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r > ~ ': <l * ' * ' < f ?;j % . 'i % utyp Hamburg j$mdb. $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1922. . Established in 1891. Big Boost For Cooperative Plan * . Cooperative marketing of tobacco received) a great boost in Bamberg county last -Thursday when Mr. Rogers, of Virginia, addressed a big mass meeting of citizens at the court house. Following the meeting, the local warehouseman of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative association k signed up about 125 acres of tobacco, involving approximately 100,000 pounds of the weed to be sold through the marketing association. TJie campaign continues for a few davs lonser before it will be closed, and many others are signing as they are seen by Mr. Lane, the warehouseman. The meeting was called to order by A. M. Brabham, secretary and * treasurer of 'the Farmers Tobacco Warehouse company, which warehouse is a member of the association. Mr. Brabham introduced Mr. Rogers, whose address was the most busfness-like of any heard in Bamberg in a long time. The speaker was thoroughly conversant with his subject, and a great deal of his time was taken in answering questions from the audience. In each instance his reply was instantaneous and clear. Mr. Offut, of Kentucky, was to have been in Bamberg, but at the last moment was sent to Mullins instead. Mr. Rogers urged t?e tobacco , \ growers of this county to line up with the association, which he believes is the only salvation for the tobacco producer. He said that the old ^ystem of auctioning tobacco is on its last legs, and that he had an * s-vWk Ar? + fvATYJ Ana I auiuuriutuve aiaicuicub uum uuv who knew that those interested in the old system were holding on this year believing it is their last ehance with the hope that they will "make a killing." However, Mr. Rogers >. does not blame these independent k warehouses nor the tobacco buyers. It is nothing more than human to buy as cheaply/as possible. "You growers are the ones to blame," said he. He explained the system of selling through the association in considerable detail, and stated that cooperative selling is not a holding proposition; that tobacco will not be stored ^ and held unless there is an overproduction, in which case the association expects to plhce on the market only enough tobacco to supply the demands of the tobacco purchasers. ; Any over-production will be redried * and stored until a more favorable market exists. In the event of a continued over-production, all memhers of -the association will- share alike the slump in prices on all stored, tobacfro. The association is in position to advance substantially on all tobacco of its members, he said. Tobacco is * graded by an association grader > when it is brought to the warehouse, and a warehouse certificate is issued. This certificate will be recognized by any bank. The government has officially recognized the association by making a loan of $30,000,000 to it, the largest agricultural loan in the history of the world, said Mr. Rogers. The working of the association in Kentucky and Virginia, where organization was pretty thorough last season, had been eminently successful. In the former state growers in the association had received for their tobacco in excess of 29c per pound * average, while non-members had re' n ceivea aoout average. ah icsaiu to the cost of selling, Mr. Rogers said that statistics show association r members paid less than one-half the commissions that non-members paid last year. He added that all the talk about enormous salaries of association officers was bosh; that the executive officers were practically giv} ing their time to the marketing sys- L tern without cost. The fact 'was mentioned that in \ South Carolina where there was no organization last year tobacco had , sold for an average of 11c per pound ?it was five cents in Bamberg?and it was 24c in North Carolina. Bamberg county had lost on its half million' pounds of tobacco more than , $100,000 through, lack of orderly marketing. .figures were quoted to snow tnat of 31 years of tobacco growing in North Carolina, the producers had / operated at a loss 16 years; broke even 10 years, and had made a profit , five years. There is no reason for these losses; the grower is entitled to a profit on his product every year, j and it is for this very purpose that the association was organized. Cooperative marketing in California I k STILL WILL FACE TRIAL. ^ Mother-in-Law Accuses Barnwell Man of Killing Barnie IHamond. Barnwell, June 30.?Milton Still, a white farmer, who lives a few miles from this city, has been arrested on a a warrant charging him with the ^ murder of Barnie Diamond 18 years ago. s< The ar-.'pst id qairJ to have resulted P from a difficulty between Still and ;his brother-in-law, Frank Owens, ti about ten days ago, at which time a the latter shot Still in the leg. Still w had Owens arrested ' whereupon \-c Owens's mother, .Mrs. M. A. Owens, 1 divulged information which led to o the arrest of Still on the charge of murder. 