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J INTERESTING RUDCET OF WIUISTON NEWS. BcMdl-Weckt Weddiog Social Event of tbe ; Week. Mill for Qrlndlnf Velvet Benno la Op'ratioa. Oiher Iteais. . Special to The Sentinel: v " Willis to n , Jan. 29 — An interesting event of Wednesday evening at 6:30 o'clock was the marriage of.Miss Willie Ruth Bennett and Mr Thomas West Weeks at the Baptist ehureh. ’ The wedding party included Miss Mattie Lee Bennett, $mer><u.f „ the ‘bride, maid of honor; Misses Janie Matthews'ofl ni, ‘K have beeti before4he bankingand Williston and Sarah Whitsel 1 of St.. George, bridesmaids; Marion Hutson of Augusta, best man ; Albert Snellinfc of Barnwell and Willie Matthews of Wil liston, groomsmen. Little Miss Marie W’.ss was the dainty flower girl. The ushers were Meyers Roland Hutson of Wihiston and Bryant Weeks of White. Rond. • The bride never looked lovelier than in her travetling suit of blue broad cloth with accessories to match. She carried bride’s roses and valley Jillies. Miss Bennett wore a beautiful gown of golden georgette crepe, and carried white carnations. Miss Matthews gown was of Greene messalrrrpr—Mtts-AVWt- sell wore pink crepe de chine. Both bridesmaids carried pink carnations. Immediately following the ceremony the bride and groom left by automobile for Augusta? i The bridal party, with Dr W. M. Jones who performed the ceremony, were delightfully entertained at the home of the brides parents, Mr and Mrs C. A Bennett, on Tuesday evening. The presents were numerous and beautitertp The jOQiigcouple will make their horneat White P.mU. Mr and Mrs Emsly Fletcher of Char lotte, N. C. came down last week for the Bennett—Weeks wedding. Mrs E. E, Parker and children of At lanta have been vi Ring relatives and friends. Mrs Louis Kuqx of Charleston paid a brief visit last week to.-Mrs G.\% Greene.... x ■ The friends of Mrs Alary Harvey will be glad to learn that she is recovering from a severe illness. .: MissBettie Matthews is recoverin wn an attsck of grippe, Dt^ri Cupid has been busy in Willis- ten thi|L winter—and there are still others to follow. . pen < BUSY UNRAVEtllNC. ■INSURANCE TANGLE Bills Draws by Special Commissioa Named by Qovernor Before Committee Jolsj Meeting Toesday —~SL * Co’umbia, Jan. 29.—Efforts to unravel the tangled skein of the Are insurance situation and enact legislation which will bring; the companies back fro South Carolina are proceeding.in both branch es of the ! 'Geiieral Assembly, but it can not be said that the outlook is promis ing. The bills drawn by-the special commission named by Governor Man- . - HOW TO BEAT BOLL IN BARNWELL COUNTY Tenth of a Series of Articles By Col. E. J, Watson— •’ ** • %x ' - V • Growing Cotton on the Side. Early Destruction . ■ of Green Cotton Important Step. insurance committees of tire two houses for some days. The Sedate committee reported them without recommenda tion just "to get.them on the calendar. The House banking and insurance corpmittee has been considering the bills for nearly two weeks and have done some hard and earnest work in an effort to reach a resolution of the problem. In order to get at all the information possible and give every element an opportunity of being heard the banking and insurance committees of the House and Senate will held a joint meeing on Tuesday -afterrn on at 3:30 o'clock to which every one'inter ested will he asked to attend. This meeting will probably be held in .the" hall of the House of Kenr. ssotatives. Meanwhile a diequiting angle of the situation has cropped out iu statements from the insurance men and unofficial j but gi*epe- vine dispatches from (he insurance companies that the bills in their present state as commission are far from satisfactory. It is said that were the bills to become law substantially as they stand some of the wi'rrpanieg might return to bun- iness’in the state but the larger ones would not come back. The’chief point of difference is over the rate-making power. The* compan ies have consistently declined to admit the right of the State to review and make rates and they dislike the terms "unreasonable and excessive” in the bills, it is said... The rate-making bill, which is not before the committee, provides for a commission of three members, one to be recommended by the insurance commissioner, one by the companies, and the third t> be s?