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"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.
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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.
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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.
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& 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,
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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.
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an account with us on trial, subject to
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SUMTER, S. C.
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