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? Mt um h?Kioiiitv ut mihi? r, 8. C. us b?WOSHi I las* Mutter ???? y ? I'KUhONM Mr. J. J. Cuntey. of Suunnort^n, wes ? visitor o> the ? n> Thursday. Mr kV M. Aman, of Hlshopv ilb. wu< wn Thursday McManus.|M>rrlt>. \ marriug of bj|gfgg| to | num? ber of Sumter gSSgJji gad the "MTU friends of the bride at I'tshopx l!|e. was that perform-'I Sunday afternoon at the parsonage of the F?rst HaptiM Church at 5.30. when Miss MU M - Manus of Hlshopvllic t>ecan e the bride of Mr. Dgfftd Horrlty of this city, the Rev C. Uro* n offciatlng. M \1< Mnnus Is a popular young Igdy of Hlshopv lile und hut many friends here, where she has vi It* d >n numerous occasions. Mr. l>orrlty has numerous friends In the city who will bs glad to hear of his good fortune Marriage. A marriage of Interest to many Sumter people was that eeelbruted In Columbia last Thursday evening, whtg Mrs. Fmmu Olbson of this city w >s married to Mr. Carl Ktheredge. for? merly of this city, but now of Co'nru bla. Hoth of the parties h.ve numer? ous friends In th s city wh ? extend their congratulations to the bride ? nd.groom. l>mkefortl-TyleT. Mayesville. Oct. 16.?Miss Elsie Drakeford and Mr. Lucius Tyler of this place were married here last night, the Rev. Workman pes/orm Ing the ceremony. The wedding took place st the home of the bride's mother. Hoth of the young people are well kflnown here and have the congrat? ulations of their many friends. They have gone to Kneece*. 8. C, for a 10 days atay. Mr. Tyler Is connect? ed with the hell Telephone Company at Sumter. t ^ ' rr I'HIZl s SATCKDAY. Suuiter Contribute ? < '? Ngjggg for Hoth tin* i t p Farmer^. nty "Hoys Corn Club will haw i *h-.\\ in Sumter Saturday, October 11* Several yields have been reported ' between eighty and ninety bushels and two or three boys are ggpgt ting to gather more than a hundred bushels. The following bunks, newspapers and firms have contrlbuteu to the prtxe fund for the Crn Club; First Nan n ti Bgjgft $ ?'?. I irgauge* Bank 41 Trust Co. Sumter Hank, $."?0; The Peoples' Hank, |fg| the firm of o Dggui? I At Co ihr KniKht l'ub llshlng Compuny IT..." Aorth of sub? scriptions to The Sumter Herald, and Ihe ??j?te?n I'lildnhuiK t'oiiipuny $7.50 worth of suhst t Iptlons ' to the Watch? man and Southron. ilulf f the amount contributed by the Sumter Hank will U- used for giving pros in Sumter Saturda> and nearly half of the funds contributed b> The First National Hunk. The I timers' Hank ?* Trust Co.. the I'.m.pies' Hank, the firm i f <>T>onneli a> Co.. and the H''V.s|ii|,.r sub*, f" 11 ? f. <US \\;|| be UNed for the name purpose. The rcniamd* r <f th?- sjgfgg lund. which will amount to more thun a hundred dollars, will be used to pay the . \p? risen of two of the ggggj making the highest rec? ords to a Corn Club gehool to be held In Columbia during the National Corn show, gfsi leg peg bag ths eapenees ol all the bo>H. who m ik*- pro.get reports Suturdav. t*? the National Cofg show for one *?r tw*t ge\g< l*r H ? \ nsw *.t t h. Hup? ir>t> ml* nt of Kde.iU.n ami J. Frank Williams. Farm I terrorist at ion Ato-nt. will .??? < omi an\ I h? bovn ?11.? Corg Show ga ebap* 111ges aroi Inetfuctert The business men *d Sumter .ire m i? r.s* i> ggestnased hi c ha aging ibe plans and in*'hods ,,f farmiriK In Miot? r ? ?min\ fr*'in principally COt? b crown In at* . It ravage n1 way. to a dr. ofgfgjei it le a el tops gfowg og the most economy ii plan, supplemented gg the raising *.f ll\e stock. With the* aim in irlew, The Ctty Na t)ort.ii i.ink gsaioffered Ihrei hundred und t \\ ?11?% ti\. dollars in prl/.?s this year, and has ruumuneed Its Intention of offering more ihga tour hundred d. liars m pftges a not hol yew Th*- pr* ad* nt ol th* Hank of glimt? r ?ho v\u?< agggFosv bed for ih< - ?