Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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We i's De] f Mr. King Replies to Mr. Merrill, j Editor County Record:? 1 In reply to the communication, s over the signature of Mr H N Mer- i ritt,which appeared in your columns 1 some weeks ago, which he claims to < be in answer to my letter to Mr J W i Ragsdale. The communication of Mr < Merritt, I claim, is no answer to the i letter, but a very damaging attack i upon me, in that I am a warehouse- 1 man of the community in which this \ letter was published. The full intent i of Mr Merritt's letter (or so claimed i to be his) is to damage my business 1 as a warehouseman of the State. He not only asks personal questions, but I he also answers them himself in his \ letter. And why should he pick me : out in particular, a warehouse- < man away down in' Johnsonville? i There are warehousemen at his very j door who have bought and handled j much more tobacco than I have, and : then why did he not commence at i home, if the purchasing of tobacco j by the warehouseman was such a i terrible thing? There is a motive i behind this letter of Mr Merritt.and ; this motive is most despicable. 1 The letter of Mr Merritt is very ; personal, inquiring directly into my I personal affairs. I deny his right to ] this privilege,but his statements hav- i ing been published, I deem it only right and proper that they should be i answered in so far as they relate to i the relations between me and my < customers. i In the first place, Mr Merritt, you ! make the assertion that I"have been i buying tobacco here (at Lake City) I every j'ear and at the close of the ' season having it graded and tied < and shipped to North Carolina for resale and made a killing." This is ab- i solutely false, as I have not shipped tobacco to North Carolina every year. Tr? T npvpr shinnpd a hnrrshpad of tobacco to Winston, N C.with the exception of two or three hogsheads that would accumulate in the warehouses after the market had closed. But I did ship from Johnsonville, S C.sixty-odd hogsheads of tobacco the i past season,but not a hundred,as you assert. Not one would I have ship- i ped had I been able to get the tobacco on the warehouse floors at John- i sonville before the market closed. Why, Mr fylerritt even wants to know how much I lost on thi3 tobacco I i shipped from Johnsonville. Well, _i. t ...:n just iu satisiy yuu i win ten yuu as near as I know how: I had about ten thousand pounds graded and tied up nicely and put on the warehouse ! floors at Winston, and could not sell ? ouncing 1 rf our n hing Old. est and t ress (ioo n Beach :st styles showing ything t< iighbors iruarante partn I 4 averaged $9,68, but J D King's average at Johnsonville was $10.31. So if all the warehousemen of the State had gotten the farmers as much as I did they would have received over $25,000 more than they did for last year's crop. This should also show the farmers that I am not stealing t at all. I then packed it in hogsheads md shipped it to Danville, Va, and nstructed the warehousemen there to jell it for'anything it brought. The remaining forty-two thousand pounds [ sold at Winston-Salem from 2 to 5& :ents in its loose state. While I have answered your pertinent question, I will say that it was none of yours or any other man's business to ask such a question. I know, sir, you have a very valuable farm,but if you should agree to pay all the losses on tobacco that I have bought in South Carolina it would take several farms like yours j to meet it. Again, you ask why I bought tohar?/?n vonr T hnv it in nrntor WMVVV % ?V?J J v%** - ** tion to my customers,by saving more for it than would the buyers, and no warehouseman can protect his customers unless he buys. Now, in retard to grading tobacco,Mr Merritt, from what you say, you can get from ?4 to $6 per hundred more for your tobacco by simply grading and tying it. If you really believe what you say along this line, why don't you grade and ship your tobacco,as it costs only 39 cents per hundred to ship to any point in North Carolina or Virginia, and as you don't want the warehouseman to buy your tobacco,I can locate you several good warehousemen who won't buy a leaf of it. You say I am mixed up in my assertions regarding the grading of tobacco,but I am more convinced than ever before that it is largely to the interest of every tobacco grower in South Carolina to sell his tobacco in the loose leaf state? iust asthev have been doing. You ask why I say this. The main reason is that all the buyers from the different States are on the South Carolina markets up to about the 20th of September,and the time to sell tobacco is when you have the buyers to buy it. By selling it in the loose leaf state you are able to sell it while competition is strongbuyers all on the market. Suppose the farmers had graded the last crop. How much would they have lost by