The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 05, 1908, Page 4, Image 4
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(SEMI-WEEKLY.)
Published Wednesdays and Saturdays
a* Lancaster, S. C., by The Lancaster
Publishing Company.
CHAS. T. CONNORS Kditor
A. J. CLARK Business Manager
Bute red as second-class matter Oct. 7th,
lfitiS, at the postoffice at Lancaster,S.C.,
under Act of Congress of March 3, i879.
8ATI RDAV, DKC. S, l?OM.
KEEPING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT
Our good-natured friend, Ed*
tor Connors, of The Lancastei
News, was raising a great hulla
halloo recently about some one
catching a 'possum here that had
gotten out of someone's cage
during the night, laving strei-s
on Keck Hill being hi the backwoods.
etc. Now, here comes
the real tacts irom one of the
leading citizens and business
men of his town to the effect
that a tew days ago a little boy
of that place went to his lather's
barn to teed some pigeons and
lo his great surprise instead ot
finding his young pigeons he
found a great big 10-pound 'pos
sum had taken up hi3 abode in
f h n Kam utu) knil oIvaq^w
iiic >/m ii) "in Urtu auonuj' UO'
voured the pigeons. Now, we
want to ask our good friend why
he tailed to publish this in The
News? Was he afraid the joke
would be on "Snyder?"?The
Rock Hill Record.
Now that's calculated to make
us tired. Is it possible that
we'll never be able to instill
into the minds of our Rock Hill
contemporaries that the lirst
duty of a newspaper is to pub
list) the news while it is news?
As the News and Courier would
say, give your readers something
to think about now ? not something
to remind them of what
they thought about 1 ?at week or
last year. It was not lout; since
that we had occasion to comment
on the Herald's tardiness in an
nounciug the fact that Columbus
had discovered America. And
now the Record publishes wiih
great slet what it innocently
considers a tresh piece of news
about a 'possum in Lancaster,
and between its exultant chuckles,
asks why The News "failed"
to publish the story. Why, bless
your soul. The News told all
about that 'possum three weeks
ago! In proof ol the fact we reproduce
the following irom the
columns of this paper of date
November the 1 1 ill :
There are some things about
inose not K iiiuinn that command
our unqualified admiration.
For example, t hoy know
a good thinn when the> see it,
*b evidenced by I heir frequent
visits to Lancaster. Kock IJill
faces are to he seen daily on our
streets, and 'hey are always
ijft'-re than w doome. N??t onl\
the in inl\ m- 11 an i fair women
>' our neighboring city come
?ver t?? -ee nr. but . cc?sii>nall>
there are otlie. visitors, Wny,
?ne ol lv> it 1 Il l's |>osiums ;c
tually v tured over i i a low
lays aiio. nil promptly became
-mamorei of ur Reuben Reck
natii H young pigeons, w Inch
proved his finish. by the way,
for Mr. Beckham doe-n'; a 1 w
en victors lo ciimb his pigeon
pole and make love to the young
nes. Had Mr. 'l'csum not inliscreetly
ui deriaken tr, play the
role ol Uomeo, and that, too,
outside of his own cla-e>, so scon
uter his arrival in <?od's conn
trv, as Col. .Springs is wont to
call Lancaster, lie might have
-....a u: - i~-?- >
i nun ucu in ifliri v \ u ill"* ,f J') J > I <'( I
home and resumed the happy
and hairy companionship ot his
follows, who, the Herald tells
us. on the authority ol Dr. Freidham,
are "plentiful" in Rock
Hill.
Ry the way, the 'p'>93iiin tales
?f our esteemed contemporaries
ion't tally. The Record in?der
'akes to make it appear that the
animal caught in Rock ilil! had
THE LANC
just escaped from somebody's
cage, "during the night," as our
contemporary expresses it, and
he would have us believe that it
was the only 'possum in Rock
Hill. The Herald, on the other
hand, in noting the incident,
said the 'possum was found in a
box in a large store, where it
had been for some time, and
quoted a prominent Rock Hillian
as caving that it was useless
to "tramp through the woods"
for 'posRums, since "they are
* Witiful in town." We leave it
orothers Schwarer and Hull,
'iey can, to dovetail their divergent
tales.
But to return to the Record's
belated story of the Lancaster
"catch." Our contemporary
concludes it as follows:
This brings to onr mind another
incident in regard to brother
Connors always trying to
sling Lancaster mud on Rock
Hill. One of our printers during
a recent wet spell, when
there was considerable mud
around, came in from dinner and
remarked to another ot our
printers (who by tho way is from
Lancaster) that tbis was about
as muddy a place as lie had ever
seen. And the reply ot the
Lancasterite was, "My sakes, you
have never been to Lancaster,
have you?"
No sir, we are not guilty ot
"trying to sling Lancaster mud
on Rock Hill," where you admit
that there is or was "consider
able mud around" Whoever
heard of carrying coal to Newcastle?
What you mistake for
Lancaster mud is the abundant
local product which your c'tizens
have been hurling at one another
during the heated sewerage and
high school property discussions.
ROOTER S BACKBONE."
