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? VOLUME XXVI. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1910. NUMBER 3 LAURENS FARMERS HOLD "RALLY DAY" Mr. Campbell of Washing ton Makes Address. I INTERESTING FIGURES Wonderful Increase in Corn Produc tion in This State?Mooting Was Slmly Attended. Yesterday (Tuesday) was advertised as "Farmer's Rally" day for Laurent* and a handful of fanners and a small number of the members of the Boys' Corn Club were present to listen to Mr. J. C. Campbell of the Bureau of Plant Industry, at Washington. Mr. Campbell did not seem at all discouraged by the smallness of the audience but pleasantly referred to the fact that he did not always have large audiences; that experience bad taught him that one day he might have MOO or 400 farmers present (as at Abbeville a few days ago) the next he might have a very few (as at Laurens Tuesday. Different interests in dif ferent communities could no more he explained than why one man should be content to produce Hi to 10 bushels of corn to the acre where another was making 100 bushels on land of same character. Me stated that the census bureau showed that the average earning ca pacity of a South Carolina farmer was only $1 II, while the average earning capacity of an Iowa farmer was $1,100. That in natural advantages we excelled the people of the North West : our land was naturally as fertile, climate much better and our people more Intelligent and responsive. The trouble was our people had Inhertted a different system of agriculture. He cited an instance of where he found nearly nil the farmers of a county of North Carolina in a bad way financial ly, brought about by the culture of to bacco. In a county of Virginia lie found an entirely different condition: everybody seemed prosperous, and was told it was brought about by the culture of tobacco. The difference was that in the Virginia county the farmers produced their home supplies, through tho aid of live stock, while the North Carolina farmers bought their home supplies, together with theii live stock and fertilizers. The one had tobacco as a surplus; tbe other had nothing left when these were set tled for. That the farmers of South Carolina had paid out an average of $!?'? per bale for fertilizers to nrodUC3 last year's crop of cotton, when by prop er methods of agriculture practically all of this money would be saved to the farmers and at the same time the lands made vastly more productive. He was gratified at the increasing Interest in agriculture. Three years ago there was produced in 'South Car olina only 17 million bushels of corn while last year U7 millions of bushels were produced. Our common schools should teach elementary agriculture and the boys instructed In the possibilities of suc cessful agriculture. Mr. Campbell regretted that none of the other speak< rs who were ex pected were able to be present but he made a splendid talk for more than an hour and those who were BO ii<; lunate as to hear him were delighted. Your Name on Club List2 The rules of the Democratic party governing primary elections, require that the name of each voter entitled to participate in the election bo enrolled on the club rolls of tho precinct In which said voter resides. Those who will become twenty one years of age before tho general election in Novem ber are entitled to vote in the primary, but their names must be placed on the club list on or before Thursday, Au gust 25, if they wish to vote in tho forthcoming primary election. CAMPAIGN ENDS NEXT WEEK. The Meeting at Laurens WHI be Held on Friday, August 2(1. Tho State campaign is drawing to a close. On Saturday the voters of Oconee heard the campaigners. After an interval of a week, the campaign will bo resumed at Anderson next Monday. On Friday the party will reach Laurens for the meeting at this place, and on Saturday the final en gagement will be held et Newherry. NEWS OF THE WEEK FROM CROSS HILL Three Deaths This Week?l'i? ?rncted Meeting Closed?Personal Para graphs and Other Items. Cross Hill, August 15.?Miss Cora Nelson of Spartanburg is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Nelson this week. An old negro, Messer Cannon died near Cross Hill last Friday, said to he 10S years old. He was employed as blacksmith for many years, by the late Col. J. G. Williams. Miss