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?l)p County Serori W. F. Tolley & L. H. Cromer. Jr. Publishers. THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1921. THE HOTEL SITUATION In July or August .last year, th Kellahan hotel was closed up and sol at auction. It was bid in by som ?w- ? ?. j ?.u,. i;i,? +v, PUOIIC spirueu CUUIII5 miiv, line HI majority of us, felt that the town c Kingstree needed a better hotel fc the accomodation of its transient vi.< itors. They were absolute1 y corre< in their conclusions. But as yet the haven't given us better hotel facil ties. Their conclucions as to th needs of the town in the matter c hotel facilities and their actions in similiar direction have been greatly ? variance. They have seen to it strictl that Kingstree has been left to glid along as best she may for the pa? eight months without any hotel ac commodations whatevei for anybody And the only solution along thi<= lin was the opening of the Paragon Res taurant here some weeks ago. Peopl o crvr?Q t rftP uuuuite?:> iuujiii uu>> m venience, but the Paragon Kestauran is not capable of satisfying the <;e mand for a hotel. A lot of peopl come here who would spend the night perhaps several nights, yea weekbut there is no provisions for thi class of visitors without having t scout around for shelter in a privat ? home or in one of the several board ing houses whose capacity is usuall; taxed by regular roomers. Beside the traveling public are not used t this sort of condition, not does i care to get used to it. Hotel acommo dations are preferable and as Kings tree is absolutely without this on great essential she is gradually losin; an important foothold as a progres sive* up-to-date town. Traveling men, whether salesmer captains, of industry, or privates ii the Salvation Army are excellent ad vertising mediums and give a towi such publicity as is either \ ery valu able, or. on the other hand detriment al. Which are we to receive at th hands of those who come here an< find no place to sleep. As stated, the Kellahan was close ' up and sold eight months ago; payment was made on the propert, and there the whole plan died. Th property has since been idle and s far as we are able t<* leam will re main so indefinitely unless the boar cf directors who have the matter i: charge get up a little steam and g forward?do something to relieve'th present situation. There have been several proposi tions for opening up the hotel bu whether either have appealed to th directorate we do not know, appar ently not, though, as the building stil remains idle, not even earning interes on the amount already paid on it b the purchasers. Kingstree needs hotel and needs it badly right now Later the need will be greater, an further procrastination in this matte will prove costly. It is true that whe the property was sold times wer flush and money more plentiful, a least more easily obtained, and som of the gentlemen most concerned ii the purchase, one in particular, Mi LeRoy Lee, urged that the work o remodeling and improveing the plan be pushed to completion without de lay. He knew ft could be done, in fac it could be dene now, but there wer others whose feet grew cold," pulse beat faint and the whole scheme died from a lack of backbone coupled to i determined will to fight through be setting obstacles. Really this is onl; logical reason for not having a firs class hotel in operation today in what otherwise, is the best little town ii South Carolina. ^ BEWARE OF THE FLY Now is the time to be sure tha things are clean everywhere Get ri? of the flies and make Kingstree ; model town. With several billion flies and a least one case of Typhoid fever i town the undertaking business bid fair to be flourishing this summe unless something is done. Don't si down and wait for thr other fellow t start something It does no good to swat the fly ui less you are going to dean up th place where they breed. This is not an ad for some kind e fly killer. It is just a little hors sense. You know what to do. Hugh Bramlett, white man froi Greenville begun serving a life ten ii the state penitentiary at Columbi; f/M- irlltinrr hit; niother-in-Jav XV4 .... o Card of Thanks. This is to express our heartfelt a; preciation of the kindness shown i during the illness and death of 01 father, Mr. J. A. Byrd, and also t! illness of our mother. Family. o If you want groceries or dry good and want to pay cash, see me firs I won't be undersold. E. C. Burges successor to Peoples Mercantile C Car load of fancy rice just receive The price is right. w Rough Branch News. 3 Cades, April 5.?Mr. J. W. Cox, spent the past week end in Charleston having his eyes treated. Miss Dordie McCill of Kingslree iI spending a few days at the home oi I**-- i \\7 mm { ->11". cMHl *>115. vv . ?>. jriaiiiiaii. Misses Rosalie Bruorton and Rosa Cox were visitors at Trio the- past e week-end. (| Mrs. Georgie McElveen left Monday ie Baltimore, Md., where her baby will [P be under treatment at John Hopkin':; >?