< rip tion t<* the Hoys t*org Club, Inted thut gre might he ? ired ol the Unnk of Humtei b* 11.int< rated >?? in) plans *.r nselhods fof btllldlns Up ItH fufi.r? ggeggs i f Ihe farmers ol hunter CeamU md thai .? would be the poii< v *f the Hink .f gumtef to . I,. ? m ure mil h. i, Fi ik H llllngai LETTER TO GRIND JURY. iikai.th UmCEll OAIM at? TENTION to RBOKN1 Kl LI 's INUt (iOVIlHNMK.NT OF COl'NTY JAIL. County Should Mako Changes in Present Jail or liullil New Jail to Accommodate PHsnuWffS in Sanitary Manner. The Hoaorable, Ihe Grand Jury( County ol Bumter, s. c ?bntlemen: The rules and regula? tions of the State hoard of Health i?*?t received by ihs Bumter Depart* meal of Health provide! among oth> tt things for the government of coun? ty iiis. the following: That no person he admitted to any prison i mil he hau been bathed, his Clothing disinfected and washed, and that the county authorities provide the new prisoner with suitable cloth? ing: to wear until his clothes are dry. [ "That very new prisoner in any Jail must be examined by a physician within twenty-four hours after admis? sion to any Jail In order to determine Whether they are suffering sjith tuber? culosis or any disease classed as com? municable by the state Board "f Health. "That It shall he unlawful to allow any prisoner suffering with tubercu? losis or any disease classed as com mualoable by the state Board of Health, to remain in any room or cell with Othaf prisoners who are in a normal state of health. "That there shall be provided in every Jail or other prison separate wards for the isolation of prisoners suffering with tuberculosis or Mother communicable diseases so classed as communicable by the State Hoard of Health. 'That it shall be unlawful to admit any prisoner to any jail unless the new prisoner has been successfully vaccinated within two years Imme? diately preceding his Incarceration in said Jail. If such prisoner be im? mediately vaccinated upon admission to jail he may be allowed to remain, provided however that he has not boon expos.d to small pox within three weeks. 'That ever\ jail* or other prison Fhall be so constructed as to provide not less than seven hundred cubic feat of space for each, inmate of said Jail, and that the jail must In- ho pro? vided as to ventilation that ?ach prisoner shall haVS not less than three thousand cubic feet of fresh air every hour." You. Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen ? f the Grand Jury, know that the pr. sent county jail does not, in size, or other respects, comply with the abOVS requirements, and that the county jail Is Inadequate In SIM and SOjttlpSaent to afford reasonable sanl tar\ pr< lOOtlOU to prisoners, and to protect the public health, The County Commissioners arc anxious to either remodel the present Jail and provide | hospital accommodations as provided b\ i.iw. or to erect another county Jail ? t suf!ici,-rn etaOi with modern sanl lary provisions. As the lira ml Jury has shown, ?> recent presentments to the Honorable Circuit Court, its I Interest m the humane treatment of bei pleas prisoners Incarcerated *n the same room with tuberculosis patients, and has expressed the opinion thai the ja;i Is Inadequate fos the reasons set forth in said presentments, i have leclded lo furnish you with the all .< Inforn atlon( In ihe hop.- that the Grand Jury win renew its recom? mendations or a more modern and sanit?r) jaii, thus backing up lbs ???? sire of the county authorities f??r a bigger and more modern sanitary Jail. i also ,isk the grand Jurj to s? ?? that the above ribs and regulations are compiled with by Ihs proper counts authorities in Charge of the prison? ers in gumter county jail. If the grand Jury will recon mend some rem ed] i"r existing conditions, or that another jail be elected, to meet mod? ern sanitary conditions, this recom? mendation will strengthen the County Commissioners and Ho local Hoard of Health In their efforts lo secure hu? mane and de. en! jail accommodations for nil prisoners, ami in the protection -f the public health. You can easily understand that tin public health is menaced by* unsani? tary conditions In Ihe jail, For In st.mee. i cannot disinfect the jail as lonsj