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VOLUME XXXV. LAURENSt SOU rH CAR1OLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1920. ~ ~ I2 PLANS [IGHT AGAIN8T WEEVLt Anti-Boll Weevil Meeting Held Wedoidsday DIVERSIFICATION IS URGED Speakers from Clemson coolege Urge Etarly Planting, Diversilticton un1d Economy as Instruments to ight Holl Weelvl. 3Mnximmi nmiualge Next Year. Diversifleation of crops, seed selec tion and rigid economy were pointed out as the means of overcoming the oll weevil at the anti-boll iweevil umeeting held in the court house last 'Wednesday. The meeting was not largely attended, probably on account of the inclement weather, but close at tention was given to the addresses of the day. Before the close of the mcet ing th following resolutions were adopted: 'Whereas, the farming interests of Laurens county are seriously threat ened with disaster from the boll wee vil, and 'Whereas, the xlhief money crop of our county is cotton, therefore be it lResolved, That we encourage such rotation of crops as will enable the farmers to live at home by giving [)C cial atiention to the growing of food supplies, such as pindars, potatoes, hogs, high grade cattle, the elimina tion of all scrub sires and special at tention directed to tite care anid growth of all heifers and he sure you -ha' e at least "one sow for every plow an( fir every family ole COW." And in order to do this we wo-ld urge a rigid course of economy and the practical restriction of expendi Vhres to actual necessities instead of luxuries, thereby opening upi) a lib oral bank accounit Instead of demand ing credit for every ned of tle farm. It has been the general result of boll weevil damage in the infected districts that money becomes exceed ingly scarce and It is absolutely nec essary that a su rluVits ,he lail ashle be fore the lekn years reach our i idis trial Interests. iWe further recommemd the build Ing of sufficient waihouse room( oI the farms as well as at shippinn .polits to care properly for not only the cotton (1rop but all other farm products of value. And in c onclusiomi we do not recom mend a red uction inl cottotn acreage for 1920 but earlier planting and a more Intensive and rapid cultivation. The meeting was called to order by Farm Demonstrator M. 1). Moore, )vho Ontroduced Mr. D. W. Watkins, of 'Clemson college, Iwho presided. Mr. Wratkinis, in making a few remarks, said that the boll weevil would prob ably attain small damage In the coun ty thIs year and maximum damage by next year. To offset its ravages he urged diversIfication andI rigId econ omy. Mr. HT. F'. McConnell, another mem ber of the party on tour, also predict - ed early dlamage In this counly from -the boll weevil. Tio fight the wveevll, he said, farmers should turn under ,cotton stalks, clean off terraces and other hibernating places andl diversi fy thclr crops. T1oo mutch dleptend ance, he said, could not be placed ont 'poisoninlg the weevils na no practical machine hadl yet been inventedl to ap ply the POISON. A mild winter' followv ed b~y a wet summer make a favorable clImatIc condItion tor' the weevil to spreadl, he saId, anid as climatic con ditions arc variable there could be no certainty of a cotton cr'op once an area hadl been infected. Ie heltd out small hope of corpplete destruction of the pest. Dr. 1i. K. Alken, president of the Laurens National flank, spoke on the financIal side of farmIng. lie pointed * out howv the farmers andi thme public generally could make the banks more useful by depositing their money rather than' carring it around In p ~, ockets or keepIng it at home. SIoney d'(ep~ositedl in a bank Is made available for commercial purposes and for lbhe uiphuild ing of the conmmunity, while money tied upi in a sack at 1h0me1 was idle and of no benefit to anybody but was liable to lbe stolen or' lost. It is aurlirising, he said, the amount of nmoney kept in private possession, pos sibly more than is dlepositedl In tihe b~ankfl, especially in this section. Mr. \V. ID. StoIeos, a seed specialist, COMMERCIAL CLUB, BANQUET MONDAY Secretary F. M. Burnett, of Greenville Chamber of comunerce, to Make Ad. dress. Preparations are under way for the Chamber of Commerce banquet and reorganization meeting to be held next Monday night, as authorized at the last mectuig of tie chamber. 