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> >b '; I ^Th* !IlJC =i<corbf 1 t "Cheapne^Ner,. f O of 1*, W^'ljj U, I gJL I J 2^1.1/3/' iJ3 jL Pa I I " ! j .. i and Dcspatcn." ^ feS* V V W ^ W "T **" ^ 4 GIVES THE KEWS. I 0^ VOL. XIV, KiXUSTREE, SOl'TH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, U OUST 1*. is<* NO. 23. | , > i mm ?????WWWWW? ii . ma ins oTiiil AFFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR LOCAL v REPORTER AND NOTTED , I Written in Condensed Form and Printed ' in Like Mar.r.c" for the Sake I of Our Weary Readers. Several new candidates tin* week. r Kev. W II Kirton,of Lake City, \ paid us h call yesterday. ( .Mr. i\ l riuman. 01 uourain s. was in town Thursday. Visitors in Kingstree always speafc well of its excellent water ' Mr. Edwin 11irsch went over to ( Suiters on legal business last Monday. , Bead Wilkius* advertisement in ( another column. . t Mr. W II Singletary has with- 1 drawn from the Senatorial race. Mr. T M Gilland's friends are ' glad to see that he is well enough to ride out. Mr. Joel E Brunson and his \ daughter, Miss Margaret, left last 1 Thursday for a stay in Sumter. Representatives of several fe- s i w . : !. _ j ?_* nidie colleges nave \is:tea x\.nga tree recently. c Mr. and Mrs. Iiaudv Ilollorr.an,:, :' of Greeleyville, spent Sunday in ' | Kingstrec. < The county campaign has open- * vd and there can be no other entries ' into the rnc? lor county oilicea. . Mr. E G Jacobs, of Macon, Ga., | is spending a few weeks in town with his parents. IJorn, unto Rev. and Mrs. W I.) y Moorer, on Tuesday, August lb, a . a m. As this is election year, those wh ) c dctsire to kt*ep tip with the campaign ^ would do well to subscribe to Tun . County Kkcokd. Mr. II B Morris, of Trio, looked f in on us last Monday. Before t leaving town lie became a p'tid up subscriber to The Record. Mrs. D C Scott has returned to ? Kingstree,after a visit to her sis- ( ter, Mrs.C KDavis, of Frieudfieid. 1 ?Reform Advocate. Cotton is opening very rapidly, ^ and soou the market will be over llowing with the staple product ot t the land. Mr. Olin Epps and Miss Elise r Carwilo have both accepted the * positions to which they were re- 1 ceutly elected in the Kingstree Academy. i Rev. R \V Barnwell preached his usual excellent sermon at the \ Episcopal chapel on last Sunday morning There was no preaching at the other churches. The crops ot the county have \ snrfered severely trom the wet ! weather which has prevailed dur- i 1 1 I ing the past few weeks. From all over tho county come complaints of too much rain. , % Mr. W T Wilkins moved his ( w | ( family here from Foreston last:, Thursday. Their uew home is at ' ] the Brockintou house, on Railroad j Avenue. In behalf ol the town we : cordially welcome the new-comers | among us. i The following recruiting ofiieers | were here on Tuesday to muster in the Second Regiment recruits from this county: 3!aj. E J W.m namaker,Lieut. J W Culler, Sergt. j R F Woods and Private J J. AIj Iv. 'i'wentv six recruits were ex i E* * amined,of which mumber thirteen were mustered into service, the remainder failing to pass the physical examination. l I . Belure the opening 01 thy next ichuol term soine repairs should be nade 011 the academy building, several blinds nie missing, tne "eace is out 01 repair and a goneril over hauling oi the premises is aeeded '! ho merchants of I\iiiirstroi* will loon begin to receive their lull :oo'.L-. Look out for their tail and viator announcements m the Comity Record, The livo mer rhants always patronize our u l veriising columns. Sergeant L J liristow will renaia in Williamsburg county for ;evera! days yet, ami those who lesire to enlist with him would do veli to communicate with him at I nice. Letters or telegrams ad] Ia him u f vviil UVgJVU ?w K?I41 MV < v. V ' each him promptly. Rev?. \V II I lodges and wife, (J " Clarkson and wife, and (I W i A'addeil parsed through town Saturday evening on the way to ndiantown to visit Capt. W li vennedy and family. The party ire bach from Paw ley's I.