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/ if ’ • /► . * V”* J/ -J. n. ' '• "W ' - 4 7 : /', VOL. LXVU. , /. «/ t 'A ' irx—r:/ ESTABLISHED 1832 r “Largest County Circulation” ^ . < rf****' M,w ‘ >,> ** * - ^ ; «► j&&ftm\ r EXAi, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, 0CT0RER^3 1919— BLACKVILLE FARMERS HOLD BOLL WEEVIL MEETING TIME TURNS BACK COTTON PRODUCERS AND .... & V **♦ BRITISH SPINNERS .MEET SUGAR SHORTAGE £ND MORE BITTER.COFFEE of Blackville AmericanjCotton Grower* and British • * 4t£ "'' i '' ' ' Vr Spinner^'Mjet at New Orlean*. Railroad* Grant Concession for^Mcet rogre»*ive Discus* Boll Weevil Defeat on Brown Housewives Mas ing of Association jti I The progressive farmers who live in and near Blackville held a meet ing in the high school building on last -Thursday to get together .puign to beat the boll weevil of these gentlemen ^County Ajsent Boyleston were bers of a party Rock Hill, QetAjT.—R. C. Burts, secretary of the State Teachers' as sociation of Sputly-Carolina, has just received ' instruction .irom W. ' J. C^aig,chairman of the Southern pas senger traffic committee in Atlanta, advising that special rates ^ill apply from all points in South Carolina for the State Teachers’ association meet ing to be held in Columbia, November 27-29. Teachers .will buy their tick ets atTheir home ticket offices, pay ing regular one way fare,"and upon tickets being properly validated in ..Columbia the teachers will be sold a ticket for return for one-third of the regular one way fare. This conces sion by~~tbe* railroads will mean a great deal to teachers irv attendance and will no doubt induce many teach ers to attend. ; The recommendation of the state board of education that teachers be given holiday'on Friday, November 28, in order to attend the meeting of the association, should bj? presented to; th© local boards for action, Mr. ITurts says. It j|s important, he adds, Much complaint has come in the past from the British spinners on the one hand who complain of the way in which we -bale and cover our cotton. On the other side the cotton farmer complains that the middlemen rob him of his just profits before his cot- tdn gets into the foreign -factory. Tbe following item from the cotton congress in New Orleans last week is of more than ordinary interest. British Cotton spinners were urged today by growers to send representa tives to the fields of the south, buy cotton from the farmer direct, bale the staple as they see fit, eliminating all middlemen and reducing the* cost of the raw material to the spinner, at the same time increasing the price From ,all accounts those house wives who failed to fill up.the sugar boxes in the List few’ weeks ffiust de pend on brown sugar at 14 cents a pound until later in the year when granulated sugar may be on the market again. Another sugar Short age is on. Yarious theories are suggested to account fufr it .SoTrt'e say that since prohibitions^ on we have to slack our national thirst over the marble slab on a cam- Some together’* with mem- that went by auto through sections of Georgia and Ala bama where the weevil had been cir cumvented by looking to other crops than cotton as money raisers. Inter- esting addresses were made*' by Messrs. Robt! B. , and Clarence J. Fickling, Che&ter Matthew's, Crum Boyleston, W. T.'TValker and others. County Agents Boyleston declared that he was in position to secure the best seed peanuts at close prices for farmers who -desired to plant them. He also told of the opportunity to se cure w'ire fencing at car lots rate. Blackville is surrounded- by as fine a grade of land as can be found in the state.^ Its farmers are second to none. It goes without saying that Blackville will not suffer from the- vFeevil invasion. In fact its pros perity.xe.sts. on the farmers whose farms surround the town and in the ofa soda fountain instead of the sa loon. Others believe that a great deal of sugar-is turned into “tussock". Still othei-s who keep up with the news, point to the fact that Secretary of Wat, Baker disposed recently of 20 million pounds-’of sugar in France at a vary, low f'rice. The real cause is found in* the exports of sugar to foreign countries. America con trols the larger part of sugar pro duction throughout the world. \et those in Authority have allowed J?»pan to purchase the-sugar crop of •Hawaii, and England the sugar crop oif Cyba, while we at ho'tr.e .are re duced t> a sugar shortage by having paid to the producer. This proposal along the lines of tlve systems used by the -British tobacco maunfactur- ing interests in Kentucky was made at a meeting late today of a special committee- of ‘world Cotton confer ence delegates.composed of ten for eign spinners, ten American spinners, and twenty American cotton growers. It was the first time in fifty years, it was said, that Americaan cotton pro ducers ami British spinners had "Tnet that the teachers of-the state come adjoining districts, M it ha.