Scranton News, Pt. 2

Section Foreman Johnson will soon commence taking up the track now being used on the Northeastern railroad and replacing it with heavier and more substantial railing. This work has already been completed from Charleston up to Salters, and the company proposes extending it on to Florence this spring.


Mr. Fore of the firm of Fore & Foster, lumber dealers, Wilmington, came down a few days ago and placed an order for 250,000 feet of fine lumber with Messrs. Nachman Bros. of this place. Mr. Fore says the lumber produced in the belt is of very superior quality, and he prefers having his orders filled by the mills in this section.


We understand that Mr. S. Evans contemplates erecting a steam saw and grist mill at this place in the course of a few weeks. He will also put in a cotton gin in time for the fall crop. This will add another industry to our town which will conduce to the material growth and upbuilding of the place. We welcome all such enterprises and hope the near future will produce still greater developments along industrial lines.


The next thing to be done is the establishing of a telephone line from here to Lake City, and why not extend it on to Kingstree? We have no telegraph office here, and we are always behind in getting the news. We want to keep up with the outside world, and we think telephonic communication with other places would do a great deal to change our relation.


Rev. J.J. Baggett has a patch of corn that is tasseling out. This is the earliest we have ever heard of, and we doubt very much if anyone else in the State has corn so forward as this.

The County Record, May 6, 1897

Scranton News

We have read with great interest the programme to be observed by our friends of Kingstree on "Memorial Day." In the language of another, we owe it to ourselves, as well as to the dead, this duty, for monuments and memorial days declare the patriotism of the living no less than the virtues of those whom they commemorate.


The town council has had the shade trees on the streets trimmed up. These trees are now in better shape, while the removal of the drooping branches opens up a better view of the town.


Dr. Byrd is cultivating quite a large tobacco crop. He has made all preparations for successful handling of the "golden weed" and has employed an experienced hand to attend to the business for him.


We are informed that Mr. W.A. Webster, who resides near Lake City, has collated his inventive geniuses and is endeavoring to reduce the "perpetual motion" theory to a practical result. He is constructing a machine which he claims will demonstrate the fact when it is completed.


The picnic season is here and already we hear of picnics, etc. We are told that the Baptist Sunday school proposes having one shortly at Cockfield's mill which will be the event of the season.

The County Record, May 6, 1897

Scranton News Budget

Croquet is in vogue now. The young folks find it a very pleasant way to while away the long weary afternoons.


Mr. Winslow Wright is having his new residence on Main Street painted, and when the work is finished, it will be one of the most handsome and attractive buildings in town.


We had the pleasure of attending the meeting of the literary club at the Union school house last Saturday evening. We enjoyed it very much. The querry was well debated, and the other features were thoroughly entertaining.

The County Record, April 29, 1897