* hospital. ir Mrs. Hemper Hill after spending .. quite awhile with her parents, Mr. and .t Mrs. J. T McElveen returned to hci v 1 ome at Rome Sunday, j. Mrs. Martha Graham returned to 0 her home Friday at Hemingway after] spending several weeks, with Mrs. a Sam Graham. lt Mr. Walter Phillips of Cedar Swamp v spent Wednesday night with her sis'e ter Mrs. W. H. Foxworth. r Rough Branch school will close the loth of April. A very interesting . program is being arranged. e Miss Annie Mae Epps and her friend Miss Ellen Keese spent tne weeic-ena ,, at the formers home, j. Rev. Everett of Cades, Mr R. I.! t Grimsley and Mrs. Jim Graham, Jr. | attended the Sunday -chool conve itio0 at Greelyville Tuesday. Notice 0 We have this date turned over our 0 business to Mr. D. X. Lesesne for his . faithful services to us during our six v years here. We wish to thank the ^ people of Kingstree and Williamsbutg 0 county for their kind patron .ge to us. t and we ask a continuance of this pat . ronage for Mr. Lesesne. On account of the death of our bee ioved brother who died in service fo'? his country, and poor health which we . now have, we deem it necessary for the. present to move to a higher cli, mate Perhaps some day in the future n we may return. Any accounts which . r ay be against us, kindly bring in and u they will be paid at once. Wewish to thank our many friends _ for all kindnesses extended. 0 With best wishes, rj James and Theo Papadokas o j Fish Supper at Xesmith School. A fish supper was given at tfr e Xesmith school house Friday night. 0 April 1, for the benefit of the school. _ The supper was under the mar.agej ment of the teachers, Mr. P. B. Lockn wood an<* Miss Maude Judd. 0 While waiting for the crowd to e gather the time was spent in singing and in playing games, j. After the appetites the crowd had * been satisfied with fish, both fried e andstewed, every one present went up .. into the auditorium where several very |i prettily decorated boxes were auctionit ed off. When they were finally sold v the successful bidders found a cozy j, corner and enjoyed the contents with 7 the fair makers of the boxes. d o r "DO IT WITH ALL THY MIGHT" ' Build that house now; construct that e t school, that church; repair that brokf en pavement; build that garage, and even that chicken coop now?not toll morrow. 1 Go ahead with your plans; speed t the nation on the road to full employment, and thus hasten the day of inf dividual and national prosperity and g safety. Preach this from the pulpit, ye I ministers of the Gospel; act it from the pews, ye laymen who profess a ~ love for humanity; put it into effect, ye county, municipal and state offi' cials, and rememeber, ye business men of America, ye men of "big business" j and ye men of "little business," that there is something in this infinitely higher and more important than the I small amount of money involved which you think you could save by waiting. t Some men put off the day of sal,| vation, expecting to attend to it on a their death bed, but not many ever succeed in doing it at that hour. _"Do t it now, and do it with all your might," n should be the motto of every man in . America who expects to do any conv struction work in the near future. "Do ? it now," and thus do your part toward individual and national business salo vation?and even more. Procrastination is more that the thief of time; it is the murderer of op ! port unity. The foregoing from the cover page 0 el the .Manufacturers Record of March 13. 1919, applies with even greater force at the present time than it did ? > on ^he day it was written. By breakn ing down the cred't of the country j and restricting business a great dis' ;.ster has been brought upon the whole country; but this can be overcome and the tide turned to prosperity, and tumed quickly, if the people of the country will adopt the suggestions made in the foregoing and carry them out 10 promptly and with all their might. Go ahead with your plans; He who hesitates is lost. If you need help or information, Call, Phone or Write, ALSBROOK Greeleyville, S. C. o. . If anybody can insure it, Wm. W. Boddie can. * .. -v _ . 'plan to aid cotton FARMERS 1 I Financing of Exports Discused at a | Conference of Bankers | Washington, April 4.?Formulation I of a program designed to aid the cot- I ton intesests in reviving export trade | was begun at a conference here to- | nay between representative bankers | jf'om twelve southern states and Sec- | retaries Hoover and Mellon as well as I Governor Harding of the Federal Re- | : serve Board and directors of the War S j Finance Corporation. I j Although no formal action was taV- ? cn today propositions for government I j aid in financing cotton exports were 1 suggested and tentatively indorsed, s The program, initiated at this time S specifically for giving relief to the | cotton growers, it is expected, will | eventually be broadened to apply to j the other farm products. A committee was named by the con- s ference to pursue further stud:es of I plans to create local or section--' bank- I ing syndicates which/wouia serve j agencies to combine the financial Istrenght of interest in the cotton crop. Around these, it was proposed. wojIu ! be erected machinery for the extension of credit to