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Newspaper
The Dispatch News
Location
Lexington, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1921
Page
4
Classified notice from The Dispatch News Lexington DC dated December 21 1921 advertising obituary and thank you notices at one cent per word with cash with order and remittance payable to Sligh and Walker communications address and phone number included
The Joint Legislative Committee on Economy and Consolidation reports potential savings for taxpayers without harming public services. It urges immediate adoption of its plan to reduce state expenses and improve efficiency while a broader tax system overhaul is pursued for fairer assessment and lasting relief. Local delegations should curb costs to provide temporary relief until permanent reform.
The Dispatch-News condemns a prank that printed a fictitious marriage notice last week. The paper vows vigilance and warns that future notices must be well vouched by responsible parties before publication to avoid errors.
The Dispatch News extends season greetings to readers, advertisers and friends. It reflects on blessings, encourages keeping the true meaning of Christmas, and wishes a merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Annie Po Schirmer in New Rochelle urges early mailing to avoid Christmas parcel delays. The piece encourages using a poster stating Dont open until Christmas and highlights postmen burden during busy season. Piney Woods School hosts a Christmas exercise and minstrel Fowl Deed on December 23 1921 at 7 30 PM with a cake walk fish pond and amusements. Also an auction notice offers a good young mill cow with second calf from John M Roof New Brookland Route 1.
Qualified electors and freeholders are informed of a December 27 1921 election at the school house to vote an additional four mill levy for school purposes. Polls open 7 am to 4 pm. bring tax receipt and registration certificate. By order of the County Board of Education.
Vroome & Co. butter and cheese merchants in New York City claim RAT-SNAP keeps rats in check. They store it in their cellar and say it eliminates pests. Farmers report rats stop reaching stored food. Three sizes cost 25c 65c and 1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Harmon Drug Co. and Lexington Pharmacy.
Lexington citizen explains how kidney weakness signals trouble and urges prompt care. Mr E A Sox, farmer, recalls suffering backache and kidney distress until Doan's Kidney Pills provided relief after two boxes. Price 60c at dealers. ask for Doan's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
All persons are warned not to bend haul wood from or trespass on our lands. Violators will be prosecuted. Named parties include Dr J W Geiger J E Gardner J D Geiger J C Howard E W Moye W Furtick J E Reese A A E Beard and G Taylor. 4w-10-p.
The Service Yard advertises building materials including Bird's Neponset roofing and fir doors without knots offered by Allison Lumber Company at 729 Lady Street Columbia South Carolina.
By act of 1921 all Confederate soldiers or those with pensions are urged to assemble at the courthouse to form an honor roll and elect three members to the Honor Board for future pension actions. Notice to be published in January 1922. Meeting set for Monday January 9, 1922 at 10 a.m. Chairman M D Harman announces.
Notice warns against hunting fishing or trespassing on lands of Daniel L Taylor Paul Hite Lomm ie B Hite Lonnie J Frick Lawrence Taylor. Also warning not to be responsible for debts of Lillie Hall and listing David Hall as notice. Chain gang position seeks blacksmith with GEG Steele overseeing.
Lexington Cotton and Fertilizer Co announces gin operations on Wednesday Thursday and Friday December 14 15 and 16 with closures after these dates. Parties with cotton to gin are requested to come on the named days.
Notice warns all persons not to hunt flake or trespass on the premises under threat of legal action. D L George and T George signaled with date November 24 1921 and location Co. T. George.
By order of the court I will sell at public auction at the Lexington courthouse door in South Carolina on the first Monday in January next. The property is ten acres bounded by Gerge and Lizzie Rish W M Sharpe H E Smith and Blackville Dirt Road, the tract bought from A G Smith in 1919. Terms are cash and purchaser pays stamps and recording fees. H L Harman Clerk of Court Timmerman and Graham Attorneys for Plaintiff December 20 1921.
The Home National Bank of Lexington sues Fred G Hartley et al. and will sell at public auction at the Lexington Court House on the first Monday in January, The tract totals 626 acres in Black Creek Township with 526 and 100 acre divisions, plus water rights and mortgage property, under terms of cash payment and immediate post bid settlement.
State of South Carolina Lexington County Court of Common Pleas will sell at public auction on the first Monday in January next during legal hours of sale the real estate of M. P. Lindler estate in Chapin containing sixty feet frontage along Beaufort Street and side boundaries tied to the C N L railroad. Terms: half cash, year credit at 7 percent interest, bond secured by purchaser, purchaser pays papers stamps and recording fees.
Lexington Court of Common Pleas orders the sale of 52 acres in Platt Springs township, bounded by Eli Spires Peter Glass Lizzie Kernaghan and George Pounds. Heired from Henry Reed and Henrietta Reed, with undivided share in Henry Reed estate. Sale by J J Caughman assignee before the court house door on estate second day. Attorneys A D Martin, J L Harmon, and E L Bill. December 102h 1421.
Foreclosure sale to satisfy a judgment by CLERE'S SALE in Lexington County South Carolina. The land is forty five acres in Hollow Creek Township bounded by Shull Ballentine Kaminer Leaphart and Hook. Cash terms. Purchaser H L Harmon. Martin and Sturbin, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
In a court ordered sale the Bank of Pelion and multiple defendants will auction a tract of land in Platt Springs County of Wengen near Lexington on the first Monday in January. The parcel totals about 718 acres, bounded by W. A. Goodwin estate, W. A. Spires, J. M. Spires, and Signifer and Guisnard lands, previously conveyed to W. M. Spires by Bank of Pelion in 1917 as part of partitioning James H. Spires real estate. Sale proceeds cover papers, stamps, and recording fees. H L Harman and Timmerran & Graham attorneys for plaintiffs. December 10, 1921.
Court order sale by Bank of North Carolina proceeds from parcels in Bull Swamp Township Lexington County including fifty five acres and a tract of eighty nine and three fourths acres with life estate reserved to Marcilla A. Jefcoat. sale set for first Monday in January during legal hours at courthouse door. terms cash and payment for papers. Attorneys E M Livingston Co. Friddy E. B. Harmon clerk. December 1921.
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