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V ? ; g Ibc ?om\Record.' |1=: . ? | ^ ^35^ " : KINGSTREETSOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1919. 1 ' NO 38 ? ___________ San company for marketing WILLIAMSBURG CITIZENS ASK FOR CHARTER FOR $50,000 1 x- ? ? Ah 3 sequai 10 _ mc inccvaig held here last week a committee has since .been called together by S. H. Walthall, of the South Carolina Landowners Association for the purpose of formulating definite plans of procedure in forming the Kingstree Marketing Association. This latter meeting was attended by a number of interested citizens and several prominent farmers. ^ It was thoroughly understood and agreed by all that the commercial and marketing situation for next year must be completely revised if the town and county is to maintain its present degree of prosperity. After going into the matter from every angle it was decided to ask for a chapter for $50,000 and request the Libetty Milling Company to consider nlans for consolidation with the new organization. The Liberty Milling Company is well equipped fo alafcge proportion of the marketing work, having an up-to-date cotton gin, flour mill and com shelling machinery already installed, along with over two _ acres of ground close to the railroad served by a private siding. It is H^^^kubly located for every branch of connection with a perfect ^^V^H^^^cluding sufficient space for cattle pens. Such an advantageous condition does not obtain in any other locality through the entire coastal plane section cf the State, thinks Mr. Walthal, and it is with much enthusiasm the idea has been developed. The details of coordinating the newcorporation and the Liberty Milling r Comp-sny and plans for forming the new company were given in charge of a special committee of three, with instructions to report back to a meeting to be here this week, at which time /' all details for a general mass meeting of farmers, citizens, business men and bankers of the entire county will be arranged for. The committee working on the project is fully conversant with the ' demands caused by the reversal of conditions, many of the members having studied conditions in other locav tions similarly affected and therefore, are pecularly fitted to carry on the work given them for working out Williamsburg's prosperity for the next few years in spite of Mr. B. Weevi. o Greelvville's Progressive School Prior to the year 1890 there was no school in what is now the town of Greelyville. The pupils attended a neighborhood school a few miles from town. In the year 1890 a building 16 fee* square was built and Mrs. Reynolds was employed to instruct the youths. The enrollment was small am) the session lasted for only about three months each year. This small * building was used until 1898 when a two room building was built and Mr. Roper, the first male principal, was employed. A few years later two rooms were added to the building. The town had grown to such an extent and the number of pupils had become so large that in 1910 the citizens voted bonds to build z, large brick building, the preseitf value of which is $25,000. The building contains six large class rooms and a a large auditorium. It is a credit to the town and a monument to T. J. Hogan. T. W. Boyle, the late J. F. Register, the late S. J. Taylor, and other enterprsing men of the town. The school has grown continuously since its beginning to an enrollment of 165 at present. Teachers have been added until the present teaching force numbers six. Mr. E. T. Spigner is the principal and he is ably assisted by Misses Blise Rollins, Lottie C. DuBose- Louise Barr, Ola Grimes, ana Margarcrt Blakeley. There are ten grades in the school and gradL nates experience no difficulty in enlL terine^jgae colleges of the State, w T.,jHr)oyle, J. F. Montgomery. and I F. l^K ie are the trustees. ! The Biitish Government is selling its war souvenirs, including helmets, + guns, bombs, tanks and huts. o Of tha $30,000,000 left by the late Andrew Carnegie, $7,000,000 wdll go to the Government as inheritance ? taxes. 