The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 01, 1920, Image 5
IkUacle Ssb'i Oldest Employee.
fcou^h thirsty colonels may no
ker mix their juleps, Kentucky
Lhas her speedy horses and beauW
women, and now comes news
I Uncle Sam's oldest employee,
h in years and length of service,
a resident of that justly famous
A State. Capt Stephen Samuel Cole,1
H Indian fighter, veteran of the Mexi-!
W can and Civil wars, has served the |
United States seventy-five years, and I
B at the age of-'ninety-five still helps |
B to keep green a national cemetery|
* where his comrades sleep. Accord-1
I ing to a writer in the Louisville ;
I Times, Captain Cole attributes his
I longevity to a lesson taught him by
I 'his mother: "Do right and just by all
^ mankind. If you can not say a good
word for a man, never say a bad one.
You may do a great injustice. Have
good neighbors and friends by being
neighborly and friendly with those
about you. Then you'll have no worries
and live to ripe age." Captain
Cole, according to this same chronicler,
stands six ^eet, weighs 175
pounds, walks with soldierly erectness,
has no use for a cane, reads without
glasses, shoots squirrels out of treetops,
and bowls over rabbits. And
this notwithstanding that he has encored
the hardships of pioneer days
has been twice wounded. Th^
or'cf biography continues:
"As keeper of the National Cemetery
at Camp Nelson, Jessamine County,
the veteran warrior keeps senti
nel-like guard over the graves of more
than five thousand sleeping comrades
of the Civil War. He is still in the
employ "of the best Government the
world has known," the only employ
er he has ever worked for.
Captain Cole was a neighbor of
President Zacharv Taylor under whom
he served in the Mexican War. He
was born in Jefferson County, KenItucky,
near the Zachary Taylor farm,
April 15, 1826, and spent his boyhood
days there with his parents, Stephen
Cole and Henrietta Wheeler Cole.
1
"When he was still in his early j
teens his father moved to a farm in 1
Floyd County, near New Albany, I
where he lived until he entered col- J
lege at Greeneastle, Ind. With Wil- i
liam Glenn, a schoolmate, he ran
away from school in 1846 and joined
the United States Army at Indianapolis.
He was put into the Fourth
Cavalry Dragoons and sent to the Rio
Grande on the Texas and Mexican
border, where he did patrol duty and
fought Indians.
AtGoing into Mexico witn regular
? toes alone spread the
U mosquito gets in its de
of the night, when the
Hg windows are open and
little fresh air. Hunc
lives might be saved i
Bft were taken against thk
I A Fit your beds u]
^^^koof Canopies which
popular styles.
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With your bed thus
fi equipped against the
attacks of these poi4
sonous pests you will
be able to sleep in
\ peace and awake in
3 safety. These cano;
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pies are easily and
quickly adjusted to
A any bed.
f The Steele Turn
I Kingstree, - -
troops when the Mexican War developed,
he was with Gen. Zachary Taylor
in the battle of Buena Vista. Later
he was ordered to Lower California
with Gen. John C. Fremont's Cavalry.
He did scout duty and protected
settlers in North Dakota. Washington
and Utah. In 1859 he was put on
post duty at St. Louis, Mo., and while
there received his first furlough of
six months.
He was personally acquainted with
President .Abraham Lincoln and at
the outbreak of the Civil War was
commistoned a First Lieutenant in
the Twenty-eighth Indiana Cavalry
Later he was put in command of the
First United States Marines and sent
with General Grant's army.
"After valient service at Walnut
Harrow, Vicksburg, he was offered a
lieutenant-colonelcy of the Fourth Arkansas
Division, refusing it to remain
with his command. Later Governor
0. P. Morton, Indiana, had him take
charge of the 144th Indiana Regiment,
and he went to Shenandoah
Valley. When the war clpsed he was
with his outfit at Winchester, Va.
"The aged veteran was asked to
tell the circumstances of his wounds.
He said. 'My first wound was received
while I was in North Dakota,
when a scouting party of twenty-five
men under my command trailed a
band of Indians who had killed a settler,
James O'Bannon, and carried off
his wife and two sons. When we
came upon the Idians a skirmish ensued.
I was struck by an arrow which
left my leg in bad shape for a long
time.
'Ten of the Indians were killed and
we rescued the woman and children.
Unless I am mistaken the boys are
still living in Washington. D. C.
"After lighting his corncob pipe
and taking a few puffs of 'long green,'
Captain Cole said that at Walnut Barrow
a ball pierced his side. He was
months in recovering.
