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SAYIfloS FW INCREASE. mom: than $5o,(h>o to be iu: leased in out ix next few lift Amounts to Be Scut out from Va? riola? Bank* Show That People WM City ore taking Much Interest In KtsOag* Fund*?-Money tonio In Handy ut ChrUtana* Time siul Mer cliants Will Fvcl Influx. The various banks of the city which have savings fv.u-l departments will during ths next fev days release something like $53.000 in the city which will come in handy for many persona who have been saving up dur? ing the year to havs this money for their Christmas shopping. Ths savings fand scheme was start? ed in this city a number of years ago among the employees of J. Ityttenbeii A 80ns store end since then has g?o*n yearly until now practically every, hank in town bus a savings fund and tbere are several hundred depositors smong ths various banks. The out? look for nest year, as reported at the various banking institutions in the city la better than ever before for an in? crease in the savings fund for next year and it is probable that despite the war and reported hurd times that many persons, who have never Joined any of these savings departments be? fore, will join this year so as to put by a regular weekly sum for a time of need in the future. This has been the fourth year at the Peoples' Bank that a savings fund has been operated and the officers of the bank fir 1 It an excellent scheme for young men and women, children ahd bid folks to save a stated sum each week. It encourages saving and it gives those who save a confidence that they will have something at the end of the year thst will ?epay them for donylng themselves a little some? thing each week. This year the sav? ings fund closes with the last pay? ment, Monday. December 14. The bank will on Tuesday or next day send out checks with the savings of each shareholder amounting in all to about $7.000. This amount will be divided up among probably fifty shareholders, sacordlng to the number of shares each has tsken. the shares being at one dollar each with half shares for half price. The bank will continue to operate the savings fund another year and has already secured the promise of sr large increase in shareholders with nearly a fifty per cer t. Increase In shares for next year. At the National Bank of South Car? olina the twenty-first of December brings to d "lose ths first year's oper? ation of a savings fund department, a department which the hank has tound ef especial merit and which has elicit? ed much Interest among its patroi.s and others who have subscribed to aharee in the savings department. This hank operates a $1. 50c and 25c sav? ings fund department and the parti? cipants lumber about 190. These will each receive their share in between IS.00s and $f..000 which will be dis? tributed after the 21st. The bank ex? pects to continue to operate the de? partment and has the promise of a big increase In participants an! a larger number of shares for next year. The City National Bank, the home of the saving! fund department in Sumter. so to speak, for it was the only bank for many years which kept a savings fund department, known as the Yout'g Men's Savings Fund, found out long ago thut this department was s good thing for subscribers to the various shares of stock in the fund. Fach year since the department was Institut?d It hss grown, and from a few hundred dollars It has grown until this year It will send out in checks to the shareholders somewhere around llC.ftSO. something like $3 Ofto more than was sent out last >ear This de? partment Is e ev en years od In this bank and during the eomlrg year it will have at least a twenty-five per cent, growth over the present year, showing with what success the de? partment hus met. The Fttst National hank may decide to annex a savings fund department for neat year, but up to ths present time It has not v>i<. rated one. doing this class of business In its regular savings department, which is the larg? est of any hank In the city. The Commercial and Savings Hank, tfumter's youngest bank ng In? stitution. Instituted a savings fund at the beginning o' the present yea- and baa found it eminently successful. Tr is department luring the present yeur continues to operate until Janu? ary first, when the money will be dis? tributed by cheek, ai f is, whore. Ne\t yessr the fund will hi she aged Ul run fifty weeks, and will Bead S*J< checks In time for tie- ?hurehoMoffl to gel the monev for their (itri-.thum shop? ping. The bank has f>0 shareholders ind VSlll distribute .mip-il; these ,l.<.ut ? 