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^aam^mM FINAL ARRANGEMETS FOR SOLDIER PICNIC Will Be Held at George's Pond, Thursday, August 21, 6 to 9 P. M. Final arrangements have about been completed for the picnic which the people of Lexington will give in honor of their returned sailors and soldiers. The date for the picnic was ' set once but the event was postponed on account of the excessive rains. The committee on arrangements have de, cided -to hold the celebration on Thursday, August 21, from 6 to 9 p. m. at George's pond. Prominent speakers Iwill address the assemblage and a brass band has been engaged to provide music for the occasion. Citizens of Lexington have contributed to a fund to provide the necessary refreshments, but the housewives will be expected to furnish baskets of eatables for the soldiers. It is expected that a large crowd of people will be present to extend a welcome to the brave boys of Lexington and vicinity who responded to th? call of the nation in the hour of peril and who bore their part in the fighting yhich added new lustre to the military history of the United States. The committees in charge of the entertainment are as follows: On Organization?J. D. Carroll, W. E. Humphries, W. E. Sawyer, J. A. Barre, John T. Sox, S. J. Leaphart, S. Annie Caughman, Miss Vera Corley, Miss Cecil Barre. / On .Refreshments?Mrs. Karl F. Oswald, Mrs. E. G. Dreher, Miss Annie Caughman, Miss Vera Corley, Miss Cecil Barre. * > " On Program?T. C. Callison, John T. Sox, S. J. Leaphart. On Arrangements?W. E. Humphries, J. A. Barre, W. E. Sawyer, Robert Cook, Sim J. Miller, Mrs. S. J. Leaphart. ? OAK GROVE FAIR AUGUST 20. N Fourth Annual Event Will be Best Elver Held?Occasion to be Featured by Big Parade, Presentation of Popular Play, and a Barbecue Dinner. . Too four-it? annum conin-.unir fair. under the auspices, c-f the La'-ivs' School Improve-m. ni i. erne m t-ak Grove, vsiH ue heid at oak Grove school house on Wednesday, Aug. 20. The occasion will ' be featured this year by a big parade in the forenoon, good "speeches, and a barbecue dinner. In the evening a popular play entitled "The Bride and Groom*' will be presented by local talent in the school auditorium. Light refreshments of all kinds will be served by the ladies. The Oak Grove fair is the oldest community fair in Lexington county. Located in the rich fertile truck "section, lying midway between Lexington and Columbiia, the exhibits are always of a very high character. Everything is shown that can be produced out of the soil by progressive farmers, together with magnificent herds of cattle, mules, horses, sheep, goats, hogs, and farming implements. The ladies of the community also take rroo t nri o ^ in tmt tt-i r? cr r\n i *'AV I". ^ W Vii V4 | everything- that is made in the home and at no fair is the handiwork of woman shown to better effect than at i the Oak Grove fair. Oak Grove fair will be in the big contest for first place at the county fair in October, and it goes without saying that the people of that community will have a most creditable exhibition at their annual fair next Wednesdav. J i CALOMEL DYNAMITES j A SLUGGISH LIVER | Crashes Into Sour Hilc, Making You Sick and You I.<>></ a Day's Work. Calomel salivates.' It's mercury. Calomel acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver. When calomel comes into contact with sour bile it crashes into it, causing cramping and nausea. If you feel bilious, headachy, constipated and all knocked out, just go to your druggist and get a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone for a few cents which is a harmless vegetable substitute for ' | dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful j and if it doesn't start your liver and | straighten you up better and quicker than nasty calomel and without making you sick, you just go back and get your money. If you take calomel today you'll he sick and nauseated tomorrow: besirlps it mav .salivate vou. while if VOU 1 take Dodson's Liver Tone you will wake up feeling- great, full of ambition and ready for work or play. It's harmless, pleasant and safe to give to children; they like it. ft-'s .... Y. M. C. A. REPORTS OX WAR FINANCE Ot' $125,262,859 Received in Two Years, $97,817,085 Was Expended in War Work. New York.?The national war work finance committee of the Young Men's C?