The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 10, 1914, Page FOUR, Image 4
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THE COUNTY RECORD.
"In men whom men condemn as ill,
I find so much of goodness still;
In men whom MEN* pronounce divine,
I find so much of sin and blot?
I hesitate to draw the line
Between the two?where God has not."
THURSDAY. DEC. 10. 1914.
Richard Croker, the old chief of
Tammany Hall, recently married a
girl of Indian extraction, said to he
the lineal descendant of an Indian
king. Croker is seventy-threo years
old and his Indian bride twentythree.
Hope it won't he a ease of
"skidoo".
The more you read about the European
war the less intelligent news
you get a* to the true status rerum.
Yesterday the German forces were
overwhelmingly crushed; today the
Allies were hurled hack half a
league, and so it goes. Depends
largely upon the source of the nlnews.
"
Having turned their plowshare?
into cannons and their scythes into
swords, the European belligerent
nations are naturally planting men
instead of grain. This employment,
it i> said, has prompted a new invention,
a grave-digging machine,
to "plant" quickly and economically
the "acres" of dead bodies
left on the sanguinary battle fields
to await the harvest of the resurrection
morn. Such are the horrors
of war.
After the wholesale prison delivery
by our merciful Governor on
the eve before Thanksgiving, it is
scarcely to l?e wondered at that a
bank burglary followed so soon.
Xaturallv the expert yeggmen would
desire to show, their friend and
benefactor that their right hand had
not lost its cunning. As a rule, after
every pardoning orgy by Gover
nor Blease there follows an epidemic
of crime throughout the
State, and this year will douhtlesprove
no exception.
The South Carolina PanamaPacific
Exposition commission gives
notice that it has abandoned the
effort to raise funds to have this
State represented at the great exhibition
to be held three thousand
miles across the continent. In our
opinion, under normal conditions,
the investment would have l>een of
questionable value, but whom many
of our people are pushed to extremities
for money to pay their taxes,
it looks worse than foolishness to l>e
sending money to help exploit a
show three thousand miles away, j
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The fact that an optimist is horn
every minute makes business good j
for those who have gold bricks to
selh
& . . 2m ? . ,, &
WHITE OAK CHIPS
j Picked Up During the Week by
Oar Wideawake Scribe.
White Oak, December 8:?Mr Co- (
1 lumbus Matthews, a bachelor who
I resided near Brockington's, was '
! found dead near his home Thanks- (
giving afternoon. It is said that his,
| body was still warm when found, I
I 1 4.1 Ui *u?4- i 4 i
auu it id LIIUUK'IL Liiat utrai i uisca?c |
was the immediate cause of his!
death. He was a brother of Mrs A
W Flagler, who preceded him to the
Great Beyond a short time ago.
Mr and Mrs M M Cox spent several
days last week at Timmonsville i
I
and vicinity, visiting at the home of;
! Mr Cox's sister,Mrs Minnie E Jones,!
i and other relatives and friends.
Messrs A P Buffkin and A R Eaddy
went to Kingstree Saturday on
business.
Mrs J P Eaddy of Prospect is visiting
at the home of her daughter,
Mrs J Walter McElveen.
Mr and Mrs J A Griffin spent Sunday
with friends near Kingstree.
nf n t i n tr i a
Messrs D l ana k, iv iLaauv nau
business at the county seat Friday
afternoon.
Mr J M Rodgers of Lake City was
noted here several days last week on
business.
Mr Early Dewitt is at home again,
after spending several days in the
"City by the Sea".
"Ye scribe" was the proud recipient
Sunday morning of a jar of delicious
peaches sent by Mrs R F
Epps of Cades. We are very thankful
indeed to Mrs Epps for her
thoughtful kindness, and assure her
that the peaches were very much
enjoyed and that her deed of kindness
was highly appreciated. We
wish also to thank Mr and Mrs G W
Ward for some nice pork, presented
Sunday morning. It is needless to
say that we had our "Epicurean
feast" Sunday. We certainly do feel
very grateful towards our friends
for their kind remembrances.
Mr A W Ward, of the Scranton
i
police force, was here on business
Wednesday.
Mr Ray Cox visited in the Prospect
vicinity the latter part of the
week.
Messrs J P and Pressley Sauis
went to Lake City Saturday on business.
