The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, July 25, 1919, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
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TheLancasterNe
(SKMI-WEKKl.Y.)
Established 1852.
Published Tuesday and I'rid,
BY THE
LANCASTER NEWS COMP^
Ianciuter. S. C.
OEOHGE BULLA CRAVE!
Editor and Manager
The Newt Is not responsible ft
Hews of Correspondents. Slior
rational articles on topics of ge
latareat will be gladly received
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Cash in Advance.
Om Tear
Six Months
Entered as Second Class .Y
October 7, lso5, at the Postoth
Lancaster, S. C., under act of
gresa of March 3. 1&79.
FRIDAY, JULY 25, 191!
Ceurttry 'Tia of Thao, Swaot
' Liberty.*
PRICES.
"Prices are coins: to continue
as lone as people continue to be
inc to pay the high prices in
opinion of the Philadelphia Rec
says the Charleston News and
rier. "and people are still willir
pay the high prices." Thus l>i
Review says:
"The present extreme pile
patently do n<>t d -i-o iraire pari
ing where Supplies are urgent)]
quired, either to '.11 iinrned ate w
4 or replenishment purp< b<
consumption oi s'aple a: r\- luxtf
ies. even ill secte ns where
indications are dl-uppolntinc.
t nues of not ild' dimensions. .
The cost of footwear i^ inoui
steed ly, hut train contintns ;t?
and for sonic time past i: has
been necessa:y for manufacture
solicit orders."
Further evidence of the >amo
is found, if it l?e needed, in the <
niercial and Financial Chr
which tells us:
"An active demands prevail:
woolens and worsteds, and. ac<oi
to soiling agents. they are unah
fill the enormous inquiry tor r
and dress goods. Manufacturer:
reported to have - ale I down o
and are understood to he prep:
to mak< allotments for sprint
ness, nit It Imyers getting only pa
the goods they require."
"And so it goes in practical!
lines," adds the Charleston p
"there are phntv of people wh<
willing to buy even ;tt til p
which prevail In oth r words, t
are plenty of people who have p
of money wito have more money
they ever had before, and who
able to 'live better.' its the en
phrase lias it. than ever befon
spite the diminishing purcli:
power of the dollar. These pi
,i spending the r money free!
tln> things that they desire and
people who se.l those things
(barging as much for them as
people who want to hu> those tl
are willing to pay. So long as
inner are Milium 10 pay ?nai
arc paying now, the prices will
conic down.
"This is not especially encoura
t >r that very con.sideiable bod
people who have not shared in
Hood of sold that has lilleil so 11
pockets They have no more m
than they had live or ten years
ami for them the high prices ai
many cases prohibitive. There i
relief in siuht for them yet. e?
in the sense that prosperity for
classes of the nation, sttch as
farmei s and tlie wage-earners,
efi's in the Ion? run the natlo
a whole, itnt in this thought the
more than a grain of comfort."
The upward tendency of prir
sMil tending upward Many inert
have heen noted very recently
more yet to come There is litt!
d'eation of the price of anything
ing down. Take, for instance,
conditions: A week or so ago
doctors of Lancaster announced
their fees hereafter would he 101
cent greater than heretofore, lit
an advance in the price of an t
IWS .ute necessity, not u iffxury. L
1 week the barbers of the city
nounced increases in their prie
i and the Jitney drivers have come
IIV . t i? . r * .
-* j wuq an increase 01 ten cents
v.v passenger, charging thirty-five ce
instead of twenty-five. The X<
does not wish to he construed as c
I icizing these advances: all of th
j may be necessary: we do not do
ir th that they are. But the only > ea
t and
neral tor advances in price that one he
'hese divs is that everything else
advanced, which may be a fair eqi
zation. provided that everything t
$2.00 ! ha- really advanced.
The price of a shoe shine is
lattei cents: it used to be five. If the be
ice at
Cou- }dack finds that the public is will
to pay fifteen cents, he would
^ standing in his own light if lie
not advance the price to fifteen cei
r (That's the principal nowadays \vh
| is regulating prices.
L\( KI\<; IN SKKVH K.
