The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, May 23, 1919, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1919. 1 .f
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LANCASTER AS A MARKET. (.0nld <
L. B. Thrailkill, of Landsford, Kinnint
writing in the Hock Hill Record of th,.m ,
May 15, says: "Please allow me a sjmw i
little space in your paper, as I do ju, a
practically all of my business in;.is well
Rock Hill Of course. I am a Chos j ^Pa|ed
ter county man and a farmer, or in s(>0 ,y(
the farming class. Of course, we The
people around here still have a lit- pver s
tie cotton left, at least the most otitis ai
them have. I have sold all mine.1 .,j( f?ro
but had to take it to Lancaster/0p recr
There was so much difference in the; j?stan<'
price between Rock 11.11 and Lan- 1o,.| on
castor that I had to cross the pond, they so
and my neighbors have done like-; s]io\vs
wise. We are getting about more| p,.art jt.
per bale In Lancaster than we ranj
in Rock Hill. One of my friends. ^
was on Saturday, May 10. offered to Vl)ti
cents for his cotton by a buver ini
| genera
Lancaster, and that buver said he
I ceplioti
would send a truck to my friend's ,
cerned
bouse and get the cotton. So the L. ni.lk,,
and O. is carrying a good many pas- ^ ^
sengers and cotton samples to Lan1
prove* i
caster these days, and the cotton'
generally goes over the next day. IJ
think the checks will go to the Rock!
Hill banks, but I am afraid if th.si
goes on the Lancaster banks will be- ,lis
Zin?*
gin to do business over on this s do.
Air. Kditor, don't you think it would,
be right? ] secutioi
"Rock Hill is a good town and has) th
Rood people in it; but. Mr. Editor,! pearing
- yun know the old farmer has a touch' WHS 'p
time and he is going where he canj exap,"d
get the most for what he has to sell,
and he is going to leave part of his' ?
money where he sells his cotton News '
maybe all of it. One man n Lane is ' n p
ter told me if we would transact' tn,t thp
our business there they would givoj ag,,i's'
us the market price for our cott?n''' ^aand
haul it free for us. You see' "Mis
that is a good Inducement. tnttrkH i
"I hope our Rock Hill people will Hurler
*ake up and give us a better print opi
fpr our cotton. Forty-one bales of scales i
cotton went from Landsford thh' screech
morning to Lancaster instead of,?'ninep
coming to Rock H'll. and the farm ; ' legrni
eis got 2!> cents around for it " j >s now
So now the news is being novated 'l''1 ness
around that Lancaster is THE tin:-' ?"Mit '
ket for cotton, which is a fact and a ! owners!
condition of which more and mor? son ('n
peop.e constantly are becoming
aware. When it conies down to cables i
hard tacks in comparison, there arc 'hem
many things in Lancaster's favor at son l,m
a market against any other town, postniai
And not alone as a market for what >inf'
the farmer lias to sell hut for what hold
he buys also. Lancaster has a num phones
her of progressive, wide-awake mor- "i're
chants whose persistency in giving himself
the buyer a square deal has won fo> but not
them a reputation to he envied, j IN-dt'eh
With th? Improvements in transpor than 15
tation facilities, recently Inaugurated j been a
hv the Lancaster fr Chester railway, queerer
these facts about Lancaster's mar league?
Tret will mean a great deal to the with hi
people of the territory contiguous, self wi
What Lancaster needs, from the ing Mr.
market standpoint, is publicity. W'e, with d<
who live here, know about the good ^ from ?>
qualit'es of the,town, hut we need'with h;
to tell the world. j Wilson
THE LANG.
