hieLancasterNews T Lancaster, S. G. J I (SKM1-WKKKIA.) P5 + 4^ ;i?: r ^ in ^ly Country ?Tia of THm, 8wMt Land ci Oil of Liborty." . b( ;-a wi^ ^ fl, (Mtp'uuiiMiou mtMuajr nnu rnaay OV. BY THE a I qANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. 8I !ov, Established 1859. 81 , A (1EORGK BUIiLiA CRAVEN Editor and Manager w ?n 'lgl ar 9i>cnn H Plo.. M.ttor lD<\tober 7. 1905, at the Postofflce at r< ^'tacaster, S. C., under act of Conaa,ees of March 3, 1879. ? to we SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: wa- (In Advance.) dl FUfCIO. *1" We admit profound ignorance as '8 to the actual guilt of Mr. La Fol-jvl lettc, but if he is guilty of uttering S( ttreuaonable words, we know what la ought to be coming to him. + | m PreHitlejut Wilson has declared at that nothing short of complete vic_ (tory over CJermany will suffice, and in this President Wilson as in many, many other things, is right. ei ?? * |c That press dispatch from Ok la- nl homa relating whereas wheat is being fed to livestock has perhaps al- , ready received the attention of one tl Hub Hoover, who will be interested. a + ^ It has been said that Mrs. Vernos n Castle is the best dressed woman on , . b the stage, and a reprehensible ac-1 r< quaintanee is inclined to think that a the word "least" should be inserted ! i ri instead of "best." . * The buying of liberty Bonds is|a T) one thing in which speed limits are forgotten; in fact, officials of the treasury department say that a lit- f tie speed right now is the thing most |'' wanted. _ ? j1 Columbia club women have dis-j? pensed with elaborate refreshments.11 at their meetings in an effort to con- i ** aerve the food supply, but who i" knows hut that that will eliminate ' all the competition. ' . h The Columbia States remarks: i "In choosing ft wife select the girl.v who can manage with the smallest^ "food budget and not the one who ? can do with the minimum of c clothes," the which being referred r herewith without recourse to the ? editor of the Norfolk Virginian- 1 Pilot. r THE Li BUY A BOND. the issuance It is not ouly a voluntary act of tor road build itriotisw but a duty owed to the the propositio jvernment to buy a Liberty Bond. pie. The pe he troops which go from this having been ^ >untry to the battle fronts of Eu- ever, we belh >pe go to fight a battle for all of us, lng to forgive rid those who remain at home can movers in the i. no better way show their appre- islatlve act a ation of that fact than by buying the bill passe ands and helping the government ing a board nance the war. It is by no means for Davidson question of expense, either, but a Good roads ife investment with dividends essity and th< ire. more benefit The issue must be successful and Observer remi ill be successful and no one should the greatest elay purchasing the bonds for any evident prev ?ason. If over-subscribed and be- spirit of com >re the end of the time set for the will build a j tmpaign, as was the first issue, so joining count; iuch the better. That would be a ing a finer r< emonstration of the fact that the end will dot eople of this nation are behind the roads all aboi ^ministration, which is desired, manency is n rid which is true. roads in the South Carolina's allotment of the we save mom resent issue is $15,000,000, an,d tion. ancaster county will measure up to V nftpt fl Hi^nu It, Inltlnn An - A P 24m ^ >|/vv>vutivuo 4u tuning * UIC V/l Itnj^ iare, which Is $232,080. This 4 PROM mount has been allotted to the inks of Lancaster county and their 444444 ustomers, and while It Is by no T,M> leans an easy task, the bai.ks feel Occoquan lat the farmers and the townfolk very much ii ill measure up to all expectations A ^ew days i they did in the first issue. appealed to half of her s there for pic "iTILL THE LIVLOIt PROBLEM. . . . ^ and neglect Spartanourg was treated to some ( been exposed u ious consequences of the viola- J far worse ths on of the liquor laws Sunday night | have been ca hen a member of the military po-, U88'a" Eighteen v ce was shot down by an alleged :party are 1 iolator and in turn, after falling to charge of te