The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-03-15
THE RECORDS SURVEY.
Events Throughout the Stale
and Elsewhere.

Events Throughout the Stale
ana Elsewhere.
The Pee Dee fair will be held at
Florence November 60.
A State Anti tuberculosis associa.
ton was organized in Columbia on
Tuesday.
The children of Orangeburg COL
lected $4,000 tin cans on cleanup"
day last week.
Adolphus w Green. president of
the National Biscuit company, died
last week, aged "a.
Rev w T Derieux of Greenyille
-organized a new Baptist church at
Mt Pleasant Sunday.
A company has been commissioned
with $500, 900 capital to establish a
cotton mill at Cheraw.
Daniel C Roper of McColl has been
appointed member of the tariff
board by President Wilson.
PROSPECTS, for an early completion
of the electric road between Spar
tanburg and Atlanta are very bright.
CONGRESSMAN w Ragsdale will
address the Irish-Amerfcan society at
Scranton, Pa, Saturday, St Patrlck's
Day.
AW Fte of Gainesville, Ga, a
former Judge of the superior court,
has been indicted for violation of the
prohibition law.
Rev DR. Furman H Martin, pastor
of the First Baptist church of Flor
ence, is conducting very successful
revival at Shandon.
Florence will remark its streets
with perforated signs. supplantlng
the old tin markers, which have long
since become illegible.
Roy Terrill, Citadel graduate of
the class of 1897, has been elected
vice president of the Gulf Coast
Lines, with headquarters in New
Orleans.
David Risley, native of George
town, died in Philadelphia Thursday.
He was widely known in publishing
circles and in the development OF
New Jersey seaside resorts.
The Governor has reappointed +
w Durant, of Georgetown; 1 n
Rainsford, of Edgefeld, and DR. A
H Williams, of Lake City, as men,
hers of the State Board of Fisheries.
James W Gerard. recalled ambas-
sador of the United States to Ger
many, with his party of about fifty
people arrived in Charleston Tuesday
and left on A C L train sc for Wash
ington.
This is a great week in Columbia.
The automobile show opened yester-
day, the State Teachers association
convenes today and the Second South
Carolina regiment will return from
the border Saturday.
Varnville was swept by the most
destructive fire in its history Satur-
day, causing loss of SIS, 900. The
plucky victims have determined to
rebuild. erecting brick structures IN
place of the frame buildings burnt.
The Wesley Bible Glass federation
of South Carolina Methodist confer
ence will meet at Columbia March
1880. Prof O M Mitchell is execu-
tive committeeman from Kingstree
district and Senator R D Epps from
Sumter,
The French Government has award
ed a contract to the British-Ameri-
can Tobacco company for 1000, ,00O.-
900 cigarettes, to be used by her
soldiers. The order, which is con-
sidered the largest ever let by q
foreign government. will be placed
with Petersburg and Richmond fac
tories.
British newspapers the fall OF
Bagdad of even greater significance
for the effect it is expected to have
on German arms than for it's value
in restoring British prestige in the
eyes of the Mohamedan world. With
the capture the terminus of the
Berlin to Bagdad railroad is taken
from German domination.
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