The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 14, 1917, Image 4
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Thursday, June 14? 1917.
The Time Has Come.
The time has come ?
"When reason primes the rifle.
When honor draws the sword, I
And Justice breathes a blessing
On the cause that we uphold." *.
What Wc Fight For.
"The right is more precious than.
peace, and we fight /or the things '
we have always carried nearest our hearts?for
Democracy,for che right
of those whc submit to authority to
have a voice in their own Government,
for the rights and liberties of
small nations, for a universal dominion
of right by 3uch a concert of
free peoples as shall bring peace and
safety to all nations and make the
world itself at last free."? Woodrow
Wilson.
Every bachelor will try to impress
you with the idea that hp is a wolf
' in sheep's clothing;whereas he is just
a poor, trembling sheep in wolf's
dothing.who goes through life in the
eternal fear that every woman he
meets is about to lead him to the altar
for sacrifice.
CONTRACT AWARDED.
Georgia Firm to Erect Buildings for
Columbia Cantonment.
Washington. June 11:?The war
department today awarded the con
tract for the Columbia cantonment
to the Hardawav Construction company
of Columbus, Ga, and that for
Atlanta to Arthur Tufts of Atlanta.
These contracts call for houses of
both one and two stories in construe-:
tion which will accommodate approximately
30,000 men and must J
be completed in every way and ready
for occupancy on September 1.
The basis of remuneration which |
the contractors will receive will be;
8 per cent on the aggregate of construction.
and as stated here today
it is impossible to say at this time ,
what ihis final cost will be. <
The awarding of the Columbia 1
contract now eliminates any element !
of doubt that might possibly have
been lingering since the plans of the
^ war department for the various can- ,
tonments were somewhat changed i
two weeks ago. i
Immediately the construction com- !
pany will begin its work of construction
near Columbia what in itself
i
will be a good sized city and everything
will be rushed toward completion.
A penitentiary sentence of 11
months and 29 days for not register
ing under the selective arari ia\\ was
imposed by Federal Judge Chatfield
in Brooklyn, N V, yesterday on Herman
P Levin, school teacher and
college graduate.
Cotton went to 25 cents in Savannah
Tuesday, 273 bales being sold at
that price,the highest since the civil
war. Predictions of 30-cent cotton
are freely made. J
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NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Short Items of Interest Culled
from Exchanges.
A Home Guard has been organizes
at Florence. Among the member,
are Hon R J Kirk and J D Gilland
Esq.
Jackson Barnett, said to be the
richest Indian in the United States.
subscribed $t>4U,uuu to UDeriy L.uan
bonds.
The cornerstone of the Beaufort
public library was laid last week.
The building is expected to be completed
in July.
The Southern Retail Furniture
Dealers' association, comprising the
Caroiinas and Virginia, will meet at
Danville. Va. June 27-28
James McNeill, Jr, a grandson of
Mrs H B Browne, late of Kingstree,
is ill with typhoid fever in the army
hospital at Ft Oglethorpe. Ga.
The annual meeting of the South
Carolina Press association will be
held at Beaufort June 28-29. Gen
Wood has been invited to address it.
Another building is to be erected
at the clothing factory at the Charleston
navy yard, when the plant will
have a capacity of 100,000 suits per
The Columbia ambulance company,
100 strong, has gone to Allen town,
Pa, for a training period of several
months, after which it will be sent
to France.
In spite of the cold spring and recent
hail storms,Georgia has shipped
more peaches this season than for a
number of years. Prices are exceptionally
good.
If a cantonment be established at
Aiken, it is purposed to enlarge the
hospital established there by the
winter residents and turn it over to
the government.
Ira Nelson Norris, United States
minister to Sweden,bought $500,000
worth of Liberty Ljan bonds by cablegram
Monday.
C D Bristow, for 27 years secretary
and treasurer of the Florence
Loan & Investment company, has
resigned becavse of ill health and
has been succeeded by J W Howard.
The southeastern aerie of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles, embracing
South Carolina,Georgia and Florida,
will hold its annual convention at
Macon, Ga, Tuesday and Wednesday
next.
Rev L O McCutchen officiated at
Bishopville Presbyterian church Sunday
in the absence of the pastor,
Rev L L Legters, who has been visiting
in Kingstree and at Indiantown.
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Mr Jas ED McCutchen of Bishopville
states that he and his daughter,
who were injured in an auto accident
May 27, are still convalescing
and hope soon to be restored to
health.
A 65 pound tarpon was caught in
Georgetown waters last week. It
was sent to a famous taxidermist in
New York and will be returned to
Georgetown and placed in the museum
there. .
Under a new order of the German
Imperial Clothing bureau no person
may have a summer and a winter
overcoat without a doctor's certificate
that the winter coat is necessary
for health.
The four railroad brotherhoods in
Charleston will observe next Sunday
as Memorial day. Service will be
held in St John's chape!, Rev G C
Williams rector.
A number of officers and enlisted
men have been ordered to report at i
Fort Oglethorpe training camp next j
Wednesday. Among them is First
Lieutenant W S Lynch of Scranton.
