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ISr I She tl tspatrh-^ inua I vs? . ^ . ' : ; Jfr'. ^ VOLUME NO. 52. LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. WEPNESjftWv AUGUST 2, 1922. NUMBER 41. I Candidates Are Getting In Line With throe more days in which to enttsr the primary this year* there is already opposition in all of the moro important races with the exception of that of probate judge. For the IIooho. TjO date there are six candidates for the house of representatives from j .Lexington county, two having come cut since our last issue. They are: I HoA. D. Ernest Amick of Lexington, at present a member of th-5 hou*e. < Hon. McK. Barr of Ratosburg, also a member of the present delegation. Hon. S. E. Smith of Swansea, who has represented this county in the general assembly before. P. J. Wessinger of Brookland, a merchant. John P. Shealy of Lexington, employed by the Lexington Manufacturing Company. Chas. E. TayjOr of Lexington, who at one time served the town as mayor. Lexington county sends three rep> reaentativea to the "general assembly. ' therefore there are two seeking each place. For County Treasurer . W. J. Smith is asking reelection as county treasurer. He succeeded C. E. Leaphart in tiiis position in the last primary, and has been attentive J to duty and conducted the office well. Harry D. "Wessinger of Chapin is in fVir, for treasurer. Mr. Wessin j ger hcW the position of cashier of the Bank of Chapin for a number of years and is well fitted for the office he ? seeks. For Auditor. W. D. Dent is seeking reelection as auditor. He has held the office for a number of years and has made a conscientious and efficient officer. I), f.. Shealy is announced a candidate for auditor. Mr. Shealy was in | the race for treasurer two years aso and made a good run. He is well (tualiiied to fill the place. t . So far Walter F. Hook has no op^poaitfdn for this-offiee of Jt:probate T judge. He was elected to this office in a special election last summer to fill out the unexpired term of the late i. Judge George S. Drafts. < For Magistrate. It Three have announced for magist' 'rate for the First district which inludes the town of Lexington. They ll arc J. Arthur Harman, R. J. Hook ;iml Lewis B. Roof. Sim L. Hcndrix, i he encumbent, will not seek reelec} t-ion .J. W. Hook is running for magis| trate of the Irmo district. IS. M. Martin is a candidate for f- magistrate in the Sixth district. In the Fifth district there are two candidates for magistrate, the en^ eumhent, C. It. Rish, and Boyd F. Berry. 4 A number of others have been mentioned as possible candidates" for the several offices, and it is expected that .j before the time for filing pledges expires next Monday noon there will be others in some of the races at least. t 1 * ^ TEACHERS ELECTED FOR NEXT SESSION. I At a meeting of the board of trustees of the Lexington schools held Monday teachers for the coming year were elected, and all of Those asking reelection were retained'. Those elected to teach the different grades were: Miss Mary Wingard. first grade; Mrs. J. A. Seasc. advanced first; v*' .Miss Vera Corley, second grade; Miss \iinto I ./ah Th vim- \f iuu Kate Shull, fourth grade; Miss Nell Hill, fifth grade: Miss Emma Miocker, sixth grade; Miss Madoua Btgby, seventh grade. High School. Miss Elnut Coskrey, Miss Ethel Drchcr, Miss Ellen Hendrix. S. I Addy, agriculture; Mrs. E. It. Hoof and Miss May Hois Boozer, music; Mrs. J. D. Carroll, expression; l'rof. H. E. Whittle, superintendent. The next school session will begin i> on Monday, September 4. ? . > FAIR \XI) 'CUE AT WHITE KNOl.L. The annual fair and cue at White. j' Knoll (Union) will be held ut the school house August 31 . This event is looked forward to with? great Interest by those of the community and this year promises to be of greater interest than lust. A good dinner, music, refreshments aad intertainment for all. f ' ' # I BANKERS SUPPORTING , COOPERATION WELL, \" Columbia, July 31.?Assurances I from the bankB of the state that they will support the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative association to the limit are being received dally, officials of the association said today. Letters were received yesterday from over 100 banks, they said. stating their desire to coperate with the organization in every way possible. Many of the banks have signified their intention of launching rigorous advertising campaigns in behalf of the association and. of doing everything in their power, to encourage those t'arny?rs who huve not yet done so to sign the contract. Tito Commercial Bank of Newberry, of which John M. Kinard is president, has already begun a campaign of this nature !n Newberry, the Newberry papers having carried in their last issues large advertisements by j their bank endorsing the movement and urging the farmers to join. "After a thorough investigation of the coperatlve ?