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/ j ( file Countn JJerori *0 K1NGSTREE, S. C C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS RAT?>: One copy, one year, ? ? ? $1.00 One copy, fix month*. ? ? - .51 One copy, tli ee months. ? ? .25 Subscription payable ii vivance. ADVERTISING RATES: One inch, first insertion. $1.00: each ubseq 'ent insertion. 50 cents. Obituaries and Tribute^ of Respect over 1< 0 words charged for a* regular advertisments. Liberal reduction on advertising made for three, six and twelve months contracts. Communications must be accompanied by the reai name and address of writer" in order to receive attention. So communication of a personal oature will be published except as an advertisement. Address all letters and make all drafts pavableto C. W. Woi.fe, Kingstree. S. C. THURSDAY. AUG. 1, 1907. Greelyville's Enterprise. The enterprise of Greelyville, just thirteen miles south-west of Kingstree?a town that the census of - ~ ~ ~ ? o/\/\ lyvu gives OW pvpuiawvu?iu organizing a cotton mill /-with a capital stock of $200,000 is certainly deserving of admiration and we sincerely hope that the stock will all be taken and that this, the first really large manufacturing enterprise in Williamsburg county, will prove so success ful as to pave the way to other mills all over the county. As a stimulant for "dead towus" experience has demonstrated the fact that nothing is so potent as manufacturing industries that employ large numbers of wageearners, and should the mouey thus invested fail to pay a single dividend, in indirect benefit the investment is a handsomely paying one. A $200,000 cottou mill at Greelyville would mean a transformation not only of the town proper, but also of the whole contiguous territory. Real estate Irl Wnmfl enhanced hv leans -J ?J ;-and bounds and in a short while ?the population of the town would be increased several hundred per ?cent. > It has been stated that a cotton mill without water power is predestined to failure, but the men best posted on the subject ridicule that idea. Some of the beat paying mills in South Carolina today are remote frem water power And even have to pump water a mile or two to fill their boilers. We take off our hat to Greelyville, our pioneer cotton mill town, and wish them the success that is richly merited by their pluck and enterprise. At Hot Springs, N. C., last Saturday Senator E. W. Pettus -of Alabama passed away in the eighty-seventh year of his age. Within the pa3t two months Alabama Vioo Inst- hntVi nf her natri-1 vauitt UUQ 4WWV VV?? V. ? P-? archal senators, and strange to say, both of them lived in the same town, Selma. Senator Pettus will be succeeded by Former Governor Joseph F. Johnson. As the result of a cigarette Li i-- _ ?4.? tump cnrowu lOlU a waste uasacb Coney Island was devastated by fire last week, the loss amounting to one and a half million dollars. Two people were mortally hurt and two thousaud are homeless. And all on account of a smouldering stub of "ye fiendish cigarette." Bad sick headaches, biliousnssej or constipation are quickly relieved ! by De Witt's Little Early Risers.! Small pill, sure pill?prompt and pleasant in action. Sold by W L Wallace, M D. OUR LAKE CITY SCRIBE'S FACTS AND FANCIES. A PAEAN OF PRAISE T0 OUR FAVORED COUNTY-NEWS NOTES OF LOCAL INTEREST. Lake City, July 30:?It is with real delight that we notice that the editor of The Record is forgetting the whims of a gas engine and is rapidly growing gay and festive. The good things with which his myriad friends and admirers are blessys > ^ no waiii/t Anan 1 11 ^ 1J 1111 CllC SUVU CIO %? UU1U the hardest hearts of the Stoics and make of the repulsive visage of a Caliban the face of a laughing girl. And he does well to let it be kriown what good things are here and what future these good things foretell. We of Williamsburg have been content to be regarded as having one of the poorest counties in the State and being so regarded we lived up to our reputation. But a change has taken