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JPmJK if thelan(^ster news l:i:: I (SBMI-WKKKI-V.) Pennsylvania ?n 1 EsUblinlieU ItioU. ?1 1 * 000,^00. Of ?outre Published Tuesday ami 1* ridajr derstood that the SB BY Tl?k2 & idLNCASTEIt NEWS COMPANY, eral very large c ra 9 t . Lanowtcr, S. t'. long way toward & , OEOKCK UULAiA CRAVEN but South Carollnj Kditor ami Manager would be much , |)f The News is not responsible for the class system of 1 law* of Correspondents. Short and . t . rational articles on topics of general 8?ort. however, ol interest will be gladly received. road will come ui 8UBSCItlP'tiON PRICE: first-class highway Cash in Advance. that will be put |F 25?Month's '. '. '. '. '. ". '. '. !*i!oojWar *"hen tramc I- iom each year. Entered a. Second Class Matte. her kind of * October 7, 11>05, at the Postofflce at Lancaster, S. C., under act of Con- ciable extent is to Kress of March 3, 1?7H. . . * ? loads are only te TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 1918. upkeep will nece* M^g5=== ? ture of a large i of money, prol amount mentione r- . ... . _ ton paper, but to Country Tie of Thee, 8wi?t Lend of Liberty.'* roads of concrete (^7\TT tllat wil1 last an< J : "I've got a car or coal," says the ValUe of the adjt dealer, "send down and get vou a per ?ent' or more' ton." You spend several hours "^borliood of i hunting for a drayman and he tells; ,he county' or ra you that he's too busy and can't a m,llion do,lara' haul it: you spend some more hours 1:01 < ounties, < hunting for some one else. One inR considerably man tells you he'll let you have a|smallP' nnos pair of mules and a wagon but that SayR ,hC News he has no one to drive it; you keep 1 ,li,a<'",l)'lia on hunting throughout the day, and Roumllv 1 finally you come upon a man from 3ta,e' 1,1,(1 ?,,p ?r the country who has his wagon in oa' vigorously su town and he agrees to haul it. He tional an,endment goes to the policeman and asks will bon(ls* he be required to take out a dray- Pennsylvania, man's license; the policeman tells oanot afforfl to him he will. You then go to the Uient of i,s hi?hw mayor and get a special permit for ^'P'"11 ,nu<'1 more the man to haul your coal, which the lu 31,011 worlt- D1 licensed drayman will not haul. wppl< on a ProP? Your man then goes down to the cai ! i??r and the man in charge there tells him ' nearl>' 8,1 the stab that he hasn't time to weigh the' ,a,tinK action on i coal and that he will not have tlmolcurrent revenues for three days. wealth are not gr The above is not overdrawn. It is 'he aPPropria the condition of today in this city. 8Uins in keeping v It happened just that way last Sat- of the Wol'k to be f urdny, and. we suppose, happens 8ary improvement that way just any day. It's not on on'v ')e secured in account 01 the war; you can't blame through the issue it on the kaiser. The war has made|,he Payment of tl it possible for the dealer to dis- the enjoyment of pose of all the coal he can get has! highways, posterit | been the cause of setting the price, "bare with the p has made it impossible for the dealer ^>ur r?ads are mm to lose a penny or get his money tied "1,>y were r,ve .v,'a up indefinitely. provement does The News does not know whether J ono"gh. Rapid pr the fuel administrator has the powei j a8surw(1 l,y means to remedy such matters; if lie has, it' suo nf bonds, in th would seem that he would have al- jal1 SP<tions "f t li? ready been active, but evidently, Pa,,>-' there is some way open for relief' ibis last is ' lrom such practices of the dealer. j mously wealthy s If the News is correctly ln?| vania. how much formed on this point, there, Is of South t ai'ol rrw.thir.tr t h o fuel twltw i r> ia| r?. ! I Ike Illinois, is til j tor to do, and whether within or mnnv industrial 1 without the realm of his activities,} numerous small c the practice of the dealers in not de-it>as'er 'n s,,? h com I livering tiie coal, thus making it vir i wn' s built ??y io< tually prohibitive to many people. 