Columbus, was amended by adding new commissioners to extend and mark the dividing line between the said counties. No description is given in the law.

Again in 1811, still another part of Brunswick was annexed to Columbus as follows: “All that part of Brunswick county bounded as follows to-wit — Beginning at Waccamaw river, at the mouth of Juniper Creek, on the Columbus line and running up Juniper Creek to a swamp called Big Swamp, and the Big Swamp to a branch called Clear Branch and up the Clear Branch to the head, then a direct course to the Waccamaw river, at the mouth of a large creek, thence to join the Columbus line or River to the beginning —- be, and the same is hereby annexed to the county of Columbus”.

In 1820, the boundary-line between Bladen and Columbus was authorized to be extended and marked as before directed by law. No description is given in the law.

A year later, or in 1821, another portion of Bladen county was annexed to Columbus, the act providing “ . . that all that part of the county of Bladen which lies south west of the line hereafter to be run, beginning on the Brunswick line where the Lake Road leading to Wilmington crosses, thence on the north side of said road to the drain of Buckhead Bay, thence a direct line to where the road leading from Manly Westbrook's to Gabriel Holmes’ crosses Saspan drain, thence a direct line to where the line that divides Bladen and Columbus Counties is supposed to run, thence along said line to Samuel Swindol's plantation, and thence on the southwest side of said plantation to the mouth of Slade Swamp — - be and the same is hereby annext to and shall hereafter form a part of Columbus County; and all that part of the county lying north east of the said line shall form a part of Bladen.”

In 1827 the boundary line between Bladen and Columbus was again authorized to be run and marked, and in 1832, the act concerning the Bladen and Columbus boundary line was repealed.

Even as late of 1877, more of Brunswick county was being annexed to Columbus: the act described the territory annexed as follows: “Commencing at the point where the counties of Bladen, Brunswick and Columbus now join, running thence with said Bladen Line to northwest Cape Fear River; thence down the said river to the point where Hood's Creek empties in the same; thence with the run of said creek to its source in Little Green Swamp, thence a direct line to the source of Clear Branch and to the present Brunswick and Columbus line; thence with the line of said counties to the beginning; and all that portion of Brunswick county, embraced within the boundary above described, shall be and is hereby transferred to, and constitutes a part of the county of Columbus’.

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and Columbus was authorized to be established in 1879: “Beginning at a point on Cape Fear River immediately below Fowl Food plantation, the property of John M. Sikes, from thence an air-line to the head of Livingston Creek; from thence a due south course to Clear Branch, in Green Swamp; from thence with old line as now established.”

The dividing line between Bladen and Columbus was authorized to be changed in 1883: “That the dividing line between the counties of Bladen and Columbus be and the same is hereby changed as follows to-wit: beginning at a point where the county line comes to the Whiteville and Wilmington Road, thence with the south edge of said road for a distance of two and one-half miles, thence across said road to its north edge, thence with Bladen county line as it now stands.”

An act was passed in 1915 which provided for locating and defining the boundary line between Columbus and Brunswick, as confusion had arisen because the line was inadequately established and marked, especially through Green Swamp.

In 1808, Thomas Frink and James Stevens were appointed by the General Assembly of North Carolina, in the act creating Columbus county, “to fix a site for a courthouse and jail,” and it was suggested that until the courthouse was ready for use, that courts should be held in the home of Steven Barfield.

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inhabited by the Waccamaw Indian tribe. Watcoosa was king of the tribe at the time the white people began settling this area, roughly about 1663. Many Indian names still remain in Columbus county, as for example: Lake Waccamaw, Wananish, Nakina and others.

After the formation of Columbus county, James B. White was a member of the General Assembly in 1809, while Wynn Nance and Thomas Frink sat in the House of Commons.

In the soil of this county rest the last remains of one famous Revolutionary general, Robert Howe, whose body is interred near Wayman church on the northeastern outskirts of the county. Two other noble patriots in the fight for American Independence, Ensign Shadrach Wooten and Captain Absalom Powell are buried at Western Pong and Lake Waccamaw, respectively. Fitting markers to the memory of these three patriots have been erected in recent years.

Columbus County was originally a part of old Bath precinct, organized under the English Crown in 1696. This Precinct extended from Albemarle County to the Cape Fear river and beyond. In 1729, the southern part of this precinct was erected into the precinct of New Hanover. In 1734, Bladen was formed from New Hanover, and in 1764, Brunswick was formed from New Hanover. What is now Columbus County, has therefore been a part of Bath, New Hanover, Bladen and Brunswick counties.

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Marsh Castle is mentioned several times in Colonial records and by Revolutionary historians later. It was built on White Marsh just east of Whiteville by General Hugh Waddell, who also owned a home near Belfont (Elizabethtown).

“We know that Indians once roamed this territory” Mrs. J. A. Brown writes in her history of the county. “When the first settlers from the Barbadoes came up the Cape Fear they called them the Cape Fear Indians—Waccamaw and Saponas. The Waccamaws were a peaceful tribe, and when the whites began coming in, rather than have any unpleasantness, they are supposed to have voluntarily withdrawn and joined the Catawbas further west, and some at least, the Seminoles in Florida. It is said that the celebrated chief of the Seminoles, Osceola, was born on Waccamaw river, and tradition says that his father was one John Powell, a white man living there”.

From the time of the first settlements of Columbus county until just before the outbreak of the War Between the States, private schools supplied Columbus county with all of its educational facilities. Scattering and fragmentary documentary evidence indicates there may have been as many as seven public schools in the county about the time the war closed.

