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Lecturer For the Closing Day of
Chautauqua
DR. E. T. HAQCRMANi "
TWR. R T. HAG MIMAX. who to to lecture hero on the la?t day of the Cfta>
tsuqus. has occupied the lendiug pulptt of hhi denomination In each of ill
ettftes. Be went from the First MetbodUt fJhorch of De? Molnes to the First
' Church In Milwaukee, the largest Methodist church in the state of Wisconsin.
ft+ oas never bees troubled with empty paws.
Dr. Hagerman has the gift of putting fuaaaraental truths very simply. He
dpjeejests problems In the language of the people. His congregations werc_
notable far the large number of men wnO attended.
Ha has also been in mach demand as an after dinner speaker. Only men
who eaa interest and entertain are celled on repeatedly for after dinner
Ait lecturer Dr. Uagenojftfti not! of Ihe fcamafie. eiplofcre style, hot n
speaker who grows ou bis sinjlgh ei {fie laiigst be Wik*.. Ho is a geuias lu
word painting, aud hi* thoon'oH arc .upbasuid by natural, wholesome wit.
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S IN DAY SCHOOL WOHKUtS.
ftasntaf School Aaanciatlon Elects Of
Beers.
Charleston. May 13 ?The election of
omoors at the doting session of the
Sunday school convention this even
las; resulted In John D. Cappel mann
of Charleston being elected to suc?
ceed T. T. Hyde of Charleston. Dr.
B. H. DeMent. Greenwood, wan mads
first vice president; W. 8. Morrison,
Clernson collage, second vice presi?
dent; 8. T. Held, ftpartanburg. treas?
urer, and D. D. Jones, Centenary, re?
cording secretary. The selection of
the next place of meeting Is left to
the centra) committee.
The eaxcutlve committee of the as?
sociation is divided into three sec?
tions and members are elect 3d to
scrvs three yearn. Those elected this
evening to fill the expired terms of
members are: T. W. Keltt. New berry;
J. B. Green. Greenwood; D. D. Jones,
Centenary; C. E. Burts, Columbia;
T. T. Hyde. Charleston; 8. ft Dodges,
Greenwood; E. N. Peoples Hampton;
the Rev. Hugh R Murchison, Lancas?
ter; C. M. Eflrd. Lexington; H. N.
Smith. afulllns; W. B. Morrison, Clem
eon College; J. N. De Loach. Saluda;
W. E. Neemltb. nlngstree; Horace L.
Bomar. Spartanburg; R. E. Boggs,
8partanburg; 8. T. Lanham, Spartan
burg; A. J. Bethea. Columbia; the
Rev. George K. Way, Rldgeland; C.
W. Blrchmore. Camden; J. 0, Price,
North; the Rev. J. A. Ansley, Man?
ning, end the itev. A. W. Hluckwood.
Columbia. The Itev. W. H. K. lYn
d let on, Spartanburg is chairman of
the committee.
Officers declare this to have been
by fur the most suceniurful convention
in the history of the association. More
than 1,100 delegates have attended.
Resolutions thanking the city and
newspapers were adopted before ad?
journment
The convention closed with the gen?
eral session tonight. The feature of
this meeting, with the election of of
|flcers and selection of the next meet?
ing place, was an address by the Rev.
John Q. Benson of Brasil, Ind., on
"Efficiency In the Sunday School."
This address was illustrated by motion
pictures of the Immense Sunday
school of 4,000 members, of which
Mr. Benson la the head.
Interest In the proposed cream |
route Is said to be developing1?but |
slowly. Several farmers living In the
vicinity of tho city have agreed to
keep from four to eight cows and to
ship .the cream to the Clemson cream?
ery at Darlington, but there are not
yet enough cows pledged to guarantee
the establishment of a regular route.
It is difficult to understand the ap?
parent lack of Interest unless it be
that few farmers have a sufficient
number of cows to go Into the cream
business and they balk at the Invest?
ment of several hundred dollars to
' embark In a new line of business.
