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A VARIETY OF NEWS ;
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Ten ditl'erent courses leading to the degrees of A. B. and B. S. College
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Forty-two scholarships, each worth $100 in cash and free tuition. 9
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