Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LOCAL Iff . NEWS If Mr and Mrs D Silverman are visiting relatives at Manning. j J^Miss Ora McFall of Pickens is the 4 guest of Miss Jimme Britton this week. Miss Mellie Ferrell of Greelyville was the guest of Mrs W L Taylor last week. I Miss Marie Nelson is spending some time with relatiyes in the City by the Sea. Miss Carrie Seott of Manning is visiting relatives and friends in King3tree this week. I The Cades Mercantile Co, a chartered corporation at Cades, has been adjudged a bankrupt. J J Walter Hazzard.Esq. of George/v town was in Kingstree Monday on professional business. A baseball team from Kingstree was defeated by Georgetown Tuesday hv the score of 8 to 1. Mr ? F Howie of Darlington sjfent the week-end here the guest of Mr W D Harrington's family. Miss Marguerite Van Keuren has returned home after a pleasant visitj to relatives at Florence and Sumter, j Clerk of Court Britton requests usj to state that pensioners must come in r person or send a written order for their money. Dr WJ Ha3elden and Mr W I Hodges of Cades were in Kingstree on business in connection with the Cades school Monday. Miss Mary Dubose, who has been visiting friends and relatives around Venters, returned home Saturday, A accompanied by her cousin, Miss Marena Spring. Mr C C Bean of Conway, former-; ly manager for the Kingstree Drug Co here, wa3 in town Tuesday. I "Doc" has many friends here and is j always a welcome visitor. | Our friend P S Courtney has ap \ preciative thanks for a lot of fine radishes and a dish of ice-cream. Strawberry cream ? Courtney's? 'nough said as to the quality of the ' cream. Mr Sam P Stackley. who has Deen teaching at Peachland, N C, for the j past scholastic year, returned home Tuesday night for the vacation. He has accepted a position in Courtney's cafe temporarily. Mr C A Maull, advertising agent! of the Atlantic Coast Line railway, | was in Kingstree yesterday. He will V return here in about two weeks to deliver an address to farmers and others interested in the development of our county and town. Little Reneldo Tharpe.a son of Mr and Mrs James ? Tharpe, who live! a few miles east of town, was taken to an infirmary at Florence last week j by Dr Kelley to be operated on for I appendicitis. The little fellow is get- i ting on as well as could be expected, j A special dispatch to the Colum- j bia State from Lanes dated April 10 says: The engagement of Miss Mary Louise Bass,daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Lee Bass, to Mr James Keith Deaver of Carlisle, has been an^ nounced, the wedding to take place j at La nes June 9. Mr W E Jenkinson, newly appointed a member of the State board of pardons, attended a meeting: of the board in Columbia last Saturday. The board was in session sev-1 eral days, as there were over thirty: petitions for pardons and paroles to be considered. The United States Census Bureau shows the total cotton crop of the State for 1914 to be 1,550,704 bales, compared with 1,418,704 bales for 1913. Williamsburg county produced 36,562 bales in 1914, against r 26,577 in 1913. A report by counties for the whole State is published elsewhere in this issue. Since receiving the pension money Clerk of Court Britton has been kept busy paying it out to the old veterans?alas, so few! It is melancholy to note that the official pen . sion list for this county numbers only 140 veterans and since that was gotten up several have passed away. Mrs C M Chandler, who has made Hpr home in Kingstree all of her, life, has recently removed to Lake City, where she will reside in the future with her grandson, Mr Charles McCrea, who is stationed there as an operator for the Atlantic Coast Line. We heartily join with the many friends of this most estimable lady in wishing her much happiness | in her new home. -? ' Mr H D Reddick wiil leave Kings- \ tree as soon as his losses sustained by the fire of April 2 can be adjusted and will make his future home at Andrews, where he has opened a; store known as the Andrews Dry j Goods Co, now under the management of his son, Mr Ccrdie Reddiek. Mr Reddick is one of the pioneer merchants of Kingstree, and we view with regret his approaching departure. Our best wishes for his prosperity will follow him. < The preliminary contest to choose speakers to represent the Kingstree High and Graded school in the oratorical exercises tonight took place at the school auditorium Thursday evening last and was well attended. Miss Leola Gamble and Mr David Epps won first honors in the high school department, with Miss Tyson McFadden and Mr Alex Blakeley second. In the elementary grades Miss Carolina McFadden and Mas^r Hubert Speigner were the victors. Miss Maude Allene Kinder and Mas- ; ter James Sullivan coming second. 