The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 12, 1908, Image 4
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I / Haacastw ipjws
J \ (SSMI-WEEKLY.)
' published Wednesdays and Saturdays
^ (Lancaster, S. C., by Tho Lam-aster
\ {bUshing Company.
^ i T. t'ONNOKS Editor
/'LA] Bnsiness Manager
Aed aa seoond-class matter Oct. 7th,
/, at tho postoftier at Lancaster,S.(\,
4?r Act of Congress of March 3, i870.
SATURDAY. DFC. 12, 1909.
BACK YARD REFORM.
We were "in hopes" that Koch
Hill could manage to get along
without us at least until atter
the Christmas holidays, but it
seems that we must rush right
in again to the aid of our esteemeji
contemporaries over
there. "A Citizen," who has
been ^strolling around the dil
lerent. streets in Itock Hill,"
makes the startling announcement
iu Wednesday's issue of
the Hetald that the "back yards"
are "full of all kinds ot unsightly
things"?"old boxed, barrels,
cans and trash of every conceiv
able kind/' Aud reference is
also made to "old torn-down
fences, palings off, and old outbuildings
unrepaired and gone
to rack."' "If," says the writer,
referring to the back yards, "it
is impossible to keep them clean,
build a closed fence I igh enouirh
to shut out the view of visitors
to our city.'' We quote further
from the aforesaid correspondent:
"You see ou every hand unsightly
poles with all manner of bill
posters and varied ads on them,
old fences all covered with them.
I ask the people of Rock Ilill if
they do not agree with me that
we need a tremendous effort here
to reform along this line."
You are certainly right, Mr.
Citizen, a "tremendous effort" at
back yard reform is needed, and
it must, by all means be ma e
before the arrival of ttie gladsome
yuletide. We musn't let
Santa Claus come and find the
'possum city in such a disgraceful
condition as you so graphi
call}*, and no doubt correctly,
describe. It will be recalled
that old "Santy" had to go
around Rock IJill last Christmas,
ou account of the impassable
? ? imrtHioles, <?nd it will never do
to disappoint the numerou - little
.4- I I
siucf in nangers again this year,
which fate surely awaits 'em if
the insurmountable and unsightly
obstructions you refer !o are
not removed out of Santa Claus's
way,.
The job looks big, but, you
know, you Rock Hillians have
heroically undertaken and sue
cessfully accomplished greater
things than cleaning up your
filthy back yards. You didn't
think, for enmple, that you
could ever get Uhed to water, bui
you now see how rapidly, in puituance
ot our repeated advice,
you are acquiring the battling
habit. So let all hands get busy
preparing for a thorough washin*
and a general cleaning up foi
Christmas. What to do with
your old rubbish?tin cans, barrels,
boxes, etc.? Why, get the
Southern railway to haul 'em
off and dump 'em into Chester's
hundreds of bottomle-s ' builditif
lois."
Apropos ot back yards, it
might tie well for Lancastrianto
take a look at their piemi-es
There may possibL be kom>
stray trash about here that might
be donated Chester. Kver\
little bit help8, you khow, even
in filling op holes and hollowLancaster's
front-yar l imj ravervi
nr? f r\ tr/i ir\ o I \ t iu mol.'ii.i* "/o /I
"*V 111 III*' V 1.1 UJC*"l>ipk
progress; but lei us not lorg"t
the back yards in our zeal to
make the front part ot the pr^mi
sea look attractive. Let. us have
everything looking "spick and
span" for Christmas. If one or
those K<>ck Uillians should happen
to come over here during
the holidays and see just one old
tin can, we'd never hear the last
of it.
When asked what's the news,
a day or two ago, a member ol
the city council replied: "Well,!
Fort Lawn has electric lights.' !
