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GOLF CLUB NOTES Privileges of Club Extended to College Stadents At their regular monthly meet ing, which was held last Friday evening, the directors of the Sun set Coimtry Club decided to extend the privileges of the golf course and club house to all the Sumter young, ladies and young gentlemen who attend colleges and are home for the holidays. The open sea son for this purpose will be from Friday, of this week through New Year's day. The directors also decided to make Tuesday, the twenty-sixth, an opgn day at the club, and all the people -of Sumter and the county are invited to use the links and the house that day. ? The directors found lots of mat ters" to discuss at their last meet ing, many matters of interest and ju^portance coming up for consider ation;. After a lengthy sitting the directors, adjourned to meet again at six Friday evening, the 29th of this'month; at the Chamber of Commerce. , t, m + ^ WflliamsrBradfonL A. ojiiet but impressive wedding took place Thursday afternoon at I 5 o'clock when Miss Junell Wil liams became . the bride of Mr. Pelham Bradford. The ceremony1 "was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. .1. Williams, 41D Vie&t Hampton Ave. On account of illness ivt the farruly, onl ythe nearest relatives of the contra c% in g parti* were present. The rooms were at tractively decorated with souther smilax, holly and ferns, with touch of pink here and there. To the strains of Lohengrin*" : Wedding March played by Mi James Shaw, the bridal pai descended the stairs. The first tt enter was little Maude Minter Tur ner as ring bearer. Sh e was dress ed in wl&te Jniported organdi? trimmed, in pink satin rose buds. The skirt was made in petals edgec with hemstitching and lace. -Around her hair- she wore a ban deau of pink tulle and pink satin rose buds. She carried the rii on a pink satin, pillow. Then came the groom with his best man, Mr. Marion Myers. The bride descend ed, the stairs on the arm of hei father, who gave her in marriage. She was never lovelier than when she met the groom- She wore a handsomely embroidered coat suit of midnight blue poiret twill with gray accessories and carried an _ armful of pink carnations and ^v^ferns. The impressive ring cere n>ony was pronounced by Rev. ThayerVpastori of First Baptist church, jffctef toe ceremony, de iicipus eakesTind pnnk and white blocked ice cre*?t9r<$nd joints were served. "~ . . The hay>py young couple left im mediatedly for interesting points in Florida.- After their return they will, make their home near Sumter where Mr. Bradford is a prosper ous planter. Mrs. Bradford is a pretty and charming woman.' For a number of years she has been a member of the faculty of the city schools. The many friends of this young couple wish for them much happi , ness. ?. ? ? Cain-Bowman. "Mr. i>. J. Cain and Miss Mpllie Bowman were very quietly married in Asheville on Thursday, the 21st a* 6 o'clock p. m. Miss Bowman has been teach ing in Asheville at St. Genevieve of the Pines for* the past several months. She is a graduate of that school. Mr. Cain, for the last four years has been assistant cashier of the National Bank of South Car olina. Immediately following the "cere mony they left for Atlanta and otheft. parts for a trip of several days. They will Return to- Sumter just after the Christmas holidays, to their home on ?Vesf Calhoun St. Miss Bowman and Mr. Cain are very, popular members of - the younger set. in Sumter, and their host of friends exten4 to them their most hearty best wishes. Death. Mrs. J. T. Bagnal died at her hon|e No. 2 9 Levi street at 3 o'clock Saturday .morning after a few hours illness, aged sixty years. She is surveyed b&* her husband, -four daughters, Miss Liraie Bagnal, ^liss Angie Bagnal. Mrs. A. L. Hodge and Mrs. W. C. King, Jr., and two'sons, H. S. Bagnal, all of Sumter, and Joseph Bagnal of Camp Bragg, N! C. The funeral services will be held from the res idence, 19 Levi street at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. ? ? m> Marriagre Licenses White: Junius K. Baker of Lynchburg and Hazel Knopf of Fairfax. R. S. Stokes of Sumter and Lu rene Johnson of Bishopville. Colored. Moses Chestnut and Mary James of Wedgefield. W. E. Diggs of Stateburg and Mary M. Hill of Providence. Samm.ie Marshall and Florence Carolina of Mayesville. Fred Scott, Jr., and Sarah Sum ter of Wedgefield. James Johnson and Francis Cab bagestalk of Oswego. Sidney MeClary and Maggie Bal den of Sumter. David Hudson and Mary Muldro^ of Mayesville. Mexican fans beat up a playei for hitting an umpire, showini Mexicans know nothing 'abou baseball. I Santa Claus Party Employees of Palmetto and Fidelity Insurance Com panies. Entertain Forty Children ! That there is infinitely more 1 pleasure in giving than receiving, [was beautifully exemplified Thurs day afternoon when the employees Iof the Palmetto Fire Insurance! j company and the Fidelity Fire In i surance Company were hosts at a j Santa Clans party and entertain j ment given for the benefit .of more Uhan forty of the city's little girls land boys whom Santa Claus, due j to the rush. of holiday business [might have overlooked. ! The companies' spacious club j rooms at No.