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The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-12-10
MUSIC HATH IT'S CHARMS
FOR DISABLED VETERANS

MANY of the d1sa bled veterans who
applied to the federal board for Vo-
catienal education for retraining ex-
nress desire to be given q musical
education.
If the applicant has had any pre-
vious experience, either Instrumental
or vocal, and has sufficient education
to continue, an expert is called in who
gives his opinion. If the experts re-
port is favorable the veteran gets his
opportunity.
Some of the men who have already
been granted this training have made
some requests Of the board which, if
compiled with, would soon bring fl
nancial ruin to the government. One
veteran requested that he be furnish
ed with harp costing twelve hundred
dollars; another wanted a grand
piano costing fourteen hundred dol
lars: a future Mozart wanted the
board to furnish him with a two hun
dred and fifty dollar violin.
According to an act OF congress,
the federal board is permitted to fur
nish necessary instruments to COM
plete musical education but they
find it impossible to meet demands
for grand pianos, thousand dollar
harps and two hundred FIFTY dollar
violins.-
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-12-10

and tabulate the same: they shall
make written return Of the number
Of votes cast for and against the pro-
posed annexation: they shall sign and
certify to the managers the result Of
said election, the same, together with
the ballot box, ballots and poll lists,
ana everything else appertaining to
said election, shall be by them forth
with turnd over to the commissioners
OF election as required by law: that
the Commissioners Of Election for
each of said counties, shall. as proyid-
ed by law, tabulate the vote and de-
clare the result of the election, and
make due and proper return thereof.
as required by law, to the Clerk of
Court of their respective counties TO
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-12-10

the Governor of the State, and to the
Secretary Of State, in all of which
careful and detailed compliance with
the law is enjoined and ordered
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the
Great Seal of the State to be affixed
at Columbia, this twenty-ninth day Of
November in the year of Our Lord
One Thousand Nine Hundred and
Nineteen, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the
One Hundred Forty-Fourth.
P. A. COOPER,
Governor.
BY the Governor:
". BANKS DOVE.
Secretary of State.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-12-10

ton of the annexation Of said portion
of Lexington County to Newberry
County, and that at such election the
qualified electors within the proposed
area shall vote upon said question,
those favoring the proposed annex
alton to vote Yes" and those oppos-
ing to vote NO.
That the Commissioners Of State
the County Elections of the Counties
of Lexington and Newberry, respective
ly, do make all necessary arrange
ments for holding said election, and
shall appoint managers, and do all
things necessary for the holding Of
same.
That the Commissioners of Elec-
ton of each of said Counties shall
have prepared printed tickets as pro-
vided for in Section 236 in the Code
of Laws, 1912, Volume 1, as amended
by an ACT passed by the General AS
sembly at it's special session in 1914,
and approved the thirtieth day of Oc-
tober, 1914, said Act being No. s in
the Acts of said special session; and
the said Commissioners shall furnish
the same to the managers of election
for the use of the voters at said elec-
TJl.o oil c11
be as follows:
Form Of Ballot.
Special Election upon the ques-
ton Of the Annexation Of a certain
portion of Lexington County to New
berry County, held January 9Th. 1920.
5;;lla:s said nrtion, as described in
Proclamation by the Governor, dated
the 29th of November, 1919, be an"
nexed to the County Of Newberry.
, Eyes.
"No."
That the said election shall be held
and conducted under the same rules
and regulations as provided for by
law for regular and general elections
That the commissioners OF election
shall appoint managers of election
as provided for by law, who shall be
sworn before entering upon the dis
charge of their duties as provided for
by law, and they shall open and close
the polls as provided for by law.
The Managers of Election, when the
polls shall have been closed, shall
proceed without interruption to count
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-12-10

