The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 25, 1916, Page FIVE, Image 5

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lOCALfgi * m Mrs M F Heller visited relatives in Charleston this week. We are sorry to learn that Mr Laurie Lewis is on the sick list. Messrs E J Hester and Grant Van Keuren were in Florence Sunday. Mr F F Huggms 01 nemiuKwaj was in Kingstree Monday on business. Mr and Mrs M F Heller left this morning for a stay at Glenn Springs. Magistrate H S Gamble of Greelyville was noted in Kingstree Tuesday. Miss Julia Cuttino of Manning visited Miss Lyllian Alsbrook here last week. Misses Lyllian Alsbrook and Jewell Brockinton are visiting in Florence this week. Mr and Mrs C L Porter of Rocky Mount, N C, spent Sunday with rel atives here. Petit jurors will be drawn next < Monday at noon by the Jury Commissioners. The postoffice will obserye holiday hours next Tuesday, being: National Decoration day. Mr W A Rhodes, of the Hemingway section, was a pleasant caller at oar office yesterday. Mr R R Jenkinson of Manning spent Sunday in Kingstree with his brother, Mr W E Jenkinson. Mia Lilian Salters of Salters was .'e-eiected teacher of the seventh grade of the Clinton school last week. Mrs R E Haigler and little son of Cameron are visiting the family of the former's uncle, Mr S A Nettles. K Mr and Mrs W I Nexsen and chil* I dren left yesterday for Asheville, N [ C, where they will spend the summer, j f Mrs C C Brinkley and Mia Bessie Van Keuren of Georgetown are vis-j Mrs H Van Kph IUUK UIC1I luuviivi, w>. ? f ren. > Messrs Victor Caldwell and R Z Vauae went to Asheville, N C, today to take Mr W I Nexsen's Oyerland car. Next Saturday, week-end excursion rates to Charleston will pro into effect, to continue throughout the summer. Mrs J W Swittenberg, who has been very sick the past week, is, we epp pleased to report, somewhat better today. 4k Hon and Mrs W D Bryan of Bryan were in Kingstree Monday, returning from Florence, where they attended the McLendon meeting. Mr J C Kellahan and little daugh" L ter, Bthel, accompanied by Mr A L Grady of Alvin, visited friends and I relatives here last week. Mrs M L Baggett and her charm?} ing daughter, Miss Mamie, of Lanes I were in Kingstree yesterday, having driyen over in their new Ford. Mr S H Burgess returned to his | home at Macon, Ga, last night after spending several days with his father, Mr R E Burgess, at Mouzon. Mr B B Goldson was operated on at a Columbia hospital Saturday for appendicitis. We are glad to know that he is convalescing favorably. William Solomon Lynch, M D. of B Scran ton has been appointed first lieutenant, medical reserve corps, of I the South Carolina National Guard, I We are glad to report that little I Miss Louise, oldest daughter of Mr I and Mrs Thos McCutchen, who has I been quite sick the past week, is imI proving. B A large assortment of copies of the Methodist Review, the property of the late Rev H B Browne, has been presented to the library of B Lander college. B Mr and Mrs S A Nettles announce the engagement of their daughter, B Miss Ruth Gordon Nettles, to Mr B Richard William Lewis, the wedding to be solemnized June 21. , Mrs S W Mcintosh of Fairmount, N C, arrived here last night to visit I her sons, Messrs L R and A W McI Intosh.and attend the graduation of | her daughter, Miss Erline. [ Miss Carrie Scott was organist at the Episcopal church Sunday morn| ing as substitute for Miss Selma ' Thorn, who was indisposed but is well again, we are glad to know, v Hon R A Cooper of Laurehs was yK: Kingstree Tuesday en route to ?' Johnsonville, where he delivered an address to the graduating class of Old Johnsonville scnooi tnai evening. The holy communion will be celebrated at the Episcopal church next \ Sunday at 8 a. m. and service and sermon at >8 p. m. Rev Dr Walter \ . Mitchell of Charleston will officiate. tp! The annual celebration of Children's day will be observed at Cedar SwamplMethodist church Saturday. A biR picnic will be a feature of the programme,and everyone in that fine old community, old and young, will be present to enjoy a day's outing. The Wittee Graded school,Suttons, | closed a successful session last night. I The programme of exercises deliphted the large audience prose*': and showed the good taste and efficiency of the principal. Miss Ruth Hinnar.: , Mr H Van Epps. a vahud fri.n.d of The County Record pr.id hi; sanctum a pleasant vis:: while m, ' town Tuesday. Mr Epos is a Lake! Citian now. hut he has never lost interest in Kingstree, the community I! of his birth. , |i i The closing exercises of Heine-! mann Graded school, Miss Mary ! Daggett, teacher, will take place to- 1 morrow night, and an interesting programme has been prepared for i1 the occasion. The address of the evening will be delivered by Hon P H Stoll. 