The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 14, 1917, Page 4, Image 4

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J jTHELANf.ASTERNf Lancaster, S. C. (SKMIWEEKLV.) "My Country 'Tie of Thee, Sweet of Liberty." Published Tuesday and Frit BY THE LANCASTER NEWS COMP^ Established 1852. GEORGE BULLA CRAVE Editor and Manager Entered as Second Class N )otober 7. 1905, at the Postoffl Lancaster, S. C., under aot of tress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: (In Advance.) One Year ! 81* Months The News is not responsible fo news or ^orresponaents. 8hort and rational articles topics of general Interest wll gladly received. Friday Dec. 14, 1917 SENTENCE SERMONS. ?o? Men. like bullets, go far when they are smoothest.?Rlc If you wish to preserve you cret, wrap it in frankness.?Al< der Smith. How many honest words have fered corruption since Chau days Middleton. It goes a great way toward making of a man faithful to let understand that you think him i Seneca. Words are like leaves; and w they most abound, much fru sense beneath is rarely four Pope. Though we repent, can any god back The dear, lost days we might made so fair? ?Louis Chandler Moultc The golden moments in the sti of life rush past us, ancl we see i ing but sand: the angels com visit us. and we only know t when they are gone. -George 1' ? KDITOKI \1jETTKS. It really seems that Mr. I inick is agin' everything. + The least that can be said of Katherine Stinson is that she is ? high-flyer. r * Now the trouble seems to I scarcity not of wood but of v choppers. + And now it seems that they're ing to get rid of the measles at army camps?and the snobs. + The boys in France really "smokes." They want to smol they want to smoke out the Kais * We take it for granted that M would have been acquitted though Dooling had not appears the scene. + flightless nights is going t( the next target of the fuel adra tration. We can stand it. so Ion they don't have nlghtless nigh Only one voter got what he wa fit thA olaot inn Tn noH n xr onH Ko the man who was not willing to lor either of the candidates. With the mercury flirting aero a municipal woodyard woul a sight to behold?a pleasant to behold. We never attempt to be funnj therefore we won't ask the Or boro News how they managt burn up a granite plant at S N. C. There are 300 Orphan childn the Thornwell Orphanage at ton?does not Just that fact prompt you to help make them "w ar ohrlafjnaatlmo >11TO WOMKN IN NKWSPAI'KU-5 <WS ISU. i i iiu ?in uas uioiui ueu c?ci ct business by calling the youn who hitherto had been dei j upon in offices, factories and ' establishments, and young \ have in numerous cases re ? them. Newspapers, like other Land tutions, have seen the necss training young women to theit ,ay i ness, and in nearly every newi office nowadays you see one c or three girls doing reportln ciety writing and general newi V work. They generally make too. There are girl-soclety latter on the large daily papers and ce at girl-city-editors, besides repor C nn" The experience of a Canada ] The Toronto Journal, with "girl-newspaper-man" is state follows: 12.00 Since the war started we hav 1.00 ,l10 equivalent of two complete i staffs by enlistment. I was b ! ins tired of conducting what r the , virtually a kindergarten, train cub one day and presenting hint a wrist watch and my blessin s on next, when I thought I would ti 1 be women importers. We have them, of course, in the regula men's department of the papet ~ had never employed them exte ly in general reporting. As we been accustomed to do with ma := porters, we started them on a ban news, and in this work immediately made good. From to time, as the need arose, w .. . ded to the staff until now ther s 15 of them employed. They do hter. tically the same work as men. < lng juvenile and women's 1 r 8e_ courts, city hall, board of educi jxan- ronvent'onR and interviews < sorts. In short, they answer a requirements of the average r< er, and there are very few a! aUf. ments that we can't send them cer's Young women to whom news work appeals should be prep themselves for it. for, if the wai the jjjm tinues, newspapers everywhere so.? have the same experience as th the Toronto paper. Newspaper I is not easy, and is not very lucri here i , , H but it is pleasant, and to some 1(j, cinating. It is possible that > women will