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<|jr flflhttbman ano Southron. Knu rr?! at Ute l*OHU>fHi"? at Sunt?, ft. <*.. as 8?vond Claas Malirr. PKKMONAU Mrs. J. D. Graham returaed Thurs? day from a stay of several Wtjtkl at Hendersonvllle. N. C. Mr. J. B. Ryan. Jr.. of Wedgefleld. spant Tuoaday In the city. Mlas Hettle White left Wednesday to spend a short while at Lamar. Miss Fannie Chandler, of Mayes villo. passed through the city thls week en route to Columbia to at? tend the Collage for Women Mlas Emma Baker left Wednesday for Columbia to resume her studies at the College for Women. Mrs. C. M. Rurst and daughter have returned from Ashevllle. N. C. after a stay of two weeks. Mr. T. P. Lyman. who has been living In Ashevllle. N. C, for the past several months, has returned to the city. Mlas Louise Shannon, who has been visiting at the hime of Dr. Spann, has returned to her home at Casnden. Dr. Feely. of Clemson College. State Veternerlan. spent a slort while in the city Wednesday. Mlas Martie Boyle has returned to the Collage for Women at Columbia to reaume her studies. Mr. H. I*. B. Wiggins, of Savannah. Oa.. la visiting relatives In the city. Mr. S. T. Richardson, of Tlndal. was In the city on bcslness Thurs? day. Mr. Marlon Davis, of Brogdbn, Spent Thursday In the city with friends. Sumter Is not too small for a commission form of government. Cotton sold on the local market for 13.30 to 13.40 Thursday. The staple of cotton now coming on the market is said by buyers to be much superior to that of last sea? son's crop. The storea are gradually falling In? to tine on the early closing proposl tloa. and it will only be a question of time before all of them will "shut up shop" at 6 o'clock. An effort to secure an agreement a at on* all the merchants to close ?????- store* *t ? o'clock p. m., Sat Wt4 ?d, appears to have failed time being, as only a ig at that hour, but e active In promoting the movement should not abandon the undertaking, for early closing has much to recommend It and all the merchants will probably see the reasonableness of the proposition In time and will f ill into line. Some sort of censorship should be exercised by ?*e city authorities over bill boards, and pictures of a sug? gestive or lascivious nature should be prohibited. There Is a board of health, a city physician and a health1 officer to safeguard the physlcial health of the community, as is right and proper, but there Is no public agamy to safeguard the morals of the people by preventing the display in public places of objectionable pic? tures. Watch the bill boards for the next few months and note how many of the posters are. to say the least, neither artistic nor elevating. The many friends of Miss Oussle ReJReld. who hss been 111 at Waynes vtlle. N. C. foe several weeks, will be glad to learn that she was brought home Tuesday afternoon, and Is rest? ing well at the Sumter hospital. The keen competition between cot? ton seed oil mills Is pushing up the price of seed. Some buyers are pay? ing as high as 935 per ton for seed. If It Is within the power and juris? diction of the County Democratic convention and county executive committee tc discontinue the prac? tice of uornln.itIna the magistrates ai the pilmary, this action should be* taken at the next county convention. A day's work for a laborer varies from eight to ten hours In different sections, .i duy's work for a mechanic* varies from seven to t??n hours, but a majorlts or cbrks work twelve to flf teen h eirs. That I* one reason why the stores should close at ?> o'clock. Along In July Ihsfl SJOfS numer? ous reports of prospecth?? corn yields of one hundred or gsOff bushels to the n> re. It will be Inf r? sting to have reports of act teal ybiis Se\*r.il ? Ir? uses are billed to visit the upper part of Um Mats' during October, but none hn\e been adver? tised |g show In Sumter this season. Th.-y v. Ill scarcely give this town the go-hv. however, ns It Is a good show town und the circuses always make money here, kHumter could very well get along without a ? Ifang for one season and the country would be bet t. r off. Oatt ig i '' ining in rapidly now and the gfke holds up at and above 11 cent* This |s no big prb o for cotton and e ? n It begins In decline many farmer will begin to hold. OaOfg~M never loot ? upon the per* ?Imm m until It Is red. i>i:\tii. Mrs. Samuel Reynolds, of Lamar, who has been under treatment at the Sumter Hospital died Tuesday. Her remains were taken to her home at Limit Wednesday for Interment. Mr. Franh Shovenel died at 2.30 Wednesday morning, age 26 years. His death was caused by ptomaine poisoning. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Welch died this morning at 6 S. Welch died Wednesday at 5 a. m. at their residence on West Hampton Avenue. DESTROYING SHADE TREES. Specie* of Caterpillars Are Damagiug Shade Trees of the City. Judge T. E. Richardson who is an interested observer of all sorts of nature, showed an Item reporter, Wednesday, a branch of one of the many beautiful oak shade trees In the city, which was almost covered with a specie of yellow caterpillar. All of the leaves had been eaten off of the branch, and Judge Rlcb ardsc n stated that such was the case on a large number of shade trees throughout the city. He stated further that he had talk? ed a 1th Dr. Ellison A. Smyth, Pro fessor of Biology in the Virginia Polytechnlcal In?Mtute, who spent yesterday In thl city with friends, regarllng th? destruction of these caterpillars, and that Dr. Smythe stated that spraying was the proper remedy for getting rid of them. He said, however, that spraying would not affect caterpillars, which lives In webs, and that they would either have to be burnt out or the limbs on which they constructed their a-< as would have to be cut off. hhst week jurors. Names of Those Who Will Serve Dur? ing the First Week of tho Fall Term of Court. The list of Jurors who will serve during the first week of the fall term of the criminal court follows: D. Bull. T. V. Walsh. D. W. Hopkins. W. F. Shaw. M. I. Truluck. E. W. A. Bultman. B. R. Brown. R. L. Burkett. P. O. Leak. O. B. Nettles. R. M. Brown. John Benenbaley. D. M. Green. H. H. Wells, Herbert Ray. T. E. Hlnson. Wayne Mellette. Geo. M. Foxworth. J. B. Locklear. Singleton Bradford. R. E. DuRant W. A. Brown. P. 1?. Jones. H. J. Hicks. S. W. Glllesple. R ,E. Wilder. P. E. McLeod. R. H. Ramsey. R. H. Wltherspoon. J. M. Bradham. T. S. Drayton. J. B. Baker. E. M. McElveen. J. C. Truluck. S. W. Mobley. NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS. At Last Meeting of Dick Anderson Lodge No. 138, I. O. O. F. At the last meeting of Dick An? derson Lodge No. 138, I. O. O. F., the following ofTieers were elected: W. J. Orowson, Noble Grand. J. W. Bradford, Vice Grand. Bv C. Wallace, Financial and Re? cording Secretary. J. H. Mercer. Treasurer. A me, ting will be held next Tues Saj night. September 27th. when otte r ofJIeors win be sis ited, Al members of this lodge are re ?pectfully urged to attend this meet? ing and assist In th* work of the lodge. Coiuini?.x>loners of Fleet Ion. The following gentlemen have been appointed to serve as commissioners of flection for the general election? Sumter county: Federal-?n. O. Ooteea, w. J, r?in ii 1, Brownfleld, State i\ i ft, Knight, J. B, DuPre, W T Green. WANTED?\i! of our customers to know that we nloat our store at t? ??'. lock, excepting Saturdays, when OlOSS St 10 O'clock, Pive days In the week our store Ii open from 86 a. m 'til ?'. p n?. and on Sat? urdays from I 30 'til 10 p. m. mak? ing an average o( more than twelve hours thai our dore la open cneh ?lay. We hope that our friends will hear In mind that we close St 8 oVloi k, and do their trading I . fore thai hour. The l>. J, Chandler nothing Co, I 11 Iwkl 81 w. ,v. s. Stumps, Brush, Weeds, Grass. Wo pay a larger tax every year for stumps, weeds and grass than Is re? quired to support our municipal, county, State and Federal govern? ments, to endow all the colleges and educate all the youth of the land; and we got no return. A stump not only occupies valuable space but it prevents the use of improved imple? ments for better and more rapid til? lage of the soil. The cost of farm la? bor Is on the increase with the cer? tainty that this wdll continue till the equation of wages on the farms and in the town or city is more equal. The remedy for high priced labor on the farms Is the use of more and better teams and implements. If the day wage on the farms of the South advances from $.75 to $1.50 then each farm hand must plow, plant and cultivate twice as many acres In a day as he did before and this is an easy problem. But the stumps must go, and the farmer who does not try to get rid of them will soon be a back number. The stump farmer pays about $3.00 an acre very year for the privilege of having stumps in bis fields. In addition, there are generally a few feet of untilled soli around every field stump which pro? duces foul weeds and grasses to seed the land. What has been charged against stumps applies with still more force to trees, shrubs and bush patches In the field; dig, burn, destroy; they are natural enemies of the farmer. Straighten out the sides of the field, square up the corners and avoid the short rows as much as possible; they