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Watcli Label on Tour Paper /Tf I 1 ^(|#a4 444^ | ^ The Date on the Label is the as* v!/|lv miluntSFraUl. ?" F"~wm" ??? ?? ? ????| ESTABLISHED 1894 THE DILLON HERALD, DILLON. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY >1011X1X0, MARCH 10, 1921. VOL.27. N<L ML ^ 1 \ REDUCTION IS ONLY HOPE FOR COTTON No Relief is to be Obtained from Foreign Countries is View of Paul Priieger. "It is only to be hoped that the American planter will see the danger of the situation, and will reduce his acreage to a minimum. It is the only salvation for the spinner as well as for the planter." Thus writes Mr. Paul Pflieger, ot Ghent, Beffeium, continental representative of John F. Maybank & Co., of Charleston to his firm, who ig rep reseniea in rlorence Dy Mr. Armur M. McCall, whom they have sent a copy of the letter. Mr. McCall has handed this letter to the Chamber of Commerce for use as information to the cotton planters in this section. The letter, in full, is as follows: "Ghent, Belgium, Feb. 11, 1921 "Messrs. John F. Maybank & Co., "Charleston, S. C., "Dear Sirs: "My object in writing present lettei is to make you further acquainted with conditions prevailing 011 this side: "The situation has remained unchanged since writing you last, and j there can be no thought whatever of any business in Belgium. Spinners continue to resell their cotton j amougst themselves, at anything they ^ can get for it for the sake of making j 14 money, and to delay the. financial crisis. They are supplied for at least j 5 to 6 months ahead on account of the enormous short time they had to^ worn on, m oruer noi u> increase j their already very big stocks of yarns. | "1 have told you before that, dur-: ing the whole of this season, Texas | and. Oklahoma-Texas cotton has been much cheaper than other; growths so practically no cotton other! than Texas and Oklahoma-Texas has' been brought here, i "As I see the situation here, Bel-j glum spinners must haye lost approx- j imately 100 million francs this season. Delay after delay of shipment is! being asked for, and our competitors, * who have come out all the time with' extremely low prices, and who got sol to say most of the business done, re now in a terrible fix- Drafts, for cotton already shipped and invoiced, have to be renewed. Under these circumstances, we can only be glad we have not done any business, 1 can even say that 1 have not been too eager to sell cotton for any of my firms. "The situation of our spinners is really so deplorable, that it is almost a necessity for the American firms to help them. I must say that so far Belgian spinners have all behaved extremely well, as it has come to my knowledge that a good manyi French spinners have simply cancelled their contracts leaving the American shippers to get out of the situation as well as they could. Of course, law suits might be made, but it is really questionable whether much will be obtained by them. ii x s oniy 10 ue nopea inat me ^American planter will see the danger; the situation, axxd will reduce his acreage to a minimum. It is the only salvation for Ihe spinner as well as for 'he planter. "Unless the market improve^ very much within the next few months, 1 i am afraid that many failures will have to be recorded. "1 am enclosing letter treating the: questi6n of the shore risk clause, and : shall thank you to give this matter # your best attention, and to advise as soon as possible. "I am, dear sir, "Very truly yours. , "PAUL PFL1EGBR." ,?o Town Prlniary Next Tuesday. Very little interest is manifested in the town primary to be held next ' Tuesday in which a mayor and coun-l cil will be elected for the ensuing two J years and two commissioners of pub.