Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r NEW YORK COLLEGE STUDENT IS MASTER MASON. \ Youngest Man in United States to Head Lodge; Lives and Works in Canton, N. Y. A twenty-three-year-old college student today is said to be the youngest master of a Masonic lodge i*? the United States, if r.ot in the entire realm of Masonry. The distinction goes to Franklin Slye, senior in St. Lawience University at Canton, N. Y., as the result of his election to mrster of St. Lawrence Lodge, No. Ill, Free and Accepted Mason. The youngest Masonic master is a native of Dover, Ky., having been born there on September 25, 1898. He was graduated from the Maysville (Ky.) High school in 1915, and after two years experience in newspaper work and another year's experience in banking, both at I.Iaysville, he enlisted in the students' Army Training Corps and was sent to St. Lawrence University for training in September, 1918. Demoblizcd, Slye decided to remain in the local college to complete his education. He secured part time 1 work in the First National Bank there * and has earned his way through St.' ' Lawrence from that time on. , Ir March. 1920, Slye joined the local Masonic lodge. In the following December he became junior warden. Now he's the lodge's master. Slye will graduate from St. Law- J rence this June and then intends to enter a medical college. He is, in addition to being master of the St. Lawrence Lodge, secretary of St. Lawrence Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and a member of the Square and Compass, a national college men's Masonic society, and of Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity. Fifteen Million Dollar Tobacco Pool. Through figures given out at headquarters it became known that the Jburley Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association has approximately $15,000,000 ready to lend farmers on their tobacco produced this year. This pool covers more than 192,000,000 pounds and is the property of thousands of farmers of white burley districts of Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and parts of Tennessee. The money will be loaned to farmers up to half the value of their tobacco as graded in the association warehouses, which open Thursday to receive the leaf. The War Finance Corporation has approved application for a loan of $10,000,000 to the association, while banks and business interests of the sales affected have pledged the remainder. The amount needed has been oversubscribed about, three-quarters of a million dollars, according to J. C. Stone, President of the association. If prices offered by manufacturers' buyers are not as much as associo ?* tVio tobarro is lion growers uv?u wi?- ?-?-? ? worth, the leaf will be stored until the prices are met The association is owned and controlled by the farm< eis who have made contracts to purchase more than one hZmdred warehouses in the district. The first money for the organiza/ tion came when Judge R. W. Bingham. newspaper publisher of Louisville, sent his check for $500,000, half of the sum he has pledged. Bernard M. Baruch of New York was one of the first to advise Kentucky farmers to handle their tobacco co-operatively.?Financial World, N. Y. Kill Germs With Boiling Water. # To be sure of obtaining healthy young plants for transplanting to the , home garden or elsewhere, treat the *soil in the seed box with boiling water a few days before planting. Most all soils commonly used for beds contain one or more kinds of harmful * * ? 1L. molds or fungi ana in aaaiuon, in me South, a destructive eelworm which causes a disease of many garden crops * commonly called footknot. Recently it has been learned by the United States Department of Agriculture that seed-bed soil can be made reasonably free from these plant enemies by this simple hot-water treatment. If disease spores are not killed, plants grown in such soil will usually become diseased and die, or else will remain stunted and sickly. It is because of the transplanting of such diseased seedlings that many of the poor crops or failures in the home garden occur. Every gardener should therefore learn how to recognize troubles of young plants and become familiar with the method here described for preventing them. Before treating the soil it should be placed in the box ready for seeding. Make a few holes in the bottom . of the box for drainage. Pour on 9 the boiling water very slowly at the rate of two gallons to a box of soil one foot square and four