A GOOD lMlAt'TM'K. (over encountered; yet i
News noticed Wednesday i able it President Wils<
at the concert by Sgovgnard longer persist in co
;ie ladies in charge closed the egregious blundering
after the performance begun raising of his postm
Imitted no one while a number j When Mr. Burleson d
program was being rendered his self-Constructed
ways count upon the I dies, there are who will
ly if men had been in charge revolt-'; the universal
ould have been afraid of mak- be, 'Good-bye.' "
me one mad and would have The News has remar
ed the late-comers to the an- than one occasion up<
:e of those already seated as! plete fall-down of
rogram progressed. Not soj trolled telegraph and t
he ladies. It should be re-1 might possibly be tha
that patrons of a concert \vho| would have been crippi(
ought and paid for tickets are conditions had it ren
I to admittance; on the othei private operation, but
thos?> who are seated before have been worse than
rforntance begins are entitled, under the domination
o'- hear the program withoutj Take, for instance, a 1c
disturbed by these who eonie A man moving from a
a telephone installed
dcture shows it is a source ol another man moves ir
it annoyance that people are telephone is not mo
ted to crowd tlie theatre, com- nven toqehed nor is it ii
tlie middle of the picture, and the telephone compan;
sually the case that some one charge of $1.50 for i
Ptween you and the screen account on its books.
a point in the picture when 's Burleson. You'may
e most interested. It would Incident with misgiving
h better if the picture shows! fart. You may say:
lose their doors after the be j them take out the te
: of the performance and let then put it back in the
remain closed until the next new occupant of the 1
s ready to start. This would' could be done, but try
enefit to those already seated ftallation. they charge
I as to those who wish to be That's Burleson!
as no one reallv desires to ~
, . , GOOD ROADS GA1X
* last half of a picture first.
. , The extent of the por
picture show operators, how...
. . tation in South Caroli
lay it is not practical to do
, judged by the result ol
id they perhaps know. The
. . . held in Anderson eouni
show h.is come to l?e a sort
on the quest,on of Wisi
eat ion place, like a park, foi
linalelv a million .-in,I a
e, where people are made fo
ol bonds for the coi
tirolv free to eonie and go as ,
highways in that count
e fit. Hut in the case of othei ...
carried by a large ni;i
and concerts it is entirely
election in Abbeville on
of issuing town bonds f
News expects to see a num provemenl was unan|ini
reforms when the women get ()f (hp ,SHUe A ,PW yea
ng and Into public life as a WQu|d have beon ponH,d(
i thiftg instead of as an ex- havo augKest,,d to the t
. So far as politics is con- counly |ha| ,hpy ,88Up
: the women certainly cannot aInount of a nulllon an(
it any worse than it is now ,ars ,)Ut |hp ljmp has
s been: whether they can 1m- ppop,e |)p,|pvp ^ rog
it remains for them to show thjng lt js tlu, ,lud ro.
the people good money.
>llt. Itl ItliKSOM. saving to every Individ
Iturleson has begun to pull'bile owner of more thai
stakes." says Forbes Maga taxes > here he has gooi
It may be remembered that! which to dr \e his car.
irlcson attempted to cry per-1 pie of Andeison count
11 by the newspapers and he'when they have expenih
e cause of the criticism ap-jlion and a half, that it i
iii the press of the country I best investments they
e increased postage he had (Jood roads pay big divi
from the publishers. The
d postage, however, was the THE BR
f Mr. liurelson s sins. l he
1-iesn't remember ever hear\noilier
Silver
nhlisher kick on the increase.1 To() muny HP|M|l ,
re were numerous protests optimism consists only ?
the red tape accompanying silver lining to the <
>s Forbes* cloud. ? Dearborn Indep
rolin(|uishment of the cables j(|fl Knsy I if
(lie beginning of tlie end Mr. ' You college men s?
is a dictator ar.d a nmn- life pretty easy."
has been weighed in the "Yos* ?VPn whon w?
, , , AJ ,, ., do it by degrees." lb
Uld found wanting. He still
enpt.
es that he believes in gov
t ownership of the cables, the Tlie Kind That
uhs and the telephones H.s "You don't hear any
as a voice crying in the wil- ,la>'s a,,out a !n"r,> e,ast
| "No; what we want
lo .Mr. Iturleson govern-'
more adhesive eiirren<
?w ne, ship means Iturleson Transcript.
Iiip. Purleson control. Marie-'
initiation It is Irn-o' ?*eiva- "'s I'rototvpr
t he voluntarily gave up lhe| "AH 1 sa,d ,h
"was to take advantage
so soon after havittg grabbed
tnnity.
