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PAGE SIX I SI i In the picture er than a year ago. producers so that t position to increa The manager < was faced with th< which has been in our admissions wil Adults 1 MONDAY Marguerite Clark ?In? "OOME OUT OF THK KITCHEN" Also "THE TIOKK'S THAI We positively offer a stronger pr Thanking you friends meet you at NINE ARE KILLED IN ARKANSAS RACE RIOl (Continued From Page One.) bo Involved in a row among them solves. Sheriff Kitehins, who has beer ill, could not accompany them. Ilooflogger on Itampage. A man imniPd Clem, aliened bo >t logger, had been reported "on a ram page" in a message to the sheriff from TClaine authorities. Clem, it was as serted, had threatened to kill his wife and other members of the family in eluding \V. 11 Clem. formerly i contractor of this city but now r resident of Elaine, had become involved. The message requested that de puties be sent to arrest members ul the family to prevent further dis turbances. The automobile in which Pratt Adkins and the negro trusty were riding, it is related, was stopped before the Hoop Spur church to repair a puncture and while working on the car the party was fired upon from the church by unidentified persons Adkins dropped dead and Pratt wa? wounded. The trusty, who escaped unwounded. made his way to a near by railroad station and telephoned a report of the incident to the sheriff Pratt made his way to Helena' despite his shattered knee and was taken immediately t(T the hospital. The first posse to arrive was met l>y a force of armed negroes and immediately sent back urgent calls for reinforcements, declaring the negroes were assembling in large number* and had begun promiscuous firing on white persons. Additional posses werr organized here and at other center* of population in the county and rush ed to the scene. Within an hour re ports came of a pitched battle in thr streets of that town between the pose es and negroes. Thousand Negroes in Arms. Early reports said between l.oOt nnd 1,500 hundred negroes had as aemhled in the vicinity of Elaine am were armed with high powered rifles A girl telephone operator, hetweej hcreams, fold an official here fight in* was in progress in the streets. Mes sages followed in quick succession nrging additional reinforcements guns and ammunition. Every avail able man was sthit to Elaine and : * snessage was sent to the governo linking his aid in obtaining troop: from Camp Pike. In one message Chief Deputy J. R Daisell. In charge of the posse ai Elaine telephoned that his force was PAR ?< NOTICE T( industry as well as all other lines The year in the picture industry ;hey were unable to increase their se their rentals to the exhibitor 3f the Star has just closed many n e proposition of running inferior vogue in practically all other cii .1 be beginning Monday, October I 20c IN ex.1 j : TUESDAY Elsie Ferguson ?Ia? HIS PARISIAN WIFE" Also II/' STRAND COMEDY are in a position to guarantee y< ogram than we are in position to for your past patronage and assi ; THE STAR?TRY TO GET IN 1 - i ureatly out numbered and that firing llcl ,1 had become general. I j Later it was reported that the no 'or groes had been driven from Elaine. *'u j but that lighting was still in progress . a mile to the north, where the band sta , was supposed to have received rein- eqi forcoments. Fighting in this vicinity continued late in the afternoon, but vei Jslied down toward dark and wearied wh possemen began to return to Helena, sot | Karlv last night, however, negro.> tex were reported again congregating in of > the outskirts of Elaine, and Joseph tin I ^ ( Meyers. In charge of one of the poss- pre 1 es. said he expected another battle to is i begin at anv moment. An hour later, of hnwavA* -i ..Jt.?. i ' ? i? iiioona^c v\ (i r? i rreivmi MIV- j ? i iim that the situation had crown no )n :| W04'se- ^ (or, I C'OMPl LSORY LAW IS ?' HAVIN(i ITS EFFEC T "" I (Continued From Face One ) ac? the South Carolina State Federation' n" ? roil of Labor relative to the <|Uestion of 1 education in the state. The Federation of Labor has ' ex-1 ' pressed jslef in no uncertain terms as being heartily in favor of: ? I > rc The removal of illiteracy from the iate and a ooresponding increase of I>0' literacy A more highly paid and a more ef- ' , me wa r". eon To abort a cold |,hf ' 9U< and prevent com* !m" ; ex< plications, take ;lP8 eb >S Jl noi i am slw The purified and refined lisl calomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure. Medicinal virtues retain ed and improved. Sold ,oa only in sealed packages. brn 'I Price 35c. iabl r wo t THE LANCASTER I ! T Where Everybody ) OUR FRI of business the cost of prod begins with