The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 28, 1907, Image 4
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KINGSTREE, S. C.
C. W. WOLFE,
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?THURSDAY.
MARCH28.1907
Things to Consider.
r?here are two questions confronting
the people of Kingstree just now
that demand serious attention: the
first is, better lights, and the second,
a larger school building. The
demand for lights is so apparent j
that that it is hardly necessary w>i
(bake further comment thau a bare
# announcement of the fact; but a
word of explanation may not be |
amiss with regard to the school
situation, as there are doubtless
aome who think the present building
amply commodious for every
requirement.
To a superficial observer it does
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whole duty?and perhaps a little
more?in the interest of education.
It is only a few years since the new
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.school house was 'built, which, ineluding
the lot and equipment, cost,
in the neighborhood of $12,000.
This amount has beeu paid in full
by supplementing the school's revenue
'with the town's share of the
* dispensary f".'id. Of course this
has been done at the expense of
mnnicpal improvement and the
town's affairs have had to be run on
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I -a Tery meagre basis.
Now, there are some?and we can,
.
see the jnstice of their contention?
who believe that the town as a corporation
has done enough for the
school and that hereafter its entire
revenue should be given to its own
improvement?such as lights, sewerage,
water-works, or anything else
is deemed necessary to the
health and comfort of our comfort
of our citizens.
But there comes up another question.
While it is true our school
building building was amply large
to accommodate all the pupils in
sight at the time it was built and, in
fact, it was thought that no more
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rovui nuuiu umtru ivi n ?*, ui ou
years, still the unexpected has happened
and, like manv other educa...
fcional institutions, the Kingstree
graded school is paying the penalty
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of prosperity. This means that even
' with the extra teachers added, the
enrollment has so increased that still
another instructor will soon have to
added to the faculty, and even now
some of the teachers have more pupils
to look after than they possibly can,
to accomplish the best results. Hut
the most serious feature of the case
Uis
the over crowded class-rooms.
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This is a condition that will certainly
not improve as the town grows
larger and the population increases.
Already, we understand, some rooms
have more children tbau can becomifortably
seated, which is neither
conducive to learning nor hygiene.
To meet the situation that confronts
us calls for the earnest consideration
and the ^co-operation of
our citizens, and we think that they
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ODOR TAINTED AIR.
It It Not In Itself Poisonous or Even
Unhcaithful.
According to the Ameri.an Mag- J
azine, "bad" air is not so bad. The {
point is explained as follows by
jDr. Hirshberg of Johns Hopkins
| university in an article on "Popular
(Medical Fallacies:"
"Foul air?which has for its acicepted
meaning air heavy with the
I gases and odors of decay?is not in
(itself poisono#; or even unhealth- i
should meet together ami seiiously
discuss the subjects of lights and
school.
It lias been suggested that the
town be bonded to build the school
annex?in fact, that seems to be the
only way practicable. But there
has already beeM an election on the
question of bonds for electric lights,
and which, by the way, was carried
by a big" majority in favor of the
lights, but the town is still in darkness.
Now, shall two series of oonds be
issued, covering twenty and forty
years, say; or shall the former election
be ignored and another one held
to build the school annex; or what?
These are questions that vitally
affect the town's present and, still
more so, its future prosperity.
Again we say, call the citizens
together for a full and free discussion.
The reports of the six hanks of
our couutv, which appear in this
issue, speak for themselves aud in
spite of depressed conditions they
show old Williamsburg to be in a
healthy state financially. It will
be uoted that up to March 19, the
total amount of money ou deposit in
these banks foots jp the tidy sum
of|$350,000. Everything considered
we regard this a remarkably fine
showing.
Paper and printing material are
advauciug in price by leaps and
bounds. Last, week tve ordered
from a factory one ton of regular
news paper and got just one-fourth
of our order filled and that at an j
advance of three-fourths of a cent a
pound. It seems that it is almost a
matter of impossibility to get the raw
material for making a newspaper?
wood pulp. Not onlv news paper but
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every other kind of paper and also
priutiug material of every description
has recently goue up "out of sight."'