* lected independently by t-he Governor who would be authoriz d to review' rates and set any' rate aside and make a new one "if found unreasonable or ex- e-ssive.”. The companies are permitted Special to The Sentinel: -V r- Columbia, Jan. 30.—Since this per nicious cotton pest entered the United States from Mexico. it averaged arT eastward movement, of 60 miles a year, and a northern movement somewhat less. But in 1915. its eastward move ment was more than 100 miles, and in 1916 more than 150 miles, and a north ern movement of 160 miles, or the dis tance from Thomasville to Augusta, for it is now said by T State Entomolo gist Worsham of Georgia to be at Gough, six mijes.lfom/Augusta. The mild winter has favored the weevils. They begin their flight from the pres ent infested districts the end of July or early in August. Georgia will plant cut ton earlrei this year than u ?u*1 ,ahd if the crop is brought to the . boll stage early, the infestation of South Carolina will commence in July and August. The Weevils will continue flight until they reach plenty of squares, and as theSouth Carolina crop is later than-in ; Gfcorgia, drawn by "the 1 Hnd a ™ p!e feed - ing K round9 and plenty of squares in which to lay eggs at that time. ( For some years at least, this is prob ably the last year lhat P.arnwell county The Green Crate A Lumber Company inreinstalled the neees-avy machinery 4 -SUilitSin rate-making bureaus but ling up lar*e qualities of niuat dle ratea with the insurance coin missiouer. This,is said to be the sec tion which Is the crux of the whole problem and the-rock upon which The companies are camping firmly. They will not allow the State the right to supervise or make rataa^Tot. they say they have been losing money in South Carolina for several yeafs and it js simply a business proposition. and is grinding dp lar*e i^autities of velvet beans in. the bull for the farmers to b'e med in feeding stock, Manv who hgve never before realised the value of velvtt beans are this year preparing to plank them extensively. ONE ON MAYOR CREENE Major Greene was standing on the eteps of the poet office at Eiko the other day. when an old darky came up ,aud touching.. hie hat, asked r » ~ ' Kin you tell me, sab, is dis de place Mrhar dey tells postage stamps?” "Yet, uncle, this is the place,” re. plied the Mayor, seeing a chance for a little fun ; "but what do you waut with postage stamps?” "To mail a letter, eah, of eo’ae.” < ‘ Well, then, you needn’t botherahmix Stamps; you dou’t hava to put any on this week." - - "I don’t?” n -L- v Why how come dat ?” “Well, you see, the conglomeration „©f the hypothec use has differentiated the parallelogram so much that the nonaaoguinity don’t emulate the ordi nary effervescence, and so the govern ment hae decided to send letters free.” The old man took off hie hat and acratohed hie head, and then with a long-drawn breath, alowly replied - : "Well, boss, dat may be true.au’I don’t •ty it ain’t;,but just spoeen dat de ekaentricitly of de aggression tran- eubetanahuatee de pupperdincular an sublimities de puepieuity of de conse- 1T-BB • 9 e h letter^ I reckon I just better pjut some stamps on, anyhow, .for Jucjt!” The cAwd laughed and the Mayor disap peared. , The following announcement ha« received in Bain well: Mr and M. Aman announce the marriage of thGr daughter, Hrfnet, to DrBAF.W, pnian on Friday, January red.and seventeen. Min Aman is from Oswego, Dr Wy- man is pleasantly remembered ‘Here, tying bees a praCttsing. attqmey at It is hardly possible or probable that the House or Seuate wilf go the whole way and unless there is a spirit of com promise mamteaietL.thje outlook is.not encouraging.