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VOL. XIX. KINGSTRKE, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY l>;L \mi NOjS ?????i?> ' nifn'r iniVrrnrhi nTnil, iflii'w<ii COUNTY SUMMER SCHOOL. Seventeen Student Teachers Enrolled to Date. The Summer School for Williams* burg county began its sessions in the court house Monday morning, July 20, but a day or two later it w;is deemed best to meet m theGradetlj school building. Up to yesterday I there were in attendance the follow ing teachers: Miss Selma Biugess, Mouzou. Miss Ketha Burgess, Mouzou. Miss Jimuiie Brittou, Kingstree. Miss Eula Camlin, Harpers. Miss Amanda Cooke, Lake City. Miss Lula Epps, Mouzou. Miss Esther Gordon, Gourdins. Miss Clelia Keels, Heinemann. Miss Emma Kinder, Kingstree. .Miss Fannie Marshall, Morrisville. Miss Clara McElveen, Cades. Miss Eva Matthews, Lake City. Miss Annie Montgomery, Greelyville. Miss Nellie May Montgomery, Kingstree. Miss Mabel Snider, Kingstree. *** t ? oi xr: i iviiss jatne ouuw, rvuigMiec. Miss Laura Whitlock. Iiake City. The instructors are Prof Ernest Wiggins, Snpt Kiugstree Graded school, who teaches pedagogy and algebra; and Prof A R Banks, Supt Lancaster Graded school, who teaches arithmetic, English grammar and American literature, taking Longfellow's Evangeline as a text. The daily session is from 9 a m to 1 p m, the teachers alternating in class work. liigid daily class work will be UoiK' and reviews and frequent test examinations held. At the close of the school all students who stand a satisfactory final examination on the subjects taught, will be credited with these branches on the county teachers' certificate. ? f -1 1-1 X ..L The Dcxiy 01 sumeni-ieacners seems to be thoroughly in earnest and good work will be done if they hold out to the end. Unless they remain and stand the tinal examination no credit can be given on their . county certificates. The conductors of the school will tie glad to have those interested in education to call and ins|w*ct the vork. death of a veteran. Mr. Cavid Welch Answers to the Last Roll Call. David H Welch died at his home in Clarendon county on the 11th in&t. from the effects of blood- poisoning. He was 69 years old. Mr Welch was a gallant soldier in the Civil War, having served as orderly sergeant in Capt. McBeth's company, Col. Alfred Rhett's regiment of regulars, during the war until the evacuation of Charleston, when he joined Gen. Johnston's army and was at the tight at Avervsboro, N. C., with his company, and the subsequent surrender of Johnston's army. At the sunender he tore the regimental battle flag from its stiff and bore it away in his bosom to his home, along with his sword and scabboard, which he kept as interesting mementos of the fleree struggle in which he bore his part so well. After the war Mr Welch followed the avocation of farming, which he supplemented with black-smith and carpenter work. The funeral services took place Sunday evening, July 12, at the McElveen burying ground, Rev. James McDowell officiating. Mr Welch was a member of Bethel church, (hear where he is buried) for more than thirty years. lie Wvps :i sorrow-stricken wife and 13 children?ten girls and three ' hoys?along with xmr>v friemts to mourn his death1. A Friend. / Manning papers please copy. A man's crookedness often gets into fttit'noiai strai-ls. Lffi Cllf K many matters of major and MINOR MENTION. New Tobacco Warehouse~-A Trucu lent Negro Arrested?People Coming and Going. Mrs Nicholas has goue to Danville, Va., on a visit of a few weeks. Miss Carrie Baker's friends?and she has a host of them here?were delighted to meet her again. She was here a few days last week. Mrs I) II Crossland of Conway, is spending some time with her mother, Mrs Carter. A series of meetings will begin at the Baptist church on the Fourth Sunday of this month. Rev D if Crsssland of Conway, has Ixvn invited to assist the pastor. Mr J II V Gaskins was in Columbia four days last week in utten-' .1........ .i,.,,,. tli,? nux.fiiur nf the I UUIU C llin/il tiiN. ??.x v State Hoard of Equalization, of I which board ho is a member. He was selected as member of the committee on phosphate mining and manufacturing, which is one of the most important committees of the! board. LeRov Lee, Esq., ran up from Kingstree Thursday on professional business. He remained in town only a few hours, the illness of his! J 7 child forbidding a longer absence. The Hardware Co has received some calls for the fly trap, mention of which was made in this column a few weeks ago. We are informed ^ 1 /? -1- V...O il.tt.ar UlHl VvJITA \) [llll-liaill u??o v?vv>.? mined to order one. We want to say here that the Co., has only one and that one can not be sold at any price. It is a part of the store, to wit; one of the display windows. l)r A II Williams went to Charleston the latter part of last week on business connected with the Bank. He returned Monday night. Miss Mamie Snow of Koine is visiting at Mr E W Yates', on Thomas street Mrs I)r DuKant has returned from a visit to Columbia. Her cousin accompanied her home. M iss May Gregg, of the Claussen neighborhood, is visiting the Misses Siiwrloturv Miss Ida Rodgers is in Ilendersou, X. C., enjoying the cool, sweet monntain air and hiking a rest. She is enjoying herself and recuperating splendidly. She will be hack with us in three or four weeks. Mrs R D Rollins left Monday for Clyde, N. 0'., where she will spend" some weeks. ^ This resort is near Ashville and in the most delightful part of the "Land of the Sky." Magistrate Baldwin, last Friday, -committed Ben Hanna, colored, to jail for trial in the upper court on the charge of assault with a pistol with intent to kill. The affair took place at Bethel church, colored, some six miles from here. Ben got into an altercation with three Daniels boys 111 the church yard and drew his gun and shot at one of the boys three times, but without effect, one the boys jerking Ben's pistol "arm each time he fired. There are several charges against Ben, grand larceny, horse, stealing, etc, etc; apd it is probable that many moons will wax and wane before he will have annthiM- onnnrfnnitv of indulfrinc in target practice in a church yard. Mr J J M Graham's tobacco warehouse is, at this writing, practically finished and before this shall be given in print it will be completed in every respect and ready for business. Messrs King and Graham, who will run this warehouse, are both here and are rapidly getting m shape for business. They have arranged with the Bank of Lake City to pay for tobacco sold in their house.- Mr P A- Miller is their book j keeper. All three of these men ' seem to he gentlemen anil good busi! ness men, and they are making good i impressions upon our people. A party of young folks from Cades were in town Sunday afternoon, j Mr L 0 Holloway is back with u> for the tobacco season and will again | buy for the American Tobacco i Company. Mr Durham came with j him and will keep books for him again, i n Mrs L 0 liolloway, who was Miss Eva liollins, is in town, having returned with her husband. The Bank of Lake City is now open and doing business regularly every day. Mrs L II Grimsley went down to Lanes Thursday and spent a day with her parents. Mr and Mrs S A Nettles. The town council has under consideration the establishment of a fire limit and an ordinance prohibiting | wooden buildings within that limit. ! It is probable that the ordinance will pass. Such an ordinance may seem a burden on some but it will prove best for the town as a whole in the end. The blind tigers are keeping right close these days. The law can lie 'ltnf iii nrfti'i' t.lmt it liiHY l>e niivivvu wwv iu wiv?v? ? done the decent, law-abiding citizens must stand by the oflicers in their efforts. Mr J I) S Rodgers of. Bcthelchem was in town Monday. W. L. B. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Young White Man Near Lake Cit/ Fatally Shocked. Lake City, July 23 (Special): Cornelius Haselden, a young white farmer living about a mile from Lake City, was instantly killed by a stroke of lightning oarlv this O C7 V morning. Mr Haselden hail gone to his ticld and was tliere when struck by the fatal bolt. He was about 18 years old and unmarried. By Way of Fxplanation. , During the absence of the editor in attendance upon the Press Association meeting at White Stone Lithia Springs for the past two j weeks several valued communicaI tions intended for publication were overlooked. We tender our sincere apologies to the writers and beg to assure them that the fact that their letters were not published is no evidance of any lack of appreciation on the part of the editor. Not being in the office he could not give these matters his personal attention, hence the apparent neglect. We hope that this explanation will be accepted as satisfactory. NIGHT WAS HER TERROR. 'T would congh nearly all night I0112," writes Mrs Chas Applegate, of Alexandria, Ind, "and could hardly get any sleep. I had consumption so bad that if I walked a block I wonld cough frightfully and spit blood, but, when all other medicines failed, three $1.00 bottles of l)r King's New Discovery wholly cured me and I gained 58 pounds." It's absolutely guaranteed to cnreCoughs, Colds, La Grippe, Bronchitis and all Throat and Lung Troubles. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at \Y L Wallace's drug store. I Chicaeoans have settled their j strikes and can now wear clean 1 collars and eat in the dining room 1 again. "FORCE", a ready-to-serve, ready* . to-digest, delightful food, brings the independent strength that comes of ! health*. JIICII mrs FERRY.: OVER FOUR HUNDRED PEOPLE i ENJOY A PLEASANT DAY. A . Trip on the Water to Picnic Ground? t Many Pretty Girls and Gallant Cav- ^ aliers?The Day's Diversions g 1 (Written for last week.) Old Nature seemed to smile her ^ sweetest smile on lost Thursday, 1 July 9?the day of the great picnic j at Brown's Ferry?her beaming J countenance l?eing softened aud ' subdued bv a thin cloud rack, and ? . . 1 soft, caressing zephyrs, like kisses blown to her children, seemed to emphasize her approval of the gladsome gayetv of this gala day. All t day long a curtain of clouds c screened the garish eye of day, and i yet not a drop of rain fell at Brown's t Ferry. 1 But to begin at the liegiiiniug? c C CO long before the appointed hour for I leaving a party of eager pleasure- c seekers were at lUiem's landing t awaiting ihe signal tor starting tlie i "William Elliott" on the "voyage" t to the place appointed for the fes- s tive gathering. When the whistle n sounded "all aboard!" there was a- t , lively race along the gang plank and I 111 a very few moments we had v slipped anchor and were blithely i steaming athwait the sable waters s of classic Mingo Creek. Everyone o was in the best of spirits and the d day began most auspiciously. t After a six-mile run the Elliott c touched at Muunerlyn's Landing, e where the crowd of passengers was d augmented by a congenial company, g who were wdl laden with substan- C tials for the prospective dinner. In f a marvelou8ly short time?for so it ii seemed in the sunny presence of 1< "earth's uncrowned angels," the o rare and radiant maidens without whom snch occasions would be like a desert srarden. lacking the bloom T and beauty and fragrance of flow- y era?we arrived at the confluence g of Mingo creek and Black river. C On the left bank of the river at this ^ poiijt may be seen an extensive rice j plantation, owned and cultivated by j Mr H I) Mtinnerlytj. Notwithstand- } in^ the fact that rice is one of the chief products of the Shite, only a few, even in the low country, have 'seen it growing to any extent of acreage. j When we landed at Brown's Fer- J ry there awaited us a concourse of C friends and acquaintances who had * come to the picnic bv private con- j veyance from every part of the j county. Arriving at the picnic J ground lemonade, cold and refresh- J lug, was served in abundance to thirsty souls. When dinner was announced there were four hundred people to to take their places at the large, rectangular table invitingly spread beneath the umbrageous foliage of stately oaks, and there was not a person but fared sumptuously at the epicurean feast beneath which the great table fairly groaned. The committee was tireless in their efforts to see that everybody was * served with a good dinner. The following visitors from a * distance, whose presence lent enjoyment to tlio occasion, were noted; Misses Daisy Witherspoon, DuRant, S. C.; Florence Aimar, Charleston; Hattie Bagnal, Manning; Carrie Baker, Gibson, N. C; Skinner, t Bishopville; Cammie Covington, I Va.; Dr Plumer Clark, Luther Mc- v Intosh, Lucius Harvin and Ingram ii Wilson, of Manning. 