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fCOGALYlTEMslf # ^ # Cotton is quoted to-day on the local market at 14 ' cents; seed $33 the ton. Christmas <rreetines. Enforce the ordinance ajrainst heavy ordnance. The Legislature will convene Tues day. January 10. Once more we wish a'.l our readers a happy Xmas. > vrti'n I Haw you pain uu u suoovnj'-j tion.' If not. why not? I Yesterday was the shortest day of j '10. Had vou noticed it? I Monday will Ik* observed as Xmas holiday by the three banks in town.1 The usuai services at the Episcopal I church will l>e omitted next Sunday. Attention is called to notice of, opening of books of subscription to Kingstree Drug Company. The Baptist Sunday-school will give the children a Christmas tree 'iuesday evening of next week. We are indebted to the courtesy of -Congressman J E Ellerbe for some garden seeds and interesting public documents. So many visitors are coming and going during the holidays it is a matter of impossibility to mention them unless their friends aid us by furnishing their names. The first quarterly conference for ^ 1 ? ? ? Urtl/I of Cnrlq y* CftUCS circuit win iat iiciu at 1 Swan o church January 7 and 8, 1911; preaching and conference Saturday; preaching Sunday at 11 a.m. by the presiding elder. The pulpit of the Methodist church i will be filled next Sunday morning j at 11 o'clock by Rev W P Meadors, presiding elder of the Kingstree district. Let everybody attend service on this glad Christmas day. Dr W L Taylor and Messrs K L Montgomery, R N Speigner and W ! W Barr were inducted into the esoterics of Free Masonry Friday night of last week.being candidates for the first degree of the local lodge A F M. The Wee Nee Club has issued a handsomely engraved invitation to its Christmas dance on Tuesday evenine. December 27. There will be a; Tine orchestra from Charleston and quite an elaborate affair is anticipated. Within the past year more than ten million dollars has been added to the capital invested in industrial enterprises in South Carolina. Williamsburg's share is $143,000, ranking seventeenth among the fortythree counties. Winthrop College adjourns tomorrow fur the two weeks' Xmas holiday allowed by act of the General Assembly and the pretty girls will briirhten the town, addine much to the pleasure and gayety of the merry, merry Yuletide. If you want to give the printerman who has served you faithfully for so many long months, a Christmas remembrance that will be aj>preciated dig up that one dollar or mor-3 you owe on subscription and hand it over this week. As is our custom we will give our printing force one day holiday.Monday; this will necessitate our receiving new advertisements and articles of length not later than Saturday! before. We have worked hard lately, giving full measure, and next week will be a sort of "off week" with us. A pleasant visitor Tuesday at our sanctum was our old friend Mr L E Burkett of Taft. He says he is now severity-three years old and has outlived many of the pleasures of life, but still enjoys reading The Record i and feels lost without it. We api reciate the sincere compliment from our valued friend and hope his days may yet be long upon the land. fmmnmmmmwmnwmmi D We advocate Clothing and She latest shades in ^ luuiuuutuuiMMiuip Contractor Harris has nearly completed Mr E L Hirsch's two story mercantile building and a right handsome structure it is. The ornamental front, with plate glass and pressed brick effect, has been much admired and enhances greatly the appearance of the building. When completed it will be occupied as a drug store and the law offices of Hirsch & Hirsch. On a writ of hnhras rur/nts argued before Judge Watts at Choraw last Friday by his attorneys, Lee & Fishburne. J H V Gaskins, charged with - o. being an accessory aner uit- muiw: of the carnival negro at Lake City ? the circumstances of which are familiar to th?? public?was granted bail in the sum of $l.">t 10 and released from the Sheriff's custody on Saturday. The homestead of the late