Mr and Mrs R L McElveen of
Cades spent Sunday at the home of
their son, Mr B WT McElveen.
Messrs R 0 Thompson and R C
Stone of Hemingway were pleasant
visitors in our midst Sunday.
Houl/I Pav or\a oiofav Mms T X**
ivii i^a>?u v;a auu aiovci , iuio u xj
Ross, went to Kingstree Tuesday.
Mr John H Baker has returned to
his post of duty at the mill, after
spending several days with the
home-folk at Central. B W M.
LEO FRANK SENTENCED
To Be Hanged January 22 lor
Phagan Girl's Murder.
Atlanta, December 9:?Leo M i
Frank today was sentenced in the
Superior court to be hanged on Friday,
January 22, for the murder
here in April, 1913, of Mary Phagan,
a fourteen-year-old factory girl.
Before receiving sentence, which
was pronounced by Judge Ben H
Hill, Frank made a statement de|
nouncing the "spirit of mob violence
which pervaded the court room" at
his trial, declaring his death would
"lay an indelible stain upon Georgia's
name for justice," and charging
that James Conley, a negro, who
I was thp Stntp's nrinrinnl witnpqs
against Frank, had committed per-;
jttry.
Today marks the i lird time Frank
has been sentenced to death for the
j Phagan girl's murder. The supreme
' court refused to set aside the ver!
diet on the ground that Frank was
absent from the court room when
the verdict was rendered.
Lake City Buys Fire Apparatus.
Lake City, December 9:?At a;
meeting of council held Monday;'
night an up-to-date fire engine was;1
purchased for ihe town at a cost of j
approximately $2,500. An abundance
of water will be supplied from 1
J the numerous flowing artesian wells.
;The water will be collected in con-! J
crete reservoirs that are to be con-if
structed in various parts of the [
town. J
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ll^Stalpart
WBfcJ7 ritty Years
yfjwmF* can be maintained by
IffiBjW adapting tbe right nourishRS?"
Bent, and Nature's own oilI'Kf
food in Scott'9 Emulsion
us Hrcufineneu mousanus 01 men v
and women to continne their work g
and nsefnbess for many years. t
Scott's Emulsion is a food, a raedi- (
cine and a tonic to keep the ^ .
blood rich, avoid rheumatism fidK
and thwart nervous conditions. 5
It is free from .iioho! r.'harm- rfjf g
fill drugs. The b<M physicians |U ' i
prescribe it. ii-sc.
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Items of General Interest.
United States Senator E 0 Smith ?
spent the Thanksgiving holidays at ?
his home at Lynchburg, He enjoyed *
a hunt with a party of friends s
Thanksgiving day and succeeded in *
bagging & deer and twenty-ducks. v
XXX [
Mrs Samuel Lander, relict of the *
late Dr S Land r. for many years
the revered president of Williamston 5
Female College,(now Lander College
at Greenwood) died Wednesday of 1
l^st week at Greenwood, aged 81 ?
years. J
XXX 1
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By reason of lack of sufficient response
to their efforts to raise mon- c
ey the South Carolina Panama-Pa- g
cific exposition commission announces
that it has abandoned the j,
movement to have South Carolina j
represented at the exposition. r
XXX t
The 138th annual Grand Commu- j.
nication of the Most Worshipful j
Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Ma- t
sons of the district of South Carolina ^
convened Tuesday in Charleston with j,
220 subordinate lodges represented, y
Grand Master George H Bryan of
n^Q^ntniio nrpsiH^d over the session. _
VJltV.l".WV. .
XXX *
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The United States census bureau n
reports the number of bales of cot- n
ton ginned in the United States up P
to December 1 as the greatest on
record to that date,being 13,066,105 n
bales. The report for South Carolina v
Bhows 1,225,467 bales as compared
with 1,160,725 bales up to the same 8
time last year.
