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= OULl iCaurdatrr Nrma ',Z"? (SKMI-WKKKLY.) they k == 'z== needs JUANITA WYLIE Editor CQ W. 8. HOUGH. . .Business Mgr. |m>n PUBLISHERS1 ANNOUNCEMENT: much Published Tuesdays and siiupl Fridays at Lancaster, S. C., the vj by Tbe Lancaster Publishing co-op* Cnmngnv RlircpRKDM to The Ledger7'estaVlished 1852; The lguon Review, established 187*; The many Ente. prise, established 1891, and entered as second-class Lai matter Oct. 7, 1905, at the abreai postotflce at Lancaster, S. C., v. under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. both i t this p SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) In One Year $1.50 make Six Months 75c distrli 5 ~ ' office FRIDAY OCTOBER 3. 1013. ? scram ?Weather forecast for South The Carolina: Fair Friday and Satur- high ^ right To wl If Lancaster is your town, speak wlieat out. "Rc And what will Matteawan be with- startli out Thaw? one w ^ ; !? doubt] During the approaching winter, (] ) will England put off or put on. her Ulster? aBeU s If we don't need a chamber of it . . , gamecommerce in Lancaster, what do we ., . ltock need? no re I When strangers come here show 011 im ol \1 (1 ( *( them around and try to induce them to cast their lot with us. -?~We The preliminary Conference for the Common Good was a success and tul 11 argues well for the future of the st,uu'' rock-i county. great If the Beven candidates for gover- death nor want to interest us let them make cou,1t It known what they stand for besides Kraph the office. Th( Quit that talk about frost on the ^rtnz< pumpkin for old Jack cannot ripen aK?the pumpkin without also nipping "The King Cotton. Thorn writt< The Hennettsville chamber of the n I commerce is to have a "get-together" strun dinner. Call it what you may, "get duced together" is the idea. Th We ask our readers' attention to Noah the article of Mr. W. D. Woods, in is dlf this issue 011 crime in South Carolina, whicl It is well worth the reading. distri has v If you are not for the town, you about are against ltt so we want you to SOn \\ get busy boosting or get out. We when have no room for knockers here. ? Tin Let every man and woman, if pos- "We sible, in the county, attend the first nian general Conference for the Common must Good to be held the first Tuesday be- look fore Thanksgiving Day. come is to I The Spartanburg Herald says it aKOK? takes big men to make big towns. so j Likewise one will never build tip his business by attempting to pull down Say that of the other fellow. tice n ? way t The fate of the dancing teacher in Chicago, who was killed by her litis- name band should be a warning to other p.ict j spouses who indulge in some of the j)(, j j strange new contortions. jaw a| Now that President Wilson has pacified Congress, won't ex-President II()V Taft do the needful for Japan and d|nner Teddy of San Juan fame, put Mexico j)y tlie where Ward's ducks went? their < ! May the time soon come when there will be no city limits, but all . .. ..... relativ citizeus of the county will feel as ^ ^ much at home in Lancaster whether . w hen l within or without the town. rood ?< ? Does any one know whether any The of the seven candidates (or Is it rarply eight) for governor thus far an- Jn a R nounced propose to advocate any- 8Qme j thing except their claims for the havp t office. dlscusi If Congress succeeds in stopping '"j ' gambling in cotton futures, we rP< ' M_u , , j ,? At. vt We ar wouiiiii t uu surprised 11 tin* Kaiuuit'is would not turn their attention to (1""U('1 speculating on some other product of mor<! the soil. dT* ro shakir It Is said that ex-Governor Mai- "hous< colm R. Patterson, who pardoned might Cooper for murdering the brilliant Senator Carmack, has reformed Just after getting on a big drunk. We 1(,r 1,1 hope he has. court repres The outdoor flowers cannot last pected much longer and we will miss their both 1 beauty and fragrance when they are should gone, so let's plant bulbs for winter We h< blooming. They will bring bright- presen ness and sunshine tnto our homes beld when all without Is bleak and chill. 