The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 07, 1903, Image 1

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. # ^'ipgllfl,11, '^^ a.yraw^;. -**>.* aw ^?"7 ' *'/~~ inTT UtTC^TIKJr" ;l^ r? - WJ-l'A yj|, , V FM 'IP'iEj '.: ?)ic Countii gcrorii. 1 VOL. XIX. KINGSTRKK, S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 11)03. NO. jj|? ?mrnmrnfirmmmmmnrrni | LOCAL ITEMS I OF INTEREST ?UiUllUUiUUUiUiUUlUUU:iUi Mr C C Daniel of Church was in town Monday. Everybody should go to hear Dr j Eugene May tonight. The Graded school term closes on Friday, the 22nd inst. Mr W P Brown of Single favored us with a call Monday, Mr Frank Pegues of Darlington spent Saturday in town. Mr G G Gist of Greeleyville was : 4 in Kingstree Monday. The board of supervisors of , registration met Monday. , The town council is hsrving some ' work done on the streets. Mr W W Burrows of Leo paid us < an agreeable visit Monday. * Monday was salesday but no { property was offered for sale. Miss Louise Gilland visited ] friends in Lake City last week. ] Mr J Cieve McElveen of Spring J Bank came in to see us yesterday. Mr R F Brown of Leo was in | XlftnHuv und r.illttd to see US. I Mr John James Matthews of Lake City, was in Kingstree Monday. Capt John A Kelley is in Charleston this week ou professional business. Mr D E McCutchen of Church was noted iu town Friday of last week. Hon J Davis Carter of Leo was among tho county seat visitors Monday. Our g >od friend, Mr W M Phipps of Scran urn, favored us with a call Monday. Mr \N Francis Kennedy of Lake City was on our streets Friday of ? ? last week. Mrs W L Wallace returned last ] week from a visit to relatives in Lake City. ( The name of the winner in our i "fl ig contest0 will be published . next week. 1 i)r W S Lynch and Mr W W ?ingletary were iu town Monday from derail ton. * ( Mr F Marion Britton of Church attended the meeting of Camp - Prewley Monday. Mr J J Morris agent for the Mu- ' tual Benevolent Association, waa in town Monday. i Mr J L Thomas, of the Cades sec- ' tion, came in Tuesday and renewed 1 his subscription. A wagon load of merry young folks enjoyed an old time straw ride Monday night. i Mr H W Evans of Single came in Monday and joined The Record's large circle of readers. Sunday, May 10, is Memorial Day. ' We suppose, as usual, it will pass 1 unobserved in Kingstree. The "Hemingway Hotel" is being repainted, much to the improvement of its appearance. Messrs II Dennis and W A Parker of Cades were welcome visitors at our sanctum Monday. Among those who called Monday and renewed their subscription,was Mr I H Bradham of Greeleyville. *' ?i. r T.... .air Dimuu X'OSIUII ui unj, ytnc m * Williamsburg's most substantial business men, was in town Monday. Mr J J M Graham of Cades stopped over a few hours in town Saturday returning from Charleston. An enjoyable picnic was given Saturday at Mouzons bridge, a full account of which will appear next \ . week. At the meeting of the count ycominissioners Monday Mr J F Scott was re-elected public cotton weigher foi Kingstree. Mr Scott baa held this position very acceptably for several teaaona jrmmnmimmmfmnmni? | AFFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR 2' LOCAL REPORTER AND ^3 NOTED ^5! ! vritten in Condensed Form Z3 and Printed in Like Manner ^3 lor the Sake of Our Busv 1^3, Readers . Z3! iWUUUUUitilUtUUiUiui| Mr Roland Milis passed through! town Monday returning to Cades from a visit to his home folk at; Kpps. Mr J M Rowe of Sutton?, an old i valued subscriber to Thk Record, visited our office while in town : Monday.' The State summer school for teachers will be held at Winthrop college, Rock Hill, S. C\, from June) li to July 21. Capt I) K Gordon of Lanes, commandant of Camp Pressley, an enthusiastic veteran, was in Kingdree Monday. MrTHCoker, representing the Carolina Fibre Co of Hnrtsville, was in town on business several lavs this week. " *1 i if if...:.. 