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f ~ <pjc Cnimti) lle?ofi). VOL. XXV. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1011 NO. 48~ lWll> .|B| * Now Listen: If we can shov v would you buy? Yes, we shou C WE GUARANTEE NO CLOG, v. % . ' M U J Coffins and Cask* A GALL TO FARMERS OF WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY TO ORGANIZE UNDER THE ROCK j tlHLL PLAN WHICH MEANS REDUCTION IN COTTON ACREAGE.' Mr J G Anderson, State superintendent under the Rock Hill plan, has appointed a committee for I Williamsburg county composed ofj Messrs D E McCutchen, of Indian town; W 0 Camlin, of Bloomingvale, and W E Jenkinson, of King-, jf. stree. This committee will appoint canvassers in all parts of the county make a house to house canvass ; and secure pledges from every cot- j ton planter of the county, both! P. black and white, and insist upon a reduction of cotton acreage of at least 25 per cent from last year, j It will also be incumbent upon this i committee to collect funds for the pay of said canvassers. In presenting the Rock Hill plan to the farmers of Williamsburg county the committee feels that tbey are presenting a plan that has the approval of the best thinkers of county; a plan that has the endorsement of both Houses of the State Legislature now in session; a plan j that has the endorsement of the Cotton Congress of the Southern1 (States; a plan that has the endorseof both of our State daily pfle"S, The News and Courier and The Co'umbia State; a plan that has the endorsement and approval of the Farmers' Union. There are r many things we might say to urge the farmers to accept and work together on the Rock Hill plan, but we will only mention one?during the year 1910, there was made 12,000,030 (twelve million) bales of cotton and it brought the farmers of the South one billion of dollars, (ten hundred million). Last year, 1911, the cotton crop will be about fifteen * millions of bales or over, and will """^-bring the farmers of the South only about 750 to 700 millions of dollars. This one fact alone should carry I - onviction to the heart of every man who is able to think for himself. Now, the most important work the committee has in hand to do is to collect money to pay off the men " we will send out to take the pledges. We want to say this to the praise of ^ the town of Kingstree: the committee called on most of the busil ness houses of the town and in every case they met with a hearty re-, Wo Viavo olroaHv enllpftpH I from the town of Kingstree over two hundred dollars and have the sane in the various banks. _ Now, it is a known fact that farmW, the principal industry of this $ secuon of the State and cotton is & our great staple money-making gLvcrop. Merchants, lawyers and docpv tors, all look to the farmers for a support?let the farmers fail and we are all in the same boat. Therein ' fore we are going to call on all to m help ms out in this effort. The committee will need between $500.00 and $600.00 to do the work, as it should be done, and they will never rest until it is done properly. What \ is worth doing at all is worth doing ?* well. LNow, we want to make an earnest j ZZ] HE Shed Your Pack, Fill Yo /you that the Gladiator Stalk Cutt( Id think you would. Come here and NO CHOKE. Remember. We Have the < KINGS! appeal to every merchant, lawyer, doctor and farmer who has a particle of public spirit about him to send in contributions to W E Jenkinson, chairman, who will deposit this money in banks and will publish a list in The County Record from wvek to week the names and amounts of contributions. We hope the people throughout county will enter into the spirit of this important movement, and will aid the committee in every way possible in getting the work done. The following list will show the names and amounts of contributors: Bank of Williamsburg $ 25 00 Bank of Kingstree 25 00 Wee Nee Bank 15 00 \ W E Jenkinson 10 00 Farmers Supply Company 15 00 L D Rogers 3 00 Carolina Furniture Company 5 00 Kingstree Drug Company. .. 10 00 StaclSev Dry Goods Company 3 00 Peoples Mercantile Company 10 00 S Marcus 5 00 M F Heller 10 00 J J M Graham 5 00 J W Coward 5 00 Sol Peres 5 00 Butler Dry Goods Company 3 00 Blakeley McCullough Corporation 5 00 H 0 Britton 10 00 John M Nexsen 10 00 Kingstree Hardware Company 10 00 W M Vause & Son 5 00 Williamsburg Live Stock Co 10 00 F Rhem & Son 10 00 R W Smith to canvass district No 8 free of charge. Marshall Bros 2 00 P. S. I am just in receipt of a wire message from Mr R W Smith saying that he will canvass school district No 8 free of charge. Is there any one else who will come to our rescue and do likewise? Thank you. Brother Smith; push on the good work! Yours truly, W E Jenkinson, Chairman. j New Advertisements j ] Citation Notice? A J Ragin. 