^ There is a spirit dt will ingness on the part of .the Legislature to go at the proposition in a business like and conservative manner. Very little is.being said by either the Stat^ or the insurance companies for pub lication for.it had been felt that •‘ruyh- ing into p/rint” would only confuse the ones trying to affect a Sulutior. of the dimiulty, and add to their already heavy burdens. Representatives of the companies, especially J. H; Doyle, of New York, attorney for the National Board of Fire Underwriters, who have been in South Carolina, have taken a very sensible view of-the-situation and have made favorable impressions on those Who have come In contact with them. Ths idea prevalent in .many mlndsTa year ago that the companjei were trying to "punish the State” has been in a large meiSure dissipated by the action and bearing of Mr Doyle and others and will be able to plant, in comparative safety, a large cotton acreage. If the cotton acreage has not already been prepared, it should be gotten ready as early as the work of the farm wilj permit, and the .crop seeded as soon as the most experienced farthers of your community agree is a safe time to plant cotton. * The seed should be from varieties that mature earliest, and a constant effort should be mt}de to select from these a strain of skilj ear.ier maturity FKRTEKLIZATIO.V' Potash at $5 00 per unit .in mixed fertilisers is beyond the reach of the average farmer, and comparatively few will use* any potash this year, A good home-mixed fertilizer would be 200 lbs. cotton seed meal arnt ^TO lbA/ of lff per cent acid phosphate applied in the dril.1 two or'three weeks before the seeding of the erop. 1 believe that 26 lbs. per acre of nitrate of soda to the above would be a profitable addition, and give the young plants a better send ettyfor irnna-oLAhw niH>ngn»-iw cotton seed meal is available until called^ When this happens, the who * Square turns yellow, wilts and is shed. If left on t’he ground, the grub insi'de continues to develop through the va rious stages, emerging as a weevil to become the ancestor of millions mor^of weevils. In Alabama, the infested squares are pieked off ami burn»d, those that shed are burned, or plowed under. But of all methods of control that have been practiced, none has been so effective as complete distrac tion of the cotton plants at least three weeks before frost. Where this is done the yields the following year are always better, Needless to sav^ cotton should not follow cotton under boll weevil condi tions Cotton should ' follow where corn-velvet 1 cans cow petii., were plant ed the year before and grazed off. nnd- the land broken in the Winter, or where- peanuts were hogged off the year l/e- fore. .. . t WHAT K I,OHIO A KKCCM MENUS., After the aoove was writteu.v l re ceived Bulletin No. -6 Hopi the-Florida Experiment Station, at Gamsville, Fla- on "Peanuts in Florida.” J am note that in every essential deiafl-ihia Bulletin recommends the same method of preparatiou. heavy marling-orTiming fertilization and inoculation with nitre- cultures that I outlined in my article, on peanuts, two weeks ago. In this bulletins I find this interesting state ment : ~ ' - "The beneficial results from growing peanuts in a rotation with cotton are shown in the following results obtained by the Arkansas Experiment Station : 1452 lbs seed cotton after peanuts. 1309 lbs " , “ ” soybeans. 1090 lbs " *.* " L chufas. 901 lbs “ •• " * corn ... bacteria have changed it to nitrates. Kgperiment station records show ihnt nitrate of soda in two side applications are better than one, and you may be sure that the general practice of the Desrfarmere of your community nr~re^ gard to the time of application is the best for average conditions in Barn well copnty. - v 4 fl'I.TIVATION. jf . Cotton should be chopped to a stand as early ail possible, as -this gives the plants that'remain the best chance. The most -thorough cultivation you have ever given a cotton crop should he given this year to hasten maturity, and a crust should never be permitted to form- By maintaining a dust mulch st-all times, you will prevent the evap oration of much moisture, which will enable the plants to teed to far better advantage. Cotton should be picked rapidly. Not later than October 1st, all the stalks in a field should be destroyed, so that the rapid he at litiians that the whole thing ia simply a business proposition, .