The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-04-10
SHORT LOCAL NEWS
: OF GENERAL INTEREST
RECENT HAPPENINGS I'M
CITY AND COUNTY.
DOings of People in Which All
Sections of Lancaster Coun-
i ty Are Interested.


at yesterdays meeting.
Miss Rosie Todd Of Lancaster left
Saturday for Concord. N. c., where
she has accepted the position Of head
milliner for the Parks-Belk Com
pany. Miss Todd has host OF
friends in Lancaster.
Paul Moore, clerk of court for Ian.
caster county. left yesterday for CO.
iumbia where he will today attend
meeting of the York Rite. This IA
one OF the most important Masonic
meetings OF the year.
Lancaster churches were filled with
attentive audiences Sunday morn
ing for the Easter service, notwith-
standing the very unpleasant wealth
er. In most Of the churches special
services were held and the congre-
tions enjoyed the morning.
Magistrate John l.. Caskey yester-
day turned over to the county treas
urer the sum OF s113.2O, this being
the receipts from fines and costs i'm
posed by the magistrate during the
last quarter. This is a smaller sum
than is usually handled by the mag
istrate during quarter.
Last Sunday morning was one OF
the most decidedly unpleasant Eas-
ter Sundays that Lancaster people
ever saw. BY 10 o'clock a thunder
storm arrived and throughout the
morning the rain fell in sheets. La
ter III the day the rain ceased but all
day Sunday was a dark and gloomy
day from climatic standpoint.
Bids will be opened in the office of
the Treasury Department at Wash
.ington tomorrow for the erection of
Lancaster's handsome Federal build
ing. The building is to cost approx
imately $4,000 and will be one of
the incest postoffice buildings in the
State. 1t is presumed that work on
its construction will be begun i'm
mediately after the contract Is
awarded.
Adam M. Ganson OF New York
has been spending a few days in the
city. Mr.. Ganson has built up
splendid reputation as a contractor.
He erected the Pennsylvania Union
Station in New York City and the
Flatiron building in New York, two
of the biggest structures in the
world. Mr. Ganson has a number of
friends here and was cordially well
coined to Lancaster.
Lancaster Department Store, left
this morning for New York and other
Eastern markets. where he Will buy
additional merchandise for the sum.
, mer trade at his establishment. Mr..
Driscoll says that the business done
by his store this spring has been
pleasing in every respect. He says
that his summer line will be com
plete to the last detail.
At meeting OF the Confederate
veterans Of Lancaster county, held
Saturday, 1t was ascertained that fif-
teen members of Dixie Camp No.
1l72, U, C. w.. will attend the State
Reunion to be held in Chester on
April 26 and 81. Miss Onie Belle
Duren Is sponsor for the local camp
and the following ladies have been
elected maids OF honor: Miss Dora
Porter, Miss Marie Caskey and Miss
Craig.
John T. Stevens of Kershaw, J. C.
Cook OF Lancaster and T. Y. Will
liams of Lancaster have been named
by Governor Manning as three of the
leo delegates from this State to at
tend the fifth annual meeting of the
United States Good Roads Assocla-
tion, which meeting will be held in
birmingham. Ala, April 1921. Ill
Is probable that one of the three del
egates from this section will at
tend.
superintendent Wessinger OF the
Lancaster public schools is planning
/, to. put in operation form of physi-
cal inspection for the local schooIs