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IEE r- - 4 IlENEWS __HER -T -SH--14WLNNSBORO, S C NOVEMBER 30th, 1922. ETABLISHED 1844 -,0 City C0 FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEWS A BY OUR C STOVER Mrs. J. T. McDonald, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McDonald, Jr., and Miss Mammie McDonald motored to Char lotte Wednesday and spent a few days with Mrs. Will Lybrand. Mrs. D. McDonald, Misses Lizzie and Alice and Mr. James McDonald ,moitored down to Great Falls one af &Aeroon last week. s Martin McDonald and child J'IL et Tuesday of last week with $i6 S. Bankhead. D. McDonald and Miss Lizzie Mc$nald spent Thursday of last wee with Mrs. Higgins. Mr. J. J. Black and Mr. Chalmers Clowd, of Rocky Creek, motored up to Mr.~and Mrs. T. M. Black and spent the day Friday. A lot of $teYrP people have been butchering gek Mr. Ned Ycnam butchered one which netted'four hundred. pounds. Oh!. You isders just ought to come up and see- the new road from Stover to .Blackstock .'Mr. J. L. H1ig gins is putting -it in a tip top condi tion. You can see cars going in all. directions. Some on- busigess.,. and some joy riding. Misses Lizzie Mae and Njinie Mc Donald spent Saturday .h With Miss Martha McDonald. - An event of much int4ret was a. shower givei ty Mrs. Nealyilihad for her sister, Miss Viol& Dixon t urday lafternoon at 2:30, it irad en joyed by all present. The gueshs em broidered. cup towels for the bride. The prize given for first to finish was won by Misses Lizzie McDonald and Jani4 McKeown, which was later pre sented to. the bride.- After looking at theI beautifuaril usefu presents which the bride received. The guests ~<-Sarah-Miad~h~ onald, and Amde B. 11a. JENKINSVILLE Mrs. C. D. Chappell and Mrs. C. B. Douglass spent last week visiting Mrs. Artpur Mabin, of Mabinton andi Mrs. Wicker, of Newberry. Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Yarborough and Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Glenn spent last Wednesday in Columbia. Mr. J. F. Yarborough spent last Friday in Columbia. Mr. W. T. Glen attended the funer al of Mrs. G. W. Ragsdale, 'mother of Mr. G. W. Ragsdale in Winnsboro 4ssrsy J. F. Yarborough, J. C. Chappell and T. C. Chappell attended the funeral of Myrtle Eargie who died at Parr last Saturday. Miss Lois Chappell spent Friday night and Saturday of last week ini Columbia7 SMrs. Price will leave the latter part of the week for Aiken, where Mr. Price is now employed. Mr. Price was for a while a member of the construc 1tion force at work on our road. Mr. and Mrs. Price made their home while here with Mrs. Katie McDowell. LONGTOWN On December 9th, the ladies of Longtuwn will serve a hot supper at the schoolhouse, beginning at o' clock. There will be oysters and oth er good things to eat, also a booth of fancy work, cakes and candies. The 'public is' invited. The proceeds will go to tihe: cemetery fund. Those who are interested in having a good fence ardind the ~cemetery, are asked to cone and help. Rev Lamreaux, of Ridgeway, vis ited 'Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Wilds one day last week. Miss Marie Mayer is expected to spend Thanksgiving with her parents, Mr. arid Mrs. B. F. Mayer. Mrs. B. F. Mayer visited in Ridge way last week and attended the Boyd Wilson announcement party. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hudson, Mrs. R. A. Hudson and Mrs. R. L. Kelly shopped in Columbia Monday. Mr. J. P. Jones, Jr., from Mount Holly, N. C. spent the week-end with [ncil SelL S REPORTED DRPS OF CORRESPONDENTS home folks. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kelly attended the hot supper at Rabons cross roads last Friday evening. Mr. Cobb, of Columbia Seminary, will preach in Longtown every first and third Sundays afternoon at 3 o' clock. HILLCREST Mrs. J. G. Park and little daughter, of Spartanburg, are-visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Park. Mrs. Annie McNaul has ,returned from a visit to her mother, Mrs. T. T. Timms, of Hickory Ridge. Messrs. J. M. and Boyce Pa-k and L. W. Hawes. spent -Friday in Coluni bia., Miss Belle Lemmon visited Mrs. Eugene. Rabb of Columbia last week. Miss Elizabeth Kerr was the week end guest of Miss Rosa Park. .Mr. H. D. Milling visited relatives in Columbia last week. Miss Ella Hagood is spending some time at home. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Park and little son spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.' J. M. Timms, of.Ifekory Ridge. Mrs. J. C. Ack-of Columbii, isl visiting her parezits, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke 4 od. MissL Lemmon fell and broke her collar2& Saturday, we hope she will soonbe 9nt again. MITFORD Mrs. Robert Lee Moore; of New Or leans, is home with her people for a few weeks. Miss Jo Miller Glass and Mrs. J. S.-Glass and Mrs. R. L. Moore spent awhile Tuesday. afternoon with Mr. mother. s~ Wesday a ~pey and -but again .. iss Jo Miller Glass sent Friday with her sister, Mrs. B. F. Ford, of Great Falls. Miss Isabel Glass spent one night last week with Miss Mary Raines. Messrs. Rufus Keistler and Alex Glass spent Monday in Columbia. Master Julian Ford is spending a few days with his grandmother, Mrs. J. S. Glass. Mount Zion, B. Y. P. U. Sunday af ternoon. Everybody welcome for the meeting. The Epworth League Sunday night at 7:00 o'clock. STROTHER Mrs. W. B. Pearson entertained Thursday evening complimenting the teachers of Monticello, Pine Grove! and' Rock Creek and also Blairs. Games, contests and dancing furnish ed amusement. Refreshments of fruit jelatine, hot cocoa andl cakes were served by Misses Katherine Pearson and Sallie Blair. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Willingham in vited a number of their friends to en joy a turkey dinner with them last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Willingham, Mrs Ella Hentz, Mrs. W. B. May, Miss Helen Gue, J. S. J. Suber, Jr., a.l E. F. James enjoyed the turkey sup per at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Blair's, of Blairs, Friday evening. Miss Helen Gue spent Wednesday night at the home of Mr. J. D. Blair. Mesdames Sadie Suber and Georgia May spent Friday with Mrs. W. S. Blair. Mesdames J. S. J. Suber, Sr., an-i Ella Hentz spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Coleman. M. L. Whitener, of the Coxe-May Lumber Co, is away on business. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Little and son, Bill, Jr., are here after spending five weeks with relatives in Wadesboro, N. C. Hunter Brown spent the week-er I in Newberry with Sloan Chapman. E. F. and P. W. James went to Union Saturday afternoon on bumi-' ness. Guy Whiter (Continued on Page Three) Bonds HAPPENINGS OF INTER EST OVER THE STATE. Columbia.-Mrs. Dais-; Edgerton, of Washington, agent of the United States ferestry service, is in the midst of an intensive forestry conservation campaign in South Carolina, with meet ings at various parts of South Caro lina. Mrs. Edgerton reports a cordial reception .of thecently revived for estry mA nio*'*t the disLrict meet ings of the'South Carolina Federation of Women's clubs, which she addressed at Hartsville, St. George and Fairfax. The club women In session at these dis trict centers have received with enthu siasm the message of the United StateA forest service to the -advocates of the, forestry movement, through 1fMrs. Ed gerton, who iWtgking upon her' iearets the great -alu&ind indispenisability of the forest. -i#iath 6f the state. She reminded them -of 'the' recognition. which this state has given to the forest conservation in forestry laws put on the statute books as early as 1798, against the wilful burning of the woods, but drew attention also to the fact that many of these laws have bien repealed by short-sighted means; that those whichr have survived are ineffec tive and that theone adequate forast protection law passed by the legisla ture wit~ a decade was vetoed brthe governor at the time. The time is ripe for South Carolina to fall in line with the"great majority in American conservation 'of no'.'ura resources, Mrs. Edgerton sys "Time was when an American ester, if he could be found, was look upon as a faddist, a dreamer," sb says. "Today all the states ha woods areas within their bounda except a- baekward few, of which S Carolina is one, acknowledges thep and present abuse of our forests and renimend wise us and protectiono, The- time is at hand when negledt this resource will be-consideied a4. disgrace as *ell as an ecAnomle waski South Caroinais leadig tiidustry agri culture, Is dependent in many wa U the t oile' of 1-60W tCaropsin' second4 ind. try, ?umbering,'needs no explanation in this connection. South Carolina's Piedmont factoies use more developed wter power dependent upon pitec tion of headwaters, than