ground, shot five times at his as- against the o illant, every shot taking effect. The stitution. A tidier was not badly injured, but women h 1 badly, in a 111 le suspected "tiger" is expected | in(lvliko ma 'e- | Tweedale is It has been ever thus. Many peo- Against him, le have doubted the wisdom of thej,ron anc* dive rohihition laws 011 the ground that kit* hen, 1 in the attem ley cannot be enforced. The same movai nf thc as true of North Carolina and is whom he. in ue of Virginia, as well as South heart was be arolina. In Virginia, it was said 'n a hospital lai enforcement of the law would ! rer< j sorely needed e impossible, and a legislator is The e|ghte? uoted as saying that in certain made the foil arts of his county the law could First. Tha ever be enforced. However, that keen buit, wj . , .. ... to be placed as not been the case, and the law . and water, as been enforced with perhaps as _ . v Second. T iw violations as any other law. The VjOUBiy been lw against murder is constantly | her own doct iolated; that against theft and ar- C(' her. in is violated, and the prohibition Third. Th , , , . been refused iw will be violated. tA. , . , within her rij Hut this will not affect the sentf- Fourth. T lent that is strongly against liquor ; asked Mr. T< ad prohibition is here to stay. \ taking their i that it was n ABOUT BOADS. Fifth. Th negro women "If there is one thing the Observ- them. " loves to talk about." says the Then they harlotte Observer, "more than an-'cue their cor ther, it is 'roads.'" high-spirited I A few words And the most of us are to bo,,. ? they requlrei jund in the same list. In fact, them. tere are few people nowadays not ' We may n< fleeted, in one way or another by entire sympal ood or bad roads. Those who do '"r sweet cause of vote ot travel in high-powered automo- that fo lies, in many instances, use the at least, wo Dads in other ways, and practically 1 from annoyii 11 people are benefitted by good K?vernnient 1 think the p oads. __ . House, unde The Observer says that road talk Grange devU nd road building have become the young womai opular fad in North Carolina and I"K them at hat there is now more permanent Occoquan. Doesn't thi oad construction under way or be- ,, . neps. sound fig arranged for in that State than in state. ny other Southern commonwealth. "hat is an accomplishment, perhaps, Appro f which the people may justl) bo any ra roud, and yet, by lack of proper (nation of th rovislon for maintenance, more klnfl 'or th? , , . , , , throws down noney has been wasted on roads in ing restraint he South than on any other one tarJ,y |mpos< tern. Not alone In North Carolina, assertion of ut in other States. the Germans We take it for granted that Da- a 'ra>,|nK ?' idson county has the best roads In ?' ex,rem't'< extent a fui forth Carolina, although we can re- rom|nc colla nemher when Mecklenburg county hie business. lalmed that distinction. These of thing goi oads came about through a special 8.uror " .. fatuity of fo >ci or me legislature, gotten I k I ment be rea hrough, we have been told in a i will come fli IMP ASTER NEWS FRIDAY, OCT. 12, 1917. of $300,000 of bondsj Names of State Towns, ling without submitting; To the Editor of The State: n to a vote of the peo-, j Hke very much editorials of the , ;ople of that county, kind you write in The Sunday State, given good roads, how- You cover a variety of subjects and sve they are now will- none are trite and commonplace. In i Varner and the other today's State in the editorial under movement for the leg- the caption, "South Carolina Map nd are forgetting that Study," in the last paragraph you d under a title "Creat- say: "Of names borrowed from of road commissioners modern cities of the world South county." Carolina has a good number. It have come to be a nec- may boast its Moscow, Camden, e better the roads, the Florence, etc." In this you are in to the people, and the error for the city of Camden was' irks that what it places named in honor of Lord Camden, dependence on is the whom the Colonials regarded very alence of the county highly, and the city of Florence was