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Mr. Bishop Willi?, of Charlotte, N. C, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Reynolds. Mrs. B. J. Parish and daughter of Charlotte are the guests of MaJ. and Mrs. W. r. Robertson. tils many friends will be glad to know that Mr. 8. M. Pierson hat? sufficiently recovered, after his recent Illness, to have returned from the hos? pital and Is now recuperating at his home. Mr. Ed V. Qreen is spending some time in town. Mr. and Mrs. Willie L. Brunson left this morning for Jacksonville, Fla. They will also visit relatives In Lake City, Tampa and Lakeland before re? turning to South Carolina. Miss Teresa Chandler is at home after a pleasant visit to friends at Winthrop College. Miss Abble Watson of Bryant-8trat ton College, Chicago, is visiting her sister. Mrs. W. M. Wolfe. Mrs. J. C. Lawson, of Darlington Is visiting Mrs. C. P. Osteen on East Lib? erty Street. Mrs. Lawson before her marriage waa Miss Ines McCullough sad for a number of years attended school hi this city. Mrs, Joe Moye, of Florence, is the i guest of Mrs. C. P. Osteen on East .Liberty Street. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Pitts and Miss Pauline Dove have gone to Jackson? ville to visit relatives and attend the Confederate Reunion. Mm. M. S. King, who was called to Chad bourn, N. C, last week on ac? count of the death there of her daugh? ter. Mrs. DeVane. has returned to her home on Purdy Street. Mrs. W. T. Spann and Miss Alice Stubbs have returned home after a visit to Charleston. Mr. Noble Dick spent last week In , JRoek Hill. Mrs. W. H. Raffleld spent the week? end in Orangeburg Miss Mary King has returned home from Chadbourn and Wilmington, N. C, where she has been visiting. Miss Irene Mitchell, of Savannah, Oa.. is the guest of Mrs. C. 8. Cvrtle. Mrs. J. H. Johnson left Monday morning for Jacksonville, Fla., via Co? lumbia. She was accompanied by I her Bisters, Mrs. Xeyle and Mrs. Rawlinson and her father and moth? er, Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Myers, to visit relatives and attend the Confederate reunion. Mrs. L. Strauss left Thursday for Batcsburg to visit her daughter. Miss Julia Witherspoon, of York ville, is the guest of Miss Holly Brown. Kryl and His Band. Bohumir Kryl and his world-fa? mous band will appear this year for the third season on Redpath Chautau quas of the South and Middle West. The return of a band three times in consecutive years, is truly noteworthy and at once denotes that it is in ac? cord with a general request and en? thusiastic appreciation. Last season Mr. Kryl and his band appeared at 110 Redpath Chautauquas and this year will appear at 130 Chau? tauquas, playing both in the afternoon and evening. In addition to his direction of the band, Mr. Kryl will render solos on the cornet. His fame as a cornetist is too well known to need comment here. The Los Angeles Times says that he is beyond any question the greatest cornetist in the world and the New York Times styles him a complete master of this difficult in? strument. Another Honor for a Sumter Boy. William M. Reynolds, a son of Mr. Mark Reynolds and a graduate of the Sumter High School class of 1910, had the great honor recently to represent the University of the South in the State Oratorical Con? test. Other Institutions represented In this contest were the University of Chattanooga, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee. Reports coming from the farmers in the surrounding country state that the windstorm of Tuesday did much harm to the young corn and cotton crops. The corn in many places, es? pecially where it was planted in fur? rows and in sandy land, is reported to have been covered up by sand and dust, while the cotton was whipped around by the wind, the stems and leaves broken by the force of the wind. Woman Kills Herself. Greenwich, Con., May 6.?Mrs. John Perkins, wife of the millionaire presi? dent of the Corn Exchange Bank, of New York, shot and killed herself in bed at her home today. She was men? tally unbalanced from illness. CHILDREN'S NIGHT? An Interesting Feature of Redpatli, t huutauquu. As usual the lied path Chautauquas will again make a great deal this season of work among the children in each town that tho Chautauqua visits. On Children's Night, Edward Re? no,, the well known magician who has heen before the public for thirty years, and who has traveled all over tho world, will give his marvelous^ program of magic. One of the unique features