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\ P> VOL. 4. NO. 61. SEM1-W FINANCING CO 1 TON. I Adopted by Farmers' Union--Great Corporation to be Formed to Buy, Build* Lease and Operate Warehouses for the Storing of Cotton. Friday's and Saturday's Columbia State: The presidents of the county unions of the Farmers' 1 Union of South Carolina met last ) night in mass meeting in the hall of the house of representatives and deliberated until nearly midnight. The session was executive, none being permitted to enter without the password. President P. Harris of the State union called the meeting to order and read the roll call, as heretofore published. President C. S. Barrett of the National Farmers' union was then inx 1 l i * * Lrociiiceci. ann ne spoKe ior more than two hours, outlining the plan for the formation of a corporation designed to amalgamate the various warehouse associations in the State of South Carolina into one association, similat U the ones in Georgia and Mississippi, and perhaps other States, the ultimate purpose being the absorption of all the smallei corporations into one gigantic corporation which shall contro the cotton industry. SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDING. The county presidents of the Farmers' union of the State ol South Carolina met yesterday , morning, passed resolutions indorsing the warehousing plan for handling and marketing cotton. passed a number of genera! resolutions and adjourned. The executive committee mel at 10 o'clock and remained in executive session until 11 a. m., when it was announced that th* meeting would be open, to heat addresses from \ M. F. Ansel and othen% This meeting was called to order by the Stab1 president. Mr. B. Harris, who introduced Mr. R. Beverly Herbert, vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of this city, who welcomed the visitors. (lov. Ansel, who was then introduced, seconded the welcome extended by the preceding speaker, but said a formal welcome was hardly in place, because it was too much like wel coming a man to his own house He said the farmer is the bone and sinew of the country, anc that he ought to be eonsideret One of them, because he sold i little cotton himself. He complimented the farmers on th? great work in which they an \ engaged, and urged the necessi / ty ofjgood roads. V Mr. T. B. Stack house, president of the State Bankers' asloAOi otmn Qitsi t \ ( ttu. "ii/viauvi i aiiu vi kJi<?uviMi * ^Warehouse company, was nex introduced. By way of intro k duction he said he could no \ make a speech and that knowinj. this, the committee had givei him a wide latitude by assigning to him everything included ii the book from Genesis to Revelation for his te^t. Then h< plunged into a practical talk or cotton and cotton marketing. He said it is a big subject. The gist of his argument in presenting the matter was that it woulc be impracticable for t he farmeri " to carry out the programme at outlined in The State, for th< reason that there is not sufficien money in the State or in th< Southern States available U , handle the crop and hold it \vhil< making another crop. To market the cotton crop o > 1 _ . ' 33k ' .v -V | * ? v, > . EEKLY. ' the South requires that the bank-, he ers who locally supply the cash or must go to the North and East or for the money to do it with. It w is a fact, he said, that the finan- ex cers will not supply that money co as long as cotton remains in su warehouses owned by the cor- co porations that issue the certifi- se cates of storage. He said that ca there must be an absolute di- or vorcement of interest in the wj ' property when the cotton pass- at : es out of the hands of the producer or the owner of it and in- tic ; to the hands of the warehouse- be i man- This is the security that1 wj i the monied men demand. co When the cotton is sold the St certificate must be in possess- of > ion of some one not interested to in the warehouse in which it has hi been stored. He said that such n a nrot'ppdincr vvnillrl lilro ci ! />/? banker loaning: money to a man u] and then telling: him he migrht j di keep the evidences of the loan in he i his own possession. th Mr. F. H. Hyatt was the next! fo ! speaker. b> [ He emphasized the bigness of j its the cotton proportion, and pred- b\ icating his argument upon the: at ; fact that but two men out of di i every hundred make a success ar | financially in life, he said that as the chances were very long In ' against the union succeeding p< I along the lines indicated in the plan proposed. h( It takes $80,000,000 to handle or a year's crop, and this money in w t silver would fill a train of cars i h< 40 miles long. To handle this'cc business is the thing the union re is about to undertake, and with u] 1 its inexperience, what chances pi would it have of success? He st I auvised diversification of crops. 01 He said the farmers of the South or annually lose $12,(XXJ,000 to $15.