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LOCAL gf wm M ZTHappy New Year to all! Mr S D Hanna, Jr, of Vox was in Kingstree yesterday. E L Hirsch, Esq, and Mrs Hirsch were Lake City visitors Monday. Mr C Edwin Dukes visited friends Lynchburg during the Christmasoaptide. Rev H D Bull has been spending a few days with his parents at Stateshurcr. Mr B B Epps of Bishopville visited relatives in this county during the week. Mrs E E Fluitt and daughter,Miss Miriam, visited Florence relatives this week. George P Logan, Esq,of Columbia spent Christmas with his mother, Mrs R C Logan. Miss Mignon McCown of Florence V. was the guest of Miss Marian McFaddin yesterday. Mrs Mag Alford of Maxton, N C, has been visiting the family of her sister, Mrs D C Scott. Mr John i> Jennings spent Sunday with his parents,Mr and Mrs George A Jennings, at Bamberg. Miss Vivian McKnight of Workman has been the guest of friends in town during the holidays. Miss Erline Mcintosh was the ? ? ~r kw>thnr Mr Ormond ^UCSl U1 I1C1 VI VM?va | mmmrn. Mcintosh, at Columbia this week. The Charleston weather bureau n. man forecasts a crest stage of 16 to ^\17 feet for Smith's Mills in about a week. Messrs W H Bartlett and Saul Plow, of the Siegling Music House, Florence, spent Sunday in Kingstree with Mr W H Carr. Mr J M Nettles and son, Mr Geo Nettles, of Manassas, Va, visited the family of the former's brother, Mr S A Nettles, this week. Mr S F McClam was at our office yesterday while in Kingstree,returning from a visit to his sister, Mrs J E Pearce, at Darlington. Toxnorrow (new year) being a legal 1 * 1? 1 -.-.J *1,/. rlionancoru ^Viona*y,ine uaims buu mc ui^UJul; will be closed. The postoffice will be closed from 9:00 a.m.to 4:30 p.m. The week after Xmas is a sort of "off week", so we hope our readers will be lenient with us for any apparent shortcomings in this week's issue. A delightful Christmas dance was given at the opera house Monday night. A number of visitors from Florence and Lake City swelled the gay crowd. Mr and Mrs L J Stackley of Sumliner have been visiting Mr Stackley's ||Vp&rents, Mr and Mrs Louis Stackley, and Mrs Stackley's mother, Mrs H Van Keuren. Mrs T E Baggett and children are in Charleston, having been summoned there on account of the seriI ous illness of the former's mother, * Mrs A R Fash. Because of the inclemency of the weather, Rev Harold Thomas postponed uniil next week the services H^he had appointed to conduct at the ||?Episcopal church Tuesday night and ^B^yesterday morning. ^ <??nta f'laus broucrht our subur ?ban residents, Mr and Mrs F H Hodge, a fine baby girl Tuesday \jiight. A'beit the gift was a little belated, it was none the less welcome' an(^ appreciated. Ca,pt John A Kelley got a fall or the ^teps of his front porch earl) Monday morning and was painfull) but not seriously hurt. The fall was due to the ice that had formed or the .steps during the night. T ie sleet Sunday morning causec M C Mouzon to slip and fal H^from the steps of her residence |p?Pt>reaking her left wrist. Dr W C IpP Gamble set the broken bones, whicl ^ are knitting well, we are pleased t< learn. Yesterday morning we enjoyed : treat from our esteemed friend, Mi P S Courtney, who sent us around i Ibag-ful of oysters in the shell. Th< luscious bivalve on the half-shel right here at home is a delicacy a rare as delicious. We are in receipt of a very hand some calendar issued by the Farm ers and Merchants National Bank o LaXe City. This is one of the strong fGt and most progressive financis Hjj^nstitutions in the State, and th m Brrowth it has made in the compare fi^^^krely brief period of its existenc ^^^M|roarkable. There is a crying need in King-1 stree for good, comfortable houses to rent. A new-comer here finds it extremely difficult to get a roof to cover his head, if he wants to go to house-keeping. Such a condition is not conducive to the building up of a town. This new year brings in many J changes.as it usually does. Among: those moving are, Mr W F Tolley, who moved from a cottage on Acadmy street to the house of Mr J P Adams, in Nelson's Addition, and Mr S J Deary, from the Adams to the Singletary building, on Logan! street. Mr James C Dobbin returned Sunday evening to his home at Richmond, Va, and Mrs Dobbin and daughter, Miss Dorothy, will follow him Saturday. They have made an extended Xmas visit to KingstreeJ most pleasurable both to themselves and their friends, whose number is limited only by all who know them. Mr Ralph W Crosland of Bennettsville came over last week and on Monday accompanied home Mrs