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Mrs. H. K. Alken spent the week end In Clinton with friends. Mr. Wash Pitts, of Clinton, spent the day In the city yesterday. Mr. C. H. Hicks lias returned home after a short visit in Tennessee. Mr. Norwood Vance, or Green/wood, was in the city on business Monday. ?Mrs. W. P? Childress is spending some time in Fountain Inn with rela tives. Miss Lola Fuller of Columbia, Ga., Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Tune. (Mr. R. W. Boatman, of Cross Hill, was a business visitor in the city Monday. Miss Grace Dupre, of 8partamburg, Is the guest of Mrs. W. B. Lucas for a few days. Mr. P. D. Moore, of Knoxvtlle, spent Sunday In the city with Mr. and Mrs. John Hioks. Mr. C. R. Bishop spent yesterday in Fountain Inn on business 1n connec tion with real estate. Miss Annie RIchey has returned home after an very pleasant visit with relatives in Abbeville. Mrs. E. J. Gage, of Greenville, visit ed relatives in the city during the lat ter days of la?t week. Mr. L. E. Burns left yestorday for Spartanburg where he will remain for several days on business. Mr. Tom Lake, who is attending Wofford colloge spent a few days here with homefolks this week. Miss Julia Nevlllo, of Clinton, spent several days of last week as t'ie guest of Dr. and Mrs. H. K. Alken. Mr. T. E. Boyce, the well known merchant of Lydia mill, was a business visitor in the city Monday. Mr. C. H. HJlcks, after a pleasant . visit with relatives in Sevlervllle, k Tenn., has returned to the city. \ Miss Grace Barksdalo, of Green wood, spent the week-end In the city as the guest of Miss Dorothy Hudgens. Miss Mary Belle Fuller spent sever al days of last week In the city with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. S. Fuller. Mrs. A. D. Gray fs expecting Miss Minnie Faul, of Baltimore, to arrive in the city to be her guest for some time. Miss Adeline Johnson, of Newberry, has been visiting Miss Mary Todd and other friends in the city for several days. Messrs. J. A. Cannady and P. E. Cooper from, near Gray Court wore among the visitors In Laurens last Thursday. Mr. Ed. Hart Instructor in Mathemat ics at the University of South Carolina spent Sunday in the city with Ms mother. Mrs. D. W. Cochrane, of Greenville, has been visiting at the home of Rev. W. E. Barre and other friends In the city for several days. Mr. W. A. Todd, who was recently made general roadmaster of tho C. )& W. C. railroad, is moving his family to Augusta this week. Miss Julia Childress, who Is now a student at Winthrop college, Is ex pected home tho latter part of the week to spend several days. ?Messrs. Phil and Otis Huff, who are attending Wofford college, spent the week end in the city with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Aug. Huff. Mrs. Frank H. Calne has returned to her home in Wilmington, N. C. af ter a visit of a few days wSth her mother. Mrs. J. O. C. Fleming. Misses Charlotte McGowan and Mary Lake have roturned home aftor an Interesting and enjoyable visit to New Orleans during the Mardl Gras. Mr. R. C. Cheek, who has been liv ing in Nowberry for tho past few months, has returned to the nUy with | his family and ir, living at the Watts | mill. Mus. W. M. McCaslan and Mrs. Ma mie Owens, of Clinton, visited Mrs. E. H. Wilkes Friday night and attended the concert given at tho school houBe I by tho Graded School Choral Society. Miss Florence Adams, of Nashville, Tenn., Is the guest of Mrs. W. E. Lu cbjb. Miss Adams possesses a very mellow soprano voice and responds graciously when requested to assist In entertainment. Misses Nancy Owens, Julia Owens nnd Kate Shands, of Clinton, spent the week-end In tho city as the gueet of Miss Mary King at the King Hotel nnd attended the concert at the grad ed school Friday evening. , Dr. R. E. Hughes and Dr. Isadore Solvay er left yesterday for Norfolk, Va., 'Where they will romaln through this week attending the sessions of the Trl-State Medical association. Dr. * Hughes is tho secretary of tho asso ciation. Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Willis, of Green ville, spent Sunday In tho city with the formor's brother. Mr. R. W. Willis. Mr. and Mrs. Willis havo Just recent ly been married and tho short visit hore was a continuation of their hon eymoon. Mr. Willis Is an official of the G. S. & A. railroad. Mr. W. A. Barton, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. 7=xn-^.^.-.y.ja.M l1 ? FARMERS ARE URGED TO REDUCE ACREAGE ComiuiHsioner Watson Urges All Farm era to Disregard Temptation of Thirteen Cent Cotton and Act In Unison for a Reduction of Acreage. Columbia, Feb. 16.?Urging the farmers to stop and think and not heed the siren call of thirteen cents, E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture of South Carolina, and president of the Southern cotton congress has ad j dressed a communication to tho farm t ers of the South urging that they re duce the cotton acerage this year. He says: ' To the Farmers of the South: ? The cotton growers of the South have passed through two of the most trying years in the history of cotton. A^ this time last year those who havo been In the forefront of the fight to maintain a living price for cotton against abnormal conditions, made possible by American and foreign market methods, which as yet are permitted /to exist, were hendlng every energy to bring about a reduc tion of acreage, or at least to pre. vent an Increase of acreage. Condi tions following the huge crop of 1911 and hard work made this possible. The price on the crop just harvested was kept steady. A more serious situation confronts you now and hence this word of warning. With the price of the 1912 crop remaining fairly good and steady all the season through the argument of the manipulators will be that the cotton farmer of the South will yield to temptation and do as he has done hundreds of times before ?plant more acreage to cotton, on the assumption that the price will stay up. This expectation you