Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 raj m iEg ; I Have Y( v Wm & If your ansi h scription fo: n $25.00" Prize List). i t Is it n( M aions i ?| Priz?. nm ^ . * Bkh VC : I First Priz I Second P I Third Pri I x YOU I 9 . NOT L y h I ADDRESS A I -REPLIES TO TJLMER CITIZEN DIED THRUSDAY. - Another Confederate Veteran Goes J to Eternal Reward. . i George Good son, a member of the fast thinning ranks of gray, passed 1 away at his home at Ulmers on last ( Thursday and was interred at the 1 Salkehatchie cemtery Friday morn- I ing. Funeral services were conducted I at the Ulmers Baptist church, of * which the deceased was a consistent member by Rev. Mr. Bragg, pastor of 1 i the church and a long time friend of 1 the late veteran. A large concourse of friends and .relatives attended the funeral and mourned the loss of him who had left them. A gorgeous collection of floral offerings showed the high regard in which this beloved citizen was held. ' Mr. Goodson had reached the ripe age of eighty four, living a life of activity for his country and his family] and friends. He was a member during the war between the states of company D, 17th South Carolina volunteers, MacMaster's regiment. He was a brave soldier, always doing the tasks assigned him with credit to himself and his regiment. He fought in the second battle of Manassas and w""- /vfVick* /v# +>>a nrirninal hattlps uiauj^ VbU^/A VI wuv of the war and has a splendid record a ? for his services in the lost cause, i At the last reunion held here Mr. i Goodson left his bed where he had ^ been confined for sometime and marched with the few remaining members of the veterans of the six- ] ties. The effort was too much for a him, and possibly hastened the end. J He had been in bad health for some- 1 time and his death was not unexpect- t ed, but none the less painful to those t that held him dear to themselves. a ^ Mr. Goodson leaves to mourn their c loss, beside a host of friends through- r out this section, a widow, three r brothers: J. A. Goodson, of Ulmers, t rWiBHTnWflfgBWBTffll MIU V H m Qualified) JIZE 00 bscription With 0 arer is awarded First Prize and r one year, either new or ren 1 place of only $3.00. (See seco OR,: THR yean colui )t worth your while to spend, a ft s the maximum.' then if vour an; / %/ Think of how you would feel i: ) If one 1-year If no subscrip- subscription is tion is sent in sent in with with answer. answer. ? $3.00 $25.00 rize 2.50 18.00 ze 2.00 10.00 1AY QUALIFY, IF,YOUR LI! ATER THAN JUNE 27th. AY " THE B/ SIXTEEN FOOT BEARD. . JTa Dakota Farmer Has to Carry His Tucked in a Sack.' | mougn civic pnae nas prompieu ;he male population of Sacramento, 2al., to go unshaven in preparation ^ lor the "Days of '49" celebration, a , ter goodly share of the "local color'' promises to be provided by a retired larmer of North Dakota. cro For Hans N. Langseth, 75-year-old ta^ esident of Wahpeton, North Dakota, we( s going out California way to show anc :he "boys" a beard that is a beard, as ten le puts it. By actual measurement, ^as lis is several inches more than six- asp :een feet. ^as A score of years ago, Langseth was cro raveling with a side show. But the con jublic refused to belive his beard asp vas real. VThe same old bunk," they gaE ... . ~ , mei ;aid, and passed up ms tent, so ne 7? vent back to farming. Job Langseth was born in Norway. He asp ived in Iowa from 1867 to 1898, and mei TJo-, :ben moved to Clay county, Minnesoa, where he lived two years before lso1 settling in this country. Wlt Not since he was 29 years old has wb< skil -angseth shaved. Then he noticed lis beard grew remarkably fast, so he bus rial lecided to see what length it would 6 ent ittain. It's too long now for convenence but he carries it tucked away par tha n a sack attached to the inisde of his vaistcoat. fr03 "Women outnumber the men in the ^ilippines mining industry. fori __ T-fT" acr< rnhn finndson. nf Oranaeburs:. and and L M. Goodson, of Allendale; one sis- Her er, Miss Laura Goodson, of Ulmers; tast wo sons, Billy Goodson, of Ehrhardt. mei tnd Coy Goodson, of Fairfax; and|Cou ?ne daughter, Mrs. Brabham, beside ket nany grandchildren, nieces and asp; lephews and other sorrowing rela- run ives. . can WHICH W v * four List