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ESTABLISHED 1855 HZT_ YORK, S. C., F'lirDAY. NOVEMIildR 17,"19027" 1STO. 9^ 9
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs of More or
Less Interest.
PICKED DP BY EKQUIKEB REPORTERS
Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
"I notice that the maible facing
about the doors of severai of the offices
in the courthouse has fallen off
lately," said one this morning. "Practically
all of it is off the door of the
office of the superintendent of education
and that of the office of the county
treasurer. I don't know the cause unless
it be that it is the result of bad
workmanship."
Famous Last Words.
''I wonder if it's loaded? I'll look
down the barrel and see."
"Look at this wire hanging down into
the street. I'll throw it to one side."
"I wonder how much elcctrtcity
these wires carry? I'll touch this one
and see."
"I wonder whether this rope will
hold my weight?"
"Which one of these is the third rail
. anyway?"
"Listen. That's the interurban whistle.
Step on the accelerator and we'll
beat it across."
"That firecracker must have gone
out. I'll light it again."
Slogans Worth While.
"Speaking of slogans worth while,"
said one this morning, "here are several:
Look
Learn
Listen
Come up
Pay up
Talk up
Look up
Boost up
Lift up
Stay up
Or
SHUT UP."
Say Good Morning!
It won't hurt you to say "Good Morning:"
As you pas3 me along the way;
It may make your load seem lighter,
And 'twill brighten my cloudy day. i
You cannot see on the surface
What is hidden down deep in a heart; ]
Just your cordial, friendly "Good j
Morning!" i
Might give me another new stnrt, <
T'would make no difference to me, \
friend, 1
To what station in life you belong,
Whether you be rich man or pauper, j
And though to you I'm a stranger, ]
Just passing you on the street, I
I'll appreciate your friendly "Good
Morning,"
And its memory will ever be sweet.
The Price of Eggs.
"While eggs are scarce and we think
that the price is pretty high," said one
this morning, "the price is nothing to <
compare with the prices prevailing for
eggs just after the Civil War. In this
connection here is a clipping from the
Lancaster News that I think your
readers will find interesting:"
"Mrs. H. II. Porter, who is visiting
I .. A T.... T> A T nncy tkSo
HIT UUU.mm I, lUi 9. 1\. XX, i^v'iih *" lino
city, says that she sold eggs on the
Charlotte market during the Civil War <
at $18 per dozen. This was, of coursb,
in Confederate money, and would have
been in normal times only about $1.80 1
or $2.00 per dozen. We have heard it 1
stated also that at one time during the
Confederate war when one wanted to
buy a pair of boots it was necessary to
carry the money in a wheel barrow.
The German mark now is not much i
better than in those days."
Mail Parcels Early.
"Now that the Christinas season approaches
we are trying to make arrangement
for the prompt handling of
the mails," said Postmistress M. E.
Nichols this morning. "Christmas
packages coining to the office soon pile |
high unless they are quickly dispatched.
Early mailing is one way to facilitate
quick dispatch of parcels. Patrons
of the postofflee are also urged
to wrap parcel.- well, to address them
plainly and to put the proper amount
of postage on them. If the parcels are
worth sending they are worth preparing
properly. Another special caution
is added and this, if observed, will
save the postmen much time and trouble.
Be sure to write the name of the
street and the number of the house on
.all mail sent; for if only the name of
the person and the city is put on the
mail the postal workers are often
forced to spend much precious time in
tracing up the proper location of the
one who will get the mail."
Wheat in the Blackjacks.
Mr. Adger Huey, of the Ogden sec.......
vAulnwIm, in
conversation v.ith Views and Interviews,
said that he and his neighbors
had sowed considerable grain, both
wheat and nates.
' We made a pretty fair crop of cotton,"
he said, "rather u better average
than in most sections. The weevil did
us some damage but it was the top
crop that suffered most. A good many
of our people account for our comparative
immunity by the fact that our
black jack country is so wet and cold
during the winter that the weevil has
a pretty rough time of it. We did
not have as many hibernating weevils
as were to be found in most sections,
and the biggest damage was done by
the second brood."
