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^ ^ LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1920. NUMBER 15.
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PAST WEEK WITH
THE LEGISLATURE
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? Columbia, Feb. 3.?While the legislature
apparently settled down to
work better the past week and really
made considerable progress on matters
in hand, the prospects are that
the session this year will extend be'
y'ond the regular forty day limit. But j
little work has been done on the appropriation
bill, which usually con;V
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' sumes a great deal of time.
The outstanding feature of the j
week just passed was the effort made
to reconcile differences on the question
of good roads. Governor Cooper
called an informal get together meetly
ing of both branches of the legislature.
for last Tuesday night. The roll
of counties w<as called and members
from every county had an opportun
ity to air their views. After a lengthy
session the conference adopted a motion
to appoint a joiX.t committee
from both houses to draft a good
roads bill. This committee has had
several meetings and has made some
nroaress towards reconciling the va
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I .tious shades of opinion. It is understood
that the committee has decided
to recommend a bill embodying
the idea of road building- by the counties
with iqaintenance by the State.
(This applies, of course, only to such
roads in a county as are embraced in
the State highway system). . Other
features of the bill decided upon, it
is said, are a two mill tax for road
.maintenance, to be expended by the
; highway commission on the roads of
the counties where collected. It is
believed that when the committee
has finished its deliberations-*-^ will
be able to introduce a bill that will
successfully run the gauntlet of both
bouse and senate. /
The Anthony amendment to the
'
federal constitution providing- for woman
suffrage is as dead as a door
, nail as far as South Carolina is concerned,
the senate having adopted the
resolution of rejection. There are
still enough states that have not rat'
ifled to make it possible that the amendment
will fail of the required
nunjber of ratifications to make it go
intq jeffect. Virginia Jiow has the
question under consideration in its
legislature, with the chances favoring
rejection.
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The fight on the tax commission did |
not reach the acute stage of last year,
, the house last week killing a bill introduced
by the ways and means committee
which would have abolished
the commission.
A determined fight is being made
to have the legislature appropriate
5600,000 for the erection of new
buildings at the Citadel on a lot donated
by the city of Charleston, with
the understanding that the present
Citadel site be sold and the money
received tor it be returned to the State i
treasury. The legislature last year
provided $300,000 fer-this project, to
be spread over three years, but it
seems this does not satisfy the backers
of the project. If this amount is
added to the necessary items in the
appropriation bill a considerable in- ,
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crease in the tax levy will be necessary.
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senate by a unanimous vote
last Friday went on record as pledging
itself to appropriate $150,000 for
the purpose of combating the boll
weevil, the money to be used under
the direction of Clemson college to
employ a corps of experts to go into
the boll weevil infested territory and
instruct the farmers in methods of
growing and marketing money crops
other than cotton and the best way
of raising cotton under boll weevil
conditions.
Dr. R. IL Timmerman of Batesburg
was reelected a member of the
board of trustees of Clemson, W. D.
Barnett of Columbia and Capt. Henry
Tillman of Greenwood were other
members of the Clemson board elected.
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE
TO MEET ON FEB. 5.
The school improvement league of
the Lexington high school, will meet
at the school house Thursday. Feb.
5, at 4:1 a p. m. All tin- members of
the league and all others interested in j
the work of the league arc specially j
invited. Business of importance to be j
transacted.
Mrs. W. A. HARMON. Pres.
Mrs. E. (i. DREHER, Sec.
Mrs. K. F. OSWALD. Treas
[live news items from
IjTVE town of chapin
Special tc The Dispatch-News.
Chapin, Feb. 3.?Mr. W. B. Williams,
who is ill at the Columbia hospital,
is improving after having undergone
an operation for gall stones.
Mr. J. H. Roberts and daughter, |
Rebecca, have influenza. but both
cases are mild.
Miss Mattie Frick, assistant postmaster,
met with a painful but not
serious accident Thursday. She fell
and dislocated her arm at the shoulder,
but is getting on nicely.
Mr. R. Wilbur Frick, who is principal
of the Chapin high school, has
recovered from a severe attack of
rheumatism, and is at his work again.
Curtis Eargle, a student of Newberry
college, spent the week-end
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L>.
Eargle. One of his friends accompanied
him.
We are sorry to note that Mrs. J.
S. Wessinger is not well.
Mrs. R. W. Prick is on an extended^
visit to relatives in Hickory, N. C.