-huid, vhere they have he-en spending leveral week? quite pleasantly. Some good work has been done >n Main Street with n mowing machine. Many a tali \vcc*l has n't the dust and some of the grass >n the side-walks has been hood i\\ sv. This is a move i'.i the right lirection, and we hope ere long to ee the shabby, nnkcir.pt condilon of the streets much improved, jot the good work go on. Mr. Silas Bonnds has l>egnn vork npon the d veiling of Oapt. >V II Kennedy on the lot adjoinng l)r. D C Scott's, and the tn L _ : i 1 __ _ .. i. _ j a ? miming w.ii re rapiuiy pusneu k? ompletion. Mr. Timmons is also >oring an artesian well on the iremises. When completed, this landsome residence will make a ine appearance in that part ol own. There arc a good many small boys ironad town who are confirmed cigtrelte smokers, and their vocabulary )f profanity is something alarming. rVo believe there is a law against! ielliug cigarettes to minors, and it houUl be rigidly enforced. If these' joys are confirmed smokers and ;we;*rers at ten, what will they be at wenty years old? In section director Ihui.rV weekly! Top report this week, the f< 'lowingJ Tom Mr. J) X Johnson, of C-hnp- j nan, this county, was incorporated: 'The corn crop is about made and is ibou* the average, while cotton has ailed wonderfully from the inces uiit rains; peas also injured, rice, !Ugar cane and sweet potatoes doing .veil, fodder stripping delayed" La'd To Rest. The tunera! services of Dr. J W daggers took place at tlie Wiliaimdmrg cemetery last Monday, lis death having occurred on the l?re<*o*i;nir day .it 'ho home of Mr. W I'McGili, where he was 011 a risit. Rcroie the wr.r )>r Staggers was one of th* largest slave owners of this <' >nnt\\ and many of >nr older citizens yet remember Ins boundless hospitality and the lavish style which he maintained. AH of his lit'.-, about so vent yI wo years, was spent in tier conn iv. with the exception oJ a few years h? was in 'ie.xes, and his lasi years have been p. sr.a at!hhome of hi:, son, ('apt. William Cooper, oi'Indianrown. Mr iAtnrv Withtiraw^ I hereby u:v . notice to ?ho voters (,1 '!i?- cm:;' ly ov. v.t: ?o con 'iji'f'i ! *?!','fh, I i.:u*o th'ciuotl !o vv-t'ulra .v my camlkiacy lW the State Senate. 1 hanking my frien?ls for past favors, I am. Respectfully, W R SlJJfJLETAKY. IJH IWOI . WU.-W r com mill r I RSI GUN OF THE BATTLE IN Williamsburg county The Would-be Officials Address the Sovereigns and Incidentally Solicit Votes. Tho opening meeting of the county campaign was held in the Icourt house yesterday. All 01 the candidates but one was present ami addressed the small crowd of sovereigns who assembled to hear the issues of the day discussj ed. There were probably seventy! live or one hundred people in the spacious court house to hear the nineteen gentlemen who are aspiring to office speak, and they were well entertained. Dr A LI Williams county chair man, called the meeting to order then proceeded to announce ids condidacy for re-election to the State Somite, lie was sorry that his competitor had withdrawn from the race, as he believed in rotation in cfficeifthe people desired it. He did not intend enterI:? !._ _. ?n Ii^". iill; iuct* uii> vrui a*. a:i, ?-*u? ,>o in responce to numerous letter? and petitions urping him to run. The greatest issue before the people, he said, is the question of Prohibition, lie is u thorough Prohibitionist, but does not see how a prohibitory law can be success fully carried out, and therefore he favors the dispensary a? tho best solution of the liquor question at p resent. The chairman then intrduced as a legislative candidate, .7NO. 0 GRAHAM, who said he had no Ucu t and dried'' speech to deliver. lie asked re election on his past leg islative record, lie always votes, he said, according to the dictates of his conscience. lie believes in supporting the higher insiitutions of learning, but wants the county public schools to have a larger share of the school lunds. He tk,. ..? VUtVJU iUl llltj \jl\2lU5\JU, VUIIU^C ttj>propriatior>, but believes that il can be be conducted on a cheaper basis. He favors the fiveyear-term convicts being sent to the chainvang instead of to the penitentiary. c w. woLre was next introduced by tho chairman and was greeted with applause. I!e said ho needed no in trodmtion to the people of his county among whom ho'had spent the greater part of his life. lie is voting, hut it is no lomror n crime for a young man to bo elected to office. Fie wants the people to vote for the meu who are best able to represent the county in the general assembly. He said there is loo great a difference in the amounts appropriated to the colleges and to the common, free schools. lie cited Olenison College which, i.e said, received, accord in,: to the Comptroller-general's report, 1.000 la-i year. WilJ imin.