Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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* I :-:-:-:-::KOOieiOiCTO^^ * SOMKWHAT SHOCKING. fK "ft We regret to note in the last issue of The Yorkville Enquirer. published in the quaint, peaceable I and staid old town of York, that its! editor, in coming to the defense of! the pet hobby of his frier.d, Warehouse Commissioner McLaurin, loses his temper and flies, so to speak, at the throat of the inoffensive editor of The Columbia State. The editor of The State is not altogether curried away with the idea or a stale ware 4 ?lir fianrastcr Nruts ; (SEMI-WKEKLV.) JUANITA WYL1K Editor J. C. SHKPAHD. . . Business Manager PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT: I Published Tuesdays and Fridays at'{Lancaster. S. C., by The Lancaster Publishing Company. , successors to The Ledger, es- | tablished 1852; The Review, established 1878; The Enterprise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1905, at tne postofllce at Lancaster, S. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) One Year. $1,50 Six Months 75c I I I I I I * > ? M I1M HUfH !>!? ? COTTON AND SEED SELL * HIGH. + * #> With cotton selling for 12 + rents a pound and seed bring* + ing 45 cents a bushel, we want + to remind you that you can easily spare the price of 14 pounds of cotton or four hush f els of seed for your subs crip- + tion to The News. You do not sell either cotton or seed on credit and when you dispose of it you have the + CASH, and we are expecting our loyal readers to share with us to the extent of paying up t their dues. ! 1 We are going to keep tab on those who pay up and see how many folks really WANT to get I the paper twice a week. ; < < III! II Mill I IH I ? 1 I I 1 I I Hi l | f nraalkoa fas Couth Pnra. vt catiici tut tv.uoi i wi owuui v>ai uTina: Local rains Friday: Saturday t fair. ? FRIDAY, (X TOHKK I, 11)15. Don't put off sowing grain until it c; is too late. (] + ^ It seems likely that an effort will ( be made to recall the mayor of Co- p lambia. (j We hope all school children are ? studying as hard as some of their parents. + Lancaster needs a hospital all her ,J.own and with the proper effort Lancaster could build one. J. + By reading the ads in The News you can find out what merchants are bidding for your trade by telling you what they have to offer. + 1 If you are knocking the town you are blocking your own progress. The v town can get along without you but you need the tow n. So boost or keep t] silent. ? + There is demand right now for s poultry and this winter the demand c will increase. The farmer who is ( raising chickens will find a good u market for them here. t i a The killing mania lias broken out s afresh in some parts of South CaroUna. The ever-ready concealed pistol will be a menace to the lives c of our people until the practice of f "pistol toting" is ended. + We repeat what we have so often f said before?don't think that you .1 have done everything you can do for the sobriety of the state when you ii voted for prohibition. The real M work is ahead of you yet, in seeing j that prohibition is enforced. + li If all officials in South Carolina t would lend their energies more to advancing the interest of the people, J Instead of advancing their own interests, things would be better. But i unfortunately the majority of them N are thinking more of perpetuating themeselves in office than of anything H else. + : Let every farmer in Lancaster , county resolve that so far as he is; concerned not a pound of hay nor a bushel of corn nor a side of bacon j 4 will be shipped into Lancaster coun- , ly aunnis lue nr?i l >>n >c iiiwiimo. If all will make thin resolution and stick to it hard times will never re-j turn. 4> The city couneil continues to disregard the unswept condition o( Main street. So long and so vainly have we called it to their attention that it seems almost useless to petition them longer. But yesterday we picked up a horseshoe lying in this street and hung it up just for lack. * We again request those who are in arrears in their subscription to The News to give their earliest attention to tho matter- With cotton arlllng at 12 cents there is not a 1 single subscriber Who could