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5Tjjr tHauntg SmiriL KINQSTREE. S. O. i hi m C. W. WOLFE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Entered at the postoffice at Kingstree, S?C.as second class mail matter. TELEPHONE NO. 83. TERMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year $1 25 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months-..-......, 50 One copy, one year in advance.... 1 00 Obituaries. Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks and all other reading notices,not News, will be charged for at the rate of one cent a word for each insertion. All changes of advertisements and all communications must be in this office before TUESDAY NOON in order'to appear in the ensuing issue. All communications must be signed hv the writer, not for publication unless desired, but to protect this newspaper. ADVERTISING RATES; Advertisements to be run in Special eoiumnnne cent a word eachissae.minimum price 25 cents, to be paid for in advance. Legal advertisements, $1.00 per inch first insertion, 50 cents per inch each Subsequent insertion. Rates on long term advertisements very reasonable.. For rates apply at this office. In remitting checks or pooney orders sake payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. *In men whom men condemn as ill, I find so much of goodness still; jn men wnom aa&m pronounce uiviue, I find so much of sin and blot? 1 hesitate to draw the line Between the two?where God has not." THURSDAY. APR. 16. 1914. The County Fair, It is gratifying to note that the county fair proposition which has been agitated from time to time for several years by patriotic citizens of our town and count}*, has assumed definite form and that prospects . are bright for the realization of a long deferred hope. To attempt co enumerate or enlarge upou the advantages to be derived from a county fair would be superfluous, as they must be self evident to every thinking individual. The important point to be stress" ed and urged and impressed upon the people is the fact that once we i\ni nnr shoulders the wheel. there must be no going back, but everyone must push forward and all pull together to make the enterprise attain to that degree of success which is easily within the grasp of our opportunities by reason of the variety of products that may be grown to perfection in our fertile soil and ideal climate, and tht natural advantages that are ours in the almost unlimited abundance of law materials with which our county is blessed. Nowhere on earth has nature bestowed with more lavish hand her bountiful gifts than In our sunny South-land, and right in the heart of this favored section is our own beloved Williamsburg. At the meeting in the court house some one said that no county in South Carolina was richer in resources and raw materials than Williamsburg. This is a fact that cannot be gainsaid. The only thing we need to enable us to develop these resources is to let the outside world know what we have to offer home-seekers and investors, and wc . know of no better way of disseminating this information than through the medium of a well-conducted county fair. We say wellconducted advisedly, for a onehorse exhibition would l>e worse than none at all, tending to defeat the vprv end desired to hp neemn plished. And there is no reason why the fair should not be an event to reflect credit upon our county throughout the State; hut it requires work to bring about this result? perseverance and tireless energy in the face of obstacles that must be overcome is the price of success. We pledge the support of The Record toward the enterprise and cheerfully place our services at the disposal of the committees. .-'it. - 2 _ ^ That enterprising little daily, the "Orangeburg Evening News," goes its l?ig brethren of the daily press one better once in a while. For instance, last Monday's issue came to us dated April 31. j While we heartily agree with 1 Governor Blease in his views both! j on compulsory education and the, Fortner bill, vet we do not see that either of these issues is of paramount importance in a campaign j for the United States Senate. The cnnie which the four "gunmen" expiated with their lives Monday in Sing Sing prison was the assassination on Julv 16. 