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^ 10C4L M WIS if Come out everybody and vote ' next Tuesday. Born. Friday, to Mr and Mrs J Z McConnell, a girl. Miss Ethel McCullough of Taft was in town yesterday. Makes no difference whom 'you! favor, come out and vote. Miss Evelyn Hanna of Cades visited Miss Dardie McGill last week. Williamsburg county should poll at least 2,400 votes next Tuesday. Mrs P H Stoll and children have returned from Hendersonville, i\ i Dr C D Jacobs is spending a much needed vacation at Pawley's Island this week. Mrs Sadie Silverman spent several days this week with friends at Sumter and Manning. Mr and Mrs S Marcus and daughter, Miss Pearl, visited friends at Lake City Sunday. Miss Beatrice Kilton of Geneva, Ala, is the guest of Miss Essie ^ Blakeley this week. Mr John G Hodge of Mouzon was a welcome caller at this office while in Kingstree yesterday. Mr Chas Winn, representing Ja?L p- rMint-r?n ?nf>nt several COfS Ot \A? Ul VIIU?V?, days in town this week. Next Tuesday will tell the tale and to most of the candidates it must be a "tale of woe." Miss Alice McConnell spent the week-end with her parents, Mr and Mrs W E McConnell. at Taft. Miss Marian Manassee of Gainesville, Fla, is the attractive puest of the Misses Jacobs here this week. Our old friend, Mr W M Tisdale, of the Benson section.was a pleasant caller at The Record office yesterday. We were Dleased to have our j esteemed friend, Mr D W Floyd of Lake City, pay us a call last Saturday. Misses Ruth Tomlinson of Cades and A'ice and Mabel Chandler of Rome visited Miss Florence Mcintosh last week. Mrs Julia E Kenneday has gone to her summer home at Hendersonville. N C, to spend the remainder of the summer. v Mr Andrew Burlington,representing the Liggett & Meyer Tobacco Co of Richmond, Va. was noted in Kingstree Tuesday. In the excitement of the pending oloMinn don't forget to remember that Kingstree is the Best Tobacco Marker, in the State. Miss May Hanna of Lake City and Mr and Mrs J J Godwin of Andrews visited the family of Mr W M Vause here last week. Mr E T Haselden, of the Central section, sold tobacco here yesterday and had his name added to our growing list of subscribers. Miss Pauline Dove of Sumter is spending some time with her brother, Mr L C Dove, during the absence of his wife and children. The local tobacco markets are booming; more than ever since the Imperial has come back into the fight. Watch Kingstree! Mr and Mrs F W Truluck were in Kingstree Tuesday en route to their home at Summerton. after a visit to Mr J M Truluck at Lake City. The county campaign will close with the meeting here tomorrow. Come out and hear the issues at stake discussed bv the various candidates. Mrs W G Green and daughter, Miss Guerry, accompanied by Miss Mary Gayle Robertson of Columbia, are visiting at Warrenton and Culpepper, Va. A reunion of the members of the Epps family was held at the beautiful home of Mr T Olin Epps, near town, Friday. The delightful occasion was largely attended. Miss Marie Raphan of Charleston,! Misses Annie and Rounette Hirschman of Manning and Miss Blanche Stuckey of Lake City are guests of Miss Pearl Marcus this week. Dr A M Snider spent Sunday with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs C 0 Thompson, at Charleston. Mr Thompson, who has been ill with typho'd fever, is convalescing. The last Senatorial campaign meeting takes place at Sumter today, and the final State campaign meeting at Greenville. Thus ends a memorable political campaign. We regret to learn of the serious illness of Mrs J G Ellis, at the home of her father, Mr A M Gordon. Mrs Ellis, accompanied by her sister,Miss Martha Gordon,returned from Glenn Springs Tuesday. Messrs Earle Cook, Zeno Montgomery, Robert Fulton and George Hammett of Kingstree and Ben Moseley of Salters stood the examination here last Friday for the vacant scholarship at the Citadel. Messrs "Dick" Davis and R R Jenkinson came over in an auto from Manning Sunday and spent the day pleasantly with friends in town. Mr W E Jenkinson accompanied them Sunday afternoon on the return trip to Manning. Inadvertently last week we failed to mention the fact that Friday, August?, the stork visited Mr and Mxs W J Cockfield and left a fine baoy boy. This youngster is the only child of the masculine persuasion in the family and naturally the parents are uncommonly proud of it. Mrs D E Bradham, who ha^been visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs W P McGill.for several weeks, left last week on her return to Trenton, Fla, to join her husband, recently transferred there from Newberry, Fla. She was accompanied by her mother to Florence, where they spent a day with relatives. Mr E L Carlton, general manager for the American Tobacco Co, with headquarters at Richmond. Va, and Messrs J J Hickey and Oscar Gregory.also representatives of this company, were in Kingstree Tuesday. Manager Carlton was well pleased with Kingstree and her splendid tobacco market. In this issue are announcements of the following candidates: For Governor, Richard I Manning; for Lieutenant Governor, Andrew J Bethea and W M Hatner; for Congress. A L Hamer. We know all these gentlemen personally and, in our opinion, no one would make a mistake in voting for any of them. In our report of the county campaign meeting at Johnsonviile last week we stated that Hon B B Chandler favored compulsory education. This was an error. While MrChand ler is thoroughly in favor of improved educational conditions, he does not wish to commit himself as being in favor of a State-wide compulsory education law. With Oar Advertisers, We call attention to the hange of ad in this paper by the Scott Drug Co. Don't overlook the change of ad by Messrs Williams, Nesmith & Montgomery,proprietors of the New Central Warehouse. A half-page ad by the People's Mercantile Co will be found in this paper, anc^ it will doubtless be to your interest to read it carefully. Mr J M Truluck has a new ad in this p?