any other Pouth Atlantic state. Th: dest.r'ttr. f her forest resources, however grad. ual. will work increasing hardships upon her. The time to check threat oning conditions Is at hand. Every section of the state should co-optrrate to place the new forestry movemeDt on the active list of an established Am'r lean policy of forest protection. From all sections of the state a de mand is being madl for Mrs. Edger ton's services and requests from the schools in ~various sections of South Carolina, and before civic bod ie,s coun ty fairs, and opportunities by which she can add'-ess me,le in groups are being made for l'rr services. These intationls will he cosde by Mrs. Edgerton~ as soo~n r he can map out her work for th'e n' we,~'eks. Mrs. Edgetter ;;;ahe before the league fo'r law re-remenlt in Camden and mode a very profound impression upon her hearers. Tobacco Grow.ers !Receive Payment. Timmnwille.-KOut of the $1,250, 000 received in South Carolina by theI Co-operative Tobacco Growers' associ ation, practically $100,000 of this1 amount has been paid out in Timmons villi by L. H. Bane, local warehouse manager. From what can be learned, the tobacco growers, without exception in this locality, are highly pleased with the checks '-eceived and are optimistic in regard to the third payment. It is believed that the majority of the farm ers will be keen for the association next year. as many conservative farm ers, after figuring carefully the prices received by share croppers who sold to independents and prices received through the association, claim that the co-operative method will tally at least $15 more per acre. Already there are a large number of applicants in this section anxious to sign up when the new drive is on. Trade has been brisk here since the second payment checks came in and the business houses are realizing the good offects of the asso elation. Cherokee Farmers plow Under Stalks. Gaffney.-Much fall plowing is be ig donie in the vicinity of Gaffney at this time, more than has been done for many years; the farmers as a rule nr2 plowing under the cotton stalks as -fact as the cotton is gathered and alma~ 211 of the staple has been picked out. While the crop is short the pric'3 realized has enabled the farmers to come out athod. :n the crop ~~: :healy m:ade. Ta!:ag every i.r5 intc conse-rationl the far-mers of Cherohee ar in pretty good shape. for Pav QENERAL NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD Washington,-Civil suits to recover imore than $20,000,000 alleged by the government to have been fraudulently eipended in the construction of Camps Oton, Jackson, Sherman and Funs ton, were instituted by the department of justice against, the contractors who Were in charge of each project. The suits were said in official cir cles to be the initial step in a cam paign at law against war-time con tractors who were suspected, on the bisis of auditors' reports, to have gone beyond the intent and purpose of the Osthority given them by federal de partments. :Additional actions are in prospect, It wes said at the departmen, of jus AS, as soon as complete reports have een made by the special force of au ditors which haa bee= engaged for 15 months in an analysis of construction records. Whether criminal action will be. taken in any case, it was said, would depend to a degree upon the re suits of the civil suits. Unofficial estimates place the total *hich might be expected to be recov ered from all the construction cases at between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000. In the cases flied the government al leges that the Hardoway Contracting company spent in excess of $6,500,000 in building Camp Jackson, S. C.; the Thompson-Starrett company, $6,000,000 at Camp Upton, N. Y.; Bentley & ons\ company, $5,000,000- at Camp $erugan, Ohio, and George A. Fuller Company, $6,000,000 at Fort Riley, s. The suits were filed at Char on, S. C.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Colum phio; and Topeka, Kansas, re otively. dentical bills of complaint *ore laid ^ each case, the principal accusation ,A that the contractor violated "a rect and intimate relationship, of ftust and confidence" In executing this ontpet, while It was impossible, be of the existipg ,war emergency, government to exercise normal meeobson and inspection of work. sult, .it is alleged, the . fr ney -in the for great quantidies of mateir* %L clared to have been purehased on g . ernment credit and misused. Moves to 'Settle Pay of Senatorsv Washington.