The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, May 19, 1906, Image 1
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.
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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.
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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
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son by One of his Own Race, p
li
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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.
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>'? 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.
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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."
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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.
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