The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 20, 1909, Image 5
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tATUROAY. FEBI1UARY 20,1909.
?t the Pos*>ftV? at Sumter, S.
C as Second 'Class Matter.
XKW ADV KIHTISEMENTS.
Sibert's Drug Store?Garden Said.
Cecil ? Business Hchool?Announce*
A. A. St reuse es Co.?Farmers Take
Notice.
The D. J. Chandler Clothing Co.?
Good Hats.
DEATH
Mr. T. J. TroubleAeld, of Wedge
fleld died at 8.30 p. m. Tueaday at
the Sumter Hjospltal where he had
been under treatment. The body was
taken Wednesday to Wedgeneld for
Interment.
Semi-Weekly Watchman Now I
PERSONAL.
Mien Willie May Batee who has
has been ranting Mies Moneta Oeteen.
laCt Wednesday for her home in
Birmingham. Ala.
Mice Moneta Oeteen has gone to
Montgomery, Ala., to elslt relatives.
Mr. W. B. McElveen. of Mayeevllle.
la the city Wedn? eday.
Mr. English Williamson of Prori
was la the city Tuesday.
Bor. M. W. Book, pastor of the
First Methodist church returned from
Oraageburg Wednesday.
Mr. Bugene Hogan went to Oree
Beginnlng with this week The
Watchman and Southron will be Is?
sued twice a week, the publication
daya being Wednesday and Saturday.
The paper will be printed Tueaday
and Friday atternoona so as to reach
subscribers in Sumter, Lee and Clar?
endon countlee Wednesday and Sat?
urday mornings. Copy for advertise?
ments must be in the office before 6
p. m. Monday for the Wednesday is?
sue and before 6 p. m. Thursday for
the Saturday issue. The Watchman
and Southern has always been the best
advertising medium for reaching the
people of Sumter and adjoining coun?
ties and It will be even better now.
Bor the present there will be no In?
crease in the advertising rates and
those who make term contracts for
three or alz months or one year will
pay no more for twloe a week inser?
tions than we have heretofore charg?
ed for weekly Insertions. Ten days
ago we cent out circular letters to
who Is representing the B. C. Atkins
sXreer gtoel taw Co.. Is here demon -
atrattag hts line to the local dealers.
Mrs. Laos a Dors has gone to
to spend several weeks with
Isyrille Wedneeday.
Mr. W. B. NewUn of Danville. Ind.. J our correspondents announcing the
change to a semi-weekly and the new
namee are already coming in. Ae the
twice a week Watchman and South?
ron at* $1.10 a year is not only the
cheapest but biggest and best coun?
ty paper published In the State, there
le nothing to keep us from building
up the largest circulation in this sec?
tion of the State. Merchants and oth?
er business men who are wise and
want to build up theln trade by ad?
vertising will make contracts for a
year at once while they can get in on
the ground floor while the old sched?
ule of rates Is In foroe.
Chaster t
Mr. C L? Porter. A. C. L. traln
r, of Florence, was In the city
mast*
Wadn
Senator-elect B. IX Smith passed
through the city Wednesday en route
io from Columbia.
Roberta Williamson hat re?
tarded from Hagood.
Mr. Bugene Meyers, of Dalcell. wag
hors Wodasaday night.
Mia. R. N. Abbey returned to the
any Wednesday from a two mc nth'*
rieft to hat mother at Kansas City.
Mr. T. B. Branson, of Goodwill,
eras tn the city on business Thursday
Bar. Tracy W. Munnerlyn. of Pine
wood, was fa the city Thursday.
Drs. H. M. Stuckey and B. C. linker
have returned from Charleston, where
the] hare bees attending the meet
hag of the Tri-Stste Medical Asoocla
pr. B. F. Wilson ret-rned from
Charleston Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Gall lard, of Bu
!,??.. ;aid a UioX hut pleasant
stag, to Mr. aar Mrs. M. do Veabx
Metro, st their homo. No. 114 Broad
strait.
Cadet deSauseure P. Moore, of this
who has been at Clemson Col
\i, has returned homo In order to
isc his eyes treated.
Attention Is directed to the adver
| of the IX J. Chandler Cloth
Co. They are now showing the
shapes.
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CHILD LABOR BILL PASSED.
North Carolins House Adopts Meas?
ure Urged by Cotton Mills.
Raleigh. N. C. Feb. It.?The houae
today passed a child labor bill, which
had been agreed to by the cotton
maauaftourera and which, is is said
will pass the senate and become a
law. i
It provides for not more than sixty
four hours' work a week for women
and minors, girls under 15 years not
to work at night, no child between
IS and IS years old to work as a
helper unices school attendance tor
previous year Is shown.
Ths bill also provides for a com?
plete system of Inspection of mills by
the commissioner of labor.
Postmaster Shore has information
that bids for the erection of
the new poet office will be called for
within the next three weeks.
The Sumter County dispensary
board Is Installing a handsome new
eafe In their office.
Seed
Potatoes
Red Bliss,
Irish;Cobbler,
Early Rose.
