The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 08, 1909, Image 1
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VOL. YY iTl KINOSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY s, 1901L NO. 17.
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WHAT'S SEEN AND DONE |f
IN SCHANTON.'e
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DEATH OF A LADY-OLD SOLDIERS'RE-! v
UNION?OTHER ITEMS OF '<
LOCAL INTEREST. j J"
^ Scranton. July fi:?Mrs W II, ^
Murphy is visiting her mother at
McColl. ja
Miss Janie Weaver of Timmons-' v
ville was the guest of Miss Lola!c
Smith several days this week,
Mr T C WilJougbby and daughter y
(g of Florence visited the family of Mr [
W J Willoughby Sunday. jn
Prof J (3 Pate,instructor in math t
ematics at the South Carolina Mili-I
tary Academy, spent several days in j
town last week with his brother, Dr
C H Pate. '
Mr and Mrs Johnson of Elim
spent Sunday in town with their
son, Mr C P Johnson.
Miss Estelle Coward of Hartsville
V?o?. noronta \ir and Mrs ?
1Q VlSlUUg UCl ^/UlVUW) *>? , ^
J M Coward.
Mr P M Lee made a business trip
to Charleston the first of the week.
Mr and Mrs C P Johnson left
this morning for Effingham, where
they will spend several days with
Mr Johnson's parents.
Mrs R B Cannon,Mrs Frank Cannon,
Miss Fanny Cannon and W
Eugene Cooke, Esq, attended the
picnic and prohibition rally at Elini
Saturday.
Rev J W Truluck has requested
us to state that his appointments for
Scranton Baptist church will stand
as heretofore. He will preach here
on the fourth Sunday morning and
second Sunday afternoon in each
month.
Mrs W L Wait, president of the
State Home Missionary society, and
Mrs Bourne, secretary of said society
for Kingstree district, conducted a
meeting iu the interest of the society
at the Methodist church Sunday
morning.
Dr C H Pate went to Bishopville
to spend the glorious "Fourtlr'. c
Mrs Frank Kells of Palatka, Fla, |
and Miss Ruth Price of Mcintosh,
Fla, are guests of Mr R B Cannon's
?family.
Mrs--Moore of Taylorsville, N C,
will lecture here Thursday night on
temperance. At the same time the
silver medal contests of the Loyal
Temperance League will take place.
Mr J B Steele, clerk of the conoid
ty dispensary board, was in town
Tuesday from Kmgstree.
Mrs Walker Taylor died ather;s
home near town Saturday afternoon c
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after several weeks' illr.ess. The re- ^
mains were inteired in the cemetery \
at the Free Will Baptist church 1
Sunday afternoon. Rev J W Truluck 1
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money to bum can a
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ondncted the funeral services. A
good mauy Scrantonians attendd
the old soldiers' reunion and ptciic
at (damp ttranch on the 3rd.
.'hey speak of having spent the day
ery pleasantly. All the survivors of
'o I. 26th Kegiment, S C V, within
each, attended the reunion. A
.rmn ifiil (turner wjis served and iced
?monade was furnished in abundnee.
Mrs S Foxwuith, who was visittig
the family of Mr Henry I'oston,
ieur Savage, was called to h? r lioim*
t Levon, Fla, by a telegiam anouncing
that tier son-iu-law, Mr F
J Roberts, had been killed by lightling.
He was a prominent turpeniue
operator. WEC
KINGSTREE VS LAKE CITYast
Game of Ball on the "fourth''
Resulted Id a Tie.
The only attraction in Kingtree
on Monday, which was
ibserved as "the Fourth/' was a
fame of baseball between Kingitree
and Lake City. The game
vas fast and snappy from the
ime the umpire called "play
)all" until the last man was
>ut at tb& end of the seventh
nning, when the game was
ailed so that the Lake City
>oys could catch the six o'clock
rain. The seven innings conumed
about an hour and tifteen
ninutes. The two teams were
)retty evenly matched and the
fame was a splendid exhibition,
learly every run being made on
:lean hits. Lake City took a
imall balloon ascension in the
second inning, letting in two
uns, but turned around in the
ourth and pounced on Gilland
vith the net result of two runs.
The first run was made by
Xingstree in the first inning,
ind that with the two made in
:he second concluded the run
rettine" for the home team.
-<ake City made her first run in
he third and tied the knot in
he fourth and it stayed tied.
The following was the lineup
>f the two teams:
jAKE CITY KIXGSTREE
Taylor, E lb Britton J
>turgcon c M cCabe
Tarter :ib ' Epps
ireene ss A rrowsmith
Thappell cf Kibler
Ceefs '2b Guess
Taylor, C If Brockinton, B
Yinstori p Gilland
Jregg rf Britton, B
SCORE BY INNINGS.