Although North Carolina passed its first state-wide school law as early as 1839, the first references to any schools in Columbus county in connection with the state-wide development came in 1864. Four years after this date the county commissioners, as shown in official records, ordered that Haynes Lennon, Calvin C. Gore, Jackson Powell, and Isaac Powell “former” county superintendents of common schools, file a report including “a specific statement under oath of the funds and security which have been and are now in their hands as the chairmen of said board”.

At the next meeting of the board, the report was filed and showed “that we, the undersigned, superintendents of common schools for Columbus county, North Carolina, hereby certify that there is in the hands of our chairman, Haynes Lennon, a state draft issued August 27, 1864, for eight hundred and eighty-four and 89-100 dollars, and confederate funds amounting to $4,600 amounting in all to $5,553.00. In 1868 the county had 49 school districts, but the commissioners appointed committees to lay off school districts in the several townships “taking care to use as many of the school houses now in existance as may be practicable”.

By act of the legislature of 1868 the county commissioners appointed A. I. Butner as “county examiner of schools”. Mr. Butner served only a short time, being succeeded by Col. T. F. Toon, who served until 1873.

In 1869, the schools of Columbus county received a total of $1,697 for public funds for operating purposes. In 1870, county taxes for schools were levied by townships as follows:

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The Legislature of 1872 abolished the office of “county examiner” and ordered the appointment of three residents of the county of “good moral character and suitable attainments” to be known as a “board of examiners. In 1877, the Columbus county board of commissioners named a board composed of Dr. C. G. Wyche, John Morrison and W. C. Powell, with Dr. Wyche as chairman. Others who served on this board soon afterwards were H. B. Short. Melton Campbell, and Alexander Kirkland.

In 1881, the county commissioners, serving as a board of education, awarded a scholarship at the University of North Carolina to a young man who was later to play an important role in the county educational history—James Bion Schulken.

With the changing of the law, J. W. Ellis was elected as the first county superintendent of public instruction. By 1885, the county had 121 schools, with an average of nine and one half weeks of instruction for the year, and a total cost of $7,219.07.

After training at the state university, James Bion Schulken returned to Columbus county in 1884 to become county superintendent of schools at a salary of $3.00 a day The same year the first board of education was elected as follows: Rev. H. Lennon, Samuel F. McDaniel, and H. A. McEachern, and Mr. McDaniel became chairman. The total school enrollment for the year was 2,284 whites and 1,414 negroes.

In 1886, Mr. Schulken resigned as head of the school system to enter the legal profession, and Pearson Ellis was appointed in his stead. A teacher institute was held in Whiteville in 1887, with $75 appropriated to meet the expenses.

Establishment of school libraries was begun in 1901, and in 1902 Rev. F. T. Wooten succeeded L. W. Stanley as superintendent. Mr. Wooten has been aptly called “the father of education in Columbus county”. He continued in office until 1921. When he began, there was a total school fund amounting to $10,875, school property was valued at $9,151, school terms averaged two and a half months a year.

When Mr. Wooten resigned in 1921, school property was valued at $238,930, school terms had advanced to an average of six months, fifty school libraries had been installed, consolidation of schools had begun, health clinics had been introduced, and enrollment for Columbus county had jumped to 7,911.

During the period from 1931 to 1933, many new agriculture, home economics and commercial departments were added to the schools of the county. A report in 1934 showed the following as some of the interesting facts and figures of that date:

There were 16 brick and 32 frame school buildings in Columbus county. The value of school property was set at more than $700,000. There were 26 libraries, with 23,261 volumes of books. Nearly 4,000 students were being transported daily by trucks, and the school enrollment was 11,344, with 160 day term for the year. There were 300 teachers employed in the schools.

Today, the county has more than 12,000 students enrolled in the schools approximately half of them being transported to school by school busses. The length of the term has been extended to 180 days, and there are some 360 teachers engaged in the schools of the county.

Following the activities of turpentine workers and lumber companies some 8000 acres of virgin forest lands around Chadbourn were denuded and left as cut-over lands. In 1895 Joseph A. Brown, then a young man who had recently moved to Chadbourn from Whiteville, recognized that the land was good farm land, and that the need was for energetic farmers to clear and till it.

He heard that Howard and Wilson, editors and publishers of “Farm, Field and Fireside”, of Chicago, leading agricultural journal of the northwest, were interested in bringing farmers from that section to the balmier climate of

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the South. He at once went to Chicago, interviewed these editors, presenting to them the advantages of eastern North Carolina and Columbus county in particular. They were convinced. He returned, secured an option on several hundred acres adjacent to Chadbourn, made a second trip to Chicago, arranged for financing and advertising the project and was named manager. The land was surveyed, drained, partly cleared and laid out in lots (farms) of from ten to sixty acres, the majority ranging around forty acres.

In April, 1895 the first excursion was run from Chicago to Chadbourn, filled with interested men, fleeing the rigorous winters of the northwest and attracted by the climate and the reasonable land prices.

Among these very first comers were Byron W. (“Pop”) Moors and his son, Rufus King Moors, who came fully determined to stay, for they brought their household goods, cattle and feed with them. The other men came to look and decide. Some remained and sent for their families; some returned west, sold out their holdings there and returned, bringing their families. The Ramsbottoms, Porters and Parmelees were among these. Other families coming that first year were Howes, Cases, Leonharts, Crawfords, Hortons, Harnleys and many others.

In that same year, 1895, Joseph A. Brown made a successful experiment of growing strawberries for market on his farm near Chadbourn. He encouraged the colonists to plant berries that year as a money crop, and the enterprise was a success from the beginning. This industry had much to do with the early success of the Sunny South Colony,—but tha tis another story.

Pleased first settlers spread the news of the colony through the press and letters back home, so that between 1895 and 1898 one hundred and sixty families from Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and New York came to buy and settle. Three families made a romantic journey of more than 2,000 miles in covered wagons,—the “prairie schooner” of the west.

