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VOLUME 37?NO. 21 THE COUNTY RECORD, KINGSTREE, S. C, THURSDAY. JULY 27, 1922 PRICE fl.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
ONE THOUSAND
MEMBERS MOKE
LAST CHANCE TO SIGN WITH
178,000 GROWERS NEXT
MONDAY.
Two million pounds more of tobacco
were signed up with the Tristate
pool in South Carolina last
week. "A Thousand Members More"
is the slogan for the few days that
remain until July 81st, when the last
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r contract from Soutn Carolina win ue
signed.
The closing up of all auction warehouses
in a number of the large market
towns is aiding the landslide of
contracts which pours into headquarters.
The business men and bankers of
Florence set the pace in the campaigning
last week during which forty to
fifty business men of the headquarters
town solicited contracts for the association
with highly successful results.
One hundred contracts mailed in
from Lake City last week have added
to the thousands of acres of association
tobacco which now surround
the biggest market of the state.
Mullins is another market which is
now surrounded by cooperative growers
who have been backed steadily
by leading bankers and merchants of
the town, for more than a hundred
contracts were signed there recently.
Opposition to the association withered
throughout South Carolina last
week, as field workers from four
states advanced on the east side of
the Pee Dee river under the leadership
of W. E. Lea, field service representative
of the association for
South Carolina, and on the west side
^ of the river with L. E. Rogers directing
the attack.
ft Manning is another town which is
heavily backing the cooperative marmr
keting movement. The recent trans
fer of R. D. Clark has made Manning
ann?h*i> strone cooperative center.
With 78,000 members in the association
today, with forty million dollars
behind the association, with town
after town closing the auction houses,
with a landslide of new members
joining daily, the slogan of "A Thousand
Members More" should become
a fact by "-he night of Monday July
31st.
Next Monday marks the last chance
for the farmers of South Carolina to
sign the :ontract which has been
called their New Declaration of In
dependence and the purest lorm 01
democracy practised in America.
Cathcart-Varn.
The Beaufort Gazette: One of
the prettiest and largest weddings
of the season took place Tuesday,
July 18th, when Miss Daisy Varn,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Varn, residing at the corner of North
?1 Vam etr?#ts_ Rp.mfort. was mar
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ried to Mr. Thomas M. Cathcart, of
Kingstree.
The wedding was solemnized at
noon in St. Helena's Episcopal church
with the Rev. Maynard Marshal officiating.
Miss Elizabeth Cathcart, of Hartsville,
Misses Mary and Hazel Varn,
of Beaufort, were bridesmaids.
Mr. M. M. McCord, of Georgetown,
acted as best man.
Messrs. Harold Bristol, Clifford
Baxter, Risers Varn and Goode Bryan
were ushers.
Later a reception was held at the
bride's home after which the couple
left on the 1:35 train for a trip to
the mountains. Later they will retnrn
to Kinestree where they will
reside. Mr. Cathcart is ei gaged in
farm demonstration work in Williamsburg
county. Miss Varn was
formerly engaged in Red Cross work
at that place.
They weie pleasantly remembered
^ by their many friends with a quant
* tity of useful presents.
m Beaufort is unfortunate in losing
such a popular young lady, and a
host of friends in this place unite
in wishing her every happiness in
her new home.
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Home Demonstration Rally August 4.
You can not afford to miss the big;
Home Demonstration rally which will
. Wbe held at Singstree on August 4th.
''Mrs. Dora Dee Walker and others
will be here to give demonstrations.
Hie club girls will be here for a part
on the program.
Bring lunch and come to stay all j
day. Look for notice in this paper
next week. j
MISS HATTIE J. McMURRAY, |
-"'-County Home Demonstration Agent.1
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DURWARD RHEM
PASSES AWAYi
WELL KNOWN BUSINESS MAN
OF WILUAMSBURG AND
GEORGETOWN.
Mr. Durward Dudley Rhem died
at his home at 2 o'clock Tuesday j
j afternoon after a brief acute illness, i
Mr. Rhem had been in failing health
for many months, but of late seemed:
to be somewhat improved, and with J
his family, enjoyed the salt air at j
Pawley's Island for several days last
week. He and his brother, the late,
Furney Rhem, were heads of the
large mercantile and agricultural
firm of F. Rhem & Sons, so long an
important factor in the affairs of
this section in a business way. The
death of Mr. Rhem is greatly deplored.