Crosland,who had been spending the holidays with her parents, Mr and Mrs J N Hammet. Before leaving, Mr Crosland, who is always bestowing some act of kindness upon his friends, presented the editor with a bag of beautiful paper-shell pecans. Needless to say, we are sincerely grateful for this act of thoughtful kindness from our friend. The report of the total number of ' ? " -S J Dales or cotion ginneu m ouutu wujolinaforthe years 1913 and 1914, ' respectively, issued by the United j States Census Bureau December 21, i is as follows: For South Carolina, 11913?1,276,428 bales; 1914?1,328,I 355 bales. Williamsburg county, , 1913?24,148 bales; 1914?32,420 I bales. The report shows the cotton | ginned in Williamsburg county up j to December 21 of this year to be over 8,000 bales more than at the same time last year. DASTARDLY SHOOTING AFFAIR. j Blind Man Shot at Mld-nlght Through Hole In Door. I A mysterious assault was made j upon old Henry McDowell, a blind merchant, in the Suttons section Wednesday night of last week by an unknown assassin. McDowell, known in the community as"Blind Henry," conducted a little mercantile business and the day's business was over. He was preparing to retire in his usual way in the store about 10 I o'clock when a shot was fired at j him through the opening in the I store door allowed for the entrance and exit of his cat. The assassin had to lie on the ground in order to shoot through the aperture. The gun charge entered the old man's left forearm and abdomen. He was rendered helpless and lay bleeding until later in the night when he heard some one passing the store 1 and gave the alarm. The victim was brought to Kingstree where Dr Kelley amputated the left arm. The shot in the abdomen did not pene' trate and the wound is not serious. It is 3aid that McDswell is not known to have an enemy anywhere. WON TO CO-OPERATION. In an address at Minneapolis Sir Wnrarp Plunkett said: "When I > began preaching co-operation to our I farmers in Ireland many years ago it was only after the fiftv-first address to farmers' gatherings that the [ first co-operative organization was r formed. Now we have 920 co-opera; tive fanners' organizations, with sev eral hundred thousand farmers, and they did a business the last year in l excess of $17,000,000." \ THE RIGHT HAND. 3 Helen?Adelia accepted old Bil! lion's hand in marriage yesterday. Nellie?The hand he signs checks j with, I suppose. ' DEADLY DISEASE. 7 "It's no wonder those German 1 guns cough steel and fire." 5 "Why that remark?" "They've got the Krupp." i " r PRECEDENT. ? "Samanthy, you mustn't eat your 1 pie with a knife." s "Well, that stylish city woman eats her ice cream with a fork." f How To Give Quinine To Children. ,m FEBRILINEisthetrnde-mark name given to as 'mproved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleasJ ant to take and does not disturb the stomach. Children take it and never know it is Quinine, e Also especially adapted to adults who cannot take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate not l" cause nervousness nor ringing; in the head. Try p it the next time you need Quinine for any purpose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. Th? name FKBR1LINE is blown in bottle. IS ceats. ., . . - ' ; : COTTON LOAN COMMITTEES Will Consider Applications for Loans from $100,000,000 fund. The Cotton Loan Fund committees are now prepared to receive applications for loans from that fund. The fund consists of $100,000,000, subscribed by Northern and Western banks, upon the condition that in every case where a loan is made some Southern bank will take onefourth of the amount loaned. The Northern and Western banks receive Clfcs A certificates; the Southern banks Class B certificates. Both classes of certificates draw 6 per cent interest from date, and are payable quarterly, and mature on on or before February 1, 1916. All applications for loans must be made by the owner of the cotton to be pledged through some local bank, which must agree to subscribe for a Class B certificate to the amount of one-fourth of the loan. The applicant for the loan must havejsome responsibility outside of the cotton which the loan is to be made; he must be the owner of the cotton, freed from any lien or incumbrances, and the cotton must be warehoused "" if thnrnntrklv frnm 3U CIO W [^1 UVfCV.t IV Uivivuguij the weather. The warehouse must be under the ownership and control of some other party or parties than the applicant, and the warehouseman or the warehouse corporation must have some substantial responsibility. The