The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 12, 1903, Image 1
VOL. XIX~ KINGSTREE, 8. C., THURSDAY*, FEBRUARY 12, DOT NO. 7
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LIFE AT LAK CITY.
Items of Local and Persona! Interest ir
A Susy Town.
Lake City, Feb 9.?(Special
On Thursday morning, bob. 5
1903, Mis* Eva "Rollins and Mr L C
Holloway wore united in marriage
The ceremony was performed by Rev
T J Rookeat the home of the bride'*
father. It was a quiet home affair,
only the immediate family being
present. Immediately after the
marriage the happy pair took the
north bound train for Wilson, N. C\,
Washington and other northern
cities ou a tour. Miss Rollins is a
daughter of Treasurer K I) Rollins.
She is a post graduate of Winthrop
und a general favorite with all who
know her. Her warm friends are
numbered by the score. Mr Hollo^
way, whose home is in Wilson, N. C.,
has been the representative of the
American Tobacco Co. on this
market for the three vears last passed.
He is a genial whole-souled gentle
man,
who is highly legarded for his
social, mauly and business qualities.
May their lives fall in pleasant plates;
their path be bordered with roses
ana jasmine; and fanued by breezes
from off violet beds.
The stream of wagons moving
fertilizers is long, steady aud crowded.
L Mr and Mrs S W G Shipp visited
in town last week.
Mr Jim Timmons of Frieudfield,
Florence conuty, was seeu on our
streets Monday.
Mr T M Griffin's new store on
Main street is wearing completion.
The town concil of Lake City have
appointed a' board of health, consisting
of Dr L B Johnson, J M Stur
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gwn, J.^1 OU U.IIUC, U 1/ UlUglVM*! f
and L C Moore.
D A Bragdon of Friend field was
in town Monday.
Dr S B W Courtney's drug store
will soon be ready for the painter's
brush.
There were several eases up l>efore
the intendant today for train-riding
; and lighting.
Hou J Davis Carter of Leo was
noted in towu Monday.
Rofct H Singlotary has been elected
clerk of the town council.
Mr Mack Kirbv is opening an upto-date
barber shop jn out town,
something that has long been needed,
and wo hope to see him succeed in
his undertaking.
Mr Ralph Joyner has returned
from Richmond, Ya.
Mr Charlie Joyner came down
from Cowards Saturday night aud
spent Sunday in towu winh relatives.
Mr R F Rickenbaker, a young
merchant of our town, went to
Florence Sunday to spend the day
with (?).
Several of our boys have invested
in fine horses and buggies. Can you
tell us what it means?
Mr Ed Johnson has accepted a
position with Mr W T Askins as
salesman.
Mr Ezra Singletary stopped here
Tuesday on his way to Savannah, Ga.
Dr S A Steele, who was booked
for a lyceum lecture Monday night,
failed to appear.
Mr and Mrs DM Epps gave a
"social picnic" Friday night. Each
lady was invited to furnish supper
for two, herself and a gentleman.
It was quite a success and thoroughly
enjoyed.
NOTICE.
Persons desiring to have their
lots at the Williamsburg Presbyterian
Cemetery taken care of this
year, are requested to pay the nec ?sary
amount to Mr Lucius Montgomery
at once. The contruet for
the workiug of the cemetery is to
be made very soon, and only those
portions paid for will b? included.
There has never been a reduction
11: I he wages ol sin.
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BLACK FIVER GIVES UP ITS,
DEAD.
1 Gruesome Sequel to the Disappca''
f T R M'mt over Six
j teen Months ago.
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'} Tuesday afternoon ivliile floating;
'! timber down the riser to Thorn's j
I mill, Mr II W Bryan noticed drift-1
! ing on the water what appeared to'
i be the body of a human being. Hej
: investigated and found the object I
' to lie the deeomposed remains of a j
' man. The body was shirk naked!
: except a shoe on one foot. When an |
j effort was made to raise the body the
j head fell off into the water. The :
; arms had also rotted off, but the
| greater part of the Mesh still ad!
hered to the remains.
With the aid of his men Mr Bryan
! succeeded in getting the body out
! on the bank and then came to town
; and notified the- authorities of hisj
discovery.
As soon as the news was told of!
course everyone's mind reverted to
, the disappearance of T B Minis over
a year ago and the finding of his
J horse and road-cart in the river.
