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i V The Osceola Neighborhood. II - I ? now wxnsimas was Spent? I Aged Lady Celebrates Her s 86th Birthday?The Pub lie Roads, and Suggestions to Our Lawmakers as to I How to Improve Them? Cdl. Springs am. Lancas ter's Growth. Ed Lancaster Newt-: Your I correspondent broke bread with Mark Single Christmas day. AfH tor dinner hia venerable mother I said : My mother al vays to'd me that I was bom at 5 o'clock on Christmas morning, 85 years aao: so you see I have lived to eat my 80th Christmas dinner." I She goes on crutches, caused from ? fall, breaking a hip. many I years ago. She talks intelligentH ly about many things of by-goneH days. Mr. Slagle says President Roosevelt refuses to be buried in I x Oathnlifl rrrorro 3 'IM - I? ?wu ,r a i u. 1 lie HII b\ver is, he is not yet dead. ^ v^.Ootton is going on the market slowly, causing everything around Osceola to be rather calm and serene. Tangle-leg struck some of the boys, cr.using them to holler, a few times like they were in a gum log?but they are quiet ubw and ruminating over the past. . Our Representatives will assemble about the middle of next month to enact and amend oui laws. 1 wonder it the. will one time think of our road and road laws and do their duty, one of the grandest works of their lives esul 1 tt qIoma. muilg lull; ? lilt?. 11 might be well for them to travel over our roads a little before they start to Coluinbiu, and if they do, I wouldn't be surprised if they should break I he record trying to amend our present road laws. Friend Slagle says the road in front, of the Capt. Steele old home place, near Steele llill, is so bad that tie can hear the travelers down there whooping and yelling, but lie doesn't know What they are doing below. Now friends, our representatives, you may find that a localoption law would be (he best plan upon which to build good roads. I think taxation is the only solution to the question in Lancaster county. The greater part of the soil in this county is red and hilly, like in Mecklenburg county, N. C. Our people are industrious and intelligent and have always'proved true and loyal to each other and to their country, but they have been dormant along the lines of this road question. The Mecklenburg and Union county people awoke and saw their need, went to work are building their roads. Our people have been content with mud holes, gullies and rocks in the roads.. Yes, we have thousands of cart loads of rocks, but we are not ready to place them where they belong. A tew years ago Lancaster town was a little old, muddy, dilapidated place. But one bright morning, a bright, intel ligent fellow by the name of Col Leroy Springs waked up and , got a hustle on himself and went to work, others falling in line, and on went the march, and today Lancaster has concrete side- , THE LANOAS walks an,d macadamized 6treetF,'j^ ^ith many uew and valnaKlol^ buildings that would be a credit 8 to any city. Now the question ? is, who will lake the lead in fix- > ing and planning to raise money 5 to build the good roade? And when ? this is done, I think tho work [f should commence at I he court > house, building the most travel 7 ed first and particularly towards ^ other towns. Would li <e to see th& road inter, ect with the road above Pleasant Valley near 1 Clems Branch. One of my iriends ;V near Pleasant Vallev said lo me N the other day : "1 paid 8 doilaiB r an acre for this land 5 years ago. \ Now I am refusing 25 duila s \ per acre, and don't want'to sell it ^ at any piice". What would he,? say if the other end of the road i ^ was macadamized? I wish to live v to see good roads all over the } country, and especially from one ;> town to another. Land is never 2 sold in any community along macadamized roads. fJ T. W Seerest. ^ > , ~ 1 Newsy Items from Antioch. -v * The combination Christmas ^ tree at Antioch was a success. ' The ladies of the committee are ? to be commended lor their s te faithful work to make the osca- ? 8ion enjoyable. '? The Antioch Sunday School has never had brighter prospects. A Under the wise leadership of Mr > W. J. Long, this school the com > ing spring will doubtless become 5 a power ain this community, as ? every one seems to be full ot hope. | Miss Ida Watts, the popular ,> and successful teacher of the l* Antioch school, is spending the holidays at her home in Clus- ; ler county. > Misses Ida and Dessie West ? are visiting Misses Josie and An ^ nie Blackmou at Iiail Gold Mine. Miss Bertha Stogner visited > friends at Kershaw this week. Mr. Wm. Mackey and Miss g Mary Small ot Fork Hill section : were married the 26th at the re- i sidence ot J. A. West, llev. R. r T. Blackmon olllciating. g Extensive preparations are J being made to entertain the ^ county meeting of the Farmers Union. We hope tor a large at- g tendance. The date is Thursday : and Friday, the 2nd and 3d of / January. In many respects the ? Autioch loc*l is the best in the ? county. " Coeur De Lion. 11 ? WE HAVE just received a ear of Tennessee Wagons, all sizes, a car Columbia and Hamilton buggies and also a car Flaokney buggies.?OregoryHood Live Stock Co. Interesting Exercises at the \ Graded Schools on Eve of Holidays. The following was crowded out of our last issue : The exercises of the Graded Schyols were suspended Friday, Dec. 20, to be resumed Jan. 0, 1908. The hiirher ~ J grades were busy the last w?ek with their examinations. { In moat of the class rooms exr ercisea having reference to the Christinas Reason were held. These were instructive and en tertaining. In the seventh, 1 J] third and first grades these exerc jiaea are worthy of special notice. Miss Craig had her room grace- V ITER NEWS, JANUARY 1. 