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PAGE FOUR TheLancasterNewsI ,l-Fi (SKMl-WEEKEV.) forp un E.stut)ll!>liO(l IHA2. It is Published TuomIh)' and Friday ' '''' n r BY TH.U Americi LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. , , Lancaster. S. C. heaped ? ernnien GEORGE BULLA CRAVEN Editor and Manager The me The NewB is not responsible for the to the lews of Correspondents. Short and rational articles on topics of general lonse ? interest will be gladly received. ones, ti SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: as 11 na CiunIi in Advance. pended One Year $2.00 But I 3U Months 1.00 thp hjs Entered as Second Class Mattel please; October 7, 1005, at the Postotlico at * lit ion Lancaster, S. C., under act of Congress of March 3, le79. and eff< that Ge FRIDAY, JUNE 27. 1919. ca def<J f w ime n ^ 8CrVire ^ %fcV#? r *? a very c *^Hy Country *Ti? of Tho?, Swaot Land (jav ^Ig of Liberty*' -l. ? - i. thinks t AS TO A SEXATOIt. oially I It will be necessary to call an elcc- compari t i"u to fill the vacancy in the state countrU senate caused by the death of Sena- "Whi tor Hough, of Lancaster county. It plaining will be the business of the next gen- ing. tin erel assembly to ratify the suffrage what it amendment and to provide for good and in roads in South Carolina. En the tremely selection of a successor to lustrati the lamented Senator Hough, countrl these two issues should be upper- spect. most in the minds of the voters. As "in to the latter practically every man getting has come to be an advocate of good penters roads and if this was the only quali- day, at fication. the place might easily be tion. filled. The suffrage amendment will tremely Ka i... ** ? 44 * 44 utj iuhmi'ii uy iince-iounns 01 ine selling state, and the women of South Caro- $2.50 p lina will l>e granted the right of suf- u pouni frage whether or not the gene al as- ;v cow sembly of South Carolina ratifies it. from $ it would be to the discredit of the people members of the general assembly if on 60 the women of South Carolina tire and $1 enfranchised by the votes of members smiths, of legislatures of other states, and tion. at .Lancaster county should send a rep- which rentative to Columbia w ho is "right" "The on all important questions. little c Says the Kershaw lira on the sub- their bl jo t: sufferin "The Lancaster News seems to be- in Hurt lieve that tlie Lancaster suffragettsj tral cn mm- -miiik-iiiiiik 10 sav annul Peril; who shall be Ilii senator from I,an- cord is raster county. For our part, we hope rocs, bi they may have suttieient power to in-1 general Alienee the election of one who is! advantu willing to Rive their cause a chance. lt.a}) and we are not bidding for their'are hui help either. We just don't know any' country real reason why they should not be day. no allowed to vote " tliev h m earpent tiKRM \\1 \\ II.I. s|(,\. is the n There is little left to lie done to whereas cotuT'lete the licking of German'', a more d task wo set upon April fi. lf?17. It's not km all over, over there. The peace existing treaty will be signed; President . live up< Wilson is on his wav home, and the prices a job is finished. J ries of The entrv of America into the war Then is a matter that history will perhaps its Ante record at length. There will b" a to JUStl ? diversion of opinion as to whether try. T the entry was backed by selfish or the lug unselfish motives, but there will lie it w few to argue that it was unnecessary. cotton The existence of the people of this the situ nation was at stake, and front this ? of the \i<uv. the entrv was selfish. Some basis. newspapers argue that we went to war from wholly unselfish ino!i\ NKW others argue that we went to war Mont from wholly selfish motives in self- of next defense. President Wilson said on the sta .June 14. 1!' 1 7 : Greenv "It is plain enough how we were any in forced into the war The extraor- venes dinury insults and aggressions of thei time pi 'Imperial German government left us it is m no self-rr pec'Vng eholre hut to take! was ta up arms in d< fense of our rights as the dm a fiee people and of otir honor as a guys, a sovereign government " Prom this get of -tatement of the president, it would some l s?