The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 11, 1909, Image 8

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* Jt y * I Just Re j| YOUJWILL FINE tO)GAL5*lTEMS:f Quit kicking; everybody be a booster. The common pleas court convenes Monday. The editor has been quite sick several days this week. P Y$u can't keep a good town down. Watch Kingstree grow! The trees are budding and it is up to the spring rhymester to get busy. When John Nelson begins to sell his lots watch the new buildings go up. Two tobacco warehouses for Kingstree next season. Doesn't % sound good? I gstree needs an ice facnd a steam laundry, and ieve they are coming, .nd Mrs 0 H Patrick have Unto the cottage recently .ed by Mr Hugh McCutchM L Allen has installed rail eitgUHL MAia-naici luuuiaiu and fixtures in his popular phark macy. B The little town of Leesville is 9 putting in an electric light W plant?what's the matter with I Kingstree? * # I Kingstree needs a hard wood I factory and a knitting mill. I These small enterprises make I ^5od money for the investors. P Read our big premium offer elsewhere in this issue. We have onl> a few of these subscriptions at tjie price we are offering them. The young men of the town gave a fish fry at the "sand hills" on Tuesday evening in honor ot Miss Louise Walker of Georgetown. I We've got our town on the J up grade. Keep pushing her forward. We've got a fine town and good people. All we need is to pull together. I y Mr E C Epps is having the 0 Brunson house re-modeled. When ' his plans are carried out he will have one of the prettiest houses in that part of town. I/,Messfs"~ftobert McFadden, I) R DuBose and J Walter McFadden of Sardinia, Clarendon county, attended the real estate auction sale here Friday of last week. Surveyors Oliver and Hamby, ^ the official surveyors for the proposed Rutledge county, reached Kingstree Saturday on their way around. They expect the work to be completed in about ten days more. kilt Will II BU1 I sceived a 1 IN ALL COLORS. JUS [aasnBBHHBHBmn I IT PROFITABLE TO CALL tUa 1 lie 1\1I1^ Another series of Building and Loan stock is ready to be issued, boys, and there's no| j trouble getting choice building lots. Again we say, watch Kingstree grow. An impromptu dance was given at the Kellahan hotel Thursday night of last week. Excellent music was furnished by the American Realty and Auction Cos band. Sheriff Graham left Monday morning for North Carolina to get a negro fugitive, one John Meggett, who about two years i.tn ?3 i.1 A ago Kineu anutijcr negro uaiucu Alfred Hanna, near Mornsville. The first game of baseball of tl? ^gason was played here Saturday between the second nines of Kingstree and Lake City school teams. The home team won in a loosely played exhibition, 4 Messrs Woods and Cottingham announce through our advertising columns this week that the^ have taken the agency in Williamsburg for the Ileo automo- j bile. The lleo is one of the best; machines made and the new' j agents are pushing its sale. At the Presbyterian church Sunday evening service Misses Cora Garner and Belle Ervin will sing a duet, "The'Lord is jmy Shepherd,'' Miss Garner will | also sing as a solo, "My God,My i Father,While I Stray," Marston. The public is cordially invited to this service. A number of beggars and tr .mps are roaming about over this country. Most of them are ; able-bodied men and sometimes they m couples ana quartettes. There a plenty of work for people who really want work and the worthless "hobo" class should receive scant encouragement. An alarm of fire was given Monday night about 8:30 o'clock, caused by the blazing up of a lamp in the little room used as a pressing club in the rear of Dr Brockington's drug store. Tire fire biased to the ceiling and looked threatening for awhile," but was put out before "Our Pet" arrived 011 the scene. Louis Cohen & Co, Charleston's big department store, has a new and attractive ad this week. This house has built up an enviable reputation for square dealing and liberal treatment of their customers* Mr Cecil Jacobs, from this county, ill frirfl or\z?r*ial alfrAnfinn S**>- -v orders from Williamsburg buyers and cordially welcomes visitors from his old home county. Mr and Mrs Hugh McCutchen moved into their beautiful new home in North Academy street Pay You rLERE \ ! ?