* arkoting plan," says the statement >e bank, "we wish to state that w \rtily endorse it I and without hos. o. ? further, advise every cotton g. *?/. in this and adjoining counties to . * they have not already done so. "If tne plan wasn't a g . ne. our government would not have <?, ?d to loan the assocaltion $10.00*.^., ^ur South Carolina. "We are going to back the association to our limit, and in doing so, we fed that it means a Ions step forward in bringing independence and prosperity to the farming industry and putting it upon a more secure and solid foundation. "We believe tho farmers need to adopt more modern and more business-like methods, and unless they do this there can be no hopes of lifting their occupation from its present depression and putting it upon the organized and systematic basis that other enterprises rest upon. We see in coperative marketing the first and most solid hope for accomplishing this. We look upon it as sensible ! business-like effort^lo incrlfnse " cultural prosperity and think that farmers should join with each other in this enterprise. If you haven't joined, don't stand back and let your I "neighbor do litis work for you. Cooperative marketing in our opinion, is here to stay, and we are al! going to benefit by it. Therefore, don't wait until tho last drive is made but join I in now with your neighbors and friends and sign. "It has been reported that the credit of farmers might be injured if they joined the marketing contract. Don't be afraid of tliis. for if you existed under the old plan which has caused so many to lose their credit we assure our customers and friends that their credit will not be injured with us in the least account of signing the markting contract nor do we believe their credit will lie injured with any other husines institution. "Cooperative marketing spells prosperity to all of us, and we want to see the county sign up 100 per cent strong''. ii.Minwrf: at boii.ing spiuxuk. ?:? i The readies' School Improvement i league of Moiling Springs school will give a barbecue on Saturday, September 2, at the school house. Ail candidates are invited to he present. The proceeds arc for the benefit of thej school. IIKUI*: FOK A DAY. United States Marshal S. J. Leap-! hart came in Tuesday afternoon lroni ! Charleston to spend a day at home. ' Mr. Ueaphart is kept very busy at^ present and returned to his duties In j Charleston Wednesday night. I'lllSCIliliA (Til H. The I'riscilla club will be enter- | tained Thursday afternoon at;4:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. II. A. Whitten . THANKS. The Dispatch-News fbrOe is indeht| ed to Mr. Van Wihgnrd for'a fine watermelon. Mr. Wingard raised I some fine melons this season, some weighing as much as 64 pounds. BOX HUD It CLUB. Mrs. hi. K. Mitchell will entertain j the Bon Heur Club Friday afternoon j at 4:30. V,. Death Claims Great Inventor ? % ? Sydney. N. S., Aug. 2.?At Hup?$l on Friday on the crest of Belnn Brcagh mountain, the body of Dr. Alexander Graham Eell, who died this morning at his summer home will be burled in a spot chosen by the inventbr of the telephone himself. i The grave of the venerable sciential the immonaity of whose life work wnf attested by scores of telegrams which came today to the Bell estate from the w nrl <1'? nrnminpnt fliriirps. la nt .1 point overlooking the town of Baddeck, Capo Breton. The sweeping vista from the mountajj -i top, so admired by Mr. Bell streclies,.far-"ovei the Bras d'or lake: sunset, chosen at the moment when the body will become forever a part of tho sturdj hills, gilds the waters of the lake until they are really what their name means?"the lake of the arm of gold.' Alexander Graham Bell lived to see experiments which he began with ? dead man's ear less than 30'*years age result in a means of communicatlor for millions of long distance telephone conversations dally in all parts of the world. The possibility of talking over a wire, ridiculed then as a dreair by almost everybody except Bell, became during his lifetime a reality commonplace and marvelous. Tho Bell basic patent, known in the records at Washington