The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 22, 1922, Image 1
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$2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 22,1922. Established in 1891.
Tax Commissio
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Increase La
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The people of Bamberg county arel <
perfectly willing to carry their just :
Dortion of the tax burden of South j (
* Carolina; they strenuously object to i
* carrying more than their portion of <
the load, however. Bamberg county is ]
not crying out tor charity at lue
hands of the state tax commission. ;
but it is protesting against assessing ]
r the lands of Bamberg county more <
than the lands of neighboring and ad- <
joining counties,which, with a few ex- i
ceptions, are equally as able to pay |
* their taxes as Bamberg. The county ?
is askin- only for fair treatment at
the hands of the state tax commission.
All of these facts, and a great <
many more, came out at the meeting <
of citizens held at the court house i
Friday morning, when two members
of the state tax commission, J. P. <
\ Derham and J. Frasier Lyon, met j
with the people and discussed the in- ?
crease of land assessments in this t
county an average of 36% over the x
assessment of previous recent years, t
* J. F. Carter was made chairman of j
the meeting and W. D. Rowell and i c
R. M. Hitt "were requested to act as r
secretaries. Representative J. Carl c
Kearse, who called the meetirfg. stat- f
* ed in a brief talk the purposes for r
which the meeting had been asked, p
k and invited those present to state to s
the tax commissioners their various | f
complaints.
The chairman first asked the com- j c
missioners present to state the facts t
regarding the increase of land as- ^5
sessments in this county right at a ^
time when the county is practically j c
bankrupt from the ravages of the | s
boll weevil. j s
"Mr. Lyon, speaking first, said that i e
the commission was in sympathy with j c
the farmer, and he realized that the c
< people had taxes to pay that some of | q
them 'cannot pay. The state puts a , 1
1 first mortgage on your property, he y
said. The legislature determines how j a
much money to spend. It is the busi- t
ness of the commission to endeavor' ^
to collect this money in as equitable j
manner as possible. He and Mr. Der- p
ham came to Bamberg, he said, with j v
open minds. "If you will point out | t
a wrong, we are here to right it." he ; (j
said. "We all feel bad about the j s
situation; you cannot feel it any j p
more than we do. We want facts j
and figures, so that not only may we
"be convinced there has been an er- i
tot made, but that we may be able t
to show other counties why an excep- i;
tion should be made of Bamberg. \
Four years ago the tax commission i t
went to work to iron out the assess- 4
ment of lands, and a difficult task it e
has been." ^ f
Showing the relative increase of; r
land assessments in various sections' a
^ of the state, Mr. Lyon said that inj 1
Marlboro land had been increased 1
from $5 to $15; Darlington $6 to1 r
$10; Anderson $6 to $12, etc. Not- 1 c
withstanding these increases, many ; t
counties have continued to pay on 1
^ smaller assessments than before. If j 1
the commission erred in regard to j r
Bamberg four years ago, it is willing i i
to review the entire matter with a j v
view to adjusting it. The land as-1 1
sessments in South Carolina, he said, j 1
4 are lower than an average in the j C
United States.
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Mr. Derham said that while the t
people of this section are feeling the ; 1
v effects of the boll weevil acutely, the i
entire state, with the exception of a e
small area, is feeling the same. In s
his own county, Horry, the weevils j a
had taken a toll of two-thirds of the 1 a
^ cotton crop. In other counties where j t
the devastation has not been as great, r
he said, the distress seems to be*i
about as acute as in Bamberg. Giv- j a
ing the figures in regard to the as- j \
( sessment system, he said that the ! i
commission had valued the land here ! ]
~ ~ n rr r\ f ? 1 ^ 1 " TlOr O PT& 1 1
<x t ail avciasc v*. v^v.av jsv**
and had taken-42% of that amount 1
in reaching the assessable value. The 1
land values had been adjusted as best i
* they could, using all available in- t
formation to arrive at them. This
valuation had been arrived at in J
191S. Xo attempt had been made to ! s
fix values on the inflated prices of j i
later years. The land sales of this \ i
county had been inspected for the *
years 1913-14-15. U. S. census fig- c
ures for 1910 had also been employ- c
ed. <
< Replying to a question. Mr. Der- J
ham said that the land assessment in r
Barnwell county is $4.70 per acre: i a
Allendale, $4.15; Hampton, $3.60: ! 1
. Colleton. $2.90: Aiken, $4.35; >
Orangeburg. $7.45., Mr. Kearse in- i
terrupted to say that by paying the I
old assessment Bamberg would be !
n Asl^ed Not
rid Assessment
about on a pa-rity with the counties
surrounding Bamberg, excepting
Orangeburg. It was brought out that
there had not been an increase of assessments
this year in any of the surrounding
counties.
