Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? ? ' NIK * ? > V; -* ' 'V\- ;:" ^ -v V ' r ' ' r ' v - ' .f-'-JK'. - *,, jdr- # ' ?' - j . Each name Is taken from j[ flfi 8^Ihi8^ r^srxrs if rf|> 4?J is 12 pages . *- jst* -v h'sw today VOLUME NO. SO. ^JCINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, * VEPjfepAY, MARCH 10> ;i92Q.~//: , - * NUMBER 20. TWO BIG SALES OF COTTON AT 40c Two cotton HUTCH of considerable sizo were ma.de last week by Lexington county farmers, the cotton bolng bought by tho Lexington Cotton and P'ortilivjer Company, tho price paid boing 40 cents in both cases. It is said that some of tho cotton disposed of has boon in storage for several years. There nccins to bo little doubt that tho price of 40 conts has attract od to market a considerable amount of cotton which was bolng, held, ? farmers for hotter prices.. Ip tlyl? tho surplus cotton has boon materials ly reduced, which will, no doubt havfe tte offoct on tho market this fall. Mr. Goorgo Huff, who lives on L?oaphart road, botween Lexingtisk' and Columbia, sold 26 bales, for.whiiin ] ho received 40 conts, tho aggregate amount paid boltig $4,862.40. Mr. Buff -is one of the county's good farmers* who makes ovorything at home and raises a great deal of truck for thtf" Columbia market, which enables him to hold his cotton until it com mauds the prloo he thinks it ought to bring, i The other sale roforred to was made by Mr* J. E. Dunbar and son of the Polion section, who sold 33 balos at vIO'cents for a total amount of 56,684.10. Mr. Dunbar has one of the best farms In Dextngton county and genorully makes ft fine crop of cotton. Ho also lives at home and boards at tho san e place, so that he can command his own prico for the ootton which he sells. : , ' m* AMIOK'S FERRY NEWS. The farmers of this community are not' preparing thoir farms for 1926 very much on account of the weather, is we are having a late spring. It seems as if influenza has about overcome the schools in this section, aa most all of them have closed. Mrs. M. R. Koon and children spent last Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. Mae Shealy, of this soction. Mrs. E. F. Wesslnger and son, James of the Dutch Fork section." spent Saturday night and Sunday with her daughter. Miss Julia Wosslnper, at Mr. J. F. Amick's. Mr. Huey Crout has moved from his father's placo to Mr. Travis Hill's place in tho ML IMe;tsa.nt section. Mr. M. R. Koon recently spent tho lay with Mr. D. I>. Amick. Mr. and Mrs. Flail and Mrs. P. E. Black of Ninety-Six visited relatives and friends in this .section right. recently. Mr. B. T. Bowens and family spent a short while with Mr. IV TV Amick last Sunday. ' Mr. John Bowls and family, from holow Lexington. have moved to Mr. F\ W. Shealy's pLace in this soction. We welcome Mr. Bowls to our com - j mnnity. Black Eyes. 1 NEWS NOTES. FROM NEWltElKi The health of the people of th r-oinunity is somewhat improved, mo of the flu patients being better. Ncwborg school has been closed fc the past three weeks on account < influenza; but Prof. ITnrman will r opon this woek. Miss P^arlo Shealy visited Mass l: sa Bell Eindler for the week-end. Mr. Edgar Shealy, who la now wor Ing with the Southern Express coi pany, in Columbia, spent the we end at home. This section was very much pain to learn of the death of Mrs. Joe We which occurrod last week. \; .