THE j WHICHARD, in peat at ll N n h in of e d W using ingenuity to d ,.,. prim The continue IO do so if ft Bud maintained by the people If the advance lb a i I'll- crop in cents to y aid require e. S. C, class matter, A desired at m Pill in l to r. County. Tuesday, 1905. Coll n Spinners of Britain but little co operative Hi Insecure Herald a f-r the president such a suit ill of e towns hit Southern trip, that h it I- and therefore time is limited. ADDRESS Cotton Merchants and Southern a of the Executive of the Commits of the Southern Otto. . held at , era back to It. L fl . . ., pages, and that just ten day after the union strike. The News and have d e as well. Pretty record The has derided. from each cotton State and Territory were present a report on the condition of the ton crop made up to August compiled from returns of more than correspondents a condition of per cent om Dewey, the Sex hank as compared with a condition of not have a percent for a corresponding period crop of 1904. An i f the new trial, but meet toe six , t i- w n i n from sentence d year penitentiary a him by the lower court. Bo he will at -t part of whet he s. nil has advanced a cent a gallon. And bow d after Rockefeller's big donation of 110.000.0011 to higher pi,. i ,, men who argued for a carnival h ground of it being a trade puller for the merchants are won re went to Charlotte is getting over t-,. .,,, . the president will at p half an hour in that city instead of five minutes. The ill but clubbing has ever made. us J offers the Watch out for it. The offer will in elude several good at ball price President K- nil an I he dead in earnest when lie d would n t st f r a third term- counting mi term. We arc I a People know v. Ii ii Mm t enough a tool thing.- ton Star. Te Form An effort is to In made to form B socialist party in state A state convention to be in Greens- on I this month It claimed by the , are good for a large dance The attempt will made to effect a thorough organization the party in this Mate Eugene V socialist candidate fr president lust year, is expected to be i other leading of tho national patty. same i indicated a yield of 0.88, babe of cotton. Taking this information a guide in connection the demand f r t c n by the spinners the world, high prices of cotton good, the heavy cost to the product is for and harvesting this crop, the committee agreed that eleven cents as minimum price, basis mid- at p would lie i ream i I c price to be asked t tins season f -i It Inn been r. ; and hot denied, that spinners can pay twelve I.-- u r p middling cotton at the present time and still make I it in the manufacture of the raw material into the finished fabric. been recently de eland between Russia and Japan. The n hole civilized world is in a most prosperous condition and the all the cotton mills of Europe and America are running night and day to supply the tr. demands for cotton goods. The enormous crop of American cotton reaching unprecedented figures nearly hales has been easily absorbed by the -I rs average price is per p Of crop there was only a small reserve stock if little more than a million hales to be carried into the season of C on first day of September, if no more than ten million hales of cotton ire harvested this season to be add- , t., the small n serve stock carried n. from the crops of 1904, the mills of world, the present rate of e n, face a in raw cotton before another crop be planted, cultivated and placed hi n the i . i The mills I ave for many months for delivery of goods to lie man ii i it ton yet lo l In from the he i have sold to the spinners to he i livered the months which is to be have combined to crush the efforts of the f inn. rs to maintain prices, and Exporters all in their power to hammer down the market. The of the is easy and simple. ability of the farmers Vi win this is I as for the pro I of your firesides and your homes, your wives, children and your country. Stop selling at present prices Call upon your merchants and bankers to aid you in the heroic straggle lies ahead Store your cotton in the seed ever and do have it ginned until later in season St the lint cotton under good sheds to keep it dry on the farm or place it warehouses, where the receipts are needed collateral to money to meet maturing obligations All other lines of borrow money, why not the farmers. hen by so doing they can hold their off the market and materially advance its price, no attention to the lure being printed circulated broadcast throughout the South. Thia is done with one object and that is to discourage and induce you less eleven cent for bale crop Let people know the know the power of their strength and then lit them act promptly and the victory for higher prices will soon lie won, then their great staple will be selling at its real value to the world. Overwhelmingly Defeated It seems strange to us where we have had the law for so long, that there are sections i f the State, especially in eastern North Carolina, where opposition to the Stock law is very strong Al out one fourth of Moore county is under Block law and an election was held Tuesday to pass on the cf putting the reminder of the county . under law. The proposition