And n*>w here comes the Charlotte
Observer ''stepping high,
which is of its walk the way"
(Maybe you thought we didn't
I know Norih Carolina poetry?)
and deposeth and without being
sworn, testifieth as follows, to
wit:
Acknowledging indebtedness
to a lady for some fresh pork,
j The Lancaster, S. C, News ec:
statical'v remarks upon the gift
I as "backbone at that, which is
the very best part of the rooter's
anatomy." Now what wo
would fain know is who made
The Lancaster News such a judge
j and ruler over moot questions of
the table as it here assumes itself
to be. The South's leading gasi
tronomic authorities are The Observer,
Mr. C S. Wooden, of
LaGrange, 'Squire J. M. Wolfe,
| of Greensboro, The Norfolk
Landmark and The Houston
l'ost Upon the question in hand
we sbatl not express ourselves
... ?: i - ?
until viuif i>i i[p? tuner experrhave
had an opportunity to do i
>o. And I his being a matter in
which the general public may
Irightiully claim a hearing, we
further declare a popular ielere
idum.
Now lo >k h re. Mr. Chirlotte!
Observer, "we aint nolhin' agin!
you,'' especially since tin* Super !
mtendent of the Lancaster (irad
ed School, whom we all delight ,
to honor, was undoubtedly born
in North Carolina and brought I
lip in the nurture and admonition
ot the Observer's able editor,
but bv gum, there's some
things we know as much about
as anybody whether our name is
among gastronomic authorities
| or not Wo don't profess to
know anything about ga-iroi
nomics but we know a whole
fight about. ,'vi'tles'\ among
winch rooter's backbone occupies
a conspicuous place of honor.
1 So come down ofT your perch
and show cause why you should
not be fined tor trying to get
around our argument by ruling
us out of the debate just because
we are not on the list of professionals.
Hooter's backbone will
make an old man young and a
i
ASTER NEWS, DECEMSER 5, I9Q8
young man wise and will cure WE C
more ailments and maintain bet- ??
ter health and spirits than Chris- WITH
tian Science. It is the real
medicine.
The good ^old-fashioned freeze
of Thursday morning dissipated
every lingering doubt as to winter's
being "in our midst."
According to the newsnaDer
o * *
paragraphed the only places in
Savannah where you can't get
liquor are the churches.
A negro was arrested in Char
lotte the other day on the charge
of selling water tor liquor. That
might be a good way to tool
those Rock Hill people into using
water.
While re gretting very much the
retirement from the newspaper
business of Mr. J. T. Bighara,
who for years so ably edited the
Chester Lantern, we cordially
welcome his successor, Mr. W.
F. Caldwell, to the journalistic
ranks. Mr. Caldwell "got out"
his first issue of the Lantern this
week and it measures well up to
the paper's high standard of ex
cellenee. The new editor, by
the way, shows a keen apprecia
tion ot the'arduous'task he has undertaken
by reproducing on two
difTlerent pages that bit ot irony | The hi
going the rounds of the pres* Tncf
under the caption, "It is Easy to JClSl
llun a Newspaper"
Here's the way the new occu ^ _
pant of the Chester Lantern's
editorial soap box ''salutes" his M
best neighbor:
''Lancaster i* to have a sale Qur concer
of bui'ding lots and is so tickled
over it that she is "blowing"
about growing so fast. Why ________
we sell theni so trequently here
in Chester that we hardly think We are hea
it necessary to say anything Fruit Ca
about it We are growing fa-t ,
all the time and just a little Comp t.
matter of one of our wide awake on t
real estate men selling building Tr
lots has become well nigh an *
every day business." \
When Lancaster sell lots she ???
sells h ts that are lots?not cut
. , i New crop
up cow pastures, decayed per- r
simmon orchards, crawfish flats,
wiregrass gullies and nutgrass ____________
knolls. Why, dirt is so cheap in ?
Chester that Lancaster actually I' TCSI
has two of her cotton mills and
mill towns located over there. ^
Several hundred fine lots have ft Aft I
been sold at good prices in the ft^EZ g
city of the Red Rose this year w If ft
and over two hundred more have
just been placed on the market. ftHauHMl
Better come over and make your
Sful Death in Kershaw--HIrs. IV. i
/% li'illiamii Sudden!ft I'asses #7^1JpT*r
Mrs Nannie Williams, wife ol ^
Mr. W. K Williams, of,Ker>haw . MfyJL// >
died suddenly at her home Thura- f
lav a'ternoon. She was seeing ,
at her machine when stricken
u d it is ?h night that i or d<- itt hfiOKyy^SSI
was C.-.U-C) b.v th?- rup'u e "f I
hlood vp^o:. She was a moH I
*8?imable chri-'ian lady and I ij |t ifcJg
had many friend- arid a 'quaint. '1? i Wfe v '
ances here as well a-, in K"rnhaw
who wore shocked an ?
grieve! to hear ol her untimely i
passing away. V> 11 I
Mr-. Williams was a daugh'er I / 11
of Mr. J. M. Beattie, of Ku-sel V /HOC* I
Place, and was about 40 years of
age. Besides Iho venerable fat h- means abunc
or and bereaved hu-haiul. she is things. Froi
survived by several children ; stock of gr
also, by the following brothers Claus always
and sisters: Mr. Archie Beattie, choicest girts
of Camden; Mr. Thomas Beattie, are all good t
of McBee; iMr?. Charles Magill, sense of the
ol Port Mill, and Miss Klla Beal- have the daii
tie, of Hussel Place. ries, as well
The remains of Mrs. Williams articles, all o
were buried yesterday at Beaver at lowest prii
Creek Baptist church, of which
she was a member for a number MJ .
of years. mM\
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ir Shells Cheap
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