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; ' ' . - ' . sprij IS VELL PLEASED WITH NEW BOVE. (apt. Fraak Nesnltb Writes About! Soatlvest Georfia. The following letter, while a personal communication, will no doubt be of interest to the writer's many friends in Williams* i burg; hence we take the liberty of printing it: Hon C W Wolfe, Kingstree, S. C. Dear Friend: I have been thinking for some time of writing you a letter and telling you how well I am pleased with southwest Georgia, but , lack of time has so far debarred my doing so, and I have not time to write you at length today, so am sending you by today's mail a copy of the Albany Herald and on the third page you will find a sketch of Elmodel , by Mr E L Parker, a native of ( Florence county, S C. Mr Par ? i ?i-i! xr: Kcr lias rciduvcs iu n.iugaucc , and about Lake City also. I have < met him once since I have been j in Georgia and he told me all i about his relatives in Florence and Williamsburg-, and enquired after a good many of the citi- j xens of Kingstree and surround- j ing country. Mr McRainey, the ^ subject of Mr Parker's sketch is t the gentlemen I am workiugfor, and he and I are getting along t very nicely together indeed. He ^ ?aejBe here several years agol from North Carolina and worked *foT wages awhile, then he went I i into the turpentine business, and 11 has been very successful in all | of bis business transactions, j which accounts for his posses- ^ sions of today. The' Herald did , not come near doing justice in the cut of Mr Rainey's tine Jresi- c dence which he is just completing neither in the surroundings, so U-ar as looks are concerned. This ^ 'article will tell you better and , more about the surroundings (^ than lean. I am so well pleas-j ed that I am strongly in the1 ^ notion of making this my perma- j nent home. Farmers are very, , much behind in their farm work, on account of very heavy rains,. we have been having, and a w I h great part of their lands are too , wet to plow now. j Hoping you will have health, happiness and prosperity, I beg < -IV J V.?M J You sincere friend, j F M Xesmith. Elmodel, Ga, April 2, 1908. NOTICE TO SCHOOL TRUSTEES With few exceptions the school term ; should be longer this year than ever i before. I sincerely hope you will run your schools as long as your funds will allow. Don't carry over a large bal- j -a?ce unless with a view to building. J (4 McCullocgh, 4-9 3t Co. Supt. Education.: , m Attention Democrats ! i The Presidents of the various Democratic < lubs in Williamsburg county are hereby directed to call a meeting of their respective clubs t<> assemble at their usual places of meeting on Saturday, April 25, 1&08, for the purpose of: re-organizing. Each club shall elect a President, a Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, Committee on Registration, a member of the County Exec-; - " ?..v -i.1 i Utive COmmill.ee, anu such ucuer wui- i mittes as to each club may seem ex- j pedient. Clubs will elect delegates to | the County Convention, which will, meet on Monday, May 4, in the Court; House at Kingstree, at 12 o'clock, j ?OAui>s will be entitled to one delegate j tor every twenty-five members and one for a majority fraction thereof. The County. Convention will elect delegates to State Convention which meets Wednesday, May 2u. a countv chairman, a member of the State Efxecutive Committee, and transact all other business that may be legally brought before it. A H Williams. 42 W Wolfe, County Chairman. Secretary. 4-2-4t | wv HERE Some Good Schools(By W H Hand.) Manning has $790,000 of taxable property. The school district has recently voted $30,000 in bonds te erect a new school building. The district is now levying a local school tax of 4 mills to meet the increased cost of the school. By the way, Manning has one of the cleanest snlinnl nvnnn/]j I Kara caan unH 9VUWI A uu?v vrvvu muv* principal told me that he had had fewer than sik tardy pupils from the town thia year. Kingstree is just completing a >13,000 annex to her new school building, making the entire building worth $25,000. The town has but $500,000 of taxable property, and levies a 4-mill local school tax. Only a few weeks ago Florence moved into her new school building which Costs $52,000. This is one ;>f the most Complete school buildings in the State, indeed in the whole country. Florence has but >1,752,000 of taxable property, and levies a local school tax of 6 mills. Here, too, the schools have almost jo tardv pupils. Darlington has not long been in