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Ihc (Tountu ^Record. KINGSTREE. S. C l C. W. WOLFE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Entered at the postoftice at Kingstree. i S C. as second class mail matter. TERMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: I One copy, one year $1 25, One copy, six months 75 One copy, three monts 50 j Ore copy, one year in advance ? i w ] Obituaries. Tributes of Respect, j Resolutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks and all other reading notices, not News, will be charged for at the rate of one cent a word for eachinsertion. THURSDAY, SEPT. 2. 1909. Misleading Headlines. The News anfl Courier headlioe artist should brush up on the State constitution or simple arithmetic, a slip-up in one or the other causing him to headline the report of the Rutledge election recount sent by the local correspondent of the paper : "Rutledge County Wins? Recount Shows 604 for and 338 against" No: Rutledge oounty does not even questionably win on that recount, not even if all the doubtful vnJ-M Against the nroDosition be ""~0 t l thrown out. With 388 admittedly legal votes against the formation of the new county, it would require just 776 votes, in favor of it which is 172 more than 604. The Law Too Stringent. A correspondent asks the editor of the Orangeburg Times & Democrat the following pertinent question: ''If it is unlawful to have liquor in my possession for personal use. will I break one of the laws of the State of South Carolina if I bay a bottle of whiskey for my own use when the county dispensary opens and sells it to me?" The Orangeburg editor answers, no: but a careful reading of the prohibition law now in effect in the counties which have recently voted out the dispensaries makes it appear that a literal construction of the law would bring about such a paradoxical condition as the Times & Democrat's correspondent suggests. The contingency referred to is one of inauy impleasant consequences following the strict enforcement of a prohibition law, the stringency of whose provisions appears to be out of all reason and utterly impractical. If real prohibition be uvuu I\A. liiv lic^iciauut duvuiu enact a law whose provisions can be enforced without conflicting with the inalieuable rights of a citizen, tending to cause friction ?.nd strife by investing with too much authority officers who may be employed to enforce the law. The news that the North Pole ha3 been discovered by Dr Frederick A Cook suggests to the mind of the ordinary man the question: 'What will he do with it?" Ob, You Kid! Kutledge county was de-l "houn can still sing the 's darling, papa's pet, d tht- baby yet."? all. \iick!?A Salve? 'e of TOWN DEMOCRATIC CLUB RE ORGANIZES. Mayor and Aldermen Warmly Endorsed lor Re-election. On Tuesday evening the Town Democratic Club met at the court house at the appointed hour, President Philip 11 Sloll presiding. The following ofticers for the ensuing- term were duly elected: President, Philip II Stoll; Vice President, E C Epps: Secretary, 111) Mills. | Executive Committee: C W Wolfe. H E Montgomery, L W Gilland, L Stackley, Lelloy Lee. Committee on enrollment: C C J Burgess, L J Stackley, S C An| derson. j A primary election was ordered to be lield Tuesda}r, September 14, 1909. I The following resolution was ; offered and unanimously adoptled: Whereas, we, the citizens ot ! Kingstree and members of the Town Democratic Club in meeting assembled, wish to publicly express our appreciation of the splendid work of the present mayor and town council, and feeling that their official services are too valuable to lose,and that the town could ill afford to hinder its progress and advancement, which is now in progress under their supervision, Therefore, be it resolved, That this, the Town Democratic Olub, does hereby endorse their administration and recommends that they be continued in office. R D Mills, Secretary. ScrdDton Sketches. Scranton, August 31:?Owing to belated orders the local dispensary was not opened today nutil noon. Amongst the first purchasers were some of those who voted for prohibition. When chided by the dispenser they frankly confessed that they did tUn forma nf UV/t IUJ UC1 OUtUVI tuv, UlUOViV Wl kuw va. the prohibitory law before they voted and said that if they had understood them they would have voted for the t retention of the dispensary. There is now iu