The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-09-24
LOCAL,
NEWS

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Corner Tuesday on business.
Sheriff Graham has bought sew
eral bales of the staple at l0c.
Mr. w K Mcintosh has bought q
bale, paying 10c a pound for the
same.
Rev P S McChesney has purchased
bale of cotton at 10 cents the
pound.
Miss Matte Epps, who has been
visiting friends at st George, has
returned home.
Mr. Walter Steele has accepted a
position in the grocery store OF
Messrs Jacobs & Scott.
Messrs C G Barr, Thomas Barheld
and DR. -Duffey of Georgetown
were in Kingstree yesterday.
The stork visited the home of DR.
and Mrs w L Taylor Saturday morn
ing and left q fine baby daughter.
Miss Marian McFadden has re-
turned to Columbia and resumed
her studies aCthe College for Women.
MrJ Earle Reeves of Bishopville
has accepted a position with the
Scott Drug Co and is now on duty
there.
Mr. w B Brockington left last
night for Chicago, III. where ne
will continue studying law, taking
special courses.
Miss Mary Lee Swami has gone to
New York, where she has accepted a
position as teacher of home decora-
ton in a college.
Mr. VT Wilkins went to Charles
ton today with his sons, Will and
Joe, who are cadets at the Porter
Military academy.
Miss Nettie Burgess, saleslady in
the store oe Mr. Harry Riff, was CALI
ed to her home at Mouzon last week
on account of illness in her family.
We regret to learn that Mrs A W
Flapler. vino resides near Cades, is
critically i'll at this time, having
been stricken with paralysis several
days ago.
Will and Joe Wilkins. Paul Wheel
er and Lucian Kinder left today for
Charleston. where they will take up
their duties as cadets at the Porter
Military academy.
The local club of fox-hunters re-
ceived by express this morning a
consignment of five good-looking
hound dogs from Central. A chase
is scheduled for tomorrow night.
Miss Mary Brown of Cross Hill,
Laurens county, is with the Kings
tree Dry Goods Co and will have
charge of their millinery department
during the fall and winter season.
Did anyone feel the earthquake
shock Tuesday at 2 a. M? When
the mosquitoes allow US to get to
sleep it takes more than seismic dis
turbances to wake US from our re-
pose.
Mrs G. NJ Chandler, whose illness
was am ounced in this column last
week, has been taken to the Mcleod
infirmary at Florence. where, we are
pleased to learn,she is getting along
nicely.
MIR and Mrs G D Thompson and
children of Charleston, who have
been spending several days with
Mrs Thompson's parents, DR. and
Mrs A M Snider, returned home
yesterday.
If any organized. definite plan for
holding and storing cotton were
formulated here, we feel confident
that Fingstree business men would
buy one or two hundred bales to
help along the buy-a-bale movement.
Who will take the lead?
Mr. C w Boswell, the popular as
sistant cashier at the Bank of Will
liamsourg, is being missed by his
numerous friends, who learn with
regret that he is indisposed at his
home at SalterS. We hope he will
soon be able to take up his duties
again.
An earthquake shock was felt at
Georgetown last Tuesday at 2 o'clock
a. m, according to the Georgetown
Times. While no damage was done,
the earth's tremor was distinct
enough to rattle windows and shake
to wakefulness several slumbering
citizens, says our Georgetown con-