Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r o 2 0? r. ' , "r/. '' ~ * 4 Eanraatrr Nciua '"""''I (8KMI-\VEKKL\\) iS8ue. thert - of the busi JUANITA WYLDt Editor meet ln Uu W. 8. HOUGH. . . Business Mgr. day afterno 7UBLUHKRS' ANNOUNCEMENT: purpose of Published Tuesdays and .[ , Fridays at Lancaster, 8. C., than a hun by The Lancaster Publishing of the towi Company, successors to The to attend a; Ledger, established 1862; The tl nrnnts Review, established 187ft; The Ent*?prlse, established 1891, wel1 knowi and entered as second-class out citizen matter Oct. 7, 1906, at the Qf a board postofflce at Lancaster. 8. C.; commerce under Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. never doul) would COOK SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: 11 W0Ul" (In Advance.) anything ft that cannot One Year $ 1 ,r?<) SU Months 75c tho medlun] First, and i _ the means TO SUBSCRIBERS. men into in Your subscription must be business re paid up to and lncludiug year thereby can marked on your label. If paper , ' is stopped look at your date and ,,u 1 1 you will probably find you are 1? work me behind one year. good of the We cannot send each Bub- manv years Bcriber a statement. Book at ' ' Your Label. ba,es of cot because oth TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. mort. w|(Ie If you don not receive your We underst paper promptly we would appro- market has elate it if you will notify us certain pari t\e will correct the mistake. 1 in the hurry of mailing out the " <pap< r names of subscribers are should iiatu sometimes left off inadvertently. caster, a ! i . . .. . ??.?-?of trade oui FRIDAY, I KItltlAKl lit. I)M I* such tactics trade at hoi vantages i ?Weather forecast for South |ll,m,,.KI,,,bor Carolina: Saturday fair. vertised thn So let every Have you mailed your valentine time stated yet? tion off in p The State cannot understand why PRIMAR1 th Mecklenburg Declaration celebra- The senat< tion isn't held on April 1. ord as belni in the law i Our prayers have not been In vain tions. The or ?a chamber of commerce is about to fraud in the be organized in Lancaster. vention, whi purpose of We have our faults, lots of J.^m, and adoptir but the sending of a comic valentine tions, to adi is not to be numbered among them, guarantee f this will be The Florence Times savs quite There sho pointedly, "We owe a good deal to to the club i the church, but we hate to pay it." system any name appea If you have any faith in the future days before of Lancaster, join the chamber of There is no ] commerce and work for the old or shall sig town. anybody cai There are c "President Wilson proves that a j)f, nientione man may be effective without being tj,e present loud," remarks The Atlanta Journal, there are nc a fact which other men in public life man voting i might with profit remember. e(j names or participating ?Miss Flonney Sowell leaves to- qq,e custc night (Friday) for Baltimore, where .. , . she will enter Goodman Wallache NV ls and Helber millinery house. She bis name to was accompanied by Miss Klsie Myers look 011 the of Kershaw, Miss Myers going up jH found tin to buy her spring millinery. the Qath We agree with The Chester News know, in m; 1 that if churches "were run similar never have 2 to everyday businesses where there tban a few j is 110 let up in going after business, boles for fr; .. there would be fewer pews empty." 8?eoi8 impos ture or the K , A town is as good as its citizen- anything. 