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gi-' :-' . -' . .. \ ? ? . . --s. VOL. 84 JOHNSTON LETTER. - ( Large Delegation to Cotton As sociation. Young Matron's Club Met. Delightful Moon-Light Party. The friends of Dr. Walter Outzs sympathize with him in the death of his mother, whioh occurred on Fri dly at the home of her daughter, near McKendree. Mrs. Outzs had just ended a two weeks' visit here with her son, and every one that met her loved her at once for her sweet, saintly face and gentle man ner. The funeral was Saturday af ternoon at McKendree church, and her body was laid to rest beside the grave of her husband. There will be about fifty interest ed farmers from here that will at tend the great cotton association, which will be held Wednesday in Columbia. Mr. Pope Lott is chair man here to agitate the movement. The general re-union of Confed erate veterans, to be in Dallas, Texas, October 6, 7 and 8, is at tracting roany from here, as the round trip ?is only $26.00. Already a number have signified their inten tion of taking this trip. Miss Frances Turner very pleas antly entertained on Thursday af ternoon in honor of Miss Lucile McClendon of Timmonsville. As the guests arrived they were served with punch by Miss Grace Turner and Willie Waters out in the pergola, and this was an attractive spot with the many blooming flowers. Mrs. Price Timmerman was also an honor guest. Several tables for Rook were arranged on the piazza and interior, and after the game Miss Marie Lewis was given, a box of correspondence cards for the highest score. Miss McClendon was presented with a large bouquet of pink and white roses, and Mrs. Timmerman with a . piece of linen. Pink and white block ci earn and cake were sepved by Mrs. H. C. Strother, -Misses-itf arion Tarner and Leila Gall,_ Mrs. Bessie Mae King Brunson of Savannah is the guest of her aunts, Mrs. Mamie Huiet and Miss Eliza Mims. Miss Annie Waters has returned to Augusta after a visit in the home -1-, and was accom panied by Miss Mallie Waters for a visit. - Mrs. Mary Waters has gone to Sa luda to visit her son, Dr. John Wa ters. Mrs. T. R. Hoyt and Marion have been to Fruit Hill to visit Mrs. Branch. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Allen and Scott, Jr., are visiting in the home of Major F. M. Warren. Miss Annie Holmes Harrison has gone to Asheville to visit her sister, Mrs. James Culhim. Mr. and Mrs. Harsley of Savan nah are guests of Dr. and Mrs. Tom Weiderman. ? Mr. Walker Mobley entertained a number of his gentlemen friends on Thursday evening, all present greatly enjoyed this. After all en joyed chatting and a good cigar Rook was pllayed. Later block cream and pound cake were served. Mrs. Hairy C. Strother enter tained on Friday with a spend-the day party in compliment to Miss Lucile McClendon. All present were at college together, and a happy day was had. Mrs. P. N. Lott and Mr. Staun ton Lott have been for a visit to Charleston. Mr. Longshore of Newberry has been for a visit in the home of his niece, Mrs- J. L. Walker. Misses Rosebud McQuary of At lanta and Miss Mary Hunter of Marion have been guests of Miss Janie Bruce. School will open on September 6, and already some are anticipating and some dreading the arrival of the day. Mrs. Heber Ballentine entertained the Young Matron's club on Friday afternoon in a charming manner, the occasion being also that some of her friends might meet her guest, Mm. Rutland, of Batesburg. A delicious salad course with iced tea was served. Mr. H. W. Dobey was quite sick during the past week. Mr. Jule Wright of Greenville has been for a visit to friends and relatives. Mr. Forman Mobley is visiting his brother, Mr. Ed Mobley. Mrs. B. T. Boatwright and chil dren have been visiting Mrs. McIn tyre at Sumter. Dr. Counerly is at home from a visit to his parents in North Caro lina. Miss Antoinette Denny has been for a visit to Mrs. George Galphin at Ninety Six. Miss Mary Waters gave a moon light party for ber young friends cn Tuesday evening, and every one had a happy time ont in the large grove, where swings and cozy seats were arranged. A water melon cutting was had, and later several kinds of cake and punch were served. The chaperons were Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Walker and Mr. and Mrs. Mims Walker. Mrs. Frank Landrum and little Marie, Lewis and Elizabeth are guests of Mrs. A. P. Lewis. Miss Luelle Norris of Columbia has bepn for a visit in the home of her sister, Mrs. M. R. Wright. Mrs. Leora Wright Simmons has returned from a month's stay in the home of her brother, Mr. Sum ter Wright. Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Wright and children, Mrs: M. E. Norris and Miss Sara Norris have been to Greenwood for a short visit, mak ing a car trip. ' Freight Cheaper in Comparison Than in 1916. .It will take fewer pounds of cot ton to pay the freight on a bale of cotton, fewer pounds 'of beef to pay the freight on a car load of live cattle, fewer pounds of sugar to pay the freight on a barrel sugar, and fewer bushels of wheat to pay the freight on a carload of wheat after the recently advanced freight rates become effective than it took in October, 1916, according to a comparative study of freight i rates and prices issued by local offi cials of the Southern Railway sys tem. The prices for October, 1916, are taken from the July issue of The Commerce Monthly, published hy the National Bank of Commerce of New York. The rates quoted are between representative points in the South, between which there is an aotual movement of the com modities named. In October, 1916, when middling cotton was selling on the New Or leans market at 16.81 cents per pound, the freight rate from Selma, Ala., to New pounds or ?2.25, the equivalent of 13.4 pounds of cot jton, for a 500 pound bale. The new wreight rate from Selma to New Orleans will be 75 cents per hun dred pounds or 3.75 for a 500 lb. bale but with cotton of the same grade selling for 35.25 cents per pound it will take only 10.6 pounds to pay the freight on the~b"aie. In October, r.?16, the rate on live cattle from Meridian, Miss., to East St. Louis was 72 per car of 20,000 pounds and choice steers were selling at 0.80 per hundred pounds, requiring 734 pounds to pay the freight on a car; the new rate will be 1.09 per car but with choice steers selling at 15.90 per hundred pounds it will require only 685 pounds to pay the freight on a carload. In October, 1916, when sugar was selling at 6.15 cents per pound, the freight rate from Savannah to Chattanooga per 100 pounds was 28 cents, the equivalent of 4.55 pounds of sugar. The new rate from Savannah to Chattanooga will be 44 cents but with sugar selling at 19.56 per pound, it will require only 2.25 pounds to pay the freight on 100 pounds. In October, 1910, wheat No. 2 red winter, sold for 1.57 1-2 per bushel and the freight rate from Morristown, Tenn., to Dalton, Ga., was 13.5 cents per hundred poundB, making the freight charge for a car of 60,000 pounds or 1,000 bushels SI, the equivalent of 51.4 bushels of wheae. The new rate will be 21.5 cents per 100 pounds or for a car of 60,000, pounds or 1,000 bush els, 10.9, the equivalent of 50.6 bushels of wheat of the same grade at 2.54 per bushel. If you do not carry fire insurance on your automobile or truck you need a "Pyrene fire extinguisher. One may save you a loss of a thou sand dollars or more. I? "Pyrene" .savea* Mr. Frank Logan's truck on August 16. Better buy one before you need it. Too late then. ' YONCE & MOONEY. Enrollment of Voters Given by Counties. A total of 152,35 Democratic vo ters in South Carolina is shown by the final figures announced Saturday by H. N. Edmunds, Columbia, sec retary of the State Democratic exec utive committee. This is an un usually large enrollment. In 1918 L' the enrollment was slightly more] than 148,000. Mr. Edmunds Saturday sent to all j county Democratic chairman ,the] ballots for the August 31 primary. Spartanburg county leads the| counties with the number of enroll ment, 10,509. Greenville is second, Anderson is third with 8,086. Char- ] leeton is fourth, with 7,318, and Richland is fifth, enrolling 7,172. | Orangeburg's enrollment is 4,401. There are 1,266 precincts in the state of which 979 use the Austra lian ballot, 287 using the old-time ballot, these having less than fifty enrolled voters each> All of the 14 precincts in Marlboro county use the Australian ballot. Greenville] has the largest number of Austra lian precincts, 65, and Jasper has the smallest, 3, with six non-Aus tralian. Spartanburg has the larg est number of precincts, both kinds, 84, Jasper and Allendale have nine j each, the smallest number for one county. In Richland there are 33 Australian voting places, and 4 non Australian. In Oranereburg there are thirty precincts using the Aus- j tralian