The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-06-14
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Short Items Of Interest Gull
led from Exchanges.

Esq.
Jackson Barnett, said to be the
richest Indian in the United States.
subscribed s640,0O0 to Liberty Loan
bonds.
The cornerstone of the Beaufort
public library was laid last week.
The building is expected to be COM
pleted in July.
The Southern Retail Furniture
! Dealers association, comprising the
Carulinas and Virginia. will meet at
Danville, Va. June 27.2S
James McNeill, Jr, grandson of
Mrs H B Browne, late of kingstree,
is i'll with typhoid fever in the army
hospital at Ft Oglethorpe. Ga.
The annual meeting of the South
Carolina Press association will be
held at Beaufort June 1929. Gen
Wood has been invited to address it.
Another building is to be erected
at the clothing factory at the Charles
ton navy yard, when the plant will
have a capacity of 100000 suits per
week.
The Columbia ambulance compa-
ny, 100 strong, has gone to Allentown,
Pa, for a training period of several
months, after which it will be sent
to France.
In spite of the cold spring and re-
cent hail storms, Georgia has shipped
more peaches this season than for q
number of years. Prices are excep-
tionally good.
If q cantonment be established st
Aiken. it is purposed to enlarge the
hospital established there by the
winter residents and turn it over to
the government.
Ira Nelson Norris, United States
minister to Sweden, bought $500, 900
worth of Liberty Loan bonds by ca
blegram Monday.
CD Bristow, for q years secret
ary and treasurer of the Florence
) Loan & Investment company, has
resigned becavse of ill health and
has been succeeded by j W Howard.
The southeastern aerie of the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles. embracing
South Carolina Georgia and Florida,
will hold its annual convention at
Macon, Ga. Tuesday and Wednesday
next.
Rev LO McCutchen officiated at
Bishopville Presbyterian church Sun
day in the absence of the pastor,
Rev L L Legters, who has been Wis.
iting in Kingstree and at Indian
town.
Mr. Jas E D McCutchen of Bishop
vile states that he and his daughter,
who were injured in an auto accl-
dent May 81, are still convalescing
and hope soon to be restored to
health.
A 65. pound tarpon was caught in
Georgetown waters last week. II
was sent to famous taxidermist in
New York and will be returned to
Georgetown and placed in the muse
um there.
Under a new order of the German
Imperial Clothing bureau no person
may have a summer and a winter
oyercoat without a Doctors certifi.
cate that the winter coat is necessa-
ry for health.
The four railroad brotherhoods in
Charleston will observe next Sunday
as Memorial day. Service will be
held in St Johns chapel, Rev e Z
Williams rector.
A number of officers and enlisted
men have been ordered to report at
Fort Oglethorpe training camp next
Wednesday. Among them is First
Lieutenant w S Lynch of Scranton.
The Terry & French Shipbuildlng
company, which has government
contract for the construction of
twenty steel ships. has purchased 100
acres near Savannah for the erection
of a plant there.
At the Woodpen's encampment
in Atlanta in July there will be a
sham battle between French and
German aeroplanes. It is expected
to attract the largest crowd ever
seen in that city.
Miss Nellie Screws, for rs years a
teacher in the public schools OF
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