The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-06-28

trict deputy for District Is.
The public library is now open dur
ing the day, and any who wish may
90 in and read the current maga-
zines. Strangers cordially welcomed.
Miss Alma Duke, who has been
spending some time with friends and
relatives in Florence, returned home
Saturday accompanied by her sister,
Mrs s A Burch.
Mr. and Mrs E F Martin have re-
turned from a visit to the for
mer's parents in Barnwell county.
His two nieces, the Misses Martin,
accompanied them back.
DR. Leroy Gates, the popular man.
ager of the Kingstree Drug Co, left
Tuesday morning for a short sojourn
at Glenn Springs with view to re-
cuperating his rundown health.
Messrs Geo Bass, j A Kersey. F. L
Morgan, C E Johnson, E j Hester
and G w Ramsey, tobacco men, are
among those whose presence we note
in Kingstree.
Mr. R B Scoggins, representative
of w T Tea & Co of South Boston,
Va, independent tobacco buyers. ar
rived in Kingstree yesterday and
will be ready to go on our market
the opening day.
According to the Sunday-school
Reporter, Williamsburg county has
SO Sunday.schools, with a member
ship Of 4267 AN increase of 49l with
in the year. There were 1913 addi-
tions to the church within that time.
Messrs Morgan and Nesmith an
nounce in this paper that they will
conduct the Central Warehouse here
this season as proprietors. Both
these gentlemen are too well known
to the readers of The Record to need
commendation here.
Mr. Jackson V McElI cen has moved
his family to Kingstree and they
now occupy the Jennings house in
North Kingstree. Mr. McElveen will
assume his duties as county Super
intendent of Education July l., sue
ceeding Mr. ] G Mccullough.
The Atlantic Coast Line has ap-
piled to the Railroad Commission for
permission to withdraw trains 46
and AZ, between Sumter and Flor
ence via Lanes. An extensively
signed petition will be presented
from Kingstree praying for the con-
tinuance of these trains.
Mr. VIM Epps returned home Sat-
urday evening from Washington,
where he attended the old soldiers
reunion. Mr. Epps met number of
war comrades and greatly enjoyed
the exercises incident to the meet
ing, which was, perhaps, one of the
greatest of the kind ever held at the
national capital.
The store-houses on Main street
owned by Mr. Jas Kellehan. and for
merly occupied by Elias Wakim. Elias
George and C Tucker are being thor
oughly overhauled and the interior
reconstructed, so as to make two
stores instead of three as heretofore.
One of these will be occupied by
Elias Wakim as a grocery and fruit
store, and the other by G Tucker as
dry goods store
We call the attention of our read
ers to the announcement of Messrs
Hodges & Edmundson. who will op-
crate the big new Star warehouse at
Lake City this season. The editor of
The Record knows these gentlemen
personally and can heartily conf
mend them to patrons of the Lake
City market. Each of them has prac-
tically grown up in the tobacco bus
mess and knows it from A to Z.
A meeting of the Kingstree Boost
er Club was held in the court house
Monday night for the purpose of
discussing the advisability of having
county picnic here on July 4, but
on account of the short time inter-
vening in which to get up a suffi-
ciently interesting programme, it
was decided not to have a picnic on
that date. 1t was determined,
however, to serve free lemonade to
everybody on the opening day of the
tobacco market, which will be
July IL.
Mr. John A Scott handed US two
large, luscious plums the other day,
with the remark, "You may get
ahead of me on cantalOupes. but |