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xm and VOL. XXXI. WALTERBORO, S~ C, OCTOBER 14. 1008. NO. 9* Farmers Meeting was Well Attended. Eloquent Addresses by Dr. G. L. Good’ rich, Prof Ira Williams and Dr. E- J. Watson. About three hundred and fifty farmers and business men assembled Monday at the court house to attend the Farmers Institute meeting. It was a representative gathering farmers and business men who listen ed very earnestly and attentively to the very instructive and able ad dresses made by these noted speak ers. This meeting is a result of the selection of this county along with other counties in the State for con ducting. u’-derthe direction of the United States department of agri culture, of demonstration farms, that is farms conducted by their owners who follow instructions from the department as to methods, and crops. Dr. Goodrich has selected the farms of Hons. W. B. Gruber at Walterboro and A. ('. Sanders at Ritter. These farms will follow the plans and instructions given them and will be open to inspection at all times to the farmers who desire to see what is being done, and it is safe to say that both these gentlemen will take pleasure in explaining to anyone what they are doing. The meeting Monday shows the interest the farmers of the county are taking in the advanced ideas in farming and is evidence that more intelligence is being used in the coun ty. Immediately after the speeches the audience was invited by Mayor Fishburne to repair to the long tables erected in the yard of Mrs. E. P. Knight where a sumptuous picnic dinner was spread, a treat of the town. The meeting was opened at the court house at noon by W. B. Gruber, Esq, who in a few happy remarks COL. K. J. WATSON. * Col. E. J. Watson. State Commis sioner of Immigration and Agricult ure gave somehgurs to show* the value and importance of our Indus* trirs. In the State w'e produce $72,000,000. of the cotton crop, and 6000,000 bushels more com than ever before. Only about 41 percent of our land is improved, or but 29 per cent of the land surface. There were 26,000 more tenants in 1900 than 1890.and in 28 counties the ma jority of the farms are worked by negroes. There are 155,000 farms A CUTTING | GOES TO SUPREME COURT. SCRAPE. DR. EaDORN CUT BY FRANK Johnson. Wound Not Serioua Johnson Out on Bond- What came near being a serious difficulty between Dr C. H. EsDom and Frank Johnson occurred Satur day' afternoon about one o’clock at Magistrate Bryan’s office. It has Moore ▼». Griffin to be Argued Next Friday- The following letter was received from Associate Justice W’oods of Marion as a result of the arguments before him at Marion last Thursday. The attorneys will appear before the Supreme Court Friday, and make argument. The outcome will The Beauties of Nature r October the Loveliest of the Autumn Months- Adam's Run, Oct. 5,—Special: The loveliest weather of the autumn is with us October, with its beauti ful coloring of the leaves, the be watched with interest all over gathering of the harvest. Now the State. Marion. S. C. Oct. 10. Pea vine!*, clovers and vetches are valuable sources of nitrogen, the most expensive fertilizer we buy. This may be secured and retained t ur<> and only 6,000 0 f 'by rotation of crops. A typical ro- other resources. We been a little hard to gather the par- in the State and over 83,000 of them ticulars of the difficulty, but it ap- Messrs. Griffin & Padgett, are worked by negroes, with more pews that Dr. EaDorn several Walterboro, S. C., than 19,000 owned by them. 112- months ago loaned Mr Johnson $25 Gentlemen: 000 farms are devote<l to cotton cul- an( j t hat Saturday they met at Upon careful consideration. Magi.strate Bryan’s office to effect a have concluded to issue the writ to stock and pay more to comes the real enjoyment of labor ing through the heat of summer, the realization of the hopes and plana which were planted with those tiny seeds in early spring; and as each tiny leaf and bud unfolded the hope I grew stronger and the desire deeper of to reap a rich harvest in the glorious tation of crops for this country shown to be money crop, feeding than out crop, manurial crop, cleansing crop, "'orth. ro- uuifr rtTwurctfa. *> t pa\ niort; uj . f .... r**.;#*^ z.. . ...... . i . . * . . settlement. Mr Brvan bavin? e\- t ertioran in Moore \s Griffin, in- autumn. As we notice the rich col was ° nr w ia .u < t> ea pregsol j g w j|ij njfness tojielp Johnson st ead of deciding the matter myself, orings of the leaves, painted by the surplus cotton crop is and cover crop. Farmers should do more work in the winter, and see In Colleton 508,00o acres county of land there are | of which 'pay the debt. It seems that Johnson forthese reasons: the matter is of “Artist” which none can imitate did not wish to