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3l]r ICanraatrr Xruta *w~' x -x^x-.:-,(SEMI-WEEKLY.) | j A ( A,1,i hOH A(1T,? ' ?- :i:cior i^rtoioic JUANIT A WYMK Editor , J. C. SHEPAKH. .. Business Manager There are many tangit dences of the growth and PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT: ment of Lancaster and The L Published Tuesdays and Fri- News is proud of every one days at Lancaster, S. C.. by The < We agree with what Colonel Lancaster Publishing Company, gaj(j Qf U8 here ja8j week, aucceBsors to The Ledger, es- .. , . ..... , ? tabltshed 1852; The Review, that tan do aU that '-anca established 1878; The Enter- done in the last twelve moi prise, established 1891, and en- do anything." And it is In t ** second-class matter of confidence that l^ncaster Oct. 7, 1905, at rae postofflce at Lancaster, S. C.. under Act tinue to Progress that we v of Congress of March 3, 1879. few suggestions which we be ? ? timely and can be overloo SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: longer. So fast have we bet (In Advance.) irtg:. so engrossed have we b< 5*ne Aoar' the praiseworthy work of ii Six Months 7 Ac K numerous permanent impro PI.EASK TAKE NOTICE. I 'hal * Vltal maU" haa b Henceforth all obituaries, lected and we ask in all cards of thanks, lodge notices, , that the city fathers, the 1 v/\tlf>no r\ t tall fill 111 ip flfffllrS lioalfh a t\ t\ ah r nunnla aonor< charging admission, citations, I thoughtful attention to this executors' notices, notices of . . . 41 . discharge, etc.. will be charged ! refpr **a,n to ?omrtUln for at the legal rate. ! concerns us all?that all-ir There has been some uncer- consideration?the public he tatnty in the minds of our even the most casual obser friends as to what news really .. .... . . . is. The items mentioned above unsani.ary conditions which are not news items, nor can we ' -ancaa*er appear as a til accept such items for publica- health and happiness. Pools tlon except as advertising. , nant water in the streets a ? """ ! lots of the town breed mil Weather forecast for South Caro- mosquitoes and millions n Una: Partly cloudy and slightly . . . . , cooler Tuesday; Wednesday fair; I bred ,n tin tans wh ch for 1 warmer in interior. i a are to be seen piled 1 ; to he carried away by th TUESDAY, Al'OUST 31, 1015. j wagon, which for some un ~ 1 . able lesson, never conies to g This week's attraction?the Chau- In back alleys, moreover, ti tauqua. been accumulating for many i and waste paper and decayi Are you ready with your season table matter lie wherever tl ticket to enjoy it all? been thrown and It seems t body's business to have the d Dear old Georgia?"with all her moved. Where is the b< faults we love her still." , health? Where is the autl the town? Where, indeed The Columbia variety is all right sentiment which will suffer s hut the best trade booster yet <s an ditions to exist? ad in your local paper. Then there is another - which we cannot too in? The "Flying Squadron" is on the urge?the rank growth of gr wing and is expected to reach Lan- the streets of the town. E\ raster county next Tuesday. street, the pride of Lancasl pavements, asphalt boulev The Civic League needs every great white way, is marred woman in Lancaster and every wo- by a hedge of grass which man needs the Civic League. Let's cut in a few hours' time get together. principal streets are bordei weeds and grass. All of the Now that harvest time is approach- tions are the result of car - iug maybe it will occur to the city and well, it must be in pa? council to gather hay along the difference also, since time a streets of Lancaster. , we and others have direct* - tion to them. "Lancaster Leads" (n every way Lancaster has as one of save in the safeguarding of the pub- valuable assets a Civic Leagi lie health. Let's correct this ueg- is ready and willing to und lect and lead in every