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fbe ?omxt% JXftotb, j VOL. XIII. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1897. NO. 33. j MINOR LOd MATTERS, j AFFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR LOCAL REPORTER AND NOTED. |p: ?-? . Written in Condensed Form and Printed in Like Manner lor the Sake of our Weary Readers. Cot I on is bringing to 5 J cents; on this market. i ead the tax notice notice in anothercoiumn. Subscribers who are in arrears will please come forward and setIleal once. The cool day and the strong w inds Monday almost made one think that it was March. kf The petrified body of a man was on exhibition in tlie court house yard last Thursday. Kingstree Lodge, No 46, AFM will hold its first meet ins alter i the recess tomorrow (Friday.) A full attendance is requested. The Epworth League sociable at the residence of Mr. James Epps last Friday night was very' much enjoyed by all who attend ed. Among our callers last Monday were Messrs, A A Brown, of Lake otut n H Welsh, of Sandy Ijjf Grove,to both of whom we were; glad to extend our hand. * The regular election for a Oongressman to succeed McLaurin will he held next Tuesday. Of course Norton will be elected, but let all Democrats turn out and vote for him. Mr. G T Parker left with his 5^" ^ _ family last Thursday for George town, where he wiH make his home in future. He expects to go into the stock business in that Jive town. ' In accordance with their an tioum ement, Messrs. Thomas and Hradham, of Manning, arrived hi ; Kings'ree last Friday with a lot of horses which they have at the t'olenian Hotel stables. Mr. M F Heller has gone west to buy stock for his fall trade. He was accompained by Mr. H Harby and the two together will buy slock for the markets ol George town, Kingslree, Manning aud m Sumter. The oountv board of commis sioners met iu regular quarterly session last Monday. Almost the full board was in attendance, but only routine business was attended to, there being nothing done of very much importance. "Vnm Kinnur.'' the Hebrew wv. ?t-> day of atonement, was observed by the Israelites of the town last Wednesday. From sundown Tuesday till the first star appeared Wednesday evening ro food j or drink passed their lips. Misses Benjamin and Jacobs. I Kingstree's popular and up-to- j date milliners, have just opened I a new and "nobby1'line of millinery of of the very latest styles, j In their advertisement on another' Bp - I page, they extend a cordial invi tation to the ladies to visit them. i Mr. D D Rhem was in town last Monday. Mr. Rhem was very ill for several weeks during the past summer, and his life was despared of. but he gradually grew better and went up to Glenn Springs, the famous health resort in Spartanburg county. lie tells us that he was entirely restored to health by drinking the waters of that life-giving spring. He is now looking well, fat and lively. 4 We Lead Others Must follow. We are offering a beautiful line of ladies cloih capes from $1 50 to $5?a beautiful 'ine of ladies i plush capes imitation seal skin: from $4 50 to $7.50, it you see these goods we know you would l>e pleased. The largest line of gents, ladies, rhildrens and infants cotton and wool nndervests to be found in this part of the country. Our ladies Jersey ribed. satin trimed with pearl but'ons at 25c is something that can't be beat for I he nionev we ask for it. Ui.r: line of ladies dress flannels all j wool and 36 inches wide at 23c per yard can't be be d for tlie, price. We have this line ofgoodsI in all colors, we also carry a beau- j liful line of ladies broad cloth 541 inches wide, all wool at 50c per yard that usually sell at 65 and 75 per yard. We also carry a complete line of ladies dress g ods all the time and will be glad to send samples on application. All of our fail and winter millinery is now in and pattern hats are now on display. Yours for the cash. W. E. JEXKIXSOX. Manning. S. C. ? * * * 5 Monday last was saiesaav ana quite a cro ui whs in town. The people seemed to I ave come to to attend to business, and that they did. Our merchants report a very good day, and from every appearance, they enjoyed good sales that day. In the absence of clerk of the court Grayson, Mr \V W Mat thews made two clerk's