! On Wednesday night October 2.
11901, Mr Mims left Kingstree to
return home, hut lie never reached
his destination and two days passed
before the unfortunate man's fate
was discovered. The horse and cart
was tracked to the river-bank and
there at a place called the "cutdown
ground"' was the plain print
of the horse's hoofs where it went
into the water. The vehicle and the
body of the horse were found near
bv, but albeit day after day searching
parties dragged the river not a
trace of Mini's body could be found.
As soon as they were notified Mr
>r: !,? ,i^_
j tiuilll JliUISi 11U' lillUU U1 IUE uv
I ceased and other members of his
I family, hnrried to the scene and took
! charge of the remains. We are in
formed tliat the body was buried
yesterday morning.
J Coroner Burrows, who was duly
. notified, arrived in town yesterday
i but upon hearing that the burial had
I taken place and that the family
j were satisfied as to the identity of
; the remains, we understand that he
; decided not to hold an inqnest.
Mortuary.
Dif.i>?On Saturday, February 7,
' 1903, ;:t his home at Lynchburg, S.
C., after a protracted illness of nine
: months, Cant D K Kc -Is, ex-treasurer
1 of Sumter county. ("apt Keels Mas
j the father of Hon W M Keels of
J Greeleyvilie and had a number of
i fiiends in this county.
The bad weather is abont over
with. Come for photos. We will
finish them promptly. Col. Satchwell,
the proprietor, will be on hand
to amuse the crowd.
Thk HI-ART CO.
miDc & rni n im ONF nAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
j money if it fail* to cure E W Grove's
! signature is on each box, 2ic.
mm^mm
j Love has made many a young
j man too nearsighted lor military
j service.
j It is the auctioneer's hammer
that rivets attention and clinches
bargains.
ESCAPED AN AWFUL FATE.
Mr II Hnggius of Melbourne, F!a.,
I writes, ,:iqv doctor told me I had Con;sumption
and nothing could l?e done
' me. I was given up to <1 c The
oiler of a free trial bottle of Dr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption, induced
me to try it. Results were startling.
1 am now on the road to recovery
j aud owe all to I)r. King's New Discovery.
It surely saved my life."
! This great cure is guaranteed f??r all
! throat and lung diseases by D C Scott,
j PruggNt. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial
J buttles free. '
THE NEW SCHOOL bUiLDING.
St'TS Taken Whereby the Project
Assumes Tangible Shape.
Al last the ]projected new school
I it ilding is assuming tangible shape.
The town council has been petitioned
bv the Iward of trustees to
a-k the Williamsburg delegation to
introduce a bill at this session of the
Legislature giving the town the
right to issue bonds to the amount
of ${5000, if so much be necessary,
to erect a new school building. The
council immediately acted favorably
on the petition and the matter will
be at once brought to the attention i
of the legislative delegation. The
thing to do is to get the bill through '
at once, and we have no dou it that !
our delegation will bend all their ,
energy to that end. ,
TILLMAN APPLIES F?-R BAIL.
Argument to Be Hea^d Before Chief
Justice Pope Today. *
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Formal notice has been served 1
upon the solicitor and attorney gen- '
eral by .Messrs Nelson and Croft, at- I
tornevs for James H Tillman, that
application would be made for bail I,
before Chief Justice Pope at New- i
berry 011 Thursday, February 12- ,
Judge Buchanan's trip to Newberry .
Saturday was for the purpose of 1
serving a writ of habeas corpus and j
of setting tile date for the application
to be made. '
Cotton Worth 13 1-2 Cts Per Poiu d. 1
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Fi.ork.vce, S. C? Jan, 31, 1903.
Dear Sir:?I have been planting ,
this cotton for past two years. You
can grow it as perfectly as any one
else, and as much of it as any other t
variety. This is not a hybrid cots
ton, but is a distinct variety of Pelier
cotton, which I imported from near ^
the coast of Virginia two years ago |
as an experiment, and I have found
that it grows better here than it did
there, a^^ave had my cotton in
the market with the planters from
whom I got the seed, and I sold for
from i to } cents over them. It '
costs 110 more to raise this cotton
than it does short staples; and as j
so many southern mills are putting
machinery in to use this cotton exclusively,
we can sell this cotton at
our doors. The mills at McColl
have all been changed, and also one
at Bennettsville; and also Newberry
has a mill to use this cottou, '
and also some of the Spartanburg
mills, and aside from this New
England is using large lots of it :
in nlace of silk. *
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You plant, work and gin this cot- 1
ton in same wav you do short cotton.
