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? Ii t SiHatcgman an) ^ontljr cm. Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OS1KKN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTKK, 8. C. Terms: 91.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisement*. One Square first Insertion .. ..$1.00 Kvery subsequent Insertion.60 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private Interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found? ed In I860 and ths True Southron in 1M??J. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and Influence of both of the old papers, ami Is manifestly the best advertising medium In Sumter. Tho Sumter County Fair. The Sumter County Fair Association Is about ready to put its 1917 Fair Premium LLit in the hands of tho printers. Thin bus been delayed be? cause the directors were Informed that a number of Kumter's business estab? lishments desired to offer premiums for different departments of the fair. The directors have requested Mr. E. I. Keardon'to call on Sum tor's business establishments early next week to give them an opportunity to subscribe either cash or commercial commodity prizes. Knch firm, cor? poration, or individual donating any article or cash wll be well advertised by the names of the donor's being printed In the 1917 Sumter County Fair Premium list. Mr. Reardon has been selected as superintendent of publicity and information for the county fair, and will have a commit? tee of ten business men and farmers serving with him to thoroughly adver? tise the fair and to furnish informa? tion. Mr. H. L. Tisdale has been eleetsd secretary of the fair associa? tion, and is a very busy man indeed; he with President O. A. Lernmon, vico president J. F. Williams, and Dr. M. I* Parier being the committee In charge of the erection of the various fair buildings and arrangement of tho fair grounds. Tho Sumter County Committee of Public Safety has promised to stand behind the 1917 fair, and with one hundred of this committee working, and Sumter's business men coperat Ing with the stockholders and offi? cers, the 1917 fair ought to be made a success from svery angle. A Few Dots From Dark Corner. Dark Corner, June 28.?Things are 'aim and serene In this corner. Farm? ers are laying by corn and planting >ei\* side dressing cotton, etc. .?'lent ? of cotton blooms to be seen Some cotton has stepped growing and the stalks have become red. Mr. Gus Weeks has the prettiest piece of cot? ton 1 have seen. It Is green and growing nicely, and C. P. Weeks has some trie corn. Mr. Hlandtug Ardis also lias good corn. Wheat has all been gathered and the yield has been fairly good. Mrs Johnston, wife of Mr. W. P. Johnston, who lives Just across the line over In Clarendon, and one of her children were bitten by a mad dov last Friday. It was Mr. Johnston's do* and he succeeded In killing it be? fore It left home. The health of the community is pretty good. Mr. T. II. Osteen has been some? what Indisposed, but has so far recov? ered we 11 he and Mis. Osteen expect to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Ged? dings near Tourney's today. Mr. J E. Johnston has a very bad ease cf tooth achs. Mrs. Joe Rartlette of Pinewoo 1 visited her father Mr. C. H. Johnston of this place Tuesday and Wednes? day, returning home this morning Mr. and Mrs. C. H Johnston visited st Mr. II. C. Scott's near Paxvllle last Saturday. Mrs. Theodoela It. Kolb formerly of this place, hut for several years a resident of Charleston, spent ln^t week hero at Rlmhlll. She expects to spend sometime around here and at Pine wood with relatives and then she In? tends to go to Sumter and stay awhll? with her son. Mr. C. T. Kolb and from there she expects to go t< Chadburn, N C, to slay awhile wit.i her brother, Mr. II. I* Wells. Rev. A. C. Corbett. of Dal/ell fail? ed t ? till his appointment here on the third Sunday from sickness. Hope ho will be able to be with us next Sun day A. M. Rev. VV H I Iwell preached a fine sermon here on the night (Sunday) of the 17th. Come again Uro. K. Hi1 d Times. Hid Russian vokda leak Into China or was Chinese opmm smuggled Into Russia? What causes this spree" Perhaps It Is Herman kummell that has brought on the Jag?Columbia Record. If you wl*h to find a prize idiot, watch on the street corner for the man who will not lift a linger to help, I g4 who Is willing to tell you bow h< would manage the situation If he wa prssldent.?Commercial Appeal. IW1IU1I FIGHTING IS IMMI? NENT. London, June 30.?A year ago to? morrow the ullies started the battle of the Somme. Sir Douglas Ralg*S Canadians served notlefc today thai they mean to celebrate the anniver? sary in the shadow of the ruins of I?ns. They tightened their grip around the battered citv still furtlu r pushing ahead another mile on ; front of four miles. On the other hand, the German crown prince made It clear that h< has by no means given up his effort to redeem himself for his failure at Vordun. It was tho battle of tlu Somme, coupled with Pruslloff s great drive, that forced the Teuton throne heir a year ago to stop the greatest drive of the war at a moment when the prise seemed within his grasp. A new drive against the big French fortress is on. The bitterness and fury accumulated in 12 months of constant sparring with the British "niggers" is being thrown into this new effort. Verdun is an obsession not only with the crown prince, but with nil Ger I mans. Troops hurled into battle there fight with fanatic death defiance, die with a smile on lips that murmur "Verdun." happy in the belief that another inch toward the fort -ess has been gained by their valor. So It was late yesterday. Picked troops, veterans who were In the thick of tho Douaimont and Vaux storms a year ago last February; others whe served under Falkenhayn in the Tran8>*lvanlan passes and still oth? ers who were with Mackensen at the Dunajec, "the kaiser's best," leaped across their parapets into a cyclone of fire. ) A field gray mass one and three quarters of a mile