-burg paid her portion of it j and she hud five boys ui the I school, and they each at an ex! pense of riot) to their' respective | lathers. II*' \v:!i work IV.-r Jongm , uniUft and more efficient service in I the free schools of the county. He (said he f.iv . *d 1'rohihilion, but ! suen a l.r.v can't be enforced :! ! tho present time, so he favors the ih-peusary as b ing better for th-. State than the barrooms. w. ,v. kjxxi:pv was also introduced as a leg:sin] I tivt: nr-pirnnt. Ho favors le-luc i 4 tion in taxes and biennial session.of the legislature. lie believes it electing all State and county ofH w -!? mm IL^ii cor^ for a form of four venrs. He c?ui iie wa- ;n favor of reducing the college appropriations, lie is in favor of the di.-ptmsary. PETIi I'llF.LPS was next announced as a candi date for the legislature, lie fav ors the privilege tax going to the county schools instead of to Clem son. iie stands flat footed upon i In ,!i^nniip..ii-v o*..l ii nnrwii.'.'l to rrohibition in all its phases. lie iavors inodiiications in the dispen sary law. Do away with the State hoard of control, lie said, and let the grant jury supervise the county boards of control. If elected ho will ''clean out the barn*1 at Columbia. The next speaker, s \v gamblk would favor prohibition if it could be carried out. but la* thinks it impracticable at this time. He said the schools are run in the interest ot tiie few, and he favors* a I change in this. Everybody cannot j have a school house at their very door, but there are many ways in j which improvements can be made. The next candidate was \V B M'CAXTH, an aspirant totheoflice of county supervisor. He simply announced his candidacy and made no speech. | lie was followed by H r BALDWIN", 1 who said he was a candidate t wo years aiioand as ho was in the second race then he believed the noniilo ivanfctd him nnd he was r?r-~ ? before them again. lie was confident of victory, the people well knew it took a man of great ability to fill this office. P M BRADSHAW, announced his candidacy without making ? s[?eech. B B C1IAXDLKH, made a vigorous speech defending his record as supervisor. Last year was the first year that the county had paid dollar for dollar on its debts, and this was during his administration. Ho had established the chaingang and it was a success. The improvements in the public roads made by the chningang were worth a great deal more than the gang had coat. It coat from 1? to 2o cents a day to keep a prisoner on the chaingang and it cost HO cents a day to keep him in jail. He asks re-election because ho deserves it. J p kpps, only announced himself'and promised to do hi-< whole duty. w i> owfns, is a candidate fj?r county treasurer. Thi? he said is his first appearance 011 the stump. He believes he is capable of filling the office. lie has no -a I...* ,.rl ? H'tUlU UlU liin j'i i ? air ivv in c*i home and ho asks the suffrage of the people. W J FEHRILL, has been honored by being elected uuditorfor two terms and he asket) to be made treasurer. Mr N M Venters was absent but has fiied his pledge as a candidate for treasurer. R D ROLLINS, the incumbent asks re-election on his record and merits. He is fcuided entirely by the statutes and there foro it would do no good to air his views on legislative subjects, in asmuch as he could do nothing in shaping laws. At this .juncture the pyrotechnics begun awl the most heated argument of the meeting was delivered. WILLIAM COOI'FK was introduced ?? candidate for treasurer, and he .apologized for coming before the people again hut .