VOL. XXVIII, NO. 2.')
DAULI \ OTON, S TIIUKSDAV, -MM
11)04
WHOLE NUMBER 1,40 !»
THE. TOWN OF DARLINGTON
>â– ' a
in
.h nnin*
•r i • v- t'i-icts
a
One of The Most Progressive Towns in The Southern
Country.
ma<:
â– arri"
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a I In
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ii:' r,.
• >vor
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Origin and Progress from
to 1904.
$785
I lull Ot
• 'I,a’'ir
u<‘ .tu
O' ii:'.' h ,j i< 1 in
iiavi', imt a hotel is an absolute
necessity, ami. if the town is of
any importance it ouyht to be a
yowl one: presenting a hand-
'ojiie appearance outside and full
n) coiniort and good clu cr v.'it.i-
in. Ttie building was eroete I
'onie > ears ago, tint has recently
been completely remodeled ami
overhauled, making it practically
a new building. The rooms arc
cosy and comfortable and the
sanitary arrangements are per-!
tort, being put in place by the
best workmen. All these im
provements cost, of course, ai
great deal of money but the
pany owning the building
f< r cotton during a number of
years had the effect of .stimulat
ing the culture of tobacco, and
ttic business men of Darlington,
fully alive to anything that would
increase its business, made every
arrangement to facilitate Lie
handling and sale of this now im
portant crop. From a beginning
ol annul 100.000 pounds, the
sales ot the first year, the busi
ness has assumed large propor
tions; the sales for 1903 being
7,500,000 pounds. To accomm >-
date this large quantity of the
weed there were four ware
houses, Pargan’s, conducted by
Dargati it Stem: Darlington,
aii/.ed the fact that the town AbramSydnor; Carolina. Milling
had
l lion
main
itgrown the hotel and that
was nothing to do hut ;o
it larger, more convenient
Magnificent and Costly Buildings Erected During the Past Lour Years.
/
The Leading Tobacco Market of South Carolina.
P re
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and more comfortable. Mr. A.
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Kt i: i i
I. Dutlt is the proprietor aid
I'.a a'
•' ■ i • ■
"Iging by the way in which he
V.
go'-, up banquets, and entertain-
tn< nts of that kind, it is very
1 1
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easy to believe that he is at the
let!;" .
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business that nature design
O
♦
1 : ‘' : 1 ' L
ed ban -tor, for a really good
r , .
â–  1 1 r. Ml''
hotel keeper is, like a poet, horn
p!ai.'
V
" â–  !. in
and not made. Anyway the
order
l- â–  - t 1
H'i'laiioii
? r milD In-
. . 1 .
1 hotel has a good patronage and
(bar.
Mr. Du (ft stands a mighty fine
Fine Back Country Composed of Thrifty Farmers Having Two
Ready-Money Crops to Depend Upon Tobacco ant! Cotton.
LIVE MERCHANTS IN HANDSOME BRICK STORES- Al.I DOi.Vi GOOD IH S'MiSS.
the
the
ORIGIN OF the town. ington was formed in 1785;
The County and town of Dar- first Court House was near
lington were named for an officer 3,te ^e present town hall and
of the army of the Revolution so opera, house. The next was in
tradition says, though nothing the same place. The third was
authentic at this day can be put upon the stiuare some w here
found to corriborate the state- ir * the twenties. It was 'unit'd
ment. Gregg in his valuable work after the war between the . tales
“The history of the Old Che- but rebuilt, and when the new
raws” makes no positive state- tjne, in course of erection,
meht aS tb the name. designed the old one was
Sufficient to say that on divis- down. It was in the old that the
ion the old County of Craven meeting was held in I860 mauve
with its County seat at Green- t° tbe Secession Convention and
ville.a village on the banksof the persons are now living who spoke
Great Pee Dee River, the town at the meeting,
of Darlington, was laid out. It At one t> m e in the fifties there
hone davs called the vil- was a large tan-yard carried on .
.the selection of the site by Mr John F Ervin. It was beasts roamed, tin
promise. Some want- situated on the left of tne hill as
lechanicsvillve toward you go to the creek on w hat is
others wished to known as the new Darlington
rlv’s Cross Roads roaTl.
fest. It was aftei A notel was kept by Mr
by those whe Doled ;near the present
could come back oner a;
what would they think m
o u r public square. w!
they laid off near the centre
the town, which wa> onl> a 'â– 
on a hill.an Indian pat ii : r> >n,
creek. Ail of the handsome m
buildings would he a P'. i in
to them. ‘ When t"ld
was many of them were mane
torn brick moulded in Dan....
