Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ left largely in the discretion of the ^ state highway commission, by whose direction the roads will be built, de _ cislon as to substance of the lattei roads ?o be maele on a basis of the trattle demands upon each particu lar link. It is likewise left to the stat< highway commission for determina - tion as to the location of the mall l?' highways, though this determtnatioi d , il ! probably will be reached in agre?e ment with the state automobiie as . - * PAGE FOf)k TheLancasterNew: (SEMI-WKKKIY.) Established 1852. Published Tuesday and Friday BY TH1K LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY, lauicaster, S. C. OEOIUIU BULLA CRAVEN Editor and Manager The News is not responsible for th views of Correspondents. Short an v rational articles on topics of genen Interest will be glauiy received. SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: Cash in Advance. One Year $2.0 Six Mouths 1-0 Entered as Second Class Matte October 7, 11106, at the Postoffice ? Lancaster, S. C., under act of Coi gress of March 3, lo79. TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 1918. -My Country 'Tia of Thoa, Sweet Lan of Liberty.*' ROADS. The proposition of building a sv tem of permanent highways in Sout Carolina, which The News has di eussed on several occasions, hi taken definite .shape, and unlei signs fail, before the winter is ove plans will have matured for the coi struct ion of more than fifteen hui dred miles of improved roads, a proximately one thousand of \vhi< will be concrete. This is the deci ion of a committee of the state aut mobile association which met in tl auditorium of the chamber of coi merce in Columbia Saturday, tl purpose of the meeting being t' promulgation of a definite plan to 1 submitted to the general assemb when it meets early next year. The committee, of which R. ( Rhett, of Charleston, is chairraa talked in "big ligures;" big figure ?s a matter of fact, being necessai state, is in substance, as follows: To construct approximately 1.0 mile of hard surface hlghwa through South Carolina; either concrete or some substance that w make a permanent road to last least twenty years, or the life of t bonds which are to be issued; To connect every county seat r on the main arteries with th< roads; To make efforts to secure the aance of 20-year bonds to I emount of $25,000,000 for the c< sfruction of these highways; To increase the automobile licei tax practically fourfold, or to $1 ] I, horsepower for cars equipped w m inflated tires and to $1.50 for flu equipped with hard tires. The question of whether concr roads shall he built, or roads of so other substance, and the question what substance shall be used connecting links from county se not on the main arteries, will in discussing a state system of road Headers of The News will recall tl suggestion made in this paper tin a bond issue of around fifty millic dollars be issued, tins providing a average expenditure per county < a million dollars. The Charlestr News and Courier previously ha suggested the sum of ten millic dollars. Mr. Rhett said at the meting in Columbia Saturday that h first figure was two and a half mi lion but that from time to time i talking with other good roads ei thusiasts he had revised that figut until he had reached twenty millio i ue rum imiiee ? decision was iWfl tv-flve million. Scnie members < the cttnup^ltee were of opinion tin r the estimate of flfty million dolla van none too high. The truth i fifty million dollars for constructs with provisions for maintenan would provide a county system good roads in every county in tl state, while twenty-live million w provide a state system of roa rather than a county system. The plan outlined at the Colin bia meeting, which was attended a specially appointed member fir each congressional district in t sociation. As well as con be gathered fron ^ the general discussion of the propo 0 | sitioti, there will be three main high - I ways; one leading from Augusta >r lt | Ga.. through Columbia. Camden, Ker l-, Bhaw, Heath Springs and Lancas ter to Charlotte; the second, fron Asheville, through Spartanburg _ Greenville and Columbia to Charles t ti>n, and the third, from Charleston through Florence to Wilmington. N C. To these main lines will be con netted the county seats of all couti ties not. on the main lines by road ^ ' of improved type, probably in som I rases of hard surface. With thes< | three main arteries and connecting links with all county seats, it is be s- I lieved the proposition will meet wit] favor throughout the state. The all-important question of pay ss ing the inteiest and principal of tin ' bonds is well taken care of in th< 11" plan promulgated by the cohimitteo First, the general tax-payers will no he called upon to bear any part o "*l the burden, and second, those win h" will use the roads most and derivi the most benefit from them are t? 10. pay for them. n"| There are about 55.000 automo l'J biles in the state and it is figure) ie that they will steadily increase ii )e! number by the end of three years si y that there will be approximately SO, I 1000 cars and trucks in South Caro Una. These now pay an averagi n< tax of $5.20, and by increasing