-! tic wurKs lor ioiir aim six years, niayf or Hamer has announced that he will i , stand for re-election, and so far there j ) have been no other announcements?! There have ben no announcments for k alderman and commissioners of public works. The time for filing pledges k Is up at 12 o'clock Monday. The book*1 of enrollmnt are open at Moody s' k Drug Store" Arrangements are being made to a have addresses at the court house " Monday night at 7; 30 o'clock by ,^thv> >/ \ vseveral candidates. Eve*y cand it. ; will be present ena will discuss >wW.i ^ Issues. P k OFFICERS CAPTURE STILLS w i ^ , ./* Rural Policeman John McCracken; P - ' wag nosing round the backwoods on i the A. K. McLellan Little Rock place j P last week and ran across a crude still from which the liquid fire was\ P atlll oozing. There was no one pres-1 ent to claim the contraption, but j A .later in the day Officer McCrackan W,.' fastened the* evidence on Andy NlcbJh ols, and now Nichols is bound over to ~ court in the sum of $200, ? n Abram Thompson and Henry Wllllamson, tenants on one of Mr. Mc? J,el bin's places across the river, were W Caught with the goods by Sheriff Be& thea and both deposited $200 bonds for their appearance ut the next term of pourt. Abraham and Henry denied jb all* knowledge of the transaction, but iX the still wait warm when Sheriff Bogy thea came upon the pair and they at. had no chance to prove an alibi. Last Jg week was a blue week for the fel1/pws who make the stuff. DOES FERTILIZER PAY? I don't think any of the calculations offered to induce farmers to use fertilizer, and to use it abundantly, are correct. They claim that all things being equal the proper use of fertilize^ will very materially increase the yield. I agree that this far is correct, and no one disputes it, but let's go further. Let's take cotton for instance. They claim that an acre of land that Will r?f I aol 9 ? ?? ^ AA * - .. ... w?. avovai JJ1UUUIC 1UV PUU11US Ol seed cotton, by the use of 400 pounds of 8-3-3 will produce 800 pounds of seed cotton. Now they will say that the 400 pounds of cotton produced without the use of fertilizer, at 4 cents per pound would bring $16, the 800 pounds at 4 cents per pound will be $32; deduct $10 for the fertilizer and you will have $22 against $16 for the acre without fertilizer? leaving u net balance in favor of the acre with fertilizer of $6. They don't figure tlie hauling, handling and sowing the fertilizer, nor do they figure picking the 400 pounds of extra cotton and handling that, nor the difference in the price of a big crop of cotton and a small crop. Now I would figure it this way. Admitting that the 400 pounds of fertilizer would double the yield or pioduce 4 00 pounds more of seed cotton, I don't admit that when you double the crop it will sell for the same price?not by any means. If the 800 pounds of seed cotton per acre with the 4 00 pounds of fertilizer represent about the normal crop of about 12,000,000 bales, the 4 cents per pound is about a fair price for it anH tho 111 '< -v? * ?1?4 - ? vmv v u m ao juoi aui?UL w licit it will bring. Now for the 4 00 pounds 8-3-3 fertilizer at $10 hauling, handling at $1, and picking and handling the extra 400 pounds cotton $4? this gives us $15 expense on account of the fertilizer, this from $32 leaves us $17. Now what about no fertilizer and 400 pounds seed cotton to the acre?' Let's see how we start on this?well, calculate on the same basis. If the 800 pounds per acre gave us a 12,000,000-bule crop, then of course 400 pounds per acre, will give us a 6,000,000-bale crop. Now does anybody think that a 6,000,000-bale crop will sell for the same price as a 12,000,000-bale crop? I am sure not. It will bring three times as much per pound. But just to be liberal, we will just assume that it will bring twice as much per pound. Now we figured the other at 4 cents per pound for the seed cotton, so we will figure this at 8 cents per pound for the seed cnttnn This urin ?! "> ? ? ><> ...... . ...w TV ASA give UO f O 41 for thin acre of 4 00 pounds and no fertilizer bill to pay, no fertilizer to haul and handle, and no extra 400 pounds cotton to pick and handle, and w?e will get in cool cash the difference between $17 and $32-?which is $15 in favor of the acre with no fertilizer. The fertilizer man is ready t o say that this isn't fair and that the farmer must not make more than he has a good demand for and that a fewer acres well-fertilized will yield the amount more economically. Well, this might be true in a measure, but the average farmer figures that the more ne makes, the more he will get. o SUPREME COURT HOLDS MARION MAX DID NOT BIXK'KARK. Washington, Feb. 28?Today the Supreme Court of the United States reversed Judge