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FARMERS ASKED TO DONATE
COTTON AND GRAIN FOR
NEAR EAST RELIEF
Western Farmers Urged To Donate
$250,000 Worth of Grain South
Asked For $250,000 Worth
Of Cotton
Columbia. Dec. 15.?A plan for
the people of the South and West
to contribute to their agricultural
products to the relief of the Near |
East sufferers and the Polish people
is being worked upon by the Amer:-|
? can Cotton Association. The plan
was evolved by Loui? I. Guion, of:
Logoff, a member of the executive,
committee of the South Carolina
Cotton Association and was endors-|
ed by the South Carolina Cotton As
sociation at its annual meeting last
> Wednesday. I
The plan calls for a contribution
nf Arwttwn in value to $250,000
by the people of the West. J. Skot
towe Wannaniaker, president of the
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time with womanly weak
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Simpson, ol 57 Spruce
SI., Asbrdlle, N. C. "1
finally got to the place
where it wai an effort for
me to go. 1 would have
bearing-down pains In
my tide and back ? es
S, pedally severe across my
back, and down in my
tide there was a treat
deal ol loreness. I was
nervous aad easily ftp
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decided to use it," con
tinues Mrs. Simpson. "I
saw shortly it was bene
fiting me, so I kept it up I
and it did wonders for fl^di
me. And since then I
have been glad to praise
Cardui. It is the best
woman's tonic made."
Weak women need a
tonic. Thousands and
thousands, like Mrs.
Simpson, have Sound
Cardui of benefit forthem.
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ble.
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nervous people, who suffer from
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taken very little medicine of any ki
my back, pains in the muscles of
weak, languid, depressed, no energ
took three bottles of Ziron, and got
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benefit you. your money will be refunded, fo
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CAPPER MEASURE
PASSES HOUSE
Exempt* Farmer From Sherman
Anti-Truit Laws
Washington, Dec. 16.?The Cap-J
per-Hersmann bill exempting far-1
mers' co-operative marketing asso- j
ciations from the provision of the
Sherman anti-trust law was passed
today by the Senate without a re- j
cord vote.
The bill now goes to conference
for consideration of the Senate
amendment providing that the Fed-;
eral Trade Commission instead of
the Secretary of Agriculture snail
pass on complaints against any co
operative association.
Other amendments added by the
Senate provide that complaints
against the cooperative associations
shall be heard in the federal judi-j
cial district in which the principal
office of the association is located,
and that any attempt to create a
monopoly or resort to unfair me-j
thods^ of competition in commerce
shall make the association liable to
prosecutions under the anti-trust
Jaws and the Clayton act.
Associations formed under the
measure must operate for the mu
tual benefit of the members. No
member is permitted to have more
than one vote regardless of the1
amount of stock or membership
capital and dividends are limited to
8 per cent of the capital stock.
Mount Fuji in Japan has heat
enough in some of its steaming fis
sures to permit eggs to boil.
American Cotton Association, has
been delegated to work out the de
tails of the plan.
The resolution adopted by the i
Sont.Vi Pjjrrtlinfl TVivisirvn #vf Am
erican Cotton Association follows. J
"Our attention has been called to;
the urgent und immediate need of|
the thousands of children and wo-'
men in the Near East including Ga
licia, Ldthunia, Poland, Russia,
Palestine and Armenia, i
"The American Jewish Relief
Committee and the Near East Relief
are associations collecting funds to
save these unfortunate from cold, I
hunger and annihilation.
"At this time the South and West
are without money so that we can I
not render financial aid sucfc as wej
would line, ana swu ineir cry icw
help should not fall on deaf ears.
"The South and West are rich in
the products of their several see-!
tions. Being inclined to render such!
aid as lies within our power, we the
South Carolina Division of the Am
erican Cotton Association, in con
vention assembled, call upon the
people of the South and West to con'
tribute from our products, material
for food and clothing to protect !
these distressed people.
"Therefore, be it resolved that J
we delegate Mr. J. S. Wannamakar
president of the American Cotton !