The land valuations, arrived at by
an average of land sales, are as follows:
Bamberg $26.57: Barnwell,
>25.43; Allendale, $25.16; Colleton,
oin tt ? <?oi oft +v,/->
>i??.o.3; nampiuu, <p.i-i.o?7, ? > unc mc
ralues in two upper Carolina coun:ies
are: York, $30.S5; assessment,
>7.95, and Anderson $67.37 with an
assessment of $12.75.
B. W. Aliley interposed with the
suggestion that the lands, for the
greater part, of Bamberg and Barnwell
were the same in value.
Mr. Lyon quoted many figures to
show that the commission cannot
issess in one county the same as the
idjoining county, as this would exend
all over the state, and thus get
lowhere. It was stated at this point
hat the commission had ordered the
and assessments increased in this
:ounty in 1918, but that for some
eason not stated in the meeting the
>rder had never been made effective,
or which, Mr. Lyon said, the comnission
was not responsible. The
>resent order of the commission
limply restores the assessment to the i
igure it should have been.
S. G. Mayfield stated in a clear and
onvincing manner the actual situaion
that confronts Bamberg county.
fears ago it was the system of Barncell
county, before Bamberg was cut
iff, to group its townships for assesing
the lands. It was realized that
ome of the townships were possessid
of land far more valuable than
ithers. A considerable area of the
:ounty is in low lands that are fre[uently
inundated and therefore of
ess value, although during good
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ears producing fine crops. Taken
s a whole he is of the opinion that
he lands of Barnwell are more pro:uctiTC
than those of Bamberg.
The state became drunk with prosperity,
said Mr. Mayfield, during the
rar period, and we are now paying
he price, and for this condition he
loes not hold the commission reponsible;
on the other hand he sym athizes
with the commission in its
i-ork in carrying out the law.
Everything was getting along fine
lere until an uninvited visitor came,
he boll weevil. Instead of producng
a normal crop of 28,000 to 34,000
>ales of cotton, last year the producion
dropped to a little more than
:,000 bales. "We had one bale in
fight left to us," he said. "Our
armers haje not gorgotten how to
aise cotton; they work just as hard
.s ever. Less than one bale to the
>low was made on the Mayfield farms
ast year. I would HKe to asK now
nanv farmers have made a single
lear dollar in two years. We have
ried truck, with very little success.
Ve are simply wiped out of existence,
'he Ehrhardt and Olar districts made j
tothing from excessive rains, and if \
t is possible you can subtract the
reevil damage from nothing. The
.922 crop promises a repetition of
ast year unless we have a dry July.
)ur taxes should not be increased."
Mr. Mayfield said that many of our
>est farmers are unable to pay the
921 taxes. The weevils had eaten
ip the crop in spite of government
;xpert advice. Several specific in-'
tances of the fearful ravages of the
veevil were related, in one instance
i farmer producing 56 bales of coton
to 105 plows. Years ago the Piednont
had petitioned the legislature
or relief because of the drought; the
ippeal was heard. "We are a hard
vnrVincr nonnlo Snnnnso rnttnn STOftS
lp; it takes everything to pay expenses,
and there is nothing left to
ive on. Our people have done their
evel best: we cannot be kept down,
put I beg that the commission will
lot add to our awful burden by furher
increasing ou rtaxes."
Representative J. Carl Kearse
nade the following motion, briefly
stated: That this body go on record
is being in favor of allowing the assessment
of land to remain the same
is in recent years. The motion was
luly seconded, and after further discussion
was unanimously adopted by
i rising vote. ,
Mr. Kearse offered the following
easons for this motion: 1. The boll
veevils and other conditions over
vhich we have no control have devastated
the farms: 2. Other counties
idjoining Bamberg show valuations
ower on an average than this county:
>. Sale prices of lands during the
Candidate Crop .