'no'thei state havt should he remedied. I satisfactory. In 1 The News does not assume the role; know that our pr? of dictator or guardian of the peo j'ire and that it off 1 pic's rights and it is mindful that | fu,nre We are sp perhaps the fuel administrator, like "<?n dollars a ye most other people, has much to do,j:'Part from specia hut Itere are matters that some one, I through county if not the fuel administrator then Greenville a year some one else, should attend to. work of intprovin proceeds but ha <iOOD ROADS TAIJi. construction of n< The News reprinted a week or so most unknown. !ago a lengthy editorial article from "What is need the Charleston News and Courier j lina Is a fund wh proposing a fund of $10,000,000 jn undertaking of a South Carolina for the purpose of tern of state hig! building a system of highways, the different parts < money to be derived from bond is-.| wealth together, sues, and commented at the samel has been out of , time on the impractical side of the money was not av proposal on account of the fact that had any aeceptal ten million dollars will not go far the money could enough when scattered through the! the advent of tf dineionr couimm. i n?* <11111M11<110<<1 Courier, Hince that time, has carried poses to hoed the several articles on the subject and inn, using this the matter Is eliciting some interest building limnedia In different parts of the state. The over, and paying Charleston paper says that Illinois the interest upor f . h*:" A / 8aa"^w-'*aw^ tmt tAMCASTte 5 issue of 160,000,- license fees on automobiles, so the LII ads, and likewise same thing can be done in South the Issue of $50,- Carolina on a bond issue of. say 8e, It is readily un- $10,000,000. Taxes in Illinois will Hea se states have sev- not be increased a dollar, nor would ities, which goes a they be in South Carolina. ' carrying tho issue, "For the ilrst time we are able to i is a rich state, aud see daylight ahead in our road ait icher with a first-' uation in South Carolinu. The pub- H llghways. Nothing, lie is already beginning genuinely ma' r a concrete-asphalt to appreciate the vulue of good | Mo. nder the head of j roads. Men understand, too, that gat( f with the demands the piecemeal methods of the pasi j gra( upon it after the must go to the discard. They will! Car will increase many give their support to a scheme which To spend money on promises results and the practica- lra' Ga., road to any appre- bility of which can l?e established. i waste it, as the Good roads enthusiasts have, there- he nnporary and their lore, an opportunity such as they and isitate the expendi- have not possessed in the past. If ,*ia' sick sum annually. To! they move now and move intellilis class would re-! gently it should be only a few years Beri ly a smaii amount ?nui a reai iransiormaiion Is ac-j one jably within thej compllsbed in highway construction of (1 by the Charles-j ami maintenance throughout South foth build permanent i Carolina." who ; I thre and asphalt, roads | The News made the rough estii will enhance the mate several days ago in comment-j \^0{, icent property loojing upon the News and Courier's liar will require In the proposal that $10,000,000 would two i million dollars to provide perhaps 25 miles of good I T ther an average of roads in each county. That would I i the some of the lar mean straighline roads through |>ov if course, nend- each county these connecting where- j{CV tuore than the ever connection is necessary, and Sam | such an arrangement would be a I IF and Courier: "The magnificent improvement over the ,J|E cord, the most present conditions, but not such as newspaper in the would provide for the heavy traffic the best in Ameri- In the years to come, while perhaps | ll<? i pports the consti- it would take cure of the present de-J H authorizing these! mands. In building roads extensively the future should he provided * says The Record, for. not alone