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Pi^ " * iy FARMERS A MERCHANTS BANK M Wc Know Your Wants and Want Your BusiV CAPITAL "stock V25.OOO.OO. Vf Lji /T g^i% iJ We ?.ri\e to Obl^? and Accommodate the ' i^(]v %HI ill I^JU 2tVvvll|' Va I 4 PerCent Interest Allowed in the Saving* Department. V " *s' b. i oston*.^ m' u9xjly~ ..^H VOL l0X KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 10, 1905. NO. 33. 1 A DISPENSARY CHAMPION'. Nr. S. B. Gordon Tries Hard to Boos a Tottering Institution. Lenud, S. C., July 31. 1905:? Editor County Record: Please al low me space to ask Mr Cause sonn qnestions aud say a little moreaboui the dispensary. The dispensary is made by vvhal is called the "Reform Party" whicl was nothiug more than a majority of the party ruling out the minoriti tvionu'iru Out A lot of old offlc< aUU lUlvnn.& ? holders who thought that the offioe: of the State belonged to them. Thet called themselves 'Straight-outs.' I suppose they did this because the\ were going straight out of office. The Straight-outs opposed everything that was done by the regulai party, even ran their candidates in the general election. They started the oDDOsition to the dispensary and as usual, resorted to anything to defeat it. They first favored the old way of selling whiskey. Thev talked about the high price whiskey, but that did no good. Now whiskey ' is too cheap, everybody can get it. So they can't be suited only by letting them run the busiuess themselves, then you would bear no more about rottenness in the dispensary. 1 Tha News A Courier has always opposed the dispensary. It will tell you about rottenness in the dispensary and reports rumors that have been intimated and committees that , are investigating the rottenness that ?m rr?r ,ntn nossession of the Will own gW I.. v? 4 * facts concerning the rottenness of the dispensary, but facts are never published. This has been going on ever I sinee the dispensary has been started, I foi the purpose of turning the majority against it. Now this old bar/ room party, which is the old Straight out party, has turned Prohibitions! for the purpose of catching the few prohibition votes that do in reality want prohibition. Then the old politicians like John McLaurin, who jumped ou the Farmers' Alliance and rode into office and rode the Alliance out of existence and is riding with one leg over the Cotton Growers' Association and the other over the Prohibition party trying to get into office, saying all they can about the dispensary, ** * 1' ~nnlaca knowing cuat tney arc ucou u? I t oo they can get into office in some uu^ usual way. Some of the preachers who are in sympathy with this old Straight-out party are tiyiug to help out their party by working against the dispensary. At the Greenville District conference of the Methodist church, Rev G T Harmon said he preferred the 'Blind Tiger'* to* a tw ? eved tiger in the shape of the dispensary. Just here I will say everybody else would prefer "Blind Tiger" who wishes to use whiskey in a smuggled way and they prefer lawlessness to auvthing else. Mr Black man said that oi.lv two members of his congregation at Piedmont are in favor of the dispensary and he would not deny pleasure at the prosj>eet of their early departure. Mr Gause wonders if I could not find some rottenness in the dispensary. 