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?\)t Counts iteftrfti. VOL. XXIII. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1909. NO. 3. 1 ?: i >1 BUDGET OF NEWS FROM LAKE GITV. rW. H. M CONFERENCE?THE MAHEROF ROAD CLAIMS?DANK OF LAKE CITY'S STATUS Lake City, March 30:?Mr Henry P Williams, a leading Charleston banker, was here on Friday of last j*. week. Mr J E W Chandler, who moved from the Bethel neighborhood to Sumter a few months ago, was noted on our streets one day last week. Editor Wolfe spent a few hours here Friday looking after "Record" matters. I > The storm of last Wednesday night that wrought destruction at a number of places, did no damage here further than teariug down some fencing or partiy wrecking an outbuilding or two. A movement to have A military here is fairly launched. The aim is an infantry company of the National i Guards fully equipped and regularly organized uuder the State and Federal laws. Messrs W L Askius and A M Parker are the prime movers, and tbev are being heartily ^ seconded by a number of live men who realize the importance ot the movement and the fact that such a company in this section of the State is highly desirable. The Woman's Home Missionary conference of the Kingstree District held a three days' session at /^the Methodist church here, beginning Friday and continuing until ^ Sunday night. The local societies of the various churches were pretty generally represeuted by delegates, and there were several distinguished ""v visitors from beyond the district 1 The sessions of the conference wer* well attended and the proceeding! were interesting and helpful. The special agent of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co. which is the snrety on the bond ol iD ? Motley, the defaulting cleri of the Bank of Lake City, was n town Saturday looking into th( Motley matter. The truck farmers will remain nneasy until next Sunday shall have (been well gone by. The moon will be fall on that day, and it is tin April fall moon that brought dis aster two or three times in t he past, After then killing frost is not likely to fall. Referring to the article in la si week's "Record1' on the outstand' ingroad claims this correspondent .asks lieve to say that Editor Wolfe if entirely correct in what he said ic that article as to the fact that the delegation meant to make provision to meet the indebtedness and also as to the plan proposed. Further, I both Mr Bryan and Mr Graham are oorrectiu what they stated to the editor. The bill providing for the payment of these claims in the manner outlined in the 6aid article, pdSsed both houses of the General Assembly. Of this the writer is certain beyond any doabt. The entire delegation was very anxious ohnntthiR nartieular measure and I the bill was closely watched until it had safely gone through its final reading. It should perhaps be mentioned that after a bill has passed both bouses it goes to the engrossiug department to be carefully and finally written out aud, after passing through the hands of the committee ^ on "Enrolled Acts," the clerks of the two houses, the Speaker cf the House and the President of the Senate, go to the Governor for his * signature. To the act in question [ one of two things has certainly happened: It was overlooked by Mr I Cook and the clerk in the office of ,| the Comptroller General (the acts ; are not filed in this office but the of| ficeof Secretary of State), or it has ! been mislaid by some cureless clerk | in the engrossing department. It is I | not often that a bill is lost, bat such j | I a happening is not impossible. IK- j ' sides, this session the clerks of thej House and of the Senate were both i, j new men and the clerks in the en j ; grossing department were nearly al I j ; green hands. This increased the ' | danger of the bill's being lost. It . is hoped that the act iu question lias i only been mislaid and will yet be found. If lost, the loss cannot be ' I laid at the door of any member of , either house. They have no control over the engrossing clerks. i At a meeting of the directors of 1 the Bank of Lake City held hist i Friday night the report of the exI i?ert accountant was received and the matter of the finances of the bank thoroughly gone over in every detail. Nothing whatever developed that caused the officers to wishj to retract or niodifv any part of the ai*a mo/to hn f kfi j SlitlCIIICU L HCICIUIUIC vu vuv ; contrary the state of affairs as now j ascertained definitely fully justifies that statement. Should any part of the shortage remain after settle, ment with those liable, this unpaid , part is now covered and guaranteed in a manner very satisfactory to the directors. Not a cent of the surplus , j fund or any other assset of the bank t is touched. Everything remaius in, tact, aud any deficiency of the shortage that may remain, if any , remain, is fully met This statement is made with a full knowledge . of the affair8 to which it relates and is made in all earnestness as facts I and not as vague generalities. > Atteution is called to the "corn pontpat" mentioned in another col , unr The Bank of Lake City, I wh' ' ' -jterests of the . peop. offers prizes ? in cash foi ^number of j! bushels cf coi. . .1 one acre. ' It is hoped that inis action on the [' part of the bank will encourage and II stimulate the farmers to give more [! attention to the cultivation of corn :! and not devote their best energies , I