(hat the com panies want to do business only at a reasonable profit for their stockholders, and that they cannot do business at a loss. Their statements that the com- quence—could you all qualifieste datlP^^^have never had-any such ideas * ; -i- ~ have been ae-' they have assured the Booth Uaro tfoaKf supp'y of-the-vreerHs will be-nrut ITT is reached off at least three weeks before theearli- ekt frost. This effectually disposes of 'millions of them,^and there are conse quently fewer survivors the next sea son.. If the cotton stalks cannot be chopped up and turned under deep, an rH-tft-Udt, then eftt-them-ftfL .This bulletin also states that the im provement to the. soil ia in direct pro* portlonto the amount of. refuse left on the laud, and-that if the entire plant is rurauTUU f flic full Will uc POOffl ttlSF before peanuts were planted, notwith standing that the peanut gets its nitro gen from the air. ,■ * It also states /that wherc.the vines are cut off and fed as hay to stock, the manure beihg returned to the land, and the nuts heiny gathprad hm there will be the greatest soil improve ment. \ - “T~ """ V Duggar of Alabama, in "Southern Field Crof>|” states that, "a crop of sixty bushels or peanuts gdr acre with one ton of hxy has been found to con tain approximately 85-ibs-of nitrogen. MOCK MARR1ACE AT CREEK CHURCH. Miss Marta Mebitsble PsMI4(tss Wrtfs Mr. AI#haaa» Algeroea FlliNoodler, Msar (Mttiofatlsb«4 Alleatssis. ? Special to The Sentinel •/ , Meyers Mil), Jan. 29--There was a marriage at Steel Creek jchurch Friday evening, the, 20 inst under the auspeie* of the teachers of, the ’Meyers Mill BARNWELL BAR CONSIDERS’ , COUNTY COURT BIU, Naafc/r of laptnaat Aaeadaeais Segtcakd at .Mcetlag ef Bar Here Sat arday. Al - rA ~ Fenrarded le Coaaty DdegaGetR. > ' AV a meeting of the Barnwell Bar held here Saturday the bill providing for a county eourt was considered. Af ter going over all the provision* of tbe , . . ... ■ . bill the bar made a number of reeotn- graded school—Mi?s Daisey Willis and * ~ J 1 1 mendatiofts for amendments^ Before Mr. T. <*.„ tobb-w ,ch « M sttemled etTee.iyeife &U 3 ■ i-j '- sm I t>y a large and appreciative asiemblagt from this and ad joining communities. Miss Maria Mehitible Paddington was the blushing, happy bride and Mr Alphonso Algernon FitzXoodles wa* the lucky groom, attended by a half dozen luifnls in their lovely a hi ye and white co9t:imes, Uieir rosy blushes vie- ing with the fiowera they carried grace fully in their arms. * ;.'7‘ \ The ceremony waa impressively per formed by Rev. W. Thomas Hankinson (clergyman pro tem) who was compli mented on his distinguished en semble, and his fervid and florid remarks to the distinguished contracting parties. To your correspondent the most im pressive leps >n the occasion taught was that a little paint, a little powders, comet Jace and frills with the proper artist to appTv them will make ~a man fall heels over head in lqye with his own father ih-!aw. * • ' " • . ; , • 1 . s ; Every one cf the pretty "young girls” participating in this unique play were manufactured from the masculine mem bers of Mejers Mill societyl. and yet so deft and magical were the transform? ing processes performed that the un- of beautiful-young girls. The marriage from a historic and financial standpoint was a screaming success and our school library fund is richer by some $25.00, and all the folk who attended are mentally enriched by the memory of an evening of unalloyed fun, frolic and frivolity. Long may Meyers Mill school live, and long may her destinies be presided over by too suc^tajented and able teach«|«v*0tfr principal and >her assis tant. ^ necessary t^_have the people count; vote for it at a r ~ to be held in May. of th« special election The* following ac count ot the meeting h taken from the minutes qf the acting secr^tarj R. G. Holman. Esq stated thle object of the meeting.to be to discuss the pro posed Bill for the < establishment of • UR. YOU MUST KEEP THE CLOCK WOUND And so it is with