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< uhr (f ountu *Uronl. KINGSTREE. S. C C. W. WOLFE. EDITOH ANO PROPRIETOR. Entered at tiie |? ?stui'ii< e at Kin^stree. S C. as secmij cla<- mail matter. TELEPHONE NO 83 TERMS SUl'S' I;?1* i i"N H.\ l 1- >: I One copy, one year - > One copy, six months. 75 One^eopy, three monts One copy, one year in advance ? 1 W | Obituaries. Tributes of Respect. Resolutions ?>f 1 hanks, < ard> of Thanks ' and all other reading- notices, not | News, will be charged for at the rate , of one cent a word for each insertion. All changes of advertisements and i all commuincatimis mu-t U'in thisoffice j before TIES I ?AY NOON in order to appear in the ensuing issue. All ( oniuninieation* must he signed by the writer,not tor publication unless! desired, but t-> protect this newspaper,, ADVERTISING RATES; Advertisement* to he run in Spec-1 ial column, or.? vent a word each) issue, minimum pri<c '-'5 cents, to be, paid for in advance. Legal advertisements. $1.00 per inch first insertion. An cents per week each subsequent insertion. Rates on long term advertisements very reasonable. For rates apply at this omce. In remitting cliccks or money orders make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. THURSDAY, FEB. 17. 1910. Not a Bene. We arc revising our books in order to' comply with the Governmevf requirement that no weekly newspaper stint! keep a subscriber on its wailing list who is more a year in arrears on jrnin of forfeiting its second class postage privilege. To this end we are sending statements fa every subscriber who our Uoks show to owe us twenty-fee rents or more. The subscription price of The Record is $/.25 a year, but to try to get our snbwriplion list on a cash bar's, ire make c discount of 2?V to every subscriber who pays one year in advance. In making out hundreds of these small accounts, it is possible that some errors have crept in. We shall b* pleased to correct any mistake to which our attention is j called. j Any one who wants his or her j -copy of I he Hecord discontinued frili confer o favor by so stating when r?>niMng in response to our statements. After waiting a reasonable lime, if r:e do not hear from parties to j whom these statements are sent, ( their papers will b? discontinued . and then- ac minis put in the , Man / - of a rolled ion itgcwy which i *s "cry * itcce **/></ in collecting I debts 07 this kind. ^ I Hoping fo hmo a vrompt re-1 spun*? from every one, ire are, I'/ ry respectfully, j , The County Record. J Editor Robert Lathan. T?. t elevated to the position; of editor-it;-chief of one of the! I oldest ; ::(! most influential of dottier:. journals :s an honor! tha" piesuppo^s lonj; years of' 4,to; ;.lT upward in th?.* night", eve:- v.'! c:. he who attains is plec's*. eiatc wed with the pe -i culm- . versatile talent that is e^v:.t:a! the successful joa: .:a':;t. I low much more, wo:: : oi congratulation, then, :s t...- new editor of Charleston Me..': and Courier, who pleads guilty t-> the atrocious crime of; bei a you lip: muu to an aggravating degree, being hardly on ( the shady side of thirty, we be- i lieve. row, when the mantle of the accomplished successor of the mighty Dawson falls upon his shoulders. Mr Robert Latban, who takes! the helm of the > most rep-! t resentutivc of Southern daily newspapers, has many admiring friends heie in Williamsbnig and throughout the Third Judicial! . circuit, u here he served as court j strnognnli'T for 5ewr;.I years ; with the same painstaking energy, 4 . Jidelitv ami capability rliat has i marked his meteoric journalistic j enre.