The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, August 16, 1922, Page PAGE 3, Image 3
The Watchman and Southron
Entered at the Postoffice st Sam
tor, s. C as Second Class Matter.
PERSON Ali.
Miss ^Jennie Doar left Wednesday
for McClellanville where she will
spend several weeks.
Mrs. O. L. Yates and children are
visiting in Rembert.
Mrs. Raymond Miller has re
turned to her home in Clio.- after
spending a few days with Mrs.
Rich C. Brad ham.
Mr. and Mrs. Bateman and fam
ily have gone to Greenville to spend
several weeks.
Mr. Sam Nettles, who has been
visiting relatives in Kingstree, re
turned to the city Thursday night.
Mrs. C. P. Exum is visiting her
sister. Mrs- P. C. Aughtry, . on
Hampton Ave.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. "Crowson and
grandson Charles Mason , have re
turned from a visit to Mrs. P. D.
Aman.
Mr. Davis Moise and Mr. W. J*
Crowson, Jr., have returned from
a visit to Mr. Perry Moses on Paw
ley's Island.
Mr. B. F. Estridge, of Greenville,
is in the city. .
Judge R. O. Purdy returned to
the city Friday morning.
Mr. L. H. Wanamaker of Co
lumbia, arrived in the city Friday
morning.
Misses Gladys and Mellie Wells
returned home last night after a
two weeks* visit to friends and
relatives in and near Orangeburg.
Miss Jessie Copes of Orange
burg is the attractive guest of Miss
Gladys Wells.
Miss Margaret Blanding return
ed Wednesday from Asheville, 2C
C where she has. been taking a
course in music under Mrs. Ken
nedy cf New York.
Dr. L. George Corbett of Florida
is spending some time in the city
with relatives.
Mrs. J. N, DuBose and daughter,
Eveline, .have returned to then
home on'Harris street, after visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. Buck Eden,
. at Dalzell.
Mr. W. C. Hatcheli went to Dar
lington Friday to spend the week
end with his family.
Miss Marie . Stewart and-.Jb.er
brother, Ellie, have returned to
their home on Harvin street after
visiting in Columbia.
Little Edna Eppsis spending the
? week end in Darlington with her
little friend, Julia Mae Hatcheli. -
Mrs. Buck Creason and her
- daughters; Ruby and Eveline, are
visiting relatives in Columbia.
Rev. J. P. Marion and family
left Saturday morning for Flat
Rock, N. ?., where they will spend
some time.
Miss Pauline E. Little, who- is
spending the summer months with
her sister, Mrs. C. Frank Letter on
Oakland avenue, left Friday to
*?r?*wi ^a week or ten days -with her
parents in Albermarle, N. C*V She
"Sets- accompanied by her guest,
Kiss Irene Tucker, of Augusta, Ga,
Miss Lillian Bair has returned to
the city after a few weeks' vaca
tion spent with friends and rela
tives in Orangebufcg and Elloree.
Misses Elizabeth China and Jen- j
nie Walsh returned to the city
Saturday morning, having spent
some time in Florence,
. Mr. J. B. Efird of the Efird
chain of stores spent several days
in. the city this week.
Mrs. E. P. Ricker has gone to
> spend the remainder of the season
in Atlantic City.
Miss Edna Mae McDonald "is j
visiting in Florence this week, j
Mr. Moses Green and son, Aaron, j
left Sunday night for New York, j
Mr. L. E. Purdy left Monday (
morning for Columbia from whence }
he will "go to Saluda.
Mr. F. E. Gibson and family
went to Sullivan's Island Monday
morning.
Mrs.- W. A. Hurst went to Char
leston Monday morning to spend
? some time. / ?
Mr. Horace Emerson, went to Co- j
lumbia Monday morning.
Miss Evelyn Shirer went to Co- j
lumbia Menday morning. j
Mrs. J. R. Johnson of Cades is j
visiting her parents in the city, Mr. ]
and Mrs. S. R. J. Smith.
Miss Kate Moseley of Columbia I
is the attractive guest of Miss Lilah !
Smith. " j
Miss Helen McLeod, of Bishop- j
ville and Mrs. Robert Team of i
Florence are visiting Mr. and Mrs. j
JEtobert Sanders on Church St. ;
Mrs. Walter Ren nek er, of Wil- j
Islington is visiting Mrs. Mary Cun
ningham, on West Hampton Ave,
Misses Arlie Mae and Alpha
Bapnum left for Charleston Mon-!
day morning.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Guthrie and j
Mr and Mrs. A. T. Heath have j
gone to Murrell's Inlet.
