Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-T'1"E N1WADHRL '10 13,N --- - ---A& i IIE H EVfABLISHED 1844 B FAIRFIELD COUNTY MPORTED BI MOSY DALE. This "scribe". went to see his peo ple at Lykeslard lastSunday and as he had -a red-headed chauffeur he had a good chance to observe the .eo, etc, on the way. From J. C. Chiplieys -to Columbia cotton and e- are both poor, but below Co unmbia wI ras surprised to see some good cQton, and corn is better than for miny years. I was surprised, -toogst. tIe grei stacks of .hay along therospide. I understood that 'about two mil lion'dollars is being spent on the Garner's ferry road from the old Sampton place to Congaree river, thfth I think thft includes one bidtthe bridge to be built by Sum t4.rd 1lhbland counties. Hogaand rattlenlk s abotmd in that section, and tbe .iA-er you go down the "wormer" beY get. Last Saturday -fternoon a select number of the most distinguished men of the county met at the old Smith Spring and enjoyed a feast of 'babecued pork and hash. The only -gentlemen that I recognized in the party from Winnsboro were Lord Owens and C'oL. Tom Boulware. 'They did not even look in as they passed down, but e'tliey returned and after they had eaten the hog they hailed me "hello old pardner." Now wa not that a nice way to treat a man who had not eaten much that day, neither the day before; but s Perry aid: Beekhqm were there I could .not have.-enjoyed eating even from the same table with -d Ineverlike to eat as to how it was o 'nei Ho2 ever, I do not accuse the parties of any wrong doing, but Young Smith, who lives just below me, disturbed the whole community for four or five nights after the mysterious bar becue calling hogs. I have not yet learned whether or not he found the -lost one. A few nights ago my boy, W. W. Irby and S. L. Mann were possum hunting, the dogs treed something that did not smell like the best co logne, and before they got quite to the tree it jumped and hit, the :round so close to Mr. Irby that he had to bury his brodier's coat that he was wearing. They decided af ter Mr. Mann had smelled the coat, that the varmint was a pole cat. Mr. Guilds, president of Columbia College, will make the address at the annual meeting of -the Fairfield and Richland Bible Society at Cedar Creek church on Sunday, October 3, at 11 o'clock a. m. GREENBRIER. WV. R. -Smith spent the last week end in Lancaster. Mrs. A. C. Goldsmith and children spent several days in Columbia re cently? Ernest Castles left last week for Columbia, where he will enter the University of South Carolina. 1. N. M~erchant, of Newberry spent Friday evening in the community. Mrs. C. L. Smith left Thursday morning for Asheville. Harry Trapp, of Columbia, was a .visitor in the community Monday creng. Miss' Mary Goldsmith spent. Sun day in Waynesboro, Ga. Miss Sadie Smith attended the Ashford-Cousinls wedding in Winns boro Friday evening. Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Lyles, Jr., a son, September 27th. UNION. * Our school has opened and all of the children are back at their books hard at work, under thi~ manage ment of Miss Ruby Rtdhardson, of Winnsboro. Messrs. P. B. Roberts and G. B. Hagood have been attending court. Misses Marig and Naomi and Dr. J. L; Harrison were visitors in town recently. 'irs. Laura Timms and daughter, Miss Willie, spent the evening with her brother, Mr. J. W. Harrison, one a'y last week. Mis Elma Steele. of Winnsboro, 'NEWS.AS { CORRESPONDENTS ,ent the week-end with her mother, )[rs. Carrie -Steele. Miss Ruby Richardson spent the weik-end in Winnsboro. Miss Mamie Crawford has return ed from a visit in Columbia. Mr. James Macfie and family spent Sunday evening at the home of Mrs: Xgnes Lemmon. Mr. R, L. Steele of Charleston, ;pent the week-end at his old home with his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Steele. Ve are very sorry to report the death of one of our oldest colored about 90 years of age. Wade always stood for that which was right and was respected by both white and colored. MITFORD. Miss Mary Thomasson caine home for a week so her mother, Mrs. J. F. Thomasson, could go to see her mother, Mrs. Fannie Haynes, who was very sick. The Mitford and Stover people had i moonlight picnic Wednesday evening, which was enjoyed by all. Mrs. Mollie Dye is spending'a few days with her daughtei, Mrs. John 'lutson, of Great Falls. Mrs. J. F. Thomasson sjent Thurs day with Mrs. J. M. Smarr. Mr. Alex and Master J. B. Glass spent Saturday with Mrs. B. F. Ford. Mr. Rufus Keistler spent Sunday with Mr. Alex. Glass. Miss Mary Thomasson spent Sun day night with her aunt, Mrs. J. S. 