'Mr. 10. M. turnett, secretary of the Greenville Phamber of Commerce, has accepted a. invitation to be present at the ban quet and deliver an address. Mr. Bur nett is considered one of the bright est young men of the state and the committee In charge of the banquet feels itself fortunate in securing him for that evening. The banquet will be held at the Laurcns Hotel beginninig immediately after the regular meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, which will be called at 8 o'clock. The banquet is to be a "Dutch" af fair, each attendant paying for bi., own ticket. The committee in charge of tle arrangements, Messrs. Lamar Smith, E. D. Easterby and Alison Lee, will try to visit' as many citizens as possible this week and invite them personally to attend, but anyone may secure a ticket by seeing any member of the committee. All of those who are interested in the upibuilding of the town are invited to join with the mem hers of the Chamber of Commerce at this feast and to take an active part in reorganizing the commercial body. LEGION POST TO HAVE HANQUET 'i'o be Held in the Armory Thursday Night. To be Served by Daughters of Confederacy and Daughters of Hie'volution). The members of the Thos. D. Lake Post, Amerlean 'Legion, are looking forward 'with a great (eal of pleasure to tile banquet to be held in the Armory Thursday night. The ban quet will be served by the Daughters of the Confederacy and i.he Daughters of the American Revolution. Short aiddresses will be made by fIev. C. T. M'u~ires and Rev. S. 11. Tiempleman. The members of the post, all sol ti 'r.; and others who are expecting to atteni are requested by Commander W. It. Ilichey to assemble in the Court louse at 7:30 o'clock. From this loiit the eit ire party will go to the armuory. HOSPITAL T11O CLOSE. Julia Irby Saitarium to Close Doors on March Ist. Inereasing Expenses and Scarelty of Nurses. The Julia Irby Sanitarium, operated for about ten years at the old Irby home as a semi-public institution, will be closed for hospital purposes after Mlarch Ist, according to an announce ment by Miss Irby. On account. of the increasing expenses and the difficulty of securing trained nurses, Miss Irby hais found It iimipracticable to cont mtic the institution longer 1 and th build ing wvill be used by her and relatives as a iprivate home. The closing of the hospital will prove a considerable loss to the city. While it has beeni said more than once that it has not been wholeheartedly supported by local 1)eop)1, still it has been a great convenience to many and will lie mfissedl particularly in emer gency cases. Unmless another is erect ed the nearest hospital in the future will bie at Clinton, with others at Greenwoo and~ C11(hester. recommienderl an1 early variety of cot Ion seed for planting in tihe tight against the wervil, particularly rec ommuending thme Wannamnaker variety of thle Cleveland bilg boll. F~or corni piroduction he recomimendfed the pro lifc varieties rather than the single ear as tests at Clemson college had proveni thme former to be mmore profit 'Prof. A. 1E. Schil leter spoke on sweet p)otato's as5 a mioney crop. lIeI said that where properly handled and curied as isa(lone in the local potato warhoume, which lie pralsedl very highly, potato4s are always in deC miand. lie recommend~ed a change in location oif potato patc-hes every year to prevent dlispases anid tihe plating ofi either the Na'ncy Hall or' Porto 111co varieties. Mir. Parker, district agentd of time ex tnsin deparfttment of Clumison col loge, Rtressedi time imiportance of cat tlo raising and urgedi that every fanm Ily kdep at least one cow, FENCING CAMP, Farm Denonstrator Urges Fa Weevil by Building I Reduced To forestall the arrival of the boll weevil by preilmsring for the raising of cattle and hogs, Farm lDemonstrator Mloore has inaugurated a wire fence building campaign in the county and has arranged with the ,iones-Taylor filardware 'Company, local delilers, and the American Steel and Wire Com pany, manufacturersr, to sell wire fencing to Laurens county fav .'