applicant must pledge warehouse receipts for cotton at not more than five cents per pound,basis middling. Three per cent of the face value of the loan is deducted and deposited in a "Guarantee Fund". This "Guarantee Fund" is used, first to pay expenses; then to pay any losses which might be incurred by the holders of Class A certificates; and then to pay any losses which might be incurred by the holders of Class B certificates. Whatever is left is returned pro rata to the borrowers. All loans bear 6% interest, payaj ble quarterly. If the cotton is dis| posed of during any intermediary period, the interest must be paid up to the end of the quarter. These quarters are May 1, September 1 and February 1, 1916. Of course all cotton must be insured and the insurance policy assigned to the Cotton Loan Fund committee. The local bank must be responsible for the prompt payment of the quarterly interest,the insurance premiums and the warehouse charges. The bank through which the application is made must forward the application, together with a check for one-fourth of the amount of the loan applied for. to the local committee for the county. This committee for our county is Charles W Stoll. Esq, and Dr D C Scott. After the local committee has passed upon the application it is forwarded to the State committee for South Carolina. This committee is composed of the following: R G Rhett, chairman; E H Pringle, Jr, Henry Schachte, John M Kmaraana C G Rowland. If the application be approved by this committee it is forwarded to the Cotton Loan Fund committee in the city of New York. If this committee approve the loan it will transmit to the local bank a check for the amount of the loan applied for, less 3%, which will be retained for the guarantee fund. Chas W Stoll, Chairman Local Committee. HIS LOSS. "I'm not eating very much of late/' "What's the matter, old man? Lose your appetite?" I' "No, my credit." SAME CLASS. "Pop, tell me one thing, please." <What is it, Tommy?" "Did they have to use needle gum i before they got machine guns?" AND ON HE WENT. I [ Tramp?One moment, boss; car | you spare de price of a meil? Accosted Party?Certainly 1 I'm on my way to got it now. ; They are the least desirable i hi ess , ings which come in disguise. I PE-RU-NA The Traveler's Companion Mr. Arthur L. 4$^?' Pierce, 2618 Sher- ^ ldan Ave., St. :> > %?. : Louie, Mo. 'The Mp? ' ' '' I'j curative value of Bfe.--.;-. i Perur.a Is truly H||p& ? : wonderful. I think It e8) ecially valuable as a specific KMr for catarrh of the Bj&B y system, and for a man who has travtied for years as I have and who Is certainly exposed J|Hl|?gg' . ^r. to Irregular meals and uncomfortable sleeping aceommo- *" ^ dations. Peruna is one o* Ills best 88^||^^v _; and most needed traveling compan- Mra.&ra Ions. It throws off dl ease and " keeps him well. I therefore heartily recommend it." ?. . ?.. .u:?i | I noia wno? ??# n?fw>w ? cinea can now orocure Peruna Tab I tat*. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. Little Child Burned to Death Playing with Fireworks. Little Martha, the two-and-a-half year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles H Singleton, was burned to death at their home here last Thursday afternoon. About 3:30 o'clock the child was discovered to be on fire. She, with some of the other children had been enioving herself settingoff sparklers and it is thought that her clothing caught in this manner. Her clothing was almost entirely burned when she was discovered. The body of the child was was so badly burned that the little victim could not survive the pain and shock and died at 11:30 Thursday night. Funeral services were held at the residence Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev P S McChesney, and interment was made in the Williamsburg cemetery. Card ef Thanks. I desire to express my sincere thanks to the people of Kingstree and Williamsburg county for the liberal patronage given me during the holiday season, and soliciting a continuance of the same/ I am Very respectfully, F J Watts, Propr., It W'atts' Jeweiry Store. SPECIAL NOTICES Phone us when you want fjr to get a notice under this /yg heading. Price one cent a 1" armrit frtrpflftK itlSPftion. Nc ad taken for less than 25c. Phone <33. LOST- One pointer dog,about two years old, with white and | brown spots. Answers to name ! o f "Woodrow". Information leading to his recovery will be rewarded by the owner, DR. E. T. KELLEY, 12-31-tf Kingstree, S. C. Lost?Last Thursday, Red and Black Lap Robe between Railroad and Edwir Harper's. Finder please