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The lo^al mills are paying 121 cents, '
for this cotton, and I have just received
an offer on a lot of 20 bales
from a Boston concern of 131 cents,
which I have accepted.
I called on the manager of the ;
four mills at Beunettsville and Me I
Coll a few days ago with samples of j
my cotton, and he said uuhesita-1
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tingly that I had the best cotton thatj
he had seen; and he further said:
j that
he had samples from almost
every place this kind of cotton is |'
?
grown. 1
Now, as to the yield of this cotton,
I will refer you to Clerk of Court of 1
this county. As to stu.ple, I refer
you to Mr Charles Iceman, of Mc-,
Coll and Bennettsville mifls; Rogers, |
McCabe & Co., and J W Perrv & Co., I i
Norfolk, Va., and Berry, Thayer & !
Co., of Boston. This cotton will j
hold its own here as to staple, and it !
is now 11 to lj inches long.
I have a few of these seed for sale ,
i
at $1.00 per bushel, fob cars here,!;
and if you want any, send me your
fcrder, as my supply is limited, and
the first orders get the seed. For i
further information write me.
Respectfully,
| R. C. COMUAXDEK. '
in ihit. i
REV'EW OF A WE-K'S WORK BY
OUR CORRESPONDENT.
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Several Important Bil's-Mr Daniel's
Claim Granted ?Kingstree's
New Magistrate.
Columbia, February,9, ySjjeci^t):?
The House calendar now numbers
more than four hundred bills, and
still they come. Most of them are
not worth the paper they are written
on and it is to be hoped that their
existence even as bills will be brief.
Quite a gwd many bills have positive
merit, but are not in the proper
shape. They are the products of
well-meaning minds but were turned
out without having received mature
deliberation. In fact most of our
laws have defects that spring from
this same cause. This explains the
great number of bills that are introduced
every session to amedd previous
acts. There remains only
twelve mole working days for the
Assembly. Therefore, unless a bill
be introduced within the next two or
three days, it can not be put through.
Hie final flood is looked for the first
three days of this week.
A bill has passed the House by
i safe majority which provides
that in cases of usury the one
jxacting a usurious rate of iutfret
shall forfeit twenty-five per cent of
the principal m addition to the
interest.
The Marshall child labor bill
passed the House finally on Saturday
and now needs only the Governor's
approval to become law. It
was debated on three days. Speech
ifter speech was made and harangue
ifter harangue shot off. The air
was lurid with statements, charges
ind declarations. The bill is an
.exceedingly mild measure. As was
stated on the fioor, ''it is as mild us a
May morning." It is a compromise
from beginning to end. The bill is
:oo long to reproduce here and even
its purport would take too much
space.
The Johnson bill, which passed
die House Friday, is a measure of
peat importance. It provides that
ailroads shall settle freight bills
iccording to the original bill of
lading, and provides further that in
:ase of loss, breakage or damage of
itiy freight, the railroad company
shall pay the cash value of the
irtieles lost, broken or damaged at
nice and failure in either case subjects
the company to a forfeiture of
?200.
The claim o? Mr J D Daniels for
services and expenses in the capture
if II C Holloway passed without a
dissenting vote. This claim would
have been paid by Governor McSweeney
out of his. contingent fund
but this fund was exhausted before
the claim was presented.
The committee on circuit?court
roster, of which Mr Bass is a
member, has presented a bill fixing
the time for holding courts in the
Third circuit. A chauge was necessary
on account of the addition of
Lee county to our circuit. This bill,
which will in all probability become
law, as it is consented to by all the
oountiea affected, provides for our
("Williamsburg) courts in the first of
April, the last of Juue and the middle
of November and gives us two
weeks at spring and fall terms, if so
much he necessary. However,shou'd
the bill to create two' new circuits
go through, an entirely different
arrangement must be made.
Fifty bills, mostly local, were put j
through Saturday. The Pollock dis-'
j>ensary bill, which sought to raise
the price of liquors, was killed after j
a hard fight.