That statement by Senator McLau
rln to the effect that the State ware?
house system has paid out more than
$50,000 in premiums and has cost the
insurance companies only about $1,200
in tire loses, explains a whole lot
about the Insurance situation. It is
not at all surprising that people wh >
have a snap like that want to give It
up.?Yorkvllle Enqirer.
How Verdun Was Saved.
Primarily Verdun was saved by the
courage and devotion of the first-line
troops, who held the trenches when
the attack began. They performed
their full duty, they held the line un?
til the reserves came up. They did
precisely what the German troops had
done in Champagne h.st f?ll with ap?
proximately the same losses and with
courage and devotion which will re?
main memorable. I
But the defending of the Verdun
sector was made possible by the prep?
aration that had actually been made
long months before. The civil au?
thorities, asked by the military to sup?
ply a new railroad, had failed miser?
ably. As I pointed out earlier, there
waa only the single*track, narrow
gauge line, which in point of fact was
used almost exclusively to evacuate
I
wounded, but there was the motor
transport and this was the miracle of j
Verdun.
Months before the military authori?
ties, recognizing the dangerous po?
sition of the Verdun salient, recon?
structed the one great highway run?
ning north from St. Dizler and Bar-le
Duc to Verdun. The existing high?
way was doubled, trebled In width,
proper turnouts were made and Vor- j
dun was bound to Franc? by a mag- j
niftcent road going north beyond the j
range of the German artillery all the
way to the outskirts of the city Itself.
In -addition, Gen. Herr, who com?
manded the sector, had worked out an
intricate and marvelous system of mo?
tor transport.
^?When the blow fell It was only nec?
essary $o mobilize the motor trucks, I
ahd in hn incredibly short time thou?
sands and thousands of these trucks
were lrt operation. Condng north as
i did from St. Dizler to Verdun for
more tlian fifty miles the road was a
continuous line of trucks. Over al?
most tie whole distance they were
SAarchlfg in singly file, with scarcely
a jbreall in the procession. Going up
h&gvy laden, they passed through the
region behind the front, discharged
their contents at the appointed place,
and returned empty by smaller side
XuAdj. X>n all the course I never saw
aJfrhyK or a delay. Karely, very rare?
ly, a oamlon was upset or broke
dewn-and wan turned to the side of
the road and temporarily abandoned.
In every village there were repair
stations, but day and night steadily,
I fairly 'rapidly, this endless chain of'
j motor trucks hied post, brin ging mon, j
munitions, supplies.
By this method perhaps a qdnrter j
of a million men vere brought fresh j
to the tiring line; innumerable c m1', j
heavy and light, wero kept supplied
with ammunition; armies were ration?
ed; the whole Intricate and enormous
domestic economy of a great modern
army was handled without friction or
disorder. In the cities such as Bar-le
Duc, the squares and the turns were
marked by signs, telling the road to
Verdun. Even In tiny villages traffic
policemen, soldiers, Instructed the
drivers, kept the traffic separated, for
In addition to the Verdun sector, the
St. Mihiel and the Argonne sectors
were fed in part by the same route.
All night long in Bar-le-Duc it was
possible to hear the endless rumble of
the wheels of the great trucks. On
the road Paris 'buses, laden with
fresh meat, lumbered steadily on. It
was rather like a huge torrent than
like vehicular traffic, and It was the
real salvation of Verdun, for It pre?
served Verdun from Isolation, It rem?
edied the essential defect due to the
cutting of the two railroads, it re?
placed two useless arteries by a third,
which was absolutely sufficient.
In this war the world has talked
mostly of German efficiency, prepara?
tion, foresight. Yet to see this never
ending procession, these thousands
and tens of thousands of motor ve?
hicles proceeding on their way, as?
sembled from somewhere, from ev?
erywhere, without delay, without dif?
ficulty, mobilized and put into opera?
tion, traveling with all the regularity
of express trains, was to realize that
the Germans were not the only mi
racle-compellers and that France, In
her own way, was also working mi
j raeles. For this system I was told
!that Gen. Herr was responsible.
When the attack began Herr com
h*m 1% mm I#%4am???!?%W Ai That the two most successful Chautauquas
S dli iniCreSling raCl of the entire 120 towns and cities visited by
- the Redpath Chautauquas last season were
Jacksonville, Fla.,
and Chicago
That the large cities arc now AWAKE TO THE VALUE OF A REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA,
is turn, but emphasizes the Chautaoqoa's importance to the smaller city.
