The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-10-30
OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Latest News of General Interest That
Has Been Collected From Many
Towns and Counties.

Little mOuntaln.-Ihe feQeratlOn OIL
the Lutheran Young Peoples Societies
Of the South Carolina synod closed
it's second annual conference at this
place after a most successful meeting.
Walterboro.-Fred Sanders and Le-
vi Taylor, two prisoners confined in
the county Jail, escaped, leaving be-
hind them no trace to indicate how
or where they went.
Columbia.-Governor Blease desig-
mated H. P. Green, Of Columbia, as
special judge to preside over the regu-
lar term of the court of common pleas
for Chesterfield county.
Columbia.-An invitation has been
extended the First brigade, N. G.. S. c.,
to visit Charleston during the period
that the United States fleet will be
there, November II to %, for the pur-
pose Of participating in the military
parade November 81. At a meeting
Of the Governors Guards it was de-
cided that that portion Of the brigade
WOulu 81 W Sllo vs..
Gaffney.-The Southern Railway is
putting a large force Of men to work
on the tracks in this city. The ap-
proach to the station here and lead
ing away from the station is very
crooked, a curve being on each side
and the work now going on is the
Strengthening out Of the curves, max
ing a direct approach to the station
from either side.
Charleston.-As a result of an i'm
portant conference between the board
Of health and a committee from the
Charleston Medical Society looking to
the improvement of health conditions
along. all lines, with special reference
to the abolition of the mosquito, the
isolation of the fly and the disposition
Of garbage, a campaign of education
will be instituted In Charleston.
Charleston.-Mayor> Grace as the
head of a committee may go to Wash
ington to invite President Taft to
visit Charleston during fair week.
The mayor had made an engagement
for the president to receive the Char
lesion committee at Beverly, but the
cutting short of the stay of'the presi-
dent and his family at the summer
home will require that another ap-
pointment be made at Washington.
Mayor Grace will later hear from
Washington, when it will be the pleas
ure of the president to receive the
committee.
Columbia. - Newberry county Is
leading off in an exemplary name in
preparations for the Fifth National
Corn exposition here next January.
Some half a hundred members Of the
Newberry county boys corn club will
visit the exposition under an offer
made by Col. e. H. Aull, county super
intendent of education, who announc-
ed during the early part of the season
that each member of the club who
complied with the rules, made his
report and exhibited his best ten ears
at the county contest, would be given
a one-day trip to the exposition next
January, regardless of yield or prize
winning.
Columbia.-City council took def
mite acton with reference to the san
itary problem in LaMott's bottom and
passed a resolution providing for a
storm drain across Barnwell street as
part Of permanent improvements in
the much discussed district. DR.. F.
S. Earle who stated that, after much
effort on his part, h-s had failed, to get
the property owners to do anything
with three or four exceptions, intro
duced the resolution calling for the
city's doing it's share of the work,
leaving the matter, then, with the
board Of health for forcing the delin-
quent property owners to pay their
proportions of the cost.
Orangeburg. - Camp Thomas j.
Glover, United Confederate Veterans,
Orangeburg, held it's annual meeting
at the Elliott Hook and Ladder hall
and the officers for the ensuing year
were elected. The following are the
officers: ]. M. Moss, commander; G.
L. Salley, first lieutenant commander
F. S. Dibble, second lieutenant COM
mander; Mortimer Glover, third lieu
tenant commander; F. A. Schiffey,
adjutant; C.. R. Jones, treasurer; Rev.
D. D. Dantzler, chaplain; Jude Rob-
inson, sergeant major; G.. A. Smoak,
quartermaster sergeant; w. F. Till,
color bearer; j. C: Garvin and j. c..
Heaner, color guards; Miss Olive
Jones, sponsor.
Florence.-The enrolment in the
city schools shows an increase for
the past two years of 40 per cent.
There are now over 1900 children in
the white schools.
st. Matthews.-The body of young
John Shealey, a Charleston youth,
was found in a horrible mangled con-
dition on the Southern railway track
near Singleton. Young Shealey was
reported to have left home on a trip
Of youthful adventure and is supposed
at the time he met his death to have
been riding in hiding between the
cars. 1t is not known on what train
he was riding.
Lexington.-Mary Burgess, a negro
woman, was lodged in Jail, charged
with shooting Marion Thompson, an