of Re? no's program is his dove trick. He burns a piece of ordinary paper and a dove rises from the ashes. He apparently tears the dove in two, only to find that he has two doves in his hand. He throws a glass of water into the air and It changes into a dove and ^lies away. Not the least enjoyable feature of Reno's performance is the running fire of comment with which he en? livens everything he does. He is a man of engaging stage presence, with a keen mind and an artistic appre? ciation. Playground Work. During six days of the Chautauqua, a playground worker will meet with the children at the Chautauqua tent. She will conduct a story hour for the younger children and for the older ones will carry out a program of athletics and physical culture. The instructors for this work have all received their training in leading schools in Chicago. The playground work is under the supervision of Or. W. A. Colledge, director of the De? partment of Education of the Red path Chautauquas. Throughout the entire country much is being made of the story hour and playground work. Many public libraries in large cities have a regu? lar story hour each Saturday. 8TJHTER COTTON MARKET. Corrected Dally By Erneut Field, Cotton Bayer. Good Middling 12 3-4. Strict Middling 12 0-8. Middling 12 1-2. Strict Low Middling 12 1-8. Strict Good Ordinary 11. Staple cotton nominal. New York Cotton Market New York, May 7. Opening Close* May.12.50 12.55 July.12.20 12.30 Oct.11.61 11.70 KUMTER GIRL CHOSEN QUEEN. Miss Julia Wri?-lit is Queen of May? day {festival at Randolph-Mut-on In? stitute. Danville Register, May 2. The May-day festival and lawn fete of the girls of the Randolph-Macon Institute on the campus of that school yesterday afternoon from 3.4 5 until 5 p. m.| was a beautiful and charming spectacle or series of spec? tacles in whioh perhaps a hundred and fifty students participated. Artis? tic blending of colors and care as to details of the costuming gave a charm to the moving tableau and aroused the enthusiasm of the spectators to ap? plause frequently. The festival centered abound the coronation of the Queen of the May and the tributes of all nations to Her Gracious Majesty, enthroned upon an eminence overlooking the realm she ruled with regal grace. Groups of girls appropriately costumed came dancing and swaying with rhythmic grace across the green sward bear? ing flowers and singing songs and made the obesiance to the queen. Miss Julia Wright, a beautiful blonde, garbed in royal robes and with a queenly dignity was fittingly chosen to rule this court, and her crown was, very appropriately, of flowers. To the left of the queen stood Liberty, per? sonated by Miss Eleanor Fry, gowned to realize the accepted ideal of that majestic goddess. Directly in front of the throne sat little Fred Meade, dressed as Uncle Sam and playing the role of page. To the right of the throne were vgrouped the seniors of this year at the institute, all gowned in white and bearing bunches of fleurs-de-lis. The back-ground for the scene was formed of live arches and a great Jap? anese umbrella, the arches and the umbrella indicating the positions of the groups representing the various nations after they had made obeis? ance to the Queen of. May. Immediately after the enthronment of the queen and the establishment of her court, the representatives of the various nations appeared, made their obeisance and took the positions assigned to them. Marriage License Record. Two licenses to marry were issued by the Clerk of Court yesterday and today, one to a white couple and one to a colored couple. The licenses were to Mr. W. C. Geddings, Manning, and Miss Dora Kelley, Tindal; also to C. C. Smiling and Ada A. Smiling, Tindal. CALL roll CORN CLUB MEMBERS. Mr. Williams Now Preparing Oilicial List and Those Who Have not Given* in Names Should Do so Now. I am now making up my official list of the members of the Bumter Coun? ty Hoys Corn club. It has to be in before the fifteenth of this month. All who have planted acres and expect to contest this year, and have not at? tended a meeting or given to Dr. Haynsworth or myself your names and ages, you Will please send them: to me at once. In order that I may complete the list and send it to the department of agriculture. There is a great deal of interest In the club in certain sections of the j county. At Baker school we have a club of ten members. I have tho names of only about sixty members in the county, and I should like to get the names of at least