petition. One county named for Miss Florence Harlee, a good road and the ad_ daughter of General Harlee. Miss it ur (11 n Knti* kit lis* PlnronoA T-T o la * * ? IImImm '" A V? ?. j t* in o^v auvut uunu" ? ivivuvq ftlui ivt ao uv" 11 1115 in inc Dad. This spirit in the city of Florence. ibtless result in gooa B. F. Peguee. at, and the sooner per- Cheraw, Oct. 7. lade the foundation of The State would have been more South, the sooner will . , , ? accurate had it said that South Oar?y on road construcollna has a good number of names of towns identical with those of Eu-| ropean cities. It was not intended | to convey the notion that these OTHER PENS. ! names were taken directly from Eu-| ) ropean cities. For instance. South .......... . I Carolina towns could be mentioned Wild Woman. I which were named for other Ameri-I . . . can towns and they in turn were! workhouse has been named for European cities. The a the limelight lately. countie8 and towns of York> Lancaa. ago a Russian woman , ter and Chester were In large part her ambassador in be-1 aettled by immigrants from the collator who was detained 1 ony Qf Pennsylvania, where those keting. The hardships | names had already been given to to which the girl had [towns or districts. Tiie point which' were in her opinion The state wished to emphasize was in anything she would tjie general one that these names lied upon to endure in j were of European origin. Camden. N. J., is a much older settlement roinen or the suffrage fhan Camden. S. C.. but the name low being held on a Camden" was given to it later, rioting and mutiny |)od) towns were named in honor of fflcials of the same In. , Lord chancellor Camden.?Columiceordlng to the latter j)ja live behaved very, very! _____ ost uncivilized and un- Forcing Economy, nner. Superintendent Thfl government evidently intends the principal plaintilT. jjiat the people of this country are; three guards, the ma- going to practice economy whether rs colored women from thpy care to do 8() or nol. The next' they waged bloody war war tax measure provides for such) pt to prevent the re- taxation of luxuries and things peo ir leader, Mrs. Johns, pje arR nf)t forced to have that soon the kindness of his j, will ouj Qj die question for any nt upon placing safely onft worth less than a million dollars where she would have {n buy a plate of ice cream or take) attention that she a sof( drink. ! t] Dealers in these articles say that sn women on their part all present indications point to * owing statement: drinks increasing to ten cents peri'' ,t Mrs. Johns, who had K,aHS and when that happens the'? is, they believed, about i)U8|ness at the average soda foun. in duresse upon bread tain is going to be cut in half or^* I more. uncle sam evidently knows hat when she had pre-^^at he can make the people of this o ill and had demanded country be economical if the/ will Is or. he had been refus- no( fjp n nf their own free will.? a ; Spartanburg Journal. 8I at the information had ; her whether she was cierman IntriRue in Japan. ulits in asking for him.; , . . We shudder to look around us hat when they had . , , , . at the menace we so narrowly es weedale where he was J > friend, he had replied ' a^.' ' , ! . , . , , The words are those of Viscount one of their business. ........ . , ........ Ishii, of the Japanese mission to the ' at he had incited the ? . I 1 .1 nited States. He was speaking ofi to a race riot . , th<. long-continued German int.. ue , . ... to foment ill feeling between his had proceeded to res- . . . , . . country and ours with a view to nrade just as a lot of ... . .... , provoking them to war. Long bemen might have done' ' ... ... .. fore the outbreak of the present of explanation was all I ... ^ .1 . . . .. . world-struggle Germany was seek-1 rl but they never got . 7 L . I ing to poison the Japanese mind . . . . . 'against America, and the American it be ready to give our 1 ,. . ... mind against Japan. Pretending to thy and our reputation 1 " , . 