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The Lamar register., 1914-03-04

For sale or trade-House and lot
in West Side Addition in Lamar. c.
f. Hoag. Wiley. Colo.
The Lamar register., 1914-03-04

List your property for sale or
exchange with F. J. M'Carty.
The Lamar register., 1914-03-04

City property for sale or ex.
change. F. J. M'Carty.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
A CORPORATION With n Soul.

There are those who are fond OF
saying corporations have no souls.
To such we recommend n little
thought upon the advertisement run
by the Citizens Bank of Warrenton
y. c.:
I'm place OF our regular advertise
ment, we wish to announce that we
are IN position to offer material aid
To any real case OF suffering in our
county. We have fund for this
purpose. If you know OF a case.
make application to the cashier. who
will investigate and take pleasure in
helping any one who may be so un-
fortunate as to need it"
And when it started out to bestow
jcharity it did not ask charity. IL
puts its announcement in paid-for
space dn newspaper.-Green
Piedmont.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
4 Tobacco Christmas.

III newspaper reports are correct
it was tobacco Christmas with Il
part of the German army. In order
that it might have been made such
a draft was placed on the city OF
Client for liberal supplies. The or
der was for 100000 cigars, the
same number of cigarettes and 9O,-
OC0 pounds Of tobacco. The amount
OF wine levied upon is not stated, but
it covered every bottle in the city.
The town was searched for musical
Instruments and Of these $4,000
we're collected. This Is but one of
the lighter o. the incidents OF a
Christmas day which will go down
in the history of the world as the
most extraordinary in all annals
Charlotte Observer
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
TABERNACLE.

Special to The News.
Tabernacle, Dec. 2S.-The Rural
School Improvement Association
has been reorganized at Tabernacle
and the following officers were
elected: President, Mrs. b. B..
Plyler; vice president, Miss Dess
Plyler; secretary, Miss Lula Taylor,
corresponding secretary. Miss Allie
PlyIer; treasurer, Mrs. A. p. Plyler.
The next meeting will be held on
the night Of January 18th. All out
siders who wish to become members
are invited to attend this meeting.
The following program has been ar
ranged:
Reading, Improvements We
Should Make the Coming Year"
Miss Dess PIyler
Recitation. Miss Corinne Funder-
burk
Reading, Miss Ella Rowel.
Recitation. Annie Mildred Roweu.
Recitation, Beulah Taylor.
Talks by Prof Taylor and Rev.
w. G.. Kelly.
Refreshments will be served free.
Miss Enie Carnes entertained
quite number Of her friends at a
delightful rook party Tuesday af-
terneon Four tables were arrang-
w anu TWO UDtTS worry pleasantly
spent. The hostess served a delic-
ious sweet course.
The basket supper here was a de
/ cided success in spite of the bad
weather and low price Of cotton. n
net sum of $31 was raised, which
VIII go to the cemetery fence.
Miss ODESSA Courtney of Van
Wyck is spending Christmas with
her rather, Mr.. l.. A. Courtney.
! Miss Zulee Funderburk of Lin
wood College is spending the holi-
Gays with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. j. Funderburk.
Miss Ethel Taylor is spending
Christmas in Charlotte with her
cousin, Miss Vera Strane.
! Miss Kate Burgess OF Lancast. ar
is visiting friends in this section.
Mr.. Oscar Shute and sister, Miss
Jane Shute, Of the Union section
are visiting relatives in this section.
Mr.. Phillips from Rich Hill apent
few days at the home OF Mr.. Fl.
w. Taylor recently
Mr.. C.. w. Funderburk and family
| from Hartsville are visiting rela-
tives here.
Mr. Roach S. Stewart spent
Christmas with his parents. Mr.. and
! Mrs. j. Harvey Stewart
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
KEEP 1T HANDY FOE RHEUNfA.
TISM

No use to squirt and vince and
try to year out your Rheumatism
/, will wear you out instead. Apply
some OF Sloan's Liniment Need not
rub 1t in-just let it penetrate all
through the affected parts, relieve
the soreness and draw out the pain.
You get ease at once and feel so much
Letter you want 10 go right out and
tell other sufferers about sloans.
Get bottle of Sloan's Liniment for
20 cents OF any driggist and have Ii
In the house-against Colds, Sore
and Swollen Joints, Lumbago. Scia-
back If not satisfied. out IL does give
almost instant relief. Buy a bottle
today.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
COUNTY NEWS
HEATH SPRING.

