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5 nsastrStce L-*? c v t ; i> . i iv * Ba^esbu'rg, September 20.?One of the most disastrous fires that has ever occurred in our town was discovered in an old wooden store building last Saturday morning between three and four o'clock. The flames rapidly ? spread and in spite of the heroic ef" forts on the part of the firemen, with the exception of three buildings the entire business block west of Granite . street was destroyed. The entire stock of M. " Howard, Holly-Price hardware Company, Evans & Hite, The Telephone Exchange and the ' buggy and harness store of the L. f D.: Cullum Company was destroyed by the fire. The stock of I. Edwards t* ? Company and Parrish & Willis were badly damaged with but little insurance to cover the damage. The loss in buildings and stock is estimated around $150,000.00 with about one half of this amount covered by insurance. The fire originated in a building leased as a negro barber shop and restaurant. It is thought that the fire is of incendiary origin as some of the property owned by the negroes operating the shop was in dispute. . West Hill, a negro, was arrested on suspicion but was later released by Magistrate E. R. Steadman as the evidence presented at the preliminary was not considered sufficient to send the case to higher court. The defendant was represented at the preliminary by attorney E. L. Asbill of Leesville. A call issued by Dr. E. C. Ridgell and Messrs. D. E. Etheredge and M. -f R Rutland veanestine the farmers of this community to meet in town ;; on Saturday, September 24th, to discuss various issues of interest to our farmers. The First National Bank -, v has. an* important announcement to make to the farmers at this,meeting. The county farm agents will address the meeting. ? Summerland College opened its tenth annual session last Wednesday with a large attendance. Brief addresses were made by the pastors of the churches of Leesville and Batesburg welcoming the students to the congregations of the various churches of this community. Other* ad" dresses were made by Dr. E: C. Ridgel land Hon. W. M. Oxner welcoming the students to both towns. The formal opening of t^e Batess burg-Leesyille High school was held in the auditorium of the high schpol building last Friday evening with a well selected program. After an announcement made by Mr. F. Hampton Hendrix of Leesville, chairman of the board of trustees an address was delivered by Dr. E. Pendleton Jones, formerly of Bates^urg, but now pastor of a church in Virginia. The address was well received by the large audience present. The music If was under the direction of Mrs. S. B. Holley and Miss Wessinger. At sr. k the close of the exercises the moving picture was used to demonstrate the value of visual instruction. Last Sunday afternoon the Junior , Order of United American Mechanics! presented to the trustees of the high school the flag of the United States and the holy Bible. The speech of . presentation was made by ilr. Cyrus L. Shealy of the Lexington bar; His L.. ' speech was one of the best ever delivered on an occasion like this and he discussed fully the main principles pertaining to the order. Prof. W. F.- Scott, superintendent of the school - ' acepted on behalf of the school the flag and bible with an eloquerit and appropriate speech. |I^V j jj. CARD* O? THANKS" / . - ^ <' Dear Editor: We wish to express our many thanks and praises to our dear friends and neighbors who were so kind and helpful during the illness and death of our defer husband and father, ? James Frye. May God's richest blessings rest upon each and every ; > one of them is our prayer. The Wife and Children. DELICIOUS. AND REFRESHING We serve Coca-Cola?the Genuine, ; delicious and refreshing, a mental / "pick me up," no-, just "dope," but . the best that can be made, good to last drop, a large glass for 5 cents plus war tax of 1 cent. Come to Tfce Rexall Fountain for the Best Cold Drinks. We make 'tm right from Pure Fruits, Fruit Juices, Syrups, etc., the best the world's markets afford and our prices are lowest. Cleanliness prevails. We serve Sa nek en's Golden Ice Cream, the best in the Souths A cigar to suit every smoker. Everything in Drugs. HARMON DRUG CO., The REXALL Store. Lexington, S. <\ ^ ^ ~ ;y ^ ' 1 i . ' KIRBY WISHES IT WERE ALL OVER Brazcll Slayers in Death House Talk? See Their Relatives. wish it were all over with," The speaker, with a drawl in his voice, sent these words through grated bars. The words came from the lips of a man who is spending his remaining days on earth in the penitentiary's death cell. The