The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 25, 1907, Image 4
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KINQSTREE. S. C. T!
C. W. WOLFE.
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THURSDAY. APRIL25, 1907 t
Inlarge the School Building. c
To a superficial thinker it would d
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appear that Kingstree has done a
jujk. enough for her school, but we should a
' peer a little beDeath the surface. t
Let us consider what the school has c
done and is doing for Kingstree. *
Compare the enrollment of 1904 05 c
with that of 1906-07 and we fiud in *
three years over sixty per cent iu- .
crease. What does tins mean for ^
I Xmgstree? Many people have g
moved their families here solely for c
the purpose of getting the benefit of u
our school. These people help to *
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build np the town and most of them
have bought homes here and are j
citizens of KiDgstree. Every pro- n
duccr who comes into our community t
-as a citizen and a tax-payer is help- E
4ng to bear the burden of municipal ^
taxation and helps every other tax- ^
payer by carrying a share. j
That is sound argument from a c
material standpoint. From a social i
bad educational standpoint the value
of our school to the rising generation
is inestimable. But the school
- needs mote class-rooms and a larger
teaching force and until this condition
is relieved its field of usefulness
is ciicumscnbed, as n? moie
pupils may be admitted. Shall we
s"hut off those that thirst for the
waters of the Pierian spring?
It is a question that should be
answered fdvisedly by every voter
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who exercises his privilege of suffrage
when the time comes for voting on
'the question of issuing bouds for
school improvemeut
Not content with raising their
salaries from $5,000 to $7,500
per annum, certain United States
.senators are making a raid on ^
the treasury under the guise of ,
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-an immigration commission. itiey ^
will have secretaries, sten?gra- 1
phers and other functionaries gu- r
lore to aid anl abet theui in the '
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aoble and uplifting work incident
to their "commission." whatever e
that work tnay be. Each of the j
nine members of the "commis-1
sion" will be accompanied by one 'I
or two members of his family at!1
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the expense of the government,
with practically unlimited fntids
to draw from. South Carolina
will be ably represented bv Sena- J
tor Asbury C Latimer, the States- ,
man from oelton.
Notice to Teachers. '
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Frot. ? IS. iaie. rnncipai ut jicj
miger Normal High School, Charleston,
will address the Teachers' Association *
at its nex t meeting in the auditorium *
of the Kingstree Graded School, batur- J
day April 20, 12 o'clock. 'j
Only a few of you have shown any
interest in these meetings. It is ex- *
pected of y<>u to be leaders in such *
work, and your presence is wanted, if j I
lor no other purpose than to encourage c
jour trustees and others who desire
better schools, and, I may add, better
teachers in Williamsburg county. F
The public, and trustee* especially, t
are invited to attend this meeting. * j
J G Mccui.lough, i
Co. Supt. of Education.
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OOG POINTED A LION.
All Gam* Looked Alike to This Plucky
Little Fox Terrier.
The following incident is perfectly
true and absolutely unique:
As a member of a colonial mounted
corps, the British Soikth Africo
police of Mashonaland, Rhodesia,
South Africa, it fell to my lot in
ADVERTISING A TOWN.
lie Burden Should not be Wholly
Placed upon the Newspaper.
The following" editorial from
he Bamberg Herald contains so
lueh that is applicable to Kings
ree that we are constrained to
eproduce it for the benefit of
'he Record's readers, condiions
in Bamberg and Kingstree
ieing very similar, we doubt
,ot.
' It will soon be eight years
hat we lived in Bamberg1, and
uiing that time there has been
aany a column -printed in our
>aper which was written by us
or the purpose of booming" the
own and inciting its people to
Tejter things along the lines of
ommercial and moral improvelent.
If all of this matter was
otten together and printed at
>ne time, it would lil^ up one
ssue of our entird paper and no
oubt a great deal more. It took
ime to write all these articles;
t costs money to set type; paper
osts money; type costs money,
nd if our contribution to the
rowth of the town was valued
t actual cost to us it would
mount to many times more
han the contribution of any
itizen to the public welfare,
rith the exception of the gift
>f Gen F M Bamberg of $5,000 a
ew years ago to the Carlisle Fiting
School. Never thoughtof it
n this way, did you? Yet it is
rue as gospel, and you can't
fet around it. Here the editor
?f your paper has actually spent
aore money, ten times more
han the most of you, for the
:ood of the town. That's one
ray of looking- it, you say, and
ret it is the correct way. Voi|
aay say it is the duty an editor
o boom his town. Not any
aore so than it is the duty of
very citizen who makes his
ivinghere, the Bamberg Herald
toes not belong to the public;
t belongs to the editor and no
ther individual has a dollar
nvested in it. It is not being
tin to advertise the town; it is
>eing published to furnish a
iving for the editor aifti his
amiiy, just as you run a store,
>r bank, or any other business,
md we owe no more to the town
han any business located here.