respect. number of things that i + health and beauty. But, tc The News rejoices that Lancaster fectly fair, isn't it rather d is soon to open a night school where- iug to them to plan for a "CI at all adults who desire may be given tiful," when the everyday r a chance to do serious, practical crying necessity for prope: work. : tion is so grossly neglected + The Civic League is com "The trouble with some people," j women who are practieui explains a Georgia contemporary, "is makers, who know that th that they continually try to get even mental work must be dor: with some one instead of trying to the ornamental need be at get ahead." There is little encourage! A strivp for th? osthAtir vvhon hack of space prevents the publica- every-day garbage stares 11 tion in this issue of The News the face. If Lancaster is to concluding number of Mr. Wvlie's from certain "cabbage patcl letters on his Western trip. It will tions which detract so grea appear in our next issue. her recent improvements, i must get busy. Again we "The good die young. Then we our people give more earnest know some folks who, if they don't to these things, that the clt change their way, are going to make put the street hands to wor! Methuslah look like an infant," ' making until every blade of warns The Anderson Intelligencer. diverted from a harmful to i purpose, and that the b That street sweeper is needed more health also condemn certain and more every day. Our pride in j which we will gladly din the appearance of the beautiful And let the business men boulevard prompts us to inquire if it citizens generally do their Is going to be kept in its present con- lending a helping band, dition? + + ; -jxoa j i-i ; iDtot: ico It has been a long month for the^. citizens of York, who are eagerly j + "THK LANCASTER LAY awaiting that big Home Coming, so *. long in fact that the editorial page of The York News of August 30 is Lancastrians found muct dated August 33. in the cartoon in The Stat day, "With the Boosters We know not what changes the re-l Road." The staff artist ] turning sunn auu uauKiiicm 111 liif ?u tio?tJnj inn uuiHiunuiliK White Rose County will find thin, of the trip, its interesting e week in the ancient county seat, hut: amusing experiences that w we hope that every Innovation will he entered right heartily be as wise and progressive as the ah- spirit. Probably, therefore breviation of "Yorkville" to "York." be able to explain the slgnil ? there is any, of "layout" a So long haH been the wait for the to the Lancaster watermelo trash wagon to cart them ofT that1 to the Columbians. We ha mosquitoes are said to have eaten ! of occasional disaster result boles in old tin cans on many rub-1 the mixture of watermelon bisk piles about town. For fAar the tain beverages, but is this t mosquitoes may not complete the job, pretat'on we are to derive wouldn't it be wise to remove these use of the tefm "layou eyesores? f* noticed that aome membei - -st party did not partake of th< We are glad to learn that Mr. C. fruit, but thought that aft K. 8chwrar, editor of The Rock Hill dinner in Rock Hill they w Record, is sufficiently improved in ably not very hungry. Bui health to return to his ^ork, after was any other reason for t undergoing treatment for several era' loss of appetite for wi weeks in Northern sanltoriums. We wo must confess we think t hops that he will soon be restored to wise, that d'scretlon was "I health and strength. part of valor." THE LANCASTER NEWS, * * ' * X. : DISSIPATION. -:* !