Annie Turner died at (he home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alf Turn er Tuesday of last week and was buried at Hathabara Wednesday. Miss Turner has been sick for several weeks. She was about im years old. .Miss Sallie Halliway died last Wed nesday and was buried at Cross Hill Thursday. Miss Holliway was 82 years old and had made her home with , Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Campbell who died this year, this being the third death in the family since April. Miss Kate Hargrove of Whit mire is a Cross Hill visitor this week. Miss Elise Kudd and sister, of Sa luda were the guests of the Misses Kudd here the past week. Mr. Sam Todd ami family of Clin ton were with relatives in Cross Hill hist Thursday till Saturday. The many friends of Miss Connie Martin will be delighted to know that the crisis has past and her condition is much improved and her friends hope for a speedy recovery, after a serious illness of about eight weeks. The protracted meeting at the Pres byterian church closed last Thursday night. Crops are needing rain very badly in this immediate vicinity. Rev. .lames Bradley of Jackson, Ga. is visiting in Cross Hill and preached I at the Presbyterian church bist night. Missis Henry and Hassel I Miller of Whitmire spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Miller.' LIVE AK0l .\J> OKAY COURT. ^ Kcv. David .1. Blaokwell Preaches Two Excellent Sermons. Cray Court. August 15.?Mrs. R. L. Cray and a party of young boys and girls are on an extended trip to the mountains of North Carolina, via the wagon route. Miss Ethel Willis and Mr. Roy Cray are visiting friends around Rnbun church. Miss Lucy Peden is on an extended visit to her sister. Mrs. D. A. Wamer at St. George. Mrs. 1). 1).-Peden is visiting friends in New berry. Mr. .). Nye Wilson visited friends at Clinton Saturday and Sunday. Rev. D. J. Blackwcll of Eulalia. Ala., preached two very earnest and effec tive sermons here Sunday one at the Presbyterian church Sunday morn ing and at the Methodist churcli Sun day afternoon. Miss Electa Rhodes and Beulah Cunningham of Greers are visiting relatives and friends in town. Mr. H. D. Burdine of New York city is in town for a few days, visiting his father. Miss Lizzie Owings of Columbia Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. M. Owings. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Curry are expect ed to arrive here from Asheville to day as they will make this their fu ture home. Miss Lillie Willis and Daisy Putnam leave today for Atlanta, where they will enter the millinery business. SI KYlVOltS MKET AT OLD I MON. Annual Reunion of Several Companies Wus iL ol on Saturday. The annual reunion of the sur vivors of several Laurens county Con federate commands was held at Union church last Saturday with a large : crowd in attendance, as usual. The exercises of the day were pre sided over by Capt. B. L. Henderson. i Appropriate addresses and tnlks were' made by Veteran Henry Puller, Prof. W. P. Culbertson and Mr. Cratton : Macfarlane, the young son of flic Rev. , Allen MacFarlane, both of whom have been on a visit to Laurens from Ma rien county. Mayor Gay nor Will Recover. Mayor (iaynor of New York who was shot by a man named Gallagher last I Tuesday morning, is now considered I in a tnir way to recovery. He was shot in tho neck, and It is said that the bullet missed the jugular vein on ly about one eigth of an inch. Galla gher was arrested. He Is said to be insane. JOEL E.BRUNSON ATTACKS RECORD OF CANDIDATE C. C. FEATHERSTONE To the Editor Oi The State: I regret to see in today's issue of your paper that our Abbeville associa tion lias ' rushed into print" in defense of Mr. Peatherstone as the prohibi tion candidate for governor. Espe cially so as there are two other pro hibition candidates without blemish in the held. i have read carefully every edito rial of yours commenting on Mr. Fea therstone's course, and there is not an expression unsupported by the facts1 of this ease?not a line that can be termed unjust. When Mr. Feather Btone Brat became a candidate, his pro hibition views were so closely akin to license as to win a large part of the liquor vote of Charleston. If the pro hibitionists of the State had voted for! him (as did the liquor element of Charleston) he would have been elect.! ed. Ever since 1 s'.iS lie has been printing his views and Interviews so that every intelligent man in the State knows he did not reach a dear-out prohibition platform until a majority of the voters had expressed them selves in favor of It. Quite ii number (if prominent pro hibitlonists met in Columbia, June 15, 1905, and adopted a resolution in fa vor of calling a state convention and appointed a committee to arrange for and call the convention. When tho committee met (Oct. ati) during fair week, Mr. Feathorstorie was present !i!!