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' K1NGSTREE. S. C. 1
C. W. WOlFE.
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, KIX<;$TREE?'THE GATEWAY 1
TO OPPORTUNITY. j
"In men whom men condemn as ill, |
i truodness still;
I 11i111 au lliuvii V*
In men whom MEN pronounce divine.
I find so much of sin and blot ?
1 hesitate to draw the line
Between the two?where God has not." j
THURSDAY. OCT. 31.1912.
For heaven'.- sake, give u> a'
i !
rest oil, \\ e stauu ;u .11 iiiajivMdop
anil kittle, for the Lord."'
ticorgia, the "Kmpire State of
die South,'' with over a million
more imputation than South Carolina,
has contributed only a lit-!
tie more than ten thousand dollars
to the Wood row Wilson
fund, while South Carolina's contribution
amounts to nearly fifteen
/
% thousand dollars.
. File idea of the Bull Moose
t
party in thi> State that those
who voted in the primary are
absolved from voting for Demo^
era tic electors is a mere quihble.
Before tlie primary the pemox*---*
' n.,,1
MRIX1C ->aiH?liai njinviiuuu n.i*? i
chosen as the partyV standardly
liearer.- Wilson ami Marshall and!]
every intelligent voter in the!,
primary knew this to l>e a fact. '
Therefore, we say> every man 1
'alio swore to support the nomi- j
nees of the party when he vot*d
in the Democratic primary j
violates his oath when he votes ?
ior Hull Moose electors in the j
general election, inasmuch as he r
know- that thereby he is indirectly
voting for an independent
candidate who i- opposed to the c
I Vim HTjitir nominee, Woodrow 1
Wilson.
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Last week was disastrous to c
)
malefactors on trial for their lives. r
Police Lieutenant Pecker, charged J
with instigating tin- murder of;
i*
U?.-enthal, the Now York gamMer,
was fount! guilty ami will receive
a capital sentence, while in this t
State a <?reen,ville jury fouml T ]
V Yauglin, "-hargedj with rape, J
guilty and he wa- sentenced to <
? death Hot!) these cases hail cx-ji
wide-spread interest and the
puHie hroathe- a sigh of relief
that justier lias b?vii meted out 1
it i- so rieldy merited, ;u - i
_-fling to testimony^ Tin* rase of \
Vaughn wa- particularly atrocious
In- lia'l l?een a'trusted official
I I
hi the church and was placed ji
at tlie head of an orphanage, j
where a nunil?er of little girls [l
were absolutely at his mercy 1
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How lie l>et rayed the trust re- i
\ ?^ed in him makes a story the
revolting details of which are al- (
jooet without parallel in the hisJar^r.
of crime in this State. i
WATCH GREELYVlLLt GROW!
Big Land ifale Gives Building Impetus-Other
News ol Interest.
Greelyville, October 27:?We have :
nad frost several mornings this week.
Miss Martha Gamble was a visitor .
to Kingstree Saturday. ,:
Those were some auctioneers here
1
Thursday plying their business.
Misses Leitch and Deanes, two of
our popular school teachers, spent
Saturday at Kingstree.
"Rally day" was held at the Methodist
Sunday-school last Wednesday.
The exercises were opened by Rev;
W A Fairy of Kingstree, aft^r which
Rev J M Way of Spartanburg dis-;
cussed the organization of Sundayschools.
Dinner was served on the
grounds, following which Mr Way
discussed the "Ideal Teacher."
Rey L E Peeler of Georgetown
spent Monday here.
A thief entered the Mallard Lumber
Co's store one night last week.
He pot a couple of suit cases and
packed them with poods. The next
morninp there was a clothes drummer
at Foreston and when the officer J
approached to arrest him he dropped
the poods and took to the bay. He
hasn't been captured yet
Mr and Mrs B G Land spent Sunday
at Kihpstree.
I
In previous letter to your worthy
paper the writer advised your readers
to "watch GreelyvilleNprow."