These potatoes have been
carefully selected and are as
fine as we have ever seen.
We "can make you special
price in quantity lots.
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Extra Early Valentine,
Blaek Wax,
Golden Wax,
Dwarf Lima (Henderson)
Dwarf Lima (Ourpeee)
Caaa Knife White Dutch,
Carolina or Sewee,
Kentucky Wonder.
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MR. HARRIS TO THE FARMERS.
HEAD OP STATE FARMERS'
UNION URGES DIVERSIFICA?
TION.
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Tlie Way to Regulate* the Price of
Cotton Is to Reduce the Acreage
Planted, Sow Various Food Crops
and Spend Less Money on Fertili?
ser.
Now is the time to regulate prices;
not when the crop is made. Septem?
ber, 190JI is too late to begin fixing
on settng'prlce.
What is the remedy for low prlce9
on cotton? Three things it is essen
tial to do. Organize into the Farm?
er's Educational and Co-operative
Union of America, and live up to its
declaration of purposes, and diversi?
fy your crops so as to make home
self-supporting. Now, let us look at
diversified farming and see if it will
pay us to do it. If it will pay us as
farmers, let us adopt It into our sys?
tem at once. Many farmers think di?
versification means truckling. Such
farmers have a wrong conception of
It. Well, what does It mean? It
means this kind of farming: First,
make ample provision to plant plenty
of wheat. In all parts of the South,
where It can be grown successfully
and profitably, we should supply, all
home needs and have a few barrels
of flour to sell. In the portions of
the South where wheat does not do
well, oats will grow fine. In that sec?
tion sow oats to supply home mar?
kets for seed and feed. It has been
demonstrated recently that in all por?
tions of the South on our uplands
that there hai been grown from 60 to
100 bushels of corn to the acre. It
has also been demonstrated that In
any section of the South pork can be
raised cheaper than in the Western
States. We can also raise horses and
mules as choap here. Dairying can
be made as profitable here In the
South ss in any country, so, with
these facts before us, where does the
trouble lie? With the Southern farm?
er himself. Who is to blame for cot?
ton selling for 9 1-2 cents when It
ought to be selling for 13? No one
Is to blame but the man who pro?
duces It. On the other hand, if the
farmers of the South had been di?
versifying th sir crops for the last ten
years, they could have been a very
rich people. The above system I call
diversified agriculture, which means
success for the Southern farmer.
Now, let ue see where our money goes
and for wha: things we send it West.
I have, carefully as I could, gotten
up the amount of money that South
Carolina Is spending for products that
shs ought to raise. Many of her sons
will be surprised to find that her cot?
ton crop will not pay the debt, so.
Brother Farmers, consider what you
are doing and where you are. Below
you win find what South Carolina is
spending annually, and It is appall?
ing:
Horses and Mules.$.6,000,000
Corn. 10,800.000
Flour. 18,000,000
Bacon. 12,000,009
Fertilisers.*. 15,000,000
Oats j.' !?. 7,500.000
Hay. 8,000.000
Total.$77,800,000
We will say that South Carolina
will make in 1908 approximately 1,
200,000 bales of cotton, valued at $46
per bale. This makes a total of $55,
200,000. So we have $65,200.000
worth of cotton money to pay $77,
300,000 with. Deduct out cotton crop
from the Indebtedness and we are
still in debt $22., 100.000. Farmers
stop, consider and think and apply
the remedy. Organisation, co-opera?
tion and diversification of crops. Ev?
ery bale of cotton that has been sold
of the 1908 crop has been sold below
its actual value, $20 per bale. There?
fore we have lost on the 1908 crop
$24,000,000, which would have about
brought us out even and paid our in?
debtedness. Why haven't we got the
$20 per bale we ought to have had?
It Is because conditions did not war?
rant it? No. The cause is that the
farmer who produced It did not co?
operate and use good business judg?
ment In selling it, and also in produc?
ing it. Now, let us turn this old cow
around. We have been feeding her
and the other fellow has been getting
the milk. Now, It Is time we farm?
ers have the milk end of her, and
make the other fellow feed her, and
conditions will begin at once to
change. With conditions staring us
In the face as they do today, what is
our first and greatest duties as farm?
ers? It Is to cut the acreage of cot?
ton at least 30 per cent, plant in food
crops and also cut fertilizer bills at
least 35 per cent. So this is the first
step to take in setting the price for
the 1909 crop, and if it is done it will
not fall to make a renumeratlve price
for the grower. How can any farmer
prosper when he buys corn for $1
per bushel, while he could raise it
himself for 35 cents? He busy bacon
at 10 cent per pound, when he can
grow It at from 3 to 6 cents per
pound. Why should he pay $225 to
$250 for horses and mules, when he
can raise Just as nice ones for $100?
And why should a farmer buy hay
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SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE!
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^ityoolard's (Cultivator JJarrow.
Saves Labor,
Saves One Hand,
Saves One Horse,
Saves Incidental Expen?
ses Necessarily Pertain
in?; Thereto.
