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^?? COLORED FARMER MAKES SUCCESS IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY Berry Cunningham Harvests and Stores 500 Bushels of Sweet Potatoes in His Own Storage House. ^ One of the longest and best writeups of a colored farmer we have ever read recently appeared in the Spartanburg Journal. Doubtless the article has been read by thousands of people, white and colored throughout the state with unusual interest. The, ~~ ? - * " * r County Record reproduces it nere ior the edification of its colored readers, and others whom it may interest: Forty years ago, Berry Cunningham, a young colored farmhand from Anderson county, came to Spartanburg county to establish a new home. Berry had no assets other than a fine physique, indomitable energy, and a desire to uwn his own home. Berry Cunningham's record on his 193-acre farm, near Reidville, this year bears mute but eloquent evidence to the fact that his desires of 40 years ago have been realized. " Berry has just finished storing 500 bushels of sweet potatoes in his own storage house. This crop of tubers was harvested from less than two acres of ground and would have been much larger had it not been for the prolonged drought that had a bad effect upon sweet potato crops a few weeks ago. Fearing that the boll weevil would make cotton raising in Spartanburg county unprofitable, Berry resolved last year to plant less cotton in 1922 and to cultivate his cotton land in tensively. He will have 40 bales of cotton to sell, and 13 of these already have been turned over to the South Carolina Cooperative Cotton Marketing association, of which Berry is an enthusiastic member. When he delivered this cotton to the cooperative association, Berry astounded the receiving agent by declining to take the amount of advance money to which he was entitled. Berry said he did not need the money and preferred to have what was due him draw interest at the rate of 6 per cent. ? Berry said, while in Spartanburg today, that he used no poison in combatting the boll weevil this year. Instead, he relied upon rapid cultivation and picked up fallen squares assiduously. The - result was that the weevil in reality caused Berry very little trouble, although some curtailment of Berry's cotton crop resulted from the pest's activities. Berry now has in his cribs enough of his 1921 corn crop to "carry him" through 1923! He will gather about 500 bushels of corn this year, but none of this will be needed to feed Berry Cunningham's stock next year. Berry aiso nas narvesiea more man 500 bushels of Irish potatoes, and undoubtedly would have secured 1,000 bushels on the seven acres devoted to corn had the lengthy drought not effected his potatoes. A large portion of Berry Cunningham's farm is devoted to producing grain and forage crops. Berry has "had good lack" with alfalfa and with other forage crops, his fodder being surplus in so far as feeding his livestock is concerned. Berry also believes in raising livestock. He kieps a registered Jersey bull and three cows and raises hogs to provide his family with an abundg ance of meat throughout the year. f Berry said today that he is making arrangements now to breed Hampshire hogs on a large scale and will secure his foundation stock within a short time. His farm is peculiarlyadapted to livestock raising and he expects to devote more time to this phase of agriculture than formerly. He keeps Rhode Island Reds in his poultry yard and plans to increase his flock of purebreds and eliminate mongrels entirely? An incubator will be used to produce the chickens needed for home use and for market on the Cunningham farm. Berry uses a tractor on his farm, and in addition to the six mules used a truck is employed in doing the hauling incident to the farm work. Berry also owns his own touring car and his farm is equipped with every itMnlamanf cuucvivauic i iuuciu laiiu iiui/ihikmv. In order to achieve the best results, Berry has found it necessary to use the best tools obtainable, and his Atock of farm implements is complete in every respect. Berry Cunningham's first purchase of land consisted of 106 acres; later he purchased an additional 57 acres, and finally bought 30 acres. His farm now consists of 193 acres oi splendid land that has been brought up to a fine state of cultivation by hard work and scientific manipulation. The last acres of the Berry Cunningham farm was paid for 15 " years ago, and there now is no mortjk? gage or other encumbrance on the f 193 acres. Berry Cunningham believes in providing his home with every possible convenience, and although he is loft cated one and one-half miles from Kaklville, his farm boasts of an elect trie light plant. His home and his outbuildings are equipped with elec- trie lights, and his premises are dot- r ted with labor-saving and comfort- i producing appliances accumulated 1 through the years. a Berry Cunningham is now 66 \ years old, but his step is as brisk \ as when he came to Spartanburg t county 40 years ago to accomplish f his self-allotted task of buying and