The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 01, 1923, Image 1
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I CONWAY STORY
BACK IN 1865
The Leading Men and Where
i They Lived Their
Lives
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| WOMEN RAID&RS IN WAR
Facts Written in Three Chapters
as Told by One "Who
Remembers
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!tJfi Here is a story of Conway, %
J which begins in the spring of I"
1864, and ends in the following !
year when the Civil War ended.
J The facts stated in it are giv.Ji
en to the writer by G. J. Watts, Jb
who came to Conway as a boy ?
4 in the spring of 1864, with his ??
^ father, Everette Watts, the latpj
ter having been appointed to
Jt the position of jailer of the
J county. The family occupied
'.Ji the old jail which was located JB
in the exact spot where the J"
C Grace Hotel now stands. i
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CHAPTER I
The Town Itself and its Leading
People.
Tn the spring of the year of 1864,
the only buildings of brick within the
town of Conwayborough (this was the
name of the town at that time) were
the court house and the jail, both
erected, probably about thirty-five
yeavfi oerore tnat date, What was
then the court house is now the city
hall of the town of Conway (the name
of th? town changed to Conway years
afterwards) and the county now enjoys
a magnificient new structure in a
new location. The county also has a
new jail, and at the location of the
old jail, there now stands a threestory
brick hotel in operation since
1915.
On the westward side of Main street
in the main business block (from the
corner where now stands the Peoples
National Bank to the corner where
now stands the store of F. C. Todd)
was a row of old wooden shacks, some
shops, some dwellings, while the op>
posite side of this street had a few
of the same kind of buildings, that
side was not full but had large gap*
in the housing line.
A bout the center of the western sidt
was the dwelling of the widow Hanmon,
and with her was her young son ,
Henry Harmon. H(y* grandson, R. 1.
Harmon, was a merchant in Conway
many years afterward.
On the corner of Main street and
Third 'avenue, where the New York
Cafe now stands, there was a wooden
. st >re, occupied by Inimanual, a Jew.
This store was owned by an old man,
a paralytic, by the name of Fisk.
Fisk does not appear to have been a
permanent resident of Conway, but he
had a friend, Richwood, who lived in
a house where the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. McKeithan now stands. He
would come to Conway at regular intervals
to collect his rent from the
old Jew, and while here he would
spend his time with Richwood. Fisk
could hardly express himself in such
a way as to make j what he said understood,
but he knew how to make
Immanual pay up his rent.
The first barroom opened in the
town was located at the place where
the livery stalls of the J. A. McDer- '
mott ' ompany was later built and
where now a brick building is being 1
erected by the Burroughs & Collins
Company. Out in front of this bar
room, in the center of the avenue, or
about that point, stood an ancient oak i
as large or larger than the one wshich
now grows in the Methodist cemetery. <
Around this tree rude benches had
been built out of slabs and this place '
was known as the "loafer's rest." The 1
*eats extended all the way around the <
tree and it was as popular as a park 1
would have been. Later other bar 1
rooms were opened for business and <
there were many places among the i
wooden shanties where strong1 drink
was dispensed to all who wanted to <
my. 1
Aunt Jane Norman lived in an old i
'rame dwelling about the place where <
the Horry Drug Company now has ]
i building. She was the leading j
warding house keeper at that" time
ind for long afterward. ,
Dr. Norman was the only doctor. .
1e lived in the house which is still .
standing, just below the corner now .
>ccopied by the Buck Motor Com- .
jany. In the county were two other J
loctors, Dr. Harrell, and Dr. Grant.
Tn another old home where the At- j
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J Most of the tobacco plant beds "J s
in the county have been plant1
ed with the seeds and you can tj t
| see the white canvas as you 1
pass along the public roads. ! j
J Planting the bed and stretch- ! i
ing the canvas is not all. The ! A
safety of the plants from de- 5
J struction by frost and snow 4
must be provided for. Have the I* (
J materials near at hand in case "I *
i of a sudden freeze, and cover J" \
? the beds with boards if neces- '
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BIBLE MEETING I
IS ENJOYABLE
Dr. Ramsey and Rev. Mr. McQuilkin
Leave For |
Columbia
The Christian Life Conference, held
under the leadership of Dr. A. J.
