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r a* ts. ? (red E RED RAVEN HOf ?p Stockings are a combinatioi S? so desirable when Oxfords i ' ? RED RAVEN HOSIER1 E ABSOLUTE SATTSFaCTIO rr Red Raven Hosiery cor i ki A VARIETY OF NEWS ; i j rnnii | ll/p titv ' mum lahc om., ELECTION OF SUPERINTENDENT OF,! SCHOOL?ANNUAL MEETING BANK OF LAKE CITY. j. Lake City, July 20:?Rev and ] Mrs W B Baker passed through town one day last week on ' their way to Lamberts and i Rome, where they will spend < about two weeks with their children, Dr II L Baker and j < Mesdames Walter Hemingway! and Itly Wilson. They were,' accompanied by their daughter, j< Miss Carrie Baker. Mr Baker ' is now in charge of a circuit in Marion county. Mr Harvey Hand of Columbia, after an interval of three weeks, spent Sunday last in this town. Mrs Emily Severance, Miss i ? * 11' I Cecil Severance, .urs j nuyu and Miss Violet Askins are at Saluda, X C, tor some weeks. Mrs W E Severance is visiting" at her old home. Laurinburg, NC. Mesdames L O llollowa}', II V Epps and D M Epps and children are at Asheville, X C, for the season. Miss Ruby Severance is visiting her sister, Mrs George Brothers, in Florence. Mrs W L Askins and Miss Nellie Beavers have gone to New-nan. Ga, to visit relatives. Miss Nonie Cuthbert of Charleston is spending some time with her cousin, Miss Laura Yates. Mrs II G Askins came up from Kingstree Sunday and spent the day in town. Mr A T Davis has been elected superintendent of the graded school. Mr Davis, who is a professional teacher of some ten years' experience, was from Marion originally. He is now taking the summer course in pedagogics at the University of Virginia. With the election ot Mr Davis the corps of teachers is completed. The trustees have been very careful in their selections and it is hoped with confidence that they have secured a faculty every member of which will give entire satisfaction and a faculty that will remain unchanged for a number j of years. Frequent changes of j teachers will never result inj building up a good school. \V L Bass. Esq, and daughter, Miss Sallie, spent a few days last week in Darlington county with kiufolks. There will be an election held here on the 30th instant upon the question of the establishment of a high school. The notice in another column gives the particulars. Clerk II 0 Britton was in town last Tuesday afternoon on business. There are at least four applicants for the competitive ex amination to fill the vacancy from this county in the Citadel Academy. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Bank of Lake City was held on the 12th instant at the banking house. The regular dividend of eight per cent was declared and the surplus and undivided profits mwimmrommmmmmmnr RAVE >IERY. A ]>rud uct of North Cii [i of quality and beauty, made po; ire worn. The Men's Hose are ju: V IS GUARANTEED TO V X, For '"very pair that does not nes in both Black and Tan NGSTRE iUitiUUiUUUiUiUttUlUUUUUii increased by the balance of the profits above such dividends. The affairs of the institution J; were found in i^ood shape and in condition to do as ?-ood business as at any time since the founding of the bank. The old 1 directors, to wit: Messrs A II Williams, J 1> Dullant. H Vj Kpps. .1 A (ireen and W T As-: kins, were unanimously re-elec-1 ted and .Mr h 0 llolloway was elected as the seventh member, ritr Mr W .1 Sin^letar}', de:eased. A II Williams, W T Askins and W L Bass were re-1 elected president, vice president and solicitor, respectively. Mr E \V Yates declined re-election as cashier, and Mr (ieo C Haselton was chosen to fill that position. Mr C S Lucas, e.\treasurer of Florence county, was elected assistant-cashier. % * ' 1 1 - ? ? ? iL 41, ,% b/ii r 31 r i ates retires wiui mc utility wishes of every stock-holder and officer that his remaining years may be spent in peace and prosperity. The announcement made some months ago that no depositor or customer of the bank shouuld suffer to the extent of one penny on account of the defalcations of one of its late employees has been made good to the letter. Mrs J 1> Duliant went to Hendersonville Tuesday for a stay of several weeks. Mr W B Gause, ex-representative of Florence county was here Saturday last. W L B. Foley's Honey and Tar not onlv stops chronic coughs that weaken the constitution and develop