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VOLUME XXXVI. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1920. NUMBER 2 FARM[R URGED TO ORGANIl Speakers Address Farmers Here Yesterday GROWERS MUST STICK TOGETHER Spukers epresentIng Cott11 Aso. 'elation, Wa reho use S ystem anid ('4elnson Extension Service Tlell 1hnrmers to Organize nnid muild wnreiuses. Farmers and business men of the county gathered in the court i house yesterday morning to attend the meet Ing held under the joint direction of the American Cotton Association, the State Warehouse Commission and the extcnusion Service of Clemson college. The meeting was ooened by .\1r. C. A. Power, chairman of the anurens coun ty branch of the Cotton Association, who made a few explanatory remarks .And turned the meeting over to Mr. ,,D. W. Watkins, of Clemson college, who presided., Speeches were made by 11. Harris, Commissioner of Agri culture, R. G. loneycutt, representing the state warehouse commission, and Mr. T. M. Mills, farm demonstrator of Newberry county, who represented Clemson College. Mr. Mills made the first address of the day in which he pointed out the advantages of having a government cot ton classer, saying that the cotton grower' and the cotton buyer both pro fit by his presence The cotton grader, he saidi had saved the farmers t hous ands of dollars, citing the instance of Orangeburg county where he said that nearly all the cotton was sold on th' nlasser's grades without tile purchas er ever seeing the bales Mr. Mills said that he understood that the grader here the past 'season had giv en general satisfaction and expressed the hope tht the community would sectire one this year . ,ir. Honeyeutt spoke on the needs of more warehouses He said that the farmrs of the Sout were losing mil lions of dollars thlough the lack of proper storage facli-ties Ile advocat ed the erection of individiual ware houses by farmers, using the speclfl eations furnished by the warehouse conImission. le showed drawings of -these plans and said that they would be available to any farmer desiring to make use of them. Mr. IHoneycutt said' the farmers should be prepared to hold their cotton off the market at the lowest expense .in order that the mar kets would not be flooded by too much cotton being sold at one time He said the farmers can make their own price on their product if they use business methods in disposing of it. .\ir. >Ilarris spioke along the general lines of farm improvement and urged organization as the means of securing an Pdequtate price for cotton. Blefore going into a d~scutssion of t'ie Cot ton *Associatioen, he uarged the cult ivat ion of varied crops, especially food crops. Foodl, lie said, woutildie still higher next year and1( the farmer who does not plant anything but c'ot ton wvll be at a loss. Is address dlealt principially, however, with th e general subject of oirganizat ion and par'ticumlarly the ort ganizat ion o)f the. American ('otton AssocIa t ion, lie said( that the Cot ton Association had al ready put mil1lIons of dlollars inlto thle p)ockets of the farmers amid that it would 'put millions moire If they wvould( stand biy it. Tlhere is not enouighi cottont in the world to day, he said, to supply tihe mills unt i November 1st and the farmers have it in their handls to make wvhat. the eprico shall be. Speculators ar'e makIng a dosiperate fight to i'ob the cotton farmers of a fair' price, but If the farmers will standl together the~y will realIze a -bIg pirice for thie comIng cr'op. Cotton is cheap, lie saId, at 75 cents per' lpoundl as compared to other commodlities 9During the meeting It was decided to appiolnt committees throughout the coulnty to make an aggressive cam paign for membership In the, Cotton Association. Another meeting 'was scheduled at ?linton at 10 o'clock in the morning und at Oray Court at 3 o'clook'lin the aftononan ENGINEER MAKES ON HOW TO US Autoists Asked Not to Follow in the Beaten I tion is Asked. or The Advertiser: I would like through youtr colum1 to briiig a matter before the travelin public, wiltch I belleve is of great hm portanIce both directly and indirectly to it, as well a to the subject to b< mentioned, that Is, of tle traflic use ot tle new topsoil roads completed Ir this county. Naturally a new and smooth sur faced topsoil road is enticing to any one driving an auto over It, and espec ially so to those who are inclined to speed whene'ver an opl)ortunilty is of. fe red, and perhaps at. times when at opportlinity Is not offered. A;:art from the fact that. speeding ieyoid the legal limit of 2.,i miles pei hour is unlawil, it Is very dangerotu to tlie ordinary travelling public whet her it be pedestrian, horse