Ramsey, the well known Bible teacher,
of Pasadena, Calif., and the Rev.
Robt. C. McQuilkin, formerly of
Philadelphia, and who has recently
moved to Columbia, with his family,
camc to a close at the Conway Methodist
church last Sunday.
The meetings lasted throughout the
whole of last week. The meetings
were well attended and the teachings
thoroughly enjoyed by the congregation.
The conference here was supported
and pushed forward by all of the
churches of Conway. Dr. Ramsey
dealt with lessons of the message for
present day living as given in First
John, while Mr. McQuilkin handled
the problems of the Christian life.
n. ? i i
notn maae a great and lasting impression
on their hearers at each and
every meeting. The influence for
good in this community can hardly
be estimated.
Dr. Ramsey and Mr. McQuilkin for
a number of years have conducted
Christian life conferences in many
parts of the United States and Canada.
After the present series of
meetings that is being conducted in
the Southern states, the two Bible
teachers join for a series in northern
and southern California in the spring
and early summer. The opening conference
of the southern series was in
Conway from January 21st to 28th,
the second meeting of the kind for
Conway in which all the churches of
the town have united. Dr. Atkinson
of the Methodist church told his people
that this gospel preaching give
them Bible holiness in its truest and
highest foflfn..; Dr. Gordon of the
Baptist church said the meetings were
one of the jjpfceatest blessings that had
come to his people. The Rev. Mr.
Lemmon of the Presbyterian church
said that this was the one kind of revival
that the town and surrounding
country needed, a revival that struck
.first at the lives of the Christians and
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righteousness in every day living of
those outside the church. ?.
These meetings dealt with vital
matters of everyday living and are of
interest to Christians of whatever denomination
as well as to those outside
the church.
From here Dr. Ramsey and the Rev.
Mr. McQuilkin went to Columbia,
where they opened last Monday the
fourth conference of the kind that has
been held in that city.
HAS^REFERENCE
IN TYLER CASE
The Clerk of the court held a reference
at his office here last Thursday
in the case of Morris Fertilizer Company,
plaintifT against W. P. Tyler,
et al., in which the plaintiff is seeking
to foreclose a mortgage of"" the
lands of Tyler under a mortgage
which was given by Tyler to D. D.
Harrelson, by Harrison trasferred to
L. D. Suggs, and by Suggs turned
over to the Morris Fertilizer.Company.
Testimony in the case was taken in
Atlanta, Ga., in August, 1922, on the
part of the fertilizer company, consisting
to some extent of various letters
passing between the parties about
the matter. The defendant, Tyler,
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claims a crecm ior me sum ot aDout
$64.00 as having been made by him
to J. A. Goodwin, a representative of
the plaintiff. In the testimony taken
in Atlanta, Ga., this is explained as
having been credited to other items
m the L. D. Suggs account. Thomas
A. Ratcliflf, an officer of the company, j
testifying in Atlanta, Ga., said that
the $64.00 was applied to an open account
of Mr. Suggs, as to a part, and ,
the balance applied on another note
that was due on the account of an- ]
[>ther year's business in the fertilizer .
account.
At the hearing on last Thursday
snly this testimony taken by deposition
in Atlanta, was read before the ,
referee, the notes and mortgages placed
in evidence, and the record com- ,
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pieteu as to certain admissions mm
the parties make in the case.
