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11*7 Ve Are Sending The Record to 2,000 Paid Subscribers Every Week ^ (Il)f County ltccor&. j PL. XXVII. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUOU8T7, 1913. NO. 22 J I j - The Que I "Where can we buy th< II orders. We have the g I and Silverware, Paints, tures, Mowing; Machine that you would like to f Coffins and Caske An Open Letter i 1 In Defense r To My Friends ai Florence, Willii and Surroundinj I wish to state a few facts to my friends and customers who have stood by me through the years that I have been in Lake Hit /. I do this because a concert (ed and well planned effort has been and is still being made to injure my business. This conspiracy is more far-reaching than the ordinary person would imagine. It was hatched in Lake City by some of the business men?among them merchants, bankers and I some of my competitors. While some of the business 'men of Lake City have been loyal and are still so, yet-a number of the people of Lake City are fighting Inatrving to destroy mybusiI ess. Let me say right here, that Id man can say one word to relect on my personal life and HHaaracter since I came to Lake ^BHity or before. My life is open H| the world. HB These conspirators have long ^^^aited, watched and prayed foz an opportunity to injure my busi| ness. but finding none, have al W last seized upon the acts of mv I brother and are trying through V his wrong-doing to ruin and deI Stroy my business. I do not ap| prove of the way my brother has i. ? lived, and his life has not been in 1' accord with my wishes. My K brother's actions afcp beyond my I control,and why sh<fifld I be held f responsible? / These malicious and vicious k enemies, not satisfied with harpI ing on my brother's conduct, have | gone still farther and manufacft tured absolute falsehoods. Now, ? lioc T wish to show B OS U/ Uicoc uvu, jl .. .w.. B that they are without foundation. B Their first misrepresentation ml was that I would charge twenty B cents more per hundred in order k to pay for my fine brick wareB house. The farmers know that E this is untrue, for my charges are the same that they have always been. You all know that the State regulates the charges. The second falsehood was that ^Lmy scales were not correct The m DBtke City Tobacco Board of Trade K employs a supervisor of scales, ?1?io frk Hnilv test the IB WIIUBC uutj 10 W , V scales at every warehouse and V see that they are correct before W any tobacco is weighed. To avoid W- errors in weight, I went to the IV expense to put in automatic l? scales. These scales, like an addf ing machine, are absolutely correct and never make a mistake ?anyone calling in question the accuracy of my scales can have i my statement verified by calling [? on the buyers or weighing their f tobacco at home. +l>i*yd miarnnresentation is X liv VUU v? * *-?- .r. | that my warehouse is the darkest L and poorest lighted in town. Whenever anyone makes such an M assertion it is very evident that V he is blind or a malicious falsifier. Even person who has seen my K warehouse knows that it is the Lake City, S C, August 7,1913 k Grand lallylog Pfcilc be held at the Williamsburg ^W^ourt house, in Kingstree, Friday, is. on which occasion a fr* u?ihi? ? speak(ir of national reputation, with severs] other eloquent speakers, will be present to inaugurate one si the grandest schemes ever put on . jstion That C j Best Goods Possible for the A _ xt-f i. ? ooas. Anyimng Nnuwu m Oils, Glass, Sash, Doors, B s, Rakes, Disc Harrows, Dis< purchase." Remember, "T1 z?1 King ?1 > ill Explanation i of My Business id the Farmers of imsburg, Clarendon g Counties: > best lighted, has the best scales, ? box stalls for horses, and is the t best equipped in every way in the i Southern States. The fourth falsehood is that "tobacco is bringing two or three . dollars ner hundred more at oth-; er warehouses than at King's." This, too, is false and every buyer on our market will verify my statements. Call on the buyers if! ' you doubt my assertion. The above are a few of the ! most serious falsehoods being told to damage my business, but there are others too numerous to meni tion, which are false. Nearly ev ery man who brings