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A -WH. -JJ| T <51ir tanrasirr Nriui (SEMI-WEEKLY.) JUAN IT A WYL1K Kdito J. C. SHKl'AKl). . . Business MaiiHgc PUBLISHERS* A N NOUNCEMKNT Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster. S. C.. by The Lancaster Publishing Company, ,. successors to The Ledger, established 1852; The Review, established .1878; The Enterprise, established ^891t.and en?*. tared as second-class thatter OcL 7,1905, St tpe postofflce at Lancaster, S. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) One Year $1.5< 8<x Months 75? PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. Henceforth all obituaries, cards of thanks, lodge notices, aotices of all public affairs charging admission, citations, executors' notices, notices of discharge, etc., will be charged for at the legal rate. There has been some uncertainty in the minds of our friends as to what news really 1b. The items mentioned above are not news items, nor can we accept such items for publication except as advertising. Weather forecast for South Carolina: Local thunder showers Tuesday and probably Wednesday. TUESDAY, Al'Cil'ST 17, 1015. Another good slogan for Lancaster or any other county is "More land owners and fewer tenants." ? Let's get the telephone and electric light poles off of Main street. They detract from its appearance. + Remember that Lancaster's biggest event is still ahead. We refer tc the county fair. Let's be making ready for it. + Now for a street sweeper with which to keep our Main street neat and clean. Already there are evidences of the need of this useful device. + "The surest thing about this wax Is that nobody loves a neutral." observes The Augusta Chronicle which certainly could not have been speaking from experience. + U'p VV'iflh In nvtnnil In Tl?o Hon-loi. sou i X. ('.? Daily Gold Deaf our congratulations upon having reached its first birthday. It is a readable paper, live and interesting and a great asset to Henderson. * The white way sheds its light upon a number of objects, the removal of which would help considerably in the making of a city beautiful. We want Lancaster's principal street to present an entirely attractive appearance. + The mosquito which we failed to swat in due season is now on the job. What the hoard of health and the town authorities have overlooked must now be done by individuals who cannot be too careful to avoid this dangerous pest. * Another argument for school improvement and consolidation is the following from The Dublin (Ga.) Courier-Herald: "Land within two and a half miles of a really good school is worth more than land within one mile of a sorry one." * We want more regular correspondents front the various sections of Lan aster county. The information which could thus be given would make The News of more interest to its readers. Who will be the next to undertake the reporting to us of neighborhood news? + We are informed that the pool of stagnant water by the side of which the placard prohibiting Ashing was placed last week, is not on municipal property, so of course the town authorities are not responsible for it. But isn't there a board of health whose duty it is to report thLs and similar menaces to the public health? * If public opinion can be aroused to the extent that it will demand better conditions in the penal and charitable institutions of the state, Albert S. Johnstone and A. D. Alipant, the secretary and the assistant secretary of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, are the men to arouse it. In their tour of inspection throughout the state, both men have represented conditions just as they have found them without indulging in sensational charges and faultfinding. They have gone at their tasks with the earnest desire of bettering the lot of the criminal, the pauper and the mental defective amd to this end they deserve the cooperation of all good citizens. It is well that Lancaster had the privilege of hearing Secretary Johnstone last week. We hope that county pride and a love for our weaker brother will enable us to right what is wrong here in our midst. > n 91 i " V LANC ASTER'S LEADERSHIP. v "! ^ r i-I-!-!-!-!-!?I?!?I?I?I?I?I?I?ft- l-l-I-'.-i-i-Iri-rrl r \Vh.en The Lancaster News a fort7 i night ago decided that town pride demanded the denial of a certain statement imputed to our Boy Scouts by The Hock Hill Record, we sought to remind our neighbors that Lancaster Is afreJjfcy ?'