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?ljc jfonntg Ifofrrb. VOL. XXIII. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1009. NO. 13. iMiiSiP IS P Needles. Shuttles and Bo tuie in All Make9 of Sewing A COLUMN OFIEWS FROM LAKE CITY. TRUCK ON THE MARKET?AN AUTO AC CIDENT-A FOREHANDED NEGROPERSONAL Lake City, June 9:?Mr and Mrs G A Brown, who went from here to Bennettsville some months ago, having come to the conclusion that Lake City is the best place to live, returned last ir#?pk with the intention of mak ing their home here. Misses Lalla liooke and Laura Yates are in Charleston on a visit of some weeks. Mr and Mrs A P Ilatchell having decided to spend the sum' mer on their farm at Elim, Florence county, will go up there the latter part of the week and be away about three months. Misses Mamie Green and Ruth Williams are home from Colum-I bia Female College. Messrs Gravely, who have purchased the Planters' warehouse, are renovating and improving their property preparatory to handling a portion of the big crop of tobacco that will be marketed here this season. Within less than nine months the salary of the postmaster at Lake City has been raised twice. This gives an index to the man" TT.V.1/-.K + li!c tr>TT-n ic rrrntc? 1IC1 ill niuv.ii vino tvnu >u ing. Mr S K Cole, who died in Barnwell last week, was a brother of Mr W H Cole of this town. Some of our white farmers might profit by the example of their negro neighbors. A few days ago this writer went into tne smokehouse of a negro farmer living on rented land and supporting a family of twelve. In this smoke house were home cured hams, shoulders and sides put up last winter, and enough left at this date to last several months. There were also lard, syrup and soap, all home made, of good quality and generous quantity. That negro has been living on this same farm years and years and never failed to pay his rent and other debts, besides supporting his big family. TT j:.i a* ; + 9 Clmrvlir Kvr XI OW U1U -tic UU Hi >^1LU?/Xjr KSJ working- hard, making all the ^ provisions he could at home, saving- what he made and dealing honestly with all. Miss Dellie McClam is at home from Lander Female College, Greenwood. Dr and Mrs A H Williams left Monday night for Wrightsville, N C, and will be absent several 4 ^V^V^V^V^vi^V^V^V^VH<^Ov^FV*4?V^ A BIG BARG E C Now is the time t< J ? Si A biff stiu'li (^ P doing. If' you LI 1 bbina for B l| J Machine#. days. Sunday afternoon Mr and Mrs G L Sauls, Miss Ilattie Williams and Mr J L Richardson went oul riding in Mr Sauls' automobile. Mr Richardson acted as chauffeur. When near town in making a sharp turn on a hard and sharply convex road, the machine suddenly skidded and took to the ditch. Mr Sauls and Miss Williams were thrown out and Mr Sauls' ankle was sprained so badly that he was laid up a day or two. Beyond a few bruises which Miss Williams received there was no other damage. The car was unhurt and went into town under its own power. Mr T C Covington, who taught at Jessup, Ca, last session, is spending a week in town with friends. The bean season closed or June 1 and squashes and cucumbers now have the stage and are goiug forward in large quantities and commanding excellent prices. A dollar and and a hall for a basket of stomach-ache (and what else do you get out. _ r 1 ?j\ _ 3 : ui cucumuers;/ is a gwu pucw The bean crop was an average one and the returns above the average. Of course all the beans produced were not sold, but the crop as a whole paid very well indeed. Fine prices were readily commanded all through the season proper. Those who shipped in spite of the influx from North Carolina and Virginia got only the expected?nothing. lload Engineer Graham was in town Tuesday morning looking after affairs connected with his office. Had Mr James P Foster, the "drummer" who died at his home in Charleston last Saturday, been a citizen of Lake City, his death would not have been more sincerely regretted here. All of us who knew him and felt the touch of his kindly hand were his friends and his going away isakeenllow. W LB. Shake Ib(o Your Sboes. Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder." II cures painful, smarting nervous feet aud ingrowing nails, and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest com fort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes teel easy. It is a certaiii cure foi sweating, callous, swollen, tired aching feet. Try it today. Sold bj all Druggists and Shoe Stores. Bj mail for 25c in stamps. Don't ac cept any substitute. Trial packag< free. Address Allen S Olmsted, Ia Roy, NY. 3 GO-FLY keeps flies off Horses and Cattle. 25c and 50c. At al] drug" stores. 6 3 lOt AIN AT H. I). REDI I A n liiiv vnnr Simmn>r (! V J ? . rt Mioes an .xrdv don't need anything i D. Redd ROY BRADHAM DROWNED IN BLACK RIVER, SHOCKING TRAfiFnY SlINnAY AFTERNOON NEAR TOWN-HOW IT HAPPENED. A very distressing" occurrence ! last Sunday was the drowning ! of ltoy Bradham,the eleven year ' old son of Mr H F Bradham, in Black river at Moore's Creek i landing, near Mr J B Gamble's home. The sad event took place ! about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The neighborhood folk had gath of fViz* C /-?! ? AAI TtAlICA f A ll A1^ j CI CU a k Lll^ OLIIl/Vl 11UUOL kV/ 1IV1U ' Sunday-school services, and du, rin?T the exercises several young boys, without asking permission of tb' parents, went to the rive a bathing. Most of . not swim, so they , lemselves by catching * fr ling a living chain water. Young b yon the outer end of*. n," his hand hold ; broke --*<Tfe sank in water 5 or 6 feet deep. One of the larger boys, who ' could swim a little, attempted to rescue the little fellow, but he says the drowning boy clutched him about the neck and came near pulling him under the water, too. The boys reported the shocking tragedy to the older ones and after a short search the K /-./ ! it n>oc fAiin/1 nonr rrli*?r<? flip UUU J TT UO A WUUU UVU1 If tlVi V drowning- occurred. The remains were taken to Manning and on Monday interred at the Bradham family burying ground a few miles from the town. Old papers for sale at this office, 1909 RE REO Roadster made trip f worth of gasoline and oil, dist Ask to be shown. , WOODS & O 1 LAKH C KICK'S FOR THE NE L * lothing, Shoes, Dry Go R E C rare. Now is the time it will be an eye-opene lick's Ba SUMTER AGAIN SHOCKED By Ai her Case of Suicide?J. H. Witt, rspoon Takes Carbolic Acid. j; Sumter, June 4:?This community was shocked this morning when it was learned that another of Sumter's citizens had committed suicide. Mr . J H Witherspoon, manager of the Witherspoon Brothers' Furniture i Co, deliberately took his own life, about 8 o'clock this morning, by drinking carbolic acid. Last night Mr Witherspoon bought four ounces of carbolic acid, supposedly to treat his little son's foot, the boy having stuck a nail in his foot. Yesterday he seemed to be in the best of spirits, and no one had any idea that he contemplated such a rash act. This morning he was missing from his home, and when search was made his lifeless body was found in the toilet with an empty four-ounce bottle marked carbolic acid lying nearby. No cause has been assigned to show why Mr Witherspoon should take his own lift. He has been connected with the Witherspoon Brothers' Furniture Co?formerly "Whil den Furniture Co?for about nine years, and has always proven efficient and satisfactory. He is survived by his wife, who was Mrs Ella Strange, and one son, besides numerous relatives here and in Darlington county. Get DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve when you ask for it. There are a great many imitations, but there is just one original. This salve is good for anything where a salve is needed to be used, but it is especially good for Piles. Sold by D C Scott The Kecord has printed up a number of promissory note books, fifty notes to the book, that we are selling at ten cents each. tf :0 i90o| rom Charlotte, N. C., on $1.161 ance 140 miles. OTTINGHAM, :ity. s. c, , J XT 20 DAYS. 5 A 1 ods and Hardware. E I V I to buy. Come and i r to you. rgain S LIFE AND TIMES IN SGRANTON TOWN. SCHOOL TRUSTEES NAMED-BASEBALL GAME-FISHING FROLIC-VETERANS' ANNUAL REUNION-PERSONAL Scraatou, June 8:?D Sam Cox, a prominent insurance man of Columbia, was in Scranton Saturday on business. Pursuant to the call of County Superintendent of Education