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C VOL. XXXII. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1917. \0. 15 1
* STATUE OF LEE
AT GETTYSBURG.
FIGURE OF GREAT SOLDIER ON HIS
WAR HORSE, TRAVELER,
UNVEILED.
Gettysburg. Penn. June 8:?Confederate
Veterans from all parts of
the South came here today from
Washington, where their annual re- j
union is in progress, to attend the
unveiling of Virginia's monument on
the Gettysburg battlefield.
On the spot where Pickett's divi-;
sion formed,fifty-four years ago,for'
its famous charge in the third day si
battle that marked the high tide of
the Confederacy.an equestrian natue ;
of Gen Robert E Lee, mounted on \
his famous horse, Traveler, was formally
presented to the nation. Several
thousand Daughters of the Confederacy
and Sons of Veterans also
attended the ceremonies.
Governor Stuart, of Virginia, led
the parade to the battle grounds.
Miss Anne Carter Lee, a granddaughter
of Gen Lee,pulled the cords
which unloosed the Stars and Stripes
coverirg the monument.
Governor Stuart,in presenting the
memorial to the government, recounted
the character which has
made the name of Lee loved and rev
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clared that today marked the third J
time the blue and gray had blended
this spot,first in battle array,the sec- j
ond time at the reunion on the fiftieth
anniversary and today at the un-.1
veiling of Virginia's memorial. This J
occasion, he said, should stand as a j
sign to the world of the union of the j,
North and South.
The Governor's eulogy to Gen Lee 1
and the men who served the lost
cause.evoked a great demonstration. (
The statue was accepted on behalf |
of the government by Assistant Sec- 1
retary of War Ingraham. The invo- 1
cation was pronounced by Rev James j J
Power Smith, who served as captain
and aide oa the staff of "Stonewall"
Jackson.
To be Tried for Serious Offense.
The two cases against Paul Wierse,
an editorial writer on the Charleston
American, were called up in the
federal court at Charleston last week
and continued till the October term
to be held at Aiken. The cases
against Wierse are in connectitm i
with the sinking of the Germal
steamship Liebenfels in the Cooper
river several months ago, for which
offense against the federal statutes
Capt Klattenhoff upon his plea of
guilty was sentenced to one year :
and a day in the federal penitentiary
at Atlanta, where seven members of i
the Liebenfels' crew are already
serving line terms.
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KINGSTREE LONG
AGO AND NOW.
EDITOR CUNNINGHAM WRITES
INTERESTINGLY ABOUT HIS
OLD HOME TOWN.
We stated last week that we would
continue the narrative of our trip to
Williamsburg, and say something
about old Kingstree.
After a three hours run from BishDpville.
we arrived at Kingstree about
F>-20 n. m_our first stOD being at the
nome of otr brother.Dr J S Cunningbam.
Here,after a short rest,the party
divided,the Editor and better half
?oing to the home of Mrs Lou Giliand
to spend the night. As we had !
50 many relatives to visit, it is need-!
ess to say with what a glad welcome
ive were received by both relatives
md friends, especially do we appreciate
the pressing invitations from
that most genial and warm-hearted
friend. James D Epps. and our old
comrade, Harvey H Kinder. Knowng
our ' artialitv and fondness for
the famous Black River fish,, we had
ao less than six invitations from
friends Saturday to partake of the
famous Black River bream, goggle
?ye,red breast and mawmouth fresh
from the water. But our kind hos
tess.Mrs Gilland.said to her son Wilmot.
"Can't you get some fish for
your cousins?" Without saying anything
more about it he was up and
off to the river by daylight, and
brought back 48 as fine specimens as
one would wish to see or taste. The
Editor is a pretty bijr fi3h eater, but
two of those,almost as broad as your
two hands, were just about as much
as he could go at one time.
It was indeed a great pleasure to
meet and visit in their homes so
many of our old friends and relatives,but
our time was so limited,we
did not get to see more than half of
them. We found our dear old brother
in very good health and recovered
from his terrible hurt during the
storm last July. Sunday and Sunday
night we spent with Mrs Cunningham's
brother. Mr P M Brockinton,
who lives five miles out in the country.although
he is Probate Judge for
Williamsburg county, and goes to
town nearly every day.