to cotton, upon the yield and price J of whicn uo one can safely rely. Last Saturday afternoon Mr W E jCockfield shot Arrie Miles, putting ? I hnllpi throuch Miles's left leer ? O" o 1 above the knee. It is said that ' trouble had been brewing for two - days and that Miles and a friend were advancing on Mr Cockfield, ' who had started to walk away to avoid a conflict, when Cockfield ; fired. The shooting took place on . the street. Miles has served more than one term on the chaingang, i while Mr Cockfield is a respectable i white man. Miles's wound is not s regarded as serious, though painful, WLB. NEW BAPTIST MINISTER. Rev. W. E. Hart Expected mis ween? Vill Hold Services Sunday. Yorkville, March 28.?Special: The Rev W E Hurt, a native of Virginia, and who for about four years previous to January, 1906, was pastor of the Yorkville Baptist church, and who since resigning the pastorate of the local church has had charge of several churches in the county, has recently accepted an invitation to become pastor of the BapI fiat churches at Kincrstree and St Stephen's, and expects to enter upon the discharge of his pastoral duties next Sunday. Mr Hurt preached to 1 his former congregation here to-day. During his residence of six years here he ha3 made many warm friends here and throughout this section. He is a man of high ideals and has the courage and ability to stand for them at all times and under any circumstances. It is not expected that his family will go to Kingstree, their future home, until about, the middle of June.?News and Courier. POSSUM FORK FACTS AND FANCIESHad Dogs About?Tobacco on theBrain -JobnsoDville Improving. Jobnsonville, March 29:-There have been mad dogs in our section, a mad hog had to be killed, and yesterday evening (Sunday) Mr W W Johnson shot one of his cows that was slobbering and cavorting around and running at people, as well as other things/^^eother news around .. 4s irood news, people art .11, and hard at work gettii . ready to plant. Tobacco seems to be on the brain. Guano hauling is on the boom just now, since the steamer brought 1 JO tons lor S B Poston to Alison's. Charley Powell's ox brings half a ton at a load right up the Johnson ferry hill, j as bad as it is, just as well as any mule. But Supervisor Graham tells me that the chaingang is to be there, today, the 28th, to cut the hill down and raise the causeway to the bridge. I wish he could plow the road from Johnsonville also, but he thinks he will not have the time, because it has already cost Johnson township so much to fix that old eye-sore of a road from Home to Union church. Happily it is complete now for years to come! Johnsonville is improving,? lots $100 each; and 1 understand from Mr Weathersbee, the contractor of Dr J D Eaddy's new, seven gable, spacious dwelling, just on the eastern side of the old Cheraw and Georgetown stage road, that it will be ready ^ ?* ^attt /I n ire IUr LLtUpdiitJf ill CL icw uttjo. Mr Webb Altman will also soon turn over to the Doctor the comple office a^d drug store, just in. It, on be opposite side oftti *o^'3 We are U or the railroad to stai 0ain; we can hear the 1 -ifiotive whistle over on the irion side, where they are tramming logs to Pee Dee -to be towed to Georgetown, so we keep hoping to hear the trains passing?it will not seem so lonesome. I have been keeping bachelor's hall now for two or three weeks, "Miss _ ... Eliza" is gone to Tiramonsviiie and Darlington, visiting the scenes cf her young, sweetheart days. I have been writing to her a:id oh! how it makes me think of what a time I had writing letters back in the "fifties,"! persuading her to come down and live with me in Possum fork. DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the best knowu pills and the best pills made, are easy to take and act gently and are certain. We sell and recommend them. D C Scott, M D. MS! IB mi* i oiiiici< Do you need a youn? mulecome around t load that I pe I can PLEASE and the price; M. F.H NATTERS AT MOODY. Negro Shoots Another, Probably Fatally ?Neighborhood News Noted. Moody, March Saturday morning, March ">7, a shooting scrape occurred here between ' two unknown negroes. One of the men claimed the other had stolen several articles from him and pursued him here from Hose marv, arriving nere on me locai freight. When the train reached here the negro, armed with a shot-gun, sighted the alleged thief at the wood-rack and after a short colloquy, when the latter began to run, blazed away at him, tilling the fleeing negro's back with No 5 shot, The wounded negro is not expected to live. Rev J 0 Carraway tilled his appointment at Earls Methodist church Sunday night. Rev J L Smith, pastor of the local Free Will Baptist church, began a ^ries of meetings Sunday nig . to continue several days. Miss Hattie Lewis of Trio spent Saturday here with triends. Mrs T H Lpckliear of St Steph ens is visiting" relatives in town. Miss S A Mcb'ants of Greelyviile visited here last week. Mr W R Camlin went to Georgetown Friday on business. Mrs W P Barfield and daughot Charleston spent several days here with relatives recently Dr E T Kelley of Kingstree was here last Friday examining applicants for the membership in the newly organized WOW camp. A party from here enjoyed a shad supper last Friday night at Hardin's landing on Black ! river. Thursday morning, March 25, the wind blew down a half completed house which was being built by Mr Charley Boyd, near Trio. No other damage from the cyclone is reported around here. Reb Coon. You should not delay under any circumstances in cases of Kidney and Bladder trouble. You shonid take something promptly that yon know is reliable, something like DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. They are uneqnaled for weak back, backache, inflammation of the bladI der, rheumatic pains, etc. When you : ask for DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills, be sure you get them. They are antiseptic. Accept no substitutes; insist upon getting the right kind. Sold by D C Scott, M D. Easter cards and booklets at People's Mercantjle Cos'. 