Very recently the oider has b?
promulgated that the Lancaster ofl
Land
, of the Western Union Telegiaph co
(panv shall open at 8:30 a. 111.. a
close at 6:30 p. m. It was t
enough before, by all means, wl
the closing time was 8 p m.. but
i close at 6:30 is more than the pro;
nril
of Lancaster ought to stand for. T
1 "u News has commented frequently
the miserable service afforded h<
1,1,1 > by the telephone and telegraph.
we l as the mails. but there has be
hope of improvement and the te
' ' graph actually has shown some i
1 provement until this la'e order f
. early closing, which more than offsi
it I' Ii
whatev r rhatup for the rood 1
and . ,
taken place.
crop
In the matter of mail -riviio. t
c :iuarly
Sunday morning train has
best l.egun to bring th-> niorc.ing i
lllng
rs into Lancaster. Tree t .v
live,
at the depot until the train from ?
not
lutubia at I? : 1 r? arrives, but cv
rs to
that is bettei than waiting until i
ter dinner, or the arrival of the 1:
80t t ;
j train. An inspector from the po
'omodite
department here re<ontl> ;
ntcle
-ured some citizens of Lancaster t'
I the earlv morning Sunday trr
s for!
I would soon bring in onucT inn 1,1
uling
be didn't sav that this mail would
le to i
I permitted to remain at the dej
lien's
nearly two hours after i's arrival.
' Long distance telephone in and t
?i n ' ?f could be no w orse th
busi-i'' '* an<* 1 bose fhree public servl
r, of' institution should be made the t.
get for a number of well-defined co
,, plaints at the hands of the peon'e
v a 111
the city. In that wav onlv can t
aper.
, servic e be improved. If the Weste
i are
1'iiion is made to know that the or
rires
>>!e will not stand for such an eat
here
closing hour as that recentlv *i
Ion ty
nouneed, it will bo changed. Id!
than
wise, th<> mail and telephone servi
i are
, ri greatly improved by w ell i
I rected complaints to the proper i
fic'a's.
ising
It is beyond doubt that there
v on :,do(|unte room for improvement
Hi,.'the mail, telephone and telegra
are s,,rvice in Lancaster,
the
\ i ' \ 11 til >:i.h row.
lings
Here is a storv which the Chest
the
News credits to the Winnshoro Ne
t hey
and Herald with some misgivini
not
lYVitl. III. ..? ......... ..... ........
along with the statement that the
King
is no law requiring a newspat
y ol
rt'inliT to believe all he reads:
t he
nanv "Just seven years ago, the tempi
oil' v i,rv <-' itr?r of this paper was ea
,(J,M paigning for office and stopped at It
e in '"PW'M house in Longtown. It tie
s no 'u>f '??'{ "" his v,,st, in which
u(1p, had a fine watch, and, laying it on
mo it ! ence 'n 'he back yard. A c
chew d np a pocket of the garmi
ben 'ontaining the watch, laist week I
h ,JS I'ollard was called to see a sick ci
re is ('oun there. It turned out to
the sinie calf and the time piece w
r.v js f"""d in such position between t
uses'"l!,t 'he respiration the ol
and 'nK 'n Mn(' 'he tilling of the lungs
e in-' '"I'' 'he stem winder wound up a
he watch had lost but one hour
local ' -Vf'n
I
tl,< "The watch was removed by I
that I I'ollard and the cow Is doing well.'
I per ^ "
A man Is commonly either made
,f ls marred for life by the use which
ibao- makes of his leisuie time. Shaw.
i ii i | a annii a,, IIKH ,mn i tiiiii?> I
THE LANCASTER NEWS
,ast r?
an-' Tlie Best Joke. gi
es; |
out' (From the Cincinnati Enquirer.)
| John Deasy. the Cincinnati attoi- a
ptr| ney, claims that the oldest joke is
n,>l the one about the school janitor who ^
?ws|quit his job. He was asked why ho ,l
rit- quit, and he replied: "Well, I's an ''
em honest man and don't like to be ^
^ ^ surred. On Monday I saw on a black- w
board in one of the schoolrooms this
s?n | notice: 'Find the least common null n
arSjtiple." So 1 hunted all over for It
ha* ami i couldn t find >t. Then on Tues-I
day on the same board I found this
notice: 'Kind the greatest common "
divisor. So I says to myself that "
one of them is lost and they'll be ac- al
ten eusing me of taking them, so I quit."i
; ti
>?t- .