- pi (XX), 000 by damage to their cot- fi ton because they do not take care tf of it. They leave it out in the of 'weather and it deteriorates in h< quality and decreases in value, ef His talk ably seconded that of pi Mr- Stack house. At the conclusion of these jn speeches the meeting adjourned m for a few minutes while the visi- tii tors were excused and then went a into executive session to deliberate upon the course to he ei adopted with reference to the jv pian proposed Dy President Par- p rett Thursday nijrht. i The action of the union farmers is indicated by the^reso- ^ lut ions passed after due do liberation and discussion of the pros s< and cons during the remainder ' of the meeting yesterday. That q ' action wa*> the formal indorsement of the warehouse plan pro- ^ posed by President C. S. Bar- ^ 1 rett of the National Farmers' or j . St union, and its adoption by the union farmers of the State of South Carolina as far as the au- u thority of this body extends, ni j THK PLAN. S? t The plan is for the or^ani/a- i r< - tion and incorporation of a un-, t ion consolidated warehouse com- ti r panv. subscriptions to the cani- hi i tal stock of which may Ik* paid vv' r in cash, or in real and personal ^ i property, or in the assests of h1 - similar or other cotton ware ? house companies at their reason- tf i able value and also the right to pay for such assests ?f similar in ? or other cotton warehouse com- si panics incorporated, or unincor- er I porated, by issuing to such other tr s or similar warehouse companies tr 5 its common or other stock in ex- al p change for their assests. includ- d< t ing Warehouse buildings, fran- fj p chises. good will, etc., upon th t> such fair terms of purchase or p| p exchange as may l>e agreed up- d< on by its board of directors of tl f said union consolidated ware* N ^ """ r " _ LANCASTER, S. C., MAY 5, 1909. >use company, and said similar J PLEASANT HILL ITI other warehouse companies, their stockholders or owners; ~~ ith the right, by said sale or; Mr. J. B. Shehane Celebr ohsill cro n f iio oairl o f A/\ Wlc ^ iv.un^v ?? iw naiu O LVA.IV, IU ?1'U t<tju Ull muay * mpletely buy. merge and own Pleasant Reunion of Fj eh other or similar warehouse jy ancj Friends?-O mpames or to exchange or f Matters of Interest. 11 its stock for a pail of the pital stock, or other holdings It was our pleasure to 1 assests of other or similar with our good friend Mr. . arehouse companies, incorpor- Shehane on Thursday, i ed or unincorporated. 29th, it being his 72nd birth The business of this corpora- although he doesn't look t >n of farmers will be to buy, ! that old, for he is as spry lild, own, lease and operate lively as a young man. Mr. arehouses for the storing of hane'is Ja good citizen^and tton throughout the Southern mer, always attending to his ates; to engage in the business business, and as he remark* storing and warehousing cot- us, does not owe a cent, ha: n and other farm products for ver cost the county anything re; to issue negotiable or non- has always tried to live fo 'gotiable warehouse receipts or God and his country. Mr. tton certificates, as needed, i hane has 21 grandchil >on cottofi or other farm pro- and 2 great-grandchildren, icts stored in any of the ware- was presented with several uses owned or controlled by presents. There were 50 per e corporation, and to provide present on this occasion, r securing and guaranteeing, last but not least, we must ' pledging all or any part of you about the good dinner. . 1 _ - 1 .. ii - 4 pnysicai or omer assests, or say tnat the table was laden ' obtaining other guarantees, pood eatables, and it was the discretion of its board of finest dinner that it has beer rectors: to buy and sell cotton privilege to enjoy for somet id other products for itself or Mr. Shehane's children certi agent or trustees for its stock- know how to cook. May he Iders. or other persons or cor- to celebrate more such birthc rations, upon commission. Mr. R. F. Marshall, who ' To aid its members or stock- to Philadelphia. Pa., in Jan Iders in borrowing money up- last to study the silvers i their cotton or other products business, has graduated an hen safely stored in the ware- turned home. He stopped uses of either of them, of said in Washington. I). C.. a d< rporation, upon its guaranteed (two 011 his return, ceipts; also to borrow money Mrs. S. P. Adams and Mr >on its own initiative for the Beckham, Jr., visited rela irpose of lending same to its in Lancaster the past week, ockholders upon their cotton. Communion services wil other farm products, as pledge held here at the A. R. P. eh collateral, and to mortgage 01* next Sabbath, the9th. Preacl edge its own assets to also Saturday by Rev. R. L. R< irther secure such loans, for son of Lancaster, and preac le purpose among other things, by Rev. C. S. Young Satu ' enabling such stockholders to night and Sunday. Id their cotton, etc., in their! Mr. S. Beckham. Sr.. Forts to secure fair and better daughter. Miss Jessie Beck 'ices therefor. returned home Monday frc No one