The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-04-08
Last Tuesday night Mrs E L

bruises by having to alight from a
Pullman car attached to train No 80
among a number Of box cars which
are said to have been standing on the
side track opposite the Pullman, and
in the dark she fell between them.
Miss Mamie McLees, of the Mar
garet Gregg Gordon chapter of the
D A R, has been chosen as one of
two pages from South Carolina to
attend the annual convention of the
D A RS, which meets at Washing
ton, D C, April 10. The local chapter
should feel that this is quite an
honor, since there are only two pages
appointed from this State.
Messrs w M Vause & Sons have
recently built an addition on the east
side of their shop on Main street and
are now installing a lot of new and
improved machinery for crushing
corn and grinding and boiling corn
and grits. They have also installed
a Is horsepower kerosene engine,
with which they will operate this
machinery within the next few days.
The preliminary contest to select
speakers to represent Kingstree High
and Graded school in the Field Day
oratorical and expression contests
next week will be held in the school
auditorium this (Thursday) evening
at 8 o'clock. Speakers will be chosen
from both the high school and ele-
mentary grades. An interesting pro-
gramme has been prepared, and the
public is urged to attend.
The editor had birthday Sunday.
When one gets to be as old as we
are, birthdays 60 by almost unnoted.
But this year we were pleasingly re-
minded of the anniversary by the
following greeting from a charming
and thoughtful young lady friend:
Hoping for you a happy Easter and
birthday. l enjoy reading your pa
per so much" Needless to say we
highly appreciate this kind remem-
brance.
About fifteen of Kingstree's lead
ing business men met last night and
organized what will hereafter be
known as the Kingstree Furniture
Company. An application will be
made at once to the Secretary of
State for commission. through the
company's attorney, L w Gilland.
ESQ. The new concern will soon
open and they propose to conduct a
general house furnishing business.
Names of officers and business loca-
ton will be announced later.
The water-works commissioners
have decided to install at the pump
ing station here an air lift so as to
increase the supply of water. This
apparatus, it is claimed. will double
the present flow from the well.
There has been no decrease in the
flow of the we'll since it was bored,
but an increased supply of water is
made necessary on account of a
gradually increasing demand for city
water by those who have heretofore
used pumps or carried their water
supply from the artesian flows.
The convocation of Charleston
meets at the Episcopal church here
next week, April 14-16. The meeting
opens with prayer and sermon We'd
nesday evening at 8 o'clock. Thurs
day and Friday there will be three
meetings daily, at 11::S0 am, a p. m,
and 8 p. m. The addresses and dis
cussions will all be of popular inter-
est, and the public is invited to at
tend all of these meetings. The dean
of this convocation is Rev DR. John
Kershaw of Charleston, who was for
merly in charge of this church and
has many friends in Kingstree.
A meeting of the Williamsburg
Medical association met ut the Kella-
han Hotel here last Thursday. Those
present were: Drs A G Eaddy and S
R Cockfeld, Johnsonville; B Moo
Montgomery, Hemingway; E I Kel-
ley, Kingstree; Fred Williams. coun-
selor for the Seventh Medical Dis
trict, and F A Coward, State bac.
teriologist of Columbia. Drs Will
liams and Coward made interesting
talks on the illegal practice of medi-
cine and the cooperation OF the
members of the association. Drs
Gamble, Jacobs and Hemingway had
urgent calls out of town and were
not able to be present. DR. Brock
ington was indisposed and confined
to his room.