The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 15, 1909, Image 4
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KINGSTREE, S. C
C. W. WOLFE.
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THURSDAY, JULY 15. 1909.
An Object Lesson.
The Calhoun county muddle,
should prove a valuable object
lesson for the people of the proposed
county of Rutledge. Prior
to the election on the question of
that new county, tiie country
people were told that .$20,000
was amply ample to put up an
e'egaut court house and jail;
that the town of St Matthews
would raise $20,000 for that purpiinnfrv
DPOOle
VOt wuu luv r J
would not be asked to contribute
a penny. These specious
promises caught the wool hat
boys, but a few over-cautious
ones suggested that as a mere
matter of form, perhaps this
money had better be secured in
some tangible way. The St Matthews
people promptly arose to
the occasion and over $21,000
veas put up in notes from responsible
business men, most of
whom "could be made to pay,"
as was fondly believed by the
country people and every lingering
vestige of doubt vauished
fro the minds of the most skeptical.
But alas and alack! More
than a year has rolled oy ana
those "gilt-edged'' notes proudly
.proclaimed to be ,;as good as
gold," are still unpaid, and
they say now that siuce no consideration
was named, the notes
are uncollectible. Aud the court
houseaud jail have not materialized,
nor is there any immediate prospect
of their being built. Now
that the electiou is over and the
new county established, the St
Matthews people have decided
that $20,000 is not enough to
build a court house and jail;
that it will take at least $r>0,000
and they say that the town will put
up $20,000, provided the county
be bonded for $30,000 to put up
respectable public buildings.
All of which goes to show,
First, that auce-election promises
amount to very little after
the election is over.
Second, that pledges in the form
01 SUQSCripuUU!>, pciouuai ?u<uctuteesor
even notes signed by responsible
parties,* are hard to collect
when given as ail inducement to
people to vote themselves into a
new couuty.
Third, that when real money is
put up in gold, silver or curreucy,
it begins to look like business.
Fourth, that the people of Cal houn
county, outside of the town
of St Matthews, seem to have
bought a gold brick aud are
doubtless sorry they spoke.
The quarterly statements of the
j: two Kingstree banks, published
recently, show combined deposits
of over $230,000. This is a
splendid showing for the dull
season, indicating in the most
emphatic way that the old town
and the people who do business
here are far from being "broke"
yet. Nothing reflects more accurately
the financial status of a
community than the size of its
.bank deposits. ?Rot air" cuts I
very little figure- in the business j
world, but cold cash tells the!
true tile of prosperity. The j
banks of Kingstree have gained
j the confidence of the public and;
' thv\* are in every way worthy
, of the splendid success they have
! achieved. Few. if any towns,
i the size of Kingstree can boast;
! of two banks as well managed j
| as arc the Bank of Kingstree
and the Bank of Williamsburg, j
j
jor whose deposit accounts are as j
I large, or whose condition general-,'
j ly is as excellent as that shown!
i by our two local banks.
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The figures published recently in ;
i The Record taken from the comptroller
general's report and certified ;
to by the county auditor, showing i
as they do the comparative poverty j
of the proposed Rut ledge county,'
have opened the eyes of thinking
people and some of the largest *
tax payers in the affected area, in J
[anticipation of the heavy increase |
in their taxes that must come j
should the new county movement
succeed, have gone actively to work
in opposition to the attempt to di?
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YJUe tUCL'UUULV .TYllcauj la.vca ??ic
high euongh, they suy, and we had
better let well enough alone.
It is a credulous and confiding
person indeed who believes that any
one mau or set of men who promise
him a political office can deliver
the goods. The offices in this Democratic
country are in the gift of
the people and the time has passed
when voters can be rounded up at
the polls and made to vote whichever
way the local boss or bosses
dictate.
All of the couuty voting on one
question and half the county voting
on two questions on the same
day is apt to bring about complications.
We hope, however, that
everybody entitled to vote will be
allowed to do so, and that in neither
election will there be grounds
for complaint or protest.
Some of the new countyitea
have cited Bamberg aud Calhoun
as examples of small counties with
small tax levies. Well, look up the
comptroller general's report and you
! will see that in both these counties
the tax levy is larger than in old
Williamsburg and they pay their
county officials less, too.
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A Card
Kditor County Record:?
For a number of years past
it has been the duty of the
county board of education to
appoint schpol trustees oiennially
on July 1 of odd years.
Realizing that this is the usual
year for appointment of trustees
and wishing to get an expression
from the people as to
their choice of men, the countyboard
appointed May 20 for the
patrons and electors of the various
districts to meet and nominate
trustees to serve for the
next two years. There seemed
to be some doubt on the part of
the present State Supt of Education
as to the proper year
for the appointment of trustees,
and aftpr referring the
matter to the Attorney General,
all county superintendents were
sent letters similar to the one
now published in The Record,
dated June 21.
1 am glad to say that in nearly
every case the old trustees were
endorsed by the patrons and
renominated for continued service.
J G McCullough,
Supt Education Williamsburg
County.
Final Discharge.