'lass.. Mr. and Mrs. R. H Witherspoon have returned home f-om a very I pleasant visit to children and friends in Sumter Silver and Pinewood Will Keistler, Strother Ford and Ned Young are delegates from Mt. Zion church for the Sunday school convention that met at Cool Branch, Chestar county,- September 28th. We had a refreshing and needed rain the past week. Peanuts is one thing the boll wee vil has not destroyed, so we still have one thing left. Mr. C. S. Ford has returned from court. He reports a pleasant time while in town. The Wateree news says that they are building a new school house and one that was needed from the re ports that are brought out. This is good news to its sistei- school and to the teacher that will take' charge and the community in general. They may have their sociables, moonlight picnics and drive their Ford cars, but the "Scribe" has cane 12 feet high and six inches around. Beat it if you can. Mr. Strother Ford - is keeping "bach", aifd he is a noted cook, so he says. HICKORY RIDGE. Mr. W. K.. Dawson, of Columbia, spent a day last ,week wvith Miss Eula Brice. Mr. R. M. Brice, who has been in the barber business at Bamnberg for several months, but now bac~k in Winnsboro, spent Sunday at homre with his parents. Mr~ and Mrs. W. E. Taylor, of Winnsboro, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Timms. Mr. T. R. Brice, i of Winnsboro, spent Sunday in the community. Mr. and Mrs. James Park and lit te sin, of Hillcrest, spent Sunday' with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Timms. Mr. R. M. Paul, of Lebanon, was *in t'M community recently. We a re sorry to learn that Mrs. J. W. Luther is very sick, but hope that she will be out again soon. The Ridge school will start Monday morning, October 3rd. The teacher is Miss Tolbert, of Greenwood. WOOD WARD. Mr. 'nd Mrs. Angus Nicholson and cl.ddren have returned to Au burn, after spending a week with .ADICt YITHE " COUNTY A Now that the boll weevil h duced the yield of cotton to one e per plough in most sections 9C sguthern part of the county so in sone other sections ot. county, these in the -central northern si'on of the county are makintg om three to eight buq per plough should consider t selves very tortunate end now tak warning for Apother year. You mag say that we * l very likely l*V S severe wintek2 followed by . dr$ summer and *t we will n ke good cotton next year. may. be true, I suppose we lo and we have coMitions favora$en the boll weevil again next yer, you come up wit one bate to plow, and have nothing you can:-, to convert into cash. Well, very easily happen, so right your time. to make prepara such a condition will not Make up your mind now t are ,going to raise Oe need for man and beiast to your farm and that yyu somg cash out of other tlIings cotton, for i think' it would 4 wise not to plant some member thlat you -can gIOW.7SE* hogs chickens and other . sale, sell some cream anda cotton. too, Your county - agent will to hqp you get some fruit set 4u, 4 an orchard, adv 6u to see -ili-at' order out your trees, Irs ery siock is said to be very Good peach trees can be bo about thirty cents eAch. Colman Turner, pig a ini Droc, Jersey Stevenson and Elizabeth Dye ilsp have pigs that are gaining very rapidly. MUCH COTTON SOLD. Dillon, Sept. 27.-The farmers in this section have marketed cotton faster up to this time than ever known on the Dillon market. The ,lass of the cotton has been extra good, due to the fact that since cot ,n began opening there have been no rains at all. The first heavf rain fall since September 1 came yester lay afternoon. Since the middle of -eptember there have been as many as 300 to 400 bales of cotton sold on this market almost daily. Cotton sold freely today on the Dillon mar ket at from 20 1-4 to 21 cents. The best firms of the country are represented here and competition is keen at all times. The Dillon mills have also been on the market for the last three weeks and have seemed keen for cotton. Large brokers also have had special men here working with the local representatives and much cotton is being taken up by them. The farmers are beginning to buy seed grain for fall planting and ex pect to plant large acreage of grain and are going to cut cotton practic 1y out, due to the ravages of the boll weevil, which has made its ap warance very plentifully since the first of August. There has been ab solutely no top cotton crop at all nd no blooms. If the weather con tinues good, the cotton in Dillon county will be all picked by October 15 to November 1. Practically no cotton is being stored, but is being ushed on the market as fast as it s ginned. FOOTBALL AT MT. ZION. Hartsville high will he the first on the local gridiron schedule, the Pee Dee coming out of their lair Friday, to atone for the melancholy defeats of last year. The old gold and black warriors expect a stiff fight, but are slated to nose' out in the finish. The game will commence at 3:30 in the afternoon, and for the .joy of seeing 'em battle the spectators will be taxed twenty-five and thirty--fife cents, with alr "take and put" tactics outlawed. The local team this year will pre sent a new set of players, many of the old stars having departed to shine in collegiate football. ASSOCATIQN t :PIANS FIGHT. R. C. Hamer, president of the South Crolina division of the Amer ican, Cotton association, said yes teisy that he had read with a great deal of iziterest of the action of the )mmi#ee which met in Columbia Tuladay to consider an agricultural .?rgram which would meet the con caused by the invasion of the weevil, and said the cotton asso ciion would welcome the suppdrt $j the committee and all existing a encies. 