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i ii ii. ? , ? e ? ? ? ? CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1914 VOLUME XXVI , i.. NUMBER 30, ? ? ? I THE "OTHER FELLOW" NEEDS SYMPATHY, TOO. Timely Lottor on Present Situa tion From (ho Merchants Point of Viow. Tin* follOwttug letter ban recently lHi?u goii t out to the trade by the Nttfth Hardware Co., of Fort Worth, Texan, and it Is well worth careful reading : To th*> Itetall Trade: We are not in the cotton business, but we' know enough to Hay that an article or a com modity i? only worth what tt will brhifc wlu'ii it J? offered for sale. If el?ht <-ents imt pound, or even seven crnis jkt pound, , 1h all that a farmer can get for cotton, then, that in nil cotton its worth regardless of what I a costs to rfilf# it It is tMild that, ft farmer cannot raise CDtton at less than (0 cent* per pound/ yet a great many thousand farmer* #ut rh'h or, at least independent, rais ing It at 7 cents per pound, and that vfus when everything else that he rals ?h1 wok sold at a very much lower fig ure than Is ruling today. Besides this he didn't got $7.00 per hale for seed as he gets today. We give the following comparisons: He buys a hoe for 00 cents that used to cost 70 cents. He buys a tile at 15 cents that used to cost .*15 cents. He buysr a single tree at .15 cents! that used to cost 50c. / He buys a sweep at 8 cents that used to cost 15 cents per pound. He buys a pller at 75 cents that used I to cost $2. He buys nails at 4 cents that used to I /cost 5c per pound. He buys wire at 3 l-2c that used to I cost 10 cents per pound. He buys hames at 50 cents that used I to cost 75 cents. He buys traces at 45 cents that used) to cost* 75 cents. He pays 00 cents for picking where | he used to pay $1. He borrows money at 8 j>erfc cent. tQj 10 per cent where he used to pay l2| per cent, and 15 per cent. He sells wheat at $1 that used to| bring <K) cents. He sells oats at 50 cents that used to I bring IS cents. He sells corn at 75 cents that used to bring 15 cents. He sells hay at $14 that used to brinjfj *4. jjl He sells turkeys at $2.25 and some times $4 that -used to bring 60 cents to 70 cents. He sells chickens at $3.50 that used to sell ?t $1.25 to $1.50 per dozen. ? He sells a horse at $150 to $225 that | used to sell from $50 to $100. When he was confronted with the above conditions he bought land on time, cleared it, feuced It, and poon paid for it, raiding cotton at 7 cents per iKHind. "But if indeed, he is max lng less profit this year than former ly! the same condition is true with you, and with us, and with the busi ness world at large. lie ought to be| a good sport. He ought to take his losses just as manfully an<i as grace fully a* the restofusare <l(>iUg. While the above figures are not ab solutely correct, nevertheless they are accurate enough to ^.demonstrate that the farmer is getting the best of the situat Ion and is enjoying' life while the | balance of us are sweating blood. The retail merchant owes it to bimsellj, to j bis jobber and to his bank to insist | on the farmers selling, at least, a part of their cotton. A man has an un questioned right to speculate on his <?n moneys hut be has no right to speculate on the other fellow's money The farmer has a right to hold bis! cotton till doomsday if he does not Owe] f anything; but be has no right what ever to hold his cotton to the financial embarrassment of the retail merchant who since spring has clothed and fed bis wife' and children and furnished him with means with which to make| that cotton. It Is. hard on the farm er to l>e disappointed about 'the price ] whihe he thought be was going to get, hut it is a whole lot harder on the re tail merchant to gobroke because the farmer won't sell his cotton and pay bis honest debts, The conditions are "0t half as hard oil him a& on the retail and wholesale merchants who ?re losing hundreds and thousands of dollars, brums*' the farmer, by holding bis cotton, has stopped the entire ma chinery of business. Not* la it duitej as hard on him as op the thousands ?f hungry men^and women which his] had business judgment and rebellion at fate has thrown out. of employment! and, ip many cases, on the charity (rf| the worl<}. . suggest to merchants generally, and we insist on our customers, es- : J*cWly, pressing