Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Local and P ersonal Miss Kitty Hood of Columbia is here with her mother, Mrs. Robert Hood. Mrs. C. S. McCants has returned to Florence after a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gooding. Miss Kate Doty returned to Cincin atti Conservatory to resume her stud ies a few days ago. Miss Ruby Ragsdale has returned to her home in Greenville after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ragsdale. William Robinson of the Naval Re serves spent a short furlough here re cently. 1; Miss Leila Christmas of Chester visited her mother Mrs. Maggie Mil ter last week. 4 Spencer R. McMaster is at home, having resigned his commission in - the navy. .Miss Inez Ragsdale has returned to Dillon. Miss Maggie Aiken has gone to Pensacola, Florida. Miss Janie Netchin, of the Winthrop College Faculty, returned to Rock Hill Monday afternoon. Robert Martin arrived in town last Sunday, coming from New York. Ile has been in the U. S. Navy since early in 1917, and has crossed the Atlantic a number of times. His ship returt, ed just previous to the New Year par ade in New York Harbor. Gibson Wylie is at home having been mustered out of service. Stewart Heath, Jr., returned to Se wanee, Tenn. early this week. Miss Ella Crawford Heath has gone to Sweet Briar College, Va., to re sume her duties. Miss Bauer of Coulmbia was the guest of Miss Elizabeth Sloan a few days ago. Mrs. P. M. Dees returned Saturday from a trip to Rocky Mount, N. C. Mrs. W. M. Wolling came home -Tuesday after a visit to her parents in McColl. Miss Laura Douglas is visiting rela tives here. Mrs. Gilmore Hartzog has returned from an extended visit to Olar. Jack McMaster, John Turner, Jr., and Moultrie Douglas returned Thurs day to the Citadel. Will Crawford U. S. N., and Press ley Crawford of College of Charles * ton, visited their sister Mrs. J. M. *~drigton this' week. R. H. Boulware has beeni discharged from service and is in town. Harold Brown is at home on fur lough. Creighton McMaster and Earl Tur ner have returned to Davidson College. Miss Alice Walker has gone to Flo rida for an extended visit, Mrs. J. M. Hendrix and children of Beaufort, N. C., and Mrs. F. G. Waters and children of Kings Mountain are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Williams. Misses Mary, Marion and Minnie Lee Seigler, Meynelle Clowney, Kath leen Lemmon, Ziza Bruce, Priscilla Ketchin, Edith Ragsdale, Rebe-:ca .Ien nings Mary Carlisle Elliott, Lucile Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Sloan, Rebecca Phillips and Sallie Burley returned to Winthrop last Monday. Misses Kittie Lee Steele, Susie and Elizabeth Cathcart and their guest, Miss Bernice Miller of Arkansas, re turned to Due West a few days, ago. Lieut. Oscar Brice came home Sat urday froni Columbia University, be ing disgharged from the service. Lieut. Tom Ellison is again at home. Mr. William Ellison is the guest of his mother, Mrs. E. D. Ellison. Lieut. John Haynes, who landed in Norfolk a short time ago, among the casualties from France, has been with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hay nes. Mrs. Harry H. Withers and small Sdaughter of Lamar are guests of Mrs. John J. Neil. Misses Lida and Nan Neil have re turned to Florence. Miss Annie Ketchin left Sunday to sume school duties in Bennettsville. Bryan Willingham spent a few days here last week. Lieut Rutland, U. S. N. is the guest of his father this week. Lantye Williford and Clarence Bruce have returned to Atlanta D~en tal College. . Misses Elizabeth, Susie Cathcart, and Kittie Lee Steele returned to the Woman's College at Due West last Thursday. On next Sunday at eleven A. M. and *4 P. M., services will be held at St. Lloyd Holley is in town, the guest of his parents, Judge and Mrs. W. L. Holley. Miss Virginia Hanahan is at home from Coker College, she is convales cent from influenza. Mr. Robert L. Martin, Jr., is at home on a furlough. He has been with the battleship "Texas" for the pas:; twelve months, his ship has been on over-sea duty in and around the coasts of Englani and Scotland. A LETTER FROM RUSSEL LIGON. Co. I., 323 Inf. A E F U. S. A. P. 0. 