4N APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE i For Voluntary Donations to The South Carolina Memorial T To the people of South Carolina: Various campaigns for money, a natural reaction from the high tension of wardays, intense work due to! transitional conditions in the.econom- j ic world, and ailxiety over the cost of !. living are among the factors which ^ have slowed jip the Memorial cam-, paign in this State. We think it best ' to look these conditions squarely in tViof wo mav Ifnnu- what ' I mc Iayc, ov uiav <>*uj ?..v.. ....... , i is to be overcome. ; On the other hand, South Carolin-, ians have never before been so prosperous. In asking for voluntary dona- ' tions amounting to four hundred thousand dollars, the Memorial Com- ' mission, created by the General As- 1 sembly, is not asking for anything un-, reasonable. And when one stops to consider the purpose for which the j campaign is being waged, the request ( .takes on an aspect that is anything 1 'but unreasonable. The sons and 1 daughters of this State, who fought;( and worked so well for the great 1 cause of democracy must never be 1 forgotten; moreover, there must be i tangible, visible evidence of the;1 State's gratitude to them. The cam- J paign will not fail, for South Caro-; linians have never yet, and never will j * be unappreciative of splendid services I i-onHoroH ' Because the campaign for four i' ' hundred thousand dollars, to supple- j ment the one hundred thousand made ; available by the General Assembly, | j has been retarded, the Memorial Com- \ , mission has decided to continue the ' j time for solicitation of subscriptions ^ [ up to the convening of the next ses- ' ' sion of the General Assembly. At ( that time the commission should be 1 able to report full and complete sue- ' r ! cess. The impression has prevailed that ' ! the proposed memorial building would, { in effect, be but a college chapel on the University grounds; this is in- ' correct. The proposed building would '1 ! be a historic museum for South Car- ! 1 olina, and its location, while on jf grounds held by the University trus- j j tees, would not in any way hinder its , * I use by the general public. It would i j not be jfn theory or in tact, merely a ' part of the University, hut both in ' I theory and fact, a State Memorial. | There also has been an effort to have ' i the type of memorial changed to a J hospital, but the soldiers through the ! ; American Legion have spoken decid- * ! edly against this proposition. We appeal to the various counties ( that have not yet raised their quotas , to epedite the campaign. No Commu- 1 i nity can have it said that when the ; State was seeking to perpetuate the ^ memory of her noble sons and daught- * | ers, that it was indifferent. A perma- * j nent memorial is necessary to keep 1 alive the facts, and to keep fresh the I - I 1 I inspiration. i * Rober A. Cooper, Chairman. ' * Richard I Manning, Vice- { Chairman, , Columbia, S. C.* 5 November ?1, 1919. ?: 0 ; Quarantine Still on Cotfon Seed Hulls Ciemson College, Nov. 25.?The ( j quarantine on cotton seed hulls has ' ; not yet been raised, says Professor 1 A. F. Conradi, of the State Crop Pest ' Commission. ' There seems to be some misunder- ' standing in reference to the quaran- ' tine on cotton seed hulls. The boll weevil settles down to winter quarters after the first killing frost, but this | action is not completed in a few days, ' and in raising this quarantine the ( commission is forced to be guided by ! the conditions of the weevil af^u>t ' by^the occurrence of the first ^^Kg 1 frost. The boll weevil line on^g*s j date (November 21, ~1919) runs 1 through Anderson, Laurens, Chester- I field and Cheraw. 