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pgpT" ?? i WEDN ( A? ^1?1 <rkli ciauui Local and Personal. Sunday, March 31, is Easter. Last Sunday was St. Patrick's >' '** Pay. Mr S S Ingnian of Florence is in town torn*y. Miss Leila ?pps is visiting relatives in the "City by the Sea". Mr W E Snowden of Benson was noted in town Monday and Tuesday. Judge Albert R Moseley was noted in town yesterday from Salters Depot. The Jamestown Ter-Centennia) exposition will open April 26 and ?l?oo "Wnvomhpr 30. Mr F W Harper, who has been at Meredith, Fla., for some time, returned home this week. Mr W I Nexsen has returned ct | Asheville, N. C., where he will remain for several weeks. Eev Dr B Brandeustein of New York is in town todny spiling" "The World's Great Classics." Mr P R Donnelley of Charleston was here Saturday and found time to pay us a pleasant visit. Mr J M Godwin of Rhems was 5.j? ; ? was here one day this week and drop1 ped in pleasantly to see us. yfe A welcome visitor at our sanctum last Friday was our friend, Mr S W Montgomery of^jpreelyville. Mr P M Byrdic, of the Cedar .Swamp section, was noted on our I streets on Friday of last week. Mr J J Casselman of Harper was in town yesterday and added his name to The Record's mailing m list. Mr G Ollie Epps and daughter, Miss Hazel, have gone to Meredith, Fla., on a visit to the family of Mr. - ; SB Davidson. Mr. J F Matthews of Lynchburg, I one Of THE JSECORD S long-ume friends, while in town Saturday favored ns with a welcome visit. The amateur minstrels gave a good and clean performance and well deserved the excellent patronage they received. The proceeds, we learn, y were over $80, which will be applied to the base ball relief fund. His many friends in this county regret exceedingly to hear of Hon % John S Wilson's illness. At last accounts he was in the Sumter infirmary and it was feared that an r- operation would be necessary. \ Miss Sallie J Creecy, the popu ? n:_ r? iL. jar, mi inner iur iuc iviugoucc J-"j Goods Co., has returned from Baltimore and will be ready for business in a few days. She would be glad for her friends to call and see her ;> new line, jjjT Mr M S Whitehead, who has been at'ending the Atlanta Dental college, returned home this week, his school session having closed. He will leave soon for Wilmington ? N. C? to take a position during the interval between sessions. Mr C K Eaddy of Cades called to see us Monday. Mr Eaddy tells us that his little boy, who was recently ?: taken to Baltimore to the Pasteur Institute, is getting on nicely and has suffered no ill effects as yet from the bite of the dog supposed to be mad. ; -' MILL IFSHAV i i jl?4 a m. m. * ate display of a i iiii i urn inn i iiiwiwi BBS" ISTREE KINGSTREE, Mamie McFadden, a colored woman living near town, was examined bv I)rs W V Brockinton and J L Bass last Tuesday and adjudged insane. J Willis Cargile, who has been with the Clarendon Sentinel for some time, has accepted a position with The County Record. Mr Cargile is a bright newspaper man and will make a valuable accession to The Record's statf of workers.? Lake City Journal. Architect C C W'leon of Columbia was in town yesterday conferring with the Electric Lie tit commission relative to an estimate on the cost of the installation of au electric light plant for the town. It is to be hoped that the plant will be install1 ed in the near future. Mr Walter Barr and daughter, Miss Lucile, of Greenville stopped over a few days in town this week on their way from Geoigetown, where they had been attend *ng the Sunday-cbool, convention. They were guests of Mr and Mrs J N Hamraet while in Kingstree. Dr J L Bass and Mr W E Snowden have received their appointments as members of the board of control and made application for their bonds. As Mr Parker has already qualified, as soon as the other members receive their bonds, the board will proceed to organize and elect the dispense.rs. Attention is called to S Marcus' millinery opening advertisement this week. Hiy buyer for this depart ment, Mrs. Marcus, has spared no pains nor expense this season in selecting this stock and the ladies of Williamsburg are assured that they w'll be better