L'rue we get a living out of the
own and county; so does every
>ther business. We mention
hese things not in a spirit of
ranity or highly developed self
esteem, but as a protest against
he sentiment which generally
prevails that it is the duty of a
lewspaper to say nice things
ibout the town, its advantages
md to keep our enterprise and
jrogress constantly before the
)ublic.
The Last Lyceum Attraction.
The last lyceuin attraction will be
jreseuted in the school auditorium
>n Friday evening, April 26. This
ditertainmeut will be given by Mis
tViIlium Calvin Chilton, dramatic
v-ader impersonator and dialeotor.
vlrs Chilton being a Southerner?
rom Mississippi?her specialty coniists
of Southern stories from Southrn
writers and in these readings she
s said to be especially tine.
Her programme will include
)athos, sentiment ami humor so
hat everyone who attends will find
lomething to his or her liking.
Hnt Springs, Ark.,
s no competition agaiust Lippman's
}reat Remedy for the cure of Rneunaliaui.
James Newton, Aberdeen, Ohio,
lays P PI' did him more good than
,hree mouths treatment at Hot
Springs, Ark.
W T Timmons of Waxahatchie,
lex., says his rheumatism was so
>a 1 that he was coufined to his bed
or months. Physicians advised Hot
Springs, Ark., and Mineral Wells,
Lexas, at which places he spent
even weeks in vain, with knees so
ladly swollen that his tortures were
>eyond endurauce. P P P made the
ure and proved itself as thou
ands of other cases, the beat blood
mrifier in the world, and superior
o all Saraaparillas and the 90-called
Iheumatic Spriugs. Sold by W L
Vallace.
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Apri 1, 1P03, to enumerate for official
statistics the white residents of
llusapi district, which is ISO miles
southeast of Salisbury, the capital,
and sixty-four miles west of Umtali,
near the Portuguese border. It
was upon my return journey to the
main camp that the following dog
incident occurred:
On the 18th day of April about
4 p. m. I reached an outlying farmhouse
close to the railway and in
the vicinity of very suggestive looking
hills. As I knew the owner, I
decided to outspan there for the
night. My horse having been sent
to water with a native boy, the
farmer and I entered the house. In
a few minutes a Mashona herd boy
dashed in unceremoniously, crying:
"Baas! Baas! A lion is down near
the cattle!" After questioning the
boy, who was much excited, we set
off, accompanied by a fox terrier,
ana upon urnviug wucic tuc vav??
were grazing we at once found his
majesty's Bpoor (track), which we
followed until lost on the hard
ground.
After searching the most likely
places we gave up hope of finding
him and, turning about, headed for
home. After crossing a vlei (open
grass land) we entered a thick bush
and proceeded a short distance.
Then I missed the dog and, looking
back, descried him pointing in the
orthodox style, the hair on his back
fiercely bristling and body as rigid
as a statue. Retracing my footsteps
and looking over the bushes where
he was, imagine my complete surprise
to behold a magnificent lion,
full length, with face toward me,
barely fifteen paces off. At sight of
me he growled softly, and then I
shouted, "There he is!" But by
the time my friend had run up and
I had recovered from my surprise
the lion was bounding off, much to
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the chagrin ot my iriena. 1 ne ousu
wag thick, and we had to fire at random,,
and he got clear away.
Needless to say a few choice epithets
were slung at me by the other
fellow, but it all happened very
quickly, and I was totally unprepared
for such a close riew. Moving
around behind the bushes, we found
the skin and entrails of a sheep,
which had been devoured, bearing
out the statement that the lion will
not eat the intestines of his prey.
All this time the dog was jumping
a round and at last started off on
the trail, and we had a hard job to
get him back. The evening was
getting dark, and we had no wish
to meet the lion among the bush in
the dark. After reaching home the
farmer placed some strychnino on a
piece of meat and placed it on the
veldt, but our visitor did not return
that night.
It is not often a dog has the opportunity
to point such royal game.
Tnllrtnir a limit dnors T rpmemher
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seeing an Irish terrier rout out a
hedgehog, and there ensued a terrific
onslaught, ending in the death
of the spiney one and leaving Boxer,
the terrier, full of quills, which
1 plucked, much to his discomfort.