.ers at prices lower thn the prevailing mar ket prices. This 'plan, as pointed out by Mr. Aloore In an advertisement in another section of this paper, has been successrully followed in areas already infected by the .boll weevil and has been attended by much suc cess. Mr. loore hopes to have the farmers of this county buy at least several car loads of wird while the campaign is oil. In brief the plan of fliancing the car-lots of wire is as follows: Buyers will deposit In a designated local bank with their orders for wire a check covering the amount of their order and payable to the Jones-Tay lor lardware Company upon presen tation to the bank of the bill of lad ing certifying that the wire has ar DR. CODY RETUlNS. Finds Work for Haplists in ForelgL Fields. ,Dr. Z. T. Cody, editor of the Baptist Courier, returned to Greenville yes terday from a four-months visit to Europe, where as a member of a special mission of the Southern 'Bap tist Convention, he made an inspec tion tour In tihe Interest of proposed reconstruction -work 'of the Haptist denomination In war ridden countries and devastated section of the Old World. -In speaking of the tour made by the mission yest4rday Dr. Cody said that it was a pronounced success and had accomplished all that was outlined for It to accomplish. The trip was not a pleasure trip IDr. Cody declared and wholly of a business natire for the denomination. The countries visited by Dr. Cody: and other members of the miission were 10ngland, Scotland, France, Bel gitum, Holland, Italy, Egypt, and Pal estine. in making the hoinoward trip from Palestine tl- n mission came pack through Italy, France and Elogland. One whole iionth, )r. Cody said, was, spent in Italy. In reviewing conditions inl a gen eral way as the mission found them, Dr. Cody said that there was unlimit ed opportunity for service in all t he countries visited, particularly in France and 'Palestine. In France, he saId, some of the conditions fould were almost indescribable and there Is real opportunity there for real, plractical charitable help. In Palestine however, the condlitions were found to be much worse, the majiority of thle people having been found to live In pover'ty and misery. In Palestinte the problem wIll ht largely one for the government to solve, he said, with the possibility that the Baptist denomination may greatly assist In orphanage work. In Italy the con dlitions iwere not found to ho so had1( butt there is opportunity In that coun Itry, Dr1 Cody said, for' orphanage work. in l~gypt, Dri. Cody saidl, there Is nothing needied. Iigypt, he said, is wonderful ly rich and is easily one of the most 'prospterous countries in the world.---reenville News, Piny' at 1ilekory' Tiav'erni. The lIicekory Tlavern hIgh school girls wvill give "A Southern Cinder alla"' at Green Pond Friday nIght Feb. 6., Admission fee ill be 15 andI 25 cents, Thel cast of characters Is as follows: .\adame ChIarter'is, an old aristocrat, Ir'ene Owens Enid Bellamy, a Southernt Cinderalla, Cor'a Bolt ,Johnn ie Bell Ranudol ph, a little co (iutett(' - Permnelia Pitts 11osie Winiiter'berry, a settIlemen t work er - 'AnnIe Abercrombtie Katherine lIawkie, an English nurse, Lucile htahdwin Caroline ) lawke, an adventuress, Janle Blaldwin,~ 'Mammy Judy Johnt~sn .a black blue -gsrass widaw '.