1 T ship and the meeting next Thursday candidate wl to organize a chamber of commerce whether leg will prove Just what kind of citizenship we have. The test is about to < OM.MK th be applied. The '-*aw th Charleston i A. A reporter of The News and ('our- ters, church ba ier says, "The burial of the hatchet who are eng and official smoking of the pipe of can to eleva peace between Governor Cole L. city. Hecer ox? Blease and Mayor John F. Grace booklet in w mo marked the dinner served at the to the evils Ipe'Commercial Club." Par nobile fra- giving nam (trum. dinner serv any the legislat par The nineteenth of February, in- Club, the g 1,1 'stant, marks the fiftieth anniversary peakera. V k ^of the birth of the Order of Knights ton News a brejof Pythias, one of the best of the the follow son'.gecret fraternal orders. It is a pity speech, witl com the lodge at this place was allowed to speak foi Tho,to die a natural death. Why not re- "Governo don'vtve tbe local organization 011 the the Caw am Q.date of the anniversary? eently lssu< self to the ? .. book would The memory of I>r. T. R. Carothers, leRa tQ (;hjj aH?a?chalrman of the board of re&*nt? of people who oAi^the State Hospital for the Insane, out of the c .... . . . ... At- . tiuinc ahnn their wnen on me witness stand in me i - Hta?euMy,Um ,nV?8tlgatl0n' 8eemed 10 have polities ?Ii not* "een very va*ue an<1 Krew even mor? should ha ACCra*ue under the severe grilling given spread the A.hltn on cross-examination by Dr. Christ. Oi P*l??or. B.Wm. hp i? '' . might go t maim The ChlM^,<>tt0 Observer's head- g0mo of yt q jttnes nay Governor Rlease "preaches the goverm think a sermon," "Text seems to be allith? hall at Q ^South Carolina is in a of a fix." biacb?8'Hn< r?,i0,i are wearini way u be text' though somewhat inelegant, q Tiixes up the situation about right. Let a ma I nevm tomorrow tliem. The ground hog. it is true, did give even more Q- timely warning in a general way of 8he was b? *^,nt*Aad times to come in respect to the j _ ?veather, but we do think In all fair-' Why hat iess, he mght have been a little encee for tl aore specific if he knew of the com- in South C ug last night of the sleet and snow, them now i V? tfllE L t>r TKADK IX Sl<;ilT. j KICK1NCJ Ol'T < se seen elsewhere in this The Charlotte I > is a call for a meeting been following Pr ness men of Lancaster to seemingly docile i > court house next Thurs- kit* over the tri on at 3:30 o'clock for the Qf the President organizing a board of Panama toll matl 3 call is signed by more says, among othe dred of the business men Wilson "has since] l. who pledge themselves seif that there sh nd participate in effecting tlons at all. Bu nation. The News, us is fUny decline to i, has been urging upon niatter. We ho s the absolute necessity will." of trade or chamber of Then the Charlo lor Laucasier unu nas vehement and ex( ted but what In time it not to be franklj >. and a one-man be difficult to mention hooves Democrats >r the good of the town Democrats to sp be accomplished through humiliating and s i of such an organization, stultification is d< nost important, it will be Why, content] of bringing our business Wilson says he is ore intimate personal and country front hun lations with each other, stultification." in using them to understand world by keeping! better and enabling them I Wt /ope that the ire in harmony for thelyjffften The Obsoi town. Lancaster lias matter when lie eh i past lost tliousands/of j to the descendant! ton and as many dollars, I the Declaration o er surround'ng tmAis, u,,. 20th of May n awake, have dlvertedait. time, conteinporar and that a neighboring traces. been giving a bonus lo who could induce ( IIKl'.H I I' o to that market which rallv have come to lain- Thp Atlanta Joi t w. at Through a beard vipw in lliat merchants can fo.o?t ul man. quotes htm and keep this cotton and sa-v 1 ex?)prt ,Ueae ne Then the mauy ad- ,llal * fear he ilcli Lancaster otters for Suro,y BUeh 11 ca,ar s and others can be ad- ,,nless the "Great jugli the board of trade. ,ost the i??uonce body be on hand at the ,we remember, nc and start the organlza- aft'r Tillman wa 1 i no rn I enlo cm :ood shape. ?? one-time opponent; [* HEFOHM NEEDED. him, he gave vent e has placed itself on rec- Blease has