-r since he left his work here j only a few years ago to accept a! position in tli- office of the News j atul Courier. llis friends here i I iejoice that his high order of intellectual power, as well as his exemplary moral character, has been thus recognized and rewarded in the tield of employment wherein he has elected to exercise his remarkable talents as the serious business of his life. Young in years, but ripe in experience; quiet and deferential, but firm as a rock in standing for principle; modest and with a decent respect for the opiuioos of others, yet with clear ideas and tirm convictions, Mr Lathan has many qualifications to support his laudable ambition to wear worthily the spurs that he has won: not only to maintain the high standards fixed by his illustrious predecessors, but possibly to carve his name a niche higher in the temple of fame. That he may succeed in adding dignity to the high position he now occupies is the confident hope cherished by all who know and esteem him for his sterling worth. A "goober "-natorial candidate is ofttimes a pea nut politician. t T mil* 1 1.1. _ A Jty' to walk uprightly along the nigged pathway of virtue and morality eminently qualities him for the bringing up of the two little girls he hus torn away from their mother's arms. A palpable hit, truly! The decision of the State supreme court, which means the return of the two little girls to Mrs Lucy Dugas Tillman, elicited naviug xeauyizeu me mncua lion, Roosevelt will soon come home to be lionized himself. We don't hear any more of Dr|Cook now, and strange to say Peary, too, has almost disappearFrom the lime-light. Every man has his weak points, and it often happens that the greatest weaknesses are to be found in the strongest men. Saturday was Abe Lincoln's birth-day, a national holiday, but ane that was not generally observed throughout this State. As did Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, Mrs Lucy D Tillman can point to her children 1 c iTIL ^ V nuu say: "xuese are luy jeweio; The people of South Carolina will never favor a law to put a white niaTf on the chaingaog for not sending his own children to school according to other people's notions. If the cheerful prognostications of certain astronomical sharps t come to pass, the whisky question, the boll weevil, the high price of living and other vexations hitman questions will trouble man no more after May lv] next, when the tail of fLdley's couiet butts into the earth's orbit. A lady arises to ivuiurk that Senator Tillman's brilliant sue- J cess in tr.-ininc his son. *13 It. i many expressions of approval and gratification here. "We have not heard a single | erson here defend the 'aw that would tear awayj children of tender yeais from their: mother's aims. An important bill affecting the public schools is that which amends i the (ianis act so as to increase the fund for aiding weak schools from S^o.noO to sr,u,0ou. I'nder the provisions uf this act no school is allowed to participate in this fund without levying a special tax to raise an amount equal to that applied for, and the help extended to one school is limited to $100 per annum. We would like for some member of the House of Representatives who voted last session for the repeal of the lieu law and who at this session voted against the bill to prohibit crop mortgages, to explain what points of advantage the latter have over the former?that is to say, if it be against the welfare of the people to allow thefti to give a lien, why isn't it equally baneful to permit them to mortgage their crops before they are planted? To a "looker-on in Vienna" there is about the same difference as between''tweedle-dum''and"tweedle dee." The bill introduced in the Legislature to prevent corporal punishment in the schools would do more harm than good if it eyer got on the 3tatnte books of our State, being a point scored for the law-breaker in the inevitable conflict between authority and rebellion. Discipline in the schools is already too lax by far, and the moral effect of such a law would be felt in almost every school. The late Sam Jones, a great believer in the rod as a corrective factor, said that some 1 boys had no honor, or ambition, or shame, or conscience?nothing to appeal to except their