Out West some of the of the papers
are printing their editions on wall
paper and even the common browu J
wrapping paper. And the worst'
feature of the situation is that there j
appears no prospect of relief. J
Some time ago we noticed that
two men had been convicted for I
stealing sixteeu thousand dollars
of State bonds. That i* as it should
be, but we have been anxiously
waitiug to hear whose surety bond
is liable for the theft. If a clerk
in the State treasurer's office?
whether or not be bouded?cau
connive at and profit by snch fraud
aud the State came out the loser,
then the safe-guards against such
stealing are wholly inadequate, aud
the legislature should see that the
laws are re-inforced so as to protect
the State against this kind of rascality.
If the dishonest clera' were
under bond, his company is liable
for the amount of his peculation. If
he were not, then h;s superior officer,
the Slate tieasurer, should make
good the loss. Iu any case the
! State should not he mulcted to the
amount of sixteen thousand dollars
without providing against a similar
loss in the future.
Dr. Daniel's Lecture.
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un Wednesday nignt ivev ur
J W Daniel of Sumter lectured
in the auditorium on his favorite
subject, "Tue Southern Multi"
The ltjcture was given for the
benefit of the Ladies' Aid Society
l and the proceeds will be sent
to the suffering in China. In
discussing his subject. Dr.
Daniel touched upon some of the
important questions of the day
and handled them very interiestingly,
exhibiting" his scholarly
attainments. Dr. Daniel is
an author thoroughly known in
our State and we appreciate his
visit to our lown.
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?ul. I mess it contains such a large :
proportion of foreign gases that it J
is noticeably lacking in oxygen its ,
chief effect is psychic. Some per- j
sons,' in brief, cannot abide a I
stench. It sets their nerves on edge I
and excites their imaginations,r and
the result is that they grow pallid'
and at times seasick.
"Thus indirectly it may weaken
them and make them an easy prey
to wandering microbes. But of itself
it produces little direct harm.
Medical students, breathing the unspeakable
gases and odors of the
dissecting room, manage to eat vast
dinners and to grow fat. Tanners,
garbage men, workers in fertilizer
factories and other persons who are
habitually surrounded by hair raising
aromas are ordinarily just as
healthy as other folk.
"That foul air is usually laden
with rather more germs and germ
bearing insects than air which
seems (to the nose) to be pure is
beside the point. ii,xperie ace shows
that pure air often contains as
many of these enemies to health as
the most foul exudations from a
sewer outlet. The Stegoirpia fasciata.
which carries the germs of
yellow fever, would be just as deadly
on a mountain top as along the
6hore of a Louisiana bayou; hence
the absurdity of shotgun quarantines
and of all the other medicinal
manifestation* <?f alarm that appear
when yellow jack rages on the gulf
coast."
French Art Running Riot.
Clever dealers in artifice?that is
what the majority of painters in
Paris have become. For one man 1
whose work is "of the centre" you ;
have scores, hundreds, who are facile
and sometimes even accomplished,
but in the grain of their work in- 1
curably factitious. They have made 1
no better use of the freedom from 1
formula, won by Manet and the others,
than to put more formulae, 1
usually very hollow ones, in the 1
foreground. Little groups are form- '
ed, each one devoted to the unfold
mg oi a tricK wnicn some new man
has made temporarily popular. They
wax and wane, and you wonder why
! they ever flourish at all. A sensaj
tion is made at the salon not by .
an honest piece of painting with an
original accent, but by some prismatic
audacity having no. relation ,
to nature, by some purely arbitrary
scheme of chiaroscuro or, as in one'
case that I have in mind, by a return
to the "brown sauce" of the ,
old masters. ? Royal Cortissoz in ,
Atlantic.
An Ideal Citizen.
