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^ II " " " ! LEXINGTON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY JULY 17, 1918. ^ No. 38. VOLUME No. 48. ? ItfiV Tr 1nl-f "fc m I ? r ! << ' _ ; JOHN L McLAURIN. l:i ' SN RACE . <*: Pfe; Marlboro Candidate Issues Siate^ meat From Richmond Hospital ? '. J To My Friends: I see no good tO! i>e accomplished by my remaining in ' f -the campaign and desire to release: iyou from such obligation you may! feel as to my support. j fl am discouraged that my purpose j seems so sadly misunderstood and my | J i motives so wilfully misrepresented. j What is the use when only 18 minutes are allowed to present great Iplj issues? 1 did not offer as a candidate because of any personal ambition. My desire was to serve. Primarily it > was my hope to unite a conservative ~ ^element in both factions upon a pro;gram for building a system of finance based upon cotton which would render ^ our section forever rich and independent I have given ten years of my life and spent much of my means in .spreading the propaganda. Its fruits are visibe on every hand, but I despair of ever making faction ridden South Carolina a leader in a great movement of this kind and shall make no further attempt so to do. The warehouse is merely a fundamental incident in a system of finance. The real basis is the coversion of all securities which represent cot . ton, made Or to be made into fluid assets which will pass curent in the money markets. Wrhen you do this the marketing question will logically solve itself and it can never be solved except by the firm establish-ment of a system of credit, where the i pound of cotton is the unit, and as! .good in one man's hands as another's.! It will never be done by voluntary organizations; it can only come "through the government, and to secure that Dolitical control is neces . > -sary However, as the people are more, interested in other matters, I see no* reason for dragging myself around the State in a vain effort to help people who do not wish to be helped. Being a side show to a third class coun. i try circus does not appeal to me. John Lowndes McLaurin. ' ^ : ' CANDIDATES FOR U S SENATE AND CONGRESS SPOKE IN COLUMBIA , The campaign meeting, at which candidates for the United States senate and congress from the Seventh . district spoke, was held in the county ^ourt house in Columbia last Saturday, and was attended by about 400 people. James F Bice and Mat B Dial were the two candidates for the senate who spoke. Mr Blease did not speak in Columbia, but spoke at Little MoMutain Saturday afternoon. The candidates for congress present were Hon. Geo Bell Timmerman. of Lexington; Thos G McLeod, of Bishopville; and Thos F Brantley, of Orangeburg. A letter from Mr Lever was read stating that it was impossible for him to be present. The -other three candidates sDoke and wer5 well received by the audience, Tim'i merman and McLeod receiving most gk of the applause. All three candidates attacked Mr Lever's position claiming that President Wilson had urged him to reenter the race for g| congress, after having definitely an nounced himself as a candidate for gTHE BEST TONIC YOU'VE EVER TAKEN" R- we'll buy it back at full price ? H^Jmproved Nux Vomica and Iron - Double Strength?No exfl^?ep3?ve required. Contains Iron ggSSagflB^; Nux Vomica IT'VT: n eh '2/'"h P * *i -41* : V 11C -1 C. ? 2 C 3 ; ^ IS NO LONGER FOR GOVERNORSHIP ; TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS j OF LEXINGTON COUNTY: i I ??j Your attention is called to the faci j chat the time for enrolling in youi I voting precincts will expire on the 2S day of this month You cannot vot( in the primary election, if your name ~-1t A 11 J 4.. is not on tne ciud ron. Attenu un: at once; It is important! During" the present crisis, it is especially necessary that we take an a( tive interest in elections and in al public affairs. Our democratic forrr ! of government is on trial. Now a5 'never oefoje is our opportunity tc demonstrate not only the right of the people to rule but the ability of the people to rule even under thi most adverse circumstances i Our duties as citizens must not lie I shirked; they must t>e sought; anc I they must be performed !One of thos* I (lut es is to prepare ourselves to e: ; ercise the right of suffrage; and ar j other is to exercise the right Find out where your club roll is j and put your name on it before th< j 23rd day of this month.The time U : do this is now. Geoge Bell Timmerman j July 17 1918 CHAPIN NEWS NOTES. I ' Messrs P M Lindler, R "VV M Elea| zer, Ethan Derrick and Claud Lind. ler are spending several days in thi "Land of the Sky." Mrs P M Frick is spendinng thi: -iirool- u,-it>? Vipt* Mrs_ N. Z [Sease in Columbia. Mr annd Mrs N F Frick and J W ! Fulmer and Murray Fulmer spent the week-end in Augusta. They wenl to see Mr and Mrs Frick's son, Cecile who is expected to go over the seas in a few days. Mr A H Fulmer of Hickory, N C came home to attend the funeral ot Mr Andrew J Wiggers on last Thurs. day morning. The members of Mt Horeb churcii will again worship in their new chur. ch on the third Sunday, which will be one year since they worshipped in the old building. The Red Cross Auxiliary is adding ; new members almost every day and I on the night of the 27th cf July there will be a public exerc.se by the chudren. a? v ell as an address by a w.V known speaker. Refreshments wii! be served. The Red Cross will bj | glad to have everybody attend; anc : by so doing help our boys in the tren. ! ches. ANNUAL RALLY AT CENTER. The Tenth Annual Farmers' Unior Rally of the Center Farmer's Unior i will be held on Saturday before th( ! first Sunday in August of this year ! The unbroken custom of past years 1 of having a big picnic dinner will be : followed this year, and it is expectec 'that this meeting will be the largesl j in the history of the Union. It ha: been the policy of the Union since i first started its annual picnic gather, ing of its members- to have speaker: cf note present to address the farm : ers upon purely agricultural ques tions, and an effort is being mad; this year to have some of the leadin, agricultural thinkers in. the Soutl present in August. Full notice as tt ; the list of speakers will appear nex week. The Center Union of Lexingtoi ; County is one of the eldest branche; of the Farmers' Union in this section , and from its first ogar.iration inter est in its work has never waned. I has been the policy of its organizer, j to steer clear of politics, factions an< ! evey form of "ism" which too fro ; quently creep into any movement up | on the part cf farmers for mutu?. ; benefit and uplift?a policy whicl ; has been singularly successful in th< work of Center Union. It is a farm ! ers' union in the full significance o : that term, and the success it has at ! tained in its'section has been geneva I ar.d advancing. A complete pro ! grume will be given publicity later . and in the meantime invitations havi i been extended to some of the stronj est agricultural minds in the soutl to be present and address the meet j ing. !. CHILDREN'S DAY AT MORES There will be Children's Pay ex) cise:;" at It crab church Sx urdny Jr."; 20 beginning at 1! o'clock m Th public is cordially invited to alien; Diane.- v:iil be served at the ch-jrc! i ihalf hundred i go to camp 9 Lexington Boys Left Monday for Camp Waasworth, J Spartanburg, Instead of Jackson. ;i -1 - - - - - i . ^ii 3J A half hundred young wnite men, an j i |'called uicier the selective draft, lefc on ,1 Monday for Camp Wadsvvorth, Spar[itanburg, for mil ta'y seryice. Those 11 who left were: Frank Lawson Swansea. : Elton Hartley Batesburg. [ John Wesley Lybrand Swansea. Enos Adolphus Long Lexington. 1 Boyd Hollis Leesville. John Boyd New Brookland Ruben Aaron IJutto Leesville. Harry Sturkie Swansea. * i Andrew Jackson Hyman Swansea. Artemus Milton Arnold Lexington 1 James Clifton Lucas Swansea. Rufus Godfrey Wise Swansea. 3j Andrew Stone Bateseburg Jj John Pettis Lowman Gilbert. ) j Hilton Rosecrand Yonce Pelion. Thos. Newton Grandy Swansea. Wilbur Rodgers Gilbert Victor Cordie Shealy Lexington. Freddie Anderson Gilbert. Morton L Amick Leesville. Colie Mayfield Shealy Peak. E. Quinton Shull Lexington. Sammy J. Freshly Columbia Rt 2 ; Ernie Albert Price Gilbert. Charlie Wilbur Price Gilbert. Archie Lee Joiner Pelion Ollie Tuner Stoudemire Reeak. Julian Eugene McCartha Gilbert Willie Edgar Seigler Leesville. Henry Joseph Roland Edmund. John Samuel Metz Irmo. Archie David Keisler Lexington. D. Magnus Somers Little Mountain Tally M. Drafts New Brookland. Arthur Melton Huffstetter Chapin Elmo Moorer Swansea Lonnie Talmage Barley Swansea Jacob Owens Shealy Chapin 1 Henry Harvey Wingard Lexington Oliver Davis Hallman Leesville. i 1 Carroll Eddie Amick Brookand. ' Bennie R. Sturkie Swansea Ray B Bouknight Brookland. > Daniel Franklin Price Gilbert. ^ Thomas Ryan Livingston Gilbert. Oliver Crumwell Crout Gilbert ( Willie Lee Lindler Chapin. Jan es Monroe Dav Glibert. I Charlie Andrell Rose Leesville 5 Henry Virgil .Haitiwanger Chapin. Sam Perry Bickley Irmo. MRS HOOK DIES AT EASTOVER HOME i FUNERAL SUNDAY ij Columbia July 13. ! a na i jj luxa. iuai cua n. agcu uii:u | . 