The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-12-18


men, his father and brothers having
done extensive work Of this character
| in Minnesota and other states of the
North and the South. Mr.. Hanna has
had extensive experience along the
/ same lines and owns tremendous
supply of drainage equipment and Is
| in position TO install a Seperate and
distinct outfit in each drainage pro-
| ject, thereby carrying the work of all
| the districts in this vicinity on at the
same time and saving much valuable
! time to the land owners interested by
turning over their lands to them
promptly, we'll drained and ready for
clearing and planting. The necessary
plans have about been made for a
second drainage district calling for
extensive ditching directly north of
Greelyville and still another district is
rapidly being formed east of the town
: and Mr.. Hanna will be in position to
commence work on each of these i'm
mediately if the respective commits
sioners award him the contracts for
the work.
Mr.. Hanna is very familiar and en-
thusiastic over the great good which
a drainage does for lands and COM
munities and recites many instances
in his experience where the health OF
whole sections of the country has
been wonderfully improved and, in
one case, where he was. in charge OF
a drainage project, no person was
able to live within fifty miles Of where
the ditch started and within a year
after completion of the ditch there
were one thousand new settlers on
the same spot. Also, where land had
no purchasers at $40 per acre and
after drainage brought from $1OO, to
$3.50, per acre.
Last but possibly not least in the
development of Greelyville can be
mentioned the fact that plans have
already been put under way by Mr..
T. w. Boyle, to bore for oil in the
, vicinity. This far seeing and enter
prising citizen is not sure that oil
can be found in this district but he
has experts at work on the matter
+ and is going to spare no time,
thought nor expense to test the mat
ter out and give the citizens interest
ed the benefit of the doubt.
All in all, the little city of Greely-
vile, Williamsburg county, South
Carolina, with its records of law abid-
ing, progressive and hospitible citi-
zens and its phenominal growth dur
ing the past few years is now fully
awake to the fact that it is real
town in the making and it will only
be a few years before its necessary
municipal improvements will all be a
reality and all the old citizens of the
town, who have grown up with it.,
together with the new citizens, who
have been enticed from other COM
munities to the promising success it
offered them, seem all, to be keyed
up to the feeling and understanding
that something is going to happen;
in other words, the town has out
grown the village stage and has come
to the place like the trees in the spring
time, full of sap, ready to burst out
into buds and blossoms. Only short
way ahead of the people are the
fruits which they know await them
it is only the period of finding out
whose property will be most benefit
ted by the assured Improvements,
and just which way the town is
bound to grow-and everybody feels
"down in their bones" that something
good lies in store for all and each
one is keyed up to the point of want
ing to fill his or her particular part
in the great development and blossom
ing forth, which is bound to come.
The town welcomes any and all
good citizens who desire to come into
its midst and new settlers will be
furnished with all information they
desire and will be given every oppor-
tunity within the power of its citizens
to have them locate here and become
part of the commercial, civic and So
cial life of the town, which is bound
to grow. The Greelyville Board of
Trade will be glad to furnish all data
and offered every courtesy possible to
all prospective citizens and invites
correspondence along this line.
l.,s, S.hn