a load of to. bacco to Lake City is accosted on ; the road by these falsifiers or . "their runners" and told not to , go to King's warehouse. i I am sure that there is not a town in the SouthernStates which would not gladly welcome such a house and investment as I have ?J ~ T am BA?mr Irt mauc iici Ci i ci x aiu oui i j w . say that a large per cent of the ; people of Lake City do not appre date what I have done for the upbuilding of the town and community. * * * * Now, my farmer friends: I i came among you ten years ago i and I have worked long and faithfully and have treated every r man honorably and fairly. For many years we had only two buyers on the market, yet even in i those dark days I saw a future for the Lake City market, and from that day to the present time I have worked hard for the upbuilding of the tobacco interest in this community. Each year I have given away hundreds of [ dollars' worth of tobacco seed; also, I have loaned money in small and large amounts both to \uViifoc anrl hlnrUs Flv#?n this ; season, previous to the opening i of the market, I was at my ware; house every day in order to accommodate the farmers who desired money to enable them to ; house their tobacco. It seems that because I built i and equipped at great expense a plant to attract and hold the farmer, that some of my competitors, their followers and henchmen combined, in an underhand way, to drive the business from me, even though it should injure the entire tobacco trade of Lake Citv. Notwithstanding this ma licious assault, you will find me | at the same old stand, and I will i prove to my friends and customi ers that these charges brought against me and my business are ' absolutely false, malicious and unwarranted. I believe the farmers of this ; community are honest and fairminded and want to see justice done; therefore, I leave the mat; ter with you. Thanking you for the liberal support you have given - me in the past, I am, i Your friend, J D King. L I foot for the welfare not only of our grand old county but of the entire State. Let everybody come, ladies, especially. This audience has to be fed. Now, all come and bring wellfilled baskets and you'll never regret 'it. AM Snider; , It For the Committee. Confronts tl V i Least Amount of Purchai Hardware, Stoves, Range linds, Lime, Cement, Plaj : Cultivators, One and Tw< store that you will eveni jstree Hi Wholesale and Rescue Orphanage. When my father and mother forsake me the Lord will take me up.? Psalm xxvii:10. To rr.eet a condition existing in this State, the Legislature, in 1911 passed an "act to provide for the custody of destitute, abandoned and unprotected children." Under the authority of this law the fhstitution known as Rescue Orphanage of South Carolina at Columbia is now at work with the praiseworthy object in view to rescue children who are illegitimate or destitute, and being reared in immoral or vicious surroundings.and to care for, train and equip them for a useful life. This institution does not interfere | with, or conflict with the work of j any denominational orphanage, but is planned to meet the need of those! who do not fall within any of the classes now provided for by our, - i -i churcti or iraternai orpnanages The orphanage is situated one-half mile from Columbia, consists of a } WHY NC f > We invite you to open; 1 j and pay your bills by che celled voucher a Legal I *! to pay a bill more than i ! check on our Bank. |> We extend to each and '' tation to make our Bank The Bank / M- i _ . ? i^aaei [ W. B. WILSON, V. 6. ARN s President Vice-I Is Mm I ? VWMVM I Com ATTENTION We have just Deering Mowers an Corn Shellers, Cotl Tlnnnniiro MaarlAWK 11(11 1 VMi5^ iu.vuuv ?? k Feed Grinders, Ha If you contemp Harvesting Machi future, or any kin this line, it will p prices and terms THE GADES MERC. Cades ne America] jing Money?" Then we say: s, Oil Stoves, Guns, Ammt ster, Nails, Wire and Wire I )-Horse Plows, Harrows, Et tually patronize." ardware Retail Dealers j brick building, two wooden buildings, out-houses and sixty acres of land. It is very desirable and an urgent necessity that a new brick building be built in the near future, which will be a complete home in itself for 100 children,matron