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pIFT CENTS COTTON IS FARMERS HOLE Commissioner Harris tells the farm. ra that this- is not the timo to sell col Ion, merely becauce the pric'e is on th< rise. It has not reached its truevalut *!et, he says. "There is no mystery aflut Selling cotto'n for a profit,' say , Mr. Harris. "If a common sense busi ness asystemi is put behind it, any commodity will brig, ga profit when the world nedds it as It (oes cotton and has to have it. "If the farmer would put the sam' zeal and horse sense behind the sell ..Atg of dotton that he uses in its pro -duction, long ago the South would CYPRESS SASH DOORS BLINDS MOULDINGS AND MILLWORK Y OU make Thornhil and hick of wood tha "The Thorni the best and us show you proof. Sumn We Can wvith the very best in HAR have as a usual rule a nic for our many customers ( do not have exactly what J. L. Rh have been one of the richest countries hi the world. We have had a monopoly of it, but have never used it for our own advancement. Nothing but' ood, practical busin'ess sense will solve the problem of prahtical marketing of cot ton, and this is what the American Cotton association is going to work out for the Southern farmer. I want to urge every farmer banker and mer-, chant and other business m-n to join Di the association-be one of the number W that helped to win this fight for the t financial freedom of the South. 1) "Let us take a look at the cotton in market for a period covering the last 12 monthsf Middling cotton and above was selling .12 months ago for 25c I a pound. Sonic few of our people were t14 advising the farmer to hold-not to sell until it passed 35 cents. At that DC time it would have been cheap at .45 9 cents a pound, when we consider its EI intrinsic value - and what was act aally M made out of it by the manufacturers. 9 Ot Likewise I say that it is cheap today kI at 65 cents a pound. This being the case, with the information that the 'D farmer has received in regards to the conditions, surely he will not part with his cotton for less than 50 cents a pound for middling and above. And really we know frdm the experiments made by the government that three or four grades below middling are just about as profitable to the spinners as er middling cotton. I say to the farmers th don't let them fool you out of low li grades at low prices. Before the end so of the season they will be bringing more than middling is doing today. th "This time last year middling cotton sp was bringing 25 cents and by July 1 tri it went to 37 cents. It was further sp from 35 cents then than a 40 cents co today it is from 50. What made it go fr< to 37 cents ? It was the concerted ac- to tion of those who took the advice of co the few who advocated to the farm- ar ,tiipo telws Summertn, S. C urn mistake wotso he yiv the wagowecn tht is fory CerOE LivEE Soc SuGEtonY S& COM Supplyunmamaa Your.... SKIN DISEASE ie old Improves Rapidly When 81ea ZIRON Iron Tonlo Many mothers tr one rem edy after an hefr the sufferigsoof their little ones, ithout apparentl being able to find Ihe ght one. If anything seem wron with e blood, or stomach, or it the child's stem Is run-down and needs strengthen-. , umay benefitby the experience of FS esmrland Tenn., mother, Mrs. hn P. Angles wTo writes: "My little girlhad a terrible skin disease d her stomach was In such a bad condi n. Nothing helped her, so we finally irted to give her Ziron. She improved so rapidly from the first ittle, so we have given her two more. te Is much better. Don't try other remedies first! Choose ron from the start. It has benefited any people suffering from poor blood neral weakness, loss of appetite and lers ptomts which Indiate lack of Sold by druggists on a money-back iarantee Z 15 Your Blood Needs s to hold it from the market until e speculators had to have it to de 'er to the mills to whom it had been [d. "Also, remember theer is nobody in a cotton market today but the bear eculators, and the mills have con icts fo rtheir cotton from the bear eculator until October. They have niracted for this cotton all the way -m 30 cents to 35. They are going make the speculator deliver the tton when they need it-and they, e beginning to call him now. That A ~f I .t ui buy the $iland oak e strength ( conditions. priced, but - est." Let nost wear Co. rumu:m:unununmun~ Wanats S, WHIPS, Etc. We stock season. If we u on short order. ~~~FUTRCHCOT 240-242 King St. Char 4s Women's Sj $24 Taffeta, Ge Foulard and Models you will fall instantly ir