The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-05-16
LIKE CITY Department.
qn,charse' Of
~. a.. BASS, Esa.

Miss Florence Bcnjaniin, Of
kieorgetown, is on visit to her sis
ter, Mrs. II. .SI. ASkins.
Three car loads of berries left
here Sunday 1aerning, two Tefriger-
ators and one express. The NUM-
Der Of cars at one trlRe will f,r0bab-
'ly rise to five or six this week.
Messns. s. POston, IF Half Neon,
and W. e. Daniels, OF Hannah,
Florence county, took the train
here for CGaunbia where they spent
q little time With the grey haired
boys in grey.
Alessrs. J. II. Blackwell $. T.
Goodwin and J. T. Woods attended
the Confederate reunion In Colum-
bia last week. They report q big
crowd, splendid hospitality and an
enjoyable occasion.
One of the fraiit men, who has
Deen here twe S~ars and who repre-
SCENTS one Of New Works largest
houses, il thinking off making Lake
City his home. Ifke concludes defi'
nitely to do this, LIE &Ih build q
home for his famit% and Will open
AN office for the transaction of his
business. We really hope he will
reach the determination to become
one of us. He h q nice fellow and
will no doubt make us Il good citi-.
zen.
Mrs. Moody, wife Sf Mr.. f.. I.
Moody, departed this 8fe ca the 9th
instant after an illness of only d
few hours. She WAS taken with a
chill on Monday morning and died
about 10 o'clock that night. We
understand that the doctor says
that congestion Of the liver was the
cau,e of her death. She WAS \
daughter of the late ) c McCutchen
aud was Sister of Messrs. j Is, ) e.,
JC and II W McCutchen and Mrs.
J A Green. Her husband ana u
large nuNaker of children survive
her. She was faitlEul wife and
mother Aa,d our Symp%tllies ARE
with those left behind.
The docket in the "lowcr sessions"
last securing day, was somewhat
heavy. Judge Gsskins disposed of
the following cases: State vs..
MiIes-violatiOn of contract, not
guilty. State vs.. b. F. TurDer-rio-
lating building contractors act i'll
failiug 70 paS fer n,Aterhll--guilty-
$50 or 10 days: verbal notice Of ap-
ueaa S1ate vs. Caesar tiaSkins-
irving to break another Riggers
head with a pole-S2o or 10 days
fine paid. State VS.. Calvin Single
tary-embellishing his w1fe's fed
tures-$l5 or ~ days-tine paid.
We hear that arHsther Inae1strate
in thts <,ouaty Gays he's gs,iag ta
come cut ahead uf fGaSkinst this year.
If he dops. he will haze ~ get
,sral,Olic curve in his lsark, put the
shren of red paint in his hair and
stay in session thirty tur days
month.
Two eouvicts, Thomas Melvin
and Jule Mack, escaped from the
chain gang sunday morning. IL
seems that at some time during
SATURDAY. night they secured one
of the to- pls that WAS in the catrts,s<e
with tiHpa and forced apart Aa >
link that had been employed to re-
pair the chain TO which tive pft>On-
.rs ARE chained II, night. Having
rhas freed themselves from the
chain, they waited until just about
daylight when, as the door MAS
opened from without to let out
truSty to ceok breakfast, they DASH
cd through the open door and we're
moving awayin Il hurry before the
loy who was on guard could get his
wits together. The dogs were put
ON the trail, but after following II
about mile or so gave up the chase.
Guards were placed on ali the ROADS
to prevent their getting away. Mel
vim was recaptured sunday at
Eriendfield, Florence county. Mack
WAS seen but eludcd the pursuers.
Superintendent Wheeler thinks he
will have Mack back before long.
Mr.. II. Van Epps returned from
Augusta Saturday night. he Is.
we'll on the rnad Of Improvement,
and viii! be ail right again before