Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I r a SubUNION Br< PRESENTS SCHEME TO CHECK WEEVIL Smith Proposes System of (Quarantine Zones?South Carolina Senator W ill Push Plan to Stamp Out Cotton Pest. Washington, Dee. G.?Creation of a series of zones in the South in which no cotton could be grown for a jitriod of one year as a means of cheeking and exterminating the boll weevil in this country will be proposed in a bill which Senator Smith of South Carolina announced tonight he soon would offer and urge for passage. The senator proposes that the non-growing area shall be started in the extreme northeastern limit of work southward and westward in a .erics of zones 100 miles in width each year until the entire cotton growing section shall have been covered. The fedtral government, Senator Smith said, would be given the power to police the zone to see that the law ( was observed and growers and dinners affected would be compensated by the government. Experts estimated that it would cost $25,000,000 a year to maintain the boll weevil /.one in Alabama which Senator Smith proposed a year ago. The first year the cotton prohibitive zone would include the extreme eastern portions of North Carolina and South Carolina. The next year this zone would be released and the non-productive area extended 100 miles and this rotation would be kept up until the entire territory had been covered. "Highest entomological authorities have approved the zone system as the only practical means of exterminating the devastating boll weevil in this country," said Senator Smith. The annual cost would be infinitesimal as compared to the benefit that would be derived. Six hundred million dollars has been expended to eradicate the bill weevil in this country, but he still thrives and is moving rapidly toward the fields of Norfth and South Carolina. "The zone system not onlv would prove the practicability of this method of exterminating the boll weevil, but by giving farmers opportunity to grow cover crops, would demonstrate whothe rthe South can succtsdully grow other food products." TO ASK MOKK MONEY. Asquith Will Call for Two Million Dollars. / l.ondon, Dec. 5.?The new vote of credit which the premier will ask the house of commons to agree to on Thursday will be for 400,000,000 pounds. This woyld bring the total for 1010 up to 1,750,000,000 pounds. PT P divided Tip ass B Cs Ho DOWNFALL OF OFFICER. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. (5.?From beinj. a few years ago the youngest anc most popular officer on the Fultoi county police force, W. W., bettei known as "Boots" Rogers has faller upon a series of misfortunes lulmi nating in his arrest on a charge o! highway robbery. Rogers got his first taste of pub licity as one of the star witnesses foi Solicitor Hugh M. Horsey in the lat ter's prosecution of Leo. M. Frank. His name next got in the papers when he drove his taxicab over an oh lady in West End; killing her as sh( was about to board a street car, and was threatened with violence at tlu hands of neighbors who witnessed flu tragedy. Then he was arrested by United States authorities on a charge of receiving stolen goods, ynd his old old friend Hugh I)oi ey, staid away from a Woodrow Wilson rally, at which he had been invited to speak, tc go to court and testify to Rogers' good character. And now as a climax and culmination of ::Boots" adventures in the rolt of defendant rather than star witness for the State, he is charged with being the ring leader in the daylight robbery of H. A. Boykin, a paymaster, who was recently held up on thf outskirts of Atlanta and relieved ol $1,500 in cash. Boykin has positively identified hitn. THIS SHOWS DANGER OF HAVING WOMAN SUFFRAGE Umatilla, Ore., Dec. G.?Mrs. E. E Starcher defeated her husband foi mayor in an election here yesterday. LIFT POTATO EMBARGO. Washington, Dec. 6.?To attack thi high cost of food so far as potatoes are concerned the Department of Ag riculture has ordered a relaxation ol the quarantine of potatoes from Can ada. Hereafter Canadian potatoes wit! not more than 10 per cent showing traces of disease will he admitted a my border customs house instead ol specially designated ports as has beet Llie practice. Shipments will not l>< detained for inspection and the horti i-ult 111 ;il hoard will Inlfo stons in'iLw the formalities attending such import.' is free of burden to importers as pos silde. The department's action is exporter to bring large quantities of potatoes into tht. United States to meet th< 'nigh prices. O Liberty! can man resign thet Once having felt thy glorious flame? Can dungeons, bolts or bars conflni thee? Or whips thy noble spiri ttame? ?The Marsellaise. Mr. R. L. Kelly, junior member o the firm of Kelly Bros., is in Toledo Ohio, on a business trip. u FRRIN Into High MY, DECI and ash So in & Rea me Office, > AND TEDDY. I love you, California, r I love your'rocks and rills, *-* * 1 I love your splendid valleys and i Your heaven-kissed hills, r I love your sons and daughters, i And I love your splendid viejvs, But I must say I love you most r For what you did to Hughes. ?Houston Post. ". WORSE. "My gas bill this month fairly took my breath away." . "Mine did worse than that; it took I all my money away." VILLA TAKES 10 GIRLS. El Paso, Texas, Dec. 4.?Forty of Chihuahua City's beautiful society girls, $200,000 in silver bullion, several trainloads of food and other supplies ' is part of the loot "I'ancho" Villa is taking into the mountains with him after the systematic sacking of the capital, according to dispatches reach| ing here. . Mrs. VV. H. S. Harris of Jonesville is the guest of Mrs. J. H. Herring on ! E. Main street. tfkllojloys! Make Lot? of Toy? battleships, machine shops, saw mills and hundreds of other big steel models- many of them run by the Erector motor (free inmost sets) ERECTOR > Tlio Taw f Ci-.l V a wj Aiinc uuutiuiai UICC1 Give your boy a set of Erector. It's the only construction toy with girders exactly like the real structural steel. Come in and see our interesting Erectpr display. STONE-JONES HI)W. f COMPANY i i ??J 1 HOMI Class R< rianrn a i tNIBtK ID i - Eas uvcni ilty Co., i/Varsaw, IV 0 The undeveloped an< put into a high state of times the population of t of cotton a year the pro everything else produced ratio. The trouble is the vation are crude, our eq1 It is to remedy just now famous Farmers' L will be enabled to get mc be had for from five to 3 ceed 6 per cent. A local organization pay you, Mr. Farmer, t organization. Look into a world of good. BAILE' & LI FOR 20 YEARS UNIOl % ISA E PLA< Esidence I , AT 10;30 y Terr rs Selling A I. C. ?^?? ^ s (1 worn lands of Union County cultivation, and could, when th he county. Instead of producii duction could be raised to 100,< on our farms could be made 1 it our lands are unimproved, oi uipment for farming is altogetl these defects that our governr oan Law, a simple and safe ph >ney on long time and at low int forty years, and the rate of ir i for this county has already h o get in touch with some mei the matter. It can do you no 1 Y FURNi' JMBER C V'S LEADING HOME BUILI FURNISHERS. u CE ,ots on ns igents are capable of being us improved, feed 50 ng some 20,000 bales 000 bales a year and .0 increase by a like ur methods of cultiler inadequate, nent has enacted the in by which farmers erest. The loan may iterest is not to ex>een started. It will Tiber already in the larm it mav r\n vmi ' 7 J ?J rURE jo. )ERS AND HOME