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V % I fljc County Iteftrtfa. r * ' SB VOL XXII KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 16, 1908. NO. 15 See Our F < Of Dress Goods,j Dry Goods, A .1 Si L_ p< L v "I NEWS NOTES OF INTER- ! FST FROM lAKFf.lTV. i4V I S1VITI kM BUM vai at 3TIAWIEI1Y SEASON ON?TOWN IAS SPKING GLEANING?LOCAL AND PEKSONAL INTEIEST. Lake City, April 15:?Mr Fred Walters came down from Florence Sunday and spent the j day in town. . Mrs Alice Stackhouse, whoAe t -ni. r-? _ a n ! nome is near larue ivock, o v^, f visited Mrs S .J Bethea last I . week. Mrs L H Jennings of Bishopville came dowi\ to see her parents, Mr and Mrs J M Sturgeon, last week. Her brother, Sam Sturgeon, who bad been with her some time, came with her. Misses Minnie and Beulah Moore are in from Moore's X roads, visiting the Misses Mc Clarn. Mr Roland Mills, as usual, was up from Kingstree Sunday. Mr Dallas L Jones dropped in "Thursday for a little while among old friends on his way to his way to his brother's, Mr L N Jones's, near Anderson Hrirlor<? tn srtpnd a ff?W davs hf -f ?jfore returning to his home in Charleston. Miss Ada Wads worth is on a pleasure trip in Darlington. By direction of the board of U /n?? 1 U + V* /-v ^ /-? tr? ? * hoirimf i nron _ ucaiLii is iiavii:;; a i eral and thorough cleaning up.' Three wagons have been running" regularly for three weeks hauling off litter, trash and sweepings. The rules and ordinances relating to cleanliness and health precautions are being tightened up and violators called to the mark. Within the last two years #the commissioners of public works, the town council and the board of health have done a tremendous amount of work and work too that is demonstrating the fact thati drainage and scientific and sys-! ^tematic sanitation will effectu- j "ally promote ana maintain tne , health of the public. \ ^Mrs Margaret Timmons and * Mrs Lena Spiers and the two chil- j dren of the latter, all of Rocky Mount, N C, are in town on a visit of a few weeks. Mrs Spiers is b&st remembered in Lake City as Miss Lena Timmons, who was one of the teach-. ers in the Lake City High school' in the days when that school bad a reputation of which none was ashamed. High cotton, high tobacco, high strawberries, high beans, j high nothing will put the fanners of this country in the position tewLine r Ti 1 J ?x L.aces, r^moroiaeness, Shirts and Tan Oxford Sh >:S. Try Kinjan's par excellence ham at 13 cents a pound. iople's in which they easily could be of stability and independent leadership so long1 as they continue to buy their bread and meat instead of making- them. Not a pound ot meat, nor a peck of corn nor an ounce of hay should be brought into Williamsburg county. We can make them. Why don't we do it? One says, "They can be bought cheaper than we can make them." Rot! Go tell that in the ward of the lowest imbeciles of the lunatic asvlum. and vou will be lausrh-! ed at. About three hundred crates of berries were shipped Monday. This is mounting up rapidly. It has been only one week since the first shipment. The stock of goods of A Cohen was sold out Tuesday by M Hornik & Co. under a mortgage. B C Bellinger, Esq, of Charleston, was agent of the mortgagees. The stock was sold in bulk and bid in, of course, for Hornik & Co. No inventory was made; cases sup posed to contain goods were not opened at all, and examination was not allowed. No one except those in charge had any opportunity of learning anything about what was in the stock or the quality, consequently there were few bids. The entire stock, which Cohen said would invoice at about $2,500 went off for $J00. A antorVainmahf Fridnu * V. t V-lit V.UIV1 bttlUUiVUh night a gold handled parasol was given to the young lady receiving the greatest number of votes. The votes were one cent each and the amount realized from this was $310. Miss Mamie Green was declared the winner, with Miss Lula Chandler a close second. ELHirsch, Esq, was in town Tuesdays W L Bass, Esq, attended bankrupt court in Florence Wednesday. w. u a. Panama and straw hats. Latest styles and lowest prices. People's Mercantile Co. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup?the cough syrup that tastes nearly as good as maple sugar and which children like so well to take. Unlike nearly all other cough remedies, it does not constipate, but on the other hand it acts promptly yet gently on the bowels,through which the cold is forced out of the system, and at the sametime it allays inflammation. Always use Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. Sold by W L Wallace. Justjreceived, a beautiful line of Easter post cards. People's Mercantile Qo. the purchaser | styl. and very little we r. Others wear but have little style fl i or comfort. The B King Quality // shoe has all ff Let us fhpi?e rr- Aj show you // the new styles B ; quisites in f/ 7 that are full of fi ; just the// , , > ! if snap and character.^ i They will surely pleas< , portion^ you riercat A NOTE OF VANNING j( Sonded ky Ciltu Aiuclaliii and i Parsers' UbIm?? * r? : j t. ' I Atlanta, April ii: ? rrcsiucut Harvie Jordon, of the Southern Cotton association in a state-; ment made public today savs that his associacion, in connec- * < tion with the Farmers' union ( has completed arrangements to t hold the remnant of 1907 cotton crop. The Farmers' union cotton companies, the statement 1 says, in Tennessee, Arkansas, * Mississippi and Alabama have already perfected arrangements with bankers in those States to 1 finance every bale now held in ( Farmers' union warehouses. 1 Similar results, continues the 1 statement, are being secured for cotton held by members of the Southern Cotton association by 1 the central headquarters and State divisions, and at the lanr er centralized points. Presi- 1 dent Jordan concludes his state- 1 ment as follows: "I can not too freely empha- 1 size again the imperative im- ^ portance of cutting down the;' cotton acreage and preventing * i a serious crisis next winter." ( r ;< To have perfect healtb we must \ have perfect digestion, aud it is very 1, important not to permit of any de'~ lay the mouieut the stomach feels ^ out of order. Take something at: 1 once that you know will promptly j 1 and unfailiugly assist digestion. < There is nothing better than Kedol! ( for dyspepsia, indigestion, sour stomach, belching of gas aud nerv- 1 ous headache. Kodol is a natural 1 digestant, and will digest what you c eat. Sold by W L Wallace. |j - ? ? $ = CHE 1 CHEAP! U TWO GAR \ MT TT /F> m Af 8 ? will arrive Jan Finest that has il market this seas Come in and * before they are a t M. F. H KINQSTRE ^S^KING QUALITY isan ; 4 ^ honest shoe made by the ' best workmen for men fPfiSftk. W^0 aPPreC'atC K00(i ; things in foot wear. yy The King Qual MM ity snoc is uic y I^BB^L >\ favorite with Yv all those HBBU who"have tried itile 0 ?APT. CONRAD GONSTINE i] TELLS OF HIS TRIP.|> t I8t THE "MERCEDES" MS HUD UP ! STMIliaSB IIIDGE-INCIDEMTS BY THE f The following communication j j Tom Capt Constine, of the ^ 'Mercedes", reached us Mon-!r lay, .dated April 12, George:own, SO: i* Editor County Record:- I ar- j ( ived here on my boat,the "Mer redes1*, on last Friday noon. j. 3ad a fine trip by myself from i :be Sumter Co's railroad bridge, T vhere I was detained eight days >n account of not being able tojj pass under the bridge, as the | j in?r was tnn hich. the water! ?O--, ?- , c :>eing up within a few inches of: :he bridge stringers. The run j ^as made from Kingstree to1. :he railroad bridge id six 1 ^ jours?a distance of forty-five j ( niles. The party of gentlemen: ( vho started with me to make , :he trip to Georgetown and re- j :urn left and went back to' ^ Kingstree,the best they could do is I did not leave the bridge un-1 :il the morning of the 9th. I ( ' ? ? C iU/\ w ? l/\wa .auic ujc rest ui me u ip aiunc. j ( rhere were quite a lot of rafts : ( )f log's at several places along: ^ :he river and, strange to say, I j saw no one about them. I sup-, t oose they were left tied up un- j f :il the water would get down in [ ^ :he banks, which makes it much j. jiser to run the rafts, as the \ t :urrent is stronger and the!. afts move along faster. Some- j j :ime, I came upon a long raft of ( :ypress logs of more than a t lundred and had to fight my , - < IAD = U ! f-ii m 1 CHEAP! % J_OADS fi. &RSESI; uary II, 1908. ft j been on the U \ on. 31 look them over g; ill gone. <fl t ELLER I: E. S. C. f \ SS6S6S6S6S6S51' WtfMWB&Sm&B&EEw ^ shoes! Shoes! All the latest styles, quality Ju surpassed. King1 Quality for M< For Ladies "Star Brand Shoes* a Better." We have just received large shipment of both the brant All sizes aud prices the Lowest. ompan ray through by myself. I ?lept two nights in the open :ide water with cool, gentle jreezes fanning me all the night, could go out on some nice >ank, cook my supper and sleep n the boat. Would