7.000. an excellent showing fejf the first year. It was stated ;it t|,,. bans that a speclsltv will be made or gksi department for next fm\f SSxf ? sarg ?ncrease In this line of its httai nees Is already promised and e\p< ? h i The Bank of Sumte: has a sp. . j., NO EXTRA SESSION WANTED. CONGHFss WILL COMPLETE Vom BY MABC 11 I. Provident Wilson and Leaders or Conjrrcs? Think Tliut Country Should Im tlNssj Best I Vom Legislation. Washington. Dec. 13.?Congress will enter the second week of its winter session determined to complete its tasks March l, so that no extra ses? sion Will he necessary next summer, luiut'ciatie leaders of both houses agree with President Wilson that the country should have a rest from na? tional legislation and will cooperate in early completion of the legislative programme outlined by the senate Democratic caucus yesterday. Bight of way wil be given appropriation bills with conservation meusures. the I'hil'.pplne bill and the governments pure SWISS bill following. While no special investigation of military preparedness as proposed by Senator l-?odge nul Representative j I Gardner seems in prospect, much at-j tention will centre about investigations I J before regular house committees. The 'naval committee will resume consid-J eration of the appropriation bill to? morrow, with Secretary Daniels again on the stand. i The immigration hill, with its liter? acy test for aliens, will again be un? der debate in the senate while that body waits for the appropriation bills to come from the house, its cham? pion:! Insist that it will be passed, de? spite the fact thafi it Wai not included In the president's outjlne of legisla? tion for the session. The conservation measures?the water power site and the mineral leas? ing bills? probably will be reported Ifrom the senate committee on public lands early in January. Hearings be? gin tomorrow oefore senate Philip? pine committee on the house bill to give larger measures of self-govern* ment to the Filipinos. Some part of each day in the senate also will be given to executive consideration of the safety at sea treaty. The ship-purchase bills still are in committee in both houses. TAKE PRISONERS AND FORCED TO FIGHT TO HOLD THEM. Con way, Dec. 12.?R. F. Jenkins and R. Q. Merrick, special officers of the United States internal revenue de? partment, and W. J. Johnson and Rollln Johnson have just returned from beyond the Little river section of the county, near the North Carolina line, where thoy made a raid on an illicit whiskey still yesterday and cap? tured George Beck, Spencer Bozeman, Will Huet. Dave Faulk and Asa Coles, who were in the act of meas? uring a number of kegs of whiskey when they were surprised by the ott\ ?*rs. Whon the offlceu arrested the party a number of friends of the pris? oners came to their rescue and de? manded of the officers their release. Upon their refusal to do so a fusillade of shots was exchanged. In the melee one of the prisoners was wounded, two others made their escape, both or which were recaptured, and one of these made his escape again the next day and is still at large. Capt. Jenkins was hit in the breast by one of the shots, but the wound is not serious. Another of the prisoners made such resistance in trying to extricate himself lrom the officers that Capt. Jenkins had to pound him ; heavily on the head, which is con? siderably bruised, though not se Four of the prisoners were placed in jail here, and the two wounded ones have been examined and their wounds have been pronounced by a physi? cian as not serious. Warrants have been Issued for all the parties. George Beck made good his escape. The prisoners were taken before the United States com? missioner here today and two of them Faulk and Coles, were released on bond tor their uppearance before the commissioner Monday for the prelim? inary hearing. Christinas fund, somewhat different from any other bank in the city. This money is taken In weekly, the amounts varying according to the club the par? ticipant joins. This is the second year the bank has operated the de? partment and it has found It a well saying and rapidly growing one, i~ist year t ie bank mail d out cheeks to t il participants for $S,ft#g<; this year the l>a ik will loulgtH I r Tuesday mail out clucks to !?!?!! participants for $17, 1M.?>?*,. showing that the nifmbef of shareholders has more than doubled, while the amount of money has nearly doubled. An effort will he made to double the number of participants and shares for the Coming year and the department now has the promise Of the fulfillment of th s plan. Altogether the Chri.