There has been very little wheat
grown in the blackjacks for many
years on account of the chinch bug.
Mr. Huey said however, that the chinch
bug gave very little trouble last year
and the wheat acreage is being increased.
But of course we fear that if
we get to growing as much wheat as
we used to grow the chinch bug will
come back and stop us again."
The Route to Winnsboro.
Writing to J. H. Carroll of Yorkville,
relative to the trip made by Messrs.
Carroll and Marshall between Gastonia
and Columbia, with a view to
making a maping showing route and
distance in order to attract eastern
and northern tourists this way, Mr. J.
E. McDonald, Jr., of Winnsboro, says:
"I noticed in the paper that you were
engaged in making a map showing
road from Yorkville via Chester, Great
Falls, Lugoflf, etc., to Columbia, and
am simply writing to call your attention
to the fact_th.it by next fall we
expect.to complete the top soil road
clean through this county through
Winnsboro. This will connect with
eighteen miles of concrete road at the
Richland line into Columbia. We have
just voted on a $500,000 bond issue
and it carried by a vote of about seven
to one, and there is consequently no
doubt but that work will commence in
the early spring as the road has already
been surveyed. This road will
then be the main road from Charlotte
to Columbia and will be so advertised,
and your own folder would probably
be more effective showing this route,
or at least mentioning that this road
win De comp;eic? in id^3. ine roau
through Wlnnsboro will be considerably
shorter than by going around to
Great Falls, an l will also connect with
a good road to Camden."
SHIP BUILDING DECLINES
English Yards Not so Busy as Formerly.
Lloyd's register of shipbuilding returns
for the quarter ended in September,
1922 show that merchant tonnage
under construction in the United
Kingdom on September 30, amounted
to 1,617,045 tons. This represents a
reduction of about 302,000 tons, U3
compared with the total at the end of
the previous quarter.
The total, however, includes a considerable
amount of tonnage (419,339
tons), on whjeh work has been sus- ^
ponded for s om time. Deducting this
imount for purposes (if comparison '
ivith figures for normal times, the mer hant
tonnage actually under construe- .
lion in the United Kingdom amounted
to 1.198,000 tons.
The average tonnage under con- ^
struction during the twelve months ,
immediately preceding the war was 1,- ,
890,000 or 692,000 tons more than the j
present figures.
The total merchant tonnage now
building abroad amounts to 1,085,511
tons, but includes about 256,000 tons
upon which work has been suspended,
leaving about 829,000 tons actually under
construction. (
The tonnage building abroad is
about 230,00'f tons lower than the total
building at the end of June last, the ,
figures for the leading countries arft:
Italy, 210,111 tons; France, 197,00." j
tons; Holland, 177,024 tons; United
States, 147,056 tons; and Japan, 96.897
tons. These figures do not nke ir.to J
account the tonnage building in Ger- .
many and at Daiuzig, for which no returns
are available, but it is estimated
that the tonnage under construction in
Germany at the present time is about
250,000 tons, and at Dnntzig, 10,000
tons.
Much to Ec Thankful For.?South <
Carolina has keenly felt the relatively j
poor position she has held among the ,
sisterhood ol' states in such matters as
education, good roads and public improvements.
Hut with Thanksgiving j
only a short while off it is not amiss j
to recount some of our blessings. In |,
tbc last number of statistical compila- '
tions that have been made during the :
1; st year this state has footed three
lists for which she should l<e exceedingly
proud.
Is it not an honor to have it said of
South Carolina that she has:
Fewer divorces than any other state?
Fewer automobile deaths per capita
than any other state?
Fewer lawyers per capita than any !
other state?
it proves conclusively that South ]
Carolinians are on the whole well bal- i
a need. T hey have peace at home, |
pence <>n the highways and more peace '
bet wee n'each other than people of oth- 1
or str.tes?if th.e paucity of barristers \
is an infallible indication.
Is it not an attractive asset to claim
greater domestic harmony, fewer |
"death bounds" and the necessity of a !
smaller number of legal mediators i
.than any other state?
Wherefore we may rejoice. By being
on the bottom of these tables we j
are really on top, unless some pessi
mistic critic should point out the eon- 1
motion between the lack of divorce
laws, and the scarcity of lawyers.?1
(I recti ville News.
