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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
DR.. Benton Coming

There will be a big United War
Work meeting at the town hall, Nor
risville at eight o'clock on Thursday
evening of this week, which will be
addressed by Dr.Guy Potter Benton,
President of the U. V. M.
At the urgent request Of the gov
eminent, Mr.. Benton went to France
year ago last September to organ
ize the Y. M. c. A work in Paris.
His work was Of such a high order
that Dr.. john t. Mott recently
wrote the trustees of the u. V. NJ,
telling them that D.. Benton easily
ranked among the first dozen of the
many thousands Of Y. M. C. A.
workers in France and urged that
the trustees again give him a leave
of absence to return for further
work in France. This request has
been granted and DR.. Benton will
leave December LIST for further
service overseas.
He is most eloquent and con-
vincing speaker, who is sure to bring
to our people a most intensity inter-
esting message at this time.
We urge large attendance at
this meeting. which is held with the
approval of the local board of health.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
Elmore Church Notes

Next sunday VIII be 'Old Home Day" at
Gilmore and the service will be held in the
town hall, with very interesting pro-
gram. As this is the last service Of this
conference year, hearty invitation is ex-
sended to all of the people to be present.
Next Tuesday evening a box party and
entertainment will be held in the town
hall under the auspices OF the ladies of
the church. The Young Peoples Orches-
ira of Morrisvule win furnish music and
L. b. Ellis will assist 10 entertaining. In
connection with the party two addresses
will be given on the "United War Work
Campaign" one by Superintendent {. ID.
Howe and the other by Rev. W.T.. Best.
At this meeting, plans will be msde for
csnysssing the entire town in behalf Of
the great War Drive.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
sbssrisviIIe Methodist Cburc, w..

a he church will be opened NEXT Srr,5.-
with all services at regular bonrs ny
subject for the morning meeting min ne ne
Freedom for ALI Forever" AT g,srta ~ y y.
~ elye the new service flag, d5nsteJ' u u
the church by Homo. A. Morse. Vim ~ ~
r r. 10 'front.' OF the church as a memo
fiti 70 our BOYS who are serving ~.
country. This flag will have for5- tl t,
stars with large fie ID OF blue s,aTs sVlu
q TeE Roll Of Honor will be hupg ESQ ESQ
u pulpit containing the names ~ at ~ tle {
boys represented by Tie stars on ~ an ne
II is 5oped there viii lie ? large atfendalr,ese
at this important service. &c
Junior Leagu= meet "a will a. l.-l7u.-
day With Gladys Sherman as 4,5pf d u
The Centenary ConfeEepca M,
No Ldiy tIC IJttCi1 ttSt. Iii, neld
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
Death Of Pvt. GoodelI

Pvt Elihu Goodell, son of Mrs. Charles
u Ellsworth, died Monday in a hospital
at otisville, N. Y, from tuberculosis. He
ie'urneu rom France June IL, where he
YVES taken ILL and has been at the hos
pltai since The remains are expected to
arrive tonight or tomorrow.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
Ray Smalley Promoted

Ray L. Smalley, son of Mrs. Minnie
Smaliey' who went to Burlington about
ten days ago to enter the Student Army
framing Corps at U. " NJ. e, has received
promotion to Sergeant and left Bur.
hngton last Thursday for Camp Zachary
Taylor in Kentucky.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
Record Library Circulation

In spite of the fact that school has not
been IN session and that the quarantine
has kept many OF the younger children
away, the circulation of the Morristown
Centennial Library was the largest dur.
ing the month of October of any CORES.
ponding north in its history. There
were loaned 1o47 books aud 1877 maya.
zines.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
Red Cross Annual MEETING

u Next tuesday evening, Nov. II. at the
Ked cross rooms will occur the annual
meeting with election Of officers and i'm
y Ia Lssu s business Owingto the quarantine
has been accomplished. AZ iet Everyone
keep Tuesday evening omen FOR this i'm
portant meeting, that definite plans for our
work may be made at this time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
Joseph Chaplin Dead

Joseph Chaplin, an old aud sespscted
resident OF West Hill, died yesterday
noon, after illness Of several months.
The funeral will be held Thursday at one
O'Clock at the house. Rev. j. j. Bennett
officiating.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
Boy Scout Notes

The Boy Scouts canvassed the town
Saturday and Monday for peach stones
and all other shells and pits, from which
gas can be made, by the government. The
next scout meeting will be held next
Tuesday evening at the Cong'l church.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
MorisviIle Universalist Church Note.