and nuggy, teams and wagon, or the slow er driving autoists. There is another feature connected with speeding which the ordinary au toist does itot think about, and i most cases does not kiow about, and that is, that lie is doing what. may be ternied an irreparable damage to the topsoll surface. The rubber tires of a fast moving. high powered car has a strong friction grip on the surfacc of the road, an(] the consequence Is that the smaller hindiig materials wlieh go to form the component por tion of the surfaced area gives way to this terriblIe friction and suction, and is dislodged and blow away from It's original location. The effect of this Mort f thing. i, that th9 .1rfaciU&Ati& readily and rapidly begins to disin tegrate under this and heavy trafic i:)assing over it, especially when sub Jected to the unavoidable and frequent on-slaughts fron the elements. Those topsoll roads that have been constructed, so far In tilis county have b(eei built with the view of tak Ing (are as near as possible, not only of the present trailie but of tile pos sible increase of same for several yearis to colme. both In tlie matter of the width and the thickness of the top HO,3 WEEVIL, IN TlE (01'N'T'Y. County Agent .ioore Finds Ihe ieal Article Near Cross 11111. loll weevils in considera ie quan les were Identified by County Agen \I. ). Moore near Cross 11111 after I visit to that section by Mr. loore last week. The pesky little bugs were fount on the place of Mr. John Neel, about four miles below Cross Hill, and ap ieared to be congenially located fo, tile season. M\r. \Moore said that the3 hadl app~arenitly comlo up from a dlitcl conltainlng manly weedls -where they I biernateud during thed winter and hai spreadl over ab~out an acre of groutnd WhIle relasonably pilentifuil, h~e saidl t hey would hiarudly do any dlamage thiis year hut would likely spread to ot hei stetions of thle colunty. Althlough lie has lheard several re ports of the weevil heing ill thie coun ty tis yearu and1( a few last yearii, Mr' M\oore saiud that these were thle firal that he hlad seen and thlat somec of ti< othier so-calledl weevils that ihad beer brought to his notice were not 1bo1 weevils at all. Some people, he saidl hiad mistaken the corn weevil for th<O b)o11 weevil andl becomne mutch' coin cernedt over thlem. TJhese corn weev. ils, lie saidl, are companitively harm less to cotton andl will disaappear ver3 50oon, thir~ only3 reason for bing ori the cotton being that the farmers hatl grown so little corn that the weevils haven't enough of their regular dicl to feed on and hlave taken to cotton as a last resort. In New Quarters. The Vincent Motor Car Company 'which has been occupying theO stor( room next to Wilkes & Comipany sinc< last year, finished moving into Its now garage and store room on East Mair street bielow the old Robertson Hotel last week. Extensive qiuarters havt been provided theore for work of all kInds and plans are .being laid for ii considerahin nxnansinn o ts usiarns PUBLIC HEARINGS ON HIGIIWAYS Highway Department Calls for Hear ings on State System to be Held it vreenvile ani Spiartanburg. 'Public hearings on Connecting liigh ways in the Fourth Congressional dils trict have been called )y the State highway department to be held at Greenville and Spartanburg on August 4th and 5th respectively according to notices sent out by the department the first of this week. All those interest ed in county to county roads ar vited to attend these hearings. Te notice as senti to the press is as fol lows: Underi thle recent Act of the Legis lature creating a State IlIighway De. oartment, therq Is contained the fol low-ing provision: "The said State hlighway Commis 'Sion shall, under the advice of tle State iiighway Engineer, lay out a system of connecting highways throughioutI the State, connecting ev ery county seat within the State and covering such main avenues of travel and traflic as tihe sild liighway Con mission may deem advisable." 'iefore Complying with the above provision of tlie Act the Deaprinent deems it advisable to hold a public hearing in each of the seven Congres sional Distrlets of the State, to which will be invitedg all parties who may be Ilitereste din lie matter. -A tentative State System was laid out by the forum (r .iighway I)eparitment after long study and careful consideration, and as a basis of discussion this tentative system will be used. Maps of this 1a3 out may be obtained at the ofilce of the County Supervisor of Roads of ev ery 'ounty.. In purstuance of tlie above pur-pose the State Highway Commission will hold a hearing in the County Court House in the city of Gireen'vile on Wed nesday, August 1, 1920, from 10 