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Kifw1UESDAY, JANUARY 8, 19 = Id . J* THIS LANCASTER NE? rS, LANCASTER, S. C. PA T IGE THREE ~ ?5V r Lanca: >ter De partnw :nt Stoi res f8 II % Ihe Best Place To Shop ices Now Lowerec Alter All f On Women's an Suits nnA Dresse* d Misses' Fine Cc 2 ?tats l' TRUTH IX ADVKll itop These are days of opportu tuse prices have Ijeen lower ,e offerings. You can easil ;e prevail. ats. Suits and Dresses that sold nitv?the best days of the ed on all line coats, suits i y afford an extra coat suit for 0**7 i Coats. Suit 9 year in which to huv appa ind dresses. 'Pake advanta or dress when such low pri< [s and Ih'Puuuu iH-ii ??' ? ? rol? ?e of 'cs as a. moment s renecuon wi most skeptical how foolish us to make statements th lect. Our reputation and the 1 noss, depends on the accui vertisements. Knowing likely that we would m that could be questioned, would result In nnr everln ii convince me j? ? n it would be for at were tncor- y | J ife of our busi- H acy of our ad- M//' I I this, it is not V/ H jii ake statements //, I fll Such a course stinir riiRrrpdlt. '//jfflt M *Kf/ ?f ?0 now ats, Suits and Dresses that sold >0 now iats. Suits and Dresses that sold )0 now .... $15.00 now.. for (t* | | Qt" Coats. Suit . . j $22.50 now.. for /)? Coats, Suii . . . ,*P 1 O.i/O $30.00 and $ - - ? ? - vnuv cum iui 9 is and Dresses that sold for $1 t,s and Dresses that sold for -t SR.ftfl nnur " ' 8.95 4.95 9.95 We stand behind every a we make good. Only in tl earn or deserve your patronage. EVER .dvertisement? /jiy tiis way can we Ajjfe f I friendship and j ^\\ Y KIND OF SHO $15.< E FOR EVERY h le lot of Suits and Coats that sold )0. Not this season's styles. Spot UND OF PERSOl up to An or One lot of :lal. . $30.00. Not V f ? T- ? Suits and Coats that sold up to ^ this season's styles. Special . . A i\ n 5.95 Each of us, if o worn by other peoph include just what we You will find tin children and men, wl; cured for so little mo ?ur tastes, our pocketbooks 2. And if wc are to get tluj want. it this is such a store. And tich we have now. You woi ney. i and our foot arc to bo si so shoos we've got to go v you'll be be especially pic ild hardly believe so much lited, needs shoes differonl /here the variety is sufficie used by the stock of Shoe? quality and so much style < j \ t from those k>rV ntly wide to ; for women, / Vl / ;ould he pro ^3 Children's ? Women's SI Men's Shoes ihoes Now Priced Forr loes Now Priced For 5 Now Priced ? tier Prices $1.25 to $4.50 mer Prices $2.75 to $12.50 $1.00 to i * $2.25 to j $2.95 to 1 ?3.50 r?]\ ?S. 75 (A\ 17.95 ^ V 1. INCREASED YIELD H iv * nm f?fl a Foi i 1917, the figures having been piled by the Bureau of crop mates of the United States D mer Prices $3.25 to $9.00 com- l-'KOKKAL IXSPKOTOK OF Kati- EXPLOSIONS IN NC epart- Norfolk, Va., Jan. 4.?Jui % j NEW YORK COURTS )'lh0,iK I AFTER CASTONS Ige Mar-j > ARE PERSHING REPOIi ; MEANS FIVE MOR ITS LYNCHINGS IN E DEATHS DURING VI Ill SOUTH EAR CLOSED UUKlNli rAM YfcA * In South Carolina Cotton Sho Forty-five Pounds Increase to the Acre. V ' ment of Agriculture and made able for publication through tl I flee of field agent for South Car ws ^ will be observed from the J mary that the total acreage pi ! during the year just ended, e: | ing minor crops and including i tillage of hay with grain, wa avail- tin W. Williams, federal insj le of- explosives, arrived in Norf olina. day afternoon, from Annlsti sum- to institute an investigation [anted origin of the flres which swe xclud- Granby street Tuesday. t inter- here on telegraphic ordt is ap- Washington. He immedtat lector of| ; Charges Made That He A| oik Frijn Ala to '"s Own Use I'uiuk into the King's Estate. pt lower le came New York, Jan. 7.?A >rs from math of the trial of Gastoi elv held acquitted at Concord, N. ppropriatocl Throe of Tliom Wer i of Mrs. South Carolina?. Natural Cnu s an after- WashinRton, Jan. 7 n B. Means, j shinp today reported t C.. of the partment the followini e Men Prom One in South 4'jiroli Ml Prom Rfnia, Six in Geoi ses. Tennes! .?Gen. Per- Tuskegee. Ala., o the war de- Moton, president of Z deaths frnm i ina, Oiu* in Vir ?ia, Tlirec in <w. Jan. 7.?R. R. Tuskegee Insti WHEAT WAS LITTLE LE Tobacco and Corn Show Increi ed Acreage and Increased P duction WTtile Peanuts Sho No Change Except in Price I gg proximately 6,200,000 acres, as ' pared with 6,950,000 acres In j or an Increase of a little more . 