speaker was S. J. Kirby, one of the three sentenced to die in the electric chair for the murder of William Brazell, Columbia taxi driver, who was stabbed to death on an early Monday morning in August. Kirby and his twof , partners in crime, C. O. Fox and Jesse Gappins, are three of the mdfrt famous prisoners the state has ever held. Their careers have been marked by remarkable events, chiefly the murder of a young boy to steal the car he drove. Chased by a mob for several, days over two states, held in Charleston under heavy guard to escape lynching, secretly brought to Columbia under heavy guard and later taken to trial in Lexington under much heavier guard, the three men are now stoically awaiting the day of their doom, and theit loved ones cry about them and plead for mercy. The three men are very talkative for men under sentence of death. Through the bars of their cells in the death house they talk to their friends and talk to officials and they even appear slightly cheerful at times. Mr. and Mrs. Fox, parents of the young man sentenced to die, have been callers on their son at the state prison, since the trio was brought Tuesday from the Lexingten court house. They are nice looking old people and their loss excites the sympathy of on-lookers. Mr. and Mrs. Gappins, the parents, of* Jesse Gappins, have called on their son, too. Mrs. Kirby and Kirby's little daugh ter, have likewise seen the man to whom they will say good bye on October 21. Gappins is a Columbia boy. Fox came from Stanley Creek, N. C., the home of his parents. Kirby came to Columbia from York county. His first visit to the capital was as a prisoner in 1917, when he wasjsent to the pen under a two-year sentence for a crime committed on a man in York county, whom it is said, he beat into insensibility and robbed. The victim of that crime was left in the woods, apparently dead. However, he regained consciousness but could hardly move from the ground. He reached a small sappling, and bending it over, hung his: coat on it. This he waived until he attracted the attention of a passerby who rescued the suffering man. Kirby served a year of his sentence and was pardoned by Governor Manning.?Columbia Record. m ?i > ? > BO YLSTOX -SHA RPE. A wedding of more than passing in terest to their friends in Aiken and Lexington Counties as well as throughout the State was that of Miss Mamie Crum Boylston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Boylston, "of Salley, S. C., and Julius E. Sharpe of Lexington, which was solemnized at the residence of the Rev. R. S. Truesdale, pastor of the Main street Methodist church Columbia, on last Thursday in the presence of a few friends. Miss Boylston was educated a: Greenville Woman's College and has a large circle of friends. She had just entered Chicora College at Columbia lor the coming session when 'the young couple changed their plans and decided to be married at once. Mr. Sharpe is a son of the late Senator arid Mrs. W. H. Sharpe, of Edmund, Lexington county. He is at present serving his first tern^ as County Superintendent of Education for Lexington county, having been elected last summer, and is one among the youngest men who ever held this office. He is an alumnus of the Uniersity of South Carolina and is popular with his friends. For the past two years he was principal of the Kitchings Mil] graded school in Aiken county. Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe will make their home in Lfexington. % FISH FRY AND CHICKEN STEW AT RED RANK SCHOOL There will be a fish fry and chicken stew at the Red Bank school house Saturday night. September 24. l 21. The proceeds will go to the benefit of the Baptist church*. Come all that will and help a god cause. WINTER TTKMP AND SEASONABLE SEED j We have a supply of new crop Winter Turnip seed, mustard, radish, rape, rye and other seasonable seed, sold in packages or bulk as you want them. Prices right for reliable seed. J HARMON DRUG CO.. , Lexington, X. C. i IX MEMORIAM ? ? In loving memory of our mother, Blanche Aquila Shealy, wife of W. Thompson Shealy, died July 27, 1!