The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, June 23, 1904, Image 3
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Pearl Street,
in Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Darlington,
Canned Goods,
Pickles,
Hams,
Butter,
Cheese,
Crackers,
As I will handle only first=class goods, I hope to build up a good trade with those who^will not have any
other quality. Besides fancy groceries, I w ill handle heavy groceries such as Bacon, Lard, Flour, Meal, &c., to
sell to farmers and cordially invite my country friends to call and see me before placing their orders as I am
prepared to sell them as cheap as the same class of goods can be brought anywhere. When you want to buy
groceries you w ill find it to your interest to call and see me.
Hour,
Hird,
Bacon,
Su^ar,
Coffee,
Everything in the
Staple and Fancv
Grocery Line.
C. G. McCullough.
Hay
and
Grain.
Free Delivery
Telephone No. 30.
^ N- L- HRRRELL,
DEALER IN
Carriages, Buggies, Surreys, Phaetons,
Old Hickory Wagons, Cofhns,
Caskets, Burial Robes, Etc.
Harness,
Saddlery and
Horse
Furnishings
Of All Kinds.
Darlington, S. C.
ton, is tl.e beautiful Mt'it' Luari
ufacturins: town of i.umber,
with a population of from l.'ioo
to 1800, all of whom are direct
ly or indirectly connected with
the manufacturing plant of the
Williams & McKeithan 1,umber
Co. Tne oltieers of the com
pany are: M r Ernest Williams,
1, ochburg, Va., president; Mr
L> T McKeitliau, L imber, S (J ,
vice president and general
manager; Mr J R Daniel, l.iin
her, S. C., secretary and assis
taut general manager
The business is operated un
der the efficient management < f
Mr D T McKeithan I bis com
pany is incorporated under the
laws of South Carolina, with a
paid up capital of $3<io,oo<u>u.
They operate two band mills,
the capacity of which is about
100,000 feet per day, about 40
per centf of which is cypress
aud hardwoods, the rest being
long leaf yellow pine, the most
of the latter being consumed in
North add South Carolina. Two
improved Lidgerwood Sk eiders,
at a oOBf of $10,000 00 each, no
head of mules, and three loco
motive engines with Hi cars,
kept continually busy supply
ing the mill with logs lln v
have built a standard guuge
-ailrokd far into the Pee Dee
swamps, where they obtain in
abundance some ot the linest
cypress and hardwood timber
that can be found anywhere m
the State. Across the highland
in the direction of Fioieuce, ex
tends another railroad, about
15 miles in length, where they
have a Lidgerwood skidder in
operation, doing some very line
work, under the management
of Mr W A Kirby, who is gen
eral forerfian of the pine legging
department, MrO fi Singletary,
of many years experience, being
at tne dead of the cypress log
ging. Their cypress lumber
yarns cover an area ot id to 'Ju
acres, on which are piled six to
seven million feet of high grade-
cypress aud hardwoods, trom
which slock daily shipments
mad,- ti tl :g: ind
Noriln rn m o kel . 1 li i s
b: neh of the business is super-
int-nded by .Mr (l \ king, who
has given ;■ number of \ ears to
(be sludy of the grading of this
class of lumber
The planing mill, under the
supervision of Mr A 8 .Newton,
turns out about '."pion feet of
dressed boards and dimension
stuff daily.
Tins company ha- recently
purchased a log cable way.
which is entirely new to the
mill operatives in the South, it
being used for the purpose of
unloading and conveying the
logs from the trains to the mill
This machine is also a product
of the Lidgerwood M’f’g. Co
and is successfully operated by
M r (ieorge Daniel. |
The company own extensive
timber lands in Darlington,
Florence, Marlboro and Lee
counties, and are continually
adding to their already large
holdings.
They carry in the line of
General Merchandise, about a
$7,000.(>o stock, consisting of
high class dry goods, shoot,
notions, groceries and so forth.
This department is under the
management of Mr \\ (' kelly,
who is known throughout this
county for high type of char
actor and pleasing manners.
In and around the town is
Dear farm, which consists of
about loo acres. The principal,
products grown arc corn,
cotton and vegetables This is
looked after by Mr (’ S lames, I
who is also the manager of the
only hotel in the (own.
The employees live in neat
cottages, all of which belong to
the company and for which no
rent is collected The town is
supplied with water by five
artesian wells, and the health
of the place looked after by Dr.
Greene In the southern (art
of the town, are situated a
t hurcli, School House, Play
House and K of P Hall The
('hiirch is used by three de-
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I .ess heoingy ami " ire
Vjiin&uanitv might help some.
VVt lift ourselves up bv
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rapid f.itratti...!
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Hants with which vou ur. reaching down to help others.
• | already familiar. D You don’t have to pray loud
' '.eei - ssary for me to add ^, poach the Father's ear.
DkD -liounl you pul uii a me ■
ehanical filter plant, il would A 11 iwo- in the sick room is
have to be of Di - ebeapesf form better than a honipiet on the
of construction and would he grave,
run w ithout alum, for the rea
son that no bacterial removal
would he looked for, there he
mg no objectionable bacteria
in voiir water to remove.
ANALYSIS.
