Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TOOK OF WKKVIL 8KCTI0N Mr. Kdwartl A. Kv<? I>e*crUw* Trip to Territory Attacked by Knemy account of his tour by automobile 0 through cotton I will wt^evll territory : Iluvlng Just, returned from till H00 mile auto trip through Uoorgla and South Alabama, whore I s|**itt an <?!? tiro week studying tho effects of tho boll weevil ami tko rvmudl<w being n'BorUnl to, I foul that 1 ha vo aeeu undated some first-hund information which . should t?4* of IkmioHI tW every farmer hi South Carolina. Instead ??f going from elt.v i?> city, hearing and making s|?eoehes. I wont direct to I ho furiiiM In nineteen conn lie# of Georgia and t*ln? counties of Ahihama, and Haw conditions with in.v ?>\<? ii eyes, and hoard U<?aens of faruicrn toll how the hoi I weevil had wl|?ed out tlielr cotton crop and how many of them are now reeo\;iorliig and becoming more proniM.'rou* than ever before. it., would take a hook to hold all the Interesting things that 1 waw ami learned about diversified farming am* stock raising In the ouee chastened but finally blessed boll woe v 1 1 ridden counties, and I could write another hook about the wonderful roads through these count leH that en* ahled mo to cover H(M> miles lu a Ford car with positive comfort and pleasure durlmr tho ?i\ days that 1 was making these I ii vest Itfat Ions I ? Mnt. for many reasons, my narra tive must only touch the high places in this Inspiring journey.' Start Iiik from my old home, Hooch Island In Aiken county, in company wllli seven of my boyhood compan ions, who are. now tho leading cotton planters In that J?art <?f the country, wo cranked up two trusty Fords and crossed the Savannah river early Monday morning. We paused in Aii Elista to tank up mid make 'minor re pairs; Hnd then we made a dash for Macon, where wo spent the first night. This llrst run of l.'in miles brought us well Into the region of "first -year Infestation." Tho Hlbh County deni oiiHtralon agent told us that, the weevil lliwl done practically no (lauiage to this oyar's cotton crop. Consequent ly, tho farmers were still blind to , tin* httvoc that the weevil Is bound to play next season, ami were de termined to plant one more big cot ton crop. lie knew what, was in store for them and was working like a Hlg Hen alarm clock to warn them but he seemed to he almost despond ent as to results. The lure of 110 cent cotton was simply insurmount able. The next day we took a southwest erly direction and^- -gradually pene trated deeper and deeper Into the in fected region. Soon after we passed the peach belt and got. back to where eiifton wns the principal crop, the ef fects of the weevil began t to he ap parent The Holds everywhere were co v rod with tine stalks, but the up per half of. .these stalks was 4m re ??f fruii. The yield was about half what it would have been under normal conditions. This was t he hc^lunlm: of the region of second year infesfa Lion, ami the weevil# had multiplied euough to h?* destructive only during the latter of hint Hiimuiur. A little further, however, Mm* deatrno 4 Ion w it h it ltnoat complete 7 In luauy AUddxi tiw ffrmtPflf vtlllUUlHHI i. .1.1 not (?ecu observed In lighting the wwvil early In the aeUHon. Moat of On' fanners In till* region wore In a desp.uaic muni J Hon. The previous cotton ei'oo had been short and had la-en (told lor a |KK>r price, ; 1 1 1 > I (in, crop had i>it litem Mill further In dehl Tltey \ ete dlscor.t .ifu'd ahout planting cotton, and they did not have i lie necessary cx|Htrlcnco or capital to start anything else, Al Fort (ialiiea we crossed o\er the rhattahooehee Into Alahauta. and readied the thrlylug town (?f Uothan Ity ii. in Here conditions steadily got worn a* far tiM the cotton crop was concerned, and almost every cot* ion leld was hare of fruit with (hi; exception of a few hoi In near the hot* tow# of the stalks These counties that had made over 30,000 hales two years a#o will not make over 8,000 