Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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| SHORT LOCAL NEWS ? r OF GENERAL INTEREST are about an averai RECENT HAPPENINGS IN The corn CITY AND COUNTY. 8ll? and . amount o Xa Throug Dongs of People in Which All george p Sections of Lancaster Coun- partmcnt tj Are Interested. wil1 hav? the $50,( Mr. and Mrs. Tom Doster an- p{cture nounce the birth of a son. gratis at i morning, Mr. and Mrs. Will Hough re- Ker, supe turned from New York this morn- having g " children i Mr W The talk around Lancaster is that the cotton crop will be short this and Ml8B year. at h1gh n' street Sep was perfo Born to Mr. and Mrs. Mart Cun. \ delight ndngha*m Tuesday, September 25th, bridal co\ a girl. for tbe > ?Mr. and l The regular examination for the 'uture ho county teachers will be held in the he *3 disl court house Saturday. October 6th, Telephone at 9 o'clock. very attr suit of ta at Hirschi J. A. Cook has resigned as bookkeeper for the Bennett-Terry Co., Telegra and has accepted a position with the ^p Senal i^aiicamer \jonon uil Mill. Illinois ??? Goelz of L. R. Terry of Hamlet, N. C., Admiral ] brother of W. H. Terry. has accept- a predict! ed a position with Bennett-Terry years G Co., to succeed Mr. Cook. France or ?o? Juration Probably the last picnic of the taMnl season In Lancaster county has been inKton- 1 held. There have been a good num- ^en W*P ber of picnics held in the county ,)octrine this season. South A her war f Mrs. Emma Hough, Messrs. Ben. SECOX1 C., Eugene and as. T. Hough. Misses ^ -p ( Elizabeth and Beulah Laney of Lan_ q w caster spent Sunday with relatives i?^ni M here.?Pageland Journal. O g j ?o? J. H. C Editor Ashcraft of the Monroe J. W. ? Enquirer paid The News office a vis- E. M. C dt Wednesday. We are glad to wel- E. G. . Tome our friends and hope that he W. T. . will pay us another visit soon. W. L. 1 ?o? B. F. U Mr. Jospeh Villineuve, son of J. Davh Mrs. Sallie Villineuve who w?? for. i r> n merly Miss Satlie Clark of this place A. M. E died at Fennel's Hospital yesterday c. B. i and his remains will be brought to J. R. m Lancaster today for burial. W. L. ] ??? W. T. The News Is in receipt of a letter gprinRE stating that Hon. Richard I. Man. ja9 g ning, Governor of South Carolina, R j has issed a proclamation. "Calling E pftrn upon all the people of South Caroll- I a M< na, to observe Sunday November the J W F 4th as Go-to-Sunday-School day." H C a Messrs. R. R., E. J. and W. C. C I>azenby and Miss Irene Lazenby, ^ Mrs. O. B. Spradlin of Bedford. Va.. r p Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Anderson of j t Abbeville returned to their respec- ^ ^ tlve homes Wednesday after attend- j <? r lng the funeral of Mr. L. C. Lazenby. ' * ' J A. I . , N. H. H The several Red Cross organiza. TAT tions in Lancaster county will g< down to real business within the| ,j, ' , next few days. The. members real-j .p," ^ ' ize that there is much to do. and j ^ when It comes their time to do. their bit, why they are right there \vrYD~~ with the goods. XT ' _ ^ New O Mr. R. W. Oraeber has planned a ,epe,ved a meeting at the court house Satur- Tow day. Sept. 29. at 11 o'clock of the M,sslss?PP "Corn and Pig Club." The object 11:30 p of the meeting is to bring all of the n>ar,1Pft a members together and plan for the ho,,|' an<* coming year. He urges all of the to 29.58, farmers to be present. hurricane the river The exercises opening the "Go to storm y01 Church Week" will begin at the y 3 0 ol? Methodist Church Sunday morning. Rev. J. B. Mahaffey of Columbia Is ^TRIKEl expected to be ptesent on Monday night if not Sunday night and the ^0r'0,,c subject of his discourse will be "Two ^ Asso Little Devils in Lancaster." Norfolk 0 cally all c The Twentieth Anniversary and ,n the nai Industrial edition of The Gaffney work her? Ledger was gotten out Saturday by tivities w< editor DeCamp and hie crew. It pertment, has sixty pages filled with lllustra- Union lea tions of the beautiful little city of assured b: ? .... I tholf nreo OafTney. The paper ia no unci in ? ?"