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THE "coLoRED BROTHER"

We reproduce from the CONNER
cial-Appeal Of September 7th the
following extracts from an article
written by S. F. Davis, of Indianola,
Miss, on the negro, whom he regards
as "the Creators Masterpiece" That
the writer is thoroughly familiar with
his subject is shown by the interest
ing, amusing and truthful manner in
which he handles it:
"The negro can lie down beneath
the scorching rays of a MONDAY sun
and sleep the sleep Of the seven sleep
ers Of old without suffering any evil
effects from it whatever; or he can
weather the fercest winter gale, clad
only in a pair Of cotton overalls and
. blue jumper. He can also wear an
overcoat to a Fourth Of July celebra-
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THREE COUNTIES HAVE
SUBSCRIBED 1928 BALES

Columbia, March 14.-Three
counties, Marlboro, Darlington and
Sumter, have already signed 51,233
bales of cotton, or more than one
eighth of the quota for the whole
state, according to a statement Civ
en- out at the headquarters of the
South Carolina Cotton Growers Co.
operative Association here today. A
telegram from E. Wallace Evans,
County Chairman for Marlboro
county says that Marlboro county
expects to sign a total Of 100000
bales or one-tenth Of the quota OF
the whole state before the campaign
closes. To date Marlboro has signed
1857 bales, Darlington 1890
bales and Sumter 1o,So6 bales. The
three leading counties.
r. C. Hamer, chairman Of the
campaign committee, speaks at a
big mass meeting of taurens county
farmers Friday, Saturday, Mr..
Hamer and L. D. Jennings OF Sum-
ter will speak before the Agricul-
tural bureau of the Greenville
Chamber Of Commerce. Alfred Scar
borough, member Of the organiza-
ton committee, is speaking in
Greenville county this week also.
Committees of Spartanburg farm
ers who have signed the contract
are canvassing Spartanburg county
this week for additional sigma
lures. This is also being observed
"Sign Up Week. in Sumter. Cover
nor Cooper will speak in Anderson,
Abbeville, Greenwood and New
berry in behalf of. the movement.
The dates for his speeches have not
yet been announced but will be an
nounced in a few days.
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TEMPERATURE OF A GIRL
e.. + RUN UP TO ia DEGREES

Bristol, Eng, March 1.-THE. ex.
traordinary figure Of ia degees
Fahrenheit was the recorded tenn
perature of a girl here, who was
suffering from the grip. L. :
When first summoned to see the
girl the physician said he was as;
tonished to find that his clinical
thermometer recorded a tempera-
ture of 112 degrees but, thinking
that the thermometer was out Of
order, he redhisitioned two others
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forms an alliance with some white
mans cook, and with his living thus
assured, opens a cleaning and press
inc. establishment. He then goes out
Monday morning and gathers in the
Sunday clothes of the white clerks of
town, and after wearing them him
self every night during the week, he
gets up Saturday morning and treats
them to a gasoline bath, fattens
them out with a red-hot iron and
rushes them home to their owners, so
that they may wear them Sunday;
collects $3.50 for his services in their
behalf and goes on his way rejoicing.
But should there be any special &C.
casion in town on Saturday night
which he wishes to attend he holds
back the best suit that he happens to
have on hand and wears it to that,
and carries it home Sunday morning
if he wakes up in time; otherwise its
owner can lay in bed over Sunday,
and he will bring it back sometime
the following Monday.
eff perchance his fancy does not
run to cleaning clothes, he gets him
self a gasoline stove and other para
phernalia wherewith to defeat the
vagrant statute, and sets up a lunch
counter, where he serves all such as
care to come his way, irrespective of
race, color or previous conditions of
servitude, with hamburgers, hot cat
fish and beef sausage, and sometimes
sweet spirits of fermenti on the side.
But should neither of the locations
appeal to him, he usually opens a
colored barber shop with a poolroom
and crap table in the rear.
GAS soon as the city authorities
become obnoxious to him, however,
he again goes back to the quiet coun-
try life, usually right after the Christ
mas holidays, and joins himself to a
cottoh-planter, and by his certain
written contract duly executed in du-
plicate, obligates and binds himself
to cultivate and gather a crop OF cot
ton on the land therein described,
and on the strength thereof proceeds
to eat up anywhere from SIS to $500
worth of grub while he is waiting
for the ground to get in shape to
pillow, and it very frequently happens
that when the trees begin to bud
and when the birds begin to whistle
and the grasshopper begins to sing,
Mr.. Negro is seized with wanderlust
and suddenly disappears, and the
people who once knew him know
him no more forever. Every delta
town also has it's full quota of negro
women, who; like the lily, toll not,
neither do they spin, yet the Queen
of Sheba' in all of her glory was new
er clad like unto one of them. .,
"Surely the negro is ~fearfully and
wonderfully made, and his ways are
past finding out"
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MAJ. LEE DIES IN CHARLOTTE

