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Local and Personal.
Sunday, March 31, is Easter.
Last Sunday was St. Patrick's
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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
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; ? 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 ?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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fill IJUlilC, tuui 10 OUUlf. bum v. _?
troupe giving their performance at
other points in the county.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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thro de ground!"?narpers neet!y.
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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!'
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negligees, cravats, underwear,
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hosiery, are all here, too. *
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Df all the merits of our Spring
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variety of handsome patterns,
too much to say about the
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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
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Charleston S. C.
SPECIAL NOTICES
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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,
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Notice to Veterans. ,
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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.
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