The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 01, 1922, Image 8
TAX INCREASE ORDERED S
ON FLORENCE FARM LAND..
State Tax Commission Serves Notice
of Raise on Board of
Equalization.
The South Carolina tax commission
ha> officially ordered the Florence
county board of equalization to increase
the assessments on farm lands
in Florence county, J. D. Daniel, of
Lake City, chairman of the iocal board,
announced Saturday. The increase
will be from 87.17 to 88.60 per acre,
equivalent to nearly 20 per cent, advance.
A board was at once appointed to
appear before the commission and
protest the order. This committee
has asked for a hearing in Columbia
at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, June 2.
Members of the board of equalization
were surprised when they received
the order of the state tax commission,which
generally is admitted to
have the authority to make such an
order and to enforce it. The order
is written by Walter (1. Query, chairman
of the state tax board. It is
ao ivuvttn.
"It appears from the report of the
Cou.ity Auditor of the action of the
County Hoard of Equalization of
Floience county that the average assessed
value of farm lands in said
county has been assessed at $7.17
per acre; and it further appearing
that such*Valuation is too low for the
purpose of putting said property on
an equality with similar property in!
other counties of the state; and it.
further appearing that the average (
assessed value of land in said county
should be $8.60 per acre.
"Now under authority of Section
12 of an act of the legislature creati
the Tax Commission, as amended
in .1916, conferring power upon the
Tax Commission to equalize all classes
of property throughout the state.
"It is ordered that the assessment
of lands be increased from $7.17 per
acre to $8.60 per acre; and that a
copy of this order be served upon the
Chairman of the County Board of
Equalization of said county and County
Auditor.
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nniH) WORK IN WILLIAMSBURG.
What a Good Home Demonstration
Agent Can Accomplish.
A summary of the past three
months work by County Home Demonstration
Agent, Miss Hattie McMurray,
is very interesting and shows
that her time has been well spent.
She has 10 girl's clubs with an
enrollment of 113 ami eight women's
clubs with an enrollment of 65. All
of these clubs have selected courses
of study and are holding regular
monthly meetings. Miss McMurray
has held 74 meetings with an attend- j
ance of 1,088. Visited 19 schools and
132 club members. Traveled 1,891
miles in the interest of the work. She
writes as follows in regard to the
various lines of work she is carrying
on: "The people have shown more
interest in poultry than ever before.
A day never passes without somebody
calling or writing to find where a
market can be found for chickens or
where they can sell them. I think
the fact that we have been able to
find a good market for the poultry
through our county home demonstration
agent in Charleston has stimulated
interest in poultry raising.
During this year I have shipped 350
hers and 100 friers which has amount
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CQ IU Iliurc man v/.uu. axic yvui- ?
try clubs are talyng more interest
anil more of them are getting good i
eggs. |
"The ladies who have joined the i
Home Producers Association are get- j
ting everything in readiness for can-!
ning. I have ordered three Burpee
sealers, three steam pressure cookers
and am getting prices on tin cans.
We expect to order 5,000 for the
ladies who have signed contracts in 1
the association. The Community clubs !
are new developments in this county, i
The people are coming together in a
wonderful way, the crowds grow larger
each time we meet.
"The meetings have been interesting
and helpful and the programs full j
of instruction.
"The girls are all doing some gar-1
dei.ing work and expect to sell vege-1
tables through the Truckers associa- j
tion.
"I expect to take up butter work
with the clubs. There are only a few
good cows in the :ounty, but more
are being bought ai.d peopiv are bsgu
ming to want to make butter for
home use and to sell.
"The Farm Women's Council meets :
regularly at stated dates during tin*
year and the meetings are full of instruction.
These women are promoting
all county wide projects."
MRS. S. 0. PLOWDEN, j
District Agent, i
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Letter From Miss Hannah Plowden
to a Friend in Williamsburg County.
(Published by request.)
Shanghai College, Shanghai, China,
April 20, 1922.
My Dear Friend:
Thank you so much for your nice
letter written a short time before
Christmas, and I certainly had no
idea of waiting so long to answer it
but somehow the days have been such
busy ones that I never could get at
it, although I often thought of writing
you?I appreciated the message
on your Christmas card. I still have
all of my Christmas cards and greetings?There
must have been a hundred
or more, but I'm going to give
them to a little primary school in a
village near here. The college boys?
The Christians?are running that
.school for the poor children who
otherwise would have no opportunity
of getting an education. They rent
the building and pay the teacher the
magnificent sum of $12.00 a month
($12.00 Mexican silver) which is only
$6.00 American gold.
