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:j FARMERS' UNION BUREAU. All communications for this Department should be address I ed to T L Clinkscales, Honea * Path, J B Douthit or -I fStrib- < ling, Pendleton, S C. ^ MERGING WITH FARMERS'UNION Cheering News For The Farmers* Union. Written by J C Striblinjr. Union Bureau. There is no doubt now about the fact that the Sea Island Cotton Growers' association will join the Farmers'Union in a body. This is mergi ng a good body of the best organized cotton growers in the South into the Farmers' Union, The Farmers' Union, having absorbed or survived the Southern Cotton association,the Sea Island Cotton Growers' association and about all the farm demonstration workers, from that grand and good man, Dr Knapp, down the whole line of demonstration workers, the State Commission of Agricultural workers, this begins to look like merging the whole family into the union in earnest. When we get all the Boys' Corn clubs, the Boys' Hog and Hominy clubs, the Girls' Frying Chicken clubs and the Sunshine club, we will then have about all the family except the dog, and since our Farmers' Union people have not yet acquired a taste for "puppy sausages" we don't need either the two-legged or four-legged canine in our business?but our Farmers' Union people do love the home-grown four-legged hog about ' as well as they detest imported cor poration hogs. Co-operate with farm demonstration workers, and go out to meet the agricultural train when it comes your way. This train for demonstration is part of the Farmers' Union work. This farmers' train is not ^ loaded with speculative theorists, there certainly is a great deal to be learned by all who visit this train,examine the exhibits and hear the lectures. The day is fast passing for the farmers to receive everything with distrust excepting it conies from those who hold the handles of the plow. Cheap, witty, criticism teaches no man anything about farming or pays any bills or taxes. A Tiff With the New York Cotton Exchange. The most interesting and amusing debate to Farmers' Union people of late was the sharp discussion of the ^ report of the committee on New York Cotton Exchange methods at the recent meeting of the American Cotton Manufacturers' association, when Lewis Parker and other cotton spinners, claimed that the New York Cotton Exchange was run more in the interest of gambling than as a medium in the legitimate interest of cotton trading. It came out in the debate that this New York Cotton Exchange gambled and by the use of wires and lies, backed up by a few hundred thousand bales of dog-tail cotton in New York warehouses, could run cotton futures either up or down, taking profits irom eitner side, irrespective of prices of spot cotton and cotton mill men are now about of the same opinion about the New York Cotton Exchange question as the Farmers' Union has been for the last five years, at which time cotton growers through a kind of detective committee made their report to the Union that sounds verj like cotton mill men's report on the gambling features of this New York Cotton Exchange, which is beyond doubt the biggest humbug that has anything to do with the cotton market. Since our mill men have made this new(?) discovery for their own benefit, that cotton growers found out ever five years back, Farmers' Union men should be more patient with the cotton mills, as they are gradually coming toward the cotton growers for their cotton and the Southern mills, it appears, may, after a time, find out that there is no reason for going to New York to get cotton grown at their own door, if the mills are now about five years behind time in finding out the amount of rotten cotton there is in the New York Cotton Exchange. -Jr. ! ' \.r ? fahVj . POOR CONRAD WRITES ABOUT OLD TIMES,| SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE OLD MEN OF WILLIAMSBURG, SUMTER AND CLARENDON. Editor County Record:? In my last letter to my friends and readers of your good paper I said that I would write about some of the old men of Sumter, Clarendon arid Williamsburg?all who have had their dav and Dassed to the crreatun known, where we must soon follow them. "Our life's a clock, And every gasp of breath Breathes forth a warning grief, Till time shall strike our death. ' I want to mention the names of several old men of Sumter, Clarendon and Williamsburg counties.their sayings and doings; no doubt it will interest as well as amuse their dtscendants to read some words spoken by them. Some of those old men I met but a few times, others I was with often; all who knew me were warm friends, especially when I was a roving boy, having no home or relatives on this