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INTERESTING ETTER FROM R. D. COTIRAN Cothran Optimistic. Editor of The Mannin Times, Manning, S. C. My dear Editor: Please give me space in your val uable paper to get some tobacco items before the farmers of our 'County. I came to the tobacco city of Win ston-Sa'em, N. C., about two months ago, we are selling worlds of tobacco. I am with the M. W. Norfleet To ," bacco Warehouse Co., in the capacity auctioneer. These people own and erate the Piedmont Warehouse, vhich has forty-eight .lyousand feet i of floor space. Winston s~ twenty four million pounds bacco and the above named cone... gets about half of what is sold here. Tobacco prices are better than I ever saw them before. Tobacco is selling even better than it did in 1913. The quality of tobacco isn't as good as this section usually grows either, this was caused by excessive rains doing growing season. I enjoy seeing the farmers wear kl~the glad smile, these good old hon est fellows that have toiled hard in summers -sun, stand around and await their chances at the check window, where they frequently get three and four hundred dollars for a two-horse wagon load of tobacco, these fortu nate boys get their pockets full of twenty dollar "Woodrow Wilson" bills, and when they return to their good wives and daughters they car ry new farm hats, dresses, etc., they are receivgd with joy and glad smiles, and their only regret is "John will say to Mary, "wife I am sorry we did- not plant more ' tobacco last spring," and of course Mary said to John, "I told you what to do and you would not listen to me." Boys, just a word more about Win ston-Salem, this city is the home of the greatest tobacco manufacturers in the world and especially the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Only recently I went through his factory, I visited the home of Prince Albert smoking tobacco, the large scale upon which this tobacco is man ufactured is amazing. The machin ery in this great factory perforn's vith cupning, that almost surpasses human ingenuity. R. J. Reynolds is indeed a genius and he has revolu tionized the tobacco manufacturers industry. He now makes more ciga rettes than are made in St. Louis. He puts up Browns Mule and feeds him well, Reynolds first found this mule here, and named him Browns Mule, and since then he has found millions more of them, and has ship ped them broadcast all over the coun try, every farmer almost has plowed with Browns Mule. R. J. Reynolds ships a solid train load of tobacco every day to different parts of the United States. Well so much for the preliminary above, I want to get down to South Caroina and Clarendon County in' particular. As I see it 1917 is going Bio Thel1 C The citizens County. anid promis Factory ever prese Hora Automol Tlhe Malin Exhibit I - the iron BuilIdi ng at. the & Agriculture, Manufacture A ddi resses by H~on. THE GR] SPECIAL RATES C BACKING U.P PROOF. The Kind That Manning People Can not Deny. Many an earnest Manning man or woman has publicly endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. Week after week, month after month you've read their statements. Would these Manning people re commend any medicine if it were not good ? i Would they confirm and -repeat their statements after years had passed? Local proof is good evidence. Testimony confirmed years after is better evidence. *The following .Manning man's statement leaves no room for doubt. Tt must convince every kidney suf who reads it. if your back aches-if your kid neys are weak, prozlt by Mr. Reardon's experience: J. E. Reardon, Manning, e says: "I suffered from backaches and pains across my loins. I used Doan's Kid ney Pills and they brought me prompt benefit." (Statement given January 31st, 1911.) Doan's Always Effective. Over three years later Mr. Rear don said: "Whenever my bacg or kidneys trouble me, I always use Doan's Kidney Pills and they put me in good shape." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy-get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that Mr. Reardon has twice publicly re commended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. to be the banner year of the agri culture people of the South and West. We are told that fortune knocks at every mans door once in life. Let us hope this will be true to a certain extent in 1917. The world today is consuming at a greater rate than it is producing. Europe is taking all oar exports she can get. A great deal more of the products of Amer ica in the shape of cotton, grains of all kinds would go over if only Ger many could get it. England with her superior navy, and with her "Bull Dog" grip of commerce and her de termination to starve the Kaiser and his bunch of war devils, are keeping back -st9ff that Germany would glad ly buy. This is the time that the Southern and Western farmer should awake to the true realization of their golden opportunity, that old adage we all know, "make hay while the sun shines." The cost of living should not bother the farmer, he first of all should make special effort to make himself self supporting, this can be done by making what you must have to live on at home. Every farmer should make his living at home, if he doesn't he is not making a success of the greatest avocation on earth. I cannot picture or imagine anything more enviable than to see a man ,sur rounded by home luxuries, produced by his own hands. hopville, S. 31g ges' 'REETINGS 'I of Bishopville and Lee C e that they will not only nited at a County Fair. se ShoW. Evei b~ile Races, WE )TOCYCLE RACES TU luilIdinug is the LaIrgest E'x Ihiiti' ,Late F'ai r Grounds). and will hou: s and1( V'aried ind q~stm ius. FRIDAY.