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Newspaper
The Dispatch News
Location
Lexington, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1919
Page
6
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The Lexington County meeting urges farmers and merchants to unite for steady markets and diversified crops. Speakers urge cooperative societies, caution against overreliance on cotton, and promote countywide meetings led by business and professional leaders.
The News-Dispatch will publish Tuesday instead of Wednesday to reach readers before Christmas Day. In order to give staff a holiday break, press deadlines move a day earlier. advertisers are urged to submit copy promptly.
The Lexington county community urges faster road work with better speed and comfort. Officials warn that building and maintaining 7,000 miles of Phad is impossible at current pace, predicting two more years of slow progress and a spending shortfall of $90,088 amid national armament plans. The committee emphasizes the need for expanded maintenance and more workers to advance road improvement.
The county discussion focuses on current conditions and planning new, stronger moves. The paper notes a past misprint spelling Lexington and a shipment error where an item was mailed by express rather than mail. The editorial seeks accountability, stating the desire to avoid fault finding while acknowledging a correction.
The fragmentary community page notes rainy weather ahead for the next two days and lists local visitors and social events. It records marriages at St Matthews parsonage with Rev Zaungblood officiating, neighbors hosting gatherings, and a long verse questioning who carries on the devil’s work now that belief has shifted.
A 1919 inquiry to Probate Judge George Dratis asks Lexington County records for the Harmon family. Anna Harmon Cordell from El Dorado, Ark seeks Abraham Harmon born 1793 and mother Sophia Wilson, plus any Wilson or Harmon ancestral data.
An old advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe alternative to calomel for purging the liver and bowels. It claims you will feel better and not suffer griping, promising refunds if your health does not improve, and even suggests giving it to children.
An advertisement promotes Gude's Pepto Mangan as a remedy to enrich thin watery blood. It claims energy, vitality, and improved health through liquid or tablet forms, stresses rest on authentic branding with the name Gude's on packaging and notes physicians recommend it for anemia.
A decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Lexington County 8 C directs special referee I H L Harmon to sell January 6 1920 at the courthouse Lexington to highest cash bidder the land described as 93.17 acres on the Saluda River with improvements and boundaries from the Spann deed recorded November 1896 and plat by W D George dated February 6 1915 William Putt and others listed in the record.
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