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■ • % A » 3 -• ■ *Y £ ■ This Department is intended for tlie use of the members of the Farmers’Union in this county and is open to their use. Let your communications be in Saturday to insure appear- ance the following week. WHAT ARE YOUl DOING ABOUT IT? What are you doing about pas tures for your cows this summer? Have you made any provision for them to have a pasture worthy of the name, one where they can find enough to eat without having to go miles and miles after it? Is there a fence about this pasture so that they can not get out and stray off or damage the crops? Don’t you think it would pay to have a pasture where the cows could find shade and water and grass and thus increase their production of milk and butter? II What are you doing, too, about pastures for the pigs? Are you go ing to try to make pork this year by letting the hogs run wild until “fat tening time’’ and then feeding them altogether on high-priced com, or by keeping them in a little filthy, ill smelling lot or pen and risking their dying by disease before the summer is over? Don’t you think it would pay to prepare lots where they can eat cowpeas and rape and soy-beans and sorghum and peanuts and corn and fatten all summer long, so that there will be need for only a few weeks oi dry corn feeding next fall? III What are you doing about taking care of the machinery that you work with? Are you leaving in the fields where you get through with it to take the sun and rain until you are ready to use it again? Don’t you think it would pay to put it under shelter and thus double its time of service.' IV What are you doing about cultiva tion of your crops? Are you preparing to go along in the same old way, making two to four tripe across the field to work each row, and thus staying behind the grass? Have you decided that you must do the regular amount of hoe work this year, and that the boys and girls were made especially to chop cotton and thin com? Don’t you think it would pay you to start out early with the harrow and the weeder and keep the grass down, instead of try ing to turn it under after it is too big for any proper cultivation to handle? What are you doing about bright ening up the home surroundings this spring? Are you willing for the chickens and pigs to run in a yard where there is no grass or no floqvers, and where the bare walls of the buildings stand up in unsightly relief against a background of plowed fields or the unbroken stretch of the say? Don’t you think it would pay to have a lawn and some flowers and some trees and some shrubbery?— Progressive Farmer. Every member of the union is helping himself when he helps the union. Every word that he speaks in its favor, every new recruit he gets in every meeting he attends, every discouraged member he re vives hope in, every effort he puts forth to get in the young blood of the country to assist the lecturer and organizer who may be in his community, everything that he does, little as it may be, goes to swell the great moult. It increases the membership, develops the fraternal and social side of life, and sends the order speeding onward over the highway of progress and success.— Fenners' Union Advocate and Union Review. In solving Die cotton problem the Farmers’ Union has come to the conclusion that the best wpy is to tench fanners to become self-sup porting. In other words, the pree- ■om of industrialism is forcing* the Southwa farmor to provide enough meet and feedetnlii on hie own farmfer hieownnee, andto ndeeae s is ponri- Ma.—j TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION Your committee appointed at the last meeting of the County Farmers’ Union J beg leave to suggest two topics for discussion at the next meeting of your local: 1. The proper cultivation and fer tilization of com—how to plow and when to fertilise. 2. How should cotton be cultivated and when fertilized. We would suggest that the presi- of each local notify at least two members AT ONCE to prepare a discussion of these subjects for the next meeting, and that s general discussion be had after regular speakers have finished. To aid in preparing these subjects we would urge the use of Farmers’ Bulletins which, may be had free by sending a postal to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Subject No. 1. Write for Bulle tins 81, 199, 229, 253, 272, 298, 303. 