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4< (Slfr iCatiraalrr Nrma (SEMI-WEEKLY.) JUAN IT A WYL1K Editor W. S. HOUGH. . . Business Mgr. PUBLISH Kits' ANNOUNCEMENT: Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster, S. C., by The Lancaster Publishing Company, successors to The Ledger, established 1852; The Review, established 1878: The Enter prise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1905, at me postofHce at Lancaster, S. C.. under Act cf Congress of March 3, 1S79. SI lisciiin iox I'KK'R: (lii Advance.) One Veiir $1.50 Sl.\ Months _ . . .7.V TO SUBSCRIBERS: Your subscription must be paid up to and including year marked on your label, tf neper is stopped look at your date and you will probably find you are behind one year. Wo cannot send each subscriber a statement. Look at i yo r Label. If you do not receive your paper promptly we would appreciate it if you will notify us and we will correct the mistake. In the hurry of mailing out the papers, names of subscribers are sometimes left off inadvertently. I Wo: tin r forec-> <t lor Sou h n Una: Pair Tuesday and Wednesd TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 15)1 i The hunting season is furnishing sport tor certain Hunters and rood '.?>* others. The optimists, who alone should | be allowed to prophesy, fortell Hie | coining of a genuine business revival. < ! i The Augusta Chronclo reminds the ( suffnigette readers that "votes lor } women did not aid prohibition in Cal- ( ifornia." t There is more constructive work i going on right now in Lancaster < than ever before, let the pessimist } wail as lie will. i We will not cry over spilt milk but facing the L.ure let us beg that the trees already felled be replaced 1 by a great wh to way. < ? "Where were you when the war came along?" is a question to which ! we wish all could answer, "We .> or."? living at home " ' t Many who are in sympatic wis * the allies will attrck Turkey U s week by carving and devonrin; .1 Who wa:.ts to e 11c. Lr 1 : t The. ks giving time? Tito county nowspape" i- esse tially ji l one ti'utiou r l th who maIt * re >rklng lor the in building of the co nty. asking nothing except a square deal. If the furiuc s had no debts to j-aj 1 they could ho'd their cotton indefi- ( nitely, but enough of the staple should be sold when money is need- 1 ed to meet their just obligations. | The pay-a-debt movement will ' help the merchant who is waiting for it ar.d will put in circulation money which has too long been with ' held, Red Cross seals will me sold in , Lancaster again this year to aid in ( a charity which merits your support. , Buy your seals early front the U(.d Cross booth at the county fair. The Stars and Stripes should float over every school building in this country and adorn the walls of every schoolroom. The presence of the flag tenches patriotism, reminding the children constantly of their duty as citizens to love and honor the flag. Let's ask our representatives to pass a. bill at the next sesion of the the legislature prohibiting carnivals w!thin a radius of three miles of a itown. This has been found an ef- , fective means of ridding many North Carolina cities of the nuisances The county fair is designed to exhibit the thrift and enterprise or the people of Lancaster county. Therefore you must not let your light be hid but put it rather 'efore other people that they too may he | encouraged to do as you have done. I A certain Georgia editor I? doing p'l in his power to persuade his read- i o help themselves n>* selling nd pou'.ry. Ha close? a very M'corlal on the Importance i ? a mean" of earning! - rood miikl'cm: u.n. ' ih > system by soda founts, j * of dol-1 liKT'S IiIVK AT IIOMK One of our prominent business men has given us a copy of a paragraph which lias impressed him am! seems to us, also, to suggest a very potent cause of our preseut business depression. It reads as follows: "The Southern Farmer gets