Smith, of the Federal District Court of Eastern South Carolina in the case of Eawrence Amos, of Marion county, an alleged "blockade" whiskey sellei, on giounds involving the search of premises by Fedeal revenue agents without a warrant. The Supreme Court declared such search unconstitutional. Amos was indicted on six counts, on four, of which he was acquitted, but was convicted on counts of removing whiskey on which the Federal tax had not been paid and of selling whiskey without payment of the federal tax. It was brought out ill the trial before. Judge Smith's court that P. J. Coleman and O. A. Rector, reveuue agents, went toAmos' hou8e to search the premises, stating that they were officers. Amos wife said* he was not at home but she permitted the search and the agents found 1 n a barrel of peas a bottle containing about half a pint of blockade whiskey and under a quilt two quart bottles of similar liquor. They had no soarch warrant and no war uiui mr me arrest or Amos. They submitted as evidence a small quantity of liquor which they said was from the bottleB which they found in Amos' house. Justice Clark writing the opinion of the Supeine Court declares that the cross examination of the government witnesses shows clearly the unconstitutional character of the seizure by which the property which the government introduced as evidence was obtained. Contention th^ the constitutional rights of the defendants were waived by the act of his wife'admitting the searchers is not sustained, the highest court holding that there was implied coercion in the circumstances. Th? Supreme Court remands the matter for further netle? i- ---?1 ^ ?wv V-W|| ill ?VW1 VI" unce with the decision announced today. o Millionaire clubmen acted as stokers on a Swedish liner bound for New York when the regular crew of firemen struck for higher wages. L' ^ A* i ^ ^. u A r4M bd Cl'T CROP IN HALF. Soulh's Only Hop? lies in Fifty Percent Reduction. Mr. T. B- Stack house, .for many years president of the Bank of Dillon, and now president of the Standlard Warehouse Co., sees no hope for the south unless the cotton acreage is 'reduced at least 50 percent. Mr. Stackhouse has thousands of bales [ OS cotton stored in hig various ware-! bouses, and standing between pro-, ducer, banker and spinner, he is in position to view the situation from' its several angles. Mr. Stackhouse thinks the south would be far better ol'f not to plant a hill of cotton, but says it may be able to pull through' t hn nrnconl erioio vm*? V-? o C A ? ( ?..v |f vuviit. Viioio n Iiu CI UV J/rivrill 1 reduction in acreage, j Following is a copy of a l^?ter which Mr. Stackhous^ has just written to one of th,. largest planters in ithe Pee Dee country in response to a letter from the planter asking for information on the cotton situation: "I am in receipt of your favor of \ the 5th instant and, in my opinion, if not more than one-fourth of the fertilizer used last year is used by the southern cotton growers in 11>21 1 it will not materially help those who are holding 1920 cotton until the size of the 1921 crop is known, for the reason that the world will not believe in a small cotton crop until the 19 21 | crop is harvested. Not less than a 50 percent reduction in last year's acreage will help the farmer get better prices for the 19 20 and 1921 crops, j Te^s and Oklahoma farmers sold last fall at from two and three times j today's prices, and in my opinion will plant freely this year. Mr. J. M. Mil' ler, president of the First National llank of Richmond has recently sent lout to customers of his bank a letter from which 1 quote as follows: I "In our judgment the cotton and ! tobacco already on hand in this coun-; ! try together with not over a half a !ciop for the coming year is all that j the world will be able to purchase | and pay for at reasonable prices." His opinion is sustained by the, most noted cotton authorities in Eng-' land, France and Belgium. This morning's paper states that twenty four mills in Spain have shut 'down, and the remaining mills are I running on half time. A recent letter |to Mr. Maybank, of Charleston from jhis Brussells correspondent states j ' Chat the Belgium cotton mills are; I selling their cotton for whatever they {can get for it, and that mills in France running are doing so at ,an enormous loss. I hold in my hand a card signed i "Dr. Bradford Knapp" from which I quote as follows: I "Get it out of your head that anything but the supply and the world's ability to buy fixes the price of cot-| | ton." i This quotation is followed by a statement that there is now enough : cotton in the world to last about two years. i I heard one of the largest manufacturers in the Piedmont section of this state made the statement last" Saturday that the southern cotton mills were facinu as mean conditions as the cotton farmers of the state now face, in that their warehouses were full of manufactured goods for which there was no market and a great deal of the goods made out of : high priced cotton. Under all these conditions it seems to me worse than folly for South Carolina to grow cot-' ton in 1921. My interest in this matter is whol-' ly impersonal, as I haven't a bale of cotton, spots or futures. Very truly, T- B. STACKHOUSE. ? COUNTRY CLUB TO ALLAY FEELING-1 I i At a meeting Wednesday night of the Marion and Mullins people held in the Marion Chamber of Commerce hall lor the purpose of discussing the feasibility of a country club to be located on the Marion-Mullins road a, committee of five was appointed to; investigate the matter of a site and formulate a plan for organization. i r H. L. Til gh mail, of Marion, acted: as chairman at the meeting. He appointed on the committee S. W. | Norwood and J. M. Johnson, of Mar! ion, and H. O. Schofield, T. L. Smith, J and K. J. Williams, of Mullins. The committee met this afternoon for the ' purpose of investigating prospective sites for the club house and golf ! links. i Several enthusiastic talks were I made at the meeting and from the general spirit exhibited it appeared i that Marion and Mullins could get I together on the question of a golf I club and put the proposition over] For a long time the spirit of rivalry | between the towns of Mullins and ; Marion has been keen to almost a ! point of bitterness. It is believed that a country club of this sort where citizens of both towns will be thrown together in a pleasant way will tend to eradicate unfriendly feeling. j i ne aisiance between the two ; towns is nine miles and the road 1 good the entire way. There are several stretches of ground along the road which will make good golf courses. The plan ls to locate the club as near midway as possible. According to plans discussed last night, a stock company composed of Marion and Mulling citizens will purchase the property. Arrangements will be made to let others in on , minimum dues. DILLON MAX PRAISES ANCOXAS.| Col. G. G. McIjHurin Says Little Ajicona Ik a Living Djniimo. ??? The following is taken from Monday's issue of the News and Courier: The "little speekeled hen" or Mottled Ancona is fortunate in having a bunch of real boosters in^South Carolina. During the poultry show and meeting at Columbia last fall the breeders of this variety got together for the express purpose of organizing a strong Ancona movement in this state with a view to bringing out a big string of Acnonas at Columbia this year. The success of this movement is evidenced by a letter just received from G. G. McLaurin of Dillon president of the South Carolina Ancona Club. Mr. McLaurin is a strong be ..v.v. ... ..is luiuiun auu uui'HH U1CIU against all comers. He says, "when you tie to the little speekeled hen you have a living dinamo?no dead wood to struggle with." The Anconu leader expects to have a good line of birds out this fall and says in his letter "1 have been doing considerable work for our little club since its organization, and have had fairly good response fioni the Ancona breeders. 