The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 21, 1907, Image 5
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WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
FROM LAKE CITY. |
THE4 FARMERS & MERCHAMS BANK
BUILDING?LETTUCE GROWERS GET
GOOD PRICES?LOCAL- PERSONAL.
Lake City, February 19:?Mr
J BMcCutchen came down from j
Latta Saturday niyht and visit-1
ed friends and relatives in and
near town.
M. Peter G Gourd in was noted I
here Monday last.
Hon. W P Gause was here
Tuesday of this week on his way
to Ktngstree on business. When
Mr. Gause came home from the
legislature he was right sick,
but we are glad to report him |
much better.
When the nens of theapprov- j
al of the Carev Cothran bill and
the notice of Governor Ansel j
reached here Dispenser Itodgers,
very properly did not open the '
dispensary and it will remain i
closed until the officers of the |
new regime takes charge.
Our lettuce growers are now i
marketing their product. In:
fact, some have been shipping j
several weeks. The crop is a i
very good one and the prices'
s satisfactory. On the streets
the headed vanety commands
five cents each and the loose leaf
two and one half cents each.
It was stated last week that
Mr B. S. Smith had been appointed
magistrate at Bloom-j
mg-vale. Well, be was recommended
and bis name was;
sent in to the srovernor, but j
be declined to accept the ap-1
pointment and Mr Hugh Pipkin
was selected in his stead.
Mondaj' dirt was broken for:
the Farmers & Mercliants Bank:
KnJlrJinfr Thn location is at the!
North west corner of Acline
avenue and Main street, which'
is an ideal site for a bank. The
building, which will be of brick,i
^ stone and glass, will be 32
by 45 feet and two stories'
__ ^ -high-. "In the lo\ver floor will be
the banking room, yault, president's
office and dired- ^-s' room,
while the upper floor will be>
fitted up with a large office
which can be converted into two
rooms by a sliding partition,
and with two other individual
offices. The entrance to the
second story will be on Main
street at the southwestern corner
of the building. The south,
western corner will be of semi
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CirCUitir Micipc, ami i'u '.hi
lower floor this semi-circle will
be of heavy plate glass with a
door at each end of the Semi-circle
leading into the lobby of'fhe
public banking room. The modern
steel safe will be enclosed
in-a massive vault, the door to
which will be accessible only to
the cashier. The furniture will
be of newest designs, handsome
and durable. The entire structure
is to be of the best material
and workmanship and will when
completed be a credit to the
progressive bank of which it is
to be the home and quite an ornament
to the town. The officers
hope to have the work finished
within about two months. McMillan
& Co. of Wilmington are
the architects.
T" r i - r i
Mr \V I. Aici'aniei, tint* ui mc
substantial men of of the John?
sonville section, wis noterl on
our streets Tuesday.
It is very probable that there
will be no delay in inaugurating
tile new county dispensarv system
in Williamsburg". We understand
that the delegation,
the three intendants and the
board of education haw been
? uvited to meet tli" latter part
<*' this week for the purpose of
selecting the new board of control.
When selected and coinmissioned
this new board will
take charge and make the
change.
The trench that the sewerage
people are cutting along the
western edge of town is somewhat
of a ditch. Between Main
Street a n * I Hie Lake it is sixteen
feet deep ami sixteen feet wide, '
quite lar.ee enough, it seetns to
ear it i.If ; little water. This
canal will encircle the town I
from the Line track near ;
the Enterprise Chemical Co's. J
i plant around the western side
to the Lake, and is intended to.
cut off the water Southeast of j
the town, which is, in our opin- j
ion, an object of the greatest;
importance.
W. L. B,
NEWS AT SALTERS AND VICINITY.
Mr. Guess* Barn and Stables Burned
?Other Matters.
Salters Depot, February 19:
Mr B H Guess, who lives
about two miles from town, had
the misfortune to lose his larg"e
barns, stables, cotton seed and
pea houses by fire on the 16th.,
including his corn, fodder, peas
cotton seed, farm implements,
etc. Loss is estimated at about
$2,500 w;th no insurance. This
is a severe loss to Mr. Guess,
coming" after such a year as last
year to the farmers. It is supposed
that the lire was started
by his little girl lookinrr for hen
nests in the todder room and
either striking a match or step
ping on one that the cigarette
fiends had dropped.
Tiie Salters town hall is now
an assured fact. The building i
will include a hall on top floor!
for the W. 0. W. It will be two
stories high, 24 by 50 feet. The
contract for the lumber is al- j
ready being fi'led and charter
applied for. The hall will b?
located on Academy street.
