Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-02-17
Scraps and fats.
. Actual enrolled membership Of


the Washington office of the Federal
Council Of Churches of Christ in Amer
lea. The Methodist church led in the
increased membership with 100000
The other churches in their order fol-
low: Baptist $4,000, Presbyterian, 55,
900; Lutheran, &c. 100; Disciples, "a
500, and Episcopal 16,500. The actual
membership Of the largest churches in
the United States are given as follows:
Roman Catholic, 13,099,534, Methodist
7,125,Oe9; Baptist 5,924,622; Lutheran
2,33S,722; Presbyterian 2,027,59S; Dis
ciples Of Christ, 1,519,369, Protestant
Episcopal, 997 ,407, and Congregational
74S,S40. These eight churches contain
church membership in the United
States.
Augustus Octavius Bacon, United
States senator from Georgia for nearly
10 years, and chairman Of the foreign
relations committee, since the ascen-
dancy Of the Democratic party March
4, 1918, died last Saturday, in Wash
ington hospital after an illness OF ter
days. He was the first United States
senator elected by direct vote OF the
people under the 18th constitutional
amendment. Though Senator Bacon
had been seriously i'll with kidney trou-
BILE and complications developing from
a broken rib, his death was unexpect-
ed. 1t came suddenly at two O'CLOCK
in the afternoon and news OF the END
fell upon the senate as shock while
it was in executive session. The i'm
mediate cause Of the senator's death
was diagnosed as blood clot in the
heart. Throughout the morning he had
been in good spirits, and 1t was an
nounced to his colleagues that he was
feeling better than for several days
Physicians had determined that an op-
Grafton which had been contemplated
was unnecessary Despite his 75 years
II appeared that the affliction which he
suffered was Of recent origin. and spe-
cialists believed II would yield to treat
ment. This conclusion relieved consid-
erably the anxiety Of his friends and
associates in congress. Half an hour
before his death the senator talked
with his daughter, Mrs. w. B. Sparks
Of Georgia. She had Just left the room
when he raised himself in bed. AS Mrs.
Sparks re-entered the room her father
fell back in collapse and never regain
ed consciousness.
Cotton consumed in the United
States during January amounted to
54O,874 running bales, including a.
954 hales of foreign cotton and %, ,735
bales OF linters, compared with $685.
743 bales in January last year, the
census bureau announced Saturday.
Cotton in manufacturing establish
ments January 81 was 1851, ,496 bales,
including 50,594 bales of foreign cot
ton and S7,0S1 bales Of linters COM
pared with 1,912,993 bales on January
81 last year, and in independent ware
houses 2.900,149 bales, including 1852
bales of foreign cotton and 49,519
bales of linters, compared with 2,657,-
04S bales last year. Imports were 49,
ga equivalent to 500-pound bales,
compared with 52,022 bales in Janu-
ary last year. Exports were 1882
1913 running bales. compared with
900.931 in 1913. Cotton spindles act
i've during January numbered 31,112,-
723 compared with 30,359,S43 in jan
uary last year. Cotton consumed in
cotton-growing states amounted TO
277,994 bales, compared with 271,504
bales last year; in all other states 262,-
$50 bales, compared with 262,239
bales last year. Cotton on hand jan
uary 81 in manufacturing establish
ments was distributed as follows: In
cotton growing states 920,40S bales,
compared with 917,712 bales last year;
in all other states 922,0SS bales, COM
pared with 995,2S1 bales last year.
That in independent warehouses was
distributed: In cotton growing states
2,724,023 bales, compared with g.
450,397 bales last year; in all other
states 176,126 bales, compared with
Grated during January were distribu-
$50. compared with 11,740,465 last
year; in all other states, 1854, $40
compared with 1S,619,37S last year.
Washington, February IA: A saw
ing of $75,000,000 a year to the cot
ton growers Of the south. it is esti-
mated by Senator Smith of South Car
olina, would result If the amendment
he proposes to offer to the agricultu-
raj appropriation bill is adopted. He
would appropriate about $1,000,000 to
furnish each shipping point in the
south a set of government standard
grades Of cotton together with set of
samples showing the spinning value of
each grade, so that hereafter produc-
ers of cotton might not be deceived
by buyers and by values arbitrarily
fixed by cotton exchanges. Senator
Smith received today from the depart
ment OF agriculture the results of its
tests as to the different grades of cot
ton standardized by the government
to determine the amount of waste in
converting a given number Of bales
into yarn; to establish the actual
strength of the yarn from each grade;
to bleach the cotton and yarn from
each grade; and to determine the cost
end result of bleaching. Only the
full grades were tested. Taking
the whole findings" said Senator
Smith. ION an average the difference
between the high grades as now quot
ed in the market Is from $40 to SIS
a bale. Assuming the average crop
at 100000 bales, it Is conservative
to estimate one-half of the crop to be
below middling. Therefore, you would
have 100000 bales below the mid
ding grade, and calculating that the
farmers have lost, because or lack Of
this knowledge, an average of $40 a
bale, 1t would mean an annual loss to
the cotton farmers of $75,000,000.
Middling fair yarn, tested as to its
strength in the unbleached form,
broke at 69.5 pounds pressure, in its
bleached form at 66.7 pounds pres
sure; middling in the unbleached at
61.4, and in the bleached at 63.4; good
ordinary at 56.4 unbleached and at
60.9 bleached. In the matter of waste
there was 1872 per cent in middling
fair, S.49 in good middling, 1898 in
middling. 1888 in low middling and
16.47 in good ordinary.
The seven months fight between
Representative Oscar w. Underwood,
leader Of the national house Of repre-
sentatives and Congressman Richmond
Pearson Hobson for the Alabama va
cancy in the United States senate is
drawing to a close. The deciding votes
in a campaign that has attracted ma
tionwide interest will be cast at the
Democratic primaries to be held April
6. The actual election of a senator will
not take place until Nov. 4, but that
will merely be a ratification Of the
choice made at the primary polls. Mr..
Underwood, says a Montgomery dis
patch, has announced from Washing
ton that so far as personal participa-
tion was concerned, his campaign for
a seat in the upper house has already
ended. Mr. Hobson, on the other hand,
is carrying forward the personal cam
paign he has been waging for many
months, during which time he has
spoken in nearly every county and
town in the state The political adher-
ents of the two distinguished candi-
dates are daily making counterclaims
Of victory. Careful observers, however,
are inclined to await the casting Of the
ballots before attempting to name the
ca OF AL NtVnnW ~ e.