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:5 Farmers & Merchants M o -\\. *> ?z^rtz? V-$i ?^>rt /l 411-/ -.f|e K ' CAPITAL, $25,000.00 /J S J ^ fo V H III II M / I I I 'I M o w ,, l)1RECT01RS; v f UNDIVIDED PROFITS, 57,000.'H? A H j .ffi g W 7 V P? H& 5S g| If eg W 1 > | / 1 0 50 K? & B. Wallace Jones J.C. Younjr j.s. McCLAV. Prt?ce?tt. lKkT '\J -l> S !&*/ ? L W II ' Vf /I/ ? A. Winston J. D. McClam S. B. BOSTON, \Vt Prrsirn: ^gstege^ V j& ^ {^W /^w H. H. Singletary W. A. J Moore B. WALLACE JONES, Jr.. c*h*r. {^aBBBr jgp ^ ^ V S. B. Poston Chas. Kelley . ^ ' ' C> aIC '*% _ VOL XXI K1NGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 14,1907. NO. 7 POSITIVELY faking UbUbA being completed we find we have a lot of remnants in Dry Goods, that we offer at Reduced Prices. We also offer 20 per cent off in Boys' Clothing. is y ^ * h ft o pvt ' s jfr h . e S We bought at low prices before the advance in leather goods and give our patrons the benefit of the I . farmer bas?s of prices as jong as our present stock 1 lactc |~ IUw7 [ Pants! I Pants! Big of Stock of Men's and Boys' jr Pants at rock bot ' torn prices from 1 $1.25 AND $1.50 TO $3.00 AND $4.00 for the best quality. Groceries. ? . We pride ourselves on having" high class Groceries in every line and we deliver orders within the corporate units* ? 1 _! jV. nopine 10 ncip you toward prosperity in the New Year by supij plying your needs at K the lowest prices K, Yours for business, I People's * Hlercantile Company., KINOSTREE, S. C. % *% j f r No Display Advertis Two New Bargains. No?62 179 acres, 25 cleared, 4 rooui dwelling, barn and stables, 14 miles to P O, 3 miles to church. High land. Big bargain. Near Home P O. Price $2,000. No 63?35 acres, 15 cleared, 6 room dwelling, barns and stables. 1$ miles from town of Harpers. Land high and tirst class. Price $1,000. Write or see Stoll Bros. Kingstree, S C. New Advertisements. J L Stuckey, Lake City?Sales Stables, Wagons, Buggies, Etc. Blizzard Hardware Co., Lake City?Hardware, Wire Fencing, Etc Kingstree Dry Goods Co.?White Goods Sale, Bargain Prices. S Marcus?Reduced Prices on AH Lines of Merchandise. W T Wilkius? At the Old-Stand with Wholesale Goods and Low Prices. Final Discharge. Notice Is here by given that the undesigned, M. V. Cox. administrator, of tie - state of W. M. 11. Cox. deceased, will apply to P. M. Hiocking'nn. Proba'e Judge of Williamsburg County. at twelve o'clo-k M.. Mou.iay, March 11. 1907. for a linal discharge as such administrator. M. V Coxr Administrator Est. W. M. ti. COX. 2-5- "it.. 10 uui tjiauiij 8 f]]]]' Vtfjl'O tHheSpui X U ill ullll after ye 0 ZESeascns ! Sr We keep the stock in every wa; 1 O munity. The best of every thii)? i: the attention perfect and the price Sr already familiar wiih our way of dc O make it profitable for you to beoom O UC AT TO C | /\ i AUi UU i ii W j X DEMANDS PURITY and ST IV YOU USE. I Dr. SuRast iS ! business w Q |Qf]7 Means more patro jO I Jill The person who r X Complete line School f /\ ?always o $ Agent for ttKA O late Bon Bon j X You are always weleome. Start |V see us. 8 " J. B. Di | v Physician and j o lake ci Cash , is I At tliis season tl pocket book is til the reiHs. * If it's a Horse * we can till your m In BUGGIES, MESS, LAP ROBI K ETS, all the lies we are lieadqiiartc VISIT OUR STABL WANTS AND WE LL ?? I F. C. Tl I j JEZixigrst >ement Changed Unles Attention VeleransA meeting of Camp Wee Nne (former! v I'ressley) will be hold on Saturday, i.'trd of Feoruary inst. A revision of the amp Roll will be bail to perfect the new organization and it i? essential that every member attend. Oarers are expected t'> ne at their po?ts. (r.) (ikaham, II II Kinder, Adjutant. Commandant. 2-14-lt. i Administrator's SaleUnder an order or thp Probate Court dated Kehru iry 4. 1907. I will offer for sale i?t staples Lake. S C. on the 1st day of \| nch, 1907, at 12 o'clock, m, the following personal pr?i?ertv b?lonirin<r to tlieestate of J no I'eexin. deceased, to wit: Five head of cattle, six hoys* two carts, one bUTg.v and farming tools and implement*- Terms of sale,cash. H VANKEl'KEX, Administrator Est. JXO TEKVIX. 2-7-8t. It is # well known medical fact that pine resin is most .effective in the treatment of diseases of the bind dei ami kidneys. Sufferers from back ache ami other troubles due to fault?action of the kidneys find relief in the use of Pine-ules. $1.00 buvs 30 davs treatment.?Sold by W L Wallace. RING'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS Rsliove Indigestion and Stomach Troubles <XX>SOOCOOOO<7f 3BNCE8 hed in a day * 'e? TitHae?