Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FIRK JIF, V8 PENSION ACT. Laorcns lire Department Interested In This. Insurance Commissioner McMaster hai addressed a letter to all Insurance companies, notifying them of the cities and towns In Sou fa Carolina tlutt have inn (he requirements of the firemen's i> nslon act. By the act every lire Insuranco company Hocused to do business in this State is required to make a true account of all pro. mlums received from lire insurance business done during the year ending December :;i in any incorporated city or town in the State, complying with the terms of the act and having a reg ularly organized Are department, with fire apparatus to the value of $1,000. There is a tax, of ! per cent, ror th? pension fund. Such returns are to be mad1 within day* after Doceiubor ill of each year. The following towns are given us having complied with the law: Alken, Anderson, Helton. Hamberg, Beaufort, BIshopville, Camden, Char leston, Chester. Clinton. Columbia, Darlington, Florence, Oaffney, George town, Greenville, Greenwood. Ilarts viiie. Klngstree, Laurens, Manning. Newberry, Orangeburg, Rock f fill. Spartanburg, Sumter, t'nlon, Walter boro. Jl'DGE GRIFFIN I) KAI?. Probate Judge of Greenwood Count) and Prominent (ill/on. Greenwood, Dec. ".. Vincent Grll lit . Judge of probate oi Greenwoot county, died at ids home hero yester day afternoon at :'. o'clock, His death ' . been ex pooled for some time. He bad a Blight stroke or paralysis two yci rs ago and about three weeks ago he bad another, and since that time his condition has been critical. Judge Griffin was the second judge of probate Greenwood county has had. II. was olected to succeed the late Capt. \V. K. Cothran. Judge Griffin was reolected this summer for an other four-year term but this term did not begin until January 1. The burial was held today at Mt Moriah church, conducted by Green wood lodge, No. 91, A. F, M. His pastor, Rev. Geo. N. Cowan, con ducted the funeral. Judge Griffin is survived by his wife and three children of his first marriage: George W. Grltlln ot Green ville, James N. Griffin and miss Mabel Griffin, of Greenwood, and a brother. Thos. .1 Griffin, of Green wood. He was In his 71th year. ONE SIXTEENTH NEGRO. Tlutt Much Brings (Uder Clussltlcu of Colored In ? ?ashlngton. Washington, Dec. 5.?The- posses Kion of oiio-slxteenth of negro blood brings ? person under tbe classlflca tlon of "colored," according to the decision of the district court of ap peals today. In the case of Isabel I. Wall. S years obi. against the board of education. The evidence showed that the Wall girl had one-sixteenth of negro blood In her veins, and Justice Wright in the district supreme court upheld the action of the board of education In barring the child from the while school. Chief Justice Sbepard of the appellate court today affirmed that decision. Pood For Thought, Also. Governor Vessey of South Dakota is reported to have s,.:d: "The cosl of living is not an issue in Dakota, We are always glad to see the prices of foods go up. We raise 'em you know." What, for Instance' does a man care about the price of oysters in the open market if he has a bed for his own use in his own creek in front of his own house? Neither Dakota can raise tbe variety of foods that South Carolina can raise. Iloth Dakotas endure bard and long winters. The problem of keeping the house warm Is a grave one. Coal commands high price. Wood also is at ?i premium. Yet the people of the Da kotas get along very well, and chlef y because they have enough sense to supply themselves with food before raising products for the market. A farmer in the Dakotas does not go lo town to buy bacon when he can produce it at home for almost noth ing. He can live and live well while spending but a very small sum of money. Hard times and money panics do not bother him because he eats no matter what Wall strooi is doing." What of this State? It is possible to raise bogs here? it is. and at a cost of production abnormally low. Can we raise beef? Why. in the early days of the colony the greatest industry was the salting and sale of beef, and all historians record how rapidly cattle multiplied although uutended and un fed by their owners. Is our soil ill adapted to corn? On the contrary In this State have been produced tbe largest crops to the acre recorded any where in the country. Can we pro duce other cereals? Yea, every cereal that is worth while. Here hay. alfalfa, wheat, oats, barley, cassava and rice reach their highest perfection. Were not a pound of cotton produced In the State, every twenty-acre farm could support a family well. We send our truck Into the early markets. On the lower coast sweet potatoes grow as readily as weeds, and they are the finest, sweetest sweet potatoes known anywhere. All fruits flourish, even the semi-tropical ones. Our nut trees do well. Within the borders of South Carolina can be produced every food necessary to the human being, and produced Just as cheaply as anywhere else in tbe world. Tbe prosperity of this State will never he at the flood-tide until ever} farm in it Is itself complete as a food producer. Our making money on om crop to buy the products of othei ! farmers in other States is not wise. Such money as the farmer obtains should be almost entirely clear profit, lb- should not be forced to buy staple foods at any time. His success is in evitably dependent on his ability to feed himself from his own farm. This Is not a new thought. It has been talked of before, and followed. Our planters are now more nearly self-fed than at any time <n recent years. The movement to produce a food crop as well as a. money crop is well under way. In another decade food Im portations into South Carolina should be decreased per capita by half.? News and Courier. NeW series of Standard I'.llldlUg and Loan association starts December IT?, 1910. Moles Friends of the Farmer. A distinguished naturalist carefully examined tbe stomachs of lifteeU moles caught in different localities, but failed to discover therein the slightest ves tige of plants or roots; on the contrary, they wire tilled with the remain* of earthworms. Not satislied by this fact, he shut up several moles in a box containing sods of earth, on which fresh jxrass was growing, anil a smaller cage of grubs and earthworms. In nine days two moles devoured 349 white worms. 103 earthworms. 'J5 cat erplllai'S and a mouse (skin and hones), which had been alive in tbe box. He next gave them nothing but vegetables in twenty-four hours two moles died of starvation. Another naturalist cal culated that two moles destroyed 20. 000 white worms or grubs In n single year. If this is correct It Is a stroug Argument In favor of multiplying rather than destroying the moles. Let you boy or girl take a few shares in the Standard Building and Loan association and save their pennies. Big: Introductory Sale Continues Cutting Prices Does Not Express it, We Are Slashing Them Right and Left_ The crowds increase daily Hurry and get on the ground floor Just a few bargains to show how things are going Sheeting worth 8'(c yard, sale price 5c One lot Ladies' $1.50 .Shoes to go at 85c One lot Men's $2.00 Shoes to go at $1.19 Amoskeag Teazle Down worth 12 y*c yard, 9c Men's Water Proof Work Shoes cheap at $3.50, sale price #2.48 The best values in Ladies* Cloaks you ever saw. Ladies' Heavy Shoes, the $t.J$ kind at the pair #1.19 W. L Phillips At Simmons Old Stand :-: Laurens, S. C. 3C We have just received at Mountville One Car Load of Mules 3, 4 and 5 years old Every single animal is in tip top shape and ready for the farm. We expect to seil them aii at lYiountvIHe within the next few days, so the earlier you come the better stock you will find. It will pay you to see me before buying or trading Mules. Jno. N. Simmons V Mountville, S. C.