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F THE TWIN TOWN ?HARPERS-ROSEMARY. DWELLING DESlKUtED SI EAST ENDSCHOOL BEGINS ANDREWS SOON TO BE AN 4ETIULITV. liarpeM.UctoiH-r 4: We had ?|i?ite a blaze in the eastern part of our town on Friday night,October 1. At about 3 o'clock a tii. Mr James L Grant was awakened by the roaring of flame? and f und the entire diningroom and kitchen portion of his flwe'din,- enveloped in flames and the main body ?..f the house also ablaze. So fierce were the flames that the occupants had to escape in their night clothes. Miss Bri'tt and Mrs Ljles, who occupied rooms on t!ie second floo:, had a narrow escape in gettiug out of their rooms. I understand Mr Grant's loss was about $3,(X)0 with i*2.000 insurance. Ilis house was a new one. not entirely completed and bad not been painted. Th:- tire is supposed to have originated from the stove tlue in the dining-room. The Secretary of State has issued a commission to W S Camlin, J W Doar, G G Pavis, W B Blakeleyand W J Parker to authorize the registration of voters on the holding of an election for the incorporation of the new tow n of Andrews. We hope to see the town of Andrews an actuality in a very few davs. The school in the west end of town was opened last Monday, the 4th inst. with Miss Maud McLeod as principal. Miss McLeod comes from Rowland, N C, and is highly recommended. We bespeak a most success ful session for this school. There will be two schools taught in town this year, one in the east end and one in the west end; but our graded school building is now progressing nicelv. Phis L a modern O ^ brick building and when completed will coet from $5,000 to $6,000. The sessiou of 1010 will be a high school, which will employ 6 or 8 teachers. Our school building would reflect credit on a town of double the size of ours. With the assistance of two buildiug and loan associations at hand we expect to see our town continue to grow. Say, Mr Editor, the writer had three ver*' large opossums last week and quite a lot of very flue potatoes of the well known "Georgia Buck" variety. If the editor has not lost that taste for ii?possumand taters," the express company may take a sample over in a few days for you. Subscriber. (The editorial taste for the above named delicacies is by no means diminished and we shall look forward with pleasing anticipation for those promised "samples." Knowing by experience what his "samples" are like, we thank our friend in advance for his generosity and thoughtful kindness. We have recently asked several of our friends in a position to study the habits of the marsupial quadruped "if possums weren't ripe?" Hut somehow they didn't catch on. Ed. The Record.) An Expected favor. When Irvin S Cobb, the wellknown humorist of the New Yoik World, was a reporter in Paducab, Kentucky,he was sent to do the story of the hangiug of a negro. The sheriff couldn't read or write and Cobb volunteered to read the death warrant to the negro, which he did. l !- -1 /l.LL*. rnc negro nau vorxeu ior tooos father, ami, as Cobb finished, the condemned man peered through the cell door and said. "Thauk yell very y kindly, Ma^sa Irviu. I alius knowed efth'time comefoh you-all to do me a favor yon-all w'u'd do it." ?LippincotVs. Frightful Faff Averted. "I would have been a cripple for life, from a terrible cut on my knee cap," writes Frank Disberry, Kelliher. Miun. "without Bucklen's Arnica Salve. which soon cured me." Infallible for wounds, cuts and brusies it soon cures Burns, Scalds, Old Sores, Boils, Skin Eruptions. World's best for Piles. 25c. at D C Scott's. Old papers for sale at this office. I COTTON CROP CONDITION. Government Report Places It at 58.5 1 ! ?Higher Prices Looked For. Washington, October 4:?The Agricultural department reports the; t condition of cotton on September 25 to be 58.5 per cent of the normal,, which is compared with '53.7on Au-: gust 25 hfst, bit.7 on September 25, 190*,and 07 for the general average, j i Comparisons of the conditions by States follow: j. -j. ?*31 rr-r % 2 i X <? ? r? S -f \ ^ ?t ?l O p | 1 j Virginia 71 78 75 : North Carolina-.. 70 69 70 South Carolina... 7o 6S 69 1 Georgia 71 71 70 Florida 67 72 70 Alabama . 