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X ODt CUHIS Fit T90I BUSINESS J f % /~\ I ! .i?gfc-iWw Cmmti) Ikroru.!^"; j VOL XXI KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER 19, 1907. *NO. 37 : J ^ nnr I uffanutiUNEWs. I \ TIE COTTON VARKET?WHOLESALE fifiOCERT COIPAW 0R6ANIZ- I El?OT8ERIEWS. Lake City, September 17:? | E L HiTsch, Esq., was up from Kingstree two or three days last week on business. Cotton is coming in at a lively rate and the market is rapid-1 ly talcing on an air of hustle. Mr W E Hanna, the official ' weigher, has mastered the details of his office and is handling the big "bun dies of the snow of Dixie with despatch and satisfaction to both seller and buyer. I The corps of buyers, which r$p- 1 ^ resents every important market of the country and which is larger than ever before, is made up oi earnest ana eager men wau rare making Lake City hold her place as one of the largest and . most important cotton markets x in the entire country. A wholesale grocery company is being organized here. Very nearly all of the capital stock, which is away up in the thousands pf dollars, was taken in a few hours. Application for a : charter under the name of "Pi- j oneer Grocery Company," has! been made and the organization; will be perfected and the company open up for business as j soon as the legal formalities can 1 be complied with. Among the stockholders are some of the leading capitalists and business men of the country. The business will be a wholesale grocery j in the strict and exact sense of the word wholesale. School will open, we understand, on the 30th instant. The new school house will be only partly complete by that time, but exercises will be carried on in the old building and such: parts of the new as can be used.; The entire building will be com- j pi eted by the last of October. Mr J M Truluck, Lake City's 1 popular and enterprising young live-stock dealer, has gone West to buy a car-load of horses and | mules. W. L. B. SUIERS DEPOT ROBBED. 8 Stover Rifled of Tickets, Etc., HHHf Tbie! Got No Money. ^H^KaTters ? Depot, September j EjflKS:?The depot at this place was 1 broken open last night and the |B agent's clothing, a number of i railroad tickets, a graphophone, j four razors and the cash drawer. B (which contained all the articles; H except the clothing,) were stolen I f There was no money in the cash I full line ?f Jjijj thing always fl| hand. ijj|j = H epic's lercantile Company. drawer, which was discovered this morning several hundred yards down the railroad P track, where the thief had thrown it away. r Entrance to the building was : made from the waiting room by j? breaking through the screen and j ^ bursting open the little wooden j" shutter totke window. I y A lecture at the town hall was ! I concluded at 10:30 o'clock, at (Jj which time the burglary had 1 not been committed; therefore \ it must have been done later ia 1 the nigkt, probably after mid- v night. v ^ ' A nice line of wagons?one t and t wo horse just ready to banl ( thirteen cents cotton at?F C ( Thomas', Kingstree, SC. | j \ 1 f i i '! I t if Iremoval if I NOTICE |i: i . j Ij : j! I On or about September 3 ^ ' 5 J 1st I will move into a; \$ store on Academy street H near the postoftlce, where ; i ti will carry a full com-t 3 plete line of everything t i I usually found in a first-1 3 | class store. i i V \ ji I 5 : i * A : i Ion : The Bargain Specialist, j j x Kingstree, j j I 5. C. | J SjJ* V ' ?" "<> vM KingQwilit VyV-j for their unif< &&& |ra v|vX- ities. They 'vX'v for each pair i tj&g& llv to the same hi ;.vXv leaving the fa ::'M in-" They ? :-;.v-: first put on '.v&amBBBBi&M ine *-ins vuushoe for you. This seasoz ?| & pleasing in them befor Spring si For Sale and Guaranteed APPLE'S MERCANTILE ( Try a caddy ox too.icc j ai 22c ?r pound, at Farmers' Supply 1 c, C JCSCSSSCSSSCSNi BUGGil \ Brand New i Up-to-date t ? a .c r-_ . p jusi rrom rat D i ? ?L K ONE CAR LOAD H; i ONE CAR LOAD COL A 1 ?E?T ON Th* F C&sh or approved Pa p< I M. F. H R KING5TRE ^VVrtWV ?rVrtWVWtV*VYfi Tobacco 1 .== =an | Every i Our store is conv i ( bo4fo banks?only a : Farmers & Merchants dotfn same street; and ': Bank of Lake City. <: Be sure to come to j after the sale, ?et SOMETHIM Ito drizik and take a res cool piace, and you are li JUU1 C \ C3 dl C ?1 ble, -don't fail to see us with anv kind of SPECTA or glasses you may nee that head-ache you are Special agent for 1 spectacles and frames, Also have a big fresh lot oJ INTERNATIONAL Get a package for your ho BURDUCO LIVI surpasses all other for man. Get a can of GO-FLY to ke this hot weather: 23 and 30 c NO ONE willapi more than v d. B. Du PHYSICIAN AND LAKE CI1 i AMAAAWMAAMMMAAMM \ - i duality i vformen&Lj fjWl I a y shoes are famous ;\v/! |j >rm wearing qual- ;?V never disappoint, I'.V.; s made to conform . gh standard before * ?; p ctory. You can al- '.y:s Ihera. King Qualaire no "breaking it your feet when :Mv; and retain their ;>Xy! : indefinitely. Try Cvlv lity shoe. It is the IvIvS l's patterns are ?!? every respect. See ~y.v: e purcn?u>iiig /via )^v ;v:/V.v.v.;vyV ::.;.v.y,.VANw__ jOMPANY^^J Just rv? 1. c?r of, Town 'aik fl ?i \ h: P tr ^ie^s' Supply o's. EES | B story 8 kCKNfiY BUGGIES. if .U.HBIA BUGGIES. EMARKET ; S ELLER / E, S. C. jf /vwuvvyvvwvvyvvvyvvvy/ Growers | d I body f reniently situated to*! 