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i REMINISCENCES ANENT OLD KINGSTREE. A FORMER STUDENT HERE RE j CALLS ANCIENT TIMES AND PERSONAGES. Editor County Record: ? I want to make a few remarks as j V, to Kingstree, our county seat. The writer went to school in Kingstree from 1882 to '85. We knew it then as "Old King-dree," and in those days the merchants were: Mr W J Lee, Benjamin Brothers, Mr Ira Roger,Mr S P Brockinton and the present Mr Porter. Mr Lee was the manager of the Coleman Hotel and j i bar-room; Mr M F Heller was doing j a live-stock business, the druggists! were Dr D C Scott and Dr James i Brockinton. I)r Brockinton's stand was the fine drugstore now occupied by his son, Dr W V Brockinton. Also the old school-house still stands and the old store known as the Kinder building near Dr Scott's drug store. Down near the old depot site? there has been so much change that I hardly recognized the locality. In 1885 this part of town was an old field,farmed ard, I believe,owned by Mr Imuran then editor and owner of the old Williamsburg "Star" or "Record." Mr Logan was one of the best men that ever lived in Kingstree. Always called the writer, "my young friend Camlin." But he has long since gone to his reward. Also Mr McBride Scott, who lived just across Broad swamp, was a kind and good man in his day; all who knew him loved and respected him. Also in his neighborhood, a little farther up the road, lived Mr James McClary, with whom the writer boarded year after year while going to school. This noble Christian family were as parents to the writer and I never shall forget the refining influences that were brought to bear upon me by that good old-time Christian Presbyterian family, and a warm place will ever remain in my heart for all the members of this family. The old gentlemen, the dear wife and mother, two of the sons and one of the daughters have crossed the river of death. Mr P C McGary of Georgetown and Messrs Hey ward and Sam McClary are all of the family that now survive. Mr Wilder, our revered school teacher,I have lost sight of entirely. The children who attended the school were myself, the MeClarys, the Solomons, Mr Ham Keels' children, Mr Louis Jacobs' children, Mr Mac, Scott's, the Brockinton girls, the Hirsch boys, Robert Fulton, Walter' ?j /* T 1 ? anu vjeorxe juugoii anu uuicib. Rfght at the foot of our school building stood Mr M J Hirsch's lawoffice. Mr Kelley's office was where it is now. Mr Ira Roger married the only daughter of the late Samuel J Morris, Esq, who was a fine lawyer and a good man. Mr Barron Grier was practicing law in the present \ office of Messrs Lee & Fishburne, and Mr T M Gilland's office was where it is now. To compare the present Kingstree! with the town then, there are only j two places that look natural?the: court house and the old Lee store. The old Lee building would furnish fine fuel for a fire in this thriving : town on some dry, windy day. Mr Editor,this may be interesting to some of our Kingstree people to read. Mr Calhoun Logan, another fine old gentleman and veteran, i knew and loved in those days as I do now. Subscriber. V Thirty Years Together. Thirty years of association?think of it. How the merit of a good thing stands out in that time ? or the worthlessness of a bad one. So there's no guesswork in this evi-; dence of Thos Ariss, Concord, Mich, j who writes: "I have used l)r King's: New Discovery tor 30 years, and it's the best cough and cold cure 1 ever : used." Once it finds entrance in a home you can't pry it out. Many 1 families have used it forty years. It's the most infallible throat and : lung medicine on earth. Uuequaled | for lagrippe, asthma, hay-fever,' croup, quinsy or sor? lungs. Price 50c, SI.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by M L Allen. i Tribute to I. W. Hlrsch. L M Moore of Ninety-Six addressed on Monday to the editor of the Columbia State the following tribute to his veteran comrade at i Mauassas, 1 W Hirsch of Charleston: ; "In The State of July 22 your ; special from Charleston sp#aks of I : W Hirsch in connection with the , battle of First Manassas and the company he had the honor of serv- ( ing with?Company B, Butler 1 Guards, Kershaw's old regiment. ^ Second South Carolina infantry, 1 Your correspondent states that Mr Hirsch and Mr Divver of Anderson j are the only two of that company now living. That is a mistake. Your humble servant is still living-, as are Dr E F Rowley, S A Townes, Luther ' Hawkins in the city .of Greenville, and two or three more, living in Greenville county. This old company had a record hard to beat- from Manassas until the surrender. In the battle of Gettysburg this company carried into battle 4b mt^n, and out of the 4b in that fight 44 were killed or wounded. Mr Editor, it is not the company so much I wish to speak of but the individual?I W Hirsch, my old comrade, Isaac William Hirsch.who is a Jew. He and I were boys together at Greenville. When the war broke out both went in the same company. In that grand Army of Northern Virginia was the flower of the South' "I saw Mr Hirsch de what I never saw any other man do. Having been badlv wounded and sent home, as soon as he was able to return to his company he came back?unable to walk without the aid of a stick. He . - - 4. -r i?4.4.1,. ...u.. weni into me worst 01 uuiuie wncu he could not walk without the aid of his stick; and, crossing his feet, he would put the stick between his legs and give Uncle Sam's boys in blue the best he had in his old rifle. Could Napoleon or Alexander boast of a better soldier? Father Ryan and I W Hirsch?the part those two took in the Confederate army has made a tender spot in my heart for the Catholic and the Jew, and I am as far from being either as any living man. But any man who wore the Confederate gray with honor, dead . or alive, is my brother L M Moore." "Ninety-Six, July 24." The foregoing clipping is from the Charleston Post of July 26. Mr I W Hirsch is a brother of the late Melvin J Hirsch. Esq, of Kingstree. THE CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Enrollment over 700?Value of Properly over a Million and a Quarter? Ninety Teachers and Officers. Seven full four years courses, in m Agriculture, Engineering, etc. ^ Cost per session of nine months, including all fees, board, heat, light, : laundry and necessary uniforms? v ?121.87. (j Students who are financially able / pay $40.00 tuition additional. SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE > EXAMINATIONS. 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