Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CANDIDATES IIAVK is CUT. Charleston and Greenville Mca Conn* to Blows. Yor?, Aug. II.?A fist fight between Oscar I\. Mauldin, of Greenville, and Wilson G. Harvey, of Charleston, featured the meeting of candidates for office here today. Mr. Harvey admitted writing a letter to certain persons in Greenville to find out Capt. Mauldin's position 011 the Greenville county million-dollar bond issue, ile denied that he had a letter from J. W. Norwood, of Greenville, reflecting 011 the personal character of Mauldin. "I demand you produce the letter from Norwood," interrupted Mauldin. "I will not," replied Mr. Harvey. "It is a letter from a friend, given in confidence, and I will not make it public. It has no reference to you." "I believe it has." replied .Mr. Mauldin. "If you say it has you lie," re turned Mr. Harvey. Mr. Mauldin then struck Mr. Harvey, who returned the blow. Several blows were passed, the combatants finally being separated by Sheriff Fred E. Quinn and others. Neither combatant drew blood. ^ Big Plans for Cotton Marketing. Probably the greatest story of cooperation 1 have saved for the last. This is the Oklahoma cooperative cotton marketing programme. When Aaron Sapiro came south in April to the Montgomery Cotton Association meeting with his vivid story of successful "commodity marketing" in California, he started something. And no man can say what the end will be. The peanut formers of Virginia and North Carolina got him to come to Suffolk and tell his story, and they are already at work signing up contracts for large scale marketing on the California plan. And in Oklahoma the cotton farmers, with Sapiro's help, have worked out a cotton marketing plan which is the most promising and practicable big plan of cotton marketing yet worked out in any southern state. Cary Wiliams gave me the details. 1. The plan is to get 30,000 Oklahoma -cotton farmers to agree to market their cotton for seven years through their own cooperative selling agency. 2. In order to safeguard them it is guaranteed that selling costs in no case exceed 4 per cent, as a minimum, and the farmer will be rebated for any payment in excess of actual selling costs. 3. Each farmer pays < a membership fee of $10 to be used in promoting organization work. 4. While the organization hopes to control 300,000 bales, it may begin business if farmers raising 200,000 bales ign up for the service. 5. The farmers will own and control the organization. Only growers of cotton can be members and growers in each of the ten districts will elect an executive committeeman. The eleventh member will be named by the president of the state board of agriculture. This is indeed a big and promising plan. The theory is that each farmer ought to be willing to say, "I would rather trust the selling judgment of the biggest and brainiest organization we can hire than to trust my own judgment. I know, too, that the plan will insure wise warehousing and fairness in grading and classing which i. as an individual, cannot enforce for myself. I know, too. that by reason of the advantages of wise grading and selling in quantities, prices will he inpvpnspf] fnr me to a much greater extent than will be represented by my membership costs." Tremendously promising, in my opinion, is this Oklahoma cotton marketing plan. Every state in the south should get'' ready to follow Oklahoma's lead in this matter. The Progressive Farmer will keep our readers informed as to its progress. ?The Progressive Farmer. m n m ? m If You Have Boll Weelis Take Notice. The extension department in cooperation with the various boll wee-1 vil dusting machinery manufacturers,) the railroads and locals farmers is! holdinsr demonstrations for the pur pose of letting the farmers see the different types of dusting machinery that are upon the market and judge the merits of each. On August 2d a demonstration will be given at Fairfax on Newton Loadholt's farm, and <n August 2M. at Denmark. J. K. Mavfield has kindly consented to have the demonstration on his farm by the road leading out to Olar and near the dairy barn. All types of dusting machinery will be - seen at this demonstration including hand dusters, traction dusters and power dusters. Everybody is requested to attend one or these meetings. JOHN L. BRANDON, Co. Agt. SlDAK HITS IJOTTOM. Ifii Cents Oil' Price of Three Month? Alio?No Demand t lie I Excuse. New York. Aug. i 2.?Heavy decreases in the sugar market, fore shadowed by movements during tin pest few days, took place today. Oik large dealer reduced his price 01 fine granulated from 21 to a fraction over 17 cents a pound, and raw sugar sold on a basis if 13 and 11 cents, which was 10 cents per pounc less than the high level of three months ago. A pronounced weakness in raw sugar began earlier in the week, noticeable in future contracts on the exchange and on the spot mari\ei. Second hand sugar, or speculative stocks have been offered for sonu days at IS cents per pound for fine granulated but no weakening on the part of the refiners was in evidence until today. Holders of large stocks of sugar