The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-07-23
NEWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA
attest News Of General Interest That
/ Has Been Collected From Many
Towns and Counties.


Washington.-Wm. T. Hendrix has
been appointed rural carrier at Stone
tboro and Hugh Wall at Barton.
Columbia:-W. C. Burriss Of Ander.
son was appointed member Of the
board of supervisors Of registration
for Anderson county vice W. A. Fant'
deceased.
Union.-The Union County Drainage
commission, created by a recent act
OF the legislature, has just been or
ganized for the purpose of improving
the lands Of this county through the
cleaning out of the streams and deep
ening them.
| Washington Representative Lever
Is the recipient of number OF invita-
tons to deliver agriculture addresses
ct various points throughout the
country. These engagements are be-
ing accepted by him upon the con-
dition that they do not interfere with
his congressional duties.
Columbia.-The Ricnland board of
county commissioners has approved
the preliminary drawings Of Handy &
Rorke, architects, recently selected,
for the new county jail building, and
the work will soon be out for esti-
mates. The jail will be located on
the southwest corner Of Hampton and
Lincoln streets, near the new city
hall.
F1orence.-The Survivors assocfa-
ton of Florence county met in its an
nual picnic recently at Moves Spring.
The attendance of veterans was not as
large as had been hoped, but theirs
were many friends of the veterans and
enough young people to make the oc-
casion very lively one. The annual
address was made by Lieut.. Gov. Chas.
A Smith.
Columbia.-More than mere local in.
terest attaches to the South CarolinZ
Conference for the Common Good, to
be held in Columbia on August to Z,
for this is an experiment already being
watched by the progressive citizens OF
neighboring states, and one that Is
sufficiently charged with ambition to
spread to all parts Of the Union.
Orangeburg.- an almost over.
iwhelming majority, the vote being 27o
for and 68 aaginst, the city Of Or.
anegeburg adopted the commission
form Of government, to be admins.
tered by board consisting Of the
mayor and two commissioners. The
election came at the close of hard
campaign for the adoption Of the plan.
Chester: Magistrate Lee Carter Of
HalsellvilIe township, after waiting for
his turn, which rolled round in five
years after his request was sent in,
received 100 black cat fish and 100
black bass. He turned them loose in
Sandy river at Sandy River station.
He also requests the people not to
take them from the stream as in
few years they will all weigh from
five to 40 pounds and that there will
be thousands of them.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Johnson
has sent a telegram to the citizens
committee of Spartanourg that Sur
geon General Blue, public health SER
vice. will be glad to give them hear.
ing any time they will visit his on pei
lagra. Mr.. Johnson instroduced bill
in the house asking fer the appropria-
ton Of 100000 for the purchase of
site and erection of hospital at
iSpartanburg FOR the treatment of pei
lagra.
Chester-The city council has Great
ei sone excitement here by voting to
Grstt reading two city ordinances that
Will mean, if passed to second read
ing, that Chester will face an ice fam
inc. The first ordinance is a shot at
the drivers of the ice wagons and it
provides foT fine not greater than
S100 or less than SIS, or 80 days on
the city streets, if they fail to give
just weights. The second ordinance is
in the same direction.
.Shelton.-At a meeting of represen.
tative citizens of district No. /, held in
FeasterTille school house on July Is,
it was resolved to agitate for the i'm
provement of the schools f centralizing
trict with the purpose of centralizing
the facilities at some convenient and
suitable point and there building up a
rural graded school. This district is
especially fortunate in that it has, at
Feasterville, property to the value of
about $4,000 from an endowment for
school purposes, and five acres OF
land.
Columbia-John Boyd, negro. was
granted a parole during good behav'
for. He was convicted at the June,
1918, term Of court for Clarendon coun-
ty OF obtaining goods by false pre-
tense and was sentenced to eight
months Imprisonment upon the pub
'aic works of Clarendon county.
Yorkville-At its annual meeting
on July 10 the Glover Manufacturing