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Address to Cotton Growers Issued by Committee Appointed at Meeting of County Presidents of Cotton Association held in Columbia this Week?Plan Outlined for Buying Weak Cotton off Market. "At a called meeting of the county presidents of the South Carolina division of I lie Southern Cotton Association, held in Columbia on September 17th, the conditions and prospects of the association were freely discussed. Each county presi dent was asked co report on conditions and prospects in hi? county, and the average of the reports made was that tlie State would produce 60 per cent of last year's crop. The ten cents minimum, as established by the Hot Springs convention, was unanimously endorsed. The condition of the association in South Carolina was far from satisfactory, but it. was the general belief that a campaign pushing the belter organization of the State would result in a more thorough organization than we have had in the past. It was believed that South Carolina farmers are willing to stand by the ten cents minimum, and that little cotton will bo placed on the market under that price. "The most important matter tor eons.deration presented to the meeting was the organize tion ol a holding company lor retiring cotton oflfired tor sale under the minimum price, as wab recommended by the execu tive committee in session at Hot Springs. The undersigned commit lee was appointed to make this report to the press of the proceedings ol the meeting, and was appointed a permanent! com mi'tee to get up South Carolina's part of the capital slock of the company. "At Hot. Springs a committee consisting of JO D. Smith. S. A. Witherspoon, J 1'. Allison, .J. C. Ilickey and F. L. Maxwell wa* appointed to secure from the Slate of Mississippi a charter for the formation of a cotton holding company, bavintr a cap ital stock ol $ 100,000,000, with the privilege of beginning operations when if 100,000,000 is paid in. Steps are being taken to! secure this charter, and by-laws f >r the operation and governing of the company will be pushed. Farmers will be asked to sub scribe stock to this company to me amount 01 at least per j bile on cotton produced i.y them, and the general public can take stock at $5 a share. This subscription can be paid in money, or at the option ol the subscriber, in cotton at ten cents per pound. This money to be used for sale below the minimum1 pi joe. 'Toe idea ?t local govern mei't ot the company will be carried out as iar as possible. For instance, ibe money collected in each county should be deposited in the banks of that county, and as far as possible u*ed for r tiring cotton in that county offered for sale under the minimum price. The counties are to be organized into a State company and the different State companies into a national company; with a central office for each State company and one central office for the national company. It was the sense of this meeting that, if this company was ready to begin operations at an early date, the price of cotton could readily be carried a cent, higher, or up to the ten-cents minimum asked. It this company should 'jo on the market at present and buy cotton at nine cents per pound and the price should advance within ,30 days to ten cents, there riom i lit' j>ro<?Kjyn i". ?I*?. Once when people went in swimming in the sea iliey went lor the swim. Now they go in ? to the knees?lor the sensation the}' produce by their costumes. Of course certain mere males continue to paddle around in the surf and get their hair wet, but you cannot expect a demoiselle who has spent #50 on a dolirons confection of tl?o- I nel and lace and leather and jewelry to moisten it, because the eolor might run, and, any-' way, it would assume that shape-! less and stingy appearance that cloth nearly always has when it has been dipped. The complete covering ol the swimmer involv- ! I es the abolition ol swimming. There is but one way to enjoy a I swim, and that is to sneak awayi | Iron) fas-hion, remove ev ry hist j I thread ol one's duds, putting! .them under i stone to keep the! : wind from blowing tliein away; '1 and then?swim. In Self Defence ; Mnjor l(a:nni. 1?t?>r and Alanngrr <?f the i (}oii.<tilutioDAliftt, Kiiiinence, Ky., when hi* was Jlfrri lj tltnckcil, t?nr yosis ago, ; l>v files, hon^ht a In'* of ltncklen'* \rnica i\ i'f wh"-i I o siiva: "It enrud hja in i i ia/, h . ... no Uoabls : " (j> ijckist liciilt'i ol liiiniA, Si>r?