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r PAGE FOUR . j TheLancasterNews pa* of th* s,a,e ami the co1 > (SEMI-WEEKLY.) CeivinK federal aUl if applU Established 1852. construction of sand roails. " ? ~ | first place, the federal aid is Published Tuesday and 1" ridny BY TH.E equal sums to that raised by LANCASTER NEWS COMPANY. ties to be used in construct* Lancaster, S. C. the responsibility of the fe UKOllUK BULLA CRAVEN thorities ends, but the counl Editor ??d Manager to maintain those roads si The New* is not responsible for the chlef responsibility only begl Hews of Correspondeuts. Short and the federal authorities' ends national articles on topics of geueral iter mi will be gladly received. "Also a heavier tax on .mot increasing with the tonnan BUlSSCRlPTiON PRICK: , . trucks. The bill would tax Ciuh in Advance. Ome Year $2.00|truck *12' aml an e,Kht*1 SIX Months 1.00 *750. with the license on i t % ! intermediate tonnage rangim Entered as Second Class Matter m October 7, 100$, at the Postotlice at '',psp two figures. The purpi Lancaster, S. C., uuder act of Cou- bill, states members of the areas of March o, loTs. commission, is to discouragi | of heavier motor trucks, v ui-Mi lu iivt* on rouus. il is si ^1 'n 'he counties for the ma ?*y Country 'Ti. of Thoo. Sweat Land of t,u' highway system of L'berty. The owners of motor vc FRIDAY. OCTOBER 17. 1919 ,ho s,a,<' W,H not or ' ?? ? tion will be negligible. to tl TliK Tltl'TH WILL Ol'T. passenger cars and trucks, The newspapers wliicli have been j proper provision is made fc * slandering tlu> Lancaster cotton mar- pendittire of the money so ket during the past two weeks are The New believes the a vera hearing front it. and while the cor-! of a motor car in the state rections are being made in a half-j lingly pay a license tax of winded sort of way, the truth is be-j horsepower if he has assur; ginning to eke. The State of last Sun- the money is to he spent in day gave Newberry credit for having struct ion of concrete highv the highest price for coitott in South any other kind of road, exec Carolina on Saturday, the price at case of unimportant connect that time being :!4 1-4 cents the upon which there is no hea pound, while the price on the Lan- and little of any kind, is a caster market the same day was 36 money, and the people are 1 cents. \V. F. Howell, county agent to find it out. 'w I for Lancaster county, has written a, \ few years ago a good i letter to the State, which was pub-! road would have served tin lished in a half-hearted, 'way back j hoi ween l.iinenutm- im?l <",,i on a back page stylo Wednesday morn- Lancaster and Charlotte, b lug, 11> set that paper right on the tp,, traffic is too heavy for subject Mr. Howell's letter is as fol- of road and the maintenanci lows: 1 great, in comparison with tl "In noticing the price of cotton over rendered, the state on Saturday as given in The -The new highway bill." Stat" 01 Sunday, I see that >4 I t was one ()t- Columbia papers, ' the ' a given. I eij j)V members of the high "As a matter of fact. Lancaster and | 1M|SSj0n. will provide an in Heath Springs have been giving over tp,, state highway system 35 cents per pound for several days. lWQ mil|ion dollars each y? Saturday the local market at Lancas- would provide that se ter opened at 35 1-. and during 'l,0,p(.r cent of this income rev* day "6 cents was paid tor a good couniios fnr maintenan many bales. At one time during the roa(js j? (j,,, various countin day I counted 220 bales of cotton on p;irt of the state system, the streets." money, in case there is no s Just what the Rock 11:11 Record , way j,i a county, or the ov nan u> say annul the cotton market, oas<> ,hp stj(e hlRhwavs The News did not see. but Sep Mas- do not rf!