The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, September 03, 1907, Page SEVEN, Image 7
THIRTEEN CENTS FOR COTTON.
Meeting at Columbia Recommends
Minimum Price.-Use of Cotton
' Bagging Instead of Jute
Urged.
News and Courier.
-Culurubia, August 30.-The county
presidints of the Southern Cotton As
so-iation mt in C.:vwbia today at
Ahe ciL (f i(sident F. D. Smith, to
i'-e'mmend to the em-eutive commit
lee the minimum price -it which cot
ton should be hel-I this fall. The con
e iner meh d.enssion, adopt
ed a re:l.tion fixing thirteen cents
az the minimum to be recommended.
There was a large attendance, about
twenty-five being present from dif
feret rort;ns f Lt- sLate in addi
tion to the sLate officers of the Asso
ciation. Proe:-ident Smith and Seere
tary Veston .d Treasure; Hyatt, of
T! -v. :,1 . 'ation. T.- count-V
representati.Zs ;ve repov :
te ,h u4 4 tae trop in .:: y n
sections of the state and 'nire *is
a 3 -.:t'.y neussi . Mr. inith, w L.
liss just returned from a trip to the
southwest, made an ext-nded report
*n the con.iti-in of the -:'op in '- L
section, -.. ing t'at the crop was
ba-k ward and poor in Tua. and othev
point.. He was inclin i. to recom
mend a price higher tia. thirteen
eer.* a*- e Mi;imum
The conferr-nce a').q a ;-ted a re
S:.ution e,o .neading, b st the exe
cutive -mm 1re urge lt uc of cot
'tcn bagging ir,stead of ,i ni4 the
use of got toj, goods wh-r.ver possible
in handli the -ootton erg
The exe-utive comm:-'et m!eets on
the 5th of .%rtember i- Jackson,
Miss., to fix the minimum price fir
which the ;1ee .bers of tue Association
shall hold their cotton this year. The
maeuiberz f:e'.- this stale ar- Messrs.
W. W. Ray. %+' Richlan conr!y. and
E. L. Archer, of Spartanburg. Mr. E.
D. Smith is a member ex officio.
It is said that the representatives
from Texa- at the meefing next week
will ask for a minimum of fifteen
cen,s. on account of the crop condi
tion3 there. It is admitted that the
South (arolina crop is perhaps the
best in the south. J. H.
Ganderbone's Sept. Forecast.
(Copyrighted 1907 by C. H. Rieth.)
The old school bell is soon to ring,j
the poets all raise and sing, the frost
will soon displace the dew, and the
wind jamb through the peek-a-boo.
Untutored youth, with tears of briae,
returneth sadly to the mine, and the
new schoolma'am prepares to whack
the bad boys where their pants are
slack.
~Thee football player lets his hair
-Fall i1ito autumn unrepair,
>And the more athletic college cops
The students with the largest mops.
The moon will be full on the 21st,
aiJ the password for the month will
be "Soak Standard Oil.'' Everybody
will run a little harder for President.
Mr. Bryan's smoke will continue an
interesting spectacle. Mr. Roosevelt
will drop a wasp into the hip pock
et of Mr. Taft, and that laggard will
move up a couple of places in the
race. Mr. Fairbanks will continue to
pass the gra -dstand every seven see
onds sucking buttermilk with a nip
ple, out of his pneumatic shirt front.
The war with Japan will sleep fret
fully, and Uncle Sam will sit by the
cradle crooning soft lullabyes and1
giving paregoric with a funnel.
The comning county fair is billed,
The big prize hog is corned and swill
ed
The pumpkin that will life the prize
Is watched with proud and hopeful
eyes,
And the family mare to win the pot
IIs training for the county trot.
The autumnal equinox will come in 1
on time on the 24th, and Mr. Harri
man will absorb all water that falls to
use in floating stocks for develop
ment of our great natural resources.
The Standard Oil Company will
plade a twenty-year 4 per cent mnort
gage upon the earth and will pay the
$29,400,000 fine imposed by Judge
Landis. Senator Beveridge will end
his honeymoon abroad and return to
the affairs of the Republie, which
will restore that feeling of security.
The summer girl-aomantie thi.ag!
-will homeward come upon the wing,
and show her neighbors for a week
where some man bit her on the cheek.2
The freekles on her arms (and legs?)
resemble those on turkey eggs, and
the men were only joshing her.
The lucky wives of millionaries
Will put up jam and pickle pears,
But the most of us, denied these'
boons,
'Will pass the winter full of pru.ies.
Some red-hot sealing-wax, alack ,
will fly down Nancy's tender back,
exploring where the flesh is bare, and
Sthree shrill screams will pierce the
ar The men, a-washingt at the pump,{
will hat,'on thither 4n the im!;p. but
Naiev mid the t'ruit o'erturned, will
not divulge where she is burned.
President Roosevelt, fresh from Oy
ster Bay, will issue on the 20th a
proclamation officially opening the
Oyster season. Turnips and football
players will run to tops. White duck
trousers will begin to migrate. A com
et will make one-night stands in the
northeast sky. The weather and poli
ticians will become very agreeable.
