The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-12-07
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/ vile was Sl,250,000.
! The Darlington flour mill has
doubled It's capacity, from 80 20 100
barrels of flour daily.
With the completion OF present
contracts. every street IN Florence
will have Cement pavamentS.
| Henry Fo.d. he auto king, was in
SpartanDurg last week and saw q
cotton mill for the first time.
: Greens horo, n c, was visited by a
SlO0,0O0 fire Thursday. the South
Atlantic lumber mills being burned.
Director w w Long has called a
mass meeting at Fairfax next Mon
day to devise means TO combat the
DOLL weevil.
! An automobile line is now in op-
Grafton between Charleston and
Summerville and may be extended
! to Orangeburg.
| Beaufort county now stands third
in the State in the number of farm
tractors in use. being exceeded only
by Spartanbprg and Dillon.
G B Grantham realized Sl9l.76
from q bale of cotton and seed at
Hartsyille last week. This is said to
be the record return so far.
A number of Charleston Shriners
attended the laying of the corner
stone of q 100000 temple of that
order in New Orleans Saturday.
Mrs A Stewart Gregg. an aged
and much beloved lady of Florence,
died Saturday at the home of her
son, Mr. D S Gregg. in that city.
DR. William F Smith, who for
more than Ely years practiced
medicine at Glenn Springs. died at
lis home there Sunday morning in
his S3d year.
Rev Watson B Duncan. former
pastor of the Methodist church here,
has just published book, The Car
Isle Memorial Volume" dedicated
to the Wofford boys"
A contract has been awarded for
rebuilding All Saints Episcopal
church, Waccamaw, in Georgetown
county. The old church was burn
ed December IL last.
The Historical society of the M E
conference in session at Florence
this week adopted memorial to the
! late Rev H B Browne of Kingstree.
long the head and handspring of the
society.
Union Thanksgiving services were
held by the Methodists and Presby-
terians of Waverley, Columbia, Thurs
day night. Rev j o Reavis officiating.
A vocal solo was rendered by Miss
Iva Mahaffey formerly of Kingstree.
Nick Cottros. young member Of
the Greek colony of Florence, acci-
dentaily shot and killed himself Mon
day afternoon while hunting squir-
rels in Jeffrey's creek swamp, on
the Hugh Muldrow plantation, about
two miles southwest of the city.
The annual meeting of the st An
drew's society of Charleston was
held Thursday night. Among those
present were Mr. VIM G Mazyck, H
L Erckmann, Esq. Rev DR. Robert
Wilson and DR. Robert Wilson, Jr.
For the first time in the history of
the society, almost 200 years old. no
wines were served at the banquet. !
w L McPhail, charged by the cor
oner's jury with having shot and
killed H w Walker at Midway last
Saturday night, has surrendered
and is now confined in the county
Jail at Bamberg. The negro who
was with him at the time of the
shooting, is also in Jail under charge
of being an accessory to the killing.
The cornerstone of the new st
Margaret's home in Charleston was
laid Friday by Rev DR. John Ker-
shaw. An address was delivered by
Rev H D Bull. Both these clergy
men are former ministers of St AL
bans, Kingstree. The Lafayette
silver trowel was brought into serI-
ice for the occasion. This trowel
was used by Lafayette in laying the
cornerstone of the Dekalb monument
at Camden in 1925 and is owned by
the Masonic Grand Lodge of South