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TOBACCO MARKETS
OBEX TUESDAY.
Crop Has Shown Marked Improvement
in La.st Few Weeks. <
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The 1921 tobacco market of South ;
Carolina will be opened Tuesday, ij
July 19, which dote has been agreed |
upon by all the various interests of,]
the industry, including the buyers, the',
warehousemen and the planters, says j,
The Florence Daily Times. It was,]
fixed in a general conference of these ,
three interests, after each of them
had held an individual conference and |
discussed this particular matter. 1
All these meetings were held dur- \
ing the week in Florence, which is
the seat of the county producing ap- i
proximately one-third of the tobacco t
crop of South Carolina. x I
July 19 is a compromise date be-! t
tween the planters and the buyers.' i
Some of the planters wanted a date 11
AA ?i1tt T-- 1 1 O U..i- 4.1 1 !
as can; ns u uij ? i. uut lue uu)?rs '
would have generally preferred an
opening as late as July 26. A compromise
was necessary because of the
lower tier of tobacco producing counties
of the state which report that
they are nearly half through curing
even at this early date. The upper
tier of counties have not yet begun
to cure to any extent and hardly will
commence selling heavily till a week
fV two after the official opening.
State tobacco interests say frankly
that the crop this year is in the
hands of the big buyers. Few independent
buyers, if any at all, are expected
in the markets because of the
financial conditions. Even last season,
many of them were forced off
the floors many days for inability to
make financial arrangements; and,
the present conditions are believed to
preclude any hope of their operating.
The crop this year bids fair to be
one of the smallest, and, in many
parts of the state, the poorest, that
South Carolina has produced in a
long while. In the first instance, the;
South Carolina Tobacco ftrnwars Ac-1
Bociation undertook, m agreement; ]
with North Carolina and Virginia to(t
effect a reduction of one-third in ac-|<
reage this year. The acreage reduc- ] t
tion, accordinig to reliable figures, is 1
20 to 25 per centum off of the plant- <
Inge of last year, when the crop was t
66,000,000 pounds. Lute colds killed <
or damaged seriously a material per- r
rentage of the crop. A protracted ?
drought in many sections of the belt, i
stunted further the growth and cut <
down the yield. Authorities generally I
estimate the probable yield this year <
at between 40,000,000 and 50,000,- t
000 pounds of tobacco. t
The present crop in the lower tier t
of counties of the state is estimated f
ac about three-fourths of the crop of i
last year. It is practically made and !
much of it cured and awaiting the Is
opening of the market on July 19. jt
This section suffered most from the e
drought. Within the past two weeks, t
excellent showers have occurred over t
most of the section. Tobacco which ?
was dying from the lack of rain has 1
turned green again and is growing'i
vigorously now. <
All emphasis this year has been on ;
quality of tobacco and not on quan-Ji
tity. The growers association, the(l
warehousemen's association, and the j
buyers, with the Chambers of Com- J i
merce in the tobacco belt have united t
in this campaign. Barring Providen- i
tial elements, the growers have re-d
sponded well to this campaign and all ; t
effort on their part was concent rat--1
ed to that end.
Special work is being arranged now <
to improve the curing and marketing!t
conditions. This will relate especial- i
ly to careful handling of the weed in t
their field, obtaining the best possible 1
curing, and culling out thc sorry t
leaves, so as to offer an attractivejt
pile of tobacco on the floor. !<
Warehouseman and buyers both t
have notified the planters that the <
pictm.fr win nave 10 aepenu ainiosi ex- <
clusively this year on domestic con- t
sumption which is very choice in its <
article. There will be practically no >
export demand or consumption this I
year, according to the buyers. ! <
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Services at the Methodist Chudch. i
Main"15treet Methodist Church, Dr. i
Watson B. Duncan, Pastor. i
Sunday School at 10 A. M., Mr. W. ;
H. Muller, Superintendent.
Preaching at 11 A. M. and 8:30 P.
M. by the Pastor.
Morning Subject: "Parables by the
Sea." No. 4?"The Intensive Growth
of the Kingdom."
Evening Subject: "Kept from the
Evil in the World."
Junior Epworth League at 4 P. M.,
Miss Sarah Hargrove, Pesident.
