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" Mayor Z. F. Wright of Newberry. J The State of Wednesday carries a photo and sketch of the above subject. It says: "Z. F. Wright, Newberry's mayor, is ~ ~ r\f rViiof o n r? n 10.Q H i T1 or ct Iiaii?C ui luai. vji; uuu w. citizen, always ready to do his part 1 in any undertaking or enterprise that is for the public good. He is a progressive ift a quiet way; more of a doer of things than a talker about doing them. Mr. Wright is a graduate of Newberry college of the class of ^ vyfflH Hk JBH I p 18SS. He was elected president of the Newberry cotton mills in September, [ 1905, to succeed Robert L. McCaughrin. The mill has prospered under his presidency, having increased its plant more than one-third out .of the earnings. Up to his election as president of the Newberry mil} he was cashier of the Commercial bank of this city. i , Mr. Wright had never held public oftill hp entered unon the office of u mayor last January. He is serving the interests of the city faithfully and with the aid of an efficient council, is . giving Newberry an excellent city gov' ernment." Will Return to the State Sunday >Veek. The State, 9th. An alfalfa growers association ha^ nr/v-nnc-o/1 fr\r VftwhprrV OOUIltV. uccu vn|/vc vu wi by A. G. Smith, agriculturalist of the United States office of farm management. Mr. Smith is now working for the department in Illinois and will return to South Carolina July 20. S-evi eral days ago iMr. Smith was invited by S. M. Duncan, county agent, to . speak in N^berry on alfalfa growfe ing. The following letter was rep ceived from Mr. Smith. * "I have yours of recent date concerning the meeting at Pomaria. I would be glad to be with you and talk affairs, but I will not be back in South Carolina until July 20. How about organizing an alfalfa growers' J- 1 ? 9 T f association m sxe-wDerry uuujucj ; n you will get 20 men who are growing, b or will agree to grow, an acre of alfalfa, I will organize the association and visit with you, the farm of each member and give full directions as to ' how to proceed." I_ * A LITTLE SEKMONETTE. <?> <S> ^ &<?><$><?>$><$><$<$><?><?><$>$><?><$><?><$$> We all have our respective places in the community. Each has bis owTn peculiar sphere, filled with his own individuality, personality, idiosycracy, or eccentricity as the case ; may be. Notwithstanding that each thinks the otkfer a crank. The "brotherhood of man" in its true "community of interests" works together for the common good and keeps the whole united. It is the same the world over, but nowhere than in * Newebrry does it show up to better adi various callings. The ministers fit various calings. The ministers fit fflp their positions, as well as do the phyB sicians, the lawyers, the merchants, the bankers, the cotton mill men, the Ik V other business men, as the insurance men, (getting to be a large field) the farmers, the newspaper people, the mill operatives; in the aggregate all making grand progress, and out of A the whole sinslins: each for his part. I See the individual member of the community of workers. The college president has his part in the great maks up. So has the mill president, the bank president, the editor, the reporter, each and all. So let's do the best we can for the good of the town, without grumbling and complaining, "working for each other's interest as well as for our own. MABKETISG COTTOX. ) How They Work It In Texas?Bankers Assist, Says President Far, mers Union. Fort Worth, Texas; July 7.-3 want to speak a word to the farmers and bankers of this Nation through the press on the plan of co-operation in marketing cotton which has been adopted in Texas, and it is one which can be easily extended to all States .. w. - -0W*. Oi<t msmm Hi I 'and to all products. If the plan is not readily adjustable to conditions : beyond Texas, then I submit the spirit of co-operation as worthy of emulation by the agricultural and financial interests of every community in the United States. In Texas cotton is the money crop and the problem of marketing it in i telligently has absorbed . the attention ! of the leaders of economic thought j for half a century. The crop is oftim-es mortgaged and debt is such a hard taskmaster that the farmer, in order to escape it, rushes to the market with his products and down goes the price and the anxiety for the anInual pay day causes many others to seek an early market. To relieve the pressure the bankers are advancing the farmers $35.00 per bale at 6 per cent, payable when the cotton is sold. The title to the cotton rests with the farmer and he can sell when he pleases and there is no longer occasion for disposing of his crop