because the future ig in the improve- generations doubtless will be called i Sixti ays. New York has, upon to pay their share of the 1m- BOI11< than $50,000,000 provemont. but to avoid the loss of iast inois will vote next , money through the fact that the very sed bond issue of roads would not he adequate for the in 15 good roads and needs and would necessarily have to , Real es 01 ine i moil are ue rocousirucieu. tern similar lines The The state, however, might build Cjty of the common- a system of roads, and we under-] eat enough to jus- stand this is the policy of the Newg.vanr tion from them of and Courier, touching every county, ?"in' nth the magnitude or rather, running through every n 'rf that done. The neees-! county, maintain the system prop- we p s can, therefore erly. and pay the interest on the ride a reasonable time bonds and ultimately the principal, sevei of bond?., and piecing a t?v on automoldles sav. ,nM the I lose, as well as in or $10.00 per year, which would ful j the modernized raise annually a sum of. in round y will bear its figures, a half million dollars, and fight iresent generation would be increased as the number Crap dt better now than of automobiles doubtless will in- *nK ' rs ago, but the i:n- crease after the war. The News . I in ai not proceed fast and Courier's plan is a good one. but po ogress can only be if the building of roads in South in F of a generous is- Carolina is to he undertaken on aj LI e benefits of which large scale, it should be large enough ar"' Clar! state will partici- to take care of the needs for years* caste to come. true of an enor-l tate like Pennsyl- FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN more true must it WAS OVERSUBSCRIBED ,, <? Una. Pennsylvania. I inir , Total Subscriptions of Il(i,< ickly settled, with done centers and with, From More Than 21.OOO,- emp| ities. It is much 000 ''imple in The iteeord. , 15? 1 Was litions to get highWashington, Nov. 4 Despite 1 "in ' effoit, > 1 in potl(.r talk and influenza, American f"r 5 the results be?n citizens have responded for a fourth menl South Carolina we time to the government's appeal for mor? sent plan is a fail- Wi,r 'oana w'th more than was asked, lnbo . Total subscriptions of $6,866,416,- niale ers no hope for tne 3 00 front more titan 21,000,000 in ending over a mis- (ijViduals is the record of the fourth' if ar on our roads, liberty loan, as announced by the 8jX 1 moneys raised treasury, based on careful estimates aiiv< bond issues, as in hv ,he ,we,vf> federal reserve hanks. eVer The entire $866,416,300 oversub- WOu or so a pro; vet the . .... . , , , scription will lie accepted and ap- 0the g existing roads pj^d to reducing the size of the one ltinglv, while the flfth loan, to be offered in the spring. 0Om ** highways is al- Final figures may send the fourth wou loan total even higher. 423, All districts reported oversub- how ed in South Caroscript ions, ranging from 26 percent j,lir( ich will enable the ^or Ronton to a little less than six ?tan comprehensive sys- percent for San Francisco. The ag- the hways. linking the create oversubscription was 1 4 44 q?a, if the commmon- PerrPntIn the past this 4.X1,T^,V m \ \ N | \ <; INSCATllFO 1^ the question. I he Columbia, Nov 4. ('apt. William || ailable and no one Sinkler Manning, son of flovernor || >le plan by which Manning, commander of an infantry II v, company. 