The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-03-06
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.

W Are Interested.
Lancaster cotton buyers were Of
fering 1S f-2 cents per pound on the
local market today for cotton.
A. B. Ferguson has accepted a DO
sition in Darlington and expects to
leave next Monday to assume his new
duties. Mr.. Ferguson's friends re-
gret to see him leave town but he
carries with him their best wishes to
his new home.
Traffic conditions In Lancaster are
somewhat acute at present. The few
travelling men reaching here Sunday
night and yesterday morning are at
loss as to what route to travel in
an effort to keep up with their
schedules and other travelling men
due to arrive in Lancaster on Mon
day have been unable to reach here I
Conditions brought about by the
trouble over the Southern railway
system are almost as bad as they
were during the food OF last sum-
mer.
Capt. A. II. Green of Lancaster en-.
joyed the experience this week Of en-
tertaining a cousin he had never
seen. Mrs. Charles Arthur Briggs of
Syracuse, n. Y, frst-cousin OF
Capt. Green, arrived in Lancaster
last Friday to spend a day with her
relatives and was delightfully."- enter
tanned during her stay here. Mrs.
Briggs had never made a visit to
Lancaster and she said that she was
delighted with the town and it's peo,
pie.
The meeting of the Board of Gov
ernors of the Lancaster Chamber or
Commerce. to be held Thursday ar
ternoon, will probably be attended
by every one of the governors. The
news that the Chamber of Commerce
is to be revived has been enthusias-
tically received by Lancaster busi-
ness men and on all sides the people
Of the city express themselves as be-
ing delighted with the news that the
body is to be launched anew. Great
things are expected of the reorgan..
lied organization.
The next meeting of the Lancaster
County Teachers association will be
held in this city on next Saturday
March 10. A very enjoyable pro-
gram has been arranged, including
papers and addresses by Misses Ethel
Brock, Miss Alma VanLandin CHAM,
Prof. A. C. Rowell. Each of the
speakers will take up ten minutes for
the subject assigned to his or her ad.
dress and it is believed that the meet
ing will be one of the most interest
ing and successful yet held by the To-
cal association. Field day plans will
come In for general discussion at
the approaching meeting.
The Lancaster Chamber of Com
merce has delegated Col. Leroy
Springs, president of that organiza-
ton, to represent the local Chamber
at meeting of the Interdepartmen,
tai Board on the Federal Nitrate
of War Interior and Agriculture
which meeting will be held in Co
lumbia on Thursday. March 8. AT
this time Columba's claims for the
plant will be strongly presented be-
fore the cabinet officers. Lancaster
people hope that the South Carolina
city will be able to win her fight for
the location OF the plant and Col
Springs and other officers OF the local
Chamber of Commerce are willing to
exert every effort to help Columbia
A meeting of the Lancaster city
council took place last Friday even
ing with practically every alderman
present. IL was decided at this meet
ing that the city would remit the
sum of S2.50 to automobile owners
who have paid their city license fees,
this action being taken in view of the
fact that all auto owners will here
after be required to pay a State Ii
cense tax. A committee was ap-
pointed at the recent meeting to
search for new quarters for the
municipal offices. This committee
consists OF Mayor Charles d. Jones,
J. II. Witherspoon, j. d. Wylie and
Judge Ernest Secrest. An appllc,,-
tika made by the City Cafe to be al.
lowed to continue in business was,