313, 325. Subject No. 2. Bulletins 47, 48, 209, 217, 275, 286, 326, 333. These Bulletins will give you more information on the subject than you ever had, and a postal card will get them. Jas. E. Peurifoy, Jno. 0. Jaques, W. W. Smoak, Jr. Committee. * WALTERBORO LOCAL The Walterboro Local, No. 594, met in special session Saturday af ternoon at 4 o’clock. Only routine business was transacted. Several applicanta were balloted on and will be initiated at the next meeting, Saturday June 5, at 4 o’clock. Bros. R E Jones and Jas E Peuri foy were elected delegates to th county meeting to be held Saturday June 5th. HORSE PEN LOCAL The Horse Pen local farmers union No. 589 will meet tire 4th Saturday in May at 4:30 p. m. A full attend ance is earnestly requested. L H. Roger, May 15, The Farmers Educational and Co- Operative Union is appropriately named in that the “educational” part precedes co-operation. If you are trying to “co-operate” before you “educate” you have the cart be fore the horse. You can’t do things right until you know how.—Carolina . Union Fanner. UNIONISMS. The County Fair. Did the Bethel goat wear a side saddle? Elect your best men as delegates to the county meeting. Organize a local in your neighbor hood if you are not yet organized. Walterboro local has six candi dates on the way—can any Ideal beat that? Did you read “Silas Bunker, Far mer” in last week’s paper? If not hunt it up and read it. There is no reason why s Colletoq county farmer should not live at home. Has each local in the county a business agent? If so the county business agent would like to have his name and address. J WhtX is the matter with those un ions that have rot sent in something yet for this pngs? Is it your fault, Mr. Ssc.-Trsas. ^ L •> . Co mmmrnrnmmmm Every nnion member abouM rend me farm papm or sevfnL We would suggest: Ho# Tbs Coltivalac. Boos and of conns, year State union .piper, Tbs Farmers* Union ASKS FOR KETML Ruffin, May 10. Special:—We, the Sniders local union number 600, have met and decided to ask for one of the five picakranks thissnamer. Onisto be neldat ear animal far- old field. TEKt i FARMERS’ UNION DIRECTORY MATIONAL. President Chsa S Barrett, Union City, Ga. Vice-President -J E Montgomery, Gleason, Tenn, Secretary-Treasurer—R H McCul loch. 116 1-2 W. Broad street, Texar kana, Tex. STATE. B. Harris- President, Pnndleton. S. C. A. J. A. Perritt—Vice-President, Lamar, S. C. J. Whitner Reid—Sec-Treas., Columbia, S. C. COUNTY. L. C. Padgett—President, Smoaks. 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—Door-Keeper, Wal terboro. W. W. Smoak, Jr.—Business Agent, Walterboro. W. W. Smoak, Jr.—County Or ganizer. Executive Committee—G. A. Ben ton, W. C. Saunders, J. 1. 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-treas- 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. Refttz, president; C. R. Mean, secretary-treasurer. Dry Branch—T. H. Caldwell, president; J. W. Avant, secretary- treasurer. Weimer—D. M. Varn, president; J. E. Varn, 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 Langdale, 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; Allen Padgett, secretary-treasurer Bells—W. H. Saunders, president; F. M. Thomas,/secretary-treasurer. Hudson’s Mill—J. D, Hudson, president; Dr.CA. Willis Hudson, secretary-treasurer. Adnah—John Kicklighter, presi dent; Paul K. Crosby, secretary- treasurer. —■ .. ... 4 UNION ARROWS. Wipe the speculators out of exist* ence by selling direct to the spin ners. Every working union man is worth a dozen drones. In which class are you? LETTER FROM SMOAKS. Smnakp, May 15 Special:— Th » fanners of thm nfrtion »r . getting a.oug nicely with their crops, and we are having good * e it her for killniir the irrass. all the ern}>s that are up are looking well ami I do hope that we fann ers will have good year and will make good cro^g, and also get g good price L»r what we make. Mr Editor, 1 will say that our little town of Smc.