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GROWERS FIX THEIR PRICE FOR COTTON THIRTY-FIVE CENTS A POUND IS NAMED AS THE MINI MUM. -HUNDRED FARMERS IN MEET Resolution Unanimously Adopted Set. ting Out Position and Pledging Loyalty to Government. Columbia.--Thirty-nlve cents the pounds as the minimum price for cot ton and $100 a ton for cotton seed was the conclusion of farmers in Columii bia when more than 100 cotton grow ers from all sections of the state met to discuss the question of cotton val ues and to initiate a holding move ment. Extreme shortage in the world sup ply of cotton, greatly increased cost of production acid the unusually high scale of prices obtaining for fabrics and. cottonseed products were ad vanced in justification of price fixing. It was emphasized that the farmers desire only a fair price for their cot ton and that the figures are propor tionate with other "raw material" and that the cotton growers are enti tIed to a living. To acquaint the cotton growers tlhroughiout the state as to the situ ation obtaining in the cotton markets, an "educationaT campaign" Is to be conducted, with meetings in every township. H. T. Morrison was in structed to appoint a chairman in each county who will direct the campaign. The object of tie meetings will be to inform the people as to the reason for demanding 35 cents a pound for their cotton and to explain to them how they can secure the money with which to keel) 'distress cotton' off the market." The meeting was held in the office of W. G. Smith, state warehouse coni missioner. Mr. Smith explained at the outset that the warehouse space available in the state was adequate to store the crop. He also emphasized that the banks had the money on de posit to make loans on cotton ware house receipts. IHe- explained that farmers could borrow 80 per cent of the price obtaining when cotton was stored. The interest rate, he said, was 6 per cent. Another important fact. emphasized by Mr. Smith, was that the cotton warehouse system of south Carolina has been linked with the bureau of markets'of the national department of agriculture and that a public grader is now cinected with the Columbia offices. This grader ;gves his services freely to all farmers who send their samples to Columbin. or makes trips to places where 1.0t) or more bales are to he graded. J. Whitner Reid. secretary of the State Farmers' union, acted as secre .tary of the meeting and read a letter to the cotton convention called for October- 2 in New Orleans. President Morr-ison and three former presidents. B. Harris, A. 3. Perritt and E. W. Dabbs were' named dlelegates. The next meeting of Southl Cariolina grow ers has beens called for October 10 and F. Hi. Hyatt has asked that the meeting be held at the Colon in Hotel. Many brief talks wer-e made during the meeting. Some of these wore by Mr. Morrison, E. W. Dabbs, J. 0. L. - White of Chester., M. 0. Danntzler of Orangeburg, 0 L Toole of Aiken, W. 0. Tatum of Orangeburg and F .H-. Hyatt of Columbiia. The r-esolut Ion. demanding 35 centa a pound for cot ton was introducedl by Mr-. TPoole. Starts Poultry Farm. Bamberg.-A new industr-y to he star'tedl here soon wvill be a poultry farm oper-at ed on an extensive scale to sup~ply eggs to wholesale dealer-s in Char-leston. Angusta and other- near-by markets. Nothing of this kind has ever- been undeirtakien in this immedi ato 'seetion before. but J. C. Byrd. who has recently moved here. has car-eful .ly Investigated the situation and be lieving that it will pr-ove a profitable business will shortly begin the enter prise. Mr. Byr'd is an old Bamberg boy' and was raised here. Dig Up Soldiers Bodies. Chattanooga. Tennn.