Is Above Par
Columbia. Jnne 19.?A bumper
crop of candidates for state offices s
makes a rich harvest this year for (
the treasury of the state Democratic i
Executive committee. As one ha^ s
after another was flung into the ring, t
and these fell thick and fast up to 1 2 ?
o'clock today, accompanying the sombreros
of male candidates and the 1
millinery of women candidates were t
checks of $100 and $200 denomina- t
tinns. f
"A pretty good day's business." re- t
marked Edgar A. Brown, the state ]
chairman who, hailing from Barn- c
well, where he is a candidate for the
legislature, is incidentally boss of the t
works. c
Complaint was heard not very t
many days ago that this year there
appeared to be little interest in state
politics outside of the gubernatorial 1
race, but the last day's gleanings. ^
and it was only half a day at that
that, brought the 'biennial crop of
V_7 J. ?
candidates up to something a little \
more par. Pledges were filed thick <
and fast this morning, so thick and
so fast that the entire landscape was
completely changed. Those political j
wiseacres who have heretofore predi- ^
cated their prognostications upon the ,
line-up as previously existing now (
past few years have materially de- ?
creased and are now on a parity with 1
I ffninitioo a rl iti fon t tn Bflmbpr2r! ^
4. A vast amount of timber has been- *
cut and moved leaving these t
previously valuable timber lands
now practically worthless; 5. *
A great portion of the 1
county is composed of swamps, bogs c
and low lands that are practically *
worthless; 6. Because Bamberg has t
has recently annexed a considerable
area of Colleton county, whose lands 1
are admittedly less valuable than r
those of Bamberg. c
Mr. Miley called attention to the 1
fact that census figures are not to be r
accepted as accurate. Sales figures c
are a good index and Bamoerg and 1
Barnwell counties show little differ- ence
in sales prices. The commission
may have made an honest mistake in c
fixing the assessment in 1918. a
Capt. J. B. Guess had sympathy 1
with the commission, but said that
this is no time to raise taxes, especi- e
ally in a countv where* farmers can-].3
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not pay expenses. Bamberg lands
are not worth more than a third the j ^
value of four years ago. We are not 3
in position to bear any more burden, f
he said, and he added that he felt 1
sure there would be no increase. *
J. Wesley Crum, Jr., said that a
correct census now would show a less land
valuation than 1910. By taking
an average of the assessments of surrounding
counties, we would have c
an assessment for Bamberg of about r
$4.50 per acre, and by taking an average
of land sale prices of these
counties, Bamberg would show up (
with an assessment of about the same 1
as has been^enforced heretofore.
There ark parts of the county, said
Mr. Crum, that cannot secure a land J
loan except from the farm loan board
on account of being classed as coast
al low land. We have already had 1
I greater damage from the boll weevil
than upper counties will ever have,
for statistics show the further south 1
one travels the greater infestation he (
will find. Another reason our lands
should be low assessed is because we
have had two years more of infestation
than the upper counties, and, i
therefore, tnev should be in better 1
condition, whether they are not. The
people here made about enough cot- 1
ton last year to pay their taxes.
G. W. Goolsby caused a laugh by
saying that there had been enough 1
oratory at the meeting to take off i
all the taxes, and that too much territorv
had been aken in. What we are
interested in is Bamberg county. The
main point of complaint is, he said,
we simply have not the cash to pay
i more taxes.
W. D. Bennett was the last speaker, i
and after discussing the question a J
! few minutes, gave a striking example
! of the deflation of land values; 4 00
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j acres of as good land as there is any- i
i where hereabouts had sold for $3,500
: cash. "We can't meet our present
j taxes: we haven't the cash. Now is
I not a time to raise taxes."
| Mr. Carter thanked the commis- (
jsioners for their consideration in comI
ing to Bamberg to ascertain the situ|
ation here. t
i It is presumed the commission will
j take the matter under advisement and
| announce its decision in regard to s
! rescinding the order increasing the
| assessment from $4.69 to $6.40 per 1
| acre in the near future. c
Not to Die Says
Edmund Bigham
Edmund D. Bigham. under death
sentence for the murder of his brother.
L. Smiley Bigham. does not expect
to die in the electric chair and
still believes he will lie freed, he told
he prison officials "1 never expect to
ro to the chair." Bigliam declared.
The condemned man lost much of
lis spirit when he was denied a new
rial at Florence last week. He left
lie penitentiary to make the trip eonident
that he will be given another
rial, telling penitentiary officials that
:ie was "certain to get another
?hance."