A map of the Sunny South Colony still preserved, printed in 1897 stated that all the lts (farms) shown north of the Railroad except two had been sold, and about half of those south of the Railroad, but that more good farm land was being added to the colony land. The price of the land was stated to be from $5.00 to $30.00 per acre, on easy payment terms.

Many of these 160 families in course of time drifted back, but a much larger number remained to become permanent and successful residents of the county. They brought energy and intelligence to their farming, and the land yielded her increase. Their children and grand children are today leading citizens of Chadbourn and Columbus county.

Recognized names among us include Moors, Lowe, Boughner,

Miller, Koons, Leonhart, Strole, Newland, Penn. Wilkes, Thompson, Bailey, Lewis, Horton, Tipton, Crawford, Marshall, Boege and others.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: We are deeply indebted to Mrs. J. A. Brown, of Chadbourn, and the county's leading historian, for many of the facts which we have included in this sketch of the history of Columbus County).

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Taking the aggregate, the county each year has 12 weeks of court, in January, February, May, June, September, October and November. The presiding judge and solicitor are paid out of state funds, but the county is responsible for the pay of the jury and court officers. Witness’ fees in insolvent cases are paid by the county on a basis of one half in all except capital offenses.

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the 1944 season. There are two markets in the county, at Chadbourn and Tabor City, the former being one of the leading markets in the United States.

During the 1944 season Chadbourn sold a total of 49,498 crates for a total of approximately $494,980.00, while Tabor City sold approximately 26,623 crates for a total of approximately $266,230.00.

The specie of berry which has made this county famous is the palatable Klondyke, which is particularly adapted to this area. Chadbourn was at one time the largest strawberry market in the world.

Strawberry shipments from this county began about 1897, and from that date the crop increased to such an extent that in 1906 more than $600.000 worth of berries were shipped from the county. The greatest strawberry year in the history of our county was 1907 when more than 1,600 cars moved out from county markets. The largest single day's shipment of which there is record was made during this season when a total of 180 carloads moved out in a day.

Whereas cotton was once the principal money crop in Columbus county, the advent of the Boll Weevil more than two decades ago forced this crop into the background. Although a slight increase could be noted in the acreage and production in 1944 over the preceding year, the crop can by no means compare with the pinnacle of production achieved

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Statistics show that in 1944, 5,000 acres of land were devoted to the production of cotton, as compared with 4,470 acres for the preceding year. During the year 1943, a total of 4,300 bales of cotton were ginned in the county, over a total of 4,500 bales for the year before.

The first available record indicates that a Dr. Formy Duval in 1815 raised the first bale of cotton to be shipped from Columbus county. It was skidded to White Hall, and shipped by pole boat to Wilmington. It is tradition that it was hand-seeded and pressed in Jonathan Pierce's cider press.

In 1900, Columbus county produced about 6,000 bales of cotton. This crop continued to increase, until the annual production reached 12,000 bales, which computed at $100 a bale, brought to the county a total annual income of $1,200,000 from this source.

During the year 1944, Tabor City's bean market enjoyed a successful season, selling thousands of hampers. The marketing of beans in the border town has become an industry rivaling the strawberry and tobacco crops in Columbus, offering the fifth money crop for its farmers.

Figures show that during the year 1944, a total of 49,200 acres of land in Columbus county were devoted to

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the production of corn. Some 4,600 acres were sown in wheat, 5,400 acres in oats, no acres in rye, 4,800 acres in peanuts, 600 acres in barley, 1,500 acres in lespedeza. Further, 100 acres of cowpeas were grown alone.

Acres of cowpeas devoted to hay numbered 5,420, while 6,850 acres were devoted to growing soybeans with hay. Mixed hays covered a total area of 13,900 acres. Some 2,000 acres of small grain were cut for hay.

Some 3,910 were devoted to the production of Irish potatoes this year, and 5,500 acres to sweet potatoes.

Truck crops covered 2,525 acres, while home gardens covered a total of 3,210 acres.

By all odds the most regulated crop in Columbus county is its 179,080 acres of farm woodland and a total of 451,640 acres covered with various size trees.

Over one-half of all land owned by farmers is woodland, and during 1944 farmers of Columbus county received in cash for forest products over $1,250,000.00.

While the woods give us a sizeable income ranking next to tobacco in farm income, with proper care and management this figure would increase to over $3,000,000 annually to farmers of Columbus county.

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Rates on a business phone run $3.50, and $3.75 for a hand telephone.

The Service Telephone Company of Fair Bluff, which has been in operation there since about 1936, is owned by the State Blind Commission. It was purchased by the Commission from the Scott Brothers in 1942, and W. H. Hawkins is manager of the exchange. To begin with, the exchange served 52 subscribers in 1942, and now has 83 patrons. Rates run $2.00 for a residential party line, and $2.50 for a private residential line. Business telephone rates are $3.00 and $3.50.

Columbus is served by two main railroad lines: The Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line. Together they have a total of 84.16 miles of track in the county. The Coast Line, with a line running from Wilmington to Augusta, and another from Elrod to Coway, has a total of 75.31 miles of track in Columbus, while the Wilmington-Charlotte-Rutherford branch of the Seaboard has 8.85 miles in the county.

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One of the oldest organizations for women in Columbus county, the records for forty-one years show loving, loyal devotion in fulfilling its sacred duty. The membership today represents nearly every section of the county. The chapter has gained recognition in the state for distinctive services rendered.

The Whiteville Civitan Club was organized in 1937, and now has an active membership of 30 members, along with 17 members in the armed services. John M. Barkley is president of the club, John W. Mooney, vice-president, William G. Bradshaw, secretary, and Eugene Porter, treasurer. The board of directors is composed of the following: Rev. S. N. Lamb, Rev. J. R. Kennedy, Joe D. Sikes, Richard E. Weaver, and F. M. White Jr.

