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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-04-26
Halfway School Cl0sing.'

The Halfway school, which was
taught by Miss Annie Louise Taylor
Of Lexington, closed with appropriate
exercises on the 21st instant, The ex-
ercises consisted Of declamations, dia-
logues and tableaux, the rendition OF
which was greatly enjoyed by the en-
tire audience.
After two or three. hundred people
had assembled the curtain was drawn
at 7:30 p. M, and the exercises, as ar
ranged on the programme, were be-
gun. They were immensely enjoyed
by the audience, and to make the &C.
casion more appreciative, there was
plenty Of good music, which was ex-
ceedingly well rendered by Messrs
Reckley and Lown.
To the delight Of the audience, Mr..
N. L. Shuler. of Columbia, made q
short address, which was quite appro-
pirate and well received. He was
scheduled as the first speaker, but pre-
ceded the valedictory address, which
was we'll delivered by Master Harry
Lee Klapman.
In conclusion, it may be said that
Miss Taylor did herself credit in thor
oughly training and instructing her
pupils not only for the closing exer-
cises, but for the entire session, and
it seemed as if patrons, as well as 9th
ers, took great deal of interest in the
accomplishments attained by the pu-
pills, which speaks well for the com.
munity. K.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-04-26

The cool weather of the past few
days has considerably damaged the
young and tender-growing crops.
Much cotton has been planted and in
some localities it is coming up. How
ever, with good weather conditions,
the bulk of the crop will be planted
this week. Small grain is almost q
failure. Especially is this true of the
oat crop, as the fly, little insect, has
attacked the crop almost everywhere.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-04-26
Play Ball.

On next Saturday afterno n Al $3.50
o'clock the "Red Cocks'' meet the
"Chapin Stripes" on the L"xin,;ton
diamond at the county fair grounds.
Nh admission fee of 10 aid Is cents
vii. be charged to meet the expenses
Ladies free.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-04-26
Gone 60 Clemson.

Hon. Isaac Edwards, member Of the
House from this county, is s"onding
few days at Clemson, toye rr with
the other members Of tnr ".,.'s and
Means committee. The 'r'r';'tee is
the guest of President W. =. E.;Ggs.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-04-26
Going Away For
Cancer Treatment.

Our good friend, Mr.. W. A. Good
win, of CASTOR, leaves today for st.
Paul, Minnesota, to consult special
ist in the treatment Of cancer. We
sincerely trust that the treatment will
be successful and that Mr.. Goodwin
will soon be able to return to his
home.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-04-26

Gary Gist, t9-year-old negro, was
sentenced at Spartanburg on Friday
by Judge Wilson to be hanged the
26th of May for attempted assault.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
Fought For Life High in the Air.

Lawrence, Mass, July 28.-Women
swooned and men shouted in excite
ment this afternoon while hundreds
watched two steeplejacks, one Graz
ed by the heat, battling for life on top
of the $50 foot stack on Kunhardts
Mill.
After a struggle of Is minutes on
the top of a fragile scafford in mid
air, Patrick Jennings 35 years old,
of Lawrence, succeeded in subduing
John ~Cavanaugh, five years his senior,
who had suffered a sunstroke. Then
without losing his nerve, Jennings
lowered himself and Cavanaugh to
the ground. Jennings was at work
a few feet from the top of the chin
ney, when he noticed that Cavanaugh
was i'll. He climbed to the top and
spoke to him. AS he did so, Cava-
naugh, with a maniacal cry, leaped to
the edge of the platform. Jennings
and Cavanaugh struggled to and fro
on the platform, while hundreds, at
tracted by their swaying forms,
watched the battle from the ground.
Finally Jennings strength told, and
he bore C~avanaugh to the floor not,
however until several times the fight
ers barely escaped tumbling from the
top.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
Gown a Home in Laurel Park.