I! looks as if President Wit- "Well." answered
illy rapped 'lis too autocrat^U "that's all Captain Kldd
.* ? i _ . t. .. i (tnul tin Trn nQt<rinl
sicr-K' iiHrai i?v? r inr kiiiickI
forced him to let go His
< 'use of I hi1 S. I'.
!lie telegraphs and the tele .... . ,,
' "Every now and the
is aiso about to cense. tries to senil a l)ai>v
sident Wilson surrounded port office, laughed the
with not a few light weights.! I??ront?!
care whether their chin
even Secretary of Commerce' ...
or not? Washington !
I has cut a mo-e sorry figure!
ulldoz'em Burleson. lie has. Footing It.
misfit of niisflts. lie has It odd "The doctor
I himself with his own col- ; have me on my feet in
it i .,, . ... , Grnene- "And did h?
?. lie lias quc'pied hlmse'l
. I "Sure. I've had to s
isiness. fie nas queered him [ mo,,j?,...__Yoi,kers Stat
th labor, which is now m:ik-j
Bure'son's own wires huriij Saving the liens 'I
cniands that he he dismissed "Here. Kinks, I wisl
? ... - 1 my garden sends and \
fnce. ( leineneeau is erediten
your hens with my cot
living declared that ITMl^nt | w|? 8Rvp thfim |he froul
is the most stubborn man In 1 over after them."- Hlfe
ASTER NEWS, LANCASTER, S. C.
t is question- ,* + + %
jn will much ^ WAX HAW No. 6. *
ndoning the
ami gall-' We are sure having lots of rain
aster-general. now- farmers have not done
escends from veiy Inuch Plowin? in 80,?e tinieThe
cotton is up to a good stand and
throne few nee(jitlg chopping badly.*
bid him 'Au Mrs. Nannie Simpson, of Rock
farewell will HiW. visited at the home of W. G.
Ferguson and family recently.
, . m???rs. ??. t\. arm w. ij. oisiare
ked on more . ? ,
and W. O. Ferguson and son, Renin
the coin- nje^ motored to Monroe, N. C..
Rurleson-con- Thursday on business,
elephone. It Miss Inez Sistare visited Miss Isat
the service ^el Reed of Lancaster recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Hendrix, of
I'M under wai i . . A .. , . ...
1 Lancaster, spent the week-end with
tained under tjle former's parents. Mr. and Mrs.
it could not|S. R. Culp.
it has been! Miss Margie C. Sistare, of Lanof
Hurleson ' rnater- spent the week-end with her
.... ! parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sistare.
>cal incident.
house leaves; 2Q ,{j Q( Ks AT MOBILE
In the hall:
,. . ? ? : CONSUMED BY FLAMES
i the house.
ved: it is not '
ispected. Yet.' About I,.MM) People Homeless and
y makes a' Property laiss Is Over Half
"hanging thej Million Dollars.
They say it _____
look at ,thisj Mobile, Ala.. May 22.?Probably
,s. but It s a 200 homes, including a half dozen or
'Why not let more small stores, were destroyed
lo..L ! trnolAml o?t L.. R../V Tl 1
IU|III<MM: itnu i jcrtioiuaj evening xjy lie liiss
name of th<- '? Property will exceed $500,000.
. ' About 1,500 people are homeless,
louse? That i
Millions of dollars worth of river
it. 1-or in j front property. including docks,
you $5.00. shipbuilding plants. railroad shops
and other property, which lay in di
rect path of the Ore, was saved when
h'.WOIt. the flames were checked at the westid
roads agt <>rn boundary of tli<? Alabama Drvdock
and Shipbuilding company's
Itia mav he
property.
i an election j citizens' relief organization has
ly last week been formed and it was the opinion
ling approxi that the people in need will be cared
half dollars ^or j
The dames started in a trash pile
ustruction ol , i
in the yard of the Cunningham
>. I lie .s>111* store. A strong northwest wind wasj
ijority. Ant blowing at the time and before any
the ouestioti one realized the seriousness of the
or street im .situation the tire was beyond control
of the fighters,
ous in favor . . ..
