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4 QJljr iEauraatrr Npiub (SKNH Wll.kl.Y.) .?r,. JUAN IT A VYU1 Editor aroun W. 8. HOUGH. . Business Mgr. venth 7 this i PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT: h . Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster. S. C., by The belter Lancaster Publishing Company, so dr successors to The Ledger, es- state tablished 1852; The Review, as ? nntjLhlUhod 1878- Tho ICtitor prise, established 1891, and en- i on 1 tered as second-class matter requi Oct. 7, 1905, at the postofflce years at Lancaster, S. C., under Act nrecli of Congress of March 3, 1879. jj j SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: less < (In Advance.) lends One Year $1.50 ^ Six Months 75c by T TO SUBSCRIBERS. :-long Your subscription must be "1. paid up to and Including year as til marked on your label. If paper one i is stopped look at your date and to ins you will probably find you are now i behind one year. 1 of de Wo cannot send each sub- movei Bcriber a statement. Look at "2. Your Label. son t If you do not receive your ment paper promptly we would appre- j for a elate it if you will notify us and vision we will correct the mistake. j carrit In the hurry of mailing out the tary. papers names of subscribers are "3, sometlr -s left off Inadvertently. each TUESDAY, MAY 12, ",4-, a clul ?Weather forecast for South rount Carolina: Fair Tuesday; Wednes- reside day cloudy. ??6. ? rolls Get busy. electt 1 "7. "Clean-up Week" began today. jj'eUvt 15 or See what you can accomplish he- ??g fore Saturday. hands in th Let's swat every fly in town by taries starving this insect pest. itees. Let's have a Chautauqua instead of sentir so many carnivals and other "cheap" meet shows. prima right Little courtesies are the bright f* nowers that bloom along life's steep, tees*, rugged pathway. tests. i showi This town can be made as clean ship i as any other and we should resolve to see that it becomes so. j prgCj, tion. "Seems to us the primary will have "T to be remade instead of reformed," of th says The Greenwood Daily Journal. Ve % tions Let the farmers ponder well these wise words from The Uaffney Led- tions ger: "There is more profit in pork, the I for the planter, than there is in poli- w'hicl .. as to tJcs- whiL ent p The President went to the circus party last week, a privilege South Darolinians will enjoy as soon as the biennial county to county perforinance begins. a lad ter > A town that can furnish a parade Smitl like the one Lancaster witnessed than May Day should certainly be able to pull off a county fair. Hut 1 ow's the cja|ni time to be getting ready for it. . quire ??? our 1 Did you make a good start today!heart ?>r ciean up week? If you did, keap one 1 up the good work. If you didn't, Ret busy tomorrow. Ttemember the the ( trash will be collected Thursday. the h . thing .Candidates for the various office?, are alow in announcing themselves. Put your names before the people, in So you who would have their votes, and have let them be making up their minds. WO""** _ and 1 Vou cannot but appreciate the _ gr^gg goriU work tlie Civic League has nn- good del taken tliis week. Please help.tnont. them, then, with the needed spring We Cleaning. Their efforts deserve your from support. Let the slogan be "For a congr City Ileautifully ('lean." trict. , tural ; Many white roses were worn Sun- fully <\ay tQX our people know the meaning him ! of a mothdT'S love and took a.lvant- the ii age of this beautiful custom of pay-'ator? ing tribute to an influence stronger years and sweeter than any other. more ? has < We read that there will be a "cam- both paign against stagnant pools" in the to|, .. work of sanitation at Vera Cruz, ?p ol which reminds us that such work "horr might be done by the town this week the h in connection with the work of the Henat Civic League. on th ? ~~ , , man. Clean your house this week, under i your house, in front of your house, hack of your house and everywhere Th olse that you find In need of cleaning. (lu,re Let the owners of stores do likewise. news Let the town look after the streets ot^ei and ditches. If every agency does its part, the fly will be swatted mightily. weal' is so "The inhabitants will find them- ware selves under strict rules of sanitary of fi conduct," says a dispatch from Vera not t Cruz. There are strict rules