Own a home in Laurel Park is
getting to be a slogan here, almost
certainly it is now an expression ia
miliar to most visitors and citizens of
Hendersonville.
"A part of the "most beautiful natur-
al park in America" has been sub
divided and placed en- the market as
home sites "r 0pla of discrimina-
ticn 97d reiceme~t, and wise build
iEg st ;HtiCrs 5sure the perma-
ne-cy f I aurel Park as the highest
les 7 dc. :ial 7ark in America.
AlreahY {. large number of home
Fi-es :" TIE ark ave been sold to
7oCnle ,tCr1inent in the business and
social wo-lds of the South, all of
HON are more than satisfied with
,ei7 investment and many of whom
Lave improved their property by the
erection of handsome residences.
AS is generally known. a home in
Laurel Park may have all the con-
veniences of a city hcme-electric
lights, telephone service, etc. In ad-
dition tc these ordinary comforts, "a
benef1cent nature has given home
owners in Laurel Park certain favors
which money may not procure in the
CITY DIT any price.
Water from any enc of the wonder
full and unfailing springs in the park,
=" i~"et9r"o may he piped into any
home built there, and the waters of
Laurel Park, similar precisely to
those of the famous Poland Springs
in Maine, are too widely celebrated
fer their crystal beauty and perfect
purity to require any comment here.
Then there are the thousands of
giant oaks SO many years in the
growing, the strange and unique rho
~dodendron thickets, the ten miles of
perfect roads, the countless beauty
spots scattered all over the great es-
tate. All there for the enjoyment of
those fortunate ones owning a home
amidst their delights, all as fully
theirs as though owned by them alone.
1t is the purpose C. Mr.. w. A. Smith
to develop Laurel Park as the high
est class residential park in the
South, and an excellent start in that
direction has already been made. 1t
will undoubtedly be the means of
drawing a large and most desirable
class of people to this city-people
of means, taste, culture, who will ap-
preciate the advantages of a home in
the park that has made Henderson
vile famous.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
All Gods Flowers.

The flowers got into a debate one
morning as to which of them was
the flower of God. And the rose said:
II am the flower of God, for 1 am the
fairest and most perfect in beauty and
variety of form and delicacy OF fra
GRANGE of all the flowers" And the
crocus said: No; o are not the
flower of God. Why, 1 was bloom
ing long before you bloomed! l am
the primitive flower; l am the first
)ne." And the lily of the valley said
modestly: Il am small, but l am
white perhaps 1 am the flower of
Sod" And the trailing arbutus said:
Before any Of you come forth, |
Pas blooming under the leaves and
nder the snow. Am I not the flower
If God And all the flowers cried
ut: mo; you are no flower at all.
You are a comeouter." And then
Gods wind, blowing on the garden,
brought this message to them: Lit
flowers, do you not know that
every flower that Gods
call, comes out of the cold
lark earth, and lifts it's head above
he sod and blossoms forth, catching
the sunlight from God and f1inging it
back to men, taking the sweet south
wind from God and giving it back to
others in sweet and blessed fragrance
do you not know that they are all
Gods flowers ?"-Lyman Abbott, D. D.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
Thoughts In Passing.

If a man feels that he has The con
fdence of the public he knows about
how a horse would feel if it know ii
was Il favorite in the betting.
The average man ) very proud or
hearing his wife tell the neighbors
that she only spent IS cents for the
material in her dress, but he cannot
help feeling worried over the glance
given by the same neighbors, as if
thew thorght he were stingy.
The widest of all reformers is the
n who wants to reform the reform
ers who want to make public speech
es all the time.
We wonder what became of them
We have never read an obituary o.
a biography which stated that Mr.
So-and-So was one a lightning roo
agent.
You can be just as happy, even il
you T poor, as the man with many
millions, and you would be, too, if
he didn't have the many millions.
The other morning we tried to talk
to a man about rebates and he walked
away, saying he was tired of fish
stories.
We pity The man who is
ciated to the extent that his wife doer
not believe his smoking on the porch
will drive away mosquitoes, and that
he really smokes to keep the mos
quitoes away from her fair skin.
To decide a bet, will someone tell
US if it really helps the music Cor q
band conductor to swing his baton a.
he does
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
INFORMAL HAIL
TO PRESIDENT

