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fjje Countfi ileftn&l VOL. XIII. KINGSTREE, SOtJTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 1897: NO. 19; J k: ' ; I ' ^ .r i fj 1/ HO MM AFFAtRS CAUGHT BY OUR LOCAL I REPORTER AND NOTED. | Writtdain Condensed Form and Printed in Like Manner for the Sake of our Weary Readers. Politics will soon have /ull ft sway. The weather continues favorable to the growing ciops. Don't talk about the weather or K. . worry about the thermometer. Bl. Ouitn <* immKor nf iio?<n>inprs ! >/ V^un t u IIMIII v v* say I his weather is "hotternell" Although not a record breaker this has been a very hot June so Fl . 'arEven hot weather can't kill base ball enthusiasm in the small j? boy. Head the office hours of the Probate Judge in another colfV-^ uran. There are lots worse places than this in which to spen 1 the ^ ' summer. I In a little over two months new ? " ?' **"?! ??? inln fAll'n COIIOII Will uc vjwmiiii^ iiiiv ?>n ... ft We hope it will bring a good price. % Read sheriff Bradham's Con% gressional announcement which appears as an advertisement in . * another column. Our town council could have lh? scythe and hoe put to good jgp > nse in the luxurious vegetation gji on our st reets. The regular qnarfelv meeting of the board of county commissioners will be held in the court ? house next Monday. p Quite a par*v of young people > went ffown to Lanes on the early . ' morning train last Saturday and ?( returned in about two hours. The trfp was thoroughly enjoyed but the participants lost sleep on account of it. In a difficulty between Messrs. T. Heber Wawnamaker and Chas. T. Jon?s, on the streets of Bam berg, last week, Mr. Wannamaker shot. Mr. Jones throjgh the head, killing him instantly. Mr< Wannamaker is a young man, married. He is a nephew of Mrs. I ( J. A. Kelley of this place, ana nas n numerous friend in every part of the State, all of whom very much regret the sad occurrence. EWe have received several communications without the writers' real names to them. Of course we cannot, and will not. publish them. Never write an article for publication without signing your own name and postoffice address J to the letter, for otherwise it will U not receive attention. You may write under any name you may ' desire, and the name will appear as the signiture to the article in print, Dut always send your cor rect name and address. We have been asked to offer a I premium for the best melon r (sweetest) that is brought in to Jr.' our office during the present season, and have determined to offer the same thing that we have / . offered for the first and for the . largest namely, a year's subscription to the Record. No lew than three men have told us that they each raised the finest melons last year, and each claims that he will win the preminum. Bring in the melons, gentlemen, we'll do the rest. Remember, the Congressional >f u candidates frill speak in Kingstree on Friday, July 16th, and in Lake City the following day. Read the notice of the county chairman of the Democratic party. The Congressional campaign meeting will he held at Kingstree on Friday, July 16th. , We have received a very lengthy article on the subject of bee-culture, which came in too late for publication in this week's issue. There will be no services in the Baptist church ^)urin(/ July and a ... ?. ? , K.. n..nn<va augllSl e.\ce|Jl wv Sjn:i;i<ii anau^cment with sonne neighboring minister owing^to the abseuse of the Rev. W. 0 Moorer. The little baby of Mr. Arthur McCrea, which has been very sick for 6ome time, died last Tuesday night. Mr. McCrea himself, as everyone knows, is 1 now very ill, and has been so- for ' several weeks. The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the stricken family. Mr. J. F. Chandler, of Dock sent . us a large watermelon last Monday afternoon. Mr. Chandler ha? been eating melons for nearly two weeks and has now several fine ones in hts Held. Everybody who knows him knows that he always raises the very finest melons imaginable so it is useless to say that we en joyed very much the one we re ceived. The meloo weighed just p 264 pounds, and is a large one for ' this season. Death