-tmna saving! fund ami the savings fund schemes have met with remarkably successful rSSJit! in Sumter and aie tie means ?'f the saving of much ni(?" y that Slherwlse WOnld he wasted and the saving of money to maa at Christmas uhut the] otherwise Would not httVC riously. POSTOFTICE jttjjj MONEY. roll I IUST TIME DEPARTMENTI SI STAINS ITSELF. l?ostniu>tor General llurlcsou Tells of Operation of Year and Suggests Ac? tion by < ongi ess. Washington. Dec. 13.?Asserting that for the lirst time since its or? ganization by Benjamin Franklin, the postollice department is on a self sustaining basis, Postmaster General BurlOiOtl submitted to President Wil? son today his annual report. It re? cords enormous growth in the depart? ment's business because of the parcel pos. and postal savings bank divisions and recommends a programme ot postal legislation to increase the scope Of the department's activities. Mr. BurlOSOn features his report with an estimate that a surplus of $3,561?,545. the second of his adminis? tration, will be shown for the fiscal year of 1914 when all claims and Icharges have been met. On that 'showing he bases his declaration that the department "has been securely placed upen a self-sustaining basis." "It is sale to say," the report adds, "that unless unusual conditions should arise, resulting in abnormal depression of business, there is no danger of recurring deficiencies/ ' The legislative programme recom? mended is as follows, as to its most important features: Early aciion toward government ownership of telegraph und telephone lines and mmediate taking over of these systems in Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rio. Transfer of the Alaska cable from war to postofflce depart? ment control. Substitution of contract "star route" syst-im for salaried rural car? rier service to eliminate $40,000,000 annual loss on rural delivery. Postofflce cooperation with State governments in road building where improvements insure better postal ser? vice. Raising maximum balance accept? able (it pos.al banks from $500 to $2,000, Interest payments to be limit ed to $1,000. Removal of monthly deposit limit restriction. Aerial mail service, where topog? raphy war, nts and extension of motor truck and automobile service in view of recent successful experiments. Passage l y senate of pending bill providing space basis of compensa? tion for rail oads on mail carried in? stead of weight basis. Pending change in rural delivery system, computation of carrier's sal? aries on ba*is of services performed, dependent on bulk of mail carled, to stimulate business. Readjustment of postmasters' sal? aries on bads of changes In business handled due to parcel post develop? ment. Raising of second class rates on publications other than newspapers issued once a week from 1 to 2 cents a pound. Granting the department legal jur? isdiction over selection of sites and designs for postal buildings. Of the parcel post during the last year the report says: j "Rapid growth of the parcel post vastly increased postal business dur? ing the year. The department's field I of service has expanded at phenome? nal rate; it is still expanding. Not? withstanding the decrease of parcel post rates authorised January 1, 1914, economies of administration have kept expenses within the revenues." Of the department's financial con? dition the report says: "The post il revenues for 1914 amounted to $287.934,565.67, an in? crease over the preceding year of slightly less '.:han 8 per cent., as com? pared with a coresponding increase of slightly more than 8 per cent, for 1913. The audited expenditures for the year amounted to $283,543,769.16, and the adjusted losses due to fire, burglary, etc, to $14,333.46. The ex? cess of audited revenue over audited expenses and losses is, therefore, $4, 376.463.05. "This audited surplus does not however, represent the actual financial J results for the year. It involves rom iparison of amounts that are not prop? erly comparable. It does not include obligations which were incurred, but not paid within the year, while it does include some payments on ac? count of obligations incurred in prior years." A statement follows or revenues sind expenses based upon the reported revenues and the estimated expenses of the service for that year and the rep* rt adds: "On 'his basis, tin- revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1914, are found to exceed by $3,689.617 the ex? penses for maintenance during the same period. While the announce? ment establishes confidence in the fact that the service is being economi? es II y administered, it must be borne in mind that of the convenience and benefit provided the