01 ________________ ad van < President Dabbs of the State Far- living mers' Union, after his return from no ex< an extended trip out West says: tlally "Either the farmers of this state are their so far ahead of the farmers In other we fc< states that they do not need the el- rural bow touch of co-operation and organ- to the ( , THE LANCAST n, or they are so far behind ABSOLUTELY ESSENTLthey do not know how much The Florence Times, in adv. do not know about their own a chamber of commerce for tli . Everywhere organization and speaks of the matter in a very [ ration are live questions, and ed aud piaill way when it says can tell you by the hour how "Florence just cannot do v they saved or made by some a chamber of commerce. Tk e co-operative effort. And in you who do not know think t istness and bigness of the West can a'?"f pretty well, I .. . ,, you know that somebody is .-ration is not so small as to be doinR that %vork and that lt lg ?d and despised as it is by so up and is very heavy, and it of us." fair to expect some one of you ber, unless you are going to uaster continues to keep Pa>'inB hls grocery and doctor .4 , , , preachers salary and newspapi st of the best cotton market and ?criptlou. Tha( is what M"r. "j laving the effect of bringing , characterized as commercial the cotton and trade as well to and that is what it is. The v ilace. always here, it is present t even in a dead to*n and son case the President decide, .0 ?ou ? appointments for two federal ( with it if indeed you do not, b ts in this state, don't let the you never take the pains to'11 seekers run over vou in their ' what is being done. You can ble for the jobs. j find out just how willing pen, j to do public service for a bo ? I?7777; 77 77?7. thanks, when you go out to : kock Hill Herald thinks the SOme disagreeable task on son vu?i ut living run or uviih'u 1 nose who no wotk irequeiii by raising alfalfa and cattle, the size of their neighbors by tich we would add corn and thenJ to J? .ToIL^YLv'01 i then note the record they and anything else but cotton. That is n mighty good way to j size of a citizen, and you wo >osevelt to run in 1916." A surprised to find how little moi ng announcement indeed, and measure in length, breadth hlch for the next two years will thickness with such yard stick less be made almost dally by! Wg have horn touching u Colonel's indefatigable press <bu8lnc88 men n!ong tbo sani . from time to time, and knowir 'such an organization is abs< liting a newspaper is a man's essential to our growth and ?you keep out." quotes The Perity, shall continue to stress Ilill Record, which we hope has portance, as occasion may requ ference to us. We are already ,'s pointed out by The Times, s job and would hate to be ex- body is always doing that 1 1 by our brothers so early in But why leave such a burden ireer. the shoulders of a few? We a wedded to any particular nar hope for the recovery of Sena- the organization, but what wc enry Cabot Lodge, notwith- is the organization. Why lone Ing he is a Republican of the lay the matter? ibbed variety. He is a man of learning and culture, whose THE VANISHING GRAY LI would be a decided loss to the Capt. W. H. Edwards of C ry without regard to geo- father of Mrs. M. E. Jordan leal lines. I grandfather of Mr. W. E. 1 ? 'of this place, a Confederate v< jmas W. Lawson. who was so : ,e? am] favorably known , >d over finance a few years clt|2eng> |n a 8ketch of a cc is now being heard from on I ho had recently (lled> ln u High ( ost of Living. Wo hope l8JJue of The chester importer, as. in the pamphlet be has ' he followlng reference to the m on the subject and mailed to ' thp grcat War Between the lembers of Congress, will be in-1 ?The Qld gray Hne {g grow,r lentul in getting the thing re- ; idiv thinnpr nnd it won't h I. ? now until the old Confedera "* - dlers will be only a memory. e Yorkville Enquirer savs Mr. I 't.so' ^\e Kriin nr . ww < - ?. . . on the battlefields where tho Webster Hardin of Placksburg of our comrades dlodi and we (satisfied with the manner in ,10t to fear hira now, since ou 1 the federal patronage is being Heavenly Father has spared buted in South Carolina and '*ve to ?'