replace young me newspapers in the South, evt ,~'Xl South Carolina, as the war drag have MA YOlt .IONKS, TI1K TKI1II Mayor Charles I). Jones lssu? the eve of the election this \\ < ream loth- can,Paign document setting fort 0 to position on public questions, \ :hcm is of more than passing interes .Hot. does nnt niince words in saying "I make no appeal to the lawless ment for their support." lorn- Hy that policy during hi ministration, Mr. Jones has haps made enemies for Miss self, but he lias headed an tic tome istration that has stood for law I order, a clean town, healthier, fc lighted, better policed and 'b Je a , protected against fire. vo? "Those who would prefer t( blind tigers, gambling dens worse places have greater fre< goin our midst." Mr. Jones told the voters, "do not need nie." \ Jones is a "terror" to this class med '5's f':,I'lpssn,>ss- bis initiative bis conservatism in administ <e ? (M. the town's affairs during the two years, has struck a terror ii eans hearts of the lawless and put even on good bahavior. d on Mr. Jones says in his state that when the present admin tion went into office the city w ' be debt near $28,000, in addition t inis- bonded indebtedness. This has lk as 1? . uvv-u uut icao IIIAU f 11 . I l8- the pant two years in the fa< constantly soaring costs of ,nte^ ducting municipal affairs and w aH out impairment of the efflclen vote government. Besides this, the has purchased and paid for e ment to the value of $6,000. with . That is a record that shoul< Id be be overlooked. sight COMMISSIONER LATHAN r and In the rU9h ?' K?tting out ? eens- PaPer on night of the ele id to a,l<* 'n 9?y'nK ? good word to ttacy, successful candidates, we ina< jently omitted Mr. B. M. Lathan was elected a member of the Bn in mlsstoners of public works, sui Clin- ing Mr. J. C. .Elliott, whose ter alone plres January 1. Mr. Lathan, hap- is a successful business man, ,lived in Lancaster for several |f??irr i i ii m*mn + THE LANCASTER NK 'Ah LOOKING y line g men tended TKN YKAR8 AGO THIS MONTH other j vomen (From the pUe8 of This placed December 14. 1907.) insti- Cotton 11 1-4 cents; seed 1 lty of cents. bust- The cotton dinner's report I jpaper Monday gives the number of >r two Binned to December 1 as 8,33: as compared with 10,027,863 or BO* up to the same date last year. jpaper One of the largest meetln good, democratic voters of the to^ idttors Lancaster that has ever been k often in the history of the town, was ters. in the covirt house on Tuesday paper, to nominate a ticket for mayo i the aldermen. There were three cl IC* as of the town presented for it viz: T. M. Hughes, W. T. Gr e lost and Harry Hines. Mr. nines' male Was withdrawn before the balli ecom- jjjjghpf, received the nomin t was lnK a for mayor. On the first ballo i with following received the nomin R the as aldermen, viz: Dr. W. F. L py out j poster Moore, E. W. Sistai r To- Mackorell, W. P. Davis and r, but Payseur. "have C. Brown caught a bi ,le re- 'possum one night this week lubur- trap set for a chicken killer, they time The Rev. W. A. Falrey, the e ad- pastor of the First Methodist ch e are arrived here Thursday, accomp over- by his ^mily. Mr. Falrey wi police cupy his pulpit tomorrow at th ation, ual hours, af all 11 the The many Lancaster friend sport- Mr. John VanDandingham, of < ssign- lotte, will be pleased to learn he hap so far recovered from h paper rent severe illness as to be ah aring go to his office. con- Governor Ansell issued a i will ment "to the people of South 1 it of "na" weeh 'n which he j that he has decided to beco wor | candidate for his present offiei ative, | another term. , fas- I " _ ounRjand is an excellent and public-s n on ed citizen. His talent for con? n 'n j live and mechanical work espei ;s on. fjts |,|,n for tlie servise he will form for the city. Mr. Dathan JBt. member of the firm of Robi id on Nathan company, and also hai ok a tensive farming interests in h his county. vhich + I Ilr. MA.IOItlTY SHOUIjD IU I-1 that The opinion is freely express' s ele, Concord and elsewhere that Gi Means will be acquitted or the s a(l" will fail to agree. The prophe perbased chiefly upon the senti '>i,n aroused by the activity of the Imin assistant district atto an<' John T. Pooling, who attempt* " r inject New York policies int( 'r courts of North Carolina, and w activity seemingly has