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sarai * i ^ “PAGE POUR The Pkh and Standard THE PRESS AND STANDARD, WALTERBC i C. MARCH 3,1915. AMD MS r. l. nl tka t. C. : M STMCMPTION RA1 Yanr . a •' # # # ( *3 I All ehacka and drafts should bs r»w» la favor of tho Prsas aad Look at the printed label oa rour paper. The date thereon sho*< when the subscription expire*. For ward your money -In ample time for renewal. Notice date on label care fully, and if not correct ple«ae u<>* Wr ■* at once. IX MEMOftlAM. Begfaninf with this isaae The Press aad StaMard will charge for srtides sent as uader the head in of '.‘la Meaorlam.” Wo are com* polled to do this' for tho mere far* that we have ad maay, aad so leng thy eommsnScatloas of this nature that we really eaa not publish them for aothiag. They will bo charged for at the regular advertlsiBg rates. This does not n»an that wp win charge for publishing deaths, or aay* thing like news articles. When a death occurs, we will appreciate' It being seat us immediately, bit -af ter one has been dead for a year or two we do not feel at liberty to use our space foa these articles. Pleas- bear in mind that they will be chanc ed for and unleas they are sent With name and address of writer we will not publish them at'all. . , TOBAtfX) IX rrtLLKTOX. Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed, will please etate la their communlcatlca both the old aad the new addresses. - :t-' ' .'im The Prees and Standard will pub lish brief and ritional letters on auhjocta of general Interest when they are accompanied by the name* aad addresses of the uathors and are not of n defamatory nature. An- nonymous communications will not he noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned. 1 Osr Prt.^ Unhaicg is in Charge Jacobs & Co., Clinton, S. C « £.OLiCrriNG OFFICES: v • k t- • -• r r. «.*• ■ V i»- V-.i- .:-. i: JVf-.-NcI • J.-. Wl: : t” .i • i Mr W. E. Snipe' Informs us ♦hat h<* is going to plant . S*0 acres of tobacro at Smoak*.- in ♦’olleton 'ount%-.*where no mar ket bar vet been established, and a? KingMr'-c is the most co"VPTiient market ft would be fr>r one v> re hoUS* nient tO Sfc )e»e)k’ 8ttef this crop The above from the Kingstrec Tounty Reeord shows what th n pen* pie of that county are-doing toward ratting money Jn'their county. Everybody ought to know that the rood people of the Smoak* 'section, especially those Uho plant tobacco, would iik« to market their tobacco ih Walterboro, and mslng the word of the Record, we say I well for the merchants of Walterboro [to look after this crop." % I^tst week we made m-ntion of • ! several reasons why Walterboro , '-oded ;» chainger of commerce and (♦his also wts forth another, reaspn for cucli an organizalion\ Tobacco ‘ [■"-Us more rapidly than cotton and or.i-e tfce> get this {,. »<;««♦ started i* . ! will be 'at ♦hitir for the county, but if the merchants of Walterboro \n* gqlrwr to sit idly by and ley PLAX? TOB.%CCO. L SP POWDERED BORAX FOR FLY PREVENTION. It iu unatboritatlvely reported to Thu Ppua aad SUndard. that aorne of thu farmers of thg Sxnouks suction are constderiag plantlag tohaoco. * Thu roussmpt^os of tooaccw In -astern North CuroHaa aad eastern South. Carolina has iacreaada more thaa. two hundred per ceat la the last five yean. Farmer* contemplat- lag planting tobacco shoald aot lis- tea to aay onofficial reports aboat tobacco markeu. hat should seek re liable sources of iBforgMtioo wh*re official sutlrtics are r«eiveq. Below we give seven good reasons why tobacco should be planted sod In view of the pres-ri