The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, March 26, 1918, Page PAGE FIVE, Image 5
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 191
CONFIDENT HUNS
WILL NOT SUCCEE
(Continued from Page 1.)
i the French nn<! hrltUh
not been broken, the Germans so fi
W have completely failed In their c
tensive, as I see It, for the torrltoi
they have Rained is worth absolute
nothing from a military view. Tin
have not pierced the British line, m
have they pierced the lines of the s
lied armies. Until this is accot
plished, the Germans have tailed
accomplishing the end they desire
and, if reports be true that the Ge
man commander planned an eve
oping movement, by which to dri
the British armies westward towai
1he coast, he certainly has failed i
far, everywhere the'Huns are fact
by a solid line of British or Frenc
So long as the line holds, all will I
well.
"At no point have the Gertnai
leached the old battle line we he
for over two years. Tit's b" i't" Mi
to which the Gert. aus rot rented ,i
tor the battle of the Marno, and it
the line from which the Germans n
tj mies withdrew March 13. 1317. Th
?. ~ ?- At
11iic, uui, uvicusu n oi us mere, are
Just as line condition as they were tl
day the allied troops left tho
trenches to follow up the retreat
' the Germans. If it should be th
Field Marshal Hair's troops and t!
French forces are driven back ns f
as that line. It will offer prepan
defense works for the finest kind
a stubborn stand. No one shou
think for a moment that I'arls
threatened as yet.
K\|>ectN Ri)( Change Soon.
"The time will come, probab
within a few days, when the allii
troops can begin heavy counter t
tacks. The present retreat has sa
ed the British and French from tl
the awful losses the Germans rnu
have suffered. The German ran
are being thinned, while the ran
of our soldiers and of the British a
being conserved as much as possib
for the supreme moment, when o
side shall begin an attempt to smai
the Germans, when the tide of thf
rush is stemmed and before they ha
time to dig themselves in.
"Right now the main thing for tl
allied rorces is to keep their lines i
tact, and for the Ilrltish and Fren<
to retain their close contact, and i
tire in good order.
"We cannot lay great stress up?
the loss of these several little t'owr
NOTICE
Beginning March 31st, 191
the banks of Lancaster, S. *(
will observe the followir
hours: Open 10.00 a. m.; clo:
/ 4.00 p. m., until September Is
1918, or until further notice.
Farmers Bank & Trust Co.,
First National Bank,
Bank of Lancaster.
44-3t.
j Confidence li
Reserve Be
Played an important ]
ness from the adverse
| outbreak of the Europ<
to keep business on an
This system, with i
tower of strength to tli
of it, and will assist th
ments which they may
I By depositing your
Y the protection and th
I membership in the sys
?1
FIRST NA1
LANC/
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nor can the Germans claim in their
D capture accomplishments of military
value. Most of them are nothing but
ruins, left so by the Hun when he
retreated in March, 1917. Also, the
a8 ground over which the Germans have
ar advanced is almost tlat, with very
few hills, all of which are low. The
ry French are retaining possession ot
jy the valuable Chemln-des-Danes ridK \
Sy If the retreat of the British should of
9r necessity, be continued a few miler
further, they will arrive at a range
n_ of somewhat higher hills, where opjn
portunities for defensive warfare art
,j much better. Somewhere back there
the British have selected a line upon
jl_ which they expect to make a determVP
ined stand, and that line now is being
|.(j prepared. That Ib why I say we al:
go must have full confidence in the outBlj
come being in our favor, and wait
^ <Everyone must remain cool blooded
lje Just keep in your mind the tho igl?,
that the Germans cannot break tht
tl8 allies' line and that their offensive
Id will fail."
i"
;3 SOCIAL NEWS
By MISS GLADYS M. JONES,
lit 'Phone 44.
in
ie
Mrs. L. A. Watts returned to hei
se
# home in Knoxville, Tenn.. vester?f
.
at day'
fie ?
ar Mrs. M. J. Perry will go to Columed
bia tomorrow to attend a meeting ol
of the state council of defense.