XXX
Governor Bleas? has refused to i
sign three notes to finance the State j
against the collection of taxes. The j
tnree notes are iur nu> kiuumiiu dollars
each?one hundred and fifty
thousand in all ?to meet the expenses
of State Government till the
tax money comes In. Blease's contention
is that the rate of interestfive
per cent?is too high.
xxx ii
A message from Brussels to the d
Handeisblad states that the German s
Governor of the province of Brab- e
ant,in which Brussels is located, convoked
a meeting of financiers and P
told them that Belgium must pay t
35,000,000 francs ($7,000,000) per t
month for the maintenance of Ger- v
man troops. In addition to this ^
sum, it is said, Belgium must contribute
a war levy of 350,000,000 a
francs ($75,000,000) as a penalty r
for violations of neutrality by Bel- C
gium and losses ensuing therefrom ^
by Germany.
xxx 1
The body of J C Whitman, white, 8
was found in the woods near Green- v
wood Monday, with his throat cut o
from ear to ear. He was an em- c
ploye of Grendel mills and had bten a
missing since Sunday. His wife
and father had just reported his
disappearance to the chief of police,
J B Riley, when a negro who had
been hunting and who had made
the ghastly find of the murdered E
man reported his discovery. The
body was identified as that of Whit- n
man. The Coroner's jury rendered .
a verdict that Whitman came to his
death at the hands of Jesse Clem, t
and others were implicated. f
X XX t;
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How To Give Quinine To Children. jr
PEBRILINRisthetftVie-marlc nartie given to an U
mproved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleasant
to take and does not disturb the stomach, u
Children take it and never know it is Quinine.
Mso especially adapted to adults who cannot [ 8]
ake ordinary Qu'uine. Does not nauseate nor | u
:ause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try i u
t the next time you need Quinine for any pur- '
?se. Ask for 2-ounce orit:inT>l p-ckacr. The : .
uune FEBRLLINii is blown in bottle. 26 cents. 19
PLANT NORMAL CROF
I
s Advice io Tobacco Planters:
of Williamsburg.
Thinking that the farmers of Wiliamsburg
and adjoining counties
vould like some advice about the
obacco situation for another year. I (
iave taken the time to look up staistics
and post myself in regard to
his matter.
It is a fact, as taken from the
government report, that there isn't
is much tobacco held by manufacurers
and dealers now as there was
)ctober 1, 1913. Notwithstanding
he war commenced in July of this;
rear, there was manufactured in i
iix months of this year, from A%ril |
L to October 1, more tobacco than
vas ever known for the same length
>f time. So it appears that the war
loes not cut anv figure in our tojacco
situation. I was talking with
i tobacco manufacturer a few days*
igo from the war zone, and he said
le had heard more about the war,
ince he had been in this country
,han he had at home; said they were
vorking full time and could not
ceep their orders filled. It is very
?vident the farmer in the cotton
>elt will cut his cotton crop conliderably,
and give more attention
o home supplies; such as corn, oats,
>eas, potatoes, etc. But at the
ame time, in a few counties in
South Carolina the tobacco crop can
>e raised to return profit to the
frower.
As I have said before, the 1914
rop of tobacco is not a large one
ind North Carolina is growing all
he can, and with one year's supply
leld by manufacturers and dealers,1
am sure there can be no mistake;
- j - t-~ _i?t.:? ??i ?
naue uy piciuuug a. uui moi tiup ui
obacco next year. You have the
>arns already built and lots of good
and suitable. Don't try to plant
oo much. Small crops well cared
or bring best results. Be sure to
lave plenty plants set early in April,
,eep. well suckered and wormed,
nd by all means let your tobacco
:et ripe before pulling. All good,
ipe tobacco on the North Carolina
darkets now is selling well and you
lay always count on getting a good
irice for nice, ripe tobacco.
I hope to be on the Kingstree
narket again to serve you; if not,
rill be on a nearby market.
Wishing you one and all much
uccess, I am,
Yours very truly,
EJ Hester.
Lexington, Ky,
December 7. 1914.
iOUNTY MEDICAL ASS'N. MEETS.
?anae Officers Re>elected?Will
Give Banquet January 7.
The Williamsburg County Medi-1
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nl nnnA/tinfiAn mnf of n?? WI \7 Prnol'_
ai tuouLiauuu ujct aw 1/1 ?? ? uv?\
ngton's office at the usual hour Montay.
On motion of DrWGGamble the
I
ame officers were re-elected for the
nsuing year, 1915. The Kingstree
hysicians decided to give a banquet!
0 the association and visiting doc- j
ors at the next regular meeting,
;hich will be held here January 7,
915. Dr Brockington,the president,
ppointed Dr T S Hemingway to
ead a paper at said meeting. Drs !
