The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 21, 1921, Image 4
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THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1921.
Cheer up folks' As a friend remarked
to us the other day, "the situation
could be worse."
It might ne well at this time to re
mind the tobacco growers of Williamsburg
county that there was a measure
before the last General Assembly to
regulate the marketing of the weed
ir this county. The measure provided
for the grading and tying of tobacco
before put upon the warehouse
floors. When the measure was about
to be enacted into rt law, a great howl
went up and our representatives were
forced to kill the bill. Today the tobacco
growers of this county are, per haps,
brought to a realization of the
disadvantage they are up /against
when they put a p;ie of tobacco on the
flcor that is composed of several
grades and tind that the whole is paid
for at the price prevailing for the low
est grade contained in the lot. It is
not the fault of our representatievs
that this bill was not enacted into
law.
While we do not pretend to be an
authority on tobacco further thai: up-(
on the merits of the manufactured
product that we blow away in smoke
day after day, we do Relieve that
the old method of grading and tieing
the weed before :t is offered for sale
would be geratly advantageous to the
producer.
Much unfavorable criticism has been
heard by The Record regarding those
who go bathing in Black river here,
and it is not unlikely that the town
council will be requested to pass an
ordinance regulating the use of bathing
suits on the streets of Kingstree
a* well as in the yaters of Black river
The editor of The County Recora
returned two weeks ^go from a trip
to his old home in Virginia. Accompanied
by his wife and little daughter,
he left Kingstree on the morning or
June 16, during one of the dryest and
hottest seasons recorded for the
month of June in many years. On the
loth and 14th the themometer registered
respectively 101? and 103? and
in contemplation of a trip to Virginia,
a soiourn in the mountainous section,
we naturally expected to find there
some relief from the unusuai and oppressive
heat wave that had become
a source of extreme discomfort here,
day and night.
Except for a little shower of rain
on Wednesday, the 15th of June, no
rain of any consequence had fallen in
the five weeks r.-eceding and crops
were suffering from drought. Farmers
were discouraged over the puny
condition of their crops and especially
the outlook for tobacco, which, had
been greatly retarded by the cold, dry
weather and up until the 20lh of June
presented a rather sorry prospect for
anything like a normal or renumerative
harvest.
From Kingstree on up through the
.state as far rs we could see along the
Atlantic Coast Line railroad, out of
our car window there was nothing to
strengthen our h. pes for a bounteous
harvest of anything planted to the
great stretch of fields along the route.
It. was, on the .-ther hand, a rather
disheartening aspect. Crops were apparently
doomed. Cotton was in the
' possum-ear' state, small, uneven and
ciscolored. Tobacco was then apparently
little better off, it being small as
a rule, unequal and seedy; corn
promised a poor harvest indeed, and
the kitchen gardens had so far been
a failure in the production of vegetables.
This condition continued on up
through North Carolina as far as
could be observed from the railroad,
and into Virginia r.s far as old Petersburg
where we changed trams and
traveled through darkness, up th<>
James river valley section of the Old
Dominion to Lynchburg where we
spent the night. Ere this, however,
fields of cotton and tobacco had faded
fiom view and in the moonlight as,
ve ga '.ed from the window of our car .a
we saw acres of corn and great fields b
fcespecked with shocks of golden A
wheat and oats. Knroute fiom Pe- >
tersburg to Lynchburg we thought b
sure we had found relief from the i<
heat back in Kingstree. The madame; c
decided that she must send at once j v.
for her winter suit, and she did, but o
it was a mistake for on the next day e
and for more than fifteen days following
even a thought of heavier apparei
was like adding luel to a flame. Mops 1 n
were what we really needed, rather b
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| man any 01 ine winter tunning wc,
I lud left behind. r
But once more in Lexington, the
beautiful and hist ric little citv nestli
i ling among t!ie links of the Alleghany I "
mountains a -po; made sacred to all;
|: "Utherners bv the name and fame o' i('
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I Generals Lee and Jackson, whose t /
'ashes repose there beneath magnifi;cei:t
statues, masterpieces in marble ''
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and bronze to commemorate their; service
and patriotism to a cause thatj
was lost, the change was most delightful
to the eye, for there were the *
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scenes of boyhood days, and above all j
a lot of dear ones to greet and wel-j ?
come us; old friends wo had not seen: N
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in many years. So it was in Lynchburg
and South Boston.