62 70 67 Mississippi 53 70 6s Louisiana 39 55 67 Texas 52 71 63 Arkansas 54 70 67 Tennessee 68 78 72 Missouri 72 70 74 Oklahoma 65 70 69 United State- 58.5 69.7 67.0 Advance in the Picice. New York, October 4:?Two government reports of importance to the cotton trade were issued from Washington today, causing a very active and exciting market and great irregularity in prices. The report of the census bureau, showing 2,562,888 bales of cotton ginned to September 25 against 2,590,639 for the same period last jear was under the expectations in view of the claims as a result of the drought and accounted for the firmness of the market during the morning, when December cottou s^ld at 13,51 and March at 13.60 or sixteen to twenty points above Saturday's closing prices. Crop condition figures of 58.5 as produced at midday were just about what the traders looked for, but were followed by tremendous realizing under which the market lost most of its previous advanj^s. A Williamsburg Inventor. The following clipping from the Red Springs, N C, Citizen has been handed us with a request to publish same, Mr Huggins, the inventor, being a native of Williamsburg county: That the Universal Plow company are now erecting a factory and will locate in Red Springs is a yery gratifying piece of news we give the public. For more tnan two years this company has been doing business iu this State and South Carolina, and the deraaud for their plows has become so great that a re-organization of the company with increased capital was decided to be necessary. The plant will be located on Cross street, the work on the buildings having already commenced and will be completed in time to till the orders now arriving for next season's business. The University plow is the inven" tion of Mr R T Huggins, the father of tne preseut manager, Mr J A Huggins. Under the reorganization, Mr J A Huggius will be the general manager of the company, and to him aud his business associates we wish unbounded success aud extend to them a hearty welcome on behalf of the citizens of the community. ?7 $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn thut there is at least one dreaded disease that science has b?en able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now knovyi to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upo.i the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case t-haf if faila tn r>nrp Spnrl fnr list j of testimonals. Address F J CHENEY & CO, Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. We have just got in a splendid lot of all kinds of stationery line bond papers,ruled headings j 100,000 envelopes, and Pennison's shipping tags with brass eyelets and wire strings, the best made. See our samples before ordering elsewhere. tf FARMERS' UNION MEETING. Good Attendance of Officers and Mem ! bers?Postal Banks Endorsed. . ! Williamsburg County Farmers' Union met in tin* court house on Friday, October 1, at 12 o'clock 111. The following officers were present: .1 D Daniel, l'res; J i frierson, See; W C Eaddy, Chaplain; \\ II II Cocktield. Con; J K Burch, D K; H K Nettles, Bus. Agt; S J Kir by aud S Y Tisdale, Ex Com. Ten local unions were represented. Before the union proceeded to business Hon W I) Bryan, president of the Cotton association, addressed the meeting and requested that a call be made for the Cotton association to meet in connection with the Farmers' union on the first Friday in January, 1010, at 11 o'clock a m. Mr J J Snow, traveling salesman for the Coe-Mortimer Fertilizer Co, was invited in and addressed the union on the merits of his firm's fer tilizers, he also offered terms to the Farmers' union. A resolution was adopted instructing the county organizer to visit and try to revive all the delinquent unions. The county union also endorsed resolution passed by Wise County Union of Texas endorsing warehouse plan and postal savings banks; also a resolution: "That we petition our Senators and Congressm^i to do all in their power to have enacted into law these two measures, etc." The union then adjourned to meet on the tlrst Friday in January, 1910, at 12 o'clock m. J T Frierson*, Sect'y. Mr. W. J. Fairy Dead. Mr William J Fairy died at the home of Mrs W S Minns at 11:40 yesterday, Thursday, morning. He was up a? usual on Wednesday and his death was unexpected, Mr Fairy was one of the oldest, if not the oldest citizen of St George, being 82 years of age last February. He was a faithful soldier in the Confederate army and was a good Citizen. Heart trouble was the immediate cause of death. He i3 survived by two sons, llev W A Fairy of Kingstree and Mr I M Fairy of this place,and one daughter, Mi83 Artitia Fairy. As we go to press the funeral arrangements have not been perfected, but it is expected that the burial will take place at the cemetery here at 11 o'clock this morning. ? Drrckester Eagle. Announcement. We have placed an order for over $100 worth of new job type, which includes the latest up to-date faces for all kinds of commercial and social forms of printing. We are now prepared also to do catalogue and pamphlet work of every description, including lawyers' briefs, in the most approved style. We have a special lot of new type faces that will be used only for wedding invitations, visiting cards, etc. Call and see samples of work or let us send them to you. Our job department is equipped better than any other in this part of the State. tf p Wood's Descriptive Q Fall Seed Catalog now ready, gives the fullest information about all Seeds for