The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, November 28, 1908, Page 7, Image 7
TBE JPDBLIC ROADS.
j Surveyor Secrest Makes
More Suggestions as utc
Highway Improvement?
Now Working Road by
His Place at His Own Expense.
Editor Lancaster News : Permit
me again to speak ot the bad
roads in this county. Not Jannary
aud February roads, but
bad roads now. On my way tc
Lancaster the other day I lound
some places in the roads in des<
perate shape, and I am told that
this is the case nearly all over
the county, aud 1 tear that if
they are not patched up aud
worked a little iu some way or
other that there will bo more thau
one mail route discontinued before
next spring. I am hiring
the roads by my place worked
today and paying for it. I think
since our county officials have
stepped over the road law a little
by purchasing high priced mules,
road machines, etc, at the county's
expense, that they might go
^ a little further and hire trood
men in each neighborhood to
patch up the roads before I he
winter months set in, and pay
these men for such road work.
Since our road law is incomplete
we will have to make the
best of it wo can. Now I Ihink it
quite imprudent at this season of
the year to plow up and scrape
dirt in the roads as h is been going
on by our officials, from the
fact that when the rains and
freezes set in these roads will be
almost impassable, and you will
hear men say bad things about
these roads, and worse things
about the men who worked the
roads and made the road laws.
A Charlotte man said not loug
ago, that he would not pull the
lines trom under a horse's tail 12
months tor a thousand dollars.
That same man undertook to go
to Loncaster not long ago. When
he struck Lancaster county roads
he was found more than one
time on this trip standing in the
mud, shoe-mouth deep, lilting
his automobile out of ditches in
the middle ot the road. Guess
he will not try another trip with
auto soon. lie said he could
make 35 miles oyer Mecklenburg
county ropds and five miles an
hour over Lancaster county roads
?quite a difference. Your correspondent
traveled oyer a portion
of Mecklenburg county roads
last week ; they are delightful?
no comparison between their
roads and ours.
, I predict that if our people
could travel over Mecklenburg
county roads awhile, that 90 per
cent of them would be willing to
vote for bonds to raise the money
to build our roads. The road
tax money that we are now paying
under our present road law
would pay interest on the bonds
aud a part on the principal. Let
us have the roads at once and
under this plan let our children
finish paying the debt. Let us
as well as the children enjoy the
good roads.
Now 1 am in favor of county
chain gangs and in doing away
with these State penitentiary
* a l..-:i ,l: 1- ?i'i.
I 2VI (II n j itllll UlillUIIl^ lU'tUH Willi
said convicts. Judge W. F. Eve,
of Richmond connty, (Ja., who
has had 30 years road building
experience, says convict labor is
the cheapest with which roads
can be built and that such labor
will not coat over 45 cents each
per hand per day.
There is a wonderful difference
in road working and road building.
We can patch roads with
dirt, but nothing short of rock
will stand the rainfall and traffic
over our roads. All this surveying
and mapping of these old
roads is lost. But when we get
a road law to build roads it will
then be necessary to survey and
map a d mactdsmize the roads.
And when this has been done in
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THE LANCi
first class order, it will take but
little repairs to keep them up.
Let us every one get to work in
' earnest and build these kind of
> roads. We noed them and can
, not afford to do without them.
, T. W. Secrest.
The Christmas Entertainment
Manager.
"A particularly successful girl
makes a specialty of arranging
Christmas entertainments lor
children and clears a nea> sum
every year," writes Anna Steese
lUobardson in Woman's Home
Companion for December. "She
insists upon a contract at a certain
figure, and then relieves the
hostess of every detail. She
plans and executes decorations,
attends to the refreshments and
supplies all favors and entertainment
She has an arrangement
with jugulers, magicians
and musicians, from whom she
receives a commission for all engagements,
and she is a splendid
hand at decorating the table or
arranging games. This year she
is filling tarlatan stockings for
one huge party tree, using homemade
popcorn, candies, nuts and
all sorts of small toys and novel
tiei which she has picked up at
wholesale."
Winter blasts, causing pneumonia, pleurisy
and consumption will soon bo here.