Association to communicate with
?
the grain growers of the West urg
ing them to contribute agriculture I
products amounting to $250,000
and that he urge the American Cot-!
ton Association to join in with the |
American Jewish Relief Committee j
and the Near East Relief to contri
bute cotton equal in value to a like
sym $250,000 from Southern
States."
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nust have a certain amount of iron
:ks iron, nothing can take its place
iron until you get it. Pale, weak,
headaches, indigestion, rheumatic
:el tired, worn-out and depressed,
i should take
c Iron Tonic
ilia, Ga.: "1 am a man of 65; have
nd. Two years ago 1 got a pain in
my arm and leg; no appetite, very
y, nervous and irritable ... I
all right."
lets, today. If the first bottle taken falls to
r all good druggists sell Ziroi on a money
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BIG BANKING COMPANY
FORMED FOR SOUTH
Subscribed Stock of Seven Million
Dollars Reported?Directors
Named; Will Be Con
firmed
New Orleans, Dec. 18.?The Fed
eral International Banking com
pany, with subscribed stock of $7,
000,000 was formally launched
here today at a meeting of the cam
paign committee. Fifteen members
of the board of directors were nomi
nated at tonight's conference and
will be presented to a meeting ol
the stockholders to be held here
January 7 for confirmation.
Following the confirmation of
the board of directors by the stock
holders, officers of the new institu
tion will be elected by the board
and the bank will begin to function
under the privisons of the Edge del
and under a charter from the fed
eral reserve board.
The conference held here today
was attended by bankers from nine
Southern states, the banks of which
have participated in-the preliminary
j organization and subscribed the
capital stock. A canvass of the stoci
v pa&oqe ??poi suopdu.ieq.nG
total of $7,000,000 has been sub
scribed, making it possible for the
corporation to begin with a capital
of $1,000,000 in excess of the
amount originally agreed upon.
Stock in the corporation will be
divided into 70,000 shares at a pai
value of flOO each and in view oi
the oversubscription, it was decided
to hold the stock subscription books
open and instruct the campaign
committee to solicit subscriptions
with a view to nicreasing the captal
stock to $10,000,000.
At the meeting of the stockhold
ers in this city on January 7 the
banks making subscriptions to the
capital stock will actually pay in the
tresaury 25 per cent, of their sub
scriptions, making it possible for
the organization to begin to func
tion immediately.
Subscriptions by states so far ac
tunllv as nnnnnncpH tndflv
are as follows: Arkansas, $427,000;
Alabama, $543,675; Florida, $112,
000; Georgia, $1,400,000; Louisi
ana, $1,710,725; Mississippi $390,
900; South Carolina, $225,600;
Tennessee $622,500; Texas, $1,
550,000?total, $7,000,000.
Among those named ' on the
board of directors are: Mills B.
Lane, president Citizens and Sou
thern bank of Savannah; Robert F.
Maddox, president Atlanta Nation
al bank of Atlanta; John K. Ottley;
president Fourth National bank of
Atlanta; J. Pope Matthews, presi
dent Palmetto National bank of Co
lumbia, S. C., and Arthur F. Perry,
president Florida National bank of
-TnMrsnnvillp
Under the plan of organization,
the bank will assist Southern pro
ducers in marketing their surplus
products abroad by furnishings the
means of extending credit to those
countries desiring it for the pur
chase of Southern supplies. *,
DORMITORIES AT
CHAPEL HILL ARE
RAIDED BY BURGLARS
Chapel Hill, N. C., Dec. 18.?In
the most daring robbery ever known
here burglars last night swept
through five dormitories at the Uni
versity of North Carolina and took
from students' rooms more than 30
watches and several hundred dol
i l ?I..
lars in casn. in net?ny cvciy in
stance the watches and money was
taken from rooms in which two and
three students were Sleeping. Sever
al times the students woke up while
a man was in their room, but when
the stranger explained that he had
blundered into the wrong room in
the dark their suspicions were al
layed. The robbers escaped in an au
tomobile.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
A special meeting of the stock
holders of the Planters Bank is here
by called by the directors to meet in
the office of the president of said
bank at 12 o'clock noon Thursday,
December 30th, to consider a resolu
tion adopted by the directors to in
crease the capital stockfrom $40,000
to an amount not exceeding $100,000
and to transact any other business
that shall come before it.