791. Dear Sisters: I received your letters today and was glad to hear from home again. Well, sis, I am getting on all 0. K. and hope all are well at home. I do wish I was there to have some of those good old-times we used to have. You are as mad as my girl. She told me enough for not writing to her, I try to write every week, or as often as I can get paper. (Forgive me.) Say, the reason I did not send my Christmas label I was in the hos pital with the mumps. Say, Sis, tell Uncle Linton and Uncle John that I would like the best in the world to see them, and give them my best regards. Tell the children we all well and BAD as ever. Did Sister receive her present? I guess I will be home soon after Christmas, but I must see my little girl. Tell Lucius and Jack to look for their old soldier brother home some day soon, and I want to put in a good crop for I know I can stand anything when I get back there. Be good children and remember your old Soldier Brother. With love to all, as ever, Ru ssell. HONOR ROLL OF THE FEASTERVILLE SCHOOL1 First Grade-Julian Kenlock Cole man. Second Grade-Catherine Hill. Fifth Grade-Roe Coleman, Eileen Coleman, Reggie Coleman. Ninth Grade-Mary Faucette, Clyde Coleman. TERRACE YOUR LAND. Is there any farmer in Fairfield County who w6uld think of throwing a sack of his fertilizer in a creek and allowing it to wash down stream? Well, he may not be guilty of throw ing a sack of fertilizer in a creek, but he is guilty of a much greater crime, allowing not merely one sack of fer tilizer to wash down stream, but year ly allowing ton after ton to wash from, his fields. Such a condition ean be easily corrected, for there is demon strated on every farm in Fairfield County where the farmer has his land well terraced and well ditched and practices a good system of rotation. The very key to the profits in farm ing is a fertile soil-no one disputes this. We cannot increase or even maintain the fertility of the acreage soils in this County without control ling the water. Good farming, such as practicing a good system of ro tation, sowing, of winter cover crops, and deep plows are very important and necessary, but with all of this, terracing should be done. There is -no doubt about a terracter and ditcher give us some trouble, becoming in fested with weeds, interferring with the use of improved farm machinery etc., yet with all of this, they are ab solutely necessary in keeping our soil in a profitable state of cultivation. Broad terracer (known as Mangum terracer) are very popular in some sections of the country, doing away dith the objection of the narrow un cultivated terraces. The broad ter ra s are about eighteen or twenty feet wide and are cultivated. They usually have some fall and the rows are laid off diagonally across the ter race. I would be glad to give some farmers instructions how this terrace is made and aid them in laying them Believing that I might be .of some service to some of the farmers in the County in getting their land terraced, I have purchased a good farm level and am now ready to extend what aid I can along this line. Now is the imeo to look after your terracing don't put R. H. Lemmon, County Agent. LOST OR STRAYED-From my place in Winnsboro, about 3 weeks ago, one Berkshire sow, weighs about 250 pounds. Had just weaned pig. Any information will be appre:'iated. S. C. Cathcart. OR SALE-One Ford Roadster, 1917 Model in good condition, shock ab sorbers, lock battery, rear light and food feed. Price, $5 25. C. W. Mc FOR SALE-Baby G-o-d Chevrolet Touring car in good c:mdition. Ap "UNCLE SAM" AND THE HOME GARDEN Well Known Civic Leader Shows How a Vegetable Garden Will Cut The Family Store Bill in Half Atlanta, Ga.-(Special.)-"Few peo ple realize the actual money-saving power of the home vegetable garden and what It can be made to contrib ute in the way of food for the fam ily table," says President H. G. Has tings, of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce, and the Southeastern Fair, in discussing the matter of food supply for the South in 1919. "Uncle Sam, through the United States Department of Agriculture," said Mr. . Hastings, "estimated the value of the vegetables produced last year in home gardens of the United States at three hundred and fifty mil lion of dollars. This means that much actually saved by the garden makers from their store bills. "Whenever there is lack of food or money to buy food, no matter wheth er it be due to world-wide ftod scarc ity, boll weevil damage or otLer cause, tne first word 'Uncle Sam' passes out to the sufferer is to make a good big home garden. Why? Because the right kind of a home garden is the quickest, cheapest and best source of food supply there is. "The great trouble here in the South is that our people