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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-06
Can Eliminate Middleman.

The middle man has been called
all kinds of hard names.
He does not deserve them. for he
is a product Of the way we live.
If we do not want to get along
without him, he gets our money.
If we begrudge the money he gets,
we have only to begin life again
as producers, enjoying the fruits Of
our own industry.
No man, single handed, can
change the present organization of
affairs. If he has to depend on the
middle man that gentleman will get
his price.
But any man can change the or
ganization of his own affairs. and
cut out the middle man by becom-
ing producer of the things he and
his family need.
Such a change, if he makes it,
does not, however. sever his con-
nection with monopolies,
Water and air will be free. but
coal viii have to be brought to his
door by forces he can not control
direetly-unless the garden is To-
Gated over a mine.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-06
Monopoly Responsible For High Prices
BY THOMAS TAPER

than a cabbage patch is with money
in hand.
State departments of agriculture
and the department of agriculture
at Washington have published val
liable documents on all aspects of
farming. Quietly 1t is becoming
recognized that the foundation of
national prosperity is not the large
farmer in Kansas; it is the small
worker of the soil everywhere.
These documents may be had for
the asking. To read them and to
learn how to make the soil under
ones feet contribute to the cost Of
living is, in the long run, better
proposition than living where you
can see the trolley cars pass by.
When you plant a package of
radish seeds, and later on eat the
radishes fresh out of the garden,
you can estimate accurately what
they cost. But if four other pairs
of hands handle them between the
garden and your table, there are
four more items to be added to the
expense Of affording radishes, and
the cost estimate is not so easy to
determine.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-06

throwing their tentacles of high
cost where they have no business
TO reach.
IL
1t is amazing what fortune a fam
lily in humble circumstances can
attain to by developing all the re-
sources at hand. Thrift, labor and
good management are as forceful as
they were in old-fashioned times.
1t Is the Small Worker.
Thousands of families crowd the
cities and barely exist, families that
could eliminate every middle man
between producer and consumer.
and take all the profits themselves.
Why do they not move into the
couutry2
Probably because the c-owds. the
picture shows and the excitement
are more interesting at a high price
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-06
BY THOMAS TAPER.

fairs, national finances and the ball
game.
No one talks about the maximum
yield of the garden patch
The telephone and the trolley car
have widened the circle of their
vision, and they live in the metro
politan way. City restrictions are
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-06

weeks tour of Texas. stop
ned in twenty-one towns and
cities dispensing the oratorical ca
loric. under the kindly guidance OF
the ad clubs.
To say that Texas is prosperous
is putting it pianissimo. Texas Is
microby with money.
The buying power of the people
is revealed by the business done in
the department stores. pioneer
people buy things that are coarse
and strong. and always the intent
is to make the dollar go as far as
that famous dollar which George
Washington once threw across the
Potomac.
In the Texas department stores
YOU will find the latest fashions
modes from Paris and styles from
London. Texas has passed out OF
the pioneer stage.
The thing that has caused the
yelling waters of prosperity to flow
is the demand for cotton. Cotton
is king. Cotton clothes the world.
Texas produces one third of the
cotton crop Of the United States
Cotton is raised in Texas at a less
cost per bale than anywhere else in
the world.
In most states you hear of cot
ton patches" but in Texas there
are cotton fields-fields seemingly
limited only by the horizon.
Source of It's Prosperity.
The discovery that cotton will
grow on the prairie is new one.
Texas, in this year of grace. 1912, is
producing four million bales of cot
ton This cotton, including the va
rious products of cotton seed, is
worth three hundred million dol
lars. And yet cotton is only one OF
nine great products that Texas pro-
duces.
However only half Of the people
are engaged in farming in Texas,
And about one-half of these raise
cotton. The result when figured up
would show that in some districts
whole families will receive in cash
a thousand dollars for each mem
Der of the family.
At one place of thousand in
habitants I counted over two hun
dred teams that had come to town
with loads of cotton. A wagon load
is anywhere from one bale to five;
so each farmer went back home
with from sixty to three hundred
dollars in cash, or its equivalent.
The tendency of the cotton farm
er is toward the small farm, simply
because labor conditions are such
that the farmer has to do the work
himself, and with his own imme-
date family AS for hiring a great
number of men and systematizing
! the business, this is getting more
and more of a problem The help
ers are not to be had. A big fam
| lily in Texas is an asset.
Cotton pickers get a dollar and a
quarter hundred pounds. When
they were hired by the day they
picked a hundred pounds of cotton
a day. And so the idea of piece
work came in, and a dollar and a
quarter was fixed as fair rate for
picking a hundred pounds of cot
ton.
The result has been that piece
work has quickened the process.
ssaw girls of twelve that would pick
a hundred pounds a day. and here
in Texas in the country all the
children work. And working out of
doors, with plenty to eat In a sa-
lubrious climate, they are healthy
and well and strong - brown.
bronzed, happy They can sleep all
right. and they certainly eat.
Some expert women pickers do
their 800 pounds day and I saw
few men who could pick 400
pounds a day. A great number of
negroes make from SO to IS a day.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-06