sales last Monday. The land was bought bv M J Ilirsch, Esq., attorney, and the price paid was $350 lor the piece containing 147 acres, and $100 far the tract containing 72 acres. In accordance with the announcement made in these col? - ? t-> _ i r ji I uins iasi weeK ivev. .itiiimman. of Rennerf, X C, preached in the Baptist church here last Sunday morning and night. Mr. Pittman is quite a young man, and is an able expounder, and Increated quite a favorable impression upon his hearers. Magistrate Snowden.of Benson, seems to have a very unfortunate constable. Only last week we made mention of the fact that the constable had lost a convict whom he was bringing here to be put Iinnn llio ithaimrunir and lust Rri I vajrvsia ??v - .. (lav another prisoner escaped while being brought to jail. Perhaps the constable will be more careful in the future. Mr. J J M Graham, Jr., who lives near Cades, lost his bam, stables, feed house and several smaller buildings by fire early last Sunday night. The fire is thought to have been the work of an incendiary. 31 r. Graham was at church about three miles away at the time of the fire, and nothing of value was saved lrom the ouildiugs. An immense amount ol forage, about half of Mr. Graham's corn raised this year, ail his (arming implements, wagons etc.. a jack, a fine Jersey cow and Iwiitj ?'uro I'ntwn nu'il :?mt eral head of cattle Mere so horribly burned that they had to-be j killed. The loss i?. estimated at between $1,500 and $2,000, and as Mr. Graham carried no insurance on* the propelity, the loss will tall heavily upon him. lie is one of the most substantial and prosperous planters in ihe county and the buildings were all large and well built. His friends throughout the county will learn with much regret of his misfor tune. 1 in i j nil vi. A COLUMN OF LOCALS ABOUT, PEOPLE YOU KNOW , I "" i And People You Don't Know.?Some are Our Own People and Some Are Not. Mr "Monlie" Scott is c'erkinjri for Dr \V V Brockinlon. Mr. \V G Elwell ma le a trip to Uoiumoia last ween. Miss Ida Graham visited rela- j lives al Effincham last week. Mr. Sam. Wolfe !* now found at the store of Le>e>ne A: Epps. Miss It aline Bmckinton has re turned fromVi visit to Manning. M;ss Os>le Epps has cone to Columbia to attend the Columbia Female College. The Charleston PosI of Monday ; i.-? i it. .1 lf_ V T ..,1 tasi sniu 111iti an. *111 iiiiij.ui, \n < Gourlin. was in Charleston. Miss Patience Holleman. of1 Greeleyville, has l>aen spending some time with relatives in Kingstree. Miss Ivah Epps left last Saturday for Sampit, Georgetown comity, where she will' teach school this winter. Mrs. Uussie Sparkmatt and children, of (Charleston, relumed home last Saturday from a visit to Mrs. T M Giiland, Mr. B \V Grayson, of Charles ton. came up last week to visit his brother, Mr. W \Y Grayson, who is so very ill. Mr. K B Boper, the efficient principal of the Greeleyville pre parati r.' school, was in Kingstree last week. Mr. A L Col let fe, of Greeley* villcjost his little infant last Fri day. The funeral took place at old Elim church on Saturday. George P Logan, E>q.. an old , Kiimstree boy, wlio is now a member of the Columbia Par, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. K C Logan. Miss Etta Jacobs has given up her school near >Sampit, in Georgetown county, and returned ! to Kingstree. She will take 1 charge of a school near here next 1 Monday. Miss Florence Edwards, of Marion, a graduate of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial college, has been elected teacher of the school at Cades. Miss Edwards < arrived at Cades last Saturday j night and her school began Mon | day morning. i The Manning Times of last < week said: "Mr. C J Epps, of ' Kingstree, and his brother, Mr. E C Epps. who is one of Kingstree's ' leading young merchants, visited , Manning last week. Time will show which is the other brother's | friend." , 1 Thomas & Brad ham will be 4'?-?' - 4 ? t oml in V imrc IOIIVIU ill (IK'II tiu .