County they would he amu;
and properly so. When'
Indian trail wound its ua,
from the fishing ground, i.a
some Darlington oaks now
and flower gardens bloom :n
Spring time. Wiiere :'m
prev of
Indian hunter, children ;
meet to he instrwete i a aj i
their innocent game.
ng to
' -to of
! hose | I
were
! Dar-
eat i 11
ilia! .
seed -
pan,
to a v
1\ ev,
spent
DAbi i-
No t •
mater
wilhon'
Well.- ,
Win. r
â– i'lD -
' II, nt
; i 'im
plants.
>.
1 near-
' lie \ is
• Deal
M.\ X k.-
tb
o!
making
.'et on
.nton i-
liai mg
; i
mt
tael III
nt Mil
PT w h. â– 
.a r : one and
was t-.i i
"••d 1 1 a capital
1" Its o
â–  p." -. profes-
Slock of -. •
1 ■ r .•!, a- .-. 1-.n
i -.uTai ii
fe.
after a i
S 1. M 1,1 M H 1.
; -r
r I;:, 1 1 passed
From p -
â–  ; .o â–  ; - an airs
• ea- o| Re-
hare h. e
. ’ e a: 111
me-l'ille
and wholesale
1 conserv at.i
. , ami it now
and I i i.' •
'i.di; Ion of the
justly r.p
; ; : pe safi st
an to .m
ol'.ice. It soon
hank.- in :
’ a . | • - - -mg in
ai' nl P
. Darlington’s
a remar
i i eol.ll-
t IlllSille-
mon that the
idellee of
.■■"O’, and this
1 r let' to
pro-1 .or as it
1 WT1" X p!; i
â– a -.-it are
O". PIP
.â– â– I I.p'.i somi
-o e
, O '. The
ll'-ll.-
w
»nd, and the site was
reference to that,
^time near the cen-
the^ known as
I 121,, which, with
fjf one County in
Tas the largest Cot-
rCounty in the South
F»re in the World. The
Few counties, and moie
political power, has
of some valuable tern-
.'uUt the character of its p 'o-
ple remains the same; it is to-day
one of thfe finest of the many
C ^unties in South Carolina, its
population being made up of des
cendants of the people who came
here from England, Scotland,
t*?)and, Wales, with a mixture "of
ch Huguenots, who,first set-
l on the Coast, afterwards
tup the middle section
^ade this the coun-
is. In the Re
asons of the first set-
J!e"it hot for the Brittish
^es, and the soil has been
with blood shed in the
( ! of feedom. More than one
Jet of atrocity has been enacted
within the borders of the present
[county, witness: the hanging of
iCusaac by the Tories near the
Ivillage of Society Hill almost on
Site Of
Wolfram’s store and it was on
tj-ounds where rt
-.ipliveswere burned at th
Ind,
' Star.
DartiTigton to-day as she appear-
to the eves of the traveler is th>
the piazza of this house, kept | result ot the pluck and energ
ther by Mr. J. J. Cannon, that
Capt. George F. Williams of the [
Williams Guards was shot by
William Wingate in the early 1
summer of 1802. For a long |
time Mrs. Hymes kept a hotel
on the site of the new building
now being erected by W. D.
Coggeshall. This was called the
Darlington Hotel. Afterwards
the new hotel was built at the
corner of the square and Florence
md Pearl streets. This was
alle 1 the "Enterprise,’’ the
name having been suggested by
a newspaper man in the town,
which name it held until it fell
into other hands when the name
of the former house was adopted
and now the handsome brick
structure which has all the
modern conveniencies is known
as "The Darlington."
Seeing the necessity for a
place where the youth of Dar
lington could receive instruction,
Capt. John Gibson gave a plat ot
five acres just on the brow of the
creek for the purpose of a school
house and St. John’s Academy
was built. The old wooden
structure was good enough for
those who lived in those days.
the men who are the descendant
of those who wisely saw In
future and in their selection '
the site budded better
thev knew.
r. kent 11’Td
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r M
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ss i ■ uerprisc. '«
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ill . t
on. ;; itg was
reeled ll.e
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h:r- ; oen moref
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nan douli;.
it i.- *y far ll.e j
T li is
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Liiizcti sov-
ll'.'e.-l c-tt
on m;ll
m tills soetion : .