%ristian Association reports that of the ?125,262.859 received by it between April 26, 1917, and March 31, 1919, $97,817,005 was expended, leav ing a balance estimated to oe sumcieni to carry on the work here and in other countries until December 31. Slightly more than 2 per cent, of the total funds contributed by the American public was expended for religious purposes here and overseas, while approximately 80 per cent, was devoted to the* purchase, transportation and distribution of canteen supplies and j to entertainments, education and ath- I letics. Besides free athletic supplies, the j association distributed overseas $36,- I 832,449 worth of merchandise, about 5 per cent, being- given to the soldiers free, not including overseas Christmas gifts and entertainment worth $651,963. More than $30,000,000 was spent, in the home camps, raore than $43,000,000 with the American expeditionary force, and $14,409,175 with the I allied armies and war prisoners. The association lost $1,478,0S4 in j the operation of army post exchanges j and canteens, and because of depre- i ciation of French and English cur-j rency values the conversion of the j overseas figures at market rates re- J suited in a book loss of $2,432,089. j Three war work campaigns for funds ! obtained $123,254,052 from the pub- ' lie, and this amount was augmented | by money from other sources. TENT MEETING TO CLOSE AT BALDWIN SPRINGS j ! I The tent meeting which has been in progress at Baldwin Springs for some time, will come to a close Sunday, Au- I gust 17. Rev. Harvey Danna, who has i been conducting the meeting, has j been very successful. Large crowds i have attended the meeting and many conversions have resulted. I Jap Dyes Booming. * ? : ~ ~ x? 4,-u^ ^ 4.-u ^ i inuring uic penuu ui tut- wui mc; artificial dye industry in Japan has j gone forward rapidly and now there j ! are rrcro than 10.000 fa'-nn <?<s in on- : I i nation. ; ???o-*. | sPKcrvr. ;"?m: .\\i> s*:kv chick. \vc arc oif-rne ?rly ' mr>cr ? a?jr . seed for late planting at a special j price. This is a quick growing va- j riety and makes excellent food for; stock. Call early. j Harmon Drug Co. ! it. | CREASON': Formerly of CREAS< Phone No. 1 i 54 COLUMB We are ready equips on any make of car Work. We do notl CARS-That's Our B Come in and Let: Oil Mills and We have a large stock c complete with Frame ma Also lot of Cotton Truck; We carry everything ir Gandy and Leather Belt. Jacks, Pumps, and Celine of our Special Friction you service almost equal COLUMBIA J 823 West Gervais Street 1919 Shoes and Slippei THE KIND THAT WEARS EASY AND LONGES We are better prepared to ser our Lexington friends from a lar, stock of dependable Shoes f "dress" or "every day" wear in ; The "Family Shoe Store of ( Farmers' Medium and Hea E. P. & F. 1710 Mainee j FREI) WEED PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME j Dutch Fork Farmer Suecuml>s to Acute Indigestion After Having Attended Picnic. Mr. Fred Weed, a prominent Dutch Fork farmer, died sudeniy at his home near Irmo on Saturday night, ' - :? ? -Ai - -1. /V n /". ? 1 ir*/Uornc_ i lOHOWlIlg (111 ILLlclUhL UL <x\s uic niu ifo^o- | tion. Mr. Weed had attended a community picnic during- the day and was apparently in the best of health and spirits when he returned to his home. Late in the night he was suddenly stricken and. died before medical aid could reach him* Fred Weed was a son of Mr. Frank ! Weed and was 37 years of age. He [ was deservedly popular and his sudden death has caused a pall of sorrow | throughout the community, j The funeral was held from Union Chapel church at 11 o'clock Monday, and the interment followed in the church cemetery. j THE RUSSIAN MASSES AND BOLSHEVISM New York.?That the Russian masses are slowly but surely awakening: to the fact that bolshevism is an autocracy of revenge, hate and ignorance more oppressive and cruel than any which they suffered in the past, was asserted by Roger C. Tredwell of J the United States consular service, in j a discussion of Russian affairs before ! the Russian Economic League here, j Mr. Tredwell was for six months a J prisoner of the Bolshevist government j and arrived in this city a few days I ago. Mr. Tredwell said one of the great troubles of the Bolsheviki was that they did not work. They were paid by the State and argued that so long as they got the money it would be foolish to Work. He told of alleged Bolsheviki atrocities, and said the Bolsheviki war not only against the bourgeoisie, but also against the poor peasants. He said he himself had seen Red Guards robbing poor peasant women of little sacks of flour that they were trying to take to their Wliero Husbands Wear W'cditlng Rings. The women in Brazil have not equal suf'rage, hut they have an equality with the men of their country which >- ri' ?.r*, h\ " r * . Ol'th Alt in sisters. All Brazilian hush. and generally unv uv a plain gold hand, the same as that | worn l-y wives in the I'nited States. ! The women in Brazil unanimously are J of^the opinion that this is about the . last word in equality. I 5 GARAGE ON & BOUKNIGHT 1829 Main Street ;IA, S. C. >ed to do anything and Guarantee All ling but REPAIR usiness. , s Get Acquainted - - I Cotton Mills if Cotton Beam Scales ! xle bv Howe Scale Co. i - e i the way of Rubber, v y Large stock Pump :lers. Try us on