Mr. Jas. H. Hiller shipped a car
| load of very fine beef type cattle last
i week, which brought a fancy price.
Mr. Hiller is a prosperous planter and
merchant of this place.
Mr. R .W. M. Eleazer has bought
}a?home and moved bank to Chapin,
after having lived at Spring Hill for
a year.
Frank Shealy, a Newberry college
student, spent the week-end with his
parents.
DR. RICE R. HARMON
HEADS DJtiUGtilSTS
The druggists of McCormack, Saluda,
Lexington and Edgefield counties
met at Johnston Thursday, forming
into an eleventh circuit organ- 1
ization with the election of Dr. Rice
B. Harmon of Lexington as presi- '
dent; John S. Fair of Batesburg,
vice president, and Felder Smith of
Leesville, secretary and treasurer.
The druggists held a very interesting
and instructive meeting after
which a banquet and smoker was '
given in honor of the visitors by the
local druggists.
The next meeting will be held at
Batesburg in July.
DR. D. M. CROSSOX
ELECTED LIFE MEMBER,
Dr. D. M. Crosson, of Leesville, has
just bene notified of his election to
a life membership in the United
States Good Roads Association, of
which United States Senator J. H.
Bankhead, of Alabama, is president.
A life membership in the United
States Good Roads Association car
ries with it all the privileges and
courtesies of the asosciation, and entitles
one to vote at all meetings and
to participate in the various good
roads meetings held in the county,
state and nation.
Dr. Crosson well deserves the honor.
He is one of the oldest and
strongest good roads advocates in the
State; having introduced a good roads
bill in the South Carolina legislature
twelve years ago while a member of
that body.
WILL LEAVE SWANSEA
AND GO TO FLORIDA
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Mr. J. T. Berry of Swansea, who
was in Lexington Monday, announces
that within the next few weeks he
will remove to Orlando, Florida,
where he has purchased and will operate
a large moving picture show.
Mr. Berry has disposed of considerable
of his real estate holdings in
Sw-ansea, but will retain his interest
in the business which he has been operating
there.
LAST CHANCE TO PAY
i AUTOMOBILE LICENSE TAX
February 1st was the last day automobiles
can be run without a 192o
license tag. The license was due and
payable to the State Highway Commission
at Columbia on January 1st.
j But beginning Monday, it will be un- (
j lawful to drive a car on which the
i license tax for the present year has
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; not been paid. Inspectors will, 'be
j out oxer the state spotting untagged
' cars.
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Jl'DGK I>1?.VETS IMPROVING.
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Hon. George S. Drafts, veteran |
county judge of probate who has |
been confined to his room for the i
past several days on account of ill- ,
ness. is now on the high road to re- j
eovery, which will be glad news to :
his hundreds of friends all over the
county. j
ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM BATESBURG
Special to The Dispatch-News.
Batesburg, Feb. 3.?Mr. H. E. Ravenel.
a well known attorney of Spar- |
tanburg, was here last week wind-1
ing up the business of the Summerland
Development Copmany, a cor- j
poration chartered in 1903. Mr. Rav- j
enel and Mr. J. William Mitchell of'
Batesburg were the principal stockholders.
The company held or owned
about 150 acres of land adjacent
to the Summerland college property.
The bulk of this land was sold tu
parties residing in this town, the purchase
price ranging around $125.00
per acre.
Mr. L. H: Cook of near Wagener,
in Aiken county, has moved to Batesburg,
where he purchased a dwelling
on Bates street several weeks ago.
He and family are delighted with our
town.
Mr. B. H. Walker, assitant secretary
of the Life Insurance Company
of Virginia, with headquarters at
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Richmond, was in town on business
last Saturday. This company has
nearly $3,000,000 loaned on real
estate in South Carolina, bearing at
the rate of 6 per cent per annum.
Mrs. J. E. Brogden of Wagener
was the guest of friends in town Monday.
Mr. W. A. Crouch returned Sunday
from a visit to his daughter, Mrs. C.
B. Sutton, at Graymont, Ga.
The influenza epidemic, which has
been raging in some sections of Saluda
county, has not yet reached our
section. Our people are using every
possible precaution to - prevent the
spread of the disease in this community.
