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DRY RALLY AT LEXINGTON. Cromer, Featherstone and Smith Speak on Prohibition. Lexington Alu. -.-A eriwd es:i 1n::ed to nunber between 1our n!iu fiv undre~d gath>ered here to-day : -ear the ruhibtion speakers. the Hon. Geo. B. Cromer. the lion. C. C. Featherstone and the 1lon. Mendel L. Smith. Of tiis number several wee laies. The meeti as )reid ed over by the Hon. E. C. Ridg_,ell. Solicitor Geo. Bell Timmerman intro duced Mr. Smith. the first speaker, f paying a high tribute to his ability and to his worth. Mr. Smith discussed the liquor question from three stand points: First, personal duty, which is purely a moral duty; second, a rel ative duty, and third, a political duty. Mr. Smith reviewed the condi tion which brought about the estab lishment of the State dispensary and followed it up through all the years until its final overthrow. He declared that the State dispensary was the strongest political machine ever es tablished in South Carolina. He touched :;n the scandals which were brought out by the investigating com mittee and stated that in his opinion in less than five years the county dis pensaries would become just as cor rupt as the State dispensary, their father, was. He cited figures to sLow that drunkenness and crime have de creased in all the prohibition terri tory. He said that the liquor question. is the greatest problem with which the farmer has to deal and urged the farmers to vote out whiskey and improve the negro labor. He said that immigrants would never take the place of the negro on the farm. He closed with a beautiful and touching appeal to the audience to vote for prohibition on the 17th of August. Dr. George B. Cromer was the see ond speaker. He was introduced by Prof. S. J. Derrick, of Newberry Col lege, who is spending the summer with relatives in this county of his birth. Perhaps no higher tribute has ever been paid any man in so few words as was paid Dr. Cromer by Prof. Derrick, who declared that of all the men with whom he had ever come in contact there was none whom he ad mired more than the man whom he was about to introduce. He declared that Dr. Cromer never discussed any question without first solving it, and he never spoke anything but the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as God gave him the light to see the truth. Dr. Cramer de elared tha.t it was a question that de manded the best thought and the best talent of the best people. He said he had been working for prohibition for more than thirty years. He said he was not working for money, he was not working for political gain because he never had offered for public offiee tand never expected to enter the po litical arena, but he is working for the education of the boys for the be. terment of society and for a higher standard of citizenship. Dr. Crome:'s address throughout was a masterful one, couched in the choicest language and he was well received. The next and last speaker was Mr. IFeatherstone, who was introduced by R. W. Frick, of Chapin, a gratduate of Newberry College. Mr. Feather stone stated that a.s the other speak ers had covered a great deal of the ground he would discuss the mal er from the standpoint of the elurch miembeir's duty. Mr Feathe:sone made a telling speech and at the conclusion of his address. one pr son was heard to say. ''that Mr. Featherstone should have been a preacher instead of a lawyer." Mr. Featherstone declared that he was not going to give up the fight until the whole of America was won for pro Fhibition. All of the speeches were conducted upon a high plane and all received a generous round of ap plause. By a rising vote the thanks of the house were extended t,he speak ers for the coming to Lexington, and their able presentation of the prohi bition subject. All in all, it was the greatest meeting ever held here. There was absolutely no sign of whis key.--News and Courier. HAS LEASED C. & W. C. The C., C. & 0. Railroad Gets Line to Augusta.