the farmer . to sell ] his cotton and pay his '?tall merchni ** may al*o pay COTTON CONGRESS WILL MEET IN ALL COUNTIES. President Stackhoute Summon* Member* to Discuss Plant ing of Small Grain. President Wad* Htacklioiiqe of the South Carolina Division Southern Cot ton ( '"i i;' 1 1 ? . hii k issued tlu? following call to Hie fanners and business men of the counties of South Carolina : I call on the cotton congress in or ?f# county in South Carolina to meet at the court hou?e at 11 o'clock Satur day, November 14, to dtseuss-fcvo sub jects. First : The planting of small grains, and necoud : udjustlng the rent contract to the acreage reduction law. I ie<nie>t that the demoufjtratiou agent of each county, the merchant*, hankers and business men will meet with the farmers and will devise waVs and means of providing seed tt* plant <?Mts, wheat, rye and rape. It is now a^ed time, and while our mei'chants and hankers feci discouraged over poor Collections, It will Im? short-sighted pol icy for them to fall to provide ample seed to plant one-third of the cultivat ed land in South Carolina in small grains. Some of our people seem to fear there, will he no demand nor sale for small grain next summer. I |>e .lieve this fear Is groundless and that any surplus oats, wheat and rye will find feady sale at high prices. the future May oats market quoted yes terday In Chicago at 63 cents per hush el, wouhV indicate that oats in. South Carolina slipuld hrlug that price in South Carolina plus freight tp the sea board. Ship loads of wheat have re cently sold at 11.2.1 per bushel, We can put out oats and wheat on the market at least 60 Jays before the Western farmer cau deliver his. I suggest that the county president of each county congress select two or more speakers to discuss the best method of preparing the land and seeding to small grains. Oats should have been planted, but even now, if immediate j preparation is made, they may make a good yield. I hope -ull inirsons now renting for | cotton or cash rent will change their irent contract providing that one-half rent can <be l>aid In outs, wheat, corn or hay. I suggest valuing a part of the cotton rent at 10 cents per pound, 'and in place of It to take oats at 50 cents* per bushel, both delivered in bags, at the rullroad station ; or hay at $20 per ton in hales delivered at the sta tion. This will guarantee tenants a fair price for grain and hay, and will relieve their fears of not being able to handle grain and hay crops. ^Thls change in rent contract I feel may re duce the South Carolina crop next ?year 2000,000 bales. Bear lu mind that fully 6,000,000 bales of cotton now made will have to he carried in the South until September, 1016, and that the value of every bale carried over will be lessened by every acre of cot ton planted. If you plan to carry over any cotton, use your best efforts to get at least one-third of the cultivated land in South Carolina planted in < small grains, . I request county papers to publish this call, and urge A large attendance at the meetings next Saturday. I hope every editor of the county papers In the state will editorially and other-: wise urge the planting of small grain immediately. * Farmers to Meet at Antiodi. - We. the farmers of Antloch farmers -Association, oKorahaw County. 66 hereby invite all other Farmers Asso ciations to send delegates to meet wltn us on Tuesday, November 24th, at thej Woodman Hall at Antloch, at 11 a. m.t to organise a county association , also other farmers who may want to or ganise. By order of the Association-, T. L. Davis, Jr., Sect'y. ? ? 1 1 cp ; * Tourists to Turn, to South. New York, Nov. 7. ? New York hotels are filled with the ^traveling rleh" with no place to go bat remain here until the sea won opensv in Florida or California. Tlie thousands of Am^ri cans who break a leisurely annu^ Journey to Southern Europe with pleas ant tarrylugST and shoppings in London and Paris will certainly have to re main In tills country thin winter unless they warft to run the risk of being seized by a warship or suffer other em tmrrassments. Nearly all of the South ern hotel proprietors are leaving New York to get their places In in order for an c lily rush to the South. remarks may appear to you somewhat gratuitous, at the same time they are well worthy of your thoughtful con sideration. v," , ?