Id
is
Mrs. Morrow Ivy, who has beer
I vlaiMno I " l? ' ' *
..? ....o. ?. it. i \iafi,. iciuruca n
her home in Rock Hill Saturday.
ly
Drs. C. R. and R. K. Foster mo
v_ tored to Tiuimonsville Friday,
he ?o?
ist Miss Juanita Neely spent the week
ks end at her home in Rock Hill,
ka ?o?
16 Mr. and Mrs. R. 13. Mackey have
'?1' returned home from Baltimore, Md.
ur where the former has been undei
8,1 treatment at Johns Hopkins hospittl
!tr o
ve VVm. I'oag and Jas. Drennan re
turned to Rock Hill Saturday, aftei
spending a few days with the letter's
n* father, W. E. Drennan.
ch ?o?
'e* Misses Edna Bailey, of Elgin, am
Annie Belle Hunter. of Ileatl
Jt1 Springs, were in town between trains
IS> on Saturday.
Mrs. It. N. VanLandingham am;
daughter. Martha, spent the week
end in Heath Springs.
?o?
Mrs. M. S. Witherspoon and chilg
dren, Mary Dunnon and Marior
^ Simins, returned home Saturday
J"> from Rock Hill.
?o?
Mrs. O. C. Blackmon went to the
se
Rock Hill infirmary Sunday, accom
panied by her husband.
?o?
Max Brlttain, Thurlow Gregory
JaH. Hathcoek and Audrey Cauthen
left Sunday for Detroit, Mich., for
the purpose of driving automobiles
back through the country.
"N
n The Federal
inking System
art in the recovery of bnsiconditious
following the
ean war, and is still helping
i even keel.
ts immense resources, is a
e banks which are members
em in any financial rcquirebe
called upon to meet.
money with us you receive
e new facilities which our
tern enables us to offer you.
rHE?
riONAL BANK
lSTER, S. C.
THE LANCASTER NEWS, Li
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THE NEWS ABOUT TOWN v
: I
Saturday a llusy Day. ! ___
Saturday was one of the busiest
1 days of the early spring with the
merchants of Lancaster. There
were many people In town from the
country districts, due largely to the
1 fact that the ground was too wet to
1 permit farm work.
i; uu?R 1IIIN Heck.
? The General Sessions court coni
vened at Chester yesterday. Judge
Prince presiding. The case of It. M.
Giles, charged with the murder of
: E. A. Ivester, at Great Falls on Jan
uary 22, is set for trial at this term. i
?o?
Will Open llrnnch Store.
The Hennett-Terry company, of p
s this city. Is preparing to erect a
handsome two-story brick building ?in
Hamlet. N. C., and will open a
branch store there. L. H. T >rry, secretary
and treasuer of the company,
, spent s -ve.ral days in Hamlet last |
week making preliminary arrange- I I
j ments for the building. W. P. Hen- * '
] nett is president, and W. H. Terry, f
vice-president of the company. ^
Appreciates Tlie News.
A subscriber at Heath Springs, enclosing
check to renew his subscrlp.
tlon, says: "I can't hardly do withj
out The Lancaster News. It's like a
letter from home when I was a boy
fifty-six years ago on the battlefields I
I of Virginia." 1
> I ??~ S
Everybody Talks War. 8
Thnen Koo * *
I ...Vic una 1-1.M-iH-Miiy ix'Ml II o SUDj
jeot of conversation in l^ancaster dur.
ing the past few days except the Gerj
man offensive on the western front.
Newstroys have been selling out of
. the dally papers in a few minutes after
receiving them. ?
?O? 1 ii
Mr. Murchison at (Ticstw. I .
> i
Rev. Hugh R. Murchison. field re ;
presentatlve of the state council of
r defense, and Col. A. L. Gaston I ' "
' j spoke yesterday at Chester at a meet- I I j<
1 ing of the Chester county council of I
j defense. 1
; I To
Give Cantata.
