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p %\$ Counts JUcotfl. J VOL. XX. KINGSTREE, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 9. 1904. NO mmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammm i | LOCAL ITEMS | OF INTEREST Last Friday was Jefferson Davis' birth-day. Mr G G Gist was here Tuesday! from Greelyville. Mr John Shaw Tisdale of Cedar Swamp was on our streets yesterday. Mr E H Rhame of Sumter was ill town this week. The date most in evidence just t now is the candidate. Mr P G Gourdin visited Gonrdins several days this week. Mr J D Wilson of Spring Bank was iu Kingstree Saturday. W L Bass, Esq., was in town Monday on professional business. Kinder <fc Ilirech, clothiers, have new and attractive ad. Bead it. * Mrs M G McMillan of Greelyville spent Monday in town with friends. y Mr James H Tisdale of Central ^ was amoDg the visitors in town Monday. Mr M T Schultz has returned from an extended visit to relatives in j Virginia. Miss Ruth Bennett of Marlboro connty is visiting the family of Mr J B Steele. Messrs ? H Sauls and II Foxworth were noted in town Monday from Cades. Mr J P McElveen of Cades was in Kingstree Saturday and gave its a pleasant call. Mr B II Guess, of the Salters section, was in town Monday and paid us his respects. Mr H S Feagin of Harpers while in town yesterday added his name to our mailing list. The Misses Kennedy entertained a party of friends with a "pit" party Monday eveniDg. Mr and Mrs J J Matthews of Lake City were among the visitors noted in town Monday. Mr Vibert Graham, a popular young business man of Benson, visited town yesterday. The books of subscription to the Bank of Greelyville will be opened on Saturday, June 11. Mr Cliftoh B Guess returned last week from Bamberg Fitting school to his home near Salters Depot. 8L Mr 15 eteeie, who is m uumucoo n at Ashpole, N. C., is visiting relatives in Kingstree and vicinity. Mr S L Parsons of Suttons was in town one day last week and enrolled as a subscriber to The Record. Misses Maggie Ashby of Florence and Rosalie SimoDS of Washington, I). C., have been visiting the family | of Mr M F Heller. ' Messrs G W JohusoD and J J Gra^ ham and possibly others from town ^ are attending the big picnic at | Smith's Mills today. I Misses Theo. Gregg of Sumter and Mildred McCabe of Georgetown are guests of Miss Louise Gilland, iu L" Korth Academy street. L Mr aod Mrs C E StAmand, reL centlv of Washington, D. C., epeut I several days last week with Mr A W I Flagler'j family near town. R Chairman A H Williams 1ms called a meeting of the county executive commitle on Tuesday, Juue 14, See notice iu another column. Sheriff Graham came back from . Tampa, Fla., Monday, bringing with him the negro, Henry Davis, who is wauted here on a charge of murder. mi (YVY>VYVWWWVV^^ sir AFFAIRS CAUGHT 8Y OUR , LOCAL REPORTER AND 5; 1 NOTED ^jt Written in Condensed Form i and Printed in Like Manner for the Sake of Our Busy ^ ] Readers ^ ? ? 1 Mre L J Barr and Miss Louise c and Master William Barr are spend- 1 ing some days with relatives in the s vicinity of Benson and Indian town. r Work has commenced in earnest ^ onthe Gourdin building and The r Pvrnwn mneots to ojjcudv its new ! quarters on the second floor by October. a r Postmaster Louis Jacobs is in Charleston this week attending the n United States district court, as a j witness in a case sent up from this 0 a county. Mr L M Belk of Lake City was in I town Wednesday and availed himself of The Record's cheap clubbing y offer with the semi-weekly News and i Courier. c Mr W P Brown of Single called 2 pleasantly to see us Monday and re- a newed his subscription to The Re- ^ dord and the semi weekly News and 6 Courier. a ii Mrs L Stackley, Mr and Mrs P S 0 Courtney, Mr L J Stackley and Miss & Aunie Stackley attended the Pender- i grass-Duncan wedding, which took J place in Florence on Wednesday evening. The State campaign opeus at Sumter Tuesday, June 21. The fifth ^ meeting will be held at Ringstree on n Saturday, June 25. State candidates j have until Jtme 20 to file their ^ pledges. g Mr Erueec Wiggins, we under- * stand, has declined re-election as c superintendent of the graded school I on the terms offered. It is probable that the trustees will soon elect ? a superintendent and also a male as- a sistant teachei. - c I Mr N C Stack resigud? his posi- j tion last week as station agent for r the A C L ra'lroad at this point aud a ? * a _ i_ _ t _i tv nas returnee to nia Dome at rmc- ^ wood, Clarendon couuty. Mr D J j Brock of Effingham succeeds Mr r Stack as agent. j The Kingstree telephone system, which has been for some time in a state of innocfuous desuetude, is being overhajled and repaired by Messrs c Wallace and Lowery. It is to be c: hoped that the exchange will 60on be r in working order again. The following from town attend- 1 ed the festival Friday evening at Mr * G