< Misses Ethel Shealy and Sar; Lipscomb from the St. John scho< spent Saturday and Sunday with Ml Shoaly'a homo folks. All were git to see Miss Ethel back on this aid but we are afraid of losing: her sooi Mrs. Josephine Shealy and daug) tore, from Rrookland, visited Mrs. Hhealy's daughter, Mrs. W. H. Derrick, Sunday. Some of you sporting: boys had better watchout, going; so often staying so late at night. You had hotter stay with your mothers a while, longe.r TK/IUHKKH TO MIUKT KATDKWAl. Prof. L?u?co Ountor. rural school supervisor, is to bo hero to address the - ; Loxlnffton, County Teachers' Associa y ,Uon in tho court house at 12 o'clock .. ,y. SJaturday, tho l?th, All teachers, esr . pec!ally those of the rural ,?cl>ools, v\v? auKht to be .p^eeep.t to hear hj^ #id-{ ?H ^ dreea. . In jUI probability this wujLtyq tho lasl^.piloting of, the assoclflitip^ tqr r.+v thp nobool year. DAWSON D. MELTON, ATTOI AND FRIEND, PASSES l*awson D. Molton, popula bia and L#oxlngton attorney, pneumonia at the Columbia on last Wednesday. Mr. Mc well known and much loved inglon, where ho so often api tho courts of this county, and nouncemont of his death has ceivcd with genuine sorrow ai regret. A, big-hearted kindly man. w son D. Melton. Generous to with unflinching courage, he lasting friends of those he < contact. No more beautiful . covi 1(1 be paid to any man tl following, which appeared ii Sjjfcate of laat Friday: - j I "Lawson Davis Mtfftbn way yesterday afternoon '. in Elm s;emetory sifter a short and rfeVemony, conducted tiy the b tfe Blackwood, D. D? and th^Telion Clark, D, D. "For over 15 months Mr. I hail been a sufferer but with a will, bore the. pain and singula most without a murmur. To thos< knew him. Dawson Melton had all was true and lasting in the wond gift of friendship. "He was sincere, he wsis very to those he loved, sind his cout never know any form of cowardic? "With unusual capabilities as a k> yer, with the pleasing grace and p ish of an sulvocate, he hsul also t wit and merriment in his conversuth to make his hearers remember tl sweeter things in lifo. Tn an c^entfUi experience wherein ho hsid visited the ' four corners of the earth he developed si philosophy that always dealt, in the sunshine.And the mile. Very tendor. indeed, are the loving memories of ills friends, for this groat hearted man, who knowingly would harm no uuit iuiu wnun me carxn covered njs | body, it hid from view one who was j in his journey intensely .sincere Unci J * completely loyal.',' " CHIEF" KEI.SO OFF FOll FLOIUJW ? Tho genial "Chief" Kelso, who been.^nterWt^ot^ wlU.iw^Prid^ j night for st "two weeks trip to Florida. He will meet si party of friends from Chiclnn.attl and Columbus at Columbia Fridsiy night. The party will go on the tisiin .is far :ts Jacksonville, when siutomobiles will be tsiken and Southern Floridst. with its miles and | moles of concrete and brick rosiils will j lie explored l?v them. Tin- "Chief" expects to participate in some sea fishing while away. Perhaps we shouldn't give this away, but somehow we just feel it si duty incumbent on us to lot folks know whsit to expect when be comes back to Lexington. However, "Chief" will carry ; si silent witness in his t.rusty camera j smd will doubtless be able to convince i the most skeptical thsit the fish sire. | more numerous and grow bigger in ] < corgi') MoCoy Seriously Wound* <1 | Near Bel ton Bolton, March 9.?Two brothers, Broadus and George MoCoy, aged 10 and 13 years, respectively, wero hunting yesterday, when Broadus accidentally shot hla brother George, the shot taking effect in hia loft hip at close range. Tho boy was rushed to the hospital at Anderson for treatment. The report of his condition today is extremely critical. The boys aro sons of William McCoy, a carpenter of this place. Many an octogenarian can attribute his longevity to the fact'that ho never called a man a lair.