1 D Jacobs and E T Kellej were ap-!
minted a committee to look after j
he supper. We sincerely hope that j
11 the physicians in the county, j
whether members of our association
r not, will meet with us on that ocasion
and let us have a profitable
nd enjoyable meeting.
W V Brockington, President.1
E T Kelley, Secretary.
r3rd nf lhankc
UUI U UK I uuunui
/litor County Record:?
On behalf of Mrs McElveen and
lyself I take this method of returnig
our sincere and appreciative
hanks to our friends and neighbors'
or their manifold kindnesses during
he long and severe illness with
/hich both of us have been afflicted.
Their words of sympathy and
eeds of kindness shall never be for-1
x>tten, and we stand ready to re- j
iprocate at any time so far as it'
e? within our power:
Respectfully yours,
B W McElveen.
While Oak, December 9.
THE WINNING Of IATANE
j
ii he Rcjtfflduced at the Indiantown
School December 18.
Benson, December 7:?Some of!
he readers of last week's issue of
he Record saw an account of "The 1
/inning of Latane"?a play given
1 the Cedar Swamp Graded school
uilding on the evening of the 25th
It. This play is to be given
gain at the Indiantown school
uilding on the 18th inst. The doors
-ill be onened at 7:30. The public
i cordially invited. H ;
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3 GERMAN CRUISERS SUNK.
British Avenge Sinking of Crnisera
Good Hope and Monmonth.
London, December 9:?A British
squadron, under command of Sir
Frederick Sturdee, engaeed a German
squadron,under Admiral Count i
Von Spee.off the Falkland Islands, in '
the South Atlantic, yesterday and
won a victory by sinking the Ger- j
man cruisers Schanhorst, Gneisenau ;
and Leipzig, three warships that had |
long menaced British shipping, and
part of the squadron that sank the
British cruisers Good Hope and
Monmouth in the Pacific November
1. The cruisers Dresden and imurnberg,
the two other vessels compris- i
in*? the German squadron, made off
and were pursued. Two colliers
were also captured by the British
squadron. . |
TEST EXPLOSIONS OF DUST|
Experimental Station Endeavors to
certain Reason* for Tragedies i
Occurring In Mines.
Some experiments to find out how
explosions act were recently undertaken
in the gallery of a mining experimental
station. Coal Age describes
them as follows:
The coal dust having been strewn
in the gallery and the cannons
charged, the ventilating fan was
started, both the doors in the fan
chamber being wide open so that no
air current was drawn through the
explosion tube. As soon as the speed
of the fan had attained that required
for the experiment these doors were
close*] by a card controlled from the
firing station, and the air current
was thus drawn through the open
end of the gallery. The doors when
closed completed an electric circuit,
which rang a bell in the firing station
and started a second clock. Six
seconds after the closing of the fan
doors the "cloud-raiser" was fired,
and the "igniter" was fired two seconds
later, the charges in both being
ignited by electricity.
The explosions as thus produced
can be regarded as taking place in &
tube open at one end and closed at
the other, for the right-angle bends
at the fan end of the gallery greatly
retarded the release of pressure and
had rhe general effect of a closed end.
.
PERILED LIFE FOR VONEY!
Vienna Woman Set an Example of Do?
votlon to Husband Which Will
Make Many Shudder.
In order to help her husband,
whose affairs were in a desperate
way, and who urgently needed funds,
Mme. Solange d'Atalide, a French
circus rider in Vienna, conceived a
way of making money at the imminent
peril of her life.
She contracted with a cinematograph
company, for a large sum, to
furnish it with a unique and highly
sensational film. She undertook to
ride a horse on top of one of the cars
on the Big Wheel all the way round.
The wheel, as all who have seen it
are aware, reaches a perilous and
dizzy height, trying to the nerves
even of the passengers safely Boated
in the interior of the cars. But to
ride outside on horseback must indeed
be a terrible trial, which necessitates
the utmost courage and nerve.
Mmc. Solange d'Atalide passed
through the perilous ordeal with
credit, watched by a huge and awestruck
crowd. The horse had been
trained by being placed upon the top
of a large van, which was moved
about. As for the cinematograph1
operators, they were at a giddy,
height, seated on the hub of the I
wheel, and were heartily glad when'
the whole thing was over.
ENGLISH BEES IN DANGER.