place. Seven years ago when this correspondent in the best weekly newspaper in the State (which of course was The Record) made the assertion that we had the best county and the best people in South Carolina, we were laughed at in certain quarters and even our own people denominated our language as ''gas." Sooner than even the writer expected he has been vindicated and his "gas" become a solid foundation upon which we are rapidly building a magnificent prosperity. No county in the State can show such increase in wealth and freedom from debt as can ours, and old Williamsburg is coming to be recognized as one of the best sections of the entire country. And what has caused this transformation? Largely the realization of our own possibilities. This is the secret in a nutshell. And what brought about this realization? First and foremost, ^ ^ ? * 1he uouxty kecokd. ai11i1k. deeply and candidly and you will not dispute the assertion. This is not written to "boost" The Record,but simply to state a fact. Mr R P Hinnant came up from Suttons Monday morning and spent two days in town, returning Tuesday with two of his daughters who had been visiting relatives here. Mr M E King and Miss Louise Stuckey, daughter of Mr J L Stuckey, rode over to Scranton Sunday afternoon and were married, Rev J W Truluck per- j forming the ceremony. The affair had been kept very quiet | and nobody knew what was going to "happen" until it "happened." Mr H T Young ot Florence passed through town Friday on his way to Mr S Poston's at HalfMoon. Rev A W Jackson preached at the Methodist church Sunday morning, filling the appointment of the pastor,who is away. Mrs W B Baker and daughter, Miss Carrie, have been spending some time with relatives in town. They expect to visit Rome and Lambert before returning to their Marlboro home. Mr and Mrs G L Sauls are at home from Jamestown and the North. They report a very pleasant trip notwithstanding the heat,which was, if anything, worse in those higher latitudes than here. L J Parker, a white man who had been running a kind of restaurant and fish market in IU w 11, was aucaicu awui a week ago for selling whiskey illegally and put under bond to appear on call of theintendant. Friday he was notified to appear Monday for trial. It seems that he at once went to work arranging to disappear instead of appear. When called Mon day the return was -non est inventus; in swamp, up stump:bus." W L Bass, Esq., went to Charlotte, N G, Tuesday on legal business and will be away two or three days. Hon. S W G Shipp came down from Fior^fcce Thursday night of last wedn and whiled awav the rest of the week transferring bream and llyers from their damp beds into the glad free air of heaven. While the performance was going on this writer was in the vicinity. Bright and early Monday morning Intendant Blackwell passed 'round the hat and took in eighty-five dollars contributed by three Sunday gamblers and liquor dealers. Right good for a week's strfrt. The one "tapped" heaviest was Peter Martin, who a tew months ago, while at the same thing, gambling, received a bullet, which came very near ending bis life and from which he has not yet recovered. Up North the excessive heat produces prostrations; in this corner of tne Union it seems to cause a breaking out of pure "cussedness." The fifteen days last passed have witnessed a perfect epidemic of fighting, cutting, rowing, cursing, eic, etc, among whites as well as blacks?in fact, the former lead. The magistrate and his constable are kept working like beavers in their efforts to stem the tide. "Were the "lower sessions" to sit without adjournment, it would require something like a month to clear the docket as it stands to-day. And yet some people say these officers are getting "fat" on high salaries, and that children should not be punished for disobedience and disregard of restraint. Oh, common sense, bast thou fled to realms beyond the ken of man and left our land to the idiotic babblings of nincompoops? Mr Solomon Floyd, whose