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fc 0 The Lancaster News rrm Semi-Weekly. A Published Wednesdays and Saturdays ~r~A At Lancaster, s. C., W"| By The t Lancaster Publishing Company. I Charles T. Connors, Editor Th/ _?_ E\tered >?s second-class matter, Oct. 7. HO? at the postotttce at Lapctwlcr s>. C.. under Ac ot Congress of March 3. 187U * >- I" a lot of "Christmas Dont's," relating to presents, but it neglects to mention the impropriety of fivintr such a thing as an automobile to a man like an editor who isn't able to buy the gasoline to run it. An enterprising automobile manufacturer is trying to push the sale of bis machines by the declaration that alter taking a ride in one of them a woman was unable to st eak lor thirty uays.?Anderson Mail. Wonder if it is the same kind of a k,devilv in which a babv was born the other day. If so, there are some painfully fatherless benedicts hereabouts wtio would like to know the brand. The people of Lancaster a? Iheir town meeting last Tuesday niglu decided 10 extend the utown" limits one mile from the court house in every direction, (luess we will have to sen t a lantern over to Brother Connors, ol The News, so he can find his way home in that big city. Or we win gladly lei mm iiave our afreet cur line.? Rook Hill Record. Don't want your old lantern, nor your old afreet car. A pine torch is more illuminating than the oue and an ox cart more comfortable and expeditious than the other. 8D Weduesdav. December 18, 1907 w? [ If Santa Clans is wise lie'l C( give Kock Hill the go.by thii j Christmas, since the mud is uj to the 4illub of the Piedmont." 1 ? j The fishy st >ry now going tin t rounds ot the press to trhe eil'ec that a negro was drowned whih trying to land a catfish wai k probably started by An_lers Carter and Cook to keep coons ? out o' their l>aited hole-. "Texas is the modern Garder of Eden," says the Houstoi Chronicle.' The pen pictures o the News and Courier's bngli paragraplier would iead one tc believe that the Lon?? Star Stat* is Hell's Half Acre enlarged. "On which side of u cow should a milker sit?" asks a novice. What a foolish question. ?Augusta Herald. Yes, any fool ought to have seme enough to sit ou the outside. "Uncle Joe Cannon is a bird, He jollies you with one hand while he puts ttie bridle on you with the ot her," says an exchange No wonder; ho has had so much experience in breaking asses. An epidemic ot the grip is now prevailing in New York city. As many as fif;y thousand persons are said to be within its clutches. Many (atalities are reported, the number of deaths being over five hundred. Success Matrazino rsnhlishne We congratulate Bro. Gardnei of the Greenwood Journal on the handsome Christmas edition which he has issued. We might have done a similar stunt had it not been for the lrantic fits ol envy which our Rock Hill contemporaries would have precipitately turned off. Col. John C. Tipton, who hni i relatives and many friends ii i r.annflRtnr. t.liw homo ol his bnv hood days, is now editor of (In _ El Passo Daily News, of El Pas I so, Texas. Col. Tipton is an ex p perienced newspaper man and t , brilliant writer and wecougratu late hiiu on his deserved promo tiou. 3 t Senator Tillman's expect ec ? speech on his resolution directing an investigation ot the recent , ootid is-uo and the issuance ol ? clearing house certificates was delivered in the Senate Monday The Senator spoke for nearly ^ two hours, and the Associated Press ss'.ys that his speech wat j. "filled with denunciation ol the t President, the secretary of the treasury ard the department ol Justice, ol financiers and cap. tains of industry." I Col. A. R. Banks, as noted elsewhere, attended the recent . meeting of the State board ol education and reports that the > State high school board has ap propriated the following sums to three accredited high schools ol j Lancaster county : lo Lancaster I Itif'li flplinnl iROlV TTnaf li Qnrineo , 'J VV Vj iJLO?IU UliDi 1 $403; Kershaw, $426, making :? [ total lor the county ot $1 20. . Only two other schools in the i S'ate, Batesburg and Bamberg, receive as much as Lancaster. The high schools are classified , as folio ,vs: Two-year course, thre-year course, and four-year ! course. The maximum amount . tliiit c hi be received by the lirst is $500, the second, $700, the third, $800. HIGH .SCHOOLS IN THE STATE. At its meeting in Columbia Friday the State board ot education approved of about 35 ap plications tor high schools, among them Lancaster's. The total number of applications favorably acted upon by the board this year is 53. The approval of the Lancaster annli<-:i rr ? tion makes I lie third thin passed upon in this county, the two others being from Kershaw and j Heath Spr.ngs. The hoard recommends that several changes be made in the .high school Jaw, as wrl he ere-i from the following, taken Irom the Sunday State's report oi itprocee lings : Resolutions were passed recommending to the legislature