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_"TO THINE OWN 8?LF BE TRUE, A Xl) IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY: THOU CANST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER._WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SE1?T. 10, 1014. New Serie? No. 8?0.-Volume LXV.-No. :?7. -ARRI Our large and c< FALL ( of which we have m the very best that the markets afford,, are no are prepared to exhibit away the finest and : have ever shown. T THE BEST STO Call and inspect C. W. ?? J. E. WALHAL "STAR BRAND SH LEAt is wealth for thc poi Otherwise it Is Ext ri If you have learning income or you wi likely prey Upon Tl If you do not see thc ages of having a anyway, you witto You will learn hov Bank by opening an WESTfllNS "Learn to Bani SOCIETY WOMICN ROOST COTTON. 'Cotton Fashion Show" Endorsed hy Washing!OM-Cotton Goods Hales. Washington, Sept. 20.-Miss Gene vieve Clark's call for a "cotton goods bargain sales' week" by all stores In the United States, in order to stimu late the sale of cotton goods, was followed to-day by plans endorsed by Washington society women for a "National Cotton Fashion Show," which will be modelled after thc Paris Fashion Show, with Washing ton society women as designers and models. It is also proposed that Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond and Southern cities hold similar "Cotton Fashion Shows," with their social leaders as patronesses and de signers. The plan is to bold these fashion shows a week or two before the "cot ton goods bargain weeks" are held by the stores in the big cities. Those Hacking Plan. Those behind the movement for a National Cotton Fashion Week are Mrs. Champ Clark, Miss Genevieve Clark, Miss Lucy Hurlcson, daughter of the postumster general; Mrs. Hoke Smith, wife of Senator Smith, of Georgia; Miss Callie Hoke Smith, Mrs. John Temple Graves, Mrs. C. Q. McChord, wife of the interstate commerce commissioner; Mrs. John Sharp Williams. Mrs. Jas. R. Mann, wife of thc Republican leader in the House; Mrs. Timothy Ansberry, wife of the Ohio Congressman; Mrs. Sally Williams, daughter of Senator Williams; MIBS Nancy Johnson, daughter of Congiessman Johnson, of Kentucky; Mrs. Percy E. Quinn and Mrs. Warren Gard, wives of Southern Congressmen. The plans of Cotton Fashion Week call for dresses made from cotton goods. In Washington the daught ers of Senators and Congressmen will be models t nd designers. Miss Cnlrk'fl Move Approved. Miss Clark's suggestion for a "cot ton goods males' week" was approved smplete stock of 300DS, ade our selection from Eastern and Northern w arriving daily. We t to the public fox and most complc?e line we 'hat means ?CK IN OCONEE. BAUKNIGHT, .LA, S. C. . OES ARE BETTER" {INING Dr when rightly used. you must save your ill be poor and very ie Public ) necessity or advant Bank Account, save ced it SOME DAY. j to do business at the Account WITH US. TER BANK. : Your "Money." S to-day by a number of business men, who sent her telegrams. One of these telegrams came from President E. K. Cone, of the New York Cotton Ex change, which, in part, is as follows: "I heartily approve your plan. Pa triotic motives as well as self-inter est has started tho "buy-a-bale movement that promises material help not only to the South, but to the entire country. Your plan will be equally helpful and just as practical. Every one is a large consumer of cotton goods In sonic form, for dresses, Household supplies of sheet ings, towels and the innumerable ar ticles made from this staple." Senator Hoke Smith gave out a statement to-night approving Miss Clark's call for a "cotton sales' week." Ho said such plans, if car ried out extensively, would stimulate the whole cotton goods trade throughout the country. Sud Dentil of Au infant. New Hope. Sept. 21.-Special: On last P-riday evening as the sun was sinking in the western horizon the Angel of Death visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kelley and claimed their darling little baby Edith, aged 14 months. She was Bick only a week, and all that was done in earthly power was to no avail. "Tho Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; blessed bo the name of the Lord." The little remains were laid to rest the following day at 4 o'clock In the New Hoot- cemetery. The funeral services were conducted by Hov. W. M. Hammond. Tho heart-broken parents have tho sympathy of the entire community. liocnl Union No. 70. There will bo a meeting of Local Union No. 76 (Farmers' Union) at the Club House, on next Saturday af ternoon at 2.S0 o'clock. All mem bers are urgently requested to at tend promptly. J, \V. Alexander, President. 1?