1 The regulations of the State Crop ' Pest Commission provide that the quarantine on hulls be raised on De- : cember 31st. For several years past the commission was generally able,j^ owing to weevil conditions, to raise ]1 this quarantine at a much earlier date, thoogh last fall it was not possible to 1 raise it before December 31st, aful [ for some time it appeared that it; would not be possible to raise it even ; at that time. * The weevil at this time is settling I down to winter quarters, but weevil activity has not yet stopped. As soon ?s .this has been completed, the quar' antine on hulls will be raised, and i 'notification will be sent at once ! through the press. / NEWS NOTES FROM K1NGSTREE HIGH SCHOOL Chautauqua Much Enjoyed County ] Teacher's -Association Organized Suspend Work for Thanksgving The Chautauqua, which began on November 21 and continued through November 24, was enjoyed very ; much by the pupils of the Kingstree , High and Graded school. A few days ( before the opening of the Chautau- ] qua a contest for the sale of tickets ^ was put on in the high school ^six |, ?'..1 ? ^ 1- ??4 ?? 4U j. .am4ai.4 ni- ! ?1 IIS IUUIV part ill tins luutcsty as ; follows: Margaret Montgomery, Apal Fowler, Dorothy McDowell, Ruby j loye, Scott McElveen and Lillie Bak- j jr, the first three representing the Reds, the last three the Blues. These j six girls deserved much praise for j their good work, for when the money *as counted, it was found that they j lad sold $325.00 worth of season ticrets. The Reds proved their superi- j )rity in the contest by selling $225.00 ^ vorth of tickets, thus winning the ^ prize of $6.00, offered by the local j Chautauqua committee. Each pupil ^ A'ho engaged in the contest received j i season ticket to the Chautauqua. Miss Marion Calvo was captain.of die Blues, while Miss Carrie Lancas;er was captain of the Reds. Prof. f Montgomery' had charge of the icon- ^ :est. ^ The school suspended work on Wed- t lepday, to begin again on Monday, ^ December 1, giving Thanksgiving and j Friday as holidays. Miss Lancater and ^ Miss Green will spend the holidays ? n Florence; Misses Babb and Gasque, r n Mullins; Miss Crouch, in Hartsville; y Vliss Calvo, at Indiantown; Misses , \gnew and McDaniel, in Columbia; y Miss Erckman, in Charleston. The y )ther members of the faculty will renain in Kingstree. y The next meeting of the Parentreachers association will be held on j December 1, at 4 o'clock in the school t luditorium. The county teachers association x net Saturday in the school auditori- j lm, and elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: M. F. Mont- ? fomery, president; Miss Garnet Gra-1 y lam, vice-president; Miss Marion' y Halvo, secretary and treasurer. Program committee?Miss Ruth ' ^ Wilson, M iss Lydia Greene, Miss Lil-' y a Babb. ! ^ A short address was made by Prof, j M. F. Montgomery on "The Three; \ imp tKn rPAOPV???VC' A ccnpifttlnn " ! r&llUO VJL Vliv X VUVlivtw > stressing their relative importance in j ;he following order: 1 1. To learn more about work by ^ :oming in contact with other teachers, j 2. To be inspired by associating : j .vith other teachers. * 1 3. To help in professionalizing the j ,vork of the teacher, (to help the j ;eacher to be recognized as a pro-1 Sessional man, as the doctor or law- [ ?er, is.) About 20 teachers were present, i epresenting schools in all parts of; :he county. The next meeting of the ! issocition will be held Saturday, j January 1(), at 12:00 o'clock, in the'' school auditorium at this plhce. o 2 Organize Clubs For Next Year, L It is time to begin organizing our j 1 ? - 1 ? ...:n 11 MUDS 101" next year anu as wicic win | je only one agent in the county it .vill be impossible to have as many :lubs as we have had, however, I am toping that a great many of our regilar clubs will reorganize. I want ?ach one to be thinking about this so that we can reorganize and elect, officers at the next meeting. I want the ladies' or girls, of any community who would like to have a :lub, to get the list of names and send to me right away as I want to jive these clubs the first consideration. Then for those who are not club members, if there is a problem that [ can help you with or some literature that you would like to have ion't hesitate to call on me for it (vould be impossible for me to know ^our needs at the right time. We have had some splendid reports from our club girls and I feel sure that there are some others that are s Af K/vnn eomf 1 |Udt az> guun viiaw na?c xiw uwn cvhv i in. We expect to publish the names >f those malting the best