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The Westminster Oil & Fertiiizer Company We handle the largest amount of Cotton Seed, Meal and Hulls in Oconee County. We have made quite an improvement on our Ginneries this season, and can take care of FIFTY BALES per day easily. We mean to treat our customers the nicest we know how and guarantee good work or NO PAY. We also have on hand FOUR CAR Loads of Bagging and Ties that we will sell to our Seed Customers at Cost. Every family and farmer especially ought to use Cooking Oil. It is the healthiest and cheapest Grease on earth for our kitchen. Come to see us. You will find this Cooking Oil at r J. & J. S, CARTER. WESTMINSTER OIL & FERTILIZER COMPANY. W. S. HALEY K. W. MARETT, Manaor, Westminster, S. C. Look, Lisian, Farmers I Representatives of over six hun dred thousand cotton producers are in session to-day, 6th of September, at Texarkana, Texas, for the purpose of fixing a price for t .cir cotton. When these prices have gone out every newspaper that is friendly to ward the snocess of this movement should publish these prieeB, just the same as they do the cotton exchange prieeB, aud let every cotton grower know what the produoers say the produots of their labor is worth. If tho minimum prices fixed by tho Farmers' Union is too low for your idea, remember that you are not bound to sell at the minimum price, but you will surely break faith if you sell for less than the minimum price. Next week we want to Moat our banner of the Farmers' Union to the breeze with our prices for cotton on it, and we want all cotton growers to stand by our colors and fight to the finish for profitable prices. The Cotton Situation. What are you doing about it ? There ia no getting around the fact that a large amount of cotton perhaps half the crop-may be called "distress" cotton ; that is, it is in a way mortgaged and billed out to go upon tho market in a very few month >' time, let the prices be as they may. Now these conditions of the cotton situation in the South is well understood by the bears, who deliberately work a combination to take an advantage of thin appa rently helpless situation of these un fortunate unorganized producers of cotton, who have through their igno rance and the blind selfishness of the supply men who made the conditions will causo these unorganized and helpless class of producers to dump their cotton upon the market in a way that has made these unpro tected cotton farmers easy prey for tho cotton speculators who never fail to rob these unprotected pro ducers of their hard earned dollars, said dollars going out of the South, which will sooner or later bo felt by every industry or trade in the South. The Remedy. The only salvation or remedy for this condition of things is for the supply men, who have made these debts all duo at once, is to provide ways and means to hold this flood of cotton off of the market to keep these combines from robbing their customers. These improvident dumpers who have complete control of the early cotton market do not stop at injur ing their own interest by low prices, but when they are through with their reckless marketing they leave the market in such a depressed condition that the more prudent business-like growers are compelled to call for more cotton or sell their cotton at cost or below, too. These supply men know how to help their customers if they will do it ! These supply mon know full well that a good cotton warehouse receipt is as good currenoy as the world should need if properly understood. Why is it that a good! cotton ware house certificate is not as good or better than mortgage on real estate, the basis of all our currency and banking business ? Cotton certificates are better be oause it wonld take from three to four months to turn real estate into cash, when one can turn cotton into cash in three or four days. Real estate may be affected materially by local conditions, while cotton is transportable and a necessary staple to olothe the world, and, therefore, has a market world wide whioh will always be in demand and not sub jected to local conditions like real estate. The day is not far distant, we trust, when cotton will be carried from the ginneries direot to our own warehouses and put in bulk there to be sold only in large lots in a co-ope rative, business-like manner. We want to see our people quit Btanding around on the streets inviting the cotton slashers to out and price the produots of their own labor, without any regard as to the cost of produc ing thia cotton. If tho cotton far mer should make a larger crop this year than usual, from the same effort as usual, this is rightly a fortune for the farmer. The speculative non produoer has no right to turn this fortune of the farmer into a fortune for himself and a misfortune for the man who made the good orops. Things are all wrong when such con ditions prevail, and it is in the power of the business men of the South to stand up for the interest of the South and keep every dollar's worth of the profits in our present crop of cotton in the South. Tho supply menjparticularly ought to be interested