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T61 popunds. I applied the nitrate of
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soda in four side dressing applications
as follows:
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First application — after chopping
(about 80 pounds).
Second application—time of first
squares.
Third application—time of first
bloom.
Fourth application—lay by time,
be, but at least it has the advantage of
being untried, and we are justified in
looking forward to it hopefully.
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HICKMAN SAYS HE
ALONE IS GUILTY
One year .... .... $1.50 of fertilizer that I applied cost as fol-
Six months .... .... .... .i. 75 l° ws:
«T»r>a inrrM« Tells Officers All Details of Heinous
Each application 1 am sure increac-, ^ . u-m j . m. i rn
ed the yield of mv cotton. The amount ' Crime. Killed Child Merely lo
Prevent An Outcry.
Oakland, Cal., Dec. 26.-!-William E
Three months .... 50
Payable in advance
20 sacks 16%. acid phosphate $27.00
1 P r -
20 sacks cottonseed meal
Hickman today confessed that he alone
' 3,909 ^unds nitrite df iodi;:: tujf: 1 ' 0 * *?«•*•?> fjf. h ' “•
20-00 i jjjjigj 12 year old Marian Parker of
The Chronicle '.eeks the cooperation
of its subscribe's and readers — the
publisher will a* all times appreciate
wise suggestion i and kindly advice.
2 sacks kanit
2’7o naped her singlehanded.
In a confession, amazing for its un-
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CLINTON, 8. C., DEC. 29, 1927
8 PAGES
A NEW YEAR DAWNS
The Old Year.is almost gone; the
last entry made; the final record clos
ed and bound in the Book of Remem
brance are its joys and sorrows, its
successes and failures, its happiness
and its disappointments. The curtain
Total cost of fertilizer ....$226.22 rivaled details of brutality, the 19-
“I attribute my yield of lint cotton yenr-old youth said he strangled the
per acrte under severe boll Weevil con- child with a p^o w i re ^ cut her
ditions'.largely to judicious apphca- bf>d to ieceg in the tub of his
tions of nitrate of soda in order to _ . . . . . . , _
force rapid growth and fruiting of the Bellevue apartrhent in Los Angeles
cot t on# After the strangling Hickman said
“My cottonseed paid the cost of the he realized that he must have the body
fertilizer, which left irfe in value of 1 to produce to the girl’s father, Perry
lint $254,958 per acre above the cost -M. Parker, Los Angeles banker, or he
of fertilizer. I did not have another^gyj^ not collect ransom. So he de
acre of cotton on my farm that show-1 . . ., , „ . •
ed as high returns above the cost of ^ the 8che ™ e ° f U8, "« thread wire
fertilizer as my prize five acres.. on-her eyes and throat to make it ap-
“I find it a safe rule to apply fer- pear as if she was alive when he re-
tilizer as long as the seed pay for the turned the body to the father for
cost of fertilizer. I $1,500.
"J tlmt the more humus I have 1 con f ess j 0 n completely eliniinat-
m the soil the more fertilizer I can , ,, „
use with profit. I used on rtk- five- ^ the mythical accomp ce * 0 e 7
acre plot about eight times as much ^ rew Cramer, for, whom the police
fertilizer as the average and my yield have been searching since the youth
was about eight times as larg^as the made his first confession after his cap-
estimated sUte average this year of t ure near Pendleton, Ore., where he
pounds of lint cotton per acre. sought to throw tl)0 blame on an ac-
Tbe actual sales of cotton from my
of 192';
dawns—rosy with promise of better
things; glowing with services to be
rendered, responsibilities to be shoul
dered. What the New Year holds for
you or fpr us we cannot know. We are
not permitted to read hurriedly or far
ahead; but on those mystic pages that
comprise its record there will ever be
accounts of success and joy and hap
piness for some, while for, others sor-‘
row and disappointment and loss.
But this much WE DO KNOW. A
glad, new, unspoiled season is upon us
and it is exceedingly bright and beau
tiful and fair. Each day lies before
us like a gleaming, radiant page,
awaiting the final record of the year’s
accomplishments. Its very aspect
breathes achievement, it'is transcrib
ed with hope, and brings to us the
five-acre plot
are as
follows
Sped
Lint
Price
Amt.