>ein we went to wrar for sellish rea- enforce sons, in defense of our rights as a weekly free people and of our honor as a have m sovereign government. There are I who u many who claim, however, that our( and gr entry into the great conflict was to] the tyi 1 a*rv ^ i iii j iibhwhih^bui || |w. m m 4 THE LANCA anco and England and there-! a g-r-r-and and glorious iseltlsh. ] Imperial hotel, listcnin * a matter of record that the In-1 about linotype machine which led to the entry of terns and a general wa a into the war were insults more money and spend i upon us by the German gov-: This is the annual conve t. We warned Germany but. South Carolina Tress ass ly did not heed the waVning gives promise of being a n who went from this country On Tuesday the news front in France did so in de- wiil take an automobile i f their homes and their 'loved, ville. They are to be be very existence of America. somebody on this trip, tion and as a government de- chamber of commerce. 01 upon it. sympathizer, and there*a the task is complete now ami dresses bv really notabl I torians may rave all they! ing the three-day sessioi they may fight over substan-j One thing can be cm of their theories as to causej A newspaper man may cot, but the fact will toiiMiinj individual and hard to rmany was licked, that \meri-| when he is in harness, 1: tided itself, even thoughl lie counted upon to have oing so it rendered valuable when out from under the ,to France and England. will have it at Greenville ! and if this paper looks i mucus \ i?lkssin<;? , | ged when it pets to Its Manufacturers Record takes , > . . ., may be understood that t iptimistic view of the present- ,. ... . ... the editor has hied away h prices. Really, the Record vent ion. he American people are espe-1 ^ ilessed in this particular in gasolin'k. ison with the people of other The price of gasolim ?s. It says: worrying the secretary c le American people are com- ,<M' automobile associatl ; about the high cost of liv- haa taken the trouble to ?y have little appreciation of Prices at which it is so means to have high* prices different places in the i connection therewith ex- figures are intcrcoting if low wages. Spain is an 11- ble- a"(l we Rive them h on of what some European Aiken, twenty-nine ce es are suffering in that re- son> twenty-nine cents; thirty cents; Camden, t Spain common workmen are 'Charleston, twenty-seven less than 6<> cents a day; car- ravv twenty-eight and t and blacksmiths $1.40 a Chester, twenty-eight ce id other laborers in propor-( hia, twenty-eight cents; Notwithstanding these ex-j1 wenty-eight, twenty-nine low rates of wages, wheat tsl,*ents; Florence, twentyon the basis of more thanv Greenwood, twenty-nl ier bushel and sugar 15 cents Manning, twenty-eight 1. while a sheep cos.s $12 and angeburg. twenty-eight < about $100 and a work mule wood, thirty cents; Rock 400 to $600. Just how the 'y-Hght and twenty-elg of Spain, with, wages based half cents; Spartanhur cents for ordinary laborers "'-"ven and one half cents 40 for carpenters and black- ''ancestor gasoline with other wages in pvopor- mobile costs twentye able to meet the conditions which, according to the S exist is a problem. figures, is about an a\e people of America have very ''i<% towns named, the pi '(inception of the extent of twenty-seven cent essings as compared with thoj ?0,lts an,l 'he majority b< gs which have been endured ' font:;. The New? t ipe. even in some of tlie neu- formed that proximity o untries."' 'he distributing point of ups the Manufacturers lie- panics has to do with right so far as its eomnarisnn 1 price of gasoline In < it the people of America have^,,l? freight rates control. ly been used to a Rood many is located a long dtstan< iges over other countries, and! distributing point It is ;on of this fact, comparisons ,!u> freight is more dly fair. Carpenters In this' gasoline than to a to do not work for $1.40 per distance. So long as tl >r twice that amount, and if "tains at different places ad to. there would be few cents of the same, there ers. Perhaps, in Spain, labor protest, but the Sutmi tost plentiful thing to be had, "'.vs that he has been t< * in this country tltere price to the automobile emand titan supply. We doi',am- C., was less thai: o\s what are the renditions| s"le price in Sumter, an in Spain, but how a man can | "u' case an investigation ?n $1.40 jter day and pay thej tomobile associations is iltovo quoted for the neccssa-l propria!