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The Lancaster News LEDGER (852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. I. NO. 36. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C., FEBRUARY 7, 1906- PRJCE FIVE CENTS PER COPY. Proceedings of the Legisla*: ture As Reported for The News by Representative Foster? The Morgan Bill as Passed the House?Its Leading Features?What the Dis pensary Investigating': Committee is Doing?Other Matters of Interest, a The Morgan local option bili passed the house 1 y a vote < f 03 to -17. The bill provides option between' prohibition ami county disj rsaji's. Before a conn': can vole upon the q en tio.? a petition ti i;st be presen'ed s:p od by one thiid of the qualified electors. The county dispenaan to fc - managed by good men to be ) nown as county Dbpcns: ry Boatd, to t< rvo t'.\o yei r- uh. jet to removal by tic Goverr.oi lor cause. rihe liumbeis of the county Bond a e required t giye > surety bor.d to the county lor $5 000. The nu tuber h f the Beard f.ct a talary of $300 per annum. 'J'lie Dispenser to ba el< c e' by the Board to g vo bond lei $5,000 and to receive a s: 1 >ry to be fixed by the bo1 rd. The beard i , i uy all liquc rs ind pa.\ca.-di l'oi Toe bead must make rworn monthly le turns at d 'i o a ropy with the county Treasurer and county Supervisor sluwiiv (1>r> o?;^*. a ?. *?\> I ^ V.U |'l ami expenses and any profits from llie <"i j e ; ry. ''ho t* re turns 1o I e open ill all limes lo public in poebn. Lquor canv nol be so'd be'lv.ein sun set anil A** sun riee. Sales not be in !cs? than hall j in's; rot to be divnk on the premises etc. It siiao be the duty of (lie Sheriff, Ma./'tratee, (.'oi stables, city anu town i iliciais lo enioico the laws. Il they fail the Governor is authorized to take the profits from ihe county and enforce the 1f?vh. Tl e Governor to ar p'>int 6jocial constables, officers etc., upon the recommerdat on of tb.e Legislative delegation of the county wherein the law is no1 enforced. No druggist can sell any pre ' paration or compound which may bo used as a beverage or which is intoxicating in ilo r?? turo. Tlie bill provides that a com. miss 011 consisting of five mem ber-', ono to be appointed by the Governor, two by the Speaker and two by the Lieut. Governor, for the purpose of closing out the business of the dispensary at the earliest date. The pro* fits after paying ton per cent to j the state to bo divided equally between the town, county and free public school fund. The act to go into effect immediately upon the approval ot the Governor. The bill eives GhRrlnsion high license. From all accounts Charleston has high license now. i <.? ivi avo" HDe t t'tl to (he I) ' p-uisa y Investigating Con.in | t-?e t lint tli,;>re were 140 ' lind li gers i'i ChMr'e-iton and they p .id the city $100 in license by way of fines. We have over 1,300 hills bofore us, covering all shades o' every question. A great number of bills will not b'3 reached] for consideration Tlio appropriation biil is be-! ing prepared. It will take a week to \ roperly cons dor tbi ! important mia uie. 'I Mr. Pollock introduced a bill ! to lin it Cl( mcoo College to $70,- i 000 of ti:o fertilizer inspection tax, and give I lie excess to Winthrop. Clcmson received over $135,000 frc m 11 is tax the past year. Mr. Oits lias bill to require 1 certain medicines to ho lal e'ed anl cont;in the formula. It will not nasi in nresrni tlmnn , ... t 1"-' J I it at all. The Heme has 1 een holding night se siot s for the past week. The nigh' sessions were devo ?d to discussing die whiskey situation'. The House on Saturday adjourned to meet on Tuesday. The Difpei sary Investigating Committee has under investigation the wholesale purchase ol lu!