The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-05-15
PENCIL And SCISSORS.
Wayside Notes Gathered Here and
There by a Dispatch Man.

There by a Dispatch Man.
Dusty.
Today cotton is quoted at Z cents
The cry now is, "On to Memphis.
Send dus anything you want printed
The farmers are chopp;ng out cot
ton.
Lexington is blessed with little
sickness.
Little later and we will have plums
and paragoric.
Mr.. John J. Taylor has very sick
little daughter.
Stick to your business, not some
body elses affairs.
Better make penitents by gentle.
ness than hypocrites by severity.
When country man feels blue he
can go to the city and look green.
The "S8eet Girl Graduate" is bud.
ding and will soon be in full bloom.
Strawberries on our market are
bringing 10 and 12I cents quart.
Sunday was an ideal May day, and
the fair sex were out in full force.
Complaint still comes from all sec
tions of bad stands of corn and cotton,
Work on the new church building
at Midway is progressing satisfacto-
rily.
Green peas, radishes, lettuce and
other garden truck now adorn the din
ner table,
Lexington will be represented at the
reunion of the Confederate veterans
in Memphis.
When you need job printing of
any kind call and see our samples
and get our prices.
A young man need not hesitate to
'pop" because it seems like cues
tionable proceeding.
Some people have peculiar taste
for more than one man is known to
have swallowed tiger.
The weekly crop bulletin shows
that drought extends pretty much
over the entire State.
Old Sol is settling down to busi-
ness and is bringing the sweat from
the brow of The farmer.
Mr.. David George has accepted a
job with the olympia mill in Colum-
bia and left last Thursday.
The reputation Of Lexington as a
cotton market is uDrivalled by any
other town in the State.
Mr.. Edwin Folk Strother, Esq ,
prominent young attorney at Bates,
burg, is in town today.
Contractor Gus Lorick is building
a neat fence around the Masonic
property on Church street.
The students of the P. G. l., are
practicing for the commencement,
which comes eff May 26 27.
The best line of blacksmith and
wheelwright maierial, at T. B
Aughtry & Co.'S, Columbia.
Tomorrow is Ascension day, and
according to custom every body who
can do so will 60 afshiDg.
Clerk Samuel B. George made a
flying trip to Peak Monday mixed
with business and pleasure.
The summer swallows are prepar
ing for their annual flight TO the
mountains and the seashore.
The average woman is too delicate
to shoulder o musket; but nobody
questions her right to bear arms.
The waist shirted man and tbs
booted women are two of the pro
ducsions of the twentieth century.
Every violation of truth is not only
a sort or suicide in the liar; but is a
stab at the health OF human society.
There will be divine services in st
Stephens church tomorrow morning
a. II o'clock. The public is invited
A movement is on foot by Dixie
Lodge No. 50 I. O. O. F. to organ.
izs lodge of Daughters Of Rebecca
All indications point to rain. but
as all signs fail in dry weather there
is no telling what the outcome vii
be.
Ii any body tells You something
evil about your brother abhor it tee
much to repeat it; but tell the COCO
you hear of him.