The Civitan club has been instrumental in many worthwhile projects in Whiteville since it was organized, and has contributed much to the cultural and progressive life of the community.

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Over 20 years ago, or in 1924, the Whiteville Rotary Club had its beginning. Will W. Schulken was the first president, and J. H. McIver the first secretary.

Officers of the club today, which has a total of 42 members, are: D. L. Love, president, F. B. Foster, vice-president, F. M. Smith, secretary and treasurer. Directors are: D. L. Love, F. B. Foster, Rufus Marks, Dr. T. Formy Duval, F. M. Smith, J. S. Mann.

The Chadbourn Rotary Club was organized in 1938, and today has a total of 32 members. Frank T. Wooten is president of the club, W. N. Peal is vice-president, and W. L. Albright is secretary-treasurer. Directors are: Frank T. Wooten, W. N. Peal, W. L. Albright, C. L. Tate, T. O. Goodman, J. H. Bullock, and B. Gordon Lewis.

First president of the club was Lester V. Lowe, who is now serving with the Army of the United States.

The Major General Robert Howe chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in 1945, having been organized in Chadbourn at the home of Mrs. Joseph A. Brown November 26, 1935, with 14 organizing members and 22 charter members. Mrs. W. H. Belk, state regent, had

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appointed Mrs. W. B. Carson, Acme, as organizing regent for a chapter in Columbus county.

At the organization meeting the following officers were named: Regent, Mrs. W. B. Carson; Vice Regent, Mrs. J. A. Brown; Recording Secretary, Mrs. J. H. Land; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. B. F. Applewhite; Treasurer, Mrs. T. V. Moore; Registrar, Mrs. S. L. Smith; Historian, Mrs. H. L. Stevens, Jr., Warsaw; Chaplain, Mrs. W. L. Wilson.

The chapter was named for North Carolina's only Major General of the Continental Army of the Revolution, a distinguished son of Eastern Carolina, whose grave is in Columbus county.

The objects of the Society are patriotic, historical and educational. It is concerned with locating, preserving and marking historical spots and graves of Revolutionary soldiers; in finding and preserving historical documents and data, and geneological records; in promoting patriotism in every way possible, notably by celebration of all patriotic anniversaries, teaching reverence for the flag, its history and correct use, and in promoting the study of our nation's early history and its founders, by young and old.

The chapter has rescued and preserved the grave of Elizabeth Hooper Watters, only daughter of William Hooper, North Carolina signer of the Declaration of Independence; established the authenticity of Cornwallis’ route through the county over Highway 87 by Weyman Church, and on April

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30, 1941 secured and dedicated with appropriate ceremonies, markers on the highway near these spots.

Mrs. S. L. Smith, chairman of Markers for Patriots, has collected this year authentic data on James B. White, Columbus county's first senator for whom the county seat is named. After the war the chapter will erect a suitable memorial to his memory.

The chapter historian has collected the war service records of all close relatives of chapter members of World War II.

The chapter has brought distinguished speakers to the county, among them Dr. C. C. Crittenden, secretary of the N. C. Historical Commission; Miss Gertrude Carraway, distinguished newspaper woman and active in many patriotic organizations; Bishop Thomas C. Darst of Eastern Diocese, and state and national D. A. R. officers.

The chapter has furnished to the state organization a District Director, Mrs. J. H. Land, two state chairmen, Mrs. W. B. Carson and Mrs. S. L. Smith. It has won several state and national prizes for patriotic work in the schools.

The following have served as chapter regents: Mrs. W. B. Carson, Mrs. S. L. Smith, Mrs. J. A. Brown, Mrs. H. L. Lyon and Mrs. A. E. Powell, present encumbent.

In September, 1939, Mrs. David Smith, then president of

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the Whiteville Woman's club invited some of the business women of the town to meet to discuss possibilities of organization of a new department for their club. The Business Women's department was the result, and the first meeting was held in October 1939.

Many worthwhile activities have been sponsored by the club, including installation of a watering system in the Whiteville cemetery, all-time support of the children's ward at the Columbus County Hospital; bandage rolling, knitting and other Red Cross activities; contributions to the Service Center, Civilian Defense, War Bond Activities, Community Chest.

Mrs. W. T. Mottinger is the present president of the club. The special project for this year is placing a set of Encyclopedia Brittanica in the library of the Whiteville High school. This has been ordered and will be donated soon. The club is now planning to federate with the National Organization of the Business and Professional Woman's Clubs. There are 36 members of the club at this time.

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There are now 35 members of the Post. R. C. Harrelson is commander, C. H. Pinner, adjutant; R. T. Bruton, finance officer, and G. L. Dorman, vice-commander.

The post has engaged in many worthwhile activities during the year. At present it is attempting to maintain standard service to disabled veterans, and widows and orphans of veterans, furnish transportation to the hospital when hospitalization is needed, and aiding returning veterans of World War II in any way and every way possible.

The Waccamaw Book Club was organized about 12 years ago with ladies of Hallsboro. Lake Waccamaw and intervening vicinity as members.

Mrs. G. E. Dorward is president of the club, Mrs. R. G. Lytton, secretary, Mrs. K. C. Council, treasurer, and Mrs. Edison Council is program chairman.

The organization holds meetings monthly—every third Tuesday afternoon in the homes of the members. The club has 20 members and has a club room, which is at the present time being used by the Red Cross.

Outstanding among its activities have been participating in various civic activities, bond drives and the like. It is a member of the General Federation and State Federation of Woman's Clubs. Mrs. J. M. Council, of Lake Waccamaw,

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The Hallsboro Woman's Club is a member of the State Federation, and has about 14 active members at the present time. It was organized 15 years ago, having first been operated as a home demonstration club.

