The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, November 11, 1905, Image 4
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It. E. WYL1E, PllKSIPENT.
blj? tP A. COOK, Skc'y. and Titkas,
, M. KIDDLE, Jtt , BtTslNKSS MaNAGEII.
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the moiiered at the postoftlcc ?t TiBncastop, S C..
. conJ-ciasa mail matter, Oct. 4, lPori.
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^ Saturday, November 11, 1905.
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The most significant feature
about Tuesday's elections is the
4v unmistakable warning given
l>( grafters and rascally bosses gen
t0 erally, whether Republican,
Democratic or what not, to take
their hands out of the people's
pockets. It Is evident that the
masses have stood just as long
\ as they are going to stand im
J position and systematic robbery
/' under the guise of law and the
party l.ash. Criminals in higli
\ places have got to step clown
, 5i ( and out, say the people.
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WHISKEY SEIZURES.
Mayor Wylie has a timely
notice in The News in relation
to the shipment of liquor here
for personal use. Since the ?lis
pensary was voted out there has
been more or less confusion in
the matter of whiskey shipments,
due, no doubt, to a lack
of inlormation as to the law
upon the subject.
M ,tyor NVylio states, upon the
authority of the governor, that
"whiskey shipped into the state
ill fli? imino nf o C! ? ?? > ... ?
... ...V ' 1.IUVJ VI to 111 111 1M III tilt!
nrfune of a person other than the
person claiming it is liable to
seizure." A person may, he
says, order liquor shipped in his
own name, provided it is marked
"for personal use."
So much for the letter of the
law, assuming that the governor
has correctlv interpreted the
dispensary law. Now it occurs
to us that the public officials
especially charged with the enforcement
of the new conditions
in Lancaster should endeavor to
do exact justice in each and
every case that may arise, and
we have no reason to believe
that they will knowingly do
otherwise.
The prime object is to prevent
the sale of liquor in the town
and COiinf.v anft rri i?..;?.. I
J VV IM IIIK IU
speedy justice any persons who
should be found guilty of mak
ing sales. The law, as construed,
says that no liquor shall bo sold,
and that law should be ligidly
enforced?enforced to the limit
of every human agency. Such
is not onlv the interpreted law,
but it is the publicly expressed
sentiment of the people that
there shall be no sales of liquor i
1
ancaster county,
rublic officials, theiefoie, and
others interested in seeing the
law and the wishes of t'*e people
cariied out, cannot be too
zealous in their efforts to prevent
liquor being shipped here
for unlawful purposes?in other
words, for sale. Every package
known or suspected to be for a
blind ti\:er should be promptly
8ei zed, and incase the seizure is
made on suspicion only, a thorough
investigation should be
made.
Hut where it is known beyond
question that a shipment of liquor
is for personal use, even
though there be an irregularity
in the matter of name or other
shipping directions, we do not
believe that the stutr should be
confiscated. Mere technicalities
should not be taken advantage
of to the injury or loss of inno
cent persons, whether those per
sons be rich or poor, white or
black.
It should be remembered that
present conditions are new to
the people. Until the provisions
ol the law become more generally
known honest errors are lia
ble to be made even by the most
law-abiding citizens. As May
or Wylie says, a package im
properly addressed is "liable
to seizure," but that does not
mean, according to our view,
that it shall be seized in any
event?that it shall be confis
cated even though the fac's be
clearly established that the error
was unintentional and that the
whiskey is not intended for an
unlawful purpose.
THE /MEDICINE MUDDLE.
The patent medicine that con
tains more liquor than any tiling
e'se is certainly catching it in
the neck?of the bottle. With
the United States government
011 the one side saying it ran not
be sold unless the seller pays a
liquor license and the state government
on the other saying it
[cannot be sold except upon the
prescription of a physician, the
aforesaid medicine surcharged
with whiskey is most assuredly
suspended between "the devil
and the deep sea." Then, too,
\t io n v f
iv ao tu a must U linger
ous flank lire. Physicians gen
erady are most chary about pre
scribing patent medicines for
their patients; and very properly
so, for they do not know what
sucli nostrums contain.
The future, therefore, of the
alcoholic medicine is anything
hut bright. The chances are
that with so many gauntlets to
run it will need all of its own
reservo force to enable it to
make a decent race to the mouth
of the man with a thirst.
More than one question natu
rally arises out of the present
situation of the class of patent
medicines referred to. If a decoction
composed principally of
alcohol or whiskey can be sold
on a physician's prescription,
why can't liquor itself be so
sold ? What's tho difference ?
As a matter of fact, or of law,
is either allowable under the
dispensary law, and if one is,
why not tho other also ? And
these questions lead to another
still more serious: Is that
provision of the dispensary law
unconstitutional which prohibb
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its the sale of liquor by a drug "
gist on a physician's prescrip- '
tion ? So far as we know this
point has not b^en passed upon <
by the courts.
