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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23

To the Voters of Williamsburg County:
hereby announce myself a candi-
date for the State Senate, subject to the
rules of the Democratic primary. So
Letting your support, / am,
Respectfully,
b HUGH MCCUTCHEN.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23
AT GREELYyILLE,.

/ hereby announce myself for r
appointment to the office of kagistra
at Greelyville, subject to the rules
Democratic primary. q
p M BRADSHAW.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23
For State Senator.

To the Democratic Voters of Will
liamsburg County:-I hereby announce
my candidacy for reelection to the State
Senate, subject to the rules governing
the primary election. Soliciting your
support, am, Respectfully,
n &c EPPS.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23
For House Of Representatives.

To the Voters of Williamsburg County:
have decided to allow my name to
be used in the coming primary to be
voted on for one of your Representa-
tives. promise to abide your decis-
ion. Yours Respectfully,
o J j M GRAHAM.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23

To the Voters of williamsburg County:
hereby announce myself a candi-
date for the House Of Representatives,
subject to the rules of the Democratic
primary. Respectfully soliciting your
support, / am.
Yours very truly,
DR. J H PRATT.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23

The friends of Mr. s A GRAHAM an
nounce him as candidate for the House
of Representatives, subject to the rules
of the Democratic party. p
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23

The friends of Mr. " ENos MCDANIEL
having faith in his integrity and ability
do present his name as candidate for
Magistrate for Johnsonville District,
subject to the rules Of the Democratic
primary.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23
For Magistrate
AT JoHNSONyILLE.

For Magistrate
AT JOHNSoNyILLE.
The friends of Mr. " ENos MCDANIEL
having faith in his integrity and ability
do present his name as candidate for
Magistrate for Johnsonville District,
subject to the rules Of the Democratic
primary. -
AT HEBRON.
The friends of Mr. R C McELyEEN
hereby announce him as candidate
for Magistrate of the Hebron District,
subject to the rules of the primary.
MANY FRIENDS.
hereby announce myself candi-
date for the Office of Magistrate in He
bron District, subject to the rules Of
the Democratic primary. / promise, If
elected, to try to discharge my duty
faithfully. Soliciting the supportvuf :
the voters of Hebron District, I am.
Respectfully,
p ] t FRIERsoN.
hereby announce myself candi.
date for the office of Magistrate for
Hebron District, subject to the rules of
the Democratic primary.
/ hereby announce myself a cakdi-
date for reappointment for the Office of
Magistrate of the Lanes District, sub
iect to the rules of the Democratic
primary.
sc MCDONALD.
AT CADES. -
To the Voters of Williamsburg Count
who are Interested in Magistrate !
Cades: "a
The friends of R T GRIMsLEY offer,
name to be voted on in ihe coming
mary for said Office. He will abide y
decision. FRIENDS.
hereby announce myself cat
date for Magistrate at Cades. subj
to the rules of the Democratic prims
Soliciting your support, ! am, AZ
Very respectfully,
p BW McELvI -
AT MoRRIsy1LLE.
The friends of MIR J II EADDY
nounce him as a candidate for Magi
trate for Morrisville District, subje
to rules of the Democratic party.
thereby announce myself q candidate
for the office Of Magistrate for orfiss
vile District. subject to the rules Of the
Democratic party.
p I'M GOODWIN. i
AT TRIO.
To the Voters Of Williamsburg County
who are Interested IN Magistrate atI
Trio:
hereby announce myself candi-
date for Magistrate at Trio, subject to |
the rules Of the Democratic primssys-
Very respectfully,
AW GRAHAM.
! hereby announce myself candi
date for Magistrate for Trio District
subject to the rules of the primary.
p ] P THOMAS.
hereby announce myself a candidat
for Magistrate Of the Trio district. N
record Of two years as Magistrate
before the people. can but promis
if elected, to do in the future as hai
done in the past-that is, to work for ii
people and all the people. Solicitir
your suffrages in my behalf, and prom
ising to perform the duties of this office
fearlessly and honestly, "a
Respectfully.
p WS CANLIEs
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23

