Methodists Seek Blue Sunday Laws on Sabbath
The Methodist Conference in Georgetown South Carolina debated sweeping Sabbath rules to ban Sunday mails and trains and all work. Bishop Darlington announced 1921 appointments and urged Congress action to enforce stricter Sunday observance. The session praised ministers reports and noted progress on church papers and centenary collections.
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Georgetown
S. C
Darlington
St. George
Marian
Lower Carolina
Dorchester
Cooper
Tennessee
Congress
R. E. Stackhouse
Chossen
The
Christian Advocate
W. C. Kirkland
Kirkland
Advocate
Columbia
Church
South Carolina
Mission Board
A. J. Cauthen
J. J. Stowe
Nashville
Bloomingvale social round hosts and greetings
A sequence of Sunday visits and gatherings fills the Bloomingvale scene with guests including P. Howard H. Howard Troy Poston Ernest Poston Furman Poston John Poston Florence Poston Myrtle Poston and Grover Cox. A local family, the Andersons, announce they will move away.
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Myrtle Poston
J. J. Benton
Herbert
J. J. Post
Anderson
Monsyvile
Andrews
H. Eee
Government to issue new $1 and $25 saving securities
Secretary Houston announced that the treasury will issue a $1 savings stamp and a $25 savings certificate in the coming year. The stamps bear Hamilton and will be non interest bearing while the certificates provide a registered government security option.
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Washington
Treasury
Houston
Alexander Hamilton
the Treasury
Ture
Georgetown Social Roundup Notes Thanksgiving Gatherings
The column lists local residents visiting and visiting guests around Thanksgiving in Georgetown. It mentions Miss Birdie McConieet in Charleston, E Haselden returning from Atlanta, various families visiting in Bishopville, Dillon, Florence, and Columbia, and several gatherings at homes and teas hosted by Mrs. Olim Sawyer and others. Names include Parker, Shuford, Wardlaw, Wardlaw, Jacobs, and McIns tire among many guests and hosts.
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Birdie McCon
Charleston
Haselden
Atlanta
Ouglas N. Morris
Wilson
Hermon Carraway
Harold Bruns
W. Cannon
George 8. Clarke
New York
J. ©. Murphy
Anderson
Emma Beaty
Felder
Bamberg
James R. Parker
Columbia
P. B. Parker
R. P. Shuford
Shuford
Bishopville
Nelie Nesmith
Georgetown D A R hosts Miss Eola Willis to promote literacy
Miss Willis, chair of the Georgetown Industrial School Committee in Rebecca Motte Charleston, urges Georgetown County citizens to unite with the D A R chapter for a larger educational building to serve every child. She notes a national push for universal education and cites Ohio’s thirteen hundred education temples as an example.
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Georgetown
Eola Willis
Georgetownndustrial School Committee
Reecca Motte
Charleston
D. C
Willis
Georgetown County
Ohio
People of
Lila Sparkman Rosa
Piney Forest Friends Visit Relatives in Weekend Gatherings
Special to The Andrews News reports multiple visits in Piney Forest. Families including the Taylors, Browders, and Britt clan shared time at homes of W H Taylor, J J Browder, and W J Godwin. Several youths and relatives attended Sunday gatherings across the community.
Methodist Church Holds Regular Sunday Services
The regular services will be held at the Methodist Church on Sunday as scheduled.
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Methodist Church
Postmaster Blakely Urges Early Christmas Mailings
Postmaster Blakely, recently back at work after illness, urges the public to mail Christmas parcels early. He stresses secure wrapping and clear addresses to speed handling and avoid congestion as the holiday rush approaches.
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Post Blakeley
South Carolina Crop Yields Review by B. B. Hare
Agricultural statistics show South Carolina corn yield at 19 bushels per acre, up from 16 last year and 17 in 1918, with total production over 42.5 million bushels. National yields average 30.9 bushels. U.S. production about 3.199 billion bushels. Wheat, oats, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and nuts yields are given with state and national figures. Estimates of acreage and production by county to be in December.
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South Carolina
United States
United Staes
B. B. Hare
Morrisville News Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Visits
Last week’s Morrisville notes report visits by Mr. and Mrs. Adams to Mr. and Mrs. Willic ott and by Mr. and Mrs. J H Baddy to their parents. Many residents, including the Sports, Taylor, Altman, and Browder families, were seen in Andrews Nesmith Pamplico Rhems and George Town areas with various social calls and business trips.
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Andrews News
J. H
Baddy
J. E. Sports
Charlie Taylor
Pamplico
J. J. Browder
Robbie Browder
Jim Taylor
Willie Elliott
Georgetown
Charlie Sports
Nesmith
Henry Altman
Dudley Cooke
Rhems
Ada Sports
Little Son
Andrews
Jeff Taylor
G. W. Sports
W. H. Altman
Smith Swamp
Louis Tilton
Henry Sports
H. A. Altman
Little J. H. Eaddy Jr
Severn Sports
Morrisville Folks notes and local visits in rain US
Curtis Sports after discharge from Camp Lee arrives home then sails from Charleston to join the Navy. Jimmie and Rhems visitors at H S Sports home. Eaddy and Sports families visit, moves and calls noted. Rain dampens mood as harvest ends and plans begin for a new vane.
