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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13.1908. VOLUME Xiii-NO. 52 That smart attire is dependent upon lavish expenditure. Exactly the same knowledge of exclusively correct fashions that goes into th? making of high-priced custom tailored garments has been used in the productions of . O. EVANS & GO'S For this Spring and Summer, and our assort* ?s stylish in design, as perfect in out, as fault- . : lesa in fit and finish, as those for which many .(r jnaker* charge double the price. : : V : : I . If |t|s not the thought of the high cost of your garments, but their intrinsic character : ; and looks that gives you satisfaction, don't t fail to ?orn? and see our splendid selection of f styles in Fine Quality Grey Worsteds ipi I Cassimorea, Plain and Fancy Worsteds, Mixed Tweeds and Blue Merges-made with th? care :? 4ul attention to details; of refined fashion, , /which men of discrimination appreciate. T> Sf. .'?.-7.V > iff*} FARMERS UNION B?M?. Conducted by 5, O/Farmers' Union. Add rosa all communications in tended for this column to J. C, Strlbllng, Pendleton, S. O. More About That Farmer's Home Made Colton Warehouse. The importance of this cotton ware house business to farmers we think Justifies our devoting considerable apace on this subject now in order to get in shape for a big effort in building these houses aa cooa aa the farmers are through their crop work. There la no doubt ?bent this, that if all tho loseln weights and damages on Cotton in one season wore bulked in each cotton county, the loss sustained here would nay for at least ono email warehouse io each important county in th? Sooth. < ' Whilst farmers aro getting together on a .coronerative plan on tho cotton warehouse they aro at tho eam? HIA? peooming!oducated of other lines of business} ibis coming together on this warehouse business will teach farmers how to get bettor school houses, churches and' better roads and mail facilities* and, afrovo nil, it will teach farmers that there is strength, and Dowerin organi?ed efforts, while in dividual efforts of our strongest mee unorganised' ls nothing mote than the struggle of a weakling. . We did not state in our other artiole that the specifications there given were rockbottom aa to '?he cheapest j plans on all bon^ht material. The priers on carnet, for instance, rangea in different places all the way from SJ.uO to $2.75 per barrel. Where cement has to be chipped any consid erable distance ever the rail the high est grade cement is tho kind to use. Instead of slopeing the roof all one way it is perhaps best to make the cone or high part in the middle, eloping the roof CO feet each way. " - The difference in the insurance Tates will not justify sprinkling or water tank arrangements for less than a three section warehouse. Goat of water tank and equipment is about $500.00. Additional cst of piping for each section added. Where automat ic sprinkling arrange ments are to be used the space above the bales shonld. be at least one foot more than mentioned in our first o?aos; that is, the lowest part of walla should be nine feet instead of eight feet. Remember, also, that after one sec tion has beenup:*?i np that only the coat of one wall-wo cost of machine has to be paid for each additional sec tion, the roofing, ends, ?cc, being the same on all codions. * About Insurance on These Cement Hollow This burean has been informed that noose design ed menhara cirAn lated rsgoxt (no doubt to discourage this ifrQrehones? movement-among farmers) tant insurance ratee would bo higher on these noose* built Of hollow cement Mooka tifa? o? e?oa dard bri ck houses, when in reality the roverse is the truth in thia matter. Looking at it from the standpoint of the farmers' aide of this warehouse business, there seems to be too much doing by the large cotton warehouse men to discourage farmers in building and owning their ?wu warehouses, Now, we are of tho opinion that this farmers' Union movement hus reached that atago in aun/oets and strength that we can safely say to all these in surance agents and other henchmen of tho opposition to the farmer's ware house business, that wo are not going to have any more bociboosling and tom foolery in this thing. Farmers will eoon have enough of these ware* houses to ran a mutual insurance of their own, like the mill men are now dolos? Tho Farmers' Union wauhause bus iness we trust w> li soon bo in shape ts J take caro of steel ii? every other way ' aa well es take care of the price of cot ton. Pricing Our Own Products. Tho Faraera^ Union ought to feel Very proud of their record in tho mat ter of eottios their own prices on their great money crop, cotton, and main taining these prices as against all efforts of both bears and nolls and oven a good atifl pall of union Mon who persisted in the attempt to follow thc speculative breach of trust by the Cotton Association who made an effort to jump from ll neats to 15 cents at the risk of their reputation for fair dealing.. .. It will be remembered that at the cotton growers' meeting