don't take the home garden seriously enough, or give it the attention that its importance as a food producer and money-saver justi fies. It is mostly made with a 'lick and a promise' and the cultivation and replanting it gets during the growing season is mostly of the unfulfilled promise kind. "With the present and certain-to-bo continued high food prices on the one hand, and the very great uncertainty as to the price that cotton or other cash crops will sell for next fall, it Is a time above all others ' play safe. "This is no time to gamble on cot ton. None of us can tell within 15 cents a pound what it will sell for next fall. The farmer who makes fewl or no store debts for food, producing his own and family needs on home acres, is safe regardless of cotton <prices, and he is the only one who is safe. "The right kind of a home garden maintained all through the season and given a square deal in the way of cul tivation, is the greatest store-bill-cut ter on record. A quarter to half an acre garden for the average family will cut the store bill in half." FARM PROSPERITY IN GRAVE DANGER HastIngs Declares Greater~-l@o~dP, duction Essential To The Main tenance Of Agricultural Prosperity Atlanta, Ga.-(Zpecial.)-That there Is a large eler'ecnt of danger for Southern farm pros3perity in the pres ent situation, is the firm belief of H. G. Hastings, President of both the* Georgia State Chamber of Commerce and the Southeastern Fair Associa Mr. Hastings repeated substantially his statement of a year ago when he said: "Unthinking p,eople are apt to attribute the present measure of farm prosperity in the South to the highI price of cotton rather than to its real cause. "Just as soon as peace began to ap pear probable last fall, there was a distinct let-up in the planting of wheat, oats and other small grains. One: Georgia cotton farmer said to me, 'If we are going to have peace, we are not going to plant any wheat in my neighborhood.' "Of course the high price of cot ton has helped, but if it had not been for the increased supply of bread, meat, vegetables, grain and forage made on the farms, there would have been little prosperity for any one but the supply merchant- Cotton was and is relatively lower in price than food stuffs, and will continue to be for; years to come "An extra two or three million~ bales in the 1919 cotton crop will smash present attractive prices, while the world-wide demand for bread and meat and the disorganization of food production in Europe incident to the war, means high food prices every where for years to come. "High food prices are a certainty and low cotton prices are an equal certainty if the food and grain acres of 1916, 1917 and 1918 are thrown back into cotton in 1919. Herein lies the* danger to our present farm prosper ity. If we go back to our old before the-war system of growing all cotton and buying all food and grain, we will get another jolt like 1914 with rea sonable certainty. "Present Southern farm prosperity. can be maintained in one way only. Produce on home acres, so far as pos sible, every pound of food, vegetables, grain, hay and forage needed by fam ily and livestock, then put every other available acre in cotton or other cash rop. This method means cash crops made with little or no debt-the crop owned by the producer at the end of the season instead of 'owed' to the. supply merchant. "Food and grain production suffi ient for home needs, insures contin ued farm prosperity. Dropping back to the old way means debt like a mill wt+-m aroun the farmer's neck." FARM PROSPERITY IN GRAVE DANGER Hastings Declares Greater Food Pro. duction Essential To The Main tenance Of Agricultural Prosperity Atlanta, Ga.-(Special.)-That there is a large element of danger for Sduthern farm prosperity In the pres ent situation, Is the firm belief of H. G. Hastings, Pfesident of both the Georgia, State Chamber of Commerce and the Southeastern Fair AssociL tion. Mr. Hastings repeated substantially his statement of a year ago when he said: "Unthinking people are apt to attribute the present measure of farm prosperity in the South to the high price of cotton rather than to its real cause. "Just as soon as peace began to ap pear probable last fall, there was a distinct let-up in the planting of wheat, oats and other small grains. One Georgia cotton farmer said to me, 'If we are going to have peace, we are not going to plant any wheat in my neighborhood.' "Of course the high price of cot