1 Statement of Condition?Wee Nee ( Bank. ; "Madam Sherry"?At Florence Au- 1 ditorium Tuesday Next. j Mardi Gras Excursion Rates?At- ] lantic Coast Line. | ^ Prices Slaughtered on Dry Goods? ( Jenkinson Bros Co. Give Your Wife a Bank Book for a Valentine?Farmers & Merchants :' Bank, Lake City. Farm Implements?The Implement 1 Co, Richmond, Va. 1 Fresh Carload Horses and Mules? i Williamsburtr Livestock Co. j Administrator's Notice?R A Brown. | Annual Statement?Bank of Wil- \ liamsburg. , Fire Insurance ? Kingstree Insurance. Real Estate & Loan Co. Real Estate for Sale?R N Speig- 1 ner, Manager. High-Grade Fertilizer?George A; McElveen. 11 Expert Horse-shoeing?W M Vause & Son. ] Cypress Sash, Doors and Blinds?L ; Wetherhorn & Son, Charleston, j j The County Record job office is j! better equipped than ever to do your | J printing. Send it to us at once. j' LLO, B ur Pipe and Sit Down: W< ?r is the best on the market, J I let us show you what we have. J joods; This Is the Place; N " D G P H A D T I\ Lw II n tv IWHOLESALE AND 1 POOR CONRAD'S AUTO-J BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 1 PARENTS CAME FROM GERMANY < -THE SUBJECT OF THIS SKETCH BORN IN CHARLESTON IN 1836. Editor County Record: ? I have written a good many let- j ters to The Record. I have mentioned many people,some who are my -] warmest friends and many old acquaintances,whom it is quite a pleas- ? ure to remember. Many who have read my letters seem to enjoy them 11 very much .which is quite surprising and gratifying to a writer of such limited education; and, as many of the readers of your valuable paper perhaps have never seen me, and many who have seen me and known me for a long time do not know where I came from or how it happened that I am here, I will tell them a little about Conrad Constine. My father and mother came from Germany. My father was raised near the Hartz mountains,his native city being Heidelberg, where many students from different parts of the world have attended institutions of c learning. I was born in Charleston, S C, June, 1836. My father was a member of the German Fusiliers of that city and was with that compa ny in the Indian war in Florida. He died in 1847, when I was but ten i years old. My mother died when I * was but three months old and is buried in St Patrick's churchyard in i Charleston. After my mother's ( death my father grave me to Capt * John C Vose, of the old "Eighteen * Mile House" farm. Capt Vose and ^ his wife, Jane, adopted me and I , called them "Ma Vose" and "Pa \ Vose." ( I will now leave a gap in my early life story from three months of } age to fourteen years, of which I ( may tell the ups and downs at an- < other time. I was living at the * "Eighteen Mile House" when four-|j teen years old and "Ma Vose" and j "Pa Vose" thought that I had bestJ learn some kind of trade. They y thought of putting me on some one r Df the large rice plantations on t Cooper river, but in the fall of that 1 year Mr John J Reardon went down ? :o Charleston with a load of cotton ; f and Mrs Vose,being acquainted with | g VIr Reardon, knew that he was a c ?ood mechanic, and, as I was pres- * ?nt, she asked him if he would like * :o have a boy to learn his trade. He j said he would, and asked me iflij would go home with him. 1 did not! r ike the idea much; he was on his c way to Charleston and expected to ^ return that way in about three days v and during that time I made up my \ mind to go. "Ma Vose" did not in-; c tend to force me to go; I came along c with Mr Reardon and his sons,James e . c and Daniel. I enjoyed the trip very g much. Messrs Ellison Buddin and f Myers Coker were also in the com-1 p pany. I went back to Charleston the I next fall. } For the most of the past 61 years ^ I have lived in Sumter, Clarendon and Williamsburg counties, excepting 3 years in Western Arkansas 1 and 18 years in Florida. It was so t good for me to visit "Eighteen Mile c House", the next winter after I 1 \ ROTHI i Want to Have a Little S In^ Plows we have something to Middle-Breakers, Sub-Soilers, Di> Never has our line been more cor ow Is the Time. So Get E )WARE CO RETAIL DEALERS :ame up here. "Ma Vose" died and [ did not see her any more; a friend vrote some beautiful lines on her leath. She was a noble Christian i ady and a member of St James' !Goose Creek) church: I Lines on the Death of Mrs Jane j Vos-:. iappy soul, thy days are ended, All thy sorrows here below; iy an angel band attended. Shouting "Glory" as they go. ["o the blissful shores of Jordan. They've conveyed thy ransomed soul; j Swiftly thro' its billows riding To heaven, thy destined goal. rhy couch of pain, thy bed of death, Rending every breast. Nere but the road to heaven's gate | And bore thee to thy rest. ?hy husband saw in speechless grief Thy loving eyes grow dim; Jut thy last lingering look of love, Was wafted back to him. rhy daughters, gentle, young and fair, In clustering beauty stood; Yill they not miss thy tender care, When thou art with the dead? rhy son, the last sweet baby boy, That nestled on thy breast; Yill he not miss the lullaby, That lulled him to his rest? V.h, mid agonies and sighs, And faith's triumphant power, 5he bade them meet her in the skies, Where parting would be o'er. PC. . Additional Local Items. 