some Surface Belt; will give to Leather Belt. SUPPLY CO. COLUMBIA, S. C. I all leathers and sizes. Columbia." vy Work Shoes a Specialty A. DAVIS COLUMBIA, S. C. FORMER LEXIXGTOXIAN MAKES FIXE RECORD Prof. Arthur F. Harman Completes Course?Expeeted Here on Visit. Mr. and Mrs. M. D. HarmaYi are in receipt of a letter from their son, Prof. Arthur F. Harman. superintendent of city schools at Selma, Ala., that he has just completed a ummer course at Columbia University, Xe\v York city, and expects to arrive in Lexington, August 20, for a visit to his parents. Prof. Harman graduated from Peabody College and for the past ten or 12 years has been in charge of the city schools at Selma. He has taken a r Boys And i- W Hand Grei Weapons originally designee an Th 9 I / ^ ^ IV ^ s | / v ! ^ssis*^ J U ' DESCRIPTION This is a real hand grenade wi the percussion cap and high explosi" removed. Several of these "eggs," : the soldiers called them, were carri< by each soldier for use in clearii the enemy out of the trenches, throw around crooks and bendo trenches, into dugouts, or into m chine gun "nests." The loaded band grenade was n dangerous until the rlug and pin hi been withdrawn snd it had thrown with a lotating movemer This spinning set a trigger free, ai on impact, the bomb exploded, dri ing the small squares of steel wii force enough to kill everything wit in forty feet. The War Department turned tl grenades over t? the Treasury D partment after the signing of tl armistice and the banks are distri uting them to help cultivate habi of thrift among school children. Fill out this thrift agreement boys and girls, this :?5 a busin ^ r I m"1" I Ti I * I accept this hand giv with the understanding tin money that I can save in tli time to time before school o Stamps. I understand th ings Stamp the hand grer remains the property of t will return same to the ba Name Address j wee 1 Hand ( The Hoi LI 'high rank in educational matters in I j Alabama and his example has added j | great stimulus to work of developing i the educational facilities of his adopt-j j ed State. At the recent final examinations at , I Columbia University Prof. Harman's j papers were rated among the 12 best ' j among a class of 112. His former J friends here will be glad to welcomo j him home. I Wn/\n/)nn/>r i n/1 VTnrv> *'V C*|A/1?UV4*V J iMI\? JW|rv* Despondency is ingratitude?hope is God's worship.?Henry Ward j Beecher. One strong point of many a woman 'is at the end of a hatpin. [ Girls--Her< rVar Troph; lades Now Savfa 1 to blow up German trenches wi rl Pvtrnvfl^ranrtA hv gnVinnl rViilrir* ere's One For Y ^iS ii v%^ -^v-^ - V th . vre by J ^ he and take it to any of the banks ess proposition and you must fu L J OIIT'T A <H IP- T^r-~Tpiyi iitir .a. Abri^iL'iiiviiid^ nade savings bank, loaned me b; (insert i^siTic or Bsnk) it I will do odd jobs during the ie grenade. I will bring it to the pens, and will invest my savings ii at when I have saved enough t< lade becomes my personal prop* lie bank. If I do not earn the gi nk. Grade t ~ " I Jrenade Banks can be obtained ne Nation? EXINGTON, S. C FIRST BOLL OPEX COTTOX COMES IX SATURDAY Mr. W. T. Craps of Gilbert Brings Staple to Dispatch-Xeves Office. The first boll of open cotton seen in Lexington this year was brought to The Dtepatch-Xews office on Saturday by Mr. W. T. Craps, a progressive farmer of the Gilbert section. PICNIC POSTPONED 4 The picnic and children's day which was to have been given cn the 16th by the people of St. Peter's church, Meetze's, has been postponed to Saturday, August 23. An interesting program; has been prepared and it is hoped that a large crowd will attend. e'sAReal y !; i . - - - 7%/V ' i igs Banks I -i % ill be hurled against waste 1 ui r. ' M ou 1 A wupe/tT, [1 \ of HiwJ! -1 jv^?^ j ^ijpijl Jl? S' * * '" * * S rc*> '?&! Q t3: os. s>< * i Yi ^ f ~ ' ST I * S r *.? ^V.Jg:. ik J; -Y ' ^V'Jl I J yj CONDITIONS r -,^'v 1. One grenade to be loar * ' the bank to any child unci .r \ venteen years of age signing | e Thrift agreement. 2. It is to be opened by the < ,nk, when presented by the ild, and Thrift or War Sav- j gs Stamps given in exchange r the contents. ' J 3. It v*ill become the property the child as soon as he has us purchased through the ' nk one or more War Savings amps (maturity value $5.00 ch). *. ' $ 4. The bank is to fill out and j re to the child at the end of e vacation period (if a school ild) a certificate of his sumn* savings in order that he ly present same to his teacher d get credit therefor in the ! ar Savings Society now or reafter organized in his grade, j 1 ; listed below. Remember, lnll all conditions. rm | n I ' ' ! I i summer, keeping all the bank to be opened from j 1 Thrift and War Savings o purchase one War Sav*rty. Otherwise it still enade by Oct. 1, 1919, I School i 'ostolfice f i from: a I i I \Jm