up at the alarm of a Connecticut clock, buttons his Chicago suspenders to lU'r.rnllc ivochnc Ilie with Cincinnati soap, in a Pennsylvania pan. s'ts down to a Grand Rapids tabic, eats Chicago meat and Indiana hominy, fried in Kansas lard on a St. Louis stove. Puts a New York bridle on a K mtueuy mule, fed on Iowa corn. Plows u farm covered by an Ohio mortgage, with a Chattanooga plow. Win 11 bed time conies he reads a chapter from a llible printed in Boston and says a prayer wri ten in Jet >->; ! nil,' crawls under a blanket made tn New Jersey, to be kept awake b> a South Canl'm dog, the only horre product on the place, and then wonders why he cannot make mone> raising cotton." Just as we have all doubtless been guilty of these or similar offenses against our neighbors and ourselves, so may we ill. by united effort ereati a demand for home products by dl_ versifying our Interests and becoming independent,? in other words bv living at home. IXSPll'ATlOX TO TKACHFHS We believe that the future glory of the Palmetto State depends in great m? asure upon the education of iis youth and t is there tore of prime importance that every means should he enp'.oyed to foster those methods which will bring about sure ind far reaching r< suits. efficiency should he the chief aim oi all who ire engaged in educational work. To this end. teachers, trustees and pupils should have set constantly before them every constructive Idea, 'very right prine'ple, evry word of nformation possible. This business >f enlightening our future c'tizen>1,1*% m i i * - - - feasting. The first official public Thanksgiving Day was kept in 1631. Occasional days of feasting, prayer and thanksgiving were kept by the colonists, but the first general Thanksgiving Day was appointed by the Continental Congress, for Thursday, July 20. 1776. The first national Thanksgiving Day was set for November 26, 1780, by President Washington. -Southern School News. If you want business to keep up, try nsvtng vour debts," is the very practical advice of the Tugaloo Tribune. in nu llll'Uil ill IHKOIIIt* U1SK, Dill alls for all there is of patience, inelligence and self-sacrifice. There is ivork for all of us to do in raising lie standards of education in South 'arolina, in injecting into the school system business methods such as sire needed in any undertaking worth svhile. Mr. George l'>. Brown .lr, of dewberry, who is superintendent of 'duration of Newberry county is ivorking to make the schools in hi: harge the best in the state. His snthusias m and energy are clearly ]i monstrated in the following card ent to every teacher and trustee in liis county, which we hope will In found helpful in this county also: "I h vo been inspired to attempt be following: ( 1 s Unroll every child in sell. >1. CM Collect material for I nr kclio ' journal. CM Collect best material ofr Pa r ind Field Day. (4t Pr pare my Seventh grade [> ipils lii County Graduating K::er isos. ('I Organize and keep alivo School Improvement A o i.itioi (til S .bscrii lor Tcirheis' Magiz! lies. ( 7 ) Order library. (S) Observe Clean-l'p Day. (11) Study and plan each b .son 'or each day. (lot Teach every illiterate in the listrict to read and write. (Keep tli's card before you in your jwn room.) Says the Charleston Post. Wliatjver differences or misunderstandngs thero may now he between the I'rited States and Turkey, all will >e well after dinner. November 26. There is niily ai>out one more week for planting grain, we are told. So n you have not planted yet, get ousy during the next few days. We hope that prep-rations nu\ibeen made hereabouts for many winter gardens. The vegetables will help along our light for independence Strange t is that a pro-German so pronounced as Kditor Koester has not asked who put the lies In allies. We have confidence in the intelligence of the farmer and one hardearned lesson of the war will be that the land he has always planted in cotton will grow