Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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or =^jg j LOCAL DOTS ?As will be seen by notice . elsewhere, the Lancaster graded schools will open Sept 9ih. ?The editor is indebted to his good friend Mr. L.N Crenshaw for a quart of his fine homemade muln?Rea . ?A local Rulingof the Supreme Ruling of the Fraternal Mystic Circle will be orgauized in Lancaster next week. ?Attention is directed to the announcement elsewhere of the Citizens' Building and Loan Association, of Lancaster. ?There will be a singing school at Six Mile Presbyterian church Tnur-day, Friday and Saturday of this week, beginning at 10 o'clock, a. m. ?The young 1 uiies of the Rich Hill Christian C'nb will serve ice cream at Rich Hill next Saturday, Aug. 31, at 7 30 p. m. 'OThe proceed * are to be used tor f church purposes. The public is cordially invited. ?Mr. Frank W. Hunter, who has been acting clerk in the postoflice here, has been appointed assistant, postmaster and the appointment lias been approved by the Postmaster General in W ashington. ? Miss Daisy Hprton, one of County Auditor Morton's charming daughters, has accepted a position with the Lancaster Mercantile company. She succeeds Miss Waldrop, that was, now j Mrs. Ciilton Wise, in the dry goods department. ?Mr. Barney Crockett, son of Col. and Mrs. J. N. Crockett, who lias bpen an invalid lor a number of years, became suddenly worse yesterday morning and his condition was critical when The News went to press in the afternoon. Luiey, col., pieaueu guilty Monday in Magistrate Cas key's couri of the charge of assault and battery and was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 or serve 30 days on the chain gang. The same day Dick Steele, also color ed, was tried by a jury and aequitted of the charge of stealing chickens. ?A meeting of the Lancaster Library Association will be held in its rooms in the Catawba building on Friday night, August 30th, at a quarter past eight o'clock. The association is desirous of increasing its membership,and it is hoped that each member will be present and propose a new name for membership. Six Negroes Captured and Convicted o/ Gambling. Policemen Kiddle and Fergu son captured a half dozen negroes playing cards Sunday morning ut 2 o'clock, in the big < ui on'i o: ilie oouinern oepot. They were haled before Mayor "Wylie Monday, who imposed fines on them ?s follows: John don Benson, who has been more 4.1 - 1 - I* umii um:e cunviuiea oi ll^UOr selling, $25.; Jack Perry, $15.; Will Kiddle, Henry Wales, and ''Bud" Croc ;ett, each $10.; Frank Lowry, $25. ? $15 for gambling an 1 $10. for pistol ^ found on his person. All the fines have been paid or arrangement? made for payment. iHK L |~ PERSONAL ^jji Miss Ile-sie Thomson is vis- ' itin^ relatives in Camden. Mr. E. C. Allison left yester day for Jamestown Exposition. f Miss Maude Williams, of this place, is visiting in ltoek Hill. i Mr. J. P. Allison has returned from a two weeks' visit to Wavnesvillft N O. J "? ^ Miss Mamie Clyburn, ot Dixie, returned Monday I torn a visit to Piedmont Springs. Mr. John T. Stevens, of Kershaw, stopped iii here Saturday j on ljis return trom New York. Mr. J. F. Montgomery, of Miami. Fin., is spending a lew days here with his friend Mr. Lee Steele. Mrs. George Ga'linsr, of Ri CT f leigh, N 0 , arrived here Mon- | day to visit her parents, Mr and i Mrs. L. C. Payseur. Mi-s Maude Gregory has returned from a visit to her sisiers in Atlanta, Miss Annie Greg<>rv and Mrs. R. L. Mason. Maj. and Mrs. J. M. Biddle and Mrs. T. S. Garter and daugh- . teri Miss Essie, left yesterday lor the Jamestown Exposition. Mrs. J. W Grufl' and children j of Concord N. C. have been vis-J lung ine former's sister-in-law,! I Mrs. I. i\ Hardin, of Lancas-I i ter. j Mrs. Kit'ie Young and daughter, Miss Daisy, ol Charlotte, have been spending several days with relative? in Lancaster, their old home. Miss Je-sie Milling and brother, Master Raymond, have been spending a tVw days in Wiuns! born with their grandfather, Mr. i J. C. Maokorell The Rev. W. B. Gibson, ot R<?ck Hill, who conducted* I lie icvivtti meeting ;?i Tabernacle last week, passed through here Saturday, en route home. Mr. T. B. Clyburn, of Kershaw, spent Sunday and Monday morn ins here at the bedside of his young brother, John Clyburn, who has been quite 6iek for several weeks. Mr. \V. II. Crockett * and his two bright and manly little son6, of Navarro county, Texas who have been visiting Mr. Crockett's parents, Col. and