-er, page 10, in which he offers a <. loice line of buggies, wagons,harness, etc, at moderate prices. Read the new ad in this issue of Mr S Marcus. T E Baggett, the Jeweler, has a change of ad this week. It tells you how to obtain a good watch. Mr S A McCullough offers his farm for sale. See ad on page i. SMITH NOT FOR HASKELL Says Former Lieutenant Governor McLeod of Blsbopvllle. The Anderson Intelligencer which is neutral on the Senatorial race, publishes the following: When in Anderson recently Senator E D Smith was asked if he voted for Judge A C Haskell for Governor in 1890. The Senator replied that at Orangeburg he had made a declaration any fair-minded man would have accepted, to tne errect that he did not attend the convention which nominated Judge Haskell as an independent candidate to oppose B R Tillman for Governor. As to voting for Judge Haskell, the Senator said he did not have time to be answering the campaign yarns being circulated against him but if anybody wished to know the information could be obtained from his neighbors in Lee county, and he gave as one the name c Thos G McLeod, for four years lieutenant Governor of the State. In reply to an inquiry from this paper, prompted by curiosity and by requests from others, Mr McLeod writes: Bishopville, July 25, 1914. The Intelligencer, Anderson, S C. Dear Sir:?E D Smith did not vote for Judge Haskell in 1890. Thos G McLeod. ? Pee Dee Advocate. 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any case of Fever or Chills. Price, 25 cents. 7-23-13t A CARD. ? ? Grand Jury Committee Replies to Treasurer Cook's Statement. Editor County Record: ? There seems to be some confusion in the minds of many persons as to the purpose and extent of the recent investigation of the County Treasurer's office by this committee, and as to the manner in which -mr report has been j handled. In the communication from Mr J Wesley Cook, dated August 4, i, ane appearing in The County Record of i August 6, a breach of faith has been directly charged to this committee by ; him, and in order that the public might ' have the benefit of a correct statement i of the facts incident to this matter, we 1 beg to set out briefly the exact condi- ; tions connected with this investigation, I and the precise manner in which our i1 report was made and filed with the j; Clerk of Court. i Prior to the summer term of Court, which convened in June, a rumor had ' ' - J ? tllrt fkot t V, ' gaineu turrruij w me cucti men, vm, | Bank of Williamsburg had paid on the county funds deposited with that institution certain interest which had been entered to the personal credit of Mr J Wesley Cook, and had not been accounted for by him as County Treasurer. ' We, the undersigned, a committee, of! three, were appointed by the Grand Jury to make the usual examination of the I county offices and especially to investi- '< gate this rumor and ascertain its foundation, if any, and make a report of our result at the next term of Court It j must be remembered that this appoint-1 ment was made immediately before the adjournment of the Grand Jury on June i 15. Shortly thereafter we made efforts to secure an expert accountant to ex-1 amine the offices and assist in the investigation. We arranged finally with j the Comptroller General's office for Mr Louis A Searson, who failed to appear, | although two separate appointments | had been made, and we were tnen aa- ; vised by the Comptroller General's office that Mr Searson could not meet! with us until after the first of August. | We finally determined that in making our investigation of the rumor above! mentioned the services of an expert ac-; countant were not absolutely necessary in order for us to ascertain the cor- i rectness or incorrectness of the facts 1 charged in this rumor. On notice previously given we met at the County Treasurer's office, and were attended by Mr-I Wesley Cook, County Treasurer, and Mr E C Epps, Cashier of the Bank of Williamsburg, both of whom made voluntary statements to this committee explanatory of the transitions embracing the interest in question, < Beth of these gentlemen by their statements established the correctness of the rumor, it being admitted that the interest was paid by the Bank of Williamsburg. and was entered to the in- j dividual personal account of Mr Cook . and had not been accounted for by him as County Treasurer when this rumor ; originated and had been called to the i attention of the Grand Jury. During the month of June, however, $1,782.16 of the total interest paid