many other surer money crops. Thanksgiving l>u) In the autumn of 1621 Governor Bradford made preparation for a day of thanksgiving to God for His blessing on the labors of the year. In 1622 another Thanksgiving Day was kept. Massasoit and his braves W orp in vitod tinri unont 1 h r/>o /ioru ' ? tHk Lancaster new From Other Papers "Can't IkHow else are debts to be paid it some cotton is not sold??Greenwood Journal. Where, Oh Wlieio? T. Roosevelt bad a bartv. Vere Iss dot bartv now??The State. And in Lancaster. Tli oro 1 u ;i I'lvii- 1 onvno iti A rniiir. son that does other things besides bei'.r a name Gr>ijwood Journal. li.i* a i'aiiiiliai' Sound. Tlie backing down of Turke*' show that she s Inclined bo "feather-legged." 'I ugaloo Tribune. t Mars and llarchus. The world at war turns its back on liquor. These are great days for Mars, but gloomy ones for Bacchus. News and Courier. l ,f~ /If we raised our own beef at home we would not be In danger of higher prices on account of the foot and mouth d sease.?Anderson Mail. F.very Little Bit Helps. If everyone will pay their small accounts, the combined payment will eirib! i the merchant to r iy a big account. Pay up!?Laurens Advertiser. Good Policy. This is the tim?* of the year when those thoughtful of a t irkey's feel i 'gs do not leave a hateliet or a.\o where he can see it. tlreonvllle Piedmont. \Ve Cannot. Of tlio l,120,0d0,ooo people on the fact of the earth and 1,000.000,ooo of them at war. can we be thankful enough for America and Woodrow Wilson??Anderson Intelligencer. The Wise Farmer. He will be a wise farmer who has wheat and oats to sell next spring. He who lias not. and has too little to supply h s home consumption, will have to pay out top prices for these commodities. ?Greenville Piedmont. Are There Knoiigh Col- All? Many sections of the South are discussing the matter of bringing Belgian farmers into tho'r midst. The real question is. are there going to be any Belgian farmers left? ? Spartanburg Journal. Here's Hoping. The South Carolina stored bale of otton is now to he labelled with the "Palmetto Tree." Wo trust the symbol of the state's sovereignty v tl not n >nto bad odor as when ii was attached a label to "Fust v." n ! tie- rest of thorn. -Columbia ltoeord. We An l or War. "What we mi now is pence." I"i is what I1, ' i: '1 t'gors wanted 1: - t weok, and tliey objec ted very riot ty to 11 ' n* agiti t.ion that i r- 'i up. Ves. that crowd l )<>- \s;u i) . a: ' wants it very nil y. - A ndcrson Mil. Sorehead. 'I ie ("i-mson College expert says orelu d is caused by mold. 11c was furring to poultry, no' politicians, bet s nie cause has same effect. \ en the politic an gets moldy in reiirentent, or sees it loming, he develops most acute sorehead. Creenville Piedmont. Should Have lte**n Consistent. Tlie legislature made provision for cotton growers who are in distress hut failed to provide for nutomibile owners who are "hard up." Why not "grange for storing automob les in order that money might be borrowed on them? Edgefield Advertiser. A (ipneral remleiiry. The crusade against the illicit sale of whiskey continues over the Mate. This is one of the encouraging signs of the times. There is no place in South Carolina for ihe blind titter. Ife sliouhi ho dr'ven from the state. -Spartanburg Journal. Will Soon lx> Here. Thanksgiving Day will soon he here and there Is much to be thankful for in spite of the low price of cotton. "V* V.v< *'o war. and can hold our cotton and let the sheriff hold us until tunes get better." suggests The Hawklnsville Dispatch. Augusta Chronicle. A Lucky Near tcciilcnt. Just before the mayor of fiangor, Me., narrowly escaped being hit by a keg of beer that was being rolled into a "blind tiger" on the main street, afl the saloons that sell liquor openly in that town are to be closed. "A pretty story this would have tnadc for the newspapers if I. the mayor of one of the principal cities in prohibit'on Maine, had been disjabled in such a manner," the mayor ( said to the police chief in issuing the order?Columbia Record. ?ee Your ("r?liU?r?