served than ever ber iore. The Kingstree Fire department met last eveuing and reorganized, electing the following officers: Chief, Montie Jacobs; Foreman of Nozzle, W E Jamas; Foreman Hook and Ladder Dept., Tom McCutchen; Foreman Pumping Dept., F VV Fairey. A resolution was passed to refund the "foot tax" of every member of the department ai d to pay them $1.00 each for every fire. We are requested to announce that on Wednesday evening next, the 27th inst., Dr J Walter Daniel of Sumter, S. C., will deliver a lecture here on "The Southern Mule." Dr Dan-el is one of the stiongest preachers in the South Carolina Conference and as a lactuier be is rated high. The lecture will begiveu in the school auditorium and for the benefit of the Ladies' Aid society. The editor of The Record spent Friday of last week in Lake City and while there was struck with the appearance of the Farmers' & Merchants' banking house now building. It is at the corner of Main and Railroad streets, one of the best locations in the town. It is of triangular shape, two stories high,and the visible bri:k work is all gray pressed brick, giviug the effect of blocks of stone. The building is going up rapidly and will soon be completed. Mr P 13 Thorn has recently moved into his elegaut new home and although some work is necessary to its completion, his electric light and pneumatic water plants are now finished and in daily use. The grounds / INERY a w V If T ' and liiu I - AL! 11 the latest crea :dry ( ** are being prepared for a flower garden, which, when completed, will be in keeping with the premises. While this modern dwelling now presents one of the most attractive features of Kingstree, *he final effect can not be conceived until Mr Thorn's plans have been fully carried out, when he will have one of the handsomest residences in South Carolina, A more extended description of this splendid mansion will appear in a future issue of The Record. Hay, Feed and Grain, wholesale and retail, at S M Askins', take City, S.C. New Advertisements. H D Reddick?Hats, Dress Goods and Trimmings. Kingstree Dry Goods CoMillinery Opening, Wednesday and Thursday, March 27 and 28. S Marcus?Spring Millinery Opening. i "1 S. M. Askins, Lake City, S. C., has opened a Feed and Grain store and will be pleased to* quote prices, wholesale and retail. i Dvellloa Destroyed by Fire. T.aut Satnrdav nicht Mr S M McClary, who lives near town, suffered the misfortune of losing ! his duelling by tire. His loss is ' estimated at $2,000 and he earned no insurance. The lire is 1 supposed to have originated i from a defective flue. , Before buying Hay, Feed and Grain it will pay you to see S. M. Askins, , Lake City, S. C. Salvage Sale. We have quite an accumulation ot ?ld papers and will offer i them at 15 cents a hundred for , the next 30 days in order to get rid cf them. The regular price , is 25 cents a hundred and after this sale you can't buy them for ; less, tf Amateur Minstrel Performance. The Kingstree Miustrels, an ag1 gregation of town talent, rendered a production of wu and humor at , the court house on last Friday night for the benefit of the Kingstree base 1 ball club. The house was well filli ed and, judging from the repeated outbursts of laughter, the audience , was very satisfactorily entertained and the occasion thoroughly enjoy-r ed. The local hits kept every prominent citizen on the lookout throughout the entire performance. After meeting with such succ?ss ?-? l?"~Jo foil/ nf fVia fill IJUlilC, tuui 10 OUUlf. bum v. _? troupe giving their performance at other points in the county. m The Record wants correspood ente at the following postoftices: ! Cades, Greelyville, Trio, Gourdin, i Leo, Benson, Scranton and auy ! other office where we aie not now ' represented. Write for terms, tf. i FOR SALE?Fifty tons prime Cotton j Seed Meal. Kingstree Oil Mill. The Tired Feeling is cured by Lippman's Great liemedv, it also cures Xeuralgia and I 'Violent IJeadache. It feeds the! j nerves, makes the blood rich and the patient strong. If you would be well and happy nse P P P, Lippman's Great Remedy. Sold by W L j Wallace. / hpft v m. -i x "iTWin "TfwTiii4' L ''I' IffTMiiii RSDAY, i