"The Free Lance" Issue: August 14, 1903 CAVINS CHRONICLES: [Aug. 10] --Professor FREDDIE and wife were here Saturday night with their minstrel and sleight of hand show to the delight of all who went to see it. --Capt. J.V. PHILLIPS with Chaingang No. 2 are here at work on Scott's bridge. --Joe WEST and S.B. STRIBLING, who are out with a road machine and county engine spent Saturday night and Sunday in camp with Capt. PHILLIPS. --A. M. HOLT spent Saturday and Sunday in Spartanburg with his family. Mr. HOLT works one of the road machines. --Mr. and Mrs. Clarence G. SKINNER visited relatives around Casheville last week. --J.B. ALEXANDER will start for the mountains this morning. --Mrs. ALEXANDER, who has been quite sick, is much improved. CRESCENT CRINKLES: [Aug. 10] --Walter PARKER of Gaffney is spending several days at Dr. JONES'. --Mrs. Vetta ELLIS of Pelzer visited relatives here last week. --Dr. D.D. WESTMORELAND and wife of Woodruff are visiting Crescent. --B.F. NEWMAN, who has been sick, is better. --Mrs. Mattie WADDELL is able to be out again. --T.O. WESTMORELAND and mother attended the association at Cedar Springs. --T.J. PHILLIPS went to Spartanburg last week and had a piece of emery taken out of his eye. --Ocron JONES and wife of Laurens, are spending a while with his parents. LIFE AT HEBRON: [Aug. 10] --Mrs. Harriet Newman is visiting relatives at this place. Mrs. NEWMAN is from Gainesville, Ga. The people at old Hebron are glad to see Mrs. NEWMAN come back to visit her old home in South Carolina. {She was Harriet Stribling, daughter of Thomas and Massey McCravy Stribling, married Francis "Frank" Justice Newman.} --Mr. and Mrs. J.M. WOFFORD are visiting Mrs. J.A.P. LANCASTER at Spartanburg, who is quite ill with typhoid fever. --There were a great many people from this section who attended the reunion of the soldiers at Philadelphia Church. --Calvin LANCASTER and Dan MURPH of Glenn Springs visited Mr. and Mrs. J. M. WOFFORD recently. --Misses Virgil and Nannie MEANS and Tom Bob SMITH visited Miss Annie May WOFFORD recently. --Mrs. J.A.P. LANCASTER is not expected to live but a few days. J.A.P. LANCASTER and two of his girls are slowly improving from typhoid fever. W.T. MOORE has gone to Gainesville, where he will begin the preliminary work incident to the rebuilding of the Gainesville Cotton mill. A.E. HILL, who has been taking a two weeks' vacation at Hobbysville, Asheville, and Spartanburg, returned to the city Monday and is again at his post in the Bobo department store.-Union Progress. Wade YOUNG, a young and seemingly viciously inclined Negro was brought to the city from the Cross Anchor section yesterday afternoon and lodged in jail on charges of committing a criminal assault on the person of a 12 year old Negro girl. DOTS FROM DUNCAN [Aug. 10] --W.R. VAUGHN and family from near Moore's station visited friends and relatives in this community last week as did Mrs. Susan BALLARD and family from Tucapau. WELLFORD [Aug. 11] --The friends and relatives of the dead in Zoar Cemetery are requests to meet on August 18 to clear off the cemetery. YOUNG LADY FALLS IN ELEVATOR SHAFT Augusta, Ga., Aug. 8-Miss Helen SHEPPARD, the daughter of ex-governor SHEPPARD of South Carolina, narrowly escaped serious injury today by walking into the elevator shaft of the Albion Hotel. She fell one story. WEST END NOTES: --B.F. BEDDINGFIELD and bride are expected home soon from their bridal tour to Atlanta and other points. --Frank BEDDINGFIELD has returned and extended visit to Anderson. --John COTHRAN and his wife will in a few days move back to their home at Pelham. --Mr. and Mrs. C.F. BROWN are off the see the latter's mother for a week. --Mr. Sam ROBISON leaves today for a short visit to Greers and Duncans. --Walter GLENN returned to Pelham today after a short visit to Greers and Duncans. --G. L. JOHNSON's genial face was seen in town today. --Marion LEONARD of Abner Creek was here Saturday to see his son who is ill with fever. LOCAL AND SPECIAL [Spartanburg] --On Aug. 11 a basket picnic will be given at Woodruff and will be attended by the members of Company E, 14th S.C. Veterans and Company E, Holcombe Legion, S.C.V. --H.O. McWHIRTER of Birmingham, Ala., is spending his vacation in the city. Mr. McWHIRTER is a former resident of Spartanburg. He is now a fireman on a railroad entering Birmingham. --S.T. McCRAVY, W.Y. DILLARD, Claude LANFORD, James SWITZER, Capt. G.B. DEAN and Master Howard McCRAVY left Tues for Clemson College to attend the State Farmers Institute. --J.H. GOSNELL, L.HUFF, M.C. POOLE, Chas. YARBOROUGH, H.C. ROBERTSON, Samuel THOMAS, John FINCH, Thos. BISHOP, J.B. WILLIS, and Dr. M.O. ROWLAND left Monday afternoon for Clemson College where they have gone to attend the meeting of the State Farmer's Institute. HEARD AT HARRELSON [Aug. 11] --Fitzhugh HARRELSON, who spent several days last week in Greenwood has returned home. --Walter and Ethel AIKEN of this place left last Saturday for Fair Forest where they will spend several days visiting relatives and friends. --Miss Alice O'SHIELDS who spent several days in Spartanburg last week has returned home. --Mr. and Mrs. J.A. CATHCART of West Springs are visiting at J.M. HARRELSON's. --Mr. and Mrs. James WOFFORD of Dutchman, spent Saturday and Sunday with homefolks of this place. THE REUNION OF CAMP JACKSON The most successful reunion in the history of Camp Jackson; U.C.V. occurred when the survivors and about fifteen hundred of their friends and acquaintances gathered together to celebrate the occasion and attend the exercises which were of a very high order. Among the speakers of important being Commander SMITH, Capt. J. W. CARLISLE, of Spartanburg, Col. T. L. GANTT, Col. T.J. MOORE, Rev. A.A. JAMES and others. A number of songs were also rendered and other interesting features gone through with. free post Lisa