price of cot ton.,, we think the farmer* would do s wise thing to plant a* part of their land this year in tobacco. - The seven reasons arey , 1 Pays better. Tobacco will put two to three dollars in your pocket to every one cotton puts there; it’s a fact, no guess work. Quickest ma tured crop grown. Can reairrewoon; ey In 9 days from time *c; ou:.' ** 2 Costa no more to produce; 'ver. less than cotton and is harvested, ♦old and out o f the way by tirr^ cotton-** ready to pick. ~3 Help easily secured. By rea son of the fact thar tobacco mature In- Editor The and Standard: exp five Method of Spray- iag for Ena aad Young Clemson College. March i.—Swat the Sr before he becomes a fly, will be the principal pdiat ef attack in the Clemson College anti-fly cam paign this spring aad rammer. Swat the Sr while he Is stfll an egg or maggot.' It Ip cheaper, easier, and much more practical. The, b-«t way to spray cow or horse ma nure. the moet common brooding place for fliee. with something that will kill the eggs and maggots Or dinarily commercial powdered borax !« ftAommended for this purpose by A. F. Conradt. state entomologist -nd head of the entomologist divi sion at Clemson College. The directions which Prof. Con- mdl gives are to be found in slight- ^ercial. educational, social, moral. !y fuller form in Bulletin No tl S | political, or course to write and f the federal bureau of etMomoioev Some Cogitations Personal and Otherwise BY W. W. S. Colleton hops .there. Th-?v are ail I wra'-fcl*>ased to note In the lastl,., :Dr weU, uni aeem happy. tee Smith looks well la his unlferm and when I saw him he reminded m* issue of The Press aad Standard your agitation In favor of a chamber o' commerce, tour arguments are sound and logical and ahodld appeal to the bufelness then of Walterborp.^ I would like to see your effortr. crowned with success, and a giooV live chamber of commerce orgaaia- • - ■‘d te help boost the town and Us advantages. * - There are so many'ways in which iuch an organization can be of value to all the interests of the town—'om- Of course to write work for the advancement of th • town along these lines will rcqulr - of his father. He was oa duty aad waa la the “meee .fcaU M ')Bat prior to dlaner. He had a plate'and was making bis way back to- the kitchen to aep. about getting a square mea’ I thought: “How like Jack that is ’ The other boya were getting on we!!, the Garris grotbers of Round look tb<' plctur* of health, Walter Kinsey, of Smoaks, has a military bearing. ao<i' the other* are also fine, rienv or <s a rfbat school and is deinr rpl^ndid work. ‘hat som" of the pett> jealousies arid mi-'trusts whirh hate existwi so ’on* will be done away hss is a technical or professional bulletin, however, and Prof Conrsdi hvr- altered the form of # the di- >---?iions somewhat to suit the mbe*. - to the requirement* of -So-nn "arolina farmers and housekeeper-: Acod of the town, and has reprinted th-'m^in a li^tl • ’very member of lh“ -ircular which may be obtained by will have to give some one writing to the .college bought to public affair?.-and crawl I had occasion to talk with W W State agent -in charge of th- 'arm demonstration work in So;- with, and j Carolina.' quite recently, and ask* he citizens pull together tor the im about the new county agent r. In othei 1 word? { Coilcton county organization t er\ time and fully a month before other crops: at j • time when the farmers have the 1 ' -- - ,, _ , ... . _ most leisure, help for the few days j Th ' hrureau of ^»omology .ad- out of the shell of selfishness »hkh. envelopes ao mtny of wr!