He leaves a devoted wife and a
number of children.
Mr. ?hem had been enga&ed in
business in Williamsburg and Georgetown
counties for the past thirty-five
or forty years as a. member of the
firm of F. Rhem & Sons. This business
was originally established in
i oca kv Vnmav the father of i
iwa| uj A , ?
Durward Rhem, and the firm has always
ranked high among the successful
commercial enterprises of the
state.
Mr. Rhem had always been a large
and successful merchant and planter,!
and had maintained the highest stand-1
I ing in the commercial world. Besides!
j being the senior member of F. Rhem
j & Sons, he was president of J. W.!
! Cook Company, Rhem Real Estate
Company, H. 0. Pipkin Company,
Rhem Dock and Terminal Company,
| and a director oi the Bank of George-'
I town, and Peoples' Bank of George;
town.
In addition to his extensive mer;
cantile and farming interests, Mr.
Rhem took a leading part in all pub-1
lie matters affecting his section of
, the state, and he worked always for
intoMct /vf Viiq rnmmunitv.
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Mr. Rhem is survived by a large
family. Three of his sons, Loris F.,
J. D., and F. Rhem, are active in the
management of the affairs of F.
Rhem & Sons.
Funeral services were conducted atl
i Union church yesterday afternoon at |
j 4 o'clock.
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Lanes Pen tilings.
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Lanes, July 25th.?Mrs. Struce, Mr*. |
Kilpatrick and sister, Miss Leila ,
Sires, of Charleston were the attrac-1
j tive guests of Mrs. F. L. Baggett
! last week.
Mr. Milton Kennedy of Charleston,
i spent a few days here with his aunt,
Mrs. E. 0. Rogers.
j Misse3 Elizabeth and Virginia Davis
of Florence, and Miss Winnie Davis;
of Salters, spent Thursday as the j
guests of their aunt, Mrs. J. C. Gra-1
ham.
Mrs. C. A. Coleman has returned,
from an extended trip to relatives |
in Virginia. She was accompanied j
home by her little niece.
! Mr. S. A. Graham, Jr., of Durham,
N. C., spent Thursday with his uncle,
! Mr. J. C. Graham.
Mrs. E. E. Rogers, who has been
ill, is a great deal better we are glad
to say.
Miss Jeannetfce Davis left for Clem
11 J-.? fA vicif Hpr
! sou muuuay muiuui^ w ?v
[ Brother, Rev. W. E. Davis.
! Mr. E. E. Rogers spent Sunday
ihere with his homefolk.
Miss McMurray, our popular dem
onstration agent, was a caller in town
1 Tuesday.
Mrs. F. L. Baggett gave a very
delightful chicken-supper last Monday
| night in honor of her guests, Mrs.
! Struce, Mrs. Kilpatrick and Miss Sires
of Charleston.
A Good Suggestion.
We note that many cities, alarmed
over the price of their neglect,
arc "going after" speed demons.
Their action is most timely and should
encourage similar steps on the part
of those in authority in other sections.
The speed fiend is a menace to the
city or country-side through which ,
he travels. The inflamable gas that
propelsfca motor car will deal death
just as surely as the liberate 1 ga^j
behind a pistol ball. Acciden^^mi
happen, of course, but tl^^peeding
motorist who takes life^hrough no
J fault of his victim s^ild be shown
no leniency because he chose a motor
car instead of a pistol, a shotgun, or
jan axe to commit murder.?Saluda
Standard. j
THE WINNER IN THIS
SALESMANSH1
WILLB1
THE REAL SALESMAN. THE WOF
SYSTEMATIC, THOUGHTFUL V
REWARD WILL BE W
TWENTY DOLLARS IN CASH
AWAR
THOSE WHO ENTERTAIN A THOl
A GOOD REPORT DURING THE
TUESDAY, A
Th? Winner in Camnairn.
In this day and age of keen competition
and keen business life, it is j
the salesman who wins. The man j
or woman who can sell goods is the
one who can convince the prospective
buyer of the value and worth of his
wares. This holds good whether that
man or woman be behind the counter
in the smallest second-hand store in
the land or in the largest of the
great trade emporiums of the big
cities. It's the one who can convince
the prospective customers that the
particular piece of goods or article
being sold is just exactly what the
customer wants, must have, and will
not do without.