Mrs. John N. Crockett, returned home yesterday. Col. A. R. Banks, superin tendent of the Lancaster graded schools, who has t.een in Columbia for several weeks, engaged in writing a history of education in South Carolina, for the handbook to be issued by the State, returned home Sunday. Mrs. Banks, who has been visiting her daughter iu Abbeville, Mrs. Long, has also returned. Mrs. S R Kidd and children i will leave Saturday lor Kock Hill, where they will reside n,r the me-put. As previously noted, Mr K'dd is in Charlotte on ac count of his health and it it does not improve he and his laniily will remove to Danville, Va. Thev have made many 0 triends during their residence in Lancaster who will regret their j departure. ANOAoTEK Ni.WS. AUGUST 2 Miss Ruth McCardell is visit-' ng relatives in Kershaw. j d 11 Mr. A..I. G.ojiory has none to the Jamestown Exposition. Mr. William Uoddev, of Great Palis, spent Sunday i?? Lancas- * ter. 4 8 i Mrs. J W. HameljO lver-h nv, is visiting lier mother, Airs. Jane M. Clark. j ^ Mrs. Ad;; Houeh is visiting ( her daughter in Roelc Hill, j j Mrs. E. E. Cloud. Mr. lienrv Bell, now of I'ineville, N. C., is on :? vi.-it to re'ia. 1 iyesiu Lancaster, his old home. { Mrs. T. Y. Williams returned i Monday ni&rht Irmu a visit to re latiyea in Helton, her old liome. j Mrs. L. J. Perry returned Monday from a week's visit to ' Mrs. W. A. Beckham in Rock 1 Hill. 1 i Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Drennan,ol Rook Hill, spent Saturday and i Sunday in Lancaster with reia tives. Mrs. S C. Yilleneuye, of Aim ] ta.'Ga., 9peut a day or two litre this week with her mo-her, Mrs. Jane ClarW^ hi \\7 n 17i mr. ?* . d. iviil.Ullt, who 18 111 [ the insurance business in Ga^to , nia, spent a day or two here ] this week with his family. Mr. W. F. Barfield, ofSom'er, who has been spending a few ' days with relatives in this county, returned home Monday. Mr. T. J. MoNinch, ot Lancaster, spent Sunday and yesterday in Kershaw with his uncle, Mr. i Sam'l McNinch ?Kershaw Era. Mrs. Paul Moore has returned from a trip to Cleveland Springs She spent a few days with relatives in Ilock Hill on her return. Miss Lula Harris and Master Gen rare Potts, of Ploasjint Y illev. are the guests o' Mrs. 0. P. ca Elizabeth Height?. Charlotte Observer: Mr. John M, Banks, who has been writing tor The News its bright aiul newsy letters from the Sta'e capital, under the nom de plume of "Lancastrian," returned from Columbia Friday night. Evangelist D. P. Montgomery, of Charhs'on, Mo., who tor the past three weeks has ably and effectively assisted in several highly successful revival meet . : .1 . i ings 111 i ins county, returned home Monday. Contractor McA. McManus, ot Columbia, who is building the Mackey building here, returned home Monday to be with Mra. McManus, who is to undergo a dangerous surgical operation at the Columbia hospital today. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Lazenby left Saturday for the Jamestown Exposition. They will visit New York and other points north betore returning, where Mr. Lazenbv will buy the Lancaster Mercantile company's fall stock of goods. Mr. L. J. Perry, Jr , ot Augus- j ta, C3a., is visiting his father, j Cap!. L J. Perry. Mr. Perry has heen telegraph operator in Augusta for a number of years and is taking advantage of the telegraphers' strike to visit his old home. 8, 190"i. Mr. T. S. Carter returned MonI'iy afternoon trom ? visi' toreativ6s it'id triendsat Longsville, \ixahaw and Kershaw. Mr. .1 1). Dreunu!), of Rock lili and Mr. Jo in Rom. of Texts, are visiting Mr. W. E, Drentan and other relatives here. Capt. L. L. Clyburn, ot He??lb, one of Kershaw c mntv's nost prom nenl eit zens, was in he city to day on business.? lock Hill Record. Miss C trrie Owens, of Kerlhaw, stopped over here from Mond iv until v^iorit iv witt. im' riend Mi-s K-sie .Jones, on her eturii from a visit to Yorkvillts. tlivtluia y t elcbcation. Mr. Wilson Iiowell, the w?lliU'?wn and successful farm-r of he O. K. section, will ci'ebnte lis 65th b pthday with a faiml> reunion, at his home, next 8a ur lay. All his relatives and friends ire invited to attend. An adlress appropriate to the occasion iv11 i ho m ?do b'' the Rev. Mr. McKhsick. Lancaster County Youny Man Wins Xice t'rize. Mr ,1 W Vincent won a check for $25 offered by his company, the publishers of Collier's Week I V. for mnL-inrr I l,o 1 -' 4, 7 ? ^ < nu ?