To the Voters of Williamsburg County:
thereby announce myself candidate
for the House of Representatives,, sub
ject to the rules of the Democratic
primary. Soliciting your support. /
am Very respectfully,
3 B CHANDLER.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23

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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-23
r B SMITH.

thereby announce myself g candidate
for re-appointment to the office OF
County Treasurer, subject to the rules
of the Democratic primary.
D j WESLEY Cook.
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26
PORT PENN

Mrs. George Webb is entertaining
her sister Mrs. Joseph Webb, of near
town.
Mrs. B. W. Yearsley entertained two
days of last week Miss Ethel Prettyman,
Of Newport.
Miss Viola Bender spent last week
with her cousin Mrs. Rachel Bender, at
Summit Bridge.
Mrs. William Denny, of New Castle,
is spending the week with her parents
Joseph Denny and wife.
Brainard Webb, of Philadelphia, was
called home last week on account of the
illness and death Of his aunt Miss Anna
Webb.
Miss Anna Webb who was so seriouly
burned Sunday week died on Friday
last. Private services were held from
her late residence on Sunday. Inter
ment in Hickory Grove Cemetery.
The infant daughter of Walter Years
ley who was reported as being i'll last
week, died on Tuesday night after sew
eral days of intense suffering. Servi-
ces were held on Friday. DR.. Milligan,
from st. Georges officiating.
"Suffer little children to come unto
Me and forbid them not.
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26
CONFESSES 50 PER CENT.

"As we expected, the Transcript
iercely denounces a misstatement
inadvertently made by Every Even
no in relation to the increase of
he county tax rate this year, but
corrected as soon as the error was
discovered, that the increase was
o cents on the 500, when it was
cents. "-E0eTy EUe1silg, Sept. 9Ist.
For this so per cent. recantation Of
"inadvertent misstatement," oui
'anks; later, after its quibbling lie is
lain exposed, it win take back the
her half.
Once more we ask the thousands OF
sw Castle County taxpayers to com
re their tax receipts for 1912 with
|ose for 1913 showing 10 per cent.
|,rease.. which even the increased de-
|ands for 1914 still leave 5 per cent.
u than in 1912 under the old court.
The Every Evening is believer in
u III maxim that 70 lie well stuck to,
as good as the truth"i
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26

the City's money for useless printing.
Since this charge was made by Chair
man Slower, of City Council, and all
the facts were published, the discredit-
ed Editor of Every Evening has given
the public the benefit of his silence. in
regard to affairs of City Council. It ie
an old saying that he who first cries
thief will bear watching.
The financial affairs of New Castle
county, so far as the collection of taxes
and other legitimate revenues due the
County are concerned, were never in
better shape than at the present time.
The present Levy Court and the pres
eft collectors of taxes have made the
best record, in the collection of taxes,
that has been made in the past twenty
years.
When the present Levy Court came
into office, the Wilmington Collector
alone had more than Sixty Thousand
Dollars in delinquent taxes outstanding
on his books. Several of the rural col
lectogs were far behind in their ccllec-
tions. Every effort was made by the
present Levy Court to force these col
lections. The matters were referred to
the attorney for the Court and thorough
Investigations were made as to the best
and quickest methods for the collection
of outstanding taxes. The members of
the Court were a unit as to the wisdom
of the course which was pursued. In
every case bu: one, the various collec-
tors followed the advice and instruction
of the Court and its attorney, and the
results have been entirely satisfactory
in every case but one. In this particu-
lar case, the collector went through a
long and serious spell of sickness and
was finally operated upon at one Of the
City Hospitals. The Court, in his case,
did all that could be done, his bond was
entered up and judgment is now held
by the County against each and every
one of his bondsmen and this judgment
draws interest from its date of entry.
Common decency requires that these
bondsmen be given a reasonable time in
which to settle this matter, since the
County is fully protected and stands to
lose nothing.
The records will show that all previ-
GUS Levy Courts have been very liberal
in their allowance of errors. In many
instances, thousands of dollars have
been allowed the collectors by former
Levy Courts, in long itemized error lists
which must have required enormous
labor on the part of the members of the
Court or their attorney, if they were
Thoroughly examined and scrutinized
before being allowed. The records do
not show what time was given to these
matters by former Levy Courts. But
the records of the past two years do
show that the present Levy Court has
gone thoroughly and fully into this i'm
portant matter of error lists, Every
error list has been closely and carefully
scrutinizpd and the Wilmington Hun
dred Collector of delinquent taxes, thus
far, has been allowed no error lists at
all. The Collector for Wilmington
Hundred has already settled in full for
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26
[CoMMUNIcATED1
COUNTY AFFAIRS