But the salesman cannot selL unless
he knows his goods. Not only
must he know his goods, but he must I
be honest in knowing them, and1
knowing them have faith in them?
the faith that the Good Book tells j"
about?that faith that passeth under-1
standing. Knowing his goods and
having faith in them, he can present j
them honestly and convincingly to j
the customer or the prospect. To
know his goods he must study them.
Now to the point: We know our
goods and the workers in this campaign
of ours must likewise know
them. Our "goods" is The County:
Record?Williamsburg county's onlyj
newspaper?and we know there is no |
better weekly paper published in the :
state. We know this by comparison,
and by &ie spirit that is behind The
County Record, the spirit that inspires
every member of it's staff to
greater efforts toward making their
paper bigger and better.
Those who have an ambition to earn
one of the awards to be given in this
campaign become salesmen the minute
they determine to make the effort
to win. How good a salesman each
* ?-1-1? ~ ?,1
may prove to be aepenas wnoieiy aim i
solely upon the sincerity and honest j
effort put forth, and the carefulness;
with which he studies his goods?The 1
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sale to the people. Take a copy of'
The County Record and study it. I
Note that it is first of all your locai i
paper and a paper that everyone at
all interested in Williamsburg and
its neighboring counties must read if
he would keep himself informed as
to the goings-on within that territory?the
work of the church and
..niininnc nnraniration: the I
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school life of the community; social >
and club happenings; municipal and j
county court news and everyday bus-'
iness dealings; special articles am I
editorials of deep local interest.
Note that The County Record prints |
each week all the neighborhood news
of this section, and when working in
a neighborhood where The County
Record has a correspondent, force
that fact home on the prospective
subscriber. Show him the news of
his locality and the chances are 99
times out of one hundred he will note
an item about some particular person
or friend in whom he is particularly
interested. Then point out the excellence
of the farm articles with <
timely reports of interest to tobacco ;
growers. The information gleaned ]
from these articles alone is worth <
more than the value of a year's sub- i
scription. ,
Study these and other points well
and be sure that you can present ]
them in a forceful and convincing <
manner. j
The County Record is worth selling.
jYOT^can sell it, *and in selling it
maw lay the foundation for a salesmaMinp
education that will be the
greatest boon to you through life.
Be a salesman, a real salesman, and
prove your worth to yourself and to
your friends.
Then Speed Up.
If you really want a Ford Car, do
not allow yourself to be in second,
third, fourth or fifth place. GET UP
AT THE TOP AND STAY THERE.
GREAT
IP CAMPAIGN
EA GOOD SALESMAN
1KER. WILL WIN IN THE ENDPORK
WILL DO IT AND THE
ORTH THE EFFORT.
"will be
ded august 1st?win it!
JGHT OF WINNING WILL MAKE
FIRST PERIOD, WHICH ENDS
UGUST 1ST.
Now during the FIRST PERIOD,
when the Highest Bonus Credits are
being given, is the. time to make a
winning stroke, and clinch the award
you want.
If you are entertaining any desire
whatever of being a winner, if you
REALLY and TRULY want a Ford
Car, do not fail to turn in every
available subscription as soon as possible,
for the First Period gives the
highest credit value of the entire
campaign.
That Cash Award.
In addition to the high Bonus Credit
given until August 1st, two Cash
Awards will be given on that day.
Ten dollars will go to the worker in
each district reporting the greatest
amount of business up to that time,
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SHOPMEN SPEND MORE THAN
YEAR PREPARING FOR STRIKE.
Waited Fifteen Months to "Accumulate
Grievances to Support Demand"
for Walkout, Says Union Officer.
That the railroad shopmen have
been preparing for the strike now in
progress since April 1921, and waited
fifteen months, because of a desire
to "accumulate enough grievances
to support a demand for a
nation-wide strike" were statements
made Saturday by P. J. Conlon, vicepresident
of the International Association
of Machinists, at a public
mass meeting in Washington, D. C.
Union officials learned April 8th,
1922, Mr. Conlon said, that the national
agreement with the railroads
was to be abolished although the
railroad labor board did not act until
April 14th. When individual
agreements were sought, he declared,
the unions "ran into identical 'de""""Jo
avarv rnnr) mo AfinTOJLch- I
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e<? which indicated to us there was.
some central agency of authority
directing the fight against us."
