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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. raWVT LtRTTIuKS FHOM OUR UPK GIAL OOlUtKJSr-ONDKNTS. From all Parts oi Adjuiulasj Counties. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDhUxTS Mail roar 1 attar* ao that they will >h thla office not later than Mon vh?o tn tended for Wednesday'* sod not later than Thursday for Saturday's Issue. This, of course, as piles only to regular correspond la sase of Itssns of unusual rsaoo, sesd In Immediately by small. telephone or telegraph. Such to ties are acceptable up to the Of going to press. Wednesday's la printed Tuesday afternoon ?afturday's paper Friday after DAXJUELdU dl. July t.?Mad, madder. mad Yes. Mr. Edit ?r, I am mad and more I realise that I can not help sayself the madder I get. Now the Questions arise, who are you mad with and what about? To explain: the cotton mills of South Carolina or a majority of them, under the direc? tion and leadership of Mr. Le*ls W. Parker, have merged and now we see from reports, that the New England saltls have been putting forth efforts for four years to that end. Thry ?Ulm their purpose hi to curtail the output, to regulate prices and to cut ths hours of labor, which sounds very plausible to the cotton producer. They i't say one time In giving their >ns that they want to cut the of cotton. That Is kept under the surface and will be until they per? fect their organisation as they want it, m the serpent held will show it Mr. Stonewooi. secretary of Arkwrlght club, tays that it Is a social business organisation. We presume that the social features are gratifying indeed, when they are com? pared with a lot of graft. The Ark? wrlght club Is an organisation formed km Boston and we see that many other New England towns are Interested. When we read and think about all this combining, organising and con? solidating is when we get mad. But when we think about how careless and Indifferent our brother cotton farmers are concerning these great plans and schemes that these com htaed forces are deeply laying, to fsesrw them, by cutting the prices of ?ur principal crop. Is when I get maddest I want to say to our farmers, that looking through the misty future, We thlr.k we see breakers ahead and tarnt we feel that If there ever was or ever will be a time for us as a eiass, te> prepare ourselves for an emer r. it Is now. The cotton mill peo are in the business strictly for money they get out of It. Are as a class, or individual, not prompted by the same motive? If aw. let us unite ourselves In a body mi business men and prepare for the wawtaug of the enemy, before he captures and binds us with the chains mi oppression. I*et me appeal to you mm men and not weaklings, to put your t.r.uns to w<>rk. get busy and Ml If we can not do something to help ourselves. Ood helps thos,- who try im help themselves, but the fellow ?mm$, does aot care. He lets him have st all his own way. Humter County produces SI.OOO to 40.000 bales of cot? ton, priced at 13 cents Is worth 17S.000 to :2.400.OO0. Estimating the area of the r-omty at five hundred ssjssr. sawea t?u.? gives us .120,000 W land. .Vow. If we value It at >.?? per acre, we have $?.400.000. It does seero to us. that with that lount of assets, we might hold, at one-third of our crop off the market for eight or ten months B) holding that amount throughout the belt off the market for i'i !? utMi of time mentioned, we will undouhtedly he hsjfcswted, awsai farmor*. aft* r reading this. m?v nay this Is ull rot. I will only suv. Mother. Kive us some? thing h. it. r. We have the farmers' union, ready and wanting those, who are engaged In firming to ? ome In with It. There Is strength in union and If our farmers would COgse to? gether and stari.I toother like per sons of ull other avocations, wg would all be In much hattet condition. Huhscriher. 11 IOOOO, tlagood. July I laut Sunday, June -'.'.th. Mr. Rsjbt Maaffi and Miss llattle Saunders. eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walla? e Sunders, w<t?. saarrled at the home of the bride's parents l?\ I; . Mr. Ilamwell. Im? mediately after the 1 eremony tiny left for a trip to thi IsM of psdma They will >>?? .it hon,, at 111 ? > home? stead of the lute I'upt. Imam Moore, father of the groorn. Mr. Moor,; is one of our most IttCCeSSfsl and pro? gressive young film, is The bride needs no words of prates from us. Mm- Sarah and Fannie .Melh-lte, sfrer a few pleasant davs .p.mt in .. if rommunitv visiting fr i.