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*IoCAlpf mm | Mr S B Timmons of Taft was in town today. ^ Hon J C Graham of Gourdins was in town Tuesday. The bank statements will appea in our next issue. Hon W D Bryan of Taft was noted in town yesterday. Mr T L Joy ? of M ouzons was in Mary'lov lYWl^i^n cc uivuuuj. ) Mr J J Morris of Lake City was Jin Kingstree Monday. Mr W L) Fuiton of Mouzons was noted on our streets Tuesday. Born. Sunday morning. to Mr and Mrs Walter W Dennis, a daughter. Mr -J Tigler of Lanes was in Kingstree yesterday attending court. Mr W D Byrdic. of the Zefc neiirhborhood. was in Kingstree Tuesday, Mr .1 J Marshall of Trio was a welcome visiter at our ofiiee Saturday. ,, -e Mr f reagin 01 mo office a pleasant visit while in town Monday. Mr W T Wilkins is spending sevjjijw eral days in Charleston this week on JF business. Mr E F Epps, an old friend from Mouzons, was a welcome caller at our office Tuesday. Mr I W VYall of Fowler was in Kingstree Saturday and paid our office a pleasant visit. Miss Eunice Nettles of Nichols spent Sunday here with her parents, Mr and Mrs S A Nettles. Mr F E Coker of Mouzons was in town Saturday ami became a subscriber to Th'i County Record. Thursday of last week the stork v visited the heme of Mr and Mrs S C A Anderson and left a fine girl baby. ^ Mr and Mrs T E Bagsrett and children spent Sunday at Lanes with the former's mother, Mrs M L Baggett. Mrs B G Land of Greelyvillespent yesterday in Kingstree with her parents, Mr and Mrs Edwin Harper. The stork seems to be devoting much attention to our town and i vicinity. Let the good work go on. Mr R W Marshall of Andrews was among those who called at The Record office Tuesday to pay for their paper. ^ Miss Louise Plowden, teacher at ^ Indiantown, accompanied by Miss McCulieugh, was in town Saturday. Prof J W Swittenberg has gone Columbia to visit his father, who under treatment in a hospital r there. Dr W V Brockington left this afternoon to attend the funeral services of Mrs Br?ckington's sister.Mrs Hn?v, a: Jl -ckville. M.o Aliord and Missltaline Brockington of Maxton, North Carolina. are guests of Dr and Mrs D C Scott, on Railroad avenue. y Mrs W L Taylor and little son, Belaud. wh > have been spending a tornipht vie, friends at Greely-; vi e, it'.'.fiA'i h" ne Tuesday. M?m?i > >on the stork visit- i e*. !i?? 1: i : Dr and Mrs RC Mcva. - * ieft to their paternal love and care a nine-pound baby boy. Mr and Mrs J C Dobbin and little daughter, Dorothy,of Richmond.Va, visited the family of Mr Dobbin's sister, Mrs Hugh McCutchen, this \ week. Mr Edward Walsh of Conway, who was in charge of the Kingstree Drug Co's store during the absence r **- ^ o Dnon loff fnr his hnmp : 01 lur ucau, n.iv ivi ...w Friday. A game of baseball is scheduled to take place tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock on Scott's field, between the high school teams of Kingstree and Lake City. Miss Judith Lifrage of Salters j Depot was in town Monday afternoon on her way to Ellijav.Ga.where she will assume the management of the local telegraph office. Mr E C Burgess was a guest at the 6th annual dinner of the DrakeInnis-Grecn Shoe company's shoe salesmen at Charleston Tuesday night. Mr Burgess reports a royal good time. j Master Thomas Lorin King was j "at home",Friday afternoon. March 6, to his little friends and compan-' ions, the occasion being the celebration of Master King's fourth birthday anniversary. Attorneys Frank G Tompkins of Columbia, William Force Clayton of, Florence, P H Arrowsmith of Lake J City and N N Newell of Venters at-1 thnded the session of court of com- i mon pleas here this week. ! Mr James F Cooper of Indiantown, who has been under treatment at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, for some weeks, returned! home Monday much improved in I health, to t i delight of his friends, j (Jovernor B.ease has appointed i M s-rs .J B (ianible, H A M? > . r and W !> Crooks as members of the board of registration for Williamsburg county. The Governor has also appointed Mr S G McDonald j magistrate at Lanes. Our job department is now better prepared than ever heretofore to accommodate its patrons. We have | recently added about $500.00 worth of new type of the latest designs and every variety of high-grade stationery to this department. We acknowledge with sincere; pleasure a present from our oldtime and esteemed friend, Mr T Armstrong McCrea of Cedar S\u^ip. This most acceptable gift comprised a lot of as line yam potatoes as we have seen in a long time. Our friend will please accept most cordial thanks. Mrs Sadie Silverman of Atlanta, Ga.is in Kingstree with her husband, Mr Dave Silverman, who lias permanently