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Halt
â–  m
iai'.i
the spot where the first depot of It nurtured the men of the six-
the Cheraw and Darlington Road | ties, and others who have made
the town and county of Darling-
stood.
The town of Darlington was
settled in the year 1785 and the
first Court House was of hewn
pine logs. It may not be know n
to many of our readers that at one
time the jail, a wooden one,
caught fire and was in danger of
being burned up for the reason
that the fire was on top and there
was no ladder with which to
reach it. There was, however, a
lawyer here at the time whose
practice extended over all of this
section and whe in his sulky
vent from Court House
to Court House in the course of
his practice. He was of good old
Scotch stock, his father having
been one of Marion’s men. He
procured a long pole and
leaning one end on the top of the
building he walked up carrying
water and put the fire out. His
name was John D. WhithersiKKin
and he lies buried in the old
churchyard of Trinity Church in
DABl.INGToN IN Till: !'.
TWEN TV VEAUS AND Ti
NTMEKoi'S KNTKkl'll!
SES Til A I II.W i
SPllCNC IT.
Till: ( olTuN Mil.I
-hi.
ton known in this Southern land.
The town of Darlington, as
was to have been expected, in
creased and the necessity for a
larger building and better accom
modation, resulted in the build
ing of the St. John's Graded
School bunding, than which there
is not a finer in this or any other
State for the purposes for which
it was intended. Not content
with what he had done for tile
cause of education Capt. John
Gibson gave also the site on
which tiie Methodist Church
stood for so many years in this
town.
This old building hallow ed by
associations which should be so
tender, has been made into a
dwelling house and the present
place of worship of the Method
ist congregation is a handsome j t ‘”: s ( V r "‘ rt ', surri , ull ,
modern brick building on the
corner of Pearl Street and a short
cross street. It has a pipe organ
soon a
1 The
much ;
liiuh rep- tobacco
.Mr. W.
uid treas-
Wh
.'ll leu
the village of Society Hill where
he lived for many years.
With the present handsome
structure which we now have
for the jail one would be at a
loss to get on the top by any
and is lighted with electricity
If the good old people who
shipped so fervently in the old
woAlen structure could come _
back to us what would they say? v ' vor k they
Before the days of the rail-
such primitive means. The first I road the stage passed through
Court House was built in 1785; here connecting with Florence
the next in 1795-6. This was before the Cheraw & Darlington
burned in March 1806 while j Road was built. The route was anj leading citizens ha\
Court was in session. Next day direct from Society Hill to this worked togethe r ail D
The Darlington ot tii'.e.
twenty years ag" gave
promise ot what the to’,', n
is, for at that time even r
sanguine citizens did i."'
for any very great m. r. a -,
business .>r p.ipulatlot I -
years ago tile railroad a.o i
nearl.v all the work luiii'.tt
mg allow ed some a- '
during the l>us\ -ea-un. v :
the pl'i'M'Ilt LUle lie Da -
seven clerks and a shift it.'.'
that is kept at work t t.r. â– 
tiie whole \ear. Some i.
their grow in and pro.'i't tâ– 
very large extent at la'.:
fact that thev are railio .u
i io
favorable circumstance
however, has not he n t n.
with Darlington, all •>:
crease being practical . u
vvo l r j tiie courage and enterpi. <
own citizens, who can. -a ,i 1
donable pride, point !« tio
have accomni
for their town. It i:na> g
to state in tins connect r e
in all tilings alTcctmg in.
fare of the town its progn
alw a
the Court convened in the house
of Geo. Bruce, where it had for-
nerly been held, which house s
yas about onehundred yards from j ariah Nettles, James T
|herei the Court house had stood. I Robert Fide a n d
place without stop.
Suppose Lemuel Benton
DuBose, William Dewitt, Zach-
W’ilson,
Charles
L order of Court on is record tell- Dewitt tiie commissioners
, what records were destroyed | selected the present
mated by tiie same pui'ji.i
Elias that purpose has been the
and prosperity of Dar
A very interest mg Dim.'
nection with tiie groc. i n
tow n is the fact that .c;
business men
who
site
lis fire. The District of Dari- of tiie town of Darlington. I sl)K „| lvai p |
w ho
11 W I
tli
im.