As evidence of that adyice being
founded on a substantial basis,about
fifteen acres of our suburban land
was sold last Thursday by the Atlantic
Coast Realty Co for Mr E B Rho-:
dus and it brought about $6,aOU.1
Mr Rhodust purchased this property |
about a year ago for $500. A bar-;
1 rn '
LHfCUe Uiuilt'l \> a? K' > CI1 ?ii 4UUIH,V.UW1I I
with the sale by Mr Rhodus, which
was enjoyed by all. There was a
good band of music on hand, which
made things lively, and several val- j i
uable prizes were given away. Hrs
R S Brunson. Jr, and Mr J M Oliver
each won a prize of five dollars and
Dr E 0 Taylor got the free lot. A
great many of our country friends
were present and bought lots onwhich j
they intend to erect dwellings. We |1
shall be glad to welcome them among .
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us, as we ieei sure uiai ujey win i j
make useful citizens. , ! i
Steamboat Bill. j j
United Daughters of the Confederacy, <
Washiogton.D I, November 12 16. j
On account of the above occasion
the Atlantic Coast Line will sell j
round-trip tickets from all points on j ]
ts lines, on November 9, 10, 11, 12, | <
13 and 14, from Kingstree, S C, to j J
Washington, D C, at $15.30, with : t
-eturn limit to reach original start- ] i
ng point not later than midnight of t
December 1, 1912. c
For further particulars, sched- 1
lies, reservations, etc, apply to T E i t
Baggett, Ticket Agent, Kingstree,1
> C, or address T C White, General;
5assenger Agent, or W J Craig,' c
Jassenger Traffic Manager, Wil-'t
nington, N C, 10-31-3t-adv Id
Just received a shipment of New'a
dome Sewing Machines. Will sell j a
heap for cash or on easy terms. f
o-24-tf Pe<iple's Mercantile Co. j a
STATEMENT j }
if the Ownership, Jianagement. Circu-1
lation, Etc. of I c
[HE COUNTY RECORD,;
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jnblished Weekly at Kingstree. vouth! *
Carolina, required by the Act of Au- : *
gust 24, 1912. 1
Note?This statement is to be made |
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>y the publisher to the Postmaster,who ,
,vill send one copy to the Third Assist- j
int Postmaster General (Division of j
Classification), Washington, D (.. and 1
retain the other in the files of the Postiftice.
Name of Editor, Postoffico Address, j
Charies W Wolfe. Kingstree. South ,
Carolina.
Managing Editor, None.
Business Manager, None.
Publisher.*Charles W Wolfe, Kings- j
tree. South ? arolina. *?
Owner (If a corporation, give names >
and addresses of stockholders holding
:?ne per cent or more of the total amount
>f stock).
Charles W Wolfe, owner.
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ather security holders holding one per !
cent or more of total amount of bonds, :
mortgages or other securities:
Bank of Williamsburg.
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< harles W Wolfe, Publisher.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 29th day of October, 1912.
J B Steele, Notary Public.
(My commission expires at the pleasire
of the Governor), '
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I STATE and GENERAL H
TOPICS ;
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Fifty-seven arrests for drunkenness
were made ir Spartanburg "circus
day" last week.
X X X
The street car strike at Columbia
has been settled and the cars are
running on schedule time.
X X X
The fcj^ulgarian army has captured
several Turkish strongholds and
st-em to have the Moslems on the run.
X X/X
Thy question, of dispensary or no
dispensary will be voted on in Union
county next Tuesday. Union is now
a so-called dry county.
XXX
In a fit of temporary insanity Mrs
Ed Stancill of Greenville committed
suicide last Saturday by? hanging
herself with a plow line fastened to
a gas-pipe.
, XXX
J E Aiken, a white man of Columbia,
a carpenter by trade, shot
himself through the head with a pistol
Monday morning. Aiken leaves
a wife and eiffht children.
XXX
Frank Brown of Brunson, Hampton
county, shot himself in the mouth
with a pistol Monday morning, blowing
out'his brains. The cause of
the suicide is not known.
XXXRev
John Bass Shelton, a well
known Baptist minister, who has assisted
in religious meetings here on
several occasions, died in Montgomery,
Alabama, Friday of last week.