of sanl- all. tary conduct here In South Carolina, real which Lancastrians would do well to duee m observe. If sanitary regulations are On I enforced in Mexico, they should cer- like talnly be enforced in South Caro- of o Una. We call upon the town board erno of health to follow up the work that grea is done this week by a tour of in- to a Bpection. to tl THE LANCASTEI KFOltM PltlMAKY RULtM. KKCOUXITION OF NEWS s nowuforegone conclusion that The city council of Car ? safeguards will be thrown recognition of the service d the primary by the state con- newspapers in the advanc >n, which meets May 20th, and the interests of the city, wii s what every honest voter asking from the papers, ii d wish to have done. We do not up its annual license on oc< e that this is the time to make did not as heretofore, in< astic a change as to require the newspapers in the list, law for qualification of voters council of Camden is to be < rule of the party for qualiflca- ed for this and other inun in the pr'raary. The state laws would do well to take simil re residence in the state two There is no one force in a ? . the county one year and the works so unselfishly f act one month. This may be vancement as the newspape ght later on. but at this time, space taken up in boosting Irastic measures will meet the was charged for at the ust desired. would run up into the tlio e following suggestions made dollars. Therefore to tax n he Greenville Piedmont, are for doing business ts pooi the right l'no: of their services. Throw away every club roll, The town council of 1 ere probably is not an honest when licenses on occupatl a the state and it will be easier first required, made the I ike new ones thar. to use those newspapers $5, and with a use, which contain the names , , , ?? ' ad people, people who have confined $*. Prom then d away, etc. advanced until the council Make every man apply in per- the one now in oillce, fixed I 0 the club secretary for enrol- uew8paper8 and job omce or in writing. Provide a form , .Jl . . AtA, pplication in writing, with pro- *7s>, but on petition for 1 for attest by the person who Hon reduced it to $50. TT >s the application to the secre- council fixed the license foi t? t ?i. ? u ? per and job office at $35. Require that the residence of , club member be stated on the more than any newspape ed anywhere in a city of L Allow no man in a city to join size is paying, where they t> outside his own ward. to pay anything at all. CI Require Democrats in the ry to join the club nearest his Poses no tax on "owspaper nee. other places of Lancaster' Require closing of the club tion, where any tax is imp* 2 0 or .5 0 days prior to the merely nominal. ?nRequire secretaries to pre- We commend the action < duplicate alphabetical rolls and council of Camden to othe r one copy to tiie clerk of court palies in the state. 25 days prior to the primary. Require that the rolls In the 0ur fellow members of ! of the clerk of court and those , , e hands of the various secre- ?P?ak encouraging shall be open for inspection ^ne start our people have n days. (cleaning up. Let the good Require the county commit- merrily on or executive committees reprelg the county committees, to . ~ TTTi 5 or 15 days before the first Swat the <-?at-tail sw try to hear protests against the the excellent advice of Thi of any name or names to be on burg Times and Democrat. ills. ). Require the county commit- r? :o promptly decide such proto remove names of persons rv D** a not to be entitled to member- mTOJH VJlflCT i Q and to certify tne rolls as final termtned and furnish same to rimary managers at the various l^et's Set Her High icts as the poll lists for the elec- The trouble seems to South Carolina is wrong here is a real reason for each ?Spartanburg Herald. e suggestions outlined above. vill discuss the various sugges- Never, from day to day and will be Arresting editors on c ed to publish short articles from "libel" and beating them u >crats containing any sugges- offices will not suppress a I they may wish to make as to Newberry Observer. >est way of holding a primary. 