c paying for a farm. His family cort- i sists of himself, his wife, three chil- c dren and two grandchildren, all of p whom reside on the Cunningham p farm and are recognized as self- a respecting, industrious, progressive i colored people. The, Cunningham p home is about one-half mile from a the public road, situated in an at- v tractive location, and is in an excel- F lent state of repair. It is a six- z room structure and is painted. The s premises are neat and attractive, f evidently the abiding place of a pros- f perous farmer. v People of Reidville say that the I colored school building of the com- d munity is attributable to the tireless b efforts of Berry Cunningham to pro- ii vide the people of his race with am- a pie facilities for acquiring knowl- c edge. The handsome school buildine used by the colored people of Berry Cunningham's community cost more than $4,000, and three teachers are now employed. Beriy Cunningham's e leadership in securing the construe- I tion of this school is universally recognized, and tie is chairman of the b board of trustees of his school. c Berry is active in religious work s in his community. He is a trustee j| of the colored Methodist church at t Reidville, and is a class-leader in the d Sunday school. " He is a constant suSscriber to k t daily newspaper and reads farm bul- p letins throughout the year. Berry b carries both life and fire insurance, d Berry attributes much of his sue- n cess in the growing of potatoes and %] other crops to Ernest Carnes, farm tl demonstration agent of Spartanburg d county. o "Mr. Carnes has visited my farm 0 many times," Berry said, "and his n sound advice has played a big part p in my success. Spartanburg county fi can't afford to lose Mr. Cames, and I was glad to hear that Mr. Cames has decided to remain here and con- n tiriue his good work." e, A 4-1%** viVi'ffl nf hie A /lklllUflg UIC Willie i?illlVlO V* I??w. y section of the county, Berry Cunning- f. ham is conceded to be possessed of ]( admirable astuteness and integrity. w He attends to his own business, and % his record this year bears witness j, to the fact that he attends to his p business efficiently. o SI Timber as a Crop. 51 When Joyce Kilmer, in his book about trees and other things, said: Poems are made by fools like me, But God alone can make a tree, ^ he did not take enough credit to him- ij self and his craft nor give enough 8, credit to the department of agricul- 1 ture and the human beings who plant and care for trees. A line -y about a tree in Homer has outlived nearly every tree on the face of the earth, except the redwoods of California?the line in which after speak- j ing of Nausican as the most beauti fril nhicwt be had pvpr looked UDOn. ^ Ulysses paused and added, "No, once g I saw a tree." It is, of course, trtie that only the A God of all nature can make a tree, but it is to be inferred from the address of the secretary of agriculture -y in Cincinnati last Thursday that, if man doesn't do more to assist in the L making of trees, the Maker of Heaven and earth and the trees that grow j between them will find this particular occupation gone,, except in forest ? reservations. It is He that "givetb the increase," but there is need of Pauls' to plant and Apolloses to water and entomologists to protect against pests, and tire wardens u> j protect against fire, and plant patholgists and soil physicists. The virgin forests of the United States once covered well toward a billion acres?822,000,000 acres? over a million square miles; a tract, if all the trees were put together, 500 a miles by 2,000 miles. There remain a 137,000,000 acres, just one-sixth of ? the original acreage. Towns and j farms have filled nearly half of the b cleared spaces (359,000,000 acres), ? and second growth, much of it of an ? inferior quality, covers nearly a j third (245,000,000 acres). The rest tl (81,000,000 acres) is idle land, devas- r tated and growing nothing worth while. To make the statistical story j, complete it is necessary to add that S while our wood consumption amounts ? to 25,000,000,000 cubic feet yearly, ? yet even the Supreme Maker of trees ]j is adding, because of the lack of o man's assistance, only 6,000,000,000 cubic feet?one-fourth of the amount ^ consumed. If this goes on, the old ~ saying about not beu^^ble^^fl^T the forest forth^4KM^0we no J meaning to fuTur^^P^atiJris. ? This would be a dismal picture in- ^ deed if the secretary- had stopped here. Fortunately, there are human c forces conspiring with the natuml v forces to prevent utter deforestation ] ?notably, the United States departnent of Agriculture, which looks jpon timber not as a mine to be exlausted as rapidlyl as possible, but is a crop to be cultivated anl harested when ripe, though in such a vay that other trees will grow to >e harvested in the future. In the irst place, there are 156,000,000 acres if govemmen forests that are beng treated in this way, and the methkIs employed in their cropping and >reservation are being extended to irivate forests and wood lots. More ind more private owners are