>21. We have lost our darling mother, She has bid us all adieu; She has gone to live in heaven, A.nd her form is lost to view. Oh, that dear one! How we loved her. Oh, how hard to give her up! But an angel came down for her And removed her from our flock. Earth has lost its look of gladness, Heaven seems to us more bright, Since the spirit of our dear one Took its happy, homeward flight. And we long to cross that river, Long to rest upon that shore, There to see, and know, and love them With the Savior evermore. We miss thee from our home, dear mother, We miss thee from thy place, A shadow o'er our life is cast, We miss the sunshine of thy face. We miss thy kind and wiliing hand. Thy fond and eajnest care; Our home, is dark without thee? We miss thee, everywhere. Precious mother, she has left us, Left us yes for evermore; But we hope to meet our loved one, On that bright and happy shore. Lonely the house, and sad the hours, Since our dear one has gone;' But oh, a brighter home than ours, In heaven is now her own. Call not back the dear departed, Anchored safe where storms are o'er * On 'the border land we left her, Soon to meet and'part no more. When we leave this world of changes When we leave this world of care. We shall find our missing loved one In our father s mansion iair. Farewell, dear, but not forever, There will be a glorious dawn, We shall meet to part?no never! On the resurrection morn. . Though thy darling form lies sleeping, In the cold and silent tomb, / Thou shalt have a glorious waking When the blessed Lord doth come. Written by her heartbroken husband and daughters. ~JFs Worth Going M ToSee^ PROOUI Wallace Reid TUD A ? Elliott Dexter m I llC A\r Monte Blue g~\C An Theodore Roberts Ur Al 1 Theodore Koslotf PFJL*" Raymond Hatton. CtCjHmitMk i Film Creation 1 COLU The Only City in to Show it Next 7 Organize a Par HOUKS: 10 a. m.?12 noon?2 p. m. 4:00 p. m.?0:00 p. m. 8 p. m. and 10 p. m. ENTIRE WEEK ST7 At South Carolina . .^Iain Street, Between "Western I Ooiumli I LEXINGTON LAD IS SMOTHERED TO DEATH IN PILE OF COTTON Newberry, Sept. 10.?The six year old son of G. B. Elisor of Spring Hill. Lexington county, was smothered to death in a pile of lint cotton last Monday, at a gin house on the James C\ Duncan plantation in Cromer township, according to news brought here today. The lad was visiting a family on the plantation and with the children of the family was playing in the cotton when the accident occurred. The little body was shipped back .to his father's in Lexington ontmtxr C/\?- hurio 1 TVxo V.VU4I IJ i VI VUL tai< M 11 V AVVW* V*. . - 2 Statement of the Condition of the PEOPLES BANK located at Swansea, S. C.. at the close of business September 6, 1921. Resources Loans and discounts $27,100.81 Furniture and fixtures .?. . . 5,261.16 Banking house 11,500.00 Due from banks and bankers S,143.19 Currency 279.00 Silver and other minor coin 29.88 Checks and cash items.... 1,285.10 Total $53,599.14 Liabilities Capital stock paid in $45,175.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 222.04 Individual deposits subject to check $ 6,113.62 Saving** deposits . 2,088.48 S,202.10 Total $53,599.14 State of South Carolina, County of Lexington.?ss. Before me came S. E. Sniitrh, Cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn," t&ys that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown^by the books of said bank. S. E. SMITH. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of September, 1921. S. J. DERRICK, Notary Public. Correct Attest: E. C. JOHNSON, J. J. LUCAS, E. W. BURNETT, Directors. i Hies / r 0 -tion . _ ' " 1 Gloria Swanson roll Si Bebe Daniel/* ^<f nl * Vttoda Hawiev .O IUI ,'A^nes Ayrex tar. ca?t Polly Mo ran' U/ltQHdOfB JuhaFayel Gorgeous ! Zver Conceived MBIA South Carolina week ty and See It PRICES: / ,v? ? 1 ^ nil /loTf 1 n r* CiJ, CI 11 \AO.J . ... J.CC. | Adults, Matinee 30c I Adults, after G p. m...50c | I \RTING SEPT. 26 ;j i's Best Theatre *nion and Postal Telegraph, ; I ia. J I ; I MIHIMWM??w , I Statement of the Condition of the ; ! BANK OF SWANSEA located at Swansea, S. C., at the close of business September 6, 1921. Resources Loans and discounts $378,184.34 Overdrafts 3,785.10 j Bonds and stocks owned by i the bank. Liberty Bonds. 1,650.00 ] Furniture and fixtures.... 3,965.00 Banking house 7,034.12 < Due from banks and bank- ( ers .V 17,644.04 < Currency 1,220.00 Gold 445.00 ( Silver and other minor coin 1,001.26 Total $414,928.86 i Liabilities Capital Stock -Paid in ....$100,000.00 Surplus fund 1,500.00 I Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 2,376.12 4 Dividends unpaid 1,790.00 Individual de- < posits subject to check . . .. $ 86,288.37 Savings depos- ' its 85,848.81 Cashier's checks 625.56 172,762.74 Notes and bills rediseounted j 3,500.00 Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 133,000.00 Total $414,928.86 State of South Carolina, County of Lexington.?ss. Before me came B. E. Craft, cashier of the above named bank, who, beiner dulv sworn, savs that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. B. E. CRAFT. Sworn to and subscrbed before me this 14th day of September, 1921. H. L. DERRICK, Notary Public. Correct Attest: W. H. WITT, R. L. LYBRAND, C. L. RAST, Directors. Statement of the Condition of the BANK OF CHAPIN located at Chapin, S. C., at the close of business September 6, 1921. Resources i Boans and discounts $69,543.94 | Overdrafts .... 