5 few yards from the ^ , right across and ^ we are next door to ? our store before or (g cold | t. We have a neat, 5 welcome sure. ving you any trou- ^ . We can fit you ^ cles 1 d, and perhaps stop always having. 5 fdawke's Celebrated ^ STOCK FOOD < rs? or mule. 5 BR POWDER 5 fp the flies off your horse ^ ent sizes. ^ >reciate your trade ^ rant. i PHARMACIST, ^ rr,s, c, | kkkikikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk * -rv-ry*rr^rrr^-Trv^-Yy^nrrrr>^ | laving purchased befo dvance in prices we < V a position to give y argains in anything OUR LINE. POINTER: BRAND HATS\ Peertw in Quality Mi Rrft NEGRO KILLED BY ACCIDENT. * Deplorable Traoedy a! Lake City' Satirday flight. On Saturday night, September 14, at Lake City, Mr Sigmon L Courtney shot a negro, Frank Melvin, inflicting a fatal wound. The shooting was entirely accidental and in an ante-mortem statement the negro completely exonerated Mr Courtney. Vbile the facts we have been able to gather are meager, the following seem to be about the circumstances leading up to the unfortunate affair: Frank went into the store of Messrs S LCourtney & Co about 10 o'clock and while there asked | Mr S L Courtney to let him look at the pistol of Mr H N Courtney, which was lying on a shelf. Mr Courtney took the pistol up and permitted Frank, who admired the brilliant metal, to look at it. Mr Courtney and Melvin were in the best, of humor, and joking and jollying each other, they walked to the side door, Frank preced ing and going out in the dark. Mr Courtney stopped in the door with one foot on the sill and the .other on the top step, and holdI inir the screen door with his right hand, while the left hand, j - in which was the pistSl, rested ; against the door facing. The ;; pistol was a Smith & Wesson ; hajamerless revolver of 38 cali; bre. Suddenly Frank, like a ; child scaring his playmate, ; | jumped towards Mr Courtney ;i with his hands in front of him, [and cried "boo!" Startled, Mr i Courtney jumped backward and , came near falling to the floor. Just as he jumped the pistol went off.. Several white men I t) H and negroes were in the! store at the time and all agree' that there was no malice or ill-1 feeling between the two men. } In fact, neither Mr Courtney nor the negro knew that the latter had been wounded for some moments after the pistol fired. After being shot Frank walk- ( ed around to the front door f and entered the store, where he went on laughing- and talking t until suddenly he placed his \ hand on his stomach and said, t 4T'm shot!" Mr Courtney told ! f him he was mistaken and then 11 the negro showed where the i c blood was oozing out through s his shirt. Mr Courtney was ? horrified at the accident and summoned several doctors, but c they could do nothing, as the f ball had penetrated the abdo- q men at close range. ^ P The negro lingered until 9:15 t Sunday morning when he pass- p ed away. t When told that be would die n the negro said that he knew it was an accident and begged that Mr Courtney be put to na trouble about it. . " \ Frank was well known about ...d town and was well liked by ev ery one. The inquest was held Sunday and a verdict of accidental honyicide rendered. k File Qpeftiift* The Kingstree Graded Schoor opened here Monday under most favorable auspices. Since the N -ij closing of the school in May . ' last the building has been en- ' '-J larged to meet the growing r needs of the school by putting the auditorium into two class rooms. An annex will be built at once, which will contain, on the ground floor, the auditorium, and on the second floor the space will be divided into* offices, a library and an additional class 100m. An addition al teacher has also been elected^ the faculty being- now composed* of eight teachers, as follows;: P P Bethea, superintendent; Mr Hailman, principal; and Misses . < > Ross,Stoll, Beckham, Onslaw, . Erckmann, and Miss Campbell, teacher ot music. The teachers are all present and when the bell rang Monday morning at least 200 pupils answered the roll call. Kingstree has an educational institution second to no town in the State of its size and, population. The best is always cheapestuse Town Talk flour and be con--vinced. SoM by The Farmers' * Supply Co. Buy Town Talk and get the best flour to be had. A.t Farmers Supply Co's. Free hitching lot and stallsrear of Farmers'Supply Co's.J f The Building Goes On. Still the building boom goes )n. around nas been broken . ror a big" machinery plant to be irected in North Kingstree, just )eyond the oil mill. This plant vill be utilized at first for a coton ginnery, which is but the irst of a number of enterprises o be operated by thesame mahinery. The plant will repreent an investment of about 110,000, when completed. As the organization of the ompany has not yet been perected the promoters are not [uite ready to disclose all their dans, but we are in a position o know that the several enter>rises projected will mean much oward the growth and development of Kingstree.