- 125 S. Harvin St., t were beautifully decorated in true Christmas style and a large Christ mas tree stood majestically in the west end of the large halls. From the soft lights to the gold and silver tinsel there radiated an atmos phere of welcome and each and ev ery employee as well as several of the officials of the companies, en tered heartily into the spirit of the .occasion. Through the courtesy of those who own automobiles the bright, eyed, light hearted little guests were assembled promptly at 5:15 j o'clock. With hearts full of joy j and happiness, that freedom from j care' that only a child can know, they were entertained for half an hour with games, stories and reci tations over which^ Miss Dorita Moise presided in her usual charm ing manner. At 5:45 o'clock the tingle of , sleigh hells was heard in the vi cinity of the roof and simultan | eously it was announced that San jta had kept his appointment, j Eager faces were turned toward the j large .fireplace where the logs, rest [ing on old fashioned andirons were I aglow with that cheerfulness with ; out which Xmas would seem in j complete. The sleigh bells ceased j tingling, the reindeer stood still, 'as Santa in all his glory descend ed the long chimney and em erg ; ed from the fireplace. Then came I the happiest moments of the even I ing,- when Santa Claus called the I name of and presented to each of] I the. guests appropriate ? gifts, in- j ] eluding dolls, doll carriages, candy, I hooks, toys, fruits, nuts and horns, j j At 6:30 each child was promptly ! : returned to his or her home and it I [is a o.uestion as to who were the! ? happier?those who were entertain- j j ed or those who" availed them-! ]selves of the opportunity of assist-! ? ing Santa Claus to bring happi-< t ness to the hearts and lives of fit I tie children at Christmas time. ; Additional Christmas Contributions j The -following subscriptions to j the Christmas fund have been re-; I ported since the subscriptions were i ] last published: jlOth grade High school $6:00 I Jr. Order U. A. M. 5.00 ! J. K. Crosswell_?_ 10.00 i W. of W.__*__ 10.00 'Schwartz Bros __ r_ 25.-001 I Total __ __ ..$56.00 j Previously reported_$706.66 | j Total _.... $762.66 iDR, J. R. MOTT TO I SPEAK AT Y. M. C. A. CONVENTION j It is now, assured that Dr. John ? R. Mott will speak at the annual ; Y. M. C. A. state convention which j is to be held in Columbia on the |25th and 26th of January. Dr. iMott is one of our greatest states j men, and many people are looking [forward to hear him. Some days ago, goods were stol j en" from J.- M. Kohn in Mayesville. ! These goods were sold in Florence i and Mr. Kohn went to Florence and identified the goods as his. j The negroes who stole the goods j gave their address as Sumter. The ! authorities of this city have been j working for some time on this case with the aid of a man seht from ; Florence by the chief of police of : that city to identify the robbers. Saturday morning they were lo j cated in a house on E. Mary street land were immediately arrested. In j searching them, Chief Barwick rec iognized Mr. Costin's pistol, which j was stolen on December 11th, when jhis store was held up. They were I carried .to Mr. Costin's who identi fied the pistol. Mrs. Costin, who was in the store when it was held jup on December 11, identified these negroes as the same that came jinto the store on that day. The j man on which the pistol was found I was identified as .the man "who jumped over the counter of Mr. ; Costin's store and took it from the wall. The prisoners are well known to the police as old timers at this game and they feel very gratified lover the arrest. J The two creameries now estab lished cannot be operated success ? fully unless an adequate and con tinuous supply of cream is assur jed. To supply sufficient cream ; there must be five or more thou I sand, daiiy cows within shipping : distance of this city. There is a I lot of educational work to be done j in developing the dairying indus | try in this section of the state and this establishment of creameries is I only the first step and the easiest, i Every instrumentality that can be j effec tively used should be active j ly enlisted in the campaign to I transforming this section of the ? j state into a dairying region. ,1 - ? ? ? Six months from now you will jhave no trouble with the furnace. POSTMASTER HEIDTMAN CONFIRMED Senate Confirms Nom ination of John D. Heidtman, Postmas ter at Sumter Washington, Dec. 22.?John T. Heidtman was today confirmed by the senate as postmaster at Sumter, S. C. Berlin People Discuss Commission Reparations Settlement By American Business Men Pleases Germans Berlin, Dec. 21 (By the Associat ed Press).?The new reparations plans with which Chancellor Cuno and