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Newspaper
The Dispatch News
Location
Lexington, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1922
Page
2
Farmers gather grain as favorable weather continues. Local residents visit, illness improves, and a rain event marks several months of little precipitation. Verona band performs at Ridge Road home, and neighbors share Sunday gatherings with relatives and friends.
The fragment notes a Sunday afternoon gathering in the Amic section with kinfolks. It lists a schedule beginning 10:30 a.m. with Sonsset, 10:45 making the men interesting, 11:15 address or appointment, and urges all Sunday school to attend. H B Williams prepares the program. Carroll s or his ye associa presents the event.
Mrs E W Weaver hosted a small gathering on Augusta street in honor of her niece Miss Mack Gunter with help from Mrs Annie Weaver and Beatrice Talloway. Columbia Mills beat Palmetto Mills 12 to 3 at New Brookland. Mrs Jesse Reese of Columbus Ga visits her sister Mrs J L Wood. Mrs Irene Leaphart spent Sunday with her mother Mrs W A Hunter. Woman's Club met at Mrs C C Medhna home. Florence Hunter Thelma Thompson and Inez Tompson drove to the country Sunday.
The Lexington Baptist association schedules its Sunday School convention at Bethlehem church on June 10 and 11. Readings include enrollment, reports, talks on keeping enthusiasm, attracting Sunday schools, teaching doctrine, and teacher training with several speakers and a round table session.
In Knoxville on May 28 Bishop Thomas F Gailord of the Protestant Episcopal Church denounced national prohibition as a farce and warned that the 18th amendment enforcement is a reign of terror and politics. He criticized youth trends and urged cautious, lawful action while noting the distinction between passage and enforcement of prohibition. The Ladies Aid Society of Red Bank Lutheran Church plans a public supper on June 3 at 8 PM at the school house.
The Gilbert and Hammond families thank friends and neighbors in Lex County for kindness and sympathy since December 13. The writer is recovering from a gunshot injury to the right arm and remains unable to work. They credit God for perseverance and hope for continued support from the community.
A. J. Mathias of Lexington South Carolina invites buyers to order No 3 standard packer cans 21-16 opening with solder hemmed caps packed 100 to a carton at 36 dollars per thousand. Purchases paid cash and hauled from the car. He plans a 40 000 can car and warns prices will rise due to a Southwide fruit and vegetable boom. Orders should be placed now.
A brief advertisement touts a medicine that claims to cure malaria chills fever dengue and bilious fever by killing the germs. The note emphasizes rapid relief and health restoration.
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