Messrs P G Gourdin and J W
Coward were here Thursday looking
after the matter of the expenses in '
connection with the efforts to j
establish dispensaries at Lake City j
and Scranton. It seems that $123
of these excuses was paid out of
tin* Kingstree dispensary and the
balance then divided, which cut down
the town's portion about $62.50.
Kingstree contended that this .$62.50
should be repaid to the town. It
was decided that tins should not be
done, that Kingstiee is entitled to
one-half of the profits after paving
all expenses and that this was an
expense.
Supervisor Graham was here on
Thursday in attendance upon the
Good Koads Convention. I said
last week that no estimate for the
current veur had been sent up. In
this I was partly mistaken. No estimate
had been sent to the delegation,
but I learned a few days ago that
Ex-Supervisor Chandler had promptly
sent the estimate to the Comptroller
General. I wish to say this
in justice to Mr Chandler.
Recommendations have been made
as to all of our magistrates except
one. Of course the delegation stood
by the primary except as to Kingstree,
for which place our members
had to name a man. They finally
settled down upon R K Wallace,
Esq., and presented his name to the
governor for magistrate at Kingstree.
Senator Williams had recovered ,
sufficiently to return to his post on
the 2nd. i
ATTEMPTED ARSON.
Futile Effort of a Firebug to Burn J
Vacant Store.
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Some time last week (probably
Thursday night) an act of incen
i-J 1
(liansm was auempieu, wuu;u imu i
it succeeded, would have swept a J
whole block and endangered all the
business part of ?t.he town. Evi- (
deuce of the fienuish design was *
discovered Friday morning in. .the ^
shape of a pile of burned faggots |
which had been placed under the
building at the corner of Main and
Jail streets, the old stand of Lesesne
& Epps. Uit sill underneath which I
the tire was built was found to be
chaired by the heat and it is only
by a happy chance that the kindling
wood burned out before the sill or
boards were ignited. Evidently the
cowardly scoundrel who set the tire
was afraid to remain to complete his
work?as well as he might he. A
short shrift at the end of a rope is
too good a fate tor a nenu wnoi
would wantonly or maliciously com-1
niit an act so despicable.
The OIJ Maids' Cor.ventior..
The justly celebrated entertainment,
"The Old Maids' Convention" !
will be presented by local talent 111; <
the court house to morrow eyening.
This play is one of the best of its:
kind and has been a big success j j
wherever rendered. It is entirely j
new in Kfngstree and those who at-1
tend will have the double satisfaction ; *
of enjoying a hearty laugh and at; I
the same time contributing to a j
worthy cause, as the proceeds Hill
be given to the llaptist parse: age*
fnnd.
The entertainment will beg.n
promptly at 7:30 o'clock and the
public is cordially invited to Ixj
present. After the play refresh- (
rnents will be served.
Admission:
Adults 25c,
Children - - - 10 and 15c.
DEFEATED IN THE SENATE.
Bill to Require Supts. of Education to
Hold Teachers' Certificates.
After passing the House and running
the gauntlet of two readings in
the Senate the bill to require county
superintendents of education to hold
first grade certificates was defeated
Tuesday on its final reading in the
Senate. This was one of the most
sensible bills introduced this session
and we cannot understand what
possible objection anyone could have
to its passage.
Great wealth and content seldom
live together.
W. T.
Wilkins,
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Tunnmn itti
JOBBER I
GENERAL
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Buying in carload
lots we
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ai t; ctuic, iu
meet compete -|
tion in every
line, Here are
some of our J
Specialties: ; |
rLOUR . . '
GRJTS
MEAL
CORN
OATS f
SALT '
SOAP
LYE ' . >'v
SODA * tl
STARCff
% % % % % %
BAKING POWDERS
TOBACCO any GRADE
COTTOLENE CASE or BKTS
MATCHES per GROSS
Pure Ovel Compound LARDrS*)
1AMS, BOLOGNA SA&5X&R i
CANDIES, CRACKERS
?ACON, SUGAR, Bbl orSackff
DOTTED HAM and TONGUE 1
CONDENSED MILK
AXLE GREASE
Wrapping PAPER and BAGS
HOMESPUN, By the Bolt
TOBACCO CLOTH
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CIDER
MOLASSES
CHEESE
MACARONI
SARDINES
SALMON
SNUFF
ROPE
BUCKETS
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