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VOLUME LVI., NUMBER 81. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1?. 1920. TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEA*
UPPER CONFERENCE
APPOINTMENTS READ
THE REV. J. L. DANIEL RETURNS
TO NEWBERRY.
Many Changes Made??Financial Re
ports Please Uenomi nation?December
31 Day of Prayer.
The State.
Union, Nov. 8.?Sessions of the
Upper South Carolina conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church concluded
here this afternoon with the
Teading of the appointments by
Bishop U. V. w. uariington. rne ap-j
pointments follow: '
Anderson District.
A. E. Holler, presiding elder, Anderson.
Bethel, A. M. Smith.
Orrville, F. G. Whitlock.
St. John, A. N. Brunson.
Antreville, W. A. Duckworth.
Calhoun Falls, J. T. Lawrence.
Central, W. S. Goodwin.
- Clemson College, A. E. Driggers.
. Honea Path, J. E. Mahaffey.
Lowndesville, N. G. Ballenger.
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Pendleton, J. T. Miller. j
Piedmont, J. C. Harmon.
Princeton, 6. G. Harley.
Seneca, J. B. Connelly.
Starr, J. W. Lewis.
Walhalla, E. P. Taylor.
Walhalla circuit, D. A. Jeff coat,
Westminsfer, L. Doggett.
Williamston and Befton, J. E. Hen'
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Student Emory university, W. F.,
Earrris, Bethel quarterly conference.
Cokes bury District.
J. W* Kilgo, presiding elder.
Abbeville, C. E/ Peele.
Abbeville circuit, J. M. Mason.
Butler, A. E. Smith.
?Gokesbwy, A, H,Jtet _
Greenwood, Greenwood Mills, W.
H.Murray.
Greenwood circuit, D. E. Jeffcoat.
Kinartii, L. W. Shealy.
McCormick, T. W. Munnerlyn.
McKendf?e, H. M. Tucker, supply.
Newberry,J. lu Daniel.
%Mollohon and Oakland, Paul Kennett,
supply.. ,;
ohWeall Street, W. F. Gault.
Newberry-circuit, G. F. Clarkson.
Ninety-Six, ,0, A. Jeffcoat.
Phoenix, W. P. Meadors.
Plum Branch, R. L. Rountree.
Pftmnriji. D. C. Grecrory. supply.
Prosperity, J. D. Griffith.
Saiuda, J. L. Singleton.
Waterloo, S. H. Booth.
Whitmire, J. P. Simpson.
Lander college, president, J. 0.
Wilson, Main street quarterly conference;
professor Lander college,
R. 0. Lawton, Main street quarterly
conference; assistant Sunday school
editor, L. F. Beaty, Main street
quarterly conference; associate head
master Carlisle school, W., J. Snyder,
Main ^street quarterly conference.
Columbia District.
J. R. T. Major, presiding elder.
Aiken and Williston, G. R. Hodges.
A-tIcpti circuit. S. C. Dunlap.
Batesburg, A. L. Gunter.
Columbia, Brookland, G. T.
Hughes.
Edgewood, W. M. Harden.
Epworth, to be supplied;
Green Street, R. L. Keaton.
Main Street, R. S. Truesdale.
Rose Hill, E. T. Hodges.
Shandon, &. F. Morris.
Washington Street, M. L. Carlisle.
Waverley, W. H. Polk.
Whaley Street, James Waite.
Edgefield, G. W. M. Taylor.
Fairfield, R. E. Sharpe.
Gilbert, L. W. Johnson.
Graniteville, W. H. Lewis.
Irmo, M. A. Cleckley, supply.
J Johnston, D. W. Keller.
Langley, J. C. Cunningham.
Leesville, J. H. Brown, D. R. Ruff,
supernumerary.
Leesville circuit, W. F. Johnson.
Lexington circuit, H. A. Whitten.
North Augusta, A. W. Barr.
Richland, A. A. Merritt, supply.
Swansea, R. C. Griffith.
Wagener, J, M. Meetze.
Epworth orphanage, superintendent.
T. C. O'Dell.
Editor Southern Christian Advo~
T G+ortlrVirmco Abandon.
VClbC) IVt U? tj 1/aVXViiV wwwy ? ??Greenville
District.
J. M. Steadman, presiding elder.
Clinton, L. E. Wiggins,
\ Easley, J. PauUPatton, and one to
be supplied.
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MARLBORO BANKER
MAY BE SUICIDE
SHOES, COAT AND HAT LEFT
ON BANK OF RIVER.
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Card Bears Message?Telephone Call
Causes Apprehension as to T.
BB. McLaurin.
The State.
