The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 02, 1905, Image 1
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VOL. XXI. KINOSTREE, S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1905. NO 5. M
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BUGGIES,WAGOI
The best values are obtaii
Our buyer selects person
stables.
All stock guaranteed forw
You are cordially mvit
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KINGSTREE,
Entered Into Rest.
Dock, January 30:?Our community
was {grieved last week
N. by the dea,th of cne of our oldesst
' . citizens, Mr .T C Josey, who
passed away at his home at
Dock last Tuesday night, after
an illness of two weeks.
Mr Josey had been in failing1
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neaitn ior some wiuo- uui nao
able to attend to his duties up
to his last illness.
Drs Baker and Mole did all
that medical skill could do but
to no avail-, for his time had
come.
Mr Josey was about 73 years
i- i of age and Jeaves a host of
friends and relatives to lament
his death.
Mr Josey was born and reared
in Kershaw county, but moved
to Williamsburg when quite a
young man. I feel that it is
needless for me to write any
more about the life of our old
friend, for, Mr Editor, I think
that the name of J C Josey
is familiar in almost every home
in this county. Being an old
man and one who traveled
around a great deal, he made a
large circle of friends, who will
learn of his death with regret.
Bis remains were laid to rest
at Indiantown church, where he
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a number of years.
Whippoorwill.
Administrator's Sale.
, . on Wednesday. February 15, 1905,
tli?* following personal propertv, belonging
to tii<* Estate of Wilson .McCow
n, deceased, will be sold to the
highest bidder for cash. at the residence
of the late Wih>on McCown,
about two miles northeast of Scranton,
S. C., to wit: Household and kitchen
furniture? plantation tools, 3 bales
cot ton, seed of 3 bales <5f cotton, 2
mules, i gray horse, l black horse, 1
2-horse wagon and harness. 1 top
buggy and harness 2 vet* of tobacco
flues. 1 hit corn, l lot fodder, potatoes,
sugar cane. 1 cow and calf and 2 hogs*
B. C.WHITEHEAD,
Administrates
Dixie
Gate.
Hiring purchased the right
to handle th> above gate in
WilHamsbnjg County, I am
now prepared to serve the
public.
1 Will Call On You
shortly and demonstrate
the many advantages of
this gate. Iu the meantime
those haying seen the
gate and desiring Farm
Bights ear/) will please
mail us their order giving
siy-e of gate wanted.
Price Farm Right
with one gate, any size
^ frotn six 10 tefeet,
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Gate Always On Exhibition
At Kingstree, S. C.
C. R. SALTERS.
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led by experienced buyers
ally all stock sold in our
ork or driving.
ed to visit our Stab10
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SALTERS SITTINGS. J
Farmers
Resolved to Reduco Acreage?
v Visitors in Town.
Saltrrs, January 31:?Messrs
E T H&mer, J U Everett, James E
Davis, James W Whitfield, Louis A
Whitfield, T E Salters, Juo M Salter^
A R Moseley and J W Moseley
spent Monday iti Kings'ree atteudiug
the Farmers' convention.
The farmers in this section have
all decided to reduce the cotton
acreage. More attention will be
paid to hog raising and more corn
will probably be planted than ever
before.
James W Moseley, who was hurt
m the wreck of tihe vestibule train
near Hardeeville, S. C., is at home
spending some time with his parents.
It will be some time before he will
be able to return to his work agaiu.
Mr P C McClary of Georgetown
was noted on our stieets Thursday.
Miss Leila Whitfield, now of Florence,
S. C\, spent several days at her
home last week.
Several of the Kingstree "sports" j
have been noted in our town. There t
must be 83me attraction. It is ru- t
mored that a couple of the sports (
from Kingstree got lost in the r
woods several niirhts azo on the wav t
to see a certain fair lady. Come again, t
boys; maybe you will find the road c
better next time.
Onr old friend, Mr S D McKay, 1
has been eery unwell for several days, r
Miss Carrie Salters, who is teach- s
mgnear Harpers, spent Sunday witn a
her mother. *
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Mr J Hennie Ostendoff, proprietor ,
of the Jno Hurkamp Co., of Charles- ^
ton, speDt several days last week with f
Mr A R Moseley bird-.hunting.
Dr W S Boyd of Jersey City, N. j
J., returned to his home there last (
Monday, after spending sereral weeks f
at his old home near here. XXX. j
SICKENJNO^SHIVERING FITS !
of Ague and Malaria can be re- t
lieved and cured with Electric Bit- 1
ters. This 1$ a pure, Ionic m-di- ;
cine; of special benefit in malaria, \
for it exerts a true curative influ- r
ence on the disease, driving it en- j
tirely out of the system It is
much to he preferred to Quinine. *
having none of this drug's bad af- '
t'er-eflfects. E S Monday of Henri- <
etta, Tex, writes: "My brother 1
was very low with malarial fever ]
and jaundice, till he took Electric (
Bitters, which saved his life. At .