Judgje Shipp refused Bigham a new
rial, however, and his attorneys are
ippealing to the supreme court from
;he ruling of the circuit judge.
Rugby foot ball is a favorite sport
,vith many women and girls in
France.
Renew your subscription today.
:ace the necessity of revising the
same because of new entries.
Eleventh-Hour Condidates.
Eleventh-hour candidates have
ather complicated the situation for
hose who. until this morning, had
;io opposition. Political aspirants
;ame today from various parts of the
>tate. One shudders to think what
night have happened to the aspiraions
and ambitions of some of these
lad their trains been late, or had
hey suffered more than one or .two
ilowouts on the way. In point of
act, Sam T. Carter, state treasurer,
s the one state officer who did not
Iraw an opponent, a worthy tribute
o a faithful and worthy official of
'he state government.
There was also one withdrawal*.
3aul .Moore, of Columbia, quit the
ace for state superintendent of eduction.
In this race, however, are
eft six candidates, including two wonen,
the first of the feminine sex to
)ffer for state offices, Airs. Jt&essie
logers Drake, of Marlboro, and .Mrs.
Jartha Wallace, of Columbia.
For lieutenant governor two new
andidates entered the political
rena, E. S. Jackson, of Wagener, and
)r. E. C. L. Adams, of Columbia.
Two candidates for attorney gen>ral
also announced, Harold Eubanks
:nd D. M. Winters, both of Columbia.
ror comptroller general, T. Hagood
iooding, of Hampton, announced
md two new candidates for governor
iled pledges, J. J. Cantey, of Sumnerton,
and William Coleman, of
~nion.
I. S. Hutto, of Dorchester, J. j. McJahon,
of Columbia, and W. F. Stev:nson,
of Cheraw, filed their pledges.
The complete list of candidates as
jompiled after the clock struck the
loon hour today, is as follows:
For Governor.
Cole L. Blease, J. J. Cantey, Wm.
Coleman, John T. Duncan, Geo. K.
^anev. Thomas G. McLeod.
For Lieutenant Governor.
E. C. L. Adams, E. M. Jackson,
Tames K. Owens.
For Congress.
First district?\V. Turner Logan,
S. Hutto and J. D. Morrison.
Second district?James F. Byrnes.
Third district.?S. H. Sherard,
Fred H. Dominick and E. F. Mc>avy.
Fourth district?J. J. McSwain.
Fifth district?W. F. Stevenson.
Sixth district?W, R. Barringer,
H. Gasque, Jerome T. Pate and P.
T. Stoll.
Seventh district?A. J. Bethea, H.
?. Fulmer, and J. J. McMahon.
For Superintendent Education.
Mrs. Bessie Rogers Drake, J. H.
dope. 0. D. Seay, C. H. Seigler, J. E.
?\vearingen, Mrs. Martha Wallace.
For Adjutant General.
Thos. B. Marshall and R. E. Craig.
For State Treasurer.
S. T. Carter.
For Attorney General.
Harold Eubanks, D. H. Winter,
md S. M. Wolfe.
"or Commissioner of Agriculture,
Commerce and Industries.
B. Harris and George W. Wightnn
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For Secretary of State.
W. Banks Dove and Jas. C. Dozier.
For Comptroller General.
Walter E. Duncan and T. Hagood
looding.
For Solicitor.
Third circuit?Frank A. McLeod,
md Jno. G. Dinkins.
Fifth circut?A. F. Spigner. /
Twelth circuit?C. W. Muldrow
tnd L. M. Gasque.
The big gun o? the campaign will
)e fired tomorrow morning at 10
>'clock at Columbia.
Letter Explains
Regarding Ci
W. A. Klauber. president of the! p;
Bamberg County Truck Growers as-1 ^
sociation has received a letter from (j
Smith & Holden. commission mer- tl
chants of Xew York, relative to the
situation that has prevailed in regard j
to the cucumber crop in Bamberg, ex-1
plaining the reason for the market I
going to pieces. Inasmuch as many ei
farmers hereabouts are interested in ; ^
this subject, The Herald prints below | e.
this letter, excluding some personal a
matters, for the information of cu- j n
cumber growers and all others in-1 n
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terested in this matter; the letter be-; v
ing signed by P. Willis Holden, mem-1 a
ber of the firm above referred to: j S(
On June 3rd I sent you a long day j1
letter, in reference to the cucumber j
situation here, and advised you that!
it was about the worst that I have u
ever seen. .
