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J TheLancasterNews wuj Lancaster, 8. C. (HKMi-WEEKIil.) J? Sti "My Country Tia of Thoo, 8woot l.and all t of Liborty." - tuel Published Tuesday aud Friday ia gG BY THE lack LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. Established 1852. aomei . ue u< GEORGE Iil 1,1,A CRAVEN ward Editor and Manager coal . _vi r Entered as Second Class Matter >otober 7. 1905. at the Postofflce at the 8 Lancaster, S. C., under aot of Con- v's?3. iress of March S, 1879. lishm On SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: win , (In Advance.) One Year 82.00 Six Months 1.00 city c ? fauiln The News is not responsible for the riews of Correspondents. I,ET'> Short and rational articles on topics of general interest will be gladly received. Got Friday, Nov. Id, 11)17. prosp< : bed it SENTENCE SERMONS. count; , bad. The moderation of prosperous people comes from the calm which *,mn good fortune gives to their temper. Cf>unt ?La Rochefoucauld. room " organ Happiness is a roadside (lower, 3 ssoci growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy not " hand; passed by, it is fragrance to niobib thy spirt. Trample the thyme be- means neath thy feet, be useful, be happy. tr,.,?~r ?Martin Tupper. ?o? Aut Men's thoughts are much govern- "ie m ed by their wishes and inclinations, the n Flacon. time. ~?? il? fav A man esteems most highly what 8pen,j he himself lacks, and exaggerates what he longs to possess.?Amiel. UH nt* _o? fact t In men whom men condemn as ill monej I find so much of goodness still, of the In men whom men pronounce divine class. I hesitate to draw a line to the Between the two, where (Jod has not. alize ?Joaquin Miller. Others * mobile KIHTOBIAI.KTTBS. While both sides claim to be gain- an<* * ing. we're betting on Old Man Ker- ',aulin ensky. for sa + The It's only a short time now until teriall you'll be hearing again from Con- split-h cord, N. C. after time o Trotzky, it seems has trotzkied -p|lf> out on tlie Itiver Neva?out of the r.m danger /.one. (.ounty 1 iriaintii Deutsche Zietung. Now, what do , organi you think of . t by that caster name, anyway? + The fellow who eats corn pone and sorghum doesn't mind the A Uti w'heatless days. . . . highwi + courtei What has become of the oldsame fashioned society functions known as . ... sides I bridge parties? the roi The people who don't believe that tor r advertising pays never have heard of ? u n John Wannaniaker or Henry Ford. ,hat 11 + the ro Messrs. Heard, Orth and Weirse a ?ma will be absent from the State for driver' several months on pressing busi- guesse ness. turns car. If the Russians could but recognize who and where are their ene- cour(e mies this strife within the household car jg hight end. ,.can j " * g fellow It is a fart that President Wilson tape, ' didn't want this country to go to ?besi war, but now that we're in it he when wants the job well done. alwayi They used to call them traitors " and take them out to face a firing '' *'' squad?now they call them draft- '?n ?' resieters and German sympathizers. f ou univet We know a man who says he ate propos throe meals the same day in Colum- and i bia and had no yams at either, and cars fl yet Columbia claims to be th? square feet, meal town. 'sy an: THE LAN L? WE PREPARE OR HAVE A WHEREIN Tb FUEL FAMINE? N< ite Fuel Administrator B. B. Recently the >tt. of Anderson, in his report newspaper was >e fuel committee at Columbia of the circuit < r days ago, said: "Without de- that court. T ; to cause any undue alarm, I come of the horoughly satisfied that despite the trial of a n he assistance that the federal was said to ha1 administration can give, there sel or jury. W ing to be serious suffering for eral cases in i of fuel in our state unless have been he'd thing definite and practical can on account of )ne without delay, ldoking to- in the newspa] the substitution of wood for was that of Ji as far as