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IP V If- . ' It ' P. ' r\ P - . % i .... ... . * , ? j , iSBld Ibe ^fttnti) fcftrfi). g^j VOL XXI KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 15, 1907. NO. 32 * 1 AMID AS THE THERMOMETI SHOES $$.00 Oxfords for $2.50 while the present stock lasts Ladies'and Children's Canvas and Duck shoes, all sizes at low prices. p IN THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA. IHTEfESTiNG LETTEIFIOIIET. E. E. Elm TEUJRS ABOUT THE REI ODNTAIII REMIT. Montreat, N C, August 6:? Dear Mr Editor: If you will give space in The Record to some notes of my mountain sojourn, I am sure some of your readers will be interested, and it will save me the labor of writing several letters to friends of yours and mine who wish to know something of this resort. Mnntreat?controlled bv the j Mountain Retreat Association? I is situated between two mounlain ranges; with very little val* By space along a small stream, i Bis named Flat Creek, a tribuBry to Swananoa river. Visi- j Brs leave the Southern RailBy at Black Mountain station, Ixteen miles east of Asbeville,! md go north by back from two | |> three miles?tor Montreat is) strung out." Two large hotels j tee each other across the creek j Jhree miles from the station, pn the east of the creek, and to lie rear of the new hotel, is the tabernacle, at present a large fent, with a seating capacity of ibout a thousand. It is lighted Iy electricity. People are comig and going all the. time. I ave met old friends not only *om tbeCarolinas and Virginia, at from Missouri, Kentucky, Jabama and Florida, and there are people here from other States. The statement is made that* Montreat, alone of the mountain resorts, has been over crowded this summer. The present management took hold only two years ago, and have done too much advertising for their capacity of accommodation. Consequently everything is at a high price, and they who cater to the public have a time getting the essentials of good o o house keeping. However the place has great promise. Investors are looking up their lots, and cottages are springing up in the brush: thesound of the saw and hammer are heard on every band, and many people are living in tents in the wild wood. By next summer you may ^ nlanftf nf rAAm WUi^ aau uuu ^iva wj va i and whatever style of accommodation you prefer. There is a religious atmosphere about the place, the Montreat idea being Christian upA lift along with physical recuperation and recreation. The imprimatur of the Presbyterian General Assembly has been placed upon it. Many of our leading men are here, or have been; and there are schools, or courses of lectures on many phases of church work and enterprise, stereoptican views, music, etc., ' SUMJV ER GOES UP OUR PRICES PANTS t If it is a Bargain in pants . you want; we are closing out cL- if nnh<acirH nf * L/Ui tiling jiv/vn <?i uiiiivhiw v> * low prices; also Overalls, Summer Underwear, etc. 'EOPLE'f and the social feature is of the best. People who do not like deep draughts of any of the above can commune with nature from the secure precincts of a first-class civilization. I was not able to attend all the exer cises Sunday, but was at the regular forenoon and afternoon services. Yesterday I "took up with" a family party on the trail to Graybedrd mountain, above Ithe waters of Flat Creek. While we were viewing the vast expanse with Mount Mitchell on the farthest horizon, a party of young people, chaperoned by a L 1 r m | icacuer iiuui uuaimiic, j/as-itu o/erthe very summit on the trail for that distant peak. They that rode, bestrode their sluggish mules like men and went apparently head-foremost down the steep descent into the dense laurel thickets. For hours we kept watch to catch glimpses of the winding siugle-file caravan as it^emerged into open | Notice To : ? t | Shrewd : j Buyers. j | Our buyer has secured? ia lot of clothing by which I will gain your trade and I | | you will save money. ! tThis year's goods andj latest styles, J | Drummers' Sample Suits. \ WORTH $12.00 TO *15.00 J OUR PRICE *9.50. 