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bounty Sirrnrii. | KINGSTREE. S. C. C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Entered at the postoffice at Kingstree, ? S C as second class mail matter. : v TELEPHONE NO. 83TERMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: , One copy, one year $1 25 j One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months 50 One copy, one year in advance ? 1 00 j TVihiitpq of ReSDect, J KJUi luaiito, ?...?? ? 4 Resolutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks and all other reading notices, not News, . will be charged for at the rate of one 1 cent a word for each insertion. | All changes of advertisements and ( all communications must be in this office before TUESDAY NOON in order to 1 appear in the ensuing issue. j All communications must be signed by the writer, not for publication unless 1 desired, but to protect this ne wspaper. ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements to be run in Special colum, one cent a word each issue,mini- 1 mum price 25 cents, to be paid for in < advance. Tj?ot?] advertisements. $1.00 per inch ' first insertion, 50 cents per inch each j subsequent insertion. } Rates on long term advertisements . very reasonable. For rates apply at 1 this office. In remitting checks or money orders make payable to. ' THE COUNTY RECORD. f "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? I hesitate to draw the line 1 Between the two?whereGod has not" } KINGSTREE-THE GATEWAY TO OPPORTUNITY. 1 ?? _ i THURSDAY. DEC. 21. 1911. Mayor Kinder requests us to call 1 special attention to the ordinance ] against shooting fire-works on the business streets of the town. Along'. 11 about Christmas time there is a J tendency t<> flout this ordinance, L but the Mayor wants it known to all that there will l?e every- ef- 1 fort made to enforce this law, look- t ing to a safe and sane Christmas. * t THE JURY LAW, ETC. f How Conditions Might Be Changed to Advantage, 1 Editor County Record:? We discussed in your columns ten 1 days ago the mortgage and lien law, also the tax system,which are known as Nos. 1 and 2; now come the live ; stock dealer and the jury law, Nos. c 3 and 4. I had a conversation this past v week with a responsible farmer of * our county who told me he went to 8 one of our live-stock dealers about ^ three years ago to buy a horse. r After driving the horse which he wanted, he asked the price of it ^ and was told $90. Now, he offers v for the horse $50 down and $40 in C the fall. "No," says the horse deal- 1 es, "you have the money and I must y have all cash." The farmer refused to pay cash, but went home to a j t negro tenant and said: "Here, Jack, e is $15; go to Mr Live Stock Dealer and buy a certain horse" (describing the horse). Then, to the farmer's surprise, the negro came back ^ with the horse for $90,with $15 paid ^ cash, and balance payable in the fall with only security on the horse. ^ Here is where rests some of the i ^ blame for scarcity of labor. I mean!, . , _ , . I li no reflection, but offer this as an eye-opener. Now, fellow-citizens of our county,I want to make a few remarks as ^ to our jury law. At the out-set, If j J you had an important case in court, f would you hunt an unlearned attor- v ney,or would you want the best you | could get? Of course the latter is c what you wouid employ. Well, I then, why should one be forced to j 1 take persons without any qualifica- s cation to decide our cases in court?;' i Even our lives to be in the hands of t men without any qualification. If r any law ever needed purging in c South Carolina it is the jury law. * Let every juror stand a rigid examination before being admitted to sit e --,n a inrv to decide a case. Some-11 times our Judges on the bench have I to set aside decisions of jurors. We ? know better jury laws can be made. ^ W S C. t Andrews, December 18. p 1 .AKE CITY ELECTS NEW INTENDAN1 SUNDAY - SCHOOL CHRISTMA! TREE?MATTERS OF INTEREST BRIEFLY CHRONICLED. Lake City, December 19:?M lustin Morris is at home from th nedieal college, Charleston. Miss Olivia Stuckey has returnei from a lenftfhy visit to relatives ii \rkansas and Oklahoma. The Sunday-school of the Method st church will celebrate Christma Dy having a tree for all the ehildrei )f the school. On account of th fact that Christmas comes on Monda; ;his year, the ce?ebration by uhe tre< rill be had ne;:t Friday night. Mrs J M Truluck was hurriedl; ailed to Newark, N J, last week b; :he illness of her mother, Mrs Mari Sutcliffe, who was on a visit to he jon, Mr Sidney Sutcliffe. At \?