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Oldest Newspaper In South Carolina. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25,1911 NO. 38 - _ HOW TO CONTROL COTTON. Mr. P. N. Lott of Johnston, Farm Demonstration Agent,Makes Valuable Suggestion to His Fellow Farmers. There are very strange things in this world. The products of nature in her varied and multiplied form of adjustment and re-adjustment strikes one with awe. The ingenuity of man's inventive power strikes us with wonder. Yet the strangest of all strange things under the sun is the southern farmer; he digs his pit and straightway falls into it; then complains about conditions. It is, however, a matter of ex treme gratification that the bankers ol the south have offered to assist the farmers in holding their cotton. We note however that very few in this section have accepted the propo sition, due to the fact that obliga tions made iu the early part of the year are due and as houest and honorable men, they will meet them at any sacrifice. They do not care to risk borrowing money on their cotton. It is their only money crop and they cannot afford to take chan ces on marketing it. It is hard to toil all the year and sell your crops lor less than it uost to make it. If this was the first time that we have been subjected to these conditions we might cry out in distress and do something rash. Most of us remember when we were forced to take 4 cents for our cotton-provisions were high, flour $8.00 per barrel and everything else in proportion-times were hard and the future looked gloomy; but in a few months things had adjusted themselves and we found that four cents cotton was a blessing; nearly every one sowed some wheat that fall, more oats than usual were sown; the shoats were not butchered but kept over for brood sows; roller mills were built; the mist had rolled away and the farmer was again hap py, not so much because he had plenty of home raised rations but because he had taken one step in progressive fanning. These lasted until flour came down to $4.00tper barrel, meat 6 cents and other sup plies in proportion and cotton W?' for 15 cents, everybody had plenty of money. The step taken a few years previous was lost, the roller mills were silent, the hog supply dwindled to one or two for Christ mas sausage, and butchers bought their beef readjr dressed from the cities, pine thickets and old fields wera plowed up and planted iu cot ton, guano liens ran up into mil lions, we must just glut the mar ket with cotton and we did. This 1911 crop has performed the feat we have been trying to make it perform for eight years. Now how many of us see ourselves as the cot ton speculator and cotton mill men see us. Viewing our present situa tion, let us thank Mr. J. L. Mims for his patriotic effort to keep us from sinking even deeper. His prize offered for the best acre of corn has keDt some of us from having to buy corn. Let us look at the situation and see if our system is not rotten and unstable. An all cotton crop is ruinous from the fact that we have ns control our production, price oi marketing. The cotton crop must pay our bank account, our grocery, dry goods, guano, taxes, tuition and every other account. Now how is il possible to meet ail these bills with 8 cents cotton when it cost, ll cents to make it. Echo answers how! It is a fact that any farmer thal does not raise his home supplies if not a farmer but a planter. It is al so a well established fact that an^ agricultural country that is deficienl in live stock is not in a progressiv? way. One of the commonest thingi the writer observes, as he makes hil rounds through the country is a cow staked out on a terrace and the cal: has been sold for veal. This farm may be a two-horse or a 10-hors? farm but more than one cow is rareb seen. If we talk to the boss of thii farm we find Zthe question upper most iu his mind is the price of cot ton, nothing else interest him. I we should look around this planter'i premises we will see one or two loni nose pine rooters in a 4 by 5 pen this is his chance for meat. He ha made his calculation on his cor acreage. If he makes a full crop i will be enough to last him until oat come (if they come). In the sout west prior to the coming of the bo] weevil lands were worth twelv- t fifteen dollars per acre. Those peoph np to thai, time, had never raise* anything but cotton and they, lik us, were always up against som hard proposition. With them, a with us, it was make cotton t bny guano and rations to make cot ton to buy mules, rations and guanc The boll weeyil forced them t change their system, they plante more corn, sowed oats and wheal raised mules, horses, hogs, sheep, beef cattle and goats. They have five dollars now to one before the boll weevil came and their