The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-02-22
HODGES HAPPENINGS.
Bogus e''-Wants the Lien
Law Repealed-The Farmers Will
Get Rich Raising Their Own Sup
plies.

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! Hodges, S. c., Feb. l6. 1899.
| Our people have somewhat thawed since
the visitation of the snow and intensely colo
weather, aud business has again assumed its
normal condition.
The school has opened up again, and we
hope now for spell Of pretty weather
| Our farmers are going very light In the pur'
chase OF com m erclal fertilizers, and are study
| ing every plan conceivable to curtail the ex.
| pense Of akipg another crop.
| The merchants are busy fixing up liens. and
Iheye already begun to furnish supplies 10 a
good number OF their llensmen, especially
those that were able to pay out OF debt last
year. There are some, however, who failed
TO make both ends meet last year who may
have some trouble in getting the merchants
| TO run them. =,
There is a greater demand for pigs and
shoats than we have ever known. showing
the Intention of the farmer to raise his own
meat The average farmer has enough wheat
sown to make his bread at home, and some
will make surplus to sell TO our roller mills.
in many cases insist on written contract,
which Is eminently proper II they desire 10
be able to manage them.
There will be more homemade manure put
| on lands this year than has been done since
the forties. Some OF our farmers have actual
| ly saved their cotton seed to manure their
crops, something for which they deserve 70
be Congratulated, as the custom has predomi-
money and waste the same, and then buy
commercial fertilizer on credit. In Snort
our farmers are starting out on The right line
If they. will Just simply keep 1t up.
Domini 1899, when 1t shall have rounded lis
three hundred and sixty-fve days will find
most of our "horney handed sons OF toll In Il
much better condition than for many years:
The truth OF the business Is, something just
had to be done, and now they are doing what
necessity has forced them TO DO:
The cattle industry, too, will be no'small
item this year. us pastures are re- oeing gr,aps mane
branch Of farm life. Men everywhere are
being educated TO the necessity OF terracing
their lands, thus preventing the waste OF rlcn
and valuable soil washing away every year
to All up our creeks and rivers and planta-
tions that heretofore have been allowed TO
wash and waste by reckless and irresponsi-
BILE renters, will be operated by their owners,
and with wage hands and proper care and
management Will build up TO high state OF
cultivation. Lands properly terraced and
rotating crops, always sowing peas when you
can, will almost double In value IN three or
If ihe Legislature had killed the lien law
we are satisfied the quality OF lands In ibis
country would have been improved twenty
per cent. in the next two or three years. VI
course II would have proven hardship on
few, but II that few should be 80 fortunate as
to get some one to run them again, why mat.
ters will be no better for them at the emu OF
another year, they will Just Simply De deeper
In the mire, and 1t would have been infinitely
better for the pinch to come new as later In
life.
by its comment on the Dargan matter. Have
heard scores OF good citizens commend the
manly manner In which you handled Mr..
Dargan. The suggestion that he could be
sent home "feet foremost" is indeed timely,
and Hodges could furnish her full quota OF
good and respectable citizens who would De
glad to aid in the performance Of loot iore,
most exit" from our section. Mr.. Dargan ls
wasting his time in writing letters trying to
explain this that or the other thing, because
the boys have just simply made note OF MS
buldoZipg and untruthful hings, and they
will simply entertain him In good style II he
"Down with Tobertism and Dargauism" will
be q placard suitable for his shirt front, and
which will xplain what the boys have done
and why they did 1t.
Mr.. James Magill Is quite Ill at the home OF
his daug hter, Mrs. r.. ]. Ellis, Jr.
Mrs. D. II. Magill and her two bright and
entertaining daughters and Miss Eva Ellis,
all OF Greenwood, spent the snowy period
with friends and relatives In Hodges.
Mr.. Editor, give the bogus insurance m matter u
| matter. Is there certain class In this coun-
| try to whom the law does not apply? STIR
| the matter up for US, and see II some one
can't be held accountable for ootatning prem
| iums on bogus insurance or money py 1ase
! pretense?
/ cJune Wilson, a we'll to do darkey living
| about two miles east of Hodges, met with the
misfortune OF having his house and al! lts
| contents, together with S4S In cash, burned on
| last Sunday. He had placed on good supply
| of wood with the view OF having good nre
| op his return from church whittier be and bis
entire family had gone 1t Is supposed the
| fire rolled down in the floor In their absence
and caught the floor. No insurance.