*? and tintely life is beyond explanation. I ^ > is no country so democratic, A (il.lMPSF AT THK rlca, and thoro is nut one way ify high prices in this conn- Sho" Urtus ?r in,erc" Here, Tltere and E hat is to equalize labor with L , . it pt ices of commodities. Common and agricultii ould hardly l>e fair to hold [ South Carolina is still s for thirty-live cents and at an apparent decrease ,.,1 .! ntand. Men at Camp te ttnte hold down the wages 1 I needed but not to such i farm laborer to a pre-war I * a month ago. Farm , needed practically all ov ? land industrial plants are MMI'Fli (il VS TO MKK/r. , ? . . , ... . I for men. John L Davis lay. Tuesday and Wednesday j rector of labor for Sou week the newspaper guys of j says that tIte demand f te will hold a convention iiii?' laborers was dnrreat ... , ....! looked for an cqtiilihrii j i it*. ii is noi smuiiifiim ?y . t , . , th?? supply and dornana eans that the meeting 'on* end of the year Offir on the day before the war-j quartermaster corps at 'ohlhition poos into effect, and nre desirous of placing i >t to he taken forgranted this m,'n at ( olnmbus, f?a , government is erecting ken into consideration when . ,, . . .. | ning. Requests for the les were set. fhe newspaper j geveral contingents of la s a matter of fact, are a sober, this state to the fjeorf folks, some by preference, j been received by Mr. I> >y training and some by the' ?,u? to ,ho ahorta <"arolina Mr. Davis sa nnent of the law But thei i under no circumstances papers next week promise to ,ow ,llbor (o bP gPn( (0 lany shortcomings. The fellows as long as the shortag se the scissors and paste-pot Hf>tith ( arolina. Ind out such stuff as this on A tremen(loU8 Tncreas jew rlter will be away, havlngi licit distilling of whlski P I ? STER NEWS, LANCASTER. S. C. time at the already noticeable, Is expected in ig to talks South Corollnn, according to a states cost sys- ment ?* t,,e Western District of South Carolina. Illicit distilleries have ly to make ,, an sprung up over all this section. Mr. j # wore money. ijyo? said( where before tho business M ^ ntion of the of making whiskey was practiced al- 'w ociation and most exclusively by the mountain- II big one. eers. In order to more fully en- ^ force the prohibition law after July jpaper folks , .. . 3 1 a new man. Mr. Wannamaker, has ide to Ashe- heen added to the revenue force. V^k guests of making six men employed in the M JB perhaps the work of running down distilleries. some Other So Kroat has t,lc activity in this H Iff | section that the revenue men have re to be adbeen unable to, operate in any but le men dur- four oounties, Greenville. Anderson. ii- Pickens and Oconee, although the tor- ' (C( anted upon, ritorv in the western district inbe a funnv rlu(les 18 counties. It is possible , that, the force will have to be increasunderstand .... . I ? it'll it ne r j u iv 1. A ** ill > >ut they can | AV lYC a good time] The Farmers" Oil Mill motor truck, vnke Thev on 'ts way ,(> ^happells from Newberry Saturday with two tons of ice. . next week, ^oke through the "Hong" bridge m a little rag- OVer Little River, 13 miles from m readers, iti Newberry. The spans of the bridge, ? he reason is f1'" an(' so evenly the distance of' to the con- ff!?l that very 1 ittIn damage was done to the truck, and "the driver was not hurt. The accident took place before the truck reached the m M?1 M , river. It was from this bridge that M^MJa p has been Mf Qnd Mrg Sim Crouch fe|j wlth )f the Sum- their horse and buggy, about a week Ion and be ago. a distance of nearly 26 feet, find out the both having several bones broken by Id In man. ,h" "?' state. His j>r j g Dill, who for several ! not valuu- years has been pastor of the First ero Raptist church of Gaffney. has made '1*1 ? ntn; Ander- tho announcement that he had ac- I Hp Kfltlh quired an interest in The Baptist ...onw|>>".v. fQUrjeri published in Greenville, ' . hirty cents; an,i tH?t he would Rive up his pas- //Vfl/YVC cents; Che- torate and move to the mountain WftCttO hirtv cents; |r,tV Not only are the Paptists of ? . i GafTnev regretting to lose Dr. Dill, nts; Colum-1 , , but the announcement was heard \ Darlington,j wjtj, sjncere regret by the members 1 * and thirty ()f the other churches in Gaffney. who eight cents; | recognize in Dr. Dill one of the most tion from Lancaster county in abo no cents: powerful preachers in the Paptist ishing