bother Mr Bryan Puhhc concern; an appeal from my with any degree of perfection, and said to Dr. EsDom that Bryan decision would be heard too late at a adorn the trees, some lying dead a that their lands are covered with a 145,000are improved. This county nitrogen bearing crop to prevent has a population of 33,400 of w hich winter washing such crops as red, H.Of* 1 are white, and 22,060 bur and crimson clovers and vetches, negroes. In the county are 1.670 He would urge every farmer to farms, 3,hi of them operated by plant some cover crop for the winter, negroes, and bkHJ of them owned by either a clover or vetch. But he negroes. could not attend to any business as ro ^ ular session of the Supreme can>et upon old mothers earth, per- he was drunk. Dr. EsDom said to Gourt; and the ( ourt is to meet for chance one thinks their mission is him, "well, if Bryan is drunk. I am ^'‘aDng <»t othei » auses on the ended, not so thoughtless one. We Would advise starting gradually and perseverance. 26 pounds of crimson clover seed will sow an acre which will give manurial value of $36.00 at a cost of only $1.00. 10 pounds am not and you are not, so come on in.” With that he walked in the office. Johnson followed and sprang; with out warning, according to the state ment of several i>ersons in and around the office, upon EsDorn’s 16th. Y«*urs truly, C. A. Woods, Dr Hydride’s Funeral- are not dead, whisper the leaves softly. "Re surgam”. cNext year you will see the fruit of our work in the beauties of nature for we shall assist old mother Nature in her ef- Statistics show that in Colleton last year 17 acres of wheat was grown making 131 bushds; 3,300 j . , ,, . , , . , « , , acres of oats making 51 (Hi6 bushels; Johnson aback handed blow late Dr A S Hydaick. Orangeburg's and it has not ended when they Orangeburg. October 10. The forts to beautify the earth for man. back. EsDorn turned quickly and arrangements for the funeral of the so even the leaves have a duty to per- 300 acres of hay making 211 tons. knocked him down and them of vetch seed and 1 bushel of oats is Only 5 busnels of potatoes are raised | ^mM on him. aii instant later he also good, and the vetch will re-swdj per year, 2 bushels of 9 p rang baefe saj mg he was cut, and so that one planting will he all that cOVV l^a-. . oj>n< . - of ,*wttt pota-, ^ is ever needed. Burdover will also! toes;'>t vegetables *5. per person re-seed. j per year; of orchard products 28 Dr. Goodrich’s address Was lister.- K^nts; poul*:.. •>!. per year; swine, ed to attenttvelv arid at its conch.-! I A ’ r > eHi; . ni >ik. 15 gallons; sion a number of questions wire asked from the dudienee. PROF. IRA WILLIAMS. The following ten commandments formed the basis of the address by Prof Williams. He is a practical farmer and represents that class of brainy young men making the South a New South. At an early period it was found necessary to evolve from the mass of ethical teaching, a few general rules for living, called ‘‘The Ten Com mandments,” by which a man could be moral without going through a introduced Mayor Fishburne, who j course in theology. Just so, in order in turn welcomed the speakers and i to instruct the average farmer how the audience. He was followed by, to successfully conduct his farm Senator Griffin, who in a happy operations so as to secure a greater manner introduced Dr. C. L Good- i net gain from, it is necessary to this Farm ; first deduce from the mass of agri butter 1 pound per year; eggs, 8 dozen |>er year. Mr. Watson did not wish to belittle Colleton for she was away ahead of some other counties, buthe wishes to encourage her people to do more. He believed diversity in farming means money; it means education for your children, a piano for your daughter, your boy to staj at home on the farm of whom there are now 225,000 gone out from South Caro lina helping to make other states famous. There are now 1,500 of these lamented son, have been completed j foil s»*emingly dead from the trees, under the direction of Shibboleth Then how mqch greater is our duty. Lodge, A F M of which Dr] Hydrick ! alas how many fail to see it! was a Past Master. The services More Anon. Bryan and others interfered and will be conducted in St Paul’s - • — hustled Johnson out of th - office Methodist church at 11 o’clock to-1 Bryan Campaign Fund The following amounts have been that Dr< EsDorn was stabbed in the friend.