Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cht ffl?aUjnnan ait? Soufyron. FKBftOlf AJD NEWS. Mm A. L. J. Bradham and daugh? ter, of Manuln* spent Wednesday with Mrs. a J. Grlcr. Mrs. Walt end son. of Marlon, ?pent Wednesday with Mrs. B. J. Mir. Game Cock Lodge. Knights of Phy thles, will meet on Monday evening st lie o'clock. The rank of Ksqulre Will be conferred. Little Mien Margaret Beaumont Is ?letting In Atlanta. Mtaa Ratella Hrunson. of Hummer toe), is visiting Miss Lillian Kpperson. Misses Melt and Llllie Gregg. Ftosa Brogdon of Sumter and Brlttanla Qregg of Florence have gone to the mountains. Mrs. J. A. Ruddock aftg Mttle son. James, of Charleston, iirrrfed in the elty this morning for a visit to Mrs Ruddock n mother, Mrs. St. w\ Nel ' Mis Llssle Nelson left this after ?oon for Ht Charles, where she will ho the guest of Mise Kstha McCoy Mrs. J L. Watson and children, of Fairmont. N. C. are spending a few days In the city with Mrs. J. F Tlsdale Mr H. W. Scott of Wtsarky. Mr. J. C. Heaner of Orangeburg and Little Mlsawa Bertha Doyle Lcltch and Louise Leltch, of Kaatman, Ga., are visiting Mr and Mrs. H. P. Scott on Harvln St. Mrs. J. Walter Doar. of Georgetown, hi visiting Mrs. K. 8. Booth. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Schwartz and Miss Beta Schwerts have returned ? from New York where they spent the past month. Mrs. Louis Darr has returned from a visit of two weeks from Flor Mrs. D. W. Cunningham, and chil? dren, of Florence, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Pitta. ? Mrs. C. W. McOrew and children have returned to the city after a stay at the Isle of Palms and in Orange burg, where they visited relatives. Mian May Antley Is visiting Mrs. C. W. McOrew on Myrtle Street on her way to her home at Cameron from falters, where she spent the past week with friends. Miss Alma Hennles, of Blackvllle. has returned home, after a pleasani visit to Miss Maude Bradham. Misses Hannah and Myrel Phillips, of Klngstree are visiting Miss Aaln seley Felder on West Liberty St. lilas Lucia Roach has returned t? the city after a stay at Saluda. GO TO WASHINGTON. y to Attend Cotton Conference to Derta* Mean* to AM Farmers. There were six In th? party from here to go to Washington Tuesday night to attend the cotton conference at that place and to attend a confer ?ace with the secretary and comp trolter of the treaaury to see If funds oouhl not )>? si cured for the Sum tor ban'is to loan the farmers nnd cotton growers of this and nelghbor ln,c rountles who do their hanking here. in the party were Messrs. C. G. Rowland. Nelll D'Donnell, O. L. Richer Be-n ?rd Manning. It B. Bel Mr and S OQelnn PROM I si ; to IN VFXriG ATF. gum tor Claim Just. Says official*. Who Will do What They tan to Aid. The committee of bankers from Sumter. has recrnth returned from Its trip to WnHblngtou. where they attended the cotton conference and nsw the secretary of the treas? ury. Comptroller Williams ami oth-r treasury officials In tho endeavor to secure some of the government funds for crop moving In Sumter county. While their trip was not directly suc? cessful, it may result In some good, for the officials stated that they rec? ognised the justness of the claim set forth by Sumter snd would make a further Investigation and endenvo: to do what they could to aid the Sum? ter bankers and farmers The committee consisting of M? ? i o Doanell, Rowland, Bicker and Her nard Manning met the officials of the treasury In conference. as stated above, and set their claims before them as needing and being nnxhms for some of the government mone>. showing tbnt the price wanted from other banks which received this inoii ev made It prohibitive for them to get It and redoan it to the farmers so an to h+netlt them tn moving their crops, it was Mated by .be government offl ? rlela that f?o Hilles at present were not such II ?I ?hi Sumo i Kinks could get some of the money now, bat that the mailer would POfOlVf Hue ragged eratlon snd It would *??? sees vv hat could be done to remed\ tlm Ml OA Mam To Girls in Cunning Clubs: The most important work of the .season is now at hand. Our girls ran not hope to make Um reputation they should have unless they take great care in the canning. Follow the In? structions, especially about sterilizing the ?ans. He sure to put up good sound fruit, with full pack. One spoiled or short weight can some? time.-, ruins not only the trade of the Individual but the trade of the whole tclub or county. A reputation for purity, cleanliness and good quality of products Is worth more than money, because you can not buy it, you have to make it. The marketing problem Is a difficult one, but we will soon find a ready market for a good pro? duct. It Is Important that every cun to be nold, be weighed after park In*, to make sure of full weight. Some things to be observed when canning: 1. Keep water at a Jumping boll. Do not allow fire to die down for an Instant while cans are In canner. 