1 will ask him this question. "What rottenness has he found thac he can prove to be facts? Of course any business that requires so many people to attend to it will sometimes get a bail man. Thev get into banks or'most a ty mercantile business. As to tne election in 1892, I remember a'1 . bmf it. I voted for prohibition then in pretcvijee to the old barrooms, but the legislature gavt us the dispuisarv a 11 I think they acted wisely in doing so. Can Mr Cause truthfully say thai less whiskey wis used when none ^ was sold openly in this county? I cannot see auv difference, except now the State gets the profits and then the money was sent off, or put into the blind tigers. Perhaps he is like the preacher that liked the "Blind Tiger." He speaks like whiskey is the only thing that makes liars, tnur derers, etc. Can he tell us how many murder cases have been convicted in this county during the past fourteen years of which whiskey was the cause? Mi Gause is not compelled to buy whiskey and use it or anyone else. The dispensary is only intended to furnish people who will have it and if they can't get it from the dispensary or anywhere ^ . . else they will make ir. Let Mr Ii Gause tell tin* people how the State I 1 can prohibi* the people from making whiskey in a smuggled way, or seniting out of the State for it. The : legislature can't prohibit anyone from I M ? ha-ing whiskey shippe.l to them, or ! t watch everybody who are disposed to make it at night. We al! know the ^ State has a right to make laws to j prohibit murder and other crimes . but enforcing the laws against mur' . . der and other crimes are not like ? ? whiskey, because so few will betrav , anvone for ha idlin? whisker in an* 5 . o j unlawful way. I will asxree with ? Mr Ganse about the evils of whiskey, , they are endless, when a man ma' es u up Ins mind to do anything wrong he can't be stopped. lie can be pun- tu . ished after he do-.-s wrong, but can't th ( be prevented from doing wrong. I Is Mr Gause one of the old F Straight-out faction who is a chronic kicker aud want^everything undone c0 that wts done by the reform party? ut , If so, I cannot account for him be- q, ing such a Prohibitionist. wj p Yours respectfully, j 9". B. Gordon. Death of Mrs M I Monzon. G \t re Vfufhw Tcnli np \f nnznn. wife I of R W Mouzou, died here Monday at the Central Hotel after a liuger on ' ing illness of several weeks. Mrs Mouzou was the daughter of Ii l)r J R Broekinton of Indiautown ev and was about twenty-two years of ' age. She was happily married sev- ,jr ' eral years ago to R W Mouzou and ga she leaves one child. ja ! She was a Christian woman, . be- . 11 ing a member of the Baptist church, and was beloved by all who knew ' her intimately. She leaves a father and a brother, along with her husbaud and child to keep afresh her memory. She was buried at the Baptist ^ (Cemetery near the River Tuesday jafternoou, the services being conducted bv Rev W B Justus, i ? ? * cu Mrs Virginia Broekinton Dead. Ti Viforirilu Hnv>lfint/in rplipf. wl ?ui'J ' "6""" - ' of the lute Dr James S Brockiuuni, hii i died ut the residence of her son, Dr at 1 W V Brockinton, on August 7th, 1 inst., in the 72nd year of her age. ye Mrs Brockinton was l>orn and uli raised and spent her lite of nearly foi 1 three quarters of a century in this do town, and was perhaps better known foi and more beloved than auy other lady in the community. Hers was *'i a familiar figure on the streets of wi Kingstree, and hei kindly smile, >n| sweet disposition and ready sympathy endeared her to every one and made WJJ her a welcome and honored guest in 1 every home. j She was a lifelong and consistent t j member of the Presbyterian church, j ^ Practically the entire community ^ followed her on foot to her grave on the banks of Black river and there- m , by testified to their sense of personal 0,1 m ' J- T 1 a loss. ITlliy a mouier 111 israei uas lu gone to her reward. li J K Mr Samuel Fulton Dead, 1)0' Mr Samuel Fulton died at his home a few tniles from town on Wednesday of last week and was buried at the cemetery on Thursday afternoon, the funeral services being eQ] conducted in the Presby terian church jo by Rev W B Justus, of the Meth- . odist church. sir Mr Fulton had been ill for some ^ time and his end was not a surprise 1 to his familv. He died with what x. \ is supposed to have been cancer of the stomach. un CO Mr Fulton was a son of the late i 2^ K W Fulton and belonged to one of ^ the oldest and best families in Wil- ,. I . 