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RAILROAD RUMORS GALORE. (One Out of Many at Greenwood that May Have Basis in Fact. News and Courier. Greenwood, September 26.?Railroad rumors are as thick as hops !l hereabouts at present. "Ilavo you 9 hoard this or that," or it may be, f "Did you know," and so on, all argued as earnestly and solemnly as if the person talking had it first hand, "right off the reel," as the (typical hot air artist would say. I One rumor that may have some basis of fact in it is a statement made by I General Manager Ackert, of the I Southern, to Congressman Aiken last , \ winter. Mr. Ackert was being asked by Mr. Aiken why the Blue Ridge ^ ( was not to be extended, or, if it was to be extended, When, and so on and was told by Mr. Ackert that the Blue Ridge would certainly be extended. | This is not news, for President Finley and Vice President Andrews said the same thing at Anderson this spring when they were gallantly defending the Southern from the terrific onslaught of Mayor Rhett. This is the news: Mr. Ackert told Mr. Aiken that if conditions continu^ ed so favorable in South Carolina, "Harmonius" would be a better word perhaps, that the Southern intended to build a line from NinetySix to Batesburg, an air line in fact. Then from Perry to Branchvillc and these two short lines would then give them an air line almost from Knoxville to Charleston. This sounds very nice and looks plausible on the map. Take a map and ruler and see how straight the line would be. The idea in building A from Ninety-iSix is to cut out the bad 9 curves down in the swamps of the Sa? . luda between Dyson's, Chappells, Old Town, etc. These curves would rej suit iu an overturned coal train almost every day, said Mr. Ackert. Now if the Southern is to do this, what about the people who are building the road from here to Saluda? They have the rights of way and tho Southern's proposed line would have to run parallel with this line all the way to Saluda. This gives rise to the rumor and speculation that the Southern is behind the road now being built to Saluda. The men building it say it is lj' not. The Southern has not claimed f the line and this rumor probably has nothing whatever to back it up now. What may happen later is another matter. The Southern does not intend that the South and Western shall haul all the coal that is left in the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky to Charleston. \ iCongressman Aiken Explains. I,, The News and Courier has receiv|j ed from Congressman Wyatt, Aiken It , the following card, dated McCormick, I y September 27, which makes a slight correction in a statement soul the , News and Courier by its Green woo/1 ,< I correspondent concerning an interview with Congressman Aiken, in which lie quoted Mr. Ackert, of the Southern Railway, regarding the Southern's plan for connecting Charleston with the coal fields of Tennessee: j Greenwood correspondent's account in today's new and courier, Southern Railway to build from Ninety-Six to ' Batesburg, correct, except Mr. Ackert did not mention Branchvillc, but said at Batesburg they would strike their existing line xia Perry and Blackville to Charleston. The road to be a ridsye road for coal and heavy / freight from West via Walhalla, NineIv-Six, Batesburg, Blackville to Charleston. See map. Yours, Wvatt Aiken. 4 r Messenger Boy's Rise. Washi ngt on T Tera 1 d. .Col. Robert C. Clowery, president of the Western Union Telegraph Co., fi flv-five years ago went into I ho ^office of the company at Joliet, Til., land asked for a job. Tie offered to \lwork for six months for nothing if jnthey wuld let him learn telegraphy. <jllis offer was accepted, and at the end of four months he was an expert as the ordinary operator and was ofj fored charge of the station, but he V /continued to work out his contract . ) the other two months. At the cxpira < ' lion of the time agreed upon he was hut in charge of the station at Ihookport, and from that time on he f ! began to rise steadily. TTe attributes l)i his success entirely to hard work, nnd ho lias military ideas about his l[i,' own duties and (lie duties of others, ir.ai 7Te js now (IS years old. TTis title was Vj won in tho civil war. APPEALS TO FARMERS. Mr. E. D. Smith Urges Farmers to Hold Their Cotton for Fifteen Cents. Columbia, September 27.?The light for 15 cents cotton finds its most ardent and most active evponent in Mr. 10. D. Smith, the field agent of the Southern Cotton Association. Mr. Smith spent today in the city, after a day or two at his home in Sumter county, and was seen at the office of the association in the National Loan and Exchange Bank building. "After a trip through the West," said Mr. Smith, "I find on my return numerous requests from different parts of the state asking me to urge the people to hold their cotton from.the market until the price set by the Southern Cotton Association and the Farmers' Union is reached. "If ever there was a time when the conditions were clear and unmistakable?without there