Cure your cough now, and strengthen your
lungs with Foley's Honey and Tar. I)o
not risk starting the winter with weak
lungs, when Foley's Honey aud Tar will
euro tho most obstinate coughs and colds,
ami prevent serioas results. The Fuuderburk
Pharmacy, E. W. Hammond, Heath
Springs. h
Nut Chocolate Caramels.
/*?
.piui onocoiate Caramels are
a rich, delicious confection, immensely
popular," says Fannie
Merrit Farmer in Woman's
Home Companion tor December.
"Put three and one half table
spoonfuls ot butter in a sauce
pan, and when melted, add two
cupfuls ot molasses, one cupful
of brown sugar, and one hall
cuptul ot milk. Stir until the
sugar is dissolved, bring to the
boiling point, add lour and one
half squares of unsweetened
chocolate, and stir constantly
until the chocolate is melted.
Let boil, until, when tried in
cold waser, a firm ball may be
formed in the fingers. Remove
from the ranee, add one and nha
halt teaspoonfuls of vanilla and
one half pouu 1 of almond*,
blanched aud chopped. Turn
into a buttered pan, cool, and
cut in small squares."
Big Orange Crop in Cuba.
Washington, Nov. 26.? The
orange crop of Cuba this year
will be the largest in tho history
of the island and will reach
500,000 boxes, according to a report
made to the bureau of manufactures
by Consul R. E. lloladav
of Santiago de Cuba. The '
business of raising oranges in ,
tbe island, ho says, is almost entirely
in the hands of Arneri- '
cane.
Lancaster Lady Raising Oranges.
Mr. Editor: Please allow me
space in your paper to tell the
ladies how I can raise orange;, i
in town. My tree is in its second
year. It has had as many as 35
on it at one time, and has 18 on
it now, ranging from ripe ones
down to blooms. The mianhiev.
ou9 old goat stole 2 of my oranges
the other night. I am Rending
you one of my oranges for a
witness. Respectfully,
Mrs. W. B. Plyler.
If you safer from eonstipation and liter
troable Foley's Orino Laxative will cure
you permanently by stimulating the digestive
organs eo they will act naturally.
Foley's Orino Laxative dees not gripe, ih
pleasant to taka and yen do not have to
I bike laxatives continually after taking
1 Orino Why continue to be the slave of
pills and tablets. The Fanderbnrk Pharmacy,
14. W Haaaoud, Heath Springs, u
1STER NEWS. NOVEMBER 28. I9Q8
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Is Seldom Good and
We call your attention to a few speci;
consider the best values of the kind to t
New lot pretty small striped suiting i
looks like wool. A bargain at the yd. (
At 25c the yd. we are offering the bes
dress goods to be found. In all the be:
6 pieces novelty dress goods, full wid
go at only 39c the yd.
At 75c. and $1.00 the yd we can shov
stylish and beautiful novelty dress got
shades. Buttons and braides to match.
1 full piece new 36 inch black Taffetc
at only 85c. the yard.
1?g COATS, CO
For ladies, misses z
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v/r f'f |\\ these rare bargains.
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we will offer for the next 10 days any si
I of 10 per cent. Now's your time to bi
; that worry and trouble in selecting the j
match and having it fitted. Our Suits
Just received new shipment of Furs,
and muffs. If you are contemplating a
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Don't lorget our gold prize offer. $i
away.
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SCIENTIFIC OPTICIAN mi
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Money to Loan. ? o
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cotton farina, repayable in annual install- ^
menta, at 8 per cent inteiest. No com- - """
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for abstract of title. txru a.
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als in dry goods, that we
)e found anywhere.
in the popular shades and
>nly 15c. I
;t values in double width I
st shades.
1th, regular price 50c. To
/ you the season's most
ods. In all the leading
1 Silk to go while it lasts
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anlile Co.
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LAVYAND FANCY
aQCERIES
A.LL KINDS,
tention to our Jackson Square
cans for 25c, and all of Harl
brands of Tobacco, NatRich
and Ripe, Red
and Rine !VarK<?c
made Molassess and Canned
is. Also country ground meal.
rours to serve,
ullivan (& Co.
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