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Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-14

Gated up to the point where they
could consume the average crop. If
they ate 10000 tons of -raisins year
they were doing well. And the crop
was beginning to edge over 10000
tons d year.
Technical Conditions.
Raisins grow like regular grapes,
on vines. Then they are dried in
the sun and get rather dirty, so they
have to be sterilized and processed,
and then some of them are seeded and
others are packed in clusters. Others
are raised as seedless raisins, and
they of course are picked and packed
| likewise.
But there was another factor that
must intervene before raisins could
go from the vineyard to the whole
saler or broker who bought them.
There were ten buyers in California
in 1900 and during the period after
that, who handled raisins. There
were five big ones. always called the
High Five" and five little ones
called the Low Five" If you didn't
sell your raisins to the High Five
or the Low Five or one of their rep
resentatives you could use the raisins
on the farm and feed them to
the hogs. The ten buyers were the
only possible outlets for the raisins of
nf California OF
were more or less intimate, there
were so few people involved. They lived
primarily between Fresno and San
Francisco. They were familiar with
the bankers and commercial elements
and in touch with one another.
1t is much easier to get even a
legal sympathy between ten men
than it is between forty or fifty or,
going beyond that. into the thou
sands. And that proved, as 1 will
later indicate to you when / tell you
of the old buyer system of California.
So the growers kept on producing
raisins because they had the vines
and the ground, and the vines simply
would produce, and they had to pro-
money out of their investment and
their labors.
About the year 1900 the growers
weren't simply making enough money
out of raisins even to pay the cost
of production. So, under the leader
ship Of man named Kearney they
started to come together. They didn't
have much vision, they didn't quite
know how to do it. They didn't know
the exact system. They knew that
somewhere in Europe the growers
had gotten together. They knew that
in the southern part of the State the
growers were trying TO get together
but had not yet struck the right sys-
tenn. They started little packing
houses, trying to organize the indus
try on a localized basis. That blew
up. They formed some arrangement
with the High Five, and that blew
up. Then they arranged to deliver
the stuff for packing to the High Five
and sell some of it on commission
or basis. That blew up.
FOrecIosing OH Mortgages.
So, for series of years they ex-
perimented trying to find some way
out. No matter what experiment
they used, each year found the grow
ers going behind. From 1900 to 1911
the crop every year left the whole
group of growers practically poorer
than they started. Some individual
growers might have made money in
one of these years but as class they
had a, loss. If you want the best
on the situation, gauRut
and look mp the records of ! e
a M ,rn,,r,f the foreclosures OF ~ -
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-14
begin.
THE STORY OF RAISINS.

MR.. SAPIRO-I am going to take
the liberty of telling you first the com
pIete story of how one of these prod
ucts was organized. I am going to
take raisins, because raisins are quite
similar to tobacco in some particu-
lars. Then will generalize from that
and tell you how big the whole move
ment is in California. Then 1 will
take the principles and show you what
is practically universal in all these
associations. Then I will make an
application of those principles to your
= tobacco situation and see If between
us we can arrive at some possible
solution for your tobacco difficulties
Remember, in all of this 1 am not
so much concerned with any one par
ticular crisis as I am with the entire
system of marketing. 1t just so hap
pens that the tobacco industry has
passed a crisis in this year. 1t is re-
markable that it has not been facing
that kind of crisis almost every year.
This particular crisis simply dra-
matizes the need for a better system.
So when 1 talk to you L am not
giving you a temporary or a stop-gap
10 meet this 192o-21 crisis. 1 am
going to talk about things that will
work a change in your fundamentals
Of marketing, something that means
\ complete substitution of a new sys-
tenn of marketing for what we think is
a very haphazard and somewhat spec
ulative Ito put it mildly marketing
system.
AS to the history of the raisin in
dustry of California 1 will try to show
YOU the problems they have and just
how they solve them, and 1 am going
tn point out to you certain errors they
made and how they are getting
around these errors.
The Growers Problem.
First. all the raisins in the United
States are produced in one district
That district is in California. 1t al
most corresponds to your Burnley
problem. The San Joaquin Valley is
conferred in the town known as Fresno.
Along in the eighties and nineties they
discovered they could grow very good
RAISING in that district. The only
other raisins we Americans come in
contact with are some from Spain and
Greece. and then, Of course, some
small currants? But the California
raIsins were supposed to be as good
If not better than any other raisins
In the world as they develop them
there in that Fresno district
For a while, when that district
started. the growers made very dis
tinct fortunes They took these dry
lands around Fresno, put little water
ON them, and made a tremendous in
crease in the value of the land and
real profits on the crops. In fact
they made so much that the lano
became fairly well advertised and by
1900 there were literally thousands
of people in that whole Fresno district
growing raisins. You could go hours
ana hours and hours driving through
tremendous vineyards in which East
orners had put large fortunes, At
tracred by the climate Of California
and by the ease Of growing raisins
and the distinct profits in the raisin
industry. late in the nineties SO many
of those fellows had come to Cali
Afornia and had planted these vine
arie thai there way very obvious
J, J.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-14
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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-10-13
Public Welfare Notes.

