The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, August 28, 1907, Image 1
X
Standard.
VOL. XXX.
WALTERBORO, S. C, AUGUST 18. 1907.
the trucking industry.
Our Editor Write* at Length on
.. that Subject. f
The history o( the truckinjr indus
try around Yonge’s Island and Meg-
sett's, In the lower part of Colleton,
„ is largely the history of W. C- Gere-
ty. About fdrty years ago he and F.
W. Towles formed a co-partnership
on Wadmalav Island to conduct a
ginnery, cotton seed at that time be
ing considered worthless. They soon
accumulated 1 a large amount of this
seed and conceived the idea of grind
ing or crushing them and using the
product as a fertilizer. They tried it
on five acres of Irish potatoes. This
turned out so well that they plauted
ten acres the next year, and so this
industry began to grow. The only
drawback was the shipping facilities
which consisted of a little tug po«t,
makitig two trips a week to the island
for freighttetc. Soon other trucking
plants we*e introduced and began to
basuooeesfully grown
To F. W. Towles belongs the cred- homo industry. By your help
it of developing what is known as the
Charleston Wakefield cabbage. The
idea In the early days of this truck
ing Industry was that cabbage and
turnip seed grown on the American
continent would not reproduce them-
selvea true to the type. So at great
expense these early truck planters
would have seed imported from
Groat Britain. They believed that
this was unnecessary, and so impress
ed it upon their dealers, with a re
sult that experiments were made,
and it was found that seed grown on
ale American continent were just as
good as those imported.
The cabbage first planted was Hen-
de* son's early summer cabbage,
which was a very small variety, re
quiring more than one hundred to
the crate. The object of these plant
ers had been to secure an earlier and
yet larger variety. To this end they
selected a few of the largest heads,
saving the seed. As a result, in ten
year?, the Charleston Wakefield cab
bage has been evolved, which retains
its traits of being early and of such
.false that 40. or 50 only are required
per crate.
This section of country is indeed
the greatest cabbage producting
section on the American continent,
and in addition to cabbage grown,
great quantities of Irish potatoec,
cucumbers, beans, etc, being plant
ed annually. It is estimated that du-
riqjf the present year in this region
over 10,000 acres.
""During the life of H. B.Plant, who
was the central figure in the Plant
System of Railroads, he made sever
al visits to this section, and as a re-
It these numerous spurs for the
convenience of the growers of truck
have been constructed. During the
present shipping season of cabbages
Mon of cabbages as many as 250
solid carloads have been shipped from
Mt Carmel.'
Editor Prers stul Standard.—
Wef inner* ure trying to gather
our fodder, but the continu«d
rainy weather renders it very
difficult. Cotton is not as good as
it promised to l)o a short while
back. For the last two weeks it
ha* been throw ihg off its fruit
very badly.
Dusen’t time run fast? The
elitorsayshe ha* entered the
• rond year with his paper and
ho has made a success of it too,
just as I expected he would. It
iak*8 education, grit, and per-
serverauce to run a newspaper,
and it is generally admitted that
be has all these qualities. There
is no reason why the 1'rese and
Standard with the stride* it has
made within one year should
not in a very short time tak* its
place a* one of the best week
lies in the state. Now let every
one take his home pa per-Patron-
OUR. PRESIDENTS
yog will lielp to make the paper
what it ought .0 bo. Speak out,
Mr. Editor, 111 the future as in
the past. Gail a spade a spade.
When a stone is thrown no cue
hollers unless be is hurt. 1 am
glad that you continue from time
to time to remind our people of
the ill effect of intemperance.
Keep iH>eforo them. It is a
terrible sight to * e our young
men drinking, and when we re
member that th*« great govern
ment of ours will soon rest on
their fhoulders, well may the
lovers of good government and
temperance wield their influence
against etrong drink. Three
cheers for iseorgi*! She has
taken the whJohrg, tail and all.
She did not leaV'* the other fel
low anything. You can watch
tho;n but they will bring things.,
to pas°.
had the manhood in In-r and j
would assert it like other folks.
The only thing that seems to
bother us is the blind tigers, or,
that is the great hue and cry. 1 (
should not be surprised if the
blind tigeis’ argument is not
used in Colleton county against
prohibition more than in the
whole state of two or throe of
their larve citie*. It is a delu
sion. It is- mUieadiug in the
extreme. According to all hu
man events, I can’t live many
mote years, hut 1 expect to live
long enough to see South Caro
lina follow suit with Cesigia.
