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(Thr Canrastrr Xruis IhKMI-WtKKLY.) JIJAKIT \ WYLIK Editor J. C. HUKFAKU. . . Business Manager PUBLISH i'lts- A X XOl" XCEHEXT Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster. S. C-. by The Lancas'er Publishing Company, uccesscrs to The Ledger, established 1852: The Rerlew. established 1878; The Enterprise. established 18'?1. and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1Sm>5. at tne postoffice at Lancaster. S. C.. under Act of Congress of .-darch 3. 1873. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) One A'ear 8I..V) Si* Months 75c FLRANK TAKK NOTICE. Henceforth all obituaries, cards of thanks, lodge notices, jotke* of all public affairs charging admission, citations, executors' notices, notices of discharge, etc., will be charged for at the l?-gal rate. There has been some uncertainty in the minds of our friends as to what news really is. The items mentioned above are not news itemB, nor can we accept such items for publication except as advertising. Weather forecast for South Carolina: Fair Friday and probably Saturday. FRIDAY. HPKTKMBEK 10. Ittl.T. "8cbool days." + "Reading and writing and rithmetlc." 4k But not we hope to the same old "tune." ?+ Go to the polls next Tuesday and vote your purest convictions on the liquor question and you will vote ri^ht. > In pa--ir.? tr.r ah : i-'-r-*. H:!l a few 'lay:-: sir. e e ha' a:. en' raging s gn c. n. il ar w rk gr * ..:.?r corn into sorg :m. * . There Is no danger of fo< I1- iff-' being declared contraband of war by any of th<- warring nations. So let grain replace the cotton. ? * If you want to vote in the special election next Tuesday you had better begin to hunt up your latest registration certificate and tax receipt. The question is being asked, *ill President Wilson run again. No, v.?don't believe he will proceed ou?sid?' . of a walk -nd it w II be a walk-over ?over the same route he reached the White House before. The editor has been absent this week attending the Joint conferences for the Common Good and Charities and Corrections. We know the paper is not up to the standard on account of her absence, but we did the best we could. What hi. b ' * of th<* Lancaster com tv Alfaifa Club organized a coupl*' of years avo? No v in tho time for the organization to he at work. The increase of the aoreag" of alfalfa in the eounty is greatly to be desired. 4? We call attention to the hill .sent us by Representative S. E. Hailes, providing for a special agent to work In mill schools and night schools, introduced by himself and others, which has already passed the house and will probably pass the senate at its next session. Now is the season for picnics and social gatherings throughout the county, make it a rule to attend all of them if you can. There is nothing that tends more to broaden one's vision than to mingle with the crowd and get other people's ideas 011 thing in general. * The trustees of the various schools of the county should lie present at the opening of their schools to speak word of encouragement to teachers and pupils and this should not be the last visit. They should drop in at intervals during the session and see how the school is getting along A trustee Is always either a help or a hinderance to the school. . 'in :..i ? 4>? The Charleston newspapers seem to be much aroused over the probable outcome of the approaching election on the liquor question. The Newt and Courier criticises Governor ManD'ng for not lending the weight ol bis Influence to local option. Gov ernor Manning la right In keeping out of the flgi t and luting the people dee'd? the matter for themselves The Charleston Post Is disposed tr accept the Inevitable, but thus con aladee a long editorial on "Th? ftlquor Election," "However futile II My seem on Its face. It will still be %arth while to vote for local option.' pray, vote for local option il % la futile to do so? '*i ! ' THE LAXCAST -X-'-.