The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, February 04, 1920, Image 4
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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" 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
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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.
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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.
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While at Oayeo. with County Audi- |
tor Dent on Friday morning last j
week, we certainly enjoyed the din- !
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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.
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Are You A
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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.
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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.]
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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.
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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
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Black head a.nd small black spots (
on body?tan collar with brass name I
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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
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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
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FOR SALE?Good milch cow with 1
young calf. Apply to G. R. Sease,
Gilbert, S. C. ltp
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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
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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 |
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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.