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>OLUHE MI, NUMBER 7',. NEWBERRY, S. C? TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1911. ^ TWICE A WIKi, $UI A YKAJh. fc PAYING TEN CtNTS |; FOR WHITE COTTON HAVE BUILT WAREHOUSE, WILLI " i\I? <TlH?V M tllUl l.?i' .'i ? Purcfll and Scott Taking: ( arc of ('us- | tomers?Col. Purccll Optimistic. Purcell and Scott since the opening i the cotton season have b^en paying | ' 1 J /> <-*11 > U Ai y* Anc_ ! )t ten cents tne puuuu iu an men vuo- j tomers for cotton when it is placed to j the credit of the account or any matter that is due them, which of course j is the same as the cash to the farmer ! I and is a great help to him in meeting his obligations. They did this when : the price was only seven cents. / A reporter for The Herald and News I dropped in this store the other morn- j ing and asked Col. Purcell about eon- i aitions generally. The colonel is very ; ^ optimistic and was feeling good and ' ? said that he" was going to t?ake care of j their customers as they had always j" done. Said he: "Yes, we have always looked out for the best interests of our customers and as the price of cotton went be low ten cents we decided to give our j customers that pTice for it on what they owed us, for I know that the | present crop was made on the basis of ten cents and if the farmer is forced to take less he will oe unable to meet his obligations and I am sure that all the farmers who deal with us j want to pay their honest debts. We j paid that price when the buyer was j only offering seven cents. JOnly last Saturday when the price was only nirio sprite T rmt it nr* to nine* and a .MAAAW ^ ^ ? X- ? ? . quarter regardless of whether it was on account or not. In other words I went out on the market and paid nine and a quarter straight for the cotton. I feel sure that the war cannot last much' longer and. in aijy event the price of cotton is bound to go to ten cents and over if it is not forced on the market. I believe ttat the proper thing for all the merchants and the banks f at have abligations from the farmer is to take their cotton on account at ten cents 1 and if rhpv would the -Drice would be ' .above that in a little while. At any 1 rate it would save the country and the 1 merchants and bankers would be sav- ' ed also, because if the farmer does not j prosrper the rest of us are bound to i suffer." "We are preparing to hold our cot- , ton," said Col. Purcell, "and to that ! end we are building a warehouse ! which will be standard and bonded ; J 11 n tt'I 11 Vv?* crr\ rvH ! anu a receive nuiu us ^ auw . and we will arrange to lend money on ! it at a low rate of interest and on ! long tine so that the cotton we place in the warehouse may be kept off the market indefinitely. A number of the farmers from all sections of the conn- ! ty have been to see me during the ' past several days and liave compli- ! mented our iirm on the stand we have ! ocMt.Kn.(r tHa fQrmor tn 0'p.f I cctrvc in aoomuig mv J."-* mv.? w a living price for his cotton. It has | always been our rule since I huvebeen ! in business in Newberry to take care of i those who entrusted their business j to me and this crisis only emphasizes ; what I nave been doing for many ! years. Our warehouse will be com-1 pleted in a few days and we now have ; our platform up and Mr. S. B. Aull j is weighing cotton and will be glad to have a-11 the farmers bring him their cotton. The warehouse is in Nance street and runs through to Caldwell. It is near the power house and easy of access and I cope to see the far i ? x u ^c ? t Pr\ r> '"\Tr Ait":] i xziers uiKt; men wtwn iui .m. . , i to weigh, and we will continue to pay ten cents the pound to all our customers." The capacity of the warehouse will be three thousand bales but if that capacity is exhausted the capacity will be increased. . It all the merchants who have made advances to the farmers and the banks who have loaned -m rvr-. of fj-v tVicw fimnor "wrvirM Hn t h-C iliVUV/J tv LUV iUl UiV<l -T vw.v. - same thing the situation in Newberry would be immediately relieved. In fact it is not so awfully bad any way. And if there is cooperation and the man who has loaned money will give the creditor a chance all will come out right and vve will be happy. Col. Parcel! keeps in tou^h wirh ';,e j cotton market. and the cotton siiuai ' ' I tion at all times and will be pleased to con.er with the farmers at any time and give them the advantage of any information he may i:ave. LAD DIES IX COTTON Jinimie Dodds Smothers While at Play in Chester. The State. .Chester, Sept. IT.?While playing in some cotton today, .Jimmie Dodds, son of W. 0. Dodds, a tenant on the farm of Turner E. Lucas, in tiie Liberty Baptist church community a ;ew miles from taie city, somthered. The accident occurred