A fairly wealthy Chineseman has
become interested in the school, although
he is not a Christian, and
has given the college a piece of land
for a primary school and the money
to put up a good building1. They
have 45 pupils now, 40 boys and 5
little girls. They arc just adorable
and have the loveliest manners you
ever saw. They will value the Christmas
cauls anil they have already
given me so much pleasure. So I'll
pass them on.
I'm glad you have read my letters
to my father. You know something
of my life out here?It really is delightfully
interesting. Before I came
I had a deep-rooted fear that 1 would
not love the Chinese as individuals
but some of them are as personally
attractive as any students I have ever
taught. The same is true of the
Chinese teachers. At the college we
have forty-five teachers, a little over
half of whom are foreign. So you
see there are a good many of them
Chinese. Almost half of them are returned
students from America, where
they did post-graduate work. They
were A. B. graduates before going.
One of them has a Ph. D. A good
proportion of our faculty has Ph. D's.
They are given much more attention
and consideration in this generally
ignorant country than they are at
home. Rather paradoxical isn't it?
I have twenty-one hours of English
work and two hours physical training
with the women students.
I'm teaching them games and
folk dances. Then I am advisor of
Junior Academy, English Literary
Society and Religious life.
We are working on our spring
Evangelistic campaign now. It is refreshing
and beautiful to see these
boys hard at work, on the Lord's
work, and to hear them pray and not
know a word they say! It makes
you realize God's greatness and infinite
goodness, and that He knows
the needs of every human heart.
You can feel that after all: there are
real race distinctions, He is Father of
us all, we are all His children, therefore
brothers. Now, it is true most
of them do not know all that. Besides
their abiding hatred of Japan,
they are having war?civil war that
is costing dearly.
You cannot imagine how glad I
would be if you would come across
here this summer?you could get some
English teaching work for a school
term and spend the summer before
and after, travelling?and the holidays
during that year too.
You asked about expenses, and I
asked at the steamship office to see
? ' 111- XT 1J
wnat xney wouia oe. iou couiu gu
from Charleston, S. C., to Seattle for
something less than $150.00 and from
Seattle to Shanghai for a little less
than $350.00?$500.00 would be more
than enough to land you at our college.
There are several South Carolina
missionaries coming out this summer
and I'm sure there will be the
following summer also.
The largest proportion of the teaching
in high schools and colleges, government
as well as mission is being
done in English. So it isn't so hard
to get along without a knowledge of
the language. Of course I'm going
to learn it as quickly as I can for II
don't expect to be in school work after
this year.
Please write to me again and tell
me about my parents.
Sincerely yours,
Hannah Plowden.
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Move to Reclaim Swamp Lands.
Washington, May 29.?There are
80,000,000 acres of unreclaimed swamp
lands and 50,000,000 acres of cut off
lands in the south. ??Iuch of these
lands is potentially the richest domain
in the United States. These swamps
are like a buriea pot of gold to the
people who own them. They consti
lute the soil conspiration 01 centuries
but their reclamation is a task of
such magnitude that only the national
government can undertake it.
Till now in land reclamation the
government has directed its energies
and spent the people's money only
in the irrigation of arid lards of the
west. It has reclaimed 100,000,000
acres of these desert wastes and settled
on them 100,000 people who have
built prosperous farms and teeming
cities.
But at this session of congress
southern members have persuaded the
house committee on irrigation of lands
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11 to include, in its bill the drainage of \
i the swamp lands of the south. The 1
; bill has been reported out by the com- ^
i mittee and it is expected that it will (
be brought up very soon for consideration
on the floor of the house.
!' Representative Philip H. Stoll is
one of the southern members who is
pushing the bill for in his district j
there is a great deal of such swamp
lands as the bill is designed to re1
claim, liefore the bill was reported
' cut of the committee Mr. Stoll made
! a speech on the floor of the house
i! in which he strongly advocated the
project of draining these swamps and
,! leclaiming cut off lands. The arguI
ments he presented for the drainage
of these swamp lands were a factor
; in convincing the committee of the
need of providing for this work in
its bill. He showed that the drainage
of the swamp lands of the south is
a better agricultural proposition in
dollars and cents than the irrigation
of the arid lands of the west where
?8o0,000,000 of farm pioducts are
i annually produced. He also showed
; that it costs only $6.64 to drain an
' acre of swamp land whereas it costs
$26.80 to irrigate an acre of arid
land.
The bill asks congress to authorize
j an advance, over a period of years,
of $350,000,000 which is to be appropriated
from time to time upon estiI
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maies r.iaue uy ine seciciu*y ui mc
Interior. This fund is to constitute
: a capital for the building of reclama!
tion works.