1 at her home in Eastovcr in Richland i 31 county, last night at 10 o'clock.The | 31 funeral services will be held from! l j Good Hope Baptist church, Eastovcr t!of which Mrs. Hook was a member Jtomorow morning at 11 o'clock. t i Mrs. Hook was the widow of the .late Jose oh S. Hook, who died seven * s; years ago. She was Miss Martha A. .! Lorick, daughter of the late John Lor . | ick of (Lexington /county. She ?s 2: survived by Dr. L. M Hook, S W Hook *' Miss Mamie Hook and Mrs J A Bvrd > j i! all of Easton. i 31 Mrs. Hook was a devoted Christian t! woman, a life-long member of Good, j Hope Baptist church and is mourned ij by a large circle of friends and fam- j s'ily connections. Columbia Record * r Subscribe to the Dispatch-News, i I * J | I Enroll Or 1 f| I V-0^ t < v rjyfnnroowJWgiMwr MI -I I jBooks are Now Open at I [Unless you place your n; IjjBofore July 23rd You i & n a 'elec tion. i ] j ?! DON'T WAIT. : 1 k i - {a i i fct | ,) '.vj' t f f *' 2,000 HEAR BLEASE AT It, MOUNTAIN SATURDAY. -Richard?, Wightman and Domineck Speak Charleston American By JOHN K. AULL, COLUMBIA, July 13.?Two thou, sand people attended the Reform cam paign meeting held at Little Moun. * _ _ t ~-c XT^.-. tain, in uie luwer 5t;ctiun ui i^cw. berry county near the Lexington line this afternoon, and the county of his nativity where he lived and labored until his election as governor of South Carolina, after having held the highest offices within the gift of his home people, enthusiastically re-endorsed former Governor Blease and the entire Reform ticket which the party has presented to the people in the primaries this summer. The meeting was not as large as that held at Wagener yeterday, for the reason that it was not as central a gathering point, but it ranked third in at tendance among the campaign meetings of the Reform party this summer and was some ten times as large in point of attendance as that which was held in Columbia today at the postponed meeting in the regularly appointed senatorial itinerary, attend ed by Messrs. Dial and Rice. The Little Mountain gathering was representative of the two counties of Newberry and Lexington, and it was a spontaneous expression of reform sentiment, and one of the most emphatic denunciations which a repre sentative gathering of the masses of the voters of South Carolina has yet flung into the teeth of the defamers of the Reform party. There was no other occasion for the meeting except the desire to hear Mr. Blease and his compatriots, and this *is the reason that the immense crowd which gath ered is so significant of the result this summer. It was simply a Blease-Re form outpouring:, indicative of the tidal Reform movement which is sweeping the state. Richards and Brantley. Major John G. Richards, candidate for governor: Mr. Wightman candidate for lieutenant governor: Fred H Dominick, candidate for congress from the third district, whose first home was also in that section, and Thomas F. Brantley candidate for congress, from the seventh district j made addresses which were cordially received, and each of them was given a cordial reception. Mr. Richards urgd the principles of the Reform party as he has been doing throughout in his gubernatorial campaign, and emphasized the necessity for the reduction of taxes, if the state is to i be saved from financial ruin and cited hi i record in favor of free scholar; z'.u::* in : h.vc institutions. SHCAF?GIBSON i.iiss Grace S'.ioc.f of Columbia and i-.r Gibson of New Brookland were married Monday at the Methodist parsonage by Rev Foster Speer \Tiec i'c oif irr hi P vounv lady of Columbia. Gibson is a member of the National army stationed at Sevier and has a large circle of friends and relatives in this county who extend their beest wishes The Textile Economy Company of Greenville has been commissioned with a capital of $30,000. ?fw^??jga????J???i Mill jj^ T-E I i I a i jS . s mi i in . ? *J {\M 4 ; Your Voting" Precinct] a ame on vour Club tlolljg) ' $ Cannot Vote at this! $ 5 I 'J ! \ .4 j 3 J?\TT>oT - \T-^r * < r.jj\ j.. w A.-1-j ^ ? . t,-; i J ] J vl V I V iVY.'J?Xiif*'r?T ' "*^"T ^ i ? I I 'SOLDIER BOYS MAI j PLEDGES TS BY Al'GH At the regular Session of the Leg. j islature for 1918, an Act was passed: providing for the enrollment of quali I fied electors of the State who were; absent from the State in the civil, mil itary, or naval service of the United States. The Act amongs't other! things provides: "That the enrollment committee for each voting club in the State shall before turning into the County Chairman the club roil for correction i enter upon a page in the club roll the I name of every qualified voter of the | district known to be absent from the ! district in the civil, military or naval | I - . ? . . ! service of the United States and not I ' ! I qualified to vote in any other club, i ! together witH