* ? ml >le evl- We have not read the novel: develop- "Hempfield," by David Gayson, which' ancaster has been appearing serially in one of of them. I the magazines, but several quotaWatson tions therefrom have been brought "A town to our attention and one particulatister has ly so commends itself to us thgt we nths can want our readers to enjoy it, too. he spirit Men are so prone to become fanati-> will com- cal in their adherence to some docenture n trine when so much more could be lieve are accomplished by a more catholic ked no spirit, and in the same way the com>n build- monly accepted meaning of dissipajcorae in tion as excessive indulgence in strong, nstalling drink is so narrow as to be ratherj vements. amusing. From "Hempfield" the: een neg- novel to which we have referred, we kindness j take the following broader lnterpre-| joard of tation of the word: ~~ ally give "I think sometimes that our cornmatter. mon definition of dissipation is far which to? narrow- We confine it to crude I excesses in the use of intoxicating nportant UqUor or the crude gratification of alth. To the passions; but often these are ver, the | only the outward symbols of a more i prevail i 8ubtle disorder. The things of the, . world?a thousand clamoring interenace to egtai desires, possessions?have got o: stoc - j the better of us. Men become drunknd back en with the inordinate desire fori llions of owning things, and dissolute with ambition for political office. I knew tiorc are a man onre> a farmer, who debauchweeks a* | ed himself upon land; fed his appeiiP reac'y ; tlte upon the happiness of his home, e trash ' cheated his children of education, n t and himself went shabby, bookless. 1 j joyless, confortless. that he might ;et them. I ^Uy more land. 1 call this dlssiparash has ; tion, too!" ' months ng vegc, pv iin VP ! , THK HKIMI.n CONCURS. jfl < o be no- ^ ebris re . ! t jard of ?p|lp Hock Hill Herald says; | " lority ot "Apropos of the wefeat of Miss is public Grace Strachan for the presidency of ^ :uch on- the National Education Asociation. ^ and her subsequent resignation from ^ the membership of the organization.^ mat e Lancaster News says that Miss ^ itistentiv strachan should have accepted defeat ass upon 'like a man.' This is good advice en Main fro,n ? newspaper edited by a wo-! t ... man. but The Heralf* ventures the " ' 1 prediction that it will he a long time ard and bPforp women will learn to accept ] in places dpfeat like men. ev??n If tliey succeed could be in securing the ballot and otherwise j Other P'ace themselves or jt plane withlj men. A woman always gets mad if' red with sjie dOP8n*t ROt what she wants." I se condi- + elessness "BKTTKIl LATK THAN NKVKH." , t, of in- j c nd again *'r* ^^nsimw Kvprmo* Apprerla- ( d atten Hon of Entertainment. ' To the Editor of The News: After waiting quite awhile to see. its most some veteran, more gifted than lit le. whirh would accord to the Lancaster \ lertake a Daughters of the Confederacy, and; I nake for the efficient and energetic secretary . of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. j ? e per- Luther Ellison, tho meed of praise iscourag- aIuj appreciation duo them for the Ity Beau- sumptuous dinner, excellent speeches , teed, the anft ^ne niusic furnished us on Lan- 8 sanita- oaster s Home Coming and our He- s , ? ' union day, I will attempt the pleas ' ant task. posed of We are sure that all the veterans, I home- whether they gave expression to their ? e funda- or not- d'tl feel proud to be . the guests of these noble people, and ! . le before that al! did thrill through their Ltempted. whole being at the glorious tributes ( nent to paid to the Confederate soldiers and ' ( common their dauntless leader. R. E. Lee. Though "our steps are less sprights in 1.1 |y? than when, to the strains of emerge Dixie, we marched uwav to fight for ( 1" condi- "God and Home and Native Land." ( itly from >ct we felt the martial spirit stirring mmohnilv within us. and a longing to try it all ! over again, when we listened to the j beg that inspiring address of Dr. Lodge, show- . t thought ing from the constitution, that we y council had the right to do as we did. and ' k -it liiv- that we wore n?t traitors, but heroes , in the unequal strife. Thank God for grass is MUch men as Dr. Lodge to keep alive ] a useful the vestal fire of our past glory! oard of And now. when speeches were| j i spots to ovor. the Daughters of the Confed- ( eraey took charge us at a long , set them. | t.Hio -i.k _u . 