Of course that's not news to our
readers, for just as soon as Lancaster's
enterprising suburb ben
gan to install electric lights, a
tzf, lew weeks ago. the fact was
HfetPrO'idly proclaimed in these col-1
||L,18. But reference to Fort
%awjr's la tea' municipal achieve J
fnn
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that a Charlotte paper hiid some | Cith
thir.p to say some time aire about ) Birt/ui
an aliened proposition made by! ?J am 7
the mayor ot Kort Lawn tosell!10hl, anf1
to tlie mayor ot Lancaster a lot j~~"r( ~
ot second-hand kerosene street u ar ^ <ls
lamps. No such proposition was nor ac'ies
ever made to the head of this ?d our gt
municipality. But it Fort Lawn Blackmor
really has any old lamps on the |OW?
bargain counter, there's a man . , .
connected with the Southern 1 1
I Power company who ought to niversar>'
buy 'em and pay a good, round Blackraoti
price therefor. he is not
of exeelle
Speaker Cannon says he is ad also wj
not a czar. Well, he certainly vigor and
makes a noise like one. advanced
work rig!
The consummate scoundrel were 40 y
who swiped the editor's only ed cotton
turkey is deserving of a worse ing thepr
fate than those doomed to bu?y pilir
writhe and wriggle through the Mr. Bh
countless ages of eternity in the work, h;
storm center of hades. That competent
is to say, he ought to be ban- cause he
ished to that other place of tor- ways led j
ment?Rock Hill. pleasure i
The President's messaoo. sont
o~>?? i ne
to Congress Tuesday, is too ninqiu
lengthy for publication in the invita!i
average newspaper. It con- b (J
tains over 20,000 words and peetiVe br
would more than fill the eight rjage 0f a
pages of The News. The docu- youngcou
ment is largely a rehash of irene (ju
Teddy's well-known views on mjng (|.tuj
the subject of the regulation of w j ^
corporations, relation between jack Curt
labor and capital, etc., etc. estin? cer
~ ed on T1
The News goes to its thous- ju8tant
ands of readers today in an en- cimrci, a
larged form, an increase of ful. Mi_s'
> ly ten columns over its former j ancastersize,
which means that its pa- tractjV(1 N
trons will hereafter be given in while is ti
each issue that many more col- ?iate(j ,m
umns of reading matter than wjnnin? |,
they have been getting hereto- <rr(
fore. The enlargement also j j 1w p ^
means an increase of at least '
25 per cent, in the cost of ma-, j- nummm
terial alone to the publishers;;!
but nevertheless, they are going I
to try to continue the publica- I I ,
tion of the paper at the same j I I II
rate of subscription, namely,]! I I
$1.50 a year?a remarkably low it
price for an 8-page, 0-column! I
semi-weekly. ?
With regard io The Observ. ME
er s invitation to various gastronomic
authorities that tliev declare
what in their opinion is the f
most appetising part of the hog, Note
The Houston 1'ost declares tho
bach bone unquestionably a great
dainty, but not to be presented |
to an editor "because it is a!
ways dilfbult lor turn to Know ,
whether the gift h an evidence | |)
?t friendship or merely a hint
l about an editorial deficiency." $15.0(
Our re iders will remember thai 12.5(
it, was tlie presentation <>f back 10 0(
bone to the edit??r ol Toe I.-an
ca-ter. S. (J., Ne^'s which started
iliis Discussion. lias 1 he Ne>*.s 5.0(
tie' H insulted by one of it- ?u'?- |?j^. ](
sen hers??The ibiarlotte Observ u
1 leav
er.
X ind'ei. The N> ws " uld
like nothing better than to be j
overwhelmed with "insults" ol I
leach character. We are ex- I We hi
' treinely gratified, by the way, to j| ffoi
nave our views as t.<> tn< rooter's Womt
backbone **n l?>r ed by so high a ^
gastronomic authority as the 500 VI
Houston Post. M.
Big 1<
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Doctor Shot by Dentist- 2000 1
llazoihurst, Miss., Doc. 10 2K<S I?
Dr. A. S. Pitts,a pi'- ni nent phy - Two r
sician, was shot and killed hero hall
to-day at his ollice by Dr. Thomas <5500 <
Birdsong, a dentist. According J .
to a negro, I lie only eye wit ness, .
Birdsong went to the office of 5 We
Pitts, charged the latter with in-I
terhoing with his affairs, depart- | See Ol
ed and returned later, opening I S?
fire as he entered Pitts1 oflice. ?