ticket and ten with the "American" ticket. The state ticket, sent to the coun-|' ties Saturday, is as follows: For United States Senate: NW. C. ? Irby, W. P. Pollock, E. t). Smith, j George Warren. For Governor, Robert A. Cooper*];] For Lieutenant Governor: Octa vu8 Cohen, Wilson G. Harvey, Os- ' car K. Mauldin. For Secretary of State: W. Banks Dove. .For Attorney General: Sam'l Wolfe. ... Forgot E. Dundar For Sd Carter. ? For State Supt. of Education: John E. Swearingen. For Adjutant and Inspector Gen-j eral: Atticus H. Merchant, Wm. W. Moore. For Commissioner of Agricul-1 tural: B. Harris. For Railroad Commissioner: D. M. Mccaskill, R. L. Moss, Frank W. Shealey, D. L. Smith: The names of candidates for con gress and solicitor in each district and circuit will be printed on the county tickets. The following are the precincts and number of enrolled voters for the counties: Abbevile.19 2491 Aiken.34 4404 Allendale. 9 798 Anderson ._._60 8086 Bamberg_.__15 1474 Barnwell_.17 1882 Beaufort.10 763 Berkeley.22 1356 Calhoun....'_12 1045 Charleston.____39 7318 Cherokee._30 2524 Chester.25 2467 Chesterfield^_.25 3886 Clarendon.26 2071 Colleton....31 2823 Darlington_.15 3003 Dillon_.15 2140 Dorchester..._.15 1768 Edgefield ._..16 1689 Fairfield.c^.21 1458 ! Florence........29 4431 peorgetown_..L..19 1856 Greenville._69 11406 Greenwood.24 3716 Hampton_.19 2025 Horry.39 4447 Jasper..._: 9 625 Kershaw_...36 2449 Lancaster_....29 3123 Laurens.__33 1227 Lee._19 2132 Lexington.37 4666 Marion.t._12 2141 Marlboro.14 2456 McCormick_.17 1190 Newberry.48 3398 Oconee..37 4194 Orangeburg.40 4401 Pickens.:_29 3633 Richland.^.37 7172 Saluda._31 2393 Spartanburg...._84 10509 Sumter.25 1950 Union.v..20 3406 Williamsburg..30 2764 York.24 3878 Totals Colton Men Plan Drastic Measures. J. Skottowe Wannaraaker, presi dent bf the American Cotton Asso ciation last night outlined the pro gram of action which he will ask the big cotton meeting to be held in Columbia on Wednesday, August adopt. Every other state in the cotton belt will be asked to fol low suit. "ffhe program calls for the forma tion of-an export trading corpora tion with a capital stock of 1,000, ~ Ot&alea of cottoo,. all stock to be id iii cotton the retirement of 25 ^ cent, of the growing crop from ' market, a most drastic reduc ir? in the acreage of the 1921 crop; ad option of a plan of coopera tive marketing; prohibition of the importation of oriental oils and tak i$jg of steps looking to legislation requiring that'all cotton be classed upon American classification. The meeting in Columbia on Wednesday promises to be one of the most largely attended cotton dieting ever held in the South and Olefin i te concrete program of ac tion to be followed by the people of the South in their fight for a fair price for their cotton, will be j adopted. Mr. Wannaraaker announced yes-1 terday tbat he would submit the) following recommendations to each state division: ^ EXHORT TRADE BODY. Formation of an export trading corporation for the purpose of tra ding in Europe, the stock of which is to be paid in cotton. "I shall ?sk," said MT. Wannaraaker "that j 1,000,000 bales of cotton be sub scribed in the stock of this corpora tion _and that each of , the cotton produoing..states take its propor tionate share. .South Carolina raises j approximately one-twelfth of the | cotton crop. South Carolina's share j of this stock would therefore by be tween 7fi?OOO. and 80,000 'bales'.of I leis^ndes-J very bale" of cotton we" remove1 f from the market will increase thef yalue of the remaining cotton and in furnishing central Europe with raw cotton we will enable them toH suter our market in combination against the combine whichji now killing us. "Second, I shall ask the cotton belt to retire 25 per cent, of the growing crop in the following man ner: Each state will r?tire its pro portionate share of the growing crop. This will require South Car olina to retire one-twelfth of 25 per cent, of the growing crop., My plan for retiring this cotton is as| follows: RETIRE PORTION OV CROP. "The producer is to warehouse this cotton and turn the warehouse receipt over to a bank to be desig nated by4,he South Carolina divi sion of the American Cotton Asso ciation, said bank to give the pro ducer a trust receipt for his ware house receipt, said trust receipt be ing redeemable in July, 1921, so that under no condition will it be possible to sell the cotton