-?Kock Hill Record. i S.WK WASTE PAPER URGES TUT-: SALVATION ARMY. <vuum:i, uu>.., Jrturcii 10.?To assist ii\ relieving the acute shortage of news print paper which is seriously li.impering Hie publication of newspapivs and magazines throughout the enlire country the Salvation Army urges i\!l linns ami individuals to save their iv*sto paper of whatever description. friie wagons of the Salvation Army v lit. every street in every city where a .lvation Army corps is located at t ? Joust once every two weeks and guthor up this wasto paper after which it Is balod and_raturnedi. ta tltn mills to he worjeod over into^ hews pritit papffrl" About 50,000 tons of waste pnper have been turned hack to the mills in the last twelve months l?y the Salvation Army, according to computations mode by the national hcn(i<|ttuitc-ia in New York City'. In live sci'thcrn cities alone, according to Capt. C. C. Lever, manager of lb" industrial department in Atlanta, more than six million pounds were returned to the mills Inst year, and this does pot include the thousands of .smaller towns in the South where the Solvation Array operates. "Had the Stkvationists not leathered up this enormous volume of waste paper?a small mountain tin size/' says Captain Iawer. "haled it and retiirncil it to the mills to he renianufae'? <!, the paper would have hoen burI by iiouseholders and stores, or terwise destroyed and lost to the Mishing industry. And :it the same 11? Salvation Army was Rivjobs as 'wasifpai.iT harvesters' to idr<*ds of ummployed men. .V.onrv raised with the sub- of h.Mwasti ;aper uiaititains our eightyjmiusirial homes in various parts the enuntr;. where melt not able to port themselves are Riven such it \v??rk ji.s tltey r.re aide to porm and those wlto ean't work at till maintained witliotit charge. 'Hie Salvation Army practices con\n sense salvage as well aa salvu. t. It. not only saved for publishof the United States more than roe-quarters of a million tons of per in the bust ten years, but in the oeess it put thousands of human . I of . /\?> !?/.( .. P/VA.* * 1 *1| IV. LO 1*11 lllt'II It't'l. ifF; .AMERICAN IjIXJION MERIK PRU>AY VIC I IT An important meeting of tin* American Legion will be held Friday night at the office of Kfird ?fc Carroll. All mombcrH are urged to bo present an well an any who desire become menjbers. The organization will soon occupy the splendid club rot nas which have been prepared for the membership. I NOIH JIMMIK AT HOME. (Jpcle Jinuaio Itawl is back again with us, and everyono is glad to shalco his hand. He will be here for about two woftks when ho will return to Port Royal. In the recent cold map hi? ?6n, Mr. J. Biton Itawl, lost by the frost hJmoM. his ontlro lettuo#>6rop Ji - *J"' t.'T?v . . and perliapft otner damAso toh Is early truck. (ORE FERTILIZER 1 .1$ COME SOON : wwt] I V.&demtfnd for. fertilizers! g&^K itr large the supply Is np- j, vor? iftiort unu local dealers rc(6in?'l . dlVficulty in supplying the I jj jiiftmadn oh them, increased de- J Q prooabiy due to a desire on jOri of tljt farmers to fertilize t| jW|emilj/5ij an effort to got a- n IR the btoll weevil. (In the othr.itt, a shortage of labor and an s iStte supply of railroad ears iSiu'piy Interfered with manufac- B rw'. delivery of fertilizers to j extent that dealers have been ibfcito meet the requirements of -j ircuistorrters. c t l{iat|^|?i?wi}ver, that both the orphowjfce and the scarcity of ? s l&o improved and the outlook j ioclt' fd5r an Increased supply. j ' "tuti y $&'k generally has l>een eh ^<Sat|iere^l by .bad weather and t RWit amount of sldko^Srf rosult- ( fn]#. the- l*of ' flu, -but j sp<& Hro better pow than for j ie.fahc and cvm-yhtKly who is able o | Wdfk1 wil^obn be hard at it. V NIMT .TOl^ARD. * TO AXI? ?Oid>IKRS ? : - " % i iwxiircluiHiii^ Sclicnic to 1 ton, Mch. 9.?Foumalton of ( ent corporation t?