The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 18, 1919, Image 4
GREELYVILLE 1
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are very amply served by the Bank
ol Greelyvflle, with deposits of $150,000.
*uts bank was chartered in 1904
with capital ?tock of $15,000, but has
outgrown this and the directors have
already voted to raise the capital;
stock "to $50,000, effective January i
1st. 1920, together with improve- J
mesits to the bank building aggregat
ing $2,500.
'i he Postotfice receipts of Greely- ;
villp ainrreirate S3.000. a vear and the 1
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post office is operated as a third class j
office under the supervision of Mr.
F. Mishoe, who is not only Postmas- j
ter of the town but since he came '
here from Pee Dee, several years ago,
has been one of the most enterpris-1
ing citizens and considered one of the
most progressive farmers of the com- i
m unity.
It goes without saying that the .
cotton industry is the leading
one around Greelyville and the town
affcrds an excellent cotton market, j
the local exchange being furnished
with modern New York Exchange
telegraphic reports hourly and the I
farmers are served by several local;
cotton buyers, where their cotton can j
be sold immediately after ginning if'
desired. ' About 5,000 bales are sold ;
and handled through the town yearly j
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and it might be wen to siaie inai me |
farmers are holding a great deal of !
their cotton, storing some at home |
and the building of the Farmers To-!
bac< o Warehouse, now known as State '
Bonded Warehouse No. 42, is filled to :
capacity with local cotton. This bonded
warehouse is a great asset to the
town and, under the able management
of Mr. E. B. Rhodus, who is one of 1
the largest buyers as well as one of
the most progressive farmers and'
citizens of the town, the warehouse
has been able to afford a splendid
sen ice to the farmers and local busi- '
ness men in the way of using their j
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cut IVI! its ^UUVJ ill lire I?6uv>?
Next to cotton, the tobacco industry
is next in importance as an agri- j
cultural product from a monetary
standpoint and during the past two
years is probably more than anything
else, unless it be the high price of
cotton, that has made the town go
forward in such strides as it has. The
yields of tobacco in 1919 were cut in
half by the heavy rains in July but
the production in 1918 was nothing
shoit of phenominal, it being a com-:
mon occurrence to see a farmer obtain
from one acre of tobacco $400,
to $700. There is between one and two !
million pdunds of tobacco marketed
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in vjiwiyviuc uiiuuau*, niu^u muuotry
is served bv the modern warehouse
buildings of the Greelyville
Warehouse and Prizery, erected, in
1917 anu the Fanners Warehouse
Company, erected in 1919. The tobacco
industry around Greelyville has
a wonderful future ahead of it and,
upon the advent of the boll weevil,
will, no doubt, m take the lead as a
money cr p. It has certainly caused
the entire community to take on an
aspect of prosperity even more pronouDced
than ever before experienced
in the vicinity.
Probably the brightest and most (
nromisincr dpvelnnment in sicht for '
the general improvement of the en-!
tire territory in the vicinity of Gree- j
lyville is the future. Drainage District
No. 3, which was the first one organized
in Wiliiamsburg County, consists
of sixteen miles of drainage ditch,
eight miles of which has already been
completed and the remaining portion
will be completed by spring of 1920.
The eight miles of this ditch already
completed practically follows the Atnocf
I inn ti-arlr from Fnrps
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ton to Greelvville, emptying into
Mount Hope Creek swamp. An excellent
hard surfaced road will be
erected from Greelyville to Foreston
on the waste dirt from the ditch. In
this same district work has already
commenced on six miles of ditch running
north from the present ditch to
the Coleman road, practically following
the Clarendon-Williamsburg county
l'ne. N'ot forming a part of this
. district but already completed
by the same outfit and crew is a
ditch a mile and a quarter in length
running from the town limits to
Mount Hope Creek for the purpose
of the draining the town of Greelyville,
and is a great improvement to
the health of the people, as well as
the groat improvement to the land
drained. The town ditch was complete
ed at a cost of $3,500, which was
borne by the town. Drainage Dis
trict .>o. 3 is oontiea ior 3>o4,uuu,
which will- cover the entire cost of
the sixteen miles of drainage ditches.