return same to P S Courtney and receive reward. Wanted?A few more customers foi pood dairy butter. Deliveries evarj Saturday. W E Blackwell, ltp Salters Depot, S C. For Sale?Two hundred heads Winter Cabbage (collards), at 5, 8 and 10< the head. , 12-3-tf Mrs W E Jenkinson. For Salk?One hundred acres ol ' farm land, 60 acres cleared and in gooc | state of cultivation; 6-room dwelling, tobacco barn and other out-buildings 111* miles of Kingstree Graded school ! Will sell the whole or part of place For further information apply to A W McKnight, Kingstree. S C, 11- 191tp-t: For Sale or Rent.?Two Farms fo Sale or for Rent. Conveniently located good truck and tobacco land, at rail ! road station and school. ! J B Johnson, 10-29-2m Georgetown, S ( Notice of SaleNotice is hereby given that, actinj under authority of an order issued ou of the Probate Court, I will sell at pub lie auction on the 14th day of January 1915, at the residence of R T Flagler at 12 o'clock, m., the following persona property of. the estate of C B Matthews 3 horses. 5 cows, i 2 hogs, 1 wagon, 1 buggy, saddle, farming implements, corn arn fodder, etc. Terms of sale: Cash. R T Flagler. Administrator. December 3'?, 1914. 12-31-2 Deafness Cannot Be Cured by loc.l applications. us they cannot n-acl ' :h- uiai-ast'<f portion of the ear. There 1 on.y one way to cure deafness, and that 1 by conatltutional remedies. Deafness i caused by an inflamed condition of the mu cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. Whei this tul>. is inflamed you have a rumblini soun-i or imperfect hearing, and when it i entirely closed. Deafness is rhe result, am . unl.su the inflammation can be taken ou ' and this tube r- stored to its normal condi tion, hearing will b?- destroyed forever: nin I cases out of ten ore caused by Catarrh , which is nothing bu. an inflamed conditioi of the mucous surfaces. We will give On? Hundred Dollars for an; case of Deafness (caused by catarrh? tha cannot be cure* by Hall's Catarrh Curt Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation 11 GRIMMICK'S OYSTERS By JULIA CHANDLER. Grimmick began away back in September to boast to his friends about the oysters. It was so hot that he could scarcely raise a flicker of interest by relating how Albert MacShane, who had moved to Texas, was going to ship him some gulf oysters during the winter. "They're oystePB that are oysters!" Grimmick always a'.ded. "None of your measly little eastern things, but big, fat ones, the size of a saucer. And flavor! Say, if you haven't ever eaten a gulf oyster you don't know what you're talking about! They?" "Let's go and get something cold to drink," the person to whom Qrimmlck was talking would interject about here, taking off his Panama hat to mop his steaming forehead. Later In the fall people began to betray an interest in Grimmick's oysters. They listened and they heard so much about those glorified bivalves that most of them would have recognized the barrel on sight. No matter how disguised, it would have been impossible for that barrel to deceive the eyes of Grimmick's friends. Persons of deep designs brought Grimmick new recipes for cooking oysters and artfully showed him their wholehearted disinterestedness. Not that they expected to get any of thev oysters, but naturally they took a neighborly interest. It might be a big barrel. Even Grimmick when he first gazed upon it was a trifle appalled at the size of the barrel. MacShane must art A oorif him O nave liiiounuci OIUUU auu yvuv uiu. ? young hogshead. Or else the crop of gulf oysters was unusually large. "Beauties!" cried Grlmmlck when he got the barrel open. "I can scarcely wait to get at them!" The Grlmmlck family had raw oysters and oysters grilled that night for dinner and all next day Grlmmlck made a nuisance of himself telling every one how good they were. He issued no general invitations, however, for people to run in and take home a pailful of the gulf treasures. Consequently, comments were bitter on bis trail. "Selfish brute!" was the universal opinion. "It's as bad as though he owned an automobile and never took an one out for a ride!" it really is amazing, how far oysters will go. After the Grimmlcks had enjoyed oysters stewed, scalloped, panned and fried to their hearts' content they saw no appreciable shrinking of the barrel's contents. There were just about as many oysters as before. Grimmick said he thought he'd take < some down to the office for his partl ner. Mrs. Grimmick said that as she was going over to Sister Nells' that day she might as well take