-nd- and t l?l? tlves. hive returned home. Messrs \ ? 1 ru?n and <"1 1 udt I ?in with Mr. Rvbgft Athihwa last r. Mrs. II <*. I'.eth a and Mi-, t'aryline Dlnktns Ml for Harris Springs on TTtdU?rtlT. Juno 28. Mr. Robt. E. Atkinson spent th? 28th In Columbia and witnessed the sad and fatal accident that took awa > young Harrison. Mrs. J. L. Jackson spent the 30th In your city. She expects to leave next week for the up-country where she will spend the summer. Our crops are needing rain. In some places the corn ;s wilting badly. I h- e often heard it said that all signs fall in dry weather. Recently the sun has set in a bank, we have had the gray sunset; the sprangles have shot up after sunset, it has light? ened In the north, the cow has cough? ed, the cock has crowed Just at sun? set, the snakes have crawled abroad, old trees have fallen in the swamps, but no rain has come to us. Relow here they have plentytlful rainfalls. Mrs. W? J. 8pencer Is sick again, otherwise the health of the commu? nity Is fair. "Hagod." Hagood, July 1.?A nice rain visited here Saturday and put new life into the crops. The crops now are in a flourishing condition. Cotton and corn showing up well. The farmers are expecting a great harvest this year. The school committee 1 v'd an ice cream festival here Friday for the benetlt of the Hagood School. Dr. Frank R. Sanders, and Mr. C, ?:. Sanders visited Columbia during the firemen's trournament and base? ball games last week. W odgehVhl Walks Over St. Charles. Wedgetteld, July 6.?Wedgefield and St. Charles played their tirst game yesterday afternoon. Strange pitched good ball for the home club and, but for errors, the visiting team would not have made more than two scores. The final score was Wedgefield 13, St, Charles 6. Batteries: Wedgefield, Strange, McLaurln and Thomas; St. Charles, Mayes. Shaw and Corbett. Mayes was batted out so freely in the 6th and 6th Innings that he was retired by Shaw.. FOURTH COST 38 LIVES. Chicago, July 6.?Revised figures on the number of deaths and Injured in the United States Indicate the cele? bration of 1911 cost 38 lives and 1,117 were injured, as ompared with 4 4 killed and 2,485 Injured last year, and 62 killed and 3.345 Injured in 1909. Fireworks claimed 18 vic? tims; firearms 12; gunpowder 5, and toy pistols 3. Marriage License. Resides the licenses for whites, licenses have been Issued by the clerk of court to two negro couples, the records being recorded In a separate book from that in which those issued to white are put Harry Williams of Jacksonville, Fla., and Anna Eliza McCook of Sumter, and Harry Hardy and Luclle Anderson of this city were Issued marriage licenses today flag summor dlarrohea in children always give Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and cantor oil .and a speedy cure is cer? tain. For sale by all dealers. GO TO THE RESCUE. DesVi wait Tin it's Too IsHe TnUn i the Example, of a Sumter Citizen. Rescue the aching back. If it keeps on aching, trouble comes. Backache Is kidney ache. If you negh-ct the kidney's warning l.?>ok out for urinary trouble - diubetes. This Sumter citizen will show y< u how to go to the rescue. C, It Ardls, ;51 W. Liberty stn St, Sumter. S. ('.. .Mays: "Doan's Kidney Pills acted promptly and effectiv? I) In my ease, 1 was subject to attack I "f be< RU the UUd my kidneys did not do lh? ir Work as they should. Get ling % box of 1 '"an s K du? y I'ills from China's Drug St ire, 1 used them and lie results wer.- very satisfactory, I willingly five this rememdy tie praise It vb sv rves." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 ? ??ms. Foster-M ilburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the Unit? d State?. lb-no mber the name?Doan's?and take no other, No. 8 MMtKIV.I. LICENSES ISSUED. Clerk of Court Purrott Prepares Two "set- of Marriage Records.?Negroes and Whites Separate. Prom The Dully Item, Jul) .". cp to this mornlni only iwo mar? rlags licenses had I.n Issued since the Arst of July when the marriage lleenst law wen I Into effect, ( m July the third. ? license was Issued for the in rrlage of Miss charlotte Thomp? son Nelson or Btateburi and Mr. Jen? kins M. Pope of Bdlsto Island, and I his morn Ins .i license was Issued fof the marriage of Miss Bophle Ellsa beth Richardson of Bumteff to Mr. SATISFIED in His new home, Mr. g, e. Martin Writes an Interest? ing Letter From ThomMville, an. Thomssvllle, Ga., June 30.?I want to ask you for space In your valuable columns to contradict a false report that is going the rounds In Sumter and the surrounding country to the effect that 1 was "not satisfied here In Georgia and was very anxious to get back to South Carolina. 