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*Y * * . - " 5*35! % I . - . . . ... .... "elqual Tartners," a charming serial story by Howard Fielding, begins this week. Don't miss the opening chapter ?ije ^aitntu VOL. XVIII. KINGSTREE, S. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 7, 1002. NO. 32 iisiim. i candidates address people; at johnsonvill-. J Meeting Harmonious and Wi'hout Special Incident?Full r-eport Will j Appear Next Week. .'PHSSONYILLE, S. C., AU?. 5.? The first meeting of the county! .vii.r.l nf 1<l09 IV!!.< tlllllfd off to-; . r lay at .Tolmsonville in the presence ??f 200 voters. The officeseekers assembled in a grove in front of Johnsonville church, aiul at 11 a. m. the meeting wjis called to order by County Chairman A. H. Williams, who was requested to act as chairman by Mr. J. Dennis the president L of the Johnsonville club. Dr. WilI tiams announced his candidacy for I the State Senate, and in a short m speech thanked the people for havI ing honored him by electing him to j Sv the position of State Senator for three successive terms. Following him came the legislative candidates, all of whom made live and interesting speeches. A new Richmond in the held appeared -- -i- - 1.m.o f w t it.cw ill IliC i'illiUIUtil t Ul III II* Hiiot, Esq.. fur the House of Representatives. Mr. Bass's entrance into the jxditical arena was unexpected and caused considerable surprise. Up to Yesterday, he stated, he had no idea of entering the race, but was induced to do so by the strong solicitation of friends. At this time it is inexpedient to give a synopsis of the speeches, but I will endeavor to do so at a future meeting. Following are the candidates and the order in which they spoke: For the Legislature?H E Eaddv, T B Gourdin, P S Wall, W W Kennedy, W L Bass and J II Hutson. County Supervisor?C E Wheeler, B B Chandler, J J Graham, A M Cook and N M Venters. Auditor?J D Daniel, J Davis Carter, H G Askins, J W Cook and J J B Montgomery. County Superintendent Education ?C W Wolfe and William Cooper. V' County Commissioner?P1) Cock field. S J Singletary, R D Blakeley, J C McElveen (absent) and Henry Collius. Supervisor of Registration?J J Kaddy G K Mitch 11111 (absent), J Y McGill and E E Proaser. Treasurer?R D Rollins, W I) Owens and R B Smith. The {Hiliticftl Rough Riders all seem to be in good spirits, and are at this time making their way toward Morrisville, their next rendezvous. C. W. W. Ice Cream Festival. The public is cordially invited to > ?/... i.ru'im festival ?t Mr S. T. Montgomery's on Friday evening, August loth. The festival will lie conducted under the auspices >f i he Ladies' Aid Society of Corinth Presbyterian church, and the proceeds will he applied to the bench: of the church. These ladies should have thv co-operation of the community in this commendable enterprise. which they have nobly undertaken. Obituary. Died?At Harpers, S. C.. on Saturday, August 2, 1902, .T. Lafayette, son of Mr. ^an 1 Mrs. J. H. Ilutson, aged one year and three months. i mg* ' L Obituary. On the evening of July the 1 Oth "death lifted the veil that hides uj brighter sphere" and closed the eyes of Mrs. G. T. Reaves upon the! scenes of this world and her spirit went to the One who gave it. How much we miss her and yet we sorrow not as those who have no hope. So young to die and yet so many of life's cares and troubles escaped. What a comfort it is to know that God never deals with a life unjustly, j We do not understand why God has j broken this happy family circle and left the husband and little Helen so lonely and the infant without a mother's care, but sometime we'll understand. The l>udy was taken hack to her old home in Halifax County. Ya , for interment. The fu- , nerul services were conducted by her [ former paster, ltev. J. II. Bass. She leaves a mother, father and several! brothers and sisters. Human sym-! pathy is weak but it is all we have to offer the erief stricken ones so we commend them to Jesus who is able to comfort in the time of trials and j "whose mercy enduroth forever".] "v"' !? ? Sr. tl.a 1'i.lnilltr VP1I Pi( ] ... .. , ! It may Im- in the better land, % WV'll ri-ad the meaning of our tears. And there eomet'me, we'll tinderstand." O.ve Who Lovkd Her. THE NEWSPAPER. "It is Read by all, it is Believed by Nearly ail Its Responsibility is Tremendous." '1 (From address of Archbishop Ireland before the National Education Association.) If I m ere to choose where, outside the class room for the general M elfare of humanity, I should have devotion to truth prevail, I should name the newspaper. The newspaper is to-day pre-eminently the mentor of the people. It is read by all; it is believed by nearly all. Its influence is paramount; its responsibility ia tram<mdnnd Ttj< nrnvince is to narrate facts?to give the truth, nothing but the truth, all truth; to allow* both