The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-13
STATE INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL
Board of Trustees of the New Institution
Accepts Bid of Florence-Exccutiye
Committee Appointed.

Florence, June s. -Florence gets the
Industrial School, which was ordered
established by the recent session of the
Legislature. Such was the decision of
the board of trustees at a late hour this
afternoon.
An executive committee, with power
to erect buildings, has been appointed,
and the work of the erection of build
ings will begin at the earliest possible
moment. This is the only authentic in
formation that the board will give out
at the hour this message is sent.
DR.. ID. ID. Wallace, of Wofford College,
Judge A. G. Haskell and DIR. j. l.. Mann
We're appointed as the executive COM
mittee.
All Eastern Carolina will rejoice with
fair Florence when it is known that the
Pee-Dee section has at last captured one
OF the States institutions. The mem
bers of the board of trustees individually
expressed their most unqualified APP
prevail of the site and the location, and
when the vote was put Florence was
unanimously selected.
The members of the board of trustees
Of the South Carolina State Industrial
School arrived here this morning for
the purpose of examining the site that
has been donated to the board for the
location of the new school, and to act
upon the matter of definite location.
The party consisted of the following
gentlemen: Governor ID. Clinch Hey
ward, Col. A. G. Haskell, of Columbia;
DIR. L. A. Crawford, of Rock Hill, DR..
w. G. Irby, of Laurens; Mr.. Henry P.
Archer, of Charleston, and DIR. j. l..
Mann, of Florence, who is secretary of
the board.
HOW H DAY WAS SPENT.
The party was met at the Coast Line
Station by President j. Willard Rags
dale, DR.. j. l.. Mann, Mr.. Hartwell M.
Aver, and others of the committee. and
were escorted to the Central Hotel. At
1870 O'Clock a reception was rendered
them at the City Council Chamber,
where a light lunch was served with re-
freshments by q committee of ladies.
A large number of our t~ownspeople
called and met the visiting gentlemen.
AT IL O'Clock the members were taken
in carriages and conveyed to the site
offered by the city, which was donated
to the city by the Atlantic Coast Line,
and which comprises 1877 acres, all of
which is known as the "Old Stockade'
tract just south of the city limits, and
directly opposite the National Gene
terry. The gentlemen took great inter
est in the drive as they were on historic
ground, "The Old Yankee Prison."
From there they were escorted to Rog-
er's Bridge, on Black Creek, six miles
east of the city, where an abundance of
Florence County fish stew, a la Henry
5. Rose style, was served. They were
about a hundred in the party that par
took of stew and refreshments.
AT 6 O'Clock this afternoon the party
returned to the city, and aAmeeting of
the board was Immediately called at the
parlors of the Central Hotel, where the
matter of selecting the location of tho
school was considered and acted upon.
Take it ali in all Governor Hayward
n the members of the board were
simply carried away with the clever
hospitality of the F%lorentines, and the
splendid entertainment accorded them
while in the Magic City" of Eastern
Carolina. All of the members of the
party returned to their homes this eve
ming.