' OCTB WILL OOa IN
J TOBACCO CROP.
, X Action Taken on Anfkorttjr Voted by
1 Convention of Association i
Lnet Week.
\ A reduction of 23 1-S per cent of i
the 1921 tobacco crop, compared with1
that of 1920, waa determined upon
Monday at Florence by the executive
^ committee of the South Carolina Tobacco
association, acting upon authority
voted it by the'convention of the
association there last week. Enactment
of a compulsory tleing and grading
law is expecte^ to curtail further
the production, as T. Benton Young,
secretary of the association, stated according
to the statement of the committee.
Immediately upon passage of the
rnanlntlnn fnr rmliiAHA. Af#ieial */*
t vviuvitVUi Vft* IWtm UV"
tlco Wt? sent to North Carolina that
her Bister state is with her for the
betterment of the tobacco industry.
The wire to F. D. Carr of Wilson, as
follows:
"Executive association of state association
today passed resolution to
reduce tobacco acreage in thlB state
by one-third also favoring passage
of law forcing grading and tieing
which means another large cut in
production. This bill will likely pass.
Committee feels that this state will
bQ keeping good faith with her
sister states in this movement on
this basis in view of the fact that we
cut over 18,000.000 pounds last
year, and we call upon our sister
states for faithful performance of
our mutual obligations."
Probably thQ best indication of the
reduction sentiment in South Carolina
lies in the information which the
secretary placed before the commltijl
& wee? ?t>talned U in a con sub of the
?^^>here last week. Of thoBe atf
1 ceeeOthe meeting 23 6 expressed
/' an?1>i>?''ve8 on reduction, with the
-^.ng results?six for 50 to 100
\ /tent, reduction; 119 for 50 per
V. flat cut, one for 40, 21 for
M 'J 1-3, eight for 25, one for 20, 58
daurh/ or cuttinS but not stating any
lives 1 >m?unt, 13 did not express themsel.es,
and seven favored two to two
y and one-half acres to the horse,
yj- Steps were taken also to get en/
acted into law a bill now pending in
the general assembly to compel tteing
and grading of tobacco in South
Carolina. In urging the support of
this measure, W. E .Lee, of Titnmons.
ville, submitted an interesting comnarisnn
hptwpon retnrno nf tnhannn
crops in North and South Carolina,
for the past ten >ears. Including a
phenomnal return in 1919, when
North Carolina averaged 51 cents
above South Carolina, the northern
state has received $38,714,000 more
for her crop than the southern state.
Other years. North Carolina has received
an average of five to six cents
per pound more than 3outh Carolina.
On this basis, excepting the unusual
year, Bhe would have made $13,367,000
more than this state.
A special committee on ways and
means to effect this program and to
v watc h legislation was appointed.
(Members are B. F. Williams of Darlington,
chairman; S. B. Poston of
Johnsonville; W. E. Lee of Timmonslille;
C. O. Dixon of Mullins; T. Benton
Young of Florence, secretary.
The legislature will be asked also,
upon adoption of the grading and tieing
act, to adopt in South Carolina
| the North Carolina schedule of wareI
k house charges, which are a reduc
.tion.
Tvl, Besides adopting these very special
fie policies, the committee stressed
I the fact that tobacco planters if they
hope to make anything on their
crops this year, must turn their attention
wholly to quality of production,
and not to quantity. Where
1 available, also they urge using home
grown seed of successful types.
I Three important resolutions were
passed. One of these requested the
I general assembly to invite Mr. Aaron
Sapiro of San Francisco, Calif., who
. spoke here last week and made a
most impressive presentation, to address
the legislature on marketing
' legislation. Another' extended sincere
thanks to the extension service at
? Clemson college, and recognized Dr.
W. W. Long, director, as "of invaluf
able service to his state and one
11 tinn whnni wo are itenenHinc fnr
| leadership in helping us to solve our
serious problem of marketing." The
} other one, in full is as follows:
"Whereas our production questions
have in a large measure been at least
temporarily solved, and whereas, it is
urgent now, to look to and emphasize
more the question of developing the
marketing side of agriculture.