* iccounts Mrs Sutcliffe is improriLi ind will return home as soon as sh s able to make the trip. Mr W B King spent nearly all o ast week at St Stephens, and i jtill there. Miss Johnson and Mrs Dicker hav< lied petition ir. voluntary bankrupt ;v in the U S District Court. Thi s the second failure in busines lere this fall. The call issued for a meeting o * ' a _ i.i :ne wnue men 01 ine cuuimuiin, received no attention whatsoever. Mrs Claude S Lucas,who is know: it this place, which was her horn intil last February, is very ill witl Dneumonia in Darlington. Last new s that she is slightly better. Mr J M Sturgeon spent Monda; n Clarendon county on business. Messrs Alex Floyd and W E Sum nerford were in Florence Monday. Magistrate 0 S Baldwin is kep >usy these days issuing warrants ,rying criminal cases of a minor na ;ure and holding preliminaries ii (uch as are beyond his jurisdictioi ;o try. It seems that there is i i perfect epidemic of crime. Miss Violet Askins came home las Friday night from Greenville Femal College, and will be here until stud es at the college be resumed afte die holidays. The local graded and high school vill take vacation from Wednesds; ntAAb fa 'Vvknvo/)oi* offor Mou H tUIO wCCR IU XI1U1 ouaj m wi AIN. T fear's day?two entire weeks. Thi vill give the children time enougl ;o eat all the turkeys,backbones am ausages in the community, and thei lave indigestion and all sorts o: lightmares. At the primary election held lasi 'uesday the following candidate! yere nominated: Intendant, S iowdy; wardens, J S McC'am,warc , J C Young, ward 2, F M Rollins /ard 3, and G L Dickson and L G Atkinson, ward 4, tied. The lasi wo will run over. The regulai lection will be held on the 20th. w l b. One of the latest phrases ir >olitics is "a good mixer." 11 ounds somewhat like a recom Herniation for a bar-keeper, bui hey say it is necessary to l>e a "gooc iiixer" to get elected to office 'he more expert the mixer, th< ligher his ambition soars. Saved His Wife's life. "My wife would have been in hei rrave today," writes 0 H Brown,o: duscadine, Ala, "if it had not beer or Dr King's New Discovery. She eas down in her bed, not able to gel ? ?I- /-.lCUA Uod o cftirorr ip WJU1UUI UCip. OllC (iau a otTtiv >ronchial trouble and a dreadfu ough. I got her a bottle of D] ving's New Discovery, and she soor >egan to mend, and was well in ^ hort time." Infallible for cough: ind colds, it's the most reliable rem dy on earth for desperate lung rouble, hemorrhages, lagrippe.asth na, hay fever, croup and whooping ough. 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free Guaranteed by M L Allen. Something may drop in the pack rs' trial, but it is not likely to b( he price of beef. If you are troubled with ehron < onstipation, the mild and gentle ef * 1 1 ect 01 L/namueriaiu s laun-wiuaivchem especially suited to your case ^or Sale by All Dealers. A PLEASANT OCCASION. Exercises by School Children-| Prizes for Pretty Rooms. Kingstree High and Graded school 5 gave holiday intermission for two , two weeks, beginning today (Thurs- ( ! day) and continuing until Thursday, January 4,1912. j Yesterday, the advent of the hol' idav season was marked by an entere tainment at the school-house lasting from 10 a.m.till 1 p. m., and a number of patrons and friends of the n school gathered to witness the exercises, which were highly interesting | and entertaining. We really would 3 like to give the entire attractive n programme, but it being so late in j e the week we cannot do justice to j y the occasion. Every number on the ; programme ? songs, music, plays, drills and charades, in which the j y whole student body took some part y ?was liberally applauded. One a number, the doll drill, by a bevy of r pretty little girls with their dollies, t was particularly pleasing, showing ? real talent and excellent training on e the