"Following the war he was in the
secret service for a number of years.
Among the old records and papers he
displayed was a copy of The Daily
Journal, Evansville, Ind., June 7,
1864, containing a story of the activities
of S. S. Cole. The article did
not refer to him as captain. He was
acting as a spy at the time.
"The captain laughed when asked
if he was ever taken prisoner. He
said that while he had charge of the
National Cemetery at Staunton. Va.,
Confederate veterans held a reunion.
He attended, being the only 'Damned
Yankee' there. The old rebels sur>iim
nnd a Prpsh vtpri an
Do You Know
without first being I
;o contract malaria |
hat it is impossible j
ritten by a mosquito? I
t's a fact, for mosqui- 1
malarial germ. The
adly work in the dark
weather is hot and the
von are loncrinjr for a !
ireds of thousands of
if greater precautions
5 death-dealing pest.
j with our Mosquito
are here illustrated in j
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liture Company, j
South Caroling
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preacher asked him if he was not
afraid of the Johnny Rebs.
" 'I replied, "Yes, what time I
wasn't running them, they were running
me," and this brought down the
house with applause,,' said the captain.
"Captain Cole has been 'a good
joiner' durnig his time. In 1861 he
; was made a Master Mason in Lodge
j No. 1, F. and A. M., Lebanon, Ky.
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tie is now a memoer 01 ion ix>uge r*u.;
301, Jessamine County. He is a
charter member of the Knights of
Pythias, and was a member of the
first K. of P. Lodge in Louisville at
the Odd Fellows' Hall, there in 1869.
"His son, John Sherman Cole,
twenty-four years old, served in the
Navy during the world-war, enlisting
shortly after Jessamine County's first
draft contingent was sent to Camp
Zachary Taylor for training. Captain
Cole and Gen. George B. Taylor, a j
Confederate veteran, marching side i
j by side, led the parade through ths;l
streets to the depot.
"Uncle Sam's oldest employee re- j 1
tains his love for outdoor sports. He !1
frequently goes to the mouth of Hick-!
| man Creek, on the Kentucky River, ;
near the cemetery, and baits his own Jj
hook. He likes to hunt. He has been
married twice. His second wife is :
living. ',
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CONVICT M4KES ESCAPE i
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Grabs Pistol From Guard and I,
Leaves Unhindered
Florence, June 23.?John Best, a
convict serving a three-year sentence
on the county chaingang on the
charge of obtaining -goods under false
pretences, made his escape from the :
gang one day this week.
On the pretext of borrowing the
pocket knife of the; guard and while
the guard had his liands in his pocket
feeling for the knife, the ne^io
snatched the revolver from the guard I
and made a safe getaway, carrying :
with him the pistol.
On the day bef are the escape a 1
party of men claim that they saw in j
the swamp a negro man and woman
place in the water of a creek a bun- 1
die, then place above the spot a pa- (
per bag. They reported the matter ]
to the sheriff who on investigation, '
found a complete change of clothing (
submerged in the water. The bundle j,
contained a suit of clothes, a pair of j <
shoes, underwear, socks and a cap. I
It is presumed that the escape was
premeditated and tliat the bundle was ,
left there for the escaped convict. :<
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Had a Fren^ie-s Look.
From u Story?"Kmtzie said uoth-i1
tag. and tbere was something dlscon* |
certlng In the way he said It"?Boat? j1
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Kingston, S. C., C. E. Moseley, Sal-|
tree, S. C.?Advertisement.
REGISTRATION NOTICE
i
The office of the Supervisor of;
Registration will be open on the 1st 1
Monday in each month for the purpose
of registering any person wno
is qualified as fellows:
Who shall have been a resident i
of the State for two years, and of I
the county one year, and of the j
polling precinct in which the elector
offers to vote four months before
the day of elction, and shall have
paid, six months before, any poll
tax then due and payable, and who
can both read and write any section |1
to him by the Supervisors of Registration,
oc who can show that he j
owns, and has naid all taxes collectible
on during the present year, property
in this State assessed at three
hundred dollars or more.
R. E. CLARKSON,
Clerk of Board. I1
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR !
FINAL DISCHARGE
Notice is hereby given that on the .
10th day of July, 1920, I will apply (
D U Rrnnlrinf/'n Prnhnfp .IllHcrp of
Williamsburg Ccunty, for Letters
Dismissory as the General Guardian
of Ellen Smith, el; al?minors.
T. K. SMITH,
6-10-5t. General Guardian.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Executive Chamber
PROCLAMATION !