1 The pupils all acquitted themselves , with great credit,and it was no easy matter for the judges, Hon R K Wallace,P C Becton, Esq, and Mr W H Welch, to make choice among so many meritorious contestants. OUTLINE OF PROGRAMME Of Oratorical and Field Day Exerclses Tonight and Tomorrow. The fourth annual Oratorical and Field Day celebration of the public schools of Williamsburg county will take place here tonight and continue through tomorrow. The oratorical and expression contest will be held in the auditorium at 8:30 this evening. A majority of the larger 1 ?- a. ?*11 1 scnoois in tne county win uc represented and much interest is manifested by pupils, parents and friends of the various schools that have joined in the celebration. The Field day exercises will take place on the athletic field at 2:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and a large representation of the county schools will participate in the numerous events to be pulled off. In connection with the celebration there will be a Better Baby contest conducted by Miss Mary Fraser, of the faculty of Winthrop College. Misses Mamie McLees and Amanda Edwards have been busily engaged for several days working up this feature of the programme and indications are that every mother and babe in the community will be present. A school exhibit, the best ever made in this county, has been arranged in the Central warehouse and will be oDen to insDection all day tomorrow. The elementary and literary contests will take place in the school auditorium tomorrow from 9:00 a. m. to 11:45 a. m. Immediately after these exercises a parade will be formed at the school house and march to the court house where luncheon will be served. At 8:00 o'clock tomorrow evening an address will be delivered in the auditorium by Prof L P Chamberlayne, of the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Following this address the names of successful contestants will be announced and the trophy cups awarded, to the school making the highest number of points on the score card. The occasion promises to be the largest and best in the history of Williamsburg schools. A Word of Praise. The Ministerial union of Kingstree wish to offer the following word regarding the Chautauqua: First, we think the public-spirited gentlemen who were responsible for its coming are to be praised and congratulated for the splendid success of the entertainment from every viewpoint. Secondly, we want to endorse this movement, feeling that it is highly beneficial to our community, both from the standpoint of education and clean entertainment. Our town is to be congratulated for the way it has responded co cms class 01 entertainment,, uet us have more of this clean entertainment?the people, especially the young people, will have some sort of entertainment?that is free from any taint of the vulgar or immoral. P S McChesney, W E Hurt, D A Phillips, H B Browne, Notice. This is to ask all those who are owing my deceased husband, Mr Sol Peres, to help me by paying the same at once. Mrs Sol Peres. Hymeneal. Married?By Hon P M Brockinton, Judge of Probate, at his residence, Sunday, April 11, 1915, Miss Maggie Welch to Mr Tom Mc Tisdale, both of Kingstree, S C. FINE CHAUTAUQUA HERE THIS WEEK. BOOSTERS'FESTIVAL A SPLENDID SUCCESS IN EVERY WAY FROM START TO FINISH. The Chautauqua or Boosters' Fes tival opened here in the Thomas opera house at 3:15 o'clock p. m. Monday, as advertised, under the auspices of a number of the business men of Kingstree, who, on December 1 last, contracted with Mr J H Durno, representing the Radcliffe Attractions, Inc, for the talent that has so successfully entertained the people 01 me community wim two progrrfnmes daily for the past three days. Dr George P Bible, platform manager, who is himself a very able lecturer, arrived at Kingstree Sunday and delivered a most interesting address to a union congregation at the Presbyterian church Sunday night. Dr Bible has been here throughout the engagement as platform manager and has made a large number of friends. He went to the school house each morning and talked to the pupils, also giving them recitations and Shakespearean readings. The programme on Monday consisted of some most wonderful feats of magic by Mr Hal Mertou and lectures by Dr H W Sears, a former Presbyterian minister and a member of the Missouri Presbytery. Dr Sears' lectures both afternoon and ? 