-A, CJntH and Wound*. i "i5c at ). ! ' MitckAy Co., C'rawf?i>4 tiro*., Funnerburk I'hnrinnoy. would be a poll I of !fo per bale to I lie stockholders ol j said company;] giving Hie stockholders one hundred per cent, dividend on the money invested. "No subscription made to the j company is to he binding until the full ten million dollar bone fida subscriptions shall have been setmred. It is the sense of tliis meeting that the company shall not , begin operation until the ten million dollars shall have been paid in full and deposited in the county banks where collected. Of course, it. is distinctly understood that each and every one of the subscribers lor stock who pays in the money, or cotf/\i? iroftu * ?i /toid l (i/xif (/MI f lt/\ 11 j 11 j m lyti vi j u?r number ot shares subscribed lor. The liability ol each subscriber to this stock will be limited by j the charter to the amount subscribed. /l'he undersigned com mittee, after fully discussing this plan, heartily approves and j believes that such a plan will be neco38ary to fix and maintain a staple price for cotton. It unhesitatingly recommends it to he the people ol the State, believing it to bo practical and feasible. "FRANCIS II. WESTON, R. M. PEGUES, WADE STACK HOUSE, W. 1) BRYAN, F. II I1YATT, WALTER GREGG, W. J. MOORE, How to Go Swimming. _ ? i. o i.i i ' i the home of her son-in-law, Mr. P Geo. Ilamrick, last Thursday * night, 13111 inst., in her hist year, and was buried in the Kershaw ' cemetery on Friday afternoon N alter funeral services at the Moth- 1 odist church, conducted by her 1 pastor, liov. O. A. Jeflcoat, as- * sisted by Rev. J. T. Dendy and Dr. F. F. liice. * Mrs. Hlanton came to Kershaw j from Columbia soon after the j? death ol her husband, Mr. Ste j' plien T. Rlanton, which occurred I in that city about seven years a<'Ot and k as mado her home here i ever since. When she first came ? she Kept hou e, her two dau;rl'-'< tera, Mioses Frances and Dot, < living with her; but after thu marriage of Miss Dot to Mr. F. < M. Mobley she gave up liouse I keeping and ka? been living wit}) , lier Roa-in-law Mr. Geo. Ham rick si ate. > Mrs. li I an ton was a sweetspirited and devout christian lady j < of whom there are more than 200 'J in Now York City alone. The 11 educational members of ihe Sim- g plified Spelling hoard, including 1 City Superintendent William 11. 1 Maxwell, of New York, also are t omitted Since Aug. 1, a number 1 of other school superintendents I1 have signed the adhesion card. 11 In point of numbers Illinois 8 leads with 21 superintendents; 11 Pennsylvania is second with 10 superintendents; Ohio is third d with IS, and New York and New I Jersey have, respectively, 17 and j Hi. Indiana, Massachusetts, 8 Michigan and Minnesota each e show more than 10 such adherents. Of the 242 superintendents who S have signed the adhesion card, <J the following are from South i Carolina: William 11. lland, r Chester; K. S. Drelier, Colum- e l>ia; L. T. H iker, Winnsboro.? h Columbia Record, \ The News in Kershaw and :l Vicinity--Sad Death of Mrs. Blanton. i Culled from Hie Kra. 1 Mrs. Agnos K Blanton died al Simplified Spelling. Some Facts About the Orthographic Reform. Ti e simplified spelling move men*, many months before President Roosevelt had approved the program of the Simplified Spell ing board, had gamed among educators strong support. Prior to a August 1, the nine members ol c the New York board of superin tendenta had recommended the t shorter forms for the New York a schools and fhe board of education of Duluth, Minn., had adopt- t ed the same resolutions. More- a over, 242 superintendents of ' schools, including the state su- a perintendents of Minnesota, New v Mexico and North Dakota had e agreed to use the shorter forms, r This does not include a similar ratification by Dr. Thomas F. Kane, president o! the university C of the state of Washington, which i exercises a certain control over v the schools of that state. Nor c does it it elude more than two ' thousand heads of jjreat normal h schools, principals and teachers, r Sash, I vmv Blinai r#7 . . ai Building ORDER BY X L COLUMBIA LUMBER & I nil a loyal member of (.ho Meth tli?t church. Mrs. Blanton left surviving her wo sons, Capt J. W. Blanton, >f Charlotte, conductor on the Southern, and Mr. J. C. Blanco, station master at Savannah; ,iul three daughters, Mrs. George lamrick, Miss Fannie Blanton md Mrs. F. M. Mobley, all ol ihom have the sympathy ol the ntire community in their bteaveraent. * * * The meetings ot the Christian husaders, wh ch have been held n Kershaw during the pas? six leeks or more, were brought to a lose