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Newspaper
The Dispatch News
Location
Lexington, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1922
Page
1
In a long running county gathering, speakers from agriculture stress farmer to farmer exchange. The article promotes attending farm meetings to observe practices, learn from experts, and expand ideas by visiting neighboring counties and fellow workers to avoid stagnation and profit loss.
Swansea July 17 Messrs Witt Bros lost a large barn by lightning last Friday evening. The barn contained oats barley corn and implements with an estimated loss of 5000 dollars no insurance. The fire occurred between 6 and 11 o clock during a severe electrical storm.
The county urges eligible voters to enroll on the Democratic club books before the close on Tuesday July 26. Those not signed by then will be debarred from the upcoming primary. A list of clubs and secretaries is published for voter information.
The South Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association struck a $10 million advance with the War Finance Corporation to finance member cotton deliveries. Each member will receive 5 percent of their cotton’s current market value when delivering to the association. Officials and many technical heads are chosen, warehouses pledged, and membership momentum grows as contracts pour in across the state ahead of September 1.
The Missionary society of Red Bank Baptist church will host an ice cream festival and refreshments at the schoolhouse on July 29 starting at eight o'clock. Proceeds aid the church. The public is invited and candidates are urged to attend and speak.
Mrs W B Humphries hosted the Priscilla club gathering on Thursday afternoon. An official salad course was served. The group will meet next Thursday at 4 30 PM with Mesdames Sligh and Moorman.
In Batesburg last week C E Leaphart of Lexington trustee of L D Cullum Company bankrupt stock and W Le Bennett of Columbia sold the assets at public auction. J C Cullum bought the stock at about 80 percent of appraised value. The Lutheran Summer School for church workers opened July 12 and closed July 19 with Dr H A McCullough of Columbia directing and nearly 200 students enrolled. A reception for faculty and students was hosted by the Batesburg Board of Trade in the grove of the Methodist churches. Also present were Hon H F Fulmer and Hon A I Bethea candidates for Congress, with Fulmer addressing the Woman's Club. The Central Conference of the South Carolina Synod meets Nazareth church July 26-27 1922 with sermons, discussions, and devotions led by local ministers and scholars.
To the Editor of The Dispatch News a reader asks space to echo Dr James Harman and J O Hallman on the tax issue praising their stance and urging support in the community discussion.
Columbia July 10 With officers elected and key posts filled the South Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association is nearing operation. Scarborough named treasurer and Mazyck general sales manager bring banking and cotton sales expertise to the venture as applications from farmers continue to arrive.
More than a thousand South Carolina tobacco farmers have joined the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association as drives reach 52 belt towns. Florence, Mullins, Timmonsville, Kingstree, and Aynor report solid cooperation. 65 warehouses are ready for operation statewide. Leaders from North and South Carolina and Virginia rally farmers to join before August 1 when contracts for 1922 end.
Ludwig Lewisohn writes in The Nation July 12 about Charleston and its old Charlestonians. He notes the state’s charm from Broad Street to the Ashley and Cooper rivers, praising literary culture and the romance of Charleston while critiquing modern cotton mill industrialism. The Nation, a liberal weekly from New York, previews essays by Anderson, Gale, Glasgow, Herrick and others.
After a concert a tired diner asks the conductor to play by request. The conductor agrees. The diner quips that everyone should enroll for the primary, prompting a brief exchange about participation in the election process.
The annual Zion Pastorate Joint Sunday schools picnic will be on August 3 at the late Rev J A Cromers residence. The gathering, started thirteen years ago, draws large crowds with programs arranged by G B Wingard and D Frank Efird including hymns, addresses by Rev H A Kistler Rev J Black Rev E J Sox, dinner, and children’s games.
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