The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 20, 1914, Page FIVE, Image 5
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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.
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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 '
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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
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confections.
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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
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concerning it.
y respectfully,
I. W. Ragsdale.
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ILLIAMSBURG