Bennettsville, Nov. 8.?A deep
gloom was cast over Bennettsville
this afternoon when a telephone mes-;
sage was received from the snernr
of Rockingham county, North Carolina,
which led to the belief that
Thomas Breeden McLaurin, president j
of the Mutual Savings bank of Ben-j
nettsville, had taken his own life. |
Mr. McLaurin's coat, shoes and hat j
were found on the bank of the Tee j
Dee river and on these were found |
Mr. McLaurin's card on the back side |
of which was written, "I thought it I
best to do this."
. About the middle of the afternoon j
today Mr. McLaurin had his chauffeur
send a public car to his office
for him. Mr. McLaurin left in this
and nothing more was heard of him j
until the message was received. The
clothing was found at Blewett falls,
about nine miles above Rockingham,
which is 25 miles from here. Many
men have gone from here to search
for Mr. McLaurin tonight.
Mr. McLaurin is the son of Former
Senator John L. McLaurin and is one
of the most substantial business men
in Marlboro county. He has large
farming interests and in addition to
being president of the Mutual Savings
bank was also president of one
of the large cotton warehouses here.
So far as known, there has not been
the slightest intimation that the
financial status of any of the institutions
wfth which he was conneced
had been injeopardy. Mr. McLaurin
was particularly well known ana
well liked, and the entire community
are deeply shocked and grieved by
the report.
Mr! McLaurin is 38 years old and
has a wife4 and one child.
MARLBORO BANKER '
TO RETURN HOME
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 10.?Thomas B.
McLaurin, 35, banker of Bennetts-!
ville; S. C., whose relatives had been,
seeking him since he left home Monday,
was taken in custody by local
police late today and after an examination
by a physician, his relatives
here asserted he would return home:
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Mr. McLaurin, a son of Former
United States Senator John L. McLaurin
of South Carolina, expressed
surprise, according to police, that his
absence from home should have
caused worry there. He said he had
been on a business trip to Montgomery,
Ala., and was on his way home
when found by police here.
McLaurin denied any knowledge of
clothes and a note intimating suicide
said to have been found near Blewett's
Falls, N. C. He had telegraphed
his wife from here yesterday:
"Everything is all right; don't
worry,'* and this caused special
search to be made here for him.
T. W. Bouchier of Atlanta, a relative
of Mr. McLaurin, stated tonight
that after leaving police station the
banker had been taken to a private
sanitarium, near Atlana and found to
be in good condition mentally. After
spending the night there, Bouchier
said, the banker would leave in the
morning for home. Bouchier denied
all reports that McLaurin was suffering
from any mental trouble and
emphasized that no matters connected
with the bank had anything to do
with his absence from home.
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The State.
Bennettsville, Nov. 10.?Word was
received here tonight that T. B. McLaurin,
president of the Mutual Savi
ings bank of Bennettsville, whose
disappearance a few days ago caused
j much apprehension, has been located
I in Atlanta. His father, John L. Mcj
Laurin, and other kinsmen, went to
j Atlanta yesterday, it being believed
that the missing man had gone either
to the Georgia capital or to Savannah.
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HARDING RESTS
ON TEXAS COAST
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PRESIDENT-ELECT TO ENJOY <
FISHING FOR TIME.
Hopes to Hook Big Tarpoon Found ! <
Off Point Isabel-?Residence
in Cottage.
Point Isabel, Texas, Nov. 8 (By the j
Associated Press).?In this little
gulf coast fishing; town, which nestles
in the southernmost tip of continental
United States, President-elect '
Harding went into scclusion ? today
ior an lnienm ui rest, nau ictiwuuii
before he begins preparation of the
policies of his administration.
Politics and international problems
and all the big and little questions
involved in the making of a ?'
new governmental regime at Wash- j
ington are to be shut out of his con- j
sideration while golf and fishing are i
to take first placc in his attention '!
and ambitions.
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He puts fishing first of all and his j
fondest desire for the time being is '
to hook one of the big tarpon that j
are found off Point Isabel.
The president-elect and Mrs. llard-j
ing arrived here late in the afternoon
and took up their residence in a j
small frame cottage overlooking a
bay where a fleet of fishing boats lay
at anchor.
The townfolk, largely Mexican ;
fishermen, gave them a warm wel-1
come, pouring out of their little box (
like houses and crying out their J
greetings in mixed English and Span-'
ish dialect. A score of pupils in thej.
