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The Lancaster News LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 VOL. I. NO. 65. SE/WI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. C., .Y.AY 19. 1906- PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER COPY. I ' Our Public Roads. 4'Citizen" Suggests a Plan as a Substitute for the Present Road Law. Mr. Editor: I am glad to see this road question continually agitated in this county. We need better roads lor several reasons which have been exp'ained by other writers; but I think the greatest result obtained would be the increase in valuation of our farms. 1 notice a'>o'ig graded and macadamized roads in other count ies that I ami near these roads are very variable?so it would be with ours if we had good roads. "Road Worker" whs striking at. about the right thing when he said the common people are learning more and more daily and will be more stubborn and harder to control about t bis road working question. T i I 1 .1 - - ^ i uunK mere ought to first be some legislation along this line. Something like this: to give the voters of the county, or in each township it they wish it that way, to vote for a road tax (to be collected with other taxes)?say one dollar or more per male from 21 to 45 years of age, and a small levy on personal and real property, and exempt all from road duty. We could then lake this tax money and hire the roads worked by contract or oth erwise and get more service in one day's work from the same hand than we obtain in three days under the present road system. With teams, road machinery and hired hands we could soon have better roadR and it is getting time that we become worried with them and resolve as one neotde *o have better rnndo at almost any cost. Let us take a* example* Mecklenburg and Union counties. They hay, "you people down there in Lancaster county have no roads; you nro away behind the times." Travel ing as I do?over their counties and ours, I find that they a e about right. I said to a good man of our county not long ago that we need better roads, and he said : "1 am oppored to taxing people to deatli and they won't stand it. You have a good road law if you will carry it out." I said, "This road wo are standing on hasn't been worked Hi s year and 1 am in favor of good roads while I am living." I hope the people will speak at once and with one voice that we mill have better roads. Then it will L .i> *i*i dp iiihi we win oecome the inn ner couuly of the state Citizen. 1*. S. ? I heartily indorse Cap'. Hunter's views on the Liqurtr Question, except the last el ?nse concerning the physician's cer tifioate. Th it might cause some of the boys to get a little hick . and say something like a sick man might to a physician under certain circumstances, as sick men do snrietimes ? well, just as most sick men are liable to say. c. / The Walker Case. 1 Comment by an Esteemed r Contemporary?"Drive the; Blind Tigers out of Business." 'mm The S'a'e. In endorsing the appeal from lie Anli-Liquor league of Lan- c aster against the pardon of J. D. h ValUer <>i * ' Dispensary in Kershaw One to be Opened in Portion C of Town which is in Kershaw County. Kershaw, it, seems, is to have a dispensary again. As is well F known, a small pirl of the town lies in Kershaw county and tin- j] dispensary is to be located on 0 the Kershaw side of the lin<* v The slate hoard o! dispensary r directors decided at a meeting ,j Tuesday on (he opening of the s dispensary as stated. NVe are e not familiar with conditions in (l Kershaw, but it appears from \ die following, taken Irom the a Columbia correspondence of tin- e News and Courier, that a dispell i, sary is wanted in the town ' to n prevent the tiger business The a board granted the petition ot [, Mayor Blakeney, ot Kershaw. 9 personally presented, to est ah- ^ iieli adispensary on the Kershaw 0 County side of that town to t ak?