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Andrews News
Curtis Sports
Camp Lee
Charleston
Navy
Jimmie Taylor
Near Rhems
H. S. Sports
J. H. Eaddy
H. A. Altman
Linnie Sports
Theodosia Eaddy
W. D. Morris
Mamye Sports
Andrews
J. E. Sports
Boyd Sports
Charlie Taylor
Pamplico
Hilma Eaddy
Lena Sports
Willie Evans
Nell Sports
Eaddy
Sports
J. J. Browder
Rs Browder
G. W. Sports
Etlisabeth Worlds
Scranton
Dewey Eaddy
Dudley Sports
Civil Service Exam Set for Wil County Rural Carrier Posts
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an exam for rural carrier posts in Wil County at Kingstree Greelyville Hemingway Kingston Morrisville on Jan 8 1921. Salary starts at 1800 dollars yearly with 30 dollars per mile for each mile over 24. Open to citizens domiciled in the county with standard eligibility rules and gender restrictions.
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United States Civil Service Commission
Wil
8. C
Kingstree
Greelyville
Hemingway
Morrisville
U.S
U S
Washington, D.C
Washington
Farmers fret over ten cent cotton price in Warsaw area
News from Warsaw reports farmers sad about a ten cent cotton market. Local residents Mr and Mrs returning home to their daughter Mrs Belle Hayes of Florence County visit Andrews with other neighbors. Robbie Evans passed through the region en route to see his aunt Mrs Alice Taylor.
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Andrews
W. H. Taylor
J. J. Browder
G. W. Taylor
Daucer
R. J. Recer
Catherine
Lula
Florence and
Hattie Britt
Henry and
Bethel
Annie
Mellie Browder
Willie Evans
Mer
Belle Hayes
Florence County
W. H. Alford
Prudence Hannah
Daisy Hannah
Frida
Robbie Evans
Alice Taylor
Cotton Sellers Urged to Halt Sales in South
The American Cotton Association calls for a Southwide moratorium on selling cotton to halt price declines. Harvie Jordan says holding stock will push prices up, urging warehouse receipts as exchange and urging unity among farmers, merchants, and bankers to deny the bear operators.
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Harvie Jordan
American Cotton Association
South
Can
Marne
Moseley announce birth of daughter December 1920
Mr and Mrs R H Moseley announce the birth of a daughter on Wednesday December 1 1920.
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R. H. Moseley
Andrews High School Honor Roll Reflects Tardiness Issue
Principal cites only 14.35 percent on honor roll from 418 pupils as lateness and absences hurt grades. He urges parents to inform teachers of absences and stresses school time discipline, noting only six mothers have visited since September and not a single fair.
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Andrews High School
Charleston
Schol House
Honor Roll for October First to Eleventh Grades
October honor lists show students from multiple grades. Names include Clara Smith Elizabeth Ford Fannie Mae Grant Margaret Clark in First Grade and Ruth Bailey Mildred Parsons Nettie Moore in Eighth Grade. High school lists feature Maude Bailey James Bannister Julia Bailey and others across grades.
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Clara Smith
Elizabeth Ford
Fannie Mae Grant
Margaret Clark
Junior Altmann
Moultrie Truluck
Gussie Bailey
Bynum Grant
Junior Bath
Ansell Mixon
Woodrow Smith
Katherine Porter
Helen Brown
Leon West
Isabel Bean Mammie -Green
Weldon Parsons
Sumter Mercer
Isaac Walters
Frank Byrd
Dock Evans
Rheba Parsons
Stoll Altman
Gertrude Davis
Hattie Hanks
Herman Clardy
Esther Smith
Louise White
Fannie Bell Wilder
Mary Hunter
Lucille Gamble
Aileen Ward
Ruth Bailey
Mildred Parsons
Nettie Moore
Nora Ferdon
Eunice Godfrey
Garland Crews
Maude Bailey
Annie Laurie Mathis
James Bannister
Mary West
Julia Bailey
Opal McKnight
Virginia Parsons
Lucille Boyd
City moves to cut Christmas candy prices
Chicago on November 29 the city council high cost of living committee began action to lower candy prices. Alderman Max Adamoski said despite sugar cuts of nearly twenty cents a pound from wartime levels candy makers were still reducing their prices.
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Chicago
Max Adamoski
Seaboard Lays Off Many Locomotive Staff in Portsmouth
Seaboard Air Line Railway to lay off a large portion of workers in the locomotive departments at Portsmouth starting December 1. The move affects a substantial number of employees and reflects broader cost-cutting measures by the company.
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Pourtsmouth
Airline Railway
Thanksgiving Shooting Fatal in Currituck County Tragedy
Derwis S. Gallop of Powells Point North Carolina died after receiving a dozen bullet wounds from a Thanksgiving shooting in Currituck County. He died in a hospital in Norfolk Virginia on November 27.
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Rfolk
Currituck County
Derwis S. Gallop
Powells Point
N. C
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Bloomingvale People
Georgetown News
Blakely
Morrisville Folks
R. F. D. Examinations
Warsaw
Jordan
Seaboard
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