Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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~ f IB Hramr s/4^ Irf * YOUR ACCOUNTS SOLtOltgP.I ^ H|^ " rj? I ^ ^ ^ jL jL V, Wj^HI . * ] ^ ^ /) ^e Promise the Utmost Liberality Cor?i?ten V ^BF (H i1 (LiHintii JTcanu. as= j CASHIER. ^ ^ I'OSTON, CHAS. M. KIUCT. ^ KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, JULY 20, 1905. ~ NO. 30. NOTES. ^nad ^^Hold-stockholders of meeting-other news. July ?LeRoy of Kingstree was in HH^^^^K-iday on business ^^^^^^Kod win's |^^fl^H^^thur Pittman of Greenfew days recently H^^^^^^^Bltirig. Little Leone older summer. |HgHHKlisse.s Sadie, Kate and R^^^^^Binter,of Marion, visited Severance the early WBH I ill I iCians and Retha nv came up from KingsI Vunday and spent the afterat Mr J C McElveen's W good deal of cotton is besold.here since the ten cents ^ raark was reached. The cotton ^ platform several days had the ^ regular fall appearance. JK R?vt and Mrs W B Baker passed through jtown one day last week on their way to visit their* children at Rome. , The twelve year old son of t Mrs |Lena Cockfield, of Half was bitten by a mad dog I Saturday. The dog inflicted w two wounds on him, one in the L leg just above the knee and the ^^other in the arm. A mad stone ^H)vas procured from Capt W D ^KPitch and applied to the wounds t ^t it failed to have any effect. W Mr Simon Poston, who is the A little fello .v's grandfather, took B the boy to Baltimore for treatBment af the Maryland General ^^Hospital, of which Dr Clarence N^LPollins is resident physician. results of this treatment ^^BB be watched with great in^^ st by the family ard friends ^^Vof whom are very anxious BKout the little fellow's welfare. * Mrs J*Archie Hemingway of Rome, who was taken to Charleston some two weeks ago by her brother, Dr J B DuRant, wa$ operated on Tuesday of A last week. At last accounts jjJsB was doing fairly well. Her large connection of kindred and ftiunriiz will listen intentlv for news of her condition, hoping that that news will be all good. The second annual meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Lake City was held at the banking house on Wednesday, the 12th instant. Very nearly all of the stock was represented. v#4TI>e following were elected di0 Sectors I for the ensuing year: 0 A H Williams, W J Singletary, J C Lynch, J B DuRant, W T Askins, Henry P Williams and 1 J A Green. The affairs of the ^ bank were found to be in thor0 oughly good condition and the W earnings for the past year very f sati^^ctory. A dividend of wf eTgn^>er cent was_ declared and W the balance. A'hich exceeded the ^ dividend oy a handsome per centage, was passed to the surK plus fund. It two years this I Bank, ^besides paying sixteen F per cm' in dividends, has built up' a surplus fund which nearly equals t wenty per cent of the capital stock. This has been done by h >nesc, straight, legitiImate business methods. Besides the net earnings this year several hundred dollars were invested in ottice furniture i and fixtures. At the directors f n^eeting A II '..Willi ims was re ejected president, ? j singler tary was elected vice-president, L and E W Yates and W L Bass were re-elected cashier and so ^Hlfcitor, respectively. R E Mor HLi> artSo retains his old place, ^Bkokk^ep^r. W L Bass.J Ji l)u Bant and Henry P Williamj Kere ajrain made the investi H Bting committee. The finan board is composed of A E J B DuRant and E \\ HB^Bnox, pastor of the As ^H^^^HBReform Presbyteriai Bd1umbia was m towr H wie in the ' of Erskine college. The intli- , w cations are that his efforts will i n ! bear fruit. i w Duke Burgess, who several jci weeks ago escaped from Mr R D I C Johnson who had him under !s< arrest on a warrant charging ^ disposal of crop under lien, was (1; located in Timmonsville and G was^locked up by the marshal 1)1 of that town on a telegram from K Magistrate Godwin. He was d' brought down here on Monday, j W L B. A Peculiar Suicide. a The story of the death of rt Robt Keith Dargan is unparral- it led in history. One of the two fc first brothei s on earth killed la the other, and tratracides have c? been common all down the ages. d( The great Grecian orator, De- lo mosthenes, sucked fat^l poison a from a pen in the presence of al his friend, Archias, and since hi then suicides have multiplied al with the advance of time. But or not tin now nas tnere oeen re- in corded any instance of a broth- fr er deliberately assisting his ai brother to take his own life, w What motive controlled Pegram W