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PAGE FOUR The Lancaster inews (SEMl-WKKKLY.) Kslabli.sh?<l 1852. shilling Published Tuesday and Friday BY TH.K re<1 fro,J LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. That is Lancaster. S. C. llU5 w] GUOltUK Ill LliA CRAVEN seen anc Editor and Manager "Wha The News is not responsible for the lnK to ' slews of Correspondents. Short and depend rational articles on topics of general ratersst will be gladly received. an" con 1 present SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: a . . . , eral am Cash in Advauce. deal wil OM Year $2.00 ?tx Months 1.00 or two. whiskey Entered as Second Class Matter October 7, 1S05, at the Postotlice at "In c Lancaster, S. C., under act of Con- hone nf ^gfees of March 3. Ie7?. 1 .. will lie TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1H19. good oil ' - ' Tliev si Hy Country 'Tio of Thoo, Swnt Lantf | |l,. \ of Liborty." i a law is 1MIOHIIIITIOX 1\ Itl'HM, COM- behind MI'N'ITIKS. towns a The State bemoans the fact that anil blii "la.it week illicit distilleries we e he stopi destroyed in at least half a dozen nennle i counties of South Carolina, to which will be mooushining was practically 1111- possible known five years ago." The State Mnient i says: "In numerous county neigh- prohibit borhoods. men of the baaer sort, sue- There i cumbing to the temptation of eon- number verting a bushel of corn into whis who art key that will sell for $10 or $ 1"? a such a gallon, are breaking the law and the favor, tl prospect is that, unless vigilant and and tno severe measures be taken, their The pen numbers will immensely' multiply as the i If moonshining should become so not takt common that people could not cope and enf with it. reaction against prohibition would follow and many of these ! same pious and God-fearing men *s,? ,n and women In the country would, iti Perous despair, turn against it. Unlike 'r?,l',:sni the people in the towns, they have never had to grapple with the ques- ri '''ll tion. When Ihe town* had saloons. 8 anc0, dispensaries or 'blind togers' the ,l go?f' "countrysides suffered relatively wil'1 small annoyance from the evil. The M towns had to carry the burden and ' ?r the shame of it and yie country p?'<> ',a 1 SH lor his pie were not liberal in their svinclot hint: pa tliy. Perhaps the State is right. We ,u,s don't know. But it occurs to us that ' '' the liquor is being made in the M" s> country districts, has always been "IL ? made In the country districts and ' n'"n>< .... , .... . Iiecause will always he made in the country districts, tor the very good reason m<IH-N 1 ..... . .. . . conclusi that there is no other place where it rlsew ht? can be made with any degree of ...... . growlini safety. Ol course, a case comes to .... ... , business light now and then where some over thirsty cityite is found making "" " it on iiit> kitchen stove, but illicit ' "" dist illing in any appreciable iiuanti- ply "1"1 ty is akin to the back country, as far ''"X from civilization as it is possible to 'r:u1"- 1 get; up a branch, generally, through f'xppn,n hrlar thickets and woods. At least. 11 this is the impression we have gain- ' cd of what is generally termed ''r< ',1IM "blockade stills." It is possible that anrt h'" a lot of li<|uor may be distilled in ''1,> f the towns and cities, but it is a 'n Koinj known fact that everybody's busi- i 00,1 nt'?! no8s is everybody else's bus ness in '?ss. S a small town and it would be a dan | P*'0!*'6 gerous undertaking to begin the away f< making of liquor in a town .say. the home, a size of Lancaster. In the city. like- 'n whic wise, there is a stricter enforcement eryhody of police laws, and if would perhaps from a* be an unprofitable business in Co- ,ho tni( Itimbin. The country districts, how-! having eve^. as a people are no more apt tol w'" he turn against prohibition through reaction in the enforcement or non- anv hi* enforcement of the law than are the a,?road 4 ?clty people. ness w| "The policing of the country townships," says the State, "is PXPprt 1 am a II. Thirty thousand square "1P"1 miles In South Carolina ran not build 11 easily be patrolled. One ran name n,ber. ' half a dozen eountles In which two h"""' dozen distilleries have been broken We p lip in the last two weeks. whieh this tov probably means that many more to i have not been dlsrovered and are In prove. t< operation. teresta "Boot-legging, or blind-tigering, thrift a I goes on in the towns and eities. per- presume MhaLfcEL I ?