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Newspaper
The Dispatch News
Location
Lexington, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1919
Page
7
Disabled veterans applying to the federal board for vocational education for retraining show rising interest in music. An expert evaluates prior experience and education, and if favorable, the veteran proceeds. Some requests for expensive instruments exceed what the act allows, forcing limits on grand pianos harps and costly violins.
Public health campaign materials urge South Carolinians to buy Christmas Seals to fund tuberculosis work. The effort uses posters billboards movies and trailers to raise funds and educate on prevention and cure of the disease through the American Red Cross and the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association.
Washington dispatch notes the Rockefeller Institute’s seventh chapter cites a permanent contribution to preventing and curing gas gangrene from industrial accidents. The report details wartime lab preparations and Rockefeller resources offered to the Surgeon General. It also warns that outdated farm tools waste money.
A petition signed by over one third of Lexington County voters seeks severance from Lexington and annexation to Newberry. The description traces a route from a point near the Bronze River on the Fairfield Lexington line through a series of bearings and distances to a point on the Columbia Newberry and Laurens Rail Road and into Black Creek. The document outlines the proposed boundary changes and legal steps.
R A Cooper Governor of South Carolina orders a special election on January 6, 1920, to decide annexation of a Lexington County portion to Newberry County. The proclamation details boundaries, election administration by Lexington and Newberry County election commissions, ballot wording Yes or No, and reporting requirements to state officials.
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