may be a stockholder visit to the former's son-ir this corporation who is not a and daughter, Mr. and Mr , x> ?t. ir> ? it. 1 I). Nisbet, of the Jacksor ember of the Farmers Educa- 3ectjon News Read onal and Cooperative Union of P)easant Hill. May 5. merica. V\ arehouse company, the own- union of South Carolina he ship ot whose stock is exclus- indorses the request of the 1 ely held by members ol said department of agriculture o antiers' Educational and Co- secretary of agriculture of erative Union of America, may United States, bureau of ar IV ?i nr) M\im /,!' ... ... ....v. ijimirowi oun;n. in industry. to detail one or le corporation in its own behalf. Held experts from the bure .11 may not dispose of or sell the ^ stationed in the State fo one to any one not a member purpose of advising, dire " said Farmers' Educational and an(j assisting those engage imperative Union ot America or about to engage in live ithout first offering same to , raising, particularly in the ra lis corporation and allowing it <>f beef cattle." ) days within which to cancel The Clemson summer sc lid stock on its own books and for instruction of farmers ay par value therefor. indorsed. In case ot the death ot a stock- Also resolutions thanking ;>lder. then his executor or ad- ,j Harper, Commiss linistrator must tirst offer for vVatson. Congressman I eve ile the stock to the board of di- others for protecting the int fetors of this corjmration. ()f tjie fanners in the Payne The meeting adopted resolu- bill fertilizer proposition, ons that Commissioner Watson Also indorsing the 1. id a committee from the union Greene cotton grader, a ma ait on the president of the said to he smarter than tin nited States to get him to send ton buyers, broad an agent to get in forma- And this resolution: on from the manufacturers "Resolved. "That this lere. wishes to again put on recoi The State Farmers' union has full appreciation <>t the va) idorsed the request of Commis- the United States farm de oner Watson asking for a gov- ,st ration work in South Car nment man to be located here and the excellent results 1 > look after the live stock indus- obtained by this work unde y of the State. The union re- direction ot the State a izing the good that has Ireen Prof. Ira Williams, in his \ >ne here by the State agent of of close cooperation with irm demonstration work and State authorities and this or lat much good could he accom- zation, and that Dr. Knaj lished by having a man here to and is hereby requested t > the live stock work adopted crease the scope and extei te following resolution: this work in South Carolii "Revived, That the Farmers' rapidly as possible." ci. i ssveu me woman's iii? as.' Death of Good Wc Kershaw County ates Mr. Editor: Mrs. An r*.,. I*>.. **.. OJ 1 * 1th ,c-v? wuc U1 mr. cjiiwuru ami- > lastFriday morning,< . She was a daughter of er Mrs. C. A. Bird, and v only a few days. She \ meet, those christian spiri I. B. c?uld make the best of ev< \pril1 and could see the hand day, ',n ad the the daily hap 0 be i ?f dfe. How she will be and | by ber little two monl She-1 babe, lonely husband, h far- j Parents,and brothers and own i besides a multitude of r ?d to:and friends, u ne- Funeral services were c and ied by her pastor, the Re1 r his ' Thompson, at Mt. Pisgj She- i church Saturday e dren ^be building was crowd< capacity with her relati nice fnends. She was one sons bright christian lights And eburch and community, tejj ful member of Mt.Pisgal Will i tireless worker for the go with *er* the Tbe deepest sympath> 1 our community is extended ime. reaved loved ones, and n ainly be able to say * 'Thy . Jive done." A F lays. ^ went Death cf Young M nary Jefferson. mith dre-l * Editor: On last aay morning an oppressiv over was cast over our entn >r munity when the spirit , dear brother and co-worl S." ' , Lee Holley, took its fligi tives , , , ! eternal shore. II I He was one of those g . humble spirits that spol lurch , J. . . greater force in his wi \n.g~ living than in words. f> !,n a faithful member of Mt Baptist church, a true, ' * christian. He leaves hi ^ I father, several brothers sisters to mourn his su< ham, . parture. ,n| a He was buried at Mt. Friday after funeral ser ibani his pastor, Rev. E. O. Th er. After services he was la by a great number of h fill and loving brothers rebv Junior Order. The Or State entire community extern f the lonely loved ones their h the sympathy. A F limal ? more' ^i?-?= i;LOoi>ini: UHtru.* MKNT h<?h eured so many cms# ail to matisiu, why do you suitor wit) T the ^Ic *1 ft)lotion, it relieves el) pain 25c and o'Jc a bottle Crawl Cting ; Special Agent*. stock Funeral of Emrnett 1?,ner Rock Hill Record, May I . . . _" remains of Lmmett H< ,(,ols died at Laredo, Texas, li was, . . . . ot pneumonia, arrived in p ( last night and were 1 . 