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Cfct SHattjjnira ani ^(rat^ron e-nMssfcew liiiwtjy a?l Saturday. 11 PI MflKX PUBMEHUfG COMPANY. fUafTBR, 8. C par ejinnin~-ln advance. Pm ?o.uare trat taaertloa.11.Of ?very smbeoqoaat Insertion.60 Qomtnotm tor three months or feager wttl be MAOt at reduced rates. All eonaanoaleatlons which sub ?erva private tatsrasta will bo charged ?or aa advertSMsassts. Obituaries and tributes of reaped aria be oaergid for. Taw ?ranter Watchman was found et In MM an? the True Southron In IMt. The) Watchman and Southron new ban the combined elronlatlon and aaaXaeoae ef both of the old papers, an* la aaaajfeetly the beat advertlalng snedagsn la ?inur "PURE NONSENSE." The opponent* of Qov. Manning are evidently hard put to it for political capital. A few days ago an up-State paper published the report that May? or L. D. Jenninga would oppose hlro aa a candidate for governor before the primaries tale summer. Mayor Jen nlnga promptly stamped tbe report aa false. Now the report la started that Councilman J. P. Booth is oppos? ed to the re-election of Oov. Manning. Mr. Booth thought the report hardly worthy of notice when It waa called to hla attention. "Pure nonsense,' he ?aid, "tbe governor and I are close ? HBiasI friends; beeide that I think he> ban given the State a fine, progres? siv* Administration I will do all I oaa to help re-elect him, bat It won't take very hard work to do that. Tell them to get some other report that'a more interesting." M'GaVKE ACQUIRE* NEWSPAPER. Weanern Snath Camisna Publisher Taken Over the Edteto NeWf at Wajrener, Feb. 8.?The Kdisto Newa, a newt paper published at thle peace,- haa be acquired by J. Rut ledgeJ sfcGhse, the well known news? paper, man, and henceforth will ba Isnued under hla editorship and di? rection. The aawjmanagppaent will snak'e^ many Improvements, in Vie, plant and wtlMaawl* a Irland row gresatve weekly itovfrrmpert represen? tative of their energetic sect*on. Mr, McOho* h pubhah? r also of the nat?rirr*urg Herald which is a combi? nation of tbr'-a newupapera, the I<?es villo^News and the Bateaburg Advo? cate^ as well aa belig the publiaher of the Johnston Times, published at Johnston. The recent addition to his "syndicate." the Bdlato News, circu? lates* widely over tbe upper end of Orangeburg and the lower end of Lexington and Alke? counties. f^ianaloai County News Notes. - Manning Times. One of Manning's moat enterprising bustneai men has made a study of peanuts for the past six years, and he haa about solved the question as to raising. harvoHtlng and gsttlng a mar? ket for thia product, which will be a great benefit to our farmers In the way of realising cash for this crop, and w? will take up this subject In our neat lasue to ahow the people what they can do If they will. . t o a On Sunday. February ISth, the Rev. W. H. Barn well, rector of St. Marks Episcopal church, will hold the services In the Presbyterian church st Pin a wood at 11:30 a. m. The aixth Sunday after the Epiphany, the Holy Communion will be celebrated. The morning offerlnr will be given to All Balgt? Parish. Georgetown county, to assist In rebuilding their church wrrlch^aas deatroyed by tire some time ago. ana Mr. W. I. Hudnall. Jr.. aon of Mr. W. I. Hudnall of the Fork section, re? turned home last Friday from Pana? ma, where he has been in Uncle Sam's service for the past threo years. His time haa expired that he enlisted for, unlem called on. then ho will have to serve four years more. Mr. Hudnall la In tho beat of health, and seems none the worse for the strenuous du? ties he has been undor since he left South Carolina. see Mlsa Delgar, of Sumter, a trained nurse of reputation. Is at the bedside of, Mrs. U B. McCord, who la crltl cally ill. at her home In Manning. The people of Sumter were surpris? ed^ Wednesday afternoon about 3 o'clock by one of the hardest down? pours which has fcoen experienced In eeaerat months. Keeping company with the rain was a quantity of hall and an electrical storm which lasted t< t about IS minutes The clouds were the blackest which have been ae%n In a long tlmo and It was so dark for about 20 minutes tint lights had to4 be turned on that people might see comfortably. \ AGENT TELLS OF HER WORK. MIhm Mary I^mmon Shows What Has Been Done ami Her Plans for Fu? ture?Expresses Appreciation for Assistance of Chamber of Com? merce. We have not the greatest army, nor the greatest navy, but we have the greatest Department of Agriculture in the world. As Home Demonstration Agent for Sumter County, I work in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and Winthrop College. Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, our patron saint of agriculture and founder of demonstration work, had a vision of our country as a thing of marvelous utility and beauty. "You can cover the hillside* with a'falfa, dot them with purebred stock; jou can beauti? fy the buildings; plant shrubbery and fruit trees, and you can put intelli? gent men and women and children, on them and make them happy." ' It can be said of the Sumter Cham? ber of Commerce that its members are interettted not only In the material development of our county, but also in the mental and moral develop? ment of Its citizens. It wants the homes of our county not merely a place where the farmer and his wife, and children can turn out crops to sell for cash, but a real home, a thin $ of beauty that will attract the boys and girls so that they will stay on the farm, a cen cr from which will radiate civic Influence that will elevate the life In the community to a higher plane. ? My work began with the girls' canning clubs; 1* addition, to these we shall hnve tktk year six Woman's Home Demonstration clubs, five poul? try, and domestic science classes .fa five schools. We ate expecting td flava tho -iris of theee clubs In Sumter in June tor a four-day short course in canning, gardening and poultry. While at Winthrop college In January we planned the course, but soon will come time for Ota carrying out' oar plans.* JDd what organisation shaft we; look far financial support and gener? ous hoapitalitx The Sumter Chamber 6f Commerce is the organisation.' I We feel sure that this cooperative society wilt render valuable service in the fu? ture, as it has done In the past.' Many members o? thl*. organization have the, spirit of cooperation. As human beings have learned to cooperate, so fast and. no faerter. civilization has, pro to e**T>r*sV the' deep a elation of tho'grrbj ana woman osthufj rural districts for the valuable ser? vice rendered us by tho Chamber of Obrnmaroa This organisation has de? lightfully entortaioed us on several occasions and during our annual pic? nics has furnished automobiles to take us to and from Pocalla springs. Our girls have been sent to Winthrop and Coker College to attend short courses by money secured by subscrip? tion through the agency of the Cham? ber of Commerce. Theee girls return? ed to make their homes and the homes of their communities more eco? nomical, efficient and beautiful. n MARY LEMMON, Home Demonstration Agent. SHE GOT HER MONEY BACK. St. Matthews Woman "Queers" Game of Bye "Doctor." i St. Matthews, Feb. 7.?Four men, styling themeelves "Dr" and passing oft as eye specialists, came here Sat? urday and came near getting Into trou? ble. These "specialists," It seems, carry a pretentious looking case. The case is filled with "specs" galore, all "solid gold" The "doctors" aro all gentlemen of faultless spiel and carry an important and learned look. They talk In technical terms and talk fast, too. Their habit seems to be to go causually Into the work of making a thorough examination of the eye, simply to see if anything should be really needed, guided more by patriotic philanthropy than a mere desire to sell goods. During the progress of the examination a terrible defect ap po s in one eyo and all at once the victim sees double. That is a sure sign that somebody Is going blind, and they have a pair of glasses ground for just such a case. They worked their game here in several places; but one lady discover? ed after sho had parted with her cash that it was not her eye that had made her see doublo but the lens that sho had tried. Further she found upon using the acid test that the "solid gold" frames fairly fumed of brass. She also learned that immediately up? on making tho sale tho "doctors" had secured a car of good speed and were shaking the dust of this place from their feet. A warrant was sworn out and tho sheriff put In pursuit. They wore discovered in Columbia late Sat? urday night, and when they were ad? vised tliat they could pay up >r rblo back in tho sheriff's new car and try their hand at roadbuilding they paid up, and said in addition by way of compensation for tho trouble of the argrloved one, that they know a mem? ber of her family well, and had they known then who she was they would never have thou ht of playing her such a trick. WANTS FARM INFORMATION. J. Frank Williams Asks Aid of Farm? ers, Merchants und Chamber of Commerce in Effort to Secure Facts. What are we going to do in Sumter county during the year 1916? First thing that I want to do is to make a survey of the county and find out ex? actly what we did last year. In do? ing this I wish to call upon the Cham? ber of Commerce to assist me. I know that it will assist me in doing this because it has always willingly assisted me in the past. A Chamber of Commerce is. a wonderful thing. Just think what it means to have the business men of a city organized with a secretary, president and committees to look out for the welfare of the community. There was a time