Vole th* topic of accursed whis
key out of the state, then we
shall see as never before the
prosperity of thisgra d old state
of ours. Muider. theft and the
In Ike Twilight
4*. >>
BY R.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The first proslde.it of the United Sts ton was Uqnittn Westmoreland county.
Vs.. Feb. 22. 1732. He dtsd Is 1TM at X««*t Vsruott. Vs.. In bla sixty-eighth
y«ar. He was Inaugnmted president April B0. !T8t, In front of Federal ball
on Wall street, New York city, where now steads* the subtreasury building.
Washington served two terms as president sad tbSn retired to hta farm at
Mount Vernon. He was by training and cholco a planter, though bla military
experience In youth and his general* wisdom and patriot!hid led to his being
called to the chief command of the Continental army during the Revolutionary
war. In polttlcs General Washington was a Federalist
gett, the little daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. J. B. padgett of Getsinger,
Evergreen Culling*.
Editor Pre'i and Standard:— As
we hear from Blue Eyes, Black Eye*. sometime with him along with
Gray Eye*, Little Frisky, and others, hi3 Ifrand daughter. Misses Josephine
Wish South Carolina [will you allow Whistling. Rufus a E J!f’^ their f fr ^’
chance too? | Dor,i,fn O’Qmn. spent Wednesday
Farmersawlookingwrjsad cver; 11 ^™^^™;
, . 1 Mrs. Amelia Wells has been spend-
so ranch nuns 1
Mis* Clara Hiers who has been
visiting :n Charleston tor some time
ha* returned home.
Mrs. W. U liowrrs and children
of Savannah are on it visit to friends
and relatives.
Carmel
tisitad
fonge's Island and Meggett’s in a 1 like will be a thing of Ihe past.
'Our penitenti tries, jails and
chain gangs will have but few
lay, requiring several engines and
rain creWs to handle this immense
Another industry has grown up in
last few yeaa&r-that of <? rowing
)bage plants., Last year Mr. Gera-
alone planted 100 acres of cab-
i plants besides numerous other
planters who had each several acres.
lr, Qeraty sold over 50,000',000
slants during the pest season, for
i he Aceived an average of $1.
thousand. He raturned to per-
i who wanted to buy over $10,000.
He could not satisfy the demand.
! year he has purchased three tons
cabbage seed and will plant two
This will be planted
latter part of October and will
ready for shipment in DecernW,
r,February t and March These
ve grown hr doilers dh Long
and Puget Sound. Only the
perfect heeds ars being kept
which requires a, culling
three times during the
Oftentimes 20
•eht of the plants are culled out
Garaty goes north every August
Is himself. He
this first cabbage plants in 1898.
altar nearly forty,
hehat detidril
’ * .JJfftO riff)—
initiales Then our county ex
penses will be less; for whiskey
it at the bottom of nearly all
the eases on the criminal side of i
our court. That no one e in deny. ’ S‘* n d*ro.
G. W. Way.
Bliss ItesHe Jones was tie honored
guest of Bliss Claudy Hiers hut Sun
day. 8be with Mis* Alice Crosby
8|W-nt the night with Miss Clara
Hiers Saturday night.
Dan Zeigler and family dined with
J. J. Hiers Sunday .
Mr. Ralph Linder of Bit
dined with Cleveland aud
Hiers Sunday.
Hill and Po 1 B eland
| J. J. Hiers Sunday night.
! Min i'essie Join's of Bills i*
visiting her sister, Mr*; Daisy flier*.
Mr. Till, Mr. Jone* and Mr. 1
Crotbv from Bells were at Mr J. J. j
Hiers’ Sunday evening. j
With best wishes to the IV.wsand
injj sometime with Mrs. I. C. Pad
gett, her father.this week.
Misi Audrey Garrir. and friends,
Miss Wilhelmena kinsey and her
sister, Hattie Dipnian of Savannh
were at Williams Wednesday even
ing.
Whittling Rufue.