(! moved, That it would he unwise to put in (lie Held a State prohibition ticket," and it was adopted. Finding he hud a majority of the few present voting with him lie then moved, "That hereafter all the work of the prohi bitionists he done through the Law and Order league." What looks so had about the matter Is not the pur pose io disband the prohibitionists, hut the fact that Mr. Feat herstone had, just a few weeks before, joined in a meeting to put in the held a state tiekei on a prohibition-license platform. ? If he participated in that mooting in the Jerome hotel, he had no moral right in the prohibition committee. Joel B. Itrunsou. Sumter, Aug. i". l:?10. Mr. C. C, Fcatherslone LAURENS WAN MAKES REPLY TO BRUNS?N To the Edltor of The State: I ask that .J^ou he kind enough to ' print tlie following In reply Id the card of Joel 1". Brunson, which ap pears in today's State. I dislike exceedingly to be forced : into the public prints, but Mr. Brun. I sou is so absolutely mistaken In bis facts as to make a relpy necessary. Mr. Brunson makes the charge that in IMiX my views were "so closely akin to.license as to win a large part of the liquor vote of Charleston." Now, Mr. Brunson knows, or ought to know, that in IN!'* 1 made the tight for straight prohibition; that from j every stump in South Carolina I made prohibition speeches (Charleston in cluded, i lie further knows, or ought to know, (hat Charleston was violent;.. Opposed to Oov. Kllerbe's reelection; \ that in the first race I pot almost no j votes in Charleston but (hat, in the second race, on account of Charles ton's dislike of Ellerbe, I got a ma jority there. Tbl* is all a matter which : was fully understood by the public and may almost be said to he a matter of record. I do not desire to he harsh. Mit I do desire to make the statement that aflhy charge or insinuation to the effect that I was or have ever been untrue to the prohibition cause, or that I sought the license vote in Charleston is absolutely untrue. In this connection I also desire to remind the people of the fact that Mr. Brunson was chosen as our stand-; aid hearer in 1898. I was not on the ticket to start with, the late I.. I). Childs heing Chosen as our candidate for lieutenant governor. Mr. Childs declined to make the race and the executive committee substituted myi name for bis. At first I too declined to make the race, hut finally consented to do so, at the urgent solicitation of Mr. Brunson. The first meeting was at Orangeburg. On my way to the Orangehurg meet ing (between Columbia and Orange burg) ! si v a card in The Stnlo from Mr. Brunson declining to innko the canvass. I went on to Ornngeburg, not know ing what l was going to do. After get ting there and consulting with friends (A. C. Jones and others), it was de cided that I should make the race for governor, or rather file my pledge, in I order to meet the crisis that was then on us. This I did. on condition that Mr. Brunson should be notified that l would withdraw and let him come fit i and make the fight If he would do so. Upon getting to Charleston, two days after 1 wrote Mr. Branson, urg ing him to come in and make '.lie fight ami telling him that I would withdraw and assist him in the up-country. This be refused to do, and, later on, w hen it looked RS though i might win. ho came out and fought me. Such are the facts in reference to the 1898 campaign. Now as to what occurre in HtO">. A conference of prohibitionists was lndd at the Jerome hotel in Columbia, attended by Joseph A. McCulloUgh, I,nuis J, BristOW, S. M. Crist, Dr. Ceo. B. Croilier, myself and others, whose names I do not now recall. The object of the conference was to discuss the situation in general and to consider the advisability of putting out a ticket in 