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m ' m Tl * X VOL. 13. NO. 22. SEMI-W u LEGISLATURE WILL [ MEET ON TUESDAY j Liquor Legislation Will Hold Important Place on Program. MAY PASS BONE DRY LAW Several Candidates Out for Speaker of the House to Sue- | ceed James A. Hoyt, Who Moved to Detroit. Columbia, Jan. 3.?Machinery for the approaching legislative session, which opens next Tuesday, Is gradually getting In motion. The en* grossing department has assembled much of the necessary material for j the annual avalanche of new bills. , J. C. Townsend, chief clerk, said i i.vuu out covers naa been procured. ' It was emphasized that the cost this year Is approximately double that ot one year ago. J. Wilson Glbbes, clerk of the i house, Is engaging rooms for the members of the legislature. Nearly 200 members of the two houses and attaches come to Columbia with the opening of the general assembly. Hotels and boarding houses have been operating under capacity pressure of the time since tho organization of the cantonment last September and the placing of several hundred persons is a task of no insignifl- , cant proportions. Now Writing Message. Governor Manning is busily engaged in framing his annual message, but has given no hint as to the particular legislation that will be recommended. That the State will be asked to place itself fully and unselfishly behind the national plan to prosecute the war to a triumphal finish is assured. Measures which srll! tend to increase the nrndurtlrm of foodstuffs will In all likollhood be suggested. Support for the State Council of Defense will also be asked. Liquor legislation will also hold an Important place on the program.] Leaders of the prohibition sentiment j In the State will make a determined j fight to have the national prohibition j constitutional amendment ratified this session. South Carolina could be the first to ratify, if the two houses should act with dispatch. Effort will also be made to have a bone dry prohibition law passed in substitution for the quart a month act. Should this movement fall, another possible move will be made to further strengthen the quart a month law, to prevent flagrant violation. Legislators will also take cognizance of wholesale violation of the prohibition laws of the State through the sale of near beers, ciders and other soft drinks. Some plan will j be asked for State analysis of all brands shipped and sold. Several Vacancies. The first task before the house of representatives will be the election of a speaker to succeed James A. Hovt. who recently moved to De troit, Mich. Three candidates are! asking for this place: T. P. Cothran of Greenville, N. G. Evans of Edgefield and Joseph Berry of Orangeburg. Several other vacancies exist In the house, where members have Joined the colors and now hold commissions In the army. Some of these . are: Lumpkin of Richland county; ; McCutchen of Sumter; Mauldin of Greenville; Horton of Spartanburg; Paeaailalgue of Charleston; Rlchey of Laurens; Smith of Georgetown and Frlpp of Beaufort. Some of these are said to have asked for; leave of absence from the army and \ will attend the sessions of the legislature. Among the more important questions to be considered will be: Adequate support for the Home Guard, wb'ch has been organized to' take the place of the National Guard. Military training In the public schools of the State. Rearrangement of the conduct of the State department of agriculture. Adequate legislation for the support of the State council of defense. Amendments to the labor laws. Strict vagrancy laws to prevent loaflng In the cities and thereby provlde more labor for the farms of the (Continued on Page I) ?illi A'l'dini \ ~ me LA rEEKLY. I Washington