Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 4 ' '% ' ?4 r * - . . i' Hbe (?ouut|] ^Uc0td. j VOL XVI IE ~ KINGSTREE, S: C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 15)02. ~ NO. 52 | I LOCAL ITEMS | OF I IS TERES! v ? B w UlUUUUUUUliUlUiUlUiO Christmas ereetin^s to all. Mr J F Cooper visited Charleston Friday. Dr R J McCabe went to Georgetown this week. Mr Marvin Martin has been ill for several days. St Nicholas is truly the patron saint of the little folks. Mr. J S Tisdale was on our streets Saturday fr<jm Benson. Mrs W S Martin of Johnston is -"A" ?*M ^Atrn visiuug relatives m wnu. Mr Simon Ponton of Jay was a visitor to town Monday. Mr W C Wilson of Indiantown iV gjk was in town one day this week. T A W Chandler of Pineland was a visitor in town Tuesday. Misses Othell and Lizzie Epps were in town Saturday from Central. Mr P D Cockfield and son J S Cocklield were in town Saturday. s Many a turkey will sing the gobble song today for the last time. Mr James Cunningham of Sumter is visiting his parents at Indiantown Misses Edith and Beulah Nelson ^visited the city by the sea Tuesday. The Christmas song of the 6mall *iov "Evervbodv sot a whistle like me, B J Kirk, Esq., is in Charleston this week, enjoying the merry ynle * tide. - ^ Mi. R A Watts went to Goldsboro r ' Tuesday night to renmin during p, Xxuas. Supervisor-elect J J Graham of Sertton8 was in town Friday on business. Mr and Mrs T J Ptrillips of Cedar Swamp were among the visitors in town Monday. Mr S J Smgletary of Lake Citv, ooonty commissioner elect, visited I: town yesterday. |tf^HBB?essrs J F and B F Brock in ton. ^ were pleasant visitors at our ^^^^Hctum Monday. Miss Belle Harper, who is teaching ~ A ** * : ipk.;,*. I, u rI'uwpeci, is ciijuvin^ **ui vuuot | ? vacation at home. We were glad to 6hake hands with our friend Dr J R Brockintou of ' Indiantown last Friday. L* Messrs W P McGill of Cades and J Y McGill of Benson were in ' Kingstree Tuesday. Messis R B Smith and W H McElveen of Spring Bank were in Kingstree Friday. Miss Blanch Montgomery went to j^Beorgetow n this week to spend H mas with relatives. Dr. C D Jacobs, who is attending the Charleston Medical -College, is home for the holidays. Mr Pole Tyler of Benson called Tuesday and left u? a pleasant souvenir on subscription. Mr Eugene Hirsch speut. several days in town this week. s Mrs R D Gamble and Miss Maude ^haplin"of Indiautown, were in town l^y/ shopping last Saturday. Prof W J Smiley, who has beer teaching at Sandy Bay, was on our streets one day this week. Miss Mary Boyd of Darlington ii ' visiting the family of Capt John A Kelley, on Academy street. Hon Joel E Brunson left Tuesdav & night for Sumter to be with hit family during the holidays. Mr T W Boyle, one of GreeleyMF ville's solid business men, was amon<; the visitors to town Saturday. Df I N Boyd, who has a veritable host'of warm friends in town, wa? { a county seat visitor Saturday. ^ * ' ; [wwmmmmmmmmmm? [ 4FFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR > LOCAL REPORTER AND NOTED 1 =======^ 3 . Written in Condensed Form and Printed in Like Manner 1 for the Sake of Our Busy 223 Readers ~3 MlUUilUUiUiUiUUllUlitiiil? Dr and Mrs D P Frierson of ! Charleston are spending the holidays at Mr James Epps' near town. ,J Prof Sam McCullough, who has been teaching in the Bloomingvale section, called to see us Tuesday. Mrs M E Cockfield, who has been quite siek at the home of Mr G F Williamson at Cades, is improving. Mrs Lizzie Barrincau of Molino, Fla., passed through town town last week on a visit to relatives at Rome. Mr Marion Allen of Florence, formerly a citizen of Kingstree, spent a day or two here with friends last week. Mr Edwin Epps left Monday night for Tupelo, Missippi, to pay his relatives there a long deferred Xnias visit. * The editor returns appreciative thanks for an invitation to a Christmas tree at Capt A J Smith's last evening. Our merchants seemed to be doing a rushing trade during the holidays, especially those who advertise in The Recokd. Prof N D Lesesne of Greeleyville than whom there is no more scholarly gentleman in the county, was in town a few hours