his immediate advisers are en gaged will not be based, it is an nounced, on any assumption of early active financial intervention! by the United States. The chan-j cellor. the minister of finance, Herr j Hermes, and the minister of eco-j nomics, Herr Becker, have been i holding a series of conferences with industrial,,, financial and commer cial leaders and the representa tives of organized labor during the past* week, and while the nature of these discussions have not been dis closed it is generally assumed the government's revised program for presentation to the premiers at the Paris conference will boldly suggest that a permanent solution of the reparations problem should be ar rived at and that a fixed definite sum should be named as indicat ing Germany's final indebtedness, j In their determination to achieve j definite and final adjustment of I Germany's reparations debts, Chan- j cellor Cuno and his ministers are ! encouraged by the attitude of in dustrial and financial leaders who j in a measure have made this a Condition of their collaboration and i by the sentiment of other oues ters in favor of such procedure. They intend, if possible to get away from ' the ? "adjustment" and "re- j spite'* stage. "Before this is accomplished no coordinated system of financial re form, or internal remedial meas ures can be carried^ out, in. the opinion of the, ministers. "We as a nation can not see day light ahead until some definite goal is set for us." said one member of the. cabinet, and he added that limited moratoriums and the "breathing spaces" granted to Ger many have invariably had "disas trous effects on her currency and her efforts to adjust her budgets. Just7 how far the reparations proposals which Chancellor Cuno is drafting will consider outside financial relief in return for the new German officers is not indi cated nor is any hint forthcoming of the nature of the guarantees or securities which Germany proposes to pledge. The chancellor, how ever, is reported as being more op timistic regarding the outlook for a substantial internal gold loan be cause of the encouragement ex tended to him by the industrial ists and financial circles to push Germany's capacity for payments to the limit of her ability. He will look for concessions and exemp tions frojn certain reparations conditions which have been the subject of repeated official pro tests. Meanwhile the nation's internal economic situation may be said to have become worse not only with regard to the government's inabil ity to curtail expenditures, ba'ance budgets and check the floating debt; but also with respect to its cur rency inflation. The output for the first half of December exceeds 216,000,000.000 marks, and as the closing weeks .of the year invari ably show the heaviest drains on the reichbank. it is estimated at the end of the year will be far in excess of 1.000,000,000,000 marks. On account of the . complete col lapse of the holiday trade the sit uation in retail business is highly j unfavorable. London, Deo. 21.?Dr. Theodore I Melchoir, banker of Hamburg and j one of Germany's delegates to the Versailles peace conference, has ! gone to Paris, where he will sub mit to the French government fresh reparations proposals, says, a Central News dispatch from Ber j lin, quoting the Lokal Anlieger as j its authorifc'. The proposals, the ?dispatch adds, will include*a pro | ject for the payment of $20,000, ? 000,000 gold marks in a lump sum. Million Dollar Suit Filed. Lancaster. S. C, Dec. 22.?C. D. Jones, president of the First Nat j ional Bank of Lancaster, today j filed suit for one million dollars 'damages here against Leroy j Springs, John T. Stevens, H. R. ; Wright and William J. Shecter, na Itional bank examiner, alleging a J conspiracy among the defendants (to ruin him financially, socially and j professionally. The bill charges that Sheeter en j tered into an agreement with j Springs, Stevens and Wright to igive confidential information about ; the plaintiff in his examination !into the affairs of the First Nation al Bank and that the examiner's i report was false. When the modern girl has no j complexu; ) she will make up for it, The onlv hunter who trails race ?tracks is a fortune hunter. j The fastest thing is opening a i window and getting into bed be lfere the cold air hits you. The Standard Creamery If the Farmers Will Do Their Part by Putting Cows on the Farms* Sumter Will Soon Be Creamery Center For South Carolina A very important new Sumter enterprise which makes Sumter the Creamen' center of South Carolina, will start operations on January 1st, 1923. The Standard Cream ery, owned and operated by the Sumter Ice & Fuel Company,, has completed the modern brick build ing: which was constructed entire ly for creamery purposes, and has j installed its new and modern equip- j ment for the manufacture of the; "Gold Bond" creamery butter. Mr. E. H. Moses, the general j manager, stated that this creamery j will be in the market for all of the butterfat