The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-09-08
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Attention is called to notice of
teachers examination.
Stop, look and listen" to Stack
ley's Dry Goods Cos new ad.
Id Rodgers & Co have a striking
new ad in this issue. Read it.
The cotton season is on-who will
bring the first bale to Kingstree?
The Williamsburg Livestock Co
has new ad this week which should
be read by every one.
There will be two up-to-date gin
neries operated in Kingstree this
season. so don't be afraid to bring
your cotton here to be ginned.
An ice-cream festivalwi be given
at Mr. w T Phillips. at Zeb postof-
flee, next THURSDAY. September Is.
Proceeds for benefit Of the Baptist
church. Every one welcome.
The county tickets for the second
primary have been printed. Man.
ayers who do not receive tickets by
Saturday will please notify prompt
ly County Chairman Stoll or Secre-
tary Wolfe. Tickets have to be sent
by mail to many precincts and some
of them may go astray.
We are requested to announce that
the opening exercises of the Indian
town graded school will be held at
the auditorium Tuesday, Septem-
Der 20, at II a. m. Prof W K Tate
of the South Carolina University will
deliver an address. The public and
the patrons Of the school especially
are cordially invited to attend these
exercises.
We have 80 persistently and con-
,tinuously stressed the wonderful
possibilities of the fertile soil and
marvellous climate of grand old Will
liamsburg that possibly it sometimes
grows monotonous, but even at the
risk of becoming tiresome to some of
our readers we inten1 to cease ex-
plotting the resources of our county
only when our pen is stilled forever.
The following tracts of land were
sold here Monday: Eight acres. sold
for taxes, were bid in by W T Row.
ell for $40; 434 IL acres, foreclos-
ure sale Avant vs. Avant, were
bought by DIV Avant's attorneys,
Gilland & Gilland, for $4,000; E G
McDaniel's interest in 242 acres
near Salters Depot brought S32O.25,
being bid in by Stoll & Stoll, attor-
neys for j C Everett, the mortga-
gor.
Every now and then we see or
hear of some fruit or flower or sta
pie product that attains to perfection
in our soil and climate. Mrs L j
Steele sent us this week some splen-
did specimens of japanese pears that
grew in her orchard, the first of the
kind we ever saw. The fruit is
shaped like an apple, golden russet
colored and is very palatable. One
of the pears weighed one pound and
t vo ounces and measured 13 inches
around. Our land is truly the gar
den spot of the world and sometimes
we wonder how people can be con-
tent to dwell anywhere but in old
Williamsburg.
Yesterday morning. about 6 o'clock
as we turned over for a morning
nap after a sleepless night on ac-
count of the terrific heat, our repose
was disturbed by a continued rap
ping at our chamber door,. Think
ing the house was haunted or some
thing had happened demanding
prompt action. we hurried to the
door and faced a small colored boy
who artlessly advised us that he
wanted to know the name of this
street" that a lady had asked him
and he came to US for the informa-
ton! While we recognize the fact
that a newspaper man is regarded
as a disseminator of all sorts of in
formation to all conditions of peo-
pie, yet this seemed to be carrying
the idea a little too far. That is
what we told the dusky scion Of the
Adamic race, couched in as polite
phraseology as in the circumstances
we could command.