"HE cause of the high price of
food is monopoly. All down
the line from producer to
consumer there are organizations
of men who pass the necessities
along, each knocking some profit
out of it, and collecting the whole
bill from the party of the last part
the man who eats the food.
The fewer middlemen between
producer and consumer, the cheap
er is the article.
Middlemen are non producers
and profit takers.
They put up toll gates, and col
lect profits, coming and going.
And yet with the present organi-
zation of society the middleman
has become a necessity, It would
bother a good many families in a
large city to dispense with him
The Simple Way.
But many family can do so in a
very simple way That is. by be-
coming their own producers.
Twenty years ago, in certain
community every family used the
land about the house for practical
purposes. 1t raised all the vege-
tables required for summer and
winter. In some cases It supported
a COW. a pig and some chickens.
Today, while the street has
changed little in other respects. 1t
is inhabited by people with newer
ideals. They do not trouble to do
garden work. The vegetable man.
the egg man. the milk man and a
Wnole procession or men, drive up
to the houses along the street, and
sell the things that the land itself
used to raise and can stin produce.
This would be entirely justihable
il wages had advanced, or if the
fortunes ST the families were such
that the houSeholder's time could
be better employed than in doing
garden work
But this is not the case. In this.
and in many other places. the little
garden as an aid to family economy
mas gone ont OF fashion.
In the grocery store. down the
street. the men discuss political af-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
POMARIA FOR PROGRESS.
$4,000 in Bonds Voted for Erection OF
School HOuSe-A Great For.
ward Step.

At a special election held at Po-
maria on Tuesday in the Pomaria
school district to vote on the question
of issuing $1,000 in twenty-year bonds
for the purpose of erecting a~school
house, the vote resulted, % in favor of
the bond issue and l against it.
The sentiment of the people in this
community is very substantially in
favor of improving the school equip
ment as is evidenced by the large vote
in favor of the bond issue. Arrange
ments will be made at once for sale
of the bonds, and contract will be
awarded for the erection of the build
ing.
There is nothing that the people of
the community could do that would be
of more benefit to them than the bet
terment of their school facilities, and
it is hoped that the action on the part
of the people of Pomaria will be an in
centive to other communities in the
county to go and do likewise.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
Death of Good Citizen.

Mr. A. Nj. Sease, an aged citizen OF
this city, died at the home of his son'
in-law, Mr.. Brooks Swygert, Saturday
afternoon. Mr.. Sease had been in de-
clining health for some days, due to
his advanced age. His death, though
not unexpected, was received with sor-
row by all who knew him. He Was in
the 18th year and had always lived a
ccnsecrated, upright life. The body
was carried to his old home near
Peake Sunday afternoon, where it was
inferred with Masonic honors.-Laur-
ems Advertiser, 26th.
Mr.. Sease spent some while in New
berry during the residence in this
town of Mr.. Brooks Swygert, and made
many friends while here. He was q
brother of Mr.. Dan Sease, of the town
of Newberry, and of Mr.. G. L. Sease
and Mr.. J. l.. Sease, of the county. Mr.
G. l.. Sease attended the funeral on
Sunday.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
As to HYDE.
was done

