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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-02-07
Farley were elected executive COM
mitteemen for North Carolina.
WHEN MEETINGS ARE TO BE HELD.

A complete plan of organization
was arranged for, suggesting that in
each township where no organization
has been effected, the farmers meet
February 11th. at 2 D. m, to effect
a township organization; that county
meetings be held at the county-seats
February 18th and that State meet
ings be held February 21st.
n resolution was adopted recog-
nizing and endorsing the work of or
ganization that has already been ac
complished in the several States.
This was done to prevent going over
and doing the work again that has
already been done. However. I
think it the desire of the Executive
ommittee TO have State meetings in
every cotton growing State on Feb
ruary 22nd. to complete State organ
izations.
Townships and counties that have
not yet arranged a date for meeting
might observe the above dates.
The following is taken from The
Times-Democrat, of New Orleans,
as some estimates of the Importance
of this meeting:
president A. Brittin, of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, declared
the gathering the best, in every sense.
he had ever seen. It's work, he char
acterized as marvellous.
Secretary Hester. of the Cotton
Exchange, echoed this praise, and ad-
ded to it.
president Harvio Jordan pledged
himself to work with his heart and
his mind for the work that he
deemed the grandest in the history
of the South, to prove himself in
some way worthy of the honor he felt
to be the HIGHEST ever granted
Southern man since the Civil War;"
1t now remains for the individual
cotton farmer to stand firm and do
his part. firmly adhcring to every
principle of the organization, and all
will be well. To do less, will prove
ourselves to be towards and unworthy
of the privileges and blessings that
are the rightful heritage of brave
and fearless people.
II. B. PARKER,
State Agent, North Carolina Cot
ton Growers and Business Mems |
Accnnintinn Rnlnimh
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-02-07
South Carolina Alliance News.

Messrs. Editors Il will again en-
deavor to let your many readers hear
from the dear old palmetto State"
and especially Lexington County.
We held our regular County Alli-
ance meeting with the Rightwel Sub,
at Piney Woods school-house, Janu-
ary 18th, and despite the inclemency
of the weather. we had goodly num-
Der present which showed their de-
votion to the noble Order. A great
deal of interest was manifested m
the reorganization of the defunct
Subs of the Farmers Alliance, which
has done more for the improvement
and education of the farmers than
any other organization thew have ever
had. Our Alliance is interested in
all that tends to the interest of the
farmer and the prosperity of our
country.
/ attended the South Carolina
State Alliance held in Columbia last
July. The Order was largely repre-
.sented by counties, and Subs seems
to be in good working order. Our
State officers are: President, Hon.
ID. F. Efrd, Lexington, s. c.; Secre-
tary-Treasurer. Hon. J. F. Nisbet,
Lancaster, S. @. Our county officers
are: President, Jas. B. Addy. Peak.
S. c.: Secretary. DR.. J. J. Buckley,
Chaplin, S. @. SO YOU see we are
Crying to hold the fort" with our
dear old sister State-North Caro-
lima. / hope to see the grand old
Farmers Alliance ORGANIZED and re-
organized in every county and State
in the Union. Then we can stand
to the "Cotton Exchange" and all
other trusts and combinations and
say: "We WILL" or Owe will not"
Let us stand firm on the cotton
question until all the "bulls" and
"bears" are bursted. and not sell one
bale for less than ten cents-the
just price which we ought to have
for the feecy staple.
Now Messrs Editors, I cannot close
my article without asking every sub
scriber to get his neighbor to sub
scribe for your noble paper, which
is doing so much for the farmers
and their interests. / have several
parties who have told me that they
will subscribe as soon as they sell
cotton.
With best wishes for the Editors
and all the readers of this paper, and |
hoping that your paper may find its
way into every farmers home in the |
Carolinas, / am,
A FARMER.
Lexington Co., S. G..
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-02-07
UNION LOCK POULTRY FENCE
A Fence-NOt q Netting.