adoptng the department's policies of fire irotection, insect and disease control, ind cutting in such a way as to proide for renewed growth. Until this iractice becames universal and citiens generally are as careful to avoid etting on fire a forest as a wheatield, and have as much reverence or a tree as Homer or Joyce Kilmer, k'e shall have a "forest problem." fortunately, it is in the hands of the lepartment of agriculture, with its ureaus of plant industry ^and animal ndustry and entomology. It is an gricultural problem. Timber is a rop.?New York Times. o Bull Dog Suicides. Suffering from a malady that is pidemic among the dogs of aiountl ,aurens, a trouble which is commonly mown as the "running disease," a fine ulldog, belonging to James R. Page, ity policeman, virtually committed uicide one day the past week. While n the vicinity of the Laurens coton mills, following his owner, the og was seized with one of the spells" and was soon running at a errific rate as if chasing an escaped risoner. After circling the mill uilding, the bulldog, wild with pain, ashed into the engine room on the a J- 1 *1 ,'nfn urui blue auu mien iiuiiDcu uitv he big fly wheel, with the result that he dog's neck was broken. Hunreds of canines, fine bird dogs and 'possum dogs, too, have been victims f the epidemic for the past few lonths, but "Buster" as Policeman 'age's bulldog was known, is the rst suicide. o Col. Duncan R. Cooper, seventyine, convicted slayer of former Unitd States Senator Edward Carmack n the streets of Nashville in the all of 1908, died last Saturday folding a brief illness. Col. Cooper as convicted and sentenced to serve 0 years in prison but was pardoned nmediately after sentence was imosed by Gov. M. R. Patterson. The County Record is mailed to obseribers at $1.60 the year, invarialy payable in advance. In Memoriam. BARTELL?In sad but loving relembrance of my dear father, John [amDton Bartell, who departed this fe one year ago today, November , 1922. am lonely today father, without you(; Lonely and sad at heart; ou were always my joy and sun4 shine, Why is it we had to part, ear father, dear father How can I ever bear he separation from you And your ever watchful care, ty eyes grow dim with tears My soul is sick and sore adly the thought comes to me, That I'll see you no more. .round our fireside is a vacant place And there is your empty chair, low happy, father, we all would be If you were still with us there, ou are gone but not forgotten Never can your memory fade oving thoughts will always linger Round the grave where you were laid. am sad but thou art happy Father dearest, we miss you so ,i'A 1,/vno cnm4 Hav to m?t VOU u v nc nv/yv ov??*v *? ^ Over on the other shore. SALLIE BARTELL, Daughter, Lander College, Greenwood, S. C. NOTICE OF SALE. NTHE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED -STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. i a the matter of Enterprise Mercantile Company, bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that under nd by virtue of an order of Honorble R. J. Kirk, referee in bankrupty, made in the above stated matter, nd dated the 24th day of October, 922, I will sell at public auction, efore the court house door, at Kingsree, South Carolina, to the highest idder, for cash, on Mondey, Decemer 4th, 1922, the same being salesay, during the usual hours of sale, he following described parcels 01 sal property: Tract No. 1: All that certain piece, arcel or lot of land lying and beig in the County of Williamsburg, tate of South Carolina containing ne hundred (100) acres, bounded lorth by Central Railroad; East by mds of Boyd and Mishoe; South by inds of Oliver, and West by lands f Qlurdijp Gamble and Floyd. Tract I#. 2: All that certain piece, arcel ojpot of land in Williamsburg !ountj|^South Carolina, measuring jji^ontaining 300 acres, more or sss, and bounded on the North and Cast by lands of Greelyville Land mprovement Company, on the Sout^ >y lands of Oliver, and on the West >y the "Singleton tract." The first mentioned tract is unenumbered, and the second mentioned rill be sold free of liens. A. H. W. BUGGEL, l-9-4tc. Trustee. j;Milk and Cream! II Let me furnish your Milk, ! !! Butter and Cream. Pure Milk r \ | and prompt delivery, twice dai] | ly, including Sundays. ! ! I Phone 79. 7-6-tf. ! !! Kellahan Dairy ! III I llll I I II II IIIIH I. Ill* ll ~ 1 CITATION NOTICE. STATE OF SOUTH~"CAROLINA, County of Williamsburg. By W. E. Snowden, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, W. W. McDonald made suit to me, to grant him letters of administration of the estate of and effects of S. G. McDonald. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said S. G. McDonald, deceased, that they be and appear before me in the Court of Probate, to be held at Kingstree, on November 11, next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said adminstratior. should not be granted. flivan iindpp mv Viand, this 25 dav of October, Anno Domini, 1922. Published on the 2nd and 9th days of November, 1922 in the County Record. W. E. SNOWDEN, , Probate Judge. ll-2-2tp. NOTICE. The County Board of Commissioners of Williamsburg County will receive bids at their office in Kingstree S. C., on Tuesday, September 6th, and on the first Tuesday in each month thereafter, for groceries in bulb lots for the chaingang for one month at a time. S. J. SINGLET ART, County Supervisor Williamsburg Co. 8-18-21-tf. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR FINAL DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned will apply to W. E. Snowden, Judge of Probate for the County of Williamsburg, State of South Carolina, at his office in Kingstree S. C., at 11 o'clock a. m., on the 18th day ?P A T% 10OO finol rlio. UJ. llUVUUUCil A* 1/. 1 AVI iuuM uio charge and letters dismissory as administrator of the estate of William W. Mishau, deceased. S. B. GORDON, Administrator of the Estate of William W. Mishau, deceased. 10-19-6tp. NOTICE All claims against the county to receive attention of the County Board of Commissioners must be filed in the office, properly verified and itemized, not later than Saturday before the regular meeting on the first Tuesday in each month. S. J. SINGLETARY, County Supervisor Williamsburg Co. 8-18-21-tf. REGISTRATION NOTICE The office of the Sunervuor of Registration will be open on the 1st Monday in each month for the pur Cee of registering any person whc aualified as follows: Who shall have been a resident of the State for two years, and of the county one year, and of the poll: j precinct in which we eiecu>i offers to vote four months before the day of elction, and shall have paid, six months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both read and write any section to him by the Supervisors of Registration, or who can show that he owns, and has naid all taxes collectible on during the present year, property in this State assessed at three hundred dollars or ore. B. E. CL * RKSON, Clerk of Board. TRESPASS NOTICE. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 241, Criminal Code of South Caroline, notice is hereby given that the lands of the undersigned in Williamsburg, S. C., are posted, and all persons are hereby warned against hunting, or trespassing in any manner upon the same. Violators of this notice will be prosecuted. D. J. Epps, lands in Midway and Mouzon township. Robert G. McFadden, Rufus Burrrace w.'llio Pnco Hr-ant .Tamps. R. L Burgess, lands in Clarendon township. H. E. Montgomery, L. C. Montgomery, Forest Parnell, William Bradley, J. L. Brockington, W. P. Baker, lands in Mouzon Township. 10-12-4tp. CYPRESS SASH Xf DOORS ^ BLINDS * MOULDINGS ^ ] AND MILLWORK FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EM- BALMER k KINGSTREE HARDWARE CO., i Day Phone 35 Night Phone 126 ^ ===================================== ; TAX NOTICE. i The tax books will be open for co!- % , lection of taxes for the year 1922 on < : the 15th day of November. Tax levy ^ as follows: For State 714 mills ^ For Constitutional School 3 mills For Roads 7 mills | For County 4 mills ' For Santee Bonds 1 mi For Federal Aid Proj. No. 80, 2'^ mills Total 25 mills School Districts having 2 mills spe cial school tax are No. 33. School Districts having 4 mills special school tax are No's. 2, 1} 9, 10, 18, 21. 30. 31. 38. 45. 51. School Districts having 6 mills special tax are 32 and 47. School Districts having 8 mills special school tax are 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 1? 14, 17, 20, 25, 29, 34, 35, 37, 39. 40, 43, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 57. 59, 60. 61. School Districts having 10 mills special school tax is No. 19. School Districts having 12 mills special school tax are Nos. 22. 23, 27, 41, 42, and Andrews A-12. School Districts having 14 mil': special school tax are Nos. 16 and 21. School Districts having 19 mills special school tax is No. 12. j The following school districts have bonds as stated: I No. 5 7 mills \ Na. 22 A mills No. 36 2 mills ^ No. 42 4 mills < No. 45 6 mills M No. 48 6 mills < No. 61 6 miils M No. 52 4 mills ? No. 25 4 mills ^ No. 11 4 mills a No. 12 11 mills ~ No. 12-A 14 mills No. 55 7 mills Clarendon Bonds on Clarendon township, Nos. 14 and 53, 1% mills. Drainage tax is due and payable at the same time with other taxes. All parties between the ages of 21 and 60 years, inclusive, are liable, unless exempted by law, to a poll tax of $1.00, also to a commutation tax of $2.00. Upon all unpaid taxes after Decern ber 31 a penalty of 1% will be added ~ for January, 1% for February and 5% to the 15th day of March next, after which the books will be closed and executions issued upon all unpaid taxes. A tax of $1.25 on dogs, (which includes tag) due and collectable during month of January and must be paid not later than February 1. (See dog tax law in full herewith.) An Act to Provide for an Annual Capitation Dog License Tax and Penalty for Non-Payment. Section 1. "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That from and after Ithe passage of this Act there shall oe levied on ail cogs, six monuis oia or older, on January first of each year, in the State of South Carolina, an