? Water marks are made bv the
pattern on the wire cloth mold, on
which the paper hardens from the j
pulp.
O
? There are more than 10,000 widows j
in Tokyo, Japan. I
TALK OF BURIED GOLD
Jim Whltener Believed to Have Lett
Money Hidden About Farm.
REV. BOOTH COM'IVG BACK HOME
r.lnvt-r Postal Receiots and Business
Grow?Juniors Initiating Many
Members?Negro Suffers Serious Injury?Colored
Farmer Loses All His
Meat With His Home?Other News
Notes of the Metropolis of Northern
York.
(By a Staff Cor-espondent.)
Clover, S. C., Nov. 17?Did Jim
Whitenor, alleged moonshiner carry to
his grave the secret of buried gold
with him when his light was snuffed
out by the crack of Jlob Whitesidcs's
pistol at Whitener's home six miles
west of Clover last Sunday? Maybe
he did and maybe lie didn't; but there |
are those who are more or less in posi- j
tion to know who claim that considerable
money was buried around the
house where "Whitenor lived. And this
story whicn comes to the correspondent
from a most reliable source is unquestionable:
Just a few days before
Whitener was killed at the liquor party
held at his home ho came to the store i
of a country merchant in the neighborhood.
lie was pretty drunk and he
had a sum of money on his person.
The merchant persuaded him to leave ;
the money, in the store safe. Jim talk- ;
i i ? +L/'.* La Lo/1 of It nm r 1
Cil oi inner moiiej nun uc uuu a.*. ,
and the merchant persuaded him to <
bring: some more of it to him for safe- <
keeping: He brought it?about $457 in <
all. Ho talked of other moneys that he <
had hidden around the place and at i
different times when liquor was talk- 1
ing he told stories of having: much
hidden sold around. When he was ]
shot through the chart last Sunday he '
died almost instantly. According to <
whitnesses he merely uttered a gurgling
sound when three .32 calibre bullets
punctured his body. And he car- 1
ried the secret of the whereabouts of i
more hidden gold if he had any, with <
him when he departed quickly on that ]
journey to that land from whose <
bourne no traveler returns. ]
Made Fair Crop.
It develops that Whitener was mak- '
ing a pretty fair cotton crop this year. 1
Much of his cotton had not been 1
ginned. His visible assets, it is estl- 1
mated are worth in '.he neighborhood
3f $2,000. There is a mortgage on the
little farm that he owned: but he left '
i sum sufficient to pay that. When he }
was killed he was already under bond 5
in the sum of $1,000 for his appearance ,
in Gastonia to answer a charge of 1
operating a moonshine still. A pretty '
fair business man was Jim; ami he (
had already made arrangements to re- f
tain Attorney Woltz of Gastonia to tie- *
fend liim in the case and it is said that '
he had already paid the lawyer Ills fee. 1
Although he lived hard as he died
hard and had served a chaingang
sentence or two in North Carolina, ac- '
cording to Clover business men who '
from time to time had much dealing '
ivith him. there were much worse men '
than old Jim Whitener. He was con- '
ridered honest and if he contracted a 1
debt he would pay it even if he had (
to make and sell moonshine liquor to j 1
pay. He was truthful and he loved his friends.
He had made and "fooled
with" liquor all of his life, according to '
some who had known him from boy- 1
hood and he made good liquor if there *v
is any sueh tiling as "good liquor." 1
His nearest relative is a brother. Mar- J
cus Whitener who lives in the same
section in wnioh Jim lived. Whether '
ar not there is anything in the story *
of buried g'?ld, it is a fact that there *
...:n ?.n mil nr. in lilu iinmil 11 i t V \vlir? 1
will always believe so and from time j
to tirec prowling parties will doubtless
invade :he Whitener place with shovel
:tnd spade searching for it. *
New Methodist Minister.
Rev. S. H. Booth of Simpsonville, !
C., who was assigned to the pastorate
?f Clover, King's .Mountain Chapel and
St. Paul Methodist churches at the recent
Methodist conference in Oaffncy,
is no stranger in York county. Rev. !