%ks is building up fast, it is building so fast that I can almost smell it up where I live. Allow me to say something about the voters of Oolleton County. Friends. I never will forget the confidence you had in me by voting for me, and by so doing I hope you will never have cause to regret it. I said to you on the stump, that if I was elected that 1 would do all in my power to save the county of •very dollar that I could, and 1 meant every wori that I said. If I shall live 1 may come before you again, and I believe that you voters will elect me again. 1 know you will if I do mv duty, and that is what I will do or I will resign my office. With best wishes to The Press and Standard. D. E. S. Would it not be a good idea to have the county union meetings held over the county with locals? Let this matter be discussed and some local invite the meeting for July. Your soil is your capital stock. If you are making your soil better every year your capital stock is in creasing. -Carolina Union Farmer. Case After Case. PLUBBiGUND PiPING Sober, Competent Workmen Full line of all kinds of Sanitary, T oilet, Kitchen and Household Plumbing Fixtures, Water and Gas pipe always pn hand. See the Model Kitchen at Brown’s Hardware Store and the Bath, Toilet and Sanitary Display at my Main Street shop. E. F. HAMMOND, lachiflist and Supply Boose. HOX 235 ’PHONE 77A PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO OUT OF TOWN ORDERS. • VI SUMMER IMIS, SUMMER SUITS. Summer Dress Goods. Groceries, Hay, Grain, lime, etc. Call on us while in town. COLLETON MERCANTILE AND MANUFACTURING CO. HAUER MANUFACTURE COMPANY, SUCCESSORS TO GEO. S. HACKER & SON. Remember that education and co operation are the two main pillars of unionism. R 'll,. fV 'ill “The Farmers’ Union is sunshine permeating every nook and corner of farm life.” WE MANUFACTURE OmtsSssK ill Mills Columns and Balusters; Grilles and Ornaments; Screen Poors Windows. WE DEAL IN Glsaa, Sash Cord and Weights CHARLESTON, S C • RIBBONS. RIBBONS, RIBBONS. RIBBONS. White, blue, pink and brown taffeta ribbon, 4 inches wide at 15 cents a yard. ' . Handkerchiefs—Mens, 45c. a dozen; 10 cents handkerchiefs at 90 cents a dozen. BEACH BROTHERS Plenty More Like This in Walterboro. Scores of Walterboro people can tell you about Doan’s Kidney Pill. Many, a happy citizen make* a public statement of his experience. Uere is a case of it. What better proof of merit can be had than such endorsement? J 8 Jackson, chief of police, Walterboio, 8 O says: *1 can recommend Doan’s Kindey Pills, having used them with the best of results. Dull pains in my back and loins kept me in con stant misery, my back was very weak and lame and I was also afflicted with a kidney weakness. The kidney secretions were high ly colored, deposited a sediment and were so freqpent that 1 would be obliged to rise several times at night. Seeing Doan’s Kidney Pills highly advertised, 1 was led to get a box at the Wal terboro Drug €0. This remedy gave me prompt relief and soon I was without a sign of my trouble.” For sale by all dealers. Price 60 cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, New York, sole agents for tbs United States. Remember the nam—Doan’s— and take no other. BEEF, VEAL ANT) PORK Customers can be supplied at all times with the freshest and best at my Market Highest Prices Paid for Beef Cattle. H. A. PRANCES, * WALTERBORO, S. C. ICE, ICE, ICE, Have begun to make ice delnvery in town. Let us have your orders. . „ Ice cream parlors, cool drinks at all times. 'Phone 70b. JONES CARBONATING COMPANY. Farmers Should Use Printed Stationery. Let us quote you prices on what you wish. 250 note heads and 250 envelopes printed for #1.75—enough to last the average farmer a year.. The Frees and Standard. TO THE BUYING PUBLIC: Read the Following Quotations rt and Let us Serve Your Early kme 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 1? 1-2C per pkg. Dried Okra 5 i-2c per pkg. HYRNfS STORE The fellow who thinks he knows it all isn’t fit to be e member of the Farmers Bducationel and Co-Opera tive Union.—Gerofine Union Famer. ever line Union No; if he DvsJ 162 Y* Was. Parr-lag land's oHoa> ■arrted tbs third &»• at ISO. the fields till 118 eed HWd Tourer. Feoole •*»*«■>** he fie. JasMewfight,of fip laet tikea lfi-j yi * M f V