on a weak or glutted market. i There is a strong demand in Texas |for money at 8 and 10 per cent on ! tprmc tr? suit the lender, and an offer jto lend the farmers on demand at 6 per cent is a concession on the part of the bankers which the farmers appreciate. I estimate that it will require approximately $40,000,000 ip hold the distress cotton off the market, and this amount the bankers have ! made available to lend on cotton 'stored in our warehouses. It will | require a much smalier'sum to handle : the business as the money the farmer borrows will be paid on ms a-eDts or j spent in his home town and most of :it will be immediately re-deposited in the bank available for lending again. TVe have 350 warehouses in the interior and adequate storage facilities are provided at the ports to take care ;of all cotton which cannot be accomo! dated in the interior. Constructive Banking. Many bankers in Texas have for voarc: h^pn lendine monev to uv T Vi UX ^ VMA w ^ W-? w w I | farmers without compensation "or at a very low rate of interest to buy blooded livestock, build silos, etc., and no usurer whoever bowed at the | shrine of the dollar received as large I returns on the investment as these ; progressive bankers, who made loans i without interest to uplift productive i industry: The spirit of the builder which actuated the bankers in these smaller transactions is now extended into tne nnancmg 01 u?? uuuuu tiup on a mammoth scale and the- returns will be correspondingly increased. God Almigrhty's Xoblemen, The work has had its hardships and has met with such obstacles as all progressive movements invariably ! encounter. It will have to break the ! shackles of shiftless habits of many farmers, melt the adamant heart of | many bankers and it has become the ! target of ridicule and suspicion of the near-sighted. I want to here name a few of God Almighty's noblemen | who have co-operated in working out . the plans and who have given their time, influence and loaned their money . under tins arrangement to finance warehouses throughout the entire ! State: W. H. Eddleman, Ben 0. Smith, Fort Worth; B. B. Cain, D. E. Waggoner, Dallas; oe Hirsh,, Corpus Christi; I. H. Kempner, Galveston; James Garrity, Corsicana; Edwin Chamberlain, San Antonio; W. H. Fuqaia, Amarrillo, and hundreds of other bankers who are financing cotton in local warehouses. The parties whose names I 1 have mentionea nave loaned money on cotton throughout the entire State. Heaven loaned earth the spirit of these men. They are not actuated by , philanthropic motives; they are ishrewd bankers; they are men of exceptional business ability who are big enough to roll into place the corner ' stones of empires. Its Effect Upon the Market It is the custom in Texas and other ! southern States to market sixty-five per cent of the crop the first three i months of harvest season which re 'suits in weakening and oftimes glutting the market. A* least two-thirds I of the cotton farmers are tenants and there is approximately an eighty million dollar mortgage against their I crop each year due when the cotton is picked and the farmer is forced to sell to meet his obligations. The bankers will not advance him as muc' as $35.00 per bale on his cotton at i ~ intnTSef T\ Q VO 0 5?f V>10 5-lA PCI LCli I lUltl tv V. tliVI option which will take the cotton out ' distress and enable the farmer to hold it until the price is satisfactory ' and make a glut easily avoidable. The consumption of cotton is distributed evenly throughout the year and it should be marketed as the spinners . demand it. There are so many factors that enter into fixing the price that . ~ ~ flii rtn/->r> 7-i V>oq ticfu otnril v j U.U Ulic liluucuvc; vaii Ui juimiuvbu. *IJ t segregated and reduced to a cash, i basis, but in my opinion the slow mar keting of cotton will increase the : farm price at least from 2 1-2 to 5 : f : T" v.. - . : <; ? cents per pound n-t over the price obtained under present methods, making a minimum net saving to the farmer of $50,000,000. It is now up to the farmer to take advantage of the facilities offered. Of the 1912 cotton crop, Texas produced 4,88,210 bales out of 14,313,015 'bales produced in the United States and a possible 20,000,000 bales in the world. The 1912 Texas cotton crop sold at a farm price of $338,538,822, including lint and seed. The annual world consumption during 1911, the latest available reports, was 20,402,000 bales. The cotton yield per acre ii Texas in 1912 was 205 lbs., valued at $23.69. The value of the yield per acre of cotton is the greatest of any s:aple crop in the world. Its nearest approach is corn $14.22 per acre for 1912 in the United States. Just