Up to the time the Intelligencer
went to press no announcement OF
the report of the board OF alienists ap-
pointed by Governor Blease to exam
inc Sam Hyde, had been made. AS
stated last week in the Intelligencer
this paper is in possession of practl-
cally definite information that Hyde
will be executed and that the alienists
will not recommend communication OF
sentence for him.-Anderson Intelll-
gencer, 25th.
The alienists know what they are
doing. Eminent physicians as Dr.
Wilson, of Charleston; DR.. Babcock,
of Columbia, and DR.. Houseal, of New
berry. are competent to judge of
Hyde's insanity and as equally quail
fed to make a report.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT.

Newberry is winning things some
this year.
The Hillsville tragedy at the Theato
soon. Date later. Watch for it.
Pathe Weekly, No. II, at the Theato
Friday. Worth seeing well.
Liar, liar. Taft, Roosevelt Blease,
Jones, Fielder, Grace ct al.
Mr.. H. H. Evans is announced as
candidate for the legislature.
"Shetalking week" for Chautauqua
beats Catawba or Chicago.
The regular service at the Lutheran
Church of the Redeemer will be held
Sunday morning at II o'clock.
H. o. Stone, agent, this week sold
a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to R.
F. D. Carrier J. l.. Eargle, of Chaplin.
The Ladies' Aid society of Trinity
church will serve ice cream on th=
church ground next Saturday, the e9th:
at 4 o'clock
Coming soon to the Theato, "How
Columbus Discoverd America" If you
fail to see this you will soon discover
your mistake, after hearing about it.
No body of men the guests of Rock
Hill in the past has elected more in
terest by their coming among the en-
tire citizenship of this city than the
firemen.-Rock Hill Herald, 25th
The bridge at Smyrna in the public
road is broken down and very much in
need of repairs. It has been reported
to the supervisor and should have his
immediate attention as it is dangerous
to cross.
DR.. C. E. Stephenson and T. A. Will
liams on Wednesday returned from
Chicago, after attending the national
republican convention, the former as
a visitor and the latter as an alter
nate-delegate.
Mr.. w. H. Folk, progressive far
mer of Pomaria, in working his sweet
potatoes this week discovered some as
large as his wrist and is now enjoying
potato custard very early in the sea-
son. Pomaria soil is fine and Mr. Folk
knows how to work it.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
PROF. TATE AT CHAPPELLS.
TO Deliver Lecture at School House
Saturday Evening-Eyeryb0dy
is Invited.

County Superintendent of Education
E. H. Aull requests The Herald and
News to call attention again to the
lecture to be delivered at the school
house at Chappells on Saturday even
ing at $50 o'clock by Prof. w. X. Tate.
Prof. Tate carries with him his
stereopticon and will show on canvas
the condition of many of the schools
of South Carolina and of the west as
we'll as of Canada. In connection with
tie stereopticon, he delivers his lee
ture and tells of the schools, which he
exhibits. The people, in this way, will
be able to see conditions and improve
ments that are being made in various
counties Of the State.
Prof. Tate IS an interesting talker
and understands the rural school sit
uation in South Carolina thoroughly
and possibly better than any other
person in the State. He has travelled
through the rural districts of every
county, and is deeply interested in the
improvement of conditions.
1t is hoped that a large audience
will meet Prof. Tate at Chappells, and
all who come may be assured of be-
ing entertained and instructed. The
ladies as well as the men are most
cordially invited, and all may feel
sure of being amply repaid.
The lecture is absolutely free and
in the interest Of the development of
educational conditions in the State.
The editor of the Observer, who has
heard Mr.. Tate, in his last issue had
the following to say:
"The citizens of the Chappel1s Sec
ton can take the Observer mans
word for it that they will hear fine
lecture if they will go to the Chappells
school house to hear Prof. W. K. Tate,
supervisor of rural schools, next Sat
urady night, the 29th. Prof. Tate is
one Of the best posted men on school
questions and one of the most enter
tanning lecturers in this or any other
State. The Observer man speaks
knowingly when he says any one who
knows good lecture when he hears
it will greatly enjoy Prof. Tates IL.
Illustrated lecture"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
NEGRO KILLS NEGRO.
Shooting Scrape Just Outside the City
on Wednesday Night, With Fa.
tai Result