thla year. We found a very different feeling among hoth the farmers and the bua Ineas men, however. They Hwuriued around our party everywhere, ftJHL were overjxiwerlnK In I heir attentloiiM and In their eagerness to tell uh of the new light that they had ween. They were all learning to "live atj home," ami many of them had thin home"' and many of them had this stock raising with mark oil success, j They were beginning to proaper and ! were full of ho|K? and conldence In a j cot ton I eat* future; hut they tohl uh to go on to the westward and aw? for ourselves what one more year of boll weevil experience could do for a | country. <>Ur third day out found ua driving i westward from Dot ha It uh fnat aa gaa i oil ue could carry u># agttlnat a hitter . cold blast that would sometimes ? Mverve u* from one aide of the road , to the othelr; but we were atlll on a magnlllcent highway, ' and It did not take us h>ng to reach the town of ; Geneva, where we were given a warm reception. Mr. Jenkins, the county d6ninuatration agent, took ua in hand ami taught ua more about the boll . weevil than we could have learned j from till the hooka ever written. He took uh out into the tlelda and hel]>ed ; us each catch a bottleful of weevils, i and answered a thousand questions about every phase of weevil ojwra ^ tlona. He explained how cotton might he made undfw' noil weevil con ditions if the season was dry and fa vorable: but he said (Jfmeva county did not have to make any more cot ton. They were making all the money they needed ralalm; hogs. He showed us huge pen a of fat hogs, all ready for the murket, and said they bad shipped "i(K> carloads of bogs to a nearby packing house this .year, against three carloads two years ago. That afternoon we went on to the hi.stllug town of Enterprise. (One of our partv referrbfc to ?t as "Prog -iW jurrl xrlT'Tt wo got there ' we found lie was not far wrong.) This was a community where the boll weevil had come and none. It bad gone simply because cotton bad gone ^ am! they had .U>th been forgotten about, except as blessings thai "brighten a# they l?li? thei^r flight I They really touked on the boll weevtl aw the greatest blessing HtbY ever had. "TJprmwo lt drovo tlium from ootton to crojw that werei wore - profitable. Kveryonc sivmcd priAHpefoUM and hap I>y ? almost Intoxicated with the taste of the new freedom that they weir enjoying! They allowed us their di versified cropn ami their cattle and liogH ami Uililen with ^he greatest en tbualaniu, The farmers held a inching | >r oar benefit at the town hank that nlKht and one after the other told how tie hail |?ahi ofT all bin back debt* during the last two yearn ami was now laying tip money In bank*. The bank president confirmed all of tlds, and wan tiie biggest optimist of them all. Me tol<l us most cmphat icaliy that during the hud two years he had sent thousands of good dollars after bad ones, and that lu ovory case where the farmerH hud plant ed iHMinuts instead of cotton the good dollars had couie hack and brought all the laid ones too. The manager of the local oil mill allowed me a few tons of old cotton ami that ho had thrown out on the ground, and said that he exi>ected to crush nothing but peanuts from now on. One big hearted farmer insisted very much on taking all eight of ns out to his home ti? spend the night ; ami they begged ns to spend at least a week with them. It was hard i?? resist such jolly good fellows and such genuine hos pitallty. but we had to tejir ourselves away next morning' and force on to Andalusia, our. final objective. Here WO found somewhat the same condi tions as at Enterprise, but the town was more of a commercial and manu facturing centre. We were practical ly Interested in a fine new packing house that was Imndliug- IMKJ to 4(H> hogs per day. The "wealthiest man In South Alabama," who happens to be the owner, showed us through the entire plant and made It most Inter esting by his clear explanation of