Mr lx M
i. Malt In
ew es sec- 1
a*.»1 M".
F. C.
Graddick â– 
!.». L'i.-Mt,
The
land on 1
’ 11' ’ I'lM
mill st;
mds was. : 1
•,. ■ t ■ r* h
u ion. an .ild field '
• •«i ID»
pm po-e
except as '
'• l • a r * 1 1'.
-’d mg g
round for
!•;'!■
!ut and
t he vora-
. M'
.or. both
"fthem,
. < i . it i ' a
lllm-t n
Hess to
•
kipped
â–  . 1 - 1 I..I in* It
lis r tor
. p where
' la’, t• i
- W '.fl II
.|| be dis-
i i. > 1 *' • ■ i!
,m "I n:
i .'hmery.
V.e ; hi
â–  mill has
11 IS
â–  nil ne-
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• 1 dmmi ail'.
c 111 a t
tn. iffie
â–  : li t he
. g. -, I ha
1 ' - t,' > t a
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. ped the
c\ .« Mi' n\‘ ;
v i-.kia
v. luitev er
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na< r\t
T existed.
i »■(■!>
p-r'"M
a 1 ill Its
Pi*. LI. N 1
MX 1 i •'
. i 1 t'N Dll.
i oMI'AM .
and tlo
' ! .ng en-
I- . .w e- 1
t> intt*;
’. .'i to ;he
11 hm.mt
i»f a 11 ») ’ i
mill, some
.e.'o. W il i
li a capil
al ot' $75,-
Afier h
finp in
â–  *perat ion
, p inher
of . fa
r it was
ed with
(hr ID’,
. :. estah-
1 Fert ill/.
er let
oi \. This
P the
. r e u f a
Ik w ,\ ears.
1â– . 1 lie
\ III UP
p t 'arolina
1 Co ,
t lie oil
p ill 1 ie m g
P"d l.,\ IE
or," im
d owner-.
Ip tPITie
d ot! !i
' he a \ e i’ j
the im
11 ha- not
. k |;i-, me
, from III
low pa
r to a e. .n-
Millie - mu
above.
1 i om i In
lining the
eompanv now has.
t "i.f manaiTiiK
â– nt. 0 mills
' .! i.tioo
,!. . no da
Tin: Oil Mil,I. oK I i
, .10
fertT
noil an.I L
Mi'
Djiffliiun batiu.
rv
and Rhodes, and the Centre
Brick, Hunt & Coker I n
addition to these warehouses
there are the Factory o' the
American lobacco Co. and the
s emeries of (i. T. Dalton & Co.
’laliatern, & and Burwell A’
Co., also g number of pack
houses belonging to the large
buyers, of which there are quite
a number; in fact enough of th nil'
to make the market a very lively
one. One of the warehouses,
The Centre Brick, is shown in
one of the illustration.-. There
change to get fat. just from fine lias been from .$50,0(H) to $60,000
contentment and good living,, invested in buildings and nift-
tliis. however, does not mean 5 chinery.
will eat more than his! It is very manifest that the
or he wont forget his I smaller markets cannot success-
tfiat ht
share,
guests.
THE COK1NKT STEAM I.A ON DRY
I ii 1 lie early days of the
tonec of the hum;
m
exis-
race, the
fully compete with the large ones
; and tins will ultimately eoncer-
! Irate the business and confine it
to a few central points. It is
almost needless to sav that Dar-
people made out with very scant i lington will be one of the large
attire, and that was supposed to markets i
ne made of the
beasts. But lie thi.-
thev had no use fora laundry
and an institution of this kind
would have been decidedly out
upposed to j markets of tiie future, furnish-1
skins of wild | ing, as it does, every facility for
' tis it may; selling, handling and shipping
tiie tobacco. It may not be amiss
to say that the fanner who brings
his tobacco to Darlington will lie
of place and have- met with an [a permanent patron of the mar-
early death owing to alack ofjket.
patronage. Tilings are very!