inches and at once cover with a newspaper to help hold the hert for a longer time. After a few days or whenever the soil has dried out enough th seed may be planted. Young plants grown in this trcate soil not only have white, sound roote but also have a healthy, vigorou appearance above the ground. Be sides this, seeds sprout better an the plants grow much Taster thai those planted in untreated soil. Ordinarily diseased seedlings ar a lighter green color and are some what smaller than healthy plants an have a sickly appearance. Thc& signs of disease on the young pianls however, may net be noticed and stil the trouble may be present on th< roots and develop u'ter the plant are set in the garden. TV\ finrl Atif if /1'CAQcno nrhwonf always examine the roots of younj plants before seeting them out. 1 affected by molds or fungi, dark dea< patches may be seen on the roots am sometimes on the lower part of thi stems. -O No Let l'p in Centenary Campaign That there shall be no let up ii pushing the Centenary of Mission; campaign, which f r more than tw< years has claimed the attention o; the Methodist Episcopal church South, was the determination express ed at the closing sessior of a church wide conference on world progran and missionaiy advance held in Mem phis, Tenn., January 31-February 2 This assemblage, said to be tin most notable in the history of th< church, brought together more thn' 400 Methodist leaders, including th< members of the college of bishops CO0 presiding elders, twenty editor; of church publications, missionarie; from home and foreign fields, promi ncnt laymen and church officials, fo; the purpose of reviewing the achieve ments of the Centenary movemen and perfecting plans for its final an< complete success. The presiding elders were charge* with the task of interpreting th< message of the conference to the lo cal church, and they enthusiastically pledged themselves to keep alive th< the great principles of the uenienar and stir the enthusiasm of the 7,00< pastors to canvass the membershi] of the 18,000 congregations of South ern Methodist for the collection o unpaid Centenary pledges now due. It was shown that sixty per cen of the entire amount subscribed i now due and that the work of collec ; tion must proceed with renewed vigo i if the enlared missionary- program i made possible by the subscription o more than $35,000,000, is to attaii completion. , March 26-April 2 was ramed as ;time for an intensive campaign ii j the interest of Centenary collection J vi hen every member of the Methodis Episcopal church, South, in arrer.iage to this cause shall be solicited b; local committees for some paymen or. this pledge. This period of spe | rial endeavor, it is said, will be con j ducted along the lines of the origins Centenary campaign, utilizing th fcur-minute speakers and other ageh , ries which contributed to the sue .cess of that movement, I \ ??? ? ? Our Modern Girls. i Some of these days the modem gii is going to rise up, indignant lik< "and tell her detractors just wher to go and the quickest way to ge there. Thousands of different forms c /'criticism" are directed against th ; modern girl, and there are few mo ments when she is not on trial befor self-constituted judges and juries. ' Of fault-finders there is no enc Nothing the modem girl does is right She is a demoralizing influence i social and business life. If she doesn' reform her ways the world is goin; to the bow-wows. Two new indictmeuts of the moder girl are reported in the day's news One of them is by the "freshmen" a Princeton and the other is by th dignified United States senate. The latter hoHv is torn over th question, "Shall the historic dignit of the United States senate be dis turbed by pretty girls with bobbe hair and short skirts which permi the display of a foot or more of sill stockings ?" Female secretaries want the priv ileges of the floor, the same as ar enjoyed by male secretaries. It is intimated that if the femal secretaries were not so easy to lool at, and if their conduct was more ii keeping with the ideas of some of th "old-timers," there might be no ob jection to giving them the floor priv ilege. The freshmen at Princeton hav given the modern girl a half-heartei indorsement, but the minority repor is anything but complimentary. However, the modem girl is show ing every day that she knows how t take care of herself. If she want the privileges of the floor in the sen ate she is going to have them. An if Princeton "freshes" get