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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15
State Fair.

Interesting attractions for the State.
Fair were booked by Secretary D. F
Efrd while in Richmond last week,
among them being band of IL Indians
which will appear on the midway each
day and reproduce the saving Of Capt.
John Smiths life by Pocahontas,
This band is said to be direct descen-
dants of those that captured John Smith
A motordome in which daring motor
cycle riders display their skill, ferris
wheel, a merry.go-round and other
interesting features will make this year
one of the best ever seen in the South.
The counties of Richland, Lexington,
Georgetown. Darlington and Chester
have reserved space in the big steel
frame building for county exhibits at
the an nnual State Fair. This is expect
ed to prove drawing attraction aud
will demonstrte the strides that have
been made in agricultural and other
lin es by the various counties.
The Presb yterian College of South
Carolina and Newberry College will
meet on the gridiron at the Fair ground
on Wednesday, Oct. 20. at II A. M.
On Thursday Of Fair week at noon the
University of South Carolina and
Clemson College will play football.
The Garnet and Black took the Tigers
scalp last year but the latter are plan
ming revenge while Carolina intends
to duplicate the victory.
Motor cycle races on Wednesday,
Automobile races on Thursday, meet
ing, of game wardens Thursday morn
ing, competitive drill between COM
panies and the presenceof the Winthrop
college and clemson corps are some
of the features which will draw thous-
ands of visitors to the South Carolina
State Fair which will take place the
last week in October.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15
The Split Log Drag.

The split log drag is the best device
ever invented for keeping the roads in
good repair. You could preach SER
mons, write poetry and prose about it
without end, but what is most needed
is to use it on the roads and then the
roads will be sermons and poetry and
prose, just as there ars sermons in the
babbliDg brooks and SO forth and 80 on.
But above all get the farmers intere ST.
ed in the use of the split log drag.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15
A Gentle and Effect Laxative

A mild. gentle and effective laxative
is what people demand when suffering
from constipation. Thousands swear
by DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Hugh
Tallman, of San Antonio, Tex. writes:
''TheNare, beyond question, the best
pills my wife and I have ever taken"
They never cause pain. Price 25c. at
druggists, or by mail, H. E. Bucklen
& Co., Philadelphia or St. Louis. adv.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15

Ratliff Morris, a twelve year old
Sumter boy, was found dead in his
70 ON Monday, pistol shot having
ended his life. til thought he COM
: mitted suicide.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15
Trespass Notice.

All persons are hereby forbidden to
hunt or fish upon these lands, known
as the Muller land, or otherwise tres
pass upon same. Anyone violatin g
this notice will be prosecuted to the
full extent of the law.
G. W. SOX, Manager.
Oct. 13, 1913-4w1
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15
No. 666

This 10 prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or cHlLlS e. FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not eipe or s;cken. Csc
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15
Boys Separate Pants


In Knickers and Full Pegs
100 dozen Knicker Pants, 6 to II years, the 75c
values at EACH only y.......... ............. SOC
so dozen boys 81 90 Pants pair, only. .75c
so dozen Bloomer Pants, at only $1.O0. $l.25 and
$780, No better place to buy Pants than this house.
Winter Twopieee Underwear
At only SOC the Suit, to l6 years. fleece lined.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15
Mems Suits

Mems Suits
In Sims Regulars and Stouts. The swellest line of
Clothes in She Carolnas, union made all shrunk and
sponged hand tailored 500 beautiful models to select
from single and double breasted in serge. fancy
sted and fancy Scotch mixtures Norfolk styles. The
clothes honestly made, honestly priced at far be-
give satisfaction price ss. .95 to $1,000
Single Coats at half Their Worth
You can get fine Coat, regular price $1,000 at $500
100 pairs extra Pants, worth $500,
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15

Boys Suits
In Norfolks and Regulars
SOC Pocket Knife Free
with each Suit sold We have the best line of Boys
Suits-the dependable knd-all guaranteed to give
entire satsfacton-Nerfolks and plain in 20 different
weayes, to 18 years. ..:.. - oo 70 Slo.Oo
No trouble to fit that overgrown boy here Not only
the best goods but the best prices You can save 1
Boys Caps and Hats
Any knd-Serge, Fancy Worsted-at 25c and SOC.
100 dozen Mems fine plaid Caps at, each SOC and 90
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15