into consumption, bat heals and strengthens the lungs. It affords comfort and relief in the worst cases of chronic bronchitis, asthma, hay fever and ung trouble. I) C Scott. "M i _ j r roamed i/opy Did the Trick. Xjil? f dH^ 1 "MARKED COPY" ou a newspaper wrapper is sure to make the receiver open and read. Last year a southern man bought fifty copies of his local paper containing a suggestion for a factory location, marked them and mailed them to fifty Individuals or concerns that might be interested. Result: Twelve immediate inquiries, fhr. p nronositions fee the factory site, one thriving factory located which today pays wages to 1T7? persons living In that town. Watch this paper for such opportu I titles to BOO If YOUR TOWN. If you want engraved visiting cards or wedding invitations we are prepared to fill your order guaranteeing satisfaction | and price. See our samples I before ordering. j \ i mmmmmmmmmmmromr Wo are Kingst N QUA! irolina, of which all Southerners > ssible only by the use of tine cotb -t wliat you want for looks, comb VEAR, Not to t^ive fair satisfa< wear you ijfet new ones. Six pai for Women, sizes 8 to 10. f E DRY UUii UUiUUUiUiUlUUiiUiUUtti j Paying Him Out. A boy went into a baker'? shop ! for a threepenny loaf. Thinking! that the loaf was rather small, he! remarked to the baker. smiling: ! "You liave not weighed it." "Oh. yon never mind that." said i the baker. "It won't be so heavvj to carry." "All right." said the bov, putting twopence halfpenny on the counter and walking to the door. The baker called after him: "Here, hoy! 1 want another halfpenny." "Never mind that." said the hov. "It will he less for you to count."? Illustrated Bits. Lead Shot. We owe lead shot to Watts, a Bristol plumher. who dreamed that while repairing a church roof his foot slipped and a ladle of molten lead that he was rnrrying*fell to the ground and that < n descending to recover his juoperty he found that the metal had assumed, instead of the silver plaque he had expected, tlie form of countless minute globules. Curiosity led him next day to repeat, so far as he could, the accident of his dream. A like result .,,,.1 -Hir> liicL-v' drenmer ul XU1UMM \i. ami i j i\ ? - timatolv made a handsome fortune. ?London Chronicle. Notice of Election. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, , Williamsburg County. \ j Pursuant to the following proclamation, notice is hereby given that an election upon the question of creating a new county out of portions of Williamsburg and Clarendon counties, and also upon the question of a name and county seat of the same, will be held on the 17th day of August, 1909, in the following precincts and at the voting places being within the area of the proposed new county to be cut off to form the same. For the purpose of conducting the said election, the following managers have been appointed for the various precincts and following places named: Cades-R F Epps, E H Sauls, R E Tarte. Hebron Church?H. A. Kennedy, C S Smith. W H DuBose. McAllister's Mill?A W Rodgers, H H Baldwin, S J Kirbv. Scrtnton?P S Wall, R B Cannon, T q m Q r T op Muddy Creek-E W Davis. \Y T. McDaniel, G W Johnson. Popkir Hill?B B Chancer, Walter n-"? r> r> DriLlUII, \j V/ uiaiiaiii. Prospect Church?J. J. Eaddy, Robt. | F. Brown, Walter Poston. Indiantown?C C Daniel, P. D. Snowden. W. R. Graham. Vox?E F Prosser, D P DuRant, Richard Cox. Lake City?C F Flowers, J J Morris, Henry E Godwin. The managers appointed and herein named will call and get the ballot boxes ana ballots and all necessary papers pertaining to the proper conduct of such election. Ballot boxes will be delivered at the court house Friday preceeding the election, 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. N. D. Lesesne, W. E. Hanna, J. L. Gowdy, Commissioners of Election. PROCLAMATION. State of South Carolina. Executive Department. Whereas, petitions signed by more than one-third of the qualified electors of those portions of Williamsburg, Clarendon and Florence counties proposed to be cut off to form a new county (commonly known as Rutledge county) and embracing the territory therein described, were filed with me, as Governor of the State, asking that said portion of said counties be permitted to vote on the establishment of a new county and; Whereas, subsequent thereto an amendment was allowed by me