(' aKp- O' onG thing written the President a .et.er' J>? t^ndepe it. We trust President Wil- 0f the South, the reputation ill not be scared out of his wits ancestors for valor and end he receives it. I did not suffer at our hands." What a lesson this should b Greenville Piedmont says, the younger generations of th have reached the day when the What a noble heritage the C who cares for his good name crate soldiers have transmit stay out of polities." It does < their descendants. They di< that way. Hut what is to be- succeed in establishing "the in of the state, if its government dence of the South," as Capta je left to the unscrupulous dem- wards says, but "the reputat es who have been at the helm our ancestors for valor and ig? ance did not suffer at our h says he. The young men of s The Anderson Mail: "Jus- niay not be called to battle a: uist be blind, that is the only ancestors were, but whether tin o account for some of the ver- |)P or not they' have the respoi that are handed out In her ties of citizenship resting upon W rong, contemporary. aI|,j they should see to it tha is she sees too well. Twould hear themselves as nobly as d Initely better for tho sake of soldiers of Lee and Jackson rid order if slip ivoro tntnllu - - - ? ?/ unit's mat irieu men s souls. ir about a good big barbecued j bKbKNMbbbS some time this fall to be given vvas our pleasure to be in ( business men of Lancaster to j ville for several days this wee country cousins. It would bo we were amazed at the improve slight token for the many ob- ? _ J which mot the eye on every ns we owe our friends and ; es of the rural districts. And ' A few years a*? "te rlty Tie. what better than the day ; bo at a standstill, when some .h?' Conference for the Common i "ve busfneas men awoke to thi will be held? ! Izatton of the fact that notwith ! ing the natural advantages < business men of the town very ! place, situated in one of the assemble themselves together i farming sections of the state Octal wav. We nuerht to have I eoori rnllmnil fn.-fliilaa u>w. dnd of gatherings. The ladles not keep pace with other progi heir social clubs at which they , cities. Therefore a number < * civic improvement and such ! most self-sacrificing citizens. , s, hut the inen are all scat- ! them. Dr. J. II. Bruce, forim each after his own business, this county, a man of sterling e now in a state of innocuous ; ac.ter and worth, got busy ii ude in Lancaster, or to speak chamber of commerce and ha plainly are affected with the fected wonders for the place, t. Let's give ourselves a good are now miles and miles of ig up. The good old game of streets and sidewalks, where fi should and kitchen furniture," ly pedestrians and vehicles sti do us all good. the njud. A massive concrete has replaced the old rumsh lie the preliminary Conference wooden structure across e Common Good, held in the river, new business houses and house, was a larger and more have been erected, as well as entative gathering than we ex- handsome residences and ever , yet there were many men, you breathe, eat, drink, wear or n the town and county whoever your heart could desii I have been there who were not. 'made in Greenville, ope that they will lend their j what the self-sacrificing de ce at the rally meeting to be 10f her earnest business men ha on Tuesday, November 25th. ' for Greenville, may be done foi very one make their plans in , towns by means of united efTo ce to be at the meeting. Those nhould organize a business in town will have absolutely | and start to work for Lancaste ;use, if they are not provlden- ; building. hindered, if they don't lend | presence to the meeting and i We agree with The State 3l sure that those living in the "good roads are necessary tc districts can give that one day ' temper and good temper to gc i cause of the common good. gestion." ER NEWS, OCTOBER 3, 1913 * IL. ',[ I'lR ucatiug BACK AT US. >:] at city, * point- Brotherly Sympathy. The Lancaster News complains *< without that one of the brethren republished ! ] lose of its editorial paragraph without hat we credit. That is a had nractim in ntiv I*< but do c.ase but doubly bo when the theft of ' always cle editorial matter is from the only ! . 