Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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:?4 Iheat ?* , ; t i = t ? > Heath Spring, located on the South ern Railway eleven miles below Lancaster and seven miles above Kershaw. is one of the best located and one of the most healthful towns in Piedmont South Carolina. A resident ?f Charlotte. N. C., w ho spent a week here two years ago, said "The Lord ia;a oui iuis ucaumui ion the midst of the hill6, for a town." Upon such a site has been built a town which for its healthfulness, progressive spirit and successful endeavor is unsurpassed by any village of its size in South Carolina. While the town is built upon a level stretch of land divided by the ColumbiaCharlotte highway, which runs through the centre of the town, it is surrounded by gently sloping hills which insure sufficient drainage to reduce the presence of standing water to a minimum. Thus we are comparatively free from malaria, and it is a rare thing that the presence of a mosquito is noted. Under the watchful administration of our efficient board of health, H. P. Mobk-y, Dr. W. S. Moore, J. E. Sims, C. E. Williams and H. A- Horton. assisted by Policeman 3. J. Vincent, the town is kept in a remarkable state of cleanliness, and by the untiring efforts of the latter, crime has been greatly reduced and it is seldom that an arrest has to be made. Heath Spring is a town of "magnificent distances," the building lots being so large that almost every dwelling :s surrounded by spacious yards. Excellent water is furnished by a system of wells, and a noted mineral spring, furnishing an abundant supply of water highly impregnated with iron and sulphur is located in the centre of a beautiful park, the favorite resort of picnic parties from neighboring towns and all the country round. The population is made up largely of sturdy country folk who have moved here to engage in business or to secure educational advantages for Iheir children. This accounts, in a i I/Tl I J\JU It ? I; Kvery inj h this drusr stc < li youthfulness edies from ti] ?* ;; cheaper to pr II BE < ? \* Anv la 3 r * ; materially hv i C : compounded | Softens the* { youthful apj charms that <i i COB Z Either si beautifully n j S Sold at close PEO j \ ; [ | Hej H SPR ?, i.+ i+A >. i r t i.? ; { i'f large measure, for the high moral quality of the people and for the quiet, orderly conduct almost universally maintained. Many of these who who have come here to engage in the mercantile or other business haTe not forgotten their "first love" and are still interested in the tilling of the soil, the only difference being that they have profited by the scientific metho s now being app'ied so practically, with the result tha: their and other's lands have been greatly improved, farming made pleasant and profitable, and real estate greatly enhanced in value. One of the largest pecan orchards in the State is located here, and a place of great interest to all who come here is the Twitty-Haile Stock Farm, Just West of town. There is a steady demand for the Puroc Jersey hogs raised with scrupulous care on this farm, I those exhibited at the Sate Fair from i year to year always carrying off | high prizes. | A volume of business mounting into the hundreds of thousands of dollars annually is done by the well equipped business house* here. The Springs Banking & Mercantile Co, the Enterprise Mercantile Co.. J. A Bridges & Co.. G. L. Mobley and H. W. Mobley do a general merchandising business: the Hirschs' handle clothing, shoe*, notions, etc.; the Peoples Drug and Grocery Co., deals in drugs and heavy and fancy groceries: WilliamsA- Williams, and A. Cauthen maintain good meat markets and handle groceries:. We have two excellent local physicians. Dr9. W. S. Moore and .1 A Rutledge. and two first-'lass drug -tores, that belong to the Peoples Drug and Grocery c<j .. and th- Stover Pharmacy, both having up-to-date equipment ar. i reeistered drugcists, the latter beinsr B. D. Stalnaker and C. L. Stover. S. C. McMackin has a well equip ped barber .-hop: blacksmith and wheelwright shnns are rnn hr Vrncf.r MrMackln and R. S. Watson; Bennett Bros operate a ginnery, grist mill and saw mill. J. A. Bridges operates a ginnery and Bridges Watson a grist mill: A Cauthen repairs automobiles. A. ^authen. O. C. Croxton and T. EP W1 iii and woman should keep i >re. Jt is the fountain of in old ape. We ran sell you me t<> time that keep sicknes event than to cure. BEAUT1F dy can improve her persona using our high grade toilet by the most expert chemists skin, removes blemishes, n ?earanee and emphasizes t ire s<> attractive to all people IBS AND BRUS ugly or in sets, made of lii^h lounted, and an ornament to prices and very attractive f< pi cc n I LiLaJ V STORE ith Spring, IS t# m * ?< TIIE LANCASTER NEWS, i ? ? ' ? < ?