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' fjpt FACTS ABOUT COTTON. World production of cotton outside of the United States, for factory consumption, has averaged 7,138,900 bales a year for the past 10 years, according to U. S Census figures. Pink boll worm, the most deadly of all enemies of the cotton plant first made its appearance at Hearne Texas, in 1917. Like the boll weevil 1 it came from Mexico. Foreign grown cotton to the number of 682,911 bales was imported into the United States last year. It consisted mostly of Egyptians, and was the largest quantity ever imported. The number of ginneries in the United States in 1919 was 22,418, of which 18,815 were active, and ginned an average of 602 bales each. Of the toal of 18,815 active gins in the United States during 1919 all but 93 were saw-gins. Roller gins are used principally in ginning sea-island cotton and the lOng-stapIe cottons of Arizona and, California. There is now enough cotton in the world, unspun to last nearly two years. The total capacity of gins in the United States indicates that a 12,000,000 bale crop could be ginned in a single month. The total engine horse power employed in ginneries *V? TT? J O*-.* 1-% 1 ni o ? via. Lii0 vinu'u oiuit'S in l J1 o \> Cif> I 973,717. Bolivar Co., Miss., was the only country which ginned more than 100, 000 bales in 1919; seven reported more than 75,000, 25 more than 50.000 and 128 more than 25,000 bales. The cotton crop of 1919 was ginned in 887 counties, of which 308 ginned less than 5,000 bales each. From the year 1900 to the out-; break of the Great War in 1914 the number of cotton spindles has iny creased at the rate of about 3,000,000 every yearSince 1914 the number of cotton spindles fit for use has been reduced from a total of 154,000,000 to a total of 138,000,000, a decrease of 16,000,000 during the six years. in me uniteu aiaie? mere are counties which have more than 100,000 cotton spindles each. Bristol County, Mass., with 7,632,003 cotton spindles, leads all other counties in the total number. Rough Peruvian cotton is used to seme extent for mixing with wool in the making of wool textiles, especially imitation woolens. Chinese and 'Indian cotton is used to a very limited extent for mixingj with American upland cotton in the manufacture of the cheaper grades of goods. Nearly all of the cotton consumed in the United States is domestic upland cotton. The term "upland" is applied to all cotton produced in this country, except sea-island cotton and includes the long staple upland varieties. o RAISE OWN FOOI) THEX OTHER CROPS. C. Fields, Florence County Farmer, Makes Money l>y His Plan Mr. C. Fields, who lives about two miles from town on Route two, says the Timmonsville Enterprise, is one of the few farmers in South Carolina who was not forced to sell any of his last year's cotton crop and yet owes no man a cent. His idea which has proven very successful during the thirteen years he has lived at his , present place has been to raise all his family and farm consumes, sell enough "rough feed," as he calls it, to pay his expenses and raise cotton as a clean surplus. He does not plant tobacco. Makes Money. Thirteen years ago Mr. Fields bought, his present place and went in debt for $500 on the purchase price. Since that time, by farming on a business basis, he has paid off the debt, built hint a fine home, developed his land to where it is in a high state' of cultivation, bought modern farming implements, built good fences, owns all of his stock, purchased two automobiles, lived well, had plenty, enjoyed life, still has his last year's cotton crop on hand, and owes no man any money. He has taught his boys to be workers like himself and although he has only a small farm, when considered in the light of some of his neighbors' acres, he cultivated his own land. He has constantly followed the plan of raising everything he needs on the farm he can raise, have a little surplus left over to sell to his neighbors, and then putting the remainder In cotton. The wisdom of this plan is demonstarted by the success he has made of farming. Ideas of His Own, In conversation with Mr. Fields, he shows that he has ideas of his own and is independent of any one else. "I am a great believer in taking advice?if given by a man who has made a success of the thing he advises on," stated Mr. Fields. "The fellow who talks about something he has made a failure on himself, can keep his advice to himself; I don't want it," he continued. O COAL, TO BE ABANDONED. KlectrlcAl World 1? ComSng Boon Says Wizard Steinmetx. From Brooklyn Eagle. Cooking and heating by electricity is nothing new. Nor is the electrifying of railroads, nor the operating of * factory plants by electricity. But Just at present the cost of electrifying is too high to revolutionize entirely all our domestic life. Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, electrical wizard of world-wide reputation, predicts the day when electricity will be so cheap that it will be universally used, when the government will not allow fires of any kind with in the city limits, because thfey are dangerous, dirty and unsanitary; dangerous because of conflagrations, dirty because of handling the coal and ashes, and unsanitary because of the smoke rantiona. The electrlcaMevelopment is iitill la its Infancy.