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l?atxbuwn ;mb Scutbron, r*ICItM>?AL> XKVliON Private Lawrence Brunsen of tho hoepitat corpa of the Second Itegl* ment arrived In the city this morning; from Bl Paso, where he has been With the regiment for several months. Mr. Branson's term of service had expired and he was mustered oat. While not engaged in the Held maneu? vers in which the Sumter company was engaged, Mr. Brunsen has had some hard work in the hospital corps and says that he was as tired of bor? der life as any of tho rest of tho boys. Mr. C. R Culling, of St. Louis, who haa been on a three weeks' visit to Mr. C. M. Deal and family, has gone to Moria* whore no will spend some lima Mr. P. R. Turley. of Chicago, who bee ooerv vtsiUne Mr. C. H. Deal, No. It Oedstand Avsnue. left for Charles ten Monday night. Dr. Waiter C hey no has sufficiently recovered from his lecent illness to he able to be out on the streets ssjeifcv sauet? to the gratification of his. many friends. Mrs. Ed Lang, of Omaha. Neb.. lr visiting her sister. Mrs. Abe Rytten burg. Rub-My-Thtm?Antiseptic, relieves rheumatism, sprains, neuralgia, etc. tX)X8TKl CTlNG NEW DRIVEWAY. K B Bel ear and associates, who some time ago purchased the Nash party off Broad street to the north eat of the city, have commenced work towards developing this prop? erty and In the near future will have a beautiful driveway through the tract extending in a.loop from an ex tension of Broad street near Shot Pouch to an eatenslon of North Ma n street near the Hogan farm. Work was commenced on this driveway about two weeks ago and by next Sunday, unless rain intervenes and prevents the completion of the | work now underway, it will be open for auto m obi lists to take a nice lit? tle spin .lust out of town and back again. The driveway connects with Broad street Just west of the Nash residence and comes out on the Humter-Bishrfp ville read lust south of Vlck Baula's farm. The driveway from Broad sti set this aglt the tract will be seven? ty feet-wide and the plans contem? plate the planting of pecan and syca? more trees alternately on each side of the drivoway with ten-foot sidewalks. The driveway on Its eastern end is 40 feet wide. At present work is going on through the savannah. The center of the driveway is being built up to a height of eighteen Inches above the sur? rounding level and Its sides slope do an to give Plenty of drainage in wet weather. A mud-clay road is be ing built, dirt v hlch hardens rapidly on exposure, and the driveway, al? though it has not yet been rolled, ex? cept where it has been freshly built, Is harder, and not any rougher, than moot of the roads about Sumter. Messrs. R. Hl Belser. W. O. Heiner, J. E. Belser and D. R. McCallum pur? chased some three hundred acres of land In this section which they are dividing up into tracts to be sold as small farms. They contemplate fur? ther work towards opening up the tract which extends prat-ttcaly from Broad street baek for halt a mile and from shot Pouch to Morris College property. The portion of the property near Broad street will be divided into nod sold us residential lots. A verj Interesting ard difficult pro lem which the promoters have met is th? finding of a suitable name for the driveway nnd for the divisions of the tract. Numeorus ttles have been considered and rejected, the naming being a problem still unsolved. Break your Cold or LaOrlppe with a few dosoa of 6<;6.?Advt. - Ht XiTr.lt COTTOrl MAI IK KT. Corrected Dally oj HA it B V A CO.. Cotton Buyers Good Middling 18. Htrtct Middling 17 7-8. Middling 17 1*4 Strict Low Middling 17 12. Low Middling 17. Corrected Dally by ERNTEST FIELD, Cotton Buyer. Good Middling 17 7-8. Strict Middling 17 3-4. Middling 17 6-8. Strict Ix>w Middling 17 3-8. liow Middling 16 7-8. Staple cotton 20 to 23c. WKW YORK COTTON MARKET. YcaMys Open llish Low Close Clo Mch . .18.1 1 23 17.98 18.1 3 .22 May . .18.40 ,11 .28 .11 .47 July . 11.3S .61 .29 .36 .47 Oct. . .17.03 .18 18.99 17 OH .06 Pfd. .17.00 17.00 .04 .1? DISCUSS LIGHT-WEIGHT BALES. 