Maj. Thomas B. Lee died Monday
morning in Charlotte, N. C. Major
Lee was stationed at Abbeville while
engaged in the construction Of the
G. C. and N. now known as the
Seaboard Air Line railroad. The fol-
lowing dispatch from Charlotte
gives a sketch of his career:
Thomas 3. Lee, since prior to. the
War Between the States a leading
civil engineer Of South Carolina and
for a period a major of engineers of
General L~ongst1eet's staff, died sud-
denly here Monday, aged 81 years.
For 10 years past he has lived in
Charlotte, still practicing his pro-
fession until the time Of his death.
During his life he has been connect
ed with some Of the most important
engineering tasks in the South. His
first practical experience in railway
building was with the Blue Ridge
Railroad from Anderson to Knox
vile. He was connected with the
building Of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway from Monroe TO Atlanta
and with most of that roads extern
sions into Florida. He also was con-
nected during the past few years
with the building of the Piedmont
and Northern Railway from Char
lotte to Gastcnia and the %interurban
line from Spartanburg to Green
wood, being the real builder OF
these two roads. He was one of the
organizers Of the Southern Power
Company.
Major Lee was born in Camden,
s. c., February %, 1883, a son OF
DIR. Joseph and Catherine Clarke
Lee. He was educated at the Citadel,
Charleston. In 1861 he volunteered.
with Orr's Rifles and served a while
with the Army Of Northern Virginia.
Soon he was made a captain Of en-
gineers and later a major, with
special duties around Richmond for
q while. Secretary Meminger, OF
the Confederate State treasury, sent
him with a million dollars in bonds
and currency to Texas, n of the
notable exploits Of its kind in the
war , part of the trip being made
by foot. ... :.'... ..-. ..I
At Charleston Major Lee was in
charge of Battery Wagner when
that unit stood the whitening fire
from 10-inch Federal guns making
one of the noted events in the an
nails of the. Confederacy. After the
fight at Battery Wagner. Major Lee
remodeled all the defensive work in
Charleston harbor and Sullivan Is
land and later sent by General
iBeauregard to Florida and fighting
ON St. Johns river when the war
closed. He received four wounds in
the battle. .:iAI
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THE ANTIDOTE TO STARVATION

A gloomy picture of the %agricultur-
al outlook in Abbeille county is
painted by The Press and Banner
gloomier, one suspects, than is fully
justified. That much truth is con
tanned in these paragraphs, though,
is not to be denied:
ALREADY the negroes + coming
to the landlords and to the merchants
for the purpose Of getting every
mouthful of supplies on which to
raise a crop. Most of them r going
to be disappointed. The landlords in
many instances are utterly unable to
make the advances; in either in
stance they prefer to allow. the land
to rest for a year rather than hazard
the necessary money on so fimsy
security as a crop to be grown by a
negro tenant. Not many white people
are in so destitute circumstances, but
a white man who can not finance him
self the present year has a thorny
path to tread. The negro tenants and
laborers had as well learn that they
a no longer farm out of the stores.
Those who receive supplies this year
will not get more than enough to hold
body and soul together. If they do
not produce enough corn and meat at
home to put them through the winter
nothing awaits them except starvation
We think it unlikely that merchants
and landlords will be disposed, even
if they are able, to make advances to
those who do not go to work this year
and lay aside something for another
year"
The State has repeatedly directed
attention to the serious plight Of the
poorer people on the farms, especial
ly those without Land of their own.
Beyond the borders of the South are
people who. imagine themselves
friends of the Southern negroes, who
exercise themselves greatly about the
deprivations Of tha negroes political
rights but who shed no tears and lose
no sleep when they are out Of work
and have little prospect of earning a
comfortable livelihood.
As The Press and Banner observes,
the serious factor in the problem of
1922 is that the white friends who so
long have looked after the welfare of
the negroes have as much as they can
do now to care for themselves.
We think that our contemporary is
unnecessarily alarmed when it uses
the word starvation" Land is so
abundant in the South that healthy
people can at least dig a living out
of tiff they will only dig. The ur-
gent necessity to do that is what The
Press and Banner emphasizes and it
would be we'll if. its readers would
take its words to heart.
Negro tenants and laborers can
no longer farm out of the stores"
That the sun rises and sets is no more
certain than that saying. But all who
are willing to work will have plenty
to eat, for the land will be more a..
bundant than usual and almost any
thing and everything can be raised
upon it. The year will be hard and
painful to many poor people, but
they need not be hungry or lack
shelter.-The State.
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Civil Service Examination