1 will be an honest and fair test Highest Officer. the will of the majority of The highest officer at Ve > men qualified under the pres- a South Carolinian. We 'arty constitution to vote in the course, to the army aviat primary.' Bellinger, who goes over tl General Funston himself.? Courier. B ADHKRK TO OI K CLAIM. , ar be it from us to disagree with An Index to a Towi y. The ed'tress of The Lancas- The three great educativi Tews asserts that 'Senator E. D. a place are the church, the s t knows more about farming the local paper. The way any man in Congress.' If that supported proves the Intel word had been 'senate,' instead otherwise of the communitj ongress,' we would imitate the of its morality.?Orangebu i. But, we are impelled to in- and Democrat. of the fair presiding genius of Lancaster exchange if she ever The Mud That Soil 1 of another South Carolinian. At this particular juncti K. F. Lever, who is reputed to course of human events some little something about Carolina we may well consi Ing and is therefore chairman of lug of Lowell's?"All exper jreat agricultural committee of to show no mud can soil i ouse? He has done some great mud we throw.?Greenville s for the farmers of the country neral and of the South in par- "Dreads the Truth ir. And we might gently whis- Watch the politician who hat we think there are farmers whining about newspaper 1 uth Carolina and elsewhere who you look upon him you s stuck to the farm and know who can do stunts that wc about real farming than Smith Ananias ashamed of himsi Lever put together, with prob- not lies he dreads, but thi a few dozen other fanner con- York News. men and senators thrown in for measure."?Greenville Pi ?d- Horn to Oppose the T One of the old philosop! i would not for anything detract "Man was born for mutt the work of the brainy young .,That ,s "ot J n look at it now. Many think essnian from the seventh dis- ar(? |,0rn to kick, to pull do for the recent I^ever agrieul- pose everything that ts rig extension bill, which he success- tan burg journal, enacted irto law, alone stamps " is a statesman keenly alive to ~tote for the Best M You vote for the best ma iterests of the farmer, but Sen- ator, governor and all othe imith, who is bis senior by many use your mind, and do not , has thereby had considerably some one else to dictate f , f?TO you shall vote. Don't to experience on fhe 'arm than *ome fw?ow jugt berause Congressman ILever. They are yOU noj j8 for j,j indeed, "homy-handed sons of vllle Medium. but we contend that in a show r the palms of the hands, the sTffe"whlch'^ai is" developed by the attrition of t bottom in the scale of iliiiei oe and plow on tl e palms of the may be some people who v or are more plainiV evident than *',e governor s claim thai . .. ., ' department wanted the ose of the able ymiag congress- encRmD at the ,H,e of purpose of carrying them < 'J ' | warning to the battlefield Is from The Yorkvflle En- |,co< 1>e* Haa Dally. r Is a strange cfcarge for one People Who Make Us i paper to be making against ; There are aome lovely a, which are Juat as interested in this kreat world of oura tl welfare of the producers of flower"v they draw near, we are Lh aa la The Enquirer: "There know not why ma mething of a luEI in the Rtate aeaa physical beauty, or house dlacuaaion. Aa a matter marvelous intelligence, hi o .1 ,, n embodiment of peace. They *ct. South Carolina papers are for thfiy are full of Inspira liaposed to discuss the subject at hihgest order. These peop The thing looks too much like a ouiet lake beside which beneiit to the fellow who pro- ;',K' beautiful plants, whlcl .. ... , . ,, fleeted In the water, makes s the wealth of the country. p1rt?rG. Therp no Jarr the contrary It looks loo much ripple on the mirror-like a scheme to advance the Interests colors of earth and sky ne particular candidate for gov- ^'Otilsltely. Hirds aing a * , ... , . . , into their ears. The worl r. who. while professing to be a dfn ,a on|y n ?weet memory t lover of the people, was avenge Chronicle, ubmltting his warehoua scheme .. ,, - I NEWS, M AY 12, 1914. PAPKlttt. R7 r?; ? COUNTY NEWS 1 ement of * thout any DOUGLAS. J 1 making y pupations. Special to The News. J :lude its | Douglas. May ll.