Of cou se the counties that 1
have decla'ed for prohibition
should have what they voted for,
. ? I
out in striving to attain tnat ;
end it would not be the part of
wisdom to ignore the possibili- (
ties of danger along the roadside.
THE "DODGER" AS AN ADVERTISER.
The Sumier Item evidently
has a poor opinion of the value '
ol the hand-bill as compared wi'h ;
the newspaper, lor advertising t
purposes. 1 l?e Item says: I
"The business man who de
pends upon dodders thrown >\
about the streets is a century be- ind
the times The pooresl
newspaper, il it has any circula j
tiou at all, is better than the best t
dodgers, while a first-class news
paper that goes into the homes ol
the people gives five dollars l,
worth ol results to the penny's c
worth of the (lodgers."
Ot course the Item is right, t
but it is probably not a bad plan Jj
to combine the two advertising
mediums?use newspaper space
Ireely and then scatter hand-bills v
lor what they are worth, as is oc {
casionally done by merchants 'j
hereabouts.
Cotton Ginned to Novem= I
i
ber 1st.
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Census Bureau Reports Near *
Six and a Half Million .
Bales. '
Washington, 1) C., November
8.?Tim c Mihus bureau issued a
bulletin today showing that up
to November 1, (>.483.646 bales ^
of cotton had been ginned in this
country. II und bale-i are count
ed as hal1 b ties.
The lust previous report lor
i he present year, showing results ]
to October 18, last gave 4,940,
728 bales. The figures, aecoid- ^
ing to today's bulletins, lor the
various states are as follows:
Alabama 815,457; Arkansas
211,113; Florida 48.218; Georgia
1,302,390; Indian Territory 135,*
782; Kentucky 305; Louisiana
231,249; Mississippi 510,077; r
Missouri 14,181; North Carolina t
438,021; Oklahoma 144,839; c
South Carolina 822,140; Tennessee
109,247; Texas 1,002,248, and
Virginia 7,479.
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Don't fail to read our column n
of business locals. R
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Notice to Taxpayers.
Taxes will be due and payable without
penalty from October IB to December
31, 1905.
The fax levy for State purposes is
5}^ mills, for ordinary county purposes
4% mills, special county purposes
(L. A C. K, K. bonds) 2 mills, constit
ii t ion a 1 tax for school purposes 3 *
tlkillu rr? O Lr t r* or u t/d o I latr m a# IK ? : I ? -
' ir T J \/l Ml III I I | H
on all taxable proper!y of the county.
Iii .School Ds?tricts Noa. .">,30, 32 and
40. there ia a special levy of 2 mills /
additional for school purposes; in
District No. 24,8 mills; Districts Nos. e
12, 17 and 39, 4 mills; District No. 38, n
5 mills; No. 14, 0 mills, and No. 40,
7 mills. In Cane Creek Township Si
there is a special local levy of 4% mills w
for railroad purposes; Oill? Creek, li i.
mills, and Pleasant II ill, 3 mi lis.
There is also a tax of one dollar on VN
each male citizen between the ajfes of $
twenty-one and sixty years, except
ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors,
or those who are so disabled that they H
cannot earn a support by manual
a bor.
J. P.. BLACKMON,
Treasurer Lancaster County.
Business Notices.
All Notijea inserted under
this head at the rate of ONE CENT
A WORD for each insertion. No
notioe to be counted less than 2B
words
WANTED.?200 head of geese and
turkeys. Highest cash price paid. J.
3. Wilson. At Southern Depot.
PLANT onion sets now. I have
them. J B. Mackorell.
FOR SALE?Second-hand Carriage.
Apply to S. E. WHITE, Lancaster,
5. C.
PLAOE your order for celery for
riianksgiving. J. H.Mackorell.
TO B A COO, .1 list received one hunJred
10 lh. caddies good plug tobacco.
Will sell ror two dollars per caddie.
~2ome quick. Also five car loads good
Virginia high grade Hour to sell at
;he old price. You know (lour has
ecently advanced 30c per barrel.
Dennett Groo. Co.
A BOX of Hnyler's candy for you
Thanksgiving. .1. U. Mackorell.
WANTED?0000 lbs of Green and
try Cow Hides b tween now and
Ian. 1st, Highest market price paid.
1. T. Blackmon.
I HAVE Fresh Fish on hand all
he time. Also Fresh Oysters on
Vidays and rSaturdays. I'hone or
inme to 8. T. Blackmon.
E. C. LANIER, at L. & C. depot
ias another tine car Dannish Cabbage
hat he is selling for $2 25 per hunIred
pounds. They are Hue for makng
kraut.
FIFTY DOLLARS' REWARD?I
vill pay a reward of for the apirehension
and conviction of the
larty who burned my gin house and
.ontents last Saturday night. M. A.
rilackmon. Primus, S. C. Nov. 7, 1905
K. C. LANIER, at L. A O. depot
ias another tine car Danish Cabbage
hat he is selling for $2 25 per huuIred
pounds. They are line for makng
kraut.
