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LEXINGTON DISPATCH-NEWS, j OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER j Published Every Wednesday By SLIGH & WALKER, | Lexington, S. C. Entered at the Postoffice at L-exing- i ton, S. C., as mail matter of the Second Class. Subscription Price: Per Year, $1.50 j CASH IX ADVANCE. I , ! ADVERTISING RATES. Obituaries and in memoriams, one cent a word. Cash with order. Cards of thanks, one cent a word. Cash with order. i Want ads, one -cent a word each j insertion. . Cash with order. Make all remittances payable to SLIGH & WALKER. Address all communications to The DispatohNews, J^exington, S. C. Phone 119. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1920. CHANGE FISCAL YEAR' The legislature will do well to pass the bill authorizing a vote on the amendment to the constitution changing the fiscal year so that it will end June 30 instead of January 31. As the matter noifr stands' the1' state government is without funds that can be spent from January 1 until after the adjournment of the general assem"KV?r VmninvdM of the State are com- I ? pelled to wait until after the passage of the appropriation act before they can draw any money. There are other disadvantages of the. present system, notably the fact that it is impossible to furnish thel egislature with reports of the several state officers in such time that it is possible- to digest the inforation necessary to the farmation of a correct judgment. The closing 01 the state's book on the last day of June instead of the last day of December would obviate a good part of this delay. It would be a desirable change. CREDITABLE TO NEGRO. In all the agitation which has resulted in numbers of alleged I. W. W. and Reds or whatnots being an;esteu, there has not so far been reported the arrest of a single negro. Such a statement speaks well for the good common /ense of the negro race, ljwhich, as a whole, was never so prosperous as at present. Recently we heard of a negro bricklayer making a greater pay than the circuit judge before whom he was tried for some offense within recent years. It is not uncommon in many sections of South Carolina for practically every negro tenant fariruer to own his own automobile. Xo right thinking man will begrudge the negro his betterment of condition. , Wherever they are willing to work there is plenty of it to be had at good wages, and be it said to the credit of the race that they are not following after strange isms, but as a rule are sticking to their jobs and behaving well. STARTLING FIGURES. According to figures prepared by Prof. A. F. Conradi of Clemson college the damage which the boll weevil is likely to do in South Carolina during 1920 is appalling when we consider the total figures, which run from thirty-five to forty million dollars. Prof. Conradi estimates the loss at from 70 per cent, ^in Beau, fort, Charleston and other coast counties, down to as low as 15 per cent, in some of the upper counties. In the face of these figures we can not afford to take too many chances on making that "one more big crop," A safe and sane farming system will insure at least the production of the necessary food for man and bea&t. Less than this will prove suicidal. The Producer * !. Newberry Observer. The great man of the day is the j producer. It is he that keeps the world alive. Way back in some old schoolbook, maybe it was Webster's blue-back speller, was something like this: "I am the doctor; I cure all. j Then come the lawyer, who defends j all and thep reacher, who saves all, j and the merchant, who sells all, and j the last the farmer, who "feeds all." And so it is, and ever has been, and j ever will be, that the farmer feeds | all. He is the primary necessity in j every community among every peo- j pi*3. rivci> oac vau uc I sed with except the farmer. I We were impresed with this more . than ever a day or two ago when reading Robert Quillen's "Small-Town j Stuff" in the Saturday Evening Post." | First, though, about ^Robert Quillen; Perhaps he is not known to our read- 1 ers; he deserves to be. He is a j country editor; a genius, and of! course is unique. He funs a weekly I newspaper up at Fountain Inn, a little station in Greenville county, on the C. & W. C. railroad?and he writes for the Saturday Evening Post. He has a queer and original knack of saying things. Reading