2 From the best information avail- ^ able, it seems that the evidence against Still is very meager, as no p eyewitnesses to the alleged murder p can be located. In May, 1904, the j body of Barnie Diamond was found a lying by the Southern railway tracks about two miles south of Barnwell, v and it was thought he had been killed by a train during the night. On 1 the night of his death Mrs. Owens c< was at the home of Milton still, her son-in-law, and now states that she 9 heard cries and the sound of blows tj coming from the house of a white woman named Mamie Phillips, who lived just across the railroad track from StiH's home. Mrs. Owens, it is understood, charges . that Diamond was killed at the Phillips' hpuse and his body placed on the track by Still in an effort to hide his alleged crime. CROCKER GETS LIFE SENTENCE. Jury Recommends Mercy to Slayer of T XT Horic JLICf ? Vt V JL/MV JU7? Columbia, July 1.?"Guilty, with recommendation to mercy" was the verdict returned last evening by the jury which had heard the testimony in the case against John Watt? p Crocker, who was tried in the court of general sessions on the charge of p murdering the Rev. John Vincent Davis, well known minister, and, at t the time of his death, superintendent of the Richland county home, of g which Crocker was an inmate. The 0 tragedy occurred May 28. C The echo of the words of the ver- p diet had hardly died in the court ^ room when Judge Townsend, after S) asking Crocker if he had anything to n ? ? ~ w-V. V?? in fTia nfitra. _ ?<i V, LU W ill Oil igpix^u au wuv uv0v? P tive, sentenced the prisoner to serve g the remainder of his life in the state ^ penitentiary. The convicted man, af- y ter asking for his hat, was at once 0 taken from the court room and fcpent the night at the county jail. Today he will be transferred to the state penitentiary to begin the service of 'his. life sentence. Crocker is 64 years of age. The Rev. Mr. Davis was 72 S( at the time of his death. 0 i ?i ^ MOVEMENT OF MELONS. x ti Carload Lots Being Shipped Out v * From Fairfax. d ? t< Fairfax, June 28.?Watermelons b from this section have commenced to y move. J. E. Johnston and Luther n Barber loaded a car of thirty-four- f< pound average melons Monday and n Julius Gray loaded a car of large e melons Tuesday. These care were c handled by the Fairfax Melon Grow- g ers' Association. This association r? will probably handle more than 400 d carloads of melons during the next w sixty days. The acreage to melons p in this section is larger than usual, t] but on account of too much rain, g some hail and in many cases lack of a sufficient quantity of fertilizer, it is p not likely that more than half a crop d of marketable melons will be made, a: The corn crop is very good, and the cotton crop, too, is improving, but p; the stands are bad and boll weevils jz are aireauv uecumiiig uumeiwua. ei Notwithstanding these drawbacks, a: the farmers are working hard. Some bi of the well-to-do farmers are using u two-horse dusting machines in ap- ti plying calcium arsenate; others are using smaller machines, and some are picking up and destroying the punctured squares. The weather during the last few days has been favorable for cotton and the indica- F tions are that considerably more cot- a ton will be produced in this section d; this year than was produced here last M year. The acreage to peanuts in this tc section is smaller than last year, but | B this crop is looking very promising. It had resulted in reducing the percent- f age of farms under mortgage from u, 60 per cent, to two per cent. sj. July 10th is the last day on which te tobacco growers may sign up with the association. Cotton Forecast 11 Million Bales / Washington, July 3.?Prospects of larger cotton crop than last year ere seen in the first forecast of the sason announced today by the deartment of agriculture. The yield estimated on the condion of the crop June 25, was forecast t 11,065,000 bales which compares ith a production of 7,953,641 bales ist year; 1?,439,603 bales in 1920, 1,420,763 bales in 1919, and 12,40,532 bales in 1918. The condition of the crop on June 5 was 71.2 per cent, of normal, an nprovement over the report issued le month previous When it was laced at 69.6. The condition comares with 69.2 per cent, on June 25, 921, and with the ten-year June 25, verage of 76.9. The acreage devoted to cotton this ear was placed by the department t 34.852.000 acres, an increase of 0 per cent, over the area planted to Dtton last year. The area under cultivation June 5, and the condition of the crop on lat date by states follows: Virginia?Acreage 51,000, condion 85 per cent. North Carolina?1,601,000 and 76. South Carolina?2,230,000 and 60. Georgia?4,129,000 and 58.t Florida?122,000 and 75. Alabama?2,995,000 and 68. Mississippi?3,200,000 and 76. Louisiana?1,311,000 and 69. Texas?12,312,000 and 72. Arkansas?2,853,000 and 80. Tennessee?r-819,000 and 83. Missouri?156,000 and 