^ J cvjuru HI any collector in tlie Atlanta Division. Ho is a Lancaster county boy and now makes bis headquarters in Columbia. Farmer*' Union Organized at Osceola A club of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Uui- n wag organized at Osceola iast Saturday by tho president of ih'e Stale Union, Mr. O. P. Good win. ot Laurens. The following otlicers were electe l: W. T. Se crest, president; W. P. Wolfe, vice-president; J. It. Seerest,sec retary and treasurer. The degree was conferred 0:1 tlie officers by rresiaexu ijooawm. 1 lie club will meet again on Sept. 3rd, when the degree will be conferred on the member?. Comiiif/ Mnrrini/en-.-One to be Solemnized in Lancaster find the Other in Kershntv. Mr. Arthur F. Settlemyer, one of Lancaster's clever young men, who holds the responsible position of electrician of ihe Lancaster Cotton Mills, and Miss Cor iieiia E. Dabney, the charming and popular young daughter ot the Rev. T. A Dabney, pastor of the Second Baptist church of Lancaster, are to be married next Tuesday, Sept. 3rd. The ceremony will be performed at tllM lirtmo llUPO /if l\\e\ ' ?av? w v/i lUO JMU3JTUI" ive bride's father, at one o'clock p. in. A well-known and popular young couple in Kershaw, Mr. Robert McL I'erry and Mist Rosa E Truesdel, W?H be united in holy wedlock !he next day Wednesday, Sept. 4. in the Kershaw Baptist church, at 5:3C o'clock p. m. Invitations to the coming event have been issued bv Dr. and Mrs L. T. Gtegory of Kershaw, brother and sistei of the bride elect, wlio is a very pretty and attractive young lady Mr. Berry is a son of the late i ? *i uev. it. [). 1'erry and nephew of Capt. L -J. Perry, of Lincaster. He is bookkeeper lor the Cook-K-dridge company in Kershaw. 5 Organization of the Lancaster Savings Hank ?{' Trust lompant/. The L t ci-fT S \'i gs li.mk & Trust 1 '"nin.niv, \ he ne^v fi1 enterprise previously referred to, completed >fcsorganizi| lion Moudnv. Trre board of di. rectors aiid oflieera elec eJ are as follows, be in'-' the same as tl?o?e of (he First National Bank, iu connection with which Hie new i nsi it u tion will be operated: Directors?T. S. Carter, J. D. Funde-bhrk, C. D.Jones, Ira B. Jr.nej, K* C McManus, It. E. NVyiie, E. M Croxton. Officers ?Cbaa. D. Jones, pre-iJeut; R. E Wylie, v ?-e-president; E. M. Croxton, c'shier. Upon the opening of the books of subscription, a few days aco, all the capi'al 8'ock. $25,000. ' 7 1 was pn nipt v subscnb d I??r. As heretofore -tated, the n->w bank's : quarters will he in the Mackey building, when completed The remarkably successful management of the First National Hank | is a sufficient guarantee tha' the i Saving- Bank A: Trust Company, I under the same control, will be jequadv as well conducted. I Water ll'or Am, Sewerat/e ami Li(fltts--Coiincil Lookinu into Cost. Mr. Sompayrack, of the firm ol Wil-on, Sompayrack & Echerhart, architects,of Columbia, was here last Satutdiy and had an informal meeting with Counci! in the atfcernoon to dilcuss water works, sewerage and electric lights. He gave the coun ci 1 some idea as to the approximate cost of the establishment of these systems in Lancaster, based in part on bids submitted | by contractors at other points. The figures are: water works, I jS'ifi (lOn* uouroi it 1 O AAA. -I wv/ ,? ?(? <= C1BC? iric lights, if installed in connection with water works system, *G,000. These figures are general estimates only, and Mr. Sorapay rack will write the council more definitely on the subject at an early date. We are not advised that Council has any definite plans in view. It is doubtless endeavoring to obtain all the information possible as to the probable cost of these public utilities. Another Hi f/ I'lcnin?To b" <it White Jilu/t' Sept. 14. The Masonic Lodge, Junior Council and the School at White Bluff will unite in a big basket picnic at White BlufT on Satur i day, Sept. 14th. The Jackson i Lodge, of Lancaster, Barron Lodge at Heath Springs, Fiat Creek Lodge, Abnev Lodge at Kershaw, Antioch Lodge, and all o'her lodges in the county are invited to attend. All the Ju i nior Councils are likewise invited. An invitation is also extended , to the public generally to be pres ent and | articipate in the pleasI ures of the day. Everybody is t expeced to take aiotig a wellfilled basket. Committees have . been appointed t > invite speakeis and to make other arrangements. ; mi. - ? ' - i i lie names 01 uie speakers w.ll . be published later. There is no more hospitable, ' whOie aouled community in the . county than White BlulT and > it goes without saying that the . coming picnic will be one of the most pleasurable of the season.