public, which must be secured irrespective of the Pnanclal outlay required, 'The surplus lor tin- year just closed, though substantial in umount, GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP PLAN WILL INVESTIGATE FEASIBILITY OF BLRLESON SCHEME. Would Huvc Telegraph and Telephones Owned by Federal Authority?Ef ! roils to Extend Civil Service to I Third Class Postmasters Fulled. Washington, Dec. 13.?Further in? vestigation of Postmaster General jBurleson's recommendations for gov? ernment ownership of the telegraph I and telephone system is proposed in the poetofflct appropriation bill, which practically has been completed by a house committee. It is said to carry approximately $o25,000,000. Efforts to extend the civil service to third class postmasters failed. The Of? flee of assistant postmaster would be 'abolished by the bill. In lirst class of? fices all activities will be regrouped I and supervisory authority concentrat? ed under a postmaster, superinten? dent of finance and superintendent of mails. No provisions are made for the pro? posed experimcental areial mail ser jvice or for extension of automobile service. The proposed increase in second class rates on publications, other than newspapers, issued once a week, from one to two cents a pound was voted on. Maximum balances acceptable at postal banks from $500 to $2,000 would be raised by the bill, the in? terest to be payable only on deposits up to $1,000. Rearangement of sal? aries of superintendents, their assist? ants, cashiers and others having su? pervisory authority is authorized, with provision for an additional $1,000, 000 expenditure. The bill also in? cludes as a rider the pending railway mail pay bill, to change the basis of pay from tonnage to car space. That would give the railroads approximate? ly $1,000,000 additional compensation annually because of the additional space required for the parcels post. While rejecting the recommenda? tion that all rural carriers be put on an individual contract basis, the com? mittee adopted a provision authoriz? ing, as an experiment, the putting of rural carriers of one county in each Stato on a contract basis. Increased pay for the rural carriers also is pro? vided and railway clerks and letter carriers have their pay increased by $100 annually until the maximum sal? ary is attained. TEACHERS' MEETING SATURDAY. There was a good attendance of teachers at the teachers' meeting on Saturday when an instructive and en? tertaining address was delivered by Supt. E. S. Dreher of the Columbia schools and other matters of interest discussed. Supt. Dreher talked on the condi? tions of the schools in this State, as compared with other States, showing that according to reports the same educational advancement had not been made In South Carolina as had been made in other States. He made an in? teresting and instructive address which was listened to with much at? tention. Field Day was discussed and it was decided to have the annual event next spring as usual. A committee con? sisting of C. B. Epting of Shiloh, Miss Mamie Blackwell of Concord and Miss E. W. McLean of the city schools was elected to draw up a program to be submitted at the next meeting of the association. During the exercises music by Mrs. Jas. D. Graham was much enjoyed. Runaway on West Liberty Street. From The Daily Item, Dec. 12. About three o'clock this afternoon a mule belonging to Thomas McMil? lan ran away on West Liberty street, but outside of the fact that a great deal of excitement was created, no very great damage was done, except? ing to a road cart belonging, strange to say, to the same man who owned the mule. The runaway animal was hitched to a wagon, being driven down West Liberty Street, towards Main by Luther McMillan, a colored boy 16 years old. The bit broke in the mule's mouth, and he started running, overturning the wagon and throwing I the boy out but not injuring him. As stated above, In Ids trot down West 'Liberty street the overturned wagon lurched into the road cart in whieh j the older McMillan was sitting, tearing one wheel up pretty badly. Washington, Dec. 13,?The navy anti-aircraft gun has been shown by tests to be amply competent to deal with aircraft, according to a report to the house naval committee by Bear Admiral Straus, chief of the bureau of ordnance. necessarily represents an approxi? mate adjustment of revenues and dis? bursements, made possible by econo? mies, in administration; compared with the volume of transactions; it is believed, therefor^, that a recom? mendation for the reduction of post? age rates or i'vs is not warranted at this time." TOBACCO MEN WANT ACTION. WOULD BEE LEGISLATURE PASS l NEEDED LAW. Crop Should Ho Tied and Graded for Sale on Warehouse Floor?Is Opin? ion at Mullins Meeting. Mullins, Dee. 12.