SOUTH CAROLINA: Joint Mayors

New York City has only one mayor, and a little fellow at that. Sandy Springs, S. C. has two—as tall as tamaracks and as quick after quail as anybody in Anderson County. W. K. Moore is 6 ft. 5 in., and wears a Southern statesman's hat. Sam Smith weighs 275 pounds, towers almost as high.

Moore and Smith have hunted and fished together all their lives. Sam lived on one side of Sandy Springs' main drag, Moore on the other. This year the two sides of town decided to join under one government, and Smith and...

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