Farmers are getting their j
ground in fix for another crop, !
but are very slow buying ferti- j
lizer. I suppose there will be
about one-half the fertilizer I
used this season that was last;
year.
Dr W G Gamble of Kingstree
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was noted on our streets Monday.
Mr. and Mrs Fred Sbuler of i
Sumter are visiting the latter's |
mother and sisters.
Mr. Fowler of Mount Holly;
has been put in charge of the
Suiters section as section master, j
He will remove his family here!
ii^a few clays.
Mrs. J M Salters, who has
been spending same time with
her friends in Rock Hill, re-!
i turned home last week accompanied
by her father, Mr Shirlev,
who spent several days here.
Mr. Oliver Strother of Ken!
lucky is now putting in a drying
plant for'the National Fullers'
Earth Co.
Salteiis Depot.
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When You Are In a Tunnel.
It is a mo.-t curious fact, but the
j approach of a train in a tunnel may
I be* easily ascertained some seconds
before it becomes visible to those
' raveling toward it in an opposite
vhrct.on. The length of a tunnel
j - ;. > obstacle to the realization of
| :-.is curious phenomenon, andcomprc
el air is the medium which
; rem cos ine peculiar unaer wa,ttr"
scmntion. Without any warnin;;
i lie drum of the car is pneur.ir.ii
a!lv pressed inward the moment
tlie locomotive of the other
T; in enters the tunnel, v.hich for
ail )>:: -t: -.1 purposes is only a large
tube owing to the now limited air
; .ice. Many person- must have
n?,tired this peculiar feeling in the
ears without giving the matter a
sx-ond thought. Others have won
i ?x;.s upon the chances of the tunnel
i containing more than one train at
, a time.
The "White Feather."
1 An official of the Smithsonian institution
was speaking of the origin
'of some well known phrases and
pointed to a small mounted bird.
i This bird was a French gray on the
back, drab breast, black wings and
with a small but conspicuous white
*pot at the base of the tail. "That
is a wheatear." the official said. "It
is very common in Scotland, where
, it is known as the Vlacharan.' It is
from this bird that we get tiie expression
'Showing the white feather.'
You will notice the location of
the only white feathers on its body
; ?they ran be seen only when the
bird is living awav from vou."
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FINISHED THE BOOK.
When the Reader Got Through There
Was Nothing Left.
A queer character was a man I
met once while in Kinsley, Kan. '
Where he came from I didn't find *
out, nor yet where he was bound.
From his grips and general appear- .
ance I guessed him to be a commer-'
cial traveler. Doubtless he was. j
When I first saw him he was buy- j
ing a book in a Kinsley store?one |
of the late novels, neatly and attractively
bound in cloth, and he
paid for it $1.25.
His course as he left the store
with his purchase was what nailed
my attention. He had the book in
his hands unwrapped, having waived
the parceling of the same as unnecessary.
He halted at the door, bent
both covers back and cnolly ripped
them off and tossed them into the
street. Then he "cut" the volume
as one might a deck of cards, about
the middle, bent the two halves back,
till they met and then ripped them
apart as coolly as he had torn off the
cover.
I was naturally astonished. Who
was this man? Was he some expurgator?
Was the book a menace
to morals ? I took a quick glance at
the discarded covers. It was one of
the best of the recently issued fiction.
My man tucked the first half
of his book into the side pocket of
his coat. The other half he thrust
into the smaller of his two grips.
And then both of us headed for the
tram.
We rode together as far as (
Hutchinson. I purposely selected 1
a seat near him. He raised a win- ,
dow and settled himself comforta- j ,
bly and pulled the half book fr^m
his pocket. He tore off the .'tsi (
page, laid the rest of the volume beside
him on the seat and read the ,
single leaf. \
From the way his eyes moved 1 (
saw he was a "skimmer." In no (
time he had finished page 1. I j
knew that, for he turned the leaf.
And when page 2 was read I knew J
that, too, for he quietly crumpled ,
up the leaf and tossed it out of the |
car window. And then he tore off ,
the next leaf. And in due time it
went the same route. And so it
went on. All the way from Kinsley
to Hutchinson he left a trail of
crumpled leaves. When he had finished
the book the book was finished
too.?Kansas City Star. (
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His Flowers.
