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Chamber of Commerce Noten.
Department of Transportation Ap
polntmenta. R. 1. Manning-. Director.
Traffic and Freight Kates. This
committee haa charge of securing and
Improving freight aerive and adjuat
ment of rates. The chairman requests
that any member of the Chamber of
Commerce who baa raaaon to believe
that any specific rate or classifica?
tion ahould be adjusted or wherein
Sumter is being discriminated against
should at once state in writing his
complaint siting specifically so far
as possible wherein hj believes such
discrimination lies. All such com?
plaints should be addressed to the
Secretary?J. IC Croaswell. Chairman;
W. D. Boyle. C. D. Witherspoon, Ate
Battenberg, T. K. Hlnson, B. U Monta?
gue. W. P. Bunch. W. M. Oraham,
F C. NUnning
Public Utilities, Has charge of
securing Improvements of service of
pll public utilities, including water,
?ewer. gas. electric lights etc?
J, P. Olenn. Chairman; R. K. Wilder.
Thorn.1? Wilson. J. D. Lemmon, W. H.
Burn* J. A. Parrish K K. Friar.
Postal Affairs, Telephone and Tele?
graph Improved service and rates?
Oeorge I>. Shore. Chairman; Mark
Reynold*. Scott Humph, W. Percy
Smith and A. C. Llgon.
Railroad Extension and F?sserger
Service?H. C Haynsworth. Chiir
SJBJBJ i j *i Strauss, H. J. McLaurin,
Jr Belli O'Donnell, D. D. Ifolee.
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Walsh ' Ire4 tory Company ar%>
In 1 alt] King aubacrlptlona for
y. They request that
anyone ehanging occupation, place of
business or residence within past sixty
days ?hould at once notify the Chim
ber of Commerce hi order that proper
correction may be made In the new
dlre< t<?r\.
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Mi. Furman Smith, manager of the
Georgia I-o k Farm at Atlanta. G;i..
South Kirkwood Station contemplates
locating In Sumter and deslrea cor?
respondence with owners of real es?
tate or real estate dealers relative to
the purchase of a tew acres near Sum?
ter for that purpose, especially If the
property has any fruit therein. If he
oan ??eure satisfactory location will
snov? his entire duck farm here and
will Beats* It the largest In the State.
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The Advisory Bowrd of the Retail
Association are requested to meet at
the Chamber of C mmcrce on Friday
at 11 a. m.
The Committee on Itallroad K\
tension and Passenger Service are re?
quested to meet at the Chamber of
Comm. r ? n Krldty it .', p. in.
The chairmen of all other commit?
tees sre requested to at once arrange
for me.-tlngs of their committees so
that the work thereof may be outlined
and active work begun.
Sumter Is forging rapidly to the
front, buildings are going up on every
hand, the Seaboard la making the
dirt fly. the same la true of the hotels
and the gas plant The railroads are
Improving their service. The South?
ern Kxprees Company plans to build
a new ofltoe building and to make
Sumter a division point. The At?
lant r Coast Uno I? pushing Its freight
yard improvement-. The electric Habt
plant has doubled Its capacity. The
Sumter Telephone C.-mparn li flt'lng
up i?? l.irg?- new f(.'.,i\ budding
whl< h will be <| to the manu?
facture of magn.f. gm iosi\ei\ Tn
nllronfs ru?v#? granted *peclM| clagfJt*
ncattons to Sumter for vehicles. The
but iflxlng tbn row ? t r iff fuvrr-t
thirty .e?ge.4. Knqulrles regarding
Sumter and th -|" ninii- offered SI
aimonf gO)SjMi that of last vear. :dr
c \. Wood, owner of the Holland
MSJSJSI in New York city, and the
largest tffSJSf td tourist hotel* In the
Cnlted States, suggests that Sumter
would hg a good location for a large
tasjrtst hotel and ?-x presses the opln
Ion that In manv respei U it l< rnun
favornMv pSOnled MsSS A igustn. Thfit
la what others think of us. This is
but one example of the so od work
that the Sumter PSiMtettl |S dOUsg
Let ev. rvone pull togethci and Weeg
and boost for 8tim?*?r There are M
? roM-knre In Snmter.
FARMERS'
UNION NEWS
PrmoCioaJ Thoughts for Pr?ctk*U
termers.
^1
(Conducted by at. W. DadUt, Prw
idrnt 8. C. Farmer* Union.)
Some I tu nib m Thought*.