Saturday. Mr Joe Brockinton, who holds a position with the Atlantic Coast Lumber Co. of Georgetown, came over yesterday for the Xmas holidays. At a meeting of the town council this week C E St Amand, Esq., was elected town clerk and treasurer to succeed Marion 11 Levin, deceased. Mr Samuel A Tisdale, who has been iu business in Georgia for the past year, arrived in town Tuesday night en route to Benson to s|>end Xmas. Miss Jennie McCutchen, who is a member of the faculty of the Presbvterian High School, of Columbia, is spending Xmas with relatives at Indian tow n. Mr*E J Newoomb, traveling representative of the Southern Printers' Supply Co., Washington, D. C., visited The Record office while in town Tuesday. Our Lake City correspondent is probably taking Christmas this week. His bright and breezy letters are a feature of The Record and one that we cannot well do without. Mr Heber G Epps of Grimes, Alabama, came home this week for a brief holiday. Mr Epps is in the saw-mill business in Alabama and is making a success of it. Mr W M O'Bryan of Heinemanu was in town Monday greeting his i friends. His two sons, Cadets S G and W M O'Bryan, Jr., are home from Clemson College for Christmas. There will be a hot supper at Mr S W Mcintosh's, Workman, on New Year's night, to which the public ie cordially invited. The proceeds will be applied to re building the school house. i I)r W V Brockington's horse dashed off Sunday afternoon, from 1 the watering trough in front of Capt G P Nelson's house, pulling | Dr Brockington, uiho was holding ! him, over the trough and bruising ' him severely. The horse got away and ran some distance before being ' stopped. 5 News reached here yesterday of the killing of Mr Robert Bodiford the night before on the Murray Hill ' road about nine miles from town. We have been unable to obtain the ! particulars of the homicide at this 5 time and will not attempt to give an account of the affair on mere hearsay. Mr P B Thorn left Tuesday night for Washington, I). 0., to join his daughters. Misses Marie and Selma, who are attending the Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Ya.., and with a party from the school, will spend the holidays in sight seeing around the capital. We have been requested to an-; iiouuce that there will be a hot supper at Johr.sonville church parsousonage 011 the night of Tuesday, 'ill Til.. 1?2 rw ifilinl. I A/VVVHIUVI W? -A AAV I'VtWfl IV VVI \tiui | lv invited to attended and enjoy a pleasant evening and at the same time contribute to a good cause. On Saturday, December 27, a carload of horses will be sold at auction in town. There will also be a lot of horse swapping?in fact a regular, old time herse-traders' convention. Anyone wanting to buy a nice horse or to get a new one in a trade should not fail to be on hand. The editor is indebted to the Palmetto Club of Georgetown for an invitation to their annual banquet i to take place on the eveninng of December 31, 1902. The Palmetto Club is justly famous for the elegance of their entertainments and we highly appreciate the courtesy of the invitaion committee. < Mr Dan B Cooper, a son of Supt 1 of Education Cooper, is home on a two months furlough for Xmas. i Mr Cooper has been in the United ' States army for about two years. ] He is now a cadet of the artillery < corps, stationed at Fort Scriven, on i Tybee island. He has another year to serve before his term of enlist- | iiit'ixu tr.\|iuca. j News reached here a few days ago of the extreme illness of Mrs A Mc- ] Rimmon, who now resides at Warner Mines, Alabama. Her , malady is typhoid fever and at last , accounts her condition was precari- ( ous. Mrs Mc Rimmon is the mother of Mrs R W Fulton and has a number of friends in the county who will l>e pained to learn of her illness. Mr E R Rowell of Taft recently . * i presented the editor with a sample | of syrup made from ribbon cane ( grown on his farm. The sywip was delicious and our enjoyment of it is ^ only exceeded by the appreciation of the kindly spirit which prompted the gift. Mr Rowell is a thrifty and I energetic farmer and withal an ' estimable citizen of his community. Mr D F Baxley of