part of the little folk. Another piece, which was much enjoyed and f would have done credit to a more s pretentious occasion, was the song sung by the entire school in chorus. The fresh young voices,vibrant with youth and enthusiasm, blended in ' exquisite harmony as the grand g melody resounded through the spacious auditorium. Another interesting feature of the entertainment was the awarding of y two prizes for the two rooms most prettily decorated. The award was 11 made by a committee comprising the e following: Mesdames H McCutchen, ' ^ i R .1 McCabe. PhiliD Stoll: Messrs R ! S|J Kirk and C W Wolfe. All the j rooms were so pretty and tastefully i P.done that it took the committee j ! quite a while to decide upon the two - prettiest,and even then, there was a j "minority report." t Finally, it was announced by R J t Kirk, Esq, in his usual felicitous . phraseology, that the first prize?a a handsome picture,framed?was won a by the 8th and ?>th grades, taught a by Miss Walker, and the second prize, a copy of Webster's diction^ ary, was awarded to the 1st grade, taught by Miss Erckmann. Hymeneal. r Married?On Saturday, Decern8 ber 16, 1911, at 11 a. m., by P M ? Brockinton, Esq, !n the Probate y; Judge's office, Kingstree, S C, Miss Rosella Brown and Mr Raymond Tanner, both of Williamsburg county. 1 1 Married?At the residence of the ^ bride's parents, Mr and Mrs A W McKnight, Wednesday at 10 o'clock ^ am, Miss Bessie McKnight of Kings- . tree, and Mr Kirkland Graham of r Bamberg,Rev W A Fairy officiating, j Mr and Mrs Graham left on the 11 o'clock train for their future home ^ | at Bamberg, S C. I 1 Eaddy-Abrams. Johnsonville, December 19:? | Promptly, as the clock struck two in t the afternoon of December 17,1911, 1 ( , at the home of the bride's father, I Mr W S Eaddy, the strains of a . beautiful wedding march hushed the- c t, hum of a hundred invited guests, and, while the soft murmurs of the music fell like dreams of happiness , over the lovely scene and decorations of nameless beauty hanging in a net work of radial festoons athwart the ceilings, the sonorous voice of the pastor,Rev Mr Hutson,impressed : the ceremony of holy wedlock that 1 made two hearts one and changed ; the name of Miss Anna C Eaddy to [ i Mrs Liston Abrams. 1; The overflowing guests then vied ! with each other in compliments to j 1 the happy couple, inspecting the 1: many nice wedding presents and ': showering with rice and good wishes r1 the bride and the bride-groom as -j they joined in the long train of bugf gies for the afternoon services at ; ' | Prospect to hear the officiating pastor! j preach the riches of the Gospel of . the Saviour of the world. ? The afternoon being short, we ( hastened back, but it was sundown < when we reached our home in [ Possum Fork. Anyway, the Russian bear has been | prodded enough to make him growl. < r i - : .'s Hair Falling ? You certainly cannot lose your hair and keep it, too. Which shall it ber Lose? Then do nothing. Keep? Then use Ayer's Hair Vigor. That is about all there is to it Ayer's Hair Vigor is also a splendid hair-dressing and hair-tonic. It keeps the hair soft and smooth and greatly promotes its growth. It does not color the hair. Consult yuui uuviui ucujr. i/uvivig are studying these hair questions much more than in former days. M?a? >r ?b? ?. 0. ATI! oo.. twriii, ?m, TTTTfTTTfTfTTT t ^ I Paint Your Buggy! j t < r We can make it look like j f new. Any Buggy, Car- 3 t riage, Wagonorother Vehicle j & can be improved One Hur>- j E dred per cent in appear- 3 l ance by painting. j ^ Also Wheelwright, Horse- 3 shoeing and General Repair ^ Work on short notice- < t Bring U? Your Work 3 1 W. M. VAUSE & SON. J < AiAliliAlAAAAAllAAAiAAAK I V.W Special Sale on Player Pianos We did not anticipate 8L2 cotton when we placed our order for SelfPlayer Pianos. The stock on hand Must be Sold before December 31, and in order to dispose of them will make special terms. See this stock while it is complete, or write for particulars. Chas. M. Stiefl? Manufacturer of the Artistic Stieff Self-Player and the Shaw Self-player Pianos. SOUTHERN WAREROOM: 5 West Trade Street. CHarlotte, - - N. C. C. H. WILMOTH, Manager. WW * i/^MTwivr. pnn^t JUAUiA A v U. L. Whitlock, UK* City, S.C Special Sales Agent Representing the Largest Manufacturers of All Kinds improved Copper and Galvaoteed Section Rods [Endorsedhy the Highest Scientific Auihoritie* and F i re In sura nee Companies) >ure Copper Wire Cables, Ail Sizes )ur Full Cost Guarantee given with Each Job. I sell on close margin of profit,dividjommission with my customers. 