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I ^ ^ . A A, A. A JL a. ^ ^ 'a^ ^ a'T)N^^ A^e Promise the Utmost Liberality Consistent in&oeaoo. /'I ij rtlt|tl11 ii n In M ^ rc^. ll/flv VvMHili /^IvVvlVi u=r.HS . J JR. CASHIER. V I I s. b. toston. chab. m. kelltt. ^^ <?\ / V ^ K]NGSTREE SOUTH CAROUNA, JULY 6,1905. NO. 28. * E -Persona Miss S Fia., is M More Camturg'eon is Maria lit* Isle V Epps ?n days' tv York, iting" in in r F Messrs It .VI jCjpps aim ?? Bass returned home Tuesday night from a week's outing on Sullivan's Island. Messrs J Cj ^ McElveen and S T Godwin were also there a portion of the time. T Of course they went in bathing and this writer no longer wonders why sea-water tastes so -bad. They caught lots of fish, I.;'. N crabs, sunburn and freckles. Mr McElveen thought the clover in a vard in Mt Pleasant was mul lets. The breeze and bathing * are good, and fishing fairly ) good and life on the Island is altogether pleasant with but one serious drawback and that is the lack of anything like a schedule of trains. When you can get a car, is the barest cong* jecture. It seems that the su 4/ perintendent has orders to t change the schedule at all hours Iwheu he has nothing else to do. Dr DuRant went to Charleston Monday, accompanying his sister, Mrs Ed Hemingway, who was admitted to a hospital for treatment. Work on the store-house of S L Courtney & Co, on Main I ^street,was begun last week. Dr M Davis Nesmith and his bride came home Friday mornjng. They were married on June 14th at Chipley, Ga., the .^home of the bride. A most hearty welcome is extended these young people and may life for them flow pleasant* ly WLB P Brooks Nesmith. A beautiful home wedding \?a.s that of Miss Virgie Brooks and Dr NeSmith, which took place Wednesday at 4.30 at the home of the bride's parents on Hardy avenue. A quiet elegance | characterized every detail of the m-arriaxre framrht with so much I interest to the social world of Chipley. Roses, ferns and carnatioDS furnished the attractive decorations. In the parlor the r color scheme of white and green P was effectively carried out in fc* * bamboo, asparagus, ferns and I carnations. Ropes of bamboo were suspended from the four ir corners of the room to the center, where they were caught I I with the streamers of satin ribbon, and soft waxen tapers were artistically grouped on the fern hoop which was interwoven - wjth carnations. The v mantel ? - ? I J *M 4nAtltw<ir ? was uuiikcu iu nailing of maiden's hair and oxalis. At four o'clock the merry peal of Mendelssohn's weddingmarch soun led on the summer air, Miss May Hastey, of Bulloch ville, presiding at the piano. I > There were oulv two attendants, Miss Kuby Robinson, maid of honor, Dr Guy (J Murrah, best man. Rev R H Blalock of Laf Grange, performed the impressive ceremony. The pretty little ribbon bearers, daintily yawned in white, entered the . jferlor carrying broad bands of white ribbon. These little girls v ' who so gracefully did their part were Ruby Benson, Susette De Loach,Sue Hill and Kelly Davis, 'fhe bride entered with her maid of honor and was met by the L .J* # * groom and his best man. The fairjbride was queenly in a gown of white crepe de chine and veil of white tulle. She carried white carnations and ferns. The v . ^ m;"* t. maid of honor carried a shower > bouquet of carnations. Immel 4 diately after the ceremony the | ' wedded pair left for an extend _ ed bridal tour. The lar^e number of beautiful ^ifts attests the popularity of this youn?- couple. Among" the gifts \vas a generous check from the bride's father. The Enterprise with a host of friends extends its best wishes. Mr and Mrs C II Brooks entertained a number of friends on Tuesday evening in compliment of Miss Virgie brooks and Dr NeSmith. In the dining room the color scheme of green ' and pink prevailed. Above the table was suspended a cluster of roses and ferns, these with covering" of snowy dai lask, glistening silver and cut glass completed the fair picture. A de- , licious course ot supper was served.?Chipley, (Ga.) Enterprise, June 21. SCRANTON SNAP SHOTS. Items ot General and Local Interest Noted. Scranton, .July 3:?Mrs Fannie Lee, of this place, who has 1 been suffering for the past sev- i eral weeks, was operated on last Tuesday by Drs Lynch and : Cathcart and is now rapidly im- i proving, to the delight of her many friends. Mr C L Gause of Cowards fav- ' ored us with a pleasant call on Saturday of last week. Mrs J A Gannt of Florence is spending a few days in town this week with her parents, Mr --,1 \K^ "D A Dnrlmr ' auu IUJ ax xx i ai n.ti Mr G Harrell