Two bullets took eff^ct , causing it
the almost instant death of Dr. 11
Pitts. \ I V
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i*-ti Ce/ebrutea His 71st young {ten!Ionian
'?// character. lie holds
1 years old today, Dec. hie position with the
1 feel as well and as Oottoi Mills.
L ever did?no pains
of any kind"?remark *
)od friend Mr. John S. Government to E
,, of Fork 11.11, when wuh :otton j
Thursday, celebrating
>ming modesty the an- Washington, Dec
o> nirt nauviry. Mr thousand dollars will
i went ou to ?ay that printed by congress in
only in the enjoyment secretary of agricult
nt health, but is bless duct experiments to
Lth remarkable strength, the practical ity of
I activity for one of his p0r material ou' of ci
aire, lie dees regular if a ^jji introduced i
it along as though he Uepre.-ent at iye SI
ears younger. He pick- Texas is passed.
this last fall, and dur
esenl week he has been
ig and burning brush.
ackmon isn't obliged to ?1 ^0
aving accumulated a
likes it. He has jjl- ^
an active life and finds '
roa rh I n (/ Wh ite--CunI
III X II lit in I.9 - ( > IQ-.V*
ons were issued Thurs.
>o parents of the pros- 'i|j| I ^
ide, to the coming mar '
n exceedingly popular
pie in Lancaster, Mies Clll'Ist 111
mnngham, the charTtiter
ot Mr. and Mrs. ? Cheer
unniogham, and Mr.
?ton White. The inter- means abundance
emony will be perform- thing's. From oui
mrsday evening, 31st stock of grocerie
in the I'n-abylerian Claus always pick:
choicest gifts, beca
' 0 0 clock are all good things
unningham is one of sense 0f the wor
's most lovable and at- have the daintiest
ruling ladies and Mr. ries, as well as soli
0 be heartily congrat- articles, all of the
, . t . at lowest prices.
Ills giocf fortune in r
er heart aild hand. *
>om elect is a son of the OCHI!
I. J. While and IS a
naMHHMBHBHBMHBil
venty Thousand Doll;
WORTH OFRCHANDISE
AT CUT PRI
1 the Following Ouotations. If the^
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peal to You, come and See if
They are True.
Clothing We Have <
) and $18.00 Suits to J
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>t Men's Odd Pants from 88c to 3.5*
y and Cravenette Overcoats from 3.50 to
Shoes, Shoes
ave more Shoes than anything else. Men's
m 08c pair to the best made in coarse or line
2n's Shoes from 88c pair to the best made.
,* pairs 12-4 Wool Blankets to giveaway 1.7
ards lied Wool flannel at 10c the
>t Canton Flannel 5c to 12 1 -2c
/ards heavy weight yard-wide Sheeting. 5(
yards good round-thread wire-twisted Plaids
ottles 10c Sewing Machine Oil at
nore of those .$60 Sewing Machines at les?
f price, guaranteed for ten years.
,vorth Notion Samples less .33 per cent, on i
?t Trunks to close out under price.
>n't want you to take our word, but come y
yourself.
ir cut prices on Ladies' Long Coats.
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Yours to serve, /
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of "terlingj
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Lancaster ^
THE RIGHT
Stalks. ^
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be appro- ^
I enable t lie ^
ure to condetermine
i A young man or won
m iking pa- j W education who has acq
tton alks, j ^ thrift has the right of
II tiie lioir e It makes no differen
leppai d of | ^ make, if you spend it a
Jter off as far as ready
than if you did not ma
? ^ some of your income b
^ account at this bank.
?W ^ of 4 per cent, per ann
| ^ terly, is allowed on sav
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10 0a ! 10-12 horsi
7.50.
5.00. |
3.50. :
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Shoes !
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5 pair. i -? nes ^1'
; yard. to $2.50.
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at 4c. ^
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Interest at the rate J
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1 Top, $1,000?2 or |
2 horsepower. |
$1,000?5 passen- |j
'sepower. |
1500 ? 2 passenger. g
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