- ILona Baldwin AIGN STARTED rmers to Get Ready for Boll ?ences. Fencing at Prices. rived. Tlie county agent will thet notify farmers as <uickly ;'s v sOible of the arrival qf the wire and the hardware concern will deliverv it to farmers from the car. The following are prices per rod of some of the well known styles of American fence in this sale, to these piices being add (.d the freight: flog Fence 32 inch heavy, 12 inch stays, .35c Same, 1; inch stays... .....49 2 inch light, 12 inch stays, .29c Same, 01 inch stays .3..... . .e 28 inch heavy, 12 incl stays .. ..3 e Same. (; inch stays .. . . ..12c 28 inch light, 12 inch stays .. 25c Same, 01 inch stays......33 1-3c Farm Flcnce (heavy) -17 inch hiorsie, cattle and hogs .6. (1 45 inch horse and cattle .. .. ..~5c Same, light weight .. .. . . ..39 Barbed Wire Best 4-point, per 80 rod roll: log wire, $4.1; cattle wire, .33.S5 Iron posts G 1-2 feet. weight 9.3 lbs, each -13 t-2c Those interested In this campaign are requested by Mr. Moore to write him at Laurens. 31EDICAL FEES A1)VAN('E. igl Cost of h'llIing, Increase inl Cost of Materials amti Other liems Camuse Increase. At a recent mecting of the physi Icans of the city the following state ment as to an advayce inl iiedical fees was given out for publication, The physicians of the city of Lau rens have found it necessary as in all other cities to increase their fees. They point to the fact tlit over a year ago the medical profession through mut the Utnited States had adopted higher rates and that the public had for . sometime been empectiing the same here. The high cost of living, the ('norimiois ilc rease in tle privc of ma (rials and every article' used by the [loctori make the raise imperativt'. So LITective Feb. 1, 1920, the following chedule of prices will be adopted. WDay calls, $3.00; night calls, $5.1)). All calls will be considered i1ght calls froimi 8 P. M. to S. A. M. Omtile visits will be from $2.0) up. lepending upon)iii serv ice rendered. Ad vive given over phonie will lie charged ; anl oflice vi;it. Country visits will be charged at the rate of $1.01) per mile, plus the regular visit rate or service given. Surgical and other work in the same proportion. WILL OPERtA'TE AGAIN, Arrangements Bteing Made Aboul Oraigeburg hhekling Pant,. Or'anigeburi g, J1an. 80. --- Armrangz' mlenits are nowv being plerfected where by tihe Orangeburg Packing hlouse wvill be again operatedl. it will bei re membered that abou'. one year ago Itle Orangeburg P'acking comiipany failed. The stockholders lost all their Investment and thec secu red creditorms, conisistlig of all time banks of Orange biirg, some of O)rangebiurg coouty, one of Calhoun county, thvoi in Columi bia, andl one in Charleston, purchased the plant at an auction sale. Over toures to thie large piackris t purc1) mhase tihe plant ended in failure and for a time It seemed as If the idanit (0ould not be dIisposedi of for anythbin g near (omintg out for thle baniks. A lpropiosition Is mow offered by a suiccessful indepIendlent packinug ('om pany and( successful butsiness imein to take over the Orangeburg plant m andI r'un It In connection with the success fiul hplanit. Practically all of the banks have agreed to the new piropmosition and very prob~ably just as soon1 as t het ot hel' hank ofilcial s cani mieel. all will agree. 'The Inews' thait this paingm ptlanit will be Iln operat Ion b~y nmext Sep Itniemb' is good news. Also, thle new conicern proposeds to locate a hog buy er at Orangeburi' next mionth,. so a sto assurei~ i a market for hogs ini thi e vry niear fiututre. Nolson-K{ing. Married in Greenwood, .Jan. 22. Miiss Muamuie Nelson of Mloutville.~ and Mr. Sam D). ilng of Cannon, Ga. Tlhe hap py cotulph have the best wishes of a host of freiends. 