Mr. John Bell Towill has finished
taking the census of this town for
1920. While the exact figures will not
be known for some time still it Is
generally known that the population
of this town has materially increased
during the past 10 years. It is
estimated that the population of
Batesburg will reach nearly 3,000.
The continued wet weather is causing
our farmers to fall behind with
their work this season. The fear of
the boll weevil will cause considerable
curtailment of the cotton acre
age in this section for 1920. Mucn attention
is being given to the cultivation
and growing of tobacco, which
is considered the best substitute for
cotton as a money crop.
RURAI, CARRIERS HAYING
HARD TIME NOW.
The ever popular rural carriers going
out from the L?exington postoffice
are all having a hard time now, due
to incessant rains which have caused
roads everywhere to get in a bad way.
Especially do the carriers going out
through the clay sections have it hard.
Mr. Harry Rawl, who operates the
only o/ficial motor route in the county
and who has a distance of 50 miles
to cover every day, rain or shine, has
about the worst piece of road to cover.
His line traverses clay altogether, and
goes through a thickly settled community,
where the travel is heavy at
all times, which helps to make the
roads bad. All of the boys, however,',
feel that they owe an important duty
to the public and each and every
morning they leave- on their long and
lonesome journeys with a broad smile
and a jolly good-bye. They come
back in the afternoon wearing the
same glad smile, although their daily
tasks are rough and rugged just at
this time.
UNCEE JAKE, WEATHER
PROPHET. ON FEBRUARY.
Listen to Uncle Jake Snelgrove's J
weather predictions for February: |
"February will be changeable and
rough?9 to 12. cold weather: IS to
15. warm with threatening weather;
IS to 21, rain or snow; 22 to 25,
changeable: 26 to 27. clear with cold
winds: 2S to 29, threatening weather. I
The month will be very windy and
wet. Not a word for March.
"JAKJ3.*
MRS. BERTHA SEX TO \ LIES.
The State, today.
Mrs. Bertha Sexton, wife of L. R.
Sexton of 1506 McDuffie avenue. :
died at her home yesterday afternoon.
She was 22 years of age. ,
Mrs. Sexton was the -.laughter-of H.
V. Hutto of Brookland. The remains I
will be interred at Oak Spring church. |
Lexington county, today.
MEETING SUNDAY
FOR Y. W. C. A.
Who and what wo arc.?We are
the Y. W. C. A.?a big, world-wide,
twentieth century, heip-one-another
club. Officially speaking, we are
I a Christian organization which seeks
to unite young women of all classes
I in order that they may help both
; themselves and their sister citizens
to realize a "more abundant" life?
I physically, socially, intellectually and
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spiritually.
We are, in plain truth, an attractive.
workable combination of committees.
clubs and classes for athletics,
comradeship, business, education
and happy Christian living1.
Wlrnt it Means to the Girl in the City
An attractive, well-equipped building.
A comfortable community home?
t where she can live among congenial
I companions, play at housekeeping in
the kitchenette or do up her best lace
waist in the basement laundry.
What it Means to tile Girl in the
Country.
The get-together, pull-together
spirit which comes from?countrywide
organization; grade school and
high school clubs; educational classes
under volunteer leaders; organized
play; the necessity for achieving
maximum service with minimum
equipment
What it Means to the College Girl
An opportunity for Christian leadership.
What it Means to You.
Happier, healthier womanhood for
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your aaugnier or gtairi-uaugaici.
Hapiper, haelthier womanhood for
the girls of your town or your city
or your county.
And because happier. healthier
womanhood, therefore a better city,
a better#nation, a better world.
You have a wonderful opportunity
I to hear more about this splendid
work. Don't miss it. Sunday afternoon,
3:30 P. M. Methodist church.
Y. W. C. A. Speaker from Colum;
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j Sermon by Rev. Rice.
| .r ' FUI/MER- SHELYLY.
A marriage of much interest to the
people of Pine Ridge was solemnized
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on Saturday January 24, at the home
of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
S. C. Fulmer, when their daughter
Beryl, became the wife of Mr. David
Shealy of Little Mountain.
The ceremony was performed by
the brides brother, Rev. V. L. Fulmer,
of Xewton, N. C., assisted by the
Rev. B. L. Stroup. Entering the parlor
first were Miss Iona Fulmer and
Mr. Heber Shealy, Miss Marie Shealy
and Mr. S. C. Fulmer Jr. and then
came the bridal party. Appropriate
march being played "by Miss Eula
Shealy, sister of the groom. The
bride wore a costume of satin anu
georgette with a bridal veil. After the
ceremony the young couple with
friends and relatives were invited into
the dining room, to a bountiful supper.