1 want to say to all my friends that such is not the case. I am delighted with Georgia. 1 have the kindest of neigh? bors, have a tine crop of cotton and corn and we all have very good health. Therefore, we are all get? ting on nicely and are satisfied. As I have written the above, I will give all of your readers a short des? cription of our country, crops, etc. Cotton and corn are line all ever the county. I drove about 30 miles to? day and I 3aw lots of cotton as high as my shoulders and locking in 4-foot rows, lots of corn that will make more than 50 bushels per acre. Melsonsl Well, they are here by the wholesale. Every side track in the OOUnty is crowded with cars being loaded with melons. I^ast week they brought from $125 to $140 per car. One of my neighbors got 7 carloads off up to last night. This week the market is from $50 to $100 per car and tho general yield is a carload to the acre. Sometimes a car to 2 acres. Lots of canteloupes are also iaised and shipped from here. An? other big thing here is the sugar cane. The farmers here bottle their syrup for their own use and when you get it it's lit for a king to eat. What they aell they barrel it up and is not near as good as when bottled and corked up. Another big product here is hogs and pinders. Mr. E. A. Moreland, one of Sumter's old citizens, today showed me about 100 head of as pret? ty hogs as any one would wiah to look at Well Mr. Editor, our roads are tine, the land is principally of red clay, pebbly land, which makes the finest kind of a road. If you or any of my friends will come out 1 will take you over Borne roads as fine as any you ever saw. We have only one drawback here, the labor. Any kind of a negro hand can get a dol? lar a day and you have to pay it or not get him to work. The turpentine and saw mill business takes most of the hands and the farmers have to do their own work. The turpentine work will soon play out, however, then labor will he more plentiful. There is nothing in the world to keep a man down here if he has the force to do his own work. There Is a good market for everything and the high prices the hands get enable them to buy more and I will say, the negroes here buy the very best. One of them would laugh at you should you offer him a piece of chunk meat, such as most of us sold and used last year in Sumter. They want self-raising Hour and the best of everything or its no sale in the grocery line. I close, Mr. Editor. Wishing you and all of my friends in Sumter and the surround? ing county a very successful year ami sxtending to you ail an Invitation to visit us in southwest Georgia, when? ever possible. G. E. Martin. Thomas Coke Dunlap of Yorkvllle. The marriages of both of these couples Will take place tonight, one at the Presbyterian ohurch In this city ami the other at the Church of the Holy Cross at Stateburg. Clerk of Court Parrot has gone a little further than the law requires in getting out his sets of books of marriage licenses, registration and indexing. The law requires that a record be kept and that a license be Issued for every marriage, iu most counties by the judge of probate, but in this county and a few others by the clerk of court Mr, Parrott de clded that it WOUld be a good idea to have separate books for whites and colored persons ami had his books made out In pairs so that he could carry out his Ides in this respect. He had separate I.ks from which he gives the license to whites and color od persons, separat.