<. Have you seen your creditors and have you tried to pay at least a part of your debts? Just remembor ' one thing creditors have obligations many of thein pressing ones, too, to meet and unless they can collect some money to meet a part of what they owe then they will soon get to to place where their credit, too, will be exhausted and then how can we i expect help from them another year? ; Huslness depends upon the circula! tion of money. I^et's try to put a? ! much as we can in circulation by paying as many debta as we can It is highly important for our future welfare that we try to do this. II you have the money pay all you owe If you can't pay all pay some.? Chester News. S, NOVEMBER 24, 1914. 'jM Trays wc ffilrJ A\ 3e,Iirnr pi couldn't M>u'rc ov Firrft $** ^to P COUNTY NEWS HEATll SIMtlNHS The union Thanksgiving service at the Baptist church Thursday night at "in o'clock will be led by Mr. \V. I'll s, All the churches will participate "and < uitributo to their various orphanages. T! public school will be suspended Thursday and Friday on account of Thanksgiving: lso on Friday of Fair week. Rev. ,1. 1$. V.'eldon 1 -ft Monday aft jrnooti for Sumter to attend the n > ing "t the ^u "i ("arolii a conference. Mr. 1). \V. 11 i dri\ vent to Itock Mill SutidiM to \i-it his brother who recently underwent an operation at the Infirmary the!. Mrs. Johnson of Camden Is spending a while with b.er daughter, Mrs. I>an Jones. Mr. Ha.xel Vaughn of ltock Hill spent Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Vaughn. Mr and Mrs J. 10. Caskey of Kershaw visited their parents liere S.i day. Kev. J \\\ II. Dvehes is spending the Thanksgiving season with rela_ tives and friends In Harnwell county The meeting of the first div'sioti \V. M. U. which was to be held at I Heath Springs on Saturday before the First Sunday in Decemoer l.as , been postponed jus: one week. Miss Idell Mobley is spending some time with her sist r, Mrs. llorae IOarle. at Hopkins. Messrs II A. Horton and John G. Walker motored to Lancaster yesterday to spend the day with Mr. R. Ii. Maekey. I of. Busliardt will go to Rock Mil' with l is basket ball team Thursda> to play a match game with tlte cli .>1 foam at thet idace. Mr f'ol;o Bridges and Misses Cllngan anil Twltty went to Rich Iliil Sur.iiay afternoon. Mr and Mrs. 1' O. Small of Rich IF'l and Mr. W. Mondrix of l-an \ is-t :;-ii their pcrents here Sunday. It V*. S. Moore suffered a pain fill ihough not serious burn about ib while working at his noetyb o i I at Su- lay night. V s Mayme (' iskey cntno home froi i K re, haw county, where she is te cM r, to sperd Sunday with her met her. Misses Maggie Tompkins and Onto Mickey weri- at home from their so' oid ; Sntuday and Sunday. Miss Daisy Jane Bowers, daughter of Mr. James Bowers of the Fork Hill neighborhood, was qu'etly married to Mr. Edgar Clemson Blackmou. at the Baptist pastoriuni Sunday afternoon, Rov. J. \v. H. Dychea Th. I)., performing the ceremony. The bride is an attractive and ac complishecl young woman and the groom is a thrifty young farmer of Rich Hill, a sou of Mr. am! Mrs. J \V. Blackmnn. Tliev will reside at Rich Hill. DON'T WAIT Take Advantage of a l iincustw <'ili. /.en's fcxpericiK* Whoa the b;?ik begins to ache. Don't wait uinil backache becomes chronic: / Till kid my troubles develop: 'Till urliytry troubles destroy night's rest./ Profit by/a Iain caster citizen's expo rence. / Mrs. Henry Whaley, Company House No. 1 !t 4, Lancaster, says: "I was a constant sufferer front kidney complaint. I bad pains in the top of tn>\ head every day and dizzv spe'.ls. M.\\f?ack ached all the time and when I ki\ down at night the trouble was woVqe. I couldn't sleo|! and got up in th\ morning sore and stiff across my loms. It was hard for tne to do tny Biousework. The kidney secretions were annoying. 