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I * j 1 CHEBAW CHRONICLE WEEKLY COTTON LETTER By Savannuli Cotton Factorage Co. (All inquiries promptly answered The cotton market has advanced 2c per pound since our last week'.letter was written. This advance was due to further reports of serious crop deterioration, a better demand an_'j covering by those who had sold short.! z"1-'- Vinr.ci 11 fieures that the f WIIC pu-uu MM. ..0 m i?r< esnt condition of the crop is .",1 I per cent *>r normal, indicating a yield of about 7,000,000 bales. The Government's estimate (to be publishI ed September 1st) is ahu expected to show a low condition. I There continues t.? be a good de. mand for cotton 'n the South, and | Eastern markets report an unusually tine demand for cotton goods, with small stocks offering. \\"e predicted in our last cotton letter that differences between grades would Continue to narrow. On August 24th the difference between Low i Middling and Strict Low Middling narrowed from k- to 3.1c, making Avery bale nf Low Middling and beloto?worth $1.2.7 more than heretofore 4n addition to the advance in the market. Dispatches from the National Capital this week report that Congress has passed a bill authorizing the tise of a billion dollars to assist in handling agricultural exports. Peace has also b?en made in Germany, and wt seem to be getting closer to better tomes. It is now tip to the farmer, the banker, the buyer and the warehouseman to market his cotton slowly, as this seems to he the best way to sustain prices and bring about a fttrtheu advance. CKXSI'S REPORT Aee in South Carolina. Washington. I). ('., August 2.5. 1921. AccortY-ng to the census of 1920, 40.S pir cent, or about two.fifths, of the people in the .-tate of South Caroline are either infants or children under 15 years of use: 10.9 per cent are young people 1". to 19 years old;, 33.8 per cent, about one-third, are ^ men and women in the prime of life. being from 20 to 44 years old: while 14.4 ptr cent, being 45 years of age and ever, are well along in mid Me life :f they have not reached old age. The urban population as compared with rural shows some rather strik ' , differenc es in ag:\ the percentage 20 to 4 i years of age being 43.2 for I the urban population as compared W- with 31.8 for the rural, while the per-J rentage under 15 years of age is 30.2 in the urban population a- against1 43.1 in the rural. The cliff- retires may, indicate larger mafilios of children! in the country than in the city, but urobablv indicate also the fact that j country children as they crow up have a tendencv to tl<<ck to the cities thereby increasing the active adult population of th ecitics at the expense of the marl districts. i Over two-fifths of the p pula'io::. | per cent. ;tre old onouph to vote being 21 or over; and in this cla- ', the men and women tire practical!'-' | aqua) in numbers. The male-- < f military or fight'ng ape. IS to 44.j consitute per cent of the n,alc( population and is.2 per cent cf the tt>tal population. !< ~ r Comm Dollar Da Septem One Da new c We offer a spec tiling in our stock lar Jay, including Goods just arrived O 11y a few c f the many listed h 11 yds., 36-i::ch Good 9 yds., 30-inch Good ] 4 pairs Boys (large size) 5 pairs Ladies Hose {fail \ 4 Wash Ties (Wilson B L 2 Work Shirts (blue chu B 1 pair S2.00 Union Ma< Walters-! k w Cherav | Five South | Mission (1) Miss Clifford Irene Barratt, 1 tniuster, educational work, Kaifeng. < China; (4) Millard Theron Rankin, \V ducational work, Temuco, Chile. From the larger proceeds of ths Baptist 75 Million Campaign the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has been enabled to send out more than 160 new missionaries since that movement was launched, it is announced, and of that number sixty young men and women, representing fourteen states, have Just sailed for China, Japan, Africa, Brasil, a nhiio In addition to ^igciuiiia oiiu v/u?.v. ... these, Dr. and Mrs. Everett Gill of Kansas City will gall September 14 to become representatives of the Board in Europe, while Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Hainlett of Austin, Texas, have Just sailed for Jerusalem, where they will maintain headquarters in acting as the Near East representatives of the Board. The new missionaries to China and Japan sailed from Seattle, Saturday, August 27, on the Hawkeye State ol the Admiral Line, while those for Bra zil, Argentina, Chile and Africa sailed from New York on the Aeolus August 17. They will be engaged chiefly in evangelistic, educational, medical and agricultural work and will be sta tloned at various points in these fields While a large number of new worker.' have been sent out by the Board Bine* the beginning of the Campaign, al least 100 other capable young men and women could be employed to advant age If they were available, Secrctarj J. F. Love advises. Mission Money Gets Results. Of the more than $25,000,000 tha has been collected In cash on the 75 Million Campaign to date, about $5, poo.000 has gone