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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.
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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
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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.
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jj. CARD* O? THANKS"
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<' 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. <\
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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i Banking house 1,714.24
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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
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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.
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"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.
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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
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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.