"Be it resolved by this executive
committee of the South Carolina Tobacco
association and the organization
committee of the Tri-State Cooperative
Marketing association that
the extension forces of this state be
called upon to exert every effort in
that direction; and that we meraorallze
the legislative delegations
from the tobacco counties that the
usual appropriations for this extension
service be taken care of by
fc th0 legislature now m session.
" "Signed by every member as fol?lows:
S. B. PoBton of John ^nville;
R. E. Currin of Florence; T. i Smith
?of Mullins; R. M. Johnson <1 St.
Charles, E. E. McOill, of Darlington,
^ B. F. Williamson of Darlington, N.
r - a. mcMiuan or Muuins, w. fci. L<ea or
_ |kv Tim.mon8ville, W. C. Hemingway of
9 to h Hemingway, J. Rusnell Williams of
Hi Monks Corner, W. H. Andrews of AnJ
^ drews.
mjT^' Bright Williamson of Darlington,
% Dr. W. W. Long of Clemson college,
Mr. Young, Mr. Poston and P. A.
? Burroughs of Conway, will go to Raleigh,
N. C., next Friday to attend the
? organization committee for the Tri-1
State Tobacco Growers Co-operative!
? Marketing association.
?WANNAMAKER GETS I
BAPTIST SCHOOL.1
?Wannauaker, Horry 'county, says
the State, was chosen as the site for
the location of the Pee Dee Baptist
9 high school at a meeting yesterday of
L the educational commission of the
9 general Baptist board. The town of
L Wannamaker offered as an lhduoe1
THE MLLOI
nient the sum of 917,000 and a slf,.
Wanna maker was cboeen from
I among four town# asking for the location
of tke school. These were
| Conway, Loris, Ay nor, and Wauna:
maker offered the least indueemeat
I of all of tke Jowhs but the commission
felt that the school located here
could be used to the best advantage.
Dr. E. S. Reeves of Union was appointed
permanent chairman of the
commission and Dr. E. V. Bailey, of
Hartsville, permanent secretary.
The board of ministerial education
was absorbed into the educational
commission and committees were appointed
to work out details.
The Question of locating the state
Baptist high school will be taken up
tnrffiv hv Ih. ulnnatlnn
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South Carolina Sweet Potato Crop
Worth Ten Million Dollars.
According to the report of B. B.
Hare, Agricultural Statistician Bureau
of Crop Estimates, Department
of Agriculture there were 88,300
acres of sweet potatoes in South Carolina
in 19.20, total production being
estimated at 9,391,200 bushels, and
valued at $10,330,320. The acreage
in Florence county planted to sweet
potatoes was 2,600 acres. The average
yield was 116 bushels the acre,1
the total production being 290,000
bushels valued at $319,000.
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DILJLON LEADS IN
POTATO PRODUCTION.
According to the United States Department
of Agriculture Dillon leads
all other counties in the state in the
production of sweet potatoes per
acre. Last year Dillon county planted
1300 acres in sweet potatoes from
which were gathered 162,000 bushels
with a money value of $178,750.00.
The average yield per acre was
125 bushels. The next highest average
in the state was in Darlington
county which produced 120 bushels
to the acre.
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Hints to Husbands.
When a woman on an allowance
sits around all day saying every
few minutes: "Well, I guess I'll
have to hire Jlggs to cut the lawn,"
and yet lets Jlggs go by five or six
times and doesn't speak to him
about It, the really wise husband
will get out the lawn-mower, hunt
the oil can, fasten the handle on
and get busy.
Finnfgln Fllosofy.
I very year we live knocks another
prop fr'm tinder something we was
mighty sore av whin we were twlnty
or lees.
Not the Only. .
The two foolish persons, from the
North and the South respectively, were
trying to open an old sore.
They had reached the stage where
the southern man asked:
"What about the first battle of Bull
Run?"
