The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-12-21

Monday.
Mr. D C Howard of Benson, a
tried and true" friend of The Rec
ord, was in town yesterday and
called at our Office.
The Rural School Improvement
association has awarded the school
at Trio, in this county, a prize of
$50 for improvements during the
present year.
Prof and Mrs Swittenberg will
spend the Xmas holidays in New
berry and all the other teachers, we
understand, will visit their respective
homes.
Special attention is called to Or
dinance relative to livestock roam
ing at large. We are informed that
there is also State law against
stock running at large.
Messrs T S Hemingway, B M
Montgomery and W c Rogers, stu
dents at Charleston Medical COL
lege, are home for the holidays.
which will continue until January 2.
Rev R L Holroyd Of Greenyille.
the new presiding elder of Kingstree
district, arrived Tuesday evening
with his family, and they were most
cordially received by the people Of
Kingstree.
Special Christmas services will be
held at the Methodist church next
Sunday morning and evening. Rev
R L Holroyd, presiding elder, will
preach at II o'clock a. m, and the
pastor, Rev w A Fairy, at 7:30 pm.
Mr. w T Wilkins was called to
Charleston Tuesday by the illness Of
his son, Cadet w T Wilkins, Jr, at
the Porter Military academy, who
has pneumonia. He is now some
what improved, and his father has
returned home.
Messrs John Baker and j w Conk-
lin, proprietors of the Van Amberg'
Amusement Co, were in town yester-
day arranging for one weeks
stand at Kingstree. These shows
will start here December 25. They
are now exhibiting at st Stephens.
We understand that the contract
for waterworks and sewerage for
the town of Kingstree has been let
to the D H Meeks Construction Co,
of Atlanta, Ga. We have not been
able to find out the amount of the
bids submitted by any of the con-
tractors.
These are very busy days for us
and we have very little time to
chase locals" At the same time
we want to publish the happenings
around town and mention visitors
coming and going, so, won't you
rlease tell US, telephone US, write US
any little items you think would be
news?
Presiding Elder Meadors and fam
ily left Tuesday for their new home
at Greenwood. Mr. Meadors bears
with him the kindest wishes of the
people. not only of Kingstree and
Williamsburg county but of the
whole district, which he has served
with signal zeal and fidelity the
past two years. All wish him God
speed in his new field of work.
We had intended getting out a
holiday edition of The Record some
thing like that of last Xmas, only
more elaborate; but we have been
put to so much trouble and expense
by accidents to- our machinery that
we were afraid to undertake any
work not absolutely necessary. These
holiday editions are right expensive
and to fall down. on issuing one
would mean a loss of about fifty
dollars to this office.
Inadvertently we have heretofore
omitted to mention the fact that
Road Engineer and his family have
moved to town and are occupying
Sheriff Graham's house on Jail street.
We are glad to welcome these good
people to town and we apologize
both to them and the public for our
oversight in not announcing their
arrival sooner. An accident to our
machinery last week took up nearly
all of our time which should have
been given to chasing locals.
On January l., we understand, Mr.
J w Chandler, who has been lessee
and manager of the Kellahan Hotel
for the past two years, will be sue
ceeded by Mr. S A Nettles, who has