$3.50 to point near a Negro
Church, thence in Westernly
direction y II 1-2 w. $3.50
to a point just West of Public Road,
thence in a Southwesternly direction
SIS W, 29e to a point in Camping
Creek and thence in a Westernly di-
rection along the meanderinss of
said Creek to the Newberry County
Line, theEce in q Northeasternly dl-
rection along the Newberry County
Line to a point in Broad River where
the Newberry-LeXington County Line
intersects the County Line of Fairfield
County, and thence along the Fair
field County line down Broad River
to the starting point about three
fourths of a mile below the town of
Peak, South Carolina"
Whereas, the boundaries Of the
proposed portion Of Lexington County
TO US CuI O4l ehlio o1AS->oo ~ 1Ao
County of Newberry, the number of
inhabitants, the taxable property, as
we'll as all other requirements of the
Constitution and Statutes, have been
fond to be and are as set forth in
said petition.
Whereas. the report OF the commits
soners, appointed to ascertain the
facts as provided for by law, whether
the requirements of the Constitution
and Statutes as to area, distance,
wealth and population, shape, etc.,
are complied with and. are as stated
in the petition, has been filed in this
office wherein it appears that the
law has been fully complied with in
every particular, which is hereby con-
firmed.
Whereas, no election has been held
upon said petition in. said area upon
the question of the annexation Of said
portion of Lexington County to New
berry County within four years pre-
vious to the date hereof, and
Whereas, under the Constitution
and laws of this state the petitioners
are entitled to have ordered, and it is
made the duty of the Governor of
the State to order an election upon
said question::
Now, therefore, 7, r. A. Cooper,
Governor Of the State of South Caro-
ina, by virtue Of the power conferred
upon me by the Constitution and
avs of this State do hereby order:
That an election be held in the ter
.itory embraced within the portion of
Lexington County proposed to be sew
cred from the County Of Lexington
and annexed to the County of New
berry, on the first Tuesday, the
sixth day Of January, a. D., Nineteen
hundred and twenty, upon the ques-
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-12-10
FOUNDATION
REPORTS PROGRESS
AGAINST GANGRENE.

Washington, Dec. "a permanent
contribution to the prevention and
cure of gas gagrene, incident to in
dustrial accidents, is noted as one Of
the important achievements Of the
Rockefeller Institute, in the seventh
chapter Of the Rockefeller Founda-
tons Report made public yesterday.
The report also tells how the labor
atories OF the Institute were equip
ped especially for war work and how
all it's resources were placed at the
disposal Of the Surgeon General dur
ing the war.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1919-12-10

Poor, out of date farm implements,
instead of saving money, cost money.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-04-29
BOLSHEVISTS IN TIE MAKING.


DR., Charles II Parkhurst has for many years been
preacher with convictions and to state them,
but his latest untterance Bolshevsm and America,
written for the National Security League is little more
startling than any of his in a long time. DR.. Parkhurst
has millions of followers well his many critics and
opinions accepted as standard by many Says DR..
ParAhurst on this subject:
In considering Americanism an antidote to Boil
;ivae Americanism the minds the diseontented,
particularly if there exists among them the conviction
discomfort attributable to any action
action The part of the Government Such conviction
may be il-founded but So if it exists, it just
much works dissatisfaction toward the Government and
becomes nest in which Bolsheyism is incubated
l those returned soldiers that are complaining that
their wages have been withheld; all who are oyerbur-
dened by the weight OF taxation and who saying that
larger economy the part the Government would have
rendered of the burden unnecessary all who
lind impossible to meet their necessary house
hold expenses because provisions have been made
ponsivo by the Governments expectation shiploads
supplies to foreign peoples all those who are of
employment. but for whom employment could
mofea easily and certainly be procured if indus
tfies established which perhaps enterprise would
not hesitate establish but for fear of making public its
posaeaaon Of funds necessary therefor all those also
amounting 10 some millions who threatened at the
Americus times-recorder., 1919-04-29
Fertilizing Growing Crops
DOES IT PAY?
]. N. Harper,
Soil Improvement Committee, Atlanta, Georgia.

