The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-01-22
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Lemons, fancy lemons.
HARMON DRUG co.

Lemons, fancy lemons.
HARMON DRUG co.
Water works and protection against
fire is being talked Of.
For nice dried peaches, call at tie
Bazaar, only 10c per pound.
The post Office has moved into its
new Quarters on lower Main street.
| The smallpox scare has reached
| Lexington and people are being vacci-
| mated.
The farmers are making prepara.
sions to pitch their spring and sum-
! mer crops.
The grand jury of Lexington county
goes upon record as being opposed to
social clubs.
The early gardeners are preparing
to have their. early vegetables nipped
by the late frost.
It is stated that such warm January
as this one has been has not occurred
in over forty years.
| A large number of automobiles,
from Columbia and elsewhere were on
our streets Sunday.
Some rain fell here Monday night
just enough to water the earth and
assist growing vegetation along to-
ward maturity.
Dr. R. G. Killingsworth, Dentist,
will be at Pelion Friday and Saturday
January the oath, and 25th, R. G. Kill
lingsworth, D. D. S.
Contractor Campbell is taking out
the overhead plastering in the court
! room and will replace it with hand
! some steel ceiling.
Nearly every Lexingtonian will at
tend the big corn show which will
open in Columbia on the 9th, that is,
| all progressive Lexingtonians.
The Congaree river bridge has been
reported by the grano jury of Rich
land county as being in a dangerous
condition and in need of immediate
repairs.
Rev. Mr.. Brown, pastor, will hold
the usual Lutheran services in st.
Stephen next Sunday. Everybody is
invited to attend these services.
There will be preaching in the
Methodist church next Sunday morn
ing at the usual hour by the pastor,
Rev. Mr.. Rushton. A cordial welcome
awaits strangers.
We know of FIVE families hunting
for cottages and there is not vacant
one in Lexington. Several cottages
could readily find occupants. 1t would
pay in rent per cent. on the invest
ment. Who will be the first interpris-
ing person to erect these cottages?
Representative Lever has been In.
vited to address an agricultural con-
ference of the committee on agricul-
tural development aand education. of
the South Carolina Bankers Associa-
ton at the National Corn Exposition
in Columbia, but on account Of the
pressure of business incident to the
closing days OF the short session of
Congress, has had to decline and has
80 Informed Mir. Robert I. Woodside,
the chairman.
Mrs. Jennie Wilson Woodrow Wood
bridge. daughter of the late Rev.
James Woodrow, of Columbia, and
first cousin to President-elect Wilson,
is critically i'll at the Johns-Hopkins
hospital in Baltimore. She is Pres
byterian missionary to China and
has been engaged in this work since
1884.
By the grace of the people of South
Carolina the Hon. J. Frazer. Lyon
has. re.ireed to the shades of
private life latter having been given
given eight long years in which to
make good his promises, and not one
Of the gang of grafters is wearing
the stripes.''
Mr.. F. G. Ccrley has purchased the
Maj. Meetz old homestead at the
| depot and will shortly move there.
Mr.. Walter J. McCartha, the hustling
| manager of the Enterprise Hardware
Store, who now occupies the premises,
will move into the house now occu-
pied by Mr.. Corley in the northern
| suburbs.