The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-20
SHORT LOCAL NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
RECENT HAPPENINGS IN
CITY AND COUNTY.
Doings of People in Which All
Sections of Lancaster Coun-
ty Are Interested.

Ernest Moore.
III. S. Mcclure OF Shreveport. La.
ieft Sunday night for Salisbury and
thence to his future home in Raleigh.
atter spending a few days with his
brother here. A. P. McLure
An important meeting of the Ian
caster County Board Of Education is
to take place Saturday at IL O'Clock.
The Board is composed of three mem
bers. W. B. Twitty, j. X. Conners and
V. A. Lingle.
The Dry Creek school is making
elaborate arrangements for a box
supper to be held Friday night. In
addition to the sale Of boxes. other
features of entertainment will be
provided and the proceeds from the
affair will go to the School In,arove-
ment Association.
There was much local interest
manifested in the election held last
Friday for Congressman from tho
Fifth district, but the day was very
quiet. Friday evening the Lancaster
News office was filed with visitors
until late hour, all wishing to Sc
cure information about the out
come.
or general interest in Lancaster
1s the announcement that w. b..
Plyler has withdrawn from the
Plyler Cash Stores company and
hereafter the management of that
business will be entirely in the hands
of w. e. Plyler. This company op,
crates two large stores, one at Mid
way and the other in Lancaster.
The committee appointed by the
County Teachers Association at a re-,
cent meeting to arrange for Field
Day will meet here Saturday after
noon at o'clock in the office of V.
A. Lingle to- complete final plans for
the school event. Great things are
being planned for this year and it is
predicted that the affair will sur
pass in every way the previous field
days held in Lancaster county.
At a meeting Of the Lancaster
City Council, held last night in the
council chambers, q number of i'm
portant matters were discussed and
considered. The local electric light
plant presented to council through
its manager proposition to increase
the arc lights at the street corners
from 500 candle power to 600 can
die power, without any additional
cost to the city. The proposition
was approved and the company will
go ahead with the work at once. IL
was decided by council that no new
license will be issued to the City
Cafe, and therefore after March /
that establishment will no longer be
able to do business within the city
limits.
AS result of numerous interviews
held with people in and near Lam
caster, s. III. Mclean Of the Southern
Railway Company and j. T. Thomas.
son. manager of the Lancaster pele-
conclusion that Lancaster will be
able to reserve Pullman car to take
local people to the Inauguration OF
President Wilson next month. Mr..
Mclean stated that he was much
pleased with his trip here and that
there Is no question in his mind
about Lancaster getting up enough
reservations to warrant the car. The
car will run from here to Rock Hill
and there be added to the South
Carolina Inauguration Special car
rying Governor Manning and his
staff. II the local people sign a con-
tract
About 40 Lancaster county
school teachers were in attendance
at the meeting OF the County Teach
ers Association. held Saturday morn,
ing at IL o'clock in the Central
School building. V. A. Linglo, presi-
dent OF the association, presided
over the meeting. The meeting was
interesting from start to finish but
probably the most important action
taken was that OF selecting March
30th as the date for holding school
field day here. Miss Lille Usher
presented splendid paper on AT |
tendance and Holding Students"