Here at this pleasant home we met
an old Confederate comrade,Mr A*W
Flagler, who, knowing how we love
honey, presented us next morning
with a gallon of fine extracted honey,
almost as clear as crystal. Monday
morning we hiked out for home
and in about three hours time were
back at Bishopville.'
Having said so much about our
trip we cannot close without saying
a few words about old Kingstree.44
years ago when we commenced business
there,and new Kingstree of today
The first paper started in Kingstree
was published about 1856 or '57
by Messrs Gilbert and Darr of Sumfa.
Tintk un .id Washington hand
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press that took ail day to run off an
edition of 500. It was a six-column,
four-page paper,known as the Kingstree
Star, and the subscription price
was S3. Messrs Gilbert and Darr
soon sold out to Mr R C Logan, who
continued.its publication until '74 or
'75, when he sold out to Capt S W
Maurice, a prominent lawyer of
Kingstree.who published it untill his
death. Mr J S Heyward of Orangeburg
rented the outfit and continued
its publication for a year or two and
gave it up. In 1878 the writer of this
article bought the outfit and published
the Williamsburg Herald. For
sentiment's sake,he restored the Star
and it was then published as Star and
Herald and "was continued under that
head till, 1886, when the writer
moved t(f Greenwood, having established
the first paper in that thriving
town,and sold out the Star and Herald
to Messrs Andrews and Chandler.who
did not run it long before it
was suspended. In the meantime Mr 1
R C Logan established the Record,
which he sold to C W Wolfe,Esq,and
after his death it was sold to Messrs
rollev and Wallace.who have an out
fit up to date in every respect.
Standing at the foot of the Con- i
federate monument at the intersection
of Main and Academy streets,
after strolling up and down these
two thoroughfares, we were amazed
at the transformation. The monument
has taken Che place of the old
:ucumber pump right in the crftss of
the two streets, where countrymen
watered their stock when they came
to town. The old Nelson House,Gewinner
Hotel,Court House.somewhat
remodeled,an old wooden shack next
ioor to the Court House, where one
af the most successful merchants of
that time,W J Lee,did a big business, '
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the old Benjamin home,the Star and st
Herald's oltPprinting office, the Do- t
naught house and that of Mrs T M
Gilland.Mrs Steele,the Harper house, ai
and the home of the notorious S A o:
Swails, are about all ttoe old land h
marks on these two main streets that h'
we recognized as being there forty K
years ago. w
Themerchantsdoingbusinessthere ^
then were James Staggers, Benjamin r)
Bros, W M Kinder, Mrs M J Porter, a
W J Lep.Haynesworth Bros.L Stack- s*
ley, M Schwartz,?father of the ^
Schwartz Bros of Sutnter?and Ed 31
Grayson. Three drug stores,Dr J S M
Brockinton's,Staggers' and Dr Scott n
who had just opened up. ?
The lawyers at the Kingstree bar 'r
were E J Porter.Capt S W Maurice, Vl
and four young men just admitted h
to the bar, H J Haynesworth, T M
Gilland, J A Kelley and Melvin J ,r
Hirsch. P HeJIer,father of Mr Mike *
Heller,kept a hotel and livery stable 3'
on Main street where Capt Kelly now 5
has two modern dwellings-. On the
corner where the large three-story 0
brick building now stands was a carriage
and wagon repair shop with ?
upstair portico extending over the
sidewalk. All the stores were one- 0>
story wooden buildings, but the one
most conspicuous, was the old Flint
house on the corner where the handsome
two-story Wee Nee Bank now d
stands. From the old Nelson house,
going towards the railroad, there ^
were but three houses on that side
of the street as far out as the old J
Ward hotel, now known as the Har- f'
per house; they were the homes of tl
Dr Merrett Mouzon.Capt S W Maurice,
and W W Ward. On the opposite
side, from the old Flint house,
there was one two-room cottage, 9
where Miss Mollie Epps lived, and nr
with the exception of a grist mill w
across the railroad in the edge of the
branch,there was no other house ex- i
cept Swails' and one or two negro w
houses. The branch, which has been
filled in,a canal cut and where those
solid brick and concrete stores now p
stand, was so boggy a cat could not v
cross it Without sticking in the mua. | tj
The late Capt Purvis Nelson used to i
tell that he pulled se\en(old cat and I
kitten|)out of the mud one morning. | The
depot was half a mile up the
road from where it is now. Mr Peter "
B Mouzon was agent. It was while
he was agent that the first telegraph
message was received at Kingstree.
