The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, November 30, 1910, Image 3
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PRESIDENT BARRETT
UWABYKETO OWM MEM
BOS IT NATIONAL PRBAEm
BAitm.
To the officer^ and rr embers of
the farmers’ union:—During the
month of December the member
ship will elect thousands of of- serious import to the organiza
fleers. Upon the thought and
have thunder smashed out -of
them.
Many officicals have become
failures because they honestly
believe the farmer would do
everything he said he would.
Continued sad awakenings have
wrecked the health of many an
otherwise good leader.
Do not bounce a man out of
office the mjnute he makes some
small mistake that is not of
care with which these officers
are selected will largely depend
the progress, the maintenance
tion. Give him another trial.
I have known any number of
good leaders to be lost the as
sociation because they found
and the efficiency of the Far- they had underestimated the
mers’ Union during the forth- man then thought they knew,
coming year. K°t discouraged, quit trying and
We have, at present, more out , 0 * °^ ce- , , ,
efficient and faithful officers in 1 " ‘ sh > ou , »°, uld ,r -f, ke .. a , n
the Farmers’ Union than at any £5° rt 10 , l . ry *7* d,3t :
previous time in its history. But b* 1 * een f*** an 7
» , . . tviia an tniAn Qemrinnr ti\
we have not enough of them yet.
And I want you'to closely con
sider what I am going to say,
with the object of putting in
the true in the men aspiring to
leadership I realize this is going
to be hard, for the habit is still
strongjo preter tone old hypo-
officers this vear who will send crite who wi!1 br ?K °n you to the
^^UaC far for^ard on ! honest leader who w,U tell you
its great mission. c some plain truths about your-
In the first place, it is well to!“Jf»f nd • vour work lhal > ol ‘
take warning nv the irreat far- need t0 3n ' ,u
mens’ organization that preceded
ours’—the Farmers’ Allianc.
The Alliance went to pieces.
It will be an uphill business. I
know, for sly politicians and
m.a«a.aw w w would-be-leaders have so often
largely, because of its officers. t0 ^° yo HT tb m^mg for
They were elected too quickly, i you . * hat ' h « old route . 13 the
without the proper analysis, and, «“ les , t . But you must rouse
more for their handshaking from the old meth.Kj, il the or-
ability and their capacity for i 5» n J?* t,on - and yourself indiu-
jollying than for their qualities i duall >' are 10 com . e ln W' our
of leadership" j greatest success and usefulness.
A great many of the Alliance i ,i want , t0 a »>“ n ,. to
officials were those who went in u * e P£ nt - V of selecting
solely to the order for their „ wn : your officers, and then to give
purpoees. Pretending to be them » food showmg efter they
Moses fit to lead the farmers out are elected.
If you were a little more liberal
of the wilderness, they played
*upon their passions, arrayed class
against class, rode into office and
then left the organization dis
rupted and on the rocks.
in salaries with some of your
state officers it might help a lit
tle too. But I had nearly forgot-
tpted and on tne rocks. 7 n .' hat il , hur ' 3 you to . know
In the Alliance, as in politics that one of your own number is
- - - — - -- - * to get a tew ot your hard-earneo
The truth is, my dear
and in the Farmers’ Union, fai
mers have voted for what they
did not w'ant, and they usually
got it. It is time to stop this
practice. I have seen you elect
to office within the Union some
of the most progressive, most i “
intelligent and best business men ,e8tl - v earned
in the country, and again I have $ e,lls J}. 1 . . u “‘ mo, ? e> ' s ‘’ rkt , d
seen you choose some of the big- | nr ‘ . ^ : S< ', un ' S rr ‘ lkib ''- nan ’
gest hviMHuites and grandest you know ;t ;s so.
rascals ^ great deal of tne money that
have titers put u.to the treasury
have organization is wasted.
tk. e j tiwing to tne loolish res'iititioits
aru j .tasse*! by coventions. vailing for
dK' estabiishnler.t dt this, th
pennies.
brother, it would hurt v«tu iess
to be swindled about forty dol
lars worth by a professional
swindler than to know that one
of your own brethren had hon-
and received forty
worked
your
y« f.