Twisted wire cables and single wire
uprig ghts, made fast by the "Union
Lock where they cross, make rectan-
gular mesh, closely woven at the bot
tom to keep In small chickens, and a
fence that will not buckle, sag or bulge,
no matter what strain Is put upon it.
Conforms to inequalities of the ground
without cutting. No top rails or bottom
boards required.
Heavily galvanized with Prime West
ern Spelter, 1t outwears any other fence
we Know.
Costs no more, put up. than cheap
fence or netting.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-02-07
THE MARKETS

RALEIGH COTTON.
RALEIGH, FEBRUARY g. 1906
-
Prices this date last year r.................15
Receipts to date ,041 bales
Receipts same period last year.. IL, ,634 bales
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05
Quality VS.. Quantity.

Hard muscles and strong body
do not depend on the quantity Of
food you eat, but on its perfect
digestion and proper assimilation.
When you take Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure, your system gets all the
nourishment out of all the food
you eat. 1t digests what you eat
regardless of the condition of the
stomach and conveys the nutri-
cient properties to the blood and
tissues. This builds up and
strengthens the entire system.
Kodol cures Indigestion, Dyspep-
STA, Belching, Sour Stomach, Weak
Heart, etc. Soldby A. R. Corbett,
Opera House Drug Store.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05
Our ACrobatic Governor

Morgantown exchange says
Governor Dawson, in Il speech
made in that city "spOke with
sincerely that carried conviction
when he referred to the long and
bitter fight in the cause of equal
and just taxes The man who
expressed himself as convinced OF
Dawson's sincerely upon thatques
ton either dallies dangerously
with the truth, or else discounts
his own powers of discrimination.
Dawson started ont in the fight
an out and out tax reform" man,
advocating the taxing Of the pro-
ductiOn Of coal, oil and gas. When
he cot up against the Influence
Of the coal men he began to weaver
in his support Of the proposition,
and in his fOmous letter to Col
onel Page back-pedallei upon it
and declared that he was about
to become a producer of coal him
self and did not think any more
burdens should be placed upon
that class at that time. Then the
Washington compromise was eff
fected. and he and all his kind
quit the productive tax proposit-
ion cold, except when theywere
talkin to the farmers and then
they told them how they would
make coal. oil and gas pay up.
When the legislature met, some of
the Republican members favored
redeeming the pledge given the
farmers and a bill was introduced
providing for the tonnage tax, it's
understood that Dawson was OPP
posed to it, and while it was under
discussion. Delegate Kittle in a
speech. stated that he was just
from the executive office, where
he had talked to both Governor
White and GOvernOr-elect Daw-
son. and that both were opposed
to the bill. Of course Governor
Dawson may now advocate the
tonnage tax. or any other kind
of a tax. but the man who de-
scribps him as being sincere about
anything, except getting himself
into office. or advancing his own
pecuniary interests, either mis-
Judges the man or misstates his
own OpiniOn.-Charleston Gazette.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05
ARTISTIC
JOB PRINTING.

The Daily Review has during
the past week received several
hundred dollars worth of new job
type of the latest and neatest pat
terms, and is now Thoroughly
equipped for turning out the best
possible job printing in the most
artistic and up-to-date styles.
The book bindery has also
been improved, and we have every
facility for making books, rebind-
ing old books, binding magazines,
etc.
Our prices are reasonable; our
work unexcelled. Telephone Sis
tersville Daily Review, No. e1-2,
and our representative viii call en-
yen. Y
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General Review of
The Oil Industry

