Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?\t Ktottjjman ani jSoutJjtou. Ptabus-bed Wednesday and baiurday. ?BY? OOTKEN PCBLISIUNO COMPANY IUMTEK, 8. C. Tecsns: 31.lt per annum?in advance. AdrcTileetucale; One Square first Insertion.11.Ou ?very subeequent Insertion.10 Contracts for three months, oi fengsr will be made at reduced rates. All eommuiilcatlons shlch sub serve private interests will be churned Cor aa advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of rsspec ?111 be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed In 1310 and the True Southron in ?ltt. The Watchman end Southron now has the combined circulation and Influence ef both of the old papers rjid Is mentfestly the beft advertising medium In Sumter. Oov. Manning has almost convinced the doubting Thomases that his cam? paign pledge to enforce the law was made In all sincerity and that he has the backbone to use the authority of hts office to suppress the criminals who make a business of violating the ktw for profit. The policy he is pur? suing is not condu'iv,- n, his popu? larity with the law-breakers and their friends in office, but it is In exact ac dord with his campaign promises, if a majority of the people of South Carolina want the law enforced, with? out fear or favor, as their votes for Oov Manning indicated, the*, ha\e every reason to be satisfied with the preee.-- administration. see Saturday. April 10th hss been desig? nated as "Clean-up Day" for South Carolina by the State Board of Health, and all local boards of health, mu? nicipal officials, commercial bodies and civic improvement organizations have been Invited to ooperate In the effort to Improve the sanitary condi? tion of the State nnd rid the State of dirt and preventable disease. The task is one of great magnitude and the work to be done cannot be accom? plished in one day. If there is to be a real clean-up a start must be made at once and the work continued throughout the summer, but if euch householder will make a special ef? fort this week to put his premises In good condition the problem of keep? ing them clean throughout the sum? mer will be simplified. Health Officer Forbes, with the assistance of the street cleaning force of the city, Is at work today cleaning up all the back lets In the business section, and all the street carta will be kept busy throughout the week hauling garbage placed on the streets from private premises. CLEAN! P D\Y FOB SOUTH CAROLINA APRIL 10. 19IV Declaration of War?I Itimat am to the Kingdom of Dirt and Disease. Men and women of South Carolina, your Executive Com? mittee of tb'> State Board of health calls upon all citizens to make Apr.l l"th inomora?d< la the annals of the warfare on disease and dirt in thin Slate. Last year our records show a large preventable loa? of life from typhoid fever. Approxi? mately eight thousand cases with probably at least tight hundred deaths. We. therefore, declare war upon the house fly or as It should be called, tho typhoid fly. This fly breeds only In filth and by removing fllth from our houses, buck yards, streets, stable.i, cow-lots., bos pens, no it inarkeu, gro. eery stores, we can iroent <h> fly from having a place to lay Its eggs, which eggs ha'.ch into mascots and become full Hedg? ed MU s in t ? . time. Let your slogun be, CLKAN-CPgSjd In the dsalag room means SCKEEN-t i\ K. member filer; In the dining room means nurses In the sick room. Dr. Nesbltt. Health officer, Wil? mington. SC Cm reduced the number of cases of tvphdd fever in Wilmington 1-- b> one mouth's mt> n-u\? c impair.n orgsnUed by him against tin* fly. In organizing your psrOSS for clean-Up day. do nor fof> get t-? gat lure war upon the mosquito, lag the unoph* !? I mosquito carries nrmliria and the other varieties el asasqul toes carry insomnia, irritation and nggruvutlon. < mini > < hrtlrnu n foi llelui m Belief. Messrs W A. .fame*. I^*e County, and Bernard Mann?.ig. Sumter Coun? ty, hsve been appointed conntv chau m*n for the nelglsn relief ?