fifteen more live boys in the next three or four days. | This year the cost of fertilizer ana manure is limited to twenty dollars worth. There will be several of the boys in the club who will have the benefit of a cover crop to help them out. In this county wc will not count any expense on cover crops for wc want more boys to learn the advan? tages of a cover crop. In my rounds I have met several boys who are already figuring how much corn they are going to make and the rest of the boys will have to go some to get ahead of these boys. J. Frank Williams, Local Corn Club Agent, Sumter, S. C. A BIRTHDAY PARTY. Little Miss Helen Bradley Entertains Her Friends. ' Miss Helen Bradley invited her lit? tle friends to spend Tuesday after noon with her in honor of her eleventh j birthday. Those present were: Meddic May Nunnamaker, Caroline Cuttlno, Myrtle Lafoureade, Lillian Bacr, Minnie Bradford, Jaunita White, Nana Jen kinson, Elizabeth Jennings, Pearl Rol? lins, Winifred and Camilla Kcid, Ethel and Elsie Everington. l<e cream was served. The little ones enjoyed themselves playing games until 6.30 o'clock. Marriage License Record. Licenses have been issued to the following colored pouples: Henry Parham and Louise Mitchell, Mayes ville; Folder Capers, Oswego, and Sa? rah Wilson, Sumter; Henry Barno and Mary Langford, Sumter. T1II0 BEN GREET PLAYERS. One of Great* -.t Attractloaa at Chau taafljnn Next Week. -1 'T' ()n?> of the chief attractions of Chautauqua week here will be the appearance of the Ben Greet Players in one of their well known plays. These players appeared on 110 Ked puth ChautauQuas last season and ev erywhere met with the greatest en? thusiasm. In fact last year in some of the towns of Michigan, people be gan to gather at the Chautauqua tent two hours D4 f?,re the program in or? der to get a seat, and by the opening hour even standing room was at a premium. Percival Vivian, Grace Halsey Mills, Charles Hanna, and other well known lien Greet players appear in this com pans In all thci will be thirteen play? ers. These Flayers are personally coached b. An Greet. Never have BhakespeareaW plays been presented with greater atisfaction than by the lien Greet . la ors. Mr. Greet is con? sidered one oi the greatest living au? thorities on the English drama and I Is famous the world over for his re? markable I reduction of Shakespear? ian plays and old English comedies, i .For thirty years Mr. Greet has been connected w ith stage affairs and he has probably taught more actors than any other man living. The plays presented by his com? pany are giv< n with such little stage I effect that there is nothing to detract from the main theme. The acton In the Ben Greet com? panies play their parts in such a way : as to depic* -he character as nearly as possible .SH the author intended it. Correct dictio^ and faultless pro? nunciation arc especially emphasized. Xudr Negro Seen. J A negro v. a" noticed at the foot of Kendrlck Street last night about 9.30 ? o'clock acting in a most peculiar manner and the police were notified of i his presence In this vicinity. Upon ; investigation, it was found that the negro was without any clothes save a j crocus sack which he had wrapped around him. When the officers ap? proached no took to his heels ant1 -threw down the sack in order not t Impede his progress. He managed t make good his escape without hi pursuers cumin; -close enough in th I moonlight to got a good view of h 'face. The nc; *0 was thought to V ! demented ot ^? be an escaped coi. ' vict, who had^tscerded his elothir. and was seektSjfc some method of ge I ting other clothing. THE TWO PIECE SUIT! THIS is the time of year when a man wants to wear as little as possible. If you wear one of our Cool [ Two Piece Suits, it's certain you won't "Wear a Worried Look." * But there are two considerations in a Two Piece Suit, which call for the most competent Tailoring In the first place, the Coat must be so tailored as to obviate the need of a Vest. In the second place, as the fabrics are extremely light in weight, the tailoring must be done with the greatest skill. Fabrics of carefully selected Sun Proof Serges, Crashes, Worsteds. Homespuns, Etc. If you will step in and try on one of these Co?l Suits and then take a look In the mirror, you will be surprised to see what a Swell and Comfortable Looking Fellow you are. $10, $15, $18 to $25. Palm Beach nits $6.50 to $8.50 The D. J. Chandler Clothing Co., "THE HOME OF GOOD CLOTHES" Phone 166 . - Sumter, * C.