increase the work of tillage. Farmers have become ?o accus tomed to fighting weeds and grass in the cultivated fields that they regard It as a matter of necessity. They think the land Is full of foul seeds and of course tuey will germinate when It rains., When virgin soils are first placed In cultivation they are comparatively free from weeds and grass, and that they become foul Is duo to faulty management on the part of the farm? ers. It Is not difficult to discover the real causes. First, careless cultiva? tion, which allows weeds and grass to mature seed in the cultivated fields. Second, little attention Is paid to the highways, the brush patches, the fence corners and the pastures, and they are almost universally breedings for foul weeds and grass. It htr*. been charged that the Southern farmer is careless. It may be true In some things, but in one thing too many of them stand first among the farmers of.the world, they never fail to raise a crop of weed and grass seed large ei.ough to seed their own fields and theh* neighbors. Tho cost of this universal weed and grass seeding amounts annually to more than five dollars for each acre In corn, and ten dollars for each acre In cotton. In 1909 in the States of Alabama, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Caro? lina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Ten? nessee. Texas and Virginia, there i were 4 0,965,000 acres in corn and 30.692.000 acres in cotton, which would shaw a yearly loss of over 511 j millions of dollars. This loss can be ; greatly reduced by intensive cultiva- j tlon continued as late In the season as possible and by moving the road? sides, the fence corners, the borders j of the fields and the pastures In June i and in August. At first it seems like ; a waste of lab^r, but its beneficial effect! soon become apparent. A persistent war on weeds and grass, stumps and brush, In the fields ll one of the great progressive move- j ments necessary to progress in agrl culture. S. A. KNAPP, ! i Special Agent in charge Farmers' Demonstration Work. A YOUNG CONGRESSMAN. The Rise of James F. Byrnes Poll tically Has Been Rapid. Columbia, Sept. 22.?The victory 1 of Mr. James F. Byrnes of Aiken , over Congressman J. O. Patterson has caused much comment. Mr. Brynes is only thirty years old, but for his years Is remarkably well ln I formed and it is the opinion of many ! that he will be a big factor in South ] Carolina politics and statemansnip. i Two years ago Mr. Byrnes was elect 1 ed solicitor, and he served the district well. As court stenographer before his first promotion he showed many of the qualities of a successful man in any of the professions. He was unusually painstaking In his work and made a most efficient stenog? rapher. TO MOVE INSPECTION BU? REAUS. State Feed Stuffs Inspection Bureau Will be Moved from Clemson to Columbia. Columbia, Sept. 22.?Chemist Sum? mer and the entire laboratory of the State feed stuffs Inspection bureau, operating under Commissioner Wat? son, are to be removed immediately from Clemson to Columbia and in? stalled In new quarters at the old State dispensary plant, which quar? ters have been sub-leased from the lessee. Chief Inspector W. B. West already has his headquarters here. The move is for the sake of economy and convenience, and Is made with the consent and approval of the Clemson authorities. I j Received Monday load Horses and Mules. Several nice saddle and ; driving Horses. 16 Mares in this load. Several nice farm mules. Prices j right. Boyle Live Stock Co. It. New Goods Arrive Every Day Afff We will thank %\\ you for your visit when in the City shopping. As in the past you will find, it a pleasant and profitable one. O'Donnell & Co. T ime, Cement, ACME PLASTER, SHINGLES, LATHS, FIRE BRICK, DRAIN PIPE, ETC Uov (Zr<*irt\ Rice Flour, Ship Stuff, Bran, Mixed nay, Vxram, Cow and Chicken Feed. Horses, Mules, g^fUV. W:a:gon:8: "? No Order Too Targe or Too Small Booth-Harby Live Stock Co. SUMTER. SOUTH CAROLINA. T T'S to your interest to be well dress -?-ed; ours to help you. Neve* before has this store been so well prepared to help you as now. The freshly arrived suits, especially created for us by Hart Schaffner & Marx the world's greatest clothes makers, are full of new ideas for the particular man's peace and comfort. You'll find them different from all other clothes, because of the distinction in style and fit they carry with them. New colorings?grays, blues, browns, tans: new weaves and patterns. Of course they're ail-wool. Suits $20 to $35; Overcoats $ 18 to $30 X mdler Clothing Co. ne of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes Sumter. S. C.