react* ) see favor 0f the defendant. Wo suj an<' that we are sufficiently rem adorn from the scene of action to j I th<> without fear of contempt pro layor in^Si that Dooling's connection i and ,jlfi ,.aso is a mistake. It is no an<' actly a sectional issue that has ering raised, all)eit he comes down past *v,ovv York to prosecute a citize II 1'u> North Carolina in the fear, perl them tHat the North Carolina courts not fully qualified to dispense ment tire. We believe that sectional istra- Judice has disappeared from as in South, but It is nevertheless a o the that the tactics employed bj been New York lawyer has arrayed urlng lie sentiment against the pro ee of tion. and people well-informed I con- the progress of the trial expo* with- more than a mistrial or aoqu cy of In fact, the merits of the case 1 I > city being talked in Concord now, quip- ing given place to denunciator criticism of the New York it 1 not and his methods of examlnatloi cross-examination. We have never believed [. '.Means would be convicted, altt i late we have an open mind as 1 ctlon, guilt. Courts are not quick to r the vict a man of the social and bui Jvert- standing of the Means fami , who Cabarrus county on any evi com- j less than absolute, and should * eceed-j thing else fail the defender m ex- may yet rely upon that serior , who feet in the Jury system whereto has majority does not rule. A m years generally is In favor of the d< iWb FRIDAY, DEC. 14, 1917. BACKWARD |j I | | TWKNTY-FIVK YKAI18 AGO |! | | THIS MONTH. | Paper (From the Files of This Paper December 14. 1892.) 22 1-2 The Nettles prohibition bill passed its second reading in the house issued Monday n,sht by a vote of 69 to 47. bales ^ ,8 bought that there will be little 8 8 54 ?PP?B'tion to the bill on its third bales read'nS- Notice of amendments on the third reading having been given. Speaker Jones ruled that no gs of amendments could be offered on this ivn of reading without the unanimous connown 8ent of the house. So the prohlbi- l!Oc i held *'on k''1 has virtually passed the For 0 house and now awaits the action of YOU night Benate> ^ i and The cotton crop is now estimated ' tizens not to exceed 6,500.000 and mostj y* i?yi", probably less. 1 egory ^ ^,jie house ha8 repealed the antiname jree pasa ]aw py a Vote of 53 to 4 8. 0 Mr. D. A. Williams turned over ? the clerk's office to his successor, 1 Mr. W. W. Perry, yesterday. Mr. ia"on Williams has probably been the most ,anoJ faithful and efficient clerk the r^' ' county ever had. Mr. Lewis H. Elliott Is selling out preparatory to moving to Mississlp>K fat pi about the first of January. In a John T. Green. Esq., has moved to Lancaster and In the future will new practice his profession here, urch Wylle Is putting lumber upon anted the Moore lot preparatory to buildII oc- a dwelling on the corner of Main e us- an^ BtreetsOne day last week as Mr. Starnes was coming to town he saw a strange s ?' bird in a pond near Mrs. Lathan's. Char- apout a mile from town. Ho sucthat eroded in capturing it .after woundIs re- tt twice. It answers the descrlp '*e *? tlon given by Webster of the "stake-[ driver." being a very pretty bird PRO state- about the size of a guinea, and Its1 Caro- wings measures 4 5 inches from tip1 says to tip. This Is the same fowl that J? 1 me a is sometimes called "Indian Hen."( e for Its bill is sharp and measures four^ inches. _ J pirlt- ant, and by the time of a second ttruc- trial, public sentiment generally I dally wears into sympathy for the defend- _ per- ant. Mistrials likewise are expen- * > is a slve and cost the taxpayers large * nson- amounts of money that could be J s ex- saved were the majority permitted # i the to rule. James Canter in Virginia v has been tried so manv times for his V I life that it has become a habit. The V j Virginia court is now making an V effort for the sixth time to fix upon V ed in v '? iston brother has already paid the V 'death penalty. >! ^ j Too often trials of capital cases in ! ! . our courts are little less than far- '-'"i ment i , : v XT clcal. , f New , \ rney. """ iljl A, ,(j l() Has Written a Hook. j V % (Columbia Record.) i >? 