when a Chamber of Commerce thought that its business was to induce outside in? vestments and do those things which would add to the population of the city and thereby increase tho busi? ness of the merchants. The boll wee? vil has caused many Chambers of Commerce to completely revolution? ize their methods of working. They are now beginning to look toward in? creasing the production of the farms along the lines that mean permanent prosperity. You never find a rich city that does not owe its prosperity I to some rich farming territory or mines. That territory may not be in its back yard, but it must be where it clears through tho merchants and bankers of a city through the medium of waterways or railroads. Sumter depends and always must depend up? on the prosperity of the farms of Sumter county, and portions of Clar? endon and Lee counties, for its pros? perity. At the same time theee farm era contributing to the wealth of Sum? ter are in a measure dependent upon Sumter to establish markets. Re? member that in establishing a mar? ket it is not advisable to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. Last year we all preached the grow? ing* of more hogs. I was told in Surrw ter the other day that dressed pork was selling by the whole hog at 7 and; ? i>2r cents per pound. We see ths the < papers that packers are paying: more than that for them live weight.. A man who has to kill, dress and hatA a hog to market ana take 7 and 1-i I cents per pound is not going to try to raise any hogs for the market next year.. < It is the duty of the business men of ^ Sumter to- get together andt purchase nny nrn<tuetn' from the farm* that are offered at a very much \oM ei orico than the commodity will bring at some other market center The Chamber of Commerce and the business men Qf Sumter have certainly been a great deal of assistance to me in teaching certain principles of diverj sifted farming that are comparatively new in Sumter county, the Corn Club work, the Tomato Club work and the growing of legumes. The growing of beef cattle and the dairy industry is receiving a great deal of attention at this tlmo. We need to grow cattle both for beef and for the dairy pro? ducts, but always remember thsit the profit of any endeavor is in the sale's end. In making a survey of tho county I wish to find out through the school trustees and other sources exactly what portion of the land was planted to cotton, corn, grain and other crops and what was the average return for each community. I also wish to find out how much of the different kinds of products that could have been pro? duced in Sumter county were shipped into tho county. It is necessary to discover a fault or an error before it can be corrected. Last year dire necessity compelled us to do certain things. The advance in tho price of cotton made it seem that it would have been more profi? table to have produced cotton in? stead. Cut if a largo number had gone on producing cotton wo would now be receiving 8 cents per pound for cotton. Now is tho time to prune all or? chards and spray with lime sulphur solution. It is absolutely necessary to spray young trees with lime sul? phur in the proportion of one gallon of the concentrated solution to eight of water to keep the San Joso scale from killing them. Tho concentrated solution will cost 25 cents per gallon. Do not pay any more. It is kept at that price by some of the merchants in Sumter. J. Frank Williams. SUMTER COTTON MARKET. Corrected Dally by Ernent Field, Cot? ton Hnyer. Good Middling 11 8-4, Strict Middling 11 1-2. Middling 11 1-4. Strict Low Middling 10 3-4. Low Middling 10 1-1. Staple cotton 13 to 10c. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Y?et*dy Open nigh Low Close Mch. . .19.01 12.Or. 11.90 12.01 May. . ,13.11 18.36 12.1? 12.24 July . .12.81 12.40 12.31 12.30 Oct. . . 18.40 12.43 12.35 12.43 inc. . .12.54 12.50 12.47 12.54 SOUGHT TO CONJURE POINTER. Result Was That Negro Found His Way Into Manning Magistrate's Court. Manning, Feb. 8.?An interesting case, decidedly outside the ordinary, was up for a hearing before Magis? trate J. W. Heriot last Saturday. A white man who lives in the Deep Creek section near Bloomville had a negro arrested on a technical charge of malicious mischief, to wit, cutting off the tail of a valuable pointer dog. When the case came up for trial the negro ple?ded guilty and was sen? tenced to pay a fine of $3, which end? ed the case. It seems from outside reports, which did not come to the knowledge of the court, that the ne? gro knew the qualities of the dog in question and greatly coveted his pos? session. All efforts to persuade the dog to take up his abode at his house proved of no avail so the negro de? cided to resort to a "conjure" trick that promised sure success and that was to cut off a portion of the dog's tail