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1 (Ilie iCattraatrr Neuts (SKMIWKKKLY.) JVAMTA VLIK Editor J. C. SIIKr.iiil). . . liusincs.s Manager PrBMSHKHS' AX'N'Ol'XCKM KM: Published Tuesdays and Fridays at Lancaster, S. C., by The Lancaster Publishing Company, successors to The Ledger, established 1852: The Review, established 1878: The Knterprise, established 1891, and entered as second-class matter Oct. 7, 1905, at ttie postofhce at Lancaster, S. C.. under Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. srINSCRIPTION PRICE: (lti Advance.) One Vcar St .50 Sf\ Months T.~e "Let reverence for laws be breatned by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap: let it be taught in schools, in sem'naries and colleges: let it be written in primers, spelling books and almanacs; let it be preached from the nn 1 nit. nrnel.iitried in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of just'ce. And in short, let it become tho poltical religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars." Weather fore?ast for South Carolina: Fair Friday and Saturday. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 211, 1U15. Have you planned your decorations for the fair? . And are your exhibits in readiness for the opening day? 4> Sow grain and cover crops while the weather is favorable. I -+ Everybody is happy over the pros-; pect of another successful countyfair. + Road the advertisements in The Lancaster News. It will save you money. + A good old-fashioned welcome awaits every fair week visitor to Eaneastor. + If you raised ten head of hogs the past ye;:r. double the number for next year. -+ Bring something to put on exhibition at the fair, even if it is nothing hut a big turnip or a pumpkin. .j. Lancaster county >s in the best shape it has ever been. Let's make conditions even better another year. Everybody is coming to the county fair next week. Remember the days, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. + The 1915 stale fair lias passed into history but our own county fair will be the center of interest during the coming week. If you have not already entered The News' contest for one of the prizes you had better do so. There is yet time enough. + Friday, one week from today, will be School Day at our county fair and we believe the children can learn something if they are here. The 2 8-page Booster edition of The Johnston Times is a very creditable issue, upon which the editor, Mr. J. Rutledge McGhee, is to be congratulated. ? sift The street sweeper has arrived in time to take part in the observance nf "Pl^nn.TTn WnoL* " whif-li vv i lw?r??? has enlisted the efforts of all good citizens. The sweeper is being tested and if it succeeds in making "a clean sweep" of Main street it will be worth many times the purchase price. + "Make your farm look like somebody lives on it," urges Tait Butler in The Progressive Farmer. This is good advice. In many cases a fresh ooat of paint would accomplish the desired end or a new fence. Many of dnr farm homes could be made much more attractive at comparativelyj email cost. + The big special edition of The Oolumbia Record is a notable achievement In South Carolina Journalism. All of the enterprising towns of the state were representated but none tdalmed more space than Lancaster to srhich good town three pages and a half are given. * We again remind our farmers of tihe Importance of sowing gra n and hover crops. Now is the accepted time. Don't wait nntll It Is everlastingly too late. The rains of winter lire liable to set In at any time, making the ground too wet to plow and the fteeaing weather will destroy the 0rop If planted late. Take time by hhe forelock and "Do It Now." < :-:r',rk JflrHTlrbWrJ-KrlrlrW-Krlrlr^ \viii:kk will it end? About the best criticism of th conditions in Charleston, whic brought about the deplorable traged recently in that city, was made b ltabbl Loeb at the funeral of Sidue Cohen, the young reporter who wa killed. Said he: "The whole community is account able. Let then our citizenship b awakened to a sense of civic dut; and righteousness. Let evil passion be curbed and bitter feelings of ani mosity give way to a united effort fo progress and peaceful endeavor. Le there be a reconciliation among th factions. Let the martyrdom of tha innocent soul in our midst be a mean of atonement and purification for th entire community." Which leads The (Ireenville IMe<i inont to add: .Many a man win say 'Amen: t< those sentiments and yet not appl; them to himself. In a sense, is no every community responsible for th evil it permits in its midst and tin crime that arises therefrom? Is no the man in Greenville, for instance who has never none into the Ape Yar< and who would not go into a plan with such a reputation, responsible for its continued existence and fo the homicide that recently occurrei there? We should occasionall; search ourselves with such question and attempt to be frankly honest it our answers. "The very term 'civic righteous ; ness' implies a necessity for mor than personal recitude and good con duct. Is a man righteous in a