"Well, there was some bully running
done after that, also."
?
What Are They?
"Does your daughter attend
school, Mrs. Partington?"
"Yes. she attends one of those
vacation schools."
? t
Cru-ell!
"My old Scotch nnclo Is coming to
this country with his firm's check for
$20.0(10 to pav for a coal mine, und
I'm sorry for him."
i "Why?is the mine a flivver?"
"No, the mine is all right. But my
I uncle is so Scotch It is mighty hard
! for him to 'come across' with thai
runcn money."
His Folded Fleck.
It is perfectly right for a puhlle
speaker who l<as his audience
doubled up with laughter to speak
of his folded flock.
I
Would Pass 'Em Up.
If some folks we know were to
go to the dogs, the dogs would
Immediately change locations.
FINNIGIN FILOSOFT*
Ut alwex seems t' me or inny
Irishman a rotten thing to boast
bt "a masthrrly rethreat.**
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A LINE 0' CHEER
By John Kendrick Bangs.
WEALTH.
In dreaming of the riches I would
win
No fabric weft of millions do 1
spin.
But Just CEO'iZh mv datlv Lille *o
\nd keep the vulpine creditor
away.
With Just a trine more than I can
spend
On needy stranger, or on welcome
friend.
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T. B. McLsmrin Gives Bond.
i
j Pee D?e Advocate.
I The bonds which were mailed tr
Richmond to be signed by Thos. B
M'Laurln, havd been executed an;'
signer Senator John L. McLaur
in and Julian J. Matheson. Th*
amount ia $5,000?being $2,500 or
the indictment l?y D. H. Stubbs lr
the bank caa* and ' $2,500 In th<
warehouse case of the Indictment oi
George Barrett
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IBRALD.DlILOK.flOVTH CABOLH
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ANTS NEVER IDLE
Th?ir Industry Constant Wsbuks 1
\o the Indolent.
(
ObMrvtr Also teea Lnm At HwnwIty
In the PtrfMtlM ef lydM
They Have Ivtlvti
It was Solomon who said, **Oo ta |
the ant, thon sluggard; consider her (
ways, and be wise." Now, If the slug- i
gards In the United States would go i
te Florida, they would hare ample 1
opportunity to acquire wisdom. It Is 1
said that there are more ants te the 1
square mile In Florida than In any 1
other country In the world. There '
are ants which will measure half an
Inch In length, and there are ants so
small that they can scarcely be seen
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A roan, who has had a great deal
of experience with them, said recently:
"The Florida ants will take oat the
lettuce and ether minute seeds from
the soil in which they are planted and
actually destroy the beds. They will
get into pie. pickle, sauce, sirup, sugar
and on meat; will riddle a cake,
or All a loaf of baker's bread till It
Is worthless. All remedies falling,
I took to baiting them near their nests
with slices of meat, bones, apple and
pear parings, and when I had from
50,000 to 100,000 out, would turn a
kettle of boiling water on them. I
killed, during one week, over a million.
In the space of a quarter-acre
lot. and I have almost wiped them
out.
"It is curious and Instructive to
see how promptly the ants which escape
the scalding will go to work tnkIng
out the dead. and. after piling
them outside first, go to excavating i
again and rebuilding their cells and
runways. This being done very quieklv.
the np*t work on hntiil in the lav
ing in of a supply of food, by haulinp
the dead bodies of the hot-water victims
into the storehouses. You may
see a small black ant haulinp and tugplnp
at the carcass of a red unt. twenty
times Its own weipht, and he always
succeeds. In the end. In landinp It In
the warehouse of the colony.
"Next you inay see a sort of ambulance
corps searching for the disabled.
These are taken carefully Into the
underground house, where the surgeons
and nurses are In waiting Then,
too, you may see the timekeepers and
bosses directing this one, or turning
another back on some errand or to
some other duty. There is not a moment's
delay; no halting feet, no ^dle
hands; but all move as If It were their
last day on earth, and this the only
hour left In which to redeem a misspent
life. For lessons In industry
and In perfect government, go to the
ants."