s ? opposed to any reform 'ove and affection governing primary elec- wool-hat boys." ily chance now to prevent Hh?u'd not be so f primaries is for the con- Runl to appro; ch meets in May for the 8Pnator. "Cottoi reorganizing the party "foal burner," as ig rules governng elec- ca"pd, has a powe Dpt measures which will sanie "boys." So, air elections. We hope "Jine" the process done. wield the pitch-fo uld be something done as >'orerolls. Under the present person can vote whose ********* rs on the club roll five * the primary election. * CAItOI.IXA 1*1 requirement that the vol- * MAN St ! n his name to the roll; ********* i put it there for him. | 'ther matters that could , , a i. iki .. . There is heard d in this connection, for because the woma system is so loose that died so soon.?tire > restrictions against one many times under assum- ' 'ie house of r< non-roshlent. of the slato J0~r ; in the primary. South Carolina do >m now is for .lie man ?News and Ilerul cast his vote to give io the managers. They Senator < arlisle club roll and if his name tain'ele^tkms. \vh By proceed to administer any?Abbeville M id. so far as they may iny cases the voter inay "Go to sleep, littl been in the county more K?np to the suffra days before. The loop- h.a v as its title indicati lud are many and yet it of suffragettes to i isible to get the leglsla- I hies at night.?Gr Democratic party to do , ,11 the mean time, the Sure, the South ( ho scores the most votes I do not believe in w< ..i .... in . . * ask young; McMillii al or illegal, gets in. | thf>y thjnk of ,t opinions to the XT UNXK< KSSAItV. | Chronicle. and Order League of s composed of the minis- . ^udge Clark monilter* ??a on... , | JS" ,aged in doing what they runny and Americ te the moral tone of the denied their "right ?11 y the league issued h many , . . ,. .. , and immunities ln< attention was called equal-rights theorj i existing in Charleston, will rest content es, places, etc. At the sppeoh-making tri| ed to the governor and server. ure at the Commercial Thft po8tofTlc~ overnor was one of the elded that "postr iTe take from The Charles- "misses" as well at nd Courier of yesterday, o^ce. Is this a coi ing excerpt from the ruKettes? Columl nout comment, leaving It We are Rlad lnd r Itself: fanatics and cran r Blease next took up their w?y with d Order League report re- the question or di ?d. After excusing him- South Carolina ladies, he said: 'That position which th< be an insult to hell, much to the slime and I irleston,' adding that the we humbly trust got it up should be driven long time before ity; that they were adver- 'or them to do so je and infamy, and that grand old state a the ministers preaching have to high regj nd antl-Bleasism they to bring a calar .ve been appealed to to That the aglato religion of the I/ord Jesus their work there overnor Blease said that doubting, but the been spent advertising let them agitate m to young men that they sacred traditions here to satiate their lust, be a sad day for >u ladles may leave.' called have our women of to some ladles who left precincts of home this point, 'If the shoe around the polls, tnn't mrfl?vniir hiishnnrfa man's the nueen i K 'em.' " 'men, and hor Infli mains there, In ur n send his wife a valentine she gives up this and be will And she Is essumeH the roie pleased with one now than but, she arouses tl jfore she married him. contempt of men ???????? to be admired th re not more county confer- man; nothing to he common good been held than a manly woi 'Aroltna? We eurely need Tnt ltd sorely as we ever did. ?Qreenwood Joi \ of the one-gallus, J Men, Too, Are Strange But the senator Editor Wallace, of The Newber alnt-hearted In re- Observer, certainly has his nerve wl . . ? - _ him all right. In his issue of la K week his leading editorial was hea \" Smith, or the e(j "Women Are Strange Creature? he is sometimes and then he proceeds to discuss t rful hold on these eex through about a column and cheer up, senator. |*a,f ?' 