Prayer Service on Wednesday at 5
P. M.
Public cordially invited to all services.
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IxATTA
Miss Mary Tart, a recent graduate
1 of Winthrop and R. O. Hinson a
piosperous farmer of Kershaw were
I happily married by the Judge of Probate
in his office on Wednesday.
) They are now in Kershaw where they
will make their future home.
| The services at the Methodist
church on Sunday morning were
^ n.ade more interesting and attractive
by a duet sang by two gifted young
i ladies who are visitors here. For
sweetness and beautiful sentiment,
I this song has but few equals. The
' sermon preached by Dr. Kirkland was
l among the very best that the writer
" has heard anywhere at any time, and
. the prayer offered by the Rev. S. J.
' Bethea at the close of the services,
being full of the spirit was edifying
f to the large congregation present.
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THE DILLON HEK.4
MILLIONS FOR RAILROADS;
PITTANCE FOR FARMERS.
In h speech in the Housee recently
Congressman Stoll arraigned the republican
administration for its liberality
with the railroads and its nig-i
tardly treatment of the farmer in
providing funds 011 which to operate.
Mr. Stoll endeavored to impress upon 1
congress the necessity of providing;
ample funds to help the nation's only
producers of real wealth? the farmers.
He said in part:
"Mr. Speaker, the object of this
bill is to make available $25,000,000
to the farmers of the country by loans'
thiough the farm loan banks.
There are really only three ques-l
lions before us in the consideration of
this ^>ill. First, is the condition of
the farmers such as to demand that i
l?e Congress provide additional funds
for the farm loan banks, so that they 1
inay extend further loans; second,
what amount is necessary to give the 1
'armers the relief that they are enitled
to under the proper functioning 1
if the farm loan bank; and, third,
fit whni * ??? il n ? *
vr .. 11?i ca^ciu can iiic uuveniiueiiii
hrough the farm loan banks, extend
lid at this time and keep within the
)ounds of safe and sane financing.
The debate on this bill discloses
that we are all agreed that the prespnt
condition of the farms is such as
o cause gravest concern. It is alarmng,
when we stop to consider, that
n the deflation of the prices of farm
products of the last crop over the
previous one that the farmers of this
:ountry have sustained a loss of $7,>00,000,000,
and this despite the fact
hat the edemand throughout the
world has been greater than the sun
>ly. It certainly is an anomalous conlition
that with the world demand
greater than the supply that there
s no ready market for many products
>f the farm, and that the farmers ;
should be forced to sell their products
it a price far less than what hc was
ible to realize a year ago. And to aid
to his discomfort, the farmer had to
produce his crop under conditions
hat made it the most expensive crop
?ver grown. There are several causes j
hat brought about this condition, but
the two most pertinent in the consid- (
ration of this bill, and to which I desire
to call attention are the failure
)f the Reserve Board to extend the
iccessary credits for financing th?* ,
rops by adopting unwarranted, tinlecessary,
and arbitrary restrictions
. f credit, and thereby making the ,
'armer the victim of a financial con- ,
lition that was unexpected by him.
ind which could have been avoided if
hp Federal reserve banks, through
hose who directed their policies, had
sought to help the farmer instead of
'uining him.
Running hand in hand with the restriction
of credits by the Federal restive
bank and bringing added discomfort
to the farmer was the litigaion
which held up the operation of j
he farm loan hanks and which cnna.1
u that agency to cease functioning,
t so happened that the two governmental
agencies which above all oth-,
>rs were capable of rendering assist- ,
nice to the farmers of the country
ailed theni when most needed?the.
"'edcral reserve bank either through)
.arrow and intolerant opinions of Ti-j
lance or deliberate purpose to layi
he farmer upon an altar of sacrifice,
or unknown selfish reasons, and the'
"arm loan bank, through its inability'
o function because of being en joined j
)>* the courts.
In considering the present financial
:ondition of the farmer, if w,. wish
o be fair to him, we must take coglizance
of the fact that many have
heir entire savings of many years of
lard work invested in the land that ;
;hey cultivate. The crops raised by j
>ur farmers are not natural products
if the soil, but must be planted, culivated
and harvested, entailinu not
inly much labor but the expenditure
if much money. It is estimated that,
lie farmers of this country have $80.>00,000,000
invested 011 which the.Y
'Pf nr\ rnf nun Tho nmfita o
"aimer are figured on what he Rets ?