1 iu liamsburg county, and was a man _ ( I who was true to the traditions of his j j : family. He had the respect of all j' 1 who knew him and was a man known | for honorable dealing wjth all men 11 1,11 in all res pec ts. He was happily married to Miss ' 1 Rosa Pendergrass, who with four ^1: ' small children,survives him. Besides v,? his wife and children he has several , brothers and sisters and a large fain- in I ily connection to mourn his early j death. He was about 40 vears of i 1 ass m ! w Notice. we All persons holding keys to the ph "Money Box" will please bring them ' in between now and Saturday, Aug ' 19th, The money will be given aw^ on frc ; that day and" the box'refilled. his i. W. T. Wilkins. ma WEEKLY NEWS LETTER EROM LAKE CITY ARCH OF EVENTS REDUCED TO PARA GRAPHIC FORM BY OUR ALERT NEWS GATHERER. Lake City, August 8: Mr Cbas Flowers is out in Florida on ;i rospecting tour. Should he tind a x>d location, it is probable that lit ill again engage in the turpentint usiness. I)r M Davis Xesmith has returned nne from a vacation of about a eeK. Mrs E W Yates and children reirned Monday from Marion where ley visited relatives. . Rev J E Rush ton came down from ork. S. C., Mouday morning. Among our people who visited the uuty's capitol last Monday we ?ted Messrs J D Carter, J W Mc* atchen, B W Baker, W J Godu, J C McElveeu, J J Morris, J Eaddv and W L Ba-s. Mrs W L Bass and daughter, retcheu, visited friends in Kiugsie Monday. * Rev W P Cause of Coward was our streets Satifrday. Mr A B Cook and Miss Annie udson were married last Thursday en in or. o Mr ntid Mrs H V Epps and chilen went down to Sal 1 iva :'s Island turd ay for an outing of some vs. i1*.ids Euith Carter went to Uharles11 Saturday morning. D A 11 Williams returned Sunday ght from Baltimore, where he spent ur or five days. He was accornnied on the up trip bv Miss Marret Roper and Masters Charlie reen and Jamie Williams, the last o of whom returned with him. The Smith-Williams Co has s?*red the services of Mr Chas E mmons of Rockv Mount, N C, to entered upon the dist Intrge of s duties hist Wednesday. He is the head of the buying departing Mr rimmons has had many urs cf experience and we congratate this company on their good rtune in inducing him to come wn and we congratulate the town, r he is a splendid all around gentlein and, together with his family, 11 prove quite an acquisition. He il secure a lot and build a dwell I' Mr G H Broekintou of Cowards is here Monday morning. Saturday "Judge" Godwin sent irry Fulmore to the gang for thirdays for violation of contract, irry must be fond of the life in ipes as he finished a term only a ek or so ago. Rufus Burgess got a drunk Saturday night, went to e house of a negro woman,a neighr, and literally "cussed her out." ?xt morning he went back and reated tire performance. Rant Bursa, a respected and respectable lie), as it were,represented the State fore the court and with such siio is that Eutqs will wort; for the untv sixty days. Judge Godwin es not intend that, his sentences all be looked upon as fun. Tne iner who faces him wishes that he le sinner) were any where else. Mr J T DeBerry of Wadesboro, C, will tak" up his residence long us this week, and we welnie him. lie has been elected neial manager of the Lake City fit Co. M r DeBerrv is said bvlre? - ble men to be a first rate man ard food citizen. We are always debited to have such come to us and past their fortune with us and; icerely hope be wjll tiiuj that ins ics have fallen in pleasant places, Miss Annie Sutcliffe went to larleston Tuesday on a week's sit. Mi J K Br union spent Thursday Florence 011 business. Several of our local "choppers" iisted in the organization of the oodmen's camp at Hebron last ek. Mighty few good thinjrs take ice in this section that Lake City sn't