1 1 evening were nigniy enjuyeu uy large audiences. The second day's programme consisted of an afternoon and evening performance by the Strollers' Quartette, or Swiss Bell Ringers, and a medley of grave and humorous impersonations by Mr Ellsworth Plumstead. The audience at each entertainment Tuesday was much larger than on the preceding day, and everyone present seemed to be delighted with the work of these high class artists. Last night the Festival came to a most successful close, with a programme embracing a lecture by Dr. Bible, music and recitations by the La Dell Concert Co,composed of Miss es Marietta La Dell, reader, Blanche Delving, violinist and Ruth Thorn, soprano. The audience was the largest, perhaps, ever seen in the Thomas opera house upon any similar occasion. To say that the lectureg by Dr Bible at both of yesterday's performances were full of good,sound logic, instructive and appreciated, is but a mild expression of fact. The work of the La Dell Concert company convinced everyone who heard them that they were ladies of culture and high class artists in their respective roles. At the close of last night's programme a contract was signed with Dr Bible, manager, for a return engagement to be held some time next fall. This contract was entered into by a number of Kingstree's most substantial citizens. The old committee or promoters of the Boosters' festival are highly gratified over the success their undertaking and are grateful to the people of the community for the interest they have taken in the movement. A small amount of money over and above expenses was realized from the sale of admission tickets sold at the door which the committee decided to donate to the Civic league of Kingstree. Arrangements were made by the committee for addresses to be delivered in connection with the Chautauqua feature of the progamme by Hon E *J Watson, Commissioner of Agriculture, and by Mr C A Maull, advertising agent of the Atlantic Coast line. The former was to speak at 1 p. m. Mondsy, but en route from Columbia his big motor car broke through a causway on the road between Manning and Kingstree and Mr Watson did not arrive until 3 p. m.?too late, as the Chautauqua programme started at 3:15 - l 1 J ii .j. if.. p. m. it was understood tnat inr Maull would speak on Wednesday, but he arrived here Tuesday and it was decided to have him return in about two weeks to address the farmers. The committee deeply regrets these disappointments but takes consolation in the belief that the people who attended the Festival feel that they got their money's worth and are well satisfied with the programme as rendered. i limiTBi rJiriiffrfn in n d BURGLARS BUSY. Two Dwellings Entered Earl) This Morning?One Robbed. The residence of Mr H A Meyei on East Main street was entered early this morning by a sneak thief, In raising a rear window the noise awoke Mrs Meyer, who called her husband. The thief probably hearing the noise, made a hasty getaway without taking anything with him from the Meyer home. The thief who entered the home of Jake Pendergrass, a colored man, this morning was more successful, for it is claimed that Pendergrass is minus $13.00 and a pack of cigarettes, which he claims were taken from his pockets while he was enjoying his morning slumber. When these reports reached the Sheriff this morning it was too late to put the dogs on the trail of the thief or thieves, as they had been sent to Scranton. Mr S F Epps, proprietor of Epps' Market, will Monday of next week issue percentage tickets at the rate of 10% on each dollar's worth of fresh meat purchased at his market. For instances 50c purchase of meat will entitle the buyer to a^-cent ticket, redeemable in cash or trade. For the benefit of his colored patrons Mr Epps has installed a soda fountain and has on draught all IVKLIUO U1 OUil U1 1UI\0. Remember,percentage tickets will be given only on fresh meat purchases for cash. It The following office accessories are goin? cheap