long stormed o > through the hall of hot metal to the west of Dead Man hill that gruesome height on and around which hundreds of thousands of Teutons and IJjetu ; men have died. "Over the whole length of tho front attacked," Paris frankly conceded to day, "the crown prince's troops suc? ceeded In penetrating the Frond line." But they were "almost anni? hilated" in doing so, and when Petain's men had rallied and began to hit bac the invading muss had surged back at most of the vital point?! pierced Only on the slipes west of Dead Man hill did they hold their gains com? pletely. Eighty prisoners were taken by the French. They belonged to fou different regiments. A fierce battle also took place near the other gruesome height, Hill 304. It la between this height and Dead Man ! Hill that the crown prince is trying to wedge himself through toward Ver? dun's eastern forte. Two days ago the Germans In what then seemed more like a local surprise attack had made some gains west of Hill 304. The French canto back yesterday and snatched most of these gains back at tho point of the bayonet. The German big guns are pla>ing their fire stead? ily upon the French lines nil tho way from Avoncourt to Mort Hommo. The crown prince's strategic aim hero Is to break through to the Verdun-Paris railway. Meanwhile the crown prince als^ pushed his new offensive below lAon. There, too, the French suffered a re? verse, according to official admission from Paris. With tho use of 11 pild flames the Germans gained a foothold In a salient northwest of Corny. This salient was, however, "completely lev? eled by tho bombardment." the French report says. Berlin today reported the capture of FiOO motors of French positions on ttio eastern slope of Hill 304 and of sever al French lines near Corny, south of Li hovel I*- farm. Sir Douglas Halg's report tOdA!' placed emphasis on the slight casual? ties suffered in the advance on Lens while the Oeirnans sustained consld erable losses. "Positions of strength as well an of tactical and strategic importance pi" ours," says the statement. The German war otllce today flatly stated that attacks are expected on the eastern front. The Russian can? nonading is on the same front which Brusslloff attacked with such vigor a year ago last month?tho wnolo line southeast of Ilmberg. Rome admitted today lb ? enforced evacuation by the Italians of part i f Angello pass. They bold tin* eastern end. however. Tho Russian offensive h n already begun, according to tonight's official statement from Rerlin. It stated that General BntSSHofTl Infantry ate at? tacking on a front of about 37 mlleti southeast of Lemberg, tho G.iliciar capital The attacks broke down, the Ger? man report stated. The British night official said an? other siirbt gain towards bens for General llalv's troops h i I been made Who could have foretold, even a f? w months ago that before the war should be concluded Mrs. Pank hu re I ami KllhU Root would have bad a conference in Petrograd??The State. GERMAN VESSELS TO 1VE VSEB. Washington, Juno 30.?a long itrido towards the solution of the shipping and transport problems was taken to? day by the president. lie signed an executive order turning over to the United States shipping board 84 seized German vessels, a total tonnage of 500,000. These ships undoubtedly will be used exclusively in trans-Atlantic ser? vice. Some of them have already be? come transports. The president authorizes the ship? ping board to repair, commission and man them for operation by the gov? ernment or under lease or charter. This tonnage does not include the 14 German ships already taken over by the navy department nor the Aus? trian vessels acquired by purchase. The total Teutonic tonnage now In possession of the United States is about con,ooo. The ships included in the ordei in? clude half a dozen of the famous At? lantic fliers which have been rusting in New York harbor since the war began. Others are German ships which sought protection In nearly all our deep water ports as soon as war gave the British cruisers control of the seas. The repnir of these ships has been proceeding rapidly despite efforts ol the Germans to cripple them. Secret processes for the repair of the ships have been in the possession of our navy for years. It was supposed that it would take months for the United States to reproduce these parts as they were all in German standard size for which we had no designs and no models. The navy beat the Germans at their own game, however. It has been known for some time that the nav has applied its scret repair method? to the damaged parts and that th< ?hips will be shortly as good as new. NORWAY GETS ANGRY. Christiania, Norway, June 19.? There is great Indignation along the northwestern Norwegian coast ovc the action of Germany In practically prohibiting Norwegian coastwise traf? fic in that region through Its declar. tlon of a danger ozne in the Arctic. This entire district is without rail? roads and must be served with tho necessities of life by means of sea borne traffic. But it is Impossible for the coasting vessels to sail from -one port to another without^ coming out into the German danger sone, there? by risking ships and lives. The re? sult has been the practical abandon? ment of this very vital traffic, with a considerable pott of Norway threat? ened by starvation as soon as the present stocks of food for men and animal, fuel and other necessary ar? ticles are exhausted. Germany, while making no mov to enable Norway herself to serve the district thus cut off, has been prompt to take commercial advantage of the situation by putting a line of German boat;', which are immune from u-boar activity, on the route from which competition has been thus eliminated These Gorman boats expect to have on absolute monopoly of sailing to and from the northern Norwegian ports and the principal Norwegian fishing markets, where they can ex change German goods at war price; for dsn, ore ana flsh oils. The German company has even been daring and impudent enough