2. Keep cover on canner. Steam plays u large part In cooking contents of cans. 3. To scald place tomatoes In wire basket, plunge in boiling water for one minute, then Immediately Into cold water. The skin will then slip off easily. Do not peel more than you can immediately can. 4. Be careful to remove hard part of tomato at stem end with sharp knife, but do not cut Into seed cells. 6. Use only red ripe tomatoes. One green or lightly colored tomato will ruin the grade of your whole pack. 6. Hut Into your can as many whole tomatoes as possible, cutting only when they are too large to slip In. Fill to within 1-2 Inch of the top, pressing gently and shaking down fruit to fill crevices. 7. Use no water. If properly filled the juice will be sufficient. 8. The quality of the grade of your pack depends on: 1st number of whole tomatoes in cans; 2nd color of fruit, 3rd, weight; 4tl.. flavor. 9. The flavor Is often Injured by letting peeled fruit stand too long be? fore cooking. 10. Keep capping and tapping irons clean an;* well tinned. If sur? faces of either heroine dull and lose the coat of solder, clean thoroughly with sandpaper, brick, or old file be? fore heating, and after heating mod? erately plunge and rub In small amount of salammonac Into which some solder chips have been melted. This will clean surfaces and the free solder will readily adhere to both the irons. With ordinary care of tools, a flux made by following formula will be found to give excellent results. To 1-2 pint commercial muriate acid, add small strips of sheet sine until bubbling ceases, then add 3 table spoonfuls of salammoniac and 1-2 pint of water. Plunge Irons quickly before using. 11. Weigh every can and see that It does not fall below regulation weight. No. 3. from 38 to 40 ozs. No. 10, 1 pound, 4 ounces. We would like to nlve the follow? ing from Dr. Bradford Knapp's let? ter: "Let me make an announcement In this letter that I think Is important Your mothers have been gently in? terested In this work. From now on let us consider every mother as an honorarv member of the Girls' Fan nlng Club. How would it do to call the mothers co-operators? We have been trying to help the farmers in the South to adopt new methods of fartnlius. 1 believe vou see how this helps girls and to help the homes. Would you and your mothers he In? terested In an extension of this work so hk to Include other helpful BUgges? ttOfM for the home, that most Import? ant part of the farm'.'"' With best wishes, Ver> respectfully yours, Mary Lemmon, County Supervisor of Girls' Canning Clubs. Del hoi Tomato Club. For more than three weeks past our club Kills base had very little idle fine for canning tomatoes has been tha aider of the day. Not since our gettghtful demonstration picnic at Pocalla hnVf we been able to get in a elub letter. The Weather has been hot and the tomatoes have been ripening fast The long dry spell has seriously Injured the tomato crop In this section (Flub). The canning will SOOU be over, with hardly as large yield as hud year, We are not discounted, for although we have tod come up to our expectations in tic quantity of fruit we hoped for, vo are learning Valuable lessons In can nlng, preserving, etc.. ami hour to sue eensfull) lake care uf products of out tenth. May llavnsworth, President. Vi< e thrives and lives by conceal ment. Virgil. CANAL OPEN TO AIL piENCEFORTH SHITS MAY I*ASS TO AM) FRO. First Big Loaded Steamer Goes From Atlantic Ocean to Pacific in Nine Hours?Gocthals Well Pleased, Says Time Made by Ancon Will be Be duccd. Panama, Aug. 15.?The Panama canal is open to the commerce of the world. Henceforth ships may pass to and fro through the great waterway, which establishes a new ocean high? way for trade. The steamship Ancon, owned by the United States war department, with many notable people on board, today niatlo the ofllclal passage, which signalized the canal's opening. She left Cristobal at 7 o'clock this morn? ing and reached Balboa, on the Pa? cific end, at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The Ancon will remain at the Balboa docks for some time, discharging her j cargo, this being the first commercial voyage made through the canal. The canal will be used tomorrow for the transfer of four cargo ships. The Ancon's trip was the fastest yet made by a large ocean steamer. The steamer went through the Oatun Locks in 70 minutes, a speed never before equalled. The other lockages were equally rapid. Col. O. W. Goethals, builder of the canal and governor of the Zone, watched the opera I ?ns closely and was pleased at the improved handling of the locks. He declared that even this would be made much better with time. Capt. Hugh Hodman, superin? tendent of transportation, who direct? ed the trip, voiced similar sentiment. BIG POLITICAL WEEK. Senatorial Campaign Meeting on Thursday?