* t, the place of the dispensary vo- M ted out on the Lancaster side by (j the Lancasterji County eleciion ? under the Brice Act. Mayor t\ Biakeney said it was necessary t to have a dispensary in town to ji prevent the tiger business, which o was increasing. a The board also decided, at the y meeting referred to, to buy whis- j, key hereafter directly from government bonded warehouses, and j, to adopt the ''merit system" in e the matter of dispensers'salaries, p the pay to he in proportion to | the bu-iness done. e A Tribute to William John- r - son by One of his Own Race, p li i ? Mr. Editor: I wish to let the public i?-*n?rjill v k I o w u how! c much my rno appreciates the| kindneas ot the white peoplel shown William .Jokiwm, the* colored citizen who die.I in iheiV Dry Creek section last Toes-lay, I as published in The News ol w Wednesday. The white men ot I n that community did ever* tiling ?? in their power tor Johnson dur-jo itiK Ins last stokne**., .-ind were ' n ever pood aid kind to himja throughout his 1 i?o The convey- d slice that bore his corpse to I he it crave Wednetdav belongs to a'p prominent white gentleman, Mr. '< 'J limes (Janthen, and was driven j N by Mr. Cauthen himself?an li I honor to a nemo without prece- v dent in I his country. Many other c white persons, .< s well as hun ( dreds oi colored people, not I withstanding the busy lime on t ie farms, l*lt thoir woik and h attended the funeral and burial . s| of Johns >11 a' Mt (da rnel, there, n by attesting the esteem in which a he was held bv his neighbor* ic- w ! gardless of color ' n Now 1 want to say to ntv pen w pie that if ihey wish to enjovlil the confi lence and respect of the ' wliites they rniist live as John- lc i son lived. II" stood we'l with li the white people li cause lie was' always polite and respect In I ' ... ...... uuxuvTi irgruuy onvicted of the illicit sale ol c iquor, The Lancaster News well a ay-: l'The pardon ol Mr. Walk 1 r now would have a bad effect s n Lancaster county. * * * 1 Jr. Walker, as is well known, is I white man ol intelligence and c (location, and if one of that clas- ' j not to be punished lor the com i tiisi-ion ol so heinous an offense s s illicit liquor selling, wherein ? 3 the justice in punishing oh t cure and ignorant violators ol he law, whether they be white v r black ? The law is norespec I er of persons, or, at least, it 1 hould not be, but it there is any I iscrimination at all it. should bo gainst the educated while man. 1 uid if may be that some idea ot 1 hat kind was in the mind of I lie mlge when lie imposed sentence ' n Mr. Walker." Willi such a bowing as ihis. the pardon ot Valker would mean that the law 1 < not for the man with influence; t would mean that the poor and 1 nconsequcntiul are to be punish- 1 d, while the "respectable" are iardoned. There is no peg in his case on which the excuse lor 1 xeeutive clemencv r?.n t?^ Imno .et the law take its course.? ^ 'unish the violators of the disieusary law as weli as ol other . nws ; drive the blind liters out | I business. . "ommenccment at Vanwyc!:., ( Wax haw Enterprise The ' Tan Wyck school, taught by lev K E. Sharpo. will close 4 'it!) exercises next Monday ' iidil and Tuesday. On Mondav mht the exercises will consist f dialogues, recitations, deolalations, etc Tuesday morning t 11 o'clock the addievs will I:? elivered by fro'. Hand, ol 'hes'er. In the afternoon the ^ resentalion ot a beautilul llan ? the school by the J. (). U. A. ^ I will take place The public ' as been ext. nde'l a cordial in. a ifation to attend all these oxer 1 !S 4S. I V ~ * I >'? von take 1 he News? orient and 1 iw .biding, as tvn<l? d trictiy to tiown business ami ) ?de money by dniim so. He was I ways kind and neighborly an (mid favorer befriend his white f eiirhh ?rs as quickly as he a .mid member.- <>1 hi* own tan - a V. f Ypr, fellow colored citizens, s it us all try t>o live a* Johnson a red. 4 F. IF Ma-soy. ( f/t'iea-ter, S. C. ( Fhe Graded School Closing. rhe Interesting Exercises in the Auditorium Thursday and Friday Nights?Elaborate Programmes Successfully Carried Out. 