^jocl^towti?tttai in many respects it teaiis^-Rock IJill. We did not intend to launch a tedious discussion of the comparative merits of the two towns, but in order r ! to show that Lancaster has already 1 reached and at certain points, has j outstripped Rock Hill, we mentioned ; several assets which made good that : J claim. The following quotation from our recent reply to The Rock Hill Herald is here repeated in ordeu that our readers may see that we comply with The Herald's request for specific information regarding these claims: ''Among other very striking respects. 'Lancaster Leads' Rock Hill in having much larger cotton, cotton I oil and fertilizer mills, a Chamber ot i Commerce much more liberally suo| ported than Rock Hill's, together with the best commercial secretary in the state." etc. The Lancaster Cotton Mills are recognized as one of the largest con . eerns of the kind to be found anywhere and Rock Hill has nothing in mr- sdiuf i:iass wnn mem. 1 ne> have more spindles than are to be ^ found under one roof in any other I cotton mill in the world. The weave mill alone covers over five acres and contains more than three thousand looms. Our cotton oil mill is one of the largest in the state and Rock ; Hill's lacks at least one-fourth the , capacity of Lancaster's. The fertilizer concern in Rock Hill is not even a real factory but more of a mixer and our plant is twice the size i of Rock Hill's. The Lancaster . Chamber of Commerce is much more liberally supported than the Rock Hill organization, in fact only four towns n South Carolina pay more than Lancaster in support of their commercial bodies and those towns ' are Columbia. Charleston, Greenville and Spartanburg. Lancaster ranks 1 fifth in this respect. The Herald begs to remind us that our organization was not perfected until long after Itock 11 ill's and also that Rock Hill boosters came over and helped "put the Lancaster commercial body on the proper financial footing." When we reflect that our organization is only a year and a half old. our accomplishments are such as to cause any fairminded person, even though he be a citizen of Rock Hill, to sit 11 up and take notice. Certain good boosters did come over and encourage their Lancaster friends to organize and when this was done it was discovered that Lancastrians give more in support of their Chamber of Commerce than Rock Hill gives. As to Lancaster's secretary, time and space forbid the enumeration of his many excellencies. The Rock Hill secretary is a good one. young and enthusiastic, but he lacks the experience and initiative of the Lancaster secretary, who Wft a large town to come to us. The Rock Hill secretary had served as an assistant until he went to Itock Hill, while I lltlw.r Villain hno I... .* f..ll of the work of many large organiza| tions in Texas, as well as in Florence. this state. The Hock Hill lad does well for one of his years and ! will doubtless continue to grow in ' wisdom, but Lancaster is already profiting by what Secretary Ellison learned elsewhere. We hardly hope to "convince" the editor of The Herald that "Lancaster Leads" in the above-mentioned respects, although we have given him information which cannot be gainsaid. Once more we assure our contemporary that we know that "Rock Hill is a Good Town" and that we admire the spirit that has made it so ' Yet we must insist that there is at i least one other good town In this . section, a town which also lives up to its slogan, the now familiar slogan, j "Lancaster I^eads." Mr. Wylle, in his communication to The News today from the Northwest, says, "The good roads movement has struck Oregon," and he will And upon his return to Lancaster' that the good roads movement has also struck this county, as is evi-j denced by the splendid motor truck ; for road working which is now being tested on our roads. We think that our county commissioners were very wise to try this labor-saving device by the use of which we should soon have many miles of improved hiicta-j ways. The announcement that Mr. Lewis W. Parker has become associate edl-' tor of The Greenville Piedmont is of! interest to the newspaper fraternity, of South Carolina. An already excellent journal will doubtless become better still with the help of Mr. Parker's pen. THE LANCASTER NE -k LETTER FROM THE WEST. * Mr. R. fi. WyUe Gives His 1mv fwesslous of Oregon. i Rainier, Oregon. Aug. 9.?My 1: letter was written from v