or cream that is shipped in and will also take all pure milk j on a butterfat basis. The Standard J Creamery proposes to live up to its name and emblem in every trans- j action yrith the producers of but-j terfat and with consumers of "Gold Bond" butter. The Sumter Ice & Fuel company; has established this modern cream- I ery with the view of making it also a community development propo sition and guarantees that every farmer dealing with this concern : will be given a square deal and as sisted in making dairying pay oh his farm. The chief objects in the operation of this plant will be quality and sanitation and the numerous ap paratus composing the equipment indicate that these two aims will be fully realized. The large refrigerating plant, two large pastuerizing machines and cooler attachment, guarantee that nothing but healthful and ab solutely clean cream and milk will be used or sold. The steam ster ilizing bottle washers, the dust and fly-proof building, splendidly drain ed cement floors, snow White and smooth walls and ceilings, ample water supply, which together with the electric power and steam plant are,owned by the' Sumter Ice & Fuel Company, the big elec trically driven revolving and san itary churn, the latest improved, air and dust proof milk and but terfat shipping cans, the cream separators, all of these stand "for cleanliness, economy in handling and manufacture and great reac tion of overhead expenses, which will enable this enterprise to pay the farmers the highest possible market prices and at the same time" give consumers the benefit of mon ey saved m production by reduc ing expenses to a very low mini mum. The new creamery is at the end of East Liberty street next to the. Rowland Cotton warehouses. Mr. W. J. Sealer is the book keeper for this enterprise and:!Mr. Ej. H. Moses, the manager, like Mr. Seale is known far and wide for their square dealings a,nd courteous treatment of the public Sumter is very proud of the Standard Creamery and the opening of this latest improved creamery makes two up-to-date creameries for Sumter, and a big ice cream factory now being put in, which will give Sumter three splendid. ; outlets for marketing of butterfat |and~raw milk. I Mr. Moses says the Standard [Creamery can handle all of the butterfat and milk shipped from 'any county in South Carolina or j elsewhere and that his plant will, I if necessary, operate day and night [shifts to accommodate the farmers [in beating the boll weevil to it by i operating factories on every k farm [in the shape of the dairy cow, the mothers of prosperity. Ship your butterfat and milk to Sumter. The public is invited to inspect this new enterprise. Meeting*K. of P." Game Cock Lodge K. of P. had fa most enthusiastic meeting on .Monday night, December 18, in [spite of the exceedingly bad weath jer. The report of the special 'committee was read and adopted. [ A great many matters of import lance were brought up and acted ; upon. Being the second meeting in De cember, the regular night for the j election of officers for its ensuing ;year, the' following officers were j elected: ] Geo. D. Levy, C. C. ! C. C. Beck, V. C. i ? M. D. Werner, prelate. R. E. Wilder, K. of R. & S. ! C. J. Merrin, M. A. j J. A. Middleton, M. E. ! J. C. Brown, M. W. S. O'Quinn, I. G. ?< \ . John S. Kennedy, O. G. i The special committee was not [discharged, but ordered to make !all arrangements for the instaila j tion of the officers in January, j Chancellor Commander-elect G. | D. Levy made a most telling heart I to-heart talk to the members which j was followed in shorter form by ithe others. j Everything points to a most j prosperous year under Mr. Levy's i guidance, and he was pledged the united support not only of the of ficers-elect, but the past chancellor and members. Marriage Licenses. White: Clarence S. Kent ol Sumter, and Alma Shumaker ot Klliott. Colored: Milton Paterson and Comilla Preston of Mayesville. Jesse Rogers and Kate Wilson of Oswego.: Xero Scott and , Julia Richburg of Sumter. Premier Hughes of Australia was stabbed with a hatpin, showing .Australian women have equa rights. They use glycerine for tears ir the movies because mo<ie stars car think of nothing to cry about. I j Money For I Cotton Research Southeastern Part of Belt Dis heartened, Says Chief of \ * Government Bureau ? "Washington, Dec. 21.?The Southeastern part of the cotton belt is disheartened, to an extent disor ganized, in its whole cotton produc ing effort, Dr. William A. Taylor, chief of the bureau of plant in dustry of the department of agri culture, told congress in asking for increased appropriation for' the work of his bureau for the coming year. The way out; Dr. Taylor said, appeared to necessitate as one im portant thing the concentration of production upon fewer varieties of cotton, which can be grown, gin ned and marketed upon a standard quality -.basis, and the time is ripe for that work now. "The increase is desired, for en largement of the cotton variety im