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S'IUMME~ I'I SThe Source is the Same! All corners of the earth contribute medicinal ents. Science has enabled man to puriy, refine, assay, standard ize and guarantee the quality and efficiency of the finished product. Pre scriptions filled at RHAME'S DRUG STORE meet every test. Specify RHAME'S and stop wo ying--The cost may be a little more. Rhaine's Drug StoreI SUMMERTON, S. C. ICfifF9 W. B. SMIT1 The Barber of Summerton Is now in position to render to the public quicker and better service. A call will be appreciated. Special pains and care will be given to children. In the mean time bring or send your old suit along and have it made to look new by a man of experience. This will enable me to keep the help in the shop that I have. Thanking you in advance, I am, Yours for business, W. B. SMITH H. P. TROY, SUMMERTON, S. C. Special for this Week: Hand-Packed Tomatoes 9 Cents. Good Price on Honduras Rice Plenty of Sugar on hand. No restrictions. Always come to see us. This Space For Sale! T o Our Many Friends and Customers:- 1 Fully appreciating the liberal patron'age given us in the past, we take great pleasure in announcing that we have now added to our line of staple andI heavy groceries a right-up-to-the-minute, Fancy Groceries In this faiicy grocery dlepartment you will find everything Sabsolutely sanitary, and nothing but the best in eatables on the market, so when you are looking for something good to appease teappetite just call up phone No. 29, and our "lightning speed Sporter' will be there with the goodls on the minute. We also do quite a wholesale business, so when in the market Sfor a box of bacon, flour, meal andl grits, rice Bugar, etc., along * with any case goods, better always get our prices and save money. We also sell dry goods, shoes, notions, etc., and invite com Sparison in p~rices in this line. Lots of business witha a small margin overruns a small business with large margins. That's why we Smake our margin small, showing our willingness to divide our profits, thereby selling iot.s of stuff'. Your business large or small will always be appreciated, and weshall in the future as in the past, (do our utmost to give yu t fresh clean goods. We stand behindi every article we sell with Sthis guarantee, "your money cheerfully refunded if not as repre Ssonted." When in town make our store your headquarters. We Sare always glad to see you, regardless as to whether we sell youor ot. McClary-Broadway Company. H. C CARIGN, R.,Manager. . H. MEDLIN, Summerton is proud of all her sol dierboys and they all have made good. But among those who we are all very proud of is Capers James. This young man graduated at the Citadel, class 1916, and was commissioned 2nd Lieu tenant on military stand in college. fie sailed for West'Indies April, 1917, and has been prongoted to 1st Lieu tenant, Captain and Major, having re ceived his commission as Major about three weeks ago. Major James is home on a furlough now much to the delight of his many friends. Major James will be 23 years old 'in April. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Barfield spent a few (lays in Columbia last week. During the last few weeks the farmers have made rapid progress in the way of preparing their lands, and even though at one time It looked like it would be impossible to get ready for planting as early as th'e people have been planting, it now appears that everybody is ready for planting. And almost all the leading farmers are through planting corn. It is said that work on the tobacco warehouse here will start in the near future. Lots of the weed is being planted in this section. There are also a lot of other building going on and if lumber and worrmanship were to be had quite a lot more buildings would go up. Summerton was the scene of a bold robbery on Tuesday morning about three o'clock. The new postoffice was broken into and the safe blown open. About $1,000 in cash and stamps, in cluding war savings and thrift stamps was taken. After the robbery the marauders went to the garage of Rev. W. M. Walton, taking his car and making their escape. The car was found broken down later in the morn ing near Pinewood. No clue has been found, although there are a thousand surmises .s to whom the guilty par tiet