The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-06-28

Our young friend, Edwards Il. Mur.
ray, who has just graduated from Mer.
Ger University, Macon. Ca, has been
elected an instructor in Latin, Greek !
ana English in that institution. ard
Will begin his duties at the opening q.
the fall session. He is now at his home
IN this city visiting his mother and
other relatives.
The horses in the city have about got
used to the trolley cars and will lat
them pass by without being friRhten-
ed, but 1T seems they will never get
use to the automobiles. When en-
automobile comes in sight the horse
VIII rear and snort and frequently
snap the shafts or overturn the vehicle
to which they are hitched.
Dr. and Mrs. Nethery came over from
Anderson, s. c., Saturday, to prepare
Tor moving to Atlanta. Mrs. Nethery
Is et Colonel G. FanDuzcr's, and DR..
Nethery, left Monday for Atlanta to
perIect MS arrangemente preparatory
Mrs. Nethery will be in Elberton sew.
eral days or week longer.-Elberton
| (Ga.) Star.
There will be n picnic at Level
Land next Saturday, July 1st, and a
| most interesting program has been
arranged for the occasion. Several
gentlemen have accepted invitations
to deliver addresses, and there will be
e reunion of all the students Of Union
Academy. clay pigeon shooting and a
game of baseball. The Millville Band
Of this city will furnish the music.
The public is invited to attend. The
occasion will no doubt attract large
crowd of visitors.
| The young ladies of Anderson Coun-
ty are reminded that there will be-
Q competitive examination held in the
Court House in this city on Friday,
July 7th, before the County Board Of
Education for scholarship in Win
throp College, and those who intend
To contest for this prize should begin
10 prepare Themselves at once. Super
intsndent OF Education Nicholson has
pleasure in giving any information in
reference TO the examination.
Mrs. Eliza Ann McAdams, widow of
the ate Robert B. McAdams, died at
her home in the Antreville section last
Monday morning, in the 10Th year of
her age: She was born, reared and
always lived in the section where she
died, and since her girlhood had been
a devoted and exemplary member of
the First Creek Baptist Church, where
her remains were inferred yesterday
morning. She wac most excellent
woman and was highly esteemed by q
wide circle OF friends, who will long
cherish her memory. She ia survived
by one daughter and two sons.
. The following paragraph from the
Greenville MOuntaineer will be read
with great pleasure by the young mans
many friends in Anderson: ~. C.
Keys. graduate OF Furman Univer-
slty, has been chosen to II place on the
corps OF teachers of the Furman Fit
ting School. Mr. Keys has been in the
government service on tho Isthmus of
Panama, but will return home before
the opening Of the fall term OF Fur
man University. He is son of Mr.,
w. W. Keys, of the Baptist Courier
| or this city, anu his friends are re-
loiced at his election. He is young
man OF character and OF promise"
Joseph N. Smith, a popular and ener-
getlc citizen of the Five Forks section,
had the misfortune to lose his DWELLING
house and nearly all of it's contents by
hre at an early hour yesterday morn
ing: Mr. Smith had gone tc a neigh
bors and there was no one ut home ex-
cept his daughters. A negro in a field
some distance off discovered the flames
breaking through q window in the
second story. He gave the alarm and
rushed to the house, but the flames had
advanced too far to be extinguished or
to save much of the contents of the
house, and Mr. Smiths loss will prob
ably amount to S1,50O. It is not known
how the fire originated. and our infor-
| mant did not know whether MIR. Smith
had any insurance.
The stockholders OF the Anderson
| Water, Light and Power Company
inst. and elected j. r. VGndiver a
director to take the place of the late
r. s. Hill, and also Henry Orr as q di-
| rector in the place of his father, the
late James L. Orr. The company is
IN fine financial condition. 1t was de-
clded to begin a suit in the courts at
an early date to decide the contention
between the city end company. 1t will
be friendly suit, and will be brought
sides: The points to be decided are
whether the Water, Light and Power
Company is furnishing an adequate
supply of water for fire protection,
under the terms of it's franchise, and
whether the city or the company shall
pay tho expense of lowering or chang
ing the water mains as are required in
changing the grades of the streets.
There ia no street in the CITY that
more heavy loaded wagons travel than
over Depot street, It leads to both
the Blue Ridge freight depot and the
cotton platform, and for at least four
months in the year it is crowded with
wagons. Frequently during the win
ter 1T gets sO ceep in mud that the
loaded wagons can hardly Dull
through it, and many of the wagons
are forced to travel come other street
out of the way to reach the depot or
cotton platform. Now this street has
bsen widened ten feet. the bed torn
up. ditches changed and the old
bitches filled with new dirt, and is IN
such condition that if it is not paved
it will be deeper in mud next winter