1W. DAUBS SAYS CHOI* WILL DK MILLION AVERAGE RALES SHORT. Is Collecting Data on Subject and lle |K>rts from all Sources Indicate Thai Crop is licss Than Ginning Records Show. Maycsvillo, Jan. 8, 191?. To the Cotton Trade: The evidence of extremely light weight bales of cotton continues to accumulate. I will give the weights in three rocent letters that have been addressed to me. Mr. A. B. Campbell of Kastover writes that he ginned in 1915, 906 bales average weight 482 7-S pounds; in 1916 675 bales, average weight 407 1-8 pounds. Short in bul -H, 231; short in average weicht, 7& 6*8 pounds. The abov? is no kucss, but is made up from my gin records and I thiak will-.apply to all the gins in Richland county. v Mr. J. S. Craft writes: "I had my book-keeper to take a shipment at random, 129 bales, and find the av? erage weight is 432 pounds. II.wo been buying cotton fifteen year.) and bales are lighter this year than ever before." Mr. David R. Coker writes: "I am glad you are making an investigation of the weight of bales. I have just had one of my clerks to look up tan 100 bale shipments made throughout last season and the same number of bales and shipments made about the same dates this season. There is an actual difference of 19 pounds last year's cotton weighing 482 pounds, against 463 this year. We have, however, on hand about 50 bales of average weight of only about 2 75 pounds. These we expect to repack. This year's shipment should be scaled about 2 pounds per bale to allow for these light weights, which have been culled out. I should say, therefore, that our this year's cotton was 21 pounds lighter than last year's. Yours very truly, David R. Coker. A banker-farmer tells me he bought bagging and ties for 300 bales. His crop was about 175 bales, all of them being light, not exceeding 4*0 pounds. That he packed as many bale* as he could reasonably do to use up the bagging and ties. From all the information I can gather the crop when reduced to bales of 500 pounds each will show a million less than the gin records. H B. W. Dabba, Former Pres. 8. C. F. U. The following correspondence be? tween Mr. W. W. Rowland, manager of the Rowland Warehouse Co., and prominent New York cotton brokers in reference to average weight of cot? ton bales, will be of interest: Sumter, S C, Jan. 3, 1917. Messrs. Hubbard Bros & Co., Cotton Brokers, New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: The enclosed clipping may be of interest to you. You will sec from samo that tho cotton which I have on storage amounts to a shortage in weight equi? valent to 202 bales, as compared to last year. I understand that It is even great? er than this averago through this section and some of our buyers nay that it averages thirty pounds per bale. If you v ill take the trouble to in? vestigate this mutter throughout tho cotton belt, and if it runs this way, it will easily make u difference of half i million bales for the 1916 crop. Yours truly, Rowland Warehouse Co., W. W. Rowland, Mgr. New York, Jan. 5, 1H7? Messrs. Rowland Warehouso Co., Sumter, S. C. Dear Sirs: We are in receipt of your favor of tho Urd, contents of which httvo had our very interested attention, and we have read tho rc inarks regarding the li?ht bales with much interest. If this is correct, in other words, if tho bales are lighter than lost your, it will mean that it will take more bales to mako the government estimate than the actual estimate it? self. In other words, If the bales run It pounds under 500 pound hales, It would mean that an estimate of 11,500,000 bales of 500 pounds each, M I would have to get 11,616,100 baits In order t<? get the actual weight of tl,50o,ouo bales of 500 pounds each. Therefore, if the government is cor? rect in their figures, does it not mean that we arc going to have more ac? tual bales in tho 1910 crop because the weight Is less If the eotton weighed over 500 pounds per bale, then we would have less actual running bales than the gov? ernment estimates. Most people simp? ly look at the figures regardless of the actual meaning. Just like last year, they look Hester's consumption Hg? ures of 14,750,000 bales, hh tlie ac? tual consumption, whereas as a mat? ter of fact, Hester estimated in this amount the probable amount of cot ton that would bo consumed In Aus? tria and Germany. The probable amount of cotton has nothing to do with it, because we could not export anything to Austria or Germany. Honce, the actual consumption was only about 10.000,000 bales, but even today noobdy listens to this argument and they refer you constantly to Hester's ligures. It would r.cem to us, therefore, that if your figures aro correct, it is more of a bearish than \ bullish argument, providing wo aro nolng to get the basic crop that the government estimates. Yours very truly, Hubbard Bros. & Co. Sumter, S. C, Jan. 8, 1917. Messrs Hubbard Bros. & Co., Cotton Merchants, Hanover Square, New York. Gentlemen: We tharik you for your favor of the 5th instant and have carefully perused its contents, biat we cannot agree with the conclusion's drawn by you that our figured are more of a bearish than a bullish ar? gument. 