Notice is hereby given that on the
16th day of August, 1909, I will apply
to P M Brockinton,Judge of Probate of
Williamsburg county, for a final discharge
as administrator of the estate of
Wesley Gamble, deceased.
DrJ F IIasklden,
7-15-4t Administrator.
SCRAflTOlV SKETCHES.
\ Pythian Picnic?One Sided Game of j
Ball- Personal Paragraphs.
Scranton. July 14:?Mrs W H j -j
Murphy has returned from a'f
visit to her mother at McColl. jj
l)r Covington of Florence was j |
in Scran ton Monday afternoon,
on professional business.
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.\i rs -M ij vrasque is i c[>ui icu
very ill.
Dr C 11 1'ate was recalled to
Bisliopville Saturday to the,
bedside of his sister, Miss Nellie
Tate, who is critically ill
with typhoid fever. Miss Pate i
was taken sick immediately
after her return home from Co-?
luinbia college.
Miss dessie Ilolliday and Master
Johnny of Lamar are vis-J
iting their uncle, Mr A M|
Cooke.
Miss Maude Parker left Monday
afternoon for Anderson,
where she will spend several
weeks with her brother, Mr
II A Parker. Miss Parker was
accompanied by her friend, Miss
Stella Beaty of Charleston.
Miss Beaty will go to Asheville
from Anderson and spend
the remainder of the summer.
Mr and Mrs Frank bturgeon
of Denmark visited the former's
mother in Scranton this week.
There will be a basket picnic
at (Jodwin's mill, on Lynch's
river, Friday, July lf?. The
picnic will be under the aus
pices of the local Pythian lodge.
A number of speakers have
been invited and sora* of them
have accepted the jivitation.
A gala day is in store for all
who attend.
Some time ago the Scranton
baseball team went down to
Salters and played a match
game of ball with the team
there. Scranton got a drubling.
Friday the Salters team came
up to Scranton and engaged the
Scranton team on the local
diamond. The score stood:
Scranton 21?Salters 1.
The line up was as follows:
Scranton. Salters
0 T Knight p J A Mouznn
M Sturgeon c AM Salters
M Knight ' lb WE hitlock
P O K PronL* PA/im?is
IV IVUU^CIO ^ U a t uitn A?vvi(,v
W E Courtney 3 b C E Moseley
Oscar Lee s s .T G Lifrage
Corbit Baldwin c f J G Bryan
0 Ward 1 f S Sturgeon
Roy Ward r f F Winston
The game was enjoyed by the
people of Scranton and the
baiters' boys are welcome to
come up any time.
Mr P M Lee has gone on the
road as a commercial salesman.
A few -knotty" watermelons
were on sale in Scranton Saturday?the
first of the season.
Later?A telegram from I)r
Pate Tuesday afternoon announced
the death of his sister.
Mrs Pate left on the evening
train for Bishopville to attend
the funeral.
Rev Thomas II Leitch, the
well known evangelist, will conduct
a revival meeting at
Scranton the first week in August.
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Summons for Belief
(Complaint not served)
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, f
County of Williamsburg i
C< urt of Common Pleas.
Bank of Lake City, a corporation created
and existing under the laws of
the State of South Carolina, Plaintiff,
/trtninkf
D E Motley, Defendant.
To the Defendant, D E Motley:?
You are hereby summoned and required
to answer the complaint in this
action which has been filed in the
otlice of the Clerk of Court of Common
Pleas and General Sessions for the
County of Williamsburg in the State
of South Carolina, and to serve a copy
of your answer to said complaint on
the subscribers at their office in Lake
City, S. within twenty days after ,
the service hereof, exclusive of the
day of such service; and if you fail to 1
answer the complaint within the time
aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action
will apply to the Court for the relief 1
demanded in the complaint. i
Dated this July 1st, 1909. ,
Bass & Stalvey,
Plaintiff's Attorney, i
To theDefendant, D E Motley:?
Take notice that the complaint in
this action,together with the summons,
of which the foregoing is a copy, was
filed in the office of the Clerk of the
Court of C ommon Pleas and General
Sessions at Klngstree in the County of
Williamsburg and State of South Caro- !
lina on the 3rd day of July, 1909.
, Bass & Stalvey, i
7-S-0t Plaintiff's Attorneys
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A STATE AND GENERAL NtHS. f
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Friday evening, the 8th inst, Mr
Fulton Kelsey, a young business
nan of Augusta, Ga, was swept
rrom his footing and drowned while
bathing in the surf oil Sullivan's
Island.
A despatch from Charleston
states that Charlotte Singleton,
colored, sixty years old, was burned
to death at '> o'clock Thursday
morning 111 a one story hut in
Heinz alley, bv the Ashley river,
having been lirst suffocated from ;
stnoKe and being unable to move)
from her bed.
J?W Messervey, who killed Cou-|
stable Fishburne and fatally woun- '
ded his deputy, J D Altman, at
Ravenel, in Colleton county last
week, has been arrested and lodged
111 Walterboro jail. A special term
of conrt has been ordered to couvene
at "Walterboro, .Judge Shipp
presiding, on August 2 to try Messervey,
Altman died of his ijuries
Friday in a Charleston hospital >?