1 "sister" of the profession in South J is not Carolina.?Rock Hill Herald. r num aid In * s bin, i How Will He Tote It? pr sub- One good bill the legislature might ilorgau pass jg one requiring the stitching up piracy, Qf both the slit skirt and the hip rork is pocket.?Lancaster News. ilways, Tjle stitcliing-up of the slit skirt tte one might be all right; but how would a ! inunity feller carry his pint around with him * pathize j? the dispensary counties without a ecause bjp pocket??Newberry Observer. ] nd out . easily j * lie are .Many Thanks. ' w and I Impose I The editor of The Lancaster * le one. News, Miss Juanlta Wylle, is a pleas- ? ly get ant visitor in Greenville this week. pester- Miss Wylle, since becoming editor of * k. and The News, some weeks since, has y make, made it a most attractive paper. She ! ;et the is the only feminine editor of a seculd be ular paper in the state.?Greenville ' st men Piedmont. J, i and | V I XKW BOOKS. J p our' ' le line Some Reading .Material .lust Received * ig that , at the Library. Mutely i 'piie following new books have ' pros- been received at the Library: V its im- combined Maze Sinclair * lire As Judgment House.. .Gilbert Parker "Some The Second Mrs. Jim Conrad ... ,, Otherwise Phvliss Nicholson a ?oi<. Waters of Caney Fork..Opie Read upon New Leaf Mills Wm. D. Howells J ire not The Vision Splendid 'Rain '? ne tor Walled in Elizabeth s. Phelps ! ! . wniit r,ie Cry Wilderness. .. Waller * 4 The Son of Royal Langbush ( ' uo" I Howells , The Marriage Portion Keays J' I The Whole Family.. Twelve Authors ' mm In the Alamo Opie Read ! < 'A Song of Sixpence Arnold y hester. The Valiants of Virginia Rives i and Annie Kilburn W. D. Howells r>ardue Reas,ey's Christmas Tarklngton y Duke's Motto Justin McCarthy ?? eteran, pajr Lavinia and Others i }7 ?ur J Freeman ' t= mirade From Van Dwellers to Commauders . w, le last' Raine j . . The Mating of Lydia Ward rn. Pan's Mountain Amelie Rives I heroes Patsy S. R. Crockett States. Polly Anna Eleanor Porter; ] ,grap-!'r',e Radium Terror Derrington wa e ionK ! Ranching for Sylvia Blndloss Ga' te sol- Santa Lucia Mary Austin pip Well. I Seven Keys to Raldpate. ... Diggers the lonster Cncle Remus Harris tw? usands T',e Maxwell Mystery Wells Ga ought w" r kind interest to Colored Farmers. fee us to To the Editor of The News: I ? we can ucceed Please permit me space in the mm ndeuce columns of your valuable paper to V of our mention a few thoughts of Interest urance to the colored farmers. We who k ! read The Lancaster News see that . I ' our good white people are making j* "j good in every phase of life, especial- ' JJj ly along educational and Industrial ted to lines, mid we arf. glad to see this. I J not But we want to say to the colored 1 depen- I farmer that we want him to j f in Fd- PXert more will power and wake1 L up to the things tha? are most -Aion of heipfui for the common good. I endur- Listen, it is said that the a ands," most lands run down and ruined as i\ todav a Keneral thing are worked by color- mj ' * ed people. This is due to improper a" ' arranging of ditches and terraces, *1' ey will repairing and building up the low " isildli- places. Since it is a fact that the tliem colored man as a whole has not the experience of farming his white 1 J t they friend has. We want to ask them to , id the encourage us along this particular in the line by giving us the aid of their ex- 6 1 perience they have over us. And ~ , then again by assuring us that after " v? t- nun 11 iiti > ?? uiaur <i i na t i ujpiu?c>iS. ! inent upon the farms, by good care j ,, land proper cultivating, that we may | _ ' ~n~ ! remain there so long as we wish, and . k and keep up this kind of thing. Then; f ,iand there we believe that we voice the sentiments of both white and j ^ hand. I black, when we say that upon these I . t terms we believe that we will have j 8 1 ' ' | better farms, better situations, and 1 of her | better farmers In the state of South 12 p real- Carolina. Once we realize that we I * t , are farmers and our living is in the I T* 1 land and we most get it out. _ 6 Respectfully. | 1 finest R. W. McDOW. * I Dix , with could Honor Roll of Ifeatli Springs School, j resslve | The following is the honor roll of Df her the Heath Springs graded and high among school for September. Average 95: Tly of Tenth grade?Mattle Mae Mobley, A. char- j Crenshaw, Lester Crenshaw. . I Ninth grade?Dewey Caston, ' ' ; Brinnie Small. " ive ef- ; Eighth grade? Cary Crlmlnger, ; There Dubose Robertson, Eva Leonard Van- j ^ paved L-angingham, Eugenia Mobley. ^ Fourth grade?Dorothy Clark, i nrmer- Ratw Horton 1 uck in Third grade?Martha Dyches, Tay- i ] bridge lor Mobley. ackled Second grade?Bert Cauthen. I . | r irni Kr?m? JlluniUl HTUCB, Willie Heedy Bruce wnifam8 I 86hotels All pupils whose names appear