1 ii?ucii mill nil IIIC nuunitt II l Ittlli and our and delicacies to be desired. These part by they served us with their own loving , hands. As they ministered to us. feelings too full for utterance filled ( our hearts of the r?avs of hunger,; , 4TU K',' thlra> cold, forced marches, fierce' battles, borne cheerfully to protect : OUT." -v rrom oppression and insult "the ( ^ j girls we left behind us." COUXKt wp could have been furnished i in the army with sucn rations as were i interest ! given us on Horn*. Coming day, 1 :e yeater- think we would have been fighting! | th?| the Yankees yet. God bless all the Daughters of the ( portrayed | Confederacy, and especially our dear|| features Lancaster Daughters, who have been ( vents and through the crucible with us. May, re believe1 tl,e prosper0"* business men open1 their hearts and help these good wo-1 ( . ? .7? mon in every praiseworthy under-! i, ne win takingfinance. If JAMES M. CRENSHAW. J a applied " ns served laok to thft j ire heard1 Unless householders who screen I .. j their dwellings take care that the * i wire netting la of sofRc'ent fineness ' and cer-( to exclude moannttoeo and that the the Inter- fratnea are tlght'v dtied, they not i from the on'v Incur a considerable expense" tf" We t^cv m'^ht as well have avoid-' led. but also indulge an unwarranted "? or the nf gpoiiHtv. ite?<dos |t l? not i 9 luscious ?> be exnectad that a house ahall be ter a fc1g fr ? of mosoujtoe* as well as of|1 ere prob- k""** rt'p', "hI?*8B chimney and other i# d^es are screened. These are points I it there *?bich overv head of a family will do| he booet- well to s?e to in season. At least one itermelon neraon in twenty In this part of the ; hoy were eft,,,,tnr ^bs malaria In some derree . ?nd the ravnyes of malaria Infinitely I eveed |t??se of the more regarded ' and dreaded typhoid.?The State. AUOUST 31, 1915. p Uhcre is no hoi-hous< # I wlopinci apoo5siji rk , fa cTime alone will clothe work, H y)?3^ lb growth is accumulation. 3j< SfiS who can say he owes no man anj ,Wf j'vW man v^ho can prouMy say 411 HH /s% ^an^111 THE FIRST NATION. II U I UNITED STATES DEP1K 1P r Lancaster, S. I /V. 5$. >i. ?. from Atlanta last week. been visiting her daughtei born, ^returned home Sal Jh Kja^ business course in Mrs. Mattie Huey visited 1 COIj. K. J. WATSON McMurrny Sunday. oiiuiilsHioner of. Agriculture, who Miss Betsy Steele is vei rill address the farmers of lanraa- Mr. and Mrs. A. A er county at the o|>cru house Friday Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Pric< Homing at 11 o'clock. ,lren visited Mr. and M ... ? Griggs Saturday and Sun T . , , , , u ^ Mr. Ira B. Cauthen am ****'****' IIHIIIIHIIIII Viola were married Sund t FROM OTHER PAPERS. i &t 5 ?'0,?ck by ReV" C' * 1*1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 1 I t 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 it KIXJIX. Amen. Special to The News. Thank God for Woodrow Wilson. , kls'n. Aug. .10. As -OafTney Ledger. been no news fro,n K,S time I concluded to give Healthful, Too. baske"' " U ^^ Prohibition is not only constitu- ,aJ, ^' , v lonal. but ? food for the constitu- promiso of a flno (.orn C1 ion.?Greenville News. ,s a b,R offort tQ make hf) thin ifoa* tUrvn haaA * i ? ? * ?-? I oliticians N. 11. thing of the pant. Politicians might as well make a Brother Kelley of the nental note of the fact that the day caster circuit closed a ser >f humfuzzling the farmer has pass- ing St. Luke's Friday id.?Henderson (N. C.) Gold I^eaf. good resuts. The health is very g A Long Exile Next. neighborhood as I hear So Cole announces that he's going ncss. 0 enter the lists for governor again. Mr. Clyde Harper and Well, back from Elba is easy enough; Sapp have gone to accepl >ut it will be St. Helena next time, with the Southern Powe ?Anderson Intelligencer. Mr. Poovey Bailey left enter Lincoln Memorial Public Spirit? at Cumberland Gap, Teni The public spiritedness of some have a fine school nen remains short circuited the year 8 .? 