Whereas, A petition has been filed
with the Governor of South Carolina,
signed by more tlian one-third of the
qualified electors of a certain portion
of Williamsburg County proposed to
be severed from the County of Williamsburg
and annexed to the County
of Florence, embraced within the folllVao
tirif
1UW1U5 iiuuo) w riv*
? All that portion or section of the 1
County of Williamsburg, South Carolina,
containing forty square miles, 1
more or less, and bounded at present i
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on the North by Lynches Lake Swamp
to its confluence with Lynches Creek
and then said creek to its confluence
with the fee Dee River, the said
Swamp and Rivers being the southern
boundaries of Florence County and
the Northern boundaries of Williamsburg
County, then 1 commencing
at Brown's Bridges of said
Lake Swamp on the Anders ion's
Bridge Public Road thence running
said road in a southerly direction to
the point where said Anders ion's
Bridge Road intersects with the Public
Road leading to Roper's Cross
Roads, thence a line from this point
of conjunction mentioned above limning
approximately straight in a
Southeasterly direction to St John's
Negro Church on the Indiantown Public
Road, a distance of about seven
miles, thence running the said Indiantown
Public Road in a Northerly direction
for about three hunlred
vards to the Smith's Mills Piblic
Road thence running the said Smith's
Mills Public Road in an Easterly direction
through Ard's Cross Roads to
Muddy Creek Swamp, a distance of
about four miles, thence following the
run of Muddy Creek Swamp to its
confluence with Lawrence's Cut tl ence
following Lawrence's Cut to its confluence
with Clark's Creek, ticnce
the said Clark's Creek to its coafluence
with the Great Pee Dee River
thence the Great Pee Dee Eiver,
Lynches River and Lynches Lake
Swamp to Brown's Bridges the beginning
point
Whereas, the boundaries of the proposed
portion of Williamsburg County
to be cut off and annexed to the
County of Florence, the number of
inhabitants, the taxable property as
well as all other requirements of the
Constitution and Statutes, have been
found to b'j and are as set for.h in
said petition.
WherecS, the report of the Commissioners,
appointed to ascertain the
facts provided for by law, whether the
requirements of the Constitution and
Statutes as to area distance, wealth
and population, shape, etc., are complied
with and are as stated in the
petition, has teen filed in this office,
wherein it appears that the lav has
been fully complied with in every particular,
which is hereby confirm* d.
wviorooo nn olivtinn has heen held
upon said petition in said area u|>on
the question of the annexation of
said portion of Willamsburg County
to Florence County within four years
previous to the date hereof, ani
Whereas, under the Constitution
and laws of tiiis state the petitioners
are entitled to have ordered, and it
is made tie duty of the Governor of
the State to order an election, upon
said question.
Now, Therefore, I, R. >A. Cooper,
Gevernor of the State of South Carolina,
by virtue of the power conl erred
upon me by the Constitution and laws
of this state, do hereby order:
That an election be held in th? territory
embraced within the po -tions
of Williamsburg County proposed to
be severed from the County of Williamsburg
and annexed to the County
of Florence, on the second Tuesday,
the 13th day of July, 1920, upon the
question of the annexation of said
portion of Williamsburg County to
Florence County, and that at such
election the qualified electors within
the proposed area shall vote upon said
question, those favoring the proposed
annexation to vote "Yes", and those
opposing to vote "No."
That the Commissioners of State
and County elections of the County of
Williamsburg do make all necessary
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arrangements ior noicung saiu citation
and shall appoint managers and
do all things necessary for the holding
of same.
That the Commissioners of Election
of Williamsburg County shall have
prepared printed tickets as provided
for in Section 2^6, Code of Laws 1912,
Volume I, as amended by an Act
passed by the Geeral Assembly at its
special session in 1914, and approved
the thirtieth day of October, 1914,
said Act being No. 6 in the acts of
said spec al session; and the said
Commissioners shall furnish the same
to the manager of election for the use
of the -voters at said election. The
form of the ticket shall be as follows:
Form of Ballot.
."Special election upon the question
of the annexation of a certain portion
of Williamsburg County to F'orence
County, hold July 13, 1920.
"Shall said portion, as described in
Proclamation by the Governor dated
May 28, 1920, be annexed to the
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"Yes.
"No."
That the said election shall te held
and conducted under the same rules
and regulations as provided ty law
for regular and general elections.
That the commissioners of election
shall appoint managers of election as
provided for by law, * who shall be
sworn before entering upon the discharge
of their duties, and shall open
and close the polls as provided for by
law.
