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fljghe gotmta fte?0fb.gl share uf your business V . ?\ ^ V ^ * i=hare of your business *""' ? | VOL. XXIII. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THIRSOAY. JULY 22, 1909. NO. 19. 3 I <Vs < ? BBBHBDHHIIHHUHHHl s , 1 has been wide c |1 sold in Kingstre /rt'/t?^ ^ Needles. Shuttles end Bob use In All Makes of Sewing M ? A GREAT DAY FOR OLD K1NGSTREE. AUSPICIOUS OPENING OF THE NEW MARKET?A BIG CROWD PRESENT AND EVERYBODY ENTHUSIASTIC. A new era dawned for Kingstree Toes-lav morning when Auctioneer Perry called for bids on the floor of the Banner warehouse. There was - a big crowd present at the inaugura^ tion ot KiDgstree's new enterprise, ^ practically the entire population of the town turning out,besides a large number of people from all parts of Williamsburg and Clarendon counties. The natal day of Kingstive's market was satisfactory in every icspect and everybody concerned speaks with enthusiasm of the auspicious opening. Following is the account of the initiation of the two warehouses as given by the local correspondent of the News and Courier: Kingstree, July 20:?It is a long lane that has no turning. This old towu was for many years asleep, while younger municipalities were stepping briskly along the road to progress. Five years ago she commenced to wake up, and today she proved to fhe world that she is here to do and to hustle. It has been a great day in the history of Kingstree,one to mark with a white stone. The new tobacco warehouses were opened in the presence of practically the entire town and Kiugstree tonight rejoiced in the fact that she has been successfully launched as a tobacco market. When Auctioneer Perry stepped up to the first pile of the leaf in the Banner warehouse and called for bids, he was surrounded by the youth and beauty of the old town, grayhaired men and smiling maids, all there to see a ne?r industry given a successful start, and to wish success to an enterprise that is destined to bring great and beneficial changes in the economic conditions of this community. This time last year there was noth- ! ng to. look forward to as a moneyproducing crop by the farmer except the cotton crop. Today, on the very first sales made, approximately $10,000 has been turned loose in the community. The warehouses, two in number, are built and owned by the Kingstree Tobacco Warehouse i Co, composed of citizens of Kingstree and the immediate surrounding country. The warehouses are each ** 60 feet wide and 150 feet long and * wit in thfl most approved style. One warehouse, known as the Farmers', is leased by Messrs Mcintosh & Moore, and the other, known as the Banner warehouse, is leased by Messrs Slaughter, Epps & Baker. The American Tobacco Co is repre ZiSThe Kingst >pen all the summe :e, at the most REA We i|u4Jte > \ for the" ". v N *- i ] All of om i to make room f< ' '' ?" -J? HI lachines. ^QV^W?V^V^QV-QV^VQV*4^VQVA^vh?V<^VX ? sented by Mr LP Walker and the Imperial Tobacco Co by Mr J S Jenkins. Mr Jenkins bought the first pile sold. Approximately 200,000 pounds of tobacco were sold here today at an average price of 5 cents per pound. This means the paying out of $10,000 to the farmers 1 and the spending of the bulk of this 1 money in and around Kingstiee. f Thp nnfnintr dav Iihs been HUSDic- . -X o ' - ious from every point of view and fixes tile status of King9tree as a market for the warehousing aud sale of tobacco. Both the American and Imperial tobacco companies have recognized it as a market aud will maintain buyers here for the season. Mr Perry is the auctioneer for both houses aud is a veteran at the business. The floors of the warehouses were crowded with sightseers during the auction, almost everv lady iD the town attending. Almost every store in town closed and proprietor and clerk tf>ok two hours off. The town and country around it is going steadilv forward. This spring King stree made the beginning of a truck market Today at one bound she ( made herself a tobacco market. ? OUR FIGURES CORRECT. ? Auditor Clarendon County by Mistake | Gave Rutledge $i,380 toe Much. Mr C W Wolfe, Kiugstree, S C. Dear Sir:?Yours of the 24th inst ' received today asking for total amount of taxable pioperty iu Sandy { Grove township. The total taxable , property in said township is $82,875. ^ This includes the railroad and property paid on by additional. Mr Eaddy was here a few days ago 1 getting up this information, and I s have found since he left thatl made t a mistake of $6,250 in the amount of | the property. This $6,250 is