The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 06, 1905, Image 1
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K]NGSTREE SOUTH CAROUNA, JULY 6,1905. NO. 28. *
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Camturg'eon
is Maria
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tv York,
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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
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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.
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: 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.
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AFFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR ^ I
LOCAL REPORTER AND -< I
NOTED. . ^
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and Printed in Like Manner ^
for the Sake of Our Busv 1
Readers . .
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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 "
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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.
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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.
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