1 took two boxes pi Loan's Kidne> IMlls which I got at the Standard > Drug Co. and I was completely cured ' j My kidneys became normal and rnj i back stopped pa'ning me. I have been well for two years." Prfce f?Oc at all dealers. Lon'1 I simply ask for a kidney remedy ? get Loan's Kldrtey Pills?the samt that Mrs. Whaley had. Foster-Mi! burn Co.. Props, Buffalo, N. V. ' An Active Liver Means Health. II If vou want rnni! health n elaai >' complexion and freedom from dizziness, constipation, biliousness headache and Indigestion, take Dr > I King's New Life Pills. They drive out fermenting and undigested > > foods, clear the blood and eure constipation. 0nly 25c at your drug | gist. ? ' Every trustee who possibly car 'should not miss the opportunity oi 11 hearing Miss Eva H'te, president oi ' the 8tate Rural School Improvement Association Saturday. It will be i treat and well worth your time. V. A. Ltnarle. doi? uxw tftcrs a! Vairie aectiond which once^jver buyers at u dottaranacre are n u^li cotton and carie and truck e e their value a hundred fold. >rlh a hundred times as mucl rice hut not to the owner wh f i nd it out, HEnemr K+vr*Arr. QXlocking Opportunities eOeru cJau/s ui Mcmcrj in me J3) a IN K *" .y?: _ ri-wTr-iumvr^frhra*-'* ' : 2?w ' r " iim E FIRST NATIC27AL .".A:IK, Lancaster, S. C. UNITED STATES DM'?v noin . jWarN t Mr. U. V/. Mil i ?! \ y our stablest Friday V / X November /27th ait | mules for Ue army | V X be 5 feet to Ek feet tl ;.* j *t* weicb 1.000 noiinH< I*! sound. Seven to tw J* Will pay $100sto $1 t ^ r Gregory I Live Sto< ? LANCASTER, I ??? * ?? > I ?. < .. ?. * I vwvwvvwvvvw V ; 2>v / ?? It j,| it ! ;:hf# i ^ ysf t i i , A 3 y / X ' / 1V ?a>fe. That's what all business i have not a bank account tetter c wonderful business help. WeJnvi V STATEMENT OP THE CC f THE FARMERS BANK A TI 4? located at Lancaster, S. C\, at tl/j clos? ! ^ RESOURCES. U Loans and Dis- ^Capl counts $189,487.60 IV in ' JL Overdrafts 3,972.5.1 ? %r ,, .. . ?. 'Undl I I Furniture and Fix- jei I Z tu res :,875.00 pe i Other Real Estate pa ^ owned 3,500.00 I Due from Ranks Tlmi I and Bankers . . 10,5 59.67 [>, X Currency 2,7 82.00 Cert s t Gold 1,050.00 Cast > Silver and Other Bllle t Minor Coin , . . 335.81 cl Checks and Cash ca ? y Items 352.36 H< ? Total $214,914.97 T< . STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lancaster?ss. JL Before me came W. H. Mlllen. Ca 1 bank, who, being duly sworn, says thi J statement is a true condition of sal V books and said bank. <9 Sworn to and subscribed before me 1914. JOHN CRAWFORD, A Correct?Attest: W. T. Gregory, W. I Directors. t FARMERS BANK A T t V W. * OAMtiORT, President 1 V R. T. DCATT, Jr., Asakts ItfterofiM it beefing' Ijj ow bearing*-y jj ittd fir nil to . It was aX* ff vxI/CS h as x\& /{ <$H$? + *? ? *% , _ ^ ^ I TFnl A JLLiJLr | ?. $ Isap will be in | i and Saturday, ? d 28th, to buy X i They must Y i _ _ . Robinson, W. P. Bennett, > UST COMPANY I W. M. MTLLKN, Caahler. V at Ca?tiler. ?g| iree inches and v > or more and y T elve years old. 40. J Hood I :k Co. I S C T The Man of x Money y X got his wealth by giv- j ing his entire atten- j tion to his business. J Me didn't worry about his cash. He put it in X I OTAA/'l Vvo n 1/ V .? *,v/wu UUI1A WUCIC A he knew it would be % nen should do. If you ? >pen one at once. It is T te you to open it here. Y )NDITION OF tUST COMPANY, Y > of business Oct. 21, 1914. ' LIABILITIES. X tal Stock Paid $ 50,000.00 luH Fund . . 2,500.00 X vidcd Profits, BR Current Exnsea and Taxes * ild 7,152.14 Y tridual Deposits ibject to Check 29,914.75 X j Certificates of jf eposlit 32,814.23 4& ified Checks . . 25.26 X tier's Checks. . 8.61> t Payable, in- O tiding Certifi- X tes for Money * arrowed . . . . 82,500.00 ?tal 1214,914.97 A shier of the above named at the above and foregoing ? Id bank, as shown by the W. H. MILLEN. i this 25tb day of October, 4? Notary Public for S. C. ^