1 have secured pledge* already, for more than 100 entries for our next annual meet, which will probably be held in connection with the State Fair. With a little assistance on your part, and with the boosters we are enlisting, 1 feel safe in saying that it will be only a short time before our breed will constitute the greatest display at the show." Mr. McLaurin lays stress on the gieat amount of good to be accomplished by a little organization work. He points ou t that his efforts and the efforts of those who are backing him in the movement, have brought forth good results. Other breeders who are interested in bringing out a fine line of Anconas this year are: Wendell M. Levi, of Sumter, vice-president; ;J. W. Cot uen, 01 Columbia, secretary - treasurer; Mike L. Itoof, New Brooklyn; J. F. Monroe, Greenwood; E. L. Sharps, Columbia; W. A. Axon, Spartanburg; Thos. F. Hogan, Columbia; F. R. Rister, Chaplin; Chas. M- Watson, Navy Yard and Mrs. H. H. Withers, Columbia, members of the executive board. The motto of the club is "the hen that lay8 when others lay down." 9 JAS. H. BKItRY KILLS HIMSELF Closeting Himself in an Outhouse Sends Bullet Through His Brain. Mr. Jas. H. Berry, a well known farmer of the Floydale section, killed himself at an early hour Friday morning. The weapon used was a 32 calibre pistol. The bullet entered at tht. right temple and was found just underneath the skin of the left eye. Death was instantaneous. The news of the tragedy was a great shock to the entire community, as no one had the slightest suspicion that Mr. Berry contemplated so rash an act. Mr. Berry was in town Thursday anernoon talking with rrienas and appeared to be in the best of spirits. He closed a contract for his year's supply of guano and returned home late in the afternoon. After supper he sat round the fireside and talked with his family, but as the evening wore on he lost his cheerfulness and seemed to lapse into a depressed mood. He retired at his usual hour, but was restless during the night. He arose at his usual hour next morning and went out to look after his stock, and when breakfast was ready a member of his family went out to look for htm- He was found in <111 outhouse near the barn, sitting upright, with a ghastly pistol wound in his right temple. It had not been many minutes since he had left the house, and the pistol shot was not heard, but when his body was found lifp wsis pvlinrt Mr. Berry, it was learned, had been dispirited for some time. About 25 years ago he purchased the place on which he was living and had enjoyed undisturbed possession of it for a Quarter of a century. He was an excellent farmer and had developed it into one of the most fertile plantations in the county. About a year ago a suit was instituted against him in the circuit court of Dillon county by some heirs who claimed the property. Mr. Berry lost his suit In the lower court, bat took the case up to the supreme court where It is still pending. One of his neighbors who acquired part of the same original tract years ago discovered the same cloud on his title, and after the matter had run the course of the courts and had gone against him made a settlement with the heirs in order to retain title to the property. It is thought that Mr. Berry had brooded over the probable loss of his land and the present serious depression through which the country is passing until he became temporarily unbalanced . He was a strong, robust mnn who still had many years of usefulness before him, and his tragic taking off is deeply regretted by all who knew him. He was buried at Latta Saturday afternoon, and in the Latla News Department of this iBsue will be found an extended account of his funeral and his family history. o America is furnishing to France wooden houses. They are ready cut, consisting of three rooms and a shed and occupying about 22 square feet., \ WOMAN CHAKOES ASSAULT. A rather unusual ease came before Magistrate -Haselden Monday when a white woman charged that she had been assaulted, but udinitted that she con Id not remember the name of the! man who assaulted her. The woman lives in the western part of the coun-, ty, and has long since passed middle J age. She claimed that a man she* knew but whose name she did not! recall entered her home and assault-1 ed her. Questioned in Magistrate Has-i eldeti's court she charged several dif-; ferent men with the crime, but lat-; er withdrew the chargs. Then she] seemed to have an Inspiration and said the Lord had just told her that her assailant was Beachman Cox, a negro who lives on Dr. J. 11. David's place near town. Cox was brought j before Magistrate Haselden and subjected to a rigid cross examination,, but he claimed that while he knew the woman her accusations