No
Cotton.
Cotton. Sold.
Sold.
- 1
.... 1,660
555
22c
# $122.10
2
.... 1,720
610
22 Vic
137.25
3
.... 1,500
510
21c
107.10
4
.... 1,600
550
21c
115.51
5
1,500
520
21c
109.20
6
.... 1,500
525
21c
110.25
7
.... R600
530
21c
111.30
8
.... 1,600
538
21c
112^8
9
.... 1,500
535
21c
112.35
10
.... 1,500
530
21c
111.30 1
11
.... 1,678
595
21c
124.96
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11
.. 17,058
6,998
$1,274.28
complice. He had no ai#.* "It was a
single handed piece of work,’the lat
est confession made today revealed.
The confession today removed the
lied to save him from the gallows.
When he enters the superior court in
Los Angeles he will go through the
formality of entering "plea to murder
The mask of mystery which Hick
man sought to throw over the killing
Gross sa es of lint
Gross sales of seed
....$1,274.28
.... 226.73
$1,274.28 the child was torn away in the
Total cost of fertilizer
226.22
course of a grilling he underwent as
the special car upon which he was-be-
ing taken to Los Angeles was n|aring
San Francisco.
Hickman gave as his reason for the
killing, “I was afraid she would make
a Tioise.”
Behind locked and closely guarded
School With Hickman
Laurens, Dec. 27.—One of the most
interested individuals In. Laurens of
the Los Angeles tragedy is Jack Shaw,
young son of Mrs. Bessie D. Shaw.
The Shaw family lived in Kansas
City for several years, and Jack was
a school and classmate of William Ed
ward Hickman, kidnaper and* slayer of
Marian Parker. J^ck says Hickman
was a good student and very active
in all school programs, including ath
letics. He was popular with all the
boys and the school generally .
. Another person is O. D. Parker of
Laurens, formerly of Georgia, who
says his family is related to the Los
Angeles family of the same name, his
father being a cousin of Perry M.
Parker, the banker, and father of Mar
ian.
Laurens Woman Back
To Missionary Field
Laurens, Dec. 27.—Miss Martha
Franks of Laurens, is on her way to
Vancouver, whence she will sail Sat
urday for China. Miss Franks is re
turning to her work as a missionary
in one of the provinces of China, after
a stay of several months at home with
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Franks. She was recalled from the
war stricken area last spring, along
witih hundreds of other missionaries.
A farewell service for Miss Franks
was held at the First Baptist church
Sunday, when after she had made a
brief statement in connection with her
plans for returning to her work at this
time, she was presented a gold watch
by the Woman’s Missionary union, the
presentation being made by the presi
dent of the union. Miss Lucia Barks
dale.
Gross returns, less cost o£ fertili
zer on five-acre plot ..$1,274.79
Gross returns p2r acre, less cost
of fertilizer $254,958
“I have been using nitrate of soda doors of the compartment in which
promise of glorious opportunity if we for 19 years and consider it almost in- Hickman had been held since he left
will but do our part. What greater dispensable in cotton production, es- p en dleton ton Saturday morning, the
thing can we ask for than three hun- J pecially under boll weevil conditions. : pr j soner was questioned by Los Ange
les officers jvho laid before him the
gruesome details of evidence, which
dred and sixty-five splendid, untouch
ed days for better and more conscien
tious service?
As for our business relations with
you, we know that they will be as cor
dial in the future as they have been in
the past. We thank you for yx>ur pat
ronage and good will of the past year
and we promise ^hat nothing will be
left undone during 1928 that will in
any way heighten the esteem in which
our large and continually growing
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Dr. Frank Crane Says— had been gathered at the Bellevue
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ANNIVERSARIES ^ Hickman steadily maintained until
The Italo-Hibernian poet, Tamas- tonight that while he had been invol-
chelli, has written: ! ved in t* 16 kidnaping he had not com-
“I think that the meanest historian niittediithe actual killing,
on earth
Is the one who recorded the day of
one’s birth.”
