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8ARNWELL, 8. 0., THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919 VOL. LXVIT COTTON ASSOCIATION : WITH $200,000,000 STOCK SENATOR JOHNSON ON COUNTY AFFAIRS BE- YE STEADFAST EASTER SERVICES. Easter services in Barnwell Were large) v jfUended in all the churches. The day was perfect. The churches were beautifully Resolutions Passed By Tte South Carolina Cottoh Association. Writes Interesting Letter On % Barnwell County’s Chain Cang. To Farmers and Business Men r • * in Cotton Territory ; ; In April more acres of land will be planted to crops in the Southern States than in any other mouth in the year 1010. A great campaign for a reduced cotton acreage and increase.I production of food and feed lias been, conduced, by all fore. ,- Not all the cotton reduction fdau#, not -ad -the- -newsr^prr publicity, not all the speeches made on this subject have ex actly suited everybody, but tlint isn’t the main thing. The main thing is, Are we going to slick?- All tns talk will be of no avail unless t e object is actually accomj li-n« d. • As long as the world thinks there is plenty of cotton and as long as it** movement is *tiil interrupted by war conditions, we shall lie m a utfficulty whirh ought not to la* iucieftsat l by too great an acreage. The answer Columbia, April 15— At a con-ference last Tuesday be- e sermons were r; letter irom Hon. J. Johnston. of Allendale in which he explains a very appropriate 'he musical nui tween ifiembers of the South Cn ro.ina delegation in Congress, «nd the committee of twe.itv chosen from the South Carolina Cotton Association, resolutions .'vein a lupted neartily...endore- ing the proposed organization of a Cotton Marketing Corpor ation with a capital stock of of interest to the peo well count.’. formed that some citizens o Bari iWell county are. at a loss to understand why a poitiou of the chaingang .of such countv wa> *iu<i,uuu.uuu but recommen ding that the stock be increased The conference also adopted resolutions urging every bank in the South to increase its capital stock 50 per cent 16 meet the increasing deminds upon all banks for financial assistance. All state banks in the South not members of the Federal Reserve System were urged to join at once. Senator* Smith and I>ial and Representative* Byrnes, Ste venson aud l>ever .attended the conference and from the (btlon Association, Governor Cooper and Messrs. J. 8. Wtumarnker, K. G. Rhett, L. 1. Guion, John T. Mackey. ThomasG. Mcl*od, KM M ixson, J. H. Claffev, T. P. Cotl.ran, D. W. Walking J. T. Liles, H. Hart Mom, and othe t weie present. The general sentiinent of the meeting was that the proposed cotton corporation would solve the cotton problem in the South and would take the Southern planter from under the control of the New York price, manipu lator*. The resolutions adopted by the convention follow : Resolved, that this Special Committee uppoinied by the South Carolina Cotton Associ ation do heartily indole the proposed organization of a Cotton Marketing Corporation. appointed by the Federal Land Bank of Columbia, S. C.. ab stractor for the Allendale Farm Loan Association. * Mr. and \Irs. M. A. Thomas and children, and Mr. Dick Welle, of Htlmton, spent Sttn- dav in town with relatives. corn h Ait. A* the author iCi* to the delegation, of Barnwell county w that such Act was county during the interim above mentioned, upon tlie condition tliul Ailendaie county i* to pay the expenses of that particular brnuch of chaingung during said t the request of the Su- and Board of Countv VIEW OF U. a. OAPITOL DURING FAINTING. The florae of ttie I’ntreit Stales CApItol st WaBhlngtoo Is kept Id eiret- lent coi»«lit|.>n by palming It every few yeftm. ’For this work forty palaters •re tieaillly'employed fur three months* time. Over five thouHsod cations of point are required for one coat. The reason for |Suiming the Capitol dome al regular Intervals is to prevent dUiutecratlon of metallic surface. ing com- ;ation by r* very truly. Brown A Bush, County Attorney County | for Barnwell County f February, ltsth, reaJ My rccolle’tion is that upon receipt of such letter, 1 men- turned the fact nt lea**t to Me^rs. ] Da vi* and Hutson, and I think I to Mr. Ellis also, that Vfe**rs Davis and Hutson informed me that thov had received similar letter*; and that they asked ine ITEMS OF STATE NEWS Henry Johnson, Sena- Ion-*. Davis, Ebi» and Members of the to prepare ami lntrixluce the bill iu accordance with the re. quest of the lioard of commis sioner*, which I did. In view of the fact that Allendale county is chargeable with its pro rata portion of the expenses of run ning the governmentof Barnwell county until the officers of Al lendale qualify and take office, it occurs to me that the request of the Barnwell county board was eminently proper, for I can not conceive that any citizen of Barnwell county would wish Aljeudale county to bear its pro rata portion of BarnweM cotin- tyb expenses and not receive anything in return. I might state further that the act ip question expressly states that such portion of the ehaingang shall be maintained at the ex pense of Allendale county. For the further comfort of any