"I heard in my youth," said Sir
Charles Murray, "one of many curi- <
ous stories of Sir John Shaw. ?IIe
was most eccentric in his appear- ,
anre and dress and cared nothing
for tidiness in the grounds immediately
surrounding his house. One
day lie invited two gentlemen from
Edinburgh to dine with him at Carnock.
As was the custom of the
time, they appeared before dinner
in knee breeches, silk stockings and
thin shoes. The weather being fine,
Sir John invited them to take a turn
in the garden. Civilly and thoughtlessly
they followed their host and j
soon found themselves skipping!
among nettles and thistles, to the
great discomfort of their unfortunate
calves. Sir John, who was clad,
as usual, in corduroy breeches and
top boots, said to tncni, wun pome i
[ gravity, 'Step oot, step oot, geni
tlejnen. Yc":l no hurt my flowers.'" j
?C'ornhill Magazine.
Daft, bt:t Canr.y.
"Speaking of prudence and care!
fuhu. . ;.! a congressman, "recalls
i . f :!.e wcakminded
but ' ait'i'. r*. <>i of Peebles. 'Xhis Scut,
a . . '. en his face, was,'
skaii 1 \ : : i: -s iron bridge
: of !'< i>X a viator day. Some;
young iu.i wished to skate under
t:.e bridge, but they did not
: know whether the ice was ;-afe or)
not. So, approaching the Scot, the
, youngest and prettiest of them
j SUUt I
"'Sanders, would yo.t tnind just;
1 gliding audi' : the bridge' and back,!
o * o
j so a , to U- 'L the icer'
' "The haii wilted Sanders took,
| off his cap, and, wuh a Irow and a:
; smile, lie replied:
"'Xa, na. If 1 .am daft, 1 ken
i manners. buddies first.'"?Phila-;
delpliia I>t :le tin.
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Tho i/ia!ay Country.
One day a man, apparently white,;
<,-ante into the best restaurant in
: Atlanta. Tlic head waiter looked .
him over and thought he had ne-;
: gro blood in him. In fact, ho was a
very light quadroon.
"Here, you!" the head waiteri
said. "Von are colored!"
"Oh, no, I ; :if t," the man re i
plied; "not iii the sense you
mean."
I "Hut you arc mighty dark."
"I know I cm, but that is be-1
: cause I am a Malay."
The head waiter was nonplused,
lie looked again and then asked.
i suspiciously: "What is a Malay?
i Where is lie from ?"
"Why," said the man easily, "Ma- j
1 lays are from Malaria."
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HARD FIGHTERS.
Sticklebacks Will Attack One Another
or Anything Eise.
The stickleback is the most combative
lish, according to an angling
?xpert. "The raison d'etre for a
nnnniinfor " COt'C t ! A f*
<UL'AHJuaL;i\ uiiuuuai, cu .
ivriter, "is generally, I believe, that
ivhich actuates men to fight over
vomen. When I have watched them
myself I have not been able to learn
ivhether there has been a lady 'tiddler*
present or not or, if so, which
3ne she was. But, whatever the
motive may have been, I have seen
them fight with as much desperation
as would have been necessary
f forty females had been the point
jf issue. Not only will they fight
me another, but they will even go
jut of their way to attack anything
ivhich may appear to them offensive,
and if a walking stick be put
into the water near a fight the two
combatants will almost surely suspend
personal animosities for
iwhile and make for the stick, butting
it with their homy noses and
left. This fact perturbed the butler
to a flegree that could no longer
be borne in silence. So under pretense
of paving the culprit dich
the butler managed to whisper respectfully
in her ear:
"A little more conversation to
the left, miss."?Harper's Wcvhly.
Cheapest Place For Sulphur.
In a little out of the way street
in Boston is a small drug store, the
proprietor of which is a peppery
little old Irishman, and most of his
customers are fellow countrymen.
Not long ago one appeared and desired
to purchase 10 cents' worth
of sulphur. The druggist weighed
out the proper amount and was
about to wrap it up when the would
be purchaser interrupted.
".Sure, an' is thot all I get for tin
cints?"
"Faith, is it a barrel ye'll be expecting?"
the druggist retorted.
"It is not, but I know a place
where I can get more than thot for
foivc cints," the other asserted.
"Ye do?" the liU'c old fellow exclaimed,
dashing the chemical back
into the box. "An' I know a place
where vc'Il get a lot more than thot
for nothin'at all!"
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trying to saw it in two by swimming
in their sides with their stickles
rubbing against the wood. Having
conquered tie stick, the two turn
igainst each oilier again.