different now, and while the) ' >OM ohl ' I(i '- business OF
folks of the present day may not j DARLINGTON,
clothe themselves in purple, they There is no more convincing
insist on wearing a great deal of! proof of the increase in the busi-
fine linen, and this they want to I ness and population of a city or
be done up in the most approved ! town than that furnished by
style. lo meet this want three | the growth of its post office
of our enterprising young men, business. Darlington has been
Messrs. E. R. Cox, R. J. Riven-! advanced four grades in the
bark and J. L. Nettles, establish-! past five years and next year:
ed the Corinet Steam Laundry, j will be put in the second class
~ ' ’ that jt
lie desired in this way; for
' under the pr sent arrangement,
the departure and arrival of the
trains, one ean eat bie ikfast in
Darlington, take the train for
either Wilmington. C larleston
or Columbia, have a lew hours
in each city and return in time
for a late supper. In addition
to this there is an afternoon
train that m ikes it p issible to
spend the night in either of tha
above named cities and he in
I tarlington at lo Mo the next
morning. 'lose connection
can also be made with all the
nearbv towns. Twenty years
ag> it was only possible to
make close connection with
('liarleston.
Till-: DARI.INGTON GUARDS.
Having briefly called atten
tion to the leading commercial
and manufa "iurmg enterprises
of Darlington, something must
he said about its institutions,
which, while non commercial
in character, are things that no
town, worthy of the narm , can
at!ord to dispense with.
1 lie Darlington Guards,under
its present organization, is
only a few years old, but it is
the successor of the Id hiotoric
company from which it takes
its name. The original com
pany was organized j n iSoti, in
the early part of the year, thus
having about two years in
which to perfect themselves in
drilling and the manual of
arms. At the time the com-
piny entered service there was
not a better drilled command in
the South, or one made up of
finer material with the follow
ing officers; F. F. Warley,
Laptain; D G. McIntosh, 1st
Lieut ; T A Sanders, ^<1 Lieut;
J W. Norwood, 3rd Lieut, ami
J. E Nettles, 1th Lieut J. W.
Harrington was made Orderly
Sergeant and it is rattier re
markable that he should have
held this position in the Guards
until the company was dis
banded, and then in a cavalry
company until the close of the
War. Expressions of r «,.et are
often heard, that such a*hue
command should have been dis
banded in the early part
War This E —
THE COLEMAN BUILDING.
For a good many years D,
lington had a building fronti 1
tiie public square that was a pi
feet eye-sore and a real mort:
cation to all of our citizens,
was an old ramshackle wood*
store that had been partitioned
ami was occupied by a number
tenants. It really seemed
bear a charmed life as it wou 1
not. despite its apparent weak
ness and with a rotten shingle
roof, succumb either to tire or
storm. There was general re
joicing when Mr. John Coleman,
olio of our leading tobacco buyers,
bought tiie lot and erected the
pn M'l.t
on Cue site. This building is
ivulh an ornament to tiie town
an 1 would lie noticeable in a place
much larger than Darlington.
It cost, exclusive of the land,
sis,ooo. The first floor is occu
pied by two stores while the
second and third stories are used
for office purposes.
The town has very probab!
the best and purest water in tj
State, and that too in quantit:
sufficient for all purposes,
new standpipe, holding a
100.000 gallons, has recen'
been erected and the press'
erv handsome''building through the mains is amply s
heient tor lire purposes even|
the fine fire engine should
come disabled.
The streets are illuminat
every night in the year, by
very latest designs in elect]
lights and leave nothing to
desired in this line. It may
well to state that tie ws
comes from artesian wells
contains absolutely nothing t|
can produce sickness. Mr. [
M. haynsworth is treasurer!
the Light and Wa.e • Co.
• Owing to its pure water,
to the tact that tie town is
clean, Darlington is a
healthy place; hut to make
surance doubly sure its energ
council are having the str
surveyed, at a cost of $60
with a view to the installatiq
a modern sewarage system,
survey is being made by Mj
C. Wilson, the well known
itect and engineer; quite a
her of the buildings on
si glare are connected wit
sewer that was put in
months ago. There tire aH
good many residences
Cashua and adjoining str|
that have a complete sew<
s\stem of their own.
'' I I'uimgton'
mi. D' r
\ town i".
ai ng without a
that it woiii.l
'N I!
Hotel,
e building
the pro
is now
p. rt i of a compaii).
Till: I'OBAI IT) BUSINESS,
file low price that prevaili
KAII.IMAD FAl ll.t ITES.
1.crept for the fact tha|
trains are not always on
dale, our train facilities!
udmirahlo and leave nothin