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Mils Lucile Hurt spent Thanksgiving
at home. 11
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y Mrs. G. W. Martin spent Thanksgiving
in Columbia.
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Mr. S. G. Godfrey and family spent
last Friday in Columbia. E
Mrs. R. R. Hickson has returned n
from a visit to Rock Hill. ti
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Mrs. Wm. Hickson. Sr., has returned
from a visit to Virginia. n
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Mrs. B. C. Barnes, of Rock Hill, is d
visiting Mrs. R. R. Hickson. f<
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Mrs. 0. M. Lindsay, of Bennettsville, n
Is visiting her son, Joe Lindsay. o
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? Henry ThomaB, of Charleston, visit- ii
ed Mareen Duvall the past week.
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Rev. G. F. Kirby is attending the
Methodist Conference at St George.
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POSTED!
All lands owned by us are hereby
09ted against hunting and trespassig.
All violators will be prosecuted to
le full extent of the law.
G. R. SPENCER, ,
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Miss Dot Hickson, of Rocky River
Springs, spent Saturday with Mildred
Duvall.
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Mrs. E. J. Sherwood, of Conway,
spent last week end with Mrs. S. G.
Godfrey.
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Mr. L. Komhlut and family, of Dillon,
spent a few hours In town Wed 4
nesday. f
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Mr. Robt Herndon, of Detroit, Mich. |
Is visiting his sister, Miss Mary Fant |
Herndon.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Harrall and lit- f
tie son, Thos spent Thanksgiving in |
Charlotte. I
" Mrs. T. McL. Breeden and son, Thos. =
6t Bennettsville, spent Tuesday night f
In Cheraw. I
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Mr. and Mrs. John Allred have gone f
to housekeeping in the Eskridge house j
on Huger St [
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Mrs. H. G. Osteen, of Sumter, is vis
king her parents, Mr. and Mrs. h. r.
Duvall, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Morrow, of Sumter.
epent the past week with Mr. and Mrs. :
A. F. Hilliard.
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Mr. S. G. Godfrey entertained sever- 4
al friends at a four course stag dinner 4
Thursday night 4
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Mrs. Squibb, of New York, a former ^
resident of Cberaw spent several days ^
in town this week.
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Misses Rosa and Jennie Parsons, of 4
Rockingham, were guests of Mrs. C. K.
Waddlll the past week.
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Mr. A. L. Evans went to Charlotte 4
Wednesday to undergo treatment at 4
hospital for a few days. ?
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Little Jno. D. the 5 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Chapman is suffer. Z
ing from an attack of pneumonia.
Miss Mamie Chapman, of Darlington
and Miss Sallie Chapman, of Angelus,
spent Thanksgiving with their mother,
Mrs. Maggie Chapman.
0 POSTED!
All persons are hereby by warned
that lands owned by me, near Montrose
are posted against trespassers.
Special attention Is called against cut.
ting of trees of any sort especially the
holly trees. No hunting or fishing is
allowed.
All permissions heretofore given
are hereby revoked.
AH violators will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.
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'he State of South Carolina,
County of Chesterfield,
ly M. J. Hough, Probate Judge:
Whereaa Flora Sweet made suit to
le to grant her Letters of Adminisration
of the Estate and effects of W.
\ Sweet, deceased.
These are, therefore* to cite and adlonish
all and singular the kindred
nd creditors of the said W. P. Sweet,
eceased, that they be and appear be.
are me, in the Court of Probate, to be
eld at Chesterfield, S. C. on 7th Dec.
ext, after publication hereof, at 11
'clock in the forenoon, to show cause,
I any they have, why the said Adminjtration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand this 22nd day
f November
Anno Domini 1921.
M. J. HOUGH, Prob. Judge.
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COTTON GINNED FOR COUNTIES
Figures Given for Sontli Carolina. |
The department of commerce
through the bureau of the census, announces
the preliminary report oh
cotton ginned by counties, in South
Carolina, for the crops of 1981 and I
1920. The total for the state was
made public at 10 a. m., Monday, November
21.
(Quantities are in running bales,
counting round as half bales. Linters I
are not included.)
