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" 1 ?> DEPARTMENT OP COMMERCE j jCotton Ginned Prior to October 18 In Ko?tlk Carolina: Cjrops of t927 <20 -- r? The Department of Commerce, through the Bureau of the Census, announcrw the preliminary report on cotton (finned by counties in South Carolina, for the crops of 1927 and 192(1. Total for the state wum made publie Tuesday, October 26. (Quantities are in running bales. I,inters are not included.) C<ounty . 1927 1920 Abbeville 8,801 2,368 Aiken 10,272 28,1011 Allendale 5,030 14,673 Anderson 31,000 5,828 liamberg 10,600 17,804 liarnwel) 12,767 24,078 Berkley 1,708 4,106 Calhoun 11,130 16,720 Charleston 403 470 Cherokee 0,703 4,083 Chester 0,363 0,602 Chesterfield 22,412 21,455 Clarendon 8,680 17,481 Colleton 4,126 10,300 Darlington 13,164 20,136 Dillon 13,030 25,718 I>orchester 3,006 7,086 Edgefield 8,067 12,304 Fairfield 4,029, 4,033 Florence 8,201 17,882 Greenville 17,616 2,881 Greenwood 8,768 3,160 Hampton 3,032 0,444 Horry 007 3,827 Jasper 744 2,470 Kershaw 17,208 10,014 Lancaster 6,550 5,218 l^aurena 14,070 J3,644 Lee 13,50 4 20,243 l>exington 0,606 14,766 McCormick 4,528 2,406 Marion 5,760 8,170 Marlboro '. 26,633 32,870 Newberry 8,260 7,000 Oconee 8,486 1,362 Orangeburg 37,153 53,630 Pickens 8,401 1,857 Richland 6,368 12,476 Baluda 4,713 ' 7,536 Spartanburg 31,342 0,188 Burnt*"* 15,507 28,831 yj&mn 7,947 2,028 Williamsburg .... 6,161 14,260 York 16,421 8,492 All other 126 1,079 The State 480,314 544,443 HALES SELF TO COURT Home Distiller Weary of Surveillance hy Agents Smithfield, N. Oct. 29.?John H. Ryals, a white man of Elevation Township, did a thing unusual in court annals here recently, when he, of his own volition appeared before Judge W. I'. Aycock bringing his own brandy-making outfit, and confessing his faults before the court, asking for Judgment against himself for violating the prohibition laws. Some time ago Ryals was searched by the offieVrs and a small quantity of beverage was found in his possession. Since then he has been under the surveillance of the officers, and the strain became too great for him. He ended the matter by bringing his little twenty-gallon copper dintillery here to the court house and surrendering it to the officers of the law. He was tried later in the Recorder's Court and given a ninety-day's* road sentence, suspended upon good behavior and payment of cost. He paid the cost and went home a much iiappicr man than when he arrived in town. Sisjter Kills Brother i Con Icy Robinson, 29, Charlotte lawyer, is dead as the result of a pistol i -shot wound, made by a pistol in the hands of his sister, Miss Catherine Robinson, in a struggle over the weapon, when Robinson returned to his l??me Wednesday night at a late hour *.n a drunken condition and began a quarrel with his wife. It is alleged that he began to beat her. The sister was aroused from her Xleep and entered tho room whore the husband und wife wore quarreling. Although the story is somewhat confused, it is reported that Miss Robinson, evidently again hack in her own room, saw her brother approaching her with an open knife, and remembering a pistol concealed under her pillow she reached for it and, so it is claimed, in t.he ensuing struggle the weapon was discharged and Robinson was fatally shut, dying in a Charlotte hospital yesterday morning. Robinson Is the young lawyer who last spring had a difficulty with a Mr. Mctirinn and shot him when he visited his home in search of his wife who was at the Mctirinn home. The .settlement of the case in court a few weeks later by Judge Webb giving Robinson a nominal fine instead of sending him to the gang, created considerable comment throughout North Carolina and especially so when- Judge Webb saw fit to severely criticise The (iastonia Gazette because of its caustic comments of the case.?Yorkvillc Enquirer. Morris Potokcn, a hutchcr of Brooklyn, N. Y., hanged hinis b* from a meat hook in his store on Wednesday. His business was good and so was ids health, and his family know of no reason for his act. A dispatch fiiun Santiago, Chile, stntes, that Hinted States Consul Russell was shot last Sunday, by Diogenes Macanda, a dentist, and died Tuesday. Russell was manage.