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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-08

June 8, 1905.-To buy a piano and
expect it to play itself is just as SEN
sble as to think paying for white
space constitutes successful advertis-
ing.--Rusty Mikes Diary.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-08
Sheen Wanted.

Sheep Wanted.
Do you want to sell or lease sheep
by the year or put out on shares:
Write me, as I think we can deal on
one of the three plans. Address A.
r., Argus office, Lewistown.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-08
LOST,

LOST.
THREE AND ONEHALF CARAT
hne white diamond between Main
street and Maiden lane. $4,000 re-
ward. Finder please leave at T. W.
Warren's, the thermometer, watch and
clock maker, Lewistown. 6-7-n
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-08

NEW RESIDENCE ON THE HILL.
Corner lot, good we'll and modern
improvements. Easy terms. Inquire
at this Office. 8-4-tf
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-08
THE COUNTY STRONG BOX.

over Ninety Thousand Dollars Now
in the Various Funds.
The report of County Treasurer E.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-08
FOR SALE.

FOR GALE.
LARGE COAL HEATING STOVE.
Good as new. See H. H. Boggs.
7-21-tf
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-08
FOR RENT.

STORE ROOM. 81 Z IS, PLATE
glass front, best location in Lewis.
town. Inquire at Ross Mercantile Co.,
successors to Lew1stown Commercial
Co. 2-16-tf
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-08

OFFICE SUITE, TWO ROOMS,
in Argus building; hot water heated
day and night, lavatory adjoining.
Cheap to the right party. Inquire at
this Office.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-08

COMPETENT MAN TO ACT AZ
foreman on ranch Of 1000 acres;
must be farmer, cattleman and dairy.
man. Address. with references, Edw
G. Russell, Helena, Mont. 6-91-tf
GIRL OR MAN AND WIFE FOR
general house work. Apply of Mrs.
Romandstad, Fergus ranch, Fergus
p0stoffice. 8-4.2t
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-08
HELP WANTED.

GIRL FOR GENERAL HOUSE WORK.
Inquire Of Mrs. q. NJ. Stafford,
opposite court house, Lewistown.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12

and the story was told here last
night by a gentleman who came In
from that section OF Granville county.
The facts are these: The mayor of
Creedmoor is named Claude Lyon,
highly respected young man. There
Is a negro in that town by the same
name. Recently a business firm In
Creedmoor advertised for sale bug
gy belonging to the negro. the negro
having given a mortgage on the We
hicle. When the notices were posted
telling Of this some Of the young
men began to guy the mayor, telling
him that his buggy was advertised.
After tearing down the notices the
mayor went to the firm advertising
the buggy and asked them to place
the word "colored" after the name.
They were replaced and again torn
down. He was notified to let them
remain and this did no good. FL
nally he was arrested and there was
a Jury trial before magistrate ihe
iury found him guilty and the magis-
trate fined him $25 and cost, which
was paid. The unusual occurrence
has created considerable feeling In
the Creedmoor section and Is being
talked a great deal. 1t is said that
since his arrest and trial more no
tices have been torn down.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12
Prescriptic1 Prohibition,

With a view probably to discrediting
the intelligence Of Yorkville people who
insist on trying to minimize the liquor
evil as far as possible, Senator Tillman
read an editorial of the Abbeville
Medium containing an extract from a
sermon preached by Rev. DR.. T. R..
English some sixteen years ago and
published in THE ENQUIRER of Octo-
ber. 1889. He was very anxious to have
this extract republished in THE ENoU1-
RER and the editor made no hesitation
in promising compliance with his de-
sire. 1t Is as follows:
II was shown on one occasion, a
transcript for the prescription for whis-
ky, etc, on file in the different drug
stores of our town. There was given
the name of the physician, the name
of the patient, the quantity prescribed,
and the date of the prescription. 1 tell
you ii was study and l have said
again and again. that / would like to
see IL published and posted In public
places, that all might see what was 60
ing on under the form of lawi
| saw there many familiar names.
Names of men notoriously given to
strong drink: names of some OF our
young men whose fatal weakness Is
mourned over by anxious friends and
heartbroken parents. There they stand
near and with whisky prescribed for
them by the quart.
One name in particular arrested my
attention. Again and again it appeared
on that mournful record, and then sud-
denly ceased. All. / understand the
reason of 1t, all too well, for looking at
the date of the last prescription Civ
en- him, / remembered that within less
than a week of that time he filled a
drunkard's grave"
Rev. DR.. English Is correctly describ-
ed by Gen. Hemphill as a man Of the
highest character and ability. We ven-
ture that when 1t comes to the doc
tors attention that Gen. Hemphill and
Senator Tillman have undertaken to
use his sermon to uphold the liquor
business he will be willing to concede
their ability but he will be extremely
cautious about giving them a certifi-
cate of character.
DR.. English delivered his sermon
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12
MERE-MENIlON.