- books of regis? tration and separate books of Indexes, The license after being filled oul by the clerk Is turned over to tin- per? son who performs the marriage cere? mony. This person mis out certain blanks on the llconse and returns it to the county officer who has charge of the county marriage bureau, it then becomes a part of th<? records In his office. By the system used here a person may by referring to the In? dex And out who a person married and when and where they were mar? ried. Mr. Parrott's system Is decided? ly different from that of officials In other counties, where the ordinary form of book was sent by tin- makers. Besides his county records Mr. Par? rot! lias a number of beautifully en? graved marriage certificates which he provides to tho*e who wish to pecure them from him. I'lie Item ami Watchman add South? ron Popularity Content. Following la the list of nominees: District No, 1.?City of Sumter. Miss Annie Dollard.290,500 Miss Ellen Beach.288,966 Miss Schuyler Cooper.141,840 Miss Anna Jennings. 74,765 Miss Macy Smith.66,14 0 Miss Minnie Blanding. 63,380 Miss Jaunita Bradford. 65,696 Miss Katie Hin-on.31,900 Miss Nell McKagen.31,520 Miss Mary Ramsey.19,880 Miss Erline White.16,250 Miss Elisabeth Hood.12,500 Miss Lucile DeLorme. 6,540 Miss Elethea Reardon. 6,610 Miss Arrie Stuckey. 6,200 Miss Agnes Richardson. 3,100 Miss Laurel Carr. 2,300 Miss Jennie Walsh . 2,000 Miss Katie Clark. 1.850 Miss Susie McKinney. 1,800 MISS Rosle Hogan. 1,500 Miss Bonnie Nunamaker. .. 1,350 Miss Eda Tobin. 1.300 District No. 2.?Outside of Sumter. Miss Louise Warren. 192,865 Miss Bessie Hodge.185,510 Miss L. E. McCoy. 186,495 Miss Pauline Cummings.172,050 Miss Lucile Parrott. 102,580 Miss Paulino Jones.8 9,200 Miss May Weeks. 86,500 Miss Hester Hodge.39,215 Miss Dora Dick. 25,850 Miss Besele Tallon.18,725 Miss Edith Wells.16,625 Miss Janie Bell Guylord. . .. 12,450 Miss Beulah Richardson. . . 11,200 Miss Besie F. Ay cock.10,675 Miss Pearl Moore. 6,500 Miss Edna Ramsey. 6,000 Miss Sadie Rogers. 3,050 Never leave home on a Journey without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea* Rem? edy. It is almost certain to he need? ed and cannot be obtained Wben on board the cars or steamship. For sale by all dealers. Miss Oeorgina Stile, of Atlanta, is visiting Mrs. S. F. Stoudonmire. HANDLE YOUR MONEY SKILFUL? LY. You can do toll if you make your purchases of cut glass and silverware at this store. Here quality and price each shine in the light of the otter, from the smallest single pieces to the large sets. W. A. Thompson, Jeweler and Optician. ? S. Main St. Sumter, S. C. OUR PERSONNEL RICHD. I. MANNING. Pres. DAVIS D. MOISE, 2ndV-Pres. BARTOW WALSH. Cashier. RICHD. I. MANNING, J. A. MOOD. C. T. MASON. DAVIS D. MOISE, Wm. S. MANNING. Officers ROBT. F. HAYNS WORTH. 1st Vice Pres W. F. RH A MF, 3rd Vice Pre*. EDGAR C. HAYNSWORTH. Attorney Directors ROBT. F. HAYNSWORTH C M HURST. Secy, of Bo?rd H J. McLAURIN, Jr. Wm. F. RHAME. The Bank of Sumter Established 1889 We Loan Money It is a part of our business to loan money. We aim to do this conservatively. We do not ask unreasonable rates nor take undesirable chances. Do you need money ? Have you ample security ? If so we can accommodate you. Call in and talk it over with us. The talk will be con? sidered eonfidental. We would like to handle your loan, and the only condition in justice to ourselves and to our de? positors is that the security is sufficient. Our rates are low and our terms of payment reasonable. We would like to have your business in this as well as all other banking lines. If we can be of any service to you come in and tell us in what way. Not next week, nor next month, but now. THE FARMERS' BANK & TRUST CO. It Takes One Dollar to Start on Fortune's Road Just one dollar Bounds small. You spend a like amount often on something you could do without. A dollar spent here by pay? ing it to yourself may or may not make you a fortune. It de? pends on how you care for your other dollars. It will help you for it gives you the opportunity. You are encouraged to add other dollars. Money is kept safe for you. It is ready in time of need. Helpful information and advice may be had. Where can you get more for your dollar? THE PEOPLES' BANK. Good for 25 Votes NOT GOOD AFTER JULY 10. This Coupon is good for U."> Votes If returned to the Dolly Item Office properly illled out Name . Address. 10,000 EXTRA VOTES For every New or Paid in Advance yearly subscription to the Item or Watchman and Southron. This to be given over and above the regular votes. This Offer Ends Saturday, July 8thf at 9 P. M. Schedule of Votes 1 year l! years 3 years ITEM $ 5.00 10.00 I5.O0 WATCHMAN & SOUTHRON 15,000 3( i.OOO 15.000 1 year 2 years 3 years $1.50 :UX) 4.50 llf500 23.000 34.500