the assessed value of the railroad property and was included in the abstract,and ' I gave it lo him as extra, so he got i $6,250 more than my books show. If you see Mr Eaddy please make this explanation. $82,875 is the correct amount. Yours very truly, A P Burgess, County Auditor Clarendon. Manning, S C, June 25, 1909. Sees Mother Grow Young. "It would be hard to overstate the wonderful change in my mother since 6he began to use Electric Bitters," writes Mrs W L Gilpatrick of Danforth, Me. "Although past 70 she really seems to be growing young again. She suffered untold misery ( from dyspepsia for 20 years. At last j stie could neither eat, drink nor , sleep. Doctors gave her up and all remklies failed till Electric Bitters < worked such wonders for her health." ( They invigorate all vital organs,core Liver and Kidney troubles, induce 1 sleep, impart strength and appetite. Only 50c at D C Scott's. &?ggQgogg?oaQgo?aoaQgQg5 ree Tobacco f T D. RE sr and many sum SOX ABLE PRICES. all the fanners to co M~o to come and se( SUMMER GOODS or Fall stock. D. Rede Two weeks ago we invited the idvance a single convincing re )00ining of the town of Lake laid county is either necessary or ;d, we will undertake to poiut jounty area why it would be i ?r number of them to vote with real estate to sell within Lake City, would profit by i :he enthusiasm attending the t )f Lake City becoming a county subsided and enthusiasm gave ;he tax-payers would realize that ;o the material wealth of their ;he tingling. *f the pocket book md there w come about a nstead of ttv to build up would inevitably discourage the nstead of inviting piospectors wit The country people will find ist county in the State, the i iL. i i: loove me cuusuuiuuuai num., shown by the auditors' books neut, being; over a half a mi Dalhouti county, which 19 now ;rty valuatiou. In the face of )f these tillers of the soil to gai jut there may be much to lose. To support two county governni irea as one must surely increase eason that with but little propei edge people must raise the tax 1 Politically, the new county peoj is iu size aud resources. If we 1 i new county is formed its rej: jembly is inherited from the pi lation. Williamsburg at present ] Legislature. Should Kutledge be jmaller in population, it would c2 representatives and none of Clarec - X_ 1.1 ..^4. as, tne new county >vuuiu uui uih As to roads, under the present every dollar road tax it pays and amount is by levying more taxes, county. The same way with the publi pro rata share of the three mill crease this amount by as much s the constitutional limit. Another connection is this: If the coui retain about three-fourths of the the constitutional school tax of tl of one mill, are distributed pro i it owns railroad property or not the schools and the roads of the (>f about three-fourths of the ^em consider these facts well before th themselves upon your notice shoul vail. We are willing to aimit ;bat 1 larket Opened SDICK: mers before, selli me in and make our si i us after the sales, as " * 11 It ! ^ win t>e sow f\ | ^ lick's Be ^ Qv>^v^/vfcQv>QvQvNQw?v^v^v*Qv^/v^^yQ\ advocates of RuHedge county to , ason?outside of the expectant ] City? whv the fornianou of the' j wise. Since no one has respond- t out to the voters in the new | against the interests ot the great- [ m favor of it. A few people t the limits or the suburbs of t nflated values of their property in lotable achievement of the town | i seat, but when after excitement j place to sane, sober reflection, t nothing had been created to add ( town, the only difference being , nerve caused by higher taxes, ] reaction in fictitious values, and j the town, an exorbitant tax rate j acquiring of property, repelling ] ,h capital to invest. ( themselves in the smallest, poor* ] area containing but a few miles y and the taxable property, as < and comptroller general's state- s llion dollars less than that of c at the foot of the list in prop such conditions what have most n? Nothing, that we can see, I ( ents within practically the same i the expense, and it stands to ' rty to levy taxes on, the Rutevy. i pie will be about as insignificant , inderstand the constitution, when iresentation in the General As- ^ arent county, according to popuhas three representatives in the formed, that county being the irry only one of Williamsburg's idon's. So, then, as it appears to much of a figure politically, ( law each township is entitled to < the only way to increase that regardless of the size of the . c schools?each district gets its ( tax and has the right to