1 The picnic ground at Brown's i I Ferry is high and dry and well t ! shaded. Hard by at the foot of the | hill laughs a limpid spring. Close , to the riyer's edge is a moss-grown, ^ romantic old grave-yard. Some of ^ j the headstones mark graves of exI treme antiquity, such as, William ,Greeu, 1778; and Russell Pipkin \ i aud Ptobt. McC'ottry of almost i jqtial age. The name McOottry? nice a prominent one?is now ex-inct in Williamsburg Co. While some of tlie gay pioilicker? vere promenading, and a few playng flinch, others were engaged in ;ete-a-tetes and sentimental couples itrolled through leafy vistas or icnght lovers' retreats until the vhistle of the steamer sounded the earning note of departure and the >icnic was over. Li Hung C'uaxg. Fuly 9, 1903. wimnoTDfc nnvs u/iN Two Games from the Winyah Ball Tossers. Georgetown's aggregation of ball ossers came to grief at the hand3 f Kingstree by a score of 12 to 8 11 a rather amateurish exhibition of he national sport at the park on Fuesday afternoon. The game was ailed at live o'clock bv Umpire R i Wallace and promptly at the ommand to "play ball!" the home earn took the field. At the close of he first inning honors were even and he scoie stood two to two. In the econd Kingstree took the lead and lever relinquished it, albeit at times lie visitors took a battiug streak and ;ept the locals guessing. The game ras characterized by several pretty ndividual plays, but both teams howed lack of practice and numer ms errors were conspicuously evilent. Quite a crowd of 'faus" atended the game and both sides awe in for applause when the root rs thought they earned it. Inclu[ed among the spectators was a oodly number of the fair sex. The ieorgetown boys are a manly set of (layers and boie themselves becomugly in the face of defeat. Following are the players and the fficial that tells the tale: X.ISGSTKKE. A. B. R. ''airey p & 2b - - 6 - 3 IcCutqhen cf - - ? 6 - ' 2 inider ss - 2 Jilland 2b A p - - 5 ' - 0 >cott lb 6 v 1 tendon c - - 5 - 1 aeobe rf - - 5-1 Lrrowswith 3b - - - 5 0 lanna If - - 5 - 2 12 GEORGETOWN. A. B. R. acobs W. N. c - - - 5 - 0 r V- ?? TT c o acoos ja. n. ci - -a - * rose p & 2b - - - 5 - 0 x*vy 2b - -5-1 foung lb - - 5 - 1 lurwitz If - - - 5 - 0 lurke rf - - - 5 - 2 ones 8s & p - - - 5- 0 ohnson 3b - - 5 - 2 8 Struck out?Fairy 7, Gilland 3, Jrose 5, Jones 9. Two base hits?Snider and Grose. Score by Innings. 12345678 9 I *T8T?~I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 3 I x'l'is |2|0|1|2|0|1|2|0|0[8 Wednesday's Game. Another victory was won by tingstree Wednesday afternoon, the core being 13 to 2. In this game r TT j TT n uessrs xiogan uuu nuguu vi unteyville were the battery for Georgeown. WORKING NIGHT AND DAY. The busiest and mightiest little hing ibat ever was made is DrKing'a lew Life Pills. These pills change ireakness into strength, listlsseness nto energy, brain-fag into mental lower. They're wonderful in buildng up the health. Only 25c per >ox. Sold by W L Wallace, Singers who pursue the even enor of their way never get off heir bass. The lawyer seldom works with a vill until the doctor clears the vay/ W. Ti Wilkiils, /TrTT^ w.". iiSiiij JOBBER IN I GENERAL 1 Uriel Buying incaag load lots wJ are able S meet competfi tion in even line. Here a some of ou| apeuiaiiies; SODA | BAKING POWDERS Jl TOBACCO sny ORAPJO \ COTTOLENE CASE or BKlW MATCHES per GROSS M \ Pure Ovel Compound LARD? HAMS, BOLOGNA SAUSAGE CANDIES, CRACKERS J BACON, SUGAR, Bbl orfOM POTTED HAM and TONGU1M CONDENSED MILK j AYT.E GREASE <*Mi Wrapping PAPER and BACMjl HOMESPUN, By the Bolf.l TOBACCO CLOTH| cider molasses' CHEESE MACAtfON/ ] SARDINES5 ] SALltfOh' 3 rope' : r : i r BUCKET* hi'Mi I it flu