--:- - - < <H*TINO TMK IXJST. THK M HOOI, Hi v ! v The ?leef&e4 Ao(<uu Chronicle Soon all the school b is becoming excited OTer conditions county will be opened f :n Mexico. So much so. that in a re- ning of the new school b cent issue it make* the assertion, glad to know that our "that Mexico has got to be pacified general rale take pr immediately '* The Chronicle urge* school buildings and t that mmediate measures be taken made neat and comfo because of the inroads on our own this is as it should he. territory aero** the border by bands buildings in all commu of Mexicans and because under the be the clTic center, tl Monroe Doctrine foreign nations will along with the church, come in and straighten out things if lowed In the minds a the United State* does not. So far the people. It should b as the foreign nations are concerned center of spacious grou they hare a bigger job than the ample room for recreati Mexican trouble on their hands at for the children. The this time and when the world widj schould be conspicuous war In which they are now engaged trees and flowers. A c< is over, they will not have much of be judged by the appe a stomach for raising a fuss with the school buildings and gr< United States on account of Mexico, dent n ooarow \suson, A no while these incursions across the this subject, says: border are more or less worrying, "For example, you ta just trust every thin* to President hou?*8 through th? , ,, ... standing here, there an Wilson, contemporary, and all will ,Q thg cUieg and tfae>. , be well The President does not care tbe most part betwet to meddile in Mexican affairs, prefer- session of one day and t iriK as he has already announced, to ?'on of the next day. , let the poor down trodden people of ?n?mu3tl?f*' They f that republic struggling for self- piaces in which tb asse government, work out their own sal- cuss public affairs. 7 vation .If possible. When it becomes w hat we need for clear that no responsible government ??* n 'an be established in Mexico, then it gomebody to suggest tb will be time for Uncle Sam to go houses be made social into what will prove a costly affair, they be used for every 1 not onlv In dollars, but in the lives tnate conference. * , ' _ . "The back on the fai of American soldiers. Our great w|U never be a rPali, President has counted the cost of in- school house becomes terventlon in Mexico and it Is well interest. Singing schoc hat he has. societies, musical conc< v- , ... , . graph readings and i The New lork World says: Jrama?they all tend tc 'Anyone v. he, <.ants war with Met- bors together and mak ico an get today on the Texas bor- more liberal." der a fair sample of what t would Lancaster has made e he People who said ligh'- j thW: matteni during heart edly of armed intervention in . Mexico picture an Amertcan army rade- b Jt there 18 yet rr - V' .* in tr : from Vera Cruz proveraent. Let the g ending tt < ampalgn at <: e on. troke ? The country W90H + " ' " ' "* 1 It is the dutv of e\ 1.' -. terr.tOi r vear- T ' a: 'he 1;? d of ?he '?' >: > n voter who has the int : on-< ornb- ?ant!- and < - -state at heart, to go to 1 have no rignt- and te Tuesday and vote hi? * < ' f'r< . ' *' 0 lbr. iifjUor rjuestiot. r fj r" showing today n , , he r r.- !- along th<- Ro Grande." lhe fcale oi lifJUor Is I The <'l.arle.tf n Post does not lik" i?us'nfeR8 an'' 'l(' ,'r'1 the Idea of war w ith Mexico. Sa-- wholesome thing, he she T> e Post' an(* vote that way. On "Certainly war in Mexico would lf he believes liquor is be no pleasure excursion nor an en- a curse to South Caro gagement of a few months If we vote his convictions thi went across the border we should not ,lon t ptav at home an come back, perhaps, within a genera- . ' . . ., 1,.. i- .... ..1 ; 1 fence. Go to the polls ...Mi ? * . ? tin i ? ripiwm iiui ?:?J|||*- , , . back until th< ,k-.1s of orderly gov- an<1 ?how -vour colors ernment had begun to sprout in' Mexico :t would not he sufficient to THB night 8C1 plant them. Fiut for all that, if we . are, f.,r any reason .'or the sake of jjj,, Ha? |W^.n introduce humanity or for the advancement ture Along This of liberty or any other of the causes To the Editor of The Ne the uplifters are so ready to cite, or j have read with m only in our own interest, as some your editorials in beha practical and doubtless selfish p?o- gchool for Lancaster, i pie argue -bound to engage in the fo see t|iat your efTort! kind of warfare the Mexicans in-i** peginnlng to bear fruit, on waging, the question may be ad- j aTn enclosing you mitted to consideration, perhaps, ^,11 which Messrs. Roge whether it is better the engagement n-.vself introduced at th should be fulfilled on tlie border or 0f the leglslatu?e, and over, in Texas or in Mexico." H