overwhelmingly defeated and the denizens of Moore will continue to fence their crops against fence the cattle from the crops While the campaign was going on the Moore county papers were ltd with communications for and against the stock old argument, that ii is i n to nature, outrage ant a crime, to prohibit cattle running to sell your cotton prices , I on the range was used powerful II has been As producers its value. that is and , , the law was passed for set got d prices, at least eleven . , . . i . was not cents per pound, mere will be but little or profit in this crop. ck up the present heavy receipts to , w for Ir d. II and he put n through Ii was his in; it could not have been at that time nor for many veers afterward. a member of the was petitioned not less than eleven cents for every pound of middling cotton you have to i The Southern Cotton A i The Educational and Co operative The Ann n can Society of Equity, The Alliance of Carolina have agreed on the minimum price eleven cents and the membership if these powerful organizations, stand together in unity and harmony defy the combinations of the world and win another notable the like of which was never wit- before. Call your county and district meetings throughout the entire belt Build p your membership in the Southern Cotton Association stand firmly together for justice and tin. Corn Association. protection- it you nu B de your cotton for or days -pile 2nd annual me ting of Pitt i Association guarantee an c unity cord association advance in the price to eleven cents sill meet in th court house Thurs- per pound. Do rash your cotton I day, Oct. 1905. on a depressed market, bill sell slow-; Invitation is extended and prove to the world beyond r,. nu mm ere In c and question of Southern bring an exhibit. farmers the ability, the deter A. J. the lo force the world to recognize their power in maintaining a fair puce for j really looks like something is The Southern Cotton Association about to lie done. We have been must he maintained and financed by informed petitions are now the farmers of th South Its in the Legislature his last. did his county a good service, though bis efforts were not generally appreciated at the lime Fact is .-as much bad bl and many tin, but no effort was made repeal the law, everybody got used lo it and now we wonder how we would do without it The Moore county folks, if they had pi quiet, might have prevailed on some the Legislature to pass the law for them This is hardly probable now since I he election shows such a strong sentiment against the law mark. T. OF THE BANK OF AYDEN -saw. DEN, N. J.- At the of business August 26th, 1905. the producers. The spinners We Let you Marion finds the Exporters are heavily short with n hut paper contracts in that I of some kind compels him to Greensboro on that day, and while there, of course, he will try to make a deal with the socialists, if there are enough present to get up a negotiation the state election in the socialists poled votes o t of the total of of the South hold the spot cotton in their hands and control absolutely the lo lo the situation. Will the formers lake advantage of the did they occupy, and I i ,,, rt ii rights to to protect the interest of the pro- is recognized and feared by all the h speculative and cot ton interests of America and Europe If we go down in defeat the enemy will he merciless and it will take twenty years for the South to recover again. Stand by tho Association and thereby protect your individual hopes a. to see it accomplished interests circulated among the towns on branch of the Atlantic Line with a view of securing another daily train- That is a move in the right direction and if the towns work together the train will he sec a red, Tub roil has been hammering on this proposition a long time and Loans and Discounts, paid in, Furniture and pins fund 1,000.00 Demand profits less Hue from Hanks, Cash Items. unpaid . Gold Coin, Silver Coin, subject to check, National Hank notes 3.80 other D. Total. Total. NORTH s county of I, R. of is i- lief. sworn to and financially able to manage Now for a long pull, a strong me f 1905. t her interests from and a pull all together of Kinston. HODGES, cast by all parties. was f . m .,,,,,,,, , the buyers Will nit the for W. A. for governor. This had only one more candidate in Held, C. Lindsay for lieutenant governor, who received votes So there docs not seem to be much cause for fear on part of the democrats that their will be greatly weakened by organization of the socialists. If Marion Duller should succeed in making B deal he will timid an i chants and local hankers throughout the up solidly In n ranks with the farmers against tin combinations that are so actively work to depress pries and defeat the will of tho people MUST ill i. HI Every man in tin- South, no m ii I a is a-id dominating and hands business men to operate with the of her enemies business men in other towns along Last January the price of cotton I the Atlantic Coast Line was depressed to six cents per pound and note the results Ii will he's an I Si Ci rein, inhered that the of was a the New Orleans company did not refuse the commit Convention Jan to bring tee