Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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She Scitttlti ilefflfi) e????. vllv VW Ml WI) (4IVWV V? famsr.if? BWj^ V ^ V#* V ' S. a. IHIOTON.^ CH^H. Htm. ^KL XIX KINGSTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. JULY 1.1. 190S : WV 9Q ^ Hi Is lis PillSHDUSIII. r^LATSOM AND JETSAM AND * TREASURE TROVE CAUGHT BY .FISHERMAN BASS. Lake City, July 10: Mrs L H Grimsley and daughter, Wilhelmina, of Lanes spent some days recently visiting in town. Alva Weaver has purchas| ed the lot on the northwest corner of Church and Thomas /Streets. Mr Weaver is a single man and this is a residence lot. j S lUettng the major and minor : |f?fKemises the logical conclusion ( is a simple matter of deduction. 1 Mr JH V Gaskins has pur- , chased the Ward residence on i Dansing street. < Mrs W S Moore left here ] Saturday morning on a trip of a 1 n&nih or two. She will first i ; vifct relatives in South Boston, 1 Va, and will then go to Balti- \ H?ore and probably other cities ( in that section of the union. ] Mr* Byron Truluck of Mot- ( ^ bridge was in town Saturday. 1 Mrs H G Askins and children c came up from Kingstree and ( spent some time with relatives 1 3town last week. f jfr H P Baldwin, who was [fined to his home at McAl- ^ ister's Mill several days with fever, is up again ddd will in "v all probability resume his place as book-keeper for Mr J S Mc- \ Clam right soon. a Messrs D M Epps, W E Sev- "v erance and H V Epps, three c 4tprotem'' widowers, took ea c V<with Rev J B Tray wick Friday) mx, j. Edwin L Hirsch, Esq, of Ic %angstree was in town Thurs- Js day morning. i * V ? ] 41 * Mrs Cornelia McLeod of Man Lung was ucre iasi wcck visiting relatives. Mr C J Rollins of Venters was noted here Wednesday of last tjeek. The 4th was passed very! 1 quietly and was noticed at Jftfcy only the banks, the dis pSsary^And one or two mer-: chants. Mr J J Graham, our popular E supervisor, came to town ei Wednesday afternoon without a bis hat. There was absolutely tl nothing wrong, however, his s< |)?t having been accidentally d< knocked off while he was on the k train. Of course, until the ex- c< ' -planation was made, it w did make us feel a little bit sus- w picious to see our straight su- T pervisor come up the street in "hurriedly with flushed face and k< bareheaded. But things are not \ " what they seem always. For IG instance, innocent clover may m appear to Mr McE., to be mul* lets; notwithstanding it is a far in cry from a forage plant to fish, ki Miss Maggie Epps and Mr m Marvin Davis were married on ni the 3rd instant by Rev T J to Rooke. The bride is a daugh- ga ter of Col J P Epps of Cades fo and the fortunate bridegroom is j st a rising young merchant of Con- p* way, in which town they will se enter upon this united journey, ar It may be true that well wisher i co of themselves vork neither good T1 or ill, yet they evidence that lij khftdly spirit which adds much er to existence: and for these two te we wish that, so fa 1 as storms ro Van be calmed; may all the j winds that blow over their path tempered into zepnyrs iaaen -with the breath of flowers; and thatfco far as is meet that bur- Av< dens be lightened; may theipi /weight of the trials which shall be come into their lives be only da such as gives zest to living and ,se] knits closer those who carry ; ?u them in united purpose. Mr W 0 Rollins of Rome was in town Monday. . Mrs A M Lee of Popeville, th< Fla, is out or a visit to relatives hi? and friends. j Miss Annie Sutcliffe has gone to Rome to spend a few weeks. ' Senator W'lliams spent Mon-1 a 1 * day in Charleston on business. Mr A P Hatchell is having his dwelling on Charles street nicely painted. Mr S L Courtney has purchased the Daniel residence on Main street. The tobacco business is opening up. Several loads have been sold and at very satisfac tory prices, regard being- bad to the quality of the tobacco now off ;riug and also to the fact that somejof the larger buyers have not yet gone upon the floors. Nearly all our regular buyers are here and will be readv for active business in a few days. Mr J D King will operate the King warehouse. The Star warehouse is still in charge of Col Hall, who says it will shine with increased splenior this season. Mes*s L 0 Elolloway, W S Moore, L A Winston and W F Gregory, all veterans and regular buyers on this market, are here and whet:ing their scythes to mow each >ther down. The Messrs Motey are at their|old posts, to the lelight of all their friends, and VI r Massey is still very much on leek. Besides these there are ithers here connected