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TUE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER ffesaded August 1, I860. Ul North Morn Stret ANDERSON, 8. C. WILLIAM BANKS, . Editor W. W. SMOAK .... BuBlncBH Manager Entered According tu Act ui \M gross as Second Class Mall Matter st tbs Postofflce st Anderson, 8. C. Member of Associated Press and Receiving Complete Daily Telegraphic I ?arrice. Weekly edition-$1.60 per ? ?ppr. Daily edition-$6.00 per annum; 11.60 for Six Months; $1.26 for Three Months. IN ADVANCE. A larger circulation than any other newspaper in this Congressional Dis trict. --"T-" TELEPHONES! torlni ; .827 i?;;?w.< tunee.'821 Job Printing.698-L Local News.887 Society New? .. .321 The Intelligencer is delivered by ??Triers in ?be city If you fall to1 got your paper regularly please notify ma. Opposite your nam o on label i et your paper is pruted date to which POW pejer is paid. Ail checks and drafts should bs drawn to Tho Ander? son Intelligencer. 1 he Weather. . Washington. Sept* 9-Forecast:? Ponth Carolina-rFair Thursday acd Have you bought your bale? a? A ' < -0 Is there room in war1 for Rouma ni? If cotton could onlv h* converted | into "rasnuns". . o . The way of the Pathfinder was! strewn with death. Shealy carried every county tn the Btato. P. 8.-All but Plckens. Welcome Belton boosters! You corns from a mighty good town. The South wm take care of its problem when it knows that lt must. -o Sixiy dayB from now we may hil be wondering why all this depression. >. i ff ' ~? Wonder how ail these soldiers are ted with lee cost of living aa high aal 1$ is. > -o women of tho south should all sift*?* tij w*sr as istrca cottou good* ap-possible. -o ? *? .Eggs will get so expensive in Eu rope that radium will be as brass in Great Britain's navy ls ahead ot j Germany's, and at the same tims ls right ofter lt also. . o ? The world's championship series has. promises of being something new this year. Abe Martin says that our war with Mexico has been postponed "on ac count of opposition." -o Judge Memmlnger made a hit with I tho grand jury when he declined to j charge them "at length". We should be glad that lt was a Spanish mine and not a German that sunk the Maine Some were rv/ed. ..When you find Sherlock Helmet, pisase find'the man that started thia war and say a few words to him. If a fleh can chase a worm on Sun da*, why should not the little boy I chase the fish? Reductlo ad absur Am. ,/^ere are some farmers in Anderson ctidnty who can run along for sev eral years with Just enough cotton to pay taxes. sihfee triple entente has nothing to do-with baseball. But a triple with w> mw n? represents ino cordials feeling. .? ? 0 fight ha South Carolina has but ! The real fight ts for the vic to pro vp themselves toybe men, mino, big men. . o * ' Some o?>. tho battles In Europe TOW* make Gettysburg appear like a IjlPHeh-with referenco to the num ,. of mon engaged. big brother movement among European nations means that the flj^'brother nations ara getttng the little boy does at school. -o militant surfs pose aa heaping of fire on tho heads bf their hts enerny-mon. But the man at they fear less than the Ger man. I>0 WK WOK KY TOO MUCH1 Is the South tur.? much alarmed ov er the war situation? Our people are naturally pessimistic about their cropB and this war emergency has put every thing In a Tog of "the blues." Th* great trouble in the South is the unex pectedness of this new trouble which iu lia ?iiiiii?> proportions ?Su stupen dous sweep has dazed the moat daring financier of America, caught In their unpreparedness. The "Augusta Chronicle carries an interesting statement from Conyers Woolsey, "one of th? most progressive planters of Aiken county," who has just returned from Europe. He sailed rrom England on the 2tith or August. in England he states, business conditions are not as much disturbed, although Great Britain is at war, as they are in the South ern part ot this country. The mills and factories aro still in op urtitlnn, ?nil. except for Inrremied price:; or food products and some excitement, one would hardly re alize that Creal Britain was lock ed In the tremendous war with the allleB against Germany and Aus tria-Hungary. It seems to us that now ls the time for the United States. Let the wealth of the North back up our cotton mills, let the cotton mills back up thc farm er; and after this crisis is passed, the whole country will be richer and ^stronger. But. Just aa surely as the ?North, through any Idea of injuring President Wilson, be indifferent to the South in tills crisis, just so surely will the country as sj whole suffer from ! such a short-sighted policy. The | South may be given a set back that | will require 20 years to overcome, or I the South may make greater strides In the next two years than she has in the last generation, as great as have