ai i- ocicxjk today. The little boy, as he 'h&d done many times before, was playing in the staple. It is thought that he had dug a T.ole in it and piled a bank of cotton up. and in getting a'bout in the hole the other fell down upon him, taking his breath away bv means of cutting oft' his source of air. It was some time after the boy had + Vinnco that ariv fnnoprn was W I li-V iiV UtJV V - V? entertained for his whereabouts. Arter a careful search he was found in fc the cotton. A physician of this city was hurried to the scene, but all efforts at restoring life were futile. CROUCH BUYS COTTOX Starts "Buy-a-Bale"* Movement at Saluda. . Toe State. Saluda, Sept. 17.?The "foily-a-bale'' movement was today launched in Saluda by B. W. Crouch, president of the Bank of Saluda. In a posted notice Mr. Crouch states that in order to initiate the "buy-a-bale" movement in Saluda he .will take one bale on behalf of his bank and another on 'lij own account at 10 cents per pound. It is known that this initial purchase on the 10 cent basis will be followed by others. PRAYER 0> THE WAR j AUTHORIZED BY BISHOP ? ? Kf. Key. miuam a. i*uerry tmers Prayer For the Use of Clergy and Laity Alike. In face of ti:e war between the nations of Europe, the Rt. Rev. William A. Guerry, D. D., at Charleston, bishop of the South Carolina Diocese, has authorized the following prayer and expresses the hope that clergy and laitv alike may find frequent oc casions to use it both in private as well as in public devotions: 0, Almighty God, Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, look down with pity, we beseech Thee upon those members o:' Tiiy family who are now at war. Restrain them {from hatred, pride and hardness of heart. Sustain in them the love of justice and mercy. Keep, 0 Lord, under Thy protection t'lose who are in peril by land and sea. Kememoer the prisoners, relieve the sick and wounded, support the dying. Give strength to those who minister in hospital and camp, and hope to those who ane in anxiety and sorrow. Hasten the dav when all nations shall dwell together in righteousness and in peace. Continue, we pray Thee, 0 God, to this our beloved country the blessing of peace and so lead us in the paths of righteousness and truth ; for Ttv name sake that the boundar- ' ies of Thy kingdom may be enlarged J and Thy reign established over the earth. All which we ask in the name , of Him who is the Prince of Peace, , Thy Son Jesus Christ, our Lord. I Amen. >IR. McDAMS HAS LOST POSITION Removed by tlie Government From Job as .>fuil Carrier of It a on Route No. One. i Anderson Intelligencer. Sam M. McAdams, well Known in Anderson and all parts of Anderson county lias been removed from his ; nosition as rural free delivery carrier 1 out of Iva on route No. One, aci cording to a letter received yesterday from the department at Washington, j Some weeks ago charges here filed against Mr. McAdams and Inspectors Jernigan and Morgan roth were sent to Anderson to make investigations and to ri-i-oTt. x'o-.ownig il?i,? i I ? * . turn they wrote a letter to Mr. Mc- ! < Adams in which they set forta the < following: I< That rh^ carrier has acter as a < participant in a newspaper contest. J" That he has been negligent in the ,< handling of mail by throwing it 011 j the ground and similar acts. T.at he has solicited business for ( firms handling grain, merchandise, machinery, etc., while on duty as a . carrier. T'.iai he manifested pernicious political activity. |; That he has :ailed to pay his just d^bts. Mr. McAdams is liked /n? various sections of the county and the charges will come as a surprise to many of his friends. I He Was >'ot Employed. In justice 10 S. M. McAdams, this paper wishes to say that he was not emplbyed to solicit subscriptions, or to do any work for The Intelligencer. Whatever work he may or may not have done, was to assist a member of !:.is lamily to get a prize. He was accused of trying to get persons to stop ~ no r?A*?o (\Vo rtOT7D 1") fiO r*/"l Idivilig uuin papci o. ixu?v uv-uiu that this was not proved. 'UcAdams' work for this paper was infinitesimal compared with the work done iby some public officials for the newspaper that started the fight on Adam? An p-.m/nlovp of the United States government and one official of this city have for months done a large part of the retportorial and editorial work for the only other paper in the city. The Intelligencer pays taxes and its stockholders pay taxes and yet we have not made complaint that we are contributing in part to the employment of help for our local contemporary, an advantage which we do not enjoy. I (Mr. McAdams, we understand, voted for Biease and Dominick and that may account for his "pernicious activity." It some times all denends.? Ed. H & N.) j A Home For the Hole. Everett