with the jvsiness and more to come in a ew days. Soon the accustom*3 hum of a busy tobacco marret will be heard again. Mrs H P Stack of Pinewood isited in town last week. The Lake City base ball team risited Georgetown on the 5th ind 6th instant and played two rery interesting and fiercely ontested games with the nine , if that city. The first game vas won by the locals by a core of 8 to 2, while the visitors arried off the honors of the econd game, winning three to wo. The line up of the Lake 'Citians" was as follows: Sturgeon, Metier, c. Stone, James, p" Truluck, J M, 1 b Hcgan, 2 b Bowen, 3 b Harper, Alex, ss Baldwin, Oscar, r f Singletary, B A, c f ' Ward, Otto, 1 f Truluck, J M, manager. Floyd and Thurmond Rod gers looters. The rooters are mam- ' i last but they were first, last 1 nd all the time, and the way ley "rooted" was a caution? i ;nt a three masted schooiaer s own the bay on a nineteen 1 not clip afid drove back on in- 1 lining tide Floyd had no voioe orth speaking about at all < hen they got back home and s hurmond's tongue is now be-: i ig re-Tamped at* the shoema- , ers. And the way the entire push" was treated by those < eorgetown people! As the ^ anager expressed it, "simply s it of sight." If the re is a place i all the world whei*e courtesy, . ndly consideration and gentle- j anly hospitality h?ts a perenal hoint. that nlari? is wn. The strangei: within her T ites is no stranger but is a * ndly remembered frien d and a 4 eel-bound brother. To these iople kindness is not even A cond-nature but nature itself, * id sweet hospitality ;theunmscious business of theii "lives, t lat the stars in all their (:ourse ? ?ht upon no people mort ; gen- S ous, genial and warmly cour- ( ous is the verdict of our team, oters and all. c WL.B. ^ Picnic Postponed Owing to inclemency of 'Jthe ^ ?ather on the ; 12th. inst.? tihe ? cn# at the Lower bridg;e ha s L en postponed until Wednesy, July 19. DiD.ner will be rved at 2 o'clock p m. Come? t and bring your baskets. ; * Chas VV Rav. "J 9 For the Com raittee. ^ [t isn't what a man's got in1 \ e bank, but what he's got in. f ; head, that make s him a eat merchant. | ? . y Hie drill en-gine has to have ot of pull ars well as- push. "it* r* a. DIED BY BIS ~i OWN HAND, FORMER HEAD OF DEFUNCT OIL COM- 1 MITS SUICIDE BY TAKING CARBOLIC ACID. Following close upon the , heels of the collapse of the In- < dependent Cotton Oil Co., as a < dramatic climax to a situation \ already replete with sensation- j al features, c^ine news of the suicide of Robert Keith Dargan. until recently the president of the chain of mills included in the Independent,and also president of the Darlington Trust Co. Mr Dargan took his lite in the law office of his father, E K Dargan, Esq., by drinking the contents of a four-ounce bottle of carbolic acid. The act of self-destruction seems to have been deliberate and premeditated, as the deceased left a note stating that he had determined to kill himself on acc ?unt of "his financial troubles. 1 THE FOURTH AT"SCRANTON. Day Karkei by Stores Closing and Fish d Fries?Personal Notes. i SCRANTON, July 10: Most of r the stores in town were closed a on the Fourth and there was a a number of fish-fries in our com- ^ munity, at which all who attended reoort haviny* had a " . "* c good time. Showers fell Saturday after- f noon and several days last week, which were of incalculable benefit to crops and gardens. ^ The rain was not general, however, and some farmers have s had but little in about five Q weeks. Unless they get rain soon their crops will probably be a failure. The corn crops in this section are very poor; cotton is somewhat better, but the s plant is small on light lands D and the prospect is that the ^ yield will be far short of last J. year. The condition of tobacco is also below the average. ^ Dr S M Dickson has opened a general merchandise business on Railroad street. We wish for him abundant success. Miss Minkie Carter of Lake ^ City visited relatives an d friends in town Sunday. Mr L J Kennedy retu rned to ^ Florence Sunday morning after spending the holidays in town . with his parents, Mr and Mrs t W S Kennedy. Messrs Lexie and Billie James i >f Bowling Green, Fla., are 0 spending some time in town { rrrl^k Vv?