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Farmer s Union Bure..u of Information -Conducted by the South Carolina Farmers' Educa tional and Co-Operation Union. WCommunications intended for this department should be addressed to J. C 0 Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. This Farmers Union Bureau was established for the purpose of meet ing all false or deceptive newspaper articles sent out through the press of the south by Cotton Exchanges and others for the express purpose of ad vancing the interest of buyers and speculators by deceiving cotton grow ers. Our efforts in this department are to protect the interest of farmers in a general way, by sending out a let ter each week to all county and other newspapers that will make arrange ments with the farmers of their see tions for this letter, jvhicl will be mailed out every Saturday and re leased to the press on Tuesday. Farmers Union Cotton Letter. Fifteen cents is the minimum for middling cotton beginning the first of ] September. One-quarter of a cent per pound will be added m>nthly. Island long staple will run from1 42 cents for No. 1, to 27 for No. 4, with an average of 1-2 a cent per pound monthly. Since the Farmers Union and the Cotton Association prices are the I same *for both lint and cotton seed and that many merchants and others I are now taking in and holding cotton I for the minimu mprice of 15 cents, this grand concert of action for the I common good, the business element , of the whole south accepts the de- 1 cision and expresses no doubt that the minimum be reached at an early date, notwithstanding the gall dis- t played by the Savannah cotton buy- r ers in their statement that they would < get the cotton for 13 cents. The tub of gall and wrong, against grit and right is on to a finish and it I behooves every man in the south to E stand up for the farmer, for all real- t ize that what is to the advantage of the farmer rebounds to the welfate i of the whole south. If cotton farmers were not organ-i ized and in the 'field protecting their interest, today eotton would be sell-i ing for 8 cents or less. Show your To se Dress i:( Our fall stock is c this season good: Cottons before ti Dress Goods Our black and colored'dress goods: Big lot to select from. All the brow Broad Cloth, Voiles, Panamas, Moha prices possible. A big saving to yoi ard in quality, prices right. To opei 36 in. Black Taffeta, worth $1.50, 36 ini. Black Taffeta worth $1-35, a 36 in. Black Poi de soie, wo'rth $1 . Colored Silks lower th1at the lowest Millinery!. Our Millinery stock is now ready f lady, old and young, in town and cot pared to save you money on every Kathryne Flourney will be pleased te pleasure in showing you the newestc mings. Call to see us often. You must be plea the Right Price S manhood, boys, and stand up for one another. No! the Farmers' Union cannot prevent some cotton farmers from acting the foul and letting their cot ton go at a price below the minimum when they can help it. But all loyal conservative business farmers know that the minimum of 15 cents will be much easier reached this year than any minimum set be fore. We are in possession of facts and data to prove that 15 cents will not eover the actual cost of production to a considerable territory in cotton in most all the states west of the Kississippi and also a lot of sections in all the states east of the Missis .ippi. In addition to reports from local anions all over the cotton belt, the ?ommittee on minimum prices had the ?(-unsel of a large number of can assers who had canvassed all the ?otton states. These canvassers are ,mong our best practical farmers and are not the kind of men that could ifford to fool or deceive themselves and friends. Pay Your'Debts Through the Ware houses. Instead of one thousand warehous ?s as we have stated before, the Far ners Union authorities on this sub ject now make the statement that the Farmers Union now owns and opera tes more than two thousand ware iouses, and building more. Now these warehouses were put up .o take are of the cotton by insur-j ng it from loss from both fire and the eather by men who are able to hold I :heir cotton, as well as to furnish a ,var by which those that are in debt Iay store their cotton and draw .ighty per cent of its current price md pay their debts without placing heir cotton on the market at forced 1 ;aLe at ruinous