The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 16, 1908, Image 2
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ANOTHER TRIP UP THE RIVER.
Poor Conrad Tells of Scenes and Days
In Years Long Gone By.
klngstree, Julv 8:?Editor
County Record, Dear sir: I
have just returned from a cruise to
the upper waters of Black river. I j
went up to the mouth of Pudding j
swamp for a load of shingles, and *
bad in tow the large flat boat belong-1
ing to Mr P B Thome. We left j
the landing at Kingstree about 10
O'clock on Friday, the 3rd of July, j
anil moilo tRo frin si iliet,?r?pp nf OS
miles, in seven hours, which I conlider
very good time. We had to
tow a large flat boat 13feet wide and
50 feet long. We were overtaken
by a severe rain and thunder storm
"with lightning very sharp, but we
bad made preparations for it and
bad put up the awning over the engine
and our baggage and provisions.
The boys all huddled under j
the awning and 1 had a large umbrella
which I kept over me and
steered the boat up the river through
the storm. The boys all managed
to keep dry. We had a pretty fair
time. We stopped at a high sand
ridge about three miles below Montgomery's
lake, one of my old and
favorite camping places in my young
days when I felt strong, and it gave
me so much joy those days to float
down the river on a raft or flat boat
for Georgetown with the provision
box packed with biscuits, bam, sausage,
potatoes, custards and good
coffee. That was the life for me
and I like to follow it still.
Well, as I said, we went up to the
mouth of Pudding swamp with both
boats and we pitched our tent there
on the bank of the river at the place '
where I have had many happy days.
1 once owned that tract of land but
it belongs to Mr Young at the present.
Many have beeu the fish fries, |
Bwimming and frolicking on that j
famou3 old bank, and think of the j
pretty girls that have spent their!
pleasure moments with their sweet j
hearts. I look away back now
through mist of memory and tears j
and with a sigh of sadness as I stand ;
on the bank of the old river and
think of the ones I so often met J
aDd ask of the winds of Robert
Epps, Samuel Burgess, Henry Mc-;
Elveen, Lou Mouzon, Peter War-!
sham, John Daniel, James Readon,!
James Epps, Daniel Evans and a j
fco&t of them, all of -whom always
had a kind word for Conrad: and I
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am never more to behold them,never
hear their gentle voices again. I:
alone am left to tell the tale. I
stood there viewing the river as it J
flows along like the stream of life;
bearing on its way the pieces of
driftwood, some large, some small,:
some heavy, some floating along
quietly, heavy, and soon will sink
oat of sight, some light and whirl- j
ing around, may drift for sometime !
or may strike some obstruction and
go to the bottom to rise no more.
Well, after our camp for the first
night at Pudding swamp we returned
down the river toMouzon's bridge, |
where the voung folks had a picnic ;
on Saturday. There were about
thirty young ladies, all quite pretty,
and several nice looking young men
some from Kiugstree, and they
? had a nice dinuer. The boys and
myself were invited to join them,
which we did with pleasure.
Mr Young, who lives near Mou
zuu s unuge utar iue picnic gruunu,
beard as coining on our way up the
river Friday afternoou a?d met us
with some tine watermelons, which
were thankfully received and enjoyed
yery much. I visited my friend,
Mr Wilson Mcintosh, and spent
Friday night with him aud Saturday
night I spent with my old and
much esteemed friend honest old
Kuff Mouzon, a visit I never enjoyed
more in my life. His wife is an
estimable ladv and it is a real pleasure
to be in her company. I had
. never seen all of their children and
you can have some idea of the pleasure
it gave me for those children to
come up one after another and speak
to me as if they had known me all
this time. I also met my old friend,
Mr D K Mouzon, Dunk, as we call
him. He and I were boys together.
I could say a good deal more about,
the kind hearted Mouzons, but will
speak about them at another time.
I took dinner with my old friend,
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By the Authoi
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This famous no1
Be sure you read the
Monthly Statement
FOR
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Dispensary No. Location
Kingrstree 1 Academy 1
Lake City 2 Acline Ave
Scranton 3 E. R. R. Si
Total,
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,)
Williamsburg County. ?
PERSONALLY APPEARED W. E.
Hoard, who being each duly and several)
Sworn to and subscribed before me
Mr Dan Epps, Sunday. That is (
another place like home to me. He c
has two daughter and five sons, lus- r
ty fellows, full of fun and nothing ^
that they have is too good for their
friends orConrad. I spent the night
with one of the sons, Charlie, a '
jolly good fellow. t
We had a good trip up the river., i
It was quite laughable to see the 1
boys fighting the wasps. I never t
saw as many wasp nests. Nearly t
all the ironwood branches hanging t
over the water had one or two nests 1
upon them some of them very c
large. The boys would presist in ]
knocking them down. David Scott, c
Johnny Britton and Roy Flowers 1
felt the stings of some and it c
made me laugh to see them fight
and yell when one would pop them, f
We returned to Kingstreeon Mon- t
erry V
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TRATED BY RY
itel will begin in nexl
i opening chapters.
of the Dispensaries in W
THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1
! Slock is Given at Consumers' Prices.
Total Invoice Including opera
Stock on Hand KirM Total Sales i
of Mouth I
3t. 2,470.80 1,886.39
(. 2,142 23 1,725.11
t. 1,251.02 *55.70
$ 5,863.05 $4,467.20 ~1
Snowden and I). J. Epps, members of
ty sworn, deposes and says that the fore
this eighth day of July, 1908.
J. B. St
lay afternoon. Nothing occurred
m the return trip of much interest,
rhe boys still kept up pelting the
vasp nests with sticks and shot some
>f them. None of thsm cared to
eave the camp while up there, al
;hough they had several pressing
nvitations to spend the night on the
lill. They said they [started ont
o camp and would rather stay in
he swamp around the camp fire
han iu a comfortable house. Harry
Sritton was chief of the camp and
lid all the cooking and camp duty.
! have given you a rough account of
>ur trip and if you think it will
nterest some of your readers you
:an put it in The Record.
The fish law is in force now and
rom what we saw on our way up
he river I think the fishermen are
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It's fine.
illiamsburg County
908.
ting Expenses Stock on Hand
[>f Each Breakage La*t
>ispensary Pay of Month
58R.R7 3.75 572.30
r>59.54 18.00 385.70
292.61 6.02 283.95
,440.82 $27.77 $1,241.95
the Williamsburg County Dispensary
going statement is true and correct.
eele, Notary Public. [L. S.]
respecting it generally.
No more at present from
Poor Conrad.
P. S. I have just had handed m?
by Mr Rodert Smith, a letter that 1
wrote to his mother while the war
was going on, which you can publish.
It will show where I was al
the writting and some of my old
comrades who are still alive may be
pleased to read it. I think Col J L
Epps, S Flagler and our sheriff,
George Graham, remembers the visit
my letter has reference to.
P. C.
Letter will appear next week in
connection with another letter. Ed,
It would be unfair to judge womankind
by the "woman's page" oi
the, average Sunday newspaper,
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the Handsome,, Standardbred
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