*r\4-k "\/C ? . i Willi men uiutuci) iui uuji? ^ fames. o Miss Maude Parker returned w Sunday night from Florence, t< vhere she has been visiting her >ister, Mrs J A Gantt. c Miss Addie Cannon is spend- f< ng a few days with relatives in si lake City this week. e Mr Thomas Parker of Con- il vay was in town severed days ecently 'visiting his brother, u ttr P A Parker. ti Mr John M Myers of Cowards e: vas noted on our streets la:5t n: donday. ra Mr S M Benton, one of Flor- 11 mce county's thrifty and successful farmers, was in town rr Saturday of last week from fS towards. ^ Mr W J Cockfiel.d has been :onfined to his bed several days } m 1' vith malarial fever. We hope ;o see him able to? be out soon. , a Mr C B Dansey of Conway, i t ?ho has been w 5th us sever-A nonths, returned to his home > [\iesday. i Messrs J R Lee and L D 1Cvans went to Darlington on he Fourth. . c Mr and Mrs. "Winslow "Wright eturned Saturday night from ^ x>uisville and other points, j rhither they have been gon.e t or some t ime. a Sheriff George* Graiham <*f y fingstree -was in town one da y ast week on official bui ;iness. n 4 , J B Wallace Jones^ c)i * * V\V 1;'' __ A - -A.'X* i Lake City was on our stre<; ;s :>ne day last week on busines . Mr J C Lynch of Lynch was n town a short while one day ast week. M. R. M. npath nf Miss Alice Rollins. Rome, July 6:?Our community vas saddened last week by the dentil )f Miss Alice Roll ins, which jurred on Monday, June 20, after a long and painful illness. She was (i the forty-second year of her age. Her remains were interred at Bei limy Baptist church, in the piesem e >f a large number of relatives and friends, the funeral services bei g conducted by Rev W .1 Wilder, I be )astor, assisted by Rev Mr Clyde, ut he .Melodist church. Miss Ruling vm a consistent member of Sethaiay .fcUurch and her uailv walll >f life ware adorned bv the grace! )f Christian womanhood. She was i daughter of the late Rev J L R>!ins and a sister of former coun' v :reasurer, R D Rollins. She leaves four brothers and fity sisters to nourn her departure, FINE CROPS AROUND GIEELYVJLLE. he Anti-Dispensary Moremem-bowred Crap Shooters Raided. Greelyvill,e, July 10: The mniversary of our nation's birth ias come and gone. Uncle Sam s getting- to be quite an old nan, but still remains the most tctire for a man of his age of my I have heard of in modern imes. The farmers are bringing in [uite a lot of water-melons now ind are getting a good price or them too. Cotton crops here have im>roved very much in the tirei ew weeks. Mr Edward Spann, tear town, has the finest I have een anywhere. Mr Spann is one >f our hustling young farmers nd usually makes good crops. Mr S J Taylor has some very ine corn in and around town on ome of which he expects to lake fifty bushels per acre. His otton also is good to look at-1 tr Taylor is one of our most horough-going and energetic armers and is usually successul in anything he undertakes. Mr W I Hodges' residence has >een completed and he will love in as soon as all his lurtiture arrives. He with Mrs lodges visited the latter^ home t Cades on Sunday. Mr K B Hogan, our ever watca 1 marshal, made a rarjdona, rowd of colored crap-shooters' i the part of town knov7n as be "hundred" on Saturday. He ouMget his bands on only one of i he players, but got the names; f several others and arrested I hem this morning and brought hem before his honor, the mayr, where each of the! offenders ere made to add a modest sum a the town treasury. I note that a petition is being ircuLated here today asking i>r an election on the dispenary question. I think nearly very one in our ,towu will sign Mrs A L Keels left here^Sat- j rdiiy to visit friends and "reia-1 ives in North Carolina. She xpects to be gone about two lonths, and will go to Baltilore to buy her fall stock of illinery before she returns. Misses Elise White of Timlonsville and Lilly Hogan of, umter are visiting at Mr Edrard Spann's near town. I Mrs A M Burgess returned ast Thursday night from a vis-j t to Johnston and Blackstock. Messrs C E Hilton and V S iaree spent Sunday in Charleson and on the Isle of Palms. Mr O H Clarkson and sister, liss Lottie, who have been liv " ? Tann fr\r thp ng in d^ii \ me, xliiu,) iv? wmv tast three years, are visiting elatives in Uiese parts. Mr and Mrs B E Olarkson ipent Sunday z . Gourdins. Little Florence, the infant laughter of Mr and Mrs A M Jurgess, has been quite sick for he last few days. It is thought it this writing that she is slighty better. We trust that she vill soon be restored to health. Messrs W Hogan and W L Paylor .visited Kingst^ee to-day. > ' . .4 INDEPENDENT COTTON ! OIL CO. COLLAPSES. ALSO THE DARLiNGTON TRUST CO. CLOSFS IIS DOORS-A DISASTROUS FAILURE. Darlington, July 7.?Two unexpected occurrences startled Darlingtonians this morning and they will extend to a much wild er circle when the tacts are known. The first was the announcement that the doors of the Darlington Trust company were temporarily