to foreign missions This has made it possible not only t( strengthen the old work on all field) f 1 mr?v I r-o number of nev SOUTHERN CATTLE WIN."" Springfield, 111., Aug. 2X.?South Carolina Guernseys cleaned up at the Illinois state fair. The Clover farm herd of Guernseys, owned by James L. Mcintosh of Dovesville, near Darlington, won the majority of the blue ribbons at the biggest fair Illinois ever had. Waukesha county, Wisconsin, was represented by cattle from ten herds, but lost every ina.n group to the Southern cattle. iunity y Specials ber 6th y Only iOODS ial price on every during the dolali our new Kail , One Day Only. bargains at our store iclow: Brown Sheeting $1.00 Dress Checks $1.00 Sch< ol Hose $1.00 r quality) $1.00 res.) $1.00 tmbray) $1.00 Je Overalls $1.25 errell Co. ?, s. c. IIHIimiMMMIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIillllllllltlllMIMimillllHHHtllllllllltlHIl Carolinians S< laries for Chin MMMIMIIIIMIIIMIMIMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIMIIIMIIIMIIIMMIIIIIIIIIIIIII Breezewood, evangeii6tic work, Pochow, ?hina; (3) Miss Hannah Jane Plowden 'illiston, evangelistic work, Canton, Chi missionaries, but to do much otlur work, including building or making substantial additions to 15 boys' schools, 17 girls' schools, 37 mission residences, five hospitals and dispensaries, four light and power plants for mission compounds, 26 church buildings, four colleges, seven theological seminaries. In addition, assistance has been given seven church building loan associations, six new stations have beeu opened and equipped, land has i been bought for the enlargement of several mission compounds, a home for orphans in Italy has been established, and a block of ground has been purchased in the heart of Rome for headi quarters for the work in Italy, a theoi logical seminary, publishing house. church and mission residence being 1 provided on this property. Enlarge European Field. ! As a result of the Campaign, South ern Baptists have been enabled to [ greatly enlarge their work in Europe. . They have carried on mission work in i Italy since 1870, but now they have 1 opened up new work in Jugo-Slavia, Hungary and Roumania, and have made . a btglnnlng, through the distribution i of Bibles, in the Ukraine and Southern i Russia and Siberia. To* act as the t European representatives of the Board I in this enlarged program, Dr. and Mrs. Everett Gill of Kansas City were re' cently named. They will probably make their headquarters in Switzerland. t The first work Southern Baptists ? have ever done looking to the evangel izatlon of Mohammedan lands has Just been undertaken in Palestine and >' Syria, and Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Hamlett s of Austin, Texas, have gone to Jeru it I'.alent, where the '' Groc A Comn Dollar D i I We Ask That You < Prices. You V Premium Coffee i Heinz Sweet Mustard Pick Heinz's Apple Butter Heinz's Chilli Sauce Heinz's Fig Pudding Heinz's Chow Chow Pick ij~~~? r\:n D:^bi?c licit\gj a L/Ill L 1LA1VJ Heinz's India Relish Libby's Plum Pudding Sun kist Peaches Libby's Apricots [ Heinz's Baked Beans Finest Grade Spinach Crape Juice Octagon Soap Sliced Bacon Large size Peanut Butter I i i Try Our Qu ! E. V. M Phon ulAs7" | a and Chile in 11 mi ii i ii mi in in ii iHiiinimi in unit ni | -4 ? > hawrzyf state: China; (2) Miss Grace Stribllng, Watt, Klngritree, evangelistic work, Soochow, na; (5) Miss Cornelia Brower, Sumter, the work of the native evangelists. It is planned to establish a church, theological seminary and college, hospital and orphanage at Jerusalem as soon as practicable and thu< seek to r.ach other point* In Palestine and Syria from this center. Mlnist:r to 900,000,000 People. With the enlarged foreign mlaaion program of Southern BaptlBta that denomination is now operating in II countries on every side of the globa, and has In its employ practically 600 foreign missionaries and twlca that number of native workers trained la the mission schools. Through ita ' present missionary operations the Bourd is seeking to minister to 475,000,000 yellow people, 4,000,000 brown people, 200,000,000 black people and 225.000.000 white people, making a total of 9u0.000.00o people, or more than half the population of the globa. ; Numbered among Its workers already Jon the field are 21 foreign physiclana and 8 foreign mission nurses who laat year gave 154,070 treatments. There are now 611 mission cnurches on the foreign fields and of this number 184 are self-supporting. The average contributions of these mission churches last year to denominational causes was $5 per member, the Christians on ths foreign fi.dds responding more liberally as a result of the 76 Million Campaign. The new missionaries sailing at this time were contributed by the following states: Alabama two, Arkansas one, Georgia five, Kentucky six, Louisiana two, Mississippi four, Missouri foun North Carolina three, South Carollnt five, Tennessee five, Texas fifteen . 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