1 Bible school at the First Baptist I church Sunday at 9:45 a. m. No!' preaching at 11 a. m., congregation will attend commencement eaercises at school auditorium. Evening worship at 6:30 p. m. A cordial invitation is extended the public to all services. , Mr Cary Pool, a young farmer j employed on Mr Hugh McCutchen's j place in the Indiantown section, was , taken to a Florence infirmary Monday afternoon for an operation for ( appendicitis. Dr C D Jacobs accom- , panied the patient, who is reported j to be getting along as well as can be ; expected. i Students of the Kingstree High 1 and Graded school have been busy < during the week with their final ex- ] aminations. Commencement exercises will begin tomorrow night with < ? 1 A L . ITT the annual ceieoration dy me wee Nee Literary society. A full programme of events will be found in this paper. Fanners throughout this section have been made to fed more cheerful by the recent nice rains, which have caused cotton and other crops to put on a more promising appearance. Corn is looking especially well, considering the season, and in some instances cotton seed that, it was feared,had rotted in the ground, has some up nicely. Mr Chas H Singleton, the contractor, has a large force of hands at work now on the several new buildings he has under way, including those of Hon R H Kellahan on Academy street, DriW G Gamble on West Main street and the Silvermao store house on East Main street. When completed, these buildings will add materially to the appearance of the town. Mr E J Hester, one of the best known and best posted tobacco men that come to Kingstree,arrived here last week from Lexington, Ky. He vill leave tomorrow for his home in North Carolina, where he will spend a few weeks with his family before returning: here for the tobacco season. He will be connected with Messrs Epps, Mcintosh & Burgess in the management of Nelson's ware- { house this summer. Mr Ira A Calhoun, district agent < of the Southeastern Life Insurance Co, a purely South Carolina corpora- , tion, with headquarters at Greenville, handed us a statement showing that his company wrote during the year 1915 policies in this State aggregating the sum of $2,168,844. which apoount is exceeded only by one company, and is in excess of the combined business written by fourteen other life insurance companies doing business in this State. The 1 Southeastern is comparatively a new company. . Dr Louis G Beal!,assistant medical director of the Southern Life and Trust company of Greensboro, N C, spent Thursday, May 18,at the office of Dr E 'T Kelley consulting with and offering health suggestions to the policyholders of the Greensboro company. The Southern Life & Trust company, it is said, engages - ?? - 1- ? I UL ... quite exteneiveiy in neaun cuuaervation work among its policyholders, and Dr Beall makes periodical visits to the various towns in that company's territory. Today marks an epochal event in the life of the Kingstree telephone company. For some time the officers of the company have been engaged in putting in a new underground metallic system with which to replace the old grounded one, and today they are installing the switchboard and connecting it up with the new cable lines leading out from the company's new home on South Academy street. The work of moving the switchboard from the corner of Main street and Hampton avenue, which has been the home of the central office since the estab ment of the telephone system in King8tree began last night and will be kept up, unceasingly until all the connections are completed, which will probably be this afternoon. Phone users are to be congratulated upon the short time their telephone was out of commission for the purpose of changing from the old to the new system. You must be satisfied?that's our business. Ask for votes. Kingstree Furniture Co. MISSIONARY CONFERENCE HELD HERE, ADJOURNED SUNDAY NIGHT AFTEH PROFITABLE SESSION--TO MF'I AT GEORGETOWN IN 1917 Tne second annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society of the South Carolina Methodist conference, which opened its session in the Methodist church at 3:00 p. m. on Thursday of last week came to a close Sunday night. The sessions were the most interesting and instructive ever held by the organization and much interest was taken in the meetings by the ladies of KingTknt-o nroaonf at thp 311 CC. X I1CT11 ntlfT ptwovuv MV meeting sixty delegates and thirteen officers of the assocu