been the achlnvements within that I time. HAYE YOU BOUGHT A BALE I Members of the board of directors of | the chamber of commerce as indi vid?ala have approved the plan to start a campaign here for each person who can afford it to buy a bale of cotton at the rate of 10 cents per pound. The proposition has not been formally worked but; we understand, but will be at once, and. the Idea fa to have a certain number of bales agreed j upon as this city'a quota, and no on?f will be required to live up to the agreement 'unless' the' entire number j of bales to be bought is signed up. However, some of Ute buslceas men have gone ahead buying the cotton on this Oasis. B. O. Evans ft Co., yes terday bought and stored two baleBl of cotton. A gentleman from Columbia, wm. was here last night stated that the movement had started with a rush there and that many bales of cotton are standing around In the store | doors. What ls called a "Buy a Bale" move- j ment has been inaugurated in differ ent sections of the south and ls spread ing rapidly. According to the pjan in divid?ala and business houses buy bale or more of cotton at ten cents per | pound and stors lt for higher prices. Only one bal? is bought from each person so that the benefits will be divided between a large number. The officers and employes of banks ara taking a leading part lc the movement, twenty seven officers and employes of the National Loan and Exchange Bank of Columbia, each buying a bf le on the streets of Columbia yesterday.. Thous ands kif bales are being bought In thia way In Georgia. Every bale helps. THE BELTON BOOSTERS We understand that there ls to be quite an invasion of Anderson today a party cf live fellows boosting the approaching fair at Belton. Just why the Belton fair requires "boost lng" wo do not know, for all who have attended the fairs given in. our hust ling neighbor town know that they have always come up to to and exceed ed representations of the press agents. Belton is Idc-illy located for a big fair and the exhibits each year are o? the very beat and are representative o> the finest things that the soil of Ander son produces. The woman's depart ment }s also a great success every tithe. We feel sure that the Bolton fair will be better than ever thia year, and that the people who gather there wfw bs In good humor, despite the manner In which the people of Europe are fly ing at eaeh other's throats and inciden tally putting down the price of cotton here. When the "boosters" arrive today wo trust that the people of Anderson will corns to their doors and give ? rousing reception to our wide-awake, progressive and sensible neighbors. This fair la kept up by oomaal sub add has no revenue. ...I Anderson Countv Far Wise Will Not be C Sara Wilson of Iirusliy Creek, who ls hero for court week in a farmer of extensive Interests. There are per haps as many as a thousand persons dependent upon him, directly und indi rectly, on his farms. Mr. WilBon says the war ls not bothering bim or his neighbors. He produces all of the meat and bread that lie needs and re quires his renteru to do the same. He is one of the most successful far mers in the whole country, and he believes in making the soil yield ev erything to supply the wants of mau, and the surplus is for profit only. Mr. Wilson patronizes the roller mill at Easley and bas a lot of flour ground. S. lt. Tims ot Piercetown was a visi tor to the city yesterday and he had an announcement of great interest. He is.overhauling the old TimB mill on Six and Twenty and will be prepared to turn out a barrel and a half of flour per hour. This farm has been in tbe( possession of the Tims family for 140 years, or to be exact, since the first of the family came to Pierce town and located on Six and Twenty in 1780. "Sam" Tims, as bis name indicates, ia of . Irish descent and he is Iris., through and through. He loves his joke and he loves the open life, but he IR a good business man. He raises hogs, cattle, wheat, corn and a little bit of cotton. He staten that while neighbors plant too much cotton, he thinks, yet there ls a lot of wheat planted, and he wlohea to see them plant just about ten times as much next year. He thinks that no man In his section of the country ought to buy anything to put on the table. Coffee and sugar are all that he has to buy. "Sam'Tima' graham flour" has quito a reputation in Anderson county end J* highly recommended by some doctors. He has a process of re-grind ing lt. The mill began operations on Hie 10th of August, 1864, 80 years ago, and has turned out many a barrel of THE DEBTOHS'S DEBTS As was stated some time ago, the banking houses of the city are ready, as they always have boen, to help the depressed, and will carry over for another year 60 per cent of the paper In their vaults, provided some way is made to retire 40 per cent. With two and OD? half