located here and taken charge of the business formerly con- ' ducted underJthe name of J S Kron & Co. This place of business will be i1 known in future as Silverman's de- j partment store. ; Dr Henry N Snyder, president of Wofford college, will make an ad- j! dress in the interest of the schools of Williamsburg county at the j school auditorium here on Friday i night, March '27. Dr F H H Calhoun, professor of mineralogy and biology, and director of athletics at , Clemson college, will also be present and have charge of the field-day events that are scheduled to take place on that day. the revival services that have been j1 conducted during the past two weeks ' by Rev Dr Drowning of Columbia, and Mr J II Chamberlain, of New Jersey, are still going on at the! school auditorium, and large audi- < ences are attending both mornin and evening services. Mr Brown-1 ing is a forceful expounder of the, gospel. His sermons are earnest, i simple, and deal with the everyday j problems of life. The singing is j 1 also great. there being a special . | song service of half an hour at each ! service. The special service for ! men Sunday afternoon was well at- j tended, and abounded in valuable information and admonition to the ' sex. 1 ' The Civic league has been nomi- ? nated in the club campaign for a free library offered by The State Co. It is hoped that all public-spirited , citizens >f Kingstree will co-operate :. with the league in securing a 0<>0volume library for our town. Save your club campaign coupons, which appear daily in The State, and turn them over to the officers of the ' Kingstree Civb- league. It is also requested that all citizens who have entered the contest in game of song , and story send in the points received ( from listing book and catalogue to the league. Every player also will receive 5,000 points when the sets of answers are turned in. By giving ' the 5,000 points to your favorite club you will aid them greatly in the contest. With Our Advertisers. Success in farming depends large- < ly upon your machinery and other facilities for carrying on the work. See ad of Williamsburg Hardware Co. ! Faint Talk No 1, by the Kingstree Hardware Co. appears in thef:>reg- : ular space. Good paint means a lot to the life and appearance of your 1 buildings. The Bank of Cades has a change of ad on page one of this paper. The Palmetto Nurseries have an ad in this paper that will interest those in need of good plants, seeds, etc. for spring planting. Note the ad in this issue of S H & E H Frost, commission merchants of New York. The attention of our readers is called to the advertisement in this paper of The Charlotte Observer, one of the best newspapers in the South. Gale-Douglass. The following announcement has been received bv the numerous friends ofthe bride, Miss Hannah R Gale, a former resident of Kingstree: Mrs Mary E Gale announces the marriage of her daughter Hannah RadclitFe to Mr Richard Charles Douglass on Tuesday, March the tenth nineteen hundred and fourteen Trinity Parish Church St Augustine, Florida At Home after March the twenty-fifth Citra, Florida An exibition of temper is sometimes a mere curtain raiser to a play of passion. Common Pleas Court. The spring term of the court of common pleas opened here Monday aning with Judge Frank R Gary of Abbeville presiding. Court Stenographer L E Wood of Sumter and all other court officers were on hand, ready for business. There were only two jury cases on the docket, one being the case of J C Scott against the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co, Ltd, suit! to recover the sum of $1,800 on an insurance policy. The other was that of Mr M II Jacobs against John deS Gilland, Esq, to recover a sum of monev elainipd hv the defendant to be due through the purchase of the goods and accounts of the Carolina Furniture Co, a bankrupt concern. The case of Mr Scott against the 1 insurance company was the first taken up and occupied the attention of the court during Monday and until Tuesday noon. The case was1 ably represented on both sides, Messrs Keily & Hinds being attorneys for the complainant, while Messrs L Roy Lee and Frank G Tompkins of C >lumbia t" <k care of the defendant company's interests. Able arguments on both sides were made. Judge Gary charged the jury at some length, and at 12 o'clock they retired, returning with a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. ?