Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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l^ ' "I ^ "^S^I?D SEMI- WEEKLY. ^ L?^\^ ^ ^ ^ I l m. grist's sons, Publisher.. ? <jfamiltt iTurspaprr: jfor the jjromoiion of llic jjloiiticai, Social, Jjriculfur.at and Commercial interests of the fJropi^. R 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).