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This Department is intended for the use of the members of the Farmers’ Union in this county and is open to their use. ^ . m ^ • <• M» - * 0 • <■«- Let your communications be in Saturday to insure appear, ance the following week. How about tbai ware-hous** nlan’’ LETTER FROM PRESIDENT HARRIS. Again I want to call your atten tion, farmers, that now is the time to fix price on the 1909 cotton crop. Will you make it 8 or 15 cents? It is in your power to make it either. I want to, if I can impress upon ' more not satisfy me in calling him a far- rrier, for everything he had on his table was bought. Out of curiosity 1 asked him how he cured his bacon. SECRETARY'S NOTICE. I desire to request the Secretary- Treasurer of each Union in the county to forward hie at once the Th »oats crop this year is fint SEIi AND GODMANS SHOES Children's, Women’s and Men's. The union in the county ing. m grow- COLLETON MERCANTILE AND MANUFACTURING CO. Are you sticking yet. Member? Mr Union W e are glad to welcome the new unions organized in the past week. Brother secretary, do not forget the news of your local for> this de- partmont. He said Mr. Armour cured it for names of all members of their re- him. 1 asked him what tomato he spective unions, as it is-necessary to found was best for canning. He have these names to enter on my told me his were 1 asked him We are yet waiting for a local to come up to the Stokes local in mem bership. 1 This space belongs to BEACH BROTHERS ' WALTERB0RO. - - SOUTH CAROUNl. Something is wrong with the far-' canned in Haiti* I books. Blanks for sendine in thwel""? T ^ i0t 0nly , * (eight months a veat. U what kind of names can he had on application to ; you, that diversification of your crops 1s the keynote of the situation turnips he sowed for making salad. He told me he bought that also. _ I-n-d-e-p-e-n-tl-e-n-c-e- spells in- I also desire to give notice that ! dependence, and means the farmer l want to urge every Southern far- Then I wanted to know what kind of each local should elect delegates to that does not plant too much cotton. 1 mer to plant at least :J5 per cent, of cotton seed he planted, and he the county meeting which will bo £— his cotton land in food crops, so as quickly answered: 1 plant Toole’s | held Saturday, May 1st. at Walter- The Walterlwro Imion will meet' to make home self-sustaining.* Now | and Cook’s. So you can readily see boro. lx>eal* are entitled to one Saturday afternoon at o’clock DON’T Oo off on your vacation or any kind of a pleasure trip by drawing your sal^ty in advance. Save up for it.' We want your saving account . COLLETON BANKING COMPANY. JOHN F. LUCAS. President. R. L. FRASER. Caehier. Ml I — let’s see if it will pay us as farmers , that he was a planter and not a real, to diversify our crops. To my real farmer. This is the kind of knowledge, the farmer who has not' farming that tauses 8-cent cotton. been making home self-supporting has been swapp n? $1 for 50 cents. I was in a grocery store the other at once, day and one of these planters came delegate for each ten members and fraction thereof. A fstof delegates elected should Ik* forwarded to me The farmer who bought corn last year paid $1.10cash for it. If he borrowed the money to buy with, it cost him $1.25, as he paid interest on the money. If he hauled it home ten mi.es it cost him 10 cents. It is worth 10 cents per bushel to haul corn ten miles, so his corn cost him $1.35. any good progressive farmer can make ali the corn he will need on his farm for 35 cents per bushel. You see he gave a dollar for what he could have raised for 35 cents per bushel. Are any of the Southern farmers guilty of the above? If so, go and sin no more. Did you buy any bacon? It is sell ing now for 12 1-2 cents cash. Still swapping $1 for 50 cents. Any Good farmer can raise enough for his