Point Isabel school lined the entrance j
to the village and showered olean- j.
ders and other semi-tropical flowers J
on the members of the party as they!
passed. j,
Several guests, accompanying the
president-elect, including his pre-convention
manager and close adviser,
Harry M. Daugherty, were housed in
a small winter resort hotel nearby. |
The party of 32, including newspaper '
men and secret service men, over-;1
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crowded the hostelry and the town's!
one restaurant was overtaxed bv the i(
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visitors when the time came for the j
evening meal. From Brownsville, 20 '
miles away, the party made the trip j
by motor.
| Their special train reached'
Brownsville shortly after noon and I
they spent several hours resting at j
the Brownsville Country club before!
proceeding to their destination.
Brownsville threw its -doors open |
! to the visitors, a large crowd meet-1.
ling the train and commanding a!
jspeech from the president-elect. He I
I responded briefly from the rear plat-1
form of his private car, expressing j
his pleasure at the reception accord!
ed him in his trip through Texas.
I Earlier in the day he had spoken in
I o eimilnr vpi-.t at. San Benito and sev
eral other cities along the railroad. ,
Mr. Harding is the guest here of F. i
E. Scobey and R. B. Creamer, promi- '
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5ALMUN UlVt5 Uf |
IN NORTH CARdLINA!
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CORONER'S JURY HOLDS HIM'
ON CHARGE OF MURDER.
Also Detains Mrs. Aiken?Mrs. Flinkinschelt
Testifies Murderer Took
Between $800 am! $1,000.
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Mews and Courier.
Greenville, Nov. &.?Walter Salmon,
known here since the killing of
Asa Flinkenshelt ; last Friday as
James E.. Salmon, *nd charged with
murder in connection with the case,
surrendered to the chief of police at
Salisbury, N. C.,'lasfc night, according
to information received here today,
rhc Salisbury chief, it is understood,?
is an uncle of Salmon's wife. Sheriff
anrl rlprmfcies are exDected to return
lo Greenville with Salmon iate tonight.
At the inquest today Mrs.
Flinkenshelt charged that Salmon ac- j
corded her brutal treatment after i
killing her husband. She said that!
he took between $800 and $1,000 in j
cash from under her pillow after the j
killing.
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Salisbury, i\. INOV. O.?r-trctii/v.?. j
Salmon, formerly of Morganton, N.J
C., who is alleged to have shot and J
killed Asta Finkelshelt, near Green-j
ville, S. C., last tveek and to have i
robbed him of several hundred dol-1
lars, gave himself up to Chief of JPo-:
lice Kesler here last night.
Salmon's wife is a relative of Mr. j
Kesler. Salmon told the police, he j
had seen in a newspaper that his j
wmc visitinir in Salisbury and !
he came here yesterday from Spar- j
tanburft-, S. C., and surrendered to j
the authorities. The Greenville po-!
lice have been notified of Salmon's j
arrest. j
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Coroner's Jury Reports.
Greenville, No. 8 (By the Asso- j
dated' Press;.?Walter Salmon, alias |
Smith. Thirtieth Division veteran sol-1
dier, was today held by a coroner's i
jury for the alleged murder of l4arm- j
sr Asa Flinkenshelt. The jury's ver- j
diet also hold Mrs. Alice Aiken, who j
accompanied Salmon in his escape
to Spartanburg after the killing, and j
she was remanded to jail this after- j
noon on a charge of accessory after j
the fact to the murder. Salmon will j
be brought back to Greenville this i
afternoon if the intentions of the
officers who left here in an automo1
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bile lo gei mm aic uut muubw, ? .
precautionary measure to prevent j
trouble. / Bitter feeling was expressed
by some men who attended the
inqust.
nent Texas Republicans. The cottage
he and Mrs. Harding occupy is Mr. |
Creager's winter home.
It was announced tonight that No
vember 18 had been definitely fixed;
as the date of which the president-'
elect will sail from New Orleans on j
his trip to Panama.
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CAN STORE LIQUOR"
IN YOUR CLUB NOW
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SUPREME COURT KNOCKS OUT
CLAUSE ABOUT HOME STORAGE
Provision About iransporting ror
Lawful Purposes is Also Given
New Interpretation.
Washington, Nov. 8.?Liquor lawfully
acquired by a person for his
personal use may be stored in a
place other than his home under a
ruling today of the supreme court. .
The court's decision was on an appeal
brought by William G. Street of
New York from lower court decrees
refusing an injunction prohibiting
federal prohibition officers from seiz
ing liquor which he had stored in a
room leased from a safe deposit company.
The court declared congress
did not intend to prohibit such storage
when the liquor was lawfully acquired
for a lawful purpose.
Justice Clarke also held tflat the
transportation of lawfully acquired
liquor from a warehouse to the home
of the owner did not constitute
"transportation" within the meaning:
of the enforcement act.