as there are nny prisoners there? in. Hut when a prisoner suffering with tuberculosis Js placed in this jail, he I ccorncs a source of lnfe< lion. I deem it unnecessarj to go into scientific detail with a body of pro gresstve and Intelligent cltlsens, sieh .i>< compose the Orand Jury oi Bumter county. Hut l do desire ??? secure your further c<i 'pel I'm in tin* important pub? lic matter In order that ?ia County IComm salon ?rs md Ihe Hwnter Coun I ty delegation nit-. ib|< In prepare to the Improvement of conditions , j ei.mpl i ire d "f. to ),. pn? , ,| |.v t la- ! Voiirs truly K i rteardnn. H< iith i itHc< r FARMERS' j UNION NEWS Practical Thought* for Practical (Conducted by K. W, Dabbt, Pres? ident v. C, Partners Union.) some Random Thought*, It la about time for the county and State Pain and the letter sent out from the State Board of Public Affairs i f Wisconsin about cow testing, is op pertune, n yu arc going to pay a fancy price for n cow, you want a record of what she has done, and this is more Important to the dairy man or tin- owner of one cow for family milk and butter, than her pedigree. The breeder wants pedigree, as well as performance. But the housekeeper who sends the cow to the butcher, When She ceases to be profitable, wants be: !'?.! III.i nee. S * * This testing of cows, and monthly reports on them could be made a very interesting part of the local unions meetings. As long as so many peo? ple send line cows to tin* butcher, and buy fresh ones, just so long will far? mers have a market tor all the good milk COWS they can raise. And it will be a more profitable business than raising beef cattle. gee The letter on CO-operatlve market? ing ol' potatoes and wheat the ware? houses have led to is published, not because there is anything new in it, but to show our readers that farmers elsewhere are working to solve the marketing problem. We should not be satisfied In Sumter County with the success of our Union Brokerage Com? pany, and Its produce feature, but we should not rest until a real produce . gohange is in SUOCeasful operation in Sumter. At the next meeting of the County Union that will convene with Trinity local on the 2nd Friday in No Vember, the ISth of the month, this I tbjeel will again be presented and a work.ng plan suggested. Such an in? stitution would do much to develop the dairy industry as outlined by Messrs. McLane and Mason of the De? partment of Agriculture and would help out the splendid plans of Uro. Williams for local union Cooperation, e'en Yesterday Dr. Whaling in his ad? dress at Iiri<?k Church in the interest Of an endown ? nt fund for the Presby? terian college! of this State made a tine argument for tin study of mar? keting and farm finance in the col? leges, when he s.iid the colleges must take up the practical affairs of life in the place ol the arid theology ami dead scholasticisms of a cloistered re? ligion. Thai church colleges must give to bright students all that is best in the educational system? 20th. cen? tury progress demanded it 1 wanted to tell him that lor this reason the Farmers' Union called on the church colleges to study farm mark? ting and the Improvement of rural credits, along with the state colleges. No col? lege can afford t" Ignore such live ?ubjects in an agricultural State am! long hold its place in the public es let ni. B, w. l >. I I e Tenting of Cows. Madison. Wis . Oct. 16.?-Although Denmark owes much of its supremacy in the dairy Industry to its cow- test? ing aaaociatlon, this movement has ted gained th< Impetus, many believe it should, among the dairymen and fat mers of Wisconsin. In his report to the Wisconsin State Lb aid of public Affairs upon "Agri? cultural Co-operation" In this ami other countries, John P, sin. lair re \ i? Wfl the w ork dorn- by the Wisconsin Dairymen'i Association to encourage th< testing of cows for the purpose ??? determining their producing capa? bilities! ami urges its extension upon a basis which will meet with more genera I n< ceptance. sin?.