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Wl?. ? I ' >J.M '1 J 1 V 1 ? SERVICE Your Fire Insurance Policy is nothing more than a contract between yon and some irujnce company. When you buy insurance, be sure that the other party to the contract is anxious to do a little more than the right thing. This agency has had sixty-three years in which to select the pick of the companies most fair and prompt in adjutttments. No company is permitted to operate through our office who would in any way take advantage of one of our clients. Our record sustains us in our claim that no insurance agency can render better service than that furnished our customers. Williams Insurance Agency R. M. KENNEDY, JR.. OWNER ESTABLISHED 1865 I mmmm rn DeK ALB COUNCIL No 88 , . Junior Order U. A. M. Regular council first and f^r \ third Mondays of each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. I). J. CR0BD, L. IL JONKS, Councillor. Recording Secty. fa KERSHAW LODGE No. 29 fa. A- F- M* </(VjA Regular communication of y^N.x^^thia lodge la hold on tha Nr firat Tuesday in each month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethren are welcomed. T. V. WALSH, J. E. ROSS, Worshipful Master. Secretary. 1-14-27-tf NOTICE OF BIOS Bids will be received on Aug. <>th, 1928 at regular meeting of City Council for I/ease of Opera House Store for one year. CITY COUNCIL, By W. H. Haile, City Council Treaa. ROBT. W. MITCH AM Architect Crocker Building, Camden, 5. C. .? i NO-MO-KORN FOR CORNS AND CALLOUSES Made in Camden And For Sale By DeKalb Pharmacy?Phone 95 T. B. BRUCE Veterinarian Day Phone 30?Night Phone 114 CAMDEN, 3. C. R. E. CHEWN1NG Contractor and Builder Camden, S. C. If ycm have building to, do lot me figure with you. Satisfaction guaranteed. References given on application. Pioneer Tobacco Man Tells of His Early Crop (By F. M. Rogers in Tuesday's Florence News-Review.) In view of the fact that the to-' i bacco sen son opens in Florence and j elsewhere in the bright belt today, I it will no doubt be interesting to re' call the circumstances and. conditions that brought albout the introduction ; of tobacco in South Carolina. In the years 1884, 1885 and 1886, it will be recalled, cotton sold for t) cents a pound. As a farmer I realized that I must find some other crop that would ibe profitable. In this, of ! course, I was not alone as all others I interested in agriculture felt the , same way about it. In 1884 I began to investigate the possibilities of to, bacco culture and its probable suc; cess in this section. I was told by I growers and others in the old belt that it could not be grown success1 fully in this section and was strongly advised not to undertake it. I differed from this opinion, being satisfied that we had both the soil and climate to grow tobacco even more successfully and profitably than the . old belt. In 1884, therefore, I planted a small plot mainly for the purpose of I watching and studying its growth and I development. Is grew to fine size and yellowed on the hill satisfactorily. The next year I planted 8 acres in tobacco and built a small barn, curing the tobacco myself and shipping it to a North Carolina market. : The three acres sold for a little more than $600. Think of this in comparison with cotton at 0 cents a pound in the same year. In 1*K6 I increased the acreage to 20 acres and secured the services of Mr. Richard R. Rives of Bnttleboro, N. C., as assistant, and this year I was even more successful than the previous year. It was at this time thut the agricultural department of the state offered a premium of $50 for the best sample of tobacco grown in South Carolina. I may be pardoned for saying that I was awarded this premium. J. B. Pace of Dan\ille, Va., was selected to pass upon the samnles submitted by farmers from different sections of the state. His comments on the 40 or 50 sum{ pies submitted aud the names of the farmers in the contest may lie found in the files of The News and Courier for the yoar 1886. Much credit must be given The News and Courier for its interest in | the movement and its encouragement I of the farmers in the planting of tobacco in this state from the time the new crop was first agitated. On the other hand an article was pubUahed in a certain "State" newspaper ridiculing the idea in a very rude and questionable manner. It was not an editorial from the newspaper's editor, but the article was contributed by some ignoramus who was not aware that in the old belt it was not unusual for the farmers of that section to get $500 to $G00 an acre for their tobacco. Time had proved that the same happy result has been accomplished in this section, and to a greater degree. Ill the year 1887 I planted 30 acres of tobacco and secured the services of ,Mr. R. E. Currin (affectionately known by us as Dad Currin, now superintendent of the Pee Dee