* of the Anglo Chilian Nitrate company. Albert Champion, manufacturer of the famous sparkplug "of that name, is dead in Paris. Me war many times n millionaire. Mrs. Adfs Ptrderst n. 27. is suin< Gunlcek Bergland. M. of Iron wood Mich,, for $450,000 heart balm, charging breach of pi<>miae. ( otununting on the suit Be* gland is quoted 'fs saying, "I am njt a fool yet to mar.j a young woman." Over 6,000 kinds of caterpillars have been found in America north of Mexico. ? . ? -T - - -*7' ~ .tfvxT jR- ? --- -- SOUTH CAROUNA NEWS ?T .. . .. / ? l Key. Hugh K. Mure hi son, f), p.. of] t ojumon, pror?ttHoi' of tiiwe *t th# I stute university, had a ntu'row cHcajxfrom serious injury Saturday afternoon whe/i his car Collided with a hold coupe neat Springfield, Orange-] burg county. Dr. MurchUort's car was burned as the result of the collision. Newberry county corn and hog eulb boys had fifty exhibit* at the recent state fair and won 38 prizes totaling more than $200. The new Carolina-Georgia mem- j orial bridge across the Savannah river, between i Abbeville and Elberton, Ga., is to be formally opened on Nov. 11, at 11 minute^ und 11 seconds! after 11 o'clock. , The per capita cost for the education of children in tbe Columbia public schools is estimated at $111, the estimate being based on the number of children now enrolled and the estimated cost for the 1027-28 session of the city schools. j The special taxe committee appointed by the last legislature is to meet in Columbia on November 8th, to discuss with members of the state] tax commission certain matters looking to the formation of a report to be made to the legislative session in January. Dr. G. It. Caudle, Greenville phy- ] sjcian, on Saturday gave Sheriff Rector a check for $1,008 to cover in I full a judgment aguinst him in favor of Mr. and Mrs| Isabella Harris thut has been standing for eleven years. I he verdict was originally for $600 iand the doctor had to puy it or go to jail. He chose to pay up. W. H. Mayes, Greenwood county farmer, lost 23 bales of cotton, 140 bushels of oats, 30 bushels of cotton seed und other farm produce Sun-1 day night when fire destroyed his barn. His loss is estimated at $8,000 with $3,000 fhsurance. W. A. Jester of Washington, D. C.J reported to Richland county officers on Wednesday that he had been held up by two men on the Winnsboro load and robbed of $43 in cash and | his gold watch on Tuesday night. Thomas . Hunter, 72, of Arden, N. C., was instantly killed near Landfoid, Laurens county, Tuesday, when I the car in which he was riding driven] by hia nephew, J. I). Lewis of Columbia, turned over on a curve. R. L. Durgan, prominent insurance man of Spartanburg, died early Wednesday morning following a stroke of apoplexy. He was aged 66 years. Lathan Brothers of Lancaster have been awarded a contract by the statu highway department for the construe-J tion of an overhead bridge over the Seaboard railroad track near Spence. The job is to cost $4,318.71. Bay I is Harrison, former Greenville cotton broker, released from the state penitentiary some time ago on parole is to be returned to the prison to corpplete a Federal court sentence for fraudulent use of the mails. Shortly after his release he was taken into custody by Pederal officers wh%> contended that the state parole could not free him from the sentence of the United States government, which sentence was running concurrently I with that given by the state court. Daniel Sinkler is a candidate for the mayoralty of Charleston- this fall. He is representing the John P. Grace element in Charleston politics. MANY NEGROES GO NORTH Quitting TJie Black Belt For Cities And Industrial Centers Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 28.?In the five years ending with 1025 South Carolina lost more than one-sixth of its Negro farmers, according to a study of I'ederal Census reports just made by Arthur Rapcr, field secretary of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, with headquarters in this city. From a total in 1920 of 109,010 colored farmers, including owners, managers and tenants, the number declined in five years to 90,681, a net loss of 18,429, or 18.8 per cent. The number of Negro tenants,, fell from 88,088 to 72,179 or 18.2 per cent; the number ot owners and managers from 22. 