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GOOD MEETING IN
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ADDRESS IN PART OF GEORGE
W. WHEELER, MANAGER OF
& C. L. 0. ASSOCIATION.
UNIMPROVED ACRES
Reclamation of Fertile State Lands
Is Task Tor Both the State and
Federal Governments.
Florence.—Great interest was man-
, ifest in the several subjects discussed
at the annual meeting of the Florence
County Agricultural Society held here.
The president of the society, R. K.
Curren, opened the meeting and intro
duced the speakers making introduc
tory remarks which were in them-
-ie]*©#—very -iftstruct+rsf:
There are 11,000,000 acres of rich
fertile idle lands in this state that can
be reclaimed and made productive and
put on the tax books of the state as
improved ai^d revenue produ&Jpg land,
according to George R. Wheeler, man
ager of the South Carolina Land Own
ers’ Association, who addressed the
meeting on the subjects of getting
ready for the coming of the boll wee
vil and increasing the taxable wealth
of the state. He said as there are ap
proximately only 6,500.000 acres now
on the tax books, as improved revenue
producing lands, the way - is clearly
shown how to go about increasing the
taxable wealth of the state thereby
causing a greater annual revenue from
taxes which will enable the state
either to reduce the tax levies or to
spend greater sums in the upbuilding
of the stato. He said 1,500,000 acres of
idle land need drainage. That is a
vast area and the reclaiming of such
an area is too big. a Job for any group
of men. one or more counties or even
th<e state. It is a Job that will require
federal aid. The federal government
goes in partnership in building roads;
it goes in partnership in the employ
ing county agents, and he said it
should go in partnership in draining
the coastal plain.
IENT TO Cm
DEFINITE MOVE MADE, TOWARD
LONG EXPECTED CHAWOEm“"‘
OUR MEXICAN POLICY.
RREAKIN6 POINT APPROACHES
Action Taken Becauae of Continuance
of Series of Murder* ^nd Outrage*
of Citizen* of United State*.
Washington. — The first definite
move toward the long expected change
in policy in dealing with Mexico was
disclosed.
Carranza has been warned that if
the murdars and .outrages of Ameri
cans continue, the United Stataa “may
be forced to adopt a radical change
pollcy with xegardm.
With the announcement at the state
department, however, came no au
thoritative indication of how far the
American government is preparing to
go to enforce what lacks only the
diplomatic technicalities of an ulti
matum.
The government announced its ac
tion by publishing air exchange of
notes with Mexico City, and prefaced
its official statement with the expla
nation that the diplomatic represen
tations referred to had been taken
“in view of the long series of mur
ders and outrages of American citi
zens in Mexico, culminating in the
murder of Peter Catron in San Luis
Potoai last month, and the perpetua
tion of other acts in disregard of
American lives and property.”
HOME
TOWN
HELPSE>
FLOOD OF FOREIGN GOLD
BLAMED FOR HIGH PRI6EB.
Barnwell.—Sheriff J. B. Morris of
Barnwell county tendered his resigna
tion to x Governor Cooper. In his let
ter ft* chief officer said he was enter
ing business in Barnwell and asked
that his resignation be accepted.
Washington.—Haled before th* bar
of the federal electric railways com
mission, a billion dollars in foreign
gold was arraigned by Professor Irv
ing Fisher of Tal* university, as the
chief culprit not only in bringing
American trolley lines to bankruptcy,
but in Mnding prices generally sky
rocking to uhdreamed of high levels.
The flood of bullion, h* said, cam*
before the war, sent over to meet pur
chase by belligerent powers in th*
United States.
JAPAN NOT TO SEND TROOPS
TO AID ADMIRAL- KOLGHAKw
Anderson.—Anderson county road
bonds in the amount of $290,000 will
be offered for sale on September 9,
and the remainder of the $1,^50,000
will be placed on sale next year, ac-
cordtng to a decision of the Anderson
County highway commissioners.
Oreenvllle.—The naipes of the offi
cers of the Hejas Temple, the new
Shrine Temple to be instituted here
with Jurisdiction over all of upper
South Carolina, were announced by
Potentate Goorge T. Bryan. At the
same time. Mr. Bryan announced that
October *3 has been chosen as the
date for the first ceremonial of Hejas
Temple.