-As an oatcome of the recent discussion over seating of Mrs. W. H. Felton, of Georgia, as the first woman senator, Chairman Curtis, of the senate rules committee, Introdticed a resolution to regulate pay of senators appointed and elected to fill vacancies. It would give pay to appointees until elected senators qualified and nor from the date of their election. Under the resolution, Mrs. Felton would be paid until the day she retired and would operate immediately to reduce the pay of Senator George, democrat, Georgia, who succeeded Mrs. Felton. Favor End of Rail Combine. Washngton.-Challenlginlg the con tention of the Southern Pacific railroad representatives that separation of their system from the Central Pacific, as ordered by the supreme court, would have an injurious effect on obth roads and hamper development of the~ Pacific coast, counsel for the Union Pacific before the interstate com merce commission sought to bring out advantages to be gained by carrying out the dissolution order.1 Farmers In Boots WIll Demand Aid. Washington.-The Farmers National council announced that a "committee of farmers in boots" will arrive in Washington for a series of conferences with members of congress and govern ment officials relative to legislation to aid the farmers. TPhe committee, ac cording to the announcement, will be prepared to "let the government know what legislation is necessary to save the farmers from disaster." Negro Has 25 Children. Mobile, Ala.-William Gadson, a ne gro. brought to Mobile from tullom berg, Washington county, Alabama, and locked up on a charge of attempt ing to use the mails to defraud, de clared he was the father of 25 chil dren, 23 of whom are living. Gadsonl said that he was twice married. Tel Harding to Urge Reclamation. Washington-President Harding was asked by a delegation of house mem bers from western states to jnclude in his annual message to congress next month a recommendation for the pas sage of the Smith-McNary reclama tion bill. This measure was passed by the house at the last session and the senate? attached it to the soldiers' bonus bill which tailed of passage over President Harding's veto. ,The .lelegationl was headed by Rep sents tive Smith, ing Mal. COMMUNICATION FROM. MR. IMPORTANT ISS WEEKLY NEWS LETTER FROM WINNSBORO MILLS A union service of all denomina :ions was held last Sunuay evening it the Baptist church at which tinie i warm welcome by the whole com nunity was extended to-the Rev. Mr. 3regory, the newly appointed min str of the Methodist church. Rev. George C. Gibson, on behatf )f the village extended greetings to :he new minister. Mr. Gregory re )lied in a few well chosen remarks, xpressing -his appreciation of the earty greetings and pledging- hit :est efforts in helping to build a bet er and happier community life. The pastor delivered the sermon of 'he evening taking as his subject: "Christian Testimony", using the text, Luke 12-8, Whosoever shall confess. me before men, him shall the son of enan confess before the Angels of God. Each night while the mill operates, he ladies of the Baptist church ai serving hot coffee and sandwiches to the employbes at midnight in the rec eation room. They are rendering a ine service to those who work at, ight and at the same tin)e they are realizing a neat sum to apply on pay ment of the- new church. The ladies say that it is great fun to heli , In the absence of the pastor Ret. George C. Gibson, for a short vaca tion the, service at the Baptist church ext Sunday night will be in charge f Mr. W. E. Ra9bow, he fnance tist in the l7 ne shouii1e a - get out. You wil nregret Show your colors and be there. Sun lay school meets at 10 a. m. Be' there to do your part. Rev. Mr. Gregory 'will be at the Methodist Sunday school Sunday aft ernoon and will fill the pulpit in his hurch Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Every member of this congregation should be present. The office is happy today. They moved Manday from their old offices Lo the new office building at the South end of the mill. Each memn ber of the staff may have more pri vacy and more rest for the nerves in the new location. Rev. George C. Gibson left Wed aesday afternoon for Georgia, whet'. i will spend a few day s with his par mts in search of rest. While away ie will visit his