92. Oklahoma?2,840,000* and 76. ? * " A AAA J r\ -i uainornia?ziu,uuu ana 31. Arizona?105,000 and 85. New Mexico?46,000 and 85. ARDON RECORD OP GOVERNORS _ v igures Secured at Request of "A Voter." o the Editor of The State: Some of us have gotten into an arument as to the pardoning records f Governor Blease and Governor ooper, some contend;ng that Cooper ardoned nearly as m^ny as Blease. s it might be of peculiar interest to Dme of your readers to have* their lemory refreshed as to some of our ast history I would appreciate your iving us the pardoning records of oth governors, and ask also, that ou quote the proper authorities in rder to settle our controversy. "A VOTER." I Kinards. ? The State has obtained the desired lformation from the records at the Bcretary of state's office and from ther reliable sources. The records how that Governor Blease granted ,708 pardons, paroles and commuta- j ions of sentences during his four ears as governor against 303 parons, paroles, commutations of sendees and restorations of citizenship y Governor Cooper during the three ears and four months he was goveror. These figures may contain a 3w duplications, but ther are very early accurate. In the 1.7Q8 grantd by Governor Blease are not inluded a large number of pardons ranted to some persons he had aisady paroled under his "blanket paron" granted a short time before he ent out of office. In this "blanket ardon" Governor Blease restored all le persons he had paroled during ood behavior to citizenship. Governor Cooper's record was 203 aroles during good behavior, 12 parons, 63 restorations of citizenship nd 25 commutations of sentences. Governor Manning granted 217 ardons, paroles, restorations of cit:$nship and commutations of sentaces during his four years, divided 3 follows: 157 paroles during good ehavior, seven pardons, 20 commuitions of sentences and 24 restoraons of citizenship.?Columbia State. To Sue Town. Walterboro, June 29.?Notice has een filed with Messrs, Howell & ishburne, the town's attorneys, of otroinct Wnlfprhorn for $10,000 I un/ T images, the suit being entered by j rs. Adalaide B. Shokes, of Charles>n, through her attorneys, Whaley, j arnwell & Grimball. of Charleston. is alleged that Mrs. Shokes. while .1 a visit to a relative in Walterboro, dl over a pile of stringers being sed to build a sidewalk, from which le suffered injuries, etc., to the exnt of the sum asked. Renew your subscription today. FALL ASLEEP OX TRACK. Two Men Killed and Another Badly injured by Train. Sumter, July 4.?Ben and William Brewer were killed outright and William C. McLeod was badly injured when struck Sunday night by a froin A? + V*& A C* T. roilrnoH 11 C1CWU Ui LUV/ H. W. t-J. i VMV? company at Broadway's siding, between Sumter and Pinewood. All of the parties are white men of the Pinewood neighborhood. Mr. McLeod's leg was broken in two place and be is now in the Tomey hospital for treatment. From the testimony adduced at the coroner's inquest today, William C. McLeod, the only surviving member, testified that about 10 o'clock Sunday night he and the two Brewer boys were sitting on the railroad track and all were drinking. He said that the Brewer boys stretched out on the track and in a few minutes were fast asleep. The first he knew of the accident was when he awoke, finding himself to the side of the track, having been knocked off the track. He said that he did not realize he was hurt until he tried trt eet iiD and found a numbness in j his limbs. He was about eight or ten feet from the track when he I awoke. After hearing the evidence the jury brought in a verdict that Ben Brewer and William Brewer came to their death on July 2, 1922, j by being run over by an A. C. L. freight train. It is said that the j bodies of the dead men were badly mangled and mutilated. The plight of the injured man and the discovery of the two dead men was'made early this morning just prior to the time for the regular passenger train from Augusta to pass this siding. mi ? HARVEY WINS SUIT. j Verdict for Plaintiff for $6,500?Jury Out All Xight at Barnwell. j Barnwell, July 1.?After deliberatj ing all night, the jury in the case of [ W. L. Harvey vs. Southern Railway company brought in the verdict at 7:30 o'clock this morning for the plaintiff in the amount of 6,500. This was a suit for $200,000 for the death of Mrs. Daisy Harvey, wife of the plaintiff, at a crossing in the lower part of Barnwell county on June 7, 1921. The plaintiff contended that the buggy in which Mrs. Harvey was riding was on the crossing at the time the train approached and in turning the buggy from the crossing to prevent a collision with the train, Mrs. " J- - * AT ? an VN SM* .Harvey ien out ui me ?emwc, uci leg1 being caught in the front wheel. The mule ran away and Mrs. Harvey received injuries which resulted in her death a week later at a Columbia hospital; The defendant cbntended that the mule and buggy was in the road as the train passed, at least 75 feet from the crossing and that the signal statute did