9-12 to- 18,902 or 19.9 per cent. Assuming that most of these farmers were heads of families, these figures indicate n total loss of Negro population of 100,000 or more. During the same period thore was an increase of 6.1 per cent in the number of white tenant farmers, but a decrease of 7.S per cent in white owners and managers, and a slight aggregate loss of 1.8 per cent. In 1920 there were in the State 83,883 white farmers and 109,010 Negro farmers, as against 82,188 and 90,681 respectively in 1926, showing a rapid decline in the proportion of Negroes to the rural population. This is taken to indicate that Ihe so-called "black belt" is steadily breaking up, ys Negroes leave the farms of southern cities and northern industrial centers. During the five-year period in question the entire South lost 91,469 Negro farmers, or practically ten per cent <>f the total. Among these were 2 1,1 o2 owners and managers, or eleven per cent of that group. Georgia ! >st 18,110 colored farmers or 35.1 per cent, Mississippi n, 077 0r 8.0 per cent, Alabama 9,882 or. 10.4 per cent. Arkansas 8,1199 or- 12.1 p,.. cent, Tennessee 3,636 or '3.2 per con-, 1 Louisiana 942 or 7.2 per cent. On the other hand, Oklahoma with 20,I CIS farmers in 1026 showed a gain j of i per cent, Texas with 81,728 1 .g.v.n of 3.8 per cm'. Maryland with |8,i21 a gain of 8.2 per cent, Virginia With 50.U7 a gain of 6 per cent, and | North ( arolina w ,th 80,988 a gain of 18.I per cent. Airmail servioe fiv?m Quebec to Ot. 'awn, bringing British mall to the j capital 48 hours ahead of regular , itr.m schedule, has .nist been begun. Late in 1928 Fred Mills bought a "hopeless" gold mine near Redding 1 Gal., and up to this week he has , taken more than $6,000 out of the mine. lie says there is yet much jp!d in the hole. iS?5?-~* .~J* J-J NOVEMBER FARM CALENDAR Things To Be Dow# TMh Month a# . ~ Outlined By ('lemaon Agronoqi>* Last call for sowing winter legume*. Plant lurgc,acreages of <>at? and wheat to produce food for man and animtl*. Select sound seed corn in the field, und store carefully to avoid injury by weevils and rats. Make arrangements with your ginner for saving your pedigreed cotton seed for planting purposes. Crop residues will not rot readily on top of the ground-r-turn them under. Horticulture Dig and bank rutabaga turnips in late November or early December before they are injured by freezes. , Give the old strawberry bed proper working and good -mulching. Place your order for fruit trees. Prepare hotbeds and coldframes to grow lettuce for January and February use. Harvest green tomatoes just before -frost, wrap separately in oapcr, and place in a cool room, where they will ripen gradually. Prune scuppernohg grapes this month. Make cuttings of grapea and figs and set out immediately. Plant sweet peas, five inches deep in a well prepared trench in November. v ? Plant Diseases Don't fail to treat oat seed with formaldehyde for smut. Dust wheat seed with copper curbonate for stinking smut. In selecting seed corn, be careful not to get smutty ears, and look out for pink discoloration on the kernels and on the butts indicating root and ear rot disease. ? Pick up und destroy all fallen peaches and apples, as these are disease carriers for next year. Treat tobacco seed with corrosive sublimate solution 1 1,000 as the best preventive against blackfire and wildfire. Clean up the pecan grove and burn all fallen limbs, twigs, and diseased nuts, as such material harbors scab brown leaf spot, and mildew. Select at digging time sweet potatoes free from black rot and save for seed next year. Entomology Rush cotton picking and destroy Htalks, and continue farm cleaning to destroy the weevils' winter-quarters. Destroy old bean vines in Mexican bean beette territory and clean up all weeds or rubbish about the field. Get corn in promptly to prevent weevil infestation and watch for weevil injury after corn has been stored. Give seed corn and other seed grain special attention and fumigate it promptly should weevil infestation develop.. Plan for the winter sprays for the orchards, shade trees, and hedges. Get the spray pumps in good working order