Mr. Booth began ills ministry on the
old York circuit, a number of years
ago being pastor of Trinity church in j
Yorkville. Rev. Mr. Booth is married:
and h is four children. He and His (1
his family are expected to come to '
Clover on Wednesday or Thursday of '
next week. jJ
(P lural regret is felt in Clover over '
the tran. for of Rev. J. (I. Iluggin to j
the Methodist pastorate at Winnsboro, *
although the transfer to the latter j!
charge is in the nature of a promotion '
for Mr. Huggin. During tint two years J 1
that Rev. Huggin has lived here the:!
King's Mountain circuit has grown and i1
llouris led under his ministry and he i '
has made many friends ami ng all de- ; '
nominations.
Juniors Grow. | >
Clover Leaf Council No. 23, Junior '
Order United Americar. Mechanics has '?
taken on new growth during the past1!
month and there is no indication of < '
any let up in the enthusiasm in the i
orde r. In the past thirty days fortyseven
new members have been ad- j
Milled Jllld ill' it* an* ;i uu^eii i.ukiidates
who are now awtiting initiatinn.
Council officer.'! arc planning for a big
Junior banquet to bo h hi here Deceml>cr
9. lion. Albert K. Hill of Spartanburg.
prominent in the Junior order
aad Hon. VV. 15. Stuart, editor cf thej
Fraternal page of the Charlotte Observer,
have been invited to lie' present
as the guests of honor and deliver
addresses. Officers of Clover Leal
Council 'arc: Roy Adams, councilor;
S. J. Smith, vice councilor; T. H.
Hopjier, recording secretary; G. W.
Adams, financial secretary; Jas. A
Barrett, treasurer; J, L. Maxwell,
chaplain; J. S. Turner, conductor; Paul
Hedgcpath, warden.
Vital Statistics.
There were 8 births and 2 deaths in
King's Mountain township during the
months of October, according to the
report of O. E. Ford, registrar of vital
statistics for the township. There
were three deaths and only one birth in
Bethel township during that period according
to Mr. Ford.
Postal Business Increases,
lteceints at the Clover nostoffice of
bo:h incoming and outgoing mail and
the sale of stamps and money orders
ha:? increased by leaps and bounds
during the past two months, according
to Mr. Jas. A. Barrett, postmaster
here. At no season of the year?not
even at Chris^nas time has the postal
business been as great as it has been
during the past couple of months. In
fact so great has been the growth that
Postmaster Barrett and the Assistant
Postmaster, Mr. Dan Barrett, have
been hard put to it to handle the
business. The services of another assistant
would be welcome just now.
Had Enough to Do.
Tom Bratton, prosperous negro
farmer would have had enough meat
from the hogp killed last year to run
him through 1923 if the meat hadn't
been destroyed in a fire which destroyed
his home in the Santiago section
early Wednesday morning. Along
with the six-room house which he occupied,
the property of Frank McElwee
of Clover, all his meat supply was
burned and also fifty bushels of
sweet potatoes. He saved his housebold
effects. There was no insurance.
The fire is believed to have been
caused by a defective kitchen flue.
Back From India.
Just returned from India where for
two years they have been working as
snisijionaries of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church, Rev. and Mrs.
FYed T. McGill stopped in Clover Tuos3ay
to speak to Rev. McGill's brother,
Dr. G. D. McGill and other relatives
bore. They were on their way to
Rickory Grove to spend some time with
relatives. Rev. and Mrs. McGill were
'oreed to return from India because of
he ill health of Mrs. McGill.
Neoro Laborer lniured.
John Wilson, a "negro laborer cmiloyori
on the "Hampshire mill project
iuffcred a dislocation of the sixth and
icventll vertebrae Tuesday afternoon
vhile engaged with other hands in unoailing
a car of s'eel sash. Ry some
ne?.ns or other some of the sash he:anie
loose in the car and fell on Wilson's
neck. He was later taken to the
S'egro Hospital in Gastonia, where it
s reported that he is in a critical conlition.
Building Contract Let.