One of its major projects during the past few years has been the creation of a community center in the old Baptist church building in Hallsboro, which is now being used extensively.

Mrs. John W. Hall is the president of the club, and Mrs. A. Q. Dew is the incoming president. Mrs. W. A. Thompson is secretary and treasurer, and Mrs. J. A. Wyche is program chairman.

The club has done much useful work in Hallsboro, having built a lunch room for the school, and has done an outstanding work for the Red Cross.

The Pioneer Study Club of Tabor City was organized on January 8, 1936, at the home of Mrs. Dewey H. Bell. Originally the membership was limited to 16, but the club now has a total of 25 members.

Mrs. Raymond B. Mallard is president of the club, having succeeded Mrs. J. F. Butler when the latter recently resigned. Miss Butler is secretary.

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The organization meeting of the Whiteville Garden Club was held September 29, 1939, with 13 charter members. The object of the organization was to “stimulate and unite the efforts of the women of Whiteville in making our town more beautiful.” “Whiteville Beautiful” was the motto chosen.

Interesting events sponsored by the club have been the very successful flower show in the armory May 8-9, 1940, and other smaller ones; a visit by the club to Brooksgreen Gardens, S. C., Orton Plantation, Airlee and other Wilmington gardens.

Outstanding achievement of the club to date is the plan to make a “Memorial Garden” of the Columbus County Hospital grounds.

Mrs. B. S. Thompson is president of the club, Mrs. W. M. Boice is vice-president, and Mrs. G. R. McNeill secretary and treasurer.

The Klondyke Post of American Legion, at Chadbourn, was organized in 1931 with John V. Strole as commander. The hut was built the following year. The first year the post had 40 members, and 86 the second year.

At the present time the commander of the post is E. L. Derrick, and there are 54 members.

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fact that the hut was built and paid for without any member ever having had to pay a cent from his pocket. The money for the lot and building came out of proceeds from the strawberry festival and square dances which were sponsored by the Klondyke post.

The berry festival, which was an annual event until the war came, was outstanding throughout this entire section of the state, and featured such nationally known dance bands as Guy Lombardo, Jan Garber, Jimmy Dorsay, Bob Chester, and a great many others.

Another very worthwhile project of the Klondyke post was out on during the days of depression when tonsil clinics were conducted in Chadbourn—about 300 operations having been performed over a two year period of time.

Besides Mr. Derrick as commander, other officers at present are: R. R. Koons, finance officer; C. L. Tate, service officer; F. T. Wooten, adjutant.

Up until this year, Mr. Strole had served successively as commander of the post with the exception of one year—that being the year he was elected and served as district American Legion commander.

The Fair Bluff Civitan club, the first such club to be organized in Columbus County, was organized in 1938. At that time, Andrew Joyner, then district Civitan Governor,

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of Greensboro, came down for the organization meeting. Since that time the club has continued a steady growth and has offered much to the Fair Bluff community in the way of worthwhile projects.

Officers of the club recently elected include. Ellis Divine Meares, president; Bob King, vice-president; Jesse Taylor, secretary; and E. A. Waller, treasurer. Rev. E. N. Johnson was the retiring president.

The Tabor City Civitan Club received its charter on the night of October 31st, 1937, with James W. Peay as first president of the club.

In the years that have followed the club has continued to grow and now is an integral part of that town and community, having enjoyed a steadily growing membership.

The Whiteville Woman's Club, originally known as The Civic League, was organized in March, 1909, with Mrs. A. E. Powell, president, Mrs. D. J. Lewis, vice-president, Mrs. H. F. Schulken, treasurer, and Mrs. P. G. Hufford, secretary.

Mrs. W. R. Davis, a charter member, has maintained a continuous membership since organization of the club, and is an active member now. In 1914 the name was officially changed to The Woman's Club, thus becoming the first in the county.

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Mrs. Powell served as president until 1921. This administration laid the foundation for many of the civic advantages Whiteville has today.

Other president have included Mrs. F. M. Hester, Mrs. J. B. Schulken, Mrs. W. F. Spears, Mrs. E. K. Proctor, Mrs. S. L. Smith, Mrs. N. B. Chesnutt, Mrs. R. C. Wells, Mrs. R. L. Sholar, Mrs. R. M. Lewis and Mrs. David Smith, and Mrs. G. O. Rogers, the last named being president now.

The club has, through its 36 years since organization, accomplished much in the town of Whiteville.

Numbered among its outstanding activities have been the development of fine arts programs, continuation of child welfare, and closer cooperation with other civic organizations in bettering the town and community; creation of a recreational program, sponsoring a Girl Scout troop, and cooperating with the Junior Woman's Club purchasing a lot for a club house, planting of the courthouse grounds and plazas on Madison Street with grass and shrubs, development of music appreciation, planting of a living Christmas tree on the courthouse square.

In Columbus county there are 12 Home Demonstration Clubs, with a total of 256 members. Clubs are located at Bethel, Bolton, Cerro Gordo, Clarendon, Crusoe, Fair Bluff, Hallsboro, Livingston Chapel, Mishop Springs, Nakina, Pireway

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The first was organized at Mishop Springs about 18 months ago. Bolton has the largest club.

The clubs meet each month in the homes of members, and discuss various phases of home-making.

There are three active 4-H Clubs in Columbus County for boys and girls at the present time, with a total of 102 members. These are located at South Whiteville, Bolton, and Mishop Springs.

The four white and six colored troops of the Boy Scouts of America in Columbus County comprise the South Central District of the Cape Fear Council. W. N. Peal, of Chadbourn, is chairman of the South Central District, and J. A. Maultsby, of Whiteville, is president of the Cape Fear Council.