County 1921 1920 (
Abbeville 15,115 24,644
Aiken 13,232 37,014
Allendale 4,207 11,947
Anderson 50,830 02,383
Bamberg 3,816 18,194
Barnwell 7,724 26,210 (
Beaufort 387 192 i
Calhoun 4,844 28,791 (
Cherokee 12,906 13,974 (
Chester 22,577 24,468
Chesterfield 21,254 21,653
Clarendon 7,976 35,22f ]
Colleton 1,952 2,783 i
Darlington 20, 334 33,265 1
Dillon 31,223 26,126 ?
Dorchester 1,535 8,052 1
Edgefield 6,977 21,364 j
Fairfield 9,339 19,101 ,
Florence * 20,122 27,063
Greenville 37,422 31,903 <
Greenwood 12,540 30,372 J
Hampton 2,706 6,449 1
Horry 3,066 4,566 1
Jasper 081 791 '
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Lancaster 13,408 15,944 ]
Laurens 32,236 47,071 '
Lee 18,400 33,320 i
Lexington 7,908 23,338 '
McCormick 4,006 13,115 !
Marion 10,790 13,022
Marlboro 44,630 47,628 ,
Newberry 16,372 33,259 i
Oconee 19,743 15,063 <
Orangeburg * 17,014 69,598 '
; Pickens 19,399 12,832 1
I Richland 7,710 27,025 1
(Saluda 8,152 23,844 J
Spartanburg 60,219 58,171 |
Sumter 17,791 41,649
Union 14,529 18,211 .
Williamsburg 7,028 22,271
York 33,967 29,071 1
All other 526 2,990
| Total for State 684,617 1,099,443
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RAILROAD PLAN TO
GET RATES DOWN
Propose to Reduce Wages and
Return All the Sa^ng by
Reduction in Charges.
:ULL TEXT OFJHE PROPOSAL
statement by Thomas DoWItt Cuylsr,
Chairman of ths Association of
Railway Exeeutlves on ths
Situation.
Following a meeting In Chicago.
October 14, 1921, of the presidents of
learly all the leading railroads in the
country, Mr. Thomas DeWltt Cuylsr,
chairman of the Association of Railway
Executives, made the following
itatement:
At a meeting of the Association of
Railway Executives today It was determined
by the railroads vof the
Jnited States to seek to bring about
i reduction in rates. And as a means
to that end to seek a reduction In the
jresent railroad wages which have
compelled maintenance of the present
rates.
A? onnHpatln. will ho TTIfldo Immft
liately to the United States Railroad
Labor Board for a reduction In wages
)f train service employes sufficient to
remove the remainder of the increases
made by the labor board's decision of
July 20, 1920 (which would involve a
further reduction of approximately 10
per cent) and for a reduction in the
wages of all other classes of rail
road labor to the going rate for such
labor in several territories where the
carriers operate.
To Reduce ftates as Wages Go Down.
The foregoing action is upon the
understanding that concurrently with
such reduction in wages the benefit
of the reduction thus obtained shall,
with the concurrence of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, be-passed
on to the public in the reduotion
of existing railroad rates, except in
so far as this reduction shall have
been made in the meantime. The \
managements have decided upon this {
course in view of their realisation of
the fact that the wheels of Industrial 1
activity have been closed down to a
point which brings depression and dis- (
tress to the entire public and that iJ
something must be done to start them '
again in operation. 1
The situation which confronts the '
railroads is extremely critical. The j
-ailroads in 1920 realized a net rail
way operating income of about $62,
000,000 upon a property investment ol 1
over $19,000,000,000 and even thir 1
amount of $62,006,000 included back '
mail pay for prior years received from 1
the government of approximately 1
$64,000,000, thus showing, when the 1
operations of that year alone are oon- '
sidered, an actual deficit before mak 1
ing any allowance for either interest
or dividends.