? Dr. and Mrs. L. D. Lawson of;
Spartanburg are visiting their aunt, j
Mrs. H. C. Lawson. on Church St. !
Mrs. Mary Seay and daughter,!
Ethel, of Columbia, are visiting;.
Mrs. Strong, on Wright street.
Mrs. Edward E. Wright of Smith- j
field. N- C.% is visiting her parents !
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Bland.
Mr. Hayward Brockington re
turned to Columbia Monday morn-.
ing.
Mr. Arthur Knight went to Co- !
lumbia Monday morning on busi- I
ness.
Mrs. Hack Shuler and Miss Emily I
Platt who have been visiting Mrs. j
E. T. Broad well, have returned to
their home in Aiken.
Misses Francella and Margaret
and Master Ralph Turner, who I
have been visiting relatives in I
Newberry returned home accom- ;
panied by their uncle, Mr. Frank ^
Davenport.
Marriage License
Ingram Moses and Maybelle
Green of Sumter.
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The reason some houses lack :
paint is some daughters don't.
m m m
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Grounds for divorce are usually
battle grounds.
PROSPECTS
FOR 1922-1923
By E. EL Pringle. President Bank
of Charleston, X. B. A,
Coming events cast their shadows
before, and the.creeping bull mar
ket in southern cotton mill stocks,
which has been developing for the
last six weeks, seems to forecast a
period of prosperity foT southern
manufacturers who had so long a
period of. hard times far almost
seven years prior to July, 1915.
One advantage which New Eng
land, to some extent, and old Eng
land/to a much greater extent, has
; seemed to possess over our south
ern mills, has been their greater
[ success in catching the right time
to buy cotton, so that the difference
in freight has been more than
overcome, because this is only a
small fraction of the difference be
tween the low prices of the season
and the high. Commission mer
chants and bankers have generally
discouraged the purchase of raw
material except when hedged eith
er by future sales on the cotton ex
change, or when the goods were
sold- for future delivery, and they
have been especially insistent up
on this policy being followed by
southern mills, so:-that ourmahur
fatturers may well feel entitled to
take the position, that it is not for
them to try to choose the right
time or the wrong time to buy cot.-:
ion, except in connection with the
sale of their manufactured pro
duct. ?
The cheapest cotton year in and
year out, is-'almost all spun-in
England, because the English
seem to be particularly skillful iti
discerning- the opportune moment
to enter the raw material marttets
at or near" the bottom. They have
.a-great advantage in their banks,
each one directly or indirectly, in
intimate touch with economic con-j
dittons all over the world, and;
moreover, each is so large that it j
has a considerable number of men
of the highest ability on its staff.
There is- an especial' reason why
American ?banks have discouraged
the- purchase of raw material by
Southern spinners before the goods
were sold, and that is because so
many of- our companies have been
operating with a working capital
entirely too limited for the suc
cessful financing of the business, so
that there has been no reserve of
liquid assets to withstand a loss, if j
one should be made, and one bad
mistake placed the manager in the
position of having Wagered the ex
istence of his company on a single
market situation. Both abroad and
in New -England the importance of
adequate working capital is appre
ciated more than has been the case
with us; as well, for the stability |
which it gives to-i business as for
the greater latitude in using h's
own judgment, which makes it
wise and -prudent for a skillful
manufacturer to take upon him
self. I
The Southern Textile district lies
along the eastern slope of the Ap- j
palachian - Mountains, and all but)
the northeastern extremity is read- [
ily accessible to the transmission I
lines of the great power com pa-;
nies, which constantly are extend
ing their- facilities for turning into
electric energy the streams-flowing
towards the southeast, and to the)
Atlantic. The northeastern ex-i
tremity is near- the Virginia coalj
fields, and toward the southwes
tern end, from just over the moun- J
tains, with but a short haul, roll the i
trains from the mines of Tennessee.
Throughout this whole region na
ture has provided cheap and
abundant stored up energy to be
put to service by man's contriv
ance. ^
New England maintains that it
is the lower wage scale in the
south which enables our mills to:
make cheaper goods than they.