Recently representative of the
State Board of Public Welfare found
eighteen men sleeping or attempting
tc sleep in a County chaingang "cage"
intended for the use of only eight
prisoners, and measuring not more
than seven by fourteen feet. Over
crowding has occurred at many other
camps in the State as result of the
marked increase in the number of
commitments.
A member of the Legislature re-
Gently reported to the Child Placing
Department of the State Board of
Public Welfare the most pitiful case
of white woman and her six chill
dren, who had been deserted by the
husband and were actually starving
to death. The only food they had
received for months was blackberries
and green corn ard what had been
given them by some kind hearted
negroes. The neighbors removed the
mother and her family to nearby
farm house and gave them every pos
sible attention. All of them were suf-
fering from the lack of nourishment
to such an extent that two days latter
the mother died, and two of the chill
dren are yet so i'll that they are being
cared for at the Columbia Hospital.
AS soon as these have recovered their
strength they will be placed in good
homes by the Child Placing Depart
ment.
About nine years ago there was
committed to the State Reformatory
for Negro Boys a low grade idiot,
twelve years of age, who YVES charged
with theft from a dwelling house in
open daylight. George had no fami-
ly; or that is, any sufficiently inter-
ested in him to let themselves be
heard of. George came to Columbia
through the usual channels and landed
in the hospital ward of the Reform
atory. There he has been, under con-
tinual supervision and care, for the
past nine years. He can not talk; he
grunts. There is no work that he can
do to even partly earn his living. On
November 18th George will be twen-
ty-one years old and must leave the
Reformatory. The State has an in
stitution where white persons so un-
fortunately afflicted may be cared for,
but it has no similar place for the
care of negroes. l. it the business
of the State to care for them?
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Give Credit and You'll Earn 1t.

Don't hesitate to express your ap-
probation of the other fellows merit.
1t will please him, and will raise you
in the estimation of others.
Try it. If you have men working
under you, speak up ard give them
credit. Don't wait till they make mis-
takes and jump on them. 1t makes
bad blood and causes little good.
Try it for just one week. Stop
finding fault. Be on the lookout for
merit in your men. The chances are
you will find something to praise.
And just keep on giving credit for a
whole week to the men you have been
finding fault with hitherto.
You will have all the men on your
side. They will do better work and
more of it. Incidentally, you will be-
come popular, and eventually your
men will give you credit for handing
it to them, says Sugarmea's Indicator.
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THE STREET QUESTION.

Many of our citizens are asking:
"When are they going TO start paving
the streets The County Record
would also like to have this question
answered, but there seems to be no
one who can give US any definite in
formation on the subject. IN the
meantime we will continue to swallow
more than liberal share of the towns
dust and trudge the sand beds until
the good Lord sends rain. Mud
would be a relief just now.
But what about the cash deposit
made by the contracting firm whose
representatives hung around King
stree like Grant around Richmond un-
til they had "cinched" the job? 1t
was understood that the monetary de-
posit was made rs q guarantee of
good faith. We are now told that
there were strings to the guarantee
deposit" and that it has been with
drawn, in which case, if true, the
street paving proposition is just
about where it was six months ago
and every one will agree that it didn't
have a very concrete" appearance
at that time.
1t has been suggested, and we think
it good one, that the Town author
tiles, or those in charge OF the mat
ter, keep the public informed from
to time as to whether progress is be-
ing made in the right or wrong di-
rection on this particular piece of
work.
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Big Poultry Show at State Fair.