Dargan in this mysterious K tragedy is beyond human com- be prehension. ti< The evidence shows that Pe- jn gram Dargan went to a drug st store and bought a tour ounce ]> bottle of carbolic acid. sc He carried this to the law office, ta where his brother Keith had jn preceded him. He locked the st door to exclude outsiders. He ar then poured out the poison and handed it to his brother, who ol drank it, with some whiskey. cc Pegram then deliberately sat ()r down and watched his brother ca die. He then called his cousin, b( G W Dargan and 'phoned for w ttv Tin _ rn? 11 , J xl L?r j&awaras. iney caneu mc ar coroner, who looked at the body jn and it was then put in a closed carriage by G W and Peg-ram Dargan, and carried home. Pegram Dargan was not required to tell at the inquest Jabout his se connection with the affair. He *n said that all he had to say was SI contained in the note left in R sc K Dargan's handwriting, which ti1 read: "I take this with my own sc free will and accord. Asked ?1 my brother to get . SL' Made mistakes but no coward. se Robert Keith Dargan." Pegram Dargan is a graduate of Harvard college, and has s* spent his life in study and re- P( search. H^ has al ways been regarded as a geutleman of the d* highest type, the soul of honor and chivalry, but impractible to and unbalanced. jo This tragedy is but another to evidence of the evils of the at reckless speculation of the st times, R K Dargan lost heavily si on the exchange. ?and. in his at- ai 'O - ' I ' tempt to regain his losses, he si carried down his business sc associates and relatives, who h< had implicit confidence in his J' judgement, and then ended his di own life to cover up his misfor- CI tune and disgrace,?Pee Pee la Ad vocate. 01 Narrow Escape. ^ K J Kirk, Esq., and his little son, Robert, came very near , drowning while the latter with other small boys was swimming in Black River near the town bridge last Saturday afternoon. ! ? ' u| . The facts as gathered (from eye ^ witnesses are about these: Mr Kirk took his boys along fr , with other small boys to the ^ river for practice in the art of |1( swimming. Messrs Kirk and ^ Philip Stoll were sitting on the a] ! bank while the boys were hav- w ing theirjfun in the shallow water gj on the sand bar j u s t a( above what is called the a ' IJock Hole, ^ place krjowq by j . its dpep water, swifts current, p anfl rcjcky bottom. Robert Kirk in his moving about got ^ too far out and was taken by li r the current into water over his c] head. Being a little fellow and r< not able to swim without one H foot on the bottom, he went un- g 1 der when in the deep water. Mr a i Kfrk seeing his son in great t dwr rushed to his assistance 'ith all of his 'clothes on. On caching- the boy and the deep ater he too went under, beime strangled and lost con oi of himself. Philip Stoll,on ieing him frantically rush into le water, realized that great anger was ahead and began to ;ar his own clothes off so as to s able to give help. When Mr irk caught his son they went rifting down the river, somemes up and sometimes under le water. Mr Stoll being now ivested of his garments made, heroic dash down the river to 'scue them, but they sank and looked as if they j^were gone >r the last time. But after the .pse of a minute they again ime up about 15 feet farther )wn the river at the end of a g under the water from which limb protruded a few inches >ove the water. Mr Kirk put s hand on this limb and in an most unconscious way held 1. Mr Stoll rushed in, caught le unconscious form of Robert om his father's exhausted ms and took him to the bank here he was soon revived, ithin the next few minutes Mr irk was also assisted to the ink in a semi-conscious condion. He was placed in a biigtaken to Dr Gamble's drug ore where he was attended by rs Gamble and Jacobs who >on had him in conditi >n to be .ken home. Mr Kirk has been disposed several days by renin of too much river water and 1 over-strain of his nervous rstem; but is now able to be it again and is receiving the mgratulations of his friends i the almost providential esLpe ot himself and his little >y. Mr Stoll too is receiving arm praise for the cool head id steady nana tnat nesnoweu the matter. The Dustless Traveler, I'd really like to know who ie woman is that occupied the ction next to me from Washgton to Chicago last month, ie had certainly elevated the ience of traveling to a posive fine art. The train had arcely s ta r t ed before she lened her rather large dress ut case and took therefrom iveral things. One was a coat, inger,and after she had placed ?r coat carefulty on it, she ipped the garment into a large >ngee bag and hung it up. Her it she covered with another istproof bag. She removed r shoes and put shoe trees ini them. For the rest of the iurney her feet were in comirtable slippers. After she had :tended to these minor details ie had the porter carry her lit case to the dressing room id there she changed her cloth rirt for an unmnssable one of .