?Forest and Stream.
No Infallible Succsts Rule*.
Tower to see the future has a certain
place in business, an exceedingly
humble one, however. It is employed
professionally by some ladies
and gentlemen at an average
price of about a dollar a sitting.
They can see things afar off, but
not the landlord who is coming up
the stairs to throw them out or the
policeman who is coming around
the corner to run them in. Prescience
and clairvoyance have no
place in the equipment of men who
are able to make a living in less
hazardous and persecuted callings,
says Will Payne in Everybody's.
There are plenty of infallible rules
for success. Some men who have
succeeded are rather fond of 4aying
them down for the guidance of
the young, but nobody, least of ail
their authors, ever infallibly succeeded
by them.
CuneiForm Writing.
On the old Babylonian and Persian
monuments there were wedge
shaped characters, or arrow headed
nr nail hparlw) ohnrfinters as t.lipv
'were sometimes called, which con
Btituted what was known as cuneiform
writing. After the reign of
Alexander the Great this writjng
became obsolete. The Persian cuneiform
writing contains sixty letters
and the Assyrian 600 to 700
characters, partly alphabetic. The
most celebrated inscription in cuneiform
writing is that in the ancient
city of Behistun, Persia, cut on the
face of a rock 1,700 feet high and
recording part of the history of
Darius.?Argonaut.
Tall Stor es.
A couple of witty fellows were
conversing together recently, and
their arguments finally occasioned
a bot between them. Each agreed
to tell a peculiar incident, and the
reciter of the strongest episode was
to receive the stakes, a sovereign.
Xo. 1 commenced and said he knew
a lady who was "turned into wood."
"Impossible!" 3aid Xo. 2. "Explain
yourself."
"You see," was the reply, "the
lady was placed on a vessel, and
then she was a-board!"
"Very gor.-.l," said Xo. 2, "but listen
to this: Once I knew a man who
had been deaf and dumb for twenty
years, but last week he regained
speech in one minute."
"Xonsen3e:" rejoined Xo. 1. "But
proceed."
"Well," replied Xo. 2, "the man I
mean went into a bicycle shop with
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a inena, ana, eioopiug uuwu, uc
picked up a wheel and spoke."?
London Telegraph.
Riddles.
She was reading a paper before
the Mothers' club.
"And here I will insert," she said,
"half a dozen questions of the sort
my little boy asks me every night
before he falls asleep.
"'Why does Santa Claus give
children skates when there ain't
any ice?
" 'When I drink water, why don't
it run down into ray legs ?
"Ts it his very best medicine
that the druggist has in them big
green and blue bottles?
" 'Why is it I breathe out smoke
when I'm cold and not when I'm
warm?
"'Who cooked dinner when all
the big folks was little boys?"'?
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
A Collector's Boc.joot
"My wish is that my drawings,
my prints, my curiosities, my books
?in a word, these things of art
which have been the joy of my life
?shall not be consigned to the cold
tomb of a museum and subjected to
the stupid glance of the careless
passerby. But I require that they
shall all be dispersed under the
hammer of the auctioneer, so that
the Dleasure which the acquiring of
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each one of tbem has given me shall
be given again in each case to some
inheritor of my own tastes."?From
the Will of Edmond de Goncourt.
Spong* Treatment.
A young housekeeper in one of
the suburbs haJ just succeeded in
getting a new cook, who came high1}'
recommended. One day Nora
made a sponge cake which was so
hard it could not be eaten. The
housekeeper said:
"Nora, do' you call this sponge
cake? Why, it's as hard as can be.**
"Yes, mum," replied the cook
calmly. "That's the way a sponge
in before it's wet. Soak it in youf
b.'a, mum."
Sheriffs SaleThe
State of South Carolina J
. Williamsburg ?'ounty. j*
Court of Common Pleas.
John M Nexsen Plaintiff,
vs
Mary Bradley, et al.. heirs at Law of
Dick Bradley, deceased, defendants.
Under and by virtue of a decree of
Foreclosure and Sale in the above stated
case granted by the Court of Common
Pleas, bearing date M arch 29th, 1906,
The undersigned will on the 6th day of
May, 1907, during the legal hours of
sale, sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash before the Court
House door in Kingstree. South Carolina,
the undivided one-half interest
of Dick Bradley, deceased, in and to
the following described property: "all
that certain piece parcel or tract of
land, lying being and situate in Williams
burg County, >tate of South Carolina,
containing one hum'red and thirtyseven
and one half acres, and bounded
as follows: South-east hy lands of S E
Tisdale, South-west by public Road
leading from Kingstree to Potato Ferry
being on the North side of Black river.