<iu|re the county. sey, a prominent citizen and planter; Uonate 8harp of ,he mom>y of Catawba, wrote the Record as fol- tenancp ROP8 ,nto |hp const, ^ows* jstate highways in such pour "I noticed in your last paper that |ded the pou|Uy wI? ma|(.h Rock Hill was one of the best cotton ey do?ar f()r dollar markets in the state. You are niistak-' There is but one feasible ] en in that. Lancaster and Kershaw i system of state highways at are far ahead of Rock Hill on cotton. to lay out the highways li I was in Lancaster yesterdav afterfind the cost of construction noon at four o'clock and they were the morn Hut before su< paying from 35 to .16 cents right ican be carried out, the peopl along. Lots of our people are taking , legislature will have to g cotton over there and getting 35 cents from county and township for it One partv from this side sold get their minds on somelhin them loo bales" ... . . The time of township root Mr. Massey s reference to price was . , .. . , ... ed; the time will come whe based on the price on October 10. the P . . ... , ,. ,, . have federal roads, from date o! his le ter to the Record. ,i . south and from east to west Take the case, gentlemen! ^ will be state highways cris A NEW HIGHWAY BILL. every state in the union, i. i From Governor Cooper's office is '"r:,l government and the > going out this week to every member K'lilty oi a woeful waste of the South Carolina general assem -I'tempt such system v hiy a copy of a new highway bill pre ( ':<y and top soil, which is pared with the annrovnl ot'*thi? <?:iio cioves in an aching tooth highway commission. tlit* same to be r:,r.v remedy. voted upon, or to form the hasas of ? a bill to be voted upon at the next ses- \ N'HW COI ItTllOO sion of the assembly. ' Judge Sense tells the gi The News has not seen the new bill that Lam-aster county m et but is tobl by the Columbia papers courthouse. It may have h that the main feature of it is that it to the grand jury, but if proposes to increase the automobile body is not well up on the * 1 license tax to fifty cents per horse ] the day. We suspect the g power, and if the money so raised is Knew already that Lancasti to be spent with federal aid in the needs a new courthouse at construction of soft-surface roads with; jail, and, likew ise, they kno the agreement that the state or the this respect Lancaster coun counties keep up the roads, it ought ting behind the times. All to be killed right now before it goes facts being well known, to 1 any further. The federal highway to the grand jury and to tl plan is all right in the construction of a little talk about it now i Ihard surface roads, but is going to a little agitation, may bring entail an enormous expense on the thing worth while. ' - s.m ? . 0 * THE> LANCASTER NEWS. Jnties re- mea ;d tq^ the SCISSORS AND PASTE. Dee* In the coc? i given In What tin* Federation in For. ^or (New York Times) ^av the coun- npn. Goinpers, Foster, Fitzpatrick, in y on, thero, ,j,ejr testimony, alike make it plain ^ deral au- that what the federation stands for ('ay :ios agree is its right to organize the steel trade nor nul their aKainst will, and more for the t,m< glory and profit of the federation and mer ins whore its leaders than for the good of the men. There is a difference between or trucks the right to organize voluntarily and 1 e of the lhe duty *? subra,t to organization involuntarily. If the right of the federation should be conceded to organon truck jze any trade at its choice and withtrucks of out invitation, there would be an end roa, ; between to the company union, whose right cre, ase of the ?an(' ut,,,ty or humanity, It may be v added?Is equal to the federation's tesy highway ground was fought ever, earlier you & the use than the issues above discussed, and ^ hich are was decided once for all early in this ted. ated that