-Tf oillr Tlia a fit OUIV* A XIV. vtv/bil |< V) VIA M, inger inside of one of those jstproof bags, hung1 in the essing room all the way to hicago. About 5 o'clock the dy brewed herself a cujf of tea >rer an alcohol stove which ime out of a box a xmt the size : a dollar watch. I rose early ie next morning for the express impose of seeing that lady hen she stepped out of her ?rth, for I never saw a woman ho could do her hair huddled p in "a sleeping car bed. I new she'd have to walk down ie isle looking worse than a ight for for all her cleverness, jt I was wrong1. She put her ?ad out from between the curlins to speak to the porter, id do you know, that woman ore a blue silk nightcap. When le took it off, her hair was ex:tly as good as new. She was wonderful wqman, anc] I wish knew her native.?Washington qst. Beautify your complexion with ttle cost. If you wish a smooth, lear, cream-like complexion, isy cheeks, laughing eyes, take ollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, - - A 1 l!i! 1 OS rarest oeauuiier Kuuwn, ou | ;nts. Lake City Drug Co. Bring us your JOB WORK. TOOK BOTH GAMES. Klngstree Keds Defeat Mayesville .1 Two Interesting Gaines. The Kingstree Reds we.. again victorious on the horn diamond Tuesday and yes to. day, defeating Mayesville i 1 both games. The visitors were completely outclassed and at n > time did they have a chance < ( winning. The new men recently secured by Kings tree are all tine ball players and the team as it now stands is decidedly the strongest the Reds have put up. Taylor in the box, Foxworth as receiver, Weill ontirst and Hamer at short, are the nta.men and their positions. \ In the game Tuesday, Lube Gilland pitched for the local* and the way he did the visitors is shown in the final score. 13 to 1 was what scorer Ilirsch total ed ii up. Yesterday Taylor, the Red's i- ? ? xi 1 j new twiner, was in me uox anu pitched a great <fame. He yeilded only one hit and put 21 men back on the bench. Mayesville failed to tind the home ba?:. The line up and score by inning's: FIKST GAME. Kingstree Mayes vi He. Justus, W. 3b Harper, If Foxworth,c Sturgeon, c Taylor, c f Sprott, lb Weill, lb Mayes, RJ p Justus.O r f Strauss, 3b (lilland, W 2b Rhodes, ss Hamer, ss Purnell, cf Fuirey, If Mayes, C E 2b Gilland, L p Mayes, A rf Kingstree?8 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 0-13 Mayesville-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-1 Struck out bv Gilland 7; by Mayes 2. Batteries?Kingstree, L Gilland and Foxwortli; Mayesville Mayes and Sturgeon. Umpire Wallace. Base hits off Gil I and 5, off Mayes 7. 2nd Game. Kingstree Mayesville Justus W, 3b Harper c. Fox worth c Mayes R J 3b. Taylor p Strauss'2b Weill lb Hess p. Justus G rf Mayes C E, lb.. Gil land W 2b Mayes A If. Hamer ss Rhodes ss. Fairey If Parnell cf McCutched cf Pringle rf. Mayesville?0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0?0. Kingstree ?0 0 3 0 2 2 30 0?10. Struck out by Taylor 21, by Hess 9. Batteries: Kingstree, Taylor and Foxworth; Mayesville; Hess & Harper, Base Hits off; Taylor 1 off, Hess 5. Umpire Gilland. On Friday and Saturday Kingstree will play Florence on the local diamond. Florence has a strong team and these two games promise to be interesting. L?arge crowas ougiu 10 go uui to see both games. The Reds have an nil star team (so Mayesville said) and our home people ought to pack the grand stand for these two games. The boys not only need good gate receipts to pull theni out of the financial hole but they need the presence of friendly and sympathizing faces to cheer them to victory. Ret everybody be out to see these two games and the Reds will play great ball- Ruke Oilland will pitch one game and Taylor the other. The Reds leave next week for a trip and there will be no ball in Kingstree for two weeks Let everybody be out to see the Reds defeat Florence. This season Kingstree has played fourteen games and won eight. This is a splendid showing. Bitten by Mad Dog. Lake City, July. 17,?Special: Mrs Lena Cpckfteld's twelve-, year-old son was hitten by a mad dog Saturday