These five, Early Jersey Wakefield ;
Charleston Large Type, Succession
Augusta Trucker Short Stemmed
Flat Dutch, mature in the order
named. During the shipping season
of cabbage plants Mr Geraty’s office
at Yonge’s Island requires eight
clerks for office work alone.
Introducing tile cabbage ahd
cabbage plant into the territory
where they are now used required a
great perseverance. For instance,
the consumer in the West had been
accustomed to the flatsmall cabbage
and for the longest time they could
not eat one of the Wakefield variety
The season or two ago when cab
bages were net selling for anything
in the North Mr Geraty shipped
forty carloads to dealers in the Weet
They did not bring enough to pay
freight but introduced the Wakefield
variety of cabbage and now that is
the only lift* that cun be fbjd
Western I wMUketo It
, ... . •
costly ad
Will pay. ] tfMboM *
U .fruiawy-) .»>;
ii.ij la
Mr. Scott and Miss Ethel, the
stenographer at Colleton were hap
pily united in the holy bonds of
matrimony at the home of Joe
Ramsey, Jr. last Sunday at about 10
o’clock.
Mias Hat tie Garris of this place is
spending sometime with her friend
Postell * n
Mr. and Mrs. Lorenza Copeland of
Ehrhardt is spending sometime with
the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Ramsey.
Miss Maggie Ramsey is spending
sometime with her brother, Mr.
J. B. Ramsey at Ehrhardt./
Crops are pretty good this year,
better than have been in many years
The roa<ls, too, are in fairly good
condition since they have been
worked on in this section.
Now, Mr. Editor, I want to 1
congratulate you in -your efforts to
I keep down the lawlessness of your
1 sit in the soft summer twilight
On the porch of the old-fash-
iot.od home,
And mute o’er the scenes of my
boyhood
And the days that so quickly
have flown.
A* I list to the whippo’will’s
calling
In soft tones of love to its mate,
In fancy I see the old country
home
And the sweet tea rose at the
gate.
That elimbingon each side of the
gateway,
Ran riot o’er the hedges so
ereen,
While the pore white bloauoms so
fragrant.
Made the tea rose of childhood
the queen.
i
’Twas set by the hands of a moth-
The dead guardian angel of
home,
Whose worth we oft fail to dis-
.. cover
’Till far from her presence we
roam.
I think of the duties neglected,
Kind words that may have
been said.
And fain would plead for forgive
ness
From »he dear loving heart
that is dead.
Kind words to our loved ones are
priceless,
And tender caresses can cheer
The bosrt that is weary aod
troubled
And brightens the gloom of
despair.
The** duties neglected will one
day
Cause the bitterest tears to be
thud
When we stand by the grave in
sorrow
And know that the lov’d one
in dead.
To the young may these lines be
a lesson;
1 portrsy to them what l hav.
seen.
Old age keeps the mirror of mem
ory bright
With a radiance remorseless
and keen.
W'IM- m« Inm*.
Editor Prefcs and Standard:
have been unable to write the news town, good old Walterhoro, and to
for last Week’s paper, but will give preserve her record that she,in the
it to you in this writing. future, may boast with pride that
People up in this section have * he ^ maintained law and order
been busy pulling fodder this week mere than has any town of her size
and they haye been having some * n world. And may the law-
very unfavorable weather to save it abiding citizens do everything in
Men who planted corn on the plan their power to help the town council
suggested by Mr. Williamson this keep it pure and clean of all lawless-
year have very fine corn, but they ness and filthy deeds.
1 think
have it so thick, 1 think if the
weather had been dry they would
have made a complete failure.
Ampng those who have been visit-
Garria-Cartar.
Mr . l,eUa Stnoak Garris, of
Suioak*, 6. C., whu is pleasantly
last Week with their brother, Mr.
Theodore Copeland at this place.
While they were here, they drew
ing are: Misses Tharrie and Theodo-{ known in Spattanborg, having
si* Copeland of Ehrhardt, who spent ]j V cd here for several yetra, and
Dr.- Hdrignd Mcl iere Carter, of
Smoaks^S. C., were marticfLlast
w 'T ! ""!• "7IW-iof-Uy in A.lioviU^=»K<Of
|| tJ , '' l: ani|our$fffqftt
1 brixtwi tpmr.iiorpf feet
rfflrjsa
[ppineff. —BpArtan
qsole.^ricwYnob.r
.*esi adtohiroirHal
LV.