in making the coun try prosperous, for the reason that one cannot||make money in a coun try where there is no money any more than |he can quench his thirst continually with water without a source of j water. If it should turn out that we have made a good crop of cotton, the thing we started out to do, don't be come alarmed at your own success and rush over each other in dumping it on the market, which is sure to turn your good fortune into a misfor tune. Patronize your warehouses Throat Coughs A tickling in the throat; hoarseness at times; adeep breath irritates it;-these are features of a throat cough. They're very de ceptive and a cough mix ture won't cure them. You want something that will heal the inflamed membranes, enrich the blood and tone up the system .*. .*. .*. ,\ Scoffs Emulsion is just such a remedy. It has wonderful healing and nourishing power. Removes the cause of the cough and the whole system is given new strength and vigor .*. .*. Sind for frit lamplt SCOTT 09 BOWNE, Cb,mi,ts 4O?-415 Pearl Strut, New York J<H. and $l.OO. All drutfjlttt and bold on to your good profits in | your good orops. Co-operate with j the whole for the good of all, for no one can win in this thing by himself. Tbs Rsa! Cost ?? noising Colton. Mr. Editor : As I have not seen any news from our Union I thought | I would ask spaoe for a few lines in your valuable paper, whioh I propose to give to the farmer, or at least the follower of the plow, h calculation of the real cost of raising cotton. COST OF PRODUCING COTTON. 1. Plow stock 05o. to do two ?eais, whioh is.$ 49} nw Rand sharpening. 7 00 3. Two hoes. 70 Shoeing mule three times .... 1 05 Harrow to Jo two veers. 1 25 Hire of rr ule. 25 00 Feed of mule 80 bushel', of corn at 80o. per buuuei. 64 00 Fodder, 1,000 bundles. 20 00 Cotton seed to plant. 20 bushels, at 20c. per bushel. 4 00 Pea seed to sow stubble, ten bushels, at $1.50 per bushel, 15 00 Harness to work with. 90 Hire of two bands, $15 each per month; $7 for board is $22 for one hand; two hands is $44; twelve months in a year 528 00 Ginning of ten bales of cotton, average 500 pounds, at 25o. per hundred. 12 50 Bagging and ties, 75c. per bale.. 7 50 Hire of mower to out pea vines.. 1 50 Total.$788 52* So you see what it takes to pro duce the crop. Now, Mr. Farmer, I will give the amount of crop : 10 bales of cotton, average 500 pounds, at 10c. per pound, $500. Deduct one-fourth for rent, leaves. $375 00 150 bushels of corn at 80o. per bushel, $120. Deduct one third for rent leaves. 80 00 2,000 bundles of fodder, $40; one third for rent, leaves. 20 07 50 bushels of wheat at $1 per bushel, $50; one-third for rent, leaves. 33 84 100 bushels of oats at 50c. per bushel, $50; one-third for rent, leaves. 33 34 4 tooB pea vine hay at $15 per ton ; one-third for rent, leaves 40 00 50 bushels sweet potatoes. 25 00 Garden, watermelon and pindar patch. 20 00 Total.$633 35 Now, Mr. Farmer, you see I have raised you a big crop with two hands and a mule. Sold the crop at a very good price. We all used to think, until we began to work the brain along with the muscle, that on every one-horse crop we lost $155.17. Now, Mr. Farmer, consider before you talk about raising 8 or 10 cent cotton any more ; for if you raise it with hired labor you have cheated the man that followed the plow, or if with your wife and children you have done worse than that, that's the reason labor is so scarce on the farm, and we are crying emigration. Pay the farm hands for their labor and thy farms will be filled. Now, hoping your paper a wide circulation and the Union a success, I am yours truly, R. J. Thompson. A cold takon at this time of tho year is generally hard to get rid of, but it will not be able to withstand Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar. That will euro all colds, coughs, croup, whooping cough, etc., by driving them out through tho bowels. If you havo a cold, try it and if not cured get your money back. No opiates. Sold by J. W. Bell, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Soneca. State Superintendent Martin says that the contract with the publishers of the sehool books will be rigidly enforced and that teachers are not to have their pay certificates ap proved if they allow tho uso of any other books than those prescribed. Man/an relievos instantly the pain caused by those blind, bleeding, itching and protruding piles. It is put up in collapsible tubes in such a way that it can be applied where tho trouble origi nates, thus stopping tho nain immedi ately. Try ono bottle and ff you are not relieved your money will be refunded. Try our freo offer. Sold by J. W. Bell, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Soneca. Mrs. J. A Kimmel Assaulted. Mrs. Knowla Ethleem Kimmel, age 27, wife of J. A. Kimmel, was criminally assaulted shortly after 1 o'clock Thursday by an unknown negro, who appeared at her home, on Oakland avenue, Oakland City, while she was alone and in her back yard. Before Mrs. Kimmel had got ten loose from the fiend he had struck her a hard blow over the head I with a stiok, beaten her arm, obased her around the house, tore