tion, who were delightfully entertained by the ladies of the Methodist congregation. The opening address to the society was delivered Thursday by the Rev D A Phillips, presiding elder of the Kingstree district. The address of Welcome to the officers and delegates of the association was made by Miss Amanda Edwards and was responded to by Mrs S J Summers. Thursday evening Prof N Gist Gee. of the Souchow University, China, addressed the society in a highly interesting manner. Prof Gee has been engaged in missionary work in China for many years now and his knowledge of affairs in the Orient is wide and varied. His address was highly instructive and much enjoyed. Friday and Saturday's sessions were chiefly devoted to the transaction of the association's business, receiving reports of officers and the various committees, election of officers. etc. At 9:30 communion services were held by the pastor of the church. Rev J B Wilson. Sunday's sessions were of a devotional nature. The annual sermon was delivered by the Rev G T Harmon in the forenoon. In the afternoon an address was made before the society by Prof Ernest Epps, and Miss Bell H Bennett made the closing address Sunday night. The sermon by Mr Harmon Sunday morning was an able discourse on the subject of missions, and was listened to by a large congregation. Officers of the association for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President. Mrs W L Waite; first and second vice presidents, Mesdames W H Hodges and G E Edwards; corresponding secretary, Mrs R L Kirkwood; recording secretary, Miss M E Hamlin; treasurer, Mrs J P McNeill; superintendent of social service. Miss Annie Shuler; superinten dent of publicity ana mission siuuy, Mrs W L Glaze; superintendent of supplies, Mrs J L Simms: editor woman's department in Southern Christian Advocate, Mrs A E Waite. District secretaries were: Charleston, Miss M E Hamlin; Florence, Mrs C E Exum; Kingstree, Miss Ossie Epps; Marion, Mrs Walker Floyd; Orangeburg, Mrs S J Summers; Sumter, Miss Jessie Curtis. Georgetown was selected by the association as the place of meeting next y$ar. CHRISTIAN AMERICA GUILTY. She Is Accordingly Sentenced to life Long Labor. Friday hight the Methodist church here was crowded with interested spectators who came to witness one of the prettiest and most interesting features of the missionary programme?a pageant given by the Young People's Missionary society of Lake City. This was a court scene in whicb Christian America was being tried for neglect of duty. The judge, the- lawyers and the sheriff were boys in their teens and it was wonderful to see each take his place with so much ease and digmifrr Pjfnro tKom ant thp wit UltJ . 1AIV1V VIIVM? wvtw .? ? nesses?beautiful young girls in the guise of the different nationalities represented in America. As each was conducted to the witness stand she told her tale of suffering and neglect?the Indian whom the white man had robbed of her lands; the Italian, whose husband had contracted tuberculosis in a crowded tenement house and left her and her "mucha childa" strangers in a strange land; the Pole, the sweetfaced looking girl with her long hours and poor pay, and many others. Then came the witnesses for the defendant, but these were so few and so weak that the jury soon returned a verdict of guilty. Thereupon the judge pronounced his sentence upon Christian America?a sentence of life, long labor among those people trying to bring them to Christ. The audience was delighted with ho r*> orp?nt and thev with the VI*V ?? ? ? v . Methodist Missionary societies of Kingstree, send many thanks to Lake City for helping: them to entertain their guests in such a delightful manner. We regret to learn that our good friend,Mr J L Stuckey of Lake City, is confined to his home by iiiness. 2 K1NGSTREE HIGH AND J 1 GRADED SCHOOL NOTES. J j ??? The present terra of the Kingstree High and Graded school will close Friday, May 26. The commencement exercises will begin that night. The j following programmes will be car: ried out during these exercises: j FRIDAY, 8:15 P. M.-PUBLIC MEETING WEE NEE LITERARY SOCIETY. I Roll Call Each member answers with j quotation from Shakespeare. 1 Address of Welcome..Pres Hillis Phillips i Paper?"Life of William Shakespeare" Tyson McFaddin i Porta.. "Warlf a nf William Shftkesoeare" Delle Sexton Song?"Welcome, Sweet Spring Time" Chorus Paper?"Sketch of Two Shakesperean Characters?Hamlet and Shylock" William Cooper Recitation? "Portia's Mercy Speech" ... Serena Lee Reading?"Songs from Shakespeare's Plays Pauline McCants Debate of Question: "Resolved, That it is Easier to Live with a Shrewish Woman than with a Conceited Man" First Affirmative?Erline Mcintosh First Negative?Edwin Harper , Instrumental Duet Bessie Register, Georgia McGill Second Affirmative? Margaret Gordon Second Negative?Ruskin 'McConnell General Discussion Song?"Who Is Sylvia" Chorus (Music by Shubert; words by Shakesoeore) Jokes Rosa Wilkins . ^Decision of Judges; u?M Jsunday-^-H a.