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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-08-12


NC Eaddy of Hemingway |
was here few hours Monday.
We hear of at least six tobacco
barns being burnt this season.
DR.. Claude and Mrs McCabe have
returned from Pawley's Island.
Mrs CA McCrea of Lake City was
a visitor in Kingstree yesterday.
Mr. VIC Wilson, of the Indian
town section, was in town Tuesday.
Mr. ] Nj Thomas of Manning was
noted in Kingstree Monday on busi-
ness.
Miss Ruth Mills is the guest of
her brother, Mr. R D'Mills. here this
week.
Mr. w E Severance of Lake City
was in Kingstree on his usual rounds
Monday.
Major j C Lanham of Summerton
made his round of the merchants
Wednesday.
Comptroller General Sawyer of
Columbia was in Kingstree a few
hours Tuesday.
H M Graham. Esq. of Bamberg is
visiting his son here, Mr. F K Gra-
ham, this week.
Miss Rebecca Nettles returned
Saturday from visit to Miss Mamie
Baggett at Lanes.
Miss Leah B Nachman of Lum-
berton, N G, was the guest of Mrs S
Marcus this week.
Mr. P O Arrowsmith visited his
brother, P H Arrowsmith. Esq, at
Lake City Sunday.
Mayor VIM R Scott. has returned
from an outing spent at Asheville
and Montreal, n G.
Mrs L F Rhem and children of
Morrisville are visiting Mrs Ella
Seignious at Orangeburg.
Miss Sue Stoll has returned from
the California expositions and is the
guest of relatives at Chester.
Mrs P H Stoll and children are
spending the week at Fowler with
the formers father, DR. j S Cunning
ham.
Mr. and Mrs R w Crosland of Ben
nettsville are in Kingstree this week,
the guests of Mr. and Mrs j N Ham,
nett.
Mrs R E Burgess of Mouzons
. spent several days here the past
week with her daughter, Mrs R d.
Mills.
Mr. and Mrs w Plowdeh and lit
tie daughter, Louise, of Atlanta, Ga,
are visiting the family of Mr. S A
Nettles.
We are sorry indeed to learn that
Mr. D E McCutchen lost barn of
good tobacco by fire last week. but
no particulars.
Mr. S A Nettles has been appoint
ed commissioner of State elections
for Williamsburg county, vice Mr. J
C China, resigned.
Miss Bertha Lee returned to her
home at Latta Friday, after spend
ing several weeks here with her Sis
ter, Mrs w ] Watson.
Mrs F w Fairey and children are
spending several weeks at Pawley's
Island. MIR Fairey went down Sat-
urday and spent the weekend.
Miss Florrie Jacobs. who since her
return from the California exposi-
tions has been visiting her sister, Mrs
INexsen, at AsheVille,N CARVED
home last night.
Mr. B F Patrick and little daugh-
ter, Frances, are visiting relatives at
Hagerstown, Md. They will also 60
to Baltimore and Philadelphia be-
fore returning home.
There was no service at the Pres
byterian church Sunday on account
of the absence of the pastor, Rev P
S McChesney, who was on Yonge's
Island with his family.
Scholarship and entrance examin-
ations for the Citadel will be held at
the court house at 9 am. tomorrow. !.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-08-12

Mrs Mary C Suits has been con-
fined to her room for several DAYS
past by sickness.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20
THE POWER OF
UNIONISM
By ROBERT HUNTER