4 per cent. ro_ J Substantial increases in ai ' and production are noted li WS : crops, except wheat, oats and I f Ho Ho/trooan In /.a ?/v i com- a conference with Maj. C. C 1916, chief of police. i than normally low temperatures and May; and the unseason .reago wea^er (juring uie jate spi a all earjy summer prevented 1 hay, growth and development, bu , ' . murder of Mrs. Maude t *' Zei"' affidavit was tiled in tl court here Saturday, alle, ? feet, the appropriation o in April longing to Mrs. King n- 1 ably dry by Moans for the benefit ring and nn,i his wife. normal Tfae affl(javit was m t weath- temporary administrator i. King, an natural causes: lie supreme Private Richard Ka King, in ef- January 3, pneumoni f funds be- address, Peter Rennet ' ' '** ",apJ town, S. C. ol Himself Private Charlie \V company, January 3 ade by the emergency address. Ed of Mrs.! cle, Clearwater, Fla. iun- uas announced records kept by the dy. stevedore,| ord8 and research < a; emergency J ^re were 3 , uncle Eady-1 I ed during 1917, of illiams, labor negroes and two t. pneumonia; Thirty-seven were i . German, un- woman. Twelve we that rrom the division of recof Tuskegee In8 persons lynchwhom T6 v. re were whito. men and one a re charged with Saluda, S. C., Jan. 7.?B. B. Hi field agent for South Carolina, s mits the following summary of timates of acreage, yield per a< production, price, total value i value per acre of the leading c.r v?.u uovi vaor iu I cici oilLU iu being due to the severe freeze ire, lnK ??rly P{irt of February much of the grain was comj destroyed. Winter and sprint es- dens throughout the State and ,_e tlcally all of the early truck in the coastal plain were kill severely injured by the sam DDR III Wttt' wiiuiiiuiio ?ric V I jr | i dur- at harvest time and during when making it possible to harvt detely tically all crops in a most < ? gar- condition. prac- The summary of acreage, 1 crops |ej Qr acre, total production, prii ie low and value per acre for uvuiauie KjnK>s eatate in an action the fall, prevent Mrs. Means frot at prac- out money deposited in h excellent Corn ^Exchange Hank j The affidavit alleges thi yield per chanKp from humble clr to apparent prosperity ce. total jy^panR an(j his wife short various became Mrs. King's which is to ! Private Richard Moc n drawing' January 3. pneunioni ier name in address. J. A. Moody, here. S. C. at a sudden Private Isaac Willia cumstances January 4. pneumonia came to address, Maggie Wi ly after he Chappells, S. C. confidential Private George \V. I i i i ill l Hit I tthHilUll or xly. stevedore, j?ai assault, la; emergency! The states in whl wife. Neesea.j <uired and n uml>ei were as follows; ms. stevedore. Alabama 4; Avka emergency t. Florida 1; Georf lliams, wife, >; Louisiana 5; Mis tana 1; Oklahoma Dillard. steve- |jna Tennessee. 2 aiiemptea crunch lynchings ocr in each State nsas 4; Arizona ;ia 6; Kentucky sissippi 1 ; Mon1 ; South Caro: Tpt?c fi Vir_ grown in South Carolina In 1916 i Crop*. Acrea Corn 1916 2,065,1 Corn 1917 2.313.< Wheat 1916 210; V ' , temperature^ Germination of ^ spring: plantings was delayed I l Yield per Acre. Productic 000 . 15.6 bu. 32,008,000 000 19.0 bu. 43.947,000 000 10.6 bu. 2,226,000 most' crops in South Carolina for 1 t>y ab- 1917 follows: >n. Price. Total Value. P bu* $ 1.13 '$ 36.169,000 \ ba 1.92 84,738.600 ^U- 1 80 A 907 noo 1916 and agent, handling sums fi gregating Reveral hundre _ dollars. It is alleged tl lected these sums, but tti Value | ords fail to show the 'er Acre, thousands of dollars to 1 1 17.32 account. 