|m. Doxology Invocation Rev J B Wilson Anthem ?|'Praise Ye Jehovah" Hymn ..."(jome, rnou Aimigniy iving Scripture Reading..Rev P S?McChesney Prayer ? Rev D A Phillips Vocal Solo Announcements Sermon.. Rev Walter Mitchell Triumphal Chorus Benediction Rev A E Riemer % MONDAY?10 A. M. Recital by Music Class MONDAY?8:16 P. M. Prayer Rev A E Riemer Salutatory Pauline McC&nts "Wilson, the Democrat and Statesman" Heyward Brockinton Class History.... Margaret Gordon Class Will Claudia Holiiday Violin Solo "The Old Way and the New" Pauline McCantf "Shall We Be Prepared?" ?..Erline Mcintosh Instrumental Dpet? Tanphauser's March "American Ideals" _Hillis Phillips 'The Effects of the War"..'LuIa Sextor "Smile and the World Smiles with You" Milton Stackley Violin Solo Class Prophecy Blanche Tisdale ' The Woman of Today' '..Virginia Wilsor Valedictory ...Wista McElveer Class Song Awarding of Diplomas Awarding of Prizes Announcements Benediction.. Rev A E Riemer New Candidates. In this issue will be found the an nouncement of Mr J U Uarraway, 01 Romp, who aspires to the office of Clerk of the Court. Judge of Probate P M Brockinton announces himself for reelection to the office he has so acceptably filled for a number of years past. Mr W H Baker announces himself this week as a candidate for Magistrate at Hebron, and as there are three other aspirants for this particular office the contest will doubtless be a lively one. The other new candidates are Messrs R E McElveec and J W Stewart. 1 Paris Green in pound packages. Kingstree Drug Cc Notice to Cattle Owners. All persons owning cattle in the fence law district of Williamsburg county are hereby requested to drive all cattle to W 0 Camlin'sThursday, June 1, for the purpose of dipping in W 0 Camlin's vat. See Mr Alex Tisdale for instructions concerning drive. Alex Tisdale, ' L D Rodgers, It Cattle Inspector, Buy your furniture from us and give your friends votes. Goods anc prices guaranteed. Kingstree Furniture Co. Get our prices on Binder Twine for your oats and Paris Green foi your tobacco. We can save yoi money. V G Ap.nette & Co, Inc Cades, S C, ltp. SPECIAL NOTICES ' Fresh Milk Daily?If I can secure enough customers to warrant dailj delivery in Kingstree, I will establish i milk route. Parties desiring to take milk from me may leave name and Suantitv of milk desired with People'f [ercantile Co. My cows are Al, anc first-class service will be guaranteed. R C Burgess. FOR Sale?Hand-made Cypress Shingles, Nos 1 and '2; a few hundred Bricks and about 4,000 Plaster Laths. Foi j v v r-niniu Vin<ratr?A S f! prices see r xv umuu, ? 5-25-2t For Salb?Cuban Yam Potato Planti at 10c per hundred. Apply to T Old Epps, Kingatree. 5-18 For Sale?Cuban Yam Potato Plant! at 10c per hundred. Apply to T Old Epps, Kingatree. 5-18 For Sale?One $500.00 Steiff Pian< at a big bargain. Will sell cheap foi cash or good bankable paper. Apply t< "X", Care Record Office. I""*D| CRC AN I TAB ? MATT 1 Eiqkt-Grw 1 Of Fluffy / i Felt.?I nil I PnckeA in < ( . C&rtor\.no Worth ^?g?g l.tl Bngstree Fnrn Two Doors from P. < MM IJ SDIT 1 tfl L 4? DO yon know what a bank acconn money; Utilization of fnll i Chances of loss avoided; End t the community; Satisfaction and con capitals spell SUCCESS. SAVDTG . in this RELIABLE and FEOGE1 SUCCESS for YOU. Abankacoonn BANK OF wi] | A Word to the II r This ad good for 50c on a: ; We have a most comj chandise at the lowest pri S. S. ARONSON 4-gQ-tf Cliasefeur] ;^W i CUBKENOT In the poeket SZP PAJJDS. A peraoB with a flC all day without cashing It j (here is a tendency to SPOB A 1 r lo it is with a bank aoeonat Aperso BANK OF I A ' lill a D H mW0 i//1 Y-FELT RE// I it. I AVAK/ T hoH-IVhit? Jvidvidlly 1 a Amtdry 1 iture Company 0. Kingstree, S C sff 5$| t means? It means: Safety for your earning power; Credit increased; o care and worry; Sound standing in tentment Yon* will notice that the spells SUCCESS. Start an account 5SSIYE institution. It will spell \ is life's best defense. DLIAMSBURG Vise is Sufficient I ny $1.50 article in my store I )lete line of General Mer- I ces. | , - Lane, S. C. I EECUTES. In the teak it IX* 10 cheek in his pocket likely will p With a similar amount of currency JTTLE. The cheek remains intact, n likes to KEEP IT INTACT. t ilNGSTREE. - ?>l *