The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 28, 1905, Image 1
The Lancaster News
LEDGER 1852 REVIEW 1878 ENTERPRISE 1891 /
VOL. I. NO. 8. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C? OCTOBER, 28, 1909. PRICE?FIVE CENTS PEP COPY. '
Attention, Farmers! '
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A Note ot "Warning from 1
Harvie Jordan?Tells Far- J
ers to Hold their Cotton t
"Like Grim Death." I
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Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 25.?Far \
mers and merchants of the t
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II (UC YV2UUOU itJJJili "Sir CO *
ton buyers who are now busy 1
at many interior points trying
to induce spot holders to sell *
them their cotton at market 1
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prices and agreeing to pay any ,
additional advance that may j
accrue within tho next 60 or 90 (
days. If you deliver up your ,
cotton on that basis and the |
buyers get enough of the staple
in their hands to fill their or *
ders, there is but little chance 1
for the market to advance. The :
only way to foice an advance ^
quickly is to refuse to part with J
the cotton until satisfactory
prices are offered. No middling
cotton sh uld be sold tit j
interior points for less than ?
eleven cents per pound. The j
crop is short and all who hold j
will be rewarded a^ they should t
(? he.
Again, don't lend your cotton .
to local mills on the promise of *
settlement at any time within
the next tew months. With
the staple in the hands of the
spinners prices can never ad- ,
vance.
\\. Again, don't lend your c t i
ton to whom 3'ou ship your cotten
for storage t! at under no j
circumstances must your cotton
*?e loaned or sold to exporters j
or buyers on any sort of tra 1c
or contract until you are ready ,
to sell it. All kinds of tricks
and devices are being resorted
to now by buyers and spinners
to induce favrncs top id with!
<S
their cott n Kv ry num who
^ is led into an of these trades is ,
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unwittingly playing in'o the
hands of the buyers and against '
iiiown interest and that of his
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neighbors.
Hold your cotton 1: e grim ,
dea'h. Tie up the spot, market
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mm rmiiHi III 111 HJI uj??lltM" Ji'1C S ; ^
and the victory will pooh bo
yours and tlio continued prosperity
of tlie South assured.
Yours truly,
Harvie Jordan,
President, Southern Cotton
Association.
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More Trouble in Russia. v
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Paralyzing Effects of Great c
Strikes?Not a Wheel'r
Turning on Seven Trunk
Line Rariroads F 10m Mos- 1
cow. v
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Moscow, Oct. 25.?Traffic wn .
peven of the nine main trunk j
arteries of commerce radiating )
fr>>m Moscow was completely
paralvzed today by the railroad <]
strike, and the commercial heart i
of RtMiia has been shut off from (
all communication with th? rest "
)f the Empire except the narrow
lection to the northwestward, intituling
St Fetorsburg and the
iinltic provinces I'hough the
government hap ordered the raiload
battalions of the army to
jro.;eed to Moscow and take the
jlaces of the strikers for the pnr
purpose of restoring traffic, the
Revolution; , o. i sodden and
mexpccted M - ?, have shown
heir ability riodr bands
>n the throai.- :? 'lie nation's
Miinmercia) life
The employ?o ot I ur railroads
truck today and ? jo v the lines
tinning ov r the N.c iolai Uoad
10 St Fetersburg and over the
it;: ? -
** niuau ami Kyhinsk road to
lliita ?>./l Atl. t? ii;
l?im? ?nu wuier miino parts tire
>pen. Tragic is at a standstill
tn the Kazan Line and oh the
ine to Yaroslay ana Archangel.
1'he strik rs today forced the
employees ol the. general oflices
md llnancitil departments ot
hree Lues, the Windau ana
tiybiuk, tin- Moscow and Brest
Litovsk and the Kieff and Very
iezh to quit w ok. l'tie otto is
ilivady feeling t. ie effect of a
mik and meat famine and a
ew days' continuance of the
itrike will cause serious embar
assment and even suffering f?
p >pulation. The renewal of the?
aetory strikes is not improbable.
tieatli Springs to Liberty
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rhe News as Gathered Along
Star Route No. 1.
Mr. Editor: We have had a
7ery dry and favorable fall f< r
uarvestinsr the crop*. and in mo-!
es the task is about completed
Pliore is not much oo'ton 'oli in
be fields now.
