The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-07-14
PIEDMONT IMPRESSIONS.


ter half, had the privilege and pleas
ure of attending the South Caronna
Press association in GreenVllle last
week. The association convened on
"Wednesday morning and closed Fri
day afternoon, and a most enjoyable
programme was arranged for the
three days. A detailed account OF
this meeting would not be of inter-
est to the readers of The Herald, but
some of the things seen and heard on
the trip may be related.
We left Bamberg Tuesday morning
on the early train via Blackville, ar
irving in Columbia about 10:30, and
leaving Columbia at one o'clock
reached Greenville via Greenwood at
z O'Clock. Being ''boll weevil'' rep
resentative, the writer paid special at
tention to the crops along the way.
We were impressed by the fact that
crops in this section are much more
advanced than in the upper section OF
the state. Cotton and corn appear
to be three or four weeks ahead OF
the Piedmont section, and not being
ACQUAINTED with farming methods IN
the Piedmont, we were unable to
Judge of the quality of the crops, al
though we were told the crops there
are fine, except they need rain. The
Piedmont section is dry, in regard to
weather as we'll as prohibitionally
speaking. There has been very little
rain at Greenville for six weeks and
the drought is beginning to be felt.
The boil weevils have reached the
Piedmont, but they do not appear to
be worrying the folks there. The
folks from the lower section were
somewhat disturbed by the lack OF IN
terest along this line. We saw but
one small field of peas on the entire
way from Columbia to Greenville; no
peanuts, no tobacco, no velvet Deans'
no potatoes, except small garden
patches, no sugar cane; nothing but
cotton and corn and not great oeal
Of the latter, although it was said
that cotton had been decreased in
acreage at least 25 per cent. We won
dered just what the farmers intend
to do when the weevils eat their cot
ton crop. About the same view OF the
weevil is taken in the Piedmont as
was taken here several years ago.
They do not appear to seriously be-
heve any harm will ever come from
the weevil. We hope they are cor
rect.
Greenville is without doubt the
finest town in South Carolina. I'm
like many of the visitors, we did not
make up our minds to pull stakes
at once and move there, but we can
certainly bear witness to the fact
that the people of Greenville are de-
cidedly the most wide-awake, pro-
gressive people of any town we have
visited in this state. There is city
spirit there not to be found elsewhere.
The folks in Greenville know they
have a good town and good couR
try and they are telling the world
about it. More than that, they want
the good will and fellowship Of the
rest of the state, and they leave no
stone unturned to convince their Wis
itors they are the debtors to those
stopping in Greenville.
Paris Mountain is the show place
of Greenville, and it is something to
be proud of. 1t is nearly thousand
feet above the town, the same altl-
tude as the union station in Ashe-
Vile. Paris Mountain is the summer
home of Governor Cooper. The en-
tire mountain property has been
bought by a development company,
with Sam Zimmerman-not our Sam,
but Sam equally as progressive
as the president. A turnpike noun
tain road has been constructed up
the mountain, and it is a beautiful
drive. On the top of the mountain
distant view can be had of Spartan
burg and the North Carolina noun
tains. Miles and miles Of fine
Greenville county farms can be seen.
At this spot the press representa-
tiEes were given a picnic, and the
scarcity of fried chicken in Bamberg
last week can be explained by the
fact that it was all on Paris Noun
tain last Friday.
Greenville is not without Bamberg
attachments. On registering at the
Imperial Hotel, we saw Mr.. Scarbor-
ough, who was in the automobile bus
mess here for some time He is con-
nected with the hotel management.