Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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E. H. AULL. EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C.. as second class matter. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1905 The Price Is Eleven Cents. "Yes, sir, I have some cotton," says the farmer as he throws h,is feet upon the railing of the front porch and takes a long puff from his corn pipe. "The price .is eleven cents per pound." There is unmeasured force in that little word "per." If he says "eleven cents a pound," the buyer will scare him into taking seven, but when he says "ii cts. per lb." and lets his jaws snr.p down like shutting down the lid of an ice box, it seems like business and it makes the fellow standing in the yard resting one foot on the lower front step a little ner vous. He tries to seem indifferent, though, as he observes "I'm giving seven cents for good middling today." "Then you don't want mine, I reck on," says the farmer. Here he press -es two fingers firmly against his lips and spits between them at a fly on the steps about ten fiet away. The buyer moves off; the farmer puffs again, only asking politely as if he 1new there was no answer, "any thing else?" The buyer comes back the next day or the next week or the next year and finds the farmer sit -ting still with -h-is feet on the railing, puffing his pipe. His cotton is ii cents per lb. and the buyer pays it... The world wants cotton. The world has to have it. And it has .to have more and more every year. According to a noted authority speaking at a meeting of the British Cotton Growers' asociation: last June 400.ooo bales more are necessary every year to meet the requirements of the world's increasing population. The south has a practical monopoly in the cotton growing business. Try ever so hard, no one has been able fb produce it elsewhere successfully. We must make cotton. We cannot curtail the production of it either, cannot afford to do it. Narrow it down to its last analysis and it is as foolhardy to reduce acreage as it is to burn cotton or let the boll wee vil destrov the growing crop. .What we want to do is to grow all the cot ton we possibly can, open the mar kets to the world, encourage industry in the remote corners of the e::nh so that all those who want to wear clothes' will have the money to buy them as well as~the goods ready a:r hand, and an overproduction of cot ton will be as absurd to talk of as as an overproduction of good sense. This is not new doctrine. It is not hard to understand either--except to the man who has his cotton crop un der liern before it is made; and he * doesn't want to understand it, for it will make him blue. It makes some of them want to kick themselves, too. But both, these classes are pass ing away, and the old farmer we re fer to above is fast coming in to possess, first himself, then his own cotton, then the earth. This Ash e'.ille cotton convention seems to have hold of the fundament al truth.s, and if they show throughout the practical wisdom that seems now to possess them, with the co-operation of the farmers-they already have the co-op eration of the press-cotton will yet be king in the south.-Char lotte Observer. T1he above illustrates the situation as well as anything we have seen on the subject: The cotton association which met at Asheville, N. C., last week fixed the minimum price of cot ton at 11 cents and the effort will be to keep the farmers from selling the present crop for less than that price. If all the farmers were in the posi tion of the gentleman described by the' Observer it would be easy but unfortunately too many of them are not in position to hold their cotton. They ought to be and could in this section if they only would and the time is soon coming whe'n they will be. Cotton is surely to be king and in the southern states he will have his kingdom. The crop this year is not going to be anything like the last crop and we can see ,no reason for cotton to go down but then it is a fact that the ..u1.., doe not always control the price Yet we are told that the manu facturers can make good money out of the manufactured article when the raw material costs as much as eleven cents. I I :hat be true why should the price g d down. 11; the association had fixed the minimum a- ten cents we believe the farmers would have stood for that price and a great many are going to sell for ten cents. All that is necessary is for the southern cotton growers to stand to gether and they can be masters of the situation. SenaLo. Tillman ought to know that Governor Heyward could not re move a state officer on an exparte hearing and without some specific ev dence on which to act. We have no doubt- Governor Heyward will do his duty in case there is cause shown for him to act. We cannot see anything criminal in Mr. L. J. Williams exercising his choice and using his influence in be half of a candidate. If Governor Heyward should desire to use his in fluence for some of the various candi dates in the next state campaign that would be his right and we can see nothing criminal in it. Did Mr. Mixson furnish to the com mittee copies of the letters he wrote the houses he represented? Maybe th-ey might be as interesting as the letters he received. Ed.DeCamp says he is not much of a.farmer and declines the appointment tendered him by Governor Heyward Sth~e frmei-s 'ongress. We are sur prised at our friend. We 'thought every country newspaper inan was a pretty good farmer. This community needs for its busi ness men to get together and have a good a ord for~ Newberry. Nothing can be gained for the town or for the individuals who compose it by contin- I ually pulling against one another and talki.ng about one another. The tc -n needs YOUR help rig'ht now. When the Observer started out to print t,he controversy between our mayor and The Herald and News the editor of that paper told us he would prlnt what The Herald and News had to say in reply. We notice that while he prints w'hat the mayor says he omits whrat The Herald and News said in reply. Probably it was an oversight, for surely he would not do us an injustice of this kind in tentionally. News From Excelsior. Excelsior, September iir.