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TO RELIEVE COTTON SITUATION. Action Taken at Farmers' Union Meet in in Columbia On Thursday Night. Columbia, Nov, 2.-The outcome of the Fa-mers' union meeting, held here tonight, to consider the cotton situa tion ( is explained in the following resolutions, which were passed: "That this Farmers- union recom mend to every farmer in South Caro lina who controls a bale of cotton to hold from the market every bale of cotton, except "distressed cotton." "That this holding action be tele graphed to the authorities o alt c.th er cotton States in the South, with the request that a smillar plan be put into action there. "That the building of cotton ware houses of a small scale throughout the States as now be 3ontiniw-d under tht approvel of the uni ,'wlth the idee of eventually merging. "That pledges De taken in wr'tiig in every county )f the State from far mers saying how many bales of cct ton they will put tnemselves on as. agreeing to hold vntil September 1, 1912, if necessary, fo: a -reasonable price, the exact figxr- t-:- be agreed upon in the immels.e future. "That another set of record books be opened in each county of the State, in which -farmers will be asked to put -hemselves on record as agreeing not to plant more than 60 per cent. of their arable lands in cotton during the sea son of 1912." The meeting was well attended, the room being at one time nearly full of keenly interested farmers and others. It was evident that there was a spirit of determination to take whatever steps were possible to relieve the present low prices paid for the cotton on the markets. The plan offered by Dr. Wade Stack house, of Dillon, for a solution of the cotton situation precipitated the long discussion and opened up the wh6le question of cotton growing and sell ing. The plan, in brief, called 'for the formation of a State warehouse com <pany, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, to be divided 'into shares .of the par value of $50 each, the money to be subscribed by the farmers of the * State. Fifteen warehouses were to be * built at the most logical points in the' State, having all advantages of com peting freight and water rates, and' these warehouses to have enough ca pacity to hold at east one-fourth of the cotton crop of South Carolina. To get the arrantgements whereby the * farmer would be i,ble to get the money* advanced on the warehouse receipts, Mr. Stackhouse advocated the forma tion of a trust company, to guarantee the warehouse receipts and see that the money was obtainable, the trust company to be of 1,5i00,000 capital aind to be located in Columbia. In ad dition, he also planned for legal con tracts to be obtained by this ware house company from farmers, stating that this cotton stored must not be sold before August, 1912, for less than the minimum price fixed and agreed on -by the mass meeting tonight, and if they did so that the..farmer forfeit to the warehouse company the differ ence tetween the price he obtained and the minimum price agreed on. Of course, cotton went over the mini mum price, the farmer could sell when~ he pleased. The plan by Mr. Stackhouse provid ed for a reduction in acreage of at least 25 per cent., the warehouse com pany to hav'e farmers to sign contracts to this effect. To guard against the * breaking of the acreage reducing con tract, a penalty was suggested where by the farmer should turn over to the - .arehouse company all cotton pro Aticed on any acreage over and above 75 per cent. The, plan is an elaborate. one and went into the situation in* detail.. Mr. Jeff Buyck, of Calhoun county,, suggested as a substitute a landlords * or landowners' association, all owners of land to organize this association, to~ agree to hold cotton and reduce acre age. Mr Buyck wanted land owners to agree to hold all unsold cotton until the price reached 12 cents, and to take the matter of reducing acreage on their own shoulders. Tnle association, in the idea of Mr. Buyck, was to cover the entire cotton belt, and when seven-j ty-five percent of the landowners in the cotton .gelt agreed to become mem bers, the plan was to be put into effect The plan, as outlined, provided for the landowners' association to take care of advancing loans to members on cotton and provided a penalty for non-observ'ance of the rules. Mr. Ben Keller, or Spartanburg, stated his opposition to both these plans and called on all farmers pres efit to stick to the plans of the Far m iers' union. The speaker 'said he was sick and tired of having the plans of the Farmers' union side tracked,' ma thought that the farmer ought to: Newberi Bui)din9 Loan Cc Will buy you in your own ho Will lend yo to pay for your Will take up carry it for you. Will make e and long time. Will pay you ount of your loa Will charge y but no bonus no Will require y minimum attorn vestigating title papers. Geo. B. Cro M. L. Speari take care of himself and not ask any El others to do it for him. Thte idea of the Farmers' union, he said, was di versification, living at home. As op posed to Mr. Stackhouse, who