A total of 162 Scouts are members of the 10 troops in the county.

The Fair Bluff Post of American Legion was organized about 1927 and at the present time has a total of 21 members. J. A. Turner is commander, Dr. M. A. Waddell, vice-commander, E. A. Waller, adjutant, and J. M. Turner, finance officer.

The Legion owns its own hut which serves as a meeting

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place and community center, which was built about 1932.

The Post has an active Auxiliary as well.

One of the oldest and most active Women's Clubs in Columbus County is at Evergreen. This organization is a member of both State and National Federations, and has been ever since its organization 21 years ago.

Mrs. R. F. Benton is president, Mrs. W. D. Brooks, secretary and treasurer.

There are 14 members at present. Activities of the club have been widespread. On two successive occasions it took state prizes for the most tree setting, and has copped many other district and state prizes as well.

At the present time, the club is engaged in the Cancer Drive and the gathering of clothing for the United National Clothing Collection.

The Maids and Matrons club of Chadbourn was organized first as the Chadbourn Study Club in 1901 with both men and women as members, continuing thus until 1906. At this time, the men having withdrawn, re-organization as the Young Matrons Club left a membership of twelve women.

The name of the club was changed in 1923 to Maids and Matrons Club, and membership has gradually enlarged

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to thirty-two.

The prime movers in the early organization and work of the club were Miss Lily Wheeler, Miss Estelle Newland, Mrs. J. B. Chadbourn, Mrs. J. A. Brown and B. H. Harnley. The subject of the first year's study was “American Authors and Composers.” The leading purpose of the club in the beginning was study, developing later into wider service through its various departments, particularly those of Literature, Civics and Education.

Perhaps the most important accomplishment has been the establishment of the Educational Loan Fund, whereby high school graduates may obtain loans for college education. Other projects sponsored by the club have been street beautification by planting shrubs and trees; bringing cultural entertainment to the town; supporting health and social service causes, and the organization of a Junior club which later developed into the Sorosis club.

The club has furnished to the State Federation the following officers: State chairman of Music, Mrs. J. A. Brown; three district presidents. Mrs. J. B. Bardin, Mrs. J. A. Brown and Mrs. J. B. Elliott; one National officer, District Contact Chairman for the General Federation, Mrs. J. H. Land.

Recognition of literary merit has come to the club through the award of State Federation prizes to Mrs. J. B. Barden for a short story, and to Mrs. Lucy Thompson for a narrative poem.

It is interesting to note that Mrs. J. A. Brown who was first president of the Young Matrons club in 1906 is acting in the same capacity in the Maid and Matrons club at the present time, 1945.

The Maids and Matrons club of Chadbourn is the oldest cultural club in the county.

In January 1938 a group of ambitious and energetic young women met for the purpose of discussing the organization of a civic club for the young women of Whiteville. Mrs. John Council, of Lake Waccamaw, was instrumental in organizing this group, and Mrs. R. C. Wells was chosen as sponsor. In March of that year, the club joined the National Federation of Woman's Clubs.

Succeeding years have witnessed many worthwhile projects for Whiteville under the sponsorship of this enterprising group of women, to mention only a few of these activities: sponsorship of a children's shelf at the library, first aid classes, publication of cook-book of tried recipes, raised $250.00 for nurses scholarships, and donated to innumerable fund raising drives.

One of the notable achievements of the club was last year when the club made an outstanding record in the Tobacco Warehouse Bond program, Columbus being the first county

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The present goal of the club is to have the club members 100 percent informed voters, to see that the women of the county are informed of their duties and vote as intelligent citizens.

By Glenn F. Strole

The Whiteville Post of American Legion, now listed as Post 137, was first organized in 1922 and revived in 1930. After the formation of posts at Chadbourn, Fair Bluff and Tabor City, the name was changed to the Whiteville post in 1934.

Emphasis has always been placed on service to the veterans of World War I and their dependents, and now it includes those of the present war, J. S. Mann, of Whiteville, is one of the outstanding service officers in the State and has helped hundreds of veterans to get hospitalization, compensation and discharge pay.

In 1941 a handsome and commodious brick hut was built, which is a community center for Whiteville. Thousands of soldiers have been entertained there over weekends, and since they come from all over the United States, the Whiteville Post has received, wide and favorable publicity. The following have served as commanders of the Whiteville post: Richard M. Lewis, Ben Elliott, Glenn F. Strole, D. L. Gore, W. M. Parker, R. L. Sholar, A. J. Krahnke, J. S. Mann, R. J. Lamb, Chester A. Farley, J. A. Maultsby and C. D. Henderson.

The Tabor City Rotary Club, which now has a total membership of 25 was first organized about February, 1937, and has had a record of constant growth and advancement since that time.

The club has as its president Dr. Grover S. Cox. Other officers include: Jack McGougan, vice-president, Rev. Winfrey Davis, secretary, Jimmy Hufham, treasurer, and Tom Rosser, sergeant-at-arms. Directors include these officers and Carlton Westmoreland and Jesse Baxter. Rev. Joseph Coble is editor of the Tabor City Rotary News, a bulletin published each week by the club, which proves both interesting and instructive to the club members.

There are eleven denominations represented in the church affiliates of Columbus county, including Missionary Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Primitive Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal Holiness, Pentecostal Fire-Baptised Holiness, Morman, Catholic, Episcopal, and Jewish.

Missionary Baptists are predominating in the county, having a little more than twice as many members as all other

of the churches combined. Methodists are second, and Free Will Baptists coming third.

Figures available on the church population of Columbus county contained in a survey made in 1933, showed the county had a total of 91 churches, with a total of 8,953 members. Of these, the Missionary Baptists had 39 churches and 5,079 members. The Methodist had 25 churches and 2,478 members.