50 fine Lounge Robes, extra heavy at only. Sc. 90
Ladies' Bath Robes.
so fine Blanket Bath Robes, made or unmade, $3.50
s.. so and $4.00
Babies Silk Caps
80 dozen just received, extra quality and plenty Of
good looks at. .25c, soc, 75c
Children's and Misses Rain Coats
Childrens and Misses Rain Goats, only so to s. so
80 fine Rain Goats for Ladies', extra quality coat, at
Millinery Department
We are running four miners in this department
and they keep busy taking orders all the time. We
make anything for you. You will get the hat made
for you and two alike Hats special at 81 SO for
this sale and $500 quality for $4.sS.
Sheets
This is valuable information the Sheet question:
81x90 Sheets, the 75c kind only. ly............ Csc
81x9O Sheets, the S5c kind only .........75c
S1x9O Sheets, hemstitched, the $125 kind only CSC
9Ox9o Hemstitched Sheets, at only S1.Oo each.
Single Bed Sheets
80 dozen for hospitals single BEDS no seams; ex-
ira good quality only. soc
Spreads
11x4 size, special in quality and price, only. 19
100 fine Crochet Spreads at, each only..... ..9Sc
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-10-15

Great Blanket Sale
We have we'll earned reputation for selling the
best Blankets in the South for the least price and the
six days next week will be exception to the rule.
Plaid Blankets
100 pairs of fine gray la Plaid Blankets, each $100
so pairs of ia Plaid Blankets wool nap great mer
SO pairs extra fine plaid wool Blankets, regular
price $3 80, at only 1896
ALI Pure Wool Blankets.
30 pairs extra fine wool plaid Blankets, home made,
1914 and Ill., regular price at only s. so and 1886
California 1874 Blankets the finest Blanket to be
seen, regular price $1,000, only. $500
100 pairs 1914 and 1l4 white wool Blankets, strict
ly all wool, at only, the 90 and $500
Comforts
100 heavy Comforts, big size worth 81 25 only $1O0
100 fine Comforts a5 only $780, $2OO to $3.50
Eiderdown.
25 ine Down Comforts, the $500 kind, at only 1896
2Oextra fine Down Comforts worth $3.50 at only $6 50
Bridal Down Comforts
This is some Comfort at only. $40 90
100 fine Lounge Blankets at only. Sl.5O
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04
ADDISON COUNTY COURT.

The Columbus Smith will case which
is on trial before an Addison county
Jury for the second time, is still engag-
ing the exclusive attention of the
court. and accumulative testimony has
been put in during the week tending to
show that Columbus Smith was of sane
mind when he executed the will of 1898
and the subsequent codicils.
A former will, executed in 1884, was
read to the Jury last Friday morning by
Lawyer Stickney. 1t was a much
briefer document than the one whose
validity is now in dispute and on its
back Mr.. Smith had made an indorse-
ment to the effect that this will was
revoked for the reason that he had
made two later wills. One of these
two wills is the one in contest and the
other has never been found.
The court took recess at 1l:l2
clock last Saturday until 2 o'clock p.
m. on Monday, when the consideration
of this case was resumed.
Tuesday forenoon Mr.. Stickney read
to the jury the testimony of Harriet j.
Smith, the widow, who was taken by a
commission at her home in West Sails
bury last winter, during the first trial
of the case. She was at that time too
ill to come to court and her health at
this time was such that she was unable
to appear to testify personally.
Every witness who has been put on
the stand for the proponents during the
past week has declared that in his
opinion Mr.. Smith was of sound mind
when he made the disputed will.
J. P. Carney of Gardner, Mass,
joined the force of attorneys for the
contestants on Tuesday. Mr.. Carney
is partner of H. w. Blake, the lead
ing counsel for the contestants, and one
of the attorneys of record in the case.
At the close of the proceedings Thurs
day noon a recess was taken until
O'Clock Monday on account of the
fact that today is the fourth of July
and legal holiday in Vermont.
The case at bar does not seem to get
forward so rapidly as it did last winter
and the probabilities are that it will
take at least another week and half
to get it to the jury.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04
SUMNER SESSION BEGINS