The managers of election, when the
polls have been closed, shall proceed
without interruption to count and tabulate
the same; they shall make a
written return of the number o f votes
cast for and against the proposed annexation;
they shall sign and certify
to the managers the result cf said
election, the same, together w:th the
ballot bo> , ballots and poll lis a, and
everything else pertaining to said
election, shall be by them foithwith
turned over to the commissioners of
election as required by law; that the
commissioners of election for tach of
said counties shall, in accordance with
the law, tabulate the vote and declare
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WUC 1 COUiV VX MAW V(WWVU) M4.U
due and proper return thereof to the
Clerk of Court of their respective
counties, to the Governor of the State,
ind to the Secretary of State, in all
of which careful and detailed compliance
with the law is enjoined and
jrdered.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my liand and caused
the Great Seal of the State to
be affixed at Columbia, this
twenty-eighth day of May, in
the year of dur Lord One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Twenty,
and in the One Hundred and
Eorty-lourtn Year 01 American
Independence.
By the Gevernor: R. A. COOPER.
Governor.
W. BANKS DOVE
Secretary of State. 6-10-6t
I - "Felt
Like
Man and Wife, All Run
Were Greatly I
?T WIFE and I, after a hard
IVI spring on the farm, were
tired apd run-down," says
Mr. E. B. Muikey, of Route 1, Acworth,
1 Ga. "We neither felt well. I knew my
blood was bad, as 1 had little bolls on
the back of my neck.
"We felt we needed a orniaer. we
had heard of Zlron and thought It
fnuat be what we needed. It certainly
was. We took it faithfully, and after
a week or such a matter we began to
feel better. My wife felt like cooking,
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r You're at Sick 01
at Well at Youi
How's your liver! Are you <
I Have you dizzy spells, dull ]
mouth, foul breathf If so, yc
and Blood Syrup; which has
your sort ever since the good
scribed it away back in 1852.
You're as Old or
as Young as Your
If yon would stay young in health
eare for your blood. Dr. Thacher'
into your blood; purifies and enric
system. Also keeps your Botoeli op
bined. Good for the whole family.
Amip Anton. Thompsonvills, 111., wrote
Aos. 11,1#18: "I fssl that I should Mod In
my testimonial for Dr. Tkmckcr"* Lmtr
Medietas, which I hars ossd for twslrs
ysart. Bsforo I ossd It I oould not do a
wholo days work?baeaoM I waa so wsak in
? aty kidneys. bat I am now strons and
hsalthy"
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j In Thes
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of unsettled conditions
it is wisdom on the pan
men to purchase only
lished quality standari
Shirts, the kind that ha
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I ATTENTION, MR
Now is the time to place you
fall use. "
Put more machinery on your
all the year around, and you w
After the crop is laid by, pu
I a Saw Mill, Lath Mill, Shingle &
Sheller, Cord Wood Saw.
We make a specialty of light
Mills, Feed Mills and Farm Mac)
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|? WILMINGTON, N. C
See The County R<
cards and invitations.
! Eating"
-Down from Farm Work,
Jelped by Ziron. |
ana i sure ? n uae eaung.
MZlron sore did as good. It mads
as both te?l stronger and bettar fot
the fall work, which everyone knows
Is "some work' on a farm. Hy bolls
began to dry np, though lost at first
they seemed worse.
"We are much better and can highly
recommend Ziron, and gladly do so for
it sore did us good."
Ziron is a safe, reliable, tonle modi*
cine, good for men, women and children,
when an Iron tonic Js indicated.
It Is easy to take and contains m
habit-forming drugs.
Ask your druggist or dealer.
in
lonstipated, bilious, grouchyf
headaches, bad taste in your
u need Dr. Thacher's Liver
been knocking out troubles of
old southern doctor first preOn
sale at your drug store.
BLOOD
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as you grow older in yean, have a
'$ Liver and Blood Syrmp puts life
hes it; makes it tone up the whole
en and is a tonic and a cleanser eomSold
at your drug store.
J. M. S <ot ton. Box 147. Oeala. PU-.^wroto
Jan. IS, 1 naaa a dohm ox jwux h
Dr. Tfcacfcrr'i U?r AM BloM Syraf in I
my family with a fooryaar-old child
that had bad kidney*. eanaad by
maaalw. Found it to do moio good
than all tho madklaa* that I rrar cot
hold of." 4
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merchandise of estab- I
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ir orders for Machinery for |g
farm and give your help work |l:
on't have trouble keeping them. y/t
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saw Mills xor xarm use, uorn 11
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