Mr.. EDITOR:
In your issue of the 10th instant, you
took occasion to call attention to a
few Of the silly and absolutely false
statements in regard to the affairs of
New Castle County, with which Every
Evening has been filing its editorial
columns for purely partisan and malici-
Gus purposes. Not satisfied with its
false and infamous charges that colored
men were being imported into the Fifth
Levy Court District for partisan politi-
cal purposes, Every Evening has not
sufficient sense of justice and common
decency to retract this mendacious
falsehood when confronted by absolute
proof of the utter falsity of the charge.
It was clearly shown by Mr.. Gooding,
Democratic member of the Levy
Court, after full and complete inves-
tigation, that all of the men employed
on the work to whom Every Evening
takes exception, are married men and
live with their families in that immedi-
ate neighborhood, and all of them
have lived in the same neighborhood
for from five to eight years. Mr..
Gooding showed this by the sworn af-
fidavits of reliable men living in the
neighborhood, both Democrats and Re-
publicans. All of this was called to the
attention Of Every Evening by a mem
ber of the Levy Court, and Every
Evening was asked to retract its false.
and malicious statement, but, thus far,
this reckless prevaricator and malicious
assassinator of public and private char
acter has never had sufficient compunc-
tions of conscientious scruple to come
forward with PLAN and unqualified
retraction. 1t is a matter of absolute
ly no concern to Every Evening that
the members of the Levy Court, the
County Engineer, the Road Supervisor
Of New Castle Hundred, and the several
workmen employed on the road, are
falsely and maliciously charged with
crime in its editorials. Truth has no
place in the columns of Every Evening,
justice and the square deal are not a
part of its makeup. Falsehood has
more allurement&; falsehoods and men
dacity are more in keeping with its vile
and infamous partisan purposes.
For example, in its issue of the 21st
appear these stupid and malicious false.
hoods:
Zone of the justices of the peace in
this city owes this court money; there
has been collector appointed who has
never furnished bond''
These statements a re claimed to have
been made by Levy Court Commits
sioner Scott Of the SEVENTH District.
This is the second time Every Evening
has quoted these false statements, and /
then adds that ''they were not serious
ly disrupted by any other member at
the time.
In the first place, Commissioner
Scott n-ver made any such statements;
and, in the second place, both state
ments are wholly and unqualifedly
false and Every Evening knows them
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26
OFFICIAL FACTS

