Fine Meeting Held Friday Afternoon At Camden THE HIGHWAY IS NOW AUUSRED Supervisor West Has Agreed To Build The Road To Be Selected By Joint Committee From Columbia and Camden. Camden, July 31. (Special.) – A special meeting for good roads was held at the opera house yesterday at 5 o’clock, following a similar meeting held last Friday by the citizens of Kershaw and Richland … Continue reading Kershaw’s Committee Appointed
Let us not delay getting together on this Columbia-Camden highway via Blaney and Lugoff. Get it going and have it go right on through. Rush work should begin on the Kershaw side as early as possible so the farmers can contribute the work of their teams before harvest time. Continue reading The State’s Survey
Citizens Of Kershaw Will Work For Columbia-To-Camden Road. The citizens of Kershaw county, around Blaney, are very much interested in the fate of the proposed road between Columbia and Camden, according to Rev. J. P. Isenhower, of Blaney, who was in the city today. After a conference with Supervisor Owens, on whom Mr. Isenhower called today, and other citizens here interested in the project, Mr. … Continue reading Blaney Wants That Highway
1888 Thomas McDow “Tom” Johnston was born on 02 Apr 1888 in Kershaw, South Carolina, USA a child of James Barkley Johnston and Agnes Louisa McDow Johnston. 1900 Tom Johnson was counted in the census on 03 Jun 1900 in Flat Rock, Kershaw, South Carolina, USA, as a 12-year-old, single, white, son. Also in the home were; his father, Barkley Johnson; his mother, Louisa Johnson; … Continue reading Thomas McDow “Tom” Johnston
Only a Few in the 21 Dispensary Counties ELECTION EXPENSES HEAVY There will be about 1,200 Managers of Election and Clerks in Addition to Other Costs. The legislature at its last session made some changes in the voting precincts in Anderson, Berkeley, Laurens, Lee, Chester, Newberry, York, Orangeburg, Greenville, Pickens, Florence, Richland and Spartanburg counties. As there are dispensary elections in some of these counties, … Continue reading Changes In The Voting Precincts
1877 Clara Eugenia Rush was born on 31 Aug 1877 in Kershaw, South Carolina, USA a child of John Jason Rush and Martha Jane Young Rush. 1880 C I Rush was counted in the census on 12 Jun 1880 in De Kalb, Kershaw, South Carolina, USA, as a 3-year-old, female, single, white, daughter. Also in the home were; her father, John J Rush; her mother, … Continue reading Clara Eugenia Rush
Review of Second Trip of The Record’s Car Taken Last Week. Pathfinders Purpose Organizing “Mule Leaders Association.” Automobiles Have Made Splendid Records. By McDavid Horton On the second trip of The Record’s pathfinders the Brush runabout, which started out two days behind the Buick touring car, covered precisely the same distance as on the first trip. The first trip was of exactly 300 miles and … Continue reading Scenes and Incidents
The joint meeting of Richland and Kershaw citizens in Camden on Friday afternoon did not definitely settle anything about the continuation of the Capital-to-Capital highway through Kershaw county. That meeting had no power to settle anything, except the determination of its participants to organize for results. And that it did. As Supervisor West of Kershaw very truly said, it takes money to build a good … Continue reading The Highway to Camden
Effort To Secure Completion Of Highway Between The Two Cities. Camden, July 24 (Special) – A meeting of citizens of Kershaw and Richland, in the interest of the completion of a highway between Camden and Columbia, was held here in the opera house last evening, the ideal having been suggested by the Columbia Chamber of Commerce through Secretary Moorman. The attendance was unusually good, considering … Continue reading Columbia to Camden
The picture at the top shows the ferry over the Wateree, carrying the three cars and their passengers – The Record’s Buick scout, the Gregory-Conder company’s white Buick and Dr. E. M. Whaley’s Chalmers Detroit. The picture on the left hand, at the bottom, shows the white Buick, driven by Mr. J. B. Roddey, ploughing through a deep mud-puddle at Blaney. The spray from the … Continue reading From Columbia to Camden