Society V 1^ MMETBBt iMff^^Bx^g </ Prominent society women of Washington, 1 motor ambulance corps. Mrs. Harrlman is motor corps. All the members of the cori Bnlisted. The women in the ambulance sei British aviators. This photograph shows t the car. COTTON MILLS SHUT | DOWN AT NOON TODAY J Ijancaster Cotton Mills Not Included [ "B In lilst of 150 to Close I 8unBl I'nttl Monday. ^ Approximately 150 cotton mills ini > the piedmont section of North andj^^H South Carolina will he closed dowiJ^K 11 win nuuii unlay unui Monday ' morning on account of fuel shortage and low water in the streams of the y section, from which the hydro-elec- I trie power furnished them by the Southern Power company is developed, according to official announce- ('ipal ment from the ofhees of the com- Mr. pany Thursday afternoon. weat The company's own plants will not favo close down nor will any Industry other than cotton milling be affect-1 ed, according to the company's state- xw>re ment, which also says that there will cipal be no curtailment in the municipal wooc lighting systems in the Carolinas were which are supplied by the company.1 rj It is pointed out that only one full day will be lost by the cotton mills, is> 1 as they close from noon Saturday un- now til Monday morning under normal a flii conditions. They will be supplied ,.jou, with light as usual. I 8erv| The fact that the streams of the iter, section are frozen is a factor in the ness shortage of water power, and it is coun the hope of the company that milder t,ega weather between now and Monday afon will relieve the situation to a great clusi extent, both by melting the ice in the that streams and by melting the snow the which covers the section. i oonfl The News was informed this by tl morning by the Lancaster Cotton co-oi Mills that it was not included in the ernn list to close down and would run as aftci usual, as the mill is not using South- yard ern Power but makes its own. \ Mayl * i the CONTRIBUTE NOW TO | kn THE TOBACCO FUND inqu t ll 6 Total Amount Received to Date is | to o Only Ton Hollars ami Hoys Xeed Tobacco. BUi The Araerlcan men In France need American tobacco?the kind ^ they are accustomed to using. The fund t>eing raised by The Lancaster M News to provide them has reached only ten dollars. Contributions are slow, though every now and then someone realizes what it means to ci the hoys In the trenches to get a brok package of tobacco from home and desti makes a contribution. Elsewhere in bovo this paper is printed a coppon. Clip a la It out, fill in and mail with your con- the tributlon to this office. It should be on j remembered that every contribution peth of twenty-five cents sends a package t,y r of tobacco, the retail ve'ue of which aino is forty-five cunts, to a soldier In j.ioc France. Kr The contributions to date are as pjde follows: plan Previously reported $ 9.00 burn L. A. Graham, Lancaster, |nR < R. * 25 have F. M. Stogner, Lancaster, T1 R. 3 .25 Cam W. D. Lemmond, Lancaster. . 50 t^r* have Total . .910.00 estal t iNCASTI LANCASTER, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, Borneo Organize Red Cross Ambulance Corps 9 2jjj^^?^ JjuHBSf : k/'# v^JHBf,^B kjl under the leadership of Mrs. J. Borden Harrlman, ha now colonel of the organization, which Is known as )b had a year's experience in running their automobi rvlce wear a distinctive gray uniform that Is not unl .he entire corps, Mrs. Harriman being in the center, r NEGRO SERVAN BUD BIGGS SAYS? DAMAGING tack In the days of the balmy Tell of Doctor's Me line you used to talk about get- Time of His Br / tin' In wood intr? thi> I pearanc municipal woodyard. Mr. 0\ ? Editor," said Rud Riggs ^XLJL Goochland Court 1 as he took the last of , iyfc/ 