P. Dahlgren, the .millionaire opponent of woman suffrage, said at a suffrage debate in Boston: "I always declare that woman should not enter politics till she's fulfilled all her prior duties. " 'Prior duties! Prior,duties!' So a. young lady mocked me one day, 'Wuiat do you mean by these prior duties that you're always talking about, Mr. Dahlgren?' "So then I told t'r.e young lady this' story: "Once upon*a time, I began, a little hole was 'born; and it looked around to see where it should ta'ke up its a'bode. ' It first decided on a window, but, a man came straightway an$ put in ' a new pane. It next chose a chair seat, but the housewife sent for a caner, and in a jiffy a new seat was put in the chair. The hole now selected a baiby's rattle, and the baby was so pleased that it began to tear the rat lie to pieces, ana me poor noie, nan crazed with- fright, had just time to escape. It threw itseL:', >more dead than ; alive." into the first thing that came to hand, which happened to be the sock of a suffragist's husband. ' ! 'There, at least, the hple seems to havp found a r^al home. Its oeace has not been troubled from the be- j ginning six months ago." Rumors. Two women met on a street car and began to discuss a third acquain- , fnnAA n'Vi/A i o o fTACoin rolotDQ caxiv^ ? Liu *o a, uui^u A j the Kansas City Star. "I just passed Mrs. Blank down , town," said the first. "She looks rath- j er jaded. I didn't know until you told me the other day the t sue took in roomers." The other woman's eye twinkled. * < <N >. . 3 ? f A f flU ^ Al r? r * . V? rt ??A iuu uiu iiul iu: t..cvu\, i cpiied. "I told you she took in ru-, mors." There was a pause for this ;o be grasped, then she concluded: "And those w'r.o spend 'he..* time in taking-; in rumors genera1 !v delight ir letting them out again." Pfl77l A/1 \ JL UA6l^U? ? 1 Marghertone reports that he is tryi ing to unravel a sentence lately sprung on him by his favorite, Mrs. ' : Ramsbottom. She said: I "I was really puzzled what to do.1 I was on the corns of a duenna, r>s' the saying is.' } i ?> <S> GREAT COl'XCIL 1" S. I. 0. H. 31. > > _ <?> S> By E. H. A nil. <$> <$> Through the courtesy of the Great , Council of South Carolina, I. 0. R. M., j I had the pleasure and the profit of i attending the Great Council of the j I'nited States I. 0. R. M., held the past ! week in the city of Portland. Maine, 1 i fooi ti-int r will hp nardonpd for niiu i buuv ^ t? ?i' ing the readers of The Herald and | Xews some impressions of the meeting and an account of some o:' toe things done and some of the things seen in. this far east city. Ti'.ose who are not ; interested, and who do not care to ' read what is here written, may just ; skip over to something else. I feel that it is true that a great many people in South Carolina ;have an erroneous impression oi' the standing and importance and personnel of the mem- , bers of the great order of Improved i Order of Red Men. I say this "with a j full appreciation of the worth of those j who rrvmnnse the order in t'f.is Great i Reservation. ^ South'Carolina had four representa-j tives in the Great Council, Co'e. L. Blease, Otto Klettner, J. P. Carlisle, ! } and J. G. Long, Jr. In addition to these (J. fcJ. I'oiley was a meiiroer ui i / the committee on Indian Memorial and ' B. C. Wallace attended as Great Chief of Records of South Carolina, and 1 t:he Great Council sent Past Great i Sachems E. H. Aull and S. M. Clarkson. So that South Carolina had eight representatives present, more man any other Great Reservation in proportion to membership. * * / (Trie order is purely of American origin and '':as a membership in the United States of more than half mil "ion. and among these are some or 'che most prominent men in ;the country. The Great Council is composed of men of aJbility in all lines of activity. Carl Foster, the ou^o'ng Great fnconee, is a judge in Bridgeport, Conn., and is a man of striking appearance ana above ire orawaiy m <tuiuiy. His successor, Fred Downes, ot Boston, is a lawyer of large practice and a man of great executive ability. He is plain and unassuming but you have only to watch his ?'