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. " ' -- wp|| w '- S|9 I ' ' '-:-.v.^a - -?-? ? ? ' ' ' :? . ? ?' VOL. XIII. KINGSTREft, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23,1697. 'NOufe.l ' mi m ns. AFFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR LOCAL REPORTER AND NOTED. S* . " " Written In Condensed Form and Printed ' In Like Manner for the Sake of our Weary ReaderS. A merry Christmas to all! Tlte Methodist conference next! R >; year meetsm Greenwood. gK Eight days more and the eve Us J of 1897 will have passed into history. Miss Wilson's school closed yesterday tor the holidays Work ...ill iw. racum <>A \f nnflnv .I;in i Will w itcum\u ^ v ?... 3rd. ' n*- * 0* The pupils of the Kingstreej academy will have week's holiday j this year. The school will close for a week, begining today. Winthrop college has closed for the holidays, and Misses SaPie McCntchen. Magirie Lee and E,va Rollins are spending Christmas at Iheir respective homes. The colored woman who has been working on the chaingang for the past two weeks paid her fino l.?ot UViit.jv anil vru? rplpimpd. ! r JJ ?JV Kin A ? lUW ? ? * >? ? v?v Her sentence was thirty days. Mr. Carl W Hill has retired from the editorial management of the Lake City Times. The paper will be continued by Mr. Marion Clark, of Lake City. We are indebted to Hon. M O ^ Biitler lor a copy of the Compendium of the Eleventh Census, which was received from tiie In terior Department last week. t Superintendent Ilowle will give fhechningang holiday from, today Pr * till next Monday, in order that rf tiic convict* may enjoy Christmas. I An enxra tine dinner will be served to them Christ mas day. The advertisement of the connfy auditor has had an error in the Johnsonville appointment. Mr I Iianna will be at that place on Thursday Jan. 13th instead ot the 141 h, as has been heretofore ad verlised. it Is there no law to prevent hops and other animals running at large through the streets of Kimrstree? f* ?n An <Mit?A/yA ? I?A ir?L?t H ??f\Ck not' Ill IS ill) d^aimk u vvv iivi and good order to allow such a sljjde of affairs in this respect as is seen daily in this rown. Nearly all . the towns rn the State are requiring the citizens to vaccinate, as there is small pox ! within the our State limits. Why ? does not Kingstree take some action in the matter. While there is no immediate danger, it is well to guard against a possible epi domic. Another change in the railroad schedule went into effect last . Monday. The local passenger I train was a<rain out or. for the IE* , ! winter. The time ot leaving ? Kingstree is now as lollows; going north, 8:29 a. m. and 8:15 p. m. p1 going south, 10:45 a. m. and 8:59 p. m. The local passenger does not carry mail, so we have mail * only ouce a day each way. To all new subscribers who enroll their names upon our list y belore February 1st, 189S, we will r* give as a premiun a copy of the World Almanac and Encyclopaedia. fhis Encyclopaedia is the very best publication of its kind ever issued by any publishing ; house, and a copy should be in every home. Let us enroll your name and receive the EncyclopaeI dia free. . There will be a race on Mr. J II Black well's race track next Thursday, Dec. 30th. between Mr. W. \Y. Grayson's "Annie Koonev" and Mr. P B Thome's "Vivian." Mr. E L Smith will open sometime in January, a general mechandise store in the building now occupied by Dr. W G Gamble as a drug store. Mr. Smith has purchased the building, and expects to do a good part of the mercantile business of the town. We have recently arranged with a number of correspondents in different sections of the county to send in the news from their neighborhood and we hope that they will do it. We still want corres pendents in several localities and would like to hear from some one. LJ Brockinton, executor, has a large new advertisement, in this issue ??f the : ecord. Under the present management this house is easily maintaining its position in the front rank of the mercan tile business of Kinnstree obtained for it by its founder. Let all those interesled read the advertisement