It was not received then by sound
but written in telegraph code, and
everybody went to the depot to see
the invisible man write.
From the monument to where Dr
J S Brockinton lived at the head of
Academy street.there v)ere only two
stores, Win Kinder and Benjamin
Bros;but afterwards Dr Scott's drug
store, the printing office and Grayson's
store were built. Dr Brockinton's
drug store was on the opposite
side of the street to where it is now,
but afterwards built a wooden store
on the spot where his son, Dr W V
Brockinton, now has hitf up-to-date
oncK siore.
Out of the 500 inhabitants accredited
to Kingstree by the census of
1880, or even up to the time of our
leaving there in 1886,we find only ai
few who were in business then are !
there now. No wonder we felt sad I
and lonely as we passed and repassed j
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Most desirable Kingstree
dwelling, with 8 rooms and
bath, electric lights and water.
Two-room servant
house. Situated on 1-acre
lot, on Academy street, So.
1 block from Main. Apply to
Mrs. Bertha S. Wolfe.
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buying Flues. M
aterial is scarce a
3 limited. Give u
rhermometers,
rayers. Prices rig
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;rangers and only now and then
let up with some one we knew.
But the transformation is equally
5 great in the growth and progress
f the place as in the change of inabitants.
To see the old shops with
eavy barred doors give place to eleant
two and three story buildings:
ith plate glass windows, strung:
rom the court house to beyond the
lilroad and then for a block or two
long Railroad avenue and Academy.
:reet, three thriving hanks to none
hen we left there, miles of cement
dewalks, water works,electriclights,
iwerage, fine churches and a magificent
school building, to say noth.
P fKa i/ws frvKor*nr\ on/) nthar I
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idustries, acres of old fields conerted
into streets and handsome
omes, was enough to wonder at the
ransformation that has taken place
1 so few years, especially when we
rere told that the census of 1910
lowed a population of 2500 against
00 in 1880. f '
We found the names of more of
ur old friends resting in the come-!
?ry than what we found on the streets
r at their homes.?hT S Cunning,
am in Leadea and Viyulicator, Bisk
Tville, S C. i
Aviators* Deadly Work.
London, June 13:?In a swift and
eadly raid on the city of London
iday, German airplanes took a
eavy toll in killed and wounded,
ther places were attacked, but so
ir as indicated at present, by far
ip heavipst losses occurred in Lon-:
on. The casualties officially anounced
numbered 534, including
7 killed, 437 wounded. Fifty-five
len met death and 223 men were
ounded. Sixteen women and
jventy-six children were killed and
22 women and ninety-four children
-ere wounded.
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iano? $12.50 worth of tickets sriven
ir current purchases if you buy
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NEW FIRE TERROR
USED BY BRITISH.
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BURSTING PROJECTILES SCATTERED
FLAMES OVER WIDE AREA? '
CALLED "OIL CANS."
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Lionaon, June iu?ivew weapons
of a formidable character were
brought into use by the British Army *
in the attack on Messing Ridge. The
correspondent of the Daily News at + %
headquarters tells of them.
"We didn't use gas in the attack," , ;
he says, "but every other known
form of offensive weapon I think we
did supply, including a new horror
known in the army as 'oil cans,', or
'boiling oil.' It is not permissible to
give a description beyond saying
that the weapon throws to a'considerable
distance projectiles which are
in fact containers of highly inflam- M
mable stuff.
"These on concussion burst and
scatter conflagration over a wide
area. We know from prisoners taken
that they caused terror and did an %
immense amount of harm, both in
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The Boss Turnip.
One day this week Mrs S E McCullough,
of the Bryan neighbor- *
hood; sent to The Record office by
Mr B E Clarkson, a turnip of the -
purple top variety which weighed
fourteen pounds including top, and ,
measured 33 inches in circumference,
11 inches in diameter and was about
5 inches in width. Mr Clarkson will
vouch for the above weight and dimensions
as he weighed it and -saw
our office "devil" measure it. We
are informed that the other vegeta- .
tion in Mrs McCullough's garden is 1
in keeping with her turnip patch. j
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