Special to The ews.
| Heath Spring, Dec. 2S.-Among
the young people not mentioned in
the last news letters, who are at
home from school for the holidays,
are: Misses Ruth Rollings, Emma
Mobley, Ruby Rutledge and Mary
| Brown Van Landingham, Winthrop
| College; Brummet and Marion Mob
ley. Furman University, and Harvey
Mobley, Citadel.
Teachers not mentioned last week,
| spending their vacation at their
homes here, are as follows: Miss
Onie Mackey. Oakhurst; w. f.
Mobley, Fayetteville. N. c.; Miss
Matte Mae Mobley, McBee; Miss
Maggie Tompkins, Pleasant Hill, AND
Miss Mayme Caskey. Kershaw.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Johnson Of
Lancaster spent Christmas with
their parents here
Mr., and Mrs. Andrew Mbbley Of
Rock Hill were here during the hol-
idays
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Blacimon
OF Lancaster were guests of their
daughter. Mrs. Watson, several days
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. b. Mobley Of
Columbia spent Saturday and Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Ellis.
Mrs. f. B .Mobley and Taylor
visited Mr.. S. ID. Taylor and family
at Lancaster last week
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Edgar Moblev
spent Saturday and Sunday with
Msr. Mobley's father, Mr.. Young, at
Kershaw.
Miss Olivette Blackmon of Lancas-
ter hase been the recent guest of
the Misses VanLandingham.
The local council, Jr. Order u. A.
M. dispensed $26 to widows, or
phans. orphanages, ETC., at it's meet
ing Just before Christmas
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Bell and Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Vaughn visited Mr..
and Mrs. H. p. Mobley during the
holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Caskey of Ker-
shaw came up to spend Christmas
with their parents at this place.
Mrs. l.. M. Bell has been quite
sick for several days past
Mr.. and Mrs. II. p. Mobley spent
Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs p. b.
Mobley at Catawba Junction.
Miss Birdie Crenshaw of Ian
caster has been the guest OF her
cousin, Miss Pearl Crenshaw, for
several days.
Mr.. Hasel Vaughn of Rock Hill.
after ten days visit to his parents
here. returned to his home Monday
night.
Mr.. Perrye Therrell, assistant
cashier in the Bank at Chesterfield
c. H., came here Saturday to visit
his mother and her family
Mr.. Bruce Williams of Lancaster
has been here osee his parents for
the past few days.
AT the meeting Of tho Ir Order
Tuesday night, the 22d inst, the de-
bate was on the query: Resolved.
That South Carolina should adopt
compulsory education. Messrs. w.
c. Ellis. w. III. Hendrix and II. p.
Mobley spoke for the Affirmative,
and Messrs. w r. Stover. T.. h.
Johnson and A. p. Horton for the
negative. The Judges decided in
favor of the negative
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
1914.