Side applications of fertilizers t.
the growing crops as supplement tC
first application made at seedine
time is quite widely practiced in the
South.
The writer recently obtained from
county agents the names of leading
farmers of North and South Carolina
who make a bale or more of cotton
per acre. These farmers were ad
dressed letter and asked, among
other things, to tell how they fertil
lied their cotton. In these answers
a large proportion report that they
make side applications of fertilizer
A few of these reports that are typi
cal of the rest are given herewith:
Mr.. Jno. C. Fletcher, MccoII, S. C.
Kind of soil: Light loan with clay
subsoil."
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: use about 1,40O lbs. per
acre; half applied just before planting
and the other half about June 18th"
MIR. 3. o. Mann, Enfield, NJ. C.
Kind of soil: Sandy loan and
heavy loan to gray stiff soil"
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying. From 500 to 1000 lbs per acre
Of an 8-S-3. At time of planting use
from 400 to 500 lbs, about June 1st
when cotton is chopped out make an
other application of 400 lbs"
Mr.. Fred n. Young, TimmonsviIIe, S. c.
Kind Of soil: Sandy loan with
clay subsoil."
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 1900 to 1000 lbs Of fertilizer
used. April list apply 500 lbs. of fer
tilizer, ridging on same and planting
about ten days later. Fertilizer ap-
piled in three applications; 500 lbs.
before planting; about May 1st, an
other application of 500 lbs; = and still
another application of 200 to ESQ lbs.
June 1st"
Mr.. 8. r. Shelton, Speed, N. c.
Kind of soil: Norfolk loan, or
dark gray SOIL"
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 800 lbs. of 9-5-2 used per
acre during normal times an $40.
Half of fertilizer as1lied in drill at
time of planting; the other half when
cotton is S to inches high"
MIR. A. G. Clarkson, Wateree, S. c.
Kind of SOIL "Ruston loam."
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 1900 lbs. of fertilizer an
alyzing 1879 phosphoric acid, $50
nitrogen, and no potash. Apply two
thirds of fertilizer at time of prepar-
ng the land and one-third in May or
Iune'
MIR. S. p. Winburne, Como, N. c.
Kind of soil: Light loam"
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 900 lbs. per acre of a 1850
Americus times-recorder., 1919-04-29

during normal times 700 lbs. of an
8-4-). Apply fertilizer and stable
manure in drill before planting. Ap-
| ply one-third of fertilizer as a side
application when plants are about
knee high"
Mr.. II. A. Monroe, Cameron, N. C.
Kind of soil: "Gravelly sandy loan
with clay subsoil"
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 900 to 500 lbs. of fertilizer
per acre used. Part applied at time
of preparing the land, and 200 to 300
lbs. applied as side dressing before
blooms appear"
Mr.. F. H. Waller, Kingston, N. c.
Kind of soil: Gray sandy soil"
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 300 lbs. per acre of 10-4S.
Apply fertilizer in drill about ten days
prior to planting Side dress one or
two times about June 20 and July TO-"
MIR. w. =. Peterson, Clinton, S. c.
Kind of soil: Ozark gray"
Fertilizer used and method of ap-
plying: 400 lbs. when rows are
laid off; $50 lbs. as side application
at second plowing after chopping, and
GoV lDo' do duOllSI Slue dppuCdtlOA
when plants are knee high"
Side Applications to Cotton.
At the time the cotton plant is in
full bloom ample plant food must be
available or else large percentage
Of the squares will shed. While there
are other factors that cause shedding,
for example, lack of proper amount
of moisture; still, it has been proven
that even with the most favorable
moisture conditions, lack of plant
food is the potent cause of this
trouble.
Under boil weevil conditions, the
feStilizer used in side applications
should contain a high percentage OF
phosphoric acid and a rather low per-
centage of nitrogen. This fertilizer
has the effect of forcing the young
bolls to quick growth and early ma
turity.
Side Applications to Corn.
While it usually pays to make
larger side application of fertilizer for
cotton than for corn, still, many OF
the best farmers in the Southeast
advocate liberal side applications for
corn.
The period of the growth of corn is
much shorter than that of cotton; con.
sequently, there must be present in
the soil large supplies of available
plant food at the critical period of its
growth, which is from the time it is
waist high to tasselling time.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-04-29

hahds or legislation with the loss of their beer and wine
considered by them essential to health and comfort
(srange that there not among us enough men of
big statesmany stature to anticipate the disaster that
just at this time may result from legislation to thoroughly
n-Amercan all of these possessed of the impulse
that is liable to develop into confessed Bolshevsm
Il am not claiming that all these varieties of disaf
fecons are warranted am only saying that amount
of resessness exists and not of kind to produce
Americanism but the contrary. So craftsmanship and
governmental attention have important field to oc-
cupy in studying to abae, and if possible eliminate,
some of the conditions that of nature to irritate
and turn mems minds away from the Americansm that
in these revolutionary days. it is so important to have
cherished"
Americus times-recorder., 1919-04-29
YOUNG AMERICA AND THE FOURTH.