possible." secretary of t . Gossett will take a census of ec"t?r of the ? upply of the state, and he ad- was where necessary, the estab- dollars. and w ent of municipal woodyards! custody until t B of these things is ceHaln Wn a f?deral judge . . ,, . paid, and if M make ample preparation for a ..... ... a day in jail, i and hard winter, with a scar, . .... , . with the facts. ?f coal, or we will have a fuel e The Virginis 4, dismissed when ? HAVE A HICJWAY ASSOCIA- to the court thi TlOX IX THIS COUNTY. animus against pressions. Of , , , , Danville Regisl >d roads are as essential in the srity of a community as a road .. ^e. aie that, to use a h i on a railroad. Lancaster jurist had clin y roads are by no means all .was R,a<1. to assistance in < They are as good or better and gracefully the average roads in any fhTnmn V.rfhi' y in the state, but there is ceedings should , . . . . ... unless and unti for vast improvement, and the rea8Qn (o bo,|eN ization of a county highway been guilty of ? ..... ... Public sentii ation, with its membership wm, hjs mie mited to the owners of auto- that same publ ... ... . tolerate an ass es, might possibly devise some or autocratic 1 i by which the roads can be zens ?f the Sti .... , resents criticisr iaUy improved. before hlm f omobilists. very naturally, get ',n, an ,e. He should rati ost benefit from good roads in mate criticism latter of comfort and saving h As a general rule they are sentiment will - , . . , , fuse and abash or of good roads, in favor of tlme has passf ...uiicj lur roan improve- reauy existed. exert arbitrary and there is no denying the hat improved roads cost. good SUNDAY F1 r. Many farmers and residents rural districts belong also this Usually there It is by no means confinedion elther sl(ie ( towns and cities, and they ro- que8tion8, we b the necessity for good roads. there j,as neve } who do not own or use auto- jn favor 0f ijqv 38 favor good roads just the of gun(iay frei| The cost in time and wear ception to the ear upon teams and wagons 8enger trains a g over bad roads will soon pay on gunday, an nd-clay. not that freigh roads hereabouts can be ma- necessary. Ho y improved by the use of the well to check jg drag, 01 any other drag, ning freight tri each rain, especially at this reasonable exte f year. From the sts county highway association sible desecratioi ? of inestimable value to the' perhaps can be if properly organized and ning of treight lined, and it w ould be w ell to j desecretion of 1 ze such an association in I.an- thn rnnmn.r county. (probably could + survive. We al ('((I'RpTKSV, the telephone, newspapers, wil ^mobile drivers on public other things o tys sometimes forget that without the sac ay should be practiced the convenience, as in their own homes. Be- People in th< he fellow you are meeting in without these t ad has some rights in the mat- we? But, why i ights perhaps equal to your It is not always the big car What Mr. L ries to confiscate both sides of say in PariR at ad and the middle?It is often allies ma." not 11 car. but the sire of Hie. u?i ??,? ? / V-V lilV- II wuuif s hatband usually ran be moved until It id by the manner in which he times we may c out when he meets another profit. observe also the passing of the Ot course, if isy of stopping when e motor burn, we can m found in trouble to inquire But can we get [ help you out?" Sometimes a roads begin to may need a piece of wire oi dead o* winter which you happen to have, and w'ood? des, it makes him feel good ? you offer assistance. It is not The fact ti s that you can be of service, aviator, flew fro will not hurt you to offer and port News in tl I increase the stranger's opin- nine minutes you to a considerable extent, strengthen the rtesy on the road should be a'rsbip is not sal. It's a pretty tough iltion when a fellow gets "out 'r*ie t?'reonv' inder" and has a half-dozen j Ke?ts that " Th ly by almost running over hiS|t,uffer from a 81 Nothing Is ever lost by courte-I'8 South Caroll rwhere. Cole. ? gaajwftii i'i?