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: THE SPREAD OF BOWL, WEEVIL. In Diversifying Crops Liles tho Hopo of sou tit's - Future. Columbia, Dec. 19.-Tho spread of the cotton boll weevil throughout tho South has been seized upon vby the'.South Carolina Landowner's As sociation as affording an opportunity for ifs best constructive work. It has been advocating diversification of crops and especially urging the in troduction And expansion of the live stock industry. ' By adopting those, methods,' it is asserted, the damage done by the boll weevil to tho South Carolina farmer can bo counteracted and por tions of tho State can be turned from a one-crop system of agriculture with all its risks to a well-rounded System of farming that will enable tho State to feed itself to a large extent and help food the rest ot the nation as well as supply a portion of the fibre that orothes countless millions of the world's population. To that extent, according to some authorities, the boll weevil has not proved to be an unmixed-evil. Cle ment S. Uckcr, executive vice presi dent of the Southern Settlement and Development Organization, with which the South Carolina Landown ers' Association is affiliated, says that the weevil "changes the whole agricultural situation of the South; the first two or three years he causes acute suffering, but then cotton raising is taken up on an improved basis, other forms of agriculture aro entered upon, and the region in vaded by the weevil begins tov get rich." Having started in Yucatan or Cen tral America, where the cotton' plant originated, the -weevil advanced through Mexico and crossed the Rio Grande at Brownsville about 1892. It has spread since then, extending its range annually from 40 to 160 miles, depending upon weather con dition, until it has invaded most of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, has overrun completely Louisiana, Missis sippi and Alabama; is approaching the tip of the Florida peninsula and the northernmost limit of the cotton belt in southerh Missouri, Tennes see and Georgia. The boll" weevil entered South Carolina, last year and this year it spread practically throughout the southern and central parts of the State. It has even crossed the line into North Carolina andi has been found in the vicinity of Wilmington, N. C., the United States department of agriculture states. There seems to be no doubt that the insect will spread to the limit of the cotton belt. Nothing has been found so far to stop the progress of this pest, which has caused millions of dollars of damage to the cotton crop, sometimes to the extent of 50 per cent in cer tain sections, but government scien tists suggest, as a means of control, certain method H of cultivation and laud clearing and fertilizing, the use of carly varieties of cotton, and other method s of control. Poisoning has ^???j? successful to ?>. certain extent. The situation created by the nd : vont of the boll weevil In South Carolina ls being rapt by tho South Carolina Landowners' Association . with a constructive program to en courage diversified farming by cre ating home cash markets for farm products other than cotton. To that end the Association has been active, assisting in the organization bf cor porations to operate meat packing plants, grain elevators, grist mills, sweet potato drying plants and stor age warehouses, syrup mills, peanut mills, velvet bean crushers or simi lar establishments at points such as Orangeburg, Beaufort, Walterboro, Brimson, Bamberg, Sumter, Harts ville, Klngstree and Georgetown. By H?ft ER THAN WHISKEY FOR COLDS AND FLU New Elixir, Called Aspiron al, Medicated With Latest Scientific Remedies, Used and indorsed by Euro pean and American Army Surgeons to Cut Short a Cold and Prevent Compli cations. Every Druggist in U. S. In structed to Refund Price While You Wait at Count er If Relief Does Not Come \ Within Two Minutes. Delightful T?ste, Immediate Relief, Quick Warm-Up. The sensation of tho yoar in the drug trado is Aspironal, tho two minute cold and cough reliever, au thoritatively guaranteed by tho labora tories; t CH tod, approved and most enthusiastically endorsed by tho high est