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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-05-05
Fire at Scranton.

Scranton, April 28:-Last night,
at about II o'clock, fire destroyed
the pack house, barn, twenty-six
bales of cotton, several tons of fer
tilizers, six or eight hundred BUSH
els of corn, a reaper and binder and
farming tools belonging to Mr. R H
Graham, who lives about one mile
from town. Mr. Graham was inter
viewed this morning and thinks it
was set on fire by some one, but
as yet has no proof. Mr. Graham's
residence caught several times, but
through the heroic work of his son,
Charlie, it was saved. The loss is
about $4,000 or $1,000, and no in
surance.
Mr. Graham is one of the most
progressive and prosperous farmers
in the county, and has the sympathy
of the community in his great loss
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-05-05

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. FL CHENEY & Co,
Toledo, O.
We; the undersigned, have known
F ] Cheney for the last Is years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and finan-
cially able. to carry out any obi
cations made by his firm. WALD-
ING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O..
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in.
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-05-05
A DESIRABLE CITIZEN.
e L Fishburne, Esq, of Walter
boro to Cast His Lot Here.

1t was with regret that his
numerous friends in town learned
of the determination of Mayor E
Ladson Fishburne to cut loose from
the associations and the home of
his nativity and cast his lot with the
good county of Williamsburg. The
rumor could hardly be believed, but
Mr. Fishburne himself confirms it,
and states that he will leave early
in next month for his new home.
Mr. Fshburne will form part
nership with Leroy Lee, Esq, for
the practice of law. Mr. Lee is one
of the ablest members of the Kings
tree bar, and enjoys a large and
lucrative practice. In truth, his
practice he's grown to such pro-
portions that he can no longer take
care of it alone, and for this reason
he wishes to associate with him.
self a young and able attorney. Mr.
Fishburne, believing the opening
there offers better advantages than
the Walterboro bar holds in store,
decided to go in with Mr. Lee. The
firm will be Lee & Fishburne.
Mr. Fishburne is we'll fitted to
make a great success in his new
field. He was graduated from the
Citadel in 1904 with the degree of
BIS. The next two years he taught
in the graded school at Allendale,
after which he returned to Walter
boro and studied law in the law
office of his father, VIM j Fishburne,
Esq. Since his admission to the
bar in 1907 he has been the junior
member of the firm of Fishburne &
Fishburne. In 1908 Mr. Fishburne
was elected mayor of Walterboro
over several competitors by very
flattering vote, which office he has
filled with ability and general salts
faction.
For several years Mr. Fishburne
has,been connected with the local
militia company as captain, and
has just been unanimously elected
major of the second battalion.
1t is the prediction of his friends
here that Mr. Fishburne will be
heard from again in his new home.
The Press and Standard wishes him
well. Walterboro Press and Stand
ard.
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The Thrice-a-Week World.
WITHOUT A RIVAL In ITS FIELD.
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the Price.
Read in Every ish-Speaklng Country

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An Ideal husband

is patient, even with a nagging wife,
for he knows she heeds help. She
may be so nervous and rundown in
health that trifles annoy her. If
she is melancholy, excitable, trou-
bled with loss of appetite, headache,
sleeplessness, constipation or faint
ing and dizzy spells, she needs Eec-
trio Bitters, the most wonderful
remedy for ailing women. Thou
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Try them. Only SOC, Satisfaction
guaranteed by N L Allen.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-05-05

The significant thing is not that
Senator Hepburn objected to Lees
statue in Statuary Hall. The signi-
ficant thing is that not a single 9TH
er Senator, not even personal
friend, was found to vote with him
when the question was put. This is
about the most gratifying evidence
yet developed to show the passing of
sectional feeling in the North.
eiqh (N C) Progressive Farmer and
Gazette.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-05-05

