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I I ac County $ccotd. I \ KINGSTREE. S. C .C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. I D itered at the postoflice at Kingstree. B S C, as second class mail matter, TERMS B SUBSCRIPTION RATES: H One copv. one vear II 25 B copy, six "mouths 75 B n copy, three monts 50 BB copy, one year in advance ? 1 00 B bituaries.. Tributes of Respfect, B olutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks I all other reading notices, not B ws. will be charged for at the rate BR pne cent a word for each insertion. I iURSDAYi JULY 29. 1909. BH Opponents of the scheme to form Dillon county by cutting nlolm .Kuf flic I jLl^UUU ill IWU, tlOIUI luui part cut of! for the new county ^ioes not contain the 400 square ttailes required by the constitution A3 the minimum area for a new county. To te3t the official survey Jof Messrs Hamby aud Beatty, they [employed Surveyor Howard Wiswall of Charleston, who found ^'several large errors" made by Hamby and Beatty, which would oat the Dillon territory below the ^constitutional area required. It will be remembered that one of these surveyors, Mr Hamby, was (employed with Mr Oliver to make HHthe official survey for the proposed utledge county. If ic be proved .at the survey was wrong in ^H^Iarion county, it is not improbSB able that similar errors were made iu the Rutledge survev. Withonlv V four miles and a fraction to spare, a very small error would HH( reduce the area below the limit. We shall watch with interest the 9^1 outcome of the Marion controversy. A very important election will be held to-morrow in our neigh. H bor town. Lake City: an election that wall bring distinct advantages to the school, besides increasing HB its revenue several hundred dol lars annually. All this is to be Pm had, if we understand the ques||M tion, merely for the asking in the form of an electiou. The high I I school question will undoubtedly be answered in the affirmative by the |Bi people of Lake City, who are loyal to the school, and we are surprised that they have neglected the Opportunity so long to merge their graded school mt'? a high school with all the attendant advantages of increased |.re6tige, broader curricnlum and higher standard of scholarship. The election will doabllMS be carried unanimously for the high school, there being absolutely no excuse to vote against * against it, and we hope to see a big vote polled as an emphatic endorsement of this step forward I in the way of educational progress. Attorney General Lyon is making some pretty rank decisions lately, which are causing amusement among really capable attorneys over the State. Only a short while ago he rendered a decision which had the effect of closiDg the books of registration in this county thirty-three days be ifore the ensuing electious, when the law distinctly provides that the books shall be closed thirty days before the date of the election. This decision on the part of Mr Lyon has practically disfranchised a considerable number of white men, citizens of Williams burg county, who, bad they been given a fair deal, would have been entitled to cast their votes in two very important elections. Mr Lyon's latest abortive effort to construe a very simple and plainly worded act of the Legislature is set fsrth in a press clipping from ?WT?YT>?WWWm>Y | y " j I ^ 5 A / ? -\ I I .? / I :l?y ib. For the bene count}' ot Rutlec them guilty of a print fac simile < The photograph Having only emanating from symmetrical litt1 offset the many ] Several of our cc the term fits. Foi any given point length to be 8 3 ^ across ai me nai 5 width shows for ^ line the distance ^ On the whol ^ which has come ?M*MWAMMMAAMW, the News and Courier, which ap- j ^ p?ars elsewhere in this issue. j ^ ===== Uy We understand that the Rut-jaj ledge county promoters are claiming that the Williamsburg part of je the Paroda railroad should be in- Q| eluded in their territory. Well, cj. give it to them and it only adds gy AAA i _ il 9-1,uvu 10 ineir property vaiuauuu. liemember, the auditor's aud the comptroller general's figures show ed Kutledge to be more than half a he million dollars poorer than the St poorest county in the State, so it that, comparatively speaking, a g> thousand dollars more or less is a mere drop in the bucket. . to The city of Florence was bond- ki ed iu 188b for $24,000 to build fa a court house and jail. They built it then at that figure, but that was twenty years ago when labor j; and building material were at least 100 per cent cheaper than today. A r>rknsprv?t.ive business man of ^ Florence county expressed the ^ opinion less than a month ago in ^ our presence that these buildings would cost not less than $50,000 gi on the basis ot present high prices M of labor and material. . G Suppose that the town of Florence did erect the public build- ai S ings in that county, that is no evidence that Lake City will bond the town and put up a court i ?a _:i T ~i.,. ? OOUSt U11U jail. vibj io w bonded to the limit already and cl the two cases are not analogous, ^ anyway. Lee county and Calhoun county, where the people were ^ fooled by mere promises and pledges, would bear more directly W upon the present situation. se . b< i The people in the lower part p< 1 of the county will take care ofl? I f rvvwyvwvwyywwywyvt^ at' v /?J ? < y Mwgj? / / t 4 \V t J M/S Proposed RUTLI F|t*tOO< WtUJAMSBURO * C CO?TAni*$ rncao&??4 nrti A "SHOE ifitof all parties concerned ?rlit Ige. Lest we be accused ot 'sub ny kind of sharp practice, we ^ of the official map, which was s camera does not lie, hence the recently been able to obtain a the new county promoters as t le county" that we were led points against it. But we w< irrespondents this week refer t convenience of our readers th to another, all one has to do is 1 inches. Multiply 8 3-4 by 4 a rowest part and we have just i itself. From Lake City to Smi is only seven miles. e the claim of a "nice, compact to be a joke. lis county seat question when ley see fit to trv for their coun " . The taxable property may not 1 be there now, but it is bound > come in a few years. If Rutdge county be formed all hope ' relief for these people and their lildreu's childreu is buried forer. Miss Kstella Smoak, the fair itor of the Branchville Journal, came Mrs G B Herndon on last indav evening. We extend felic* <o ations and wish both bride and "oom much happiness. Some men fail from knowing 10 little, but more tail from [lowing too much, and still more til from knowing it all. A Card. ditor County Record:? Please allow me space in your pair to reply to the statement of Mr K Feagin of Harper concerning le game of ball played between ioody or Spring Gully aud ChopT nn, nnf n/Minorno^ in the inaf. X, x am uvt uuuvvtuvu ?u vmv 4uM? r personally, but only reported the ime on information obtained from [r II A Wheeler, who is one of the ayers of the Moody or Spring ully team. Hoping that this will acquit me of ly seeming intention to misrepreut the affair, I am, Respectfully yours, Red Coon. Note?The question of whether it as Spring Gully or Moody baseball ub that played Choppee a game of ill some time ago on the Morrisville amond is of small interest to the jneral public. In the immediate loility affected the facts are doubtss known to everyone concerned, ^e think, then, that the further obouies of the game referred to may i omitted without serious disapjintment to most of our readers.? iditor The Record. i < e^J COUMTY Bridge (|S??aaro? C *S ? UKE CITY 38QljS ft. i 9 [P i? c EDGE COUNTY, o ' Pomowor *? ZLARCNOOfl COUKTiCS*04 *??.* niLS Ot.ivt* ] STRING" ( ?ther for or against the new county >stitution by some people who are vill explain that the cut published ent to Mr 11 B Smith, the chairmai map must be a correct copy of the copy of the Rutledge county m o what it looked like on paper. V to hope that the map wculd show s ;re distinctly disappointed when o Rutledge as a "shoe string'' cour e map is drawn to a scale of four i to measure the inches and multipl md we have 35 miles as the extreir ibout nine miles, while the widest ith Mills is 24 miles, an air line: wl ;, symmetrical little county'" falls ; MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMAAAAAA m SAGE OF POSSUM FORK Talks Right Out in Meetly Rutledge County Neither Needet <ot-ianted. Editor Couuty Record:? 1 suppose we must dance to the tune of about $2,000 as expenses of surveying the "shoe string" meant tor Rutledge county. But we beg to be excused from dancing to the music of the new county itself. You struck the key note in your "Why Rutledge County?" in the last issue of The Record. And, too, your level-headed, philosophic correspondent "Majority Man" is right. No good will come to the masses by means of the new county except Lake City and surrounding country, and even that is doubtful. We don't want the new county; don't need it in its present shape, and seeing no other practical way to cut it, we pronounce it no good and don't intend to have it if we can help ourselves. And it is said that our section has been taken ad. vantage of in that some of the Lake City folks 'phoned to the Governor and caused him to stop our registration officers three days ahead of time and prevented about fifty of our citizens from obtaining registration certificates, and then bragged about it. Now, Mr Editor, is that fair? We ought to have a square vote and a fair count. Let's sift the matter; everybody come out to the temper?npp ninnin on the 12th of AugU8t ?? r- ? u lit Johnsonville Graded school house. Bat don't forget to come to the election on the 17th of August armed with tax receipts and registration certificates, and if the new county fails to materialize, Lake City will not be hurt if she will take her court house money and build that trolley line and connect herself with the country aronnd Possum Fork. The best pills made are DeWitt's Little Early Hisers, the famous lit. tie liver pills. They are small, gentle pleasant, easy to take and act promptly. They are sold by D C Scott. s / & * <* <4 ( \ 1 'w v 3; ffi I jOUNTY . 1 j, we publish this week a map of the proposed ^ ready to believe one who differs honestly Irom ^ j _ r i u is maae irom a rcuuccu piioiugrapu ui iijc uiuc ^ 1 of tbe election commission for Iiutledge county. 5 : original. ^ ap, we were dependent wholly upon reports ^ ie had heard so much of that "nice, compact, . >ome argument in favor of the new county to ^ we actually beheld the much-talked-of map. ^ lty, and anyone can see at a glance how well ^ miles to the inch; hence, to get the distance troui ^ y by four. For instance, the rule shows the ^ , te length of the proposed county. Now, measure J place in only about thirteen miles. The average ^ hile to the nearest point west to the Clarendon ^ is Hat as that of the vast resources of Iiutledge, ^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . ? * . . ? . i . i t i t . I i t l 1 1 1 l I 1 1 I 1 i 1 1 I i A i i i i A To the Public: , 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 Stack $ 40,000.00 Surplus and Profits 7,500.00 Deposits. 93,000.00 Loais and Discounts 110,000.00 task 15,000.00 *$rNOT ONE CENT OF BORROWED MONEY.-** ORGANIZED IN 1906. \ Have Paid to Stockholders in Dividends - - - - $6,800.00 We solicit your business; we thank you tor your patronage. BUNK OF WILLIAMSBURG, KINGSTREE, S. C. W. K. MclNTOSH J. C. MOORE Farnsrs' Warehouse, Kingstree, S. C TOBACCO PLANTERS: 1 If you are looking for highest prices and best accommodations try the Farmers'Waiehouse at Kingstree, S. C. We will have with us as strong a corps of Bayers as any other market in the State,also Mr W P McGill will be connected with us this season and we are going to make it lively for both Farmers and Buyers. Come to see us. T anking you in advance for your liberal patronage, we beg to remain, Yours very truly, McINTOSH & MOORE, Proprietors. I /