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VOL. XX. KINGSTREE, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1904. NO 21 Li I ' II ... r |l. 1,1 mis niiiciiy.; TIMELY TOPICS OF THE TOWN; TROLY AND TERSELY TOLD. Work of the Reaper?A Bloodless Shoot-; ing Affray?Personal and General News Items. Lake City, May 25:?Rev D H Crossland of Conway stopped ' in town last week on his way home from the Southern Baptist, Convention. He is thinking- of' going- to Argentina(the Argen-; tine Kepublic) as a missionary. Mr Tillman Brown of Cordova, N. C., spent a portion of last week here with his brother, Mr G A Brown. Mr C A Taggart and family, , who spent the winter here, returned last week to their home in Bridgeport, Ohio. They were delighted with our southern win- j ter and pleased with our town. "We hope they will return in the ! fail. Miss Annie Pipkin of St | Stephens, is visiting at Mr J L;1 Stuc key's. i T "Vf Q-f,it-rr^nn and son. ! 1V11 KJ -L*JL UlUlj^V'/u v...? J, Metier, left Monday morning for! St Louis to see the sights of the great Exposition. , > Kirby, the little son of Mr and ; Mrs W E Severance, breathed . out his young life last Saturday, j He was about one year old and the only child of his parents. ! The sorely bereft father and 1 mother have the tender svmpa- , thies of the entire community. | Dr E A Williams, father of . Senator Williams, died at the former's home in Cottageville, Colleton county, last Wednesday ' at the age of seventy-two years, i The Senator was by his father's . side when the end came. The j a i?r#?acher as well U^WUOVU ?? MWT ?% ^ ? as a physician. j Mr James McK. Poston died ' at his home here last Thursday,1 at the ripe old age of eighty- j 1 four years. He was a veteran \ of two wars, the Seminole war > of 1837, and the war for South -! ern independence. He retained j1 his faculties remarkably well;1 for his age. It is said that he j 1 was a brave and gallant soldier.! The ranks of these old braves , who fought our battles of the j tirst half of the nineteenth cen- j1 tury are getting very, very thin, ) and *he passing of one of! 1 them deserves more than casual' ( mention. "The picket's off dutyj forever", but the camp he guard- j ed should not lightly forget him. Mr B A Early of Darlington was in towu Monday. We are indebted to Mr Robt.! H Singletary for an invitation; to attend the commencement of the South Carolina College, June ; 5th to 9th. Williamsburg will i have a good* place in the picture.! Robt H Singletary will graduate | with the degree of LL. B.;i Ralph D Epps will take the same degree; H E Davis is vice-president of the law class of 1904;: and A C Hinds is junior orator of the Clariosophic Society. All our boys have made fine records at this college and we are proud of them. An ugly shooting- affair took place about three miles from here on the morning of Majr 21. , The parties were two white men, i R F Rodgers and Jeter Kirby. | Kirby, who had been an em- j ployee of Rodgers, was discharged Friday night and went away muttering threats. He re-! turned next day and attempted to go to work, but Rodgers or dered him off the premises. Kir by then went to his house andreturned armed with a gun and a rifle. Rodgers, who had been warned against Kirby, was out in his yard with a gun. Mrs IVOUg CIS* dllu 111C V11UU1VU r? w N. near by. Kirby crept up behind some bushes and fired into tht? group, but no one was hit. No one saw Kirby till after he fired. Eodgers shot at Kirby as he was reloading his rilie and hit him with several small shot, but inflicted no injury. Kirby then fled. On Monday he was admitted to bail before Judg*e Baldwin in the sum of $500. W. L. B. I TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. Thirty-six Applicants Before the Board j Last Friday. The examination of applicants for teachers' certificates was held in the court house on last i Friday. Thirty-six applicants appeared, nine white and twenty-seven colored, as follows: White?Mrs Leila Bo5Td, Misses Janie