"Then we realized" Vice-president!
Conlon continued, "that we would
have to' sit tight and suffer in silence
until enough grievance had
been accumulated to support a demand
for a nation-wide strike."
Of the 1,100 decisions handed down
by the labor board, the speaker listed
700 as favorable to the railroads
and 400 as "nominally in favor of
our side," But of the latter, ne saia,
at least 300 were not put into effect
by the railroads and therefore "didn't
mean anything."
Asserting that the strike leaders
were well satisfied with the situation,
Mr. Conlon said:
"It generally takes from thirty to
sixty days to make a shop strike
effective but before this one had
been on ten days more than 250
trains had been cancelled out of
Chicago. West Virginia non-union
coal mines were bottled up, and the
iron and steel industries were crying
for help. And we have hardly
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Sunday School Convention.
A county-wide attendance contest
has been announced in connection
with the approaching County Sunday
School Association Convention to be
held at Union Presbyterian Sunday
school on Friday, July 28, according ;
to the county association officers in
charge of arrangements. 1
At this convention a banner is to ;
be publicly awarded to the Sunday i
school having the largest number of i
persons (over 16 years of age) prescnt
at the convention, in proportion 1
to the distance traveled. Under this J
plan, ten persons coming ten miles J
jach to the convention count tne same i
is twenty who come only five miles i
iach thus making it fair for all, 1
aoth near and far. There is no limit i
U> the number who may attend from 1
iny Sunday school. i
The banner becomes the property t
}f the Sunday school winning it and ]
nay be taken home for permanent J
lisplay in the Sunday school room. (
PLAN TO REGISTER
MEMBERS IN SOUTH
EACH DISTRICT MUST POLL 2,506
VOTES TO BE ADMITTED TO
CONVENTION.
(By Lewis Wood, Washington Correspondent
of The Columbia Record)
Washington, July 21.?In view of
the fact that next Tuesday is the
last day for registration in the South
Carolina primaries it may be interesting
to Democrats in the state to
learn that Republican leaders here
have sent word to their Southern
lieutenants to undertake an intensive
campaign for registration by the
members of their party.
Of course as it now stands, the
Republican party in South Carolina
is a pretty weak sister, but if the
Republicans get enough names on the
books, a disagreeable situation may
turn up some time in one of the congressional
districts, something that
will mean more than the periodical
Aaron Prioleau contests.
Democrats here say that men and
women voters of their party, in South
Carolina as well as in other states,
should turn out in as large numbers
as possible to enroll for the primaries
and should also secure general election
registration certificates in order
to meet the increased Republican registration.
The reason the Republiians have
been instructed to register their
faithful is patent. At the last meeting
of the executive committee of
the republican national committee
here in Washington, it was decided
that there must be at least 2,50C
votes cast in each congressional dis
trict if that district is to have a seat
in the republican national convention.
For years there have been too many
delegates from the south in Republican
national conventions and very
few votes to justify'their presence.
Now, the Republicans, especially
Bascom Slemp, the Virginia congressman,
who knows the Southern situation
wel, wishes to change this situation.
Mr. Slemp has declined to run
for re-election, and the belief is here
that he wishes to devote his whole
time to trying t$> build something
out of his party in the south.
He has been ambitious for some
time to have the party in the southern
states deodorized. For instance
it is no secret that he would prefer
to see a man of character as Republican
chairman in South Carolina.
Joseph W. Tolbert is not the type
of politician admired by Slemp, who
would probably like to see a man
such as E. W. DuRant, of Charleston,
at the head of the organization
in the state.
Tolbert, however, is not entirely
without friends in Republican circles
here. Some of the reactionary wing
of the old guard feel they are in
dented to rum ior nis regularity m
delivering the votes at national conventions
and that he should be rewarded
by retaining his chairmanship.
* In this connection it may be said
that some of the Republicans here
contend that Tolbert does not lack
endorsement even by South Carolina
Democrats. In support of this contention,
the Republicans point to a
letter written last year by former
Governor Cole L. Blease, in which
Mr. Blease is quoted as telling Tolbert
he had been "tried and true,"
and in which Mr. Blease rejoiced at
tbp Hpfpat of Woodrow Wilson and
the election of Warren G. Harding.
