This is a snost enviable record, and it is 'doubtful if any other district in the county can say so much. However, what these eood women have ac complished, others can accomplish. < When we get the women interested in any movement it is a safe bet that the ends sought-for will be accomplished. Just think of 'raising ^250.00 in two months' time in a local community. Oak Grove will <?ave one of the best equipped buildings'in the State, and the school term will be lengthened next session* The Dispatch will gladly print all communications telling what the women have done; and we know that it will make interesting aews to all our readers. The Dispatch has repeatedly called attention to the fact that we need court house improvements. The county has long since outgrown it's court house. Time and time again aas the grand jury called attention to the femall vault room in the office of the Clerk of Court. It has also recommended that vaults be placed In the offices of the auditor, treasurer, superintendent of education supervisor and sheriff. As everybody knows; there is a make-shift of j a vault in the clerk's and judge of probate's office. In the event of a fire, many valuable- records would j undoubtedly be destroyed. County | O?CArloi' 1Q roflfitr frt lot j v iOVJL vvx ivauj w w w*i\. I contract, but at this time he has no j available funds for the work. Our | delegation in the Legislature should j call a special meeting for the pur pose of devising some plan, or plans, whereby the recommendations of the grand jury might be put into effect. Now is the time,?do not wait until the legislature meets. Get together! Senator and Mr. Representatives, and lets see what we can do. There is only one place in this community where the investment of a dollar will bring you a hundred per cent on your money. A dollar invested in a subscription to this paper will open the gate to so many opportunities that the returns will multiply until your income is many times the outlay. Take a whirl at a hundred per. Do. you know that it is impossible to contract malaria without first being bitten by a mosquito ? It's a fact, for mosquitoes alone spread the malarial germ. The mosquito gets in its deadly work in the dark hours of night, when the weather is hot and the windows are open and the people are longing for a little fresh air. Hundreds of thousands of lives might be saved if more attention were paid to the screening of windows and doors, and especially is this the case where little children are growing up. The time for the .mosquito is at hand?put up your screens and save your children. i " The most successful shoppers in the world are inveterate readers of the. advertisements in their local newspapers, and their successes are brought mainly through the advance^ information gleaned from the advertisements. If a bargain is of fered at a store that advertises they ape it and rush forth to buy before itMs gonp and the pric* returns to Taonnal again. In this way they supply most of their wants through "out the year, and often secure more goods for less cost than their neighbors who are neglectful of the op,portunities heralded in the local press. The habit of devouring the ads. is growing steadily upon the people, and the wise merchant knows this and prepares to meet it. ^ The possibility of an amicable adjustment of our differences with the Teutons and the Allies is partic- j ularly pleasing to the American j people, and every right thinking; man will applaud the President in j ! his determination to protect the j | rights of our people without rushing j | into the flames that are devastating1 j Europe. But while our eyes are j now fixed upon an honorable peace, j | we should not overlook the fact that j ; it is by no means an assured fact. I i Little things have created the big- j gest wars in history, and for a nation to permit itself to remain un-! prepared in this day is but to invite I i attack and court defeat. Action should be taken for the strengthening of our national defenses, and I that action should not be delayed. I America is too rich in gold and pro-, ducts to be left at the mercy of an invader. Pins and Dollars. Some people never fail to bend their backs to pick up a pin, and ! yet let the dollars slip right through their fingers without even a blink. They grasp at the shadow while the substance marches by. If the point of a pin is facing you : it is supposed to be good luck to ; pick it up. j But there are greater values and better opportunities for luck than in 1 stooping your shoulders in a futile i search for pins. 1 Read the ads in this paper if youj want to find luck in big chunks and j pick up dollars instead of pins. Our advertising columns are full! i.of splendid opportunities every j week, and they are to be had simply j . for the reading and the taking. Forget the pin* and go after big-1 ger game. Rer.d the ads and pick up the' dollars. . i Smile Agian. ! * Do you remember that sfrule that ji escaped you the other day and \ flooded your face with sunshine, and j brought joy to the hearts of your j friends and the little one3 as you j ^ passed them on the streets? That smile was contagious. It I spread from you to others, and from j{ them to still others, and kept on j1 spreading and growing, and is still traveling from face to face some- \ where in this world. Do it again, do it often, do it every day. a .li i_ ?