provement work," said Dr. Taylor, "with special reference to South eastern conditions, where at pres ent, at least until prices began to go up, exceeding depression has exist ed because of boll weevil trouble, low prices and low yield.. Jt is desired to develop at some point in the Southeastern territory a nucle-. uar variety improvement unit for pureseed production activities, somewhat comparable with that vyhich has for some years been' maintained at Greenville, Texas* where the LOne Star variety of cotton has centered, which has become a .very important_ feature of cotton production there." - ' ? ? m Wateree Bridge Celebration South Carolina Good Roads Association to Participate The South Carolina Good Roads Association is very much interested in the approaching Wateree Rtver Bridge opening celebration accord ing to copy of letter received at Sumter Chamber of Commerce ad dressed to President of " Young Men's Business League of Sumter, in care of Mr. John Buck, and this association wants a place on the program. The letter is as follows: Charleston, S. C. . December 20th, 1922. Dear Sir: ,1 have? read with much interest 'im' the. press that your organiza tion will participate in the celebra tion of the opening of the Wateree River Bridge between Sumter and Richland counties which will be seid some time in January. /We would like very much to take part in your program and hope that <XOU will advise us of the date of your celebration and if-a place- can1 be provided for us oh your pro gram. Yours for good roads everywhere in South Carolina. J. GILMORE SIMTH, President KANSAS GOVERNOR TO U-URGE ENACTMENT OF HIS PLATFORM j Topeka, Kan., Dec. 22. ?In his message to the Kansas ^legislature which-convenes January 9, Govern or-elect Jonathan M. Davis will, he asserts, 'emphasize the main points of the party platform on which he was elected. Repeal of the In dustrial Court law is one of the i planks. It was a democratic plat form and the* legislature is over whelmingly republican, the house 96 to 29; the senate, 38 to 2. Other points are: Reduction of I taxes;" abolishment of "many use less boards and commissions, and consolidation of many others"; abolition of the State Highway 'Commission; place control of high way construction with hoards of county commissioners; restore rhome rule"/to cities in regulation"] of Its public utilities (powers nowj vested in the state public utilities j commission); and ."passage of an; act creating a board of concilia-' tion and mediation with full power to investigate, advise and recom mend and give all said facts, ad vice and 'recommendations to the public." Announcement by. the State Tax Commission that, it favors a state income tax and will have* a bill in troduced in the. legislature, has created much interest, ; Other im portant measures in sight are: - List of child welfare laws pre I pared by a commission appointed i by the state; revised edition of the j Statutes of Kansas; establishment jot state grain warehouses; estab lishment of farm marketing bu reau; codification and revision of state school laws; adoption of state highway system to be constructed by the state and financed by $60, 000,000 bond issue defrayed by au tomobile license revenue; reclassi fication of property for taxation: revision downward of salaries of state officials. The legislature is obligated through adoption of the soldier bonus amendment last elec tion, to vote $25,000,000 bonds to pay this compensation?$ 1 a day for each day in service. -? m m . INVESTIGATION OF FREIGHT RATES Columbia, Dec. 23.?FitzWilliam MeMaster Woodrow, examiner for the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, has been conducting the hearing in Columbia of the case brought by South Carolina Produce Association of Meggett's and the Beaufort County Truck Growers' Association, against some fifty j railroads in the matter of freight I rates on truck from the coastal re gion of the state to northern mar kets, plans to spend the Christ imas holidays in this city with rel t atives. Mr. Woodrow is a cousin [of Woodrow Wilson, former pres ident. * m\ LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN POTATOES Crops That Require Less La bor For Their Cultivation <N. L. W?tet in Augusta Chronicle) The cotton crop of this yearj which amounted to less, than ten million bales is the second small est one in twenty years. There was a good deal of brave talk along last spring as concerning a twelve to thirteen million bale crop. As regards L923 I cannot see a bigger crop for that year than we have this year, that is if a section within five hundred miles radius of Augusta is I an indes: of the country. I am wondering indeed, if this above section will not be twenty per cent short-handed in the coming year. There is no doubt that in some of our counties seventy-five per- cent of the labor, is off the farm and has I either migrated north or is work-! ing in home saw mill work. This negro exodus is. not nearly so bad! along the coast as it is