U in.
Many of the men you
elected to office in the past
thanked you heartily tor
honor, then gone on home
forgot absolutely at>out
business!
Many times I have seen
elect officers amid scenes of
enthusiasm, the singing of songs,
the shaking of hands, and the
pledge of your evt-ilusting sup
port-then you would bardl\
hitch the horse up at home be*
fore you would begin to -put the
same officers out of commission. |
Either by neglecting them, or
ignoring their orders or believing
gossip you hearu about men:,
you have put out of business th*
majority of men elected to orfic*
in this organization. The mail
reason I am hopeful is that yoi
are gradually stopping the prac
tice, and now I am sitting u:
with you to put the brakes oi
still more.
Just let some fellow', for hi
own reasons, intimate that ihen
is something dead up the branch
and immediately you can see i
thousand dead animals corn*
floating down. You couldn’t b
induced to go up and see if there
really was anything dead. Yot
knew it was so anyhow, becaus*
you joined looking for something
of the kind and were not satis
fied until it happened-or until
you thought it happened.
The thing to do is to elect a
at
and the other, about which
(either th*w\ or their officers
know anything. I have tmown
t<~!i w't* not worth their
salt to hold office in the Union
for years for the simple reason
4im you ivere so T ea.->iiy tooled.
Vs i said in the opening, there
s cause for relief in the fact that
his condition is growing less.
1 want to say mat I have abid-
ng faith in the farmer. He will
*ooner or later do the right thing
n the right way. I know him.
,le has never failed and will
lever fail to do the right thing,
f you f e him plenty of time.
(To be continued.)
C»t*rrh Catiuot B«* < or«U
vith i < c«i App lcftoon. m they cannot
•'a> h tn«- -<«r of ih« CVanh i»
bl <k nr diwiMB. tod id
rder u> vor«* u mtul /lake inf«<Bai
lia'.l o VtMVfh/Cun U Ukao
n'arnaib. And acta drractir on tha
•litod aod mucona wartacaA Ha !'•
a arrh Co'a <» not a quack madicine
It «aa praat-nord br one of tha baat
-byMciMa iu tbuenontr* f >r yeara aod
s a ragtilar praaetiptioo It ia compoaad
r 'ha haa' toiiir.a known, combined
«ith tha taat Mood parlfirr*, acting
llrectly on the mucoua aurfacra. Tba
ikcrf^ot rombmation -f th»* two ingre-
liw. t» • anit ''MMlocaa «uch wonderful
rf-ult* m • urn* Catarrh Saud *or r<*a
^ Imonmi* t'raa
man to office uixm his record and ^ J ' henky v t <> Prop* Tobdo. o
- - Sold l.* pruesn-f 3 . P'dca .. r <-
Take Iiair/KAO».Iy Fill* for conattpa-
linu
his ability, instead of his knack
of jollying you and asking after
Nancy and the kids and wading
through ditches to shake your;
hand. Once you get a good man
in, give him a lair and square
showing before you begin coni- j
plaining. I don’t mean by a
fair and square showing to stop
watching him, but not to v oail ;
him the first little mistake^ he
makes, and join the yelping crew
at his back, if his record other
wise is good. The trouble is, too
often in the * past, you threw
stumbling blocks in the way of
your officers at the first oppor
tunity, and some of you have not
been slow to make the (Oppor
tunity.
It is more difficult to fill an
office in the Farmers’ Union than
in any other organization. Far
mers have befJn ridden so often
by pretended friends until they
have their doubts abotlt almost
anybody and everybody. It is
also impossible for an official in a
farmers’ organization not to
make mistakes, for most of them
assume office believing they
know everything about the far*
u*r» |tt off their guard and
Total Receipts
$409t> 41
EXPENDITURES.