:jjt. George Hausewine. Jr.. of Wll-,
liamson, \V. Va.. claims that the old-i?,
est joke is the one about the man
d'd who came home unexpected in the
its. afternoon. He looked all over the'
jCh house for his wife, but couldn't find
her. He heard a noise in the cellar \
and went down. Here he found a,
colored woman doing the familv laun-i
! T
dry work.
?en "Have you any knowledge of my I ?
lice wife's whereabouts??" asked th^j"1
.... 1 man.
. "No. sah! replied the colored vc"d
. , M
i man. "They wasn t in the wash this
ltd weefc
*'
ot
to Nodge. of Oxford. Ohio, claims that
r y
pje the oldest joke is the one about the j
j old sea captain and his first n.ute
he I | gc
j who came ashore into a greasy little j.,,
on I eating house to Ret a meal. Thev i
or
're> ordered soup and the waiter brought ^
as two bowls of weak-looking li<|uid. j
, I The captain tasted the stuff and th-n .
II j pi
i said: "Ilev, waiter, what is this
, stuff?" "That is soup," replied the M
In* waiter. "Soup!" exclaimed the taper
tain. Then he turned to the mat.
t? and said: ".lust think o it Hill' lb-re
s! you and me have been sailing on soup
;tll our 1 i\ - add didn't know it." h
Joe J. i'nuei. general manager of
at the Triangle i-'lltn company, of New
York, claims that the old joke is theis,:
jp.'ono about tin1 Irishman who got a 00
j job as an attendant at a booze cttre|w'
| establishment. The house physician
,'*1 brought the Irishman into a room in! '
;if-( which a patient suffering from dollr-|de
17 iutn tremens was strapped to a bed ,!<
^ "Now," said the physician, "if till
man sees snakes again give him a J l'?
1 dose of this medicine and it will <|uiet j de
him. I'll be in and see him in the! do
in morning." The physician came ?
around in the morning and the p;>
. tient was raving. "How long has he ?
been this way?" asked the physician P ?
"" "All night, Mir." replied the Irish e ]
man. "But didn't I t?*11 you to give ? ]
,,,i iiim 'his medicine it' he saw snak< again?"
demanded the physician *
an j
"But In- didn't set- any snakes, re L ,
" ' I pli- 'I tlie Irishman. "All ho said was ?
purple giraffes on roller skates an., ? J
BUSINESS NOTICES * S
i + + + + + + ?
si \\ \\ I'll)?A farm <>n public. i- < . i i. ?J
lyl near school not less than 2"" nor j]
more than 1J o ai r<- . Ilium 5l
e< k< r, Box 37, Camden, P. 11 i
r
I oic > \ I i:?! '(>.ir lull Oiroc Jcrv-ey ?
ili- sow Will farrow real soon. 0 1. ?
?f_ McManus, Lancaster, S. C., Itoute f 2
J: il_l: tj
$25.00 Reward [|
phi ?
j FOB ('.ll'TI ItK \\l> HKTl ltV TO ?J
CHAIN GANG OP ESCAPED ? 3
CONVICT ? 3
i;
James Dunlap, who escaped froin ]
wa chain gang camp in evening of Tues- j
I8' day, July 1st. 11 ?, was .-a-ntem-i'il in I.
it last March term of court to serve four]! .
,ro years on chain gang for breaking lnto|| j
Bennett-Terry Company's store. He ?J
is about five feet, four iin hos tall, v ]
dark, ginger cake color; looks as It . ]
>r- ho didn't havo much sense; walks l
,,, talks and works very slowly; slightly I
(1) fiat nose. ?
| A reward of twenty five doilart ?
will be paid for this convict's returt ?
ll,> to the chain gang camp at Lancaster ?
' ? S. C. |
air, JOHN P. JU'NTKU, ><
' Sheriff 5
M H. Ki:sTKK. ',3
Countj Knglneer. L
ow r J
' {
I
h< ^ Gregory
Bros i
llrt ASTI II.S.. . |
KMC Automobiles
f
)r. [
Trucks and [
or Tractors I ft
! 1
ildhMitolii i m i -- rlrt _ i * --
3, LANCASTER. S. C.
?d, white and blue monkeys with'
reen eyes."