> Is. The teet:mony produced shows that the dispensary purchased twenty f.i o million la1 c at a cr:-t nf nhnrf. flftn . .,,1 \ that the same goods coulrl have been purchased for $7,700 and the dispensary had lower prices than $.'30,000. Tlio state lost about $25,000 in !' i" deal. Mayor lib tt, tcs'ifie 1 be fro thu dispensary committee that by a lic>-t.Ki system < f fi ring blind tigers the city council hud rehired the r unit or <>f blind ti'ieis in Charleston from 375 to 140. Dr. T. J. Strait was a visitor of the house on Saturday. The Southern Railway Co , is endeavoring to defeat the bill now before the senate to require it to give Lancaster decent depot facilities. Very truly yours, J. Harry Foster. Feb. 3rd 190G. ?At a meeting of the officers of the Fiedmont Fire Insurance Co., of Charlotte, a few days ago Capt. S. E. White, of Lancaster, was elect <1 one ol the director?.?Fort Mill Times. ?Jam'.s Milt >n, the little eon of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Clark, of Heath Springs, died last Saturday, aged 10 months and 19 days. The remains were buried at Salem Sunday. ?Capt. King, the L. C's popular conductor, met with a painful accident one day last week. An air brake struck him J.- iL- -l miner me cnin, cutting a gash that required several stitches to close. i Wanted=-=Bctter Roads! j i Some of the Many Reasons 1 Why Good Roads Would Help Town and Country. Mr. Editor: There is a cry all ever tho county for better! roads. Our merchants want to, see better io>d*, it will help their! trade, it will bring thousand* of I (lobar* to Lm^after (lint now! itr * ^ us in iM'ji r e ai a otter 111 r'c e's. 0 ir fa n-ers nee 1 bet'or roads fo haul tleirauaro from town and their cr ps to market. The gov* rnnent r q nr. s ihe roads to bo good for the rural mail carriers. Every m m w ho travels onr roads in a busrgy or w-a~o i wan'8 to see onr toads made bet er. It wili have our Steele and our buggies and wagons and shor en the time in travel, and increase the p ie > of our lands. It will make he conn: i\< moie i' dependent and prosperous an l a better pi tec to live in and 11' p ro 11111/* * * iuuv? iiiut iiiu i" t\v 'i ll AVI11 won cm fully itnprovofur country. Wp oan have hotter rowels. Our people are willing to work them or lo pay to have tlum worked. Otr>* r>ai'w are hod he cause they h ?ve no hoc n pr per ly ivorke They have h> on in bad fix tor tea or twehe years, ard tlio lauli iit^s been n our ail c l'V ar*r r???rv *" ? " - v . . UI1U yj t- L'lUV have neg'ected lh ir dut They have 11 .t boon interested in ? ur roads as they should have be n. Instead ' f working our nn' lie roads le*s than c.no day a year, as taken fro n a former gr md jury's report, our supervisor slioul' lir.ve seen to it t1 a* four or six days v\ovk ay -ar h ui boen do e, e-peci illy on all b i I roa k . But let the | a t go?ve mil ' have be'ter roads in the lu'u o? v.o a'o to have th?m. F.r.t, we must get a sup r visor that is in eres'ed in our r ?ads, and is willing to Jo lus j i __ fin- ? amy. in.s we i eiiove hs absolutely neeessry. And injustice to all our superviso:s of tlie p ;st ten years wo would say I hoy have all been good men, but poor R > ul Supervis >rs. They liavo been too good and easy to make the road overseers work. Now what we want and what we hope to have in t.tio next election, is a new man for supervisor?one that i* intere-ted and prepared to givo us belter roads, and is willing to pledge his word _ l i /*? ? ' hiki ins oinco ii nee 1 be, tha* lie will (!o it ; Tor everybody knows our overseer*? v ill not wor!: un less wo get u new man. Second, wo want to seo our county spending somo money digging down our hills and filling in our hollows and macadamizing tho same. Nearly every , prosporous town in the South is doing this, and Lancaster can do this too. If we can get enough men to put their heads togother on this and pull straight, in the collar we will get it. VVe voted out the dispensary and we are trying to knock < u- t'e bucket s' ops, and wo w uu t ? givo til* . .-5 po>p'a t;ooil rouis a'1 a pro porous c mntry in-tea I Ihir-1, wo want to rea o ir state ami the i a onal pov ru ment spending a liber d sum on oir roads. Wo believe wo will gat this lu-lp some t'me, but we must nnt *it <t ~.v vi ?? 