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V V * * The VOL. 2. NO. 93 SE/VU-WEF l Smith on Cotton Crop. . President of the Cotton Growers' Association Writes of Conditions of Plant in Wes tern Cotton States From The State. On August 19th 1 left South Carolina lor a tour of the western cotton StateH. There lias been and is considerable speculation as to the probable yield of . this crop. My opportunity for observation and information as to Mi?s issippi was limited. I will'vis W it that State during the early part of September. The Louisiana crop is certainly extremely short. From Vicksburg imtne,diately on the Mis^ssippi river for several miles in the interior the crop is. practically a complete failure. From the Ouchita river to the Red river the crop will average 50 per cent ol a normal yield. From JShreveport to Alexandria the boll weevil has destroyed the crop up and down the Red River valley ?the most fertile region in Louisiana. There are tens of thousands of acies that are abandoned ; not. a seed planted, and other thousands planted and abandoned and the balance making very little. I wish those who are disposed to think the weevil does little harm could see the work of destruction he has caused in Louisiana. lu Texas the weevil and drought have put beyond possibility anything like an average yield. The people of Louisiana and Texas won't talk of anything less than 15 cents per pound tor this crop. Judging by the size ol the audiences and the character and occupations of the men com***> posing then), 1 think it safe to predict that there will be a terrific tight for 15 conU if the buyers seem disposed seriously to oppose it. The conditions here are very much like tho&e that obtained in the States ea-t of the Mississippi last year. Last yef.r we had poor crops and these Western States good ones. The prices were good ? tine indeed for thepe States that made the larger yields and the result ot their fiiw* prn* iu ovwl filer U'uo an almost unlimited extension of' credit. Now the terrible crop; lailure puts bankers and merchants who extended credit to j the planter in the same boat' with the planter. For if there is not a bio price obtained they stand to lose their advances; so there is a very unanimous senti ment among planters and business men lor 15 cents cotton. Of course it all depends on the wisdom ot the owners and their ability to exercise their wisdom as to whether the crop will bring this price or not. One ot the worst features of the 'crop outlook is the poor corn crop. I've been speaking : Lan< LEDGER J 852 KLY. LAI to the f inn t here of the Wil-I JJ liamson pi m. I believe it \v?>u'd succeed here better than in the Eastern States. I f tuavii t it_. I <i.. f O!.- ' A D Winston-Salem special i" > rrei Charlotte Observer: A mostjfar| deplorable accident occurred on j 15 ( the tliird tloor of the tobacco . Nea factory of Taylor Bros, 308 First, un, street, at 10:55 o'clock this morn- eXj, ing, when the life of Clifton j,aj l'roctor, ot Salem, was instantly jess crushed out, by getting his Mead cro between tbe heavy iron weights tj(>1 of the laryo elevator and one cr<) wing of the door on the third pec floor which opens automatically prc to let the elevator through, | ko., Death was instantane* us, the i jar lad living only a few seconds*Lj,tj 'after the heavy weights piled ot 1 down upon his head. It was frol cm hed into jelly, while it is see thought that several bones in the on body were broken. ) wnen suauemv it DroKe and they | mui were burled into the river buck- but ward (W Mr. Divver succeeded in res wel cuing the Misses Beck but be- *-*ou fore he couid reach Miss Bailey hav her body sank from \iew and T not recovered until an hour la- of ' ter. , har Miss Bailoy was to h ive been con married on September 19th to stai Mr. F. li. Walker of Elberton, ties Georgia. She was a very popu- will lar young lady and her death wai was a great shock to her many vail friends. Her mother conducts s'at a boarding house at Port man c.u Shoals. The wire on which the >y?' young ladies were leaning was a picl very small one and stretched on like the bang of the river. The young the la lies were sitting on it and were and swinging when it broke. the , . M brii Boy Crushed to Death. city a et year-old daughter of Mrs. Carrie Bailey, was drowned. H'e Miss Bailey, in company with P;^ Misses EsJelle and Fannie Beck borl and Mrs. Belton Divver of this ',ve city went up to the ba<h