45 CASES FLU IN LAURENS lH'iih1 OIiilleer Malies lily liteiort as 14) 1influen.iL SittnlIon In[ Laurens. Dr. J. M. Ilearden, city health of lcer, reports -1-5 cases of influenza in lIattirens, most of them being of a mild nature and no deaths. Dr. lHearden maikes a daily iLport o. the situation Lo the state board of health, this re port being gathered frot the jiysi :Aans of the city. The loard of lealth has issiued the following bulletinl onl t ho Situation here: "Dr. 'Hearden, health officer, who makes a daily canvass of the influenza itutatltin, reports -15 cases in the city. While this is a small per cent, -and is no way an epidemic, he, witht the ljoard of l lealth urges are, the avoid ance of crowds, closed biuildiligs, and people who are coughing, sneezing or snutffling. If you have a cold, stay at liomie. Remember the last. opi ilemie. Use individual quarantine!" PASSENGEI SHIP FROMt (ERMtANY First Steamer to United Staltes Since .1uly, 1914. New York, Feb. 2.-The irst pas senger ship to sail from a German port to the United States since July, 1914, aind the first American passengir ship to undertake a similar voyage, reached here today when the American line steamer Manchuria docked. She sailed from llambirg January 9, calling at Southampton, and brought 39 passen Lrs, all front the lnglish port. Capt. Adrian Zeeder, master of the Manchuria, sa1i he could have filled his ship to overflowing at llamburg with passengers for America had pass port regulations and restrictions as to travel permitted. Applications were numerous and (erman expressed re grets that they could not Cotn to this coonttry. It required eight days of 21 hours each, working three eight hour shifts, to dischar ge at flambuirg the 5.000 tonis of cargo the Manchuria took with her to Germany, oflicers of the ship said. T'lhis work could have been done be 'ore the twar in abouit 2-4 hours, and the delay was said to he due to the Ilisint less manner in which the (rmian riock workers labored. The ollicer.s said they were low of spirit. apparent ly suffering from malnitrition, and lispla3yed1 little ambition. Food was said to be seaCMe, bu1t those wit.h mloney hav' io Iroulett in Ltting all they want. ship oticers do Hare(. A at'ty of lI ie fron th1- Man Lhurtia dined at a promlliinenl Ilamburg hotel and paid for the-ir mefa: PO9 marks. On the other hand, a story was told of one of the German dockers begging front the steward of the ship a piece of froz.en heef; which he ea.er ly devoulred raw. The Manchuria brought with ill from Germany 200 bags of mail and a iuantity of cargo, including ph1os piates. C.ol. 0. W. llabb, superv.isor of the census in this district, said yesterday that the work of counting headls in Ste city was p raecticallIy ('om1p letd laist week andi repor~tts are already being sent to Washington. As an evidience of the sp~eed of the work hiere, liesi that Iter. W. S. Ilomes, one of the enuiner'ators, had not only comlited his work and filed his report but lhad already3 receiveid his pay fromt Wash intgtont. ('ol. llabb saidl he was vet'y lptoudc iof Ste rec'(ord of tui ' ini of' flee. Illt .laking a lteenrd, Th'ie way Sena tor I )ialI has .~n a lie toip in the senia te Is w ithiout par a Ile in ouri times. lie is quilet, and not atn or'atort, and is nowi tohisa Itin; but it is evident that be is al - t'eady one of the most influen tial mten int that autguist hotly. lie ido''n't talk tmuch, but when('t be does talk hte says somuetintg. lie' is strnui on1 what old( .oe I lItownv ust to call j uM 'NTI. - Newbherry~ Observir. liarksdale llu'me 5old, Anntoiucenmet has been mad I of the sale oif the ('. I). lliarksdale' rei dnittce ton We'st .\laini str'et t Mr. J,. II. Chbitres, the' sal' havt'iing b-on closed last week. Th'lis is i.nu tmodious t'esidlence itn a jiopulari se tioni of the city. .\t'r. J. .