The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-06-27
STATE ITEMS
OF iNTERESr TO ALI SOUTH
CAROLINA PEoPIE.

CAROLINA PEOPLE.
Mccormick county Il en&ixled TO one
scholarship thAs yeax.
The South Carolina Building and
Loan League win meet at Chick
Springs June 27-2a.
Frank McPhsrsno Lander, M. d..
has been appointed first lieutenant in
the medical reserve corps.
Representatives Of 1S associations of
the South Carolina Baptist conven.
ton met in Columbia last week to dir.
cuss church problems.
J. Lyles Glenn. Jr., SON Of Mr.. ana
Mrs. J. Lyles Glenn. OF Chester, is
back at Narnur In Belgium to assist
with relief work during the summer.
Frank w. Glenn. formerly colonel,
Second South Carolina infantry, has
been appointed colonel In the In
fantry section, Officers reserve corps.
j. A. Hill and w. e. Hill OF Able.
Vile. have an order for $4,000 tons Of
potash bearing clay. The clay In
three miles from Abbeville and the
supply ia enormous.
The need of rigidly enforced com.
pulsory education laws was urged by
William Sherard of Williamson, s. c.,
president of the Southern Textile as.
sociation meeting at Asheville, N. C.
Circuit Judge T. J. Mauldin at Spar.
tanburg dismissed petition for an In.
junction against the sale Of the Hamp-
ton Cotton Mills Company properties
by the Parker Cotton Mills Company.
w. M. Waters of Florence, s. c.,
was elected president and Danville,
Va, was selected as the next meeting
place at the final session at Asheville.
n. c., of the annual convention of the
Southern Retail Furniture Association.
The Columbia machine gun com.
pany, the organization OF which has
u. ~. ID.
tey and Lieut.. w. G. MCGOWAN, Is
nearing its war strength OF "a men.
Merchants and business men OF Mo
Cormick. made two-days' booster
trip last week.
Col E. M. Blythe of Greenville, OF
the First regiment ordered all COM
pany commanders in his regiment to
open their armories. re-enlist all their
men under the new federal law, bring
their companies up to the required
strength and hold their commands in
readiness for instant mobilization.
The Governors Guards, one of the
Columbia companies to be called into
service, was organized in December,
1843. by special act of the legislature
of South Carolina It's first com.
mander was Capt. James ID. Trade.
well. q distinguished member of the
Columbia bar. and afterwards mayor
OF that city.
The county.to-county campaign OF
candidates for state Offices begun
Tuesday in Spartanburg and will
continue FIVE days q week until August
26, with the exception of 10 days rest
in July. The candidates during the
first week also speak In Greenville,
Pickens, Waihalla and Anderson. The
work on the hustings will come to Q
close in Winnsboro.
At HendersOnvilie, NJ. c.. the South
Carolina Bankers Association In its
sixtteth annual convention at Kanuga
Club, near Hendersonvilie, elected Ira
B. Dunlap. Rock HILL, president to suc-
ceed John w. Simpson OF Spartan
burg. Other officers OF the association
elected were: Charles d. Jonas, Ian.
caster. vice president: Julian C. Rog.
ers, Florence, reelected secretary aud
treasurer.
Tn rolling sand hills OF Styx, GOV.
cred with scrub oak and pine has
shanged into tented city OF about
1000 men; ard It is thought that the
iext few days will gradually increase
he population until q fair percentage
,f the young men of the state will be
IN hand The last few days have heens
5usy ones at the camp. Tents were
pitched, urderbrush was cleared away
and work was begun on the private
'oadway leading from the STATION to
The encampment site.
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