O34 4%A4A1 A@A@@
"At the conclusion of minor
routine business in the Levy Court
Yesterday Commissioner Gooding
arose to review the charges made
by Commissioner Martin E. Smith,
September 8. Mr.. Gooding entered
sweeping denial Of the charges Of ,
colonization and said that Com
missioners Scott and Fouracre and
himself had made a thorough in
vestigation.
The members of the probe com
mittee denounced not only the
charges brought by Mr.. Smith, but
also stated that the latter was con-
ducting road repair work under his
own supervision in the most OBJ
solete manner, in which plow and
a shovel were the implements used,
in lieu of the modern machinery
used upon the work which Mr..
Smith objected to.
Mr.. Gooding said various afidavits
showed that the majority of the
negro laborers had resided in the
immediate section for a period of IA
years and more.
Mr.. Gooding closed his report
with the remark: 81 hope this will
be a great lesson to Mr.. Smith and
that he will give more careful
thought in the future before max
ing such charges against the court. "
Mr.. Gooding dwelt upon some OF
the work the committee discovered
which Mr.. Smith had supervised.
Mr.. Gooding said all sections of the
road which Mr.. Smith had built was
thick with deep bitches known as
Spring busters,
Mr.. Fouraere asked that the
court demand some explanation
from Mr.. Smith as to why he
ieopardized life and limb by inferior
and destructive repairing, while
he made unfounded charges against
the court.
Commissioner Scott echoed the
statements made by Commissioners
Fouracre and Gooding and deplored
the manner in which alleged ''sprlng
breakers" crossed the repaired"
roads at short spaces apart,
81 believe Mr.. Smith made an
unfounded misstatement in regard
to his charges Of colonization,
said Mr.. Scott, "but I do join with
my fellow committeeman in de-
manding some explanation as to
Mr.. Smiths rainbow roads. "
The above report of the committe'
of the Levy Court appointed to in
vestigate the charges made by Com
missioner Martin E. Smith against the
Court, is taken from the Every Evening
Of Wednesday, September 2Sd.
The Levy Court is Republican, anC
50 to insure a fair investigation, two
Democrats to one Republican were
appointed on the Committee, Messrs
Iooding, chairman, and Scott.
Whereupon this Democratic Com
nittee not only reported that the proofs
showed Smiths charges to be totally
without foundation, but severely re-
,uked him for making them. anc
furthermore, arraigned in the severest
manner Smith own work as supervisor!
And it is upon this mass Of silly,
charges that the Every Even
ng has been expending columns of
criticisms upon the Courts work. The
criticisms are qhite on a par with the
riginal charges.
The Every Evening also says editor
ally that money was being wasted in
roadwork. This bald
ssertion needs no further answer than
hat County Engineer Wilson declares
hat as fact such work as necessary.
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26

1910, and the present Levy Court has
not allowed him any error list for that
year. In no instance, has the present
Levy Court failed to take every possi-
BILE precaution to safeguard the County
in the collection of taxes. The collec-
tors have only been given credit for
what taxes they have actually paid in
to the county treasury, and they and
their sureties are liable and responsible
to the County for the full balance due
in each case, and every effort has been
made by the Levy Court to force the
collection of all outstanding taxes in the
shortest time possible. This being so,
there can be no honest and just COM
plant Of the Levy Court in regard to
the collection of taxes.
The matter of Third Street Bridge is
a matter that has been so much talked
about and so much lied about that we
are not surprised that it is impossible
for Every Evening to tell the truth
about it.
We need only say that the Atlas
Bridge Company, the original Con-
tractor for the construction of the sub
structure for this bridge was the lowest
bidder by more than fourteen thousand
dollars. The present contractors now
at work on the job have agreed to com
piete the work for the balance of the
contract price. In other words, the
Levy Cours, by giving the contract to
the Atlas Bridge Company, the lowest
bilder in the first instance, will save
more than four seen thousand dollars on
tbs foundation alone. These are facts.
Every Evening has no use for facts,
hence its failure and refusal to publish
them. Had the Levy Court ignored the
bid of the Atlas Bridge Company and
awarded the contract for the sub
structure for the new Third Street
Bridge to the next lowest bidder, and
at an advance in price amounting to
more than fourteen thousand dollars,
Every Evening would have been the
first to shout chief and murder;
the columns of it's paper would have
reeked with mendacity and billingsgate
and every member of the Levy Court,
the County Engineer, the Consulting
Engineer, and the whole county admin
istration would have been falsely
charged with stealing the additional
fourteen thousand dollars. We defy
Every Evening to produce scintilla of
0NluGIlCC " prove us 1dlSS CLdISSS lldI
any of the County's money has been
wasted or squandered or stolen in the
construction of Third Street Bridge. On
the other hand, we repeat, that more
than fourteen thousand dollars will be
saved to the taxpayers of New Castle
County, oil the foundations alone, by
the action of the Levy Court in award
ing the contract to the Atlas Bridge
Company in the first instance.
If Every Evening would secure some
careful, thoughtful individual in the
shape of reporter, to keep in touch
with what is actually said and done in
the Levy Court, and thus qualify him
self to correctly report tn proceedings
of the Court; and also if the discredited
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26