the Sentinel. We. have the Pay-in-Advanee system; and we live up ta it, god treat everybody alika— rich man, poor_man. J ojr whal not. It is not a question of credit with us, but is our system of running The Sen- County Court for Barnwell and, at the request of the member* of tht General Asaembly from JBarnwell County,' to make auch suggestions, recommendations and amendment* to the Delegation as the Bar may deem advisable in regard thereto. Moved by T. M. Boulwarc. Eiq. and carried, that the Bar favor the. estab lishment of a County Court and that the Bar submit such suggestions and amendments as they deem beat. (All present voted yes except Mesart J. E. Harley and R. A. ElltkT Moved and carried that ommendation to the Govern! majority of the membership of the^ the Governor and Solicitor shall appointed by the Governor. Moved and carried that the Judge of said Court shajl^iiot be permitted to only a bevyjjrftCtiigeJaw in any Court ’directly or 1indirectly. ■ Moved and carried that the Solicitor be prohibited from practicing taw.invtay Criminal court in the county, except a* ’solicitor and prosecuting attorney, that he be required to act -as attorney tor th® County in an. advisory capacity and to represent the County iu- suit* for and against it. Moved and earricfl that upon the recommendation of two-thirds of MiC members of the Bar. it ahall be the duty of the Governor lo remove the Judge or Solicitor from office. : i Moved and carried that aeotiqn 7 be amended by striking out all of acid section after the word "pereqpe.” on the 2nd iiue-thereof down to the word "the” on line 12 of said section. •Mr.J. E. Harley at his request was excused from further attendance upon . Most of.our subscribers Hke the sys tem, because they know The Sentinel will jaever ruTLjpjaJbiil .igifniiibem 15 jba. of phosphoric acid, 32 lbs of pot ash, and 40 lbs 6f lime. Most of the lime and potash is contained in the hay, while the greater part of the phos phoric acid and more than half of Mhe nitrogen are found in the nuts.” Tfte Florida bulletin recommends the following three year rotation, in which . • - * •- * - '■ .•* •••■'. .. I heartily concur, and I hope you will adopt it: year, peanuta, — year, cotton, and cover crop. 3rd year, corn and velvet beanl fol lowed by-winter oats, _ > US,\ 2nd it will be due Tu a great measure to the tact and diplomacy as well as the personal attraction of men like Mr Doyle, and Mr F. C., Bushwell, of The Home. - { The abaenee of anv delire to play polities with the present situation gives nope that some solution will be reach ed which will be consistent-with the pride of the Stare and to-th„e satisfac- • iofi o,f the fixe incura<ice, companies. This is the*spirit In wh*clr the work is beir.g carried on and while the qmlook ■ JJ iT'^fTi Jt ia n.dt hope, le.-s, for with this spirit there rs ever_ r-ason to believe^that once the bills come up befoie the two houses for paration, liberal use of marl, and liberal applications of phos phorus. /In mar y - lands on one side of a creek in Mississippi. Hilgard says, the cottou is'very compact and Away appears all white* jriiile on the below the surface o: prevent sprouting again, rake them in the windrovf and burn them, and theji put rn amail graip.' oats and vetch, crimson clover, or, if you have plenty «jf hogs to winter, ve|ch and rye, or grounc i, wntwMiat ai m iffir.Wre wan. no mail iu the soil, the cotton grows as tall as a man on horseback has few •bulls- Use iparl plentifully, « Lie phosphorus liberally. With the'grow ing of the legumes, particularly where vetch, rye and rape. But the stalks you inoculate them with nitro-culhirea which my Department sells to you for -any crop at forty cents aVacre. nitrates wilt accumulate in your soils Until the percentage is as high as it stioul ■mmMk ^ u raif h gonfe of it is remov'd, and then conr- must be utterly destroyed and the top crop sacrificed evkn this yhar, Tiifest d squares can be told fe^le’re they 'flare”'by the bright-crahge ex- deposiied b; discussion, flniehdinents will he add'd up- the-aludy oL -wh-teh^ wlll- perf-ee* .them an4-s-/lyfe.the