The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-17
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Short Items Of Interest Cul-
led from Exchanges.

A numoer of South Carolinlans
are attending the Southern Baptist
convention at New Orleans.
Commencement exercises of the
Lutheran theological seminsry at
Eau Claire took place yesterday.
The Junior Order Of y A NJ of
Florence has presented handsome
flag and Bible to the Park school.
The Bank of Williamson has SUBJ
scribed $4,000. the amount of its
surplus fund, to the liberty loan"
The new First Baptist church of
Darlington is now in use. The old
church was destroyed by fire last
year.
Fred S Davis, of Hampton county,
has been appointed manager of the
Pittsburg branch of the Liquid Car
bonic company.
Columbia Theological seminary
(Presbyterian) closed the S9th year
of its existence Sunday. 1t has been
in Columbia 81 years.
Postmaster General Burleson is
sued an order Tuesday prohibiting
mailing to South Carolina any mat
ter concerning liquor.
Governor Manning has accepted
an invitation to address the National
Association of Charities and Correc-
tions at Pittsburg in June.
The Episcopal church of the Holy
er..Sumter,swas consecrated
by Bishop Guerry Sunday. The SER
mon was preached by former rec
tor, Rev H H Covington.
Rev Albert D Belts. late pasto- of
the Methodist church at Clio and
well known in Kingstree, has enter
ed upon his duties as president of
Paine college. Augusta, Ga.
Charlotte, N C, was visited by
severe frost Monday the fourth time
in forty years that such thing has
happened so late in the season. Gar
den truck was considerably injured.
The Darlington Roller mills are
making extensive improvements and
additions in order to handle the new
crop. These mills have done much
to encourage raising small grains in
that locality.
The College of Bishops of the
Southern Methodist church has rec
ammended that all churches of that
denomination on Sunday, May 27.
offer prayer for the guidance of the
President in this crisis.
A telegram endorsed by the entire
Student body of the University of
South Carolina has been sent to
President Wilson and the South Car
olina delegtion urging national pro-
hibition as an emergency war meas
ure.
Commencement exercises at Bailey
Military institute, Greenwood, will
begin Sunday with the delivery of
the baccalaureate sermon by Rev DR.
Henry Alexander White, who preach
ed the dedication sermon of the new
Presbyterian church here January
25, 1914.
The University of South Carolina
has been called upon by the inter-
collegiate intelligence bureau to
furnish 36 men for the medical re.
serve corps for duty in charge of
auibulances in France ard will in all
probability furnish the number ask
ed for composing a separate unit.
Jimpson weed. once a despised
and feared weed pest because of in
tensely poisonous qualities, has be-
come an important product of the
Westfeld district. near Porterville,
Cal. More than 100 acres of the
small farms will be devoted to a
production of the plant this sum-
mer. The leaves yield the drug
stramonium which is widely used in
relief of asthmatic affections.
White-haired old ladies of Atlanta,
Ga, who remember the privations
and suffering of the Civil war have
banded themselves together to do
their bit again for God and country.
They are knitting socks and muffiers
for soldiers, cutting and winding
bandage strips. and making other
things that will be needed by Amer