Work is beinj; j)united lorwaid
ip rapidly as po sib!e on the new
tore building '>1 Mr. A Caiithcn.
\W- understand that Mr. .1 K.
J reed will occupy it when compete
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Movers W. I>. Twitty & Co. are
)o.v located and ni?*? fv arranged
it one of the now store rooms <>'
<lr. M Y. Cant..en The other
me ih occupied hv Mackey <&
3authen, '"groceries and l're.-h
neats."
Mrs. Essie Motley, of Iio k
lills came down last week to
pend some time with relatives in
his section.
Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Hammond
pent n tew days with relatives
itul friends in Rock Hill last
veek.
Miss Marv E Creightcn lias re
umed to h r home in Sumter
ounty, after spending the gumner
with relatives at this place.
We are sorry to report that
hree other members of Mr. W. S
Hackmon's tarn !y aje now wick
vith lever. We extend our sym
>a'hy to the stricken family.
Mrs. L E. Cant hen ol (ireoa
d'le, !S O , is spending some
ime with her parents, Mr. and
rlrs. L Bell, at MagiII.
Mrs. Hammond UrnerandchiJ
Iron ol Frederick, Md , are visitng
the parents of Mrs. Urner,
Jen. and Mrs. J. W. Floyd, at
The Hill." Q. R. 0.
For The News.
Happenings in Georgia
As Reported by a "Former
Lancastrian"?Big Crowd
Greets Teddy in Macon, as
well as Elsewhere?The
Danger of Cotton Speculation?Man
Loses h i s
"Wife's Money?F i n e
Roads and a Fine Fair-The
Insurance Scandals.
M r. Editor : President
Roosevelt pa-sod through town
the other night about ten
?j uiuuk, on ins way from Atl?n'a
to Jacksonville. He only
stopped a few minutes here, as
Macon was not included in tlv
different points he had planned
to visit on Ins s ?uthern tour
He was greeted at the depot by
ov -r two thousand people, who
a anted to get a glimpse of the
inimitable Teddy a d hear him
speak a few minutes, lie ;s a
man of striking personality and
impressed the crowd vei'3" much.
He has (1 tin !i f"""11, .1....
- Will
ing his administ ation to hiing
about admiration for liiinself,
110 doubt, but one time, severd
months ago, I10 dined with a
black nof-ro, named hooker
Washiti itou. IIow can this
fact be overlooked?
1 list at this season, every
year, the chief topic around
town among men, especially,
who are engaged in that business,
is cotton. They are dis
cussing the reports of the ctop
that the armors br.ng in from
the country, they are talkin- of
the different estimates j laced
on the crop by various statisticians
and guessing among them
selves what the crop will
' amount to and many of them are
I wondering which side of th 3 j
market won d he safer to specu
late on The other day I saw a
fellow, a man working on salaty
about sufficient to suppott his |
family, appro'ch a man eimag
ed in the cotton business and
ask bis advice ab lit a ileal lie
bad made. He I ad the most
woe be gone expression 011 his
f ire, great drops of perspira ion
were 011 hi- fore.head and he
was, as lie himself expressed it,
"scared " lie had bought cot
ton futures and the market had
declined, lie lost -everd hundred
dollars of his wi <ds money
and "closed out."
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i lie iinest councy roads wei
have ever seen ae the oneleading
into this city from every
direction. Many a farmer gets
the benelit of these hard level
roads as he brings his w?gon
loads of produce to town.
Many an automobilist and
those who like an occasional
buggy ride oat into the country,
appreciate tlie?e tine roads.
They are kept in this splendid
shape by the county eliain
gang. A number of trifling ne
groes are convicted of some
petty offense, every iveek io the
year and sentenced to the chain
| pang. This keeps a full force
j of hands at work on the roads
j the year round.
The biggest *hing in town
J this week is the fair. The
agricultural displays are fine.
i so are the stock and poultry exhibits.
The man with the lly
ing machine is here. No misI
I take about it, he "sho flies"
! The s tie shows are out in full
blast. Yesterday was "Governor's
Day" and a great day at
the fair it was. Great crowds
thronged the fair ground and
had a big time. The cavalry
drill every day is worth a trip
to the fair. Altogether it is a
good fair and every body should
attend a good fair once a year.
It is interesting and instructive.
