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HOPE FOR SUPERINTENDENT, j . The many Lexiagton friends of; James H. Hope, candidate for state superintendent of education will be pleased to no?te that he received in the first primary a sufficient numbei of votes to put him in the second primary with the present superintendent. . 25wearingen. In the first race. Lex , angton had a candidate in the person of O. D.- Seay, who was closely related to the people of this county. a.nd the others gave him a good vote; but since he was not able to go: into the second race, I think that out .people' could not do a better thing tv.QT? tr? stand solidly behind J. H. f f Hope. Mr. Hope was born and reared in a section which was formerly a \ part of i.exington county.. He spent ^ , several years teaching in the schools of this county, and his intere: ts in educational affairs are similar to ours. He was educated at Clemson college * and has taken extra work in the field r of education. He is eminently quali* iied' for the important position of . .state superintendent. He possesses $ groocf judgment and a sound discretion. He is well acquainted wit a the needs of our educational system? . from the smallest rural school to the university. He is ripened in experience and. is fair minded. This state has, fpr many years, been in ' -4 ' . .. ; the nanaa of a czar at the head of our educational system. This is a * democratic country, and we don't need any "bosses" in any department our covernment. When any man in public office gets to the place where his actions, indicate that he thinks he. knows it all,'it..is about time to retire hirti to the shades of private Ilile. The rights of the people are * :far and away above tshe opinion of -any one -man, and are of far greater importance than the political ambition. of any one man. I want to urge every voter in Lex'ington county to go to the polls September 12, and help elect a man from our own ranks. Mr. Hope is pledged to guard our interests, and I believe he will do so. Let's give him our solid vote in the Second primary! .v Lexington Voter. <>?<??? TWO WATCHME> . ' ; DOXE TO DEATH. Aiken, Aug. 30.?Eugene Feaster of i "Bath and J. Reedy Booth of Aiken were shot stabbed and clubbed tc 'death by six or seven men about 5 o'clock this morning at the _ Southern railway shops at Hamburg, when ' they had. been employed as nighi watchmen during the 'shopmen's r?trike. When the watchmen were founc v, .about ah h<^ur after the attack, Feaster was dead, but Booth was eonsciou: and was able to give some details o) the affair. He died a few hour: later at the University hospital ir Augusta. Fe'aster's body had beei riddled with bullets from a rifle, pistols and shotgun; three bails*from z high power rifle hlad passed tnrougr his left side and thei-e was a deej gash in. the right shoulder, severing the collar bone. This wound appeared to have been inflicted wit* some bayonet-tike instrument. Booth said after being shot through the thigh he feigned death to escape the murderous shots of their assail ants, who fired on Feaster alter he was down. Booth, after falling froir the shot, was brutally kicked abon the face and neck, the back of hii head being crushed in as from a blov from a rifle butt. He attempted tc crawl away from the scene after the men had left and had managed tc make about 20 yards when loss o: blood caused him to stop where h< was discovered by Special Agent Brit and others. He was immediately rushed to Augusta to a hospital. I was thought at first that he woulc survive, bu>t weakened by the loss o! blood and the terrible blow on th< head lie died at 0 o'clock. One or two clues have been dis covered but so far not much is knowr of the affair. About 4:30 a< in. tw< men walked into the yard and wen followed by the two night watchmen They were led outside the yards s short distance, where the four or fiv< -other men were waiting and wen fired upon with pistols. shotguni . .loaded with buckshot and rifles. Eugene Peaster was 34 years of ag< .and formerly resided at Graniteville He is survived by a wife and one smal child. J. Reedy Booth was 23 yeari of age ar i a young man of quiet ways and sterling qualities. "He resided witt his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs James BwKh. on upper Laurens streel in Aiket. He was a member of th< Aiken post, American legion. Funeral services for Reedy Boott will be* he'd tomorrow morning at th< First Baptist church in Aiken. Inter ; ment wilt take place in the l'amhy plo .tar Phill'opi church near Johnston. PERSONALS. Mr. W. fi. itarnmn, of Augusta visited the folks at his old home Sunday. Mr. C. F. Snyder and family, who have been on a visit to Col. and Mrs. M. D. Harman. their parents here, i returned to their home in Palmetto, ! Fla., Monday. Mr. John W. Roof, a progressive I farmer out on Route G, Lexington. | paid us a very pleasant call last Frij day and renewed his subscription. Mr. E. M. Shul. a good farmer on ' Drookland. Route 2, was in town.Frii day and while here dropped in and j paid for his paper. Mr. and Mrs. Norman LaMotte and attractive little daughter. Virginia, of 1 NOrtOlK. \a., art' visum*; .mi . a:iu Mrs. E. B. Roof and family. Mrs. Hattie Smith deal and sister. Mary, spent Saturday with their sister. Mrs. E. B. Roof. Look at the label on your paper and give it your attention if you wish to receive it regularly, j Mrs. M. B. Kirkland and daughter. Miss Winton, of Ridge Spring, after spending a week pleasantly with her sister, Mrs. J. C. Kirkland, have re} turned home. Miss Louise Roberts of Lexington r has returned home after visiting her cousin, Miss Eva Moye and Nettie Hook of New Brookland. Misses Virginia Fellows and Harriet Zobel of Columbia spent Monday with their cousin, Misses Eva Maye i ' and Nettie Hook, of New Brookland. Ann Bruce Clarke left Friday for Henderson, N. C., where she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Page. From there she will.go to Virgniia Beach and Washington, D. C., to visit her sisters, Misses Pearl anc Erin Clarke. Mr. Roy Stapleton of Jacksonville, Fla., was the week-end guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Clarke-. i Mrs. John A. Griffith and her two daughters, Caroline and Georgie, returned to their home in Edmund, after spending several days visiting relatives in Lexington. LOOKS LIKE BEST SEASON" IX YEARS ON GAME TRAILS, (By Morris Ackerman in The Columbia Record.) ? ' The hunting season breaks soon! L It looks like the best in years! , With the coming of Septembei . migratory waterfowl enter the open t list and other game follows in succesi sion. t Recent mild winters, game sanc5 tuaries and refuges, restocking, better ganie laws and more faithful obi servance of those laws will make 1922 . the greatest of hunting years. "VTieriratnrv wa tprfnwl r)np tr> the* ' * / E Canadian enabling act, are sure r.o be 5 more plentiful this fall thafi in years, x possibly in 25 years. This should ! bring joy to the hearts of the duck . hunters. t y Of big game the Virginia deer, the l white-tail is on the r^pid increase. ) In Canada moose hunting will be ai r good as it has been in the last 10 > . years. Grouse are plentiful and i hunting conditions look most favorable. i Xo More Game? Pooli!' i I've been knocking around quite e - bit on this hunting stuff and I refuse * to join those calamity howlers who i tell you that hunting is on the wellt known wane and that the only place i it can be done in "five" or any othei * term of years "will be in a natural ) history museum." There are too many J .'hunters in America who are sports> men . to permit this great country of t i Fisk All S s 1 Red Arrow : Fi i Lexington, S< I WHBBHBBHHH&flnHDHSJHBH ours to become gameless. Last year there were upward of 200,000 deer killed in the United States. In Canada the number probably was greater. Does that look as if the deer crop were going out of business? It does not. Deer are on! the increase in many places to such i an extent that the situation is grow-j ing more or less alarming. Especialv! :s this true in New DrunswicK ana New England. Plenty ol' Shooting. Last year there were 10,000 bear killed in the United States and probably double that number in Canada. In the United States S.000 elk were killed. Does that indicate that big game hunting is getting on the blink? Dig game conditions are getting better and outside of the eik and antelope problems the situation is all to the tobasco. Some states that were 'cleaned out' of game several years ago. state.' where