The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1915-09-29
COTTON STILL GOING UP.

COTTON STILL GOING UP.
The cotton market Is on the jump. 1t
is slow day on the locaB ma rket
when gain of from a sixteenth to an
eighth OF Il cent is not recorded. Last
prices yesterday were 12 10 cents for
middiing, with little offered for sale.
Some complaint has been heard about
the prices on the local market. but
similar complaints have been heard
from nearly every town in the vicinity,
including Spartanburg, Greenwood,
Anderson and others. The Advertiser
man has kept his weather eye" on the
market for the past week. however,
and he has found that taken on an av-
cragc. the Iaurcns market compares
we'll with others. On one day he has
found 4 market here and there ahead
and on another day he has found the
this one. AS an instance, the Green
wood market was quoted at If 1-16
last Wednesday. The Advertiser wired
for a special report and found that 10
bales had sold for that figure and that
others had sold for less The follow
ing day the price held to 1 cents
there and the Laurcns market was
right along with il. The Laurens mar
ket reached the quarter on Friday and
the Greenwood market stood still but
hit the half cent mark with the T4au-
rcns market on Saturday. On last Fri
day The Advertiser was advised that
Fountain Inn was paying # cents and
The Advertiser man himself was at
Owin%s about o'clock where the mar
kct was up to an eighth. Nt the. same
time the LaurcnS buyers were paying
a QualtCr. The Columbia Boosters"
quoted the l.Iurcns market Thursday
at 1925. hut their information was in
correct, as such information often is,
but this city got the credit for being a
high market that day. And 50 it goes
One day q Wild report Of higM prices
are heard in one place and again the
report comes from another place. Mr.
W, =. Sloan, OF Owings & OwingS
states that they could very we'll pay q
dollar a pound on some accounts that
they have and then not lose money and
probably this Is The way some markets
arc boosted, but The Advertiser ad-
ViscS that an organization be formed to
get exact reports every day from sur
rounding towns and the market re-
ports from New York. This would
,I,. ~
better understanding.
WHO THREW THE LEMON?
And nov The Advertiser has an un-
pleasant duty to perform. We under
stand that the Columbia Boosters
were not pleased with the reception
given them in l.anrcns In fact, The
Ncwberry Observer says that "They
say" that I.aurcns handed them a
lemon. 1t all came about. if we I'M
dcrstand correctly, largely through
the failure of the CouElbians to get
dinner here. 1t is said that they were
rather scantily fed and doubtless they
were, but let us see why
We might say in the beginning that
we discovered Thursday, when the
Boosters began to look around for
dinner, that something had gone
wrong. We heard mumblings from in
dividnals and knew that Laurens was
being criticized. We heard more OF it
later, but had determined to let the
matter go unexplained. as is often the
best policy, until letter came here
from the Columbia Chamber OF Com
merce which was handed to us with
the reply attached Considering the
circumstances, the letter was not in
exact good taste, SO it is not published,
nor is the reply. Printing Of neither
Of them will do any good, but we wish
to correct the impression that Iaurens
was Intentionally discourtcous to the
ColumbianS.
In the first place, regardless of the
motive Of the booster trip, it was Co
lumbia affair and not Laurens af-
fair. The Columbia secretary wired