had been a. f ?j utt PaaIt frnr v hie nor. transiencu ujr mi uwn tivm ...? K?. sonal account to his official account and properly appeare i in his settlement sheets for the year ending .June 30. There remained a balance which had not been so accounted for at that time for the reason that through an error bv Mr Epps, Cashier, in furnishing Mr Cook with a statement showing the amount of interest received up to that time, he omitted to include in his statement this balance of $184.87 which has been accounted for and will appear in J the annual settlement sheets for the | year ending June 30, 1915. It will be observed, therefore, that the question whether this interest had been paid and handled in the the manner indicated in the much discussed rumor above mentioned was set at rest and unequivocally established by the statements of Messrs Epps and Cook, all of which further appears in the statement of Mr Louis A Searson presented at length in your issue of the 13th inst. These facts were the foundation of the much debated rumor, and, asindicated above, were frankly admitted. Two or three days after we commenced our injuiries regarding this rumor, and after the meeting of July 21, Mr Searson came down to ivmgsiree and entered into a contract with this committee to make an audit of all county offices. His work has been completed and his audits filed with this committee. At the request of Mr Cook the aupit of his office was made first in order that it might be included as a part of our special report on the Treasurer's office, Mr Cook being extremely urgent in his requests for the earliest possible report. Mr Searson's completed audit of the Treasurer's office wa3 filed with this committee on August 3. whereupon we forthwith proceeded to outline and formulate our report to the grand jury. Mr Cook's insinuation that our report was purposely protracted or delayed is without foundation for our preparation was I commenced on the date of filieg of the audit by Mr Searson and continued without interruption until Wednesday, the 5th inst, when the final draft of the record was duly signed by each member of this committee and placed in the office of the Clerk of Court properly directed to the grand jury of Williamsburg county. Prior to this time we had indicated to Mr Cook that when the record was made up it would be published. but after referring the situation to attorneys and securing their counsel advising that a publication of the report in a newspaper before it had presented to the grand jury would be premature and decidedly improper, we informed Mr Cook that the committee /?r>nM nnt nnhlish its reDort before it had been received by the grand jury. This information was communicatek to Mr Cook before our original report was filed whereupon he declared his intention to publish the findings of the committee. In order that he might not have the trouble of copying the entire record for the printer we had prepared for him a duplicate carbon copy of complete report, not including Mr Searson's audit, which copy has alwaps been ready for delivery to Mr Cook whenever he might choose to call for the same, and he well knew this when the original was filed with the Clerk of Court. Fo, aome reason beat known to himself he has not only neglected to call for this copy, but has expressly stated that he did not care to have a copy of our findings and did not care what the ' committee's report contained. In his , letter of the 4th appearing in your 'issue of the 6th, he therein declared his intention to publish the report if he I was able to obtain a opy thereof. He has no excuse, therefore, for not presenting the result of this investigation to the tax payers of the county, for as we have plainly indicated above a complete duplicate copy of the record was prepared for Mr Cook's personal use and has been held for delivery to him at any t me. We infer from his charge against this committee for its failure to keep a promise respecting the publication of this record that such refusal to publish same was prompted by personal motives, but he evidently overlooked the fact that we are simply representatives of the grand jury and of the county at large and not of Mr Cook. The publication of the record was declined solely upon the advice of attorneys who had been consulted. ^ ith reference to the charge that our original report is inaccessible for the reason that it has been sealed and directed to the Grand Jury, we wish to say that Mr Cook was present when this record was delivered to the Clerk of Court and filed in his office, and it was then and there definitely announced to Mr Cook and to the Clerk that the entire report was a public record open to the inspection of any citizen alter it had been filed with the Clerk. It was properly addressed to the Grand Jury, the authority directing the inquiry. A few minutes after the record had* been presented to the Clerk, .Mr Cook interviewed two members of this committee, both of whom positively and definitely advised him that the record was not intended to be a sealed packet, but was subject to his inspection. In order that the record might be bound together, there being two separate portions, they were made into a roll,around the center of which a wrapper was placed