>ut of I he crop, stock and so forth, on
us farm. There is no business in the
vorld in which $80,000,000,000 rep- |<
eeents the capital invested and where
the work goes on every day in the
year, and hard and increased labor of
10 hours or more a day performed,
hat the returns anywhere approximate
the low per cent the farmers
?arn on their investment and the,
abor performed. And yet many do not j
ippreciate the farmer. He is appealed
to during the election, when his vote
s needed ,and then he is allowed to
return-to his plowhandles to feed ,
ind clothe the world- In legislating
'or him it sometimes seems that lawnakers
are desirous only of giving
lim the least that is possible with i
lafety to their political welfare. To
ny mind the farmer is the one big!
hing in our American life. He makes:
)ur commercial prosperity possible; I
.is politics are the purest and most
mselflsh; his morals are of the high-:
?st standard; he i8 the great conserv-i
ng influence in our national life.'
Whatever legislation is beneficial to
nm should be enacted, for when the
American farmer is benefited the enire
nation prospers thereby.
While I shall vote for the bill, I
:hink the $25,000,000 that it makes
ivailable is entirely inadequate bo
meet the demands of the farmers for
cans under the provisions of the law.
1 am more familiar with conditions
n my state, and will illustrate with
:he third district, which embraces
3outh Carolina. In my state there
lave been 2,308 loans made, aggregating
$6.785,410. The demand is far
freater than the available funds. In.
StUni
ID, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
( OIKT OF COMMON PIJJAS.
The Court of Common Pleas for
Dillon County convened on, Monday
morning. Judge Edward Mclv?r, the
resident judge of the Circuit, presid- i
ed. The first case called was that of ;
the Peoples Hardware Company ol '
Lake View against the Raleigh and
Charleston Railway Co. This case||
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iiuu u\~k'11 iu in*- supreme conn anu 1
was sent back for a new trial. It was
a claim for lost freight and esulted ]
it. a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, t
The next case called was that of
Geo. Howell et al against Eppie D. ji
Berry. This was the second trial of i
this case. On the first trial the verdict
of the jury was in favor of the't
Kowells. While it was pending in the :
Supreme Court another suit of the
same parties was brought against ji
Erwin Coward. In that suit some es-il
sential records were discovered where!
upon a motion was made in the 1
Circuit court in the Berry case for a
new trial on after discovered evidence.
The motion was granted and
the new trial resulted. The case grew
out of the construction of an old s
will of William Rowell and certain t
litigation in connection therewith. |
The lost records established the fact '
that the property was originally sold 1
for debts of William Rowell and Mrs.
Berry claimed under the sale and up- '
on the testimony being produced al'
verdict was directed in favor of Mrs. '
Berry. |l
The only other case tried was that''
of Mrs. Berry, as administratrix of 1
the estate of Walter Berry, against
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. <
This was a suit for damages for his 1
auegea wrongful death at. L/utta in *
1919 by being run over by a freight
train. He was driving a tractor along
Main street in Latta and according '
to the testimony did not observe or '
attempt to see the approach of the '
train. On the close of the% testimony , 1
a motion was made for the direction
of a verdict on the ground that plain-j1
tiff's intestate was guilty of gross 1
negligence in exercising not the'*
proper degree of care to protect:
himself from the approaching train.;'
After argument the motion was grant-j'
ed and a verdict directed for the
railroad company.
The court adjourned Tuesday ev- 1
ening. There were a number of other!
cases that could have been tried but
it was a busy season with ju ors and
it was not the desire of the court or
attorneys to keep them away from 1
i heir work longer than necessary.
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S. Checker Champions to Meet. 1
Columbia, July 11?Plans have 1
been made tentatively for a state1
checker tournament to be held at the
Columbia T. M. C. A. on August 8.'
Capt. F. B. Fishburne, Southern!
checker champion, is in charge of,1
plans for the tourney, and it is ex-:
pected that a large number of South],
Carolina experts will be here to par-'
ticipate.
J. M. Lavton of Georgetown; E. L. 1
Jackson of York; and other checker''
'fans" are promoting the state con- j
test. !
