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fiimirt ut tfae Poetess** at Sansi**. 8. C rM BPJJPJjj Clan* Mauw. SJ ? LI- L LL Mr. and Mrs. K. Mood Smith and children have returned from a week's Ulp tu the Isis of Talma. Mr? A. C. Ducker has returned from a visit to Charleston. Mr. W. D. McLeod of Oswego was nl the city Frldsy. Mrs. H. M. Stuckey left Friday morning for a visit to friends In Blshopvllle. Misses Ulllan Wilson and Mar? garet Law. of St. Cherlee, were In the city Thursday night and Friday. Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Snell left Fri? day for Yorkvllle to visit relatives. Mra P. B. drier and Miss ICdna Orler ars spending awhile in the mountains of Western North Carollua.< The Hon, O. C Scarborough, of Bummerton. spent Friday In the city. Mra R. C. Richardson and chil? dren, who have bo?n spending some time In the mountains spent the week-end here while enrouts to their horns In Plnewood?Laurena Adver? tiser. Dr. C. W. Barron and his brother. Mr. Archie Barren passed through the city Friday morning on their way from Clarendon to Columbia. Mr. an* Mrs. W. A. Brown have returned from a trip to Washington where they spent a very pleasant week. Mr. 8. M. Nabers, Sr.. of Spartan burg, who has been visiting his son. Mr. a M. Nabers of this city, return? ed home on Saturday. Mr. Nabers came down as far as Columbia to at? tend the Confederate reunion and de? cided to come on to Sumter to visit his son after ths close of the reunion. Musi Virginia Cooper, of Ulsacky, pa- - ?d through the city Saturday on her wa> to Columbia. Miss Rose Cheyne returned to her horns at St. Charles Saturday af? ter spending a couple of days in the ?city. Mrs. C. W. McOrew and children are spending sometime with relatives mi St. Matthewa Mr. F. H. Williams, of Stateburg, passed through the city Friday morn, ing on his way to Blshopville to hear Mr. Knapp end to attend the farm? ers* Institute meeting at that place. Mr. H. D. Barnett has returned to the city from s trip to New York, where he went to purchase a stock of fall and wlntsr goods for his store. Mra Altsmont Moses and Mr. Hsnry Moses havs returned to the city from The Memorial Hospital in Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Cooper, of St. Petersburg. Fla., are visiting relatives in ths city. Rev. J. N. Tolar has returned to the city after being away for several weeks on hie vacation. Miss Louise Carson has returned to the city after a delightful stay In the mountains of Western North Carolina, and a visit to friends in Greenville. Mr. R. I. Manning has gone to Mayodan. N. C. to visit h's daughter, Mra R. A. Berkeley, at that place. Mrs. Manning and Wyndham Man? tling had preceded him to that place by several days. Mr. I* I. Strauss of Sumter. visited Columbia Thursday on business. He returned to Sumter Friday morning. ?Columbia Record. Mnt* Lillian Wilson, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. W. McCallum, for several days, has re? turned to her home at St. Charlet. Mr. R. M. Coopsr. of Wisacky, was in the city Saturdsy. Mr. F. C. Manning, who has been In the city for the psst few days, left far Columbia Ssturday. Mra W. M. E'eLorme has gone to Olsnn Springs to stay for two weeks. Miss Bessls Herbage, who has been visiting Miss Annls Bollard, on oak land avenue, returned to her home la Conway Saturday. She was ac? companied by Miss Pollard, who will spend some time In Conway. Capt. J. M. Moseley, of Oainsvllle. Fla., spent Saturdsy In town. He Is vwJting rslatlves In Sumter and Lee counties snd will be In ths Stats for two weeks or longer. Capt Moseley formerly lived In Wedgefteld and has many friends In this county. Dr. W. J. McKay snd Mr. C. O. Rowland have returned to the city after s stay In WayneavlUe. Mr. H. C. Haynsworth has return? ed from a trip to Green HI Ool W. 1?. S< urhorotigh. of DpfSJSlt was In she < Ity Monday. Miss Theo Gregg has returned to the city after spending several weeks at Hendersonvllle snd Saluda. Mr. Artsmus Darby of Fort Motte, spent Saturday night In the city The friends of Mr. H I?. Mit? hell. Sr.. ar- i??rry p. learn of his serious Hln-we it his h??me near Sumter. ?Irs It M W.irr. n i..d little Jaugh ter, Virginia, returned Sunday morn? ing from HendersonvUlo, where they ?pent the summer. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Green have returned from New York. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Parsh have gone to Alabama to visit Mr. Parish's brother. Hev. and Mrs. H. H. Covington have returned to the city after a two weeks stay on Sullivan's Island. Mr. E. W. A. Bultman, of Orange burg, was In the city Monday. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. McCollum have returned to the city after a lslt to relatives in Cheraw . ?IG MORTAGAGE FILED. Southern Dell Telephone Company Files gr?o,ooo,noo Mortgage. The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company on Saturday gagg in to Clerk of Court L. L Par rott to be filed one of the biggest mortgages which has ever been filed in his office. The $50,000,000 mortgage is made over to the Bank? ers r . Company and J. H. Par? sons, trustees, and is for thirty year first mortgage sinking fund gold bonds. The bonds will come duo January' Ii 1941 and are dated Jan? uary' 1. 