-Thie bodies of threce Confeder-ate soldlier-s were uin covered by negro laborers while dig ging a water main line to a reser-voir In Snodgrass Hill at Chicamauga. The buttons of the uniforms bore a minia ture palmetto tree and the letters "S. .C.," indicating that the man lost their lives in the historic charge on Snod grass H-ill and were from South Caro lina. The bodies were rehtter-red at the Soiuth Carolina monumnent at Chickamauga, which is only a short distance from where they were found. School Heads at Greenwood. Greenwood. - Coun ty supeorintend ents of education fr-om 22 counties in the state were in session hoi'e last week. John E. Swearingen, state su perintendent of education, presided over the meetings. Hie is accompa nied by Lueco Guntei' of Columbia, his assistant. At the .first meeting the newly adopted text books and the nmatter of -Introduction of the' books into the putb. lie schools were discussed and today .high school mnatters, teachers, taxes and many othe nonucanel topics W. A. EKENGREN *r r W. A. Ekongren, minister from Swe den to the United States, may become involved in the expose of violations of neutrality by Swedish officials, for the American government is making an in vestigation t odetermine whether Swe den has assisted German intrigue against the United States as she did against Argentina. BRITISH HAVE GOOD SUCCESS FIELD MARSHAL HAIG'S MEN ARE AGAIN STRIKING IN FLAN DERS IN BIG DRIVE. Veritable I:iferno of Artillery Fire Is Opened in Early Morning and at Evening Important Enemy Positions Had Been Riddled. Field Marshal Haig's men again are striking in Flanders. and the force of their blow, like that of tlho;e that. have preceded It, is meeting with good results on a front of nearly six miles. Notwithstanding the necessity of carrying th battle to Crown Prince Rupprecht across uninviting ground virtually a morass owing to recent rains and against the inevitt ble con crete and steel redoubts and woods and shell craters teeming with rapid fire guns---the English, Scotch and Australian troops have snatched val uable Vantage i ints from the G:r mans, but not u hout terrible opp sition. Location of New Drive. Haig's new thru'st was (1el1veredl from the base of ,front line positions captured and consolidated last wecek, beOfore which the Germans held nu merous vantage points of strategie value, barring the way to further In roads by the BritiIsh or for hiarassinag the British line by machine gun aund rifle bullets. As on previous occasion. Haig loosed a veritable inferno of art ilry fire against the Germans b~efore( launching Is attack In the early hlours of WVedn esday morninig, and when night fell many important posi tions hadl been ridded of the enemy. but with thle Germans at numerous othier point~s savagely contesting thle r'ighit of way. Probably the miost signlificanlt gain of the British, which the Germans as nort was to a1 depth~l of two-thI)irds of ai mile at c'ertalin points, was near' Zonnebeke. to0 within a few hund red yards of the weistern ouitskirts of' which village t hey l)enetraated, plae' lng them11 about sixs miles from thi railway runining f'roml Os-tend tharougih Rtoulers and( IRoubaix to Lille. The cultting of this lhue, whIich seems to be the objctive of' Field Marshal Hig, wvouild seiously a ffect thIie tr~aans port of the Germans from their nlDVl bases at Ost end and Zeebrugge to the SERIOUS~ DISORDERS ARE OCCURRING IN ARGENTINE Buenos Airei.*--Ser~ions disorders ogenlrred in various p)arts of thle ('1P ital as tile result of an ant i-Germnan manifestati oll and strike agitations. As an outcome of thle firing upon01 street c'ars by stikiers or symipat hiz-. 'Jrs, 1an insp~ector' was killed and11 sev Orall Ipersons were wvoundeod. In sym-. pathy with the anti-German (lemon str'ation of business houses in the city closed thleir' doors. BAKER ISSUES FIRST OFFICIAL WEEKLY STATEMENT WVash ingtoni.-The Americana gov ernlment's first official statement conl. cerning militar'y operation in Edurope. Was issuedI by Secretary Baker, inau gulrating' a series whlichi in time will be devoted largely to activities of the United States expeditionary forces. it says though ascendency on the West ern front has plassed definitely to the allies, they are content merely to Wear down the. enemy unatil the force of American army mnke itelfr felt MANY EADERS OF I. WE W. INDICTED CHARGED WITH NAlION-WIDE CONSPIRACY TO 1'AMPER GOVERNMENT. W. d. HAYOOD OF FIRST TAKEN None But Members of i. W. W. Arc Included In the Blanket Indictment. -Thirty-five of the Men Wore Ar rested During First Hour. Chicago.