31rs .fclJa iiarran and jits mhhh i Bugnnl of Alcolu have returned J home after visiting the family of Mr B H Myers. Mr J T Bryan has a force of lands at work repairing Black river bridge. The bridge is torn up md impassable. Miss Irene Wannamaker, a [Mipular and attractive young lady >f Cheraw, is visiting the Misses Kelley in Academy street. Mrs Amelia Scott, after an absence of two years,has opened rooms it the Coleman House for dressnaking and solicits patronage in that line. Destructive hail atorms last Mon"* " ** " * '* ?%?/? l? tr o rvartu ift#V air irp^M mi m t miwu? p<?i >fthe State. So far as we have fienrd Williamsburg escaped this lisaster entirely. Enjoy an hour or two of genuine pleasure and at the same time help i good cause by going out to Dr May's lecture this evening. Admission oOr and 25c. A number of the old veterans 'anie in Monday and collected their pen-ion money. The whole amount to he distributed among 174 pensioners is |3*f?>.35. Mr LeForest Wood delighted a ?ood audience in the Armory Tuesday evening with his witty and pathetic impersonations of different .characters. ? TimmonsTille Enterprise. Dr Eugene Ma^g lecture promises to be Roirtfihing out of the ordinary. The proceeds, after i?u\Mntr pvnpnw. u*ill he aimlipd to K?V4,,h ~--r -I rr the Methodist parsonage. Mrs Minnie baiters of Salters Depot, who has been enjoying a to her relatives, the family of Mr YV B Mc^ullough, returned to her home oh 28th of A pril.?St Stephens Echo., Workman andGreeleyville crossed bats on the ground of the former last Saturday, score 8 toO in favor of Workman. Gilland and Hogan battery for Greeleyville, Epps and Rear Jon for Workman. t The Siate Reunion of Confeder ate Veterans Opens in Columbia May 12. Tickets will be sold May lllh, 12th, and for morning train on the 13th, and limited fcr return to Mayl6. A cent-a-mile rate is named. Rev Henry Cauthen and family have returned from Orangeburg, where they were called on account of the severe illness of Mr Cauthen's mother. The latter, we understand, is gradually recovering her health. Mr and Mrs Louis Jacobs celebrated the 33rd anniversary of their! marriage last Sunday. All the' children were at home except one,! l)r E J Jacobs of Macon, Ga. The following were present from a distance: Messrs Julian and Louis Jacobs, of Charleston; and Montie, Nappie and Cecil Jacobs of Georgetown. Mrs W S Lynch of Scranton also participated in the pleasure of tne occasion. * H<?n \V lj Bass of Williamsburg, j who made such a clear presentation ' of the heed of n shad law, was here i ' j yesterday to argue a case involv-l ing th? constitutionality of the dispensary law. ? Columbia State, April d(J Mr W S Chi ones of Scranton ealW, ed Tuesday while in town and eiir J rolled his name on Thk Record's! list. Mr I'hinnes has recenrlyl returned from Georgetown to this [ his native county and is engaged in | truck farming. Lawyers Hirsch and H K Wal-j lace of Kingstree were in town on i A pi 11 l'S. We were much pleased! with these social young gentlemen,! who in company with Mr W E Pipkins, gave our office a call.? .St Stephens Echo. We are requested to announce that l)r Robert Wilson, who failed to meet his last regular appointment here on account of sickness, will hold an extra service in the Episcopal church next Sunday, May 1", at the usual hours. ltev T J Itooke, pastor of Lake City Baptist church, will preach in the Baptist church here next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in place of ltev Mr ltrtinsbottom, who will he absent in attendance upon the Southern Baptist Convention at Savannah, (la. To the great regret of her many Kings tree f: lends, Miss Carrie Ask ins, who has heen employed in the establishment of P S Courtney Jc Co for several months, has given up her position and will soon return to her home near Cartersville, ir. Florence county. We were pleased to receive a visit last Friday from our esteemed friend, Mr Daniel Z Martin, who live> near Trio. Mr Martin is an extensive reader and keeps well informed on events past and present so that it is interesting and profitable to listen to his conversation. David Mack, colored, was arrestnd at Taft and committed to jail here yesterday. When arrested Mack had a shackle fastened to one of his legs. He admits being a convict and says he escaped from the ehaingang at Walterhoro en April 23. Tbp