? magazine style and la very credlta- eonsldi ble In every reapect. Washlngtr n the men 1 Mr. L. C. I/azenby, a prominent rltlxen of I^anraater, who la well KIFKll known la Cheater, died auddenly Sunday afternoon about 4 o'clock Popular while out automobile riding. Apo- pJU, plexy la thought to have been the Marion, cause of his death. He waa a na- Hheriff of tire of Virginia and had been In flVP years I^ancaater for about twenty years, prominent He waa 47 years of age.?Cheater died audi Semi-Weekly News. plexy. THE LANCASTER 3STE reKory has on exhibition at ! gory-Hood Stables soine|+ specimens of his three and PERSONALS, acre lot of ensilage com. I* ts are very vigorous and 13 feet high, and contain . _ ... Se of two long ear. ..eh, B,oyd Ho,ton lett """ Is now being cut for the Um a" will make an immense ?? . ? f ensilage. D L- Robln8?n 8P?nt 1 in Columbia. h the courtesy of Mr. ? arr and The Lancaster De- Hough returned Stores the school children *rom Columbia, the opportunity to witness )00 Educational moving Mrs. R. E. Wylle is vli film "Silken Romance" "ves 'n Rock Hill, the Star Theatre Monday ... . . , ? October 1st. Mr. Wessin- Mi88 Ina Lathan retui rintendent of the school nesday from R1 r8idoranted permission for the Mlaa Ruth Mcdow ieft to attend^ Hartaville to tea?*h school L. Crout of Decatur. Ala.. Mr and Mr8> Henry 1 Ruth Carnes were married turned Pr,d from Cha nr\r> n K Ar K ? ? * * 1 * ?v not uuuie uu mantel q _ tember 26. The ceremony Mrg L Ai watts Is v rmed by Dr.'J. H. Thayer. parent8> Mr. and Mrs. A. ful dinner was served. The iple left on the 1:36 train Mrg Tom c^J^7ight trooms home in Leesville. borQ lg v|sltlnJ5 Mrs. A. 1 VIrs. Crout will make their u me In Decatur. Ala., where Mesdames. Millen Lathi trlct manager for the Bell Millen spent Wednesday i Company. The bride is bja active and wore a lovely ?o? upe. She was a saleslady Misses Vivian and Anni b* Busy Bee store. Sharon visited Mrs. W. P ?0? this week. phic news states that In _ :e Monday. Senator Lewis Miss Aileen Neely of i declared that Capt. Von lg visiting her sister, M the German navy made to Robinson. Dewey at Manilla in 1898 .?o? ion that in about fifteen Mrs. Walter Taylor and ermany would capture aJe Hough of Kershaw s; the first step in the sub- ,;e8day in town, of England followed by ?o? 5 of New York and Wash- "Miss Annie Wilson lef securing large indemnities day for Camp Creek wher ing out of the "Monroe to teach school. and obtaining control of ?o? merica. Germany began Shala Mobley of Heatl or world conquest in 1914. has accepted a position * Lancaster Pharmacy. I) WEEK PETIT JURY. ?o? 'ole. Heath Springs. Mrs. John W. Ingram a Cauthen. Lancaster. R. 3. ter. Marguerite, are \ is Gardner, Lancaster. I former's mother. Mrs. C. " orter, Lancaster, R. 2. ( ?o? arnes, Lancaster. I Mrs- w- G- Roper returi Stogner, Lancaster, R. 1. home in Winston-Salem, )gburn, Lancaster, R. 5. ter spending the week wi1 Jordan, I^ancaster. ter- Mrs. G. H. Roscoe. \ddison, Lancaster. R. 3. ?o? Veal, Lancaster, R. 8. Mr- and Mr8- John Tsher, I.ancaster, R. 5. Camden, Mr. and Mrs. E. i Haile, Lancaster, R. 8. eny of Kershaw, Mr and rahara, Lancaster. R. 5. Stevens of Kershaw wen iarrett. Heath Springs. Tuesday for Mr. Lazenby 3tecle, Lancaster, R. 1. eNeely, I-ancaster, R. 7. NEW BETHEL D< Morgan. Taxahaw, R. 1. VanLandingham, Heath Sew Bethel, Sept. 24.?1 in this community is ver; Marshall, Heath Springs, present. The farmers are garnering ineir crops ai es, Lancaster, R. 7. molasses. KSulrt, Heath Springs R. 1. The many friends of N 'lttus, Fort Mill, R. 2. Sullivan will be glad to .dams, Lancaster, R. 6. she has come back to her lordon. Lancaster, R. 7. Mr. C. L. Flynn, who L. Funderburk, Lancaster, working at Camp Jacksoi turned home. Latimer, Kershaw. Mesdames C. A. Threatt fylie. Lancaster. Starnes visited at the hoi ddlson, Lancaster, R. 3. L>. A. King's one day last owell, Lancaster, R. 7. Mr. R. R. Ormand is s Vinson, Kershaw, R. 3. few days with his family, [allman, Lancaster, R. 1. Mr. H. A. Threatt sper toberts, Kershaw, R. 3. night with his mother, . 