Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1915-03-11
STATE ITEMS
OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH
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The Sumter county board sold re-
Gently $4,000 worth of bonds for
building bridges. y
The whiskey sales for Orangeburg
county for the month of February
amounted to $20,402.61. {J
Governor Manning has appointed T. +
A. Burley of Richland county as a
game warden for South Carolina.
Coast Line train Number SO was
wrecked at Dillon recently. Engineer
Clark escaped with slight injuries.
No others were hurt.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, national pure
food specialist, will deliver. a public
address in Columbia, April 2Sth un-
der the auspices of the South Caro-
lima State Dental Association.
Figures available at the United
States custom house show that ex-
ports through the port of Charleston
for the month of February, 1916, were
valued at $4,23S,s25 and imports at
$196,727.I l3,3i5 y -.
The Winthrop extension work in /
Florence closed with a talk ON "The
Efficient Kitchen" AT the last talk J
Miss, Frayser had demonstrated bread
making. especially the short methodSy
recurring only q few hours for prep.s
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tionS were; distributedS over the cfty !
to be signed by the qualihsd electors.
The valuable farm owned Jointly
by w. s.. Glenn and j. Simpson,
near Spartanburg Junction on the
Howard Gap road and containing
224.64 acres Of land was sold at pub
lie sale for $22,so0 to !. A. Phifer.
attorney.
j. Whitner Reid. secretary Of the
State Farmers Union, has organized
a local union at Bethel in Chester
field county. The officers are: d. G.
Mcintosh, president; H. X. Linton,
vice president and William Hickman,
secretary and treasurer.
Sports of all kind reign In Camden
this season, the programme becoming
more varied each day as the rush OF
tourists grow more ard more brisk.
Golf and polo, Of course. occupy the
principal thrones, but the zest Of fol-
lowing the hounds is not overlooked.
The Orangeburg council at It's re-
cent meeting transacted important
business. The matter of the new
street paving was discussed. A let
ter from the county supervisors
would assist in paying for the wood
block to be placed around the court
house. The other street paving will
be Of vitrified brick.
The programme and means OF en-
tertainment for delegates and visitors
have been arranged for the 43rd an
nual meeting of the State Teachers
Association at Florence on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, March rs, 26
and 81 of this year. Other associa-
tons subsidiary and complementary,
will also hold sessions at this time.
These associations are the state as
sociason of elementary schools, South
Carolina School Improvement Associ-
alton, the Association Of CITY and
Town Superintendent and the Joint
meeting of the city superintendent
and county. superintendents' associ-
ations.
Mayor Grace of Charleston success
fully underwent an operation for ap-
pendicitis.
Fire practically destroyed the Bap-
tistN church at Poe mill village near
Greenville few days ago. The loss
was about $4,000.
The jury charged with determining
the guilt Of w. T. Mcclure, William
Kay, ]. Woodrow Campbell, Calma c.
Kay, s. Augustus Jones and John Nc,
Donald, charged with the murder Of
Green Gibson during the exciting
scenes at Fairplay last December, re-
quired only % minutes to find ver-
dict of not guilty.
R. M. Bates has been appointed as
special constable for the Carolina
Clinchfield & Ohio Railway by Gov.
Manning. The appointment was
made upon the recommendation Of L.
H. Rhetteplace, general manager.
The following fourth class postmas.
ters in South Carolina were reappoint-
ed: At Brown Hill. Aiken county,
James H. Broome; at Johns Island,
Charleston county, Adams c. Dayson;
at North Augusta, Aiken county, Miss
Lizzie M. Kennedy; at Okatie, Beau
fort county, Philip M. Cooler; at
Schofe1d, Bamberg county Hugh T.