; The bill contemplates that the secj
retary of the Interior shall contract
j with a reclamation district, organized
j under state laws and having the auj
thority to issue bonds with which to
' pay for reclamation works, the bonds
to be a general charge upon all the (
lands in the district One half of
the expenses of all investigations for
reclamation projects is to be borne
by the district and one half by the
government. The government undertakes
to feasible project when the
district deposits its bonds in a farm '
loan bank in ample amount to cover J
the cost of the project, the bonds to
bear not exceeding 5 per cent, interest
and to run for a period not ex
ceeding 40 years. When the proper
ty in the district amouats in value to twice
that of the outstanding bonds
they are to be sold ani the proceeds
are to be used to discharge the contract
between the government and
the district.
Mr. Stoll said the great merit of
the proposition is that it is not
paternalistic. It simply helps people j
to help themselves. He said that un- j
der the plan the people in his dis!.?...?/
c,..oyv,v. on/1 /?,if nff lartfls ^
tlit't iUlVlIl^ OWOliJ]/ UIU VUW V?4
could in a very short time pay for !
the cost of reclamation and their j
property would be advanced 100 fold j
in value. !
Reduced Rates to Sunday School Con- j
~~ vention. j
Spartanburg, May 29.?Reduced
railroad rates of one and one-half
fare for the round trip have been
granted for the State Sunday School
Convention to be held in Columbia,
June 20-21-22. This rate is given on
the certificate plan and in order to
get the benefit of it the official certificate
signed by Leon C. Palmer, general
superintendent,-will have to be
presented to the agent when purchasing
ticket. These certificates can be j
co/tiirn/l -fvno nn rAnilAst. hv aHrfrPSS- j
ing the South Carolina Sunday School
Association, 714 Andrews-Law Bldg., j
Spartanburg, S. C. I
Card of Thanks.
Mrs. A. E. Hill and family wish to
express their appreciation for the
kindness and sympathy shown to them
by their friends and neighbors during
the illness and death of their
father and husband.
Hemingway,, May 28, 1922.
CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS.
To the Democratic Voters of the Sixth
Congressional District:
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for Congress from the Sixth Congressional
District, subject to the
rules of the Democratic party.
J. F. PATE.
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for reelection to congress from
the sixth congressional district subject
to the rules of th? Democratic
primary.
PHILIP H. STOLL.
W. R. BARRINGER
Florence, S. C.
CANDIDATE FOR
CONGRESS
6TH DISTRICT
FOR STATE SENATOR.
I am a candidate for the State Sen
: ate, subject to the rules and the regulations
of the Democratic primary.
I believe that I can render real
; service to the County and State in the
matters of taxation and of education.
WM. W. BODDIE.
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
In response to the urgent appeals
of a number of my friends throughI
out the county I hereby announce myi'
self a candidate for the House of
, Representatives, subject to the rules
'! of the Democratic primary.
!? WILLIAM R. SCOTT.
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UNA ENTRANCE EXAMINA". I .
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Entrance examinations to the University
of South Carolina will be held
by the County Superintendent of Edu- i ^
cation at the county court house Friday,
July 14, 1922. tj
The University offers varied courses
of study in science, literature, history,
law and business. The expenses
are moderate and many opportunities
for self-support are afforded. Schol- ^
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i'.uptist Church:?Frank C. Hawkins,
Pastor. .!
Sundav School?10:00 a. m. !!
Preaching?11:00 a. m. ?
Lilly Sunday Ciuo?3:30 p. m.
B. Y. P. U.?7:00 p. r.i. ;
Evening Service?8:00
Weekly Prayer service?Friday 8:00 !
p. m. J
Presbyterian Church, J. W. Davis, ?
Pastor. !
Sunday School?10:00 a. m. ]
Preaching?11:15 a. m. ?
Christian Endeavor?7:00 p. m. !
Evening service?8:00 J
Weekly Prayer service?Wednesday ?
8:00 p. m. !!
Methodist Church, J. P. Inabinet, Pas- J J
tor. Rev. C. C. Derrick, Presiding ?j
Elder, Kingstree District. <!
Sunday School?10:00 a. m. | J
teaching?11:15 a. m. 1
Prayer Meeting?Wednesday 8:00 p. ..
m. \ |
Epworth League meets?7:00 p. m. ?1
Evening service?8:00 ?.
Episcopal Church, Walter Mitchell, J [
D. D. in Charge. j j
Services?Sermon and Holy commun- ,,
ion third Sunday each month at |
11:00 a. m. J J
Evening service?7:30. ?
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