Kingstree ?1 2 0 0 0 0 0?3
Lake City ?0 0 1 2 0 0 0?3
Foley's Honey and Tar not oniv
tops chronic coughs that weaken the
ionstituiion and develop into oonniuiption,
bat heals and strengthens
he lungs. It allords comfort and reief
in the worst cases of chronic
jronchitis, asthma, hay fever and
utg trouble i) C Scott.
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Hon! to trade elsewlu
they can always get i
?:Shoe*
PH, ^ NEEDED FOR DRE
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^ shoes
high (ira
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RUTLEDGE WOULD BE P
m; mrrn I i
ni uvrn a i
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PROPERTY VALUATION' FALLS FAR BE
AREA?WILLIAMSBURG WOULD I
VOTER IN AFFFCTED AREA SB
Much has been said and writl
led*,re would be if established, and
count}' would enjoy. What a vas
would be its portion, and how, c
i be reduced to a minimum. We w
roseate dream but for the fact th
itably await the credulous tax-p;
was made for supporting the c<
whole lot better to look the r
; fore it is too late. Hence we pre
lled^e would not be a rich count
I ? V...* *lio4- i f roiill
' CUllUllC&i uu i mai it it uuiu i vuii
State bv 1 e than half a million
\ proper; tfc lation in Rutledge
, will be $548 >oorer than Calh
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jlist. ? J
In sevcfw newspaper artic
j claimed that Rutledge would be
! houn, but such is far from the fa
ords. Every assertion we mak
from the auditors of the respecti
general's report for 1908, the lab
Last week we showed by tt
1 Williamsburg county that the t
i Rutledge county area in this <
[ leaving $3,272,679 in the old coui
ment from the auditor of Clarenii
1
tal amount of taxable property
township aggregates only $82,87
I the Williamsburg part of the
j$1,824,091 as the taxable prop*
'county, whereas the comptroll
amount of property in Calhoun c
SI,824,091 from $2,372,590 and til
mnch poorer Rutledge county wi
! stands as the poorest county in
Moreover, Calhoun county, v
miles area, grew last year nearl;
Williamsburg?Rutledge area an
in round numbers. How many
duce'r
We stated when the new cou
that it would be cutting one <
, State into two still poorer
below sustain our contention,
i remembered: If the cut be made
j than Williamsburg. The followi
in South Carolina arranged in th
as shown by the comptroller ger
LIST OF COUNTIES IN SOUTH CARC
PROPERTY
1 Charleston
2 Spartanburg..
3 Richland ?
4 Anderson
5 Greenville
6 Aiken .......
7 York .
8 Orangeburg...
9 Sumter
10 Newberry
11 Union
12 Laurens
13 Chester
14 Greenwood
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>rc. hut those who wan
it here. We have in si
?, Dress (
SS, ALSO A FULL SUPPLY
ARE STILL GOING 1
DE SHOES ARE GE
lick's Ba
00RE8J COUNTY
HALF BULLION UOLLAHSJ
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LOW CALHOUN WITH ALMOST SAME!
IAKE BITTER SHOWING-EVERT
IODLD STUDY THESE FIGURES.
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ten about what a rich county Rutl
the wonderful resources the new
>t amount of property valuation
onsequently, the tax levy would
ould feel loath to disturb this
lat a rude awakening would inev-1
lyer just as soon as the estimate
iwnty government, and it is a j
natter straight in the face be- \
/pose to show not only that Kut-!
y as compared with the other
y be the poorest county in the
rpi.?4. ootr
Uj uuiuir.s, JLUdL ia lkj otiji j wiiv
county?should it be formed?
oun county, which now tails the
:les the new countvites have
considerably richer than Calct,
according- to the official rec:e
is backed up by statements
ve counties and the comptroller
?st issue of that official's report :
ie statement of the auditor of
otal property in the proposed
:ounty amounted to 81,7-41,216, p
lty area. Now we have a stateIon
county showing that the toin
the whole of Sandy Grove
5. Add this to the amount in ^
liUtledge area and we have c
jrty in the whole of Rutledge ^
ler general's report places the ounty
$2,372,590. Now, subtract v
ie result will tell yon just how J
11 be than Calhoun, which now !c
South Carolina. '
nth a little more than 400 square *
y 24,000 bales of cotton, while a
d all?produced only 28,000 bales *
bales would Rutledge alone pro- j
nty movement was first agitated,
:>f the poorest counties of the
ones and the figures given 1
Only, there is this to be 1
i Rutledge will be far worse off i *
ng is a list of all the counties J
e order of property valuation 1
leral's report for the year 1908. (
tLINA ARRANGED ACCORDING TO '
V 1 T.1TATION.
