The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1899-05-10
Swansea Doirgs.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:


the memory of the people.
H. r. G edwin is up to date and is
putting il French stones and a smut
ter to meet the demand for home
made bread. Mr.. Jas. J. Smith, ono
the faithful School Commissioner Of
this county, is doing the work for
Mr.. Goodwin. Mr.. Smith is a first
class mechanic aud the mill will run
most grand" This mill and the
one now open by Dazzling Huckabaa
FIVE miles east Of Swansea gives our
farmers an easy chance for getting
their wheat manufactured into first
class flour.
Weather is u little dry and Gotten
planting still continues with d rush.
William E. Bars has completed
his blacksmith shop and is ready to
do first class work and has convinced
his customers that he will take pay
in such things as they have for sale
and at good living prices. This is a
step i'll the right direction and Is just
aud fair to all parties. Willie is a
Lexington born and raised man and
says be expects to live, thrive, die and
be buried in the mother land.
Evangelist T,llman has been here
aud preached three sermons in the
Methodist church to increasing audi.
ences, but ON Sunday was summoned
to Alabama to the bedside of a sister
who is critically ill. Ga Sunday night
bis place was filled by the Presiding
Elder, H. Bascomb Browne. His
sermon fully sustaioed his reputation
among the people here.
Dr.. A G Lapgford has been spend,
ing several days here with his sor,
Dr.. John r. Lsngford. DR.. Lang
ford is a genial, aff4ble South Caro-,
lima gentleman. He was once a Lex
ington man and, like the rest of her
sons, has conferred great credit on his
mother county wherever he has gone.
ca ptain FRI nk Hartman, from the
Lexington section, is visiting his SOD,
F. Brooks Harmar, Of this place, He
is a Christian gentleman OF a high
order and is we'll known here by many
of those who once wore the gray and
had many opportunities OF witness
ing his fidelity as a soldier. They
who once 80 honored the gray scket
are passing slowly but surely over
the river to those eternal bivouacs
where the war cry is heard no more
and where no bugle blast will call
those gallant legions to conflict again,
where there will be no Union, no
Confederate flags and where no
Yankee nor Rebel soldiers" will AS
semble.
The people If Swansea are prepar
ing to entertain the Baptist county
Sunday echool convention on Friday
before the second Sunday in May. A
large roll of delegates are expected
and the citizens are ready with out
stretched arms to welcome all dele
gates aud visitors.
A thoroughbred Chester White
SOW has been added to the stock Of
the neighborhood, and an "all steel
wagon with tires four inches wide
and wheels 81 and 70 inches high
has been added to the vehicles Of the
ia, MS. 1t is a model Of DeatDess,
being lower is very convenient for
loading and unloading. The broad
tire is a certainty Of the future and
it's introduction will do more for
coed roads than all the debates and
resolutions Of all the Road Con-
crosses" that ever assembled. Any
farmer who will try q will soon ar
raien himself as a criminal for pull
ing bis poor mules and horses over
ploughed ground on his farm hitched
to an inch and a half tired wagon
These wagons are all steel except
tongue, "coupling pole" aud double
tired" The holsters and bed tieces
are hollow and the axles are made If
piping. 1t is guaranteed to carry
900 pounds. The ideal wagon of
the Western falmer is one with
wheels "a and 80 inches high and
tires six inches wide. But any height
can be gotten. They say" these
are farmers handy wagons and the
Yankee farmers will have DO others.
The lower can be gotten for So f. o.
b, all complete except body-the "a
and 40 wheels for $685., all COM
plete except body. The freight to
Swansea is S7.26. Add about six Or
seven dollars TO price and you have
about the cost for anywhere in Lex
iDgton. If any q prefers wooden
holsters and bed pieces he can get