Dr. R. D. Wylie has let a contract to
>ani McCall for the construction of a
iriek store room 24xG0 to be built on a
ot near the Hampshire Mill. The
tuilding when' completed will be used
'or a drug store with Dr. Wylic as
noprietor. J. M. Smith has given
Contractor McCall the contract for a
irick store room to be built on King's
Mountain street.
Messrs. M. L. Pord Sons have re ently
moved their furniture business
nto the handsome two story brick
store room which they have just competed
on King's Mountain street ad
oinmg nieir present .siore room.
M. L. Smith, general manager for
Ik- Hampshire and Hawthorn Mills of
SJovcr has horn in Northampton,
Mass., this week on business in contention
with the mills. JIo was aerompanird
by John It. Hart, Esq., of
t'oriville.
McC'lain Ford, a student at the Atanta
College of Pharmacy was a visi:or
in Clover tliis week.
Mrs. John J. Nichols, who recently
liubrwent an operation for appendi iti
in the Fennoll Iitflrmary, Rock
iiill. has returned to her home here.
PLAYERS DISMISSED.
Furman Football Players Broke the
Training Rules.
"Jack" Dempsey and Oliver McCur\v,
halfbacks, were dismissed from
he Furman university football squad
ruesday by Head Coach \Y. L. Lavr.il
'or breaking training rules at BatesDurg
on the night before the game on
Saturday with the University of South
Carolina. Another member of the
squad, whose name was not made pubic,
also accused of breaking training
rules. will be allowed to remain in the
squad on probation, but wilt be deiicd
the privilege of winning his block
and other privileges accorded to
"varsity" men.
Dismissal of Dempsey and McCurry
reduces the Furman varsity squad to
less than two elevens and comes at a
l ritical time, as Furman meets Clemson
Saturday week in the game which
will decide the championship. Dempsey
and McCurry were two of the most
valuable men on the squad and the latter
has shown up flashily in several
games this year, lieing one of the individual
stars of the South Carolina
game.
Devore Andrews, manager of the
I'unnan team, announced Tuesday that
he will get out for practice. He has
never played football, but is an accurate
punter and a remarkable player,
and has a chance to win a regular
berth.
! FAHIES TRIAL NEAR
Clover Man Expected to Answer Next 1
Week For Killing of Four.
INSANITY IS TO BE DEFENSE PLEA !
i
Brilliant Array of Legal Counsel Has <
Been Engaged for Prosecution and <
Defense?Tragic Quadruple Homi- !
cide In Clover Last September In 1
Review. i
(By a Staff Correspondent.) <
Clover, November 17.?Perhaps not i
since the famous "Iieocc and Lucky" i
tiial, twenty-odd years ago, has there <
i>eon so much interest in a murder <
case as is general i nthe case of Wil- ]
liam C. Paries of Clover, who it Is ex- i
pectcd will be brought to trial in the
court of general sessions in Yorkville i
next week on the charge of slaying 1
four members of the family of James {
II. Taylor at Clover on Wednesday 1
afternoon, September 6. In addition J
to killing Fred Taylor, Claud Johnson, j
Newton Taylor and Miss Lela Taylor, t
the latter two of tender years, Paries t
is also alleged to have snqt ana i
wounded Misses Gertie Taylor and .
Dolly Taylor when he began his campaign
to annihilate the Taylor family t
with puns loaded with buckshot as he i
stood on the porch of his own home f
just across the street frotn the Taylor :
home in the Clover Cotton Mill village c
little more than two months ago. s
Since the quadruple homdeide (
Faries has been a prisoner in the state
penitentiary In Columbia, morose and
plum with little to say to any one as
he sits in his lonely steel cell con- '
stantly ruminating in his mind the
tragic events of that sunny afternoon
which shocked the whole south. It is c
expected that he will be brought to *
Yorkvillc either Sunday or Monday to '
be present in court Monday morning, (
when the fall term is formally opened '
with Judge James E. Peurifoy of Walterboro,
presiding.