191 fTn^f ?ii 1' t II $ To ?ur F ... , BH ?a We bef? ffll 2 every one ol ^ liberal trade j jm ^ each one of W will always U!*J ? ciiij u ? methods. {[!? ^ There a tf* our rescue ? will say that I? ^ makG U* a lir' b jnowing n % ^ ton. We a ft prices, but a |!k, ^ do not emab accomodatin ||p| ^ all of your n || 0 We are J A ^ our money s at] ^ ^ ^ and pay us c f !l cor ?j??| ^ place ready !:}/ ^ is our aim tc 1 $ er0(y ,?a A A, ltr:i.l. ... Xg'W+'Vr+W vv lLri vt $ V New Year, v I < I I * Si 2 S!2| * < \Xl ^ I J ,:lg ? m & | 1 ]| Lincast &*!? ^ jr ->^V' '*\x. jai^ly/t^^Lfik r<iN -7z:?tr : ully decorated for the occasion ind her pupila gave readings ind declamations appropriate to ,he occasion. Miss Harper had for her children a representative >f a large Christmas I'ie. Each pupil, after a graceful little ipeecli, took a plum from the arge pie?this plura was a dainy little bag. filled with sweet neat*. Miss Nora Hough had a JhrUtmas tree for the little 'oiks of the first grade, and a eal Santa Claus to distribute he presents. The recitations ind songs by these little child en were very excellent. Specinens of work were also shown,At llO Mill school. Mi?S Wliiaonanf 1 ' j nd her corps of teachers had a teautiful Christmas tree for the hildren, and many ycun^ hearts rere made happy. 8. id Prosperous I s $ riends and Customers: to take this opportunity to than our many friends and custom* you ha~*e given us the past y?ar, you that it has been appreciate find us ready and willing to ext< lat we can, consistent with go< 25, 1?0T, I will hhII at public auction at Lancaster court house on the first Monday in January, 1908, within the legal hours ot r.a'e, the following described real estate, to wit: All that piece, parcel or tract of land in the said county and state, containing twenty-nine [2b] acres, more or less, hounded by lands of t harles Dunlap on the north; on tlie Kast by lands of W.J. Robinson; on the South by lands of Nancy Dunlap, and on ttie West by lands of David Cousart, being lands derived by, delendants as heirs at law of Lewis Dunlap. dec'd. Terms of sale, oash; purchaser to pay for nnn?>r* If ? ~u_n ? ?< (..i.iiiinncr miHM Jail CO Domply with term* of sale within two hour* after said sale, the lands will he immediately resold at risk of tlrst purchaser Lancaster, S. C., Dec. 10, 1 ! <>7 J. F. GREGORY, Clerk C. C. P. L, C. I Williams ?fc Williams, i Flffs' Attys. re a few of our friends who have is they should have done, and t< we shall expect you to come in ood payment by storing your c loney from the Banks, or selling re glad to see the cotton held rrangements should be made wl rrass your merchant friend, who ig you all of the year by furnishii iceds. always glad to help you, but ome time, and we now want you >r make satisfactory arrangement ning year you will find us at th< and anxious to do business with > give perfect satisfaction to evei jry best wishes for a happy and ve are, Yours very truly, $ | fr Mcrcan i iWliA:r? 33L>VA*2<KS ^ihi > Clerk's Sale. .STATE OF SOUTH OA 110 LIN A, COUNTY <>F LANCASTER, hi the Common Pleas. I). A. Williams, 1* <T. against I.ee Dunlap, Scott Bailey, et al, Defts. BY VIRTUE of a decree of the! I 'ourt made in the ahove stated cause, i by Judge John S Wilson ilnio.i o?i > ???????? BqapSlg- wssg^sstz New Year j i y'w s a ^ sa? ^ d Y $ I % LIr ^ ll k each and /j 3rs for the $ and assure ^ ?*S d, and you ^ w . 2nd to you 3d business ^ ;j^ & M ! not come p j| ? 3 these we jto ?!?] and either jp ^ffj sotton, and your cot- ^ Nlj/j for higher ^ $3?j lereby you 5 |ff| Vine Vin/Mi - ^ IXIvXI ig you with ^ /) % we do need ^ \ ? to come in j[ ts. f e same old you, and it J || ry custom- *v' teflfc 5 m Prosperous I ? ii I. I T x<>? ^ S3 ^ N|l< i st S ik ililc (o. i LT A '/iixAy' Ai/isTrA ^IXI t-i. WlMMMMraMRHMMmWHB STATE OF SOU Hi CAHOLINA, COUNTY OF LANCASTER. In the 1'robnto Conrt, By J. E Ntewmnn, Esquire, Probate Judge Whereas, Mary D. Orr, of Lancaater Co., paid State, has made suit to mo to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate of and elleets of Lewis Sowell deceased. THESE A RE, THEREFORE, to cite and ndmouish all and singular the kindred and creditors ol'the said Lewis Howell dee'd, that tin y be and appear before me, in the Court of l'robnte, to be hold at Lancaster Court House, on the 2nd day of January, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not he granted. Given under my hand, this 1G day of December, Anno Domini, lit >7. J. E. STEW MAN, l'robnte Judge. Dec. 17, 15)07. A?A? ? * uuuuic who your kidneys? There nre lots of people today who wonder why they have pains across tbe hack, why they are tired and lacking in energv and aiub ition. Your kidneys are wrong. They need relief without dt iay. Take J>oWitt's Kidney ft liladder Pills; they are t??r weak back, inflammation of the bladder, ba< kiche and kidneys. Sold by all druggists.