Other denominations were as follows: Free Will Baptist, 6 churches and 487 members; Primitive Baptist, 3 churches and 96 members; Presbyterian, 6 churches and 472 members; Pentecostal Holiness, 2 churches and 37 members; Pentecostal Fire Baptised Holiness, 7 churches and 154 members; Morman, 1 church and 10 members; Catholic, 1 church and 65 members (Note: The Catholics now have six churches in the county). Episcopal, 1 church and 35 members; Jewish, no church and 40 members.

Among the oldest churches in the county were the First Presbyterian church which was recently town down, and the Presbyterian church in Whiteville was recently torn down, and the White Marsh and Mount Zion Baptist churches in Welches Creek township.

Some idea of the increase in church membership during the past 11 years can be gained from this partial 1944 survey made of the 11 denominations in the county:

Denomination No. Churches Members Missionary Baptist 40 8,043 Free Will Baptist 6 228 Primitive Baptist — — Methodist 18 2,556 Presbyterian 6 690 Pentecostal Holiness 2 44 Fire Baptized Holiness 8 152 Morman 1 10 Catholic 6 150 Episcopal 1 34 Jewish 0 28

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Wacamaw. The county has two principal rivers, the Waccamaw and the Lumber, the former being designated in the New York World Book of Facts as one of the 40 principal rivers of the United States. It is 550 miles long, has its origin on the Southern side of Lake Wacamaw and flows into the Greater Pedee river at a point below Georgetown near th Atlantic Ocean. Lumber river, which follows the Western boundary line of the county, enters the county at a point above old Boardman, and proceeds on a southerly course to a point below Georgetown, S. C., where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It leaves this county a short distance from Fair Bluff, which town was built on its beautiful moss covered banks.

Lake Waccamaw is a fastly growing pleasure resort. It furnishes an ideal place for bathing, boating and fishing. During the winter months duck hunting along the banks of this sheet of water is a popular pastime, enticing sportsmen from all sections of the state.

The principal natural resource of Columbus County is the fertile soil which lies within its bounds. As a result of this fact, farming is by all odds the principal industry of the county, and in which more than 15,000 people are engaged.

The Columbus County Farm Bureau, a member of the State and National Federations, was first organized a decade ago, and reorganized in 1940. The Columbus Bureau, with a total of 2,472 members, stands second only to Pitt County in membership, and is one of the most active such organizations in the State.

V. C. Arnette, of Chadbourn, is president of the Bureau, B. C. Wright, of Tabor City, is vice-president, and Locke Byrd, of Whiteville, secretary-treasurer.

The Farm Bureau has been instrumental in bringing about much legislation favorable to the farmers, and recently in Columbus County is sponsoring a campaign for the growth of a better strain of sweet potatoes. To that end, each member of the Bureau was given seed potatoes of good strain, with the request that they be planted.

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Bailey, Guy M., Fair Bluff. Owens, T. Q., Whiteville. Guiton, J. A., Whiteville. Smith, E. B. Chadbourn. Holroyd, R. M., Whiteville. Mills, J. A., Tabor City. Harrelson, R. C., Tabor City. Rogers, Frank, Fair Bluff. Koonce, T. R., Fair Bluff. McNeill, William C., Whiteville. Koonce, John Edward, Chadbourn. McNeill, George R., Whiteville. Jenkins, L. W. Tabor City.

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Acme: Ruth R. Butler Evergreen: R. F. Benton Armour: (Vacant) Fair Bluff: A. E. Waller Boardman: Onnie M. Hill. Hallsboro: Mrs. W. A. Thompson Bolton: Stella M. Blue Brunswick: Redden Gaskin Lake Waccamaw: Kittie Wayne Cerro Gordo: Katie E. Kellihan Nakina: Leamon C. Ward Olyphic: Harvey L. Smith Chadbourn: Estelle I. Baldwin Tabor City: Duncan F. McGougan Clarendon: Maude H. Pittman Delco: Lorenzo R. Hobbs Wananish: Carlotta W. Flynn Whiteville: A. E. Powell

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Whiteville: G. O. Rogers Piney Forest: Pecolia G. Lennon New Hope: Miss Pearl Eichelberger Evergreen: Rosa McDougald Chadbourn: John W. Washburn Boardman: Bettie F. Lennon Rose Hill: Bessie G. Lennon Cerro Gordo: L. M. Adcock Browns Chapel: Greta McLean Sears Fair Bluff: E. L. Derrick Evergreen: E. E. King Farmers Union: Shepard S. Moore Hallsboro: B. F. Kendall Bolton: Miss Pearl Williamson, acting Artesia: Herbert F. Williams Lake Waccamaw: Sarah E. Freeman Old Dock-Nakina: C. A. Elmore Christian Plains: L. L. Spaulding Guideway: F. F. Thompson Tabor City: C. H. Pinner Liberty Hill: Celia J. Moore Williams Township: F. A. Ficquett Hallsboro: Virginia M. Corbett Honey Hill: Harriett R. Spaulding Acme-Delco: I. A. Wortman Colored colored Bolton: Frank I. McDougald Whiteville: J. O. Harris Old Dock: Cora Belle Singletary Spring Hill: Etta White Ingram Dothan: Martha Singletary Diamond Branch: Booker B. Brooks Bug Hill: Maggie C. Boone Tabor City: J. D. Pridgen Chadbourn: A. L. Williams Clarendon: Sarah M. Harris Cerro Gordo: Hazel McNeill Armour: Grayer Powell Mt. Mariah: Ezra Lennon Acme: Annie S. Henry Fair Bluff: Henry Powell Freeman: Annie R. Mitchell Mt. Olive: Fred J. Corbett Delco: Geo. W. Jones

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Male 23,085 Female 22,578 Native (all races 45,606 Male 23,046 Female 22,560 Foreign-Born (all races) 57 Male 39 Female 18

(The foreign-born in Columbus county are divided as follows: England 3, Norway 1, Sweden 1, Netherlands 1, Switzerland 2, France 1, Germany 8, Poland 2, Austria 5, Hungary 2, Yugoslavia 3, Russia 2, Lithuania 4, Rumania 1, Greece 4, Palestine and Syria 4, Asia 2, French Canada 2, Other Canada 9, Central and South America 1.)