AS the year 1914 draws GA close
those of us who care to indulge in
retrospection find much to ponder
as we think over the events that
have gone into the making of the
past twelve months. The year has
been an era of varied fortunes. There
have been dark. as well as fair days.
Good and evil have been the portion
of each one of us but the good has
far outweighed the evil. In a
temporal way, we have all proba blv
felt the unusual money stringency,
but If it serves to make us more
provident and economical, the hard
learned lesson will not have been in
vain. We have long applauded the
far-seeing men when they preached
diversification for the theory they
advanced appealed to our imagina.
tions, but not until the folly of our
dependence upon the single crop
for living, was borne in upon as
this fall, did we resolve in our
hearts to put that theory into prac-
tice. And hence the so-called dis
aster which has threatened us. we
count as blessing in disguise. When
of our reasoning, begin to live ar
home, thus asserting their indepen
dence of credit, and making known
to the world the new and wonder
nj frnnInr, hot ic
will look back upon 1914 as the
year of the beginning of their de-
liverance.
We cannot dwell upon present
conditions without feeling Of
thankfulness that the business de-
preston so seriously affecting other
towns and counties, has been felt
less keenly here. Our mammoth
cotton mills have not curtailed, but
to offer employment at full
time to hundreds of men, women
and children who might otherwise
be in need. At this time also per-
improvements are going
on, Offering work at good pay to
many laborers. For several months
past men have found employment
in ditching for sewerage, hauling
rock and sand for street paving and
grading for street extension.
Then for the first time in it's his
tory, Lancaster county held it's first
fair in 1914. This and many other
good things came out of the splen-
did organization effected last spring,
our Chamber of Commerce. An
efficient secretary, giving all of his
time to exploiting the interests of
this section. is doing much for the
town, as we'll as the county.
AS we stand, therefore, upon the
threshold of new year, we cannot
count the old year lost. As We
take leave of it. let us call it a good
year, while at the same time we re-
solve TO make the coming year bet
ter still. Hail and farewell 1914!
We turn from contemplation 70
what the past year has brought TO
look with eager, happy anticipation
into 1915. May the new year he
the best that we have known.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

O'Day, who with Fischer, was
sent to the penitentiary from this
county for Is years for cracking
the safe of the Springs Banking and
Mercantile Company at Heath
Springs in August, 1905, has been
pardoned by Blease with batch Of
43 other criminals. We wish the
governor had made one OF the con-
ditions OF the pardon that O'Day
should not resume occupations in
this county again.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
The Dangerous ParIor Rife.

The parlor rifle continues to do
its deadly work. Two young boys
in Florence county were playing
With one of these weapons, the rifle
was discharged and one of the lads
was dangerously, perhaps fatally,
wounded. When will people learn
that ''parlor" rifle is a misnomer
that the firearm called by that name
is really as dangerous in the hands
of children as shotgun or re-
vOlver?-News and Courier.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
TO SUBSCRIBERS:

Your subscription must be
paid up to and including year
marked on your LABEL. II paper
Is stopped look at your date and
you will probably find you are
behind one year.
We cannot send each sub
scriber statement. Look at
20 Label.
II you do not receive your
paper promptly we would ap-
preciate 1t If you will notify us
and we will correct the mis-
take. In the hurry of mailing
out the papers, names of sub
scribers are sometimes left off
inadvertently.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

More foodstuffs and less cotton
Will make us a happier and freer
people. When we learn to Give at
home" we shall have reached that
fortunate state of independence
Shch alone brings content.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

1.-The name Claus probably ap-
feared among the missing In Bel
sirm. remarks The Spar,arr, rg
Journal. But the old feriow s.nt
christmas cheer aboard tho Santa
Claus ship, even though discretion
hept him away from the scenes OF
conflict.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
A Tin to Prohibitionists.

They are brushing up the water
wagons and mailing down the seats.
but it's long way to 1916 and the
resolves Of today are the regrets OF
tomorrow Atlanta Journal
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
Notice of DISCHARGE

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned will, as administrator of
the estate of John S. Hinson, deceas-
ed, on the 27th day of January.
1915, make his final return as such
administrator and apply to the pro-
bate court of Lancaster county for
letters dismssory.
ROBT. s. FLOYD.
Admr. Estate of John 8. Hinson.
Deceased.
Dec. 20, 1914
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

: A good new year resolution for
South Carolina would be a more de-
termined effort to obtain compul-
sorry education law. Let's make
our slogan "A chance for every
child in the state"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
Lancastar'S Rafch

Besides O'Day. in the new list OF
paroles OF convicts from this coun-
ty are, b. Stratford. convicted in
october, 1911, for manslaughter,
and carrying concealed weapons,
given six years nthe penitentiary;
Wade Hagins, convicted of man
slaughter in March, 1902, and given
25 years in tn penitentiary.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