Nature, which has been in the nude
for the outdoor summer painting sea
son, will put on a thin gossamer, and
the Corn Huskers Union will promul
gate a new wage scale by which they
will get the corn and the farmer the
husks.
The boys on Saturday are loose
To stain their hands with walnut
uice,
The eider swollen applies drip,
The pig squeals for a morning nip,
And the billy goat, by Autumn cheer
ed
Lets cool winds frolic with his beard.
Summer excursion tourists will
come home in a chair car with their
skull grass full of carbon mites, the
aisle full of braided legs, and the
saw tooth chair back embossing the
name of the railroad on their spines.
The Big Dipper will appear in the
heavens upside down, which will en
courage Prohibition to resume his
war paint -and extend the booza
drouth. John Barleyeorn will return
to his guns with a Booker Washing
ton tint under both eyes and his
pants torn, and the Kentucky Colonel
will toss in his mint bed while Carrie
gation rides a nightmare- through the
windows of his boudoir.
The cotton fields with boll and stem
Are beckoning to dusky men,
And soon from cotton seed we'll boil
The pure, imported olive oil.
The Greeks began their year in
September. Our Labor Day was
their New Year's Day. They did this
because their families spent th e sum
mer at the seashore at considerable
expense, while the men played pok
er at home at even mode expense.
rhis left the Greeks badly in the hole,
ind the only )vay they could get out
vas to have the new year begin Sep
tember 1st and swear off drinking
and smoking at that time. This enab
ed them to save in September what
~ve save in January, and was a much
)etter plan than ours.
CIheer up, cheer up, -the summer's
'er, the piping quail is up at 4,
septembr> sweet is on the job, and the
~reen corn,ripens on the cob.
October crisp will soon be here
With frosty morn and hunter's
moon
And pumpkin pie, not yet but soon.
One Thing Scotch Can't Hoard.
Miss Elizabeth Marbury of the
oard of governors of New York's
Woman 's club, the Colony, was dis
ussing the question of the club 's.
iqgrr license.
"It- is rather a matter of indiffer
ee to us'', she said, "whether we
et a license or not. Women, you
aow, are not given to drinking. They
re too careful of their appearance.
'hey desire to remain slim and
'resh, and wine,. as you know, tends
o make us coarse and sta'e and fat.
"So, if we had a license, I think
we should sell little. It would not
e with us as with a farmer I once
net in Scotland.
"Traveling in the Scottish High
ands one summer, I stopped at a
armhouse for a cup of milk, and'the
dew from the door was so lively that
said to the farmer:
"Ah, what a superb place to live
" 'Ah, what a superb place to live
ioal Scots, 'it's a' rich; but hoo
vad ye like, ma'am to liae to walk
~ufteen mile ilha time you wanted a
t glass o' whuskey ?'
"'Ou, aye,' he answered, incon
"enget a demijohn of whisky and
eep it in the house?'
"He shook his head sadly.
"'Wihuskey.' he said, 'woi 't
~eep.' ''-Exchange.
E. SH EE HAN
Augusta, Ga.
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-ITIULCTlGE
iraqd July Clearance Sale!
We have too many summer goods, and rath
r than carry them over we are going to make
ie price on them RED HOT. This sale com
iences Friday 12th, and includes all colored
ummer Dress Goods, Colored Parasols, La
ies' Slippers, Men's Straw Hats, Ladies' Hats
nd Flowers, Summer Clothing, Men's Low
luarter Shoes. We sell Domestic Sewing Ma
hines $25.00, New Defender Drop Head
ewing Machine $17.93, Machine warranted
0 years.
Just received our 32nd car, making 3,555
bVs. choice Tennessee Flour, and while it lasts
oes for best patent $5.25, half pat. $4.80.
very barrel guaranteed to give satisfaction.
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PROSPERITY, S. C.
COMING SOON:*
The finest show of its kind that ever came to Newberry will
be seen here for the first time on the 31st. It is a show of
Fine Razors, Knives and all Kids of Ceflery,
and will eclipse any similar attraction ever before seen in this
section. It will contain so many novel and desirable articles
that we could not possibly give you even a hint of the array
} in this space All Carbo-Magnetic Razors wil be sharpened i
free of charge by an expert from New York.
Remember the date, August 31st, at
MAYES' DRUG STORE.
VERY LOW RATES
..TO..
4ORFOLK .AND RETURN.
Account Jamestown Ter-Gentennial Exposition
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Season, Sixty Day and Fifteen Day Tickets on sale
daily, commencing April 19th, to and including, No
vember 30th, 1907.
Very low rates will also be made for MILITARY and
BRASS BANDS in uniform attending the Exposition.
STOP OVERS will,be allowed on Season, Sixty Day
and Fifteen Day Tickets, same as on Summer Tour
1st TIckets.
For full .and complete infoimation call on Ticket
Agents Southern Railway, or write
Divislon,Pass.jAgent.
Charleston, S. C
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