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Newspaper
The Dispatch News
Location
Lexington, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1921
Page
1
A meeting at the playful home aims to promote potato curing as a solution for low spirits and weak markets. The event seeks willing residents to help raise funds, with Good Friday egg hunt and fish fry planned for March 25, plus ice cream and cakes by the Ladies Improvement League.
The County Board of Equalization met Tuesday in the office of W. D. Dent, county auditor, to carefully review real and personal property returns across the county. Few protests were filed. in all but one case township and town board decisions were upheld. The board adjusted values modestly, and stock values by county average were set at mules 60, horses 50, cattle 19 per head. The auditor was tasked to ensure auto inventories from the state highway department are listed for taxation and to collect lists of all mercantile and other businesses to prevent missing property. N. B. Wannamaker of Sandy Run was elected chairman. members listed include L. W. Wise, A. R. Oswald, R. F. Cumalander, H. W. Martin, C. L. Rast, C. E. Jones, W. F. Hook, P. I. Sox, D. F. Lorick, Gilbert Hollow D. H. Price, F. H. Hendrix, H. M. Price, D. E. Efird, B. H. Barre, J. P. Goodwin, A. M. Wingard, and N. B. Wannamaker.
A moving picture show of new arrivals will be shown at Cherokee school house Thursday night March 24. All are urged to attend.
Midway school will close for Good Friday with a program by the students including plays drills music and songs. The event starts at 7 30 p m with refreshments to be served. The Ladies Aid Society will host an egg hunt at Styx on Saturday March 26 starting at 2 o clock p m with refreshments also. Everyone is invited.
An all day school entertainment to be held at Macedonia school on Saturday April 2 will feature recitations dialogues and other acts. A basket picnic dinner will be served on the grounds.
A plea from the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association urges immediate donations to fund ongoing work against tuberculosis and infection prevention. The Dispatch News invites county contributions from Sunday schools Bible classes and benevolent groups with public credit in the paper.
Columbia awaits Palmafesta week from March 28 to April 2 with crowds from all counties. More than 35000 dollars funds elaborate attractions at the State Fair grounds Steel Building for an Auto Show Style Review and Queen crowning. Queen voting ends March 31 with 45 county candidates presented daily. final ceremonies April 1 at the Jefferson Hotel. Three parades led by the Scotch Kitties band will feature giant floats, baby floral and trades displays.
St Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church announces divine services at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. throughout Easter week with Thursday and Friday evening services at 10:00 p.m. Easter morning services are at 6:00 and 11:00 a.m. Cantata “The Greatest Love” at 7:30 p.m. Easter Eve. Pastor Arthur by Obenschain to preside.
Sheriff E Austin Roof arrested and jailed Henry Wheeler a Newberry negro from Prosperity for the February 19 shooting of Sam Boyd at a Macedonia area hot supper. Boyd died Friday after lingering injuries. Coroner Weed conducted an inquest following Wheeler’s arrest.
The Junior Order of Lexington will raise the U S flag atop Lexington high school and present the Bible to trustees at 3:00 p m on the fourth Sunday in March. Dr Funderburk will speak on The White and the Red, or The Price of Virtue and Liberty. The event is religious in character and urged for all to attend.
Friday night April 1 at St Michael's school offers a first class moving picture show with comics, Westerns, and educational features. Show starts at 8 o'clock admission 25 and 15 cents, proceeds aid the school. refresh ments served after. Also listed are jurors for the second week of the court of common pleas with Judge Frank B Gary presiding.
The Lexington County Farmers Union at a recent meeting passed resolutions protesting the delegation's appointments to the county board of commissioners. They state farmers were not represented and urge the delegation to include farming members, asserting there are competent farmers to fill county commissioner roles and demanding representation from the farming element.
The 1921 report by B. B. Hare cites 22.5 million bushels of last year’s corn left on South Carolina farms as of March 1, up from 17.22 million a year earlier. US total remaining corn on March 1 reached 1.572 billion bushels, 504 million more than 1920. Land values, rents, and credit conditions show a grim outlook with scarce cash, high costs, and limited bank financing.
R Milo Smith of Lexington county has earned a university scholarship and was chosen to represent the University of South Carolina in a joint debate with Wof ford to be held in Columbia soon. Selected by a committee of prominent Columbians after trials at the university, he is a Lexington High School graduate entering freshman year.
Confederate veterans of Lexington County met at the courthouse to elect a pension board under the new law. The former board was retained with Col. M. D. Harman, D. T. Hare, and James E. Rawl. The old board serves until January 1, after which the new board takes charge, though all members were reelected. The group reviewed pension rolls, noting about forty names dated deaths, and will finalize the rolls for the comptroller general by April 1. Col Harman plans to return soon from Florida. The legislature allocated 600,000 for pensions, with funds available once rolls from all counties are in.
A fable contrasts building castles of wealth power and fame with a life built on sacrifice and love. The tale ends with a modest hillside home standing as a monument to generosity, implying true legacy comes from helping others rather than chasing riches. The moral: lasting honor belongs to those who serve others.
Hon A Frank Efird has been appointed a delegate to the United States Wood Roads association meeting to be held in Greensboro North Carolina from April 18 to 23.
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