eivi way whose whole active influence ant support is not given to men and nteas ures giving promise of better comli tions in the community as a whole?' We wish to emphasise the matte of community responsibility for th evils that exist therein. As Tin | Piedmont asks, "In a sense, is no every community responsible for thi evil it permits in its midst and th< crime that arises therefrom?" Then should be a real searching of hearti all over South Carolina in this mat ter. Who can deny that crime is 01 the increase? Right here in Lancas ter county we have it. At the las term of the court eight or nine homi cide cases were tried, not to say any thing of the many cases of assaul with deadly weapons. And since tin adjournment of court blood has stil flowed freely. Men and brethren, i is a truly a time for serious though on the part of our people. If sucl it reign of lawlessness is to go 01 unchecked, where will it all end? . TT? ...... . . ..... ... ... . ? CKOWN TIIK ItO.XitS. The Charlotte Observer says tha circus day in that city brought to gether the greatest aggregation o automobiles ever seen there an 1 pas siblv the greatest ever known itv th Old North State. The Observer fur ther adds that "it was an easy matt" to spot the machines from Soutl Carolina by the mud on the wheel and the splashed up bodies, thereb; carrying the bad advertisement o bad roads." Such is a fact and we cannot gc away from it until we put our road in good condition, and in this connee tion we have a suggestion to make ti the supervisor of the public road and that is to suspend operations f<? awhile in permanent roau work am tho roads In the county in fairly goot condition for the winter?-that is b; crowning them and ditching them o: either side, in conversation with oni of the most level-headed men in tin county recently, he said this was on< th ng that was being neglected. T< our mind very few of the count; roads are properly crowned, and i would take comparatively little tinu and cost little to reshape the road so that when the winter rains begii to pour down the water would dran into the ditches on either side insteac of settling in the center of the roa< to be churned by horses and vehicle, into a loblolly, rendering them almos impassable. We urge upon the coun ty officials to beg?n, while it Is tirae to reshape all of the public through fares of the county in order that the; may be passable during the comlni winter. + The Greenwood Index, one of th< beat papern in the state, thus speak: of Hon. Thomas F. MpDow, who I: presiding at the fall term of the cour at that place: "Greenwood county t: fortunate in having as presidlnj judge at this term of court so good ( lawyer and estimable a citizen ai Hon. Thomas F. McDow of York i Judge McDow has made a splend't impression here and the opinion ii that it would be a fortunate th'ng foi the state if he were given a perma nent seat on the circuit bench.' To all of which we say Amen! Governor Manning deserves th< confidence of all classes of Soutl Carolinians, for he Is admlnisterini the office In the Interest of all th< people. THE TjANCIASTKT? N"EWI 4 !: ? THE KKI> HOSE COUNTY. 4 : *T|,|g|||i||[|||i||1|||||^ e Mr. J. K. Connors, The State'! h Lancaster correspondent, tells in that y paper of Sunday's \ssue, of the proy gress we are making: y Lancaster, like almost every other s place, experienced the financial and industrial depression incident to the chaotic conditions following the out* break of the European war. Everye body for the time being seemed para >' lyzecl with fear, business began to s totter with uncertainty and prosper~ ity looked afar off. and yet in spite of r all this, facts in the case in so far as 1 Lancaster is concerned abundantly show that not only the little city of 1 Lancaster but the whole Red Rose * County as well has made vastly more Q permanent improvements during the past year and lias achieved far great er agricultural and industrial results which make for the prosperity of the () people than in any previous years of v. her history. During the past year the t town and county have spent several ^ hundred thousand dollars permanentp Iv improving all the roads and high( ways throughout the county. All the principal streets and sidewalks of the j town of Lancaster have been paved p and the whole of Main street from the p court house square to the Southern depot has just been paved with sheet j asphalt. A beautiful "white way" adorns the entire length of this street q and the whole presents an exoeed' inglv prosperous looking and city-like appearance. The county roads in every section have been greatly imu proved. Modern machinery for road building has been recently purchased p by the county and used to fine advantI age in the construction of new highways and the repairing of old roads, and it is said that numbers of farm.? ers in different parts of the county who 011 account of bad routes of r travel to Lancaster formerly did the c bulk of their business in other towns e more easily reached, are now doing t all their trading in Lancaster and 4 bringing their country produce