-Miss Bessie Miller is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs J. S. Wheeler. We are dry and needing rain. Our people are busy picking cotton and the crop will be shor.t in this section. Mr. E. M. Cook has made quite an improvement on his dwelling near Prosperity. Just a we expected the dispensaries were vs ..d out of the county by a big majority. It ought to be a glad day for Newberry county. Mr. Bennett Diminick and two of his little daughters near Greenwood have been down on a visit to relatives in this section. The Salvation army held a street service in Prosperity on Saturday. They seem to be much interested in their work and they give sin and vice a heavy blow. Master Aumerle Lorick is attend ing the Prosperity graded school. The picnic at Mt. Pilgrim last Fri day was largely attended and the din nr was just such as ladies of that section know how to prepare. Two good addresses were made by Rev. . B. Shearouse and Mr. A. H. Kohn. The dry was pleasantly spent. Last Sabbath we attended the com munion service at the Prosperity A. R. P. church and heard a good ser non from the Rev. L. I. Echols of Co:ington. Georgia. Mr. Echols is a fin& speaker and knows how to con demn sin and vice. By invitation we had the pleasure on Sunday afternoon of being pres ent at the marriage of Miss Cleo Sease daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Sease to Mr. Frank E. Shealy. The ceremony was beautifully performed by the Rev. J. Al Sligh at the ,home of the bride's parents in the presence of a larve number of relatives and nany congratulations and best wishes rom their friends while M.iss Anna Dackman Bedenbaugh rendered sweet nusic at the organ. May the happy uple enjoy a long and prosperous ourney t,irough life. Sigma. Married. By tb-.c Rev. J. E. Beard at the cir uit parsonage Mr. Willie Edgar Ba er and 'Miss Jane Wanita Reid, of iear Trinity c,h.urch this county, on TIhursday the 7th instant. TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons or live stock trespass ng on our lands in No. 4. Township xill be persecuted to the fullest ex :ent of the law. Chas. Tidmarsh, Jno. P. Fant, Z. H. Suber, J. S. McCarley. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA -COUNTY OF NEWBERRY IN COMMON PLEAS. The Newberry Savings Bank, Plain tiff, against Thos. J. Boozer, et al., defendants. By virtue of an order of the Court herein, dated July 26th, i9o5, I will sell at public outcry, at Newberry Court House, S. C., on the first Mon day in October, i9o5, all the right, title. interest and estate of the de fendant, Thos. J. Boozer, in a tract f land situate in the county of New berry, State aforesaid, containing one hundred and fifty acres, more or less, and bounded- by -lands of Henry D. Boozer, Levi Longshore, estaxe of A. J. Longshore and others. Terms of Sale: Cash,- purchaser to pay for all papers. H. H. .Rikard, Master's O-Cfie, . '%ister. Newberry,,S. C., Sept. 8,'i05. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA - NEWBERRY COUNTY - IN COMMON "PLEAS. The Newberry Savings Bank, Plain tiff, against John G. Wolling, Jr., and J. E. Matthews, as Trustee in Bankruptcy of J. C. Wplling & Son, defendants. By virtue of an order of the Court herein, I will sell before the- Court House at Newberry, S. C., on the first Monday in October, 1905, within the legal hours of sale, at public outcry, all that tract or plantation of land situate and lying and being partly in Newberry County, in said State, and partly in Union County, in said State, containing four .hundred and seventy-six and seventy-two one hundredths acres, more or less, ounded by lands of D. A. Thomas, estate of Mrs. Susannah Oxner, de ceased, J. M. Henderson, by the 'Orange Hall' plantation, and by the line between Newberry and. Union counties, th1e same being composed of two tracts of land which the late Sarah E. T. Chick died seized and possessed; one of wahich tract:s con tains four hundred and four and sev enty-one one-hundredths acres, and lies wholly within the County of Union, in said Smate, and the other tract contains seventy-two acres, more or less, and lies partly within the county of Newberry and partly within the county of Union, all of which was conveyed to me by Jas. M. Henderson, as the executor of the last will and testament of Sarah E. T. Chick, deceased, and James M. Henderson and Eliza Henderson Whitney, by deed bearing date the th day of January, 1903. Also all that other tract or planta tion of land situate and being in Township No. i, in the County of Fairfield. in t,he State of South Caro lna, containing One Hundred and Fifteen Acres, more or less, known as the "Be:ty Coleman" place, bound ed on the north by lands of H. C. Coleman and T. E. Dye, on the east by lands of T. M. Beam, on the south y lands of J. G. Wolling and on the1 tvest by lands of J. G. Wolling and . E. Dye. Terms of sale: One-third of the purchase money to be in cash and :he remainder on a credit of twelve months, wit,h interest from day of ;ale, to be secured by a bond of the urchaser and a mortgage of the remises sold the purchaser to pay *or all papers and recording .of same. H. H. Rikard, Master's Office, Master. SALE -Shoes large, stylish, ,stock of Sum including Ox White Shoes at cost. This pportunity to stylish and re e least money. for $2.50 2.25 2.00 .50 T2O &C. di of Shoes iber lowerCo LIABLE GOODS ER, Z. F. WRIGHT, 'resident. Cashier ecial Bank . Sur~plus $30,000.00 usiness. on Savings Deposits. r Account. OF THAT ssee Flour ad to IS WEEK. - -- $5.15 n, - 4.35 - - - 42.5 on Flour. We want .re leading in spring >g full line, knobby, a Seed Oats, at only it lasts. - EY BROS. COST -OF4 Summet We have.; a smart and dainty mer Footwear, fords, Tans and that we are sellinj means a rare c persons desiring liable shoes for th $3.50 Shoes 3.00 2.50" 2.00 , 1.50" &c., When in nee Remen c.& (I.S. Y - THE PLACE FOR RI JO. M. KCINARD, 0. B. MA'i President. .Vice-I The Commei Newberry Capital $50,000.00 - - - - Does a General Banking B Pays 4 per cent. We Solicit You NINTH CAR Choice Tefl Expect ARRIVE TH While it lasts it goes for: Best Patent, Cotton, Best Half Patent, Cotto Best Straight - - We are having a big run to remind the public we a and summer goods, havil nice new effects. I ,200 bushels of Choice 55 cents per bushel while Choice fresh Grits at $1 MOSEL