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1 Alt.MEK DROWNS
IX C'HESTEIt POM). 1
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I.oses l.ift. While Bathing Atter Eating.
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Chester. July 10?Paul Dunlap. a !
well known young: planter of Delphia,
in York county, was drowned '
this afternoon in Guy's pond near i
Chester. He was 27 year of ape.!
llts wife was on the bank and witnessed
the drowning. It is thought
that he .went in bathing too soon
after eating dinner and that death
was caused by acute indigestion ,
lather than cramps. He leaped into},
the water and swam about 50 feet;
and was coming back. When hej
got within about 15 feet of t lie bath
house hc screamed for help, which s
was quickly forthcoming, but his k
helper could do nothing for him and
he was nearly drowned in the effort
to save him. Mr. Dunlap was highly
esteemed throughout Chester and
York counties and his death has
caused profound sorrow. He was a
son of Thomas Dunlap. u prominent L
York county planter. ,
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every agricultural state the condition*,
ure the same. I would like to see the,!
bill amended so as to uiak(. $100,000,- t
000 available. To help the farmers <
at this time is to help the Nation.
Make it possible for the farmer to fi- <
nance his business, and a forward ^
step will be taken toward the normal
conditions that are so much desired.
By legislation the railroads were 1
given about a billion dollars to make 1
good their so-called losses. We appro,
priate almost a billion yearly to the!]
army and navy for national defense. 1
And yet when it comes to legislation 1
that seeks to bring about conditions i
that will make possible the farmer
coming into his own, some begin to I
hesitate and to say that the legisla-l1
tion is class legislation. In a great)
country like ours, where we have 11
many and manifold industries, if the 1
Congress functions us it should, we
inust enact laws primarily affecting <
distinct interest. We must legislate
for the banks, railroads, waterways,
farmers and so forth, because there
are conditions that affect only cer- i
tain interests, and we must meet by i
legislation certain emergencies when i
they arise. There is an emergency now
existihg, as has been repeatedly point- i
ed out on the floor of this House, i
which affects the farming interests,
and It must be met by proper legis- '
lation or may expect disastrous'
consequences."
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THURSDAY MOKM.Vi, JULY 14. 1
COUNTY NEWS
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Sellers.
Miss Elizabeth Page is taking a
special course at Columbia l'niversit\
New York City.
Mtss Leila Sellers who has been
working at Washington, I>. C\, for the
[>ast several years, is spending her
incut ion with the home folks here.
Mrs. D. E. Oliver. Mrs. .1 C. Sellers
and daughters are visiting relatives
at Marietta. N. C.
Miss Beatrice Price of Rocky
Mount spent last week with her sister,
Mrs. Allyn Smith.
Miss Julia McGill of Kingstree is
he charming house guest of Miss
Selle Sellers.
Quite a number of our people are
spending the week at Cherry Grove
jeach.
Pee Dee Park is also quite a popuat
place these warm afternoons.
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Carolina.
A large number of folks here spent j
i pleasant day at Mcltae's Mill on
the 4th. The chief amusements were
gathering the beautiful pond lillies in
the morning, feasting at noon and
tiathing in the afternoon.
Mrs. l,. vv . Mcinnis entertained a:
number of small children ion July 4th'
when her little daughter Rachel celebrated
her eiphth birthday and little
Duncan his first. Many merry games
were played on the lawn after which
they were serve(i ice cream und cake.
Mr. Knox Alford returned Satur:lay
from Black Mountain, N. C. after
spending three weeks with his brother
Sion who is still very low.
Mr. and Mrs. Chal Morrison of Fort
Meade, Fla., Mr. Bid Morrison of
Clinton, N. C.f and Mrs. Lon Cottingliam
of Wesley spent Saturday at the
tiome of their aunt, Mrs. C. M. Mcinnis.
Mrs. Flora Lurkin and little daughter
of near Rowland are spending
sometime with her sikter, Mrs. A. 1.
smith.
Misses Agnes and Margaret Rob-j
f-rtson of Rowland are visiting at the
tiome of Mr. D B. Mcinnis.
Mrs. Hec. Lester who recently un-'
Jerwent a serious operation in the!
Clio Hospital is slowly improving.