prices to all owners of otton. The Farmers Union discour iges the system of growing mortgag d cotton crops, and will not stand4 .or the mean practice of some who ftore their cotton at the expense of heir creditors after debts are due. 7o! you cannot ride the Farmers Un on horse over many roads like that; rou cannot be a good Farmers Union nan and not pay your bills when due f you can possibly do so. Another cause for a short crop that s likely to deceive the people is that L very large area of cotton has been Aoods, I :omplete in ever) 3 in many line at ae present rise in and Silks. are the newest in weave and colors. ns, blues, greens and garnets in irs and Suitings at the very lowest 1.Our silks are up to the stand 1 the season we give you at $1.19 yd. tg98c. yd. -35 at 95C yd. Millinery! or inspection, and we want every mnty to see this line. We are pre purchase. Mrs. Hair and Miss i have you call, and will take great >f the new, in shapes and trim tsed here for its < tore your headqi replanted two or more times and that the seed used for this replanting was generally very poor seed from the pismature last- picki,-,s, which can iever make a full crop. There is more late, stalky, thinly fruited, shanky, deceptive looking re planted cotton in the cotton states than was even known before. No doubt about this prediction that if we have an early killing frost, cot ton will go to 29 cents in 24 hour, afterwards. The class of men that met at Little Rock to name minimum prices for the south's great money crop cotton was not a body of grafters met to name prices on their people's products, but they were conservative reason able and right thinking men from the ranks of the farmers who grow the products they price. These farmers who met at Little Rock were a slee tion from that easy going class of mnen-farmers----that have never ask ,d for much of this world's goods and of course never got much of. this world's goods though they dig it out of the ground. About Cotton Schools. The committee on education at the NTational Convention of the Farmers Union recommended the teaching of a. special course on grading and clas ;ifying cotton at all the state agricul tural schools in the south. Clemson Agricultural College at Clemson College, S. C., has just es tablished a special course in its tex tile department for the purpose of teaching the elassification and grad ing of cotton and may-also add to this ranch warehouse book-keeping. Any )ther information fn this subject rnay be had,by addressing Prof. Dog ret", Textile Department, Clemson College. S. C. All you cotton growers that have been kicking about being robbed by the arbitrary gr.ading of buyers,-;are IOw up against a good proposition to protect your interest in this matter and you should now stand up wtith this cotton school plan or hush up. Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in the postoffice at Newberry, S. C., for the week ending September 14, 1907. B-J. W. Brents, Mr. N. Benjimin, Mfiss Angeline Bone. n-Mr. Reddie Currie.. D-Mr. B. S. Davenport. G-Miss Mamie I. Gantt, Miss El ustomers )ry Goc /line, quaity rig prices as low as prices, so we mn Men's Pants al We have extra value in this to $2.49 will certainly please ti to know how clieap she bot it. suit, come to-the Right Price Trunks! We have added this line sim buy them right, having them a trunk at 98c. to the big flat toj please in price and quality. Cc Underwear We have this line bot as lowe cotton is high, the price of oui need call. We have any thing 5c each to the finest woolens.] >ur business and aarters for Dry C THE RIGHT I sie Gillman. H-Mr. S. J. Harper. J-Mrs. John M. Johnson, Mrs. Bessie Jones. Ib-Miss Nettie Leonhart, Mr Leon ard Livingstone. M-Mr. Johnnie John Mellanner ry. Miss Maybelle Moore. P-WN"illie Pitts. R--Mrs. Nancy Rook, Mr. Wright Rutherford. S-Mr. R. E. Satcher, Miss Adamay Scurry. W-Mrs. Eugenia Williams, Mr. C. L. Williams. Persons calling for these letters will please say that they were adver tised. Chas. J. Purcell, P. M. Woman's Place in France. A Paris correspondent of the Brook lyn Eagle writes: Great progress is taking place in the opinion -.hich Frenchmen have of women. The fact that Madame Berthelot was buried at the Pantheon with her .husband prov es it., That would never ,have been permitted even twenty years ago. The scientist followed -the example of Gen. Grant in refusing