The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-04-02
LAKE CITY LOCALS.
Mr.. BASS PAYS ELOQUENT TRIB-
UTE TO OUR FAIR LAND.
Williamsburg Destined to Be Veria.
BILE Garden Spot-SpIendid Outlook
for Truck Farmers-Other News.


for Truck Farmers-Other News.
Hon A T Stackhouse, Of Marion,
stopped in town a short while Tues
day on his way to visit Mr. j Davis
Carter with whom he spent day or
two. Mr. Stackhouse has been in
the House of Representatives good
many years and is familiarly known
by the members of that body as
"Uncle Truss" He is the dean of
the House.
DR. W S Lynch came over from
Scranton one day last week on busi-
ness.
The strawberry season is upon us,
and remarkably early one it IS.
DR. Durant has won the distinction
of not only making the first ship
ment of this season but'of breaking
all previous records as to the date.
He sent off the first On Tuesday,
March 25. The earliest record up
to this season was April 18th. DR.
Durant beats this by twenty four
DAYS. 1t is true that he had only a
very few baskets but it was genu-
inc shipment and the first shipments
are invariably small. The cold snap
of last week checked development
for few days but the berries are
now ripening rapidly and the crop
movement will be under full and
rapid way within few days. Bar
ring unexpected cold and accident
the crop will be big one--far ex-
ceeding anything ever known in our
market. The acreage is about double
that of last year and the average
yield is expected to exceed previous
outputs. Crates and baskets are
coming in by the car load. Things
areIapidly shaping for the rush.
Messrs Singletary have been ship
ping lettuce several days and in
good quantities. They made a good
crop and are realizing fair prices.
The truckers peas are blooming
right along and in some fields the
pods are forming. Therefore, basket
upon basket of this delicious yege-
table will soon be moving to less
favored climes to tickle the palate
of those who will revel in the enjoy
ment of our crystalized sunshine.
In all the world there is no better
land than South Carolina, and in all
South Carolina there is no better
spot than our dear old Williamsburg.
Before our county lies future that
would transfx us with astonish-
ment could we but come back to
look upon her one hundred years from
now, yea, fifty, twenty five, ten years
hence-she will be transformed.
We are only just beginning to real
ize faintly-and but faintly-what
Providence has given us. Who,
twenty five years ago dreamed Of
what garden could be made at
Lake City? Who thought of the lus-
cious berries, the crisp lettuce, the
tempting radish, the delicious mel
ons, the sun kissed peas, the melting
cabbage, the satisfying beans, etc, etc,
that are being produced here now
of rare quality and in rich abun-
dance? Not one. Our adj jectives are
not selected without adyisement.
Each one means just what it says.
! No finer berries are known to the
epicure than the Lake City Lady
Thompson's. As the good bishop
said; cit is possible, l suppose, that
the Lord could make a better thing
than strawberry, but it is certain
that He never has" All, friend! the
soft sunbeams that steal down
through the newly washed and vio-
let tinted air becomes entangled in
the sheaf and leaf and stalk of the
modest plant that lies close to the
tender bosom of Mother earth and