'atoe, Kershaw, R. 5. Carnes. raylor, Kershaw. R. 3. Mrs. B. R. Funded lennett. Heath Springs. daughter, little Miss Mildi lell, Lancaster. itlng the former's father. Blackmon. BLOWING .%? MILES. Misses Mabel and Theln rleans, Sept. 27.?Reports spent one night the past t the weather bureau from Misses Louzetta and Eun n, near the mouth of the Messrs. C. A. Threatt i i river, stated that at Starnes spent the week-en m., tonight the wind had homes. velocity of 56 miles an Messrs. D. A. and Jan the barometer had falleu mon and Mr. Fale of Cha indicating the tropical Ited Mr. R. L. L. Black had entered the mouth of week. It was estimated the Mr. Dewey Sullivan of lid be felt In New Orleans spent the week-end with r ick tomorrow morning. this community. Mr. Ordway Starnes wa R8 RETURN TO WORK ant caller In the Creek se - - day evening. Yard Workmen Receive Messrs. Roy Blackmon. J trances- from Daniels. and George Plyler left Thi , Va., Sept. 27.?PractL the training camp. >f the 4,100 men Involved Mrs. L. M. Clyburn an ry yard strike returned to Lewis David and Mllburn ( > today and industrial ac- Dixie visited at the home are resumed In every de- J. Flynn's Saturday. It was announced tonight. ders said they had been JACKSON COMMAND V Secretary Daniels that MAY FALL T :e scale grievances would jred at a conference In Two Months' I/eave Grai >n next Tuesday and that oral French on Accou ivould be "Justly treated." HI Health, Washington, Sept. 25.? I IFF DOZIKIl DEAD. Francis H. French, who signed to command Cam] Marion County Official at Columbia, his been gri hcs Away Suddenly. months' leave of absence I Sept. 27.?J. M. Dozler, 111 health. He has been a Marlon county for the last Walter Reed Hospital , and one of Marlon's most time. It la possible that and popular citizens, Hugh L. Scott, former chit lenly here today of apo- may succeed him, but this | clal. 1W8 FRIDAY, SEPT. 28. 19 REI) CROSS NOT iy for Co-1 The next important wc local chapter of Red Cro the organization of a He Wednesday 'Committee. The Knitting Commltte ceeded, by persistent effo Wednesday curing shipments of woo to the scarcity of wool it ket, the Lancaster Chaptei viting rela- forced to purchase here small quantities of wool, nine different States have ned Wed? orders for the Lancastei Mrs. Poag can now furnlsl needles to those desiring I today for the Red Cro89. ^ filnpo 4ho nnonlnir Af %"v Wi V Pardue re- tliere ^as been a conslde rlotte 'nK ?' workers In surg inga. It la hoped that ac isiting her women of the town will < J. Roddey. 0,1 the Place8 made vaca school glrla. Wedneaday of Winna- day morn,n88 surgical dn ?. McLure. mado" The Knitting Committ in and W. to acknowledge, with t in Colum- Preclation. the gift of $25 John T. Stevens of Kersh Etta e Neely of Robinson SMITH WORKING TO HELP CH.I Rock Hill w , ? T*r i? Junior Senator Wants Th rs. vv. p. Issue Licenses For Ex of Cotton. Miss Gus- Washington, Sept.27 .?I pent Wed ^ Smith said today that 1 teresting himself in an t Wednes- have Charleston named e she goes port8 at which license issued locally for the expi i Springs' and was hopeful o with the able result. J The junior South Can . . , iator also declared that he nd daughiting the ' receiving inquiries from al \V. Jones. South as to the prospect f nitrate from Chile in timi tied to her N C af P^antinK season. After i !h her