The decision was rendered by Associate
Justice Clarke. The lower
court in upholding the portion of the
enforcement act interpreted by prohibition
enforcement officials as prohibiting
storage except in the home
held that congress under the police
power delegated by the prohibition
amendment had authority to prohibit
any transportation of liquor and in
order to reduce the necessity for the
transportation to a minimum it had
the power to legislate as to the
places where liquor might lawfully
be possessed.
The question presented, Mr. Clarke
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I saiu, Was 511UUljf may a iiuiw>vuw...e
corporation lawfully permit to be
stored in its warehouse, after the
effective date of the Volstead act, or
admitted to have been lawfully acquired
before that date, and which
are so stored, solely and in good faith
for purpose of protecting until they
shall be consumed by the owner and
his family or bona-fide guests?"
After answering the question m
the affirmative, Justice Clarke declared
the court could not bring itself
to the conclusion that such retention
of the liquor on the part of
the storage company constituted!
"possession within the meaning of
the section under consideration or
would the transportation of such
stores to the legal residence of the
owner from the warehouse, constitute
"transportation" under the act.
The opinion suggested that congress
might have inadverently omitted
having declared such storage unlawful,
but regarded it as more
probable that the framers of the
;?w imrl rleliberatelv left this means
of preserving lawful stores of liquor
to those not possessing commodious
dwellings.
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AMERICAN FARMERS
BREAK ALL RECORDS
CORN, TOBACCO, RICE, PEAR
AND SWEET POTATO CROPS.
"Vfrxr Outnuts in Other Pro
ducts?South Carolina Products
Gain.
Washington, Nov. 8 (By the Asso- '
dated Press).?American farmers
broke production records of five 1
crops this year. Preliminary esti- <
mates announced today by the de- ]
partment of agriculture show the |<
corn, tobacco, rice, sweet potatoes |]
and pear crops surpassed in size j;
those of any previous year in the (
country's history. j]
In addition very large crops were <
grown fn some instances closely ap- 1
proachiiig records, of oats, barley, s
rye, potatoes, apples and Jiay. The ,
buckwheat production record, how- j
ever, has stoo<^ since 1866, with this
year's crop more than 8,000,000 ,
bushels under it. Final crop production
figures will be announced next .
month.
Corn, kin? of all crops and of
which the United States grows more
than 70 per cent, of the world's output,
reached the enormous total of '
3,199,126,000 bushels. That is 75,-,
000,000 bushels more than ever be- '
fore grown in any year. This is the
third .corn crop to exceed 3,000,000,- :
000 bushels, the previous record hav- <
ing been made in 1912, while the I j
crop of 1917 was the second largest. '
Huge Tobacco Output. |'
The tobacco crop this year, placed j:
at 1,476,444,000 pounds by the pre- !
. ia ?7 nnn noo ! 1
Iiminary ticanato, ^ ^~, (
pounds more than grown last yearj 1
when all previous records were brok-j<
en. Virginia, North Carolina and j:
South Carolina exceeded their, last,
year's production, while Kentucky's
crop this year is 36,000,000 pounds :
less than a year ago. 3
Production of rice this year exceeds
by 12,000,000 bushels the pre- 1
vious largest crop in 1917. The out- i'
put this year is placed at 52,298,000 j'
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bushels, almost hall 01 wmcn w<?
grown in Louisiana.
The sweet potato harvest will .
.show 105,676,000 bushels which is j
2,000,000 bushels more than grown
last year, when the crop exceeded
all previous years' production. Ala- ^
bama's output is larger than any oth- (
er state's.
The crop of pears this year is placed
at 15,558,000 bushels. The pre- ^
- 1 />rnn WftC that f")"f 1917.
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whenl3,281.000 bushels were pro- j
duced. California produced more ,
than 3,000,000 bushels, while New ^
York's production is almost 2,250,- 1
000 bushcb.
Preliminary estimates of this
year's production of wheat, oats, .
barley, rye, hay, rice and peaches ,
were announced last month.
Preliminary Estimates. i
Production of other crops, as ,
shown by the preliminary estimates <,
today, follows:
Buckwheat 14,321,000 bushels, | ,
compared with 15,532,000 bushels j
forecast las^; month and 16,301,000 j
bushels produced last year.
Potatoes 421,252,000 bushels, 1
compared with 414,986,000 last
month and 357,901,000 last year.
Flaxseed 10,836,000 bushels, compared
with 11,704,000 last month *
and 8.919,000 last year.