were ab-1 solutelv false. He proved by reliable] witnesses) that he went away Saturday night, tlu> night the crime is al ' li ged to have been committeed, and did not return until Monday morn-1 ing. He also introduced witnesses j who helped hint in establishing an alibi. Cox was bound over to court, but there seems to be some doubt as to the sanity of ill*, woman who charges him with the crime. FOOLISH PEOPLEBill Johnston let his cow get out and eat Jim Turner's corn- Jim, he took his shot gun down and plugged one through the horn. Bill's little boy came in and told his father all about it, and Bill ht. swore, his hair he tore,-he raved and fumed and shouted. And then forded into town to buy some ammunition. He swore he'd shoot all things of Jim's he found on his plantation. On reaching home he cleaned his gun, oiled it inice and neat. He knew Jims cliick ens. wouiq dp iounu devouring nis wheat. And when they come," hp told nip wife, "just view me kill and slay. I'll show Jim Turner shooting is a game that two can play. Old Bill was sure some mad guy when he heard of Jim's big threat, and talked of telling the revenue's who made that county wet. Then their wives, they met oae day down at the village store. Mrs. Johnson thought it was the time , to even up a score- Said she to Mr. I Turner's wife, "You know that its a fact, you're alwavs geeting things from nie and you never pay them back. I've loaned you flour, meat and lard, coffee, tea and cabbage. A person who won't pay their debts is worser than a savage." Then Mrs. Turner, she got mad and started in to say a lot of how those Johnson kids fought her little boy at play. Thus it went from bad to worse, and ended in a fight. The mayor sent them both to jail, and there they spent the night. If Bill had fixed that pasture fence so that it would hold his cattle, and Jim had used some common sense instead of getting rattled, and then if those two women folks had put their heads together and tried to stop that II w >1 iali m-ev inslpiifl <it' fifrh + ine eni-li other, then all this would have ne\er been, and they would still bo friends. It don't take much to start a row, but a lot to make it end. The Turner kids and Johnson kids met one morning on the sly to play the childhood games again as in the days gone by. It was not long till sad to say, a dirty light got started but sister she got on the j >b and soon had them parted. Don't worry, they will make up soon, through now with rage they art brimming, for little kids have got more sense than grown up men and women. I' <"(*inty Commissioners Organize The new commissioners, appointed under the recent county government act. held their first meeting Tues day. The old commissioners met with them and wound up last year's business. The commissioners organized by electing J. H. McLaurin, chairman. J. Hen Edwards was elected clerk, W. C. Moore was re-elected county attorney and Dr. L- R. Craig was reelected county physician. J. C. Adams was elected county commissioner. The board is composed of one commissioner from each township, and the personnel of the commission is as follows: J. H. McLaurin, Manning; I I). C. Manship, Kirby; J. B. Arnette,| Hillsboro; H. A. Hasty, Harlleesville; Jan McLellan, Car ink had. Mr. T. W. Berry was named as commissioner from Uethea, but as Mr. Berry is a member of the State Board of Review and the constitution prohibits! th e holding of more than one office of honor or profit, Mr. Berry did not qualify, ard asked that his successor1 bo appointed. o Finest Times Coming. i The Walton, Ga., Tribune says that the hard tines grouch should con ?iu?r me siory 01 ino man who was j really "up against It" I "His horse went dead and his mule wont lame, 'And he lost his cow in a poker game, I And a cyclone came on a winter day I And blew the house where he lived away; Then an earthquake came when that was gone And swallowed the ground th?t his house was on; Then the tax collector, he came around And charged him up with the hole in the gfounu." T SMITH TO DIRECT COTTON INtjiUtK. Will Ascertain Volume of t'otttm OA ' Hand and (Quality of tirades. t Washington, March 7.? Senator B- t D. Smith of South Carolina. i? en s route home for the purpose of ad-r s justing his