-nmmle EITEL REMAINS AT DOCK. (iKlt.MW i HllsFlt has MADE NO ?fORl To BLIP ()IT TO BKA. I tili?.I states Land and Nival Forces Guard Vessel a.s Ijong us She Ke rii.iin- at Newport News. Newport News. Va .. April 4.?Hav? ing fail. I to take advantage of a 1M hour parted at whieh she was at lib ? rt\ to make a dash through thallBS of British warships waiting off the Virginia capes, the German merchant raider Prins Eitel Friedrieh remained at her dock here at a late hour to? night. United States naval forces were still guarding the vessel, aided by coast artillerymen from Fortress Monroe. It is believed here that Capt. Thie rlchens, commander of the Eitel, had intended to leave port last night and ibat to arrange for him the oppor? tunity, the United States government held up the departure of British mer? chant ships for the 24 hours, Which expired at 5.4."? o'eloek last night. The Prinz Eitel was inert tonight and there were no signs of preparations for early departure. Scores of the new were triven slu?re leave and were still a'oout the streets^ Some unexpected development. It was reported, had arisen to prevent the dash to the sea last night. Another opportunity for the mer? chant raider to depart, it was re? ported here tonight, would be given by the United States tomorow and tomorrow night, marine men here as serting that instructions had been re eei\ed to permit no merchant ships of the allies to leave the port of Nor? folk and Newport News after noon Monday until noon Tuesday. As throe British merchant ships left this port ear'v today, the Eitel would not be permitted to go before 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the earliest. At 1 o'clock tbis morning the Eitel Friedrich was still at her pier and there appeared to be nothing to indi? cate that she intended making an at? tempt to make a dash to sea any time soon. GEN. WOOD AT PANAMA. To Inspect Puelfle Fortillen Hons of Canal. Panama. April 4.?Maj. Gen. Leon? ard Wood, commander of the depart? ment of the east, arrived in Panama today. Tomorrow he will begin an inspection of the Pacific fortifications of the canal. He already has inspect? ed those on the Atlantic coast. Con? cerning the disturbance between American soldiers and the police and tbi populace of Colon Friday, when one American soldier was killed, ' Gen. Wood snid tonight: "While the investigation into the affair has not been completed, evi? dence obtained thus far clearly in? dicates that the shooting of the sol? diers by a Panama policeman was unprovoked. "I have cabled the secretary of war at Washington to this effect, but have SBftAe no recommendations regarding the future course of the military au? thorities on the isthmus. The sol? diers on patrol dbl their best to pre? vent the trouble and also te restrain the BOldlerS after the trouble began." Oon. Wood plans, while In Panama. ? < mi to- mi exhaustive study into the permanent barracks problem. He will Inspect sites on tho east side of tin canal. t_ TWENTY < \K.IIT IN MINE. si\ Bead Ifcxllos Hccniered and Oth? ers still MUslng. Lltehtleld. iii.. April 5.?Six dead were taken from the Shoal Creek mine. l'.>urt"en psrsoni are missing as a result of an explosion this morn? ing. WOMEN'S WOivS. Sumtcr Women are Finding Holler at Last. It does seem that women have more than ? fair share ?.f tin- aehes and pains that atlliet humanity; they must "Boon on." must attend to duties in spite of constantly aehlng backs, or luadaehes. dr/./.y spells, bearing-down ' pains; they must stoop over, when to Moop means torture, They must walk land land and work with racking pains and many aehes from kidney Ilia Keeping the kidneys well has ?pared thousands of women much misery. Road of ? remedy for kid nevs only that is endorsed by people \ ou kn??m. Mrs C, II Waddell, 117 Kendrick St.. Sunder, says: M1 had dull puins in IBS small Of mv boeM along With headaches and dissy spells The kid? ney secretions passed loo freely glv? , ing me great annoyance. When i hoard abesst Dean's Kidney Pills, I used them and I hey relieved all tin ailments." Price .r?ih\. at all dealers. Oon'l Simply ask*for I kidney remedv?get Doan's KMaej i'iiis?the same that \trn Waddell had r*eeter?Mllburni I Co., Piops.. Buffalo, N. v. 10 looks LIKE LOSING GAME Cotton Crop Bf CK Sufficient to Pay for 11111 >< i't < 11 Food. if tho money available from the sale of its IHK', cotton crop, including the seed, had been the only means of paying