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Fork.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Carniiehael of
Catawba, N. C., are visiting Mrs. Annie
Carniiehael.
Mrs. L. M. Rogers and Miss Emmc
Carniiehael spent Saturday in Fayftteville,
N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Rogers and
baby of Dillon spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Frank1 Rogers.
Miss Ora Rogers is spending the
summer holidays at home.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M Hall of Marlon'
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E.
W. Fori Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Carrie Lewis has returned
home from Southport, N C. where'
she has been visiting relatives.
Dr. and Mrs. \V. L. Rogers of Latta
were in town Sunday afternoon.
Dr. N. N. Sehoefieid entertained
Wednesday evening with a slag party
ir. honor of Dr. L. G. Day of Hemingway.
The ladies of I he Fork School Imuovemenl
Association held their
nonthly meeting at the school house
Friday afternoon. The following program
was carried out
Song?"Kind Words Can Never Die."
lible Reading.
:>rayer.
[toll call and minutes of last meeting.
tuir lit* !..?! M-rt ? .1
. .... ..nr.. uiivn Idtuuilitlil.
rVju-r by Mrs. K. S. Moore.
:istruniental Solo by Mrs. D. B.
B. Johnson.
'nper?"People Wlio Criticize," by-j
Mrs. Colon Pearce.
leading by Miss Lucile Bethea.
Jusinpss Session.
social Hour?Refreshments consisting
of iced tea and cake were served.
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I.,uk(> View.
The people are busy clearing the
warehouses and buyers are coming in
lailv, getting ready for the opening
which will be Tuesday, July 10th.
Rev. S. E. Ledbetter has returned
?onie after spending two weeks in
:he training conference at Wofford.
College, Spartanburg.
Mrs. C. L. Norman and little son
"1 f ehipflfn art. >...... 4r% .......1 _!
w...v^.D?/ M? V UV1IIC tu opruu rt
?rhil0 with her mother, Mrs. Neppie
rhonias.
Miss Helen Wise has returned
lonie after spending some time with I
friends and relatives in Florence.
Mrs. J. I>. Norman and daughters.
Edna and Aliene, Miss Matni0 Bryant,1
VIr. Vonnie and Miss Ida Humphrey!
have returned home after a week's!
stay at Myrtle Beach.
Mrs. Carl White of Mullins spent \
the week end with her mother, Mrs.
Walker Hayes.
Miss Louise Griffith has returned!
home after spending some tinie with
her sister, Mrs. Robert Ford.
Misses Bertha and Adelaid RanJolph
and their friend Miss Fisk of
kinston, N. C., are visiting Mrs. R.
F. Elvington.
Mr. Foster and Alex Ford have
returned home from Florida where
they have been at work for some
time.
Miss Simpson has accepted a position
with the Uinon Bank and Trust
Co.
Miss Dora Valentine who has been
visiting Miss Christine Goodyear
has returned to her home. in Mount
Aairy, N. C.
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.News Items of Interest in and Around
l4t|H.
Mr. W. J. R. Campbell a substantial
fanm-r ot the K: ? nezer section
of Mar.on county, and who i> about
sixty ;.e;r'.' old, :< st bis wife about |
two ears ago. boarded tbe train ,
some da>s .go. liis trie.ids thinking ?
that lie was g? uc to some oUtln- sum-!
tiier resorts, were surprised no little <
when lie stepped off 8!? on Thursdaj .
evening with a handsome bride, who j
was a Mrs. Todd of Richmond. We
wish the happy couple many years ;j
ol happiness.
Miss Julia Rogers entertained on j
Thursday morning with two lovely j'
patties at her home a few miles from |
town. This beautiful and spacious!1
house so adapted for entertaining
v as thrown "en suite" and beautifully
decorated in red. white and blue
flowers which were effectively . ar 1
ranged in wall vases, large jardiners;
bowls and baskets. Small flaps were J
gracefully draped about the rooms
giving a patriotic note to those love-1
ly decorations. Score cards of small I
flags were given by little Jane Rogerst
neice of the hostess. The guests were J
received by the hostess assisted by t
Mrs. S. A. McMillan, and were invited i
by Mrs. E. It. Ellerbe to the rear of
the hall where beautiful red punch
was served by Mrs. 1'awer Rogers !