Shaw, Mattie Moore, Hat-: tie Newell, Eulalia Cox, Rosalie I Montgomery, Annie Montgom-! ery, Eloise Kinder aud Emma! Kinder. Colored?Females, An- j nie Hickson, Mattie Footman, j Nellie Mouzon, Lillie Cooper, i Bertha Pearson, Sal lie Harper,: Florence David, Sallie Bennett, J Anna McFarland, Mamie Green, j Hester Cooper, Henrietta Gor-j don, Josephine Gordon,Camilla Thomas, Maggie Peterson. Males?P G Levallie, S W Ben-! nett, Thomas Shaw, H J Cooper, j James Daggett, Clarence Norris, j D D Shaw, Walter Cooper, Jos-! eph Fulton, R T Fulton, S Ej Shaw, Bennie Mouzon. Mrs. Mary Caroline Gilland. Our town was saddened last i ? - - i ?v 1 f ! Tuesday by tne aeain 01 Mrs j Mary Caroline Gilland, who' passed away about 10 o'clock in : the morning1 at the home of her son, Hon Thomas M Gilland. j Mrs Gilland was eighty years j aid and for several years had ! been in feeble health. Last | week, as she was getting ready j to visit her sister in Camdem,, she slipped and fell to the floor,1 sustaining internal injuries,1 which, we understand, were the immediate cause of her death. Mrs Gilland, nee Gibbes, was born and reared in Colleton district. In 1844, she was married to Rev J R Gilland and for a ; time thev lived in Chester. In ! 1858, Rev Mr Gilland was called j to the pastorate of Indiantown ! church, where he remained un-; til his death in 1878. Since that! time Mrs Gilland has lived for j the most part in Kingstree at j the home of her son. Her immediate family consist of a sis-1 ter, MiSs Sue Gibbes, of Cam- j den, S. C., and T M Gilland, j Esq. The funeral services were j held at Indiantown church at! 10:30 o'clock a. nr., yesterday! (Wednesday), being- conducted; by Rev Mr Darnell, the pastor,: and she was laid to rest in the, church yard by the side of her j husband. Mrs Gilland was a typical; South Carolina g-entle-woman.; Pleasant-spoken, refined v and ! courteous, she had a kindly j urrvrfi fnr pvprv one. and her; daily walk's of life were adorned j by the feminine graces that were hers by nature and dispo-! sition. She is sincerely mourned by a large circle of friends, who! mingle their tears with those of the bereaved family in common grief for the loss of a loved one. I Lambert Locals. Lambert, May 21:?Mrs Ann Carter died at her home near here on Saturday morning, May i4. Funeral services were conducted bv Rev H G White and the remains laid to rest at Bethany burying ground. The deceased was the wife of Mr Graham Carter and was abo#t 79 years old. Last Wednesday, May 11, a number'of the young folks gathered at the "cut landing" and enjoyed a fish fry. The weather is still dry with no sign of rain. E. P B. ? Old gapers for sale'at this office.. fi onmiL ~ THE MALLARD LUMBER COMPANY ! LOSES AN OUTBUILDING. Local Capitalists Organize the Bank I of Greelyville?Crops Suffer from Drouth?Personal Mention. Greelyville, May 23:?The wonted quiet of our town was : rudely disturbed one day last 1 hv an alarm nf firp. which ! proved to be the oil house of the < Mallard Lumber Co. The bucket : brigade turned out promptly i about 150 strong, but owing to < the highly combustible contents ' it was impossible to save the < building, though by dint of hard ] work other property nearby was | saved. The burned building 1 contained oil belting, pulley's ! and sundry other mill supplies, < which were almost totally c:e- 1 stroyed. With characteristic i energy the Company, almost before the ashes cooled, had be- < gun to clear away the debris to 1 erect a new building, which is 1 now nearing completion. j The expectant stock-holders 1 of the proposed oil mill held a i meeting here Saturday to dis- < cuss the situation. After con- < sidering the matter carefully it 1 was decided to be too late to ! erect and equip a mill in time * for next season and ill < agreed to invest their money in 1 ** /v Vvn in I 5 a uaun. w ut oiai tvu iu wvr A committee was appointed to 1 secure or erect a suitable < building, and from present indications it will not be long before < the Bank of Greelyville is ready i for business. 