The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-05-11

grandmother, Mrs VI j Gamble, VINO
is the city having her eyes treated.
Another friend has paid his sub
scription two years in advance tc
help US on the new press. This gen
tleman is from Taft-he is as big as
Bill Taft himself and big-hearted in
proportion to his stature.
Mrs Monte Simons, sister-in-law OF
Mrs NJ F Heller and Mrs Amelia
Scott, has been i'll with pneumonia
at her home in Charleston. She is
now improving, we are happy to in
form her many friends here.
We understand that Hoxie G AS
kins, Esq, will remove his family
from Lake City to Bamberg in the
near future to make their home in
that thriving town. We wish them
prosperity in their new home.
The editor has been sick ever since
Monday, so that it was not possible
to get up the usual amount of local
news. With an abscess on a tooth
and rheumatic limb, we have suf-
fered pain literally from head to
foot"
The infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs Robert w Fulton died yesterday
and will be buried at the Williams
burg cemetery today. This is the
twin sister of the little one that died
several weeks ago. We extend sin
cere sympathy to the bereaved par
entS.
We printed the last side of the
paper last Thursday in one hour and
twenty minutes. Eighteen hun
dred papers in less than an hour
and half is fairly good speed for a
country newspaper. Ten years ago
on the old Washington it took US
twelve hours to run off a thousand
copies.
The Kingstree district conference
of the NJ E Church, South. will be
held in Summerton May 1921. The
following delegates have been elect
ed from this church: Messrs N D Le-
sesne, A NJ Gordon and T Olin Epps.
Revs w P Meadors, presiding elder,
and w A Fairy, the pastor, will also
attend.
We had the pleasure of visit
yesterday from Mr. A j Brown of
Cades. who brought us a sample of
his fine cabbages. 1t was a beauti-
fully headed specimen and tipped
the scales at q pounds. Many
thanks. Mr. Brown is one Of the
pioneer truckers of our county and
has made quite a success of the bus
mess of truck-farming.
MILD Rodgers has purchased an
interest in the Carolina Furniture
Company and will be pleased to
serve his friends when thy need
anything in the furniture line. In
the management of the business he
will be associated with Mr. w N ia
cobs, who has so successfully con-
Quoted the affairs of this company
for the past two years.
Contestants for corn growing hon.
ors are reminded that the rules gov
erning the State corn contest have
been so amended that all contestants
are required to send a jar of corn
on the day of harvest to the State
department of agriculture. This
corn will be examined to determine
it's value. A report on the corn by
the State chemist will be prepared.
We want to give our subscribers
the kind of reading matter they
most enjoy. We have several cap
ital serial stories available, but they
cost US from SIS to s25 each, and
we don't care toinvest this sum unless
there is a demand for this class OF
reading. De you want a rafting
L.. 4
good story, a copyrighted novel that
in book form costs at least Sl.oo!
If YOU want it, drop US a postal
Unless some considerable response
is received we don't feel warranted
in purchasing the high-priced story
we have in mind.
To the thoughtful kindness OF oul
esteemed friends, Mr. and Mrs W
Camlin of Andrews, the editor ane
his family owe appreciative thank
for a veritable "prize-box,' hllet
with the products of the formers
truck farm and garden-iusclou
strawberries, crisp, white cabbages
fine, large Irish potatoes and last
hut not least, a pat of rich, COLDER