help,etc. The State gives the institution no aid and it depends for existence on the charitable people of South Carolina. Rev Carlyle Courtenay, a Baptist minister of Columbia, has given his whole time, at a considerable sacrifice, to become the field agent of the Rescue orphanage. He is now making a canvass of the State in its behalf and through the courtesy of the pastor. Rev D A Phillips, the Kingstree Methodist church has been placed at the service of Mr Courtenay for Sunday evening, August 10, at 8:30 p. m., at which time he will plead the cause of the institution in which he is so deeply interested. Tt is honed that a large congrega tion will greet Mr Courtenay and )T NOW I * an account at our Bank , ck. You have in the can- ?9 teceipt. You never have i once if you pay it with a ' every one a cordial invi- , your Bank. < > of Cades,,, ?, s. c. !' ETTE, J. HOYT CARTER, T President Cashier j asrca&tile pany ? a ni I, hAKMLKS! I unloaded a car of I d Rakes,Pony Steel ton King and Disc *' Grist Mills and y Presses, etc. late investing in inery in the near id of machinery in ay you to get our before you buy. MILE COMPANY, >, s. c ? '"iliUBfl n Public Is, "If it is Hardware, call hei inition, Crockery, Glasswar Fencing, Machinery and Su :c., Screen Doors and Wind< Co. | We Li that they will show their interest by their good works. First Open Cotton Bolls. HXlitor Uounty Kecord:? I am sending you two pods of op- i en cotton,picked from a 25-acre field , on my route, belonging to Mr J P , Gamble, which bids fair to make a bale and a half per acre. This field , will be ready to pick in two weeks. Respectfully yours, Julius G Lifrage, Jr, R L C on Route No 2. , Salters Depot, August 5. ( ( On the same day we received an ] nnpn onttnn hnll frr?m Mr H .T Rflr- . field at Lane, which, he advised,was ( picked August 4 from a 19-acre field. ( bras Old Sortt, Qtfear Oanedias Wsn't Care The worst cases, no matter of how long standing, * are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. j Porter's Antiseptic Healing OiL It relieves Pais and Heals at the same time. 26c, 50c, $L0Q. ' The Rear H Vutkinthe 1 n A A I Do YOUR bank We Pay 4 per cent Interes FARMERS <fc MER "ABSOLUTELY SAFE" I Ti* K treasury of the ' world's JOn best music *' " That's what the Victorreally is. It holds in < ?you the best music of tl world?the musical gem great masters, the latest music, everything you w All yours to enjoy whenev Doesn't that interest you? your favorite selections on t in at any time. Victor-Victrolas $15 to $200 V The real harvest that an nancial harvest. After yo your money ,what are you going to be frittered away Not if you are WrISH. Yo'u asset. Do not waste the things, but put as. muoh t bank for that DECEMBE BOUND TO COME. Namely: J *e or send us your mail I e, Enamelware, Nickel > ipplies, Bathroom Fix3ws, and anything; else I ^ad?Others Follow. J P Gist Dead. John P Gist, the young man from Gourdins who was arrested in Charleston on Saturday night, July 19, and later confessed to being guilty of several robberies at Gourdins, among: them the then or a Dag: or money from Postmaster A L Chandler, belonging: to the Gourdins postoflfice, died in a Charleston hospital last Saturday night. His body was brought to Greelyville Sunday and interred in the Mt Hope church cemetery Monday morning. The cause of Gist's death is not known here, but it is stated that from the time of his imprisonment until he lied he refused all food, but smoked cigarettes andtlrank coca cola freely. He was being held by the Federal authorities on the charge of robbing :he GourdiLS postoffice when death claimed him. _ ^ \anresf-$ | J KiuiJiu? ? j y man expects is the fiii have worked hard for going to do with it? Is it in silly extravagances? r own labor is yonr best j > result of it on foolish * Jfl is possible of it into the 9 -,R of your life that is \ B ing with US. 9 it on savings accounts. 9 CHANTS BANK. g LAKE CITY. S. C. 9 /VV/4 V IV! 11 Hj fl te entire L M ? ,s of the 1 popular l \ ant er and as often as you wisk Wouldn't you like to hear he Victor-Victrola? Come . Victors $10 to $100. And :rms to suit, if desired* \ Music House irleiton, S. C. irr, Representative, Kinfstree, S C.