The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1909-11-04
'rETF TREND OF Tile TIMES


You may disfigure barns and fences
and rocks and roads. waste your mon
oy on so-called business charts, and
all that sort Of thing. and vainly i'm.
agine you are advertising. But you
are not. The newspaper that every
week visits hundreds OF homes and
is looked upon by its readers as a
reliable friend and advertiser is the
medium through which the wide-a.
wake business man will speak TO the
people Quack adyertislng-the kind
you bite on when a stranger comes
around with a great scheme" is like
quack medicine-the less you take II
the better. The man who appreci-
ates the value of newspaper adver.
Using. and has busineess instinct
enough TO know that all other meth.
DDS are spurious. is the man who
meets with success.
O.
Wess Williams, a farmer near Full
ton. is exhibiting a pumpkin In Full
ton that measures 52h inches in
circumference and weighs forty-one
pounds. That's some pumpkins"
Cotton prices took another Jump
Saturday. and reached 1915, the
highest price ever known here. And
Just think. a year OF two ago this
same staple was selling around 81
II our farmers are not prosperous now
considering the prices they are get
ting for their products, they never
win be. Well. Its about time the
farmer was making a little money,
However. as forecasted nearly a
month ago. the curtailment Of cotton
manufactures In the United States
has begun on this account
The actual start will be made next
Monday in the Piedmont section Of
the Carolinas, where some Of the
largest mill In the southern district
will be closed for at least two weeks,
The Tarboro mill Is already closed.
and the Henrietta mills. the biggest
plant In North Carolina. employing
3 900 operatives will close Monday.
II Is expected that the Carolina mills
under the same management will
shut down In a few days.
The Whitney, Spartan. Glendale,
Lockhart and Pacolet mills
In Spartanburg county. South Caro-
lima. have closed. They employ TO-
900 operatives. These mills have
been running on short time for two
or three weeks. The present shut
down is for an indefinite period,
The curtailment moyment is not
expected TO reach the New England
district for fully two or three months.
by that time the mills there will In
augurate a policy of curtailment de-
cided upon three weeks ago at a
In Boston, when II was
agreed TO curtail 2S days between
now and the first OF August 1910.
The cause of the curtailment is the
high price OF cotton. Even at pres
ent prices they cannot run the mills
at a profit. They assert that they
cannot force up the prices OF the raw
Cloth has gone up five
cents a pound In the last week.
Foreign and American spinners have
heavy forces OF buyers In the South
taking all the cotton available at IA
cents. II is this situation that is
pressing down hard upon Southern
spinners, the bulk OF whose product
is yarns and coarse cloths.
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Mary had a little rat.
She wore Il In her hair;
And everywhere Mary went
The rat was always there.
Mary had a speckled hen
That was a market booster;
Every day speek layed an egg
But at night she was a rooster.
Mary had q brother John
Who worried her lot;
For every time she had beau
He was Johnny n-the-spot.
o
There is no race suicide In Milan,
Tenn, as the exchange of last week
reports seven births in one week
one a day.