-County on Friday .and Saturday. This will be a big political week in Sumter for there will be several meet? ings of Interest during the week. The senatorial campaign meeting will be held at the court house at 11 o'clock on Thursday, this being the big meet? ing of the week. The county campaigners will speak at Wedgelleld on Tuesday and at Sumter in the court house on Friday night and on Saturday morning. AH of these meetings will be of much in? terest in local political circles and politics is on the boom just now, de? spite the great interest being felt in the European war situation and the anxiety felt by farmers at the threat? ened depression in the cotton market. F1HST SOUTH CAROLINA BALE. Fleecy Staple From Bamterg Ship? ped to F. W. Wagner & Co., by Grower. The first halo of cotton to he pro? duced in the State of South Carolina the present season was shipped yes? terday to F. W. Wagner & Co., of Charleston, by the owner. A. KiTt?, of Bamberg, according to a telegram re? ceived by the brokers. The bale weighs CJK pounds, and the cotton will grade fully middling, it is said. The first bale of this season Is some? what later than it has been reported In recent years, but this fact Is prob? ably duo to unfavorable weather. The late spring and cool weather of the cotton growing months is said to have retarded the maturity of the crop to some extent all over the South.?News und Courier, Aug. 1C. SUMTE 11 I?Bl'HANT I. Teams Play Tie (tame at Baseball Grounds on 'lliursduy Afternoon The I hi Kant and Sumter baseball teams played a 4-1 game of ball at the local grounds on Thursday after? noon, Lev! pitching for Sunder and Mayen for IhiKant. The two teams wert about evenly matched ami the few persons who witnessed the game saw a splendid exhibition of baseball. For Sumter Levl allowed only five hits, while six hits were gained from Ma yes of Du Rant. Batteries: DuKant, Mayes and Heaves; Sumter, Levl and Craven. Cmpire Calk. Another game of ball is being play* ed this afternoon bei een Sumter and Os w ego. 1 Heath. Manning, Aug. IS,?Charles L. Hld ?III, an Industrious, thrifty farmer who lived about two miles west of Manning, attended the county cam? paign meeting at Sardinia yesterday and whilo there was stricken w Ith apoplexy. He was conveyed to his home as promptly as possible but died shortly after reaching there without regaining consciousness, lie was about r>15 years old and Is sur? vived by his wife and six children, besides several brothers Slid sisters. The body was burled this afternoon In the llldglll family burying groum J near the home of the deceased, LIGHTNING DAMAGES HOUSE. It, I). Mathis and Family Have Narrow Escape From Death. Mr. L. D. Mathis and his family had a narrow escape from death on Friday afternoon about G o'clock, when lightning struck the chimney of their residence in the St. James neighborhood on the Burch and gtackiey place. Practically all of the roof and celling of the building was torn off or rent to pieces and damage was done all around the sides uf the building. Mr. and Mrs. Mathis were sitting In the hall of their home when the bolt struck and had It not been for a cur? tain rod extending from one side of the hall to the other which stopped the fall of most of the ceiling, they would undoubtedly have been se? riously Injured. Their youngest child was struck by splinters from the ceiling and another child, who was 9tanding in the back door, had both legs burned, but none of the others suffered any serious effects. Lightning skimmed off through the cotton Held for a distance of several ncres, singeing much of tho cotton mid killing some of it. Pieces from the chimney and roof were thrown for a distance of two hundred yards The bottom of the wire screen door at the rear of the passage was torn off and a hole burned through the top ?f the door. The wire clothes line wus burnt up. Mr. and Mrs. Mathis were very much frightened, but after a doctor had been called In and had found that none of the children wer seriously hurt, they gathered up such of their things as they needed and moved Into one room not so badly damaged as the others, where they spent the night. Mr. Mathis stated today that he would send his family off and he would live in one of his barns until the necesary repairs could be made an the house, as it was uninhabitable it present. There is a saying that lightning never strikes in the same place twice. This has been disproved, for about \ month ago lightning struck the chimneyl of Mr. Mathis home and about two weeks ago it struck a negro harnte in a few hundred feet from the house. Marriage. Mr. E. A. Terry and Miss Melle L. Brown of Oswego were married about 7.SO o'clock on Thursday evening by Mr. H. L. Scarborough in his office it the court house immediately after they had secured a license. Both have many friends at Oswego, who wish then much happiness. Mlchaux-Brogtlon Marriage. A