situation ali around. warts”*forfheil by rYRture in an at tempt to.heal tr.e puncture, and by tbe leaflets enclosing the bod spreading apart, flare’ usually seriptiph Wa have passed our word to tbe pub lic that when a subscription expires it stops—just A* a clock runB down when the time it is wound up for expires. If it’s a the meeting as he is opposed to tha bill in its entirety. Moved and carried that ao much of the bill as provides for the jdpsdiotioa of the Coun on the Ctvil% side be amended by limiting the amount in to (fed to 08,000 00. i- aa ’tm atnH>e-d-anuing tliem ~fur "beck iuC^ ~~TlevM ftnff UaFHeil that the couipeiTr aatiou of the stenographer be flxad $000.00 per annum. ; Moved and carried that this appoint ment of the officers of the Court be de ferred until after the retifleetibo of the a it -mult be 1 wound -Act, that copies of tteae minutet be v up at the end of 24 hours in order to keep It going ;Jf an eight-day ciook, it does not have to be wound so often. One dollar and a half winds up THI$f CLOCK 12 months; 90 cents winds it up 6 months; 50 cents 1 winds it up 3 months. ' : c i .,.1 ^ warded to the delegation from this Couply. Y We hate to lose any subscriber; bat we are honor bound to live according to ouf^prd. We don’t "caUiifT' any sobicribeHjte cuts himself off if he fails to renew>vRemit by check, money order or any way convehient. hf ground phosphate rock, in order to balance ihe nitrogen ration, and get the earliest maturing crops you hajrq ever had, and will be astounded at the low cost of your fetilizer per acre. This has been the experience in other boll EARLY MATURITY OF COTTON . VY $ I have carefully searched^ authentic, records in my possession, dating from 1842, and find (Hat, aside from variety, the greatest factors in hastening the maturity'nf euUoft are, thorough pre-4-weevil districts, and-Barnwell county mence again. Under tlieVe coiidition-j you will,be able to use'pr Ifitably mory ' r- ii pboEphate, or heavy '.appl ea^uus proritable. It Is Tkaly that the Bsnlt- ers will force the mavebants to do ao. or withdraw credit. Where a farmer is not inclined to co-operate in fighting the common foe, hit credit will suffer, aud io time he will lose his land, home. Bankers, merchants and vfarmers, stand together, and not only will Barnwell County win the fight, but on the limited acreage.that she will grow dnee more profitable crops of cotton ■ - ■ - r . than is being done to-dgr. E. J Wntson, Commissioner AINMENT UNIQUE Special to Tha Sentinel Jin. 29.—Mrs Ann Ifattl Mary iwa.was hostess on (be afternoon of Saturdny, January 20th. at a* defiightful reception in honor ol guests, Mrs Da rah Brabham of Ollf, and Mrs Saili© I. Hair of Blaekvilln. .This entertainment waa unique in the* the hostess and these guests have all passed the allotted spab of three aeon and ten. All in fairly good health, and happv over the privilege of enjoying the society of each other, and recalling the days of "Auld Lang Syne." Days before the civil war were discussed. •• rr 1 ■ ■■ " • * ■ ( *r ■ ■£- \" H— - Day that haa no shade of aoritaw, who- -- 1 has the same result to get and wilt get ^ er ® hearted girls at school-' in the same way. There is no occasion for. panic in Barnwell County, or anywhere else in the cottou growing section. Merchants insist-that farmers do the things tha^xpanenceliaa proved ^isc snd f WlhtfOu, Commission*^ Cut,A. A. Ricliardfon n Depurtm.-nt of Agricultures. I here on business'for the in old Dunbarton. The lives or the*#' friends of theJong-ago are linked in separably together by; memories that are dear to them. It was a delightful occasion, and onk that will linger in/ The memory of those whose privilsto* n *&riu Be pweffiv 1 "" Delicious xefreshments were served by the little grand daughter!; of thft hostess and Mrs Brabham. As the company dispersed, many times was hope expressed that Divine providence would permit again the reunion of this trio uf Triends of other days. ■ As the setting tt.ugs beck Us b^ams over these lives which have been so well vpentrlmay nor ihsduw of sadnsii Mrs CjI.A. A. Richardson^nf Columbiawm s