eentury, in Roosevelt's tihie. This i is a matter of citizens' riirhts not of I r\ ' humanity nor of union's rights. I tax levy \y^ Brain vs Itrnwn. intenanre . (Birmingham Ape-Herald) "If a window cleaner is paid $7 a "hieles in day, what does it profit a man to be a Ooti he objee- college professor?" "Well, it's true that the oollAte prolie tax on fessor has to exist on a pittance, but provided jJe jlas ,jlf> Sil(i?,faotion of knowing >r the ex- that if he and the window cleaner ^ collected, ever met at a Social gathering lie "He ge owner could make the window cleaner look , foolish by discussing the influence of he c will wil-| , . ... the Victorian era on contemporary lit- ret( $1.00 Perl erature." ?tri: nice that ? mui In Days of Old. jjjh (Birmingham Age-Herald) la9t lavs, but (;onp are the days when a young f ipt in the man married cou itig links On forty a month and did quite on vy traffic we,1? ?>eei Though at times, it's true, his plans rnn. waste of ... miscarried, hln loginning had a home in which to dwell. was And clothes to wear, and ate thrice (jpr, sand clav ?I.iil> . said And the stork dropped in with a the ' l???'Po*c hahy or two, y umbia or in a simple way he lived quite gaily wa% ut today. While waiting, of course, till his r<>st that kind dreams came true. Pay [? cost too Tlioi Stand Together Now. It!) ic service (Charlotte Observer) j As the lines of the gray and of the j blue grow thinner, with the passing continues nj the years, the remnants of the ^ it is stat- mighty armies that faced each other wav com- 'n 'he sixties emphasize more and more the necessity for a united conn-! iconic for try. Probably never before was the c <>t ,l? .111 > aentjn,,.n| for a united nation and the jtic< 'ar- i'1'' wiping out of the last traces of sec- (.<| | venty live tionalisin more forcefully emphasized hav Mt to the 'n :i reunion of the veterans of the in ? civil war than it has been in the an- stee ce of the nual convention of the I nited f'onfed- ? s toiming ,Mate veterans at Atlanta this week. Ail tiie Nothing since tiie surrender of ' tate high- General l.ee lias proved such a force ^ . erplus in 'n 1011nit ing tiie north and the south as tiie world war. And now that that WA a coun y WRr |u the Sons of Confeder* ? s propor- a((. veterans and of Pnion veterans u for main- having fought side by side in crushing \ ruction of German militarism and making the ! world safe for nomocracy we hear ities, tiro- c i in the reunion of the Confederate j the nion-j vejerans reiterated and emphasized q the plea that veterans of the north ilaii for a ani' ?' Gie south and their descend- ^Al . . ants stand together in the unsettled a id that is ? , , , s; conditions ot the present period. The s; rst: t hen .. - - - -1 si'in inii'iu expressed by General J. E.% p i, and get Woods is beautiful and impresive: ! H n h a plan "Today we are Americans and the e ind the ?'(' ho>'8 tn Kmy have transferred their |.<(>| loyalty from the Stars and Bars? b ' (jieir first love, which has been con- 8 lines and signed to the tomb to the Stars and ^ iK hip. j Stripes, the flag of our common coun, . trv." Is is passEspecially timely was the declara- Mi' " Al u' ' tion of Senator Harrison, "that we p north to ai,. now ready to co-operate In the furand there therance of the principles that the ^ s-cro-^s of' ''est Americans stand for Socialism t . , is an aggressive evil, one that should 8 t the ted- ?. , ? be touglit il we are to be Americans." , state will ii of money SENATORS BITTER IN " i,h san*1 DEBATE ON TREATY J AND ALSO SIIANTl NO NO -a tempo- . s (Continued From Page One ) h I ministration leader, who challenged a< ' number of his statements about the and jury practical operation of the league The| n Is a new colloquy reached a climax when the ' icon news M1 ?mo*iri senator made a passing ref- ~ . . erence to the. arms embargo bill so, that .?