II you don't know what good
scouts the Boy Scouts are, ask the
masters of the two Lancaster
troops. We wish every one Of the
young gentlemen happy ana ~, s.
perous season of work and play dur
ing 1915. We have reason to be
proud of the organization.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

AS the train was nearing the town
few days ago, one passenger re-
marked upon being near Lancaster
Another replied, you mean Mud
Vile"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

If you heard the singing of the
intangible something" in the
mud and slush of things" as you
waded the dreary length of the
streets of Lancaster this Christmas
count yourselves vertible optimists.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

The members of the new legisla-
ture might as well he ready to face
the music. They will be asked to
submit the whiskey or no whiskey
question to the people in en- election
10 be held next summer.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

Here's hoping next Christmas
viii not find Anderson foundering
in a sea of mud" is the prayerful
wish Of The Anderson Intelligencer.
expressing a sentiment which The
News heartily seconds on behalf of
this town also.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

If you have cared for the nee dy
here at home, where charity is said
to begin, isn't there still a little left
for the starving Belgians? Their
need is greater than any in this land
Of plenty and it is to America that
the sufferers are looking for relief.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

The National Union Bank OF Rock
Hill is Offering to loan money to
farmers with which to buy hogs. We
suggest that the banks Of Lancaster
follow suit
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

Why not substitute hog raising
for cotton growing? A pound Of
hog meat is worth twice as much
per pound as cotton and does not
cost luch to produce it.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
Make an Early Start.

time to plant oats is between the
two Christmases, but any time from
now until next April is better than
planting none at all.-Dillon Herald
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
New and Creator Problem.

The scarcity of farm labor has
heretofore been perpleXing PROP
lem, while now its abundance pre-
sents q greater problem. .-Edgefeld
Advertiser.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
Where Silence is Gold.

You are entitled to your opinion
OF the war. But you are not entitled
to thrust your opinion on your neigh
5or.-Augusta Chronicle.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

If you really wish us a happy
new year, pay your subscription,
thus giving proof of your good will
10 The News
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

Frame up good New Years reso
iutions and what is OF most impor
lance, stick to them.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

Think of the soldiers in the
trenches, then OF the starving ones
of Belgium and cheer up.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

The Filipino insurrection demon
strates one thing clearly, that the
people of the Philippines are not
ready for self-government.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

What did you do to make an
others Christmas happy?
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

City Fathers, the street crossings!
Planks, cinders, or any old thing,
to insure safe passage across the
waste of r.ud
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

It's been long, long way to diver
fication,
1t has been long way way to go
1t has been a long way TO diversi-
fication,
In the fairest land we know;
But its goodbye old King Cotton.
He's a tyrant, we declare.
It's been a long. long way to diver
siiiCation.
But were almost there.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

Hurrah for Santa Claus, The
could not scare the good fellow off.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1914.

"It rains and the wind is never
dreary."
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

Hon. a. G.. Bryce, a member of
the last house and candidate for
attorney general last summer, and
j. Hardin Marion, Esq, have both
been announced for the vacancy in
the senate from Chester county,
created by the death of the late
Senator Hardin. Either one of the
men would well represent Chester
in the senate. Mr.. Marion served
one term in the house, and like Mr.
Bryce, is lawyer OF high attain
ment. He is a nephew of the late
senator Hardin.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

Let's try raising more wool and
fewer yellow dogs in 1915.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
From Other Papers
Fine for Ducks,

Never was there such a Christmas
for ducks!-Spartanbu Journal.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
They Probably Did.