thought toi small warehouses would never pay, to: Mr. Kelley declared that the small fin warehouses did pay and paid hand- se< somely. That the idea of the Farmers' r union was to build warehouses at ev- fie ery point in the State, where as much at as 3,000 bales could be gotton togeth- no er,' no matter whether it was .a one fr railroad town or not. He.stated that on the small farmers had no confidence plE in standard warehouses in Columbia, w Charleston or other big points; but ke1 that they wanted their cotton in ware-. houses at their home markets, where gr they could see it with their own eyes when they wanted to. "Finance, your in :rop with local capital and if neces- P sary organize farmers' union banks to the do it," he' said. Mtf. Keller said that 1,7 the plan of getting contracts for eith- ac er holding or reducing acreage signed Bu by farmers as provided in the Stack- re< ouse scheme, was impracticable and would never work. He -made a vigor us speech in favor of the Farmers' nion and urged that it be composed B f farmers alone.'C. Mr. H. T. Morrison, of McClellan- o* ville, chairman of the warehouse t ommittee of the Farmers' union, fol- De owed, in a talk telling of the plan of uilding warehouses all over the State s adopted by the union at its July eeting 'and as told by Mr. Keller. r. Morrison said that finally it wasay lanned to merge all the warehouses a_ nd have them work together, through 'T a central organization. He argued, S hat the only practicable method was Fr he one the Farmers' union had adopt-1 ed, of building warehouses at every vailable point in the State. He said he Farmers' Warehouse company hadRo een organized and obtained a char er, with a capital of $500,000;- that ome stock had already been subscrib d and that the company was assisting n building warehouses in several ounties at present. a.ga Col. Robert Mixson, of Williston, ris, hought mnich time had been wasted unt nd that what was needed was some du-l emedy for the present. "Retire every act ale off the market that is what is N eeded, and how to do that is what we ji ant _to know," he stated. i Senator E. D. Smith, stating that he ould feel out of place in a cotton aeting without having something o say, told of the history of former fights for higher prices for cotton in - ast years and urged the farmers not y o weaken, but to stand by the actions bes already take.n and to demand the price lready taken and to demand thel rice which had been fixed for thisj I rop. He made a great cotton speech tis nd was loudly applauded. Thi __________________anc tha The H-erald and News-Newberry's si bestnnapr-1.50 per year. "hi ry and mpany a home. Live use. u the money home. that debt and asy payments the full am .n. 'ou 8 per cent commissions. ou to pay the ey's fee for in and preparing mer, Pres. nan See'y. GHT BALES FRO[ 5 ACRES THREE MORE OPEN IN PATCH exington, S. C., Nov. 2.-Mr. Bel i Buff, who resides between Lexing 1 and Columbia, is said to have the est five-acres field of cotton in this tion of the State. Br. Buff h.as al idy picked eight bales from the ld and' it is estimated that there is least three bales open in the patch , with many balls yet to be heard >m. Mr. Buff has marie three crops this same land, it is said. The first ntng wa.s in earlys,roasting ears, lich he sold on the Columbia mar tat a big profit. The cotton. is tnted in five-foot rows and is a sat 'distance apart in the drill. [his is believed to vJe tbe best'yield this county this year. Mayor Sam Roof thought that he had broke record when he picked more than 00 OUndS of seed cotton from one' *e during a single picking; but My ff on his five acres nlas beaten this7 ord to a frazzle. ~OLLECTION OF TOWN TAXES.. ~otice is hereby given that the Tax yks. for the Town of Newberry, S. will 'be open from the 15th day of ;ober, 1911, to the 1st day of De aber, 1911, both inclusive. A penal of ten per cent. will be added after J. R. Scurry, SC. &T. T.C. N. ~pecial-The Herald and News, $1.50 ear. 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Kinard and James P. Kinard, Executors of the last will and testa ,ment of Mary Manerva Humbert, deceased. October. 19, 1911. NOTICE OF CITIZEN'S MEETING. Notice is hereby given that a meet ing of the citizens of the town of New berry is hereby called to be heid in the council chamber on Monday, No vember 6, 1911, at 8 o'clock p. m., to consider the 'plans for the nomination of Mayor and Aldermen for the town of Newberry, and any other matters that may properly come before the meeting. 0. B. Mayer, E. H. Aull, Chairman. Secretary. Atacks School Principal. A severe attack on school principal, Ckas. B. Allen, of Sylvania. Ga., is thus1 told by him. "For more than three ] years," he writes, "I Buffered indescri- , bable torture from rheuiatism, liver and stomach trouble and diseased kid neys. All remedies failed till I used 1 Electric Biters, but four bottles of this wondei ul remedy cured me corn- 3 Now is the time to cubscribe to The Herald and News, $1.50 a year. pietely." 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