9-'29-3mp To Rent or Lease. Farm of 130 acres, 68 acres cleared, located 2\ miles from Greelyville. Apply to I S V Taylor, 1 Greelyville, S C. 12 14-tf * 1 I have a few full blooded Poland China sow and boar pigs for sale, eigbt to ten weeks old. A bargain for quick purchaser. J. J. M. GRAHAM, 12-7-4tp. Cades, S. C. D?" IP OTP If* THE BEST FOR JJ'V' BILIOUSNESS ? BITTERS AND KIDNEYS TTTTffTVVfTfTVfffTfTffTf WW [ LOOK! L Kennedy Millinery Company's Big Saturday, December 9, 1911. It is growing late in the season an ? line of goods which we will close out ? sists of Trimmed and Untrimmed I Feathers of all kinds, Velvets, Ribboi i Trimmed Hats that were $5 ? ?? ?? ?? ? 4 P a it a a 0 I Untrimmed Hats" ' 6. b ?< it *4 4 4 0 <( << <4 44 ? 44 44 44 44 J $15.00 Willow Plumes fi J 7.00 " " < ' Wings and Feathers of all kin< t Ribbons that were 60c, foi " ?' " 25c " Children's Hats, Caps and Be Boys' Hats that were 75c for $2.50 Sweaters for ... . ?????? J Come early Saturday, Deceml > get your Hat before they ai ????? E KENNEDY MILLINEF >lAAlAAAAAiAAAAAAAAliAAAAA*AiAAi >| Quality || Jewelry ' + DIAMONDS 1 WATCHES ' RICH JEW! I StERLINO I CUT OLASS ? FINE UMBI | WATCH REPAIRING | JEWELRY REPAIRING I DIAMOND SETTING ENORAVING t BY EXPERTS S. THOMAS c | QUALITY JEWE 257 KING ST-. Mail Order* Receive Prompt and < i. m . _ Prestoi Buyers of Seed Cotton aefj Licenses for 1911. Oliver Bros, F Rhei W O Oamlin, F Rhei W H Thompson, S S Ai W N Clarkson, S S Ar J H Covington, WINi Richburg & Tisdale. RGB: R W Stuckey, Daniel J M Spivey, Calvin Billey Cooper, NALi A B Burrows, MGM J D Scott, R P Hi H i Cooper, S A Gi H D Ferrell & Bro, W I Ti J T Brockington, H C Mi W R Graham, W M C B H Guess & to, WIH MeClary Bros Co, C H G A J Prosser, WDE Wash Miller, SB-Po J J Bradham, James Cooper Bros, . MVO Marshall Bros. J WW W V Strong, D L & W H Wilson, W M S F E Huggins, E T Gi M C Hammonds, ; T A Bj H L Grayson & Bro, Robert E M McCutchen,,- Poston .1 9 Fulmore, S Posh W A Brockington, S Posh Isaac Fulton, JMNi C B Guess & Bro, Josh D J J Hanna, Farmei Joe Wilson, WES E F Prosser, J Tigle Browder & Taylor, W C H H J McFadden. W C H S Hoffort, W C H B L Gist & Bro. D E M TIT O Uamm'a ^ ff u lianua, \< u u i W W Barr, James J E Davis, A Gr C w Hanna, Blakele R D Gamble, BlakeU Gus McKnight, Blaake Alex Pressley, A E Hi Nesmith Bros, W W S T M Brown, B N St S D Cunningham, WSBi E H Carsteo, B LN< J B DuRant, / S J Ha Trio Mercantile Co, J T Eai Bartell Bros, iDOOOOOOOOOOOOCXX 1 SEE I X FOR g Horses M X Buggies S o Wagons and 1 5 We also Handle the g Manure Sprc 0 Come in and Se L YOURS TO PLE The Williamsburg Live St Kingstre*, South Caro 3COOOOOOOOCXXX ; ISTEN! | == ? Clearance Sale begins < I d we stilt have a nice 4 ? Hair llna rntl. a ai WV9II VMI IHIV VV?I- J Hats, Willow Plumes, i us, etc. ^ .00 for $3.50 3 .00 "3.00 i 00 " 2.00 00 44 3.25 : 00 " 2.00 < 00 " 1.50 .50 44 1.00 ^ or $11.50 : 5.00 # ? Is at half price. < 45c per yard * 19c " " ? innets for half. < .... 50c < . . . $1.98 : t>er 9, 1911, and ? jjflj re picked over. * -*I LY COMPANY j 1 ;LRY j| SILVER Xt {ELLAS sc BK?., 1 LERS. CHARLESTON, S. C o Careful Attention. Kg*g>*8 n Adams, 1 owers, J| ike, 1 I Barrineau, irkson, n & Sons, n & Sons, , onson, J onson, J exsen, w '9 rown, Wilson, Wilson, esesne, cMillan, nnant, lerry & Bro, > 7 sdale & Bro, > cCutchen, Uk )'Bryan. ~ rviaroa oraon, [armon, ^ ston, "%M Gamble, M F Fulton, M| iskins & Co, "^Hj irrineau, McFadden, Jr, I -Johnson Bros, J an & Co, Dn & Co, sxsen, l| avis, I rs' Mercantile Co, 1 nowdjn, ; emingway & Co, i emingway & Co, I emingway & Co, J cCutchen, B McGill.; ah am, ;y-McCullough Corp, :y-McCullough Corp, ley-McCulloughCorp, 4M iingletary, J uckey. I rockington & Sons, j smith, 1 selden, B ddy. 9-21-tf M xxxxxxxxx^ js : lules 8 urreys 8 larness 8 J LH. Co's V n ,auwi ^ X I ock Company | J