Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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(County Rwuril W. F. Tolley ft L. EL Cromer, Jr. Publishers Entered at the postoffice at Kingstree, S. C. as second class matter. < SUBSCRIPTION RATES STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Single copy one year $1.50 i Single copy, six months 75 j Single copy, three months 50 TELEPHONE NO. 83. Obituaries. Tributes of Respect, I Resolutions of Thanks, Card of Thanks and all other reading notices, * %*? ? " 1 /? .mu BOX news, Will Be uiurKcu J.VI ? uk rate of one cent a word fo:r each in-1 ertion. Hot suppers notices. All communications must be si^n-1 ed by the writer, not for publication unless desired, but to protect thin newspaper. All unsigned communications are a waste or time paper and postage on the part of the writer. ADVERTISING RATES Legal advertisements, $1.00 per tech first insertion, 50 cents per inch each subsequent insertion. Rates on long term display advertisements very reasonable. For rates apply at this office. In remitting checks or money oriers make payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. Foreign Advertising Reixeeentsbre THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1920. AT MOTHER'S KNEE t No Child Forgets the Prayer It Learns at This Sacred Shrine. ' The following letter and clipping Tho Pmorecaivp Fnrmpr was ro eeived by the editor in liis mail a few dra ago, and we take great pleasure in reproducing it along with a part of the letter which accompanied it, trusting that not only mothers read it, but that it may impress itself upon the minds of girls and boys: "I inclose a clipping that 1 beg you give a conspicuous place in your valuable paper, with the hope that parents in this county may read it 1 have four daughters and I have read it to them all; no sons (and I am glad) for I see and hear so much of the bad of them. Oh, that they could see twenty or more years to come foi them. I feel quite sure after you have read this little clipping, it will impress you as it has me. Am I asking too much of you? I think not from what I have read from you in your paper." The clipping follows: Children are cloae observers and natural imitators. If they hear quarrelling and dissension at home they carry it out and dispense it freely among schoolmates and others. If they see deceit practiced by their parents, the deceit germ gets into their blood and they are deceitful. Henc? if we parents are seeking- to bring our children up to a standard of mental ana monu penecuon, we musw ki always the part that we intend for them to develop. Father and mother must be preacher, teacher and protector to their children. There is no home so poor or lonely that it cannot furnish ideal environment for children, because gentleness and forbearance, patience to teach and show the young minds the right way, a spirit of fair play and comradeship in parents, embodies it] all. No child ever forgets the little prayer learned at its mother's knee, nor does it foregt the hymns she sang and taught her children. Mental training means to me teaching children courtesy from the cradle, teaching them to be considerate of others, surrounding them with literature that inspires high ideals, and sending them to school every day that it is possible for them to go. Mental training is not altogether what they get from books. Something learned of the nature and habits of a certain kind of bird or botanical knoweledge of. some wild flower is often the text for long serious study. Teach children by example and precept; let them know you have faith and confidence in them and their conscience will be a safeguard in after years against mental and moral deflection. MRS. D. W. RUST Pelican, La. o C. W. Milling, postmaster at Darlington, died last Saturday afternoon as a result of a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Milline has been postmaster for the past four years and also a very prominent tobacco warehouseman, being a member of the firm of Milling k Williams. o Mrs. Bmma C. Bergdoll and her four co-defendants were convicted in Philadelphia on a charge of conspiracy to aid her sons, Grover Cleveland and Erwin Bergdoll, to evade military service. It has not been announced when they will be sentenced and they are out on bail pending argument for a new trial. o Now is the time to bay a fine watch. Go to Bagget?? big reduction sale of jewelry. * i juf, M W HOUSTON REITERATES he POLICY FOR CREDIT ws Government Can Not Be