lands are worth from $90.00 to $100.00 per acre. Are we going to wait until the boll weevil comes before we try to reform our methods. Do you think it good business sense or shall we begin now, by planting a better sta ple of cotton, a cotton that will bring ns $90.00 to $100.00 per bale, instead of $40.00 or $45.00. |We can raise as much per acre as the short export cotton by making this change and can cut our cotton acreage. Sow wheat if flour sells for three dollars a barrel and if you can't make more than three bushels per acre, remem ber it is the principle you are fight ing for as well as the gratification uf knowing what you are eating, liniid you a pasture, put some of your best land ir.to it. Land in the rural section of England sells for one thousand dollars an acre yet those people say it pays them bet ter to use it for pasture than to farm it. Some of the best mules and ho.jes we ever saw were raised in Edgetield county. We know one thrifty farmer that has raised and sold fifteen hundred dollars worth of colts from one mare. The mare is now a splendid animal and does as much work as any animal we have seen.Two-year-old beeves sell on our market for $36.00 and $38.00. We deem it useless to continue to enu merate what can be done. We can if we will. We know we have good soil and fine climate and it is up to us to improve our system of ag riculture. Johnston, S. C. P. N. Lott. "The Sunset Monday After noon." The sun is sinking low in the heavens, and casts a heavenly glow upon the clo"ds covering the whole west. Tliey are of a deep crimson color tow..rd Lae horizon and high er np .change lighter, or to a light red. Thu whole west seems to be ablaze with fire, not that fire which burna and devait;] tes, but that glow-, ing light of illumination and cele bration which seems to orais^jhc^ made this wonderful world. Be tween high mounds of red and crimson can now and then be seen a streak of green, and then a streak of the infinite blue, not meaning to be selfish, but not wanting this crimson to cast him utterly in the back-ground. Even the clouds in the extreme east take upon them selves the reflection of their neigh bors and are of a light crimson. The friends of the north and south seeing their sisters in the elaborate dresses of red crimson and streaked with green and blue, put on their best yellow and join in the wonder ful illumination. In about half an hour they are not, but were, in their gay colors. The ones in the west have changed thatdres8 of crimson for one of dull gray and seem mystical and more ?olemn, while those in the north, south and east have put on their black dresses, and it seems that in the less gayer hours they have a dress of mourning and seriousness. In a short space of time night throws her sable curtains over all, and it was but a thing of the past. [The foregoing very excellent es say was written by Staunton Lott, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Lott, a pupil of the Johnston High School. -Ed. Advertiser.] SPECIAL TRAIN SERVICE FRC?f CO LUMBIA AND INTERMEDIATE POINTS TO AUGUSTA, GA., And Return Account Georgia Carolina Fair November 8th and 9th, 1911, on the following sched ule: t Lv Columbia 7:00 am Cayce 7:05 am Arthur . 7:16 a m Lexington 7:27 am Barr 7:36 a ra Gilbert 7:49 a ra Summit 7:53 a m Leesville 8:05 ara Batesburg 8:10 a rr Monetta 8:23 a ra Ridge Spring 8:30 a ra Ward 8:40 ara Johnston 8:50 a n Trenton 9:10 a n Miles Mill 9:25 a n Vaucluse 9:57 a n Granitevi.'o 9:44 a ra Warrenville 9:49 an Ar. Augusta 10:30 a m Returning, ?rain will leave Au gusta 7:30 p. m. on Nov. 8 and 1 arriving Columbia ll p. m. Se reduced fares advertised in anothe column. Call on ticket agents fo further information. John L. Meek, AGP, Atlanta, Ga. Frank L. Jenkins, TPA Augusta, Ga. PARKSVILLE NEWS, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Parks En tertains. Targe cotton Yields Masonic Meering. Mr. Fowler Commended A short time ago, you were kind enough to leproduce a paragraph from Dr. C. C. Brown of Sumter, and now I beg that you repeat a paragraph, which is a part of a ser mon before the South Carolina Syn od at Clinton, on October 17th, by the Rev. G. G. Mayes, the retiring moderator, which is as follows: "Calvin threw down the gauntlet iu the face of all Europe. 