The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-05-17
South Carolina Notes.

South Carolina Notes.
The Palmetto Realty Co. has beenr
organized IN Union.
Memorial Day was very generally
observed throughout the state.
The tenth grade in the Yorkville
graded schools has been dropped.
An extra term of criminal court is
session at Yorkville, Judge Gage pre-
siding.
The town council of Abbeville will
purchase machinery to improve the
streets.
Over 800 names have been added to
the South Carolina pension roll since
last year.
The Citizens Insurance Co., of An.
derson has been organized with SlO,-
600 capital.
The Carnegie Library at Union has
been officially accepted and the con.
tractor paid for his work.
Governor Hayward has been compell-
ed to decline an invitation to visit the
knights of Pythias at Wilmington.
At the organization OF the South
Carolina Society of Atlanta, Ga, Gov.
ernor Hayward was elected the hrst
honorary member.
The barn of j. D. Hutchins near
Greers was burned with two fine
horsee and several vehicles. The to-
tai loss is about 81 900.
The Blacksburg Land and Improve.
ment Co. has been authorized to In
crease its capital from $4,000 to $12,'
700.
The states fertilizer receipts for this
year so far amount to $llQ,4l2,9t
against 500, 9sO.15 up to the same
time last year.
J. ". Hammond is In Jail in Colum'
bia charged with fraudulently solic.
ting members for the Royal Fraterna1
Union.
The A. R. P. Presbytery has ad
journed at Columbia. Rev. DR.. T. H,
Law of the American Bible Society
addressed the gathering.
A decision is expected Monday from
the United States supreme court in
the South Carolina d~ispensary license
case. S30 $1,000 is involved.
Kerr Boyce Topper of Philadelphia
will deliver the annual address at the
commencement of the South Carolins
College at Columbia next month.
Reports to the grand lodge of Ode
Fellows in session at Greenwood show
great growth in the order during the
past year. $500 members have beer
added.
J. I. Sheplor of Indiana, formerly
manager of the Peruchi-Gypzene Co.
is desperately ill in Anderson and his
life Is despaired of. He is being giver
the best attention,
The railroad commission will be ir
Greenville tomorrow to hold a rate
hearing for the benefit of the com
mercial bodies of Spartanburg, Green
vile and Anderson.
Commissioner of immigration Wat
says that mill men all over the state
have written him that one-thlrd Of
the spindles in the state are idle fol
lack of labor. Some plan will have
to be arranged for the relief of the
situation.
Piedmont has organized a baseball.
team with Laval as pitcher.
1t took all of Tuesday to select 8
Jury in the Greers murder case al
Greenville.
Columbia voted to issue $500, 00(
bonds for the improvement of the
water works.
The belt line extension of the Green
Vile electric railway will be complet
ed in 80 days.
An eagle measuring 7 feet, Z inches
from tip to tip of wings was shot in
Lancaster county.
An up-to-date opera house has been
completed at Pelzer. It has a seat
ing capacity of 600.
The legislative committee to exam
inc the books of the state officers is
in session at Columbia.
J. r. Roberts, who seriously cut r.
IS. Ligon in Anderson, has been re
leased on a 81, 1000 bond for his ap
pearance at court.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows
for the state is in session at Green
wood. Grand Master McSwain o.
Greenville, is presiding.
The comptroller general will in s
few days send out checks for the pen
sions, the state treasurer having Dor
rowed $500, 900 for the purpose.
The work of restoring the building
recently burned at the Thornwel
Orphanage at Clinton is proceeding
rapidly.
1t is reported unofiicially that Yarc
master Riser, who was in charge a
Greenville at the time of the Ogder
wreck, has been dismissed.
Mrs II. @. Donaldson of Geenville
died at Birmingham, Ala, it i!
thought as a result of injuries received
i'm a railroad collision May S in Okla
hvma. She was a member of promi
rent Greenville family, and her bus
band, Col. Donaldson, is a leading
member of the Greenville bar.
Governor Hayward will appoint R
G. Causey sheriff of Berkeley County
vice ]. H. Morrison, resigned.
The Southern Railway is preparing
to build a new passenger depot a
Gaffney.
Hon. NJ. L. Smith, speaker of the
house of representatives, will be the
orator on Memorial Day at Anderson
The case of Watt Mobiles. Boyce
Stone aud George Downes, charged
with the murder of Policeman Foster
at Greers, is in progress at Greenville,
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