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FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEWS. TOLD BY CORRESPONDFTS. Continued from third page) joyagle party last Thursday even ing in honor of her attractive house guest, Miss Elizabeth Hentz. The living room and halls were taste fully decorated in summer flowers carrying out the color scheme of lavender and pink. The evening was spent pleasantly in playing games and there was also an inter esting "kitchen contest," in which the prize went to Miss Demmie Shanon. The hostess served deli cious tutti frutti ice and punch. Miss Stewart and Mrs. J. F. Coema-a assisted her in entertaining. LEBANON. The Auxiliary held its regular monthly meeting with Mrs. W. K. Turner last Tuesday. Mr. Earle Stevenson spent the week-end in Rock Hill. Mr. John Stone, of Atlanta, is vis iting his parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. C. Stone. Miss Margaret O'Donrcll, of Ches ter, was visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Stevenson last week. Miss Louise Stevenson is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Sam Weir at Beaver Creek. Mr. Charles May, of Columbia, is spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stone. Messrs. M. B. and Jaries Clark have returned from a trip through the mountains of North Caolina. Mrs. J. K. Stevenson left Friday for the Pryor hospital, where she is o take treatment. Master White Brice, of Chester, is s.t nding a while with his aunt, Mrs. Maggie B. Turner. Miss Thelma Chappell, of Bethel, spent last week with her sister, Mrs. L. D. Stevenson. Mrs. W. W. Turner and children spent the week-end with the for mer's parents, Mr. and Mrs Bow -man, of Campabello. Miss Flora Wilkes, of Chester, of Our Sta te By JONATHAN BACE XXIII.-MAINE BSCURED } - in the haze of an iiquity the old gas recordl at voyage in son of Eric the Red, who sailedi fro Gi (reenilanid to Lbao n down the coast of Maine. The * next probable vyg oti Coaist wa yJh ao n19 and later by his son Sebastian.* It was, however, -Capt. John Smith, the leading spirit of the settlement at Jamestowvn. who sailed as far north as the Penob scot and first drew a rough chart of It. In the grant by James I to *the Plymouth Colony Maine was ?included 'in their territory. Op *position to the Plymouth Colony Sarose among the king's courtiers *and Sir Ferdinanido Gorges and Captain Mason succeeded in ob ,taining for themselves rights to{ the country between the Merri mac and Kennebec rivers. This they divided, Gorges taking the northern section. MeanwhIle -Gorges had sent over a small col ony to the mouth of the Kenne hiec, but this settlement was sooni 4abandoned. The first permanent settlement was made in 16"5 ait * what is nowv York. Massachfl-i Ssetts objected to Gorges' clim i * and finally annexed all the terrin tory up to Casco Bay and called this northern section the District of Maine. Maine was dissatisfied I w ~ith the rule of the mother state. and .by 1820 succeeded in being i amitted to the Union as the t- tenty-third state.} 4 Maine was the first state to adopt prohibition. In the begin- i nling Maine was strongly Demo *cratic. It was largely for thisi }reaso'i that she objected to be lur ruled by Massachusettsa - wluch was Federalist. Since* 1858 .however, Maine has been decidedly Republican. It has si ' electoral .votes for president.' - eg.ame Maine was so desiga , sated in the charter of 1639 ini which Charles I granted this land to Gorges. It had already been commonly used by the sail-* * ea as distinguishing the main land from the many islands *along the shore. The nickname for the state is the Pine Treei State. Its area is 33,040 square ; miles, which is practically as large as the combined area of i Sthe other flye New England. SStates. -i (@by McCiure Newspaper Syndreate.) Advertise in the News and Herald >ent week with Miss .1. E. Clarke. Mr. and Mrs. Walter May, of Co iumbia, are spending the week with Mr. and Ars. J. C. Stne. Miss Maggie B. Turner, Mr* John Turner, Mrs. 0. C. Scarborough and; daughter spent last week-end in Chester with their aunt, Mrs. Margaret C. Brice. The Sewing Circle met with Miss Johnnie Ruth Turner Thursday af ternoon. A sewing contest was the feature of the afternoon. Each guest was given a kitchen towel to hem. The prize for the best towel was given to Mrs. J. C. Turner, and t' booby prize was won by Miss Janie Turner. After the contest delicious refreshments were served, when, to the surprise of the guests, the en gagement of Miss Floride Turner to Hazel Berry Pope was announced. On each plate was a "sham" sand wich in which was found a card dis closing the secret: "Turner-Pope, August 31, 1921." The hostess pre sented the bride-elect with a dainty gift. UPPER MITFORD. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Raines went home with Mr. Ratteree, of Rock Hill, Friday morning and took in the picnic and motored back Saturday. They report a very pleasant trip. Mr. Fletcher Dye motored to Long town Saturday and returned with Misses Dorothy and Catherine Math eson to stay a while with Mrs. W. P. Raines. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer, of Mayes ville, is visiting Mr. C. S. Ford for a few days. Mr Mose H. Mobley's family, of Columbia, spent a few hours at C. S. Ford's Thursday and Friday. Miss Hessie L. Witherspoon, of Spartanburg, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Witherspoon. Mr. James Lee Higgins has fin-. ished the.road around the rock hills between Witherspoon and C. S. Ford & Son's land, with very little cost to the county and great pleasure to the travelers. Miss Martha McDonald has ar rived home from a short visit to friends in Lancaster. Messrs. Robert and John McDon was away, but they were seldom at home. Mossy Dal- comes to Upper Mit ford and hc will be welcomed with a hearty handshake and a plenty to eat, as that is what the Upper Mit fordfolk.s are noted for. The Rev, J. E. Brw (eliveredI his first revival sermon Sunday eve ning at Bethseda M1. E. church. CAPTURED A STILL. Shelton, Aug. 16.-Magistrate C. A. Dye and Constable W. H. Davis eartured about 40 gallons of mash and a lard can near by about ready to make a run Monday afternoon. There was no clue as to who was making these preparations for the joy wvater. The outfit was de stroyed. .~ - 1 SHERIFF'S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Fairfield. By virtue of an execution to me directed, I will sell to the highest bidder. at public auction, within the legal hours of sale, at Winnsboro, Court House, on Monday, the 5th day of September, 1921, the follow ing described property, to-wit: One ertain Ford roadster automobile. umberer' 73-024, levied on and sbid as the property of Jno. B, Peay, de fendant, in the case af Thomas Rel lar plaintiff, against JTno. B. Pear. defendant, to satisfy the aforesaid execution and costs. Terms, cash. JAMES MACFIE, Sheriff of Fairfield County. LOCAL WAREHOUSING OF COT TON PSSENTIAL TO ECO NtJMIC H ANDLING. .(Delivered June 1, 1921, at the American Cotton Conference, New York City. by Hon. J. C. Rivers, Warehouse Commissioner, South Carolina.) Mr Churmnan and Members of the Conference: In attempting to address my re marks to an audience composed as it is at present of those who are in terested vitally in the welfare of the country generally, and espcially at this time are directly interested ir the subject of one of the nation's greatest production, that is, cotton. I am not unmindful of the fact that I am addressing hin audience composed of students or those who hav maen a study. df the nooks which pertain to this great subject,. First, I wish to say to you, that we can not consider the subject, which I wish to approach without our minds running back to the farm or plan tation upon which the production about which I wish to speak to you, come from. Therefore, we find the beginning of this production as one of the nation's sources of elemen tary wealth, which is produced by the Southern farmer by hard aInd toilsome labor, and by the expen diture of his means and energy, so that the resultant production be comes a part of his second nature. There, fe see it picked and harvest ed from his fields, after a time of endless toil and labor, then ginned and baled and placed in marketable shape and condition. Several months have elapsed since the seeds were placed in the ground and the tiny weaklings of plants begin to spring up from the soil, to the time when the product from it comes into his hands ready to go to market. This length of time hos been one to him of toil and thought, because, should he relax his vigilance, the crop is a failure, and the amount of his re ward in the cott-)n he produces, de pends upon the amount of intelli gence and forethought he has ex tended in ts care and cultivation; not only that, but the amount of the value of his products depends to a great extent upon how energetic in getting from the fields kis crops, when it is ready for harvesting; and how much intelligence he displays in the proper handling of same after it is harvested. That leads to my subject: when the cotton which he so energetically and intelligently has prepared for market by not allowing it to remain in the field after it has opened its fleecy locks to nature's sunshiae and rain, to the time when it would b, injured thereby, and is ready for market, and to go into the channels of commerce, he finds that already his neighbor's and near neighbors en gaged in like calling are ready with theirs, and that along