Graham, while taking his spirited horse from the buggy last Sunday, was thrown to the ground by the animal?which, aashing to run, caused Mr Graham several bruises and cuts. Dr W S Lynch was at once summoned and Mr Graham is now resting very well. Miss Bessie Barnwell, who has been spending some time with her sister, Mrs D L Lee, at this place returned to her home at Adam's Run last Thursday. Dr ularence Jacobs was in town last Saturday from Kingstree. ' Mr S J Kennedy was in Florence several days last week on business. Mr H6yt Hill was among the visitors in town this week. i Mr R C Gregg, the well known life insurance agent, was in town , Saturday from Florence. Mr L G Kennedy, formerly of , this place but now of Florence, is spending a few days in town with his parents, Mr and Mrs | W S Kennedy. Mr Archie Becoat, of the Effingham section, was in town | last Sunday. M. R. M. Pleasant Grove Points. Pleasant Grove, Julj 3:? Rain is much needed in this section and unless we get it soou there will | be a larger reduction in bales and : bushels than there was in acreage. Mr Yates Keith of Cartersville was visiting in this section Saturday. I ! Lynch's river is very low now and I Rcltinor id f lip nnnnlai* snort. Verv I?r - ?? -r~ --J small fry are being caught, bowr ever. We should like to call the atteii' ; tion of ourcouuty supervisor to the Smith bridge road, which has not been worked since 1903, This piece of road, which is only about oue mile and a half long, is grown up it. bushes on either side ana tree tops are in the road from th" storm of vSepteniber of last }ear. Also the abutments of Kennedy Lake bridge are in very bad condition, as a vehicle hits to make a rise of a foot or more to get on the bridge. The road between the bridges is greatly in need of spade work, as it , is washed out in dangerous holes i and pieces of logs and puncheons are lying in the road. Now we pay j our dollar and would like to have i the logs rolled out of the road and i the bushes cut down at least every ' other year, POMPEY. KINGSTREE VS. CLIO. Three Pretty Games Played Here Las! Week. There was some very pretty ball pb.ved here last week between Clio and Kingstree. Both teams were strong and all the* games played proved very interesting. Out of the three games placed Kingstree won two. The tirst game on Wednesday was won by the Reds seven to one. One of the features of the game was the "rooting" done bv some of the noted "fans." Thursday, Clio won from Kingstree. It is attributed to the change in the line up, but still the Reds pujt up a ^amei that was interesting" to the last inning". Friday, the last game of the i series proved one of more in- j terest than the others, for iti was the game to decide the su-j periority of one team over the , nther. In the first inning the j Reds put three men across the J home plate and two more in the | ninth. They held Clio down to goose eggs through the nine innings, the score being 5 to 0 in favor of Kingstree. Gilland and Miller were the battery foi Kingstree, Taylor md Fletcher for Clio. Both 1 batteries did some pretty hand-j ling of the ball. COTTON TAKES RAISE. Idvances Five Dollars a Bale on New York Exchange. New York, July 3:?The cotton | market became badly excited after Lhe publication of the government jrop report today showing the coalition of cotton to be 77 per cent, or iower than even the small crop of the year of 1903. The report wa< a jreat deal worse than h id b "ii ec pected and caused a stampede of general buying, the price jumping np one cent per pound within ten ! minutes after the publication of the j report This was equivalent of $5 % bale. The weekly crop reports | had been generally favorable, and j the trade expected today's monthly report to show an improvement of 80 per cent, at least. Excitid scenes were witnessed in j the trading pit when the unfavorable report was read. For the first hour thereafter brokers on the short side of the market kept it violently excited, and prices advanced at times 10 points between trades, or fluctuated wildly when the top point had been reached. The trading was on an enormous scale and the market was in a turmoil over two. hours, i Not until the shorts had covered i their contracts and the majority of i the trading interests had protected ' themselves on the readjustment of; the crop situation, did the market subside, December and January advanced 20 points at a time mor than IftO nnints in all. Deoember! gelling at 10,60 and January at 10.65 Thousands of bales were thrown overboard by bulls who took profits at the prevailing high prices and this selling quieted the market together with the belief that the advance had discounted the existing conditions. Later in the afternoon prices again advanced nearly to tho j top for the dav.?The State, July 4. 