some ' along. The next day she carried some across to the neighbors on either side of them. That evening Grimmick surveyed the scalloped oysters set before him and frowned slightly. lie said I they looked flue, but he believed if Mary would fry him some of the ! breakfast bacon h?'d rather have it. i The following morning he saia ne ! thought it was a mistake not to share their good fortune with their friends and that he would speak to Reekman and Dundle and Buckle on the train and tell them to stop by that night > on their way home and get some. 1 The weather turned warm Just then. ! "It's a shame to waste those oysters," Grimmick said when he saw the merr cury in the outside thermometer r standing at 48 degrees. "I should think you would remember some of ; your friends to whom gulf oysters . would be a real treat!" : "Why. I have been giving them around," confessed Mrs. Grimmick. "Somehow, that barrel's terrible hard f to empty!" 1 In another week Grimmick was ped. dling oysters frantically. The neigh> bors' dogs feasted on them and all i Pile UpYoi i? A ; roraKauj) | 8 " ?* ^e <luecrest things abo , U follow GOOD ADVICE wh J Perhaps we are all more or I all ages have urged their fellow b< ? for a RAINY DAY. Good old Bei 1 and saving alone ought to make a \ j If you have DELAYED, suppose ' j SELF RIGHT NOW. LI BANK OF W1 the cat's for blocks about, congregated daily on Griramick's- back steps because the cook fed them freely on. oysters. Presently whenever Grimralck hove In sight the men would raise protesting hands and say they were obliged, but they did not want any oysters. Mrs. Orimmick, five minutes after taking a quart or so over to the next door neighbor, saw the maid march out to the garbage can and empty out the gift. It then dawned on her that it was the fifth time in a week she had bestowed oysters on that family. Still, she felt irritated. Further, the mere sight of the barrel irritated her, for a good many oysters remained. Rather fearfully, she served oysters hat nlp-ht nt dinner. It was the third time that week. Grimmick exploded and arose from his Qhair and beat his fist upon the table. He gave orders that if he lived to be one hundred and ten she was never under any conditions to place oysters upon his table again. Then, calling for the spade and an ax,. he proceeded to the*back yard. After excavating a large hole he buried the! rest of the oysters and chopped up* * the barrel for kindling. "There!" Grimmick said exultingly as he stalked into the house. "Get; on your things and we'll go downtown and get an honest beefsteak!" Expected Too Much. A South Georgia fiancee broke her, engagement because her best fellow; swore in her presence when kicked by a mu'e. We presume he should* have said: "Oh. fie!1"?Florida Tlme?-r ? . 3 linion. BRITAIN'S IRISH GENERALS. For a full century the four moet ^ conspicuous British generals have been Irishmen. Wellington^ the Iron Duke, had no peer in British military circles during the first half of the last century. He was Irish clear through. When the vietor at Waterloo moved olf the stage, Viscount Wolseley aud Earl Boberts were youngsters making their debut. Those two achieved greater fame during the second half of the last century than any others. Both Irish, although Roberts was bora in India. Now Kitchener is the war lord of the British empire, and he cornea from good old County Kerry, the essence of Irishdom. It may, indeed, be a "Long, Long Way to Tipperary," but it isn't as long as the distance to the time when England's foremost soldier was an Englishman. ZIONISTS HOPEFUL. ? Zionist leaders among the Jews ? are watching with great interest tha Drosrress of the war since Turkey be* X u came a factor, and the future of Pal- i estine is a problem. The defeat of Turkey may mean the freeing of the ancient Bible land from Mohammedan domination and may open the way for a larger realization of those nationalist hopes that have been the inspiring motive of Zionism. Russia, with a kindlier feeling toward her Jewish people, who have proved most loyal in rallying to the czar's | colors, might quite conceivably lend : her aid to a movement intended to i restore the land of their fathers to this disinherited race. j THE PROPER PLACE. "That was a knock-out blow tho Emden got." "Yes, I noticed she was hit about the Coco.'* ut some people is that they will not en they KNOW they OUGHT TO. less that way. All the wise men of rings to PUT AWAY SOMETHING ijamin Franklin's sayings on economy hank book holder of EVERY ONE. yon act HONESTLY with YOURLLIAMSBURG ,