8P^e. We thought he h ' ... ' learned better by this time.?Bai ion for Smith and berg Herald. rk as in the days The Fence-Htraddler. ; The thing that.,makes all workt ?* for good so tired that they want ********* quit is the man who manages alwa * to escape being fixed on either sic It ESS ON WO- * He s?>'s nice things and encouragi EFK.VGE. * things to both sides, but he is ti * going to be found fighting on eitli ********* side. Most people are that way. is a shame, but it is so.? Floren Times. no loud weeping n's suffrage bill \ Wise Precaution, en wood Journal. Rowan county board of heal has ruled that children suffori 'prescntatives very from tuberculosis must be kept aw bill providing for from tb0 public schools. The ruli and the women or rP(jUjres the teacher to send from t not seem to cure. sci10ol any child suspected of the d ease until a doctor's certificate sho the absence of the disease. It fv has introduced a ther requires all parents to ke len to vote in cer- tubercular children at home. Tl y not in all, if in |j, going at one of the biggest pre edium. lems of public health on the prlneij that an ounce of prevention is wor e darling, mother's a pound of cure.?Waxhaw Knti Ke club" la one of prise. ivlng been written R8, for husbands Frankness. sing to their ba- Absolute frankness usually wor eenville Piedmont, for the good of everybody. Like rules, this has exceptions, but 11 Carolina legislators other rules It Is not much afTected iman suffrage. Just them. So real man wants an unw in, of Marion, what wlfe> and no true woman want! He brought their husband who does not love her a front. ?Edgefield probably does love somebody el Money ha8 nothing whatever to with the case, and would not enl has within a few Into the calculation of either, the American peo- suspect the genunieness of an aff< under judicial ty- tion that is balanced against a ca an women to be settlement Is natural enough a a' (he said nothing there Is little wonder that the wol valuable privileges believes that greed or revenge lui consistent with the at the base of plans which find tlv r) we trust that he v. ay. to a court of law.?Rock 11 until his next Record. p.?Charlotte Oh- *?| I .EARN TO HING "CAROLINA. iepartment has de- Teachers and Pupils Pract 11 aster applies to Th,H For F|?|d Day. t u man holding the These four stanzas of the soi icesslon to the suf- 'Carolina," will be sung on Field Di ila Record. March 27. It Is hoped that all tea< ' ~ ers of the county will be present that the t^e teacheys' meeting Saturday, 2 ks did not have instant, In order to practice t the legislature on patriotic aong: -agging the woman from the high call on thy children of the hill, sy occupy down in- Make swamp and river, coast a tilth or pontics ana rill, that It will be a Rouse all thy strength and all 1 it will be possible skill, The men of this Carolina, Carolina, re too gallant, and ' ird for our women Hold up the glories of thy dead, nlty upon them say how thy elder children bled, rs will contiune And point to Entaw's battlebed, i Is no reason for Carolina, Carolina, thing to do Is to rhlle we hold to the foil how the patriotic soul was-trl of the past. It will And what his dauntless breast defl us should we ever How Ruttedge ruled and Laur leaving the sacred died, to Jostle with men Carolina, Carolina. In the home woof the hearts of the ciry! till thy summons heard at las uence, while she ra- Shall fall like Marlon's bugle-bl ibounded, bat when Ro-echoed from the haunted past, sacred position and Carolina, Carolina. of a man, she not ? >wer and Influence, Many Midshipmen Resign, le Indignity and the , Annapolis, Md., Keb. 11.?Twex Nothing Is more one midshipmen of the fourth cl lan a womanly wo- today tendered their reslgnatlc be more condemned having been found deficient In roc man. Ood save our semi-annual examinations. 