the local dispensary about $7,000 worth of wet goods, and, judging frcm the highest monthly sales heretofore made, it is not at all likely that more than two-thirds of this stock will be disposed of at retail by November 15. Dr W S Lynch and Kev W H ; Murphy have returned from a trip ; to the capital city. Messrs W W Singletary, G G Haselden and Miss Maude Parker at! tended the Educational Rally at i Kingstree today. Dr C H Pate returned from Flori ence this morning,where he attended ' at the bedside of Mrs Pate, who is ill ! with typhoid fever at McLeod's in* ' firmary. Mr R L Lee has returned from i Johns Hopkins hospital, where he | was receiving medical treatment. Messrs P 31 Leo and R F McKnight left last night for Georgia on a business trip. Mr T B Johnson is in North Carolina on a business mission. Mrs T B Lee and children of : Charleston are spending some time in Scranton. Running a Newspaper. I Jim Jones was an editor?that is, he tried to be; He bought liimselr a jirintln* press an' j started in to see Just what there was in euitin, but when he canvassed 'round Some fifteen hundred editors in that same town tie found? They alt kn?w more about it than he could hope to know; They told him: "You must run her, Jones, just so, an' so, an' so! i Be sure an' boom the Baptists?they're to help you out, An' give the good old Methodists a big salvation shout! "Give every man a notice; be sure an' pnt it down Whenever Major Jinks is seen perambulatin' town; Put in a few free locals fer all the stores, an' give Away some free subscriptions if you want your sheet to live." Well, Jones, he did just as they said, for fear thev'd make a row: But the more he tried to please 'em all, the more they told him how! *Tntil at last he took his book an' laid it on the shelf, ' ran the paper in the ground an' ''ered it himself! ? Atlanta Constitution .pers for sale cheap by .xUiidred at The Record ce. H STATE AND GENERAL NEWS. ? Hrr^^-rr-rrT^rTTTT^rTt^rT^TT:!1* To help meet the large dehcit in the revenue of the postoffice department Postmaster General Hitchcock has announced that the fee for registering a ' ' " ? parcel will he advanced from eight to ten cents as soon as the plan of the department becomes an official order. Six prostrations from the intense heat occurred in three days in Chaileston last week. Policeman V Z Burton shot and mortallv wounded Julius Smith, a negro hack driver, Saturday night in Columbia for fast driving. Charles Cleaves, auother Degro, was also shot and killed in Columbia Saturday v . * r\nr* m T If mgnt oy umcer 1 o i on ior retsisting arrest. Charles Davis,a negro, was assassinated Friday night while walking along the railroad track near Branchville, going home from his work. A load of bnckshot was fired into Davis' body causing instant death. No clue to the murderer has yet developed. J W Crawford of Donalds, Abbeville county, who has been practicing medicine without license and also running a large hospital, was arrested Monday at the instigation of the State board of medical examiners. The city of Monterey, Mexico, was swept by a fhxft last week causing the loss ot I5>,uuu lives oy drowning, leaving an equal number homeless and destroying $20,000, 000 worth of property. Mrs J H Thie(p, an aged Charleston lady, fell from her room on the second floor of the hotel at Glenn Springs last Saturday and sustained serious injuries. Sunday afternoon George Raylston was killed by lightning near Blacksburg while sitting under a tree talking to his brother-in-law. During an initiation in the Elks' lodge at Albany, Ga, last week* Cleve Cox,who was helping to conduct the ceremonies of initiation, was shot through the arm with a bnllet from a pistol supposed to be loaded with blank cartridges. A double lynching occurred at Soperton,Ga,Friday, August 27, Ben Clark, an escaped convict, and John Sweeney, who harbored him, being the victims. The trouble grew out of the attempt to arrest the chaingang convict, which led to the killing of James Durden, a prominent white man,the probable fatal wounding of Sheriff Walter Simmons ef Montgomery county, and the wou nding of four others of the posse. As the result of the explosion of 700 pounds of dynamite at Bocachico, ten miles from Key West, on the Florida East Coast railway, twelve men are dead and five others seriously wounded. The explosion was caused by a lighted cigarette being carelessly