as No. 174, IC5 has been called the most valuable single patent ever issued in the whole history of invention. There are to day over 13,000,000 telephone instru ments through which billions of telephone conversations are carried or each year. Bell spent three years in- nigh work in a cellar in Snlem. Muss. Hi: m.oney needs were mei L-y Gardiner G Hubbard, hia future father-in-law and Thomas Sanders, the owner o] the cellar. As he worked he begai to see the possibility of eonveylni speech over an electrically charged wire?the telephone. He used a deac ma.u>.oar-fcw ^.transmitter... Jj. ; . "If r can make u deaf mute talk,' Hell had declared. "I can make iror talk ." His first success came while testing liis instruments in his new quarters in Boston. Thomas A. Watson Hell's assistant, had struck a olocl< spring at one end of the wire, and Bel was electrified to hear the sound ii another room. For 40 weeks the instrument struggled, as it were, foi human speech. Then on March 10 1876. Watson became almost insam with joy when he heard over the win Hell's voice saying: "Mr. Watson, come here, I wan you." On his 29th birthday. Bell receivet his patent. It was at the Centennia exposition held at Philadelphia, tw< months later, where men of scienta the world over who had come to ex amine and study the numerous inven tions exhibited, saw Professor Bel give a practical demonstration of th? transmission of- the human voice b; electricity. / One of the curious things about tin invention of the telephone is that Bel knew almost nothing about electricitj when he started. He knew a grea deal about acoustics, though, and tIn formation of the human organs o speech and hearing. Bell was eallec to Washington once when he was ii tho slough of despond and took tin opportunity to call on Prof. Josepl Henry, who knew as much about electricity and the telegraph as any mui then alive. Henry told him he hai the germ of a great invention. "But." said Bell, "I have not go the electrical knowledge that is neees xary." "Get it," said Henry. Bell did get some of it?enough. "Had I known more about electri city and less about sound," he said "I would never have invented the tele phone." KILLS ALLIGATOIt . Mr. W. S. Shealy, living ubou seven/ntiles from Lexington near St Matthews school house, killed an alii gator last Saturday weighing 5 pounds and measuring ('? foot 4 inches It had been near the house interfer ring with Mr. Shealy's chickens an was less than 200 yards froin th house when killed. The alligutn had been shot several times befort the healed places showing. GOOP '^ftuMENT ijf IiEXINGTON. * The total enrollment for the coming primary il? Lexington county was 5,517., the latest in the History of the county, jjb'ithose enrolling about one-sixtmnsijre the newly enfranchised V women. men enrolled about as .heavily aa'hOretofore and the increase due to tjve women who took ad van' tfcge of theVninetoenth amendment to j the constitution, and who will partici- j 111 jwnmig ?iecuons lot* tnoir 1 first tiniOi. t '/The entailment by preeincts will bo | published next week The eott'cfy campaign will open next 'Tuesday fit Summerland and metings t will bo hteldifrom time to time until 9 H9N* * ' Che CO.untjfrJias been covered. The folr lowing1 ljiiat^feo- has been arranged , for th>. candidates: Summerland, August 8*,:WlilJam8 Cross Roads. August r 10j .,BrooW.',,August 12; Saxe Uotlut. . August 12,'night; Summit, August IB; s Pond Braneh, August 17; Chapin, ? Augupt ISJ^Pellon, August 22; Swansea, August'24; Brookland, August 2G. > L The time"for filing pledges to enter , the primary.will expire next Monday , at nfion. -r ?? NORTI^BDISTO DOTS. NO. 87. r ?' >T? e .v , The health o fthis section does . splendid. We haw Just had another trash moving ra^jj? Mr. a'fftrfi. M. J. Jefeoat visited their mother, Mrs. J. J. Bans, ^ Saturday afternoon also Mrs. Charlie 5 Glenn is up- from Charleston visiting - her mothei", Mrs. J.J. Barrs. K , 'My. Grj|nvylee Spires was home * Saturday Jtnd I aid Miss Iva Craft a pleasant <au Saturday night. Mr. Clifton Klrklnnd called on Miss 1 Viola Rutland-Sunday afternoon. 1 Remember services at Ebenexer church on Second Sunday morning at ' 11 o'clock apd fourth Sunday afternoon at .4 o'c'ock. i The meeting at Salem church last week was ,n success anil enjoyed by j all. We a?*e any the.