All institutions must eventually stand or fall on their merit. For the Chautauqua to find
s permanent place in cities liks Jacksonville and Chicago at once speaks for itself.
Season tickets for the forthcoming Chautauqua in this city are now on aale with the local
auspices at $250 each. After the opening day the price advances to $3.00.
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SUMTER-, S. C. MAY 22d to 29th
manded at Verdun. Almost overnight
he was replaced by Petain, but more
than one officer spoke to me of the
manner in which the old commander
turned over his army and became a
mere superintendent of traffic, resign?
ed the glorious for the useful, and
made room for one his junior in ser?
vice and in rank. For myself I shall
remember nothing of all that I saw
at Verdun longer than this stream of
motor transports, this interminable
procession flowing on at an unvarying
rate of perhaps twelve miles an hour,
the tide which made it possible for
the men who defended Verdun to hold
their ground and finally to match ar?
tillery with artillery and numbers
with numbers.-?Frank H. Slmonds, in
the American Review of Reviews.
I
Nitrate Preparedness.
Southern sections with available hy?
dro-electric power are already bidding I
strongly for the government nitrate
plant which it is said is the intention
of congress to establish for the pur?
pose of securing the nitrogen constitu?
ent from the air. Even in New York
the Journal of Commerce says, the ni?
trate firms look upon It as a commen?
dable step towards national prepared?
ness. However, they do not believe
that the proposed appropriation of
$15,000,000 for such a plant or
plants would make the United States
Independent of outside supplies In the
event of war.
According to the Journal of Com?
merce, estimates made on Saturday by
New. York men familiar with the ni?
trogen plants of Europe were that the
establishment contemplated by con?
gress /could turn out bout 00,000 or
70,000 tons of nitric acid a year. Dur?
ing 1?15 the United States imported
from ?Chill, the only supply of free
nitrate of soda In the world, 772,000
tods/., which yields about 70 per cent,
nitrtc acid, or around 540,000 tons o!
acid essential to the manufacture of
explosives. According to these esti?
mates^ the production of the govern?
ment plant would be less than one
elgnth of the amount used in normal
VieneH and would bp even less a pro?
portion of the acid needed In case of
war^-with a first class power.
ilt is said that in spite of rumors
that the United States has great quan
UUea'of nitrate of soda in the West,
no beds that are . commercially work
abla>*have been found. If the country
w.cre cut off from Chill by a more pow?
erful fleet In the event of war, the
n. -nuiacturc of munitions would b< j
seriously handicaj , d, even with the
full output available from a govern?
ment plant.
in Europe, it was pointed out, nilo
gen is being extracted from the air
more cheaply than it can be imported
frpm Chili. Germany is making its
own nitric acid. Norway is not only
making enough for the use of its own
people but Is exporting tc adjoining
nations.
(Henry Bradley of 78 Wall street
states that he has made trips through?
out the West to Investigate the re?
ports that nitrate of soda could be
obtained in commercial quantities. In
every case, he said, the rumors had
proved misleading or untrue. While
the presence of nitrate of soda has
been found In many beds of soft dirt,
its solubility has been discovered to
be about equal to that of a number of
other chemicals. This has made it
practically impossible to obtain. Un?
less some new process or some new
chemical is discovered, said Mr. Brad?
ley ,thc nitrate of soda In this country
cannot be ultilir.ed.
In many of the beds which have
been reported he found nitrate of pot?
ash present to the extent of about
three per cent, and nitrate of soda
about 5 per cent, around 500 proper?
ties, and did not find one that would
allow successful extraction of nitrate
of soda. In case of war he doubts if
we could produce one-tenth of one
per cent, of the nitric add which we
would need in the manufacture of mu?
nitions.
Hydroelectric power localities in
North Carolina and South Carolina
ought to be available for nitrogen
plants, of which there are said to be
only two In the United States. One is
in Tennessee and the other is at Ca
tawba Falls, S. C, where Mr. J. B.