have justified in the past and it will be used from the start. Under present laws and established methods, though the world demand be for a crop pos sibly larger than fourteen and one half million bales, I want to say to It will be suicidal to increase your acreage. It is more important to hold yourself and your acreage In chock this year than ever before. To yiicld to tho temptation of an Increas ed price this season will he equival ent to proving yourself devoid of even common sense. The planting season is upon us now. Stop and think for a day or two before you listen to the siren song of 13 cents. The danger to you and yours Is greater by far than last year. If you must havo a larger ac reage on your farm, put the increase in corn and other food crops. As one who has striven to aid you in the hour of need, and has been faithful to the trust Imposed In him, let me entreat you to hold your acreage down and prove to the world that you are not obliged to rush in and do what every cotton broker in New York, Liverpool and clsewhero ex pect you to do for your own undoing and the enrichment of others. In this State I have endeavored to get the general assembly to enact a simple cotton statistics-gathering law that will force facts on the world when they should be there?not when It is too late; this measure, which would aid In some degree, is not yet a law. Oklahoma already has it, and your organizations have all asked for it in every cotton State. Again let me beg of you to watch your acreage, and let good sense In stead of lack of judgment guido you In tho planting of your crop this year. If you don't you will face In the fall a situation that may be the most se rious you havo evor faced. If you don't do your part now, don't say then that you were not j warned. Tho fight for Justice to America's greatest money crop cannot bo won by a few mon year after year; it must command tho personal coopera tion of every grower of cotton. E. J. WATSON, Pres. So. Cotton Congress. R. E. Barton, Miss Jessie Barton and Miss Pearl Parton, of Greenville, were In the city Friday and Saturday, hav ing come down ,to be present at tho concert of tho graded school choral society, of whloh Prof. W. A, Barton, Jr., Is director. Miss Nellie Wallace, who has been conenotod with the Laurcns telephone company for several years, has accept ed a position with the Bell Telephone company In Atlanta. Miss Wallace has always proved a prompt and obliging telephone operator and the public generally will join with her friends In regretting to see her give up her place here to accept the Atlanta po sition. Surprise Your Friends. For four weeks regularly used Dr. King's New Ufo Pills. They stimulate tho liver, Improvo digestion, remove blood Impurities, plmplos and erup tions disappear from you?" face and body and you fool better. Begin at once. Buy at Laurcns Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. A SPLENDID CONCERT BY CHORAL SOCIETY v _______ School Children, Under Direction of Prof. Barton, Give a Splendid En tertainment. The first concert of the graded school choral society, given In the graded school auditorium Fi May ev ening under tho direction of Prof. W. A. Barton, came up to and probably surpassed the most sanguine expec tations of those who had anticipated a successful evening. The ^program was faultlessly rendered and afforded an evening of thorough enjoyment to those who attended. Assisted by Mrs. H. K. Alken, Mrs. D. A. Davis. M*iss Mary Todd and Miss Josephine Ful ler, the school children who took part In it acquitted themselves with credit and reflected the splendid training they had received from their director. The program was a very difficult one to. assay on such short training, but every number was splendidly sung and showed tho results of long practice and painstaking care. Tho solo work of Misses Josephine Fuller and Mary Todd was an attractive feature of tho evening and was received with spon taneous outbursts of applause. The members of the society, besides Mr. Barton, are Caroline Rpper, ac companist; Frances Davis, assistant accompanist; Hugh Alken, Ruth Bap well. Virginia Barksdale, Alpha Bolt, Bertha Bolt, Lucy Vance Darlington, James Donnan, Margaret Dunlap, llat tlo Gray, James Holmes, Dorothy llud gons, Vivian Huff, Frances Kennedy, Paul Lake, Graham McCall, Frank McGowan, Lucy McPhail, Gus&le Mil ler, Erleen Mitchell, Elizabeth Mose ley, Pauline Nelson, Urucle OwlngB, Martha Owings, Pauline Prentlss, Ce cil Roper, Clatle Roper, Clco Roper, Willie Sexton, Louise Simmons, Vir ginia Simpson, Mary Sullivan, Lllla Todd. Ruth Watklns, Mary Wtlkes, Ruth Winn. I Although a fairly large audience was present to hear the concert, It possibly was not as largo as such laud able work should guartintee. The to tal receipts were about $90. The ex penses were rather heavy, as compar ed to other ameteur entertainments, the music costing considerable money. T Barksdnlo Ginnery Sold. The plant of the Barksdalc ginnery, at Barksdalc station, has recently been sold by Its former owners, the Gray Court Oil & FoatHlzer company, to the Fountain Inn Oil & Fertilizer com pany. Mr. J. A. Todd has been made manager of the ginnery and has taken charge of the plant. According to the statement of the new owners, tho plant will be overhauled and new ma chinery will replace tho old. The gin nery company will also handle fertl lizors of all grades, a warehouse now being built to take cars of this kind cf business. I Red Iron Racket. J. C. Burns & Co. big cut prlco salo, has created a lot of talk all ovor the county and they sure have something to talk about, too. The low prices on their goods are talking strong. You Just go soo for yourself. Shafting-, Pulleys, Belts. Repair* and Files, Teeth, Looks, Etc. LOMBARD IRON WORKS, AUGUSTA, OA. Get out circular before you buy. NOTICE. March 1st will ho the UlBt day to pay city taxes without penalty, Ltcesnes aro past due. 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