.vm:s and listen to his talks to realise that he is a man of great brain force. There are other men of ability in !ne order, ;;nd the Grea: Council is one of the strongest deliberative bodi2s ;:i this country. Past Great Incohoaee Jnggs, of Texas, is a man far ab0"3 tlK- ordinary in ability. He is alsV liroi'iiiicM :i; me Knishts of Pythias. * * * iMy traveling coinparJc.i and guardian on tne trip was O.to KleUner, of Newberry, and every one who knows Olto knows that I was in good hands and well cared :or. He stands .1- - /I TTrtttori Wltll cue ^TieiiL ^uu;icn ui. tut uuibw. States just like he does witii the Great Council of ?outli Carolina. Every one knows him and loves him. He is- a true Red Man and a true man in every other calling and walk of life. We left Newberry at 6:zu on oaiuruaj, September 12, and reached Portland on Monday morning about 6 o'clock. We had a stop of a few hours in New York but most of the time we were on the train. At New York we were joined by the others of the South Carolina delegation. The journey was made without special incident and without accident, though our train go ing was some two hours late in reaching Washington. * * * |\Ve had just gotten out of one or two elections down in South Carolina. and the first thing we neara waen we reached Portland was that an election was on that day for State officers. j We were all somewhat interested in tne election from the fact that the J mayor of Portland who delivered one o:' the addresses of welcome to the c.r>c*r ^ruinr-ii wasi r.he Democratic candidate for governor. They have elections a little different irom our : system down here. It is not the Aus tralian ballot but all the tickets are printed on the some sheet and the voter goes into a booth ana marks his ! own ticket. There were five tickets on the same sheet. You were not obliged to vote a straight ticket, however. but you could make one to sine ycuracil', i tried to get a! ticket, but i the best I could do was to get a sample ticket. No tickets are permitted ! to be taken away. Tlie laws are very strict. 1 noticed in the papers that one man was arrested for voting twice or attempting to do so, and he 1 was tri^d and sentenced to serve a . term, and all in less than Uree days, j Oakland C. Curtis, the Democratic nominee, was elected by a small plur- j ality. He may owe nis election to the presence of so many Red Men in j his home town, the/most of whom are j 'Democrats, but tile split in the Repub- 1 lican ranks, no doubt, accounts for his success. He is a plain business man. ! Uiaine is a prohibition State and has ! been so tor a half century or mire, ! and if there was any "iolation of the law in Portland you couldn't prove it ! 'by me. The lid was down tight, ( t:ough on the day of election there j lwas some evidence that some persons, j at least, had been able to find where 1 there was something that would intoxicate. , ? ? * f Portland is a beautiful city of son:? 0,000 people practically all white as I J saw only one or two negroes during the four days that I was there. Gov. ' Blease said that a negro hailed him on the street and said he was from Newberry, a son of Dennis Motes, the old shoe maker. He is the pastor of! some church in the city and he told | the governor that he was going that afterno jn down to tfosion to deliver a lecture. I do not know whether his 'congregation is composed of negroes or not, but if it is they must have been very close during our stay or the congregation is small. At any rate g. policeman told Gov. Blease that Motes -3 - * ? ? ~ J T"?r A! 1 fll was UOlUg wen ciuu v>aa ticn iuv/uqui of in Portland. * ? * j^lII thir New England country through which we went is almost one ^continuous town from New York. And j it has the appearance of prosperity. ,^vV!!:at is in the rural district, if there is i any, I do not know. Portland is lo j cated on Casco bay and has one of the ! finest har'bors .on the Atlantic coast. * \ i In this bay there are 365 islands and it looks that all of thesm are dotted with summer homes. It is a delightful ; place in which to Sipend the summer, I but most too far away for the peo| pie down South, except t':ose who j have plenty of leisure. Yet every isj land that I saw seemed to be a sum mer resort. The Great Council of 1 Sew Hampshire gave the Great Coun| cil a sail through the bay on Wednesday afternoon and wound up with a | clam bake at Long Island. We were I out about lour hours and passed tr.e : home of Commodore Peary who oc| cupies an entire island. There seemi ed to be nothing on it but^lais magj nificent home. The clam bake was a ! great even^ tor t':.e land-lubber. To j look down the tables at which were j seated some four hundred guests and see there in front of each a big rpd ! lobster was a sight to behold. And , this was not all that was on the table, i We all enjoyed it. My guardian, Otto, I and Sam Clarkson, could not stand the ! music and the night following were | two very sick men, but by morning j they were all right again. It takes a man like Dr. 