September 1st a 1 revenue as the cost of pro s. # ew contracts and found the 1 pictures, starving to deatl ties for the past year. Belie\ o. 5 Includes W Week' WEDNESDAY .Marion I>avi<v? ?In? ur<i Ji.l 1(1 MAKIUKD" Also LATRST I'ATIIK NKWS 3U that no other theatre in th offer you. iring you that we are at youi lent teaching force. i Ample school maintenance through al taxation and state approprian. t These three recommendations the t te hoard <?f education indorses un- a livoeally and unreservedly. t Phe state federation make also a c v progressive recommendation'; ich is a logical outcome of compul* y school attendance, namely: Free tbooks for all of the public schools the state. While this recommendan is logical and in keeping wlthigressive educational legislation, it mpracticalde at present rn account a lack of available funds. The state hoard is greatly pleased have the backing of such a strong ionization as the State Federation! Labor and welcomes with open! ns its intelligent and active coop-| it ion. It is a source of genuine' isfaction to realize that other nries are at work for the advance-1 nt of our state in matters that are My worth while. Want Trarlicrs to (Qualify. At the meeting of the state board ' education last June a omniittee nposed of II. X Snyder, W. L joker and S. 11. Kdtnunds, was apnted to eon<luct an examination for Ji school certificates at Winthrop lege during the session of the sumr school at that place. Or. Snyder s unanle to he present on account being absent from the state. The other twomemhers, however, ducted the examinations, and while re was none of the applicants who cessfully passed all of the tests sub Ited. still the result should prove eedingly salutary in the obvious sons revealed. ? ; The committee, in harmony with j se revelations, offered the follow: recommendations: "That every high school teacher in state should be able successfully pass an examination on the work in glish composition, grammar and irature embraced in the four years an accredited high school. It Is r-essary to say only that Knglish mid be the foundation of all school, [1 college work and every teacher mid know at least as much Ene i as that prescribed for the high tools. "Every teacher should know the >ject matter that he professes to rh. A teacher, therefore, of any inch of study should certainly be le to pass successfully all of the rk prescribed for the high schools ? 4 \ JEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. HFi Meets Everybody" ENDS AND I uction has been on the gradual nd during the past year we were duction increased however as all increase of rentals to be from J 1 or making a- slight advance i ring that you wanted the very b ar Tax ( s Progr THURSDAY (linrlcK ILiv ,rn ?In? "111 I/I, HENRY" Also t ll.XltOLI) LLOYD COMEDY e world (and we know full well 1 service as to suggestions for ar n this department of study. j Of i "Speial certificates should bo issu- 1? <1 and special recognition he given o those teachers who may show heir fitness for their work by their ibility to stand such examinations as 11 nay lie given by the state hoard of sh: l slucat ion." that ? Lancas If i m ie" v ^ I Come Hon Big] u What a satisfacti 2%} cold trip home " High fuel |^ ' * r fuel wasti 4 , n \TI \ 'ATRONS increase until now it is over 1 j fortunate enough to have c I contracts expired in Septem H) per cent to 500 per cent n admission, or rather make >est we decided upon the last Children Und am FRIDAY S. ht? (ireat Nazimova Thr (i ?In? I. A 'RK VACATION" AUo PAS> PATHE HKVIKW LATE: that that covers a lot of grou ly improvements, we ask you ? ill tin* arts, ureat music is ihe art raise th<- soul above all earthly storms. H ?Leland. ' e that makes injustice his weapon II know the string of the serpent never dies.?Sir IMchard Cooke. ter Mercantile < LAXCASTEH, S. C. ae to Real H Pvel Econoi on to get next to real he ). No more fruitless huggii prices seal the doom of ng heating plants. If yoi stly heated home and gn fuel bills you will inves : Cole's C , , CUHK3 C / MD p?|f '" - i ItwSlleav M fuel mor.< Z No. Ill "t ~ *' ' ii i 11 V | tIDAY, OCTOBER, 3, 1919. j *E ] * >''' J t} .00 per cent greatontracts with the ber they were in a higher therefore the same charge named, therefore er 12 10c I \TUROAY I Ireat (innil)le No. 1 I Also kltKY SKMAX ?In? *IN<i THE lU'CK and ST I* A THE NEWS ,nd) can possibly , to have your F < * . I'; ?CZEMAy-da i o reauce the itch- / y / jfoy 'ICRS VAPORUllffi 3UR BODYGUARD"-30f. 6OMt20g^/ eat and | ny A I w at after that ig a radiator, extravagant, l want a persatly reduced j )rigraal11 st Heater I HEAPEST COAL CLEAN !HT. USES ANY FUEL th? nation million* tit sy.thlt winter. Act now.