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$ljc (County Scrorii. W. F. TOLLEY & E. C. EPPS Publishers. Entered at the posteffio* at Kingstree. S.C.as second class mail matter. "TELEPHONE NO. 83TERMS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year 91 2* One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months 60 One copy, one year in advance.... 1 00 Obituaries. Tributes of Respect. Resolutions of Thanks, Cards of Thanks and all other reading notices,not News. will be charged for at the rate of one ; eent a word for each insertion. ,| AU changes of advertisements and all communications must.be in this office before TUESDAY NUUN in oraer 10 i appear in the ensuing issue. AU communications must be signed by the writer, not for publication unless | desired, but to protect this newspaper. ; ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements to be run in Special eoluranpne cent a word each issae,mini- ! mam price 25 cents, to be paid for in advance. Legal advertisements, $1.00 per inch first insertion, 50 cents per inch each ; subsequent insertion. Rates on long term advertisement! very reasonable. For rates apply at this office. In remitting checks or money orders sake payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. Thursday Jan. 17, 1918. Good Roads Are a Personal Responsibility. T* 1 .4.1 r?A.? ~ remaps no oiner leaiurc 01 ciYit reform or improvement of recent years has attracted so much attention as has that of road building. All over our broad land, from ocean to ocean, from the lakes to the gulf, the wave of enthusiasm is rolling. The people are realizing that they must have better roads, ana the machinery of the government in its taxing capacity is being ever more and more strained to meet this demand. But while there is a certain responsibility resting upon the State in the maintenance of our highways, we are in danger of forgetting that an even greater responsibility rests upon us, individually, as citizens. The reason why we sometimes lose sight of this responsibility is that we have gotten into the habit of working out all such matters | through the medium of taxation. If we want a new road opened, we levy a tax. If we want an old road reopened, we tax some more. If it's a bridge to be built, we impose another tax. We tax and we keep on taxing, and this rhgardless of the fact that most of us feel that the hardest money to give up Is that which is paid in taxes. Many a man will come to town and spend in a day, needlessly, enough to pay his % yearly taxes and think nothing of it, but he'll sulk and grunt when he has to come across with his taxes. HC uc^icuu luu iiiuv.il U|iuii va?n. We should depend more upon individual and personal effort. A lively neighborhood interest in good roads is worth all of the taxes you can wring from unwilling pocketbooks. A determination by a united citizenship of a community that their roads shall excell is worth more than all of the road commissioners in existence. Road commissioners have to work through devious wavs to reach their object. The united sentiment of a people works direct to the object. It determines what is wanted and then takes the most direct route to accomplish its end3. Do you favor better roads in your community? Then j?o to work and arouse a healthy community senti ment that will demand them. When that is accomplished good roads will be the result. Realize your own responsibility. Say to yourself, "the roads of this community belong partly to me, and I owe a duty to them." Don't depend upon a benevolent government, State, county or township, but shoulder your own responsibilJ ity, a pick and shovel if needs be.! i Then you will be in a fair way to get your neighbor to do likewise. With us here in Williamsburg i there is too great a lack of community pride. We don't seem to realize in this day of rapid transit over our highways that the best and most profitable advertisement we can put forth for the county is good roads. It is a common thing to find a hog wallow in the middle of the road right in front of a farmer's home or, perhaps, it may be a little bridge across a ditch that drains his best field or front yard. This same farmer will drive around his hog wallow and watch it grow deeper and wider, almost impassable, or over the broken bridge until it has completely destroyed the usefulness of the ditch. Will he take a few hours labor from his farm and go * ? J mi OUt ana nil up lilt; piensuic ictouii. his hogs have established in the road bed, or cut a few poles and repair the little ditch culvert or bridge? Oh.no! he tries to ease his mind or soothe his rath by "cussing" the road engineer, the chaingang and the County Commissioners for not doing what a little more community pride should make it a pleasure for him to do. There is evidently a lack of efficiency in the service of the postoffice department insofar as the handling of mail, both of the first and second class, relates to the soldiers in Southern encampments. The Newberry Herald and News, complaining along the same line that The Record finds it necessary to grumble, says: "The greatest trouble with the department is it is too efficient, but it is an efficiency that does not give service, and it is the worst kind of efficiency." Maybe so. Anyway we are continually receiving complaints from Williamsburg boys at Camp Sevier about not getting The Record although it is mailed regularly every week. The same inefficiency or "overefficiency" as may be the cause of the trouble, prevailed at Camp Oglethorpe and for a short while at Camp Jackson, but most complaints come now from Camp Sevier. It may be that conditions have been remedied at Camp Jackson, while on the other hand our boys mayjhave been transferred to the Greenville camp. The first number of the Carolina Farmer and Stockman, a twentyfour page semi-monthly journal devoted to South Carolina agriculture, has reached our desk. The new publication is gotten out by the Carolina Farmer and Stockman Co, incorporated, and is printed and mailed at Columbia. The paper is full of interesting reading matter from front to back, is attractively made up and neatly printed on a good grade of book paper. We are pleased to welcome this new venture in South Carolina journalism to our desk and wish it wide success. Wood's Seeds For 1918 The patriotic duty of farmers and gardeners everywhere is to increase crop and food production. Intensive farming and gardening, and the liberal use of fertilizers, together with proper rotation of crops, so as to increase and improve the fertility and productiveness of the land, are all vital and necessary ronsiduratlons at the Dresent time. Wood's Descriptive Catalog For 1918 gives the fullest and most up-to-date-Information in regard to all Farm and Garden Seeds And tells about the best crops to grow, both for protit and home use. Write for Catalog and prices of Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Potatoes, Seed Oats, or any Farm Seeds Required. Catalog Mailed Free On Keenest. T. W. WOOD~& SONS, Richmond, Va. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TRACTOR OWNERS! International Harvester Company Will Hold Tractor Schools. Of all the machines a farmer owns, none is more important than his tractor. Especially is this true this! x i _ l- I year. Tractors must oe in conui- j tion to work day and night if neces- j sary to make possible the increased production of food we need. There must be no delays due to unsatisfactory operation, no loss from misunderstanding. To this end the International Harvester Company of America proposes to hold tractor schools in various parts of the country in order that their users may get the best possible service out of their tractors. One of these schools will be held j in Florence County Courthouse, January 24 and 25. The sessions will open promptly at 9:30 a. m. This school will be absolutely free to all who care to attend, whether they are tractor owners or not. I Nothing will be offered for sale and ! there will be no selling talks. A' course of instruction in how a trac- j tor works and how to keep it working will be strictly adhered to The instructors are practical tractor and engine men and the course is laid out on large charts illustrated with clear diagrams and described in simple terms. It takes up the reason why an engine operates, what takes place within the cylinder of an engine, symptoms that indicate approaching trouble, how to look for trouble and not overlook it, how to get the best possible service from a tractor or engine, new uses for tractors and many other subjects of special interest to men in this locality. Those who attend the school will be encouraged to ask questions on any subject in connection with tractors and engines. These questions will be answered at the end of each school session. There will be demonstrations with engines and tractors themselves. To be sure that every one who attends the school carries home with, him every point brought out there,! a book containing all the subjects: discussed at the school will be given, to every man. Every farmer who owns a tractor or engine should attene this school, but, more important still, he should bring with him the man who operates bis tractor. Plan now to be present at every session of the school, for the men who do this will get the greatest benefit out of it. Don't forget the date and be sure to be there. Obituary. On Tuesday evening, January 8. 1918, at 9:30 o'clock, at her home at Suttons.S C.Mrs W D Byrdic breathed her last. Her death, coming so suddenly, was a great shock to the entire community. She had been ill only a few hours, a congestive chill being the immediate cause of her death. Her remains were laid away on Wednesday afternoon in the old cemetery at Suttons church. Rev W 0 Henderson and Rev W I Sinnott conducting the services. A large concourse of sorrowful relatives and friends met around the grave to pay to her their last earthly tributes. Mrs By rdic was a consistent mem . t W iL . J!.i - I 1_ 1 Der oi tne jaemoaistcnurcn.anu woo a firm believer in the faith of that church. Her life was just in its fullgrown maturity, as her years only numbered thirty-three. Before her marriage she was Miss Louisa Wiggins. Besides her husband and six young children,Mrs Byrdic is mourn- J ed by one sister, Mrs Shepperd, of | Charleston, and two brothers, Grady ; and John Wiggins. Mrs Byrdic is dead, but after her! lives a sacred memory. Those who knew her felt the warmth of her rich personality and her gentle manner.; Her short life has been lived, and it: has been a success. "If truth is j where truth should be and the pure j in heart die not. then is this dear one where the flowers fade not away, and the chill shadows come not any more." May the memory of her life be a benediction to those who knew and loved her best. A Friend. Card ot Thanks. We extend our sincere thanks to all friends for their kindness and sympathy during the illness and after the death of our beloved father, M E Swails. A C Swails, L F Swails, Furman Swails. - f 1 A notice 01 Dissolution. Notice is here by given thatthe firm of E T Gaskins & Co, doing a general merchandise business at Hemingway, has by mutual consent been dissolved and hereafter the business of said firm will be in the hands of, and conducted by, E T Gaskins, who assumes all lia-! Eilities of the firm and will settle all accounts due by it, and to whom all debts due the nrm are payable. E T Gaskins, J D Carter. January 8, 1918. l-17-3tp. 0ur mo The Kingst Wishes to infor beginning the ye* complete stock oi that has ever bet Carolina. We have four warehouse packet Furniture that w; er's prices advanc of dining and bed bedsteads enroutt rive here. Rugs an We have over Coverings in Vel Fiber, Plain Flbei in late for the ho embargo placed t not been a time w er demand in this Iceedingly cold we on the floor of yo and make your s< n I .< ii-0i i J# ? 1 Bear'in min for the celebrate ords in this sect these famous in: and on easy teri Records, reprodt most celebrated We maintai where these insi tained: Majestic and Cockfield D Remember We The Kingst 111-113 Academy & [ tto: Better (Soofcs ^or ree Furnitui m its friends and ir 1918 with the : Furniture and I m shown in this large storeroom! i to the very rooi as bought before ;ed last year. W [room furniture, 3 which are daily id Floor C $2,000 worth o: vet, Axminster, ' * and Japanese St liday trade owing ipon such shipmei hen good, warm r > community on a ather. Put one ur dining or li\ election. *A 1'? i -a-- - ..4ii ? 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