The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-07-20

building has recently been repainted,
making vast improvement in its
appearance.
Stephen Thomas & Brother. the
old reliable Charleston jewelers., have
an interesting new ad in this issue
! of The Record.
! Mr. and Mrs P o Arrowsmith and
children have been spending some
DAYS on Sullivan's Island for rest
and recuperation.
Mr. Farmer, if you are in reach OF
Kingstree market, you will be doing
yourself an injustice not to bring
your tobacco here.
Mayor L w Gilland has been for
the past week or two on Sullivan S
Island recuperating from an attack
of chills and fever.
! 1t is hard to gauge the depths of
moral depravity of man able to
work who will beat a poor widow
out of board bill.
Misses Jennie and Marjorie Rus
sell of Lumberton, North Carolina,
are guests Of the family of their un-
Gle, Mr. Hugh McCutchen.
Mr. R H Kellahan is building a
neat cottage in North Kingstree, to
be occupied by Mr. J W Swittenberg
and family, we understand.
Mr. Marion Suits Of Clinton is
visiting his home-folk in town. Mr.
Suits is now foreman of the Thorn
we'll Orphanage printing plant.
DR. and Mrs A NJ Snider, with
their daughter, Mrs E c Epps, and
her children, left for Myrtle Beach
last week to spend several weeks.
Effective July s, Pullman buffet
cars were put on trains Nos % and
80 on the Atlantic Coast Line, oper-
ating between Charleston and Green
Vile.
Children's day will be observed for
the Methodist Sunday-school at the
school auditorium next Sunday even
ing at $50 o'clock. Everybody is
invited.
Tobacco is coming in regularly
now and the warehouse-men are
much encouraged at the outlook.
Prices, too, are fine, almost anything
bearing the name of tobacco being
readily salable good price.
We regret to hear that our friend,
Mr. V A Sedgwick, and family con-
template in the near future chang
ing their place of residence to the
thriving town of Andrews. Our best
wishes attend them in their new
home.
We are paying two dollars g
month for Phone No SO to accommo'
date our readers. Yet they very sci.
dom give US news item, even those
closely connected with the telephone
company. Ring US up when you have
a visitor.
Porter Fulton, one of our coloreC
subscribers, who has a farm on Nj
H E Montgomery's place near town
brought to town a specimen of his
fine cotton Saturday. Porter says
that he has So acres of cotton that
will average bale to the acre.
We were pleased to shake hands
Tuesday with 'Uncle"George Mitch
um of Central. Uncle George
is still cheerful and is holding mis-
own pretty we'll against age and in.
firmities. Such men as Uncle
George Mitchum really never grow
old.
Mr. and Mrs W P Hawkins, who
have been conducting a boarding es'
tablishment at the Epps House
since last year, left yesterday for
Leesville, Lexington county, to en-
gage in a similar avocation. These
were good neighbors and.we feel in
their departure a personal loss. May
their lines be cast in pleasant places.
A petition is being circulated pray.
| ing the Atlantic Coast Line RAILROAD
to put in a crossing where the road
comes out from Mr. J S Fulton's
place. Such a crossing would fill
long-felt need and it is to be hoped
that sufficient signers and the other
conditions required by the railroad
will be promptly met and the cross
ing established.
MIR A Slide Coker leaves this week
| for Georgia, prospecting" with