"The victor stickleback assumes
i radiant, translucent green, his
sides and giiis glow with 6carlet and
gold, while his white under parts
shimmer like silveh It is then at
its finest. In an aquarium, howaver,
ihe stickleback loses his combat:
vr-ress and becomes a faded
creutvre, though at first it fights
rhc ; lass case if alone and another
ii it Las companions till the mastery
is obtained, when victor and
conquered- swim to the corners and
.lie or pine away.
"The stickleback shoots at its opponent,
strikes and is away as
quickly as a flash. Then back it
:omes again. Their spines get covered
with blood from each other's
body, the spines being used like a
saw whenever the one fighter gets
under the other. Although the
stickleback fights at all seasons, the
height of the lighting comes during
the mating season."
The First Steamboat Whistle. 9
Early in May, 1814, the steamer
Rochester departed from Buffalo,
bound for Chicago. The engineer
was a mechanical genius named Mc?m<1
Kn lio?l ct rn/?tnrl n
uttj (UlU IIV nau V VUJVA uvbvu U
steam whistle from plans which he
had seen in a scientific paper. On
the way up the lakes he blew it at
every stop, much to the astonishment
and terror of the inhabitants.
Just before reaching Mackinac the
Rochester, after a lively race, passed
the steamer General Porter, Captain
C. L. Gnger. Engineer McGcc
celebrated the victory by blowing
his whistle derisively and noisily.
When both boats reached the
wharfs Captain Gager rushed up in
a rage, shaking his fist and daring
McGec to come down and face him.
' What are you squawking that
thing at me for?*' he roared.
And if it had not been for mutual
friends steamboat whistling on
the lakes might have been introduced
with a lively battle of fisticulTs.
Fair Play.
An attache of the American embassy
at London tolls a story of a
butler in the employ of a fine old
English family whose long service
had inculcated in him a personal
and proprietary interest in the sons
and daughters of the house. Once,
on "the occasion of a large dinner
party, the conscientious butler observed
that one of the members of
tiio family, a young girl who had
but recenilv entered society, was
devoting an amount of attention to
l.cr agreeable neighbor on the right
obviously in excess uf that accorded
to the less fascinating man 0:1 her
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Two New Bargains.- .
No?62 179 acres, 25 cleared, 4
room dwelling, bam and stables,
H miles to P O, 3 miles* to
church. High land. Big bargain.
Near Home P O. Price
$2,000.
No 63?35 acres, 15 cleared, 6
room dwelling, barns and
stables. 14 miles from town of
Harpers. Land high and first
class. Price $1,000.
Write or see
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Kingstree, S C.
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FOR SALE.
, Bri'-U in hhv ousnttty to suit purchas
er. The Best Dry Press Maciifne-made
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Special shapes made to order. torretM'iniftwe
solicited IwMore placing roar
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Pressing Club Notice.
Since the recent fire I have reopened
my Pressing and Tailor- |j
ing business upstairs in the
Funk building where I will be .
pleased to serve my patrons. ,
,f. F. Fulton. 1
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Auditor's Notice. \
I. or my agent, will be at the follow- '?
ing places on days below mentioned for
tin* purp< so of taking returns for year
1907. Returns must be made for all ,
personal property and for all sales or
purchases of real estate made since i'.
returns of l!>< 6.
All males between the ages of 21 and -' J.
GO yars are liable to Poll tax unless . t
exempted by law and must make a
return of same.
A penalty of 50 per cent will be emposed
upon all parties failing to make c
a return.
Janu ary .
Kingstrec 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Indiantown 7 t
Hei''~Vt 8 ' iffl
Bio- >ingvale . 9 -J"
Morflsville 10 %
Rhems 11 . 'M
Kingstree 12 i'
I D..?,a 14
IW? IliV Lamberts
*5
S B Poston's Store Id Vj?
E F Prosser's Store
Le?> 18
Kingstree 1"
Cliurch *1 ;
Scranton ^ ,22
Lake City 23 and 24
Cades 25
Concord ..j
Kingstree 2*< and 29
Hebron j*y
Mouzous , 31
. February
Kingstree 1 ~
. Gourdins . ? a
Suttons J:
Trio I
Harpers ?
; Kingstree ,?an^ri
. Greelyville 1- an<| ]
. Waiters 1-1 anV 1? *?
- Kingstree Id to 20 inclusive.
J.J. B. Montgomery,
12-6 ' Co. Auditor. ,