1912, of I ... Herman Rosenthal, a gambler, at 2 o'clock a. m., on a public street in New York City, just as Rosenthal had come out from the Hotel Metropole. The parties were all gamblers and the motive for the murder was that Rosenthal had "squealed" on them to the police. The boldness of the crime caused a wave of reform to sweep over Manhattan Island. Police Lieutenant Becker was arrested, charged with r?orv-iKloru a nrl uuinpiiuit.y nivii wu*? inciting and actually planning the murder of Rosenthal. The police lieutenant was tried, convicted and sentenced to the electric chair, but a few weeks ago he was granted a new trial through some legal technicality. Thus it is that the "man higher up" usually gets off, while his dupes and hirelings pay the full penalty of the crime. It is always a pleasure to us to note the successful career of a son of Williamsburg soil, wherever he may elect to cast his lot in after years. Doubly pleasant is this when the "native son" is a personal friend and known to us to be worthy, high-toned and honorable, with the brain and energy to pursue to heights of success any vocation or career he may choose as the goal of his aspiration. These thoughts are suggested by the published announcement of the candidacy of Mr Ralph Dickson Epps for the State Senate in Sumter county, his adopted home. As implied before, Mr Epps is a native of Williamsburg county, being born and reared on his father's farm about five miles from Kingstree, and it is no mere verbal figure to say that all that may be the fruition of the promise of a long and successful career, he owes primarily to Williamsburg county, for it was from this county that he won a scholarship to the Citadel Academy, which, in a large measure, gave hira the mental equipment needed to attain success in the career in which he has made so promising a beginning. We say beginning, for Mr Epps is comparatively a young man, and while he has already accomplished enough to make him a man of mark, yet it is natural to suppose that the best years of his life's-work are before him. In wishing our friend the success in the political field that he achieved in his brilliant college career, we feel assured that we voice the sentiment of his host of friends who are readers of this paper. We respectfully remind our * 1_ *_1 X A 1 a inenas mat it is against our ruie to publish free notices, for any cause whatsoever, more than one time. That is, if such notices or announcements are carried more than one week, we expect advertising rates for the extra insertions. In publishing a newspaper we have to treat every one alike and as we have only a limited amount of space at our disposal, if we run these free notices week after week, the paper would eventually be over-crowded with < them to the exclusion of live news matter. tf 1 A VARIETY OF NEWS ' FROM LAKE CITY.1 ' | i ! WHAT THE PEOPLE OF A LIVE COMMUNITY ARE SAYING AND DOING. I Special to The County Record. i Lake City, April lo:?Friday j evening Mrs II Van Epps, assisted ; l>y Mesdames L 0 Holloway and D Moultrie Epps, entertained the members of the Wednesday Afternoon Biweekly Book Club, their husbands and sweethearts, at her home, which was charmingly decorated for the occasion. The reception hall appropriately carried out the color scheme with pink carnations and lace ferns, and Misses Mayme Green and Adelaide Rollins presided over the punch bowl under a bower of lovely cut carnations and ferns at the entrance to the library. The Darlor also harmonized with the decorative scheme. After the guests had assembled a "millinery opening" was featured, in which the men displayed their best ability in the art of making hats and, needless to say, some were crjations that would vie with Poiret and other Parisian artists. Dr A H Williams, I who had for his partner Mrs D M Epps, succeeded in modeling a shape that, but for its size, would pass in any millinery parlor, and to him was awarded the first prize. Mr L R Truluck, assisted by Miss Adelaide Rollins with suggestions, having created the most ridiculous looking bonnet,was given the booby prize. The guests then repaired to the lovely dining-room, where salad courses, followed by sweets, were served. Wednesday afternoon Miss Eva North entertained the Book Club at the home of her sister, Mrs W E Severance. After the business meet mg utiu uujuurueu, menu uu-iua were distributed among the members and their guests; each checked off the order and returned it to the hostess with his or her name and, imagine their surprise,when, having ordered "Chinese Square," one received a paper napkin folded in a square; another ordered "Spring Offering" and received a glass of water; another "Ivory Manipulator," and