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?Jtr (Counts Srcord. KINQSTREE. S. C. C. W. WOLFE. CDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Entered at the poetoffice at Kings tree, S C as second class mail matter. TELEPHONE NO. 83TERMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one y?ar $1 25 One copy, six months 75 V One copy, tliree months 50 One copy, one year in advance.... 1 00 "In men whom men condemn as ill, I find so much of goodness still; In men whom MEN pronounce divine, I find so much of sin and blot? f hesitate to draw the line Between the two?where God has not" KINGSTREE?THE GATEWAY TO OPPORTUNITY. THURSDAY. JUNE 1. 1911. ? *???? ?1??? An Unjust Suspicion. As stated frequently before in this column, while we do not entirety endorse Governor Blease's ideasof statesmanship or his political standards, at the same time we desire to treat him with absolute fairness and out of respect for the high office he holds, to go even ?,v '"" ^beyond the requirements of strict ju8tic*i^in casting the best light possible upon his official actions and utterances. We reproduced last week an eiitoriaf article from the Columbia State concerning the Ware Shoals incident?a news story pub/ lijhed recently in the Charleston News and Courier vto the effect L' that the cotton mill employees A at Ware Shoals had demanded a holiday from the management on r May 18 in order to hear Govf ernor Blease speak. Commenting on this news item The State published a letter from the assistant treasurer of the Ware Shoals mills stating in substance that the report that their operatives had Viali.lnTr (in \ffll- 1,^ to ^ ^ttouwqucu U??W?J v.. | hear Governor Blease speak, or for any other purpose, was injfc. correct; that '.he managers had, ever since May 1, posted a notice at the mills giving holiday on May 18, without any solicitation on the part of the employees. From this letter The State newspaper rather broadly hinted that the data upon which this misleading article was based emanated from the Governor's office -which was really not a far-fetched conclusion. | I JJonday's issue of The State carries, however, a lengthy article reviewing the Ware Shoals incident and the aftermath. This article contains a letter from the News and Courier's Columbia correspondent naming as his informant Mr B F Taylor, a well-known, prominent business man of Columbia, who says that he got the information on the train from B D Riegel, the president of the Ware Shoals mills, who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey; y - ' ? Obituaries, Tributes oi Kespect, 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 each insertion. All changes of advertisements and all communications must be in this office before TUESDAY NOON in order to appear in the ensuing issue. All communications must be signed by the writer, not for publication unless desired, but to protect this newspaper. ADVERTISING RATES: , Advertisements to be run in Special colum, one cent a word each issue, minimum price 25 cents, to be paid for in OUVBIIKC. Legal advertisements, $1.00 per inch first insertion, 50 cents per inch each subsequent insertion. Rates on long term advertisements very reasonable. For rates apply at this office. In remitting checks or money orders make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. ^?mmmmmmm?mmm? Governor Riease broke bis own record Monday, pardoning fourteen penitentiary convicts at a clip. He must have been feeling very good indeed that day. "Read the Abbeville Medium and l>e happy," quoth that enterprising contemporary in a recent issue. Wo should think a happy Medium ought to be conducive to happiness among its readers. The editors will lie on the rampage grazing in pastures green around the capital this week, and, later on, they hie themselves on th? rolling deep, lx>und for giddy Gotham with its glimmer and its strife. We wish we could be with them,but physically and financially we are unable to spell "able." When all the inmates of the State prison have been turned loose on society, what will his excellency do then to show his sympathy towards the depraved classes?turn Ins attention to the county jails and chaingangs? It would simplify matters considerably and save the State great expense to grant immunity before trial, or even indulgence l>efore the