* ? Big Lot o >T THE THING YOU WAN WHITE PR ICES AND QUAL1 AND EXAMINE OUR STOi stree Dr * last week. This is one of the finest residences in the county and is a model ot comfort and conven ence.Surrounded by spa-; cious piazzas, with large white colonades at ^he front, the entire building combines ornate architectural elegance with the luxurious appointments of a modern home. Few handsomer dwellings than this are to be found in towns much larger than Kingstree. Death of Dr. Robert B. Pendergrass. Dr Robert B Pendergrass died at his home near town on Sunday, March 7, at :30 a m, after an illness of about one week's duration. Dr Pendergrass was 76 years olch and leaves a wife and seven chffclren, four sons and three daughters; also one sister, Mrs Tyson Scott, of our town. The deceased was quiet and assuming in manner and was held in high esteem by all who knew him. He was a Confederate veteran, having rendered loyal service to the Lost Cause. The funeral and interment 4 1 I ft f _ X 1 A - * - 1 1_ tooK piace monuay,ai iu o ciock a m, Revs W A Fairy and E E Ervin officiating. Text of Lien Law Repeal Bill. Following is the text of the bill to repeal the lien law, as passed at the recent session of the Legislature. The law does not become effective until January, 1910: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina that Section 3,u59, Volume 1, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1902, relating to liens for advances he. and the same is hereby repealed. Section 2. That all acts or part of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Section 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of January, A D 1910. Provided that all liens taken before this act takes effect shall be valid, and may be enforced as now provided by law. Approved March 4, 1909. We hereby give notice that after January 1, 1909, all accounts of a dollar or more for subscription will be placed in the hands of a collecting agency. We hate to do this but can't afford to lose the hundreds of dollars our honest toil entitles us to. tf We have just got in a splendid lot of all kinds of stationery, u i a ~ ane uunu papers,i uicu neauiiigs, 100,000 envelopes, and Dennison's shipping1 tags with brass eyelets and wire strings, the best made. See our samples before ordering elsewhere. tf to Watch )RYG< 1 ? > f Laces ai T AND PRICES RIGHT. % GOODS [TY CANT BE BEAT. CV RPPADF RlIVIMr. AW W IV L^L^I V/I\L< L/V^ 1 li l\j i 1. ^ I * y Goods C ^PERSQNAL||i' Dr 1 \V Graham of Gourdin was noted in town Monday. Dr W C Hemingway of Lambert spent yesterday in town. -Miss ? Kirk of Sj^Stephens is visiting" her uncle, Mr Robert J : Kirk. ? Miss Mamie Jacobs is visiting I Miss Martha Gourdin at Gour , din this week. i Mr and Mrs Louis Sraoot ot ; Darlington visited Miss Cora 1 Garner last week. Mr .1 D Gilland offers a desirable house and lot for sale in his (new ad this week. Mr J A Scott of Belsers X Koads paid us his respects while in town Saturday. Miss Ford of George.-j town is spending the week end with Mrs Win N Jacobs. Maj E K Lesesne of Greely; ville called pleasantly to see ns Monday when in town. i 11. t ? a IUI tjauics mien iiuui J- JUIeuce visited his son, Dr M h Alien in town this week. Mr T M Kellahan of lienson was among the number of V ? friends who visited us Monday. I)r W II Woods and Mr T P Cottingham drove over Saturday from Lake City in their "lieos'1. Mrs Wm X Jacobs entertained informally at cards Friday evening in honor of Misses Ford and Walker# ! Mr O E Miles of Timinonsville ;and Mr W B King of Lake City i came here one day last week in j I the former's auto. I Mr \V J Godwin,who resides a I * few miles from town, was a pleasant visitor at our sanctum Saturday of last week. Mrs Essie Lynch and son and son and daughter, Willie and Mary, of Scranton are visiting Mr Louis Jacobs' family. Mr J L Stuckey and J B DuRant, two ot Lake City's representative business men, were in tnnrn Mhndav between trains. Mr B W Butler left Monday evening for Northern markets to select new spring goods. Whe% he returns he will have something to say through our advertising columns. Tributes of respect,obituaries cards of thanks and all communications of a personal nature; fnv nf iha /<(/< /ICC. O, U.1 L V.uaigl.u iU! uv vuv rate of one cent a word. If our friends would kindly remember this and write on one side of the paper, it would save us a lot of unnecessary work. i This Spi mmtmmmmmmmammrnmmmm / )ODSC I 4 I ! - ? <_ msmmmmms id Embrc SEE OUR LINE OF OF THESE LINES. Company. | L OTS FO I, expect to open ! iny land from t ! Road to South Land will he snrv lot's by March 15,1 t be 30 or 40 CI ii this Area, wfci REASONABL Watch for i 'J.T.1TE KiiSTRE I JUST A - Carload and M ? j waiiai Live Stock ( j KIN SOTTXEC Cu ?????????_ Organized, Develops Principle of Cons j . Along Progress BANK OF WD VlilAQTDeC vinwo I RESOURCE* Solicits a share ( business, feeling our ample resoi rior facilities wi ciation with uf agreeable and pi C W, Stollf Pres. E. L. Montgomery# Asst C ace Next ;oriPA ' 9 ^ I I >ideri I ^H| n? I a street throfc \ I he Lower fl Academy sti '1 I eyed and cut V ? I 909. There I loice L,ots M I it** M cb I will sell at w1 I E PRICES. |j I his Sale. I E&a / I rrivedJ a '' D i Horses I i I ules at , I I 1 msburg mO/s Stables gstree ; ftJBOUnfcTA^ )[, rl and conducted on ervative Banking ive Lines, the ?, t.tamsburg SOUTH CAROLINA wa 5 $150,000 ^ r -Da )f your banking confident that jrces and supeill render asso? permanently , rofitable. : : E, C. Epps, Cashier, iashier, F. Rhem, V,Pres> Week. t t N' *