affairs preparatory to r what promises to be a long absence- e The South Carolina senator is a membei ot the subcommittee which, un- f. der the authority of his own amend- sr' ment, will make a general investiga- h tion of the cotton situation. The subcommittee will ascertain ,s the amount of cotton actually on hand d tn the United States and its grades. The cotton producer has been sucb y a sufferer, according to Senator Smith,, from inaccurate reports of "cotton on hand", which reports are t always greatly in excess of the actual 0 quantity, and thus depress the market, that is absolutely tucessary that j the truth be ascertained. ^ The subcoiumitiee will visit New e York and possibly New Orleans. The revelations will bo followed by legia- ~ lation as result <_ i which the jrove.ru inent will be equipped lor secur- . ing only accurate estimates. ' c COl NT\ M:\YS Miittuni. * ( Misses Mary and Julia Cd wards 'spent the past week end with Mrs. Jelin Hargrove in Dillon. Miss Ruth Hodges of Brownsville? visited Miss Annie Henegan last week. : Mrs. Clarence McLaurln entertained quite a few of the young people? Wednesday evening. Dancing ancf 'numerous games ot cards were enI invert and rteliirhtfill nnimh wn? ?prv !ed by Mrs. McLaurin. A number of the Minturn folk enrjoyed "The Wotnanless Wedding," at Carolina I- riday evening. Miss Effie Evans spent the week end with Miss Verna McQueen. Mr. John Hugh McCormac of the | Marion school spent Sunday hero with, i his parents. ' Mr. Mack McQueen visited bio grandparents, Mr. and M>3. Mac Carj michuel in Dillon last week. Miss Annie Henegan spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. H. C. Haiuer of Clio. The Ladie's Missionary Society ol : the Reedy Creek Presbyterian church held its monthly meeting on last Thursday afternoon wit Mrs. It. M. 1 Evans. Floydale Rev. P. K. Crosby utid family vi? ited friends at Nichols the past week. Miss Rosa Dreher spent the week end with Misg Katie Connelly at Smithboro. Mr. and Mrs- A. C. McDonald and Mr. and Mrs. Percy McDonald spent Sunday in Latta with friends. Little .Miss Janet Stackhouse spend the week end with Mrs. K. B. Hodgesat Brownsville. Our community was shocked and s-.uldened over the death of Mr. J. HN Berry, and the de? pest sympathy goes out to them from the entireneighborhood in their sad boieaver.ient. Mr- and Mrs. II. i>. Hodges spent I'. n ay with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Slack. 1 oust* Mrs. A. B. McElyea (Aunt Becky> i.- expected thig week to visit Mrs. J. L McLaurin. o OAK DROVE. Hoc Inlay Party. On Saturday afternoon, March 5. from 3 to a o'clock, Miss Annie Ruth Fair was at home to a tew of her friends and classmates. After twoguessing contests, over which the gills hud much fun. i rizos were awarded to Misses Mollie Wise unci Bcuiah Briginan. After several other rallies were played the guests were summoned to the dining room where delightful refreshments were served. The birthday cake wag very pret-< ty, decorated with fifteen tiny white candles in white rove bud holdersBefore leaving the dining room oacb> girl drew u souvenir from a basket suspended from the light. This was si most enjoyable sifter noon for all present. Oak Grove j The second quarterly conference for the Brownsville charge ^41 t>? held at New Holly Monday afternoon March 21st, at three o'clock. ; Mr. Tracey E. Fore recently lost by fire about thirty bales of cotton* which was stored in a Lorn on hit. Biowns Creek plantation. Nineteen bales were entirely consumed, therest being badly scorched. The origin of the fire is unknown. Mr. .S. W. Eppa, farm demonstra'-tion agent for this county arid dir. Willianig who is also engaged in ttils Work, but of statewide scope, visited the Oak Grove school one day fast week and each made good talk* in the interest of their work- Quttc a number of the boys expressed a desire to do club work this year. I The good wather of the past few ueekg has been beneficial to farm work nnH mnnv farmaM ?v? rapid headway along this line. So far very little Kuano ha* keen shipped into this section and th? general opinion is that it will be Med around here in very limited <i?aatities. o 4 C. C. Graham spent Tuesday fm Sumter oa business. ^4 ^ ......