-1Formal return of a blank et indictment charging a nation-wid conspiracy to hamper the government during the war, was made in the Unit ed States district court here against I 166 leaders of the Industrial Workern r of the World. Arrests speedily follow- ) ed the return. t Almost before the court proc(edings n had reached the state of the discharge l of the jury, deputy marshals were on c their way to the local 1. W. W. head- c quarters in automnobiles, donated and driven by women, and quickly return ed to the federal building bringing prisoners with them. In the first hour 35 men were thus haled into the marshal'n office and later were questioned by investiga tors for the department of justice. Among the first to be taken into custody was William B. Haywood, secretary of the national organization of the. I. W. W. who was questioned September 5 when the headquarters of the I. W. W. in various cities were raided by the government. An explanatory statement issued by the govcrnment. attorneys wih have directed the investigation of the se ditious conspirney, the crime of which the men named( in the indictments were accused. sai. "The prosecutions are under see tions (1. 19 and 37 of the criminal 1) code and under the espioniage act. C Only leaders in conspiraes of those Personally culpable in connection with the perpetration of crimes against the C United States are included as de- i fendants." To permit the sure arrest of the i indicted mhen, no hint of their names was permitted to escape during the - court pro-ceedings. d None but neimbers of the I. W. 'V. I was named in the indictmieut. the gov ernmen t. attorneys taking pains to specify that no others vere touched. 0 GULF COAST SECTIONS - I EMERGING FROM STORM New Orleans.- --The gulf coast see. 1 tion of cast ILiouisiana. Mississippi, A labana andt western e ilorida were I emerging from the battering of the tropical hurrieane which swept in f from the Gulf of Mexico near Pilot a Town. La. The course of the storm a shifted after striking Pilot Town from i northwest to notheast amd sweeping j3 across a narrow plortioni of southern a Louisiana,. missed New Orleans but ti struc-k G uliport. fliloxi and the Mis- f Sissippi coast section. swept through In AMobile, wh:lere t her v:-ind reached1 a ye- v locityv of 9(i miles an hour,. and extendl- It ed east beyond Pensacola, where ac- ti c-ordinig to latent re-pots reenved he'-e. J the wind was blowving 100 miles an s hour. HEAD-ON COLLISION KILLS 27, AND INJURES MANY!O Kellyville. Okla. - Twenty-seven ' ed and more than aii score injured in h3 a .iead-on v-ollision betwe~en a wesi boundI St. Louis and San Francisco t palrssenger- (rein and ani empty tri-. whic-h had been used for Itransp~orting~ j, troops, one mile soulthwerst or Kelly ville. At 9 o'clock thb bodies of seven white metn. thr-et Indians aind 17 ne. grtoes had been tnkr-tn from the w-r-ek arge of t he passenr no-ac hes,. thr-ee of whi(-h wer-e te-les'-eped. -i The pass-enger- traini is; said to have I be-en or-de-red to wa-it at a siding here for- (lie emplt y t roop i-a in to pass, but E i'or somei reasioni pulled out oif the sta tion and met the eastbound train head-on at a bridge nyer Pole Cat ' ereek. U. S. COMMISSIONER NICHOLS ENDS LIFE AT RALEIGHt Rlaleigh. N. C.--United States Corn miissioner- John NIchols, 84 years of j age, at one time a member of Con- jI gress, shot himself thr-ough the back 10 of the head in his offIce at the post- n office building hei-e and died a few h mitnutes after he had been rushed to 0 a lo-al hospital. Heo left a note ini his offic., which read: "Old, poor and t blind; what's tho use of living?" lie " was said to have beeni the oldest Ma- ~ son in North Carolina.. TRENCH AND CAMP TO F APPEAR ABOUT OCTOBER 8 WVashington.