eliminating from the proposed new county that portion of Florence county which was set out in the petition, and* adding a small portion of Williamsburg county, and; Whereas, I appointed commissioners as required by the act of 1905 to ascertain and report upon the allegations of the petition and to employ surveyors to m?ilro a cnrvpv and man of the DroDOsed new county, which survey and map embraces the following lines and territory, to wit: Beginning at a point where the Clarendon and Williamsburg connty line ini tersects Pudding Swamp; thence up j said Pudding Swamp to the mouth of Douglas Swamp; thence up said Dougj las Swamp to tne Clarendon and Florence county line at Hudson's Mill; thence running said Clarendon and Florence county line in an easterly direction (the Centennial Road being said county line) to the Williamsburg and Florence county line on said roaa; thence running said Williamsburg and Florence county line to the juncture of Lynches / nmmmmmmmmmmmmmn ree Agents for MNTEEE diould be proud. Hosiery excellen on and linen yarns and pure dye. ineu with service and hard wear. ;tion, but to wear longer tlian any rs are warranted to be enough for < )rice 25c a pair. For Hen in UUUI7U WWWWWUUmMWliWWMWi River and Great Pee Dee River; thence down said Great Pee Dee River to the Williamsburg and Georgetown county linenear Smith's Mill; thence down the Williamsburg and Georgetown county line to Black Mingo Creek; thence up said Black Mingo Creek to Black Mingo j Swamp; thence up the channel of said j Black Mingo Swamp to Paisley Swamp; I thence up the channel of said Paisley 1 Swamp to White Oak Swamn; the channel of said White Oak S. a point where the old railroad gra? the projected railroad from Cades I Georgetown crosses said swamp; thence running the centre of said old railroad grade to a point where the centre of of said oid railroad grade intersects with a line running at right angles with the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, said line crossing said railroad at a point forty-two thousand three hundred and forty feet (42.340 ft.) from the Court House building of Williamsburg county located at Kingstree, S. C.; continuing from said intersection of said old raiiroad grade and said line a straight line at right angle to said rail- j road, crossing the same forty-two thous- [ and three hundred and forty feet (42,340 ft.) from said Court Housebuilding, j and continuing thence to its intersection with a straight line connecting the corner stake, X 3 N, nine thousand six j hundred and ten feet (9,610 ft.), located ! N 71 degrees, 33 minutes W, from the intersection of the A. C. L. R, R. with the southern boundary of the town of Cades, and aTpolnt on the public, highway leading from Spring Bank Road to Kingstree, S. C., forty-three thousand feet (43,000 ft.) from Williamsburg county court house building; thence a straight line to its intersection with * said public highway leading to King- Vs stree, S. C. at a point forty-three j thousand feet (43,000) from the Court i House building of Williamsburg county j located in the town of Kingstree, S. C.; j thence a straight line to the said inter-; section of the said Clarendon and Williamsburg county line and Pudding Swamp, the beginning point. And whereas, the boundaries of the proposed new county, the number of inhabitants, the taxable property, as shown by the last tax returns, and that the proposed lines do not run nearer than eight miles to any court house building now established, are also set forth in said petition. And whereas, the report of the commission appointed by me to ascertain the facts provided for in the Acts of 1905 as to whether the requirements of the Constitution a'- o area, distance, wealth, populate et cetera, have been complied ; ^as been filed,stat -? l, j Kmn fnllv nnm. 1I1? Uiai tiiC it . WWII * v..v plied with, and ^ number of square miles in the proposed new county (commonly known as Rutledge county) is four hundred and four and 94-100 (404 94-100) square miles, leaving to , the county of Williamsburg more than five hundred (500) square miles and to (5 the county of Clarendon more than five hundred (500) square miles. Now therefore, I, M. F. Ansel, as Governor of the State of South Carolina, by virtue of the power conferred upon me by the constitution and laws of this (j State, do hereby