Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Farmers' Union Bureau of Information -Conducted by tie South Carolina Farmers' Educa tional and Co-Operation Union. SCommunications intended for this department should be addressed to J. C Stribling, Pendleton, S. 0. Stir'Up-Get Busy. Your local Unions are just as strong s -good as its members make it, you together, and your County n are just as strong and usefdl he locals make it. e have heard enought about that tr 1119to Place the blame on the other bre - 11r0n about the inactivity, lazy, cowl' lY indifference of your drowsy local Inions Get t'$ether, pay up your dues and if you eAl't get up a good speaker to touch yo up a little on the live wire order, try I oyster supper or a ''yal ler dog'I'ig It, or anything that will bring the boy o gether. When you all got togethci please never breathe a word about your faults, all of you try your best to d'e if you can't find something good even the smallest spark-in ypur neighbor and each of you mention these to each other and the last one of you will go home no doubt feeling very glad that you are an important part of your Union and that you are doing your duty to yourself, your neighbors atid your God. Get busy boys, push forward, don't drag along behind like the heavy, muddy tail of a rundown fox. The South Carolina Branch of The Farmers' Cotton Union Has Been Organized-W. 0. Moore, of Greenville, President; J. B. Watson, of Ander son, Secretary Treasurer. Their motto is-"From Farm to Mill. ''One Shipment, net Cost.' The die for a square deal in the cotton trade for one million producers of cotton has been east. The "Far mers' Cotton Union''-the child of the cotton fields of the South lias been born' 'and launchicl out in the ''cold and indifferent world,'' wrap ped in its cotton swadling and is now sitting in .the cradle of equity with outstretched hands, appealing to all its large family-the cotton producers of the South-for succor, that it may grow up strong, wise and great so that hd may some day merit the position on the throne of King Cotton. ,This Farmer's Cotton Union has been formed by cotton growers for the benefit of all- cotton producers that may patronize it and as its man agemont will n6 donbt be placed un der the protection and control of The Farmers' Union-it will be entirely with the cotton growers whether or not th.e institution will dwindle away and (lie, or grow and priosper1, which will also bring prosperity to the whole South. Co-operation in Britain. Its membership numbers two and a quarter million and has a combined capital of over one hundred and eigh ty million dollars. Their net profits for last year were near fifty million. Thme people who want to start a co operative business subscribe the cap ital in shares of $5.00 to $20.00. No one person is allowed to own more than $1,000 in shares. No share holder has more than one vote in the manage ment of the business, whether he owns $5.00 or $1,000 worth of stock. This rule is to save it from the tyranny of the capitalist. Any one may l1ecome a member on paying a small entrance fee. Share holders may pay up their shares at the rate of three pence a week or they may borrowv the full sum required at moderate interest'. The net profits of the business are not allowed to exceed five per cent. The profits are divided among all members in proportion to their pur chases. The purchasers known that what they give out with one biand they will receive back wvith the other. Among the commendable features of this. Rockdale' plan is, they, do not recommend the production or sale of shoddy, cheap, articles or sell at cut rates, but encourage the production and use of better goods. They con sider the growing use of cheap stuff a curse of the age. Some. of the boys around the Farm, ers' Union Bureau may not hoe and plough cotton now, by make as much of it as some others' do, but we are right up shoulder to shoulder with the boys that do make the stuff all over the land* of -cotton.-. Our ''Farmers gotton Union'' may not be so well up in gton gambling as.cotton exchanges are;-but the Far 6 mer sie mait thearument from to dodge tIle-mud holes, toll gates a, go the straight road to market the cotton. Why it-is that it takes seventy-fil thousand dollars to join the No York Cotton Exchange and only. or dollar to joiu the .Farmers' Cotto Uniont You just dr6p your dollar i the slot at the "Farmers' Cotton Uz ion door then you can get a good ide about it and, incidentally learn wh it cost so much to join in the game c the cotton exchanges. Provoking GaUl. Upon every occasion organized fai mers are met wit lithe argument froi their opponents something like this "Farmers have neither the necessar amount of organized capital or er ough experienced men to ever contr( the cotton market.'' Now lets look ir to this matter a little and see who it i now managing the chief enterprises i and around thecity of Anderson, S.C for example; perhaps the most pro: porous county and town in the Stat Go with us to the heads of her te large cotton mills and you will fin nine of these mill presidents to b farmers' sons to help retain a ret and every mothers' son of their pres dents and the larger number of thei cashiers and directors are farmerE sons. The publishers and editors