Columbia Oct. 1.-THE poultry
show to be held in connection with
the South Carolina State Fair, Octo-
Der "a to %, is expected to be one Of
the largest poultry exhibits in the
Southeast, according to B. E. Adams,
Charleston, president of the South
Carolina Poultry Breeders Associa-
tion. The special premium lists is
sued in the interest of the poultry
show are being mailed out to all parts
of the country, says Mr.. Adams, who
states that the inquiries received from
poultry breeders indicate that the
poultry building at the fair ground
will be overflowing when the curtain
rises on the 1921 show.
Arrangements are being made to
care for the fowls shown here this
year and according to officials Of the
show everything will be in readiness
for the opening Monday October "a.
Entries in the poultry department will
close Tuesday October 18, and all who
desire to exhibit poultry are required
to send their entry blanks to the poul-
try association not later than that
date. The blanks and copy of the
catalogue can be secured from B. E.
Adams, Of Charleston.
Judges of national reputation have
been secured to place the awards, &C
cording to the poultry association Of
ficials who are to have charge of the
poultry end of the fair. The annual
meeting of the South Carolina Poultry
Breeders Association will be held
during the week of the show. ]. W.
Rucker, of Columbia, and N. n.
Mehrhof, of Clemson College, have
been named assistant managers of the
show. ]. Wirron Wilson, Spartan
burg, and G. G. McLaurin, Dillon, are
vice-presidents of the poultry associa-
tion.
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Send Your Antiques.

The committee on antiques of the
Williamsburg fair would appreciate
ir very much if any one in the county
who has anything interesting in the
way of antiques would bring or send
it to them on or before November 1st,
1921. We will take the best possible
care of them and they may be sent
to the residence of the superintendent
before the fair, if that is more con-
venient.
Mrs. Belle G. Blakely, Supt-
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 6, 1921
RETURN BOOKS PROMPTLY

Complaint has come to The Record
from several ladies of the Civic and
Library association, concerning the
carelessness practiced by patrons OF
the library in the matter of returning
borrowed books, and in some ms
tances, not returning them at all.
Now this practice of obtaining books
from the library and keeping them
out indefinitely should be stopped.
There is time limit on every book
that goes out and if the borrower
cannot return it within this limit
the matter should be reported and an
extenson requested. If the book has
been lost or accidentally destroyed it
should be promptly paid for. The
library has a number of patrons and
necessarily, so far, limited supply Of
books, and by one borrower freezing
on to any book over the limited time
some other patron is being deprived
of the use of that book. There can
be little or no excuse for keeping a
book out over two weeks.
During the summer when great
many strangers were in town, books
were borrowed by some of them, and
when they got ready to leave, the
books were thoughtlessly packed up
with other effects and carried off.
This practice has given those in charge
Of the library no little trouble.
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Total -------s6,975,O 900, 900, 900
He Tried 1t.

Many people believes that a news
paper falls together without work or
concerted activity or plan, The Rev.
Mcleod, presbyterian minister OF
California, was of this opinion and
asked to be allowed to edit an edition
of the Pasadena Star. The editor
gladly accepted the opportunity to go
fishing and the minister took up his
duties in the newspaper office. This
is how he felt when he found himself
at the end of task, which, it must be
said, had been done quite creditably.
"My time is almost up as l pen this
last line, my hand is almost para
lyzed, my brain befuddled, and l am
free to confess that l am right glad
to vacate the holy spot, such rush
and riot and disarray, such a jumble
of potpourri, it strikes me as an effort
to bring order out of chaos, and DO
it Tightening quick.
81 am reminded of the memorable
words, The earth was without form
end void, and darkness was upon the
face of the waters. Never shall |
criticize newspaper men any more.
l shall pray for them. They will
have my hearts forbearance hence
forth and forever. They are the
hardest worked, shortest lived, poor
est paid, brain workers on this weary
cid world of ours"
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MILLIONS BEHIND
THE COMING BOOM
BIG GOLD RESERVES BEGINNING
TO REACH BUSINESS THROUGH
INCREASING BANK CREDITS.

(Sugarman's Indicator Service, New
York City,
With money easier all over the
country, and bankers once more be-
ginning y cooperate with business
men and extending credit, many in
vestors are curious to know exactly
how rich the country is in frozen"
cash?
There has been much complaint that
large share of the hard times we
have suffered was due to the bankers
unwillingness to go behind business
with loans end credit. That is true,
but it is also true that much of the
business activity entailing from the
postwar boom was of such an unsub-
stantial and undesirable character that
banking support was out of the ques-
tion.
We have had quite a spell of busi-
ness failures rs a result. In other
words, the unstaple and badly man.
aged business enterprises have been
shaken out, and there is left residue
of sound business, sterilized in the
school of hard knocks, which is now
beginning to receive the atteneion Of
the bankers.
The funds at the disposal Of busi-
ness enterprises, through the already
now visible era of expansion, are enor-
nous. What the banks can do in the
way of going behind sound revival
of business is largely indicated by
the funds in the hands Of the Federal
Reserve Banks.
Taking the consolidated statement
of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks
as a basis we arrive at the following
approximate figures as representing
the money wealth of the United States
down to date:
Gold stocks on hand-$3, ,250, ,000, ,0OO, 900
Notes and bills 1,450,000, 100000
U. S. bonds, notes
and certificates of
Indebtedness -- 1,65o,ooO,oOO,oOO
Uncollected and out
standing ----- 625,OOO,OOO,OOO
Total -------S6,975, 900, 100000
The round sum of seven thousand
million dollars in gold-or more than
twice our war loan to france be
relied upon to supply backbone and
stamina to the epoch of prosperity,
which is already now beginning to
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-10-13
To Speak on Church Work.