ton has helped, but if it had not been for the Increased supply of bread, meat, vegetables, grain and forage made on the farms, there would have been little prosperity for any one but the supply merchant. Cotton was and is relatively lower in price than food stuffs, and will continue to be for years to come. "An extra. two or three million bales In the 1919 cotton crop will smash present attractive prices, while the world-wide demand for bread and meat and the disorganization of food production in Europe incident to the war, means high food prices every where for years to come. "High food prices are a certainty and low cotton prices are an eq.ual certainty If the food and grain acres of 1916, 1917 and 1918 are thrown back into cotton in 1919. Herein lies the danger to our present farm prosper ity. If we go back to our old before the-war system of growing all cotton and buying all food and grain, we will get another jolt like 1914 with rea sonable certainty. "Present Southern farm prosperity can be maintained In one way only. Produce on home-acres, so far as pos sible, every pound of food, vegetables, grain, hay and forage needed by fam fly and livestock, then put every other available acre in cotton or other cash crop. This method means cash crops made with little or no debt-the crop owned by the produc at the end of the season instead of 'o'M-d' to the supply merchant. "Food and grain production 'suffi cent for home needs, insures contin ned farm prosperity. Dropping back to the old way means debt like a mill stone around the farmer's neck." FOR SALE.-4 good breed sows, one registered Durock boar and seven 100 lb. shoats. L. M. Tolbert Winnsboro Apply J. C. Stone. Littleton College, Littleton, N. C., vhich carried an advertisement in this paper during the summed had the lar gest fall opening in several years. The instiution is spending several thousand dollars on improvements in uding the completion and heating of the new Science Building. Pupils may enter now or at any time nd pay from date of entrance. 2t 25 pd ! NO PRLO Place Of Fer In Southern Farmer-Banker Discusses Real Value 4 Experience, Observation and Si to Vital Southern Problem-E; Bright Williamson, Agriculture is the bed rock and foundation upon which every other in- I idustry must stand or fall. All the I 'people prosper or fail to prosper ac- i ,cording to the abundance of 'the har vest of the soil, and upon agriculture depends the prosperity and happiness of the world. Better methods of agriculture in clude the use of modern implements, modern cultivation and soil improve ment. This brings us directly to the importance of the fertilizer industry jas a means of improving our soils. Fer tilizers are absolutely essential in or ider to increase the fertility of the soil. 'They have a direct effect upon agri cultural production and through the -products of agriculture a direct effect t upon all other industries. Anything which contributes to an increase in our agricultural produc tions, contributes to the welfare, com fort and prosperity of our people as 1 a whole; and this brings us directly to the consideration of the importance of the fertilizer industry in relation to other lines of business. Fertilizers Necessary in South The very nature of our soil, climate I land rainfall makes it impossible to C Ffarm successfully without regularly t feeding our crops from artificial I sources with at least two of the sev- f eral principal elements entering into f the composition and development of f plant life. Without fertilizers much of e the best producing cotton lands in the s South would become unproductive and 7 farming would be unprofitable. In many states, except in a few locali- s ties, soil is no more capable of pro- E Pducing without being fertilized than c 'stock is capable of performing work t rwithout being fed. Our lands must be f fed just as we feed the stock that I .work them or they will become too r poor to even pay the cost and expense a !of cultivation. Transformed Sections Large sections of land in various parts of the South Atlantic States, for- i ,ty or fifty years ago, required four f or five acres to produce one bale of e cotton, which now, by intelligent farm- b Ing, made possible by the use of fer- f tilizers, yield one bale to each acre, 1 or the equivalent, of other crops. Pov- 0 erty stricken sections of one or two t, generations ago have been transform- b ed Into populous and prosperous com- c munities. Our ability