-r?It Hn't n.iv ! < The city to grumble about the ha**d luc'?. we sommend- will get rain by und by. Icipalities Our school closes Thursday with * ar action. Miss Kula Hyatt of Van Wyck as ominunlty teacher. or Its ad- Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wyiiaras of * ir. If the Lancaster spent the week-end at the the town home of Mr. and Mrs. 1<\ M. Stcpner, lal rate It the latter's parents. J usands of Miss Essie Carnes of Lancaster was ewspapers the guest of the Misses Sallie and p recognl- , Annie Addison, Sabbath. J Mr. J. L. Tillman visited Van Lancaster, Wyck recently. ions were Misses Pauline and Viola Beckham * license 011 were visitors in the community the ! job office past week-end. on it was Our Sunday school expects a pleas- * preceding ant day down on the CatawLa river the tax on Saturday at Goodies' ferry. It ex- ! combined tends a special invitation to all others J a reduc-ias already published. le present Mr. J. L. Tillman says that If we both pa- will send him to the tegislature he J But this will put the hammer doodle on the r publish- whiskey and tobacco question. Good, ancastor's let's send him. J are made tester im- j HKAT1I SPUING. J s, and in , s popu'.a- sPpplal to T!ie News. | . jsed it is Heath Spring. May 11.?Children's Day was observed at Beaver Creek > if the citv c',urc'1 with r.pproprlate exercises on v r tnunici- Satur(,ay> th? 9th lnst. Addresses were delivered by a number of in-1 vited speakers and a bountiful din-1 * "the Civic ' npr waa ?prvod. ly of the Mother's Day was appropriately made at 'bserved by the Rich Hill Baptist * I Work go Sunday school on Sunday, the 10th. The exercises were concluded by a , talk on "Some Mothers in History," y inger," is , by the pastor. J e Orange- Mr. W. F. Mobley, principal of the public school at Cow-pens during the ? ! past session, has returned to his j = home here. dl Miss Doll Morris of North Augus- l' ipers I ta is spending awhile with her sis- m' ter. Mrs. J. B. Bushardt. ar Little Sarah Williams, daughter of SP 'be that ^r' an(* Mrs. C. K. Williams, who m primarily. bas been sick, is improving. ;to Dr. J. W. H. Dyches Is attending Kr the annual session of the Southern 'n . , Baptist convention at Nashville, harges of p in their Tenn. free press. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Jones are liv- P' ing in the Mackey house recently vn- ai cated by Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bell. ra Cruz is ^'r- R- Twitty spent several refer, of days at Liberty Hill last week. Je :or. Lieut. Mrs. S. C. Gardner had the mis- e(' ie head of fortuno tQ sprain an ankle recently, 'u News and ... from which she has suffered a good " deal for the last few days. n. Prof, and Mrs. Bushardt motored 3 [?rces to the Haile Gold Mine Sunday after- Al school and in these are noonligence or Mr. and Mrs. Manly Croxton and lit \ and also children came over by auto to visit _ rg Times rejatives Sunday evening. ^ Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Ellis and Ruth a, spent Sunday with Mrs. Lewis Robirfl in thP nrt ann fit Pl^nannt Mill at in South . pr cauthen of Charlotte was at ience goes Pleasant Hill on professional bustis but the ness Sunday. J i News. Mrs. Desale Hinson of Lancaster, tt after visiting her parents, Mr. and ^ ' is always Mrs> w- J- Vau*?hn. returned home ies. When Sanday night. J ee a man Mrs. Mattle Johnson is reported ni,d make qUfte sick at the home of her daugh- j b tVuth - ter' *^rs- Nannie Mobley. i Messrs. S. C. McMackin and Rob- ?? ert Therrell drove down to Kershaw +light. after dinner Sunday. I1* assis- Miss Flossie Crenshaw of Lnncas- *2 way many ter apent Sunday afternoon in Heath ?5 ; that they Spring. wn, to op- Mrs. E. B. Mobley and TayTor, and Ji k*' Spar- Mrs Dyehes. spent Saturday after- jj noon in Kershaw. [Hn Messrs. H. H. Horton and L. J. in for sen- Mackey of Lancaster were fit town ? . IT officials. Monday. depend on J or whom ? to against OAK HURST. ^4 BUlUtJ UI1U __ j ^ ?- Abbe- Specjai to The News. ^ Oakhurst,. May 11.?School closed *4 here Friday with simple exercises by nds at the the pupils in the afternoon. On SatTny? at*1"* urday a P^cn'c waa held on the J t the war Kroun(l8, ?od with the delightfully J| militia to pleasant day, it can be called a sue- j ns for the cessful picnic. As usual, on such oc>ff Ir'1**0"1 ra,,lon8> the dinner was the eentral i 8 ? e* feature, and It would bo Impossible ? to name afl the good things spread.1^ r;iml. Suflice it to say it was a bountiful 4 people in dinner, as well as a most appetizing 'whenever one" 'r',e ladlee of Oakhurst have glad, but always been noted for the abundance * y not pos- and variety of good things to eat, 4 riches or thev know how to prepare, and this 4 it are the Inspire us