The year ended in serious depres
sion in all branches of industry am
in marked reduction of the market de '
mand for and the prices of basic com
modities, resulting in a very serious 1
falling off in the volume of traffic. '
Roads Foroed to Defer Maintenance
In this situation, a policy of th(
most rigid economy and of postpon
ing and cutting to tne Done or me up
keep of the propertiei was adopted
by the railroads. This was at tht
price of neglecting and for the time
deferring work which must hereafter
and in the near future be done and
paid for. This is Illustrated by the
fact that, as of September 15, 1121
over 16 per cent, or 374,431 in nuna
ber, of the freight cars of the carrien
were in bad order and needing repairs,
as against a normal of bad order
of not more than 160,000 as It
further illustrated by the deferred
and inadequate maintenance of other
equipment and of roadway and structures.
Even under those conditions, and
with this large bill charged ur
against the future?which must soon
be provided for and paid if the carriers
are to perform successfully
their transportation duties?the re
suit of operations for the first elgh*
months of this year, the latest available
figures, has been at a rate of net
railway operating income, before pro
viding for interest or dividend;
amounting to only 2.6 per cent pei
annum on the valuation of the car
rier properties made by the Inter
state Commerce Commission in the
recent rate case, an amount not suf
ficient to pay the interest on theii
outstanding bonds.
Roads Earning Far Below Reasonable
Returns.
It is manifest, from this showing
that the rate of return of 514 or C i
per ceui xor me nrsi iwo years arier ]
March 1, 1920, fixed in the Transpor
tation Act as a minimum reasonable
return upon railroad investment, ha- ,
not been even approximated, mucl ]
less reached; and that the present
high rates accordingly are not due tc
any statutory guarantee of earnings,
for there is no such guarantee. 1
In analyzing the expenses which
have largely brought about this sit i
uation, It becomes evident that b>
far the largest contributing cause It <
the labor cost. i
Today the railroads pay out to la
eor approximately 60 cents on the dpi
lar they receive for transportation i
services whereas in 1916, 40 cento on
the Sailer went to labor. i
On the first day of January, 1117,
when the government too* charpo !
wages through the Adamson AeV (X* i
labor cost of the railroads had mA exceeded
the sum of about |l,4lt,tH,- !
0U0 annually. In 1920, when govtmment
authority made the last wage
Increase, the labor cobI of the railroads
was about 8,698,000,000 aauually,
or. If continued throughout the
year instead of for Ihe eight months
during which the wage increases
were in effect, the labor cost, on an
unnual basis, would have been i
largely in excess of 13,900,000,000?
an increase, since the government
took charge of railroad wages Jn Uie
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Large bed spread.
Beautiful voil wai
Best quality dress
Ahamson ActT of approximately |5,- \\
150,000,000 annually. rr
In the light of these figures, it is n
manifest that tha recent reduction of la
traces authorised by the Labor Board, ^
sstimated at from 10 to 12 per cent, n
Ln no sense meets or solves the problem
of labor costs, and in no way it
makes it possible for the railroads "
to afford a reduction ot their reve- ti
sues. a
Thousands of Rates Already Redueed. p
Indeed, during the past year there ^
have been between four and five thou* U
land individual reductions ln freight ?
rates. On some railroads the reduc- e:
Lions in rates have amounted to more [[
than the redactions ln wages so far p
made, and on many other railroads the
reductions in iragee allowed no net b
return on operations, but merely pro- *
rlded against the further accumular *
Uon of a deficit
The point is often made that agrlcu-1 w
ture and other industries are also w
luffsrlng the same lnunediate difflcul- ti
ties as the railroads, why, therefore, J
do not the railroads take their medi- it
cine llks anybody elas? The ens- J
wer Ilea in aeveral facta:
1. The railroads were not permitted,
as i were other industries, to
make charges during the years or prosperity,
making possible the accumulation
of a surplus to tide them over the
present extreme edverslty. According
to the report! of the Inter- "
state Commerce Commission, the rate
of return in property investment of
the railroads of the United States for
the past several years has been as
follows:
Rate of returns earned by railroads
of the United States on their property
lnvesf&Wt;
/ ' Percent
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1114 4.17
1115 4.24
1111 ( fiscal year) 6 40
1417 I.M
1111 S.li
ISIS 2.45
1424 0 12
ISIS (calendar year) 6.16
It will thus be noted that during
the years whsn other industries were
making very large profits, when the
prices of farm products and the wages
of labor were soaring to unheard-of
heights, the earnings upon railroad
investment In the United Spates were
held within very narrow limits and
that they have during the past four
years progressively declined.
