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* ' I H "W f When wc speak of Hemingway we . not mean just the town or village. We are so connected in business, school and church with all the surrounding country, and have been brought so close together by common . -offering, sacrifiice and service by the . war that we mean all the country round about?when we speak of Hemingway we mean the territory on each side of the main line of the Seaboard Railroad, embracing abc 150 square miles more or less. There is a community interest in this territory that . the writer has never known anywhere else?a real reciprocal law and understanding not known anyw here else, as An illustration: If the folk at Hemingway go into anything as they did for a first class Lyceum here, the tickets are as largely bought at Henry, Amon. Muddy Creek. Indiantown. Midway and old Johnsonvile as here, consequently the Lyceum at Hemingway is splendidly supported and of the same class given in the larger cities. If Muddy Creek school is short of money the Hemingway people go _ out to their entertainments and dig up the cash in the best spirit in the world. The church at Muddy Creek. "" and Ebenexer. is a wonderful proof * that the Hemingway folk work to gether. There are as many Hemingway good wishes in it ar.d for it, and good hard dollars as of Muddy Creek, and everybody is proud of it The town, which a few years ago was a cotton held and known as Lambert's Ctoss Roads was chartered a few yefers ago. five, maybe six years, it matters not. but if it was a boy he would just be about old enough to think he was'a man. Up to the coming of the Railroad it was out in the country, the nearest market being Kingstree. 25 miles, or you could go to Lake City. 27 miles, or Georgetown 32 miles, or Florence 40 miles away, so its not too much to say it was out in the country. What it is today, is what the people have done in their own strength and faith. The panic of 1914. the big O W. C HEMINGWAY, President. A A if!HB I I. ; THE HOLIDAYS ARE WI 1 THE DAY OF GOOD RESOLl" COMMUNITY IN GENERAL . EST CORNER OF OUR HEAR | OUR RAPIDLY INCREASING BE A CHRISTMAS ACT FOR ' YOU FEEL AN INTEREST? < OX THE ROAD TO PROSPERI PASS BOOKS. WITH A CREDI MAS PRESENT. I BANK HEMINGW4 g , '* . i [ E W e TaKe No I ] storm of 1916 ami the war and conse' quent lack of material and labor has ' prevented the larger and faster growth J of the town. We are in the midst of as good ' farming land as there is in the State. 1 here's plenty of good high. dry selfi drained land. Its still cheap enough for a poor man to buy ami make good. ! It raises the best tobacco and cotton. corn and wheat, in fact anything j j taised in the State grows here. Its ' I not a country of big farms or farm- J ers. though there are a few of them i here But for the honest hard work- , ing. one. two. three or four horse ' I farmers there's no better place. Its a community of white people, there ? being few negroes here and few being employed. The people are honest. The town j as well as the country pays its debts, j Time does not outlaw a debt here, a i man may by misfortune get behind but < he always feels that he owes his debt < and pays it. A merchant who comes here is not i handicapped by a town with a bail j reputation. There never has been a ' bankruptcy or a "convenient fire". The wholesale merchants know that 1 their credits are safe. (i Its a clean town. There are no : blind tigers, no gamblers, no dirt. 1 There never has been a nasty dirty j 1 little vaudeville show allowed to even stop much less show with its gamb- j j ling games, dirty men and filthier ! women, since its been a town We i are proud of it. As a business jlace,! i with a sure enough big territory to i back it there is no better piace uian Hemingway. Its is the fifth tobacco i < market in the State. It sold about I i three and a half million pounds of to- j bacco this past year, and three mil-1 lions the year before. This means a : million dollars of tobacco money a j year, and in addition to the tobacco money, there is the cotton money amounting to about 350 thousand dollars. As one would see by the proportionately small amount of cotton money F. E. HI* GINS, Vice-President MERI LIST* % TH US?CHRISTMAS. THE DAY OF [TONS. WE WISH OUR PATRONS A MERRY CHRISTMAS. THIS WISH TS AS WE FULLY REALIZE THAT < PATRONS HAS BEEN FULLY APPI iOV TO SUGGEST THIS TO ANY OF COME TO THE BANK WITH THEM A TY BEFORE THE NEW YEAR BEGL T OF ONE DOLLAR OR MORE. WOU OF HEMIN \ V LI, - - I I N )ust, Save (By Rev. J. A. i that even if "Billy Boll Weevil", comes as come he will, we can stand 3^ it. It only means. 3 dollars and a half lost out of $13.50. if we put nothing in the place of cotton, but we can i and do raise other things. one man . 1*5 for instance raised 750 bushels of|:| wheat last year on 39 acres of land, j v We are raising corn, up to a hundred bushels to an acre, and velvet bean> literally take the ground. jg The town has four big tobacco warehouses. fullv equipped for business to - . . . ... ir handle all the tobacco brought here ? with ample capital and credit to do ^ business. Business houses in all ^ lines First class hardware store. ^ owned and run by F. E. Huggins, $l| first class, and up-to-date drug store. ?? run by Dr. L G. Day. a qualified $? pharmacist, the big W. C. Hemingway ?