San Fri ' I Cisco. We are now at Rainier, Oregt j where we are visiting the family Mr. George F. Moeck, one of Oregoi most prpmtnent business men. 1 j Moeck is a native of Germany, t has been in this country since he w I seventeen years of age and was c of the earliest residents of this pla I He has a delightful family, all whom have spared no paina to cc tribute to our pleasure. One of t pleasant features of our visit he was an Informal reception given at her home by Mrs. William Re a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Moeck. which we met a number of c friends of my mother's young* brother, who died and was burl here 17 years ago. Though far aw from home and kindred, we find th he had made hosts of friends, w still revere his memory. I went the cemetery, which is on the si I of the mountain in a beautiful sp overlooking the little city, nestlii on the bank of the Columbia riv* and placed flowers upon his grav Upon the grave 1 found a mtnlatu United States flag, which had be* placed there on Decoration Day the local order of the Grand Am i of the Republic. This was a though ful act, in view of the fact that 1 fought on the Southern side, havli been a member of Capt. J. C. Fostei cavalry company, Butler's brigade. Rainier is an attractive little tov of 2,000 inhabitants. It is in Colut bia county, near where the Cowll river empties into the Columbia at is about 4 8 miles from Portland. As now write on the Diazza. the state Washington is in full view on tl opposite side of the river. Mou Saint Helens, far away in the di tance. is in plain view with its sno rapped peak scintillating in the si light. It is snow capped all the yei round. This country abounds in fores of fir. both white and red. liemloc barn spruce. cedar. cottonwoo maple and other trees, but the pri cipal tree for timber in this sectir is the red fir. which is used for tl same purposes as our pine. Tl trees are enormous in size, measu ing as much as twelve to fifteen fc in diameter and 300 feet in heigh Out of the average tree as much ; 30.000 feet of lumber can be obtali ed. The fir and the hemlock ai very much alike in appearance, tl branches being short and begin branch about a hundred feet fro the base. When cut in the moui tains they are brought to the rive up hill and down hill, by a "donke> engine, which drags them along 1 means of a cable. They are thf placed in booms in the river ar towed to the mills by river boat These booms can be seen at all time day and night, passing up and dow the river. The huge logs are plact between "swifters" and bound b get her by cables. Then rafts ? booms are made, cigar like in sliap being piled on top of each other. Tl hoat which tows them along Is se eral hundred feet in advance of tl raft in order that the waves cause by the boat may spend their for< before reaching the logs, which at drawn along by means of a eabl There are often 300.000 feet of lun her in one boom and often seven booms are attached together. Lun ber is thus carried not only to poin on the river, but on the Pacific as ft away as San Diego and San Francisc I visited two lumber mills at th place today and witnessed the pn cess of converting these logs int lumber. There are comparative! few hands employed, the necessai work being done by machinery. Tl< huge logs are drawn up on a gam way from the river by means of cable and are sawed up by a thi steel circular saw. All kinds of mi terial are turned out. such as cros: ties, paving blocks, pieces for sash doors and blinds, siding, flooring, et The saw-dust is used for fuel, bein carried to the furnace bv machiner; The red cedar is fllso used for lun I,Of a rwl o I, ; I .... 1 111......!..,. I ... . ...... m.i..Hirs. 1 HR' ninc . 1BIICU shingle mill across the river an saw shingles being inane. The shii gles are wider than ours, varying i width from 4 to 20 inches. Th mill I saw turns out 240,000 shit gles per day. I saw a red cedar trc six feet in diameter by 4 0 feet i height being converted into shingle A huge cross-cut saw attached to til driving arm of the engine, sawed up into sections sixteen inches i length. The pieces were then spl into smaller sections and taken t smaller circular saws and made int shingles, which were packed int bundles and then put into steal kilns to dry. Out of this particuls tree were made 40,000 shingle which are entirely free from sa] The best grade of shingle sell hei for $1.25 per thousand. I visited