The Terry & French Shipbuilding!
company, which has a government
contract for the construction of
twenty steel ships.has purchased 100
acres near Savannah for the erection
of a plant there.
At the Woodmen's encampment
in Atlanta in July there will be a
sham battle between . French and
German aeroplanes. It is expected
to attract the largest crowd ever
in tkot nitv
JCril 111 luav vi v
Miss Nellie Screws, for 26 years a
hor in the nublic schools of
Greenwood, died in that city last
week. Her length of service in one
position exceeded that of any other
puolic school teacher in the State.
It will never be known how many
bushels of tender young: Irish potatoes
were destroyed in she Atlanta
fire, for it is discovered that practically
everyone had a back yard garden,
and many are bewailing their
loss in that respect more than that
of their furniture, which was generally
insured.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stop* the
Cough and Headache and works off the Cold
Druggists refund money i? it fails to cure.
E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. .'5c
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KING OF GREECE
ABDICATES.
WILL LEAVE THAT COUNTRY?A
GREAT VICTORY FOR THE ?
ALLIES.
The leading foreign despatch in
i the press of the country yesterday
| was from Athens, Greece, and says:
The fall of Constantine I, King of
the Helenese, has come. In response
to the demand of the protecting powers,
France, Great Britain and Russia,
he abdicated today in favor of
his second son. Prince Alexander.
TKi'q nlimov in thp affairs of Greece
was brought about through the agency
of the French Senator,M Jonnart,
who has held posts in several Frence
cabinets, and who arrived at Athens
only a day or two ago on a special
mission as the representative of Kussia,France
and Great Britain. M Jonnart
had previously visited Saloniki
and other points,and he lost no time
in getting into conference with the
Greek premier,Alexander Zaimis.The
demands of the powers respecting
the abdication of KiDg Constantine
also specificaliy eliminated Crown
Prince George as his successors the
Crown Prince being included among
those Greeks in official life who were
considered strongly pro-German.
Both the former King and Prince
George, it was announced today by
n * fA Infltrn fKn
rremier ^nuia, micut w icotl *>.<.
country immediately. It is reported
that they will embark on a British
warship and proceed to Switz?rland
by way of Italy. It is presumed Prince
Alexander will take up his kingly duties
with full acceptation of the ideas
which the protecting powers desire
to be put into effect in the government
of Greece during the present
war. fie is twenty-four years of age
and has been free from anti-Entente
proclivities.
Affairs in Greece, which several
times since the outbreak of the war
had seemed on the verge of a settlement.recently
had taken on such an
aspect of uncertainty that it became
necessary for the powers to act with
decision.
M Jonnart was selected to proceed
to Athens for the purpose of laying
before the premier the aims which
France, Great Britain and Russia
had with respect to establishment of
unity of feeling among the Greeks
and greater security for the Entente
fnrrns unlaced m oDerations in the j
east. While he informed the premier
that the reports had been placed at
his disposal, he appealed to that official
to use his influence toward a
peaceful settlement. The troops, according
to M Jonnart's instructions,
were not to land until the King had
given his answer.
M Jonnart called upon Premier
Zaimis Monday and demanded in the
name of the protecting powers the
abdication of King Constantine and
the nomination of his successor to
the exclusion of the Diadochi (Crown
Prince.)
To Stve or Not to Save.
American women who honestly de- J
sire to be a help rather than a hindrance
to their country, and who
stand ready to practice a wise economy
if it will avail to preserve supplies,
are a little bewildered by the
clamorous but contradictory counsels
offered them. On the one hand,
extravagance is condemned as wasting
resources; on the other hand, retrenchment
is condemned as injur*
1 ..--JJflnno Mn cnnnor hflQ
| ing traut" .I'liuiuuuo. nv ow?jv?
! a domestic economist pointed out
j that indulgence in any one luxury
| can be,and should be, curtailed than
' the purveyors of that luxury rush
to the fore, protesting that the welfare
of a number of worxing people
I depends on its lavish consumption.
Will You Walk I
Now, you thous
ed to pull off thai
the spider and the
the sort. We mere
our big store to se
large and varied 1:
nishings, which v
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prices siricu^ m n
ity. Porch Chaii
Rockers, Book C
tings, Art Square
I Kitchen Cutlery a
naware, Lamps ?
other articles that
comfort to your 1
Steele Fur
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! "A recession in the volume of busiI
ness will involve far-reaching calamities."
But where is the economy that
does not involve some recession in,
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llie VU1ULUC U1 OUSIUC3S. 1VCL1C11V.II* |
meat is seldom a matter of choice,
and never a matter of enjoyment.
It is either a necessity to which we
reluctantly bow, or a moral obligation
that we recognize but do not |
pretend to relish. It is also at times
a criterion of taste. Money has been
very plentiful in the United States
for the past two years. Some of it (
, has been generously given. Much of'
it has been lavishly spent. Wherever J
the spending has been excessive, asI
in our large cities, the spectacle has ,
been an offensive one, because we j
knew tnat in distant parts of the:
world human beings were dying of!
want. The children of Belgium, we
are authoritatively told,have not for
two years eaten "according to their ,
hunger." The children of Poland
were more fortunate. They starved
! outright, and ttieir little bodies have j
j long since crumbled into dust. But
the United States bouvht more can
; dy last year than in any 12 months
! of its history. Food has been wasted
as never before,and we are now fac'
ing the possibility of a world shortage.