The work of the Farmers' Union for
bolter market conditions is heating
fruit. All over the county men are
wakina up as never before to see the
need of wisely marketing the crops
produced by their industry under the
blessing of a benevolent Providence.
I
If the printer will just give us more
apace we will till these columns for ,
some weeks with the parts of the pro
r.dings of the Southern Commercial
Congress that bear on the subject of
farm finance.
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Some time ago a gentleman said to
the writer. "What the farmers will do
to you and Smith will be a plenty for
advising them to hold cotton." Why?
"Because It went down and they have
lost so much money by not selling."
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The reply was made, "But they did
not hold. How In the world could the
price go up when thousands were
rushing their their cotton on the
market ? ">s??v?ew who took our ad?
vice could not raTfra mwy^^, h"t they
did atem the tide of low prlces7~fttirt
but for their holding, cotton would
have gone to fU'e or six cents In No?
vember and December." He would
not hear any such explanation. I
wonder if he will revise his opinion
now when he sees the few that have
cotton getting 11 1-2 cents for mid
WILL DECira COVNTY IKKUK.
Part of l ee County Wants to Join
Sumter?Governor Signs Order.
With the consent of all parties and
the understanding that the matter 13
to he tested In the court. Governor
Bleasc Thursday morning signed an
order for an election to be held on
the question of the annexation of a
certain portion of Lee county to Sum?
ter county. There is doubt on the
construction of the constitution on
this point and it was in order to get
the courts to pass on the matter and
deer up the doubt tha? the onscnt
"i ('er was signed by the governor. As
.n as the commissioners of election
are appointed to conduct this election
action to enjoin them will be brought
b\ the attorney general's office and
the <|iiestion thus brought before the
courts for review and decision.
InvoUi d in the question is what is
meant ?>\ an "old" county and wheth?
er Lie is an "old" county or a "new"
county. Those advocates of the peti?
tion for annexation of a portion of Lee
? 'inty la Sumter county contend that
I...- comes tinder the class of "old"
?-ountles. that when a county is once
Qfgani/ed It then passes into the oUMM
of old counties. The attorney goner
eral's office took the opposite view and
contended that Lee county is still a
new county. Therefore, the courts
a i) decide the question.
The order signed by Governor
lllease is ;i > follows'
The Order.
"The Honorable It, o. Pury appear
? d In behalf of lue petitioners. The
assistant attorney general. Hon. M. P.
DeBruhl, was present at my request
to u|\is- me as to his opinion upon
the question presented.
"I must confess that 1 have been
much impressed with ib" reasoning
and with the arge men hi presented by
Judge Puriy. The cor.struction of the
i onstltutlon Is not wholly Without
doubt, The attorney general is of the
opinion "ontrary to the position taken
by Judge Pnrdy and In view of his
opinion ej th ? legal adviser of the
? lecuttve department upon this ques?
tion of doubt. I think that I should
follow the legal advice that he gives
me. The seetetant attorney general,
however, stated te Judge Purely that
if It Was agree ible to me that I could,
notwithstanding the opinion I have
reached above, for the purpose of ob?
taining i decision from the courts
upon tbe qm-stion. take a contrary
View of that taken by the attorney
<> Deral, fof without this the peti?
tioners would be without remedy to
hove the question tested. It Is per?
fectly agreeable te me and in view of
what Judge Purely has said, as repre?
SeatattVS of the petitioners, that he
will aa errangt the matter thai the
question may be properly brought he
fore the courts. I will grant the peti?
tion. So that the part lei may have the
matter fOVlOWOd and the constitution
properly construed. The attorney
g neral'4 office will therefore see that
su< ii arm nceim-nts are carried Into
efTret.
fttgwad I "Pole l. Bieget.
"Governor,
April II, 1912"
Tb?' order was agreed te bv Aaslat?
ml Ittorwe) General DeBruhl, Pur?
dj ai 'i Bland for petltlona, ami it.
Prank k11\ for the relators ig.iinst
annexation Columbia Record,
tiling? Of course Smith, myself and
our co-workers. in and out of the
Farmers' Union, had nothing to do
with the rise in cotton. It is all
brought about by the seasons; and the
wicked "Hear combine" and "mill
mergers" to make the "fool farmers"
plant another big crop!!!
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As badly as we were fooled as to
the size of the crop our advice to
"hold cotton" was sound, and the re?
sults should prove It to the mind of
any reasonable man beyond the shad?
ow of a doubt. Hut how many of
them who said "sell cotton, it is going
lower" will ever admit it? They and
the farmers who took their advice are
more responsible for low priced cotton
last fall than all the Bears and mill
mergers in the world.