closed; the second was the statement that the affairs of the Independent cotton Oil company had been placed in khe hands of a receiver. The first intelligence was gained from the following notice which was posted on the closed doors of the Darlington Trust company: "Owing to the financial troubles of the Independent Cotton Oil Company, the directors deem it to the interest of the depositors and the stock holders of the Darlington Trust company to close the doors temporarily.The director# have examined the books of the company and assure all stockholders that they will Ka f-voiri in fnll will uc [/aiu lu xuin "By order of the board of directors. "E. C. Lide, Cashier." It will be seen by this notice that the Independent Oil Company was involved and the news of a receiver having been appointed for this company followed soon. Your correspondwanted only the most acurate information concerning the situation and what follows is official: Going tir-st to Mr Bright Williamson., president of the Independent Cotton Oil company, and one of its largest stockholders, the following statement was secured from President Williamson: "Ten days ago, because of the solicitation of my friends, I accepted the position of president of the Independent Oil Co. at a special meeting. I at once began investigations and a few days ago I found some inaccuracies which I had verified. I feared these were serious enough to Dlace the company in the bands of a receiver, so I called a directors' meeting by teiegrajjfc. Seven out of nine members were present, Mr Nachman 'being in Paris and Mr Israel not being able to attend. After bearing my report these gentlemen were of the unanimous opinion that a receiver should be appointed and today an order from Judge Watts appoints me to that position to take charge at once." It ts impossible now to get any definite statement regarding the assets and liabilities of the company. The capital stock of the independent company was nominally nm AOO q nrl cfnrlr ?r?lfl XJ tpijWVjvyv uiiu bMv ? last ^eek as high as 75 per cent of the par value. The liabilities will approximate $500,000, so it is believed. The Independent Cotton - Oil company, under the management of President R K Dargan, has had a record and reputation seldom equalled. When he took charge of the one mill upon which the organization was afterwards founded, the stock was selling at 50 cents on the dollar. Latterly the company has operated plants at Charleston, Dar- ( ling-ton, Mullins, Kingstree.Tim'monsville, Sj'racuse, Effingham, ' | Watlesboro, N. C., Cheraw, Lamar, Homer, Lydia, Swift Creek, ! Mechanicsville, Marion, Mann- , ing, Auburn, Monlplare, Davis Station, SummVton and ; Packsville. These 111 plants are still under thed^ct control of the Independent Cotton Oil company, constituting its vari- < ous branches. 1 Mr R K Dargan is president of the Darlington Trust Company, which was organized April 1, J < * # 1905, with authorized capital of i 8:100,000. The Independent Cot- I ton Oil company borrowed $80,000, so it is correctly stated, from the Trust company on demand loan. These loans were ? called for yesterday and could not be met, but it is authoritatively stated that depositors and t stockholders of the Trust com- i pany will be paid in full and t will be paid at once. < Mr Bright Williamson, receiver, 1 has at once gone to work and c says he will make an official t statement in a few days, just as ? soon as all the necessary facts t can be ascertained. He has been i receiving- telegrams' and mes- < sage^over the long distance i 'phJne all day from various sec- ? tions sending substantial evi- t dences of sympathy and inter- s est. t The circumstances are deeply i regretted by all and were freely t discussed today. For several s years, under the management of i President R K Dargan, the In- t degendent grew, prospered and t paid good dividends. Now s stockholders and business men 1 unite in regretting the combination of events that has forced ( such an unfortunate situation i and all hope for a satisfactory adjustment very soon. 1 k is confidentially believed < that the Trust company will at 1 an early date pay back dollar 1 for dollar. Nothing definite, of 1 course, can yet be learned, re- 1 garding the exact details of tlie J oil company's affairs. Mr . Bright Williamson, receiver,has 1 at once gone to work and with < so experienced, conservative and successful a business man }n charge it is hoped that a more < satisfactory statement will soon ? be made concerning the present 1 business situation of this organization.?The State. ^ THE LATEST PHASE. t The latest