C G Carsten.at Cades.occupied by Mr R H Carsten and sister. Mis* Emma Carsten, and grandson, Oren Beatty, caught fire about 8:30 p. m. Tuesday and was burned down,together with contents. Practically nothing was saved. The boy. Oren Beatty, has been seriously ill with typhoid fever for two months and he is suffering considerably from excitement. How about a Morris Chair for your hubby's Christmas? He would like one from the Carolina Furniture Co. 12-15-2t Triala of tha Potato. In lo% the first potato wad planted in England, in Holbum, about the time that Sir Walter Raleigh was planting the first potato at Youghal, near Cork. For two cen --x-i , nines xne poiaio wuuuucu a botanical curiosity. When first eaton it was a delicacy, sometimes roasted and steeped in sack, or baked with marrow and spices, or preserved and candied. When Parraentier developed the plant in France Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette wore the flowers us ornaments. Frederick the Great had to force the Pomeranian farmers to plant potatoes by the fear of his soldiers. It was the famine of 1771-2 in Germany that first demonstrated the value of the tubers. Reversed the Order. A voting clergyman who was of a shy disposition was rather embarrassed at his first marriage ceremony and unwittingly reversed the usual order of the service, thus making the bridegroom promise to love and obey his blushing bride. The error passed unnoticed at the time, but shortly afterward it dawned upon the father of the bride that a mistake had occurred, and he said to the clergyman: "1 believe, Mr. Blank, you have made John promise to love and obey my daughter. Ah, well,' he added after a pause and with a sly look at his better half, "1 suppose it won't matter much; it generally comes to that in the eiul anyway."?Exchange. * Financ? of Matrimony. A Wiltshire squire. says the author of "The Parson's Pleasanee," i Ming t<? the hench one morning met a farmer. "So, ,lohn. I hear von are going to be married again," he said. "Yes, sir; next Tuesday." "You have been married three time.- before, have you not?" "\es, sir: this will he the fourth." "And von alv,a\s did pretty well for yourfclf. John. Your wives had always a hit of money. 1 think?" 'Yes. sir. but what with bringing *n 'em in and carrying on 'em out :here ain't no prolit." r?-r, ru?? u Wliwf VI I IVI 06?. There 1i:is been complaint that corn chop fed to horses induces gastric colic, hut it is claimed by the Colorado experiment station that if the corn chop be fed with bran or cut hay then there will usually be no ill effects. because the material will not lie compactly in the stomach, and a9 a result the stomach juices can get at all parts of the feed and digest it thoroughly. 'on't Was a sensible Christn ies. Ladies' and iV r'oung Mens Hats s. UiUUUiUUliUiUUUUUUUUUUl . _ _ _ . J I * ? i KIMiSTKEE GKADED AND i : HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. : 4 4 f ? 4 The school is all in a glee this week, as the holidays are almost here. School will close Wednesday. December 21, and begin again Janu-1 arv i We are sorry to note that there ; 'are still a number of absentees in , ' I the high school this week. The Wee Nee Literary society held its regular meeting Friday, December 16. The query for debate was: I "Resolved,that Byron was a greater poet than Burns." The decision '.vac rendered in favor of the negative, j Only one new member. Miss Janie I Strong, was admitted. ! This being the last meeting be| fore Christmas, the following new officers were inaugurated: President, Bessie Swann; vice president, Mary Vause; secretary,Robert Kirk: treas-; urer, Marian McFaddin; critic, Donald Montgomery; censor, McBride McFaddin; literary editor, Florence Mcintosh. The honor roll of Grade II was i omitted last week, as Miss Wilkins! i was unable to give in her marks in ! time. Harold Steele and Evelyn McConnell should be added to the roll from that grade. When your feet are wet and cold, and your body chilled through and through from exposure, take a big dose of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, bathe your feet in hot water before going to bed,and you are almost certain to ward off a severe cold. For sale by all dealers. A Brass Fender, Andirons or Fire Sets make a fine Christmas or wed ding present, so call at the Carolina Furniture Co's and get yours. 