Call and see it.
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Every Farmer Should Have One.
A. STRAUSS & CO.
P. S.?The grass cannot cr.tch you when you use a
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For $25 per ton, when he can raise it
and put It in his barn tor $8 per ton.
Now, is there any business or com?
mon sense In the above mentioned?
If your banker was to go North and
borrow money for 4 per cent and
bring it here and loan it to you for
8 per cent, how long would he be In
the banking business? If your mer?
chant bought shoes for $1.25 and sold
them to you for $1, how long would
he be in the merchant business? It
would only be a short time until he
would fall. I want to urge every
farmer to educate himself to be a
business man. There Is nothing will
respond more quickly than farming
if business methods are applied to It.
I hope that every farmer will read
(he report of the country life com?
mission and adopt ths great prin?
ciples it suggests. If you do success
Is assured. Let our watchword be to
organize Into the Farmers' Eucatlon
al and Co-operative Union of Ameri?
ca. If we live up to her teaching
agriculture will be revolutionized in
th? South. Just remember you, the
farmer, can make cotton sell for 8
1*2 cents, and you can also make it
sell for 15 cents. Which do you pre?
fer? If you want 8 1-2 do as you
have been doing. If you want 15
cents make your home self-support?
ing and be happy. I want you to re?
member that It all depends upon you
and do not blame the other follow.
What is the remedy? Cut cotton
acreage 80 per cent, plant food crops
cut fertilizer bills 35 per cent, and
you will win.
I hope that each cotton belt State
will adopt theso principles.
B. HARRIS,
President South Carolina State Farm?
ers' Union,
Pendleton, S. C, Feb. 15, 1909.
BLOW AT COAST LINE.
Savannah May Insist on Elimination
Of Grade Crossings.
Savannah, Ga.,' Feb. 15.?Another
blow will probably be dealt the At?
lantic Coas: Line Railway as a result
of its temerity in removing Its shop
forces from Savannah to Waycross.
The tracks of the Coast Line that en?
ter through the southern portion of
the city cross several streets, among
them Bull street, on a grade level
with the streets. It Is planned to re
quire the railroad to either raise the
tracks and let the road pass beneath
or lower the tracks beneath the road.
That this would cost enormously ts
patent. Residents of the southern
portion of Savannah united in
strong kick and Mayor Tiedeman end
City Attorney S. B. Adams conferred,
with the result that an ordinance will
be introduced in council soon provid
lng for a change at the crossings.
Read the new avertisement of
Strauss & Co. today.
The bodies of those who have
ed in the Catholic Graveyard on W
Liberty street for many year are 1
ing removed to the Catholic Cea
tery on Oakland Ave. Quite a nu
ber of bodies have been removed d
ing the past few years, and now
others are being removed.
L J. IW. K. DUNNE,
ARCHITECTS.
Plsns snd Specifications for
all Clssses of Buildings.
Peisoosl attention given the
.Supervision of sll Wort.
liw.RiRgi ' ephone 390.
Sumter, S. C.
Mrs. Richard A. Alley has the dis?
tinction of being the only lady in the
world who is the active manager of a
line of steamships. Since the death
of her husband, nearly a year ago, she
has personally managed the Alley
Line.
If I rest I rest, says the key.?Ger?
man.
MONEYMAKER COTTON, improved
by T. J. Kirven, makes one-third
more thin any other variety with
same expense. Seed 50 cts jper
bushel; if sacked and shipped, 55
cts. bushel. T. J. Kirven, Provi?
dence, S. C. 2-10-lm
60 YEARS*
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The work on South Washington
street is going forward at a satisfac?
tory rate and the clay-sand roadway
will be completed within a short time.
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If you would enjoy your raiment,
pay for it before you wear it.?Dan?
ish.
Assist yourself and Heaven will as?
sist you.?Germ?n.
Michigan's new constitution, lately
ratified by the voters, grants women
who pay taxes the right to vote upon
questions involving the expenditure of
public money. fi
H. STEVENS SONS. CO.
NOTICE.
Estate of W. C. Dana Stiles, decease*1
All persons having claims against
said Estate, will present them duly
attested, and all In any wise Indebted
to said Estate will kindly settle same
with,
WILLIAM C. STILES,
Admlnistratcr.
2-15?W & S~4t.
NOTICE.
All persons having claims against
the Estate of Mrs. Maude McBride
Dabbs, deceased, will present their
claims duly attested, and all persons
indebted to the same will make pay
ment to
E. W. DABBS,
Qualified Executor.
2-17-W & S. 4t.
MACON,
GA.
Sewer and R. R. Culvert Pipe, Farm Drain Pipe, Well ?
Curbing, Road Drainage Pipe.
Correspondence Solicited on ail Lines Clay Goods.
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LIME, :: CEMENT,
Shingles, Laths,
Building Material Generally,
Wagons, Buggies, Harness.
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GAR HORSES ?ND MULES ARRIVED JANUARY 30TH
Booth-Harby Live Stock
Company,
SUMTER,
S. C.
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