The three commissioners for District
No. 3 aie Messrs. Courtney
Campbell, of Foreston; E. B. Rhodus,
and T. W. Boyle, of Greelyville, all
of whom are wide awake to the importance
and improvement this work
will be to the land owners and community
as a whole and are enthusiastic
towards extending the work.
The man in charge of the cutting
of the ditches and with whom contracts
have been let for the work is
Mr. Wilson Hanna, of Detroit, Minn.,
who, in company with his family, is
making Greelyville his home. Mr.
Hanna is from a family of drainage
men. his father and brothers having
done extensive work of this character
in Minnesota and other states of the
North and the South. Mr. Hanna has
had extensive experience along the
same lines and owns a tremendous
supply of drainage equipment and is
in position to install a seperate and
distinct outfit in each drainage project,
thereby carrying the work of all
the districts in this vicinity on at the
same time and saving much valuable
time to the land owners interested by
turning over their lands to them
promptly, well drained and ready for J
clearing and planting. The necessary J
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plans nave aoout ueen inauc jui a
second drainage district calling for
extensive ditching directly north of
Greelyville and still another district is
rapidly being formed east of the town
and Mr. Hanna will be in position to
commence work on each of these immediately
if the respective commissioners
award him the contracts for
the work.
Mr. Hanna is very familar and enthusiastic
over the great good which
a drainage does for lands and communities
and recites many instances
in his experience where the health of
whole sections of the country has
been wonderfully improved and, in
one case, where he was. in charge of
a drainage project, no person was
able to live within fifty miles of where
the ditch started and within a year
after completion of the ditch there
were one thousand new settlers on
the same spot. Also, where land had
no purchasers at $10 per acre and
after drainage brought from $100, to
$150, per acre.
Last but possibly not least in the
development of Greelyville can be
mentioned the fact that plans have
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already Deen pui unaer way uy mi.
T. W. Boyle, to bore for oil in the
vicinity. This far seeing and enterprising
citizen is not sure that oil
can be found in this district but he
has experts at work on the matter
and is going to spare no time,
thought nor expense to test the matter
out and give the citizens interested
the benefit of the doubt.
All in all, the little city of Greelyville,
Williamsburg county, South
Carolina, with its records of law abiding,
progressive and hospitible citizens
and its phenominal growth during
the past few years is now fully
awake to the fact that it is a real
town in the making and it will only
be a few vears before its necessarv
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municipal improvements will all be a
reality and all the old citizens of the
town, who have grown up with it,
together with the new citizens, who
have been enticed from other communities
to the promising success it
offered them, seem all, to be keyed
up to the feeling and understanding
that "something is going to happen";
in other words, the town has outgrown
the village stage and has come
to the place like the trees in the spring
time, full of sap, ready to burst oui
into buds and blossoms. Only a short
way ahead of the people are the
fruits which they know await them?
it is only the period of finding out
whose property will be most benefitted
by the assured improvements,
and just which way the town is
bound to grow?and everybody feels
"down in their bones" that something 1
good lies in store for all and each
one is keyed up to the point of wanting
to fill his or her particular part
in the great development and blossoming
forth, which is bound to come.
The town welcomes any and all
good citizens who desire to come into
its midst and new settlers will be
furnished with all information they
desire and will be given every oppor- '
tunitv within the power of its citizens ;
to have them locate here and become <
part of the commercial, civic and so- :
cial life of the town, which is bound
to grow. The Greelyville Board of
iraae win De giaa to iurnisn an oata
and offered every courtesy possible to
all prospective citizens and invites
correspondence along this line. '
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(Jreelyville'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 feet square was built and Mrs. <
Reynolds was employed to instruct :
the youths. The enrollment was small
and 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. 1
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 ex- '
tent and the number of pupils had \
become so large that in 1910 the cit- '
izens voted bonds to build a large !
Kr-i^lr KuilHincr f.ViA nresent value of i
which is $25,000. The building con- '
tains 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. 1
Register, the late S. J. Taylor, and 1
other enterprising men of the town.