Dr W V Brockington's drug stone; '
pric ! .. ...
For Sale.
Young, iountry raised horse. Will
work anywhere. Fast trotter. Kind
and souud. W M Vause, Kings
stree. llo-Xt
WANTED?At once 1000 cords of
lightwood. Highest cash price paid
at the Oil Mill. C
1 R. L. Blacknian,
Resident Manager.
Bring- us your JOB WORK.
11 IP SI SPUR.
THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION JUST
HALF OVER.
Rush of Bills Compulsory Education,
the Dispensary and the Biennial
Sessions Bills Under Fire.
Columbia, S. C., January 30:
The session of the Assemblv is
now just half over. Up to this
point work lias been (lone in a
somewhat leisurely manner, but
the progress henceforward will
be under whip and spur and the
:lose will be marked by a tremendous
burst of rush.
At the closing hour Friday,
four hundred and fifty seven
bills had passed through the engrossing
department, the "Third
House." Women are not permitted
to vote or to hold seats
n either the senate or house of
epresentatives, but iu the
'third house" they are "it"^
hey {outnumber the male
members ten to one.
The three foremost subjects,
o wit: taxation, compulsory
education and the dispensary
lave received no definite and de:isive
consideration. The two!
ast named will command atention
(luring the coming week
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>r ten days; the latter, at about
lie end of the fifth week. The
:ducation measures all have the
.ame object, the compulsory atendance
upon school during a
:ertain number of weeks each'
rear, and they differ only in the
letails for accomplishing' this
>bject. There are so many new
nembers in each house that it is
mpossible to predict the out:ome
of these or any other measires
upon which no decisive
'ote has been readied. The
esolution to investigate the
>tale dispensary has passed
>oth houses, but the representaives
tacked 011 an amendment
to pay the commission for not
nore than thirty days) to which
he senate has not agreed and
he matter has been sent to a
,'Oinmittee of free conference.
There are a number of schemes ]
ooking to tightening up the laws
elating to the return and asessment
of property for taxition,
but 110 proposition looking
,o a maienai mtreusc in win
evenues, which commends itself
is practical and meritorious has
>een presented to the good judgnent
of the law-makers..
Senator Williams has a bill in
he senate which, should it De:ome
law, will save to the State
rom six to eight thousand dolors
a year and that too wdthout
:rippling any branch of the
government. The bill provides!
:hat the State turnover to the
National Government our quarihtine
stations and relieve us of
:he expense of maintaining-,
riie United States will accept
:his property, maintain the sta:ions,
enforce the quarantine
aws, and do this at the expense
>f the Federal government and
truTiout charge to anyone. This
measure will not on I}' turn into
jur treasury several thousand
ind save us the annual appropriation
for keeping up these
stations, but will be of a very
material benefit to Charleston
and our other ports by removing
the port charges which all ships
[I1USL uuw uuy.
Seduction, which has longbeen
regarded as justification
for violent means and for even
the taking of life, will, if it be
regarded in the senate in the
same light as it is at the other
end of the State house, go upon
the statute books as a crime to
be punished, in some measure,
as it deserves. This bill which
has gone through the house and
is 011 tlie calendar of the senate
makes seduction under promise
of marriage a jjrave offense ant
provided that it shall be pun
isbed by tine and imprisonment.
Th.i bill to restore tobaccc
warehouse charges t o tin
schedule which obtained up t(
January 1st of this year, has
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passeu ine iiouse ana senait
and will in all probability be
come law.
The elections, which were
held Thursday, resulted as fol
lows: Judge of the 5th circuit,
F.ugene Gary to succeed himself:
judge of the 7th circuit, Hon E
E Hydrick to succeed Judge E
ATownsend; superintenrcnt of
penitentiary, Capt. .Griffi^^ to
succeed himself; directors of The
penitentiary, Saunders, Mobley
and Kirby to succeed Saunders,
Mobley and Rowland.
One of the hottest fights of the
session is being waged over Josh
Ashley's bill to repeal the law
creating the bureau ofimmigra
tion. It went on fiercely for
several hours Friday, when an
armistice was agreed upon to
cease until Tuesday*, when the
action will b.* opened again.
It appears more than probable
that sortie measure, will #0
through making cursing and
abusing another a crime. Both
houses have considered with
considerable favor bills 1 oking
to this end, which differ largely
only in the point of view of this
matter. One proposition makes
the use of language tending to
provoke a breach of the peace
an assault and assault and battery
as we have regarded assai It
heretofore; the other provides
that cursing and abusing another
shall be heid a misdemeanor.
