The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-01-21
LOCAL
NEWS

1885,
MIR P S Courtney visited Lake
City Tuesday.
MIR and Mrs T j Spring spent
Tuesday at Florence.
Miss Lillian Alsbrook visited
friends at Florence last week.
MIR and Mrs A NJ Reid visited
friends and relatives in klngstree
this week.
A meeting of the Kingstree Board
of Trade will he held this evening at
8 o'clock.
Mr. R N Speigner is in Columbia
attending conference of Superln-
tendents of Education.
Cotton advanced to Sic for strict
middling on this market yesterday,
and some large sales were made.
NIT Fowler of Cooper paid US
q visit while in town Tuesday and
added his name to our subscription
list.
Mr. ] l. S Coker of Hartsville
passed through town Monday on his
way to Zeb, where he will visit his
sister, Mrs w T Phillips.
Mr. Ell Montgomery, formerly OF
Kingstree, was reelected a director
and cashier of the Farmers & Mer-
chants Bank of Cowards last week.
Tuesday, being the birthday of
General Robert E Lee. was observed
in Kingstree by the closing of the
banks and special exercises at the
school.
Mr. Harrel L Wheeler has gone to
Washington D C.to accept a position
in the Government service. He will
be with his brother, Mr. Preston {
Wheeler.
A special installation service of
the officers of the church will be
held at the Methodist church Sunday
morning. Talks will be made by
several of the officers and members.
MIR ] A Kelley, father of our pop
ular physician, DR. E T Kelley, visited
him at his home several days last
week. We regret to hear that Mr.
Kelley was taken suddenly i'll while
The guest of his son.
1t was what might be called a wet
spell Friday. Saturday and Sunday
of last week almost continuous
pour. The local weather observa-
tory registered 3.03 inches Monday.
the highest IN many years.
In the Home & Farm hidden town
prize.winners' contest recently an
nounced, out of ffty-two winners
appear the names of two from
Kin stree, Miss Sue Stoll and Mr. {
w Wolfe. The first prize was $3.50,
allowing the prize-wlnners about
$3.50 apiece.
We return appreciative thanks to
Congressman Ragsdale for hand
some calendar gotten out by the
United States House of Representa-
tives, also for an assorted package OF
garden seeds. Anyone wanting any
of these garden seeds may obtain
them by dropping him a card.
Jailor w ] Cockfeld. with his two
bloodhounds, went to St Stephens
Tuesday in response to telegraphic
summons from Messrs McLeoud and
McNair, whose barn with its con-
tents, 5000 bushels Of corn and 9TH
er produce, had been burned the
night previous. Soon after arriving
on the scene, Mr. Cockfeld says, his
dogs took a trail and within an hour
had "treed" Brutus Brown, who,
with four brothers, is now languish'
ing in the Berkeley county Jail ac'
cused of incendiarism.
While slowly convalescing. the
editor of The Record is still quite q
sick man, requiring the services OF
a trained nurse both day and night.
The unremitting and indefatigable
attentions and kindnessess shown
him throughout his illness by all OF
the people of the town will never
be forgotten and the only return he
can make is to pray that the good
God will bless and prosper them
throughout their lives. At the first
announcement of our sickness SO
many volunteers called to tender
their services that all could not get