nearly a stand-off. February was
behind January by 1876 wells COM
pleted, 1864 barrels production
and seven busters. The decline
for the month was over so per
cent.
In the Lima oil districts of the
Buckeye and HoOhier States, 326
wells were completed in April,
with 4,215 barrels new production,
and there were sc dry holes. Com
pared with the districts producing
Pennsylvania oil, 312 fewer wells
were completed, while the new
production was only $40 barrels
less. But while nearly 30 per
cent of the Pennsylvania wells
were unproductive, only about II
per cent of those drilled in the
Trenton rock fields were listed as
dry holes. In the Lima oil fields
of Northwestern Ohio and Indiana
1876 wells were completed in April
inclusive of 81 busters. and the
new production was 1908 barrels.
Compared with the sections pro-
ducing Pennsylvania oil, 254
fewer wells were completed, while
the new production was greater
by ST. barrels. AT the same time,
over SO per cent of the Eastern
wells were unproductive, while Of
the Lima wells less than II per
cent proved failures.
West Virginia. which for a num-
Der of years has been leading i'll
gusher strikes and the new pro-
duction of high grade oil, has
been dropping off very fast of late.
In May only 80 per cent Of the
total new production came from
West Virginia, while in April she
supplied 35 per cent. and in March
II per cent. Southwestern Ohio
| is credited with about q per cent
of the new production in May
against % per cent in April. But,
| Ter and Armstrong, which has
been an unimportant factor fol
many years past, contributed ovel
! 20 per cent. The remaining z;
| per cent came from the small wei
territory in New York and Penn
svlvania. The new field west
of the Mississippi have exercised
depressing effect upon the mark
ct and the steadily increasing
production has had a great dea
to do with checking field opera
tons in the East.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05

The action of the current, to-
gether with the sOftening of the
sandy-lOam bank of the Ohio river
opposite the mouth of Postum
creek in Ohio is destined to COM
pei the setting back Of the govern
ment light on the West Virginia
shore at that point. AS the Ohio
River railroad track runs back
of the light but few yards, the
original course of the road will
doubtless have to be changed.
Before this line was built many
years ago, the run coming from
the hills east of the river was not
INSTRUCTED and could dump its
overflow from freshets into the
greater river, but now the rail-
road grade, with what is said to
be an insufficient outlet by means
of a culvert. dams the water at
certain times of the yeor and
causes it to soak through the main
bank of the Ohio River for a space
of over one-half mile. This ac-
ton, as before referred to. has
naturally caused the bank to soft
en-, and it is not as strong as nat
ure intended it should be. The
result is. the current at this bend
in the river has slice by slice cut
the bank away
Rivermen say that the bank has
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05
Bank Washed Away
Opposite pOSSum

been cut away a distance of at
least 100 yards, all Of which has
been loss in acreage to the state
of West Virginia. 1t is also in
timated that the government Of
ficials are intending to make in
vestigations and ascertain where
the fault lies. If this waste of
good West Virginia shore land is
caused by the negligence of the
railroad company it is likely that
the government will sugguest. or
request, ways and means for rem
edying it in which the railroad
company will essentially he a
party.
The bank which has for years
been wasting away in an average
of % feet above the lower water
line. Back of it is a broad, pic
turesque plateau with just enough
of the natural growth Of shrub
berry and trees to make it one of
the most attractive spots along
the Ohio. Many a monarch of the
forest has fallen victim to the
action of the current until the old
pioneers Of that vicinity and out
ing parties from the river towns
have noted with regret a marvel
Gus change. for it was there in
former years that picnics, camp
meetings and various other out
Of door events were held.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05
Ten Times Easier.

1t is ten times easier to cure all
coughs, Group, whooping cough,
and all lung and bronchial affec-
tions when the bowels are open.
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and
Tar, is the original Laxative
Cough Syrup. Gently moves the
bowels, and expels the cold from
the system. Best for Coughs,
Colds, Group, Whooping Cough,
etc. Remember the name "Ken-
nedy's" and see that the red
clover blossom and the honey bee
is onthe bottle. Sold by A. r.
Corbett, Opera House Drug Store.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05