The letter, written to Tolbert in May,
1921, and published in Charleston,
scoffed at the leadership of a reorganized
Republican party in South
Carolina, either by C. C. Campbell,
or John L. McLaurin, and continued:
"I certainly can state that you
have been a life-long Republican; that
you have gone through strenuous
times and that your life has often
been at stake, and that through it
all you have been tried and true,
and if, after all these years of service
and devotion to your party the
R?mihlimns would now kick VOU OUt,
[ can hardly think that they would
tiave much of an opportunity to get
anyone here to follow them, because
the people here would realize that
ao matter how devoted the service
they might render, their labors would
iot -be appreciated. I can hardly see
iow, after a thorough investigation,
it would be possible for you to be
turned down as the leader of the
Republican party in this state, and as
for the forming of a new party with
Campbell or McLaurin, or both, such
TO ORGANIZE
NEW UNIONS -I
MOVEMENT STARTS ON EAST
ERN ROAD FOR SHOPMEN.
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Associated Press report from Chicago,
July 24 says: The averting
of a strike of approximately 10,000
! station agents, preparations for the
formation of new unions of shop
workers on forty Eastern roads, and
negotiations for a separate peace on
the Baltimore and Ohio marked the
progress today of the railway shopmen's
strike.
The move for new unions to take
the place of the striking shop crafts
was initiated by L. F. Loree, Eastern
regional chairman of the association
of railway executives and was taken
as an indication of the intention of
the roads to hold out against the
strikers' demand for a return of
seniority rights as preliminary to any
settlement
The Eastern roads, according to
Mr. Loree. nlan to take advantage
of rulings by the labor board by organizing
new shopmen in such a way
that each system will have its owa
union and will be able to negotiate
separately with its men.
Parleys for a separate peace due
tomorrow at Baltimore between representatives
of the striking shopmen
and the Baltimore and Ohio railway
attracted considerable attention in
union circles but strike leaders refused
to make any comment.
The efforts of W. L. McMenimen.
labor member of the rail board, today
prevented a further spread of
the strike at a conference with W.
J. Noone, head of the station agents'
organization. Mr. Noone complained
that the station agents were being
; forced to do work of the strikers,
but Mr. Menimen gave him such assurances
that the station agents
; would remain at work pending a conference
with the labor board.
Comparatively few outbreaks were
reported during the day, but further
cancellation of trains, said to be due
mostly to the shortage of coal, were
reported from various sections. The
Grand Trunk took off two trains between
Chicago and Detroit and two
between Chicago and Harvey.
S. M. Felton, president of the Chicago
Great Western railroad, tonight
issued a statement denying that he
had a long distance telephone con
versation with President Harding on
Saturday in which the president had
been reported as requesting Mr. Felton
to use his influence to end the*
strike.
Truck mail service on six branches
of the Great Northwestern effective
today was announced by the Fargo,
N. D., District Railway Mail Service.
j Judge H. A. M. Smith has Issued
,an order directing the United States
marshal to destroy some 5,000 quarts
j of whiskey, recently captured up the
Cooper river in a "lumber" car. The"
seizure is valued at around $35,000.
A week or so ago the marshal destroyed
$50,000 worth of contraband,
seized near Cole's island, on a lighter
supposed to be carrying potatoes to
market.
talk is a myth, a farce and plain
damned foolishness.
"You are at liberty to read this
letter to whom you please, or jpublish
it if you wish, as I presume
everybody knows that I speak what
I think, regardless of consequences.
I have written you freely as you requested
me to do. I am a Democrat,
not a Wilson so-called Democrat, but
a Jefferson Democrat, who rejoiced
at Harding's election and the down
fall of idealism, which gave us nothing
but fresh-made graves, widows,
orphans and billions of dollars taxes,
under the guise of liberty. We have
less liberty now than we have ever
had and fewer privileges, as a re- ,
suit of Wilson and his henchmen."
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I SECRETARIES OF DEMO- *;
I! CRATIC CLUB: '
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J J Take notice that under the ! \
> rules of the Democratic party J j
4. you are required to forward the ?
J ! club rolls to the County Chair- !!
'1 man within three days after ; J
\ i July 25, 1922. j *
J J Please be governed according- ! \
\ \ ly' A. C. HINDS, ; \
J | County Chairman. ! I
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