K -suits in parts per mi
The A. T. C
nominations, viz Presbyterian,
Methodist and Raptist
All of the several dep irDnents
of this enormous eoneern is
personaPv looked after by Mr
DT McKeithan, who is well
liked by every person of the
town, hut most of all by Dm
aUU employees, all of w hom he
is ever readv lo assist m time
of m-i (I Mr M k' iDriti does
not need an inti oduet e hi 'o Do-
lumln r trade, hi- hav ing ,m
voted the most of his 11fe to this
business. He was i im i.] Die
few vv ho was able to k
stand in the business
the period when low pi i
vailed for about three
beginning in I'-Hlt.
ANALYSIS OF WATER.
Taste,
t tilor,
('olor, i platinum scab"
h
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issues from tlm well so far as Sediment, quickly fall-
appearance is eoneermd, hut "'k 1
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t ha . a decided smell of MilpIlU
r-l‘«<l *>> d1 . 1 geii IS i (Ificeble Kn . ( . A
when the water is treshly Alluminoid Ammonia,
drawn This sna il qiiiekly ( hlorine in chlorides,
pass, s away, ai d Dmie was Nitrogen ill Nitrates,
none whatever remaining by Ni.rogen in Nitrile-.
Die lime the sample reached me Oxygen required to oxi
It m due to a slight trace of di/a- organic matter at
Mliphuretted hvdrogen gas held UU 1- ,
m s,'Inn u by the water an I is Hardness as parts ol ('a
common enough to water from ( «• soap, test,
do, p wells, particularly those Alkalinity i> p u-ts of t',t
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Sample Taken June 7th, PJ04
Troy, N . N , Juue 1 nth, t.
Hon. Geo. H Dargan, M iv nr.
Darlington, South (‘aro.m i.
Dear Sir: —
Permit me to hand ymi her,'
with tht> analysis of \..ur Imp
well water which S.nm lam
ishes the puhlie supply ot D , i -
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A vote in the box counts for
more than the protest after
election.
Whiskey numbers its worst
victims among those who
never use it.
Calico clad virtue gets more
real pleasure out of life than
silk clad vice,
to.
| There is a -wide difference be-
N'one i tween giving for love and giv
ing for praise.
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lkl - man who is in love is like giv-
(* ing bird seed to a cat.
•L r ’ When honest men divide at
None the polls the exploiters con-
, solidate at the spoils.
Letting along in the world
does not always mean getting
up in the world.
The real queens of society
are those who hold loving t.way
oyer their own homes.
I ,te ui the Average Politician.
The following is copied from
fromun old clipping which I
have preservu d for years.
4 uting men of the present day
who enter politics, and are not
actuated by worthy motives,
can draw a good moral from
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Young Mr Jones.
James Jones.
Mr James Jonjs.
Clerk of Elections Jones.
Committeeman Jones,
Alderman Jones.
'The Hon James M Jones.
Ex-Alderman Jones.
James Martin Jones.
Jones.
Jim Jones.
Jimmy Jones.
Tenth ward Jimmy.
Jimmy the bum.
Jim.
Whiskey Jim.
Old Soak.
Cell !)9.
Coroner’s office—unidentified.
Finis.
The wav of the transgressor
is hard. An honest man is the
noblest work of God, Joseph M
Sullivan, of the Suffolk (Mass.)
Bar.
Patton’s Stemmery
! The eight-year-old son of J
A Clark of Spartanburg swal
lowed an iron bolt. It lodged
in his throat and killed him in
a few minutes.
Mitchell Sharp was arrested
in Spartanburg. He ran away
from his wife and children in
Charlotte, carrying another
man’s wife witnl
J E Gillis, in Caraftn jail for
killing McKea WhjWaker, ap
plied to Judge Wan for bail,
but was refused^y His father
was bailed on a J^ooo bond.
STATE NEWS.
The contn
passenger s i
bnrg has
is unders
that is
built at
for the new
>n at Spartan-
awarded, and it
that as soon as
Led one will be
nville.
Items of Interest Culled
From Our Various
Exchanges.
i
Ten weddings are to take
place in Sumter this month.
There are Lbi eondidates for
office in Chester county .
Spartanburg can now boast
of three dispensaries, besides
her beer privileges and blind
tigers
'The liquor commissioners
bought last week 8ati barrels
and 5,000 cases of liquor to
quench the thirst for a little
while of the people of the
I state
'The National I'nion hat -
directors of Rack Hill ha t-
adopted a resolution that no
one who smokes cigarettes can
find employment in that bank.
Wm Il'Yemer of Columbia
has won the Rhodes scholar
ship from this state in Oxford
university, England. The
scholarship is for three years,
with $l,5oo a year to the lucky
young man.
Col R B Watson of Ridge
Spring is a candidate for the
senate from S iluda. His plat
form is the dispensary and the
imposition of half a mill tax on
anv county voting out “the
great moral institution
The society for the prevention
of cruelty to antmils m East-
over, R chland c,oi i 1 y, had a
uegio prosecuted im cruelty
beating an ox, and he was
convicted and sentenced to pay
a tine of $15 or work do day s on
the chaiugang.
Adjutant General Frost has
changed the dates for Dio en
campment in Columbia. As
now arranged, the 1 turd regi
ment will go into camp on July
5th, the Second on Die July
li n, t he Fir it on J uly J ’ L and
til, i—ivalrv regiment on August
n! iibi,
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