lfc alone lie same lit + ,lffc working. Messrs. Nutm are practical mil ' worked with mom in IIOLO VOI It COTTON. tion and passage of the ! * the house. The bill w the bouse but was coi We urge upon the farmers, as ar "ext 8<*88i"n Governor Mantling saw a- possible, to keep tl.ejr cotton off would not pass the seni the market The indicat ons are that special message to the til" present crop will not exceed 1 2 urging tliat at least 12.1 000.000 bales, and some experts poated !o ''jrH ,l"' .... ., sped or which our bi think It will be rearer 10,000,000. ^ ,|om, an(, Pro If a 17.000.000 bale crop was selling n,-,wn of Newberry has at planting time last spring for ten ed tc this work. I hopt i "tits. what ought a lo.0O0.000 or thontles at Lancaster \ , , . , . . . , care his services in the say 12.000.000 bale crop reach before U)<. night 8(.hoo, work another planting season? The flnan- j,e can render vs cial condition of the country is good tance. The bill referred and the )>anks stand ready to loan lows: i , "For the Improven money on cotton warehouse receipts S(;hools \ight Schools a, a ri'a'onaiiic ra.e 01 mieresr. ui AduU g(.hoolf, So(;kin co 11 me those who are so unfortunate illiteracy. as to have mortgages upon their "He it enacted by th crops should consult the wishes of sembly of the Stat? ol their creditors, but it is safe to sav l!n?u ., , ? .v. Section 1. That th that all indulgence will be granted intendent of education , in cases of this kind provided the thorized to appoint a cotton is brought up and delivered to ?f the state departmenl the mortgagee. As a rule the far- to wotk in mill schools . . , schools. Such special i . mem rush tho.r cotton to the mar- palf, not more tlian tMK, . ket regardless of w hat the price mav dollars a year, and sh? , be, with the result that they often reasonable traveling I do not g"t as much as it has cost "hall work in co-operat .. . . , lie school officers, dis , them to raise it. It costs now round ftnd teacheni; shall r t about 10 cents to raise cotton, duties as may be assl | Whether the war ends soon or not state superintendent < the outlook for good prices for the an^ shall give special ' Htap,H iB K??" So Wl' n,pBat- dor,,t schools"foT'fhe "removi , rush your cotton to the market, but literacy. l hold for better prices. "An anpropriation *. sand dollars, to be pa i Mr. B F. Adams hits the nail on ?tate treasurer on duly _ , rants drawn by the sta r the head when he aaya that the solu- dwnt of ^..rat'on and Hon of the farmers' problem 'a to (??o eomot'oller Fenen f "m??ke hoe and hominy at home and made for the pernnge c . plenty of feed stuf and m?ko the ' h-ve a'so noted vo t i? i fo-t? In henR'f of betl . farm self-supporting aM raise Vine HMtle> f?T i,rnraBter, a , cotton as a surplus. Is the best solo- to A<*t No. 197 of the . tlon of the question I know of." the gen'-ra' assembly w ^ you a practical and fet establishing tout llbroi I We can hardly realize In South Caro- aot for the establlshi ? Una that an office holder would din- tens'oo of public libra ' courage an endorsement for another Carolina, f '?rm and vet Woodrow Wilaon Is do- . ' 1 Ing this very thing. Pleasant Valley. Sep I KR NEWS. SEPTEMBER 10, 1915. d.k i akmkk %vi> hih pmtnreK. V*VV< ' > *^31 >CSBS. Huh an Much Right lo S<-t Hi* Prifc 'M a? the Merrtuata Have. B To th?- Editor of The News: ^BB Bljl ^ louses in the 1 *u81 want to **r something about jjjgMftHp < the farmers' meeting and pictic at * or toe begin- ^ntioch Wednesday. The crowd be- LVW erm. Wears f;an to gether about 5> o'clock and 1 people as a continued to come until noon. There | tde in their were altogether about five hundred Mi hm? present. The forenoon was taken up :BBwa * hat they are by Bpeerh^ bjP Mr j M Hou^h of OVjOl rtable. And Lancaster, who spoke mostly to the |^i The school old soldiers and also about the war. J|Kgv inities should N* xl came Mr R. S. Stewart of Lac- [aJU A^ le one nlac- c"tel- wh? ?Poke on the principles Ol l/l . PJ* , of the Junior Order. It is needless LflK , that is hal- to Uy lbat Roach did justice to the m? w nd hearts of order. All who know Roach know ^911 1 j e built In the him to be a full fledged Junior. Well JBj 1 nds, allowing he Just rharmed tbe crowd ??] " * lu* from the beginning to the end of his IS4 *1Y| on and games gpeerb Next came the ReT. B. F." B play ground Carson, who spoke on prohibition HI for its shade Mr. Carson made a strong, speech in rajal immunity can behalf of prohibition and i "ged the aranf-e of its P^P1* to vote next Tuesday for pro- .BBi hibltion for the sake of our boys and rajal 3unds. Presi- Kjr|8 jf for no other reason. At the in writing on conclusion of Mr. Carson's speech we kBjBj adjourned for one hour for dinner, m ke our school 11 ,s needless for me to say anything > countryside about thP ki?d hospitality of the |VV d everywhere Anl,oc?' People. In my humble op:n- rM are closed for !?n"* had the best meeting of the ^ >n the school kind 1 ev*r a?