7 . .. . .. be the friend of both, she tried by reasonableness to the, .. . . . t?r i. a" t'ie means known to her un-1 for wnnipn Wp ho-l .. , .. [scrupulous diplomacy to align them' < r the apace of the war1 ' * ( ?io,. , against each other. In the light of , men may well refrain ... . . i ig a heavily burdened ^i8COUnt Ish11 8 disclosure.. many j vith their clamor. We th,n*a once P^P1**" ?nd disquietavement of the White I in* to Washington and to Tokio r a banner hearing a 8,a?d out ? 80 many transparent e. no place for a nice webs of the Kalaer'a chicane. a. We prefer vlsualiz- We are dumbfounded at the revehome rather than in ,fttlon of thft z,mmermann plot toi And yet league Japan with Mexico for a1 at. "none of your busl- Prussian-piloted Invasion of the convincing??Colum- Un,ted State" Hut that waa no means the first scheme of the kind. For years and years, as it now turns out. the Kaiser's agents carried on 'itching the Knd. the malicious propaganda by which te, the belated determ- he hoped to make deadly foes of na. e Rrltish to retaliate in tlons that should be trusting friends. > raids against Ixtndon As he plotted with the Russian Czar one of the last remain- to isolate and destroy England, as] s upon warfare, volun- he plotted with the Turk to domln-i 'd by the Rrltish as an ate the Eevante and the lands bemoral superiority over yond, as he plotted to secure the] In a sense It marks Danish West Indies for a naval base] moral fibre, an approach and to lay the foundation of a future >s of rage and to that 1 German empire In South America, as! rther Indication of the, he plotted In every country and pse of the whole horrl-1 aeainnt almost everv nennle of the for the farther this sort wide world, so he plotted against ?s, the sooner and the the United States. Not until his eactlon set In and the perfidious regime Is crushed and rce as a convincing ele- blotted out will the nations be seillzed. The realization eure either within themselves or in rst, too, to Germany.? their Interrelations.?Atlanta Jour'ost. nal. V i 1 II ; < WRH '"mm jn( Fiuh^ Mb 1 r I "Afte HON. ZKII V. l/<>\(2 SPEAKS H /lot i^ni "I j/nii Junior Order. The DiHtrict Council Junior Or< nited American Mechanics held rand public rally last night in 1 unior Order building over the pc fllce. The Order is composed le counties of Chester and Lane ;r. The meeting commenced at 'clock by Hon. R. S. Stewart w i a popular orator, delivering ddress and introduced .the mi peaker of the evening, Mr. J. r//.v.\v.v/.v.v.v.v.v.:? ? : Deposit Your The First i r r ? i ? w ?: Our sound polic ; ing holds safety al ? oration. ? I Deposits are ; I through careful gi this bank by a dire | sponsibility and br The interest rat j of Deposit and i I highest possible security for funds. ; We invite ever I County to deposit ;J and assure them I I courteous attenton we do to the large The first : LANC. : CHAS. D. JONES E. M. CROXTON | FRED ADAMS, j ^VA^V.V.V.V'.V.V.V.V ' With the land forces and with the fleet WRIGLEYS dives solace in the long watch. It freshens and refreshens, steadies nerves, allays thirst, helps appetite and digestion. _ I r every meal" lavor Lasts > i Wilson, followed by Hon. Zeb V. . L?ong of Statesvllle, N. C.. a prominent member of the Junior Order and one of the best orators of the ier State of North Carolina. ai The Junior Order here Is one of the the largest In the State, and is still st- j increasing its membership. of Messrs. J. S. Wilson, W. F. Ksas~ tridge and J. H. Hammel of Ker. shaw, have put forth their active ef8 forts to make this the largest Junho ! lor Order in the State. The meetan lng closed last night and it was the ain | best and most pleasant rally that the b. ! Junior order has had in i^ncaBter. " A4r,i4ii Cotton Checks In j ; : , National Bank j ' \m{ V V y of conservative bank- I bove every other eonsid- $ V fit. Jill t.imos nrotoi't^rl Z I nidance of the affairs of J ctorate of recognized re- > oad experience.. j e we pay on Certificates J Savings Accounts is the : consistent with absolute J 9. y farmer in Lancaster his cotton checks with us I the same welcome and ! i to the small account, as J i ones. ' National Bank I ASTER, s. c. : President. , V. Pres. and Cashier. \ssistant Cashier. I j.i