FOR SALE ?Singer Sewing Maihine
in good condition?t?as be>*n
ecently overhauled and is as good as
lew Apply to S. T. Blackmon.
i a vii^aoiUlllU VyCtl'Ub
JOHN K. WELSH,
DENTIST,
Lancaster, S. C.
Dffice Up-stairs in Mason
ic Building.
DENTISTRY.
DR. R. M. GALLOWAY,
Surgeon Dentist.
Dffice Up-stairs in Ganson
Building.
DR. R. G. ELLIOTT,
Lancaster, S. C.
nrBiurui)' pn'inr, i>o. I.S7. Office I
>aviH Iloilding, cor. Main anil Dnnlap |
treels; 'phone No. 72.
Will practice in both town and couny.
All calls, day or night, will reeive
prompt attention.
Notice to Debtors and
Creditors.
All persons indebted to the estate
f the late W. C. Cauthen are hereby
iotitled to make paymet to the under- 1
igned, and all persona ha<> inp claims
gainst said estate are requested to <
iresent same, duly attested.
A'.rs. Julia Cauthen, i
Admrv.
Stylish Dress
Shoes
Vc have just gotten in our new
anH attractive lino of
EDWIN CLAP? SHOES
or men, made of the finest patnts,
calves, tans and kids, and \
oted for their graceful and <
tylish appearance. They are t
rorn by thousands who have ft
iarned to love high art foot- ,
'ear. We also have the nicest <
3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 Shoes on
arth, the J. E. French, Tap.
lound and King Bee. (
For Shoes, go to
Cherrv's i
PRESIDENT
PAUL MORTON
Outlining the policy of the new
management of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society of the
United States in an address delivered
before a Convention of
Equitable Agents, among other
things says :
"Already there has been a
saving in the administration of
your Society amounting to approximately
$600,000 perannum.
This equals 4 per cent, on an
investment of $15,000,000.
This is the equivalent to having
$15,000,000 more 4 percent,
bonds in our vaults.' There will
be other economies, and I can
only repeat that retrenchment
and conservative management
is going to be our policy. I have
great ambitions for the Equitable.
I want it to be not only the
greatest and the best but the
safest and most conservative life
insurance institution in the land.
I want it to be the one that the
agents will like the very best to
work for. 1 want it to be the one
that bankers and people who
have securities for sale can feel
that they will always get a square
deal from. I want it to be the
one that policyholders will recommend
their friends to insure
in and that everybody can point
to with pride. I want it to be
known, not only as the strongest
financially, but the strongest
morally."
Moral: Insure in the Equitable
Life, "Strongest \n the
World."
W. B. Knight,
? Special Agent, ?
LANCASTER, S. C.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Lancaster.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Annie K. Wilson, in her own right
ami as Executrix of the will of
William Knight, deceased. Plaintiff,
vs
Sarah Si tare, W. .lack Knight and
others, Defendants.
BY VIRTUE of a decretal order
made his Honor O. W. Buchanan,
judge piesiding, dated Oct. 20th, 1905,
1 will sell at public auction, in front
of the court house, in the town of
Lancaster, in said county and State,
to the highest bidder, the following
described amis, in Cedar Creek township.
county of Lancaster, in said
State, formerly belonging to William
1/ ?
rvuiKiii, ueceaseii, ami described an
f 111ows, viz :
First. Ninety-seven [117] acres, more
or less, on the waters of Dry creek,
bounded north by lands of Anderson
Uaskey. east and south by Dry creek,
and west by lands of Miss Mcllwain.
Second. Fifty [50] acres, more or
less, known as the "Home place,"
bounded north by Dry creek, east by
lands of Anderson Caskey, south by
ttie Johnson lands, and west by lands.,
of Miss Mcllwain.
Third. Fifty [50] acres more or less,
known as the ".Jack Knitfht tract,"
bounded north by Dry creek, east by
lands of Vlartha .1. Kstridge, south by
ttie Johnson lands, and west by lands
of Anderson (,'askey. W
Fourth. Fifty-seven [57] acres, mo*
or less, bounded north by Dry creek
and estate lands of .J. S. McOardell,
deceased, east and south by lands of
Mrs. A. E. Wilson and Mrs. Alice
Thompson, and west by lands of Mrs.
Alice Thompson.
?JW Terms of sale ('ASH. Purchaser
to pay for papers. ~
JOHN l\ HUNTER,
Sheriff, L. C.
R K. Wyi.IK.
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Notice
Notice is hereby given that the tax
looks of the town of Lancaster, S. O.,
will be open for the collection of tax's
on the 1st day of November, 1905, {
it the ofllce of the town Treasurer,
ind all taxes remaining unpaid on
he 1st day of December, 1905, purmailt
to .Section 1 of the Supply Hill
>f 1905, will be subject to a penalty of
5 per cent for the non-payment of
he same, together with cost.
H. E. Wylib,
)ct. 10, 1905. Mayor.
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