not apply. HIGH PRICES NO HELP. Melons Bring From Seventy Cents to One Dollar and 4 Half. New York, July 1.?Watermelons for which Georgia growers are glad to get from three to 17? cents each are selling in the retail markets here at 70 cents to $1.50, said a statement issued today by Herschel S. Jones, director of the state department of farms and markets. High freight rates, almost equally Viitrh mt+qco r?hnrp-pc and the bit Ul&i* VMr* VM-QV taken in turn by four middlemen, make up the difference, he said. The freight cost is about 17 cents a melon and the cartage cost for transporting the melons from the receiving station at Karney, N. J., is about I eight cents. The four middlemen get the rest. The high prices are causing the melons to move very slowly in the New York market, he said, despite a campaign ihis department has been trying to induce New Yorkers to help the Georgia farmers out with their bumper crop by eating lots of melons. ! ? m Postmaster at Cope. Cope. July 3.?J. Ashlow Antlev, V ?.nfifmnd tn an for pUSLIIlilSLCI , lid V 111^ icsifilicu IU tuwvi the race for clerk of court. TV. M. Ritter, was appointed to fill the place until the office could be supplied through the regular channels. A civil service examination was held at Orangeburg July 1, and the following stood the examination: TV. TI. Ritter, incumbent; Jerome Garick and R. K. Henery. of Cope; Mrs. Meet? and Olin F. Hunt of the Fork section, and a lady from Orangeburg. 600 Bales On 25 800Acres Land * The old weevils, that emerge from ^ winter quarters can be successfully controlled by the early dusting of Cl cotton with calcium-arsenate, it has E been demonstrated under actual b farm conditions on the plantation S of J. S. Cowart, of Arlington, Ga., v according to Director J. X. Harper, " of the soil improvement committee, Director Harper attended the a demonstration held on this farm the pa:;t week and has returned to e AHon+o onth neifl atip nvpr the Slip- ^ xx^xaii ta v v* v ? w cess which has attended the meth- t: od that he has so strongly advo- a cated and w'hich was presented to the public through James A. Hollomon's i] series of articles in The Constitution s this spring. , D The boll weevil work on the Cow- s art plantation is under the direction * of Dr. J. H. DeLoach, formerly di- ? rector of the Georgia experiment * station. Dr. DeLoach was so strongly convinced of the success of his ef- * forts during the past spring that he 3 Lheld a field demonstration of these methods last week. Mr. Harper re- * ports that over 150 leading farmers c and landowners were present, and c that all were favorably impressed with the results that have been obtained to date. Representatives from P southwest Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina were present to study 11 the situation and many of them left & enthusiastic over the possibilities e shown as to proper weevil control. * Ait the time the meeting was held the cotton was between knee and waist high, according to Dr. Harper's i] ? ? '--11 -is c?.:i T_ F report, ana was iuu 01 u un. iu taut he states that he has never seen 1 better fruited cotton in all his years D of experience. Many of the stalks ^ had- from four to ten half-grown v , bolls, from twenty to thirty squares b and were flowering freely. a Used Arsenate Early. s Indications were that the heavy boll weevil infestation of the early season and had been put under complete control. The poisoning opera- D tion was under the direction of Dr. ^ DeLoacfh. He had an early applica- ^ tion of calcium-arsenate just made t when the cotton was two to four inches high. This was applied to ^ the little plants with a homemade device. ? The first few applications cost very c little, as one man could easily go o over five to six acres a day, and only i< about one pound of calcium-arsenate t was used per acre. f On the day the demonstration was I held every kind of machine that is now used ror applying caicium-arsenate was put into operation. There t were handguns, muleback machines a all going at once. The muleback ma- e chine seemed to be the popular one' e with the majority of those present. \ Dr. DeLoach has used only calcium- a arsenate in the dust form. The ap- . plications were made in the early c morning and late afternoon when s *there was dew on the plants. 