crime be committed. Merry Widow is a rich man's tobacco, but you can get get it at a poor man's price from the People's Mercantile Co, 5-n-i3t ? - ' ^" 1 we neitner Know nor is a psrui-ularly our concern. What is more important to us, and the main object of this article, i9 to correct the unjust suspicion attached to Governor Blease's office in implying that the false data?if it be false?originated there. Frankly, we thought it extremely likely that the suspicion was well-founded, but in the light of the evidence subsequently adduced it seems that in this instance the suspicion was unjust,and we cheerfully make amends for falling into the error. We wish everything derogatory to the Governor's office that has appeared in print since his inauguration could be as satisfactorily cleared up and set at naught. Isn't it rather significant that the sweet girl graduates of Converse College have chosen a Bacheller to address them? The estimated cotton acreage for this season is thirty-five million bales. Just suppose it produced a bale to the acre! that Mr Riegel told him (Taylor) that some of the employees of the mill had informed the management that if they were not given | holiday on May 18 to hear Governor Blease speak they would not report for work on that day. As a news item Mr Taylor passed this on to the News and Courier's correspondent. To further complicate the matter, The State prints a telegram from James T MacEnroe, the assistant treasurer of Ware Shoals mills, re-iterating and emphatically re-affirming his previous statement that the holiday was given ' i ?1 *11 ?i! x voluntarily oy tne nuns, wunout solicitation on the part of anyone, and that no reference was made to the picnic or to the Governor's speaking. It is very evident that either Mr Riegel's statement to Mr Taylor, or Mr Taylor's statement to the News and Courier's correspondent, or Mr MacEnroe's disclaimer printed in both the News and Courier and The State, is untruthful. Who is responsible for the incorrect statement that | brought about the controversy, '* f^l * STATE and GENERAL ? ' i TOPICS ^ ^r^KKTrjrjrTrjrjrJrJrTrfc B D Garvin, County Treasurer of ! Pickens county, died Tuesday night. 1 XXX Ben Kelly, an employe of the Seaboard railway,was killed by a switch engine in the company's yard at Columbia Monday. XXX John Hutto, a young white man, was killed Tuesday at the Danville Lumber Co's planing mill in Lexington county, by being thrown from a tram car. X X X Chlorin Marken, a young woman employed in a Tolumbia cotton mill, committed suicide Tuesday night by drinking laudanum. No cause was assigned for the act. XXX Will Mims, a white man of Brookland, in Lexington county, is in jail charged with criminally assaulting & fourteen-year-old girl, a near relative of the defendant. XXX Gary Gist, colored, was legally hanged in Spartanburg Friday, May 26, paying the penalty of attempting to assault criminally a prominent white lady of Spartanburg. XXX The United States supreme court has rendered a decision that Clemson College is liable for civil damages, thus reversing our State supreme court, which ruled the opposite. XXX The five-year-old daughter of Congressman George Legare of Charleston was injured by a falling shelf at a neighbor's house so seveiely last week that the child died the next day: XXX For the first time in the history of the service.it is said,the deficit in the postoffice has been entirely wiped out and $1,000,000 surplus to the depart! ;ent's credit is in the United States treasury. XXX One day last week a severe sandstorm swept over Marlboro, damaging the crops, especially cotton,from 25 to 60 per cent. Such a storm is < almost unique in the agricultural 1 history of this State. XXX As the result of -a fight among a number of negroes at Beaver Dam, in Aiken county,John Jordan is dead and two negroes, Theodore and Rob- J in Burts, are in jail charged with i murder. The slain negro, it seems, was trying to act as peace-maker when he received his death-wound. ' XXX The State Press Association will hold its annual session at the Colonia hotel in Columbia Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, following which a trip by water to New York has been arranged. The feature of the occasion is the presence of Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, who will