mith him, they are placing a 12 months' and some times more, consumption of material for the market to ba taken care of by somebody within n period of two er three months. Consequently, his counts, his family needs attention, which requires money which he ex pects to obtain from his year's work. To sell ;s to sacrifice and if he cir ries his production or crop home, he has no place to put it away from the exricsure of the elements or deter iorntionI end no place to store in wha he can convert it into collat era t' :eet his immediate ne-ds. Thi: is wi1.re warehousinr comes in~ and I -.:ish; to say that theoryr and the opinion of those wvho are not fa miliar with the actual conditions that prevail are very much at va riance with the ac 1 facts. - It seems that all the talk of ware housing cotton emanates from the dealer's viewpoint. That is, all the cotton grown is assembled at- a few concentration noints. immedliatelv af ter it is taken fr-m the fiem' S"ob is not the case, nor can it be. be cause of the great volume of the crop, and the extrem. 1 short period of picking and ginnia', which ren ders that an impossibility in so short a space of time. It can not be so assembled arnd concentrated in so large amount, in time to prevent damage by loss and exposure to cli matic conditions, therefore, we have the charge of 75 millions of dollars to the crop as a result of weather waste by country damage, and which to my mind, is very well founded. In order to prevent this encrmous waste and loss, from conditions which can not be~ prevented, the farm or com munity warehouse must be stressed and its imro"svce brought to ti' front in any scheme that can be devised to prevent such a loss. As I have said b'efore, the cotton- which the farmer produces, on account of the enormous amount of toil and ex pense he has incurred in its proiuc tion, is a part of his being, and, therefore, he refuses to part with the physical control of his identical hales until such time as he converts the same into actual cash. And be fore he will ship it away from his community to be placed in the melt inqr pot for storage, he will either sell the same on an overloaded and lutted market, and thereby add to the bad conditions and firther de nress the nrice, even if his cotton is not distress entton as we call it in the South, or he will car- ' to his farm and allow it to lav around his premises unprotected from weather and fire. In my state, we are stressing the importance of the,-arm. orcmmunity warehouse to take care of such cotton, wher the grower, under his own directior can store his cotton unti such tim as the market conditions will justif the selling of his product and wher he can have it properly graded an, weighed before it is stored. Un (der such conditions, the product doe not deterioate, the bales, althougi having probably been stored for si: or eight months, have been found t be in good shape, the fibre has no deteriorated, but has rather improv ed, and it can, from there be taker to the mills for manufacturing, o1 to the centralizing points for com pressing and be there prepared foi exporting to foreign countries. Thi farm or community warehouse, gen tlemen, is to my mind, the solutioi of the problem of country damage Let's quit talking so much about th< large, well-equipped, sprinkled, stor age houses for cotton. Those wh4 deal in cotton. after it leaves th farmer's control, will look after that but rather, to my mind, is the prob lem of caring for the cron before i goes on the market. The perfee tion of the warehouse receipt. foi cotton stored in the name of th producer, by systems of checking grading, proper authointy in issuirn so that the grower can realize or the cotton to some extent, for hih needs upon the crop he has pro1duced This will/be an incentive to him tc care for the products and preserve it from the fearful toll he is no, aying by reason of the cotton noi being stored on the farm or in thr community in which it is grown, an( which we never can expect to be stored if we depend on the growei taking it great distances away frorr his farm, losing the identity of hi product and all the control and say. DRINI EV Hopes every th Says a glass limestone / from Why is man ai the time, feeling ne dent, worried; son achy, dull and ur days rea lly incapa ness. If we all wouk drinking of phlosp~h before breakfast, u~ ing change would t: stead of thousands aniaemie-lookin~g so mu~ddy comnpiexion - crowds of happy. cheeked people eve reason is that the 1 does rnot rid itself ( the waste it accmi our present mode ( I every- ounce of fo taken into the sysi ounce of waste ma carried out, else it forms ptomaine-li] lthe bowels which into the blood. Just as niecessa: clean the ashes fro each day, before thi brio-ht and