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r j. . ? :: \ / A BUSY WEEK IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROHIBITION BILL KILLED-NEW SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT FOR WIL- j LIAMSBURG COUNTY, ETC. (Keeeived too lato forla-t wcckt.) Thk Capitol,February 10,1908 Though only two weeks of the session remains very few bills have pass ,eiU^n~ ,n hous- { es and only about ten have been ratj|[edt noue of which are of interest. The bill to repeal the lien law has J passed the House but no vote has J beeu taken upon it in the Senate, though it has received some attention in that body. It is impossible tp-say what will be the final outcome, Both sides are strong and appear about evenly matched and are contesting every step .with the same grim determination that - is exhibited in the contest upon the railroad rate bill. This latter measure has been the subjet to receive the most lengthy, energetic and intelligent discussion heard npon the floor af the Senate this session. What will be the final fate of ibis measure is entirely theoretical too. Will r.wrtni/1 tiA fkttf af AAfi liVC UIII iUUU ti.?> UVA V general election it be submitted to the voters wither or not the ^tafce prohibition act sboold go into effect on January 1, 1909, was killed in the ben ate by a vote of 13 to 24, Williamsburg's Senator being one of the 13. ? The joint resolution calling upon the Democratic State Convention to aubmit the question of State prohibition to the voters in the next primary passed the Senate Friday afternoon by one rote. The yofce stood 17 to 17 aod Lieutenant-GovMcLeod cast the deciding vote. The Honse will, in all probability, pass this resolution as that branch has already put itself on record as being vcy largely m favor of prohibition. And it is the general opinion all over ibe State, so far as this correspondent (has heard (and, he thinks be has beard from about ^*11 seotione) seems to be that, if the people are permitted to vote on this question, liquor will eertaiulv go out of South Carolina? that is, the sale by law will go. On all sides yon hear this prediction: "Within another twelve months this State: will be dry." The contract labor bill prepared by the judiciary of the Senate and which has passed that body seems to be the proposition on this very live subject which is most likely to become law. On this line were a score or more bilh, but most of V them have been brushed aside, some because impracticable, some because Hfibcnstitutional. The one mention* ed after careful study and debate appears to be practicable and a? efficient as it it possible to make the measure without violating the constitution. However, whatever bill on this snbject passes wili tbe given in detail in a future letter. Efforts are being made to create two more judicial circuits, making twelve in all. It has been only two ?" m?\aa ? U A t\<? mkoi> man raion/) yms WUViC iut tiaiuuci nw iiugvu from eight to ten. Where will this stop? Two very important measures upon the subject of insurance seem likely to become enacted. One, which relates solely to domestic companies, has for its object the same controland publicity and security as are required of foreign companies: the other, which cannot be recited in a letter, will?in a word?prevent companies from avoiding settlement on technical grounds in the absence of fraud or increase in the hazard. \I- n;#?/\n'c Kill 1a nromif (ho iUX Viui^/U O Vi?4 rv wmv taking of judgment at Chambers in cases of defanlt, will facilitate very " jaL^h the collection of certain debts a^jffonld be placed upon the statute book. Senator Bass has getton through the body of which he is a member a bill to continue the reindexing of the records of the clerk's office and to reindex the records of the probate judge's office. The delegation has a bill providf ing for an entirely new system of government for Williamsburg counk r ty. The measure is the joint work of the senator and the representatives who got together and advanced ideas and discussed the situation until they believe they have reached conclusions that will work for the good of the entire county. The bill ( is a very lengthy one, but it it pass- i es its substance at least will be pub-; t lished, as it is a subject of vast importance to our county. I Messrs Kellalmn and Gause, being j the young and active members of the, delegation, went on the trip to Charleston Saturday, while Messrs! Bryan and Bass spent the little vacation at their respective homes. | Mr Major, one of the representa-j ivts, died Thursday last. Only a mouth or two ago he was elected to succeed Mr Epting who died in the fall. Mr Major died of pnuetnonia. This makes the fourth death in the . Assembly in a year. Unless the j time of meeting be changed, the \ State will lose the service of several j good men. The sacrifice is too j great to ask. He who accepts el ection to the Assembly uot only injures his business, if h# has any, but works for nothing aud takes his life in his own hands in spending six weeks in Jauuary aud February in the State Capitol. Even patriotism has its limits. W. L. B. IjfBCMaL Married?at the residence of ^ the bride's father, Mr W J Thomas, ( near Gonrdins, on Jan Gary 15,1908, { by J C Graham, notary public, Mr Dani-I Av*uta?