The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-09

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Church last week, and the meeting
throughout was one of great profit and
interest to all who participated in its
deliberations. The meeting attracted
large crowd OF visitors, and the good
people OF the Prospect section threw
the doors Of their homes wide open and
treated their guests royalty.
Mr.. Clarence Provost, formerly of
this city, died in Baltimore last Friday,
aged 66 years. He had been residing
in Baltimore for the past seventeen
years. He was a bachelor, and an up
right, worthy man. His old friends
regret to hear of his death. His brother,
Mr.. S. H. Provost, and sister, Mrs. z.
A. Bell, attended the funeral, which
took place in Baltimore last Monday
Mr.. George w. Evans has purchased
the interest of the late Capt. Thos. +.
Hill in the Hill-Orr Drug Co. Mr..
Evans will continue his connection
with the Evans Pharmacy, and will
have general supervision OF both estab-
lishments. Mr.. Evans is one Of Ander-
sons most worthy, industrious and
energetic young business men, and Sue
cess crowns his efforts in every under
taking.
Nine out of every ten persons you
meet are afflicted with one or more
corns on their feet, and at times they
suffer with excruciating pain. On cur
first page this week Messrs. Wilhite g.
Wilhite have an advertisement that
will no doubt attract your attention,
and if yon are afflicted with corns you
should read carefully what they say.
Their remedy is guaranteed to cure
you, and we advise You to try it,
Another manufacturing enterprise
has been secured for Anderson. 1t
will be ayarn mill. Mr.. w. F. Cox is at
the head of the enterprise, and has
been quietly working for some time to
secure the necessary capital. Success
has at last crowned his efforts, and the
necessary papers have been forwarded
to the Secretary of State for commits
sion to organize the Company. The
capital stock will be $4,000. This will
be a paying enterprise, and the person
who secures stock in it will be fOrtu-
nate.
The bowling mob that was organized
in this city yesterday morning and
started down Main street in the direc-
ton OF the County Jail burst into this
Office as exactly IS minutes past eleven
and demanded the surrender of sutfi-
cient space in our valuable columns to
extenuatc in advace the deed about to
be perpetrated. We make this ex-
planation in justice to our readers and
refer them to the article headed "wc.
are OH your trail' and duly signed by
Mcssrs. Dean & Ratlitfc, hnstlcrs from
Mr.. w. j. Kirk. chief engineer Of the
party of the Black diamond
Road was in the city OH Monday. His
corps was then about eleven miles
from Aiken, near the upper Three
Runs, which they will cross above
Corbett's bridge. Mr.. Kirk says they
will reach Aiken with their survey
about the last of the week and will
come into the city below the freight
depot rs he is making an air line route.
He started at Port Royal, and there is
another corps which started ut Ander-
son now in Abbcvillc County.-4iken
Times, md inst.
Henry L. Thompson. Of Darlington,
Lieutenant Colonel in the Second
South Carolina Regiment, and who was
recently appointed senior captain OF
the Twcnty-Ninth Infantry, has re-
signed the captaincy to accept the
place of commandant of the Military
Academy OF Ohio, to which he has been
elected. The information reached An
llerson yesterday that Lieut.. j. H.
Grant, Of the Anderson Volunteers in
the First Regiment, has been appoint
ed by the War Department to succeed
Col. Thompson, and that he will be
sent to the Philippines at once. Lieut..
Grant has been in Washington for sew
cral days.
The Piedmont correspondent OF the
Nems, under date of the 4th
inst, says: ed. Wright, 4 12year old
negro boy, was found yesterday in
Brushy Greek, Anderson County, about
100 yards from where the creek empties
into Saluda River. He was last seen OH
after crossing the creek
bridge, to takea path leading up the
rreek to q settlement locally known rs
Bruises about the nose
md mouth and scratches on his face
and throat together with the fact that
he was found with his clothing on,
suggests the possibility of foul play.
j. G. Mitchell empaneled a
Jury yesterday afternoon with George
Reid rs foreman, and after hearing all
the evidence available rendered Il vcr-
lict, that deceased came to his death
from causes unknown to the Jury.
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