being any complications, it is now. It is a clear case of pure speculation against real conditions. To put the case as it is so that any one ma ysee what tribute we are paying to gamblers because we are not organized to withstand them, the facts are these: The mills have sold their output for months ahead on a basis of 15 cents per pound; I lie demand for goods at these prices increasing; the price oi' the manufactured article actually advancing; the supply of cotton in sight; the present crop unquestionably short, probably two million bales less than last year; the demand for cotton for the current year far in excess of the supply; the condition of the crop steadily deteriorating; the mills running full time, eager for cottton; no alarming conditions in the money market; no complications at home or abroad particularly, with the spinners thirty days ago buying cotton cheerfully and profitably at 14 and 1-2 cents per pound. Yet in the face of all these favorable conditions the price has dropped from 2 1-2 to 3 cents per pound. Why? Because a few speculators, who neither grow nor spin cotton, please to have it so. The question is squarely up to the south, the whole south, the merchant, banker, fanner, lawyer, doctor, preacher and laborer in any and every vocation, avocation or profession, whether they will tamely submit lo this these gentry to exact a toll from us, outrage, whether they will allow at their pleasure, of from $10 to $25 I per bale, or whether they will put their pricc on their propert** and refuse to accept any other. "" only answer to give this absurd decline is to refuse to take the prices offered. "In the west they are making a brave stand. They are complaining bitterly that the Atlantic States aro, not standing for the price agreed upon. How true this is, T am not able to say. Let every man in South Carolina, who has cotton to sell drop me a postal card saying how many bales he has and how many lie will hold. I will compile the number and give it to the public, so that we may know what to depend upon. If we would absolutely refuse to sell a bale of cotIon now, stop reccpits, then the reaction would be immediate. "The only possible way to remedy this outrageous condition is to refuse to submit lo it. "With present conditions warranting 15 cents cotton, acknowledged by all parties to be worth 15 cents, if the people put it on the market at present prices, then we acknowledge that neither the law of supply and demand, the condition of trade and finance, or the cost of production have anything to do with the price or value of cotton, but "simply the caprice of a few millionaire gamblers. Surely we are paying dearly for tho privilege of being disorganized, for being without warehouses, without organized capital to hold our cotton. "Can not each community meet at once and devise means, where there are none, to help each other to hold cotton? Tl will lake organized cooperation to accomplish our purpose. "Every bale sold at present prices means a gift of $15 or $20 per bale to the gambling bunch to enable them to lake a like or a greater amount from the next bale. "Ex-Covcrnor D. C. TTeyw.ard, who is president of a warehouse company in this state, informed me this morning that he was doing all in his power to secure funds and lo provide warehouse facilities for the farmers in this emergency; so that all parties interested can communicate with Ex-Governor ITeyward in reference to the matter." Mr. Smith added (hat if the proposed plan of cotton banks were now in effect, the situation could be controlled by the farmer, and the weak cotton kept off the market. Under I I | present conditions, cotton, on which! liens have been given, is forced into 11 the hands of the buyer as soon as'I ginned. , "Then there is another thing," 1 said Mr. Smith. "The cotton that < was sold in March, April and May ' is now being used to accomplish the ' purposes of the speculators. Why, in 1 some sections of this state farmers 1 sold their cotton for 11 and 12 cents i bet ore it was planted and they are J now compelled to deliver it no matter t what is the market price, or the fu- 1 ture prospect." J. II. i ? i Got Tuberculosis from Monkeys. ' New York World. Curator Raymond L. Ditmars, of j the New York Zoological Park, the j Baronx, is stricken with tuberculosis, lie became infected during his work in the last year trying to stamp out the disease among the monkeys in the park, lie is the second official of the New York Zoological society to be 1 stricken dangerously in his line of duty. A year ago Director Ilornaday all but lost his life through mas- ? toiditis, and in his case, too, it was while working among the monkeys that he became infected. s Statement of the condition < Newberry, S. C., Sept. 1' call of State Bank Examin Bills receivable $219,605 64 ( Overdrafts 5,180 75 * Fixtures ! Cash on hand and due from other Banks $ 10,193 92 1 $238,617 23 Watch us grow. We pay 4 per ce meiit compounded Semi-annually. j. D. Davknport, Gko. B. Cr President. A W. B. Wauack, We