~ CASTER NEWS FRIDAY, NOV. 16, 1 IK CONTEMPT WAS + ON EST. f SCIHSOKS AND PASTE i editor of a Virginia cited before a Judge Only a Itcsplte. court for contempt of . ...... (Columbia State.) he ca8e was the outWhether or not the Aral v< paper's comments on . . ..llt show a prohibition victory li iegro for murder, who ^6 referendum last Tuesday ire been without coun- ally decrees the end of the * re have known of sev- traffic in that State. The liq vhich newspaper men Crests, by defeating worn. frage, have merely postponed 1 in contempt of court . ,. , .. , . of execution of their businei criticisms appearing eVl A jf they shall have won pers. A notable case row victory now, they would osephus Daniels, now read in it no other meaning he navy who, while ,esP,teJew. and Observer In U bc|!ln? to aM,ear lhat P vania will be the last great 1 fined two thousand tQ ho,d QUt aicalnRt wnmnn B as ordered held in and prohibition and it Is an ii he fine was paid, by ing and perhaps related i . The fine was never stance that Pennsylvania is a _ , , 'citadel of hardened political r. Daniels ever spent 'r tion in the United States, ve are not conversant| What Germany Is Fating i case was promptly. Louis Republic.) the defendant stated , There are contradictory at he had no personal regarding the economic situa the court in his ex- Germany. Some say she is s the proceeding, the and other8 deny lt* That 1 usual living conditions of tl ter very aptly says. jevv years are felling on the ler inclined to think and vitality of the people the omely illustration, the be utile doubt, ibed a tree and that welcome a convenient 1? a recent issue of The A dimbing down easily Monthly, a writer who has It was a mistake much time In Germany since t ssued a rule against , jvps gome lnteresting s case. No such pro1 have been instituted vations on the food situation. 1 the court had sound lows: 6 \hat the writer had ?Chunka of dried sea Uor sontempt. i nent clothes a jurist! were shipped into the country and his powers, and manner of jerked beef. Soak ic sentiment will not a number of hours and ct umption of arbitrary ? j ,t was d lowers over the citi-| ute. The jurist who'"tew with onions. Some ii by haling the critic thickened the gravy and" ser or contempt places with spetzel, a South German mbarrassing position.) ? made of fl bul a, ler court any legitiof himself personally UH 'n 'he past. After i lure on the bench. If two attacks of nausea people ci ght that same public like th e rnnpnctinn I? fll sustain him and non- vaouum an(j tf,at is ever his unjust critic. Th?? d. if indeed it ever when ones head is light from when a judge might lighter diet. The same meat or tyranical power, and called Robbin's Fleisch w; + and served in slices, at four IFICillT TRAIN'S. a pound. It was a very goo tation of corned beef, bettei is a lot of argument a,ewed' and rould be eutpn r bread. As the potatoes I af a question?of all .. , . .. , . , scarce, the bread which had elleve, except liquor; doled out on allowance beg r been an argument deteriorate in quality. As It ror?and this matter was composed of 20 per c .... . potato (lour it was not bat ?ht trains is no exserved to satisfy the children general rule. Pas- spfpad w|th maU re found a necessity 0f sugar or syrup, or the f d The News doubts Kretgs-Marmalade, a mam t trains are just as tntide of sacharine beets, tor .. ..... . and turnips, colored red. Wi wever, it knight be . reduction of the potato (lour the practice of run- ^ |)rea(jt coarser grains were ilns on Sunday to a but now 5 per cent sawdust nt. per cent (lour ground from strn .... , used. In consequence, peop mdfloint ot the pos- _ . suffering greatly from ar a of the Sabbath, it gf0mach troubles are on ( said that the run- crease, especially ulcers ol trains is no more a stomach, and thread worms." the sacred day than How can a people fed on passenger