23,376,C 20
18,060,083
17,050,304
13,175,680 '
12,979,195
10,979,746 '
8,708,848
7,273,480 '1
7,212,362 !
7,065,237
6,963,982
6,592,650 !(
"" 6,426,683 1
6,328,933 |
RN.
t one hundred cents
tock a complete line o
joods, Cl(
OF HARDWARE, AND FAI
lT I I T I'KIL'ES.
ARA1VTEJI)
irgain S
15 Marion
10 Abbeville.
17 Barnwell
18 Florence
19 Darlington
20 Lexington
21 Colleton
22 Williamsburg (as cour
erl)
22 Cherokee
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ranuciu
24 Oconee
25 Marlboro
26 Kershaw
27 Hampton
28 Georgetown ... .
29 Edgeneld
80 Berkeley
31 Pickens
32 Clarendon ...
33 Beaufort
84 Chesterfield
35 Lancaster
36 WILLIAMSBURG (di
area cut off)
37 Dorchester
38 Bamberg
, 39 Lee
40 Horry
41 Saluda.
42 Calhoun
43 RUTLEDGE (Sandy Gi
LAKE CITY LACONICS f
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'aragraphs ofInterest Mainly About (
People Who Are Coming and Going. !
Lake City, July 7:?Mr B B Mc-.c
Vhite, whose home is uow at Sum- ! ~
nerfield, Fla,spent a short time here|^
donday on his way over to his old !
tome near Savage, Florence county,; ^
vhere he went to visit friends and j j
nndred. "Coot/' as he has always j
teen known to his family and friends. ^
vent away five years ago to make his
tome in the Land of Flowers, and
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ill of us who number him among our (
riends were more than glad to grasp .
- -i i'
113 warm nauu again auu once mure
eel the presence of kindly, genial j
4 Coot".
The Baptists in their conference
ast Lord'8 day determined to hold a i
neeting of days beginning the tirst j
Sunday in August. ?
Cadet J M Sturgeon, who received <
lis diploma as a full graduate of the
Uitadel^Academy last week,is now at i
borne. It is no small matter to be
;he possessor of a sheepskin from J
,hst institution and we congratulate
'Metier" on his success.
The 5th of July was generally ob- 1
served here as the "glorious Fourth" *
?y the business houses. Several closed
;heir doors, though some remained
opened. The day passed without any
unusual occurrence.
Clerk H 0 Britton and Treasurer!
l/'ook came up from Kir.gstree last J1
Saturday and attended the old sol- |
liers' reunion and picnic at McAllister's
mill.
Mr Carlisle Rush ton, eon of Rev J \
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worth for ^
)thirig, I
Rfl IMPLEMENTS. &
6,067,620
6,007,146
5,809,700
5,765,866
5,599,243
5,299,709
5,175,600
lty now stands, undivid
5,018,895
4,840,085
4,7i!0,337
4,607,120
4,500,148
4,365,725
4.277,860
4,130,024
4,106,928
3,938,878
3,930,700
3,814,275
3,672,870
3,501,040
3,440,850
vided with Kutledge ?
3.272,679
9. Q7F. R93
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2,901.740
2,848,198
2; 831,602
. 2,580,711
2,372.590
ove included) 1,824,091
2 Rushtoo of Blenheim, haa come
niong us and is filling a position at
Jravely's warehouse.
Mrs Maria Satcliffe and her
;rauddaughter,Eleida Fnlmore, have
;one to Newark, N J, to visit Mr
>iduey Sutcliffe, the former's son.
["hey will be away several months.
.Misses Laura Yates and Lalla
tooke have returned home from a
engthy visit to Charleston.
Miss Louise Ross of Wade3boro, N
J, is visiting Mrs L (J AtkinsoD.
Mr and Mrs Finley Hutchinson
tud children, who went from here
:o Charleston about two years ago,
have moved back to this town.
Mrs A E Hill and children are
risiting at Timmonsville. v
W LB
New Adverfiseraents.
South Carolina Military Acadiiny
? Beneficiary Scholarship
Announcement.
Mr Samuel Levin?Instruction
n Music.
Clifford Seminary?An Ideal
Mcme for Girls.
Charles M Stieff?Piano Talk,
People's Mercantile Co?An.Aiin/.inrr
irriiral nf PllttPr fflr
iV/UUVlUg 1 i I Ui V*. ? ?jlobe
Tailoring Co.
Lake City Insurance Agency
?General Insurance.
Delay in faking Foley's Kidney
Remedy if you have backache,kidney
>1 bladder trouble, fastens the dis?ase
upon you and makes a cure
more difficult. Commence taking
Foley's Kidney Remedy today and
you will soon be well. Wbyri-ka
serious malady Y D C ScoU.
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