( J which he said Senator Hitchcock had j e\ cnt s oi, jnt r0(?,,ced after the sinking of the rand jury laisitania "well knowing that If It p er county Passed the Germans soon would be r id a ni?w j P?l,n(l'nK at the gates of Paris." w (j,.,! jh Heed's Heck less Statements. The administration leader declared FOI 's ' |the bill had been introduced in I)e- h of these (,f!rnj)pr 19 ] 4 _ at orst opportunity ^ the court.| after the war started, and that the ^ le people.j statement that it was after the Lusi-, ? and then I ,an,a "inking was a sample of the KOI outs I "reckless statements" Senator Heed J t ou Ron,p'j had been making "all over the coun*( s try." Later Mr. Heed showed the Q J . ' LANCASTER, S. C. I isure had been reintroduced In ember. 1915. and Senator Hitchi said he had never apologized the bill and never expected to, $ ing presented it in the interest of i ce and neutrality. Ban ro progress was made during the ^ ^ in the reading of the treaty text, ?? Statement was any agreement reached for a e to vote on the Shantung amend- JL Tl. ~ D~.~-.lm, ,t. _ % I he Bank AND JURY FAVORS 4 Located at Lancast< IONDS FOR ROADS IN V 0 A w . . r,mw-.n V ness September 12th, LANCASTER COUNTY t ?_____ ? (Continued From Page One.) ^ / RES 1 from B. L. Parker's to old Gills & ek church grounds be worked. Loans and Discounts Ve thank your Honor for the cour- J> ' and consideration shown us by ^ Bonds and Stocks . . during the present term of court. J Furnitnro and Fixtnr .11 or which la respectfully submit- Y w. J. Hammond, ?* Real Estate . Cash on hand and in Ictober 14. 1919. Y IITE COUPLE CHARGED Y WITH FARMER'S DEATH Y V _ Ion >1111 Workers Said to Have J lleon the I'air Which killed V LI A ( corKiii Farmer. t Y Capital Tacon. Gil., Oct. 13. Sheriff's dep- Surplus antl Profits is and (he police have arrested Al- , t William White and wife, said Reserve foi Taxes. . . otton mill workers, who came here ^ Rediscounts intly from Columbus, following a ?? ke in that city, charged with thej^ Deposits rder and robbery o( Andrew J. ,|, Bond Deposits ... in. prominent Hibb countv farmer. I week. jF 'he couple were placed In the Y nty jail. They were forced tp put the clothing that is said to have a worn by them on the country' ^ 1 the day of the killing when Kl-j was murdered and Tom Sanders i 1 A attacked with a hammer. San-! i was then brought in and he is I to have identified the couple as ? ??m^SSSSSSSS ones who attacked him. ? , , . , . discovery of an anarchist plot to ^ hit* 's said to h.nt been on *l*R|Str0y abandoned army cantonme ' to the terminal station when ar- a|)(, 0(hpr governn,ent property. ed. The woman was found in the The p,ot ,a Ha,d tQ ,mve bpen ne mill district. earthed in connection with the disc ... erv at fiarv. Ind nf Xninn ->IU I I-.IM I hl(S TRAIL alleged radical leador, who is said UNCOVERED BY SLEUTHS be under surveilance in connect with the explosion of a bomb in 1..1 ... L'.ii . # ^ i Chicago postoffice in September, 19 rials Discover r.videncc of Schemes 1 when four persons were killed and for Destruction of (ioverii- I. , . \injured. mcnt Property. I Information Rained by the milit liicnRO, Oct. 1G.?Military author- authorities Indicated that the radit < ami federal invest(gators assign- have plotted against Rovernment p 0 follow the trail of radicals who erty in states ranging from West e been spreading their propaganda ginia to Colorado. onnoction with the strike of the ^ 1 workers, have announced their LONGSHOREMEN VOTE OP ? GOING BACK TO WO] BUSINESS NOTICES* Forty TlimWHn~e? who .. Tied t'p Marine Tratlic at New SOUND WHEAT York Take lla I lot. nd corn for milling purposes. The ighest market prices paid. Let s know what you