A. M. to 1 P. M. and a further hearing at the Chamber of Commerce in the city of Spartanburg on Thursday, August 5, 1920, from 10 A. M. to 1 P. M. and any one in the Fourth Congressional dis trict who belleves that the roads in that District as laid out on the said map ought to he changed Is invited to appear at saidlittle tiilt places and state to the said Commission tile change proposed, giving tile reasons therefor. Inasmiuch a the I)epartment is charged with the duty of laying out a State System connecting the county seats and the roads of adjoining slates, only such roads as evould consistently andll properly be incorporated in Suchl a system can be taken into considera tion. F.AN('. IONORS 1'. S. HEROES OF MAIN E hA.VI"TLE 'ihe' iBatttletleld at (hilateau iThierry ('onseerated by Preseaiil(on of Diecoratitns at 11111 No. 201. Chateau Thlerry, July 20.-Tlie bat tiefheldl at Chateau Thtierry, wvher'e American t roops tell with the lFrencht, was conescratedl todlay 1by the priesen tation or the Legion of H onor and the Croix dle Giuerre upon the' town of' ('hateau Thiterry1 The decorations were given in honor of 11i11 204 whl'e the Americans and French army of Geenral Mangin on thelir left, launch ed t heir at tack in the se(onda battle of the .\arne, July 18, I1918. hlugh C1. Wallace, American Am b~assadior. in thbanking the French~'i for heirI tributte to American valor, die 5cibedl'( the scene as "tihe valley (If vict ory3." The ceremnolly of ,iresenita tion 'wats held on thme tolp of 11111 201. at thle foot of the monu ment er'e(tedi toI the men wvho fell in the battle. (Coun try people from ilies ar'oundl lined the mtudd~y, tortuous road, dlrenchied by tih'e rain stormi, andl salutedl the arrival of. Ministeir of War' Lefevre, Ambassador Wallace, Ghenerals Mangin and ileg onette andl othier notable plersonages. The storm ceasedl wvithi the playing of "The Miarseilaise" and "The Star Spangled1 Ilanher." As the ceremony began a r'ay of sunlighbibroke thrloiugh the clouds andl fell across the village of Chateau Thierry, lying below. M. Lefevre paid a tribute to the American soldliers who, ho said, "brought their youlth, their enthuisi asm andl their braver'y" to the alad of France andl gave token of American friendship in blood. Mrs. John Bomar and children, of 'Charleston, are spending the summn with Mr. and Mrs. M. 'L. Smith,.me SUGGESTIONS E TOP-SOIL ROADS Break Speed Records nor )aths. Spirit of Co-opera soil surfacing. But everyone knows, who has had any)- experience witi top soil roads, that at best. they have a traile i linit inusofa r as their standing the wear and tear of traflie. I have noticed as I pass uI and down the new road::: that everybody hianimters along Iin one beaten patl iln the center of the road. This applies to traflic both going and coming. As a matter of fact, if every auto driver would take the right precaut ion in the 1proper spirit, and drive itljst a foot or two to the right of the center of the road, he would thereby unknowingly render great assistance in the maintenance and itl)-kee) and life of the road. It Is plainly seen that tratlic regulated in this manner Would be doing only one-half of the hammering and dam age as It no1w does, with everybody go ing and coming in the center, except when passing other vehicIes, and the life of the road would be almost dou bled by such procedure. I would therefore, like to appeal to all autiUist and t ruck I dlivers to (o'n - Sider this proposition and give it at least. a try-out. I feel sure after stich a system has been given a fair trial they will begin to notice the difference In the condition of the roads. It is 'hard enough, with the limite(l means, labor and machinery available to maintain the roads in proper shape, and especially so when the travelling public has a tendency to thoughtless Iy abuse the privilege of riding with ease and smoothness over the new roads In the same rut, instead of ex ercising judgment, and doing all they can in assisting in their maintenance in the manner above suggested. I might add also that the use of cut outs is very harmfur to top-soil as well as any other soil roads. The cut out acts like a bellows in dislodgling and scattering the oi!l and its con tinued us' will mater-aly shorten the life of the roads. Yours very tritly, N. C. HUGHES, .r., Chief Engineer, Laurens Co. Highway Commission. 1RS. LAURA PHl[ILPOT. WIfe of Capt. .1. 