The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-05
DARBS VISIT :,
ABBEVILLE
Account CT a Speaking Tour
For Cotton Association
Editor Daily Item:

SiiJOy 4ilH CI'oCi Ndl4O4i> On DtOI)4t
and places these lines are penned.
To reach my first appointment
in Abbeville on Wednesday II was
necessary TO spend Tuesd-y night
either in Columbia. Clinton or Ab-
/ beville. l decided 10 stop off at
Clinton This gave ne the oppor-
tunity to see the Improvements at
the Thornweil OrDhanagc and the
! p. c. Of s. C. where quite num-
/ Der OF Sumter boys are being edu-
Gated. Both institutions have add
! ed TO the equipment since I was
there about 10 years ago. Presi-
dent Lynn and Supt. Fleming re
port better support OF the orphan
age than the hard times seem TO
warrant. But still there is always
a place for every gift that Its
/ friends can send.
! Miss Nesbitt, who Went from this
neighborhood ten years ago, viii,
at the end of this session of the
school, enter a training school for
nurses. Dr. Lynn spoke very
highly Of her character and the
fine influence she has among the
girls and predicts for her success
For the second time in my life
/ I saw q Masonic funeral and was
very favorabIy Impressed With the
! solemnity of the service. The one
I saw 80 years ago left a bad i'm
! i,Jo hi
one removed.
That night when 7 boarded the
Seaboard through train for Able
Vile there, was not q single pas
senger in the negro coach and only
six in the white coach. Owing to
the train schedule l did not go to
bed in Clinton and in AbbeviIle
found every bed at the hotel occu-
pied so / sat up until six q. M.
when | got bed for two and halt
hours sleep.
! The square and main street OF
Abbeville are very attractive, but
at AIS a. H., it was the most lone
some place l ever saw as l tried
to locate the hotel. After several
raise starts, an auto came alons
! and I secured the information
needed to find the hotel, there &c
sleep on chair in the lobby, as
another belated traveller was do
ing. until some Of the guests got III
for early trains. The globe lights
at a. NJ. and the stars over
head made long to be remember
ed picture.
After breakfast, Mr. Hill, the
county director. took NE to see sew
eral bankers and other bushes:
men whom I found 70 be enthus.
iastic for cooperative marketing
In the afternoon Mr.. Hill and Mr.
Ellis took me out TO a cotton gin
toward Calhoun Fails and te
Lebanon church where we found
small groups OF farmers and signed
up several contracts. They art
very much disheartened over the
boil weevil damage and while ad-
nitting that it is q good thing, The
best plan that has yet been pro:
posed, they want time TO thinl
about it.
It was very amusing TO split hair:
with a very Intelligent farmer o:
the Lebanon neiShborhood. He i:
Ct French Huguenot descent. 1 tol(
him ne must have some Canny SEQ
blood in MS vewis.
! Most Of the land in this part O
the county is sandy black jack
very rough and washes badly.
The next day Mr.. Hill took me K
Lowndesville on the c. & ". C
railroad in the Northwestern par
of the county TO Campbeii's schoo
house and 10 Antreville Tn,
roads are bad from lack of worl
or from fresh work now going or
Some Of the poorest and mos
broken sandy lands l ever saw be
tween Abbeville and Lowndesville
Clay loan predominates a6ou
Lowndesville. And fine sandy ant
clay mixed about Antreville. a
both places l saw signs of goo,
farming. I was particularly i'm
pressed with the burr clover on al
OF the best looking farms IN tn
county; also fields Of alfalfa. Ais,
not a COW or hos at large in tilt
county.
Friday Mr.. Ellis joined us asai.
and at Due West we picked III
capt Nick1es. who went with US L
Donalds, and Keowec in tne north
eastern part Of the county Her,
we found good farming. Alfalf;
and burr clover Very much in evi
dence about Due West and Don
aids.
Vt Donalds DR.. Carlton took NJ,
to his home 20 meet his wife whe
was Miss Tufts who in her sirl,
hood lived with her uncle-in-lav
Mr. Ben Wilson. just above Mayes.
Vile. ! found them very pleasant
and her aunt, Miss Tufts q deal
OLD lady Rev Edgar Tufts OF the
Banner Elk Mission school on The
Tennes>ee-North Carolina tine !,
an elder brother OF Mrs Carlton
Through them heard OF F,arneSt
; Cooper. who married her sister. ant
OF other Nj. Zion MayeSvi!le people
keowee Is q very progressive com
munity With fine new graded
! school building.
The first morning met Chiel
Justice Cary on the square in Ah-
beville. He insisted on my giving
! UP my room at the hotel and
! na king his homo ny heaG-ni1a1..