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l BIG CHOP OF PEANUTS. Tluee Hundred Acres Planted by F. y M. Rogers, Sr., of Florence. Florence, Sept. 30.?One of the most interesting sights to be seen on a farm hereabouts is that on the ' farm of Mr. Frank M. Rogers, Sr., in * Back Swamp Township, where at this 1 time he has begun the harvesting of 1 his large peanut crop, mention of t which was made in these news items 1 j some weeks ago. Mr. Rogers plant- 1 ed this year 300 acres of Spanish * and Virginia peanuts, which was J * ? nvrvoriniont c noming inure man an !UiV4AV) J for nothing like this great acreage has ever before been planted in South Carolina. It is said that the I next largest acreage planted by any one farmer in this State is near Bishopville, where some 75 or 100 j|r. - acres are planted. tMr. Rogers began about ten days ago gathering this new ^crop, that is in this section, and one who has never seen the peanut crop grown or harvested would be amazed were they to pass along the highway and view the result. Hundreds of hands, V negro men, women and children, are employed in ploughing, lifting the vines with their tubers, stacking and curing them, making ready for pickP ; ing and separating., The vines with their tubers are ' ? '_! < . r ? stacked in the field on Doles which I have been erected with an arrangement at the bottom about a foot c from the ground for ventilation. 1 These poles are placed about fifty 1 yards apart and in rows the length * of the field. There are several thou- 1 sand poles or stacks, which resemble ^ hay stacks, only they are not so high ^ or so bulky, and it certainly is in- a teresting to pass along and take a T view of these farms. ^ Mr. Rogers will net anywhere from ^ . 90 to 120 bushels of peanuts to the acre, and it is stated that he will be able to dispose of his entire crop at 1 ^ 90 cents to $1 the bushel. v It will be remembered, that Mr. t Rogers was the pioneer tobacco ^ planter in this State, which crop is c the outcome of the News and Cour- ^ ier's efforts some twenty odd years * ago and which has proven to be a ? great big crop in South Carolina. 11 Mr. Rogers planted no cotton on ^ his plantation this year at all, and D by his not doing so he will no doubt r r be much benefited. *] FORD'S SUBMARINE. e What the Automobile Man Has to n Say About the Little Terror. f] Henry Ford, the automobile manu . facturer, who is going to New York SlinHav n'aht nrpHminarv tn a nrtn IV -ference with Secretary Daniels, will q subhait to the latter a plan for a new submarine one-fourth the size of the average submarine, far more destrucr w tive and, in Mr. Ford's opinion, like- ^ Jy to hasten world peace. ^ The new submarine would be w equipped with a gasoline motor only ^ one-fourth the size of those now in . use and far less expensive. h This is what Mr. Ford has to say N ^ about the new submarine: m "It would be no trick at all to pro- ~ . - , w g?duce a submarine equipped with a ^, gasoline engine for its entire motive E power which could sail anywhere under the sea carrying a pill at the end of a pole powerful enough to blow the mightiest battleship ever built - into a wreck of junk. I am going to T iell Secretary Daniels so when I see jtfm in Washington next week. "The new submarine would be c (One-fourth the size of the present r( ='1 -submarine and would be able to pro- ^ |i: ' -pel itself and guide itself up and <down to the right and to left, by its P( fe*; <own po^er. Electric storage batter- te ' Ci vtes are unnecessary. 01 ^5' - ^ + Viq hoct nf all thpfiP Sllh \ tuo -WVUb VI. vvoy VUVVV _ |g/':" marines can be built at such a slight f( cost that all the incentive for greed}' 0 armament makers will be taken 3 |p away from them. They will cost on- ? \ ly a fraction of what the present sub- a ||? marines cost and only a fraction of S( one per cent, of the $15,000,000 a dreadnoughts which they will be able 0 to blow to pieces. n fef "If the public is interested 0 jj; ;C" enough, we may arrange to give Q demonstrations of this new machine b some time in the near future. I be- k lieve that education will be the great- a est factor in bringing about univers* r al peace, but this new submarine is G likely, by the very terror it inspires, f to hasten world peace." c Keeping His Word. g There are a lot of four-flushers t who who go through without learn- ( ing that four-flushing is a fine art. j Such are beneath contempt. But one \ has great admiration for those who { have mastered the game. < "If a man called me a liar," as- ? serted one such, "I'd sail in and lick him, if he weighed 300 pounds." < "Well, you big bluff," answered one who was tired of listening. "I call you right here and now. You're a liar!" "Bluff yourself?" came back the artist, without a minute's hesitation. If "You don't weigh more than onefifty and you know what I said."