'f You ask the question, that if the government is correct in its figures of an estimated 1916 cop of ll>COe,O0v bales, does it not moan that we' aro going to have more actual bale's- if the weight of each bale is less than 500 pounds You state that if the cottbn weighs over 500 pounds per bale, then we would have less aenmi running bales than the government estimates. ? ? Most assuredly, we agre with fhfe*o premises laid- down, but, are tho -ig ures, in estimated bales of' any vrthfe to the cotton market in arriving at the value df cotton by* the pound, mi? les* it is known whether or not the estimated number of bales contain 450 pounds instead of 500 pounds? You assume that the bales will con? tain around 500 pounds each, but sup? pose for argument's sake that tliey only contained 100 pounds each, what would happen to the bear holding a million bales with each bale short 4(TO pounds, if he blindly purchased the ootton at so much per bale instead of by the pound? Our understanding is that up to this Writing the government bases its' re ;x>rt upon the bales actually ginned and the estimated number of bale. left in the fields, actual pounds not considered. According to this report, the gov? ernment estimates the 1910 crop at 11,51 1,000 bales ,and prices of cot? ton by the pound is regulated to s] great extent' on the exchange upon the governments estimate of the "num? ber of bales, not knowing at the time how many pounds each bale will con? tain; Is this good business judgment up? on sound business principles, or is it simply and purely peculation? Since writing you, I? have obtained the actual number of bale1 and weights for Sumter county. South' Carolina, ta December 13, 1910, which is 24;683i bales averaging 467 pounds each, or 11,526,961 pounds. Now, according to the rules of tho cotton trade, 500 pounds as a stand ard bale, 24,6&3 bales should give 3 2. 481,500 pounds, which makes i shortage for Sumter county of 811,3.11? pound*, or 1,629 bales. If Sumter county is a fair repre? sentation of weights throughout ihc cotton belt, and I understand that it 111 a conservative forecast, a shortage will result of 379,863,000 pounds,- or 759,7 "iO bales in the government's"en limhtcd 1910 crop of 11.511,000 bales Furthermore, using your argument that shortage in weight will require additional bales and taking into con? sideration the additional bagging and ties required in the production Of these 769,726 bales at 25 pounds ouch; you have 18,993,160 pounds in bagging and ties, or equivalent of 37,586 bales; which added to the above shortage of 759,720 bales, would result in an ac tual shortage for the 1916 crop of 497(86] bale* in the government ?sti mate, baned upon the actual short ago of o'J pounds in each bale of-tho present figures from the yield of Sumter county. Can the manufacturer produce; or; noch from 4 67 pounds of cotton as he can from 500 pounds? And considering the rule of sup fly and demand, from which-'ad prices are regulated, do these iitftrrc* pound bearish rather than bullish? Furthermore, for the sake of argu? ment, when the final ligures are pul 1 shed by the government, giving the actual number of pounds produced in the 1916 crop, suppose the estimate 1 11,511.000 bales were produced at 16V pounds to the bale, would not the manufacturers bo short 379,803,000 pounds, or 7"t>.72n bales at 500 pounds each? As it require* actual number Of pounds of cotton to manufacture goods in stated quantity, Hot** holes of cotton at unknown weight, will not the supply and demand rule Of?h .step in and offer higher prices for pounds of cotton In order to comply with the contracts made for manu? factured goods? You say that "most people simply look at the figures regardless of the ertttiil meaning." Ill conclusion, I wish to again call your attention to the fact that tho estimated number of bales in a year's] crop have no "actual meaning" what? soever, unless it is known actually how many pounds of cotton the bales contain. The estimated bales are simply, speculative in character and really have no "actual meaning" until it is learned positively the actual number of pounds in the crop, and we con? fidently predict from info: mation in hand that a shortage of at least 700,- j 000, 500 pound bales will result from | the shortage in weight of the bales produced, basing these figures upon the estimate of 11,511,000 bales by the government. Yours truly, Rowland Warehouse oC, W. W. Rowland, Mgr. New York, Jan .5,' 