so tions in Spring IOODS - 50UTI BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. Tha Enormous Output and the Safeguards Against Forgery. The Bank of Kngland refuses to use color for its notes on account of the fact that the authorities believe that its whiteness and apparent oimnlieitv nrp the Teatest safe f -J o guards against forgery. The whiteness of a Bank of England note is different to that of any other paper and is obtained by using only the very finest linen rags in the making. At Eaverstoke, a little village in Hampshire, the paper is prepared, and at the mill there every blank is as zealously guarded as if it were already engraved. Eve?' workman or workwoman employea at the mill is bound to secrecy, and the secrets of the mysterious water mark and texture of the paper are known only by the most tried and trusted of the workmen. It is not generally known that ever}' bank note bears a private water mark, which is constantly being changed in a way known only to the head officials and which is discernible through a microscope only. And it says much for the vigilance and skill of the Bank of England cashiers that, although they pay on an average ?27,000 in exchange for notes every day, they have never yet paid a forged note. TV?a pflsipst wav to detect a forced note is by dampening a corner with the tongue. If genuine, the water mark appears very distinct. In counterfeit notes it almost disappears. On a. genuine "fiver" there is a small white dot on the right side of the Old English "I" in the word "Five." The tail of the letter "F" in the sentence "For the Governor and Company" is also left in an incomplete state. The ink with which bank notes are printed is made of charred husks and 6tems of Rhenish vines, and the recipe, like the manufacture of the paper, is a carefully guarded secret. Each bank note costs about a halfpenny to produce and on an average is in circulation about seventy days. After being paid the notes are stored by the bank for five years, at the end of which time they are destroyed by burning in a large furnace. Eighteen millions of money thus disappear in the course of even year. Once a note is returned to the bank it is never reissued, and after being canceled by having the signature of the chief cashier torn off it is placed in what is known as the bank nota library for purposes of reference. There are no fewer than 120 clerks in this department, and so perfect is their system of filing that any one of the 77,745,000 notes which form the usual stock on hand can be reached in five minutes. Altogether the Bank of England has some ?15,000,000 worth of notes in circulation and issues between 50,000 and 00,000 notes of various denominations each day. There are seventy or eighty kinds of Bank of England notes of different values. Every year about 3,000 of the notes issued are lost or destroyed by tbe owners. At any rate, they are never returned to the bank and represent a clear profit. While it is true, however, that if a note never comes back the bank profits to that amount, they never can tell when these so called missing notes may be presented. Some people possess a weakness for hoarding bank notes, and the re suit has been that frequently the bank is called upon to cash dirty, crumpled notes which were issued years ago.?London Tit-Bits. Fooled Old Jowett. Once when Professor Jowett was visiting his friend and pupil, Professor Sellar, he declared that he never gave to beggars. Mrs. Sellar ' ' " ' 'Fv . "" '/TTi -**, , 1 ' . * '/ sJING! FW^lUBUR'IHJOS& HARCH2 dress goods and -Tg^gi. f?T\ J vasmt/ J CAROLINA. was an adopt in "mystifications," an accomplishment popular in Scotch -ociety since Sir Walter Scott's | time. Sim disguised herself as a poor highland woman and waylaid ' her husband and Jowett at a crossroad, begging importunately and telling her tale of woe so piteouslv that Jowett at last said: "Poor thing! She seems very miserable. Give her half a crown." Scllar said he had no money with him, and before the alms were forthcoming the secret was triumphantly unveiled. Her hiea of Remembrance. j A southern man tells of a conversation he overheard between hia I cook and a maid, both negroes, with reference to a recent funeral of a member of their race, at which funeral there had been a profusion of 1 floral tributes. Said the cook: , "Dat's all very well, Mandv, but when I dies I don't want no flowers on mv grave. Jes plant a good old watermelon vine, an' when she gits ripe you come dar, an' don't you eat it, but jes bus' it on de grave an' let de good old juice dribble down ' . - 9 tTT^.L thro de ground!"