*."? Respectfully. ~ v ? Ghas. E. Nash, Pres. Nash Hardware Company. QUARANTINE RAISED ON THREE HUNDRED FARMS Work of Tick Eradication Pro growing Nicely/ in Ker ? skaw County. The work of eradicating the tattle tick In this county, commem-ed some months ago, will continue through the winter an name an In the summer. Part lea owning cattle under quaran tine are warned not tomove them with out a written permit. A i*?rson who driven cattle on the public highway la subject to prosecution the name us the owner of the premises. The ins|?ectora have taken into consideration the fact that many desire to Hell their cattle ftt ttll? time and they will do all they can to help release the cattle.. All cat tle on quarantined premise? must be free of tl<*ks in order to permit any be ing released. ? If you are having trou ble getting ticks off your cattle the in spectors will help you spray thorn. If you will get the cattle clean now and keep the ticks off you can kill out the seed ticks on the ground (luring the winter months. There is no reason why every quarantined place iu Ker shaw county should not be released by next June. All that Is necessary is to devote a little time to bpraying your cattle. Mr. L. I. Guion's splendid Hereford j cattle, headed by "Fairfax 16th," won first and second premiums at the Geor gia-Carolina fair at Augusta several weeks ago. This was the first tline Kershaw county cattle has been allow ed to go out of the state, m^do possi ble by the work of tick -eradication. The progress made In this work has been very gratifying in this county and the Inspectors appreciate the co-opera tion and the spirit with which the cit izens have gone Into the work. Some three hundred quarantined places have been released since April 1, 1014. Tick eradication will help nifike this a great cattle country and by aiding the in spectors they will use every effort to help you. liy all working together the quarantine will be lifted and Ker shaw county cattle will have free ac cess to any market in the country. The Inspectors can be located at the following addresses: For <4$>wer West Wateree section, ,f. T. Poore, at Bla-i ney ; upper* West Wateree 'section, S. W. Williams at Camden ; lower part of county east of Wateree river as far north as Bethune, W. S*. Bearden, Camden ; northern part of county, Wade H. Jones, Kershaw.' ' RED CROSS SEALS. Large Order Placed For South Carolina. Columbia, S. C., Nov. 9. ? In spite of unusual business conditions tbe work of the Red Cross Seal Commission In South Carolina lei progressing success fully. The magnitude of the undertak ing may be seen from the size of the order for seals and advertising material which the American Red Cross Associa tion has recently shipped to thejCom mission's headquarters at Columbia. The order consists of 250,000 seals, 20, 000 'envelopes, 5,000 envelope slips and '2,000 cards. The active selling season for the seals is from Thanksgiving to Christmas. During November this .great mass of material will be distri buted to the many public spirited men aiul women throughout the state, who have consented to act as agents. As evidence of the hearty spirit of qo-op eratlon met with on all sides may be cited the fact that the Southern Ex press Company has generously agreed to handle the Commission's shipments free of charge. ,) A Red Cross Christmas Seal booth was conducted at the State Fair week before last in Columbia. Plans arc on foot to maintain similar booths at the county fairs, notably in Spartanburg and Orangeburg. The whole movement takes on new interest from the fact that a special Anti-Tuberculosis Conference for (he south is to be held in Atlanta tbe last week in November. Prominent South Carolinians in various sections of the State are being invited t# attend. Reed Smith; executive secretary of the Red Cross Christmas Seal Commission, has been appointed one of the Vice Presi dents of this conference. Old Maids Convention and Contests. Aa old Maids. Convention and other ; contests will be held at Shamrock High f School on next Wednesday . evening, Nov. 18th, beginning at 7 o'clock. The public is most cordially invljted to take part In these Contests. Tfc# tondswfll ?lie used to furnish the building. . . ? Married. Married on Wednesday, -November 11, at the ottoe of the probate