7ftth division, now on the || bo secured. Now western front "somewhere in II io automobile has .. II Just as Illinois pro- j)f>r ip wh<>n ho wrote a letter to his state for $60,000,- father. He hart been under (Ire money for .road- however. In several big battles. His . division is a part of the first Amerl-1 telv the war Is ran army and is stationed southeast off the bonds and Verdun between the Alsne and the i them out of the MeuBe f , LANCASTER 8. C. 2UT. GANSON MOBLEY [| A | IS BURIED AT SALEMil^^l < ? iC5ll ith Springs Soldier Died at St. ) k IjouIh While 011 Way to Camp ? ? Mills. [eath Springs. Nov. 4.?The rens of Lieut. H. Ganson Mobley, i died of influenza at St. Louis, , on October 27, arrived here Do not irday. Lieutenant Mobley was a iuate of the University of South olina, class of 1917. He received a pa; commission from the second nine camp at Fort Oglethorpe, and was a member of EightyField Artillerv. For some time I* had boon stationed at Fort Sill! ^^ 11 | it was while on his way from i A place to Camp Mills that he took . and had to stop at St. Louis, ieutenant Mobley was a son of ry Mobley of this place and was of the most popular young men1 the community. Besides his er he is survived by his widow,I was Miss Wyat of Easley, and 1WT e brothers, Lieut. Jessie M. f 'ley, who is now in France; Z. L. - A w X ley of Hendersonville, N. C., and vey Mobley of this place, and sisters. Misses Maud and Emma ley. he burial was at Salem cenetery, services being conducted by the W. D. Gleaton. assisted by the jt T. W. DeVane and the Kev. MjCft\k. ITT. EGBERT BEALL " Th IS CITED FOR BRAVERY La I s the Son of Mr. ami Mrs. Ileal), ) 1 he Litter Manager of Western I A I Union I I < '.t. Egbert Beall. Jr., of the ? eth United States infantry, for AUSTRIA IS NOW } time stationed at Camp Greene OUT OF Till winter, has been cited for bra and ability while commanding (Contlnuod From Page < le big drive of September 12 and In a letter to his mother, M s. (he smashing Franco-Amer 1. who is manager of the Wes- tories north and west of Ve Union Telegraph office in this regarded as significant. U he writes: , armistice interrupts, it is was assigned the task of ad-1 the thrust will be pressed ing across a wide open field, lentlessly to cut the Germ hing a steep hill and establishing | in the west in half before mt line on the far side of a road | another halt. was held by the Germans and with hardened mountai mined the objective under a te-- j th,> Italian army available nt tiliery harnme and held it for elsewhere with the sum ral hours until another l>attnl-j AtiKiria. sonic observers lool leap-frogged us aiul established nicdiatc preparation for the ire further on. We paid a fe.ir-j0f Germany by way of Ah nice but held it just the same. rainP. Italian picked trooi did this after two days of hard j be 8pared at once to joii ing. Our division oaPtui'ed (>ainpaign, as they would idle ami I was In all that fight- needed to carry out operati n the Vosges mountains and be- ,,Pntnl t() lhe Auatrian sun you receive this I will have been ' VT . . ...... . . .1 ui . lU, ,, , , | Not will the whole aother big drive as this division , . ... , ? man power of allied and A nsidored one of the crack outfits. . . .. , , i armies be available now for ranee. ? . . ? I of crusning Germany s < leut. Beall i? a son of Major fron{ but {o 8upplcmont {hc Mrs. Egbert Beall. formerly ofiV!l8(ly superlor equipment kes\ille. (,a., but now of Lan-'armies in guns, aircraft and r and Gastonia. j ,,r war machinery, there is " * I the disposal of Marshal Foe! <L REURVIT WOMEN ! Bulgarian. Turkish nnd FOB VARIOUS WAR TASKS military equipment. To ans olumbia, Nov. 4.?The recruit- il Germany has of women for war work will be pMod ,PRPrvp8 ?n, f t by the various United States ,nun'Gons. loyinent bureaus after October according to a ruling from REPLY IS EXPECTED hington received by Horace U. QUICKI Y IF TERM' nan, federal director of labor South Carolina. The govern- ARE 10 RE AC C t lias decided tl.Uv it will be ? efficient for the department of (Continued kiorn Page i r to handle female well as i labor of all kinds. i,,lotely "tiered under cond utmost harmony." Subjected to analysis by Esau and Jacob, who lived some i . .. .... officers here, both allied am thousand years ago, were still , . , can. the terms of the A us s. and if Esau bad earned $10 , . impure, wnicn are said to he y day, and had saved it all, he ,, , drastic than those for (Jem Id have $21,900,000, On the inl/lI.nt.?,nj , interpreted to mean