Party to ch Speculative Operations for Main- of taining War Prices. Su l Washington, Sept. 26.?The gov- ch ernment can not be a party to any un- W dertaking for artificially maintaining er "war prices" by enabling owners to fa withhold their commodities from the th markets, Secretary Houston said to- ar night in a formal statement on the st commercial credit situation. Hi On the other hand the secretary de- co clares in favor of the orderly market- wl ing of all commodities and estimates that the commercial loans of all banks during the past year increased by about $2,000,000,000 to $3,000,000,000 Pi to meet the demands of industry and agriculture. "I am in favor of every legitimate by effort to promote the orderly market- gg ing of all commodities," said Secre- co tarv Houston, "but the government to can not be a party to an undertaking to hold commodities off the market to en enable the owners artificially for a gt speculative purpose to maintain war prices or higher than war prices." ^ 0 ali COUNTY CENSUS. ar ch Preliminary Announcement of Popu- in lation Subject to Correction. th hu Williamsburg county _ 38,539 ye Township 1, Hope, including coi Greelyville town _____ 4,560 ab Township 2, Laws, including Lane town 3,202 )os Township 3, Penn J 2,811 ha Township 4, Suttons __ 800 in1 Township 5, Anderson, indu- sp ding Trio town and part T1 of Andrews town 2,519 im Township 6, Sumter 1,288 pr Township 6%, Mouzon 2,380 n* TownshiD 7. Kinirs 3,418 tic Township 8, Turkey _ ? 2,184 inj Township 9, Mingo 2,869 sh Township 10, Ridge _____ 2,463 ha Township 11, Indian 2,934 a? Township 12, Johnson, indud- po ing Hemingway and Johnson- tic ville towns 4,691 iq ding Hemingway and sh Incorporated Towns, 1920. tei Township 16, Kingstree, indu- th ding Kingstree town _ ? 2,145 mi Clarendon township 455 Incorporated towns 1920 G< Andrews town, part of ? 100 sp Greelyviile town 645 de Hemingway town 371 co Johnson ville town ? _ _ ? _ 271 m< Kingstree, town, 2,074 Fi Trio town _ _ ' 149 lir o vo GRAIN MARKET FALLING. th Wheat, Corn, Oats and Floor ?f Moving Downhill ^ . tv Chicago, Oct. 4.?Wheat futures declined 10 to 12 cents a bushel today in the principal grain markets of the West, in some cases touching low levels not before reached since tie government established the wartinre di wheat price. lo December deliveries dosed in Chi- mi cago and St Louis at $1.95 up to fr $1.95 Vs and at Kansas City even a mi lower level was reached in $1.91. in At Minneapolis the December op- no tion closed at an even $2.00, a drop of ta 11 Vtt from Saturday. March options closed: At Chicago $1.91 to $1.91%; at Kansas City $1.87%; at St. Louis by $1.93%; at Minneapolis $1.98. wj Declines in wheat were reflected by in new flour quotations from Minn- It tapolis, where recession of 60^ a barrel since Friday were reported by two mills bringing flour to$11.30 mi and $11.55 a barrel- in quarter barrel sacks. Corn and oats likewise touched new low levels, equalling quototions vi< of 1916 and 1917, for the December wj options. December corn closed today an in Chicago at 85% and 86, compared *1 91 aiv u.-oelrc ncrn and $1.76% in July, 1919. Cash corn in at that time reached $2.10. loi Oats established new low records be in both the December and May deliveries, closing at 55* and 591 on the broad. In May of this year. May ba options went as high as $1.08%. ab Lack of. export demand and free Canadian offerings are given as the causes of the decline in wheat, and corn and oats are reflecting the b* wheat situation. FALLS DEAD IN HIS AUTO | = Florence County Planter Passes Away Suddenly. tin ed /-v_i n PL..U.. Da/,4/,*, it. r lorence, ucu , 6.?vu<ui?jr i vbwu, uii one of the best known and most popu- de lar men of this county, died very sud- esl denly last Saturday afternoon while an attending a big land sale near Poston. pe Mr. Poston suffered a stroke of paraly- he sis about eighteen months ago and th< had never fully regained his former good health. He was sitting in his automobile when without one word he fell over and died in a few seconds. Mr. Poston was sixty years old and Qt one of the most successful merchantphuiters of this entire section where Oc I had lived all his life and where he . is held in high esteem. j He was a member of the Methodist1 arch, the Masons and the Knights Pythias. The funeral services were conducted inday afternoon at Trinity Methodist urch by his pastor, the Rev W. P. ay, assisted by several other preachs and his was one of the largest norals *>vpr