\ ll. Hurley, Secretary. AS TO COTTON SEED PRICKS, They Stand ut Four-Year Average? Remedy in Farmers' Hands. Editor Keoweo Courier: I have seen some articles on the prices of cotton seed which make me think that some few remarks from an oil mill man may be interesting just at this time. I will say in the outset that it is generally known, among those who are in a position to know, that oil mills are not money-making machines, but in most cases are los ing machines. The reason seed opens every season lower than they otherwise would be is because the moisture runs very high in the first seed--so high, often times that they cannot be stirred in the cookers without sticking togeth er, and often will not go through the machinery. In the cooking process the water evaporates, but in most cases it goes on to the hydraulic press green and the oil is lost. The Westminster Oil and Fertilizer Company's opening for the past four seasons is as follows, which is about as other mills;- 1911, 80c. per hun dred; li) 12, 86c. per hundred; 1913, $1 per hundred; lill 4, 80c. per hun dred. You will notice that this sea son's opening is very little below thc average. While, on the other hand, meal, hulls and linters are cheaper than for years, we are swapping bet ter than three pounds of hulls fo: one pound of seed and one pound of meal for one pound of seed, and lint ers are cheaper than for years. Cot ton seed oil is now selling for 35c. per gallon-12e. less than this time last season, or $5 per ton off on seed, not to say anything about the mea), hulls and linters. Eighty cents per hundred ls a big price for seed under present conditions. Linters are now almost a worthless product to tho oil mill. The mills would be glad to see a movement started to buy a bale or so me of its meal and hulls. We might as well face the situa tion as it is and go to work to re lieve the conditions and everybody adjust themselves accordingly. At thc present price of meal and huMa I Tall to see why the farmer make money exchanging^ same. The answer comes') the cattle. Well, who la to blOTIe? I'll tell you: Do not plant everything in cotton; in other words, do not be a one-crop farmer. Where are tho cattle? Most of them are in the grain country, where cotton seed meal and hulls are not known, and where they arc afraid to feed cotton seed bulls, for they have been told it will kill. It ls true that some meal is fed in the Northwestern states, but very little, and in many cases stock raisers have never seen a sack of cot ton seed meal. 1 was on a man's farm in Illinois that had about 200 head of cattle, and he was feeding linseed meal. Ile told me that he was afraid of cotton seed meal; that a friend of his out West had several hundred killed feeding cracked cot ton seed meal cake on the ground. 1 persuaded him to let me ship him a sack free. Texas raises about one-third of the cotton produced in the United States and Its meal has been going to Euro pean countries. Because of the war it must now be taken care of at home, and they are coming into this country through Memphis agents and others to find a market. Last year Texas meal sold on an average of about $28.50 per ton f. o. h. mill, and now they are asking $18 and $19 per ton. The Interstate Crush el's' Association has had representa tives to call on thc department at Washington to help relieve the situa tion, but nothing could bo done. The situation ls just this: The fanners here haven't the cattle to feed, neither have they the money to buy, and If they had money to buy, the right kind of cattle to fatten can not be had In this State. Money can be made by feeding our native cattle at the present prices of meal and hulls, but much more could be made if we had the right type. Our ad vice would be that every farmer feed cattle who can. If Oconee county was stocked with cattle wc would be Independent, and the only way is to gradually grow into tho business. I saw this spring, at one of the agricultural colleges In Indiana, an experiment feed test that was being made on several pens of steers, and they found that a cotton seed meal rattion was the cheapest and more profitable for stall feeding. I then visited Chicago stock yards a fow days later and found that these steers sold for $9.15 per hundred on that market. We can do the same thing here, and much cheaper, when we are prepared for it. South Carolina Is said to have some of the flnost oil mills in tho country, and the State holds the highest record paid foi cotton seed of any other cotton State, and you can rest assured that higher prices for seed would he paid if the mill men could sell their products for fair prices. My advice would bo that the farmer swap hi8 seed for meal and hulls, feed what cattle he has and use meal under his small grain this fall. Let the farmer reduce his cotton acreage and make lt his business to raise cattle and hogs and stop this one-crop way, and stop keeping the smoke-house and eorn-crib In the West. 1 hope the above will bo a satis NEWS FKOM BOUNTY IJAND. .Jos. Guntharp Seriously 111 in Okla ' -i honiu-Other News. Bounty Land, Sept. 2 1.