last Sunday night with the argesi congregation present that ias yet attended. These servants of God have teen laboring faithfully among is during their stay here, and ;ood has been accomplished as a esult ol the work done by them >urine the meetinrrs morn tlmn wo hundred penitents went to lie altar and nearly that number rolessed conversion. Many otninal Christians have been trengthened and revived and iiuch good has been done. Our information is that Cam* en is their next field of opera ion. We trust that they will be oyfully received and abundantly ustained in their eflorts to do ;ood there * * * Jesse Ftank Truesdel, son of dr. and Mrs. F. P. Truesdel, [ied at the home ot his parents n Kershaw last Wednesday norning, the 12th inst., of men i i . 1 i i _ i i mollis. ne jicia open sick ior everal weeks with typhoid feer and was just convalescing vhen attacked by the fatal nial uly which caused his death Rev. Thos. 11. I.oitch, theevan delist, arrived in Kershaw yestorlay and commenced a sories ol neetmgs in the Methodist church ast night. It is not yet definitely cnnwii how long this meeting vil 1 continue hut probably not exceeding two weeks. Mrs. M. M. Welsh and her lit,le niece. Miss Eilieen Floyd, vho spent ahout four months in Mahaina and Mississippi visiting elatives and Iriends, returned loine last week. Mr. and Mrs. B. h. Sfcahlnaker uid child, ol Lester, We8lsVirginia, are visiting Mrs. Stahl inker's mother and sis-ler, Mrs. M F. Evans and Mrs. E. (J. llrasington. Mr. 11. T. Gregory, postottiee nspector, was here Saturlay lo inspect the Kershaw post ifli 'o. lie found everything in jrder. Mrs. J. M. lhice and children, )f Yorkville, are visiting Mrs Urieo's sister, MrsO. A. .letlVoat. it the parsonage. Mi*? Faris Neal is viaiting her lister, Mr?. .J. \V Holden Mr. J. J. l'hillips was stricken Kith facia' paralysis last week. LAIL FROM V I ^ VIFG. CO., COLUMBIA, S. C A Livery, Livery, Livery! Though doing a rattling good livery business, we are determined to do even better. Our present stocks of Vehicles and Horses are being supplemented by handsome new carriages and buggies and stylish Driving and Saddle Horses. Our livery establishment is ^ going to be second to none in the State, and don't you forget it! Come or send to us when you want the best, up-to-date livery service. HEATH-ELLIOTT MULE CO. Professional Cards Dr. J. E. WELSH, DENTIST. Office over Williams-Hughes Go's Store, formerly occupied by Dr. It. M Galloway. LANCASTER, S. C. DR. R. G. ELLIOTT, Lancaster, S. C. Residence 'phone, No. 1S7. Ofllce, Davis Building, cor. Main and Dunlap streets; 'phone No. 72. Will practice in both town and county. AM calls, day or night, will receive prompt attention. Dr. E. J. Hinson / * DENTIST Office in Springs Building. Office Hours : 8 to 12 and 1 to 6. Sunday Hours, 9 to 10. Ask Central for No. 32. An Organ 'hat will la*t a life time is what you i want. Our Organs have a pure tone and lovely cases. We can supply you with an Organ that will please in every particular for only $65 and $70, delivered. Write us for our special terms of payment, and for illustrations of our beautiful organs. If you prefer a Piano we have beautiful and good new Uprights from $185 up on easy terms. Address, WALONE'S MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia. S. C. Claremont College HICKORY, X. C, The 26tli session begin* on Sept. 18. Thorough college course by able faculty Two scholarships to be given in each department to deserving girls, in Library Course, I'iano, Voice, Violin, I'rawing, Painting, Blocution, Physical Culture, Stenography,Typewriting and Bookkeeping. Public ? school drawing in normal course. For * catalogue apply to I> W. RKA I>. Pres't., Hickory, N. C. LANCASTER & CHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY SCIIKMULK IN KFKKCT MAY S, 1904 pAILY KXCKI'T SUNDA" .N Kusierii Time WBSTItOUND Lv Lancaster fi 15 .1 in 3 15 p nr. lit Fori l.;'*n S 31 a id 3 r? p m lit iia-comrllie it-tium i oo o m liv IticiiiiurK 4 So a m I If- p in Ac l.iitialur 7 25 am 5 15 p E Ai CUarloito- Sou. Uy .1' >> 11 in ? Do p nc Ar Columbia?Sou Kv luoo a m Mftpu. KASTIJOUND j. I<v Columbia?Sou Kv Ali&ii m 3 10 p in i.v i burlotto? Sj?U. '{y 15 a in A ixi p in I<v Cheater ffoo am 8 15 p iu l<v HI oh.burg MO a m 8 89 r n. I.r Ha-uomvilla S? Art a in H 45 p m Lw Port 1^4,rn loOflam *?S|iir t 1 r I .anca -.fr. . I'J pj V 15 p rn / CONNECTION'S CIlESTi.A?Soiithnrn, S'?>o?ril. ami Curo # Una & Niirth-Wftiii-rn III iwayn. l,ANOASTKK?Southern K rlway. A. I MaLU'XE, Superintendent