1 I i Croft?Jennings. The following card of invita- j tion has been received by friends i of the contracting parties; Mr and Mrs J M Sturgeon invite you to be present at the marriage of their daughter Maria Lenud Croft to I>r Larkin Hamilton Jennings Wednesday afternoon. July the nine-I teenth,nineteen hundred and five at five o'elock at their home Lake City South Carolina. Not a cent wanted unless you j are cured. If you are sick and ailing take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. A Great bless-| lng to the human family. Makes! iou well?keeps you well. 35 ents, Tea or Tablets. lake City Drug Co. i Lines From Lambert. Lambert, July The cropin this vicinity are looking ver\ disheartening on account of th extreme dry weather. The farm ers have about come to a standstill, and will continue so unti the rain moves them. However, if the drouth continues much longer, the corn crop will bralmost a complete failure. Messrs .J \V Haxley and l? .1 Davis have just returned home from a visit to friends and relatives near Marion. Mr J M Baxley reports having enjoyed himself on last Sunday while attending- a "Saints'" meeting near Vox. The meet ings were conducted by the Holiness members. Mr Baxllc says that he witnessed more curious proceedings at their performances than ever before at a religious assembly,one especially, praying and talking in an unknown tongue. Mr A C Hanna of Johnsonville paid us a welcome visit on last Sunday. Mr Hanna has been attending the Spartanburg Pitting school. All of his old friends and acquaintances were glad to see him again. Also Messrs J M and T R Spivey called a short while yesterday and furnished us with some music on the violin while on their way home from (leorget O W 11. As the weather is so dry and nothing much to do, I'll put up my pen and go down to Mingo Creek and see what the fish are doing and perhaps along with the fish I'll catch a Bay Coon. Spring Bank Ripples. Spuing Bank, July 5:?Surrounded by the members of his family at the festive board, which was graced by an appetizing barbecue and other tempting comestibles, Mr W H McElveen celebrated the Fourth of July in proper and fitting style. All the "children" were present except George A McElveen of Timmonsville, who has become I too much of a man of affairs to find time to visit so small a hamlet as Spring Bank. There were also present a few friends of the family to participate in the good cheer of the natal day of the nation. What with barbecue, water-melons and best of all, good appetites and con genial companionship,the hours passed all too quickly and the day came to an end. Those present were: .Mrs T R Wilson, Mrs E F Epps, W M McElveen, T H McElveen and Miss Inly McElveen, aiso Messrs R B Smith of Spring Bank and M A Thomas of Lake City. Mrs J J McFadden died at her home hear Beth.ehem, Clarendon county, Sunday afternoon, .lune 1, at 4 o'clock. The remains were interred in the family burying ground near her home. She is survived by two T T? nnrJ Wnlter OVII3, 1UV.OO 1 O u J.' M..v. McFadden,and leaves a number of other relatives and friends bereaved by her death. Unless rain comes soon crops in this vicinity are ruined. Corn especially is badly injured and even with favorable seasons will yield but little. Tobacco looks fairly well generally. It's better to see ten bores than to miss one buyer. A house never gets so pig thfit it can afford to sniff at a hundred pound sausage order, or to feel that any customer is so small that it cannot afford to bother with him. You've got to open a good many oysters to tind a pearl. Don't hurt anyone if you can help it, but if you must,"a clean, quick wound lieais soonest. You can buy a lot of home happiness with a mighty small salary, but fashionable happi| ness always cost just a little | more than you are making. s^vyvwwyvvvvyyvvvw*vv^ : i local items i 0f interest ' x AAMAAMWWMAMAMAAM Read new ad. KingstreeHardware Co. Mrs H G Askins visited friends in Charleston this week. Mr Philip Arrowsmith is in i town from Georgetown. Rev J A White was in town , oesterday from Cades. ts w tsutier spent yesteraay i in Kmgstree.?Florence Times, i, \ Jjniy 3. Mr I A Keels, now of Lynch- 1 burg, was in town one day last week. Attention is called to ad. of ; the Orangeburg Collegiate Institute. ' ' Mr James Daniel of Lake City j came down to see the ball games of last week. Mr P C Shirer of Greelyville