to this 1 market, Lancaster has made sub " siantiat progress and constructive e improvements in almost every field of a endeavor during the past year or so and is now about to begin the enjoyment of a season of well-earned pros1 perity unprecedented in her history, - it is said. Comparatively a very t small amount of cotton was planted . in the county this year. The farmers. at least apparently, have learned the lesson of rotation and divers! fica' tion of their crops, and having learn8 ed that they can live profitably upon 1 their own lands and raise at home i practically everything which they have been paying too exorbitant 1 prices to get from elsewhere, they are 1 now making practical application of i these lessons of wisdom and economy, and prosperity seems not far off from the whole people. Splendid educational progress and prosperity are in * evidence on every hand and facts and J" figures easily obtained upon appliealion to the office of Superintendent of " Kducation Lingle will show that " during the past 18 months vastly t more substantial gains and improvements along this line have been made all over the county than in any previons several years of the county's ed> ucational history. It is said by busie ti8ss men of this place and by others as well who have carefully watched the growth and development of the. 1 industrial life and natural resources of the county generally and of the s town of Lancaster in particular that y Lancaster county during the past few j. years has made wonderful progress in every single line of endeavor and industrial activity, and that now this I county stands second to none in the s state in its well earned prosperity and industrial achievements. Recent reports from ea< li of the county's six ' banking institutions show indisput ' able evidence of Lancaster's financial r strength and prosperity. The oldest 1 of these is the Rank of Lancaster. . wmen lias completed over a quarter century's service to the people of this ' community and the county. Perhaps Y no one thing has performed so groat i a part in forwarding of the growth . and development of Lancaster and the county at large its Lancastei's mammoth and magniflcent cotton B mills, which are located on the east ? bank of Hear creek, just beyond the f city limit A million dollar annex to j the already large mill is of comparatively recent construction and with B all this in successful daily operation s Lancaster now boasts of the largest i cotton manufacturing plant in 'he j South, if not in the world. The mill . operates more than 3,000 looms and more than 120,000 spindles. An ex* ceedingly live enterprise which has i greatly helped and pushed forward t the town and county's industrial development and progress and has helped to bring about improvements of every kind is The Lancaster News, - one of the most progressive and upr to-date newspapers in South Carolina. ? Both by strong and persistent editorial writing and otherwise The I No<vr has been wonderfully Instrumental in shaping the Industrial def> velnpment of lAncaster county. This s paper is edited by Mlas Jnanita Wylle. ? Much building has been going on . in Lancaster during the past year. Twelve new brick stores have been 8 constructed here. A number of new K residences have been built in and i near town; any number of modern n school houses In almoat every sectl^n of the county have gone op. and other improvement!! are conatant'y I go'ng on In Lancaster. At th's wrlti Ing there la being erected on South r Main street a magnificent new home, which when comoletad, It hi said, will coat between $11,000 and $11,000, and will be a beautiful reaidence. j Th'a is to be the botqe of Marion 8. I Wltherapoon. ? Under the guidance and managa! ment of Secretary Ellison Lancaster s now induatriially engaged in mak1 ing substantial preparations for the * county's second annual fair, to ta> ' held- here Mitt?hwil, 44ma* ?' * S. OCTOBER 29, 1915. ORKGORY-KA8TERBY. ? . 1 Miss Kstclle (iH'Koi'y Married in ' Greenville. 1 Of interest here, where she was | j born and reared and for many years was a popular resident, making her: home with her uncle, Mr. W. T. j Gregory, will be the following ac- : count from The Greenville Piedmont , . of the marriage of Miss Estelle [ Gregory to Mr. Ernest Easterby cf; , Laurens: "The pretties October wedding j . which has taken place (In the city was l*of Mtoo niirt vi? vuuv vi mioo noiciic uufti/i > iu mi. , Ernest D. Easterby of Laurens, which occurred Thursday evening at 7 o'clock at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Dul'ont Guerry. on Lavonia avenue. "The house was tastefully decorated throughout with potted plants and cut (lowers. The ceremony room was especially attractive in draperies of tarlatan, smilax and sweet pens, the regulation color scheme of green and white being carried out. White sweet peas suspended by tulle streamers in the center of the room formed a lovely shower under which the bridal party stood. "First came the little ring-bearer, Master Dui'ont Guerry, nephew of the bride, who wore a lively little white silk