__ !r»lr»n Iil»4 io'ft
to it "'xMi 'icl e*) bn* l+f utai
A Golden Weddin*.
•
One of the most enjoyable events
of the season in Adams Run Village
was the reception held on August
20th at the home of Mr and Mrs
Gordon Taylor in honor of the
Golden Wedding of their parents
Mr and Mrs Joseph Taylor, The
tastefully decorated parlors and
] piazza were filled with the frinds
and relatives of the couple, music
added to the charm of the evening’s
entertainment.
The bride raceivs many beautiful
presents in gold, of course. Among
these was a copy of Newton’s poem
" The Golden Weddin” which so
exquisitely expresses the story of
man ied life, and voiced the senti
ments of the assembly. Altogether
it was one of the most memorable
social events in the history of the
village and will not be forgotten by
thoaa who were so fortunate as to be
present.
Amhng the guests were the follow
ing: Mr and Mrs Sam FitxSimons,
Dr and Mrs Sally Taylor, Mrs /.da
Barnwell, Mrs M L Dark, Mrs Ed
mund F Bellinger, Mr and Mrs
Morton C Clement Mm Hugh
Atlanta
Mm
Fi
IlaSiminans
Island, BohiirfE]
Goi
n, Theodore
Theodcre
/ O
allow
•iluuS
NO. 3.
IN BEHALF OF TEACHERS.
A Reply to a CommiAiication
Published Last Week.
Editor Press and Standard: - I
wish to say a word in behalf of the
teachers ‘‘ruled out” by Interested
Patron Bast week on account of age.
If a person is qualified to teach, has
the spirit of m teacher and is inter
ested in the work good, results may
be expected at any age. Often a
young teacher will lucceed becausr
of her youth and hsthusiasin. She
will make mistakes^every one does
but she will be quick to detect and
rectify them. She is so near her
own childhood \hat she can sympa
thize with the pupils, thereby gain
ing their love and condifidenoe,
without which there is no true
teaching.
An older teacher, even one so old
as thirty or forty, will by constant
association with children have re
tained a childlike spirit, will under
stand them and will be able to
minister to their needs. The pupils
will love and respect her as they do
their mother and to them she will
be a blessing.
We do not "trule out” our preach
ers and doctors on account of age.
Ability and character are what
count with them; and ability and
character are what should count,
not age, when it comes to selecting
a teacher.
But suppose yon are fortunate
enough to secure a first class teach
er. Are you going to help her or
let her do all the work alone?
A teacher needs the sympathy
and co-operation of trust** and
patrons. They should see that the
school house is comfortable, that it
is supplied with blackboards,
globes, charts and last but not
suitable seats and desks. Many of
our men and women with their
rtemd shoulders, hollow chests and
crooked backs are the products of
unsuitale seats in the schocl room.
In addition to the school honso
there should be a woodshed filled
with wood when school opens, abo
a supply of good water. This is
essential to the health of the pupils
and teachers.
When you have secured a com
petent teacher, have a good School
house, plenty of wood and pure
water see that your children are
supplied with the adopted books and
send or carry them to school every
day, on time, rain or shine.
Take an interest in the school and
the teacher. Visit the school and
know what is being bone. If they
are doing honest work they will be
glad to see you. If the work is not
up to the standard your visit will
stimulate them, and better re
sults will follow.
A good school is one in which the
teacher, the trustees, patrons and
pupils work together for the up
building of each individual, the im
provement of the school and the
betterment of the community.
What kind of a school will you
have this year?-’ Patrons, it de
pends as much on you as it does on
the teacher.
Kola.
Aug. 24,1907
Aa Enjoyable Dance.
Monday night a dance was given
by the young girls and boys. A larges
crowd was pnaent and the dance was
greatly enjoyed.
Among tboee present were, Mee-
ditess. John F Loess. B C Hyrsa
and K H Wtcbmao; Mias-w Bhd
Hyroe, G!ad)S Wkhmao, UsyJtM,
Ulmer Fishbarne, Helen Lnoni, E-
dith Laoas, Carrie Culp, Emily Le-
gtre, Warner Hair, Louise Thames,
Kate Wesooat, Ruby Lucas, Annie
Emily Bellinger.
“»as'»es.