1 l ODD COATS OF $15.00 [ * AND $18.00 SUITS $5.00 PER COAT. I ODD PANTS $4.00 t ' { AND $5.00 GOODS * $3.00 PER PAIR. J i i km ; I LflULUy I i EMBROIDERIES, ! 1 RIBBONS. j At Reduced Prices. I | IJ.lEron! : The Bargain Specialist, t | Kingstree, i s-c- I lEREi SHIRTS New line of Neglige Shirts just in, latest fashionable patterns, and a Newest Collar fo; Spring *Y?chttea1 select line of is ? tt/Uah. comtori ahia oollar like on NECKWEAR. > HE RCA KINGSTREE, SOI spaces on the distant ridges. The last we saw of the party? which we could discern only be-; cause there was a white mule and one or two white dresses in the party?they were mounting; up the steep ascent of "The Pinnacle of the Blue Ridge'' and were lost to sight in a cloud, j Soon we were enveloped in the j same, and turning from this utmost boundary of the Montreat territory made our way home in | BUGC i AT r 1====== AN LESS H M. F. H hat on hand a Jarge stock and on easy terms, to malt tor CALL AND ! 7-ll-4t | Tobacco =an | Ever] ^ Our store is coir ^ both banks?only a 5 Farmers & Merchant; ^ down same street; and ^ Bank of Lake City. ^ Be sure to come tc ^ after the sale, get | SOMETHIT ^ to drink and take a re; ^ cool place, and you ar< $ U If your eyes are ? Ible, don't tail to see u: with any kind of SPECTA or glasses you may ne that head-ache you an Special agent for spectacles and framei Also have a big fresh lot < INTERNATIONAL Get a package for your h BURDUCO L1V surpasses all other for man. Get a can of GO-FLY to k this hot weather: 25 and 50 NO ONE will ap more than d. B. Di PHYSICIAN AND | III LAKE CI xMAAMMMAAMMAAMMM> ggBAj How Many AS THb TH H Trips to the M Laundry? CUFF S W Corliss- and Collars. We W Coon ..? have a most com- i Collars^ plere line cf the > ootwur otters. famous Corless" Mark tbni and M^TbayaraaM* Coon goods a I ways f bettaraod ban _.. ocfcinalatjte- IN STOCK. \nrii p r 1 1 1 1UU V LJTH CAROLINA. rain and mud. But when I had finished my six mile tramp down and was * comfortably housed, with dry warm clothing, you will not blame me for thinking kindly of the summer-clad girls on the mountain trail destined to camp in the wild wet woods without even the shelter of a teat over their heads. Yours truly, E E Ervik. 5369696969690: alES |! lOST | r> (g w COST | ELLER 8 which he will tell che&p W) t room for fall stock. X SEE THEM -m Gl vvvvyyvyyyywyywwwwx Growers |' d I: rbody |; leniently situated to 3 few yards from the 3: c 5, right across and > ( I we are next door to S t > our store before or ^ T COLD fl< >t. We have a neat, S ( i welcome sure. ^ t iving you any trou- i 1 s. We can nt you S J lCles i; ed. and oerhaos stoo i i i always'having. * ^ [ Hawke's Celebrated > r .'stock food < 1 orse or mule. ^ ER POWDER ^ ' eep the flies off your horse ^ , cent sizes. ^ J predate your trade ^ a iRANT, 1 \ | PHARMACIST. < . TY,S. C. |s *GAIN ERMOflETER GOES UP < CROCERIE S We keep alwavs on hand CHOICE FRESH GROCERIES which we deliver in any part of town. OMPAN^ LAKE CITY'S SPLENDID TOBACCO MARKET. NEARLY A MILLION POUNDS BOUGHT IN LITTLE OYER A MONTHPERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Lake City, August 13:?Miss Allie Hemmingway of Sballotte, N C, is visiting at Mr J M Sturgeon's. A C Hinds, Esq., came up from Kingstree Friday and spent the J - ** J- rtn r?rr?fe?eir?na 1 uay iu business. Messrs S W Gowdy and J C McElveen went down to Sullivan's Island Saturday for some fun and a few needed baths. Mrs L 0 Holloway is back at home from a stay in DurhaSi, N. C. Mrs H Nachman left Friday for New York where she will spend a month. Dr and Mrs H L Baker and children are on Pawiey'8 Island. Mrs L G Atkinson is having a pleasant time with friends in Wadesboro, N C. It is rumored