4 1 2t. IS! HIS! J. l nice, smuuiu yuuu buai^nt or a pair of mules? If so, o my stable and look at a carrsonally selected in the West. ! YOU, in Mules and Horses, and terms will suit anyone. ELLER / A VARIETY OF NEWS REPORTED FROM SCRANTON. TEACHERS' MEETING-SALE* SCHOOL CLOSING?CUPID AND HYMEN?PARAGRAPHS OF LOCAL INTEREST. Scranton, March 20:?Mr P M Lee made a business trip to Kingstree Friday. Mr and Mrs C P Johnson have returned from their wedding trip and are boarding with Kev and Mrs J W Truluck, on Church street. Mrs W J Godwin has been very ill but is improving. Mr G U Cusac has invested in an automobile. Miss Maude Parker is visiting her sister in Florence. Mr E J Hutchinson ot High Hill and Miss Sallie Prosser of Greelyville were married on Sunday, the 21st. Mr J W Myers, Jr, has bought the house and lot on Wall street heretofore owned and occupied by iMr S 0 Byrd. The latter has bought a plantation down in south Georgia and will reside hereafter in the "Empire State.' Mr Oliver Fowler, late o1 Scranton but now of Savage and a young lady from Mullins were married a few days ago al the Nettles House at Lane's They passed through Scrantor the following day en route tc their new home. This was an other case in which "love found the way." Superintendent of Education A H Gasque of Florence, accompanied by Hon H M Ayer of the Daily Times, passed through Scranton Friday afternoon or his way to attend the closing exercises of the public school at Salem. DrJLMann of Florence has accepted an invitation to deliver flio iflHroia at rtftcp nf thf> ocranton Graded school, which will take place in May. Dame Rumor has it that an other prominent business man of Scranton has surrendered tc little Dan Cupid and Till face the hymeneal altar ere the ar rival of the autumnal equinox. Miss Hesse Graham, who has been teaching at Mouzon's, has returned home, her school having closed for the term. The Williamsburg Teachers association will bold its last meeting for the current scholastic year at Scranton next Saturday, April 3. Owing to the fact that so many of * the rural schoois have closed and the teachers have returned to their homes,the attendance will probably not be as large as is desirpH. hnfr wp hnnp as manv will attend as possible,for ail Scranton wishes to have them come. This writer regrets that he could not accept an invitation to attend the closing exercises at Salem, which took place last Friday night, the 26th. An interesting programme ot exercises was presented and was witnessed bv a large and appreciative audience, the school house being too small to seat the crowd. Every detail of the programme was executed to a nicety and reflected immeasurable credit on Miss Berta Collins, the accomplished teacher. Superintendent of Education A H Gasque was present and delivered a splendid address, complimenting Miss Collins, not only on her efficient and highly creditable work in the school-room and building up the school to a high standard, but on her tireless and earnest efforts to improve and beautify $ 1 the school building and grounds. He stressed the protessional pride she had displayed in her school work, and contrasted hefc i * j earnest zeal and enthusiasm J with the careless and indifferent manner in which some teachers j perform their duties, their only incentive to "kill time , in the j school-room apparently being I the drawing of their salary. Hon Hartwell M Ayer also made an impressive talk on school matters, after which Miss Collins spoke very feelingly and eloquently to her pupils, expressing her devotion to them and the sorrow she felt at parting with them for at least a season. She was warmly congratulated at the close Of the exercises on the splendid success of her efforts to make the last hours of her school an occasion of pleasure and profit to all her i DUDils and patrons. W E C. 9 Will Close at Sevei. We,the undersigned merchants of | the town of Kingstree, do hereby agree to close our respective places. , i | of business commencing April a, ! 1909,at 7 o'clock until September 1: Butler Dry Goods Co, ' j Kingstree Dry Goods Co, . S Marcus, Sol Peres, ' Mrs J S Eron, j H D Reddick, L J Stackley, I L Stackley, Farmers Supply Co, Kingstree IlardVare Co, 1 * ? - - ~ ? I Uale & tfaie, Watts & Watts, Kennedy-Montgomery Co. . A Dollar Bill : with your name and address vill bring you both Jeffersonians for the next six months*. They are both live ' wires. You can't touch them without getting a shock, t i THE JEFFERSONIAN8, , | Thomson, Georgia. .' ;d l ii "PE-RU-NA DID , WC^NIDcRS FOR ME." MRR. 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I recommended Per una to her, and now she is well and healthy, after having been pronounced hopeless bj Several physicians." Man-a-lin an Ideal Laxative. 1 i?