A brilliant array of. legal counsel *
has been retained both for the state 1
and for the defense. Appearing for 1
the defense as chief counsel will be {
Hon. Gole I* Rlease of Columbia, for- *
mer governor, who will be assisted by 1
T. F. McDow, Esq., of Yorkville. Assisting
Solicitor Henry for the state, '
will be John R. Hart, Esq., of York- (
villc, and Solicitor John G. Carpenter 1
and Clarence M. Austin, Esq., of Gas- '
tonla.
If the defense be a plea of insnnityr r
and it has been intimated that such n
pica will 1)0 the defense, a number of '
celebrated alienists are expected to ^
give testimony relative to the mental ^
status of the accused man.
Talk of Change of Venue.
It has lK*en rumored that the de- j
fense may move for a change of venue ^
on the ground that the case is still
fresh in the minds of the people of ^
York countj* and further breausc much {
newspai)cr publicity has been given
the case, thus making it impossible to '
secure an unbiased jury. Whether or
not such motion will bo made of
course remains to be seen.
Review of Tragedy.
From evidence given at the coroner's
inquest it appeared . that the
homicide was the result of a children's
feud or quarrel which had been going
on for several months between the
children of Farics and the children of
cl
Taylor. Hard things had been said by
children of both families and it is said
that the heads of each family had become
more or l? ss embittered toward J
each other because of lite inability of
the children to get along.
The terrible slaughter started on the 1
afternoon of September G, it is said
when a child of Farles's came running j
to the fall cr, who was talking to Tom
| Ferry, a neighbor and eye-witness, .
.. .. XT A,.,t To,W
Wlin mi? ssiuiemuill. I?i, Iicm
hit me with a rock."
Remarking to the neighbor, Perry,
"I might as well Bottle this now,"
Faries Is alleged to have gone into his
house and taking up a double barrel
and a single barrel shot gun loaded
with buckshot, started toward the
front porch. Little Newton Taylor,
aged about 12 years, waa playing in
the Taylor yard just across the street
f.'in the Fades porch. Faries fired
and the hoy fell mortally wounded.
Johnson Instantly Killed.
CI iud Johnson, 20, nephew of James
M. Taylor, was asleep in the Taylor
! home, and aroused by the shot started
to the door. A load of buckshot entered
his face and body and he fell
dead. Others of the Taylor family
came out and Misses Gertie, Lela and
Dolly were shot. Miss Lela, aged
about lti, died next day in a Gastonia
hospital.
Fred Taylor, 22, is said to have gone
out the back of the Taylor house when
the shooting was in progress. He went
in the direction of the mill for help.
I After shooting five Faries is said to
i have set his gun down beside a tree
' between, his house and Tom Perry's
house and to have proceeded to draw |
' a bucket of water from the well. As (
Fred Taylor came back toward home (
| Faries is said to have dropped the l
j bucket and picking up the gun again l
| ordered Fred Taylor to come no fur- j
; I her. Taylor paid no heed and Faries I
fired. ! red. died two days later, bring:inpr
the death toll to four. At least
: one buckshot of the load which killed
Fred, is said, to have struck the side
of the automobile of Dr. Waldo MaGill,
parked near the main road a handled
yards away.
Then Chief of Police Jackson ap
peared and Paries surrendered. He
was rushod to Yorkville and from
there carried to Columbia for safekeeping.
Tho Why Of It.
What made Faries kill four members
of Taylor's family, two of them
children? All kinds of theories have
been advanced. In every home in the
country side the case has been discussed
from every angle. Faries, it is
said, insisted on using water from a
well in the yard, although there was
running water in his house. liaised
in the farm he could never get used to
water through tho pipes and wanted
the old-fashioned well. It has been
charged that one of tho Taylor chiliren
had spit in the well after Faries
had cleaned it out and purchased a
lew bucket.
There is a theory that perhaps the
wife of Faries nagged him and worded
him until he l>ecame desperate.
She is an invalid, it is said, and a
hopeless narcotic and drug addict.
Each time he came home there was
tome new story she had to tell about
he quarrels of the Faries children and
:he Taylor children. This theory is
hat he stood it as long as he could
tnd went wild.
It is said there was a quarrel beween
Faries and the elder Taylors the
irovious week and the Taylors said,
something nbout having "a blue steel
tnd a rifle." It is said that remark
aused Faries to go to Gastonia a
>hort time before the tragedy and pur:hase
shells loaded with buckshot.