< ING, S. By Rev. J. W. H H. Bennett have auto liveries; J. A. Bridges & Co., also are in the liTerr business. The Springs Banking & Mercantile ' Co., the Enterprise Mercantile Co., J. 1 A. Bridges & Co.. and W. T. Mobley ; and D. D. Williams, representing a Charlotte firm, are in the cotton market and pay highest market prices | for same, while the three former companies, G. L. Mobley. T. H. Bennetc and Hammond & Hammond pay high-1 ast market prices for seed. The Springs Banking ?c Mercantile Co., maintain a millinery department under the direction of Miss Sarah King. Tne Bank of Heath Sprin, operated uder the auspices of this Company, is capitalized at $10.000.00. reports a surplus of $4,500.00 undivided profits amounting to $ 5.000.on and $50,000.00 in deposits. This Bank pays interest on time deposits. H. A. Horton is the cashier. Belton C. Horton runs a firmclass hotel, conveniently located to the traveling public: W. B. Twitty has an insurance office and write* both fire and life insurance. He also is in demand as a land surveyor. D. \V. Hendnx represents a good tomb stone company. Among the colored men in business here may be mentioned J. W. Williams and John Dye who are in the grocery business; John Dye also runs a livery stable; J. W. Williams md Leonard Rutledge have pressing clubs, and Floyd J. White and James Rollings have shoe shops. Frank Thompson runs a barber shop for the colored people. Heath Spring has three churches, liaptist. Methodist and Presbvteran. all conveniently located on Main Street, near the heart of the lafe. with live praver-meetines > inday Schools. Woman's societies, young people?* societies, etc. and all ma nt fining regular services. The pastors of the Methodist and Baptist churches are located here, while the pastor of the Presbyterian church lives at Liberty Hill. The people are a church-going people and the moral tone of the community high i Of secret societies the Ancient Free Masons. Woodmen of the World and Junior Order T*. A. M. are well repELL 1 + T ii touch with T health and + the little rem- $ s away. It is i ul | I appearance 2 preparations, $ in the world. i [ stores that ? ; lie feminine '; i ?p - HES | ?j grade material \; any dresser. >r Christmas. j | iRim riiUU ? i i I i ! * *? I * > 5. C. ** , OCTOBER 19, 1915. A < r. T)yches, Th. D. resented each having a membership of about sixty. Their place of meeting is the Masonic Hall. E. B. Mobley is local agent for the Masonic Benefit Association. The one thing in which more than any other, perhaps, all the community is interested is the local school. Dr. W. S. Moore. J. A. Bridges and H. Horton constitute the board of trustees. This school ranks with the best schools of equal grade in the State. Because of the high grade of its work last year, and the fact that it draws upon so large a territory its high school pupils it was given $600.00 of State funds. It levies for its support the highest tax al-1 lowable under the law, runs nine months, has in its ten grades about' 175 pupils, and is controlled by a capable faculty consisting of Samuel E. Miles and Misses Mary E. Stokes,' Alma Murphy. Florence Peak, Ethel I>avidson and Jeanette Bigham. The University of South Carolina. Win-: throp College, the Memminger Norm- j al School, Due West. Coker College! and the Presbyterian College at Clinton are represented in its facul-1 ty. The prospect is bright for a session in which the school will be kept | up to its well known high standard.' Heath Spring is easily accessible to a large section of excellent agricultural countrv howl"" "? -vv?uoc ui iur une roads which lead into it from five different directions. This accessibility. together with the Rood prices paid for cotton and other produce and the bargains offered by our merchants brings a large trade to the place. Under normal conditions from six to seven thousand bales of cotton are sold on this market. The Springs Flanking A: Mercantile Co.. which opiates its own water works and electric light plants, is erecting a large brick warehouse, with sprinkler system. for the storage of its own and other's cotton. This will furnish farmers ample local facilities for stor ng their surplus cotton. Resides the facilities offered by our location on the automobile road from Columbia to Charlotte, we have good railroad facilities, with two .I.WU3 uany xo ann two irom Columbia. These run at convenient hours. There is not getting up long before | This " Most peoj are able to gi ' Most peo] aehs if it wer (I roc cries wit Most peo could please t trading. ^ Most peo] 4. such a store ti 4- Hut mam f cause they lie r for it. I THU such people ai + are still tradi + day and are * this store. 1 <t if i if you want tc feeding it gro through our < looking for. j Peopl I k Hi ous Town and Its Pi + +M.+A+.MA+K+A+A:*** *****.