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Some Of these same business men
are now straining their credit to help
the farmers make a big crop, and
next fall, to make collections, will be
urging them to "sell cotton. It will be
lower before Christmas," like any?
body could not see that low cotton
would be bound to follow such a plicy.
? es
The farmer who does not now pre?
pare to make a living, and seme to
spare, need not swear at Bears and
mills next fall. He is the worst Bear
of them all.
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All the efforts of the Farmers'
Union, Southern Commercial Con?
gress, and Chambers of Commerce
will not avail much, if the rank and
trl??-?Ji^cve the work to the officers. Just
as an army wiTno*trr"o"mcers is a mob,
so are the farmers, producers, and
consumers without organization and
leaders, mobs in the sense of having
no definite object in view.
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Now it is not fair to the men whom
you elect to leadership in these or
ganiaztions to refuse to be led. You
may think you can manage your busi?
ness better than anyone can tell you.
and in fact you mtist manage it or it
will not be managed; but that is no
argument against joining your fellow
men In co-operative efforts. You will
find that the most successful men
with their own business, are the men
who join together to still ftirther pro?
mote their interests, and by co-oper?
ation build railroads .establish banks,
erect factories .and move the world's
commerce,
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Why should the farmer be the only
exception to this universal rule of co?
operation? Is be made of superior
clay, and endowed with gifts of mind
that make him the only exception m
the world of commerce and produc?
tion ?
see
If he is made of superior clay and
none richly endowed by bis creator
than bis fellow men. it is tin more
reason Why he should measure up to
his gifts. < >n the other hand if he
feels that he has hut one talent. he
should remember the fate of the men
who burled his lord's money, it
was taken away from him and given
to the man that had ten talents. We
See that illustrated every day: "to
him that hath shall be given that be
may have more abundantly; and from
that hath not shall be taken even that
Which be seemeth to have."
F.. W. I).
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I have been requested to ask the
supervisor to publish a Statement
showing just how the surplus of $12.
000 came to be in the county treas?
ury, and why it should have been
necessary to Issue $10,000 of good
roads bonds last year with the county
finances in such good sha.^e? Also
how much of the proceeds of the
bond issue were used last year? Wrhat
was done with the balance? And will
there be another issue of $10.000 this
year under the terms of the act?
These question have been asked
me personally quite frequently, and
1 cannot answer them. Judging by
the Interest, I think it is due to the
voters, as well as to the supervisor
and c<.nnty board, that they be an?
swered over the signature of the su?
pervisor,
B. W. Dabbs,
M AYS BUDGETS PROM WEDGE
FIELD,
Farmers Selling ( urn ami Hay?Blind
Tigers Arrested?Personal News.
Wedgefleld, April 14.- As a result
of work done by a negro detective,
three warrant were sworn out here
this week, and two of the alleged
tigers have put tip bond to appear at
court. Wa<ic Hopkins ami Prank An?
derson are their names.
It was a bad precedent for a State
to establish, of selling whiskey for
profit ;iml the temptation it seems, is
too much for some of both colors, if
the tine feature were done sway with
ami sentences were days always, there
would be ;i noticeable decrease In
biimi tigere,
One of the best signs, from an agrl
cultural Stand point, the writer has
noticed In some time, was the fact
that last week and thi?- wagons
were hauling corn to ,epo^k^ie
for shipment to Sumter.
Messrs. Rrown and Parier have
sold 500 bushels and Mr. John Ged?
dings 75 bushels, and there are oth?
ers who have sold and will sell to
merchants here.
There is work along this line for
some one to do. that is to establish I
close relations between the country |
producers and the town merchants. I
The writer had some hay baled in
January at a coat of $2 a ton and
had to almost beg for a purchaser at
$18.20 per ton. f. o. b. here, only
netting him $16.20 per ton. Now he
is selling what he has at $20 per ton
by the wagon load.
There is little to encourage one In
raising these products. I
There is some cotton to be planted
yet. also bottom land corn. The oat
OPOp promises to be good, although
not as large as last year.
Messrs Currie Thomas and Albert
Aycock. Jr., went over to Columbia
on Monday for the Carolina-Davidson
ball game.
Miss Ruth Harrington Of Sumter
spent the past week-end with Mrs.
Cleo Troutman.