reason of the big drop in prices that occurred just about the time they would have been about half through selling? Now,to make it plainer to the farmers of South Carolina about my business: The State of South Carolina U ??? Mil 11* 111 Willi? III "A A11 v rue v/ui vmajt ew store )est good* ds, Shoes, and othe and goodi f we are c ) wear, and frien< ;e our gc lent S nome markets, il was men x him my best advice on the course for them to pursue, and any man (Concluded on Hit I) tomers . New 'a : A :\ > at the , Dress= r latest 5. You rffering 4 4^ LIS CV f] >ods or r * . itore ;e, s. c. :he people of this community will pave available all necessary telephone conveniences. The directors )f the company are J M G Eaddy, L ?t Day, H L Baker and C L Creel."' rold That There Has No Cure For Him. "After suffering for over twenty years with indigestion and having some of the best doctors here tell me there was no cure for me, I think it only right to tell you for the sake of other sufferers as well as your own satisfaction that a 25 cent bottle of Chamberlain's Tablets not only relieved me but cured me within two months, although I am a man of 65 years," writes Jul Grobien, Houston, Texas. Obtainable everywhere. Every town has two classes of people?builders and destroyers. Of which class are vou? : '? HEARD AT HEMINGWAY. lr. R. N. Spelgner to be Scboo I upt.-Nevv Telephone Company A "special" to the News & Courier rom Hemingway, under date of tpril 24, says: "Mr R N Speigner, the present Juperintendent of Education of Williamsburg county, has accepted he superintendency of the school lere for next term. Serving in the official capacity that he has for the )ast four years, Mr Speigner has von for himself an enviable reputa;ion, not only in this county, but ;hroughout the State. The trustees, is well as the patrons, feel that they ire very fortunate in obtaining the tervices of a man of this type, and jelieve that under his supervision, ;he school will make marked progress,thus to become one of the best ligh schools in the State. "Bonds hi?"e ready been voted :'or the erect'on cf a $15,000 school juilding, and it has been reported hat work cull bf gin in a short time, is the plans are now in the hands of ;he State authorities at Columbia :or approval. "A movement is now on foot for ;he establishment of a telephone system at Hemingway and a stock :ompany has been organized with a capital of $2,000 for this purpose, t is believed that in a few weeks MINUS1 K? their tobacco, as Mr Merritt's letter intimates, to a certain extent. In regard to my assertion to change * the re-drying plants of the State s would entail a cost of about $100,000, but which Mr Merritt says would be f a matter of nothing, I am under the , impression that the men who own the steam re-drying plants know more about the cost of overhauling and S changing the plants in the State than \ does Mr Merritt. t The average price of the 1914 crop . of tobacco in the States of North CarI olina, Virginia and South Carolina,up c j to February l,was $10.85. Note that I I the North Carolina and Virginia crops ^ i were all graded and tied, which means t a lot of expense and hard work to the ! farmer,yet they got only 54 cents per ! hundred more on the average of the 1 three States than 1 averaged at John- i sonville withoutany grading or tying. s Now as to Mr Tyler Gaskins and i the advice I gave him, will sayl did not solicit Mr Gaskins' business in person or by letter, as I had all I t could do and did not get to solicit 1 scarcely any of my old customers dur ing the whole season, but about two or three days before the Johnsonville market closed Mr Gaskins drove up in front of my place of business unsolicited and said tome: "Are you in position to handle my tobacco?" I told him our market was virtually closed} | and I could not handle same satis-! | factorily at that time. Then he re- J I marked that he had his crop on1 ! hand; also he said Mr Covington had his tobacco, and he wanted me to ! come to their homes and look at their | ! tobacco, and either buy it or advise; them best what to do. I told him if 1 got the chance I would come,but did not think I could, as I was going to' i leave for home in a few days. Then ' Mr Caskins said: "If vou can't come ! we have got to grade and tie our to- ( ! bacco and ship it somewhere for ' sale, as the prices are so low at Lake City and other markets we will not sell it." In fact, he said they could not sell it then as the markets were ; virtually closed. Then I told him < there was nothing else to do but to grade and ship it and to ship it to either Wilson or Winston-Salem, and i that if he shipped it to WmstonSalem that I would do all I could for him and Mr Covington without any , charge on my part. Now, after Mr Gaskins telling me that all the markets were virtually closed and they i could not sell their tobacco on the 1 *?1? **- *"?? 4-U am T /votrn