The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 10, 1918, Image 4
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W. F. TOLLEY A E. C. EPPS
Publishers.
Thursday Jan. lO. 1918.
President Wilson pulled the "hair"
trigger Tuesday and fired another
big gun that was heard around the
world. About the same time Governor
Richard I Manning took a shot 1
at every department under the jurisdiction
of the State government
when he delivered his annual mes- 1
sage to the General Assembly and
apparently didn't miss a single
> mark.
We are publishing on another j
page of this paper the letter of in-1
structions from the State Tax com-!
mission, signed by A W Jones. |
chairman, to the County Auditors '
and Township Boards of Assessors
relative to the constitutional require- ]
ments in making property assess- i
ments for the year 1918. We be- !
lieve this letter will furnish valuable
information to all taxpayers and ,
be of inestimable value to them !
in making returns of taxable prop- |
erty, as well as valuable information
for the township assessors and i
Auditors.
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WEATHER RECORDS
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Show that Other Cold Spells Have Oc- ]
curred in Williamsburg. 1
Editor County Record:?
I notice in the issue of The Record
of the 3rd instant the statement
lo marla that k'inorotrop with a mini- ! I
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mum temperature of eight degrees !
on the last days of December ex- 1
perienced the coldest weather in 1
forty years. As 1 have records of
the low temperatures in Williamsburg
county for a good portion of ,
this period and as the statement j
made does not comport with such ,
records, I beg leave to make a correction.
Perhaps the severest, as being the
longest continued spell of weather
within the period was the month of
February, 1886. At that time the 1
spell lasted for mor6 than two weeks,
with minimum temperatures for :
several days of six degrees above I
zero, and the ground was frozen <
for a depth of a foot or more. The
next severe temperatures occurred i
in 1895. On the 7th day of Janu- (
ary of that year, a minimum was (
reached at Salters of five degrees (
above zero and during more than
one-haif of February of the same ,
year the ground was covered with
snow, though the temperatures did
not get below twelve degrees above
zero during this period. The sever- 1
est cold of all, though for not as j
long duration, occurred in February, 1
1899. This spell began on the 9th (
with a minimum tomperature of
eighteen deerees above zero. On ]
the next two days we had a snow- |
fall of more than twelve inches, and j
on the morning of the 13th the 1
thermometer stood exactly at zero, i
The next day it was two degrees
above zero and during this period
there were several days that were
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much colder than the minimum temperature
of this winter.
I am making these corrections
with no desire to criticise, but as I
have been keeping weather records '
for years, I thought it might be
well to give you the exact facts as 1
to the low temperatures during the
period mentioned.
Yours very truly,
Henry E Davis.
Florence, January 6, 1918.
We are glad to have Mr Davis'
letter, and publish it for the benefit
of others who may be interested.
Our remarks last week on the weather.
to which he refers, were based
solely upon heresay, there being no
statistics at hand, and the Editor
being practically a newcomer in this
section,he had to rely upon what the
proverbial "oldest inhabitants" had
to say about it. We do know of a
certainty that this fall and winter
have been the severest experienced
here within the past seven years.
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A distinguished party consisting
of two French noblemen and their
wives will visit Charleston next
week. The object of the party in
coming to America is to present to
Virginia the sword of Prince Camille
de Polignac, fathei4 of one of the
company, who served in the Confederate
army and rose to the rank of
general. The party will make a tour
of the South and,besides Charleston,
will visit Richmond. Raleigh, Savan
nah, Montgomery and New Orleans,
staying two days in each city.
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NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items of General Interest Gleaned from
Our Exchanges and Condensed.
Mrs Sarah Catherine Cornish,
mother-in-law of Rev H D Bull,
died on James Island Sunday.
It is estimated that repairing
bursted pipes, etc. at Florence, due
to the recent freeze, will cost at
least $100,000.
Mullins farmers sold 500 bales of
cotton at 30 cents to local corporations
Thursday. It was immediately
resold to cotton mills.
A stock farm company has been
chartered in Sumter county with a
capital of $50,000. It will make a
specialty of breeding Duroc hogs.
Lloyd George Josey, aged 3 years,
was fatally burned at his home in
Sumter Friday morning while standing
in front of a fireplace in his
night clothes.
Lois Pauline Thomas, aged 6 years,
was almost fatally scalded at her
home in Florence Saturday by a
kettle of boiling water being overturned
on her.
Judge T H Spain of Darlington
has practically recovered his health
and has announced his candidacy to
succeed himself on the bench of the
Fourth circuit.
W Hamp Bryant, a farmer of Anderson
county, and two sons, were
severely, perhaps fatally, injured by
their auto skidding on an overhead
bridge, due to ice.
A fire causing a loss of $250,000
3wept Hoboken, N J, Friday. The
munitions factory was in great danger
but was saved. A number of
firemen were overcome.
Conway had one of the largest fires
in years Saturday morning, when
two residences were burned and a
tobacco warehouse badly damaged.
The loss was over $5,000:
Newberry financial institutions
paid out more than $175,000 in
semi-annual dividends last week. A
cotton mill there has paid 25 per
cent for the last two years.
James F Crook, former editor of
the Spartanburg Journal, has been
appointed to a federal position in the
internal revenue service, with jurisdiction
in upper South Carolina.