*-Mi*. Shealy . is certainly'vitiing good work in the ( corn club at lldisto also Miss Caughnian is doing her best in the sewing j and gardening dubs. ' j NEWS FROM ST. MATTIIKWS. j j We have been having plenty rain for the past while. i ' Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Steele and r sons visited the former's parents, Mr. >aud Mrs.. A. D. Steele. Sunday. ; Mr. and rMs. Ollie Keisler and f children visited Mr. J. M. Keisler ! and family Sunday. I t Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Iveisler and little daughter spent Sunday at his j parents, Mr. and Mrs. .1. A. Keisj ler's. y Miss Oil-lie Keisler spent a short ; j w hile Sunday afternon with Misses . Mae and Lessio Crout. Quite a nuni_ I her of lolks from around here attendj | ed the Children's day exercises at ? Pleasant Hill Saturday. y Mr. and Mrs. Webster Steele visited his brother, Mr. S. 1,. Steele at 5 "Lexington, Sunday. 1 Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Crout and son. Callison, spent a short while t1 Sundav .afternoon at Mr. J . A. Keial e lers. fi Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Mi-Cm-tha 1 ! worshipped at Bnoii Sunday. i| Messrs. J. D. McCartha and W. b J H. Keisler and families attended coni ferenco at JCazareth last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. s. S. McCartha and i sons spent Sunday afternoon at Mr. 1 Ollie Kyzer's. j Mr. and Mrs. l.ewic Price and t children visited Mrs. I-. ice's father's. - | Mr. .1 . D. McCartha. Mr. Bodie Gillian spent Sunday i with Master Grover and Cork KeisI j lor. Mil. H.VIjIjENTINK Wllili hKAVF. I,K\IX(iTO\. I Mr. Jesse S. Ballentine. who for j some time has heen assistant manager of tlie Bank of Western Carolina, i t has resigned that position which took . j'effect Tuesday. Mr. Ballentine will _ | go to Johnston Monday, where he as7 sumestmanagement of the Edison * ' Motor Company. Mr. Ballentine has -'been a valuable man in xthe bank d here, and his place will not be easy e to fill. He has numerous friends r j here, both in business and social lite, who regret that he is leaving:, but who J wish him well in his new place. JkW jft V iJv-> 'V Annual Rally Center Union Large preparations are in the mak ing for the Center LTnion rally on Sat urday, August 5, at which time thi people of Lexnigton and some fron outside will be treated to a clay o pleasure and profit. This annua event, which, was started in a smal way several years ago, has grown t< bo one of the largest gathering staged in I^exington county each year to which thousands of people go l^ast year there were in attendant upwards of 2,000. and a still larger as semblage is expected this year. At each annual gathering speaker of wide experience and reputatioi are on hand with a message wel worth hearing and the coming even | will lie no exception. To date thre< j men of known ability have acceptei invitations to be present and delive addresses. Mr. D. C. Badger of the Unitei States department of agriculture ha accepted an invitation, and will speal on "Dairying." Many of the people o this territory will remember hin pleasantly, as he has addressed Lex ington audiences on former occasions Mr. N. K. "Winters, also of th United States department of agricul ture, will be present and spenjt o "Soil Building." Both of thes j speakers are experts in their line.' and will bring messages well wort! hearing. The other one who has acceptei | the invitation to take part in th I program does not need any introduc ' tion in Lexington. lion. A. Fran! j Lever, a native Lexingtonian, wh I represented this district in congres for a number of years, and later wa a member of the Federal Farm Lou board, and at present is president o the Joint Stock and Farm Loan ban of South Carolina, will address th gathering on "Farm Credits". Wit men like these, with hroad visions an a good knowledge of general condl tions, the people are assured of a da of ijrofit ^ ' I ^ Aside from the wfceech be served a picnic dinner. NEWS FROM ROUTE 5. The health of his community is fin at present. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Caughman an family, accompanied by Mr. Caugh ' man's mother from Columbia spen the day with Mr. and Mrs. W. A Smith and family. Miss Louise Steele entertained th Sewing Club Friday afternoon. Mrs. Roberts is spending a whi* with her daughter, Mrs. W. A| J Smith . Mr. \V. L. Itawl. Misses Loui^ Lindler and A Hie Haltiwanger ai Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Smith from P. gah Luther League attended the d?_ trict conference at St. Stephen's Su_ day. Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Evans, aceof" panied bv two lady friends *rcy^ Batesbnrg spent Sunday afterno with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Smith. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Cline Taylor, ai children spent Sunday with Mr. at | Mrs. Oliver Smith and family. | Mr. and Mrs. Sidney McCartl ] spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. nnl 1 Mrs. Ollie Kyzer. ' Messrs. Harold Roof. Harold an J Asbury Smith and Miss Mary Loi | Caugh man visited Misses' GenevieV and Duvall Smith Sunday evening. j Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Smith, M 1'arlile Smith and Miss Grace De i worshipped at Bethel Sunday. I Mr?. W. I., itawl and little son. S I t .f. visited the former's parents Su: day. M A.I . M . I). IIA KM \ N HONORED I i j We notice in the organization ( | South Carolina Division of lf. C. y I that W. A. Clark. Columbia, Majot General Commanding, has appointe on his stuff, M. D. Harman. Assistar j Paymaster General, with rank c Major, who will so be obeyed and rt j spected. C1III.I) BREAKS ARM. Little Jack Calfison, the two an I one-halt year old son of Solicitor an Mrs. T. C. Callison. suffered , broke.n arm late Tuesday afternoo ! when he fell from a ladder whil [ playing at the home of his parents The little boy is doing as well as ooul I be expected. ?^ ' ' BATE8BU RG N KWS. Children's day was observed Bunt day by the pupils arid teachers of St. Peters Sabbath school near town. The exercises consisted of songs, recl_ tationa and addresses by the pastor, _ Dr. V. Y. Boozer, and others. The a superintendent, Mr. Berley V. Shealy, i is. doing a good work in this school f and his efforts are meeting with sue- t 1 cess each year. This church Is prob1 ably the oldest in this feection of the 3 state. ? Hon. ?Holly Li. Harman, referee in the case e( J. T. Perry vs.Mrs. Sal lie Mabus and E. It. Mabus, was in e town last Wednesday talcing toatl- ^ -1 mony in the cane. Tlmmerman & (iraham represented the plaintiff and 3. E. L?. Astyftl, the defendants., 1 I Rev. J. M. Kneeco", a well known , ) " | pastor of the Baptist denominatlo* I and a former resident of this town bat.": s lor the past few yens living at Eoos3 ville, died suddenly at Steodman Satr urday morning where he had gone to represent his church at the Union d Meeting benig held at that place. He a had heen in failing health for a numc 1 ber of years but his death came as a f j severe shock to his family and friends. * II | He was about Go years of age and had - resided in this section all his life, i. The remains were interred tri tho e Batesburg cemetery Sunday afternoon _ in the presence of a large crowd of tl j relatives and friends. The funeral p services being? conducted by his pas, tor of Leesville assisted by the pastor h of the Batesburg Baptist church. "THe is survived by his wife, several child* rr n and grand children and was a son of the late Jacob Ivheece of Aiken county, ^ Mr. Bee C. Gunter, a prominent n 1 business man of Ivnoxville, Tenn., ^V' 13 was here on a visit to his mother, Mrs. a U. X. Gunter, a few days last week, n Mr. J . Elbert Timmerman, ft f Johnston, spent Thursday and Friday k In town with his brother. Dr. W. P.. e Timmerman. h Mr. Ira C. Carson returned Mon- ^ 4 d day from a brief visit to relatives &? - Johnston. V ' Mrs. Holly L. Harrhan and children of Lexington visited -relatives If %^>Wedi^uyV-' 'l Mr. Watson Timmerman returned Monday from a business trip to Pleasant Lane in Edgefield county, his former home. e Messrs. L. C. Cullum and Eldridge Cullum have returned from an d extended trip to Washington, D. C. >1?nAtiY&?"rWdYieei?'"bvhe-quart jars I Bafe, Economical $8.75 al Prices Also on JD PRESERVING KETTLES / JARS, IDEAL GLASS TOP |i UBBERS, JELLY GLASSES ^ :tention to Mail Orders ; :ICK BROS. Columbia, S. C. ?, ioxt Sunday on Delightful )F PALMS ritlF FROM l.KXINf.TON, s. c. ' ootl (July 011 Train ingtoii 9:32 P. >1. Saturdays [ . via Columbia urlcston 7:55 A. M. Sundays igood leaving (Charleston 5:15 p. m Sun- |j Monday following date of sale. No bag- 0 / 1 In parlor or sleeping ears. ? < K AND FROLIC AT TI1E SEASHOIIE? i ,(l Fishing and V.'ater Sports. See Historic i Moultrie and Sullivan's Island J it _ ?< hnd 1 ickets ?i ..iys and Sundays limited to reach original night Tuesday fallowing date of sale. hearing final limit October 31, li?22, now Seashore Resorts. Stopovers. For pari t i TICKET AtSKXTS i le | Mrs. t . T. tieorge will entertain i. 'the Ladles' Aid Society of Mt. Horeb d ' Methodist church Saturday afternoon | from 4 to 5:30 o'clock. I ' N . t