tor agricultural products of other States brought into South Caro? lina in thai year, there would have been a deficit as a result of the farm? ing operation! in the State. The value of the cotton crop was $103,660,000. ?Vom that sum had to he deducted, of course, the cost of making the crop, amounting to $40,000,000 and includ? ing, without doubt, quite a large por? tion of the agricultural products brought into the State. According to an estimate of State Commissioner E. J. Watson, the aggregate value of tho leading foodstuffs and feedstuff! brought from other States into South Carolina is $86,309,158, itemized as follows: Canned goods .$13,9X7,282 Flour. 10,851,919 Bacon. 10.ti77.071 Cornmeal, etc. 10.160,693 I Beef. 9,021,000! Lard. 8.263,000 Butter. 6,400,000 Corn. 6,000,000 Oats. 3.000,000 Hay. 2,351,789 Cheese. 2,000,000 Mixed feed. 1,846.404 Eggs. 600,000 Cabbages. 500,000 Potatoes. 450,000 Onions. 200,000 Total.$86,309,158 In addition, several millions were sent outside the State for mules and horses and about 15,000 tons of food? stuffs, not included in the tall'*, and embracing 2,466 tons of apples. 2,648 tons of oranges, 2,626 tons of peas and peanuts, 1,299 tons of melons, and 3, 055 tons of other fruits and vegetables, were brought into the State by one railroad alone, making the total of such purchases at least $100,000,000. South Carolina's experience in this respect is shared in ono degree and another by all of the cotton-growing States in the South. Eleven of these States, which in 1914, rxiised corn, oats, hay and wheat to an aggregate value of $639,353,000, spent in that year more than $203,000,000 for such products brought from other quarters. If the proportion of such purchases to the total purchases of foodstuffs and feedstuffs proviUoi In South Carolina in tr preceding- year prevailed in the cotto: states gen raj(}y< the total ex? penditure in the eleven* cotton states for agricultural products brought from outside their respective borders would have fallen not far short of $900,000,000, or only about $100,000, 000 less than the value of the 1913 cotton crop, with its seen. Are not such facts sufficient to turn the mind of responsible southern farmers to the wisdom of diverting some of their acreage and some of their energy away from all-cotton and into the raising of home supplies for man an^ beast, without losing time in trifling with such facilities a* legis? lative attempts to control tho plant? ing of cotton? If they require other facts, they might study the results of operations of such bodies as the stern Shore of Virginia Produce exchange of Accomac and Northamp? ton counties, Virginia, which handled 3,499,968 pakages of products in 1914 or .?,34,GS1 packages less than in 1913. th" reduction being due largely to a hortagC In the sweet potato crop. Hut. In spite of the reduction, the re? turns in 1914 were 96,693,94t, an in , r.ise of $1.110,031 over 1913. Among the members of the exchange a dividend of 1') per cent, was divid? ed. Here and there are signs of a move? ment in the right direction. In eleven cotton States, the area planted to wheat last fall is 7,271,000 acres, an increase of 1,812,000 acres, or more, than 38 per cent, over the planting of the fall of 1913, ami the area plant? ed to oats is 4,366,000 acres, an in? crease of 1,903,000 acres, or nearly 4 4 per cent, over that of the fall of l.ii ;. The increase in the acreage in wheat and oats is something more than 10 per cent, of tin- acreage plant? ed to cotton in 1!) 1 I in those eleven states. This is a good beginning, A revolutionary change from all-cotton to extensive growing of other money crops cannot be expected of hundreds 1 of thousands Ol individuals who know little about any crop except cotton. ? ad whose knowledge even of that is suggested in the fad that the aver Iage cotton crop in the South is about one-third of a bale to the acre, But a bit of wise cooperation on the part 01 the mosi capable growers with their le?s fortunate neighbors ought to suf flce to bring about ;i widespread de? termination to make beginning bast in raising foodstuffs and fe Hi nil s St home. 11 I ??