The business section was threatenrs
ago a man when the wind gradually whipered
crazy toi ped around from the northwest to
icople of one I west and then almost southwest,
bonds to the The flie Practically burned itself
i otit but onlv after 20 blocks were
1 a half dot-1 , .
! lost. The devastated territory was
missed that* ?... - >
, cit < (i|i11 vi uj ptrrHDiiH tn iiHHicruie
ds rost any- circumstances and the destroyed
id that costs property was in one of the oldest!
There is a' Par,s ?' Mobile Little porperty of
! modern eonstruetlon was destroyed.'
ual automo- _
i his part in! ..
lie Knew.
(1 roads o\ei ~ , .... . ...
I earlier Don t you know that
and the p. n- punctuation means that you must
y will find, pause?"
?d their mil-, Willie ?"Course I do. An auto
is one of (|,e ,l,ivpr punctuated his tire in front
of our house Sunday and he paused
(\<t made. for half an hour." Boston TransIdends.
, script.
IGHTER SIDE OF LIFE
Heresy. i Strong Family Kesemhlance.
o think that "Contentment," remarked Sh'n-|
if seeinK the; bone, "am a mighty fine thing; de
dher man's' only trouble 'bout it is it's kin' 'o'
ndeiit. hahd to 'stinguish from jes' plain
laziness."- Boston Transcript.
c.
em to take Pity tlie Poor Kings.
The desperate straits of ex royalty
graduate we in Kurope are instanced in the case
,
iston Trans-j of formei Ktuperor Charles, who has
f n If Pit t'Pt'iiPo fit ti Qu'iaa ciut In ili.it
is occupied by his mother-in-law. Sticks.
Kansas City Journal
taik nowa- .
ic currency." So It tines,
today is a The Lowry City Independent has
Host on an idea that the old fellow who became
rich by burning the midnight;
oil doubtless now has a son who is
[*. > prodigal with the midnight gas. ?j
e profiteer. Kansas City Times.
of an oppor
Why?
the patriot. One "Yes, in a battle of tongues
used to do." a woman can always hold her own ";
The Other?"Perhaps she can
Hut why doesn't she?" The Sydney
C. C. Bulletin.
m somebody
through the A Correction,
elerk. "Was Itome founded by Borneo?''
Don t they inquired by a pupil of the toucher.
Iron are lost "No. niy boy," replied the wise
far. man; "it was Juliet who was found
dead by Borneo."- Tit-Bits.
said he'd Jugs, Not Jags.
a fortnight " 'Pack my box with five dozen
?" liquor-jugs" is the shortest sentence
leli my auto containing all the letters of the lingesman.
llsh alphabet, and there is no law
lifiiinr-iiifra un Ic.ap :iu thorp
'rouble. Ih no liquor In them.?Concord
i you'd take Monitor.
?ive them to
npliments. It Something to Keep,
ile of coining Keep your temper. Nobody else
wants it -Dearborn Independent.
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Ban
Condensed State
The Bank
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Lanca:
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at close of bus
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RES
Loans and discounts. .
City bonds
Liberty Bonds
Furniture and Fixturi
Keal Estate
Cash on hand and in 1
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LIA1
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Capital
Surplus and Profits . .
Deposits
Bond Deposits
MANNHEIM CITIZENS
FLEEING FROM ( IT
Alarmed at Belief That ( ermai
Will Not Sinn Treaty and
Allies >luve On.
H Hvcr pulled olT in Sooth Car
Jq Attempted i
bH Governor Cooper will he ]
State 111uhway Commission a
K department of Agrieulture i
H Congressman W. F. Stevenson
&>l of these gentlemen will speal
EjB Them.
fij There will he a monster Ai
fig Pienlr Dinner. Also arrangeni
|9j the presence of n Squadron ol
zn tares forvthe day's pleasures.
SI All of York County is InvItt
jM Mecklenburg and Cleveland C
Jnl neighbors from Lancaster, C
|k want YOU.
?| We W ant You and Your FrW
Yes. to he sure, you'll he hf
YORK WTOMtl
Mannheim, May 22.?Alarmed I
the belief that Germany will not sij
the peace treaty and that the alii
will occupy Mannheim, citizens b
came panic stricken today at
stormed the municipal savings ban
Many persons have fled front Man
helm.
