The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-01-19

Quarterly Conference will be
held at the Methodist parsonage
next Tuesday evening, January "a,
at 7:30 o'clock. A full attendance
is desired.
MIR D F Baxley of Vox. who
achieved the remarkable feat OF
producing more than 1000 bushels
of corn on ten acres, called to see US
one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs Ralph Waldo Cros-
land returned Friday from their
bridal trip and are at home to their
friends at the residence of Mr. ) N
Hammet, where for the present
they are boarding.
Special attention is called to Cook
ingDemonstration by Majestic range
expert as explained in big ad on
front page. The Majestic is the
range par excellence, for handsome
appearance and utility.
Col J G Slaughter, who with his
family has been staying at Mullins
since the tobacco season closed, was
in town several days this week. BY
the way, Col Slaughter is the proud
parent of bouncing boy who tipped
the scale at 1Ol pounds.
Mr. Plowden Davis of Mullins has
accepted a position with the Kings
tree Dry Goods Co as salesman. Mr.
WD McClam has returned to Flor
ence and is now with the Flesh
man Co, who bought out E F Doug
las, Mr. McClam's former employer.
Col Slaughter asks us to urge the
farmers of this county to plant to-
bacco this year. Last years short
crop has created an active demand
for the class of tobacco grown IN this
section and he confidently expects
prices to 60 higher than for several
years past.
County Supt of Education McCul-
Tough informs us that two OF Will
liamsburg's rural schools were
awarded prizes of $50 each by the
Rural School Improvement assocla-
ton. These were Johnsonvllle
and Union High schools. both OF
which, we believe, won prizes last
year.
Judge" S GMcDonald of Lane
handed us lemon yesterday, not OF
the kind within the meaning of the
slang expression, but healthy, nor
NAL specimn of the Citrus hn'onum,
supposed to be peculiar to the trop-
les. The tree that produced this.
fruit is about two years old, McDon-
aid tells US.
DIR James Mcdowell of Sumter,
who preached in the Presbyterian
church Saturday and Sunday. spent
several days pleasantly here renew
ing the bonds of friendship with
our people, who love and revere this
stalwart soldier of the cross for his
noble character and his long record
of faithful service in the Masters
cause.
WF Clayton, Esq, of the Florence
bar, visited our Office pleasantly
Thursday of last week while IN
town. Mr. Clayton is literateur OF
recognized merit, his most notable
work being recently published his
tory of the Confederate navy. The
writer acquired much of his data by
personal experience, having served
through the war in the Confederate
navy.
Once more we have to remind
correspondents that we cannot get
their articles in type when they reach
here later that Tuesday noon. That
is the extreme limit: if sooner so
much the better. Several letters
had to be held over this week be-
cause they came Tuesday night or
Wednesday morning. We can't set
type by electricity and get the pa
per up in a day.
Writes an appreciative reader(and
one of the salt of the EARTH: / am
sending you check for $l.00. Please
push my subscription up twelve
months. You are giving the best
value for a dollar that / know of in
any county paper. Don't you think
we all should pay a quarter more?"
We are certainly striving hard to
give full value, but some Of our