family use for 3 cents per pound. Did you buy any hay? If you did you are still at the same old way of exchanging. If you bought a horse or a mule you paid from $200 to $250. You can raise one just as good for less than $100. Now, brother farmers, do not say that you cannot raise corn for 35 cents. Try to do it. I have met more than fifty farmers this year that raised it for less than 35 cents per bushel, and as many as fifteen who raised it for less than 20 cents. The farmer who is raising corn for 20 cents, bacon for 3 cents, raising his own hones and making home self-sup porting, has quit swapping $1 for 50 cents. The farmer who is buying is still at his old job. While the far mer who is buying on a lien and mortgage on his crop is just swap ping $1 for 25 cents, for the cash buyer is swapping $1 for 53 cents. He can raise it for half what he pays for it when he buys it.» Brother farmer, if you are' guilty of the above sin I say to you: sin no more. Now, what price will you have for the 1909 crop? Will you have 8 or 15 cents? Remember, it is all in your hands, and you' will get what ever price you make it. To get 15 cents you will have to diversify your crops and stop exchanging $1 for 50 cents, or you will never be able . to get a remunerative price. Now, what is the use of the farmers of the South to raise 13,000,000 bales of cotton and not get for it any more than they can for a 7,000,000 or 8,000,000-bale crop. Think of the enormous expense of raising the extra 5,000.000 baUs to bear the market down. And who does this? It is the farmer. Think and con sider for a moment what you are doing and you will quit it Do you think for a moment that the manu facturer would do any such ruinous business m this? No, he would stop o one-half of his machinery at once and curtail his output one-half and make the same profit Now, broth er fanners, use a little good business judgment and common good horse sense. I hear some fanner say Mr. Jones is going to cut his cotton acre age and 1 will just increase mine. Sad, but this is too true to make a joke of. This is just what the specu lative world says you will do. The most maontlfd thing tor the farmers to do this year is to plant 35 per cent, of cotton land in food crops and live at hone: I took dinner the other day with a man who Hum in the epnnot say that he was a farmer, for his dinner did Now let’s see if this.assertion is true n to* buy some corn. Hour, bacon, an<l hay. He asked the price of corn, $1.10; Hour, $7 per barrel; bacon, 12 1-2 cents per pound, and hay, $23 per ton. He .said to the | merchant, “Are you g'*ing to rob 1 me?’’ The merchant told him he had robbed himself. You* did it by planting all the cotton you could last year. , Now, brother farmers, let’s look at things square in the lace and see that October cotton is being sold for about 9 cents on the New York ex change. Now, are you going to plant another big crop when you know* that 9 cents is about the cost of production? Surely not. There is just one thing that will keep you from delivering your cotton crop of 1909 for 9 cents, and that is organize into the Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative, Union of America. Plant &> per cent, of your, cotton crop into food crops and you will get as much money for an eight and one-half million-bale crop as you will for a thirteen million-bale crop. B. HARRIS, President S. C. State Farmers’ Union. G. W Sweat, County Sec-Treas. Hendersonville’ Apr. 12. FARMERS’ UNION DIRECTORY- STATE. B. Harris President, Pnndleton, S. C. A. J. A. Perritt—Vice-President, ] Lamar, S. C. J. Whitner Reid Sec-Treas .! Columbia. S. ('. COUNTY. v I at the K. of P. hall. Visiting breth ren will be welcomed. Initiation j o: candidates w ill be a feature. — • SNIDERS LOCAL. 