--Trench and Camp, the weekly newspaper- to be printed for- every ar-my camp thirouigh nation wide co-oper-ation of newspaper- pub lsher-s. wIll make its first appear-ance h about October 8. It. was to have op. petited a wveek earlier bu arrange ments or dhetalls in thme far- weet made ~ a postponiemendt necessary. The paper will be nublishmed uinder- the auspices ~ of the national war counceil of the Y. M.C. A. jr * < EDWARD E. BRITTON 4s : it. A . Edward E. Britton, editor of the Ra migh (N. C.) News and Observer, the ewspapcr owned and edited for many ears by Josephuc Daniels, now secre ary of the navy, has been appointed rivate secretary to Secretary Dan )ls. Mr. Britton has been secretary f the last two Democratic national onventions and has been prominent 1 politics for several years. EANS HELD WITHOUT BOND VAIVED EXAMINATION AT PRE LIMINARY HEARING AND CON SENTED TO BE BOUND OVER. lade Unsuccessful Effort to Get Seiz ed Documents.-Judge Webb Sign ed Order.-New York Papers in Clements Hands Now. Concord, N. C --:aston 11. Means 'aived examination in the midst of is preliminary hearing before a mug trate here and consented to be ound ever to the October tersm of the abarr s county grand jury on u liarge of having murdered Mrs 'aude A. King, of New York and hicago. Magistrate Pit is ordered im held without bail. Counsel for Means slated at thc earing they had "been informed that treats had been made" that New ork officials here had brought. extra ition warrants to take the defendant nl1 to New York on "son unidis osed crininai charge" and that the alt "hie wou0ild be0 safer inI the ctod0( f the sherif of this county." It alm ras announced that Means (it no estre to run the chance of facing an harges elsewhere with an unsettle nurder charge against. him in Nort 'arolina. This charge. his counst entendod. would be cleared away a he trail. The agreement came after counse or means had made an tcsuccessfu ttempt to get possession of paper. nd documents seized by District At >rney Swvanna's represenltatives ii leans' New York apartment, and wn: acompaniedl by a lengthy explana on by the defend~ant Of his reasomt >r abruptly endling his fight in th< agistratec's court. Mris. Mary C. AMel In. sister of the womian Mleans is al 'ged to have killed, joined him in oh lning a writ from s'uperior Court idge WVebb, at G]atonia, ordering As stant District Attorney-' Dooing, 01 ('w York. andi other New York amc hiceag() oltieals who came here witI oolinig to a)Id the prosecution, to turi ver the documents to the clerk oi e slupeior ('curt of Cabarrus county lie writ is madec ret urnable befort uperior Court .Judge (Cline at Salis uiry October 8. D ooli ng anid ot her o~'icials nia med Ii it order'c informied Sheriff CaldwelJ cal thle (dumentis referredl to wertC the possess5ioni of Solicitor Clement ho conducted thIie pro.secution ol leanis. The lat ter issuedl a statement ivying: "Wec will kr'cp thIe dlocumients un *ss Ordered'c by the courct after the earing to give t hem up."' NGLAND RAIDED AGAIN BY GERMAN AIRME~N core of CasualtIes ' Resulted Fron, Bombs, Say Reports. For the second~ night in suiecessiooi ercmaci airmen have raided the mtheastern soction of Englandi and aniclhed Londonl. The visitation ap airently was stacged earlier thani the ne on Moniday, hut the Germais did rat succ'eed in penetrating to thc t'art of the city, being stopped on the ctskirts b~y the defensive forces. A score of casualties are reported have becen caused bry the few bombs hich the Germans were able to drop atest reports on the raid of Mondcay ight show 15 dead and 70 injured. ERGUSON 1$ FORMALLY REMOVED FROM.OPPICE Austin, Texas.-James E. Fergusor 'as formally removed ,grom office as overnor of Texas and barred fronm ereafter holding any public office "o1 onor, trust or profit" by the adopstiori the senate high court of impeach, ent of the majority report of a spe. al committee of the senate. Thet ajority report was adopted1, after a inority report, recomihlending only moval from office, had boen defeated. 