Close investigation would seem to
disclose that it is not low wages,
but a low labor cost which gives
to our manufacturers their admit
ted advantage. If recreation and .
welfare work, carried on by our
southern manufacturers, are count
ed as part of the pay received by j
the operatives, our mills spend as j
much for wages as New England,j
and our operatives are far more |
comfortable.
In the south, our cotton factor
ies are filled with native born
Americans, industrious, efficient
and many generations in clviliza-.
tion above the foreign hordes from j
southern and central Europe, which j
make up the mill villages in New i
England, where formerly the in-1
habitants were of British or Celtic j
stock. Not only are our employees j
more efficient and more intelligent,<
but they are capable of developing,
and generally do develop, a high,
degree of loyalty to the ccmpany,j
and of enthusiasm for their work, !
whereas the ignorant alien is an j
easy prey to the labor agitator and;
to the anarchist, and is readily led
to adopt an attitude of constantly
seeking after less work and more
pay.
At last, the final exodus of the
cotton mills to the cotton fields
seems to have commenced, and,
strangely, it appears- to be due, not
to the saving through proximity to
the raw material, but to the su
perior industrial efficiency of the
pure-blooded American stock which
have inhabited the Appalachian
Mountains from before the days of
the American Revolution.
' Carthace, N. C, Aug. 14.?Sixty!
soldiers from Raleigh and Durham j
companies accompanied three ne- j
groes here from the state prison j
today for trial. They are charged
with attacking Mr. and Mrs. A. E. j
Ketchen while camping a few miles j
south of Southern Pines ten days
ago. The troops will guard the j
court house during the trial.
Th*1 bigger nuto a family has llie
later they are nt a party.
When she promises to be n sister
to you, look out brother.
DEMOCRATIC
STRENGTH
OF STATE
Total Enrollment in Demo
cratic Clubs Announced by
Secretary
Columbia, Aug. 12.?The total
enrollment for South Carolina, as
received from the different counties
by H. N. Edmunds, secretary of
the state Democratic executive
committee, is 226,5S1.
Secretary Edmunds has not yet
totaled the figures himself and
there may be a slight change, but
the total is very neoT?v correct.
This gives an increase ovr- the 1920
enrollment of 74,546 as the total
then was 152;035. '
Women are believed to number
at least this increase and possibly
more and the indications are that
over 75,000 women will participate
in the primary this year for the
first time.
Oconee county is the only county
in the state showing a decreased
enrollment from 1-920,.according to
the figures received by Mr. Ed
| munds. In 1920 this county enroll
jed 4,191 voters and this year only
' 3,790 have been enrolled.
Greenville- leads the state with
16,131 with Sparta^hburg second
with 14,787. . Charleston is third
with 12,841.
The enrollment by counties this
year and in 1920 is as follows: -
1922. 1920.
Abbeville._ 3,264 2,491
Aiken_f 5,412 4,404 ;
Allendale _ 1,587 798
Anderson 11,250 . 8,0861
Bamberg-_ 2,080 1,474
Barnwell .1 ._ 2,766 1,882!
Beaufort. ^ 1,172 763;
Berkeley. 2,279 1,356
Calhoun _ _ 1,469 1,0451
'Charleston_12.841 7,318
Cherokee. 5,430 2,524'
Chester 3,472 2,467
Chesterfield_-5,383 3,886
Clarendon_ 2,906 2,071;
Colleton.' 3,8*06 2,823
Darlington,_ 5,421 3,003
Dilion 3,256 2,140
Dorchester_ 2,756 1,768
Edgefield_- 2,043 1,689
Fairfield 2,225 1,458
Florence- 1- 7,087 4.431
Georgetown_ 2,393 1,856
Greenville- . .16,131 11,406;
Greenwood- _ _ 5,134 3,716
Hampton- _ __. 2,704 2,025 j
-Horry.6,595 4,447
Jasper. 715 625 i
Kershaw. .... 4,130 2,44-9 j
Lancaster __ 4,621 . 3,123
Laurens^ __ 7,106 4,227
Lee_ __ 2,932 2,132
Lexington 5,517 4.666,
McCormick _ 1,303 1,190!
Marion-. 3,230 2,1421
Marlboro -- 3,807 2,456!
Newberry /5,874 ?,39S j
Oconee._ 3.790 4,194:
Orangeburg__ _' 7,091 4,401!