expressed the fear that they had overstayed their market. Dealers declared that the present weakness is due to lack of demand for fine sugai free offering from all parts of the world and a feeling of unrest through out the trade. Lack of demand indicates that heavy purchases earlier in the season were not entirely for immediate consumption. Murray Declines Post mastership. John D. Murray, who was recently tendered the postmaster's office at Wajterboro, has declined to accept. T.he examination was held about a year ago, and Mr. Murray has accepted a position in the upper part of tf!e state, which is a better paying position than the postofofRce. It is not known -jvhat the next move in the Walterboro postofhee will be.?Press and Standard. RADICALISM IX COL I'M BJ A 73-7(>. (Continued from page 2, column 2.) of a. remarkable spring in a sequestered spot "near Geiger's Mill." The finding of the spring was told with a great deal of detail and a number of well known Columbians were named who had visited the spring and tested its waters. 1 had paid a good deal of attention to chemistry while at college and had assisted in the laboratory, and so the matter appealed to me. As soon as breakfast was over 1 got a glass retort and some sheets of litmus paper from the small laboratory of tiie 'college and started horseback to find the spring, with the idea of making a speculative analysis of its contents, having no idea how to get there beyond the newspaper statement that it was "up the river." Inquiries led me two or three miles up the canal, following its banks till I came to a point near where the big dam, since constructed, turns the water from the river into the enlarged canal. It must have been near here that I found a millhouse sitting astride the canal. That was "Geiger's Mill." I made a polite inquiry of the miller for the location of the newly discovered spring. "What spring?" he asked. "The mineral spring," I replied, "that was found somewhere near here yesterday." From beneath the white dust that covered his jolly round face appeared a smile and he said: "Mister, somebody has been foolin' you. This is the first day of April." It had not once occurred to me. I turned and rode away, making a detour so that I might not meet anybody on the way I came who might also have read Thompson's story and might suspect the truth, and entered the city by way of "Butcher Town," following the lefist frequented streets 'till I came back again to the college. For two or three days I was in a \ state of fear and dread lest Jim Thompson might get hold of the story and "play it up" in the Union Herald. He was just the kind of I fellow to revel in it and to make "mighty interesting reading" out of it j Fortunately, 1 had not taken anybody into my confidence nor told the miller my name. So in the course of a few days I felt at ease, and thfe I affair passed out of mind. It must have been fully twenty-five years afterward that I saw in a Columbia newspaper that "Geiger's Mill had burned down. It recalled .Mill" had burned down. It recalled search for the mineral spring. That night, however, I had a dream. I dreamed 1 was walking along the banks of a small stream among trees and shrubbery when ray attention being attracted by a bright light. 1 looked i!)) ad distinctly saw "Geiger's Mill," sitting astride the canal wrapped in flames, through which J could clearly distinguish the form and features of Jim Thompson, whc was attired like Mophistopeles with peaked cap and forked tail, sitting astride the comb of the roof, grinning sardonically and yelling with fiendish glee. In a little while the burning roof fell in, sending up a mass of sparks, and I awoke. 1 REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD 1 If you wish to buy or sell j [ | Real Estate See | : I CARTER, CARTER & KEARSE . | LAWYERS BAMBERG, S. C. | * f t 5 X X 4 i : y Y ; I It's Different and Better $ *? mi mi > f f ' I ? I BAMBERG BOTTLING CO.! A BAMBERG, S. C. I > I r - V' I La lung I ' QUALITY AND SERVICE I PHONE 15 TomDucker ? BAMBERG, S. C. I I We five you *.~;yyL I I || The stomach is a good friend. Treat it right. Eat our pure foods and you will digest them well and I have no doctor's bill to pay. 1 Our low prices on our up-grade groceries make | 11 1 -PriArlfi I them move out last so xnai we nave iie&u iwuo ^ coming in every day. Just try our groceries one month. | BAMBERG, S. G. - 1 OWEN BROS. MARBLE m fnf AND GRANITE CO. ^ i i ? designers mantjf acturers 1 ?=^.- erectors 1 JL The larg??t and best equipped | jf ' - .^V monumental mills in the Carolinas. jg GREENWOOD, 8. C. 1 -. 1 *" f ffl r Hemorrhoids ^ \ | One of the troublesome and painful * | effects of continued constipation is hemorrhoids, or piles. ; I Nujol relieves constipation by an entirely I new method. Without forcing or irritating, \ ! it softens the food waste. This enables the ' many tiny muscles in the walls of the in- 4 f testines, contracting and expanding in their | * normal way, to squeeze the food waste I along and ?ut of the system. It is absolutely harmless and pleasant to ? take. 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