in- ] ipecial tax as it chooses, up to point to be considered in this < aty be divided the old part will 1 railroad property. At present, ; iree mills, and also the road tax 'ata in each township, whether Now, if the county be divided, < Rutledge part will suffer a loss 1 eral railroad tax. It is best to '' e election, because they will force ( d the new county scheme pre( iVilliamsburg county is big enough ' July 20*"""* ng the best SUMMI horft their resting i?la we can make it inter* OST for the next irgain 5 to be divided, but our Rutledge i in their haste would forever debar 30unty that stands in greater neet With two daily trains each way an to the court house, Lake City an aear so badly off as Johnsonville line. If the people of either of t Frnvpil infn Rntledcre (for we have ,liey derive little or 110 preseut be ure of their children and grandchi >e formed, Williamsburg can never 10 or 50 miles) to help out new ;ntion be changed. The election is near at hand. J heir choice favorably, the division ior worse, the matter is settled ft Iocs not mean that another atteui] be voted for at almost any til vorthy of tne earnest consideration iamsburg county is prospering to n her history. Every part of the progress aud development. We net highest degree of success. Now, 1 :erned- the greatest good to the < edge county motion on the table, rears? By that time perhaps the piospered so gieatly that even the ay: '-Gentlemen, I was mistaken; nough alone and keep the grand o Notice to Farmers i I will be at the following places { >n and after September 1 next, rep esenting Mavbank & Co, cotton j 3uyers: Greelyville, Salters Depot,) Lanes, Gourdins and all points on | ;he Georgetown & Western Railroad. iVill pay highest market price for four cotton. J F Scott. Kingstree, S C, July 1, 1909. 7 1 3m 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 ispecially good for Piles. Sold by D 3 Scott. Herealter we positively refuse to publish any communication received at this office later than Tuesday, noon, except local and personal items, which will not be available later than Wednesday, noon, for the current week. By trying to be accommodating we are thrown late every week and we are tired of it. This notice applies to RVF.RY BODY. 4 f 5-1 f. Tributes of respect,obituaries, :ards of thanks and all communications of a personal nature, not news, are charged for at the :rate of one cent a word. GO-FLY keeps flies off Horses md Cattle. 25c and 50c. At all Irug stores. 6 3 lOt !R OOODS ever ^ sting for them. |j 30 DAYS I Jtore. I friends are a little premature and from relief that part of the I of it. 5* d rot over a ^5 Or 20 mile drive -yid surrounding territory are not and up around the Clarendon lio loot' torn ariftirviQ nomiu^ ,ut lacv v n v gvuviv 'M no idea they wiil go willingly) :iiefit and they mortgage the faildren forever. If Kutledge county j be cut again (except a trifle of ^ counties, unless the State constif two-thirds of the voters expreso will be made and, for better or )r all time. A defeat this year it cannot be made. A new county * > aie, but it is a momentous queetiot, .< of our ablest counsellors, WiL an extent never approached before county tells a tale of industrial > ^d to pull together to attain the wouldn't it be better for all conjreatcst number?to lay this Rut- m or postpone jt for ar least four .; county would have ilourished and most ardeut new eountyite would the people did J' ght to let well Id county's integrity nubroken." DR. A. H. WILLIAMS " 1 CALLED UPON | ? 1 TO REDEEM HIS PLEBGE TO PEOPLE OF JOHNSONVTUF AS TO COURT HOUSE AM JAIL Editor County iiecord: ? At a meeting held at Johnsonville about eighteen months ago,wheu the movement looking -o the formation j of lLutledge county was tirst being agitated, Dr A Ji Williams of Lake City, who wa3 present at the said meeting, in addressing the audience, made the following pledge: / ,1 ti .1 . ? r ? i win promise yoa tnat n i^aKe City lays ilowa upon me in this matter and does not put up sufficient funds?not promises but Cash^?to * build a good court house and jaittftor the election is ordered I will come out in the public prints and notify the people and advise them opt to vote for the new county, and T will not vote for same myself." Now, Doctor, as the election has been ordered, we who heard you make the foregoing solemn promise call upon you to redeem your pledge. Has the money been put up, and if so, what amount? (Signed) S 13 I'ostox, D X Johnson, W H Harmon, Gko W Davis, Walter C Wilson, (} W Johnson. Kingstree, S C, July 14, 1900.