and bury it near his house. Those Who have studied and understand conjuring tricks say. that this is one that proves irresistible to a dog, and they further say that if any do not believe it, it is simply because they never tried it. ? SOUTH MAY SAVE BILLION. (Harvester Company Official Says I Goods Could, be Raised at Home | Cheaper. - & Tampa, Fla.., Feb. 7.?The South sends away one billion dollars every year for foodstuffs that could be pro? duced at one-third this cost, A. E. Chamberlain, field agent for the In? ternational Harvester Company, told the Florida Cattlemen's Association here today. Of this enormous sum a great deal of it is for beef and bi products of beef, the speaker said. W^th a series of charts and illustra? tions he pointed out how the cattle in? dustry in the South could be so organ? ized that there would be many times 'the product needed for home con? sumption. ( Commissioner of Agriculture W. A. McRea said that Florida can support ien million head of cattle and with proper care to keep them free from ticks the quality will be as high as th/at raised in the West. fc&UR RULES FOR RIGHT READ ING. A hint t? readier* .hat will, per-] haps, prove far more helpful 'than five ! foot bookshelves and pigskin libraries, ! is onntrtbuted by i-aura Spencer Por ter to the February Woman's Home Companion. "Let us take Gibbon's practice," she says, "as a valuable first rule, measuring our own ideas, our expe? rience, our knowledge, or, it may be, our ignorance of the subject of any given great book; "And as a uecond rule, let us find out from some good reference book or biography the main facts about the life of the author we are reading and something about the times in which he lived. v "As a third rule, let us make notes on all that we read seriously, notes, I mean, as we go, for It is but poor flattery to let a friend do aft the talk? ing and to make no comment on what he says. This practice of making notes Is, I do believe, very essential to a right use of books. 1 know there are those who think It a bad thing to mark a book; "but to have too nice an eye In this rrvatter Is to value paper more than friendship. Let us mark especially the places that grve us fresh thought, stimulus, pleasure; let U3 mark those with which we .igrce and those with which wc disagree, stating our own views clearly. "As a fourth rule: Just as soon1 as we feel that we know even two or three great books let us compare thexm with each other. "Very much as fine people agree on fundamentals so we shall find these grea.t authors agreeing, as a rule, In essentials, yet all express? ing themselves how differently. More? over, It is just in these differences of expression that the main distinctions of style lie, and it is in noting them carefully that wo ehall better appre? ciate the personality of a writer. Read Stevenson's discourse, for in? stance, on 'Crabbed Age and Youth* and compare it With Bacon's essay, ?Of Youth and Age.' How In the very wording and manner of spea-king the two men semi almost to appear be? fore one." Saturday, February 19th, Is the last day for Uie taking of tax. returns In the auditor's office, as the L'Oth is Sun? day, and up to this time only a small percentag e of the returns have been made anyd they nro still coming In slowly. FOR SAXE? Small horse, buggy and irneiss, at a bargain. H. G. Ostecn. v SON ARLE SUGGESTIONS ?Hurt dn.y seed oats, land lime, a very ceiisary article since it is impos ?le to get potash. Booth &. Mc jd;, Inc. Apples Apples ONCE MORE THE APPLE MAN SMILES. A carload of fine Virginia Apples arived this morn? ing. Ring 774 and supply your needs. Also remember the Vegetables: Soup bunches, Beets, Cabbages, Potatoes, Lettuce, Leeks and Carrots. A large supply of Seed Potatoes, Cabbage plants and Toole Cotton Seed. The Sumter Package Co. VOLUMES ? Might be Written on how to save and why, but they're not necessary. You KNOW you should save and that a start should be made ?make it to-day at our Savings Department, we'll compound the 4 per cent. Interest regularly. The National Bank < Sumter, ESTABLISHED 1889 "SAFEST FOR YOUR SAVINGS' Lumber, Lime, Cement, BUILDING MATERIAL GENERALLY AND FEED OF ALL KINDS. BOOTH & McLEOD, Sacceisora fo Booth Shuler Lumber & Supply Co. Goo, Epperaon'o Old Stcvnd Opp. Court Horn DRINK A BOTTLE OF "SATANET" And remember the pleasant Farewell Taste. You will want another, and after drinking three bot? tles, nothing else is good enough for you. Satanet is a full, smooth, fruit-juice drink. i Cultivate the Acquaintance* You Will Like It. 4444<> ?????????????????????????????????????.?>??????< ON TRIAL We shall be very glad to have you open an account with us on trial, subject to termination at your pleasure. I The Fir^t National Bank I SUMTER, S. C. 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