"The Free Lance" Issue: September, 18, 1903 WEST END --M.L. SMITH and family returned to Greers yesterday after spending several days at the home of M.H. DANIEL. --Hugh McCRAVEY, who has his final discharge from the regular army, is visiting D.C. CATHCART on Wofford street. He was a member of a band in the New England states and is a brother to ex-Sheriff McCRAVEY of Laurens. --Mrs. E.J. SIMPSON has returned from Arlington where she has been on a visit to her brother for two weeks. --Miss Mary SIMPSON has returned from King's Mountain. --Mr. and Mrs. Clarence TODD of Laurens were in West End the other day. --Miss Emma BOMAR is visiting Miss Zore EZELL on Forest Street. HOLLY SPRINGS ITEMS [Sept. 14] --C.O. LANFORD and wife of Roebuck are visiting the family of W.B. BRUCE. --B.J. HAMPTON of Columbus, N.C., visited J.E. HANNON's Saturday and Sunday. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS: --Glasgow HARRIS, an old Negro who claims to be 113 years old, was in Newberry Monday. He lives about 12 miles out in the country between Little River and Saluda, on Tom NEEL's place. He rode to town on a wagon and said he had not been there before in five years. He said he had not worked in two years. He fishes all the time now and his business was to get some fish hooks and lines. He has been married five times and is the father of 37 children. GAFFNEY: --The Gaffney Drug Company is now about ready for business. It is owned by J.C. CREECH of Barnwell and J.E. GREENE of Spartanburg. --This morning while Mrs. A.J. BURGESS was in a field near her home at Limestone Mill, she was hit by a stray bullet from a rifle. Some boys were shooting at birds in a tree near by, when the ball struck a limb, and glancing struck Mrs. BURGESS on the neck, burying itself about an inch and a half. Dr. B.R. BROWN was called in and extracted the ball. The wound, while painful, is not necessarily serious. $1,000 AND TWELVE MONTHS In the sessions court yesterday afternoon the case against A.N. HALLMAN charged with operating a gambling slot machine in violation of a state law was disposed of and a penalty that was a surprise to all imposed. The punishment imposed was $1,000 fine and twelve months in jail, no discretionary power being left with the judge to modify the penalty as provided by statute. It seems that the section covering this offense provides this penalty and no other. Mr. HALLMAN plead guilty when arraigned. Judge GARY commented very briefly in passing the sentence. Mr. HALLMAN was sent to jail, but later released for the time being by Solicitor SEASE. HEARD AT HEBRON [Sept. 23] --Miss Annie NESBITT has gone to Greenville where she will enter college. --Mrs. Nesbitt VISE spent a pleasant week with relatives at this place recently. --Mr. and Mrs. Will McABEE visited Mr. and Mrs. J.M. WOFFORD recently. --Mrs. Elizabeth VISE is visiting relatives here. --The came from the field today and asked me if ever I saw a polk stalk fifty feet high. I told them it was impossible for a polk stalk to grow fifty feet high. They said there was a dead tree broken off near the top and a polk stalk growing in the top nicely. They said it is very green and growing. free post Lisa