on og many ! this honor roll have made a total ythlng average of 95 for the month of Sop- 10 tember. wnat" JAS. B. BUSHARDT, "e> If Principal. "~~" Heath Springs, S. C. ivotlon s done What has become of the Lancaster r other County Farmers' Union? We hope bee rt. We that State President Dabba will come un, league up here and put new life Into It, If : r's up- living, and If dead, revive It. A county association of farmers organ* Q0( ized for their mutual benefit Is bound that to be productive of good. If the > good demagogue and strife-stlrrer and the >od dl- fellows who want to further their own selfish ends, are excluded. BWWraMppiHKT!.' ?" JMJ i>. ii" - -+ It is certainly not a comfor it burglars or fire should inva so easily find your money. Ou ing care of your money. It w with strong locks and thick y money in the bank and have secure feeling of knowing that Do YOUR banki We Pay 4 Per Cent interest The First Na OF LANCi -Inch Half-Wool Serge, worth J Pieces 36-inch Suitings, worth 1 ie Case 10c Dress Ginghams, cu JUST ARRIVED. ro treat yourself right and get the d, t In Millinery, look at Broom's p) i before buying. Look for the sign on our door ? us for your wants in our line. W. F. B V U. L). JONES, R. E. W\ President. Vice-Presi ITER IjET INTO CULEBRA OUT. th t About Five Miles Ix>ng to be hj, Filled by Ortol?er 10. H] Panama, Oct. 1.?Water today tli a let in the Culebra cut from ' w] tun Lake through four 24-inch pi es under the Gamboa dike. At to i present rate of flow, the cut he- , It sen the Cucaracha slide and the th ml?oa dike, about five miles long, in 1 be filled to a depths of fifteen ca t by October 10, the date set for ol LOOT \.nd You ? Complete Line of Dry 1 illinery and Cloaks Her ILL FIND all of my pri Lot 27x54-Inch Matting Rugs, ci L.ot 36x72-Inch Matting Rugs, cu Dozen Picture Frames, 8xl0-inch, Dozen Mirrors, 8x10-inch glass, c SHOES. SHOES. rhe Foot Form Shoe for Boys and Is and Children are the best footir made. 41 i to 8 For Children cut price * $1^0 o 11V4 For Girls and Boys, cut $S >rlce $1.(10 to 2 For Misses and Big Boys, cut q, jrice $1.80 ft D. Barry & Co. celebrated $4.60 Ihoes, cut price $8.08 ie Merit Shoes for Men and Wo- Oj ne?, cut price $2.80 ie Queen Shoes for Women, cut >rtee $2.10 in :>ck Nos. 1131, 1133, 1138 Virgi $2.00, cut price sale P. Babcock's Corylopsis Talcum r Float Talcum Powder, cut pric UNDERWEAR UNDER W Jase Ladies' Fleece 1 Lot Boys' Ribbed Vest and Fleeced V Pants 2.1c Pants to m iase Ladles' Fine 1 Lot Misses' Ribbed Vest and Vests and Pants, cut price 48c match . . . -Inch All-Wool Serge, worth lots table feeling to know that y ide your home, they could I ir bank has vaults for tak Tas built for that purpose, y vails. Why not put your * Peace of Mind, and thai it is in safe mands? y ng with US. y Compounded Quarterly. y ? y Hnnol Rant I: VSTER. J V 'LIE, E. M. Croxton, dent. Cashier. y ^V?V?V?ViVIV?V?VIVIV>'?VI> le destruction of the Gamboa dike. Since the suspension of steam tovel operations, the Cucaracha Ide has extended completely across e cut to the 73-foot level, so that hen thf> Wlitor la nrlmU*D? *" robable lake level of 68 feet on Ociber 10, It cannot pass this barrier. Is now proposed to ditch through le Cucaracha slide, and the resultg rush of water Is expected to irry away a large portion of the istacle. q LOOK tliall Find Goods, Shoes, Notions, e. LOOK, AND YOU n?c llu. I HWKCT ui r? HIV / TV I'iO J Lit to each 15c t to each 39c , cut to each 10c ut to ecah 10c CLOAKS CLOAKS .2.50 Astrlcan Coat for Ladles, cut price *8.M> .0.00 Poney and Broadcloth Coats for Ladies, cut price $7.00 1.50 Cheviot Coats for Ladles, In brown stripe, cut price.. ..$5.08 rey Coats $1.08 vo Lots Misses' Coats, ages 12 to 14, cut price $2.08 le Lot Teddle Bear Coats for Children, ages 2 to 6, cut price. .$1.89 Don't be confused with the cheap kltatton*. nia Girl Shoes, former price $1.49 Powder 15c e sale 8c EAR UNDERWEAR Heavy 1 Case Men's Extra est and Heavy Fleeced Vest Bleach^ *nd Pants to 1 Hot Wright's Lambs , . . .25c Wool, cut price 00c more, cut price 48c 15c this cut sale 25c 5c and 20c, cut price sale 10c t price sale 8Vic JUST ARRIVED. A nice lot of Men's Work and ress Shirts. Think of It, cut price 46c anters' Hats In gray and black, cut price $1.10 > post and don't stop until you Yours truly, ROQM t