McCullough, the patrons of Scranton Graded school met on May 29 and nominated the following gentlemen as trustees for Scranton school district for next year: C H Pate, W S Lynch and S J Kirbv. Drs Pate and Lynch are new members. Mr Kirby was a member of the old board. Drs W E Postou and H M Graham are in Columbia attending the State medical examination. Mr and Mrs R E Lee attended church at Elim Sunday. Mrs G H Barnwell of Adam's Run is visiting her daughter, Mrs Lamar Lee. Mrs Barnwell atteuded the commencement at Winthrop College, where her daughter, Miss Bessie, graduated. Sheriff "W A Wall of Marion was in Scran ton a day or two last week on business. Mr Eddie Timmous and family, who have been residing at Tarpon Springs, Fla, several years,-have returned to South Carolina and will live at Lake City. The trustees of the local graded school will meet next Friday evening and elect a corps of teachers for next year. The second nines of Scran ton and Starlight baseball teams played a heated game here Saturday afternoon, which resulted 4 to 1 in favor of Scranton, ?, 1 nr n i :ur auu ivirs ?? u ui x iUl- ^ ence tisited the former's brother, Mr B L Lewis, in Scranton Saturday. 'Siah Graham, an old and well-todo negro residing a few miles from Scranton, died on the 5th inst. 'Siah was an honest and industrious man and accumulated considerable property. He had the respect and confidence of everybody who knew him. The "refrigerator" has beeh transformed into a "sweatbox," and hath greater terror for evil-doers than the former receptacle for the unfortuuate class of our citizens. Instead of holding the nsual services at the Methodist church Sunday morning, Rey Mr Murphy read the church discipline. Perhaps it is well to refresh the recreant memory of the membership on their church"] . ;1 see what we are & tore. I vows now and then. It is regrettable that so many, are delinquent in . in keeping their obligations to their church and their Cieitor. The matrimonial ties heretofore existing between M J Braveboy of fj| this place and his former wife, Ada J Braveboy, have been dissolved by d* cree of Judge J B Wall of the sixth judicial district of Florida. Owing to a break iu the dam, the -/ Chandler mill pond was drained last / week and the tishiog privileges sold to a party of fishermen who made a big haul of the finny tribe. A fishfry and a picnic were the principal^ pleasant features of tbe deal. The surviviving soldiers of Co I, 26th S C Regiment, will hold their annual reunion at McAllister's mill on Saturday, July 3. A pic-nic and some speech-making will be special features. The writer visited Kingstreeone dav last week after an absence of , nearly three years. The growth and development of the town have been g| so great that we wire induced tov I think that the half of the story of progress there had not been told. Truly Mew Kingstreeis a marvelon*. 1 stride over the old. W EO 1 DESTRUCTIVE TOKNADO. ;V House and Stable Deaolisbed at Laabert?So Gee Hurt Lambert,'. June 9:?During last' Thursday night, June 3, the horn#, together with etable and other o?fcbuildings of Mrs Lou Bailey, widow of the late John Thomaa Baxley, was completely demolished by a devastating tornado, ivooe or I the family wae seriously mjured; all A miraculously escaped with only slight bruises caused by the falling building. It is alleged that the cooking range was blown forty yards, I also that fodder was blown three J miles distaut. The week's ironing had been completed that day but had uot been put away; it was carriod off entirely by the cyclone and not a single piece of it has been found. Also the clothes worn n by the family and taken off for th,e night were blown away and have I not been fcnud. The mules that I were in the stable were injured but J not seriously. This was the only ^ serious damage done by the tornado around Lamberts. Services will be held at Bethany church the second Sunday in July instead of the tiret. X X X ^ 1 Foley "s Honey and Tar is espec- i ially recommended for chronic throat ! aud lung troubles and many suffer- J ers from bronchitis, asthma and con- m sumption have found comfort and J relief by using Foley's Honey and .fl Car. D C Scott * I