*' THE DILLON and gases in the air. Will Regulate Temperature. v He says further: "No fires will mean no furnaces in the cellar, no ranges in the kitchen, and no steam power plants. When we use nothing but electrical power for heating, lighting and other purposes, the supply will come through transmission lines from big central stations of many millions horsepower. These stations will be located wherever power is available such as waterfalls, ,coal mines and oil and gas wells. The will eliminate the wasteful process of hauling coal from the mines to the small power houses now scattered all over the country. "All these steps tend toward cheaper electricity. Startling will be the change when this comes. At present when we want to keep warm on a cold day we use a furnace, kitchen range, the fire place and other unsatisfactory and unsanitary methods. In > " *- ' .u mv Duuiiuri, wueu me temperature is above normal, we are practically helpless and have to suffer. Electiic fans give some relief. "When heating is all done electrically and I want 70 degrees in ray! heme I shall set the thermostate at 70 and the temperature will not rise above that point. This temperature will be maintained uniformly regardless of the weather outside. This will also hold true on the warm days when the temperature outside may be 90 or 100 degrees. The same electrical apparatus will cool the air, and what's more it will also keep the humidity normal at all times. Electrical Cooking. "Then, too, there is ventilation, which does not exist in the average home today. At nresent we have in depend on windows, doorways and electrical fans to blow the bad air out and with it we lose,in winter'.niost of th0 heat we produce in our furnaces. When electricity is developed we will have an apparatus for bringing fresh air into the house, destroying thc bad air, and recovering the heat from the warm exhaust air. "Cooking by electricity will also be much more satisfactory. No more coal ranges and a great deal of our frod eau be cooked on tht. table. This can also be automatically regulated. For example, we want to cook a cake. We know this should be at a heat of#220 degrees for a period of 4 0 minutes, so we set the regulator at 230-45 and cease to worry. At the expiration of forty five minutes the heat is automatically turned off. "Entertainment in our homes will also be improved- There will be no need to go to some congested, poorly ventilated hall for a musical concert. We just push a plug into a base re V* ao WC UU iUI Lilt* V clL. U Li Hi cleaner or table lamp, and we can have the concert brought into our homes; also the sermon. "To suppose that we are approaching a limit is absurd. There is no more end to invention than there is to science. Every new scientific discovery gives rise to thousands of in Cord Tiree Standard Equipment Sewn-Passenger Touring Car $lf>3( Poser-Passenger Roadster - $193i Two-Passenger Roadster - $J93i Pour- Passenger Dispateh Car $201( Seven-Passenger Sedan - - $303( Pour-Passenger Coupe - - $29M Umousine $353i {Prion f. o. b. CUotlood, Okie) vnn 1\V/VI Dill THE CHANDLER M< Cfl A N Famous i HERALD, DILLON. SOUTH CAROL] I TALK OF NEW COUNTY. McBee, Chesterfield County Would be Seat of New District. A movement for a new county, with McBee, in Chesterfield county, as | the county seat ig being launched, being a renewal of" an effort made seveial years ago and all but successful, j Attorney General Wolf?; has received a request from Dr. W- E. Williams of McBee for information to , iuv iequu emenis necessary to get the new county established. Dr. Williams j j stating that the movement for the new county was being considered I [ again. ! o | THROAT OF XEtiRO CUT WITH RAZOR, j Marion, March 29??The throat of Lacy Nelson, a young negro man, was cut last night on the Marlon-Mullins| read in front of Wise's chapel, about 9 o'clock, by Walter Crosland, an| As Old as I I Arteries I The doctor can't ^ help it He knows that the man has hard arteries, high blood pressure, and the beginning of kidney and heart disease, due tc constipation. It isn't the other man's fa realized that constipation Year in and year out he 1 mineral waters and salts why his health is so bad. Nujol is for just such cast It works on an entirely n Instead of forcing or irritating t food waste. This enables the m the intestines, contracting and e squeeze the food waste along so the system. Nujol thus prevents constipatio tain easy, thorough bowel move ineaitniest habit in the world. Nujol is absolutely harmless am Nujol it told by (II dru||iili in (ride mark. Write Nujol Laboratori 50 Broadway, New York, for bookie The Modem Method of 7 NuJol i i l__ ??????? |B|/ JSaBJIiw *v High Qua Low Pi The wide popularity and ? of the Chandler Six, and the of the Chandler Company, h pursuance of the Chandler f quality into the car and sel price. Seven Luxurious Boc for