millions ot dollars of assets in our fields, at pres ent rate of computation, it does seem that- some way could be started lo take care of the poorer people and to put some money into circulation. Debts cannot be paid unless there ls some money in circulation. Credit ls good in the south, but there is ver> little money In actual circulation. This ts due to the Indefiniteness of the future rather than to any actual ap prehension. Wo .kn received s letter asking that thine who hold mortgages and patt due, scrips of indebtedness with hold the foreclosure and give the dob tor an opportunity. We feel that such an appeal is absolutely unnecessary. What the banking bouses of the city are working for is the prosperity and hnppmess of all the people, and not merely to get all of tho money out of debtors. However, something ls due to th? tiena which baa to borrow the money ?nd we .quote as interesting at this time the following sentence from this letter: "The.debtor ls bound by honor and gratitude to pay his past-due dsbts, or as much of lt as possible.1. "There comos times to the money lender when he ia erupelled to have money. His fsmlly tnuat live and the cost of living touches him as ham as lt does other people. "In short, the spirit ot the times should lie a daxtre tn help ami an other.' The mau who presses his neighbor at a lime like this will rue lt tn the days to come, and th .? u sin or who withholds payment when he ls able to "poy. will And that he has Injur ed himself more than he has his cred itor." WILL USE SUBSTITUTE Plan Projected to Use Cotton Bagging Instead of Importing Jaie. (By Associated Press.) Atlanta, Qa., Sept. 9.-The substitu tion ot cotton for juts bagging, to pro vide rbt tbs consumption of one mil lion bales, was the plan outlined hers today at tbs conference of business men from several southern states. The statement waa made that large shipping concerns throughout the south already have taken up the mat ter on account of the Increase .In the pries of Juts, a product of India, and lt- waa declared one fertiliser concern ls trying to place an order for flfty million yards of cotton bagging to substitute for tho Jute heretofore used. The Conference waa called to per fect plans for the organisation of a national cotton consuming associa tion, m o. Mansfield ot Atlanta waa s alaga? permanent chairman. mers Who Have Been rushed by the War. Hour. It ls being greatly Improved now. One trouble about farmers getting disheartened about planting wheat, says Mr. Tims, is the fact that they do not plant properly. They do not prepare the ground right, and do not plant at the right time. He Hays that the ground should be broken up and harrowed. The time to sow is a day or two before the full moon in No vember. Another institution of which Mr. Tims is proud 1B the Melton academy in bis community, lie says that lt will do especially fine work this'year!? People in his country live a loni; tim? and the general health is fine. Jtret this week they buried an old negro who lived to be 108. S. M. Johnson. of Liberty, No. 2 while on a visit to the city declared that what hi? section needs ls an au tomobile truck line operating td and from Anderson. ?Ie suggests, that, .lt, have a regular uchoiule just as the biff' stage coaches had, and promises that if Buch a thjng Bhould be instituted lt would be a great success. While the passenger business might he consid erable, he recommends as the principle feature the stimulating impulse it would give to the marketing of thu country produce. Mr. Johnson oafs that he proposes to gb <rx tensivory luto thb planting of Irish pot utoes. himself, and many of his neighbors 'could market In Anderson their eggs nnd butter. His neighbor. Henry Martin, this summer had 1.000 fruit trees bearing and has preserved thousands of cans of fruit. Mr. Johnson has watched with interest the instituting of the truck lins sysem between An derson and Townville, and he saya that such a venture would be a grea' thing fer the people of his ' section,' and woxtld be-sur?^t&bA_o faying in vestment He ia,ene of ?he /am ors that has everything to eat on his own farm, and some of hla neighbors are doing likewise. Mason ?lobe* Would-Enlarge Its Hc?pe-Banks rome1 Forward. \,- f, j i*-I-!