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r Farmers’ Union Department. Tins Deparment is intended for the use of the members ol the Farmers' Fnion in this county and/is open to their use Let your communications be in Saturday to insure appear- * • # f • u ance the following week SELF BOYCOTT. <• ‘ Dear Mr. Cotton Crower: Cenrr- ally know in which direction settlement to settlement, from county to county and from state to state.^ A campaign of education would be of inestimable it should l»e inexpensive, it should not tax the resources of speakers, lec tures or w riters. The apical to the cotton jrruA’er is simplicity itself: “Boycott n<*t thyself Meir Jaffa. taeir interest lies. Backers do not preach vegetarian ism. distillers do not vote for prohibition, examples can bt‘ multiplied at will from every t rade and every occupation, honor able as well as dishonorable. The most conspicuous exception, perhaps the only exception, is your own self. You act as if your highest ambition was to create a prejudice against your own produce. Were it a question of morality. I would say that it is a sin to demand of making your 19J0 crops, a high price for your raw cotton, and the old-fashioned way—to to leave cotton goods to their own fate. If cotton goods are an abomi nation, turn over your land to the raising of inoffensive crops. Having thrown your bale on the market fer a consideration, you ought to see that its last holder gets his money back. Fortunately for your soul, not for pocket, it is a question of economics. Prices are ultimatimately governed by the law of supply and demand, while under some conditions, the price of cotton should be 25c a pound you are offered only 10c a pound, be cause you refuse to consume cotton goods and spread the prejudice against them far and wide. When you get good money for your pro TWO WAYS OF WORKING CROPS We are reminded of all these things by a very simple practical il- I istration. There are just two ways One is wait fer the grass to get a good firm grip on the crops and then hire hoe hands and stop the children from school and all go into the fields and chop from early morn till dewy eve—and by the time you have finished the first chopping the grass is’ already laughing at you where you started and higher than before. The other plan ia to get weeders and harrows and kill the grass be fore it comes up. and keep on killing it in the same way, reducing hoe labor to a minimum and getting your work done by cheap horse-power in stead of expensive hand labor. A Tennessee farmer, Mr. A. 0. Ring, of Franklin county put the matter none too strongly when he wrote us duce, the first thing you do is to tell! other day: all and everyone that cotton goods are not for you, you help selling wool, flax and silk. Next year the price of these articles will certainly rise, but the price of your produce may or may not rise sympathetically. “When the ground is in good con dition and weeds and grass just starting, one man and one mule with a weeder can kill more grass and conserve more moisture than two men and teams can possibly do with Indeed it will not rise until the cot-! plows, or more than four men and ton on hand has been consumed. | h™!® 8 can d° with the old-fashioned Your case would have been truly orte-horse plows.’—Raleigh (N. C.) desperate, if not for the anticipation to which reference has been made. Had the world been new cotton would have commanded 50c a pound last fall. Not an ounce of cotton goods would have been sold to the fastidious cotton growers this year. All cotton mills would have taken % a rest for the next two years. Full seven more lean years would have to pass for you, until the cycle be re sumed. But the world is too old and too experienced for this method of business. In anticipation of your destructive work, cotton commanded 14c v a pound, not 50c a pound, so that at a sacrifice of 68 per cent of your due receipts, vour ruin has been averted. It is surprising how the cotton grower is saved against his protests. Progressive Farmer and Gazette. NOT QUITE. . Rufliin. April 22.