* < - 1 Motion lor a new uiai iciUOCU. In the matter of Jacobs against Gilland, R J Kirk, Esq, representing the defendant, stated that he had been out of his office for some; time and was not prepared to go into a trial of the case; that Mr Gilland who had possession of all the records pertaining to it, had recently removed his office to Florence and it was impossible for him 1 to pet hold of such records at this time. Judge Gary reluctantly continued the case until the June term. After considering a number of minor motions, issuing decrees, etc, court adjourned 't>c at noon yesterday. We will pay freight on every 5case lot of Case Goods bought from us. Wilhins' Wholesale Grocery Co. S-5-2t A half million dollar fire occurred at Waco, Tex. Monday. Included in j the loss were"5,U00 bales of cotton. Heetiny ot Statejfeachers' AssoeiaTion. The State Teachers' association will hold its annual meeting at Spartantu j_? ??,i ourg lnursuay, riiua; auu uaiui-| day, March 19-21. An interesting J and attractive programme has been ; provided and subjects vital to our j schools will be discussed. Reduced j rates on all railroads will be granted, j I should like to see a large propor- j tion of the teachers in Williamsburg in attendance. R N SPEIGNER, 3-o-2t Co Supt. Education. A carload of Grits and Meal just arrived. Cheap for cash at Wilkins' Wholesale Grocery Go's. 3-5-2t Even the best mirror doesn't enable a person to see himself as others see him. Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls cheap for cash at Wilkins' Wholesale Grocery Co's. 3-5-2t Read This?Sale Opens March 2,1914. A Sweeping Sale for division. For 30 days we are going: to sell any article in our store for wholesale cost, in order to raise money to make a change in the business. Now is the time to save money on anything in the Jewelry line. A fine stock to select from - everything that is kept in a first class jewelry store. Come and see our stock. Our prices, during this sale, will surprise you. Fine goods going at no profit for 30 days. Yours to please, 2-26-tf Watts & Watts. ? nq Seed Irish Potatoes, by the barrel or in less quantity, and lull line ot Garden Seeds for sale at Scott's Drug Store,in the Gourdin building, opposite court house. 3-5-tf SPECIAL NOTICES /ftA Phone us when you wanl to get a notice under 111 i / 7? heading. Price one cent a word for each insertion. No ad taken for less than 25c. Phone S3. For Rent?Two front's rooms, upstairs next to court house. Apply to 3-5-tf Dr R J Met abe. For Sale?Thirty Shoats, 40 to 60 pounds each. For further information apply to. or address, 3-5-3tp D E McCutchen, Vox, S C. For Sale?One lot in North Kingstree, between W M Vause and Mrs L J Barr. Apply to ME Hanna, 3-12-4t Lake City, S C. For Weakness and Loss of Appetite The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS dull TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds up the system. A 'rue tonic and sure Appetizer. For adults and children. 50c. CRANE IS MAN OF NUMEROUS TALENTS Cartoonist, Humarist and Mod-! eler in Cla, liuir.ing Here, i When thnt little darkey boy threaded his way down the aisles, behind the scenes and out on the stage in the i middle of Ross Crane's entertainment, to hand the dismayed artist his handle of belated laundry that night in the Charleston (\V. Ya.) opera house it looked as if the program would be wrecked, or have a large awkward hole shot through it. But when Ross stopped in his work, calmly unrolled the awful package, and exhibit? d the contents, with the- explanation, "Thi? is my washing. I always have it returned to me at this point in my performance." th<> audience roared i*s re- J li' f T!.is explain? his platform sue j | . .. Z3E^ ^ j ROSS CRANE. Cartoonist. C ay Modeler. Hurrorist. j cess. Not; /nu unbalances him. for h? I has the te.iius to harmonize every ! thing of the moment into his plan. j Ross Crane i> *. t o?l\ a char nsn- j fellow, looks anisic an . is artisC'- to the very core, hut lie does what few ' other platie-n: artists d<> satis"-es! the chain e artist with his work, v. .die | he delights the ivtilMiude. For his' chalk work he appears in a dark purple gaberdine and a.; .inlets and for! the clay he wears a white linen smocV : ?very business-like and pictures pit. j With chalk as with c:ay. lie is a | master. In the chalk he does that! hardest thing in the world to do?! makes a few lines tell the story?and I does it so simply that it seems easy.1 Due U Anr omotoiir rati tall 1 you that. There is science as well as , art in his methods; he builds from ; the inner to the outward form And Floss Crane at Work. while lie aims to please, he makes no concessions to the doubtful taste of the undeveloped man; he strikes high and carries the crowd right with him. He is an artist in every sense of the word. As a lecturer he is as charming as he is a pictorial artist. The running talk with which he accompanies his varied creations on the ' block" is full of fine philosophy, spontaneous wit and delightful humor and appreciation of the truth. At tliejast session of the International Lyceum Association, held at Winona Lake, Ind., he was accorded the highest honor that can be conferred upon a Lyceum artist, by being unanimously elected president of thai great organization that, perhaps, ha' in its membership more Intellect than any other in Amerloa. ft Ross Crane will appear at th<? school auditorium here Monday night, March 16, at 9 o'clock. I EXPENSIVE II SCRATCHES ! and Gall Sores Don't take chances on the services of a good work animal by overlooking the jj small scratch or harness burn. Be prepared before- i hand. Dr.