409.13 i Bonds and stocks owned by ! the bank ? 5.400.00 I ITiivrn'tiiro o nrl fivturoo 1 fi fi 1 AQ | I U1 illtui V UilU JIAlUt VC i , V U i V U i Banking house 1,714.24 i e> , j Other real estate owned. . . . 1,749.11 .'Due from banks and bankj ers 4,272.23 j Currency 2,352.00 Gold 480.00 Silver and other minor coin, 497.54 Checks and cash items.... 8,610.66 | Total $96,909.88 V- ' Liabilities [capital stock paid in $10,000.00 Surplus fund 2,400.00 { Undivided profits, less curI rent expenses and taxes L paid 8.54 ' Individual deposi its subject to check $22,415.99 ! Savings deposits . 2,645.48 Time certificates i | of deposit . . .. 25.553.90 j Cashier's j checks ... .. 1,035.97 51,651.34 I Bills payable, including certificates iof rrioney borrowed 32,850.00 . Total .... 96,909.88 State of South Carolina, County* of Lexington.?ss. Before me came Rob't. A. Frick, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a 1 true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank, i- ROB'T. A. FRICK. ' Sworn to and subscribed before me ! this 12th day of September, 1021. L. E. SHEALY, Notary Public for S. C. Correct Attest: J. S. WESSINCEK. S. .J. CLARK, 1 HARRY D. WESS INC E It. Directors. , i "it Must Have Keen Dead at Least 1 Months Hut Didn't Smell." a "Saw a lug rat in our cellar last c full," writes Mrs. Joannv, "and t bough! a 2."m oake of RAT-SNAP, broke 't up into small pieces. .Last week while moving v.e came across t the dead rat. .Must have been dead six months, didn't smell. 11AT-SXA?' is wonderful." Three sizes, 35o, 63c, C $3.25. Sold and guaranteed by I.exin^ton Pharmacy and Harmon Dm? Co. * 3 Statement of the eondition of the ? BANK OF WESTERN CAROLINA located at Lexington. S. C\. at the close if business September 6. 1021. Resources Loans and discounts $395.575.S3 Overdrafts .. 273.20 Due from banks and bankers 1,038.66 Currency 6,369.00 Cold 40.00' Silver and other minor coin 1,137.91 Checks and cash items 753.92 Total $405,188.52 Liabilities Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid $ 3,642.69 iidividual deposits subject to check .. ..$ 54,016.50 Savings depos' its 120,893.61 Certified checks 1,000.00 checks 407.04 182,317.15 Other Liabilities, viz: Due Head Office, Aiken, S. C 219,228.68 Total $405,188.52 State of South Carolina, County of ' Lexington.?ss. Before me came John T. Box, Manager of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a to true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. ?JOHN T. SOX. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of September, 1921. H. L. HARMON (L. S.) C. C. C. P. & G. S. Correct Attest: ?C. M. EFIRD, B. F. HOLLEY, J. B. SALLE Y, Directors. Condensed Statement of The BANK OF WESTERN CAROLINA, at close of business, September^ 6th, 1921. ' Assets Bills receivable $2,938,674.70 Bonds and stocks 363,092.75 Banking houses, real estate, furniture and fixtures 126,188.68 Cash on hand and in banks 302,027.56$3,729,983.69 Liabilities Capital $ 289,300.00 Surplus 289,300.00 Undivided profits 73,561.51 Deposits 2,256,095.04 Bills payable 780,000.00 Re-discounts 41,727.14 $3,729,983.69 Statement of the Condition of the RANK OF CIf.RF.RT located at Gilbert, S. C., at the close of business September 6, 1921. Resources Loans and Discounts $35,638.93 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank 225.00 Furniture and fixtures .... 3,552.81 Banking house 3,873.02 Due from banks and bankers 1,?82 "o Currency 790.00 Silver and other minor coin 106.50 Checks and cash items .... 396.47 Total $46,165.55 Liabilities Capital stock paid In $18,550.00 Surplus fund 500.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 62.13 Individual deposits subject to check $ 9,598.27 Savings deposits 5,343.07 Time certificates of deposit 2,665.00 Cashier's checks 71.34 17,677.6 > Bills payable, including certificates for money borrowed 9,500.00 Total $46,165.55 4tate of South Carolina, County of Lexington.?ss. Before me came C. B. Shealv, casher of the above named bank, who. >eing duly sworn, says that the above ml foregoing statement is a true ondition of said bank, as shown by j,.. 1 )... N - ;M i?jvr> ?*: c-??im uauiN. T. I\ ^llBALY. Sworn to and subscrila-d 'oel'ore mo bin !fith day >;' September. 1J>21. TOOII HAYES, Notary Public. 'orrect Attest: C. A. SMITH, D.. E. HAMMOND, T. S. SEASE. Directors.