records soon t jut we want to be sure that all of ] the best ones are sent in before we fi :lo this. Let us begin planning now for the ^ aest years work that we have ever j had. ( Hattie McMurray, Home Demonstration Agent. ^ 0 ( As we give more we get more. [ t / - ' MARSHALL ADDRESS BROKEN lTP BY HOA: Rumors of President's Death Caus . of Trouble While Speaking to Vast Audience Through a hoax perpetrated by a unknown person in Atlanta Sunda light an address by Vice Presider Marshall before an audience of se\ iral thousand persons fit the auditc rium armory was broken up by th palse announcement that Presider Wilson was dead. An unknown man, it was said, tele phoned to the office of the buildin md asKert tor tne vice rresiaeni. u >eing told Mr. Marshall was makin in address and could not come to th telephone, the voice replied: "Wei ie'll come now, for the President i lead and Washington wants him o ong distance." . C. T. Christain, engineer of th >uilding, received the telephone cal ind a policeman carried the news t he stage and told it to Charles C laden, prominent local business mar >ming, as it did from a policemar Mr. Haden unformed the Vice Presi lent that "the Preident is dead." Mr. Marshall bowed his head an appeared overcome. Others on th itage heard the whispered words an 'or a few moments all was silenl rhen, recovering himself to a degret he Vice President told the audienc vhat had been told him. He coul lardly speak. Women broke int veeping and someone began to pla; 'Nearer My God to Thee," on the im nense organ. As soon as he codlc he Vice President got to a telephon md called the Association Press wher le was -assured that there was n ;ruth in such a rumor. "Thank God," he replied in a trem ding voice. Meantime the audience was dispers ng and the false report spread ove he city. Telephones at the Associate 'ress office, and the locAl newspaper vere almost swamped with anxiou nnnirioc .ijau.vu. No reason for the hoax has bee idvanced by Atlanta official >ut an immediate investigation wa >egun to try to trace the author o t. Governor Dorsey announced a re vard of $100 for evidence identifyini he person who started the rumoi Phe governor and army officers fror :amps around Atlanta were presen it the address. Mr. Marshall was there to spea n behalf of a fraternal order and ha lot made more than half his addres vhe-n the interruption came. He wa laying a tribute to Washington an Jncoln as "men who are not dead, vhen he was interrupted by the an louncement. o FINE VIRGINIA PIGS To Be Offered For Sale At Public Auction December 3 While in Kingstree Monday th don. J. J. M. Graham, of Cades, call ;d at The Record office to advertis he sale of a fine lot of Poland Chin ind Duroc Jersey pigs, he purchase i few days ago in Virginia. In cor ersation with Mr. Graham concern ng the pigs the editor was please o learn that he had purchased ther n Rockbridge county, near where h irst saw the light of day some "few rears ago, and when he mentioned th lame of William G. Houston, of Fair leld it was plain to us that he ha rurchased those pigs from one o ery best men to be found in the 01 Dominion, a member of a Rock iridge .family, the name of whic ;very son is proud. Mr. Graham' cnowledge of hogs is recognized her is valuable, and he informs us tha he lot he bought from Mr. Housto: ire of the finest type, and that the ire guaranteed by him to be pur >red, registered stock. From ou knowledge of Mr. Houston we don' hink Mr. Graham could have gon vrong in inlying .'rem him inasmuc is he is anxious to see this count; stock with the best there is to b lad in hogs. o Says Peace Without America is Wai Paris, Nov. 22:?Commenting upo he failure of the American Senate t atify the peace treaty, L'Humanit says: "Peace without America means con inuation of a state of war. Th American and Anglo-French alliance Tumble with a crash and an Ameri :an-Japanese conflict appears in it ull light. A league of nations with >ut America simply means revertini jo pre-war alliances." ANTI TUBERCOLOSIS CAMPAIGN X Red Cross Christinas Seals for 1919 ? . Mrs. W. G. Gamble, of Kingstree, has been