In Rockbridge r?untv we found ge:i- .
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eral conditions much better than here j ^
in this particular section. There is,
an absence of the pessimistic crv that i
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is so commonly heard among; us, al-!
though nature has perhaps, more
abundantly lavished her blessings up-;
* | it
on us.
Business of all kinds is going ahead i
there and in Lynchburg as in the days' ^
prior to the world war. Farmeis are
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fiush, financially, though somewhat
"sore backed" over the slump in the'
price of wheat, corn and wool, entire- j
ly oblivious to the days when they M
felt that 85c for a bushel of wheat was s
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a good price for it. There is no fruit
in their orchards but they have corr.
and wheat in their granaries and meat
yii
their smokehouses. Many of them,
like our cotton raisers, unwisely held f'
or. to their wheat when they could
have sold at ?2.5l?, now it's only $1.25; ^
they would not let their wool go at ^
50e but pooled their product and held
it for a higher price while a gradual
deflation has brought it down to about
20c the pound.
In spite of these deflations, however. ^
they are apparently a prosperous, hap
py and contented people.
Hie wheat harvest was well undei 1
C!
way and we were informed by dealers
in binders and harvesting machinery ^
I L..n!MAt<c woo linnciiflllv Dntvl.
LI1UC MUdUICOd n uo uuuuwm..; _
Danks in the county are well sup- .
plied with funds and loans for agri- ,r
cultural and other substantial busi!
ness projects are easy.
No one we met or talked with seem- j
ed to be hard-up. Fruits, of all varieties
were killed by the late freezes, but 1
there are plenty of live stock, dairy a
products and poultry for which a a
ready market is found in Lexington
by the rural population at good prices.
Also there is a steady demand for tan
bark, locust and cedar posts, cord ^
wood, pulp wood, shingles and variou b(
other items which the farmers of that section
can readily convert into cash,
and do, as a sort of side-line to their j
regular agricultural pur suits. They;
are dependent upon no one crop or
commodity.
The season in the James river valley
section of Virginia had been somewhat
better than in other sections of
the state. Despite the hot weather
end high pressure conditions fairly
good rains had fallen at almost regu
Jar intervals and there was no apparent
suffering from driought.
While in Lexington we had the
treat pleasure of attending commencement
exercises at the new Virginia
Military Institute?the West Point of
the south, as it has been appropriately
termed. We say the new V. M. I. because
of its wonderful growth in the
last few years. There were 600 cadets
in attendance the past session
and 110 fine young men in the grad1
' - '1 ' v-?l *v>?-? P
uatrng Class to receive uipiui uao | |
on June 22. In addition to the six
infantry companies" there are splendidly
equipped artilerv and calvary
units. A most excellent showing was
nade by these on the drill field during
the finals.
We spent three weeks in Virginia
and returning home it was indeed
most gratifying to note from the
same car window the wonderful transformation
that had taken place in the
same stretch of fields. So marked
was the improved condition of crops
that they did not appear to be the
same puny, stunted, dwarfed fields of
cotton, corn, tobacco, etc., that we had
observed three weeks before. This
condition is notable through North
and South Carolina along the dines
traversed and usually we do not see
the best along the railroads in any
state.
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The killing of T. F. Ramey near I
A 1 ?I.AAU tuae oo Irl in Vl3 VP I
rtliutrrfcuil, ittM. >vcca ixm sani vv followed
receipt by Ramey and his
brother-in-law o; a miniature coffin
containing a note advising them to
leave the county. Ramey's son and
several others have been arrested in
connection with the alleged Killing. .