1 The Webber variety of cotton was i planted, the seed having been ob- D tained from South Carolina. e With the present condition of the r crop, if the'fight can be continued successfully, at least three-fourths s bale' per acre will be made. i Tells Methods Used. i The methods employed by Dr. De- t Loach and Mr. Cowart have been out- a lined by Director Harper as follows: "The acreage devoted to .cotton e was reduced to about ten acres to s the plow. The seed bed was prepar- ? ed early in the spring, and the land t plowed.deeper than usual. The cot- i ton was planted early in April and P was fertilized with 400 pounds per acre of a 9-4-2, this being followed I by a side application of 25 pounds F of a fertilizer analyzing 7 1-2 per s cent, phosphoric acid, and 10 per a cent, nitrogen. De. DeLoach finds t that the phosphoric acid has hasten- v ed the setting of the fruit and the ? nitrogen is giving ample stalk o growth. o "Mr. Cowart said that weather c conditions had not been favorable as P for three weeks they had constant rain. At one time he thought he d would not make any cotton. a "The boll weevils came out in o abundance in the early spring, and j u . oo oc! cnimrpi; hp?an tn fnrm. ! ti t ^ ! started puncturing them. These h punctured squares were gathered o and destroyed. In fact, Dr. De- b Loach believes that picking up the t squares has been at least 60 per P cent, of the fight. v "The whole demonstration is on a n practical farm basis and not upon v a pet patch plan. The plantation v MOVE TO DISMISS APPEAL. X olicitor Gasque Wants Supreme Court to Act Under Xew Rule. Columbia, June 30.?Solicitor L. r. Gasque, of Florence, is expected ' % d make a motion before the supreme ourt for a dismissal of the appeal of lamuna ju. ingnam, now in tne deatn ouse at the penitentiary, on the round that the court has already reiewed the question of fact involved i the case and the solicitor predicts hat the -court will grant his motion nd throw out the appeal. Recently the supreme court adopt- ~ / d a new rule whereby it refuses to eview a question of fact as disinguished from a question of law nd judiciary discretion, once the Dwer. court has passed on the facts a the premises. Under this rule the olicitor may move, after ten days 1 LOtice to the attorney on the other ? rj ide of the case, to discuss the moion the motion for a new trial and et an answer without waiting for lie tedious processes of the court. "I intend to advise the state of his rule," the solicitor says "if the upreme court follows the rule it has aid down, as there is no reason to hink it would not do, the Bigham ase will not hang in the supreme ourt a year longer.'' A. L. King, attorney for Bigham, ded formal notice of intention to apeal last week. He has forty days q which to perfect his notice to disliss the appeal. If Bigham thus loses lis appeal he will have to be resent- . need. > : Look For Man; Find Oow. Greenwood, July 4.?While Sher- / Ef E. M. White and Coroner P. T. N "aulkner stood ready Saturday for % he uncovering of the grewsome reaains of a murdered man, a grave iscovered by excited passersby in a rood near Greenwood yielded up a ody bearing two\horns and hoofs,--, body that proved to be the corpse * . f Buttercup, a Jersey cow buried ome time before by A. B. Outzs, her orrowful owner. The discovery of the grave caused onsiderable excitement in the comaunity where it was found. Reports rere rife that a man had been murlered in the woods there and hadieen buried by night. The proper fficers were notified at once and the iody disinterred, only to prove the orpse of a cow. . onsists of 6,000 acres, about 800 >i which are planted to cotton, and 5 farmed by seventy tenants. Eac!h enant has a prominent part in the Lg-ht being made by Mr. Cowart and )r. DeLoach." No Longer Fear Weevil. Mr. Harper states further that he alked with some of these tenants, ,nd from the results thus far obtained, they are enthusiastic as any one lse. One old darkey said that he ras not afraid of the boll weevil ,ny more. From present indications, the crop J if cotton on these 800 acres will be aved at a cost of about $4 per acre. rhree * applications of the poison lave alreadv been made and two nore will probably be necessary to 7 Kmtrol the weevil during the renainder of the season. "*r? TT ? .iA flVl ATlfl rtllfi ivir. narper xuai tuc wuvtanding point of the demonstration s that it proves the profitable growng of cotton to be entirely within he limits of the ability of the aver,ge cotton farmer. It is apparent that the cotton farmt will eventually surmount this inect difficulty in the same manner in t'hich other farmers have overcome he ravages' of insects and diseases n the growing of the crops such as eaches, apples or potatoes. * "This demonstration," says Mr. iarper, "has impressed many imiortant farmers from all parts of the outheast. It has given an importnt lesson and an incentive to follow he methods used on this farm and .. - * 1 - J J Vtt mien H3.VB UBGX1 aUYUUclLGU \jy cue; ;overnment and state departments f agriculture of the different states f the southeast in order to bring the % > 'j? otton crop through this .year with rofitable yields. '"From these pioneer cotton pro- * ucers, under new conditions brought bout by the boll weevil, the methds necessary to be used will spread ntil they reach each progressive coton farmer. There will, of course, e some who will drift with the tide f circumstances making what the oil weevil and weather allow, but hese will in no way be able to comete with these progressive growers *ho produce cotton by improved lethods. The methods of course, inolve a "rigid fight on the boll weeils."-?Aalanta Constitution. / .}*.;9 y ^ % ^