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TARMEXS’ UNION ‘DE'PARTMENT
DIRECTORY OF UNION OFFICIALS.
National.
Chas. S. Barrett, President, Atwater,
Ga.
J. E. Montgomery, vice-president,
Gleason, Tenn.
R. H. McCulloch, Secretary-Treas
urer, Bebee, Ark.
Executive Committee: W. A. Mor
ris, chairman, Sulligent, Ala.; T. M.
Jeffords, secretary, Elgin, Ok.; W. S.
Miller, Lake Creek, Tex.; I. N. McCol
lister, Many, La.; S. L. Wilson, Eden,
Miss.
Alabama.
J. F. Duncan, president, McShan.
J. M. Pearson, vice-president, Flor
ence.
E. J. Cook, secretary-treasurer, Bir
mingham.
W. A. Morris, state organizer, Sulli
gent.
O. P. Ford, lecturer, McFall.
J. N. Hutto, conductor, Lincoln.
M. G., Lumsden, sergeant-at-arms,
Dutton.
M. J. Taylor, doorkeeper, Lawrence.
Florida.
G. N. Trawick, president, Mayo.
W. G. Watford, vice-president, Esto.
J. R. Anderson, secretary-treasurer,
Union.
Jno. M. Caldwell, chaplain, Jasper.
S. Newburn, conductor, Madison.
J. A. Jackson, doorkeeper, Jasper.
R. L. Bishop, sargeant-at-arms, Ber
rydale.
W. M. Carlisle, lecturer, Dukes.
W. J. Mcßae, organizer, Harlem.
Executive Commitee: C. E. Pled
ger, chairman; W. C. Caldwell, secre
tary; J. L. Brown, J. M. Jenkins, G.
T. Braswell.
Illinois.
A. H. Evans, president, Lamason.
W. A. Bain, vice-president, Benton.
Andrew Shepherd, chaplain, Benton.
T. P. Crawford, conductor and state
organizer, Mount Vernon.
Henry Frick, doorkeeper.
Executive Committee: G. B. Sanders
chairman, Sparta; E. T. Price, secre
tary, Omaha; G. W. Bennett, Benton;
G. W. Ketteman, Ewing; M. M.
Simms, Macedonia.
Kansas.
J. E. McQulllln, president, Heizer.
Paris Henderson, vice-president, Os
age City.
GO TO FARMING.
A good living is what comparative
ly few men succeed in making in vil
lage city life, and yet nothing is
more easy of accomplishment on the
farm. Besides there is a pleasure in
cultivating and embellishing the
earth, improving and increasing its
products, and thus adding to the ag
gregate of human happiness. Why,
then, should young men hesitate to
be farmers! It is-both profitable and
honorable. It is the nearest approx
imation to independence that a man,
as a member of society, can make.
A gentleman farmer —and all farm
ers are, or should be, gentlemen—
belongs to an order of nobility that
is not indebted to place-holders for
installation, and may, if he chooses,
be ranked among the greatest bene
factors of the human race. Let the
idle young men go to work on farms,
and quit seeking third and fourth
rate elerksbips. In short, go to farm-
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN
M. M. Mitchell, secretary, Kingman.
Ole Olsen, doorkeeper, Salina.
C. E. Gray, conductor, Columbus.
Executive Committee: G. W. Can
field, Hallowell; W. F. Brown,' luka;
W. F. Eames, Delphos; J. M. Norman,
Burlingame; J. H. Torline, Beliefont
Louisiana.
J. E. Bullard, president, Belmont.
F. T. Baird, vice-president, More
house.
J. W. Boyett, Jr., secretary-treasurer,
Winnfield.
J. A. Ambrose, chaplain, Ruston.
W. H. Porter, conductor, DeSoto.
Geo. W. Smith, doorkeeper, Wash
ington.
Organizers: Jasper Boyett, District
No. 1; F. DeSoto, District No. 2.
Executive Committee: L. N. Holmes,
Bernice; C. R. Kelley, Dubach; R. Lee
Mills, St. Landry; I. N. McCollister,
Many; R. T. M. Hancock, Ruston.
Mississippi.
J. M. Bass, president, Hazlehurst
T Kyle, vice-president, Hazle
hurst
G. W. Russell, secretary-treasurer,
Hazlehurst.
E. M. Boyd, chaplain, Rayburn.
T. W. Thompson, conductor, Blue
Springs.
Abner Penn, doorkeeper, Aryeville.
Executive Committee: H. W. Brad
shaw, chairman, Mosley; T. R. Palmer,
secretary, Greenwood Springs; M. A.
Brown, Yazoo City; W. B. Dunway,
Enon; B. H. Wade, Belden.
Missouri.
John G. Wear, president, Poplar
Bluff.
N. H. Summitt, vice-president and
lecturer, Bertrand.
L. F. Luthy, secretary-treasurer,,
Lebanon.
J. J. Wilson, chaplain, Stanley.
A. Hughes, conductor, Kennett.
Wm. A. Yount, doorkeeper, White
Water.
James Mclntosh, sergeant-at-arms,
Purdy.
J. I. Barrett, business agent, Bly.
Executive Committee: John A. Mil
ler, East Prairie; J. E. Baker, White
Water; Fred M. Best, Lanagan; C. M.
Gooch. Ponder; Wm. B. Yount, Mar
ble Hill.
Oklahoma.
J. A. West, president, Shawnee.
ing and quit begging.—Effingham
News.
FENCING THE FARM.