his "Small Town Stuff" in the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post we came across this: He was old and bent and his hands were gnarled by six decades of labor vfith the soil from which he dug a living. He stood a,t my side as I fed sheets of paper into a printing press, and marveled that such wonders could Have existed witnout nis Know- i ledge. As I finished the run ana threw the belt on the idle pulley he touched my sleeve. "I am an old man," said he, "and yet this is the first time I have seen a printing press. I am very ignorant." As I looked at him it occurred to me that he had been plowing and harrowing and planting and reaping all these years in order that I might eat. From him and his like I had got my living, giving in return a few columns of reading matter to furnish them an hour's entertainment. He was a callaborator with Nature's God, and I a court fool. Nothing we had ever read brought out so strongly and strikingly the fact that the producer is the prime' necessity of mankind. All other occupations?all professions and callings, no matter how worthy or how exalted?depend on him. There.was an old doggerel that we haven't seen so long we have forgotten now it ran, out. it was scinetning ime this: When Adam delved and JS've span, That was the golden age of man. r , " But the man of today doesn't like j to dig and delve and plow; and the' woman has forgotten how to spin? but Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like her. We have gone far away from that golden age?too far. We have come to the place in the I world's history wnero the producer is J disappearing; he has been almost civilized out of existence. So many things pay better; so many things are easier; so mJany things are more honored, that the tiller of the soil has sought an easier and more lucrative calling and the consequence is?the High Cost of Living. There are not enough producers to make bread and meat enough to feed the world, and thousands and millions of people are going hungry, and starvation stalks through a large portion of the earth. Congress is on the eve now of voting fifty mililons to buy bread for the starving people of European countries where food is not sufficient to keep the people alive. The president recomendea one nundreu and fifty millions; but congres feared to make the amount so large, for our own people are feeling the scarcity of food: some are in dire distress in teh cities, and prices are very, very high everywhere. There are not enough producers. They haveg one from the farms to the cities to look for easier jobs: to get into the bright light of the electric lamps; to enjoy the advantages of convenient schools and churches; to be near the movies and other attractions, and nearer "the centre of things." Every man that quits the farm for.the town takes one from the producers and adds one more to the consumers.As this has been going on on a large scale for years, it is easy to understand why living is high. Maybe a change will come. Since farming has become so profitable the cry of "back to the soil" may mean something. Farming is the ideal life. It is the mosti ndependent life. It is the most useful life. In very many respects, it is the easiest life. The worst thing about farm life is its isolation, which is due to the inconven- I ience of getting about through the country. If we had good roads, it would be altogether different. With telephones, electric or other modern lights, automobiles, ten miles or even twenty counts for nothing; but as roads are now, every winter and a good part of the year besides, a farmer lives a lonesome life. If he had the same conveniences in the country. and were?not actually but practically?as near to his neighbors and to schools and churches as in the city, he would like the country all right, with its purer, healthier atmosphere, its quiet, its "elbow room" and its greater opportunities. Unless something is done, the country will become almost deserted in a few years except by persons who are compelled to live there. The men of agricultural means and skill and knowledge and enterprise will move away and leave their farms to ten ants, and to reduced production. There is a very vital conenction between the subject of production and roads. FRUIT TREE SPRAY. Save the trees and get fine fruit. The well known "orchard brand" fruit tree spray