*l Miae Jessie Thorn- , i I as. G?-orgetown papers please copy. [The following announcement was j received soiwe weeks since but wasi. mislaid and we found it ouly a few;? days ??<">. We regret the delay mod apologize to our correspondent?Bi. T*i: IJEOOKD.] For Sai.e?Right to ten thousand post cards at 10c a dozen. 2^ it PS COURTNEYUse-De Witt's (Little Early Risers. vt1i.uvu.nr littU uille Thvw urf -?^isv to take. Sold by W L Wallace il O. farmers' .Union Meeting. Editor County KecouD:?Please announce as news that there will be a public uneetiug held at the court house in Kingstree at 11 o'clock, p. on Mouday, March 2, in the interest of the Farmers' Union. Farmers and all others who are in teres ted, including capitalists, are cordiallyiovited to attend. Hon. B Harris, President of S C Farmers' Union, will be one of the speakers. T 0 wllloughby, Member of Executive committee, Florenoe, SC, February 18,1908. Grippe ie sweeping the country. Stop it with preventics, before it gets deeply seated. To check early , colds with these little Caady Cold Cure Tablets is surely sensible and safe. Preventics contain no Quinine, no laxative, nothing harsh or , sickening. Pneumonia would newer appear if early oolds were promptly broken. Also good for feverish -LIU T - JO ukl.t. Alt uuuureu. l^trgc wua, to uiuicia, cents. Vest pocket boxes 5 eeais. Sold by DC Scott* Dets Iroa Cades. (Received too late for last week.) ! < Cades, February 12:?Mr , Clarke, father of Mr L D Clarke, died at his home near here Tuesday with pneumonia. ' i Dr W J flaseldon went over to < Lake City Tuesday night on busi- j noes. Farmers are moving loads and 1 loads of fertilizers from onr town. Mr E HCarsten is now on Main 1 6treet. His store adds much to the appearance of that part of town. j Mr W I Hodges is very sick with i grip at his home on Main street His friends wish him a speedy re- \ covery. Mr J N Sauls and family have moved to Georgetown, where, we uuderstand, he will engage in the hotel business. e Mr E S Sauls left here Monday j night to visit parents at Georgetown. < B. W. M. ' '>$wiJ*5i SOME GOOD ADVICE "" | fo Those Who Want to Get Into a New County. Our friends who have in charge f lie interests of the new county of J ?utledgeverv naively tell us that)] hey ne d a little more territory and J i hat they will h:- - We a piece} 1 ITT ? >f Florence v-niuiy. we no vish in any way to interfere with!) liier excellent and well laid plans, j jut do hate to see Florence county, J vhicii is getting on so well, dtsnenibered at all. It would be a < (teat pity. While we recognize i lie disadvantages that cause dissatisfaction in certain parts of the :ounty we waut to cull the attention < )f our friends to the fact that it is nighty easy to jump from the fry- < ng pan into It bus been | lone iu sew r" ?le hoped . ^*0. a < nle we th'nb that our friends will iud that n< v counties do not fulfill :he promis of their promoters. IVe all rei mber that for years Florence county, the infant, struggled against an adverse fate, county claims were discounted and taxes high and little accomplished by the government of the county and that i has been the experience of most, if aot all, of the new counties. Peo. pie mast remember that they stand ?ven leas chance of getting what they want wheu they go into a new coukity than if they stayed in an otd ane. The new coanty never can do ill that is expected of it. Florence is the most prosperous connty in the State now, but it became so by hard work and excellent management of rare oflScia)s,sach as, Messrs McTag * "* t* - ?f-n .'j. | garc, inirwee, >tconuti sou uwucro as supervisors with close figurers like Mr Trailer and others on the board, the like of wbow canr.ot be found always in any conuty management We have been fortunate. There are many things to think?j>? before oee makes a move like this, leaving a county eo well fixed and shouldering a debt for improvements that do not concern them,as is generally done,? FlortHcf Times. A new county would be a mighty good thing if there were not so many neonle in each one wanting the-same I I w thing. It Keeps-each man from getting what he felt himself entitled to when he took >up the fight? flortnce time*. ^ lake W Locals. (Received too late for last week's issue) P Lake City, February 12:?L W Gilland, Esq, came up from Kingstree one day last week aiid spent the day in town. Mr iE A Oliver returned te Marion Saturday night. In this correspondent's items last j week the printer changed the spejling of Mr Haselton's name to Hatelden. His -correct name is G C Haseltan. Philip Stoll, Esq, was noted in town from Kii^tree one day last week. Saturday afterncon the small bouse of Mr C M Kelley, on the western outskirts of town, occupied by Margaret Ann Miles, was totally destroyed by fire with its contents . Mr Arthur L Jones, who has been ' quite ill in Asheville, N C, is now much improved, we are glad to say. Mr J M Truluck has returned from a business trip to Atlanta. He ?ys those Atlaata fellows are sure 'scared"of violating the Georgia prohibition law. Going to the chain gang is quite a different proposition from paying out a few dollars. Mr W B McCants of Rosemary was in town Monday. Col. J P Epps braved the elements Monday and came to town on busi aess. Miss Bessie Harvin of Manning s visiting at Rev T J Rooke's. WLB. Final Discharge. ' Notice is hereby given that the unlersigned, B P Fulton, executor of the tstate of R W Fulton, deceased, will ipply to P M Brockinton, Probate I udge for Williamsburg county, at 12 i ('clock Saturday, March 14th 1908, for | inal discharge as such executor. 