-^ _ THE LAM ! re >1 ii now i win six months ypur town, make n il it wnl enlarge ;.s mo >n-| direction, who, if pro cods, but tlie problem ot benefits accruing t g the-law is being transfer- be the recipients tin 11 the towns to the country, believe our neighbo what the State predicted hi' particular interest liat any one might have fore- . wouid be so very mi 1 that lias taken place. I give us a boost by t are the country people go-j thousand dollars f lo about it? They can notjgood. or starting an upon policemen, detectivesi would be for the u stables. We doubt if the' town. If a town is ( machinery of the law, fed-! placed in a growing 1 state, will be adequate to be directly or indire :h the question aftet a veat who live in it and when legal importations fori know the steps to I will h:i vp pntirolv pp:iq>mI I r?lto ? fou* Tu I Ir it mr opinion, the principal | Its facilities and va making the law effective ties to different bra if) the organizing of the try. Write about izens in the rural districts, streets, invest your lould form citizens' leagues tronize its merchanl make their power active. If terprise started as nd by and wait on the law consistent, elect goc the fumes of corn whiskey advertise in its newi ind their noses before they teous to those who i and never let an Jews has never believed that speak a good word stronger than the sentiment | Hemember that evei it. and if tiie people in the! v,,st in a permaue nd cities want boot-legging 's that much money nd-tiggering stopped, it will that much towr >ed: the same is true of thi-J'our town, in the country. The law i There is no quid enforced so nearly as it is the life, giowth. an to enforce it because sen-j a town than for it s in its favor. Opposition to (constant ly holding i ion has passed as a force*.jtlie to Liii s of course a very small quirer. The word ' of people In every thousand j one in doubt, and d opposed to it. but there is man from going f? tremendous majority in its improvements he tat the law will become more make. There is no re popular as time goes on. denoe to make a su< pie in the country can help, and if you htuven't oho <?oo e Knt (Idii f .cni?? in 11 n i c;? t r? 1 the law in their own hands neighbor, much les orce it. i and if the bent of ^ ! continually go anal ^ IT IN LWCASTKIt." 'eat of the town in w w 11 can be permanently pros-) the sake of the to\ in which the citizens and and go to some plac en dependent on each other,i lifeless and has patronize each other. The stake, where you. li it wants a harness, for in root beer, if you dn and although his neighbor is you won't do any harness maker, and tiades| - ? nt. he imagines he can save A NKWS1WPKI nts bv sending to another' Major Hemphill it state for his harness. The South Carolina maker in turn, sends away nounceinent having groceries, hoots, shoes and he will become edil The shoemaker sends tanb'iig Journal, r his coat, and the tailor newspaper. Majoi way for bis boots, and so if j probably one of t is a result, the tanners com writers in the st trade, see all the t radesmen t many years been e< to other places for goods.i'he t'harleston New; they say. they can save land later having hi >y doing so. and conic to t he j writer on the Richi on they. too. can do better! patch. Major Heni| re; and then everybody is'editor of the Spat S about hard times and nn|NV?'tson Hell. who i. No wonder, the business! I .an east ei News to em selves tuin the tide of 1917. Mr. Hell wll sew here, foi* if they can sup-' with the Spartan inselves to better advantages morning paper. i\ing their neighbor of their ilhers learn to try the same ' cut. it is a dangerous one ^ ? gurate. Ten dollars is los'i " several soit i mo is saved, because the en ln ,'1<* Metropolis o iness of the place is dwarfed i ar*' ''barging seven c upered thereby. j drinks since the n< . . 