- not i>eea.4tosaiblfi, to hold a meeting since 1917. Several of the department presi dents have already sent in their pro INSPIRATION MEETING * • HELD AT .BARNWELL very high during the next few months. We should remembgr that during h former shortage the govern ment curtailed everything except the breakfast table. The Augusta Chronicle say* editorially >‘There are those who believe that the home map' ket should have been supplied before the foreign market was served/* grams to Dr. J. P. Kinard, president of the association, and these, together with the general program, will go to the press within a few days. About November 10 programs and other in formation will be mailed to the taach- County Baptists Gather in The Barn well Church Wednesday. S In view of the lynchings which have occurred throughout the country dur ing the recent past, much prominence is being given to the charge, to the Clerk, ..county grand jury, just the other day by Judge Andrew J. Cobb. TURN,CLOCKS BACK ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, AT 1:00 A. M. During the - war thought we could get one more hour of daylight and one hour,.saved each day so far as electric light went by moving the clock hour ahead of-sun- time. 1 A great many people refused to change, and so we had a confusion of time. In northern-.cities and wherever people do not work more than a half day and Call it full time, this extra hour gave* them that iptfch time for pleasure or gardening. In the south and. On the farms it wa$» an unmitigated nuisence for the reason that we use the light of the^un, instead of electricity. After 1:0() A. M. on next Sunday morn ing We will all go together. If we* want to get to church on time or catetf a train it wouldn’t be a bad idea to nVove $our clock or watch back one A very interesting meeting in the interest of the “75 million campaign”, for the Baptist churches in Barnwell county, was held in the Barnwell church on last Wednesday morning. The ministers of most of the churches were in attendance, and the attendance of the members from the Blackville and**Barnwell churchek was very gratifying. The speakers of the occasion were Dr. C. E. Burts, of Columbia and Mr. T. O. Lawton, of Greenville. Both of these gentlerrieh were heard with much pleasure they stressed--the’ tremendous gain that would come to local churches and individual Christians as they took part in this campaign. The needs of the denominational enterprises would consume all of this sum. Dr. Burts was the pastor at Black- vilie some sixteen years ago and-wa« one of the most popular'and widely known ministers in the county. Mr. Lawton comes of a Barnwell county era of the state The aTrangement committee in Co lumbia is organizing for taking care of all the details Qf the meeting. An attractive musical program will be one of the features of the meeting. The departments will hold their first meeting on Thursday afternoon, November 27, and the first general 'meeting will be on the evening of November 27, Membership in the association is renewed each year by the payment of the annual dues. * These member ship fees should" be sept to W. E. Black, treasurer, Lexington, S. C. The fee is |l for men and 50 cetita for women. — - ... REIGN OF TERROR BYVBOY "ANDIYS and is functioning^-“adequate for any crime that lynchings have ‘"ever taken jurisdiction of” and that by th«* law “adequate punishments have been inflicted, are being inflicted and will be inflicted,” and “there is no reason why the courts of the land should be robbed of jurisdiction by the lawless element.” Asserting that “the law means to be master of her own house, a just master,.a fair master, but always master there,” he adds: “There is less reason why the law- abiding element should, by jtheir si lence, acquiesce in the lawless taking jurisdiction over these matters which the stability of the government re quires. shall be dealt with by the courts." - - judge Cobb excoriates lynching and severely brands the manYvho en gages in lynching. An. extract from the charge is: What I have said has its applica tion in every ^ca.