o 1st PRIZE $25.00 one subscription HOW TO > orni ha.vp fiPnt. nnp siih ewal, you "will receive nd column of figures in if your answer is awarde< EE one year subscriptioi 5, you will receive $50.0 nn of figures in Prize List] i >w moments of your spare swer is awarded First Pri: f you were to get First Pr THE I If two 1-year [f three l->year or one 2-year or one 3-year subscription is subscription is sent in with sent in with answer. ? answer. $35.00 $50.00 25.00 35.00 15.00 25.00 ST IS ALREADY ON FI IARD OF PRIZES WILL IMBERC Isparagus Crop Says Willei I ? (By N. L. Willet.) [here is no doubt that in Augusta ritory we make more money off asparagus than in any other one p with same acreage. I was king with a Carolina man this }k who with his asparagus, spreads I roots, will make, I am sure, net thousand dollars this year and he . been making money steadily pn aragus for fifteen years and now i given up everything else for this p. One of 'his neighbors, on the trary is plowing up right now his aragus roots and will quit the n Ck T f if* rtl yv\ rvlrr a /I i PP am av, a a ? ?* Lie. n 10 eiuipijr a uiucicuuc m a. Asparagus is not just any man's . It takes a super-man to grow aragus. It is no crop for comrcial purposes for Tom, Dick and rry who lives here and there in ated places and whose experience h farming is corn and cotton and d have no experience nor technical 11 nor passion for the trucking iness; but for the right men in the it spot there is no crop at presavailable so profitable as is asagus and there is no one crop t, seemingly, is so far away n over-production. What Xew York Says. California is our competitor. Calilia has twenty-eight thousand 2s in aspargus, ships eight thousand cans twenty thousand acres. grass is large but it is without ;e. The New York commission 1 tell us here that our green grass Id run California out of the marand that if we were to go into aragus canning that we could also her twenty thousand acres of ned goods out of the market. Wil / S^Hhl hH U9B mm mb > rILL IT BE? C ul\? 117 l r d woras 1st PRIZE $35.00 With two subscriptioi (or one for two yeai /ViN $50.00 \ OR, if your answer is a TWO one- year subsori you will receive $35. column of figures in Pri: i First Prize and you have se: is or 1 subscription for three 0 in place of only $3.00. (See fc > time getting these three subsci ze vou will insure yourself of iz e and only receive $3.00 as yo ? PRIZES If no subf tion is se with ans Fourth Prize $1.5( Fifth Prize 1,J| Sixth Prize ,51 V TT A TT TmT^ TT A Li IS, J3 2C JYLAXLilJN ur UK XlAr . BE ANNOUNCED THERE. 1HERALE liston, South Carolina, p^ut up a car load of canned asparagus last, year and sold them easily, even though She f used her small inferior size?because ' the larger size brought more in the ! green state. I have eaten this Wii- j liston canned asparagus and it is in ' every possible way the equal of the . green stuff right out of the ground. It is totally different in quality from 1 the California goods and if we only 1 had enough of it to send the large ' size the north would go wild over it 1 as a canned' matter. I understand ' that Williston is going to put up a 1 larger canning outfit this season. There is no over production whatever in sight in good asparagus, either as green grass or as canned matter. The wonder is as to whether it is possible for us, even in years to come, to over-produce. There is no crop that is canned more easily and with less expense and there is practically no disease incident to this ; plant. The Grades. Graded asparagus brought a fine price this year and then demand was more than the supply continuously. In the old days we sent out asparagus ungraded. The big was on the outside and the little was on the inside and the customer got mad. The last season's prices were about as follows, first grade, uoiossal, $6.00 per crate of one dozen bunches; No. 2, Fancy, $4.00; No. 3, $12.50 for choice. The soil for asparagus is a rich j warm sandy loam. Never plant it in I clay. Never plant it on bottoms. Never plant more than three acres to the plow. The amount guano us- 1 I ed varies with the growers. One grower tells me that he uses 8-4-4 ] one ton plus twenty-five loads of j: compost per acre; another uses one j ] and