The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 15, 1897, Image 1

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* . 71 r 9 * . \ V OL.XIII. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSD AY, APRIL 15, 1897. NO. 8. B OF Ml UK A COLUMN OF NEWS PICKED UP AROUND TOWN And Put Into Short Paragraphs For Quick Reading By Busy People. Hiss Luia Shaw, of Cades, visited (he Misses Nelson, of Kings tree last Saturday. Mr. i'eter G. Goordin spent a few days with relatives at St. Stephens this week. ?f r. ti . | r> Air. JU. r. newer reiunin iruiu Georgetown, where he has been selling horses, last Saturday. Court will convene hereon the thud Monday in May, wi'h Judge D. A. Townseod on the bench. The annual examination of applicants for teachers'' certificates will be held tomorrow and Saturday. Mies Lixaie Wallace a beautiful and charming young lady of Atlanta, Ga., is spending some time with relatives in town. Messrs. Will Dunlop and Lucius Montgomery made a trip to Saltere last Saturday afternoou, returning Sunday morning. Fanners have taken advantage of the recent fair weather and ? hgve caught ap with quite a lot of the work on too arms waicn the rain caused to he delayed. -I ' . . f t Mr. H. A. Graham, our clever young depot agent, informs us that opto the present time nearly three times as much fertilizers have been received at this point for this season as was received during the entire season last year. Mr. Lide Tallavait has been "playing the devil" ia the County Record office for the past week. Mr. Tallavast says that he expects to be an expert printer in few weeks, and hopes to be able to "doable discount"' Mr. Brown, - <1 I our loremao, in jvyeveiuog w fure the end dt th$chdol term. Mr. J. S. Jopfing, a tobacco drummer entertained a small crowd at the Coletiati Hotel last Monday night by performing a series of slight-of-iaud tricks with coins, cards, etc. Mr Jopligg is a fine performer, aid it fat superior to many men fbo gain ^llvelihood by their "magic" w(gks. Mr. W. H. Edwards has gene to Timmonsviile to take charge of the mechanidai department of the 1 * Timmonsviile enterprise, edited by Mr. J. W. Bigsdale. Mr. Ed wards was'for juite a long time connected with the County Record . and is a young nan of much tab eot and ability. He will be quite an addition t? the Enterprise force. Mr. R. R. Stitts caught a very large gar-fish with a net in Black? river last Monday night. The net was stretcled across the stream just below tie bridge, at a bend called "rock hole." The fish was a monster, txing over four feet in leqgth and weighing over twenty pounds. It was on exhibition at the Dispensiry Tuesday. A gentlenan from Lake City told us last Monday that over one hundred crites of strawberries had been ship/ed from that place this year. What is the matter with the people around here, to v allow our neighbors to be so far ahead of us? Ihere must be money to be made from raising s;rawberries for ship ment, or fee Lake Citians would not go into the business. ; # * % V ^ -i :V ' Mr. J. P. Nelson spent Sunday in Scranton. There are still several cases of measels in Kingstree. Mr. G. W. Arms made a trip to Ashley Junction last Monday. * ? 1 T Messrs. hi. (i. ASKins ana ixjuis Gilland spent three days in Lake City last week. Mr. Julian Jacobs went down to Georgetown Monday to visit for a few days. The banks of the river near Thome's mill seems to be quite an alter noon resort for the young folks. The Rev. W. D. Moorer went down to Charleston last Monday, and from there to Walterboro, but is expected to return to-day. Mr, Peter Gourdin has been confined to his room by illness for several days, but, we are glad to annouuce, is now able to be out again. From nearly every section of the county there comes the report that more fertilizers ars being used this year than last. We trust this means larger crops. Traffic manager Bouie, of the Georgetown and Western railroad, accompained by his family came up last Fnday and stayed until Monday visiting the family of Mr. Louis Jacobs. Dr. H. L Baker, of Rome, was in town Sunday afternoon and Monday. Dr. Baker expected to meet his father, Rev. W* B. Baker, ] here, but was disappointed as the latter gentleman got off the train at Lake City. Mr. Walter