-Boyd's Sure-Pop Magnetic Ointment heals if you work your horse. Heals any sort of skin abrasion or ulcer. It's a guaranteed rem- j edy that you can depend upon. Money refunded if it fails to do all we claim for it. Large box 25c. For Sale by Farmer's Drug Co., Hemingway, S. C WHENEVER 1II A Gill The Old Standard Grove's Ta Valuable as a General Tonic 1 Drives Out Malaria, Enrich< the Whole System. For Gr You know what you are taking when y as the formula is printed on every label s tonic properties of QUININE and IRON tonic and is in Tasteless For*u. It has r Weakness, general debility and loss of a .''others and Pale, Sickly Children. J Re'i -ves nervous depression and low spi pu'i les the blood. A True Tonic and Sur \'c family should be without it. Guarante srf ti,'u'. ~ &. -ft/! fp.f\:i'*'' ^"ir"M''{^5/^0% When cor fc." ? v ?, "'/. " moncv ::i it. ? '*? o{ i P..- 'a ^ . f laise a rtal crop, Add to your clover sod, or to your barn of Potash and 200 to 300 pounds acid phosj acre of Kainit drilled with the seed supplies worms and root lice. Potash Pays on Corn. We sell Potash Salts in any amount fror ;2gg|r; These Arc Surest Stej to Success p sA V *W*HE successful man is a climber. * the steps of success. Sometimes teeth and is up and on again. WORK. The successful climber must Are you climbing up the STEPS OF START AN ACCOUNT The Bank of I Peruvian Arecomposed of the World's Greatest Fer own provision for increasing soil fertilityful application of man in mixing high gra proportion to sr/it the varied soils and cro| Quality?No ma.i-made fertilizer c But the supply is always limited. Vv demand. To insure your receiving your now for prices ar.d our voluoule booklet PERUVIAN G1 CHARLESTON, SO iL MAKE NO MISTAKE Fruits and S H. & E. H. FROS 3-12-41 SHIPPING MA' It isn't so much what a man knows that counts, as how well he uses his! knowledge. fares Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cure T l- ? *'>mittnr hnve Ion a *fanHirH7 are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. < Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves . Pain and Heals at the same time. 25c, 50c, $1.00. ' IMME GROVE'S stclcss chill Tonic is Equally because it Acts on the Liver, is the Blood and Builds up own People and Children, ou take Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic showing that it contains the well known . It is as strong as the strongest bitter 10 equal for Malaria, Chills and Fever, ppetite. Gives life and vigor to Nursing temoves Biliousness without purging. " - i- a -A:? ~.,A rits. Arouses me nvcr 10 >k.uuu e Appetizer. A Complete Strengthened :ed by your Druggist. We mean it. 50c i- 'i --jr- I ' . ^*%,-tifri i'V-i ili-i i Siz ; ? '? V:tj jrs o< Profit ij n gets :;i?'ve So cents tlicrc's ' 3 i ii v - ?/ . S it ie.ii.ircs a pound and a quarter ' W roduce a bushel of corn. If you ^ * 3 \ow must furnish enough ^ *^j fe^T ACfl 1 ^ J. JrjLKSrU.M. S yard manure, 50 to 100 pounds of Muriate )hate per acre. One hundred pounds per 12 pounds of Potash and clears out cutn one 200-pound bap up. Write for prices and free pamphlets. GERMAIN KALI WORKS. Inc. 42 Broadway, New York Chicago, McCormlck Block Savannah, Bank A Trust BUI? jNew Orleani, Whitney Central Bank Bid*. Francisco, 23 California 8t. Atlanta, Empire Bid;. Perseveringly he pushes upward on 5 he slips backward, but he grits hii ,,:-ubing is not PLAY. It's HARD STICK EVERLASTINGLY TO IT. SAVINGS? NOW. STICK TO IT! Williamsburg. Mixtures ' :otton :orn 5rain tobacco tilizers?Peruvian Guano, nature's -balanced with the scientific and skillde Ammoniates and Potash in juit the ps of the South. if similar analysis can be as good. 'e have never been able to supply the Peruvian Mixtures this year write us UANO CORP. UTH CAROLINA SHIP TO HEADQUARTERS ESTABLISHED ISfiS Vegetables T Commission Merchants, 319 Washington Street, Cor. Jay Street NEW YORK rERIAL FREE The County Record and The . Youth's Companion. 1 year $2.75. '; ^ Some persons pray for a little of everything but gratitude, the very quality that would make them feel ?ood.