"Good-bye Broadway, HelU France'-'
song relic of the late war, will again |
e sung when 250 members of the1
imerican Legion sail August 3rd from
lew York for a tour of the erstwhile
attic-centers of Fiance. To expei-]
?nce the "grand and glorius feeling"]
f going to France without having to
orry about getting shot, is the dream
x nearly every member of the form- j
r A. E. F.
The Navy Department has issued
otice to the effect that recruiting has
een stopped except for old men who
ship over." Only continuous service
eenlistmenti are now being accepted.
? -C?> 4 L n ?\ripf M'Aol" inrli/tnf a
iCJJUl 1^5 1U1 liic ?cvi\ muivubv
hat approximately six hundred re-enstments
have been received, while
46 new men signed up before the orer
became effective. They will be the
ist men to get !n until the personnel
i reduced to 106,000 total provided for
y law authorizing a reduction in the
,'avy personnel.
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Before : adjournment of the State
'iremens' eonveution at Greenville
xst Saturday Florence was selected
s the meeting place of the 1922 conention,
"The Gate City" winning over
irangeburg in the race for the conention
by n vote of 35 to 20. Chief
.ouis Behrens, Charleston, was unannously
re-elected president of the
isociation and by a unanimous vote
he association passed a resolution diecting
a committee to present him
*!th a token of the regard and affccion
in which he \c held by the firelen
of the slate.
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Saturday evening while seated with
rie family at the :-upper table for the
veiling meal j nomas and David
>dom, aged ten ar.d eight years, sons
r. David Odom, of the Mount Lebanon
action of Greenville county, were intantly
killed when a bolt of lightning
truck the house. None of the other
'.embers of the inmily were injured,
he house had recently been equipped
ith a gas lighting system, and it is
jid electricity cane down the fixtures
ito the dining room. The little boys
ad been inseparable companions
iroughout their life and the two
adies were buried in the same casket.
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At the present rate, with 104 potions
in bankrupcy having been filed
> the U. S. Court for the eastern dis ict
of South Carolina for the first
x months of this year, 1921 is likely
: prove the heaviest of the past sevral
years for bankruptcies. As comared
to the 104 petitions filed this
ear, only 20 were filed during the
rst half of 1920. and only 29 durig
the entile year. In 1919 a total
f 20 were filed and in 1918 there
ere 32. In 1916, a total of 84 petions
were filed. Even 1915. when in
le neighborhood of 185 cases were
It-el will nrnhntgv nrnvp fn ",mvp hppn
lighter year than the present, as far
bankruptcies .-.re concerned and
rom the outlook at present.
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Peace negotiations between the
ritish and the Irish are reported to
s deadlocked.
July Specials
AT
Gee's Bargain Store
Transparent organdie in white
rose, lavender, blue and salmon,
75c variety at 45c yd.
Flowered and fancy lawns good
quality 12'/2C and 15c yd.
A beautiful line of flowered
Voiles at 25c yd.
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Lonsdale Cambric at 22c yd.
Fruit of Loom Muslin, 36 inches
at only 17 ^2 yd.
Peperell bleached Sheeting 9-4
at only 45c yd.
Sea Island Brown Sheeting, yard ;
wide at 7,/jC, 27 inches__5c yd.
Good quality bleach at__12'/2C yd.
Blue Denim, good quality 20c yd.
Dress Ginghams all colors 10 to 25c
Bed Ticking 12'/2c to 25c 1
Bed Sheets, 72x90 at 85c eac
Wash Skirts white and fancy
striped at 98c each
Waist Organdie, Lawn and Voi!e
at only 85c
Ladies Silk Hose, all colors 25c up
Cotton Hose 10c
Satchels Hand Bags Suit Cases
from only 45c up
Trunks from $5.75 up
Ladies Shoes, any size $1.85 up
Slippers, white, black and tan
from $1.00 up
Gee's Bargain Store
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