->aid in- tn.d been slandered ir. the iwit campaign and it w is to defend hiniAi if from the charges made against, himself during the last campaign by the present treasurer that he was here, ile said lie had ^ been slandered by Mr. Rollins in th" lower or.rt of the countv fw > 1 . years ago, and he now had the pr?n i ( of the falsity of certain charges (Continued on page S.i liii BCRuirs. MOilE YOUNG YlcN FOR THE UNITED STATE? ARMY Of Course, as Peace Has Been Declared They Will Only do Garrison Duty. .Sergeant Rris'ow, of Company A, .Second S C Regiment, U S V, has been in Williamsburg county lorthe past week looking up recruits for the United States army, and lie lias succeeded in getting about fifteen or twenty young men to enlist. The sergeant says that the work of recruiting is some what hard now that peace has been declared, as the young men of the St ate do not care to enlist for garrison duty only. If the war was not at an end there would be no trouble in securing double the number of men tor service at the Iront. The recruiting officer made a trip into the lower portion ot the county last week, which was very successful from his point or view, iht- trip embraced the country arouml Walters, Lanes, .Suttous, Trio, Greens and Browns, and at every place one or more young men were found who were willing 'to enlist. The Second Regiment expects to be sent to the Hawaiian islands and this will be quite a trip lor the young Williamsburgers. The climate of these islands is said to be delightful and the fact that they have but recently been an nexed to the United States will make the 6tay there a very pleas ant one. There will be so many new things for the young men that the two years for which they enlisted will rapidly pass away and they will even regret that they have no more time to spend on the distant islands. The i i . j _ r 4L . I J i it.. Knowledge 01 me worm mat tue young South Carolinians will gain by a trip to any foreign country will be worth' a great deal more to them than a two years' course in any school. Even if the Second South Carolina is not sent to Hawaii. it will go somewhere that will be as new to the members of the organization as the newly acquired Hawaiian territory, so the young men who enlisted from this county have nothing to lose by their action. The Regiment wilt soon be till.1 A A. _ - 4 * 4 _ A. I. .1 - A' ea io irs nniiiv sirengin ana n there are any ether Williamsburgers who desire to join they would do well to address Sergeant Hristow at Kingstree right away. One thing that was very notieea hie on the trip was the number 01 negroes who desire to join the United States army. Mr. Bristow says that at every place ht? stopped there were several negroes who came to him and tried to get into the army. Of ceursC there are no negroes at all in- the'South Carolina volunteers, and to enlist them was out of the question altogether. It i3 true that a com pany of negroes was onlisted at Darlington some time ago, and also ono at Spartanburg andanoth er at Greenwood, but they were assigned to the Tenth Regiment ol imraunes and are probably on their way to Porto Rica now. There would be no trouble at all in raising a full company of negroes in this county,- bnt the government will not accept any mor* colored troops from this State. It is a tact no! generally known, but is ti uo all tin? same, that Governor Kllerbe tendered the United States government eight compan ies of colored troops just after the second call for eight companies ol i volniifoers from tins Mate wa.< MDiif!;*. Itiie government offi' rials r"i';i-o ] the offer. This i? wrong; if ill-- colored popnlntioi desire lo eulisf. there should b( some way provided for them t( do 80 " * ' ' ' 'i ; , ' xfSeason :| Will Soon z Be Hef6 I ptm When we begin to' iltif falf and winter goods. Eefoi'6 that time arrives wo want to sell dti^ . .4 a ),/-. * .?* rv AAn^LI A' / - aiucn. uuwu iuw <xa ^uaaiuiv auu are offering Very LoW Price.& on nearly everything ifr dti'i1 line.WE have a big lftie tit SHOES I -being sold art jrticefr t?6' stltt t if season-. LadieS 1 I ** r? /i' St uuuGt veaiar " M at 5c, lOfc and upward*.- A lafge' ' line of 3 i*,} Sample? Patst& ' / in Which We ate offering bargain*.' _> . bB Because' of the advataet prices on Lonf 1 V3j Tob&C last season arid the additional fait 9 as a war measure otr manutactilred food's,- there #H1' he rtty faiottf tofiaeeo' manufactured' thtfC Cat* he retailed at 25c per. Ibi* fiow-^ ; m over we anticipated this* cotatfitibii1 and laid in quite' a' large stoctf Mint we are seliintr at old DriceS WE have rilatiy bargainafoH flitf ready customer. a rnmm* IHTL' * ) ? ' .