tilings. They had l?i?u paying S 1-2 cents for hogs until recemiy. but had to cut the price because they were coming in too fast. We saw about 4. (MM) splendid hogs in the pens. .We all agreed that our Orangeburg friends who are interested. Iri a simi lar enterprise could get some help ful and encouraging points from tills thriving and up-to-date plant. Our trip home, by way of Mont gomery. Tuskeegee and Columbus, was fuH of interest, and a high trib ute to good roads. It I can possibly find the time 1 would like to" write something about the efficiency of the J splendid highways all through Ala bama and Heorfcla that enabled1 us to cover more loan KM) miles in two i davr of easy, comfortable running. j The boll weevil is now reported to be within fifty niiiew of ^bo S?v?min)i river, and Is practically to cross over vext son so.;. This moans that in about two >mhmiis ii ma.\ be ex peeted to rover the southern and west ern parts of South Carolina. 1 OWWIUKND THKC IIOBK v The WomMi Wlio Alwaya Talka of Her Operation ? N 1 . ?nI |K?l"KOHrt who^UlUl itthout them selve* are bores. The woman who at- , uaya tells of her o|*>ratlon htm hetm declared the winner in the Voidest run l.\ Tlu* American Magazine to ills ???ver the worst hore in existence. The |irl*o-\vhinl?itf letter is printed In the I M ember Issue. The writer saya : "One of I lie most companionable women I ever met was no completely transformed h.v an o|>yratlou that she unconsciously became a boro to her friends, a n< I t<> her family, liy tedious repetitions of her hospital 'experience. Her idea of Its imixirtance was ho ex aggerate! that she lost all sense of |iro|M>rtloii. Truly her 'operation* be ! came the Alpha ami nmexa of her ex Isteuce; from it all events in her life history datyd. It was her sole tuple of conversation. No matter how skill' fully one might steer (he conversa tional hark away from the dreaded topic, she adroitly brought It hack. As a result, she liecaine self -centered, In troH|KX'tlve, and ? a hore to her friends. Her effort sto entertain merely an noyed ; where she ho|>cd to arouse ad miration. she created disgust; and where she sought sympathy, she re ceived t nly?- indifference." HAVE A HKAKT I ______ For 'llifi Mail Clerks and Mail Pack age* Marly. Washington, Nov. .'10. ? Kx|>ecting heavier Christmas malls than ever bo fore because of the general pros|H?rlty prevalent throughout the country, l'ostmaster (Jeneral Burleson announ ces he has begun through postmasters a nation-wide "mail early" crampafgu. | Postmaster* have been authorized i t ? ? employ all possible means to de- 1 liver the holiday mall' and have been instructed to advertise snggKntions f o tire public that parcels be mailed early, addressed plainly ami *\vrap|ied secure ly. Parcels may be iudors<>d "not to he opened until Christinas." lOarly mailing is especially neccssaryv Postmaster ( Jeneral Burleson says, be cause the day before Christmas falls ? it Sunday and all parcelH should he mailed in time for delivery on Sat urday. I lecembor 2.'t. The postmaster general says early mailing of gifts will enable postal employees to be., freed f'D'tn their duties for at least a part of Christinas day. Population of Cnit^d States. Washington. I >ec. 'J. ? Population of continental United States on January I. 1 111 7. will Im? 102,N20,:i00, and with its outlying possessions lliJ.M00.285. the census bureau estimates upon the increase as shown by the federal cen suses of 1000 and 1010. Treasury department statisticians, using ii different method of calculn rlon. estimated the population of con ; i;< Ida I United States as 103.002.tKK) .i!: MuVPHllWV J. While out hunting Monday after noon. Nick Cottros. a member of the Creek colony at Florence accidentally hot and killed himself. SEES Curving Sets 'uttlery, Etc. ,i , ?-? ^ .... . yj'fKK' | m The prettiest line ever shown in Camden? and our prices wl please you, Call and see us,] Pearee HARDWARE ; ,-r^i i ....??