too fresl j with her she'll hand 'em one in th eye.?Pittsburg Leader. o Send us your order for Job Print ing. We only do the best work. e Ten Steps in Fighting the Boll Weevil. d Cotton has been grown successfully for years under boll weevil conditions, s If other farmers have succeeded, so - can you. Herewith is a brief stated ment of the methods that have been 11 successfully used: 1. Grow not more than eight to e ten acres of cotton to the plow, un til you can learn for yourself how J | many you can handle properly. If e labor is scarce it would be well not to undertake more than t^acies to 1 the plow. e The land on which cotton is not s | grown should of course, be used for i food and feed crops and a part to i some money crop as peanuts, sweet X potatoes, tobacco and hay, according i to the adaptation of the soil. J 2. Prepare the seed bed early so 1 that it will be well settled by plant? ing ti ne. Heavy lands should be broken earlier than usual. 3. Plant early fruiting varieties, i. varieties which while setting fruit eariy will continue to form squares l throughout the season. It is also des sirable that the varieties have thickj skinned bolls. The varieties gencralf ly favored for boll weevil conditions , are the Cleveland strains, Cook, and -! Ezpress. - ! 4. Plant earl v. as soon as the I - ?, __ \ danger of frost is past. Earliness is - considered very important and should . be promoted by every practical means. ? The use of the delinted seed is reci ommended, since they germinate more 1 quickly and give a better stand. -1 5. Fertilize liberally. Fertilizers , i must be depended upon to set enough s fruit on the cotton stalk to make it s i worth while to combat the boll weevil. -1 Fertilizers can also be depended upon r | to hasten the maturity of the crop, - j especially if the fertilizer carries a t, high percentage of phosphoric acid, i! Nitrogen must be depended upon to j quickly develop a sturdy stalk. More, i | in fact, than the usual amount of e nitrogen should be applied at plant ing time, but if nitrogenous top dress9 ing be made, it should not be applied e later than three weeks after the y plants come up. D j Fertilizers should be applied at the p - time the rows are bedded, which - should be at least two weeks previous f to planting. For coastal plains or sandy soils use a fertilizer carrying t 8 to 9 per cent phosphoric acid, 3 to s 4 per cent nitrogen and 2 to 4 per - j cent potash. For the Piedmont r region, or heavy soils, apply a feri, (tilizer carrying 9 to 12 per cent phosf phoric acid, 3 to 4 per cent nitrogen n and 2 to 3 pef cent potash. Where the cotton follows a legume a crop turned under, the percentage of n' nitrogen may be lessened, s! 6. Cultivate intensively. The crop t should be cultivated every week or s | ten days, especially during the early y | weeks of the cotton growth. Hiis is 11 important in pushing the vegetative !-' growth of the plant, i- j When the cotton plant has gained tl | considerable growth cultivation may e | become less intensive. It is bettei - then to cultivate alternate middles, j leaving for the tiirie half of the rool i area of each row undisturbed. With J the next cultivation, of course, tta | skipped middles should be worked, j 7. Kill the weevils when they flrfl 1. emerge from winter quarters. Often i, the weevils appear in spots or ree stricted zones nearest the woods, hay t rtacks, or other favored winter quarters. On these local areas poisons f may be applied early, or the weevils e themselves may be picked by hand, i- 8. Gather infested squares and e destroy them. When squares flare open and begin to turn brown it 1. means that the squares or buds t. contain immature weevils. These n squares, whether attached to the t stalks or fallen to the ground, should g be gathered and destroyed. One prospective weevil destroyed at that time n means an escape from damage that 5. its thousands of descendants cr.n t cause later on. c Gathering squares is the one meth. oci most generally used with success e by farmers who grow cotton under y boll weevil conditions. It is the method most to be depended upon d until farmers learn to poison vith t calcium arsenate, which is the most k successful and economical way. 9. Learn to poison with calcium - arsenate. If a farmer leams how to c poison the weevil he will be relieved of the necessity of gathering weevils e and damaged squares. No farmer, k however, should undertake to use n poison, who is not willing