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$500,0% C?ffi?N fJRFt?Hi F?rfners aftd Business Men of Surater County Organke to Protect; Ppcejctf the ,Staple. Ettthusiastic Meeting Held Today A mass meeting was held at the! Court House Saturday in interest ofj the Sumter County Cotton Associa-j ion. Farmers, bankers, lawyers, and j all walks ?f life were represnted inj the 500 men that were present. The! meeting was called to order about i 11.30 by Mayor Jennings, who is > also chairman of the association in Sumter county- . Mayor Jennings ; spoke a few words then introduced. Hon. John H. Clifton. The speaker; told of the importance of protecting; the Soutfi's product from the gam- j biers. The people of the South are,; as a whole, absolutely "dependent upon: the price set on cotton. When cotton j is selling for a good price the coun- | try as a whole is prosperous. The j association intends to help the little j farmer who pays $2 for membership! as much as the large planter who ? - pays' $100 for membership. "The real object of the meeting." | said the speaker, "is to form a corpor- j ation' to keep the distress cotton off i the market.*' Former Governor Manning, who was next introduced, paid a compli- j ment to Mayor Jennings, chairman j of fthe :county association. The! speaker told of the failure of reso- j lutions in the past. "The day when j the South held out its hand for spe- j cial privileges was past, and the peo- j pie were going to act." He told of ( the absolute necessity of the corpor- j \ ation to keep the "distress" cotton off I .the market Heretofore, the cotton j has been" placed on the market Whenj it was flooded. Mortgages on homes j and farms proves the bad condition I of , the farmer in past years. "The* asking ?f the buyers what they willj give for the cotton Will soon be a thing of the past." Mr. Manning said ! that the . better price that cotton j brings, the better will the children ofj South Carolina be educated, the bet-; ter will they serve their State and; country as citizens. The buyers will j be benefited by the organization be- j cause they will not have,- to buy -tj off the* streets as it will be stored in j the warehouses. "No language is too] strong to ? urge you to join in this j movement which means the salvation J of the South." j Mr. W. A. Bowman told -of the j foolishness of the farmers selling; their cotton for 28c when it will bei worth 40c before next? summer. The j speaker said that there would not bei 2.000 bales of cotton offered for sale in Sumter county until the minimum i price is reached. Mayor Jennings told those present that in Dillon, on. Friday $125.000 were subscribed by not half so large aji audience as was here present. He told of the neighboring counties that were organizing A phone message from President W&nnamaker sa;.d that .all the Southern States were organ izing. A cotton mill mar. had stated to President Wannamaker that mon ey could be made by the cotton mill if cotton sold at 45c per pound. The chairman urged the people to wake uj> and take notice of the events. Over $200,000 had been invested in the cor poration with less than three hours work. -Three cotton buyers in the city subscribed to the corporation. The mills must be prevented from getting 25 per cent of the cotton, be cause 3.000,000 bales will run the mills for three or four months | and before that is used up another 25 per cent may be on the market. ? Mr. Jennings made an excellent spech in which he compared the work of Southern soldier in France to the farmer in the South. Will the farmer hold the line and then ad vance as the Sour.hhern boy did in France ? After the speakers had finished Mayor Jennings s:aied that the cor poration to be formed would have a capital of $500.000 and of that amount 32C 0.000 had already been subscribed Subscription* were re ceived bv the chairman so fast that there is no doubt but that the quota j was reached today. The total list of Subscribers will bs published in The Item at an early date. The meeting was by far the most enthusiastic ever held in Sumter on the subject of co"ton The subscrip tions ranged from $100 to $2.".000, with most of them around the 51. ?^00 mark. strikeT?t wil> mington, n. c. One Thousand Workmen of Car- J olina Building Company Walk Out _ i - i Wilmington. Sept. 20.?Th?* Caro- j lina Building Corooration has shut j down after one thousand workmen* quit following an alleged discrimi- ! nation in favor of negroes. ? The failure of the Orangeburg com - j munity creamery, recently established. I is announced. The failure was due. j it is stated, to the impossibility ofj obtaining an adequate and regular! supply of milk. ...... * "L'ji. . '.. * \\*J**?&mZi**m*i2P.' n iu.him.wi ?um m i ??h ub.?.'imp ! Ful?hum & Texas SEED OATS ?? IN stock Now is the time to <? buy j Dndfef ~& BttKman I VILLA BOASTS OF STRENGTH CMIms to Have Larger Army and More7 Money Than Ever Washington. Sept. 19.?The first di rect wro kfroin Francisco Villa since he was driven from Juarez by United States troops reached Washington to day in a letter written oh September 6 from Villa's headquarters in North ern Durango. The letter has been placed at the disposal of officials of Che state department. "in the letter Villa said he has large quantities of ammunition and twice as many men under arms as at any time since 1915. The ammuni tion has been accumulated from catches in the "State of Durango. the letter added, several wagon loads from Juarez, two carloads from Parral and Lerdo. a town whieh he captured re cently. Villa also says he has plenty of money, having captured more than 1,000.000 pesos in gold and silver gov ernment coin and bullion