L). B. Peurifoy, Atty, purchase price on Fair
Ground and attorneys’ fees $
Sassard Bros., Seal and stamps 4.....
C. A. Savage, sawing lumber
D. E. C. Clough. Tearing down old building
Gus Simmons, digging ditch
Brown Fur. & Hdw. Co., gasoline torches
Town of Waiterboro, contribution on claying
street
L)r. W. B. Ackerman, clay for race track
C. E. DuRrant. surveying Fair Grounds ... x
Building fence around Fair Grounds
Posts for fence
Cleanng Fair Grouuds, cutting logs, etc
Lumber for building, etc
A. Wichman & Son. hardware
Brown Fur. & Hdw. Co., hardware
Rev. W. T. Frasier, expenses, trips to Beaufort
Posting advertising over County
Claying and grading race track »
Joe Williams, painting signs
Express, freight, hauling and sundry items
Billbiard Co., advertising ^
Stamp account .'.... ’.
The Press and Standard. printing, advertising
W alker. Evans & Cogswell Co., book of Cer
tificates Stock
Buttons for advertising $
Premium Ribbons
Civic League, dinner for guests
D. C L. Hiers, carpenter work ....
N. E W\ Sistrunk. Band for Fair Week
Expenses, judges and speakers ....
J. 0 GiH. Bftlloonist
F. & M. Bank, bills payable and interest
105 00
4 25
189 11
18 63
20 00
27 45
15 00
20 0U
18 60
87 50
44 10
248 16
744 63
4 40
39 30
13 30
33 50
317 95
26 50
41 55
11 20
13 95
48 50
13 50
11 INI
18 (Nl
4 50
306 80
125 <N»
33 1N»
150 (N)
116 35
By Total Expenditures $3871 i>3
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To Balance $ 226 78
ACCOUNTS DUE BY THE COLLETON COUNTY FAIR
ASSOCIATION, NOV. 18. 19*0-
S 30
4 15
258 84
119 42
5 90
27 15
52 85
F>each Bros, paper and pins
The Negro restaurant, meals
A Wichman & Son. roofing and hardware
Taylors, flags, bunting, etc
Fair Publishing House, stationery
M. Hornik & Co., fireworks
Civic League, building restaurant
D C I. Hiers, three weeks pay roll 276 77
E’ D Lemacks. ticket'seller 7 IN)
E. E. Jones, ticket seller 5 Ou
B. F. Harrison Printing Co., books & stationery 35 55
Donaldson Lithographing Co., signs 46 25
Brown Fur. & Hdw. Co., hardware 06 07
Premium List .. 1 319 00
C. L. Fishburne. gasoline, etc .. 15 91
Mrs. H. W\ DuBois, et al, services 7 Ou
Total
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$1249 16
ASSETS FAIR ASSOCIATION.
10 acres land, enclosed, with five Fair Buildings,
Grand Stand, Restaurant, Secretary’s Of
fice. Ticket, Offices. Cattle and Hog Pens,
Stables, Etc., which at a very conservative
estimate iri valued at $5000 Ou
Balance in Bank 226 78
Total
$5226 78
LIABILITIES.
158 Shares of Stock Issued at $10 per share $ 1580 00
Sundry accounts unpaid at above date 1249 16
npaid i
Due on Fair Ground Lot
Total Liabilities
Net W orth of Association
290 00
$3119 16
$2107 62
STATEMENT OF CONinTONOF
COLLETON COVNn FAIR ASSOCIATION
Statement of Condition af The Colleton County Fair Aasociation
at its annual stockholders meeting held Nov. 18,,‘1910. show
ing receipts and expenditures from May 3, 1910, to Nov. 18,
1910. together with assets and liabilities:
RECEIPTS.