1 ?y i _ ?..ii I uur Ciassuieu iruiumu is a puuci j 'or business. Ask Mr J J M Gra-1 mm of Cades. We have been requested to an- j lounce that there will be a meeting )f the "Knights of Dixie" held at' :he court house Saturday, Febru-; try 17. Messrs J W King of Dillon and J J VI Parker of Scranton were here j yesterday attending stock-holders' I neeting of the Kingstree Hardware Company. The annual meeting of the stocklolders of the Kingstree Hardware Company was held yesterday at the :ompany's store. The report of the nanager, Mr Carr, showed a hand?me dividend, with a substantial imount passed to surplus. We have written several letters to he publishers of the Woman's (VorM at Chicago, but can get no, esponse. We even returned them j heir receipt for fifteen subscrip-j ions that they sold us. While we are! iut several dollars, due to the seemng fraudulency of this concern, we j lon't want our subscribers to lose tnything. So we will send to each I ine who paid us fifteen cents for he "Woman's World" for one year i copy of the "Southern Ruralist" , or the same length of time. The luralist is a Southern farm journal, mblished at Atlanta, Ga, and the egular subscription price is fifty ents a year. We have secured 100 opies of this excellent magazine in xchange for advertising space, and ve purpose to offer them in club vith The Record. This is our best1 lubbing offer. We have only 1001 :opies at 25 cents; when they are 'xhausted the price will be fifty :ents. The magazine is issued twice i month and contains from twentyour to forty pages each issue. Sam)le copies may be had at this office, f any subscriber to the Woman's World is already getting The Rural st. we will advance his or her sub;cription a year ahead. Forcing laying hens with stimuants of any kind, except those na,ure supplies in good food, is a langerous and costiy process in the ong run. i :ri ;izh traight Talk with You, suit any man: Steel Beam Plows i :ies in Wood and Steel Beams. All nplete. If you are open to convictioi lusy. Yours for Business, MPANY We LeadDeath of Mr A D Wilson. We were shocked and grieved last Saturday to hear that our esteemed j friend, Mr Alex D Wilson, had committed suicide the morning before by shooting himself in the head with a shot-gun. We have not been able to learn the details of the lamentable affair, but, from what we can gather, Mr Wilson had been suffering with neuralgia in the head for several days and complained at times that the pain was intolerable. We cannot but believe that the rash deed was done when he was driven by pain out of his reason, for Mr Wilson, as we knew him, was of a well-balanced, normal temperament, ' and in his right mind would shrink from any thought of taking his own j life. Sunday morning,at 11 o'clock, his remains were interred at Indiantown i church in the presence of a crowd I^f^E SiSi MM ?wr We respectfully solicit both the si WW of the women of this community. when you pay your bills regularly i *X3 ordof Just what you spend, and whi receipt for every bill you pay. It wl 1 u ?1* r ..III ka tko mnct !nti 5#> UQIIA UUUA mil l/V ?UV BMVOk vCf make you independent. Let OUR Bank b We Pay 4 per cent intere J? FARMERS & MEf ?S "ABSOLUTELY SAFE," I4siEGDNG|MUSic| Established 1819 WE CAN FURNISH YOU With Everything IIN THE Ml Write for free catalog! low and terms reasonable. We Pay Your Railroad Fare to and fri CHARLES ? In one and two-horse size, we ask is a trial in this line, m i, come and be convinced. M -Others Follow. ( n f ? ~ ? ? ? of relatives and friends of the deceased, all of whom deplored his untimely end. Rev F H Wardlaw was the officiating clergyman. The deceased is survived by the his wife and seven children. Do you know that more real danger lurks in a common cold than in any of the minor ailments? The safe way is to take Chamberlain's tough Kemedy, a thoroughly reliable preparation, and rid yourself of the cold as quickly as possible. This remedy is If or Sale by All Dealers. On the evening of February 14 and 15 the ladies of the Episcopal church will hold in the opera house a fair, "A Trip around the World." Admission 10c. Refreshments extra. 2-l-2t-pd J C Kelley will furnish you with good sawed wood, at the lowest price. 2-8-tf ivlng and the checking accounts gf You can buy ,to better advantage M vlth checks; you also have a rec- w it you spend it for, and a legal gj II help you to economize. A sav- SJ cresting you ever read, and will e YOUR Bank gj ;st on savings accounts. ^CHANTS HANK, & LAKE CITY. S. ClI & "house> Ejj? I I V r.%#; ,/^v. -u.^K^ m< '& JSIC LINB. ie and price list. Prices im Charleston. Ask Us about it. TON, S. C. |