The following day the bridal
party and friends were invited to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Shealy. parents of the groom.
The bride is. a young woman of
many rare traits and ' numbers her
friends by the score.
The groom is a leading young farmer
of Little Mountain and his
friends are legions.
The presents were numerous.
VALENTINE PARTY AT
CROSS ROADS SCHOOL
There will be a valentine party at
Cross Roasd school house Friday
evening. February 13, beginning at
7 o'clock. Oysters, etc., will be served.
The public is invited to attend.
A MICK-SHE ALY.
On January 29. Mr. Thomas R.
Shealy and Miss Addie Ainick were
married by Rev. F. K. Roof of the
Cedar Grove pastorate, the groom's
pastor.
KWYGEHT-MOXTS.
< >n February 1. Mr. Collie J.
I Monts end Miss Rean Swygert were
j married. Rev. F. K. Roof of the Cedj
ar Grove pastorate, the bride's pas;
tor. performing the marriage rites.
SKXATOll DIAL ILL.
Washington. Felt. ?Senator X. B.
Dial of Banrens is the latest member
of the South Carolina delegation in
congress to go down under influenza.
He is confined to his home and may
have to remain theref or several days.
: TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
TO MET7T FEB. 14.
The Lexington County Teachers*
Association will hold its next meeting
in the court house at Lexington
at 11 o'clock on Saturday, Feb. 14.
Prof. J. B. O'Neal Holloway, superintendent
of the Olympia Graded
School, has accepted the invitation to
deliver an address at that meeting on
the subject of "Why there exists such
lack of thoroughness on the part of
the pupils in schools all over the
whole country. A discussion of the j
subject is to follow the address. This I
will be the first opportunity afforded
the teachers of the county to hear
Prof. Holloway. Every teacher in the
county and many patrons ought to
want to hear this address on this very
pertinent subject.
Program Committee*
REV. DANIEL P. SHUMPERT
DIED THIS MORNING
News reached Lexington at noon
today of the death this morning of
the Rev. Daniel P. Shumpert, one of
the. oldest and most highly respected
citizens of the Boiling Springs section.
The Rev. Mr. Shumpert had
reached the advanced age of 85 years,
and saw service with Lee and Jackson
in the War Between the States.
He was a man of the highest type of
citizenship, and endeared himself to
all who chanced to meet him.
The funeral and burial arrangements
had not been perfected at the
time The Dispatch-News went to
press.
FIRST MONDAY SALES.
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There were not many sales held
Monday, and therefore, the attendance
was not very large. The following
official sales were made by Clerk
of Court Harmon:
The Strickland lands fn Bull Swamp ;
Township, containing 68 1-2 acres,
brought $1,000.00, C. M. Efird, attorney,
being the highest and last bidder.
Two lots in the town of Irmo
brought -$265-00, the buyers being F.
A. Weed and O. W. Borick.
Eighty-four acres in Boiling
I Springs Township was sold to R. H.
' Corley for $775.00.
The Rister lands in the Dutch Fork
containing 131 acres, were bid in by
Jonas P. Rister for $1,975.
INFLUENZA TAKES LIFE
CLARENDON LEGLSLATOR
W. W. Johnson, member of the
lower house of the general assembly
from Clarendon county, died at the
Baptist hospital last night at 11
o'clock from an attack of influenza
developed about one week ago. The
remains will be taken to Alcolu this
morning on the train leaving here at
8 o'clock, accomnanied bv a commit
| tee consisting- of Representatives
Woods and Sprott of Clarendon, Derrick
of Lexington, Jackson of Sumter
and Orr of Oconee. The house
adjourned out of respect to Mr.
Johnson's memory last night as soon
as it had been informed of the death.
Mr. Johnson was in his 47th year
and had been a'member^of the house
since 1917. He was af irst sergeant
in Company D, Second Regiment,
South Carolina Volunteer infantry, in
the Spanish-American war.?The
State. ''Wednesday.
HENRY W. KOOX PASSES
AT HOME NEAR IRMO 1
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Henry W. Koon, well kiifcwn Dutch
Pork farmer and popular citizen,
died at his home near Irmo on Monday
night, after a brief illness. Mr.