4.?Damaging teatlm r ' our Christmas cigars Jb# and asked for a match, Asa W Chamberlal "and you spoke of the, here for the murder ' propitiousness o' the Judge Albert P. Chai "I weather, or words tojnight of October 22. -rLJ that effect, for gettin', . . , L?. . , terday by negro ser in wood into the munl-;by thp accused Rn(, woodyard. and you were right. | Br,u co,ore Editor, you were right. The Judge chamberlain, her was quite propitious, quite appearance of the lat rable, sodaspeak. when the sun actions on the part < shining bright and the roads ,a,n- IIe eorrobo ? . . given yesterday 1 i good. But there was no niun!-i ? Houchens. 1 woodyard to he gettin' the Boa(wrigh i into. Otherwise, your articles ployed by l)r chaml s all right. Mr. Editor, but so- about the movement dy laekin' in that resDect: that nhmit the timo < hp municipal woodyard, ri^ht appearance. She sai when the mercury la carryin' on slc,an had 8ent away relatives in Nebrasl rtation with old Col. Zero, is se- |hat thp njpht of th dy lackin*. And I have been ob- Judge Chamberlain in' in my observations. Mr. Ed- i)r. chamberlain retu of this here confiscatin' busi- having earlier in thi which was introduced in this he was to settle a try by the railroads when coal brother. She said h n to get scarce, and observin" as per an,i dismissed li Bsaid, I have reached the con- the house, she testi on that it may yet come to pass ,lark ?bject in the the woodyards hereabouts nnd (hat Dr. Chamberlai coalyards hereabouts will be was a ^nc of harness seated, or conscripted, as 'twere. The fo?owing m( le Hon. Mayor, who will in turn thftt Df Chamberlal rdinate them, like the Hon. Gov- ^ he had .<tamp( sent has done the railroads, and. ,n(o posltion They all. have a municipal wood- jnR jp thp,r ho)en ur to be gettin' the wood into. c]ared for mQre th, be next spring. Mr. Editor, when c,ean(ng the hoUHe birds begin to sing! Who f(>und (hat firft h{) V R ? *# the doctor's room, a and Hud heat it up the street to a^e rt'8arded as unu ire if a fellow is sick twice In '^at "ie doctor had t same month, will he permitted as^oa from the fire li rder two quarts. 'n "ie Cross-examination CKEYE COTTON OIL the woman's story. MILL SCENE OF FIRE ? A" PELLAGRA DEC IN SOUTI I housand Tons (>f Cottonseed, ucli llaKKiiiK, Warehouse and Deaths Front Tube Three Cottage* Iturn. Htate Also She OtT for I harlotte. -Jan. 4.?Fire which e out at 7 o'clock Tuesday night royed 6,000 tons of cottonseed. Columbia, Jan. 4. ral hundred tons of bugging and from pellagra in Sou rge warehouse all belonging to. ing ten months of 1 Buckeye Cotton OH mill located j vemher 1. wars 40.2 *Jorth Johnston Ktreet here, to-' ulation. a decrease f er with three cottages occupied 1 tire point, for a like legro families. The loss will tion for the same pei unt to between $200,000 and cording to the flgui 1,000, covered by insurance. the bureau of vital >r a time the fire threatened the State board of healt llty Cotton mill, two dairy of deaths from pellai ts and other buildings. The' period was 644, conr ting of a motor used in operat- for 1916. the elevator machinery is said to Tuberculosis, for i started the blase. in 1917 and 1916, s iree soldiers died Monday at from 111.4 for 100 p Greene of pneumonia. The tion to 109.2, In fa\ a who died make 20 deaths thatj The deaths from th< 1 occurred at the camp since its year's period was ! Dllahment. with 1,492 in l?lf. 1R NE 1918. iiCROXTON RI St FROM THE 1 Office Conflicts \V 1 OTHER MEMBER aC hief-of-Police Orr \ members were sworn ve organized a '?n,reM,ltly wrote lf the ned Croaa to k,,ow " bl" 0,1 lea before they conMwith hi, ? ike that of the b" ,he Sou,h Car? lear the eeat of abl1 ?aa did. Consequently, ] dressed a