The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 07, 1921, Image 4
?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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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. If anybody
can insure it,
Wm. W. Boddie can.
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'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-.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Why Not Buy Now and Enjoy
it Through the Whole Season?
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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.
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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. *
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| 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.
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