B. T. S. will do the work. Call on us for plant insecticides, germicides, and disinfectants. HARMON DRUG CO. PROSPECTS GLOOMY FOR CAR STRIKE Prospects for an early settlement of the strike of the motormen and conductors of the Columbia Railway Gas & Electric company were decidedly gloomy last night at the conclusion of a conference held between representatives of the men and officials of the company. The outlook now is that the strike will be of long duration. * The men and the company have come to the point where wages is the sole issue involved. The difference in the wage scale proposed by the com- , pany and that proposed by the men is two cents pe hour.' Section 15 of the 1919 contract, which section was to the effect that when a man was discharged from the union he must also be discharged from the employ of the company, has been definitely abandoned by the men and they have accepted a substitute proposed by the company, so that this section no longer plays a part of the differences of the two parties. THE DAY'S RESULT. The Telephone News. Is anybody hapiper because you passed his way? ' Does any one remember that you spoke to Jiim today? The day is almost over, and its toiling time is through; Is here any one to utter now a kindly word to you? Did you give a cheerful greeting to the friend who came along, Or a churlish sort of "howdy," then vanish in the strong? Were you selfish, pure and simple, as you rushed along your way, Or is some one migtity grateful for a deed you did today? Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that's slipping fast, That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed? Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said ? Does the man whose hopes were fading now with courage look !i Vinn rl "> Did you waste the day or lose it? Was it well or poorly spent? Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent. As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say, "You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?" OPEKA 3RE AKFAST COFFEE Delicious, healthful, refreshing, pure. Fresh parched and ground, frill pound 4 5c. Sold only by The REXADL Stores, HARMON" DRUG CO. "Gets-lt" Peals Off Corns Painlessly Off They Come Dike Banana Skin 2 or 3 I)iops. Tliat's All. There's a murderous, painful way to get rid of corns, and then there is the peaceful, glorious "peel-it-off" . [ "Gets-It" way. After you have tried 1 I "Gets-It" you will say "never again" to all other methods. This is because "Gets-lt" is the only corn-remover on j L * ^ j earth that makes corns peel off just like a banana skin. Two or three drops will do the work, without fussing or trouble. You apply it in 2 or 2 seconds. It dries immediately. "Gets-It" does the rest, without ban/i o (rne nloctnrc kl nnrl .hr i r? <r\yi rr Lrnivoc or razors. Get rid of tliat corn pain at once, so that you can work and play without corn torture. Be sure to use "Gets-It." It never fails. "Gets-It," the only sure, guaranteed, money-back corn-remover, costs but a trifle at any drug store. M'f'd by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago, 111. Sold in Lexington and recommended as the world's best corn remedy by I Harmon Drug Co. I ?? SAVE YOUR MEAT. Figaro Meat Preserver, th? new liquid meat smoke is a perfect compound for curing salt pork and otlj'<5i? meats. Two sizes 75c and $1.25. HARMON DRUG CO. FLOUR! FLOUR! FLOUR. For sale at the Crout Roller Mills, 100 barrels. Different grades, and at right prices. 3t-15. PLEASANTLY ENTERTAINED. ! While at Oayeo. with County Audi- | tor Dent on Friday morning last j week, we certainly enjoyed the din- ! I i I ner served us, and the genial hospi- ^ tality of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Cayce, j at their beautiful home. Mr. Cayce is ! one of the old reliable merchants and 1 is popular generally with the people, I and Mrs. Cayce is known as one of the | J best house keepers in the town. We j are always delighted to meet them ] so kind and jovial. G. M. H. j i , ; Are You A i Target For Influenza?! If it is true that you are not feel- I ing your best?if you have that "always-tired" feeling and no interest or] ?? * T 1 enthusiasm?