The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-12-18
GREELYVILLE
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are very amply served by the Bank
OF Greelyvflle, with deposits of $780,
600. 4nls bank was chartered in 1904
with capital Stock of $4,000, but has
outgrown this and the directors have
already voted to raise the capital
stock to $4,000, effective January
lst, 1920, together with improve
mentS to the bank building aggregat-
ing $2,5OO.
The Postoffice receipts Of Greedy
vile aggregate $4,000, year and the
post office is operated as third class
office under the supervision OF Mr..
F. Mishoe, who is not only Postmas-
ter of the town but since he came
here from Pee Dee, several years ago,
has been one of the most enterprls-
ing citizens and considered one Of the
most progressive farmers of the COM
munity.
1t goes without saying that the
cotton industry is the leading
one around Greelyville and the town
affords an excellent cotton market,
the local exchange being furnished
with modern New York Exchange
telegraphic reports hourly and the
farmers are served by several local
cotton buyers, where their cotton can
be sold Immediately after ginning If
desired. About 5000 bales are sold
and handled through the town yearly
and it might be well to state that the
farmers are holding great deal OF
their cotton, storing some at home
and the building of the Farmers To-
bacco Warehouse, now known as State
Bonded Warehouse No. AZ, is filled to
capacity with local cotton. This bond
ed warehouse is a great asset to the
town and, under the able management
of MIR. E. B. Rhodus, who is one OF
the largest buyers as we'll as one OF
the most progressive farmers and
citizens of the town, the warehouse
has been able to afford splendid
service to the farmers and local busi-
ness men in the way of using their
cotton as security in the highest form.
Next to cotton, the tobacco indus
try is next in Importance as an agri-
cultural product from a monetary
standpoint and during the past two
years is probably more than anything
else. unless it be the high price OF
cotton, that has made the town go
forward IN such strides as it has. The
yields of tobacco in 1919 were cut in
half by the heavy rains in July but
the production in 1918 was nothing
short of phenominal, it being COM
mon occurrence to see farmer OBJ
tain from one acre of tobacco S400,
to $7OO. There is between one and two
million pounds of tobacco marketed
in Greelyville annually, which indus
try is served by the modern ware
house buildings of the Greelyville
Warehouse and Prizery, erected, in
1917 anu the Farmers Warehouse
Company, erected in 1919. The to-
bacco industry around Greelyville has
a wonderful future ahead of it and,
upon the advent of the boil weevil,
will, no doubt, . take the lead as a
money cr p. 1t has certainly caused
the entire community to take on an
aspect of prosperity even more pro-
nounced than ever before experienced
in the vicinity.
Probably the brightest and most
promising development in sight for
the general improvement of the en-
tire territory in the vicinity of Gree
lyvile is the future. Drainage District
No. 3, which was the first one organ
lied in Williamsburg County, consists
of sixteen miles OF drainage ditch,
eight miles of which has already been
completed and the remaining portion
will be completed by spring of 1920
The eight miles of this ditch already
completed practically follows the At
lantic Coast Line track from Fores-
ton to Greelyville, emptying into
Mount Hope Creek swamp. An ex-
cellent hard surfaced road will be
erected from Greelyville to Foreston
on the waste dirt from the ditch. In
this same district work has already
commenced on six miles of ditch run
ming north from the present ditch to
the Coleman road, practically follow
ing the Clarendon Williamsburg coun-
ty line. Not forming a part of this
district but already completed