and then call and see for themselves. The newspaper reports say that Mr. Grover Cleveland is enjoying his duck hunt oft* the Georgetown coast immensely. That honorable gentleman, it is said, ' bags'' an unusually large number ot ducks on every hunt. Some of our readers have long since thought Mr. Cleveland had greater gilts . for dnek'hunting than tor presiding over the nation. At any rale A 1 . A* 1. _ _ A. I ? t _ m reeins mat lie nas noi tosi nis love for sport, and he knows where to find the game. We issue a number .of extra copies of the County Record this week and will send out several hundred sample copies. We want to increase our subscription list several hundred by ti>e beginning of the year. If you receive a copy this week and are not already a subscriber, send in your name and get the largest and best paper ever published in this coun ly every week. Only one dollar a year. We trim all ladies' hars, and do not handle trash. Come one; come all Stackley. Best Raisins tor 10c at Reddick's. Go all around and then come to 16 tack lev's for your {roods. Installation Exercises. 7'lie officers elect of Kin<rstree Lodsre No.. 4G, A. F. M . wiil be installed at 11 o'clock on Monday the 27'it inst, in the court house. Al'tei theinstallation Kev. S 1* H Elwel! will deliver an address on Freemasonry. The public are coftlially invited to attend the installation exercises. Al 7:30 p. in. there will be barqrief served at the Coleman ho'el for the members of the Lodge, ladies and in vited guests. W VV Grajson, Chairman, J A Kelley, * 11 D Keddick, Committee. Al' kinds ot Christmas goods at Stanley's. Fresh Onion-sets, cheap Dr. W V Br ckinglon. We are still headquarters for Christmas goods, and they will be sold cheap Stack ley. 111 IB ~ TO REGISTER UNDER "UNDERSTANDING CLAUSE." The Old Boards Must Have Books Open on the First Monday in January. ^iie County Kecord of last week printed the following para graph relative to the registration law: The "understanding clause" of ihe legistlation law is now a thing v?i tut; pao?* uyitnuvi uiv j/i?/ . perty quaSificaiion or 1hc ability | to read and write will be i.eces sarv pre requisite for registration. It now seems, however, that there is one more day in which voters may register under the ' understanding clat se."' The Columbia State last Friday said: Although it was generally sup posed that the last chance lor registration under the understand ing clause ol the new constitution expired with the days set apart in December lor the books to be open, it develops that there is yet one more day upon which voters can secure registration certificates under that clause. Attorney General Barber lias received recently numer.us inquiries as to whether the time had expired. Yesterday he examined the law and slated that there was yet one more day the first Monday in January. The present boards will conduct the registration on that day: the? they will close their books, make up the lists and file them awav. The act says that voters may register upon the k*understanding provision" up to and inflnrlinor ih.j firs' Mniuhiv in Jail uary, 189$. Toilet soap and line stationary, cheap for cash?Dr W V Brockington. Our stock of iiiiiiuery is complete?Stack ley. \ ? Kingsirea's Npeds. Kingstree needs^an express office atnl a telegraph oflietj in the business portion ?t the town Several weeks ago the Western Union Telegraph Company sent a representative here to look over ' - l - ' 1 J t.xl.l .? ?WX I lie UC1U. illiu wc ntic ium en me lime that the representative promised to recommend the establishment of the office, feeing the need of it. We have never heard anything more of it. For our citizens to be forced to walk about ! a utile to reach a telegraph office is a shame, and, besides th s, lvingstree's commercial work [amounts to enough to warrant the establishment of a down-town of flee. The agent at the depot is worked night and day in order to keep up with the railroad, tclegsaph and express work. We hope the management ol the telegraph company will yet establish an office in the business portion of the town. The SouthernKxpress