A few men weak and helpless ms in
dividuals, can by unity become pow
crful force.
Unionism is the hope, the only hope,
Of the working class.
Individuals may 20 up or down In our
present social system, but the workers
AS whole can progress upward only
cial value to them Of unionism.
This is beyond all dispute, yet few Of
us have even begun to grasp the great
meaning, the value, or the power Of
unity.
Millions Of men here in America do
not yet dream Of the immense finan-
cial value OF them Of unionism.
Less than three million men realize
the power of unity in the shop.
And how few they are compared with
the rest Of the workers in America! Yet
look mt what unity has done for them.
They have the shortest hours, the
highest wages. the best treatment.
They have hope, confidence, self re-
spect.
They have to an extent emancipnted
themselves from subjection to individ-
ual oppressors. vile conditions, low
wages, and long hours. yet. even they,
the most intelligent OF the working class.
do not yet understand the fulf power of
unity.
Think what il would mean II every
man, woman and child who. toll in this
country should be bound together in
bonds Of perfect brotherhood.
Think what they could do IN ease Of n
strike or a lockout or any difference
whatever with the powers that rule this
world.
If they would all unite how quickly
they could bring tyranny to its knees.
OF course the unity must bc first Of
all, and above sll. the unity OF men in
the shop, but there must also be unity
when they go TO the grocer or the cloth
er.
Today union men often spend $40 a
month to destroy unionism where they
give one dollar a month to build mp un-
ionism.
body spend no less than 81 800, ,0O0. 900 Il
year to purchase the necessities Of life.
Every dollar Of that immense sum
that is spent for non-union goods is
spent to break down the union.
When strike is on, union men nll
over the country send their contribution
to support the strike.
They do all in their power TO support
their brother unionists when they seem
to be in trouble, but the little strike
which you aid here or there by contri-
buttons is nothing compared with the
evil your millions Of dollors do In sup.
porting non-nion products.
When unionist spends 40 month
buying scab products he is trying with
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20
RENO CENTRAL BODESDENY
DEMAND FOR LABOR THERE
CLAIM BOOST STORIES OF THE
PAPERS ARE MISLEADING.
Trades and Labor Council and Building
Trades Council Send Out Letter
Giving the True Situation.


The Central Trades and Labor As
sembly of Reno, New. and the Washo
County Building Trades Council, are Wig
orously protesting against the boost"
stories being printed in the daily papers
of that city and flooding OF the city
with idle workmen. Following is a let.
ter read before the Denver Trades and
Labor Assembly at the regular meet
ing last Sunday afternoon.
Reno. New, March @. 1915.
To Secretaries of Central Trades and
Building Trades Councils.
Greeting: Our Reno newspapers in
their efforts to make good showing
guilty of publishing some very ito say
the least) misleading sarticals in their
| news items, giving the impression to
those who are not posted, the idea that
a boom is on in Reno.
The Central Trades and Building
Trades Councils of this city have in
structed their secretaries to communicate
with secretaries of adjoining cities and
throughout the United States and inform
them of the facts, which are, that at the
present time, there are ten men to every
Job in Washoe county.
In the little town of Sparks, less than
two miles away. the Southern Pacific
railroad has discharged over 400 men
since November l. Many of them pulled
out at once, but the greater number are
in and around Reno and vicinity and
ready to hop on any job they can pick
up.
We ask you to post your members as
to the conditions here and thereby save
them railroad fare and sure disappoint-
ment, should they have seen Reno daily
papers.
Fraternally yours.
+. j.. BLACKLIDGE.
Secretary Washoe Bldg.
Trades Council.
J. ALBERT DIENER,
Secretary Reno Central Trades
and Labor Council.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20
EUROPEAN TOUR CONTEST
AROUSING GREAT INTEREST
NUMEROUS CANDIDATES ENTERED
BY UNIONS TO WIN TRIP.
Los Angeles Labor Temple Association
Reports that the Nationwide Cam
paign is Proving Big Winner.

The European Tour Contest inaugu'
rated two months ago by the Los An
geIes Union Labor Temple association,
is more than meeting the expectations Of
its promoters. The nationwide cam
paign for the selection OF two represen-
tatives of Organized Labor to go to
Europe to aid in carrying out plans for
the proper handling of the immigration
problem has necessarily been slow pro-
cess on account of the immense amounr
of correspondence necessary in order to
secure the best material for candidates.
The campaign is now well under way,
and from reports received from our Ia
bor exchanges the contest from now on
will be "battle royal"
Local No. 2s4 Of the Hotel and Res
taurant Employer international League
of America is out with an attractive cir
;cular letter addressed to all locals of
that hustling international organization,
requesting support for First Vice Presi-
dent Robert Hesketh, who halls from
Seattle, Wash, where he is well and fa-
vorably known.
As an organizer for his international
organization, Hesketh gained wide ac-
and Canada. At the present time he Ia,
of the city of Seattle.
Local No. 81 of the Bakery and Con-
fectionery Workers international, is like
wise out with a neat circular announcing
the candidacy of James j. Doherty, who
is most popular among the bakery and
confectionery workers.
1t is perhaps well known by this time
that the European Tour Contest" was
inahgurated by the Union Labor Temple
association of Los Angeles with the OBJ
iect of clearing the debt off the Labor
Temple in order that the labor movement
may be in strong position to handle
the grave problems which it now faces
because of the enormous immigration
which the employers and labor exploiters
are planning to entice to California via
the Panama Canal route. Those who
have given the matter study are con-
vinced that the Pacific coast country is
in danger of being swamped with al!
classes of immigrants, and if Organized
Labor is to prevent the destruction of
the labor unions something definite and
effectual must be done. 1t is necessary
to get on the ground and obtain first
hand knowledge of the schemes which
syndicates have inaugurated in Southern
and Central Europe, and also to educate
those prospective immigrants as to the
real conditions which they must expect
to face when they arrive here.
For all information regarding terms
and voting value of stock, address "Con-
test Committee" Room 203, Labor Tenn
pie, Los Angeles, Cal.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20
The Denuer Gas &
Electric Light Company
Perhaps Your Union
Has Some of Then,