-5 ! 1 rv simie is worcn mucn ana costs nothing. ; , It is a pearl without price. And it is a gift which you may bestow upon others without trouble or 1 loss to yourself, a boon to humanity which encourages, and elevates, and ennobles the giver as well as the J recipient. Smile again; and kefep smiling. < Lend the Helping Hand. Every citizen of this community should stand loyally by and lend a helping hand to our public schools, for education is one of the strong- ] est bulwarks of our modern civiliza- ] tion. . 1 Instead of criticising, and Icnock- j ing, and disrupting this social and < commercial necessity, let us exert our individual efforts to its advance- 1 ment and expansion. ( (The public school 'is one of our i greatest constructive agencies, and j without its aid and assistance in j creating and cultivating the intellect j of our young people this community \ would soon be sinkinc to the ancient 1 plane of ignorance and superstition, i Theie is nothing to be gained by 1 jeopardizing the work and influence j of our public school system, but j there is eyerything to gain by fostering and encouraging and extending it a helping hand. -Education is a vital necessity of the day, and its effects are felt in 3 every walk of life. Without it a ^ young man enters upon the serious j problems of life handicapped j$; a ? thousand ways. . We of the community are person- 5 ally interested in the welfare of the '< community, and there is no way in \ .i\ \ which we can better serve our individual and collective interests than 1 by standing loyally behind our pub-, ' lie schools. i , They need our good will and- en- i couragement?not only need them J but should have them. i Pull the String. The purse-string in this community is entirely too tight. - Give it a pull. There is just as much money around here as there ever was, but it is hidden away and not in circula- j tion. 11 And why? Simply because some one yelled j' hard times, and people immediately jumped to the conclusion that we J had hard times, and that the only j thing to do was to bury their money, j get it out of sight, anywhere on 1 earth except in circulation. It was simply an inflated case of ; flimflam and monkeydoodle. , There is no occasion for hard j times, we have none, and it is about,1 time to quit thinking we have and ] come down to earth and get back j to our occupation of doing business j at the old stand. We have had years of big crops, j; another whale is in sight, farmers are all prosperous, and millions in j gold are pouring in from Europe. . Hard times? Hard piffle! As far as supply and demand are j concerned conditions are normal? j even above normal. And this whole hue and cry is 1 i ] merely the result of people who . have money withdrawing it from 1 circulation and hoarding it away. .1 And it's a bad thing to do. It's not patriotic, it's not busi-: nesslike, it's not even horse sense. It's everything that it should not j be and nothing that it should be. i J It's converting a shadow into an elephant where even the shadow does not exist. i , i Let's quit it. I j ru1! the string and Jet the j 1 money flow, and Wm it iWing,, md moving-, and changing, and! f iarning, and creating, and multiplying, and adding to the commun- , ty riche3. Money is good only for what it vill bring, and wealth hoarded; iway brings nothing. Let's turn it loose, and start it to earning again, and put this town on the boom. mif thp r?lfl nurqp. onen it UD. empty it out, do something to boost the community and the community will boost you. There are opportunities all around us for investment and earning money, but more money is never made by gold that is hidden away. Hard times are but a name, and even the name is worn down to a frazzle. Now let's burj' the frazzle and ?et down to business. : Let's turn loose the gold and let it work. Opportunity is knocking at our door, but it will not wait while we 3leep. Carolina National Bank. The statement of the Carolina National Bank, printed on another page of this paper, makes most interesting reading; and especially at i time like this, when everybody is irying out "money is scarce," and 'money is tight." It will be seen , py reference to this report that the Carolina National has boatloads of noney. It will show further that it has helped thousands of needy folk in stemming the summer season is well as help them pull through the crisis alleged to have been wrought on by the war across the waters. Go to the officers of this sank with the right sort of "dope" ind they will help you?that is, if fou really deserve to be helped. Citation Notice. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lexington. By Geo. S. Drafts, Esq.. Fro bate Jadpe Whereas, Effie Smith made suit :o me, to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of E. P. Smith; These are therefore to cite and luiriuiuoii an aim ouig uiai wn& Aiiiured and Creditors of the said E. P. Smith, deceased, that they be and appear, before * in the Court of Probate, to be held at Lexington C. H., S. C., on 17th of July, 1915, next, after publication hereof at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show g cause, if any they have, why the 3aid Administration should not be granted. GIVEN under my Hand, this 2nd day of July, Anno Domini 1915. GEO. S. DRAFTS, (L. S.) -j Probate Judge Lexington Co., S. C. Published on the 7th day of July,1 | 1915, in the Lexington Dispatch 2 j j weeks. 37. j ! I Warning. , I All persons are warned not to unt, fish, make paths, haul wood, or trespass in any manner upon my lands, as the law will be enforced against an sucn trespassers. CHAS. J. METZE. I June 29, 1915?38. C Notice to Creditors. I The undersigned, as heirs-at-law of J. E. Bailey, deceased, hereby give notice to the creditors of the said J. E. Bailey to file their claims, properly attested, with the said undersigned m heirs at-Jaw ot' the said J. E. Bailey, iwithin six weeks from this date. | Laura P. Bailey, John H. Bailey, j 4 H. 0. Bailey, j g 8. D. Bailey. June 9. 1915. j 4 Notice. | 0. B. Steele has put the knife to: | all prices in blacksmith work. * Horseshoeing 25c a pair. Have g your buggies and automobiles re- j j ^ j 4-rv 1a/*1/ rrr\d\A -l o i pctuiwju ctiiu mauc ou u?/iv gwu. -> new, at iowest prices. ! 4 36 0. B. STEELE. 4 Notice to Overseers. J All overseer3 of the public roads j a In Lexington county arc hereby j . notified to warn their hands and re- " pair the roads of the county at once. 4 Those overseers who fail to comply | with this notice will be prosecuted i 4 for such neglect to do their duty to j a the public roads. C. E. CORLEY. I June 30, County Supervisor. ; 1 RUB-MY-TISM J " Will.cure your Rheumatism 1 Sleuraigia, Headaches, Cramps, t J Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and! j Biurns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects * Stc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used in* > -s lernally a ad externally. Price 25c. i IN ALL THE WORLD There is no better hardware made than that we sell at this store. SUMMER Is the time of year when you want Refrigerators, Ice Cream Freezers, Oil Stoves, FIv Screens. Fruit Jars. Tin Cans Plnwc FnnrJnoo ^ 7 1 " ?? Webber and Ideal Wagons, Buggies, Hames and Strap Goods. Rubber and Canvas Belting, Mill Supplies, Mowers, Rakes, Gas Engines, Paints and Oils, Majestic Ranges and Stoves. Guaranteed to give satisfaction. Pocket and- Table Cutlery, i The kind that we make good if it breaks or don't hold edge, We sell everything in the above lines and hundreds of other articles in the hardware and tool lines, and We Want to Sell Some of Them to You. Prices always right. Come and see us whether you buy or not. Enterprise Hardware Co. Lexington, - - S. C. / ' \ 1 We Are HeadqnartersEFor Doors, Sash and Blinds High Grade and Lew Prices See us before placing your order for Building Material. Fallaw & Allison Co., Inc. Columbia, S. C. i Walter's Glasses Made in Columbia ? i . S&OO ? '< f ' 1 * ' ' f* * examination without charge Walter's Toric Lenses Ground with deep curve, gives three times the 'field vision of flat lass and can be furnished at a very moderate charge. Notice the Neatness of Our "Holdfast" Glasses Walter's Invisible Bifocal Lenses Both far and near vision?all one lens. Let us convince you that Columbia made Walter's Glasses are best. 3. L. Walter Optical Company 1221 Main Street. - - Columbia, S. C. t\iUUWV\UlUUWUW? J Columbia's Sanitary Grocery Store < \ The Consumers Mercantile Co. \ ? Our stock is the freshest in Columbia, our service K Z unexcelled, our store the most sanitary. While this J f is true, we do not charge excessive prices for our K Z merchandise. We have no losses from bad accounts J J that must be taken care of at credit stores. K 0 Ours is Not the "Bon Ton" Store ^ where you pay for the name?we want the trade of ? the community?we do not wish to build up a trade ? from the so-called "exclusive." Will You Pay Us a Visit ^ That we may have the pleasure of introducing to ^ you our plans?our service and our high grade line # of fancy groceries. THE CONSUMERS MERCANTILE CO. t 1519 MAIN STREET PHONES 1158?1159 i COLUMBIA, S. C. ? * _