hides! Captain John G Richards, in announcing the fact tbat he has at last yielded to the persuasive voice of his friends, also gives an outline of his "platform'' in his candidacy for gubernatorial honor^ It's a long weary while before the State campaign opens and eftsoon the gallant Captain may change his views on some of tne issues, just a3 heN "looped the loop" from State dispensary to prohibition. Piohibitionists have not forgotten how when the old nG M I"' was writhing in the final tlnot-s of dissolution it was the doughty Captain who tried to galvanize the moribund mon- j ster into renewed life and being, H STATE AND UENERAL NEWS. fc H-f^rrnrnrrrrrrrrrrrnrrr^^ Meyer, Pitts Ov Co, a whisky tirin : of Baltimore, Md., which did bi;Si-1 liecs with the old State dispensary, i have been made to disgorge S3,411?.-' "0, overcharge for whisky sold to | this State, by the Atlanta firm of I lawyers that is "frying the fat" out | of tiie liquor houses a 011 commission j basis of one-half collected. In a wreck on the Southern rail-i road Monday near Macon, (Mi., I live persons were Killed and eight j seriously injured. Congressman .1 0 Patterson of Pur 11 well is sick with heart trouble, being under treatment in a hospital in Washington. W .1 Fiancis, superintendent of a school at Gafiuey, was tried in a magistrate's court last week for whipping a schoolboy and was triumphantly acquitted Ilev William McDonald, pastor of the colored Baptist church at Waxv * -- - - . ..... \ . i ? haw. just across the North Carolina' i line from Lancaster county, was shot! while engaged in prayer in iiischirih j last Sunday night. The wound, j w hile severe, is not necessarily fatal, i Iris supposed that some enemy of j the preacher was the would-be as[j sassm. Mr Arthur I* Ford, for many! years editor of the Aiken Recorder, i : tlu-il Tuesday. Mr Ford sold his pa-! per a few months ago 011 account of' , j his feeble health. j LEGISLATIVE SIDELIGHTS. ? ! * w i Friday night a majority of the judiciary committee of the Senate adapted a resolution requesting I)r .1 \V Babcock, the so jOn ten dent j of the State Hospital for the Insane, and the board of regents of. . 1 the same institution to resign. A 1111-: nority report piotesting against the I resolution was submitted. The bill to expedite and facilitate the closing up of the affuiis of the dispensaries in Williamsburg and the other counties voting out the countv dispensaries last August passed both houses and was ratified last week. Representatives Graham's bill to permit a tax-payer paying special school taxes to designate which school shall have the taxes paid by said tax-payer has passed the House of Representatives; also Mr Bryan's bill to regulate fishing in Black rivei. A bill has passed the House to prohibit laundrymen or washer- , women to use the wearing apparel 1 of their customers. ! Representatives Ayer's bill to 1 place the burden of expense pre- 1 liminary to the formation of new 1 counties upon the promoters of the ! counties has passed the House and | will probably become law. j The bill relating to the deed- j ing away of his children by the j father without the mother's cou- i 4 sent passed the House this week 1 without a dissenting voice. The S House II1. was substituted for the j Graydontfbill, the latter having al- j ready passed the Senate. S Joseph W Bailey, the junior j Senate from Texas, addressed the j General Assembly Monday night on | the Federal income tax amend- 1 ment. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 100 to 3, put itcelf on record as favoring the Federal income tax amendment to the constitution of the United States. Corporators' Notice. Notice is hereby given that by virtue : of authority vested in us as a board of : corporators, under date of February 7, 1910, by R M McC'own. Secretary of State, books of subscription will be opened to the capital stock of the Peo- : pie's Drug Company. Lake City, S C, at the office of M D Nesraith, Tuesday, March 1, 1910, at 11 o'clock in the fore- i noon. M D Nesmith, C F Flowers, Cleve Rodgers, Hoard of Corporators, j tKingstree Lodge j No. 91 j Knights of Pythias ; Regula.r Couveutioas Every j Z 2nd and 4 th Wednesday nighti Visiting brethren always welcome, : Castle Hall 3rd story Gourd in Building. ; C. D. Jacobs, C. C. i: C. JJuut.KSS, K US & M F i"j 4 WE HA1 I We have been very b stock of merchandise, and it have bought with the intent in need cf anything in Weai I Grocer ief We have anything yc line was never more comple i Special sale of Headl Try our "MERRY W1 TT ?I? MIIH . ' 1 ]Nol: Coughing Today? ^ j Yet you may cough tomorrow! Better be prepared for it when it comes. * Ask your doctor about keeping Ayer*s Cherry Pectoral in the house. Then when the hard cold or cough first appears you have a doctor's medicine at hand. Your doctor's approval of its use will certainly set ai! doubt at rest. Do as he says. He knows. No aleuhoi ih this CCUgh medicine. / CAyer Co.,Lowell.Mass. liobust health . a groat safeguard against attacks of throat and lung troubles, but ^ , constipation will destroy the best of health. Ask your doctor about Ayer's Pills, y" II imSM THe above brands are widely known as the "BIG FIVE." Their range of flavor will suit every taste. \ jm, f-jjgheil Quality and Lowest Prices. Express charges T^jB Bvjj prepaid. Send.for free price-list. Pure Food guarantee covers all of our brands. KsjWI I352 Prices on the above are as follows: Bm lOal.SOal. 3Qal. 4Gal. 4Qts. 6Qts- 12 Qt. K? Hunting Creek 93-00 95 60 98.25 910.00 *3.25 95.00 98 25 EKB YM Cooper'* Laurel Valley 375 6-25 900 12 00 4j0* 575 10.00 %Sm Couch's Pride *75 5.00 775 9.65 $8? gfl Macdon 3.50 6.60 950 12.00 3-75 5.35 9 75 Kj?l Jacco 3.00 5.00 875 10.00 3 25 4.75 8-75 s "S Y/m| Original Cascade. 912.00 per caseRemit P. O. or Express Money Order, and goods will be forwarded by =?01 first express. No charge for jugs or packing. Every thing in Wines and Liquors. SUB fe J. A. COUCH, Manager Shipping Dept. S) y%/ the j. a. Mcdonough company. ftjgfl . roiT orncr box Tie. Rickisono. Virginia ET -n/wmmTT A T9.T19.TTT A T Cim A mTilTTTHTUffl ?2 t: ruDitin oiAxxiiiuaiir a EE OF THE : 3; ! Bank nf TOHramsbnrjg;, | I ? Kingstree, 5. ?. ^ H Capital Stock $ 40,000 00 2 E Surplus and Undivided Profits - 11,000 00 2 : \ E Cash on Hand and in Banks, - 165,000 00 2 \ ? DEPOSITS 229,000 00 3 <| E DIRECTORS1 *2 1M ? C. W. STOLL, President. F. RNEM, Viee-Presileit. 2 3 E ' W.I. NEXSEN, 2 E J. F. McFADDEN, P. 6. 60URDIN, 2 ! i-4 E W. V. STR0N6, E. C. EPFS, Cashier. J. C. 6RANAM. 2 E E.LM0NT60MERY, Assistant Cashier. ? p- Er TUTC RANIf QOT.irTTR VHITR RIISINRSS. w * mSSSSSSm3SBSBOBBmBSSS3BS3SS3S3tSmSSSSS3BSBBOBOSBSBBSBSOEBOmM^m i|?^ : 3 AT THE II I OLD STAND. I ???? < ^ The firm of J. W. Coward & Co., having faith in the business ??: ~3 prospects of Kingstree, respectfully announce that they have opened up in the dispensary building a line of gE 3 General Merchandise, & 3 Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats, j| 1 C3-330CE33XES, S 3 Christmas Toys and Fireworks, ^ Onr line is complete, all fresh, new,seasonable goods; noue pickedS^ 2 over or shopworn. / ^5 We buy for cash and sell for cash at the lowest possible marginC^ 3 of profit. gX ZZ Thanking our friends in advance in anticipation ofatleastaS^ 3 share of their patronage, we are at their service. 1 J. W. COWARD <&, CO., 1 ^ k'llSir.STPFF ft C zz r' ^mtwtwnwmmwwmmmwwnniimwfiwimwiwnx ', V E THE GOODS! >usv since the holidav season closed replenishing our is now as complete as it was before the holidays. We vs ^ r aIIi^.v 4 11 t*M 11 t'Ai i f r, e n ^ lie iuu ui iciuug qiuiM\, ,::ivi u w 11; pat \UJ ate ua n r'n^f Apparel. 5 and Confectioneries >u want in the best Groceries, and our Confectionery te. ey's Candy in one to rive pound boxes. IDOW" Self-Rising Flour. Satisfaction guaranteed. RODGERS