? Hartford Courant. r * i ' t KILLED IX EUROPE. A iVm. M. Xicholls Slain on Battlefield, I Says Report From London. R Spartanburg, Sept. 30.?Second Jeut. W. Montague Xicholls, with he 13th battery, Royal Field Artilery, of the British army, was killed n battle September 26-27, according o information received this mornng from the British war office in ^ondon by Judge George W. XTicholls, 'ather of Lieut. XTicholls. The message conveyed no details is to the actual engagement in which Meut. Xicholls fell, but it is believed ;hat he was killed in the desperate )attle in the region of Hulluch and ' l/oos, when the British and French :orces opened a strong offensive novement against the German 'orces, driving them from their :renches and making advances for ;he allies, as indicated in war dispatches published here during the jarly part of the week. The copy )f the cablegram received by Judge S'icholls at his office today was as \ ollows: "London, September 30. S "George W. Nicholls, Spartanburg, I >. C.: Deeply regret to inform you I ;hat Second Lieut W. M. Nicholls, R. A., was killed in action between I 26-27 September. Lord Kitchener I ixpress sympathy." I Congressman-elect Sam J. Nich- I >lls, brother of Lieut. Nicholls, im- B nediately filed a cablegram to the B British war office requesting inior-? a nation as to the possibilities of hav- I ng the body delivered to South Car- I >lina for interment. The United I >tates war department was wired I tsking the department to assist rela- I ives here in having the body deliv- I >red to Spartanburg. Every effort I nil be made to secure the body. B Quit Naval Academy. B Lieut. Nicholls, who left for Eng- , I and soon after the European war ^ iras declared, having resigned from he United States Naval Academy, at innapolis, a year previous to beome a member of his father's law irm here, spent several weeks in London before his services in the English army were accepted, but fitally, after' taking the oath of alliance to England, secured a command as second lieutenant in the toyal Artillery and was sent to the ront about a year ago. \ % Last March, 21st, he was woundd, being shot through the thighs. 'hies ooucori him tn snenri several- I r JUiU VUU^VU *** vw ?? v. lonths in a hospital, but recovering rom that wound, he was again sent' 3 the front possibly three months go. Lieut. W. Montague Nicholls wasie third son of Judge and Mrs. eorge W. Nicholls and one of the lost popular young men of the city. He graduated from the city schools ith honors and spent one year at :< fofford. He next entered the Citael and had completed two years hen he received his appointment at nnapolis, the government naval Jhool.. In March, before he would ave graduated in June from the aval Academy, he resigned his comLission and returned to Spartanburg, here he remained until September, 914, when he decided to enlist with ncrlanrl in tha PTOat "RlTrrmPtaTT rott-l ict. HEN HATCHER ALLIGATORS. he Little Animals Caught the Hea and Scared Her to DeathThe following from Kinstcur, NV C-?! jcently appeared in several North arolina papers: A barnyard panic followed the ap-' garance "in public'' of the best set>r in the flock of C. J. Overton, at outh Creek, with the queerest brood ; rer hatched by a hen. A tragedy )IIowed, the hen being the victim f fright. Overton found a nest with ; 7 alligator eggs in it on the banks 1 f South creek, in which the reptiles bound. He took the eggs home, elected half dozen, placed them in box with straw and the over-zealus hen. "absolutely devoid of leans," immediately seized upon the I pportunity. Just how long was re- I uired to hatch the eggs is not cer- I ain, but that three produced is I :nown to reliable neighbors as well I ,s to Overton,, a man of splendid I eputation. The hen clucking led her irood, their mouths wide open, out or the other fowls to pass judgment J in. She scratched, and then trouble started. The alligators did not get he drift of the well meaning bidlies' actions. The four-inch reptiles seized her by vulnerable parts, all :hree at the same moment as if pre- L irranged. The frightened hen elud- ~~Z *d Overton, trying to catch her to T get the 'gators off for half an hour, he finally cornered her. The un- A grateful offsprings were still cling- ? - ?? A nl 4- y-v l-? at* 1 no*c* o n rl I llig IU 11^1 U.11KL | throat. <\ Relieved, the hen immediately flew into a tree, and would not be coaxed . G down again. She suddenly fell out, dead. The alligators, probably from wa improper care, lived only a few ^ hours. Overton will try the experi- se{ ment again. ? / "Time accepts excuse No one would think of building a new home without protecting it from fire. But an old home is just as dear as the new, and if it should be destroyed by fire a new one must take its place. The cost of Fire Insurance is so low, that no one can afford to overlook absolute protection or risk the loss of the old home or take the chance of not having a new one. Rates cheerfully given. ( ! 4 per cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. PEOPLES BANK Bamberg, - South Carolina WANTED An experienced monument man to represent us in this section. MECKLENBURG MARBLE & GRANITE COMPANY, Box 32, Charlotte, IV. C. v' . ii TWO UF A RIND I Atlanta Georgian and Hearst's Sunday American 1 V The South's Greatest Newspapers THE PAPER THAT GOES HOME / , The GEORGIAN published every afternoon is "big'' in every way. It has character, ambition, personality. 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And those who have tested it always come back yiih\^ when their cars need more at- \ tention. J 0 I D D D I - IUt u. LJ i ' Bicycles, Guns and Automobiles Repair I ??? ?? re Long Distance calls for fifteen radius of several hundred miles "In less than one hour he . of flour at a total cost to us of "Since then we have applie Bell Telephone to everyfeature most profitable results. Tht rates are reasonable and there in one Long Distance Telephc a dozen letters" SOUTHERN BELL TELEI AND TELEGRAPH COM BOX 108. COLUMBIA, SOU' - ^ Ifotal W1LL f find the i prudl 1.} The boss who sometimes goe I man who when a young man c I watched the clock and spent his I he got it. * ~ T T -ii i I 1NU. He starred eariy, wui I BANKED his money. You can do the same. DO IT. Make OUR bank Y< We pay 4 per cent, ir pounded quarterly on sa I Farmers & Merc BHRHARDT, When you want PAPER of < you can get it at Heral CKLEI ' ======================= * w ru-TrJC^ - ; : . 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