Large crowds later gathered at
held protest meetings and oth
demonstrations which added to tl
general confusion in the town.
- An official expression of regrt
has been issued in Merlin that tl
people of Mannheim "appear to ha
lost their heads."
HOUSE ENDORSES
WOMAN SUFFRAO
(Continued from Page One.)
hate, but the loudest outburst car
when Speaker Gillett announced tl
final vote.
Moth Iiondrrs Champions.
Moth Republican Leader Mond?
and Democratic Leader Clark ask?
adoption of the resolution, the la
ter rererrtng to President Wilson
re inest for such action while M
Mondell praised the Republics
members for their attitude, pointii
out that adoption of the resolutR
was the first legislative act of tl
new congress.
Mr. Clark denied that adoption
the resolution would interfere wl
state rights as was argued by son
Democratic speakers, adding that I
favored the resolution not beeaui
"woman suffrage is going to pr
clpitate the millenium, hut that it
no' going to cause the damage son
think if will."
Representative Kitchin. of Nor
I MARK JULY 4TH
Fa Put tt Itc<l Mark Around It am
U is to In- the Date of tlie
< <M>D IU*>ADS It \l,l
345,150.00
ss 2,450.89
16,042.18
3anks 158.083.18
$1,185,084.82
3ILITIES.
$ 50,000.00
143,086.40
. ..$738,948.12
. .. 253,050.00 991,998.42
$1,185,081.82
.Carolina, Itomoerntic leader in tlio
Y last coimress, opposing suffrage,
ha lit oiod the Republicans for "quick
us'response to the President's call,"
I !itlll lllinlo lull f llik llam.Kllnf.Mn fti.n
ing sixteen years of control of congress
refused suffrage. leaving It for
the Democrats, who had courage to
'n I introduce the measure.
Not a Party Measure.
ft" | Representative Mann, of Illinois,
; former Republican leader, who was
K*|in charge of the measure, as chalrp"
man of the house woman sufTrage
j committee, declared equal suffrage
1<*jwas not a partisan question, and adOI
ded that though President Wilson
'ie and other patty leaders "talked in
flavor of suffrage that a majority of
the Democrats never voted for it."
Representative Clark, of Klorido,
v<\ the Democratic leader of the antiI
suffrage forces, in a speech opposing
the resolution, admitted "the
n cards are stacked and the decree is
written."
Others speaking against the measure
wore Representatives liardy and
ne Rlack. of Texas, and Small, of North
lie, Carolina, Democrats. The advoj
rates included Representatives Nelj
son, Wisconsin: Longworth. Ohio;
>li and I.itfle, Kansas. Republicans and
d Representative McOrate, New York;
it- lilanton, Texas and Taylor, Coloi's
radti. Democrats.
?n| GERMANS GRANTED
>K, rtfcVfclN IMlh T1MK
m1
10. (Continued From Pago One.)
of! German delegation cannot be cotnth
pleted within the 1 f> days granted.
ie|on the seventh instant, and asking,
ie in consequence, for extension of tho
?? time limit
e- "In reply, I beg to inform your
is excellency that the allied and a'ssodated
governments are willing to
grant an extension until Thursday,
Ih May lib."
ON YOUR CALENDAR I
il Then Itememhor That Jl hY ITU |2
lliggcst ami Most I'rofltalile |B
-V AND IIASKKT PICNIC 9
olina?Certainly the Itiggest Kver H
in the Piedmont. S|
lere, as will representatives of the
ml the Good Itoads Itureau of tho BB
Governor liiekott has been invited. R1
i will he present If possible and all
i on Good Itoads and How to (Jet FT
iltomobile Parade, and a Mammoth B3
ients are under way to try to secure DB
Army Airplanes as additional fea- lH|
pd, as are the people of Gaston and S?
ounties of North Carolina, and out H
hester. Union and Cherokee. We
nils to Come to York on July -fill. B
ire
FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1919.
k No. 33.
ment of Condition of
of Lancaster
tier, S. C.
iness May 12, 1919.
OURCES.
$ 653,358.57
10,000.00