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V ? # - "" * r"r-*^-rC ' ' ' " :. . ' '.* S J / % Hi)t County ifrtovi). VOL. XXX. KiyOSTREE SOUTH CAROLINA; THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1915. NO. 3 " " ~ . Tobac We are now takii v You know we have th The! So leave your ord ! Coffins and Cas r TOPICS TOUGHING SGRANTON & SUBURBS VITAL STATISTICS?Y.P.B.MEE1 ING-CLASSY AMATEUR MIN 'STRELS?SCHOTL NOTES. Scranton, March 23:?Her man friends will be glad to know the Mrs R E McKnight is improving ft serimis illness. Mr John G Singletary has gone t Conway, where he has accepted position with a drug firm. Cotton buyers and farmers ai letting their cotton slip at the $ mark. The Scranton girls' basket-ba team played the Green Springs gir on the latter's court Friday. Scon Scranton 16; Green Springs 12. Messrs J M Parker and D L Le have each purchased a Ford aut through the local agent. The local Young People's Branc of W C T U met Sunday afternooi when Mrs K B Cannon made an ii teresting report of the annual coi t vention of the W C T U held at Lali City recently. A feature of tl meeting Sunday was the voting < with hearty appiause. xes, ui , boys were "right there with th bells." Everyone was well please and many complimentary remark have been heard regarding the per formance. It was such a screar . that the company will present th ^-'4 performance at other places. Scranton Literary society me Friday, March 17, and rendered th following programme: Debate: Resolved, That the Unites $10.00 to be used in the county pr< hibition campaign this summer. Several young men from Lai City were in town Sunday afternooi Some attraction? It is even thougl they were "dear" hunting. Rev J B Prosser filled his regulc appointment at the Methodist churc Sunday night. After the service teachers' training class was orgai v ized, a similar class having been o: ganized at the Baptist church. Mr D L Lee is having his dwellin repainted, which will add greatly t its appearance. According to the figures of th local registrar of vital statistics, I C H Pate, for Lee and Lake towi ships, there were in January, births and 7 deaths; in February, 1 births and 4 deaths. * * -1 ic n A minsirei company ua 10?v uuj and 6 girls?locai talent, presente a black face performance at tfc school house last Friday night to delighted audience, judging by tli enthusiastic applause accorded tl] players. The curtain went up on regular minstrel stage setting: ent men in exaggerated costumes, iritei ' locutor in "Prince Albert'' suit, an chorus inn in ludicrous costume: There \vv.$ no ciiaggin.',. From th < .' ? rise of the curtain until the dro not a dull minute entered. Th songs were encoied, but before- th applause had died away, "Bones" c "Tambc" would bo starting a di; cussion or firing a question at th middle-man, and while the audienc was still rocking laughter a son would he announced. "Sis Mirandy and her "dusky damsels" in "Rc mantic Love Making/' were greete i - it ico Flues ig orders for Tobacco Flues tat good kind? Best Made er with us now. ;kets. I Kin j ??1 , EV States Should Intervene in the Mexican War. * ?! T7< J 1 AmrmHiive r r c u i ai iwt, r i Janie Wall. Negative ? Dessi e Graham. I Annie Lee. Essay?Larue Hinson. Piano Duet?Ruth Willoughby and Cecil Matthews, y Essay?Mary Olive Lynch. lt Recitation?Nelson Cannon. Reading?Marie Matthews. ^ Extemporaneous Debate: Resolved, That Farmers Should Plant One0 third of Their Crops in Cotton. Affirmative?LeRoy Hinson, Olive a Mae Spring. Negative?Cortez Miles, Jessie e Cook. [C Vocal Solo?Mabel Lee. Current Events?Olive Mae Spring, jl Misses Rosa Wall, Belle Fountain js and Mr Bryan Kirby, judges of the a. debate, decided in favor of the affirmative. I\: being the 6me for the ^ election of officers, the following .v were chosen to serve the ensuing term: Mr Dessie Graham, president; Miss Olive Mae Spring, vice pres3* ident. Miss Janie Wall, secretary, i- Mr Bryan Kirby, critic. [e Miss Rosa Wall, reporter. Mr Fred Parrott, treasurer. There being no further business, 1 excelled for commercial purposes e and our prices are as low as good f work can be done for. Try us with 1 i an order. 1 / A\ II the society adjourned to meet Friday,March 26,1915. IMG. :e Chat from Carlisle. i, Carlisle, March 21;?Most of the folk in this section are moving along ir nicely with their farm work. They ^ are looking forward to another suc' cessful crop year. 3 We are very sorry to hear that Mrs J L Nexsen is added to the sick list this week. Several of the young folk of this community attended a "social" at White Oak Friday night. All report a very pleasant time. ? Miss Grace Fulmore, the assistant teacher at Carlisle, spent Sunday at rj her home near Cades. q Mr and Mrs Walter Joye, accompanied by the latter's sister. Miss ig Lucile Nexsen, enjoyed a very pleas^ ant trip to the Mouzon section Sunday afternoon. le Messrs Ruth Carrawav, Avcie d I | Smith, J L Nex'sen, J W Patrick It? ^ and W J Smiley went to the countv seat oji business Monday, a 1 j i Brown Ryes, j r- Arraufliua a Duel. d Two Irishmen arranged to fi^ht a; 3. duel with pistols. One of thera was : . e t distinctly stout, ami c. ncii 1. s t\v j p his lean adversary facing him he; e j raised an objection. j. p-j "Bedad!" he said, "I'm twice ast r big a target as he is, so I ought to, s-! stand twice as far away from him as 1 e, he is from me." |( e "Be aisy novsv'* replied his second, j, g "I'll soon put that right." j, Taking a piece of chalk from his;, >- pockeP he drew lines down the stout j ] d | man's coat, leaving a space between j e them. e "Now," he said, turning to the , other man, "fire away, ye spalpeen, 1 and remember that any hits outside 1 9 that chalk line don't count." j ? 