from Kinston, outright, when s about harmony among the request woe made for this double,, j and bankers so as to daily A. C. L- and if the price to ten cents i the business show s united The world knows front and furnish company good h this powerful why the extra service should advanced be established there is little i July ii will e. apparent Notary swear , ,, . be- J. R. SMITH, i Attest; K. SMITH, R. CANNON. e. to the strength cf his duty during the coming the Pop-Rep. the t, ten cents in the S on July 3rd, live months later. it will e. Tin -c good reasons arc only this the given business man along the line by certain properly presented to the com- rials in the States pony officials will accomplish the de- Agriculture was exposed sired Let the business men or this and all co-operate for the, establishment of this , train H This work has already saved service and we believe it will be For c Stove Ranges, Heaters Pumps, Am- munition. Horse Steel Plows, deal Cutter and In f.- t anything in come to H. L. CARR Messenger. and financial in the great dollars to the South Kinston Free ,. WINTERVILLE This department is in J. H. FRY, who is authorized to rep- resent the Eastern Reflector in Winterville and territory. -ECHOES FROM THE The painter is following after carpenters on new boy's dormitory will soon Vie done panning the outside of the building. In a few it will be occupied already several rooms are engaged in It. Mi. M. G. Bryan Wed- night st Houston. Nice Silk waist at Barber A Co. J. R. Carroll went Wake Forest Wednesday. He is a for- of W. H. sad we predict for nun much success. B. T. Cox A have a full Hue of school papers, Inks, , tablets, day standard calicoes at , . t. ledgers, slates, per yard, Harrington, Barber crayons, school bags shawl straps. and see what have before bringing else- Co. Mr. and Mrs. Jobs of V hut night to visit relatives here. by B. G. Chapman car load of which they will ell very cheap. Miss to Ayden last lo visit friends. For Hull time alarm clacks nod see R. G Co. Maud for near House Ibis into where. A. O. Cox sad G. F. attended the Tar River Association Wednesday ind Thurs- day report a very pleasant lime. The of Winter- ville, was consecrated p Strange preached us by the large who hoard It, Tin- were very pretty, the Another Urge shipment of shoes nil styles prim ,,, . ,.,,. f. ,,,,. , lo her K-e-e. If CUD Id be the wife how more Ibis of God, Men's and youth's sizes, The Pitt Oil Mill seems lo be far d near, and seems to prevail. Nice and A. W. MUs Perry, one of the Friday evening to friends Trunks at ton Barber Co. of salt just ed at R G. Chapman Co. If yon a nice coned, or some see A. Anne A Co Sp, c . prices a gin s far n. l . House. I l stock In. s . .-, at u reasonable Cal Misses . Ward e Clara Lee Sieve-is Greenville this las entered, g I full it. Harding, C V -lid I-;, up places recommended for the human ,,, IS. T family, e for Black pee. i. We e of re II. L. Signs i In- i j , , suits i; I . of to Win- com For sale by B. T. Bro. Mis- Anna L tile went to her Kinston night. -o d E Cure, the for stock and n -ore colic cute. the Drug S. -re Louis went hone to Sunday his Our line fall and Winter, When la town call to see me I goods are now in. See lice be- iii ii s livery feed fore you buy. joins I o please A. . lo . . L. House W. C i. own When Editor Regardless the opinion of strictly as lo puses as j- i. i in opera In by Mr. S. sou, I eel I h . ., ii i-i lug I in- s. mint all I in w s i from start in and Hie id all, wall girls and bow. is capable . a very high . in mm Tl h fully and hip it the graded school planted only a year ago h bearing The o j of those engaged In the name was people Greenville and all were present. The splendid attention by large audience a special earnest of the audience felt and and the audience was a very select of Pin. Such nu more lie and In Hie Reduction and -ii These ailments are common with most retailers at the Ops closing of the season, but with some of be mill lid h i so long and made splendid Ii ., all and c lent u-i this splendid pleasure ;. in. lull Pill Well d-i r. Mrs died at her d nice candle, borne Thursday Fruits o inn call on H. L. John Another load m school desk were I The beautiful new residence of ,,,, A Cox W. i. rapidly Johnson's WELL ABOVE Make Fool Print on The Sands Time. When his line of Hosiery cull- Big line of hats and caps Ladies end Gents styles. work will gave its oil mill is starting on Ha i Co. L. F. of Hugo, hen- visiting his brother; U C. For hay, corn and oats, go to Burlier Go. A. and Miss White I were ill town One of cur up to date bro- ugh. a wagon load of reed to I our Pitt Oil Co. and of machinery the A. U. Cox Co b making lots wagons, cuts far they have been keeping a line of special us on hard ware and mill supplies for next Full goods arriving daily A. days W, L. House. W. Ange Come Beat and sec at lowest Whether cotton goes up or goes down gin here runs When need fresh men; fish heel call on II. Will Washington has moved his barbershop into one of tin-new concrete stores, and he is now pared to do you good work any time. For fresh an to II. L, Kev. Smith, of Washing ton, D. C, has been visiting friend and relatives