that the hir h t c..o -1 act bj amend ed in several luirt'cnlars. In the first place it is recommend'd that the limitation to places o' 1,(100 inhabitants tor a single district high school be amended so as to read "any district contain ing an incorporated town " i ? a- ' - 1 ' in uit- Bt'cuuu piace flie reconimendation provides that definite : amounts lie assigned to two-year, three-year and four-year high schools, regardless of whether the high school district is rich oi 1 poor, providing that in all cases at least 25 pupils must be taught in the high school department hy i two competent teachers. If this provision is adopted it will pre vent the rich from getting the * lion's share of the appropriation. , This is what the legislature is ( seeking to prevent. The board recommended that the $o0.000 appropiiation be continued for , f another year, and it was the unf aoimous belief ot the members . that the normal increase of the hi>ch schools next year svill takn up the full amount, even if the 1 rl fi 1111 ft :immi ii f k t n I ii? urOinnlu nt different clashes are somewhat 3 reduced, The board suggested 1 $500 lor a two-year Midi schro , * $000 for a throe-y^ar high school 2 and $700 tor a four-year high school. This would allow the establishment and aid of about 85 schools, ir is practically cer 1 tain that the number will be in creased that much next year. - The total amount appropriated by the board this year was a lit tie less than $28,000. 1 EXTENDING THE TOWN'S LIMITS. ! As to town extension, we he[ leve there ought to I e eu.'h a 1 thing within hounds of reason; and we believe the town lines , ought to run at right angles, it i 1 1 1 BIO B />1<V if fti The Great' #< in Lancaster Store for 10 Is'd 14th and end vjf Our entire lii v 7 Goods at actual coi iiifj We are going 0]1 are giying some e> ! v iWfc progress. Don't \\ si on today and see f( iS / 3$ Men's all Wo Youth's and ( Hats, the nice competition. Our line of |^|] novelties and staple tftp] Women s boll Few nice Lad |y a bargain. We are closin Lice line Mer Now is the tii rjj^ vfy. and avoid the rush. f:'t Nice complete ? J We are still ri $$ Cotton at 5c a spoc Just arrived, t H h day Goods ever sh( L1K xt:_ 1: r r iflnrj in ilc inic ui v. all* I Jfjx, H It will pay your Christmas "Si X | (itlloiiM practicable, instead of in a circle. A friend ot ours and of the council, who is a surveyor, proposes as follows : If council will peisonally co-operate with him in making; a hurried preliminary survev one dav. in order to make a basis of acliou in enlarging t lie town lira ts, be will give that day s work to 'he town. We suppose, of course the council, under tho?e ciicomst races, would employ him to make the permanent. survey. His idea is to make the intersection of Main and Dunlap Streets the starting point ? (near tbe Tillman Hotel) Then let Main Street be extended half a mile toward Gills creek aud Dunlap Street hdf a mile westward in i's normal course Lot perp radiculars be erected on those lines: that on Main S'reet running naif a m le westward and three-fourths ot a mi'e eastward, or five eighths of m. iubi \t*ammngi\mm mi ? t K i: 11 \ itt ,M3 1* JM. JS. 11 est Bargain Sale < ' will be held at days, commencin ling December 24 ie of Clothing, Pants, it. to reduce our stock b iceptional bargains wl 'ait for some one else :>r yourself. ol Suit of Clothes for Children's Clothing at :st line ever shown, at Dress Goods is comp! h r? .o. d Leather Shoes for 9 ies' Cloaks which we g out our line of Millir l's $1.00 Shirts for 69 ne to get a nice Overc : Suit Furnitnre for inning Calico at 5 He d1. he nicest line of Dolls )wn in Lancaster, ^andy Fruit, and Nut you to see us bef 5 supply of Good ' Yours to serve, ill More I a mile a< council may determine. Then drop a line from the ex. tremity southward as far as council may deem proper in direction of Emmons branch on the east. On the west a line should be dropped to take in about half of Midway and cross the Southern r\ilwav. Then, it said line extended will fake in too much oi the Mill village, retract a certain distance and run southward towards Emmons branch and thence meet the line of eastern boundary. We are inclined to favor this proposition, but believe that the council will do what is right on the line ot thought here suggested. Wo are not hide-boui d in the matter: but we t olieve in extension pr iperly administered. If member< of council will accept the proposition, the pre liminnry survey will not cost a ceni; and we hope it will be done. "STuI NIB % ever offered Cotton Mill If g December th, 1907 || , Hats and Dress | j Ira y January ist and j3j| bile this sale is in g'p : to tell you come Hjjj Six $3.20 In 50c on the Dollar. 11 : prices that defy Sj< lete, all the latest || oc. are closing out at r II lery at actual cost. c H :oat. Come early H n ^ > m >0.00. fi a yard and Spool N k IW\ , Toys and Holis always on hand. (>jy| m ore you lay in N rhiDgs. I"! ouipany | nsniJ