Duke and associates of the Southern
Power Company have the most power?
ful hydro-electric power plant in the
South.
It is doubtful whether nitrate can
be manufactured to compete with the
mined product which comes to Wil?
mington by the ship load from the
natural beds of Chili, but the main
argument for such a government
owned plant is that it is absolutely
necessary as a precaution against the
possibility of being cut off from the
Chilean supply.?Wilmington Star.
Mr. A. P. Vlnson. Jr., who was one
of the delegates from the Dalsall club
In the county convention calls atten?
tion to an error in the report of the
proceedings of the county convention
where it was stated that the resolu?
tions endorsing the county-to-county
campaign by State officers was intro?
duced by Mr. A. P. Vlnson, Jr., instead
of Mr. L?. S. Vlnson. The correction
is gladly noted as the mistake was in?
advertent.
KEEP THE GARDEN BUSY.
Twenty-five by Seventy Foot Plot Will
Produce Enough Vegetables for a
Small Family.
"Even the smallest hack yard may
be made to yield a supply of fresh
vegetables for tho family table at
bttt slight expense if two or three
crops are successively grown to
keep the area occupied all the time,
according to the garden specialists i
of tho U. S. department of agricul- j
ture. People who would discharge i
a clerk if he did not work the year |
round will cften cultivate a gardon
at no little trouble and expense and
then allow the soil to lie idle from
the time the first crop matures until
the end of the season. Where a
two or three crop system is used in
connection with vegetables adapted
to small areas, a space no larger
than 26 by 70 feet will produce
enough fresh vegetables for a small
family. Corn, melons, cucumbors,
and potatoes and other crops which
require a, large area should not be
grown in a garden of this size. Half
an acre properly cultivated with a
careful crop rotation may easily pro?
duce $100 worth of various garden
crops in a year."
Death of Miss Rebecca Mellichamp.
Died at the residence of her broth?
er-in-law, C. D. Cook, near Nesmith,
S. C, Williamsburg county, Miss Re?
becca Stiles Mellichamp, in the 83d
year of her life. Miss Mellichamp was
a native of Florida, but had spent
most of her life in Georgia, with her
brother, Dr. J. J. Mellichamp. At the
death of her brother several years ago
she came to this State to make her
home with relatives.
Confirmation Service.
Rt. Rev. W. A. Guerry, Bishop of
the Diocese of South Carolina paid his
annual visitation to the Church of the
Holy Comforter Sunday and at the
morning service confirmed a large
class.
According to a dispatch from Tus!\,
Ok la., the Investigation Into the gaso?
line situation has developed the fact
that the increased price is due to the
fact that the Standard Oil company
sometime ago stored 70,000,000 bar?
rels that cost It only from 30 to 35
rents it barrel and for which It is now
asking from 52 to $2.25 a barrel.
J. K. Sweringen, State superintend
ent of education, is to be married in
June to Miss Mary Hough, the wed
ing to take place in Greenville.
CATCHING FISH AT PQCALLA.
Excitement in Neighborhood During
Week?Farmers Need Rain.
Pocalla Springs, May 6.?We have
been having hot times 4p our section
this week, mixed up with irmrder and
mad dog biting. Mrs. Bernice Osteer*
had two children bitten. Mr. E^ao*
Cockerel one, and M*. Hammond
Hodge one child. I understand they
are all doing nicely. The dog's head
was sent to Columbia fo? examina?
tion and the animal was found to be
! mad.
Mr. Jessie J. Rivers la back at his
old post, holding down the job at Po
calla, after a vacation of several
weeks.
Fishing seems to be the most pop?
ular sport this season. The ladies as
well as the men are taking quite an
active part in handling the reel and
rod, some of them ate well repaid for
their efforts.
Messrs. Carson Jenkins and Burt
Haynsworth are spending ^>day fish?
ing at Pocalla.
Mr. J. A. Middleton and wife spent
Wednesday with Mrs. M. H. Beck, and
while there they saw fit to pull a nice
chance of the finnery tribe.
Last Sunday was about the nicest
day we have had and we had several
hundred visitors on the grounds.