authorities there have heen notified but no reply has yet been received. The April 'Criterion," the Columbia Female College Magazine, is on our desk. One of the most credi table articles among it* contents is a poem l?v Miss (Rsie Kpps, '(X1, of this county, entitled "To the Hird on My Hat." Mis* Kvh Rushtoa of Lake City, class of 'P3, also contributes a very readable article on "Hymns and Hymn Writers." A Fi?h Story. The following incident sounds decidedly "fishy", yet it is vouched for as a fact by eye-witnesses of unimpeachable veracity: Last Monday Mr Sam Strong, who assists in supplying the local fti/1 +/withanfVW. d.im7f?ns JIlAi AUl 11 illl 111 v wuvucviMv of Black river, came to town with several strings of fish, among which was one string of catfish. Just at the entrance of the court house a gentleman purchased four strings of fiat fish and gave Mr Strong four quarter in silver. In effecting the exchange some of the coins dropped from Mr Strong's hand and it was thought that they had fallen to the ground. Diligent search failed to discover two of the coins and after looking every where else Mr Strong decided that they must have been swallowed by one of the catfish on on the string in his hand. He ac cordingly proceeded to perform an operation for appendicitis on one of the largest of the cats and in its maw, closely wedged together, he found the two missing coins as sound as a dollar and still worth their face value. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E W Grove's ^nature is on each box, 'Z-'k. i i urn las i CURRENT EVENTS IN WIDE5 WAKE TOWN. A New Tobacco Warehouse?PacV fi House to Be Rehuilt?Social and Personal. Lake City, May 5:?The Lake g City and Scranton dispensary cases e were argued belore tne supreme;r Court lust Wednesday by Attorney j o General Gunter and Messrs S W G o Shipp and W L Bass. The decision a will be handed down some time in n the future. c Mrs S E Nettles of Lanes spent 8 a few days last week with her h daughter, Mrs Grimsley. r Our former fellow townsman, Mr * 1 i J R Watson of Dillon, spent last Sunday in town. He has u good ^ muny friends here, and they were 11 glad to see him again. Work has begun on Mr J J M Graham's tobacco warehouse on the ^ South-west corner of Dansing and ^ Church streets. A good deal of the e; material is on the ground and the u framing is going up. The building, | v we understand, will he about seventylive by one hundred and fifty feet, which will make it the largest ware- a house in town. On the ltoor of such a a house big sales can be made. n This will make our third tobacco warehouse. Mr Graham is an ener- ^ getic and go-ahead man and we a sincerely wish for him a large ^ measure of success in the undertaking. The warehouse business v: will be managed bv Graham and O ? King of Winston-Salem, N. C., who tl are expert tobacco men. V Mrs L 0 Holloway of Durham, N h C, is visiting htr parents. Mr and v< Mrs R D Rollins. During the coming season the Planters' warehouse will be run by v: Mr W S Moore with Mr B F Stan- G ley as auctioneer, and the Stir will lie under the control of that veteran, f, Mr 0 T Hall, to whom is due a large measure of the credit of building up this market. ' ^ Weill well! well! Two level head- tc ed. steady-as-n-clock farmers of the u combined age of about a hundred ir years came to town Saturday and p< after transacting their business boarded a wagon and returned home some three milA and only remembered after getting home that they had left their horse and buggy in a D lot at Lake City. And they had not had a drop either. ' How did it happen? Better not ask them. They ^ might get excited and make you hard to catch. Mr John II Joyner, who is with 11 the Southern railroad in Columbia, ^ was in town Sundav. ^ w Mrs Emmie Bass spent Sunday ^ 1 1 A* _ L J l.fi \f ?? _ wim relatives in town aim ten. .uun- ^ day morning for Charleston, whence y she will go to Boston, Mass. We notice that in some orchards h the young peaches are dropping off. o: Cool weather, we suppose. rI Mr L A Winston came down frorii ^ Timmonsville the latter part of last week. & b The pack house that was burned j two weeks ago will be rebuilt without delay. h A fire engine is being bilked in tl town. We certainly need some tl protection. ri 01 Dr Eugene May is booked to ' deliver a lvceuin lecture here Wednesday night. W. L. B. s< " o NOTICE. t To My Patrons And the Public ^ _ O Generally. ? I will be absent from my office r from the 12th to 24th of this mouth ^ on the instance of the United Con- 8 federate Veterans. 