The fifth Summer Session of Middle
bury college opened Tuesday evening
with an address by DIR. Julian w.
Abernethy of Burlington. Doctor
Abernethy's paper was enthusiastically
received by his audience. His subject,
1.-The Irish Literary Revival" was
treated both from the point of view of
Irish personality and that of individual
contributors to the new literary move
ment.
At the chapel exercises Wednesday
morning Professor Mcfarland, director
of the session, announced additions and
changes in the teaching force. The
courses offered by Professor ]. w.
Dinsmore, dean of Berea college, Ken
lucky, will be carried on by DR.. Frank
L. Howard, Professor of Education and
assistant dean in Berea college. Miss
Minnie Hayden of Boston will conduct a
chorus class for teachers. Professor
William j. Jackson of West Virginia
university will offer a course in drawing
for adults, and juvenile class in draw
ing has been organized under the di-
rection of Miss Carrie Harmon and
Miss Louisa Cook of Geneva Public
schools, New York.
The registration of students is very
satisfactory, the enrolment of the first
day of the session exceeding the total
registration for last year. The pros
poets are that more than one hundred
will be in attendance at the end of the
first week. The instructing force at
present is twenty-four and there are
fifty courses offered No session of the
college will be held July 4th.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04
School District Meetine.

The annual meeting of school district
No. was held in the town hall Monday
evening. The meeting opened with a
good attendance, which included many
ladies'. Judge j. E. Weeks was elected
moderator and j. M. Burke clerk. The
report of the cost of maintaining the
schools was read by Chairman |. H.
LaFleur and was accepted. 1t was
voted, after considerable debate, to
vote tax of 70 cents. The following
prudential committee was reelected
|. H. LaFleur, Rev. j. d. Shannon, DR..
E. H. Martin, DR.. D. C. Noble and
Allan Calhoun; treasurer, Charles E.
Pinney, auditor, Charles |. Button.
No further business appearing the meet
ing adjourned.
Ira H. LaF'leur, chairman of the
school board, offers for the year 1913
IA three prizes, first prize of Sl2, a
second prize of SO, and third prize of
So for the best three speakers of six, to
be selected, three boys and three girls,
from the senior class. The contest to
be held as near commencement week as
can be conveniently arranged.
Judge and Mrs. John E. Weeks offer
the sum of $25 to be given in three
prizes, first, second and third for the
three best commencement parts. Both
subject matter and delivery will be con-
sidered in awarding these prizes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04

NluuleDudN IuDIC library COHldlllS
the following books relating to the
rural problem" and to the training of
young people.
RURAL PROBLEM.
Anderson, the Country Town. A Study
of Rural Evolution.
Ashenhurst, Day of the Country
Church.
Cubberley, he Improvement of Rural
Schools.
Dinsmore, Teaching District School.
Dodge, Country Living and Country
Thinking.
Jackson, H. H. Bits If Talk About
Home Matters, PIP. 1S2.
Hayward, Comp Institutional Work
for the Country Church.
Kern, Among Country Schools.
Mathews, Scientific Management in the
Churches.
Mitchell, Rural Studies with Hints for
Country Places.
Plunkett, Rural Life Problem of the
u S.
Roads, Rural Christendom.
TRAINING OF YOUNG PEOPLE.
Ayres, Open-Air Schools.
Bloomfield, Vocational Guidance of
Youth.
Briggs, Girls and Education, School,
College and Character.
Burbank, Training the Human Plant.
Coe, Education in Religion AMI Morals.
Cragin, kindergarten Stories for the
Sund'y School and Home.
Forbush, The Boy Problem.
Forbush, Boys Round Table.
Foster, The Boy and the Church.
George, Junior Republic.
Harrison, Study of Child Nature.
Hodges, Training of Children in Re-
igion.
Lindsey, The Beast.
McMurry, How to Study and Teaching
How to Study,
Montessori, Montessori Method.
Murray, Boy Scouts of America.
st. John, Stories and STORYTELLING IN
Moral and Religious Education.
Seton, Woodcraft and Indian lore boy
scouts.
Smith, Homemade kindergarten.
Thorndiko, individuality.
Wayne, Building Your Girl.
Weeks, The Peoples School
Wiltse, kindergarten Stories.
Wolcott, 500 Ways of Helping out Your
Church.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04
Camp Fire Girls for MiddIebur,