Ut Asheville there was a hard pull made by consumers and bears to set tiri ceo lower, while the Farmers' Union atood firm at their original set price of ll cents and won out on this price. And again at New Orleans when the Cotton Association jumped the other way and named 15 cents the Farmers* Union stood firm upon her pledge and said no! our foundation upon which Our organization rests, our character and reputation for fair dealings and and our good judgment as to what is a fair price for our cotton. In the face of G cents cotton in 1004, the Farmers' Union pledged them selves to stand up for 10 cents, and they who kept the faith got their price. . The Farmers* Union made the prico of ll cents for our last crop and nave atood firm at the stake, it made ! no difference which way the wild cat jumped,'* the 'Farmern7 Union otood film upon the rock bottom prices ol? ll cents sud got ali shevo this figure that she could, This record for good judg ment, ilnu convictions and good faith should d ri ve confidence into all Union j men as Well as all others that hereaf ter when tho Farmers' Union make a price for their cotton that said prices are in the first place a fair and reason able price, and that tho oldest and original price- rc ak era for oar cotton .-The Farmers' Union-have in their power to. maintain these prices even under greater preamp re than before, because the Un jon ii* now better forti fied than ever before with more > ware houses of their own, more home-made supplies and moro than tis husdrcd thousand members ta oor ranks and still growing at ? F?pid rate. While pur present erong are growing: we ehonld diligently keep account of the coat of onr cotton ?*rop mid ilguro i out t??onr own Ulinda what would oe a fp.ir prollt io eacli County Union upon the average, then lot each State make the average. Then aggregate tho average muong all tho cotton States nt one round np meeting aud then drive down tho stakes at a fair avernge and tit and by these pricea. Tho following sensible clippings from a leading article taken from Cot ton and Cotton Oil News should bo good food for the minds of all cotton farmers: "If the New England States had the raising of the American cotton crop, instead of the South, cotton would be fjollinK at twenty-iive cents npounc*" "It is too custom of our people to tel iou that 10 cents is enough for cotton, loreover the great majority of our people are so ignorant of the Droper value of cotton and cotton seed pro cueto, If the man who raises cotton says that ten conto is enoogh most certainly no one will dispute it and pay more if they can help it, though we think no planter will say that ox cept the unwiae one who has sob I his j crop lo advance at ten cents OL the board is is DOW the most ramyaufc bear and crop liar in the world.. ?1f men in the grain belt went around saying sis bits ie enough for wheat, there would be tar and feathers wasted. If men went around saying butter ls high enough at 15 cents a pound in tho dairy districts, there would be a baptism in stale milk. Hence it is with unspeakable shame that we confess the South systemati cally rrtns down its own wares, and embarrasses both cotton and cotton oil products with depreciation, denun ciation, underated values and grosser carelessness in preparing cotton for market. Let ns all turn over a new leaf. Let ns all contend for the an premacy of the cotton and force the \ planter bears who are so many short I on the market now to have a better Erice for cotton, the giuner to get a otter and more uniform price for bis cotton ginning and the cotton oil mill to get more for its manufactured pro duct enabling them to pay more for seed. Ail this is easy. Let ns tell the nations of the earth that our cotton is cheap at fifteen cents a pound, because the mills have been selling the clot h on a basis of that price for three years, and that cotton oil and meal rs worth uni form i ly present prices. When we do this we shall in a small way begin to realize the Utopian dream of the most optimistic cotton philosopher." - A diBpatoh from Augusta, Ga., under date of th > 16th inst, says: "Heavy raina the last ?hrcr days and a cloudburst today o^ti'id serious damage in this vicinity. Chanty rail road bridges have been waBht>* away, farms and crops flooded and ruined. Two wrecks from soft traoks ooourred on the Georgia Railroad, near Angos ta. AU cotton mills run by water power were forbidden to start for a week by the commissioner of publio works on account of conditions on d?ms and,air?ame." - Somebody stole Rev. Sam P: Jones' shoes While ho ?ts snoozing in a sleeping car the other day, and when ho r cao h ed Car to rs vi lie. Ga., his home town, he had to walk the streets io his stocking feet unlii be reaohed a shoe store. / STATE KEW?. - Greenville will lay ll miles of cement sidewalks. - Greenville County has sold 6G0, 000 bonds to a Cincinnati firm, i_~3 - James MoCoy, aged four, was run ove- and killed by a trolley oar in Charleston. - Tho dispensary profits in llioh land County for the -lonth of May wore $6,668.88. - Senator Tillman says it, "a a sot of sneaks who aro fighting the dispen sary in thia State, ? .v.