If we refuse to deny ourselves
for the sake of suffering humanity,
we had better begin to understand
that the success of our own arms
and our own future safety depend
upon preserving and dispensing our
resources.
There has been a disposition to
mock at the women of wealth who
bound themselves not to serve more
than three courses at their own tables,
nor to eat more than three
courses when they dined away from
home. To the great bulk of Americans,
three courses fail to represent
even moderate privation.
| It nature can subsist on three.
Thank heaven for three. Amen!
Yet any reduction of luxury, any
i doninl nf splf-indnlffpnce. is a step in
the right direction ? of practical
value and of tonic quality. The habit
of prodigality is not confined to
any one class of citizens in the United
States; it is shared by all. It is not
confined to food; it plays havoc with
every commodity. We waste enough
wood and coal every year to keep all
i Italy warm. The thin silk stockings
! on a working girl's feet and the
j ropes of pearls round the neck of a
1 munition maker's wife are signs of
the same lack cf sanity and of taste.
It is the women of the country who
have been urged to spend with discretion,
and to save with austerity.
There is no use asking men to economize;
they would if they could, but
j they literally do not know how. For
centuries it has been their part to
earn money, and the part of their
wives to balance income and outlay.
Now it is the part of ail women to
spend less, to save more, to waste
nothing, to anticipate the enforced
retrenchment of another year. So,
and so only,shall ruin be averted and
the nation be free to play a liberat-1
| or's role.
Work on the new school building
[at Leo has been started. The contract
calls for its completion by September
15.
PHYSICAL TRAINING
TEACHERS IN DEMAND
Young Men and Women about to be
graduated from High School should
consider this healthful, useful, dignified
and profitable profession.
By recent legislation Physical train- ( I
lng fa made obligatory in every
schoo! In New York and New Jersey.
Penn . North and South Carolina
have bills pending.
Send for Catalog of the only school
of physical education chartered by
the University of the State of New
York (Under the Regent*)
THE SAVAGE SCHOOL TOR
pnnr ition
KniOll.ni. Li/UVIl I IVI1 ..
[ 310 Wutl 59th Strmtl. Ntw York City I I
into My Parlor?
?ht we had start- j
t old stuff about
fly. Nothing of I
sly invite you into
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eioryourseii me i
ine of House Furze
are offering at
;eeping with qualrs,
Dining Chairs,
ases, Rugs, Mat's,
Wall Pictures, ;
,nd Utensils, Chimd
hundreds of
; will add joy and
lome.
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CHAIRS!
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Porch Chairs - Parlor
Chairs - Library
Chairs Dining
Chairs - Baby
Chairs
Nursery
These Chairs are
absolute satisfactic
rkiir nri<
Valuable Coupons Gi
Hoosier Kite
Save Mile
Kingstree Fun
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ANNOUN(
To the Tobacco Growers i
and Surrounding Sec
We, the undersigned,
Warehouse at Kingstree
for the sale of leaf tobacc
will have charge of the fl<
ment, is a tobacco man
about ten years on the C
five seasons on the South
an acknowledged wareho
competent to handle and
very best advantage; to |
worth; to meet you fair i
tions and to look after yo
Mr G W Bass of Danvil
auctioneering,has had tw<
Kingstree market and a
Danville(Va) market at 01
he will do the work in the
try to please you in every
Mr R B Tyler will have
will treat you with every
ute, and see that you get
dation from that departrr
We hope that you will,
your patronage and we w
eiation by working hard f
come to see you personall,
you, come to see us. We
know you. Trusting that
and often and that you
give us a liberal share of
to remain.
lours tc
Proprietors
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JRS!
CHAIRS!
14 Different Styles
25 Different Styles
- 15 Different Styles
17 Different Styles
12 Different Styles
guaranteed to give
?n, or money back.
I*kiimtiff
MC1VIC UUJUl^t
iven to All Customers
hen Cabinets
s of Steps
liture Company
KINGSTREE, S. C.
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:ementi
of Williamsburg County
ition:
have leased the Gorrell
for the coming season,
o. Mr J A Kersey, who M
3or and general manage- I I
of wide experience?of
anville (Va) market and
Carolina markets. He is
useman and thoroughly
sell your tobacco to the
?et you every dollar it is
ind square in an transacur
interest in every way.
lie, Va, who will do the ^
j years experience on the
long experience on the
tie of the leading houses;
i very best manner and i
way.
1 charge of the office and
courtesy and to the minthe
very best accommolent.
give us a liberal share of ja
ill show you our appr.e- jfl
or you. We will try to h
y, but if we should miss !
1 want to meet you and
t we may see you soon
will remember us and
your patronage, we beg
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J A Kersey,
G W Bass, '
R B Tyler.
Gorrell Warehouse.
Kingstree, S C.
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