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VOL. Ii a!! Sa. VOL. XLII. NO. 113 NEWBERRY. S. C.. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1905. TWICE A WEEK. $1 50 YEAR IARYIE JORDAN SAYS 11INTAIN MINIIUI SOUTHERN COTTON ASSO- ' CIATION. Stand By Your Guns Is Advice to the S Farmers-Or Have A Gtardian f Appointed. President Harvie Jordan says: I The executive committee of the f Southern Cotton association held its r meeting at Asheville, N. C., last week, and the question of fixing a minimum i price of this crop was the matter of I greatest interest of the people and c country at large. The eyes of the whole cotton world were centered on Asheville during the 6th and 7th days p of September. w'hile the executive c committee was in session. C The price finally agreed upon after a long and tedious deliberation was Ii f cents, basis middling, at all interior c points in the south. The condition c of The crop up to August 25th was t, found to be 73.03 per cent, for the ' same period a year ago. The esti- c mated yield of the crop as reported c by over 15,000 correspondents from all a the cotton growing counties indicated p a yield this season of 9,588,133 bales, c as compared with a crop of 13,6oo,ooo n bales last year. Letters from farmers v all over the belt advised a minimum IV price all the way from io cents to c 12 1-2 cents, some figuring as high as t 15 cents. But the final result was ii t cents, and farmers all over the south c will be expected to stand firmly to- t, gether this fall and winter to main-,-n tain that price. By determined ef- i! fort prices can be forced up above r t cents later on and farmers should de- k termine now to move their crops I I slowly and not rush t'he market. The c Now Tremendous lo plans, the results before the tradeI needs of every or attractions in var store, from top t chandise. The 1 o'clock sharp. B Special Values in E It is impossible here to picture the we will, however, call your attention to that should be sufficient to induce you to:i One lot of all wool Panama cloth all colo: One lot of all wool Suitings some 54 inches 54 inch Broad Cloth, all shades -and blaci 54 inch Twilled Broad Cloth looks like $1 We don't believe our Black good's stock We carry the Stock and we do the Dress 5 cases Men's Hats as a leader this wee] 50 doz. Men's and Boys' caps, worth 50< Yours For M I M I )nly way we can secure and main ain our price is to refuse to sell for ess and make the buyers come to >ur figures. If cotton is thrown on he market and sold anyway, it will >e difficult to force prices up until nuch later in the season. Let those vho are able and can hold back do o and thereby help Those who are orced to sell to meet their maturing lebts and obligations with tihe sup ly merchants and guano dealers. sankers will be glad to advance rom 8 to 9 cents a pound on cotton a storage and thus assist in financing he situation. We are up against a ard fight. but it will be easier to get, I cents for a small crop than to I ents for a 13,ooo,ooo bale crop. Stand By Your Guns. We are now well entrenched, with lenty of ammunition in the shape of orn and meat, our banks have plenty f money, the enemy is in retreal, nd if we don't whip this fight and orce the price of cotton to above ri ents, then the farmers of the south ught to have a guardian appointed : look after their business interests. 'he mills of the world have taken a rop of 13,ooo,ooo bales of American otton during the last twelve months, t an average price of 9 cents per ound. There will be no check in onsumption during the next twelve ionths. The price of cotton goods is ery high and going scill higher. The rhole civilized world is in a prosper us condition and it is unreasonable o say that the farmers should not his season receive an average of iT ents per pound for a crop of cot on now estimated to be under ten iillion bales. All you rhave got to do ; to stand pat for your price, refuse a sell under iI cents and the mar et will soon advance to that figure. f much cotton is offered under it ents, as a matter of course, the mar Read t of new goods d of which will ov a stock of merc -e, a stock that iety, quality, sty] D bottom, up sta >ig bargain whe e on hand and g ress Goods. C I Cand( stock to you as it really is, and Boy the towa a few of the many numbers buying are not nvestigate the entire stock, every si ~s worth 75c. special, 49c. wide worth 75c. special, 49c. Just s you a tr c special, 75c. ,50 cloth special, the yd. 98c . Every has an equal in this section. Hats is: loods business,.ult 98c. Mrs I Milliner . each, -for only a quarter. ment. ore Business M N ket can be depressed and held down. Other Organizations Will Help. The cotton agent of the Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative union of Texas was present with us at Ashe ville and took part in the secret sessions of the executive committee. He came as the representative of t'he union and assisted in fixing the price at 11 cents, stating that such a price would be acceptable to the 300,000 members of the union We can now depend upon the effective co-oper ation of all the farmers of the union. as the new president of the union. Mr. Calvin, of Paris, Texas, has wrir- 1 ten me encouraging co-operation to more completely win out in the fight ahead. We also have pledged the active co-operation of the member ship of the American Society of Equity and the Farmers' Alliance of North Carolina in enforcing the de mand for the minimum price of TT cenrs. This makes the position of the producers almost impregnable, and with all of these powerful farm ers' organizations working in har mony for mutual protection, I feel safe in saying that the fight can and will be easily whipped. There will