Mav 3, 1910, balance $38 32
Received on stock sold $ 965 00
Civic League, restaurant concession 20 00
. D. C?_L. Hiers, fruit, concession * 20 00
Waiter boro Bot. Wks. cold drinks. concessions. 25 00
G. C.Tlrown, four posts 6o
F & M. Bank, borrowed money 1100 00
F>om sale of wood 19 00
Space in Mer. and Mfg. building 74 50
Space on Bulletin Board 60 00
Ladies Aid Society, candy booth 5 00
John Robinson’s Shows, rent of grounds 25 (M*
Gate Receipts. Nov. 8—11 and tickets sold 1492 25
Grand Stand tickets 79 10
The Sistrunk Co., concessions 168 39
Trap shooting at Fair 6 25 4060 09
are crowed with higher or lower
varieties. The soil that produces
a poor variety will produce a
good one just as easily. The
manure wasted upon one may be
saved upon the other. The same
labor that produces a poor crop
may produce a good one.
The seed may, and often does,
settle the whole question of profit
and loss on the farm. It is
always found cheapest to use
the best seed. Even in any
given lot of seed, some are bet
ter than others. Using a sieve
or fan, or otherwise separating
the best seed, will be found to
pay. All the light and chaffy
seed can thus be removed. At
the same time, many weed seeds
that we do not want can be
separated and destroyed. Purity
of seed should be carefully
guarded. Many diseases are
carried from season to season on
the seed. Smut and sometimes
rust are carried this way. Wash
ing the seed in a strong solution
of bluestone; will kill smut pores,
and help to prevent rust to some
extent by insuring healthy stalks.
Washing in water at one hundred
and thirty-four degrees is said to
have the same effect
Again, all seeds have not the
same germinating power. Be
careful to select sound seed.
A few seeds placed between two
layers of cotton and kept moist
for a few days will show what
per cent of the seed is sound.
If you have not the cotton, a lit
tle moist soil will do as well.
Every farmer can do much to
ward keeping his seed pure and
good by careful methods of
selecting on his own farm. In
small grain, a few acres should
be selected from which the seed
is to be gathered. Before the
grain is ripe, when in full head.
go through this plat and with
knife cut out all spurious
leaving only those of the kind to
be saved. Let these seed patches
stand until the grain is fully ripe
before cutting.
In corn fields, go through be
fore the gatherers and select the
best stdlks, cut them, and keep
separate. From the best ears on
these select your planting corn.
In selecting cotton* seed very
great care is needed. There are
a great many varieties. Each
has some merit, none have all
the good points, verv few are
abeolutely pure. Get the seed ;
that gives you the . best returns
for your labor. Then go through
the fields w’hen in the best stage
of opening, and select the finest
bolls, and from these save your
planting seed. In this way. you
may improve any variety you
have selected.
Thousands of dollars are
yearly lots in the South by pur
chasing worthless seeds. Many
of these we can grow better
here. Irish seed potatoes grown
and kept here are better than
those we buv. By planting a
second crop and saving seed from
this, we will have the choicest.
Beans and peas are suffered to
rot in our gardens, and-newseed
is bought for the next crop.
The seed bills alone of our South
ern farmers and gardeners would
add materially* to our wealth if
we raised the seed. Indeed,
there is no good reason why
we should not make thous
ands of dollars each year selling
the seeds we are now buying.
The climate is in our favor. ,
Of one thing w'e should always
be sure. Seeds for planting
should be thoroughly ripe before
they are gathered.—Agriculture
For The Common Schools.
ANNOUNCEMENT
TO THE PUBLIC
W E have moved opposite th*‘ C ourt House
and invite you all t«* come anil see onr
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new store, our new >tock anil the same old friends.
Our store is the people’s store—the HR* STORE
yon hear so much about.
The store where your IK >Ll,ARS (K > EAR-
THEST.
We leave it entirely to you to jud^e th*- value
and quality of our goods. We are satisfied to
let YOU decide that you get a square deal on
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every purchase made with us.
We also have a lot back of The Press and Stand
ard adjoining our lot that we are pleased to ofter
you at all times.