1 ) ( hp , , Daniel C. Roper is a South Caro-: , hose linian much in the public eye. Mr. V ?d in Roper Is the tax collector of the >pose United States in war times?and, as . was stated in The Record Wednesday ' loved # by a special writer, he will cc""ct ' more money than any other man in * coed- the world's history. ? with Mr. Roper is so great that he is ' t ex- ,,pinK featured in the national week- * Q ly magazines, and one of thein ! e been. Ox S j speaks of him as the "tar heel from ' from j South Carolina." (Josh, such is * ciall n of fame. And he is a sand-lapper and * ??bil haps, not a tar heel after all. Next thing cenl i are we know. ^?orth Carolina, the State 0 of tar heels, will be trying to take * 1\1Sawav from us our Victor and Rupert _ pre- Hlue, two modest but successful i the brothers of Marion county, S. C. * fact What we started out to remark J r of Mr. Roper is this?he has written a book?the history of the United ? states postofflce. How in the world ? secu- this busy man ever found time to P as to write a book we do not know, but he y >t no has done it?and well, as usual. * ilttal. ? a not 'While the Undeniably beautiful |jJ * haT. but exceeding inconvenient enow ta Ijl An(? upon the ground it would seem that f?, mm* i ana ?? < iwyer a TerT *PPropriate, not to say val i mil uable and serviceable Christmas MIhh P present would be a load of two-foot Mn| ^ that woo<*' were m tcugh * Mr- 1 Q hl8 FLINT RIDGE. the Di: thin co ? con- Mr\ J. H. Crlmlnger killed a large j g g ilness hog last week which weighed about ftv In flvG hundred and fifty pounds. y .. o ? o . . . . ? Demoni dence Crlmlnger and family M have recehtly moved Into this coinivarv w pii If y" munlty from the Oakhurst section, it, he Miss Lottie Bowers has accepted Ther is de- the position of teacher of the Bethel h?m? < ,y the, school and Is away at this time per- dajr nl forming her duties. mensel 8 r a Mr. Otis Horton, grandson of Mr. The sfend- Douglas Horton, of this place, and munlty The Best Plac and Women i r r\ join uur-* CHRISTMf HOW: small weekly s real money?< Weekly 25c Weekly 5<>c O WeekwKor 50 Weeks JF?>r 51 W I L Lj YOU W I iTL YOU WE HAVE IL1 i.00 .$12.50 $2! m LAN LAN( //?f III W* WW "lou'll Be tia\ If You Save." 5o the Best Way foi Clothes Cleaning, Pr< OF OF THE f is to gr PUDDING THE EATING monstrai W LAMB TAIL* PI v I CHT.TSTMAS I i EANKIH C C u u ' w$? WWTm r^\ f-i- T? . ui ^iirisinms isanKing Clu mall means to start a banl ly invited to join. The cl ity to pay. 1 cent, 2 cent k,s, $1.00, $5.00 or any c'ut IN 50 WEEKS: 10-CENT CLUB &-CENT CLUB 2-CENT CLUB 1-CENT CLUB lake the largest payment its each week. This is a i ut your children into the ? Ve add 4 per cent interet HE FIRST NA LANCAST erlle Farmer, daughter of [annah Farmer, of Kerahaw, arrled recently. Qeorge Hair and family, from tie section, have moved into mmunlty on the farm of Mr. Ims. Flint Ridge Woman's Home stratlon club met with Mrs. \dams on Wednesday of this a was a fruit supper at the >f Mr. R. L. 81ms last Thuraght which was enjoyed 1my by all who attended, many friends In this comof Dr. J. o. 8tanley are very *"** "e?w?gaalua^? _ e Yet. for Men lo Save Easily + /?V WV tLUb ASK US: ravings ran into is shown below Weekly $1.00 Weekly *2.50 Weekly ) Weeks For 50 Weeks For 50 Weeks WILLI YOU WILL YOU WILL IVE HAVE HAVE >.00 I $50.00 $125.00 BANK OF | n t n Tm IAMLK :aster, s. c. apy p You to Discover That Our essing and Repairing Service IS DIFFERENT /e us an opportunity to dete the fact. ILL YOU DO THIS? ORING COMPANY, lone 356. y JOIN IT | YOU GET : , DAMX BOOK : WILL K START pi YOU. |:j ro WEEKS YC 1:1 LL HAVE 1:1 CO^E IN, 1:1 BOYS AND GIRLS. I-J ) ASK ABOUT IT |:| b is to make it easy for those III c account. Children are espe- PI ubs are arranged to lit their |*l s, 5 cents and 10 cents, or 50 I*| ) that is desired. PI PAYS $127.50 Pi PAYS 68.75 |t| PAYS 26.60 M PAYS 12.75 PI first and decrease your pay- PI irery popular way. Ijl club. Join yourself. PI lTIONAL RANK" 1:1 - ? ?? s&m |* ER, S. C. |: sorry to learn that he has left Heath Springe end sincerely wish him much success In hin new home. Offers Aid to Halifax. Washington, Dec. IS.?Secretary Daniels offered the Red Cross a. quantity of Bupplles for relief aV**' Halifax. Two ships under the direction of the nary already are at 1 Halifax doing what they can to relieve the situation, and another has been sent from Prorincetown, Mass., , with a hospital unit to co-operate I with the relief corps. The supplies at Portsmouth Include - 25,000 blankets and 600 stores.