her olothes in shreds and assaulted her. Gaining her feet the plucky woman ran into her house, seized a double-barrelledltshotgun and fired two shots at the^brute's retreating form before|she collapsed. Neigh bors heard her screams and rushed to her assistance, but the negro had tied. A posse, headed by Marshal Ryan, was immediately formed and bloodhounds were put on the trail, whioh ran toward East Point. When the negro first approached the Kimmel home he politely risked permission of Mrs. Kimmel to get a drink of water. She informed him that buttermilk had been spilled in ber well and that the water was not good. He then requested her to read an address on a piece of paper which he held in his hand. While the unsuspecting woman reaohed for the paper the fiend grabbed her. \fter a brief struggle Mrs. Kim mel broke from his grasp and ran around toward her front door, the negro in close pursuit. Just as she was about to gain her doorsteps she was dealt a blow on the head, which reeled her. A fierce struggle then ensued, which resulted in the frantic woman being forced to the ground, but not before she had been badly bitten about the arm and her clothing almost completely torn from her body. Mrs. Kimmel is a well known lady, her husband is a highly respeoted farmer, and the attack made upon her has greatly incensed the entire community. Her condition as a re sult of the assault is said to be quite serious, and it was necessary to call in Dr. Bell to attend her iujuries. Atlanta Journal, September 20. HELPIS^?FFERED TO WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE Wo earnestly request all young persons, no matter how limited their means or education, who wish to obtain a thorough business training and good posi tion, to write by first mail for our great half-rate offer. Success, indopendenceand probable fortuno aro guaranteed. Don't delny, writ" today. The Go.-Ala. Buiinen Collas**? Macon, Ga. Typhoon at Hong Kong. Manila, September 20.-It is said to-day that the loss of life in Tues day's typhoon at Hong Kong was between 500 and 1,000. Tho total can never be known, owing to the fact that many unknown vessols aro believed to have gone down outside the harbor. Organized parties are scouring tho beaches gathering up bodies by scoreB. The property loss to shipping and buildings reaches into millions. Sheriff W. H. Outzs, of Edgofield, died suddenly on September 14th. Ho had served as sheriff for 28 con secutive years. He was a member of the 14th South Carolina regiment in tho Civil war. Governor Heyward has been in formed that a i.egro, Richard Dar gan, has committed the usual orime upon a white woman near Bennetts ville, in Marlboro county, and that irate oitizens are demanding assur ances of a speedy .trial. Maxie Crawford, of Clemson Col lege, foll from a grapo vine recently and broke his arm. The young fel low, who is only five years old, was up in a muskadine vine eating when ho lost h's balanoe and fell. He is the son of W. H. Crawford. Jesse James Gang Broke Up. Easton, Pa., September 20.-Two members of the "Jesse James, Jr.," gang, Hellartown,which had planned, among other things, to wreck a train, burn a mill and blow up a hall, were arraigned before Judge Scott yester day, pleaded guilty of the larceny of books and other things from the publio school building at that place, and were sent to the house of refuge. Thoy were William Trast, 15 years old, who was captain of the gang, and Floyd Etwein, 18 years of age. Chief of Polioe Zimpfer testified that "Captain" Trast had made a confession after his arrest in which he told of the oath each member of the gang had taken before he was admitted to membership. The oath, administered by the oaptain while the candidate for membership had his hand resting yu a skull that had been stolon, ip as follows : "I swear on this skull, the emblem of death, to be true to the black flag under which I have enlisted. I will be faithful and true to my comrades in all aotion and will obey the com mands of my oaptain. Father ' or mother, wife or ohild, shall not be sacred in my eyes if duty demands their death. If I fail in any of these things may I be killed and my bones left to bleach like this skull I now grasp. This is my oath." After he had been sentenced, "Captain" Trast made a further statement that another member of the band had planned to kill with poison a resident of Hellartown for some fanoied wrong. Ladies, read this catalogue of charms. Bright eyes, glowing oheeks, red lips, a smooth skin without a blemish, in short, perfect health. For salo with every package Hollister's Rooky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. Dr. J. W. Bell. Marriage in Jail. On Saturday, September 15th, Jailor Noe had an unusual experi ence-a marriage in jail. George Jarboe, a young Syrian, was com mitted to jail for refusing to marry a young woman whose trust he had betrayed. Tiring of his olose quar ters, he deoided to try matrimony and regain liberty. The kindly offices o? Magistrate Stradley were scoured, and soon Mrs. Mamie Rary became MrB. George Jarboe. "All's well that ends well."