XXX
The ninety-second annual meeting
of the South Carolina Baptist State
convention will be held at Abbeville,
December 8-6. The sessions will be
held in the splendid new Baptist
nUiia-stl-, kiiil/finrr of Aklxavillfi
tuuiv.ll UUUUUlfl UV wv > HIV.
XXX
. J W Caldwell, a Spartanburg farmer,
claims to have already gathered
five 450 weight bales of cotton from
one acre and says there is enough
cotton in the field to make still another
bale. (Sounds like a big fish
stcry?Printer's Devil).
XXX
Last week Governor Blease paroled
Pope Havird, a Saluda county
man sentenced to a five-year term
for assault and battery'of a high and
aggravated nature. I^avird was the
man wh<5 tried to run down a schdol
teacher, a Miss Mitchell, on the public
highway, the young lady being
>n foot and Havird in his buggy.
Havird had served about a year and
a half.
XXX
Between the C N & L freight deoot
and J W Copeland's store at
Clinton Monday, Warren Franklin
Lawson of Lanford station, was 5,hot
jiree times in the hack of his head
)y his son, Robert B Lawson. The
ragedv was the culmination of an
>ld feud between father and son.
["he general opinion locally is that
he shooting was premature.
XXX
Lester Gunter, a young white man
if the Steadman section of Lexingon
county, was shot and killed Sunlay
night by his cousin, Levi Gunter.
?h4 two men had had a difficulty
ome days ago when L?ster Gunter
md several companions went to the
lome of Levi Gunter's father and
icted in an ungentlemanly manner
n the presence of Levi Gunter's sisers.
Sundaj-jjnight Lester Gunter,
n a buggy v;ith two other men,
Irove by Levi Gunter's house and
hunter behaved in a very disorderly |
nanner, causing Levi Gunter to shoot |
oward the buggy. The bullet found
i mark in Les':er Gunner's body, inlicting
a mortal wound, from which
le died in a short while.
NOW IS THE TIME
to place your order for an artistic
S T IEFF
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OR
SHAW PIANO
OR
PLAYER PIANO
before the Christmas rush. We
have hundreds of orders ahead at
our factories and it begins to look
like we will be unable to supply
the demand. Better select your
piano now and be sure of not being
disappointed the day you
want it.
riiie u qticcc
MM in. dllLII
Manufacturer ?>f the Piano with
the Sweet Tone.
SOUTHERN WAKEROOM:
No 819 South Tryon St,
Oppo?Me A?*il?my of Mu.tic,
Charlotte, X C.
C. H. WILMOTH, Manager.
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I have good news
for you to buy very cl
' Dry Goods, Shoes, Clot
Goods; Supplies, Groceries,
Stoves, Coffins, Caskets, Se
store doing a General Merc<
invested in these various lir
next year this stoclf must b<
w>ipn in Creelwilie. to
VTflVit ^ w
merchants to sell Groceries
Hoping to have a call f
S. Vincent T
B. Wallace Jones
REAL ESTATE
FIRE AND IIFE INSURANCE.;
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Buyer.
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I Farm Supplies and
Fertilizers.
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Southern Ruralist ..One Year
Good Stories ........One Year
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and Notions, we
tock of Hardware at
ice to close out the
esale Grocery
offering a little lov
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HOLESALE CROCI
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for you. There is an opportu
heap, any of the following lin
hing, Hats, Caps, Millinery, Cotton
Hardware , Buggy and Slip Harness
wing Machines, and in-fact everything
mtile Business. I have about Eight 1
les, and as I expect to do practically r
2 reduced about half by Spring. It will
call at Taylor's. It is ctistomary in G
at cost. You can expect the same gener
rom you on your next trip to Greelyvill
' Yours for business, '
aylor, Greely
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Made Last Season 4&
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CHARLESTON
| Make our booths in the Exhib
headquarters and rest room while on
and our offices in the People's Bank
down town. A hearty welcome b]
and your favorite salesman awaits y
Peruvian Guano Coi
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