letter to ??? Tuesday apprising hi fTS GIVE an(* declining to qu man. TESTIMONY Mr ? . , Mr. Croxton s su< _ | elected at an electic ,,um( by the council. Un ivement-s About J vacancy occurring i other's Dis- more than 60 days regular election, an < called to fill the vac "" the vacancy is filled louse. Va.t Jan. I No intimation has b ony against Dr. 1 when an election wll in, boinc tried I Mr. Croxton has at hi. brother.! faithfully a. a memt ! of aldermen and his nberlaln, on thel^ regretted by man was given yes-. ^ meeting vants employed ' rpuesday chief-of-I'ol the dead man. wa9 rp-elected, and d. employed by ( eject0(j clerk and told of the dis- Ceeding E. C. Secres ter and peculiar ta^es a responsible r if I)r. Chamber- pir8t National Bank rated evidence T^e members of by Magistrate qual|fle(l are A. J | Witherspoon. Hazel t, colored, em- Brittain and O. C. berlain. testified | _ ^? s of the doctor J WHO HAS BEEN he judge's dis- poSTMASTEF d that the phy-1 his wife to visit ! ca. She swore ?e Hears His Wre e day on which , a I vice lias Been was last seen. irned home late. Standard of 1*' e day said that note aue nis e ate little sup-, Washington, Jan. ler. In leaving General Albert Sidii fled, she saw a 1 sued a New Year pre path. She said : rials and employes n told her this department in whirl ' 1 "Information receive* >rning she said many sourres shows n informed her 's now conducted pd" fence posts standard of efficiency had been stand- All hail to this val itamped, she de- formation received an a week. In hundreds of thousan that day she the United States m id been built in where Mr. Burleson condition which reports. During thi sual. She swore cording to reliable i old her that the sibly not "everybody ad been dumped vice under Mr. Hurl curtailment of expen failed to shake ,ho wor?t in ,ho l?if?t ular branch of the g i deliveries have been 'REASING delays have taken pi been lost in transit 1 C AROLINA (ho patrons of Uncle ? department have be _ most unsatisfactory rt'iiKwix in im* . . be true that Mr. Bu i\v Falling the government ftom | ho doing it he has c service in all dire ? brought down upon ?The mortality slstants sharp critic th Carolina dur-| ? 917, ending No RRITISH ARMOl per 10,000 pop- WILL TOUR rom 41.2 an en unit of popula- ? , _ ? "Britannia Will He rlod In 1916. ac es compiled by suiting Tour ol statistics of the States on Jai h. The number, ?ra for the 1917 New York. Jan. 4. ipared with 653 jjiye impetus to enl British and Canar the same period British armored t hows a decrease will be started on a ,000 of popula- of the United States 'or of last year, it was announced th ) disease in last been turned over tc 1,4 80, compared crulting mission by oA??. / I , 'j Jl'L! J. I :ws SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR Af/tktM I m - ?? ? SlbNS NINETY-ONE HAVE COUNCIL BEEN CLASSIFIED itH Member- These Go Into First Class and arolina Tax Will He Subject to Call at eview. Any Time. S SWORN IN OTHER LISTS NOT MADE I is Re-Elected ! Chief of Police Ordered to Round I Succeeds E. Up Eighteen Registrants Who Clerk and Have Failed to File Questionnaries. nember of the The local board for the county of . . . , Lancaster has classified 91 regiBld re-elected on trants In Class 1 under the new t qualify ues" questionnaire regulations. Theee newly elected J have filed their questionnarles propin. Mr. Crox- erly filled In. No list has been made le attorney-gen- 0f those assigned to the other classes, rice as alderman jn connection with the filing of ffice as a mem- questionnarles, the local board re>llna Tax Board quests that the following a? advised that It printed: Mr. Croxton ad- T1 a 0. . _ . _ _ Mr. R. S. Stewart, Lancaster, S. C.: Mayor Stewart T , . A. . Dear Sir: I neglected to answer Im of the facts one of the questions in your letter alify as alderof December 26th. I can find no rule or regulations that permits the ?cessor will be extension of time for a registrant >n to be called to fjje ^ig questionnaire. der the law, a _ , ,??.