afternoon,-. The wound is in the leg, just above the knee and appears to be a serious one. Mr Simon Poston, of I'rospect, the boy's grandfather ,with whom he lives, took him to Baltimore Monday morning. He will be placed in the Maryland General Hospital, of which Dr C D Rollins of this county, rs resident physician. ?The NeWs & Courier. * r n A' '. PROGRESSIVE KINGSTREE. I 11 Citizens Alive and Active For the Besl Interests of Their Town. The town of Kinjfstree lias taken on new life within the last few years and one who has been away for some years would not see old Kingstree on his return out new Kingstree. The town has made remarkable progress as the citizens have at ! last realized the necessity of J pulling together and by doing | so they have brought their town | to the front. Many industrial and building i improvements have taken place recently. Kingstree can boast . of one of the prettiest school Ibuildings'in the State. It is built on a modern style and not only adds to the attractiveness of the town but it is also an improvement along the educational lines. Dr "TV V Brockington's new drug store is nearly completed. The size of this building is fifty by thirty feet. It is two stories ViirrVi i nrJ \tti 1 I Ko o V? . r\rl catYiia iiigii uiiu n 111 a iiauuouinv building1 when completed. Dr Brockinton is occupying the store formerly owned by Kinder & Hirsch until his new brick store is finished. The doctor will use the lower floor for drugs and his private oftice and the upper rooms will be used for law and insurance offices. The weather has been very dry in this section until recently. We have been having a quantity of rain for the last few Aays and it is feared that the cotton crop will now be injured by too much wet weather. There has been a quantity of cotton sold on this market since the price went up to ten cents i as the fanners all say they are willing to let it go at ten cents. The anti-dispensary workers are busy in this county. Much enthusiasm was manifested at the meeting held a few days ago? but it is hard just now to understand the sentiment of the people throughout the county. Dispenser J W Coward says he is in for prohibition but he is not in sympathy with the "prespnt rvf AVorthrnwinfr flin W... V ? . ... W T? 11I? lUVi dispensary for it is an impossibility. The new Coast |Line depot is about completed. The finishing touches are going on now. The'new depot is situated at main street crossing, one of the most convenient locations in town for the building. The railroad company will also proceed at once to build another track here to enable trains to pass each other without any delay. The old depot will be torn down. The citizens and business men of the town are gratified at the improvements.?Florence Times, July 14th. Wreck on A. (I. L. Near Santee. Florence, July 18.?A north bound flight from Charleston over the northeastern division of the Coast Line, was badly wrecked at a trestle just north of Santee Canal this afternoon. Three hundred feet of track was badly torn up, several box cars derailed and smashed and the trestle work knocked down, thereby blocking" the track so that it will be impossible for trains to pass over lhat division before tomorrow. Luckily i fi\r a tlit? north bound fast mail train No. 32 had passed over before the wreck oceured and was not delayed. Train No. 39 and all others for the South, will have to via the Manchester and Augusta and Southern into Charleston by the way^of Sumter, Creston and Plsgnall's. The wrecking train was*nt out from Florence at 8 o'cl?:k to the scene of the wreclf^o clear the track.' No one was injured in the wreck.?N e w s and Courier. * Extra Special Sale at J L C Moore's, Lake City, S. C. Don't fall to take advantage of bargains offered in summer Goods. ^wyy*yyy*yyyyyyyyyvvvyv | LOCAL ITEMS I OF I1\TERES1 | fAAAA'WWWMMMMW Mr R F Epps of <Jades was in town Monday. ? MrJT Davis of Taft was in town Saturday. Mr J E Tharpe of Benson was here Saturday. Mr H Foxworth of Cades was in town Monday. MljR M Thomas of Mouzons waphere Friday. Mr Laird Lifrage of Salters was here Monday. Mr Vernon Lifrage of Salters was here Monday. Mr R B Smith of Spring Bank was in town Friday. Dr W V Brockington has been sick for several days. Mr A D Ivey of Salters was on our streets Saturday. Mr S D McKay of Salters was noted in town Monday. Mr E R Kowell of Trio was on our streets Tuesday. Mr S H Cooper of Dock was a visitor in town Monday. Mr S A McCullough of Benson was in town Tuesday. Mr J J M Graham of the