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LEXINGTON SUPEIORt~ Again Mihute Man' Six Sets Pace for All Others to Follow. Form 3201 - WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM. NEWCOMB CARLTON, President G EORQ W. E. ATKINS, First Vice President RECEIVED AT 136 D DO 42 NL Hendersonville, N. C., July 25, 1917. Carolina Machinery Company, Sumter, S. C. My hat off to the Lexington. Came through thirty miles of clay mud with differential plowing eight to ten inches deep in mud. Some places mud four inches up on gasoline tank. Everything stalling but the Lexington. Mileage per gallon seventeen miles. W. H. Anderson, Mr. Anderson is Mayor of Summerton, S. C., and a large cotton buyer. o .No Greater Homage Could Be Paid Any Car, Regardless of Price Carolina. Machinery Company DISTRIBUTORS Opposite Postoffice . Box 327 SUMTER, S. C. Local and Long Distance Phone 2 .i~iidiilll'iIII*.fi~i'i'HHHRHHHHH isilig-HHi___iliiigggggxggg MOTHER DIES, CHILD OF 95 YEARS LEFT "MaumiO' Tisbie Thomas, of Near Manning, Believed to Have Reached Age of 127. MOTHER OF TEN CHILDREN Born a Slave, Lived a Useful Life, Highly Respected by All White People. Manning, July 28.-A nota' le in stance of what might be fittingly termed prolonged longevity was fin ally brought to a close last Saturday evening when old "Mauma" Tisbie Thomas died about a mile and a half from Manning. According to the best obtainable records. and tradition she ,1 . * "I \ r \ \N% waseborn in what is now Clarendon County, in the Jack's Creek settle men, near where thi town of Sum merton is now located, in the year 1790, which would make her at the dime of her death about 127 years old. She was born in slavery, first be longing to #ohn Thames, and later to B. A. Walker, father of the late Ben Walker, of this town. At the close of the Confederate war, when emanci pation became established, her last owner was Levy Rhanie, near where Silver is now located. She lived there until about five years ago,, when she was brought to Manning to live with her grand-son-in-law. She was mar ried at an early age and notwith standing separation troubles brought about by having different owners, her only husband was Jeff Thomas, of Be thune. . To them were ten children born, all living to b old men and 11111 11111 DeO1i f iny. *Dobifleb.8 LOG a . If 1"I'f!: . fil women. Her oldest daughter, Caro line Gamble, is now living near Man ning, being over ninety-five years old. The latter is the mother of twelve children, the youngest one no~w living being about forty years old. Like her mother, Caroline Gamble has been married only onge. Saw Her Great-Great-Grandchildren. Tisbie Thomas lived to see her great-great-grandchildren. Her mind was bright up to the day of her death, though she had been paralyzed for about nine months. It is remarkable ,hat she was able to visit her grand and groat-grandchildren during the last year, walking more than two miles alone to be with them. She was well liked by all, both white and col ored. She had served all over this entire country, Sumter as well as Clarendon, as a midwife, hence she had a home wherever she wished to stop, for all knew her. From what can he learned she was a woman of excellent character and an exemplary Christian. Those who knew her in tiniately say it was a pleasure to con verse with her about the many changes she had witnessed in Clar endon county, from a wilderness al most belonging to the wild animals to a field of beauty dotted with beau tiful homes. She remembered when there were few public roads, with by paths leading into them from one sec tion to another. Thus has passed away perhaps the last link in this section connecting he eighteenth with the twentieth -enturies. WFvORT TO lEAVE U. S. STATE PEACE TERMS Washington, July 29.-An effort to have congress pass a resolution stat inr upon what terms the United ]tates will make peace was started to:lay by the American Union Against Militarism. The executive comnittee appealed to Senator Stone, chairman of the co'mmittee on foreign relations, to in troauce such a measure. Senator Stone would not indicate tonight what action he would take. The resolution suggested by the nion states that Russia and Germny 41henover You 1. a l 'Tonic ' 'Take The Old St a i Tasteless :hill Tonic 'c na . Geaeral Tonl -! 0e t ;ve.l known ad IRON ~~ a out Malari 'alldu mip are the only nations which have signi fied upon what terms thew are will ing to talk peate and urges that con gress call upon England, France, Italy and our other allies to adopt resolu tions "expressing their willingness to enter' into peace negotiations with the Russian formula as -a basis." The letter is signed by Amos Pin chot, Lillian D. Wald, Max Eastman, L. Hollingsworth Wood, Rev. John Haynes Holmes. Norman Thomas, Roger N. Baldwin, Alice Lewisohn, Charles T. Hallinan, Crystal Eastman and Dr. John Loyejoy Elliott. DREADS DRAFT, SO ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Death Rather Than Army For York Negro With - Ticket 258. York, July 30.-Despondent because he will be summoned this week to appear in York next Monday for ex amination as to his fitness for army service and dreading the idea of going to war, John Wilson, No. 258, a negro, of the Hoodtown section, the first per son in the western district of York county to be drawn under the select ive draft law Friday, July 20, at tempted to commit suicide last week by hanging himself. Wjlson, who is about twenty-five years of age and who is said to hard ly possess average intelligence, is in the employ of Mr. William Hayes, of the Ioodtown section. It. is under stood that he has been worrying much since he learned thatl he was the first man draws for army duty in the western district. According to a story told by several negroes who live in the neighborhood ; whi--h Wilson resides, the negro tiedi a noose around his neck and was preparing to suspend himself when other parties interfered. That oc curred early last week and since then Wilson is said to have' made two other unsuccessful attempts to end his life. le told several persons Fri clay that he had three ballA in his pistol and "I am going to put one in. my wife and another in my child and the other in myself before I let them take me to war." Wilson is being watched closely. People who know him believe that the draft And the idea of going to war has so preyed on his mind that he has been driven insane temporarily t least, and there is little possibility now that he will bo accepted for army service. TWO OUT OF EVERY NINE DOCTORS FOR WAR Washington, July 29.-Two out of every nine physicians in the United States of military age will be requir ed for war service. , There are about 90,000 physicians in the country of military age and fully 24,000 will be needed for war service, perhaps more. They will be mobilized through a selective " system. The system will operate in such a way as to draw a contribution of medical men from Shakee! *17 My old friend Styleplus 7 Clothes.... During the Tobacco S special efforts to get of Clothinq before th pay you to come inl a inducements we are o D. Hirsc MANNIN wery community without actually de riving the community of a needed lumber of doctors. A detachment for each national irmy regiment will reach the canton nents ahead of the troops so as to tupervise necessary health and sani ary work. ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES. 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