Rally Day will be observed in all den.rt-
ments of the church next SUNDAY Morn.
ing worship at 10:45; subject Of sermon,
"A Large Job" Sunday school at -:
Pleasant Sunday evening at 7 o'clock at
the PASTORS house.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-11-06
Engagement Announced

Mrs. Anna Harris announces the en-
gagemet OF her daughter, Miss Brenda
Harris to Smith Wright Losgins of Los
Angeles, California.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
THE HIGHER COST OF COAL
CHARGED TO PRICE FIXING
Shortage Attributed to Telling Peo-
pie Not to Buy in the Spring,
Says One of Witnesses.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Clifford
Thorne, of Chicago, who told the SEN
ate investigating committee today he
made study of the coal situation in
the last six months, declared govern
ment price fixing had advanced
prices, that operators were making
excessive profits and that the public
did not have sufficient service in gov
ernmental investigation to gain data
for price regulation.
He testified that the National I'm
ion company at Ward, Ia, was sell
ing one hundred tons of coal daily to
the government at Camp Dodge at a
price so per cent greater than it
was charging for $50 tons of the
same kind of coal delivered daily to
the Burlington railroad.
Coal conditions in the Northwest
ern states were outlined to the senate
investigating committee today by
Stanley B. Houck, of Minneapolis,
representing dealers in seven states.
The shortage there was due, he said,
to price fixing by the fuel admins
tration and admonitions to house
holders last spring not to buy until
fall on a prediction of lower costs
after government prices were fixed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
FUND BEING RAISED TO
SEND NEGROES BACK SOUTH
Thousands of Them in Ohio Are Pow
erty-Stricken, and Many Are I'm
der Smallpox Quarantine.

CINCINNATI, Ohio.-Oficial an
nouncement was made here today by
Joseph L. Jones, local manufactur-
er that thrift stamps sales for indi-
gent negroes, now in progress
throughout the state of Ohio, bid
fair, according to present reports, to
make certain the raising of the bal
ance of fund of half million dol
lars needed to insure the retranspor-
tation of thousands of sick and pow
erty-stricken negroes from Georgia
and Tennessee back to their homes.
Jones said that the total amount
would soon be in the hands of the
executive committee for negro immi-
grants who had failed to secure the
employment promised by Northern
fake employment agencies, Jones will
go to Columbus, o., Monday for a
general conference of the heads of
the negro relief movement.
Large numbers of negroes are un-
der city smallpox quarantine here
now and will be deported South, as
we'll as thousands of poverty-stricken
negroes as soon as the smallpox and
tuberculosis epidemic is under con-
troll here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
CORN YIELD OF The SOUTH
Is INCREASING RAPIDLY
In Georgia Has Grown From an Av-
erage of Less Than 10 Bushels in
1900 to 10 Bushels This Year.

erage of Less Than 10 Bushels in
1900 to 16 Bushels This Year.
How fast the South is moving in
the matter of corn production is in
Dictated by comparing our average
acre yields any ordinary year now
with yields fifteen or twenty years
ago. In 1900, for example, the aver
age yield in Georgia and South Car
Dina and Florida was less than 10
bushels per acre. This year Georgia
reports a 16-bushel average, Florida
Is and South Carolina 10 bushels.
In 1900 North Carolina and Alaba-
ma averaged 10 bushels per acre
this year Alabama reports 16 bush
els per acre and North Carolina 20.
Neither Tennessee, Virginia, Arkan-
sas nor Mississippi averaged 20 bush
els in 1900, but this year Tennessee
averaged % bushels, Virginia 20,
Arkansas "a and Mississippi 20. The
American average this year is 26.4
bushels per acre. A little more push
ing and the South will be recognized
as really in the "Corn Belt"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15

Senator Newlands, of Nevada,
man who had so much money that he
never knew what it was to be either
cold or hungry in all the years of
his life, dropped dead here a few days
ago. He had just had a good dinner,
lighted a fragrant cigar and settled
down to ruminate over what the peo-
pie were fussing about Che was
chairman of a railroad investigating
committee) when the cigar dropped
from his hand and it was a Job for
the coroner.
Now he is to be succeeded by SEN
ator Smith, of South Carolina, and
while the latter is himself a rich
man, he was not always so. He was
raised a poor boy and he knows what
it is to be hungry and be cold. Sen
ator Smith, as chairman of the COM
mittee on interstate commerce, will
investigate every form of trading be-
tween one state and another; he will
investigate railroad and express
rates; telegraph rates, and every
thing that goes across a state line
He will find out what there is in the
stuff that has been given the people
of a shortage of railroad cars; of
stagnation of coal production at the
mines; of a shortage of labor be-
cause the war and military canton
ment construction have taken them
away; in short, this South Carolina
man is as we'll qualified to feel the
human hand of his brother and to
know what is right and what is not
right, from a purely human stand
point as any other man in either
branch of congress. The people,
therefore, everywhere, regardless of
their politics should give Senator
Smith and his committee, their solid
support and leave the balance to him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
The CITY COUNCIL HAS
RAISED MANY BUSINESS TAXES
More Than Doubled in Many In.
stances. Ordinance Printed III
This Issue of The News.


