The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-11-13
SHORT LOCAL NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
RECENT HAPPENINGS IN
CITY AND COUNTY.
OOfngs of People in Which All
Sections of Lancaster COun-
ty Are Interested.

Cotton buyers were Offering 28c
per pound for cotton this morning |
on the local market.
Miss Eva Hough and Miss Ethel
O.Brock, of the Lancaster graded |
school, have been awarded Palmer
Penmanship diplomas.
There will be box supper at Cas- |
ton school house on Thursday night !
for the benefit of the school. Ev- |
erybody is invited.
The fifth grade at the Central
School is to be divided to relieve to
some extent the congestion, and a
new teacher will be secured. The
crowded condition of the school has
made this necessary.
Rev. b. A. Barrett will preach at
Pleasant Plains Baptist church next
Sunday morning at IL o'clock and
at White Bluff Sunday afternoon at
/ 3 o'clock The public is cordially
invited to attend these meetings.
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Work on the l.. & G.. bridge be-
tween Lancaster and Chester is go
ing forward rapidly, two piers hav-
ing been finished. The management
hopes to be running trains through
to Chester by the middle of January.
The L. & C. depot in this city also
is nearing completion.
Prof. Wessinger is at work taking
an educational census of the Ian
caster graded school district Prof.
Bowman, principal of the Central
School and Prof. Connors, of the
school No. ., will have the direction
of the white census, and Principal
NJ. ID. Lee, of Springs industrial
school, will have charge of the coll
ored census.
Twelve miles of the road between
WaXhaw and the North Carolina
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log drag" This section of the most
used road out of Lancaster should
be given some attention by the
county authorities. The roads
should be dragged and well-dragged
after each rain and this twelve
miles of the Charlotte road should
be top-soiled.
The friends of Miss Margaret
Cunningham will be sorry to learn
that she was operated on for appen-
dicitis Saturday at the Knowlton
hospital in Columbia Miss Cum
ningham has been attending Chicora
college in Columbia for the last two
or three years. Her father and
brother, b. Cunningham and Mart
Cunningham, went to Columbia Sat
urday to be with her. She stood the
operation successfully and is inn
proving.
Country people are not respond
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carrying on the war as they should
The campaign this week for funds
for the Y. NJ. C. A. war work should
appeal strongly to the farmers, many
of whom have sons or relatives in
the camps about which the Y. NJ. c.
A. expects to throw it's influence.
The fund in Lancaster county
should reach $4,000 by the end of
the week and farmers who sell cot
ton or produce and take their money
home and out of circulation injure
their government and business in
general.
The addition to the Lancaster
Mercantile company will soon be fin-
ished. The company will use this
annex for it's grocery and hardware
departments and the dry goods de-
: partment will occupy the corner
store after it has been remodeled.
: The upper story of the addition to
5 the building will add sixteen rooms
, to the Royal Hotel. They will be
modern in every particular MANY