- I- J T*»e Meedy *iul>*»criber i . th "How dear to our? hea . steady subacriber. Who pays In advance at the birth of aarb year, / , Who lays down tbq' money and doe It quit* And caata 'rotiad the office a hal» chaar. -/• * Kingstre" take the tobacco sales - j away from them, tobacco will do ^ ; ‘olictOB no good". | Mr. Merchant, you get discourag- d too soon. The writer heard that this waa dtried in this coynty onr** t*efore and* failed. Maybe, it did. but success I* never gained until fail ure has'had It’s say an^ we glory in the spunk of the men that ^acg^con- templating planning tobacco, e^nl * after It ha* been pronounced a fall^hj^ nre in the county and yet, thejNaro necessary to house, can be secured from the cotton farmers. 4. Good price*; For .th* 1* * three years the avera(fcnjk' > c " ...^ jb^en about 15 cents per pound for ’entire amount sold. and-Jt f« the opinion of experts that good pri'e^ will continue. 5 Tobago bring? money- when reeded by the farmer to handle ah'! mark'n other crops, / V <5 Sumter v.jll have a tharker in ■s ■ ' ~9 >< ■ / I’*.15 eqnal to «py in South Carolina Buyers have already been, secur^. plenty of, them, ^nd com,petition yill- be sharp. Jpupitor will have two warehouses for 1:*15 season o’ obacco selling. \7 Pin hooking will bp eilininat; d thereby aasuring you the full v^!- ue of your tobacco. vise- applying a hetping pint meas ure or two teacup* of ' powdered fear, erboro's business men. • borax to every eight bushels of ‘ Now that Walterboro is to have « * * mute Apply the borax particu-* two of the modern necessities.^ es- ■ar'.v around the outer edges of the pecially the electric plant,/it is time m Mr. Long is much interestod in sending a go&J man'to (Colleton, and he says he rroing to give the county the lie.'- available man, though he has nr* '•et made an appointment.' The'r- ar® several applications from PcHe-. ton but Mr. Long thinks a mar fro:' outside the county would be abij? ; - lo better work. He said ‘ Yo i o;ln rest assured that I shall se^d tl |>est man I can; get hold of to- •c-ton county"- and he will. - .... to get an organization to that ->il« with a flour sifter or an, -ne... .o % of ^ town keep «>ve. and sprinkle two or three all oth ^ forward «tep. W : akc T»llon» of ..f-r ov-t .h% ’‘"J hen it has been treated. Apply tb ; up. bus.-hpss men. Prppcrl. ^ * orar to the fresh manure imfc ^and put ^ al^r * Eva Hite is to visit Colleton coup th-v^anurngto^ j ^ ^oad [ negt week. I wish ever, pW *. ».»•>"« »«rr| fc. W «*»'M>< 1 am glad to se^ that Mij* \! ; tety after its removal from -able. V ; /"; • .Fli^ lav i ‘■H* asver/ays: ’Stop it, 1 cannot It, I’m cutting more magazine? nov. I toad;* But/ilway* aays, 'Send it; our peo pie all like it— The fact is we. think it a help an ! a aeed.* "liew welcome hi* check . when It reaches our sanctum. How it makes our pulse throb, bow it makes our heart came' We outwardly thank him. .we in wardly bless him— The steady subscriber who PV - In advance/’ —Anonymous. Here's another hope for dav pow *r when the electric plant starts roing to try ?:.d makc^ somethin* th'' will *>i;v them beeter. even than cotton. They have the’ nerve to keep on try.md their *'fforts will be, 4 cro<*ned with ' Now, Mr Merchant, during th** MU season t>f July and August, you would like mighty well to have sev eral thousand dollars turned loo*-’ in Walterboro for tobaeqo. th.