The hearing was then continued ,
jntil another date to be agreed upon
among the parties. ^
antic Coast Line Railroad depot now ]
s, there lived another man of that <
;ime, Major Holmes. He was remark- <
jble in appearance, by reason of the ^
?act that he did not carry one single ]
;ooth in his head. He was not regard- ]
id as being more unfortunate than (
>ld brother Richwood, who could not ^
*how on his head one single hair. (
Over in the woods, behind where {
he new court house now displays its f
walls of pressed brick. Mike Sellers <
ived and there he raised a large fam- (
ly in a little crude dwelling that (
you Id not be counted as adequate for
luch purposes at this time. He had t
i large tract of land which had come j
lown to him from the Dunanta. In f
ihe course of time this land of Sell- \
irs' came into the possession of the 1
Lewis family, and this land was sold i
is a part of the estate lands of the ^
ate w. Lewis some time ago. 1
Yround the humble home of old Sell- 1
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? HORRY BARBEI
< The Koken Companies, i
5 fered a total of seventy-five <
> number of applications of a h
5 barber shops and prepared
J prizes ranged from the grant
< a number of five dollar prizes
Ij This contest was nationwi
> sands of barbers all over the
C contest for the prizes*
% N. P. Anderson of numl
^ town entered the contest and
5; announcing that he won th
% sum of $15.00, and he receivc
I with the letter. By winnin;
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Ij salesman, especially as he h?
5 great number and along wit
% the country.
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KU KLUX KLAN I
FRIGHTENS LEE
While Passing Near Lake (
Swamp is Overtaken
by Klan
According to reports made in Conway
last Saturday, the Ku Klux Klan n
has made another recent appearance, 0
this tinie in the Lake Swamp section c
of the county. Si
It is reported that Refus Lee, a son tl
of William Lee, had an experience f<
with the hooded members of "the in- ii
visible empire," on the night of Sun- d
day, January 21st. as he was travel- tl
ing along the public road. d<
Lee had been passing along near
Lake Swamp and was nearing Wood- 0
yard Bay when he heard the noise of y
a number of automobiles. He passed s
on for a short distance and saw the #
klan, or hooded men, whom he took C)
to he klansmen, near the road. e
As he passed they made a start to jy
get at him, or he thought they did,
but he went by running his horse at
great speed. The automobile party i
went, after him he was pursued ^
for about half a mile. ,,
When he finally stopped and the _1
hooded band came up, they delivered jl
a warning to him, to the effect that 1
he must change his way of life; that Ij
he must stay with his mother at 1
nights.
Tt is said that Lee tremblingly
promised to comply with all demands !'
and he lost no opportunity to get ,x
away as soon as he could.
The young man was greatly worried
and frightened by his experience
and it was said that he had not recovered
from his fright the next week
after the occurrence.
Mrs. Lee, his mother, is also very 01
much excited about the matter. She ?
has been in a worried state ever since P
it happened.
BOY RECOVERS :!
RETURNS HOME :
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Leo Johnson, young- son of W. H.
Johnson, recently shot by accident 111
while playing with a rifle, was P1
brought back from the hospital last ^
week well on the road to recovery.
He was suffering from a partial n<
paralysis of one leg but this difficulty'
will doubtless disappear as he be- ?'
comes stronger and is able to walk ?
some. He can sit up and stand up
at the present time but is not strong .
enough to walk about. He says that
he will let guns alone hereafter.
The bullet which caused this injury j,(
Is still in the boy's body, lodged near h
the spine in the back and not far beneath
the skin. It may not ever be fa
extracted.
The cost of the operation and hos- m
pital bill amounted to nearly $200. <ji
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ers there grew dense thickets of gallberry
and sweet gum, with here and T
there a frog pond in which grew big 1
trees. There was an old winding path
leading to his house from the wider
road behind the present main business
square. Between Main street and the
home of Sellers there was a thick bay.
This disappeared in later years.