hpld in this spetion of e State. The church was packed id hundreds unable to jpet inside &od during the service in the yard. i was buried with Masonic honors, nducted by the Kingsburg Lodge, of lich he was a member. FIRE PREVENTION odamation by the Governor of the ! State of South Carolina. "October ninth has been set aside ' the President of the United States a day upon which the people of the untry should give especial attention the study of fire prevention. "Each year the loss from fire is i ormous; the total for the United J ates in 1919 amounting to two huned and fifty million dollars. The me year the loss in South Carolina jne was $2,054,581. These figures e conservative, as they do not inlde losses not covered in whole or part by insurance. In addition to e destruction of material propeity. ndreds of lives are sacrificed each ar because of fires, most of which uld have been prevented hv reason le care. "For some years the ratio of fire sses to total combustible property & been fallinc. This is due to the telligent efforts of our people to read the doctrine of fire prevention, lere is yet room for tremenduous provement The observance of fire evention day each year is doing ich to lessen the needless destrucm of property and lives, by teachl in the schools and elsewhere the nple principles of prevention. There s never been a time when we could ord to pursue a wanton, careless licy in regard to our propeity; parid arly can we ill-afford such a pol7 now, when there is a distressing ortage of houses, when building marials are scarce and high, and when e general economic condi tion demds greater and greater production. "Now, therefore, I, R. A. Cooper, i >vernor of South Carolina, in re- j onse to the suggestion of ti e Presi- [ nt of the United States, and in ac i rd with my own beliefs and ju 1 ;- | ent, do set aside October 9, 1920, a* re Prevention Day in South Ca.ro1a, and call upon the people to dele at least a part of that day to e study of fire prevention. "Done at Columbia this 2ind day September, and in the yea* of our >rd one thousand nine hundred and renty. "R. A. COOPER." Cost of Dying Drops. Greenville, Sept 30.?Due to the dene in the price of coffins and the wer wages for grave diggers, one ay die and be buried at a cost of om 15 to 26 per cent less than a onth ago, according to reductions embalming and burial expenses an unced today by the leading under- j king establishments here. I o Hold Your Cotton. Hold your cotton for better prices ' placing it in Wilkins' bonded J irehouse, where it will be protected j - insurance and certificates issued. i W. T. WILKINS, Prop. o Carload of the famous McCormick j ^nrAwa votrno Rntf o mnii'or nnrl I i/wcio cutvi loaviu* vuj ?* uiv*< v? ke and save your hay crop. . Williamsburg Live Stock Co. o If you want the best insurance seree, place your business with agents io have had many years experience, d you will get it. W. H. Welch, Mgr. ? Place your cotton in ten-bale Iota buildings on farm, so as to get the vest hate of insurance, and see us 'ore insuring. W. H .Welch, Mgr. o Internationa] steel hay presses, le your hay and put it in marketle shape. Williamsburg Live Stock Co. o ? | International steel hay presses, \ le your hay and put it in market- j le shape. j Williamsburg Live Stock Co. | =======?? ??:??= i NOTICE TO CREDITORS. | All persons having claims against { i estate of Daniel DuRant, cleceas- j , are hereby notified to present > i same, duly attested, to the un- { rsigned, qualified executors ocf said J late, or to their attorneys, Lee i d Shuler, Kingstree, S. C. And all I rsons indebted to said estate are j reby notified to make payment to t 5 undersigned. J J. B. DuRANT, j| Lake City, s. c., D. P. DuRANT, Hemingway, S. C. lalified Executors of Daniel Du- j Rant, deceased. 10-7-3t-l&s. tober. 6th., 1920. j T3 i 4 | ^? I I Inr I v YOU WILL FIN 1 Bed Room, Dining S1 I Porch and I as complete, if nc any you have seen, on Bed Room, Di I lor Suites, Odd C I and Springs. Ou | ton Mattresses to ? rn u f S It will be a p f through our em S Street and Centr; s | whether you dej | later. S I I KingstreeFu i Academy Street, Next to Post< i | ^ ^ mmam ID OUR STOCK OF S 2C Room, Parlor, Kitchen, i Lawn Fnnritnre I ? I )t more complete than I We are especially long j J ining Room and Par- j | * i j "J hairs, Bed Mattresses r entire stock of Cot- ||| joatl914prices($12.50) leasure to show you | j tire stock, Academy. | 1 al Warehouse Stores,. | sire to buy now or ? jffice, S1KGSTREE, S. C- j