2t Respectfully, 8 A. M. Snider. lj "k-. ' 4 &? Ill AUSPICIOUS ?II 5CRANTON PYTHIANS CELE- i BRATE THEIR NATAL DAY. Elaborate Banquet Served?A Flourishing Lodge?Mischief Makers Cut Telephone Wires. iCRANTOS", May 6:?The crowning rent of the season was the ?. of P. banquet at the home f Mr and Mrs It B Caunon n April 24. Mrs Cannon, who is n adept in the art of eutertainlent, presided as hostess most graiously and charmingly on this aupicions occasion. The spacious alls were tastefully decorated with oses and ferns, embellished here and here with festoons of the much beared tri-colors of the Knights. The ables were fairly loaded with the lost delicious edibles. The address f welcome was made by Hon W B iause, who is well chosen language nd graceful sentiment tendered a earty welcome to the visitors pres- <i nU On the part of the guests sev- | ral happy i espouses were made and all went as merry as a marriage 1 ell". J Scranton lodgo continues to grow | nd although this was thjfc second r f nniversary, the membership now v umbers over sixty. Mrs P S Wall has returned from J rom Mai ion, where she went to ttend the marriage of Miss Wilmer 4 fall of that place, ' Miss Bertha Davis of Florence is 1 isiting in town. j Quite an enjoyable occasion was le birth-dav party given at Dr ^ f 8 Lynch's recently in honor of ? is little brother Troy's ninth anni- * L'rsary. J Mr James Sturgeon is quite ill. Miss Mamie Graham is in town isiting her brother, Mr Myers raham. ^ Miss Lillie Graham has returned om Charleston. Some one has been cutting the tclihone wires between Scranton and ake City. This is very annoying ) the citizens of both towns and I nderstand that the matter tvill be ivestigated and the mischievous ersons vigorously prosecuted. . Bex Hub. CROSSED OVER THE RIVER. eath of a Valued Citizen Near Lake City. are City, May 5? Special: ( Mr Levi C McKenzie departed lis life last Sunduv morniner in the fty-second year of his age, at his ome about three miles from this jwn, ufter an illness of about a eek. Mr McKcnzie had been twice E larried, his lirst wife being Miss F linsey Matthews and his second lies Viola McCutchen, who, toether with six children, survives 7 V im. His second wife is a daughter f the late J Cooper McCutchen. 'he oldest child is a boy of some fteen years. In all, he was the ather of eight children, two having one ahead of him into the mystic ^ eyond. He was a brother of Mrs ' E Severance of our town. On Monday what was mortal of * im was laid in its nairow bed in lie Martha Casselman cemetery in he piesence of a large concourse of Natives and friends who had gathred to pay this last tribute of love nd respect to one whose going is idly regretted. Mr McKenzie will be missed, not nly by his devoted familv, but by he entire community, ke was a ^ood husband, d good father, a ood neighbor and a good citizen, traight-f'orward, industrious, gelial, honest and trustworthy, he as the stamp of man one could afely trust and lean on, the kind 1 hat makes a sound home and a trong State. He went away in the trong hope of another and- better ife in the "Palace of the King". W T 1 Wilkins, WHOLESALE | JOBBER IN Mf j oad lots we \ ire able toff neet competi- I ;ion in everv 1 ine, Here are 1 jome of ourl Specialties; 9 LOUR SODA STARCH M / ^ ^ ^ si *., * !>-* J BAKING POWDEX2I ^ TOBACCO any GRADtf :OTTOLENE CASE or MATCHES per GROSS Pure Ovel Compound LA%D JAMS, BOLOGNA SAUSAG& \ CANDIES, CRACKERS SACON, SUGAR, BM or Sick# OTTED HAM and TONGUECONDENSED MILE I AXLE GREASE Vrapping PAPER and EAQ# TTAifT?nnr?v D.. numi>oru , oy iuc wuw , jam tobacco cloth i ? ? ? ^ ? v '' *? :ider molasses cheese ^ macaroni sardine# salmon1 snuff ROPE B0CKETS ?| /T?^ . ? -ksrf U" t;' V. ^KikuSx ^ ' T-ftBm