Song "Plugger" Drains Cellar.
They are telling a pood story along
Broadway these days about an earnest
young "song plugger" who wanted a
song pinceu in nevenu rncflmrai acts.
Learning that the actors he was trying
to persuade to sing his number
liked something a little stronger than
half of one per cent he got several
bottles of a liquor called Bourbon and
sent around a quart to each actor,
along with orchestrations of the song.
The hint was a good onp. and the
song went into the acts. On learning
that the actors were singing his song,
this thoughtful young man. so the story
goes, sent around a case of that same
stuff to the homes of each of the actors.
It is said that nearly every actor
In the country now wants to sing the
song, and the boss of the young man
Is trying to think of some appropriate
medal to he struck In the honor of bis
live wire.?New York Sun.
The Best Informed.
The matron of honor at the wedding
had twice been a charming widow before
she married her present husband.
During the preparations for the wedding
she had kept much in the bachground
lest some one would twit her
on being experienced In weddings, but
at the ceremony she came out with
flying colors determined to outshine !
the bride In receiving attention If possible.
And she got It, too.
The ceremony had proceeded without
a hitch until In the middle of one
of the responses, when the little bride
forgot. She hesitated, stammered and
then was silent. For a minute every
one was disturbed and then one of the
ushers leaned over to the matron of
honor. "Prompt her, Marie," he ordered
in a whisper loud enough for
most every one to hear him.
Devloe Saves Cargo Space.
Surprisingly large cargo space charoMorlvc*m
fujA enlnhit- ?
inu - vn11 .> iIIH xisninships
recently built at Newburgh, N.
Y? as a result of a new, patented arrangement
of the twin propeller shafts.
Ordinarily these shafts would have
been mounted In tunnels placed near
the center line of the ship, thereby
breaking up the floor of the after
holds Into useless wings and central
pockets, says Popular Mechanics Magazine.
But the new arrangement
places the two power units as far outboard
as possible in the engine room,
and consequently locates the shafts
along the after hllges and run of the
easel, or In other words, near the
Joints of sides and bottonr.
Let Bob Do It.
Bill--Going to Bob's wedding?
Oil)?No. Pro not.
"Going 40 send your regret a T"
"Not >00. If toe's fool enough to get
married let him do the regretting him
Mtf."
fA, THURSDAY MO*. If IMG, J AMU A]
We clip the following wheeze from
an Indiana Journal. It is not original
with that paper. We print it for two (
reasons:
(1) We hare not printed it before,
in splte of its familiarity.
And (2) it ought to keep the Dem- J
on Illustrator busy for a couple of
days.
Void le wheeze:
A woman who was too economical
to subscribe for her home paper sent
her little son to borrow the copy taken
by their neighbor. In his haste the
boy ran over a four-dollar stand of
bees and in ten minutes looked like
a warty Summer squash. His cries j
reached his father, who ran to his *
assistance, and failing to notice a 1
barbed wire fence ran 'into it, break- <
ing it down, cutting a handful of i
flesh from his anatomv and rnJninc ?
a five dollar pair of pants. The old 1
row took advantage of the gap In the 1
fence and got into the cornfield and 1
killed herself eating corn. Hearing ]
the racket, the mother ran, upset a 1
four gallon churn of rich cream into
a basket of kittens, drowning the 1
whole litter. In her hurry she drop- '
ped and broke, past all hope of mend- 1
ing, a twenty-five dollar set of false '
teeth. The baby, left alone, crawled 1
through the spilled cream and into
the parlor, ruining a twenty-dollar
carpet. During the excitement the eldest
daughter ran away with the hired
man, the dog broke up eleven setting
henR, and the calves got out and
chewed the tails off of four fine
shirts. All to save $2.60.
Moral: Subscribe for this paper at
once and protect yourself from such
calamities.