Will the girls of Middlebury inter-
ested in the Camp Fire Girls meet at
the Congregational parsonage, South
Pleasant street, at four O'Clock We'd
nesday afternoon, July 8. Two groups
of Camp Fire Girls will be organized
One for girls over Is years of age, the
other for girls eleven to fifteen years of
age.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04

The Kansas state board OF health
recommends small bouquets of white
clover blossoms placed here and there
in the house as most effective means
of keeping the common housefy out
They seem to loathe the scent of the
clover blossoms and will not stay
whereit is If they can get away. This
fly dope is cheap and worth giving a
trial.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04
For Cuts, Burns and Bruises

In every home there should be box of
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, ready to apply in
every case OF burns, cuts, wounds or
scalds. j. II. Polanco, Delvalle, Tex. r.
No. 9, writes: "Bucklen's Arnica Salve
saved my little girls cut foot. No one
believed ii could he cured" The worlds
best salve. Only 25c. Recommended
by Skaters Park Drug Store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04

1t is the opinion of naturalists that
birds eat more IN proportion to their
weight than any other living thing. In
way of proving this they cite the fact
that ringdove will eat 600 peas at
meal, or 1S0 beechnuts at a time, or
sixty acorns. A robin will eat two and
a half times its weight in insects and
worms In a period of twenty-four
hours.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04
Church Notes.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
Rev. A. A. Lancaster, Pastor.

Morning worship, 1O;45, sermon by
the pastor. Subject, The Uplifted Christ
The sacraments of Baptism and Lords
Supper will be administered. New
members will be received into the church
Bible school at noon. Evening worship
at 7.30.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04
METHODIST CHURCH.
d. II. Corkran, pastor.

Morning worship with Baptismal and
Communion services, 10.45. Bible school
II N. Evening worship in the chapel
7.30.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04
ST. STEPHENS CHURCH.
Rev. John Evans Bold, Rector.

10:45, Holy Communion and Sermon.
1915, Sunday School.
1880, Evening Prayer.
7:3O, Evening Prayer Friday.
Rectory No. 119 Main street.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04
MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH.

Rev. Richard B. Esten, d. d., Pastor.
Morning worship at 1O:45, preaching
Trust" Sunday school at - NJ. Even
ing worship at 1880 Pastors subject,
"The Vision in the Valley"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-04

Middlebuav Public library contains
the following books relating to the
rural problem" and to the training of
young people.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-12-25
Presence of Mind.

In front of his Chelsea house Sir
Thomas Moore had a garden and gate
house, and, as there was pleasant
view from the summit of the gate
house, he used frequently to sit there,
accompanied only by his dog. Here
it was that he was found one after
noon by a wandering maniac, who
crept upstairs and saw the feeble old
man doing.
Leap, Tom, leap!" he cried, and at
the same time tried to throw him
over the battlements. Moore had not
physical strength enough to resist, but
he had the wit to say:
Let us first throw this little dog
over"
The man Immediately threw down
the dog.
Pretty sport" said the lord chan
cellor. Nov, do down and bring him
up; then try again"
While the madman went down for
the dog More made fast the door be-
hind him, and so managed to hold the
fort until deliverance came.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-12-25

er knew what Arthur would do next
pear.
"A man who was calling ON me one
night sat ON Arthur Now, there are
many trials that strong man can
meet and endure with heroism, but l
defy the bravest man to sit on an un-
expected cat and maintain a calm de-
meanor. That man bounced up four
feet into the air and then landed on
the floor in a disheveled state. Who
knows but that it changed the course
of my whole life ?-because he was
nice man and I-rather liked him, and
up to that point he had seemed to
like me. However, being somewhat
spoiled and popular, his vanity
couldn't endure being made ridiculous
and his demeanor toward me has no.
ticeably cooled since then.
After that jammed Arthur into a
basket and carried her in an automo-
bile Is miles away and deposited her
in front of a fur factory-gray fur is
fashionable this year. Two days later
found her reclining in the middle
oil pile of lingerie just up from the
laundry. She yawned in bored way
as if to let me know that she thought
travelling .frightful nuisance.
"Arthur's complacency was infuriat-
Ing. 1t never dawned on her that she
wasn't wanted. She never realized
that she had cast. in her eye and
that no figure and wretched hair, but
she put on all the airs of a blue rib
bon Persian and acted as though we
were dying to have her around.
THE night l had my most fashion
able bridge party Arthur walked in,
bringing one by one five OF the worst
looking kittens / ever laid eyes on.
and deposited them at my feet She
had wished 'em on me- Now what
can you do with a cat like that?"
We'll" said the listener, you might
hire an ocean going steamer and drop
her overheard in the deepest part OF
the Atlantic!"
"Nonsense!" returned the girl who
likes to talk Shed swim backl"-
Chicago Daily News.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-12-25
How Insects Acquire Caste.