White 30,988 Native 30,931 Foreign-born 57 Negro 14,317 Other races (Indian) 358 Percent Native White 67.7 Percent Foreign-Born White .1 Percent Negro 31.4

Census Enrolment Teachers Buses No. Elem. H.S. (total personnel includes prins.) transported daily School Whiteville 1705 1035 339 40 8 724 New Hope 365 298 7 1 103 Chadbourn 1030 681 142 24 6 493 Cerro Gordo 705 498 88 18 5 376 Fair Bluff 440 358 79 15 3 222 Evergreen 644 487 112 17 6 412 Hallsboro 944 567 146 21 9 539 Bolton 132 100 3 1 15 Old Dock-Nakina 678 472 11 6 325 Guideway 468 488 12 5 356 Tabor City 1334 833 171 30 6 718 Williams Township 1200 921 115 26 8 783 Acme-Delco 537 332 73 13 4 226 Total White 10182 7070 1265 237 68 5292 Whiteville 452 348 59 14 1 125 Spring Hill 166 107 3 Diamond Branch 134 132 3 Chadbourn 503 374 92 15 1 108 Cerro Gordo 100 82 2 Mt. Mariah 189 83 3 Fair Bluff 388 248 6 Mt. Olive 550 327 78 15 3 220 Piney Forest 68 38 1 Evergreen 107 85 2

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Boardman 120 59 2 Rose Hill 163 81 2 Browns Chapel 39 34 1 Farmers Union 275 114 106 8 2 105 Artesia 239 93 4 Lake Waccamaw 90 59 2 Christian Plains 119 72 2 Liberty Hill 85 77 2 Hallsboro 246 128 3 Honey Hill 71 71 1 Hickory Hill 78 59 3 Bolton 269 183 5 Old Dock 46 38 1 Dothan 72 51 2 Bug Hill 36 33 1 Tabor City 414 283 17 8 1 69 Clarendon 101 76 2 Armour 291 163 45 7 2 74 Acme 67 30 1 Freeman 49 27 1 Delco 129 95 3 Total Colered 5656 3650 397 125 10 701

BIRTHS DEATHS Marriages 1914 1038 435 1915 1019 463 228 1916 1167 406 275 1917 1055 431 296 1918 1023 574 246 1919 1066 427 323 1920 1105 460 345 1921 1200 400 257 1922 1246 414 176 1923 1287 472 204 1924 1248 471 171 1925 1041 387 61 1926 1121 461 58 1927 1122 382 69 1928 1161 503 54 1929 1067 467 39 1930 1169 459 41 1931 1227 466 47 1932 1516 584 35 1933 1009 325 146 1934 1124 397 163 1935 1147 374 171 1936 1074 439 168 1937 1571 480 195 1938 1279 452 163

1939 1290 389 57 1940 1305 385 28 1941 1356 406 51 1942 1358 372 35 1943 1490 549 40

Diphtheria 57 Meningitis 3 Poliomyelitis 1 Scarlet Fever 46 Tuberculosis 12 Typhoid 1 Whooping Cough 17 Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever 1

Meningitis 2 Tuberculosis 4

Smallpox 89 Diphtheria 1281 Typhoid 307 Whooping Cough 2

ANIMAL NUMBER Valuation Horses 513 $ 50,345 Mules 5892 661,089 Sheep 154 313 Goats 460 1,097 Hogs 34,472 192,235 Milk Cows 3,204 158,103 Other Cattle 3219 62,696 Poultry 186,175 143,200 Female Dogs 631 Male Dogs 3,078

Male (21 years of age and older) 11,322 Female (21 years of age and older) 10,978 Total 22,300

Under 5 years 5,843 40 to 44 years 2,072 5 to 9 years 5,772 45 to 49 years 1,908 10 to 14 years 5,565 50 to 54 years 1,668 15 to 19 years 5,215 55 to 59 years 1,296 20 to 24 years 4,468 60 to 64 years 966 25 to 29 years 3,763 65 to 69 years 821 30 to 34 years 3,004 70 to 74 years 395 35 to 39 years 2,466 75 years and over 441

Columbus county, with a population of 45,663, and an area of 939 square miles, has a total of 48.6 inhabitants per square mile. Of the total population, 42,652 are classed by the Bureau of Census as rural, and 3,011 as urban.

Number of Establishments: 36.

Wage Earners (yearly average): 813.

Annual Wages: $363,634.

Cost of Materials, supplies, fuel, purchased electric energy and contract work: $1,179,272.

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Value added by manufacture $977,055

MALE Male, 25 years old and over 9,632 No school years completed (and thus classed as illiterate) 892 Grade school 1 to 4 years 2,545 5 or 6 years 1,816 7 or 8 years 1,972 High School 1 to 3 years 1,207 4 years 520 College 1 to 3 years 251 4 years or more 219 Not Reported 210

FEMALE Female, 25 years old and older 9,168 No school years completed 736 Grade school 1 to 4 years 1,948 5 or 6 years 1,727 7 or 8 years 1,965 High School 1 to 3 years 1,273 4 years 687 College 1 to 3 years 403 4 years or more 273 Not Reported 156 Mdian school years completed 7.1

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