If your life has not been particu
family of readers now holds us. 1, . , , , ^
We face the future with hope- larI y ha »Py or luck y* wh y should P 60 '
cheered by the belief that better days
Crops Worth
More For 1927
.lie ahead and with thankfulness that
the waters have not been too rough to
pie observe the anniversary of, your, (Continued from Page One)
birthday ? erage 2.1 per cent lower than those of
Some people make much of birth- i a st year but still average 2.5 per cent
be" breasted and swum through’ and da y s and some newspapers give a list j a bove those of the last ten years,
that there has never been a year which of the birthdays of prominent men ■ The gross production of the 17 prin-
has not left honey in the hive of mem- j ever y da y but there are two °P inions cipal crops was' 2.2 per cent less pro-
ory to be fed upon with present de-: abou t that. , duction last year, but 3.3 per cent
light. j Young ladies of a certain age get greater than the average production
So, we light another candle and! one birthday and stick to it. They are during 1 the last ten years. Crop pro-
start on another year's march, notjtweoty-twG fcr instance, until they | duction per capita is, however, declin
knowing what lies ahead. This ftfich j reach thirty-five, and then they begin i n g, being. 3.4 per cent less than last
we do know, however, resolutions are to g0 back. . > ! year, and 4.8 per cent below the av-
in order, and we are resolved thjt! A S ood P lan when y° u begin to be e rage per capita production during the
THE CHRONICLE will be a better old to select a c fJ tai , n afire and keep I ,ast ten y ears *
and a brighter paper every week of ^ ™^y get any older. _ \ The value of cotton lint and cotton
the year, and that we will serve our
generous and patient and tolerant
readers as well as we know how. birthday.
I would like to recall the first time
- ^ A Ilf? YAlUf? VULvfSll UUt Alltl lsUtt\/Il
As for me l would prefer to cele- i see(j on ttM , basi , of Decembfr l tarm
brate anniversaries other than my prices intreaIed ^bout 29 per Je'nC Or
$331,000,000, fromr $1,132,000,000 in
. , „ . . ... ,, .. , 1926 to $1,46?,000,000 in 1927. Hie
I fell in love, if I could, or the first December lt 1926> prices were below '
We face the New Year with renewed
.' hope, and" shall strive throughout each . . , ... ., —, ,
• day of 1928 to give in all departments v j, ew ^be sea, or the first revelation i tbe seasona i aV erage price for the
<of our business the best service p 0 s-, J” 00 ". ®-bt or starlig t. 1926 crop. The yalue of the cotton
sible. , T1 ; e ,,rst * 00d v,ew t of a ‘ ree would crop (lint and seed) based upon the
All of us engaged in making THE ^ a „ U1 r ®”^ m k enng ’ or an or * 1926 seasonal prices was about
CHRONICLE wish you Health, Happi-
* ness, Peace and Prosperity for the | , . ..
made or the first examination s
.coming year. , ,, , - . , .
; fully passed, or the first time I es
' caped a merited punishment, r*
•^CHAMPION COTTON'GROWER ; I remember the first day I was con-
A Chesterfield county farmer, Mr. verted to Wagtter, and the first time!
I chard in full bloom.
The first good investment
ever
cess-
$1,300,000,00. The December 1, 1927,
prices, were also below the seasonal
average prices to that date.
NEW YEAR’S GIFT
VISION
To be enjoyed 365 con
tinuous days is the sea
son’s greetings of—
DRS. SMITH & SMITH
Optometrists
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To you, whose friendship has helped
make pur business most successful, we
send cordial wishes for a New Year of
Health and Happiness. .