2NO LIBERTY LOAN TO BE THREE BILLION DENOMINATION OF NEW BONDS WILL BE $50 AND MULTIPLES OF $50. INTEREST RATE 4 PER CENT Maturity in 25 Yoar.-Subscriptions Payable Two Per Cent Upon Appli cation; It , Ilments Monthly of 18, 40 and 4C er Cent. WVashington. -- Secretary McAdoo announced the details of the second liberty loan, which will be offered to the public October 1. The chief fea tures are: Amount-S3,000,000,000 or more, the excess not to exceed one-half of the amount of over-subscript ion. Terms of bonds-Maturity, 25 years; redemnable at the option of the secre tary of the treasury in 10 years. Denominations of bonds-$50 and multiples of $50. Interest rate--Four per cent, pay able semi-annually on November 15 and May 15. Terms of payment-Two per cent upon application. 18 per cent Novem ber 15, 40 per cent December 14 and 40 per cent January 13, 1918. The privilege of converting bonds of this issue into bonds of any suc ceeding issue bearing a higher inter est rate than four per cent during the period of the war Is extended, and through an arrangement under which bonds will 1) printed with only four coupons instead of. 50 (to be exchang ed at ti end of two years for the bonds containing the full number of coupons deliveries will be prompt. In this manner the issue of interim cer tificates will be avoided. TO REQUISITION ALL BIG AMERICAN MERCHANT VESSELS. Shipping Board to . Take Over on October 15 All Ships Available For Ocean Service.--Rates Fixed. Washington.-Every American mer chant vessel of more than 2,500 tons dead weight. capacity available for ocean service will be r'equisitioned by the government October 15, the ship ping board announced in a statement giving the charter rates at which the vessels will be taken over. American (ships available for ocean trat'fe total slightly more than two million tons, but some already have been taken over for the army and navy, In most. instances, except where re quired for actual goy:rernmlent ser'vice, t the ships, it was said. will be turned back to their owners for operation on government account subject at all times to any disposition the shipping board may direct. The rates announced will cut sharp. ly the )resenlt charter rate charged by ,Apierican vessels for carrying govern ment su!pplies. It is tihe inutention, is undrstoodt pl, heQ ae to any oregn sipscharere inthe United States. The chartering wIll be in the hiands of tihe shipping board's chartering commission. ICOMMITTEE WILL INVESTIGATE USE OF GERMAN MONEY Wash illgton .---lqui ry by the H ouse committee into whethler German money has been used to intluene Congress prob~ably was prop~osed in ,~ resolution sp)onsored by the rules cc 2 mittee andic suppI)od by t he Decmo era tic leaders. Demands 'for' an1lexhaustive Iiquiry overwhelmed house leadlers from bo0th sides while the rules committee in e xecutive sess ion was con sideinug Iwhether to report favorably one of tile several r'esolutioins inltroduced slice Secretary Lansing mladel publlic Count von Blernstorlfs message to Berl'lin asking authority to 51pend( $50, 000 llnfluencinug Congress as it had been done befrore. All efforts of committe,'men to get Mr. Hellin to niame some1 of thie mien he had in mind failed, but lie reliterat ed his willingne~ss to'nne them if a committee were appoinltel by the( Democratic caucus. DEFER ACTION ON ALIEN SLACKER LEGiSLATION Washington..-Objections to enaet ment of any alien slacker legIslation at present, v'oiced by Secretary Lhan sing before the hlouse mliitary affairs' committee, resultedl ini a committee vote to inidefinitely postpoone aetion. CThairman Dent later saId that th,3 secretar'y's statement that the state department, was negotiatIng with oth er countries to effect a result e!quiva lent to enactment of "allen slacker" legislationl was responsible for vote. AIRPLANE AMBULANCE SUCCESSFULLY TESTED Paris.