sis- President, the Secrets Navy and Bernard M. 13a will purchase the nitrate Mackey of government to distribute t , D. T31akMrs John mei'8, s?nator Smith feels 5 in town possible efTort is being mat 's funeral, the requirements of the si * OTS. COAL MEN IN DBAI The health y good at MlnerB and -Operators very busy Garfield's Announcer id making Washington, Sept. 27.? ... era and operators discussi Irs. Nancy " learn that cen** more pay In the ce old home, "minoua fields tonight i has been deadlock which apparentl: n, has re- broken, pending an and G W 1:1(5111 'rom Dr. H. A. Ga me of Mr. fuel administrator, as t< week. there is to be an upward 1 pending a government fixed prices. The joint scale sub-con it Monday i Mrs Ellen m'ners ant* operators spec in a vain attempt to reach >urk and ment on the miners' pro] ed, is vi9-|the operators grant ai Mr. R. L. . which then might be usi la Threatt basis of selling prices. 1 week with tors announced their beliel ice Steele, would look like conspirac and G. U. | miners and nnoroinro <-> t d at their . . er coal prices. They a les Black- they would no* enter into rlotte vis- of any wage increase until mon last ent price of coal at the ml ed by the fuel administrs Lancaster elatlves in IS CHARGED WITH a a pleas- SEDI1IOUS ctlon Sun. Demand Made Thut Ser fesse Hays L&Follette. ursday for i St PauI gept 25.?Ex Senator Robert M. LaF id Messrs. Wisconsin from the Uni ?lyburn of aenate is demanded in a p< of Mr. R. dressed to that body by 1 safety mission. Senator is accused In the commissi lution of making an add X> SCOTT disloyal and seditious nati Ifon-Partisan League < ited Gen- here last Thursday night. lit Of Tho onmml?olnn ?' ? ? the United States district MaJ. Gen. the matter of the conduct was as- tor LaFollette and othe p Jackson same time making a reques anted two parties, if found to have jecause of any federal statutes, be patient In prosecuted, for somo The commission's actior MaJ. Gen. the close of an executiv if of staff, given almost exclusively i Is not offl- eration of the LaFollette s examination. IX I IONOHANCE AND lid *| KS. South Carolina Should I School Karilitie + + Capt. W. L. Feaster, >rk of the t,ie heart of the h'Rh set 88 will be'ment of t^ie I-ancast ?me Relief School in the sessions and 1915-16, made a sh e has sue- ***? Sunday morning sen rts, in se- First Baptist church >1. Owing need of more and bette i the mar- ttUU eo.ucauonai racuitti r has been People of South Caroll and there, Feaster states that h Already wbrking in the musterl Piled wool m?nt at Camp Jcckson f r Chapter. 'ew weeks, and that he s yarn and before been so deeply in to knit for widespread ignorance acy among the men of 5 he schools Una. Many of these me irable fall- could not even sign the ileal dress, papers, which the govi ime of the quires all men to sign b( ulunteer to tng Into service, and ha mt by the their marks Instead. M and Satur- men could not tell the n ?ssings are county that they came some did not know the ee wihhes name. Capt. Feaster cii ilncere ap- ber of instances of this > from Mr. said that it was the sa aw. that he ever knew, for Skipper. the "Palmetto State" bo ignorant, but they appe cheerful and willing to their country, but to thin " were so greatly handicap ing so ignorant. is ( Ity To Capt. Feaster said thi porting and women of South Can give their support and < to help make the Stat sena ot ... Carolina haVG better i he was in- colleges, so that she wll effort to ter educated men and w< as ono of Capt. Feaster has ma s could be t,0n' ror a transfer to t corps, so that lie might irtatlon of Franoe Soon. f a favor- : + SPRINGS IN MATCH olina Sen had been Disrover>' M?d<* ,n Sltipi 11 over the Sweden, or getting Minneapolis, Minn., Sei e for next|J- Kpnned>'. Proprietor , calling on store' today ca,Ied a iry of the federal agents to a ruch, who matrhf,s- manufactured s for the and Purchased by Kenne o the far- a 'oca' wholesale house, that every tained sc?res of steel spr ie to meet b?XeS he,d two of the s Luuimueu oniy a lew ma tuation. nedy declared. It was said the author >IAR K. try to determine whettn _ n.ent had beeu intended Await Dr. point In Europe instei nent United States. Coal min- ^ ng 25 per HURRICANE WA1 ntral biu reached a **<>"? ??