Tom Marshall, colored, was shot and
killed On Wednesday night, near the
old Aull steam mill, northwest of the
city, by Coot Dansby, also colored.
The coroner held an inquest, and the
verdict was to the effect that Marshall
came to his death at the>hands of San
ders.
It is said that there was a crowd
with Marshall when Dansby came by
and commenced shooting-firing siA
balls, four OF which took effect ir
Mars nails body.
Dansby has not yet been apprehend.
ed.
1t is said the negroes have been al
enmity in the past.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
SPARTANBURG BOOSTERS.
Crowd From Newberry's Suburb Civ
en- Warm Welcome i'm Newberry.
Spent Night Here.

The Spartanburg boosters arrived in
Newberry Tuesday afternoon about
$50 o'clock in a special train of three
Pullman cars, about eighty strong.
They were headed by Mr.. John Wood,
secretary of the Spartanburg chamber
of commerce, and all lines of business
enterprises in the city were represent
ed. They carried with them a band,
and on arrival formed in line and
marched up Main street to the public
square, where they were given cor
dial welcome by Mr. John NJ kinard,
president of the Newberry chamber of
commerce. Response was made by
Mr.. John Wood, telling of the advan-
tages and wonderful resources of the
country embraced in an area of fifty
miles in any direction from Spartan
burg as a centre. The boosters dis
tributed advertising matter amongst
the crowd, took supper at the Newbar-
ry hotel, attended a reception in tho
rooms of the chamber of comm ,rce af-
ter the Chautauqua attraction was
over, and left next morning for Green
wood. A stop of thirty minut 5 was
made at Chappells, and another stop
at Ninety Six.
Somehow The Herald and ~.,w.: i
inclined to believe that if the boosters
would get busy, not only the Spartan
burg boosters, but others, in the de-
velopment and the improvement of the
public roads of this territory embrac-
ed in fifty miles of Spartanburg as a
centre, they would accomplish more
for the country generally than in any
other boosting that might be done at
this time.
Newberry was glad to have these
boosters from Spartanburg and will
take pleasure in welcoming them at
any time.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
Death of a Young Girl.

Miss Mary Hipp, IA years old,
youngest daughter of Mrs. Edw. R.
Hipp, died of typhoid fever at her
home in this city On Thursday morn
ing at 5 o'clock. She was a member
of the Boundary street school class
graduating this year, and her many
friends are filled with grief at the
cutting off of life so full of promise
for the good, the beautiful and true.
The mother and other members of
this greatly afflicted family have the
deep sympathy of the community in
this additional sorrow that has come
to them.
The funeral service will be conduct
ed by the Rev Edward Fulenwider at
the house on Friday afternoon at 6
O'Clock. Interment at Rosemont ceme-
terry.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
FARMERS BANK PROSPERING.
Annual Meeting of StockhOlders-Of.
ficerS Elected-Bank in Good
Shape.

At a meeting of the stockholders OF
the Farmers bank, at Prosperity, on
Wednesday, the following board of di-
rectors was elected: S. S. Birge, S. J.
Kohn, H. T. Patterson, A. H. Kohn,
Ira S. Caldwell, E. M. Cook, J. C. Neel,
w. E. Wallace, P. E. Scott.
At a meeting of the board held af-
terwards, the following officers were
elected:
E. M. Cook, president
S. ]. Kohn, vice president.
H. T. Patterson, cashier.
E. S. Blease, attorney.
This bank is now getting in good
shape and making money. Mr.. Patter-
son, the cashier, is an active, energetic
and efficient officer, and is devoting
his whole time and all his energies to
the success of the bank.
Mr.. Cook, the president, is sub
stantial farmer, and has the confidence
of the people of his community and of
the county.
Mr.. Kohn, the vice president, is also
a successful farmer, and with these
gentlemen as the officials of the bank,
there is no reason why it Should not
succeed.
The auditing committee is composed
of A. H. Kohn and w. E. Wallace. The
officers constitute the finance commit
tee.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
THE CHAUTAUQUA.
Large Audiences Have Attended Very
Fine Entertainm entS-TradeS
Display Postponed.