----Special: .Mrs. Rachael Auld and son Rob. of Elberton, Ga., are on a visit to her sister. .Mrs. J. U. Pickett. Mi's. John W. Davis, of Walhalla, visited relatives hero last week. MUs Emily R. Dendy returned Wednesday to Augusta, Ga., after a visit1 of several days to her sisters, Mesdames D. A. Perritt and Jasper Doyle MVs. J. R. Heller and children, of Seneca, were guests yesterday of her parehts, lion, and Mrs. J. L. Smith. Misses Evalina and Edwina Kel ley, of Tamassee. spent the week-end at "The Oaks." Misses Lura Perrit t and Cary Doyle left Tuesday of last week for Rock RUI. where they will attend Winthrop College. Miss Winona Magill, of Hartwell, Qa., ,?8 with her aunt, Mrs. Jasper Doyle. She is attending the Seneca High School. Edgar Shanklin, of Savannah, is on a visit to bis mother, Mrs. Julia I). Shanklin. H. J. Huff, of Greenville, spent the week-end with his sister, Mrs. Ade lia Bruce, at the home of E. L. Stone. Mrs. J. M. Gilllson spent a few days.last week with her BOU, Elijah Gilllson, at Pine Mountain, Ga. T. 0. Berry has been suffering for the past several days with a large rising on his back, but ls some bet ter al Ibis time. Mr?. J. S. Eut rekln, who has been quite! ill for several weeks, is im proving. M ti and Mrs. Marcus McDonald s pen 4Sunday with his brother and wife,?Ir. and Mrs. Joe McDonald. My, Arthur McJunkin, of Green ville.lpent Thursday at E. L. Stone's Mids Lillian McDonald spent last week' ?with relatives at High Falls, 0. H. Doyle left Wednesday for Columbia, where he will continue his law rjourse at the University of Mntand Mrs, W. M. Brown ant] family, of WaUii^ta. were recent vis D.or; \ ike a : >.:. L.. Stoma........ 1 ' 'DMVf?rH<1*wHpPr Central, was a guest last weelrTr W. J. McDonald Miss Lucy Patterson, of Coneross was a recent visitor to friends in An derson, and was a guest on her re turn of Miss Agnes Ellison. Miss Cora Hubbard is visiting friends in Beaufort. Miss Mae Guntharp, of Kahlin Ga)) Ga., is spending a few days with her home people here. We regret to learn of the serlou illness of Joe Guntharp, who is now in a hospital at Oklahoma with ty phoid fever. His father, G. B. Gunr tharp, left Saturday to be with him. We join with other friends of the family in the hope of his early re covery. Miss Laura Smithson, of Westmin ster, two Misses Garrison and Miss Janie Ellison, of Piedmont, were guests Sunday of Mrs. J. M. Gilllson. What a quarternion of fair daught ers of this beautiful Piedmont sec tion! Yet who would deny the fact that the hostess and her guests are all "-sons"? SO there is real danger of a man's being actually "Garri soned" in his own home. * FARMERS AND BUSINESS MEX * * Called to Meet in S|>osinl Ses * sion at Court House Sept. lil). The farmers and business men of Oconee county are hereby called to\ meet at Walhalla, at the Court House, on Tuesday next. September 29th, 1914, at IO o'clock a. m., to consider the cotton situation and some legis lation to be enacted by th? com ing extra session of the legisla ture. All farmers, both Union and non-Union, and the business men of the county, are urged to at tend this meeting and lend their assistance toward the sugges tion of remedial measures to moot the needs of the time. The members of the Senate and House of Representatives are also urged to be present. This is important. Let there be a good delegation present from every business in Oconee. J. W. ALEXANDER, President Oconee Co. Union. "Buy-n-Bale-of-Cotton" nt 10c. a pound-let's make it a thousand for Oconee! Wreck is Destroyed. Charleston, Sept. 20--The revenue cu Ht? Yhuiacraw, lt was announced to-day, has destroyed the wreck of the cement-laden schooner Frederick W. Hay, which sank Thursday, five miles southeast of tho Charleston lightship, and which has been a men ace to coatswlse shipping. factory answer to many questions as to the reason for the low price for cotton seed. I had much rather see a higher trading lovel of cotton seed and its products, because then lt sat isfies. We are ready to pay the price ns soon as products Justify. K. W. Marett. Westminster, Sept. 21, 1914. THE COTTON CONGRESS PLAN. Meeulngs to Ik' Held in Every County in the State October 1st. 1 hereby call a meeting or the