th< '8,!tax to $1 per horsepower, the aver TI age will be about $23. This would 8- net a revenue of $1,84 0,000 anie nually, which would be sufficient t at| pay the Interest and mature th? ,n bonds. This increased tax would 11 amount to only about the price of one tire, and there would be a savi ing through good roads of more than one tire per car each year. >n. | t- Another feature to be embodied is in the Iti 11 which the general assent1 bly will be asked to pass is one that n will remove the nuisance occasioned l- bv the highways being built to th* e corporate limits of a town and there i stopped, leaving from half-a-mile t< l- two miles of bad road in the edge ol >f each town, as has formerly been th? tt universal custom. With the permis r* ainn A f thn tnutno nnd fl.limo s, through which the roads will pas? >" the state highway commission wil ce assume the burden of building an / of maintaining the road through th lie towns, the title td the streets c 11 course, remaining with the towns ds Few, if any, towns would object t this. Taking Lancaster, for ir stance, it would mean that Mai n" street from corporation limit to coi ,,v poration limit would be paved wit! out cost to the town. the atre< merely being a part of the great coi i crete highway. 00 tva There are ultimate possibilities < of this movement in South Carolina b ill ing the forerunner of similar mov at ments In other states which, the lik he lihood is, would result in solid ui | broken stretches of concrete roa< lot from the north to the south ar sse from the east to the west, and the j are many more features of the pin Is- under discussion that will appear the these columns from time to tim in- There are likely to he many ne ; features developing as the rnovemo goes forward, and the opposition expected to be negligible, if. in fat t 'th at all perceivable. ose ^ I'l IttMlltKI) STtH'K. etej There Is a deal more in the boy me' and girls' pig clubs than Is appare of at first observation. The eneourag nn mnnl a' o.a l.raa.l i?, ,. f mi i*a i, ? , ats stock is an advanced step in stoc be raising, an importunt part of fart ^ y.. THE LANCASTER NEW) ? lng in thin day. The boys' and glrlB' C > pig clubs in Lancaster county ap- Si T pear to have done remarkably well r and there Is now among the mein) bers sixty pure-bred pigs, thirty- n - four of these'having been exhibited b at the pig show near this city last 11 week, several taking handsome 8< > d 3 piizes. This movement for better n " bred stock is backed up by the state f 1 agricultural department and the w 1 county agent, in fact, is directed 51 largely by County Agent R. W. 1 ei Graeber, and in the comparativej C( short time since it was begun, re-l h 1 suits are already evident. ' P The bringing into the county of: p pure-bred stock, whether pigs or J cattle, is a forward step, and if jt continued, we may see within a few years only the best of stock being I produced in this county. If Mr Graeber can bring this about, it will " be a much better tribute to him than * a stor.?* monument miles high, and his efforts in that direction are well p worth while. It may he said that the p methods employed are most benefl- ^ s cial also, in that through the clubs ^ e rivalry is provided among the bo.vsj e and girls of the county and their ef w forts to make their particular pig T take the blue ribbons are increased 'r II The raising of pure-bred stock is wit wit twill t its ,.nmn,,nr.,li?? ul.l.i [and tlrt> profits are much better than that realized on a poor grade of ^ ' stock. This is a consideration to appeal to the hoys and girls, as well in as that of raising a belter pig than, hi t I C!l the other fellow. And the move-1 c f is merit should have the hacking of all' i) rf | business men for the introduction of r( 1 high-class stock means a good deal; it in i in* rum in mi uy ami wiw siau*. In hi I ,0 SCISSOHS AND IWSTK. b< 1 i hf Welcome to tin* "Old Hickory!" *a (Columbia State.) J The Thirtieth Division, tho "Old Hickory Division" that so gloriously w' has sustain* *1 its name, is coming St home?homo from France?and of dl I, it is the One Hundred and High- yr .j teenth Infantry, the old "First South b< Carolina" National Guard regiment m an 1 now, at once, let us prepare to^ M welcome them. Let us hope that at tho whole division will he brought to^ at S i r S Patriotism does not 3 cease when righting [ * ceases. Keep on buying W. S. S. until Uncle Sam r ] tells vou to stop. h L ' j Our Great Sa ij tinues. We a li ? close out ever i gj I SPECIAL CO THIS W Women's Fine Chiiron Hi lift tone Coats in rich shades o 1 r 3 (*reen? Reindeer, Plum, Pekii . ] exclusive in design and 3 price $49.50. now e ij ll WOOL C( n 1 1 E j Warm Wool Coats in all sh 1,1 1 | Black and Mixtures. Unusu ro f 1 $10.75, $14. --Is! | Suits! Su\ nt K | ,8|rl Every Suit must be sold !| 1 Therefore we offer one larj E j Suits at a tremendous sacrifi ( 1 nf cttWtru utvlpu und uiypu \ ( ? see these great values. iv j U Women's Serge Suits in <i Jjl mole trimming, pecial at . ?I S, LANCASTER. 