The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-05-21
LOCAL !
NEWS
This is Ascension day.


friends near Salters.
Mr. R F Zeigler of Greelyville was
in Kingstree Tuesday.
Mr. George Wilson of Richmond
was a caller at The Record office
yesterday.
DR. Wilmot McCutchen of Sumter
visited relatives at Kingstree ana
IndiantoWn this week.
Misses Dell and Marguerite Van
Keuren OF Florence spent Sunday
with their mother here.
The open season for fishing is now
on, but now about the nets and
traps that are being extensively used
in Black river?
DIN Boyd of Salters was made
a member of the committee on Gre
dentials at the Democratic State
convention yesterday.
Hon Lowndes j Browning was in
Kingstree Saturday last shaking
hands with friends. He was much
pleased with Kingstree.
Mr. Arthur McCrea of Trio was in
town Monday and called at The
Record office to have his name
placed or our subscription list.
Mr. and Mrs George Stang of Lou
isville, KY, are in Kingstree. where
they expect to spend the summer
with their daughter, Mrs H A Miller.
Messrs E C Epps, W E Nesmith
and Hugh McCutchen are attending,
as delegates, the Democratic State
convention now in session at Co.
lumbia.
Hon R H Kellahan is improving
his building on Main street, former
" occupied by the Kennedy Milli-
merry Co, by putting in a new front,
with large show windows.
The marriage of Miss Sarah Louise
Deanes to Mr. Rowland F Zeigler is
announced to take place at Greely-
vile tonight. They will be at home
at Greelyville after June l.
The reel team practicing for the
Florence tournament ran 100 yards
in l2 seconds and got water in IL.
By June l they expect to accom-
piish this in 20 seconds. Come out
and watch them practice.
We acknowledge with apprecia-
tive thanks an invitation from Miss
Margaret Emma Cooper, a member
of the graduating class from this
county, to the commencement exer-
cises OF Winthrop College, Rock Hill,
May 81 to June l-2.
MIR and Mrs M R Gass of Winston
Salem, N C, are in Kingstree, where
they will make their home till after
the tobacco season closes. Mr. Gass
is a we'll known tobacco warehouse
man. having had charge of the man.
aeement of the old Gorrell ware
house here the past two seasons.
During the coming season ne will
operate the large new warehouse
now going up in the Nelson Addition.
In this issue of The Record pages
2 and 8 are devoted to our thrifty
neighbor the town of Cades. These
pages are made up of attractive ads
and 6 Trite-up of the town, its agri-
cultural resources its business en-
terprises, its churches and its school,
by Prof H H Brown, principal of the
Cades graded school. There are also
q number of cuts of some of the
residences and business houses OF the
town. These plates were made from
photographs taken by MIR Brown
and show at glance the phenome'
nal progress of the town within very
recent years.
The bean business has been brisk
here this week, notwithstanding the
fact that the bottom fell out OF
prices the latter part of last week
It is said that upwards of thirty cal
loads have been shipped so far this
week by fast freight from Gourdins'
Lanes, Salters, Kingstree and Cades
Besides these. large shipments have
been made daily by express from
each of the above localities. Ihe
present low price is believed to be
due to the marketing of a large
crop from Florida which preceded
the South Carolina beans into the
Northern markets by about two
weeks.
The work of examining persons