* Moving Toward (lulf f will not Washington, Sept. 2 5. announce- . , . ., was given today by the \ rfleld. the reau that the West Ini 3 whether cane, which did great pre evision of a^e at Jamaica Sunday hud passed into the Gulf off the western coast of lmittee of {nK north-northwest an it the day would strike the Amei an agree- coast tonight or Thursdi posal that cane warnings have been the Gulf coast from Mob l increase lachicola and northeast ed as theieaat Sform warnings on t 'he opera- der of the Gulf coast of f that this Key West. V between No reports had come tc y between ^ ^ ^ oice ig _ exac^ location of the disi dded that ^ discussion OEN. BRIDGES LOSE I the pres ne is rais- Englishman Accompanie ition. Mission to United S London, Sept. 27.?Lie T. M. Bridges, who accon SPEE<TH Balfour mission to the Ut last summer, has lost a lei late Expel i(nee jn consequence of a ceived in action, accordi pulsion of ? , , Times. toilette of 1 ted States C?P*- J- K Law> aon ciuion aa- nonar law, chancellor the public chequer, a military aviato LaFollette reported missing ye8terda [on a reso1089 of a roturned from A fliRht he jre at the the Gorman lines last Fr invention S. c. FARM El 18 DKMAN1 sferred to 8ft CENTS FOl : attorney : of Sena- Columbia, Sept. 27.? ra, at the dred representative farr jt that the every section of South Cf violated at the state warehouse h< vigorously ternoon and adopted calling on all the cotton i came at the State to hold their s e session flat price of 35 cents a pi to consid- meeting was held under peech and ces of the South Carolin Union. jITKRACY ihaig's objectives have been gained. lave Better i Enemv Troops Slaughtered by formerly at British and Their Lines iooi depart- Swept Back, er Graded ______ of 1914-15 London, Sept. 27.?On his return ort talk at from a visit to the Italian front Maj. rices at the G>>n. F. B. Maurice, chief director upon "The Qf military operations, at the war r education office today discussed the situation es for the i? Flanders with the Associated na." Capt. press. e has been "During the past month there has Ing depart- been a long pauwe, thanks to the or the past rain and mud in Flanders," he said. has never "The pause made necessary more apressed by ampie preparations than ordinarily and illter- are necessary after a first advance Jouth Caro. ?preparations enuivnlent come established near Hearne, Tex,?Warning aS( where it was discovered in a veather bu- cotton field. The Department of iian hurri- Agriculture made that announceiperty dam-, nient today and said the entomolo, evidently gists have gone to ten oil mills in ! of Mexico Texas, which received cotton seed Cuba, mov- from Mexico prior to the enforced probably ment of the quarantine, November rican Gulf i, lfilfi. Cotton was uprooted and ay. Hurri-j burned from 105 acres within a halt ordered on, mile of the Hearne oil mill, from lie to Apa.' which the worm is supposed to have and south-j escaped from cotton seed brought he remain-1 from Mexico. Florida to i ^ I'KOGKESS OF HIRRICANE might from 1 icating the K\|>ected to He General East of turbance. Mississippi. Washington, Sept. 27.?The trop18 LEG. ical hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, tonight apparently was a short disd Balfour tance south of the mouth of the iaalaolnrvl K xv nrnntU?- k?.