- .... ? FINAL DISCHARGE . Notice Ih iiorelty given (lint elm month from thin date, on Monday. J'ttnr nary 8th, ,1917, 1 will make to the Prohate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Administrator of the estate of Adalinc Clyburn, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the ?aid Court for a linal discharge ms Administrator of the said estate. PKTKtt CLYBUKN, Administrator, ('am den, tf. C., December 8th, l!>ltl. Supervisor's Monthly Report. The following is a list of claims passed upon and ordered paid by the Commissioners of Kershaw County tn session Monday, December 5th, 191(1 : 1). L. Dabney, road work ?.... $25.00 J. ij)- Mcl/endon, r<SHd work 122.20 A. \V. Humphries, M. J)., medi cal supplies .. .x 7.50 B. H. Boykin, lumber * 13.85 j Thomas J. Williams, blacksmith ? work 21.75 II. Kv Muiin, supt, chain gang 199.25 1^. S. Brannoii, supt. hired gang 110.41 T. W; Watte, supt. hired gtffrf 133.15 ' J;;" J*. Iraulkeid?erry, supt. hired gang 131.75 Hugh McCallum, supplies 27.85 (5a toe Bros., supplies 32.34*} lthame Bros., supplies 126.50 ? .Springs and Shannon, supplies.. 35.00 ! ?? A ' ? A. ' Kernhuw Hanking ami Me tile Co., supplies H. F. Hallo, Huppllea MttOkey, Jones Co., supplU, renvoi'- Young Co., supplies If. L. Scbloshurg, supplies ... J, R, Abbott, supplies Uetbune Drug Co., supplies ... lAigoff Supply Co., supplies J. M. Carson Co., supplies II. F. Baker, supplies I^owis and Christmas, suppllw W. K. Hall, supplies W. T. Smith, supplies ........ H. I j. Bryan Co., supplies ....., People** Supply Co., supplies ! A. M. Deal, sulary .... <3. Ii. Dixon, salary ....... M. C. West, salary, ......... I>. M. McCasklll, salaryand ? <>urt expenses ? 1,4 Tom Johnson, salary W. W. Huckabee; salary ..... \V. b. McDowell, salary ....... Q. W. Birchmore, salary 10 jr* i>. Sinclair, salary W. F. Itussell, salary H. M. Fincher, salary ... |>. Ta Dabn^y, supt poor lionse J Wr S. Moore, M; IV examin ing loiiatic K. Williams, exawinlHg -tami'v tic v C. C. Pate, special deputy rominissiouers Public Works, wnter anil lights ? Total *4?1M I Am Still Selling The Best Mer chandise for the Lowest Price LINENE SHEETS. 500 Linene Sheets, ready for jse, double bed size. You ought to put in a big: supply of these. Special for this week only 74c SWEATERS. A large assortment of Ladies mixed sweaters, in all sizes-^- in grey, brown and blue. Regular price $2.50, Cotton Sale price $1.24 LADIES VELVET HATS. Just arrived 500 Ladies Vel vet Hats, all styles. Special this week 98c SHOES Don't forget that I am sac rificing my stock of shoes at prices you will never see again. Men's and Ladies dress Shoes, standard brands, in gun metal, patent leather, vici and kid. Just received two cases La dies gun metal button shoesL worth $3.00, while they last, per pair $1.98 EXTRA HEAVY OUTING. * * Have just received 10 cases new heavy outings, 15c quali ty, special for this sale per yard * 9c Schlosburg ? The Man That Pleases Yftu . V. J l ? ? r ?? ^ COAT SUIT SPECIAL. Better hurry and make your selection while there are plen ty to select from. Black and Blue wool serges worth $18, special for this sale at $9.98 DINNER DOILIES. Just what you want. 500 dozen dinner doilies, hemmed and ready for use. 18x18. Special for this week at per c^ozen 98c. Ife ? x I For The Little Ones. Two cases of Boys heavy fleeced lined Union. Suits, all sizes, Cotton Carnival price 49c. RAINCOATS| Have just received 600 boy?B and Men's fine quality K**8"! coats, full length and all siiesJ regular price $5.00, for thfef sale only, each $3.4J| " 7 ? . ' ? ' ? * " '** -/i ? ? f:- , ?ff MEN'S iHjFSNfSHINGS. ' ? ? You will never again ha1 an t>p^?Qrtunity to get h uch vafef ues as I vam offering in He? suits, shoes, etc. You will ba*| to se'e them to appreciate ^jl ^wonderful values. Rejrul?! price $15 and -$18, in thte?**! at $*m "? 1 1 '/ ''ffiL i>. '? .. x?<i ? ' : 1 PERCALES Two casfes percales, 5? wide, qaality guaranteed, 1 yard 9c. THE UNDERSELLING STORE H. L.