stricken Kuiopean states where long term credit is necessary ami where there is no market unless the exporter i< willing to wait conversion of the lew material into finished merchandise. The discussion was frank and Governor Harding took occi-sio! to assert that the cotton growers lacked confidence and that any relief that could come must have its origin among those interested and not in the government. After the afternoon session, Managing Director Meyer of the Finance Corporation, under whose auspices the conference was held, declared ''genuine progress" had been made in the direction of a plan which, ultimately would restore life to the cotton business. He warned however, that the situation could not be remedied over night and that only through combined ?irifovoctorl in mtVlPC-. CtUUUll Ul Uiv^v *UW4VWWA. ... tion with such financial help as the government would give in tl.e shape of loans would better conuitiuns prevail iu the cotton belt. While the conference today die not go into the details of the program, it is understood in general to be the purpose to use the collective resources of banks in sections where cotton is tied up. The banks aiding in the financing of the exports, it was pointed out, could, with their own paper, obtain further loans from the War Finance Corporation so that their activities would not be curtailed b\* lack of money. Organizations of export corporations under the Webb-Pomerane and Edge acts also were urged upon the bankers, Secretary Hoover especially indicated that, in his belief, the cotton interests should, under those two acts and with the assistance of the War I 'nance Corporation, be able to establish a successful export trade. Secieta'*y Mellon suggested warehouse depositing of cotton and some other non-perishable products on which loans might be obtaii e<! from the government, as a means of enabling the producers to continue operations. He said ihe copper producei.had resorted to that plan when th>~y were confronted with no market for their mine output. Money borrowed on the warehouse receipts was being us fed, he explained, to keep the mines running in the "nope that eventually a market would be available for the stored stocks. Several bankers'urged a reduction in cotton acreage until the world consumption catches up with production, 'lhis brought from-Governor Harding the assertion that there was no actual over-production, out a decrease in the buying power of the European stateinto which American commodities formerly went. The job of the cotton exporter and his financial backer, Mr. Harding added, was to recreate the buying power by supplying some credit on sound economic lines. The situation in Europe, as vieweo by the reserve board, he added, need*'; stabilization and he added that one way to aid this stabilization was by assisting those countries n manufacturing. x A committee was appointed to study the local situation, and includes: Robert F. Maddox, Atlanta chairman; D. M. Armstrong, Mempnis; Nathan Adams, Dallas; Charles Claiborne. New Orleans, and Richard I. Manning, Columbia, S. C. Resides those named on the commit- j I toe. banker< attending the convention today were: | Tom C. Smith; Birmingham; C. S. | Fitzpatrick, Helena, Ark.; J. S. Reese Pensacola, Fla ; John K. Ottley, Atlanta; Archibald Kaine?, Xew Orleans; P. H. Sounder?, Xew Oilean.-; Oscar Newton, Jackson, Miss.; Festuc J. Wade, St. Louis; H. C. McQueen, Wilmington, X. C.; D. X. Fisk, Muskogee, Okla.; R. G. Rhett, Charleston, S. C.; J. Pope Matthews, Columbia, S. C.; T. R Preston, Chattanooga, Term ; John T. Scott, Houston, Texas, and R. E. Harding, Fort Worth, Texas. o ? 'Phone 179 lor Ice x D. & B. Ice Co. i f i f i irnn i i i'i i i i ail i i i irBunnft 11J || I (I J *^9^y*1 |f MBHNt^'"^rf~I3B3|Cr"ji^^H^>^KtJ 1 All I /^JHvyv499!TtH ^ U U ^orHH / Buy Summer Time [ Furniture Now! I YOU ARE VERY PROBABLY GOING TO BUY t . SEVERAL ARTICLES OF "SUMMER FURNITURE" ^ THIS YEAR SUCH AS PORCH ROCKERS, HAMMOCKS, PORCH SHADES, REFRIGERATORS, AND MANY OTHER SEASONABLE THINGS, AREN'T YOU? THEN < Why Not Buy Now and Enjoy it Through the Whole Season? ? o WE HAVE A BIG LINE OF ALL KINDS .OF THINGS TO MAKE THE HOME MORE COMFORTABLE. WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES AND FAMILY TO MAKE HOME AS COMFORTABLE AS POSSIBLE else, it^payiS to investf I ft J fn nloimo n-f oil rv?onn_ 111 K | * ~ 2 n V1U111U) y& Mil 111U/U14" ?| **t~ ^jjai fl I I decided to handle the if fniiP PlSliiJ lines we sell. Come in 3! ?? irpj. ^ Jk and let lis quote you i a prices and show you i the superior points of j. ? Jjjf"'' our lines. , f We are overstocked on Organs and will make you some attractive prices and terms Every family needs some sort of musi- /( cal instrument and a nice OBGAN is a good i inexpensive way to gratify this need. 'gST ? ' * Our OBGANS are all very ornamental and fly- v-g a true toned. Let us quote you prices. * I | Kingstree Furniture Co. I "The Largest Stock in the State" I Central Warehouse Building, IflMfCTDET C P | Corner Mill Street and Hampton Ave. IVlIiujIKlii}, 3. t. : I SRj/^cind D^1?S1| ! iff# Cheer Up I ! illl ...UAMF I ' ^ ' J