The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-04-15
THURSDAY, APRIL Is, 1920.
Items Of Local Interest

Mr.. Hugh BOYD of Trio was in town
Monday.
Mr.. George H. Lovett of Cooper
was in town today.
Mr.. S. P. Harper OF Andrews was
in Kingstree Tuesday.
Mr.. E. N. Pate, of the Bank of Trio,
was in Kingstree yesterday.
Mrs. George S. Hemingway, OF
Hemingway motored over to Kings
tree today, returning this afternoon.
DR.. and Mrs. Theo. S. Hemingway
returned here last week, after an alb
sence of several weeks in New York
City.
Misses Retha, Burgess, Olive Ben
ton and Hattie McMurry went to
Charleston Saturday to visit the
Magnolia Gardens.
DR.. Walter Mitchell will conduct
services at the Episcopal church Sun
day morning and night, and at Boyd's
school house in the afternoon.
MIR. and Mrs. w. G. Annette of
Cades, and Mrs. B. W. Bdtler of
Florence, attended the Shriners ban
auet and dance here last night.
Mr.. F. Earle Bradham, formerly
editor of the Williamsburg Herald Of
this place, now employed in Florence,
moved his family to that city this
week.
DR.. E. T. Kelley left Tuesday for
Rochester, MINI, where he will spend
three weeks attending the Mayo Gin
ic. During his absence the Kelley
Sanitorium will be in charge of Dr.
Cuyler Harper.
Mr.. S. NJ. Glenn, a prominent to-
bacco man of South Boston, Va, is in
Kingstree and expects to remain here
until the close of the season. He is
interested in the new redrying plant
now going up on the south side OF
town.
"A telegram received by The Record
Yesterday from the Hon. Philip h.
Stoll, furnished the citizens Of town
with advance information on the pop
ulation of Kingstree, which otherwise
would not have been known here until
today. The recent census figures
give Kingstree population OF 2O74,
an increase of 702 or SIP per cent.
A number of Kingstreeans will leave
here Sunday night and Monday
morning for Charleston to attend the
Spring reunion of the bodies of An
cient and Accepted Scottish Rite Free
masonry. Several of those who are
going down are candidates for the de-
grees, including the 4th to the 32nd,
which will be conferred on the 18th
to 22nd, inclusive.
Miss Egeria Tsdale, Route Mol,
Kingstree, was in town today and
called at The Record office to register
her complaint against the inefficient
and lax maner in which the mail on
that route is being handled. Miss Tis-
dale's complaint is not at all unusual
regarding the mail service on this
route, although they are not so fire.
auent as they were some time back.
Buford M. Brockinton, 1st class ma
chinist, U. S. navy, who has been con-
fined in the navy yard hospital at
Philadelphia, Penn, for thirty days
with a severe case of influenza, writes
his father, P. NJ Brockinton, that ne
has completely recovered, and has left
that port on the U. S. S. Tracy,
fast destroyer, for trip around the
world.
The speed limit in Kingstree has
no 'limit" it would appear by the rate
some youngsters were coming down
Academy street one day this week.
They were hitting such a lively clip
that Councilman Ferry desisted IN
his gardening operations long enough
to make an attempt to check the
.~cc;, O.. this trio of young Amerl-
cans, and they did slow down their
car. No, it wasn't Ford.