Cades section was in town Friday. Mr H M Cooper of Fowlers was here a few hours Monday. We are not responsible for the views of our correspondents Mr John T 3ryan of the Salters section was in town Friday. Mr J P Gamble of Heinemann had business in town Saturday. Mr Charles E fipps of Workr an was on our streets Friday. Capt W D Fitch of the Lake City section was in town Monday. Mr J L Nexsen of the Cades section was on our streets SatI urday. Mr J J Strong1, Jr of the Central Chumh section was here Friday, w Mr C C Burgess, with the Lake City Drug Co. was in town Sunday. Mr D Z Martin of the Bloomingvale section was a visitor in town i<naay. Mr and Mrs J W McClam of Mouzons were here a short while Friday. Mr Charles Brinkley of Georgetown and the ACL Corporation was here Tuesday. Capt G P Nelson has been sick for some Jtime with fever and complication. Major S M Askins of Lake City spent Sunday in town with his son, H G Askins,Esq. Mr W E Severance of Lake City made his almost weekly round of the merchants Monday. Surveyor Peter G Gourdin, with headquarters at Summerville' spent Sunday in his home town. Capt J A fcelley has received a fine flow of water from his new artesian well at his residence. Mr Winslow Wright, the large and careful merchant of Scranton, was in town between trains Monday. "\ 1 a anu i*i ai ic Cooper of Indiantown are visiting relatives and friends here this week. Miss Lilft ftammett returned J Wednesday from Gour'dins where ' she spent the pakt week very pleasantly. -Mr J E Lovett of Coopers was i|?town Monday, making good ifi*e of every passing and precious momeut. I ' j Rev L J Bristow has resigned the pastorate of the Marion Baptist church.?Florence Times, .July 13. Mr and Mrs E B Rhodus of Greelyville, with their son and niece, were visitors to. Kingstree Saturday. Hon J C t/tiihum, the mer Representative of \(ju visited some of our ants Tuesday. P S Courtney & Co, have^H| a cemented brick pavemed^H front of their new brick stor^H East Main street, flH . ? . . . . M : AFFAIRS CAUGHT BY OUR \ 'II LOCAL REPORTER AND ^ 4* MB II NOTED ^ -^Rvn .11 vvriRen in Condensed Form ^ | and Printed in Like Manner ^ Ty* ' I for the Sake of Our Busy ^ 11 Mr W M Smith, local editoror traveling representative of the Florence Times, was in town one day last week. W B Gregg left yesterday for iungsiree wnere ne will spend some days on a vacation.?Florence Times, Jnly 17r ?38.35 was made at the base ball bazaar and festival at Stackley's Ice Cream Parlor Tuesday night. Miss Marie Russell ot Rich- , mond will arrive in the city tonight to visit Miss Ethel Lake. ?Florence Times, July 13. Misses Claude Stuckey and Ola McElveen of Lake City are visiting at the home of Mr J W Coward in the North addition. Master Ernest Evans of Workman, who has been attending the Graded school here is behind the counter of Wilkins' retail store. * jjSjfl Dr J A Cole of Manning made a flying trip to Kingstree one ^ night last week. A big scope of country to cover for such a short stay? Mr T A Blakeley of Taft came to town Monday to see as to the progress of the new brick building for the Kingstree Dry Goods Company. Mr T M Kellehan, who has been sick for some time, is nn -? ? -f and about and apparently in better health than before he was taken down. V . Editor C W Wolfe of The Record left Monday {, morning for several weeks absence iu < Charleston, the mountains and at the springs. Mrs C E Wheeler and children left yesterday for Indiantown where they will spend some time on a visit to relatives,?Florence Times, July 17. + Mrs J P Russell and children of Richmond, Va? came down last week and will make an extended visit to relatives in the Indiantown section. LeRoy Lee, Esq., left Tuesday evening for Newberry, to return Saturday with the Madam and the Mi^,who have been there several *eeks. Dr J Rhett Brockinton of Indiantown visited his daughter, Mrs R W Mouzon, who has been sick for some time, at the Central Hotel Thursday. Mr and Mrs Louis Sherfersee of Charleston are spending sev eral days at the latter's parents, Mr and Mrs T M Gil land on East Academy street. Miss Massey Lee Estes of The Record family, left Friday evening for Sumter to visit her sister, Miss Azile Estes, returning Sunday night. Mr W H Cj.it, manager of the Kingstree Hardware Co, returned yesterday from High Point N C., where he bought a nobby and large stock of furniture. ArtYiillnMa Who Has Some Land You Want To.SPII? ?agIi Yn Arc It Will Be to Your Interest to Write to , o. 11 n iptoii Bros., Bracers,