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K1NGSTREE, S. C
C. W. WOLFE.
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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
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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,
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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
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s SUSHI
J Refrigerators, I
? Ice Cream
S Doors and V
2 ario-wer ZEPoti
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Balance of our Stock of F
S TINGS, LACE CURTAINS,
j?j we will close out AT C
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Furniture Business.
2
0 Cotton Plan
Distributors
g ed Barm Im\
0- prices to suit
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J-Complete Stocl
$ CASKETS,
J Will serve yon day or night and f
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Ornish our Handsome New Hearse *2
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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
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