May completed So more wells
than April ana registered a gain
of 1924 barrels in the new pro-
ductiOn. The dry holes were six
less in number and the new wells
averaged about 1924 barrels each,
which was Il decided gain over
the average for April. May shows
the best results in the way of COM
pleted wells and new production
Of any month of the current year.
April completed 100 more wells
than March, but there was a de-
cline in the new production of 542
barrels. There was a gain Of -
dry holes, and the average of the
new wells fell to about nine bar
rels. In March 81 more wells
were completed than in February.
and there was a gain of $50 bar
rels in the new production. The
dry holes increased 48 in number,
and the average Of the new wells
was 1925 barrels each. There was
a drop of 16 rigs and 7 wells drill
ling in the field work for May.
while April made a gain of . rigs
and II wells drilling. Compared
with May 81, 1904, the field report
shows a loss of 1877 rigs and 253
drilling wells.
In the districts producing Lima
oil the wells completed were a
stand-off during May and April,
while the new production made a
small decline, and there was an
other heavy drop in field work.
The deep sand territory in Della
ware, county, Indiana, is no longer
swelling the new production with
gusher strikes, and although oper-
atoms are active, the new wells
fail to size up with those that were
drilled when the territory was
first opened. In Northwestern
Ohio nothing but routine work is
being done, and field work is de-
clining rapidly. While May com
pleted the same number OF wells
as April, there was a decline of 80
barrels in the new production, a
drop of - in field operations and
a gain of 10 dry holes. April re.
vealed an increase over March OF
80 wells, 500 barrels production
and 16 dry holes. March showed
a gain Of four wells and 43S bar
rels new production over February
while the buster record was very
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05
Found a Cure For Dyspepsia.

Mrs. s. Lindsay, OF Fort Will
liam, Ontario, Canada, who has
suffered quite a number of years
from dyspepsia and great pains
in the stomach, was advised by
her druggist to take Chamber
Iain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
She did so and says: 81 find that
they have bone me a great deal of
good, I have never had any suff-
ering since l began using them. "
If troubled with dyspepsia or in
digestion, why not take these tab
lets. Get we'll and stay well. For
sale by Hill Bros.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05
PapsF Kettles.

n the japanese army every SOL
der carries with him kettles which
are made of paper, the invention Of
one Daiju. The kettle is made Of
ordinary thin japanese paper. 1t
is filled with water, and then water
is poured over it. 1t is hung over
the fire. and in ten minutes the wa
ter is boiling. The kettle can BIS
used eight or ten times, and the cost
Of it Is about 2 cents.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05
One She Buried.

Dumley-I met a fellow today who
was simply nutty about buried treas
ure. Couldn't talk Of anything else.
Peckham-That reminds me Of my
wife.
Dumley-Oh, does she talk about one?
Peckhsm-Yes. Her first husband.
I'm her second, you know.-Philadel-
phia Pre-
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05
To Keep Ribbons Fresh.

An excellent way of caring fU!
ribbons is to wind them upon spools
large enough to mold them without
folding in the interval of wearin-
them. For the broad sash ribbon,
a bit of old brooISsick answers ycr
coll.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05
His Busy bay,

Cassidy-Helle! How's things wild
you? Casey-Busy, very busy indade.
Cassidy-Is it so? Casey-Aye! Shure.
every time I'm at laysure hov some.
thin to do.-PhiIadelphia Press.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-05

is a treatment which affords .
positive cure for rheumatism and
allied diseases.
Applied externally, it relieves
the pain at once. Taken inter-
nally, it cures permanently by
purifying the blood Of the Tactic
acid which causes the disease.
Anthony Smith, of Mayville, III,
says: 81 had such severe rheumat-
ic pains in my arm and shoulder
that could neither work nor sleep
and was fast losing all hope Of
cure, when I heard of and tried
Hamlins Wizard Oil, two bottles
Of which performed a perfect, per.
manent cure" Price, Soc and 81.
For sale and recommended by
For Sale by All Druggists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-07
NILE. 6EpHAlNE GALlOlS

