https://johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/36df8e5c53f3d4ca7f9ffb20b246f5d8.pdf e3f7c903ee18463fbe696b7a437bc9fd PDF Text Text ./ 'HE ~EORGF./rOWN 'llMES. OEOUGETOWN. S. V .. ."ATURDAY. FEBHUAHY :l:l.lH!a. \'OLU ~J E 48 NU)lllEH 102 A STORY· OP PROGRESS ~, FROM THE PINE LANDS -- ~~----------.w· ~~-----------­ lfemlnJ{"·ay. they carry at.tractive lines or mer Schools and Churchel!. chandtse. The principal merchant A town that has had remarkable The tobacco Industry has grown up are W. C. Hemingway & Co .. Eadd Educational and religious esta.l>~rowth Is Hemingway, some twenty- fn this section In the last ten years. & Creel Bros., F. E. Huggins, J. 11lshments are tn evidence. In town five mil es from Georgetown. In two This year 3.000 acr<>s will be cult!- JJurnnt, S. J . Haselden, the Summer there Ia an excellent graded school years time It bas developed from a vo.ted. Among tho largest tobacco ford Hardware Co., and W. D. Jlar In a commodious, well-m>ade, well hamlet Into ll town or brick buJldings, planters are w. C. Hemingway & Co., mon. Besides these there are !ventilated and ltghtcd bullding. The plate glass rront stores, gradP.d 80 acres and the Longwood Fa.rm >Co., number or small stores and shops. raculty consists or principal an!l five streets and tho what-not that IR nec- 7 o acres. Others who > b ave large A new hotel Is In course or coo teachers and the curriculum inessary to a municipality of Its advan- tobacco acreages arc G. D. Perry, \V. structlon. It will be ready tor guest cludtos all to be round In a city school tag<>s and am blllons. H. Harman, w . D. Harman, ~lr . Out- about L\tarch 1. The house contain of the 9ame class. There are two Farms, rarms, farms everywhere land, F . E. Huggins, H . E. Eaddy, J. fHteen guest rooms. It will be man churcbee, Methodist and Baptist, bavnurround Hemingway, and they aro T. Durant and ronny more. Indeed, aged by J. 11. Eaddy, who Is a'tng bu.ildlnga tbat would do credit producing farms , too. They are being there Is probably not a Carmer Jn the ade pt at cateiing- to t.he wants ot th to larger communities. tilled by pco)l1e who know how to do section but Is doing som ething in to· traveling public. Ten new buildings bave been put 1 tt ; who are proud of their occupation bacco, running from five to twentyThe IJ.nnk of Hemingway ( $20,00 In the past nine montba, and eleven and Interested In the work. Heming- five acres. capital) hae at ita home one ot tb> others are now tn course or construeway 1s the focal point or sale and Meanwhile these farrn~rs are not nent<'Rt and most convenlf>nt smal, tlon or under contrart. Tho new shipping for a hack country ha.vlng a onll rely tobacco-wrapped . They are bank bulldlngs tbat could be foun houses are being made o! the b~;:.,t radius of fifteen miles or more, In planting cotton and corn as well, and in a day's journey. The building I material and fitted with modern con"hlch territory thE>re nro some of the ~~:lvlng attention to hogs, cattle and of r~d pressed brick, with plate glaa veniences. best farms In tho lower part or the the ll.ke. ~tore of them will cure bay windows, and the desks and furn ish H emingway has two physicians, Dr. state. th is sca!lon than ever bPfore. logs of cherry and mahogany. Un H. l... Baker and Dr. K A. Simmons. Toli •-eo and , ot ~t·r nn• l1H'l pr'ncl The to" n or Hemi ng" ay Is laid otr der foot are tiles and concret It has one drug store, that of C. 1'. pnl trO!l!-1. ll Is oxpcl'teu that uot less o n a plan and scale just as tr its pro- From the day the bank opened It McKenney. A !lecond drug store !s than l,:iOO,OOO pounds of tobacco will Jcctors n.ntl promoters uxpectPd it to doors It has done a nourishing bus! to bo opened by ~tr. Mnscldcn abC'ut be handled there this year. Two I.JCcome a city. And maybe it will. ness. The officers are: W. C. Hem :\1arch 1. There are, of cotlTse, wnn•hout=;rs. 65 by ll O tce>t, ar~ In It has got the "makin 's" In It and lngway, president ; F . S. Hugglm blacksmith shops, <'ating houses and COUrj;f' or <'Oilf>lrur.tlon and \\Ill be around it. The Htrl"t•tB nrc wJde, le v- ,·tee-president; J . A . Doyle, cashier. tho llkt". Even lhP uhlquitous "da~o·· readr nr11l o pen for business with tho el n.n perfectly gro.clt>d nnd drain\Vlthln four miles of Jlemlngwa: bas reached Hemin gway. They nrn beginning Of tho har\'t'St EP.R!IOII. od; the lots are largo and roomy, there are tou r saw mms, and tron looking for tho Chinaman on any Arran~t>tnl'nts havo been concltulod permlttln~ each householder space the amount of building going 0 ' train. for lhO attPIHIODCC of buyers, SO that Cor yards and flo\\er gardtns and lit- tbey must all be kept bustling t ,---------------.........J the n w mnrket will start rl~ht In as \ 1 kitchen gardens In the rear If supply the local demand . S. J. Hasooon ns the tobacco Is ready to be that be d esired. That part or the elden baa a saw mill Inside the cormoved and sold. town which has been built gives an porate limits. ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . idea or what bas b ~e n planned. The ~---------~------~ lcrullug stores are large, well lighted, well venti lated nnd well arranged bul tog, and wilhout f'xcoptlon, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource News Articles Subject The topic of the resource Newspaper and magazine articles. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Progress In The Pinelands, Hemingway - 1913 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2-22-1913 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Georgetown Times