Prof. Richard Parker and Mr. Al?
bert Aycock. Jr.. attended an en?
joyable dance in Darlington last night.
Rev. D. H. Owings. of Laurens,
who has spent the past several years
in China as a missionary, delivered an
interesting lecture in the Raptist
clinch on last Thursday evening.
Mrs. W. D. Rhodes and children
and Miss Halllo Singleton, of Athens.
Ga., are -pending sometime with her
sister. Mr*. P. M. Dwight.
Rural policeman Alex Xorris reports
things rather qirid on his rounds, oc?
casionally he takes in a lawbreaker.
STATKBVHG MKMOW^L. KXKR
ClftES.
Hon. Thomas .1. Kirkland to Make
Memorial Address.
Stateburg. April 25.?Please let us
give notice, through yr ur columns,
that the memorial exercises at State
burg, this year, on May 10th, promise
to be of unusual interest. The Im?
provement League propose to have
music and recitations in addition to
an oration by one of the most cul?
tured and patriotic citizens of the
State the Hott. T. J. Kirkland, of Cam
den, who in collaboration with Prof.
R. Mi Kennedy, lias produced one of
the most excellent books in the his?
toric literature of the State and this
book. "Historic Camden." ought to be
in every library in the State, and
his oration on Camden's Six Generals
In the Confederate service is a paper
of much historic value.
We have the assurance, that the
"ration this y.-ar at Stateburg. by
Mr. Kirkland. will be full Of tine
thought and Instruction and will at?
tract a large and appreciative audl
[ enco.
The exercises will begin promptly
at 4 o'clock p. RI. at the church of
the Holy Cross. All are invited to
make floral contrlhutl >ns.
G. S. M. A.
The right of way for the Seaboard
through the city and two miles south
ii is been located and will be secured
as boon as possible, but nobody here
knows when work will be started on
the extension southward or what
place Is th" objective.
A COUNTY FED CRIMINAL.
By M. M. w< Inner*;.
This nefarious one to whom i ro?
ar, in the title of this would-be story
is a gentleman of color. He answers
to the name of Peg Leg Jimmy. I
think he was christened, if that sacra?
ment were held in honor of his en?
trance into this world. James Cole
man; hut he has long forgotten that
name, as has everybody else. Were
he ca''.;d James Colemi n Vday he
would not know whom you meant.
One night while under the inltuence
of "eav-de-vie." of which he was,
and Is yet. a retailer, he went to sleep j
on a railroad track and lost one of
his legs, through this careless luxury. I
hence the name of Peg Leg Jimmy. |
His entrance into the annals of
crime was caused by an over-fondness
for chicken. His sentence was thirty
days. Being minus of one leg. he was j
not worked hard. This was the first
time in his life that he had been
clothed, fed. and bulged for carrying |
water. He was so well pleased that ,
he hated for the thirtieth day to ar?
rive.
The next ten days were devoted to
attempts to get on the gang again.
He succeeded. After about seven or
eight of these trips or "holidays," as
he called them, the county officials
realized that he was a dead expense.
After his ninth "rest-off" he was
indicted for selling whiskey. The
magistrate went through the form of
a trial and sentenced Peg Leg Jimmy
to five years, hard labor on the public
roads; he then called the constable off
to one side, and said "Mr. Geddings I
want you to carry Jimmy to Sumter
and allow h'.m to escape. He will
then keep away from here, I hope."
The. plan was carried out. The next
day I oVeThcard the following conver?
sation between - two old negro wo?
men: "W'y hello dcD Sister, how yo'
was." "Rif poly' Sister*" "Hear M^aue-,
dat wuthless, no-count' iTfKgt?!1,' Peg
Leg Jimmy? Dey oa'y?d him over to
Sumter las' ni't and t jrn him loos?,
t'ougt he would lef hiam. Mr. Gld
dlns got back at ten o' dock, an' Jim?
my got bac k at nine. Got him up to
?morning for beatin' h s wife." "Yo*
don' say? Well dat sho' am a good
for nuttin' nigger.
"Good day Sister. gi\e my specs to
j all." "Cert'ny will, Bister, good day."
Jimmy's last attempt for a job on
the gang was an "assult and battery
with intent to kill." The negro whom
this attack was made upon, reprimand?
ed my hero for beating his faithful
j pouse. Jimmy's reply to the repri?
mand was: "Look huh. nigger, ef
j you' don' min' your business I'm
Igwlner slap both your eyes into one."
j To emphasize this remark he hit at
this knight with a hatchet. The as?
sailed captured the "weepo 1" and ad?
vanced on the assailant. Jimmy
backed back, about a quarter of a
mile until he backed into a wire
fence. He then hollowed "murder."