annual license of one dollar and twenty-five ($1.25) cents per head. Section 2. "That upon the pay ment of said annual license of one dollar and twenty-five ($1.26) cent by the owner of any dog in the State, the County Treasurer shall issue to liie said owner a receipt therefor, ? and a metal tag marked 'Dog License' and the year for which it is issued. Each County Treasurer shall keep a numerical record of every dog license and, in addition thereto, furnish to the owner of each dog such number stamped on the metal tag. Whicl license shall be paid to the County j Treasurer not later than February 1st of each year: Provided, further, that this license shall be in lieu ol all other tax or license on dogs, either county, municipal or otherwise; Provided, That all such license collected hereunder shall be credited to tl?e schools of school district from which it is collected, to be used in the support of the schools of the dis- . trict; Provided, further, that said license shall become due and pay able on or before the first day o. February of each and every year. Section 3. "That every owner oi a dog shall be required to collar and Ar\r? llAAflflO 11T\AW piacc IIIC 01U?C901U UV^ uyv? the said collar, except when such dog shall be used for the purpose of hunting, when such dog shall be upon a chase or hunt Section 4. "Any person owning, harboring or maintaining a dog, failing or refusing to pay license aforesaid,shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than Five ($5.00) Dollars or imprisoned not more than Five (5) days?one-half of said fine shall go to the persor reporting said failure to pay said license, and one-half to the public school fund in which said derelict occurs" Section 6. "The school trustees of the various school districts of the State shall be charged with the duty of aiding the Treasurers and Magistrates in the enforcement of the provisions in this Act. Section 7. "This Act shall go intc effect on January 1st, 1922. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions hereof, or providing for other tax on dogs, are hereby repealed. Approved the 15th day of March, ? A. D. 1922." Those who desire to pay their taxes through the mail may expidite matters hy droppling the Treasurer n card asking for the amount of their a taxes, so as to avoid sending the ~ wrong amount, also stating the township or townships (if property is i owned in more than one) and if pos- # sible give school district where property is located. After paying taxes, . examine your receipts and see if all your property is covered, if not, see co about it at once. M, By following the above suggestions ? complications and additional cost may be avoided. ? R. B. SMITH, County Treasurer, j10-26-22-D3-15-23. ?g Subscribe for the Record now. ' i Inactive F liver "I have had trouble with ? an Inactive liver," wrote Mrs. ^ S. Nichols, of 4412 Spencer ^ St., Houston, Texas. "When ? I would get constipated, 1 would ft feel a light, dizzy feeling in my ? head. To get up in the morning V with a lightness in the head and B a trembly feeling is often a sign ^ that the stomach is out of order. W For this I took Thedfori's Black-Draught, and without a " doubt can say I have never A found its equal in any liver ? medicine. It not only deans ? the liver, but leaves you in such P a good condition. I have used B it a long time, when food does ^ not seem to set well, or the stomach is a little sour." ^ I If it isn't | W \ Thedford's | P |BLACK-DRAUGHT6 | | Liver Medicine. ! . ? ? ? ? ? Burns and hruiscsTm imentholatumi %gools and heals^^r WHAT IT MEANS TO BE "RUN DOWT A "RUN DOWN" feeling is a danger signal. If you neglect it, you are leaving the door wide open to dangerous diseases. Build yourself up to health and strength with Gude s Pepto-Mangan. It will purify and enrich your blood, tone up your nervous system, and help you eat well, sleep well and fed well. Glide's Pepto-Mangan is a time-tried tonic, recommended by physicians for over 30 years. At your druggist-* liquid or tablets, as you prefer. Gude's Pepto-Mangan Tonic and Blood Enrichcr More Care? More Life Remember the old shoes you left out on the back porch?how they got stiff, ?n?aaliof%An and nsalasa. UU001ia|^r*? HilVi Wvwww If? like that with a battery. If you neglect it you 11 find that you've left the way open for a whole flock of troubles that shorten battery life. Your battery doesn't need much attention, but it needs a little?and that regularly. The safe way is to let us care for it according to Willard Standards of Service. in ever mina ae rrfti. n o look after all of 'easl Kingstree Battery Co R. E. Donnelly, Mgr. * at W. M. Vause A Son? Shop. ' Day Phone 238 Representing TOllard Batteries (THREADED RUBBER INSULA3TOKI and ^7 Batteries fWOOD SEPARATORS) , & riuecTDcc jTiW MnUOIIILL jSagRlf Ledgf flu. 46 Meets the second Thursday night each nonth. Visiting bretheren rdially invited. H. U. Kinder, W. ? Donald Montgomery, Secretary. Rub-My-Tism for Rheumatism. Get your milk twice daily, indudg Sundays. Kellahan Dairy, phone v?Adv. Rub-My-Tism, an antiseptic. L.