parties to a controversy to be heard; never to palliate or distort; never to omit when that which omitted may be relevancy in the formation of public opinion; never to publish the doubtful as certain, the mere gossip as well ascertained news; never, above all else, to put liefore readers error and falsehood. Journalism that is honest and honorable is one of the nation's most precious inheritances; that which places notoriety and pelf above truth and virtue. ?md adonta as its tacties the stunning sensation rather than the calm statement of facts, is one of the nation's direst calamities. Numerous in America is the journalism which is honest and honorul.de; here and there is found that which worships above all else notoriety and pelf. There is here a duty of conscience and of patriotism for Americans. May they ever be mindful of that duty.?News and Courier. Killed by Lightning. On Tuesday afternoon during the storm Miss Mary Windham, about 60 years old, was washing under a large tree in the yard of Mr. Charlie Hill, a few miles from Timmonsville. when lightening struck the tree, stunning Miss Windham so badly that she died about thirty minutes afterward. A negro man was also under the %ree, but was not hurt very much. lifiilSffl J Ir. char#* of ? i jj W. L. It ASS, Ksq. gj "A: ?jvi" i^r -I- I Dog days have opened: so haw the candidates. i Mrs. A. II. Williatna and children have been on Sullivans Island. Mrs. Dolin Rollins, of Florence, | is on a visit to her sister, Mrs. B. F. Stanley. Mess. W. E. Severance and R. li. Singletary went down to Kingstree Monday. Miss Lois McCutohen, now of Latta, is visiting friends and school mates in town. Mr. and Mrs. Brothers came down from Florence Sunday and spent the day with relatives. Sales at the tobacco ware-houses begin each day at 11 a. 111. and continue until all tobacco is disposed of. Messrs A. Fl. "Williams & Co, have put a shingle machine in their mill and are now making shingles. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Gaudy, atten ueu tuuruii ucic uuuuujr >>uu dj.>vui<| the day with with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Blackwell. I Mrs. S. J. Lucas, of whose illness) we made mention last week, returned home from Charleston Friday ac apnpunied by Mrs. Bass, her daugh> Mr. P. M. Moody came home a few days ago to recuperate from an attack of fever. That's the way it goes, when the boys go off and hike sick they oome back to get well. Messrs. Moore & Stanley have purchased a lot on Dancing street from Mr. H. II. Singletary and are erecting a pack house on it. The lot adjoins the A. T. Go's pack house. This new building is two 6tories high. Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Bass, of Hop* mi vr __ _ .!i i.L Kinsviiie, ivy-, are out ou a visit u? relatives. They are accompanied bv their children. Misses Dixie and Cornie and Oscar and Henry. They will spend some time here and in Florence county. Several candidates left here Mouday for the front. The first pitched Iwittle took place at Johnsonville Tuesday. Foraging exjKxlitions have been going on some time and will continue, going out hereafter and Ixdween regular engagements. Mr. O. I). Jovner and Miss ('orriei Mathews Mere married on last J Thursday at the residence of the | bride's father, Mr. J. R. Mathews, I near Cowards. The ceremony was' performed by Magistrate W. W. | Graham. We liope a long and hapi < i _ r i pv Hie arc aneau ui uie voiupi , couple. The little thro-.' year old child of Mr. Owen lingers got hold if a lx>x ! of lye Saturday morning and drank j the contents. Medical aid was quickly rendered but t<x> late to save the little one who died in a few hours. The burial took place Sun-: day afternoon at the McKcnzie bury-j ing ground. Our sympathies arej with the bereaved father and mother.' Judge Baldwin has ln-gun to! grind the lawbreakers. Hannah j Cockfield, who is a little off color,! was up before him Friday for entry after notice. Wilson McCown was the prosecuter. Hannah is a daisy and bosses her ranch. The trial ri suited in an entry on the county try-usurer's books. Fine }<aid. A good many tax dodgers have attended the Judge's "confessionals," hut he granted absolution on payment in full. There is a movement on foot to have the Coast Line build a tobacco depot. The present accommodations are inadequate. More regular r i . it ... 1 iL - -A j.1 ireigni passes mrougn mis sianon than any other between Florence and Charleston. The general dejwt is crowded at at all rimes. The covered platform can do no moie than accommodate the truck in the spring and th?