house, otlu which is at. the upper edge of the dam, and were intending to ^eei go in swimming. Along side of t.he the river was stretched a email mti' wire. On this small wire the roaf three young ladies were leaning, told ?. I\ W? w VM-UCIJ l?'l v/1* where I *ill make a three days C canvass and on the 28tii will C leave lor Colombia so as to he F at the county presidents' meet- F ing on the 30th. I; 1 have had a strenuous campaign, speaking three times a ]? day and travelling day and night, jdeli There is a gratifying growth in <jow 9entimeut as to our work and tills practical demonstration ot appre- ^[HC citating it. \ve E D Smith wpj Monroe, La., Aug. 25, 1907. a fH " ~ " ble Tragic Death of an Ander- The CAM VAIIWOT T r?rl? ovn Auuug juauy. 4^TV ferti . Anderson special in the Green- witl ville News : The waters ot the 8l)e* Por'nnn dam claimed a beautiful girl victim this alternoon hav when Miss Carrie Bailev.the 19- ?ch( ... . . - - i V :aste REVIEW 1373 ENTE MCASTER. S. C., AUGUST 31. 19 lappenings in Georgia. ; "Hj P '8 Driner Lancastrian" Tells ;uu] if Pleasant Trip to the rea Country-?Cotton and the e-p 'rop and Price Outlook--- rit>l Reflections on Prohibition prli ^aw?Other Matters of J|j(! nterest. !tU:i poii Id. Lancaster News: Alter a (^ot glit'ul b'ay oi several days ^ n in go?d old Pu:a-kicounty, 9C'" state, we are back again in t!,e :nu and at our post of duty. "ol were very much impressed 'etM 1 that part of the country as artl rming section and as ? oesira- enc community in which to live. to 1 land is for the most part l',e' 1, free from rocks and verv big ile. Tiiey are well supplied Peo l timber down there, and 'aw >kingof tall timber, they have *'7 e of the laliest trees there I P^e e ever seen. i ney Have go cl ?'r" >ols and churches, ferhich are h*v jssities to a good community. as^ people are clever aud lies- 'aw ble, the neighbors are '-neigh- No, y," and the neighbors don't rtvvy ai a treat distance from each rt 4 r, either. And roads, gee hav z, they ar-i tine. Ooe fellow, hut ng how I was impiessed with 8?h good roads, remarked, "You ^ce t not he accustomed to good hoi Is." I told him I was not. I cro him I was raised in a comJity where ihe land was fine, 'he the roads were very, very bad. hen the good ro^ds boom gets tdie 1 under way in Lancaster r,,d oij, however, they, too, will ?ii e pood roads.) not *he season for the gathering 'he he fleecy staple is again at clu id in this state and cotton is c>n ling in, although it hasn't wh ted coming in in largequanti- nais yet. In a tew days, there tdie 11 e lots of it criming. The dry, ev* m weather which has pre s'a led over the cotton belt, of ttie get e for the past tew weeks no, ses cotton to open very rapid 'es and with the ideal weather lor tier <ing, the tarmers will most pe!l liy pick it out arid put it on market as fast as possible thereby reap the benefits o! ?hs good prices which cotton is tin; lging now. T< -day b sf cotton Ool tiring 12+ cents here in this tin: atid thi-* strides us as being we )(>?! price, although some of the in 1 *cliant9,andn great many o( the Wf m-rs, expect to see it >-ell for old cent1 before the end of the re' r. We hardly expect any such ed isual price as that, bu? we do tfin iect to see fairly good prices we I all through the season, un- k'Cl i there is a tremen ions big son p made, and present indiea ,)et is do not point to a large i"? p. But with i iic present pros:ts for a crop and the present *'ft taoecta '.or food nrices. fho tol ? O I J >d demand for cotton, etc, the ('0? mors will b * ill splendi<l con- ha* ion financially, the mijority wa them ; and therefore, judging pie m tlie present outlook, we sof no good reason for complaint the part of the farmers. yot ell, of course, everybody in yot IR I RPRISE 1891 07 ekl I'aimetto State has he prcl ibi ion law re< cod by ti e Georgia louisl I ot course, everyb dy is the Atlanta Cons'it i "c ally, ha? heard, of th e bowl set. up by the is since the law was pi !j:inj: from I heir present h, it will l>e a terrible ( ntrnent to them, it the sn't p.ove a complete fa jy ar?.