his home address and; his last known address and the de.! i partment of the service in which he is engaged." Members of the enrollment Com-! mittee will please take notice of thej above quoted provision and before j t ! the books are closed on July the 23rd j ; see that the names of voters who, ! would vote at their clubs if they had I been at home are put on a separate ! page in the club roll Attention of the Executive Com. , mittee is called to the povision in thej 1 rules that the books of enrollment j ! must be closed on Tuesday July the; I i {-23rd, and that they must be in the; ' {hands of the county Chairman by Fri i 1 i day July the 26th on which date, a meeting of the Executive Comitte is i CONGRESSIONAL j ! 1T1NERY FIXED! i j ; i i ; | Seven-h District Aspirants to j Speak at Many Places. I * j At a meeting of the County Chair. I man of the Counties composing the Seventh Congressional District in Co lumbia on July the 15th the follow.! ing itinerary of the Congressional! i Campaign for the Seventh District; was fixed. Lexington August fith 11.00 a. m\ Swansea August 7th 11:00 a m j ; Summerland August 8th 11:00 a m, Chapin August 0th 11:00 a m. ; .\'ew Brookland August 10th at; i Night. j.... C. M EFIRD, ....! , County Chairman for Lex. Co.'' * I HOG WITH TWO LEGS j G W Jefcoat a well known farmer,! j of near Woodford was here Monday j] [and told of a freak pig he has at! home The pig is 2 months old and!< ! has two front legs perfectly formed ; I but no hind legs.The pig is hale andjr | hearty eats well and is rapidly growj ing to be a real hog. Mr. Jeffcoat; j says he will bring it to the County! Fair next fall j ^ f FINE SWEET POTATOES. Mr. W. P Kaminer, a substantial ^ . i __ i. . . j _ I + farmer of near i^ex in trior, orouym loi oa;- ofiiee Monday afternoon a lot of' the finest sweet potatoes we have; sevn this year. They were of the1 Early Triumph variotv and Mr. Kamijr iur has a I a rye patch fom the sale! f jf uhi-Oi he will realise a nice sum. ! I I V/E SERVE THE PUBLIC. I Evcryth'ny in druy.- and medicines.. < vc hove thAm. Ask Rice, Im knows' rhout it. tvrew years exnerier.ee. . B::UG CO. S ILL BY ' r TUESDAY VOTE-CAMPAIGN 3 8E FILED ST 1ST. called to be held on that date at Lex ington at ten o'clock a. m. In view of provisions of the Act above quoted, which was not known to the County Chairman, or members of the Execu tive Committee at their last meeting for the reason that the Acts of 1918, nave been published and distributed since that time; the Executive Com* nfittee at the meeting on July 26th will be requested to advance the time for opening th County Campaign to about the 1st or 2nd of August in or der that time may be given for print ing the tickets and forwarding them to soldier boys in time for the election on the 27th of August. This ad vancement of the time for filing pled ges by candidates need not effect any of the campaign meetings except the first. The Executive committee acted m fixing the dates for closing the enroll ment under ?he provisions of the Rules for 1918, but the sec. of the State Executive Committee wired me this (Wednesday) morning that the provision in the rules that the club rolls should be closed on the last Tuesday in July (the 29th) was an error and that they must be closed on the Fourth Tuesday (the 23rd) I urge every Enrollment Committee and every citizen in the county to as sist in getting the name of every voter on the club rolls in time. C M Efird, County Chairman MADE ANNUAL SETTLEMENT Comptroller General Sawyer Was Here Last Week. Gen. C. W. Sawyer Comp. Gen, was in Lexington Thursday July 11th for the purpose of effecting the annual settlement with the County Treasurer. County Auditor W. D. Dent had everything in readiness and Gen. Sawyer assisted by Mr Osbom an expert accountant soon completed their work. The Comp. j_ _ _ 1 a. ? J i... - ?C <-xen. congratulated tne county um? cials for their promptness and neat manner in which their books were kept. Below is a financial statement for State, County and Schools as appear on settlement sheets. State Charges: Total charges for State.... $54,467.55 Less deductions and abatements.... 740.58 53,717.9? Paid State Treasurer.... 53,606.81 "ash on hand due state.... 111.16 County Chagcs rotal charges for County.... $128,531.37 ^ess deductions and abatements 2,213.82 126317.55 ^aid county warrants, notes and interest 108,169.54 \vailable cash for roads, county ordinary and court house special.... 18,148.01 School Charges. rotal charges O;. schools 103,266.00 ,*ss deductions and ibatsrr.cnts.... .818.02 101.4-17.98 h>i:i school warrants. ounons ac.i bonci? 803,7.30.10 \ valh-hh: "aih fcr i ih jo! - * * * :>n 77^.88 4