A passenger train on the Pennsyl-
yania railroad ran into party or
workmen near Homewood, Pa,
Thursday, killing three and inJuring
three others. one fatally. The
town Of Keysville, Georgia, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire Fri
day. An earthquake felt all over
Italy, Friday, caused the death OF
more than 400 persons and wrecked
buildings In eighteen towns In the
province Of Calabria.. 100000
worth Of property was destroyed by
fire in the tobacco warehouse portion
of Danville, Virginia, Friday. ......
Nineteen persons were killed and
nine or more injured by an explosion
of powder which entirely DESTROYED
the Rand Powder mills, at Fair
chance, near Uniontown, Pennsyl-
yania, Saturday. "A grain elevator
containing $4,000 bushels Of grain
was destroyed by fire in Chicago.
Saturday. with a property loss or
1925, 000.. Five persons were KILL
ed and seventy-fve were Injured In
q collision between passenger train
and an electric car near York,
Pennsylvania, Saturday. 80. Captain
Richmond Pearson Hobson Is again
a candidate for congressman from
the Sixth district Of Alabama.
Three trainmen were killed and two
fatally injured in collision between
two freight trains on the Philadel-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12
Tuesday, September IL, 1905

phia and Reading and Central rail-
road at Tabor Junction, Pennsyi-
vania, Saturday. ..... Saturday was
celebrated by patriotic exercises all
over the state Of California as the
fifty-fourth anniversary OF the ad-
mission of the state into the Union.
..... Prof. F. De Maarten, the legal
adviser of the Russian peace com
mission, sailed from New York Sat-
urday to carry copy Of the treaty
killed and nine injured by a tornado
which passed through the north
eastern part Of Oklahoma Saturday.
The Norwegian steamer, We
|nezia, was wrecked of the southwest
coast Of Jutland, Sunday, drowning
the captain. .ghis wife land ten of the
crew. $50. .Kulikovsky, the assassin
Of Count Shuvaloff, prefect OF police
of Moscow, Russia, has been sem
fenced to imprisonment for life.
Eleven persons were killed and thirty
injured by the dersilment ;of an ele-
waited train In, New York city yester-
day: ....M NJ. Takahira. the Japanese
minister to the United States, will be
appointed japanese minister to Rus
sia. /. .Juries Of inquest in Norfolk
and Norfolk county, Virginia, have
returned verdicts holding the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad responsible for
the wreck of the negro excursion
train from Kinston, N. c., on August
II, In that the railroad company
placed an engineer in charge Of the
train who was not familiar with the
division. ...... Fifteen new cholera
cases and six deaths are reported
from Berlin yesterday, making total
Of 10 cases and fifty-eight deaths
to date.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12

IT has been suggested that Senator
Tillman's motive in proposing to re-
move the state board Of dispensary di-
rectors is to distract attention from the
rottenncss of Ire dispensarv. We. do
not doubt some such underlying idea:
but we do not believe the thing would
work even II the members Of the board
were kicked out. Senator Brice struck
the keynote when he said that these
people did not corrupt the dispensarT;
that the dispensary corrupted them.
We believe that the people realize this
fact fully; but Of course this Is no
reason why these men should not be-
kicked out and punished. The exper-
ience Of twelve or thirteen years has
shown that the whole thing should be
abolished.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12
Work COUNTY SCHOOLS.