\. Wofford, of Maddl~en h-~ tioot, has been a pat iet at the Juliai irby Sanitarium for' the past week, but is rapidly iproving. CIUY CANDIDAT[8 ADDR[SS VOT[RS Campaign Meetings Thurs. day and Friday ELECTION DAY IS FEBRUARY 17 ('andidates fo- 3ayor Spoke in Court lHouse Thursday Night and at Lau. reins 31ill Friday Night, bott Xcet< ingors -eiold of Sensational In. cidents. Both ('antididates for mayor and seo etal candidates for alderman s)oke to att interiested ati(ience of voters in. the Cotit llouse Thursday night. The - meetinitg was devoid of sensations and issues weie not closely drawn. I. E. l3abb, president of the Democratic club presided. Aldermanic candidates were intriotdiced first, bit they had comparativel.v little to say. AMessrs. Don Irvin front Ward 1, Jim Lowls from Ward 3. William Solomon front Ward -1. and Albert Dial, unopposed, fron Ward 6, were all present and pledged thenselves to uphold the re sponsibilities of the offices asked for, to the' best of their ability. Mr. Dial said it was robably safer for hIn not to say anything as it might draw out opposition to him. M. . . Habh), (andidate for re election as mayor, spoke first for tha mayoralty, candidates. He said that h lie wa an advoite -if iaw and order, Perlianent work oi streets, lighting system, sewerage and schools. He cited figures as to arrests and convic tions to show that lie had been fair in dealing out justic- in town as welt as the mill village. This, he said, was to refute the charge that he had been more lenient with law breakers in the City than in the mill village. Touch ing on the finances or the city Mr. Babb said that his iadm in istration in lierited a debt of $2;,.)09.12 from the previotis administration, that the pres ent indebtedness of the city is $54. 7-14,7:, but that iwhen his administra tioni closes this year this debt will b w,-il outt friom tlie funds now coingin.4 in. lit, asserted that no previous ad m1tinistration coutld polit to such a record. lie said that. no permanent in 'rovemients had been made because the government had stopped public im provetiments early in his administra -ion and that silct that time labor and inat'rial hal been so hight ithe city didl nlf). ha.tve tht fiduds to b li te work h II. N1'. 1%1i0h advocated a bond is Su.- for iteldt iil 1)oveeitnets, saying that the bonded debt of the city ought to be $26S.000 instead of $68,000 as it now is. Ile closed with applause. %1r. W. i. Richey, I., the other can didat' fot mayor. said that Ie felt %tcry kindly towaid the present mayor personally, but thought that he had served long entiough and that a young man ou ght to I' given, a chance. In rIpy to AlyM Habbt ii t's remtarks as to dlisparity' in mtin tg out justice as be tweeni the mail! village and the city, lie admnIl!ittdmakintg remarks along' tis linte hut lhe wishied to tmake hIs po sition (eh-ar ott this po(inlt. ie said that he would consider it unfair If a mayor kntowinigly allowed ganilihng in the city andl ar'rested the '"ml1 boy' for goint otut to have :i little amuesemtet shooting craps. Hei said that lie did not chairge Mlayor flabb with kntowing of any gambling in town. lI I salid that the vote of city emitployee~s in the election would not nfIluence himi in the selection of enm Iloyees if el ected, but14 he said that It was ntot right tfoir liicemen~f to htk3 anl active' P9,rt in city politics and miedle in electionts. If elected. he coin tied, if a pol icemani falls 1(o en force th~e laws lhe will lbe suspt~l~ed unttil the law~ is entfor'ced. In reptly, to wotiest ion that haud been asked hiIm, hte said that he wotuld make public statenmints of the cit y's finanices fromt Itime to tme. Pro.gress5 would h(1) thi main lanktt ini his ilat form, ho .said, atnd sitid the city ought I to hiave but btn issue C of $500),0tt0 fit' publ Ic imi pr1ovten~ itnts. M lr. "a bb artose here to Mat.' thai Mr. hlicy was a li.ttl' be itd the I tm-, as thte Chanmber' of ii'r the l..gshltitre to pass which w ouhld umak hei hontd issue possi51ble. i'. liilhey said that if electetd he wouhld put ito opteration the miachtin try or paivintg everiy imlotrtanlt street ini the eity. Now'~ is the tiume to take (f'onflin'1 on Page P'ive.)