trains. We and s,raw expected tf on forever at the behest ol do without both and , ? ... n rulers? Will they? so can do without the telegraph, the The Question, thout ice and many (NeWfl an(, roarier.) Kjuuuiiy, uui noi Major Snow of the regular rilice of comfort and testified that when his negr diers pointed their guns at h dodged behind some tents, i years gone by did ?.ha, WOuld Ma J or Snow do if hings, why shouldn't German soldiers point their gi should we? him? , ? ... I Rtoelnessllke. loyd Get Re had to, . . . ... (Spartanburg Journal.) out blunders of the _. ? There majr be some truth sound pleasing and S(atenient that women are would hardly be re- businesslike than men. but the is discovered. Some- that made that statement evi rltlcize ourselves and httd not he?n, ?f ,the a purim roniaininK 10 ckdih ^ passenger train and sent a tel at the cost of 25 cents to try a we can get wood to . cover ft. ake out without coal. ! the wood?after the \ Just Ho. get bad and In the 1 From T*i? I-umberton Robe?< _ . . Lady: "I lost that sp< when we need the .. . . . . . , thread I bought from you. you got an extra one you coul * ?? i me? Thanks." lat Itesnatl, Itlaian Storekeeper to himself as tl >m New York to New- wa,kfl out without offering V . . . I" ! Now I know h iree hours and forty- - , . newspaper man feels when would scrvto to |)0(jy tells him they've lost th argument that the per and won't he please give a impossible. one." ? . lie Piedmont sug- Mary'a latest Frock. ie Hleasites will not Mary had a little frock, tortage of Cole." Fact The latest style, no doubt, laa 1ms a surplus ot An" wh<m "he *ot ",9Ule " Was over half-way out. -Kxclili L917. '**:} LOOKING E : TEN YEARS AUG THIS MONTH (From the Files of this Pape >te will November 9, 1907.) a Ohio, K virtu- Daughters of the Confedera vhiskey meet Thursday afternoon at tl residence of Mrs. T. C. Hleks at fo uor in- , . o clock. in suthe day Mr" Thoma8 T- Gregory, one Bs and Lanca8ter county's oldest and mo ' highly esteemed citizens, died at b u II11 I" , better l,ome in the Taxahaw section la than a Snnday evening at six o'clock. Cotton, 10 1-4 cents; seed. 22 1 cents. onnavl. i A jew nakes of snow were seen 'ortress ^a|| j,ere Wednesday afternoon, uffrage cot(on 0u company fired i iterest- jt8 mammoth engine Thursday f clrcum- the flr8t t|me xhe machinery Iso the now being tested, bearings, adjuste eorrup- etc^ preparatory to starting to crui seed next Monday. Mr. Waddy R. Thompson, one I. Lancaster's most popular and e emplary young men, was happi married in Darlington Wednesdi reports . ? , , , ... afternoon at five o clock to Mi on n j,aujine niackweii, a highly cultu tarvlng . . lie un ? a fascinating young lady t , . that citv. It was a beautiful chur< ie last . .. . . heilth t,ip ceremony being pe formed in the First Baptist churc ?re can the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Lide, of ciating. lt'antic Comptroller General Jones, of C i spent jumbia. spent Wednesday In Lanca he \%ai jer making settlements with tl obser- coun^y (nx officials. as fo1" Mr. Frank S. Williams, of Ne York, who has been in Lancaster ft i meat j several days, effected stiles Monda in tliejof 550 acres of his Red House plai :ea roritutlon in the Waxhaws, at $10 p< it into > acre. The purchasers are Mr. J. 1 into ajsistare, 200 acres; Mr. W. L. Si people tare. ISO acres; Mr. E. E. Fergi ved it Son. 100 acres; R. C. Throer, col dump- 100 acres. as. no Manager Thomasson, of the I^ai one or caster Telephone system, has mad ante to arrangements whereby his patror led a oiay on certain conditions use th ything Hen company's long distance sei a still vice. corned | Mrs. R. E. Wylie and daughte is sold Miss Juanita. returned yesterda marks j fr0m an extended visit to New Yorl d inii-j While In the great metropolis Mr than Wylie attended a most enjoyabl old on family reunion, her father, the Re lecame Mr. Pratt, and her brothers bein been i present, an to j ^ >ng as j pnt of Going to Re Plentiful. j andj (GafTney Ledger.) when The Kaiser should worry abou place that reward for an American so anions dier. We'll miss our guess if the , a I pro nnl n 1 nn 111* 1 ' " " " 1 AltlQC | M v MWl |/IV II tl I U I V/ I? HIC 011 VfV. tfl <J natoes Berlin before many months hav th the Passed, in thei added. Must Want a lx?t of Company. Hmj 5 | (Spartanburg Journal.) iw are t*16 distinguished gentlema le are ??