-athe family of the deceased up to date fo r work go on.' We shall be glad to receive and forward amounts fr)m j every section of the county. D B closing the door, meanwhile securing morrow morning. Dr. EsDorn’s pistol. It was found At the urgent request of many lower left side and cut on the left 1 physician has consented to have the thigh just above the knee. It is the body placed in the corridor of the opinion of several that the stab in ' court house at 9 o’clock in the morn ing in order that the people who loved him so well may look upon his off features for the last time. The re mains will be taken from the court rich who is in charge of Demonstration work. DR. C. L. GOODRICH in a foreful manner explained the nature of the work they were doing, and what the government hoped to do to educate the farmer through these i demonstration farms. He said he finds large areas in this State not producing what they should, that the average is very low, not that farmers lack energy but that they lack a knowledge of how r and what to produce. There should be rotation of crops and diversification. The farmer should produce all he uses at home. Dr. Goodrich had a number of charts hanging round the court room to illustrate what he had to say. One of these illustrated the relative quantities of water different soils can retain. For instance. 100 pounds of sand holds 25 lbs. 100 pounds of sand clay holds 40 lbs. 1 ’ 100 pounds of stiff clay holds 50 lbs. 100 pounds of cultivated soil holds 52 lbs. 100 pounds of garden soil holds 81 lbs. 100 pounds of humus hqlds 190 lbs. * Illustrating the ease with which different soils lose water his chart showed that the sand would lose 88 percent of water; sandy clay, 52 Uper cent; stiffish clay, 46 per cent; pure gray clay. 32 per cent; loam, 22 per cpnt; humus, 21 per cent. Therefore, we need an abundance of humus which is the life of the •oil. In this county we need more stable manure, more stock but if we have not stock it must be done by turning under the vegatable matter. cultural teachings a few genet al rules of procedure. They are called "The Ten Commandments of Agri culture,” by the practice of which a man may be a good farmer in any state without being a graduate from a college of ifericulture. the te.nj:omm.\ndments of AGRICULTURE. 1. Prepare a deep and throughly pulverized seed bed, well drained; break in the fall to the depth of 8, 10 or 12 inches, according to the soil, with implements that will not bring two much of the subsoil to the surface; (the foregoing depths should be reached gradually.) 2. Use seed of the best variety, intelligently selected and carefully stored. 3. In cultivated crops, give the rows and the plants in the rows a space suited to the plant, the soil and the climate. 4. Use imehsive tillage during the growing period of the crops. 5. Secure a high per cent of humus in the soil by the use of legumes, barnyard manure, farm refuse, and commercial fertilizers. 6. Carry out a systematic crop rotation with a winter cover crop on southern farms. 7. Accomplish more work in a day by using more horse power and better implements. 8. Increase the farm stock to the extent of utilizing all the waste products and idle lands of the farm. 9. Produce all the food required for the men and amimals on the farm. Iff. Keep an account of each farm product, in order to know from which the gain or kws ariaea. S A Knapp. Washington, D. C., July, 1906. ! ' ' the side was made when Johnson sprang on EsDorn’s back, and the cut on the leg as he was getting Johnson on the floor. Dr. EsDom was taken to Dr. W. house to the church. B. Ackerman’s office where he and I Dr Hydrick was one of the first to Dr. Stokes dressed the wounds, it advocate a system of graded schools was found that they were not aer-, for this city and served as a trustee ious though painful. After dressing j ever since the school was organized, them he was taken to the residence nearly 20 years ago. The pupils of of Mr J R Lawrence where he was the city schools will assemble at the demonstration farms in different! j° ined Sunda >' b >’ Mre & Dorn and court house in* the morning and parts of the State, and they mean much to those who will take advant age of them. Mr. Watson touched on the immi gration and cotton holding problems but as the dinner bell had rung he would not detain the people longer. On invitation of Mayor Fishburne the audience now went to dinner, and thus ended the first of the insti tute meetings in Colleton county. FURNISHED DINNER. The following amounts were con tributed by the citizens of the town for the farmers dinner given Mon day: Jno. W. Hammond $5.00 C. D. C. Adams 5.00 J. M. Witsell 2.00 H. W. Black, Jr 5.00 R. E. Jones 5.00 M. Kohn 2.00! Jno. H. Peurifoy 5.00 M. P. Howell 5.00 E. L. Fishburne 3.00 their little son from Beaufort. * He will l»e out again in a few days. ) Mr Johnson was taken to jail just j after the affray where he was con fined till yesterday when he was released on $500 bond. Mr Johnson was seen this noon by a reporter for this paper and states that he will make a full statement in a few days, but does not care to have anything to say now, except that he does