* g< joyed the confidence of Q )lic for many years, the Q :rsons patronizing us year Q s Why 8 | 7 suited to the needs of the com- Sf I 5 carried, the assortment is large, %/ I s.lU>T RIGHT. If you are not Q ring business, we think we can e acquainted. y? !ECURITY= X RENGTH IN THE DRUGS X | >ed Pharmacist, doing a legal busi- X i he drug line and we insure safe V I e compounding and safe price*. Cl 1 lake no safer investment than to do Jy ! ith us. V j ns for our store, |Qf]7 Q ! uns can read this. IjUi V Jooks and Stationery X n hand.? X ct Cigars (Havana made) X Chocolates and Choco- rj off this new year by coming to X Respectfully yours, * I RANT, 8 I Pharmacist, ? Economy. lie mail behind the e man who holds or Mule you want Red. WAGONS, 11.4 R!S, IIORSE BL44t nn flip niorkpf ?. t/ll BVIItl HVt^ VS. .E5, TELL US YOUR - DO THE REST, Somas 9 xee, S. C, 4 i ?s Copy Reaches Us the o. in. i. receives): DEATH BLOW.!; : - \ THE "C. C." BILL HAD THE EFFECT Ot [ KNOCK OCT DROPS?RESUME OF ir LEGISLATIVE DOINGS. 1: 0 The Capitol, Columbia, Feb c ruarv 1*2:?And they have gone ^ and done it at last! Done what?ln Killed the State dispensary. s Knocked the stuffing out of the Great Moral Institution." ^ Stamped the hound out of the ^ most powerful political machine aDd most corrupt and corrupt- ^ ing system of public rotten- ^ r.ess that this State has known t within some forty years Nothing can save it now, nothing short of a miracle can even ler jjfthen its lease of life even a few months. The vote in the ^ senate on the second reading of ^ the Carey Cothran bill, which in P time wipes out the State dispen li sary system and provides lor 11 local option between prohibi v tion and county dispensaries, 11 was decisive---15 to 21, and c with all senators present and * voting. 17 to 24, which is a great er majorit}* than the anti dis t pensaryites had themselves g ever expected. One more read- t ing and then the governor's sig t natu-e and the measnre becomes b law. Another bill has passed a the hoc.se and will go through g the senate before this article 1. appears, which (bill) supple- n ments the Carey- Cothran tneas-: f nre by providing that the State ; l1 dispensary be taken in charge t bv a commission of tive to be a appointed by the governor to $ dispose of all the property of the dispensary and completely J n and finally wind up its affairs. , fi This action of the General e Assembly is the most momen- t tous event in the history of' g x Ti AU~ I recent years, n is mc uvci-i throw of a system which hasie dominated and shaped the poli Is cy of the government along this v line for more than a decade and J1; is the inauguration of a new or- j t der of things, a new era. It is a I e tremendous revolution- There J o are man}' who sincerely believe! v that it is a gigantic stride tow- o ards better things and brighter s civilization; and may time prove r them correct in their anticipa- n tions. The hill is too lengtny u to reproduce here and too in- i: volved to explain in this arti- f: cle. The readers of The Record r i have the general idea and the t details will be made public dur- a in# the progress of events, a Should the most ardent dispen- t; saryites attempt to delay matters by blocking the inaugura- S tion of the new system through c injunction and other expedients d for retarding what is not desired by the "hate- to-give ups", it a will be nothing more than should j, be expected. j Governor Ansel Saturday t removed from office the entire s State dispensary board for mis- a conduct and incapacity in office in the recent stocking of the ^ State dispensary with nearly 0 seven hundred thousand dollars o of whiskey, much of it worth- u less stuff, bought without bids o ? a?? ? i? ancl at prices entirely ivu uigu. p They were given full and pa- q tient hearing but the facts were t too evident and the gover- t ucr did not hesitate one mom- g ent to kick the whole crew, Rawinson, Wylie and Black, out of s the position. Their attorneys j; have, of course, taken the mat- c ter into the supreme court in e the desire to hold on as long as c j Tuesday, Noon, Pre .here is a there is a thread to vliicb tliey may cling-. A resolution has passed the louse, and will probably go hrough the senate, which pro'ides that the matter of repealng the lien law shall be submited to the people at the next geneal election. The meaning of this 5 that that question will be one r a \. i - i ? .til a. nine leaning issues 01 uie ucal| ampaign, aud prospective canMates would be wise to take ote and begin pluming themelves. The passenger rate bill has een continued till next session or the ostensible purpose of atbering information, <many eclaring that there is not sufcient data before them to jusIfy a satisfactory conclusion as o whether snch reduction is warranted or not. The bill raising the per diem 3r dieting prisoners in jail rom 20 to 25 cents per day has assed both houses. Hence it > pretty safe to presume that t will become law. With proisions as high as they now are t is hard too see how sheriffs an feed their prisoners on even 5 cents per day. The house Monday attempted o kill the department of immi rntion hv vntin<r to nit down "" "J ~?p? ? he appropriation from $10,000 o $3,000. There are many -who