We are informed that the Rev. R.
Maynard Marshall of Beaufort is to
speak at st. Adams Episcopal church
here on Tuesday, October 1S, morn
ing and night, on the general work
of the church. "A cordial invitation
to the public to attend these address
es is extended by the members of
St. Adams.
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Card of Thanks.

The undersigned take this method
of extending sincere thanks to the
good people of Kingstree for the kind
ness shown on account of the illness
and death of Mrs. Kizzie E. Hornady.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Martin,
DR.. and Mrs. Cliff Moore,
Mr.. Carl Hornady.
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Cotton Ginned in Williamsburg.

Cotton ginned in Williamsburg
county up to September 25th 1921
amounted to 2,26s bales as against
4,1O6 bales up to the same time in
1920, according to the report made
public October 8 by the federal gov
ernment.
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Resolutions of Thanks, Cards Of
Thanks and all other reading notices,
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Rates on long term display adver-
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Fire at Johnston last week Destroy
ed the lumber plant of Wright Bros,
valued at $4,000. A barn adjoining,
belonging to Mrs. Willie Tompkins
was also destroyed.
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STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Many Things of Interest Cleaned from
from Many Points.

Of the three candidates voted on in
Pickens county last week E. P. Nc
Gravy defeated Christian and Hooper
in the contest for state senator.
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SUMMONS FOR RELIEF
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Williamsburg.
- Court of Common Pleas.
Matte D. Mccall, Plaintiff,

against
S. D. Madison, Dell Petteys, and J. B.
Barker, Trustee for Citizens Bank
of Fairfax, S. c., Peoples Bank OF
Beaufort, S. c., and First National
Bank cf Allendale, S. c., Defendants.
To the defendants above named:
You are hereby summoned and re-
quired to answer the Complaint in
this action. of which copy is here
with served upon you, and to serve
copy of your answer to the said Com
plant on the subscribers at their Of
fees in the city of Sumter, S. c., with
in twenty days after the service here
of, exclusive of the day Of such ser
vice, and if you fail to answer the
Complaint within the time aforesaid,
the plaintiff in this action will apply
to the court for the relief demanded
in the Complaint.
Dated October 18th. A. D., 1871.
CLIFTON & WOOD,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
To the Defendant, Dell Petteys:
You are hereby notified that the
Summons and Complaint in this action
have been filed in the office Of the
Clerk of Court for this county.
CLIFTON & WOOD,
10-13-3tc-c&w. Plaintiffs Attorneys.
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Chairman George White, of the
Democratic national committee, has
issued a formal call for a meeting of
that body in st. Louis Tuesday,
November l.
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The Rev. w. H. K. Pendleton, of
Spartanburg, has been called to st.
Paul's Episcopal Church, Charleston,
to succeed DR.. Logan who recently
resigned. DR.. Walter Mitchell has
been the supply at st. Pauls the past
month.
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Loan to Finance Cotton.

Loan to Finance Cotton.
Washington, Oct. 11.-Approval OF
a loan of 100000 to South Carolina
banks for financing cotton loans was
given today by the War Finance Cor
poration.
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The month of September 1921 was
the warmest of it's name on record in
this section, according to the weather
bureau at Columbia. The monthly
mean heat intensity being 80 degrees
or 5.S degrees above normal while
precipitation was not up to standard
and uneven.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-10-13

For the purpose of opening up a
large community for commercial traf-
fc,. Senator Smith of South Carolina
introduced bill last Saturday pro-
viding for the construction of toll
bridge across Great Pee Dee river for
the connection of Florence and Marion.
Senator Smith acted in the matter
after conference with Senator Dial
and Representative Stoll and a COM
mittee of citizens from Marion and
Florence.
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Fenton Diggs, colored, aged lis,
died at York yesterday of infrmaties
of old age. He was born in 1906, ac-
cording to DR.. Andral Bratton,, his
physician. "Uncle" Diggs was born
slave of late Lieutenant Governor
Robert McCaw and was white mans
negro, always voting the Democratic
ticket and riding in Red Shirt parades
in 1876. He enjoyed good health un-
til short while before his death, and
every tooth in his head was sound.
His widow, who is said to be about
ninety years old, survives him.
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