-tnen you snouia ue c<nroful of the influenza. It is thin-blooded, anemic people that disease strikes first. The fact that you have had a very few serious illnesses has nothing to do with it. Everyone gets run-down occasionally, and when they do, the blood is in no condition to fight off disease germs, because it has not enough red corpuscles. It is the red corpuscles of the blood that fight disease and save you from sickness. You simply can't afford to take chances when influenza is striking down thousands everywhere. Fortify your blood?build it up with the pleasant tonic. Pepto-Mangan. And should you be just recovering from influenza, you need Pepto-Mangan because your blood has exhausted its strength. Pepto-Mangan will help build you up. Pepto-Mangan is widely and heartily endorsed by physicans. It is effective and easy to take. Comes in either liquid or tabletf orni. No difference in medicinal properties. Sold at any drug store. But be sure you get the genuine Pepto-Mangan? "Gude's." Ask for it by the name and be sure the full name is on the package. (Advertisement) SUMMONS. State of Couth Carolina, County of Lexington.?Court of Common Pleas. Green Livingston. Plaintiff, versus W. B. Merritt and H. B. Merritt, Defendants. To the Above named Defendants. You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in this action, of which a ropy is here-' with served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at their office, at Lexington, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the tinue aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. EFIRD & CARROLL, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 23 January. 1920. | To H. B. Merritt. Defendant: Please take notice that the Com- j plaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court on | the 30th day of January, 190. EFIRD & CARROLL, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 3 weeks. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Mrs. Mattie Taylor was born Sep- j tember 21, 1896, and departed this! life November 19, 1919, making her | earthlv stay 23 years, 1 month and 19 ! days. She was married to Reuben ! Taylor, and to this union were born i | three sons, two <>f whom preceded i her to the spirit land. She leaves j to mourn her death, a husband, one son, father, mother, three sisters and j one brother, besides many other rela- j tive? and friends. We have lost our dear Mattie, She has bid us all adieu; She has gone to live in heaven, Front this earthly dew. Dear sister, how we loved you, Xo pen can write, no tongue can j tell; Rut the gentle shepherd called vou, ! We must bid you a long farewell. | No one knows how hard it is to j think that I will never see dear Mat- j tie again on this earth. But I hope j ! to meet her in heaven, where there.] I ] i will be no more parting, j Written by her heartbroken sister, janr brother, the ones who loved her j | most. . Maude Black. We have a supply of almanacs and J : calendars for free distribution among j j our customers. Don't fail to get a j 1 i | Rexall alpianac. Call and ask for one. j,. HARMON DRUG CO., The Rexall Store. ' i c LASSIFIE] RATES: One Cent a wo taken for less If you have anything for S2 or whatnot; if you need he) if you have lost anything or to advertise try the classify News. IT HAS PAID OTHERS MTSCELLA N EOUS. FOR SALE?A lot of shoats weighing from 60 to 100 pounds, good stock. W. K. Hook. Gilbert. Rt. 3. 2tpd FOR SALE?94 acres land all wooded 6 miles south Chapin. Apply M. j Aquilla Derrick, Chapin. S. C. Rt. 1. I 2tp?15. | LOST?Black and white seter dog. J i Black head a.nd small black spots ( on body?tan collar with brass name I I plate?no name. Answers to name ; of Sam. Was seen last in Lexington j Monday. $5.00 reward R. W. Cros- j land, 1709 Main St.. Phone 545, Co j lumbia, S. C. 2t-15c FOR SALE?Two beautiful building lots in town of Lexington on Depot street, two lots together?200 feet front and 280 feet deep. Also lot containing nearly 4 acres lying on j west side of Depot st. Easy termls. ; Cyrus L. Shealy, Lexington, S. C. 2tp. We are fully equipped to handle your j automobile work on any make or j car. Honest work, honest prices., Give us a trial. Lever Auto and He- j pair Company, 1S29 Main St., Co- j lumbia, S. C. Phone 1154. 