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The Lancaster News. Semi-Weekly. i Published s Wednesdays and Saturdays 1 At Lancaster, s. c., t By The ] contemptible animal on earth is the blind tiger. His presence should not he tolerated in any < civilized community. Magistrate Caskev informs us j that he heard a man remark the s other day that he would give t ten dollars toward buying the ( editor of The News an automo , bile. Are there any other cit izens j so kindly disposed? Don't all speak at once. It we had a gasoline devil, red, black, yellow or r otherwise, we would become a , traveling missionary for good f roads. j^ Somebody has sent us from t Chattanooga, IVnn.. the picture ^ ot a superlatively lovely woman, i witli the following written on the i hack?the picture's hack?not the j ? woman's?"All about one little jc apple, hut interesting. Possibly, | \ if Bro. Bigham had this picture j s on his writing table he could I think of more apple tales. See?" U Across the address is stamped in i red letters: "Missent to York t ville, S. C." Why the picture was first sent to Yorkville we do t not know, unless, knowing our I friend Tom McDow's boundless { and depthless adoration lor the 1 beautiful in femininity, the i thounhtlul postal clerk concluded j to give him an opportunity to y feast his eyos on the "prettiest i thing ever." 't % ft ?(^**"i ^ - - * ^ V".. ?y ' * * ' >' % . *r ?; Lancaster Publishing Company. Charles T. Connors, Editor. , SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Your II.Ml i SI* Months 7ft Three Mouths ItPayable In advance ADVERTISING RATES. 1 One inch, ilrst insertion. 11.00. Each subsequent Insertion SO cents. For three month* or longer, reduced rates. Professional cards, per year, 112. Business notices, Transient Advertisements, Lost and Found, and other classllled advertisements not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents for each Insertion; I cent a word for each additional word over 25 words. Obituaries, Tributes of respect, cards of thanks and all matter of a personal or political nature to he charged for. Advertising rates by the column made known on application. itrlef correspondence on subjects of general interest invited. Not responsible for views < f correspondents , ii K WYL1K, President. J NO. A. COOK, Skc'Y and TitKAS. J. M. RIDDLE. Jit . Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter, Oct. 7, IW>, the posionicc at I uncustcr S C., under Ac', of Congress of March 3. 1379 Saturdny, August 17, 1907. 'PI.A..O lo .. .D...... :- .. t-~?i- I?A l UUiC in (I l> (V* W Hi it IJHUIV iut | 011 White street that should le! condemned by the authorities as a nuisance. No trouble to find it. "The blind tigers are on 1I10 run in Charleston," says the Evening Post. They are probably running after a fresh supply of booze. Anderson's good roads move ment received a black eve, so to speak, this week. The proposition to issue $.'100,000 of bonds for permanent road improvement was defeated by a voteot 2toj 3. = ! A ct i tin: Mayor Clark is to be j1 commended forgoing the lull limit ol the law in imposing sentence 011 parties convicted before him of selling liquor. The most ( T 31 The drowning ot a woman in Jc-orgi ? the other d >y while try ng to land a big ca'-fi di should erve as a warning to Lancaster's ight weight fishermen, Ex-Editor garter, Ex-Audi tor Cook and fix Treasurer Bfackraon. * At the risk of making the noutlis of our neighbor editors water, we will announce that! Uev. It II. James, of New Salem township, sent us some nice, large ripe peaches from his or chard this week. It will, no doubt, make a mighty gnawing in the digestive part of the anatomy of the editor ol the Lancaster News, who recently reported that the fruit crop of Lancaster county consisted of one apple, but he must try to I get used to it.?Marshville lloiue. j Keep your oid rotten peaches. Enough truit has siuce been found in this county and kindly presented to the editor to last us until another summer rolls round. Death of Gen IV. J'\ Krvin of IValhallti?IVas well iinotcn in l.an canter t Where lie iras Twice Married. Gen. Win. F. Krvin, a sketch ot whose lite was recently pub lished in The News, died last Friday afternoon at his home in Walhalla, as will he seen by the following Walhalla special in The State: Gen. W. F Krvin, one of Wal h allu'rt oldest and best citizens, died Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock at his home on Main street For more than a month he had been a great sufl'erer. Gen. Krvin was born in Williamsburg county in 1822 and was therefore in his 85th year. For more than 30 years lie has lived in Walhalla and has acquired considerable property in the town and county lie was a member of the Presbv- j lerian church, having been an elder for many years and up to, tlie time of his death. iIe ieaves | !i wife and three sons?Messrs. \V. d. Krvin of Chicago, Robt. A. j