Southren Cotton Congress In' euell j ?ounty in South Carolina, kt the 2ourt House, Ha. m., October IBC request that these meetings be call id in addition to any others that may nive been held. I hope before that lute each county will have been or ganhsed; that in each county hun Ireds of people will be wearing our cadges, indicating they have paid $1 .o help boost the price of cotton, and that we have their support in trying o bold one- third of this cotton crop, ind for reducing the 191 fi crop 50 l>er cent. We are going to use your foliar to help us organize. While we diall be glad to have you contribute Jil to the organization, we are not going to let that keep you from our meetings or from receiving all tho benefits we can secure. If you work a one-horse farm or a fifty-horse farm; If you make ono bale or 500 bales; rich or poor, white or black, we need your influence. We stand for the poor man as well is th J rich In asking that our cred itors will take that which we have -a cotton warehouse receipt-and withhold collecting his notes and ac counts as long as he possibly can, in order that we may obtain cost, or ibove, for this cotton crop. We wish the co-operation of farmers, mer chants, bankers, fertilizer companies and ail other persons doing business in the Qouth. We wish every farmer lo sign our pledge. We request you to bold, if possible, one-third of your crop for one year, unless you can sooner sell it for twelve cents per pound. We believe five million bales, or one-third of this crop, cannot be used by the mills of the world before September 1st, 1915. We believe two-thirds of,the crop, or ten million bales, can be sold at about ten cents or above, if you will slowly sell as the mills need lt. Wo can sell the ten million bales, if properly market ed, for. more money than we can the whole crop, and have five million bales* on storage next September. WJlij-^u,^)j?)ur part..At?' u peet your neighbor to Told ^^uP third as well as lils? If you and your neighbor were serving with Lee in Virginia, would you expect him to face the enemy like the brave man he is, while you ran away to make a few dollars out of his manhood? Suppose you and your neighbor both hold the third of your cotton crop which both of you agre? is nec essary, will you not pledge to cut your cotton acreage 50 per cent in order to give value to the surplus yoe hold, as well as a fair value to the 19 15 crop? If your neighbor planted but four to six acres to the horse, don't you think it would be fair to let him risk his full acreage ind let you who planted 20 acres to the mule cut GO per cent? When the canvass Is completed, see thal some one in your county is holding one third as much cotton for one year as was made in 1913, according to gov ernment bulletin 125. if the farm ers have not pledged that much, ask the business men to put up the neces sary balance. Refer to a similar bul letin and see that the total acreage to be planted in your county In 1915 is only 50 per cent of the 1914 crop. Every cotton farmer, small or large, is playing 0 game of chance. The stake amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars. If we put cotton np four cents per pound, we will save the South three hundred million dol lars. Are you willing to do your part? Come to your county meeting Octo'ber 1st and be prepared to in struct our Legislature your wish ns to a State warehouse bill; also whe ther you endorse State control of cot ton acreage. Wade Stack house, President South Carolina Division of Southern Cotton Congress. Form of Pehlge. The following is given as a form of pledge, which, if signed up by all the ?otton fanners of the South, and car ried out, will practically settle the luestion of prices for cotton for 1915: State of South Carolina, ('ounty of Whereas, owing to the reduction n the consumption of cotton Incident to the general European war, the cot ton planters of this State realize the necessity of >; concerted movement to withhold from the market a portion of the present cotton crop and tho reduction of the acreage for the en suing year of 1 9 1 5 : Now, therefore, in consideration of the sum of one ($1) dollar, to the undersigned paid hy tho president of he South Carolina Division of ?ho Southern Cotton Congress, the Signor of this-agreement hereby covenant md agrees to and with tho said pres ident, and his successor in office, as trustee for and on behalf of any and ill signers of like pledges In the State of South Carolina, as follows: First That he will sell no cotton l>rior u> Ocotober 1, 1914. Second. That he will reduce the acreage planted by him, hi3 share croppers, and others under his con trol, in 1915, to