+**** day to catch a train in Heath Spring, r nor is it necessary to keep late hours t< in order to reach home on a train, the c i latest one arriving here at 7:16 p. m. a , Heath Spring is located about equi! distance from Columbia and Char- a I lotte. it being sixty miles from each n | of these places. It is possible to n leave here at nine o'clock in the morn t ing, spend several hours in Columbia b j and return home at night. We are e also able, going norh, to spend sever- e al hours hi Lancaster or Rock Hill, a maxing me return tnp Dy rati tne s same day. p Ample telegraph and telephone t systems, the latter being both local I and long distance, bring us into S quick communication with the sur- s rounding community and the world v at large. J. C. Beckham Is the 1 Southern Railway agent and tele- E graph operator, while Miss Delia 8 Crenshaw is "Central" for the tele- a phone system. P In addition to good crops of cotton ^ raised by the farmers in the com- n munity this year, at much less ex- 1 pense than usual, large crops of corn v oats, peas, potatoes, peanuts, molass- n es, hay. and a considerable crop of 1 wheat, places the community on an r independent basis for another year, ^ and emphasizes the fact that the doc- ! 8 tie of "living at home," so long | * nrMr),0,i >... _# i i. u.? iuoui ui uur newspapers | " and others, is entirely practical and j P much to be desired. The number of 11 rattle and hogs in the country at this 1 time is also largely in excess of what v it was last year. j 1 Mrs. J. C. Bowling has charge of v he J. C. Bowling cannery here, and 8 has put up several hundred cans of s tomatoes, peaches, beans, blackber- ' rips, corn. etc.. which she is disposing of at good prices. '' Heath Spring is a delightful res- n ilential town and its business advant- | 1 ages are unsurpassed. With two I ' nails a day from each direction.!'1 ith its unsurpassed Post Office and v iur rural routes, its people keep i s touch with world events by reading ? ' uieiy me state. The Columbia ' ". cord, The News & Courier. The n Lancaster News and various legig- ' i.'us papers, magazines. farm Journ- b als. etc.. etc. The people are homo- s >: neous and stand together most s? Fits )le are good to their stomachs et Groceries that "Make Go< [>le would like to be better to e possible to improve the quf 1 j. * i i noui paying exorbitant prici pie often wonder if there is hem more than the one at \vh pie at times think that if the; lev would give it a trial. r of them never find that stor ver get to the point of aetiu 5 IS THE STC e looking for. Some found it v ng here. Others are finding themselves becoming steady < Is Your Turn N ) tone up that troublesome s ceries that agree with it. Jus ioor and you will be in the s \es Gr< * UVKt ?ath Spring, S. 1 osperous People 1 :Y*X+X*AW.+X+X.+x+X+A*A+A:+[-. emarkably on all question* that look 9 the building up of the community ommerclally, socially, religiously nd morally. With all its advanages, natural ? ? " ?/>.iUn.l UoatVi flnri .till U.k. IIU avvjuu tu, nvaikU WFIIU6 iany things, some of which will be tentioned hero. The cordial relaions existing between lieath Spring usiness men and the farmers and oth rs living in the surrounding counrs should be maintained, increased nd strengthened. A fuller undertanding by both of their mutual deandence for prosperity would be for he best interests of all concerned, leath Spring's churches need better iunday School facilities; the town hould have a more commodious and >*ell arranged public hall; and a ten housand dollar school building is a lecessity of the near future. The i T aitoi 1U1U1CU1?IC UWU IB IUUL OI n electric lighting system. If a lant were installed a number of our business houses and many residences 10 doubt would avail themselves of he opportunity to secure that which rill furnish the quickest, cleanest, nost sanitary and convenient lights o be found. Our progressive town ouncil, consisting of J. A. Williams, lavor. and W. T. Stover, A. J. Marhall, E. F. Hammond and R. P. lobley, wardens, are already looking nto the matter, and considering the lossibllity of supplying this much ceded lack in the near future. With his improvement Heath Spring ,1 ,.4111 U-... - - J - >uuiu ami iiuvm me advantages or ho country, and all the essential coneniences of the city. A lighting ystem for a community so progresive in every other respect is a ceralnty in the not distant future. While Heath Spring is a fine resientlal town, an excellent social comaunity and progressive business cenre, one of the things most to its redit is the interest manifested by ts people in education. Besides the widespread interest In the local chool, there is still a wider interst shown by the fact that every year here are not less than a dozen young aen and women from this immediate eighhorhood in attendance upon the est colleges in the State, and a iraiiar number of Kraduates in the rhools of this and other States. You I * * * 5; ?? when tliev :>d." * \ \ i their stomility of their es. \l a store that ;; licli they are \\ y could find o ** e simply be- ;; illv looking ;; i i IDC 1 PI\L | cars ago and ' > ^ it day by customers of U lexl | tomacli by it walk right tore you are ' J ?> \ \ ?* t ? i i ocery I i ^ 1 r ii t ii || * C. || ] ;