The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, August 30, 1922, Image 8
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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TWO WATCHME> . '
; DOXE TO DEATH.
Aiken, Aug. 30.?Eugene Feaster of
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"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
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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-.
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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*
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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
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. 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
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