--SCHIOOL DA A. F1. Lever~ and Dr. W. WV. L~ong I be admitted free. .AT AMERI N ALL RAILROADS!I TI Don't Fail to Next year will be a good time to raise grain crops, vegetable crops, farm animals of all kinds and fowls. Why; this country is now import ing eggs from China. Just think of it, when we should be exporters in stead of importers. The blooming Chinamen is digging up eggs buried by his forefathers fifty years ago and exporting\them tc the foreign devils in America. The farrmer can put his eggs up so they will keep just as easy as he does vegetables. Most any intelligent economist can tell you how to do this. Nineteen-seventeen will be an ideal time for early truck patches, beans, cucumbers, squash, etc., will bring big moicy on Northern markets. People are going to buy this kind of truck to reduce the cost of living. If things are in big demand now, should they be in less demand next yeir, when people will need them just as much, as they do now? This country certainly can not get the cost of living reduced until we have made enough for ourselves and Europe too. See that you are a pro ducer in the future, profit by what you now see and know to be true. We are to be congratulated upon the re-election of Woodrow Wilson, a man that has done more for the agricultural class of people of this country than all our presidents from Father George Washington to Woo I row Wilson's day. He has put the country on a sound financial basis. His mastery over Wall Street in nine teen-fourteen, when he put a crimp in the money panic, that the Wll Street Leaches, were about to put n the South and West, to prevent them from getting money to handle the cot ton of the South and the grain crops of the West. I will mention only one thing that he did that prevented this and that was the establishing of the Federal Reserve Bank. And Mr. New York Banker unlike what he did under a Republican administration opened his money vaults to the South ern and Western banker and said by this "Wilson is for the American peo ple." We find that he has more sense than Teddy Roosevelt, and that we can not bring a money panic as was brought under our tool Mr. Roose velt and the Republican administra tion in 1907." God Almighty has seen proper in his providence to help the American people beat this bunch of grafters again in 1917. Wilson's re-eiection is absolutely unparalled in American history. We fail to know of a man being elected to the high office of President of the United States of America, without the sanction of New York, Pennsyl vania, New Jersey and Illinois. Wilson won in spite of Wall Street's billions, He won in spite of the Pennsylva nians. lie won in spite of Illinois and her millions, Ile won in spite of Hughes, Taft, Roosevelt, Penrose anid the entire Republican host, Woodrow Wilson won when he car ried the Pacific Coast. Now friends you will pardon the igression as I can not talk or write FIRST ~ i C., Novemb tLof all O0 THE PEOP ounity extend~ all invitatio be entertained, but will sc -yday! DNESDAY AND FRIDAY. lSDAY. B uilding in the Slate (except ;e a most extensive 'xhlibit of Y. .All School Chlildreni of Leo CAN SHOWS Lie Bureau of Information Visit the Last on the subject of prosperity of our country without having mentioned our great leader and benefactor. Let us now get back to Clarendon county as I have already stated above try and make yourselves self sup porting. Cultivate what tobacco and cotton you can attend to after mak ing something to live on. Tobacco will sell high next year. I know of no reason .to think otterwise. Our tobacco in South Carolina is being used by American manufactur ers more now each year. You know our crop heretofore, nas been always largely export. But from the best line I can get on the situation we need not have any fear about prices not being good. I expect to see everything you grow bring it's full value; I believe you will have a banner year in 1917. I am anxious to see a good bright tobacco crop grown in oar county next year. All colorly tobacco is scarce in this crop. Now friends what is first and fore most in making a crop as outlined above? I will say first the plant lands. The plant sitantion cost South Carolina possibly a million dol lars or more this year. Be certain and prepare your beds good this time and