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Rates on long term disp'ay advertisements very reasonable. For rates apply at this office. , In remitting checks or money orders make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. ( --- * ? ?*1 -va ?A.an a THURSDAY, At'KlL zz, ra>u I ' j: State Constable Erchelberger and 1 ( his staff of deputies, having cleaned ' | up Florence county, dropped down to j ] Kingstree last week and inaugurated ! a "clean up" crusade in old Williams- j burg. In Florence, if reports are ] true, they got what they went after? , illicit distilleries and moonshine li- { quor?yes, plenty of it, whiskey, stills, ( mash and the proprietors of numerous ( low-bush manufactories. They did not tarry long in this com- , munity?only a few days?but long enough to capture a number of stills, ] a quantity of mash and several gal- ( Ions of "white lightening" juice con- j densed from a concoction that the prohibition law of the land forbids making or using. The stills captured were crude enough, being made of lard cans and iron pipe. In the section known as ' Hell's Half J | Acre," four stills were captured and destroyed along with several barrels of mash and two or three men (colored) were arrested. Near Salters ( Depot, there is a colored settlement ( called "Little Germany", and in this settlement lived a colored man named ( William Matthews, rather inclined to be bad. He was suspected, and a quantity of whiskey was found in hi* house, but when the officers started their search. Matthews started to fight , and was using a foot adz, a most dangerous weapon in a fight, on the!, officers when Constable Darrow shot ( and so severely wounded him that he :; died several hours later Thursday afternoon. The constables were assisted in < in their work by Sheriff Graham and Deputy Sheriff Cockfield, the latter receiving a painful blow on his arm from Matthews' adz. 1 It is indeed lamentable that so early 1 in the game of illicit distilling that, < rather than submit to. the law, a horn- i icide had to be committed here in what we believe and preach to be one of the 1 most law-abiding communities in the '< State, and the great question arises: s "Is it going to do any good; is the < killing of Matthews over a few quarts !' of poor whiskey going to deter others < from making it?" 1 Very largely, public sentiment seems i to be averse to the present prohibi- 5 tion law and there is no room for the 1 entertainment of any doubt about the 1 increase and spread of moonshining? 1 the evidence is already cumulative ( and comes from many quarters, both urban and rural, that illicit manu- 1 facture has already developed to tre- 1 mendous proportions. It is the common talk that fermented and distilled beverages abound in some cities?areas easily procured as ever they were. Some of the ardent may be old stock, but the reasonable guess is that new . sources of supply have already developed. Moonshining is no longer confined to the Tenessee or Kentucky mountains. But the rural moenshmers have by , no means abandoned the game. Not1 lard cans only, but garbage cans, dis- * carded oil barrels and even trunks of hollow trees can be scooped out and turned to account as moonshine still tanks. o 1 < The man who walks down street j swinging a five dollar walking cane," sporting a ten dollar silk shirt and a fifteen dollar pair of shoes, an eleven , dollar Stetson on his craneium ar.d a ; suit of overalls covering his manly form is a personified definition of in- j consistency and savors strongly of hvpocracy. o It is gratifying to hear occasionally i that some excellent work is being done < on the public roads of the county. 1 We are so accustomed to hearing the reverse. j CYCLONE CAUSES 1 MANY DEATH PART OF THREE STATES SWEPT N BY STORM?DEATH LIST MAY INCREASE Birmingham. April 2l>.?A death T ist which tonight stood at more than !4l? anil property loss of millions of t It iollars was the toll exacted by a series j of tornadoes which today swept a ; ?core of towns, villages and isolated ! farms in Eastern Mississippi. North- j aJ .vestem Alabama and the southern ' >"< ounties of 'l'enessee. hi Communication with many of the j -tricken districts was difficult, but ft; fragmentary reports agreed that the I tornadoes s>vept down with deadly! & suddenness, obliterating everything jea that lav in their paths. In at least! bl L.1. jne case?that of Kose HilJ, .Miss.? l*-" practically the entire town is believed ;o have been destroyed, and in sev- ] cc ral instances all members of a famly were reported to have been caught j'11 n the debris of the home. ja Sweeps Narrow Pat h Striking first apparently in ?auderiale county, Miss., about 10 o'clock r0 .his morning, the storm swept a narow path across the remainder of the ?