The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-10-04
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, October q, 1905.
A Dish, Of Hash.
T. K. L. cures neuralgia.

T. K. L. cures neuralgia.
The cheerful giver has no need of
press agent.
The Summer Girl has gone into
winter quarters.
Life is what we make it-3eath
the way We take it.
You can always see good bargains
when you sre broke.
Some men mistake their moral
dyspepsia for religion.
In q few days the County Treaeur.
or will be ready to receive your taxes.
Some men are sorry for the poor
only when their own pockets are
empty.
It seems that this town will be lit
BY electricity about the time Gabriel
blows his horn.
People who look on life as a joke
seldom see any laugh to it when the
real point comes.
The man with millions can never
understand Why men with jobs should
60 out on 8 strike.
R;ch,and county is preparing to
vote on tho question OF ''dispenssry
or no dispensary."
There is some complaint about
wells giving out on account OF the
long continued drought.
Percy w. Pvbus ran an automobile
ever Branch Lewis, Jr., aged 8. in
Atlanta on Tuesday, and killed him.
The farmers certainly have had
fi1e weather in which to gather their
hay and peavines and to pick cotton.
The trustees of the Presbyterian
College of South Carolina have de-
cided that the college will remain at
Clinton.
September has given us some OF
the hottest weather we have expert
enced in the same month in num-
Der of years.
G w. Walker was convicted at
Covington, Ga, on Monday of wife
murder, and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for life.
The cotton gins throughout the
comfy are running day and night.
and they find it impossible to keep
up with their work.
Now that cotton is coming in mon
ey is becoming to be more plentiful.
In the days of thy abundance re.
member the poor printer.
Last week was live business week
and considerable cotton was brought
to market. ALI the merchants seem
ed to be getting their share of trade.
Arthur McFadden shot and killed
George Bnrgiss at Cades, Williams
burg county, on Monday night-both
colored. A woman was the cause of
the trouble.
Dnring the past week there has
been decided change in the weather,
and we are not enjoying condition
that is not too cool nor not too hot
just pleasant. -
The farmers all over the State are
passing resolutions endorsing the re.
quest of the Southern Cotton Asso-
citation to hold their cotton for eleven
cents per pound.
It would not surprise us if cot
ton reached Is cents before the end
of the season. In union there is
strength srd in combination there is
the root of all evil
The entire business block west of
the public square, in Bennettsvile,
except the Planters bank building,
was consumed b7 FIRE on the night of
the 29th of September.
One regro was killed, another
mortally wounded and four others
were more or less seriously in row
at q negro church near Kathwood,
Aiken county, on Sunday.
Tie biggest log raft ever con-
structed, containing ten million feet
of lumber, will be towed across the
Pacific Oceap, from San Francisco to
Shanghai, China, this fall.
It is probable that the people of
Bennettsville will build and estab-
lish a first class up-to-date college in
that town. The money and valuable
real estate 70 do go ia in SIGHT.