This Issue of The News.
The license tax ordinance for 1918
was adopted at call meeting of the
city council Friday night, and the
tax burden on many business firms
increased, in some instances more
than doubled.
The principal increases are: Auto
mobile dealers or agent from $26 to
500, bill posters from S11 to $50,
bottling works from S25 to $50,
building and loan associations from
$50 to $50, commission merchants
from $15 to $50, cotton weighers
from $25 to $50, cigarette dealers
from $40 to $25, junk shop or dealer
from SIG to $3.50, horse or mule deal
ers from $26 to $35, photographers
from 81 to $26, telephone company
from SAL to $50, plumber from SIG
to $40, telegraph company from 500
to $50, variety works from $21 to
$40, dealers in vehicles, including au-
tomobiles, from $26 to 500, ware
houses from $21 to $40. No change
was made in the tax on merchants.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
FOR LEAVE TO SELL.

State of Georgia, Terrell County.
Notice is hereby given that the un-
dersigned has applied to the ordinary
Of said county for leave to sell the
land belonging to the estate of ]. P.
Grimes, for the purpose of distribu-
ton among the heirs and for the pay
ment of the debts of the estate. Said
application will be heard at the reg
ular February term, 1918, of the
court of ordinary in and for said
county of Terrell. This Jan. 7, 1918.
MRS. FLORENCE GRIMES,
Administrators of j. P Grimes, de-
ceased
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
FOR GUARDIANSHIP

Georgia, Terrell County.-To all
whom it may concern: j. F. VIM
having applied for guardianship of
the person and property of j. L.
VIM, non campos mentis, now an in
mate of the Georgia State Sanitari-
um, resident of said county, notice
is given that said application will be
heard at my Office at 10 O'clock a. m.
on the first Monday in February next.
L. G. HOYL, Ordinary and exon
clio Clerk of Ordinary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
Ordinary'S Citations.
FOR LEAVE TO SELL

Georgia, Terrell County.-Notiee
is hereby given that the undersigned
has applied to the ordinary of said
county for leave to sell the land be-
longing to the estate of G. T. Mar
shall, for the purpose of distribution
among the heirs and for the payment
of debts of the estate. Said applica-
ton will be heard at the regular Feb
ruary term, 1918, of the court of
ordinary in and for said county of
Terrell. This Jan. 7, 1918.
MRS. M, L. MARSHALL,
Administrator of G.. T. Marshall,
deceased.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
Whenever You Need General Tonic
Take Groves,

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUINTNE
and IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enrictcs the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 90 ce1ts
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
NEGRO GIRL IN JAIL.

Annie Bell Mercer, a young ne
gress, was put in Jail Friday on the
charge of stealing clothes belonging
to the lady of the house where she
was employed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-15
DAWSON STRUCK
BY A SEVERE GALE
CUPELO SWEPT FROM THE TOP
OF STEWART BUILDING; AVN
INGS AND FENCES DOWN.

A gale struck Dawson early Fri
day night and did considerable dam
age, though no serious loss was sus-
tanned.
The brick cupelo on the southwest
corner of the Stewart building, oc-
cupied by the Weaver Drug Co., was
blown off. The crash, as part of it
fell on the sidewalk below and the
remainder on the roof, startled the
occupants of the building. Fortu-
nately, no one was injured. Some
awnings and few trees were blown
down, fences damaged and loose
things scattered promiscuously.
Pedestrians went scurrying home,
and so strong was the wind they had
all they could do to keep going.
There was no wire communication
with the outside world all day Satur-
day, the telegraph wires being down
and long distance telephone wires al
so being out of commission.
Damage Elsewhere.
At Camp Wheeler, at Macon,
where 10000 men are encamped,
many tents were blown down, follow
ed by deluge of rain. The collapse
of a corral caused the death of a
private named Harris from Atlanta.
At Central City Park, the state
fair grounds, two huge grandstands
were demolished. A brick building
in which the animals of Sun Brothers
circus were being quartered for the
winter was wrecked and the animals
imprisoned in the debris. Several ami
mails were killed A kangaroo broke
away, and is still at large.
AS the storm broke a railroad train
on the Macon, Dublin & Savannah
road was passing Camp Wheeler. The
train of IA freight cars was hurled
from the track.
Six children are reported killed
and number injured when a school
house near Dothan, Ala, was blown
down. At Webb, Ala, a number
were injured and practically every
house was blown away. At Cowart,
Ala, in the same section, seven per-
sons lost their lives and many were
injured. In Texas four persons were
killed.
Eight Inches of Snow.
Record low temperatures and the
heaviest snowfall in years marked
the disturbance west of the Missis-
sippi river, where the blizzard was
at it's height. At Mission, Texas, in
the Rio Grande Valley, snow fell for
the first time in forty years, and in
north Texas the snowfall recorded
six inches with temperatures ranging
from 8 degrees below zero to a few
degrees above in the eastern part of
the state.
Oklahoma City reported the heavi-
est fall of snow in fifteen years and
the lowest temperature in eight
years.
Eight inches of snow fell at Little
Rock, Ark, and at Memphis, Tenn,
the blizzard reached such proportions
as to cause street car service to be
suspended on a number of lines, dis
missal of schools and brought street
traffic virtually to standstill.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Saratoga Getting
Ready for Democrats
Especial Correspondence Of Tho Tribume)