1 long-haired men makes a total of twenty-eight mi Ired manly woman! bers of the class who were compel lrnal. to resign. \ ANCASTER NEWS, FEBRUARY 13, ]9 >F 1 11 I: TRACES. | Ibserver, which has f ROIYI OTHliiR PAPER] esldent Wilson in a uauuer, is about to ? i |,<Hr i-v,,,,, it. ices in the matter J^loney is not the best thing y 's position on tlw^Pan leave your children wheu y Ler. The Observe#?^-?ran8eour* and Deu r things. thatjJ^T ___ rely convlpe^ffniin- No Criterion, ould be no exemp- It 's "ot lair to judge a man t we must regret- I1*8 clothes, nor a woman by her hi , ? ... .. band.?Anderson Mail, follow him in the pe that Congress "Traitor to the llace." A Georgia congressman has gc itte paper gets more liome to attend the funeral of his < . ..tr ... - ?? "mammy." "Nigger-lover!" Trail laims. If there is to tjje ,.ace;?i?llo state. r u one-man party government, it be- A Tactless Iteniark. t more than non- agree with The Greenvi IX.winwAi.t /%?i It.. G... A ICUUIVMI V V/II IIO OUlUliUU Ul lilts pil eak out when so |elll# "Why Girls Don't Marry." Tti :o injurious a self- don't have a chance.?Anderson ?sired." telligencer. oorary President Aud we were Just beginning . . tliink Banks was going to get alo trying to Keep tins wejj jK Anderson and make frien filiation and "self- ?Spartanburg Herald. the eyes of the faith with England. A stu,l> in Contrasts. ,, . . , ... When one reads the daily story resident will en- crjme jn tj,e columns of the city | rver more on the pers lie may be pardoned lor thii livers that address ing there are no good people in t s of the signers of lend. And when one goes to a ceu r . . , ? tery and reads the fulsome inscr f Independence on .. ' r .. _ . . . 1 Hons on many of the tombstones, ext. In the mean- may wonder if ever there wore a y, keep within the bad people in the land. ? Oraugebu Times and Democrat. Next Big Stop. I NCIi: I1EN. 1 The next big stop in the new-spat . . world of Soutli Carolina will be urnal. in an inter- ^'lii? k Springs sometime in the eai with Senator Till- summer. Brethren, begin now to 1 as saying. "Don't up a few dollars with which to p to wiii; just state for board and lodging, et cetera, ? ' , . , pecially the latter.?Gaffney Ledgi may be elected. nlty cannot happen An Ancient legend. Commoner," has Just about the time we were begi he once had. But ??nK lo see signs or improvement , ... ??? North Carolina the folks of Charlol it two years ago, , . . ., , , . organize a society, the object s re-elected by a which is to see to it that the signi all majority, his of the immortal "Mecklenburg D? i joining in to land laration of Independence" is eel to the pitiful wall bratt'd forever.?Greenville Pie tolen from me the ^ 1 "7 ' 14. / I ? # ?? 3 :| jjk S Small Accounts I ??- : : b j AS WELL AS LARGE I s I ONES ARE WEL- \ SS | COME 1IERE. I Lor J : : * You need not wait until your business has as lie : I sumed great proportions before opening an ac lu"j J; count. : t? ; ng >*< I Do So To-Day I of >; * ; \u~ III Our natrons, reerardless of the amount of busi- ! ! he ; ness done, receive every courtesy in all matters of >! business entrusted to us, and there is nothing in ? lie y safe banking we cannot perform. Interest paid on J ?y y Savings Account at the rate of four per cent, com- 'i IK y pounded quarterly. > ACTIVE DEPOSITORY OF THE UNITED i ^ ; STATES GOVERNMENT. I rly : y 8BHBHDBnSIIIBinEanHBMnnHrailBI9BHBMi uy . ? i The First National Bank j ! n- . : 1" 5 LANCASTER, S. C. of V * ng y CHAS. D. JONES, President. R. E. WYIAE, Vice President. >o- 'j y le- y E. M. CROXTON, Cashier. E. CURTIS MACKEY, Asst. Caahier. * id- y y : * , th. LSt ! (j_ HION8. I am going to die, I knew It i," Folks there are who figure weather L.ong ago." he By the signs a Of