Roads handlcspped Mere Than Other
Business.
S. The railroads are responsible to
the nubile for providing adequate
transportation. Their charges are limited
by public authority, and they are
in very large respect (notably for
labor) compelled tj spend money on
a basis fixed by public authority. The
margin within which they are permitted
to earn a return upon their investment
or to offer Inducements to
attract new capital (or extensions and
betterments is extremely limited.
However much the railroAds might
desire, therefore, to reduce their
charges in times of depression, it will
be perceived that the limitations surrounding
their action do not permit
them to give effect to broad and elas- _
tic policies which might very properly
govern other lines of business not ~
thus restricted.
It has been urged upon the railroads
that a reduction in rates will stimulate M
traffic and that Increased traffic will pro- X
teet the carriers from the loss Incident U
to a reduction in rates. The rallroa, ?v
managements cannot disguise from them elves
that this suggestion la merely con- e*
jectural and that an adverse result of ^
the experiment weuld be disastrous, not *y
only to the railroads, but to the public ^
whese supreme need is adequate trans- *7
portatlon. ^
Consequently the railroad managements JT
cannot feel Justified In placing theBe In- ^
Btrumentallttes, so essential to the public Jj
welfare, at the hazard of such an expert- O
ment based solely upon such conjecture. jT
Farmers Especially Need Lower ^
Rates. ?
It is evident, however, that existing
transportation charges bear in many ^
cases a disproportion*te relationship to the Vq
prices at which commodities can be sold &
in the market and that existing labor
and other costs sf transportation thus if
Impose. upon Industry and agriculture
(renerallr a burden greater than they X
should bear. This Is especially true of ^
agriculture. The rallread managements
are feeling sensitive te and sympathetic 2*1
with the distressing situation and desire eV
to do aye rr thing to auist in. relic vino '
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ECIAL PRICES FOR
aturday and B
and Millinery Reduced
ly a few of many val
nkets, value $2.25
, 25c value . .
ress gingham,
, $2 value . .
sts, value $1.50
ginghams . .
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r tEat (a compilable wTlE their dufy~EB
jrnlsh transportation which the public
lust have.
At the moment rail road In many ca??a
re paying 40 cents an hour for unskilled I
bor when similar labor la working alongde
the railroad and can easily be oblined
by them at 20 cents an hour. The
illroads of the country paid In 1M0 a
>tal of considerably over } 1,300,000(004 to
nskllled labor alone. However desirable
may be to pay this or that schedule t
ages, It is obvious that it cannot be
aid out of the railroad earnings, unless
is industries which use the railroads are
ipable of meeting such charges.
The railroads, and through them the
eoole generally are also hampered in their
Torts to economize by a schedule of
orking rules and condition* now |n
>rce a* & heritage from the period ef
ederal control and upheld by the railed
labor board. Theae condition* are
cpenslve, uneconomic and unnecessary
ora the point of view of railroad operaon
and extremely burdensome upon the
ublic which pay a the bill. The schedule
r wages and of working conditions preen
ts the railroads from dealing equitaly
with their labor and coat* la accordnee
with rapidly changing conditions aad
le great variety of local considers ticas
hlch ought to control wages In differat
parts of the country. The railroads
re seeking to have these rules and
'orking conditions abrogated.
The railroads wilt seek a reduction In
ages now proposed by first requesting
ne sanction of the railroad labor hoard,
'he railroads will proceed with all peeIble
dispatch, and as soon am the railroad
ibor beard shall have given Its ess sal
tfle reduction tn wages the general VPaction
In rates will be put Into eft est.
OR SALE}?5000 stalks tine Seed
Sugar Cane.
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Fresh Cranberries
Fresh Celery
Fresh Lettuce
Fresh Cauliflower
Fresh Tomatoes
Heinz Pickles
Macaroni
Fancy Honduras Rice
Plum and Fig Puddings
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Citron, Lemon and Oraui
Raisins, Currants, Date
Cherries and Shelled Ni
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Fruit Cakes.
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Fruits of all kinds
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