Pickens -_ 5,641 3,633 j
Richland._ 12,669 7,1721
Saluda ? it 3,201 2,393 j
Spartanburg _ - 14.7S7 10,509
Sumter. 3,331 1,950
Union_ 5,554 3,406
Williamsburg- - 3,648 2,764
York"-.. 6,772 3,878J
Total.-.226,581 152,035
Bishop Kilgo Dead
Charlotte, N. C, Aug. 11.?Bish
op John C. Kilgo of the Southern
Methodist Episcopal church died at
his home here at 1:45 this morning
after having been extremely ill
since last Sunday when he suffered
a severe heart attack.
, Bishpo Kilgo had been gradually
sinking since last Thursday after
noon and his death had been ex
pected hourl3* by his physicians and
family. Since Sunday little or no
hope had been entertained for his
recovery.
Dr. Kilgo had been well known
in the South for a score of years,
having served as president of
Trinity college at Durham, N. C..
for six years prior to his election
as bishop 12 years ago. At the last
general conference of the Southern
Methodist church at Hot Springs,
Ark., he was placed on the bishops'
retired list. The aged minister had
never entirely recovered from the
severe attack suffered last spring
on his way home from the general
conference, which forced him to
remain under treatment in a
Memphis hospital for several
weeks, finally being brought home
on a cot in the private car of
Fairfax Harrison, president, of the
Southern railway, of which Bishop
Kilgo was a director. He regained
sufficient strength, however, to
leave his bed and several times
took rides about the city with mem
bers of his family. He made one
trip to Baltimore where he was
under treatment of a specialist for
several days.
Bishop John Carlisle Kilgo was
born in Laurens, S. C, July 22,
1861. son of James T. and Cather
ine Mason Kilgo. He was? edu
cated in the schools of his native
state and received the honorary
degree of DJ D. from Wofford and
Randolph Macon colleges and Tu
lane university. He was united in
marriage with Miss Fannie Turner
of Gaffncy. S. C. In 1882 he was
ordained a minister in the Method
ist Church. South, and served var
ious pastorates in the South Caro
lina conference until 1S89 when he !
was called to Wofford college as
professor of philosophy and finan
cial agent. In 1894 he was elected j
president of Trinity collgee. Dur
ham. X. C. where he served until
1910 wlu-n he was elected bishop
of the Methodist church at the con
ference in Ashevine. X. C.
He was a delegate to the gen- j
eral Methodist conference in 1JS94, I
1898. 11><>^. 1906 and 1910, delegate j
to the Ecumenical Methodist con- 1
ference in London in 1901. He '
j
was a fraternal delegate to the gen- j
eral eonfereirce of the Methodist
church in Los Angeles in
ho made a speech advocating iho '
union of th^ Northern and South- ?
em branches of the Methodist
church.
WORLD
Chicago, Aug. 11.?Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller McCormick told the
Associated Press that she would
make no comment on her former
husband's marriage in Paria today
to Mme. Walska.
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Washington, Aug. 11-?An in
crease in rail and water rates ap
plying to boots, shoes and rubber
footwear all kinds, which makes
a present charge on commodities
of 66.5 per hundred, when trans
ported from Boston and Provi
dence, to Petersburg and Rich
mond, Va., was found justified to
day by the interstate commission.
Brussels; Aug. '11.?According to
information from London an agree
ment has been virtually reached
on the four main points of the rep
arations controversy and general
accord is now anticipated, says, a
French semi-official Havas agency
report. The impression in London
is decidedly optimistic and talk
of a split has ceased, it adds.
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Asheville, N. C, Aug. 11.?Tnves- |
tigati?ns were started today by
United States marshal, the sheriff's
department and officials of the
Southern Railway to establish the
identity of persons who exploded a
charge of. gunpowder under a
shanty car occupied by negroes in
the local Southern yards last:, night.
Nobody was injured although the
j car which was occupied by seveial j
i men at supper, was damaged.
j Washington, Aug. 11.?The- heads
i of seventeen railroad labor organ
izations, including those on, strike,
j considered the president's"' latest
strike settlement proposal more
than two hours .today without
reaching a decision. Warren Stone,
chief of the engineers said , that
probably no answer would j be
drafted before tomorrow, although
another meeting will be held late
today.
New York, Aug. 11.?The heads
of one hundred and forty-eight
American'railroads today appoint
ed a committee to recommend and
reply to the president's proposal
for a settlement of the nationVwide
rail strike. The membership is re
ported to be approximately ? the,
same which rejected the presi
dent's first proposal. No indiea
jtion is given of the nafture of the
reply.? The committee was appoint
ed after Haley Fisk, president of
; the Metropolitan Life Insurance
I company and George Holder of the
j Rail Securities, visited the confer
j ence room.