19U. The mortgage was sent in by Mr. H. E. W. Palmer, general counsel for the company. It is contained in phamplet form and covers 75 pages of printed matter. The mortgage has to be hied twice as It is both a chat? tel mortgage and a real estate mort? gage. Marriage License Record. Marriage licenses were Issued to the following colored people Satur? day and Sunday: Walter Scott and Anna Belle Die kle. Shiloh; Isaah Osbourne and Koea Sawyer. Privateer; Virgil Har? bin and Evorllne Martin, Sumter. Marriage License Record. One marriage license was granted Friday to William Harris and Maggie Alston, of Claremont, were the mat rmontal candidates. Wins Scholarship to Winthrop. Miss Louise Griffin .of Mayesvllle, Is the fortunate winner of the scholar? ship given by the County Farmers' Union to Winthrop College. The farmers report that the storm last Sunday did them a great deal of damage. There was a great deal of cotton open in the fields, most of which was blown out by the wind or knocked out by the rain. A few tr??ea were reported blown down at various places In the county. A heavy rainfall waa general through? out the whole county. ROAI> NEARLY COMPLETE. Simitor-l'awllle Road llrht Sand Clay Road to Run to County Line. Mr. I* M. Pitta, county supervisor, was in his office for awhile Satur? day and while there he stated to a reporter for the Item that the Par ville road upon which he hab beer working for the past several W6?jttyj Is nearly completed, except for one half Of a mile more which Is sth to be clayed. Mr. Pitts stated that this was the rlist sand clay rood which had been completed from the city limits to the county line, but he hoped that there ?vou'd be other such roads in the near future. He said that this ro*d had been sand-clayed all of the distance except for about one-half of a mile which was naturally a good road ^nd ! did not need to be clayed. The Pax- i I vllle road had, up to the recent im j provements on it, one of the heaviest stretches of sand of any road In the county. The recent work has done away with this sand bed and for the most part the road is now in good condition. The building up of this road Will mean much to the merchants of Sumter, if the Clarendon county sup? ervisor does as he has promised to do, build the Paxlvlle road from that place to the county line to meet the road at the place to which it has been worked by Supervisor Pitts. The work on the Salem Short Cut Road is getting along nicely an dthe road will probably be thrown open for travel by the 10 of September. The Paxvllle road will probably be completed next week. Negro Has His Leg Broken. On Monday a negro named ilan some Alston was brought to town to have his leg set, which was broken In a runaway that morning near Bos ? sard's Cross Roads. It was learned that the mule had not been used for several days and the driver was not careful in handling her and she .started off when he was unprepared for trouble. He waa thrown out of I the wagon and his leg broken In the falL j The It. F. D. men of the this coun ty are preparing to have a big time I on Labor Day, September 4, when there will be a Joint meeting of the U. F. D. Carriers of Sumter, Claren ' don and Lee counties. The hay crop Is short this year In the north and we^t as well as In the south, and the farmer who has not made enough to supply his own needs next year should now prepare to plant a winter forage crop that will come In early next spring. .Western hay will be high In price next spring and summer. CITY SCHOOLS TO RE-OPEN. Two Now Departments Added to School. The City Schools will re-open on Monday, September 18. The Super? intendent will be in his office in the Washington school building from September 13th for the examination and alaasiflcatlon of new pupils. The directory of the White schools for 1911-1912 is printed elsewhere In this issue. Two additional departments have been created this year. Miss E. W. McLecn will be the supervising prin? cipal of the Washington school and at the same time director of vocal music In this building and director of penmanship In all of the schools. Miss Marlon Satterwhite will he director of art and manual training in the Bchools. The new teachers are teachers of, successful exper ce and profession? al training. The prospects tor another prosper? ous year In the history of the schools are exceedingly bright. Sentiment Is growing among the merchants In favor of the adoption of some plan to discontinue the buy? ing of cotton on the streets, and there? by do away with the congestion of cotton wagons on Main street. The concentration of all cotton business at the platform would be a great con? venience to the farmers. There is no good reason why the sellers of cot? ton should have to run all over town hunting the buyers to get bld3 on ' their cotton, when it could be easily arranged for all the buyers to have oftlees at the platform. The standard cotton samples purchased from the Government last year have been de , posited at the platform and If the ' sampling and buying were done there it would be easy and convenient to I make comparison with the standard samples in case of a dispute or dif? ference arising between seller and buyer in respect to the grading of cotton. Sumter has outgrown the