before July 1921; the bank holding the trust receipt to discount same for producer in the same proportion he would make a loan on the cotton. This will enable us to easily retire from the market 25 * per cent, of the best grades of cotton which is desperately needed by the world. "We must drastically reduce the 1921 acreage. I shall request each state association to. appoint com mittees in every county and town ship to secure pledges (pledges are frequently not worth the paper they are written on) but legally executed, written and binding con tracts, assuring the reduction of the cotton acreage of 50 per cent. This contract will permit the remeasur ing of the cotton acreage planted and if it is found to be more than 50 per cent, the owner permits the restriction of his cotton down to 50 per cent, and also lays himself to violation of contract. The acre age so reduced will be planted in | food and feed crops. The world needs an enormous increased pro duction at profitable prices of food and feed crops. I am finding ready cooperation, for this plan through out the South and am requesting each of the governors to issue a proclamation endorsing same. BEARS SHORT SIGHTED. "The organization of bears in its greed seems to forget that if its ef forts are successful the disastrous result will not be confined to the South alone. They boast that we will not be able to finance our cot ton crop and for this reason will bs forerd to sell it regardless of price- * Thia is the most costly cot ton crop ever produced. Prices quoted today mean financial bank ruptcy. I am requesting every c?tate to appoint a committee of its most able men from its agricultural and commercial life; numbering among these its able financiers for the pur pose of jointly meeting with the re pr?sent?t! vs from every state for a conference with, representatives of the governors of the federal reserve banking system and representatives of various of the leading financial institutions of the country so that arrangements can be made for fi nancing this crop. "I shall earnestly recommend the adoption of a plan to cooperative marketing as . prepared by a com mittee of experts representing every state in the belt. I shall also urge that step9 be taken to have measures put into effect to stop the importa tion of oriental oils. These oils are largely unfit for humau food and come in competition with cot ton seed oil and enable the coolie laborer of the tropics to compete on equal terms with the American larmer. ''Other recommendations will in clude legislation looking to the collection of 10 cents per bale at the giu for putting into effect and force economic reforms in the hand ling and marketing of the cotton crop; legislation requiring that all cotton be classed upon American classification and the fixing of a minimum price for cottob and cot ton seed." J . " The Advertiser Corrects Error In our candidates column the an nouncements. of magistrates ofvtwo. districts,.,sjx .and " Tn which Mr. A. M. Timmerman and Mr. J. E. Bryan announced should be seven, instead of six. However, this will in no way affect the elec ion,for the magisti'ates' tickets have been corrrectly printed. This error, for which the writer assumes full responsibility, occurred in this man ner: When Mr. P. W. Cheatham came in to make his announcement as candidate he left the number of hi's district blank and rtquested the writer to get the correct infor mation and supply the number. We cheerfully connsented to procure the information as requested but it was taken from the Code of 1912, which gave the number as contained in the candidates cards. We learned Monday that the act of 1917 changed the number after McCor mick county was formed. The cards of Mr. Cheatham and Mr. Gilchrist should have announced from the sixth and the cards of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Timmerman should have an nounced from the seventh district. Mr. P. W. Cheatham did not make the error, nor did eitherof the other gentlemen, nor are any of them in any way responsible there for. The editor of The Advertiser made the mistake by taking the numbers from the Code of 1912 in stead of from the acts of 1917, of which ?hange in number we did not know at the time the announce ments were made. According to the act of 1917 these two districts are given as fol lows: The sixth district shall em brace Talbert, Moss and that part of Blocker township