address the association Fridav evening at 8:30 ' o'clock. XXX The supreme court of the United States has declared the American ' Tobacco company and its allied cor- , porations to be a trust in the sense of the provisions of the Sherman < Anti-trust law. It has been ordered . to dissolve its monopoly within six i or eight months or be denied the 1 pnvileges of inter-State commerce and have a receiver appointed by the court. j XXX Col Thomas B Crews, the veteran ' editor of the "Laurensville" Herald, j died Saturday night at his daughter's home in Laurens, after an ill- ! ness of four weeks. He is said to ^ have been the oldest newspaper man in the State,being nearly eighty years of age. He had edited his 1 paper continuously since the Civil war until forced by ill health to relinquish his duties. 1 It is worse than useless to take ; any medicines internally for muscular or chronic rheumatism. All that i | is needed is a free application of 1 Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale; by i I all dealers. 1 {' J* _ ? HYMEN AT NESM1TH. Mr. Van D. Harper Leads to the Alter Miss Hosa Tallevast. Nesmith.May 29:?Six week* and' two days without a rain is our rec-1 [>rd. Needless to say it is dry, i but crops are looking as well as could he expected. Messrs Henry James, B S and T S Nesmith, three of our "local sports," attended the picnic at Benson Saturday. "WhippoorwiH" is laid up with a broken collar-bone at this writing, caused by being kicked by a horse Friday (unlucky day). Several of the young folk around here are taking in the commencement exercises at the Union High school at Rome this week. Mr Earnest Tallevast of Florida is spending some time at his old home here. A quiet but very beautiful home wedding was solemnized here Wednesday afternoon, May 24, the contracting parties being Mr Van D Harper of Choppee and* Miss Rosa Tallevast of this place. Rev H C Haddock, the bride's pastor, performed the ceremony. At 3:30 o'clock the bride and the groom, unattended, entered the parlor, which was very tastily and beautifully decorated with flowers, ferns and potted plants, the color scheme being green and white. The bride carried a large bouquet of bride's roses, and was very becomingly attired in a tailored traveling dress of blue silk, trimmed? oh, well, being a man and a bachelor at that, I don't know how it was trimmed. Suffice to say the bride looked very pretty, and the groom never looked happier or handsomer. After the ceremony the guests were ushered into the dining-room, where refreshments were served. Quite, a number of nice presents attested the popularity of the couple. About 4:30 o'clock, amid congratulations, best wishes and showers of rice, the happy couple left for Georgetown and other points. After several days they will be "at home" to their friends at Choppee, ? where Mr Harper holds a responsible position with the Messrs Munnerlyn. The writer, along with their hosts of friends, wish for them a long life of happiness, peace and joy. Whippoorwill. 5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any case of Chills and Fever. Price, 25c. 5-4-lyr j fNpjjTADS^ A Bank Account Will Give You Confidence on Your Wedding DayFarmers & Merchants Bank, Lake City. Executors' Notice?P G and T B Gourdin. Hunt's Lightning Oil?Dr W V Brockington, Kingstree; BlakeleyMcCullough Corp, Lanes. Will Get High Prices for Farm Lands ?J D Gilland. Big Sale of Garments?Jenkinson Bros Co. Special Prices for Ten days?Butler Dry Goods Co. Millinerv Business for Sale?Gale & Gale. Trespass Notice?J W Powell, J E Player. I Shower Baths?Dr A M Snider. I ?PECIAL NOTICES ' Phone us when you want QT to get a notice under this rffig heading. Price one cent a jlA word for each insertion. No ad taken for less than 2oc. ? Phone 83. C For Sale?Scholarship in Bryant & 2^ StraMon Business College, Louisville, gj If interested let u- h^ar from you. Ml-tf Thk ( oi xty Record. 25 For Sale?Two lots in North Kings- g; :ree 50x150 feet, suitable for building g; ots. Can be bought at low figure. 