Especial Correspondence Of Tho Tribmne)
CARATOGA SPRINGS, July 90
y Now that the Republican con-
ference has become matter OF
history, the city is making ready to
entertain the Democratic delegates on
their arrival next week. Headquarters
will be at the Grand Union Hotel,
which is being placed in gala attire IN
The event Of the week was the
reception given by Mrs. Brackett'
wife of former Senator Edgar Truman
Bracket, in honor of Miss Elizabeth
Barrows Fletcher, of Indianapolis,
whose engagement to Charles William
Bracket, son Of Senator and Mrs.
Bracket, recently was announced.
Miss Fletcher will return to Indian
apolis next week, where she is actively
engaged in Red Gross work, being
state representative for the organiza-
tion.
Colonel and Mrs George Perkins
Lawton, of New York and Saratoga,
entertained at dinner last evening at
their summer home, Lawton Villa.
Their guests were Mrs. George W.
Wilde, Mrs. Olive S. Gabriel and Mrs.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

week at White Pine Camp, Osgood
Lake, which Mr.. Mackay has taken
for the remainder of July and August.
This is the third consecutive season
which Mr.. Mackay and his daughters
have spent in this district.
Mrs. Otto H. Kahn and her daughter
Miss Margaret Kahn, are expected to
arrive in few days at Sycamore
Lodge. Racquette Lake, where they will
be joined by Mr.. Kahn upon his return
from Spain. Captain and Mrs. Isaac
Emerson, of Baltimore, have been stay
ing at Sycamore Lodge, which is the
property of their daughter, Mrs. Ray
mond 7. Baker, formerly Mrs. Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt.
At Saranac Lake, the Headquarters
OF Red Cross work in this district, the
Saranac Lake Chapter of the Red C-os
has completed its year with the making
and dispatching of nearly 100000 kits,
garm cnts, bandages, cloths, towels, etc.
William Lane, of New York has M
pie ed new camp on Birch Island,
adjoining the camp of his father, E. V.
Il. Lane. Mr.. and Mrs. William Lane
and the members Of their family are
expected to reach camp in the next
few days.
Mr. and Mrs John G. Agar, of New
York, have determined not to open their
camp on the Upper Saranac Lake this
season. They have two sons in the
army and one of them is a prisoner
in the hands of the Germans.
DR.. and Mrs. L. Emmett Holt, of New
York. are expected soon at their camp
on the Upper Saranac Lake.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Red Cross Concerts
At Elizabethtown

Especial Correspondence Of The Tribune)
II NLIzABETHTOWN, N. Y, July 20.
T. For the benefit of the Red
Cross it is probable that con-
cert will be held in August in the par
lors of either the Windsor Hotel or
Deer's Head Inn. Miss Vida Milhol-
land. popular suffrage worker, who is
now with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Z. Milholland at Meadowmount,
the Mllholland estate of one thousand
acres, will probably assist in the pro-
gramme. An effort will also be made
to have Miss Guiomar Novaes, a noted
Brazilian pianiste, now the guest of MIR.
and Mrs. Henry Frgon at Villa Mon
Repos, assist. together with Fanny
Levine, Of New York, who is now at
Deer's Head Inn.
DR.. Isaiah Funk and Mrs. Funk are
among those from New York recently
arrived at the Windsor Hotel. Others
there from New York include Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Bamberger, Mr.. and Mrs. L. A.
Livingston, Mrs. Herbert Appleton, H.
G. Weaver and family and Mr.. and Mrs.
Gustav Lindenmeyr.
Among those from New York arrived
at Deers Head Inn are Mr.. and Mrs.
J. S. Russell, Mr.. and Mrs. James Glen,
Miss A. E. Dale, Mr.. and Mrs. A. r.
Hanson and Mr.. and Mrs. H. V. Brit
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Cottages Filling
At Southampton
Especial Correspondence of The Tribxne)