Turned it Around. In his studio in Carnegie hall nv. amnspd to re | 'oj-ia.1 ico \jri ucujj ? w-o ceive the other day a printed circular signed by ar automobile firm, that said: "You are cordially invited to participate in our grand $100 prize drawing contest. Each participant may submit one or more drawings advertis I ~ i ing our automobile, and the winner will receive a grand cash prize of $100. Drawings must be sent prepaid, they must be original, and all unsuccessful drawings will remain the property of the undersfgned." Mr. Gibson, who can scarcely be persuaded to make drawings at $1,000 apiece, smiled over this printed j j circular, and then he took a sbeet of j note paper, and, still smiling, he ! wrote to the automobile firm: "You are cordially invited to participate in my grand ten dollar prize automobile contest. Each participant may submit one or more automobiles fully -equipped of his own manufacture, and the winner will receive a grand cash prize of $10 in gold. The automobiles submitted should be | brand new and must he shipped f. o. | b., New York. The unsuccessful autoi mobiles will remain the property of the undersigned. Charles Dana Gibson."?Exchange. Highest Mountain in United States. The highest mountain in Oregon is Mount Hood, 11,225 feet above sea level. Compared with Mount Whitney, to the south in California, and Mount Ranier, to the north in Washin(rtnn pj?ph risine- well above 14, 000 feet, Mount Hood does not appear as a skyscraper. However, according to the geologists of the United States geological survey and other authorities, Oregon had at one time, probably before the dawn of life upon the earth, a great volcano which towered as far above Mount Hood as does Mount Rainier, 'possibly even several thousand feet higher. This was the great .Mount Mazama. But thousands of years ago this mountain disappeared into the bowels of the earth, and all that is left today is the hugh rim around Crater Lakt. Crater Lake is the caldera of this extinct and collapsed volcano and is nearly six miles in diameter. The inside walls of the rim of the ancient mountain are in places nearly 4,000 feet high and almost perpendicular. The lake itself, is in places 2,000 feet deep and parts of the wall rise above its water another 2,000 feet. A restoration of the mountain in fancy, using as a base the angles of the lower slopes, which still remain shows that the apex could not have been far from 15,000 feet i:a height, so that Mount Mazama was one of the most lofty and majestic peaks in the United States.? San Francisco Chronicle. SAYS HE KILLED PEAR*, BRYAN. Alleged Check Flasher Claims Eight Murders. Los Angeles, July 7.?Arrested, accused of having passed a bad check, Simon P. Helfinstine, in jail here, today startled officials with a purported ! confession, in which he detailed a se! ries of eight murders in Ohio. These include th- slaying of Pearl Bryan, for whose death the medical students, Jackson and Walling, were executed. Some of the circumstances of the crimes as related by Helfinstine do not coincide with known facts. County officials were inclined to believe the prisoner was suffering from insanity. Pearl Bryan was supposed to have been killed in Cincinnati, but Halfinstine asserts that he murdered the girl in Toledo and then shipped the body | to Jackson and Walling in Cincinna ni. TO SEGREGATE "STUPIDS." Physician Says Backward Child Is Sonree of Supply to Criminal Class. (Chicago Dispatch to New York Times. Addressing the convention aii^n As] I It tells you ho phone line wit same high-class now enjoyed b i | i If you hav tell you how t You do not ob : i Address nee i ? r a SOUTHERN AND TELE) 263|Sou f STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. By C. C. Schumpert, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, P. B. Banfcs, Jr., and G. N. Long hath made suit to me to grant them Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of P. B. Banks These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred 1 - TD T? Panorc me creanors 01 mtj sam ?. jJUttugwj | and creditors of the said H. H. Folk, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to De held at Newberry, S. C., on July 12th, 1913,' next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be I zranted. Given under my hand, this 28th day of June, Anno Domini, 1913. C C. Schumpert, J. P. N. C. For Weakness and Loss of Appetite j The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out I Malaria and builds up t he system. A true tonic and sure Appetizer. For adults and children. 