</< .. ICt?S? Columbia Stater 1 r 1 M ?? Ot, :1V IM. ' . t' If the plan of A. Mason Gibbes, president ot the Gibbes Machinery company. Itt mr?e "i.ective. tl-.a acope of tits buy-a-bale-of-cottoo movement will be broadened until it embraces the whcle of the United States. Mr. Gibbes luggeatei yesterday that, busi ness mon of the South call on their connections in the North. East ' and 'West to john the movement and help tbs cotton growers in the .present emergency by purchasing one or more baleo of cotton at a minimum price of 10 cents per pound. To further the plan advanced by Mr. Gibbes, a mass meeting 'will be held today at noon at Craven- ball. Business men, professional men, farmers and traveling mon are In vit-1 ed io be- present, it is expected that the mesa meeting today will, fake steps to enlist the support of all com mercial organisations in the South to widen the scope of the buy-a-bale-or cotton movement. The men behind the movement hope that enough'cot ton wifl be purchased hy Individuals and Arma at the minimum price of 10 cents a pound, about .what lt .costs to grow it, to enable farmers to .pay. their most pressing obligations and get in, a position to hold a good cart ot their crop. Gibbes' Plan. I A. Mason Gibbes wal asked last night by The 8tate for a statement in regard to hla plan. "My idea is that every firm in Co lumbia mall circulars to its connec tions, asking them to buy a bale .of cotton at 10 cents per pound," said Mr. Gibbes. "The circulars should also contain the request thai- the con nectons of Columbia fi reo? send cir culars In their turn to their connec tions, asking them to join the buy tk.bale movement. It we can .get an endless chain of circulars going to business men all our the country the movement, whose object is to relieve the farmer Of his moat pressing obli gations by paying htm cost for. hiv cotton."1 'Tn widening the scope of the buy a-Oaie morausin, uuaimiu um v* .? ? South will simply be asking the busi ness men of the North and West from whom they buy goods to help save tits cotton crop and the farmera' pocketbook," continued Mr. Gahboab "The matter should bo taken up wits every chamber of commerce and every commercial organisation- ta the South,- .v._ BA GER TO ENLIST Englishmen Aro Anxious to J?i? tho Forces at the front. (By Associated Press) Washington. Sept. 9.-The British embassy today received from tho Lon don foreign office the following dla .patch: "There la Increasing enthusiasm for redrultlng In Great Brita*. Three hundred thousand men have joined tho regular army since the war began. The eagerness to cnttst baa grown since British troops bars ac tually boen engaged with tbs enemy." ELECTION AFi KRMATII o E. A. Austin defeated H. E. Oyles for the legislature in Aiken County. Oyles was the mayor of Aiken when "Freddie" Beach was tried for as saulting his wife. J. W. Crum defeated B. W. Miley of Bamberg for the bouse of repr? sentatives . In Cherokee county Ramseur and Wright were elected to the house. Odom and Rive-s go to the legisla I ture from Chesterfield, i dj McKeown defeats Stokes in Chester. 1 McKeewn was in the house before. D. M. Vam. lee ted to the house from Colleton. D. D. Peurifoy de feated. D. L. Smith in third race with ?. C. Padgett. Florence-C. W. Muldrow and R. Keith Charles elected to the house. *W. W. Dixon elected to the house from Fairfield. . Oinn was reelected Senator from ^Hampton over Lightsey by a vote of tts to 764. i Massey defeated Sapp, the Blease Inailnr In tha wann fr.?, lita lnwloUfii.n -? - - . .-?-?. tXtm - ' ri ? " . -*. from Lancaster. Laurens-Anti-administration legls tlve ticket elected. Hogan Ooggans, . D. Boyd and W. W. Harris. The last man on the ticket was W. R. Richey. Col. J. Brooks Wingard was elect ed to the legislature from Lexington, defeating the -administration candi date. In Newberry B. V. Chapman and Neal Workmen ar.? elected to the house, with a close vote between Mower and Klbler. In Williamsburg, Wallace and S. A. I Graham and J. J. M. Graham were elected to tho house. W. R. Bradford and W. J. Cherry hove been elected to the house from ?York county and a third race between W. 8. Lesslie and Sam'Johnson. Richmond Stacy defeated W. L. Settlemeyer for the state senate in ?Cherokee. Seuttlemeyer was a mem ber of the state asylum board, and a Blease leader. SCHOOL TERM BEGIN'S. Opening Exerclses^Are Held at Hones Hones Path, S?pt. 9.-The opening exercises, of .the Konea Path graded j school were held Monday morning in the school auditorium with a larg crowd present. Mayor L. L. Wright introduced the speakers of the morn ing. "America" -was dung in the be ginning and Hst. Edward 8. Reaves read an appropriate passage of scrip ture, """^e Rev. S T., Blackman of feree* ?er. Then "followed the .ad-, dr eat, welcome to the corpa off teachei^ ? Mr,-- .Reaves. He wel come tht. i mi? the schools, ' town, churches, homes and hearts. Mr. Blackman then spoke to the children, urging upon them the Importance of regular attendance- and faithfulness .n n?? ?chool work.- - J. ?. Felton, (opsn.tr EAipeiflnbendsnt of education, next talked especially to the pa rent 8, urging their coopera tion with the ? earners. Tbs tosv. J. H. Dew added much te the pleasure of the occasion by telling an amusing' story. B. C. Givens, the new super intendent of the school, - then made a mr..