- Editor Press and Standard: The other day while asking my little 10-year-old sister a few questions to see if she was receiving the proper training to make a farmer’s wife, I asked her if she knew- our cattle mark. She said yes; cropper-bit over one ear and middle under the other. After laugh ing till my sides ached, I said, “not quite.” Union Boy. WALTERBORO LOCAL MEETS. The Walterboro local held its reg ular monthly meeting Saturday af ternoon at the court house, with a uT ^ attfnd " c * ot ""•'f 6 ”- yields an oil which for sslsds and Oil, matter, of busmess were tram- opted other purposes is superior to any , . . ^ The following delegates were elected to the county meeting May 7th: W. J. Trowell, J. E. Peurifoy, S. J. Hiers, J. F. Brant and H. H. Hickman. is olive oil in the world. Now the cot ton grower wanted the fact to re main a secret among a small number of underground manufactures, for fear that the industry might be .«. * stopped. But the effect of the Pure M « TnKF « Food Law which revealed many a UUI5 iKUM olvACa. secret, was to popularize the indust- Stokes, April 22. A birthday par ry and to raise the price of cotton ty was given last Saturday night at seed. The care of the cotton fiber the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. is not unlike, while everybody clam-j Atkinson, in honor of Mr. Atkinson ors for pure wool, pure flax and pure and Miss Rosa Adams. There was a silk, it is well-known that the pure large crowd present who seemed to articles are neither of ideal nor of desired durability. beauty enjoy the evening very much. Some Indeed delightful music was furnished by some wool even some silk, is inferior, W4lliam Drawdy, after which de in every respect to some cotton. You licious refreshments, consisting of may call it fraud, the maufaeturers cake and ambrosia, were served, caimot help improving the NOBLE: Everyone expressed themselves as textiles with the hdmfxture of cot- 1 hetfig cjelighted, and only hopingc-for ton. ' birthday suppers to come more But dear cotton buyer, why do you often. Those from a distance who not put a finger to the work of your attended were M. Haddock of own salvation? Why do you not | Ehrhardt and Oliver Drawd> of help increasing the dejnand for your produce by means above all reprov al? There is not enough cotton in the world. There is no need for the talk *bout cutting down the acreage or burning up the surplusage. There is no need for natadnal conspiracies, combinations or understandings. Call for cotton goods, and you help yourself awl all who deal with you. If nobody fofljwa your example, you have loat nothing. If borhood doaa fottow your Ritter. * f Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Crosby of Ritter, visited the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Chassereau last Sunday. Mias Blanche Chas^reau has been spending sometime with her sister, Mrs. Willow Crosby, near Tabor. Mrs. C. - G. Saunders' visited her sister, Mrs. Herndon, of Ruffin, last Charlie Brabham, of CoUeton, ikes several days ago. , H. L.. FARMERS’ UNION DIRECTORV ' NATIONAL. President Chas 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 A. J. A. Perrilt — IVesident, Lamar. S. C. E W Dabbs, Y’ice-President, Mayesville. J. Whitner Reid—Sec-Treas., Columbia, S. C. COUNTY. L. C. Padgett—President, Smoaks. J. D. R i s h e r — Vice-president, Round, S. C. W. W. Smoak, Jr.—Sec-Treas., .Walterboro, S. C. S. P. Goodwin—County Business Agent, Round. W. W. Smoak, Jr.