YORK COUNTY LEADS
Wore Potato Curing Houses Than Any
Other County in the State.
F. L. Harkey, chief of the division
>f markets in the state, stated yesterlay
that already 300 sweet potato curng
houses had been built in South
Carolina, with a combined Capacity of
'SO.OOO bushels of curing space.
Spartanburg county ranks third in
he state in number of curing houses,
laving 18 houses with a capacity of
6,000 bushels of potatoes. According
o the figures, Greenville county, nextloor
neighbor, has two official curing
iouecs with a total of 2,500 bushels calacity.
During the past year eight new curng
houses were built in Spartanburg
:ounty, ten houses having been built
irior to this fall. The capacity for the
>ld houses amounted to 8,800 bushels,
vhile that of the additional eight
imount to 7,200 bushels.
South Carolina began building sweet
lotnto curing and storage houses in
915 with a record of one such house.
iVith the small beginning the followng
figures show the present tendency:
n 1916 thore were built in the state,
lix curing houses; in 1917, eleven
louses were constructed; in 1918,
wcnty houses were built; in 1919 there
vere twenty-five houses built; in 1920
here were thirty-five built; iu 1ST21
here were eighty-one built and last
rear there were 110 houses constructed.
York county has the largest number
if curing houses, there being twentywo
in that county. Orangeburg couny
ranks second in number of houses,
laving twenty, and Spartanburg rankng
third, with eighteen curing houses.
Florence county, although having
>nly a few houses, ranks first in ca>acity,
having a combined storing room
or 70,500 bushels.?Spartanburg HerLld.
? Miss Belle Sorrow occupied the
iulpit in the New Holiness church on
M>uth Main street Sunday night, says
in Abbeville dispatch of Wednesday,
diss Sorrow is a sister of Watson Sorow,
the organicr of the church and
ook as her subject the story of the
ieh man and Lazarus and expounded
ho Word with force. When she finished
icr sermon about twenty men and wonen
came forward and gave her their
lands. This new Holiness church in
Vbbevilie is very interesting. It began
villi meetings in the homes, grew to
ent meetings and street meetings, and
inally Mr. Watson Sorrow conceived
he idea of building a house of worship,
fhe building is a free will offering, everything
in it being donated, lumber,
tails, money and labor being given
reely. The members of the church
lerformed most of the labor, outsiders
xequently lending a hand. About a
nonth ago when the days grew shortt
electric lights were installed on the
scaffold and darkness made no diflfer nce,
the hammers and saws making
nusic way in to the night. Most of the
vork performed was done by men who
lad finished their days* work out in the
vorld, and had to be performed at
light. The organist and choir leader
s a fine inside finisher and after evenng
service he would don overalls and
vork for an hour or two. The building
s now complete and an honor to those
vho have toiled that they might have
:he wherewith to cover their heads
vhen worshipping in teir chosen way.
? Five violators of the United States
imbibition laws were fined $1,000 each
md sentenced to pris. and jail in the
Jnited States district court in Coluralia
Tuesday, a resume of the work
district Judge Henry A. Smith prolarccl
Wednesday shows. Four of the
ivc were brothers. H. E. Jones, of
Columbia, was sentenced to serve 18
nonths in the Atlanta penitentiary and
iay a fine of $1,000. John, Jesse, Arhur
and Samson Mitchell wore fined
>1,000 each, jail sentences of six
nonths each being added to the punsliment
of the first three and four
nonths to that of the fourth.
BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL
The Smith Method Stated And Ex-.
plained.
EXPERT COMMENT BY ONE VflO KNOWS
Something in the Florida Experiment
Station Idea But Farmert Will Probab'y
be Slow to Try to Put it in .
Practice.
L. Willet In Aug-ust Chronicle.
In the old days the culture of cotton
was sadly abused because it included
the growing cf oth< r crops, but thie
does not alter cotton'z value. We now
understand that the farm must feed
itself and the farmer's family. For i
two years a large portion of our cot- '
ton has been sold under cost of pronation
Thp South needs and must
have a dependable cash crop.