ceived as information, to wit: The
Cedar Swamp club endorses the
present fish law and hopes that
every person who shall violate the
same may be dealt with according
to law"
The proceedings of the conven-
ton were harmonious throughout
and the best of feeling seemed to
prevail.
There being no further business
the convention adjourned SINE de.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING.
At 8 o'clock p m the executive
committee was called to order by
Chairman P H Stoll (the county
chairman being also chairman of the
executive committee). CIV Wolfe
was reelected secretary and treas
urer.
The report of the treasurer show
ed balance in bank of $118.9l,
plus per cent interest since Octo-
Der, 1908, to the credit of the COM
mittee.
Mr. Carter moved that the mana
gers of each primary election be paid
S1.OO, the messengers 100 each and
mileage, and that the secretary and
treasurer be allowed s25.00 for his
services each election year. This
motion was carried after being
amended so as to cut out the per
diem of the messengers, allowing
them only five cents mileage.
The following schedule of assess
ments for candidates was adopted:
State Senate, $50; House of Repre-
sentatives, SIS; auditor, $40; road
engineer, $40; treasurer;S20; super
intendent of education, SIS. Also
it was moved and ordered that
each candidate for Congress in the
Sixth district be requested for a
contribution of $1,000.
A resolution was also solemnly
adopted to double the assessments
of every candidate who were elected
without opposition.
The matter of campaign meetings
gave rise to some discussion and it
was finally decided to hold six meet
ings, at the following places: Gree
lyville, Trio, ,Johnsonville, Lake City,
Kingstree and Morrisville. On mo-
ton, the arrangements for the coun-
ty and State campaign meetings
were left to a committee of three,
comprising the county chairman
and Messrs Davis and Wolfe.
The executive committee adjourn
ed subject to the call of the chair
man.
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Notice is hereby given that all:per-
sons having claims against the estate of
8 D G Lowery of Suttons, S C, may
present the same, duly verified, and all
persons indebted to the said estate will
make payment to the undersignedq quail
itied administrative at SuttOns, S c.
ELLA LowERY,
Administrative of the. Estate CT s D G
Lowery. 4-14-N
April z, 1910.
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COUNTY CONVENTION
MET MONDAY.
AOFFICERS ELECTED AND DELE
GATES TO STATE CONVENTION
NAMED..Ex. COM. MEETING.

NAMED-.EX. COM. MEETING.
The unterrified Democracy of
the grand old county of Williams
burg, responding to the call of the
county chairman, gathered here
Monday from all parts of the coun-
ty to re-organize and hold their
biennial conclave.
The convention was called to or
der by Chairman Williams at" IL
o'clock noon. Mr. P H Stoll was
made temporary chairman and Mr.
CIV Wolfe temporary secretary.
The roll of delegates was made up
and it was found that twenty-seven
clubs were represented, two-Pros-
pect and Oak Ridge-having failed
to re-organize. A motion prevailed
that these clubs be authorized to re-
organize and furnish the secretary
the names of their officers and exc.
cutive committeeman within thirty
days from date. The total number
of delegates present was ia. After
enrolling the delegates and transact
ing other routine business the tenn
porary' organization was made per-
manent and officers were elected.
DR. A H Williams was nominated
for reelection to the office of coun-
ty chairman, the duties of which he
has performed so faithfully for the
past twelve years, but after appro-
priately expressing his appreciation
of all the honors that had been be-
slowed upon him by the Democracy
Of Williamsburg county, he declined
reelection, whereupon Messrs E c
Epps and P H Stoll were placed in
nomination. Mr. Epps withdrew
and Mr. Stoll was elected without
opposition
Two nominations were made for
member of the State executive COM
nittee: Messrs R H Kellahan and B
E Chandler, Mr. kellahan being
elected.
There were quite a number nomi-
mated as delegates to the State con-
vention, which meets in Columbia
on May 1S, but all declined but ten.
As only eight could be elected the
delegates were chosen by ballot with
the following result: Leroy Lee 8S; ]
CGraham 81; P H Stoll IS; E 7
Hamer-S2; DR. w C Hemingway 81;
SM Askins rs; S B Poston IA; j j
M Graham 68; w P Cause SIS; M L
Gasque %. 1t was moved and or
dered that the eight candidates re-
ceiving the highest vote be declared
elected and the remaining two
named as alternates.
The following members of the
executive committee were duly
elected: Kingstree, C w Wolfe;
Black River, D B Young; Cades, W
E Nesmith; Scranton, w S Lynch
Central, w G Cantley, Jr; Salters
James E Davis; Earls, w S Camlin
Greelyville, S M Bradshaw; Ceda,
Swamp, j Y McGill; Trio, ] B Nc
Cants; Black Mingo, Jno S Graham;
Pergamos, H A Stuckey; Johnson
vile, D N Johnson;Indiantown, D E
McCutchen; High Hill, W P Cause;
Taft, ] NJ Brown; Poplar Hill, B 3
Chandler; Altman, E F Prosser; He.
bron, B M McElveen; Lanes, w F
Rodgers; Gourdins, G c Parsons;
Pleasant Grove, j Davis Carter;
Bloomingvale, Lake
City, j D Daniel; Suttons, R D
Blakeley; Lenud, S B Gordon; Nc
Allister's Mill, A w Rodgers.
A communication addressed to
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-04
Bulletin on Hog Raising.