good, but mbit formed citi- lirccbd by the Miper- bounty Board of Cum* to communicate the information to you, request that you will nh lt-gi-iatuni as is to carry out their in. ’I hr board ludd a meeting ibis morning at which it considered the ;*rtq o-itioii of withdrawing from the portion of Barnwell countv recently cut off into Al lendale eoutity, the chuingang now loca4ed in that section. A committee of citizens of ‘Allen dale county appeared before the board ai.d the matter was dis- cus-ed tuliy. It appears that, notwithstanding the fapt. that in the settlement between Barn well' and Allendale counties, which is to be made at a later date. I)} .a commission to be named by the Governor, aud not- withstanding the further, fact that at that lime Alleudale coun ty will be entitled to be alloted a portion of the ehaingang of Barnwell count)', As well as part implements; stock, etc., that go therewith, there is in the Act creating Allendale countv no,provision for Allendale coun ty, during the interim between now and the iettleuieut between the counties, to ii9e any portion of the ehaingang of Barnwell county. This in the face of the fact that Allendale county will be chargeable with their “pro rata share of the expenses of carrying on the Barnwell gov ernment. .In view of these facts the board thinks it equitable that some ^provision be made which will allow the ebaiogang now 7 located in Allendale county (firing about one third of the to tal cbaingaog of Barnwell coun ty ), to remain in A liendale coun ty ualil Midi time a* the settle- Columbia, April i7.—Among the appointments made Iasi week by Governoi R. A. Cooper was that of B. O Sanders to be magistrate at Allendakvn place of J. E. Tobin, who was recent ly elected probate judge. t Edgefield, April 15,—Reports received here during the earlier part of the week from Parks- villc as to tbo 8»*rioushe^ of a clasli between the races were grerily exaggerated. The facts seem to be that only ope negro was killed and two others woujiid- ed. The trouble seems to have been one that could very easily have bt eti avoided. zen of Barnwell county, I might state that, from such informa tion as I have been able to gather from the commissioners of Allendale county, there will be no disposition whatever on the part of Allendale county to evade the payment of a single penny due to either Barnwell or Hampton county upon the settlement to be- had between such counties. In fact, so far as my information goes, ihertf are certain claims that could be made agi inst the old counties that Allendale county expects to waive, thereby evincing its desire to be manifestly fair to the old counties. However, tlii+<«pirit of fair- uets on the part of Allendale county cannot be expected to thrive, if the good citizens of Barnwell county persist in the attitud", taken by a few of her uninformed people, that Allen dale county fi endeavoring to somethin? over*' the THREE St ILLS FOUND result, of the alleged riot near ^arksviBe one negro, Butler M id- dfetou, is <loiuL IT seems that some one shot a gun or pistol last. Sunday night near the home of Tom Wall in tiro Red Hill section of McGormick or Edge- field county. Mr. Wall ap proached some tiegri nuil the negro ikuiod the *h»K>ting being doue by him. Other negroes became implicated and a number of white men also. The negroes went into a house and tha white men began shootingut the how-* ll is supposed that some of these bullets tail this dead i egn>, Butler Middleton. At any r#te he died panied l by D. S. Tyler, Jr., and Geo. W. Biutiii ker, discovered I three stills about three miles . southeast of here Mondav in tiro (South Kdisto Swamp.'" Neither of the stills whs in operation bat all were ready to mate teal [whiskey. A quantity of nnsli was destroyed together with a : 60 gallon *jrun barrel, which j from ail a p'*tt ranees was to Is , a first cl»-* fermenter. No. er rasts have been made, but then* is sufficient evidence to impli cate a ttutnlier of persous; the bestDfed of the very beat va rieties. * T Sixth—Plan to meet all fami ly and farm expense* from tne surplus products of the farm out side of the cotton crop, and to have iu the fi 11 of 1919 a g.aal supply of laying hen*, at least two milch-cows for every family, hogs it) the lot to fill the family smokehouse during the winter, potatoes either m toe 'hank, the cellar or the su»rthou*e for win ter's use, caiiool or dried vege table* and fruit*, and a barrel of of nioia'»»' for the (annirf i xnb of cunt at^qrst to laaft wa nt tha next i rvp a nalr, eiik fad alarraga larilam t*«r we* Third—Produce the hay and forage necessary to amply sup ply the live stock on the farm for one year with an excess for the *akeof safety. Specisl attention should be given to the summer legumes, velvet beans, cow peas, soy baans, and peanut*, especi ally for feeding purpose*. FourUh—Produce the meal, eggs and milk f*»r every family on the farm. . Titis means the production of hogs, cattle and poultry and iberaraand keeping of ruoit family cow*. Ltw^urk in nao»i*«ry is order tp eat up the other wt*e is*tc (-ruduci* of the farm l*d cooveti them into fe.DC T S Tfe.it Si I IF 0 “put ■joi M| mtleaieo win i »% kit t»f ameoii