Bill> Byrne, the Covington (Ky.) '
ttorney, claims that the oldest joke ^ ^
the one about the Irishman who!
ad a run of hard luck and decided
> commit suicide. A man discovered,
to Irishman a few hours later. He
ad a rope tied around his waist and
as dandling from a tree.
"Whit 11 it* vnii fining0" V?r*
inn. I
"I'm hangin' myself." replied the
ishnian.
"You can't hang yourself by put-1
ng the rope around your waist,"!
lid the man. "You should put it
round your neck."
"Ocli!" replied the Irishman. "I1
ied it that way. but I couldu't
reathe."
IOONEY DECLARED
I NFAIRLY CONVICTED
(Continued From Page One.)
tat such a course would "not be
impatible with the public interests."
he secretary estimated the total cost
[ the Mooney investigation at not
ore than $7,150.
Conjectures regarding what the
jvernment might further do to aid
ooney were revived as a result of
le submission of the report to coness.
Since Mooney was convicted
1 a charge of violating a state lavr
ither than a federal statute, it would
? beyond the power of the federal
jvernment to do more than request ^
tmuiuia nuinuriiies u> parnnn mm
give him a now trial. His sentence
ready has been commuted by Govnor
Stephens from death to life im.
isotiinent.
EXICO IS AGAIN w
IN THE LIMELIGHT
(Continued From Tape One.) r
- :iI that lie had received no ?
u j Mexicans in ('arranza ??iform
liaviiur been found. "I' >s Pos
fieneial Ft win referred tlie Fall has confused
foment to t'ol. it. II S. Tompkins. with the K1
mmander of the Seventh Cavalry, this statemer
to made this statement: fi(l. "That d
"I have troops stationed at Ysleta, Col. (Jeorge
lien- and Knit Hancock on the bor- trolled by tin
r patrol ami they have been sta- tint pet repor
mod there for about five months,
irinp that time 1 have itad no re- Mll'K OF "I
rts of my troops crossing the bor- OFF 1<
r or having killed any ("arranza sol- San Diego
*rs or officers." Marguerite N
[""Watc
!
I
WATCH for 1
HARRY HIRSCH
MEYERS who hav
Markets for the b
STORES and THE
We are going
of UP-to-DATE Re
sex at a price whi<
der?"HOW WE D
In the meantime \
on ALL merchandise or
So come NOW and be
"The HIRSCH ST
i WE put the GAIN
WE Sell the WALK
Also for
the hir;
I.ANCAST
FRID
t"on<l<>iisi':1 M!j>t?'lll(*lll of Col)
The
Bank of Lane
At Close of Business June ii
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts 5
City Bonds
Liberty Bonds
Furniture and Fixtures '
Real Estate
Cash on hand and in Banks . .
$
LIABILITIES.
Capital $
Surplus and Profits
Dividends
Reserve for Taxes
Deposits $84 8,3 73.4 8
Bond Deposits .. 261,it&0.00
$
V
siblo that Senator Pall the super
tho Bin Bend district for a divoi
Paso district in making who was i
it," (ienoral Erwln add-' boiled" le
(strict is commanded by army. Si
F. Langhorne and is pa- Smith's s
i> Kiuhth Cavalry. I do prison cat:
ts from that district." | came in I
l.\KI> BOILED" I
'Kit WANTS DIVORCE ??? <l?i
Hiliousne*
, i a)., Jnl> _l Mi Headache!
Iichel Smith has tiled in Adv.
:h O
the return of
I and MRS.
e gone to the ]
benefit of the
IR customers.
to show a FU
iady-to-Wears
ch will make ^
O IT."
V L. are going to SL
i hand as we nee<
CONVINCED. (
ORES for BARGAINS
for YOU in B
-OVER SHOES
the LADIES
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140.500.00
2.500.00
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ARGAIN ?
for MEN 1
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TORES [I
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1,110.323.4 8
1,306,823.48
>!
ior court a petition asking
r?c from l.icut. F. II. Smitli.
;iven the sobriquet of "hard
> the men of the American
ie alleged brutal treatment,
career as commander of
up No 2 in France recently
"or congressional investlgalokly
relieves Constipation,
is, 1/osh of Appetite and
?, duo to Torpid I,Ivor.?
rinnrinrinnrw
roiii i-J ill oiJuuij i
ut |
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our MR. [i
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Northern [|
HIRSCH I
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for both jjj
pou won- jjj
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