-?.? .. ? ? laiOH IUC noovuci uureuu auut Gen G nounced' and w'^ strike the Louisiana coast by Friday morning. The lpanied the 3torm ja not expected to be general lited States east of the Mississippi. I below the Hurricane warnings have been wound re- ordered displayed on the Louisiana coast and northwest storm warnings ? ng to e Qn Texas coast. Hurricane warnings have been lowered east of of Andrew New Orleans, of the exr. who was Th# BeH for He?"I am a man of the old school ln iy, has not g^e?"Well, I dismissed your class made over some time ago I"?Puck, iday. ? " Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, at they cannot reach It COTTON diseased portion of the ear Thcr- Is only one way to cure catarrhal deafness, and that Is by a constitutional remedy. ?? _ , Catarrhal Deafness Is caused by an In-one nun- flamed condition of the mucous ltntn* of from ine Kuetacillan Tube. When thta tube la Inflamed you have a rumbling anund or lmirolina met perfect hearing and when It la entirely cloaed, Deafneaa la the reault. Unleaa the ire this af- Inflcmmatlon can be reduced and thla tube , , reatorcd to Ita normal condition, hearlnr resolutions will be deatroyed forever. Many caaea of ernorera Jrafneee are cauaed by catarrh, which la ^ i tint.i a tii inflamed condition of the mucoua aurfanlo for n facea. Hall'a Catarrh Medicine acta thru ' ' the blood on the mucoua aurfacea of tha ound. The eyatem , We will give One Hundred Dollar# fop the auapl- any caae of Catarrhal Deafneaa that cannot _ t->?be cured by Hall'a Catarrh Medicine. Clr? a f armers oulara free. All Drugglete. 76c. W. 3 CHKNBT A CO.. Toledo, a n he found iaUnching an entirely new battle, ir name to but resmit amply Justified the ernment re- preparations, and while on previous pfore enter- occasjons we won OUr objective only id to make after protracted fighting, we yesterany of the (jay were jn possession of the whole tame of the OUp objectives before 8 a. m. from, and "The fighting yesterday was in Ir mother s most vital area, the nexus of ted a num- system dominating the kind, and pjan Qf pianders and the key to the ddest thing whole 8eries of ridges. There Is & so many of ROO<j deal more to be said about thla ys to be so battle than what we gained, tared to he Germans Slaughtered, i fight for "Officers who have been with the k that they British army from the beginning all >ped by be- aRree that since the first battle of Ypres there has never been a at the men ajaughter of the Germans compara>"na should bie to that they suffered In the repo-operation |>ulsed counter attacks of the past e of South days. fbe Germans counter atschools and taoi<ed |n mass and dozens of these 1 have bet- COunter attacks were swept away by ornon- ! our fire with terrible German de applica- ,oases... he aviation i - - - - vy 11ii an me oojecrives tor whlon he sent to Marshal Haig started his men early Wednesday morning In a new offensive near Ypres securely in BOXES their hands, the English. Scotch and Australian units now are tenaciousnonts from |y holding them. notwithstanding fierce German thrusts that time and ^t 27 W ::,Pa'n have ineffectually been launched in efforts to regain the lost of a cigar . ground. .ttention of As jias j,een expected, by reason supply of of the contour of the territory, the in Sweden fighting throughout has been of a dy through most violent character. Near the 1 Polygon wood, where the Austrawhi<h con- jjang are facing the foe, north and ings. Many northeast of St. Julien and norttaprings and west of Zonnebeke the encounters tehes, Ken- have been of a sanguinary character the Germans losing heavily In their counter attacks. Ities would er consign- PINK BOIjI. WORM BEATEN for some id of the Entomologists Stamp Out Pest at Heame, Texas. Washington, Sept. 27.?After two mologlsts of the Department of .YgftNIXG riculture and Texas institutions, It is believed there is no longer danat \ iolence Rer tbat the ttoll worm will be4'oust