The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1913-05-01
STATE and GENERAL
TOPICS


pa, Fla, was destroyed by fire last
week.
June 3, Shandon, Waverly and
Eau Claire will vote on the question
of annexation to Columbia.
A petition is in circulation in Dor
chester county asking for en- election
on the dispensary question. 1t has
received numerous signatures.
Darlington will observe May 9 as
Memorial day, the 10th being Satur-
day when it would not be convenient
for the merchants to close their
stores.
In four years the receipts of the
Hartsville postoffice have increased
from S6,231.90 to SO, ,267.06. Free
mail delivery in the near future is
predicted.
xxx
The Batesburg Cotton Oil Co.'S
plant at Batesburg was partially de-
stroyed by fire Sunday. The .oss is
estimated at $50, 1000 to 100000, with
insurance amounting to $25, 900.
xxx
Rev W A Fairy, for four years
pastor of Kingstree Methodist church
but now of Walterboro, made a
helpful address to the Y M G A of
Charleston at its meeting Sunday.
xxx
President Wilson has sent to the
Senate the nomination of Justice G
A Woods, of the South Carolina su-
preme court, to succeed to the va
cancy in the Fourth Federal circuit
caused by the election of Judge Ma
than Golf to be United States Sem
ator.
In the second municipal primary,
which was held at Florence Tuesday,
Mr. William R Barringer was elected
Mayor for a term of four years un-
der commission form of govern
ment. The commissioners elected
are: l Sulzbacher, Chas E Comman-
der and Thomas P Spencer.
xxx
Miss Sarah Dove Venning and Mr.
Arthur Forester Lide were mar
ried at St Philips Episcopal church,
Charleston, Wednesday of last week.
The groom is a brother of Miss Mar
ian Lide, late a teacher in the Kings
tree High and Graded school, who
was one of the bridesmaids.
xxx
Governor Blease has paroled Port
land Ned" the notorious yeggman
with numerous aliases. who was con-
victed of robbing the postoffice at
Enoree, in Spartanburg county, and
was convicted in 1911 and sentenc-
ed to ten years in the State penitent-
iary. Portland Ned" had served a
term of seven years in the Federal
prison at Atlanta before his convic-
ton in this State.
xxx
DR. F F Friedman, the German
tuberculosis specialist, has arranged
for the sale of the American rights
in his anti-tuberculosis vaccine for
SIPS, 900 in cash and $1,000, 900 in
thirty-six friedman Institutes to be
organized in as many selected States
with total capitalization of $5,-
100000. A large wholesale drug
firm is named as the purchaser.
John P Goodwin. a white man, was
killed by a Southern Railway train
Sunday afternoon near Styx, in Lex
ington county,. The evidence at the
Coroner's inquest showed that the
man was drunk and was lying either
on the track or just on the outer
edge, where he had stumbled and
fallen. The deceased was about q
years old and is survived by a young
wife, his parents and several brothers.
Governor Blease has paroled on
condition of good behavior ED Green
and John L Page, two young white
men of Spartanburg county, who
were convicted of having murdered
Ben Carson while he was asleep, be-
cause of Green's love for Mrs Fannie
Carson, who engineered the plot by
which her husband was put to death.
Mrs Carson was paroled by Govern
or Ansel. The crime was committed
in Spartanburg eighteen years ago
and is said to have been one of the
most sordid and cold-blooded assas-
sinations ever perpetrated within the
borders of the Palmetto State.