* same money to be spent in your stores here. The men that' are*-going to plant tobacco are taking th« char* •* Suppose they "succeed. They will plant 90 acres and if they meerwith half success, that will mean several thousand dollars they will r n *P front tb*lr crop. Are you going ^to let them take this money another county and, spend lt>" We hope not We are going to'do our part/toward bringing i>dfere. and with /our help N Have you ever tr1*‘d to boost'* Tr It and ‘-eo w.bat it w'ill do for yon.-. There i? no better place t>i< sid i of North TaroHna tlpin^.Walterboro ‘ , ThereV >!. • •. iikinu i;i V' ■ # x ' alterjr<*rex^A < b.*nig»'i of co; meece. w‘ f'ap^Hring it here -t .Have Blea?*- - * <>>3 cv1*r d'" *vd tho natii ) o, Pr*a?uy?z No. tha/ 1“ not a mis take. *onlv one of those «to>vn? i:i Russian Poland, vhat the Ru kian? hiive re<entlv r*/.ipthtred. ' A '' . \ nc! r n'’r^ur,*'v bn,; br; 1 set eral murd<«f? .tyid pd.'lu r* ? in. Hie la^t j'we* k Tin •<• > ( re a*. le » t six or eight of tlKin Vn,d*-r'on should ,i» f X. x , , . / , I like our iVurntr: OnlY take two ,<Tb-' ar ttover l**t? iacj bo . / . . . .X , N --z . • «1av? ut g.*» ri.1- *»’ ‘hro n'-rtinpl ea«*v feen or-heard of thca,e .)a\ , . ( '>n tbe.j.o'V-t muc h to Walterboro. ‘ ,.it placer j{ j,, Lrect communication with •>!'; r rchc.!- ryre. When .the borax comes /in ccntaqt with the eggr. it, prc/eiit? ■ :c hatching. The maggot? co“- -^ a j-t? .of th# state, if proper cregate at the outer edge? a ma-‘ jieg arp put j n to effect on this roa'i" tvure pile. ?o that most ob/t^p bora.v lg a work f ^ r a chamber •'■I J should be applied there. omtnerre to do; * - The directions given above apply speaking of organization. I would especially to ho r 6e manure How- suggest one along the lines of ' r h-' v *r. the bureau advi?es using the ‘ Trentt)n “ i dea . In thiS plan lhe rf . THE COW AND HER DUCT. ” . PRO- Clemson College Weekly Notes for Farmer and Dairyman A pure bred cow should have put» br«d attention Novels the time nf select th? land for that Bermuda grass pas- tar**. Bermuda grass sod should be broken every four years. >. One acre of .good Bermuda will pasture two or nrofe cow*. The dairy.cp4- should hav*» a good pasture, not/an exUrris*. gronnd \n old flel/ - grown up in broom sege and old field pines I? not e good pasture. , Each week several thotiysn 1 pounds of country butter are *htp- ed from tb»< upper countries o' .South Carolina to the renovating 'artoriea of the North. The 'at-‘ Tier* receive from 15 ( to 2ft c. rt« n trade for such butter. Eac h week *ev-ral r thousan I 'bounds of renovated butter ?h'p- oed into the lower countries of So-nV *’arolina'Znd^sold foA.tr* to 4* c.*n*« >er pound. ' There are ways of stopp r.': ?hi One of them is to join the co t^r- ntlve creamery movenient C!e- U I ame treatment^ for fly egg? and ; fort is to MtM1<1 t|je mem bersh f. f>r maggots in other manures and al*Ojv on <] the boundary of the tov r a-iC -.iggeits applying powdered borax i ?ak „ in tho countv at ldTg ^ This o garbage and refuse of all sorts.. Vater should, be added aft**r tfc^ borax has been applied. rations of borax in the hors** and cow tern ^should bq fre quent .and regular. These are th" ‘wo principal sources of flies snl. >ccordlngly. of a number of kinds tak" in the county at large plan originated in Tr-nton. Mo. ?nd- worked so well there that it ha« spread to several other cities and towns ober the country. Trenton has a population of about 5,000. anc;' is the center of a rich agricultural country, Th** commercial organ za- tion has over 1.200 members and him in mind when writing. Get busy and organise. hf disease germs, since they furnish |j ve a jy over the county. 