8 . rar<> lround. If its free?yes. If it costs 1?acher? 1 dime?no. Etc ?Marion Star. , M1? Gra Hammond her friend, Miss Emma ? The Great State of Grady. D Misses Mary and Dor; Rock Hill are spending While it is proper to denounce a |n K,Rin wlth thoir frlo errible crime as it deserves, yet it Estelle and Edna Bailey, s deplorable that Georgia must be Mlss jes8le Baile-y of , teld up to scorn as she is being done ijna,iR s? snonriinir - feu Georgia the State of Grady, who uncle ind frlfnds in iid so much for softening the hearts >f men.?Columbia Record. ? PLEASANT VALLEY Not So in Social News. The society coluni.i in a Charleston |? Spite of Weeping Skies lewspaper chronicles the fact that a Pronounced Sue 'hiceo, of Market street fame, has _ 1. tone off on a vacation Charleston T<V'ie ?dltlor ?f Netv society" may be "exclusive." but be _ P,cnlc at Peasant ranged If you can say that about its ay ,wa8 a Pronouncet mciety column in the newspapers.? 8,1 0 . the weeping a Anderson Intelligencer. "?wd ?'aK lrat.he,r1 8ma11" lf>0 or 200. but all were ii Ti... as we were needing tin ,y "" qVT' *'V^ ?,# . . showers, which fell a Governor Slaton was though to throUKhmlt lhe d Tll nave a dUflc?n time handling that (,rras08 w excellent. phase of the h rank case w^hich came abundftnt an(] umiHUally before him but Oo^nor Harris races the bigger problem.--Charles- Pommunity of Darbervl? on 08 good music throughout t .. , . , The first speaker of t Understood. the Hon. T. G. McLeod of While the fortunate editor of the ? on h rural weekly prints thanks notices tlon 'and a? who hJad ror donations of fruits and vegetables nomi, _ BI.paU(,r ln fhft nf yUfca>.cU, r,?,,..rl.y U I., u?- KlTeL .pee' 1 erstood that the editor of the dally had bear(J h,m ? newspaper likewise would ditto, if community la Dractlcallv ditto were dittoed.?Charleston Post. rommunily >? pracucauy Enforcement vs. Olwervanrc. 1 There Ls in South Carolina a revival of respect for law. This must be kept up. The more law abiding our people are, the better their con1 ition, the happier their lives. They should put in office men who respect HI )m) the law and bow to Its operatton. WaaK/ Law "enforcement" should be rare, 2 law "observance" should be the rule HI vH^^ /Vt of conduct.?Columbia Record. Why Shouldn't It Be? "The crowd was orderly." How frequently we see this line In Gcte? ?*tr \ news article telfipg of some public gathering. This ought to be tsJten . , for granted Why should not a ____ ^nrth dsmtlns cfMit he The only exoeae whatever far audi ' * a Hne ever getting Into a news item . IJtp CfIf 1 in that aofne year*, ago, when wiekey ^'*** HoWed freely, there would be a fear __ t rou 1)1 e-tnakera at eirery grftherin* ' Bin and theee would raiee-a row, dletnrb ett, for hOVaehol4 ol the gathering and buay the pol'oe ?w The larger the crowd and the more .. _ . the bnnre the tpnre afreets and the thin^a Thu dru^ fl leva truth fn the statement-?^''an or- te fin entire Mtiefi derlv crowd." "The crowd was orderly, few ar- J reata wore m*def" fa unneceaaary to- VI IT/1 A day In describing a North Carolina J A j\j a A eathertne and o"'v bow and then JLjmmI w\*JTa doea icme one th'nk it neceaaary to so comment.?Salisbury Poet. .-tpringa Block. > i method of 4eib ^ankdccoiiflL * Here's no rapid transit- |V L\ ippy \t\bcek is the man mmJsq ithittp. Mappkrstill is have money in YVv ?