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING'
P. M. Arrant, won the first prize in that the full appreciation of the old The annual meeting of the County
the state-wide .five-acre cotton con- masters in painting dawned on me. Board of Comissioners of Laurens
test. From the five acres he sold 11 Th( . s( . epoc hs in one's existence, County S. C., will be held at the
bales of cotton for $1,274.28 and thei djyine en T arKcments t0 thc house of Court House in the Supervisors of-
seed brought him 226.73. The seeo i ife i nd comme ndable a* well as com-Thursday after the first Mon-
paid for the fertilizer used, almost to memorab i e 4 a y °f January, 1928, being the 5th
the cent. Mr. Arant tells his own t The first pay day a j so adds to one ’ s fW of the month at the hour of ten
story and though it has been publish- 3U p er j or ity complex. o’clock in the forenoon,
ed before in several papers, it is well; _. ., 1 All persons holding claims or de
worth repeating here since South Car- ! R0 ir \.f° r ce e rat . m S* mands of any kind against the coun-
olina, to profitably raise cotton in the be ^°^b y cel ®^ rat, ? ns - ut ty, not previously presented, are here-
future, must raise more cotton on less ^V s recor f a a \ C - f S ^ me ! by notified and required to file the
land. Mr. Arant says: | s S ty y ear3 -° f what sood is that same with the tlerk of tlie board on
Life is a pleasant thing perhaps and or before the first day of January so
For 1927 our grateful acknowledgements go
out to our friends and patrons whom we have
been privileged to serve during the year now
drawing to a close.
We thank you sincerely for your continued
patronage, the best assurance to us that the
quality of our furniture and the service of our
store is appreciated.
‘The variety of cotton that I used
on my prize five acres was Coker’s ' s £ 0 °d tp s ^ e tbe Sun and to f u, w-
Pedigreed Seed company’s Cleveland
No. 5. The length of staple was one
and three thirty-seconds inches. The
tion otherwise, and one would not will
ingly give it all up. But not very
much of the time are we glad we were
official yield of lint accredited to me; eV er born. Perhaps we ought to be,
in the state-wide five-acre contest was ; but the mu ii igrubs are too busy with
5,857 pounds of lint cotton on the five! nur iff* T wHlv Zr
.acres. The reason I was able to get mos V? f us and °? r hfe 18 hardly , suc
jsuch a high yield of cotton on my five
(acres under very heavy boll weevil
conditions was due to liberal side
cessful enough. for us to 'celebrate
continuously.
It is very complimentary for our
i** 8111 * nitrate . 0f80da ’. 11 cl0t *j friends to say that they are glad we
rows and thick spacing m the drill and , , _ ...
poisoning to control th* I were born and they hope we will live
My rows averaged 34 inches wide j a thousand years, but we sometimes
and the cotton was left thick in the! question whether they really mean it.
•drill. One' to two stalks, eight to T2 Some of us have reached the decligr
that they may be ordered paid at the
annual meeting as provided by law.
No claims againsf the County shall
be valid and payable unless the same
be presented to and filed with the
County Board of Commissioners of
Laurens County during the fiscal year
in wl£ch It is contracted or the next
thereafter and all claims not so pre
sented and filed shall be barred.
Done at Laurens Court House, S.
C., this the 8th day of December, 1927.
J. D. W. WATTS, Supervisor.
B. Y. CULBERTSON, Clerk.
In all sincerity, as 1928 dawns, we wish for you
a New Year filled to overflowing with Happi
ness and Prosperity.
inches apart.
am a thorough believer in side
dressing cotton with nitrate of soda
and always use from 100 to 200 pounds
on my entire crop. On my prize five
acres this- year I made four applica
tions and * a m sure that each sid<
dressing of nitrate of soda oaid.
“The total cost of fertilizer used on
flve-aoe plot was $226.22, or an
cost of $45,235 per acre. The
td (at oil mill prices) Brought
$226.73 which paid the "entire cost of
fht i
the fertilizer. The total amount of ni
irate of soda that I used
ing years. When softiebody asks us
to have a cocktail or a highball, and if
certain forms of food are 'put before
us we must also refuse because the
doctor says so.
side; Our present ailments and limitations
! are sufficient without calling up those
of the past. We would never render
ourselves public unisances by continu
ally rehearsing our calamities. Let us
forget them. About the best thing we
can all do with the past is to forget it
and look forward to the future. That
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