J. M WITSELL
SUPPLY CO.
It shortly is good and
its ^ood aU the time
IUZI 1
SELECTING SEED.
There is as much difference in 1
the .varieties of seed as there is
in the blood of horsek. A valua
ble horsc.rnay somet mes spring ^
from a scrub, but you can notj
count upon his doin^ so. and he|
will never sell for his value.'
The brand of his origin is upon
him.
So you may sometimes succeed
with ordinary seed, but you can
not know you well. Seeds pro
ducing fruit their kind are as old
as the world. Their nature is to
be true to their kind. Generally,
improved seeds have a tendency
to revert to the kind from which
they were improved. This tend
ency is so well known that con
stant care is exercised by all
seedsmen to counteract this.
Seeds have been wonderfully im
proved by careful attention to
well known laws of plant life.
Good soil, thorough culture, and
high manuring will oftos produce
far better seeds than those
planted. By selecting the best
specimens of these and giving
them careful attention for several
seasons, they become set in type j
and distinct in variety. By |
pe'rsfsting in this course, the;
p««sibi!ities of improvement are
almost without limit
Plants have male and female
blooms or organs, and the pollen
from the male of one plant isi
often carried by insects and:
winds to the stigma of other 1
plants. In this w’ay they grow’ aj
resultant seed having in part the
properties of each- Such crosses
very greatly improve some varie
ties. and often produce entirely
new varieties.
These laws are so. sure in their
action, and so well understood,
that experts produce almost any
desired changes. The pollen
from large varieties of corn will
soon destroy pop com entirely if
they are planted near each other.
The pop com will have*large
grains, and will not pop. Okm
and cotton can be crossed, and
pumpkins and gourds will ruin
watermelons. Now’, from these
well known facts we may draw
some valuable lessons. Seeds
may be greatly improved, or they
may U entirely nuaed, as thay
BARGAINS!
Best Hour $6.oo i^-r l>bl
i-2 Pat‘Hour $j>.25 per
bbl. and up.
Grist per sack, $i.oo best
hugnut.
Meat ioc. per Hr am! up.
Salt per sack 55 cents.
Sugar. 17 lbs per dollar.
4 lbs sugar 25 cert''.
A -,r~ *
Ready Made Clothing at Cost
NOTICE.
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Farmers
1 House.
Kolit n a* »r<-‘ th*- osaioit of ail perqcn’i
w;.(/*M»v** p«ud hionw; to buv oot-
ia (_’o!!**toa county Juring the tear
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A I) Dodd,’L * A hpoi*ht», H W Stea-
‘ field, C J K**y loldt, W G Jrffnrd*. J M
| I'fctmnrtoo F 8 Joum. K L Kogrr, W
iC <)l*v**r. .1 I. Ko*«r. H N Stokea, 8 K
! Boy non. W W lUynt-n. A J Gatrb/r
■ Muriin Mercantile* o, A K K<*arae, W
! M Frlpp, Oolletoa Mercaatile X Mf’g.
A G HI oil. M B Marvin W C
i Glover. W (J Vermin*. M W Blimuona.
!U 1* Fishburne Bniy Holme*. 1)8 Aok-
.ern.eu, l* 8 Hill, T G Le*ar»*. W (4
lix.tt, H D i’aoireit. H Mi M Williams.
11 M. M W'Uiisnt*, T 8 Itovntoo. Wei-
terboro Gotten Oil Go. L E Hill, H I)
Kobinton. Sanders 1 McTeer'. Senders
i A McTeer, A A Willis BG Willis.
J Persona bayinir seed cotton withoui
! license ere violeUnff Bee. 2, Act of 1V106,
j Page #12. 34 Bintut*
Grand jurors nod mafftstra'.** are re
quited to' look nfier those, not having
Ucetus
Beepeotfully Sabmitted,
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Ad test: Paptrvfcsor C. C.
O Albert Beech, Clerk.
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