'Not ashamed to declare the whole counsel of God.' That was what his church stood for, and the world needs a church to stand for the same. The stern old 'tenets were unmistakable then, they must be unmistakable to day. Intellectual unrest is abroad in1 the land. Nothing is too sacred to be questioned. The faith of many is wavering. Christians are numerous, but they are so weak. God's holy day is losing its sanctity, the Chris tian home is being attacked, and law is held by many in contempt. There are things transpiring under our eyes, and in our very presence that are a reproach to a Christian people. If ever a firm stand was needed , to be taken for God and truth; if ever strong meat for migh ty men was called for, the condi tions call for such to-day. The cav alry of God's militant host may be scouring the field. His infantry be battering in every place, but the heavy guns of the heavy artillery must be brought into ac tion orno complete route is possi ble." This is an extract from a sermon on the mission of the Presbyterian church, and I rise to ask, is the mission of the Episcopal, Metho dist or Baptist any less, or condi tions any more favorable, or the responsibility and work lighter? The cotton, the cotton. I have been told that Mr. B. D. Kitchings of White Town picked 18 hundred pound? seed cotton from hid sorri est acre the first picking. Of. course lie got it all. Mr. E. T. Christian says he picked 1,000 pounds from 9-10 of an acre, and has not gather ed over half, which will make 2,000 pounds to 9-10 of an ?acre; and this too on land, that a few years ago, it was thought would not produce cotton. On last Friday night a sociable was given by Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Parks in honor of Miss Ruth Cot ton of New Haven, Conn., who is on a visit to her grand-father, Mr. B. F. Cotton of this place. The so ciable was well attended, and the young people are said to have had a good time. The Masonic lodge met in regu lar session last Saturday night, and Messrs. Harv Drennan and Tillman Howie were made master masons. There bas not been a meeting in two years of this lodge, that there has not been work to do, which shows that there has been at least in this community a revival in the Masonic fraternity. There was a full attendance of the members and a visitor in the person of Mr. J. D. Quarles of Concordia. The little booklet gotton out by the indefatigable W. W. Fowlei advertising the west-side fair on November Jl6th and 17th is out o? the hands of the printers and thc frontispiece is a fine likeness of Col. W. J. Talbert. Prof. W. W. Fowler is a walking encyclopaedia, and deserves great credit for his in dispensable efforts in furthering th* interests of our show. Let all persons interested remem ber that the union meeting of th? 3rd division of the Edgefield asso ciation will convene on Saturday and Sunday with the Red Oal Grove church. We have a good pro gram and the hospitable people o: Red Oak Grove are expecting to en tertain a large crowd. We expec Uncle Trav Dorn, will kill 5 pigs a sheep and a cow and many othen many do likewise. Misses Ella Simons and France Seigle? rrom Mountain Creek ari visiting Misses Rosa and Mattie Sn Minor, daughters of our esteerae< fellow townsman, Mr. J. M. Minor Misses Will Dorn of Faifa an< Walter Dorn of Modoc were visi tors at the home of Mr. J. A. Harv ley Saturday last. Mr. Willie Burkhalter of Nortl Augusta came up Saturday to pa; his sister Miss Carrie Burkhalter a appreciated visit. Messrs. Robert Bussey and Et gene McDonald who have been d( ing carpenter's work in the ernpir state of the south came home Sat urday to see homefolks and swee1 hearts. Mr. W. M. Robertson one of ou merchant princes spent most of la? week in your town doing patriot: CLEOR? C?LLINGS. Cotton Fields White. Only an Average Crop Made. Bran son School Opens. Large Corn Yield. ' ? Editor of Advertiser: We are having rain now to make np for the shortage daring the sommer. I have never seen as mach cotton open in the fields in this neighborhood be fore, and as little picked out. Since the worms have eaten all the leaves off the stalks. The fi?lctn look like the middle of Decjembei^ Very few have finished picking over the first time. Don't think the ??bp will be above an average one, oat it all : opened at once, and pickers are j scarce. The Branson school opened last Monday the 16th with Mis? Nellie Hill as principal and Miss Carrie Collins as assistant The attendance was small on account of .'cotton picking but will have about .45 scholars when they all coraef -Most of the farmers around here have aved good hay crops and $0$ corn crop is very good. Few oats have been sown yet but think a ; will be pot in if the we permit. One of our neii looking for barrels to put crop o? sorghum in. He fe he had 75 or 80 gallons crop on hand. Mr. W. P. Bronson had a nice 6 months-old colt to get its leg broken last Friday night. Mr. R. W. Christie's tple boy has been quite sick but U better J now. We hear Mr. C. M. Thomas and family will move to Edgejield next | year. Mr. Geo. Strom has bo?ght land from Mr. Sam Morgan and will move on it next year. If the cotton everywhere is being ? picked and ginned as slowly1 as it is around here the attendant would not be crowded as