I want to confirm this by saying that
I have been handling cucumbers
here from the south on a consignment
basis, for approximately twenty-five s<
years, and I do not think that I have ^
ever been placed in as undesirable f
position as I was last week, and the
early part of this week, when we had '
to refuse approximately 5 car loads
01 cucumbers from your association. ?
I want to go further and say that j
f 1^ n r? rv /-> f t V> nr-n rtiiOnm n*o f
Itiic iciu3iii5 ut uicoc Lucumuci^ wao j
in no way caused by poor quality, ! *
I grading or packing of the commodity, I
jbut rather I want to congratulate you, Z
for the efficient manner in which
these cukes have been graded and
packed, and to say that in all my'experience,
I do not think I have ever
come across a similar condition,
where a station like Bamberg, practically
unknown in the cucumber |
growing industry to any extent, has : C
the first year, with any quantity ship- j k
ments come to the front and made t]
such a strong showing in the way of .
grading and packing.
Furthermore, the general reputa-: d
tion for cucumbers originating at or j t(
very close to Blackville. has been any- . 0
thing but good. I would hardly dare
to repeat the remarks that I have w
heard in the past ten years, relative n
to the "raw" methods pursued by h
many or most of the cucumber growers
or shippers at Blackville, and to j
meet up with Bamberg this year, I
practically new in the cucumber c<
game, and have grading and packing it
up to the standard that your association
has done, is very unusual.
a- ? J!i C tl
l am going to give uie c*reuu itn j -
this situation, to you, because I be- ; C
lieve that it was your good business ! ^
methods that brought it about.
I have had to refuse many shipments
of cukes in the past years, ^
about which I did not feel any un- tc
usual regret, because of the way that p
the goods had been graded and packed,
but it did hurt me very much, to !
have to refuse the cars that you en- e:
trusted to us. ^
I want to explain to you a condi- *
tion that we are up against when
glutted periods are on here, in this tl
way: If there are 50 carloads of n
cukes arrive, of which 10, 15 or 20 It,
are in bad condition or of such poor
quality or grading that they will not
bring freight charges, they are re- ii
fused to the transportation company, t<
to avoid paying transportation charges.
As soon as these cukes are re
fused, a sale is effected if possible by
the selling agent of the railroad com- o
pany, and cukes that might under a
normal conditions bring 40 or 50
cents per basket, will be sold at 15 p
or 20 cents, or possibly 25 cents per n
basket. c
A receiver here has three hours, t]
from the opening of the market, or
at the present time* until 8 a. m. to n
file refusals with tire transportation E
company. i]
It is always our policy to wait until
almost the last moment before of- ,
fering refusals, so as to keep these
goods off of the market as long as ^
possible, but the point that I want S
to make is, that as soon as the rail- j
road selling agent begins to offer 15c, ,
2f?c or 25c cukes, the outcome is that
receivers with better cukes, that F
might have been sold for at least \
freight charges, possibly from 10c to
25c. more, are forced at the last moment
to refuse their arrivals to the c
transportation company'. n
Tiio larorp hnvers of cukes, under Q
such conditions, know how the thing ~
works out. and simply refuse to buy ?
cukes at 65c or 75c which would show ti
the transportation charges, and we v
will say the cost of the package, and a
wait until the refusals are in. and buy
the same cukes, for half or less than
half of the price that they could have h
been bought for earlier. ti
I have not overlooked the fact that ij
you have secured graders and packers
from Florida for these cukes, and
naturally at considerable expense. I s
appreciate that you undoubtedly have v
a very big interest in the success of j Ci
truck growing at Bamberg, and 1 0
have never seen work along that line "
ti-.on vnn bave done, and I
nunc ucuci uiuu ,-wv! _
T am sure it is no fault of yours, that |
the results will be so unsatisfactory.
In closing. I must comment to this
extent, that the acreage in your state p
was undoubtedly over-done. There
were two unfortunate conditions, one
is that whereas the normal acreage of n
cukes in the Blackville district ranges
from S00 to 1.0??0 acres the acreage
in the middle South Carolina district.
say from Bamberg west, and
from the Southern railway north and tl
south for perhaps 25 or 30 miles in
each direction, is reported to have
been nearly 3,000 acres.