suit and carried the ring on a silvery tray. Then followed the maid of honor, Miss Kosa Snowden of Spartanburg, who was lovely in pink crepe de chine trimmed in net and carried a handsome bouquet of pink Klllarney roses. The bride then entered with her brother, Mr. Jack Gregory of Darlington, and was met by the groom with his best man, Mr. Douglas Gray of Laurens. The ceremoney was performed by Dr. E. M. Poteat in a beautiful and impressive manner. "The bride's natural loveliness was enhanced by her handsome wedding gown of ivory satin trimmed in filet lace and made with long court train. Her veil, worn from a bandeau of orange blossoms, fell in the end of the train, and she carried a beautiful cascade bouquet formed entirely of lilies of the valley. "Immediately after the ceremonv a brilliant reception was held. The guests were received at the door by Mrs. Louise Mayes and Mrs. E. J. Gage and passed to the receiving line, which was composed of M.r ahd Mrs. Guerry, the bride and groom. Miss Snowden, Mr. Gregory. Mr. and Mrs. . Douglas Gray of Laurens, Mrs. Charles Lively, Mr. and Mrs. George Snowden of Spartanburg, Mrs. D. E. McCuen and Mrs. Easterby of Lau I CUD. Good Advice for l.nncaster. A welcome for new citizens is the proper thing. Every man and woman an<l child coming to a town ( oupht to he piven a cordial welcome in Rome sonii-otlicia! wav. It is not ; only the duty of the individual coin- J irg !r. contact with the ncwl content to extend a welcome and make them i feel at home and among friends, but in a more formal way they soould be music to know thajt Salisbury bids them welcome and wishes them the fullest measure of success. How one pets started in a new home has much to do with the future. It is quite the proper thing to meet and welcome new citizens into the community, and having done this treat them from day to day as though we appreciate their coming and wish them well. -Salisbury Post. RUPTURE EXPERT HERE Seeley, Patronized l?y I*. S. Army and Navy, Called to Itock Hill. K. 11. Seeley of Chicago and Philadelphia, the noted truss expert, will he at the Carolina Hotel and will remain in Itock Hill Saturday only, November 6th. Mr. Seeley says: "The Spermatic Shield as now used and approved by the United States Government will not only retain any case of rupture perfectly, affording immediate and complete relief, but closes the opening in 1 0 days on the average ease. This instrument re-1 ceived the only award in England and in Spain, producing results without surgery, injections, medical treatments or prescriptions. Mr. Seeley has documents fron. the United States (iovernment, Washington, I>. for inspection. All charity cases without charge, or if any interested call he will be glad to show same without charge or fit them if desired, business demands prevent stopping at any other place in this section. Adv. renewed" i activity in i real estate I am offering 120 acres near. Riverside; also a two-horse farm, cleared with house, barn, etc. Prices are awful low on these; I so SEE ME THIS WEEK. | Other bargains in Dirt, too. T. M. BELK, | Agent. 3 'ifk The best place to hide money is where they have vaults for safely protecting it. Every wepk we see newspaper accounts of people having been robbed. Sugar bowls, rag-bags, under the carpet, behind pictures, and all of those other places where people conceal their money, are well known to burglars. Hide it in OUR BANK, then you know you can get it when you want it. Do YOUR banking with US. We pay 4 per cent interest compounded quarterly. The First National Bank UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. LANCASTER, S. C. Second Childhood. j South Carolina Has Few Such. A New York man, 101 years old, Try a8 iiar(i a8 you niay an(j _e^ tor woman*'Eolffrage? ?Vep; '.V^ ~ -? ?* ?e,p Judging a town b, childhood.?Anderson Mall. Its newspaper. A local newspaper Is , , apt to represent the predominating Tliey ,\re Hopeless. sentiment of the community, and this Kven yet, there are sonie'ao preju- heinR true there are CPrta,n town8 Heed as to argue that Governor Man- whose newspapers come to this office, ning displayed poor judgment in that are to be pitied if not censured sending the troops to Charleston.? for what their newspapers stand for. flreenwood Journal. ?Washington (Ga.) Reporter. *n?- '. pa? mhi i iwi i miwfiimi wm?rj??rmibiim mw? IKORRIS Jy JEH1 RXOTTT^FTF. (/ /^M I. 1 t ~T ^ i X O0I GANDIES ! ! FREE | I DEMONSTRATION I X OF 4 4 Norris' Exquisite Candies $ | FRIDAY, NOV. 5th 2 ' | J. F. MACKEY CO. ! > > I THE COAL MAN jj < ?IS TALKING? i i I TO YOU | ii j ; JI And the best thing you can do right now is to 1 ; II TALK TO THE COAL MAN. Place your order for the winter's supply of coal | j 2? now, and let us till your bjn before the rush of i j * ? orders begins. j j Everybody knows the grade of coal we sell. ?; There is none better and we are keeping the price j> down. ! We've talked to you?now you talk to us. It's j j ;; good for both. \ Edwards &Hnrtnn w w U to We SeD the Best TUap te Ceek ut the Best TVage to ;; Ceek With. 11 COAL SHINGLES WOO* V * *