not pay $1 50 on the paper. So bring us the cash, or send a check or money or- , tier. If you want to know how you' stand, Just glance at the label on your paper. y i. house system for storing c >tton, being of the opinion that it is somewhat foreign to the purposes of government to launch into the business of helping out any class of its citizens by making appropriations for warehouses, whether they be for the reception of liquor, tobacco, cotton, rice, or what not. The state recently has been giving its views on the subject. The editor of The Enquirer, in one of his long-drawn-out ana characteristic editorials, in which is reproduced The State's editorial and a conversation Bald to have been! carried on by a former editor of The I State, Mr. McLaurin and himself, comments in part as follows on the editorial of the present editor of The State: "We have recited these facts be- > cause of the light thew throw on the : peculiarly mean and sneaking edi-j, torial we have reproduced above, ana I now by a statement of certain facts j of which The Columbia State and | 1 most of the public are aware, we will i < proceed to show how mean and I | meaking that editorial really is." | ( We are surprised and shocked that , he almost always even tempered ind pacific editor of The Enquire! j ihould use such ugly words as "mean ( ind sneaking" in reference to any- ( hing written by the editor of The itate or any other good brother. We ! j louht not that the editor of The H 'ork News will agree with us that he terms used are somewhat harsh, specially when it is all caused by a iscussion of the merits or demerits f the state warehouse system of * andling cotton, about which much a an be said pro and con. + . . .... v ;\II\ ii r; i?tm (K niiwit. -r I *511, On this, the first day of a new v iionth, we can offer no more profit- e hie editorial advice than is con- ^ ained in The Progressive Farmer's Twelve Things to I)o in October," v .hich are as follows: f "1. Keep up with the cotton as a ast as it opens; under 12 cents, J uarket only as much as is absolutely lecessary. "2. Look to the syrup making, eeing that frost does not catch the j] ane. "3. Store an abundance of potaoes and other vegetables for winter se. I "4. Plant a big acreage of wheat ( nd oats, treating the seed to prevent mut. "5. There is still time, particulary in the lower half of the cotton elt, to plant vetch, rye and crimson ^ lover. Sow liberally of these for eed and fertilizer. ^ "t>. Get ready to plant frviit and hade trees. v "7. Arrange now to run your ; ; rm next year according to a well ' elined plan. "8. Look to the terraces, repairng the old ones and building new t rhere necessary. s "!). Drag the roads and keep them 11 shape for the winter hauling. "10. Look to the cotton you are r lolding. and see to it that it is shel- f ered and perfectly dry. I "11. Save every bit of feed you an for carrying the live stock hrough the winter. "12. Visit your local school, look- \ ng to the water supply, heating, | 'entilation and sanitation." + K iK 1 I: S(1\V GRAIN. * 1 *:::: ^: r i i i :r: i 'At.i rr r icixnxf1 Now that we have had good rains which will leave the ground in prop er condition for planting, we suggest! that every available acre be given to grain and that it be planted as soon as possible. The farmers of this section were hampered in their efforts in this direction last year because of almost incessant rains, but such weather conditions were almost unprecedented and will hardly recui this year. Knowing full well what profit a good yield of grain will bring, I we would stress the importance o> planting plenty of it. As soon as your land, on which cotton, cprn o. other crops may have' been raised this year, has been prepared for tlu fall crop, sow early, In order that the roots may strike deep into the ground before the noavy rreezos. come. Let's spread a green carpet over the hills and valleys of Lincaster county. By so doing you ean feed yourself, your family and your livestock and have a surplus of; grain to sell. Don't be afraid of hav- | ing no land left for cotton, for this crop is of secondary importance. / / THE LANCASTER NEWS, < !