from a train between Chihuahua and Durango re cently. Eight hundred deserters from the Carranza forces recently have join ed his forces. Villa wrote, bringing all their equipment and horses, and added that he had just sent Gen. Filipe An geles f>0 miles south to meet General Baauelos, the leading revolutionary' chieftain of the State of Zacatecas< wno Vas marching with 2,000 mount ed men well equipped and with abund ance of ammunition and gold and silver bullion. Since leaving Juarez, Villa said delegations from General Gutlrrez, who controls the State of Coahuila, and from Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas had formally agreed to recognize him as general in chief of the revolution. He also said a com mittee of government, who will be in trusted with the civil administration of all territory occupied by the revo lutionary forces, will soon be named. Tdie revolutionary leader called Gen. Gonzales. a Carranza officer a "most arrant coward" and said Gon zales would have surrendered to the revolutionists at Juarez within 15! minutes if the United States troops had not crossed the border. He de clared he had carefully rehearsed hit troops in the attack and had e::pla~in-~" ed carefully the dangeY^of shooting across the border and that not a bul let from his guns entered El PasO. Bur., he added when General Gon zales saw he had lost the city he sent an urgent appeal to the American commander begging him to intervene. Fearing his appeal would not be heeded. Villa said, Gonzales ordered his men deliberately to fire into ? El Paso to bring about intervention of American troops. ' Villa said he did not fear a con flict with the American troops at Juarez but retired because he knew this section did not represent the real sentiment of the people of the United States. In view of the refusal of the United States he said, to permit Car ranza to send troops through Te^as to attack him at Juarez he had stead fastly continued his policy of pro tecting ali. Americans and other for eigners within his lines. He protested vigorously in this let ter against being called a bandit and_ of describing every actual bandit in Mexico as a subordinate bf his. SHUT DOWN PLANTS ?-?- < Pittsburgh. Sept. 20.?All plants of the steel corporation in this district, where any employees are members o:'l the union will be closed down to night for an indefinite period, ae-1 cordins: to reports. It is estimated tha- a hundred and thirty-five thou sand men will quit work, Monday. A few plants will continue, but the man agement expects to shut down at signs of trouble. - < ? . WILL FiX COTTON SEED PRICES! - i Columbia. Sept. 20.?By request. Commissioner B. Harris is calling a meeting to be held at the Jefferson ? Hotel. Columbia, next Tuesday, at.11 a. m. for the purpose of" trying to ar range a scale by whieh farmers can I get a fair price for co'.ton seed, and 1 will not have to pay too much for meal. All farmers, seed buyers and oil j men and others interested are urged to attend. Arrangements recently I made were not satisfactory on account of fluctuations in Oil market^ >J HAS^PR^VENTED POSSIBLE FAMINE Baltimore. Sept. 20.?The South by producing thirty per cent of the to?.' 1 gmin crops m the United States has prevented a possible fam ine. th>> Manufactures" Record says. London, Sept. 20.?The British. Siberians and Russians are reported to have captured two villages from ?Bolsheviki near l>al: Onega. Geneva. Sept. 20.?Rumania is ???? ported to be mobilizing troops on the Dniester river in anticipation of Boisb*'Vik disorder. Chicago, Sept. 19.?Huge quant it i of canned goods sold by the war d partm^nt recently fell into the hanc i of packers, wholesale grocers and 1*< \ tnilers and w.-re resold at a profi , witnesses t??: tied .'it the city's ii ? vestigation into the cost Of living. BIG {REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION Carolina Machinery Co. Pur chases Property of Split- I dorff Electrical Co. I . . ? _r_ ; I ?The Carolina Machineiw Company; I has purchased the real estate and ex- i i tensive buildings of the S'plitdorffj ; Electrical company in which the! i magneto factory has been operated.; and will move into their new quarters] as soon as possible, which will most! likely be about the first of January.! 1920. The owners of the electrical! compamy state that the buiiding will! be ready to be turned over by No-! vember. but it is not probable that i the change will be made by the Car- j olina Machinery company before th?3 j firstidpf the year. In their new quarters the Carolina: Machinery Co.. will continue in the; same line of business as at present, j but upon a much larger scale. They! state that they will have the-best me- i chanics to be found and will be able] I to give the best possible service to the j public. The company will make all neces sary, changes in the building before) a change in location is affected. It.is reported that the price paid for the property was $125.000. ?:?_- I U. S. MARINES ! LAND AT FIUME j -_ Italian Papers Report Landing; of the Americans Rome. Friday, Sept. 19.?The Gior-j nale DTtalia announces that an Amer- | ican contingent . has landed at Buc-} cari. in the Fiume region. I London, Sept. 21.?An Exchange j Telegraph dispatch from Milan, dated! Friday, quotes the Corrierc Delia Hera as saying that a paiiy of Ameri-1 cannmmrines has landed at Buccari, j five miles east of Fiume. "Dearest George, if you use such j silly language in your next letter, as; you-did hi your last. I shall return! it. unopened."