State Superintendent S^Xia
has issued a call to county suA
tendents of education to meet w. *
bim in Spartanburg Wednesday,
July 14, to consider a number of
important subjects. The conference
will be held at Wotl'ord college.
'1 he Columbia Record has* sent
out this week two automobile scout
cars in a capital-to-couuty tour of
the State in the interest of good
roads. The scout cars started out
Monday, July 12.
Reports from Washington state
that the Florence po3 toflice matter
will be taken up in a few days and
it is hoped that erelong the negro,
Joshua Wilson, will be ousted as
postmaster.
Dr P II Mell, for several years
president of Clemson Jollege, tendered
his resignation to the board
of trustees last Thursday, July 8,
to take effect September 1, 1909.
The board of trustees at their meeting
last week did not act on Dr
Mell's resignation, but decided to
defer action until their next meeting
to be held on August 12.
At the annual meeting of the
Southern Kindergarten association
held in Knoxville, Tenn, Friday,
Miss Marion Hanckel of Charleston
was elected president of the
association. 1
A mill rillorra in Ah.
Ill IU1 WllVil llii a? f Iiiu^v 1*1
beville Sunday L L ""Httersou shot
Mrs Maggie Pem1 twice with a
pistol, then tur he weapon on
himself, shootik >le through his
own head. Mrs Vender is not seriously
hurt. For seme time Patterson,
who is an' "unknown
tongue" preacher, hod been trying
to marry Mrs Pender, who is a
widow and possesses some little property.
A terrible accident occurred at
CLeraw ferry about 10 o'clock Saturday
night, Mr Charles Irby's
wagon, driven by a colored man,
was backed off into the water by the
mule team, drowning the negro
driver, also a negro woman and one
of her two children who were in the
wagon. The other child was rescued.
Governor Ansel has pardoned
Dauiel Zimmeiman, who pleaded
guilty in 1907 to the charge of embezzlement
and was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary, tie
had served a year and a half. Zimmerman,
with one Thos J Gibson,
stole abont 815,000 worth of State
bouds turned in for redemption.
Gibson is under sentence, bat is oat
ou bond on a motion for a rehearing
of the case.
Governor Ansel has offered a reward
for the capture of George
Childs, a negro of Auderson county,
who is wanted for killing his wife
011 the night of September 27, 1908.
Governor Ansel has appointed
Judge John S Wilson to hold a
special term of court at Georgetown
to try the negro, Alfred Jenkins,now
confined at the State penitentiary,
charged with criminal assault on a
young lady school teacher in Georgetown,
June 18, 1909.
Delay in commencing treatment
for a slight irregularity that could
have been cured quickly by Foley's
Kidney Remedy may result in a serious
kidney disease. Foley's Kidney
Remedy builds up the worn out tissues
and strengthens these organs.
D C Scott.
jjjfcBanner |
Warehouse,
Kingstree, S, C.
We solicit the patronage of farmers of Williamsburg, Clarendon
and adjoining counties. We have ample storing and
grading room for Tobacco, with sufficient capital to protect
our customers. We know what buyers want and know every
type of Tobacco that is sold. We are going to give our cus*
tomers the benetit of our experience and with hard, honest
work and fair dealings, we can guarantee top prices on every
pile Tobacco sold with us. A trial is all we ask to convince
the seller that we know our business and that it is to his
advantage to sell his Tobacco at Banner Warehouse. Come (
to see us. j
^ Yours to serve,
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PROPRIETORS.
To the Public: .J
Our Statement rendered to State Bank Examiner under
date of June 23rd shows the following particularly
tine condition for this season of the year
Capital Stock $ 40,000.00
Surplus and Profits 7,500.00
Deposits. 93.000.00
Loans and Discounts 110,000.00 .
Cash 15,000.00
*>rXOT OXE CENT OF BORROWED MOXEl.?^a
ORGANIZED IN 1900.
Have Paid to Stockholders Id Dividends - - - - $6,800.00
We solicit your business; we thank you tor your
patronage.
BANK OF WILLIAMSBURG, 4
KINGSTREE, S. C. jA
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From
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"BLACK BOURBON."
4-year-old "Kentucky Jack"
Now at our Stable. Will be here until October 1st.
815.00
No Colt, No Pav. Come quick.
GREELYVILLE LIVE STOCK COMPANY,
Greelyville, S. C.
W. K. McINTOSH J. C. MOORE
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ram warn,
Kingstree, S. C
TOBACCO PLANTERS:
If you are looking for highest prices and best accommodatioQS
try the Farmers'Waiehouse at Kingstree, S. C. We
wiH have with us as strong a corps of Buyers as any other
market in the State,also Mr W P McGill will be counected
with U3 this season and we are going to make it lively for
both Farmers and Buyers. Come to see lis.
Thanking you in advance for your liberal patronage, we beg '
to remain, Jm
Yours very truly,
McINTOSH & MOORE,
Proprietors.