Barnwell.—The first bale of the 1919
cottoq crop was ginned here for B. J.
Brown, a progressive negro farmer of
Barnwell. The bale weighed 430
pounds and the staple graded mid
dling. This la two days later than
last year’s record, when H. W. San
ders of this city marketed the state’s
first bale on August 9. Cotton is
opening rapidly in some sections now
and the local gins will soon be running
at full blast.
Laurens.—At a picnic held Jointly
by the Woodmen of the World, th*
Woman’s Circle, W. O. W., and th*
Masons at Mount Gallagher Friday,
the principal speakers of the day were
Major Henry C. Tillman, of Green
wood, and Capt. John J. McSwain, of
Greenville, two officers in the armies
of the American Expeditionary Forces
and both eloquent and popular public
speakers.
First Bale Iftlt Cotton.
Charleston.—The first bale of cot
ton of this season sold on the local
market brought 49 cents at auction,
after lively bidding. It was grown
near McClellanville, this county.
Edgefield —A charter has been pro
cured for the Dixie Highway Hotel
Company, of Edgefield. The Incor
porators made a canvass of the town
and $28,000 was subscribed to the cap
ital stock. In a few days the subscrip
tion will run to $50,000. This assures
Edgefield a first-class hotel.
Would Know Her Profiteer*.
Greenville.—In order to ascertain
whether there is profiteering in Green
ville in any line of business, a central
committee composed of business men
representing various businesses and
other citizens representing the public
was appointed by Mayor H. C. Harv-
ley at the request of the wholegato and
retail dealers of the city. Just what
procedure will be taken by the com
mlttw has not yet been definitely de
cided upon but will be worked out
within the next two or three days.
‘
Toklo.—It has been learned that the
Japanese government after mature de
liberation both by the cabinet and
diplomatic advisory council, has in
formed the government of Admiral
Kolchak that Japan is unable to ac
cede to its request to send several di
visions of troops to assist Kolchak.
CAR REPAIRERS DECIDE
TO CALL OFF STRIKE
Chicago.—Delegates representing
25,<X)!0 car repairer* employed by Chi
cago railroads by a rising vote decid
ed to call off the strike and return to
work. The action was taken at a mass
meeting of the delegates called to con
sider the question of the strike, after
an address by International Vice
President J. M. Patterson, who vigor
ously denounced those responsible
for the walkout as radicals.
TO SUPPRESS ALL SINN
Ft IN ORGANIZATIONS
London. — The government an
nounces that owing to increase in
crime in county Clare. Ireland, it has
been decided to suppress all Sinn
and kindred organizations In that
country.
TWO N. C. MEN KILLED
BY BOILER EXPLOSION
Suffolk, Va.—Three men were killed
outright and seven others were badly
injured when a boiler at the plant-of
Caulborne brothers’ mill near here,
exploded. The dead are; Claude
Hampton, Roduco, N, C.; Carlton Par
ker, Eurn, N. "C.. and Rufus Johnson,
colored. Savannah, Ga.
EIGHT PERSONS KfLLED iN
CAR AND ENGINE COLLISION
Parkersburg, Ty. Va.—The death list,
as a result of the crash between a
street car, crowded with women and
children enroute to a picnic, and a rail
road engine at Parmanco, two miles
north of here, was Increased to eight
when five persons succumbed to their
: njurles in hospitals.
The street car. pronerty of the
Monongahela Valley Traction Com
pany, crashed into a railroad switch
engine. ,
EX-GOVERNOR FERGUSON -
AT HEAD OF NEW PARTY
Fort Worth. Tex—Two factions of
Texas Democrats, dissatisfied with
the present party organization, met
'lere and determined upon separate
'ines of attack to accomplish a return
to “the principles of Jefferson and
Jackson” in state and federal 'govern
mental affairs.
One faction headed by former Gov
ernor James E. Ferguson, left th*
9re**nt Democratic organishtioa and
binned the “American party.“~
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CLEAN UP AND KEEP CLEAN
Much More Thkn Mere Comfort Is In
volved in Having Community
Free From Dirt.