Eight dainty covered card tables were'
at ranged for the players. Hand painted
markers designated the number of!
each table. Four tables were usedf
for bridge and four for rook. and
many interesting rubbers in ?ich
were enjoyed, highest scores being
made by Mesdames Frank Thompson
and D. 11. Shine. After cards were
laid aside, a salad course was served.
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I til ion County Farm Products.
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The Director of the Census announces
subject to correction, the following
preliminary figures from the
Census of Agriculture for Dillon
County:
Faring and Farm Acreage?
Increase
Jan. 1. Apr. 15 or de1920
1910 crease
per cent.
Farms 3.400 2,659 29.4
Operated bv
|White farmers 1,574 1.354 16.2
(Col. farmers 1,866 1.305 43.0 1
Operated by
j Owners and
.Managers 616 725 15.0
(Tenants 2,824 1,934 46.0
I,an(i in farms
Total acres 103.414 175,476 1.3
Imp'd acres 103,414 90,796 13.9
Farm Values: ?
Value of land and
buildings:
Jan. 1. 1920 $19,178,050
April 15, 1910 ? 9.143.491
Increase, 1910-20:
Amount 10,034,559
Per cent __ 109.7
Domestic Animals: ?
Farms reporting
Jan 1. April 15
1920 1910
' "K- ? -<i<i
Animals reported:
H?rses 1.179 1.055 ?
Mules 4.4 20 2,909
Cattle 3.601 2.150
Sheep 186 67
S\vine 17,336 11,781
Principal Crops: ?
Corn 'lf? 2">.247 548,538 bu. 1
*00 20.388 461.447 bu. 1
Oats '19 6.3 4 3 14 3,1 17 bu.
*09 6.163 169,060 bu. :
Cotton '19? 54,251 45.294 bis. '
'09 50,260 4 1.7"2 bis. 1
Tobacco '19 8.674 6.54o.97S lbs 1
'09 3.393 2.981,639 lbs. 1
The figures for domestice animals ,
in 1910 are not very closely comparable
with those for 19 20, since j
the present census was taken in Jan
uary, before the breeding season had
begun, while the 1910 census was !
token in April, or about the middle of
ine Breeding season, anu inciuuea ,
many spring calves, colts, etc.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Powell, Miss j
Clara Powell and Mr. Robert Pace |
spent the week end at Myrtle Reach, j
Miss Helen Wise has accepted a
position with Mr. W. M Ford.
Mr. Q)aud Grantham made a business
trip to Wilmington Monday. j
Mr. W. E. Ford and J. 13. Good-,
year visited Dillon Monday on business.
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Oak Grove.
A number of citizens from Brownsville
and other points along the Beni.ettsville
and Cheraw railroad to Sellers
went to Columbia last Wednesday
to attend a hearing before the
railroad commissioners to decide
whether this joint of the road should
bo discontinued or allowed to remain
as it is. The officials of the road
claim that the road from Brownsville
to Sellers has always been a
losing proposition and petitioned the
commissioners that they be allowed
to cease operating this part of the
read. This would work a great hardship
to many people who have been
patrons of the road and strong pressure
is being brought to bear upon
the authorities in Columbia that the
petition of the railroad people be not
granted. No definite action was taken
last Wednesday and another meeting
will be held next Friday at which
time nc doubt a final disposition of
the. matter will be made.
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IBMFS OF FOOD
SHOWING DK< l;)Nff
Decrease ??f Three I'd < Vnt Obser*?hI
in 4'ltai*l?**?toii?Few ( <?
lli'licr.
Washington. July 10 ? Reports
rt oin ten additional citu s compiled to.
any b> the department of laboi
-ii?.\v?-d Charleston. S. C., head itiK
th< !i> t with a de? r<-ane ol 3 per
'Hit in the cost ?>! food ft>i liie month
ndiug June lo. Kansas Cil> and
I'hiladelphia reported tlecreases ol
- pei cent, while Atlanta. Baltimore
li.dianapolis and New York showed
reductions of 1 per cent Reports
Item othet cities previously made
public showed declines of 2 per cenu
in Manchester. X. H an(i Rochester.
V Y.. and 1 per cent in Birmingham
und Jacksonville.
mui? 111k ?n increase were
Little Rock with a 1 per cent. jump.