Krvin ot Atlanta, and Sam'l K j Krvin oi West, nnister." Gen. Krvin is also *;iirxrivo/l Kw I ine brother, Mr. Richard Ervin, ' M Ocala, Fla , who was recently ; in a visit to Lancaster, and [ ;wo sisters, Mrs. Sarah Floyd,! )l Kershaw, and Mrs Marion ' Scott, of Kings!ree. A Walhal ' a special in the Greenville News itates that the brother and sieers had gone there to visit the Joneral, not knowing of his ill less, expecting to have a happy amily reunion, the first in twen V-seyen vears. ' i As stated in the sketch refer-, ed to, published in these col mins, Gen Ervin was married j our times. His fir->t an I second i vives were Lancaster women.; fhe tirst was a sister of the late Ar \1 ?.,.i o.? 1 ? . tfi , vywmniio^ <im* ?UO ar^UII'l, vas a sister ot Miss Olivia Em nous of this place. He had liany friends and acquaintances imong the older citizens ot Lancaster, where his young manhood vas spent, and where he occasionally visited in after years, le was one of the most genial md companionable of men, and I was ever a pleasure to be in his , company. The remains of Gen. Ervin's a'her, Dr. Hubert Ervin, are juried in this county, a* the old am'lv grave yard in Pleasant Hill township. Mrs. J. W. Warner, ol Rockl Illil, who haa be 11 veiling her jrother-in-law. Mr. T. D, Carnes, j n the eastern part of the couury, returned home Thursday. 1 i 2 LANCASTER NEWS, AUGUST The State Capital. The Telegraphers' Strike-Colutnbia's Fist-Fights , this Week-Personal Mention. Mr. Editor: "Three strike? and out.*' On Monday the teleji- 1 raphers in Columbia jrot orders to strike and walked out. Thus ?.l,n 1 1 Hio ?? C3VPI <1 U 1IIUI1, X ?Btni ^ Telegraph Companies and "The Slate" like many others all over the United States suffered, llow- 1 ever, "The State'is running on as ^ they have a man. The Postal and t Western Union managers are C I still al their j>osts, but all ines | sages, as elsewhere, are being i < t^ken 'subject to indefinite delay." ^ Your correspondent was in- : | formed that Miss Susie Mae, I Uloyd is now with the Western i Union Telegraph Co , but he lias | not seen her yet. The Richland County Court ' , seem? to have lost ?o far. Two fisticuffs within twentyL ....... - o , ., 1 HMir nours 01 eacn omer g:.ve Columbians something to talk about. The first was Monday c afternoon. A "roo'or," claimed c to hp the champion 'roii e"" of c the South, and one of the Jack- 'J sonville players who were play j ing Columbia, not into a "swat- i itig" match Monday afternoon. ( The tan took occasion to make j j fun of one of the visiting players J I named Lewis and atter the game i I Mr. Geo. Collins, the said "rooter-tan." and Lewis met at the H 'Columbia Hotel and there the ? fracus occurred. The next morn- i| uing two au'oists had a fist fiuht. 1 Sometime ago the Iieo and the ii Ford ran a race from Columbia u to Augusta for ? purse and there h nas b3eu a te-ding not altogether friendlv between the two iupii I r E. A. Jenkins, the 11 'o man, 1 and Mr. "Hack" Mc Muster, the s Ford mm, were not on speaking i terms. Tuesday they mot and t had a little "fracus." The Rao lost the race, but Jenkins says it e was not run according to rules. r Mr. E. D. Blakeney ot Ker- h all aw was here a few days a<;o. v Mr. Edgar Fayaeur was in s tilis city today on his way to 'J Bishopville. Say, don't talk about apples li i 1 hiiu appie pie. 1/ mattes us wmi , t some. ' \ And Lancaster is "making a i noise liKe"' a "boomer." Lancastrian. | 'i Columbia, S. C. Aug 14, 1907. , ? i . H Lady Assaulted and Thrown i in Creek by Black Brute. 1 F Salisbury special in yester- h day's Charlotte Observer: Num- 1 bers of Salisbury people went 1 out this afternoon to the Craven ^ neighborhood in search of an un known negro who yesterday after " noon asHHultedMr-D W Kesler and J threw her into the creek to concoal his murderous crime, lie afterwards eacaped and has not r since been heard from. Nor is! ' there the slightest clue as to who i lie i?. Mrs. Ivesler belongs to on-e of ( the best country families, is a . daughter of Joseph K^sler,Sr., a [wealthy hardware merchant and I tarmer. She lived a number of r H years in this ciy and recently i moved to the country. fc \ pwi^ipipipppiipi 17, 1907. ONLY TWO W CONTEST AVILL DAY NIGHT, 7 O'CU It looks now very much 1 lot be cast and although oi Contest was that no trips v east 60,000 Votes were c n the event the 60,000 vot< )ne Trip to the one candid ricts, receiving the largest jo,000 are cast three candi< went 60,000 are not cast, t ng the highest number of So don't be discouraged vill not be cast, but get to s sure to win the trip. REME! Only too W I'rof/reHS fnitif/ Mntlr on /tnifrf- ' ini/s (Joint/ Up in Lnnrnstcr Good progre-s is being rna'ej >n the various buildings in. sourse oi construction in L<n- , a?t r, as pr<?vi >u*dy noted in ['lie News. The roof is being i daeed on one of the largo brick niildines of the Co'ton Oil , lompuny. One