12-15-2t - ^ Before ordering Magazines get our big clubbing catalogue and spe-| cial offers anil save Money. Southern Subscription Agency, Raleigh, N C | (A postal card will do.) 9-22-13t j ^B ' Notice. Notice is herein given that by virtue j of a'i order ol the Probate Court of date Decem'?er 12.1M10,1 will sell on Decern-I her 81. 1910, at public auction, at Gteelyville. S C, to the highest bidder, lor! cash,at 1- o'clock ni. ali of the personal: property belonging to the estate of Ed (i Arcl. d< ceased. S M BradSHaw, 12 l5-.it Agent. Final Discharge. Notice is hereby given thst on the 23r?l day of January. 1911. I will apply j to P M Brockinton Judge of Probate of Williamsburg county, lor a final dis-! charge as guardian of Sadie N Hanna and Samud II Hanna. l .??.Myers K Hanna. [timmmmmmnimmmmmni ;te Money W a T/\rrt i IT lb 1W1 I las and supply sen Lisses' Ready-to-We n a r UUUUlUiUiUiUmUUUUiitiiUtU WW wwwwwwwwwww 1 THE GRE I "Wh | __ Is Easily! ^ The things you get h( <? will not only be most acce; ? but a source of use and pi ? to come. Your thoughtfi ? thing they would have to ? be especially appreciated. ? I Kingstri Announcement! j Hudson & Baker are now open for business at Thomas & Bradham's former stand and respectfully solicit a share of patronage. Will have always on hand a nice bunch of Horses and Mules, also Buggies,Wagons and Harness of standard quality at living prices. Will feed and stable your horse orj rent you a team reason- j ably. Give us a call. Yours for business, Hudson & Baker, Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, Kingstree, S. C. ll-17-3m Phone! IF YOU CAN'T COME I am always on the other end of the line Ifvrmrlnn't know The New Haselden Drug Coyou ought to. Try us. The New Haselden Drug Company Greelyville, S. C. OH.KINO'S NEW DISCOVERY Will Surely Slop That Cough. mmmmmrmiimmmmmmni on Chrisi NECESSARY sible, seasonable ar ;ar Garments. Lac CVS, mimimmmmum il\ h I (Liitofc- ? rtvwvyvvvyvyyyyw*yvy>w wvvvwmmvvvywvvvvv AT ANNUAL RIDDLE | iat To Get For Them" %$l T[Solved At This Store I * GIVE USEFUL ?TOCKiNG^ | .j TB H AN? AND TO WMR f? PRESENTS jj Ipjjtji I Lisure for many montfts ^ ee Dry Goods Co. | wmaaamamaaaaaamaamaamaammaamamaama? C A R-LOAD |J Horses and Mules 1 Just Arrived ^|J Come In and Get Your /f Choice ; t Yours to please, WILLIAMSBURG LIVE STOCK CO., * KHTHE. S. C. " ' ' " " 3D o====a====# I 1 THE BEST BOOK II ! A man can have in his pocket, the Bible alone excepted, is a bank book. The plot is absorbing and the reader's interest increases at the rate of four per cent. Call at our bank today and get one. The check system nis suited to all kinds of business and will assist you in m holding onto the dollars. It is easy to economize with IK vour monev in the bank where you do not see it. If it II 1 ava if O t-omntaHnn tn snond it. I I U Jingles in your pooivct mcic 10 a ^uifwvw.i w __ We will harness it up and put it to work earning inter- II est for you. You might drift along and prosper with- IK out a bank account, but it is much easier to forge to the |J| front in a financial way if you have one of our neat little bank books in your pocket. Do you know of a single prosperous man who does not carry one? Call today, make a small deposit as a starter and you will step a little higher as you go home to your family with a bank book in your pocket. Try it just once DJ The Bank of Kingstree D. C. Scott, President. .1. A. Kellky, Viee Pres. If F. W. Fairey, Cashier. X. 1). I.ksessk, Asst. Cashier. 01 11 ?? ?? ?? ????y fmmmmmmmmmmmmftimmmmmmmmmmmmn? tmas Gifts i * id fashionable Men's and Children'^ lies' and Children's Hats. All the V" iitUUiUiUiUUiUUUiUiUUllUUUUiUiUlUlUUUUiUiUUiiUUUU