?Orange Peel. J CARDINAL MERCIER KNEW OF TROUBLE Belgian Primate Not Surprised at Break With Holland?An- j other Hun Invasion Feared Baltimore. ?Sept. 21.?When Cardi-? naly Mervier was informed tonight at Cardina! Gibbons' residence of the re-i porter! severence of diplomatic rela- j tions between Belgium and Holland ' he sai'l: ! "I knew there were difficulties butj had no re.*vson to suppose a rupture was imminent." Others in his parly did not seem j surprised over the news. "Germany is recuperating," Cardi nal Mercier said. "And." put in M. Dessain, "should she be allowed to reconstruct her strength, -. Belgium may well expect another invasion ? unless we insure ourselves by fortify-; ing the front facing Dutch Limburg. ; This we are unable to do because our guns w <>uld. be trained on neutralj (Dutch) territory. Belgium should have put in a stronger claim at the peace conference for safety measures! on the east boundary, but unfortu- j nately, Belgium's vote was very weak at the sessions. "Military history and'wars have] taught us that rivers arc the only de-! pendable lines of defense. In this. case it is the Mouse that must.be for-j tified. And unless Belgium possesses; the lower part of the vital province, j now utterly useless from a military: viewpoint to the Dutch, but essential j to Belgium, nothing can be done. Had the Germans seen fit to invade us by! way of Lamburg instead of respecting] the Dutch territory, their advance! could not have been held up~ I "Should another invasion be at tempted under the present situation | the entire bulk of the Eelgian army! would have to be concentrated in :hej vicinity of Waterloo. This would eatj away our strength of fortification to} the south. If our concentration wasj in the south, the north would be; doomed. If the army force was dis- j tributed along the border, it could not j withstand an attack." Asked whether Belgium anticipated j war. neither Cardinal Mercier nor his secretary /would deny its possibility.? "Many Belgians would welcome it," I M. Dessain volunteered._ ' Dinkins Mill Items. Bembert. Sept. 17.?The new teacher for the Stateburg school has arrived and the school will open Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Moore of Miami. Fia.. who have been visiting relatives and friends in our com munity, have returned home. Dr. and Mrs. Edward Kerrison of Charleston are visiting relatives In Cam den and Mr. G. H. Denoir of our community. ?? Mr. James Sanders, who was re ported as being very sick, has died and was buried at Providence last Junday. j Rev. Curry, a colored minister liv j ing near Horatio, a patriotic citizen highly respected and greatly esteemed by white and colored, died suddenly near that place last week. God has given to all the great text [ book of nature whose lessons are so i plain that he who runneth may read. :< >ne of the lessons is that all young ' life is fresh and gay. yet a lot of old folks seek to have it otherwise. A stake is more easily driven in I moist than in dry ground, therefore ! be sure before you have approached I your neighbor about the way he is I living that you have moistened the I ground with tears of genuine con ; cern. ! Destroy the weeds wncn they are I young for the old ones have seed. In much wheat there is some chaff I but a sensible man will winnow it out. j Busy bees hate drones and so do ; busy people. He hung out his placard: 'This is j my busy day,' because he did not I want to be interrupted in doing noth ! ing. In many a home, in many a life I there is a closet with a skeleton in it. j Had we guarded our conduct as re ligiously as we guard that closet the j misfortune never had been. The hen that cackles much and lays no eggs ought to be gotten rid of. The sow squeals a^ lot in the shear ing but yields little wool. "The hog never looks up to him who threshes down the acorns." Who have not the flowers of mem ory, but how ? few roses have no thorns. Often when I sit in sadness. I've been turning roses o'er, Thorns have pricked me in their ! madness, letting dttt the ruddy gore. "Hagood." recorb^eachId i in food prices Highest in Nation's History in Month of August I Washington, Sept. 19.?F.etail : prices of food increased 1 per cent in j August as compared with July and ! reached the highest point in .the na i tion's history, despite the govern ? ment's campaign to reduce ; the cost ! of living. j The increase?probaoly already ; parent to the consumer?was revealed ! tonight when the department of J? | bor's bureau of labor statistics made i public its monthly report, i The foodstuffs increasing in pr;C8 ' j were eggs, rice, potatoes, milk, pot'K j chops, butter, cheese, coffee, dry j beans, sugar and bread. Prices ?2? iclined for sirloin and round steak, rib j and chuck roasts, onions* o?con, jliour. cabbage and canned peas, corn [ beans and tomatoes. . . I small nations sever relations i London. Sept. 21.?An official-"Wire-' j less dispatch from Berlin, dated Sat urday, says that the Belgian ambasf I sador at The H\gue having been i withdrawn, the Dutch ambassador at ! Brussels also has been withdrawn. i Several times recently there have i been reports "hat diplomatic relations i between. Belgium and Holland wers ] strained as a result of the demands ; of Belgium for a revision of the i treaty of 1839 between Belgium and ! Holland under which Holland -an j nexcd the southern bank of the Scheldt river and aii elongated strip of Dutch Limburg lying between Bel gium and Germany. ; Washington, Sept. 20.?The depart j ment of justice requested the house l agricultural ^committee to take ac !,tion on amendments of the food coa 1 trol act following reports of - profi i teering in shoes and other wearing I apparel and increased prices for. the ! new sugar crop. your engine. 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