Citizen of Americus. apparently IL years old,
strobe the office of The TimesRec yesterday
afternoon with the editor, which he said
asked to be published The note from the man writ
ten in young school boys scrawly hand and was as
follows
Times Recorder Amercius, Ga.
Dear Sir:
wish to know why the people of Americus
Georgia. do not celebrate the Fourth of July with
fireworks as other towns the same size of
Amercus.
Please print the answer of this in the paper.
Yours truly,
CITIZEN OF AMERICUS.
The Fourth isn't SO very far away, is it, boys?
Really it had escaped us older fellows But not you.
And it is going to be SOME Fourth this year, eh,
fellows of the fire cracker age?
We couldn't do much in the way of celebrating last
year We didn't have the heart did We The Hun had
smashed and mauled the Allied armies almost to pieces
and army hadn't into the fray-we were un-
certain how many we had at the front, how we'll
trained they and how WELL despite their courage
of which we had no doubt fears, they would be able
TO stand up against the trained Prussian hordes trained
in all the dfaDOllCal horrors Oh uhCNh'"N"
ped as no other army had ever been equipped
But in the months that have elapsed since last July
we have had the to fears Our armies have
met the enemy and they ours" The Hun has been
crushed by boys; the slaughter and the fighting are
over and lads will be home before that date
rolls around again.
Last year didn't have the heart to celebrate This
year Wen have restraint natal day will take on
new significance and glory 1t will be day of
celebration hilarious and widespread, doubt as
was that Fourth 81 years when word came of the
destruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago, Cuba
The Times Recorder believes in safety and sanity in
Fourth of July celebrations but 1t also hopes the powers
that will be just bit indulgent with the youngsters
this year.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-04-29
4 VERSE 4 DAY.
A SURRENDER SONG.

~ UT from the the port of Kiel they rode
" In the light of the setting sun,
Germanias might that shirked fight
For the cause of the hell-born Hun
Not braggart gun with its ready load
Looked longingly out to sea
Not vaunted note from a Germans throat
For beaten cur was he
Then, no, my lads, yeave no, heave o,
And brave heave 0, again.
We've put the shackles on the foe
But what have they gone and done, my lads
For all the world to see?
Laid down their might, with never a fight
AT the feet of the Kings Navee
Into the cleaning Firth they rode,
Silent, and sad and gray;
For the fangs OF hate and the air elate
Had gone from their proud array
They were out that all shawn and shor
OF their splendor, their boast and brag
TO lay their all at our admiral's call
In the shade of Britannia's flag
Chorus
Then ho, my lads, etc.
John Wilson in the Edinburgh Scotsman.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-04-29
WAR DEAD! NO, SAYS WOOD.

A few days ago Major General Leonard Wood, one of
the Of the United States Army hospital No SO, in
which he described "twiddle twaddle and dream of
molycoddles the talk that any of nations will
protect the world from future wars
Such an end the world hopes for, and such an end
our president is doing his best in Paris to achieve But
human nature is human nature-a sorry thing indeed,
taken the average and it is possible General Wood is
right At any rate what he has say is interesting.
General Leonard Wood told his hearers in the Ian
guage they knew that IF America peace she
always be ready to fight for it,
No allied nations, outside of France, General Wood
declared, was prepared for hostilities in 1914.
THE pacfsts, however he said, tell you lies when
they say that institution is dead Don't listen
to the mollycoddes. Be citizen of common sense The
world is tired of for the time being only
This has simply been a lesson, War will go on.
The lesson is that may always have somebody to
hold the line while we get ready and that since war is
unreasonable when so in again we must be ready
to go in quickly"
General Wood briefly stated the program of recon
strucon This to be carried out very fully and
very carefully he promised "Our country sent its
away with every kind of encouragement The public has
got to understand that having gone wlere they were
sent and having done the they were ordered to do
The same men finer than They have got to be
looked after and placed.
We looked with good deal of suspicion too on
those who lived with and yet had the blood strain of
the enemy 1t worth the whole cost of the war THAI
we have proved ndvsble You have but to read the
of dead to they all straight Americans We had
in our army JugoSays, Greeks Serbians men who were
Germans by extraction Bulgarians Let us not forget
they were all Americans when the transports stood out
TO sea"
There was warning In General Woods closing:
You are going to be powerful influence in this ccun-
me to stand closely together We did it thea ana must
Do it now. Remember there are four uitlion of yoa
coming back hundred thousand are dead hut the rest
are returning to their old Important places in
odr national life They went where they oriered
did what they told they deserve equal esteem
whether they went or went farther Than
tie training camp
We've got to kill Hun propaganda" Don't forget
that II by bad feeling now the Allies can be Separated
and set to Quarreng among themselves the boche has
won the war"
Americus times-recorder., 1919-04-29