- actually uugge em"8 to vou Id-be viola' law, putting the pub ice as to w hat can be v ly, u> <ler the new law. ually seem to be tryii ouiane the would be vio nake a test case of it, ir nerve" on it and sho majority of the G< pie that they can't m to keep even a small n of pe'pie Irom doing * 5 ase. But just wait, the p!e who fought so ha e that law passed will 1 >ep when the violators begin to get in their indeed, they will he ike and the fellow who 'blind titer" isn't got e any k?lead pipe cinch, i they say, that blunde >ns made in not putti nse on locker clubs is the e, through which the vvd will get out on. \\ , it. was a mistake not i se clubs heavily, or 1 I, not allow them at ah clubs will not be allov i as an open barroorr hout any restrictions on at all, and in our op fellows who run the bs won't have any "lea< eh" either. Of course, o have taken the most stic view of it have >ught ihat the law wouh ;rv drop ot whhkey out te and that nobody coul another drink in Georg , but there will be so 9 handled in the Stat rer expect to see the la ded. tVe notice Irom The New ancastrian,'* who has tent from Lancaster tor ie in the beautiful c lumbia, has turned hit I foot-steps homeward will hear from him no the Columbia corresnotu env v him hi* return home county. Would 1 urn ourselves, but as we up stakes and came to to "carve our fortune" have not yet succeed srviim" it, (we ( ne mighty fine turke; )t roa*t when we went r i ti tli A /ir>?t n I r nro \tr 1 I ... ... V,. ...... J , .. if here a while longer, v, we forgot to meiiti ling of our trip (low intry this Hummer, th [I some mighty fine pea termelona. No peaches is, but we have k'partaici ue tine Liberia peach icon tins year. Good 1 ii, "Lancastrian" maybe i go to Columbia to live \fEWS PRICE?FIVE CENTS PER COPY. hear 1 fcliey will have a better bill team, cut! ly one (bateau stand -ome chance it .re, ol winning the j ennant, but as who a cr am /rie >(.1 ol ours in Lanution, |cas'er reals these hues he will e tor- doubtless say, "Say, t wenty-tlirce anti lor your Macon, team and hurrah *ssed. for Charleston, my old favorite, ; aiti- for they are going 'o win."That's jisap- right. Many days ago, we joined > law tlie chorus of the Macon fans in ilure. singing, "Good bye little flag, sting good-bye" nrs of Former Lancastrian, io on j Maeon, G;v. done.! >-?? They Peters to be Hanged--Goverlli: to nor Refuses to Interfere l ,t1^ with Death Sentence. "try w the It appears from the following torgia dispatch tro:n Kichtnond, Va., ake a to the Roanoke Times that Gov. linor- Swansou, of Virgii.ia, has de5 they clined to interfere with the death same sentence of George A. Peters, rd to the man who ran an "original not be package" house in Lancaster nt the some years aco: work. "George A. Peters, of Carroll wide County, is to hang tor Ihemurluns del* of Itev. Joseph Easter, a ng to Dunkard preacher, who was kill" Oh, ed in tins county several months r the ago. This conclusion was reading a ed by Governor Swansnn this loop- morning after going over the apliquor plication lor commn'ation. ie ad- "The Governor says he has not to tax found a solitary thing upon which better lie could base any interference 1, but with the sentence of the jury red to which tried the prisoner. The 1 and papers have been in the bands of them, the Governor for some time and inion, lie has examined into merits of locker the case with unusual care. 1 pipe "Peters, according to the rethose cords in the case, went to the opti- homo of the minister one night never in May, after the minister had 1 run retired, called him to the door of the and shot, him down in cold blood d ever,in the presence of the mnu'j wife ia, oil, and children. There was abso much iutely no provocation for the e, we crime, and the attempt of the de w re fence to show that Peters was drunk at the time fell fiat, the 'ft that contrary being proven. Peters been v, ill bo hanged on Sept. 20." some ? ify 0f Church Paid for?Land was i face Donated by Col. Springs. , and more Mr. Editor: Please allow lence. space in your newsy paper to to the say to your many -eaders that ike to the members, together witli the 5 pull- pastor, II. E. Martin, have at Geor- last succeeded in paying old and as Centennial cnurvn out 01 aeot. ed in That generous hearted million* larved aire, Col. Leroy Springs, gave to y and us, the members of Centennial visit- A. M. E. Zion church, the land, 1 stay one acre and ahull. free, on conBv the dition that we pay $50 down lor on in a house that is on the iot, which n the condition we accepted, and paid at we the $.r>0 in 40 minutes' time. We rs and as members and pastor pray or ap- that the good Lord may bless en" ol Colonel Sprin-s lor his kind tes in act, to a church of God. uck to H. F: Martin, i when * Pador. again,. Lancaster, S. C.