It costs little money to divide and
subdivide a farm by fencing with a
good fence, and a good woven wire
fence is about as good as can be
built. It pays the cost and a good
profit right from the start for a farm
er to have the farm fenced so that
he can keep his stock at home and
also to keep other people’s stock
away. The farmer can then work
and not spend all his time in running
after his stock, remarks a writer in
Farm and Fireside.
In many localities the old rail
fence which has rotted down can be
used for firewood or built into a fence
on some part of the farm where the
good fence is not quite so impor
tant. The rail and board fences har
bor weeds, are subject to decay and
are very expensive in the loug run.
J. P. Connors, vice-president, Ca
nadian.
J. S. Murray, secretary-treasurer,
Shawnee.
C. C. Lee, chaplain, Granite.
J. W. Scott, doorkeeper.
Tom Roach, conductor.
Executive Committee: T. M. Jef
fords, Elgin, chairman; J. T. Calla
han, Enid; M. B. Brown, Cordell; O.
H. Matthews, Tupelo; W. G. Vandiver,
Granite.
South Carolina.
O. P. Godwin, president, Laurens.
T. T. Wakefield, vice-president, An
derson.
B. F. Earle, secretary-treasurer, An
derson.
A. B. Black, chaplain, Taylor.
M. A. Mahaffey, organizer, Belton.
Executive Committee: J. L. Pickett,
chairman, Seneca; W. L. Anderson,
secretary, Ninety-six.
Tennessee.
J. E. Montgomery, president, Green
field.
Samuel Young, vice-president, Chest
nut Bluff.
T. J. Brooks, secretary-treasurer,
Atwood.
J. T. Upton, organizer and lecturer,
Halls.
W. B. Savage, chaplain, Halls.
S. S. Fouch, doorkeeper, Medina.
W. T. Smith, conductor, Hardin.
G. A. Hornbeck, business agent,
Greenfield.
Executive Committee: S. R. Wil
liams, chairman, Lebanon; A. A.
Webb, secretary, Ripley; Dr. H. P.
Hudson,- Brownsville; Guy Perkins,
Stantonville; T. N. Epperson, Hum
boldt.
Texas.
D. J. Neill, president. Fort Worth.
J. P. Lane, vice-president; Gallatin.
C. Smith, secretary-treasurer, Fort
Worth.
B. F. Chapman, organizer and lect
urer, Fort Worth.
J. W. Smith, chaplain, Belton.
J. E. Beane, doorkeeper.
W. W. Scott, conductor.
A. H. O’Keeffe, business agent, Fort
Worth.
Executive Committee: W. T. Louder
milk, chairman, Proctor; J. C. Allbrlt
ton, secretary, Snyder; Peter Radford,
Whitt; J. E. Montgomery, Kyle; H.
Laas, Waller.
A good woven wire fence is clean
and thoroughly satisfactory. By
spending a few dollars for good fence
the farm will increase in value, so
that after all it is a method of sav
ing money.—Seneca Journal.
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THE DECLINE IN COTTON.
There has been a considerable
slump in the price of cotton during
the past several days, and as a result,
business among local merchants has
been very dull.
The conditions which have brought
about the temporary decline in the
price of cotton are due to causes en
tirely foreign to the market. Cotton
ie intrinsically worth as much as it
ever was, but the mills are not able
to secure at reasonable interest rates
the money to buy the stocks needed
for their business. That a reaction
will come is inevitable. How long
it will be postponed, it will be diffi
cult te say. The cotton farmers are
in an unusually prosperous condi
tion. The value of their product has
temporarily depreciated, not because
it is not needed, but because the spin
ners and manufacturers are postpon
ing their purchases on account of
the tight money market.
This is one of those occasions the
laws of supply and demand have been
set aside, not by immediate specula
tion, but by a business disturbance
which affects the money market and
thus indirectly every line of trade
and commerce. To this extent it has
temporarily halted the marketing of
the crop at fair prices. With re
stored confidence the re-action will
come and cotton will go up again!
The crop in Oglethorpe county this
year will be the largest grown in
many years. Many fields are yet
white with the fleecy staple, and
prosperity abounds. Oglethorpe
Echo.
OUR FARMERS HOLDING COT
TON.
The writer finds in traveling
through the county that our farmers
are by no means discouraged by the
recent drop in the price of cotton.
They are as a rule fully determined
that they are not going to sell at the
present prices and they are confi
dent that the price of the staple will
in a short time reach a fair and
proper level, until which time they
are going to hold on to the cotton.
It is theirs and they do not have
to sell it. They are in a good fix.
They have plenty to eat and to wear,
live in good houses and are about
as independent as anybody you ever
saw. They believe cotton ought to
be bringing 15 cents and that it will
bring that in a few months. Cer
tainly they believe that it ought to be
worth considerably more than ten
cents and they are going to hold for
much better prices.
They are not at all out of heart.
They are confident of the strength of
their position and are determined to
have what their product is worth be
fore parting with it. They made it
and they know what it costs at the
present high scale of prices for la
bor and for everything that they buy
and use. They believe that the price
of cotton ought to be commensurate
with the prices of other commodities
and this is not so vdien cotton is at
ten cents. They are therefore going
to hold on to their cotton, as they
are fully able to do, until a fairer
price level is reached, even if this
does not come until next spring or
summer or later.—Spartanburg Jour
nal
THE LEGS OF THE LAME NOT
EQUAL.
If a few farmers were to gather
themselves together and, just for the
pleasure cf the thing or for the pad
time afforded, were to engage in a
little game of poker for a one cent
ante, or a game of seven-up for a
five cent limit, they would be arrest
ed, jailed, yanked up before the
courts, and heavily fined.
A few New York etock gamblers
ean juggle with stocks and bends
without any limitations whatever, un-