Lambert, who presented us with the largest stalk ' of ribbon cane this season and really ! the finest we ever saw. supplemented - this gift last Thursday with a flask ; of syrup of his manufacture. It I was certainly a treat, being fully as fine as would be expected from such i cane as our friend raises. Mr. Bay- , ley tells us that he planted one- , seventh of an acre of ribbion cane, which turned out 89 gallons of syrup. We return our appreciative thanks for this acceptable present. The following friends have called this week and left us an acceptable contribution on subscription: Messrs M F Eaddy, S Poston, Jay; A B Harrows, Fowler; W ? nuason, Taft; R H Strong, J G Tisdale, LeRoy Lee, James Epps, W I Xexsen, J P Shaw, Kings tree; Pole Tyler, Benson; B F Brockinton, Sr., Mor- ? risville; E T Hamer, Saltersr B A i McKnight, Gourdins; N D Lesesne, P C Shirer, Greeleyville; P D Cockfield, Lake City; W K Wilson, Cades and W W Johnson, Johnsouville. Under the auspices of the Parsonage Aid Society an entertainment will be given iu the court house on j the niedifc of December 31. In ad-1 ? - o ? , dition to refreshments of every kind that will be served exercises celebrating the going out of the old year and the advent of the new will be a part of the programme. There will be no charge for admission and every body should go out We do flrwt clatw JOB WORK at yrice* to Knit all. THE jtECORD j A 1SM OF POSSUM FORK. CONVEYS A WARNING AS TO CERTAIN KINDS OF HOG FEED. His Wife Makes Him Keep a Cow and He Enjoys the Milk?A Lively Fox Chase. (For The County Record) "Good morning Jim* bad luck his morning,"?"What's the matter now!*1 "Why four of the old ?.. ?i ?. c... i_n ? spoueu 80W 8 line pig* leu in a stump hole and died. I saw the hole near the bed but did not think to fill it up," "Well that's your fault,"?"So it is"?"And you know the oil black sow caught my wife's chickens and she said I must kill her, so I put her in the pea field to fatten and she killed herself on peas the first day?I should have slopped hbr up a while first, I reckon. But I never had pens to kill hogs before. But they say see wen bean hulls will kill them?You know Bud Newell had two hogs in his pasture this fall and some of the family threw some green hulls over the fence and both the hogs died after chewing the hulls. Mr L L Ard also had two hogs in a pen and threw some see wee bean vines over to them containing a few beans and they were dead next morning. Some call them lima bean^ or butter beans. Now we can't stop planting them, for no other table bean is such a prolific, persistent bearer till frost. But don't throw the hulls to the hogs. We have a fine acorn crop this year, hogs are fat in the woods and I have only to give them corn enough to harden the lard. A r?r>/?ri thine inn. for the severe r?wwu " Tl * --drought cut crops short in tins section. Cotton you know did put on "a new growth gifter the rain set in and made a top crop, but it won't amount to much? too late. No hog cholera around here this season but hogs are scarce. A few hogs around a farm is a great thing. They eat the gleanings in the pea field, root the potato patch, drink kitchen slops, pick up acorns and many other things and turn all to lard, sausages &c. They are as good as a Frenchman to eat inushroons, too, vou and I, Jim, would starve in the woods where a hog and a Frenchman would fatten on mushrooms. So 1 always try to keep some hogs and have always raised our meat. Mv wife makes me keep a milch cow or two also, and I tell you, Jim, they do us good. For besides milk and butter the sour milk and clabber make better biscuit than baling powders, and a drink of whey in summer is often better to quench thirst than lemonade. Milk keeps you healthy, too. I call it the balm of a thousand flowers. It is the quintessence of all the herbs and grasses combined; and good Dr Uow knows so well how to pick out the healthy varieties. Miss Hen, too, gives us the eggs to put in the milk-custard, and I hardly know which is the bet ter, the eggs in the milk or the milk in the custard, or the sugar between. But you can't do much without the milk. It starves the