Civil Service Examination
At the request Of the Postmaster
General, the U. s. Civil Service
Commission announces an open
competitive examination to be held
on April 9Th, 1922 at Abbveille, S.
c., to fill the position of Postmaster
at Calhoun Falls, s. C. This is not
an examination under the Civil Ser
vice Act and rules, but is held under
an Executive order Of May 10th,
1921.
David A. Wardlaw, Sec,
Board u. S. Civil Service Exam
liners, Abbeville, S. c.
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Good Description

An amateur mountain climber, re-
lating his experience in the Rockies.
said:
"Goin' up you can mighty nigh
stand UP straight and bite the
ground; goin' down a man want hob
nails on the seat Of his trousers"
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iighest Grade Hemstitehing and
'ieot Edge work. We make machine
nd know how to turn out the high
st grade work.
Orders taken for pleating Of all
sinds. We operate modern plant and
10 only the best work. Latest style
electrically driven machines sold
on easy terms.
All makes of machines repaired.
Singer Sewing Machine Company.
sos Main St. Greenwood. Phone Isl
v. B. Barnet, Mgr.
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POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR ALDERMAN

I hereby announce myself as a can
d1date for Alderman from Ward Two,
subject to action of democratic pri-
mary election.
J. M. GAMBRELL.
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only l., and that they ;bothiIsS]
the same high point,
During the night the
temperature advanced two g
Appropriate treatment was 81
applied the girls temperature
ualIy subsidized 70 normal q
abouts, and she is now stated
in perfect health.
Medical journals do not reco
instance Of such ternperatare
followed by the patients reco1
Cost of the Dayton flood nine
ago. was s67,3S3,574.
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He is likewise a great admirer of
art, and in nearly every negroes home
be it ever SO humble, there hangs a
life-size crayon portrait of himself
on the wall right opposite the door,
where you will be sure to see it as
you come in the door. The rest of
his surplus money he usually spends
for entertainment preferably an ex-
cursion, but anything else in motion
will do. l have frequently stood on
the street corner on a cold, cloudy
winter day and watched as many as
fifty negroes, who would not average
so cents each, and none of whom had
on clothes enough to flag a fiat car,
clinging to a merry-go-round as it
went round and round, grinding out
that well-known and much-beloved
melody, oh, Billy Bailey, Why Don't
You Come Homer and their front
teeth shining like the keys on a baby
grand piano, while hundreds Of 9TH
ers, who did not have the price of
a ride, were standing in half-frozen
mud shoe-mouth deep, cheering them
as Nhey came round.
"All things r pleasing to him.
A circus or a funeral is equally en-
joyable, but a protracted meeting
followed by a big baptizing, or a
term Of circuit court followed by a
public hanging is his chiefest delight.
Whenever a negro tires Of coun-
try life he moves to town, acquires a
charcoal bucket and a ~tailor's goose,
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ley on May 8, 1897, recorded in Bool
T.. Ii. of Conveyances, 1872:
From Hubert Delhaye on Nav }
1897, recorded in Book H. H. Of con
vcyanccs, 153;
From H. Robichaux on Nav .
1897, recorded in Book H. H. of Con
veyances, 1856; and
From B. T. Blake on Nav 3. 1897
recorded in Book H. H. of Convex.
ances, 1873.
To which several grants or servi.
tides special reference is had for 2
further description.
AS to these servitudes The Ado
line Sugar Factory Co., Ltd. trans
frs only such rights as it acquired
from the respective grantors. and
without warranty or recourse to il
for any portion of the purchase price,
The servltude here referred to and
also those located on the lands now
o. formerly of The Adeline Surar
Factory Co., Ltd, are as now laid
out and in operation, and cover the
lands used in the operation of said
narrow gauge railroad.
7. Also the iron bridge across the
bayou Iecne located at point ID On
the attach~d map.
8. Also all the cane cars owned
by The Adeline Sugar Factory Co. i,
Ltd, numbering about 80; two loco
motives; three derricks; two scales;
hoists, etc; one standard gauge track
scale located on the main line switch
in fact. all of the rolling stock ana
equipment owned and used by The
Adeline Sugar Factory Co., Ltd, in
operating its narrow gauge railroad
or the standard gauge switches; in
cluiing those connecting with the
main line roads.
CHARLES PECOT.
=, .u Sheriff.
Sherlff's Office, Franklin, La, St
Mary Parish, State of Louisiana,
this 10th day of July. A. D. 1922.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA,