the gose bone or the feather, Gloom and trouble hold the centre ad Or the vines, Of the play. If the atmosphere should quiver Optimism doesn't enter They can feel it in their liver, ? . ,, rray' I /. ' Our calamity forecaster. And they re sure to get a shiver with his almanac as master, ,rs ^P their spines. Dishes up some new disaster to Every day. ?UA.. ? JAnnl.. Lyg vy in II 1.111:j occ <% tutu: uauuiuft le. Round the moon, Ir m whlzzllng gale should clatter, ng Or a brace of sun dogs prancing Let'er whiz, tot Just at noon. Let us learn to smile, no matter ier Or If Venus or the dipper What It Is. 11 Has a flt and turns a flipper, 9ay to ovary goose-boned wlzzard, lCe Then we're sure to get a ripper "Bless your pessimistic gizzard, I Pretty soon. 1' R??d Lord sends a blizzard, Let'er bllzz." When they feel the wintry breezes Chicago Record-Herald. Ith Start to blow ng They will have a dozen sneezes ~ ... , ? . , . A ... ay jn a row For Weakness and Loss of Appetite na And they'll sav "There's nothing to *??? OM Standard general strengthening tonic, ng AIU1 tney sa> . lucres notning to GKOvKS TASTi:i.HSS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria and build* up the system. A true tonic is- I Just know 1 Cfin*t live through it; and sure Appetiser. I* or ndults'iud children. 50c. WS ___________________________ i FOR A BOARD OF TRADE >b th Meeting to be Held at Court House Thursday Afternoon. Febsr ruary 19th, at 3:30 O'clock to Effect Organization. We, the \mdersigned business men of Lancaster, S. C., hereby call a meeting of the business men of the town of Lancaster ks at the Court House at 3:30 p. m., on the 19th of February, instant., for the'vpurpoSeTo'k organizing a Board of Trade of the town of Lancaster to worn for the improvement and advancerji_ ment of the town and the Betterment of business conditions. ?a! All the undersigned agree in attend such meeting and to parn<i ticipate in the organ ization\of such Board of Trade. "e W. S. HOUGH, \ , ?- ?- FERGUSON, fao A. J. GREGORY, x ( HUNK W.'HUNTER, ?r W. T .GREGORY, GUS\BELEOS, IO A. B. FERGUSON, I L. HlRSCH & SONS. 0r" R. E. WYLIE, | D. REECE WILLIAMS, JOHN CRAWFORD. CARMES BROS., "1 JOHN T. GREEN, I LERibY SPRINGS. ; r*a E. C. MACKEY, B. Y.VFUNDERBURK, H. J. GREGORY. K. W. SNSTARE, W. M. GREEN, P. J. HINSOrl 1,11 " R. B. ALLISON, E. B. RODDElY. R. B. ALLISON. W. P. LANE*, * J. T. WYLIE, M. 8. WITHEBISPOON, C. P. CRAWPORD, T. M. HUGHES I). L. ROBINSON. R. S. 8TKWAI1Y. Ice p. M. LATHAN, E. o. LAZENbK R. MACK ROBINSON, W. H. REED, ng, P, B. PORTER, W. E. TAYLOR, ay, A. K. COLLINS, * J. E. CRAIG, eh- D. E. PENNY. J. C. ELLIOTT, at R. A. LONG, W. L. STEELE. lBt CITY MEAT MARKET, R. S. HARPER, hia R. N. VANLANDINOHAM, W. J. McILWAIN. r. M. JORDAN. H. HINES. I IRA B. JONES. PERRY MACKEY. W. M. STEVENS, J. L. REED, ind W. J. CUNNINGHAM, H. E. COPPET. r -m PIERCE HORTON, 8. E. HAOINS, '1 thy T. O. BLACKMON, W. McD. BROWN. W. P. HARPER, L. C. LAZENBY. 8. M. BARNETTE. T. C. HICKS. F. T. McILWAIN. J. C. EDWARDS. A. P. McLURE. CHAS. 8. KINO, J. U. BELL. E. A. COLE. W. R. THOMSON. A. L. POWLER, W. Y. DILLARD, Jr., W. E. DRENNAN C. K. CONNELLY. A. P. OILE8. led, JNO. H. POAO. R| B. ROBINSON. r led. W. D. LEMMOND, W. A. BLAKENEY ' ' ena R. D. PLYLER, Sr., W. S. 8TEWMAN. *V. A. LINOLK, J. O. PORTER. .au y r? Divantm ' } ' V ft. ft. nunivn, u. rAionuiv, - ; L. J. MACKEY, R. R. RIDDLE. * ,? t A. L. MOORE, J08. W. KNIGHT, last R. FRANCIS KEE, W. P. BENNETT. M. C. CUNNINGHAM, W. C. HOtlGH. - j R. TH08. BEATT, J. M. WOODLEY. E. B. LINOLE, M. M. WOODLEY, O. M. FERGUSON, J. T. THOMASSON, " , ity- Ev O. JORDAN. PAUL MOORE, lass HAZEL FERGUSON, J. F. MOORE, >Q8 W. H. TERRY. J. B. MACKORELL, ont JNO. A. COOK. E. M. CROXTON, 'his W. P. ROBINSON, OLIVER C. DLACKMON, oin- JAS. F. HUNTER. B. CUNNINGHAM, lied W. F. BROOM. JNO. D. WYLIE. , GEOROE W. WILLIAMS H. R. MURCHISON.