<? all-COl growers in every cotton-rnlslng nou in the south could be Induced lo 1 lognlse (in- wisdom 01 planting firs! ail. crops other than cotton st rlent to provide, directly or indtri l\, food for their families and th i animals before planting their cot acreage, nearly 100,000 farmers would take an advance step toward tho po? sition of being fairly Independent ol this year's cotton market. They would, it is true, constitute but a small proportion of the total number of Southern cotton growers when it is believed that they would constitute a leaven that ultimately would leaven the whole lump.?.Manufacturer's Record. SCHOOL BONUS SOLI). Darlington Building Will bo Erected, Darlington, April 2.?The school district of the town of Darlington has sold to the Hank of Darlington $50, 000 of school building and equipment bonds to run 30 yetti bearing 5 per? cent, interest. They were sold at a substantial premium. the Bank of Darlington being the highest of 15 bidders. The proceeds of the bonds will be used for the erection of a high school building and for the installa? tion of a heating plant for both old and new buildings of the most mod? ern type. CIIAVTAVQl A SEASON TICKETS. Only One Thon and Will be Sold at $2 The local committee has 1.000 sea? son tickets for the Chautauqua to dis-j pose of at $2 per ticket. When this number has been disposed of tho work of the local committee will be completed and no more tickets can be obtained except at the regular price, $3.00 from the representatives of the Redpath Chautauqua. The de? mand for the tickets promises to be: greater than last'season and those who plan to attend the Chautauqua ?hould not postpone engaging their j tickets. 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 Tiro Repair Plant equipped with every Modern Steam Vulcanizing apparatus. Columbia Vulcanizing Works 1122 Lady St Phone 1711 The Only Absolute and Permanent Cure For the Liquor, Drug and Tobacco Habite. More than BS years of niceesaful treatment. Nearly ?*'ooo ? >o? . Nearly loe I nstltnw a Corres pondeaefl Uonfldi utlaL THE KEELY INSTITUTE, P.O. BOX 75 COLUMBIA, S. C. J. Sumter Moore, COTTON L0N6 STAPLE EXCLUSIVELY. 1218 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. Geo H. Hurst, Undertaker and Embalmer. Prompt Attention to Day or Night Calls; AT J. 0. Craig Old Stand, '.N. Main Phones j5?Jh6t32oi "Favorites" Our high grade stock of jewelry furnishes many a "favorite" gift for birthday, wed? dings, etc. Come let sshow you. W. A. THOMPSON, Jeweler and Optician 4M t > t t i ? t c7? i * Tobacco Flues Owing to the fact that l am crowded Tor room to store the great amount of tobacco flues I have on hand, I will give a discount of U per cent to all parties getting Hues in the next 39 days. Call at my shop near the Seaboard Depot where you can get any information as to the Best Kind of Flues, also Raising and Curing Tobacco, from a man who has had 30 years in the Flue and Tobacco Business. 16 Foot Sets, any style 18 Foot Sets, any style $12.50 I $13.50 I 3 2 20 Foot Sets, any style $14.00 i o NG, Near the Seaboard Depot Sumter, S. C. z Ml Ml I MM MMMMI MM I MS MMMMMMMMMMM-wi With Age Comes Knowledge! (J This bank is 26 years old, during each successive year it has learned the needs of the people of this city and vicinity, and ca? tered to them, thus becom? ing more useful to Firms, Merchants and Farmers yearly. (J Your account invited. '4 PER CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS J The National Bank of Sumter ESTABLISHED 1889 The National Bank qf J South Carolina RESOURCES^ I One of the Strongest, with Unexcelled Equip- f ment. Your Neighbors?Why Not Yours. JJ C. G. Rowland, Pres. G. L. Warren, Cashier "IT IS OUR CLAIM" In every transaction it Is tl??' aim of the Officers of this Bank to serve It* Depositors in a distinctive ami careful manner: to keep in mind ilic individual requiremente of each and leave nothing, undone that will hotter nerve and protect the ?Tustomer's interest. ^ Those having llnancial matters to transact arc cordially invited ? to avail themselves of our ;< Istniwe and advice. + Bushiest and (terse na I accounts an* welcomed, -f ?... f Till' (iKOWP ti It WK -> X The Commercial & Savings Bank, jt ; geo. is. niorjL, j. k. c.io^bwell, r. a. bradham, f President. Vicc-Pres. Cashier.