'i lie leading attraction in Lan:aster this week was t lie graded cho??l commencement. The clos\\4 exercises were held Tliur-Uy ami Friday nights in the niditorium, and were witnessed >y immense crowds. Indeed, the pacious auditorium could no' lold all who desired to get in, irobably as many as two liun Ired persons tailing to pain ad nission. Elaborate and highly nteresting programmed were iucc?ssfully carried out each light, the pupils acquitting ihemse'.ves with marked credit. Thursday night s programme vas as follows: il lisic. rnyer. Play, ''Our Aunt lr<>m California." Music. Declamation : Victories of Peace.?R- F. Cunningham. Kssay: Joys and Sorrows of School Life.?Margaret Moore. Itecitation : Counting Kirgs.? Leila Gregory. Vlusic. Declamation: J. T. Graves on 11 \\7 n i? 11 ? u. ?T . vrrituy. Willie .lOIin son. fissjiy : Evils of War.?Maude Moore. Declamation: 11. W. Grady on Faithfulness of Slaves.? J no. I). Wvlie. Music. liecitaiion : Kentucky Philosophy.? Ivite McManus. Declamation: 'l'wo Streams o! History ?Kelly Cunningham. Sssay: Foreign Irnniigra'ion? Corrine Jones. Music Debate: Resolved. That gam hling is a worse form ot evil til 111 intempeiance. A ffirmai i ve?.1 a rues Heaty, Leroy Dunn. Neg itive ? Per* ine Stover, Margaret Williamson, d usic. The debate was w n by the v..,.. ii... ;.wi...w. \> i> 's 'UJ , ' H' IV'-V . IV. I'< ruri?ipseed, Mr. W IV Bennett kin) Mr. J. W. J)t Bus, cleeitliiifz n favor of the affirmative. The programme last night va : : Prayer. M May I'ole Driil. M 11810. CANTATA II IS KORTt'N K S'-ene 1. FeHnnot, tilt* fiithui lover oi a (?. ;>sv, h>v 'ormed it) lit t nc'li moii' f o t '< hi lit* i' in ! t?" on the eve "i i -partiUM or the battlefield. Jeannotte ings "You are Ooitio far Awiy, .feamiol." Jeanuot ain^a, <}|ieer Up, MvOwn .loannette ' )!d Uvpay hiuto her, i4 I'lie gypsy's Ward'or." , Camden Dispensary | Undergoing Investigation?. Temporary Dispenser Appointed. Special to The Sta'e. Cam'len, May 17.?At 7.5(1 o'clock this afternoon the county bo;ird ol control had not cnmjiloi^.l ilw. -- *11*7 ill vrrtifi.muu I* **J making of ilie affairs of the Camden dispensary. The inaf.lution has been closed all dtrr and Inspector Nichols and the board have been hard at wotk? Mr. II. E. Truesdale, clerk nt the board, slated this afternoon that he would give out a statement as soon as they had cd?rcluded their examination, bat that he could not do so toal t!u* time. Mr. H. L.; Watkins bae been appointed temporary d?spenser with Mr. G. E. Bateiaa? clerk. Mr. Wat kins is a snccesf*? lul merchant and a prominent busine?8*man and his appointment will no doubtj| pive entire satisfaction to the people of th*? town and county. ' 3??Mr. Hateman, the clerf , has helil 'position [under DisDenscc * ?. A , Hough ?ud is entirely saiisfaotory. Mr. Hough was asked today if he cared to make a slate*. ment, but declined to do so at this time.* fHe says tliat he ? U probably institute a separate investigation on his own behalf., at which time the full hurts o* his case will come out. , The General Conference of the Methodist church, now in sessi*-.* in Birmingham, elected three new bishops day before yes tor* day, Dr. John J Tiger 11 secretary of the conterence; Dr. Seth Ward,Jof Texas,J and I)r. Jamen Atkins, of North Carolina. Ih? John C. Kilgo received 116vf>Jre for bishop, on the ?r>th ballot, lacking -1 of the number necfssarv to elect. ? If "Many Friends" will son? the required fee?five dollars? the announcement received at tins ollice by mail yesten'ay will be promptly published it? The News. Scene II. "Castanet and Gay Guitar,n sung by Gypsie-. So) diers' fortunes told by Gypsy Scene III. In Camp. Soldier is bribed to tell .Joanuot thr.t Joannetie is dead So diers sin& ! ' I'cnt: iu I'onigh? I Scene IV. P. e' meet a ?* |courier, who tells lutn that not, thinking Jeanuelte \s dead, becomes desperate, rushes i>to !danger and is wounded. Jean.no;, in Ins delirium, thinks ho 'a 'meeting Jeannette in heaven. Sc 'ue \r Soldier's ret urn. ?; A si ?<r, Vive I' Amour, i Music. Annual Address?Hon. Samuel K McFadden, Ches'er, S'. C. We hope to be ab'e Do give* ie i I our next isMie a ?vn >ptds of Mr. McFadden*8 excellent, addrew. .....