Steele is now ticket and baggage agent for the Atlantic Coast Line at Kocky Mount, N. C. Mr. Steele is an old Kings' , boy, and has many friends here, ( all of whom will be glad to learn < that he is so pleasantly situated. | While quite a number of youog 1 people were frolicing out on the 1 logs near the river bridge a few 1 days ago, a little girl slipped and fell down between two of the timbers into the water, but was immediately rescued and taken back to the land by Mr. Charles J. . L?sesne, wbo fortunately, was near her at the time. Joe Flemming, the colored tnau who was committed to jail about a month ago charged with rob- 1 bing dispenser Stutts, will be 1 given a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Brown to-day. Magistrate Matthews being disqualified by reason of being Mr. i Stutts' father-in law, Mr. Brown was called uppn to conduct the 1 preliminary.* There is somdtalk as tj why the negro has been kept in jail for so long a time without a preliminary trial, but we are not familiar with the with the details of the case, and can make no comment on the matter whatever. The greater portion of our new job printing outfit has arrived, and we are now prepared to execute all kinds of printing on very short notice. There is now no excuse for one to send to Charleston or elsewhere to have printing done, as it can be done in this office, right here in Kingstree, just as well, and a great deal quioker. Of course, it Will not cost any more to have work done here than it costs anywhere else, for we can and will do it just as cheap as any reputable printing house in the State. Give us a 'trial order, and be convinced. * /1 " . - / ...A IIIMJI If IN THE SOUTH IS iN WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY. The Tree Belongs to the Rev. Henry Haddock, of Indiantown. Perhaps the largest pear tree in the south is in Williamsburg county. Mr. J. T. Brown, who travels for a Waycross, Ga., nursery, and who has traveled in ooorw cnnthern Slalo and who has V,VV > made a lifelong study of fruit trees, says that the largest pear tree he has ever seen is one on liev. Henry , Haddock's place, in the Indiantown neighborhood. Mr. Brown was in that section last week, and, < hearing of the tree, went t o Mr. Haddock's and requested' hat gen tleman to show it to him. Mr. j Haddock and Mr. Brown proceed* < ed to the tree, and Mr. Brown 1 asked for a rope to measure it, I saying that it was undoubtedly I the largsst pear tree in existence. I The tree was measured by the two < gentlemen, and it was found to be < six and one-half feet in circumfer- J __j j f I 0006) ana nioHBureu ivttjr u?o feet across the branches. The ] height was estimated at forty feat, t Mr. Haddock has gathered as i much as sixty bushels of matured < fruit from the tree in one year, i besides that picked before the end ( of the season. Several of Mr. ( Haddock's neighbors say that there is no doubt that the tree has borne seventy-five bushels of fruit t in a single season. s The most remarkable thing j about the tree is that it has never "blighted;" that is, the branches * have never died and decayed back j to the tronk of the tree. Mr. Brown, who is well-up upon such matters, and wbo may be quo! ed as reliable authority, says that c the fact of the tree having never j "blighted" is the most wonderful j thing connected with it, as he, in , all his career as a fruit tree sales- , man, has never before seen a pear tree that had not suffered in this way? Who can beat this in the way of a pear tree. All the lates styles in job printing can now be done in The Couny Record office. ^ Kingstree is no noubt the only county seat in South Carolina tbat has no lock boxes in the postoffice. What is the reason ot this ? Have our business men ,ever requested the government to give us lock boxes? It wohld be a great accomodation and conven ience to both the patrons of the office and the postmaster. I Lodge Notice. 