41 mil hands in our p< ck*and wail. | Til 're is a Greek i r ?veib: "G d : only h dps those who are wi'li <; to help ll em eives," and jf we wish state or naliond hdp we must first show that we a re in forested and lea' w would ap precia'e r ncli li.ip aid that we are willing to l.e!:> ourselves. Mr. Editor, you nrght ;ul 1 I .mi not trying to find fault wi h any on ?neither do I win' any of the?but what i do wan , i> lo see better roads and our coun'ry more pro^porous. T. M. Death of Dr. J. ihank Made ey, Jr,. A Bright and Promising! t r ^ ? y oung ivian Masses Away i After a lingering Illness. Dr. J. Frank Mae' e^ , .Jr.. p? c ond son ol Lnncas'e/s v n ra I hlo physician. Dr. -J. Iv Mrc'^ov, Sr , die i here at an e v'y 1 ur ] yesterday morirrg. r' t' e home of his brother in inw. Mr. A P McLure. As was n</ 1 in The News at the time, Dr. M c -ey ! >v; s b'ou rht to La r :?b ut J three woei.s ?go fern Oianee-I burg, where he had reside! .'orj some t me, by h;s fa her u..<I M.\ McLure, lie ho; e bdng then! entertained t h a t. the change! Wrtnlfl ni'iirn -t.. i i - ' .. , <J "l lir I 1CI < I I 1 I Is* 1'ailing health, h s 'i'mon! lo'n^ o". a pulmonary r.aturo Dr Mackey was about fM years of rTo and was a \ ir e man oi unusually Lr<?*li< m nJ. " o He was of a genial, happy disposition and roulily made friends of all with wlmm be came in contact. lie was graduald a few years a ;o from the department of pharmacy th > Me 'ica' College of Charleston and was remarkably well po-ted in his chosen profession. Ho was in the drug business af nie time in Bennettsville, also in Kd-iffieUl and Kershaw, a n ci later in Orangeburg. About three years ago Dr. Mackey was married to Mrs. Kiltie Ross, of Blacksburg, who, with ore child, survives him Bo-ides his fat nor, he also leavs two bisters and a brother, Mrs. ' i W. O. Hough, Mis3 Mayme Mackey and Mr. Perry Mackoy, a'l of Lancaster. The remains of Dr. Mackey were laid to rest in West Side ennifllorv pnitnrjioif wV ? w. vj juvuiunj anuin^uiij after funeral services held at 4 o'clock, at tho McLure residence, conducted by Drs. Boldridge and Fraser. Mr. J. P. Uackney, ot Char ' lotte, was in town yesterday. ' The Cotton Assoilzies Good Attendance and Good Speeches at Monday's Meeting?Smith and Weston not Present. T :e County Cot'' u Cin vers' A-soeia'ion had a vo* d m ctirg i'i the co irt lion <? M - notwithstanding th* laet mat. iho speakers er.p?ct d irotn a <istance (lid n"t put in n ;>?*arui :c\ l're.-i lent Smu;i, I ho stile as ociatioo, who was to have been here, w :s c ?]*"<? oil" fo Texts, a?ul Suite *< cr.iary Weston, of Colnmhi; , who was aho expeded, wired thai In was nnahle to com1 <> account of tic i.e s. T.; * n-' M 'r r% a ! d by a uumler Oi local s; e: - is howover, among th ni County Orjramzcr - r % " .. r. Wyli'.-, Col. Adtsoii, J mlge vv> j,, i ; -en if or llongh and Mali i. - ;cy. The speeches wtie ail -iong practical I.'nes and we e Ven c' '-o !i n ' y t . co. Curinff o II >rae and Farm. As this is the ppeei:>! season for ::;"l a-wr h..ve ro. ivo ' some r:;:' in r "ion m-i the miiller, we shall now discus; the hu.'ine.-s. A. S ;m iiis?D'i ex fi.siit ripe for cjrinj meat is tv.'s : Tu one gallon of vat i t - one and a half pound- f r:.; ::e halfpound id sugw . ' : u i. .ce of saltpeter, one half i : . . f potash. I his pi Yes Lh 4 rat sr. ; in it t ho piciiin cdii bo i..or any quttuity desired. T!:e i*>2red inn's ?4a** .1 re to hn boiled tn"'a.ipr until th dirt ,i> s tn ?., an.! in skimmed i If. i hen HiruW vv.i .. li;-.s thus boeu prepared into x vc --el to cool ; when it is coo! pour it over tl;e beef or pork. The rmnt must ho well covered w. .\ the pie , m i u, riofc I)? put down for at ' 'ays after Uiilinjr, during which time A[ it ought to tie slightly spri .kled with powdered saltpet r; 1< ' > re- M ttUiV^a sill fliA on 5'fooA iug the meat fresh and clem. The boiling of fh^ ''c'i ie ia MWk sometimes ornitt.d. It is to bo f remembered, however, th;-t t\trf& WiSL boiling purifies the article, ingofl", as it does, the dirt I apt to be found in salt and sr^^H This recipe lias only to bo tried to prove i*g superiority oV^'"' the common way of dealing the case. Once thus tried, it isV^jj| not likely to be abandoned. ' The meat," says one who ha3 put it to the test, 4,is unsurpassed for sweetness, delicacy and freshness of color." Broke Hit* Ijey Mr. James Crockett,soil of the late Jones Crockett, met with a serious accident Monday. IIo fell from a wairon, on Mr. W. J. Funderburk's place in the Tab| ernacle section, broaaing a leg.