be no misunderstanding among these t organizations this season on this mat- I ter. We will all work in harmony to gether, and a knowledge of that fact ought to be most encouraging. If the Farmers' union wanted one price and the S. C. A. another, there would be difficulty ahead, but both organi-1 zations are now together and - will It work together to win out on the price t agreed upon. } Sell but little cotton in September < and October. Give the mills a chance I to ex:haust present supplies, which c can be done in six weeks, and then r we can easily dictate terms and win r ancther big victory. Sell no middling I cotton for less than i1 cents. yFoi laily received. F ershadow all pas iandise so broad vould be first in e and low prices irs and down sta el starts in mo et first selection. hildren's Clothing Half Price. idly believe I can show you more Child -s' Suits than all the stores from one er i to the other. Mothers can save mDone Boys' Suits from this big stock. Such v found elsewhere-98c., $1.49, $1.98, $3 tit worth double the price. Ai Solid Car Load of Trunks. tep up stairs and see the pile. We can unk from 98c. to $10.00 each. Ready-to-Wear Millinery. day, almost, something else in ready-to. received. We will give you' more styl< .n Millinery than you ever got before for samsey, one of Armstrong, Cator & Co. 's 3 has arrived and taken sharge of this de Than Any. F A U CAUSE OF TRAGEDY TOLD AT INQUEST H. G. CROUCH RELATES MR. BLEASE'S SIDE OF CASE. Offered To Let Coleman Go-Blease Told Deceased Either to Leave the Country or Stay and Be Killed. From the State of Sunday is taken the following account of the inquisi tion in the Blease-Coleman homicide. whic'h occured at Saluda on Friday evening September 8. There were probably 300 people present during the hearing. Mr. E. L. Richardson -f the firm of McGhee & Richardson >f Greenwood appeared as counsel or the state. Among the defendanc's ittorneys present were: Messrs . J. Wm. Thurmond and N. G. Evans. of' Edgefield and Messrs. E. W. Able, B. W. -Crouch, C. J. Ramage, B. B. Evans and Daniel & Daniel of the ocal bar. Senataor Cole L. Blease ,vas also present. Mr. John K. Aull :ook full notes of the testimony and :his correspondent acknowledges ob [igations 'to him for the practically :omplete report here given. Some of the testimony was of a .ensational character but there were io comments made by those in the Ludience, everything being received in ;olemn silence. Mr. H. G. Crouch. alked with Mr. Blease on the road o Saluda in the evening prior to the iomicide, is a brother-in-law of the leceased and of the defendant, he.' iaving married a Miss Herbert. The lispensary closed today. It will be I -ecalled that Mr. Coleman was chair nan of the county board of control. 1 Ar. Wm. M. Coleman. a broth.er, and dr. Zeb Coleman, a cousin, were the Busi or months we hZ t efforts. My fire in its scope that quality and first: abound on ever3 irs, is packed wi1 tion Wednesday SMimnaugh mea idfWhere Else in d ofYou Get Bare alues Heaviest A. C. A. Feather B .- Good Brown Drilling, wort: special 6 1-2c. yd. All-wool Red Flannel, worth sell Yard-wide Soft Bleaching, w< Heavy yard-wide Sheeting, 'a .Yard-wide Sea Island, worth Good quality Outing Dress F1: wear Good Mattress Ticking, wortl e and A big pile of Dark Pereales, your Tabl4 Oil Cloth, 54 in. wide, Best Standard Calicoes, wort) head _Heavy Cotton Blankets, gray Search far and near and you ur Stores in GOH only relatives of the deceased present at the hearing today so far as I could learn Except in one or two instances the attorneys on neither side prompted any questions. Mr. Blease did not appear at the inquest. The testimony was as follows: Dr. J. J. Kirksey testified as 'ol lows: I was called up on the street at the corner of Smith Brothers' store on Friday -evening about sun down last Friday, the 8th, and found Mr. Coleman lying on the sidewalk. I think Mr. Crouch had hi-m in his arms. I got some of the men to take iim to the Wheeler hortel. I went to iim to examine 'his wound. He had >ne wound in the right side under the rm. near the second or last true rib; >ne in the corner of the shoulder that xent on through into the body, and )ne in the righ.t hip that came out bout two inches below the navel. I :hink two of them or probably all :hree of them, would have killed him. IMe wound that hit in the ihip came )ut in the bowels and would have :aused death. I l-cew. in fact after I iad examined him, I had no idea he Arould live through. the night." C. C. Mathis. C. C. Mathis testified as follows: 'Just about sundown I was standing ust before my store, thereabout 6o )r 70 yards from Smith's corner, and ieard the fire of a pistol. I looked ip and Mr. Coleman ran down and ust as he got in sight about six feeT ie fell back against Smith's corner Lnd as he fell !he raised a pistol but I Ion't know whether he fired or not Lnd threw the pistol on the side valk and then Mr. Blease ran right Lround and fired as he was laying on iis left side Ehib way." Q. Do you remember about how nany times Mr. Blease fired? A. He fired twice after h fell. Q. That is all you know of .your iness! tve been laying %t effort is to lay it will meet the in variety, The r hand. Our big :hnew fall mer morning at 9 nis what he says. the Carolinas Can ains Like These?. ed Ticking worth 20c., special 12-1-2c. 2x and sells everywhere for 81 3e., 20c., special 15c. >rth 7c., special 5c. orth 7 1-2c., sp,ecial 6 1-4c. yd. 6 1-2c., special 5c., yd. nels, worth 7 1-2c. special 5c. yd. 1 and sells at 7c., special 5e. yd. worth 10c., special, only 6 1-4c. yd. :he 25c. kind, special 15c. yd. i 6 1-2c., special 4c. yd. and white, worth $1.50, special 98c. pr. will never find prices so low. New berry. ' S