appointed by the National Tubercolosis Association as campaign n manager for Williamsburg county in y organizing an auxiliary association in it this community. Mr. W. E. Nesmith r- has been made chairman; Mr. L. C. >-1 Dove secretary and treasurer; Mrs. e j Louise W. Gilland, publicity chairman; i it | and the executive committee is com- 1 J posed of the doctors of the county as i >- follows: < g Dr. D. C. Scott, Dr. W. G. Gamble, n Dr. E. T. Kelley, Dr. T. S. Heming- i g way, Dr. B. M. Montgomery, Dr. C. i e D. Jacobs, Dr. W. V. Brockington, 1 1, Kingstree Dr.W. J. Heselden, Cades; 1 s Dr. H. L. Baker, Hemingway; Dr. A. i n G. Eaddy, Johnsonville; Dr. A. M. Wilcox, Nesmith; Dr. W. C. Rodgers, ] e Indiantown; Dr. L. B. Johnson, John- 1 II sonville; Dr. I. N. Boyd, Dr. W. S. ] o Boyd, Salters; Dr. J. F. Haselden, S. Dr. O'Bryan, Dr. 0. T. Hogan, Gree- ; t, lyville. < i, The executive committee is expect- 1 t- ed to sefe to it that interest is aroused 5 in this important work throughout 1 d the county. The people must be < e aroused and educated to the fact that < d tubercolosis, although a contagious i t. disease, is one that can be cured in ; its first stages. Sanitary conditions i e are essential to the arrest and pre- i d vention of this dreaded scourge, and 1 o simple factors such as fresh air, sun- j y shine, and milk are necessary in its { - treatment. There are more than 30,- ' I. 000 cases of tubercolosis in South ^ c Carolina and moi'e annual deaths ree suit from it than from ony other " o cause. ] For eth purpose of carrying Out an : i- extension anti-tubercolosis campaign, ] Red Cross Christmas seals are sold ] each year and will be on sale this ] r year at every school in the communi- ] J ty. They are only one cent a piece, %] 8 they are beautiful and decorative on ] s .your Christmas packages and letters ] and every one you buy help that much ] n to save humanity. 8 The following persons have been < 3 appointed tor eaise funds at their re- < f spective places to defray the expenses 1 - of the campaign to be responsible for < f? the sale of the Christmas seals: 1 < T \\T n-oolirvillo- Mr ( " I iU I. X* TT . vnvvi/'Mtvf , n j Joe Graham, Lane; Rev. J. E. rClarke, ] * Salters; Mrs. W. T. Rowell, Trio; < Mrs. W. A. Cooper, Suttons; Mr. H. j k P. Brown, Gourdin; Mrs. J. Pi Gam- < f' ble, Heinemann; Mrs. V. G. Arnette. i * Cades; Mrs. S. B. Poston, Johnsons ville; Mrs. W. C. jHemingway, Hem- 1 d ingway; Mrs. W. T. Turbeville, Hen- < ry; Mrs. B. L. Nesmith, Nesmith; J Mrs. Laurice F. RheVn, Morrisville; i Mrs. W. A. Marshall, Warsaw; Miss 1 Tison McFadden, Miss Olive Benton, < Miss Lizzie Heape, Kingstree. 1 o !; News Among the Roman's '' Rome, Nov. 25.?The young folks j e of the community enjoyed a possum hunt Friday night. They had luck as e well as a good time. * Rev. T. W. Goldbold and Prof. 0. j j ( MI Mitchell have gone to McColl to j " attend the annual meeting of the i " South Carolina Conference of the Methodist church. n Mrs. Beulah Dinkins. is visiting ? Mrs. M. G. Gonzales of Columbia. Mr. Jesse Cribb of Hemingway, spent i . e Sunday in the community. * Mrs. -L. B. Johnson, Misses Halene Clark and Ruth McDow attended thp ; j Sunday school convention at Indian-1 c town church Sunday. J j* Messrs. J. B. Hemingway and D. H. j . Dantzler and Miss Florence Heming-1, s way spent Saturday in Georgetown. e W. T. Hemingway of Hemingway, J spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. n and Mrs. A. B. Hemingway, y Mrs. Lamar Johnson spent several | e days in Charleston last week. r f < Miss Marie Eaddy of Hemingway, 1 was the week end guest of Mrs. Wile son Buie at the home of her father, j ^ Mr. J. J. Snow. y Messrs. Henry Thomas, L. Plowden. e Willie Foxworth, Lee Carraway and I, 1 Ralph Ford of Georgetown, were vis- i itors in the community Sunday. Quite a number from this community motored to Manning Tuesday to j attend the Wilson-Lachicotte wedding, those who went were: Mr. and Mrs.; e H. H. DuRant, Mrs. Bethel DuRant, ' Prof, and Mrs. 0. M. Mitchell, Mrs. * D. D. Rhem, Miss Annie Wilson, * e Messrs. D. I. Wilson, D. D. Rhem, Jr. 1 S and Bak?r Wilson. 