to rebuild and e make our lands more fertile has en- t aled people to live and settle in pore a desirable communities, and to enjoy a advantages of better markets, schools, i churches ter rural conditions have made the c "back to the farm" movement not only c a possibility, but a reality. , s Prosperity Due to Fertilizers ; Whatever may be the direct benefit, e It is obvious from a study of the sit- 12 uation that the present prosperity and ui greater population in 'South Carolina s is due more largely to the use of commercial fertilizers than to any oth- tz er cause, because in South Carolina a fertilizers are absolutely necessary to a profitable agriculture, upon which most tl of our business and other industries t] depend. Had it not been for the use of commercial fertilizers South Caro- is lina could not be considered an agri- 13 cultural state,. Taking into consideration the cost n of .fertilizers, statistics will bear out c the statement that the once worn out t] FITEEI{ING OSTS of woolens and higher-that there is ...But in the makir baum Clothes great e< /effected by modern, el ods and those bene: along, complete and ui you .... Our prices t value in materials an ship-no gouging, no anywhere along the lii SYAjSCIbaum $215427090~ U DVWLKE tiliz fAg )f Fertilizers :udy-Timely T ctracts From an Addr Darlington, S. C. Lnd abandoned fields of Ina yield a greater profit :han the richer river Ian, )ride of the Southern cotton Zanter, >r than the more fertile landg @ 'exas. Land Values Incrtased This statement is reflected in the act that these same lands in parts f South Carolina are selling freely or more than $100.00 per acre. I have been dealing with the effect >f the fertilizer Industry and the use f fertilizers on agriculture, because. x I have said, the effects on business enerally must result from the effect >n agriculture, and it is obvious that hey must be innumerable. The fer ilizer business in the South is one if the most important, and concerns ur prosperity more directly than any ither industry, and in its effects no ither industry so ramifles into other iusiness or has a greater effect on the adustries and business generally. Helps Railroads and Manufacturers Perhaps among the industries which re more particularly and directly ben fited by the use of commercial fertil ers are the railroads and commalt arriers, which first bring f4rtilizers o the farmers, and in return trans iort the increased products of the arm to the ends of the earth; and nally when these products are sold, or a third time, the railroads are caUl d upon to bring' to the farmer his upplies of foreign and domestic prod .cts. The use of fertilizer has made more pindles in the South, more oil mills, lore live stock, more people and more ommerce.' The tobacco crop and our rcking industry, requiring intensive ertilization and plant food, would be ractically unknown to us. Ships brin aw material from foreign shores in reater quantities and in return carry - way more cotton and grain. Cheapens Cost of Producing Crops The commercial.business is affected i even greater proportion than the armer himself, and there Is no tam r in the South who is not benefited y the judicious use of commercial ertilizer. Large crops give to the eople a greater supply at a lower cost f production and at a lower price D the consumer, while on the other and small crops not only incrasethe ost of production, but may -Increasi* ven greater proportion the rice,to ie consumer. When harvests are bundant the consumer and .roduc9 like share in thbe increaseL- prospe f production ~nbe usedpio'fitaby niy on a very large or on a very mall scale, but fertilizers can be ap lied with practically the same. suc ess to the smallest as well -as the Lrgest undertaking from the individ al plant in the flower pot to the thou-I and acre cotton field. It was my pleasure some years ago a know many more manufactuers - nd dealers in fertilizers than I know t present, but I wish to testify to ie high character and intelligence of ose with whom I became associated. The proper use of commercial fertil er by the farmer Is obviously of-vital nportance to the fertilizer industry s well as to the farmer, and it Is a atter that should receive thought and areful consideration at all times b~ iose who .promote the industry. HERE tailoring are no escaping ig of Kirsch-. :ononnies are ficient meth ats we pass ntouched, to epresent full d workman profiteering Totes P TO 590 R &CO.