W Burgess', near SpriDg Bank, 1 given for the benefit of Bethel 1 church: Messrs W T Wilkins, J F * Scott, L P Kinder, Burry Epps, 1 Carol Burgess, Muldrow Burgess ' and N C Stack. * 1 Mr J J Eaddy, a member of the ( board of supervisors of registration, ( paid us a brief but pleasaut visit . Monday. Mr Eaddy says that be ^ will not offer for re-election this year as be has held the office several terms and wants to give some of the rest of the boys a show. Mr S G Bryan, a member of the ( class of '04 at Clemson college, has < our thanks for an invitation to the , commencement exercises, which took ] place June 5-7. Mr Bryan is one of 1 Williamsburg's bright young men | who has made an enviable record during his college course. We recei ved yesterday (Wednesday) two communications for publication, whose combined length would have taken up at least three columns of space. Again we must remind correspondents that their articles (especially when they are so long) must reach ns not later than Monday of the curreut weelu Work on the new jail was comnenced cn Tuesday. Sheriff Gralaro has removed the prisoners to lie Florence jail for safe-keeping in til the building here iB completed, dr V A Sedgewick of Mayfield, fCy., has charge of the construction or the Pauly Jail Co. of St Louis. The following college students lave come home for the summer vacation from the several institutions hey are attending: Winthrop, Mises Pearl Koger, Bessie Harper, Loena Ross; Columbia College for Vomen, Miss Helen Scott; Clenison, lr Paul Harper; Leesyille, Miss ieila Epps. Mr C R Sprott, the resident manger of the Williamsburg oil mill, eturned yesterday from Darlington, rhither he went to attend the anual stock-holders' meeting of the ndependent Oil Co. Tuesday uight, fter the meeting, a grind banquet ras given the oil magnates at the Arlington Hotel. Mr Henry Alouzoo, after tnree ears' absence spent principally in he "wild and woolly Occident", ame i?i this'week from Bisbee, Ariona, where he now holds a position s telegraph operator. While "out Vest" Henry tells us that he saw everal sides of life and rubbed up gainst a few of the corneis, yet he i delighted with the strenuous life f the breezy plains and expects to ojourn there some time longer. On he way here he stopped over in St.xmisand took in the big show. New Candidates. :.. i f ?: We call our readers' attention 0 the announcements of two iew candidates this week, viz., dr T Olin Epps for superintenlent of eduction, and Mr H E >cott fottCOQnty treasurer. On heir behalf we ask that their laims be considered in the apcoaching primary^election. Last week in enumerating the iew candidates whose cards had .ppeared we inadvertently unitted the name of Mr J J B dontgomery. We take pleasure n reminding The Record's eaders that Mr Montgomery is 1 candidate for auditor?the ofice he now holds?and from >resent appearances we should lot be surprised if be is elected n the fir# primary. A Quiet Home Wedding. Miss Mattie Pendergrass, one if the most charming of the laughters of Florence is to be narried Wednesday evening tc N A Duncan of Columbia. Ow ng to a recent bereavement in he family of the groom, the narriage will be a very quiet on< Vmong the guests who are her* 'or the wedding are Mr and Mn liouis Stackley and Miss Annie S.tackley of Kingstree, Mrs P 5 Courtney, also of Kingstree anc Misses Edith and Mamie Duncai )f Columbia. The best wishee )f a host of warm friends anc idmirers will be with the cou pie.?Florence Times, June 7. LOST! Somewhere on the road be tween Kingstree and Indiantowr :hurch, on Saturday, May 28 me sack containing fifty poundi Df coffee. Suitable reward wil fc>e paid to the finder on deliver to William Cooper, 3-9-2t. Cooper, S. C. Zurich has its streets paved wit) paper. Dr C J Moffett is a graduate c medicine and has as much right to pre scribe for the sick as any physician and gives to mothers his "TEETH INA" as the best remedy they can us for their teething children. "TEETH INA" Aids ^Digestion, Regulates th Bowels. Overcomes and Gouoteract the Effects of the Summer's Heat ao< makes teething easy. RUE HUH. _ COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF UNION GRADED SCHOOL. Hon. Walter Huard Delivers the Literary Address and Captivates His Audience?The ProgrammeThe first commencement of Union Graded school was held near Rome on Friday, June 3. The occasion was one of great enjoyment and the auditorium, which has recently been furnished with comfortable seats, was filled to overflowing. After prayer by Rev J F Way, pastor of the Methodist church, the principal addressed the audience in a speech of welcome, ! following which was rendered the following programme: America - - - the School The Orphan Boy - James Owens A Little Word Pauline Munnerlyn Break! Break! Break! Tom Chandler Those Evening Bells Willie Snow A Common Thought Alice Chandler