doctors. I am nearly 71 and my wife nearly 69, and we have hardly paid the doctors in all our lives enough money to keep friendly with them. "But see here, Jim, tell me, did you bear that music Friday night? I wonder who all those dogs belong to? About a dozen . A of I hem; What's the name of ' that old coarse-mouthed fellow j that seems to keep the lead? "They call him K'hain lightning." uOh! but didn't thev keep Brer ' Fox hot 'round and 'round that old summer house field about ( three hours and never lost the ^ trail! They pushed him so he ^ crossed the Johnson terrv bridge ( and took the long causeway over ] into Florence county. Mr C'harl- < ton Haselden and tome others fol lowed him across, but old ''Chain lightning" and his gang sot so close to Brother Reynard he took the track back again, Here they come full cry along the causeway wtiile Mr Dennis and Mr Price were on the big bridge. Mr Den nis polled his coat to fight him back, ami Mr Price took his hat. Brer Fox came full charge,fetched one squall and sprang between the boys, disregarding the peltings of coat and hat, and tliev had to open column to let old 'Chain Lightning' and hi9 musical com- ] panv try their speed. D?n't you 1 think, Jim, it was the most exci- 1 ting chase you ever heard? [ think ' those fellows had sore throat next 1 day, but thev caught him near 1 the road on the side next, to *' Possum Fo?k." 1 Open Part of Xmas Day. Oar patrons and those who intend ' to patronize us will lind\is attend- ; ing to business as faithfully as ever daring the holidays. We wish you a merry Christmas aud many happy J returns of the day. A new necktie ' for the proprietor is about all the 1 Xmas coming to us. We did intend to get.married, but had to pospone 1 it. This leaves us free, and we will show no partiality, but will make everybody's picture the best we can, which means the best that can be ' made anywhere. ; The Hi-art Co. 1 Same price to all. Compare our . photos with any, We keep up-to- , date. ! Hi-art Co. ' A ? AUC -0 HOR iWe will sell 01 Grade WESTER KINGS iSATDBDAY, 1 THIS SALE WILL TAK I HORSES CAN BE SE I THREE DAYS I TERMS KIN6! \ ... *?<&&&& *. W. JONES VISITS KINOSTRES % Says that Time for Paying Taxes Will B? Extended Mr A W Jones, the chief auditing ?lerk in the comptroller general'? * office, was here several days last s-eek looking after the affairs of tho luditor's office. Mr Jones regrets ' r, :hat the books are so far behind in ;his comity, but'to a representative >f The Recokd be said that he ?ad no doubt that an extension of ;he time for tax-paying* without the penalty would be granted in this ^UUbJf Oil J n?jF This will doubtless bejgood newt to ;hose who have not yet had the opportunity o( paying their taxes. Mr Jones was chosen in the last election tion to succeed Comptroller General [)erham, who was not a candidate .r5i; :or re-election. Mr Jones says that ill the new State officers will bo nducted into office about January 18 of the new year. A Christmas Traat The Christmas atmosphere of Kingstree has been redolent of tire fragrance of genuine Manila cigars :his week, thanks to the thoughtful kindness of Prof Ralph D ?pps, ivho is now in the government secrice at Manila, Philipine Islands* training the yonng Filipino idea hovr to shoot Last week this kind friend, who was ever a polished gen* tleman and a staunch friend, sent four boxes of fine cigars to the fel lowing addresses: Messrs W H Kennedy, Louis Jacobs, Louis Gilland and G W Wolfe. It was a genuine treat to the recipients and i>n behalf of them all we tender (Mr / si nee rest thanks to Prof BfVr wishing him a happy Christinas > A and many more. \ t j By special arrangement ^ publishers we are able to offot TjfK . Recobd in club with t^.S^paiv0' Weekly News and Courier at $1.60 a'''-v j-ear in advance. These paperer" ?\ separately cost you $1.00 each. Remember you get three papers a week, containing all the t#ate and county news for the small sum of $1.50 a year. Do. not neglect this opportunity. riON F- ' CCCI ! . ie car of high V TT a noises <u TREE, OltllllF 27, \ E PLACE AT II A. M. EN IN KINCiSTREB JEKUKtS MIX, ? < 7! CASH. II1SE C9. .