South Carolina was the only great
cotton-producing State still immune
from the boll weevil last year. It
ranked third in production, being
exceeded only by Te$as and Georgia
Mrs Annie Sherwood Hawkes,
author of many famous gospel
hymns, including "I Need Thee Ev
ery Hour," died at her home at
Beamington, Vt, Thursday, aged 84.
Yeggmen cracked a safe in the
office of the Seminole mills at Anderson,
Aiken county, last week, securing
$1,000. This was the fourth
robbery in Hope Creek Valley recently.
The war has called back into service
nearly 500 retired officers of
navy and 138 former officers who
resigned to enter civil life, including
22 rear admirals. 18 commodores.
and 34 captains.
The store of W Frank McGee, at
[ra, near Anderson, was destroyed
by fire Thursday morning, entailing
a loss of $32,000. It is thought
that burglars looted the store and
then burned it to hide the robbery.
Secretary Daniels has commended
Ensign George Etheredge of Saluda
among others for gallantry in the
rescue of the crew of the steamship
Paddleford October 30 when that
vessel went ashore in a heavy surf
at an unnamed point.
Approximately 150 cotton mills in
the Piedmont section of South and
North Carolina were closed down
from Friday until Monday morning
on account of fuel shortage and low
water in the streams of the sections
from which the hydro-electric power
furnished them by the Southern
Power Company is developed.
Ward McLendon, Florence county
demonstration agent, reports
that th^ average yield of the boys'
corn club of thnr county was 65
bushels, 1 peck per acre; average expense,
38.2 cents. Bennie Hewitt of
Timmonsville made the highest yield,
100 bushels. 5 pecks on an acre.
There are 33 boys in the corn club.
49 in the calf club and 40 in the pig
club.
When Elmay Coker, negro cook,
left her home at Florence Thursday
she locked her children in the house
with the result that her four-yearold
boy was burned to death. The
older children had got out of the
house in some way, leaving the child
in a room in which a fire was blazing
on the hearth. Those who heard
the child's screams reached the
house too late to be of any assistance.
Cotton Ginned.
The official report gives 10,450,401
bales of cotton ginned to January 1,
South Carolina's portion being 1,146,226
bales.
! Financial Institutions Elect Officers. !
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I The three banks of this town held
their annual meetings of stockholders
this week.
The first was that of the Bank of
j Williamsburg Monday. About 80^6!
J of the stock was represented. The j
: report of Cashier E C Epps was ex-1
tremely gratifying. It showed thatj
during the year the bank had earned j
11% on its capital of $100,000. The;
usual dividend of 8% was declared,1
$2,000 carried to surplus fund and j
$700 to undivided Drofits. The fol-;
lowing directors were re-elected: C
W Stoll, P G Gourdin, W I Nexsen,
W V Strong, John F McFadden, F
Rhem, Dr I N Boyd. The board retained
the present officers, viz: President.
C W Stoll; vice president, F
Rhem; cashier, E C Epps; assistant
cashier, C W Boswell; bookkeepers,
C J Thompson and MrsL D Rodgers. j
The Wee Nee bank meeting was j
held Tuesday. The past year was;
the most prosperous in the history j
of the bank, which began business
July 1, 1910. A dividend of 8no was
declared. $1,000 carried to surplus
and a tidy sum to undivided profits.
The following directors and other
officers were re-elected: Directors,
Hugh McCulchen, L W Gilland, W
V Strong, L C Dove, H E Montgomery,
J K Smith, T K Smith; president,
Hugh McCutchen; vice president,
W V Strong; cashier, L C
Dove; assistant cashier, Miss Lilly J
Cunningham.
We tried to get a report from the
Bank of Kingstree, whose meeting
was held yesterday, but were unsuccessful.
It will appear in our next
issue.
The stockholders of the Kingstree
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Llectric Lignt <x ice l>o rnaue uu
change in the officers or directorate
except that Tom Kellahan was elected
a director vice R H Kellahan, deceased.
Obituary.
Died?At his home on Black Mingo,
December 5, 1917, at 5 p. m.,
Mr Charles Dudley Cook, Sr, in the I
79th year of his age. Interment
was made next day at Union church,
Rome, in the presence of a goodly
number of relatiyes and friends.
Mr Cook had a fine constitution
and bore his age well until the last
year of his life, when his family no->
ticed a change. He was able to go*
about until a few months before his
death. He was confined to his bed
several weeks before he passed
away. His voice was clear and
strong, and great hopes were entertained
for his recovery until he was
unable to take nourishment.
His warm and genial nature attached
to him many friends, which
was testified by. their devotion dur
ing his last illness.
He had a great reverence for his
Maker and was ever ready to assist
the church,the poor or any Christian
endeavor.
He leaves a widow; two sons,
Messrs C Dudley Cook of Rhems and
John L Cook of Florence, and one
daughter, Mrs W A Marshall of Warsaw;
also several grandchildren, a
brother, a sister and other near relatives
to mourn his loss. .Another of
the iConfederate braves has passed
to his rest. Family.
Teachers' Examination.
An examination for teachers will
be held in the county court house at
Kingstree on Saturday, January 19.
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