Superintendent of Education Carroll
has lust completed his annual report
to State Superintendent Of Education
Martin as to the progress OF schooi
work In York county during the year
ending June 80, 1905.
The report covers detailed informa-
ton as to the number Of schools that
have been taught In the county, ootn
white and colored, the number, Color
sex and experience Of teachers employ
ed, the enrolment and average attend
ance, the number of school houses
built and the total receipts and expen-
ditures.
According to this report there have
been 81 white schools and 80 negro
schools, a total Of 1877. These give en-
ployment to 124 white teachers and "a
negroes, in all 20S.
s The total enrolment for the white
schools was 1852, and Of the colored
schools 8,O93. The average attendance
of the whites was 3 571 and OF the COL
ored 1858. The white schools had an
average of 25 weeks during the year
and the colored an average Of II weeks,
The white male teachers received an
average salary Of $500 for the school
period and the white female teachers
an average of 1908. The negro male
teachers received an average salary
of $40 and the negro female teachers
an average salary Of $66.
Only one district, Hickory Grove
voted an extra tax during the year.
The special levies, however, were re-
peated in all the districts In which they
had been previously voted.
The total receipts from all sources
during the year amounted to s53.1S475,
and the total expenditures to S3s,625.SS,
leaving a balance on hand Of $13,659.42
to begin the new school year.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12

about nine years after Yorkville first
made the experiment Of prohibiting the
legal sale of liquor. The old fight by
which saloons had been voted out OF
he town was not yet over. The army
of liquor drinkers had at first gone to
the drug stores which undertook to sell
at discretion, and which virtually sue
ceeded to the barroom business with
out even being subjected to the incon-
venience of license. Then came law
prohibiting the sale of liquor except on
physicians prescriptions. and this law
eventually made certain physicians
mere middle men in the business. The
next reform was In the direction of
prohibiting the sale of liquor on pre-
scription, and DR.. English's sermon was
delivered In furtherance Of that move
ment.
"Oh, my countrymen," said Senator
Tillman at Tirzah, "liquor is indeed a
very devil. Whoever tackles whisky 10
control 1t, has on his hands the great
est problem that has ever confronted
any people in any country" There are
many of us in this county who appre-
ciate the truth Of this fact as vividly as
does Senator Tillman. If not better.
THE ENQUIRER has never fought to
control whisky; but for fifty years 1t
has fought to destroy, and one Of the
incidents Of its fight was the loss OF
SIS, 900 plant by fire, the very next year
after the delivery Of the sermon re-
ferred to above. This paper has made
for itself more bitter enemies on ac-
count of its fight against liquor than
from all other causes In all its long
career.
Senator Tillman said the other day
that had 1t not been for the opposition
to the dispensary law, South Carolina
would now be in the prohibition COL
umn. Senator Brice said that had the
law not been opposed the very school
children would now be wine bibbers.
Every man who has a taste for liquor
appreciates the will power necessary
10 restrain lHdb tdStS Ni'hih >"S '>
of moderation. He also understands
how fiimsy are the safeguards that
would protect him from fatal excess.
The respectability that Senator TILL
man has given the liquor business has
already worked untold harm.
There is no doubt Of the fact that
previous to the enactment Of the dis
pensary law Yorkvllle was making
rapid strides toward prohibition; but
when this law sought to make whisky
drinking respectable, the prohibition
sentiment was more or less paralyzed.
How could any man claim as crime
In an individual that which the state
government boasted as a virtue?
Senator Tillman may eventually sue
ceed in enthroning the conduct Of the
liquor business for profit as the highest
function Of government; but when that
time does come may God have pity on
the poor besotted creatures who Will
constitute such a large proportion OF
our citizenship.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12
WITHIN THE TOWN.

