The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, November 18, 1908, Page 4, Image 4
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(SEMI-WEEKLY.)
WEDNESDiV, NOV. IS, IOOS.
TIMELY TOWN TOPICS.
The show is still with us; it
wan advertised to arrive on Oct
22, and it came and its advertising
signs are still flopping and
flapping up and down the streets.
These may advertise the show,
all right, but certainly they are
not an aesthetic advertisement
of Lancaster, unless you define
the word aesthetic like the monlrott
rl i mL An Itn J i ? 1
avjt uiu niicu 11 o jjaiuiru 1119 belli
sky blue, lie on examining it
exclaimed : <kNeat but not gaudy."
This briugs up the question
why our ci'y lathers would
allow the show to disfigure our
streets, and also raises tho inquiry
In w long are these signs
to flaunt themselves in our faces.
And wl ile speaking about these
signs, the question comes up
when are ve going to keep our
streets clea ), when will the town
insist on the merchants putting
their trash in boxes or cans, so
that the streets may be free from
paper and trash. This seems
only a matter of fairness, for the
merchants are tho only ones who
enjoy the benefits of the trash
cart, tor which service the town
pays, and it looks like the peo
pie might enjoy a clean street
when they go down or up town.
While on the subject of streets,
how about the stone being placed
on them? It is entirely too
large and will not do. When
I he town sold its crusher and
screener to the quarry company
the people were in hopes thai
they would pet some pood screen
ed rocks and dust to po upon the
streets, hut the rock material
now being put on the sidewalks
make them measure up to the
old song, Jordan is a hard and
rocky road to tiavel. And instead
of benefiting the streets 19 sending
tbe ventur.ng pedestrians to
the shoe dealers.
G mp back to the *how, why
is it that our people do not more
generally patron ze a pood lecture,
while a ten-cent show draws
equal to a lly-blistei? Who can
eay why? With a pood opera
house it looks like the town ought
?o be able to have a pool lecture
now and then, and it could if we
wou-d only patronize such literary
treats as we should We
need to do it, tor lectures are enlierlifoninir
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iigovuuiii^, >cuuiu^ ?*uu eievHting,
and we need all the good
things we can get.
liaviig decided to do away
with dispensaries, a meeting was
held in Chester last Friday to 01ganize
a law and order league,
liy the way, what's become of
the similar organization elFocted
here after the voting out of dispensaries
in Lancaster county
three years ago?
A standard fashion journal
says: "'To he smart a woman of
the mode of the moment mu t
wear tassels upon her stockings".
Cut 110* ;?ie we to know when a
woman is thus keeping up with
the fashion procession, unless
slip iines the '-whole hog" and
i.isu wears a sliest h gown?
In commenting upon the election
lesuits a newspaper in ho ton
S iVK f,hHi llw cri-oaioj >""0
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State in tho Union has turned
agamst. Bryan " Judging from
Tuft's unexpectedly large vote
in Georgia, North Carolina and
Virginia a big lot of those longeared
animals must have rnigra'ed
to those States since the election
oi lour years ago.
Much to our regret several hundred
of The N^ws' snbsoiibers'
did not receive their papers lam
Saturday, but this office is noi
responsible lor the failure. The
snck contaii ing the Heath
THE LAN
Springs, Kershaw and other]
packages for points South and for
the rural routes going out from
Kershaw and Heath Springs wai
not placed on the Southern's
early morning train as usual.
And the carrier on route No 1,
north of Laucaster, did not make
the trip Saturday on account of
a b*d place in the road this side
of Gills creek bridge which was
made impassable with a vehicle,
it is said, by the morniug's rain.
Speaker Cannon is quoted as
speaking ot himself as "still a
man to swear by?" But he
probably meant to swear with.?
Augusta (Chronicle.
And to swear at, viewing him
trom the standnoint cf the manv
c< ngressmen whom he retuses to
"recognize" when they wish to
address the liouse.
Superintendent Bruce Craven,
of the graded schools, has been
invited to address the Union
county teachers' association at
Monroe, N. C., the tirst Saturday
in December, and he is also to
address the State teachers' association
at Columbia, January 1.
Mr. Craven has an article in the
December number of ^Educational
Foundations" entitled
"The Tests bv which to determine
a teacher's efficiency," and
another in the Journal of Education
of B( 8ton entitled "The
Value ol Word-study."
A pretty Raleigh widow has
just completed a journey of three
thousand miles to get married
in e ? t
agaiu. uer mat nusoana must
have been a model. Many h
widow wouldn't take three step!:
to be tied up to a man again.
The Boston Transcript estimates
Taft's popular plurality
over Bryan at approximately
1,200,444 votes, which, as it
sta'es, is 50 per cent, greater
than Mckinley's over Bryan
eight years ago.
Some of our citizens are too
careless with their stock. Cows
hogs, etc., should not I o allowed
to run at large. .No one likes to
"take up" his or her neighbor^
trespassing animals, nor to have
them do injury to the premises.
A few days ago a cow was seen
grazing on Arch street, being
tied to a nearby tree. She was
standing right across the pavement,
so that passers-by had to
climb over or under her or take
to the gutt9r. Lis. Sunday somebody's
stray hogs rooted up a lot
of freshly planted shrubbery in
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The hunting sea:
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Our concern bought 25,000.
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on the market. Ev
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CASTER NEWS, NOVEMB
Olerk of the Court J. F. Gregory's
trout yard in Bast End.
If the civic improvement movement
in Lancaster is to make any
progress cattle and hogs must be
kept at home.
If that pretty actress who at
Spartanburg dared a man in the
audience to mount the stage and
kiss her were to go to Rock Hill
11 iJ.li l- i
mere wouiuni oe bo mucn as
standing room in the city's
amusement hall. Even all the
old bald headed bachelors tor
miles around would tall over
one another crowding up to the
tootlights.
"The Texas editors want to
know i! Adam was a gentleman",
says a Georgia exchange. Well,
lie didn't act like one when he
tried to put all the blame on
Eye.
Mistrial tn the Kltnore Wright
Vase?Young Man to Stand
Trial Again This Wee/c.
The trial in Spartanburg last
week of Mr. Elmore Wright, a
young man from this county,
son of Mr. Robert Wright, of the
Heath Springs section, 011 the
charge of murder, which was referred
to in our last issue, resulted
in a mistrial. It is stated
that he will be tried again this
week. A Spartanburg special
in Saturday's News and Courier
gives the following account of
?last week's trial:
ttimore Wright, a young white
man who shot and killed A. G.
Ivirkendall at Moore October 16,
was tried here today, the case
occupying the ent-re day. The
case was given to the jury late
this afternoon but as yet the
. jury has not reached a verdict.
Ivirkendall was a noted blind
tiger operator and had been arrested
on the charge of violating
. the internal revenue laws. He
, believed that Wrighi had informed
on him and shot, at Wright.
Several days alter this ditlieulty
, Wright saw KirKendall and his
wite driving into Moore in a buggy
and he armed himself with a
i shotgun and followed lvirken,
dall about six hundred yards
The lat'er jumped Irom his buggv
and ran behind a negro house.
Wr'ghthid in some bushes and
when Kirkendall came tr^m behind
ihe hou?e lie opened fire,
inflicting a wound that resulted
in KirKendaiis death. At the
trial today Wright set up the
plea ol sell-<letense.
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