Baltimore, Md, July 80. Hello,
Mr.. President called a young wo-
man as a big black touring car passed
its way out Fulton avenue to Druid
Hill Park shortly before 5 O'Clock
this afternoon.
Rising from his seat, President
Taft (for it was he,) took a handker-
chief from around his neck and waV-
ed it with a smile. From that time
On until the a left the southwestern
section CT the city about an hour
later on it's way back to Washington
the President frequently acknow-
legged greetings from the crowds of
pedestrians along the way. Major
Archie Butt and Private Secretary
Hilles, were in the car with the presf-
dent and a second car containing Sc
cret service men, followed a short
distance behind. Two cars left
Washington about 3 o'clock and came
to this city by way Of the Washington
Baltimore boulevard.
On the return trip the party had
to stop at a garage near the park for
a supply of gasoline. Someone in
the crowd cried "speech!" but the
president shook his head, made a bow
and smiled.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
Western States on Verge of Famine.

Louisville, KY, July 3O.-The states
of the middle west are on the verge
OF a fish and game famine, according
to Edward Cave, editor of Recrea-
ton, who stopped in Louisville on his
way through the central part of the
country.
He was the guest yesterday of a
local sportsman with whom he talk
ed conservation of fish and game.
Indifference of the rank and file of
the population to the need of protec-
tlon, growth of p%oulation increase of
intensive farming and absence of
wild lands explain the dearth, he said.
Thorough organization of sportsmen
is the only way to solve the problem,
he declared. East and west. of the
central belt, he observed, conditions
are more to the hunters and fisher
mems liking.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
NEED
ROAD TO S. c.

"A good road to Greenville,'' said
one of the best known farmers Of
Henderson county this morning,
means more to the farmers than to
any other class of Henderson
county's citizens.
THE reasons for this he continu-
ed, ARE toe plain to require repeti-
ton, almost but to mention the most
obvious one can do no harm.
South Carolina is the one best
market for Henderson county pro-
duce. Witness the endless stream of
wagons headed that way every fall
n you will readily understand that
the farmers realize this fact.
Their products may be sold there
In a wider market and at better prices
than those prevailing here. Hender-
son county products sold in Green
vile means a good big profit for the
farmer taking them there, even I'M
der the present truly terrific road
conditions. Give them a good road
ever the mountain, with easy grades,
n as a business proposition, it be-
comes twice as attractive.
n SOOu TCAu 10 means
that they will be enabled to haul a
much larger load with much less wear
J and tear on their stock and wagons,
and they will make the trip in quicker
time and under greatly improved con-
ditions.
1T is to the farmers interest,
more than to any other one class of
our people, to boost this highway by
every means within their power.
Hardly one in this county but could
! afford to subscribe literally to the
fund being raised for that purpose.
Certainly not one can afford to stay
away from the Good Roads Meeting
to be held in Henderscnville on Au-
gust 18th.
Its merely a cold-blooded bust
ness proposition with the farmer. A
good road to his logical market means
a greatly increased return on his in
Vestment- He can afford to do every
thing within his power to aid the
Highway, and if 1 know anything
about the farmers of Henderson
>H"ptv, apdN ! think l do, they will be
found business men enough ia realize
lie impc, lance of the opportunity here
presented to them"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
Hicks Garren Seriously Injured b.
Freight Train.

Young Hicks Garren of this city
was run yer by a freight train about
1000 o'clock Saturday near Hot
Springs, N. c., and was so severely
injured that he will probably die.
From the best accounts attainable
it seems that he was attempting to
swing the train and fell off, when he
started to rise from the ground
where he had been thrown one of the
bumpers of the car hit him. His
skull was crushed and the blow was
so serious that no hope is entertain
ed for his recovery.
The young man is we'll known in
this city and the accident is deplored
by all those who knew him.
Mr.. Garren is about % years of age
and has a wife and one child living
here. He is a nephew of eff of
Police Garren and a brotL1a -iI-law
of Mr.. B. B. Jackson.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
Memorial for Or. s. &. Kpapp.