11.. i . ' May 1 And we ta act is. hut little is ever made that the dispensers ; away to trade, and o'tener i profit upon the war u all expenses, there is a . ..... know any other goo how us a town in which the , additional advance, make it a rule not to send explainer! that the >r anything they can get at costing more now ml we w ill show you a tow ? , . . .... . The News finds i h business is lively, and *v , i Lancaster has some buys, and trade is centered . , ana conservative iroad. Prices are low and this is one of those I teamen patronize each r>t tie*. > ... i eis in this oit.v have no suspicion that confidence . , , . aside and when a dt abused Let it once tie an ...... . . . at a fountain the d< I that tiie business men ot .. . . .. .. ! tomer merely drops n are in Hie habit of send na , . . . . slot, and the drink for purchases, and the busi-! .. . . . ,, i at'the regular prlt II languish. Having no con .... ; Til it same scheme j in each other, how can they .. . ... other towns, and we others to have confidence u. vr .u . ., .' Charlotte "dopes" No, that s not the way to I li o n tliiKO In l,<* l*u. p a town Patronize each , , .. . , Itock Hill, and it o nd keep all your business at ? any more to serve are higher, the add! resume that every citizen of business in such a in Is, or ought to be. desir to compensate that see it advance, to see it im, ..... Truth is some per 0 see it advance in all the m... . , charge all they ca that pertain to a town of they have to sell, nd enterprise. Aga'n we' ' ? k ? suppose, they naye a 1 that if you. who live in ,lo go but tho n6wi i * | m \ A l( ASTER NEWS, LANCASTER. hi effort In tills refreshing "dope" \ there are unv lotte. and remember ii herefrom would *)a,d ,ive cents for u ^ in that hospitable ci ereof. we do not : we shall go without rs, who have no I ... . , . . .. until get down In th in our we.fae. 0j pleasant Valley. ndful of us as to' ? investing a few TRAVELING ME or our especial TO MEET | y enterprise ihat' pbuilding <>.' our V Ice-Pros'ilon t Mitral ?ver built up and condition it will; Adilrww N>*? ctly due to those] Night. it' you wish to ?e taken we will! Chester, May 5.?1 up, its tnteres'fj. I lina Travelers' Prol irlous adaptibih ,ion wl11 convene at . , . . day morning, May 8, nchea of indus- . * . the ( hester theater a it, beautif> it.-* sessions through Frii money in it. pa- | piete program was Is and every en- j urday night at a mei far as it Is all of tester, which f . . ... state post will be f ?d men to office, i I excellent entertainnu ipapers, be cour-| Ury at (he Chps( come among you (>uests of honor to opportunity I.,: who will speak are 1 I about it Pi. sha,,? vice-president , States: Itobert A. Ci v dollar you in- ? of South ( arolina, j nt improvement |<(,v,,r former chairni at Interest and mittee on agrieultur ?rd building up of representatives. Many delegates an ker way to take ''diversity of South Davidson co'.lovo nln (I energy out of , day afternoon. s citizens to t>e The town is alrej ip the dark side decorated for the coi j gunc of the ill , the Chester theater t 'if" keeps every- r'u'> Tlie convention oubt keeps every . , morning at in a. m. ?r\vard with the nf welcome by Ch would otherwise ('apt. J. Maxtor Weal thing like con ft- executive secretary r .1 . .. Countv Chamber of 'cess of anything II Mow In. One of thi got any of it. orrhesl,.a wlll furnl the fact to your| the convention. Th s to a stranger sions of Thursday w your mind is to a 111 '? ' p m ani I session from 3:30 to list overv inter-, _ .. Thomas It. Marsl hich you live for|(,on, ()f thp Sf vn get out of it troduced Thursday e that is already o'clock by Governor no interests at j vice-president will a ... . . ! Seaboard Air Mine 1 Kt? me old may s , I ink at 10:20 o clot m t do nnv Rood ornor Cooper will ar hurt. j noon al 5:40 on the way. lloth will he It <'ll.\MJK. the home of Soliciti i coming hack thj 0,1 <'??*?*? ntreet. Immediately after journn sm, an \'jr(?.preHj(|enl Marsh been made that j)e a pubiic receptioi tor of the Spar-i merctal club in hono an afternoon dent Marshall and r Hemphill Is Allowing the recepti of the main features he hest known ... . . .... . . will he a brilliant da ate. having for ,mR( hail of the Cc litor in chief of Theater seats are m s and Courier, 'he Marshall address . ~ .u it. >?. A. delegates will he en the editorial seats upon the larg tnond Tin:es-I)is- . . theater. Hhill succeeds as Thr Friday rnorni 'tanhuig Journal open at it: 20 o'clock went tiom the ih?i ,i., fgifiuunmunfiij l: invest ii c~ word fori I j drink emporiums t the |I | ron i I j ew tax went on'I j ke that to mean ^ j are making a'5 1 Bl_| tax We don't [ * S B | <1 reason for t he J J although it Is J Ingredients are J J ff7|J/?7f than formerly. " 1 ,/f^ ff (*' It occasionally that J J mighty good ? J merchants and - 1 times The deal - | ??? merely set H box (- ] f,., , ink purchased g J \JillO II paler or the cus 1 v. . II .\o| [nil a penny In the. m J , . . I | lections. [ Is charged for * 1 , I w selection. e or fi\e cents. s worked out In * J ??????? don't know that - 1 |I/-|-L ?r. better|| I in Lancaster or j J \\'(l a,.