1 n We have just got in a nice line of e job stationery of every kind. War i prices have been put on stationery, 1 A too, but the quality we handle is un fsiree n ENTUALLY-\ What? 1 "Good, ripe tobacco good tobacco is to plant < only solution. You can j will have their special re where we can save you t We are agents for tl WILLIAM He; RECORD COTTON CROP. Final Glnners' Report Shows Total Yield 16.102,143 for 1914. Washington, March 20: ? Tht greatest cotton crop ever producec in the United States was growr in 1914. Census bureau statistics, issued to m'nninrr mi fOC nf, uay, imoi kiiiuui^ uftuivoi w* ficially place the 1914 crop as a rec ord, with 16,102,143 bales of 50( pounds each. That is 409,442 equiv alent 500-pound bales, or 204,721,00( pounds more than produced in the great crop of 1911. In addition to the great produc tion of lint cotton a record quantity of linter cotton, which is extensively used in the manufacture of military explosives, was obtained. This cotton, delinted from the seeds at oii mills, amounted to 395,732,00C pounds and brought the total 1914 crop to 16,893,604 equivalent 500pound bales, or 8,446,803,500 pounds, While the crop was a record one, it once. Call on or write to H A Miller, Prop People's Market, tCingstree, S C. 3-25-2t V V fV ' " the only States to make new records in production were Alabama, Louisiana and Oklahoma. The other cotton States all came close to theii records. For South Carolina the official figures give 1,524,595 bales for 1914, compared with 1,648,712 for 1911 and 1,377,814 for 1913, the years heretofore credited with the biggest yields for this State. From the OJei North State. Tunis, N C,March 22:?Capt VV b Durfey died here March 15, 1915, aged 90 years. He leaves four children, two at Tunis, one at N u-f<;!k, Va, one at Andrews, S C, and many friends bereaved by his death. We are having some very cold weather np here. Had a big snow yesterday. Farmers around here do not know what to plant this year. They say they are not going to plant much cotton. Many of them will plant more peanuts than they did last year. We are confidently looking for a big price for peanuts next fall. The Farmers' union is putting up a peanut factory at Tunis. We can make more on this crop at cents a pound than on cotton at 10 cents a pound. I hope all the farmers will ?et something for what they raise :his year. Mr C A Jones and Dr J A Powell nade a pleasant trip to Washington, D C, last week. Wanted--Several good beef cattle Just Re nnv. A vync vcix niiici ixan i tuw One car Barbed Wire Fer One car Paroid Roofing, One car Keystone Lime, One car Portland Cemenl One car Galvanized, Corr J LJ BARNWELL COUNTY -DRY". I i Governor Manning Closes Its I Dispensaries Indefinitely. j] , Columbia, March 19:?All the dis- | I pensaries in Barnwell county were | x closed this afternoon by order of | Governor Manning and will remain i I closed indefinitely. This order was I issued in a letter sent to each dis-! 9 penser in the county and was made j public here tonight. The letter fol-; lows: j j "Under authority of Section 806,j , Criminal Code of 1912, you are hereby, immediately on receipt of this order.required to close the dispensary at , Barnwell county, and to keep said dispensary closed until further orders from me." The letter was addressed to the - % rv a n .1. I following dispensers: a a dosc, ai I Ulmer; C D McClendon, at Fairfax; ^ W P Walgh, at Williston; D E Rice, at Allendale; R M Wise, at Black* ville; M C Lee,at Kline; F M Cave,at Barnwell; S J Hutto, at Elko; F H J Gault, at Baldock, and E G Bolen, at Dunbarton. Information was received today . that the Barnwell county grand jury had been authorized by the court to I employ an expert accountant to examine the books of the Barnwell J county dispensary board which was ? recently removed from office by the J* Governor. This audit will cover the v 4 U r* f IVU.A 14- in *'' j UIKpeilSHll y n uiii liic lifuc a nasuii augurated until the present date. W | I Johns of Baldoek is foreman of the ! F I grand jury. Dispensary Sales in February. * < The dispensaries in 14 co. nties of: $ ' the State sold $233,864.87 worth of j I ' liquor during Februaiy, according j to a statement issued Thurso;, y by! uVIose H eiobley, Srate dispensary: j [auditor. The opiating ( xt^'iv-es i j amounted to $17,047.20. i S { Follow ing are the sales l?v conn-' } s . ties: i ? I Aiken $15,995.50; k ; Bamberg 8.370.44 j J : Barnwell 19,370.95! J ; Beaufort 8.4SJ 05 i j Calhoun 4,225.45 | i Charleston 34,111.?1 2 ! Dorchester 6,263.60 < j Florence 33,197.69 j ^ | Georgetown 10,023.03 j | j Jasper L,4oy.oo j I Lexington 10,819.14 z Orangeburg.: 20,402.61 | Richland 46,272.08 I Williamsburg 4,384.68 j Total $2:33,864.87 1 Bicycles can now be equipped with i electric lamps. A small battery sup- 5 plies the necessary current. i The County Record $1 a year. G jceived 1 Wire, One car Nails, s ice, ( ( t, t ugated Roofing, en route. t ardware < VHY NOT NOW: Ir. 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