The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-10-21
LAKE CITY AEHSC(lUMN.
THE TOWN STILL SUFFERING IN
THE POSTOFFiCE MATTER.
New Buildings Going up.-Plenty OF
Cotton Buyers.-Personals
anG Other Matters.

New Buildings Going up.-Plenty OF
Cotton Buyers.-Personals
anG Other Matters.
Editor Hill, of The Times, spent
Sunday in Darlington.
Mr.RV Askins, Of the Sardis sec
ton of Florence county. spent Sun
day visiting friends and relatives
at this place,
Miss Virginia Prosser spent Sat
urday in Florence.
VIM. David Shaw, late editor of
the Lake Cry Times, but now on
the force of the Hartsvillc Messen-
ger, came down Saturday night and
spent several days with his friends
here.
RI Severance, one of the A. c.
Lines most popular telegraph oper-
ators, came home with fever Tues
day night. We are glad to report
that he is again up and Will soon
be ready for duty again.
Our young friend Charlie Joyner,
who for the past six weeks, has
been down with malarial fever, is,
we are glad to say, on the road to
rapid recovery Charley has 81
host of friends who will be glad to
see him again at his post behind
the counters of Maj. S NJ Askins.
DR.. II B Hinnant has in his fami-
ly, as governess, Miss Sara Parkam
of Oxford, II. G.. Miss Parkam is
a beautiful and accomplished young
lady and has already a host of
friends in our little village.
The school at this place is in a
very fourishing condition. Pros.
| Ackerman now has enrolled seven
ty-tlsree pupils. Miss Ada Rush is
his assistant and she is certainly
well fitted for the position she so
ably maintains. She is giving uni
versal satisfaction.
One ofthe best sermons ever de-
livered from the Methodist pulpit
at this place was preached on Sum
day the 10th inst by Rev. s ] Be-
thea. This is Rev. Beihea's fourth
year on this work and according to
Methodist custom he will be de-
tailed for another field next year
The loss Of him as a citizen and
minister of the gospel will be much
felt by his mary friends here and
all over the circuit.
We have four cotton buyers here
a nd yet cotton is bringing Il dis
tressingly low price. IT seems to
us that they'might boom the mar
ket and let the farmers realize Il
little more on their cotton than they
are doing.
There are now four handsome
residences in process of erection
in our town. This speaks we'll for
the place. Somebody must be
making money. One of the resi-
dences under rapid headway is that
of our young and popular physician
DR.. ] Glide Fillmore. What's the
racket "Doc?"
Some persons in our town seem
to be very careless in the way of
distributing poison with which to
kill worthless dogs. One of the
dogs that got some of the poison
was the handsome and valuable
'tLoy" belonging to S NJ Askins.
10y was a very amiable and inof-
Iensive dog and though he got the
poison we feel sure it was not in
tended for him: Yet this shows
what carelessness does. Who
knows but what some little child
might have gotten it.
Our postmaster, wholly the way,is
as black as ebony, still continues to
hold forth in the little negro hut on
the outskirts of town. THAT Is
LAKE CITY's PosToFFICE. 1t is
Just about one hundred and fifty
yards from the boundary line and
right in the edge of a swamp. This
is shame and an imposition on
the citizens and hange should
, be made for besiu, 'ne situation OF
the postoffice, the present incum.
bent is no more competent for the
position than an unborn babe.
Directly in front of Sheriff Dan
ieps residence and right in the CEN