3f. PhIlpjot DIed at Home Here Saturthiy 3Morniui Mrs. Laura Philpot, wife of Capt. J. M. P1hilpot, died at the family resi dence here Saturday morning. Mrs. Philpot had not been well for several months and at times her condition had been critical, but recently she had shown sIgns of Improvement. Hecr deth ecaeo Saturday after abrief r curenc ofillness and was a shoek to the community. The funcal services wer~e held at the hou1se' londiay morning, being con (luteted by her astor, Rev C T, Sq utires, of the Fi rst Presbyterian church, assisted by Rev. Samuel HI. TemC~fpleman, pastor of the First Bap tist. lhulrch. F'ollowinug the services rt the house the hody was borne to tile Lautrens Cemetery where a bief com mittment service with prayer was held. Th'le deceased was a daughter of the late Dr. C. A. Saxon of the Bethany sect Ion of the county, andl was twice marriedi. tier first marriage was to a .\lr. Kern, of thle county, and of this union thItree chiildren siurvive, M\essrs. Jlohn and Charl Ic Kern, of Atlanta, and .\i's. M. F". M\edlock, o' this city. A bout 2G years ago she was married to Capt. P'hilpot and of this union two chii dren survive, Miss Mario Philpot andl \lir. Lautrens Philpot, of this city. Three step-sons also survIve, Messrs. J. E. Philpot, of this city, J. C. Pih-l. pot, a raiway conutctor with head quarters In Atlanta, and Berry PhIl pot, who is in the navy. All of these nereC -at the ftuneral except Berry Phil pot, who could not be reached in time for tihe funeral. The active ipall bearers at the fun eral consisted of her sons and step sons andl the honorary hall-bearers were as follows: Messrs. C. W. Tune, W. P. SullIvan, A. C. Todd, Arthur 1Taylor, L. L. Moore, A. D. Gray, Ralph Terry and Dr. Clifton Jnna. COUNTRY CLUB PLANS DISCUSSED (o Initt1(ees frontii 11,11 i1a1rens and (I In. ton l1 et In Chamber of commerce Rlooms Laast Nhrht. Two committees of about. tel (acl, represent iig tie to:wn I),, of I 1a urelns anld Clinton, met in tlie ('hamber of Comn merce rooms last night and laid planis for the formation of a country club to be locnted about mildway Ietwee'(en the two places. Geo. M. -VWright, president of Watts .\lills, acted as chairalin of the ineeting, and] W. -W. I larris, of 'illon, acted as Secretary. 'T'lis I"eting followed several informiiial in"etiigs which had previoisly beei held where tentative plans for the cliui) had been discissed. A comin i it tee "om13posed of the cbairman of tihe meeting with .\lessrs. C. M. lBailey and W. W. 'Ilarris. of Clinton, and D)r. W. 1). Feriguson and Alison I'e, of lntir:lens, as additional iembers wa.s a.poillte( to draw ip by-laws and se lect a name, this committeo to meet in Clinton Thursday night and repoIt its findings to a meeting of the full committee in I'auirens on the night of August !th. It was brought. out. at the meeting that an option had already been 4( cured oil a favorable site of about twelve acres on the new top-soil roal betwcil laiaurens and Clinton and that .\lr. GCo. Young, of 'Clinton, would (10 nate everal acres adjoining this site. It was linalilously decided to exer CiSU the option and buy the land at once. It is hoped that work on the building and grounds, e.Itimated to cost around $10,000, Will commence before winter Sets in. While the (comiittee did not set a definite limit on the initiation and fees, the sense of the Iecting, as expressed by a vote on the question, was that tile initiation fee should he $100 per memi1 berI- and that dues should be $30 per year. TRICKElRY SEEN IN RUSSIAN PIIOPOSAL Red Offer for Conference With illIes A tt~ei pt to (mltIn liIcle-ition, le. lIef. United States 11111 Take No Action Now. Washington, .1ly p.--Russia's pro posal for a conference with tlie Allies in L.ondon was regarded ui notlicially here today as a skilifil maneulver to (ffect a quasit r1 ecogniiloln of the So. viet regime. Ollieially the state de partment. iwas without any knowledge of the Soviet suggestion, but it was clear that unless some more urgent reason than onw is apparent is given. the Inited Fttates will be in no haste to aceept. an invitation to join in S(11 a confei'ence, even tlotughl one were exten led. It was assumed hero that tile Ini ted States wotil(d be asked to particl pate, but the prevailing opinion ap peared to be that tile specific (Iu'stioil at. isstie--the cessation of the war vith Poland--mn ight better be consid eredl firist by tile hirinc ipalIs. 'The I 'ni ed States, It. was explained, has a peculiar intel e'st ill the situaitloll, aside firom thait of desiring stabil iza ion of political (cond11Ions thlrouighout 'iiiur'p, btit thle met(1hod suggested lby liussla wvas re(garded'( gen('rally as a contiv~ance of thle Sov'iet au thorit ies It) use thle Polish situtition to advannce he in terna tional1 stat us of t heiri re gime. Piresiden t WilIsoni, it was sad 1(t1oday, has kep'lt illfoimed r'egarid inig thle de ve(lop men ts not only as to thie H usso IPol ish si tuat ion but also as to theiC sit - ilationl In its bi'oadcr aspect. The po.. sitloll the Presidenit iavill lake wa's not. evein5Pi(i hpult ed upon01 by other('1 011ie iats of the goverinmeint but1 It has been inidientedl that, unless lhe otherwise di rel'e'd, the attitudte of tile l'nited observer and that for the lpreseint, nol ('xpression of "miiornl suipport" or' mlore active aid wvouild be extended to tli Poles. Laondoin, July 23.