^laiiu ill tree from Oct. 1st with a nice lot of horses ready to till the wants of their trienis and patrons. We will also be ready to collect for stock sold last season. We expect to do some business here and will sell at a price to insure satisfaction. Thanking onr friends for | past favors and assuring them that we can do belter by them 11ban ever before, we solicit an j early call. Thomas A* Bramiam. The exhibitions at the state fair this year will attract a larger 'crowd than ever before. Death of Mr. A. D McCrea. Mr. Author D McCrea died about 3 o'clock last Thursday afternoon, alter a lingering illness! of nine months*duration. Mr. McCrea was a son of the late James McCrea, and was thirty years old. He was an exceptionally line voting man, but nwer enjoyed good health, lie had not an enemy in the world, nor the ill will ol anyone. His triends were all over Williams burg county, and indifferent parts ? -t o. .... u.. ?..4r?i OI (lit* .^laif. nr Muiriru III'III consumption, and iti January last was forced to take his bed, where he lay till death relieved him last week. Though he was confined lo his bed tor so nias.v months, and rea ized that his end was near, lie was always cheerful. In 1SS9 he was married to Miss Vet!a Shuts, a daughter of Mr. R K Shifts, who with one child, a lour year-old bov, survives him. The young widow and the little orphan have the heart felt sympathy of the entire community. The funeral services were held in the Presbyterian church, of which the deceased was a member, Friday afternoon, the Rev. J E Dunlop officiating, and the inter 11 I < inent 1<?0K place at me iresuyierian cemetery. The News and Courier is requested to copy. Come Forward And settle with us fort^fl your subscription. We jTA have been very lenient with you, and now that n the crops are beins mar -* keted 'tis only just that we J should have what is due us.- Postage and stationery would cost entirely too much to mail every | subscriber a bill, so call and seti le, or send us a money order for one dollar. We beg to call atiention to the new column advertisement of Lesesne & Epos. Those who usually attend the state fair will find more than the usual number of attractione there this year. The melancholy days have come, The saddest of the year. Hie boy picks up his books and says "School days again are here.1' At a meeting of the Gala Week committee in Charleston last week t was decided to postpone the all festival till the week com mencing December 13th, on account of the quarantine regulations. Mr. W B Adms, representing Thomas <fc Brad hum, ot' Man riing, is at the Coleman House. He is here for the purpose of collecting for the hoises sold on credit last season, and also to sell stock. He has several head of horses here now, and expects to receive a carload next week. Mr. John A Wagener of Charleston, who came here several weeks ago tor the purpose of organizing a lodge of the Faternal Union, was so much "struck" with our town I hat he has decided to move his family here, which he will do the latter part ot this week. For the present Mr. Wegener's family will board with Dr. W G Gamble. 1 will pay $0 per ton for good sound, dry cotton seed delivered to me at Kinsstree. GEO. S. BARK, Agt. * >'$ j UHRMU | AN AUSPICIOUS OPENING LAST | MONDAY MORNING | Of the Kingstree Academy.?The County Public School to Commence Next Week. The regular fall session Kingstree academy began last Monday with Mr. Ohas. W Sioll as principal and Miss Nellie Bristow as assistant. A good attendance was enrolled the first day and the number has been increased daily since. There is every prospect of a flourishing year, ami the new teachers have already won the hearts of their pupils. Mr. St oil is a young man, a graduate of Woffoni college, and has had several years1 experience in teaching. He comes to Kingstree very highly recommended, and there is no doubt that ?iit academy will maintain its already - ? > n liign sianaara 01 excellence uuuci his supervision. Miss Bristow is a daughter of Mr. C D Bristow, of Florence, and is a first-honor grad ualeof the Winthrop Normal and Industrial college. President Johnson unhesitating'}'named her when lie was asked to recommend a teacher lor this place. During i her few days' stay inkingstree she has created quite a favorable impression upon l>olh the patrons and the pupils of the school. # The county pubiic school will not he run in connection with the academy this year, as formerly, but will be taught by Miss Sallie J Wilson. Miss Wilson needs no introduction to the people of Kingstree, as