Koon was about F>6 years of age and
is survived by a large family connection.
The reamins were laid to rest at
Union Chapel church yesterday afternoon
in the presence of a large gathering
of sorrowing relatives and
friends.
ENTKRTAIXMENT AT
L<>\<; URANCH SCHOOL
: The public is cordially invited to i
'attend a motion picture show, oyster j
supper anil cake alk at Long Branch
| school house, near New Brookland. j
; Friday night. February 13. A good 1
i time is assured all ho help in this
j undertaking, the proceeds of which
[go to tile benefit of the school.
FISH \M> OYSTFR Sl PI'Klt!!
I Given by Gilbert's school improvej
ment association in the Mason Hall, i
! Feb. 13. 193U, at 7:3n o'clock,
j Bring your valentine to St YalcnI
t ine's post office.
MISS CARRIE SLICE
DEAD BY OWN ACT
Stealing herself away from her
loved ones and placing on her bed
the shroud in which she wished to
be buried. Miss Carrie Slice, aged 31
years, daughter of Mr. Walter Slice,
prominent Dutch- Fork farmer, secured
a 22 calibre parlor rifle early
last Thursday morning and blew
out her brains. Miss Slice was alone
in the house at the time, her father
being at the woodpile cutting wood.
The young woman had finished her
work of the morning, having placed
the house in apple-pie order, and to v
all appearances, was in the best of
spirits. Hearing the crack of the
rifle, Mr. Slice rushed into the house
only to find his daughter lying across
the floor in a pool of her own blood.
The rifle was at her side. The bullet
entered on the right side of the
head and ploughed its way through
and through. Death had been instantenous.
Miss Slice had been the head of
the home since the death of <her
mother several years ago. Being the
only daughter of the family, she was
idolized by her father and brothers,
and was shown every attentioh. She
was loved and esteemed by every one
who knew her, and no cause for th?
rash act has been assigned.
The funeral was conducted from,
the home on Friday afternoon, in
the presence of a large congregatioa
of sorrowing relatives and friends,
me last. sau rues uemg peiiuiuxeu ^
the family's pastor, the Rev. A. M.
Carpenter. The interment was in the
family plot nearby.
TVVO (IOOD MEN"
CRITICALLY ILL.
The many friends of Mr. Martin L.
Taylor will regret to learn that he is
critically ill at his home near Lexington,
pneumonia having developed
within the last couple days. He is one
of the oldest and most honored men
of this section, and it is hoped that
j he will be spared for many years to
| come.
Mr. David D. Kleckley, a well
known farmer of route 1, is also desperately
ill today, and grave fears are
entertained for his recovery. Uncle
Dave is an old Confederate soldier,
and is loved and esteemed by all who
know him.
POPULAR YOUNG GlRJL
BUD IN HOSPITALMiss
Katie Bell Harman, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Harman, of
the Dutch Fork, and a sister to Clerk
of Court H. L. Harmon, is in the Co
lumbia hospital, where she has been
quite ill for several days, following- an
operation, which was occasioned by
a severe attack of the "flu," which the
young girl contracted at Winthrop,
where she has been a student this
session. Miss Harman is one of the
most popular of the younger girls at
Winthrop as well as in her homy/
town and community, and it is hoped
that she will be restored soon.
SHE AliY-BARTON".
A very happy wedding occurred
Sunday morning, January 11th, at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pi
Shealy, of the beautiful Palmetto
Farms, when their daughter, Blanche
Louise, became the bride of Mr. William
Barton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Barton, of Aiken. The ceremony
was performed by Mr. Charles
Carmen, a friend of the couple, and
was witnessed by a number of relatives
and friends. After the ceremony
they marched into the dining room
where a bountiful wedding supper
i was served.
The little bride was never more
lovely than she was or. her wedding
| day in a suit of midnight blue. The
; friends of the young couple wish for
! them, a U-ng and happy life.
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I There will bo a candy pulling ajid
| other amusements at Midway school
i
! house. Saturday evening, Feb. 7. at 7
1 o'clock. Everybody is cordially invited
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BOX r.\RTV AND CAKE WALK.
There will he a' box party, cake
walk and other features of entertainment
at Saxe-Gotha on next Saturday.
The proceeds will go to the
church fund, and everybody is cordially
invited.