-That Point Will Make Traffic Arrangements With A. C. L. to Charleston. Sptartanburg Journal, 7th. The Carolina, .Clinehfield & Ohio road has closed a contract with the Charleston & Western Carolina road to operate trains from Spartanburg te Augusta, beginning October 1, and until the C., C. & 0. can build its own -e from here to Charleston. *The Journal yesterday afternoon nublishet~an account of a railroad rumor to the effect that the C.. C. & 0. road had leased a short line from Spartanburg to Columbia. At the Time it was not known whether the said leas~e affected the Southern or the Charleton & Western Carolina. latter road. for it is announced by a well known railroad official in Au .!usta that the C., C. & 0. road had closed a conrtact with the C. & W. C. to run trains into kuzusta until its rod will probably be Ope. ior tihe operati(ln if trains betw eeii iwre and Bl31i iby 'etober 1. ertainly not later :Ian the middle of November. The (- inactors Ilhave ()"Ig iice tin iked all the grading. with the excep ti1n of a few hundred feet in the city; the concrete work is about completed; steel trestles hve been built and track laying is being pushed to Bostic. The C., C. & 0. road will operate trains from Cincinnati to St. Paul, Va., over the Norfolk & Western, and from St. Paul to Spartanburg over its own line. From here to Au Iusta the tracks of the Charleston & Western Carolina will be used for the present and from Augusta to Charleston the Atlantic Coast Line will be used. The arrangement that has . been made is of great importance to the merchants of Spartanburg, for the city will become a great railway cen ter and the probabilities are that there may be a reduction in freight rates. A Different Opinion. Notwithstanding that the report sent out from Augusta that C., C. & 0. road has made a contract with the Charleston & Western Carolina road for its track from Spartanburg to Augusta, there are those who are of the opinion that the tracks of the Scthern will be used by the C., C. & 0. road from this city to Columbia and thence to Charleston. The News and Courier publishes an editorial notice of the report that the C., C. & 0. has purchased a short line from this city to Columbia, and arrives at the conclusion that the Southern is the road. However, it is not believed here that there has been any traffic arrangement with the Southern or that the road has been purchased. It may be possible that the C., C. & 0. road has made ar rangements with the Southern to han dle all coal trains to Columbia and points below over the Southern. The report sent out from Augusta that a contract has been made with the C. & W. C. for the operation of C., C. & trains over that road- is generally accepted here. SUEFASSB~S WRIGHT. Sommer Breaks World Record For Prolonged Air Flight. Mfourmelon-Le-Grand, France, Aug. 7.-The w'orld 's record for prolonged flight in an aeroplane was broken to day by Roger Sommer, a French avi at;r, who remained in the air two hours, twenty-seven minutes and fif teen seconds, breaking thereby the record' made by Wilbur Wright at Le ans. France, last December, when he stayed aloft two hours, twenty minutes and fifty-seven seconds. It was announced, however, that Som mers time was not regarded as offi Sommer, who is a pupil of -Henry Faman, has owned his aeroplane only since July 4. His first flight was un der four miles. He gradually increas ed his distance until he attained his record of to-day. Yesterday he wvon, on beialf oif Farman's pup'lS, a prize of $200O for a flight in a closed kilo metrie. Somamer started at :3:14 o 'clock this morn in the bright moonlight. In the beginning lie travelled 'slowly near the ground at elevations runnmng from six to thirty yards. After the iahne had become limbered up, the aviator increa.sed his speed and the coming of daylight showed him traveling and manouvreing easily. When it became e,vident that he had beaten the duration record held by Wilbur Wright, the assembled crowd cheered wildly, and as Sommer came to the ground at forty-one :ninutes and fifteen seconds past five, he was given an ovation., He is using a bi-plane of the Voi'sin BOLL WEEVIL AT BLACKSBURG. Farmer Brings Black Bugs to. Town They. Destroy the. Boll. Blacksburg, August 7.--A farmer came into town yesterday with some small black bugs in a bottle, which he said he found destroying his cot ton bolls. It was the general opinion of all who saw the bugs that they were the boll weevil. The farmer who brought in the bugs says that he found the bugs on not more than a half acre of ~ottn, :1ud( that they~ cut into the hl. and the boll soon falls off. It will be quite a calamity to the crop here n:ow for any destructive agent in g-et ii it Future Success May depend on having a little capital. Isn't it about time you began to lay aside a part of your earnings as an op portunity may come along most any time and 'tis said that 'opportunity never knocks twice." The Commercial Bako OF Newberry, S. C. 4 (jf Paid in Our Savings Department. JNO. M. KINARD, J. Y. McFALL, 0. B. MAYER, President. Cashier. V. President. S ATI Oh I Before leaving home for your Summer vacation be sure to get a supply of Stationery, and also take a Kodak with you. 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