not owe Dr Es’Dorn any money, and that he was first attacked. COLLETON BAPTIST ASSOCIA TION TO MEET. The forty-sixth session of the Col leton Baptist Association will be held with the Little Salkehatchie Church on Friday before the fourth Sunday in October, 1908. The committees through their chairmen, will please take notice that their reporta will l»e prepared and submitted without fail, and at- march to the cemetery along with the funeral prosession. At the conclusion of the reading of the burial service at the church a memorial Si^rvice will be held, when any of the doctor’s friends who desire t# pay a tribute to his memo ry may do so. After the church services the Masons will take charge of the body, which will be laid to rest with the beautiful ritualistic ceremony, of that fraternity. Then, when all else is over, the school children, many of whom owe their existence to the Peurifoy'deeervea credit for solici ting nearly all this fund. Jas. E. Peurifoy .*.’r $1 00 Jno. H.‘Peurifoy 1 00 Edgar Jones 50 W W Smoak Jr 1 00 D B Peurifoy 50 S Finn 100 E D Lemacks 25 N G Morrall 50 H W Black Jr 50 J M Witsell : 25 1 Ladson Fishburne 25 L M Stokes M D 1 00 i Riddick Ackerman Id D 1 00 B G Hyme 50 R Bedon 50 C A Eckardt 50 T G Kershaw M D , 1 00 J M Moorer 50 Cash 25 T. J. Blanchard 1 00 DEPOT TO BE IMPROVED. The following letter has been re ceived in reference to the needed skill of the man whose memory they conveniences at the Walterboro will ever cherish, and whose virtues depot, they will endeavor to emulate, will, in solemn procession, place upon his grave many floral offerings] signifi cant of the pure life of their benefac tor. E.T. H. Shaffer 5.00; tend the fi«t day of the session. E. M. Jones 2 00' following committees are noted: S. Finn 1.00 H.W. Cohen » 2.50 J. M. Klein 2.50 A. Wichman & Son 4.00 Farmers and Merchants Bank 2.00 Jones Carbonating Co 2.00 W.J.Taylor 2.50 Brown Furniture & H’wCo 2.50 B. G. Hyrne :.... 2.00 J. W. Lucas.. : 1.00 W. W. Speights 1.00 A. K. Beach 2.50 A. C. vonLehei 1.50 T. G. Kershaw ., 1.00 J. T„ McGrego|- 1.00 Gash .. 50 Colleton Broking Co 5.00 The Preee and Standard 2.00 B. Levy 1.00 Total. $79.60 The preparation of (he soil for the crop is aa important aa culti vation of it afterward. Foreign Missions-Rev S. W. Ackerman, chairman. Home Missions -Rev J. M. Craven, chairman. State Missions—W. C. Brant, chairman. Orphanage—M. W. Breland, chair man. Aged ministers—J. H. Slom&n, chairman. ... Temperance—Rev B. F. Halford chairman. Education-rJ. B. Dodd, chairman. Woman’a Missionary Work—M. R. Sti ne, chairman. Sunday Schools—H. J. Giyens, chairman. * The chorch clerks will please be careful to All out every blank in the church letters, and will carefully notice that Hie form of the letters are different from those usually used. F. 0. 8. Curtis/ J. S. Griffin. Moderator. MEETING OF COUNTY TEACHERS. The Colleton County Teacher’s Association held a brief session at the graded school building on last Saturday, October the 10th, but, on account of the small attendance, the program which had been arranged for the occasion was postponed until the next regular meeting. Nearly all of those present were Walterboro teacherfi only three county teachers being represented. President Caldwell presided over the meeting, and in his brief address before the teachers spoke of the great importrace of the association, and of the work which it should ac complish in the interest of education throughout the county. He deplor ed the small attendance of teachers, and announced that at the next monthly meeting the officers for the ensuing year will be elected. The following were elected hon orary members of the association: W. W. Smoak, Jr., J. W. Hammond, Dr. T, G. Kershaw, Mrs. A. C. von- Lobe, Mias Annis Savage and Mias Emily Belhoger. which were recommended some time ago by the Railroad Com missioners. Columbia. S. C.. Oct. 12.1908. Mr W. W. Smoak, Walterboro. S. C. Dear Sir: The Commission directs me to in form you that under dateof Ocotber : the 9th., Mr W N Royal. General Supt. of the Atlantic Coast Line, advised the Commission as follows: “The matter of the Walterboro depot is under consideration, and the necessary changes there will| be given consideratiofLat once.” Yours very truly, T B Lumpkin, Secretary. GRAND JURY COMMITTEES TO MEET. Ehrhardt, Oct. .JO,—Editor Press and Standard, Will you please allow me through your colpmiis to call tbe attention of the committee from the Grand Jury to examine the offices and officers that said com mittee will meet in Walterboro, Tuesday. Oct 27. Also kinnly announce that the Committee on Chain Gang and Roads will their according to their own arrange ments, so that everything will pe ready for report at the next-court of General Sessions. J.J.Mc, isn Grand Jmy.