street cotton market plan of doing business and it Is surprising that the cotton sellers have not made a de? mand for a change before now. It was in response to the Insistant de? mand of the farmers that public cot? ton weighers law was enacted and the old custom of every buyer weigh? ing the cotton be purchased way abolished, and it would be a conven? ience to the cotton sellers to have the coton business of the town concentrat? ed at the platform, as well as a benefit to the large majority of merchants and all others who use Main street in the cotton season. The emptying of the gutters from j the roofs of buldlngs on the side walks is a nuisance which ought to I be abated in some way. In the Police Court. There were several cases tried in the Police court Monday morning by Recorder Lee and two whiskey easee were postponed until this afternoon. i'lifton Fay, for violation of hack ordinance, was lined $3. ICddie Washington a small colored boy, has been giving considerable trouble around town lately because of his making himself at home where ever he stopped. In fact he had be cun to think that ^.^rybody's chick ors were his and anybody's house was as good a place as any for him to ?top at. He was warned to get out of town and go back to his auntie with whom he has been living and keep out of town, the information given him by the Recorder being that if he came back to town he would be put in a place where he couldn't get out in a hurry. Mary Jane Howard and Sarah Daly were ..ried for fighting. Mary deed not guilty, while Sarah said she was not guilty, but *.hat 3he had been fighting. It seems that Mary I hi.d accused Saiah of taking a dol | !ar away from her which Sarah claimed she had not done. A fight commenced and Sarah was beating Mary when help came and the two were separated. Each was fined $5 for fighting. H. R. Van Deventer, for speeding in his automobile on Church Btreet, way fined $c.00. He paid the fine, but complained that he would like to have others who made a habit of speeding on that street arrested, as ii was dangerous to the public. Oscar Shepherd drove a wagon under the shed at the passenger sta? tion. He said that he did not know that there was an ordinance against his doing this, but this did not keep the Recorder from fining him $1. There was only one case tried in the Police Court by Recorder Lee Saturday. Davis Simmons was accused of breach of trust with fradulent intent. Although he put in a plea of not guilty, he was found guilty and sen? tenced to pay a fine of $6.00. Winthrop College Swamped. Rock Hill Herald . Up to the present time over 1,300 applications for admission to Win? throp college have been received. Of this number only about 700 can be admitted on account of lack of dor? mitory room. Here is something for the lawmakers to ponder over. Thir? teen hundred girls seeking education at Winthrop and only room for seven hundred! It is a shame on the State. j Mobile has adopted the commission plan after 200 years of aldermanic government, and Atlanta votes Sep ' toother 27 on the acceptance or re I jection of the system. JusT: a Glance at These Prices -ON Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes will tell you that you ought to save a little clothes money right away. There's a real opportunity here. It comes twice a year and no more at this sl:ore. ALL $25.00 SUITS REDUCED TO $16.65 Strictly Cash. ALL $22.50 SUITS REDUCED TO $15.00 ALL $20.00 SUITS REDUCED TO Strictly Cash. $13.35. Strictly Cash. The D. J. Chandler Clothing Co. Hagood Juniors" Win. Hagood, Aug. 26.?Hagood Junior? defeated Daizell Juniors on the lat ter's diamond Saturday by the score of 7 to 1. A brilliant one-handed catch by Porter for Hagood was the feature of the game. The fielding of Walter Moore was excellent and the batting of Pierre Siindere was a feature. I The Hagood team challenges any team of boys under 15 years of age. The score: R. H. E. Hagood.7 9 0. Dalsell.1 3 4. Batteries: Lenolr and Lenoir, Phillips. Emanuel, and Phillips. Umpire, Mr. Boykin. Time of game 1 hour. Several more tests have been made of the brick which are being used on Main street and all of the brick hav come up to the standard. The aver age abrasion on the brick ha amounted to from 16 to 17 per cen A Plttsburg man gets a divorc because his wife will not kiss him and a Minneapolis chap leaves ht home, because his wife kisses hin too often. Men are so hard to sat isfy. AGGidents Will Happen And when they do?they hurt. HUNT'S LIGHTNING OIL Is the one instantaneous relief anu car? for all wounds, bruises, sores, cuts, sprains and abrasions of the skin. It forms sn artificial skin covering:, excludes the air instant* ly, stops pain at once. There are many oils, but none like HUNT'S The action is different, and the effect as welL . . HUNTS . . r\ 11 LIGHTNING UIL Always nave it In the house. Take It with yon when you travel?yon never can tell when HUNT'S LIGHTNING OED may be most needed. 2 Sets and 50cts bottles. For Sale By Sibert's Drue; Store. A. B. Rickirds Medicine Co., Sterin, Tex. Ginning Notice, The Oil Mill Ginnery has be? thoroughly repaired and is now readiness to gin cotton. Give us yo business and we will guarantee satl faction. The Southern Cotton C Company, A. G. Flshburne, Manage 8(-18-2w-W.