1 Fee hr flies -which carry ,tliPs|"rms j ybu qudt * a th# motto ac<lliatn t. Every house, and especially every I ^ m ., th TOUr B( , lghbori you might form house, should have •♦‘reen .,^^ him .. and you doub(Ie „ ha ., ioors and windows. It is a fine ->lan *l*o to use the fly traps which ■vill b** dotnonstrated to any on» j. ; iy the countM^wontfration sgeot? ; it !$ very interesting to read the • f Clemson, CoitP*^. But . the* • .,j an y items of news from over lhe methods. Prof. Cotwadb pointed od^ttounty, as sent la by vjf&r corre.?- 'ast year, are like putting buckets j^Qd^nts. These aTFTTave a pecu- uhder th** holes to catch the water Mj ar interest to me. and I can see th? •hen the roof ia leaking. The on!*- people mentioned and enjoy, 'the effective way to stop the flow o' good times they have at their sing- *ater is to stop the leak. ^.ngs and other socipl gathering?' Simllarlv, the only effectiv** and j vould Ilk * # Mr Ed it 0 r."to sco hprough way-of ridding the pr#fh- , omP more school news in your col- >ses of flip* is *o cut tbentfbdff at l omnn. Why cannot you get a pupil •he source, which ia ln a great m'.- >r teacher in each school to give ;he* iority of cases the mapure pile . 1 9 of h"r school. How is 'the other words, swat th- fly b-**or. Walterboro school? Seems tj:at an * interestinif letter could be srv ur**il Prof. ( onral' ; rorn !i on j e member of this school. f the wonderful work being aftci. biiahed through the School Imi ov- ;;cnt Sotietie? of the State! I :r he will be able to organize mady i/ ’l'e?e in the county. I have net ye:, rotten recomil'i! to the loss CoUeZ’ or. county sustaiaed when >!,>- toorgia Ackerman gave up her work n the schools of the coufity. Coll- n needs someone in thiq' capacity. • ' —j. A Spring i? her** and I am wond-'r-' leg how Ludlow Frase*> chicken,? ire getting on. It would/not sur prise me if Tom Murray couloh^t te ! the biggest yarns on how many he gets a day. But Dr Klein ef Carn Fishburne can doubtless pu>:i ■'Be off ♦H.'* t*»an:s when ft eo’ i* ? to thicken talk, unless Parke.-' Barnes has taken the fever. But I suspect that Parker and Haselden are vleirg with each other or u superiority of their dog?. th- The-Plcdi'ioqi .section, of tliH st.-it can boost of tti«»ar hn** .but they < ifnnot li-’St ur on roads - _... —x—■ Found Humring Near Adam* Uqn. Headitne "Yet i!ic good ship S* Helena cafr-** M - ton* of food to Bel gium ^ V X *—■' - Candidates are beginning / shake hand* . wi|h fh>’people again An eixiv bird- rati he*/he w orm, von kna* matter with the e j / what about f^.rni lnn«i<. going to/be grow n in tbi- •-X ?- v'- thr to'b.tcco fkat is; outtly-’ | We hear thu* it i? to be planted an^l l they /will make something out of it too. Bet the men imnU of WalteC-y , l »oto will sit down and watch tom;* other tpwn get the. benefit of the crop ■XA- sll.K HTtH'MNG \«K. ' Home secretary H*|’tf*>t > Home . Mission l' - Board Ruwst* the Soath. Manta. Feb 2< ’ We are Uxing in .ill hi r / What Is the bridge knoWfi as '•Scotchman''* j,. Bridge'*". It Is a pr/ftlcally new. on • at that. * / I-'he silk stocking age, the stocking - ,/g ^ Islanding for vanity, * extravagance '■ When tiling* go a begging. Jiuri *? Inimodi^ty. atw-ording to Or.*/, not evyn gofl‘c.* r vie;tn twlu lu ld »f; Ixive, zecretary of th** ftipti?* them V*We/^[Z'hsiuh r bT *♦.num r. * H. mJv Mission board, who spoke be- would do the trick *• l.fcre ,a k^tuAtt * ting here, . * !