side of the Atlantic ocean. After I grew up to be a man their friendship did not grow cold; over 60 years have passed and their children's children honor and respect me the same. It is an unbounded satisfaction to have lived as long as I have and to go back and visit all those hospitable homes and be received so kindly by the sons and daughters of many of those who have passed away. I have rambled from house to house, a regular "grand roiuds," and all were glad to see "Conrad." I had a banjo and would play and sing funny songs. The old folks would have the children to dance and shuffle with all kinds of fun. Those were happy times then; people were taking things easy; no one in a hurry or thinking of trying to get rich. This generation doesn't know anything about those good old days. Yes, I was a rambler; old Capt Pat Gibbons would say when he would hear of me sailing some long distance: "Well, Conrad is on the wing again." Capt Pat thought a good deal of me. I traveled in company with him, Capt Wm E Plowden, Dr Sam Witherspoon and Mr Omsby Blanding to Arkansas in 1858. Mr Blanding was a Mexican war veteran, and so was his brother, J D Blanding, who was colonel of my regiment in the Civil war. A common saying with Mr Omsby Blanding when told something that he thought was only a joke was: "Oh, go way.Conscience," if it was I who was trying to have some fun at his expense. "Conscience" was a name given me by Mr David Epps, father of Mr D J Epps of Kingstree. Capt Wm E Plowden called me Conscience always; he was a close friend to me. He lived near and was a member of the Brick church in Sumter county. If ever man loved man Capt Plowden loved me. He felt all right when he had me with him. I was a great walker and when I was about to bid him good bye he would hold me until Hardy, his coachman, could harness a horse and buggy, saying, "Wait, I will take you in the buggy, so I can be with you as long as possible." Reader, wasn't that friendship true? Mind you,a poor boy in coarse clothes and he a rich man. He was fond of hunting and fishing, being a fine marksman with the rifle. We would go into the pine woods hunting for squirrel, which was fine sport in those times, and he had a keen eye and often before the dog?which was a gcod one?could find the tree "Capt" would say: "I see him, Conscience." Ah, those balmy days, They corne and slide and pass Before my pen can tell thee what. Some of those old men, like some of the young of to-day, were fond ot their dram. Old Mr Kit Tisdale lived near Sumter; he was fond of a dram and would sometimes get a gallon of whisky without paying for it, more as a joke than anything else. The bar-keeper would sometimes refuse to sell to him unless Mr Tisdale said , he had the money. He would get a tun or three jrall? n jug and put about one gallon of water in it and after the saloon keej>er had put one gallon of good whisky in the jug.Mr Tisdale would begin to feel in his pockets for the money. Not being able to find it. he would tell the man to take the whisky back?"but mind." he would say, "I had one gallon in the jug." There was more than one saloon in the town and after he had played the trick on the others he would have one gallon of pretty fair liquor. I Mr Hugh McFaddin, of Clarendon county,had his odd sayings. I was home on a furlough during the Civil war with a wound through the foot received at the battle of Sharpsburg, in Maryland. I paid Mr McFaddin a visit while at home and we talked about the war. He had no hope of the Confederacy, while I said we would win. "Ouw," Mr McFaddin replied: "Yankee too skeemy." Mr J E Fulton of Williamsburg wits a fine man; he would meet you with a friendly smile and warm grasp of the hand. At one time I did not see him for several years. I told him I did not think that he would recognize me. "Why, Conrad, if you were dead and I had not heard of it and saw your hide in a tan vat I would know it." Well, Mr Editor, I have said so much in this letter and have made mention of a few of the old men. To write about all of them would take so much time and space in your good paper, I will put off the sayings of the other old men for the next time. Yours truly, Poor Conrad. 5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any case of ChilU and Fever. Price, 25c. 5-4-lyr Stateraeot of tbe Condition of tbe : : Wee Nee Bank, :: located at KINOSTREE, 5. C. At the Close of Business June 7, 1911. Resources Loans and Discounts, $62,245 78 Overdraft-, 204 40 Furniture and Fixtures, 2.718 46 Due from Banks and Bankers, 8,859 90 Currency, 1,278 00 Gold. , *85 00 Silver and other Minor Coin. 709 24 Checks and Cash Items, 2,006 27 Total, $73,893 05 Liabilities Capital Stock Paid In, $30,000 00 Undivided Profits, less Current ExDenses and Taxes Paid, 2,225 41 Due to Banks and Hanke "s, 779 80 Individual Depo.