have. Catawba New York, Oct. 13. Answering Idling Co.. Rock Hill, S. C 2t __ I SAUK CHEAP?liAIKIR WAIJi ^ lock, suitable for school room, hurch or home. Robinson-Lathan ^ o., Lancaster, S. C. 102-2t iKX UP ABOUT TWO WEEKS go, dark Jersey steer, with white m H pots and horns. Owner can get ^ J, IN tine by paying for this ad and ex- llrCT I enses of keeping. J. C. Catoe.j JL JL JL O V JL [eath Springs, Route 1, near Fork 1111 church. It It QUICK SALE?ONE FOUR* , urner "Florence Automatic" cook tove with oven. First class con- Mm0\ ltion. First fifteen dollars cash ets it. Apply at News Office. iV/uCTIM) . -2t LANCASTER ! riCE?ALL PARTIES IN DEBTil to me personally or to the Funerburk company can now find me t the store of Ferguson & Funder- The chief concern of urk at Midway, and are requested i.-;,. . v.l i? ?r i . a make settlement as soon as pos- 1 1Fht National hank of \a ible. Wo wish to thank you for positors and the security < he liberal patronage accorded us ()f integrity and sou a the past and hope to retain a . hare of your business and good money is absolutely safe, rill in the future. Thanking you, i?.w. v., ?. i i . i am. B. Y. Funderburk. 102 - lon* and honorable record ? growth of its patronage f TICK I am prepared to take sub- fa(.t that u hag at a? Um criptions or renewals for the fol- .. . , . . D?i?g mawta: Th* l.?dio? its patrons, and this chari lotne Journal, Saturday Evening nent than at the present t oat. Country Gentleman and Banks, corporations, I tmeriran Hoy. Ask your friend , . bout them. See me. Ferris l. very best service that a St Jlackmon. city. 99-4t ficered and thoroughly eqi ? invited to open accounts h It SALE?Two nice Duroc shoats. > I. A Long, News Office. ^ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ^^ZZZZZZZZZZ OMS FOK RKNT?-SINGRK Oil w n apartments of three and four ?? noms, Water, and wired if rentd by the year. W. J. Cunning- T"1* lkT am, Kook Hill, S C. 101 -6t lf*Ql I^J Q | II HAI.B?I STIIiL HAVK ONK ouae and lot for sale in Lancaster. T AMp Vater, lights and sewerage. Will ell chetfp for cash or terma. W. J. rv i n ,, lunningham, Rook Hill, S. C, 101 2 * ha*- Jonea, 1 resident ~77~?-??-? E. M. Croxton, Vicefl HALR?One 490 Chevrolet, prac- . . Ically new. One Overland, f? paaenger. Roth at a bargain. Come IJiickly. Kvuna & Wilson. 99 4t i I 0 . /itfVanwf i .... ^ j ^ * \ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919 * ?$ ! t T k No. 33 ?|> of the Condition of of Lancaster * ^ ^ 1 -i .r I : ;r, s. u., at me ciose ui uum- j 1919. jL OURCES. $630,503.40 % 595,000.00 ?! es 2,450.89 V 16,042.18 X Banks 81,186.33 t V 1,325,182.80 ?! T K1LITIES. V J $ 50,000.00 142,440.24 V 3500.00 45,000.00. .. 811,342>56 . . 272,900.00 A 1,084,242.56 $1,325,182.80 X T y do- appeal by I'roi. William Z. Hipley, n's chairman of the national adjustment mill mission, the 10,000 striking longun shoremen, whose walkout several ovj^y days ago brought about paralysis of [ to harbor traffic at this port, have begun 'on balloting on the question of whether t h o they shall return to work pending re18,1 ? of their case by the coin nilsjS ceniber 1. , ais i MKBwMHHUHHIHHbHMM rop m m S Lbs. Good/!> 1 I J3cr$ll i Ferguson Co I gj "We Save Vou Money" | rhe National ank SOUTH CAROLINA the officers and directors of The incaster is the welfare of the de>f their deposits, lis officials are nd business judgment, ?nd your if entrusted to their care. The of the institution, and the steady urnish eloquent testimony to the cs commanded the confidence of icteristic was never more promiime. irms and individuals desiring tne I rong, modern bank, efficiently of- 1 uipped, can furnish, are cordially I ere. I rHE? I tional Bank I ASTER, S. C. 1 President and Cashier, 1 B. Jones, JrM Assistant Cashier. ( % ' ' ~ HHillt?BMW"* *.i .i'rt