*nded in Lancaster M he school ses- r<>unty. I think there were any- fjflA Thev are pub- *here from four to Ave hundred An tho people present and all were sump- , . urnista id^l "ou?l>* ?,led with th* *?pd thin*' ? laSt 5 mhic anrt rli? tbat had bo<in prepared by the rood be a "Jr . jult ">"?'? o' Antioch. ? NOW neighborhood Th* a'ternoon was taken up by MA nd And yet *r,0<?f>bos ">' Mr- Hoffmann of Clem- r*j*' ever* -cent "date for 8on Allege who spoke on marketing W ^ * ist the school Produce. Next came Mr. B. Harris. ? centers; that who 8P"ke ?n organisation and co- W kind of leclti- operation. Mr. Harris spoke for one hi hour or more and held the crowd VOU < rm movement HPeU bound throughout this entire U * tv until the 8Pet(b- * believe the crowd would Bl ever* the center nf bav* listened patiently until sundown kBP lis fichfttine to blm- At tbe conclusion of the fflfh ert's phono speaking the farmers gathered in HPl musical pro- "j" '? for M I W . bring neigh- 5hp henefl,t of, th* farmers Every f?] | | e their ideas k?ow Pfofession = organized and y why not the farmer* The doctors, th? lawyers the merchants, and why .AA. reat progress ?oT ,jH. , j,?? hopper organ I z< too, the past de- he feed? 'he '? <rld e.*-"i is the most room for im- *' he is 0K ood work go no1 28? ' - ^ A 4 I _________ ery qualified a- tbet I be11er< much good will be . ,{ l. - '' * "! ' tl- it \r*ioch ibis poch-n ,p f^j*. nf the c>Mriv I says Mr. He the poll* next ?, .t.. ,h? formers 0.,eht to be a'- in The Nev r'' jo*, c * to his pr (? or. his niust be just If he think- u>t a* much as the merchant prices to be able m elevating hi? goods. As the matter stands no c Hearst make ik ng of it Tkr' 'arm'ne class has hut one thing modest abou ' " to do. that is to make his produce oiid come out aac, carry jt to market, the purchaser the contrary, prices it for him. and if the farmer If an out and has been perchance takes a few bushels of that it pays lina let him potatoes or say ten bushels of com. local paper T1't t' e price is set by the merchant and doesn't it i 1 "a* """ the rorn or potatoes are tnrown on would pay a <1 sit on the the scales and wetehed. and if by vertise in lik t like a man chance the farmer wants to hnv some paper? So corn, the price is set for h'm. but it chants comp i? not welshed to him There is two of town to bushels or two and one-half bushels tempt to ket IIOOL. to the sack as the case may be. burp Times How lonp will the state of ffairp m1 in he? Just so lonp as the farmlnp How Line. class sfav unoreanlzeft pnd let the ^ajj t() Writ other fellow do his thinkinp and flp- interested ii uch interest urine for him. Make plenty hop and alone wi If of a night hominy at home and plenty of feed The local pa ind am glad strff and make the farm self-sup- enterprise w ? are already porting and raise king cotton as a and upbuildi surnlcs is the best solution of the a copy of a question I know of. p, th . rs Nunn and est time brir e last session B F. ADAMS. . . I think that Primus. S. C.. Sept. 8th. 191.1. lo i-, which you . ,:n*"r8 a,ndT i? mm i m m i p i men and I ^ ^ 1 t-Jt th^..,nLr0dU?r * I l!??M OTIIKR PAPERS. + bill throupli + ^ . as passed by xt|itfrtt1M11llllllflllllll nt i nued until nate. When As Always, that tin* b ll Now. watch Old King Cotton tak ite, lie sent a keer o' heself.?Spartanburg llerabl. legislature, 500 be appro- The Inscrutable-, ill school in- La Oioconda is about the only peril called for. son who's smiling In France nowaf. Cleorge. T) days.?The State. been appoint- * i that the au- Here's How. vill try to se- To find out who lias anything to promotion of sell, glance over the advertising colas I am sure unins of the newspapers.?Newberry iluable