a packing house whei the famous Columbia river salmo are prepared for shipment Kas While here we have been feasting o fresh salmon. We made seven trips up and down the river in a irasr lene launch. One trip was with party to a wooded promontory' ovei loowing the river, where we ha supper in picnic fashion. The sui rounding reminded me of the coui try described by Cooper in his Leatl viniu.nni|S lO ICO. It I Ut 111 M TOTU HI tomobile over the mountains on tti plank roads was a novelty to us. Tn good roads movement has struc Oregon. A good rook and grav< road is now being built through C< lunibia county, connecting with road in adjacent counties. We made the trip from San Krai Cisco to Flavel on the Norther Facitic, one of the splendid boats b< longing to the Great Northern Pi cific Steamship Company. It is on of the "Floating Palaces of tli Pacific." We were 26 hours on th WS, AUOl'ST 17. 1915. 1 ~~ J tlherc is 1 ? < j vclopii of <Hmc al 08 oOpSfe' ?ibgnn mi con 5C a? I the man w JSt I ea ???? ay, al water. There were 800 passenger ho . aboard, besides the 200 employes 01 to the boat. We had a comparative!: smooth voyage, which was thorough ol ly enjoyed. We leave tomorrow fo PnrMontl u* horn U- n will J ~ UK { * "* vaM"u* " ?*vi v ?* v: " ill 0|ICI1U l\ Utt )r ! sight seeing. re R- E. WYLIE. " 1 re | Pn; < by, ^ av FROM OUR LOYAL BROTHERS 4 tt-| * he "MIMMttHfttMHIIMII It W?s, Thank Yon. "'9 We hope the Home Coming weel in Lancaster was as big a success ai i'n the Home Coming week edition o n- The Lancaster News.?Spartanburg tz | Journal. id i I "Some" Sjiecial Edition. of That Home Coming edition of The he Lancaster News was some specia nt edition. Miss Juanita Wylie is ar s- editor with vision and executive w, ability.?Greenwood Index. in iir Is Already Entitled. The "Home Coming Edition" o! ;8 The Lancaster News, issued this k. week, consisted of 2 4 pages and was rt, certainly a step in the direction n-' pointed out by Lancaster's slogan ,n If nil Lancastrians continue to boost i,. us The News is (loin#;, the town will lo shortly he entitled to make full ust r- ?f the motto?"Lancaster Leads."? nt Hock Hill Herald. it. is In Spite of "Hard Times." n- The 24-page Home Coming edition rp of The Lancaster News was a gem, ie Such an achievement when normal tcfc. business conditions prevail would iu I have reflected lasting credit on the n. capable editor and other makers of r> The News, so when a great underr". taking like this is made a signal sue>y I cess in a season of business depression greater are the honors won. id The Advertiser extends congratula. i tions. ?Edgefield Advertiser S. : ?? n We Are Overwhelmed. ?d Last week Miss Juanita Wylie, o- editor of The Lancaster News, issued )r a most creditable and comprehen6i sive booster and home-coming ediie tion of her semi-weekly. This beloved and exceptionally capable ip young woman is easily proving her id fine adaptability to the journalistic ;e: field. Twice a week she issues the re best and sprightliest paper in South e. Carolina. Her editorial page ts a- good. solid. conservative, sound a! doctrine, with plenty of ginger and a. life to sandwich in well with tne ts rest. The latest achievement of this ir big extra issue speaks volumes for n. her energy and capability. Would Is that South Carolina could boast of e_ many more weeklies of this high o type, whose influence is positive and [y far-reaching for the uplift of our v entire citizenship.?Edgefield Chronicle. z a Heartily Appreciated. n The only woman editor in this state is Miss Juanlta Wylie, who s_ edits The Lancaster News. She gets Si out a splendid paper, but this week's r' edition is specially fine. It is a R home coming number and is twentyv. four pages of good reading matter. Of course some of this is advertising, a in fact one entire sheet is taken up (j with an "ad," but this tells the peopie who come bacw Just where to go n to got the best merchandise?anyie way, an "ad" well written and artistically "set up" is good reading matter. Another sheet is given to a n write-up of the Chamber of Com8 merce of the city, wrth photos of the members, this if also a drawing card it for any town, for a live Chamber of n Commerce ran com? very near makjt ing a town, especially if it is backed 0 by a reliable newspaper. We are 0 proud to have a small part in this 0 paper, for Miss Wylie has a column fu j of the paragraphs taken from The ir Daily Mail. This paper shows what H a woman can do in the newspaper ' world, and we wish her much succeas.?Anderson Dail Mail. To Crown Archduke as King of "1 Poland. i t. London, Aug. 15.?The coronation n j of Archduke Charles Stephen of , Austria as King of Poland will take place in the Warsaw cathedral, acr_ cording to The Times' Petrograd cord respondent. The correspondent adds r- that a nenelomatlAn na?wl??r vm?