Judge, W. L. McDowell officiating, Mr. W. J. 7*. Ilea roo and Miss Mamie McCask 111. both of Cassatt, RECORD OF ONE WEEK ? IN SESSIONS COURT A. E. Salley, Jr., Convicted of Autuli and Battery Get* Pine of $300. Court of general sessions fur Ker si taw County wet Monday morning with a large amount of work on hand and will probably go well into the three weeks, Hon. C, J, Uamage, of Saluda, Is the presiding judge and Soli Itor Cobb Ik conducting the state's eases In his usual prompt style. Up to late Thursday afternoon the following eases had Imhmi dlsjHmed of: Henry Brown, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill was fuund guilty of t**"Hult and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and sen* teuced to*20 months on the elntln gang. lvtor Cook, Jordan Oook, Ulna Cook, ami Jane C?w?k, churged with -botcher lug and stealing a hog. lVter Cook was found guilty and was MMlteUCfetl to serve one year with two mouths off. The others were released. fThe trial of Q, .1. Baker, charged with the murder of Heuiry Uodgers on ?hrlstmas night of last. year resulted ill a verdict of uot guilty. Hodgeri* was a tenant on the farm of Baker near Camden, and' had l)eeu drinking. Mrs. Uodgers sent for Mr. Baker when Uodgers became unruly and in a fight Uodgers was struck in the head with a gun from Avhlcli he died. Capt . M. L Smith represented the defendant, and sot up a plea of self defense. Jim Drakeford, charged with using a mule without the owners consent, was acquitted. A. E. Salley, Jr., Indicted for assault and battery with intent to kill, was found guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and thrf" judge, after giving the defendant a severe lecture imposed a fine of $300 or to serve six months In jail. The defendant was represented by Attorney L. T. Mills, who made a motion for a new trial, which avas denied. Salley was released on a lwml of $80fc pend an appeal to the supreme court. This case attracted a great deal of atten tion and the court room was well fill ed during the entire trial." The crime for which Salley was charged was the serious l>uttlng of Mr. Alfred McLeod In the barber shop. of English ""Bros. on the night of April 4th. Several young white men and the employees of the barber shop were placed on the stand for the state and all gave practically the same testimony, which was that Salley had been drinking and .started the row with young M^Leod while the latter was taking a bath iu the shop. The. case against John Powell, charg ed' with disposing of property under, lien, Was nol prossed. J. M. Smith, charged with obstruct ing a neighborhood road, was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of one dollar, and ordered to remove the obstruction. ?T James McGirt had two cases docket ed against him for violating the dis pensary law and was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or serve four months in each case. James plead guilty to both cases,, and it was well he did, for a short while after, Judge Ramage an nounced in court that if anyone charg ed with selling whiskey was convicted before him he would send them up for six months without the alternative of paying a fine. This makes the two cases cost Jim $325, as the city re corder had- previously imposed fines of |60 and $75 in each case and sent him up to the present courts r plead guilty and got a years sentence. Dock Hammond, charged with lar ceny, plead guilty and received a years sentence. ______ ? Ed Barnes, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, was given a year on the chain gang without the alternative of a fine. . Barnes was the negro who cut Will Wheeler in a Bun day afternoon brawl in a yard in Kirk wood a few weeks ago. Wheeler was put up before the jury to A exhibit his wounds and proved to be a badly mark ed negro. ________ ~ Grand Jury Presentment. To His H66or, C. J. RfttfAlKB, PWaldlfig Judge, Fall Term of Court* Kershaw Count^ : We, the grand jury beg leave to make the following presentment. We hav^ passed on all bills handed us by the Solicitor.' We have made a thorough examina tion of the poor house, and beg to say that It is in -good condition, and the inmates arff belng well carod for. The Jail Is in good condition, with the following exception : There la one sill rotten near the fire plara, .And we recommend that It be -attended to im mediately. The coutt house <f||weU kept, and in a very neat condition, The roads and bridge*, we are glad URGES TO SOW GRAIN WHILE THERE IS TIME Danger From H??ti*n Fly Pa?t And Wheat May Be Sown Until Mid December. y ('lemson College, Nov. 11. ? W. W, Long, 8Ute agent of farm ?l?