"fire." and "police." They were sepa?
rated. The noble protector cf the
weaker sex swore out a warrant for
Jimmy on the above stated charge.
The verdict was "guilty." the sentence
fifteen years or leave the community
at once. Jimmy chose the years but
was refused them and ordered to leave
town within thirty minutes. A week
later he was up for vagrancy.
Gelting down to statistics we And
that, if all the money fin >? aginst Peg
L - Jimmy had been pa d. he would
ha\t* enriched the county by $2,756.
The number of years he has been
sentenced to serve is nfty, of the
nf > years, he has served about two.
". 1 guards would g< I so tri^d of
h a hanging around that they would
g.ve him a good beattnf and run him
off.
i ask my reader t<? d< i Ids for me
this question: Should Peg I^eg Jim?
my he placed in a penitentiary. a
museum, or a history: or should he
be chloroformed and in that way he
forced to leave his native haunts?
WENT DOWN WITH ITT A NIC.
Mr. C. G. Rowland of this city has
received a letter informing him of
the fact that Mr. Fred Kenyon. who.
with his wife, visited Messrs. C. G. and
W. Tom Rowland in this city la*t
year, was one of the ill-fated pas?
sengers on the steamer Titanic,
j Mr. Kenyon and his wife were to
have crossed on the George Washing?
ton several days previous, but were
persuaded to stay over and come over
on the Titanic. ' Mr. Kenyon's wife
was saved from the ship, but he was
left on board and was one of those
to co down with it.
Mr. Kenyon and his wife visited in
this city the early part of last winter
and made many friends during their
stay of .sc.eral weeks in Sumter. The
news of Mr. Kenyon's death will be
heard with sadness by his friend*
here.
WANTED?To contract with the
owner of a small saw and shingle
mill to manufacture a lot of timber
on hnd that I want to clear. E. W.
Dabbe, Mayesville, S. C.
FOR SALE?120 acres of fine farm
ing land near a thriving
Southern Alabama. _He<
tpyr ?TthSr' farm was formerly a
part of a turpentine location which
has been discontinued. If inter?
ested write us promptly. Jennings
Xaval Stores Company, Pensacola.
Fla.
MONEYMAKER COTTON SEED?
We have found this variety superior
to any other, giving a larger yield
per acre with the same treatment,
and giving a larger per cent, of
lint. Our farm is free from blight
and other diseases, and the cotton
is ginned at our own gin, where ev?
ery precaution is taken to prevent
mixing with other seed. We offer
a limited amount of select seed at
$1.00 per bushel. C P. Osteen Co..
Sumter, S. C.
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& Clark
This is what Dr. Hess ? Clark write us, and we stand ready to make good that guarantee to the
letter., if it doesn't pay, return to us the empty package* und we will refund your money.
Feeding l>r. Hess Stock Ttmic ds just like applying fertilizer to Uie soil. Fertiliser makes the ggfj
yield: l>r. Hew SUn k Tonic make* Uk' digestive organs convert more feed into growth.
Sometimes 50 per cent of ti?e food a heartthy animal cats Is found undig<e?ted in tl?e manure. If
this wasn't true, how could we faten our hogs on tfie corn that pu?*en through the other stock undigest
<d? Feeding medical Ingredients will redn<v this waste. Every medical writer In the universe says so.
Saving a part off the wa?tt>d nutrition by incr?musing digestion is known as Uie I>r. Hess IdeaJ of
stock feeding. Get this Idea firmly in your mind. l>o not allow the Kystom to waste half of vour feed_
save a part of this waste. Kvery partiek? you save moaik* probt to yourself.
\^_Hundreds of Herds made Immune from the_
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Dr. !le*s St Clarke are lutving hundreds of letters from stockmen ail over the corn belt that are
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disinfecting the pens and sleeping quarters with Dr. Hess Dip and disinfectant.
PrillltrV Pcin-Cl-r'P-'l ,S *"muU^ to 4W> *^\try tils and makes hen* lay. It ha?
lUUlll y X <H.MmmH~\~m?~m<A the same growth and e?g producing rmuii u as Dr. Hew* Stock
Tonic. <>iie extra egg will pay for all the Pan-a-oe-a a lun eats for throe months.
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