The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-01-04
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! Conway is to have free mail dellV-
cry shortly.
Rock Hill was visited by $4,000
fire Sunday.
! Newfoundland became dry'with
the coming of the new year.
, The Bank Of Florence paid out
! $4,000 on Christmas savings checks.
Union station, Columbia, is under
going extensive Improvements, cost
ing 100000.
A boil weevil meeting will be held
at Aiken Wednesday. Gov Manning
and others will speak.
The federal reserve bank at Allan
ia has declared dividend of 6% for
the six months ended June 80 last.
Miss Helen Kohn of Columbia has
been elected first vice president of
the Southeastern Jewish Religious
, School union.
Tampa, Fla. paid almost a million
dollars internal revenue on cigars
last year. The output was 313.OOO,-
600 cigars, the largest on record.
IA Milling of Greenwood died at
his home there last week. He is sur
vived by widow and eight children
Among his sons is Maurice G Mill
ing.a travelling salesman we'll known
in Kingstree.
Hampton Terrace, the famous
tourist hotel at North Augusta, was
destroyed by fire Sunday, ,entailihg a
loss of 100000, with insurance of
100000. The fire was caused by
crossed wires.
The Baptist State mission board
was in session al Columbia last week
end. Among those present were
Revs E P Easterling of Lake City,
F H Martin of Florence and E T
Jones of Edgefeld.
A joint watch night service by the
Northern and Southern branches of
the Methodist church was held in
New Orleans SUNDAY night, the first
Joint assemblage of those bodies in
that city since 1S45.
A farmers service association
! in connection with the Southern Fer
tiizer association was opened up in
Atlanta. Ga. tits headed by Prof }
N Harper, who recently resigned as
dean of Clemson college.
Converse college will receive
$50, 900 from the general education
al fund in New York as the result
of the generosity of the citizens of
Spartanburg in subscribing to the
SlOO, 900 endowment fund.
Edward Bomar Blalock. aged II
years, died at Sumter hospital Sun
day, following an operation for ap-
pendicitis. He was brother of Mrs
w S Boyd of Salters, who was with
him at the time of his death.
Asheville. N C, has recently been
requiring all coal sold in the city to
be weighed on the city scales. and in
every case the weight was above
that claimed by the seller, in some
instances as much as 100 pounds.
The usual thanksgiving service was
held at Pine Grove church. Colleton
county, New Years day. E L FISH
burne, Esq, delivered an address on,
THE First Thanksgiving. by Whom
Observed, and for What Were They
Thankful"
Sheriff John w Foster and Super
visor w c Foster of Oconee county
were asphyxiated in hotel at Eliz-
abeth,N J,last week. They had gone
to that city to bring back negro
fugitive. 1t is believed that one of
the unfortunate men blew out the
gas.
Mrs P B Hopston of Florence had
narrow escape. from being killed
while riding in her auto Friday. A
small boy James Ward. used the win
dow of the car as a target for his
new gun. The fact that the balls
struck the lady's comb is what saved
her life.
The executive committee of the
South Carolina Christian Endeavor
union met in Columbia Thursday.
Miss Hannah Plowden was one of
those in attendance. Christian En-
deavor is growing by leaps and
bounds in South Carolina, this State
being one of the leaders in the South.
Alexander C Dick of Hartsville
has been appointed to the Cecil
Rhodes scholarship from South Car