- A representative gathering of Marion county citlsens was held In Mullins this morning, the purpose of meeting as advertised be? ing to discuss the advisability of me? morializing the legislature to make it unlawful to sell tobacco on a ware? house lloor unless it be graded and tied. Several men of prominence from other counties were on hand. The bankers, the merchants, the editors, the farmers, the laborers, warehouse? men and tobacco buyers all were well represented. All were of one j mind, that something should be done j by the legislature to remedy present conditions and prohibit tobacco being sold ungraded. Experts claimed that at least 20 j per cent, increase in price would be 'obtained if the proper legislation was effected. The meeting was addressed by N. A. McMillan, James R. Williams, W. A. Gray, J. Dock Provattt, John C. Sellers, A. D. Jacksoe of Horry and others. Some concerted action will be taken i to get the matter in proper shape. , Proper committees were appointed and it is understood that the tobacco growers all over the State are in sympathy with the movement. The proposed plan will give a money season and will give employment to thousands of white people, men, wo- : men and children who if the cotton . acreage is reduced will have nothing else to do. The legislature will also be asked to reduce the charges for selling leaf tobacco in the State of South Caro? lina. The low price of the season just closed has thoroughly aroused the people to action. Politeness. Pclitenesr. appears to have been in Tented to enable people who would naturally fall out to live together In peace DEATH toVERHWI RAT CORN Best rat and mice extermlnatormade. Kills aalckly and absolutely mtnoutodor. Muinuiifles?thus preventing decomposi? tion. Better than all the traps in the world. Insist on Genuine RAT CORN. 25e,IOC, ?i at dealers or by mall, post 11 paid. \ BOTANICAL MFC. CO. 4th A Race St,., Philadelphia, Pa. Tax Return Notice. l will attend in person <n by deputy it the following places and on the dates given for the purpose ef receiv? ing tiix returns, on all personal prop? erty, road, polls and dogs: Tindals, Jan. ?. Privateer, Jan. ?;. I.evi Siding, Jan. 7. Wedgetleld, Jan. s. I ?aremont, Jan. 11. Hagood, Jan. 12. Rembert, Jan. 13. Dalsell, Jan. 14. Urogdon, Jan. IS, Oswego, Jan. 18. Mayesville, Jan. 19. Pleasant Grove, Jan. 20. Ballon, Jan. 21. Norwood Cross Roads, Jan. 22. R. E. WILDER, County Auditor. Meets Rattler Under Auto. While crawling under his automo? bile at the Serfass Motor Car com pany'c garage, here, to make repairs to his nachine, Nevin Schlau*u was startled by a sound like peas shaken in a bag. A moment later he saw di? rectly in front of Km, on the cement floor of the pit, a big rattlesnake, which he promptly killed, and which had 11 rattles. The reptile measured five feet in length.?Mauch Chunk (Pa.) Dispatch Philadelphia Record. I J. Sumter Moore? COTTON LONG STA'LE EXCLUSIVELY. 12i 8 Washington St. Phone 585 COLUMBIA, S. C. Send samples from both sides of bale and I will name you best price for cotton landed in Columbia. Vulcanizing Our Tire Repair Service embodies Everything from a simple puncture to perfectly remedying the most serious cut or blowout In casing or tube. A-l equipment plus A? materials with exacting, expert care in every de? tail insure you Promptness, Service and Satisfaction. Here you will find a Tire Repair Plant equipped with every Modern Steam Vulcanizing apparatus. Columbia Vulcanizing Works 1122 Lady St. Phone 1714 COLDS & LaGRIPPE 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any case of Chills & Fever, Colds & LaGrippe; it acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not stripe or sicken. Price 25c. Holiday Excursion Rates Tickets on sale December 16th to 25th inclusive, and December 31st, 1914 and January 1st. 1915, with final limit Jan? uary 6th 1915. Between all points on the Atlantic Coast Line and Connecting Lines. \ Atlantic Coast Line "The Standard Railroad of the South" O. V. "Mayer, Agent, Sumter, S. C. ?MI A 5 TO HAVANA I %JJlTtO?U*} ANDRETURN { Via Key West to Tampa, Thence Steamer to Havana (Rates Cover Meals and Berth on Steamer) Tickets on sale January 7th. limited to return Jan? uary 25th 1915. Children at Half Fare. For any de? tailed information write to MR. F. M. JOLLY, Traffic Agent, Wilmington, N. C. VIA THE Atlantic Coast Line "The Standard Railroad of the South" ! O. V. PLAYER, Agent, Sumter, S. C. |