*, , , Seven days is the time fixed for n the council , . . , . . . registrants to file their questionbefore the next . , , . naires and ought to be ample time ;lection must be ? for him to do so. ancy, otherwise ^ours very truly, by the council. _. . . _ .. Richard E. Carwile, een made as to _ A , . _ _ _ , . , , ,, , Captain in O. R. C. and Officer in 1 be called. ... _> Charge of S. S. R. served the city. jjg^ eiassjfied in Class 1 fol?er of the board ! jOW8. retirement will w_ List Classified in CTlass One. v citizens Charley Knight, Lancaster. S. C. of the council Doctor C. Outen, Kershaw, S. C. lice J. E. Orr Brady Wright, Tradesvllle, S. C. W. II. Reed was Joseph Montgomery, Lancaster, treasurer, sue- g p. 4 t, resigned, who Willie Adams, Kershaw. S. C., No. >osition with the; ^ of Lancaster. _ , Wm. T. Gregory, Jr., Lancuster, the council who g ^ , Gregory, Hazel! ... . ? Henry D. Welsh, Lancaster, S. C. Ferguson, Max! T . T11 , .vilover v^. ouunncy, Lancaster, o. Blackmon. C., No. 5. \ KIDDING Jim Sadler, I^ancastcr, S. C. > /-pvpij 41 o William E. Hudson, Lancaster, C ueiINEIKAL. j, ^ | Hoyt Glover Bailoy, Heath trhed Mall Ser-: Springs, S. C. "at Highest ' David A. Blackmon. Lancaster, ? | S. C. Potee Truesdale, Pleasant Hill, | S. C. 4.?Postmaster-' Wm. L. Flynn. Lancaster, S. C., 6. ley Burleson is- Albert Bennett. Kershaw, S. C., 3. eting to the otfl- ; Charlie McCorkle, Lancaster, S. C. of the postoffice | Robt. L. Mills. Lancaster, S. C. i he states that; James S. Bennett, Lancaster. S. :1 by me through (\. 3. that the service, "Ernest Stevens. Lancaster. S. C., 3 at the highest Willie Barnes, Lancaster S. C., 3. r in its history." j Qatroy Moore, Van Wyck, S. C. uable hit of in- | John Lucas. Kershaw, S. C., No. 3. by me for the Hamp Kirkland. Kershaw, S. C., ds of patrons of j ails will wonder , ,, , .... , 0 ~ James E. Little Lancaster, S. C., got hold of such ^ >ear 1917, ac- sPTm,el J. Starr.es. Lancaster, S. C. ntormatlon p?S- V(,rn ?a(r ,.anfnatcr, s. r. ', the mail ser-1 ^ ? m Pomrov Williams, Florence, 511 esori'a system of . ,, _ _ Jefferson St.. S. C. ditures has been; . .. ?. ? _ orv of that pop- 1 "iversiae. s. t:. overnment. Mail ? rhar1^ M R?88. Waxhaw. N. C.. cut off. serious ^?" ace, letters have Walter Wat,s' ^"caster. 9. C.. No 1 , and altogether ' ' * Sam's postofflee Ralph H. Hammond. Lancaster, i s c en treated to a " service It may Prank Ghent. Lancaster, 9. C. rleson has saved James L" Ba"ard. Heath Springs, e money, but in rippled the mail John W Jordan- Chesterfield. S. C. ctions and has Ernest "room. Kershaw. S. C. him and his as- George R. Howey, Osceola. S. C. Iam Henj. J. Hilton, Tradesville, S. C. j Robert Gasklns, Lancaster, S. C., IED T \NK ' rpiip cniPTU -Tohn w Wilson. Lancaster, S. C. lUU1" Aznriah Clifton. Van Wyck. S. C. I William C. Taylor, Lancaster, S. i Started on J*e-1 0., No. 7. ! the United ' Oavid P. Roberts, Lancaster, S. C. niary 14 Frank Clyburn, Lancaster, S. C., I No. 8. ? | Arthur 9weat, Riverside, 9. C. ?In an effort toi Wm. J. Catoe, Kershaw, S. C. listments in thej Phillip Laney, Kershaw, S. C., No. lian forces, the' 3 ank "Britannia" wm. H. Adams. Lancaster, 9, C. . recruiting tour pftVld L. Orr. Lancaster. 9. C. on January 14. Oscar Miller, Kershaw, 3. C., No. 3 lat the tank had Robert L. 9lstare, Lancaster. 9. C. ? the British re- Feoler Blakeney. I.*ncaster, 9. C., the London war ???. (Continued on Pa?? > J 1