2-20-41 B P Fulton. 1 * ESAU BOCK A IAD THE BUCKSAW. Tragic Tale of Esau's Fall Told by Die I Who Knows. i An old farmer of Arkansas whose j ;ons had grown up and left him, ( aired a young man by the name of,( Esau Buck to help him on his farm. I( Du the evening of the first dav they hauled up asm ill load of poles for , | - ?uvu iiuu uu ionv.i? u ''iciii. The | next morning the oid man said to j ^ the hired man: ' Esau,Tarn going to town today |( iiid while I am gone you ivood and keep the old II tlie garden. When the old man -suu j went out to saw no he jaw the saw-he wr hen nmilfln't CiSUU SfV - v saw v . saw. Esau looked ai" jur another saw, but that saw ,as the only saw that he saw, so Esau ilidn't saw. When the old man came home lie said to Esau. "Esau, did jou saw the wood?" Esau said: "I saw the wood, but I saw the saw and saw I couldn't saw it with that saw aud I didn't saw it.'' The old man went out to see the Baw, and when he saw the saw be saw that Esau couldn't saw with that saw. When Esau saw that the old man saw that he couldr't saw with the saw Esau picked up the axe an d chopped up the wood and made a see-saw. The next day the old man went to town and bought a hew buck saw for Esao Buck, aud when he came borne he hang the buck-saw for Esau Buck on trie saw-buck by the see-saw. Jnst at that time Esau Buck saw the old bock in the garden eating eabbage, and when Esau Bock was driving the old buck from the gardon to the barnyard, Esau Bnck saw the buck-saw on the saw-buck by the see-saw.. When the old buck saw Esau Buck looking at the new buck-saw on the saw-buck by the see-saw. he made a dive for Esau- hit the see-saw, knopked the see-saw against Esau Buck, who fell on the buck-saw by the see-saw. When the old man saw the old buck dive for Esau Buck,! and miss Esau and hit the see-saw j aud knocked the see-saw against j E?au. and Esan fall on the bncks.tw, on tile saw hack he the >? ??iw, he pickeil up an a\'e ti fill t?i > ! I bix'K, But ihe Lou1* &r?v iiim tannin^ mid doCeed the blow ami c mi.itere-1 mi ihe old man's eomacb, knocking the oid mm ??ver the seesaw on to Ksau Back, * ii? ?:e getting the see siiw, crippled Esau Back, broke bucksaw and the snw-buck and the ref--* w. Hot Springs, Art., is no competition against Lippman's Great Remedy tor cure of Rheumatism. James Newton, Aberdeeu, Ohio, says P P P did him more good than three months treatment at Hot Springs, Ark. W T Timmoos of Waxabatchie, Tex.) says bis rheumatism was so bad that he was confined to his bed for months. Physicians advised Hot Springs, Ark., and Mineral Wells, Texas, at which places he spent several weeks in vain, with both knees so badly swollen that his tortures were beyond endurance. P P P made the core and proved itself as in thousands of other cases, the beet blood pnritirer in the world, and superior to all Sarsaparillas and the so-called Rheumatic Springs. Sold by all druggists. BUILDING DONE At Your Own Price. ; C. E. HARRIS,! General Contractor * and Builder - - - ' ( ireelyville, Sooth Carolina. < .16-tf. J ' v. Vrif -. -- ^ > i- < r' - issxxcscssscsxx: || p 1 fl M rni Efc HI H (to PRHU f liliiati Manufacftiri X Highest Grades of Combined ?5 i cides. The great natural Foi X i all soils and all X ? GERMOFERTMANU I'Mtfroaa I CHARIEST i For Kingstree and vicinity tl will be haw HMB SI >XX?S 9S9?9)0( m , 1DAY UGfl' I DRY G <?> X "VA. A, ? I <?> \ ? ) 1 \ I j a/7t i?> i Brown's, <s> IL. STAC g THE OLD Rl ?:?:@ :?:@:?:@:?:?:?:@: Ixxxxxxxxxxxxx When you are in town alw J. P. Ada Just received a fresh line of: Porters <fc Calumet Hams i Porters Salmon Salt Mackerel F Pork Sausage, Meats F Corn Beefed y* Beef Extracts H * Canned Corn & Peas o Complete L^in 1 Always ir. JAS. pT~ KIXGSRTEE sooooooooooooc KX696S63XXC9 1[| ? ? n m ? mil j i El 1 srs of g Ferlilizers and Germi- X od Plant for all crops, O climates. JC : B-sr x | FACTURINO CO. | . Street fl dh, s. e. $ ae Germofert Fertilizers (A iled by Wv JPFLY GO. | j i s 3115 9 3CXSSCSSSXX6S | r i I i oi unc. I OODS. I 3 V? > v \ ?" - I { ?* Iver * > / I f ? ShoeSi. j i ? 'i i ? ? lCLEY.8 I SUABLE. ? xxxxxxxxxxxx ays remember to go to v The O 11T1 ? Fancy O Grocery Q rS [einz's Pickle Sr (All Kinds) X 'rfsh Coffee O hiits, Crackers, St (All Kinds) X hgh Grade ^ Chocolate Candy 1C te of Cigars 8 2 Stock. g ADAMS, I | . s. r. X ?000000000(9 J ?