ler new $25,000 school building. Her taxable property accounts to >1,330,000, and her local school ax is 4 1-2 mills. Sumter has just moved into her v _i _.i t l:^l nirascaooi ouuuiug, wmuu twi >25,000. This uew building is veil constructed throughout and nay well be called a model. It combines comfort, convenience, and >eauty. Sumter levies a 5-mill loal school tax. All this looks like progress, and t is progress. Yet I'm compelled o say that in these and other places imilarly- situated, the high school lepartmeuts are not in keeping with he general educational stauding. Primarily from a lack of teaching orce the high school course is too hort and too narrow. None of the daces mentioned here has a four -ear high sch >ol course. Sumter iud Darlin gton each has nearly as uany bcy3 as girls iu the high ohnol Th?- others have a small K'rcentage of boys. I visited oue ichool a few days ago where theie ire 5*> high school girls and but 10 ligh schoolboys. Until our schools >ffer more courses of study they are lot going to liold tlie boys as they should. However, everywhere :hroughout the State the attitude of ihe people toward the high school is rapidly improving. Hot Springs, Ark., is no competition against Lippman's Great Remedy for cure of Rheumatism. James Newton, Aberdeen, Ohio, says P P P did him more good than three months treatment at Hot Springs, Ark. W T Timmons of Waxahatehie, Tex., says his rheumatism was so bad that he was confined to his bed for months. Physiciaus advised Hot Springs, Ark., and Mineral Wells, Texas, at which places he spent several weeks in vaiu, with both knees so badly swollen that his tortures were beyond endurance. P P P made the cure and proved itself as in thousands of other cases, the best blood purifirer in the world, and superior to all Sarsaparillas and the so-called Rheumatic Springs. Sold bv all drucrmsts. Executor's Notice. All persons having claims against the estate of D Z Martin will present them, duly attested, and all persons indebted to said estate will make payment to Gilland and Gilland, at their office in Kingstree, S 0. M! L. Boyd, 4-2-3 J. M. Tisdale, Executors. 1 0 * ' And so is our Spri est fads, chec your fancy; also a t Our spring line of Lo suit you. Our spring cannot be beat. Cnme I IK THIICE AKEI fill! III riKIIEIITML CAMPAIGN TEAK. 4 lm Alert, Mire Tbirief i aid lire Fearless Ttiao Krer. lead hi Erery Eafiish - Spokei Cimtrj A president of the United States will be elected this year. Who is he and who is the man whom he will beat? Nobody yet knows, but the Thrice-a Week World will tell you every step and every detail of# what promises to be a campaign of the most absorbing interest. It j may not tell you what you hope but it will tell you what is. The Thrice-a-Week World long ago established a character for im- : partiality and fe. rlessness in t the publicacion of news, and this it will maintain. If you i want the news as it really is * subscribe to the Thrice-a-Week ( edition of the New York World, , which comes to von every other i day,Except Sunday, and is thus S practically a daily at the price 8 of a weekly. The Tbnce-a-Week World's * regular subscription price is j only $1.00 per year, and this ? pays for 159 papers. We ofer * this unequalled newspaper and J The County Record together g for one year for $1.75. ? The regular subscription price t of the two papers is $2.00. 8 a Bring Your Cotton Seed* a ? s We have closed down our a | ginneries for the season because c j there is no more cotton to gin. t I We are paying $60 per ton for ? i J ^ j 1 jgooar souria, ary co-nun sccu, I delivered at our mill. c To those who do not care to i sell their seed for cash we are offering a strictly high grade J meal in exchange. Our rate of f exchange at the miM is 1600 lbs. of meal for one ton of seed. It f is a conceded fact cotton ^ seed meal is a cheaper and ? more effecthe fertilizer than [ cotton seed. According to 6 chemical analysis of each^ 886 t pounds of cotton seed meal T rjra ennivalpnl tf> ?ftOO mounds 1 l??