&**- 1 p i c. I?1~ for prohibition, our people were perptjffl haps a little indifferent about going I* Ww . y to the polls, and we think that Mr. r , McLeod's masterly presentation of 11 tHo evils of the liquor traffic, will II 1 \CK i st'mulate our people to vote in larger numbers to stamp out the iniquitous I traffic. i-01* The next ?Peaker was the Hon. A. mra* Bethea. our lieutenant governor. ek He 8P?ke on "The Hl?h Cost of Igno?. ranee," and his address was full of rned home . , good, practical, common sense sugm.-hr. h*. gestions, and sparnled throughout ?t Winn.! wlth wlt and humor. turday ac- Pleasant Valley will be delighted 11" to have thes'i gentlemen with us nH Print aK*,n- S. E. B. ana Pleasant Valley, Aug. 30. 1915. o?umbu!n* XKWS FItOM TIMHOD. is place larton and ?' That Community lite at VIrs. Barber c . , . Home. Special to The News. y sick. Tlmrod, Aug. 29.?Tlmrod lies Price and Ave miles from Bethune and has a ?r ^^Frank n'ce 80ho?l house and a very nice rta'y church, but the church is not quite [1 Miss Ada finished. There has been a protractlay evening ed meeting going on and the pastor V Hlirtrocq I . 1 ? t m . TN ? .. | was !1ss|su.(i iiy rev. i . a. uanney. There was five added to the church. The church members were made to rejoice at the hearing of the Gospel. there has This is a fine community and the in in some , .. . . you a word l>e?Ple ,ive at home. They raise 1 the waste their own flour, meal and meat. Their crops are fine, considering the dry \e have the weather. me supplies Mr8, Uobert Williams and family s will be a ?f Camp Creek are visiting her sister. Mrs. John Estridge. East Lan- Mrs. C. R. Burnett and children ies of meet- have returned home after a visit to night with her sister. Mrs. V. D. Estridge. Born to Mr. and Mrs. V. D. ood in this Estridge. August 12, a son. of no sick- SCRIBBHER. I Mr. Kayo Keep It Out of Politics, t positions If there is one thing that should r Company, not be made an issue In South Carothe 18th to Una politics. It 1b the attitude of the University present administration to the State i. Hospital for the Insane. It has takof 4 0 or 50 en years for the unrortunate inmates iss Estelle of this institution to have given to them and their surroundings the atis visiting tention that has been needed. No rohnson. intelligent man or woman is going to a Steele o\ say that even hair that should be a few days done for this institution has been sends, Misses complished yet. The work has been started and there is still a long road Jones Cross ahead of the boar* and officers in d no I4U f?K O pco Tim fl tifv /\f t li n ot nfn In \Aixjn wild v'tM* ?v. *?v. v* v?av? otavc ? Klgin. this connection Is sacred and delicate IKK. and should be approached not vrith the idea of making political capital PICNIC. 'or anybody, but with the Idea of service to the patients of the instii Event Was tntlon. If a program is being worked**. ed out that will add to their comfort ?. and relieve their suffering, let no Vallev last 0*>?la(,le be thrown in the wav.? 1 success in Spartanburg Herald. kiPft Th a only about FRAUD PAINT. i fine spirits i delightful The worst mistake one is likely to t intervals make in painting is wrong paint; it ie two ad- is easy to make. the dinner We all say "Ours is the best;" and good, and there are 1,000 of us. One is best; neighboring but a dozen are so near on a level e furnished that no one knows, for sure, that his he day. is the one. he day was The worst paints are worat liars; Biithopville. they know what they are, put on a of prohibi- bold face, and brazen it out . heard this Their one true argument is low ist, say that orlce; but low price paint is always, h that they must be. a fraud; ir ts made to cheat While our cheatable people, unanimous T>KVOE -eA.. . I - " / /r ' t ?./ r Cleaning Liquids dam, oome to u for jroir ammonia, bemdae, eaning purposes. Perhaps ere eaa five pom nations as to the best way to clean many , tore is always at year aemoe. We strive lotion in everything. lot as be of sorrino STER DRUG CO. , I A ' ' , Coolest Place a Town