?narpers neet!y. _ The First Steamboat Whittle. Early in May, 1844, the steamer Rochester departed from Buffalo, bound for Chicago. The engineer was a mechanical genius named McGee, and he had constructed a 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. Gager. Engineer McGee 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 McGee 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 u lively battle of fisticuffs. Unchanged. After making a tour of the town a local beggar arrayed himself in the garments that had been given him. His toilet made, he looked at his reflection in the pool in the wood and shook his head. "Here I am," he said to his companion, who was donning his castoff clothes, "wearing the boots of a bank president, the trousers of a shopkeeper, the shirt and coat and vest of a doctor and a minister's hat. Yet in spite of it all I look like a tramp!' ^^Plairt WpodjsT [/ uaraen oeeas \\ FOR SUPERIOR VEGE TABLES & FLOWERS. Twenty-eight years experience ?our own seed farms, trial grounds?and large warehouse capacity give us an equipment that is unsurpassed anywhere for supplying the best seeds obtainable. Our trade in Beeds I i 8 both for the CJ j Garden and Farm Q is one of the largest in this country. We are headquarters for Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Oats, Seed Potatoes, Cow Peas, Soja Beans and other Farm Seeds. Wood's Descriptive Catalog gives fuller and more complete lnfor\ matlon about both Garden and Farm I \ Seeds than any other similar publlca- /1 1 tlon Issued In this country. Mailed [ I V free on request. Write for it. [I 1 T.W.Wood & Sons, Seedsmen, f ft RICHMOND, .VA. JV I } J 1 I 87 = 28 f I trimmings. | mr Spring's ?T' here! 4 Springs suits, Spring: hats, negligees, cravats, underwear, ? hosiery, are all here, too. * . We can't begin to tell you * Df all the merits of our Spring % suits. There's too great a variety of handsome patterns, too much to say about the high grade tailoring, the periAn n* 4lnn 1,- ?4 m 1WV.-1IU1I Ul III, UIC IIJAIVC, A.1IU "J the finish of our Spring suits. We'd better invite you to our store, and let you see what strictly up-to-date clothes are, and at what reasonable prices we offer them. As usual, our Blue Serges comprise a very attractive feature of our stock. "? Mail orders receive prompt ** and careful attention. '4 ttChlH. J Mft S. L Corner King I Hasell Sto? Charleston S. C. SPECIAL NOTICES i ' . i Transient Notices will be Published In This Column at the Rate of One Cent a Word for Each Issue. FOR SALE?Fifty tons prime Cotton Seed Meal. Kingstree Oil Mill. For Sale-House and lot in Lake City, S. C. If you want a bargain, see or write to S. D. Knight. 1 aVc Citv. S. C. Before buying or selling a farm or 1 any property, write The Carolina Realty & Trust Co, 2?14-tf Bishopville, S. C. . WANTED?To exchange about 400 bushels of pure Florodora Cotton Seed for ordinary seed at the rate of one bushel for two. J. A. Kelley, 8-7-3t Kingstree, S. C. Teachers' Examination Notice is hereby given that the regular teachers' examination Will be held in the rmirt housp at Kincstree. S. C.. on Friday, April 19, 1907. The usual hours will be observed. Attention is called to the fact that by . regulation of the State Board of Education the elates of teachers' examinations will hereafter be on the third Fridays in April ar.d October. J. li. McCullough, Co. Supt. Education, 3'14-3t. Notice to Veterans. , r \ The Legislature having appropriated'' a sum for purchasing artificial liifjfc for wounded soldiers, I hereby {u/e notice that I will meet and prepare Applications for those who desire to avail themselves of the benefits of the Act Saturday, March 30, inst., at the court house. H. H. Kinder, It Pension Com. V k