1 he Sniders local held a very in-1 teres ting meeting Saturday night- Brother Mahafley was with us and assisted in the initiation of five ncov nrunU rs. • l uioi.isrn is alive in this section. B. BEEF, VEAL AND PORK. Customers can be supplied at all times with the freshest and best at my Market. Hiqhest Prices Paid for Beef Cattle. H. A. FRANCES, . WALTERB0K0, S. <2. ICE, ICE, ICE, lave b- otin to make ice delnvery in town. C< t ns have your orders. Ice cream parlors, cool drinks a Cali times. Phone 70b. JONHS CARBONATING COMPANY. “IN A BAD WAY” J. E. EASTERLING Blacksmith and \ V he eAv right Special Attention Given BOYS’ DEMONSTRATION WORK. There is no subject which should be of more interest to country peo ple than the question of rural schools. Dr. S. A. Knapp, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C., has just organized what is known as the boys’ demonstration work, and is introducing it into the rural schoob of thb State through the county superintendents. Thq boys will plant one-half acre cotton and one-half acre of corn, cultivate it according to demonstra tion methods and receive bulletins and instructions direct from the de partment. They will also be award ed prizes by the county school com missioners in die counties where this work is done. We are printing in this week’s issue of the paper Dr. Knapp’s instructions to teachers. This is one of the most comprehen sive, practical and educational articles that has been published for a long time, and while it is especial ly for teachers, it will be a great benefit to any one who will read it. It will also give the people a better understanding as to what will be ac complished by the boys’ demonstra tion work. Should you wbh any of the circulars or bulletins mentioned Many a Walterboro Reader Will Feel Grateful for This Information. When your back gives out; B.*ff tin's kune, weak or aching; When urinary troubles set in, Your kidneys are “in a had way’h Door Keeper, Wal- Doan’s Kidney Pills will euro you Here is local evidence to prove it: Mrs. !l. Sullivan, living in the Cotton Mill District, Walterboro, says: “Doan’s Kidney Pills proved of more benefit to me than any remedy I ever used. | My kidneys were very sluggish, my back ached nearly all the time and made it hard for me to get about. Mornings on arising I would be so lame that I could hardly dress myself and dbnng the day 1 could* hardly do my work. I used plasters and lini ments but failed to get relief. A friend finally told me about Doan's Kidney Pills and 1 pro cured a box from the Walterboro Drug Co- This remedy cured me in a short time.” For sale by all dealers. Price 60 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. New Pork, sole aeents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s —and take no other. L. C. Padgett President. Smoakl J. O. Jaques, Jr. Vice-President. Cottageville. G. W. Sweat—Sec-Treas., Hen dersonville. W. C. Brant--Chaplin. Ruffin. J. A. Willis—Conductor? Cottage ville. L. H. Roger terboro. r W. W. Smoak, Jr.—Business Agent, W’alterboro. Executive Committee- G. A. Ben ton, W. C. Saunders, J. I. Seigler, T. H. Caldwell, C. F. Roger. Meeting 1st Saturday in each month at 10 a. m. at the courthonse. LOCALS. Stokes—W. C. Saunders, Presi dent, E. B. Way. secretary-treasurer. Maple Cane—J. F. Addison, presi dent, J. F. Seigler, secretary-treaa- rer. Sniders—W. C. Brant, president; J. K. Getsinger, secretary-treasurer. Williams—Dr. C. E. Kinsey, presi dent; J. F. O’Quin, secretary-treas urer. , Islandton—A. E. Rentz, president; C. R. Mean, secretary-treasurer. 1 ?Dry Branch—T. H. Caldwell, president; J. W. Avant, secretary- treasurer. Weimer—D. M. Yarn, president; J. E. Yarn, secretary-treasurer. Hendersonville—G. E. H. Moore, president; M. H. Carter, secretary- treasurer. Smoaks—L. C. Padgett, president; J. W. Kinsey, secretary-treasurer. Lodge—L. J. Jones, Sr., president; P. M. Johns, secretary-treasurer. Horse “Pen—Joe Lsngdale, presi dent; G. L. Smoak, secretary-treas urer. Cottageville—Dr. W. A. Kirbye, president; H. W^ Ackerman, secre tary-treasurer. Walterboro—W. W. Smoak, Jr., president; Jno. W. Hammond, secre tary-treasurer. Bethel—H. W. Breland, president; to repairing buggies, wagons and farm implements. Let me set your cotton sweep 1 iorse-shoeing 25 cents a loot. ■ ■■ ■■■■■I ■ ■ I—■ ■!