in the Pied-j mont and sub-Piedmont where the' people are, as I may say, cotton-] sick. The hilly red lands arej looking for .a crop to take the place, of a cotton crop and a crop that will require less labor than the cotton crop. The cotton industry requires, a great deal of labor. In the middlewest the farmer gets along with one-half or even per haps one-t hind of the labor that I we use here In this country. A Carload. Last year I induced a friend of mine up in the red hills to grow Lookout Mountain potatoes. He grew a crop more easily in his life. The crop should Aum out from a Thee rop should? turn out from a hundred to a hundred and twenty five bushels per acre. He used two hundred pounds of 9-3-3 per acre. ! These potatoes are a different type I wholly from spring planted pota toes and do not sprout until late in June. They keen, thoroughly sound throughout the fall and win ter and without. shrinking until May time and they are better eat ers in the fall and winter than jany other known potato. There [will'be plenty of demand for this seed v stock this next spring. My j friend is going to bank them like j sweet potatoes. ; A Carolina Expert. Another man was in my olfice a jfew days ago who has been for years a leading grower and author ity on this potato. He says "that the northern part of Carolina and [of Georgia should grow the eating [potato stock for these two states for fall and winter use and which would thus keep out-the importa tion of western eating potatoes. He says that this is the logical thing [to take place here but that there iare two handicaps: first, the native j potato grower will not sort his po tatoes and pack them rightly; and second, he says that the wholesale potato men are hard to turn away j from'the western product and that they will "pay twenty-five cents a 'bushel more for Michigan and Wis f consin and Colorado potatoes than they will for this home grown prod uct?e-v/pn though the home grown may be more tasty, i |_. Seeping. There is no difficulty about keep ing the Lookout Mountain potato so long as you remember that you must keep it away from frost and keep it away" from light. Let it keep alj the moisture, however, that can possibly .obtain. Usually dark cellars are used and long crates, about two /feel wide, are the usual receptables for taking care of them. They, of courge, must be watched in cold weather but there is nothing difficult I repeat, about keeping these potatoes, provided one re members that they are liable (like ail potatoes) to' damage through j frost and light. These potatoes seem to be-.indicated for the hilly semi-mountainous country. They do not seem to^do so well in the coastal plain. [Indicated. I have seen enough of this Look j out Mountain Industry during the past fifteen years up in the red hills to-know that there is the mak ings of a great industry for the red hills in this potato. For several years, hqwever, the growers need not be concerned about his product going into the food store, for the demand as aseed matter for several years will certainly take up all available supplies and when a sur plus above seed is made I feel sure j that the farmer will grade correct ! ly and that the eating potato sell ers will have circumspection enough to take on this quite super ior home matter. The point I am trying to make, however, is that the cottonless red hills have an available crop and a cash crop in place of cotton and that it is a crop that will require 'less farm hands than the cotton crop requires. N. L. W. Sumter County Permapent Road Commission held a special meeting yesterday to hear delegations from the Wedgefield, Paxville and Oswe go sections relative to the routes ' for building hard surfaced roads in their respective sections. ? Quite a number of parties from the different townships were pres |ent, and logical arguments in favor [of several different routes were presented to the Commission. The ?Board is exceedingly anxious to [construct these roads where they will best serve the greatest number of parties, and decided before let [ ting any contracts they would per sonally inspect the different routes in a body and consider these matters from every angle at their next regular meeting, which will be held on Thursday, Januarv 4, 1923. After raising cain about turkey prices remember that a Christmas goose couh a week's pay in Berlin. PROFIT FROM ADVERTISING How California by Progressive Advertising Enormously In creased the Demand For * Many, of Its Products. A Lesson of Value to AH Business Men Widely known as is the value of advertising certain facts about it are not as generally understood and appreciated as they should be even among some of the men most intimately concerned with it either as buyers or sellers of publicity. It was at a recent meeting of ad vertising men in New York City that Frank E. Fehlman, of the New YOrk office of the Lord & Thomas advertising agency, told his auditors,.that broad advertising of industries or products is pri