-e "of^Ynot) violence, it makes no difference whether the victim of the mob is guilty or inno cent, or what crime-* he is*'"charged with or may be guilty; of, or* what race he belonged to. The death of a human being by a mob is murder, Jamti Oliver Tells of Companion Who Shot W. B. McIntosh .Chattanooga, Oct. 19—When in dignant citizens of James County, put a rope around the neck of Jaifies Oliver, and strung him up to the limb ef artree, near Coltewah sh»r)tty af ter midnight .Saturday night* he is said to have' broken down and told them the fame of his companion who shot and killed Deputy Sheriff W. B. McIntosh a few hours earlier. *" Oliver, who is not yet/21 and Ed Myt in, who is charged with having killed McIntosh, are said to have ber- ricaded a pqtint on the Dixie highway, just south of Coltewah shortly after dark Saturday night and held it until nearly midnight, while they held up and robbed occupants of all automo biles and other vehicles that passed. Citiseu.i who heard of,their activi ties ami went armed vvitly pistols, and shotgun£-T*>--arrest them, were them selves captrcrc-ed by the boy bandits, and a-t- ore time six men and b.ne"^ 5 o- mar. were- huddled along the road side. covered with the pistol of one rpbber, while the other waited be hind his barricade for other vehicles touring fresh victims. This was After McIntosh had been shot and for sometime his body lay by the side of his automobile, hisu friends .not knowing whether he was dead or alive. They know that he' lived for a few minutes after he was shot but the bandits would not permit therm'to ^attend to his injuries anil they-dorioot know when he died. But for the \vound that Oliver-re ceived from the pistol of K. I. John son, who accompanied Melntosh.-'to ,the barricaded spot on the road, the' *‘®9ad/agents” might have stayed on until daylight. Oliver kept com plaining that he was bleeding to death and Martin, he said, finally ordered GOOD JOBS IN ALLENDALE if lvnch law is to take control There, the plan of government which we boast is a failure. The above editorial from the Au gusta Chronicle is so timely and forceful until it deserves the careful attention of all patriotic and peace loving citizens, AND BARNWELL UNFILLED Supervisor of Census Says That Few Applications Received. Maj. R. Boyd Cola Honored. Maj. John D. Frost, the Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General, baa offered his resignation to take effect November 1st., at which time he will Mr. B. P.—BavteJI Supervisor of the Cemus, states that applications for * the position of census enumerator dr© t * coming very slowly from over the »’ District and that a number of excel- . lent places are still open- Epr -tn-' stance, only seven applications have been received from Allemfble Countv and two from Barnwell County, al- r though..rvumer-jUs inquiries have been J received fr tip-people residing in both s counties. 1- Mr. Davies says that the work is e not hard and that enumerators will o be well paid for their time, and he urges that competent,men.and women f make immediate application to him d tor appointment, as the test, upon which applications are to be made’ e will probably-be held about the fir t :• week in November. A postal. card 5, addressed. to v '"hi«i at Barnwell will t bring complete information,together NNwch*application blank. If any n readers of this paper are thinking of ——applying for* the poskiofi—11.ey—bhould 11 write to him at once., - ^ BARBELL HIGH SCHOOL family that has furnished many splen reenter private business. Gen. V. W. Moore, at once wired to Maj. R. Boyd Cole, formerly of Barnwell, but now attached” to and in temporary- command of one of the regular army- regiments . stationed at Ft. Dodge, Iowa, offering^ him the vacant po sition. It is not known whether Maj. Cole* will accept or not. He is so favorably known to the readers of this paper not to need any introduc- DOTS did mert and women to the varied demands of religious and business life of the south. He was born near Allendale and removed to Greenville where he is now one of its most prom- inyrit business men Barnwell Youth Badly Wounded Abria Williams, the 14-year-old son of*-John W. H. Williams, of Barnwell, is now ajt the University Hospital, of Augusta, minus- one eye and three fingers as the result of an accidental discharge, of a shotgun, while out hunting near his home SatilndayT The youngster was carried to Au- gusta early Sunday morning and fol lowing surgical treatment dt the hos- Upthing less, and every person-con- nec.ed therewith, whether they should be meted out the punishment which the outraged law. would im pose upon them or whether they es cape on account of a false public statement,'“"will bear throughout their lives. the mark of Cain upon their BLACKVILLE FLOUR. M1LU A flour mill,-with a 'Self-rising