got a hand in. Mr Simon Boston has returned mi Baltimore, where he carried 1 grandson who was bitten by a ,d dog, mention of which was made at the time. The little fell* w was left in 'the Mar land (>ene;al Hospital to take 1 lie regular Paste.ir treatment for hydrophobia. This was done as the wise and safe st<-|> - to pursue, as time alone could Tell whether serious results would folio v the bite. The Methodist sare going to hn\e ' a new church and a good one, to . L We saw the subscription list a few bonis after it was started. It th-u amounted to $1,285, and every cent will be paid. We know the signer.-. There will be nothing to pav for a 1 lot,as the new house will be built o i ' the site of the oid one. It is proposed to put about$2,500 in the new church, which will be of wood,modern, handsome and well Appointee. We understand that the coi^acth.is been let to Mr (J A Brown. The Baptist church has just Uc.i newly painted which adds very much to its appearance. Mr W E Severance has gone to Lauriuburg, X C, to be introduce I to that sou of his. Work is being begun on the dwelling house which Mr Alva Weaver is building on the cornel of rhomas and < hurch Streets. W L B New Bank Organized. Kings tree is to have a new bank. The books of subscription-to the Bank of Williams- jj burg were opened Monday at ; the office of Stoll & Stoll. The \ I corporators are Chas W Stoll, W I Nexsen, T A Blakelej* and IE B Rhodus, and the capital ' stock will be $35,000, divided! into 350 shares of $100 each. At i, the meeting" Monday, the entire ( capital stock of the new^bank was over-subscribed, but le understand that the policy of the management is to restrict the ! holdings so as to distribute the ' stock among representative business men all over the coun- 1 I ty and to that end a few shares 5 I have been reserved for late ap! plicants. A meeting of all the stock- ;i holders will be called early in 1 September when a president * and a board of directors will be | chosen. i ( ! Meeting of County Board ot Commis- ] stoners. The county commissioners j met in the office of the county ] 1 i.L 1 supervisor in regular mommy meeting last Monday and trans- j acted some important business. ^ The business of most interest before the board was the matter ^ of fixing the amount of the license for buying seed cotton , and unpacked lint. The general assembly at its last session passed a new law on the subject 1 and fixed the license at from S1.00 ^ to $500 and left it to the commissioners of each coun- * ty to decide the amount for their county. The board decid > i ii? r? i... eci ilie maner iui mis county Monday and put the license at $50. 80 hereafter, all dealers ( in seed cotton between August 15th and December 2Qth of each year will have to take out a license of $50 from* the clerk of court in order to do business and keep within the law. Another important matter decided by the board was the * question of a public cotton Weigher for this place. There ( were several good applicants t for the position, but the plum went to Mr Isaiah Tisdale, who hereafter will tip the beam for the boys. THE FIGHT IN WILLIAMSBURG, 1 . 1 More Than Enough Names to Petition f for Dispensary Election. ; The committees appointed r some time ago to make a can* vass of "Williamsburg county for ^ the purpose of securing peti- j tions necessarv to obtain an! 4 * I r election on the dispensary I s question under the Brice law, j made their return today, and j whilst all the petitions circulat- ? ed have not yet been returned, s those repoiting so far show the * signatures of more than 1,000 * voters of the county, a number ti easily within the rule for the purpose of securing an election, and even this number will largely increased by the pe tions yet unreturned.?The bta Aujfust 7. SCRANTON NEWS ITEMS. Topics of Interest Which Have Trai plred Within a Week's Period. SCRANTON, August 