Mr. George D. Smith at the Agricul- i
tural Experiment Station of the Unl- j
versity of Florida, with vnst afccumulated
weev'l data at hand before him it
and with thirteen years of actual
weevil field experience gives to the
South a wholl: new and a revolution- 1
ary process of weevil control. His
methods are totally unlike all weevil'
research work to date. The cost is not
over $1.25 per acre and the experiment
station says that if the Smith rules had ,
been universally followed in Florida
this year the outturn per acre in cot- .
ton would have been increased over
$32.00. J?
A Great Advance.
This totally new line remedy is not
perfect but it Is an advance and '
Florida bclioves It will save ninety per
cent, of the normal crop. The gist of
the method may be put into two sentences:
First, remove all squares from *
the cotton plant about June the fifth
and destroy them; secqnd, follow this *
at once with a thorough application of
calcium arsenate, dudted, using a suitable
gun machine. This method is not
effective unless all winter weevils are
out of winter quarters. In Florida this t
is about June the fifth. This work
can be done by women and children.
Each worker mu3t tye equipped with a
tight well-made cotton cloth sack, net
gummy, provided with a draw string
fm- if^oninu- tho month closed. As the
squares and weevils are picked from 8
the plants they arc placed in the sack jfl
and later on taken from the .Held and gj
burned. Not a single weevil on the W
plant or in the bag must escape. Tho fl
work must be supei*viscd byan intcllf- f
gent person. Tho good of (he plan .1
comes only when every square iA des- K
troyed at this particular time. Squaro I
pickers must begin at one sid? of tho g
field and take rows as they come and S
as soon as possible after the squares J
arc removed the application of polqon Ja
should bo made. Both operations can X
bo carried on together successfully by i
picking squares until late in the afternoon
and then let the poisoning begin .
over this picked area. Calcium arsenate
must bo used. Paris Gfcen and
London Purple should never bo used
on plants.
Precautions.
Animals working in tho fields ten
days after poisoning should be muz- a
ziod and operators should wash face
and hands, using plenty of soap. A |j
duster must be used that is hand power
not horse power and strong enough to
force powder into the folds of the j
bud. Tho weevils in the fields deprived. ' '
of squares will attack the terminal ^
buds in a great host, many of them
going inside the folds. This poisoning,
therefore, is directed only at the ter- ,v
initial buds and if we kill the weevils
in the squares and the weevils that are J
*: * 1? * ~...? si ??li\r ivo havn
cuuug nit; iiiiiiiiuii muuo iinj v. ?.? ,
destroyed the weevil population of the
held?hibernation, of course, having at . ?
this time all ceased. It is useless,
therefore, to scatter poison over the
whole field. Five to seven pounds o? i
calcium arsenate is all that will be
necessary per acre. Operators must
walk slowly and take pains to force J
the poison into the smull bunch of '
' tender leaves at the tip of the plant.
Apply when there is no wind and
early morning and late afternoon. It * t
is best that there be dew on tho plants
but dew has nothing to do with the ^
poisoning under the Smith method of
the weevil. The insect is poisoned only
by eating the tender foliage and buds \
I to which the poison has been applied.
Work of this nature cannot be done
well at night but only late in the afternoon
or early in the morning. It was
found that practically all weevils are .
killed within three days after the
poison is applied.
THa Cost.
The Smith method cost is so small,
something like a dollar and twentyfive
cents per acre, that it can be used
on poor land whereas the usual dusting
methods, seven or eight applications,
cannot he used except on the ^
! richer lands. The Smith method is for
upland cotton.
The Terminal Bud.
In the past few years we have found
that we can kill the winter weevil by
poisoning the terminal bud. The Smith i
method, however, waits until emcr- .
gence from hibernation has been completed.
It is very easy to literally fill
this terminal hud with a suitable pois'
on by means of a good dust gun. This
i stripping of squares is radical and the ;
farmer may be afraid of It This
1 stripping leaves the cotton plants free
j to develop and bolls without weevil
| interference for the succeeding seven *
| or eight weeks. When summer migrai
(Continued on I'age Six).