The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-01-21
REPORT
OF THE
hU|u0| Insurance
ASSOCIATION.
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The annual meeting OF policy holders OF
the Abbeville- Greenwood Mutual Insurance
Association was held at Abbeville, Tues
day, the 9Th inst.
| The officers OF the Association consist OF
J. Fraser Lyon, President; J. r. Blake.
Jr., Secretary, Treasurer and General
Agent, and the directors hereinafter
named. The report Of the Treasurer
showed that tho Association was In a
most prosperous condition. Itinsures prop
erty to three-fourths Of It's value against
"fire, lightning, cyclones. tornadoes or wind
storms" and now carries insurance to the
amount OF nearly eight hundred thousand
dollars. During its operation Of ten years
1t has paid losses and claims aggregating
thirty thousand dollars. These liabilities
have been paid by an average annual
assessment OF five mills, being less than
half the cost Of old line insurance COM
panles, or any other mutual association In
| the State.
This Association especially commends
itself to public patronage in that 1t offers
absolute protection to property at a mini
mum cost, and without sending q dollar
from the county to the monied centres OF
the North
In order to protect the Association from
the dangers arising from an over valuation
or depreciation Of property. a township
board consisting Of the township director
as chairman, and two policy holders Is ap'
pointed in each township every four years,
whose duty it is to revalue all property in.
sured in their respective townships. The
following boards OF equalization have been
appointed, and will begin at once the duties
assigned them. In oil instances where the
boards are not complete the directors
named will I'LL the vacancies.
Ninety SKI. Add Calhoun. Chairman
J. F. Pinson and Dan Wicker.
Greenwood Townships. G. Major. Chair
man; J. r. Tarrant and J. N. Norman.
Cokesbury Township. T. Mabry, Chair
man: D. D. Rampey and Jas. R. Jones.
Donalds Township-W. B. Acker, Chair
man; L. A. Shannon and G. 3. Dodson.
Due West Township-M. B. Cinkscales,
Chairman; W. T. Cowan and G. E. Hagan'
Long Cane Township-T. L. Haddon
Chairman; Andrew McIlwain and ]. C.
Hawthorn.
Sm!thvslle Townships. F. Cromer, Oh.
I. A, Keller and j. R. Lomax.
Cedar Springs Township-A. X. Watson,
Chairman; W.. T. Magill and r. o. Hunter
Abbeville Township-A. d. Reid, Chair
man; J. G. Fergerson and W. w. Bradley
Antreville Township-Dr. j. Anderson,
Chairman; J. E. Wakefield and George Fer
guson.
Lowndesville Township-H- A. Tennent'
Chairman; SIS. Boles and B. A. Wilson.
Magnolia T~ownship-A. o. Grant, Chair
man: rs. Norwood andS. J. Hester.
Calhoun Mills Township|. r. Tarrant
Chairman; T. A. Andrews.
Bordeaux Township-.L L. Edmonds, Oh.
Jno. q. Wardlaw and George Perryman.
Walnut Grove Townships. o. Harvey
Chairman; J. B. Agnew and 81. L. Rasor.
Hodges Township-W. G. Martin, Ch.;
jos. b. Nickles and ]. E. McCord.
Coronaca Township. D. Coleman, Ch.;
W. G. Rice, Jr., and J. Andy Pinson.
verdery Township-Rev. J. B. Muse, Oh.
J. w. Scott and W. p. Atkin.
Brsdley--J.H Il. Chiles. Jr., Oh. E. W. Wat.
son andJ. ". Chlles.
Troy Township. w. Lyon, Ch.; ]. F.
| White and F. A. Cook.
PhGnix-Joseph Lake, Ch.; T. P. Hender.
son and A. A. Dominick.
Kinard-B. B. Kinard, Ch.; Jno. William.
ston.
Brooks-J. c. Rush, Ch.; Caleb Walton.
Yeldell-Rev. G. q. Burton. Oh.
Callison-P. B. Callison, Oh.
Kirkseys-w. NJ. Outz, Oh.
It shall be the duty Of the respective
township boards to pass upon the present
valuation Of all property insured, and to
Issue new policies in conformity with the
constitution and Bylaws, making such
changes In the valuation Of property as
their judgment suggest. All policies must
be delivered to the respective boards on or
before the tenth OF February next. for
which new policies will be issued without
cost.
Any policy holder who fails to surrender
his policy by the time specified shall carry
his W risk and pay the usual commits
sions for insuring. It Is. therefore, earn
estiy desired that all policy holders will
promptly forward their policies to the
| chairman OF the respective boards, thus
lincurring no risk to their property, and