thrown into a box of fuses. At Marion on Friday, August 27, W H Brigman shot and seriously wounded Jack Altman. Both parties are white men. Brigman had accused Altmau of breaking into his house, causing a fight in which Brigman was knocked down by Altman. He got up and, as the sheriff interfered, drew his pistol and shot Altman. Ernest Heyward and Robert Brown, two young Charleston negroes, fought a duel on a street of the city Friday, in which Heyward was shot through the heart. An old grudge seems to have existed between the negroes. Many people delude themselves by saying "It will wear away," when they notice symptoms of kidney and bladder trouble. This is a mistake, Take Foley's Kidney Remedy, and stop the drain on the vitality. It cnres backache, rheumatism, kidney and bladder trouble, and makes every trace of pain, weakness and urinary trouble disappear. D C Scott. Mortgage, real estate, title lien on crop, bill of sale, agricultural lease and lien, mortgage personal property, bill ot sale and lien on crop combined for sale at The Record office. MEETING OF TRUSTEESS ASSOCIATION, j Several Interesting Resolutions Adopted-Civic League Thanked. : At a meeting of the Trustees's association called after dinner on "Educational Rally day," the following resolutions were passed: That the association recommends the following I * ? A. I I salaries lor wnue reacners ui i the different grades: Third grade, not more than $20.00 per month; second grade $25.00 to $30.00, according to degree ot efficency: tirst grade $35.00 a month. A resolution was offered by Mr B B Chandler requiring all white teachers to attend the county Teachers' association and requiring the trustees to see that they be provided a means of conveyance. Alter some decision this resolution was unaninously adopf^"^A resolution was also enthusiastically passed thanking the Civic League of Kingstree tor tneir Kindness ana attention during the whole occasion of "Rally day." The next meeting of the Trustees' association will be the 1st Saturday in October, which is also Teachers' association day M. ROME YS CHOPPEE Disputed Decision Caused Rome Team to Walk oft the Field. Rome, August 30:?An interesting game of ball was played on Uhoppee grounds Saturday afternoon, August 28, in which the score stood 2 to 2 until the last half of the ninth inning when, an out sider blocked the ball and gave Choppee a run, the umpire retusing to make the runner return to his base, whereupon the Rome team walked off the field and claimed the game. The lineup was as follows: Chopfee. Romk. Bruorton, B 1 f Chandler, II Munnerlyn, J 2 b ('handler, GF Bruorton, C r f Chandler, T S Bruorton, H lb Chandler, N J Altman. S 3 b Thomas, G M >? ' Johnson. L cf Godwin, K Beaty, E ss Huggins, A Altman, A ^ c Chandler, B J Altman, E p Chinnis, T LEARNING FROM A NEGRO. How He Got Hore Money for His Cotton Than His Neighbors. We ran across an old negro the other day who can neither read nor write, but who has kept his eyes open and ha3 reached some progressive conclusions that ought to make some of oar white farmers rather ashamed of themselves by comparison, say8 the Progressive Parmer of aleigh, N C. , When he hauled his cotton to market the other day, tnis negro got a better price per pound than our white farmers have been getting, because the buyer said it was about the best bale that he had seen this season. The old negro never lets a bale lie out in the weather, but keeps it housed, and when he gins his cotton he always instructs the ginner to put good bagging on it, "I have always noticed," said the old darkey in talking to us, "that anything that looks nice and good, no matter what it is, fetches more ^ * iL.i T I money, rne gooa Dagging mat ? put on my cotton costs twenty cents a bale extra, and I believe I sometimes get ?2.00 a bale more on account of the neat looking bagging, not to say anything of the better price I get on account of keeping the cotton dry and under shelter." Health and Beanty lid. Cosmetics and lotions will not clear your complexion of pimples and blotches like Foley's Orino Laxative, for indigestion, stomach and liver trouble and habitual constipation. Cleanses the system and is pleasant to take, D C Scott. ... I If you want engraved visit'ng cards or wedding invitations we are prepared to fill your order guaranteeing satisfaction and price. 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