Company, too, is derelict in its duty towards Kings tree in not furnishing an office down town for the handling of the immense amount of goods that conies through this agency. It is a crying slianie that such a powerful vehicle of transportation as the Southern Express Company should hamper its business and subject its patrons to such inconvenience, anoyance and grievous burdens as itt quietly heaps upon this town. Give us an olficedown town. Go to Stackley's for your Christmas goods, . w, . i & VL ? V A CARD. Editor County Record: Will you kindly allow me space in your j>:?per to reply to the card of Supervisor Chandler which was published sometime ago? Mr. Chandler's card appeared simultaneously with the report of the Grand Jury at our last lerin ofcourl. In this report, the ffiviiul jury "called the attention of the court to the fact that from our examinations of The offices, and information received, it ap pea red that the supervisor, his clerk and the County Commissioners had been paid a part, at least, of their salaries, (-riving the exact amounts that had been re,.<11?-/./! In? owli \ mil n(" fnnrtii that i * VU VT VM* ?M ?IIMt Iiad been ''borrowed" lor other and specific purposes, while other officers of the county, as much entilled to their pay, had not been paid a cent. Mr. Chandler in his card emphatically denies this allegation, in so far as it relates to the borrowed funds, and himself and clerk. In this reply I desire to say for myself and those of the special committee of the grand jury who a-sisted in the investigation, that, in making our report to the full jury, the same was K.?J ?? Ia?ov? iti/?n eaooi vq- 1 UclSCU U|;uil 1 1IIWI lii.iwvui I vvv.1 * VI | and from an examination of the books presented to us. It this particular case, our alien I ion was called by some o! the county officer* who said they were unable lo get any money for their services, but instea 1 had to accept certificates and tllen trade them off* at a discount. Upon making inquiry why this was so, and why these particular officers (supervisor, clerk and county commissioners) should be paid cash for their services. We were informed by treasurer R>!Iim, who pays out all the county mon-J e.v, thai these olScers ha'l been paid out ?f the $1,000, "borrowed" for (lie chaingang and other ex penses, or at least a portion of this borrowed money had been used for that purpose. I have, since Mr. Chandler published his card, been over his stub book, as well as the checks issued therefrom, and find that checks for himself, clerk and county commissioners had been issued on this"oorrowed fund" and the same paid by Vresnrer Rollins and charged to this fund. I regret that Mr. Chandler in his card made it an issue of veracity between lurnsell ana me grand jury, thereby making it appear thai the jury had intentionally or otherwise done him a great injustice by misrepresentation. I am sure I can speak for myself and fellow jurymen, and say that in making our investigations. We were actuated by none other than the purest mo tives to serve the public honestly and faithfully with no ill will towards any one. We were sepeclallv delighted to be able to re port so many of our offices in good condition and tlieir incumbents endeavoring to serve the public" faithfally. The reason of this delayed reply is that I have been very unwell for the past month, a great er portion of the timo confined to I my bed. Respectfully, Edwin Hakper, Foreman, Grand Jury. Money is tight, and goods are very cheap at Slackley's. Full line Balwires triple extracts, at Dr. W V Brockington's. i is ijp m A COLUMN OF LOCALS ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW And People You Don't Know. Some are Our Own People and Some Are Not. Mr. II A Graham, of Timmonsvilie, was ii> Kingsiree last week. Mr. A D Epps is at home from the Charleston Medical college for the holidays. Mr. J E Norment, the special representative of the News aud in ICin^s tree Tuesday. Miss Florence Benjamin, who is teaching school at Sampit, is at home for the holidays. Mr. Roper Pendergrass, of Kingstree, is visiting his brother Mr. Julian