Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-09-06
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TIE LATEST HAPPENINGS or lM-
PoREascE TERsELy
TOLD.
EVENTS THROUGHOUT WORLD
ss~s Of ereatess Interest From All
Parts Of the World Related
In Paragraphs.
EVENTS THROUGHOUT WORLD
Soufhern.

The new agreement intended Il
safeguard eottcn shipping document
went into effect and the central bu
reau provided for in that agreemen
began it's activities with the backing
oT practically al the cotton-carryins
railroads, II was announced In New
York BY the Liverpool cotton bills ot
lading conferences committee in q
statement which explained the plan
adopted, and answered various crit
cis1ns The committee says it issued
the statement in order to clear VI
any misrepresentation that may have
arisen from recent newspaper com.
ment, especially in the South, and, to
make clear the ends to which the
committee has been working.
According to 1900 replies of special
correspondents OF the Journal of Com
merce and Commercial Bulletin bear
Ing an average mail date of August 23,
"a percentage condition Of cotton was
ON thnt date 72-6, as compared with
66.9 month ago. This compares
with 70.g per cent. last year, 66 per
cent. in 1909, 7S.1 per cent in 1908
and 1873 in 1907. The ten year av-
erage is 1873 per cent, and the loss
nf lab points during the month OF
August is the greatest in that month
in the past ten years. The most i'm
portant declines occurred in Texas
and Oklahoma, respectively.
Ragland. Ala. win get the fire mil.
Hon dollar industrial school for white
children which is to be established
By the Southern bureau of education
with funds to be given, it is said, by
Rockefeller, the Russell Sage founda-
tion, Mrs. e. w. Harriman and 9TH
ers- This was decided at meeting
IN Nashville, Tenn, of the board of
directors OF the bureau. Ragland Of
-,-o1 q fiYe thousand acre site, two
reE.,-- in ~
Hundred loss ~ <1Wn and ether con. |
,zfderatiOrs 80
- go $40 eastern states Of the cotton
halt the weather bureau during the
mast week was most favorable, al
Enough the rainfall was generally very
Tgbt and 1t was still dry IN aeme
.sectiops, according to tee nss'onai
Teskty bulletin. TAA :, co,t;n.
Nea RaxsAy es"S with frequent show
eta Ia 10 e..siana Arkansas and Mis-
.,pi, but more sunshine and dryer
weather were needed.
! National President Charles s. Bar
rett OF the Farmers union made MS
first official expression regarding the
attitude OF that big organization In
fhe battle that Isl coming this fan to
maintain the price OF cotton at
proper level 'The Farmers union,
saws President Barrett, issues an In
yitation to the entire South to CO.
operate with it In saving to this sec
ton many million dollars on the cot
ton crop OF 1912. To the farmer,
whether or not a member OF the
Farmers union, my imperative advice
is hold your cotion.' 1t is worth IN
firitely more THIN the price now
quoted
A meeting of Southern bankers, cot
4nn brokers and others interested IN
the handling OF cotton was called Dy
the bills Of ladirg committee OF me
New Orleans cotton exchange, to be
held in New Orleans, September 10,
to consider the Liverpool plan for the
vaNdation of bills of lading. Practi.
caIly all the cotton exchanges have
expressed disapproyal Of the Liver
pool plan OF establishing central
burea or validatioa in New YorS