Tho man who has never had
any faith in insurance com
panics is certainly justifiable in
saying "1 told you you so"
when we see such startling
revelations of fraud in some of
ilio big companies, lie New
York Life, the Equitable and
Mutual Life. A certain edito
says every man who holds a
nolicv in tdir> Mmw Vn?u i
4 - J . .. V/ - ' x , , I V^l IV JLJI 1 t"?
shou'd write to President Mc
Call and demand that lie make
good the $150,000.00 he misappro?
riated. The only objec
'iotiaole t'eatu e we see about
that would be that several hun
dred dollars mo.'e would bs
wasted at 'heir expense in buying
the stamps and stationary.
Fo: mer Iamcastrian.
M(icon, Ga.
I Homicide in Columbia.
A Young Man Kills Another
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Thursday Afternoon at
Union Depot, in Presence
of Two Thousand People.
"olumbia Special to Charlotte
Observ r. of Oct. 27 :
James Trotter, Jr., a younjr!
farmer of lie heesville sec'ion,
was shot through the heart at
' the Union s ation at 4.45
[o'clock his afternoon by ^ i
[ iner Mitchell, ab u' the same
age and also of Leesville, the
two being fast fiiend>. Dr.
Smith, of Wards, who happ n
ed to he present at the time of
the tragedy, pronounced life
extinct in less than ten minutes,
dea'h resulting from an inter
nal hemorrhage. Trotter had
been drinking, but the arresting
officers say Mitchell was
perfectly sober. He gave as an |
exouse for the shooting that
Trotter continued to slap his
face, after he had several times
warned him t? quit.
Mitchell gave himsh' up!
promptly to a > Ia n clothes man ;
unci was earned to jail. His
family is about the most prom
iturnt and influential in Leesvillo
, he being the son of Mr.
Cromwell MiteheN. Trotter was
unarmed. Both hear good reputations.
The killing occurred
in the presence of two thousand
people who were at the station
waiting for trains.
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Heavy Cotton Receipts.
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[ Wednesday a Record Breaker?More
Cotton Sold than
the Public Weigher could
Weigh?Half-mile of Cotton
| Wagons.
During the middle and latter
part ot the week there has been
a bin rush of cotton on this market,
many farmers turning loose
the staple when the prica got
above ten cents.
The receipts on Wednesday
were probably the largest within
\ne history of the town. A - many
as 600 bales must, have been sold
here on I hat day?far more than
ihe public weigher couhi handle
By night he had weighed 476
bales. A number of lai mere, see*
ing that they would be limbic 10
reach the weigher's platform, unloaded
their cotton in neighbor
ing yards.
At 11 o'clock Wednesday 1 "26
bales had been weighed and loadivittrnno
ef aa! i !%-% A ?
' o DIOOU IIWIII lilt: CIMUIIl
platform to the Church street
crossing on Main si reef? .V mile
?containing by a ;tu <1 conni *202
bales.
I Alleged Pickpockets Captured
at the Fair.
Columbia v. Charlotte Observe;:
The lair grounds' conn
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->ii?uie.*i piCKeO lip iour alleged
pickpockets 1 his afternoon. They
were relieved o< about $500 in
cash which they were about to
carry awa\. No diamonds were
found There was id properly
recovered to point co; clusively to
their guilt Still jus before they
were dragged from the street car
at the grounds entrance the offi
'cers saw one of them run hn
hands in the pockets ci f< ur people
in rapid succession as his pal?
assisted his operations. Ollicera
1 hackiioiin and Knox and M agistrate
llielly, who made the arrests,
had been watching ft e o & .
j tet lor sevt rrl hours and, when
[they iell an outbuilding went in
I behind them and found eight
em ol v iuifLr t l?n I. - . ? i
I i /' ? - V ^/vv.?n. V^IJV ' ' I 111*:
j men escaped from the building,
where tthe four were temporarily
confined, by jumping out, of a
vv i nd o w.
All were well-dr09s??d. None
would talk after being arrested.
The three men, placed in jail for
a preliminary heating i i C X M >n|
day, gave their names as Joe
Shultz, .Joe Beckwith, ana John
Parker. The police also picked
up a pick-pocket suspect to day
This man gave his name a* John
15 irnett
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mis. :vici>mcn, c?t Lancaster,
passed through yesterday
on her way to Columbia to spend
several days ^ith relatives ?
IChester Lantern.
Dr. C. A. Foster, o( Taxahaw,
was a visitor to Lancaster this
week.