*-p.urchase f - - ' s lorracr servieo-,jtwhl> was ^ ged Ajay Cbofore the houJK) ways and m?\H committer by Representation Mmrnn. *?punlicon, Oklahoma, explalnftc- his bilf to create such- cor- j poniUo? capitalized at $100,100,000. All thew-oek would^>c held by the govornrefsnt which would make loans second*!^1,tyy nv>rtgair0S up to a maxliraim of This } vffTst of several .similar! ! Iiills wlijph. vXp'air.^d' to the ' conunitife by-thfetv ruithors. With the calling of' treasury officials for} Thursday, the end of hearings on proposed soldier relief measures is in sight. Chairman Fordney today niade an appeal to expedite the hoarijrtt ^ " * MyiAtMi-ii ? o heg Want a- *W??iur?' -Mr*. Fordney said. "Soldiers who suffered financial losses are overwhelmingly in favor of a relief plan." J SI* N RAY SKIIVICKS AT I.K\l\tiTO> narTiST t'IM'JiCH At the Raptist ciiurch. Lexington, i next Sunday morning, March 14th, at j 11 o'clock. "The Drama of Life." N'ight?7:30 o'clock, i'l >ur All in / tliA T.'tcrlO Oi., J ? III ft . ft ?-,?V* not Hill. j : That tliosc services may bo grout, let | j every f me conve with prayerful hearts, iThe public cordially invited. We are having preaching the second J and (ijurth Sunday mornings and evt erv Sunday night. Beginning with the j 1st Sunday in April, wo will have full j time preaching at l.exlngton?preachj ing every Sunday morning and night. I 1*. ,11. F*underhurk. Baptist Pastor. j \OTICK or t^rAKTI01UA coyitoiuoniio | Second quarterly coiifei . nee of la*x- i ! ingtou charge. M. 10. <*. S.. will comj \ eiie at IforeP chureh Saturday and Sunday next, i:'.th and 11th inst. ; ITenehiug by Bev. It. 10. Stnc-ki house 1'. 10. Saturday at 11::t0 o'elock and luneh will be served on the ( grounds immediately afterwards. ! All the officials are urged to attend and as nmny others as can do so. especially the members of the local j church. Preaching also Sunday at 1 1 :'.'0 ,v. Id. A. Q. RICK, Pastor in Charge. ASTOK RKOIMOUTY SOl/I? N'ew York. March 1>. Band la-long lng to tho Henry Atsor estate and on which the Astor. Bijou and Morosco theaters arc located on Broadway and tilth street. was sold at public auction today for $1,14 0,000. LKXlNtmiN (X>U\'TY FARMERS irNION TO MEET. The (icxinKton County Union will hold its 1st quarterly meeting with Hilton local Saturday March the 13 1930, beginning at eleven o'clock. All locals please send delegates. J. EI>. KAISER. Sec. IiEXIN'tiTON mull ROIIOOIj Wild, RESUME WORK MONDAY MOILNTNO The Ijexington high school will rose nvo regular work at the usual hour on "Monday morning, tho 15th. It; Is hopfed that ail' of tho students will be present ready for earnest work. ?? ..PI . WATEftlNqPORD NEWS. . What about that man's corn ho lontod tbo other day? Well, tho rly bird catches tho worm. Wonder what Undo Henry thinks bout this cold March weather. A great tidal' wave of "flu" Is sweep?g over this section of Lexington. Mrs. Laura Long of Batosburg, is elping to nurse tho sick folks at Mr. 1. S. Crout's. The sick list horoabouts is too great make personal mention of in these ews items. Mr. L. S. Smith oX Woodford, was eon in these parts Sunday. AM. A ho Smith and fnmilv n"d Irs. Albert .Prico are visiting' on Hack Crook: Mr. Jako Rish and family of near 'olion, visited relatives near here r'oicntly. Mrs. Ij. A. J. Howard la spending loino time down on tho Kdisto with lor daughter. Mrs P. W. Miller, who ias beon ill with tho "flu." Tho continued late cold spring and ho influenza havo ghratly retarded 'arm work in. this 'section. Some rurmers have broken but very little and up to this lime. AN KOnO PKOM THE PAST "A system inaugurated in 1784, and with all #its dWTects continuod in full operation to the present time, notwlthttandlng tho