authorities, and proclaimed by tho common pooplo ns ton timos aa quick and effective as whiskey, rock and ryo, or any othor cold and cough romody thoy havo over tried. All drug stoves aro now supplied .with the wonderful now olixir, so all Jrou havo to do to got rid of that cold S to stop into tho nearest drug store, hand tho dork half a dollar for a bottle of Aspironal and toll him to serve you two teaspoonfuls with four teaspoon fuls of water in a glass. With your watch in your hand, tako tho drink at one swallow and call for your money back in two minutos if you cannot feel your cold fading away liko a droam within tho timo limit. Don't bo bash ful, for all druggists invito you and expoct you to try it. Everybody's doing it. . When your cold or cough ls ro lloved, take tho remainder ?j? the bottle homo to your wlfo and babios, for Aspironal is by far tho safest and most crrectivo, tho onsicst to tako and thc most agreeable cold and cough romody for infante and children.-Adv.) Leader Rises Fr< To Command A Virginian Marshals 1,000,000 Episcopalians in Great Nation-Wide Campaign. Virginia-cradle of leaders-has given a new commander tb lead 1,000, OOO Americans in the battles of peace. From the heart of the "Old Do minion," the county of Albermarle, has risen the Rev. Robert W. Patton, D.. D., to be the national director of the Nation-Wide Campaign of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. Into his hands the Church has given the task of rousing its people to their ?art in the reconstruction of the world, ?y his call 100,000 men are mobilizing in every town and city in the country tof enlist, in a sweeping drive, every man, woman and child in the Church. On his shoulders rests the executive responsibility for raising more than $42,000,000, to be expended in three years to set schools and hospitals, com munity centers and churches in the re mote places of this country and be 1 yond Ita borders, where the need is great. Through him must come the means for recruiting 1,500 workers that they may heusent out to,strengthen the Church's forces in the United States, in the Orient, under the southern cross and the midnight sun. Dr. Patton is an idealist, .an inspirer of men and a veteran campaigner. The confident smile of youth is always on his face and thc restlessness of youth in his figure. He comes out of classic Southern in stitutions: Randolph-Macon, the Uni versity ot Virginia, where he studied law, looking to that profession as a field for his truly Southern gift of ora tory, and then the Episcopal Theo logical Seminary in Virginia, near Alexandria, for the Church called him from the law. He was rector for a while in Ro^ anoke. Then his Southern blood told again, and he became an army chap lain in 1898, when the Spanish War called men to the colors. Four years later found him a rector again, in St. Stephen's Church, Wilkinsourg,. near Pittsburgh. In 1906 began the career that has carried him to his present position. The Episcopal Board of Missions sought a secretary for mission work in two of ita provinces. They called Dr. Patton, and he found himself commissioned to visit the dioceses and parishes, in the cause of missions, fro rn New Mexico to North Carolina, and this means, it is pointed out, the farmer who is discouraged by the boll weevil from continuing to raise cot ton, is assured that he can raise cat tle, hogs, grain, sweet potatoes, sugar cane ; nd legume crops jand turn them Into cRsh nt nearby point?. The fin MUM'S aro being aucouragod by bankers and business men in Ol'a i lot-, lob and other ollie:; Joining tho .State Development Association as iii?' re suit of momhership campaign con ducted In several cities. That South Carolina can produce the goods in other lines than cotton, as can other Southern States is shown by the fact that Federal de partment of agriculture record*. ?