to be buried where his wife could not be by his side. There is a precedent in. the fact that a woman was buried in a place she would not have occupied if she had not been the wife of a great man-Mrs. Gladstone, who is buried in Westminster Abbey, by the side of the great statesman. An Ideal Sitter. A Washington artist, while sketch ing in North Carolina, was one day in search of a suitable background of dark pines for a picture, says Har per's Weekly. At last he found the precise Situation he was seeking, and best of all, there chanced to be a pret ty detail in the figure of an old wo man in Ilie foreground. The artist asked the old woman to remain seated until he had sketched her. She assented with the greatest good nature; but in a few minutes asked. how long the artist would be. "Oh, only aboil+ n rq--arter of an hour," he answer-.1. Three minutes ur so late:- the old darkey again inquired -this time with manifest anxiety-how long the oper ation of sketching would take. I"Not long,'' was the reassuring re [ply,'"but why do you ask so anxious ."Oh, .uthin,' sah,'' the old woman Sw. Withi all _____Shc ht, price right. ever, we having vite you to comE aid Boys' Suits. line, a boy's suit of us at $r.49 ie Lad and make mother emile If your Boys need a good school. store. men's pants priced eight. Trunks! ply because we had a chance to t prices from a 26 inch zink canvas ones. We are sure to me and take a look. Underwear as ever and while you know -'under wear is low. When in in this ine from baby wraps at Extra sizes a specialty. we will surely d<( loods, Millinery, 3RICE STORE. hastened to respond. "only I's sittii on an ant-hill, sah." NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that we w make a settlement on the person property of J. W. Humbert, decease in the office of the Probate Judge f< Newberry county on Thursday, t] 10th of October, '1907, at 11 o'cloe: M. M. Humbert, Executrix. Jno. M. Kinard, Executor. Sept. 9th, 1907. WE ARE TO SUPPLY Y BELTINGS, STEAM FI PIPE F1l LACE ENG SPE A SHIPMENT OF LEATHE PED US IN APRIL, HAS JUST A SHIPMENT UP AS LOST AND H HAVE TWICE AS MUCH AS W1 CARRY ANY OVER AND WE W] PRICE THAT WILL MOVE IT. AS TO GAlS WE FIND MANY PEOPLE WH STITCHED BELTS GANDY BEL' FERENCE UNTIL THEY HAVE BELTING IS STAMPED WITH T BELT-EVERY TEN FEET, NON WARE OF IMITATIONS. WE CA AND CAN GIVE YOU ANY OTHE TICE. Summ ei things n >es and We are prepai bot the bulkof o Sand share the i Shoes! Our Shoe stock is overflowinga block, and more coming, so we mt if you buy Shoes of us now that price and quality. Knowing it's have decided to cut the prices n' ways in our Shoe department. C your money to do double duty C Infant soft soles in every style. Cotton Gjoods, Goo One lot 40 in. Sheeting worth One lot good checked Homespn~ One lot good Outing, your moz One lot best Outing worth 12% Prints, Percales, Bleachings ant .Ladies L This line is beautiful. We are member we make the price right] )so. Come ear3 Shoes and Notic an Reasons Enough. You can't show me a single reason growled the man, why we should [ stay down here for the month of September. d What! cried his wife, pointing to r I their quartet of marriageable daugh ie ters; I can show you single reasons. Appropriate Authorship. Baltimore American. Editor-Who wrote this Teddy bea story? -Assistant-I think it was the last cub reporter. PREPARED 'OUR NEEDS FOR PACKINGS, TTINgS, FTINGS, LEATHER, INE REPAIRS CIAL R BELTING AND WHANG, SHIP RRIVED, WE HAD GIVEN THIS AD,DUPLICATED ORDER, NOW WE i EXPECTED, WE DO NOT CARE TO LL GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF A [DY BELTING 0 QONSIDER ALL CANVAS 'S AND DO NOT KNOW THE DIF USED IT A WMT. ALL GANDY HE MARK-THE GENUINE GANDY E GENUINE WITHOUT IT. BE RRY 4 TO 12 IN 4 PLY IN STOCK E SIZES MADE ON SHORT NO -*Bros' Co ew in SNotions. red to show you ur Dry Goods and ~nany big values Shoes! vith value. Every space is chock-a ust have the room. This means that, we will give you big inducement in. a little early for winter - Shoes, we aw, so a.little money will go a long ~ome early and grasp a chance for )ur Shoes are solid or another pair free. Buy now and save money. d Quality, Low Price! Mc, our price 6%6c. yd. n worth 634c., our price 5c. yd. ey's worth, our price 5c. yd. c. our price 9c. yd. 1 Fleeces lower thazn the lowest. ong Coats! showing some swell numbers. Re b.ere. / and often. Make mfS.