marily a banker's proposition, and that if sufficient and dependable information is put before a banker so that he cap consider and weigh possibilities, he is usually respon sive and will back a campaign to advertise products and their dis tribution. After The speechmaking, some exceedingly valuable and interest ing data from the firm was dis tributed to the gathering showing the great advances which had been made in the California fruit industry in consequence of careful ly planned and wisely executed ad vertising work extending over a number of years. The data, showed that in the year 1907, when adver tising of California oranges was begun,, the shipments amounted to abou.t 10,290,000 boxes each year for the season ended October 31; the shipments had averaged about that for two or three years, ex cepting in 1906 when, owing to unfavorable growing conditions? shipments declined to less thap 9, 000,000 boxes. In 1908 the shipments mounted nearly half a million of boxes owing to advertising and in 1909 they exceeded 13,400,000 boxes. Since then there has been year af ter year, a generally tipward move ment in the number of boxes ship ped, excepting, notably in 1913 when there was a freeze, and in 1918 when a heat wave damaged the crop, although there were oth er years when (there was some sag ging backward, but the general movement was upward, the high iwater mark fit over 22,100,000 .boxes being reached in 1921. It is shown that tne growth/ of 'shipments was due to increasing jthe demand for, oranges and orange [products. For. instance when the [men engaged in citrus fruit raising [wanted to increase the use of r orangeade and lemonade as bev jerages, they found that the soda 'water trade was unwilling, to co r operate because of the additional [trouble it would occasion, so the j fruit men perfected and manutac | tured electrical devices to quickly ' press out orange juice and lemon juice in plain view of customers, making it easy for the soda water [ trade to sell them and also showing that the juices were pure and real. More than 4000 of the machines were sold during the last six I months at a cost of $50 each, and [now the industry is in position to j advertise orangeade and lemon ade extensively and thus influence the public consumption of them. A similar ca.mpaign to popular iize the use of raisins was also adopted and carried out. Nine years ago, in 1913, the production of California raisins was about 132,000,000 pounds and consump tion of them about 110,000,000 pounds, leaving a surplus of 22v 000,000 pounds. Then the raisin growers and others interested in marketing the crop, through their association began to advertise the use of raisins for raisin bread and pies, putting on the market a new package for bakers,. so that they were persudaded to produce more iand more of such comestibles, and I within a very few years a big bus [iness was built up in connection with extensive publicity through magazines and newspapers, 40,000, 000 more pounds of raisins ? being sold wiping out the surplus and adding 18,000,000 pounds of new trade. Thus in 1917 there were produced in California 326,000, 1000 pounds of raisins, all of which iwere sold and there was thus no ; carry over, this great change hav ing been accomplished in - only four years. The greatest year in raisin production, was 1919 when i 365,000,000 pounds were raised and I sold, the consumption of raisins be \ ing increased from 1.1 pounds per ?capita in 1913 to 3.41 pounds in j 1910. In 1920 the crop was 3474 j 000.000 pounds, all being sold. It I is further observed that within live weeks after a 5-cent package of raisins was marketed orders jwere received for 333,000,000 such packages valued at retail at $16, 1500,000. By this means alone 32, i 000,000 pounds of raisins were sold, j The walnut trade has also been ; greatly increased by advertising along similar lines. In 1907 the consumption of walnuts in this j country was something over 37, 000,000 pounds of which Califor nia supplied 14,000,000 pounds. Advertising was begun in 1915 when the consumption reached 50,000,000 pounds from which point it has grown to more than 87,000.000 pounds in 1921, with over 41,600.000 pound? supplied by California. The California lemon industry has also profited greatly by like judicious and popular advertising methods, winning a larger share of the domestic business for this fruit. Eighteen years ago, it is stated, three fourths of the lemons used in this country came from Italy and Sicily. California supply ing one fourth. In 1921 Califor nia had very nearly 84 per cent ol the business although foreign growr lemons came in at lower prices, Advertising was begun in 1915. Again, the California Fruit Grow ers Exchange has pursued an ad vertising policy which has result - . ed in marketing their sumtafer - oranges, which mature irom May. ? to November, with the result that, % now practically as many ^oraag^s are sold in summer as in winter^ in. spite of competition from the rip- ?