A Cantata consisting of more than
one hundred children from the Cen1
tral school will be given at the ^
1 Maekey opera house on Friday,
1 | April 5, for the benefit of the Junior
' Red Cross. Miss Mackey has given
I the house on very liberal terms in or- j
' der to be of assistance in this patri- \
' otic cause of relief of distress abroad.
. Further announcement will be given
, in the paper pertaining to the nature /
, of the play. ^
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Another Fire 1 esterday.
I The fire alarm yesterday afternoon
at 2:10 took the fire department to
> the cottage of Lee Steele on Catawba I
street where sparks from u kitchen I
I flue had set fire to the shingle roof. Z
j The blaze was extinguished with 1
, i chemicals and the damage was slight. ig
Must Sign Name. 1
, The News is constantly receiving N __
communications unsigned, which, ac- I
cording to a long-established rule,
I find their way to the wastebasket beI
cause we do not know the name of
, the author. All communications
| must be accompanied by the name of !
I the writer, net for pubrcalion, but I
j to show good faith. j
I Catarrhal Oeafnt ss Cannot Be Cured n 11
' b lor .I ;?in llcatlon i. ua thyy cannot reach
i tt.o <1 .; * .1 portion Of the ear. Thcr? u T>"
o. ly i ji>- :o c ire catarrhal de&fnrak, -Dad
t.,.( in t>y a constitutional remedy.
C tlarrl..il Oralnear I* canard by an In?
mid l .ditlon ol tiir niucoua lining of b,
t e Eustachian T' r. When thla tube la
li I'i'iicd you hove . lutrbl',,,- acund or lmp
hearing, ni I who r. It la entirely
c ?. ,? afiiraa la lb- i null, t'nleaa the l'r
li l.?:n uii'loii can b' i.ilu ed and thla tuba j
i'. itorid to its not nal < oniMtlon, hearing llil
w.ll be dc-'i - d f..rover. -Many casta of
d I'fposa . ?? by catarrh, which la \\'l
a. ,| rsi." of the mucouu aurfi
coe. .!?.! _ CH'irrh Medicine acta thru
tl < * 'ood ou tno mucoua surfacea of the 1
?; *> \ l
V\ w.'.I alve One Hundred Oollara for
a at ot " t rl. .1 >? nfrn j# that cannot
b< trr 1 i 'Ij a Htavrh Medicine. Clrcn.ara
All Or ire'ata. 76r.
i ^ CHKN.dV Ai CO.. Toledo. O
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
| Whereas nii?.thlrd n'
I holders and one-third of the electors
of the age of 21 years, residing in
Taxahaw school district, No. 27, have
petitioned the county board of education
to order an election to deteniine
whether or not an additional
tax of 4 mills shall he levied on all
real and personal property for school ?*
purposes. " *
We hereby order said election to | ~"
be held by the trustees in said Taxahaw
school district. No. 27, on Wednesday,
April 10th at the school III
house. |*1
At which election only such eiectors
as return real or personal prop-j
erty for taxation and exhibit thHr
tax receipts and registration certifl- *.
cates shall be allowed to vote.
The opening and closing hours
shall be the same as In all general .M
elections.
V. A. LINO EE, ,
J. K. CONNORS, p
W. B. TWITTY,
County Board of Education, mmmm
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HwFillHBM'iy liHIUw ^TiiiTilPf^i^'"nytH^ nn
INCASTER, S. C.
*ODMAN-\V
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LiUdlCf I
A wonderful selection
'resses, Waists and Skirts
f Ready-to-wear priced sp
ing easy at this store. ::
SPECIAL FOR EASTER TRADE
i Ladies'Spring Waists in Voiles,
repe de Chines and Georgettes.
Something New And Different
adies* Waists, $1.38 value, at ... .98c
adies' Crepe de Chine Waists. Priced
as low as $9,.25, $2.48, $2.95 and $3.50
adies' $2.50 Silk Waists. Special $1.98
sidies' (ieorgette Waists. Priced
$3.95, $4.50, $4.95 and up
LADIES' COAT SUITS
What is nicer than a New
Wp; Coat Suit for Easter?