We poor farmers in this section
have had no rain yet to bring up our
cotton. It might pay us If the war %
gets nearer to us, feY the old folks
say heavy cannonading causes rain.
Little David Cuttlno is getting up
quite a reputation as a fisherman,
catching fifty-two in less than two
hours. Aubreath Bradham Is nearly
as bad.
Joye-DuHant. I
A marriage which came as a sur?
prise to many of their friends was p
that of Miss May Joye of Sumter and '?
Mr. James E. DuRant of Lynchmii*g,J
which was solemnized on Sunday
evening at the parsonage of Trinity ;
Methodist church just after the even?
ing services at the church, the Rev. R.
S. Truesdale, pastor of the church, of?
ficiating. The marriage was a very
quiet one, only a sister qt the bride '
and one friend being present to wit?
ness the ceremony, etrs. DuRant is
well known In Sumter and has marly
friends. Mr. DuRant is a farmer of
the Lynchburg section, where they will
ma'*e thflr home.
Wcxt'ird, Jlreland, Ma 6.?Orfe hun?
dred arul thirty insurgents in Wexfotd
county were ax?? csted Friday, charged
with complacency in the uprising.
Arms were found in their possession.
REPORT OP THE CONDITION OF >tt5L!
No. 10660. ?
The National Bank of South Carolina, at Sumter, to the State of South Car.
olina, at the Close or Business, May 1, 1916. f'ffiUR
RESOURCES:
1. a Loans and discounts (except those shown on /
b). $734.642.96 :
2. Overdrafts secured, $1,294.02; unsecured, $1.50.. . 1,295.52
4. Bonds, securities, etc:
4. e Securities other than U. S. bonds (not includ
ing stocks) owned unpledged. .,. 6,030.45
6. Stocks, other than Federal Reserve bank stock . 3,600.00
6. a Subscription to stock of Federal Reserve
bank.$19,600.00
b Less amount unpaid.9,760.00 91750.00 9,760.00
7. a Value of banking house (if unencumbered) .. . 38,182.77
8. Furniture and fixtures.|. 4,536.66
10.. Net amount due from Federal Reserve Bank.. . . 13,070.84
11. a Net amount due from approved reserve agents
in New York, Chicago, and St Louis ..;. 3,869.74
b Net amount due from approved reserve agents
in other reserve cities. 17,452.05 21,821.79
12. Net amount due from banks and bankers (oth?
er than included in 10 or 11).,.1 8,956.13
14. Other checks on banks in the same city or town
as reporting bank. 5,870.53
16. a Outside checks and other cash items. 589.56
b Fractional currency, nickels, and cents. SI7.50 1,401.06
16. Notes of other national banks.,. 1,000.00
18. Federal Reresrve notes. 75.00
19. Coin and certificates. 15,794.25
20. I^egal-tender notes. 200.00
Tptal.$864,526.'*?
LIABILITIES:
25. Capital stock paid In.$200,000.00
26. Surplus fund. 125,000.00
27. Undivided profits., 50,641.80
c. Less current expenses, Interest, and taxes paid 7,852.25 42,789.55
31. Net amount due to banks and bankers (other
than included in 29 or 30). 2,469.*3
32. Dividends unpaid!. 40.10
Demand deposits:
33. Individual deposits subject to check. 190,878.06
34. Certificates of deposit due in le* than 30 days 4,005.52
35. Certified checks. 328.06
36. Cashier's checks outstanding. 83.19
Total demund deposits, Items 33, 34, 35, 36, 37,
38, 39, and 40. 195.294.83
41. Certificates of deposit. . *. 52,673.49
43. Other time deposits. 210.000.96
Total of time deposits. Items 41, 42, and 43 . . . . 26*,d74.46
47. a Rediscounts with Federal Reserve Bank . . . 36,258.90
Total.$864,526.96
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Sumter. ss.
I, H. L. McCoy, Acting Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and be?
lief. H. U McCoy, Acting Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this JHh day of May, 1916.
lt. L. Edmunds, (L. S.)
Notary Public. Correct Attest:
ISAAC SCHWARTZ,
GEO. D. SHORE,
C. G. ROWLAND,