it is. The white cotton patches will keep's, good many from the oountytciir who would like to attend, if thereafter is fair. However, ' we LoV t?f?ora will be represented in thc Jhits. Mr. Milton Walker has been ? quite sick but is able to be op again. Mr. Lafayette Sheppard Takes His Life Because of 111 Health. Greenwood, Oct. 21-Lafayette Sheppard, a well known citizen of Greenwood, committed suicide late yesterday afternoon while sitting on the front piazza of his home on Oak street, shooting himself in the tem ple with a pistol. Mr. Sheppard had been in ill health for a long time, and had been very despondent. He had been a resident of Greenwood for over 30 years, and has a host of friends in town and over the county who are shocked at his death. Mr. Sheppard is survived by his daughters, Mrs. C. M. Bobo, Mrs. W. T. Biers, Mrs. C. B. Beudrot, Miss Lula and two sons, Oscar Sheppard, of Garfield, Ga., and Edwin Sheppard, of Augusta. Mr. Sheppard was a member of the first Baptist church here and the funeral exercises will be held to-morrow af ternoon, conducted by his pastor, Rev. G. N. Cowan. He Was Welt Off. H. Clay Calhoun, testifying in an assault case, spoke of one Washing ton White as "well off." "Now, witness," said the cross examining lawyer, ' when you de clare White to be well off, what do you mean? Is he worth $10,000?" "No, sah. Oh, no, sah," said Cal houn. "Is he worth $5,000?" "No, sah. Mah, gracious, no!" "Is he worth $1,000?" "No, sah; he ain't wurf 17 cents." "Then how is he well off?" "Beka8e. sah, his wife am a No. 1 washlady and keeps de hull fami ly in hangup style."-Exchange. William Dean Howells is a stout opponent of those novelists who, un der the pretext of reforming their readers, write books about vice. "Such writers," said Mr. Howells at a luncheon at Kittery Point, Me. remind me of a lad whose mothei said to him: " 'Why Johnny, I do believ( you're teaching that parrot to swear. " 'No, I'm not, mother,' the bo: replied. Tm just telling it what i mustn't say.' "-Los Angeles Times service as a juryman. Fine rains have fallen here in th last 24 hours. Of course the crop do not need it, and much damag has been done to cotton in the field but what does it matter, when th price is low, and our people ar making more than they can gathei The earth needs it if the crops don'l More Anor JOHNSTON LETTER. Ladies Missionary Society Hold Celebration. Attractive LyceuinCoucse- U.D. C. Delegates. The first anniversary 01 circle work of the woman's missionary so ciety was celebrated on Monday and a reception was given by the seven leaders, Mesdames Annie P. Lewis, M. T. Turner. Joseph Wright, J. P. Bean, J. C. Lott, P. C, Stevens L. E. Grim, to the members of the missionary society, the Y. W. A's. and the presidents of the other so cieties in iown. The affair was held in the after noon in the Sunday school rooms of the Baptist church, and Mes dames O. D. Black and P. B. Wa ters received the ladies at the front and Mrs. W. L. Seigler had charge of registry book. A short devotional exercise was conducted by Mrs. W. J. Hatcher who spoke very feeling ly of this work, being the one to put forward this plan, and several of the ladies spoke of the success with which t'ie circle work is being met with. The social hour was much enjoyed and ices and cake were served. Mrs. A. P. Lole visited relatives in Edgefield recently. A splendid Lyceum course has been arranged for the winter months by Mr. H. D. Graut. The first at traction will be the Danish violin ist, Axel SkoVgaard. He is the pos sessor of one of the. Stradivarius violins, there bein? only 3 in exist ence, this ono costing him #13,000. Following this will be the "Toron to Male Quartet," "The Philadel phia opera and concert party," and two lectures. Mrs. John M. Wright visited her son, Mr. Joe Cox, in Columbia re cently. Mrs. Eleanor Ivey is at home from a visit to Mrs. Lona Ivey at Greenwood. Miss Lizzie White, a former Johnston girl, who took up the pro fession of trained nuts?, and has been assistant superintendent at the> Augusta hospital, for 3 years, bas been selected "as snpeviurendent of the new hospital wnich will be erected at Greenwood. Mr. O. F. Pechman has returned from the Columbia hospital where he has been under treatment. Dr. Maxwell spent last week in Walhalla with his parants. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Turner, Mr. Wallace Turner and Misses Zena Payne, Frances and Bessie Ford Tur ner made a car trip to Greenwood the last of the week and were guests at the home of Dr. J. Wallace Payne at his country home at Epworth Villa. Mrs. Ona Reese, of Atlanta, is visiting at the home ?of her father, Capt. T. R. Denny. Mrs. Edwin Mobley spent last week in Columbia with her uncle, Mr. James F. Mobley. At the last meeting of the D. of C., delegates were elected to the state convention at Greenwood, November 21st-23rd were Mrs. M. T. Turner and Miss Maud Saw yer; alternates, Mesdames H. W. Crouch and J. H. White, Messrs. F. Stanford Bland, J. Howard Payne, W. B. Ouzts and Dr. G. D. Waiker went over to Au gusta on Friday evening to attend the play in the opera house. Mrs. W. W. Hines has returned to Petersburg, Va., after a two week's stay with Mrs. Peter Eppes. Miss Weinona Lewis made a pleasure trip to Augusta during the past week. Mr. Harry Mish Hamilton and Dr. H. Welland, of Middlebrook, Va., arrived on Sunday morning, and were guests at the home of the former's sister, Mrs. W. Allen Mob ley. Mrs. W. E. Lott and little Eliza beth and Effie Allen spent last Fri day with Miss Lucile Mobley. Misses Lillie and Petula LaGrone spent the week end in Augusta. Mrs. H. W. Crouch and Miss Elise Crouch, spent a portion of last week in Augusta with Mrs. E. G. Morgan. Mrs. Mary Hamilton has gone to Atlanta to visit her daughter, Mrs. Horace Black. On Saturday night about twelve o'clock the alarm of fire was given, and it was found that the guard house was on fire. The negro man that had been placed there the dav before, stated that he had beer smoking and falling asleep the pipe had set fire to the place. It if thought that he used this device as a means of escape. The fire was dis covered by Dr. Allen who was re turning from his practice. The date for the chrysanthemun show has, been set for Novembe 11th, and will be held in Turne hall. 'All contestants are asked t< send in their names to Miss Ev; Rushton before November 4th, a DO name will be registered after that date, and all flowers to be brought on Friday 10th, except cut flowers. In the afternoon the monument to the Confederate dead will be un veiled and the exercises will include an address. The D. of C. will serve dinner during the day. Happenings Around Antioch. Yesterday was another rainy Sun day and we had no service at all at Antioch. Some days must be dark and dreary, but we would rather those days wouldn't come on our preaching day, especially as we have only one sermon a month. Since the last writing from this section the death of Mr. Ginae Wood has occurred, the account of which was published in last week's issue of The Advertiser. One by one the old people are being called away. Mr. Wood was the oldest man in our neighborhood, having passed his eightieth year. We sym pathize deeply with the family whose sorrow is made doubly great by the extreme illness of Mrs. Geo. Wood, the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ginse Wood. On last Tuesday Mr. Lester Tal bert was called to his old home near Troy on account of the death of his aged father who had been in bad health for many weeks. Mr. Tal bert's many friends extend to him profound sympathy in his bereave ment. Mrs. Margaret Bartley has spent the past week with relatives in our midst. Miss Eugenia Mims, of the S. C. C. I., spent Sunday and Monday with the home-folks. Several from this section attend ed Forepaugh & Sells Bros. show in Augusta last week, and many of us took in the Haag show last Fri day. Early last Monday morning the house of Rev. Chas. Dobey (color ed) was consumed by fire, but through the kindness of his white neighbors all the contents were saved. Is not bad weather the folks of this community will attend the Fair this week. Town of Ninety-Six. The New York Times published the following: "Here is a novel wager among commercial men arisingover theques tion of the name of a certain town. A group of these travelers happen ed to be stuck in the course of their wanderings over the country. One man said the oddest of all he had ,?ver encountered was "Ninety-Six," whereat his fellow-travelers hooted at him for a fabricator. He took all of the bets that were offered that there was no such town in the country, and it was left to me to settle the question. I in turn am leaving it to The Times. "The traveler was right. Ninety Six is a village in good standing in Abbeville county, S. C., some 80 miles southwest of Camden. Tradi tion says that it was so named be cause it was founded just 96 miles from Keowee, the principal town of the Cherokee Indians in the Sonth. "Ninety-Six is not without his torical lore. In the Revolutionary war it happened to be,an important strategic point. While it was occu pied by a Loyalist force of some 550 men under command of Lieut. Cruger in 1781, it was unsuccess fully besieged by a force of Ameri can patriots under Gen. Greene. The siege continued from May 21 to June 19, when, on being inform ed by his scouts that a greatly su perior British force under Lord Rawdon was approaching the town, Gen. Greene abandoned the siege and hastily withdrew. "The Americans made a