The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-04-25

account of the serious illness of Mrs.
+. J.McGrath, Mrs. McIntyre's mother.
Mrs. Jane Sayre and Mrs. Anna Fell
will move next week to Abbeville to
make their home with the formers
son, Mr.. G. G.. Sayre, who is the Presi
dent of the Abbcvillc Electric Light
Co.
The Board of Trustees of the An,ler-
son Graded Schools will meet on May
4th to elect teachers for the ensuing
scholastic year. All applications must
be filed with Superintendent Walton
before that time.
the Martin Township Democratic Club
will meet at Martin Grove School
House instead of at Clinkscales' Mill,
the former place of meeting, next Sat-
urday afternoon at O'clock.
The Merry Makers Carnival is going
OIL in Augusta this week. The G. 81
w. c. Il. r. will sell round trip tickets
from all points every day this week.
The 4are from Anderson is 1926. The
tickets are good to return until Both
inst.
Last Saturday the Secretary of State
issued q commission to the Anderson
Athletic Association. The corporators
are L. S. Mattison, II. H. Watkins. n.
B. Sullivan, r. G. Laughlin and p. X.
McCully, Jr. The capital is to be
$4,000.
The work of placing the machinery
in the Orr Cotton Mill is progressing
slowly on account of the railroads not
being able to deliver the machines
rapidly. There is considerable COM
plant now in the slow delivery of all
freights.
Mr.. Harry G. Dukes, one Of Ander-
sons promising young men, but nGw
of Columbus, Georgia, will be married
to Miss Eugenia Thomason April 30th,
1900. Miss Thomson is one of Colum-
bus most accomplished and beautiful
young ladies.
The Erskine base ball team rubbed
it into the Clemson team last Friday
afternoon at Greenwood, the score
being 10 to z, in favor of tho Erskine
team. They will now have to play the
third game to decide the contest be-
tween them.
w. s. Cox has been appointed spe-
cial constable at PelZer to succeed A.
p. Long, resigned. Though Pelzer is
q town of some three OF four thousand
people, it has no city government or
police force, but Especial constable has
been kept there by statute.
Nearly every week we receive one or
two communications that are not sign
ed by tho author, and Of course they
are deposited in the waste basket.
Whenever you send n communication
to newspaper, sign your name to it,
not necessarily for publication, but rs
q guarantee Of good faith.
The annual State Council of the Jun
icr Order Order vf vff United American Mechan-
les was held in Laurens last week, and
was attended by Messrs. W. p. Berke-
meyer and D. n. Morrow. of this city.
The first named was elected State
and the latter State Council
Secretary.
At meeting of Camp w. w. Hum
phreys, Sons of Confederate Veterans,
last Thursday afternoon, the following
committee was appointed to assist the
Memorial Association in the prepara-
tion for the observance of Memorial
Day, May 10th; M. L. Bonham. j. G.
Watkins. J. n. Patrick, j. X. Hood
and C. C. Langston.
While Anderson is not in the direct
line of the total eclipse of the sun on
May 2sth. yet the people of this section
will have an excellent view of the ce-
lestial phenomena, as we are 30 near
the line Of totality that to all intents
and purposesit it will lamount to the same
thing as total eclipse az fer as the or-
dinary observer is concerned. Only
the astronomers ind 1t necessary TO be
on the exact line of totality.
1t has been the custom for several
years past in Anderson to close the
stores at G:30 p. m. from May 18th to
Sept. 1st, Saturdays excepted. A Pc
tition will shortly be carried around
asking the merchants to grant this
concession, and we hope every one will
sign it. The clerks have worked faith
fully during the Fall and Winter
and they deserve the little rest
and recreation the early closing affords
them.
A meeting Of all the Confederate
Veterans in Anderson County will be
held in this city on Salesday in May to
arrange for the trip to the reunion in
Louisville and attend to any other
business that may come before tho
meeting. All the veterans are urged
to attend. and especially those who
are going to the reunion. If thirty or
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