The Christmas pardons should
clean up the remnants in the state
penitentiary. = Sumter Watchman
and Southron
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29

Weather forecast for South
Carolina: Rain Tuesday and We'd
nesday warmer; moderate to fresh
east winds.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-12-29
Cheer UD

However, it is better to be in the
drenches than in the trenches
Spartanburg Herald.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-11-27
THE AMERICAN ISSUE

caption, Under mining the Saloon" comments edi-
torially on this new factor working for the destruction
of the dranshop. 1t says:
The saloon is in straits in certain sections of New York
where once held undisputed sway. The enemy of the saloon
IS the moving picture theater. In Brooklyn alone, according to
dispatches, hfty-nine saloons have gone out of business since
the first OF the year because of competition from the moving
picture theaters in the neghborhood. The movies, it is claimed
by temperance workers and admitted by sa1oonkeepers, have
broken up the habit of "al night loafng7 in barrooms. A new
habit imperceptibly fitted into the gap-the habit of going to
the movies. Men have learned to treat not the first stranger
that comes along, but their wives and children, to treat them not
to drink but to the moving pictures. A corresponding falling
off in the number of saloons was noted in other sections of the
metropolis.
Many will read lessons in these statements. There will be
those who will see in it a confirmation of the view that drink
is largely foisted upon people by conditions about them, that as
soon as there is an improvement in these conditions, as soon as
decenter, peasanter amusement comes their way men forsake
the coarser joys of the barroom for the decenter and p1easanter
recreations.
The most gratifying thing about this influence of the nickel
theater on the saloons is, however, the fact that from itself be-
ing a "problem"-which was what the movies were considered
by many only a short time ago, especially in their influence
upon children-it has evolved into being an antidote if not a
solution OF what undeniably is a grave social issue.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-11-27
A New Enemy of the Saloon

Has there ever been any evil which has as many
allies arrayed against it as has the saloon these days?
The big employers of labor, the medical profess
sion, Christian citizenship, men of science, command
ers of armies and navies, rulers of nations-al1 COM
bined to destroy the traffic in alcohol!
Now comes a new ally in the form of the moving
picture show.
The Chicago Tribune of November II, under the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-11-27

The National Woman's Suffrage Association at
the last annual convention decided to set apart the
first Saturday in May, 1915, for a nation wide celebra-
ton of Suffrage Day.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-11-27
Prohibition the Friend of the Workingman
John F. Cunneen.

John +. Cunneen.
Prohibition increases the efficiency and output
and makes possible the raising of wages and better
ment of working conditions. The drinking saloon
victim lowers the efficiency and standard Of the entire
shop and makes possible the lowering Of wages, or
the prevention Of a raise in wages.
1t is true that the efficient workman who does not
patronize the saloon and is not retarded in any way by
the kind of work or the lack of work on the part of the
saloon victim is just as valuable notwithstanding the
presence Of the saloon victim, but he is injured when
quality and quantity of the work of the entire shop is
lessened. When the employer discharges the drinking
saloon victim, he will find it difficult to find employ
ment. He will work at any wages that he can get. As
long as he can get money to buy liquor he will be salts
fed. He will be satisfied to wear rags and live in a
hove1, and if he has a family, let them starve and 60 in
rags.
That means less work for clothing, shoe and fur
niture workers. 1t means less work for producers and
distributors of food supplies. 1t means less work for
miners. 1t means less work for people who build
houses and make and sell material for them. 1t means
less work for railroad people who transport material
and supplies of every kind. Of the money paid in the
saloon only a small part goes back to labor. Most of
it goes for license fees, liquor tax and enormous profit
for saloonkeeper, brewer and distiller. The prosperity
of the saloon means less work and more men out of
work.
The Drinking Man Lowers Wages.
One of the factors that tend to reduce wages is
the willingness of the man out Of work to work for less
wages than the man at work. The saloon victim out
of a job and anxious to get money to buy liquor, will
work cheap. The employer who wants to reduce
wages will use him until he accomplishes his aim and
then he throws him out for some other employer to
use for the same purpose.
When the saloon is voted out money that would
be spent for its support goes into other channels of
trade, which gives work to a greater number of peo-
pie. This makes Prohibition the friend of the work
ingman. When two men seek the same job, wages go
down and there are hard times in the land, but when
two jobs seek the one man, wages 60 up and there is
great prosperity in the land. Prosperity of this kind
for the workingman means also prosperity for the en-
ployer, the business man and the country at large.