Civil District Court for the Parish of
Orleans-Division "B"
Tobias Pick VS.. Mrs. Dora Jones,
Wife of Thomas McKissick
No. l42, ,903.
Under and by virtue of an order
of seizure and sale ISSUED out of the
Honorable Civil District Court for
the Parish of Orleans, State of Louis
lana, and to me directed, in the above
entitled and numbered suit, | have
seized and shall expose and sell at pub
lie sale, according to law, for cash,
without appraisement, to the last and
highest bidder, at the principal front
door of the Court House in Franklin,
St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY,, THE End DAY OF
SEPTEMBER, A. D., 1922,
between the legal hours, beginning at
ii O'Clock a. M, the undivided one
third right, title and interest in the
following described property, to-wit:
A certain tract or parcel of land, lying
and being situated in the City OF Morgan
City, st. Mary Parish, State Of Louisiana.
described as having a front on Second
more or less. by a depth of say, Two Hun
dred and Fifty feet. together with three
tenant dwellings. situated thereon, fences,
clsterns, etc.
A certain tract or parcel Of land. lying
and being situated in the City Of Morgan
City, st. Mary Parish, State of Louisiana,
described as having front OF say, Two
Hundred and Fifty feet on Second street,
by depth of Two Hundred and Twenty
Five feet, now leased to Brownell- -Drews
Lumber Company, together with i'm
provements il any.
A certain piece or portion Of ground,
together with all the buildings and i'm
provements thereon, aud all the rights,
ways, privileges. servitudes and adyan-
tages thereunto belonging or in anywise
appertainipg, situated In Morgan City,
Louisiana, being bounded by Front street,
Second, Dugan and TerrebOnne streets,
which said piece or portion of ground has
a frontage on Front street of One Humid
red and Forty feet and depth of Three
Hundred feet more or less.
The above described properties having
been acquired by Mrs. Dora Jones wife Of
Thomas Mckissick, in the proportions of
an undivided one third right, title, inter-
est and ownership through the succession
of Julia A. Jones. No. lis, 756 of the dock
ct of the Civil District Court for the Par
ish of Orleans, state OF Louisiana, Judg-
ment rendered therein being of date July
18th, 1920, Registered in the Recorders
Office of the Parish Of st. Mary, State of
Louisiana, in Book 3X, Folio l76. No.
As 9S4, of date July Goth, 1929.
CHARLES PECoT,
Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office. Parish of St. Mary. La,
July 2Sth 1922.
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TOWN TAX SALES
OF
Movable and Immovable
Property.

Town of Franklin, St. Mary Parish
VS.. Delinquent Tax Debtors.
BY virtue of the authority vested
in me by the Charter of the Town OF
Franklin aforesaid, and by virtue of
the Constitution and laws of the
State of Louisiana, l will sell at the
principal front door of the Court
House, where the Civil District
Court is now being held, within legal
hours for judicial sales, at II o'clock
a. m., on
SATURDAY, THE 26th DAY OF
AUGUST, A. D., 1922,
and continuing each succeeding day
until such sales are completed, all
movable and immovable property on
which taxes are now due to the
Corporation of Franklin, to enforce
collection of taxes for the year 1921
together with interest thereon from
the 31st day of December of the pre-
ceding year at the rate of 1919 per
year until paid, and all costs.
The names of said delinquent tax
payers, the amount of taxes due by
each on the assessment of each year,
and the movable and immovable pro-
perty assessed to each, to be offered
for sale, as follows:
LOUIS KRAMER-House and lot,
Bonney, LIST ST., Bonino, Bergeron;
lot No. 8, Jenkins, Lane, C. Bob,
Lane; furniture, gun, boat; Taxes
$43 Al, Int. SO, Costs $2.75;
Total $48.54
VIM. A. ROSE-House and lot,
Edwards, ONiell, Cowan, End St.
Taxes SO. 10, Int. .49, Costs So rs;
Total $11.34.
MARTHA SIMMS-House and
lot, Fourmy, O'Niell, Fourmy, Four
my; Taxes $2.70, Int. .16, Costs
rs; Total $5.61,
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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
23rd Judicial District Court-Parish
of St. Mary