-i interesting asa wide awake taih in which he set forth his plans and ! purposes for the ensuing scholastic i yeer. He expressed ni? belief in his assistant teachers, urged regular at tendance upon the part of pupils and cooperation of parents. At the con clusion of his remarks the pupils and teachers marched from the auditor ium to their respective rooms and the audience quietly left the building. The faculty for the year ia compos ed of the following teachers: B. C. Olvens, Misses Moffatt, . Adams, Thompson, Arnold , Blackman, Ed wards, Flowers, Anderson and Mlsaes Lizzie and Emma Oassaway. Fra Givens* and Mlsaes Adams, Thompson, Arnold and Oassaway are the new 1 members, the other teachers having been here for several years. The enrollment for the town school was about 235, which ls a good open ing. The enrollment for the Chlquoli school, which is taught by the Missis Oassaway baa not been learned. I li i " li- ' j "COMFORT But "Stvle while." FIRST" all the Right quality never lacking. Shoes for all occasions. From the daily trend pf business to the nightly tread of music. Hanans $6 and $6.50. Howard & Foster $4 to $5. Snows'#3.50. ; Also low shoes for the young man who "feels the call and doesn't fear the cold. All Oxfords greatly reduced. Order by Parcel Post, We prepay sdi charges. COTTON SITUATION Advice!! iPrsm Over the South Catties Optimistic Feeling in Eastern Market?.. (By Associated Prcas.) New York, Sept 9.--The more op timistic feeling noted in local cotton trade circles yesterday was even more in evidence today and seemed to be largely nosed on the reports of a bet ter tone in tue southern spot mar sets. Handlers of spot cotton said that their private advices from the south as well as the offers that were being received by N?w England mills Suggested that SCUtkcm sliM'evio ?le becoming less panicky as to the prob able effect of increasing supplies, ow ing to the measures that were.being taken to .relieve the immediate neces sities of needy planters and to facili tate the holding movement. "Buy a Bale" clubs are said to be forming all over the south, while rap, id progress Is also reported in the work of building warehouses, and many reports indicate that farmers are either fr-j?tl??ig caite? i? tbs aced or hauling it back from the gin. So far but little improvement has has been reported in demand. Canad ian milla are said to be buying con siderable cotton anti there nave been moderate purchases for export Cost Sept Down-Quality Kept Up. No better -medicine could be made for coughs, colds, croup, hoarseness, tickling throat, bronchitis, etc.. than Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. That's, why they cant Improve the quality and war or no war, the price remains the same. E. J. Sargent, Dal las, Tex., says: "I believe Foley's Honey and. Tar-bas no equal for lt completely relieved me of all symp toms of tuberculosis and my cough has entirely disappeared." Don't ac cept any substitute, for Foley's Honey and Tar ls the best Evans* Pharmacy agents. i The Best of Everything Is Waiting for You Here DO YOU want a f??? hitl* something neat and trim with just the right touch of this season's style to it, to set off your own good taste and make people admire you more than ever? Just follow the advertising In the Intel ligancer for the next few weeks and see some of the stunning things that are being shown thia season. Do yon want a pretty fall drear-one with the new basque effect, and with' waiata made with straight, loose lines to the hip length? TQils season the basques button quite k,,vm'.^"V.j 1~ frc^t cr tic nu* waists are finished hy a sash'Which fur ther accentuates the long waistline. AU you have to do is to follow the advertising In. this paper for the next few days. -, Do yon weat a fell coat-suit, maje of serge, broadcloth, or'wool bentallne in subdued colorings? The most noticeable features are th? long coats, which are longer and fuller In the skirts? .... ir\ i The advertising will carry yon to the very places In vhlch yon are absolutely sure of finding exactly what Is hi vogue tais season. , lisvO i Aren'tyou about ready to buy your fail shoes or boots? This paper will carry the advertisements which Will be of moat Interest to yon. J The merchants have been to market, ?pent good money and lots of time and a plenty ot bard work picking sad sorting among the merchandise of the great trade Venters that' the peopic of Anderson and vicinity might he served rwlth the best that Is to be bad. They have returned, the goods have been received and arran?-?d for your Inspection; and the an nouncements Trill appear la thia paper within the next few days, extending yon a very cor dial Invitation to ceil, end look them over whether you ar J in the market or not Watch the columns of the Intelligencer, sad don't misa a stacie copy, foe* fear |hat yea will mles some merchants' announcement which In the coarse of the season will meda much to yea. SASSEEN, The Ad Man ll