bones form semi-circles, to pun out the
sides and backs of skirts. In the petticoats
they sew one or two or three hens regu-
larly placed above the petticoats fiounces.
When there is but one, 1T Is set at about
the height of the knees. Regularly there
are two, one little higher and one a little
lower. Into these hens they insert the
semi-circuiar whalebones 1t is half
hoopskirt. When the petticoat goes to the
laundry the whalebones are Withdrawn.
That is ALL
The Paris theatrical stage has naturally
been the trying place for all these "feeiers
When Ma6emoiselle Brandes sprung her
''vertugadins" on US In the revival of
''Patrie'' we found the effect really grace
full. Yet 'Vertugadins" We're exaggerated
to a horror in their day--three hundred
years ago!
The .sVertugadins' of Mademoselie
Brandes-because 1t seems she has adopted
them for good. lie, for more or less In all
her costumes-ballooned the skirt lightly by
means of ''bourrelets" or rolls-like sau-
sage-shaped window strippings- or like the
rats on which ladies have built up their
hair. These being placed snugly on the
launches puff the skirt out. The exaggera-
ton to which they were carried IN the
epoch Of Louis XIV was revived by Jane
Hading in La Pompadour"-only they
were no longer "Vertugadins, but Pan
niers."
Panniers F1ourished in 1913.
In the year 1928 these ''panniers were
still flourishing so amply that the Advocate
Barber, in his celebrated Journal, goes out
of his way to describe them with lamenta-
lions. They were actually basketlike con-
structions, fitting above the hips and
thrusting the skirts out tremendously. The
most extreme-called "paniers coude"-
actually lifted the line of the hips as high
as the elbows, whence the name. The the
aters of the epoch were forced to arrange
orchestra and balcony chairs adapted to
them. It became impossible to squeeze
three ladies into one opera box. and when a
man got among them he was simply sub
merged!
One evening the queen being seated at
the theater between two princesses, the
skirts of these latter so linked up as to
completely hide the view of the stage for
her majesty. The only possible remedy was
found to be the reserving of empty seats on
each side.
Here you have the chronology. First. the
Vertugadin a sort of roll fixed over the
hips to render the skirt 'bouffante," or
swelling" From the "Vertugadin" they
developed the ''pannier," elegantly sur
named the ''hencoop." At their height, in
1882. chickens could really have been kept
IN them-one or two on each haunch of the
grande dame-the enormous ''panniers'' be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-07

Numbered with the fiction will be found
several copies of Dante's Divine Comedy"
most interesting of which is probably an
edition printed in Florence in 1899. Wal
toms Complete Angler" published by
Henry Provide, Is in this section, with
Goethe's Die Leiden des Jungen Werth-
ers and Schiller's Die Rauber." Here
also Is LIE Rhine di Petrarca." printed in
Venice in 1879, and exquisitely bound and
Kern der Nederlandsche Historic" issued
In Amsterdam in 1853, and likewise elabo-
rateiy and seriously set forth, There are a
larger number of Arabic books than one
would suppose, and smaller number of
trivial subjects than might appear reason
able. One memorandum book is incased in
an embossed silver cover Of very fair work
manshfp. and another shows leather backs
and firm metal clasp They are all. 10 be
sure. either curiosities or toys, menacing
by the size of their type the eyesight of the
reader, but they make most interesting
exhibit. and are In way marveis of the
bookmaker's craft
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NOTED MASON DEAD.
Death of Col. Martin Van Buren, Davis
at PHILADELPHIA.

Col. Martin Van Buren, Davis. prominent
in Masonic and military circles throughout
the state died at his home in Philadelphia
yesterday after an Illness of more than a
year. He was sixty-two years old. At the
age of eighteen Col Davis enlisted In the
Union army. serving for three years in the
Goth Regiment. Pennsylvania Volunteers.
In 1856 he was appointed to a clerkshlp
in the United States mint at Philadelphia
and vas soon after promoted to the position
of assistant coiner. Later he was appoint
ed computer OF bullion at Washington. and
In 1876 was detailed as special mint en-
ploye with headquarters In San Francisco.
He WAS appointed superintendent OF TIE
New Orleans mint In lgiS
Col Davis was secretary of the Penney.
val MIA Society for the Prevention OF Cru
city TO Anfmals and was al one time See
Rotary of the American Humane Sociaxy