Especial Correspondence Of The TribNne)
COUTHAMPTON, N. Y, July 2o.-All
~ but one or two Of the cottages
have been rented, and the past
week has seen much social activity.
Mrs. Charles T. Barney gave a small
dinner at the Meadow Club on Friday
night, and Mr.. and Mrs. George Barton
French and Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick A.
Snow also entertained at their cottages.
Mrs. Thomas H. Barber gave dinner
for her son, Captain Thomas H. Barber,
who will soon start for France. Mrs.
Barber's daughter, Mrs. Roger F..
Hooper, is spending a few weeks with
her at Claverack House. Colonel and
Mrs. Robert M. Thompson are enter
tanning Clarence Ousley, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture
Among the newcomers this week were
Mrs. Harry Sage and two children,
Schermerhorn's house. Major Sage is
abroad in the interests of the Red
Cross work. Mrs. T. Fl. rockingham
has taken the Hoyt cottage and will ar
rive on Monday. Mrs. Percy II. Stewart
has leased from Captain II. A. Borrowes
his cottage on Shinnecock Hills and will
arrive this coming week.
DR.. Albert II. Ely has commenced The
building of his handsome new summer
home on the Shinnecock Hills and is
spending the summer at the Art Viii
lage. where he has taken a cottage. Mr.
and Mrs. Henry R. Rea are at their cot
tage on the Dunes for few weeks.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Golf and Tennis
At Point Judith

'Specs1I Correspondence Of The Tribune,
~ 7 ARRAGANSETT PIER, r. T.. july
20.-Goliing and tennis on the
fields of the Point Judith Coun-
try Club have been the principal diver
sions of the past week at Narragansett
Pier.
Aside from the daily round of sum
mer sports the members of the villa
colony have found time to devote to
the work of the Red Cross and other
patriotic organizations, which receive
their full share of attention here
David S. Baker and family, of New
York, have arrived at their cottage.
Phoenlx Lodge, Kentara Green. where
they Will spend the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis H. Dewey of
" orcester, Mass, have arrived at
SStonecroft, their cottage on Ocean
Road
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Jones, of New
YORK, are occupying villa at Kentara
Green for the summer.
Mrs Isaac II. Clothier, jr., of Phila-
oelphia, who has been here for several
seasons, IS spending the summer at
flHisterre cottage, on Ocean Road.
MIS- Alexander Brown, of Phiiadel
phla, is at cottage By-the-Sea.
A hostess house has been opened at
Saunderstown. r. l., which is on the
road from Narraganse.t to Newport.
and is in charge of Miss Cornelia Della
field as hostess.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Beverly Show Has
Fine Entry List

Especial Correspondence to The Ty,bune)
ID EVERLY, July 20,-One of the
I'D most successful events of the
season was the horse show given
this afternoon at the Round Plain
farm Of Mrs. John Caswell at Pride's
Crossing. 1t was for the benefit of the
Red Cross and there was fine list for
the eight classes, with especially fine
competition in the hunting The
show was managed by Miss Eleonora
X. Sears and Miss Alice Thorndike.
There were number Of musical
affairs during the week, including a
recital on Friday afternoon at the home
Of Mrs. Godfrey l.. Cabot, also for the
oenefit of the Red Cross, and read
ing on Tuesday at the residence of
Mrs. NJ. Graeme Haughton, at Prides
crossing by Mile Gerrnaine Cossini.
Mrs. W. Harry Brown, of Pittsburgh,
IS Is at her summer home, Sunset Hill at
,ne VI, Cove, for the season. Her daughter,
Mrs. Charles A. Painter, and
children are with her for the season.
\, Mr. and Mrs. Parker D. Handy, of
New York, are at the Oceanside, Mag
holla. Other arrivals from New York
are A. II. WINS and Miss Edith Ivins,
Mr and Mrs. w. B. Farris, Mrs. A
mltchell Hall, Mrs. John e. Howe and
ar. and Mrs E. A. Wickes.
\, Mr and Mrs. Frederick c. Halett, OF
New York City, are at their cottage
at Marblehead Neck for the season.
The Rev. William G. Thayer and
family, of Southboro, are at their es-
satc at Holiday Hill. at Ipswich, for the
summer. The Rev. Roland Cotton