18: T1 warm and dry weather of tl past few days has been ve much against late corn ai other crops planted late. Fa mers in this section are abo through gathering the first crc of fodder and will soon cor mence picking cotton. Yoi correspondent noticed a fe days ago lots of open cotten^ a field belonging to Mr Dami Lynch, who will soon begin 1 harvest his 10 cent cotto Nearly all the tobacco has bee gathered. That is what mak< young men smile, says Mr H Stephens. Dr Joe Durant, one ot LaP City's rising physicians, was i town last Friday. Miss Nettie Singletary returi ed last *eek from Auburi where she has been visitin friends. Mr and Mrs Winslow Wrigh left Tuesday morning- for Vii ginia, Philadelphia, New Y^r and other points. They will b gone for several days. Mr Hoyt Hill has accepted position as salesman at M Winslow Wright's. M i S s Sue Gerganus c Georgetown is spending severa iays in town with her sistei Mrs S W Parker. Mrs J W Truluck and childre ire visiting relatives and friend in Greenville. Mr H 0 Byrd, formerly of thi place but now of North, i spending several days in towi A'ith relatives and friends. Mr J L C Moore, a successfu nerchant and business man o Lake City, was noted on ou streets last Monday. Messrs W P Gause, Hugh Ard rohn McKnight and severa ithers from this place went t Singstree last Monday. Mr Anderson Daniels of Han lah was on our streets las Monday. Mrs J C Lynch and Miss An lie Coker of Lynch were amonj :he visitors in town last week. Misses Olive Lavender an< Lucy Hicks of New Zion ar visiting at the home of Mr an< Mrs R M Cooper this week. Prof Thomas went to Kings tree on business Saturday o Last week. Mr C D Gandy of Lake Cit; spent Monday in town, M R M, An Approaching Wedding. Notice has been received her if a nuptial event, as follows: Mrs Jlanna Jane McCutehen requests the honor of your company at the marriage of her daughter Sarah Ifartha to Mr Charles Nutting' Gignilliat on Thursday evening. August the twenty-fourth, at Home, Greer, South Carolina. One of the parties to the aboyi vill be remembered by her ac piaintances as Miss Sallie Mc Jutchen, formerly of the Indian own section of this county. Jo^ ?o with them. ?Ed.) M Hems. Misses Mary and Emmie Gil and of Greencastle, Pa., win lave been visiting relatives anc riends in the town and countv eft for their home yesterda) norning, Mr It L Phillips, v'ce-prcsi lent and State manager of tht ) E Luther Publishing Co., o! Ltlanta, Ga., ^las here this week 1 J m I ; everai aays oimmsiness. Former CountJ Commissioner ! J Singletanj^)f the Lake City ection, was among- the boys londay. "Sam" is biding ime as to his poii\ic?tl iptea10ns for the Bring us your JOB WORK. J - gI / n i U ? be ^ywryWrTVyVWyyWWWW^ * | LOCAL ITEMS I OF INTEREST l^AAAAMfVVrVAA*AWAWA^ [le Mr \V J Cox of Vox was here Monday. i ry J Mr S R Mouzon of Mouzon was 1 r_ in town Monday. ut Mr W E Nesmith of Cades was i r> f A^rn \T/-\n A r%\r 1 jp .uuuuaj. n- Mr J Davis Carter of Leo was ur in town Monday, t Mr B N Stuckey of Indiantown i was here Monday. ? el to Mr D K Mouzon of Mouzons was in town Monday. t ,n Mr John Thompson of Vox y 3S was in town Monday. J Rev W P Gause of Scranton was in town Monday. [e W L Bass, Esq, of Lake City y n was in town Monday. Mr J C McElveen of Lake City was in town Monday, a, Mr J M Matthews of Lake ^ g City was here Monday. Mr Melvin W Rogers of Rol- ^ it lins was here Monday. ^ r" Mr S W Gowdy of Spring K k Bank was here Monday. e Col J Peter Epps of Cades was ^ among the boys Monday. ^ a Mr W F Rodgers of Lanes had ir kncinpcs in tr>wn Mnnrlav. Mr H Paden Brown of Gour- v dins was in town Monday. w . Dr I W Graham of the Santee ai section was here Monday. Mr G Levi Sauls of Cades was h< n . . w g a visitor to town Monday. b Mayor J J Morris of Lake ^ City was in town Monday. s Mr Percy DSnowden of Church ai n was on our streets Monday. d; Mr J Manson Brown of Taft j was here a few hours Friday, f Mr "VV B Haselden of Lambert cr r and "Co G" was here Monday Mr Ben H (iuess of the Sal- ^ 1, ters section was here Monday. 