". l.. Eichelbergcr Of Baltimore, a rep
resentativc Of the American Federation
of Labor. summarizes some Of the liz
tie troubles with which labor organiss-
tions have to contend, and says almost
every union has calamity howner. ono
or two stool pigeons" half dozen boist
es' men, a dozen or more forem~n out for
the interests Of the bosscs, a fellow with
a disease called -Cushing's Manuel a
few FOUNDERS who would vote to strike
the best job in the country, nm executive
board which is always trying TO find
out how its news leaks an "econi-
mist who charges for every minute he
gives the local committee. few mem-
bers who believe their PER capita v
spent by the national officers for wine
and cigars, bunch that's sore on the
organizer, composed % men be beat for
office, and former scab@ he forced to
join the local. handful Of never will be
mechanics who stand on the corner and
wonder why they don't get started, and
whole lot Of good fellows who stay
away from union meetings and let the
union go to H.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20

great big hand to pull down the union
ism which his poor little dollar OF dues
TO his union IL trying to build up.
When union man gives a dollar q
month to support his union he Is very
proud OF himself as a good unionist. He
thinks himself a phiianthropist. sup
pose he thinks that that miserable dol
lar a month will build up a powerful
trade union movement. But IL never will
so long as he takes his $40 a month into
ten-ceit stores and buys the products Of
prison and scab labor which IL cutting
the very ground from under his union.
Suppose every man Of the three mil
lion trade unionists In this country con
/, sidercd II crime to buy prison prod.
ucts or scab labor products, suppose the
merchants knew that every penny Of the
billion and half dollars spent BY these
trade uniouists would be spent only for
union goods, what would You sect
Every store IN this broad land patron
lied by working men, would have a
big union label over its door. Merchants
would themselves advertise the union Ia
bel and manufacturers would produce
union products and hire union labor or 90
bankrupt. II union men bought right.
they would not have to strike so much.
That, brothers. is the power of unity
In the small matter Of spending a weeks
wage. The buying power of labor II cx-
ercised in unity would solve many OF
the problems Of labor.
Back of every union fighter, back of
every strike. back OF every industrial
battle. would be the power Of three mil
lion men and the power of billion and
half Of real dollars spent each year.
Every dollar spent by union labor for
union goods is money in your own pock-
] ct. Think Of thati
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20

You will never miss train if you
carry one of O'Keefc's watches, 1927 Fiji
teepth street.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20
UNION CLUSTER" BUSTED HIMSELF

Christopher Totten, owner of the plan
ing mill of his own name at Stockton,
California, who attempted to cut the
wages of his employees during the NJ. 4
NJ. lockout of all unions there few
months ago, has had the experience OF
having the misery he would have in
flicted on others boomerang" back on
himself. He recently failed for 500 OOO0
The union movement continues to thrive.
lie stated before the federal commission
on industrial relations that he thought
employers should be allowed to hire gun
men whenever. they thought It neces-
sary."
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20

The Bulletin can be heard clear aero
the continent. W
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20
JOINT PROTECTIVE BOARD MEETS
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen of
D. & R. G. System Confer in Denver

meeting of the Joint Protective
Board of the Denver & Rio Grande sys-
TEN, brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen. was held at the Mark
ham hotel in Denver this week. 1t was
for the purpose of going over the annual
routine business and nothing of general
public character was transacted. Repre-
sentatives present were:
j. N. Wilson, chairman, Minturn, Colo. !;
$. g. Payne, Denver; w. A. Ralston,
Pueblo; George Crylie, Salida; r. +.
Thornton, La Veta: Roy Turney. Du-
range: A. J. Chapman, Grand Junction /;
Fred Bramley, Salt Lake City; and r.
A. Bryant, Minturn.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20
Gas in the
Kitchen