The ideal citizen is the man who
believes, that all men are brothers
I and the nation is merely an extenI
sion of his family, to be loved, re- i
spected and cared for accordingly. 1
I Such a man attends personally to ]
: all civic duties with which he ;
deems himself charged. Those
which are within his own control I
i he would no more trust to his in- i
! feriors than he wouli^ leave the ed- ]
I ucation of his children to kitchen ;
; servants. The public demands upon ;
his time, thought and money come
upon him suddenly, and often they find
him ill prepared, but he nerves '
himself to the inevitable, knowing ]
that in the village, state and nation <
any mistake or neglect upon his
; part must impose a penalty sooner
J or later upon those whom iie loves. '
John Habberton.
Punctilious.
A Washington woman prominent
j ill the ojlicial set of the national (
| capital tells of a function to which
she had invited an attache of one
of the legations famous for his extreme
politeness. The invitation
was formally accepted, but on the
morning of tlie appointed day she
j received a note, written by the dii
plomatist's valet and couched in the
! following terms:
uSenor Blank regrets much that
he will not be able to attend Mrs.
So-and-so's reception on the even!
ing of the 22d inst., as he is dead."
j?Harper's Weekly.
Not In th* Curriculum.
Mr. Jecklyns had just received i
i from his youngest son, who was in
tiis first year at college, a telegram
io this effect: "Dear Father?I am
ibout to take up a new study.
Please send me $25 to pay for the i
j mtfit."
He answered it at once in this I
wise: "Dear John?What is the
itudy ?"
To the query came this rejoinder;
'Dew Father?It is golf."
Statement o! the Condition ot
The Bank of Greelyville,
Greelyville, S. C.
At the close of business, Morrh 19,!
1907.
Resources.
Loans and Discounts $24,070 02 J
Oveidrafts, is? i?o'
Ranking House 07.s nil
Furniture and Fixtures 1,39."? sr.
Due lruio Ranks and Hankers *>,402 'iti
1111'jriii"\ i.uw I?'J
<;ol(l ' 440 DO I
Nilver, Nickels and Pennies 830 901
Checks and Ca<li Items 309 o0
Total $35,527 02
Liabilities.
Capita) Stock Paid in 12.442 50
Undivided Profits, less Current
Expenses and Taxes
Paid 30 79
Due Unpaid Dividends, 672 00
Individual Deposits, Subject
to Check 20,096 70
Savings Deposits 1,919 s9
Cashier's Checks 359 74
Total $85,527 62
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
County of Williamsburg.
Before me came C E Register,cashier
of the Hank of Greelyville. who being
duly sworn, says that the above and
foregoing statement in a true condition
of said bank, as shown by' books of
file in said bank.
C E REGISTER.
Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 25th day of March, 1907.
J F REGISTER, )
Notary Public for S. C. y*
Correct-Attest:
S J Taylor. :
J F Register. : Directors.
Foreclosure Sale.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,)
County of Wii.liamsburg. y'
Court of < omraon Pleas.
R. B. Cannon, Plaintiff,
vs.
Ellen Miles. Jefferson Miles, et al.
Under and by virtue of a decree of
foreclosure and sale in the above stated
action, grantedijy the Court of Common
Pleas, bearing date March 14,
1907, the undersigned will on the first
Monday in Aprjl, 1907, during the legal
hours of sale, sell at public auction to
the highest bidder, for cash, before the.
Court House door in Kingstree, in the
State and * ounty aforesaid, the following
ddfecribed premises:
"A certain piece, parcel or lot of land,
situate in the County of Williamsburg
and State aforesaid, containing four
acres more or less, bounded North by
Manning public road from stake 3x n in
ditch, East by lands of W. W. .Miles
and Laura A. Miles, South by lands of
estate of Thos. M.'Creecy, West by
lands of Ann Knight.
Purchaser to be let in possession November
1, 1907.
6. J. Graham,
Sheriff Williamsburg Coudty.
3-14-8t.
Notice*
My regular office days are every Saturday
and the first Monday in the
month.
J. G. McCULLOUGH,
Co. Supt. Education, Williamsburg
County. 3-14-tf.