The Chautauqua attractions during
the week have pleased large audiences,
and the week has been a success.
The entertainments will conclude on
Friday evening.
On Thursday afternoon the automo-
bile parade took place. At the hour
of going to press, the winner of the
prize had not been announced.
The trades display, which was sche-
duled for Friday afternoon at o'clock,
has been postponed until next Tuesday
afternoon at 5 o'clock. This action
was taken by the committee in charge
on account of the funeral of Miss Mary
Hipp, which will be held at the same
hour as had been fixed for the trades
display. Miss Hipp was daughter of
one of Newberry's most prominent
merchants, lately deceased, and it was
in respect to the memory of father and
daughter that the postponenent was
made.
Newberry has been gay during the
week. The attractions have been un-
usually fine; the audiences have been
in excellent humor, and the commu-
nifty generally has been enjoying the
week.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
BOYS CORN CLUB INVITED.
To Meet With Farmers Institute at
Prosperity July Especial
Talk to Them

The farmers institute will be held
at Prosperity on July "a. At the
suggestion of Mr. w L. English, State
agent, and under whose direction
these Institutes are held, the county
SUPERINTENDENT of education has decid-
ed to ask all the members of the boys
corn club to meet at Prosperity at the
same time. 1t is hoped that every
boy in the club will arrange to be
present. Mr. English states that with
each institute party, there will be at
least one person prepared to talk to
the boys on matters relating to their
work
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28
Br0Wn.MOOre.
any time

One of the most interesting of the
social events of the latter days OF
June took place at the elegent coun-
try home of Dr.. and Mrs. w. C. Brown,
in No. 2 township, on Wednesday af-
ternoon when their lovely daughter,
Miss Novice, became the bride of DR..
E. H. Moore
The ancestral mansion was beautiful
I ly decorated, and the marriage vows
were plighted beneath a large white
wedding bell in the spacious hall. The
bridesmaids, Misses Kate Thompson
and Mary Brown, and groomsmen, Mr..
Chalmers Brown and DR.. T. NJ. Mills,
came in two by two, crossed, and stood
on either side of the bell. The bride
came in with her maid Of honor, Miss
Florence Moore, of Rock Hill, and the
groom with his best man, DR.. Sam
Moore, of Spartanburg, the bride
and groom taking position beneath the
wedding bell.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. ]. w. Carson, pastor of the
A. R. P. church of Newberry. After
the ceremony, the bride and groom re-
ceived congratulations in the spacious
parlors. Light refreshments, consist
ing of Neapolitan cream, two kinds OF
cake and punch were served in the Ii
brary. Souvenirs of the occasion were
beautiful wedding bells.
The bride received a number Of
beautiful gifts, among them was a
valuable chest of sterling silver and a
substantial check from her parents.
The brides gown was white MESA
line satin and q. veil of tulle and she
carried handsome bouquet of brides
roses and ferns, and the maids carried
bouquets of carnations and ferns.
After the ceremony the bridal party
drove to Newberry in automobiles and
left on the 6.44 train for Spartanburg,
where they will visit their parents for
a few days, and then take a trip to
Washington, New York and Niagara
and other points. The bride wore a
beautiful travelling suit Of champagne
cloth.
DR.. Moore practiced medicine very
successfully in the Deadfall section OF
this county for several years, but de-
cided this year to return to his home
near Glenn Springs in Spartanburg
county.
Miss Novice Brown is a graduate of
Erskine college, and young woman
of many womanly charms and graces.
She taught the Deadfall school the
past year and gave great satisfaction
to patrons and pupils.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-06-28

weeks in Florida, returned on Tues
day to their home in the city, Mr.. Hav-
ird improved in health. They visited
Mr.. Havird's brother, Mr.. J. P. Havird,
at Mcintosh, Mrs. Havird's sister, Mrs.
w. R. DOMAIN, at Houston, and her
mother, Mrs. J. |. Wilmington, at Flem-
ington. They were accompanied home
by Mrs Havird's little niece, Miss An
ME May Dorman.