Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WHY PAY? 80c. to $2.00 per hundred for fire insurance in the old line stock companies when you can protect your property from wind as well as fire for 50c. per hundred in the Abbeville - Greenwood Instance Association The Largest and Strongest Mutual Insurance Association in the South (SJ sea It now operates in sixteen counties, and has for twenty-seven years been insuring the property of its policy holders both in city and country against damage by fire, lightning, cyclones, tornadoes and wind storms. Property not insured against wind storms is only partially protected. Of the seven and one-half million dollars now carried, the money is kept at home and every dollar goes to the loser of property which means the upbuilding of your country. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT: July i; 1917. $2,373,875 , July 1, 1919 . $5,370,695 July l, 1918. . $3,268,145 Jan. 1,1920 ..... $8,875,360 Increase in Six Months Over Three and One-Half Million Dollars 1917 . . . . 80c. Per Hundred Dollars 1918 .... 70c. Per Hundred Dollars 1919 .... 50c. Per Hundred Dollars COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF COST : The Association is a member of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies. The Federal Land Banks of the Government accepts its policies as collateral for money loaned. Following are a few of the many Testimonials in regard to the Association: Letter From ?. S. District Attorney Edgefield, S. C., Aug. 26, 1? Mr. J. R. Blake, Sec. and Treas., Greenwood, S. C. Sir:-I.' am familiar with the plan of insurance of the Abbeville Greenwood .Mutual Insurance Association, and consider it practical, safe and as cheap as good insurance can be written. I have property insured with your company, and am sure that it is well protected. Letter From a Greenwood Attorney Greenwood, S. C., Nov. 3, 1919 Mr. J. R. Blake, Agent, City. Dear Sir:-I hava had consid?rable dealings with the Abbeville Greenwood Mutual Insurance Company, and carry insurance with them and 1 find your plan of insurance entirely sarisfactory. Yeur Company is saving to the people of the district thousands of dollars in premiums, and in addition to this is keeping all the money paid for premiums here at home. From the favorable comments I have heard am satisfied your business will grow much faster than you even can anticipate. Very truly yours, W. H. NICHOLSON Signed J. W. THURMOND Letter From Ex-Commissioner McMaster Mr. J. R. Blake, Sec.-Treas. Abbeville-Greenwood Mutual Insurance Association, Greenwood, S. C. Dear Mr. Blake:-It gives me a great deal of pleasure to have you issue me a policy of insurance in your-what is now "our" insurance company, for with the policy I become a member just as much as any one else. I know that my loss will be paid if I have one. I know that I will get insurance at lowest possible cost. I know that I am a member of an essentially American institution, where not only are my affairs managed by those I choose, but by myself in annual meetings. I rejoice to know the extension of business of the Abbeville-Green wood Mutual Insurance Company, and the 27 years of honorable ser vice behind it, is a guarantee for the future. Very truly, F. H. MCMASTER Letter From a Richland Farmer Blythewood, S. C., Sept 16, 1919 Mr. J. R. Blake, Gen. Agent Abbeville-Greenwood .Mutual Association, Greenwood, S. C. Dear Sir:-My dwelling insured in your Association was recently damaged by wind storm. As soon as notified your Association prompt ly and satisfactorily adjusted the loss, and I heartily commend it to all who desire cheap and safe protection for their property. Respectfully, J. M. ABNEY Letter From a Cross Hill Banker Mr. J. R. Blake, General Agent Abbeville-Greenwood Mutual Insurance Association, ^Greenwood, S. C. Dear Sir:-It gives me pleasure to state that I have considerable property insured in your Association and consider it as safely pro tected as if insured in old line insurance companies, and at one-half the cost. Your long successful career of more than a quarter of a century, your careful selection of risks, your protection against dam age of both fire and wind, and your prompt and satisfactory settle ment of all losses should commend the Association to the favorable consideration of all property owners. April 20,-1919. Yours very truly, Signed W. C. RASOR, President Bank of Cross Hill, S. C. Letter From an Abbeville Banker Abbeville, S. C., Nov. 1, 1919 To Whom it May Concern: This introduces to favorable consideration the Abbeville-Greenwood Mutual Association. This company has been doing business in this county. Abbeville, for 27 years; has always paid its losses promptly, and has saved the insured considerable money in rates of insurance. It has kept an account with this bank, and the same has been satis factory to us. As managed by Messrs. J. R. Blake and J. Frazer Lyon, it is doing a good work for the counties in which it has oper ated, and we take pleasure in recommending it as a first-class insur ance company. I carry considerable insurance with it myself. Respectfully, J. ALLEN SMITH, President National Bank of Abbeville. Letter From an Edgefield Editor Edgefield, S. C., Jan. ll, 1919 Mr. J. R. Blake, General Agent, Abbeville-Greenwood Mutual Insurance Association, Greenwood, S. C. Dear Sir:-I have two policies in your Association and I feel that my property is as well protected by these policies as it would be by policies written by large stock companies. Soon after your Associa tion began to solicit business in Edgefield county I observed that the class of risks accented by your agents were the best, and this, to gether with the splendid record of the Abbeville-Greenwood Associa tion has made during the 27 years of its existence, inspired confidence in its Association and its management. I have no hesitancy in recommending the Abbeville-Greenwood Mutual Insurance Association. Yours very, J. L. M1MS. To those who desire safe protection for their property, and would co-operate in building up home enter prises, we would say insure in the Abbeville-Greenwood Mutual Insurance Association. For further in formation call on one o? our agents, or write to J. R. BLAKE, General Agent National Bank Building GREENWOOD, S. C. wmm, m