The Thomson company has been
capitalized at SIS 900.
Cotton came In at quite a lively
rate last Saturday. something like a
hundred bales being received during the
day.
Quite a number Of people were out
to the meeting last Friday night In the
interest of the proposed location Of the
Presbyterian college Of South Carolina
and subscriptions were promised to the
amount Of about $4,000.
The Catawba Power company con-
templates the completion Of Its pole
line by next Saturday. The Nicely
Manufacturing company has already
received a considerable portion OF Its
electrical machinery and the balance
Is on the road.
The plat of the proposed eastern
suburb of Yorkville out next to the
Neely and York Cotton mills, has been
completed. There are about sixty lots
In the plat. The suburb Is to be known
as Whisonant. It i3 to be intersected
by several streets, known as Rose
street, Poag street, Black street, Rail-
road avenue, etc. The average size OF
the lots is 1OOx1S0 feet. There are a
few larger and some smaller.
1t will probably be two months
or more before the town will be able
to utilize the electric current OF the
Catawba Power company for lighting
and pumping water. This Is largely
because Of the tardiness Of the COM
missioners Of public works In giving
an order for the necessary machinery,
It Is only within the past few days
that the board decided what 1t would
buy and 1t Is generally understood
that the manufacturers of electrical
supplies are several months behind
with their orders. 1t Is also under
stood that but very little Of the Ia
yora plant will be fit for use. Even
the transformers will have to be re-
newed or overhauled at an expense
but little less than that involved In
q renewal.
The Graded school exercises were
opened yesterday morning with the
reading of the Scripture and prayer by
Rev. E. E. Gillespie. Rev. DR.. Stokes,
Rev. Gillespie and Mr. Thos. F. McDow
made short addresses to the children
and parents present, and Supt. Allen
made a few remarks and announce
ments after which the enrolment was
commenced. The enrolment showed
an attendance Of 1sO pupils. The num-
ber attending from outside Of the school
district is the largest in the history
of the school. A meeting Of the board
of tru tees was held after the opening
exercises in the superintendent's office
and DR.. ]. D. Mcdowell was elected
chairman for the ensuing year, sue
ceeding Mr.. w. D. Glenn. Mr.. ]. c. Al:
len was elected assistant secretary and
treasurer Of the board.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12
Now Is q aood time to begin the work

Now is a good time to begin the work
of hunting up registration certificates.
There are lots Of people who have Ger
tificates but who do not know where to
put their hands on them. Certificates
will be needed on September 26.
. The Southern Cotton association has
fixed II cents pound as the minimum
price at which cotton should be sold
locally. This price was agreed upon
at Asheville last Thursday, after a
good deal Of debate on the subject.
On leaving Tirzah last Thursday
Senator Tillman said to a correspond
ent of the Charlotte Observer that he
would give a years salary as senator
to be governor for three months. He
wants to regulate the state board OF
control, 1t is presumed.
We are frequently asked why we DO
not publish certain railroad schedules
and in order to correct misconceptions
with regard to the matter, we desire
to state that the publication OF sched-
ules Is a matter for the railroads not
for the newspapers. Where the rail-
roads desire to advertise their sched-
ules and pay for them. we. are glad
to have the business. Where the rail-
roads do not see proper to come to bus
mess terms, we have only to say that
this Is their right, and We not only en-
tertain no i'll feeling but we feel no
resnonsibility
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12
AROuT PEOPLE.

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Wardlaw are in
Charlotte.
Miss Matte Caldwell Of Glover Is
the guest Of Miss Rose Lindsay.
Miss Ola Caldwell left this morning
to reenter the Due West Female col
lege.
Mr.. Ernest Stroup Of r. F. D. No.
/, left this morning for Erskine col
lege.
Mr.. Charles Jennings Of Columbia,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. B. Jennings
this week.
Miss Agalice LIE Sassier Of New Or
leans, is the guest of her sister, Mrs.
w. B. McCaw.
DR.. John B. Bowen returned home
Sunday after a two weeks business
trip to New York.
Misses Florence Cody and Kate
Hobbs went to Camden last week
with Mrs. Walter Hobbs.
Miss Julia Allen arrived from Flor
ence Saturday to take charge Of her
classes in the Graded school,
Messrs. Brice McCaw and Robert
Jenkins have gone to Erskine COL
lege for the session Of 1905-06.
Mr. Ernest Dowdle Of Bullock's
Creek. left Saturday for Newton, n.
c., where he will enter college.
Miss Alma Walker left yesterday
for Denmark, where she will teach
In the graded schools Of that place.
Miss Annette Dobson has returned
to Kershaw to resume her position
in the graded school at that place.
DR.. ]. D. Mcdowell and Rev. E. e.
Gillespie left this morning for Heath
Springs to attend the fall meeting of
Bethel presbytery.
Miss Lydia Tiddy returned to her
home at Shelby, Monday, after spend
ing several days here with her
brother, Mr.. Frank Tiddy.
Mr.. James Allen Of Florence spent
several days in Yorkville last week
with his daughter. Miss Julia Allen.
returning home yesterday
Mrs. D. T. Woods and sons. Mas
ters Tom and Joe returned home last
Saturday after a visit Of several weeks
to relatives at Huntersville. n. c.
Assistant Paymaster B. M. Dobson
spent Sunday in Yorkville with his
father, Mr.. T. M. Dobson on his way
from Key West. Fla, to Boston, Mass.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12