cook breakast next morning, and after enoying a nice pint of coffee rould set out again. I did not nake extra haste, but would in^er at the camDand talk with o * :he shad fi&hermen and enquire )f them about some people I renembered along the river long igo. I could recognize many )ld landings and spots I once was so familiar with when I was foung and at that time ray great leligbt was to be floating down :his old stream that I have lovm! so long aud that is dear to ne still. There are not many living ilout old Kingstree now who ran remember when I passed by :here on my first raft from Clar?ndon county to Georgetown. I was then 16 years old. 1 had lever been down the river far:her than four or five miles in a ranoe fishing,and when I started 10 one had any idea that I would ;ver reach Georgetown, but I lid: and that trip caused the opening up of the ton timber :rom Midway section to lower iridge. In Williamsburg I went :o work and built flat boats and JnnteH rosin iust after the war rom Kingstree to Georgetown, ind that was the opening of all :he turpentine business on and ibove Pudding swamp and as ligh up as Midway church. In Jlarendon I boated nearly all of :he turpentine and rosin that ivas made by Moore & Wilson, P 5 Worsham, Jimmy McPaddin, Epps, Burgess & Co, B G Pierson, W D McFaddin, Mac Natt ind McNeil from Montgomery ake to the railroad bridge atj Kingstree, thousands and on housands of barrels. So you see I have done some work on 31ack river. Some would call ne an old river rat. It is 53 ,-ears since I carried the first aft down. In those days I made , nanv places in the river straight >y cutting- across the banks, some places would be one-half nile around and are now only a>outone hundred yards and maiy places much shorter. In many rears past I have u ?n longing , o make one more trip down to j ( Georgetown and I took advan-11 age of the last high water to j nake it. Some asked me if I , hought I could make the trip hrough the bay. That was the 1 easiest part of the river. The ' >ld bay has changed less than 1 tny other place. The old fort , it Land s-end and below George- ] own, where Sampit runs 3 Shoes! y. > 1 into the bay, looks the same as itdid almost tO years ago. I was a little uneasy for fear that the government officer would demand a ten dollar license, but no one has molested me yet. I ran my boat right up to the government wharf and if I am let alone until the tide begins to ebb tomorrow I will slide out of Sampit and up the bay for dear old Black river, my only love and friend for more than half a century. I am already supplied jrith everything in the way of oil and f tting that I, may need. Will get provisions in the morning.* I sent a telegram yesterday to Mr J D GUland, who was one of the party that started from Kingstree with me to come down, asking if he or any one else wanted to go up with me; but up to this time have heard nothing from him. The river no doubt is falling fast up above and I may have a squeeze to #/ reach Kingstree. I have written more than 1 expected, but thongHt that it would perhaps be interesting to some of the readers of The Record, some who know me in the true s^/tise of the word, and some of the young ones who may never have heard ot Old Man Constine. I >* unc, i waa wen avvjuatuted with your tather several years before you were born. He made a speech at the mustej grounds to our company, the" Clarendon Blues, the day we organized the company and elected John Whitworth as captain and Theodore Wilson one of our lieutenants* two brave soldiers, 1%/%4-Vi Kninff IrilloH in th<> cprnnH UU III Ut?U? niiivu <M w. battle of Manassas. I will close this writing- now . and if you think it worth space it would take in The Record you may publish it. Perhaps I may reach Kingstree in threeor four days, as I will not travel with much haste. Will get some fishing tackle and may catch fish enough to have a stew or fry. Hoping to see you before many days, I remain yours truly, Conrad Constine. Attention" Vete rans. A3 Memorial Day comes on Sunlay we will hold our meeting on the Jay previous?Saturday, May 9. A full attendance of members requestHi. The memorial exercises will oe held in the court house, commencing at 11 o'clock a m. Members of the U D G' chapter ivill be expected to co-operate with the camp in making a success of the occasion. The public is cordially invited to assemble with us. H H Kinder, H 0 Britton, Commander. AdjutaiU^^^^^>'