oi the buildings s 00x150 leet, and 4d feet in leight, to the eaves. the other s 40x176. The window and d>or fraan-s ire being placed in the large dackey building on Main street, 11 which the First National , li.nk will have its quarters and n which there will be one or ore store rooms, with opera muae on second lloor. Considerable progress has ' ieen made this week on Mrs. 1. S. McDow's resilience bppo. ite the Baptist parsonage, which s to be two stories and will con sun nine rooms. Mr. Beauregard Cunningham xpecfcs to start work on his esidence next week, which is to e built on Gay Rtreet. It, t->o. pill he a handsome two-story tructure, containing nine rooms. ?he material is now on the lot. Lumber and biicks are being! lauled for the construction of ne fine dwelling Mr. 1). lleoce!1 Williams is going to have built ' n East End. Vhe Douf/las i'icnic. The Woodmen, their families ind Iriemls had a delightful piclic at Douglass Wednesday. Beween (500 and S00 persons were jresent. There was no public peaking, but plenty of good hings to eat, and the opportu lity lor social intercourse was jreatly enjoyed by both old and roung. Business Notices. w All Notices inaertpd under I his head at the rate of ON K CKN'I V WOKI> for ea<ti insertion. N< lotice to he counted less than 2." vords. F<>lt SALE -Lot of good fodder. Apply o S. I>. Tulor, Lancaster, Monte No. I LUMHEK, umber, Limber, We have ' or sitle several tlionsui.il feet of good ensoued luiuher, also a big lot rf dry ongb edge ch< ftp. This Inmher is 1 in ..... <1.- Ul ...ill 1- - .. i IUICU ll? UMI Mill MM, Will IIIHUV I rice on large lots Lancaster Mercantile ' lompaoy. / s EEKS MORE. ^ CLOSE 8ATURAUG. 31. AT )CK. ike the 60,000 votes will ne of the conditions of the vould be given unless at :ast, we have decided, *s are not cast, to give ate, in either of the 3 disvote. Of course if the iates will go but in the hen the candidate receivvotes will get a trip, because you think 60,000 work at once, as someone MBER 4 V V eeks More. V In Memory of Little Dessie Luesenia Jennings. Little Dossie Lucseuia. daughter of Mr. .nd s. J. II*. Jennings, departed this liW Ai.uast 6th. 19)7, aged 8 jetrs 4 mo, nud 8 days. It is linrd to part with our loved one, but we pray Qod to reveal himself unto us us tlm God ot all emuloit, in this, our sad bereavement Asleep in Jesus, to wake no more. Wo cannot hear your sweet voice, Dessie, 'till we uieet on the other shore. Asleep in Jesus, blesse l sleep. From which none ever wuke to weep; A enliu and undisturbed repose I'nhrokeii by the hate of foes. Farewell. d? ar Dessie, farewell. Peaceful be thy silent rest Slumber sweetly. God snows best When to call thee home to r.>ut Farewell, dear Opinio, farewell We innst any our last farewell 1 ill wi' meet beyond the river, Happy there with thee to dwell. Pear l>es*ie, -lie has left 11s Left ns, yes forever more, But w hope to meet our loved one On the happy golden shore. Ihen rest at home, dear Dassie, And play the golden harp; Let your voice grow sweeter Like the music of the lark. Why do we grieve, it cannot be long Till we arose to the golden shore And sing the grand and beautiful song Willi our loved one gone before. The cup 01 hitter drugs you drank From which you never shrank, From the dreadful pain you bore Now set fiee to feel no more. A precious one from us is gone, A voice we loved is stilled; A place is vacant in our home Which never can be till"d. Her Loving Sisters. Notice of Election. . Whereas one-third of the KreehoWi*rs and one-third of t lie electors residing: in the following: named Rehool Districts, viz : Heath Springs No US, Oakhnrst No. 39, f'aston No.82, l'leasant Hill No. 31, Bruce No. 37, in Lancaster ('mint y. Stat e of Southf 'arolit a, have petitioned the county Hoard of Kduention to order an election in the above named School Districts, to determine whether or not a High School shall he established in the Town of Heath Springe, as provided by an act of the State i.egislature, approved Fehy. 19'h 1907. Entitled "An act to provide High Schools for the State." Notic- is hereby given that said elections be held by the Trustees of the above named school districts at their respective school houses on Tuesday sept. 3rd 11)07, at which election only such electors as return real or personal property for taxation and who exhibit their tax receipt and registration certificate as required in general elections shall be entitled to vote. K B .Mackey Trustees (J I. Mobley [ Heath Springs .1 A Bridges ) Dist. No. 38 I. K Boilings Trustees Berry Mob.ey [-Oakhurst .1 T I, Stover ! Inst. No. 89 .1 K Kims Trustees A I. Sims ) ( a-ton W I, Criinuiinger j lust. No. 32 1, F Robinson 1 Trustees M 1. Bee k lixm IIIll A .1 Cauthen J l>i?t, No. 31." W I* Maokey 1 Trustees I liarhnr ( antlifii Bruce I Sam llroce I I Hat. No 37. W M Moore j ' ounty II K ? oHVy ) Board \N C Hough J Education fer Bubgoribe to The News.