phase in the affairs < of the Independent Cotton Oil t Co. is the institution of bank- ^ ruptcy proceedings in the United States District Court at Charles- T ton and the appointment of three receivers by Judge Braw- ^ ley, viz: Messrs Bright j Williamson, R B Lebby and J C Simonds. The collapse of S the corporation seems to be hopeless and the latest reports * indicate that vejy little will be ^ saved out of the wreck for the stock-holders of the Independ- r ent Cotton Oil Co. or the Darlington Trust Co., the two con- 1 cerns being very closely associ- ( ated :n a business way. 1 A NARROW ESCAPE. Mr Thorn's Office. Crovded With Peo- . pie, Struck by Lightening Saturday. c Saturday afternoon while Mr J P B Thorn, proprietor of Black River Cypress Mills, was in his ^ office with his foreman, Mr M A ^ Ross, paying- off his employees, a severe thunder storm came up and lightening struck the brick flue on top of the office and de- j molished tt. Then the bolt ran I down in the office, knocking down the inmates and tearing ? its way through the floor in four separate places. It also knocked off several pieces of weather-boarding on one side of the house. Besides the two white men?neither of whom was hurt?there were about a dozen negroes in the office. The one suffering the worse shock was John Rose, a boy about 14 years old, who has not yet wholly recovered. Jesse Green was burnt on leg and his trousers and shoes torn, and Joe Chandler also had his shoes torn. Joe Watson was considerably I shocked, and, in fact, nearly all the hands sustained more or less | shock. It seems almost a miracle that no one was killed,con- -f, sidering the small space into which tne occupants of the room were crowded A setter dog of Mr Thorn's was badly shocked { and appears to be blind in one eye. ^ The curious part of the phen- ^ omenon is that the office,a small ? circular structure, is directly beneath a large, tall gum-tree, which completely overtops the f former, and yet the tree bears go sign of having been struck. K ; V . * " . ^ MM! U mi nw. i j iTEPS TAKEN TO VOTE OUT RUM MILLS OF THE COUNTY. In response to circular let:ers sent out some time ago sL neeting of representatives from < he several townships of the xrnnty was held in the court louse Monday with the avowed )bject of taking steps looking .0 voting out the dispentaries of the county under he- nrovisions of the Brice bill. \bout fifty people were present md a number of speeches were nade denouncing the dispel ?ary system in no uncertain erms. The meeting was pre' ?ided over by Hon J Davi3 Carer of Leo and before adjournment petitions were distributed :o be circulated in every townihip for the purpose of obtainng signatures of voters praying :hat an election be held to de:ermine the question of "dispen;ary" or "no dispensary" in Williamsburg county. Under the Brice bill themeth>d of voting out the dispensary s practically as follows: First, it is required to secure :he names of the qualified voters * r - i._ ?1-1 II.. n a county astuug uac supci /isor to order an election to be leld. When the requisite number of signatures is obtained all :he voters of the county have die opportunity in the ensuing ilection to express their wishes, ind if the majority votes in avor of no dispensary, then the. iispensaries are ordered closed.. In the event of the dispeiujaries being voted out ana Ji- > pior is sold illegally, then the** fovemor has the right to order i tax of one-half of one mill to ^ >e levied to enforce the lay|(?-gp jtiflfl Committees .. \ ^0 Following are the committees 'hairman Carter appointed in ;he different townships to cir:ulate the petitions asking that :he election be ordered: Hope?E B Rhodus, C M Rich)urg, T W Boyle. X Laws?J A Ferrell, J C Everett! P E Salters. Suttons?R P Hinnant, S B Srordon, W C Ogburn. Anderson?S S Blakeley, W J hinlop, J L Blakeley. Johnson?P D Snowden,^ J J >now, L L Ard, S B Poston. Mingo?R J Nesmith, J Wesey Cook, B 0 Brockinton. Penn?H P Brown, J C Gralam, A W Chandler. Lake?W P Cause, H M Meritt, W B Brown, J M Eaddy. Lee?R B Cannon, Henry Colins, G M Smith. Sumter?R B Smith, E A took, W J Smiley. * Turkey?S A McCullough, V S Grayson, D E McCutchen. Ridge?W F Kennedy, J J M Jraham, W E Hanna. . Indiantown?E F Prosser, Jonroro Pnnnpr _T A Thnimnsnn. King"?B 6 Whitehead, T O Bpps, J 6 McCullough. The foregoing committees rill meet here and submit their eport on the first Monday in LUgUSt. WllliMll Who Has Some Land You Want Tn*Pll? ?^ ] Ym Are f 4- W7311 Da \//\t ?M ' I w HI Lie IU I UU1 < nterest to W rite '' o toll Brd&j ? leal Estate Brokers, L1NGSTREE, - S.* C. ' *