- ‘ l)r„ Ia>v\ decared rtiat the da>. o{ Otyr grand Jury pfade a ^iuirt thh blu** stoi'king is gono and illken work of'their presentment here tjit? i lio>iery has takeh its place. He say*' week. It is ilie ./meat'we kiaVe seen • had htW.tU" pail right b^ayi^ too. - ^ shoffe'.i .present- that five^ cents cotton and hard, time n in quite a white jaevaff hurt'the South as much as flf- • n cent cotton, prosperity and the extravagance which came with it! ?on- College. The Dairy v ,*f the college will fiiZpis'h ' '■|r,'*d information The-last quart of milk Li . ^ -* cow is much richer *han ^fi; •,! •juart. The moral i*i our' ;o r J '■ !k the cow dry every tto " l>t!'.ornin.- j'xt.o;*'' .p*- ^.*• ,V her milk '! >>i s' ' • ' , • v . Th** good y dairy i ow pa highef t price tor a ?art>-r' • c , i grain. \Vh,v not Veil thc^e p’■/.'■ to her'* She will never ref- Them and she wHI always return • . ,#• ' • • * profit if yon will do your part The dairy cow t* a machine’ l r l - converting fe«vd into milk and v > !♦.- ter - The maehine.is unprofltaby mless'the vj^lue pf the milk 1; grci*- *-r than the cost of feed and " up We"p. How about your cow* I so the curry cwtnb'and brush f n the dairy cow every day. It pay* There is more money In feed!; - i steer than In feeding a poor d !r - cow. and inuch Dss work Every pure bred cow docs • n / .make^ money. Keep records rj-'i -ee. ff every- one of your cow« pa * tor its keep. Z 1 <' » % ■ / ;e^ -4 Fof Ford Aulomobllns and F-*• r repairs, see Ulzcr A AVer, boro! .$.(*. * ‘ • < ce becomes a fly. When writifig to ♦or the circular of dim • : ons. a«k for snpplemeiit to (Mrcular/No */' • —L c , SAVANNAH tiLTS WAR JkKlkKIt Sav^r N rt3h', <*a.. March 2!—S:gr. Mohr, a local -njanufaefurer. t»' day antiounCed that Ito had close a contract, with a representative r. the French Gqvcrnutont for one* hi;-.- dreid thpetfand p^ i\ < One year ago tomorrow tThur!?-. day) 1 went 4o Walterboro on a bus iness trip, and was taken ill of pn>u* imonia The many kindnesses shown me while there by Mr. and Mrs. Jn». « E, Peurifoy at whose home I sper: , the month of March, and the othe- friends, shall long be remembered and will form one of the oase*- in J* . memory. . Mr. Editor. I trust your reader? will pardon this ‘'personal" taik t * have had with them tonight. I hop • to see many of them in a few day*. is I make, one of my usual hurried rip* to our old home. 'ottageville. alwky? has ,a fi.n - «chool ;ad sdrely there .ire some inter -'itwpdinf^ The game i? true of I^idg'*. WilVlams. .SntOukSnjdf r/yj Williams, •’nd other?! \ndepSon. S. C. /eh'. L’S. 1915. W. i had oitoasion to vfsit For" Me/Zon • rrpftir*. ' i . - 'ore! Automobiles' an i F< "! s«e Kizer k oyer, Walt-'r- oll'cc a few day? aco an ! th-> boro, S, C.-/ / cordaro;- trousvrs to be mad "-'in vxavknnah for the FfedcIt arniy. \ :^ CYPRESS SAStf DOORS BUNDS Waltcry Tbs QsMiM Thai Ban Mot Offset The r ;g RecsuM- of iu tonic anJ•satis* eflpct. JVX v. TIVK BBOlfOOriNINiia braarttowenli?. ^ Oninmc aad does not cam* nmroni mg ft* 4or tho RrntPTnbcr O** «( K. P's t«11 aovR. m % MOULDINGS AND MILLWORK y H. G. & F. G. CROSBY '" ■ / V ' ‘ '* , • . ,\cei/* for th" celebrated Lowr.ey’s vhoepiates. handle a/omplete line of Frsflt's, Fakes and tVstoker*. A We aUu Our restaurant has recently been refurnished, and we are ^o.itio’n to Riv*" our friends prompt.and efficiqnf'service. \ The most modern Soda Fount in rolleton county. Yi-ir ^ourhc^ fream Parlor. .- ' * v H. G. & F. G. CROSBY My Famous'Running Stallion Sweet Owen ^ • ■ - r, •*■ . / • Will beTeidy for Senice March First. This ‘ ' is a Thoroughbred Horse. . . For Particulars ^ply H.A.McGEeMH y j /• i .y ,'v \ y\ ./ t