1906. Mr. Brunson was not at that confer ence. At that conference it wns de cided that it would not be wise to put out a ticket. It. was also decided that we would attend the conference during fair week, which had been ? ?ailed, or which wo anticipated would be called by Mr. Brunson and certain others, and do what we could to keep them from putting out a ticket. i did attend the fair week confer ence at which Mr. Brunson urged the putting out of a ticket. I did oppose it and it was almost unanimously de cided (as I recollect it, Mr. Brunson bring the only one to vote on his (Continued on page five.) DEATH ON SATURDAY OF MR. B. W. LA IN FORD Aged Citizen and Kx-Confcdorute Sold lor Died at His Home at Lim ford After Long Illness. Week by week (In- thin grey line grows thinner. Another gallant sold ier of the Confederate army lias an swered the final summons. On Sat urday morning just at 8 o'clock, Mr. r.enj. W. Latlford, a well known cit izen Of 1.aureus county, died of Bright s disease at his home at Ban ford, after an illness nf several months On Sunday afternoon at " o'clock funeral services wen? held from the Ban ford Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. II M. Pallaw of Woodruff. Benjamin Wofford Lnnford was in the seventy-sixth year of Iiis age. lie was a good man. esteemed by all as a line citizen and Christian gentleman, When the War Between the Stales broke out ho volunteorod as a mem ber of Company G (1.aureus Briars) Third South Carolina regiment. lie went out as a sergeant., but was soon promoted to third then Hist lieutenant of his command. At tho battle of Chlcknmnuga, Sept. 20, in?'>.'!. Lieuten ant Lnnford received a serious wound which disabled him for the remainder of the war. During the last year ol the war Mr. Lnnford was elected sher iff of Laurens county and served until 186(5 when he resigned, In 1*7?! with Dr. .lames Knight, his brother-in-law, he Hindu an OXpldltion to Texas, re turning (o Laurens the same year. lb- was twice married. Iiis Hist wife being a Miss Knight, daughter of Itev, Silas Knight of the county, who died in tiie early seventies. Two sons, Messrs Ciilliam and PitX.llUgll Bee Lnnford, of this union survive. A few years later Mr. Lnnford was mar ried to Miss Mattie Morgan id' Spar tnnburg county, she survives, to gether with two daughters. Misses Ktolia ami Florric Lnnford, und one son. Mr. J, Bel ton O'Nonll Lnnford, all of Lnnford. ('apt. John \V. Lnn ford was an only brother. Several sisters. Including Mrs. J. i). Johnson of Lhnford, survive. At tho time of his death. Mr. Lan ford was chairman of tho Lnurons county registration board and adju tant of (Sump (iarlington, United Con federate Veterans, lie was aho a member of the Lnnford llaptlsl church, having served .-;s one of the deacon for many years. .MKS. MANY B. ItAItkSllALi:. Life of a >l<sf Kstiiuuhlc Lad) Comes to a Close. Mrs. Mary Hums Bnrksdale, widow of the late Mr. Nathan L. Barksdalc who died in IS93, passed away Sunday afternoon at o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ('has. B. Bobo, West Main street. At ii o'clock Monday (he funeral and burial services were held at Highland Home church, near Marks dale, the Bev. 10. C. Watson and Rev. W. K. Thayer. both of (his city, of ficiating. Mrs. IJarksdnle yas 7(1 years of are and her life was a beautiful exempli cation of Christian devotion and 01 deavor. The dec-eased was n daughter of Christopher Burns of Laurens coun ty and until a few years ngo she re sided in the vicinity of Barksdalc. For years she was a member of (he Highland Home Baptist, church, and tills church and the Baptist denomina tion of the county have given up one whoso saintly spirit was a benedic tion and blessing to (he communities in Which her life was spent. Her surviving children are Mrs. C. B. BobO, Mrs. Frank J. OwlngS, Of Laurens, Messrs W. If. Bniksdalo of Barksdalc. C. B. and W. B. Barksdalc of Oklahoma. Cotton Poor, (ore Good. In a card to W. L. Taylor of The Advertiser, Mr. J. J, Bendy of tili? city. who. with Mrs. Dcndy is oil ;;:i extended visit lo Arkansas and Okla homa, says in part! "Cotton is poor in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi; in Arkansas it is tine. Corn is due in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas. I am now at London, Ark.. bUl will