The acreage in the Meggetts or is
j Charleston, S. C., district was ap- tl
Situation
icumber Prices
arently normal, and unfortunately
as about a week later than usual,
taking the shipments from the two
Uckcin nnrl rv v> /l r\-r*s> /^4-i 11 ~ A.
icu K?,O uc.hiu auu ciiu atLiLaii> cit
ie same time.
I am frank to say that the cucumer
proposition in middle South
arolina is not a good one for an inleased
acreage over normal.
The same conditions were prevalit
in Florida on cukes, watermelons,
jmatoes and potatoes, and in South
arolina on potatoes, but the weathr
conditions interfered so that the
ctual volume shipped was hardly
lore than normal, and in some cases
ot even normal, and what I had exected
was likely to occur long before
our shipping season, did not happen, f
nd really your district is the only
sction that has received the brunt of ~
lie effect of over-production.
Florida is getting the same dose
ow on watermelons, but I hope that
he watermelon crop in your section
ill pull out.
The crop of Florida cantaloupes
is been unusually large this year, and
inch to our surprise, we have had
ome 8 or 10 carloads which we have
old at quite satisfactory prices, but
cannot predict anything very bright
or cantaloupes from your district,
or I fear that they are going to be
ere with the big rush from Califoria.
and at present, I am afraid even
alifornia is going to make a bad
lowing with her cantaloupe crop this
ear.
letter Times are Ahead
For Tobacco Growers
More than 50 warehousemen and
eld workers of the Tobacco Growers'
ooperative association from 38 mareting
points of the association in
le South Carolina belt met Tuesday
1 Florence, where T, C. Watkins,
?
irector of warehouses, said, ''Those
)wns which support this movement v
f South Carolina tobacco farmers
ill fanr\ o rinVi roword and tVlOQA
XXI ' 1 tap a 1 IVU 1 VllUiU M4AV4 VMVWW
lerchants and bankers who have
elped to win new members throughut
South Carolina will bring, with
le tobacco and the growers which
)me to theif towns, a new prospery."
Dr. J. Y. Joyner, vice president of
le association; A. T. Breedlove, and
. B. Cheatham, of the leaf departlent,
assured the field workers and
arehousemen at Tuesday's .meeting
rat the campaign for cooperative
)bacco markets markets has been a
henominal success to date.
Telling how 75 per cent, of growrs
in the old belt of Virginia and
orth. Carolina were lined up with
le cooperative movement and that
ie entrance of 3,000 tobacco fariers
from eastern North Carolina ind
the marketing association during
ie past three weeks had developed
ito a landslide for the association
d push their present majority signp
in South Carolina to 75 per cent.
Letters will reach 6,200 members
f the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative
ssociation in this state during the
resent week announcing that the
lember growers may take their
hoice of markets, among which are
he following points: Andrews, Ayor,
Bamberg, Conway, Darlington,
lillon, Georgetown, Hartsville. Hemagway,
Johnsonville, Kingstree,
,ake City, Lake View, Lamar, Latta,
.oris, Lynchburg, Vanning, Marion,
lullins, Nichols, Olanta, Pamplico,
umter, Summerville, Timmonsville,
lladenboro, Cerro Gordo, Fair Bluff,
'airmont, Lumberton, Proctorville,
towland, St. Pauls, Tabor, and
Vhiteville.
Geo. J. Holliday, of Aynor, Horry
ounty, was present at Tuesday's
meeting and signed up his crop of 55
cres with the organized tobacco
rowers, also renting his warehouse
o the association. Mr. Holliday is
rell known as a successful merchant
nd large farmer in Horry county.
Citizens of Florence have given
and for the erection of a cooperative
obacco warehouse during the comig
season. The contract for the sale
f this property to the marketing asociation
was signed Tuesday and
ill make of Florence a marketing
enter convenient to most of the 1,00
signers of Florence county.
Quite True, Stubbing
The English tourist approached
'armer Stubbins.
"How charming are those suroundings,
sir," she began smilingly.
"They be. madam," replied the farier.
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"And how sweet ine sung oi uuu
irush," she continued.
"Aye. madam," returned the son of
re soil: "but the song of the thrush
i nought compared with the lay of
i* 'en."
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