The judiciary committee submitted
a well written report,
holding that several other
changes in the constitution will
be necessary before biennial
sessions of the Assembly would
be practical and recommending
that the matter of ratifying the
amendment voted on last election
be postponed until the
necessary changes be investigated.
This reoort was adoot
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ed and Messrs Frasier, Morgan
and Prince were appointed on
the part of the house on the
committee of investigation.
This means that the constitutional
as to annual sessions will
not be changed at this session;
and should the committee recommend
other changes as
necessary to make biennial sessions
practical and should these
recommendations be approved
by the "Legislature, it will be
several years before the much
discussed change be actually
made.
The other constitutional
amendments submitted at the
e'ection last fall have been ratified.
The old time favorite of some
legislators, the bill to create
new judicial circuits has, of
course, made its annual appearance,
and we predict that it. will
be again shelved. If judges and
lawyeis will do their duty, there
would be no need for more
courts.
Th*? bill to allow sheri to
use pl&fc. when on officia asiness
seems * ^ meeting vith
more favor thau " '^er '.rs.
Mr H< JD bmith, o a,
president of the Sta. n
growers' convention, \.
here about tomorrow or the a<?_
after and will ask for an appro
priatioa to pay the salaries oi
county organizers and inspect
ors to carry out the plan adopted
at the New Orleans conven
tion last week. As The Recoke
will no doubt contain that plan
the readers of this paragraph
are requested to turn to the plans
, in order to gain a clearer ide.
i of the purposes of the appropri
I ation.
It is proposed in a bill by M:
. Hamer that all persons convic
) ted of capital crimes shall b
; executed within the walls of th?
) State penitentiary. This wouh
> relieve the sheriffs of a very un
; pleasant duty.
The "yaller,"dog is not beinj
ignored. One member seeks t<
; amend the capitation tax bil
by exempting dogs frqm th<
, property tax, leaving them sub
; ject to only the capitation tax
> Judging from present indica
I f lone A vxlU??
nwno 1111:5 Will prtSS. niiUlllCJ
proposition is to repeal the capi
? tation tax. (
t A bill which seems in a fail
way to become enacted into law
is the one providing* that all
cases of larceny of live stocl
t below the value of twenty dol
lars shall be within the jurisdic
tion of magistrates.
Mr Sinkler of Charleston has
introduced a bill to abolish
dower. This is an entirely new
idea and does not seem to b(
meeting with favor. The rigbl
of dower is one of those ancieni
elements of our laws that will
probably go on down the ringing
grooves of change full manv' a
year more before it be ex
tinguished.
The new shad bill has been introduced
and is now before the
committee on agriculture. This
bill is frar ed to meet the objections
o the United States
district court to the first law by
providing that shad caught
within the waters of the State
must not be shipped out of the
Statej It is too early yet to say
anything about what fight may
be made on the measure, but we
nay expect this much, that
should it pass, those Georgetown
people who are now reaping the
benefits of the monopoly they
maintain will fight it as long as
there is any show of success.
Mr Bass's oill authorizing the
county commissioners of Williamsburg
to sell the poor farm
and buy another nearer Kingstree,
has passed the house and
is" now in the senate.
The joint resolution by the
same gentlemen authorizing the
county commissioners to pay
the Pauly Jail Building Co. $460,
balance due on new jail, has
also had three readings in the
lower house.
Mr Bass has introduced a bill
fixing the location and salaries
of magistrates and constables
in Williamsburg and providing
that the sheriff shall act as con
stable for the magistrate at
Kingstree and shall receive for
such service the salary provided
for the constable of said magistrate.
Senator Williams and Representatives
Graham and Bass
spent Saturday and Sunday a1
their respective homes.
W. L. B.
Letter to Henry Burrows.
Kingstree, S. C.
Dear Sir: Father and son
one is glad, the other is sad.
Devoc; lead-and-oil.
Mr Charles Hollenbeck, Fail
Haven, N. Y., painted his house
Devoe three years ago; his
father, same time, painted hh
ouse lead-and-oil.
^ -e father's house is al
cli. off; the son's is as good
as n ""hey '11 paint the same
way nt
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P W i iVOE & Co.
' Dr D C Scott sel our paint,
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Wholesale and Betail
, General Merchant.
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A Merry Christmas
* and a Happy and
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Prosperous New Year
; for our Customers*
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We have prepared a display
; ?of?
- HOLIDAY GOODS *
thit will please the most fas%
tidious in each of our various
; lines. .
LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
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In markingthe prices
on these goods we re'
membered the tumble
! King Cotton had and
marked them down
! to a level with his r
fall. a: a
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to see us and be
convinced mhv
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' We have thtf .tight
goods for your Christ'
; mas Dinner and
Fruit, Fruit, Fruit. .
1000 bushel^ of poas
' wanted.
Highest prices paid '
r Yours to please,
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TWO BIG STORES.
ZECingrstzee, S. C?
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