was served with a toothpick, and so on. This was undoubtedly one of the cleverest features on the entertainment programme for the Book Club and afforded much merriment. Of course, the hostess did 3erve later more substantial refreshments, which were both dainty and delicious. Rev R S Truesdale of Charleston is conducting revival services at the Methodist church here this week. Mr R C Hood of Olanta was noted in town Monday. Miss Elizabeth Jones left Monday night for Florida, where she will spend several weeks with her sister. Miss Ila Howie is visiting her sistzar M wa Davis PnwArs in PVinrlp^fnn Misses Virginia Walker and Mary Dillard, of the high school faculty, visited Charleston the past weekend. While in the metropolis, they visited Saturday Magnolia Gardens and were highly pleased with the beautiful flowers there to be seen at this season. Mr R F Cannon of Scran ton was in town Wednesday. Mesdames Mac Cooper and?Myers of Scranton were in town shopping last week. Miss Fannie Cannon of Scranton, accompanied by her charming cousin, Miss Hattie Parrott of Effingham, were in town Saturday, also shopping. The directors and stockholders of the farmers and Merchants bank will have a meeting May 12 in the directors' office for the purpose of discussing the question of increasing the capital stock from $100,000.00 to $200,000.00, and also to take up I the matter of the branch at Pamlico, ; not Tampico. Mr S D Rickenbaker, who has j been engaged in educational work ; in Florida, has returned to this 1 place, where h? will assist his broth- j er, Mr J F Rickenbaker, the efficient postmaster of this city. Miss Eunice Kennedy spent Sun- 1 dav at Kingstree with her mother. Work has been commenced on the addition to the stemmery plant of the Imperial Tobacco Co at this place. The addition, when com- j _ 111 X J.\. pieieu, win put tue company in a i position to buy sufficient quantities ; of tobacco to keeif the sternmery in operation until early in the winter. Although many of our farmer friends complain that a great many of the tobacco plants were killed during the recent freezing weather, it is estimated that the crop this year will be as large as ever before, in view orthe fact that all of them had planted at least twice as much as in any previous year, and very few tell us that the entire lot of their plants was killed; so let us , cheer up and hope that all of us will 1 have another season as successful as ^ the last one. , L B N. 1**>if fir Ihltffrfir. - THE MEXICAN IMBROGLIO. President Wilson Orders Allantic Fleet to Mexican Waters. Washington, April 14:- President Wilson today ordered virtually the entire Atlantic fleet to Mexican waters to force a public salute to the Stars and Stripes from the Huertaj Government as an apology for the J arrest of American marines at Tampico last Thursday. No ultimatum has been issued; that is, no specific time has been sent within which the Huerta Government must comply, but the naval demonstration has been ordered as a concrete evidence of the fixed determination of the United States to back up Admiral Mayo's demand for a salute. Up to tonight Gen Huerta had not made satisfactory response to that demand. "Future developments depend on Huerta himself," was the way a high Administration official close to the President summarized the situation. Mother Instinct. At the close of his talk before a Sunday-school the bishop invited questions. A tiny boy, with white, eager face, at once held up his hand. "Please, sir," said he, "why was Adam never a baby?" The bishop coughed in doubt as to what answer to give, but a little girl, the eldest of several brothers and sisters, came promptly to his aid. "Please, sir," she answered smartly, "there was nobody to nuss him."?London Tit-Bits. Items of General Interest. The Grand Council of South Caro? - ;-4. ci i. una Masons is in session at oumier this week. XXX S B Greene, master mechanic of the Seaboard Air Line railroad ai Abbeville, was killed Tuesday when his automobile was struck by a fast freight at a . railroad crossing near town. XXX Governor Blease made his opening campaign speech at Walterboro Saturday as a candidate for the United States Senate against Senator E D Smith, the incumbent. The Governor's speech was along the usual lines and his audience nam- be red about 900 XXX While superintending the work of shifting some cars into a side track Tuesday morning at Bennett Station, near Charleston, Conductor John P Worsham, of the Atlantic Coast