A Gas company lays no pretension to
being phiIanthropic institution, and
yet in struggling to develop its busi-
ness the gas industry has lightened the
labor and increased the comfort of mil
lions of women.
A brilliant woman writer had the fol-
lowing to say in the columns OF The
Denver Labor Bulletin recently: THE
kitchen maid of the present day knows
more than the fine ladies of Versailles
knew when the Louises were kings,
and has more comforts and conven-
iences."
Today the kitchen without gas range
in town or city where gas is obtain
able is rarity and is considered very
antique and primitive by the marriage
able generation of young women.
Every women who has ever used gas
range will be quick to admit that this
splendid ing appliance Is the
greatest single domestic blessing that
has come to woman in the last quarter
OF century.
The time was reached some years ago
when gas in the kitchen came within
the financial reach of every family in
the city. And remember we make it
comparatively easy for every woman
10 purchase gas range. A little down
and little each month will get one.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20
PERTINENT QUERY PUT UP TO Jol

Joe Letter, erstwhiIe cornerer OF the
American wheat market and loser Of
millions by his operations in that cpi-
sode. declares that there is always a
large invisible supply Of wheat in the
United States. Will not the daring fl
nancier go little further and show the
consumer how to find comfort in an in
visible loaf Of bread ?--Minnesota Union
Advocate.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20
COMPETENT HELP FURNISHED.

When in need of competent help, male
or female, call up the Municipal fre'
employment bureau, 1907 Larimer street
Phone Main ll55F, branch 55.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20
OPEN TO ALI UNION MEN.

II you arc meaiber OF labor or
rsnization you are elegible to member
ship in the Trades Union Benefit As
ISOLATION. It's a place worth while.
Second floor Quincy building. There's
where you meet the people you know.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-20

OKeefe, the popular jeweler at 81,
Fifteenth street, has those bcautifu
bride rings. Don't be afraid, boys.-Adv
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-07

special evening. AS the manager of
the country opera house he had to
see that it was opened and closed. An
opera was being given. 1t was
brilliant composition, well delivered,
and the star, Miss Annie Winthrop,
was the principal singer.
1t. had been restful and delightful
to the old man to listen to her beau
tiful singing. The company had
brought with them some attractive
scenery. There was the glamour. of
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-07

vernal beauty, combined with pala-
tial magnificence. When the enter
tainment was over old Abel sat down
on the stage to rest bit before turn
ing out the last light. The glare and
glitter had made Abel dreamy. He
slept.
There came vivid vision. It was
of the old homestead, replaced by a
roomy mansion. There were broad
porches, an observation tower. There
was lovely hedge, swings, a tennis
court, He dreamed that he sat in a
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-07
"a = Is = 50 81
- THE VISION SPLENDID

by wary carter Blake
p, Copyright by w. G. Chapman.)
Once Abel Day, had a dream that
he never forgot. From that hour he
was changed man. He did not tell
of his dream to wife, son or neigh
bors, but he cherished its details until
there was a secret chamber in his
mind to which he could repair when
fancy so inclined, and revel in its
idealism as might poet or painter
or a pure, innocent girl in her first
rapt love visions.
Abel was a carpenter, earning only
a fair living, getting old and only a
part of the building contracts going.
His son, Alton, he had managed to
educate, and Alton was cut out for
an engineering career Abel sighed
and looked longingly whenever he
viewed the spot they called home.
Never was there such a site. By rare
good fortune he had been able years
ago to secure a twenty-acre plat of
ground just at the edge of town. 1t
included little lake, some timber,
a rocky glen and it's highest point
overlooked the landscape for ten
miles,
A more picturesque and command
ing spot the whole countryside did
not contain 1t became the dream of
his life to some day erect a house
worthy of those magnificent sur
roundings, a house big enough to
take in the poor widowed sister of his
wife with her seven little ones, to
spend his later years amid the rarest
beauties of nature, and this ideal was
his promised land.
But the years passed by and the
old ramshackly cottage remained as
it was. Abel got poorer and poorer.
His plans for old age began to fade.
To keep going he had to raise few
extra vegetables for sale. He took
charge of the town opera house to
secure an added stipend. Thence, in
&c
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-05-06
Oats That Travel.

