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THAT Great YEAR CLEAN he Schwartz Sale Begins Friday, Dec. 26 ^== #TT Get your H its ready. The Harvest will begi' . Select from this? ^11 Surnter's Greatest, Best Stocks AT COST. Not a single item reserv? ed-ALL AT COST. Then pick from all Coat Suits, Dresses and Cloaks at Half Price. Sale begins Friday Morning, December 26th, Ends Saturday, January 3rd. Nothing during Sale-charged or sent on approval Have you waited? Are you ready? We are! v *T <J*m' *\ Y [Mtrl COST SALE -OF Entire Stock SCHWARTZ'S GREATER STORES, Sumter, South Carolina. Cloaks, Suits, Dresses, 1-2 Price MCIU?MU K (.OKS FREE. Jo* Bette?, Slayer of Voting Woman. Oimgd Pardon by (tovernor. Spartanburg. Dec. 22.?Joe Bates, tlit convicted murderer of Docia Folter, a white woman, who wan Par? doned today by the governor, arrived Ii Sourtanburg tonight and If at the home ef his father. He was met at tn* train by hie father and brother. Jack Bates, who with a number of friends, have been ontirlng In their ef? forts to have a pardon granted. Jot Bates was at one t'me a police other? in this city. He was coir, icted in I9?s and sentenced to death, but after many delays his sentence was com? muted to life imprisonment by the present governor, who now grants him a full pardon. Mrs. Docia Better, aged 18 years, wife of J. H Belter, a farmer living neur Fair? mont, was shot at and instantly Kill? ed bv Joe Bates .a former police of? ficer, but at ihe time of the criuo I guard of the < Ity chaingang. on Sun day morning. August :v. r.orj. ,tt 11.3ft o'clock at the home < t W. I Cog. 108 Thompson sreet. Mamie Cox. the eigh?-year-old daughter of Mr. Cox. who was stand? ing near with her httle baby sister in hei arms, wus also shot kej Hates and ?trlotkfty wounded. Hutes .vas caught in the hallway of the house by Mr. Cox before he could get away and was held until the police officers arrived, i officers Lockman, Cudd, dash and i rocker arrived a few minutes after , the shooting and took charge of I'ates, who was curried at once to the - unty jail and turned over to Sheriff White. Wh n the case against Hates was ?ailed in the general sessions court lor (>etober, 1?09, he wan represented y laarnod counsel and it was one of h ? I i e t fought legal bittles ever in the Spartanbnrg county m I ??? principal cttftBM for tss if) a pit a oi insanity. He was OonvlCtOd and sentenced to hang, an ? : ?i?i to the s I pro nit court was made ,h Ut raoofjsj and after .wo years' < onfinern? tit in the county jail the gov< rnor commuted his sentence from i to life imprisonment. coigiui Ucuominatcd on ltallroud C'oimnlstoioii. Washington, l>?e. IS,?The prcsi nt toda> reiuuninated Jmhion Clem em*. (}eoi'Kia, as a member of the Interstate Commerce (Commission. Ml believes that long service and ex? pert kfowled*;e of railroad condition! make his reappointment advisable. COTTON WAREHOUSE PLAN. Chairman Maury Says Exchange Committee Experts to Designate Southern Storage Point?. Columbia, Ree. 13.?That Columbia and Augusta will be selected as storage points by the New York coton ex? change, was the opinion expressed yes icrday by Commissioner Watson ot .he BtatC department of agriculture on his return from New York and Washington, where he went on busi? ness connected with the department. W hile in New York, for an engage? ment with the engraver who is mak? ing the Statt map, Mr. Watson met Jam Of P. Maury, chairman of the committee of the New York cotton t-xchange. which has in charge the I matter of selecting cotton depots in the South. Mr. Maury said that the directors of the exchange had instructed his committee to proceed with the in? vestigation of various points In the South with the view of establishing cotton warehouses. Mr Maury gave I the assurance that the depots would COrtalnly Dt established and would be used to store spot cotton in the South. Commissioner Watson said that i rates' for insurance and storage were lowtt" in Columbia than at any other point in the .South. He said that from his conversation with Mr. Maury he was of the opinion that Columbia would be the first point selected. LONG BALOOX FLIGHT. German Aeronauts Make New Long Distance Balloon Record. Perm, Russia, Dec. 23.?Three German aeronaunts landed here this ; morning after Hying seventeen hun? dred and forty miles in eighty-seven hours from Bitterfield, Prussia, ; making a new long distance balloon ? record. They are today under survell lance of the Kussian military authori? ties. The garrison shelled them as they sailed over Odessa. ' President Molse to Represent Body. The boi.rd of directors elected President Davis D. Molse, of the Chamher of Commerce, National Councilor to represent the local com i mereial organization in the National Council of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, and to represent the Sumter Chamber and the Retail Merchants' Association at the annual meeting of the national organization at Washington February 11th, 12th and 13th at the New Wil . lard Hotel. TO TEACH SAVING HABITS. Difficulties of Training Nation to Save and Economize Set Forth in Dockery's Report. Washington, Dec. 22.?Difficulties experienced by postal officials in teaching the people to "save and economize" are set forth by Third Assistant Postmaster General Dockery in his annual report, made public to? night. To minimize this problem, Mr. Dockery recommends the inaugura? tion of a campaign of education by which the people may be brought into ? loser touch with the postal savings service. The fundamental purpose of the negotiations is to create "a spontan? eous desire to save and economize." A statement showing the growth of the postal savings system is con? tained in the report. At the close of thi lirst six months of operation there were 11,918 depositors with $677,14& placed to their credit. On June 30, 1913, at the close of two and a half years, there were 331,006 depositors with $33,818,870 to their credit. The use of the parcel post service as a ready, cheap and efficient means of transportation has been realized by the people and they have accepted it as their utility agent, Mr. Dockery as serta. By it, the report concludes, the consumer is placed in direct touch i with the farmer and producer whose { products are now laid at his door for i the lowest possible price and the way , to the low nnj of the high cost of living is opened. TRAGEDIES EV KENTUCKY, One Man Kills Another. Auto Wreck I Gets Victim. j Louisville, Ky., Dec. 23.?L*wis I Wakefleld, a wealthy tobacco dealer, was shot by V. Shelbyville last night. Robert Gi-llatin, a city flour sales? man was killed late last night when i his automobile tore through the rail? ing of a bridge and plunged 20 feet into Bear Grass creek. REPRIMANDS OFFICERS. Secretaries Mail Letters to Fourteen of Carabao Pinner Committee. Washington, Dec. 23.?Fourteen letters bearing the official stamp of the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy were sent to officers of the army and navy and marine corps containing a copy of the president's stinging reprimand to the caraaao dinner committss. = THE BIG COST SALE = Begins Friday, December 26, and Continues for 5 Days. As our motto is not to carry over Suits from one season to another, therefore, we place the entire stock of Coat Suits and Furs at One-Half Price, regardless of cost. Don't forget Sale opens Friday, December 26th. Those who come early will enjoy the best choos jng. as no goods will be reserved or sent out on approval. McCOLLUM BROTHERS, * The Res?r-Wear