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Wh( Home. o ClC g " "r"P1 gog WHITE CAPS RIDE INTO LAKE CIT As A Result of Visit There Are Plent of Cotton Pickers, Cooks an Washers Today. White caps were abroad in th Lake City community last night an as a result the cotton fields of tha vicinity are well manned with col ton pickers today, and the farmer who have been facing ruin from loi STO Iand look om Ihave to s] Iour line ne come to to Sbe you are I market ju ~what we l Ibut would Iprivilegea Sof showin, Iyou only s will give Prices anc a ways in lin us when ir I ill kp ti vI rya f Hart Schaffner & Marx grade cotton are today hopefWi oJ gathering their entire crop befor, bad weather sets in. In addition to the freshly discover ed hords of cotton pickers it is re. ported that cooks and washerwomej are plentiful in Lake City. "They were knocking on the door. early this morning, looking for jobs,' said a Lake City citirzen to a Timei t reporter this morning. - The white caps appeared in Lak In ditio outh fnihtly iscover e hrdso cston ptidkers isr jorted that adwewme rw yoetiul in LaeCiy nthe wrkcingo the doo 6a hst mnn loo n for jos . aidv e Ciyorint s aleime giepe ths orning ndhewh ap ea re inL s Ciyou ingt hu tw ere what shw ~iyou rine g ix tiem you * itwn. Itma save th J HAT'S proba buy your clo don't make i [ly on the price ti ig and all wool ti lart Scht SAVE hese clothes last 1erefore, they are CHAFFNER & rofit ever attempi ou will find a n Clod Clothes their horses were shrouded in white and the sight was enough to cast the fear of the Lord into the beartLs of all beholders. Older citizens of the town -.ay it brought the scenes of 1876 tc their minds afresh. First the night riders visitid sev eral farmers who had been puying as high as $1.50 a hundred to cotton pickers and advised them that it was a good time to qu.it this practice. Then the cavalcade madeo & call on the negro sectbon and suggestedl that more work andl less loafing wvouldl be a good thing for the colored residents of Lake City.. Mayor W. Hi. Whtitehead was also visited. Tfhe white caps .toldl the mayor that he must enfore the va-. grney laws more vigorously and more rigidly. Mayor Whitehead told the spokesman for the party that he hadl attemp~ted to enforce these laws to the best of bhis ability but had been criticised severely in some quarters for his activity. H~e declared that to make the laws more effective he must have the undivided support of the community. This support he thought he would receive from the looks of things last night. The white caps went about their b~usineLss calmly, and from the 1 eports there was no evidlence of any initen tion to offer violence to any of the persons they visited (luring the night Itut it is said~ that they meant busi ness-IFlorence Daiily Times. BIG DiROP IN PiRICE OF" COAIL IS PRI)ICTED) BY WlHOLESALElt New York, Oct. 1 6.-Prediction that the recent (decline in the price of hii tuminous coal is to be followed by a ''much more decidled dIrop) with in a short time" was made here tonight by Charles S. Allen, secretary of the Wholesale Coal Trade A ssociat ion of New York. Mr i. Al len saidi that his statement was '"hased upon a consensus of opin ion of membters of tha t associat ion ''whtich he adIded was du te to the ae - tioni this week of Attorney Geii nra Palmer in calling upon the 'oaI (opera-1 toris to t ake steps to reduce pirices andi eliminato profiteeriing.'" Ma king public a telegram sent byv Attorney G;eneral Palmer to the coa I opecrntois of Northern West Viregin ia. utrging them to use their ~influence in other dlistrcic'ts to redunce prices aind thus ''lighten the work oif the IDe I aritment of Ju ist ic hv reduinen the . . . ." a I. m .. , : t t a &a Le Most tbly what you wil thes this fall. B i mistake. The cket, it's in the cl 1at you get in it. dffner & S THE MOST well and retain cheaper after all MARX Clothes :ed. real economy i hing number of prosecutions to be inst i tuted for violation of the Lever act in ellarging unreasonable prices" Mr. Allen said: "Among the New York wholesalers the opinion is gencral that Mr. PalnCr has decided to give the operators an oppotrunity to remedy conditions &t ) the source of supply, and if this att tion is not forthcoming they see a veiled suggestion in the last lines of the telegram that prosecution to ind high prices at the sources of produe tion will fI&llowv." The orternWest Virginia crpera adlopted a .set of resolutions which re duced thc price of coal at the mines in that section, not already unde'r con tract at low figures, from $14 to 6. Attorney General Palmer according to Mr. Allen asked the national coal as sociation to take similar action andl the association had referred the reso lutjions to its federal ielations com.. mittee, andl~ they will pru.bably "soon become a reality." The national association mumbers amiong itS members more thai :3,000 Let The CI I STORE ~ Old Wareh month, and or fractiona 9 Issue State Warehiouse dI John D. For Y I think about v e careful, think saving on a suit othes. The sty: Marx Cl FOR YOU ! their appearan( We are sellin on the closest i n buying here. ~ompi SUITEf um:mm1?u.mnunnmm::uunm h4 biggest producers in the country, Lad if adoption of the resolutions has m effect similar to that which oc urred in Northern West Virginia, a harp decline in prices throughout the ountry will follow." EATING THE 11LL WEEVIL WITH GUERNSEYS Clemson College, October 19.-1 n 1917 the First National Bank of ?lorcee finaned~ the purchase of hree earloads of high grade Guern sey calves fc-r dlistribution in Flor ~nee territory. The plan of the Ex enision Service county agent and lairy husbaLndmana, who p)romoted .he ide'a, wast to distribute these ani nials su that by the time the boll veevil r'eacd that. territory soe >4 the farmtmr might have founda ion for nice little herds of high ~radle 'Guerneseys. -~ -hit-s;:s far niers .ndl Club Roey. took advantage ,f this opportuniity, and 8() of these tre novu devedoping Guernsey herds. County Ager t, J1. W. McLendon in recend report calls atte*nt ion to the YOUR CDO ouse Rates, 75c. per 60c. for each month I part thereof. We < ALSO, Warehouse Remiptms u for 75c. per ble~( p< Gerald., UMrnnuumuuU~uwpn ou? hen you well, and isn't usu le, tailor othes :e longer, HART nargin of mecess of one of these farmen. [-'ayt Hill, as an illustration of tLn uccess with which the plan has vwA. Sfr. Fayt purchased one of the h..i Irs for $65.00, and from this oevo nal purchase he now has a very s resting development. The o nal heifer has developed into a te milk cow. She will freshen again xe January, 1920. Her first calf is !t milking, has a fine heifer calf rue months old, and has bred to frU- s1 e again in May, 1921. Tfhe secontd -WV: of the original heifer was a br Mr. Ilill values the two grown~ a3u mais at. $250.00 each, the taut z $75.00, and the heifer (all at:5%. This makes a total valuatijon 4 $650.00 from the original mrved3. ment of $G5, wvhich means that w~~ the expenditure of some ec a feed he hane increatsed his inves;t ae~3m ten- fold in three years. H~eled cou rse very much delighted t hati .mde the first purchase when he ca and shows his enlthuIsialsm for Guero sc ys by the fact that he has r'e::ta purchased a very line regist' erd: C uernisey from the famous (oeurv herd at Wisacky. ehouse Co, ITON li bale, first thereafter, :an t Gerald's .er month.