>bw that the three largest record crops of corn were grown in South Carolina where the yields per acre was in ouch case over 200 bushels, reaching 25 6 in one case. Also, South Caro lina is making such progress in the livestock industry that she will be tho leading livestock State of the Union, according to George R. Wheel er, of Charleston, manager pf the South Carolina Landowners' Associa tion, of which Senator Niels Christen sen, of Beaufort, is the president. That association has a legislative program to press before the General Assembly this winter, which program officers of the organization believe, Will help overcome the effects of the boll weevil. The program includes authorization of a State highway system which will enable the farmers to get their products to market; a dog control law which will tend to encourage development of the sheep Industry; amendment of the chattel mortgage law and passage of a marks and brand law which aro calculated to help develop cattle raising; elimi nation of the free range, and a law for the control of woods fires. A model drninage law also ls to bo sought of the South Carolina Legislature, and in that connection it is stated that this Stato has over 1,500,000. ncrcB of land that need drainage In the Interest of health im provement and general development. A good deal of drainage ls being done by the organization of local districts in the State as in other parts of tho South. Ono of the newest of the South Carolina districts ls Clarendon County drainage district No. 3, which ls operating near Foreston, having boon organized largely through the efforts of Courtney Campbell, of tho Carolina Stock Farms, Inc., at that place. ? Tho concorn ls developing 4,000 acres of land near Foreston. It ls said to hove the largest silos In South Carolina. Some of the cutovor lund that is being cleared on this place Mr. Campbell plans to plant in car pet grass mlxod'with Bermuda grass, white clover and lespedeza or Japan ese clover. For this purpose ho has bought sevornl .hundred pounds of carpet grass seed, which is reported to bo tho entire visible supply of this seed in tho United States this year. Carolina Stock Farms, Inc. is special izing with Western rango cows and Hereford bulls, besides which it has bords of Angora goats which, while producing tho valuable material for mohair cloth, are busily engaged in clowning out the underbrush on land that will bo put under cultivation. Next year it is planned to have sever al thousand hoad of goats on this place. There ls understood to be a ready market for Southern goats, hogs and cattle nt Richmond, Va., and other points. Besides his legislativo program and othor constructivo work, Mr. Whoolor is planning to hold a series. om the South i Army of Peace Rt?V. ROBERT YA'PATTO?T V.V< National Director Nation-Wide Campaign from Florida and Texas txrKansas and Kentucky, a territory equal to more than one-third the area of the United States. He began his pilgrimage up and down the United States. He organ ized and directed campaigns of edu cation that made vivid to the parishes the needs of the mission fields, and conducted every member canvasses that reaped rich harvests for the work. His successes in New Orleans, Charles ton, S. C., and Mississippi brought de mands for his services in Richmond, St. Louis, Baltimore, Chicago, and other large cities of the country. And so, when the Episcopal Board of Missions planned the Nation-Wide Campaign, based on the principle of the every-member canvass, the mem ory of Dr. Patton's work in this field was vivid, and they summoned him to command. of old-fashioned sales and exchange days at dig?rent points in the State, at which farmers will be encouraged to bring in anything they have to sell or trade, whether livestock, equipment of farm products, and in ' cidentnlly p'eoplo from different com munities would haye ? chanco to m|ngle find hear atidreuses on timely topics, in lids matter Mr, Wheeler ts taking a leal' Sf om the plan of tho Mai luette County New Settler's pic nic In Wisconsin which, starting in a small way with 50 people lu 1912, bas developed into a two-day affair which had an attendanoo of 4 0,000 at Marinette, Wis., this year, and has taken on tho character of a district fair with exhibits, speeches, meetings of various kinds and other features incidental thereto. IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW What a Heap of Happiness lt Would Bring to Walhalla Homes. Hard to do housework with an aching back. Brings you hours of misery at lei sure or at work. If women only knew the cause that Backache pains often como from weak kidneys, 'Twouid save much needless woe. Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak kidneys. Read what a Walhalla citizen says: Mrs. C. H. White, Broad St., says: "About five years ago I had baokaohe and other symptoms of kidney trouble. I had sharp pains shoot through my kidneys and J was in pretty bad shape. I was feeling quite miserable when I was told to try Doan's Kidney Pills and one box entirely cured me. I ad vise anyone suffering from kidney .complaint to give this remedy a trial." Price OOo, at all dealer?. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy-get Doan's Kidney Pills - the same that Mrs. White had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgra., Buffalo, N. Y. Trip to Toimessoo. Salem, Dec. 16. Editor Keoweo Courier: I will give your readers a brief de scriptlon of my trip to and from Tennessee. I started from Seneca on tho 2 G th day of November and returned in about ten days. I went to Atlanta, and there I changed cars and wont to Chattanooga, Tenn., from there to Knoxville, from there to Conyersvlllo, where I mot my son. Ho ls a clerk in the Babcock store. I was introduced by my son to many of the business men of that thriving city. Tho people were all kind and home-like. As fine lands as I ever saw are there. No talk of coal strike; everything was on a move. I met ono friend I will never for get-he was so much like my friend, John Poay.. But I don't advise any one to go thoro on a visit, because tho kind treatment and the many advantages In life are such that ono will natural ly want to go again. For fear this will find Its way into tho waste basket I will close. Yours truly, -lt. E. Smith. P. S.-After all, "home is homo." Pay in advance-Courier fl year. iYftjffi 'rim i . li- nu i, ' fcODNTY CLAIMS APPROVED. - > ;. Following ard tu? dalma that were passed on by the County Board of Commissioners . at their regular monthly meeting held on Friday, the 5 th day o? December, 1919: Halarles. K? N, Fostor.. 125 .00 J. S. Smilh , .. '5.00 J. F. flnniiicutt. 5.00 M. R. McDonald . 20.83 John F. Cvalg . 25.00 D. A. smith.. 46.91 R. H. Alexander .'. . 46*. 94 Th6&. A. Smith. . 83 . 36 W. M. Alexander. . 100.00 W .R. Cobb . 37.50 J. C. Kin?;. 25.00 W.'.L. Littleton ..'. 100.00 J. Q. Mitchell .. 100.00 Mi T. Hughs. 16.74 J. W. Todd . . .. 12.50 W. M. Dillard . 12.50 Miss'Ethel L. Counts .... 95.45 Total .$ 857.76 Co. Bd. Educntion. S. M. Martin. 16.00 Contingent. D. A. Smith. 6 . 00 M. R. McDonald .. 3.40 John Fi Craig. 24.26 H. T. Evans. 8.00 V. F. Marlin . .. 5.00 Ri H. Alexa udor. 4.00 W. M. Alexander. 50.00 W. M. Alexander. 39.41 E. N. Fos?or . 5.06 Total .$ 145.13 liunacy. ^ V. F~ Marlin . 20.00 Dr. J. S. SlHbling ........ 6.00 vV. M. Alexander,. 38.55 Dr. J. R. Heller . 10.00 Total .$ 93.55 Light? nnd Fuel. Walhalla (Nectria Plant . .$ 21.50 I'uh I le Buildings. C. W. A J. H. Bauknlght . 133.50 Standard Oil Co. 4 4.55 Jas. C? Seaborn . 5.40 Joe McCall . 7.00 G. D. Abbott . 1.00 A. L. HowYud . 16.40 Sinking Fund rom mission (Prom. Ins.) . 135 30 Total .$ 343.15 Printing and Stationery. Farm and Factory. 3.50 Walker, Evans & Cogswell 101.20 Total.$ 104.70 Dieting Prisoner*. W. M. Alexander.$ 28.50 Fuel. S. T. Davi;< . 2.50 1 fuisldo Poor. Re8C'io Orphanage. 5.00 J. J. Ansel . 61.00 Total . .$ 66.00 Roads, Stato Highway Com. 42.00 R. H. Alexander, Co. Treas 1.60 W. C Davis . . i. 23 . 00 Sene < MVor Co. ? 0 5 Gulf Do. 11,9.43 S. I . . . .i,;,'. 3 05.7 8 E." 1 .f . .. .Sn 50 Hug ?? tV?I rt'? . 8 .78 Joh) ul . .,'.;'.. 04.00 Totpl._$ 447.54 Bridges. E. K. Cobb . . .. 164 . 00 W. E. Davis. 10. 00 Wesminslor Ildw. Co. ... 11.25 B. J. Murott. 13.04 J. \Y. Grunt . . .. 17.50 Whit Knox. 26 . 00 W. J. Uusliamp. 37.68 Total .$ 279.47 Chain Gang. Mavt Cobb, Foreman .... 676.00 Amu In Bjr?s. Rrldge Co. .. 24 50 Piedmont Auto Co.. 27.70 W. C; 1 -urnside . 10 00 Bradley tt?hdnd Warehouse Company . 188.70 Town of Westminster ... 9.5 0 Kin & Co. 108.27 Total.$1,004.67 Poor Farm. C. 0. Jay nos. 56.50 W. M. Viro wi. &Son. 96.98 Westminister Hdw. Co. ... 37.80 W. H. Cobb, .Steward_ 113.37 Total..$ 304.65 Grand tutu! allowed.$3,575.68 E. N. FOSTER, Supervisor. M. R. McDonald, Clerk. (adv.) Tho Quinina Tfirt DOM Not Affect tho Hood Becateo of lt? tonic and laxative effect, LAXA* TI VE UKO MO W : NI NR ls bet ter th nu ordinary Quinine .-.ii due? not cauie nervouaneav nor rlnghiK ht head Remember the full name nnd look (or ' >,<: ?if?onture of li. W. OROVB. 30c. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. All perSphs Indebted to the Estate of E. O. Singleton, Deceased, are hereby notified to make pay nent to tho under.jigned, and all per sons having alms against said es tate will present the same, duly at tested, withiu the time prescribed by law, ur bo baned. W. P. TEAL, Administrator of the Estate of E. O. Singleton, Deceased. Nov. :.('., 19$._4 8-51_ "NOTICE TO DEBTORS ANi> CREDITORS. All poisons indebted to the Estato of Mrs. giulio A. Ballenger, Deceased, aro heroby notified to mako payment to tho undersigned, and all persons having claim? against said estate will present tho same, duly attested, with in the time proscribed by law, or be barred. D. M. HOLLEY, Admin?stralo) (with the will annex ed ) of tho Estate of Mrs. Sallie A. Ballonger, Deceased. Nov. H, _48-51 "hb'lh'H TO DEBTORS AND , Cit EDITORS, A)l portons indebted to tho Estate of Mis. Rebecca Smith, Deceased, aro nomby notified to mako payment to tho undersigned, and all persons 1m vi', da i m t against said Estato willi present tho same, duly attested, witty u tho time prescribed by law, or ho barred. MRS. MAGGIE HOLDEN, Administratrix pf the Estato of Mrs. Rebecca,Smith, Deceased. .10, 19.19. 50-53 Dec. Children Cry for Fletcher's She Kind You Baye Always Bought, and which has boen In uso for over over 30 years, has. borne the signature o? and has been made under his per? sonni supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health o? Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment. i What is CASTOR IA Castoria is a harmless substitute xor Castor Oil, Paregoric? Props and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. 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State & Federal Court Practice. ?fy ?f**|'*f*a!*ai*?|**t**!'*f'*t**i**i* NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned will make application to V. P. Martin, Judge of Probate, tor Oconee County, in the State of South Carolina, at his office at Walhalla Court House, on Saturday, tho 3d day of January, 1920, at ll o'clock In tho forenoon, or as soon there after as said application can be heard, for leave to make final settle ment of the Estate of MRS. REBEC CA SMITH, Decoased, and obtain final discharge as Administratrix of said Estate. MRS. MAGGIE HOLDEN, Administratrix of tho Estate of Mrs. Rebecca Smith, Docoased. Dec. 10, 1019. 60-63. * he Courier, $1 per year. Pay in advance Kurfees Paints and Oil. Gutter and Repair Work. J>. JED. GrOOI>, TINNER. - WALHALLA. ?, O? NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. AND DISCHARGE. Notice ls hereby glyen that the un dersigned will mako application to V. F. Martin, Judge of Probate for Oconee County, in the State of South Carolina, at his ofllce at Walhalla Court House on Friday, the 2d day of JANUARY, 1920, at ll o'clock In the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as said application can he heard, for leave to make final settle ment of the Estate of I. H. HAR RISON, DECEASED, and obtain final discharge as Administrator of said Estaet. W. C. HUGHS, Administrator of the Estate of I. H. i I'm-ison, Deceased. Dec. 3, lois;. 49-62 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT; AND DISCHARGE. Notice ls hereby given that th? undersigned will make application to V. F. Martin, Judge of Probate for Oconee County, in the State of south Carolina, at his office at. Walhalla Court House, on Monday, Decembe?' 29th, 1919, at ll o'clock in the fore noon, or as soon? thereafter as said application can he hoard, for loavo to make final settlement ot the. Es tate of B. H. CROSS, Deceased, and obtain final discharge as Executors of said Estate. Wm. S. CROSS, FRANK S. CROSS, Executors of the Estate of B. H. Cross, Deceased. Deo, 3, 1919. 49-63 ]