Each Has His Place to Fill Marion Eaddy Motion Song? Daisy Munner" lyn, Louise Wilson, Emma Snow, Pauline Munnerlyn. Charge of the Light Brigade Allard Hemingway Go for Yourself Joe Eaddy What a Boy Can Do Stephen Way Trials of a School MistressDaisy Brockinton and Henry Chandler. Little Bessie Louise Wilson A Bachelor'8 Growls Florence Hemingway , Water-Melon Pickle? Daisy Munnerlyn and Fernie Heming, way. Then came a debate, the , query being: "Resolved, That , the country affords better advantages for the development of youth than the city". Affirmative, Willie Hemingway and Elise Rollins. Negative, Joseph Munnerlyn and Bessie Snow. "God be with you till we meet again". It was the general opinior that each pupil who took pari in the exercises did very well [ indeed. In fact, so excellenl was every number on the pro gramme rendered that it woulc be invidious to discriminate The debate, too, was very f in [ teresting, each speaker making ^ a strong argument for his sid< ' of the question. The contes * tants seemed evenly matched j and their forensic eloquence would have done honor to stu dents of more advanced yean * and wider experience. Aftei careful consideration the com mittee decided in favor of the affirmative. The members o the committee were, Hon Walte: Hazard, Rev J F Way and Re^ - H G White. 1 After the debate came an in '? termission and the audience re 5 paired to the shady grove ii 1 front of the building where < V sumptuous and elegant dinne: was served, showing to tb< highest degree the culinary skil of the ladies of the community h Dinner over; the crowd re-as sembled and Mr H D Munner lyn in appropriate language in ,f troduced the orator of the day i, Hon Walter Hazard of George ~ town. Mr Hazard chose as his theme e * "The Power of an Ideal" an< i his effort was a master piece o oratory. It was replete with helpful suggestions, sound doctrine and irresistible logic couched in the chaste and beautiful diction for which Mr Hazard is noted. It must have been heard to be appreciated and no synopsis can convey an adequate idea of the fine thought and deep learning of the speaker. At the conclusion of this truly 1 magnificent address Mr B B Chandler on behalf of the trustees congratulated the school on its development and announced 1 the re-election and acceptance of both the teachers, Prof B D Kennedy and Miss Florence Aimar, for the next' session. Thanks are due to the marshals for their attention to visitors and also to Miss Nita Munnerlyn for the beautiful music she rendered. Trustees, patrons and pupils all appreciate beyond measure . the efficient and faithful work of the teachers and their re-elecic 4-ho annrro r?f miirh crrat uvru io M*V v* O ification to all concerned. We shall all look forward with pleasure to their return when school re-opens the 1st of Octo ber. A Pupil. Lake City Locals. Lake City, June 7:?The excursion last week was a decided success in numbers, enjoyment and returns. There was realized more than $150.00 clear profit for the Lake City and Scranton lodges. BLHirsch, Esq., came up from Kingstree Wednesday morning and was in town a few hours. Mesdames D M and H V Epps are spending the month of June at Friendfleld, Florence county* LeRoy Lee, Esq., was here Thursday on professional business in Judge Baldwin's court. Mr H P Baldwin has sold the old McAlister mill to Mr J DMcClam. This mill was built at least seventy five years ago and was operated up to three or four i years ago when a portion of the dam was washed away. Mr Mc > Clam will repair and put the mill to humming again. 5 Mr Arthur L Jones attended commencement of the Columbia i Female College last week. Of t course nothing but a general inI terest in education constrained t him to make the visit. Mr J B Massie went to Flor1 ence Monday night. ' * * i 11- / * ? iL _ ' ADOUt inircy nve 01 ujc c?ur* r sionists last Tuesday got left ^ and did not return until Wednesday. Two did not get back un-: til Friday. The excuses offered bore a striking family resemblance to Joseph's coat as to the : , matter of the colors. r Miss Maria Croft is at home . from the Columbia Female Col- I : lege, at which institution she was f graduated on the 31st ult. r Mr J M Sturgeon and Metier *' have returned from the St Louis1 exposition, where they had a - spiendid time. If this thing keep6 up three' 1 months longer we will not have' 1 many girls of marriageable age r left.Notwithstandingquiteanumi J ber have taken "wofrser halves" since January 1, at least threfe or four more are expected?and confidently expected, too, within the next thirty days to do likewise. Where will' this thing ' stop? The' demand for Lake City Strawberries is equaled only by the demand for Lake City girls. W. L. i ? f Old papers for sale at tMr oflkn. * I?> jJ g < I 5- ^ nJ f 1 |? P11 ? 3 II *n m : 1 jo JO ^ I m Plgli 'izil tali rta|? iw'ii 7 * ?1 p I*J1 '^9