The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-02-09

johnson of the Western South
Carolina district has been presiding.
Officials of the Lancaster Cottil-
lion Club announced yesterday that
the club will hold its next dance on
Friday, February 23. The affair will
take place in Mackey's hall and
from Charlotte to furnish the music.
The work done on the streets of
Lancaster yesterday by the street
force called for general approval
from the public. The road scraps
and drags were used to splendid ad-
vantage on the unpaved streets and
as a result automobile traffic over the
town picked up considerably yester-
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Rhett Will
liams have returned from Baltimore
where Mrs. Williams has been un-
dergoing medical treatment the past
few weeks at the private sanitorium
of DR.. Howard A. Kelly. Mrs. VIII
liams' friends are delighted to know
that she is already much improved
in health.
Il. V, Davidson, mayor of Chester.
and Il. p. Calhoun, well known
business man of that city, spent
Tuesday in Lancaster i'm the interest
of the candidacy of Arthur l.. Gas.
ton for Congress. Messrs. David
son and Calhoun are brothers-in-law
of Col CASTOR and they are confident
that he has good show to win.
An event being eagerly anticipat-
ed all over Lancaster is the amateur
minstrel to be presented in this city
on the night of February % by the
Boy Scout organization Of the city.
The Scout Master has the cast all
arranged and he says that the youth
full Thespians are hard at work on
their parts. The proceeds realized
from the minstrel will go to the loca,
fund of the patrol.
Peter Bratsos yesterday purchased
from a. b. Ferguson the Midway
moving picture show and has assum-
ed active charge of the movie thea
ire. The new proprietor plans a
number of improvements on the inte-
rior and exterior Of the show and he
saws that the Midway theatre will be
credit to that portion OF the city
when he completes all the improve
ments he has planned.
V. A. Lingle, superintendent of ed
ucation for Lancaster county. went
to Van WICK last week to attend the
annual essay contest held by that
school. The contest this year was
won by Miss Bates and the hand
some gold medal offered each year
by j. A. Hyatt was awarded to that
young lady. The contest was open
TO the entire school and all wrote ON
the same subject, namely keep on
Keeping On" Prof. A. b. Lindler
is principal of the Van Wyck school
and under his direction the institu-
ton is making splendid progress in
all lines of work.
One of the most substantial steel
bridges to be found on the entire
Southern Railway system is to be
erected over the CatawHa river be
tween Lancaster and CataWba within
the next few weeks. The steel for
the bridge has arrived and workmen
S,rA now eng"n d in pu'Hn2 the va
rioUs parts -ether aro getting &c
preliminary work under way. 1t
" il be remember ed that this bridle
vas washed away in the hood of last
August, but the new bridge is to be
so substantial IN Gems. action tina.
u. will probably Withstand any and
all foods in tho future.
The second annual meeting of the
ministers and deacons of Bethel
Presbytery, held in York yesterday.
was attended by Rev. Hugh r. Muir
Gibson, pastor of the First Presbyte-
rian church of Lancaster, and w. p.
Davis and o.. p. Bartlett. The CON
vention was called to order last night
at 1880 o'clock in the York Presby-
terian church and will continue
through today. Some OF the speak
ers on the program for addresses
have national regulations and the
convention is arousing interest
among the Presbyterians The first
convention was held at Chester nne