- cotton in the fall and winter. It i> absolutely necessary to have a place for tobacco, and the Railroad company should not hesitate in this matter nor pat it oft. Experienced tobacco men estimate that the company will receive in freights 011 the weed this season about $15,000.00. Surely the company will cheerfully expend a few hundred dollars to accommodate tins business. Tobacco continues to pour in. The quantity sold is surprising and the prices astonishing. It is getting to be not unusual to see twenty live to thirty five thousand pounds on one floor any good day. One buyer in .1 ekirvmoiif lufit TlloC- I CCIU \JLL ill U11V Pill I'litt. Ill 1UCV ^ u< c , ) * day of forty three hogsheads. This means about fifty thousand pounds. The highest price yet reached was on Friday when a pile put on the fioor by Mr. A. D. Gaskins went off at 80 cents a pound. Others have realized 40 to 65 cents. One inan brought in a load for which he said he wanted $40. He put it under the Star hammer and got $104.80. The weed is coining not only from this community but from Florence, Clarendon, Sumter and other counties. The great Pudding Swamp section is contributing mightily. 'It is nothing unusual to see heavily loaded wagons from way over Pee Dee River and from the Elin and Sardis neighbor hoods. ?WWWWWV\ WWWW WW,? t Cades Chronicles. j; wvvxxxvtxxxxxwxwwwwx J. N. Sauls has nearly completed his planing mill. The addition to G. L. Sauls' store is Hearing completion. Mrs. AY. A. Creech visited relatives at Society Hill last week. Miss Ella Forte of Florence is visiting kith and kin near town. Mr. Irving, a popular traveling salesman, was here a few days ago. VI r. F. Forte of Florence visited relatives here seveial days last week. Mr. James Matthews of Lake City was here a few days ago on business. Mr. J. J. Matthews is boring an artesian well in the Baptist church yard. There were good rains around here last week, but very little fell at 'Cades. Xesniith Bros, are receiving their fall stock of goods, which is larger than usual. Mr. J. P. Wheeler of Georgetown was It ere a few days ago greeting hit? host of friends. Mr. A. A. May's tine buggy horse was severely cut a few days ago by a barb-wire fence. Rev. William Roof is conducting a protracted meeting at Beulali, be- j ginning last Sunday. i 9 i : . v Mrs. Hatfield, who has been spending some time here, has gone to New York to visit relatives. A. A. May is making room in his already capacious store for the proper display of his fall stock. Engineer Hall, of Savannah, and J. H. Cook, of Suiters, are visiting Mr. A. A. May this week. Mr. Walter Wilson, from Indiantown, reports crops as nearly ruined in his section by the drouth. Miss Bessie Price returned last week from Georgetown, where she. lias been spending some time. Mr. C. G. Carsten has harvested a fine lot of hay. Other farmers will do well to emulate his example. G. J. Waters and family moved here last week from Columbia. We are always glad to welcome newcomers. The cotton field of Mr. H. .J. Bfowu is beginning to whiten, and he will soon have to begin to gather the fleecy staple. A goodly number of the '-'youth and beauty" of Cades attended a picnic at Mr. Henry Foxworth's, at White Oak, last week. % The people of Cades are very much pleased with the "write-up" of the town which appeared in The Florence Daily Times last week. Mr. Roland Mills of Epps has accepted a clerkship with Mr. A. A. May. We are glad to welcome this excellent young man among us. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Sauls left Saturday for Baltimore and other northern cities. Mr. Sauls will purchase his fall stock of goods while away. Some evil person shot and killed a tine hog belonging to Mr. R. F. Epps a few days ago. Such malicious conduct should be severely pun ished. / The local base ball team has been reorganized with J. T. McElveen as captain. The boys say Mr. McElveen is a good leader and an admirable pitcher. The entertainment at Mr. C. L. Smith's last Thursday night was a pleasant social event, and was greatly enjoyed by all who had the pleasure to attend. Mr. A. J. Tomlinson, who w;is sick with fever in Florence for several days, was able to return home last week much to the delight of his friends around Cades. Capt. C. E. Wheeler, candidate for county supervisor, denies the report thut he voted for Haskell for Governor, and says he hoj>es the people will not believe the report. Capt. W. E. McKnight. of Florence county, who is known in newspaper circles as "Peniel Bill.'* visited his mother, Mrs. S. ('. McMnight, near here last week. We were glad to see hi in. Bev. Wra. Hex>f has returned from Lexington county, where he has been spending a few days on business. He says the crops in that part of the , 1 1 il? ?>ww an* auovti tiu'iiniiiiu thf fruit crop. Mr. King of Hartsvilie was here i few days ago seeing about the lumber for the Hartsvilie Company"'? ginnery. AVe are informed that a ?force of workmen from Hartsvilie will arrive here in a few days to begin the erection of this new enterprise. i [Continued on page o ; / ?. V ? ' " . ? . ' . ' " j t * .