The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-06-16


IL a m and $50 p m, respectively.
After announcing his candidacy in
the newspapers through the sixth
district Senator T | Rodgers, of
Marlboro county, suddenly gives
notice that he has withdrawn from
the race.
TIE Farmers Tobacco Warehouse
takes time by the forelock in getting
in touch with the tobacco plantersof
Williamsburg and neighboring coun-
ties. Read their announcement in
this paper.
Mr. B w Butler, the genial manager
of Butler Dry Goods Company, is in
a sad plight. Here is theo curt of
general sessions just ahead and
the first word of his advertisement
reads Murder" Pretty risky, isn't
it,
Tuesday nights rain was the long
est and mcst continuous down-pour
of water We have seen in this country
in many years. For more than
twelve hours the windows of heaven
were wide open and the rain hardly
for an instant ceased.
Mr. w P Young having gone out
of business, Mr. P S Courtney has
opened up splendid line of good
things to eat and drink. The store
has been freshly painted and thor
oughly renovated and looks cool and
refreshing these hot, days.
Tuesday evening the enterprising
proprietor of ''Courtney's Ice Cream
Parlor" had a grand opening and
served free drinks to every one pres
ent. The place was crowded for sew
eral hours and several hundred
free drinks were dispensed.
Mr. w l Epps of Pudding Swamp
brought in yesterday samples Of to-
bacco which was cured on June Z,
1910, one month and three weeks
after being set out. The tobacco
seemed to be of good quality and
fully matured. Can anyone beat it?
Mr. E C Epps, the capable and
courteous cashier of the Bank of
Williamsburg, is being urged to
make the race for the State Senate.
Mr. Carter's card looks kind of lone
some up there and we feel sure he
doesn't want to pay that double as
sessment for unopposed candidates.
Hon tt Rogers announcement
as candidate for Congress from
the Sixth district appears this week.
Mr. Rogers is now Senator from
Marlboro and has also represented
his coounty in the Legislature a
number of years. He is an able
man and will no doubt make things
lively for his competitors.
Another candidate for Congress,
whose card appears this week, is Mr.
Ben B Sellers of Sellers. Mr. Sellers
is not very we'll known in this coun-
ty at present but he seems to be
very much in earnest in making his
campaign and will doubtless make
himself pretty generally acquainted
with the voters before the primary
in August.
We are indebted to our good
friend, Mr. E F Epps, of the Bethel
section, for the finest head of cab
bage we have seen this season.
Firm and hard and beautifully white
at the core, it measured 27 1-2 inches
around and weighed seven pounds.
Those Pudding Swamp folk certain
ly know how to make things good
to eat.
We regret not to be able to pub
lish lengthy article from Lake City,
which came Wednesday about noon,
too late to get in type without de-
laying our issue twenty-four hours.
Communications of length must
reach here not later than Tuesday
noon, to be published in the current
issue of the paper. This informa-
ton is published in The Record every
week and we hope our friends will
not expect US to break the rule.