- >: ! -V KOI'Iv WEEVIL ADVANCING. ?K 4 * 4 That the boll weevil is a menace! to the cotton growers of South Carolina cannot be doubted. Ever since 1 its advent from Mexico into Texas its annual march East and Northeast has been slow but sure. The t United States department of agricul- ^ ture issued Wednesday the follow-j ing statement: "Under normal conditions the boll: f weevil advances into new territory | 1 at the rate of about 30 miles each j year, but during a period of only two; weeKS miring uie present season there was an advance of about 100 i miles. This movement carried theji insect into Georgia for the nrst time J ( and 2 5 counties in that state became; infested. Several counties in Florida have been infested for several years, j but eight additional ones became In-1 i fested by the same movement.| J Twenty additional counties in Alaba-j ma were also invaded. All of this spread took place between the 15th and 31st of August." C The appearance of the pest in tilts | state is only a question of time, and at their present rate of progress, it may be a short time at that. Th?s sensible thing to do is to get ready t for them when they arrive. "He is ? thrice armed," who has little of the stuff planted upon which the weevil feeds and that is cotton. So the wise farmer will plant other things ^ than cotton. By so doing he will n "kill two birds with one stone," he a will be helping to starve out the in- G sect, and at the same time be doing what he ought to do anyway, raising j those things on the farm necessary ti or the sustenance of man and beast, w rhe acreage in cotton was cut down his year on account of the war in w a i Europe. Let the cutting down pro- jj ess continue each year in anticipa-' Ion of the coming of the boll weevil. I T * I - SO>IK 1'OIXTKI) gi'RSTIONS. 4*1 aOIOKIMOlCIOICIOiOIOIOlOIOIOIOIOIOIOlOIOIOIOIOl! A Georgia contemporary, The La!range Graphic, in a recent editorial sked some pointed questions, which >e would put also to certain readers f The News: ' "What would you think of a felow who refuses to subscribe for our paper, and then brings you an rticle to publish in which he alone s interested? w "What would you think of a fellow of vho wants you to mention his name; pr very time he goes anywhere, and th hen refuses to subscribe to your| th laper? I ai "What would you think of a fellow kho wants you to give considerable a irominence to his lodge meetings, w ind then refuses to subscribe for U( our paper? * j rj "What would you think of a fellow 8C kho accepts your paper for a year re khen you send him a statement he fr efuses to take your paper from the, se lostofflce? I ?i "What would you think of a fellow kho accepts your paper, and when| ou meet him and remind him that le is in arrears, he tells you to stop ! n, he paper, but does not offer to pay j at or itv i of "What would you think of a fellow) S(, kho calls at the ofllce every week to t], ;et a copy of your paper, and who m lever ofers to pay for it, and when cc ou ask him to subscribe he refuses p, o do so? th "What would you think of a fellow (j, kho tries to get all the free advertis- js up he can but never offers to sup-1 gj >ort the newspaper that gives him foj he free advertising? e{ "My Friends, somebody belongs to aj his class. The world does not know ind if the world were to know just Sf ?xactly how they treat their news- j0 >aper, they would feel humiliated. | j(1 rhat is the reason they do not feel ?xactly right when they come face to ace with the editor." We are glad that a renewed in- w crest in tlie library is being inani-,!." fested. For months and years past j e( it has been a cause of some concern 01 to us and to other book lovers, that h our citizens generally did not seerat 1 to care whether or not the public, library was maintained. Hut now I n, we are glad to see that more and II more of them are joining the library' Association and otherwise giving ovl-l * donee of their desire to procure good J reading for themselves and their, e homefolks. It is a most hopeful a sign, auguring well for the future of " the town, for when people read good books they necessarily become more i thoughtful and thus more efllclen-. v citizens. t + , The night school is still in need ol e teachers. Only a few hours a week are required for