Lake Acknowledgements JOS
eph E. Ransdell of the Fifth district
has written the following letter to a
number Of farmers here:
cat my suggestion and earnest So
licitation DR.. S. A. Knapp, chief of the
Bureau of the Farmers Cooperative
and Demonstration Work of the United
States Department of Agriculture, pre-
pared a bulletin on Hog Raising in the
South 1t is replete with the most
valuable information and suggestions
On this important subject and I am
anxious for my constituents to get the
full benefit of it. Inclosed I send YOU
a few copies for distribution and would
thank you to call attention to the bull
letin and say that I shall be glad to
send it to anyone. I am firmly convinc-
ed that hog raising on the wise plans
suggested by DR.. Knapp offers one of
the most profitable enterprises for our
people, and I hope they will engage in
1t. 1t would not be a good idea to
start in new business on a large
scale at first, but good beginning
should be made at once.D
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-04
Many Teachers Coming.

Baton Rouge.-According to the
meeting held at the office of the Board
of Trade Of those interested in the
coming state teachers meeting here
April 1921, there will be 1000 teach
ers here from all over Louisiana on
those three days. From reports that
are being received by the officials in
touch with the situation it will be the
largest attended meeting of the teach.
ers ever held in the state. H. X.
strickland, parish superintendent of
education, was named as the chairman
of the executive committee. and he
will appoint all of the committees nee
essary to work out the details of the
meeting and to map out the program
on behalf of the city for the enter
talnment of the teachers, which will
probably include a ride over the citv
and a reception.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-04
May Extend Game Law.

Baton Rouge.-To extend the bird
law until the middle of March will be
one Of the amendments to the present
game law proposed by W. A. Ventress,
member of the state legislature from
Iberville parish. "There are several
amendments to the law that I will pro-
pose when the legislature meets" said
Representative Ventress, "and one of
these amendments will be an extension
of the open game season from March
l to March Is. There should be fifteen
more days in which to hunt quail. All
OF these matters have to be worked out
or time. I think for the first year the
game law has done we'll. The opera
tions Of it have shown some changes
that had to be made. This was to be
expected" Mr.. Ventres is the father
of the present game law. He does not
believe that there will be serious ef-
fort to kill the game law altogether.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-04
ALL OVER LOUISIANA
TWO DAMAGE SUITS ARE FILED
AGAINST SHERIFF REID.
A. NJ. H. Stark and J. T. Stark Ask
$4,000 Each for Arrest and
Indignities.