_____ lemia; j he in-i ?? ? ' ,h" : I A Billion D< ' their ' Business A V ! . army J. | CZZ o sol- > im he||.j T UK flliuls irflf Now j J< -maome, ! Reserve Banks no una at i ' I . Billion Dollars. Th > cumulated to earn y ( l terests, nor can it I in the y more interests. Its purpt i party dentiy ; ber banks, of which on 5 the fanners and bus 1TZ : general banking i possible. If you are not yc inlan.) >oi of and getting its be id'give I drop in and talk it ( y , . We welcome bo! ie lady , J. 0 Pa*:! ; and savings accouni iow a, y some- \ I? elr pa-! ! ! l== notlier ; ' The First \ ' I : LANCA he J ?1 i ? m 3ACKWARP | + J TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO THIS MONTH. r, (From the Files of this Paper, November 9. 1892.) cy Married on the 29th of October, he Mr. Will Blakeney and Miss Eflle ur Knight, Rev. David Powell officiating. of While working with a cotton at | press last Thursday, Mr. D. F. tls Helms had one of his little flngere 8t severed from his hand. Messrs. Jones & Williams have "2 been retained to defend Maston Bowles and W. H. Host, charged to with the killing of John H. McManila TKn aa nia nf f ornmra ma. 111 #1 a touu un. a uv oaiuu aiiwi iicj o n ait 11 o* JP fend Sam Vincent, charged with the or killing of Andrew RJohardson. is Married at 11 o'clock last Thursday at the residence of Mr. J. H. Harper, the bride's father, Miss j Mary Harper and Mr. Joseph Hagins. Rev. W. L. Pegues ofllciatjy ing. The happy couple were tendered a reception at the residence of iy Mr. J. M. Hagins. 88 r_ The election passed off quietly here yesterday. The barrooms were closed at six o'clock the evening ber_ fore, and consequently there was no h drunkenness or disorderly conduct p. on the streets or at the polls, notwithstanding there was a large 0_ crowd In town. s- The bridge over Waxhaw creek ?e on the Providence road was burned last Friday. It was set on Are by w some one, kerosine being used for >r tliat purpose. The following is the result of the election in this county: Cleveland, 'J' j 8 56; Harrison, 428. j Mr. J. A. P. Sistare will move to s~jtown the first of January and will t" I crlvo Vila tlmn t V..k.idlnnca .. t i Knight & Slstare. i I Dr. J. E. Rutledge returned from ^ . Baltimore last week whither he went le to consult with eminent dentists as is to some admittedly difficult and perr_ plexing portions of dentistry. Men's full suits of clothes for $2, r worth $f>. Gents' 4-ply linen coly lars only 5 cents; cuffs, 12 1-2 cents, n. M. F. Jones & Co. s. The Camden Chronicle has been le purchased by Mr. W. J. Villepigue, v. who for some time has been one of g its editors and proprietors, and will I now be run by him. 4 from the neighboring city, seen here yesterday flirting with a chorus girl, j wants to keep his affairs quiet and y happy at home he will do well to if come in and see us at an early date, e ___________ Optimistic Thought. Real friends are wont to visit us In our prosperity only when Invited, but in adversity to eorne of their own acn cord. V 0 V . V ollars to Help nd Farming y ==?i 1:1 lie red into tlie Federal W vv aggregate over One k] is vast sum was not ac- K? profits for private in- III >e controlled by private Kl [>se is to assist its mem- i?l H'ft orA Ar\A in Vi nlrvinrf I.I k iiv ua v vuvj iii ni;i|7Ui^ J, on ess men and to make conditions as sound as d one of our depositors inefits and protection, ; jver with us. J th, checking accounts Z ts. :r National Bank I STER, s. c. :