Lenc TC Buy H We provide easy term We enable borrowers in Monthly Installments, allowed to meet obligati It is cheaper than payi to save money to buy a 1 Contract. If you want to save mc take a Security Contract Call on A. J. Gibson, A Treasurer, at office, cori streets, next door to Co] SECURITY LOAN AN! ZLTo. ? The People's f Prosperit Paid Up Capital Surplus and Individual F Stockholders* Liabilities For protection of deposi H. C. Moseley, President. IV! W. W. Wheeler, Cashier. G Better a conservative interes return when wanted, than a high about the principal. A National Bank is a safe Dep< makes it so. Likewise our Boar of prudent conservative managen DIRECT G. W. Bowers. J. A. C. Kibler. R. L. Luther. M. A. Carlisle. J. H. Hunter. J. P. B< We allow 4 percent, per Department, interest pc Curator Diimars learned Hint his uni>s woiv affected through his doc- I tor, (J. .1. Vandcrmissen, yesterday norning, ami an hour later he had 1 lis grip packed, had bade good-bye :o his wife and two little children; and started downtown to catch a ^ rain to Sullivan county mountains, [t was ti solemn leaving at the park, lot one of the co-workers attempt- j ng to disguise tho gravity of his danger, yet at the same time all thankful hat warning came in time to enable * lim to save himself. Mr. Ditmars s going to live out of doors for three j Uontlis in th($ Sullivan mountains, leav Liberty. His family will join lim later. The climate in Sullivan ( onnty is rigorous during the late 'all, and the air is rare and dry, and lie curator counts on constant outloor life to save him. I Joke Tailoring. < I \vwq a few bathing suit witti- * isms left over. , What '11 you do? Oh, trim 'em down into ball gown jags. ( And the heiress who marries a title * seldom gets her money's worth. ' ( )f The Exchange Bank of i fth, 1907, in response to er. t Capital stock $50,000 00 1 Surplus 6,460 74 1 Cashier's Checks 269 84 Dividends unpaid 87 50 Sills payable 75,000 00 Deposits 106,799 15 | $238,617 23 lit. interest in our Savings Depart omkr, M. I,. spkarman, ittorney. Cashier. , Asst. Cashier. I Money, D omes! s of payment. to accumulate a fund l , on which interest is v. ons at maturity. ng rent. If you want Dome take a Security i >ney for any purpose '' It pays. < .sstant Secretary and \ ner Boyce and Adams i peland Brothers. 1 I INVESTMENT GO. i 55ft. O. ( ? 4 lational Bank V, S. C. | - $25,000 00 8 Drofits $6,000 00 1 , $25,000 00 B tors. . A. Carlisle, Vice-President | eo. Johnstone, Attorney, t on your deposit with its safe 1 rate and a feeling of doubt I Dsit. Government supervision 1 d of Directors is a guarantee lent. ORS: W. P. Pugh. Jno. B. Fellers. W. A. Moseley. Geo. Johnstone. H. C. Moseley. Dwers. annum in our Savingsj| lyable semi-annually.i| Speciol Anne We cordially invit Newberry and vie new Fall Shoes, C ng, and Hats, thaJ Dpened daily at th The shoes you find h< newest models, and mc Shoes your boys and girh lurry. Then of course w< iress. Our shoes are mi it the toes, nor rubbing e )f Gent's Furnishings an< deas are here for you. hrough. No trouble to s SUCCESSC Eddy & 1 wmKmmmDammmmmumrmmtmmtm i ?MQ???gga?B???pm YOUR BA THE NEWBERRY S Capital $50,000 No Matter How Small, The Newberry S A/ill give it careful atter applies to the men and th jas. Mcintosh, President. I The First Cough i (. Even though not severe, has a tei U tive membranes of the throat ai Coughs then come easy all white * slightest cold. Cure the first con $ set up an inflaniation in the delica ^ lungs. The best remedy is ? I SYRUP. It at once gets right ai ^ moves the cause. It is free from w a child as for an adult. 2<j cents : { MAYES' DRL | PREPARE FOR TH I For it will surely come, and n1 stances that will prove a great family. If you will take care soon make dollars whi< cloudy days of the future we'll help you put a silve dark cloud at the rate of F on all your rainy day mor FOUR PER CENT. ON S The Bank of Prosperity I Dr. Geo. Y. Hunter, Pres't. D J. F. Browne, Cashier. J orj v ran luqcement! e the people of inity, to see th^ ient's Furnisht are now being lis store. sre are made in the >st popular leathers. 3 can't wear out in a b have finer shoes for ide tof it?no pinching it the heel. A full line i Hats in the newest Come in and look how goods. MORGAN, )RS TO Fellers. LNKING! SAVINGS BANK. Surplus $30,000 No Matter How Large, Savings Bank ltion. This message ie women alike. J. E. NORWOOD, Cashier. of the Season, ldency to irritate the sensi- ^ iid delicate bronchial tubes, r, every time you take the w gli before it has a chance to + te capillary air tubes of the ^ )UICK RKIvIKK COUGH J . the seat of trouble and re- ^ Morphine and is as safe for ? fit ^ IG STORE. WMIIII1IIIIHM |||,| E RAINY DAY, I lay catch you in circum- I : hardship to yourself and I of the pennies they v/ill :h will brighten the Bt6in to-day and r lining behhd each TOUR PER CENT. ley. AVINGS DEPOSITS. Prosperity, , 8. C. I r. J. S. Wheeler, V. Pres. . A. Counts, Asst. Cashr. WMMBMHMttaaBaagaaacraHp^anBnnwJi ?BW?ai ^ m hi B, 11 ?|