The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, May 19, 1909, Image 3
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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