'The American Cotton associa said Mr. Hamer, "has for some *ne been giving most earnest con eration to the conditions confront 1 he cotton belt bicause of the and how they- could best be et. .'wo plansawhrch were thought be Ihe mogssuitable .nd most eaibe were submitted -v t rder of, ti members of the Amer (~ttpa-ssociation. 2very far suked to vote for the plan Fa thought the most feasible which could- most effectively be arried out. Great interest wasstaken in the referendum and approximately 50,000 votes were cast. "The pl:r adopted by an 4er whelming vote follows: "First. Three-fourths' of all open lands to bb devoted to food and feed bcops and to pasturage for live stock. "Sicond. One-fourth of the culti a U 'and to be planted in cottdn, wei '~lized and worked .so as to arodip the best yield under the most oie4tc oditions of labor and oth eroxfiies . "Tsi Encourage the rapid or of statewide co-operative associations for handling nd other farm products. Adopt economic 'reforms an mcienctfl the .pture baling, ,varehousing, financing a4d market Ig. "The South Carolina division of the American Cotton asiociation is, >f course, committed to this plan, nd will make every effort within its ower to put it across in South Car lina. We are already pushing with 11 if the vigor at our command the :ampaign for the formation of the outh Carolina Cotton Growers' Co perative association. We plan to begin shortly a food and feedstuffs mpaign and we shall make every affort within our power to have the farmers plant only ore-fourth of 1ai cultivated lands in cotton next spring in order that the cotton may be intensively cultivated and the ravages of the boll weevil reduced :o a minimum.* "We propose to devote most of the me of the annual meeting of the South Carolina Cotton association in December to a discussion of the boll weevil and it is our hope to have he foremost experts of'the country with us at that time to tell us how cotton can best be grown under weevil condiions. "The American Cotton association at its annual meeting in Birming ham October 26-29'will discuss plans for putting the program into effect over the belt generally. "We ask the united support of the people of the state in our campaign Surely this is a time when the peo pie of the state must stand together and 'meet the menace which con fronts us". BOY SMOTHERED IN COTTON. The Sheltcn community was very much shocked on Tuesday, when it was learned that little Raymond Dickerson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Dickerson, of Shelton community, had been smothered to death while playing in the cotton in the cotton house. He was a bright and promising child, and was in his sixth year of age. Funeral services were held at Cool' Branch church, conducted by 'the pastor, on Wednesday after noon. Besides his parents, the deceased is- survived by four brothers and three sisters.' NEWS FROM THE WINNSBORO MLS Mr. N. A. White and little son, Billie, are on a visit to Mir and Mrs. .. R. Dickinson at Clinton, Mass. Mr. H. C. Everett, Jr., treasurer of Winnsboro Mills, with offides at 60 Federal street, Boston, Mass., ar rived in our village Monday morn ig. Mr. Everett was entertained at he home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon A. -Johnstone. He left. Wednesday af ternoon for Columbia, We thank \1r. Everett for this extended visit. We are always glad to have our friends and officials from the home >ffice to honor us with their visits. Rev. and Mrs. Geo. C. Gibson wil leave Friday morning for Sylvania, Ga. They will make the trip by motor.' Mr. W. E. Sentell, owner of a "trick Ford", managed last Satur day afternoon to "bust" a wheel off of a gldred farmer's buggy without injuring anyone. The iegrp said he was knocked out of tile boggy, lIut 11r. Sentell saysjttat he never did iee him leave hi seat in the buggy. It just showi how terribly scared a fellow can 'et when one of these trick John Henry's ducks its- nead aid takes 'a plunge at you. Mr. Sentell satisfied the scared victim by placing a few simoleons in his-.hand is compensation for the smashed wheel. We are going to gife Sentell he road from now on. Mr. "Happy" Adams, of Columbia, representative -of . the - ddy Motor Co., who handle the famoUi Buick automobiles, was i tou vibge Tuesday demonstrating one of t s 1922 model, five-passenger cars. ioticed that our good friend W, Rambow was riding in E' new speed wagon, and we believe that hE hid Mr. Adams come all the waf from . ColumbiW to give- bn a day ride. l - bow may be contemp iutomobilesja Bob Dale said "shucks, Rambow Is iot going to buy any car. He can run his other jobs on that hot air of his, but it takes money, hard money, to buy and run an automo bile." -We are waiting to see what success Rambow's hot air will have 1 the purchase and operation of a -ar. Mrs. J H. Wells has been criti -1ly ill for the past week, but we anderstand. that she is improving. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ben iett, a fine baby boy, who has been named James Robert, Jr. Mr, Ben Wilson and family spent ~he week-end in Columbia, guests of elatives. They returned Sunday vening. Mr. G..H. Lokey spent the day in hester Sunday, visiting with his 'riends. Mr. W. G. Barbour came over romn Camden Monday morning and was with us for several days. On last Suniday afternoon the B. Y. P. U. of the Baptist church'gave it's first regular program since the completion and perfecting of the or ganization. A large number of the young people were present. About half of the number present took some active part in the program. This is an organization for the training and developing of the young people in the Baptist church. How ver, all young Christians of what ever denomination and even those who are not Christians, may share in this splendid work. Mr. Parby 'loyd is president and he asks us to rge all of the young pe'ople, ages 3 to 30, to join the union. Mr. S. S. Paine, former superin tendent of the Lawton Mills, Plain eld, Conn., and now of the Cotton Research Co., of Bosteon, Mass., spent Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday in our village. Mr. Paine was selected by representatives of the Lockwood, Greene & Co., Mgrs., to make tests at the mills of this or ganization ,rather than have all. tests made in the laboratory of the Cot ton Research Co. It is hoped that these local tests may be a factor to stimulate greater interest 'in the work of the Cotton Research Co. from a local point of view. Mr. G. H. Lokey made a business trip to Columbia Wednesday. Messrs. Wardlaw and Kauffman, of the Atlanta office of Lockwood. FEW CASES TREIM The first case set for trial oi n day morning was that .of again'st Eljison, , but this cae d not go to trial, it being compro mised. The next case, and one of consid-. erable interest, was that of F 1. Y Gadsden against the countythe coun ty being represented by W. D.- Doug las, its attorney, and the plaintiff by Messrs. McDonald& McDonald, resulted in a verdict of $300 for plaintiff for top soil used f bniding of the road from boro to Simpson. The case of the county aaInst. the Ricbardson estate along s line, resulted in 7w i af 4 for the Richvar e tol These easl0:i4ot u Tuesday. The case- s.-.X CU the Southert.Rilwa y up the eat *r day Wednesda a all of 'lUinday moi niing T tie was represelnted b W. Rgpadale and 3. and the efen b its Messrs. 1(eDoond f sum of $10,000 aleged psge4for the *intit; plaintif. - MUSIC CLUB heM a - Chlorine .... Free Ammonia. Albuminoid Ammoni ....O0u Nitrogen in Nitrate& ........ 0.10-6;" Nitrogen in Nitrites.. Total solids ............. 56.00 Bacterial Analysis. Bacterial indications of contam tion. ..............Negative Remarks: Analysis indicate 4' ter to be of good quality .and its from contamination. - Respectfully submitted," F. L. Parker, M. D. ASHFORD-COUSIN. Miss Alice Ashford and Mr. Ohi Cousin surprised their many friends Friday afternoon by quietly motor ing to the Baptist parsonage 1a Winnsboro, where they were mar ried by the bride's pastor, Rev. John Bomar. Mrs. Cousins it' the attractive daughter of Mr. W. 'R. Ashfocll, an'd never looked more preW ibaa on her wedding day. Mr. Cousins is a prominent farmer a of Newberry. Misses Sadie Smith,.Magaret 'Ash ford and Messrs. I. N. Merchant, of Newberry, Hugh Mann and ,Bol Pope were the only witnesses of the marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Cousins caught t 4:40 train going north for points unD known. They will be at home t@ their many friends at Newberry af ter September 28. We regret very much that this marriage will take Mrs. .Cousins ~ from our vicinity. This happy couple have the best wishes of hundreds of friends for a t long and happy life.. Greene & Co., Engineers, sp'ent the day in our village Wednesday. Mr. W. W. Cook, of th architeO' tural department of Lockwood Greens & Co., Enagineers, of Boston, Ma paid us a visit Wednesday.. The recent rains came in -timer S save the collards and fall, flown Our feelings were helped ably too. - - Mr. . Chprlie Windhamin - 1een away from Winnsiof ral months, is in our villa~e ands with friends this #se '