town, re- turned his home Thursday. For nice dress goods, If you expect to exchange your for meal you same lime glued making a bale I ,. licit weighed pounds, yon have at He paid one dollar and cents Fill Oil Mill. to get it and exchanged his The one the touching seed for meal and hulls. And in with the after be sold his bale Of nation and services at to one for I re a little than per pound of family he put his meal and bulls on bis f Mrs. Mary Smith, including Lice, Hamburg, and kinds of and returned home feeling nearly forty, a a dinner under the Ladies and Gent's furnishings go that he had saved much lime and grove near the at to A. W. it labor and was pleased with results. The consecration of If you want winter H. II. of St. Luke's church was concluded get one of those good healers at A. in town Friday. a o'clock on Monday and the W. A Co. are Cheap. Another of Hunsucker family and at A o o Buggies were seen rolling down to borne of Mrs. IS. K. ,, A one of our yesterday en. JG. x, the Kev. . K. it i route far our neighbor county good her luck to j was cad received ear Hour nice Rev. T. King through around board . fresh Harrington Barber I . town Thursday evening on his way near pronounced by Nice line of fresh groceries home from ; Kt. Rev. ways on hand Barbel If. Q. Chapman The near Co. are offering cut price on old grandmother here celebrated i,. A Sparks has opened their large stock shoes which her eightieth birthday, declaring hex complete Hue of must sold within u few days In happiest one her trimmings and notions in order to make room for their new It was tho culmination a supply soon to be received. of endeavor and and la ready, willing and waiting A. P. Keel was lit n Friday, supreme all he. days. flu order that may come lo All colors of paint, yellow Four generation represented selected line at Harrington Barber Co. lo mother, daughters, everything needed in the Misses Bertha and grand and price . suit it has become Just think of a Store selling at cost the whole year. affect the patients pump, can't tell the truth. develops a mania for talking and the germ is in some stores in Greenville all the creates a reckless gathering of and stuff of inferior qualities, no matter buy that is what its antecedents, most of it prepared for the with Red Sins and A Veritable Boarding House Hash. We shall expect our methods to hold. We are neither reformers philanthropists, and for young fellows, rather than old-fashioned. But we are determined to build up this store on principle statements based on facts and values be constant- reminded this fact when you compare of your you neighbor, who Town and because ii n paint Urns. S Co , who have bad over a experience in the of of Town Country paint i with paints the balance in Town Country because of wonderful covering cap city. Ask Md Merchandise beyond my competition. , , . country paint. Newspaper space is too expensive to use for Our little comparisons, such us reference to are very serious statements, and we take this method of calling the attention of the most critical and intelligent purchasing public to these abuses. It is time for better business methods any how. LETTER TO W. PAGE. Grew i X. C. The eh. up taunt I- buy is the mi.- Mini covers more you thin.; cheap one lo wear is the one Unit I young when Mrs. Moore, d K -is, N. y. bought pain, i he. house two c i s painters that to-day. did and said it would take that, Had shall call ma left. e are never because we do not buy merchandise because it is cheap. It must be or it will not be admitted in this store. condition then. II i. reduce every week, yes every day. if we think it necessary. paint, lust we knew, though , new goods are here. Now for a general shake-up all along line. Mi. Janus house, in Cairo Wu X. Y. was painted sore years; am goal That's the way i a on-e it paint no Yours If. W. COo. II. I. C Is our p nut. s Sunday at home. Mrs. Sarah Taylor baa her nice . mill ,.,., went in House this Interesting indeed. several photograph were taken groups, line open now, I , , Bishop, the and also a special line of tore, and Harding, Claudius F. Smith I Barber ft Co. invited see w B. Cox. Mrs. Smith also her. Her stock is well selected and always right. Nice line Barber A- Ill food c wide ii picture with those of silk at D. M. Johnson ft Co, Mrs, Smith . Mrs. J. It. Jackson and little first gave herself to her God in the daughter, . after a education of her own children. She ,, who to learn week's visit to mother-in-law, I given one son and just now n and is not Mrs. Bum returned to J grandson to the sacred ministry afraid to work can a place in her home Friday. and on day she Luke's office. North Carolina i In Pitt County i 1905, K. S r, i ox, I i Publication as ; .- her vs. Ii. A. shore will take not. i that nu action entitled as above baa been commenced In the superior court Pitt county i to n cover personal property, Pi claim livery And de- will further take notice be n i a term of I I the Sup, . unity to ,. hold on i i alter the J , 1st ii i ibis the i i. ii .-ii ,. i. the I court house as and an en r I In laid sell, n, or will apply to court In aid i , Superior Court . WE ARE HERE TO SELL GOODS, N. C. N. C.