deer were a curiosity, now have loads of game and conditions are getting better. New York and Pennsylvania have come rapidly to the front in this re spect. in Micnig-an ana Wisconsin the hunters bagged 40,000 deer last fall. California and Wyoming contributed about 15,000 each and York state another 10,000. Additional thousands were bagged in Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Vermont, Colorado. South Dakota, Oregon, New Jersey, Massachusetts and New / Hampshire. Deer and Bear. Florida, Mississippi and other southern states contributed quite a number of deer and black bear.. Over 500 black bear were killed in Pennsylvania and more than a thousand in Oregon. In Montana 5500 elk were killed. Louisiana and Tennessee gave to the sportsmen quite a number of deer and bear. Virginia, the mother of the white-tail deer, offers excellent deer hunting, likewise a fair share of black bear, especially in the Dismal Swamp region. Game commissions in every state predict that this will be the best hunting year ever. , Now is the time to plan your trip to clean up old Betsy, line your sights and fit your ammunition. ' If you are going big game hunting above ail things, do not delay in making immediate arrangements with your guide'. BATESRU RG N EWS. . . - : - The public road leading from th< forks of the roads at the residence ol Hon. McKendree Barr to the town o: Batesburg, has recently been put ir first class condition by the supervisoi / b and commissioners of the county. The road had almost been impassable foi some time. The side walk from Summerlanc 1 College to the depot has been workee by the town council this week and i; now in excellent shape. The wort was in charge of Chief of Police W. E. Duncan. -A negro was arrested Saturday ii town for storing whiskey on his prenv 'ises. t He gave ond for his appearance and was released. The negro, wh( brought the whiskey to town lived a Steedman, but when the officers wen to arrest him at his home, Saturday afternoon, the negro took to th< 'swamps nearby and escaped. Th< warrant for the arrest of the negrt was in the hands of Federal officer J L. Youmans, deputy sheriff West moreland and Chief of Police W. E Duncan. ' Mr. Joe M. Caughman, game war den, was in town Friday attending tc Tires 1 * I m 7nc g HACd | lling Station | Duth Carolina j official business. < Mr. P. J. Wessingx-r of New I i ' trookiand candidate for the legisla- i ture was in town Monday, shaking hands with his numerous personal friends. ] Mr. H. D. Wessinger of Chapin. 1 i 'candidate for county treasurer, was a i \ ic-it<~iv f\ tmvn Satnrdav. I Maj. Henry C .Tillman. a leading | 1 f lawyer of Greenwood, was in town j' Sunday. Hons. MeKendreo Parr and George ' i D>11 Timinerman attended the rum! paign meeting1 at Pelion Tuesday. Col. E. L. Asbill, tile well known attorney of Leesville, was here on legal business Tuesday. Cotton is beginning to open the past week and owing to the ravages, of the boll weevil the crop will be | short. Corn and peas on sandy lands j in places are aove an average while j 'in other sections the corn crop is i almost a failure. The election for cotton, weigher of this town has been ordered by the town council to be held August 29th. The date of the first primary. The same rules governing general elections will apply to the election of cotton weigher. Miss Ulanche Oxner has returned from an extended visit to relatives at New Brookland. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Atwell have returned from a trip to New York. Mr. C. E. Boland returned Mon day from a trip to Laurens c-ounty. Our town was well represented at the picnic Saturday at Hulon Sunday school, given in observance of Children's day. SAYS LEXINGTON* HAS SPEED TRAP. The State. Tourists from the North to Folrida and other Southern points will be advised by the American Automobile association to avoid Lexington county on ;trips they may make unless some' steps are taken to eliminate the "speed trap" in this county, according to a letter received yesterday by L. H. Thomas, secretary of the state 'highway commission, from M. O. 1 Eldridge, director of the Triple A good roads board, headquarters . at ' I Washington. ) : Mr. Eldridge forwarded a copy of j i a letter from A. W. Seaman, Brook-| i