*_ '-^1"" ' ? ' J1 1 of cotton seed, but owing to the superior mechanical > condition of meal, it is safe to j assume that 800 pounds of meal are the full equivalent to one ton ^ of cotton seed, therefore, what- < ever excess above 800 pounds of s meal the farmer gets in exchange J for a ton of seed is so much clear s profit to him in comparison with using the ton of seed directly as i a fertilizer. You can readily see s that by exchanging your seed ( with us you realize nearly 100 < per cent on the transaction. Bring your seed to us'and not make the mistake of getting ^ inferior meal elsewhere in ex- j change. ! ~ ? / i Our meal is open tor inspection. Samples sent on application. Yours, South Atlantic Oil Co., By Geo. E. McE., Mgr. j 10-17-tf i Read the Fanners & Merchants 1 Bank's ad. this Issue. ' | ( Notice to Creditors/ AU persons having claims against i 6 the a^ate of Chas M Mouzon, deceased. will present the same duly attested , to the undersigned and all persons: owing said estate will make payment to Lee & Askins for. . M. M. Mouzon. 1 3-l*J-4t Administrator. ] J w nji Clothing- in the lat ks and stripes to suit ine line of Blue Serges, w Cuts are also in to" line of Dress Goods j early and come often. VERY QUEER PEWS. RmuMna Od^tiM if f*(t ? Arvoiant nf(i*h CHurohaa Some pews in the fine < id church it Ma 1dm. Cheshire. Dossess a moat r , ' 4 miming peculiarity. Each one con-1 lists of several seats, which are realy, though not apparently, detached, and they look easy and comfortable. In this case appearances ire deceitful, for should one occupant of any one seat lean forward vhile "nidnid nodding" over he joes on the floor. The seat is so constructed as to easily tip over rhen any weight is placed on its ?uter or front edge and was so deigned to prevent people from going :o sleep in church. We still find in a few of our anient churches the high pews, luxurious cushions and curious fittings >f former days. In the good old times, when the iquire was lord of all he surveyed n the village, bis pew in the parish rhurch was often a kind of sitting own. une sucn pew uwupiea rbole of the sonth transept of tho liminutive church at Gatton, ia Surrey. It has a fireplace, a low eat which eztenda arouifcl two sidea >f the room and blue tapestry decration. Above it is another floor, in which are three or four ordinary HJW3 for the use of the squire s ervanta, and from it a covered way eads to Gatton Ball, some few i ards away. There may be some ruth in the story that a former ^uire used to enjoy a pipe by the [replace during the sermon and hat if he became weary he would p* ant through the private door for i short stroll in the churchyard. A similar pew exists m a church t Colwicb, Staffordshire. It has a tai*?ase leading to a private door, ind it is said that the postman ame this way ?o convey letters and hat the servant brought in cake nd wine for consumption during he service. The royal pew of St. George's 1 1 ia namilidr hppflliap | iJttpfny ?? IUUOVI y 10 t is the largest of its kind in Engand and on account of its being sittated above the choirr down upon rhich the queen can see the service rom a fine oriel window. In little Benjamin church, Noroik, is a pew for strangers and wedling parties. It was constructed by , shepherd and bears a cheerful, uggestive piece of ornamentation n the shape of the carving of a keleton, with the following inscripion: ^or ronpie-w joined In wedlock; and my Friend l nai srangrr is, 11119 ccai * iut built at the cost and charge of Stephen Crisbee, 111 you that doe this Place pass by, Is you are now, even so was I. Vnd as 1 am soe shall you bee. Inno Domini 1640. A game of whist played in a pew eould nowadays cause considerable ;omment, yet it seexnsM^iat theiquare pews at Trowbridge were lsed for this purpose at the time he "poet" Crabbe was droning iway in the pulpit. Other interesting old pews hare lames and occasionally coats of irms painted on them thus: " 'The Rectory Pew,' 'The Churching Pew' and, best of all, The Hall Dog's Pew.'" T?rmy?on't Humor. There was a playful humor in Lord Tennyson that rarely showed tself unless the poet was within the familiar circle of his friends. John Blackwood, a member of the famous irm of publishers, gave an amusing nstance of this in one of his let;ers: The Rev. James White, rector of i neighboring parish, and Tennyson were chaffing each other, as :heir custom was, .concerning the nerits of their respective houses. "I bfelieve part of Bonchurch beongs to you," remarked the poet. "The whole of it," said White. "You mean," retorted Tennyson, 'the hole you live in." And the Rev. James White was : rilenced DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the ;ataiou8 littlejliver pills. Sold by W L Wallace. s. MAR< | FIRE PROTECT ^ When once your buildinj I Gibraltar f Great protection is afforded fr Norember 23 by ? house set o painted inside and oat with t ^ Resisting Materials. Hnndr ^ this test of fire. 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