The greatest effort In the'history of
cleanliness is on!
For cleanliness has a history. Its
influence can be traced down the ages.
Those races that were clean were
those races that were the masters.
The Athenians, with their baths and
beautiful homes, conquered the Per
sians, with their unkempt beards and
dirty skins. The Romans, with their
aqueducts, their barbers, their gar
dens, beat back the barbarians with
their goat skins and greasy fingers.
Louis XVI was the most dainty mon
arch France ever had and one of the
J»lffb8e»t.—Pfltir kept” Thir 'PanSmoT
canal from being built years before It
finally was. Bolshevism flourished
when the dirty and ignorant gained
control in Russia.
Real people, the wise, the leaders in
progress, always have fought for
cleanliness. At times it has been a
sporadic fight, a skirmish. A clean
man was handicapped by a neighbor
who let his premises run wild. But
cooperation has been brought to play
at last.
This year, in the United States
alone i 7,000 villages, towns and cities
are campaigning fof cleanliness and
health. They are not doing so for a
day or a week, but in a continuous
campaign. In a steady pressure.
Tin cans, flies, refuse, dirt, waste
paper, unsightly buildings, unpalnted
surfaces are taboo. The drive is on.
It has been estimated that 80,000,-
000 men, women and children in the
United States are annually Interested
in and working on dean up and paint
up activities. It is an army of magnifi
cent purpose and of immense possibili
ties. It Is bound to win.
Join the forward movement. Clean
up. paint up and keep it up. . Make the
old enemies, dirt and disease and un
sightliness, abdicate and stay out.
WHY HOME OWNING IS URGED
T*n Powerful Arguments Put Forward
by Those Convinced of Wisdom
of the Plan.
Home owning will result In benefit
to people who become home owners
and to the city as a whole, for these,
among other, reasons:
1. In the long run the home owner
is more prosperous than the renter,
and the prosperity of any city depends
upon the prosperity of its individual
citizens.
2. The home owner is permanent;
the shifter does little good to his city
or himself.
3. The home owner is progressive;
the renter is not interested in progres
sive movements.
4. Habits of thrift learned in home
buying add to the wealth of the Indi
vidual and the city.
5. The home owner beautifies the
city; the renter does not; the more
beautiful our city Js the more people
will be attracted to it.
6. Other things being eqnal, the
home owner is a better worker-than
the renter, and keeps his position af
ter the renter is discharged.
7. The owner of a home has an ever
present protection against poverty,
and will hot become a charge upon the
community. ~
8. No city of renters can ever suc
ceed. No nation of tenants ever be
came great
9. A city that Is worth, living in Is
worth owning a home in.
10. Other things being equal, the
home owner is a better citizen, a bet
ter soldier, a better American than the
renter.
Old-Fashionod Flower Garden.
“A thing of beauty is a Joy forever,”
which can be found in a bed of old-
fashioned flowers at a minimum cost.
After the soil is prepared, sow the
seeds or set out the plants, putting the
tall ones like sweet peas, hollyhocks,
golden glow and sunflower* In the
back. Plant shorter ones in front,
such as the marigolds, Japanese pop
pies, sweet Williams and field daisies;
In front of these stUl shorter ones,
sneb as petunias, nasturtiums and as
ters, with pansies, pinks and verbenas
in front* A border of candy tuft or
sweet alyssum la very decorative.
With such au arrangement, flowers for
the parlor and living room table can
be obtained until frost comes.
Many a bouquet of beautiful flowers
at practically no expense also can find
Its way into the room of some sick per
son or to a hospital ward.—Thrift
Magazine.
Build Bifid Horn**.
Birds add. much to the home sur
roundings and are easily made neigh-
bdrs If nesting places are available.
Bird houses will attract wrens, blue
birds, martins and nuthatches; and
the windbreak, apple orchard, or lawn
trees make good homes for orlotaA
phoebes, robins and thrushes. They
will pay for any attention by the de
struction of many injurious insects.
Some fruiting shrubs, such as the
Juneberry, blade haw, sheepberry and
cherry should be planted in thickets,
not alone for the birds, but b*cauM
they add much to the surroundings.
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