Experiment station) to cure the crop. Success still followed the venture. It will !be interesting here to state that Capt. John McSween, who lived where Mr. Tom Harllee now lives was the second furmer in this section to plant tc*bacco. This was in 18K6. The Captain planted two acres and made a tine crop. He borrowed the services of R. E. Rives, known to his friends here as Capt. Dick Rive/s, to cure it for him. Capt. McSween did not know how to grade or handle the tolbacco and asked the writer to buy it. The price paid netted the Caj^tain a tine' profit and tfee following year he planted a large.r acreage with fine success. My late lamented friend, Mr. J.. C. C. Brunsoo, was the third farmer to undertake the culture of tobacco and we all know of his greht success in the venture. In inOO I conceived the idea that we must have a home market and with this object in view visited the old markets of North Carolina and Virginia to secure buyers. Through the cooperation of NCr. J. B. Duke of Durham, N. C., and Mr. James Boyd of Richmond. Va., the market opened here in the late summer with a strong force of buyers. During my visit to Danville, Va., I secured the services of Mr. R. A. Croxton to operate the tobacco warehouse upon his own responsibility and as his own venture. For two years I bought tobacco on the Florence market with.no expectation of profit but to assist in sustaining it as a market for the | local growers. The first tobacco warehouse in Florence was built on the lot where now stands the big atemmery - of Doug Martin. Before closing this article it will be interesting To call attention to the much improved method of curing tobacco, in the old belt it was the custom to cure on the stalk. After curing one crop that way 1 was convinced that the method was wrong and, as an experiment, cured one half of my 1887 crop on stalk 11 and the other half by gathering the leaves as they ripened. The half gathered and cured separate from the stalk, that is to say in leaves, brought more than twice as much as the half cutfed on the stalk. The idea of curing as taken from the writer's experience has been adopted not only j in this state but throughout North i Carolina and the greater part of the : bright belt of Virginia. I horpe that this article will be in- ' 1 teresting to farmers as well % to i others who have no knowledge of i how the tcfbacco industry was startI ed in this section, or the conditions '! brought it about. It has enabled 1 them to obtain a good profit from the ; labor themselves and families. The writer feels that he has been bf some aervice to his fellow farmers and to the business community by promoting this industry and carrying it to success. Building a Reserve For Necessities Build up a reserve which will prove a comfort and strength to you when you may need for actual necessities^ the money which you are spending so thoughtlessly today for non-essentials. Loan & Savings Bank CAPITAL $100,000.00 7 * Poultry Farmers To Have Field Day Sumter, August 7.?A free barbecue dinner and automobile parade will be two of the many attractive fea Lures of the program for "Poultry Farmers Field I>ay" to be held here Wednesday Auguat 22, according to action taken by the directors of the Sumter board of trude. Committees aii- now at work on these feature*. The dinner will be served at Second Mill pavilion following the morning session of the "Field Day." All persons interested in any phase of poul try work are invited to attend and participate. A hearty welcome a wails you in Sumter, according to .J J. Whilden, president of the South Carolina Poultry Breeders Association. It is expected by those in charge that the parade will attract a great deal of interest in the different counties taking part. All visitors are invited to huve baniuprs bearing the name of their county, poultry -asso ciation, farm or other uguncy, dis played on their cars and to take part in the parade. The line of the parade will be from the county court house thru the main streets of the city to Second Mill where the sessions will be held. ^he visitors are to assemble at the courthouse where a committee will be on hand to register them and to provide them with tickets admitting visiting farmers and poultry folk to the dinner. All are expected to Inst the courthouse not later than 10:80 o'clock Wednesday morning and to prepare to enter the motorcade. This feature will be in direct charge of Miss Jaunita Neely, poultry specialist at Winthrop College. The program is now shaping up, according to information received from Ben E. Adams, of Columbia, chairmun of the general committee, and when completed will be one of the best over put out by the association. Presbyterian Church Notes For the next four weeks there will be no preaching service nor mid-week service in this church, as the -pastor is away on vacation. The men of