the work in this county. i church. understand that it would have co * the county only $750 a vear to hat cents: Pine- Mrs L. <\ Mellugh. who was shot kopt ,he work RoinK and cer(aln Hill, twen ''V >^r "OH-In-law. Hugh T. Pram- an nR|.n| wh() wou,(, no( havo ,JOf h| aiid ono let.. Wednesday night at her home wo,th that much to the county woul in Greenville, died Sunday at 10 be a VPry Rorrv man ,n<Io(ML " o'clock as a result of the wounds. p,rst am, foremOB(i thu (lomo Her daughter. Miss Peola Mellugh, lpnt,on WQrk ,R eilllPal|onnI ln , to the auto- who was also shot twice, was report- 8(.)pp am, ?kp ftny |)(hpr e(lupatIon nine cuts. 0,1 lo nnrt h?P? ?* enterJ| work, Its value Is hard to ostium under man's ,a,n?d f?r h,'r rooovor>'' nramlcU In dell us and cents. The purpose is now in the state penitentiary at (h(> Wf>rk ,s |Q (l(Mplop a SVrtt).n, , Cnlumbia. having been taken there ^rartica, inalrilolion in agrleultu rice ranging Thursday night for safe keeping. Rn(| homp ooonom,P8> The aJ?P|l( S ,o thirtyi Last Wednesday night about 0 th?0)|;;h Piose contnrt with tho p,. ung twenty-1 oV,ook ?r?n.lett drove up in an au- p] , .im| |nt|mntP relatlons wilh ? been in i omoDilo to Mrs. Mcliugh's house, a, rIpn? ura, r(,?ORP!,. experiment st i where his -re was staying, got outj fl?ns nr)(, ,np rnitpfi SilliM n,rill, iiiiii wiuie me car was siowiv niovr.n . . .. r ?. . ? m-nt i?i Agriculture, acquaint flier the oil com- |nc wont to the front porch and fired , , , , , , , ?? ... . so ves with the needs of the peon the retail four shots from a .5 8 caliber revolver, ,, . . , . ai d carry to the farmers the late >th.?r wnritd returned to his automobile and drove , , >tn< r wonts a'<' >>..si information regnrdlng ti . off. He was overtaken by Sheriff ll a town , problems that confront them. Tl Rector on the Fork Shoals road, .... ?e from the -.,.< ... <, work also involves work among tl 1" pig1** miles from Greenville Brain- , i...t ..-....-..l i . . . . boys and girls; and. to my niiiul. th hut natural let* got out and stood in the road , , . . , is very important because the eh on a ear of and when ordered to drop bis pistol . . * . , ...... . . ' . . , , work in which they are engaged w ..... i?au he replied with n shot which whizzed , , , w ii oi it ss _ do mo.re to keep them on the far by the sheriff s head. The officer . , le price re- , , . , than anything ulse that has ever bet reached to the back seat and got a within two KU? an,j aaj,j j,0 aimed to shoot tr ' ' . . . . , . .. , . . , . . . Companionship, Rood times, ai will be l.ttle Ilramlett and to make him drop the . , the chance to make nionev are tl >r secretarv pisttd. Some of the bird shot took r nurt-iar) . ........ . three thinRs that a countrv bov .1,1 thai tin. ?"prt 111 h,s body, but he was not , . . ? ,. Kl that the g|ri looks forward to finduiR in rlously wounded. A ftght ensued at Rocking- . , . , , city. They And all these and mo before he was finally taken prisoner.I .... , . . i the whole-i - ,n the club work. Georgia has 8,0< d if tiiis is Members of the Hoys' Pig flubs boys in pig clubs and they raisi jn South Carolina will have better in- ow'r one-half million dollars wor ducements than ever to exhibit good 'ast year. I could nar entirely ap- hoKs n( th#i Stato Fa,r ,h,s year 8ay8 scores of instances where the wo Mr i< l< Baker, supervising agent of W handsomely in a financial wi zzzz: club work. There will be five regu- sPace will not permit. The r ST\TF 'ar ?bisses of prizes. Class A offers SU',H among the young people $11?. $10 and $7 prizes for brood ('?"ars and cents are small hesi . ~ sow and utter nf four rtn?? n of. tlie value of having developed cha I UJiiiirrni - - ... verywlieie. $10. $8 and $5 for fills four to arter. learned industry. persevc j twelve months old. Class c ofTers i,n and team work, as well as a iral labor In. *'IP sa"lfi f?r boars of the same age. dulrod practical knowledge, hort despite ( 'a88 " offers $10 and $.r? for boars In one county, six boys who e in the de- OVPr twelve months. Class E ofTers tered pig club work a few years a Jackson aro s?me for sows over twelve with one small pin each are t! an extent as months old. Besides these regular! year running hog farms anil are t laborers are Pentiums, there will be five prizes leading citizens of their romniui er the state *,u Paf h offered by