GoIu ouulCldl DlSCIlcC COurC-ParlSE
Of St. Mary
Federal Land Bank of New Orleans
VS.. Laurence R. Villemez. No. 15,347.
Under and by virtue of an order
Of seizure and sale issued out of the
Honorable the 23rd Judicial District
Court of the State of Louisiana in
and for the Parish of st. Mary, and
to me directed, in the above entitled
and numbered suit, l have seized
and shall expose and sell at public
sale, according to law, for cash.
without appraisement, to the last and
highest bidder, at the principal front
door of the Court House in Franklin.
st. Mary Parish, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY, THE 10Th DAY OF
AUGUST, A. D., 1922,
between the legal hours, beginning
at II o'clock a. M, the following
described property, to-wit:
Lot No. Ia of the lands of the
Southern Planting & Development
Co., Inc, lying and being situated IN
the Parish of St. Mary, State of
Louisiana, fronting on the West side
of Lower Bayou Sale, containing
Nv eNiSo oopCllCIdl measure, III dC-
cordance with a map of the lands of
said Company made by L. A. Lousta-
lot, c: E: surveyor, January 80, 1918,
said lot being one Of the eighteen
lots into which said Company has
divided the arabic lands of Ellerslie
and South Bend Plantations and
Gordy Tract and is bounded on the
North by Lot No. 13 and on the
South by Lot No. Is, and on the
East by Lots No. 16 and II, and on
the West by the remaining lands of
the Southern Planting & Develop
ment Company. Situated in Sections
Is and 16 of Township 16, South
Range 9 East, Southwestern Land
District of louisiana"
CHARLES PECOT,
Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Parish of St. Mary,
La, JULY IL. 1922.
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Franklin, La, July Goth, 1922.
In conformity with the laws If
louisiana, notice is hereby given to
all parties holding mortgages upon
real estate located in the Parish If
st. Mary, upon which taxes for 1921
have not been paid, and | will begin
the sale of same at the Court House
door, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26th, 1922,
at II o'clock a. m., and that mum.
Der of pieces of property so delin
quent are now being advertised in the
St. Mary Banner, Franklin, La, in
conformity with the law, preparatory
to such sale.
The attention of mortgage credi-
tors is especially called to the ad-
vertisement of tax sales, and they
are warned to take such steps prior
to the sale as may be necessary to
protect their rights.
CHARLES PECOT,
Sheriff and Ex-Officio Tax Collector,
Parish of St. Mary, Louisiana.
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TO AID YOUR FEET.

We recommend Blue Star for all
foot trouble, such as hard or soft
corns, bunions, sWeaty feet or &C.
zema of the feet; and all skin dis
eases, such as Itch, Eczema, Ring
worm, Poison Oak, Old Sores and
Sores on Children. Will not stain
your clothes and has a pleasant
odor.
THE FRERE DRUG co.
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For Sale.

Desirable store building and resi-
dence in Centreville, opposite the
Woodmen Hall. Lot 75x2OO feet.
Buildings in good repair and ready
for occupancy.
For prices. terms and particulars,
apply to TONY SACCO, Centreville.
La.
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Blacksmith and Wheelwright, au-
tomobile painting and trimming. C.
S. Brenn.
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NOTICE TO MORTGAGE
CREDITORS.
Franklin, La, july goth. 1929

Sheriff and Tax Collectors Office.
Parish of St. Mary, Louisiana.
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.iersltudes and rights Of
n sss.red zen the narrow pa gauge 1e
= ~ i. - existing, including fains
& I. s'es and other ,s maters
ea,s .ae E construction Of said
IA, y tSs ss.,isht rights which The
N i factory Co., Ltd, has
,sm;.a5n y and to the several raj
MN s0,red BY it from n1'eua, the
- v.eeder on Nav 2
~ lai. !. Book H. H. Of
!. PRecot on June IA
D. y Book Il. n. of. Of Con-. ,4'
"a 81, II, Hinsk.