the church meeting for August has been called off. Tinnext men's meeting will be the second Tuesday in September. The junior and Senior Christian Endeavor work has -been suspended until September 1. The Sunday School however will continue every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, as usual. Last Sunday we had 96. (Members of the church and Sunday School enjoyed a delightful picnic at Holland's pond last Thursday afternoon. Those present felt it to be an eminent success. We hope to observe a church picnic t^ery year. NO STATE CONVENTION Chairman Stewart Refuse* to Call Committer Meeting Coluntbia, Aug 2.?Announcement that there will be no special session of the state convention, no meeting of the state committee to call one; derivation of the Suluda Baptist In their HMth annual session at FirBt Creek church that they will vote fur no Candidate not pledged to the enfo? cement of the pronibiiion iawo; the candidacy of a Greenville man anfrounced for elector at large from South Carolina on an independent Democratic ticket. All these are part of the days political news. There will be no meeting of the Democratic state executive committee unless a majority of the committee a.*ks Chairman Roach S. Stewart to rail it and hence no state convention to consider Rule <12 of the State Democratic party, Chairman Stewart announces. The chairman issued a statement addressed to "the Democratic voters of South Carolina" in reply to 220 letters and telegrams he has received during the last ten days. He said he would be unnlble to reply to the letters and telegrams individually and that the statement would have to serve as a reply. The Saluda Baptist determination was made unanimously by the adoption of the report of the committee on morals and temperance for which a place was made on the agenda of the association. Starting an independent Democratic ticket in South Carolina, Hampton Smith, Southern manager for the Steel Heddle Manufacturing company, of Greenville, has announced as candidate for presidential elector for the state at large, as an independent Democrat. Mr. Smith announced his candidacy in a written statement to The News; giving as his reason for not supporting A1 Smith the fact that Smith "bolted" the party platform by announcing against dry plank soon after being nominated in Houston. 0 Herbert Hoover and a party of friends are spending five days on a fishing trip in northern California. Sexton Killed By Bell Winston-iSalem, Aug. 6.?Geo W. Blakeley, 48, sexton of the Brookstown Methodist Episcopal Church, located 12 miles from here on the Yadkinville Road, was almost Instantly' killed yesterday when the church bell fell, crashed through a floor and struck him on the head. He was ringing the bell for Sunday school. Two small children of W. VV. Hicks, brother-in-law of the dead man, were slightly injured by splinters. Blakely had just begun to ring the bell, a task he had performed each Sunday for many years. In some way a bolt holding the bell in place had become loosened. The man was so badly crushed that he lived only a few minutes. Train-Car Crash Takes Four Lives Greenville, Aug. 4,?Four people were killed when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Piedmont and Northern train, ten miles south of Greenville, near the Golden Grove station, at 3:40 this afternoon. , The dead are: A. L. Boykin, 55, oiler at Slater Manufacturing Company, Marietta; Mrs. A. L. Boykin, 48, also of Slater mills; Floyd Boykins, 18, employe of the mill; John Boykin, 15, employe of the mill. The mother and father together with the two sons were on their way to Anderson to bring Mrs. Chestine of that city, daughter of the couple, to Marietta to spend a few days. They were riding in a cabriolet with rumble seat. They had turned down | a road which leads across the first grade crossing south of Goldtfl in an effort to reach the rectal ished highway. High corn in a held to t)|J| the roadway and west qffij road track prevented the ti?J from seeing the car andaboM ed the driver of the car fron 9 the approaching train. 19 Car and train met qj the cm in the center of the railrofl The bodies of the victims vtW ged along" the track, the farthen being 100 yards from the Mfl The automobile was dragged da 900 yards and pieces of the m were scattered along the right dj Only one of fTiose in th? era I ed any sign of life when retdi trainmen who said that John I breathed for a few minute! ud] , before they could give any tin i The train was operated in torman T. G. Cobb of street, Greenville and J. At of West Washington street, 1 ville. m SEND IT HERE Think of it! For a few cents you can have your laundry work done here. It is no trouble at all. We call for and deliver all t work promptly. Telephone % 17 for efficient and economical laundry service. 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