groat and important change's which have transpired since that day in tho values of all the lands r>f the state, is certainly a vory striking instance of the conservative charactor of our state government." (T. J. Pickens, comptroller general, In his report, to the legislature of South Carolina for the year 1859.) The system to which the comptroller goneral refors was the one under V which ail the lands of the state were classified and valued for taxation prior to the Civil War. Tills classification and .the valuation placed on each of tile ten classes of land remained practically unchanged for the 75 years preceding 1859. Tlio valuations varied from. 20 cents to $26.00 per acre. In :tn interpretation' of the law for the comptroller general, Isaac W. Ilayne, attorney general, wrote: "The scheme of the Act is plaln onoi^h.The first. Idea' is ^. atyjfrg tW three zones In reference chiefly to. facility of conveying produce to market?the first and most valuable within the flow of tide: the second in partition '?"?i value lying between the first zone and the head of navigation; and the third and least in value, ail that portion of the state above the head of navigation. The classification and relative valuation. if not the actual, were probablj well adapted to the condition of tht country in 17S4, but the progress ol 7 5 yeas has. of course, introduced great changes." The aggregate number of acres paying taxes in 185S was 17,558,401, anc of this number 10,261,056 acres wcrt assessed at 20 cents an acre, 4,520, ( 7.S acres at 40 cents and only 1,017,4 95 acres at more than $1.00 pc-r acre The total valuation of the hinds of th? now. * i n ori n*yn ...usirt atinn of lots and buildings in Charleston was $22,274,175. In l.'arnwel District there were returned 1,035,97! iter s and of that number 1,006,97! were returned at 20 cents. In Dar lington District, one of the most pro ductive districts of the state. thcri \vt re returned 4X0,983 acres, of whicl number 400,980 were iisscssed at 2' cents an acre?"thousands of acres o \\ hieh can he sold for $20.00 an acre.' (I'iekens.) "Much of tho tide swamp of class 1. valued at $26.00 per acre sells at $200.00, and tfiat valued a j $ 1 7.1'o and $8.50 at $100.00 and up ward, while the cotton lands q( th se;u islands, valued at $4.00 are wortl from ?50.00 to $75.00, and a grea tlettl of the land throughout the stat valued as pine barren at 20 cents ui acre, will bring in the market fror $10.00 to $30.00 an acre" (Ilayne). The taxes on land amounted to $61, 546 In 1858, which was $9,000 loo than the tax on the two items of "ban capital" and "saws or goods'' and les than one-fourth tho urn raised o slaves. Charleston paid on its lot and buildings $27,848, or about one half of tho tax on lands of state, al though the valuation was double There was no constitutional dtatio requiring uniformity in the rate a that time and tho disparity in tho as sessmcnts was offsot somewhat by difference in the rate?81 cernts pe $100.00 on lands tend 17 cents fie $100.00 on lots and butldlnga. Cfl.ni owners as such contributed Uttl6 t the support of the state, but its slav owners they boro tbe heaviest fiart o the tax burden. ?University News. ARRESTED FOR BANK ROBBERIES i K . * V r Blbyd libriek, Dewey Dennis and Aledfcr Cartledgo, arrested last week In C0ltMTlbf& in connection with the robbory* of the Bonk of Neoces last fall, were brought to Dexlngton by Sheriff Miller Wednesday night and lodged In jal hero; charged with the robbery of the Bank of Chapin and the Bank of Swansea. All of them are young boys, the oldest being hardly more than 21. The boys are residents of Columbia, Tf ??t11 K/v ? ? *<. ttiu uu iDiuniuuurvu mat tne Iiank of Neeces