-Greenville Mountaineer. Slop lt. ? neglected cough or cold may load to Berious bronchial or lung t rou hi es. Don't take chances when Foley's Honey and Tar affords perfect security from serious effects of a cold. Dr. J. W. Bell. Burglars Make a Big Haul. Honea Path, Septembor 20.-The store of Fred W. Brock ?fe Co. was burglarized Tuesday night. A roar window in tho store was broken open, and a quantity of jewelry was stolen. It is said that their loss in jewelry, etc., will amount to nearly $1,000, as several fino diamond rings were stolen. There is no olue as to the burglars, but many think it was the work of professionals. A reward will be offered for the arrost of the guilty parties. Ol Interest lo Many. Foley's Kidney Cure will oure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyound the reaoh of medioine. No modioine can do more. Dr. J. W. Bell. Wilbur S. Mitchell was acquitted in Columbia on September 14th for the killing of James Trotter, in the union station of that oity during fair week of laBt year. They wero both young men from Leesville, were of good family and wore friends. The tronblo came from Trotter's being under the influence of liquor. Summons for Relief. THE 8TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF OCONEE. In the Court of Common Pleas. Madison C. Todd, John 8. Massey. Jamesy D. Massey, Mary s. Cowan, Julia G. in Hunter, Samuel A. Massey and L. J. Hunter, Plaintiffs, against Julia Erskine, Jas. Erskine, Ernest Ers kine and Spencer Erskine, Defendants. To the Defendants above named : YOU are hereby summoned and re quired to auswar the complaint in this action, of which a oopy is here with served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said com plaint on the subscribers at their office on the public square, at Walhalla Court House, South Carolina, within twonty days after the service hereof, exclusivo of the day pf suoh service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiffs in this aotion will apply to the Court for the relief de manded in the complaint. STRIBLING & HERNDON, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. May 25th, 1006. [L. S.] C. R. D. BURNA, C. C. P. To the infant Defendants Julia Ers kine, James Erskine, Ernest Erskine, and Sponcer Eskine and J. Robert Ers kine, with whom said infant defendants reside: Take notice, that unless you procure the appointment of a guardian ad h tem to appear and defond this ac tion on behalf of the said in fun t defend ants within twenty days after the service of the summons herein upon you, an ap plication will be made to the Court for an order appointing some suitable and competent person guardian ad litem for the said infant defendants and authoriz ing and directing him to appear and de fend the above entitled action on the be half of said infant defendants and for such other and further relief as may be just and proper. STRIBLING & HERNDON, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. The State of South Carolina, 1 County of Oconee. f In Court of Common Pleas. Madison C. Todd et al., Plaintiffs, against Julia Erskine et al., Defendauts. Upon hearing the complaint in tho above entitled aotion, and the affidavit of E. L. Herndon. one of tho attorneys for plaintiffs, and it appearing to my satisfaction that the defendant, James Erskine, is a minor who has an interest in tho real estate described in the aotion, and that the said James Erskine does not reside within the State of South Ca rolina, but resides at Whittier State School, Whittler, California: It is, therefore, ordered, That R. T. Jay ne?, Esq., be and he is hereby ap- * pointed as guardian ad litem for the in- . fant defendant, James Erskine, for the fiurposes of thin aotion, unless the said nfant defendant, James Erskine, or some one in his behalf shall within twenty days after the service of a copy of this order upon the said James Erskine pro cure to be appointed a guardian ad litem for tho saicl infant defendant, James Erskine, to appear and defend this action on his behalf. It is furthor ordered, That this order be served upon the infant defendant, James Erskine, by publishing the same in the Keowee Courier once a week for1 six successive weoku. and by mailing t copy thereof to the said Jamos Erskine, Sostage prepaid, directed to the saja ames Erskine at Whittier State Schoo I, Whittier, California. It is furthor ordered, That a personal service of this order on the saki James Erskine shall be equivalent to publica tion and deposit in tho post office as heroin required. W. O. WHITE, Master for Oconoe county, S. C. Walhalla, 8. C., Sept. 1st, 1000. 30-41 COOK STOVES, RANGES, HEATING STOVES FULL LINE OF TINWARE, BICYCLES AND SUPPLIES. ROOFING, EAVE TROUGH AND ALL KINDS OF TIN AND SHEET IRON WORK MADE TO ORDER. Typewriters, Sewing Machines, Guns. Revolvers and Bioyoles deaned ana repaired. All work done on short notioe and guaranteed. 13. S. LOOK. Greenville will have four of the next State officers-Governor, Su perintendent of Educatiop, Adjutant and Inspector General and one Rail road Commissioner. *-' -~w JHi *X* O ~~f, *~ ,jfr\, m ?The Kind You Han Alwin Bono? ~ >???_??