elieve that it would be wiser to bolish the department alto ether than render it practicaly useless by refusing enough lonev with which to render efective service. The senate will robably insist upon restoring he recommendation of the ways nd means committee, which is 10,000. The hours of labor in cotton lills will be limited to ten, the ill providing this having passd both houses and lacking of he final stamp of approval to o upon the statute books. A few nights ago memorial xercises were held in honor of enator W. J. Johnson of Aiken, rho died in the latter part of i istsuminer. This calls to mind lie fact that since the writer ntered that body not a session f the Assembly has been held ?'ithout such exercises in memry of some senator or repreentative who had died. Few ealize that in all probability lore men, in proportion tonumers, go from a seat in the legslature to their graves than rom any other walk in life. Jt eally seems that there is some ruth in the oft-repeated declartion that the man who accepts commission in the Assembly akes his life in his hands. The proposition to sell the tate farms and put penitentiary onvicts on public roads was efeated in the lower branch. The increase of $25,000 in the ppropriation for pensions makig the total $250,000 will in all Ikelihood stand as it has gone hrough the house and there eems no disposition in the sente to interfere. The Raysor high school bill, mien carries an apprupriatiuu f $50,000, is now safe. This is ne of the most important measres of the entire session. It pens the way fer children of parents of limited means to aeuire a good high school educaion at or near home. The deails of this measure will be iven in a later articles. A measure which passed the enate Friday without attract g much attention and wihch >ught to succeed in the other nd of the Capitol is that de:laring the violation of a lease ceding Date of Issue, me, ? of lauds and a failure or refusal to enter upon the due perform- . ,/ anceof the contract for leasing lands a misdemeanor and providing punishment. This is of great importance tc landlords and its passage will remedy what amounts to a real evil in many cases. The State levy for taxes has been reduced one-half of a mill " j and the levy for Williamsburg has also been cut down the same amount?is a reductibn * ' ^ for us of one mill, which appears quite a substantial reduction in one year and that, too, in the face of the fact that we of this # rnnntv fiavo a dpKt 111 OOO fn '? it "J " v ** ~v"? " "4)vw *w pay, in addition to our regular expenses. The General Assembly will in. all probability adjourn next Saturday. In tbe next issue we hope to give a summary of all the important work of the session, including those measures that will inaugurate new policies as well as those altering existing conditions. The Williamsburg delegation has made the following recommendations to the governor for ' h appointments to county offices: County Commissioners; L P Kinder, Kingstree, and J C Ev- ^ erett, Salters; Supervisor of Keg istration, vice P Mc Clure Bropkington, W J Smiiey, Cades. Magistrates; R K Wallace, Kingstree, J H V Gaskins, Lake v; City, 3 M BradshaW, Greelyville, S G Mc Donald, Lanes, James Bryan, Trio, BS Smith, Bloomingvale, 060."" W Davis, Johnsonville. _ _ SAYS TILLMAN HURT ORPHANAGE The Operation of the Rate law Pinches ' At the Connie Maxwell. Bennettsville, February 6: ?Below is an extract from a report on Connie Maxwell Orphanage written by Miss Lucy Lewis,, a pupil of the Baptist Sundayschool last Sunday: "Ben Tillman has greatly damaged things for the Orphanage with that famous rate bill. . ' Everybody bragged on him for it, but now comes the time to- ? [> pay for the fun. The rail- ? roads were giving the Orphanage above a thousand dollars a year in freight charges bnt now they can't do it, because it is against the law. A Hot Supper at BensM. We acknowledge with thanks the following invitation. "The pupils of Cedar Swamp Sehool request the honor of your presence at an auction party and' hot supper at the residence of Mr. J G McCullough, on Thursday evening, February 21. A cute little - , sock was enclosed and a postscript, inviting all girls and ladies to contribute something of their handiwork for sale. We take the liberty of adding that the public is cor dially invited whether or not you< receive an invitation, bntdon't forget your pocket book. The following poetical ex bora tion accompanies the sock: . - TO GENTS AND BOYS. This little sock we send to yotr Is not for you to wear Please multiply your size by two-,. A nd place therein with care, In pennies or in cents, ^ Just twice the number that you - wear ' (We hope it is immense). So if you wear a No. 10.? w You owe us .20, see! Which dropped within our little sock Will fill our hearts with glee, < We can famish you Tobacco Clotb in any desired quantity. People's Mercantile Co., Kiugstrea, S. C. * '- m