55 4-24-tf R N Speigner, Mgr. g; Drawn-Work and Embroidery done ? it reasonable Drices. Address g; Box 39, ? >-25-4t Vox, S C. ? C When you want us to change the ?? iddress of your paper it will save ; ots of trouble to name the old ? is well as the new postoffice. Please ? >ear this in mind. tf C j -f\ . " : Free Rou Chad The Retail Merck Out-of town shoppers may < one to five days, attend the th etc, do their buying and have round trip. The only conditi( First, that your combined pui Second, that you come from more distant Third, that yo cent of your total purchases, round trip ticket or get a rec< your home station, showing tl The merchants of Charlestc stocks. The matter of select to select from. The stocks ai ished often. Prices are very If you cannot find just what 3 remember you can always get The following merchants ai and will be very glad to serve A?K For K Art Store*. Lanneau't Art Store .238 Kins itreet Antique Furniture. Morgenatern Furniture Company 62 Reid itreet Baker* Condon's Bakery 153 Rutledg* avenue RaaIT CtOrM Walker, Evans 4k Cogswell ? 3 Broad street C L Legerton 263 King street Carpets, Mattings. Etc. Mutual Carpet Company .247 King street China, Class and Queehware. Charleston Crockery Company 299 King street Cigars and Tobacco. Follir, Bros Co .260 King street Clothing and Oents' Furnishings. Bentschner A Visanska .262 King street Hirsch-Israel Company King and Wentworth Blueatoin Bros 594-496 King street W. S. Cook Company 332 King street S. Brown Sona..._ 364-366 King street Banov 4k Volaski..._ 386 King street Department Stores. M. Furchgott A Sons 240-242 King street Louis Cohen A Co 232-234 King street and 203 Meeting J. R. Read Co 249 King street The Kerriaon Dry Goods Co 80-82 Hasel street Druggists. Paragon Drug Co 286-288 King street Fish and Oysters. Terry Fish Co 133 Market street Florists. Connelly-McCarthy Co 296 King street Furniture Phoenix Furniture Co 187-191 King street Buell and Roberts 673 King street A. G. Rhodes A Son 369-361 King street ^ TT-* 1 1 *yNrr niaeai ' and its dellcic consideration i Order a sack today?II it i the floor yon are now nsing, j npon return of partially nsed i So THE FARMERS* | DRUGS! y : Pure and FresH ; and Toilet Artit : RicHard Hudnul Toilet Preparal : Prescriptions am carefully prepa: Pharmacist. j SEND US YOUR Kingstree Dr : Next to i imiilllllillllllillilDliiiiiliilil A 5 ug vuiiijiaujr ^ Stackley's. nd Trip to eston. ints Pay Your Fare come to Charleston, stay from ? leatres. visit the Island resorts, . their railroad fare mud for the >ns to be complied with are: chases amount to $25 or more, a point twenty-five miles or ur fare must not exceed 5 per Fourth, that you must buy a iipt from your railroad agent at hat you purchased a ticket >n carry large and well assorted ing is easy; you have a variety re^kept fresh by being replen- j reasonable, considering quality. J fou want in your home town, J it in Charleston. ] e members of this refund plan i you. lefund BooK Furniture and Dry Goods. Buell k Roberta .578 King street ameer*. J. H. Hesse Montague sad Canine The John Hurkamp Co Kins end Broad streets 0una, Bicycle* and Sporting Goods, The B. H. Worth en Arms Co 230 Kins street Hardware. M. H. Lazarus King ana uaseii streets A. McL. Martin 363 King strteet Strohecker ft Mc Derm Id 287 King street Ball Supply Co 377 King iteet Jeweler*. Jas Alien ft Co .285 King street Corringtoo. Thomas ft Co .251 King street Optician and Optical Supplies. Parsons Optical Co .244 Meeting street Pianos, Organs, Music and ITusical Mer- ? cbandlse. Setgling's Music Store. .243 King street Stoves Cooking Utensils, Etc. Minnis Stove Co ...King and Burns lane Shoe Stores. Robert E. Martin 256 King street H. J. Williams .248 King steet Robert Martin 139 Market street A. A. Hir h 281 King street D. O'Brit ft Sons .381 King street W. F. Livingston 366 King street Jacob's Shoe Store 510 King street Trunks and Bagv Charleston Trunk Company .276 King street Typew liters and Office Supplies. Edward J. Murphy.. 157 Meeting street y > IqF The ! Door to 1 Better Baking , Is ELDEAN PATENT 1 FLOUR. * It is the door thnt lets in certainty in bak* ing results and lets oat k .. . . .9 worry, disappointment, mak dark, soggy loaves, etc. Good digestion and ' health with every loaf of bread baked with it Patent Flour >us, palatable flavor is another tot to be ignored. does not please you better than purchase price will be refunded tackage. ild by SUPPLY COMPANY ,j/ IEDICINES1 J , Drugs, Medicines 3 cles of All Kinds. 3 t's Perfume and 3 ions. 3 d Family Recipes 3 red by a Licensed 3 3 MAIL ORDERS 3 3