FAIRPLAY AND ACCURACY-The Times-Recorder
trives always fair play and accuracy ANY injustice
the editorial columns any inaccuracy will be
scfed gladly, and anyone calling attention to un-
us injurious inaccurate statements in this newspa-
Jer will have sincere thanks.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-17
BACK YARDSTOCK
FPAwnnH 49, @a.
FAIURE III FAIR.
Rabbits and Pigeons win
Have Place in Feed. Your.
self Demonstration,

= the request OF fanciers. rabbits
Tng pigeons VIII be exhibited al tbh
fair, Sept. 20 to "a. as 4 psFf
= d1ne PACK yard department. show and
iHe dlspiay VIII be made, according
q FRANK d. Fuller, the secrefaTy. Ia
says there are far more rshbit ana
pLseon tahciers IN and near Mempbis
man most people b
snow VIII include many such
psts as are 70 be seen at the oy6rton
pta.h 1oo with probably a greater va
rlety and d larger number 81 sach ".
flety. These win be IN addition N tha
n!g poultry show that is becoming more
w more an interesting and attractive
feature OF the Memphis exposition
ahs United States department Of ag-
ttoultuIe been urging for years the
weeping Of a few hens IN every baciS
yard, pointing out thai = half dozsn
laying hens will keep a family supplied
WIN eggs the year round. A flock Of
laem VIII not only provide a big suppIv
u & but will furnish fryers for eV-
~ SUNDAY. dinner in the year. This
Rsans O feeding OURSELVES Is one OF
ne enlef aims OF agricultural fairs and
the Memphis fair ID going in for slleh
WORK IN a big way, realizing that tha
trl-states Virtually represent 4 neg
country fol-. such industry.~
mere VIII be several thousand fowls.
o2Asns % rabbits and several hundred
nL.SN- SttSnS hht05. VI kbeOI IN the
poultry building. They viii represent
me interest OF professionals, %cotnnnuni-
TIES, individual farmers and, last but
girls. ~ ""1
Growing pet stock, ven in. the back
yard OF the cities, is 4 highly profit
apte business aud a wholesoniely fine
pasttnne for the housewife and the bows
girls. Odd minutes for feeding is
almost h. only requirement, once pens
n housing Is provided. The returns
come regularly and pile up remarkably
with proper attention and care. Les
sons IN this sort of work cam be learn
"a at the Memphis fair and, az the
same time, those expecting 10 start in
the business a get In touch with the
ones already experienced and obtain
eggs or fowls--or pairs OF rabbits as the
case nl%y be-~for "a good foundation.
Outside OF the advantages OF such a
show, the new department. 81 rabbits
and pigeons is expected to prove inter-
esting even TO those who visit the fair
'Just to look There wilt be scores of
other departments with equally inter.
ssting features, ranging all the way
from q bit OF lace or knitting to the
big farm tractors and threshinR outfits,
Besides these things there 10 a pro-
gram of free entertainment ~daily--and
Of course therell be red lemonade, "hot
dogs n everything. \
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-17
THOUSANDS OF CATTLE
STOLEN NEAR NATCHEZ

NATCHEZ, Miss. Sept. II, fSpL)-Ar
z result of Investigations Instituted B,
the Adams County Live Stock associa.
tion in connection with the ALLEGED
wholesale stealing OF cattle in this sec.
ton. Philip NcIachlan, q whiAe man
has been arrested and other arrests are
expected to fellow. -
McLachlan was arrested on affidavit
Of Judge George w. Armstrong, one OF
the largest cattle breeders OF this sec
ton, who alsp has-extensive rancbinz
interests In Oklahoma and Texas.
Al a recent meeting of the county
live stock association Judge Armstrong
declared that within the last wear hun
dreds Of head Of cattle have been stolen
in THIS section and that he had per-
sonaily lost about 1000 head. He said
that there was already sufficient evil
dence in hand to insure a number Of
convictions and that he was convinced
that q full investigation would disclose
the fact that there Is an organized gang
ot cattle thieves operating htween
NatcheE and Vicksburg. a. resolution
was passed by the association 10 peti.
ton Judge r. ID Jackson To seAilr 4
special session OF the grand jury If
necessary. !
It is believed that many Of the cattle
stolen have been loaded on barRes on
the Mississippi river at remote points
IN the county to be transported for
sale.