avoid them being diestroyed as they were in February of this year, select new lands protected by wood land from the North and West winds, if you can. I think new lands re quire less burning and will always give a better result. Get land with a medium moisture, not crawfishy or too loamy, try and get a rather close dark fine soil. -Be certain and cover your land good and by all means do not leave it unfonced as the cows and hogs, when they are weeding it for you, while you are fishing next spring will destroy your plants. I have seen so many beds destroy ed in the last few years this way until I am anxious for this to soak in good, and hope in the meantime it will save some farmer friends money. Going back to the plant land be sure and prepare your bed well be fore sowing see]l. Use plenty of stable manure and some fertilizer. I will have tobacco .eed for free distribution at the Home Hank and Trust c.ompany. Watch this paper for the announcements which will be made later. I am going to have a good tobacco seed this time grown in the Piedmont section or North Caro lina and will also have the Slate to bacco in Old Virginia. I am thoroughly interested in the farming element of our county and am only too glad to serve you any way I can. Get your seed early this time. Do as I have anvised you to do and I really believe you will reap a good harvest along all farm lines in 1917. When you get your tobacco bring it to the Central Warehouse and let me sell it for you. Thanking you for past patronage and wishing you much success this coming year I am your.thshrl chmrd coming year. I am yours very truly, R. D. Cothran. aucklea2's Arnica Salve The Dest Salve In The World. kNNUAL NTY r 29-3O, Deti the Cc LE OF SOUT n1 to the people of South e the most complete disi Trotting EVERY The purses~ offereid are Thle IBs~t 1 lorses '. in the Staite and POULTRY wvill be thme lai WEDNE! AllI old soldiers wvill be TI- HE MOST REFIr * EVER Ph will furnish visitors with and Best Fail A Distinctive Reason What is the chief reasdn for the superi ority of Royal Baking Powder? There are several good reasons, but there is one which distinguishes Royal from other baking powders. This reason, which every woman should know, is that Royal Baking Powder is made from cream of tartar, which comes from grapes. This means a healthful fruit origin. It means natural food as distinguished from mineral substitutes used in other baking powders. There is no alum nor phosphate in Royal Baking Powder. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. New York JIONORI ROLL. south of Wauhatchie, 'P'enn., late to (lay. 'The injured are: Roll of honor of Davis Station L. S. Brown, mail clerk, Carthage, School for second month, ending No- 'ent., sprined ankle. 'ember 10th. Mj &Jl h0 mon, negro porter, iRequLirements: A minimum of 90 Nashville, cut on head. per cent on lessons anti of 95 per cent Ollitls or the road said spread on deportment. ing rails probably caused the te Avnd1tGad.railment. Six of the ten cars in the Advanced ist Grade. Lessons Dep t etthe a were thrw Elsie Ch hewenning .. . .. _ 95 Abram Rawlinson.---- . 95 h a wrecking crew reached the 'Thir Grae. sent n!y the engine anti thaa four Tlhirdl Grade.[olan rea n Cora May Rawlinson - - .. 90 95 unan iitct th Fourth Grade. s LueB oad rth Grde tracks n1-, o njrelI men and most of the Luke Broadway .- - - - . 'seer were brojt into Chat Ella Corbette-.-..-..-..-.92 9gn i Fifth Grade. Maggie Dennis -- ----- --.. 96 Lulla Horton - -.- _ . 91 98 English Paper Going Up. Clara Belle Richburg - - 95 09 Sixth Grade. Vivian Rawlinson - . .- ... 96 08 adopteg today at a meeting of rr~p Seventh Grade. resentatives of British newspaper Bob Horton -- - - - - - 90 95 proprietors, held in London, recoi Other grades unrepresented. mending that the newspapers (Signed) throughout the country raise their Miss lelen E. Malone, p ny hal penny. Principal. Mrs. R. E. Broadway, First Assistant. I te-Tar Relves A Cold Mrs. Helen C. C'hewning, !)r. I11.11'. i ,Tta-'l'-I 'v caaglj,, --- ---- - ----. I t t me eli t-I , t pine fore DIXIE FLYER .JU MI'S TRACK It,111.111 irluitm d "li-n brine, and t11lt Jils .'jl--t it- propl *m~ies. l)O.PIN h, Three Injured in Accident Caused by diIl.gtmi. you hi,:,hi. ee-ii-r, amtd what Spreading Rail. irin, s'tl to ae a \ r eol1 h ,'. ligoki 111ll) For thlat stlltal tl faelin:., Chattanooga, Nov. 20.--Three , ' t' sore ii. roe take a dose of train..en were injured, one seriously, I M'il's l1i i'-Ta r-Il at pit when the Dixie Flyer, passenger ; %%*;oan:. Ickin a i'm~tigil, train, No. 95, of the Nashville, Chat- hliaaii. h tll- Winter. At \4)444'IDruggis, tant.tcga an. St. Louis Railway, L-(. ;ember I pram a Carliia o isi te Frs Arna Fproay oase he d. )a ofS thC rla prodlmet.si of Fh ar in th and Run in a reknrwac hedth Iltre in~lsofietnt o altcict T he\ i i .iure- 1 men land lst of the. Iget~t~PI'evt'PIt's'nei a ;1Soth(passengers ( )1 wer brogh latoh at. 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