The various castles of social insects
have different appearance. but it has
been supposed that they are alike on
leaving the egg, and develop their pc
culiar characteristics artificially
through differences in feeding or the
action of parasites. Seeking to learn
when the different forms of termites,
or white ants, begin, Professor Bug
MON of Paris concludes that this the
ory is wrong Among the several
castles of this insect, the soldiers are
wingless and have very strong man.
dibles, and the workers, which build
and bring food, have a different form,
but neither reproduce. The caste
known as reproducers, on the other
hand. with special development, ap'
pear to perform no part except perpet'
uating the species. The investigation
made with number of species shows
that the peculiarities of form exist in
newly hatched insects, and that there
fore division into castles, like that OF
the sexes, takes place before the
larvae are born.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-12-25
ARTHUR WAS PERSISTENT
BY X. CUNNINGHAM.

I've often thought said the girl
who likes to talk, that II everybody
in the world had the persistency Of a
cat what wonderful things might be
achieved l have been moved to this
philosophical state of mind by the
career of Arthur, our alley cat.
: Il named her Arthur the first time
saw her because when l was quite
young there was a boy named Arthur
whom ! hated with such a whole soul
ed hatred that even to this day the
very name gives me the creeps. Ar
thur was the kind of cat you dislike
violently on sight. She was lean and
mottled gray and one eye had a
cast and she had the general air of
dissipated. vagabond.
Il can't imagine what began the
uplift in Arthurs soul For some rea-
son she suddenly came to the deter
mnation to attain a higher social
sphere-and one day we found her
comfortably disposed on our $100 dav-
export in the living room.
Mother had the cook remove her
and then she sponged the ash dust off
the davenport with gasoline.
That night Arthur mounted the
trellis to the upstairs windows and
perched ON the sills and sang mourn
fully at each of us in turn. She was
I regular feline soprano, because 9th
erwise she never could have got from
window to window When she war
bled you were overcome with a sense
of shame that you were repulsing her
deep affection. Somehow she man
aged to convey that emotion.
In her broken hearted despair at
our stoniness she extracted the paper
cover off the cream bottle at the back
door the next morning and breakfast
departing, licking her whiskers, and
threw a pail at her, which she nimbly
sidestepped
That night when my brother was
dressing for a dinner party, he found
Arthur asleep inside his silk hat. He
said that anyway he believed he
would like to start the fashion of go
ing bareheaded to dinner. So he de-
parted
within the next week Arthur had
stolen the cream twice, eaten our
canary, and scared father into spasm
pecting to find cat reposing on a
corner of our best oriental rug. We
began to get nervous because we new
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-12-25
When Snuff Was Useful.


Some people have the knack of
doing and saying the right thing at
the right time," comments Lord Ross
more in Things l Can Tell" And as
an instance of the value of \presence
of mind in an emergency, he tells of
dog fight in Bond street. London.
Two terriers that belonged to two
socially eminent ladies had engaged in
businesslike tussle.
The distracted ladies alternately
made fearful but vain appeals to
their favorites and to the bystanders.
Just as the fight seemed about to ter
inmate fatally for one of the animals
a blase-looking "chappie" elbowed his
way through the crowd with polite
Permit me-"
He calmly surveyed the two strug-
Cling dogs; then he produce a hand
some gold snuffbox and taking a pinch
of snuff from it he dropped little on
the end of each dogs nose. A fit of
sneezing ensued, which compelled
them to release their grip. and the
combat came to an end.
With polite bow to the ladies, the
strategist walked leisurely away
Youths Companion.