The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 02, 1909, Image 4
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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
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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.
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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!
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H STATE AND GENERAL NEWS. ?
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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