| A- Co.. Inc.. store owned and run by lithe Hemingway brothers and others. || One of the biggest businesses in the country and one of the most success- ?g ful. Eaddv-Creal Bros., dry goods i| store, both building, stock and man- j| agement might be set down in any ra town, and not suffer by comparison a with well run up-to-date stores of its j | kind. H. E. Eaddy and W. D. Harmon and A. E. Flowers run fine general stores. Two large livestock concerns |g handle, horses, mules, wagons, and || harness and they sell stuff. Good fur- jj| niture stores and quite a few other ? good business houses are here The S bank has been most successful. Af- ? ter January 1st it will have $50,000 p capital, good and progressive officers, g Safe as a bank can be run. The Li- || berty Realty Co.. buys and sells real || estate and insurance. There are many other things that can be said about fig the town representing matters that ? you can put down on a dollar and jg cent basis, but to the writer's mind ^ there are two things that are worth g| all and more than the above. g The people's interest in things about B which you can't say. "well I paid $100 || for it and sold it for $150 and made ^ by the trade $50." These two things are their churches || of D. G. HUGGINS, jg Cashier. IY IAS! I II 00 I * I ev I 81 I to I 01 I ar ju IECIATED. WOULD IT NOT ro th > YOUR FRIENDS IN WHOM " th ! w; lND help to start them in he S'S ONE OF OUR SAVINGS ve m LD MAKE A FINE CHRIST ! th : th In th ; bl bii th I WJ GWAY, ! Wl SO. CAR ; Wt ftl G W 'hat We RaiseiC Campbell.) 1 Gifts of Uiili $ WHAT SHALL I GIVE FOR CHRISTMAS ? THIS QUESTION? OUR ANSWER IS: GIVE THEIR INTRINSIC VALUE AS WELL AS TH | CALL AT OUR STORE AND INSPECT OUR C Holiday Goods WHICH COMPRISE SUITABLE GIFTS FOR I i MAS PRESENTS. SPACE IS TOO LIMITED SIRABLE THINGS WE NOW HAVE ON DISI | Prescriptions, Di PRESCRIPTIONS ARE COMPOUNDED B | PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED. OUR L COMPLETE IN EVERY DETAIL AND IT WI | NEED ANYTHING IN OUR LINE. Farmers DR. L. G. D. I U/v#M4Mmirair i ncilliiigyyaj) id schools. If you want money, J me or effort to improve them, you j ? . m get it as soon as you ask for it, id just as much as you need. In church matters for instance, we ive but to call attention to old Inantown church, seven miles in the WHJ untry, spending nearly $15,000 on u'rch improvements. Ten Sunday hool rooms, heating plant, and erything you'd find in a city church, id Muddy Creek, old Ebenezer, over; hundred year's old. a poor neighborK>d one would say. but not too poorj build in past two years a $15,000 i TT urch and pay for it What! with j I iristian Endea'-jr societies. Epworth j I || ."agues and young people's societies, j j XX _ id Sunday schools, th? churches are j Bfl ?ing things. The Hemingway Methodists are! st completing a splendid set of j oms for Sunday school, adjoining i eir beautiful new church. The oth- W E CAR] churches are doing their share for eir respective communities and only . HOODS ait a propitions time to put through J lprovements that would gladden the WD art of anyone interested in the de- : lopment of the spiritual side of: MEN" an's nature. ' We now come to the last thing on ! e hearts and minds of the people of is community, namely the schools, the center of this territory stands P e biggest and handsomest school lilding in the county. Probably the | ggest ami best school building tor j y e size of the town in the State. It j ] as built nearly five year's ago. even | fore the church, at a cost of some j i o<ld thousand dollars and couldn't ! ! built today for $60,000. Hardwood I ALMOST >ors. electric lights, water works, j ilendid Auditorium and all things j >cessary to give a plant for school j VALT "k- 01 This splendid plant, however is but I e material shell that gives shelter 1 HLMING' a corps of consecrated men and I omen who are trying to educate and I (Continued on Next Page) 1 . ? A Y * V* JL iJV A V SJ j * . i < i I - - * * ity and Charm ;? HOW OFTEN HAVE WE ASKED OURSELVES <? PRESENTS THAT WILL BE TREASURED FOR ' EIR SENTIMENTAL WORTH. WE INVITE YOU TO || OMPLETE AND SEASONABLE UNE OF 1 of All Varieties VERY ONE WHO GIVES AND RECEIVES CHRIST- ?S TO CATALOGUE THE LARGE NUMBER OF DE- 1 ?LAY. rugs and Sundries. Y LICENSED MEN FROM THE BEST DRUGS. | IN'E OF MEDICINES AND DRUG SUNDRIES IS | LL BE A PLEASURE TO SERVE YOU WHEN YOU |g Drug Co., AY, Proprietor, I - s. c. PENDABLE MERCHANDISE OF EVERY KIND, J ?RE YOUR DOLLARS GO FARTHEREST. YOU ' ! ARE INVITED TO VISIT THE 2-STORESIN-ONE OF E.jpi. RY A COMPLETE AND UP TO DATE LINE OF DRY , CLOTHING. NOTIONS. HATS, SHOES. STAPLE FANCY GROCERIES ETC . IN ONE DEPARTr AND ALSO A LARGENLINE OF HEAVY AND LF HARDWARE. FURNITURE, FARMING 1MLEMENTS. STOVES AND RANGES, PAINTS. ! GASOLINE AND OILS. ETC.. IN ANOTHER DEPARTMENT. EVERYTHING THAT IS NEEDED WILL BE FOUND J LE HERE. WE WATCH THE MARKET FOR GOOD ^ ;ES AND PASS THEM ON TO OUR CUSTOMERS. ;R MOTTO: 44 H. E. EADDY. 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