The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-04-28
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LOCAL NEWS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL %, 1897.
Next Monday is Salesday.

Sheriff Green has been quite sick for
several days.
Eggs meet with ready sale IN the city at
ten cents q dozen.
Read the new advertisement of &. +.
Jones 81 Co. this week.
The price of cotton has not varied much
In two or three months.
That new advertisement of B. o. Evans
d Co. will interest you.
Col. Henry D. Capers, of Seneca, spent
last Saturday in the city.
The farmers would now appreciate a few
sho Vers. the ground is hard.
a coed many of our farmers are brag.
81 lg on their small grain crops.
Strawberries are ripening, but the crop
in this section Is not a large one.
Since the good weather set in the farmers
hive certainly made up for lost time.
The scrapers are now doing some good
work OH the public roads of the County.
This is Merry Week in Augusta. Ander-
soa County is represented among the visi-
to:s.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Kennedy spent a few
days in Gree1ville last week visiting
friends.
The new Board of Health propose to
enforce the sanitary laws of the city
strictly.
MI. Theron Earle, of Greenville, spent
a few days in the city last week visiting
relatives.
J. F. Rice, E:q., of the Anderson Bar,
went to Columbia this morning on pro.
fessiol a business.
Rev. W. NJ. Hardin, Of Pickeus, was in
the city last Saturday and paid his re-
spects to the 1NTELLIGENCER.
Mrs. Carrie McCully, who has bsen Wis.
ting friends In Charleston for several
weeks, returned home q few days ago.
Mr.. Wilton MCGEE, who has been
spending q few weeks in Anderson on q
sick furlougb, has returned to New York.
The walls of the old Webb block have
been leveled TO the ground, and the erec.
ton of the new building will begin at
once.
Mr.. T. ]. Martin, of Pelzer, and Miss
Fannie Simmons, of Charleston, will be
married this evening at the home of the
bride.
A few weeks ago it was all mud, and for
the past week the dust has been plentiful,
and the street sprinkler has been put to
work.
The Anderson ice factory will begin
work in q few days. The plant has been
completely renovated and considerably
enlarged.
The Shiloh and Mountain Creek schools
will pic mic at Msjor's Mill next S saturday.
The public is invited to attend and bring
the dinner basket.
The p. NJ. I cadets were out on O dress
parade last Thursday %efternoou, and at
tracted the admiration and attention Of all
who witnessed the drill.
Mr.. NJ. L. Willie, representing the G.
A. Reed Music House, spent q few days in
| Abbeviile last week and sold several
organs and a very fine piano.
at the meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Knights Of Honor in Columbia last week
Mr.. J. B. Lewis. Of this city, was re. elected
to the flee of Grand Sentinel
A new military company has been or
gsnized at Abbeville, G. H., and our young
friend and former townsman, Mr.. G. A.
Milford, has been elected Captain
The Andersen County Singing Conven-
| ton will meet at Welcome Church, seven
mics northwest of this city next Saturday.
| The public generally is invited to attend.
The first annual shoot of the Greenwood
Gan Club will take place on Wednesday.
May 26'b. We are indebted to the Club
for an invitation to attend and participate.
The Township Board Of Pensioners of
| Garvin Township will meet at Five Forks
on next Saturday, May 1st, at 10 o'clock a.
m. Persons interested should bear this In
mind.
If you contemplate buying a buggy,
wagon, harness. etc., you should read the
advertisement of J.J. Fretwell. He sells
for cash or on time, and guarantees his
vehicles.
The interest in our bicycle contest is in
crossing every week. The young lady
who gets the wheel will be most fortunate.
Write the name plainly on the coupons
and send them in.
Supervisor Snelgrove and Mr.. j. D.
Maxwell. of the new Court House build
ing committee have gone to Winston,
NC to inspect the new Court House that
has just been erected at that place.
There were about eighty applicants for
teachers certificates before the Board of
Examiners at the recent examination
Four secured first grade certificates, five
second grade and five third grade.
Messrs. White & Co. are now at work
on q handsome monument to be placed
over the grave of the late Rev. D. e.
Frierson, D. D. The money was contrib.
uted by the friends of the deceased.
The pic mic at Cooley's Bridge, which
usually takes place on the first Saturday
in May, has been postponed to q later day.
This p~ostponement was necessary on &C.
count of the recent high water on the riv-
or.
We are indebted to MI. G F. Bigby for
samples of his new brand of cigars, per.
~fectos." Give him q call, try them and
YOU will agree with US in saying that they
are one of the best five cents cigars in the
city.
Dr.. l.. T. Shirley, of Central, an old
Anderson County boy, but who is now
one of Pickens County's most popular and
successful physicians, was in the city Sat-
urday and was q welcome visitor to our
sanctum.
A. H. McCleary, of Vanclesville, w.
Va, will pay q liberal reward for any in
formation as to the whereabouts Of his
brother, G. F. T. McCleary, who is be-
lieved to have baen foully dealt with. Ho
Is Sc years Ct age, hair tiDged with gray.
Our young friend, Newton Blown, who
clerks for White & White, has been
presented with q fine bicycle from the
proprietors of q patent medicine for selling
the largest number of bottles of the remedy
since the 1st January by any clerk in the
State.
The Southern Railway has announced a
rate of Sl0.35 from Anderson to the South
ern Baptist Convention, which meets at
Wilmington, N. G, next month. Tickets
will be on sale from May 3 to I, inclusive,
and are limited to fifteen days from date
Of sale.
At the annual meeting OF the Grand
Lodge of the Junior Order of American
Mechanics in Charleston last week. Mr.. r.
M. Baker, Of this city, was elected Junior
Past State Councillor and representative to
the Supreme Lodge. which meets in