Pendergrass.?Florence TimesMessenger. Mr. E M Gregg,Sprunt & Sonrs cotton buyer at this place, will leave for his home today, and will begone till^Monday, Jan. 3rd. Miss Annie Thompson will leave tomorrow for a visit to her old home at Elloree. After her. return she will conduct the millinery department of Riddick's racket store. Messrs. J C Kinder and Eugene Flagler left last Monday night for Richmond, Va. They have eulisted in the United States arm? for.a term of three years. * Mr. W (i Elwell, manager, has sold out his stock of ;:eneral merchandise lo Mr. H D Iieddick. Mr. Elwell will devote his entire lime in future to his livery business. The family of Dr. 8 F H El well will leave today for Charleston. Dr. Elwell preached his farewell sermon last Sunday night. Mt. W (i Elwell will remain here and' will still conduct his 'ivery busi ness near the Coleman House. Rev. A B Earle, the uewly appointed pastor of the Methodist Church at this place, is expected to arrive here tonight. He will he accompanied by his family. Mr.Ear'e will preach his introductory sermou here Sunday morning. The Bennetfsville correspondent of the News ann Courier of Tuesday said: Mr. C VV Wolfe, first assistant in the Bennettsville graded school, is suffering with some chronic trouble and a recent severe attack necessitated his return to the hos pital. IIe is now in Charleston for treatment. Mr. Wolfe is a polished gentleman, and is a member in good standing, of the Lodge of Knights of Pythias. " ^ ? *11 1 4 - J Mr. S M Buiier win leave touuv forhi9 home near Readsville, N C, and will be gone until sometime in February. Mr. Butler was very ill at the home of Mr. J F Wheeler when the residence of that gentleman was destroyed by fire about two months ago. lie suffered a relapse, and was confined to his bed for several weeks. His many friends are glad that he has regained his health to such an extent as to be able to travel, though they will regret his departure. r Married At the residence of the brides' [father, Mr. MS Fagin, on Dec. 15, 1S87, by Rev. S T Russell, Mr. H * 11 ' ?l* UJh U Morgan JKusseji to miss auuib e, Fagin, and Mr., W W Iiines to Miss Lillie J Fagin. At the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Louis Yarborough, on Sunday afteruoon, Dec. 19, 1897, by Rev. S P H Eiwell, Mr. Asa B Burrows to Miss Yarborough. I A GLAD CHRISTMAS > | Will be yours if you.are careCu^ -i in making your purchases. .JJoy only such articles as wijj g^ver(|[0 * most service^thereby.giviDKpIe^S; t. ure. Christmas is.the time whfcrt J all mankind should be glad, . let's everyone see tp it that we cW all we can to make all others glad* We will dp all we can fpr you, ;J% Come and see us. , London Layer EtniMnn, Prepared < urrcnln, lii\cd \uK Citron In greatest abundance," and Stationery Prices are all right. Olily cull wo are sure that if yoa, want apything you can be saifcedy both lusty le and price. TOILET SOAP From HjC to 12^c per cake. Our line is complete. Finest Extracts - Two tottfea leu a Xante?* to*. v ^ nicely packedj.50c. a bo*^ Maiepai lice Christina* present*. y way; speaking of Christians fSp*k '' J "New Home" , Sewing machine would iri&ke an excellent present..? When j goto select your presents .come to our store, and we will sho^ yew > some appropriate articles.' * " * ^-4 i'.lli* m\i 5 nimbi : And Qaeen QJlvesin greatest variety. Just call and look; over lour stock. We have an immense stock of I finest You will be pleased. If you tor your boy want a. ^ Pocket knife Just call and see our. line. Al>. the celebrate^ makes at the fowfcsfr possible prices, - * ' Of course, everyone most wear. ' SHO'ES Our line of shoes is large a?*f complete. Prices right* Jusf call/ rj and see us before buying yoijf shoes. " 4 ' * illlllll ^ A New Parlor Game. || Fu*<-inutinrg to Old aid ???i^ ?| . It is the very latest game Cheap, and everlasting. A scieo- >, tific game. Just see it! Don'tlet ( Christmas pass without buying* board for Carroms. You will gel. more genuine enjoyment out of 9 game ot Carroms than from any* thing else. Be sure to call ind^i . see it. : * ' 1 LntMR/