of Mrs. Grimsley ?? ? t Mrs. Grimsley, wife of Mr. , Jhon F. Grimsley, formerly of Scranten, died at her home at Salem on the night of the 25th inst., after & few days' illness. Her remains were brought to ; Scranton and interred in the [ Methodist cemetery Sunday af ternoou. Rev. S. J. Bethen, of 1 r I Lake City, conducted the funeral obsequies. A large concourse of sorrowing friends were present, testifying their esteem aud regard lor their departed friend. Mts- Grimsley was a woman of noble christian virtues. Pleasing and attractive iu manner, she endeared herself to those among whom she lived. Possessed of a kind and sympathetic nature, she was ever ready and willing to minister to the necessities of the needy and suffering. Her lite ?'?? a kana^intinn in hop Kfimo Wfl3 A W IIVUIVUVU <M MV? and community, and her death i6 a sad loss. The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the bereaved family in their sad affliction. UC." We have a large stock of goods which we wish to reduce before fail bills begin to arrive. Do you I need hoes, grass blades, back i bands, hames, trace chains, col?v/vo ai* omrthinnr in tho ICtI <1AVO VI nuj lum^ IM %u* , hardware line call on U9. We are in a position te> duplicate quality and prices of tobacco in most any . market. You have to buy gro ceries. We keep them pure and fresh and at bottom figures. Of all things shoes is the line that you get bargins in irom LESE8NE& EPPS. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure, it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. mil mat BRIEF MENTION OF PEOPLE YOU KNOW AND DON'T KNOW. Those of Our Citizens Who are Visiting at Other Places.?Our Visitors. ?Other Mention. Miss Lula Strong is spending some lime in the country. Prof. Ackerman, of Lake City, was in town last Monday. Mr. Louis Gilland spent a few dars in Lake City last week. Miss Lillian McCul lough, of Salters, is visiting the Misses < Kellev. Mrs. M. R. Hicks has gone to Marion county on a visit to her daughter. 1 Miss Maris Bristow, of Darlington, is visiting Miss "Cricket* Graham. Mrs. A. Casparv, of Charleston, , is spending some time with Mrs. Louis Jacobs. l Miss Hallie Rollins, ot Lake City, visited Miss Mildred Mc Cabe last week. Mr. H. A. Graham returned | Tuesday night from a short trip into to the up-countrv. i Mr. R. B. Lyons has been very \ ill for several days but is now :] considerably improve 1. ,j Misses Mary and Margaret Brunson arrived in Kingtree from f Sumter last Saturday night. \ Miss Lillie Benjamin has relumed from Sumter* Where she 1, has been attending school. Miss Barbara Levy who has , been visiting the Misses Jacobs .] for some time, rettm?ed to her home yesterday. . j Mr. C. W. McClam has been J elected town clerk and treasurer, < to fill out the unexpired term of Mr. J. Z. MeConnelk, Jr. Dr. S. P. H. El well has return- i ed fro Ti Nashville, where he went to attend the meeting of the ? United Confederate Veterans. Mr. S.P. Brockinton is very ill, [, and has been so for several days. Three physicians have been attending him constantly, but there , is very little hope of his iecoveiy. Mr. P. B. Miller has won the preminum for the first watermelon. He brought us jn a melon last Saturday, being the i first of the season, thereby securing a year's subscription to the County Kecord free. Mr. Miller has been, eating melons for a week * ? _ - or more and coma nave orougni 1 us in one before, but did not have an opportunity to come to town. The Rev. W. D. Moorer has been granted a vacation by tLe Baptist church for two months, during which time he will devote every energy to evangelistic work \ the greater portion of which will [ be done in this (the southeastern) association. Mr. Moorer is a thorough believer in mission ' work, and it speaks well for his church that it allowed him the privilege of engaging in it this i summer. Attention Democrats. Il^auijuatcrio IOI^j a Williamsburg County, > June 28th, 1897. ) The candidates for Congress from the Sixth District of South Carolina will-address the people at Kingstree. Friday,. July 16th, and at Lake City Saturday, July 17th. W. H. KENNEDY, Co Chairmam. The County Record $1 a