>inonHt ra tion and director of extension of Clem* Hon College, urges South Carolina farm era uot to lot the autumn slip away from them without Howlng as much of their laud as their conditions yvlll IMMinlt In oats and wheat. The time for aowliig outn Is passing rapidly and the I lent time for sowing wheat 1m at hand and Mr. tiOng urges farmers t? get their winter grain In without fur ther delay If they have |{ot already done so. It Is now safe to sow wheat in any part of tlie State, according to Mr, Long. since daugor from the Hessian fly Is past. Mr. Long advises large areas of wheat for the Piedmont re gion and advises the sowing of enough wheat for home consumption at least on every farm in Other regions of South Carolina, Full information rel ative to wheat culture may be obtained by applying to the extension division of Ciemson College, Blue Stein Is n variety that bus sumnHled in many parts of South Carolina and that Is recommended by Prof. W. L. Hutchin son of Ciemson College. November is the best mouth for seeding wheat, though It may be sown in Decipher under favorable conditions with good results. Wheat prefers heavy loams and clay *oils and a seed bed which Is Arm with a thin layer of loose soil at the surface. Wheat Is best seeded with a drill, but may be sown broadcast and /llsked in. How five or six pecks to the acre. At plant ing time use a mixture of equal parts of cottonseed meal and add phosphate at the rttfe of Ave hundred i>ounds or more to the acre and * top dress In March with one hundred to one hun dred and fifty pounds of nitrate of soda to the acre. . . , That Houth Carolina can produce excellent wheat was clearly demon strated at the recent State Fair, where there were numerous tine exhibits of South -Carolina grown wheat In tho booths of the county demonstration agents. That South Carolina farmers intend to plant more wheat than ever before is clearly indicated by many things, among them the report of the county demonstration agent for Clar endon county that his county has al ready arranged to seed Ave hundred acres, far more probably than Claren don county has ever had In wheat The Ciemson College farm has near ly forly acres In wheat this season, which Is now up to a flue stand with all indications pointing to thorough suc cess. The varieties ^planted were Blue Stem and Leap's Prolific. Mr. Long states that he expects the prices of grain jEo be higher next spring than they hare been in years. He ex pects to see wheat go to two dollars per bushel and oats to one dollar. Rus sia^ Austria, France, -all great wheat producers, are at war, as indeed are most of the Important -wheat countries of the world with the exception of the United States, Canada and Argentine, and to these three regions the world will have to turn for Its bread next spring. There Is no .possible argument against the growing of wheat and oats by the South Carolina tanner and a multitude of arguments 4a favor of.lt. Mr. Long urges farmers not to Bleep on their opportunities at this time, but to sow grain Immediately* , .v To Help Market Grain Oops. ?s? The Camden Chamber of Commerce at it# last meeting took up the matter of helping to insure the marketing of the prospective grain crop in this coun ty another year. Nothing definite has been decided upon yet but* the matter will be fully taken up and it will un doubtedly be of great help to the farm era of the county. ? ? ? I ? M" 1 ?'? 