—■ ..I.—■ ■! I. ■■■■! ■' ■ ■ Excursion Hates* LOUISVILLE, KY.,-ANT) RETRUN VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY. * Account Southern Baptist Convention the Southern Rail way announces very low round trip rates to Louisville, Ky.- from ail points. Tickets will be sold May 10, 11, 12 and 13, 1909, limited for return leaving Louisville not later than mid, night of May 22, 1909. Round trip Rates from Principal Stations as follows: Abbeville #i5-&5 Charleston $20.80 Newberry $1630 Aiken 18.70 Chester ■5-85 Orangeburg 18.40 >5-85 Columbia 16. So Prosperity *6 45 17-95 Gaftney 14.80 Rock Hill '5*85 *4*95 Greenville 15*!° Spartanburg 14.10 18.40 Greenwood '5-85 Sumter 18.25 19.00 Lancaster ov '7°5 Union 14.85 in order to make a further study of this subject, you can get the same Allen PaBgett, secretary-treasurer, by writting to Dr. S. A. Knapp,; D:^^r re %»Tr s r n - UNION ORGANIZED. 1 Bethel Union was organized by (Mr Mahaffey last week with seven- GOOD ADVICE teen members. Smoaks, Apr. 9.—There is dktle news in this section among the far mers, except they are busy with their crops. Please tell my brother fanners* to make a plenty of corn and not to plant so much cotton. Do not lis ten to any man who advises you for the sake of getting ' into office. Kaise your supply at home and get free from debt. 0 E. ?. Wilson. We saw four bales of cotton in a farmer’s yard recently—Loss from expssureto the weather, $h> per bale, fsrilr—iiM or need for ware-house, .which? * The following officers were elect ed: Pres H. W. Breland; Vice Pres. J. D. Catterton; Sec. Treas. Allen Padgett; Conductor, A. Q. Breland; Chaplain. Rev. C. W. Burgem; Busi ness Agent, C. K. Breland; Door Keeper, Wm. Hamden. STOKES MEETING* The Stokes local bald Ha re gular monthly meeting Saturday afternoon at 8:90 o'clock. Then was a good attendance of mambsip and several appMcatione were re ceived. The members ^wnt the tamiBorUbg themselves with ritual .This is a five local 1 iaf to be more alive in the futon. the Yorkville . 15.85 For tickets, detailed information, etc., apply to Southern Railway ticket agents or address, J. L. MEEK, Asst Gen. Passenger Agent. Atlanta, Ga. J. C. LUSK, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. MASTER'3 SALE TO THE BUYING PUBLIC: o Read the Following Quotations and Let us Serve You: STATE OF SOUTH (JAHOLINA CollotoH County, Id the Common Pleas. Dsvid Green, as Administrator of Susan Washington, vs. W W Rhame. et al. By virtue of the Decree of above court herein 1 will sell at public out cry before the Court House in Wal terboro, on salesday in May next, (3ixt day) within the legal hours of •ale, the following described realty: All that piece, parcel |or tract of laad, with the buildings thereon, situate in Glover township, oonnty and State aforesaid, containing thirty (30) acres more or less: and bounded, north on lands of J C Locos, sooth on lands of William Maree, east on lands of Heniy Crosby and west on lands of Diana Gelling*. Term of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. U. G. HKXDESON, Master. April 8, 1909. • la two adantw; tooth- of bora or eoaht in tIVs ela two bear*; sore throat, twelve Mb ou. Early June Peas* 15c per can. Rose Bud Peas 10c per can. Fish Roe 18c per can. Choice Pripe 20c per can. Choice Roast Beef 15c per can. Grape Nuts 15c per pkg. Egg-O-See 12 1-2C per pkg. Dried Okra 5 1-2C per pkg. HYlHfS STORE. BARGAINS! In Ladies’ Gold Chains# J. A. Vjflnmns, Jewelry Store. WALTXKBOBO, S. 0* v Repairing a Specialty. ^ fi VJJ