The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-04-15
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NEWS H{6$, Us

Miss Nellie Ferrell of Greelyville
was the guest of Mrs w l. Taylor
last week.
Miss Marie Nelson is spending
some time with relatives in the City
by the Sea.
Miss Carrie Scott of Manning is
visiting relatives and friends IN
Kinestree this week.
The Cades Mercantile Co, char
tered corporation at Cades. has been
adjudged bankrupt.
Walter Hazard, Esq. of George
town was in Kingstree Monday on
professional business.
A baseball team from Kingstree
was defeated by Georgetown Tues
day by the score of 8 to l.
Mr. r F Howle of Darlington
spent the weekend here the guest
of MIR w D Harrington's family.
Miss Marguerite Van Keuren has
returned home after pleasant visit
to relatives at Florence and Sumter.
Clerk of Court Britton requests US
to state that pensioners must come IN
person or send a written order for
their money.
DR. W. Haselden and Mr. W l
Hodges of Cades were in Kingstree
on business in connection with the
Cades school Monday.
Miss Mary Dubose. who has been
visiting friends and relatives around
Venters, returned home Saturday,
accompanied by her cousin, Miss
Marena Spring.
MrCC Bean of Conway, former
" manager for the Kingstree Drug
Co here, was in town Tuesday.
doc" mas many friends here and is
always welcome visitor.
Our friend P S Courtney has ap-
preciative thanks for lot of fine
radishes ard a dish of ice-cream.
Strawberry cream - Courtney's-
'nough said as to the quality OF the
cream.
Mr. Sam P Stackley. who has been
teaching at Peachland, N c, for the
past scholastic year, returned home
Tuesday night for the vacation. He
has accepted a position in Courtney's
cafe temporarily.
Mr. C A Maull, advertising agent
of the Atlantic Coast Line railway,
was in Kingstree yesterday. He will
return here in about two weeks to
deliver an address to farmers and
others interested in the development
of our county and town.
Little Reneldo Tharpe,a son of Mr.
and Mrs James E Tharpe, who live
q few miles east of town, was taken
to an infrmary at Florence last week
by DR. Kelley to be operated on for
appendicitis. The little fellow is get
ting on aswell as could be expected.
A special dispatch to the Colum-
bia State from Lanes dated April 10
says: The engagement Of Miss Mary
Louise Bass, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Robert Lee Bass, to Mr. James Keith
Deaver of Carlisle, has been an
nounced, the wedding to take place
at La mes June 9.
MIR w E Jenkinson, newly ap-
pointed a member of the State board
of pardons. attended meeting of
the board in Columbia last Sarur-
day. The board was in session sew
eral days, as there were over thirty
petitions for pardons and paroles to
be considered.
The United States Census Bureau
shows the total cotton crop OF the
State for 1914 to be 550,7O4 bales,
compared with 1,4l8,704 bales for
1918. Williamsburg county pro-
duced 36,562 bales in 1914. against
26,577 in 1913. A report by counties
for the whole State is published
elsewhere in this issue.
Since receiving the pension money
Clerk of Court Britton has been kept
busy paying it out to the old vet
erans-alas, so few! 1t is melan-
choly to note that the official pen
sion list for this county numbers
only 140 veterans and since that
was gotten up several have passed
away.
Mrs M Chandler. who has made