brother in Sout? Georgia and spend a few days shoot ng quail, ducks and turkeys. On Tuesday evening the Boy Scouts entertained the Camp fire girls by taking them on a hike and ay preparing supper for them in the ~.Gods. The supper was in the shape >f a weiner roast. The scouts were in :harge of cout master Gibson whil 3 he Camp fire girls were undler their ~uardian, Miss Mayme Douglas.t. Prof. Scarborough, wvho is interested n both clubs, went along to enjoy the evening. Camp was struck near a good spring of water and a big fire vas kindled and cooking began. Af er the supper the bunch trudged some singing and swopping stories. All enjoyed the evening. Mr. Will Morton damaged his car when he crashed into Mr. Braswells ruck last Monday. It is not known exactly how the accident occured. We are beginning to catch the Xmas spirit. Already whispers are heard, "wonder what Santa Claus is going o bring me". We are going to make t a great Christmas by putting our whole -selves into it for others. Thanksgiving is on us.. Let us stop for a moment and with bowed head reverently attempt to count our bless ings that have been showered uponl as during the past year and during all past life. If we think correctly. we shall praise God for his Provid nce and thank him for every cross as well as for every crown. All good ifts come from Him and all mni. fortunes should send us to Him as our lnp. ES IN FAInFAIFL 'COUNTY Editor I'he News andt"Herd; The - time has ise -j ial when it ~is essential tiinhold- a-nd owners"-taxpayers' esI O of whle people of measures. to aveit ruptcy stAring W .i . .s are not taken in b-4iuis to bring aboat a b:onditions. Our poputatign-. t rate of 6ne peren su of the total populatiO,.at ani period was .burr to scratch the d oping our rich , Mmiinw in that it -is the s* with one~ possible exception e five to one. There are not ateuent three ha Jrmd white faili&es=n Uy ing upqn famns sy' own, and on whie i - a livelihood.- . - It is time'to fce Frsi field county- is beingAmore.satSsVW ly 'affected by the co'ming of the bol weevil than any .other- iithin the Piedmont belt. Whytthis is 20 is of- - vious, at least to those who iyVe with in it; and to diseuss that glzse of it is out. of .place just now; is'' Is right bare. . (Owing to the tnantry system of agricalture and the farinz*. on 'liens to negro . Inthea almost universal with usd & n ed to consolidate extraor Taggs acreage within one individmal hohtin and, further; eliminat any iod farming but thstof cotton rainfi and with rentals *minded in;.teams oa bales of cottoa, we, askpec'is are confronted wit sit uiwhees cofntyf better roads, the the paving of streets in seat. "But," yoa said, feet, "all these evidences-of conditions would be deceptive real situation within the congt the farming population shoul not restrained by some means frosI serting the country districts." is the kernel of the problem. To arrest this emigratioi and stepr the draining of the life-blood of our community, new methods add drastig -- changes in our management of public affairs must be conceived and put in operation. It's folly for Fairfield to , await general action on the part of the State in general through its leg islature. Conditions peculiar to thh. county cannot be treated by state~ '' wide re~medies soon enough. In '. word, and to conclude, unless way~ and means are devised and put it. operation within the succeeding whereby the surplus and h lands throughout the'c26unty mia~ys - split into farms of convenin~ 4 and suitable for the operatiori of form agriculture of the new en is now upon us, so as to~ be sold at their intrinsic worth to ing settlers, the very landed potential but utterly u present shape, of the land this county, will sink them . ruptcy by the weight of t~s ~ * ahd in their ruin, no y4w~ teachers, preachers, banker;s merchants-none willsuvi, - Hence I venture, Mr. ~io upon the use of your sound the opinion of our~oI~b if it be their dipsgoii gether in consultation fodr . of all durin(fie mnonfh o u where in a convintion dc oIbI~ sultation may be undert~ 't a thorize means of hvertse jtresh. ened ruination of our 'iir~. That Fairfield will flzdihAfl she pulls togetlier thein is doubt. I'll leave this subjiect further for your consideration and gnidane. My personal opinion, if .not unduly gratuitous for expression, is, the stih. ject is a matter for settlement -for (Continued o aeegt