Extinction of the bee is threatened
in South Wilts. England, owing to a
fresh outbreak of the devastating
"Isle of Wight" disease. Many
small holders have been deprived of
part of their livelihood, for the
honey harvest brought them in some
.pounds, which helped to pay the rent
Villages in the Wylve valley, those
bordering on the Avon, and the scattered
villages on the Wiltshire
Downs, all have the 6ame tale to tell
of the loss of their bees. Severalbee
farms near Salisbury have been
practically wiped out, the bees dying
by thousands. They appear to be affected
by a creeping paralysis soon
after returning to the hive from a
dav spent in the fields.
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Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, '
GHOVS'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. drives out !
Malaria.enriches the blood.and builds up the sfrs*
tem. A true tonic. For adults aud children. 50c
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j NEISEN SCHOOL NOTES. ;
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*Kingatree, December 9:?Honor
roll for month beginning November
9 and ending December 4, 1914:
Grade I?PrimaryLorine
McClary 91
Dowel 1 Epps * 91
Grade I?Advanced.
Freeda Tharpe ? 94
Grade II.
Vivian McClary 92
Jesse McClary 92
Clyde Epps 90
Fannie Nexsen (w
Grade III.
Kalph Nexsen 90
Theima Tharpe ?o
Grade VII.
Reiielda Tharpe 98
Clerk's Sale.
STATE GF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF WILLIAMSBURG,
Court of Common Pleas.
R Harrel Graham, Plaintiff,
V8
Prince McClam, Defendant
Notice is hereby given, That pursuant
to an order issued out of the Court
of Common Pleas for Williamsburg
County, in the case stated above, bearing
date November 30, 1914. and signed,^
i by his Honor,H F Rice, presiding Judge./
and upon the request of ArroWBmith &
j Whitehead, Plaintiff's Attorneys, I will
sell to the highest bidder, in front of the
Court House door at Kingstree, S C,
during the usual hour of sale, on Monday,
the 4th day of January, 1915, the
same being salesday, the following described
tract of land, to-wit:
. "All that certain piece, parcel and plantation
of land lying, being and situate in
the county and State aforesaid, measuring
and containing fifteen (15) acres, and
bounded as follows, to wit: North bv
j lands of Prince McClam; South by lands
of Jeffrey McClam; East by lands of
| Prince McClam and West by lands of
Wesley McClam. Same being a part of
the tract of land upon which I now
live."
Dpon purchaser's failure to comply
promptly with his bid I will re-sell the
same on the same or the next conven- *
ient salesday at the risk and expense qJK
such defaulting bidder, without furthw
advertisement
Terms of sale: Cash,purchaser to pay
for papers. H 0 Britton,
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for
Counjty of Williamsburg.
| December 1, 1914. 12-10-8t
. Clerk's Sale.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF WILLIAMSBURG,
Court of Common Pleas.
S W Young, Plaintiff,
vs
Mary McKenzie, Defendant.
Notice is hereby given, That, pursuant
to an order issuing out of the Cqurt
of Common Pleas for Williamsburg
County, in the case stated above, bearing
date November 30. 1914, and signedr
by his Honor,H F Kice.presiding Judg*
and upon request of Arrowsmith i.
Whitehead, plaintiff's Attorneys, I will
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder,in front of the Court House door
at Kingstree, S C, during the usual
hours of sale,on Monday, the 4th day of
January, 1915, the same being salesday,
the following described tract of land, to
wit:
"All that certain tract of land situate
In the county and State aforesaid,
containing eighty-six (86) acres, more
or less, and bounded on the North by
lands of Joseph Parker and the Clarendon
and Williamsburg county line; on
the East by lands of J C Young; on the
South by lands of Marion Floyd, and on^
the West by lands of Parker and estate^
of Solomon Floyd."
Upon purchaser's failure to comply
promptly with his bid, I will re-sell the
same on tue same or the next convenient
sales aay, at the risk and expense
of such defaulting bidder, without further
advertisement
Terms of sale, Cash. Purchaser to
pay ior papers.
H 0 IJRITTON,
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for
Williamsburg County. 12-l0-3t
Itecember 1, 1914.
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The year 1914 has been the most eifl^
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times. It has witnessed the outbreak oH
the great European war, a struggle
titanic that it makes all others loo^l
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