8tc-lS. j I FARM FOR RENT?On easy terms. My place on Two-Notch road, two miles from. Lexington, one mile from Red Bank, with dwelling and out-buildings, good well water. Laura P. Bailey, Rt. 3, Lexington, S. C. ltc. FOR RENT?I have a one-horse crop to rent on shares, 2 1-2 miles northeast of Gilbert. Apply to Elza J. McCartha, Gilbert. S. C. \lt. 3 2tpd i FOR SALE?Good milch cow with 1 young calf. Apply to G. R. Sease, Gilbert, S. C. ltp : STRAYED?Two Duroc pigs, weigh- j ing about 125 pounds, from R. H. ( Pnne-hmnTi's nlnr#v .Tnnnnrv 24. ' Finder please notify R. H. Caugh- j man, Lexington, S. C. ltc FOR. SALE?A nice lot of hogs, 90 to j 125 pounds each. One good cow | fresh in milk about March 15. Also j corn for sale. Apply to M. L. Brown, Lexington, S. C. Rt. 2. 2tp-16 j i FOR SALE?One mere yoke oxen, j weight about 2,500. Call quick, i Caughman-Sox Market, Lexington ltc. NOTICE?Wanted tobuy at once a good gentle family horse that will j work anywhere. Phone 5-02. J. W. Roof, Lexington, S. C. Rt. 6. ltc. NOTICE-?To the Lexington farmers that I now hold a contract with the J. R. Watkins Medicine Co., for Lex- i ington County all on the northern side of Colunubia and Augusta road and I will be around every 60 to 90 ! days with a full line of Watkins j goods look for me for I am coming j soon. J. P. Steele.' Gilbert, S. C. Rt. j 2. ltp | I FOR SALE?Twenty-five to thirty j acres land within incorporated limits of town of Lexington. Half cleared, rest in woods, with some good saw timber. All of this land suitable for building lots. If you are on the lookout for a good building site better look this over. Chas E. Taylor. ltp Life, Fire, 1 Insun Protect your Life and * in a strong- company, your policy and let m< tail. I am located \vl every day. Protect your life's sav of your property. Juj lies left homeless on a vestment of a FIRE INSURAJ I write all kinds of In Bonds. JOHN 1 Office at Bank of Wester D C OLUMN rd each insertion. No ad than 25 cents. tie--whether land, livestock p or want to rent a farm; if you have something else ed column of The DispatchAND WILL PAY YOU IIKLP WANTED. WANTED"?To buy cotton seed at $4.50 per hundred pounds. "Will give 22 sacks of m/eal for a ton of seed. Cal on me before selling. John Roof, Barr, S. C. tfc-11 FOR SALE?125 acres timber and wooded land. Luther Wessinger tract. Bargain to quick buyer. (Mrs.) Lydia A. Dempsey, 1811 Main street, Columbia, S. C. 4t-p REWARD. A liberal reward will be given for the recovery of an Ithaca shot gun, ? 28-inch barrcll, 12 guage, No. 277497. Rubber on butt of gun slightly burned at top of stock. W. H. Suber, Peak. S. C. 4tpd-16 TO THE DOUBTING PUBLIC. The great Emerson, said. "If you can make a better mouse trap than your neighbor, tho your home be in the forest the wortd will make a beaten path to your door." Notwithstanding that our store is located in a section remote from the retail district, because we sell ladies ready-towear cheaper than our neighbors the trade at large is making a beaten pathway to our door. If you are a "doubting Thomas'' come down and be convinced. Silk dresses $b.35 up*. Coats, $3.95 up. Coat Suits at proportionate prices. Furticks Sample Store, 1000 Gervais street. Columbia S. C. , IX MEMORY OF OUR LITTLE DARLING. Sadie Adaline Weed, dauhter of A. F. and L-ottie Weed, was born September 25. 1914, and died November 18, 1919, making her hapy life on earth 5 years, 1 month and 23 days. Her remains were laid to rest at Salem church to await the coming of the Master, who said "suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. We had a little treasure once. She was our joy and pride; We loved Sudie perhaps too much, . For she ,soon slept and died. g Yes, our little darling Has passed beyond the sky. Where we hope to meet her, fn the sweet bye and bye. All is dark within our home, Lonely are our hearts today. For the one we loved so dearly. Has forever passed away. She is gone but not forgotten. Never will her memory fade; Loving thoughts will ever linger, Around the tomb where she is laid A darling from us is gone, A little voice we loved is stilled: A place is vacant in our home. Which never can be filled. Ves; our dear little darling, Has passed beyond the sky; Where we hope to meet her, In the sweet bye and bye. Written by her loving mother. Lottie Weed. FOR SALE?One Jersey bull calf, 6 months old, eligible to registration. Price $50.00. T. C. Oalison, Lexington, S. C. 2tc Live Stock ince. Family with a Policy Come to me with 3 explain every dehere you can see me ings fron destruction 5t think of the famiiccount of aj small in WE POLICY. suranee, and Surety \ SOX. n Carolina, Lex. S. C.