1 1 ' ? ? to say, are reported to be in good con edition. ? ? ill We beg to say, that we made, thru our book committee, a thorough Inves tigation oi the county offices, and find every thing in good condition. The bookK are ail well kept, and make a very Intelligent appearance. \^fe are glad to Hay that the vouChoix in the County Treasurer's office, and the Su perintendent offklucatlon's office were t checked by <our committee, and not a single error was found. We beg to say that the ex-Sheriff's accounts have been settled to the en-, tire satisfaction of this Jury. * Thanking you, and the other officers of this court for many kindnesses shown us at this term, we are most yours. PROVES GOOD QUALITY OF SOUTHERN BUfTER Entry of Clerason College Gets Score of 93 at National Dairy Show. (Monition College, Nov. 11, ? Houth Car ollnu butter made at Oleumon Col lego Hum again been awarded a high honor and thlH time by the moxt expert dairy men In America, the Judges at the Na tional Dairy Show, the anuual milch cow classic wblch has Just been held In Chicago. At the National Dairy show the butter entered by (Memnon College HCored O.M point* out of a i>oh Hlblo 1W, putting It in the greatly to be denlred claw of butter ueorlng mow than 00. Tlu> urgument Is somijtlincH heard that Southern butter Cftu not bo made itH good hh NoHJiern butter. In (lie l?MKt few years Clemson College has done much to remove thl? prejudice ii?aliist Southern butter, not ouly In South Carolina but In other states. She bus done this by going Into the mart ket l/i^oorapetltlpn with Northern but ter &nd especially by * making high scores at exhibition*! of hatlonal or Keetlonal character. That Clemson's butter is uniformly excellent is dem ount rated by the fact that she scored highest of all the entries in the Souths eru Zone at the Bixth National Corn Kxposltlon, Dallas, Texas, and that her score was 93, the name as that made at the National Dairy Show. A feature of thetfe high ; scores is the fact that the prints of butter en tered by the college are not specially made for exhibition but are, on every occasion, selected from the. general run of butter in the college creamery. 4 Dr. Hope Gooh to Maryland. 4 I I>r. F. 8. Hope, tJUe veterinarian In charge of tick erudlcatlon work In Ker Hlmw and Lancaster counties, left -to- - day for HiiKoTstown, Maryland, where he goes to ussist other government vet erinarians In the work of fighting the foot and month disease which has late ly broken out among cattle in several of the northern and western state**. On account of the extreme contagious nature Of the disease among cuttle, the government has called In every avail able veterinarian In its employ to work In the infested states. 19 Street Cars Burn. Columbia, 8. C., Nov. 11.-? Damage approximating $100,000 was sustained by the Columbia Railway, Gas & Elec tric Co., when Are shortly after mid night destroyed 10 street cars and one section of the large car barns of the company. The cause of the Ore in un known, though it is supposed to have been a short circuit. The city's street car service wil not be handicapped by the loss of the cars, it was stated by General Manager Wallace. t 4 _ ? Policeman Shot at Cberaw. Chief of Police W. D. Pegues was shot by a negro man last Saturday morning. Mr. Pegues and rural po liceman McLaurtn went to arrest the negro for some trivial offence and as they arrived in front of the house where the negro was tie ran out and opened Ore on the chief with a shot gun. The shot struck Mr. Pegues in the leg making a very painful but not dangerous wound, The negro made his escape, but it is hoped he will yet be picked up. Mr. Pegues Is still COn- ~ fined to his room but is getting on very nlcely.?-Cheraw Chronicle. Deaf and Dumb Boys Hit by Train. yer, aged about 12 years, son of J. H, Sawyer,, of Greensboro, and Claude Wade, aged 13 years, son of Mrs. An nie-Wade, of Hlgji Point, both students at the Deaf and Dumb school at Mor? Kan ton, were struck and Instantly kill ed by eastbound train No. 36 In Charge of Conductor Parker and Engineer R. I* Francis, Just west of the Hllder brand station Sunday morning. As the train rounded a curve In a deep cut just above the Hllderbrand station the boys were seen by the en gineer walking down the middle of the track hand'ln-hand. Their being deaf and dumb accounts for their not hear ing the engineer's warning and craning upon them as the train dl<T in a deep cut" where the track makes a curve, did pot give Engineer Francis time to come to a stop In order to avert hit ting them. V It is stated that the boys ran away from the school late Saturday after noon. and when, their absence was not ed searching parties were organised but failed to find them. . , (ireensburg, Pa. ? James Wilson, far mer, wondered why his favorite cow was not giving milk. He followed her one morning and found the cow was ; iaiefiMliiiS, '? a fawti thkt fciaiA K