Lake CHARACTERIZATION were filed
here with Deputy Clerk Of United
States Cour A. NJ. Mayo, and by him
forwarded to the clerk at Shreveport,
asking for damages against Sheriff d.
j. Reid and his bondsmen IN the sum
Of 100000.
The style of one suit is A. NJ. H.
Stark VS.. D. j. Reid ct al, the plain
tiff praying for damages in the amount
Of $4,000.
The other suit, very similar to this,
is filed by J. 7. Stark against Sheriff
Reid and his bondsmen, and asks for
damages in the sum of $4,000.
In the case of A. NJ. H. Stark the pc
tition cites that while pursuing peace
ably and quietly his occupation at
Fields, La, as half owner of a com
missary and mercantile establishment
and as an employe Of the Lutcher &
Moore Lumber Company and the Gulf,
Sabine and Red River Railroad, the
plaintiff was placed under arrest by
one A. D. Jordan, deputy sheriff en-.
ployed by D. j. Reid; that the plaintiff
was eating his breakfast when placed
under arrest, and was not permitted to
finish his breakfast; that over his pro-
test, and after his statement that he
would submit quietly to the arrest,
plaintiff was handcuffed by the deputy
sheriff and marched through the town
and submitted to all sorts of indigni-
ties; that later he was placed in con-
finement and irons and shackles placed
OF: his legs and feet, and that he was
thus kept handcuffed and shackled,
with guards over him, and not permit
ted to eat breakfast, dinner nor sup
per; that he was abused and cursed by
Jordan and had to submit to all sorts
of indignities; that he was taken by
the said Jordan to Ludington, La, and
on the train was forced by Jordan to
leave the coach set apart for white
passengers and sit in the coach set apart
for negroes, this being done to further
humiliate him; that at Ludington he
was thrown into dirty, filthy Gala
boose, which was in foul condition,
and kept there during the night, and
was finally taken to Lake Charles, where
he should have been taken Immediately
after his arrest, and there Immediately
given bond. For thus being handcuff-
Ell. shackled and ironed, and being hui
inflated and subjected to hunger and
unnecessary hardships by the deputy
acting for Sheriff D. J. Reid, plaintiff
prays for damages against Reid and
his bondsmen in the sum of $4,000.
The petition of J. T. Stark is for
damages in the same amount, and sets
forth the fact that he was placed under
arrest without warrant and unlawfullv |
restrained of his liberty and subjected |
to humiliation and indignities at the
hands of Deputy Sheriff Jordan.
These suits grow out of occurrences
at Fields, the Lutcher & Moore logging
camps, which gave rise to a petition
asking for the Impeachment and re-
moval of Sheriff Reid from office. Suit
based on the petition was brought by
District Attorney Moore and is now
pending.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-04
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Timber land investigation will bo
prosecuted in the Teche section bv a
government forestry agent.
New colonization projects in Ionic.
lana were made public at the Inter.
state Farm Land Congress at shreve.
port.
NO word has been received as +, the
whereabouts of Major Don Stafford &c.
sistant adjutant general of Louisia ana
woh left New Orleans February Js for
Ell Paso.
The Commercial National Bank will
erect ten-story building at Sbreve.
port, costing 100000
North Louisiana parish fair cn,,;a1s
VIII meet March 10 at Calhoun.
Leopold Aschaffenberg, 81 wears old
of Henderson, La, capitalist plantor
and club man, suicided by SHOOTING in
hotel in Vicksburg.
The Louisiana D. A. R., in session ~
shreveport, elected Miss Virginia Fair.
TAX OF New Orleans state regent, and
selected Alexandria for the next meet
ing. |''
The seventy-fourth anniversary Of
the Baton Rouge fire department was
celebrated with parade, banquet and
ball.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST
NEWS THAT is NEWS, WHEN 1T Is
NEWS, FOR ALL.
DOINGS OF DAY AND WEEK
Happenings the Wide World Over of
Important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
WASHINGTON.

The interstate commerce bill, as
drafted by the attorney general and
amended by the senate committee
along the lines suggested by the at
tOrney general on behalf of the ad
ministration, was presented in the SEN
ate Friday by Chairman Elkins, whose
name the measure bears. Six repub-
licans, Elkins, Aldrich, Cullom, Crane,
Kean and Nixon, voted to report the
bill out, while two republicans, Cum
minis and Clapp, and two democrats,
Newlands and Hughes, voted against
reporting the bill.
The charge made by Horace Tillard
Jones, special agent of the land
office, that James NJ. Sheridan, who
was sent by the authorities at Wash.
ington to take charge of the hearings
in the Cunningham case in Seattle
last year, practically threw the gov
ernment's case away by giving coun-
sci for the claimants an opportunity
to examine all of the evidence col
lected by special agents working under
Louis R. CLAWS, furnished the sensa.
ton Friday at the Ballinger- Pinchot
inquiry, which was resumed after an
adjournment from Saturday last.
Contending that the proposed postal
savings bank legislation Is without
constitutional warrant, unwise in pol
Icy, an unwarranted obtrusion of the
government into the business affairs
Of the nation and an invasion of the
rights of the states, Senator Bailey
of Texas Thursday made his long an
ticipated speech on this subject in the
senate.
The senate committee on agricul-
ture Wednesday decided to increase
the houses appropriation to fight the
boil weevil from $4,000 to $255,O0O.
The Vreeland bill, equalizing the tax.
alton of government bonds, was acted
on favorably Wednesday by a subcom-
mittee of the house on banking and
currency. Representative Gillespie of
Texas opposed the bill and will sub
nit minority report.
The house Tuesday concluded con.
sideration of the Indian appropriation
bill, which it passed practically in
the form recommended by the COM
mittee. The bill carried appropriations
aggregating about eight and a quarter
Millions of dollars /
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-04
MAKING SOIL SURVEY.
Department of Agriculture Places Ex-
perts in Local Field.