—County Or ganiser. G. W. Sweat. Conductor. Jos. Langdale, Chaplain, Weeks. Executive Committee—Jno. 0. Jaques, Jr., Paul K. Crosby, S. J. Patrick, C. F. Roger, A. C. Breland. S. P. Goodwin, J. A. Willis, door keepers. Meeting 1st Saturday in each month at 10 a. m. at'the courthonse. LOCALS. Ashton—J. T. Polk, president; T. J. Simmons, secretary-treasurer. Adnah—J B DuBois, presi dent; Paul K. Crosby, secretary- treasurer. Bells—W. W. Bryan, president; H W Hudson Jr secretary-treasurer. Buck Head—J. A. Jones, presi dent; A. D. Preveaux, secretary- treasurer. Bethel—C. H. Breland, president; Allen Padgett, secretary-treasurer. | v Fuller—C. C. Crosby, president;! B. J. Crosby, secretary-treasurer. ; Islandton—W. M. E. Campbell, i ’president; C. R. Mears, secretary- treasurer. Hudson’s Mill-J. I). Hudson, president; H. A. Crosby, secretary- treasurer. Mt. Carmel—E. B. Way, president; G. M. Bennett, secretary-treasurer. Maple Cane—J. F. Addison, presi dent, J. E. Addison secretary-treas- rer. Sniders—W. C. Brant, president; J. K. Getsinger, secretary-treasurer. Horse Pen—Jos. Langdale, presi dent; C. N. Langdale Sec-Treas. Williams—Dr. C. E. Kinsey, presi dent; J. F. O’Quin, secretary-treas urer. Tabor—C. B. Crosby, president; W. H. Breland, secretary-treasurer. Hendersonville—G. E. H. Moore, president; O. A. Speights, secretary- treasurer. Stokes—W. F. Copeland, president; J. B. Saunders, secretary-treasurer. Dry Branch—J. J. Miley, presi dent; J. L. Crosby, secretary-treas urer. Peniel—J. L. Hickman, president; G. A. Blocker, secretary-treasurer. Smoaks—L. C. Padgett, president; A P Smith, secretary-treasurer. Lodge—L. J. Jones, Sr., president; P. M. Johns, secretajy-treasurer. Walterboro—W. W. Smoak, Jr., president; E. W. Goodwin, secre tary-treasurer. Edisto-^A. G. Yarley, president; S. J. Patrick, secretary-treasurer. Berea—D T Strickland, president; James M Strickland, Jr, secretary- treasurer. Omega—H. P. Martin, prudent; B R Griffin, secretary-treasurer. Hall—B G Weeks, president; I B Weeks, ■ecretary-treasurer. “The StoroThat. Makes Good” GREATER TH AM E^EFI! Our Display of SPRING SUITS for Men and Boys is now complete, also our line of Furnishings for Mankind fur sumiiHT wear, such us • -t y- ✓ , f t,. -. •c* »- T V Oxfords, Hats Underwear Dress Shirts Neckwear, Etc. and for snappy styles, materials and varieties they cannot he eq ualled in Colleton County. REMEMBER! We insist upon “Making Good” every sale that is not satisfactory. Hence, you can ; always depend on getting good, tii'st.class dependable merchandise when you buy here. In plain words, we guarantee to give you 100 cents value for every dollar you spend in this store CAN YOU ASK FOR MORE? The H. W. COHEN STORE “THE STORE THAT MAKES GOOD” REMEMBER! That our proposition to the memliers of the “Farmers’ Union” is still open to them. LADIES AND MISSES TRIMMED HATS AND EADIES COAT SUITS. We have just received a most complete line of ladies and Misses trimmed hats and ladies Coat Suits ever shown in Walterhoro. 1 hese goods were purchased at a bargain, and our customers will receive the advantage ol our low buying. PRICES VERY LOW, QUALITY FIRST CLASS. Let us show your .our line before you go elsewhere. M, KOHN, Walter Street, Walterl>oro, S. C. DENTAL SURGEON » I have reopened my dental o .office, and have associated £ with me DR. JOHN H. g BAKER. All work given g prompt attention. o Office over Finn’s Jewelry g Store. Office Honrs: 8.80 am to 2 p. m. 8 to 6 p. in. ’Ppone No. C7a. Walterboro- H C SPRING SUITS. JUST ARRIVED r§DKiPOY. tmx » onuFUT PIURUOY BROTHER Attorneys and ^""•^ileh. l*w. All SuIm Pnapt'AtUatl—, ° ve " T . PRESS AMO STAM 4KB. WAL^JPUBORO. 8. c. Ymr tongas Is eoalsd. Yoor bsaatfc is tank Just Arrived a full line of the newest and most UP-TO- DATE Men’s and Boys’ Spring Suits. . Abo a complete line of Ladies Washable Suits; Ladies - Skirts. Prices to suit the times and our motto which is: “CHEAP EST IN TOWN M LET US SHOW YOU OUR LINE, NEW GOODS, STYLISH GOODS. . that year sawva ihs will Ha H. ZAUN. THE CLOTHING STORE. " OFFICE OF t Dp. A. J. Anderson DENTAL SURGEON Office Hours: J * 111 * p ® 8 p m h j m OPfrOfelTE Fannfein aud £ut h '.taolu Back. ’Phone UK ia. WT ALTER BORO, fc>. G 4 ■ II l JHfii tteai KaUtU, Brokerage and In Mira nee. LOAN’S NKOOTIATHD Houses to Rent. Opposite the Market, W ALTER BORO. & 0L C E. DURANT Gail Extg’r and Land Surveyor. I will be in my office on Sat urdays and all other days when not at work in field. Office between Klien’s and FarmenVand Merchants' Rank Phone 27B, Waherbuto, & C.