-? I ening berries and other* summer' [i fruits. Explosives For Farmers and the Road Builders Government Off ers Large Sup ply at a Nominal Price Washington, Dec. 21.?Farmers and road builders of the south are. being given a special opportunity by the Bureau of Public Roads, de partment of agriculture, to obtain large quantities of high explosives at this time. These explosive?, which are surplus war materials, consist of picric acid in cartridge form, and the Only expense to tfce. farmer and road * builder ? 'Sa. .ttfcr * cost of cartridging, distribution and freight. The southern farmer and road builder will never have such. a j chance again, it is believed in Washington, to clear" # lands Of stumps, open irrigation di&aes and canals, and blast out rock aaft ' build highways with such small ; expense for the highest grade c* .. explosives. Certainly no such op portunity is expected to come again during the lifetime of the present generation as no b|g war in which1 the United States might be involve ed is looked for and it is not ber; lieved that the government wSI 1 i ever again have such a large stock of surplus war explosives on hand. Farmers and road builders who ; want the explosives, ?it is stated, should address inquiries to the bu reau of public roads, department j of agriculture, Washington, con J, gress having passed a law that the j war department should turn, the explosives over to the department i of agriculture for distribution- to Jthe states, at merely the cost of ? cartridging,' distribution and j freight. The south has many thou- : I sands ..of acres of stump lands [which could be cleared with these ! explosives, particularly in Missis I sippi, North Carolina, South Car iolina, and Louisiana. The state j h ighway commissions and other jroad builders have used the gov jernment's picric acid with great [success, but the farmers have not ' taken full advantage of their op f'portunities to get. the explosives,, jand it is believed in Washlngtoir Ufcat they should do so. Mississip^ ; pi has used?more than r,GO0,8OO j pounds of surplus war explosives on highway work alone. The state of Georgia has used 506,009 pounds of these explosives and the states of S#uth Carolina-and Flor ida have also used large quantities, {but there lemains' a considerable quantity sftll available, both for the use of the farmers and for the use of the highway builders. The ; picric acid, the Bureau of PnW?r i roads states, is the safest of all ax- ' * plosives to use, and is equal t? what is known as "fifty per c*mt commercial dynamite." ? '?-? ? O-^? ' Profit in Poultry Home Demonstration Mafee Splendid Showing in . Poultry .3 Poultry work in South Carolina I has never had a brighter future. |The increase in production and the j improvement in breeding has neyej jbeen greater in any one year than [in 1922.' Under the supervision of (the home demonstration depart ment, 39 'women's clubs wittt members, 30 community and 3 county poultry associations w*th a membership of 629 men ana vo ] men. and 56 boys' and girls' clubs j with 639 members, have had in t struction and individual help in ! poultry culture. The number of j purebred fowls raised last year '.was, 29,876 as compared with 111? 756 this year. The total value' of poultry products sold and used at home amounts to $l35,56S.2fi. Reports from the county agenis show that more than 364 meetings have been held with boys' and girls' clubs and equally as many with adults. Much marketing of poultry' has been done by the agents, and all found ready sale on the South Carolina markets. <Jf the $66,93G.4S brought from the poultry sold a great part of : it - found sale through the help suggestions of the home demonstra tion agents. Several large poultry farms ihave been established this year. One is keeping this winter 3,000 layers, and a number have as many as 1,000 hens. Numbers of large incubators have been installed and baby chicks by the thousands wih be turned out next spring, ." ? Xb state is better suited for >he production of poultry than S&Jth Carolina and with a little more time, our farmers and breeders will keep pace with the best of ; poultry producing states. From an account of what Judge Card, Connecticut, had to say about the quality of the Reds <tt the s^uth Carolina Rhode Island Show at Chesterfield: ^In va riety, South Carolina R. I. Reds of single comb variety are on par with any exhibit ever staged in an ' eastern show, includiftg the big gest city and hub of the universe. As a northern and eastern judge who has handled the world's best, 1 an> stating without equivocation or mental reservation that this grand class of Reds at Chester field was ?ar superior to any ex hibit I have judged this season, and would compare, favorably with the best <*'inter shows north, east, and west." ? A fish lived 267 years in a Swiss aquarium^ Some in streams near . here will live longer than that^r The slight earthquake in California-recently was not {hammer stayer being captured, *