historic assault on the Loyalist fortification' on June 18, being repulsed witt heavy losses. "Jes- as he is" "Dinah," asked the preacher when it came her turn to answei the usual questions in such cases, 'do you take this man to be youi wedded husband, for better or fo: worse-" Jes' as he is, parson," she inter rupted; "jes' as he is. Ef he gets an? bettah, Ah'll know de good Lawd'f gwine to take 'im; an' ef he gets anj wusser, w'y Ah'll tend to 'im ray self." Just received a big Stock o Boy's Clothes the handsomest lin ever shown in this section. Sizes I to 18. Prices ranging from $1.5i up to $8.50. We can sell you a up-to date suit for your Boy for $5.5 the same you are paying elsewher for $8.00. Don't fail to look a them even if you are not ready t buy them now. C. H. Schneidei next to Edgefield Mercantile (Jon pany. BUYING BEEF CATTLE. Under Clemson's Extension Work Prof. Smith Gives Valuable Suggestions Con cerning Beef Cattle. Of all the factors which deter mine the profit in feeding beef cat tle the buying of the cattle is one of the most important, and one cf the most difficult with which fanners in this State have to contend. Clem son College has lately been doing everything possible to induce the railways to grant reasonable freight rates on cattle from St. Louis and other large stock centers to Wash ington, Richmond, Ballimore, and New York with a four months feed ing limit in South Carolina, and we still hope that this arrangement can be made. The present practice of buying in North Carolina and Ten nessee is unsatisfactory and expen sive, as the supply of cattle is limit ed and the quality badly mixed and the expense of buying greater than is necessary. Buying in the large stock centers would reduce the ex pense and enable the farmers to pur chase desirable cattle at any time instead of having to bay early in the season before many of them are ready to start feeding as is now the case. There is an old saying that cattle well bought are half sold and, to assist farmers who are experienced in this work, Clemson College will furnish a competent man without charge for his services to assist in selecting where a sufficient number are to be purchased at one time. Shorthorns, Herefords, and Aber deen Angus are the three popular beef breeds, and there is practically nc? difference in the value of these breeds for feeding purposes. En deavor to buy cattle as uniform in color, size, and quality as possible, of the low set, broad backed, smooth type, weighing from 900 to 1000 lbs. and carrying sufficient flesh to enable them io finish well in 100 to lao days, counting on a gain of li to 2 lbs. per day. In buying cattle ^froto dealers in sist on keeping them in a dry lot without feed or water for twelve ' "nou1rs^etedinr'^?gl^8T>r?? ducting 3 per cent in weight to avoid paying beef prices for feed and water and an excessive shrink age in shipment. Don't buy young oattle or thin cattle scrubs, as they will not fatten readily and will have to be sold at low prices. Count on an increase in the value of cattle of lc to li per lb. and buy only cattle that will fatten quickly and increase in value as they put on flesh. Clemson College will gladly fur nish all the information necessary regarding the proper methods of feeding cattle, and will furnish a competent man to visit each farmer free of charge to render any assist ance necessary. The Experiment Station will also feed two carloads of cattle this winter to study farther the more economical methods of producing beef. Prof. A. Smith, Chief Animal Husbandry Divi sion. October 21, 1911. Union Meeting. The union meeting of the 2nd division of the Edgefield association will meet with Red Hill chnrch on Saturday October 28th and 29th 1911. Devotional exercises at ll a. m. by J. D. Hughey. 11:30: Roll call, verbal reports from the delegates of the churches. 1st Query-The cause of reli gious indifference (a) In the home, (b) in the church, (c) in society. G WMedlock, J O Atkinson, RM Johnson and T P Salter. 2nd Query-What manner of life and service in men will render th? highest good in his community. J H Courtney, W T Prescott, S B Mays, C C Jones. Adjournment for dinner. 3rd Query-What should be the nature and kind of amusements that a church member should engage in. P B Lanham, J D Hughey, W D Holland and T C Mathis. 4th Query-Are we giving for the advancement of God's kingdom as he has prospered us. Geo. Wright, D E Lanham, J W Quarles and J C Whitlock. Sunday 10:30 a. m. Sunday school mass meeting conducted by superin tendent of local school. Missionary sermon by Rev. Z T Cody of the Baptist Courier. Adjournment for dinner. Afternoon services to be provided fer. C. M. Mellichamp, For committee. Big lot of blankets just received at bargain prices. Israel Mukashy,