'Carlisle to stand such a feast. After the return he went tte 'same night to another feast at the i Elks home and did not turn in until j the we sma hours of the morning, but ' when breakfast came rne was Mcuregor on his native health. * * ? There was no legislation by the Great Council of special moment.. A number of changes were proposed bu^; it wound up with very few changes in (the law. An effort was made to change the time of meeting but that i was finally killed. It was decided j + * H thn novt prvnvpntinn in Cali I LU UU1U LilV MVkV vv*. : fornia. Representatives we'} present i from neany every State in .'V union, j The session cost about $22,000 and it 1 is estimated that the next meeting will | cost about $40,000. The So-th Carolina delegation did very Kile talking. Gov. Blease made a snort speech and wnc mrmlv rp^.vved given 'he very best o: attention. He was appointed for three years on the judioiary committee, the most impcrtant o: the standing committees. * * * I The meetings were held in tne audi- \ i torium of the city hall. This is one I of the finest auditoriums in this country. They have in it wha: very few city halls have, one of the finest or- j ^ gaiis in cue world. This organ is the gift of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, of Philadelphia. The main air chest of the organ is 53 feet long. 15 feet wide and S feet high. A 30-horse power motor nonnested to manv centrifugal b'as:: wheels, furnishes the air at the various pressures required, and also drives the special low voltage generator which supplies the current for the electric action. The console at which the performer sits is movable, with! To :eet of flexible cable attached and can be placed anywhere upon the stage or upon the floor of the auditorium. The action is electric which insures instantaneous response from every pipe. The echo organ contains over 600 pipes and the harp. The man instrument is 60 fefct wide, 15 feet deep and 40 feet high. Nearly 100 miles of eleotric wire are used in its electric action and the complete instrument weighs approximately 45 tons. There are nearly 6,000 pipes. ^ Ti:ese are either of wood or metal and vary in length from one -half inch to 32 feet, and in diameter from onequarter inch to 21 inches. Some of the large wooden pipes are capable of admitting a man's body. It is some musical instrument. It varies from the safest sweetest melody to the largest loudest sound and an in perfect harmony. Regular concerts are I given and it is stated that during the season of 1912-13 the attendance upon these concerts was about 225,000. One of the greatest events of the week, however, was the parade on Wednesday night. The Red Men came from all t'he nearby towns and the. visitors were T>ut in automobiles. The parade was probably a mile or more in length and some six or seven thousond persons made it up. It was a sight worth beholding. * * * , In order that those who, may desire to do so may read the programme as .published, and it was carried out to the letter, I am going to print thf entire programme and tie poetry whichi - ** tnlr/in fVinm AnO /-wf tfia rVAOlTl J nf mi ft is lancii nyui uuv vi vm. yvv-. 3 w*. of Portland own sons, H. W. Longfellow. This is the birthplace of Long- / tellow and the home in which he afterwards lived and wrote many of his of the things to be seen and visited pnems still sim <13 and is in tl-e iinnds of a histor.c t1 commission st?l is one while in the city. I had the pleasure j or going Uirougu i-.it; nu-mc. i Oiiij wish I could have spent more time in there. This is also the home and 'birthplace of Thomas B. Reid Wi:o was a national figure. The birthplace of both Reid and Longfellow is close together and is now not a de/ Arable residence section. Tbe Reid mansion where Reid died is one of the handsomest homes in the city. This is also the home of Xeal Dow and his home still stands and is occupied by his widow. And only a s ort distance Ifram Portland is the birthplace of our own beloved fellow townsman, Geo. IS. Mower, but he left there too soqn after birth to kno-w much about it. j ? I We left Portland at 8:35 on Thursday night and reached Newberry at 3 o'clock on Saturday. Thi3 gave us about four hours in New York. Brother Klettner and I made the trip to gether and I want to mate tnis acknowledgment of the many kindnesses and courtesies whicii he extended. i He took, exceedingly good care of his I ward and the only fault I could find: ' Is that he is too unselfish. A rare } virtue "but a true one in this man. ;The following is the programme: ? * Programme of4 Entertainment for the 67th Great Sun Session of the j Great Council of the United States | Improved Order of Red Men v ^-?? ? ~ c *v. ? o ? ?; ?; ^ Un Llie -VlOUIlid.ilib vl tiic riauiCy I On the great red Pipe-stone Quarry, I Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the master of life, descending, | On the red crags of the quarry j Stood erect, and called the nations, ' Called the tribes of men together. j l^jth Sun, Corn Moon G. S. D. 423 ^ Portland. Maine PROGRiAME Sandiiy, Sept. 13th. ! -**:30 a. m.?Special church service a .'ree St. Baptist church sermon for f a M'.-n by Rev. ^rank Otis Erbe (CONTINUED OS PAGE 4.)