c her three newspapers at last acconi were all farmers' sons. A similar investigation in about a the important towns in the cotto States, we are told, would show similar proportion of farmers' son Our ''Farmers' Cotton Union' pre pose to do some of this hiring of on farmers' sons t ohelp retain a rea sonable share of thet. profits on faru produts to the nien who farm. Talk About Capital. What is the capital belhind all on induistries? What sort of collatterm do tihey put upl) tiat is differeit a safer bases for Cuirrecy than the far m.er can offer? What products of a the Combined inldustries of the whol Southern States that can begin t compare with the annual averag sales of the farmers cotton, whic goes beyond five hundred million dol lars every year to say nothing abou his other crops? Go to the government census re ports and you will see that the aggra vated capital and wealth of all on manufacturing industries of thI South does not amount to one-fift] that invested in farm laiids and farn equipments. Is it not gall then in any man t say that the "Farrns' Cotton Un ion'' possibilities which has behim it all of this vast array of busines men and capit al cannot succeed ? Cotton growers, you 'have create< the weal th-producing staple that ha This marvelous sale h which future sales in t where. I have never f< selling capacity to the It's Such Prices as These Town Aj All Dress Goods an, You Can't Afford 86 inch Black Taffetta Silk, every yal anid sells in every retail store for $1.00 86 inch Black Taffetta Silk, every world over for $1.25 for this big remod 36 Inch Black Taffatta Silk, a reg here goes for 98 cents the yard. Sacrifice Colon4 All colored Silks worth 69 cents, for quick selling to go at 49 cents the 86 inch changeable Silk Brown, Na kind, for only 79 cents the yard. Rugs, Art Squares 4 10 Art Squares left, they sold for quick, the plee is only $3.98. h 50 large Rugs, brigh patterns the$ 50 large Rugs, br it patterns the 100 pairs Lace Curtains, worth $1.00 100 pairs Lace Curtains, worth $1.50 100 pairs Lace Curtains, worth $8 00 A Two Horse Wagon L berry combined. Follow the crowds, y MIMN d niade vast fortunes for others; now ir will you come forward and claim your share of the profits? There is but one way to do it-organize, organize, and theit help yourselves. w ie armerst Union Must Put its Own nU Brand On its Goods, n There is not a creditable manufac i- turer in any line but what takes pride a in placing his own labelor brand up y on his product. But the producer of f cotton, the ''greatest of all the pro ducts of land or sea, whether from fields, or forest, mines, or work shops -as the.Yorkville - Enquirer says there is. no commodity that is more continuous or universal -demand thai cotton." And .yet the producers of this great product has never thought L- it profitable to place their own brand 0 upon their packages or even require their packages to be put up in decent S form and branded"in an unmistakable n way that would carry witit each bale the exact weight and grade with pro - per guarantee behind it. What a Pity-But He Still has the d Grip. 0 Bro. Stribling: One of our Union boys while in town some time ago, re marked in the -presence of a banker that he was still holding his cotton, and surely it would have melted a heart of stone to have seen the syni pathy manifested by that banker for that dear boy for not selling when hie could have sold for eleven cents. Sure n ly' he had missed the oportunity of a his life, for never again would lie seb such an exorbitant price paid for the staple. . I ow sad ! Oh ! how sad ! The day has been when (old ''hayseed'' would stand around with his hands pushed up1) to his elbows, grinning like a '''possum'' dressed for the pot, with r his mouth wide olien like a young I bird ready to swallow everything r 'poked at him, but surely the world moves and everything is undergoing I a 0hange. Today.we find the Southern cotton farmer a reading maini, a thinking L man, a business min. He has at last 1 found out that so long as lie ham - brains enough to make he has brains t enough to market. le may ask to b( allowed to atteud to his own business . just as he allows the other fellow to . attend to his business. Is there any r thing wrong about this, and has he e not the right to do so? Don't want to 1 pull anybody down off the shelt 1 place for us all i-f the other fellow won't take up too much room. If lie A does that, then lie must move up a lit tle for we are going to sit down; been I standing up till we ard tired. Move , your biy feet there. cet out of the way, Mr. Enemy, lest wp get a bull 1 dog grip on both ''years,'' and when 3 we let go you will feel like you had Is The T as smashed the selling re he unborn years will have ooled you and I never will utmost. . .. That Have Set TheNo log. d Silks Must Go. " to Stay Away.Cot rd (guarantetWd on the selvage) I the yard, for thims big sale 67c. yard (guaranteed) and sells the Meni' ling sale, 89 cents 300 P) :ular cake taker, for $1.50 yard, suits, va remiodel ad Silk Sale. s 39 cents and $1.00 yard, reduced ard. vy, Gray, and Garnet, the $1.25 kr Lace Curtains. gJ "t $6.50 to'$8.50 to clean them out . will mia like this 1.35 kind, for only 79 cents each. 648 pr $2.00 kind, for only $1.39 each. r