not exceeding 50 per cent of tho acreage planted by him In 1914. I planted - acres In 1914. I agree to plant-acres In 1915. Third. That he will store and hold, BRUTAL GREENVILLE MURDER. Negro Man Kill? Wife by Severing 11 ?ul With Kid fe. (Greenville News, 21st.) Because she attended church last night against his orders, the wife of NelBe Farmer, colored, wa? last night killed by her infuriated hus band, who dragged her from the "holiness" church and carried her into a butcher shop on Nichols street, where he chopped off her head with a big meat, knife. lt would be hard to imagine a killing more brutal, and feeling among the colored people in that section was running billi. It seems that Farmer, who goes by thc name of "Big Boy," had ordered his wife not to go to church. She went, how ever, with her aunt, with whom she and her husband made their home. He came home and found her gono, and went to the church for hor. Tho negroes who saw tho tragedy stated that he marched up the aisle, pulled her out of her seal and dragged her screaming to the butcher shop, which is in the rear of a soft-drink stand at the crossing of the C. & G. rail road. lt is said that, he took a .small pocket knife at first and slashed hor over the face and arms until she fell upon her knees, weak from loss of blood. A negro who saw tho whole tragedy then stated that Farmer took a meat knife, and, holding his wlfo by the hair, bent her head forward ?.1 ri with.a mighty stroke all but sev ered her head. He then took tho knife and jabbed it down tho neck cavity several times, punching it tho full length of the blade. He calmly walked out tho back door, and while passing an old colored man about a block further away, struck the old man a heavy blow over the hoad, vatting an ugly gash. The old man was carried up town, where his wounds were dressed by a physician. Farmer ?undo his escape. ANOTHER ANDERSON KILLING. (Daily Mail, 21st.) The usual Sunday homicide for the week occurred this time south of tho city, down on the J. C. McPhall place, east of Starr. A negro named Duck Clement, about 2.r> years of age, was shot and killed by another young ne gro named Cordoza Jefferson. The latter has been placed in the county jail. The shooting was brought about by a dispute over ton cents in a game of "skin," the popular gambling game among I lie negroes, lt occurred be twen ll and 12 o'clock Saturday night in the woods, and tho fact 'hat the negro had been even hit. by the bullet was not known until Sun day morning, when his body was found hanging over a fallen tree. There were ten negroes In the game. Jefferson claimed that Clem ent owed him 10 cents. Another ne gro stated that Clement owed him a dollar, and at the same time pulled out what money he had In lils pock ets and his .38 calibre Smith and Wesson and placed them on the ground In front of them, challeng ing Jcffeison to take the money if he dared. Jefferson reached over and grasped Clement's pistol and backed several feet from the crowd of ne groes sitting on the ground. Clem ent jumped up and began running through the woods. Jefferson fired in the direction Clement had gone. It was dark, he says, and his statement is corroborated by the other negroes, that ..?. did not know the bullet had Struck Clement. The nine negroes remaining on the ground held a hasty consulta tion, and they agreed that Clement would go in search of a gun, and would return to nu.ko trouble. The negroes, therefore scattered, each going in tho dilation of his home. Yesterday morning Clement's dead body was found in tlie woods. The bullet from his own gun, fired by Jefferson, struck him in the middle of the back, penetrated thc heart and lodged In the breast. The bullet was found when probed for lalor and was removed. Thc doctor says that, in his opinion, Clement lived a few seconds after being hit by the bullet, and lt is likely that he took two or three steps after the shooting and then fell over the log, in which po sition he was found. a year at least, one-third of his 1914 crop, unless twelve cents per pound can be obtained therefor, unless Ab solutely forced to sell sooner. Fourth. That the signer of this agreement, as liquidated damages, agrees to pay to the president of tho South Carolina Division of the South ern Cotton Congress, as trustee for the signers of like pledges in the State of 8outh Carolina, ten ($10) dollnrs for every aero of cotton planted in violation ?f the provisions of this agreement. Any funds so paid in any county to be divided among the signers In such county. Witness my hand and seal this -- day of-, 1914. -!-(L. ?. ) Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of