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WHAT RAILROAD EMPLOYES DEMAND their Requests for Pay Increases Summarized?Nearly All Classes Ask for Raises / Washington, July 7.?Demands for substantial wage increases for nearly all classes of the 2,000,000 railroad I ? rending since j employes nave UtVu r? ^ late last summer. These demands, first presented at different times to the- Railroad Administration's Board n Wages and Working Conditions, | were unsettled when government | operation of the railroads was ended, and in tut'n were referred to the Rail-! road Labor Board, which was created j under the transportation act. Some few of the classes of organ- , iaed employes have'not pressed for-' mal demands, but have insisted that their wages be increased if advances were granted other related classes of ?The Drinciple demands of I WVi aviu* - -? 4. the leading unions follow: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen: Passenger brakemen be increased from $120 a 30-day month to $150 for J 26-day month; baggagemen be increased from $124.80 for 30-day month to $160 for 26-day month; assistant conductors be increased from $144 for j 30-day month to $179 for 26-day I month; freight brakemen in valley j territory be increased from $4.08 to $5.88 a day with 10 per cent increase j over these rates wherever the grade ' exceeds 1.8 per cent; yard foreman or conductors be increased from $5 to $6.90 a day; switch tenders be in-' creased from $4 to $5.90 a day; also time and one-half for all Sunday and ! onH a cuarantv of 26 j UUiiuaj ouuw w?.%* ? o ? days a month for regular employes' in all classes of service. What Conductors Ask. Order of Railway Conductors: Pas- j senger conductors be increased from | $180 for 30-day month to $225 for 26day month; through freight conductors be increased from $5.40 to $$.65 a day in valley territory, with increases in the mountain rate from $5.81 to $8.37 a day; local freight conductors be increased from $5.92 to $8.38- a day in valley territory, with increase in mountain rate from $6.26 to $9.13 a day. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen: Road freight firemen to be increased an average of $1.84 & day over present rates; yard freight firemen be increased an average of $2.25 a day over present rates; passenger firemen to be increased * BB?B^ " SrruT 1 ^ pACK^? ^^ ^ i alone spread the mosquito gets m its aei of the night, when the 1 windows are open and little fresh air. Hund lives might be saved i were taken against this 1 I Fit your beds up Proof Canopies which j two popular styles. With your bed thus equipped against the I attacks of these poiIsonous pests you will be able to sleep in peace and awake in safety. These canopies are . easily and quickly adjusted to any bed. j The Steele Fun ? Kingstree, ~ > ? -..v.. . from present average of $4.31 a day to $6.50 a day. Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginoijpods ou Saijuasojd :saao requests, notice was served that the engineers desired increases proportionate to any increase granted other employes. All road employes, as distinguished from yard employes, in the four foregoing organizations, generally grouped as the Big Four brotherhoods, now get proportionately increased daily pay when they make mileage in excess of 100 miles and in freight sendee get time and one-half for time consumed jn excess of what would be required on the guaranteed speed basis which is two and one-half miles an hour. Switchmen's Union of North America: Foremen or conductors be increased from $5.33 to $7.50 a day and $8 a night; helpers or brakemen be increased from $5 to $7 a day and $7.50 a night; switch tenders to receive same rate as hepers; time and one-half for Sundays and holidays. Laborers Ask 50 Cents Hour. Maintenance of Way and Enginehouse Laborers: Rate for all mechanics in the maintenance of way department to be increased from basic rate of 53 cents an hour to uniform rate of 68 cents an hour; rate of all trackmen and other laborers to be increased from rates running to uniform rates throughout the United States of 50 cents an hour. Most of these employes now receive between 35 and 10 cents an hour. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America: An increase of approximately 10 cents an hour for each class of signal employes. Brotherhood of Railway Clerks: An increase of at least 20 cents an hour, retroactive to January 1, 1920, and in addition the re-establishment of differentials between certain classes of employes; also immediate elimination of the existing 43 cents an hour maximum rate for freight handlers and other labor in freight houses, storerooms, etc., and time and one-half for Sundays and holidays. Order of Railroad Telegraphers: That rates received by telegraphers on the Southern Pacific system, which were said to be practically the highest in the country on any important railroad, shall be taken as a basis, the rates of all other telegraphers put on the same basis, and then an increase of 17 cents an hour added to the rates so established; also increase to approximately 85 cents an hour for employes-now generally receiving 67 and 72 cents an hour. I Do You Know j I hat it is impossible 0 contract malaria vithout first being itten by a mosquito? t's a fact, for mosquimalarial germ. The idly work in the dark weather is hot and the you are longing for a [reds of thousands of f greater precautions 1 II 1 _ 1 ? j x a ; aeam-aeaimg pesu ) with our Mosquito [ are here illustrated in | M M- I 'Mm I liture Company, | South Carolina 1 mm -.Iff: msm?Wr' I Still Doing Good Work. Pastor L. J. Bristow and his people of the First Baptist church of Abbeville, have been conducting without: outside help a truly good meeting. Large congregations have been in attendance upon the services, and many new members have been received. We take the following from a letter from Pastor Bristow, written before the meeting closed: "We have received several new members?among them four first-class men?three heads of families, whom I have baptized. One young man was William F. Jones (son of a Methodist father), who was decorated by Haig, Pershing and Foch for conspicuous heroism on the field of battle, but decorated in baptism by one higher as I said to him in oj>en meeting, when he presented himself." ?The Baptist Courier. Mr. Bristow is well-known in Kingstree as a former editor and owner of The County Record. o NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS j Note the date on the address label of this paper it gives the date you.! subscription expires, and if same >:? noe renewed and paid for in advance the paper will be discontihued. The County Record job office is equipped to do your printing. o Curing Tobacco. For the benefit of the many South Carolina farmers who are growing tobacco for the first time, the following suggestions on curing are condensed from Extension Bulletin 43. "To bacco Culture in South Carolina." About the time the seed pods begin J to bloom the bottom leaves of the tobacco plant commence to turn yellow and mature. As soon as sufficient number of leaves mature, harvesting and curing may commence. There are two methods of curing; one the "stall: cure," and the other the "cropping method." In the "stalk cure" method the entire stalk with all of its leaves is allowed to mature and the stalk is split down the center nearly to the> ground, where it is cut off and the j split stalk with the leaves attached, J is placed astraddle of the "stick" to I be carried to the barn. Except in i rare instances, or when the crop is ' grown with this method of harvesting j in view, it is advisable to cure this way. The preferred method of har- j vesting is the "cropping method." j In this method the leaves are picked ; off as they ripen, which they generally commence to do near the bottom of the plant The leaves picked should be of uniform color and ma- j turity. With a little practice this can , be done readily. , The leaves are then carried to the ' ? ' ? -1- ? J 4- fa* A Ktf Darn tuiu ittuau-ucu uj uj j means of strings. A string is tied , to one end of the stick and near this ' end it passes around the rtem of three to five leaves, thus forming a small! bunch which will hang on one side ofI the stick. The string is then drawn squarely across the stick to the other side and looped around another bunch of leaves. This process is repeated i until the stick is "full." The free end of the string is then tied to the stick. The stick is now ready to be hung in the barn for curing. Unless crowded I for curing room, it is best not to place too many leaves on the stick. Sticks are usually riven out of pine logs and should be 4 ft. 6 in. long (to conform to the tier poles in the barn), and' about 1 in. by \ in. in size. Another | method sometimes used is the Snow J system and should be used more widely l The usual methods of getting the oi>a tko kqqvo" ' leaves iiviii we iscu-a ute ?u? vwav? , method, in which baskets made for; that puruose are used, and the truck; method. Th| baskets used for carry ing tobacco from the fields to the' bam are 2 feet wide and 3 feet long, and, from 18 to 20 inches in height, j These baskets may be made with [ white oak splits, by local basket mak-1 ers, and should be made rigid enough J so that they may be stacked one upon [ another when full of tobacco, or they j may be bought from tobacco basket! manufacture rs The trucks may be bought from; manufacturers, or they may be home ; made. They are easily constructed | and are about 2 fCet wide, 4 to 5 feet! high. These trucks; are drawn from j the field to the barn, by horse power. They are diawn between the tobacco rows near the persons who are "cropping" or pulling the leaves. As the leaves are gathered they should hi placed in the trucks gently all one way until the truck is full. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA Executive Chamber PROCLAMATION Whereas, A petition has been filed with the Governor of South Carolina, j fV?OT% +VIO I oi^ucu ujr luvi c kii?u vav-wuiu va wiv j qualified electors of a certain portion | of Williamsburg County proposed to < be severed from the County of Wil-I liamsburg and annexed to the County 1 of Florence, embraced within the following lines, to wit: All that ;portion or section of the County of Williamsburg, South Carolina, containing forty square miles, more or less, and bqunded at present on the North by Lynches Lake Swamp j to its confluence with Lynches Creek and then 3aid cieek to its confluence with the Pee )ee River, the said Swamp and Rivers being the southern boundaries of Florence County and the Northern boundaries of Williamsburg County, then commencing at Brown's Bridges of said Lake Swamp on the Anderson's Bridge Public Road thence running said road in a southerly direction to the point where said Anderson's Bridge Road intirsects with the Public Road leading to Roper's Cross Roads, thence a line from this point of conjunction mentioned above running approximately straight in a Southeasterly direction to St. John's Negro Church on the Indiantown Public Road, a distance of about seven miles, thence running the said Indiantown Public Road in a Northerly direction for about three hundred yards to the Smiths aims ruDiic Road thence running the said Smith's Mills Public Road in an Easterly direction through Ard's Cross Roads to Muddy Creek Swamp, a distance oL about four miles,, thence following the run of Muddy Creek Swamp to its confluence with Lawrence's Cut thence following Lawrence's Cut to its con- j fluence with Clark's Creek, thence j the said Clark's Creek to its conflu- j ence with the Great Pee Dee River thence the Great Pee Dee River, j Lynches River and Lynches Lake Swamp to Brown's Bridges the beginning point. Whereas, the l>oundaries of the proposed portion of Williamsburg County to be cut off and annexed to the County of Florence, the number of inhabitants, the taxable property as well as all other requirements of the Constitution and Statutes, have been j found to be anc are as set forth in 1 said petition. Whereas, the leport of the Commis- . sioners, appointed to ascertain the i facts provided for by law, whether the j requirements of the Constitution and; Statutes as to area distance, wealth and population, shape, etc., are complied with and are as stated in the petition, has been filed in this office, wherein it appears that the law has been fully ccmpl ed with in every particular, which is hereby confirmed. Whereas, no election has been held upon said petition in said area upon the question of the annexation of said portion of wuiamsDurg oouniy to Florence County within four years previous to the date hereof, and Whereas, under the Constitution and laws of this state the petitioners are entitled to have ordered, and it is made the duty of the Governor of the State to order an election upon said question. Now, Therefore, L R. A. Cooper, Gevernor of the State of South Carolina, by virtue of the power conferred, upon me by the Constitution and laws of this state, do hereby order: That an election be held in the territory embraced within the portions of Williamsburg County proposed to be severed from the County of Williamsburg and ainexed to the County of Florence, or. the second Tuesday, the 13th day a! July, 1920, upon the question of the annexation of said portion of Williamsburg County to Florence Count;, and that at such election the qualified electors within the proposed area shall vote upon said question, those favoring the proposed annexation to vote "Yes", and those i.. X- H\T~ U opposing to vui* i>u. Th.it the Commissioners of State and County,elections of the County of Williamsburg do make all necessary arrangements fcr holding said election and shall appoint managers and do all things necessary for the holding of same. That the Commissioners of Election of Williamsburg County shall have prepared printec tickets as provided for in Section 233, Code of Laws 1912, Volujne I, as amended by an Act passed by the Geeiral Assembly at its