1 i S . 0 c i- As Kin Hubbard says: Lot's o'felK lers are like a soft drink?they look 'th' part, but won't do th* work. I TOBACCO OFFSETS BOLL WEEVIL FARMERS IN PEE DEE GET GOOD RETURNS FROM GROWING OF WEED Farmers, particularly of the Pee Dee section of South Carolina, have in tobacco an eifective weapon with ivViirh tn Kpflf rlnvim tko nf o/*a. nomic losses incident to the invasion of the boll weevil. Last year returns from the crop reached the unprecedented figures of nearly $20,000,000. The exact figures were $19,311,497.86. The highest previous figure was in 1917 when the returns amounted to $11,794,431.78. Growers last .year in receiving approximately $20,000,000 for their tobacco got nearly one-fifth the amount paid for the cotton crop. October figures this year are not pet available, bat during the months >f July, August and September of this year, growers were paid $18,409,136.74. Complete figures will doubtess carry the returns for the 1919 :rop slightly in excess of last year's Considerable agitation is being manifested in the loy?er section of the state, already invaded by the boll weevil, for the cultivation of tobacco is a substitute crop. During the hree months for which reports have already been received for 1919 crop. 11,128,947, pounds have been sold. ITie following tables gives the total i/nhimp' fr?r thp rrnn t.hp last tan v?rs: Pounds. Amount. Average, i'ear. Sold Paid Price Paid. 1910 18,802,875 $ 1,604,685.44 $ 8.52 L911 11,101,066 1,352,462.84 12.18 1912 24,337,912 2,653,443.68 10.90 1913 33,299,561 4,583,339.51 13.76 L914 39,478,421 3,881,233,.54 9.83 1915 37,924,396 2,760,982.18 7.28 1916 20,079,903 2,813,449.87 14.11 L917 51,080,083 11,794,431.78 24.09 L918 62,173,631 19,311,497.86 31.06 1919 81,156,470 18,548,559.15 20.10 Tobacco growing has been largely Confined to Darlington, Marion Florence, Dillon, Clarendon, Sumter and Williamsburg. But with the invasion >f the boll weevil imminent in a arge portion of South Carolina,* the tobacco growing area will likely be argely extended. The annual report )f the state department of agriculture for 1918 giv^s the following synjpsis of the history of tobacco growing in South Carolina. "The department, under the law, aegan to keep records of the tobacco :rop in'1909. That year very nearly 28,000,000 pounds of tobacco were raised, butythe price was lo\%, and it wrought but little over two and a quarter million dollars. The two folowing years the crop decreased very considerably in both volume and in imount of money produced. Then for four years consecutively the volume >f the crop steadily increased, until the maximum was reached in 1914, the year the war broke out. The preceding year a smaller crop had sold it 13.77 cents per pound, bringing to the farmers $4,584,000 the greatest imount ever received from the tobacco crop in this state. In 1914 the prices fell, and in 1915, while people still planted tobacco and raised a big crop, the amount received from it ivas only $'2,765,372, the price having ing fallen to the lowest figure recorded since 1909, 7.02 cents per pound "The 1916 tobacco crop very near !y discouraged the planting in this state. The average price had dropped from about 11 cents to 7.28 and in 1916 the acreage was cut nearly half, rhere was a considerable increase in price in that year and there was an # anomalous situation. The number of pounds sold in 1916 was 17,844,000 pounds short of the scales in 1915 and yet the grosss receipts amounted to an increase of $52,500 over 1915. "Tobacco has been a wonderful :rop for some counties in South Caralina, for it is a cash crop and is larvested between spring grain and :ruck and cotton, thus bringing money nto circulation in the summer nonths.?Exchange. o I'rospect of Sugar Supply New York. Nov. 15.?Eisrhty mil ion pounds of sugar was produced . >y the refineries of the Eastern dis;rict during the last week. Arthur Williams, federal food administrator tnnounced here Saturday. This proluction, if continued he added would >oon solve the sugar shortage. o A whole lot of us know all about )rice and nothing about value. % . "