at L D Rodgers' big fire sale: 100 Dozen Writing Tablets 2,000 good Lead Pencils Davis' and Stafford's Inks Pen Points and Staffs Carter's Paste Colored Crayons Tags and Rulers. [It Get your supplies while they last, Headquarters for Jewelry and Wedding Presents. Largest and finest stock in the county to select from. Prices lower than ever before. Repairing of all kinds. Yours to please, F J Watts, 1 ? - - ' rr? a O 4-10-lf lungsiree, o c,. The following office accessoriei are going cheap at L D Rodgers' big fire sale: 100 Dozen Writing Tablets 2,000 good Lead Pencils Davis' and Stafford's Ink Pen Points and Staffs Colored Crayons Tags and Rulers [It Get your supplies while they last, Notice. The farmers of Williamsburg county are notified and cautioned against allowing their plowmen tc plow into the public roads of the county. There is a statute on the books providing a heavy penalty foi thus damaging the public roads. Rural Police and others have beer notified to report every violation of this act to the Grand J ury and each offense shall be prosecuted to full extent. W H Carr, Foreman Grand Jury Wmsbg Co 4-8-4t SPECIAL NOTICES S3A Phone us when you wanl QT to get a notice under this heading. Price one cent s word for each insertion. Nc ad taken for less than 25c, Phone 83. For Exchange ?Two full bloodec I Jersey cows not milking. Will ex I change for one good Jersey with youn$ calf. Mrs M L Baggett, Lanes S C. 4-15-tf For Rent?Good 8-room dwelling, with large hall upstairs. Water anc sewerage connections. Two-acre tract. Located in Nelson Addition. Apply 01 write to H D Reddick, Kingstree, S C. 4-15-tf For Sale?Fine Cotton Seed, commonly known as the Heavy Fruiter, $1.50 per bushel. J W Coward, King stree, S C. 4-8-tf. For Sale?White Orpington Eggs al $1.25 per setting of 15. Mrs R C Mc Cabe, Kingstree, S C. 4-8-tf For Sale?The Dr James place, located one mile north of Cooper Bros' store. For further information see oui adv in this issue. Kingstree Insurance, Real Estate & Loan Co. 4-l-3t For Sale?One second-hand singlecylinder Harley-Davidson Motorcycle giaranteed in good condition. Dr E 1 elley, Kingstree, S C. 2-4-tf For Sale?Cleveland Big Boll Cotton Seed for sale at 75c per bushel. Address T 0 Epps, Kingstree, S C. 2-18-tf To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The Qninine drives out malaria, the Iron builds up the system. 50 cents $0$ : ; "A FOOL and his money are soon mothers, yon want yonr chile WOMANLY WOMEN, not S t and money. Young joy riders on life Urge your children to be FRUGAL. ; INGS BANK ACCOUNT. See that t ; example YOURSELF in YOUR OWJ BANK OF VVII i ??????????? i ^uM ' 1T _ ? ? - I IIV IIVVVI M W Only $ 1 .$ i ALL THE NEWS OF C jtf 2. A. K/VMMVix ma G Embroideries tha j I command your at : I Big bargains in ; ? Hats 10c, 15c and I Girls' Garden Hat | | Ready and anxi IJenkinson Brol Thfi Rnnnril am St Si parted." Very true. Fathers and Iren to become MANLY MEN and SQUANDERERS of time and health s's journey never come to any good. Start them with a SMALL SAVhey keep it going. Set them a good J" ACCOUNT. jLIAMSBURG ive It! of Office Supplies \ Stationery and Toilet Articles is thing in this line. ? # ? * the most popular Magazines ana 'scription. All prescription work licensed pharmacist. Prescrip- ? ptly. ug Company ^RIVALS thers Company ' Negligee Shirts, Straw Hats and prices before you sortment of Colilet Articles and imember, you get :um Powder here > show in Wash b, Percals, Linen Silks and Linens g sure attention l's Wash Dresses Suits. Come and rices. it figures on MusLadies' Gowns at le of Laces and it must and will tention. straw hats: Field 25c. Ladies' and ;s 15c and 25c. ious to serve you. thers Company imi-Weekly State 55 a year COUNTY AND CTATE^^i we nc A Complete Line Our line of Office Supplies, complete. Give us a call for any We have a nice selection of 1 Periodicals. We can fill any Doctor's Pre done under the supervision of a tions sent for and delivered prom King'stree Dr SNEW AI I I A i 1 v i II Jenkinson Brol I I New line Gents' ' 11 Neckwear, New .! 1 flans. Get, our l I buy. A splendid as: gate's famous To Dental Cream. R( Colgates 25c Talc for 15c the can. New things tc Goods, Ginghams Suitings, Summer of all kinds. I We are namin prices on Childrer and Boys' Blouse see and get our p: Some closing 01 lin Underwear. ] 39c and 89c each. A Viosmt.ifnl Hi