The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-01-08
State News,

State News,
The Legislature will meet IN Gen.
eral Assembly on January 14th.
orangeburg will ask for $100,oO
bond issue to build new Court House.
The winter schedules on all South
Carolina railroads went into effect
Sunday.
The State Penitentiary has not been
depopulated despite Governor Bleases'
liberal use of the pardoning power.
r. n. Caldwell and J. w. Haiti.
wanger, have move their mercantile
business from Newberry to Columbia
Jack Parish, white man Of MA
rion, . convict, broke the condition OF
aie parcle. and vas retr Iaed TO the
r1hitaatiay.
The Governor has appointed D 81.
NaRill, of Greenwood. q member OF
the State Board Of Pardons, Vice n.
Nays Cleveland, resigned,
Two adventurous Columbia youths
wanted to see the Bide-wide world
land they went TO Charleston. where
they wero arrested a. runaways.
Sam Boozer, the negro who shot and
killed lr. James s. GILLIAN, near Sa-
l6ds. Old Town in NewberrY County
On the 3rd day of May, 1911, was elec.
syocused ip the penitentiary recently.
The Listie Mountain Drug Co.,, has
keen commissioned by the Secretary
sf State. It's capital stock is $4,000
srd the corporations are John NJ.
1ease and j. B. Derrick.
Mr.. McGee, the Assistant General
Ticket Agent Of the Southern Rail
,way is accredited with saying that the
travel from the South to attend the
Inauguration of President Wilson will
break all records.
An Orangeburg negro recently
committed suicide because he vas un-
able to pay his debts. This is proba-
bly, the first instance of the kind in
the history of the race.
News comes from Chester that both
Senators Tillman and Smith have
! slated Hon. J. VIM. Thurmond, Of
Edgefeld, for the Office of United
States District Attorney, and that
none other need apply.
The Goyernar has revoked the COM
mission of many Ool1mbia Notary
Public. The rea on assigned is mere
Iva political one, and he is but carry
ing ont his policy of to the yictors be-
long the spoiis.
Msrtinus Smith, only son of Sepa-
tor E. d. Smith. who accidentally
shot himself while cunning with his
hthef during the holidays, died on
January End from an attack of pneu-
nonia following an operation.
Clara a. Cannon and Nathan A.
Cannon, of Pembroke, Ga, brought
anti In the Civil Court Of Charleston,
against the Atlantic Coast Line for
$50, COO for injuries alleged to have
Yamasee in this State.
The Peoples Bank Of Columbia, Of
which Mr.. J. A. Hoyt is the Presi-
dent. is to become q National Bank,
and its capital increased from $1,000
to 400, 600. The change will be made
% soon ss the capital is paid up in full,
which viii be the fst Of November.
James Edge, q white man who con.
Quoted . store at Herbert, In Union
County was horribly murdered on
January 80. His throat was cut from
ear 10 esr and he was considerably
beaten up. There Is no clue as to the
perpetrators OF the foul crime. Rob-
berry was evidently the object.
VIC. Hudson. Superintendent OF
the Charleston Division has succeeded
Henry A. Williams, "a Superinten-
dent Of the Columbia Division of the
Southern Railway, Mr.. Williams
having been granted an indefinite
leave OF absence on account of illness.
g. G.. Arthur has been promoted Su.
perintendent of the Charleston Diyi-
sion.
An organization of Housewives
Charleston has been perfected. It's
object is:
For the reduction of prices on food
stuffs, for strictly sanitary conditions
in the ,marts of trade in such COM
modities, in, bakeries and butcher
shops, groceries and laundries, the
housewives if they organize, will en-
ter into cooperation and see that
conditions are brought about and
maintained.