New York, Aug. 11.?Two mem-|
! bers of the crew of the steamship
'Adriatic were killed, five were 3e.-.j
! riously injured, and one is missing j
j as the result of an explosion of un- J
: determined origin.in her number
j three hold, according to a wireless
I message received at the White Star
line office. The message reported
! that the Adriatic is proceeding to |
' New York at half speed.
j Paris, Aug. 11.?Germany, says
i a Havas agency dispatch from.
I London this afternoon, will be
granted a moratorium until the
end of this year.
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 10.?Two
[ nonunion employees of the New
\ York Central railroad on its Col
i linwood round house were shot
! and killed tonight. The men had
i been standing on a street corner
'arguing with a third man, accord- i
j ing to the police, when the latter
[suddenly drew a revolver and be- j
jgan shooting. The assailant es- ]
caped.
Charlotte, N. C, Aug. 11.?Bish- !
] op Jno. C. Kilgo, who died eraly i
J today, will be buried tomorrow, j
j Bishop Candler officiating.
j Paris, Aug. 11.?Harold F. Mc- i
ICormick, of Chicago, and Mrs. Alex- J
! ander Smith Cqchran, . "Madamej
Walska." were married today in j
city hall of the1 sixteenth ward j
here.
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Washington, Aug. 11.?Presi- j
dent Harding intervened today in
the senate fight over the flexible \
tariff provisions, outlining to sena
tors summoned to the WThite
House the desirability of elastic
ity in tariff during present world
{ conditions.
! . j
!? Columbia.^Aug. 11.?Gov. Harvey
j and the railroad commission held
a conference last night and dis
I cussed the fuel situation, which
j they regard with alarm. Follow-j
ing the conference it was an- j
j nounced that Chairman Shealy, of j
(the commission, would go to Wash
| ington tomorrow, to confer with j
j members of the South Carolina ;
delegation and Secretary Herbert J
Hoover in an effort to get coal for {
the industries of this state. The j
governor also issued an appeal to J
the public to cooperate in conserv- j
ing coal, especially by the use of j
j wood.
Columbia. Aug. 11.?Work was;
j started yesterday on the. new ?
; steel grand stand at the race track j
: of the State Fair. The stand will
.cost $20,000. It will seat 4,501).!
! The work of reconstructing the |
i state fair plant is going forward
rapidly and visitors to the new |
fair in October will be greeted by!
new sights.
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Belfast. Aug. 12.?Arthur Grif
fith, president of the I)inl Eireann, j
di?-d in Dublin today of influenza,
it has been learned here.
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Cleveland. August 12?Members.!
of the Brotherhood of Railroad j
Trainmen who struck on the Santa |
Fe railroad have been ordered to j
return to work President T.ee an- j
nounced today, who said. "We are :
I in full sympathy with the shop
[ men's strike, but won't pass? the au
thority to strike on to the individ
ual members or local committees.
I am insisting that all walkouts be
conducted in an orderly manner,
and not by piecemeal."
Washington, Aug. 12.?The pro
duction q? bituminous coal for the
week ending today is estimated by
the geological survey as approxi
mately four million, eight hundred
thousand tons, half a million more
than the previous week.
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Washington, Aug. 14.?The rail
road executives having submitted
their conditional .acceptance to
President Harding and departed,
with the government outwardly
marking time, without indicating
whether it would attempt any fur
ther, compromise, developments to
day in the rail strike settlement
partly, lay in the hands of the
unions, who still had before them
the president's proposal that labor
board be permitted to settle se
niority question, the principal point
in dispute. The -union leaders re
assembled today for a further con
sideration of the proposal.
Columbia, Aug. 13.?John W.
Preacher, aged about fifty, of Sa
vannah," engineer of Seaboard Air
Line passenger train No. 2, north
bound, Jacksonville to New Tori:;
was killed, and his negro fireman,
Dave Stevens, badly injured, when
his engine jumped the track and
turned turtle One-half mile south
of Dixiana this afternoon at 5
o'clock. Several negro passengers
were slightly injured by breaking
glass.