36.46 ?n the ot<her hand, it 9n ai that In addition to the! or her ag-jdore, January 5, d thousand I emergency address. CM lat he col- j R. F. I). No. 3. Rox 86 lat the rec- j ? deposit of ' fOlil'MHIA SCHOOLS Mrs King's CHICOHA DKF] Columbia. S. C.. Jan is alleged. of the acute fuel short r increased cora College for Wome pneumonia; j.jnja i; Wyoming 1 inrlle Dillard, . Forsyth Ga. L|ft|e Thjngs 1 The sunshine of Hi AND very little beams thi KK orKXING the time. To give up u 7.?Because giving up will prev< age here Chi- to yield, when persl n has derided "* 1rot others; to g _ w rnthor thnn c*r\mr\ o rr< 'hat Count, fo Is made np cf at are bright all something, whea ?nt unhapplneas: Isting will chafe ;o a little around riimit a r* Athoi- f/v Wheat: 1917 176. Oats. . .1916 6OO.1 Oats 1916 400, Rye 1916 10, Rye 1917 17. Potatoes, Irish ...1916 10, Potatoes, Irish ...1917 16, ^weet Potatoes ...1916 66, 000 10.6 bu 1.838.000 000 18.0 bu. 9,000,000 000 16.0 bu. 6.000,000 000 9.8 bu. 98,000 000 10.0 bu. 170.000 000 76.0 bu. 750,000 000 96.0 bu. 1,440,000 000 85.0 bu. 5.676.000 bU' 2.90 6.330,000 1.00 6.000.000 .80 7.200.000 1.86 181,000 2.86 434.000 1.75 1.312,000 bU' 2.10 3,024.000 bu. I expend it urea Means and 30.45 i have operated bank accou 15.00 own names. It Is specifit 14.40 ed that part of the mone; 10 15 ' to Kin* 111,1,1 col'ect ?o ! i*1* 'n oQe instance to $ 23.50 ! ! used to create tne Corr 131.25 account for Mrs. 201.60 volved in the litigation. I his wife 10 P?8*P?ne 11s reopeni nts in their uary *& ?ally charg- Similar action was y belonging Columbia city schools ed amount- main closed until Jam 10,000 was ? Exchange Means inKnthprett h inn until jan- - * ! tnke nn 111 look or n . ly, rcthcr than reset taken by the f^ese are the wnys which will re- nn(j stonn3 nro kept < lary 14. nnd at end y sunshine ill CntnYrh Rr/in/ cross word quiet* it or return it? In which clouds >fT nnd a pleasant secured. *hiftc Sweet Potatoes ...1917 80, Tobacco 1916 39, Tobacco 1917 72, Hay, tame 1916 255, frHay, tame 1917 250, W Hay, wild 1916 10, ' Hay, wild 1917 10, r Cotton 1916 2,780, Cotton 1917 2.876. 000 95.0 bu. 7.600,000 000 250.0 lbs. 20.280,000 000 710.0 lbs. 51,120,000 000 1,3 tons 332.000 I 000 1.12 tons 280,000 000 1.26 tons 12.000 000 1.05 tons 10,000 000 *160 lbs. 932,000 000 9>rtR lha 1 91R ftdft . K !> 4 ,815 5,000 bu- 1.04 7904.000 lbs. ,14 2,839,000 lba. 23.1 11.809,000 tons 16.70 5.544.000 tons 20.60 5,768,000 tons 15.80 190.000 tons 20.90 209,000 bals 19.6 91,319.000 hfllo I O A 1Tr OTA AAA 73.10 . 98.80 (iltKEN VIIJyE S<' 11 < >(> I ,S 72.80 S1SPF.M) R Oreenville, S. C., Jai 23 07 dft,e ^or t*,e ?Pftn'nK of t 19 75 5,r'100'B following th< 21 94 ho,,days *iaa ^eon advan ruary 4. one month lat< U 1 >U V . , , ro ?? original time set, on acc ,,ONT" Asthmi ti.v 7.?'The he city pub- r(fj the "Vap-O-Rub" ' > Christmas lieves by Inhalation i ced to Feb- lion. No Stomacl sr than the No nPOd to disturb yo OUlIt of the internal medicinea for j m m+y m^m vim i, Head or Chest gradients are released in Treatment?Re- Theso soothing, medioa und Abaorp- haled all night long thr I. n?.in<r ' K08 to tlie lu?ga, looet (i Doting. soothing the inflamed n ur stomach with ing the body cells to dr these troubles, intr cfirms. Colds? tbo form of Y^pora. .ted vapors are in. ough the air pass*, sniug the phlegm, nembrane, and aid. ive oat the invad. Peanuts 1916 10, Peanuts 1817 10, Pounds of lint 000 46.0 bu. 450,000 000 45.0 bu. 450,000 tj O . -? * I u,o I u,uuu bu. 1.32 594,000 bu. 2.25 1,012',000 OO.04 59.40 flhorta*e of coal. The 101 25 *a,ten hy the board of tr It was learned that hardl; a day's supply of coal a t,e wood was In the city. action was Vick'n "Vap-O-Rub" Sab y more than applied to the heat of th< nd very lit- I VICK'L -e, combines by a In addition, Vick's id Thymol, Euca- tho poree, reducing the Tar, so that when taking out that tighto s body, these in- 25c, 50c, or $1.00. At i > absorbed throogh inflammation and ieaa and aoreqaaa. all drogglirtaiK* ILVE I