1 ' ' charge by Reid's underts lone) tablishnient. This aftern r and , ., , were laid to rest in ?pf>QT C wood! Cemetery, after services conducted at t P church by Rev. Mr. H ' . ' of Lancaster. Mr. .las. Hoke. fath. young man. and his fam over from Lancaster t< the funeral and burial. ' ": ' Quite a number of *(! its of beautiful flowers wer ue of in the box containing tl rnon- an(l remains, each with j- tached, showing they I sent in by friends and i ances. and that though r the long ways from home an gent, strangers, he was not f< jolicy ? ? ? the' Smashes AWReccr gani- an all-round laxative \ . I health bnil i?>r no other pill* ca pp r?e itlx lJr. Kin^H New Lif#? I*i!1h. 0 in- aU<* ' tfulote stomach kiv-?r hD1 purify tho blood, atron^thcn t It of , cure < ouutipation, Dyapep-na. i .u'Jaundioo, (load neb A, Ohilln .,u Try them 2fte Jat J, F,'Maekey erburk Pharmacy. by push-j fe??jon. \ PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPT .man in Utter From Elgin. inie Hoi- Small Grain Crop Promising Holley. --Some Fruit v/itt be Made jf fever. Cotton Planting n..i? -m * * * Mr. and | *? VIUC1 ,as sick of the Day-Value of the vas one Pea Crop--Com Lands, its that i Thoroughly Prepared--Inirything' crease in Truck Growing of GckI ..Other Matters. . penings * ; missed Mr. Editor: It has been some ths' old time since I have attempted to ter aged write anything for your highly sisters. j esteemed paper. We are alittle dry elatives i'nIthis section, though notwithstanding that fac , small grain is onduct- looking very pron ising. By the v. E. 0. ' way. the farmer that sowed ih Bap- wheat last fall hi d a head ?n vening. him, didn't he? Some our of fared to its nun s are through planting cot- ' ves and ton seed and some have nearly of the a stand, while others claim it is of her to? oarly to plant. They say if a faith- y?u wait until about the tirstof h, and a M&y that you save a working, od Mas- Well, for the sake of argument we admit that he does save a r of the wonting. we heard an old farthe be- mer say once that the late plantlay they er also saved a picking, will be The theory of a second appliriend. cation of fertilizers to cotton is growing in favor and the theory an of planting corn without manure and putting in the fertilizers in time to make the ear of corn inThurs stead of stalK is also growing. re gloom There will be. perhaps, a very *e com- fait* crop of peaches and grai>es of our and blackberries, but the apple iter, Mr. crop will be short. We think it to the the leaves on the trees are better developed at this time than we ;reat yet have ever seen them since the te with year '65. Some of our farmers nlk and have every fine cabbage and He was Irish potato crops. Some have . Pisgah planted largely of sorghum seed devoted and will plant more?the right is loving thing, we think. It is a fine and two nude feed. Then some intend Iden de- following their grain with cow peas, another fine winter feed, Pisgah both for mule and cattle: also, a vices by fine fertilizer for the land. Wish ompson. you could see the difference on lid away some of C. P. Caskey's wheat is faith- where he had peas last year and i of the where he had cotton. You can der and tell at a glance just the row [1 to the where the peas set in. He will eart-felt plant largely of peas this sumriend. mer. The peas he had on the ground that we speak of above tic i ivi were the Mothershed Wood pea. h of uh'-n- He paid $4 a bushel for them, i this torn- It is a fine pea. mntaotb, There are several cases of ' dysentery in the neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Long being * __ two of the greatest victims. I Hoke, wil] say just here, for the satis0. tv . faction of those interested, that \ I u? 1 brought back from Clinton, S. >ke, who ^ Mrs. Ramsey's two little ast week boys by her first husband, W. i the city B. Sapps. viz: Jesse and Willie, takon in Willie was just five weeks old king es- when his falher iUed-' . ' Our farmers are giving a great oon the> (jeaj ()j- attention to the preparaLaurel tion of corn land, having broken. funeral harrowed and cut until they have he A R a verv tine seed bed ?the right ohinson thin^ abrain' don'1 you think? ' Some who are interested in the demonstration working of corn, er of the have corn ready for cultivation, lily came The people are becoming more i) attend interested in truck farming for plantation use, such as cabbage. I l Irish and sweet potatoes, peanuts r? n-.nlrmt and molasses for family use. le casket Well, Mr. Editor, it will not cards at- l><4 'oriu b?^?re our estimable lahad been *,ics wil1 aPP?int a flay f?r wnn-iint. Memorial Day. to commemorate 1. ' ' ., the dead who died for the Southlie was <1 .. , d amonir ern cau8? }US we'' as those poor unfortunates of the North who >rgmu n. tV1] ()n onr ro., , f , . iiutc IUU1IU 111 , the Atlanta Journal an article on ds the Southern Memorial Day. ionic Hoti which 1 hope you will publish, ."compare as I think it verv appropriate. . w. J. Lon?. tic nerve* teltfin, S. C. a'1 m T** 1 e bas l**^1 (o Fund* broken by a good rain and everyw. thinj? is lovely. Division rig**r A*gent, Charleston, H.C.