1 Mr S E McCullough of Taft 0 was a visitor to town Monday, jj Veteran S J Montgomery of L* Greelyville was here Monday. Q| H \Tr If A Thomas of Lake Citv A/f was a visitor to town Monday, q Mr H J Williamson, of the th s Cades section,was in town Monday. tc * Mr J W Ferrell of Greelyville w e was in the soldier meeting- Mon- tli 1 day. Miss Carrie Wiggins of George- a( " town is visiting friends near is town, M Dr William S Boyd of Heine^ mann had business in [town Sat- vj urdav, fr Mr L E Burkett of Taft was vi one of "the soldier boys" in town Monday. tr e Mr N M Venters of Venters spent Sunday night and Monday in town. ? Tke tin roof of the Graded I school building ^is receiving a / coat of paint. h Mr T A Blakely of Taft had "several irons in the fire" while ^ in town Monday. Miss Frances Weaver of i>il Ion is visiting Mrs J M / Swann's this week. Mr T A McCrea, ot the Cedar Swamp section, was in town Saturday on business, j M ^ V T? ' I ' * 14 JLt V ivnuuus U* UJCClJf vine I ) had several things to think of I I while in town Monday. J J,. Editor 0 W Wolfe of The Rec- I ord returned Monday night from Harris Lithia Springs. 1 _ Mr B W Butler of Florence and the Kingstree Dry Goods || [ Co was in town Monday. Mrs T H Miller and her iwo|t( . children of Waycro^ (da. are, , visiting at v? ^ Scott's. and Mrs Louis Sherfesee j ^ , or Charleston are visiting the _ family of T M Gilland, Esq. j Mr Cecil Jacobs of Charleston: is in town this week at the home! nest for a few days vacation. K VMVVVV*VVyWWTVVVVWVX I 4FFAJRS CAUGHT 8Y OUR LOCAL REPORTER AND Written in Condensed Form and Printed in Like Manner ^ for the Sake of Our Busy ^ Mr Ben S Smith of the Bloomngvalt section was one of the nany visitors to town Monday. W. Mr Henry E Davis of Salters, .'ijj viarion ana uoiumoia was a vis* tor to the county seat Monday. ':0 Mr Robert Nesmith of Indiarown and "Co G, 15th S C,"was n the veterans' meeting MonE L Hirsch, E$q., made a msiness trip to Wilmington last ;-J| reek, returning home Monday jj Mr and Mrs W N Jacobs of Jeorgetown are in town this reek at the summei family reinion. Veteran W Lawrence Graham f Single and "Co G" was with a? he old boys in the feourt House londay. Mr J R Cox of Jay and "the S|j 5th S C" was in the court ouse Monday at the veterans' leeting. Mr E W Boatright of Marion -M ras here Monday exchanging reetings with his many friends i town. A. game of ball between Greely- l jga ille and a local pick-up nine ill be played at the park this Jj fternoon. . * The tin roof of the 'court use was repainted last week y the tinner-man of Florence, [r Burnette. Mr H P Talle^ast, of Man- J tee, Fla., is spending some ays with relatives in the Inantown section. Miss Julia Whitehead of Wayoss, Ga. is visitiag at the )me of Clerk B.C Whitehead on ? ast Main street. Mrs M R Hemingway, her y Lughter, Miss Lila, and Miss elen Scott left last week for endersonville. N. C. Mr J P Nelson, the foreman the Weekly Mail office, left ^ onday to spend some days at lenn Springs. Mr W H Mat- > lews is taking his place. Mr Julian Jacobs of Charles- .| ?n came up the first of the < eek for a few days rlst and 1,1 c -1 ^ le summer family reunion. Miss Emma C Smith of Phil > lelphia, Pa., and Sumter, SC, visiting her friend, Miss 9 assey Lee Estes this week. w S Miss Rosa Graham of Monislie returned home last week om an enjoyable.! fortnights isit to Harris Lithia Springs. The first game of the Kingsee-Georgetown series, played i Georgetown yesterday, rellted in a victory for Kingsee by a score of 5 to 1. Mil M? i # * Who Has Some Land You Want ToSeH?_=as^r Art : Will Be to Your iterest to Write ' I "1 >toll Bros., eal Estate Brokers,