1 The festival at the town hall last Monday night was a deci- 1 ded success, the amount realised ^ being $36. ] Quite a number of Greelyvil- j lians took in the Veterans' lieunion in Charleston last week. A fine time is reported all along ! the line. jJ Owing to the prevailing dry 11 weather a good deal of cotton has been replanted. Those who { planted early have pretty fair stands. Mrs R H Johnson is visiting relatives in Magnolia. j Miss Smith of Sumter is the guest of Mrs T J Hogan. Miss Sadie O'Meara of Charles- ' ton is spending some days with friends in town. Dr AD Epps is spending the da j" in Sumter. Vidi. Letter to J. M. NexsenDear Sir: The cheap paint to buy is the one that covers more than you think; the cheap one to wear is the one that is young when old. Mrs Moore of Kelsey, N. Y., ! bought 16 gallons Devcc to paint her house two coats, her painters said it would take that. Had 6 ! gallons left. Mr James Ackley's house, in: ^Cairo (Catskill Mountains), N. Y., was painted with Devoe; it i wore 14 years; and the paint was ' in good condition then. He was | going to paint, the last we knew, j though. That's the way to pre' serve a house; repaint when there's no occasion. Yours truly, F. W. Devoe & Co, New York. For Sule by Dr. D. C. Scott, Kiugstree, S. C. | WANTED?Copies of the following books, for which a lib! eral price will be paid: Gregg's History of the Old Cheraws; James'Life of Francis Marion?; Wallace's History of the Williamsburg church; Weem's Life of Marion. C. W. Wolfe, Kingstree, S. C. i win nlT [ SIX GRADUATES AWARDED THEIR: DIPLOMAS MONDAY EVENING. ' I I Commencement Exercises of a Very' ffijih Order?Stipt. Martin's Address i ?Other Features of Programme. The new home for our graded t school?very justly the pride of j the town?was 4 4 christened "' last Monday by the closing exerciser of the school. The com-', mencement sermon was preached' in the Methodist church on Sun-1 lay morning at 11 o'clock by! ri i* rt. ct rt 1.;_ . r Ti:n O ! ttev i' u o uarus? ox joxxxou, o. i C. A large congregation was j present and the closest heed jiven to Mr Curtis' discourse, which was replete with lofty sentiment mingled with practi- . :al thoughts and suggestions as j to the attainment of high ideals , in life. Jj On Monday morning at 11:30 d'clock the address to graduates , was delivered by Mr 0 B Martin, the State Superintendent of Education, in the auditorium of the graded school. Mr Martin made no attempt at oratorical iispliy, but in a rather collo quial manner spoke on educational topics, showing what the South had acheived and was | still doing for the great cause!, jf education. He complimented ! the people of Kingstree on the;, stand they had taken for educa-! tion as was evidenced in their j elegant new school building, i 1- u v. ? i lneir ezampie wuuiu ucip ither communities and he had 10 doubt it had already had a helpful effect. His remarks | were plain, practical and inspiring', and many of the points le touched upon were driven home by keen satire and scintillating flashes of humor. Monday evening at 8:30 i'clock came the graduating exercises, of which the following is the complete programme: Convocation, Rev H J Cau-j then. For All Eternity, Mr W Hi Carr. The Schools of Kingstree, Miss Esther Gordon. Kingstree? Scene of My} School-life, Miss Louise Harper. I Ansver, Mr W H Carr. The Williamsburg Church, \ Master Lamar Montgomery. The History of the Six Imor-' tals, Miss Adelaide Harper. Largo, Miss Louise Gilland and Mr L Gilland. The Class Will, Miss Flossie 1 Harper. u+;n oc "Vi<rhf Mr TJ W uriixx uo uiiv * ? Gilland The Class Prophecy, Missi Florie Jacobs. Dilivery of Diplomas, Supt.' Ernest Wiggins. America, Entire Audience. Benediction. The graduating class inclu-! ded six members, five girls and one boy, and their essays both in point of subject matter and delivery were of the highest or-: der of excellence. In -'The Schools of Kingstree", Miss Esther Gordon gave a very ; interesting history of the sev-1 eral educational institutions of the town, enumerating the va rious teachers, who from time j back as far as the memory of j man runneth, had labored in! the pedagogical held, and show-! ing the evolution of the Kings tree Graded School from the old j time school house of the past, j Her paper was well prepared and merited the liberal apI plause that followed its reading., Miss Louise Harper made a j fine impression in the reading | of her essay, "Kingstree? Scene of My School Life", givthe authentic and legendary his* tory of the town from its g?ne-, sis up to present. This was a! good}l'subject and Miss Harper | handied'it in a masterly way. Miss Harper's paper was closely listened to and heartily ap-! plaucled. P.lrco fV*o urhnnlc nf a muniity in its upbuilding influence and co.ordinate with the former as a moral force are its churches. Entwined about its history and tradition clings ? sentiment that is a heritage from father to son binding them to the old Williamsburg church. So closely identified is this institution with those who have lived before us that a history of this church is J the^nearest approach we have to a history of the county. With such a subject it is needless to say that Mr Lamar Montgomery commanded the attention of the audience, and it is but just to say that the skillful handLing of his theme lent additional charm to its attractiveness and gained him liberal applause. "The Class Will" was read by Miss Flossie Harper, who immediately, caught the crowd by the naive and artless way in which she perpetrated sly bits of satire and humor at the expense of her class-mates. The "Will" was drawn up in true legal form and would defy the efforts of any designing pettifogger to break it. "The Six Immortals" would suggest Mount Olympus and the achievements of the gods, but Miss Adelaide Harper proved beyond the question of a doubt tbat these half-dozen celebrities exist right here in Kingstree, that never saw a mountain or hardly a rock, in the person of the six members of the class of '04. In turn she gave a character sketch of each "Immortal", ending with her self, "the noblest Roman of them all". This | paper was brimful of satire, and good-humored raillery and was loudly applauded. Miss Florence Jacobs dipped * " < i ?!ii. into uie iuxure wiui mc onvu i spoon of prophecy and extract-1 ed a profusion of good things for the class that the historic "little Jack Horner" would 1 ave turned gaeen with envy at the contemplation thereof. As a seeress Miss Florie was a distinct success and her revelations elicited enthusiastic expressions of admiration, as they well deserved. In delivering the diplomas, Mr Ernest Wiggins spoke in the tarmf rvf tfl?i rlaec Knth : UC9 1 aiUiO VI bUV VAMWW} WW personally and from a scholas- i tic standpoint. He also took occasion to refer to his work here and to point out the bright future that is before the Kings- < tree Graded school. He spoke feelingly of the many kindnes-| ses he had received at the hands j of the people of Kingstree and J expressed his highest apprecia-; tion and gratitude therefor. Mr { Wiggins has been superinten- j dent of the Graded school for two years and is highly esteemed ; by his many friends in town. The commencement exercises were attended by large crowds from town and county j and the occasion was a complete success. The auditorium; i?? J -full ranicitv I WtlS IdACU tu lio lUli va^/uvibj and many had to stand. The stage was covered with art squares and . decorated with ferns and exotics artistically placed. In the background inscribed upon the class colors, old gold and white, appeared the class motto: "Petimus Alti-I ora". There were many other at-! tractive features of the com- j inenceraent that might be told, but time and space forbid. To one who was present this hurried and imperfect sketch will be deemed inadequate, yet it must suffice. * $ ?* * -?nl 2 n4 ^ jl 1 s 3 jh I 73 < ij ro | p 11 2 Z 8i I Hi -*'u^HI Yi JEI c>i^H i^H IB r BI f ^ 'vi