-its Subject to Check, 16,44)1 87 Savings Deposits, 14,318 47 Cashier's Checks, 126 50 Bills Payable, including Certificates for Money Borrowed, 10,000 00 Total, $73,898 05 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,) ? COUNTT OI' WILLIAMSBURG, ( 88 Before me came L C Dove, Cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above ana foregoing statement is a true condition of said bunk, as shown by the books of said hank. L C DOVE. Sworn to *n<l subscribed before me this 13rh day of June. 1911. J B Steele, Notary Public. Correct-Attkst: W V Strong, Hugh McCutchen, H E Montgomery, Directors. Stateme nt of tbe Condition o! The Bank of Greelyville, LOCATED AT Greelyville, S. C. At the Close of Business June 7, 1911. f Resources Loans and Discounts, $54,193 65 Overdralts, 2,331 81 Furniture and Fixtures 1,895 85 Banking House, 978 69 Due from Banks and Bankers, 4,747 16 Currency, 2,815 00 Gold 191 00 Silver and other Minor Coin,' 530 29 Total 867,183 45 Liabilities ' apital Stock Paid In $ 15.000 00 Surplus Fund, 1,950 00 Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid 2,245 93 Individual Deposits, Subject to Check 16,798 23 Savings Deposits 10,852 54 Cashier's Checks 336 75 Bills Payable, including Certificates for Money Borrowed 20,000 00 Total $67,183 45 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, \ rniTVTY ni? WILLIAMSBURG. t SS Before me came C E Register, Cash- ' ier of the above named bank.who.being duly sworn, says that the abo\e and foregoing statement in a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. C E REGISTER. Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 10th day of June, 1911. P. R. Keels, Notary Public for South Carolina. Correct?Attest: T W Royle, W M 0'Bryan, S J Taylor, Directors. I Statement of the i onditlon of The lank of Williamsburg, located at Kinsstree S. C. At the Close of Business .June 7, 11*11. j Resources Loans ami Discounts, * 19<?. 171 92 Overdrafts 1,862 40 Furniture and Fixtures. ? 3,027 -11 Ranking House, 9**32 79 Due from Banks and Bankers. 22,708 97 Currency, 2.147 no Cold 1,000 0!? Silver and other Minor Coin. 2,083 98 Checks and Cash Items 1,437 40 Total $234,071 ?7 Liabilities Capital Stock Paid In, $ 40.000 00 Surplus Fund, 10,00** 00 Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid, 5,129 23' Due to Banks and Bankers. 159 75 Individual Deposits Su' ject to i heck, 85,437 39 Savings Deposits 63,125 52 Cashier's Checks ? 219 98 Bills Payable, including Certificates for Money Borrowed 30,000 00 Total $234,071 87 STATE OK SOUTH CAROLINA, * ? J County of Williamsburg. f \ Before me came E C Epps, Cashier , of the above named bank, who, ' being duly sworn, says that the above f and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, a- shown by by the books of said bank EC EPPS, Caahier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of June, 1911. [L S] J B Steele, Notary Public. correcr?attest : { John F McFuddin, I P G Gourdin, ' Chas W Stoll, Directors. Stateneot of the Ceidltioa of The Itaok of Kingstree, LOCATED A" Kingstree, S.C. At the clo;e of Business .June 7, 1911. Resources Loans and Discounts, $200,087 17 Overdrafts 2,803 96 Furniture and Fixtures 1,958 78 Barking House, 2,155 71 Due from Banks and Bankers,28,117 66 Currency, 692 00 Gold 55 00 i Silver and other Minor Con, 1,483 35 Checks and Cash Items, ? 313 79 Total, $237,667 42 Liabilities Capital Stock Paid In, $ 30,000 00 Surplus Fund 20,000 00 Una. Profits, less Current Expense:; and Taxes Paid, 7,560 91 Due to Banks and Bankers, 936 61 ; Individual Deposits Subject to check, 50,973 85 i Savings Deposits 112,232 25 i Cashier's Checks.., 963 80' Bills Payable, including Certificates for Money Borrowed 15,000 00 Total, $237,667 42 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA) county of williamsiubg. i Before me came F W Ft irey,Cashier of the above named bank, v/ho, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition *?f said bank, as shown by the books of qqih kunlr F W FA IRE Y. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of June, 1911. H 0 Brixton, CUrk of Court Correct?Attest: D C Scott, R H Kellahan, Directors. A Dreadful Wound from a knife,gun, tin can,rusty nail, ; fireworks or of any other nature demands prompt treatment with Bucklen's Arnica Salve to prevent blood poison or gangrene. It's the quick- 1 est,surest healer for all such wounds, as also for Burns, Boils, Sores, Skin Erup tions, Eczema, Chapped Hands, Corn* or Piles. 