- -A wIreless tmes' sage from Moscow todlay asks the P olIshi peace plenipotentilaries to ('ioss thie lines along the .Baranovitchi lIrest lAtovsk highway Jtily 30, wher'e they will be' met. TIhie imessage, .howeveir, docs inot fix the exact locatIon of the armIstice meeting. To Clean Off Cemetery Al'l of those who aire interested In the cemetery at HIfghland Home church are invited to assIst or send help to clean off the cemetery on jThutrsday. August 5, RUSSIAN ADVANC[ GROWING SRIOUS European War Feared on Broad Scale ALLIES WILL AID THE POLES l'essimism i elt Over seriois Sitti 1iIon Arislin Over lied Advatnce on Polinit. l'rallce and nI-gland 31ay Not be Abe to Assist In iTime. Washington, Jutly 22.-Without of ficial information regarding"' the deci sion of' he Allied powerIs to fiu rnish imiilitar y aid to Polandil in hier strugglo with t li Iolsl(viki, govermllitient ollic ialIs refiilled todly from formal ex pression of o 1nioll, bult 1 11 nofficially professed to see in the new situation Imost of the elements of a European war oil a broad scale. Army ollicers and officials at the state Ieia tm IIent generally were frankly pessimistic as to the ability of Prance and Great Britain to place 1111ies in Poland in timte to check the ittissian advance before Warsaw falls, and many of them were skeptical of the power of either France or Great Iritain to (rive tieitr war weary )o)u1 Iitiois int1o the struggle without a se rious uniialancing of domestic affairs. Although technially, the President still is endowed with the specially coiferred war powers, there was 110 diskposition ill oic'ial eireles to asstime that he would I Involve the Unite'd States iln a war between tle lBolshc viki and the Allies. uiless action Im ight. he justified by some overt act aglilst the ariny of occupation on tile l1hine. Reports to the state de partment indicate increasing tension between the conservative and pro-rad ical groups In Germany, and it was generally believed that. uniless the rad ical elellent gained thle ascendancy the chances of -the United States be coming involved in the 'ew situationl were slight, although a suggestion of American cooperation from France and Grteat Dritain was regarded as prob. alble. For the present, it was indicnted at tIhe. state depiar'tilleit. ihe part of the lnitied States will lbe that of anl inl tireste(d observer. Steps already have been taken to rmove from the war area such Avm ricans as may wish to leave. Paris, July 22.---The Allies will take me-astires prlparatory to giving illi tary aid to Poland, if that should prove niecessary, it was learned here today. A French mission headed by Jules .1. Jusserand, French ambassador to the United States, who is home oa leave withI General Weygand, right hand man of Marshal Foch, and M. Vigon, a (lose collaoI)ratolr withl P remier i\Milleran01d, will l eave tonlighit for Warsawv to arranige for lpromtilt sit ((01 to (lie 1Poles . On the same trainl and with the samie objlect there wvill be a Blritiish i ssion hteade~d lby LorOd Abeirnon, liadeliff'e and( .i r .\taitrice I lankey. These missions11 it. is learnedC, go with authority to say to thte P'oles that what eveir a Id is nieededd w hether'n milI itary or' tin ancial or ill the naturtle of stuppilies, will be forthIicom inig if the blslh(eviki persist ill aL designl to march'el inito (list inctly IPol ish tellritory. A\lready a larae numl~ber' of Allied (itli cirs and siubal ternts arie with the P'olishi armoy, whlich, it is declared, will bie ini(reased1 accord(intg to circum.. stanlces withi as many dlv isions of in falntry, tank (letachets, air forces and1 artill ery as may be tranlfsported In due11 time. .lethiodist Plinic. Theli yotung peCoplO of thle Methodist churichl have planned a picnic for Thursday eveninlg of this week. Each young person connected with the chuirch or -with the Epworth League is askedl to meet at the chturch Thursday evenling at seven o'clock. From thoro the group wIll drivd to somo ' table place, pr'obably to Davis ,J, a.nd there enjoy the good ti '7 at that have been prepared by Young ladles of the church. The young men are expected to se that cars arp on hand with which to carry the young 'ladies, with' their well illled baskets, to the pIcnIc destinatilon.