are. Mr. and Mrs. T. H1. Gentry enter tained at !h' ir commodious country home on Monday evening in honor of Lieit. .T. A. .ames, Jr., who has re cently been discharged (rom the army, after seeing foreign service for sev eral months. The whole lower floor was thrown open to the guests, and the decora tions, consisting of cut flowers and ferns, were very attractive. During the early part of the evening games and contests were enjoyed, while the latter part of the evening was given over to dancing on the spacious porch. Miss Martha Walker and Mr. Robert Reaves were the recipients of the prize in the contest "The Wearing of the Green," which was a novel idea carrying out St. Patrick's Day, while Mr. W. W. Danvis andl Mrs. J1. A. James won the other prize. One of the most enjoyable features of the evening was several vocal selections by Miss Pauline Hlaynesworth of Sumter. A de: s salad course, fol lowedl by cream andl cake was servedl in the dining room at a late hour. There wvere several out of town guests present, including Mr. Con nors Gentry, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. HI. (;entry, who is just home from N'.w York, having received his dis charge from the navy, also Misses H ayne-.orth and Clark of Sumter, Miss Bhackwell of :lartsville, Miss Mary Gentry of Coker College, Harts ville, S. C., andl Mr. Robert Reaves of Manning. Mrs. .J. D). Bowen e'ntertained1 at a delightful dance on Wednesday even ing, the 12th, in honor of Miss Ema line Woodruff and Mr. James Bowen. Dec!icious puinch was served through out the evening, and the guests re-. nmained until late enjoying the music and (lancing. Miss Myrtle Allen, Mr. Jimmie James and Mr. Harry Brown spent Saturdlay night and Sunday in Hlarts ville. Miss Mary Gentry of Coker College, Hlartsville, S. C., spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. andl Mrs. Tr. H. Gen t'ry. Miss Blackwell of Hlartsville is the guest of Mrs. TV. C. Howle of St. Paul. Miss Pauline Hayneswvorth of Sum ter and Misn E'sther~ Clark of Sumter wvere the guests of ailr. and Mrs. TI. HI. Gentry for several (lays this week. We did not attend the mneetin'g of the Railroad Commissioners last week, but one of our progressive business men who always weighs carefully all matters of business from an unbased standlpoint has handed us the follow ing rep~ort of the meeting: All persons who dloubt that the function of a Railroad Commissioner Is that of a Buffer between the Rail road ofmcials and the patrons, should have been present rat the meeting of the Railroad Commissioners. called ZJy&AJb 7 J.Ya4Iulwg, NH Corresponden by J. J. Cantey, and held at Summer ton on the 20th of March. A consid erable number of Clarendon citizens were present. The general inpression, that casual visitor would have gotten of the meeting, could easily have been that a trial was being conducted and that Mr. J. J. Cantey was the defend ant; with that august personage, the Hon. Frank W. Shealy as the prose cuting attorney. There was to say the least of it, an atmosphere of hos tility between the Commissioners and Mr. Cantey, which boded ill for the outcome of the hearing. Mr. Shealy, in the office of Chairman of the Com mission, showed scant patience with all efforts on the part of Mr.. Can tey to show up the negligence, in gen e:"al, of the railroad management, and laid bare the (previously veiled) fa mous threat to abandon the North Western Railroad altogether, if the people fail to be good. When Mr. Cantey attempted to show that the physical condition of the road is not good, Mr. Shealy i. seemed to get "peeved" and said that such remarks were direct reflection upon the Railroad Commissioners, whose duty it was to look after the condition of the railroads. And Mr. Shealy (facetiously, of course) hinted that Mr. Cantey should be disciplined with contempt of court proceedings. This to illustrate how considerable is the power of a Railroad Commis sioner. Mr. John Wilson (of the North Western Railroad Company) sat just in front of Mr. Shealy, and looked his pleasure at the grilling which Mr. ('antey received. Mr. John Wilson was invited to the stand, and stated categorically that the North Western Railroad has been steadily losing money for a good many years. In fact losing each year enough money to bankrupt an