-- Tihe airplane ambulane that has been tried qut successfully in recent tests is the invention of D~r. Chassaing, of the Frenlch military sanitary service, wwho 'represented a wounded pass~enger dluring the initIal trials, occupyIng e of tihe two stretchers, tilt t are placd In tile tail box of tile maichine behind tile lpilot. A successful test of tihe machum at one of the Frenchl aIrdromeos was wit. nessed by Justlin Godnrd. NOTICE T9o, SICKWOMEMI Positive Proof That Lydia E, Pinkhaed s Vegetable r;," Compound Relieves Suffering. Bridgeton,N.J,-"I cannot speak too highly of Lydia E. Plnkham's Veget. blo Compound. for inflammation and other weaknesses. I was very irregular and would have ter. rible pains so that I could hardly take a step. Sometimes I would be so misera. ble that I could not sweep a room. I doctored partof the time but felt no range. I later took Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and soon felt a change for the better. I took it until I was in good healthy condition. I recommend the Pinkham remedios to all women as I have used them with such good results."-Mrs. MILFORD T. CUM MINUS, 822 Harmony St., Penn's Grove, N. J. - Such testimony should be accepted by all women as convincing evidence of the excellence of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for the distressing ills of women sueh as displacements, inflammation,ulceration, backache, painful periods, nervousness and kindred ailments. Children Want to Know. Illstory repeats herself, but a child Is ulways orig'nal. 8mnil Marjorie was most Intelligent ly concerned over motion pictures of the war. When she failed to under stand n sit untion she asked for infor mtion. "Vhy are those ten stooping under thnt bridge, mnother'?" Mother explained that they were go ing to b)low it up. "Oh ! Will they have brenth enough?" St. Louis Lady Cured of Eczema. 6639 Vernon St.. St. Louts. Mo. I have had Eczema for four yearn and have tried everything possible to cure it. without suecoss, until I tried Tetterine.. Your medicine has cured me after six months' trial. Miss A. B. King. Tetterino cures 1Dczema. Itching Piles Ring Worm, Dandruff and every form of Scalp and Skin Disease. Tetterine 50c; T"tterino Soap 25c. At druggists or by mail direct from The Shuptrine Co.. Sa. vannah, On. With every mnilt order for Tetterine we give a box of Shuptrlne's 10e Livor Pills free. Adv. The impatient Guest. IIeloise of' the rapid-fire resraurant was reliti at.o ('laudine, another wait ress in the siane establishment, certain interesting episodes whhic occurred at the lartenders' hall on the pervious night. "All in the living world I says to Ilughie wts-" "Sn-a-ny !" sareticihlly snarled a hypercritical customer, "Piml still wait ing for my (rdcer ! Is this a restaurant or nn eloetitiotary entertainment?" "Aw. listen to the living skeleton hgv Ing a fit on the tiled floor!" coldly re torted 1 ('loiX. "I says to Iughie, 'Inlgble,' I stiys, 'I wouldn't have thoughi It of' you !' .Just like that." Perfectly Ridiculous. "It's too bad1( thait you brokc your doll," commenl'tted the canlier. "Ti's doll is not brokeni," corrected the child gravely. "Oh, Isn't It ? I thought that wvas the' dolt that used to cry 'Mammnnia l' wheinn It wats (lueezed." "This is the me~t( 'doll. But you must remember I ita ts severnl years age. She Is lmuch'l outer no0w. You dog't expect a grown-up~ young lndy' to cry 'Maunu l' when shte is rqueezed do you?"C Thie enuler had to ne(knlowledge that wte ver she' 'X expected, it pralV~ily win~ii~'t. takhe pinte. Dyspeptic Dangers. "Is t his wart briend, moy denr?"' "No; why3 (d0 you as8k?" "'It looks to me ax If a tman hnd only a f1itig clante wi th it.'' Somie folks minkel a secially3 or ex. chantg ig t heir brass for othem'r peoplei's POSTUM has be adopted as the table beverage mn many a home be cause of its pleasing flavor and healthful itature