(l """ J tiitit i{fit t then, If rente , | j,l Sl'I'vilV tlon.1 volume ot., ] ||JtV), ,.har> metropolis ought f J wtll'k I { pie are going to1 ? n get for what 5 FINE 1 and legally, we ? 3 , perfect right ^ Sinnrrnnn. it will forego the IMjeJUUlMMiJ J 0 * ' " i* Carollnas heat | sh music for Before e business sea- the abovi m last from' io says thai ri the afternoon H true Ct 6 p. m. books of tall, vice-preslatoR. will be in- Sworn niKht at 8:30 day of M Cooper. The rrlve over the rhurHdny Correct f k white Oov- . , ER rive that WA, Southern Halt- j ^ entertained at >r J. K. Henry the address of all there will l at the Com- _________________ r of Vice-Presl- ? overnor Cooper. 12 20 P- ni- An In on and also one of thls Re88,on wlU of the evening Congre9Sinan Lever nee In the ban-' At 1 o'clock p. m unmercial club.' ("nn6t and barbecue aw on sale Tor ,ho Rfove of Solicit! i, hut all T. P. le?e street, given reserved The University " otooo IKe li?? 1 I i j ui mo 1 Mill dim ISctVlUNtlll I a game of baseba nK session will grounds Friday a( and last until o'clock. All T. P. X VICTORY BONDS C. Hi IE GIF RY, WATCHES, C Our reputation in thesi >r Commencement earlv to make good seA'e arc showing a novel I'rices most moderate. d Jewelry Repairing jdeased to announce Hough who has ))een has returned and will re of this important ? ENGRAVING 12 pinwnnr?inriririrtri uuuiJU.M^l3UOuuun ,ta,e. that" the I UneCKS 81 Total.. 3nt In its his-i er convention.! the convention "hAmas R. Mar- Capital s1 of the United Surplus f joper, governor Undividet ind Asbury P. penses inn of the com- Dividens p of the house Individua ject to p expected. The Savings < Carolina and Bond dej y basehall Fri- 'lime eel' posit . tdv at tract Ivelv flftftlfiftH ivontion. as are Cashier s aid L'juuuercial 1 Notes an pens Thursday Time de] with addresses lester's mayor, Total., throok, and the of the Chester STATF ( Commerce. R.I S. I. ' . vhile in Char- i? ig that we once glass of watei ty, we suppose drink entirely e neighborhood SI IN ARE TtlC N CHESTER Located ? Iiall to I>??!lvcr Tliursalav ? Loans an< Overdraft i Bonds an ? Bonds de he south euro. Furniture ectlve aaBocla- Banking 1 Cheater Thar.- other ?a at to o'clock at Due front nd continue it. Currency lay. The com.; G()|(, arrantted Sat- Silver an, ptinu of Post 1; v * TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1919. Bank No. 33. tatement of the Condition of the Bank of Lancaster t, \ it Lancaster, S. (\.. at the close of business March l\h, 1919. { RESOURCES. d Discounts \ $640,035.99 ,s \. 8,766.57 v / d Stocks owned by the bank 147,100.00 posited \ 248,500.00 s and fixtures \ 2,450.89 house i 6,042.18 / 1 estate owned 3,500.00 i banks and bankers 143,569.03 21.661.00 2,660.00 J minor coin <*,i nd cash items 1,791.86 ^ ? .$1,230,222.64 j LIABILITIES. / Lock paid in $ 50.000.00 und .. .. 100,000.00 / 1 profits, less current ex- j and taxes paid 38,964.14 / unpaid 100.00 1 deposits sub- / check $129,457;61 / ieposits 197,530.71 losits 218,500.00 tificates of de- / 108,571.56 / checks 5.84 j checks 2,059.59 986,/25.31 d bills redisoounted 4.^000.00 posit interest account 10.033.19 $1,280,222.64 )F SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Lancaster?ss. me came Ceo. VV. Williams, Cashier of e named bank, who, being duly sworn, t the above and foregoing statement is mdition of said bank, as shown bv the said bank. GEO. W. WILLIAMS, to and subscribed before me this 10th arch, 1919. H. T. CANNON. \ Notary Public S. G. ittest: \ pY SPRINGS, \ )DY C. THOMSON. \ . PAYSEUR, \ Directors. \ terestlng featlire lie admitted free. be an address by Friday night at the Chester tbca011 good roads. tcr the glee club of the Woman's Friday a picnic college of Due West will glvfe a coni will be given in| cert. >r Henry on Col- j Preaching nt County l*??me. I will preach at the county home of South Curo Sunday, May 11, at 4 o'rlopk p. in. ollege will stage! D p Ra^p,. ,11 at the fairj ternoon at 3:30] Commodore Clanton, of York, A. delegates will I spent Sunday here. rBiaraiBiajaniiM^ FINISH THE JOB |j OUGHll T SHOP |j UT CLASS and SILVER jj e lints is established. |l / SZ1. 11 / \ " ? The ?J unc lJride will sunn bo [' /with us. Allow us tu show you I ! /suitable tfifts fi\r this important [ | ! occasion. 2 Z Let Us Test and fit Your Eyes I j Wo specialize in tlusiine and [V* will lw> irln/l /> ^ 1 ?-> ?"* i" u .it vnur ?\i'S JUKI fit you iii glasses. Prices most [J reasonable. 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