* >tate. carrying destruction to a dozen ca ?r more communities. About the same time effects of the same or a similar listurbance was reported from counties in the northwestern corner of Ala- a* jama, the extreme force of the wind at jeing expended before the Tennssee ta line was reached, in Williamson and 01 Maury counties. Meridian, Miss., the heait of a ncii *** farming district, suffered heaviest, ac- ai :ording to late reports, with a known ^ ieath list of twenty-one. The village of Glen, Alcorn county, numbered its lead at 10; Aberdeen, 10; Ingomar, 6; ^ Egypt, 5; Baker, 5, and Bay Springs, 4. A lumber camp near Philadelphia, Neshoba county, lost twelve workers killed and thirty were injured, several of whom may die. ^ Score of Bodies Recovered. In Alabama, the rural districts around Sheffield, Gurlev, Little *Cove Z ( and vvaco sustained the full force of ei the storm, and, with some sections still cut off, a score of bodies have been recovered. j Across the Tennessee line,160 miles from blasted Meridian, a tornado up- f set residences and farm buildings and cut a swarth through forests and or- w chards. Only three deaths are known ^ to have occurred in Tennessee, how- i k ever. c( Practically all reports of todays jj, storm describe the local destruction as having been confined to a path measuring from 100 to 500 \|irds ^ wide, within which the wind left noth- ^ ing but the most solid structures ^ standing. ' MAKING DEATH VALLEY dl SAFER FOR MOTORISTS m Great Trackless Waste Being Signposted From End to End. Death Valley, once the terror of ^ the traveler in the Southwest and the last resting place of many early D. day prospectors, is being made safe for travel both day and night. S< This erstwhile barrier to human progress has been conquored by the lutomobile. Its trackless waste of ;and has been signposted and its hid- $< len waterholes marked by Uncle Sam. th \'ot content with making the desert co ?asy to cross for travelers in daylight, he Automobile Club of Southern Cal- b\ fornia is going further and is placing pj signs in such manner that the rays of c( leadlights from passing machines will co "all upon them and guide the night th ourist as safely and surely as the c], lay traveler. The Automobile Club also will sign- co wst all lateral routes of the famous gf Death Valley district. Included in : 0tj he signposting being done will be a nj omplete set of road signs directing jn :ourists to picturesque Palm Canyon. ar >n the edge of the desert?one of the ar nost unique spots in the world. This re >asis in the sandy wastes is to be t], nade a national monument by the mvprnment. Its destinctive feature vc 3 "" "" ~ | o* s the presence of ancient palms of co wierd beauty, standing in straight je, rows, apparently planted by the hand j] >f man. but antedating history of the ]jx list human beings in this section; fa 0 eh Partnership Announcement. ft, th For the last two years or more my ^ brother. S. B. McGiii, has been inter- {)I ?sted with me in my grocery business lere in Klngstree. The business, how- ^ ?ver, as you know, lias been conducted fe in my name. 1 feel that it is just to my brother to let it be* known public- dly that he is interested in the business },? with me. From and after this date the business will be run in the name w of J. M. McGill <fc Company, instead j0 of J. M. McGill, the partners being ,s J. M. McGill and S. B. McGill. The sv name of the concern alone has been CT changed, and the business will be run by the same parties as heretofore. fr J. M. McGILL, dc Kigstree, S. C., April 20, 1920. It. g< RED BODY, AND SOUL ot Sick, But Still Not Yourself. Think You'll Be Better Tomorrow ?Only You're Not. RY TAKING PEPTO-MANGAN Isn't Sleep You Need. But a Good Tonic?.More Red Blood. Everybody gets run down occasionly. Sometimes it's weeks before >u get your energy, enthusiasm and ippiness back again. Any doctor will tell you to be care- . il in a time like this. Your body ' *-1 ^ 1 is unie power 01 resistance. ?nu uic inger of catohin some serious distse is great. Temporarily, your ood has too few "fichting corpuses. It's the work of these same red irpuselfs to keep you free from fague. Being constantly tired out? 'pressed in body and mind?is almost sure sign that your blood needs help r a time. Gude's Pepto-Mangan is a standard medy in cases of anemia (or bloodssness). It supplies the iron and her properties your blood needs tc itch up with its task of keeping you esh and alert in every fibre. Pepto-Mangan has the hearty ennsement of physicians, is an agree>le tonic to take, and may be had : any drug store in either liquid or blet form. Both have same medinal value. Be sure to ask for Gude's. There only one genuine Pepto-Mangan, id the name "Gude's" should be on le package.?Advertisement. o L. O. H0LLUWA1 lii.AU. 