death was chronicled two weeks ago; was fifty-one years of age. He left, of his immediate family, his widow, Mrs Cutuorah Floyd, and nine children, only two of -* ro iViAra tha aora nf n uuui ai^ ai/vi v. wttv w^v w* twenty-one years. His life was a busy one, and although it came to a close at an age usually reckoned as only middle age, yet he lived more and accomplished more in that time than most men achieve in years three score and ten. From a humble beginning he rose, by sheer energy, industry, honesty and ceaseless perseverance to an eminence which not only deserves but demands the respect of all, and the emulation of the rising generation. The history of a nation is told in the biographies of its leading citizens; the history of a community in the lives of its foremost men. When you tell of "Sol" Floyd, the life he lived and the death I he died, you narrate the career of a local hero and a builder of [that neighborhood citizenship which goes to make up the history of au advancing civilization, and a world power among the nations of earth. Indeed was he a "Woodman of the World." His axe strokes never ceased save when he drove the keen blade into the stump of the tree last felled, where it rested a moment while he wiped the sweat from his brow and moistened his palms for a tresh onslaught upon the wilderness that must give way before the march of civilization. A pioneer and a path-finder, Hebron camp misses him from around her fires: by his home hearth there is a chair that will remain vacant ever more. Sol Floyd has pitched his tent in the green meadows by the clear running waters and watches at the door for those who will join him on the to-morrow. Why wear a " back number," & slouchy suit when for practically the same price you can get' one of the latest style by attend-( ing Scliloss Bros. Tailoring j Opening Sale at J L C Moore's., ! Lake City, on August 9 10 I)r and Mrs H L Baker and children. Willie and Waiter, and j Mrs Orilla Hemingway left Tuesday to spend some time at Paw[ ley's Island. An expert cutter and fitter, Mr H Sonneman, representing the well known firm of Schloss Bros., Baltimore, will be at J L C Moore's, August 9-10, to take your measure for that fall and winter suit. Don't forget to re member the date. It's a pity, but we can't help it, Those watermelons were enough to even dispel the gloom of a man who pins his faith to a gasoline engine, to say nothing of a negro and a gray mule; that nineteen inches tomato) would secure the pardon of a Harry Thaw; and we do not blame our leader for anything he said in connection therewith, but join him heartily in every encomium; but we cannot? just can-not?retrain from saying: "there are other pebbles on the beach." For instance, could some of those benighted beaneaters who gather around Faneuil Hall stick their teeth into such a melon as Mr Lide Carter, the best boy farmer in the country, blessed us with, there would be an increase in the population of the 4<looney house;" were Henry Watterson to get a glimpse of the forty pound "mountain sweet" our colored friend?and we say "friend" advi6edljT--Stepny GraI ham, rolled on us, Bfyan, Par ker and all the rest might go to the "bow-wows;" nineteen inches is great, although it applied to one only, but no one should be called happy who failed to see the "beauties" that grew in Mr L G Atkinson's garden, | where baskets, nay even bushels, were gathered that uniformed some ten inches as to size and unlimited as to perfection and deliciousness that never comes to only the thrice happy few of the enchanted circle. Then there was Mr R F Rodgers with his liquid sunshine confined under a green rind; Mr R B Cannon with the dews of heaven caught in a chalice of ecstatic Rocky ford netting and mottled green and white which held sweetnesses that melted like kisses upon the lips of seventeen. But we must stop, else we shall be charged with, tripping up Ganymede to make him spill the nectar of the gods who dwell, on Olympos' top. WLB Schloss Bros., the