this work and think1 J. of the opportunity for servioe that It t offers. Those who attend the school C are in earnest and are ambitious to ~ acquire knowledge. Will not some- 1 body devote a little of his spare time I to teaching them? * | ? "Moonlight School Month" is to be * observed all over North Carolina in <j November. It would be well for ? South Carolina to devote a specified " time to similar work. And Lancas- J ter county's large percentage of illiteracy m?ans we particularly should c bestir ourselves. / OCTOBER 1, 1915. mini H I' IIHHl !? > / I* * t FKOM OTHER PAPERS. + \ i-1 May He Never Return. J What has become of the ohl-fash- ^ oned pessimist??The State. 3 Ann ?. ^ Let us have rea prohibition, not *8 he kind they have in Georgia.? ? Anderson Mall. 2 I % Here's Hoping. ?S The fodder's in the shock but the 4 rost is a long way from the pumptin.?Anderson Intelligencer. ^ Rest Proof of Admiration. ** Don't congratulate a newspaper 4* nan upon his paper. Subscribe to 4$ t.?Orangeburg Times and Demo- J -rat. | J Take Warning. J You see what a guy with a hamvva*. A 1,1 fnr nn Hblohnmo inu n 9 _ .4 iici uiu iui an v/nianv/uia tumi Spartanburg Herald. ! Will Brother Gardner Object? ( ? But then we don't suppose those ^ Sreenwood prohlbitlonsiBts will ob- 4 ect if old Jack Frost takes a nip.? < ^ Spartanburg Herald. J Tlie Tanglefoot Joy. | Among life's minor satisfactions here are few that compare with the ^ oy of seeing a miserable fly light on ^ , sheet of tanglefoot.?The State. ? .. a' A Lively Prospect. ^ With -Teddy Roosevelt as a eandilate for President and Cole Bleasc X n the same capacity for governor est year we aren't worrying aboui supply of news at all, at all.? ^ Ireenville Piedmont. Such is life. ^ Another one of those pathetic lit- J le incidents of every day life is the ^ ay an editor who has about $1.87 4*1 > his name will sit down at the type-- i riter and hammer out a long ana uthoritative dissertation on n bll- 4*1 on-dollar loan.?The State. i I Of Interest to Corn (>rowers. M The United states department of triculture has distributed among Its monstration forces in tiiis and V her states a large poster* well il- ___ strated, urging Southern farmers dry and cull their corn. These isters contain full directions for weeding with the work and Clemn College advises South Carolina 01 111 growers to take note of the counts of the posters, which will prob>ly be posted about the state, and Ne follow the directions.?Sumter tj0 atchman and Southron. Soj Serves a Useful Purpose. ' 2,0 The big enrolment at the Citadel dei ill be highlv pleasing to all friends wa the institution. With 24f> cadets 70. esent at the opening on Tuesday, sen e outlook is that the capacity or Th e college will be taxed by the time be? 1 the new men have arrived. ten There has been in South Carolina tio growing appreciation of the place it hich the Citadel occupies in the ed- ag< national system of the state. It has Un sen steadily in popular favor. No br< hool in South Carolina gives bigger the turns on the money k receives uni oin me punnc treasury. iNone snc rves a more useful purpose.?News tin id Courier. lit: 19 Cotton an?l the South. j "King cotton dethroned" an- nla ninces The Wilmington Star in an Vai tide showing that the grain crops aKj the South this season are worth Per veral hundred million dollars more 19 lan the most valuable cotton crop 1 record. The question of whether ?tton is kinn or subject is one un ofltable for discussion, but whet. ie section of the country Tcnown as ie South produces a cotton crop that worth close to a billion dollars and ain crops worth nearly one and onetlf billion dollars and manufactur1 products worth more than cotton ^ id grain crops combined, it seems lat many people who live in this ctlon ought to have a higher opin- ? n of the South and more confidence 1 its stability and its great future. ?* Rock Hill Herald. X It Women on School Hoards. . Tlin P.J.i m lx(n I) AA/v.d H.-t T > ??* \ vMumiiia ivtiwm ui^fn mill omen be permitted on the schooi ^ nnrds of country'districts. It says- , We need some of our strong-mindJ, strong-hearted country women % n our school boards, and they will elp to bring about that long desired >aok to the farm' movement." X This is doubtles true, but why unfine the suggestion to countr) ?