The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-04-04
news ITEMS REPORTED
FROM LAKE CITY.
EeHK ON SEWERAGE SYSTEM RESUM.
EB-TRUCKERS ARE BUSY-A LIVE
M.GISTRATE.-.THE REAPER DEATH.

Lake CITY, April 2:-Presiding
Elder Carlisle preached at the Meth
odist church Sunday morning.
Miss Pearl Stackhouse, who was
teaching near Mr w A Webster's
place. closed her school Friday aud
is speudins some days in town be-
fore going to her home near Dillon.
Dr Williams was in Columbia and
Spartanburg several days last week,
returning home Friday,
Magistrate Gask,ns went int"
oaic4 February 18th. Up to March
30th, 4 little more than one month,
he turned into lh. couatv treasury
$40 30 in cash an 1--we to the chain
gang 55 days. Arl he says he
hasn't got his hand nait in vet
Mr o. Joyner, better known a>
"Jep' Joyuer, was in town the great
er part of last week. His home is
in Charlotte, n. g., where he is in
the furniture business.
Work on the sewerage system has
been resumed and is VOW going ahead
rapidly. The commissioners ofpub
lie works employed Engineer Ohm
stead and Mr. Metz, who was the
resident superintendent of the South
ern Contracting Co., when that COM
psny went into liquidation, to take
charge of the excayatiug, aud con
tracted with the Reinforced Concrete
Pine Co TO build the sewers. 1t Is
hoped that there will be no more
delays, but that everything will work
together to completion of the system
before hot weather.
The shipments of lettuce are
about over aud truckers are busy
with their peas, beans and berries.
Daring Part of the season prices
on lettuce were low, Vet, taken as d
whole, the season was Il satisfactory
Ole. Peas are blooming, which
meaus that there will be full pods
in a very few days. The rains of
LAST Sunday did berries world of
good and by the time The RECORD
appears again that most popular of
ali small fruits will begin to tickle
New York palates.
Mrs Mamie Moody, wife of Dir
John Moody, died Saturday last af :
ter an illness of several weeks. She
was daughter Of the late Mr. j
Scott Howle and had been married
only little more than Il year. Be-
sides her young husband aud her
babe of about mouth old. she
leaves her mother and two brothers
and three sisters. Sunday afternoon
the last sad rites were held and she
was laid in her narrow bed in the
Baptist churchyard there to await
the change that shall come in the
twiukling of an eye. Just in the
bloom of Young womanhood, "a BRIDE
so recent that the orange blossoms
had hardly withered, Il babe IN her
arms, her death was peculiarly sad;
and to those near ber, was a crush
iug blow, which the consultations of
faith alone can relieve.
The distinction of being the first
to ship strawberries this season be-
longs to Reese Graham, a colored
trucker. He brought the berries
into town last Saturday and had Mr.
D N Epps to ship them to New
York. Before this few berries had
been brought in but this was the
first shipment in quantity to amount
to much.
Mrs. Ellen S Joyner died Friday,
the Goth instant, at the age of sixty
six of paralysis and general break
down. She was stricken with pa
rslysis something like year or two
ago and since then it has been down
hill with her all along until Friday,
when she reached the valley through