year. Hniil /CPJL ... BASE BALL A Closely Played (Same at Lake City. The Rings!reee base ball club played the Lake City team on the latfer's grounds last Friday afternoon. Our boys welt up to Lake City Friday mottling and attended the picnic,and the game took place near the picnic grounds. Lake City was sueeessful, but up to the ninth inning it was anybody^ game. While theire was some good playing dooe by both clubs, the whole game was very "tame." The "kicking" done by both sides at the decisions of the umpire was simply disgraceful and disgusting. When the Lake City team comes here to play Dur boys we sincerely hope that no such wrangling as was seen 1 an the Lake City grounds last Friday will be indulged in. Both ;lubs showed " the lack of team practice. GFilland, of the Kings- i tree nine, did some fine pitching, : striking out more men than the [>ther three pitchers all together. A skins pitched the first three inn ings for Kingstree and Gill and ( the other six. During the first three innings the Lake City team scored ten runs, while they made Mily seven during the last six. M. Epps led out in the box for ; Lake City, but as our cfub scored six runs (he first inning 1 Webster was substituted in the second and held the men pretty well down, though the Eingstree i men made four runs in the filth I inning. i The make-up of the teams was .1 us follows: lake City: Taylor, Kpps, C.,Kelley, Morris, Webster* , Rodgers, Cpps, J., Carsten and j Epps, M.; Kingstree: Moore, , Elwell, Brown, Jacobs, N.. Jacobs, J., Askins, Arms, Gilland and McClary. Here is the score by innings: 1234 56789 Kingstree-6 1 3 0 4 0 2 0 0-16 Lake City-3 5 2 2 0 0 4 0 1-17 < Woodmen of the World who j are in arrears *re requested to , make immediate settlement to Mr. Louis J. Bristow, who will receipt tor same for me, 0. C. Dennis, ' ! Clerk, cainp 27, W.O.W. ' MARRIED At the home of the brides ' grand-parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. L Wallace, Ihursday night, June 24, 1897, by the Kev. W. U. Moorer, Dr. Lis ton B. Johnson, to Miss Rosa May Kellahan, daughter of Mr. James 'J. Kella- ; han. To day is first day of July. We have nearly 800 subscriber* who owe u? just 25 cents for their subscriptions uj> to to-day. Each one seems to thiohr that because his or her amount is small it does not matter whether it is paid or not, but if every one should pay justa quarter it would amount to about $200 for us, and that would assist us in going through ! the summer very much. Let every delinquent subscriber bring or send in twenty-five cents for the past three months'subscription. We are doing all we can to give you a good paper, but we cannot live and carry on the busness without receiving compensation therefor. The Columbian Encyclopaedia is no doubt one of the finest on the market, and no tnmily should be without, it. adv. NEWS 1! 1 CUT. Several letters containing VAtUASLt news. fC m? of Interest From Different Section; All Boiled Down For Quick Reading;! Scranton. PofifefteM votif r^rklfcrs are be?muin<: fft think tliat I have I apsed i ntf> "innocti n us desufe't tide.' i . i. _j ?it-:.... ..? ?: ? 1 1 (lave Ivai ikmihi*^ i?i espcuitu interest to corannmnic-aite lately. Everything seems to be movmg along the "even tenor of its way/' with perhaps a slight digression unworthy of note* now and then. This section has been blessed with seasonable rains. The crops have taken on a new growth rfnd are looking very healthy and vigorous. Rev. H. F. Oliver preached in the Baptist church last Sunday night. His sermon was a very interesting discourse, and was listened to with rapt attention by the congregation. On account of the indisposition sf Rev. J. J. Bnggett, the pastor, no services were held in the Free Will Faptist church Sunday, as was announced.. Mr. Geo. W. James, who has bfecr in Florida for about two years, has returned home to spend a while. Mr, W. W. Wheat, the sawyer at Wucliman's sow mill, was hadlv hurt a few days ago by a "shank" in the saw flying out and hitting him on the arm. Bright Crossland, a negro, was arrested and longed in the guard house Saturday charged with stealing sheep. Mr. G. W. Arms, of Kingstree spent a few hours