marriage of interest to many peo? ple in Sumter. whero one of the con? tracting parties taught for a number of years and where she was well known, was that of Miss Mary Alice Michaux and Mr. J. Edwin Brogdon at the home of the bride's brother, Mr. L. B. Mlehaux, at Wilmington, N. C? at 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening, Au? gust lL'th. Only members of the im? mediate families were present to witness the ceremony. After the marriage they left at once for their future home at Montgomery, Ala. Sewerages in the Country. One great problem peculiar to the rural districts is that of the proper disposal of poisonous organic refuse and similar waste matter. In the Cities, such matter is completely and satisfactorily taken care of in the modern BWereag systems, and thus1 the city is enabled to preserve a clean? liness which is Its greatest aid In fighting disease. When such matter is allowed t<? itand in the open, as every rurul res? ident knows, it becomes a swarming place for Hies and a hot-bed for dls ease germs; it pollutes the soil and drinking water, and is always an uu ilghtly and embarrassing nuisance Such conditions arc generally the Cause of sickeas and disease. The Sanitary Septic Tank, especial' ly designed along approved lines fori use in the rural districts, and manu fuctured by Western Brooker, Co - lumbla, s. C? completely solves the problem of sewage disposal f??r the ru? ral home. It Is of small size; made of reinforced concrete; simple, easy to install, never nets out of order or needs attention, Placed just beneatn the surface ,-md connected with the house by a short pipe line, it securely keeps the poisonous organic matter enclosed until. h\ natural process, It disintegrates, and tin ?n seeps out into the ground, harmless mineral mattev Mini water. Their is no odor, no soil pollution, Approved by health author? ities. Its cost |H small It affords all tie convenience and the lull protection of the clt) sewerage system. It h: well Worth your While to Know all aln.ui this Bauitar> Heptlc Tank, unel you can ilo so by simph writing In West on iV Brooker, Columbia, S, C. STOMACH TROUBLE i FOR FIVE i YEARS Majority of Friends Thought Mr. Hughes Would Die, Bot One Helped Him to Recovery. Pomeroyton, Ky.?In interesting ad? vices from this place, Mr. A. J. Hughes writes as follows: "I was down with stomach trouble for five (5) years, and would have sick headache so bad, at times, that I thought surely I would die. I tried different treatments, but they did not seem to do me any good. I got so bad, I could not eat or sleep, and all my friends, except one, thought I would die. He advised me to try Thcdford's Black-Draught, and quit taking other medicines. I decided to take his advice, although 1 did not have any confidence in it. 1 have now been taking Black-Draught for three months, and it has cured me? haven't had those awful sick headaches since 1 began using it I am so thankful for what Black Draught has done for me." Thedford's Black-Draught has been found a very valuable medicine for de? rangements of the stomach and liver. It is composed of pure, vegetable herbs, contains no dangerous ingredients, and acts gently, yet surely. It can be freely usea by young and old, and should be kept in every family chest Get a package today. Only a quarter._ym Anderson College For Women Faculty of Christian men and women of experience. Courses leading to degree of A. i). and A. M. Diplomas in Music, Art and Kxprrssion. Science and Art. Equipment modern and convenient tennis, basket ball. Situation ideal for health and comfort. For Catalogue Address, JAMES P. KINARD, Ph. D., Anderson, S. C. Presbyterian College of South Carolina Clinton, S. C. To what college shall we, send our son? Consider some of th id ran tapes of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina. It is well It is growing rapidly. The equipment is excellent. The faculty \h ^ >i??; The regular college courses and degrees arc piven. It has a new Bium and physical director. The religious and moral atmosphei- the best that can be had. Its graduates are making pood. The expenses arc moderate. For catalogue and information, apply to davison McDowell Douglas, r* d., Pre..* Clinton, S. C. -*'KNr*,.H*11- 4y>jj* Young Man the tale. Start account now you are able 1f You can open a Bank account in this progressive Bank with One dollar. If When you receive your bank book show? ing your record of deposits ?your hand will clasp one of the best friends you have ever made. You make your own friends but we will help you make a Bank account, which is a friend, always ready at your call and to it you are under no obligation. 4 Per Gent Interest Paid on Savings. THE BANK OF SUMTER ESTABLISHED 1889 Lumber, Lime, Cement, BUILDING MATERIAL GENERALLY AND FEED OF ALL KINDS. Booth-Shuler La* ml 1 CU Successor! to Booth-H<trb> ! ? Sil Geo. Epperson's Old Stn.