8. C. amp Jackson, so that the people ot outh Carolina, North Carolina and enneesee may assemble in the capal of South Carolina to greet them. There will ne sorrow mingled with he Joy of their coming, for r>any a ravo boy will not be with thetn and lany another will show ill" fresh ars oi battle, hut the return ot the vrsion and the regiment should be lemorable in the history o? South arollna. It has been the fortune of ar that this division has contained larger number of our boys to suslin the fleicest dangers and detpst wounds of battle than any other ontains and we who have been at omo and have known none of I tie j ains of war should testify t ? oi.i , ratitude and to the unfaltering : ve i which they nro 1 eld. Preparation to welcome these gal-j mt spldiers should begin today. First Colonial (Jeneral Hospital. (Sumter News Item.) It was on February 7, 1751. thatl le first general hospital was char-j ^red in the colonies?the Pennvlvania state hospital in Philade)-| hia. Joshua Crosby was the first, resident of the institution, and ienjamin Franklin, who had been roniinent in urging the establishlent of an Institution for the rare f the sick, was the first clerk. It as in this hospital in 17R9 that honias Bond gave the first clinical istruction in America. A Had Road. (Camden Chronicle.) Parties who have traveled the numioblle highway between Camden' rid Columbia report this road fo be i the worst condition that it has son in. in years. We learn from, upervisor West that the chain ganr in that section now at work on 4his >ad. Not only is the Kershaw >unty end of it in bad condition but is said that Richland's end is in lually as had condition. With rce increase in taxes on automoles in the past two years it looks us that car owners are entitled to| tter roads. Hut instead of getalng 'tter they are worse than before the x on autos was raised. Robert Maekcy Read. Robert Mackey, of Kershaw, ami ho formerly was manager of the' andard Oil company In this city,' ed at his home in Kershaw late, 'sterday afternoon, death being ;ing due to influenza and pneu-: I.. TT/? rv# 1../..* UII lei. lit? ?ilH 11 Ul ULUCI U| J(U IV ackey, who (lied about three weeks ?o from the same disease. He was >out 30 years of RobinsonLANCASTER'S L le of Ladies' Si ire giving great* either plain tailored or with $11.50 and $13.50 iiinflinLrarajuzj^ y garment befc ATS FOR r J rEEK ?L 'i^ -oadcloth and Silverf Burgundy, Hunter ui j] ti Blue. Every model J <1 trimming. Former LJ $32.50 ? t OATS ades of Brown, Navy, | Vfj al values at fj) \ 50, $18.50 and $23.50 W its! Suits! in the next three weeks, ge collection of handsome ce. We have a wide selection ^iMit our Suit Department dnd TUESDAY, PEC. 3, 1918. Bank No. 33. Statement of the Condition of The Bank of Lancaster Located at Lancaster, S. C., at the close of business November 1st, 1918. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts $674,326.46 Overdrafts 11,627.75 4 Bonds and Stocks Owned by the Bank 95,860.00 Furniture and Fixtures 1,000.00 Banking House 6,042.18 ; Other Real Estate Owned 3,500.00 Due from E .nks and Bankers 213,716.88 Currency ' 28,036.00 Gold 2,735.00 Silver and Other Minor Coin 2,921.20 Checks and Cash Items 10,613.59 Total $1,050,379.06 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock Paid in $ 50,000.00 Surplus Fund 100,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid 37,368.50 Due to Banks and Bankers 400.66 Dividends Unpaid 100.00 Individual Deposits Subject to Check $549,376.83 Savings Deposits . . . . 137,707.95 Time Portiflrntpa of Dp posit 108,760.34 Cashier's Checks .. .. 9,819.39 805,664.51 Notes and Bills Rediscounted 45,000.00 Other Liabilities, viz.: Reserve for Taxes 3,500.00 Reserve for Accrued Interest on Time Deposits 8,345.89 Total $1,050,379.06 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lancaster?ss. Before me came Ceo. W. Williams, Cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. GEO. W. WILLIAMS. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of November, 1018. H. T. CANNON, Notary Public, S. C. Correct Attest: LEROY SPRINGS, WADDY C. THOMSON, R. L. CRAWFORD, Directors. fiyMytititiiifitfitfitfitfi iraiiiiaiiiiniafiUiiiiiiainiiUiq* 1 n* Tj ^Pl More For Less?Buy ? j Ann I a w <5 ?- on w? I H I "VrlUUUVrU st T" ings Stamps can be J E A DING STORE ,M>UKhl now for $4-23- || 1 aits, Coats and Dresses con- {>. sr values each day as we will {> re the holidays. . . . . |i ^ SPECIAL SALE OF SERGE jj r In DRESSES FOR THIS 1 vj WEEK I ^ave received another lot of Sample Serge I J 1 ykrn Dresses in Navy, Black and Brown. These dresses | I are the greatest values we have ever ofTered to I our customers. Priced at $8.50, $10.75 and $16.50 K 1 I Special Sale of WOOL JERSEY {{ 4 |JJ DRESSES [ [ 8 very fine Wool Jersey Dresses. All different J 1 \ models and styles. Formerly priced at $20.00 and J ] $27.50. Sale price $11.50 and $17.50 jj Dainty Georgette Blouses S J Women's heavy (leorjcette Illousea in white, flesh, j | navy, taupe, champagne and brown. I/ovely styles with J ] a variety of trimmings. Others plain tailored. ? i $5,75 to $7.50 Cg ^repe ae L,nine ana Mik Waists in all dark shades; also S ] black and white. Priced at $2.25, $3.00 and $3.50 J j "Wirth More" Waists for Women. Our new shipment r ] is unusually attractive. Kvery waist is easily worth ] $1.50. It is surprising how we still sell these waists \ V for $1.00 1| jzmuiimHnjiimnnjiLn wjumniugjnrajnma