order that an election * be held in the territory embraced with- ^ in the proposed new countv on the 17th ^ day of August, A. D. 1909, upon the ? question of creating the said new coun- ^ ty and that at such election the quali- ^ fied electors within the proposed area 1 shall be allowed to vote upon said ques- J tion, those favoring the proposed new county to vote "yes" and those opposed ?? to vote "No." ^ That the commissioners of State and M county elections of the counties of Wil- 3 liamsburg and Clarendon respectively 5 shall make all necessary arrangements A for holding said election, shall appoint i managers and do all other things neces- J sary for the holding of said election; 5 that the county supervisors of the said counties respectively shall have pre- * pared printed tickets and furnish same ^ to the commissioners of election to be sent out to the manage-sof election for ^ the use of the voters. ^ That at the said election the question <+ of a name and a county seat for such * county shall also be submitted to the M said qualified electors. * That said election shall be held under the same rules and regulations as are ^ provided by law for regular county elec- ? tions; that the managers shall be ^ sworn before entering upon the dis- ^ charge of their duties ana shall open the polls at seven o'clock in the morn- ^ ing and keep the same open until four ^ o'clock in the afternon, when the polls * shall be closed, the votes counted, a ^ return of the number of votes polled ?, 1 for and against, signed and certified to by the managers of election which to- * I gether with the ballot box, ballots and ^ I poll list, shall be turned over to the /j commissioners of election, as reguired ^ by law; that the commissioners or election shall then, as now required by law, tabulate the vote and make return thereof to the Governor of the State and to the Secretary of State, and file _ a copy of same in the office of the 1 clerk of court of common pleas for each j " of said counties of Williamsburg and 1 Clarendon. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great j Seal of the State to be affixed at Co- j lumbia this eighth day of July in the j year of our Lord one thousand, nine I knnriro/i nnr) ninp of the indenendence! . of the United States of America the 1 one hundred and thirty-fourth. c M F Ansel, Governor, j By the Governor: "R M McCown [seal], Secretary of State. 7-15-2t j / / ?????????? ?????^ ) hosiery!, ce not Dossessed by any other Hosiery made. Red Rayen ^5 The Women's Ilose have the high class, silky appearance other kind equally fine in texture, and to jrive the wearer ?3 one year's wear. Black and Tan, sizes 9 1-2 to II 1-2, 25c a pair H3 COflPANY 1 j mmUuiunuiiiaiaunuaauiuiammiHuauniamnuuu^ -CUM If IB COUNTY!? , 7" r?: * We invite you to see our line ot i Piedmont, Durham, Goldsboro and Carolina BUCCIES AND SURREYS. The famous and well known ! RUSSELL AND WEBER WAGONS- j None better than the McCormick Mowers and Rakes A lar<,re and select line of HARNESS SADDLES. WHIPS AND SUMMER ROBES. PRICES AND TERMS REASONABLE. Yours to please, Williamsburg Live Stock Co, Kingstree, S, C. i> @ Most Any Bank Can handle your business after a fashion, when times are A good and money easy. When times are hard and ^ money tight you feel the need of a business connection with a 4 ^mTiAxrn a vrn DV.r.T ART.F T>,\\K iuu, OJ ilv^i.iv.1 n.i.w Do your banking business and make your credit good l,swith the OLDEST BANK IN WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY, THE BANK OF KINGSTREE. RESOURCES ----- $200,000.00 D. C. Scott, N. D. Lesesne, F. W. Fairey, President. Asst. Cfcshier. Cashier. 3) ? j BIG REDUCTION ? ^ JN! VERSITY SOUTH CAROLINA 1 SCHOOLS OF <flj Arts, Law, I Science, Engineering and I Education, Graduate Studies. fl Ten ditl'erent courses leading to the degrees of A. B. and B. S. College ces, room and light, $66. Board, $12 per month. Tuition remitted in special H ases. H Forty-two scholarships, each worth $100 in cash and free tuition. 9 For catalogue address H S C MITCHELL, President, 9 7-l-6t Columbia, S C ^9 IN > ^ \ LADIES' WAISTS. | t ON ACCOUNT OF OVERSTOCK. $ \ urn a dt? APrrDTTO ATItt T\T. ^ ' 1 C It JTj AlllJ lfl'1 JLiUlllDI V L II JUA1- ^ | TIRE LINE OF UP-TO-DATE | i I LINGERIES AND FINE MUS-| j | LINS AT COST. | I [ J. 5. ERON.jj !>VVWVVVVVYYVVW^ 1