was blown open some tlnvc last Novnmbor^ while the Bank of C^apln. arid the Bank. of Swansea wetfer blown latei\vT?fothing of value was secuted from "tbp Bank of Chapln, but t>. considerable, .amount of Liberty bonds ^aa secutCd?frorft. the Bank of Swansea.. It is that at Swansea -twtmt* thoysaind dollars -lay almost. wlthtrt" ttlb (ST^p. dt thq ^robbers and 'a'little more effort on their part would have .yielded aV-rifch return, i>ub thfey wero frighten edaway by the night telephone oftpaurtor. ..who sounded aA' ajarm which brought a groat number* of people to the sdjbno and.frightened away the robbers.*.. RKADY FOR HARD DRIVB "AGAINST CATTLK TICKS - i V Washington, D. C., March 8.?March finds preparations well under way for.the 1920 campaign against the cattle fevor tick. Proepects for effective work aro so encouraging that .federal officials in charge of tick cradlddtlon' expect that at least ninety counties in tho various tiok-lnfostod States will be made ready for release from federal quarantine next December 1. This will mean a much larger amount of torritory cleaned up than was ptaoed in the free area last year. Only 30 per cent of the total area nrtjjnniiw quarantined remains under tick domination, and it should be materially reduced this year. The end of the long campaign which bogan actively in 1B06 * is well in sight, and with continued cooperation from' the , State and county governments the bu, reau of . animal industry. United " hopes that in not foiartjthan three e&Sfe . years the South will bV tiok-froe. , Cattle will be sent through the dtp, ping vats as early in the season as , the weather and their condition will permit. RopuiUi from, field Trcrker? i say that cattle which went Into the ( winter ick-free are showing up this spring in much bettor condition than the animals which were subject to r contiued attacks of tho parasites. Cattle in poor condition may be kept . from the vats until hey have a chance I at spring forage, but wherever possible early dipping will bo practicod to kill the ticks before they have a chance j to multiply by thousands or millions. >11 H U'onthor <1lt\rl?rr , > ?? - t. discontinued during: the wintor in localities where the operation would not . harm the cattle. There were more than 200,000 dippings in January, and probably a greater number in February. The winter work, with, early dipping in March, will give the tick eradicators a flying start that Is expected to be a big help in making this year a big one. According to the latest report 32,7T.6 dipping vats?"canals to proeperity"?-are reaily Cur use this spring, j They, ire divided among the States as follows: ,, Alabama. S.C-OS; Arkansas. 2,623; Morula, l,f>16; Georgia, 2,984; L?oulsi- \ s ana. 4,632; Mississippi, 4,294; North ^ Carolina, 4SO; OXlahoma, 1,150; Bouth Carolina, 844; Texas (north), 4.7S6; Texas (south), 1,4 4 5. e . h IN AltlNBT-POWKJdj. ,t e Mr. Willie H. Powell of L/erington, n was married in Orangeburg on last n Sunday afternoon to Miss Bertha Lee Inablnet, the coromony being performed at the home of the bride by the is I Rev. Mr. Edwards. Only relatives k and a few Intimate friends of the ? contracting parties witnessed the n nuptials. .s Mr. and Mrs. Powoll are now via> iting the former's parents, Mr. and - Mrs. H. W. Powell, in Lexington. ?. Misses Mattie and Grace Powell, n sisters of the groom, wont to Orange.t burg for the wedding. ' i? ? : SK.UWH FOIt HAVRICR i r! Atlanta, Match 9.?-Active search r j wair In'progress today- for B, C. d ' Haahellor; vlco president of the Bank o Of !Paluveifo, at Palmetto, *?., near e I here,-: who 16 charged in >,<** warrant f | with i6tnb6**51hg eowiHri (WiUiH dot[ toVtf <4f tho?bknk'a ttond*-^, -. \ W