The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-03-08
The regular monthly meeting of

A K, was held at the home OF Mrs j
! F McFaddin Tuesday. Mrs W G
Gamble was elected delegate to the
national congress at Washington.
The historian, Miss Maud Logan, read
a very Interesting paper on French
settlers in America.
Rev A f Riemer. pastor of the
First Baptist church, has made ar
rangements for a series of special
services, beginning at II a. m. Sun
day and ito continue until further
notice. He will be assisted By Evan
gellst D P Montgomery and Mr. Paul
Montgomery as soloist and choir
leader. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to the public to attend these
services
-Te regret to learn that DR. Robt
Claude McCabe who has been under
treatment at Charleston for some
weeks past is not improving as rapid
ly in health as his friends would like.
Claude has host of friends in this
community among whom he is deser-
vedly popular. We all hope for his
speedy recovery and an early return
to his home here.
At the annual meeting of the Civic
club and Library association March l
the following officers werere-elected
for the ensuing year: President. Mrs
Leroy Lee; vice president. Mrs A c
Swails; secretary. Mrs P y Arrow
smith; treasurer, Mrs j w Switten-
berg. A number of new members
were enrolled. A series of silver teas
was planned, to be followed by a
public reception on the opening Of
the Carnegie library.
Mr. T o Lawton, Jr, of Greenville,
president of the Southeastern Life
Insurance Co, was a visitor to Kings
tree yesterday, the guest of Mr. Ira
A Calhoun, district manager for that
company in this territory. This was
Mr. Lawton's first visit to Kingstree,
and he was muchimpressed with the
beauty, neatness and cleanliness of
Our town. He expressed the hope
that he might enjoy the pleasure of
a longer visit at an early date.
A very interesting meeting of the
Parent Teacher association was held
Monday afternoon. Rev G T Har-
mon in very helpful way opened
the subject for the occasion: The
Importance of Moral Training"
Mrs H E Montgomery rendered a
beautiful violin solo. The next meet
ing will be held April 2, at ) p. m,
in the graded school auditorium. All
parents and friends of the school are
urged to connect themselves with
this organization.
The county Sunday. school conven-
ton will meet at the First Baptist
church April 7 and 8. Addresses will
be made by prominent speakers rep
resenting the State Sunday-school
association. All Sunday-schools of
the county are urged to send dele
gates. The following committee on
entertainment has been appointed
from the churches: Mesdames S j
Deery and ] B Steele from the Bap-
tist church, w E Nesmith and Belle
Blakely from the Methodist church,
L w Gilland and Leroy Lee from
the Presbyterian church. and W G
Gamble from the Episcopal church.
Mr. Fassoux, g man of wonderful
hypnotic powers. was in Kingstree
this week and entertained large au-
diences at the Uwana Theatre in con-
nection with the regular features
provided by Mr. Crawford. The chill
dren especially enjoyed Mr. Fassoux's
work, or rather the monkey shines
he mad his subjects perform while
under the hypnotic spell. From ten
o'clock Monday morning until eight
in the evening one of the hypnotist's
subjects slept on cot in the show
window of the Kingstree Furniture
Co on Academy St. The sleeper was
awakened about 9 o'clock on the stage
of the Uwana
The King Hardware Co, one of
Kingstree's up-to-date business con-
Germs, has recently taken the agency
here for the Gulf Refining Co for the
sale of gasoline. For the delivery
of this product they have equipped
themselves with motor truck. by
which they are enabled to deliver
gasoline in larger quantities and in
much less time than by the old
method of wagon and mule. Mr. j
C Kelley has charge of the gasoline
end of the firms business and seems