the Farm and Garden, Grasses and Cloven, Vetches, Alfalfa, Seed Wheat, Oats. Rye, Barley, etc. Also tells all about Vegetable & Flower Seeds that can be planted in the tall to advantage and profit, and about Hyacinths, Tulips and other Flowering Bulbs, Vegetable and Strawberry Plants, Poultry Supplies and Fertilizers. Every Farmer and Gardener iboold have this catalog. It 1 a Invaluable In | Its helpfulness ana suprgesuve laetmui a profitable and satisfactory Farm or Garden. Catalogue mailed free on request. Write for it. I T. W. WOOD ft SONS, J ^ Seedsmen, Richmond, Va. CJ 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. Unilt on Honor Sold on lllrrit i There are no ifs and ands about our guarantee, and no rebate schemes about our sales. W?- prefer to believe that onr customer- art1 sens! ible people in search of a square deal, and w make it our buMne-sto tre.-it them asueh. When you buy a Stieff Piano you get what you pay for ana pay for what you get. Experienced buyers know that this const itutes the only bargain you ean count mini I other bargain forms STT^ gambles, and the purchaser is usually the ioser. Honesty may not U- the best policy, hut years of practice convince us that It is good .nn.mh If irrwii *v>nfomnlntp I the purchase of a piano.don't fail to examine the MiefT. A showdown is our delight. Chas. M. Stieff, MANUFACTURER, Baltimore, - Maryland. ' SOUTHERN WARERQOM: 5 W. Trade St. ' Charlotte, - N. C. C. H. WILMOTH, Manager. \ J, D. GILLAND, | : Real Estate Broker: t KINGSTREE, S C. . : 1 * Protect your home and family J * with a policy in the H??me Life J ! Insurance Co of New York, the * company that withstood the most J i critical and rijrid examination 1 4 and excelling all other companies 4 J in the famous jVisurance investl- * t gat-ion of 190^,1 can give you the 4 best contract obtainable and so- 4 | licit your application. t -?-? 4 - ? ? Tax Notice. The tax books will be open for coK lection of taxes the 15th day of October next for the year 1909. Tax levy as follows: For State, o1^ mills " Ordinary County, 2\ " ' Special Roads, 1 " 'Roads, 1 " ' Constitutional School, 3 " A capitation tax of $1.00 on all male persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years, also 50cent? per head on all dogs, also 2 mills for retiring bonds in Kingstree township,4 nulls for retiring bonds in I.ake City township and 2 mills for retiring bonds in Greelyville school district, No 22. Commutation (Road) tax. $2.00. Levy for special school districts as follows: Nos 17, 26, 27, 28, 29, 53, 35,36. 4 mills; Nos 15. 24, 81, 3 mills; Nos 19, 20, 21, 22, 25. 32, 2 mills; No IS, 1 mill; Kingstree, No 16, 4 mills special, 2 mills High school. I will Be at the following places mentioned below for collection of said taxes: 06t. Kingstree, 15, 16, 18,19, 20 and 21 Hebron, J L Gowdy's store, 22 Walters, 93 Greelyville, 25 and "26 Gourdins, 27 buttons, 28 Trio, 29 Harpers, 30 Nov. Benson, V W Graham's store. 1 Bloomingvale, 2 Morrisville, 3 Rliems, 4 Church P 0, W R Graham's store, 5 Rome, 6 Lamberts, 8 Ards X Roads, Eaddy's store, 9 Johnsonville, 10 Vox P O, 11 Prospect, 12 Leo. 13 Scran ton, 1? and 18 Lake City, 19 and 20 Cades, 22 Lake City, 23 Kingstree. 24, 26, 27, 29 and 30 Dec. Kinizstree. 1, 2. 3. 4 and 6 Like City, 7 Kings tree, From Stli to 23rd and from 2Sth to 31st December, inclusive. Those who desire to pay their taxes through the mail would expedite matters by dropping the Treasurer a postal asking for the amount of their taxes so as to avoid sending the wrong amount, also stating the township or townships, (if property is owned in more than one) and if possible give school district wh-<re property is located, also state whether poll or road tax, or both, are wanted. Alter paying taxes examine your receipts and see if all of your property is covered. If not, see about it at once. By following the above suggestions complications and additional cost may be avoided. J Wesley Cook, 1-1-10 County Treasurer. r__ 8 CHARLESTON S 1 lull nl Mini M, 11 I OCTOBER 25-30. ? X s ja IRisassilffifflL SjMplhcMy 8 ^ X OECHESTSA, O X The best organized and most uniform X X in talent in the United States, X * supported by a splendid chorus of&j X 4- var .rk m nl A 11 /] t'/\ A1 A vrAli. v tnuiiiiiitiruu nunc aiiu teiitaie vuh 4 h 6 SPECIAE RATES 0 x from all points in South Carolina. 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K LET'S, "THE FURNITURE MAN/' ' I He has the most complete and up-to-date line of ! X^CTXSfcTXTTTISE in town and at the most reasonable prices and terms. We are at your service every minute in the year, day or night, with the largest and tinest stock ot COFFINS AND CASKETS ?N I ' in Williamsburg county. Don't hesitate to call us on ac; count of the lateness of the hour. We never sleep. , ! j L? J. STACXLsBY. i Meet me at Stackley's. Meet me at Stanley's < '