At one "time the store of Israelite "
Immanual was the only one in Con- 2*
^vayborough. Before long Buck & 11
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ihandise in an old wooden store that Pe
rtood immediately on the corner
vhere the two-story brick building of w:
Hal L. Buck now stands; and next an
Burroughs & Gurganus opened up and da
;onducted business in this same store to
vhere Buck & Beaty had done a mer- of
;antile business. There was probably
*ome other stores conducted about te
;his same time, but the ones mention- a
id were the leading ones and the
)thers have now passed out of mem- in
>ry. no
There were some lawyers at that in
;ime. The leading members of the st<
3ar were Col. Joseph T. Walsh and of
Thomas F. Gissespie. The law
ibrary of Colonel Gissespie can now wi
>e found in the library of H. H. Wood- <?
arard, while many of the books that fr<
were used by Colonel Walsh are in th
;he library of Hon. R. B. Scarborough, tr;
fhere were other lawyers coming in
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} WINS PRIZE i
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:>f St. Louis, last year of- {
cash prizes for the largest ^
lair tonic or lotion used in V
anct- sold by them. The
1 prize of $100.00 down to
%
s
de and hundreds of thou- ^
United States entered the
S
ber 34 Third Avenue, this ?||
I has just received a letter ^
e twenty-eighth prize, the %
id a check for this amount ?
g- this prize Mr. Anderson
considerable ability as a Ij
id to romnpfp with snr?h ? %
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h barbers located all over %
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M'DERMOTT IS
ONE DIRECTOR
Jives Testimony in Examination
Made by Legislature
The Legislature is still engaged in
Taking an investigation of the affairs
f the State penitentiary. They have
ailed all of the directorsr of the intitution
and taken their testimony on
lie various questions recently raised
allowing a mutiny at the pen, includes:
certain members of the board of
irectoi's who seem to he at outs with
lie superintendent, Col. A. K. Saners.
Th^re is an Horryite on the board
f directors, Mr. J. A. McDermott, of
tie Petoples National Batik. He was
worn jas a witness in the investigate!!
lite last week just before the
5mmittee adjourned for the weeknd.
Xccprding to the Daily Record
Ir. MlDetrmott testified as follows:
J. A McDermott another member
f theoprd testified along- practically
agJP the ?Uior. directors,
fa twSks were kept on the pcfifaeniary
farms. He had heard rumors
hont the cotton fire but not such as
e thought worth "running down." Ho
2stified as to the sale of cotton by
[r. Hawkins and Colonel Sanders and
aid that it was his understanding
lat the firm buying the cotton had
fceived a commission of 50 cents a
ale. The same firm stored the cot>n
which bought it. Colonel Sanders,
io witness said, seemed to be surrised
at the claim as well as the
oard.
Mr. McDermott said "things looked
ettor in 1022 than in 1021." speaking
f discipline at the ppnitentiarv. Prisners
never came to him with comlaints.
Should Segregate.
Mr. McDermott thought prisoners
lould be segregated as he considered
a shame to keep certain classes
ith others. Asked if he had seen
ay stocks, he said he was of the opinni
they had been done away with and
Ein not seen any. lie thought the
lutiny was caused by lack of dicipline
rior to the trouble. He denied that
board tried to usurp any authority
'rom Colonel Sanders. Board did
:>t investigate mutiny.
He testified that he had refunded
art of his $150 expense account aliwed
for his trip to the prison confess.
Said he had spent more than
? charged to expense account but out
? his own pocket.
A. H. Hawkins, another director,
;ated that one of the duties of the
>ard was to revise and modify rules,
e had heard of some gambling by
risoners. Board did not go to the
irms as often as required.
G. A. Moseley also testified as a
ember of the board of directors but
d not throw any new light on the
tuation.
HINTS OFFICER
RUTIN VAIN
According to Sam W. Todd, a farm
of the Cedar Grove community, of
uck's township, he was notified to
>pear here before the officers on last
nirsday on account of the sale of
me stock that he made without any
irmit first obtained for moving them.
Todd says that be attended in Consty
to find out what it was all about
id spent most of the day on Thursy
here, but that there was no one
toll him what to do or the nature
the charges against him.
He knows, however, that the matr
concerns his sale of some livestock
few days ago to his neighbor, H.
?rbert Lawrimore. Lawrimore lives
the same community and it was
t thought that there would be any
terdiction against the removal of
:>ck no further than that from one
the farms to the other.