she has taught here befoie. She is a graduate of the Greenville Female college, and is considered one of trie very best young ladv teachers in the State. Her school will begin next Monday, Oct. 11th, and will be liberally patronized. The trustees of the public fund I thought this pl&n advisable, and so we will have two first class schools in Kingstree this year? one supported by the county fun Is and the other by the town money?and both under excel lent management. * <r> I M TTUlndiI o ucusi I received your book on Gynaecology and commenced the use of your medicine at once. I took five bottles of Pe-ru-na and two of Man a-Iin. 1 feel like a new woman. When I commenced taking Pe-ru-na I could hardly walk across my room; now I am doing my own work, can walk a mile and a half to church. I shall never cease to thank you for prescribing tor me. I had been under the treatment of two doctors, but never received any benefit until I commenced taking your medicine. 1 am now well and able to do my own work. I wish every woman who was suffering as i was would ?pnd for one of your books on Gynaecology It is a God-send to suffering women. May God bless you and spare you many years to relieve women who are suffering as I was. I am anxious for every woman who is suffering as I was to know what your medicine did for me. Mbs. II. D. Amo?s, Greenesboro, Ga.. A free book, written expressly for women by Dr. Hartman, will be sent to any address by The Fe ru-na Drug Manufacturing Co., Columbus, Ohio. A full set of iron bound measI urs tor OOc at Lesesne & Epps. { Lesesne a Epps' Local Column.' J A juniper water bucket with 7 two bras hoopss for 20c at Leaps ne ' & Epps. Come to Lesesne & Epps and be better shod lor less money | than you ever paid shoeing. ' That 16oz. bar of map Lb seme <fc Epps are selling at fie is a ~: stunner to competition, >J Comfort can be had the oddest night, when Lesesne k Epps are * j selling coiniorts at 50c, 75 and $L -~'M You get a sole and body that will stay together when you boy a *jS The present price of obttoa is offset hi the price of good* when they are bought lrom Leseeoedt | The most fastidious body cas i be pleased in 6hoes at Leeesao 4b '.-a l^pus and at such price* a* to do*^9 i?0 other place in Williaiasbogg-^ > Co. to get vour need* suppliedM and at less cost than at Ltwrona ?3j and Epps, Five hundred pounds ffoe *3 chewing tobacco just arrived . Lesesne 4 Epps. "Onr I*Wlwryr^ leads at 5c a ping;' $3.50, $4. or $5 wiff stand ?j?|3 the winter's chilling blast if Invested in a suit of* doth* at :h ? Lesesne 4 Epjw. When you need shoe*, clothing, ..-,h dry goods, groceries or aayttijq^li m the fine of general merdumdise j . call on Lesesee sad Kppe. A good batiaaa important part of a mans d res*. 7hm latest style*-'3 are sold by Lesesa* sad Kppaat^J i be lowest possible prises ' 85c, '.i, MJS ?1JS trig! $1.50 ai<*some of the prices Lesesne d Epps are offering goed?i a % _e '' Vjw"., substantial, ait my imnt nnt-'.: Your seeds are applied, your j tastes gratified, satisfaction five* and you go away bettor off wkeu ' you trade with Leaeepe lad ! A chew of Lcaceao ft Eppt* -Red Apple" or?W 8" tobaeo? produces that air of eaaa andoom -j : fort that the oUtarner cm oily | dream about. Move good catting and kRo J whirling can be dooe with a pock- j et knife bought from Lemma At v Epps than the same money wfflH purchase elsewhere. 'i fJsji <i| ki8eckless Jerry" eonId afford to Ji dress with his peers it he knea^H the prices at Lesesne A Epps* . -J was only 12ic a pair for the mhm 3 sock that sells at 25c elsewhere. Until it is thoroughly mtrodocJJ ed you get *9 a present a whit# 3 metal tea spooo with every cake *3 of JSorax Soap yon boy from g Lesesne A Epps or a table spoon | with every two cakes, only 5ca S The new tariff law will "cot no ice" with the man wanting a good axe, if he will bvt come to Cj Lesesne <fc Epps with oaly 60t | and bur one of their 'Silver * n TV.? ikii lflV 4i Tory. I nrj auuvijiuivu <<??.?., and bought a large supply. For a number of years community has felt the need of complete stock, where one eonUjjH be pleased in a pair of flnUiMB dress shoes. Lesesne 6 Eppe J have recognized this need and have just laid in a large fine oC -1 fine, as well as cheap, foot wets. 'vJj|