1 I The neLit regular communication of Lake City Lodge, No. 193, A. F. M. will be holden Saturday 1 afternoon, April 24, 1897, at 4 o'clock sharp. E. T. Moody, W. M. i W. Fbanois Kennedy, Sec. i ] Next Sunday will be Easter, so < lookout for new hats and dresses, j I An Illinois farmer has discover* j ed that seed corn soaked in coal j oil renders the growing corn proof against the chinch bug. The seed for five acres were soaked in coal . oil, and that for forty acres was t not. The chinch bugs ate up the , corn in the forty acre field, but | never touched that on the five j acres. The County Record, $1 a year. 1 v 0 * - . ^ Of Interest to Farmers. We have been requested to call the attention of the farmers to the notice of Presideut Craighead, of Clemson College, calling for cor respoudencs looking to the establishment of farmers' institutes, which war published in last week's County Record, and to urge the establishment of such an institute in this county. These institutes cost the farmers; not one cent, aiiid are very instructive and beneficial. The professors of Clemson College attend the meetings and address the members -upon various subjects. Every county in the State is entitled to at. least, nne. and if we do not secure it at Kingstree, there is no doubt tha:; some other town in Williamsburg county will organize one. As. above stated, the organization does not cost the farmers a cent, Clemson College hearing all the expenses. All that is necessary in order to establish a farmers institute is to request Mr. Craighead to come and oganize one, e nd it will be done. Let our farmers be "up and doing" oefore some oif our more enterprising neighbors send ia a peti ion and secure the prize. Get up i petition ana nave several larmsrs or others to sign it and i'orvard the same to President ?. B. Jraighead, Olemson College, 8. J.j and be will arrange the dates. Smoke "Pride of Darlington" obacco. grown in South Carolina indmanufactured in Darlington, for sale by W. G. El well, Manager. Ex-Presideht Harrison's Success as an Author. Ex-President Harrison will con tlude his series of papers on life n the White House in the May Ladies Home Journal, and take i respite from his literary labors vhich have so profitably and congenially occupied him for more ban a year. General Harrison is he first President ?to show the public through the White House, 'upstairs, downstairs,'' etc., and to detail the President's daily routine, and social and domestic phases of life in the Executive Mansion. He is also the first Uhief Magistrate to crystallize his knowledge and the experience gained as Chief Executive in a series of lucn, instructive and interesting magazine articles on the functions of our government, sueh is were ''This Country of Outs" [ia^ci o. T|ie. postofBce now opens at night, shortly after the arrival of the last mail train from Charleson. r Old papers for sale at this ofice. A lady asks us whether etiquette requires one knock at the door of id editor. We hasteo to reply, [f you are coming to pay your subscription or bring in a nice jucyitemof news, don't stop to knock, just walk right in as if you iwned the place. On the other band, if you are out on a collect ing tour, you should make the fact known through the window, and then knock at the door until the editor opens it. You may sink down front exhaustion before he doe? so, but you will be adhering to printing office etiquette, and that is bound to please the editor. 1 * * * < ;r . Bl|l HI WE ISSUE AN EIGHT-PAGE PAPER THIS WEEK. [The Enlargement is A Permanent Improvement. The Price to be the Same. In accordance will) the announcement previously made, we issue an eight-page paper this week, Heretofore our subscribers have been receiving only four pages of matter, two of which were devoted entirely to State and general news, and two to town and county matters. This week, however, and in the future eight pages will be issued, four of which will be devoted exclusively to town and county matters. Of course this will give two pages more than usual devoted to State news and miscellaneous matters all of which will be very carefully selected, and which we hope our readers will appreciate. The Count? Record is now the largest newspaper ever published in Williamsburg county, and is also the cheapest considering the fact that there is about twice as much value received now as heretofore. It is our intention to make this nanof AnAflf thft liPst COUntV Da- i jrofv,. A pers in the State, and to this end j we will bend every effort. We i hope to soon have correspondents j from ever