hot, so e so in its care. The spot dealer can and does make arrangements to care e for the cotton he purchases. The r cotton mill people very properly pro. vide for the care of their stock of I raw cotton. The exporters and com - press people as a general proposi 3 tion have plenty of warehouse space, but the farmer and grower of cotton situated as he is, and must of ne cessity be, away from large reserve sunplies of water, and not fitted with elaborate fire apparatus at his place i of business, must depend upon tak ing care of his products which is - gathered, if gathered in time to save loss or damage in the fields, and in a space of six or eight weeks, on the farm on which it was grown or in its imrndiate community. Other wise loss from country damage will be the inevitable result, because it is a physical impossibility to get enough of it sold or otherwise col lected together to prevent a great percentage of it from damaging in th hands of the grower, within the ; time it will take the market to ab - sorb it and the consumers of the world to use it. We have, there fore, figured in our minds , when sneaking or thinking of cotton, and the loss resulting to it from country damage, as if it were an all the year crop, when the facts are, that cotton is harvested, if taken at its best, in a very short space of time, and then is either sold within the time by the nroducer, thus overloading the mar ket with excessive offerings and with deflated values, br else must be shipped away from the community to be thrown into the melting pot of large storage systems and in most cases the identity of the actual bales are lost--costing freight, drayage and storage charges, which in most (HOT WI ERY MOn man and woman hei is splendid health hab of hot water with a t4 phosphate in it wash< system, and makes one clean, sweet and fresh. twoman, half morning clear evous, despon- of the previot 1 days head- tion of indig strung; some body toxins. citated by ill- whether sick c to drink eaci practice the breakfast, a ated hot water water with a t4 hat a gratify- stone phospha ke place. In- less means o: of half-sick, the stomach, als with pasty, bowels the inc we should see waste, sour bi] healthy, rosy- cleansing, swe evwhere. The fying the entii 1man system before putting ach day of all stomach. nulates under Millions of f living. For their turn at ei od and drink attacks, acid s :em nearly an aehes, rheu terial must be nervous days a ferments and have become re poisons in the morning. are absorbed qjuarter pound . phate will not ' as it is to drug store, b m the furnace demonstrate tc 3 fire will burn ing sweetenin we must eah effect upon th, cases, the grower can not under stand. These are the actual facts as applied to the condition of cotton growers. These are the reasons why a penalty is placed on this great commodity for waste and country damage, and until we get out among the growers 'ano show them and help them to store and care for their :rops on their own farm, or in their )wn community, help them to get their crop in such shape that his receipt therefor will go current in the money markets as good collat hrow around them the safeguard -he law, and good business princi ples, we may expect to find the a me loss from country damage as row pre'ails. For I say to you. hat they will not part with the physical control of their sweat and :oil into strange hands and suspi :ious environments for storage, pre erring rather the loss it sustains mnder his own "Vine and Fig Tree," >r selling and taking the loss on a lepressed market. I thank-you. Same Old Story, but a Good One. Mrs. Mahala Burns, Savanna, Mo., :elates an experience, the like of hich has happened in almost every ieighorhobod in this country, and ias been told and rekted by thous mndS of others, as follows: " I used i bottle of Chamberlain's Colic and )iarrhoea Remedy about nine years igo and it cured me of flux (dM*' ary). I had another attack of the ame complaint about three or four ,ears ago and a few doses of this -emedy cured me. I nave recom nended it to dozens of people since first used it and shall continue t0o lo so for I know it is a quick and,, ositive cure for bowel tioubles." TER e will aidopt' it. easpoonful of :s poisons a feel the inside organs Ls day's accumula estible waste and Men and women, r well, are advised morning, before glass of real hot ~aspoonful of lime te in it, as a harm washing out of iver, kidneys and igestible matefial, e and toxins; thus etening and puri -e alimentary canal more food into the R' people who had )fistipation, bilious tomach, sick head natism, lumbago, nd sleepless nighits 4 real cranks about * inside bath. A! of limestone phos cost much at the ut is sufficient to anyone its cleans g and freshening