'ell Known Tobacco Man Passes j Away in Charleston. I Mr. L. 0. Holloway, a widely known an of Lake City, died Sunday night t 11 o'clock in a Charleston sanitorim. He was fifty years of age and as one of the most respected citi?ns of Lake City, where he has been igaged chiefly in the tobacco busisss. Mr. Holloway went to Lake City Dout fifteen years ago. from Durham. . C., representing the American To- j acco Company as buyer. He held j lis place until about four years ago. j hen he. with G. R. Bowen. bought | le brick warehouse owned by J. D. j ing. In this enterprise he was sue- ( "" '**1 \ficc Fv*Q Rnl- , .^dlUi. AlC mai i icu .uiuo u'%. -?- | ns, who with five children, survive j im. Mr. Holloway was taken to Charles- i in Sunday afternoon by special train j ,er the Atlantic Coast Line and car- j ed at once to the sanitorium. He as known to be in a desperate contion and it was hoped that -an imediate operation would save his life. The deceased was well known and jpular throughout the tobacco belt f Virginia and North Carolina. His body was taken to Lake City onday for interment. IAL SCORES EXTRAVAGANCE. >uth Carolina Senator Favors Overall and Calico Move. Washington, April 19.?Senator * "5/inth Carolina, in all mate speech today, complimented e overall and calico movement to mbat the high cost of clothing. "We have been encouraged recently * reading in the papers that the peoe the country over, especially in the >uth, have rebelled against the high st of clothing," he said, "and that ey are establishing new overall ibs and calico brigades daily." "This is a spirit that should be enuraged by everyone, rich or poor," nator Dial declared. "I am delightto know that the people are beginng to realize that it is not the provce of the government to set styles id pi-escribe what should be worn id eaten. Ihev ought to begin to cognize that their prosperity, like eir salvation, is in their own hands. "The price of men's clothing has >ne all out of propotion. It is en-1 xt. . ?i 1 1 u raying- to see me scuwi auu wife boys falling into line so readily, le women in this country are rebel lg likewise against the high cost of hrics they use. They will look larming from their graceful heads their dainty feet in any uniform ev may select. The troubles of toty are inflation, extravagence. false ide and indolence. "Furthermore, Mr. President, the ?ople of this country are long sufring. but they will not stand for 'ery outrage. I noticed the other iv where the plumbers of Rirmingim, Ala., have organized for $12 a ly, and require to be driven to their ork in automobiles, and will not alw the drivers to be helpers. This autocracy run mad. They, and all ich should be looked upon as public lemies. "Let us wear old clothes and refrain om purchasing everything we can > without, and the country will soon it in joint again." | M. Shultz ? IN PLA\ You will find the 1 ?1 IX? 3 1TT_ 1 M onuitz cLiiu w ai- mt worth Pianos have 9 the beauty and ex- 9 cellence of work- 9 manship and the II fullness of tone 9 found in the best Si pianos on the market. They are || priced reasonably, m also. 4 i No needles to chang Plays all makes or rec< Also a complete line ( "" " Y7 c Bed Room and Dining? I Room Suites. . Complete line of Bed Room and Dining Room Suites in Chip- ~r: pendale,Queen Anne j Sherdinane, William! j and Mary and all lat-, j est styles finished in ^ Fumed Oak, Weath-^ ered Oak, Early Eng- * lish, Walnut and A/iftiw'e Pwvwn Va.fll nuum U Mi VfTM ATM* H hogany. E Every piece of go chased from twelve mo] the market today to re sale more than we an Kingston Academy Street, Next fty > ; - r/ ? -vr/fj ind Walwo "ERS and UPF 2 Cars Shipman'st I Parlor and Church / Organs If you contem- / ' plate the pur- (fr Jj chase of an or-. i ? ? m Paw o n rr ? ? : getii iui a 11 j j 1 ase, see our line ^ We have some { attractive val- L j? i ues in organs. II u feL= e, no scratching,grating )rdsperfectly. Seethe] )f Columbia and Pathe ??-? ^ ^ ods offered in this ad\ nths to four years ago, < >place them we would 1 ; offering them for sale i i Airnitur to Postoffice, JP rth Pianos I EIGHTS. J I I ? ^ ' ? }mu r or roanng sounds, newest period designs. Records. 4 Heyward Brothers' Baby Carriages, Go-Carts and Gigs. We have a full and complete line of Heyward Brothers' vehicles and are offering them at prices that you can't duplicate. Call in and get the baby a new rig to ride in. 1 I F t rertisement was purmd were we to go on lave to pay at wholeat today. e Co, ' KINGSTEEE, S. C. i