to be false, and intended them to be
false and printed them solely for an
infamous and mendaciOus partisan pur-
pose.
Every Evening knows that there is
not justice of the peace in New Cas-
tie county that owes the Levy Court
any money. It is not the business of
justices of the peace in New Castle
County to collect money due the
County. In fact, they are by law for
hidden to receive money due the County
and we feel satisfied that Every Even
ing is fully aware of this fact. AS for
the collector who, Every Evening
charges, "has never furnished bond" i,
this statement is equally false and un-
founded, and we defy Every Evening
to name single collector of taxes in
New Castle county, now collecting
taxes, or authorized to collect taxes,
over whom the Levy Court has any au-
thority OF control whatever, "who has
never furnished bond'' as required by
law.
1t is not our special province to de-
fend the Levy Court, nor are we the
special guardians of the justices of the
peace and tax collectors, in New Castle
county. They are all public officers
and they are. at all times, subject to
fair and just criticism. but no man,
nor set of men, have the moral or legal
right, to assail the characters and re-
putations and official conduct of public
officers and make the most direct and
unqualified charges of misconduct and
'even crime, without some slight sem
blance of fact at least upon which to
base such charges. When this is done
by malicious and INSCRIPTIONS parti-
san who cowardly hides behind the pro-
tective columns of a newspaper, the
offence is all the more culpable and un-
pardonable We have always contend
ed for the freedom of the press. This
is the era of newspapers and magazines
and we are glad to welcome the day
when they can be carried into every.
home in the land at small cost. They
are the means, and often the only
means, whereby the great masses of
the people are enabled to obtain any
information concerning the admins
tration of the affairs of the govern
ment, county, state or national. But
God help the people and all forms Of
government when our newspapers sink
to the level of the common blaggard
and fill their columns with vile and ma
licious falsehoods for purely partisan
purposes.
The records of the Superior Court
will show that Every Evening has al
ready been convicted by iuries of New
Castle county for its malicious and libe-
lous falsehoods and has been compelled
to pay heavy monetary damages for its
mendacity. The present chairman of
the Finance Committee of the City
Council of Wilmington, in recent pub !
lished statement which has never been
denied nor explained, showed that the
Editor of Every Evening, while chair
man Of the printing committee of said
council spent thousands of dollars of /,
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26
Adventists Conference

The Fifteenth Annual Session of the
Chesapeake Conference of Seventh Day
Adventists will be held in the church in
Walbrook, Corner Ninth Street and
North Avenue, Baltimore, Md, Oct. 4
to II. The Chesapeake Conference is
one of the eight local conferences that
go to make up the Columbia Union Con-
ference, The Fourth Biennial Session
of which was held in the same place
April % to May 10. The Chesapeake
Conference comprises the states of
Maryland and Delaware.
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26

Editor of Every Evening could for once
free his mind and body from malicious
thoughts, Every Evening might be able,
for once, to furnish its readers with
some correct and useful information in
regard to county affairs.
UNE WHO KNOWS.
Wilmington, Del, Sept. oath, 1914.
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26
20 HEAD OF
&HORSES, S,MULES

No. 1. PRINCE, black horse, coming
8 years old, weighs 1900 lbs, good
worker and driver.
No. 2. JOHN, Bay horse, good
worker or driver.
No. 3. JOE, black horse, good all
around horse.
No. A.. JOE POWELL, sorrel horse,
tough and hard worker.
No. 5. EAGLE, grey mare, good
driver and worker.
No. 6. DANDY, sorrel horse, good
all around horse.
No. Z. Bay horse, 4years old, by To-
reno, has been worked
Five two year old colts.
Two one year old colts.
Three weanling colts.
Some of these are heavy, blocky ami
mails by pecberon horses.
Bay mare mule, II years old, good
worker will weigh 1850 lbs.
PET and PIDGEON, brown mare
mules, quick workers, good dispositions.
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26
HEAD OE


Five cows with calves by their side,
some springers, Holstein and Jerseys,
some thoroughbred, also two thorough
bred Holstein bulls nearly all white.
Ten promising hiefers. Anyone needing
milk cows should not miss this opportu-
nifty.
Middletown transcript., 1914-09-26

FARMERS:-We carry in stock moth
ing but GEORGES CREEK BITUMIN-
GUS COAL forTHRESHING purposes.
JESSE L. SHEPHERD.
Now is the time to have that summer
suit cleaned and pressed. The highest
class work only; also Panama and Felt
hats cleaned.
ROBERT B. JONES.