now; do not wait until time to use them. See that windfalls and "drops" are picked up from under the apple trees fo help destroy codling moth larvae. Beware of unscrupulous fruit tree agents: buy only trees and plants certified by the S. C. Crop Pest Commission. Animal Husbandry Wean fall pigs when about S weeks of age. Viecinate pigs when they weigh about 50 pounds. Vaccination is cheap health insurance. Prepare comfortable shelter for ull classes of livestock. Treat sheep for stomach worms, using copper sulphate solution. Do not allow flocks of sheep to take the cold rainy weather, which may cause pneumonia. c. Make a careful study of the feeds on hand and plan to put the livestock through the winter as cheaply as possible without appreciable loss in weightDairying When frost kills the pasture, open the silo, rem >ve mouldy, rotted silage, and start the cows gradually on this succulent feed. As winter feeding becomes necessary keep production records, and feed each cow in proportion to her size and the milk and butterfnt produced. Start culling out the boarder cows. Set a standard of production not below 200 pounds of fat per ?j.car. Use the dairy cows to clean up the coin and hay fields after, these crops have been harvested, Feed fall-born calves warm clean milk, do not vary the quantity suddenly, and sterilize the milk pails after each feeding. Poultry Watch the flock closely for colds. Make the house comfortable 1iy closing all cracks on the l ack and end walls. Feed the birds sufficient grain to j maintain body weight. Thin birds cannot hold up in egg production. Select the hens for next, year's breeding pen. r.Fed ft- iale molters liberally on both.mash 'ana grain. Sow small grain for gVe? n feed. Jailbirds (Jet Religion I Lynn, Mass., Oct. 30. ? Inmate' of the Fssex County jail at Salem ' aie engaged in an old time revival t of religion, and thirty-two prisoners I have been brought to the communion altar and promised to lead better lives. Among the number who today j sought solace in religion \v<?s George ; II. T?y?ui , i eeeuily convicted of the first degree murder of Stella Kale, o< ! l.nwreYire, at Salisbury Beach, N. 11. last summer, The^ revival is bo. jing led by Commander Jerrett, o1 /the Salvation Army, who has former ,'a "Brightn Day League" among th? i prisoners. The. league members i after being released from jail, will bt i kept In close touch with the activity* of the nimy. bmmmmSaZSBSijS^^ i MAN AND WOMAN 8I/A1N \ - mrnmui * > i y . . . ,, t in x|i? < i?(l Arrival of Hu aba ltd Bring About Thu?1 Killing Walterboro, Oct. 2'J.?J. P. Tice was instantly killed and Mr?. i. 11. Roberts lien a I the KsDoi n Hospital critically wounded a* a result of an early morning hour hhooting scrape at a private boarding house in Walterburo, while S. II. Roberta is in JaiM awaiting bail charged with the shoot*? ing. At 1 o'clock this morning Mr. Roberts, who ia grade foreman for Deen and Yarborough, conti actors building the coastal highway, left his room to go to work and to get hi# men off in time, returning after having driven hia car a Mock down the street and entered his room. It is alleged that he found Tice and Mrs. Roberts in the room. Roberts opened ffre with his 32-caliber revolver, two shots striking Tice one on tbe chin a glancing shot, and the other entering his head through the side of the face. Death resulted almost instantly. Two shots struck Mrs.' Roberts, one in the left breast and the other in the stomach. Mr. Roberts telephoned Sheriff Padgett to come over and then went back into the room where he awaited the arrival of the sheriff and a physician whom he had asked to be telephoned. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that J. H. Tice , came to his death from gunshot wounds at the hands of I. H. Roberts, Mr. Roberts made application this afternoon through his attorney, Jefferies and Lemacks before Judge Johnson at Allendale for bail which was granted in the sum of $2,000. 