- the Href cow testing assocla lioi organ led in Wisconsin was form? ed :<? l? ?. nd.de. in Pon du Lac coun? ty, several years ago, 1,450 Badger i i.iie dairymen have belonged to them ami .i few more than 17,500 COWS and helft rs have completed year's tests. Tins enrollim ni may be regarded as a sat!sfactor> record, but In spite og its demonstrated value and usefulness tin- farmers of the State have not real led Ihe Importance of continuing the work year after year. In some Instancei dan-, men found their herds Sil pOOr tint ;it the end Ol six tit- > II t list they wthdrew from their association unite discouraged wltb their efforts or luter to st.ut anew with animals of more profitable production. In other cases men ownltiH |?ure breds found then- herds much below thidr expecta? tions, thus tendififj to prevent the pro fltnbU* sale of their animals, in other Words, the) could make bettei iloa by talking pcdigrtM than hj talking i" dlgr< e ;ir ,i record If t he pm ch ist i kn< w thi I i? edi r vn us k< eping a i ? cord of each animal, ho mlghi request a record of the unimal he In tended to purchase and this might embarrass the owner. it, of course, has been thoroughly demonstrated that there are great differences in cows, and that the only sun- way to determine these differ? ences Is to Weigh and test ?-ach COW'S milk, for it is not possible to deter? mine the quality of tin- milk by its color or estimate the amount of milk that an animal produces by observing how much she gives at B milking. The way to obtain exact Information j is to we igh and test the milk periodi? cally. I a cow that does not produce at leas! ISO pounds of fat in a year will not pay for the feed she consumes, it C( BtS but little more to keep an animal that will produce ^"0 pounds of fat than one that produces 160 pounds There is, too, a well known fact tha. animals capable of producing but 15C pounds of fat in a year tend to pro duce animals of the same capacity In order to Improve the dairy herd i: becomes necessary to know the ani? mals that are profitable and those that are unprofitable. Yearly records are the best. guiddS with these and a knowledge of the animals breeding powers, conformation and other char a< ^eristics, a dairy farmer is in a po? sition to build up a herd of good dairy cows. When we take into consider? ation the present prices of land, the cost ,.f hired help, the demands of our clviliatlon, WC And no place on the farm for an unprofitable animal. The cow testing association helps the far rnei in securing a profitable herd of cows. It also helps him to see the Im? portance of preparing the right kind of a ration for his herd and giving them daily care. Co-operation in .Marketing Potatoes. .Madison, Wie., Get 16.?"If the farmers of YVinconsin would co-oper? ate and market their own potatoes, figuring three cents a bushel as a con? servative saving to them, they would save nearly $1,000,000 a year," is the startling statement recently made by a representative of the Wisconsin state Board of Public Affaire, who is familiar with the co-operative move? ment of Great Britain! Denmark and other European countries in which it lots succeeded and who realizes the opportunity for co-operation among the farmers of Wisconsin. 'It is a sate estimate," he explain? ed, "that 5 cents a bushel represents the increased profit realized by the larmerg selling to the wholesalers and consumers in the cities through their warehouse operations. It stands to reason such would be the case. One farmer has not enough potatoes to make it worth while for a wholesaler to do bualness with him. The Individ? ual farmer usually sells his crop to the small local dealer. Who in turn disposes of it to a jobber. And neith? er the producer nor the consumer I pr >uta by such an arrangement, for I the potatoes pass through too many hands, How different la the situation :when farmers combine their co-oper j ath n and put up warehouaes and deal I directly with the wholesaler, the re ' taller