sence of the Spring Mode in woi Taffetas with short sleeves, -ne ' Colors Brown, Taupe, Navy, Cc Georgettes, beautifully beaded ter and long sleeves., Colors Wh Brown. Foulards and Combinations of Taffeta. Money-refunded REDUCED PRICES ON FC -Postage paid 36 inch striped Percale Shirtings 36 inch Pajama Check, yard .... Furchgott's special MiddyTwill, 10 1-4 Pepperel Sheeting, yard .. Princess Bed Sheets, 81x90, Croc Hemstitched Mercerized Tible Cl binen Fringed Doilies, 15x15, dc Ivory Dorine Boxes, in Jade, Gold Ladies' Silk Gloves, Halls make, ti black or white, pair ------- Ladies' Silk Fibre Hose, Black, W Patent Leather Belts, % inch, the Make Furchgott's Your Charleston a are s, Home Waist. Coats, furnis 3 the reason why c . otton has ad- meeting of the A vanced to 40 cents and above. sociation in Mont "The bear speculitors boasted a few "You will come I 'ecks ago that the farmer would turn thusiasm for the mose at 40 cents, which some few have fidence in your oi one. I am proud to say that not such he says. great amount was released at that gure, and I firmly believe that spots CHARLESTC olders at this time will not tuin their otton loose from now on for less Nortlhampton, han 50 cents. Don't forget that the Miss Francis M. iear speculator has already sold your leston, a senior a otton to the 'gills andl we haven't been selectedl by tore cot~ton than just enough to keep take the part of he mills on scant running until the the "Merchant c 920 crop conmes in. will be p)resented "Therefore,,it is entirely now in the as one of thte prir ands, of the spots holders to dlemandl year's commencea heir own prices. Spots cotton has the There were mi trongest position it has eve ocu the cast and in o1 >ied. The (demandc of the wvorld for cot cants an opportu on is twice as strong as it was a year ability a setries o go. The dry goods market is yet ad- tutedi, the conte, acing-then, why not the price of the chtaraictetr they w aw maiterial? It is entirely up to pots holders and all they have to do GENERAl, I s to sit steadly in the middle of the wil York, W at oat and the spectators will come toWila W.Hr htem alnd say, 'Whtat will you take for' der of American hin cotton? area, after the ar "I have just heard from the market Ftance today c eports that July cotton is selling for raino. He is above 35 cents. Remembet', a few veeks ago I advised the farmers, es-. E H H >ecially those in the boll weevil see ion, that when July futures could beg ought for 30 cents, they would makeg nore money not to plant cotton, but* *o buy last year's crop from the specu * ators and sell it back to them on the * -is that was bound to come. The mar U cot todlay sustains that prediction. U WVhen a man will sell you your cottonU :heaper than you can produce it andU sell it buy it from hinm. It's a busi-U tess proposition. That's the repason ,vhy weo-farmers are not more, pros uerous-because we have not applied >usiness principles to our marketiffg. I C '.'Those who have spots cotton can et thteir own price for it if they will tot give it to the speculator at his >rice. Freeze on to it and say 'Fifty idnts and nojless." Mr. Harris urges all the farmers in* he state who can (10 50 to attend the* NOTICE OF A DIsCHARGE. I will apply to the Judge of Probate U A or Clarendon County on the 12th da~yE C 7 I >f April, 1920, at 11 o'clock A. Mfl 'or letters of dilscharge as guardi anin or Pearl Byrd, ,formally Pearl Ged.. ings, a minor.H ELIZABETHI GEDDINhGS, .ieool S. C. Marc 9, 1 uardlin. o m )tt S. 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Any information red upon request. att ttttttt~t t ttttt utt tt tttttiti imerican Cotton as- charges of other army officers that he gdmery April 12-13. was responsible for cruelties to Sol iway with more en- liers in prison camps. .is home is cause and more con- h vn ultimatn success,' in Nashville, Tenn. -o N GIRL *INS Mass., March 30. Cathcatt, of Char t Smith College, has ;he college faculty to Launcelot Gobbo in f veic, which by the senior class cipal features of this merous aspirants to decr to give all appli.. nity revealing their f tryouts were insti tants electing the auld portray. H -o ARTS ARRIVES trch 30.-Brig. Gen. Cr fChrce ;, who was comr an.. troop~s in the Paris mistice, arrived from SU T ,S.C n the steamship Lor expected to answver __________ _________ )LE .Corn Planters I )LE 1 Combination Planters for Corn aud Cotton. tENDON HARDWARE'CO. Summerton, S. C. IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEaEEUE.