Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 She Xaurustfr sflwrt (SEMI-WEEKLY.) NATl'Kh.l V* SEPT. 11*. l?OH. BOYS A!SD CIGARETTES. If there be oue law more dead" tbau another, the distinc tion ot being the "deadest" in the whole statutory push probably belongs to the act of tilt Legi'da*ure making it unlawful to sell or give cigarettes to minors. Possibly the uon-obser vance ot the statute i*? due to lack ot knowledge of its exia tence. though ignorance of tht law, as we all know, is no excust for is violation. That the law in question is not generally known, uot even to "a numbei of lawyers and legislators." maj be interred not only from its non observance, but from the following taken from the report ir Tuesday's News and Courier o the proceedings ot the conven tion ot the Woman's Christiai Temperance Union of the State held in Bamberg : The Woman's Christian Tern perance Union of South Carolina. af'er asking "their husband at home" and a number of law. vers an 1 Legi-la ors as to whether or nf t there was an anti-cigar etto law- in tin-Stat", and alwavi netting a negative reply, final s w. rot<- to 'heSecretary of State anc unear' lied the following law in re laii'-n to tobacco. South Carolina Code, 1902, Section 329?Ther lollows th^* aci itself, which we reproduce : Section 329 It Khali not he lawful lor any person or persons, either by himself or themselves, to sell, turnish, >:ive or provide any minor or minors, under the ai:e ot 18 years, with ciga'ettes, tobacco or cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor. Any person or any persona violating the provisions ot the preceding section, either in person, by agent or in any other way, t-ha'1 be held and deemed guil'y of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment ara conviction therefor shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor le^a than twenty-live dollars, or by imprisonment lor a term of not more than one year, nor less than two months, cr both, in the discretion of the Court, one-hulf of the line imposed fr. he paid to the informer of the offence and the o'her halt to be paid to the treasurer ot the county in which such conviction shall be had. The report jroes on to state that the Woman's Temperance Union has "star'ed a movement to scat? -.? i n i. 11 nnctnra <>ai\ t o t n 1 n ir V-v;jjjc"" finu j"/niui ^ ? v/iibc?in>*i^ thif* law broadcast over tlie State during the coming year, anl will do ever.v thing in their power to have tins law enforced." Hut why wait on the good women temperance workers to agitate tili- matter?why not he vtin lite work ritrht now? Any hour of the da boy?, t o h white and biack, are to be seen on the streets puffing away at cigarettes. It they can be broken of the vile and injurious habit by law, let the aid of the law bo invoked. 1 J l l t 1. it will foe ooserveu ' 11*1 ui> provisions of the act are very comprehensive. No one is al lowed 10 sell, furnish, trive 01 provide anv minor or minors 1111 der the age ot 1H years, with citrare'les, tohacco or cigarette pa per, or any substitute therefor" A strict observance of this law cutting off as it does the snurct of supply, will ureatly minimizi the cigarette evil amonit boys il it does r.ot break it up alto aether. Lancaster county can alwayi be depended upon to show ii[ favora'-ly in comparison witl other counties in every laudabl< undertaking. In the matter, lo instance, of precinct contribu tions at the recent primary fi THE LANCA * the Br van fund, Lancaster's co<>1 tri utiou, $24 26, makes that of more than one other county look * like thirty eent9. sure enough. Chester gave only $8.35: R'ch. land, (he home county ot the State chairman, $9.92; Aiken, $7: Eluefield, $8.32; I'nion, 1 $ "> 60; Oconee, $1.70 and so on. A Georgia uewspaper expresses surprise that no bill collectors j were drowned in Augusta dur ins the flood. Who ever heard of a dead bill collector? According to a German scien' tist a bu'terfly can go seventeen days without tood. But these big old Rock Llill mosquitoes, ' that have followed visitors over r i here in quest of pure, fresh air, 1 can't go peventeen seconds with* | out an able-bodied bite. The newspapers are complain. ing of an unprecedented scarcej ties- of egzs throughout Mie State f Since the elections are over and . poli'icians have quit lying, it ? looks like the hens might go to 11, r ? ? . laying. The city of ^Anderson is nothing if not progressive. Its Coun j oil has just declaied an act of I the Legislature to be unconsti" j tutiooal. The girl who recently made p I that wonderful mountain climb ' must have practiced, for ab 'lit 1 six months beforehand on L ?n 'caster's rough and rugged side* walks. The man nominated in the iec-nt primary for sheriff of Anderson county weighs 425 pounds now and there's no telling howmuch more llesh he'll take on I wc<Uic lie <n liiuuvK vi iii iu umvc, The first arre-t l?e makes had better be of his own physical development. A Massachusetts man is said to have swallowed a box of tacks on a wager. Peril ips they were : hard-tacks at that.?Augusta j Herald. It's a safe bet that he has been nursing at-tacks of pains uin his midst" ever since The Kershaw firaded Schools I opened Monday morning and 000 pupils were enrolled in the dii! Ierent grades. ? Kershaw Kra The types ^have played our i cont< niporary a trick, el?e the realize much bet'er prices th-tn 'those n >w being offered; but if ? on ihe other hand, anv consider' ab'e .lumber of them throw their J crops on the market, there's no ? teI'111 .r where 'he price will go. KoJol will, in a very short time, enable the stomach to do the work it should do, and the work it should do s is to digest all the food you eat. When ) the stomach can't do it Kudo! does it I lor it and in ttie meantime the atom. ar.h is netting: stronger and able to 6 take up its regular natural work r again. Kr.dol digests all you eat. It makes the stomach sweet and it is pleasant to take. It is sold here by 0 J. K. Mackey A Co. w-s Ker-haw teachers will have, naught to do but sit up and look pleasant and draw their salaries. , The members of the Farmers' I'nion seem to be guarding well the secret of the m'nimum price I of cotton as fixed by the Union. j Twelve cents is thought to be the limit, but no one outside the Union really knows what the figures are. At any rate. very little cotton is being sold, ; from which it may be interred that the farmers are standing : | loyally bv their organization, whatever the once m iv be. One of die largest cotton hovers in, the South, who resides in anoth er State, was heaid to remark j (lie other day that he expected to see cotton go to 7 1-2 cents! ' if the farmers <lo not I eeo it oil the market or at least sell it jslowly ami conservatively. Any-I thins: like a rush ol the staple on (he market, in his opinion, would ! semi (he price tumbling down. r j ward. The situation iherelore : is up lo the tanners. It they i >r>i ti, I hpv will no douhi STER NEWS. SEPTEMBE Oak Ridge Dots. Mr. liasel Vaughni) spent l ist Sumia> nt ihe Oak Ridge section. Messrs. B?n an i Nute Sim* 'and L vi Brazzil spent Tuesday , : in R tck Hill. Mr. and Mrs. (i. W. Bowers of Lancaster spent last Saturday and Sunday with the latler's par- ( euts. Mr. and .Mrs. I)unu Cren-I i shaw. Miss Eunice Vaughan spent J las' Sunday with Miss Bertha j Brazz.l. Mr. D F. Phillips and family I spent Sun Jay with relatives in 1 Lancaster. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Vaughan spent Suudav with re'a'ives in Lancaster. The Rev. N. E. Brazzil has been carrying on a successful : meeting at Oak Riaae school house which all the people en J joved. It closed last Wednesday niuht We will be glad to have Mr. Brazzel ba:k with us : again at any tune. May God bless him wherever he may go. ! v r 1 i i\ e w8 ru-aaer. Have Your Name Entered on Confederate Monument Honor Roll. The Laoea^er Chtpter liaving giver, ihe contract for the Conieder tte Mot ument. it i< det-iroug to have the ladies ol 'lie C"unty at d I'iwu whose names are I. it on the * 11 n ?r Roll" to put them on now. IV ase sen t your name and $1.00 to Mrs. Al. E. Cauthen, Troas. : s off hit \oticex I'ov. T. A. Pabney will preach a sermon before tho Itchc-cu Lodge <>t' < ?<!< 1 Fellows Sunday night next in the S< ? - I oiul Baptist church. .Mr. A. J. ('lark. clerk of Lancaster < amp Woodmen of the World, sent Mrs. W. (', Kwart, of Yorkville n check Thursday for $200(1 in payment of policy carried in that order by her lab* husband. Key. W. ('. Kwart. The Ke\. K. I !. Stackhouse will preach for Kev. W. A. I'airy in the i court house next Sunday, 11 o'clock a. m. and hold the fourth quarterly conference of Lancaster Station Monday morning. The pastor requests a full attendance of all the officials at this conference. Kc\s. K. (). Thompson and 11. 11. Mitchell will preach in the court house next Wednesday night at s o'clock. There will be preaching at Pouglass tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at .'1 o'clock, by the Kev. ( halmcrs Frascr. John H. Parker, a carpenter, was killed and a dozen of his fel-j low-workmen injured at Winsion-Salem, N. (J , Thursday, by the collapse of a fair hutldins in course oi construction. s copvaicmf a p* c C? J THE FERE FOOD QUESTION is not one you need worry I over if you leave your ' grocery orders at Hennerts , Goods that are doubtful in 3 nnalitx; nn nlnnp in ? ~ I I: our store, as we take the . j trouble to test personally ) : all food products before jj giving them our sanction. I BENNETTS R 19. 1908 t A SAFE E ffi'HE safeguards place ^ bank by the strict I vision under which its business, its caj plus and the person cers and directors n pository of the high ?a bank to which trust your funds slightest misgiving 40 COMPOUNDE o QUART! paid on Savings / Certificates of Dej The First Nati LANCASTER 1 ? ^OBEL T1 p ^ 0 cu a c? <v w W. I/. ( lOVl . S/iAtirAa/1 BUILDING LCT AND FARA .... 7. y. }i BHMMHIIBHBBHHI Mr. Tom McNinch has return 'I1' ed to us alter settiiiir up a hand 11 some monument in Fort Mill. Mr. McNinch is a finished work roan and his patron* speak well ?If of im ?The Camden People. eei ha Lancaster has still another le^ new More. The Lancaster Gro ap eery Oo has just opened a slock to of heavy and fancy groceries in | mi SANK d around this 7ederal superi it conducts ... . pital ana surinel of its offinake it a delcst character you can enwithout the r :d iRLY Accounts and josit. ... nnal Bank 1 R, S. C. 75k* i t-H L fT ^ 1 v J W oil Co. 11 .9 Qea/ (2 sta rs \ LANDS FOR SALE 'illiams .... ' Riddle Mock Mr Geo H. ach, trom Chester, is in charge the business. After paving all campaign and ction expenses the county exutive committee still has on nd about $68 ot the assessments i - * * % . nea on tne candidates, as win pear by an itemized statement be published Inter by Ch*irin Caskey. ^