1 Bond will be urranged early next week, his attorney said. Mr. Tice is originally from Monroe, N. C., where his mother, a sister, his former wife, and two children live. He also has a brother in Charlotte, N. C. His second wife and a step-son. live in Florida. He was forty-two years of age and has been with Deen and Yarborough a few months. Mr. Roberts is from Bradenton, Fla., and has a daughter | some six years of age. Mrs. Roberts was reared at Port Royal and has relatives there and in Beaufort. He has been with Deen and Yarborough for a number of years. The Woman AIho I)i es Walterboro, Oct. 30.?Mrs. I. H. Roberts, who was shot by her husband yesterday morning at a private boarding house here, died at the EsDorn Hospital early this morning. Her body has been taken to her sister's, Mrs. Sehafers, at Port Royal and will be interred Monday morning at Beaufort. Mrs. John Wall, another sister, of Ladies Island, was also present when she died. This makes the second death from the shooting which occurred upon the return of Mr, Roberts to his room and finding J. H. Tice and his wife in the room at 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. Roberts has, it is understood, arranged the bond required by Judge J. 11. Johnson and it is said he will attend the' funeral at Beaufort. He came to see his wife at the hospital ami it is reported that he said he did not intend to shoot her. The body of Tice who was almost instantly killed, was sent yesterday to relatives at Monroe, N. C. Higher I'p. "My grandfather," said the English boy, "was a very great man. One day Queen Victoria touched him on the shoulder with a sword and made him a knight." "Ah, that's nothing," the American boy replied. "One day an Indian touched my grandfather on the haid with a tomahawk and made him an angel!" NEWBERRY NEC KO DIED Shot By I'nknown Parties on Main Street of Newberry Theodore Miller, Negro, of Newberry died at about 2:05 this morning as a result of wounds received by unknown parties early yesterday morning as he was returning to his home in Newberry after a consultation with his employer, H. L. Parr, following the wounding and arrest of h;>. son, James Miller, after James Miller had shot and seriously wounded D. J. Taylor, deputy sheriff of Newberry eounty. Janus Miller was accosted at about 11 o'clock last night it is said, by Mr. Taylor as he was sitting in front of the Parr home with a brick in nis.hand. lie was asked what he was doing and upon receiving no response. Mr. Taylor attempted to arrest him. A scuffle followed and the Negro, getting possession of the officer's pistol, 'fired sevorul shots, three taking etfect in the neck, in the right, side near the lUng and in the upper right leg. The Negro attempted to walk off but was later arrested, after being wounded by officers who found him biding in the new Copoland building. He was | sent to the Good Samaritan hospital j in ( olumbia, where hi' is in a serious condition. \ he shooting of the father occur[ ltd a: the corner of Main and College greets. He wast taken to the Good Samaritan hospital also, but little hope was held for his recovery and his death this morning was not un, expecti*d. Thursday's Columbia State Biggest Horse Dead Ha: le Creek, Neb., Oct. 29j "l.u! I? the laigest horse in tne 1J woi ol, owned by A. K. Pontcn an i sons, hc:?-. is dead. The horse which stood tuint.N -one hands high and r. weighed .1,120 pounds, was six vears Colo. His dam was Percheron. and ' br n huaorojjsed, and his sire was : cTa*ii-bred Belgian and Shire. ' "Lubber" was laised at Red Bird, tin Holt County, Neb., by George liMellor. His parents -were medium ' *i*cd and so was "Lubber" at birth. . | The horse had been exhibited ? j throughout the Middle WeaL A1 Rock Island, 111., he contracted pneumonia and died. F.L. Rock 1 em an has been ap^fcintet} general sales manager for the Ford Motor confpany; to succeed W. A. Ryan, forced out after ninteen years of the job. I Mrs. William Martin of Milf< Mass., moved to New York recen Saturday she wrote a note, sayi "New York is driving me \ mad," leaped from the eighth flod^ tflrtd I for cozy comfort all winter I POLE'C I V-i ORIGINAL kJ |j HOT BLAST HEATER 1 Warm floors?steady even heat day and j night?and so easy to take care of. The fire never goes out in a Cole's Hot Blast ?the air-tight construction makes posi- I tive control a reality?and it's guaran- I teed to hold fire 3G hours. 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