1917. Mr. W. W. Rowland, Manager, Row? land Warehouse Company, Sumter, & C. Dear Sir: It gave us great pleas? ure to receive your letter of Jan? uary 3rd together with a clipping, and we- have taken the privilege of bul? letining your comments as we consid? er the matter of great value to the trade. We had the same reports from Ala? bama and also from the western sec? tion of South Carolina. Our Texas correspondents have not given us any information on the Weight of the bales and we are today writing one"or two people in reference to this matter. *** Yours very truly, Johnston, Storm & Co., By Walton Storm. I ' New York, Jan. 5, 1917. M* W: W. Ro wland, Mgr., Rowland Warehouse Co., Sumter, S. C. Dear Sir: We have your favor of the 3rd inst. with clipping attached, for Which we thank you. We believe there is a whole lot of logic til your argument and think realization of that fact will sooner or later bung about a higher range of prices; > The market has shown a very good j undertone today and we expect to sec j higher prices in the near future. Awaiting your further favors, wo are, Very truly yours, Chas. Fairchild & Co., By J. C. Bishop. Cu mm lugs-Langs ton. On Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. J. J. Bran? son on Washington street, where she ?has*' made her home for several months, Miss S. Pauline Cummlngs and^dtfr. J. S. Lungston were united iff marriage, the Rev. R. S. Trues dale, pastor of Trinity Methodist church officiating. The ceremony was witnessed by a few of the friends of the contracting parties. Manning, Jan. 7.?Quincy Thames, the seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Thames, of this place, died at the home of his parents yes? terday afternoon and was buried in the' city cemetery this afternoon. He had been suffering from malaria dur? ing the autumn, but senied to be very much improved, when latterly a severe type of hemorrhage fever de? veloped und he rapidly declined. Quincy was known of all as an indus? trious^ studious and courteous boy, being valuable help on the farm as j well as a model pupil in the high school. NWOrleans, Jan. 10.?A written ? request that the label of his taoascol sauce be placed on his tombstone was1 left by O. P. Moss, the millionaire] sauce manufacturer, who shot and killed himself in a hotel here today. [ ! . WOOD'S : i .... _ . SSSeidf Catalog. for 1917, tells about the best < fori? and (u&rden Seeds arid jrives special information d* 'o /the bistw crops to grow, both fof profit and home use. Tlje larj;e increase in our hu '.i Hess which wo have again expert- j enced during the past year is tLc j best of evidence as to the high quality of : WOOD'S SEXDS. ' ? a ? CiL.?I 1 " ? 'Write lor catalog ar.d prices c.f ?Gr?sjiwrtClbV?r Seeds, Srcd Potatoes* Seed Qatfc o>r any Ffcrm Se^dv required. Catalog mailed free on reuest. T.WvWOOD?SONS, SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Va. y 1 x 'i ? f 1 1 Geo B. Hurst, ?JiilfltH? MS fc'sUiMH. i I i .j omt .t?f ?????'?. * ??? ? Phone*. Nu*2*2or ? I ?? 8 il I 8 AT THE 010 PRICES ? BIG SAVINGS The advance in price will go into cf feet, Jan. ^ 15th there? fore we cannot ac? cept orders ; later than m Jan, 13th. This Is What You Save If You Buy This Week Gossard models that will soon be sold at Gossards that you have worn, will retail at Gossards in many models yours probably Gossards that have been great sellers, soon Gossards in standard models that will be Gossards in fancy materials, soon Gossards of great values, will be lev frile $2.50 3.00 4.25 5.00 G.50 3.50 10.00 NOW $200 2 50 3.50 4.00 ? 5.00 a 6.50 8.50 SHOP Your B<>v\s Xoras Gift. i 1 Lout Christmas his father gave Mia a Hank Book with a do posit in it of % 10. Today h?? has in his account $ 17S.r>0?every dollar besides the intercut he earned himself, lie Is 14 years old. Before hist Chtistmas he had never put by a dollar. Let's start your hoys with Chrlstmaa Accounts this year. %\?%Z?$10 does it. May we make them out for you? THE PEOPLES BANK, We pay 4 per cont. Interest in our Bovings I/epa^tment. g$ The National Bank of South Carolina $1,071,307.25 LEADERS Our steady growth tells the story ?New accounts eaeh day?The largest bank in this section oi the State. Safely ttrst. Prcparedneas all the time. Your patronage we want. c. G. ttOWLAND, Pjos. H. L McClY, Cashier. THIS BANK ^i^?^^!^??^?*>???>??*i??????4^-f*t*oe?aiunit Hi :: ? ? ? ? :; Gives a dollar's worth of real service for every dollar deposited her*\ THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SUMTER. ThcOldost [tanking Institution in Che County