Priced
$10.00, $12.48, $14.95, $17.50,
: V $24.75 and up.
I ;|\ EASTER COATS
' ff/S A beautiful collection of
1 , /1 New Spring Coats assembled
\ 1 7 here for Easter in all the
'All //', new spring shades and styles
\\\ (//' up-to-minute.
Priced
Jfik $10.00, $13.95, $14.95, $16.50,
1^, $17.95, $22.50, $24.75 and up
Men's fcai
The majority of folks are thinking;
ore of quality those strenuous days
an usual in these days of high prices
id scarcity of goods.
ETTER VALUES MEANS REAL
ECONOMY.
Tha tis the reason we are mighty
oud of the good looking suits we
ivo to show you for spring style
itliout extravagance.
Suits priced $11.95, $12.48, $14.95,
7.50, $19.95, $22.50 and $25.00.
OYS' CLOTHING FOR EASTER
Mixtures and Seizes, all sizes,
iced $3.95, $4.95 to $12.48
MEN'S AND BOYS SHOES
en's Leonard Shaw Dean Slippers.
Priced . $7.50, $6.95, $5.95 and $4.95
en's Dress Slippers, well made.
Priced $2.48, $2.98, $3.48, $3.95 to
$4.95.
>ys' Slippers $3.25 and $4.95
I I III ?M
ALKUP
Specia
of Ladies' Coat Sui
for Easter. Our 1
ecial for Easter mal
SPECIALS IN SKIRTS FC
This store shows one <
complete line of Co
and Silk Skirts for El
1 tamos' Cotton Skirts at
98c, $1.25, $1.48, $]
Ladies' Wool Skirts $1.98,
$3.48, $4.50, $4.95 and l
Ladies' Silk Skirts, in
Plaids. Priced $4.95, $
gk, LADIES' SIL
For Faster n
select yours >
Wmm spring shade:
wwl\W f?uiai<^s-*i>]
l|j|| $6.95, $10.00,
h|very s
a ' This week
r White Go
and Domes
ster Su
MEN'S AND BOY'
Made by Dutehess and ot
pants manufacturers. Bir
with a guarantee. We
priced $1.98, $2.43, $3.48, $
Hoys' Trousers and Kni
Priced 5Cc, 68c, 75c, 98c
and up.
Men's Felt and Stra
New shipment received
The verv latest Pvw.n^i
$2.95 and $3.48.
Boys' Caps at 25c, 48c, 95
Men's and Boys
Several hundred Ties oi
Easter in all the new sha
25c, 48c, 98c and $1.50... .
Men's Shirl
In Fancy and Plain, with
Cuffs. Priced 75c, 98c, !
$1.98 to $3.48.
Belts and Suspt
Men's Belts and Snspem
48c, 68c and 75c.
Men's Hosie
Special for EasterF, anc
rp * j
i an, \> lute. Kiue. Priced
38, to 65c.
* a ifrifcwUni .tim
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PAGE FIVE
CO.
k
ts, Coats
big stock
tes shop
IR EASTER
if the most I
tton Wool I
i ster. I
..98 and $2.48
, $2.48, $2.98,
[p.
Stripes and
5.95 to $7.50
K DRESSES
(4tf, i* 5
u\\ Oil (US
n today and
while our asip-to-minute,
of the new ;
in Poplin,
ssaline and
riced
$14.95, $1675
1.50.
PECIAL
: in Silks,
ods. Notions
tics.
its
PANTS
her leading 5
v your pants
have them
>3.95 and up. s
ekerhoekers.
aq OK
) yi.w, ipjL.ZJif
iw Hats I
}>v express. I
$L98, $2.48, I
c and up. I
>' Ties |
\ display for |
pes. Priced 1
ts I
Soft or Stiff I
$1.25, $1.48, I
tnders |
[lers 25c, 38c, |
iry I I
y and Black, I
15c, 18c, 25c, I 1
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