the American j ties. The wealthiest and most pi also calling Poland China Itecor ((association, gresslve agricultural counties In t . federal di- with a trophy to the grand champion United States are the ones that ha lh Carolina, provided it be n I'oland China; and bad the denmnstration work t r>r all kinds ,lvo *10 ,,r? membership by the Ches- longest. The United States Den-i uru.,. C5...i_? i, ? _w_ tlnu and hft " 1 ?? IIH'* owmr umnu usnutiiiiiuu mnui ui n^i u un uif, iu miow us J uni between ^,r registered animals of that broad,, proval of this work, Ir helping to p before tho am' ^ve priaes by the American 'bo salaries of 6,000 demonstratl lals of the Hampshire assoeiatlon for the best agents. Washington r,,f'?rds with the breed There are I have talked with only one me i number of a'so some other trophies, ribbons,, ber of the delegation as to why th where tho to induce boys to grow out thelrjdld not make an appropriation I Camp Hen- we" an(' exhibit them at the this work and he stated that transfer of ^a'r- thought that Mr. Oraeber stayed borers from ~ ^ town too much and was not the ni ria r><?v Vi..a _ for t lie place. I do not hold a ti.i cltv has I.FTTKItS TO THE EDITOTl. , . , , . ? avis but re- particular brief for Mr Oraeber, ge in South he no' niftke mistakes, he wot ys, however, The t'ounly Agent. he more divine than human. I w would ho al-! fhe Editor of The News: I say that he did not stay long enou other states. The season Is at hand when the for his work to show to best advj e existed in benefits and advantages of the farm tage. and that he labored duriug w demonstration work are so obvious times when peoples' minds and that I feel constrained to comment tentlon were mostly taken up w 10 in the il-( on the penny-wise and pound foolish things concerning tho boys "o' ey, which is act of the present legislative delega there." If, however. Mr. (Jrael ?w.?' '--At . .. ' ' / \ fy^ay, june 27, 1919^ / 7 tory nds i / )upon) 1 L >u/ ready 1/ 7ot ' \ IVERY Ar of Lancaster ter, S. C. il- were not the right man for the place, I that would not be sufticlent excuse st to abolish the work altogether. Ante other man could have been secured, ly We do not abandon a church because mi one preacher fails to please everyUl body; we do not abolish a school bej cause one teacher proves a failure; n-j if our automobile has a puncture we ts do not condemn all automobiles and al, go buy an oxcart or go back to walkto ing. the :irin> tivr> > ..... .... iiiimi ui IUCUIIH)i>f tlon. ? <>fJ Lancaster county cannot afford to re lap behind the other counties in this s. great educational work, and I trust o- that tlie delegation will restore this ie work as soon as possible. Charitably n-{'speaking, 1 think that, it must have t-, been an oversight oii their part and n-'l not n deliberate act in failing to lo provide for this important work, st S. E. Italics, te Port Mill. S. C., R. F. I). 2. Juno to 22, lf>10. tie! * js Dr. W. O. Nesbit, of Charlotte, ,1) spent Thursday here on professional HI business. m ????????????? : WIFE GRATEFUL FOR AID GIVEN HUSBAND a re \ (ireenville Woman Describes Ailments Making Her ne Miserable. ay SOON NOISED ( HAN0E in -4 / Mrs. Loftis Saye She "Certainly ir- Can Say Taplnc I^/a Fine IC" Medicine/ n- j K0 "I am glad to recommend Tanlac tIs because It helped my husband so he much," said Mrs, Ileulah I.oftis, of r? |- 13 East Main street. Woodside. ro Qreenville, S. (k. In a statement she hej Rave in endorsement of Tanlac. "My ve husband suffered from what ho ho thought was malaria. He had somo rt- chills and felt badly almost all the ,p time. lie. ate almost nothing and ay complained a lot of being troubled on with his nerves. Indigestion caused him a g^eat deal of discomfort, and m- he was restless at night, oy "His appetite returned soon after 'or he began. taking Tanlac, though, an?l he! his strength Increased. 'He says he in has not felt any indigestion pains an since soon after he began taking r,v Tanlac. That Idg knot, which he If used to feel In his stomach, has tld gone, and the Tunlac Kaa built up rill end regulated his system. Met talks K>i ?o much about Tanlar that I rertalnin ly can say It is a fine medicine." rar Tnntac, the master medicine. Is at- sold exclusively by J. F. Mackey, ith 1-ancaater; Peoples Drug A Grocery ver Co., Heath Springs; C. O, Floyd, det Kershaw.?Adr.