in Scranton Saturday. Messrs. L. S. Singlet a ry and C. H. Nachman are the latest addition to the bicycle brigade. Mr. Solon; Evans' machinery has arrived and it won't be many days before be will have his mill in operation. The work of laying the new track along the Northeastern Railroad has been completed from Florence to Scranton. Mrs. B. C. Whitehead and Aiklred are spending some time with relatives at Mars' Bluff. Mr. J. D. Lewellen, of Friendfield, has bee awarded a scholarship in the South Carolina col lege. Mr. Lewellen's friends here ire glad to here of his good luck. Misses Hessie and Mamie Graham. of Indiantown, made a short visit to Scranton last week. MissJunie Saunders, who has been teaching "the young idea bow to shoot" at Cooper's, has finished her school and returned to Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Winslow Wright have returned from the Tennessee Ctenennia). Messrs. B. J. Bsggett1, George Cusasc and A. A. Cook attended the closing exercises of Bethany cplmnl tact Frirlnv niffht. It was my pleasure to attend the Commencement of the Lake City High School last week. 1 was very mnch impressed with the admirable manner in which the program was carried out. Nothing occurred to cause a jar or interruption. Everyone acted bis or her part well. My pleas+ i \ y - c f i ure was greallv enhanced oh this occasjon by meeting some of my friehds from Kings!ree, whom t am always pleased fo sfefe. The poor Timothys t around here are getting their stithnlants in the usual way, there being no ''original package" shops convenient. ? r- ? - i f . r "Pride of Darlington" smoking inkoAitn (ho l\nof aK 1 It A elrol ivua^i/U xo iiir; ucot uu iu^ luaiavu Manufactured In Darlittgttiti front pure South Carolina leaf'. Fot sale by W. G. El well & Co. irYNOH; The farmers are about tfrreUgfe ' with their crops erf corn and are | now taking their ease in the shade: and I can safely say that I have never seen the cfrcps any store ; | promising; One of Kingstree's young men , enjoyed a very pleasant trip a? far as Lake City a few days ago; * He was accompanied by ooe of > Kinsratree'a l'airest maidena. ft k unnecessary to state that the trip was supremely delightful to lb* young man, and it is hopedequal- i ly enjoyable to the young lady. Mr. C. M. Matthews has been unwell for the last few days but at this writing is much bettor. Mr. J. C. Lynch left a few,day* ago for a visit to the Tennessee Centennial at Nashville,and frona there he will go to other northern cities. The mercury has been ranging from 85 to 98 during the last lew days. Your pencil-pusher has at last decided this is hot Weather. The anti-spooning sleeve Will be with us through the warn sea- ; ^ son, as ic win oe too warm mis m season to "affectionate.^ They all appear to be vain, stock up, stuck and puffed op, .but that i? v, just their way. They seem to say ? "the weather is warm; hold your distance/1 No clue has as yet been obitia^ / ed throwing any light on the bur glers who entered the store of Mr. J. Caleb Lynch on the night ? of the 15th of June. US Prof. ?. J. Smith, our popular and energetic superintendent of education, left yesterday to attend the State teachers1 associa- * tion, at Pans Mountain, near Greenville, S. C. The marriage belts pealed forth, their joyful sounds here last Thursday, the 21th inat. The happy couple was Mr. W. P. Lee i in ua ttuu lUlbSUUlia iUHHUeWD, UWU V? JjMj this community. Eli J. Snitiw. notary public, officiated. A large number of invited guests witness rji . ,v? ed the ceremony. Ye scribe wa? one of the lucky number. /v I ' n. - ij : ijv >< The hail storm last week wan very damaging to the crops. lis many sectious the tobacco was greatly injured. f ; - >it Mr. W. S. Lynch, of Kiogstree,, is on a visit to his parents at this place. The "origmal package" seems Lto be the topic of the day. But i at ore sent there is no indication of one being established here. Factotum. Notice. I will be In my office in the court house In Kingstree 8. Ct Monday and Saturday of each week and during my absence. I wilt ' leave my office key with Mr. C. W. McClam. E. M. Smith, Judge of Probate, Williamsburg Cut, S. CL ' ' % * '' '