New Orleans, Aug. 14.?Federal
postal inspectors are today con-|
tinuing to search for an unnamed
New Orleans man, alleged to be a
professional gambler, whom they
charge with having attempted to
bribe certain telegraph operators
at the Southern Association base
ball park in gigantic swindle in
volving all Southern Association
cities.
Paris, Aug. 14.*-?The repara
tions commission has decided to
postpone the August 15th payment
of fifty million gold marks by Ger
many, until a decision is reached
by the allied premiers who adjourn
ed today's session of the London
conference wihtbut reaching an
agreement or 'arranging for anoth
er meeting.
London, Aug. 14. ? Viscount
Northcliffe, the noted British pub
lsher, died at 10:12 o'clock this
morning. The end was perfectly
.peaceful, his doctors said.
ASSOCIATION
WILL CARRY
OLD COTTON
Columbia, Aug. 13. ? Many
members of the South Carolina
Cotton Growers* Association have
Signified their intention of selling
their old cotton through the asso
ciation, . and are ready to turn
it over to the association the day
the association is ready to receive j
it, officials of the -association an-;
nounced. Delivery of cotton
grown prior to 1922 is optional!
with the members, but scores of
j them have written that they wish \
the association to handle it for i
them
j - Full instructions to the mem
bership of the association regard
ing the delivery of their cotton
will go forward very shortly, it is
announced. Every member will
' be told where to deliver his cotton,'
! receive his allowance, etc. These^
I instructions will be sent out by the
field service department.
The headquarters of the associa
tion present a busy scene these
days, a large force being at work
day and night completing the prep
! arations for handling the cotton of
; the association's members. The
! association is now established in its
i new quarters, 1425 Main street,
which has been designated as "Cot
: ton Co-operative Building." The
! office force is rapidly being organ
ized.
Officials of the association said
today that every mail not only
j brought assurances of the strong
: est support and loyalty from
! members, but brought in many new
contracts. Complete satisfaction
? with the progress of the new mem
bership campaign is expressed and
officials believe that the associa
tion will begin its year with the
largest sign-up of any co-operative
in the belt. The association is al
ready assured of. more money than
it will need for financing the crop,
it was said by officials. Money in
abundance and at good terms has
been offered it by the South Caro
lina banks, the War Finance Cor
poration and by banking institu
tions in other sections of the coun
try. The financial problem was one
of the easiest to solve, it'was said.
None of the state-wide cotton
co-operative associations have ex
perienced any difficulty in arrang
ing for money this fall. The War
Tina nee Corporation has approved
advances aggregating $60.000,000
to them, and all of them have been J
flooded with offers for money from j
other sources. Officials of the as- j
sociation point to this as proof of I
the fact that in financial circles the
co-bpenative marketing idea is
looked upon with the greatest fa
vor as being fundamentally sound.
The annual picnic at Tirzah, in
York county, which will be held
Tuesday, will he a cotton coopera
tive marketing picnic this year, and
the co-operative marketing of cot- j
ton will he the princ ipal topic of ?
ih*1 speakers. j
An additional speaking date an
nounced today was F. R. Shanks,
of Texns, for Darlington, August
23th.
Tobacco Prices
Have Been Doubledj
Optional With Members as to!
Disposition, However?Of
ficials I Hope - for Largest
Sign-up in Cotton Belt for
South Carolina
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Raleigh, Aug. 13.?The Tobac-I
co Growers' Cooperative Associa- j
tion passed .its goal of 80,000:
J members last Saturday, when the
count of 1,200 contracts received in
a single week revealed the fact
that another regiment.of tobacco
growers had joined and pushed
their line past another objective.
With close to 400,000,000
pounds of tobacco on the basis of
the 1920 crop pledged to the asso
ciation and deposited in the form
of signed contracts in the vaults of
I the Commercial National Bank of
1 Raleigh, there is no doubt of the
j success of the organized, tobacco
i growers, officials declare.
I Last week's operation of the co
operative system in South Caro
lina has proven that the association
has gained orderly marketing, fair
and standard grading and the un
qualified loyalty of its members. ,
The final campaign of the past
week in Beaufort, Martin, Berie,
Franklin, Pitt and other eastern
Carolina counties has not only
brought in great numbers of new^
members but has revealed a spirit
of staunch loyalty to their,associa
tion on-the part of the organized
growers. ?