25c atM L Allen's. (TSTmT 9 writes Mrs. Ethel Newlin, H I of Liberty Center, Ind., B 9 '"'hat I began to take Car- Eg 9 dui, for it has cured me, B j < 9 and I will never forget it B "I rannnt nrnicf* Cardui Mb I too highly for what it did H for me. Before 1 began E to take it, I was very n bad color, suffered great E pain and weighed only Q 1(6 pounds. Now I have H a good color, do not suffer R and weigh 125 lbs." R < iCARDIII The Woman's Tonic 1 Beware of strong, nox- B ions, mineral drugs, that H 9 sink into your system, R ( 9 like lead to the bottom of R 9 a basin of water. R r 9 Cardui is purely vege- B 9 table and contains no Eg 9 poisonous minerals, or R 9 dangerous drugs. R flj It is perfectly safe and B 9 harmless, for use by old 1 9 and young, and may be , 9 taken, as a tonic, for B 9 months, without any possi* E 9 ble harmful effect Try it n L ill Here's Ri^M| t?YourSccd Health and Pleasi r^f^j Come?follow the arrow 'til you j( f. \fe&(tZr] the merry throng of palate pleased rr * j women who have quit seeking S|ajf the one best beverage because they found it? i f Qa&L M Real satisfaction in every glass?snap a and go. Quenches the thirst?cools Delicious?Refreshing?Wh our interett- THE COCA-COLA CO. ipt booklet, Atlinta, Ca. The Truth 53 ^ About Coca-Cola" 555555555525^^ rooooooooooocxxoo 8 TO THE FAI J OF WILLIAMSBURG x DEAR SIRS :--As many of you I s/ now worth about $30.00 per ton and J of our farmers buy hay year after ye ? their own, which causes thousands [S our county which should be kept he K purposes. We can make forage crops x of their cost when we have to buy i / think it would pay you handsomely Rake and gather your oats and other ft buying Western hay, etc? X WE HANDLE Tl K McCormick Mowers D And will be pleased to quote you | D Come to see us and get the best < J Tours to plot s The Williamsburg Live SI |) ' Klagstree, 8?ifh Car Vsamsb uoHfi North Florida?C' A passenger service unexc and comfort,equipped with th Dining, Sleeping and Thorou For rates, schedule, maps it- A _ A. _ lion, write 10 WM. J. CRAK General Pass* Wi AT THE A CHURCHES . J.\ ^^a^Mrftl *r iiflOHJUi we shal The public is cordially invited! order. jo attend any of the services of the j an cash various churches of Kingstree. j thatbol Baptist Church. ordered 4, 5, 9, Rev W E Hurt, Pastor. ??xtmitc r, , , . , I months Services every second and fourth , ^ ^ _ _ . . i our dos Sunday mornings at 11:00 o clock md evening at 8:30 o'clock. (twice Sunday-school at 10.00 a. m. The ] Episcopal Church, (3 time Rev Dr Robert Wilson, Rector. The Every second and fourth Sunday, tution I morning prayer, sermon and holy The rommunion at 11 a, m. moner, The Methodist Church. Magazi Rev W A Fairy, Pastor. Preaching everv Sunday morning P*111011 it 11:00 o'clock and evening at 8:30 *2-50 ' the Sunday-school at 4:30 p. m. _ _ Magazi Epworth League meets every Tueslay night at 8:30 o'clock. gg Mid-week prayer meeting every ^HE rhursday night at 8:30 o'clock. Magazi The Presbyterian Church. .. Magazi: Rev E E Ervin, Pastor. n b Preaching first and third Sunday daily pi nornings at 11:00 o'clock, second receive md fourth Sunday evenings at 8:30 's ev\( , , , same h ) ClOCk. TTT We are Sunday-school, 4:00 p. m. Prayer-meeting Wednesdays at lJU 1:30 p. m. i -::^x?x.irm warn'* nlr nd sparkle?vim M like a breeze. M ^ Whenever I fN Kt u I A > raw think of Coca-Cola I Sg COUNTY Q enow. Western Hav is V Is going higher. Lots O of dollars to go out of Q re for other necessary Q lame. Now don't you V to buy a Mower and v forage crops and stop Q ; and Rakes a prices on the same. O >n the market. Q lock Company, 8 nit. Q ? ^STlLNt AREoE]I^VEL SOUTH uba. :elled for luxury e latest Pullman rf J, ighfare Cars, or any informa* J, :nger Agent, ilmington, N. C. _ r Clubbing Bates offer cheap clubbing rates number of popular newsand periodicals. Read careie following list and select or more that you fancy and / 1 be pleased to send in your These rates are of course in advance, which .means ;h The Record and the paper [ must be paid for, not 1, 2,3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, but twelve 3 ahead. Below is the list of t clubbing offers. Record and Home & Farm a month,) $1.35. Record and New York woria s a week,) $1.75. Record and Atlanta Consti[3 times a week) $1.85. Record and Bryan's Com$1.65. Record and Cosmopolitan ^ ne $1.75 7 Record and Youth's Com(New Subscribers) $2.50. Record Semi-Weekly State, Record and Watson's ne 81.65. Record and The Jeffersonian Record and Lippincott's ne $2.75. Record and National ne $2.00. . We do not club with any ipers. The first issue you of the paper or periodical lence that the money for ias been forwarded by us. not responsible after that. 3 County Record. Kinjrstree, S. C.