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ILL r AI CU Humuno.
Writers Whose Works Proved Their
Own Death Warrants.
In times gone by monarchs gave
short shrift to the authors of books
t aat offended them. The Bourbons,
for instance, did not scruple about
paying assassins to "remove" those
writers, such as the gifted Paul
Courier, whose works displeased
Ihem. Nor did the great Napoleon
hesitate at all in shooting or hanging
the unhappy author who crossed
bis path.
On one occasion he executed the
publisher?one named Palm of
Nuremberg?of a l>ook attacking
him because that individual refused
to disclose the name of its author.
A terrible fate befell a nineteenyear-old
authoress of a poem which
was read by no other person than
its writer, a lady of the Empres?
Elizabeth of Russia's court, and the
empress herself. This was Vera |
Paskin, who wrote about 200 lines j
of verse' satirizing the empress' :
vices.
In youthful pride and imprudence j
the girl showed the manuscript to
one of the court ladies. To curry
favor with the empress this woman
showed it to Elizabeth, who thereupon
ordered Vera Paskin to be
cruelly knouted and banished for
life to Siberia.
A poem has even brought about
the death of its writer, and in England
too. .lames I. was the offended
monarch. John Williams the
poet. Williams, for safety, inclosed
the verses in an iron box and sent
them to the king, who, always fearing
assassination, jumped to the
conclusion that the box was none
other than an infernal machine.
When the news of the real nature
of the box's contents leaked out,
however, James grew so angry at
the jeers that were leveled at him
from all parts of the kingdom that
he had the unfortunate John Williams
hanged, drawn and quartered.
?Fearson's Weekly.
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@ bons, Silks, Millinery and Dress Goods. j?
@ WE CARRY THE BEST LINE OF LADIES ?
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? AS CHEAP AS ELSEWHERE. NO TROUBLE ?.
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? n/s/? you with Hardware for the @
| year 1907. 1
? Latest and best improved?;
jj- Agricultural Implem|
? Everything necessary to cultivate ?
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@ your crop. @
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I Remember we are closing |
| but our stock of
1 FURNITURE I
| at greatly reduced prices. ?
@ COMPLETE LINE COFFINS and CASKETS. @
| Our elegant new Hearse furnished when de-1
?sired. ?
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In nsiog a coogh syrnp, why pot The Largest and Moat f .mple'te
get the best/ one that comes highly r
recommended is BEE5; LAXATI\ R Establishment South.
COUGH SYRUP contains Honey nrn ft ||||)|fr||
a,.a Tai and is superior to other g[Q. J. HACKER & SON,
congh syrups 111 many ways. Chil- ^
STATE OF SOUTH rAROLINA, / ? t>
Whereas, T. J. Phillips made suit to ? mantfactuh :rs of?
me, to grant him Letters of Adminis- .
tration of the Estate of and effects of oclSh, Doors, Blinds
Samuel S. Tisdale , ... , ?
These are therefore to cite and ad-1 Moulding and Building Material,
monish all and singular the kindredand j Sash Weights and Cords
Creditors of the said Samuel S. Tisdale ?
dsceased, that they be and appear be- j ' * *
fore me, in the Court of Probate, to be j - - ? ?
held at Kingstree, S. C.. on the 30th j
day of March next after publication j
IfHTfOI, at II U Cim-iv ill mc ivi cuv/vii| ||r| ^ IITiBllIlllllJIBWlt|l|t A
to show cause, if any they have, why
the said Administration not be
, , Best for
Couoht.
March, Anno Domini, 11*07. Cough". Etc. JBSsSE^R
Published on the 14th day of March, ;
1007, in the CountyReconl. H V 3Hb
P, M. Brockinton. hpanjbmjypl^l.v
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Probate .fudge.
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that contains no alcohol or opiates
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about "PINEFLES,"?Sold! (ax mores tbe bowels ud cocUiss bo opwtes.
by W L Wallace. Sold by W L Wallace.
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