In a single day last week
Claude McGee, of Franklington;
sent in 208 contracts from Franks
lin county. L. E. Rogers, field
service representaitve* of the asso
ciation, directing the recent drivfc
reports that more thanr^oOG new
contracts are on the way to Ral
eigh headquarters and predicts that
another regimeat of signers from
i Eastern Carolina will join the
ranks of the association thi3 week
and start the advance well toward
the 8-5,000 membership which has
become the new objective now set
for the Tri-State Association.
A committee of 75 tobacco
growers, members of the associa
tion from Pitt county, have set out
to visit every important merchant
of Pitt County with the question
"where do you stand?"
Committees of bankers and bus
iness men from Washington,
Robersonville, Wilmington, Wind
sor and Franklin have pledged to
take the field this week in the
drive for new members, and en
thusiasm both among the growers
and the business men has reached
i the boiling point throughout the
[east, according to R- J. Works, of
Kentucky and L. E. Rogers, of
Virginia, veteran campaigners who
rested in Raleigh over Sunday, fol
lowing ther week of meetngs.
That the association, it is de
clared, has doubled the price of
tobaoco in South Carolina on the
auction floors and paid its mem
bers higher averages for their first
advance on this year's crop than
they received last year, for their
entire crop is a subject of congrat
ulation among thousands of grow
ers whether in or out of the Organ
ization.
R. J. Works, member of the
Burley Pool who visited headquar
ters of the Tobacco Growers* Co
operative Association today said:
"History is repeating itself in the
Carolinas and Virginia. Our asso
ciation doubled the price in South
Carolina and from what I have
seen in North Carolina I can
prophesy its certain suceess."
Large deliveries and enthusiastic
support of the association have so
exceeded expectations in South
Carolina* that the association ware
houses will be open another 'day
each week to receive and grade j
deliveries,. Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays.
This dry agent disguised as a
plumber probably did it by going
to sleep under the sink.
DOINGS OF THE DUFFS
FOR C
JOHN J. MCMAHAN
?V:
COTTON-MARKET ,
h.n ..
March
Hay
Oct. _
Dec. ..
NEW YOBK COTTON ?
Y estdy*
. Oon Wgb l*m Clone Ha?
...20.35 20.63 20,10 20.12
20. f 6
20.00
20.IS
20.22
20.63
20.55
20.80
20.79
Spots 55 off, 20.50.
. 20.41
.20.30
.20.50
.20.47
20.16
20.00
20.22
20.22
20.62
20.G8
20.57
20.80
20.76
Jan_
March .
May _
Oct. ..
Dec? _
Spots
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
Opes HIz* Tibw Close Clow
_?20.05 20.20 19.62 19.62 20.31
19.60
Cleveland, Aug. 14.?W. G>, Lee.
president erf the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen -today sent- two
vice presidents of his organization
j to the Santa Fe lines Where illegal
? strikes .of trainmen are reported'
and trains are marooned. H$
I will insist the brotherhood strikt
j laws be complied with and mem
bership continue at work.
.19.95 20.(9
- ..20.20
- ..20.10
63 off,
20.55
20.44
20.50.
19.80
19.75
19.60
19.50
19.80
19.75
20.21
20.15
20.45
20.37
There will Toe no meeting of the
I Boy Scouts Wednesday night on ac
count of the" hike to PoeaSa^?
January .
March ~.
May .
July _ .
October '..
December
Liverpool Gotten.
Candidates Cards
11.40
(1.39
(1.32
(1.26
II.S3?
11.44
Receipts, 10.000;. Sales, 5.00O; Middling,
2.33; Good Middlins, 12.a.
? m ?
High water is seriously inter
ferring with the bridge and road
Work at White's Mill and- Second
Mill, respectivly, and aLso with the
bridge work on the Mayesville road
through Rocky Bluff and Scape
O'er swamps, r
s FOR CONGRESS.
I hereby announce . myself a
candidate for Congress from the
Seventh Congressional District^ sal*
ject to the rules of the Democratic
party. ^ I also wish to take this op^
portunity to say . that if elected I
i shall endeavor to faithfully die?
charge the duties of the office ant|
to merit the confidence and cup?
port of the people. . 5
ANDREW J. BETHEA,. *
Candidate for Congreset
The man with the least credit
takes the least care" of it.
Princess Anastasia swallowed a
false tooth and felt biting' pains.;
. For House of Representatives. \
I hereby announce that I . am-a
candidate for the House of Repre
sentatives subject to the rules of the
Democratic Party.
E. W, BABBS, JR.
EVERETT TRUE
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BY ?LLMAN