Baton Rouge.-A soil survey Of Con-
cCrdia parish is being undertaken by
the Bureau Of Soils, United States De-
partment of Agriculture. c. }. Mann
and E. B. Watson Of the bureau are
carrying on this work. and it is anti
cipated that the party will be further
increased at at early date by the addi-
tion of two more men in order that
the soil survey Of the parish may be
completed early in the spring Of 1910.
COncordia is the first parish in the east
central portion Of the state in which a
soil survey has been made, and il was
selected largely because il is repreSen
tative Of the rich alIuvial bottom lands
which have been formed along the Mis-.
sissippi and Red rivers. In addition,
the planters Of the section are deeply
interested in greater Investigation
Of the crops to be grown in central
louisiana, and the soil survey will
serve as a basis for the Introduction
of valuable winter and early spring
truck crops. The increasing demand
for products of this kind in the middle
Western states has led to the develop
mcnt Of considerable trucking areas,
both in southern Louisiana and Mis-.
sissippi, and the extension of the truck
ing industry upon the more sandy lands
OF the alluvial bottoms is possible.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-04
FOREIGN.

The rebate on the budget began In
the duma at st. Petersburg Friday.
M. Kokovsoff, minister of finance, and
M. Alexsenko, chairman of the bud.
get committee, and others made high.
ly optimistic speeches. Thanks to the
budget committee an anticipated de.
felt Of S42,000,O00 has disappeared and
the budget for the first time in TWEEN.
ty-two years just closed shows a sur.
plus of $1,S5O,0O0. NJ. Alexsenko warn.
ed the duma against reckless appro.
priations.
Senators Croix and Lintelhac fought
duel with swords Thursday near
Paris. Croix ran Lintelhac through
the forearm, and the latter wished to
continue, but the seconds stopped the
combat. The two were reconciled be.
fore they left the field. The quarrel
arose over politics.
The government at Paris decided
Immediately to dispatch the armored
cruiser Victor Hugo, with marines to
Guadalupe to restore order, disturbed
by the rioting cane cutters on strike
there.
The dalai lama, the supreme head of
the Tamaist hierarchy, who fed from
Lhassa upon the approach of the Chi
nese troops, has made good his escape
to Sikkim, state in India to the south
of Tibet, and adjoining Darjiling, the
British district, in which the fugitive
will seek an asylum.
A battle was fought Tuesday at
Tisma, near Tiptapa. The revolution.
lists under Emliano Chamorro were
completely defeated by the govern.
ment forces commanded by Julian
Irias. Two Maxims were captured.
There were over eight hundred dead
and wounded on both sides.
Charles William Frederick Bosom de
Ialleyrand-Perlgord, fourth duke of
Talleyrand and father of Prince de Sa.
gan, who married the Countess de Cas-.
tellane, formerly Anna Gould, died in
Paris Monday. The duke was born i'll
1892.
Geo. /. Ham, who was president of
the United States Banking Company of
the City of Mexico, that went into the
hands of receiver several weeks ago,
was arrested Saturday at the Tlalpan
Sanitarium, where he has been living
since the institution over which he
presided closed its doors.
King Alfonso of Spain has signed
decree granting complete or partial
to all political prisoners
They consist principally of the Cata-
lonia reyolutionists.