Purchasers to pay for deeds.
G. J. Graham.
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Sheriffs Sale.
The State of South Carolina^
Williamsburg County. )
Court of Common Pleas
lohn M Nexsen, Plaintiff,
v
Thomas Harper. Defendant.
Under and by virtue of a decree of
Foreclosure and Sale, in the above
stated action, granted by the court of
Common Pleas, bearing date March
29th, 1906, the undersigned will on
. J..vnf Mav 1907. durinsr the
mr ucii u ?j v* ? j ^ , ^
legal hours of sale, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, before
the court house door in Kingstree,
South Carolina, the following described
property:
"All that certain piece, parcel or!
tract of land lying, being and situate
in the said County of Williamsburg,
State of South Carolina, containing one
hundred acres. This being the tract of
end conveyed to the said Thomas
Harper by R H Kellahan, January, A l>,
It#*, and havingsuch boundaiies, reference
to said title will more fully explain.
Purchasers to pay for deed.
G. J. Graham.
Sheriff Wmsburg County.
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? FOR YOUR SPRING GOODS. WE HAVE A ?
? NICE LINE OF ?
| Embroidories Laces, All Overs White Goods, Rib- |
? bons, Silks, Millinery and Dress Goods. ?
? WE CARRY THE BEST LINE OF LADIES @
? AND GENTS' SHOES IN TOWN. PRICES @
? AS CHEAP AS ELSEWHERE. NO TROUBLE ?.
? TO SHOW GOODS. COHE AROUND. ?
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SEASONABLE GD0BS.1
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| Refrigerators, Water Coolers, J
? Ice Cream Freezers, - $
? Doors and Windows. ?1
$ STLo-sxrex IFots, .AJ.1 Sizes.
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@ flo/ooce o/ our &oc* of FURNITURE, RUGS, MAT
^ TINGS, LACE CURTAINS, and WINDOW SHADES, 8
? we will close out AT COST\ as we discontinue ?
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.? Furniture Business. "
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2Cotton Planters, Guanoz
? Distributors and improv- o
$ ed Farm Implements at ft
$ prices to suit the times. -J ::
| Complete Stock COFFINS & $
* CASKETS. 2
^ Will serve yon day or night and fhrnish onr Handsome New Hearse. ^
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Not less than 370,000,000 pounds FlUJil Disch&ITFA
of cooj>er wire* were in use on the UttxlCu* ^
telephone lines in America last y**ar. Notice in hereby given that on
This year then- is expected ao F.^.' rNobite jlld^
increase of 53,000,000 pounds, of Williamsburg County, for a final
Considerable qualities of copper HcVe\^d"S?,f|thee8tH'e?'
are used in the manufacture of brass R H Footman,
for telephone instruments. 4-lfi-lt. Execi tor.
I The Ideal Home Entertainer, I j
QuI'rZSZift The Edison Phonograph solves
^wtawoill the entertainment problem. This I
cleai rich-toned instrument is a I
{Oj source of entertainment that never 5
is tailing and never-tiring. Class- I
? /V\ ical music or rar-time. sonfrs or I
(&\ v^( JB^SjQ marches minstrels or orchestras. "
()r funny stories, are sure to be
(ToiSSfrh f"'"a.ft appreciated by all who cross
fesj) your threshold.
Without the Phonograph none except trained musicians can hear
the music they like sung or played as they like it. The Phonograph
sings as sweetly and clearly as the cultured 3inger and renders perfectly
the tones of the various instruments of orchestras and bands in all
their delicate harmonies. With the Phonograph you can make up your
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own programmes; you may near wiiai yuu uic.o M un.cn H ^uu picaac. n
It requires no skill. You can master its operation in five minutes. B
Perhaps there is a piece of music that you have heard, the half
learned melody of which haunts you; or may be there is something that
you particularly want to hear. Your Phonograph will give it to you as
it should be sung or played, until you have learned it?if you desire?
and always just as clearly and sweetly as the first time.
The Phonograph is a most unselfish entertainer; it has something
for all, young or old. When the wife is wearied after a day's household
cares and the children tire of play, this charming entertainer will
rest the one and quiet the other. It will make the children and the head
of the house *ant to stay home. It will play for a dance, take you to
the theater, to the Minstrels or a Wagnerian Opera, play rag-timX sing
songs that touch the heart, and play marches that rouse tne sow?aU
this between supper and bed time.
I We Sell Edison Phonographs.
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EVERYTHING KNOWN IN MUSIC.
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