lyn, N. Y., in which Mr. Seaman bit-I terlv assails the" action of officers in Lexington county for "holding up" automobiles. Mr. Eldridge says he will have to advise all tourists to steer * . * 1 j 1912 ' If It u s ; a ) ) Harm I Over 50 Filled ! kvir of Lexington county unless the iractice of holding everybody is stopped . Will Confer on MatUr. Secretary Thomas said yesterday the matter would be taken up with the authorities of Lexington county n an effort to see if some improvement can not l-e made. Mr. Thomas believes the situation can be cleared up at it r the authorities of Lexington county have been informed of the general practice alleged to bi_- followed by officers. Mr. Seaman. in a letter to the editor of The American Motorist. a copy of which was received by Mr. Thomas, says there are "two unjustifiable speed traps on the roarl between Xew j York and Miami." Lexington is: named as one and Stewart, Fla., as the second. Mr. Seaman has the1 following to say about the "trap" in r^exington: "The first speed trap is just south 1 of Columbia. Going south you cross a bridge from Columbia into Ne%% Brookland, a little town of less than a mil'e through it, then to Lexington ten miles on a road which is chiefly through the woods, a 'few houses, however, have been built in recent years, a wide, fine road, with the exception of one curve, no serious bends. However, every bend in the road is called a curve. On this section is one of the worst speed traps in the United States. We were running through the woods, speedometer reading between 24 and 2 7 miles an hour, never higher than 28, no houses in signt, wnen a motor venicie irom one rear called for room, which we j promptly gave, only to be stopped by j "a man who wore a star as the only evidence, unless you call his gun slung over his arm. He claimed we were running 35 miles an hour and de'manded $10 bond. His receipt reads as follows: 'A. W. Seaman, A'ugust 2, 1922. Received from A. W. Seaman sum of $10 bond, R. G. Freshley.' Demand for Money. "He claimed that the legal limit was 15 miles an hour on curves and 25 miles an hour on straight of way. There was nothing to warn you of the! speed limit. The roadway was wide enough for four to drive abreast. No I suggestion was made as to when or i where you were to appear: simply the ' demand for the money, and forced by his gun and star. IV e had been warned further south to look out for a trap in Lexington, but we did not expect to find it eight miles from Lexington in the woods." in the D' u 'ho*c ^ ion Dri ! Rexall S ,000 Pres With Satis, i,i:xix</ro\. s. c. BATES BURG NEWS. H Batesburg, Aug. 23.?The Ridge Medical Association held its regular |H monthly meeting iast Friday evening at the office of Drs. R. H.f and W. P. Tinunoman. Many interesting cases were brought before the associat ion which were not only beneficial ^B to the patients but also to the mem- ^B bers of the association. Drs. R. H. and W. P. Timmerman, Ballenger. Burnett. Able, Black. Watson and Iiidgoll were present. The Baptist association ' met at Johnston two days last week and was largely attended by members from the different churches in the Ridge association. The Batesburg ' Baptist church was represented as delegates by Mrs. E. J. Hartley. Mrs. A. I. Ballenger. Misses Sallic Burton, Alice and Ma reel la .Jones, Rev. S. E. Wel chel, Ira C. Carson, J. W. Cooner, Dr, E. C. Ridgell and L>r. W. P. Timmerman. Dr. E. C. Ridge 11 left Monday for Jacksonville, Fla.. where he will spend a few days with his son. D. Eff Ridgell. His daughter, Mrs. Louise Ridgell Stodghill and husband Rev. Ralph Stodghill who have been residing in Jacksonville, since their mar'riage last winter will leave fov* ' Shawnee, Oklahoma in the near fu-. ture where Mr. Stodghill has accepted the call of assistant pastor of the Shawnee Baptist church. Mr. T. B. Quattlebaum of Williston was a visitor here Monday. BOX HEIR CLUB. The Bon Heur club will meet Fri day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock with Mrs. Sam P. Roof. I 50 I rw ? * ft PT a* N5 P> I > 3 Cfl S I jn > gg. O p. 1 2 o m ^ I ^ ^.3' v p 1 ?*3 tr ^ 1 il I g? f 1 CTQ ? g g 1 g>~F O- Oj 1 1 M mi i g Line v* 8 #/Y f A Ig vu "tore J BBSSE?n I I criptions I _ m II taction I HunuHnnraM mS i