The full particulars of the matter
11 doubtless come out later.
om Marion by private conveyances
rough the Pee Dee river swamps to
y cases at court.
(To Be Continued Next Week.)
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RETAILERS IN
ASSOCIATION
Secretary From Florence Explains
in Detail
The general pood which may be derived
from the retail merchants association,
by the public in general, is
indicated by the very enthusiastic
' meeting held in the city hall on the
1 evening of Thursday, January 26th.
Mr. D. S. McCarthy, secretary of the
j florence association, explained in dej
tail the workings of that association
and the many benefits derived therei
from. Nearly all of the merchants of
| the city were present together with a
number of professional men. There
were 22 additions to the enrollment of
the organization and several more
| merchants expressed a desire to join.
| The objects of the association are
to safeguard the interests of the merchants
and the trading public in general;
to create a better fellowship between
the merchant and the consumer;
to correct trade abuses; and
to disseminate trade information. The
scope of activities cover a wide range
of usefulness.
The exnerience of the Florence as
socintion has been that the trading:
public is well pleased with the results
obtained.
j Every merchant in Conway should
| join, so that the general public may
be better served; membership is entirely
voluntary and unsolicited. The
organization is open for membership
from all merchants, and professional
men. who have dealings with the general
public. It niay be said that the
aim of the association is based on a
constructive program and will not
work a hardship on anyone.
TOO OIL TANKS
CAUSE OF SUIT
A law suit was about to develop last
week concerning two filling systems
that had been used at the store of
the Sasser Company, at Gurley, before
the stock was sold out under
chattel mortgage held by one of the
Wilmington banks.
Several months the stock of goods
and machinery used in making tobacco
flues were "fcold at public auction
and the proceeds applied on a debt
that was due to the Murchinson National
Hank by the Sasser Company.
It appears that among: the equipment
disposed of was a Wayne gasoline
tank and pumping outfit of a
similar nature for dispensing lubricating
oils. These were wanted by J.
T. Dorsey and he placed a bid on
them. Finding that it might be possible
for the heirs of the late Mr.
John Sasser to save this equipment
by obtaining funds to pay on the
debt of the bank, they were taken by
the agents of the bank and held a
while for this money to be put up.
After a time there was no money
put up and the agents then turned
the things over to J. T. Dorsey and it
now appears that J. T. Mishoe, of
Conway, became interested in the
matter with Mr. Dorsey, and it may
be that he was connected with Dorsey
in the bidding from the first.
Dorsey sold the tanks to Sims M.
Allen, and when AllenWent. to take
the tanks, he found a notice posted
ip at the place forbidding any trespassing
or words to the effect that
he must not take the tanks.
It appears that young1 James Sasser
employed attorneys to advise him
in the matter and the result was a
determination to hold the tanks.
At last accounts the parties were
endeavoring to avoid a law suit. The
Dorsey interests will, however, insist
upon a delivery of the property under
their purchase when the things
were disposed of under the chattel
mortgage. Having sold the tanks to
Allen, they are bound to deliver them
the purchasers they will bring claim
paid by Allen.
If the tanks are not delivered to
the purcher s they will bring claim
and delivery action in the Court of
Common Please to recover the property,
according to a statement made in
Conway last week by J. T. Dorsey.
The tanks will be valued in the
case in the sum of $300. It is not
believed that new tanks could be purr\
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W. L. MISHOE
HAS ACCIDENT
W. L. Mishoe was in an automobile >
accident occurring on January 15th, i
1923, the particulars not appearing
before on account of his having been
confined at his home from illness
brought about by the injuries reteiv2d.
The car in which he was riding
turned out of the road at Aynor, running
into a hole and throwing Mr.
Mishoe up in the back part of the
nachine and injuring him in the back.
His injuries were, fortunately, ?ot
erious, but so painful that he was
aid up at his home for two weeks before
he had sufficiently recovered to
3e able to walk out again.