west of the Martin Town road. The seventh district shall embrace that portion of Blocker township east of the Martin Town road and that portion of Gray township ly ing south of the line surveyed from Greenwood county, that portion of Pine Grove township remaining in Edgefield county and that part of Pickens township lying north of little Turkey Creek and west of a straight line from a point on said creek five hundred yards above the bridge on the road between Capt. J. C. Brooks' and estate of John Harris, in a northeasterly direction to the Sal uda line, at a point fifty yards north of Calvary church. A Letter From Mr. Carwile. To tba Farmers and Progressive ? Business Men of Edgefield Coun ty: Gentlemen: I have no place on the stump in this political campaign to defend the agricultural develop-, merit work that is being carried onr th ru me as County Agricultural Agent, by the Extension Force of Clemson College. It is not my de sire to eater into any political con troversy, but to put the true facts as they really are before the intel ligent and progressive people of this County and to stand by the work and College that I represent in any fight that is put on them. First-Some think that the Coun ty agent rides nothing except gravy trains, is fed by public servants out of silver spoons, and draws the salary of au oil king. By actual count your County Agent rode four teen thousand miles over tough roads last year, ate where and when he could, and for salary he gets about sixty-five cents per hour for his work, about half what a negro brick-layer is paid. But it is a good work, and I am in it for the good I can do the agricultural interests of the County and also to earn my subsistence for life, and not alto gether because the job is such a soft snap. Here it is well to mention that the County pays only about half of my salary. Second-One of the Candidates in his speech here at Edgefield last Monday stated that Edgefield Coun ty does not need an Agricultural Agent, yin answer to this I say that this poor fellow is far behind the times as to conditions of our' County, as well as those of the State and Nation, speaking'" from the standpoint of Agriculture. If the position of Agricultural Agent is not needed in a county, then it seems foolish^ indeed, to me that these position^ have been created all over the .-.Nation, in every State. maintain her' progress with the other counties of this Nation, then she have a hard working, energetic county agent. This same candidate says that Clemson College will fur nish all the Demonstration Agents needed. Again he does not know what he is talking about. I know more about the conditions at Clem son College than any man in this County, I think, and I say that un less this County can afford a Conn' ty Agent then Clemson College will not be able to give the assist ance needed with our agricultural problems, especially during the next few years while our county is undergoing a great change because of the bolljweevil. Third-New, as to whether the preeent County Agent is costing the County more than he is worth is not. for nie to say. And that is not and never will clause me any worry, for I know what County Agents can demand for their ser vices and can easily get. So your present one is not worrying about being out of a job. The thing that makes me think Ms thisi Are the farmers of this County going to be without this aid? Gentlemen, as one who has spent the past four years in the work, I say that you should not. If your present one is costing you too much, then turn him off and get a cheaper one. If you do not mind spending a small portion of the county's money fora worthy cause, then maintain a good county agent at any cost. If tfye present one is not giving the ser vice you are paying for, then turn, him off and get one that will. ' Fourth-It is not my purpose to fi?ht any candidate, but to fight the idea of this partioular one. It is not my purpose to tell you whom" to vote for, but to urge the farmers and business men of the County the importance of maintaining and co-operating with the office of the Agricultural Agent of your Coun ty, even if you do it at a loss!to me. Yours, A. B. CARWILE, County Agricultural Agent. Read what Mr. S. F. Logan says in this issue of The Advertiser about a "Pyrene' fire extinguisher saving his truck. What it did for him it will do for you. The price is only $10. YONCE & MOONEY.