The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 10, 1928, Image 2
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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.
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R. M. KENNEDY, JR.. OWNER
ESTABLISHED 1865 I
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, . 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
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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
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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.
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CAPITAL $100,000.00
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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
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