special sesion ir 1914, and approved the ixirtieth dsy of October, 1914, said Act being No. 6 in the acts of said special s&ision; and the said Commissioners siall furnish the same to the manager of election for the use of the voters a; said election. The form of the ticket shall be as follows: Form of Ballot. "Sjpecial election upon the question of the annexation of a certain portion of Williamsburg County to F'orence County, held July 13, 1920. "Shall said portion, as described in Proclamation Dy the Governor dated May 28, 1920, be annexed to the County of Florence? "Yes. "NO." That the said election shall be held and conducted vnder the same rules and regulations as provided by law for regular and general elections. That the commissioners of election shall appoint managers of election as provided for by law, who shall be sworn befote ertering upon the discharge of their duties, and shall open and close the po Is as provided for by law. The managers of election, when the polls have been closed, shall proceed without interrupaon to count and tabulate the same; they shall make a written return oj: the number of votes cast for and against the proposed annexation; they shall sign and certify to the managers the result of said election, the same., together with the ballot box, ballots and poll lists, and everything else pertaining to said election, shall be by them forthwith turned over to :he commissioners of election as requ red by law; that the commissioners of election for each of said counties stall, in accordance with the law, tabulate the vote and declare the result of the election, and make due and proper return thereof to the Clerk of Court of their respective counties, to the (Governor of the State, and to the Secretary of State, in all of which careful and detailed compliance with the law is enjoined and ordered. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixec at Columbia, this twenty-eighth day of May, in the year oi' our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty, and in th ) One Hundred and Forty-four h Year of American Independence. By the Gevernor: R. A. COOPER. Governor. W. BANKS DOVE Secretary of State. 6-10-5t . - ' Alabama Mil Stomach Troubles Made Hi But Now Always DO YOU enjoy your meals? Eat without the dread of the after effects? Lack of appetite, and a dtsgreeable, .I.L -A Ik. -U piCK-?i-(.ue-Biuuja.uu icriiug aner uieaib, usually indicate that your digestive organs are not working properly. As a result, you will feel weak, lose weight and lack the energy that is to be derived from well-digested food. A valuable help in correcting such conditions Is mentioned by the Rev. E. K. McKenzie, of Route 1, Section. Feelin t Headache? Nausea? ness? Constipation? nothing most of the need is a shaking-u] and a gingering-up i that'll fix you up is: Dr.THA I IUPB a_. UliRWH SYP An old doctor's pres > 68 years. Enlivens; and enriches your* your Bowels and is a: &et a bottle from y< you'll soon be Feeliri | In Thea I of unsettled conditions I it is wisdom on the part men to purchase only i lished quality standard Shirts, the kind that ha^ Best? The Best *Kno WE SELI / McGill 0 m Store Fo I KINGSTREE, I ??? ?? j;HYMAN SUPPI 1 ATTENTION, MR. g|? Now is the time to place yoiu || fall use. \ Put more machinery on your H all the year around, and you w< After the crop is laid by, pu1 g a Saw Mill, Lath Mill, Shingle M |j Sheller, Cord Wood Saw. We make a specialty of light g Mills, Feed Mills and Farm Mad HYMAN SU The Machinery Hoi g WILMINGTON, N. C. 1 ; See The County R< (fards and invitations. hmm ..x.,. ? lister Relieved ? L m Feel Sick at Meal Times, \ Enjoys His Meals. m Ala., who writna- "T had atomaAh Hun. ble. When I would go to eat, I mil turn sick. I took one bottle of 21m, and It cured me. Am always rooty for my meala and enjoy them. I thiak it Is a fine medicine." If your food hurts you. If yonr ayyetlte is poor, if you are pale, weak aai run-down, and hare other symptom that indicate your system needs helfc try Ziron. It will put iron into yew blood and help build you np. Take it according to directions, and If Mt benefited by the first bottle, the mosey* back guarantee will protect fN, Ask your druggist Mean? Dizziness? BiliousLazy and good for i time? What you p of your "innards" * 4 ill over. The thing , CHER'S j PI AAA 1 !URWW J "M cription; in use for four Liver, purifies Blood. Regulates fine family TONIC. >ur drug store and * Fine!, s Times [and uncertain values irx of critical and thrifty merchandise of estab. Is?such as Manhattn re been "Known as the wn" for fifty years. ? ' j THEM v Bros. r Men, I | SO. CAR I . 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