The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-11-21
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, November 21, 1906.
Irmo Items.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
Mylong absence from your columns
has not been due to my demise, as
you may have supposed, and this will
inform you that still live and move
and am ever at my post of duty-and
] move in the full sense of the word.
Lack of time to scribble for you, is
the cause of my delay. s
Irmo is at the same old place, and
the people are just the same-they
eat and drink all they can get and
wish for more, and are happy.
Mr.. J. M. Shealy has sold his mill
ing outfit, lot and building in this
town to Mr.. II. E. McEntire. Mr..
McEntire recently bought the J. S..
Meetze property in our town, and has
built neat cottage, large barn and
tenant houses and made other i'm
provements; he also owns and oper-
ates saw and shingle mill here.
Mr.. II. A. Lorick has added much
to his. dwelling by building thereto a
large two-story plaza, a cook Groom
and other improvements, and had it
all nicely painted.
Mr.. Ollie Bouknight has lumber on
the ground and will soon erect a res
idence on Depot street.
Supt. o. B. Martin has bought the
Lowry homestead of six hundred acres
adjoining our town and is opening one
hundred acres of fresh land, and will
make other Improvements. He and
others are looking after other home
steads and lands around Irmo and
may make other purchases. We are
glad to have these gentlemen cast
their interests among us, and we hope
to have. some of them make their
homes here. Nothing else does so
much to remove stagnation from a
community as new people with mon
ey, brains and new ideas. 1t takes
only these three to accomplish great
things, and we are beginning to
dream of what new people may do
for our community.
We have a fine school now under
the management of that very success
full teacher, Miss Mamie E. Crooks.
She has had long experience, is a
hard student and has kept up with
the times.
Mr.. Ed. Smith has bought the Nun
amaker house and lot here and will
continue to make this his home. Mr..
Smith is one of the oldest men in Sec
tion service on the G. n. & L. R. R.,
having been one of the first to serve
this company.
Mrs. Jesse Derrick's little child has
been seriously Ill. A few days ago
the child run. rusty pin in its foot;
blood poison set in and grave doubts
were. entertained for is recovery,
but at this writing the child is better.
The tent people are preparing for
revival here about NoY. 18th, to con-
tinue as long as good can be done.
Religion, like clothes, has to be of
many kinds SO as to fit all kinds of
people.
Cupid is trying to hide around here,
but we see signs of some of his ma
neuvers, and it will not be long till
he will emerge fully with his orange
blossoms and honeymoons. Cupid is
a shy, cunning little, fellow, and whis-
pers sweetest notes into the ears OF
his followers, but sometimes he de-.
ceives them, and it turns out about
like it did with the fellow who SAID
the first month after he was married
he loved his wife well enough to eat
her, and six months after he wished
to God he had eaten her, Or, like the
couple I heard of who had somewhat
tired of carresses and were quarrel
ling one cold morning when the man
got up to make fire while his wife
was still in bed quarrelling and accus-
ing him Of fooling her, and she said =
You old thing, l wish / had never
seen you'', to which he replied, "yes,
by God, you may lay dere and wish, I
dun git you now." H.
Irmo, S. c., Nov. -, 1906.