- Col. Robert Aldrich h?B been ap Solntcd to succeed the late J. E. Tin al, ODO of Clemson's trastees. - A law and order league has been formed to suppress violations of the dispensary law in Edgefield county. - Alioe ?b volo nd, a odored mute, was killed by being ruo over by a freight train near Santuo, Union county. , -Tom Miller bas resigned the prosidonoy of the State negro collego beoauBo of friction between bim and thc truBteos. -*John S. Byrd, of Charleston, for many years one of the boat known traveling men in tho Stats, died Wed nesday in Columbia. - In Orangcburg last Thursday tho St. Joseph hotel was struck by light ning. Several brioks were torn from the wall, but other than this no dam ago was done. -I The .conviction of William Mar cus in the Charleston courts and his sentcnoe to bo hanged, shows that he is the first white man to be hanged in that city in fifty years. - At Fort Mill a negro was shot and slightly wounded white burglariz ing the whiskey department of the ex press office. He waa arrested and will bo tried at the next term cf court. - A candidate for dispenser at Walterboro is said to have offered the oounty board (2,000 for his eleotion. The matter will be referred to tho grand jury. The applicant's name has not been divulged. - The Sana Sonet Club of Green ville through its president, Capt. E. A. Smyth, bas withdrawn its applica tion for a charter beoause the Secre tary of State required an affidavite that the club does not intend to ope rate a blind tiger. - Eugene ff. Bleass, senator from Saluda oounty, bas forwarded his res ignation to Gov. Hey ward. Mr. Blcase is now a resident of South Dakota. It will be remembered that he shot and killed Joe Ben Coleman, cs ?e count of intimacy with his wife, and was acquitted by a Saluda jory. - During a thunderstorm last Fri day afternoon lightning struck the house of I. J. Lowman, in the lower part of Newberry county, and killed n j L i. M?BB Hainan, a visitor, and it ia though'- that Lowraau cannot live. The extent of the further damage ia unknown. Several other persons in tho houso were severely shaken up by the samo bolt. - C. L. Hayes, formerly principal of the Stato normal ichool of Florida, was drowned Thursday evening at the lido of PalmB while ho was trying to rescue others ho thought to be in dan ger. He leaven a wife and four chil dren. His body was recovered. - Supervisor L. H. V. Holson, of Ooonee county, is considering the erection of a stool bridge of modern design over Little River, at Burnt Tanyard, near Westminster. Tho proposed struoture will have a main steel span 152 feet long with woodft\\ approaohes of flfty-aovon feet. - Judge Brawley decided that whiskey drummers had to tako out s license in this State beforo they cooli Bolioit orders. The case game np f yon Marion. M. Ma?kheim was aispe? sar. When that was elosod hebeoamn ^ general agent for BOme bottle sud 00**. Hoked orders* " ~~3r - A speoial from Florence says ex cessive rains in the past week serious ly injured crops of cotton, corn and tobaooo. Many ?elds are completely under water. Dozens of bridges were washed away in the lower part of the State and considerable damage was dono railroad tracks. -- The Supreme Court on Wednes day reversed the deoision of tho State eleotiou board which declared ?he Laurens dispensary election to be legal. By this deoision tho dispensa ries in that county will remain open. Though the eleotion was held some months ago. the dispensaries have never been dosed. - The Sooth Carolina Socialists have put np a oandidate for Governor in the person of J. Leo Chandler, of Clinton, with a view to testing the strength of the. party in the State. A. J. Royal has been nominated for the houso af repr?sentatives from Richland county by the Socialists. The last presidential election recorded 100 Socialists voting in the State. - Rev. J. Matthews Fortner, ?. young minister of Greenville, and a student at Forman University, bas been arrested for desertion from the navy. Effort is being made for a par don, but eo far the efforts made by President Poteat, Hon. J. J. MoSwain and the students of Forman have Eroved futile. President Roosevelt as refused to interfere. - - Senator Tillman will begin hie South Carolina oampaigo July 7th, at j Sandy Flat, in Greenville oounty, end ! will bo at air of the reg ul BP State eas paign meetings unti? August, after ?> which time he will be gone from the State more or less until late in the fall. He has made contraota to deliv er lectures in different parts of uh? United States that will ocoupy pr io ti oally all of his time, i s ' ^^^^ ? '^p^ FRIDAY ; MIXES, TO0 WILTH^^^^ & m ADMINISTRATOR'S BALl^^^ (jaa ity CtOTIU>G, SHOES, F?BNI8HIHG GOODS oad HAM aeUiog at ? J^^^^ ^''^T. Comaatcoco. Secare your ?bare. IbhUthe te p"t?6c.t?oo. Sal, end, Saturday Night, JuueI23rd at 12 o>clook-m?d night. i^ggggjm^?,^ : -?' - >3jMHitef \ ;FBIDA.Y and S?.TOM>AY. Merchandise gqerf given away. ... . 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