abso r hand, if Jacob hail deposited vi ,u, , * render. Nothing is left to dollar at one per cent interest, ,K? , , , - faith of the vanquished an pounded every 100 years, he, ' ? strictions or limitations are hi have today ,5 , 6.4 00.752.a03,- ???? ^ Th(^ 4*8. Can anyone Haute out ,.?many ,?f, ? much Jacob would have had he _ ., yyyy o , * ?? TOW ho^ Cf .thOllt rOSCI based one $5.00 War 9;v' . the mercy of the victors. lp then, which pay.; interest at t rate of 4 por cent compounded ' *nft' -^IJusttiientH Deft "terly? Final adjustments, ten . otherwise, are all defern . ??peace conference for which sat ion of hostilities paves C2 I I ^^ Th?- 'Jerman appeal for an way submitted on the basis __ _ _ t ?nce of the peace terms air Wy A lined by President Wilson : m discussion starts, the n O A \I I M ,h? S,atp? will t e I ^3 r\ W II fion to dictate its results. A HI ^0!,, P'-ace conference has I Iwl "nK at Versailles. The judgment of army < rnu xTauti v ,o ,hfi ",,uat,on ?n ,hf> ?? ?' UUIVO I AN I L V In a military sense is that * ' 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 ' 1 t must accent the Iirmluil *'ggggg^aasagsagssga ? >! A fotice t forget to make yment on your th Liberty n.?j Duna Illlil >w Due The of Lancaster e Old Reliable " ncaster, S. C. >1^1 or face a debacle of her armies. F W \R S,gI1B ?' d'B'ntegration of the German forces facing the FrancoAmerican lines have been evident for two days. The German official statement yesterday admitted an American break-through. If the rdun ,1,f breach is widened the German ar" ' j\8 ,l1! niies will be cut in half ns effectively believed .. . t . . ... as were the Austrian armies in Italy, home re- . They then may be crushed Heparan front . , , ately. there is ... . , 4 Washington Paper Premature. So strong is the impression here incurs of jbat Germany will accept, that when foi use wort| rame that a statement was to snder of issued by the state department t tor in*- tonight, a Washington newspaper put in>asion nnf an ovtra saving the war was vice I.or- ovor an(j Germany had surrendered. is might || caUsed no excitement. 1 such a not he "ix ,\ had WAV." nns inci-[ ender. Many l.iinraslcr llciMlcrs Will Feel fighting ' tirateful for This Information. imerican I 1 the task If your hark gives out; lefensive Heromes lame, weak or aching; _ i a.' ! Tf liriniri' I vnilUIno no* jp ! .... . * ' of those Perhaps your kidneys are "In a all oth- l)?(> way." now at Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak h all the kidneys. Austrian Local evidence proves their merit. wer such Mrs. W. A. Robertson, Midway only de- > Lancaster, says; "About a year ;uns and n*'> ! had the grip and it left me with weak kidneys. Headaches and nervous spells bothered ine and I thought I would go wild from the pains My kidneys acted irregularly ^ and I felt miserable. After 1 took EPTFI) ')oan s Sidney i'ills, I was entirely "* cured and my kidneys and back are j now in fine shape." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't , simply ask for a kidney remedy? itions of , .... get Doan s Kidney IMlls -the same that Mrs. Robertson had. Fostermilitaiy xiilburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. il Anieri- ^(jv trian ar- _____ no more ~ lany, are, my y?w IN ew Raisins d no re- j V* a ? imposed rme Apples beers ti** mu"' Fresh Candies ve, upon Two barrels of line Winer *> Apcrred. pies, medium and large, it est of Itorial or season, just received. Como Ml to the se<1 and make your purchases, the cox- thereby finding other nice things H,e wav. '? I'lease you. 7 3 takes this armistice method of appealing to the reasof accep onnbly minded, generously diseadv nut- posed and all good citizens of ind when Lancaster on the side of the oldest lilies and native born citizen of laincnstcr it a posi- today my nearest approach as to In fact an aPPeal to charity, been sit- Thanking you in advance, A w fHANfF Germany lie I? Vfllill* V/Ll conditions ??^? ^mmmmm