one-half tons of 8-4-4, and an- j < other uses two tons. As this guano j i costs at the minimum thirty dollars 1 t 3ne wishes to obtain the low prices t ind this is true of pecans and this is f :rue of asparagus roots. If you in- t ville might get in touch with the i Beaufort Chamber of Commerce as regards this list, but w;hy can not and do not Beaufort and Blackville start sour kraut and pickle factories of their own? They have plenty of material and much of it yearly goes to waste and there is no process ef preserving vegetables so simple and i so inexpensive as are sour kraut and cucumber pickling; and by the way a j strong point for the canning of asparagus is the fact that it is such a i simple process. i Peaches. , A peach grower in Tennessee i writes me that he has just sold more j than three hundred thousand of June i Buds and that the demand is enor- ? mous and that the supply will run c ?hort. Orders for June Buds must be ] placed before June the fifteenth ifj = quality, requires some capital. Sometimes all of the guano is put in along in January; sometimes part, of it in January and parts as a side dressing at the first of the growing season. Some growers too, where they have not very old fields, plant cow peas in the middles and after frost mow the asparagus tops and cow peas and let them all remain on the ground for later plowing. Pickles and Sour Kraut. The fact that there is such a wide opening for canning asparagus with us reminds me that I secured recently a list of over one hundred pickle and sour kraut manufacturers throughout the United States and sent it to Beaufort Chamber of Commerce with the thought that they might ship their overplus of cabbage and cucumbers to these parties. I understand down at Blackville that there is a glut in cucumbers. Black roiNG IN TOUR REMITT AFTER AS SOON AS POSS I, Bamberi a ton the growing of asparagus, in order to produce the size and the >urth riptions ? Absolutely three su the joy of receiving the ma ur award. If two 1-yeai If one 1-year or one 2-year icrip- subscription is subscription is nt In sent in with sent in with 3wer. answer. answer. ) $5.00 $10.00 2.50 5.00 2.00 3.00 $3. (or the Big 1st P] S50 is With three si s) - (or 1 for tli t warded First Prize and you ] iptions, or one subscription f( ,00 in place of only $3.00. ze List). nt in full . s Prizes? I ?9| * -. x .00 I I nbscriptions 1 | || tree years) | ? H MIMHBIMItfyMMjMMI W 'i H tiave sent in ? >r two years f 9 (See third i a I 9 '^1 * b I ximum ||j I - HUB . ? : H i' If three 1-year or one 3-year |j| i subscription is H sent in with |k answer. |5 $15.00 I 4 10.00 I 1 5.00 I ANCE I IBLE. 1 J N I. I jy v? a ! BKIDES FOR CATTLE. Little Love of Romance in Marriage of Dusky Basuto Girls. A Basuto girl, says London Tid ( H Bits, is looked upon by her father as his bank, for when she reaches a marriageable age so many cattle will have to be handed over for her by the bridegroom. . ; % There is little love and romance in . ' a Basuto girl's marriage. There as no wooing or winning. The man who wants her does not consult her. The dusky Hendriks goes( to the father and says that he wishes to marry Maluma. ' $ The matter is then discussed by the heads of the family and their relations, and the girl gets to know of the coming marriage only by a "lance word that may drop here and there. Generally the principal point of discussion among the heads of the family is how many cows and sheep are to be handed over to the father by the bridegroom as "Iobola" (a marriage dowry) for the girl. This being arranged?usually a payment of so many cows down and so many to be handed over later? the girl is informed that Hendriks is to be her husband, and whether he be quite an old man or a young man ' Maluma has to sacrifice herself and go as she is told. The marriage takes place in a native church. The wedding party and the guests are all dressed in European clothes and they return from the church by wagon to the hut of the girl's father on his master's farm, ivhere sheep have been slaughtered ind much Kaffir beer made, and lancing and singing go on continually ."or two days. end to go into any one of these three arm crops mis nexi season now is he time t? make your contracts. ,: T1' . ,lV 9