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Newspaper
Andrews News
Location
Andrews, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
2
The Andrews News issued weekly with editor H Douglass Oswald confirms subscription at 2.00 per year. Published as second class matter February 23, 1919 in Andrews South Carolina under the 1879 act. Communications must be signed for publication. Advertising costs set at 20 cents per inch.
The State argues boll weevils are spreading across South Carolina threatening cotton yields. Farmers consider changing traditional planting methods as some battle the pest while others delay adjustments, urging lessons from 25 years of cotton farming from the Savannah River to the Pacific Ocean.
The article argues North Carolina shows a 9.4 percent rise in the Negro population over the last census decade, higher than South Carolina’s 3.5 percent. It attributes this to northward migration, pest-free northern farming, and lower mortality, urging white Americans to aid in Black civic advancement and consider relocating Ne groes to northern states for faster progress.
Notice of a July 5 1921 election in Andrews to issue bonds up to 150 000 for a waterworks plant and 100 000 for a sewerage system. Separate Yes No ballots provided with three public works commissioner seats and three ballot boxes. Voting at Town Hall 8am to 4pm with managers H B Clardy A K Parsons and G G Davis.
A 1919 Post article reviews Bulwer Lytton’s life from London birth to parliamentary service and fame, focusing on his Pompeii novel and a dramatic climactic scene amid Vesuvius eruptions. It highlights Glaucus and Ione, Nydia’s devotion, Arbaces’s guilt, Calenus’s witness, and the crowd’s ordeal as lava and ash erupt, with a final rescue at sea.
The Second Church Newport News reports a 50 percent rise in resident membership with 29 new members by letters and 28 on profession of faith, 16 from Sunday School. Rev. A C Bridgman leads a paid off bonded debt and average giving of about 6000 dollars, with substantial benevolent apportionments and gifts to European and Asiatic relief.
Tom Poston returns to Williamsburg County from the state penitentiary to face trial for the May 7 murder near Cades in Williamsburg. Sheriff Gamble and deputies drove him from Columbia to Kingston for trial. Parolees Earl Riggs and Harrison Sutton left the penitentiary yesterday. Julius Carter arrives from Kershaw to begin serving time.
Greenville youths Sam J. Taylor and J. M. Shuman announce a company will form and buy a Curtiss airplane in the coming weeks to make the Greenville landing field a permanent base for commercial flight. They will travel to Houston next week to purchase the plane and return home by air.
An advertising notice from Draughons Business College in Columbia South Carolina touts lessons by mail and regular courses. It stresses effective instruction and praises instructors. Contact numbers and names W M Lykes Jr and F W Lykes are listed.
Registration books open in Andrews South Carolina from June 14 to June 24 1921 for electors to vote on issuing coupon bonds for a waterworks plant and sewerage system and for three commissioners of public works. Registration requires residency poll tax qualification and age 21+. Supervisor J L Hogan announces the schedule and duties.
Customs officers report the schooner E. M. Skinner, en route from Bermuda to Tampico with 45 barrels of whiskey, dynamited near Cape Romain after salvage proved impossible. Eccleston Barnett of Baltimore was named owner and John G. Scott of Baltimore master. the vessel sprung a serious leak and headed for land.
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