Raleigh, N. c. July 30.-A South
wide organization was perfected here
Yesterday after a preliminary meet
ing IN Washington, to erect a memo
ria to the late DR.. Seaman A. Knapp.
organizer of the farmers cooperative
demonstration work. A statue or
bust is to be placed on the grounds
Of the department of agriculture at
washington, Replicas are tc be
erected in the agricultural colleges of
each state.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
SHE MARRIED LOVER
BEHIND PRISON BARS,

Kansas City, Mo-, July 30.-In or
der that she might better work for
the freedom of the man she loves.
while he is a prisoner, in Kansas
City, Kans., Miss Nora Carpenter, of
Norton, Va, was today married in
the Jail to Edward Baker, serving a
six-months sentence for a postoffice
robbery.
Miss Carpenter met Baker when
she went to the jail with a woman
friend to visit the l~atter's husband.
awaiting trial on a charge of highway
robbery. That was two weeks ago.
Other visits followed and Thursday
Baker proposed marriage. After the
marriage Baker went back to his cell
and his wife returned to the home OF
her friend.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
@TOO SHORT Between DRINKS.

Salina, Ken, July 27.-Ex-Gover-
nor R. B. Glenn of North Carolina
spoke at the c~hautauqua here on
Men and Women and the Nation. .
He began his address to two thousand
by saying that although he was the
governor of North Carolina, he was
not the governor to say TITS, a long
time between drinks He pleaded
for the upbuilding of the boys and
girls and Punishment of LIQUOR. The
North Carolina law which places pris-
oners to breaking rocks and building
roads was recommended. His state
mas the best highways in the coun-
try. he said.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
NOTICE

RAMSEY & STATION have just re-
turned from the market where they
made heavy purchases in various
kinds of Merchandise. New goods are
now daily arriving at our store. You
will find US located in the D. S. Pace
brick block east of railroad track at
Southern depot. Call and look over
our stock of Dry Goods, nice White
goods and various kinds of nice Dress
Goods. Also a large line of Notions
of various and sundry kinds. We are
pricing u goods astonishingly low
fort he simple reason that We bought
them low. And we are going to give
our friends and customers the bene-
fit thereof. 1t will pay o to trade
with us.
Respectfully.
Ramsey & Station
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
MADE CITY OF

How San Francisco Missed Glorious
Opportunity in Rebuilding After
Fire.
In every city the cry or regret for
the mistakes of the past is heard.
says the Survey. But what if a city
built on the hills-a city of sunshine
and sea-given b~reezes, swept clean
by fire, to be built new in this TWEEN
tieth century? Surely the builders
would grasp their unriValed oppof-
tunity. What is San Francisco's re-
pIy-a city of small homes, a city Of
gardens? No. A city Of tenements-
Looking back to April II, 1906,
sees whole districts covered with
small houses, vine clad, fragrant with
flowers. On April Is the fire swept
the city, and before a month had
passed the builders were at work
Fast they built. Shelter was needed,
expediency and desire for gain were
paramount, and the smoking ruins
were covered with poorly construct
ed buildings, several families crowd
ing into a space adequate for me-.
In less than a year thoughtful men
and women realized that San Fran
cisco vas face to face with a housing
problem and that no law existed to-
check the increasing abuses.
Inflated land values based on earn
i-r canacitv of a small lot covered
by & three-family building in place
of the former cottage have induced
much of the rapid rebuilding of San
Francisco. For not alone in the
poorer districts, but in every quarter
of the city, apartment houses, fats,
multiple buildings of every type have
superseded the single family house.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
a in California.

Sacramento, CAL, July 29.-Bu-
bonic plague, transmitted by ground
squirrels, has appeared in California
and caused n death thus far. The
reported is that of Horace
Flood, z years old, of Contra Costa
county, who died Wednesday after
being scratched and bitten by a
ground squirrel. The report of the
death was received here today by DR..
F. W. Snow, secretary of the board of
health. This is the first case of hu-
infection reported within a year
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
AWakes After los Dars.

Vandalia, Ill, July 3O.-After Sleep
ing almost continuously for 1O5 DAYS.
MISS Hazel Schmidt, the 18-year-old
girl whose strange case has puzzled
physicians for weeks, was awakened
for v hours today and ate three
meals. She she felt nc i'll effects
from her slumber. Attending physi-
clans say the girls trance is broken
n that she will soon be herself
again.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03

Mr.. w. Ragan of Atlanta, Ca, was
here for a short while today, leaving
On one of the early trains.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-03
First Bale Georgia Cotton Sold For
25 Gents Pound.