assis- Observer. d to is as fol The Only Drawback. ienr of Mill How pleasant would be the early and Special days of September if it were not for p to Remove the bill collectors.?Anderson Mail. ie general as- Ditto Roosevelt. == ' South Caro- If the Society for the Prevention of I'selesB Noises is looking for new W e state super- fields to conquer, we direct their at- K is hereby au- tention to Mr. Bryan.?News and I special agent Courier. , t of education ? j i and in night Sufficient Explanation. _ (gent shall be It is explained now that the rea-; iteen hundred aon Sam Nicholls got so many votes i til be allowed for Congress in the fourth district is J expenses. He that he praised Woodrow Wilson in j | I ion with pub- every speech that he made.?Ander-ja M itriet trustees, BO? Mail. j >erform such i Igned by thei Why Haven't They? II j r>f education. "We never hear of the man who || |ft / attention to marries a woman to reform her," | schools, and ?ay? The Florida Times-Union. Ifj il of adult 11- women had equal sense, there would be fewer unhmoy marriages.?j of five thou- Greenville Piedmont, id out by the; itemized war- i Alone, te sunerinten- The streets of Je^nso'em ?*'er? V??>t miTirovert by clean by every man's keeping hie il, is hereby f>" n door steps cler-n. Good p.an to i >f this net." fol'ow nfwu^nprs and citizens In f* ai >ur earnest ef- other states in wanting to Jcmp on Vxlll ;er 'ibrary fa- Georgia right now. rieortr'a fan and nd I refer yon w'tH handle th? a^air. de'.ng ?'l that 1915 Acta of a sovereign state can do. Let iier b'eh mav give alone.?-Greenwood Index. mm islble plan for I ry. This is an It Most he Great. f f nent and ex- "This pewsn^ner has one more A *1 tries In South suggestion to make and then we end , The r, The Lancaster Gotten Oil C!o/s E. RAIT.FS gtn?^ry Is now ready to gin your tgi it. 9. 1915 cotton. """ iLMrlllini fawwaw??ytw>8tr^ foudhad | in the bank || mfe 3 j vyouldnvl w | ve spentt itjmk g 15 never s o late to hmlt i LEARN. Ill I 1 i e you satisfied with what you have to show for ^ ear's hard work? You are a year older, why not year wiser? Start that savings account today. 1^1 ' IS THE TIME. It will make you happy and ^ - dollar added to it makes you a happier man and ter citizen. fl| i will pay you 4 per cent interest on the moneyt ^ leposit in our bank and compound the interest r three months. ^ N ie First National Bank ? I'MTEI) STATES DEPOSITOKY. .W m LANCASTER, S. C. S 'M ? 8 S C 881388 ? 888l.l.g.l.e.8.8 * aaking editorial." So community, and there are many arst in a signed article things of interest to the people of the r York American. It county that they cannot get in any grand to be like that? other way except to read the county to make epochs as Mr. papers. The Medium endeavors to s them and yet be so give all the county news possible, all t it.?News and Courier, the news of the county demonstra I tion work of interest to the rariner. Here's How. I and yet a great many people will take side business firm finds several papers published elsewhere to advertise freely in a and refuse to patronize their home published miles away. paper> yet when they have a death or stand to reason that it marriage in the family the local II local merchants to ad- paper is supposed to give it as much te manner in their homej Spare as possible, publish obituaries, me back number mer-jan(j cards of thanks free. Some men lain of people going out wj;i read their neighbor's paper intrade but make no at-, stead of subscribing for it thern;p t^em home.?Orange- selves so they can take it home so and Democrat. tlte other members or tne family can read it.?Abbeville Medium. Dim* He Manage? see how any man that is ri his home county can if vou do not want your cotton to hi8 ,rh?"nto' ,PaP,eKr9 be gin cut. let the Oil Mill gin it for per more than any other orks for the progress you. ing of the county and 7 ~ IF WE rfAVEN'T the Legal blanks est turn out. and quickig your cotton to the Oil >'ou wanf- we wUI l>r,nt them for nned. you. ! ] FALL SHOES Just received Shipment of the new Fall Styles j j IN THE FAMOUS | E. FRENCH SHOES For Men And Boys. IRE SHOWING THESE SHOES IN A WIDE RANGE OF STYLES AND LEATHERS. PRICES $4.00 AND $5.00 ||| and look these Shoes over and let US FIT YOUR FEET. ie J. T. Wylie Co. Store That Always Shows Something New. i<#>a i i ailti' 11