great Chiratrn tailoring house, will have an expert cutter and fitter at J L C Moore's Lake City, August 9-10. If you want to be up-to the minute in fit, fashion and fabric go to Schloss Bros' Tailoring Opening Sale at J L 0 Moore's, Lake City, August 9-10. Remember the date. John Biha, a prominent dealer of Vining, la., says: "I have been selling DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills for about a year and they givt better satisfaction than any pill I ever sold. There are a dozeu people here who hare used them and they give perfect satisfaction in every case. I have used them myself with fine results. Sold by Dr. W. L. Wallace. WHENEVER You Have Any KIND OF BUSINESS In Real Estate See STOLL BROTHERS, , Kingstree, - - S. C. Notice. During my absence for a few weeks, Drs. Wallace and Keliev will attend to my practice. Dr. T. ? Kelley will be found at my drug store during the I day. W. ?. Bkockington, M. D. jCaJc9 C. CAPITAL STOCK $20,(X OFFICERS?A. H. Williams Vice-Pres.; E. W. Yates, Ca Cashier; W. L. Rass, Attorne DIRECTORS-A. E. William Green, W. T. Askins, J. B. Di P. Williams. The Bank of Lake City 1 years and has earned 64 per since its organization, a divi been-paid each year. Your accounts are solicitec absolute protection guarante TO O Fits ao We have just closed our third ye 8ortunity to thank our triends 1 ur stock is larger and more vari save you money. Don't forgot i reliable "FAVORITE" Ranges ai tin : ?3 do ok IWrc 1 n lieu xii nccu ui uasu, ^uuio, < would appreciate the privilege of creased sales of this material ou ber where you buy "Anchor" Lin paint you want, buy "Benj. Moo Yours for L,a.ke City H LAKE CI :?:@?:@:@:@:?:@:@:?*s rim i s SUSHI J Refrigerators, I ? Ice Cream S Doors and V 2 ario-wer ZEPoti 9 _______ Balance of our Stock of F S TINGS, LACE CURTAINS, j?j we will close out AT C V Furniture Business. 2 0 Cotton Plan Distributors g ed Barm Im\ 0- prices to suit ? = J-Complete Stocl $ CASKETS, J Will serve yon day or night and f 1 TUSH S>:?:?:?:?:?:@:@:@:@ :<s Rates to James The following" rates to the Jam next Friday, April 26, have been Season Ticket 60 Scranton $15 85 $1< Lake City 16 00 1\ Cades 16 35 1; Kingstree 16 75 1 Salters 16 95 t Lanes 17 20 1 Gourdins 17 35 1 Coach excursion tickets will b< opening- of the exposition and wi week thereat ter. They are lin tickets will be sold on the day p sition and will be on sale daily d tion. * > : Trespass NoticeAil persons are warned against trespassing or allowing stock to rua at large on my place known as the Isaac Sauls' place, in Ridge township. The law will be enforced. M D Nesmith j Lake City, S C. 7-1 l-3t % 1 Cake City> * ity, S.C. >0. SURPLUS &5.000 Pres.; W.? J. Singletary, shier; D. E. Motley, Asst. A s, W. J. Siugletary, J. A. iRant, J. C. Lynch, Henry ^ has been in existence four '"'^8 ceni. ior ine siucitxiuiucra dend of 8 per cent, having I. Promptness, courtesy and ed. 7-25 tf ?6SS9S9696S69 tjib ~m 1 Cistira. i ar's business, and take this op* 3 for their generous patronage. r ied, and we teel sure we can sve have a nice assortment oj id "0 K" stoves. 31inds, Turned Work, etc., jB giving you prices; from our fB ? Unef ka Pirrhf -J? ie you get the best. If it is go? re & Co. 's"? pure house colors: ?y Business, ^ -J9 lard.wa.re Co., '|j TY. 8. C- M stock If ie Enmis.il Water Coolers, ? | lezers, Screen- J Vlndows. jJ^J VRNITURE, RUGS, HAT- j* I and WINDOW SHADES, f' OST, as we discontinue*^ ters, Guan5T| and improv-10 1 elements at# I the times, j 1 ? COFFINS &|1 II Ornish our Handsome New Hearse *2 WARE COMPANY, 11 j>:?:?:@:?:@:?-@? :?:f 5 town Exposition, J lestown exposition, which ope^^^H furnished us by the agent h^BHH Days 10 Days Coacb ExcijB^Ufl ) 25 $12 00 $7 50 3 40 12 10 7 70 H 3 65 12 30 8 10 ^Bfl 4 00 12 55 8 55 4 15 12 70 $ 80 Hfl 4 40 12 85 8 90 MBM 4 50 12 95 8 95 SB i sold on the day prior to thBH 11 be on sale Tuesdays of eacHH aited to seven days. The othBRI rior to the opening of the ezj^HD uring the period of the expoBBH n 4flfl