at tachment, is to be—established at Blackville by Claude-Fishburn and every farmer is to be urged to plant enough wheat for hjs own needs nex^ arjnounceu year. It would be better if They would plant enough f?r- themselves and a little to sell, for seed wheat commands a good price and there are plenty of npn-producers who would be glad to get home made flour from home grown wheat. wounds will not be serious, They—wrib b^ conscious that they re despised by the true law-abiding t eople of the community in ;which they l : ve and in every community in which a healthy public sentiment prevails." , They will be condemned by themselves in their own reflec tions apd there is no hdp^o be“hel;l out for them for peace and rest of mind -until - their own miserable lives Young, Williams, while' returning home from a day in the fiejd, stop ped by -a small house'-occupied by negroes. He dropped the butt of the gun on the ground and rested, both hands over* the muzzle. The gun was k hagunerless model. While in this position a small negro boy while, playing with the gun accidently team Understanding Between Races. Atlanta; Ga., Oct. 19.—Resolutions pledging support and prayer for the cooperative coirrmitt-ees formed by ootn races were submitted here to day to 167 churches, white and negro, a $ part of the campaign forqa better football We are going to have a team. .Some of the boys are small but all show a spirit of nerve and will make good. We hope-to have some games during Jth© .first week in No vember. " . x * — Basket ball is very strenous for this kind of weather, but nevertheless tjhe girls shows a marked improve ment. W*e also iro'pe (to pjay the first week in-November. We are glad to see*-Aubry ’Price, one of our former students, in the city. -’He spent about two years in the' Navy and during that tirp^ made uite a number of trij5s across ' the .Atlantic. • He 'will be with his uncle. Mr* Fred • Mc’.aif until the fi^st of January, _ . -Xave-L»ngley. jr- On Friday afternoon at the home pulled the, trigger. of The bride's-parents la Olar^ may come to*an end, and thereafter —* * • : — ——— — * —-— understanding^between the racel pretty home wedding waa solemnized their tortures may be greater than tb^T are .in this life where they live, cofncious^df. the fact that they have sacrificed their own self-respect and lost the confidence apd-esteem of all those whose thought for them is worth having. «, . . ’ jLuoge Cobb has spoken strongly, and well7^Tns?!>Drominence in the •itate has high standing and his pure patriotism muse command attention to and respect for his utterarcjgGLynch law i? defiance of law, insult to law.* a challenge.to lav . It is the sut- Coltewah;'"where a physician could ■ T_ ‘ . -// — — - - attend him. W f hen they started, Martin slipped away in the darkness, Oliver^s^id —-Chronicle. Continuous rumors of ‘ race riots’” also are denounced in the resolutions, which contain a pledge that there shall be no such riots an j that those responsible for the rumors’shall be» hunted out and silenced. ; Many reports * have come tonight ofjpproval by congregations and none disapproval. The resolutions call for leaders of both races to together jJVthe spirit, of .Jesus •'to -pr^ate afr. atmosphere ■* _0;>n’Hence and wisdom, out /-Tw-'-ich come rdarri knd e'nter- W. M. Jones, of BamwelL JUDGE C. C, SIMMS The contracting partie^gfite Miss Bfc-sMe-vjMay . Cave of^XJlar aim^Mr. Cannon P. Langlej^ of BarnwelL After tUp'-cartmony tne happy cpuple left for a wedding trip, after which they, will make their home in Barn- Tne State q£—Sunday announced tha: Gov. R. A. Cooper hacf appoint ed Judge C. C. Simms, of Barnwell, a special-judge for this weeks criniinal court in the place of Judge John S. Wilson who was incapacitated on ac* codnt of ibirress. Gov. Cooper him- .seif is on^ja;-the-iaremnst iawj^rs in tha ^tate, having LeeiUsolicitor in his circuit fo*^_long time. He kr.o®u. the .legal Utility ar.J special fitness of i Judge* Simms, and has honored tettseifrand Log legal prefer-i-r. by , i guHtment of Judge Sanaa. Should Register Bir Every cjiild born, and qvery ^Ter son dying should b^- rcporced r to the registrar in the ••vicidij#’ ^ in. whitr a^d-ciuid was'boyo/ dr death occur M<5rritt-Reed D—L. Merritt Announce the engage- iu«u.t and approaching mamage of their nie Merritt," 'Ut John Fart ley; Reed, of Augusta, Ga., COMPANY The Bam well Ire i . Ben. well was commit proposed capita! stock of ttc tr.v ory.- that - mign c i? t rs directed at tearing down iroL_substHuting caao^ for »ni by law/^TCrdess the jaw master in the house of the Be found at^iH strpet, Barnwell