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Farmer s Unicn i3ure u of Information -Condueted by the --- outh Carolina Farmers' Educa tional and Co-Operation Union. g'Communications intended for this department should be addressed to J. C Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. Cotton Holiers Keep Cool. From every quarter of the cotton belt comes the cheering news that every man it seems, who can possibly do so, is holding down the lid on his coton for farmers' prices. We have a kind of mixed feeling fe." all the unfortunate cotton far mers who have been forced to mark; et this crop of their cotton at the sepculators price. But if they will take this' lesson to their profit in the future they may have paid well for the lesson and may be this fact will make the lesson last longer. Whilst we feel sorry for the helpless cotton sell -r we are feeling good over the cheering news that is daily coming into this office from all over the Cot ton States. I regret that we have not the room for one tenth of these c eering letters. Here is an extract from a business letter to this office from President T. S. Miller of the Farmers Union Warehouse Co., of Gatesville, Te1as, dated Nov. 23: "Our county made 56,000 bales last year, think will make 17,000 this year, 99 1-2 per cent gathered. "Union and non-union men hold ing about 9,000 bales for the 15c., mi1nlum. "Ali the street eotton buyers and ma;y of the merchants fighting us to a inish. Our 'local banks closed down on both cotton buyers and farmers. re f usin to furnish any money to 'the farmer, or cash warehouse certifi eates, the latter for 20 days or more. The banks are now supplying cash fr the iocal buyers, but w%I not cash our certificates yet-say they will s3o11. "Business very quiet in all lines and the Farmers Union blamed for the whole thing. I tell them we are just now getting ready to fight: we start ed in for 15e. and we going to have 1 it. With best wishes I am, "Yours fraternally, " T. S. Miller.'' More Financiere Than k.woey. Lessons We Learn as We g4 Along. The great question for cotton grow ers in the future is how to avoid the evil of New York panics and cotton exchanges. Cotton growers have learned a lesson during this last mon ey panic that they should turn to their profit in the future by giving p New York the go-by an-d strain every nerve to establish direct trade with Sforeign countries on the Farmers' Cotton Union plans, by establishing a complete chain of home cotton warehouses in the south an auxiliary feeders for at least two foreign stor age stations to begin with-one in Manchester and one in Bremen. The dire legal robbery inaugurated by New York cotton exchange and so>me New York banks as well as some solithern banks who were no doub L in league with the whole gang to force weak cotton on the market Sat ruinous prices to the grower is the limit to the cotton growers endur ance. We must now stop talking and passing unity resolutions and go to doing something that will count. We have got enough of this New -York skinning game to bury the last sp'ark of hope and confidence any of us ever had in New York. Going to Manchester and Bremen ith farmers' cotton is our last re y. Already some of our treach erous newspapers are aiming deadly blows at this new movement of farm e, which bark only when approach f danger comes along. These papers are warning farmers against these sales ofices abroad on account of the distance from home' and a lot of other silly objections. These are days of progress. Tele graph.~ telephones and cables aeros the waters to do business with and long range guns to fig'ht with. Manchester and Bremen are now as near by wire to the cotton fields of the south as New York or Norfolk was 40 years ago. Our war vessels afew years ago did. their fighting ne to five hundred yards apart, ow they do it from one to 15 miles art. The business and systems of all her occupations are reaching out dbroadening in space. Why not the ton grower keep up with the trend the timres? Our Farmer's Cotton ion is the offspring of a more lligent and prog'ressive effort of entton firmers to wi'rd1 the n his just profits that have bc.n to other who have no right to ii I V IC'.no l (1 r i:e individuaI n gr owers t 'prfct) th is bu,i lliess. \V ill Il11 1"1)\'weriS ('0 1111it S1rUst tilhe' sp)eculatorN or will 11ev place their trust in themselves ? Ever Think About This? That. whenever an enemy of the Farmers Union sends out a man to disrupt the Union you may expect this hired disturber among you to be no ordinary man. He is sure to be one among the shrewdest and best qualified disturbers among you that can be had. From evidence in hand, and close watching, it is our opinion that our South Carolina Farmers' Union has one of these very extraordinary, shrewd. slick disturbers within its ranks now, who is trying to grease his way into the confidence of the Union by cheap wit and a few gray haired jokes. He has already suc ceeded in winding one of our weak officials around his bad finger and using him to create all the vile he can to disrupt the Union. Just how this old ''Bowzer'' got in the Union we do not know. Some members think he got in through a crack some doark night, but his large bay win dow precludes this theory. At any rate he is surely in the wrong pew, as his own words prove him eligible for high rank in the Aunanias club and unfit for the Union. I am not allowed to write his name here, but look out for him, you'll know him by his looks and voice; same as you know a hog by his nose and grunt, or an ass by his ears and bray. Boys, corral him and let's have. some fun while we are waiting on 15c.' cot ton, by giving this old imposition the grand bounce out of the Union. An Appology. Ailanta, Ga., Nov. 25. 1907. Mr. J. C. Stribling, 'Sec'y., Pendle ton, S. C. Dear Sir: Your bulletin received this morning. We note that you credit F. S. Chrouder with a poem, which you will !fi'nd on pages VII VIII, of "Agriculture for the Com mon iSchools," copy of which we mail you under separate cover. It is is signed by J. B. Hunnicutt. and the book is copyrightedi. Kindly give redit in your next bulletin and have all papers who used the poem to do the same. Of course did this inad vertently -and we do not hold it against you in the least. __ Wishing you continued success, weJ GO * . FC The best Celer Head Lettuce, + The freshest C The Crispest P 0 . The mosthlusci Homemade Fr * Nat'1 Biscuit C 0 Fruits of all kii e Norfolk for your Thank + - THE FRESHEST! . JONES'GC h ,' :1ll(Jo mlh li t( l ;(I('n wom asI by the party mentioned and I cheerfully make all necessary appology for be ing taken in by this false prophet. We are the Iasi man to ever attempt to take away credit from our honored friends memory. the late J. B. Hun nieutt. NOTICE! Notice is hereby given that the County Board of Commissioners for Newberry county will hold its regu lar annual meeting on the 9th day of January, 1908. All persons hold ing demands of any kind against said county, not previously pres ilt ed to the board, shall file the same with the clerk of the board on or be fore the first day of January next, so - that they may be examined and or dered to be paid at the a:nual meet ing. Notice is also given that said board will receive applications until first of January for the position of county physician. J. Monroe Wicker, H. C. Holloway, . Supervisor. Clerk. Dec. 5th, 1907. 12-6ltaw-4t. ?I A RELIAOLE REMEDY FOR MAN AND BEAST For Internal andEternalUse. Positively guanteed to do all claimed for it or mones rcfunded e coin mendedforrhenmatism,pains and soreness ofallkinds burne,bruises and sprains, inflammation ,pulmonary and lung complaints, sore throat, cramp and colic,and numerous other ailments. 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No trot friends from our big stoc Toilet Sets, Water Sets, Pictures, Cake Plates, Salad fars, Chocolate Sets, Sugar a md Cuff Boxes, Necktie B< smoking Sets, Ash Trays, C COMPLI Dolls,'Go Carts, Trunks, Wash Boards and Tubi, TeE mnd Lamps, Harmonicas, Jac ames, Guns, Pistols and Pg emember you get your Watts The store that gii imm ~r'i en winied .it once, previous ~~n u-e nt esenti. territory o *n J'st, write2 soon 11 o 78 to ke mcney faster ta o v id before. Whit today. Address J.I F C1ira Oeway. Ark. 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