OTTO BRISTOW, Cashier.
4t-12, 8, 13, 20, 27th.
Wealthy English children, in the
eighteenth century, had toys of
solid silver.
Take out a member
Club and save system;
year. Everybody wel<
join.
Our Christmas
Dec. 21
Any amount per week :
Christmas you will hav
Yniira fnr a ha:
and prosperoi
County Sa\
Sound :: Sal
fl. A. NEUFFER, President.
ALBERT HENRY, Vice-President.
TEXTILE WAGES
MUCH REDUCED
Decided Redaction Made in New
England?Notices are Posted
Boston, Dec. 14.?A reduation of
about 22 1-2 per cent in the wages
of approximately one-third of the
OAA AAA lAv+i'lt
mrtrVoK! in Maw
of several days tha
that company, whi
mills, had not yet
matter.
The reduction, -vt
fective in most pia
in effect cancels trw
during tlu? past yef
prices approximatel
that obtained befor
I OVViVVV ICAV
I England was announced today. The
t notices were posted in Lawrence,
j LoweH, New Bedford and other cen
ters of the industry in Maine and
i Rhode Island. For the most part
j #
| they applied to mills making cot"x>n
j goods, but in a few instances, opera
j tives on worsteds were involved,
j Other cotton manufacturers have
I indicated that the^r would fall into
! line, but whether the woolen and
J worsted mills will take similar ac
| tion at this time is uncertain. Wil
i liam M. Wood, president of the A
1 merican Woolen company, s;aid he
had no word to add to his statement
cent increase last 3
The manufacture
nounced that the a1
the mill worker tl
new schedule would
The question of
in the extensive cot
River is under neg(
ufacturers and lab
of the other center!
in this section wer
the announcement 1
Boston, Dec. 14.
tile mills of Maine
in Rhode Island wil
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men and women who
ship in ourChristmas
itically during next
come. No charge to
i Club Opens
, 1920
from lc. up, and next
e money to spend.
ppy Christmas
is Neu> Year
rings Bank
:e :: Service
R.. E. COX, Cashier.
P. E. BELL, Asst. Cashier.
,
t the directors of on December 20 and 22 1-2 per
ch operates 5p cent wage reduction- announced to
ijj J i-*- - -i ? -
coiusiaereu uie
rhich is made ef
ces next Monday
0 increases made
ar and restores
y to the figures
e a 12 1-2 per
rear.
rs of Lowell an
/erage wage of
lere under the
1 be $2L-a week,
reducing wages
ton mills at Fall!
jtiations by man-i
or leaders. Most I
s of the industry j
e represented in;
aay in Lawrence, Lowell and New
Bedford and in many smaller New
England mill centers. The reduc
tion, will apply to about 100,000
operatives.
The posting of notices of reduc
tion at the largest cotton mills in
Lawrence today was duplicated in a
large number of Massachusetts,
Maine and Rhode Island cities. In
some instances the amount of the
reduction was not specified, but it
was understood that it would be ap
proximately the same in all cases.
The Amoskeag mills of Manchester,
N. H., one of the largest cotton and
worsted manufacturing plants in
the country, and other mills in New
HflmnsKrirp Iiavp n/vf vpf maH? anw
jf today. announcement as to a reduction. At
? Pall River, one of the principal tex
?All of the tex- tile centers, manufacturers and un
and virtually all (ion labor leaders are conducting ne
il put into effect gotiations regarding wages.
fiance!
)er how hard it seemed to get 'round
dual si rating of that savings account
? ,
liristmas gives a bully opportunity for
elp some young person over this rough
the road to financial advancement.
Savings Account?for any amount?
joy or girl.
ippreciate Ihe Ihoughtfulness of such
d have pride in building it up.
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