50c. ists in session here Dr. Henry H. Godlard, of Vineland, N. J., declared that slow and weak minded children should be segregated and receive a special education. He asserted that the average stupid child recruits the criminal class when he is brought up among normal children, whose education leaves him still ignorant. "Often the stupid child is the fav* ored and petted one of the family, and many parents do not, or will not, recognize that a child of theirs is mentally deficient," asserted the speaker. "The child thus becomes spoiled, and becomes a dangerous factor ill socieiy. "Twenty-five per cent of the crimi-' nal class belong to the mentally back- j ward; 50 per cent of the prostitute I class and 70 per cent of the person* in reform institutions are mentally de-1 ficient?stupid." The Noble life. Tru-e worth is in being, not seeming; In doing each day that goes bySome little good, not in the dreaming Of great things to do and by, For, whatever men say in blindness j And spite of the fancies of youth, j There's nothing so kingly as kind- j ness And nothing-so royal as truth. We get back our mete as we mea bure. We cannot do -wrong and feel right. Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure. For justice avenges each slight. The air for the wing of the sparrow, The bush for the robin and wren. But always the path that is narrow An? straight for the children of m n Summer is th^? cheapest time to buy good breeding stock, as many breeders make it a rule to dispose of all ttyein b.^n& and, say^ onl$ puU$t? I " 1'" ' Farmer f SeThisB it is i k for It Today-A Pos w you may connect :h the Bell system, a > local and long disfc y more than 5,000,0 en't a Telephone th o get service at very lin-rifn iTAHfcplf KIT CPI iigaLw juuiovu kjj jvi irest Bell Telephone Mana rmers' Line Department BELL TELEPHOl SRAPH COMPA1 th PryorSt, Atlanta, Ga. Notice to F I have been advertising: Indiana Silo the best investments tliat any farmer c best suggestion to our farmers. Sow peas or soy beans, buy a Koger pea and the Feed from the vines, saving the cos dirt from your hay, making it more san The Koger will not choke or clog with break two per cent of seed. See or w regarding this wonderful machine. J. M. SWtt Sales agent for Gasoline Engii Corn Shelters, Pea Threshers, G Cutters, Saw Rigs, Indiana Silos, 910 West Main St, Wrightsville Beach Ic | Isle of Palms ' South Atlantic's! 1 . 1 O grounas ana o cation L Surf bathing, boating, fishii for old and young, Dance music furnished by e These elegant resorts reach AflontiP fnact auanut wuoi i The Standard Railroad For rates, reservations, etc, agent, Newberry, S. G, T. C. WI N. C. The Gemson Agric rwoni i mcmt nvrp cnn VAT I IF OF Llll IX l J I . I T t . ^ 1 V/ T WW w - AND A THIRD-OVER 90 TEA Degree Courses: ca and Electrica Textile Industry; Architectural Engineeri Short Courses: ' "extile Industry; F< on Grading; Four-Weeks Winter Course P l, Cost per session of nine months, vlroU water, board, laundry, and two < tion, if able to pay, $40.00 extra. Tot'J c I Agricultural Course, ?117.55; Four-Weeks Scholarship and Entrance Exai Agricultural and Textile Scholarships, an I arships. Value of Scholarships $100 00 p< dents who have attended Clemson Collegt sity, are not eligible for the Scholarships applicants.) Scholarship and Entrance Examination II perintendent of Education on July nth, a wcvr CPCCTAM ODfWQ QF1 I HCAi tJrv/i biiM Write at once to W. M. Clemson College, S. C., for Catalog, Scho' you may be crov - i tfeeds OQK * ''' " >ee iiai TT 111 uu your Telend get the , mce service 00 people. !- 1 U !11 IS DOO& Will small cost. iding for it. I 1 get, or ? I \ NE rarmers. s fcr some time, which is one of :au make. I now make very every available foot of land in I bean thresher, which separates ;t of picking, cleans the grit and itary and wholesome for feeding, vines, and is guaranteed not to rite me for farthei particulars IDLER, ies, Feed and Grist Mill*, rain Separators, Ensikge Etc. Newberry, S. C. Calling You summer rlayummer Vaands. ag and marine pleasures legant orchestras. ed via the Line Railroad, I of the Sooth. address T. S. Lefler, ticket lite, G. P. A., Wilmington, cultural College PROPEI OVER A MILLION CHERS AND OFFICERS n courses). Chemistry; Mechani I Engi:eering; Civil Engineering; 11 ng. 1 Agriculture; Two-Year Course in our-Weeks Winter Course in Cotfor Farmers. including all fees, heat, light, complete uniforms, $133 45. Tui:ost per session for the one year 1 Course, all expenses, |io 00. mmaCba* College mainDID3U00S. tains 167 four-year d 51 one-year Agricultural Schol;r session and Free Tuition. (Stuor any other College or Univerunless there are no other eligible s will be held by the County Su PTEMBER 10, 1913. RIGGS, President larshio Blanks, etc. If you delay, rded out