Lucky
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"After the birth of my F"*
baby I had a back-set," &fel
.' <J writes Airs. Mattie Cross- Ey^T]
^ white, of Glade Spring, I
Va. " I was very ill; HSR?
Pfffl thought I was going to B|M
fc'wisl die. I was so weak- I BEsS
B_ .
couldn't raise my licad to ^
get a drink of water. I
took . . . medicine, yet 1
didn't get any better. 1 Wpfi
was constipated and very
weak, getting worse and
worse. 1 sent for Ca. dui." gSwgj
The Woman's Tonic
M"I found after one bottie
of Cardui 1 was im- HffS
proving/* adds Mrs. MB
Crosswhite. "Six be
At * S> ^ - I
Sues 01 v_araui ana ... I
was cured, yes, I can say HD
they were a God-send to |9|
me. 1 believe I would
have died, had it not been
for Cardui." Cardui has Hfi
been found beneficial In BH
many thousands of other
cases of womanly troubles.
If you feel the need Bgjflj
of a good, strengthen- nBB
ing tonic, why not try
Cardui ? It may be Just
what you need. e|H
2 Druggists 2
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MASTER'S SALE.
3tate of South Carolina, >? f\
County of Dillon.
In the Court of Common ?
1. It. McLaurin, Plaintiff, %
against f I
N. H. L. McLaurin, Kittle J.
Sutherland, Maybelle McLaurin,
Mary McLauiin,
Hallie McLaurin, Imogene
McLaurin and Farmers k
Merchants Bank,
Defendants
Pursuant to an order of hiB Honor,
Sdward Mclver, Judge of the Fourth
fudicial Circuit, the undersigned, as
Master for Dillon county, 'will sell
luring the legal hour8 of sale on the
'iist Monday in February, 1921,
iame being the 7th before the court
house door in the town of Dillon in '
the County of Dillon, in the State 1
^foresaid, at public auction to the
highest bidder the following describ- '
ed property.
Description: ? "All that certain 1
tract of kind in the county and state '
aforesaid, containing one hundred'
acres, more or less, bounded North 1
by lands of D. F. Taylor; east by es- '
Late lands of W. B. D. Hayes; south J
by Buck Swamp Public road, and!'
west by lands of P. C. Henry and,'
McDonald, same being commonly 1
known as the estate lands of Mrs. |
Hettie May Bethea.'" j'
Terms of sale CASH. Purchaser to '
pay for all papers and revenue j
stamps. Any person bidding off the '
said property anj refusing to comply
with hiB bid therefor, said property
will be resold upon the Bame or some
subsequent salesday at the risk of the
former purchaser.
A. B. JORDAN,
1 20 St. Master for Dillon County.
SLOW
DEATH
Aches, pains, n rvousness, difficulty
in urinating, often mean
serious disorders. The world's
standard remedy fcr kidney, liver,
fciadder and uric acid troubles?
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I years. All druggists, in three sires.
1 eak for Ik* nam* Gold Modal oa every box
aad accept bo imitation
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Drag Saws at
As long as our Type "W" Drg S
Bosch Magneto and Lever Contr<
1921, we will make a special pr
on these machines, which means
Columbia Sup
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standard per
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CITATION.
The State of South Carolina, Oouny
of Dillon, by Joe Cabell Davts, Prosate
Judge:
Whereas. Mrs. E. R. Hamer and
Prank H. Daniels have made su?
me to grant unto them letters aoq 'stoq
ministration of the estate and eons
it E. It. Hamer. Qq
These are. therefore, to;* x,MeU f
idmonish all and singular t'0j ^
ind creditors of the said T.
ir, deceased, that they be'
before me, in the Court, . u,}10}8
10 be held at Dillon on f<*,B JOOP ttioq
nary 31 next, after pub Efi
11 o'clock in the foreno:ause,
if any they have v L?.'
administration should not
Given under my hand t?
of January, Anno Domini,
JOE CABELL DA"V
Judge of Prol
1 20 2t. Dillon Coun
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