that Judge Green will go to Hendersonville - ? il. j ? rpi, imiCdU UI WilC ' isiauu. iuio may be true, but we don't believe it. The "bear dance" is impossible in the mountains. Mesdames Cantey Mouzon and Emma Fluitt, of Kingstree, and Mattie Littiefield of New York, spent Thursday with Mr and Mrs J M Sturgeon. While here they attended the tobacco sales, which was quite interesting and ;njoyable to these ladies. To Mrs Littiefield the visit was a 'home coming." She is a grandlaughter of the late Aaron F iraham, who owned at least jalf of the land on which this :own is built and for whom it vas first named "Grahams." At :he time of the suit between 2bas. McAlister and Aaron F Jraham in the early seventies, o establish lines, these two nen owned every bit of this and, and their names ought to >e so connected with the town hat they will never perish, dr McAlister's name survives n "McAlister street," but the lame of Graham is attached to lothing. Therefore we suggest ; hat the square upon which will >e the public buildings, offices, 1 ;tc., shall be forever known as 1 'Graham Square." 1 Clerk H 0 Britton and Treas. j r W Cook were here Thursday md had a pleasant day. They ' ittended the tobacco sales and mjoyed it. These sales are mique, exciting and interesting. Co our home people they pre- \ ient no new features because we . < I iave grown so accustomed to :hem and their daily recurrence DRIVE OUR PRICES GO DOWN. ALWAYS FRESH Try Kurnell's Blend Roasted Coffee-five full pounds for a dollar. Butter and* Cheese in cold storage?always fresh. na^mamtmrn (, * I __ that we have almost ceased to notice them, yet they are brimful of life, zest and entertainment, and an hour spent under the sonorous and stentorious 'biddie, biddie, biddie" of the auctioneer and the "come in thar, boys" of the warehouse men, is warranted to drive dull care away and give an added incerest to life. \ -j ' And Lake City is making good. A few weeks ago when our article with reference to the tobacco crop and the expectations of this market appeared some said "eras," while others cried out 4'hot air." The "gas" was the gas of the motor of the century and the hot air was that of the rock drill. We really claimed too little instead of too -> much. Last Thursday there was sold upon the floors of three warehouses eighty, -thousand pounds of tabacco while Friday's handlings went fifty-five thousand more. Some of this brought 40 cents a pound. Saturday nine solid car loads,ninetyeight thousand pounds, went off + * * 1 ll_ - A 1. 1 Dj treigni ana taai too was seat by only two buyers, largely* < The market has been open only a little over a month this season and yet this town has handled very nearLy a million pounds! f. These statements sound big and they are big, but they are real, and the proof is challenged. Some of the "decrepts" of thef \ business are blowing and wtynt-ri ling to keep up their courage . but they may as well knqpkjjjuv.. ^ der now as they will have ti>|a^ ' ?. , W. L. B) | J. \Z, "i Announcement The Cotton Gins at Kingstree are. now being overhauled and will soon be ready to gin all the cotton that can be brought to them from a radius of ten miles. The large Ginnery at the Oil Mill is being remodeled and a house added, and this ginnery will turn out a bale every ten minutes. The down-town Ginnery, which has established a reputation for itself in the past, will turn out a bale every twenty minutes. So no one need have -nip (flip rtf Koino . ill J, 1^?1 ? ? J The Kingstree Cotttoa Market is known to be the best in the country, and the Oil Mill will pay the highest cash price for ~ your seed and give you the best trade on Meal and Hulls. SOUTH ATLANTIC OIL CO. r-25-tf. Bad sick headaches, biliousnsae jr constipation are quickly relieved by DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Small pill, sure pill?prompt and pleasant in action. Sold by W L Wallace, M D. i #