> h pi v\<iaiu?iiuii no tunics me new |* King on the authority of Germany j. and Austria is expected to be issued it shortly. ie k* Notice to Debtors and Creditors. 0l All persons having claims against >- the estate of Nancy E. Mcllwan, dels ceased, are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the underi signed, and those indebted to sa*d u estate will please make payment ?. likewise. ?- LYDIA G. McILWAIN, if. Administratrix Estate of said I)eie ceased, ie August 17. 1915 no hot-house rael ria a goob stjei i*a kmc will do the \cork.*$Sbtr?? ncr ?Hi b nfmtimVfturn. ip he owes ho tnto-sttptifhtp. > ho can proaMu say *1 Junto ttu Tru. - XX i? I I BE FIRST NATIONAL BA1 UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. Lancaster, S. C. 1 y FROM OTHER PAPERS. - Progressive Georgia. They have a prohibition law in Georgia, and now there is some talk ^ of trying to make the law prohibit. ^ ?Anderson Mail. h School Days Not Far Off. Cheer up, mothers, it isn't so awfully long now until school opens ( again and then you will be rid of the kids for most of the day.? { Spartanburg Journal. First Call. All those who think war settles things will please stand up and exi plain the many points which have 1 been agreed upon thus far in Europe, i ?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. Here's Hoping It's True. If the report about that bumper . corn crop is correct, there ought to be plenty of hog and hominy for some| body before long.?Greenville Pied ' niont. i 1 ('liaiicc of Their Lives. I An otherwise admirable and excel, lent review in The New York Sun of Professor Duncan 1). Wallace's "Life I of Henry Laurens" is marred by al! hiding to Laurens as a "Tar Heel j statesman." The North Carolinians have claimed the nativity of An, ' drew Jackson on evidence less subijstuntial. - The State. ITiseltish Patriotism. We assure the public that anything I we advocate is not tor our personal good but for the good of the entire community. We may be cranky and ; we may not at all times have the correct idea, but our purpose is to be j of service to the people, and no selfish motive prompts our course.?? Gaftney Ledger. ( \ce<l of More Industries. What we need is more industries in South Carolina. Can we not m&ni uiacture the hats, the shoes, the gloves. the shirts, the nnderwear, the furniture, the far implements for the use of our own people? We can, and then have some to spare for exi portation. The time has come. Let us get started.?Columbia Record. If? If the country editor were to snap at all the inducements held out he would soon become a millionaire. If lie ran a paper according to (he pop-1 ular notion he would be in the poor house. If he published all the items that were sent to him he would be in jail half the time and in the hospital the other half.?Manning Times. i Excellent Advice. Numbers of York county people i are already beginning to get warmed up for next summer's political campaign It appears to us that they would better devote a few more months to their own business before they start out campaigning for some man who will forget they exist within one week after election.?York News. Newspaper Variety. Live newspapers today contain a variety of news. They touch human I i f A ftnrt intorool ?? Mkvt vov U b aiuiwai CVflV turn. They tell of both great and small events and happenings both at home and abroad. In addition to all this great variety, they carry the business news of all the live, up to date stores and business concerns in town, which will be found in the advertUing columns and wbicb is by no means the least interesting news in the papers.?Henderson Gold Leaf. A "Fence Rail Party." What Is a "fence rail party?" We ask to know, because we observe in > a late issue of The Georgian that ! "friends of Col. Walter R. Brown1 and I^eonard Brown were entertained Thursday at the Brown country home, at New Canaan, at a fence rail liarijr. no nonce among tnosp present" were the attorney general of Oeorgia, a railroad commissioner, the ordinary of Fulton