to go at only 59 cents pair.' to go at only 98 cents p air. 1000 J to go at onl $1.98 pair. 98c. pa ad. of Handkerchiefs For Chrit 20C ou can't miss the store, i1 lAUH been struck by a Kansas cyclone and ''blowed'' through a ten acre plum orchard. No, we're noti mad, just gaining to get into Prosperity Avenue 'with you other fellows. We respect every legitimate busi ness man in the world; we 're worthy of his r.esepct and-he must respect us. It has taken long and persistent work for the old farmer to get to this place, but he has reached the goal at last and right there he is going to stay. When we say eleven cents minimum we don't mean to say that we are go ing to take that, but we mean to say that we are not going to take less than that. That boy was not one' of your ''seven year itch" kind, Bro. Strib Hin:, and he still holds his cotton, and if that banker was shootng at him for a fool he had just as well been throwing bird shot at the seven stars. W. L. Casey, See. Five Forks No. 1. Reflections of a Bachelor. A girl can fool a man about every thing except what she doesn't know about athletics. If people weren't so intent on pick ing out soft spots to land on they WOUldn't faill down so much. Even if you only know one way, a woman expects you to tell her you love her forty thousand different ways. Cnps That Conylace P~er ' - a nmaseYurVle1di~.. 'Pir Acdi We will convince you that you can "increase your yields per aceo, d you won't havo to koop it a so oret, either. Read what Mossrs. 'ruir & Son, of the Magnolia FutFrm, Durant, blisq., write: "From two acres of strawberries, on which 14000 pounds of VirginIa.-Carolina Fertilizers per acre wore used, we cleared a rroft f 7600per acre more than h otherlacres ostravborries -which had only 500 pounds of this rtilizer." Thus double the quan of thes fertilizers on eh acre bfany crop' and more than doublY nereasoour yidor ero." D sreyoubuyonyVrginia-ao Uina ort,izDrs. VirgInia-Carolina Chemical Co. Richmond Va Atlanta, Ga. Norfolk, Va. Savannah. a. Durham, N. 0. Dont mory. Ala. Charleston, S.C. Nfompis Tonn. Baltimore, Md. Shreveport, La. alk of TI cords of this store anc ~to compete. We hav' . That's why'the peop r For the Second FL more goods piledi on the second floe the side show stores of Newberry carry ir; iing for Men, Boys and Child $7.50 Suits singled out for this big shle irs Men's Odd( Pants, the left overs fro,m lues worth up to $5.oo, your choice for I ing sale $2.49 pair. oy's Knee Suits, $2.50 kind, for this wee Big Shoe Sale. ig Shoe sale wvill simply take the cake. give the people bargains in Shod. Leathi ~e them wish we had remodeling She every day in the year. iirs of Shoes, $[-50 to $2.oo kind, your airs of shoes, $[.25 to $1.39 kind, your r. tmas.-More Han d kerch fine Parasols 98c., $1 ~'s the Iarges't in town b: PSM Atlaqtic Coast L GoodService,Q ules, Througi and Pullman S tween East and For full informati W. Ja 'Passenger] SEABO AIR -LINE - I NORTH SOUTH - Two Daily Pullman Vestibt Between SOUTH and FIRST-CLASS DINING The Best Rates and Route Via Richmond and Wa Norfolk and Steamers. Nashville, Memphis, Louis, Chicago, New I Points South and Southwesi and Jacksonville and all and Cuba. PoSSITIVELy THE SHORTES NORTH AND 2i0-For detailed information, r: man reservations, etc., appty to board Air Line Railway, or Jos. Passenger Agent, Columbia, S. C. F. STEWART, Asst SAVANNAF W. L. BURROUGHS, Trav. Pa ODEL NC 1e Town. I established a high watE a bargains for yousthat yoi Le continue'to respond in c >Or. Black and Color r tha In order to dIraw a crowd to our T stock, place on sale a pile of D)ress Goods, Mixed Suitings, Mixed Serges, Chc about teni other styles 69 to 85c. vahl ren. 50c Drcss Goods all duinped on a I $4.48. Be on hand early. Chiooscrs will -an Remnant Djre: k $1.39 All rerunants of Black and Color< song, all marked in p)lain figures on -lengths, enotagh in lengths to make Keep a close watch on our reminam we are Long Ckc e sales 25 Long Cloaks, Tan and Castor, f The entire lot to go on sale at one pm choice All $6.50 to $7.50 Cloaks to go at< 25 short Jackets, $5.oo kind to go choice 25 short Jackets, $3.50 kind to go every Cloak and Jacket worthidoi iefs at Mimnaugh's than a .49, $1.98. $2.49, and $2 /' long odds. IMNAUC ine Railroad uick Sched Coaches leepers be-. I Florida. on write to CRAIG, Fraffic Manager, Wilmington, N.C. A f" D 3AILWAY. EAST -- WEST. iled Limited Trains NEW YORK. SCAR SERVICE, to all Eastern Cities 3hington, or via -To Atlanta, Louisville, St. )rleans, anc, All --To Savannah points in Florida 1' INE BETWEEN S O U TH. ttes, sched-iles, Pull any agent -f The Sea W. Stewart, Traveling C. ieI. Pass. Agt., I, GA. ss. Agt. Columbia S G r mark of success a cannot obtain else rowds which tax our ed Dress Goods. ress Goods counter early, we will Panatnas, Gray Sultings, Fanicy viots, Brillian tine, Henriettas and es, your choice 48c. the yard. argaiun table, for your choice 35C. yd-~ ~et the p)lts. s Goods Sale. d( Dress Goods to go for alniost a center tables. Skirt lenigths, Waist school children dresses, etc. it tables. >ak Sale. ill length, worth $r2-5o to $r5.oo. Ice. Step quick, $7 98 each, )nly $4 98 each. At only $2.98 each, at only $1.98 each. ble the price. I the stores in New 98. each. rG '