* chools? Why should not the Intel- X. gent women of every community ave an opportunity to express them- <8i elvoH in: every school district, city A e well ah country? * Probably four-fifths of the teach- ^ rs in the schools are women. They ^ re made familiar with the heeds and Jt s many qf them become subsequent- ^ v leaders in the social life of the ? onnnunity, and mothers in the fam- X ly, none are more capable of ad- jP ising. Indeed recognitioh must be ad of thp fact that we mu*t expect ^ o rectify-through the instrumentalty of our women many social and ^ -durational evils existing. ^ Tl.e women of this community are J. low doing excellent work in this di- V ectton. They will do even better If eft hey have increased opportunity.? X treenviUe Piedmont. V lewarfe of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury V merenry will ntirely de?troy tho aenao of aniMl Y iid cuaifltrti'ly derange (lie whole Hiilrin who* A merlng II through the tmicoua surfaor.i. Nurb ? rtli li-H whould tier -r tie u??.| eieept on preacrlp- Jtk Ion* from reputable phyalrlaim, a* the damage V (irr will do |? ten fold to the good you run poa- '4> Ibjr derl?e from thorn. Hull'* Catnrrh Cure, ^ nftiufactured by f. J. Chrney A Co.. Toledo. O., I nntatna 10 raemiry. and U tak?n Internally. M cling directly upon the bh>od and mueoo* Bur- Y area of tUc ayafrm. In buying Ifall'a Catarrh aft lire be ante yon get the genuine. It la taken f nt.rnally and made in Toledo. Ohio, by V. J. aft "honey A. Cow T4atlmonUlM froe, Tf Bold by I>rogrl?t?. Prlre, "Re. per bottle. A Tufce UaU'a k'aiuily PlUa for conallpatloB. ^ / f ? r T"7 7 i ? 1 ^ 4 * - - f i.w . <F > * ]R|VmXH ? If you earn $10,000 a year an * fall behind. If you earn ten doll i of it you will get ahead?and th ? so. Let your money grow. r We will pay you 4 per cent in put in our bank and compound months. The First Nati UNITED STATES DI LANCASTER ItKI'OItT OX COTTON CROP, million on September i!:l WunjQee *T >?? I Mew York Special to Charleston ws and Courier, Sept. 30.?Condln of cotton on an average date of I'm itember 33, as ascertained by over 00 replies of special correspenlts of The Journal of Commerce, ^.jmi s 63.7 per cent, as compared with 1 7 per cent a month ago. repre- Col iting a deterioration of 7 points, is is somewhat excessive, having >n exceeded only once in the past I 1 years, when in 1007 the deprecia- l'ni n amounted to 7.4 points; in 1908 was 7 points. The ten-year avor? is 5.2 per cent deterioration, favorable weather conditions night about unusual shedding, and i > striking feature of the report is iversal prediction of an extremely |?,n >rt top crop. A year ago at this 1 ic condition was 7 5.5 per cent, in : 13 it was 6 7.1 per cent and In ,\ 12 it was 70.3 per cent. I Largely on account of much pre-' ture opening picking is well adtced, being 3 5.4 per cent gathered,' linst 33 per cent last year, 30 per it in 1913 and 28.2 per cent in I 2 ?+ $? $? ?%? v*<M$ MEN'S CLOTH Now is your chance to bin , small investment. At the solicitation of mai ' have at last decided to Clothing. We will specialize 011 thre and no less. i f : PRICES: J \ v (live us a call and see th make your selection early. J. T. Wy The Store That Always 8h< i SB? i r i z * If ^T, >d spend $11,000 you will <& are a week and save part ere is no other way to do jT t.prpst. on th? monev vou V ... V V - - ^ the interest every three ^ tonal Bank f T JPOSITORY. ? ^ , s. c. X T IflCK IN SCHOOL. , but it's horrid, the classroom is torrid, Iv lingers are all of thetu thumbs; sure I will be A ...1 mu ,.i. All agree? gladdest when Saturday comes, ly, the teachin' is most of ft preachin' m tired of silly old sums; sure I will be And my chums All agree? 'lie gladdest when Saturday comes ik? Oh, by hokey, this stillness is pokey, ly toes in new shoes it benumbs; sure 1 will be And my chums All agree? 'he gladdest when Saturday conies. i * A ^ A A A, A A ~ A'y A" A ~Ay f V T >! [ING | t ? X r your Fall Suit for a ay of our friends, we ?a? handle Keady-Made ^ e price Suits, no more tinnn ? y x v.w f $12.50 | $15.00 | e new fall styles and JL 'X> lie Co. I dwb Something New. i IP