ocrap,on WM no exception. ? tion of the In the afternoon the patrons and ^ ile are like friends assembled in the school grow tall building, and were entertained by * 'a pleasa'nt ta,ks from Superintendent Idngle, ? ing. nor a Rev. Mr. Weldon, pastor lleath 4 water. The Kpring M. K. church, and Mr. I... It. 4 harmonize Rollings, trustee. Mr. Idngle's talk ^ Id Vi'th^its waH a'on* line of the Importance Cheraw of improvement of schools in general, * Oakhurst in particular, and thei . inos Any du,'es ?' Pat-r?n8 a"d trustee.?. Mr. Weldon spoke of the splen THIS NEVER HIS MOlJfer THE /SOME FOOLISHT '^r (mam has lost/*""^vv \ his walletr^e^jr Did you ever lose monie feel badly about it afteAv; money foolishly and fkic did? Put it in the blink Besides you'll find itmor than to spend. \ We will pay you 4 per c you put in our bank an( every three months. The First Ns LANCASI UNITED STATE! d opportunities open to the boy and rl of today. The parents, he adonished to see that their children e trained physically, mentally, and iritually. The school, under the anagement of a teacher consecrated the work of teaching, can be a eat factor in this character trainit Mr. Rollings reviewed the past sar's work, expressing himself well eased with the work accomplished, id urging that more interest be ken by all. During the afternoon also the subct of a new building was discuss1, and judging fro mthe enthusstic approval of such a proposition, e shall have a new building in a lort time. The ladles of the Improvement ssociation served refreshments durg the day and realized quite a neat :tle sum from their work. f here. We give them spedLil to manage their accounts ajn to know. Anrl that the a</-r? difference in the character! ol , 8TATEMENT OFF1 THE FARMERS BANK located at Lancaster, S. C., at /ha i " RESOURCE8. f * Loans and D1b- V . counts f 111,14436^ Overdrafts 1,726.97 Furniture and Flx> tures 2.875.00 Due from Banks > * and Bankers... . 11,332.2/ > Currency 8,025.(n Gold 1,005.1)0 r Silver and Other 5s Minor Ooln.. .. 74034 L Checks and Cash Items 314.75 % 1 ^ Total $132,163.94/ 8TATM OF SOUTH CAROLINA^ County of Lancaster /?. Before me camo W. H. Mlllen, ( who, upon bt'ng duly sworn, sa v* statement Is a true condlttonVpf j t Wa-I. w ui nuiu uaiift. JL Sworn *o ana subscribed before I* J Correct?Attest: W. T. Gregory Diret | FARMERS BANK & # W. T. GREGORY, President R. T. DKATY, Jr., * For Results Try * ^HAPPENS p N WHO HAS | r SAfE IN I BANK, j y out of your pocket and J ard? Did you ever spend :k" yourself because you \ and you will do neither. V e real enjoyment to save V ent interest on the money > i compound the interest itional Bank : FEE, S. C. i DEPOSITORY. ? .*,V/.'/.\V.^*/.*.\*.*,*.V,V/.V.V, Concert to l>e Given at Heath Spring. A delightful concert is in prospect for Heath Springs. It will be given Friday evening, May IB, for the benefit of the Heath Springs high school. Mr. McDermid and his brilliant little violin class, composed of four pretty girls, and other wellknown musicians of Lancaster will also accompany hlra. Altogether, a most enjoyable entertainment is promised, and we bespeak for this worthy cause a liberal patronage. Admission, adults 25c, children 15c. Settle It by Elimination. ^ It has ben suggested that John Hull would do well to put the suffragettes against the Ulsterltes. In that way two very vexatious questions might be settled satisfactory by the elimination of all contending parties. a v,??? J AVUCIIO UU.UI1CI. Banking 4 By ! ' Women t is made especially ?+ / V f easy and pleasant I attention, show them how & d everything else they want unt is a small one makes no & f our service. X Y IE CONDITION OF & TRUST COMPANY, *f close of business March 4th 1914. LIABILITIES. > Capital Stock Paid in $60,040.00 V vSurplus Fund . . . . 1,600.00 ?8> iiundlvlded ProfltB, ^ r less Current Ex( penses and Taxes Paid 6,994.71 individual Deposits ^ ; Subject to Check. 60,643.79 V Time Certificates of A Deposit 21,646.39 t Certified Checks. . . . 1,468.74 V Cashier's Checks.... 81.31 o Total 1181,168.94 V X ^ashler of the above named bank. V ys that the above and foregoing y tald bank, as shown by the books W. H. MILLEN. & i me this 10th day of March 1914. P. ROBINSON, Notary Public. J , W. P. Bennett, A. B. Ferguson, V itors. y TRUST COMPANY & W. H. 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