county and others whose names are high up in political life, and infer that it was. as the society editor would say, a very recherche affair. If a "fence rail" party is a good thing, we would not like the QeorK am to appropriate it to themselves ' alone, but would like to see it "oome across" the Savannah. If, however, it is anyway akin to the old-fashioned party at which some unpopular I person was "ridden on a rail," the I Georgians may keep it on their side of the river, for South Carolinians 1 prefer automobiles. ?Newberry Observer. j ? ' ^ ^ [hob of 6cnkdccounL ? rapid transit .. Jj ?vJ . -*% fr.v. yyrrSfm^tMa^S i W ($1H( 11 lappitraniM# yticy in I 1 COUNTY NEWS NOTES FROM THE MILL VILLAGE. Miss Lola Lowery is visiting friends in Jefferson, S. C. Mrs. J. J. McManus is visiting her father. Mr. U. J. Lowery. Mrs. Trull of Monroe has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Griffin, returning to her home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. L. Stogner of the Antloch section visited Mrs. M. J. Huey Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Lucy Hunter has been very sick, but is some better now. Mrs. Maud Pittman received a telegram Sunday stating that her husband, Mr. Oscar Pittman, was very ill in Columbia. Miss Hattie Huey has returned home from a visit to the country. Mrs. Eula Ratteree is visiting her sister, Mrs. Essie Hurst, at Chester. Mrs. Maggie Mehaffev and Mrs [ Nannie Harris visited Miss Nannie i Belle Bennett at Heath Springs SatI unlay night and Sunday. ! Mr. Frank Settlemyer and family and Miss Marie Settlemyer are visiting relatives at Gastotiiu. IIKATII SPItI \G. Special to Tlie News. Heath Spring. Aug. 16.?Mrs. R. A. Blackmon of Rich Hill is at the Fennel 1 Infirmary, ltock Hill, where she went several days ago for a surgical operation. , The Itev. B. F. Carson, pastor, is conducting revival services at Beaver Creek crurch this week. He is assisted by Itev. J. Q. Adams of Charlotte. A cabbage with more than twentyfive heads, grown in the garden of the Baptist pastorium, is on exhibition at the Peoples Drug and Grocery Company's grocery department. .1 Messrs. Furman and Cary Crimmlnger of the Flint Itidge section spent last week visiting relatives and friends near Westvllie. A protracted meeting is in progress at Rich Hill church this week. i uc pastor is assisted hy the Rev. M. \V. Rankin of Greeley ville. Mr. Henry L. Hlackmon, who a few weeks ago unoerwent a serious operation at Asheville, is now with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hlackmon, of Rich Hill. Mr. P. W. Twltty and son, Sidney, are spending the week with relatives near Hartsville. FLINT KllHiF. Special to The News. Flint Ridge, Aug. 16.?I am glad to say that*the health is good in this section at this writing, 1 do not know of a single case of sickness. I think Mr. Twltty of Valdosta, Ga., must to left otT his glasses when I*.- i*r?u mi* answer mat 1 gave to his question. He asked as to who O. C. was. 1 want to say that Mack and Hynuin Adams were brothers and I am a grandson of both of them, Mack being my grandfather from my father's side and Hynuin from my mother's side, making my father and mother tirst cousins. I think Mr. Twitty tried to place me iu my father's shoes. 1 don't think I said ainything about my wife, but will , say now that she is a granddaughter of Mr. Robert Crimminger, whom I guess he knew. I hope that this wilt let Mr. Twitty understand the question. The picnic of the 11th was fine as it has been stated by the Heath Springs writer. I want to thank everyone that was present for their good behavior. I think that Mr. J. E. Sweuringen made some ashamed of themselves, because he could do so much being blind and that they were doing so little with " -?1 ...u tnu KVUU ?y?8. O. C. ADAMS. Heath Springs 3. C., It. F. D. No. 1. WAIT PAINT There are painters and waiters. Which am I going to do? Paint or wait? Which is better? How much am I worth with my property waiting? How much if I paint? Will my house be worth more or less if I paint? Say it costs $2 a gallon Devoe?I wouldn't paint any other?and $S or $4 more for putting it on. That's 160 or 660 a 10 gallon Job. The money is gone. Is It In the house? Is it all in the house? 8uppose I were selling; what \ should I get for that house fresnpainted and what should I get for it needing paint? I wonder why men paint before selling! DEVOK. Lancaster Hardware Co.. sells it.