Get a head of wild oats and lay it
on the table overnight, first moist
ening the oats. Next morning you
will discover that the head of oats
has crawled off the table and likely
enough has made tracks for the
outside door. This peculiar gift of
travelling lies in the spikes that
extend from the coverings of the
grains. AS the moisture soaks into
the head of oats it swells, and the
spikes change position in such a way
as to set the head tumbling over
and over sidewise. The larger and
coarser varieties of wild oats have
this power of locomotion developed
to a remarkable degree, and even
domestic oats will develop it if al
lowed by neglect to degenerate
Exchange.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-05-06
He Knew.

The teacher was giving the geog-
raphy class a lesson on the cattle
ranches. She spoke OF their beef
all coming from the west, and, wish
ing TO test the children's observa-
ton, she asked:
And what else comes to us from
these ranches"
That was a poser. She looked at
her shoes, but no one took the hint.
She tried again:
What do We get from cattle be-
sides beef?"
One boy eagerly raised his hand,
II know what it is. It's tripe!!" he
answered triumphantly. - Youths
Companion.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-05-06
Tree Killing Like Murder.

A tree which has stood in every
weather, spreading its multitude
nous hands in benediction over a
neighborhood, comes to be looked
upon not as merely SO much poten-
tial cordwood, the raw material for
the mast of a ship or household
furniture, but almost as a person
age to be revered and cherished like
some venerable judge or doctor who
has a kindly salutation for every
one, whose smile every one is glad
to see, whose very aspect is benef-
cent and benevolent. To cut down
such a tree sometimes seems akin
to manslaughter. - Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-05-06
CHATTER OF WOMEN.
its Value In Teaching Children the
Use Of Language.

In the Woman's Home Compan-
ion Ida N. Tarbell writes on THE
laxative Woman" and explains
why women chatter and what their
chatter is worth. One of her prin-
cipal points is that women are natu-
rally laxative because they spend
so much time with little children,
teaching the youngsters the Ian
guage. This point Miss Tarbell ex-
plains as follows:
"If it were not for the chattering.
of women the child would never
learn to talk.
"There is no one, probably, that
will deny that the first words a child
attempts to speak r mere imita-
tons of sounds-that they NEAR
no more to him than sounds do to
a parrot. When he begins TO initiate
there is always, or should be, a wo-
man beside him, repeating, smiling,
encouraging him. The play goes
on, month in and month out. With
infinite patience she chatters to him
until consciousness is aroused. Then
rapidly his education goes on. Words
are attached to objects, facts about
objects are perceived; their form,
their color, their odor, their rela-
tons to the little learner. The
words for all these perceptions are
slowly gathered in. Then the child
learns to compare, to distinguish
values, to remember not merely the
sounds he learns, but the meanings
Of those sounds. His mind is open
ed to the world, and through a wo-
mans c%hattering!
"'When he leaves her hands at
six or %seven,' says n. dc Gourmont,
he is a man-that is, he talks,
which is what makes a man. The
great intellectual work of women
he goes on, is teaching language.
The grammarians claim that they
do it, which is absurd. Children
know how to talk before they go to
school. They already S all the
forms of the verb, all the shades
of syntax easily and correctly. This
power Of language the child gets
from the woman. 1t is to her honor
hat later he will use it as a poet,
novelist, philosopher or m%oralist,
or, to use Nietzsche's strong phrase,
as a Creator of values."'
"Take this view of it-and who
shall or can dispute its truth ?-and
how infinitely more valuable to the
world is the chatter of women than
all the books they v e wrote or
orations they ever delivered. 1t is
of that fundamental order of things,
without which cultivation, even
civilization, could not go on"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-05-06
Origin of Billiards.

The game Of billiards is said to
have been brought from the east by
the returning crusaders. It was first
played on the ground, with round
stones to take the place of ivory
balls, and during its vogue was con-
sidered one of the best of outdoor
sports.
1t was not until 1871 that an
artist by the name of De Vigne in
the court of Charles TX. designed
the first billiard table and made a
code of rules for the game. The
stones were soon replaced by two
balls. There were used also an ivory
post, an upright cone called a king
and two sticks called masts. The
last, which were the origin OF the
modern cue, were made of heavy
wood and tipped with ivory.