Savannah, Ga., three tenths ol 1 per
cent, and Washington four-tenths or
1 per cent
For the year ending June 15, Indianapolis
led the field with a 49
per cent, reduction. Kansas City being
the next with 3 8 jier cent
K.Vt'l ItSIO.NS OF THOlXiHl.
The I"11realized Value of Huiiiau Companionship.
i By R. N. Allen. Latta. S C.
When Prince Kropatkin, the exiled
Russian thinker an?' scientist,
pointed out that "Mutual Aid" was
even more than bloody struggle, the
greatest factor in the survival ol
tiie fittest he merely stated in scientific
terms that human progress i?
based upon companionship and love.
When Henry Prvimmond wrote "Love
the Greatest Thing in the World" he
expressed the same idea in terms of
Theology There can be no mutual
aid without some form of love.
A recent writer points out that the
humanity loving Quaker's doing relief
work in Germany seeking not to
Proselytise, seeking no pay. have softjened
the hearts of multitudes of GetImans
into a realization that the power
of love is greater than all the high
:explosives in the world.
| God's creation and nature's evolution
has no hymn of hate. The progress
of peoples, the development of
literat'-res. the unfolding of man's
I inner spirit, all these are not bom n
the womh of war. nor of hate They
are the children of peace and peace
is the mother of till good things. National
and international peace arr
based on mutual aid, companionship
and respect, which is a form of love.
Hut in our daily dealings, in the
home, in the market place, yes. everywhere,
we still suffer from the unrealized
value of human companionships
We are yet too thoughtlessly
stiney with our inexhaustible treasure
of sympathy.
The wounds of the world, the grie\
ances between eapitol and labor, the
enmity that threatens the pence ol
th,. race would be healed it onl> each
and every individual had a heart full
of sympathy. Ours is a poor rich attti
a rich-pooi world.
Trui hearted companionship between
parents and childnt. under
sympathy between pastor and congregf.tion,
a s?-nse of comradeship iti the
[ .(.niuou ?, it -t of knowledge between
t< at lo i and pupil .best an some of
, 11,. ways ?.iii ; i.n :?:tshi p can better
!i 11 . a 1111 v
Cain with a querulous, oliilclisli petulance
asked of God "Ant I m>
mothers K>c|it r.'" When .b'sm nun
r-iatod the G< ld? : Uuh and told the
.arable of tin ill . <i Samaritan h* nnv.'t
i>-(i t\.in's p it : forevei and
\? r. Wo must vabz t ;-.t our boy,
ur jriil, our following! and women
\ rywhen need not tin rely mono)
ill over, more, companionship
i'h beautiful nun Heloise througt
In r wonderful lov? tin! oinpanioDhi;>
elevated Abelard to the very
heights of medieval learning. He
was a priest and she was a Nun Vows
,.t celibacy prevented their marriage..
Fh,. love letters of lieloise how utterly
unselfish i?j the heart of a trut
woman, but her companionship, so
sympathetic, loyal and true, raised
Abelard to th<? very pinnacles of success.
As we recall the ceaslesa devotion
of the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson
to him with his tuberculosis fraur
wf will understand to whom he re
fcrred when he was asked to whoir
his success was due and he replied
simply" "1 had a friend."
A recent tribute by the wife of Jack
London to his memory reveals again
the value of human companionship as
i factor in humun progress and evolution.
In a weekly magazine w?? read con;erning
Madame Curie. There has
Oten some discussion as to whether
Professor or Madame Curie deserves
the greater credit for the great discovery
of Radium. To raise such a
question is to dishonor both by implying
a rivarly where co-operation
a as conspicuous. They did their heal
work when they lived and labored together.
Prof Curie refused to accept
uiy reward that did not include his
wife, whom he said was equally deserving
of the honor. So the "Nobel"
prize, the "Davy" prize ami "Osiris"
prize was awarded to theni jointly. 7t
was a professional partnership as
well as a marriage.
After this fashion, men and nations
make progress. Within our
breasts are inexhaustible riches?
riches of sympathy and companionship.
The son of man summed it aO
up by saying "Seek ye first the
Kingdom of God and his rtghteowsiess
and all these things shall be addKl
unto you." ,