to follow e instructions strictly. - When 10 to 15 per cent of tfie - squares are infested the first application of poison should be made. A e second application should be made d four days after the first, and a third t four days after the second. If a hard drenching rain should - fall within 24 hours after poison is o put on, the application should be res peated immediately. Usually three - applications of poison are all that are d necessary. h In view of the fact that calcium e arsenate is getting cheaper and the machinery for its application less expensive and more efficient, the dust - poison method is becoming more attractive to both the farmer who is / * willing to experiment on a small scale, and to the farmer who has obtained success and relies upon it entirely. 10. Destroy the weevil's food. Gather the cotton early and then plow up or otherwise kill the green cotton stalks. If this is done before frost the weevil will be driven into winter quarters early and hungry, with less likelihood of surviving, j No particular advantage so far as destroying the boll weevil is concern, results from fall breaking of cotton fields if the plowing does not occur before frost has killed the cotton , stalks. ! . ADMINISTRATORS' SALE. ?? | STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Williamsburg. Pursuant to an order issued by the Probate Coui-t for the county and state aforesaid and bearing date Feb; ruary 8, 1922, I will sell at public sale to the highest bidder for cash at the residence of the late Julius D. Floyd on Monday, the 20th day of February, all of the personal property belonging to the estate of the said Julius D. Floyd, deceased. MARVIN A. FLOYD, Administrator of the Estate of Julius D. Floyd, deceased. 2-9-2tc. t . Time to Plant i and the best varieties of vegetable ? ? * 1 i- ?1 x. * ana neia seeas 10 piam xor eacn purpose is told in the 1922 Catalog of WOODS SEEDS i Now ready to be mailed, free on request. Reduced prices are quoted on Seeds, Poultry Supplies, and Feeds, Garden Tools and Spray Materials. Write for your copy today. T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, 17 S. 14th St., Richmond, Va. 666 cures Malarial Fever. "THE MONEY YOU DC "BUY THE i For the odd jobs < you don't need th I Insist on "Tide Water" Cypress?jrou e?o identify it by this mark. ImwhUlliQa Lower grades will ai just as long. Save Write us for list of FREE and no substitutes" from; SOUTHERN CY1 z i YOUR LOCAL DEALER WILL I Taste is a matter of tobacco quality We state it ss our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield are of finer quality (and hence of better , taste) than in any other cigarette at the price. Liggett St Mytri Tobacce Ct. J & ft( Lower Pricea 20 now 18c 10 now 9c (Two 10'b?ISc) | - - . > - - 1H II M l llfHIIIIHH i | To Look Its Best? :i A suit or overcoat must be properly \[ ;; Cleaned and Pressed. Cleaning and Press- \\ ;; ing also add to the life of a garment by keep- ;; * !: ing it in a sanitary condidion and preserving I \ j the shape to which the garment was modeled. ;; Send us your Pressing. It will be Properly ;: Looked After. . ;; THE CITY TAILORING SHOP j; J. V. EPPS, Manager KINGSTREE, S. C. ; ; \ \ Cleaning, Pressing, Dying and Altering. * J *********min i'i n >11imin iiiiiiihiihuihm H and the meat thereby made fit for food con- | We butcher only the best cattle and 1 II hogs, and if you buy from us you may feel I H assured that you are getting the best at low- || m est prices. f I The Cash Neat Market 1 > | S. P. Epps, Manager %. DR. JAS. A. COLE DR. FRANK 0. LENTZ DENTIST DENTIST Office in Nexsen Building, Over Bank Offiee Over Raggett'* Jewelry Store, of Kings tree. Main Street KINGSTREE, S. C. OFFICE HOURS: 9-1-21 9 a. m. to 1 p. ra. and 2 to 5 p. m. _? w a - ?? t : : * ? >ATT HAVE TO SPEND ON REPAIRS IS ALL PROFIT." GRADE THAT FITS THE JOB" )f building and repairing around the place?r e higher grades ot tTMDH ***y QfPRESS 3^f 1 THE WOOD ETERNAL" /? - ' >. A ? lswer just as well for many of these jobs?and last" your money. "Buy the grade that fits the job.". ^ PLANS for farm building!?but In the meantime insist on "CYPRESS your local lumber dealer?no matter for what purooae you buy. Address PRESS MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION SI Graham Building, Jacksonville, Fla. , SUPPLY YOU. IP HE HASN'T ENOUGH CYPHESS LET US KNOW AT ONCE. o TV I || Dhesterfiela CIGARETTES + of Turkish and Demotic tobaccos?blinded t Uf** ^ - 'i::' % 0 i A \ & '' -