The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-04-20
Dr.. J. G. Duckwortb, President, re-

quests US to announce that meeting OF
the Six-and Twenty Drainage Association
will be held at Harris Bridge on Satur-
day, 3Oth inst, at 3 o'clock p. m. 1t is
earnestly desired that every landowner
from Stott's Bridge to Simpsons Mill
attend this meeting, as matters of great i'm
portance to them will come before it.
This Association is doing good work,
and it should have the encouragement o!
every landowner who is interested.
Next week is Merry Makers Week in
Augusta. It begins on Monday and will
continue through Friday. and an inter
estine program has been arranged for
each day. The G. e. w c. r. r will sell
round trip tickets from all its stations at
greatly reduced rates. On Monday the
ratio from Anderson will be 81 so, limited
to two days, not including the day of sale.
Tickets will be sold on Sunday and each
day after, including the morning train CT
Saturday, 3Oth inst, for s. 60. good until
May oad.
The Southern Railway has perfected all
arrangements for handling the Veterans
and Sons and visitors to Charleston next
week. One os their latest improved first
class coaches will be placed at Anderson for
this special purpose and it will be operated
through to Charleston, leaving here at ii g..
NJ next Tuesday and reaching Charleston
ats p. m. Tho round trip fare is $3.50.
Tickets will be on sale both Tuesday and
Wednesday, good until the following Sat-
d,y. The special car for Anderson will
reach here next Saturday, and on Monday
number of the ladies of the city will
decorate it..
The Edison Prcjectoscope Co. OF nrex-
ce,led artists will appear at the Opera
House on Wednesday and Thursday
nights of this week. They hava Edison's
latest invention, the Projectoscope, show
ing living moving scenes as in real life, so
natural that the audience is unable TO dis
tinguish them from real life. This exhi-
bition is endorsed by press and public
everywhere es scientific, instructive and
thoroughly up to-date. South Carolina'a
curiosity. the petrified man, found near
Columbia, will be on exhibition at the
same time and can be seen free of, charge
by all who visit the exhibition. Don't
fail to see the Company in their latest
songs and novelties of the day. Admis
sion 10, 20 and 80 cents. Reserved seats
and tickets on sale a. H II. Rnssells.
In another column We publish notice
from the publishers, Rand, McNally G.
Co., Chicago and New York, in reference
to g novel, Under the Ban" by Mrs.
Teresa Hammond Strickland, native of
this city and the youngest daughter
of the late Judge Reed. The gifted and
talented authoress was bern in this city
some yeas after the great civil war had
ended, and was married very young.
Soon after her marriage she moved to
| Camden, S G. whero her husband IVES in
business fer several years. In that his
toric town were gathered the tradition and
facts upon which much OF the story YVES
founded. Since their removal from this
State, her husbands business connections
have furnished the opportunity for ex-
I tended travel and for living in some of the
principal cities of the Union, New York
being their present place of residence.
Mrs. Strickland's ability as a writer, to-
gether with her magnificent voice and
training in music, have won many laureIs
for her and elected much praise from the
press as we'll as in social circles wherever
she has been. The novel will be on sale at
I the bookstore of the Brown Printing Co.
\ large crowd visited the Patrick Mill
t.ry Institute campus last Friday aftel-
neon to witness the exhibition and prize
drills of the Cadets. Company c., which
is composed of cadets under II years OF
ago, in Zoueye uniforms OF red and gel.
J low, gave an exhibition drill. They pre-
sented Il tine appearance and drilled like
/ tive drill for the honor OF bearing the
+ co.ors, which was participated in by Com
panies \ and B, the former winning by a
4 close margin. This was followed by indi-
yidual contests for the medals, which were
won by Cadet Basil Manly, Of the Iou-
ayes, Cadet Louis Smith, of Company A.
and Cadet George Greer, OF Company B.
Me:srs.T.J Mauldin and P.k McCully ,Jr.,
both of whom are graduates Of the Citadel,
acted as Judges. In the evening another
1 large audience was present in the Insti-
tute Chapel to hear the declamations and
the debate between the two literary sccie-
! ties. The Anderson Cornst Band was
present and interspersed the exercises with
some fine music Cadet f. NJ. R!chboug
was the dec!aimer for the Ca0phemian
( Sccisty, and Cadet Ernest Leycrett for the
Policeman Society. The subject for de.
bate was whether it was just and expsdi-
ent for the United States to anaex Hawai-.
Tre affirmative was represented by Cadets
III s. Sch!ege!mi!ch and G. p Thinner.
man, end tbs negative hy Cadets Samuel
Craig and ]. c. .\cker. After long cou
sultslion tiie judges, Pfofs Mcncrie., Sal
( livan and Manly, decides. in favor Of the
negative. Al OF the speakers acquitted
themsc elves well.
a Marrow Escape.
Thankful, words written By Mrs. .Nda
+ Hart, of Groion, S. D.: Was taken
with y bad cold which settled on my lungs;