Apples 236,187,000 bushels, com
rvno AAA loef mATlt.h I
psrod witn z^ / o^vw ^
and 147,457,000 last year. L
Sugar beets 8,812,000 tons, com- ^
pared with 8,970,000 last month and
6,421,000 last year. ^
Peanuts 37,499,000 bushels, com- t
pared with 39,217,000 last month ^
and 33,263,000 last year. j
The preliminary estimate of the
production of corn in Southern states (
follows: ^
Virginia, 4-5,600.000 bushels; ^
North Carolina, 62,640.000; Georgia,
69,405,000. *
Tobacco, Virginia, 179,653,000
pounds; North Carolina, 383,922,000;! ?
South Carolina, 87,750,000; Florida, ^
4,620,000.
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Another Big Game.
There will be a football game on ?
Thursday afternoon between the
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college grounds, at 3:30 o'clock. At- ^
tend and laugh away the bines. Admission
25 and 50 jents.
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COTTON MOVEMENT
WILL NOT FAIL
COTTON MERCHANT DEFENDS
WANNAMAJCER.
Holders to Blame?Surplus Staple of
Low Grade?Many Warehouses
at Mills Empty.
To the Editor of The State:
We dislike very much to see some
t-ery few making effort to break the
organization of the farmers as em- ;
bodied in the American Cotton asso"iation
and esDeciallv breaking its
head and very life blood,. Mr. W?n? |
namaker. We can only speak for
our immediate community, where we
hear it from business men and farmers
alike. These few are being severely
criticised. ; J/
Mr. Wannamaker has undertaken ' .
Dne of the most stupendous tasks in
the knowledge of the writer?that ip,
to organize the farmer?that has
ever been attempted on a like scale |jj
by any other man. Certainly the or- V
ganization is farther along today J:
than it was in the yesterdays. Then
up to the present time the project is ^
compelled to have been a success. (A
Did they not set the ultimate price of ' J
last year's ?rop at 40 cents and then
those who would make us believe this - f*
was failure on the part of the leader. "*|m
The writer is now actively engaged
in the cotton business as cotton marchant,
and agents for Southern shi]* '%
pers, including every territory from '
Texas to the Atlantic, shipping' to
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port ana semng xo wie oaroiwa
mills. Being somewhat active in my
line, I feel some degree of capability
in judging whfether those issociated
in the cotton sphere are working
on concrete fact* aa Wgards j?s morvfcment.
My honest opinion is, Mr. ;
Wannamaker is a close student of all /
the workings of cotton and*'the statistics
surrounding it, and has r fdr*
mulated a plan that it will rfeqtfifre
time to complete, but when complied
will put the producer in a position
with his raw material that has never
been dreamed of by our farmerS/Tffir. !
Wannamaker, by his untiring efforts > J
and in spite of the buffets of tbe
few, has gone forward ami wiU go
forward until the American Cotton
association will be the greatest organized
body on earth, and when his '%
:riticisers are dead and forgotten his
monument, not made of marble, will
>peak on.
Mr. Wannamaker is right in his
conclusions, especially as regarding
:hc present crop and its price. We
ill know that Central Europe wants
)ur cotton. We all kriow the exports
So date have been practically what it
jvas to date one year ago. The, We?t |
furnished by far the largest per cent. *2
Df this, and consequently has gotten
rid of practically all its distress cot:on
from this crop. Those who now
lave cotton in the West are joining . '' %
.he holding movement, for only in
;he past ten days they have hardened
;heir basis in some instance two cents
i pound, with numbers of firms withIrawing
their offers from the market
^together. Those concerns in ttte
niddle and Eastern sections have all |
lardened their basis, and only a few &
vill sell forward commitments, then
vith the privilege of the seller to
rail the price. There is not one oat '
)f 20 mills in the Carolinas that has
;nough cotton in its warehouses to
un it 40 days, and the most of them
lot two weeks. I have been to see \
hem and th$y are empty. Numbers _|
>f them have forward commitments
>ought, but this is paper for the
ime being, and ultimately must be
eplaced with the actual cotton which
-fnrmorc now n\vn. From statis
IlC laiiuvku ..w .. _ _
ics as gathered from the Manufacurers
Record and the Textile World
Journal the condition in the Eastern
nills is on about the same par with
>ur own mills. The mills are frank
o tell you they want to pay 40 cents
'or cotton, and I believe they are
incere. My opinion is that one of
>ur greatest troubles in the avenue j
>f trade now is with the commission
nerchants. They are composed of a .
omparatively few and are holdirj
Hp nriee of their stock above that -jlS
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>-hen our cotton a year ago was sell- .
ng for 30 cents. In ten days we will
egin to face the filling of November
ommitments. You will see the mret
begin to go up, and it will coninue
an upward trend until around
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