the One 1 Each of these bodies is in comfort of its deep restfi every opportunity for relaxa drive or a short one. The f lustre, the upholstery of fin these seven Chandler moc requirements in full measu ERS MO r - v r* on, aoiun i^aro JTOR CAR COMPANY, < IDLER r Its Marvelo INA, nnJRSOAT MORNING, APRIL I other young negro. After a quarrel,! I the two came to blows. Guns were : wrested from them by bystanders, Croslaud sliced Nelson three times in the head and neck with a razor scoring the jugular vein. The wound- i ed negro man was brought to Marion ' . bj Hugh Schoofield, Jr.. of Mullins.! I who was passing in an au omobile. | | Nelson died shortly afterwards as a; I result Of the Cllt in the neck O DILIjON boy starts paper. ??? Thp following is from the Mulling Enterprise: Our neighboring town, Loris, has; begun the publication of a newspaper ; and the people of that section feel ; congratulated on the initial issue' that canie from the p ress last week, i The News is fortunate in having as il3 editor and business manager, Mr.' J. I. Allen, Jr, a prominent young I attorney of that place, a graduate of, Wake Forest with 11. A. and L. L. B. i degree. Since locating in Loris he has built a successful law practices ii! i long neglected, chronic ,ult?directly. He never was a serious thing, has taken pills, castor oil, and now he wonders cs as this, ew principle. he system, it simply softens the any tiny muscles in the walls of xpanding in their normal way, to that it passes naturally out of n because it helps Nature main* iments at regular intervals?the 1 pleasant to take. Try it. tiled bottlei only, bearing Nujol CKj Standard Oil Co. (New Jcricy), t, 'Thirty Feet of Danger". rratlng an Old Complaint <br Constipation Jity at rice distinctive leadership : noteworthy stability ave been built on the >olicy of building real ling it at the fairest lies Are Offered Chassis viting in the obvious j i\ cushions, offering ition either on a long inish is of mirror-like j est quality. One of lels will meet your re. > CO. una CLEVELAND, OHIO S ( X us Mo tor 7, 1921. within the past year, up until the time that he went to Loris he was located in Anderson, associated in the law firm of Bonham & Atkins. (About the best that "an be said of! him is the success that he acquired . whil" in the up-State when he met! and later married Miss Klna Earle Harris, of Gaffney) Mr. Allen is no stranuer in this section, being a native of Dillon, a son of Rev. J. I. Allen. He is related to Dr. R. J. Williams, of this city. j: OB Ilou^ (mi*. Cxxoa rui/r The wisest tiling a man can complete business confidence and as v. 11 as liis life partner. Open a bank account for YC ! Many a man lias been save< nif.ucy bis wife lias quietlj' tvicke and which she was able to "proc Try it We invite YOUR ba 1 The Bank SAFETY, SERVICE Dillon, Sou CARC MILl I C0M1 Dillon, - - i 1. We wish every fa come to our mill to inspe chinery. Our specialty is < Oats. We can grade your ? wagon waits. Our charge have high grade War . graded in even weight 101 per bushel. 2. We have a bargain as it lasts. We will excha 100 lbs. corn. 3. We will exchange f any mill products we ma corn, oats, peas or any oi 4. Now is the time to b sorghum seed for hay cro] You can and should grow and a small surplus to se I r? Wo will Q fro in Viomr IW . T V V TT Hi uguill flour mill on April first. A vices of Mr. F. D. Rigby, lap, Tenn. He has been a We hope to build up a flo friends to try our flour 0. We make high grad mules, horses, cows, pigs ing you maximum retun ing, try a few bags of our quality and prices correc 7. Try a 100 lb. bag of tankage. Price $4.75. At t cal addition to any feed g Yours t( Carolint Com __i TRESPASS NOTICE. l1 All persons are hereby forbidden to hunt, fish or enter upon the lands of the undersigned without written tp permission from the undersigned. For hunting, fishing or hunting of ' anything strictly forbidden. All persons violating this notice will be tieult with according to law. S P. Graham, Mrs. S. E. Page, Mrs. Bet tie P. Jones. 3 *;i- 3t. ' , I <lo is to tn!i< Ills wifo into his make lu i liis Itl'SINESS partner )UR wift rn out bank. 1 from business disaster by the d away to h? r credit in the bank luce" at the critical moment, nkinj: business. : of Dillon AND 4 PER CENT th Carolina )LINA JNG ?ANY South Carolina rmer in Dillon County ct our seed cleaning ma- ! cotton seed and F'ulghum ~ cotton seed while your i is 15c per bushel. We inamaker-Cleveland seed ) lb. bags for sale at 75c. | in corn feed meal as long nge 90 lbs feed meal for or corn at market price 5 ke. We will buy for cash ? m UI1CI ^ I ell II. uy velvet beans, peas and 1 p. We are booking orders. | all the hay you can feed I 11. I 1 the operation of our | Ye have engaged the ser- | an expert miller, of Dun- I miller for fifteen years. E ur trade and request our I after his arrival. I le molasses feeds. If your I or chickens are not giv- I is for feeds you are giv- I feeds. You will find both I it. I our 60 per cent, digester j his price a very economi- I pven hogs or poultry. I d Please, g i Milling I pany |