ordinary cor poration. Assuming Mr. Wilson's statement to be true, it is an unfortunate coni nent:try on the business ability of the ;)resent owners of the road. Your correspondent knows nothing of the grievanlce. that it is said, that the Ratilroad ' Commissioners have against Mr. Cantey, personally. M(r. Cantey of his own initiative, it seems, called the meeting, and in the course of the correspondence wrote letters that gave offense to the Commission ers. If this is true, I am sure that every citizen of the community re grets the circumstance. One fact stands out in bold relief, and that is 'from a rairoad point of view,' the situation has become in tolerable. The people as a whole are fairly reasonable, and every little would be said if the pr omises had been kept to supply decent coaches, wvaiting rooms andl make the connections, as p~er schedule. Instead of these, there have been the poorest possible accom odations, and the matte'r of making the connect ions has beenr almost a joke.. If you must sell Liberty Bonds, consult ID. 0. Rhame, agent for New York and Atlanta Bond Dealers, Sum merton, S. C. With this issue of the valuable Times your "Uncle Nub's' pleasant -. dulties as corresponde:nt will cease, for - the reason that he is a very busy man and will he out of town a lot of the a time for the next few months, but $ he feels very graoteful to the good people for assisting him in keeping up the Sunmmerton page. lie will be suc eddas correspondent by Mxr. HI. E. Copeland, the cleve r and accommodat- I ing bookkeeper at C. M. Davis,, Son ( Co., and we feel sure the readers of The Timcu will find Mr. ('opeland a live wire as a newspaper correspond ent, andl we certainly wish him and The Times great success Rhame's Drug Store is going to abandon the sodla water busine ss arnd give thereby better services to those U needling dlrugs or to have prescriptions compounded. 1918 Output of Quicksilver U Showed Decrease in Quantit' U The domestle output of quiicksilveor in 1918, according to statistles com piled bty I". L. Rnsome of the U.niteds States geological snrvey, deiarainent of the Interior, was 33,432 tliisks of 75 pounds esch,. valued at the aiverage quotod nfanrket price at San Francis. co ($117.92 a flask) att abouit 8:,94'2. 801. Compared with the output in 1917 of 36,159 flasks, valned at $3,. 808,208, this shiowst a decrease In qjtuan. tity of 2,727 flasks, b~ut an lucrease in value of $134,035. The prodluctive sttates were Cali fornIa, Texas, Nevadat, Oregon and Ida ho, pamned in thes order of decreasIng Irnportance. - IUREAU. t They're Here ! The Newest Materials in Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Men's Furnishings Shoes and Oxfords I Everything of the very latest model--fashions for every taste. Your Inspection invited. DAVIS & BARNES, Summerton, S. C. CLARENDON HARDWARE COMPANY. 3 Specialties for Automobiles ! Amalie Oil We have been handling it ever since we commenced business. Several hundred satisfied customers will tell you about it. Columbia Batteries More Life and Power than any other. G. & Tires. Give us your Tire Business; we will treat you right. CLARENDON HARDWARE CO. SUMMER TON, S. C. To Our Friends and Customers:---m We dlesire to expriess our thanks and apprec iation to our many friends and customers for the handsome buisiness giveni us~ during the past year. And we believe every horse and muew have sold will he absolutely satisfactory to the oner. As to the W~agorys and~ Buggies we have sol I .\ we niv wts toe s t at. no n will tind any be.tte r material in th hne ath&an We still have a few horses and mutles in our pe, C i o are in the market for anythinag in the way o f liv tck, a ay come ml. We also have a lot of Leather Goods, and w ill be onl tooA glad to show what we have in this line, which you wil always rind to be among the best the marrket affords. F. W. TR UL UCK.. M. C. STUCKEY, Manager. SURETY ON HONDS Those' who are* required to give Honds1 in positions of trust, and~ who desire to avoid asking frieras to hecome their sureties, or who may wish to relieve friends from further obliga~ions as bondsmen, should apply in person or by letter to Sum merton J.J ATY tony South Carolina AMERICAN SURETY COMPANY 01" NEW YORK Capital and SarrIus Over $6,0,000OO P'amphlets on Aapplication