leave in few days for Oklahoma. It is raining here now. This will be the fall to hold Cotton, in my opinion." For The Hoys' Corn Clnh. Hon. w. B. Kichey announces that he will give live dollars in gold to the member of the County Boys' Corn club who makes the tenlarge-t qara of corn. This prize is offered in ad dition to the list as printed in ",': <? Advertiser already. CAMPAIGN MEETING HELD AT CROSS HILL Candidates Allowed All the Time They Desired. DR. MILLER*S~GREETIIN(j A Itnrhccucd Dinner and Refreshments Wer? Served Outline of Hit' Speeches I ellvered. The last meeting of (ho county cam paign, until next .Monday, was hold at doss Hill last Saturday. Tho day was ideal and the candidates all in line form. There wan a good crowd and all the speakers were accorded nil attentive hearing. Cross Hill seem cd partial only to her own candidates. Dr. .1. II. Mill. . . and Mr W. It. Fuller. These two gcutlcmou In turn were es pecially gracious to the other candi dates. A harhcoucd dinner was served and the ladies of the I'.. W, Hall Chapter of the C. D. ("s. served Ice cream, lemon ade and lunches. At the outsei I he chairman stated thai all the time needed would he al lowed ea<h candidate and not hoiug cramped for time (hoy all made much heiler speeches than were made at. I.aureus on Hi" opening day of Ilm eampai.cn. There were quite a number or Indien present ami tho candidates threw lots of houo.ni Is al the audience. In Cros Hill honipiets are easy; they are do ' served. The people are ch ver and hospitable; they are prosperous; they have <?nc of Iho very besl towns in lilO county and it is lo re (hill the first monument in the county is erect od t<> Our Confederate dead: and it is indeed a creditable structure. Township chairman. M. V. Simpson being indisposed, the meeting was called to order by Dr. J. II. Miller, who welcomed the candidates to Cross Hill and extended to Ihcm the hospi tality of the city and the homes of , her people. Mr. <;. M. Hannah pre sided over the mooting. Kor the Legislature, .hired I). Sullivan was t In; (i i. I speaker, lie favored pensions fprCou federatc veterans; favored state guar anteeing title to lam! (Torrens sys tem); was opposed to any law which would lend to oliiniliati small banks; < wanted men to go to I H. laluro who knew what iho farmer! needed; en larged upon the Improved agricul tural conditions of the county and ; defends himself against general charg es of extravagance on the part of tho last legislature. Ruvors improvement in method of assessing ia\<s: ami de fends the establishing ot the olllco ol Insurance commissioner. Mr. W. H. Itlcliey, Si Wanted Hit people to semi men to the legislature who understood the law above all the best men; men n de. honest, com potent and onergel'.c. Though! ho could compete with the "Olnnts" who were already there. Had started out. to preach extravagance; charged no individual but Charged lh<- general as sembly; attacked the ofllcc of Insur ance commissioner as being usoless; also board of lognl examiners; also ofllcc of name wanbn and under wardens, niid cited statistic ?>?. show general extravagance. He criticized the passage of duplicate nets, citing several which pi rtuiiied to the city and county of Lames, charged that rich people were not paying their share of the (axes ami that (lie hnnkH Of Charleston were Violating tho law as to the amount of noit-taxahlo se curities which Ihey held. Chnrg id that taxes on lands in il Iff ereilt sec tions of the Slate were no' equali/ed. Was in favor of the common schools and of good roads; was opposed to liquor ami opposed to restricting the primary. Mr. w. c. irby, Jr., explained tin passage of duplicate acts. Had done all that he could to prevent extrava gance; cited pills thai be vote d against. as extravagant; had opposed the legal commission bill. Had preferred ap propriating money ior the mainten ance of a ward in hospital for the caro of Confederate veterans to the build ing of sieme monuments. Critlcl ! railroad rate' discrimination ami e lunged that in senne: instam cs tho railroad commission had fought bills IntendOtl to relieve the people, Had offered a bill in the- house requiring oil mills ui put in machinery which, wenilel eliminate' so much bulb in \hJ meal; bollevo the" mills are put tin/ (Continued on page ? Ight.)