and the flap thereof sealed. The same result might have been obtained by the use of a string or rubber band to bind the wrapper on,and the entire record might be slipped from its wrapper with the same ease and readiness that a string or rubber band might be removed. But in addition 'to this physical condition of the papers,Mr Cook and the Clerk were both expressly and positively instructed that the record was not a sealed packet, but was open to inspection at any time. Whilst we regret exceedingly the unreasonably hostile attitude assumed by Mr Cook, we are not perturbed; for our duty was unmistakably laid before us, and?as special officers of the Grand Jury?we have expeditiously performed our duties as we met them. Selected and directed to investigate a condition of affairs whi *h was alleged to have existed, we simpiy ascertained the facts and have presented them to the authority directing this investigation. We have been merely servants of the people. with our line of conduct fixed by our duty, and prompted by no ulterior nor personal motive,we have performed our services in this case. The record has been completed and filed and the final disposition of the case now rests with the Grand Jury of this county. Respectfully submitted, W H Carr. < A C Swails. J B Gamble, Special Committee from the Grand Jury of Williamsburg County. Kingstree, S 0, August 17, 1914. 8-20-11 A Birthday Theatre Party. Little Miss Carolyn Thompson, aetat eight years, has issued the following unique invitation to her little friends to celebrate her birthday anniversary: "i 'orae to the house at six-thirty to dine, From there to the "Movies" until about nine; Autos will take you straight home from the show. . Mother needn't worry ahout letting you go." Thursday, August 20, 1914. Mice. For Community Silver, Sterling Silver and everything else that is kept in a first class Jewelry establishment call at > 8-13-tf Watts' Jewelry Store. SPECIAL NOTICES Phone us when you want /jr to get a notice under this U heading. Price one cent a i word for each insertion. No ?, ad taken for less than 25c. Phone 83. Lost?Saturday, on the streets of Kingstree, a watch fob with cow's head attached. Return to H A Miller, People's Market, Kingstree, S C. and ,?i 1 tr\ receive icnaiu. A Wanted?A thoroughly competent bookkeeper desires position. Good penman; quick and accurate at figures. Good reference furnished. Address, ' C B G," Nesmith, S C. 8-20-2tp For Sale?Farm, containing 165 acres; 145 acres in high state of cultivation. Rich, sandy soil.with clay subsoil. Located 1-4 mile from Salters Depot. For further information see our space entitled, Farm For Sale. Kingstree Insurance, Real Estate and Loan Co. Lost?Setter bitch, color lemon and white.answers to name of' Lady"; also one 12-months-old pupjw. same color. Reward if returned to dr W L Taylor, Kingstree, S C. 8-6-tf For Rent?One combination store and dwelling house, known as the Grant place and located next door to W I Hodges' store at Cades, S C. Apply to or address, W I Hodgks, 7-30 tf Cades. S C. Wanted ? Two male teachers at $50.00, Eight female teachers, from $35 to $60.00. Two music and primary teachers combined at $65.00, Five tobacco traveling salesmen at $125.00 and expenses. For full information address, Carolina Teachers' Agency, 7-30-tf Kingstree, S C. For * Sale?One 1913 model second hand Motorcycle in very good condition at an unusually low price. Apply to Dr E T kelley, Kingstree. S C. 7-2tf I ?? ss2 esqpisi ISPGANDI FREE DEiV NORRIS' EX( You just must try some in order to appreciate how Next Friday, August 21. stration, and cordially invi and sample these delicious This candy, for which w< of America's Master cand: ing far beyond any candy ed in boxes so beautiful t eyes not soon forgotten. Price, eighty cents, one Your inspection obligation on // Scott Dru Exclusive Agents 11? pr ToS i 1 In Kingstree. j ust 22, s To the Democratic t Being unabk paign meeting Kingstree, and to you before t estly ask that; can will come 1 Saturday, Auj shall make an my official recc icisms publicly ] Ver % Br. and Mr Save up iE JUST & word to the NEWLYV WUEACH to you, but we d< IfflLLI I "DhVXM OATJLDI aot EASY, we know. The first your money, which perhaps does i later. But tare BOW. DON'T RANK OF \\ BBHHBHMnMi P JS TB M ES -WBK3H gMAOOHQ van*.- uwovor 10NSTRATI0N JUISITE CANDY of MORRIS' Exquisite Candies, wonderfully good they are. we will conduct a free demonte you to visit our establishment confections. 3 have the agency, is the product /-maker, and in addition to beoroduced in America, it is pack hat they offer a feast for the dollar and one fifty per pound. is solicited without any our part to purchase. ig Company i Kingstree, S. C. ________ 4 - Bill ipeak! , Saturday, Augit 12 O'clock Voters of Williamsburg: } to meet with campreviously held in anxious to speak ;he election, I earnas many of you as ;o your county seat ?ust 22, where I address concerning >rd and certain critmade concerning it. y respectfully, I. W. Ragsdale. P xNewlywed, or a Home! TEDS. Dear friends, <we don't want to > wish to say SIMPLY and EMPHAT0 FOE YOUR HOME HOW!" It'i _ years of your new life require most of lot come to you as plentifully as it will WAIT. It'll make you HAPPY. ILLIAMSBURG