The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1918-01-10
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items of General Interest Cleaned from
Our Exchanges and Condensed.

Our Exchanges and Condensed.
Mrs Sarah Catherine Cornish,
mother.in-law of Rev H d Bull,
died on James Island Sunday.
It is estimated that repairing
bursted pipes. etc. at Florence. due
to the recent freeze. will cost at
least 100000.
Mullins farmers sold 500 bales OF
cotton at 80 cents to local corpora.
tions Thursday. 1t was Immediate
ly resold to cotton mills.
A stock farm company has been
chartered in Sumter county with a
capital of $4,000. 1t will make a
speciality of breeding Duroc hogs.
Lloyd George Josey, aged 8 years,
was fatally burned at his home in
Sumter Friday morning while stand.
ing in front of a fireplace in his
night clothes.
Lois Pauline Thomas. aged 6 years,
was almost fatally scalded at her
home in Florence Saturday by a
kettle of boiling water being over
turned on her.
Judge T H Spain of Darlington
has practically recovered his health
and has announced his candidacy to
succeed himself on the bench of the
Fourth circuit.
w Hamp Bryant. a farmer of An
derson county. and two sons, were
severely, perhaps fatally, injured by
their auto skidding on an overhead
bridge, due to ice.
A fire causing a loss of $3.50, 900
swept Hoboken. N J, Friday. The
munitions factory was in great dan.
ger but was saved. A number of
firemen were overcome.
Conway had one of the largest fires
in years Saturday morning. when
two residences were burned and a
tobacco warehouse badly damaged.
The loss was over 5000:
Newberry financial institutions
paid out more than $175,000 in
semi-annual dividends last week. A
cotton mill there has paid 25 per
cent for the last two years.
James F Crook, former editor of
the Spartanburg Journal, has been
appointed to federal position in the
internal revenue service. with juris-
diction in upper South Carolina.
South Carolina was the only great
cotton-producing State still immune
from the boil weevil last year. 1t
ranked third in production, being
exceeded only by Texas and Georgia
Mrs Annie Sherwood Hawkes..
author of many famous gospel
hymns, including Il Need Thee Ev-
cry Hour" died at her home at
Bennington, VT, Thursday, aged "a.
Yeggmen cracked safe in the
office of the Seminole mills at An
derson, Aiken county. last week. Sc
curing 1000. This was the fourth
robbery in Hope Creek Valley re.
Gently.
The war has called back into SER
vice nearly 500 retired officers of
navy and 1873 former officers who
resigned to enter civil life, includ-
ing % rear admirals. Is commo-
dores. and 81 captains.
The store of W Frank McGee, at
Ira, near Anderson, was destroyed
by fire Thursday morning, entailing
a loss of $4,000. 1t is thought
that burglars looted the store and
then burned it to hide the robbery.
Secretary Daniels has commended
Ensign George Etheredge of Saluda
among others for gallantry in the
rescue of the crew of the steamship
Paddleford October 80 when that
vessel went ashore in a heavy surf
at an unnamed point.
Approximately $50 cotton mills in
the Piedmont section of South and
North Carolina were closed down
from Friday until Monday morning
on account of fuel shortage and low
water in the streams of the sections
from which the hydro-electric pow
er furnished them by the Southern
Power Company is developed.
Ward McLendon, Florence coun.
ty demonstration agent. reports
that the average yield of the boys
corn club of TINT county was 65
bushels. peck per acre; average ex'
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