The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-06-21
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items of General Interest Cleaned from
Our Exchanges and Condensed

Our Exchanges and Condensed
! South Carolina used 80 pounds
more fertilizer per acre this year
than last.
The Hardware Association of the
Carollnas is in session at Wrights-
vile Beach, N c.
Rapid progress is being made on
the new A C L station at Orange
burg, which will cost 100000.
A very successful revival meeting
| is being conducted in St Paul's
Methodist church, Orangeburg.
Porter Military academy, Charles
ton, is being used as training camp
for enlisted men during vacation.
The first tobacco of the season
was sold on the Dillon market Sat-
urday, sand lugs. at 1Oc per pound.
Milton Turman, a 9-year-old boy
of Abbeville, was killed by the acci-
dental discharge of a gun Saturday.
Bananas will probably be used in
q greater variety Of dishes through
out the South this year than ever
before.
Liberty Loan bsnds have been
listed on the New York stock ex-
change, and a $4,000 lot has been
sold above par.
A woman has been appointed as
flagman on the B & O railroad at
New Albany, Ind. the first in the his
tory of the line.
A Red Cross society has been or
ganized at Dillon by number OF
ladies and gentlemen, among them
Miss Mamie McLees and Mrs L Cot
tingham.
Capt Jas H Kidder Of New York,
who has leased "Brookgreen on the
Waccamaw." near Georgetown, has
offered it to Col Holmes B Springs
as an army sanitarium.
Fire of unknown origin totally de-
stroyed the Lancaster and Chester
railroad station at Lancaster Sunday
night, causing loss of more than
$50, 900, partially insured.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Marian Cleveland. daughter of
the late ex-President Grover Cleve-
land, to William Stanley Dell, of the
editorial staff of the New York Eve
ming Sun.
The novel sight of the British flag
on Bunker Hill was witnessed at the
annual celebration of the famous
battle Monday. 1t was carried there
by Canadian regiment recruiting
in Boston.
Rev Oliver ] Hart was ordained to
the priesthood in the Church of the
Good Shepherd, York. yesterday. The
sermon was preached by Rev DrJno
Kershaw, rector of St Michael's
whose assistant Mr. Hart is.
Some 95 head of pure-bred cattle
have arrived in Florence from Wis
consin, and there is great enthusiasm
among farmers and boys calf clubs.
Florence county leads the State in
the number of high-grade pigs and
hopes to excel in high-grade cattle
as well.
Arrangements have been COM
pleted for the erection of large
plant of 25, 200 tons annual capacity
to put out high grade South Carolina
ground phosphate rock. The plant is
to be located on the Ashley river,
near Charleston, in the heart of the
valuable phosphate beds.
Henry'M Leland and w c Leland,
founders of the Cadillac Motor COM
pany, have retired. 1t was announ-
ced that they would devote all their
time and talent to solving war ayia-
ton problems. The biggest aeroplant
in the world will be built in Toledo
to aid them.
Almost 60 per cent increase in the
peanut acreage this year is indicated
in the preliminary report of the de-
partment of agriculture. The total
acreage Isl ,001 900 acres. All South
ern States except North Carolina and
Tennessee show greater acreage this
year than last.
What no amount of legislation and
no multiplicity of warnings could
accomplish in years has been brought
to pass in few brief weeks by the
entrance of the United States into the
world war-the railroad tramp and
the hobo have mapically disappeared.