The school has grown continuously
since its beginning to an enrollment j
of 1G5 at present. Teachers have been
added until the present teaching j I
force numbers six. Mr. E.T. Spigner.; j
is the principal and he is ably assist-1j
ed by Misses Klise Rollins, Lottie C. 1 j
DuBose, Louise Barr, Ola Grimes, and j =
Margaret Blakeley. There are ten:
grailes in the school and graduates1:
experience no difficulty in entering j,
tin oolloo-oc of t)ip State.
T. W. Boyle, J. F. Montgomery, and i
F. Mishoe are the trustees.
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(Jreel.vville Presbyterian Church
(By K. B. Carr, Pastor.)
Greelyville, S. C., Nov. 19, 1919.
A few words as to the work of this j
group of churches, (McDowell, Brew- ;
ington, and Lanes churches):
I accepted a call to this work October
1 st, 1917, just a little over two
years ago. I have found the people of :
this work very loyal and true. We j
take this occasion to thank the good i j
brethren of this work, as well as the |
good brethrdnof other christian bod- .
ies, for their kindness and unstinted
hospitality to us. :
There has been added to this group
of churches, for the past two years,
by letter, by a statement of faith, and ;
on a profession of faith, fifty some' j
odd members. The work is steadily ;
growing, and as the work grows, my
love and esteem for these good people i
continues to increase. It is, indeed, a J
pleasure to preach to people of such j
attentive ears.
We have a good sabbath school in j
each of the three churches above ;
named. At our last Rally day, there ;
was some over three hundred dollars !
contributed to Sabbath School Exten- j
tion from this group.
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we are very greatiy m uccu m a j
new church building .at McDowell
church. McDowell congregation voted j
a few weeks ago, to have two dona- ;
tion days each year, for the next few !
years, for the building of a new i
church. At our first donation, there >
came in some over four hundred dol- !
lars. We expect to arouse more enthu- '
siasm in this &reat work of donating ;
to the church, and expect to have a \
new church some time in the near ?
future. ;
The superintendent of Lanes sab- \
bath school informs me that they ex- :
pect to build one or two sabbath >
schools rooms to the church at Lanes. :
We need an extra room built on to \
the manse at Greelyville, to be used 5
as a study. I think it is the intention j
of these good people to have this done 3
right away. Our watch word is: "On- 1
ward and Upward."
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The Greelyville Baptist CJiurch '
This body is not old but vigorous |
and in a fine working condition. It
conducts a prosperous Sunday school
under the supervision of Mr. C. E.
Register the efficient superintendent.
Mr. M. L. McLeod is the faithful sec- I
retary and performs his task with |
ease and devotion. There are five j
classes in the school among a well or- j
ganized Baraca and Philathea class. .
The school is now engaged in a vigor- !
ous enlistment and enlargement cam- |
paign which is adding much to the I
life of the school. The church also con- j
ducts a splendid mid week devotional j
meeting and a strong Woman's Mis- j
sionary union with Girls Auxiliary, >
Sunbeams etc. The church has preach- !
ing services every Sunday, morning I
and evening. I
Thiswriter can see no good reason
why this church should not in the i
near future , take its place in the first j
ranks among the churches of this part
of the country; supported as it is by j
a loyal force of workers, who have a I
great vision of bright days. This body j
strongly united and surrounded with
such great opportunities may be expected
to succeed in an amazing manner.
The church owns a splendid church j
house and parsonage and through the I
generosity of Deacon S. V. Taylor j
who furnishes the current from his j
dwelling and Wesley Browder who j
did the wiring, the church house is
splendidly equipped with electric !
lights. The church house has also been j
repainted during the year and other j
improvements will soon be made. j
We must not forget, we cannot for- j
get, the heroism and sacrifices of our j
older members, some whom have gone !
from us. Their names shine like stars j
in the firmament. If we call the j
Knights of old heroes, and the man j
who can make two blades of grass j
grow where only one had grown a j
benefactor, what shall we call these
men and women who labored so faithfully,
to help give to this community j
and the world a greater civilization? j
They are more than benefactors and j
grander than heroes. Such men and j
women as they go through life start j
little springs of influence whose '
streams will be white at the mouth
with the commerce ol christian civili- I
nation and human haDDiness. I
This church is under the pastoral j
care of Rev. J. 14 Funderburk who j
loves his people and rejoices with ]
them in all of their achievements. '
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