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t & Mb & r JTIjc (Countt) Itccorft. { VOL. XXV. KINGSTREE, SOETH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1911. NO. 15 V I Now is the time g Anything ki m ~ WHAT LAKE CITY FOLK ARE SAYING AND DOING TOBACCO SEASON OPENING-HIGH PRICES FOR TRUCK-WHITE MAN V Co. |; < > <> ?J^\ Underwear I es' and Gents' i k Undervests 25c. gf rwear; full suits for g; 'ests 5c to 25c. !g jowns at closing out g )f Trunks and Hand ner trip. | h class goods. | ^ s AO \ V 1 Li 1 U Vi^ 1 ivxai XXAI " i; irters I o < > * * f !!\ Anything to Pur- <> 4 4 .arge i: lall. :: holesale he size of your I Etc., Etc. C lumber of new type faces ed line of paper, we can ,Tr;+k TAR PRTMTTMA fMimmer Ladies' Miss Men's Nainsool B. V. D. Unde men. Ladies' Linden Ladies' Night ( prices. tig the I See our line * Bags for that sunn and all other higl COMPAIN f I I I WilkinsW ? I Grocer Ik?: ^ u IV | Headqu* | | For Almost I You Wish ; chase, L or Sn ZO FLUES my size. Give us t tuse any delay. D1LS, GLASS, CROCKERY. LEAD-OTHERS FOLLOW. MPANY With the addition of a r fin I and a beautiful and vari ^^J-^please the most fastidioi ? .lies anu est styles, includii ERIES William Tell Flour NTILE UTH CAROLINA. > \ ;rtueiiiid Ljauiv m elv Safe" V [TV, S. C. j es Quality Brand jj ? i LY PUT/Awl lONEYIN I tfoe I: BANK j I WOULD I HAVE IT I NOW j ! TOO LATE I START A I; PONT NOW I; ( OWN enables you to borrow M it to start a business of your ik YOLR Bank. 1: tent with safety ?4 per cent. ^ l? ? 4- < ? D n n 1 r v >R TOBAC< e will make them ? once, so as not to cs INT, PLASTER, PAINTS, < "WE )WARE CO :TAIL DEALERS ness on her part, in that she was i drunk and being out of place on the ' railroad. The A C L Kailroad Co J took charge of the body, and buried it near town late Sunday afternoon. One arm was broken in two places, a leg broken, shoulder broken, and one side of her face was badly i bruised where she must have struck ,a cross tie. It is supposed that she was killed about 11:30 o'clock Sat1 urday night by a souih bound freight, as one came along about that time, and she was seen on the streets a short time before the arrival of the train. She has no relatives here ?Florence Tunes. ar Suede for ladies GROC :1 Blend Coffee, 1 MERCA KINGSTREE, SO )xford Tii King for La< Childrt II sizes and the Iat | IT IS NEVER I TO LEARN; J BANK ACCi S HAVING MONEiY OF YOUP B more money when you want i m | m own. M Make OUR Ban I M We pay liberal interest consis I Farmers & M< J "Absolut I LAKE C) Ditcli at Cades---BadJy Mangled. Cades, June 20:?Sunday morning about 7 o'clock a negro woman, Mary McCutchen, whose home is at Andrews, S C, but who has been here for four or five months, was found dean in the ditch at the Ma n street railroad crossing. Magistrate V G Arnette was summoned,and an inquest was held over the remains. The verdict of the jury was that Mary came to her death by z train, through careless' ???? <1???mm |rFiH^^ Could Such an Incident Take Place In the Palmetto State? "Pardon me, Governor," pleaded a poor convict who happened to stand in the way of His Excellency as he was looking over the few remaining prisoners in the penitentiary, trying to devise some excuse for releasing them. "Certainly, my friend," promptly replied the com| plaisant Chief Executive and he hied i him away to his office at the Capitol ; to fill in a blank pardon form and affix thereon his signature. Reader, can you guess the name of the Governor and the Common! wealth over which he exercised do. . o i minion? OTHING Q RAND churches or L.onaon, wnose p;isuur will have charge of Dr Bass's flock at Mexia during the summer. Saturday "Judge" 0 S Baldwin sent J T Bellflower to jail in default on bond. There are two charges against Bellflower, the most serious of which is breaking into Dr W S Lynch's drug store on May 31 and stealing therefrom goods and money. Bellflower is a white man and comes from sound, honest stock, and his condition is pitiable. WLB. "PARDON ME, GOVERNOR.** i former years shipments after Junel have not brought freight charges, i Today, June It), they sold for $2.25 j per hami>er on the markets, and right here spot, was paid Saturday. MissSimsie McMichael of Orangeburg is vi-iting her school-mate, Miss Ruth Williams. Dr L -D Bass of Mexia, Texas, stopped in town last Friday. He is ' spending this week in Philadelphia at the World's Baptist Alliance, and on the 24th will sail for Europe in charge of a party that will spend three months beyond the Atlantic. Dr Bass, while abroad, will occupy I the pulpit of one of the Baptist HEADQUA ) to place your orck barn?we do tl" down in HARDWARE, SA1 FINS AND CASKETS KINGS! .RTERS FC irs for Flues. W le rest. Call in at SH, DOORS, LIME, CEME REE HARE WHOLESALE AND RI KILLED ON THE RAIL. Ncflro Woman Found Dead in ar styles. 1 nere r\\ le than the Lion popuL ble Hams, Kurne OPLE'5 o fit boys of es. mplete and this. irts for Men . nr* _ A 1 ()! f M. JL-* A 1 ALVIN B Also suits t all sizes and ag A very coi handsome line Lion Brand Sh Soft and linen coll is no better shirt mac Brand. Kingan's Relia I ^ readiness for business. ^The tobacco crop will be short. 4 Scarcity of plants and lack of rain are the two causes of this falling off. Some large growers will make none,while others will get but little. Nevertheless, careful estimates figure it out that we will have about two-thirds of a full crop. The prices ? ate confidently expected to be high, so high that the total value of the crop will probably be near the value of an average crop. The deficiency in yield of truck has been fully compensated by the excellent prices obtained. The conditions which reduced the quantity here had the same effect in competing centers. In consequence one hundred baskets have brought in as much as a much greater number have commanded heretofore. In i I mpn'<s ri i IN THE TOILS OF THE LAW. \ Lake City, June 19:?Mrs Geo C Haselton and two smaller children have gone to Newport News, Va, on a visit to old friends. Miss S R Lucas of Leesburg, Fla, spent some days this week with her niece, Mrs W L Bass, on Acline avenue. The tobacco men are busy getting ready for the season, which will open in a few more days. The several warehouses have been renovated, and wherever needed, repairs will be made. All of the warehousemen, except one. live here; so also do most of the largest buyero. The migratory members of the colony are coming day by day, and within a short time everything will be in