"The Free Lance" Issue March 27, 1903 part 2 CAVINS CHRONICLES: [March 23] --M.P. MASON has the finest looking wheat we have seen anywhere at the present time it is a perfect show to gaze at it. --Mason Bros. are doing a lively business with their new traction saw mill. They are now sawing for F. M. SKINNER in the fork of the river from here or rather between the two rivers. J. E. VISE will also have a large amount of sawing done. Mr. VISE contemplates building a handsome dwelling in the near future. --The smallpox has about died out. There have been only about fifty or sixty cases on L.F. and J.A. PEARSON's place mostly among the Negroes. Only a few days cases are now reported. In a few weeks it will all be out of the settlement. --Mrs. J. H. ALLEN of Whitmire, S.C., has been visiting her father, E. J. CATHCART of this place. After a stay of a week she has returned to her home at Whitmire. [Community unknown] --Mrs. Lula LANFORD is quite sick and has been for some time with pneumonia. --Ruth, the little 7 year-old daughter of H.C. PEARSON who has been so seriously ill with pneumonia ever since the first of January, is convalescing nicely, notwithstanding a second surgical operation had to be performed in order to free the [cut off] --Mrs. R. B. LEMASTER fell and broke an arm one day last week. --Mrs. W.E. LIPSCOMB returned home Saturday after a visit to her parents at Waterloo. --Little Miss Lottie ALLEN of Pauline visited Capt. R.A. LANCASTER's last week. --Mrs. Rosa GAFFNEY returned home Monday after staying some time with relatives at Gaffney. --Mrs. Beatrice FOSTER and daughter, Corrie, visited the former's parents Saturday evening at Pauline. --Miss Lula HEMINGSEN spent last week in Spartanburg. --Asa HARMON and sister, Miss Belle, spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. B. W. HINES, near here. --Squire SLOAN has been very sick for some time. NEW PROSPECT POINTS: [March 23] --Mr. W.A. SIMMONS' family of Spartanburg, formerly of this place, have moved back to their old home near here. --Jace JACKSON, a colored man, living on R.V. McMULLIN's plantation, has smallpox. His family has been quarantined. FINAL SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE Notice given that on April 27, 1903, I will apply for a final settlement and discharge on the estate of J.C. BONNER, deceased. F. P. BONNER, Admx. Free Post Lisa