The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-03-05
IRMo NEWS.
81. H. H." Writes Interestingly from
that Growing Town.

81. H. H." Writes Interestingly from
that Growing Town.
1t is hard matter to write anything
that has not already been writ
ten or that everybod dJ6does not al
ready know, unless - las been a
fight, or. killing, on hething else
sensational and we have had nothing
of the kind recently, so that it is
plain from the outset that I cannot
interest the readers very much. If I
write the truth they will not believe
it; if lie, they will catch me in it,
and if I write trash they will not read
it.
1t is no use to say anything about
the weather, for everybody knows
it behaves like a spoiled child. 1t is
hindering some of the farmers from
preparing that brag corn patch
to beat the enviable record of Jerry
Moore. They haye all attended the
corn show, and now watch some Of
them take the telt from Jerry, even
if they have to slip around the hill
and get some from the other patch.
People have been saying for the last
fifteen or twenty years that Irmo
would never be anything. But it is
still; Irmo and growing some. "Uncle
SAM has two R. F. D. routes out
from here. Harbinson Agricultural
college for negroes is here, and there
is considerable business Of mercan-
tile nature. The price of land has
advanced to 500 per acre and lots
in town that can be bought at all,
are very high. The railroad does a
fine business. The passenger travel
is heavier from this point than from
any other station of the same class on
the line. All this is something, and,
like Micawber, we are always waiting
for something to turn up.
We voted two mill special levy in
this district and now have the best
school We have had for years under
the principalship of Prof. Stuckey
with Miss Eva Bookman as his assist.
ant. We hope this is the beginning of
greater interest in education in our
community, and, in the near future
we may have as good q school as
found in any little country town.
Miss Leora Hook is teaching in the
graded school at Scranton, s. c.; Prof.
J. B. Koon, is Superintendent of the
Holly Hill schools; Prof. L. M. Bouk-
night, is Superintendent of the school
at Latta; Miss Eula Matthias holds q
position in the Little Mountain school;
Miss Shuler and Miss Smith assist at
Chaplin.
The Representative branch of the
General Assembly had song services
and took a recess of few days and
the hall was disinfected while vacant.
Fine idea!
Taft says Washington is a fine
place and he had a pleasant time there,
sure? Mr.. Wilson doubtless will be
likewise impressed with the place,
There are many others who would be
"de.light-ed" to live there as President
of the United States. We hope that
Mr.. Wilson may be overjoyed and
that his spirit may in ecstacy rise"
and his influence and power in behalf
of the laborlng masses of the people
envelope our nation. Under past ad:-
ministrations the rich have been heap
ing up wealth and the poor could not
live. What we need, and what we
hope for, under Wilson's admins
tration is the shutting up of some
of the channels through which
the rich oppress the poor and the
opening up to the toiling millions ave.
nues that will enable them to earn a
decent living and arrest their children
from the arms of ignorance.
]. II. H.