or consumer." t The potato crop of Wis< onsin for a ! single year (1909) was mure than 31, <>m<?.? io0 bushels, and a saving effected by i o-operative marketing of but one cent a bushel would mean a clear gain of more than |300,000 to the far? mers, in addition to this advantage, j it is evident that a local industry would develop which would contribute j largely t<? the business life of the community in which this co-operation Is carried <>n. For example, the j n anager of one of the strongest far- i mere' Shipping associations in the | state recently declared that the far- . mi-is' warehouse bad wrought won? ders in his town and had "made a little, dead-to-the-world village a j Mecca' for farmers for miles around, j It is particularly encouraging to note that Wisconsin farmers have push* d ahead very rapidly during the past live years in the building of co- 1 operative warehouses for the storage of their potatoes and tobacco. One c immunity seems to take its Inapira ii. n from another which has made a success of such an organization. No State agency has lent a hand in any way. and yet the farmers have suc? cessfully placed warehouses at many - f the principal potato and tobacco ; centers of the state. In addition to the marketing of potatoes and tobacco, many of these , organisations, according to Mr. Sin < lair, unite in buying fertilizers, seed, j machinery, binder twine and other supplies for the farm. This phase of co-operation has been more common about co-operative warehouses than . about the creameries because of the storage facilities of the former. j_ Mr. D. Porreca, formerly of Atlanta, Qa., where he was cutter and de? signer for George Muse, has moved to Bumter with his family. Mr. Porreca will be employed as designer and cutter by Mr Tom Hingham in his new tailor establishmeut In the < i < leewell block. The county treasurer's office open id Tuesday for the collection of taxes. Something over fifteen dol? lars ?rare take in the first day, but the treasurer and his assistant were not rushed* in the least in receiving this amount of funds for the county. MISSIONARY IMON TO MEt?T. Woman's Home and foreign MJsuloB" ary Union Hold? Seeaion ut Wedgo fieid. November |g. The Woman's Home and Foreign .Missionary union of Harmony Pres? bytery has arranged to hold mission? ary institutes in live counties within the Presbytery. The institute for Sumter County will be held at Wedge lield. Wednesday. November 13th, Itlg, at 12 o'clock. The following churches. Concord, Sumter, Mayesville, Saluda (B, K.) and Tirzah, are urged to send as many ladlee as possible. A cordial invita? tion is extended to them from the Ladies' Missionary society of the Wedgefteld church. Entertainment wll be provided for the day. LIME?Not agricultural lime, but shell lime properly ground for ag? ricultural purposes and ready for use; in even weight sacks, by Varn & Platt Co. I ?rders solicited and promptly filled. Thoa S. Sumter. PLANTATION FOR BALE?The old "Shaw Place." three and one-half miles from Blahopvtlle, containing one hundred sixty acres. Over one hundred thirtv-fivc acres now cul i tivated, yearly rental of nearly seven hundred dollars. In good community, one mile of school and near Mt Zion Church. Address T. e. Cooper, st. Charten, s. c. The best Food is Bread, The best Bread is? BUTTER-NUT Bread RICH AS BUTTER. SWEET AS A NUT. At all Leading Grocers Ladies*, Misses' and Children's Coats THE cool mornings bring to mind the cold days just ahead. For the lady who must: be out in the early morning or the miss who must leave the fireside at the thirteenth stroke of the bell?the one great necessity is a Coat. This season the most popular are the rough weaves. Whip Cords, in all colors. Kerseys in Greys, Browns, Tans and Mixed Colors, with the usual number of Blacks. In Fabric, style and Workmanship our line of Ladies'Coats at $10, $12.50, $15 and $18.50 show an individuality that defies com? petition. Misses and Children's Coats from $1.50 up. O'Donnell ? Company