- Columbia special Of September 8
to Charlotte Observer: There have
been several conferences here recent
ly between former United States
Senator John Lowndes McLaurin and
men prominent In the prohibition
movement, which Is causing deal
of talk as to the possibility Of Mr..
McLaurin becoming a candidate Tor
some important campaign on a plat
form advocating the elimination or
whisky from state control. He has
the politicians guessing, however, as
to whether he will become q candi-
date for governor or for Senator
Tillman's place, though 1t Is regarded
as a foregone conclusion that he Will
be In the race for something. He
was shy about the matter when the
Observers correspondent approached
him on the subject. He would not
like to go so far as to say that he
was out Of politics 'for keeps but
he would not wish to announce for
anything so early in the game. He
made the significant prediction, how
ever, that the prohibitionists would
put out a state ticket In the coming
campaign next summer. He SAID ne
so Interpreted the appointment or
an executive committee. Mr.: NC
Laurin is actively interesting himself
In the work Of the cotton associa-
tion, and has made several speecnes
against the dispensary.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12

IT came out In the dispensary in
vestigation at Sumter the other day
that during the guoernatorial campaign
of three years ago, L. ]. Williams, then
chairman of the board Of dispensary
directors. wrote letters to county dis
pensers requesting them to support
Talbert for governor. 1t is nothing
more than hundreds of people suspect
ed: but 1t is gratifying to have the alb
solute proof In the shape Of original
copies of the letters. And as for poor
old humbug Talbert he has since been
considering the idea Of running as an
anti -dispensary candidate!
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-12
pose Of getting an expression Of opin-
lon from the members OF every jassocia-

pose Of getting an expression OF optn-
Ion from the members OF every tassocia-
ton In their county.
First. AS to the ratification Of the
action Of the convention as to the min
imum price.
Second. To devise means Of mutual
assistance in carrying out the aim and
purpose Of the Southern Cotton asso-
citation.
1.-The one prime fact now Is that the
Southern Cotton association has fixed
It's minimum price at Asheville, N. c.
With the undoubted small crop and
the financial condition Of the south,
above all the possibility Of the south
ern cotton grower being able to dictate
his own price Is a prize worth striv-
Ing for. because II means personal In
dependence, manhood and wealth;
therefore, at this crisis / beg every
county and association to meet, as
above indicated, and see that report
both as to the spirit attending these
meetings the opinion Of those attend
ing as to the price Of cotton, as to the
outlook of yield and what means. II
any, have been brought to bear to
withhold the cotton from the market
until our minimum Of IL cents Is OBJ
| tained be made, these reports to be
| forwarded to the central office.
It matters not now whether II was
wise or unwise to set the minimum In
dicated. There Is but one thing left
| to do and we can do 1t, and that Is to
stand by the convention at Asheville,
and demand IL cents. Various things
will be brought to bear more than are
being brought to bear now and the
fight for the next thirty days perhaps
longer will be the bitterest ever
waged in the south. II. however, the
| bankers, merchants, In fact, all parties
interested In southern welfare, which
means In the southern cotton crop,
will stand together, we will see that
| the weak are assisted by the strong;
we will win this fight as we won the
other, and be rewarded by a much
higher price than IL cents for our
work. This letter Is dictated hur-
riedly on my way through Co
lumbia to meet the cotton growers
at Bennettsville. When have leisure,
which / hope to have In few days,
shall give to the public the work that
was done and proposed to be done al
Asheville. f.........
Let all the counties meet, as / have
asked above, and send to this office a
report Of the spirit Of the people as TO
the prospects of their holding their
cotton and the means they propose 70
put into operation to reach the end de-
sired. Already kilograms and letters
from the west indicate that they are
hauling their cotton back home and
storing 1t away and waiting for II
cents"