Purple amethyst glass bottle celebrating the centennial of Greer in 1976. This bottle was given to mayor Worth Barnett by J.L. Jones, the man responsible for having the bottle made.
Front: seal of the City of Greer surrounded by text: "Agriculture • Industry • Prosperity • City of Greer • 1876 • South Carolina"
Back: palmetto tree superimposed over an outline of the state of SC. Text: "distributed by Palmetto Enterprises, Greer, S.C. 1976"
Bottom text: "Clevenger Bros. Glass Wks. Clayton, N.J." Also shows mark "1 - 69"
A small order of these bottles were made by Clevenger Brothers Glass Works in Clayton, NJ for a local Greer man named J. L. Jones, a well-known local bottle collector. The exact number of bottles made is not known. Clevenger was in operation from 1930–1999; their factory is now New Jersey Historical Site number 87, located in Gloucester County, NJ. The company got started producing affordable reproductions of early American glass and acquired or copied many molds from prior companies, producing work nearly identical to older historic bottles. Through the years they made many promotional bottles for various companies, cities, and events. This bottle was formed in a standard mold, including the stars rising up the neck and in the bottom corners of each side; only the front and back art changed.
Cotton Scale with 100 and 200 lb weights.
This scale was used on the farm of Broadus Campbell in Gowansville from the 1920s to the 1940s. The scale was used at the end of the day when each person's cotton was weighed. The going rate for cotton was about 10 cents a pound. The farmers would keep tally and when it reached 2, 000 pounds it was time to take the cotton to the gin. The Farmers hoped to receive a 500-pound bale of finished cotton.
a: Baccalaureate Sermon for Mountain View High School on Sunday Evening May 4, 1941
b: Commencement Exercise for Mountain View High School on Friday May 19, 1944
The Bible was given to Joseph Ridgeway Reid by his dad W.M. Reid who carried it through World War I and then Joseph kept it through World War II when he was in Battery A 390th Heavy Field Artillery assigned in Europe