was in town Monday and paid , us a pleasant call. ( Miss Cora Daniel of Lake ' City came over Monday to attend ] the summer school. ; The Klngstree base-ball team " went to Clio Tuesaay to play a 1 series of three games. ' Mrs Marion E Scott of Ben- j son is visiting at the home of J ( her son, Mr D Lesesne. J Mr J P Adams attended a pic- < *ic at Fulton's landing on July 4 ! Tie reports a pleasant time. i Dr W L McCutchen of Sumter ' visited his old home at Indian- < town several days last week. * Mr J M Rowe of Suttons, one j of our valued subscribers,called < to see us a short while Monday, j MrCW Wolfe, the editor of ( The Record, is sick in bed with ( a severe attack of chill and ( fever. ( Ask Manager Stoll why the 1 Kingstree Reds didn't play that 1 match game in Sumter on the ] Fourth. We acknowledge with pleasure an invitation to a picnic at ' the Lower bridge on Wednesday 1 July 12. ? Miss Annie Cunningham o 1 Tn^iontAirn loff lnct WPPlf tn , XUUiaUVV/T* ii) 4VX b ?. -WW.. , spend some time at Glenn Springs. The Fourth went by unobserved in town except that the bank and the dispensary were 1 closed, 1 Note quarterly statements of * the Bank of Kingstree and the Merchants and Farmers Bank of Lake City. V j Mr B M McElveen, of the j Cades community, called Mon- < day and shoved up his subscription a year ahead. Mrs B C Whitehead of Kingstree, is visiting Mrs banders on her return from Glenn Springs. > ?Florence Times, July 3. j We understand that the 1 Kingstree-Lake City-ScrantonBeulah-Prospect Pythian ex- i cursion has peeu indefinitely ( postponed. Messrs Dessie Oriliand, rres- j cott Martin, S D Cunningham, i Theodore Hemingway and Hey- 1 ward Scott spent the Fourth in Darlington, Judge H C Cod win, who holds the scales of even-handed justice in Lake City and vicinity, paid us his respects while in town dondav. Mr and Mrs M B Howell of ^ Bamberg came in last week and will speud the summer near town. They are boa-ding with Mr H A Smith. V Little Miss Ethel Mcjeigh re- ^ turned yesterday fj^n Kings- * ! tree. She was accompanies by 1 . her friend, Miss Roberta Coker, * who will spend some time visit! ing in the city.-Florence Times, July 3. WTWMVTVTWTYTYWTVA ' AFFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR ^ I LOCAL REPORTER AND -< I NOTED. . ^ vritten in Condensed Form and Printed in Like Manner ^ for the Sake of Our Busv 1 Readers . . ^AMMMAAAAMMMAMAAA ' Mr and Mrs Philip Oppleman, : who were married on June 18 at Petersburg, Va., came in yester- ( day to visit Mr and Mrs S Peres. Mrs Opplem?tn is pleasantly remembered here as Miss Miriam , Schultz. Miss Luna Tribble was a bride's maid at the Norris-Suber wedding- at Antreville. This , ocdeion came of Tuesday of ! lafft week and was the social event of Antreville.?Due West A R Presbyterian. COUNTY SUMMER SCHOOL. Ad Enrollment of Nineteen Teachers The First Day. The Williamsburg county summer school opened Monday with an enrollment of nineteen teachers, in addition to which there are six pupils of the Kingstree Graded school in attendance. The faculty consists of Mr P P Bethea, mathematics, pedagogy arwl current events, and Mr George McCutchen, civics, history and English. Following ire the names' of the teachers md pupils in attendance: Misses Rllie Boyd,Trio; Hattie Newell Chapman; Retha Burgess, Mou!on; Janie Shaw, Kingstree; arolyn Salters, Florie Stubbs, Wilhelmina Lifrage Salters Depot; Esther Nettles, Lake City; Rosalie Montgomery, freely ville; Annie Venters,Yen ;ers; Hallie Graham, Cooper; Nellie Mae Montgomery, Emma binder, Mary Swann, Ruth Scott, Odessa Montgomery, SCings tree; Elise I^esesne, jreelyvilie; Martha Gordon, jourdin; Cora Daniel, Lake City; )la McElveen, Claudie Stuckey, Dades; Messrs Thomas Epps, tVesley Courtney, Kingstree; IVilliam Whitlock, Otto Graham, Lake City. Where are you sick? Headlche, foul-tongue, 110 appetite, ack energy, pain in your stomich, constipation? Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will make fou well and keep you well. 35 :ents, Lake City Drug Co. ?STATEMENT OF? 1 BANK OF KINBSTBEE. It the Close of Business Jane 30, 1905. Resources. [.cans and Discounts 104,7*20 55 stocks and Bonds 4,800 00 Hanking House & Real Estate *2.105 71 Furniture and Fixtures 1 500 70 ' ash on Hand and Due from i Rank* 55,588 01 $148,561 07 T-iahilitioa AiAW K/AAA VAVWt Capital Stock* 30,000 00 Surplus & undivided Profit* 4.931 28 Cashier's Cks. ?ut standing 142 00 ( Due to Banks 89 M Deposits 113,399 14 *148,J>?1 97 i Jtatei of South Carolina,, bounty of Williamsburg. * Personally appeared before me E C fipps, Cashier of the Bank of Kingsree, who on oath says that the above Statement is true to the best of his inowledge and belief, K. 0, Epps. Cashier. Sworn to before me this 1st day of Inly 11K45. i Chas. W. Stoi.l ri ? i ' Notary Public for S. C. 1 * I John A Kelley, ' . ?. Ull Kellahan, I >m,-t Attwt: (DC.Scott. , ) DireMors. , Opening Books of Sub- ! scription. Notice is hereby given that the books >f subscription to the capital stock of he Williamsburg Insurance Agency i ,vi 11 be opened at the olHce of O. W. ] Wolfe in Kingstree, S. C.. on Friday, j I nlv 7 1905 at 12 o'clock M. The : apital stock ol the said company is to 1 >e $4,000, divided into forty shares of ' loo eaeh. [ E C Epps Board of i Hugh McCutchen i J WTWilkins Directors NWS Moore : [CW Wolfe 1 STATEMENT OF TIE CONDITION OF HIS I MIIIS IV " ? LAKE CITT, S.C. . 'Vffj KT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, JUNE 30, 1905. Resources. Loans and Discounts - $18,024 06 Bank Fixtures - - 821 76 ^ Kxpenses (including books, stationery, cic - 608 47 Uash on hand and in banks 23,1198 76 $42,248 02 Liabilities. Capital Stock 24,000 00 Undivided Profits 864 80 Deposits 16,878 72 $42,243 02 I, B Wallace Jones, Jr., Cashier of Lhe Farmers & Merchants Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true and correct. B Wallace Jones, Jr., Cashier. Subscribed, and sworn to before me this 1st day of July, A. D. 1905. . ? i] R C Johnson, [L. S.] Not. Public for 9. C. Attest: J S McClam. L A Winston. BWallace Jones. SB No man's a failure until he's dead or loses his courage, and that's the same thing. HUMAN FRACTIONS. * J f he Relations They Bear to the Math* ematical Brand. Fractions have never occupied my , y/. mind since that golden age out ol which I was rudely thrust some thirty years ago. But recently the curi- '/it* ous personality they used to have for my childish terror was recalled to me. "I know fractions," my niece, Marjory, declared to me the othei day, with conscious wisdom. "Then are two kinds?common fractions and decimals. All that are not decimals are common or vulgar." "Common or vulgar 1" The forgotten names came hack from afar, mere conjunctions of curious syllthlpfl vifhnnt m?th?Tn#.MHil Bonifi cance, but pushing strange ideas! ahead of them. Why should there suddenly have been opened up to me a strange and human aristocracy among fractions whereby one order should be assigned the place of exclusion and made the shibboleth, even among boys?that single class of humanity to whom we look for a virgin and therefore a true judgment?while all the rest of th? mathematical half world should be tagged with a double derogation T . <. % Whence is the sinister power and the smug respectability of the decimal? Has it to do with the money that it stands for? Has the calculating arithmetic done this human thing also? "Marjory, there is such a thing, is there not, as an improper fraction V "Oh, yes, there is. I know about that too. An improper fraction is a vulgar fraction whose numerator is greater than its denominator." It would appear, then, that the arithmetic appreciation of good behavior is close to the human. A frnpfinn baa nn hitairipas tn be creat er than it appears to he, no matter how many integers it may actually contain. Having the body of * common fraction, a common fraction it shall be, and an improper one besides?a case of explicit misbehavior grafted upon a general vulgarity.?Scribner's. ^ Taking Time by the Poreloefc. It was late in the afternoon, just at dusk, when a carriage evidently from the country, drove up to the door of "Anson King, Stationer/* and a young woman alighted and entered the little shop, She asked to see some thin stationery, and after selecting what she desired she hesitated for a moment. "Do you make any reduction to clergymen ?" she asked softly. "Certainly, madam/' said the stationer, with great promptness. "Arc you a clergyman's wife r* "N-no," said the young woman. "Ah, a" clergyman's daughter, then/' said the stationer as he began to tie up the paper in a neat package. "N-no," said the young woman Then she leaned across the counter and spoke in a confidential and thrilling whisper, "But if nothing happens I shall be engaged to n tneoiogicai siuaeni as sow as nap comes home next month."?Toath'a Companion. ? i Car* of Oilcloth. Oilcloths should never be ashed ; n hot soapeuds. They should first, >e washed clean with cold water* ben rubbed dry with a cloth wetted n milk. Car* of tho Piano.* r To prevent a piano suffering from :he effects of a damp room put a small lump of unalacxed lime in a Mg and place inside the case. i iliii iifiMHB