Line, was instantly killed by a passing train. The exact manner in which the accident came about is unknown. Mr Worsham was only 29 years old; his home was at Florence. where he leaves a widow, a 1 " J - -1 x .iU. onoe '_n iwu uiuums. Clears Complexion-Remores Skim Blemishes. Why go through life embarrassed and disfigured with pimples, eruptions, blackheads, red rough skin, or suffering the tortures of eczema, itch, tetter, salt rheum. Just ask your druggist for Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment. Follow the simple suggestions and your skin worries are over. Mild, soothing, effective? Excellent for babies and delicate, tender skin. Stops chapping. Always helps. Relief or money back. 50c, at your druggist. Standing on one's merits is good, 111.* mmnnnr rvn thorn lfl hpttpr ?Al' UUt UIVTIU5 VI* VIIVIM ?w . bany Journal. Deafness Cannot Be Cared by local application!,a* they cannot reach the dii" eased portion of the ear. There it only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed.Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be :ured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, rree. F J CHENEY * CO, Toledo. Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 7Sc. Take Hall's Family Pills for const!Dation. adv We have outstanding accounts for job work, subscription, advertising and legal blanks, over $1,500, in amounts ranging from 25 cents to S5.00. These accounts are so small that we cannot afford to expend much time or money trying to collect them. But think what the total means to us! If all who owe these little accounts would pay up, we :ould meet that note several times 3ver. Do you owe us anything? Undressed Lumber. I always have on hand a lot of unIressed lumber (board and framing) at ny mill near Kingstree. for sale at the owest price for good material. See or vrite me for further information, etc. F. H. HODGE. 33 ///i ? * I brandmothei I Leg P A Scream Fror M Presented in 1 I CEDAR SWAMP I Friday Night, Apri I Everybod; H This play is crisp, cleve 9 many reasons why you shoi 9 play, and that means for yc 9 a laugh aloud, perhaps a tei 9 merits of entertainment, bi 9 to grow two smiles where c 9 It's our purpose to pre 9 your mind on the evening o 9 Admission: Well, we woi PAY And Save Money Cow, Horse an Oats, Hay and A it ? ? or small quantit We buy in car you money. WiSdns Wholesale Agents for International Sto (%! ? Spring I We wish to call I Shoppers to our many able Goods at ?ery attra Gents' Palm Beach Si the suit. Gents' all-wool Blue S< only $10.00, well worth J Boys' Blue Serge Suit1 Boys' Fancy Worsted $7.50 the suit. Twenty-five dozen Boy Ten dozen Boys' Blous Boys' Negligee Shirts, 25c and 50c the shirt. Men's Balbriggan sum 25c and 50c the shirt. Men's fine checked Nai shirts and Drawers to m Ladies' Gauze Vests 1< Ladies'Muslin Underw Muslin Night Gowns, i Muslin Corset Covers; Ladies' fine Crepe Nig broidered, only $1.00 th< Gents', Boys' and Chi Children's Mexican Pa Men's Sun or Mexican and 25c each. Ladies' Sun Hats for y variety of styles. Beautiful line of Men's in the latest style blocks, and $3.00 the hat. Men's fine imported Pi the hat. When in town don We are always glad to .? Jenkinson Bro j * Hilderbrand's I acy? I n Start to Finish SB Four Acts at the 9jH GRADED SCHOOL 3 24,8:30 O'Clock y Welcome SB r, keen and quick. There are if| uld see it* A typicaliy good El >u who see it chuckles, smiles, H ir, many surprises?all the ele- g| it no frowns. We guarantee B >nly one grouch grew before. || wide lively entertainment for Eg f April 24, at 8:30 o'dock. m GASH | f On AH Groceries 21 rl Wncr FppH rinm i U XJLVg X VVVAj VVXA1J lill Feed in large 'es' V lots and can save * Grocery Company j ck and Poultry Food Co. m lie attention of the Spring attractive lines of Seasondive prices. lits, coat and pants, $8.00 3rge Suits, coat and pants, ?12.50 the suit. * 3 $5.00 and $7.50 the suit. Suits, 8 to 18 years old, s' Knee Pants, 50c to #1.50. ;e Waists, 25c and 50c. with and without collars, mer weight Undershirts, insook short sleeve Under- J atch at 25c and 50c each. Oc to 25c each. ear of all kinds very cheap. 50c and $1.00. Jj and Pantlets, 25c and 50c. M ht Oowns. heaiitifullv em- flB 3 garment. fl iren's Hals and Caps fl nama Hats 10c and 15c. Panama Hats at 15c, 20c ^ ard and p-arden. 25c. A \Y\ and Boys' fine Straw Hats M , $1.00, $1.25, $1.50,52.50 M inama Hats $3.50 to $5.00 Mm i't fail to call and see us. H show our goods. w thers Company ,