McRae, Ga, July 26.-The first bale
of the 1911 cotton crop to be market
ed was brought here today by e. ].
Smith of this county. 1t weighed an
even 500 pounds, was bought for rs
cents a pound by T. w Booth.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-07
DYING MAN MAKES
A GRIM STATEMENT
s.
Shields .Assailant Saying if
Lives He Will Get His
Revenge.
(National News Associatfons

CHICAGO, Oct. 7.-George Bryant,
dying at the county hospital today, is
believed by the police to hold the Sc
crets of the TAXI bandits" who have
been charged with score of robberies
in the last four months and who are
suspected of Staying Fred Wenner-
strom, a chauffeur whose body was
found in the Fox river near Carey, Ill.
Bryant was shot as he stepped from
taxicab in the downtown district A
male companion in the machine fired
the shot and then, with the chauffeur
made his escape.
The wounded man was declared by
the police to have a record as pick
pocket. They suspected that his as
sailant was Dayton Red" Creighton
who is recorded at the detective bu-
reau as a burglar and pickpocket, but
Bryant refused to give them any in
formation. The Taxi bandits have
caused a reign of terror among chat
feurs and the proprietors OF saloons
and roadhouses.
After Wennerstrom's death it was
suspected that he had been the driver
of the bandits pirate car" and was
slain to seal his lips.
"If live I'll get him; If die he can
CO. said Bryant today when the police
asked him to name his assailant.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-07
APPEALS SENT OUT,

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. All
Turkey is anxiously waiting the reply
from the latest appeal which has been
made by the Ottoman empire to the
outside powers for intervention. Di.
rect appeal has been made to King
George in England, based upon the eff.
feet which long drawn out and
bloody war might have upon Englands 8
subjects in Egypt. The menace to
marine traffic in Eastern waters is
also pointed out as we'll as the con-
tinual possibility of uprisings in the
Balkan states which would embroil
Europe.
In the event of an adverse answer
it was intimated in official circles
here that nothing would remain for
Turkey but to fight to the bitter end.
In fear, based upon former interna-
tional rebuffs, Turkey is continuing
her war preparations. The first di-
vision of the Turkish army has now
been mobilized and equipped for ac-
tual service in the field. The govern
ment has commandered all the ship
possible for the transportation of the
troops.
All Turkish forts along the Dardanel-
les have been strengthened.
An answer is expected to the late
Turkish appeal within ~ hours.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-07
WATER SUPPLY FOR
INFIRMARY WAS UP

Attention was paid to the subject of
. better water supply for the county
infirmary on Saturday morning by the
county commissioners. Plans to eth
er tap springs near Jackson's hill or
install hydraulic ram. which will
supply water in adequate quantities
for drinking, wash and flushing pur-
poses, are under consideration. The
expense in either instance will be
about $1,000 the board has been told
by Engineer Jack Mueller.
The water will be piped from the
hill to the reservoir on the farm.
which holds an enormous quantity of
water. While the force of the water
hardly would be sufficient in case of
fire, without the installation of some
other machinery. it would be sufficient
for the more ordinary purposes. But
10 far as fire is concerned the commits
sioners declare the buildings are SO
constructed az make them practically
nre proof.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-07
DEPUTIES PROTECT
AN ITALIAN BRUTE
To Save His Life Assailant of
Woman Is Taken from
White Plains, N. Y.
(National News AssOciation)

WHITE PLAINS. N. Y, Oct. T.
Guarded by armed deputies VINO feared
an attack by a mob Antonio Rosa was
taken from Jail here to Golden Ridge
in an automobile today for arraign-
ment on the charge of attacking Nora
Good. Miss Good identified Rosa as the
man who dragged her from her bicy-
Gle in lonely spot, known as Rock
Cut. Rosa was arrested by deputy
sheriffs and hurried TO White Plains
in a Inctor car to tosscpuc1sposssotkM
CRY farmers. who vas searching fyf
him. Miss Good was found unconsci-
GUS near the road. She is in a serious
condition but will probably recover.