His friends will be glad to know
rtiat his hurts did not prove to be
serious, and that he has recovered so
fa to be able to attend to his business
iflFairs once more. a
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NO. 41
A. BELL FAILS
AT BAYBORO
Statement of Assets and liabilities
Given From
Schedule
CREDITORS WILL MEET
Two Bad Crop Years Given as
Reason For Failure of
This Store
On January 25th, Arnold Bell, of
Bayhoro, was .adjudged a bankrupt
upon a voluntary petition filed by him
on that day in the district court of the
United Staates, in Charleston, S. C.
The case has been referred by the
court to R. J. Kirk, referee, Florence,
S. C., and no.tices have been mailed ta
all of the creditors of Mr. Bell to
meet at the office of Mr. Kirk at 12
o'clock, noon, on February 9th, fpr th?
purpose of electing a trustee of the
estate and considering a sale of tha
property of the bankrupt. It is stated
in1 the notice that the sale of the
stock of merchandise of Mr. Bell wiH
lit* nnncidovo/l .r*. ...Al 1' ?
?luumi lui tiier notice
to the creditors of this estate.
An examination of the schedules
filed by the bankrupt, shows his assets
and liabilities appear as follows, using
the round numbers Riven in the papers:
Total Assets $12,000.0#
Total debts and liabilities .. 9,000.00
The value of the stock of goods in
the store at Bayboro is placed at $2,000.00.
Nearly one-half of the assets
given in the above figures consists of
debts due to the store by people of
Bayboro and nearby sections.
The store hos been closed since the
petition was filed more than a week
ago.
A. Bell started in business on January
1st, 1003, using a store that is
still at Bayboro, located near the
present residence of Mr. Bell. He
did business in that store until in May
1910, when he bought another store
from the Burroughs & Collins Company,
in the corner, at the Cross
Roads, and the business has been kept
in the Burroughs & Collins Company
store ever since. During that
time Mr. Bell has been a useful membor
of t.hp rnmrminit.v. fillinw th*> nosi.
tlon of poa&m&ster, school trustee, and
many? useful places on behalf of the
peonle of that section.
His failure is laid to the failure of
the crops of the last two years. In
1922. the farmers made a complete
failure almost, owing to the heavyrains
which fell during the main cropping
season. The year before that
was a very bad year for the farmers
of that community. Running a time
business, when the farmers failed to
make any money crops with which to
pay, Mr. Hell kept up the struggle to
pay his creditors jis long as he could
and when there appeared no further
hope for his business, he closed the
doors of his store and filed a petition
in bankruptcy.
HIGHER COURT
. ON BELL CASE
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Interesting Opinion Dismisses
Complaint Against
Thompson
ILL CONSIDERED CONTRACT
Refuses to Set Aside Deed
WTq /IA t A Mro On
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Thompson
The opinion of the Supreme Court
in the case of O. J. Bell against Mr.
and Mrs. M. B. Thompson, written by
Associate Justice T. B. Fraser, is an
interesting document.
The opinion takes up the salient
facts in the transaction whereby it
was sought to hold the defendant for
much more land than he claimed he
had sold, and threshes out each phase
oi cne matter in such a way as to
make the substance very plain.
The receipt on which the action had
to he based, for it could be based on
nothing else, contained an addition
which included the old store lot across
the private road running between the
Tones place and the Jake Floyd place,
[f it had been intended to include the
Jake Floyd land also, why did the receipt
fail to say so.
Again the complaint sought to set
aside, for fraud, a deed which Thompson
had made to Mrs. Thompson for
this Jake Floyd place, and yet there
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i[ An examination of the rec- %
Iords at the court house shows
that many farmers are borrow- IB
ing money, some from the
banks and from others who have -I
money to loan. J?
A word of advice is needed **
here. Borrow no money unless
it is absolutely necessary. If it
is necessary, then see that not %
one cent of the loan is spent for
y pleasure, or things that can be ?J
ij done without.
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