postoffice lu the coun- ] tv, and we will then be prepared to give all the news of Williamsburg. We have already suceeded in securing correspondents at several points, but wish to get others from other places, Remember, the subscription of . the County Record will remain ( the same, one dollar a year in , advante. Think of it! 48 col. , umns of reading matter each , week for 52 weeks, or 2,496 col- < umns in all, for only one dollar! The Liberty Schooi. Editor County Record: -]j < Some earnest work is being i done irv-the Liberty school. As i en evidence of this, the following ; pupils stand upon their own mer- < its. each of them haviftg averaged < 95 on their March examination. I Lena and Harlie Duke, Timmons, < Jeddie, Charles Cock$eld, Nina, , Addie, Cleveland andEffie Baker, 1 Ina and Alice McAlister, Lynsy 1 Lynch, Daisy Lee, aud Sue Oar- 1 ter. > L. i Scran ton, S. C., April 4 '97. J ^ree. I The Gospel Temperance Union will be sent free all over South Carolina to those unable to subscribe, and at 25 cents a year to all others.,. Two cents extra gets ' aKaaIT v. 9 UtfUUUlUl oiuij i/WBi . + ""I1 The paper is intended to be a ' red hot flaming witness on church < temperance lines against the de? j mon of strong drink in4 all its ; phases, especially the liquor traf- j fic . | Send addresses to the * Gospel Temperance Union, Columbia, S. C. The State railroad cemmission has received from the citizens of St. Louis, Mo.* a most cordial invitation to attend the annual con ; vention of the railroad commfe ; sionersof all the States to beheld ! in that city on May 11. The j meeting will be an in^portant one. | All three ol the members of the board will go, as also Secretary Duncan, who is likewise invited. The State. * 1 " f * ' ' v- i &\ if A Correction. Editor Con nty liecord: In publishing from my minutes of the County Board of Commissiovers last week, 1 notice that you have made some little errors. In the first place you are in error , as tp the special tax it should read as fallows: tThat the Auditor is hereby authoroized to levy a tax of 30 mills upon all stock in Anderson, Buttons and a part of Penn townships lor the Stock Law fence. /' * In reference to Mr. K. D. Rol* lins' official bond,you should have said the bond was presented for approval and that the Board consulted their legal advisor only as to the standing of the sureties; the ' bond was approved. J. J. B. Montgomery, Sec. & Clerk, Kingstree, S. C., April 12 '97. _ I 1 4 [We gladly give space to the ' above card, as we do'not wish t? report anything incorrectly. The paper from which we got our data for the proceedings of the board meeting was only a "sklle- >v-, ton," and was doW, written and in full, hence the errors.] * Why send off for your job printing when you can get it done just as cheap and get as gppd work ' right at- home ? Patronize home industries and get tfce work oe shorter notice. Give us a trial ' ? t"You May Rip the roots from the Greek .Sj vetf> and _ algebraic quantity, but' thejr areis worthless unless transplanted to a C fertile soil in you ;w you may read | of low pricdfr articles week after' J week but they avail you nothing r.less yon take advantage of the bargains offered; you may know thataLesesne & Epp^ sell oxfords 1 from 50cts up, bot'yoo cant wear a pair of then? Easter unless you boy then! as have your neighbor; you may know that a fine straw bat will contribute grfeatly to your appearance, bat not know that . ?rnn ran opt ft flYim RR at from 25 cts. to $1.00; you may know that Coffee is a great luxury, bat no* , know that it will cost yon berdw^ only 10 16f and 3?e*? per lb. jjgH foil may chew tol&eco and not know ,Jhat the bestthe world af. fords for the money ean be had )a from us; yon may think that life is a struggle, but#if you wanl4a^j know that a good liring^Q bought cheap, seek the>;nforma. J tion from the store of jr Lg8E8)Tg 4 Ewg.' We h?TB a .-lot of old babfeiV^ metal on hai^, for sale at 10 cents pec poun? / The County ltecord. ^ - -|-.ii rtmwmmmmm m BHMi mm I |6EO. 8. BARB, w 1111 wpiime B REASONABLE RATE8.3 B -9:e: y \ \ ? 1 FIRT-iuSS UIEII I*, i Stable In GsaoeciliM I H GIVE US A TRIAL. 3 Wanted An Idea SSSS 4m' * fx f T > TB . 9 ?|i ISfci ." / ' - X&A ' 1"* - \ % ' * -? . V- '' * ' V*A 1 i