to offer its service to the Norwegian gov irnment, desiring to enter into a sue cial agreement with the government here for the maintenance of regular freight and mail routes. Thus far the government has refused to have any dealings with the company, but it may be forced to accept the German offer In order to save its own peopl ? in the north from famine. Sunday afternoon as he was board? ing the train for Bishopvllle, Archie Pholps picked up a roll of greenbacks which contained $210. The roll was found in the aisle of an empty pas? senger coach. Though Archie could easily have appropriated the money for his own use, he reported his find to Policeman Berwick, who found that 'be money belonged to Captain Scott, a railroad man, who had drop? ped it when changing cars. Archie is to be highly oommends'J for his honesty In reporting that, he ha?l found this amount and in turnin; it over to its owner. Free Bulletin on Potatoes. The Sumter Chamber of Commerce has received twenty-five copies of bul letlon No. 548 from the United States Department of Agriculture In the hur veelng, storing and marketing of sweet potatoes Which Will be distribut? ed free lu those desiring same. With cob bulletin will be also furnished. bills of material for potato hous< Construction. These bulletins will b< mulled out free with bills of matertfl Or delivered to those who call Jit th chamber of Commerce. Clemson W?>i legs will also mall Ihls bulletin to apy one wi Itlng for same. THE Xi:\Y BRITAIN. (From the London Daily Mail.) Britain is rapidly advancing to the position of a self-contained country. The nearer she advances to that point, the worse it will he for her enemies. Before the war a certain school of politicians taught that wealth and happiness, which are not synonymous terms, were only possible through a world-wide trade. Under their au? spices the age-old proportion of rural and urban population was reversed, and at the outbreak of the war three fourths of the population lived in towns and only a fourth lived in the rural parts. It WU believed that in industrialism alone lay the path to wealth. Agriculture became a "side line," as the shopkeepers say. It has needed a world war to teach us the truth that not only wealth but security and industrialism rest upon agriculture. /We have also discovered that under normal conditions foreign trade can alone sustain a population which has become mainly urban, and that social conditions dopend upon its volume. But for the fact that indus? trialism today is mainly concerned with the production of munitions of war, millions would be crying for bread. If we had no industries beyond munitions, we should have nothing to exchange the food that is brought us overseas. Munitions are providing the bread of millions. Here is a problem for labor to solve. Can prosperous agriculture exist side by side with flourishing industrialism? The man who can solve this problem will bo a greater than tho man who made two blades of grass to grow where only one grow before. There will ho no revolution like it.. A self-contained Britain, whenever it comes, will mean the spreading of the people over tho face of tho country and the breaking up of unwieldlv masses crowded together, because only in that way can they oarn their broad. We shall learn that agricul? ture and industry are one and tho same when the commonwelth comes into its own. 23 States Bono Dry at Midnight. Washington, June 30.?Twenty three states become bone dry at mid night tonight, the hour at which be? comes effective the iteed amendment prohibiting the shipment of liquor into any territory where its manufacture or sale Is prohibited. These are the States wholly affected by the act: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colo? rado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine. Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolin", North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia. Washington and West Virginia. Those partly affected are: Califor-J nia, Connecticut, Delaware, I^ouis.ana. Maryland, Massachusetts, Minne; eta, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio and Texas. These states will be affected at fu? ture dates: Alaska, January 1. 191S; Indiana April 3, 1918; Michigan, April 30 1918; Montana, December 31, 191S. ajid Utah, August 1, 1917. The law bars from publication, whether in states or smaller corpora tions .all mail matter containing ad? vertisements or solicitations for or dors for intoxicants, in order to sup? press the activities of mail order houses. Justice and postofflco department officials have made every preparation to enforce the law. Methyl alcohol is regarded by the federal government as an intoxicating liquor within the meaning of the act, but wood and denatured alcohols are not so re? garded. No ruling has been made regarding the status of patent medi? cines containing alcohol. DO YOU HAVE DIZZY SPELLS? It's Important to Tiearn the Cause, as Many Sumter People Have. Dizziness is never a disease of itself ?it's only a symptom of some deeper seated trouble. Much dizziness Is caused by disordered kidneys failing to tllter all the poisons from the blood. These poisons attack tho nerves and dizziness results. If you are subject to dizziness, there is good reason to suspect your kidneys, and if you suite backache, headache, and bladder dis? order, you have further proof. Many Sumter people have learned the val? ue of Donn's Kidney Pills In just such cases. Read this Sumter woman's statement: Mrs. Annie C. Carncs, 107 Bart lette St., says: "My kidneys were dis? ordered ami my back ached. 1 had headaches and disy spells, too. i used Doan's Kidney Pills us directed ami they cured the trouble." Price &0o, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get I)oati's Kidney Pills?the same that cured Mrs. Carnes. Fostor-Milburn Co., Props., B'ttslO, N. Y. ? Advt. 4 1 soi,nil:ks' livkh will bk in Sl ki d. Government Determined Upon In? demnity Policy. Washington, July i.?Represents.-1 tives of all the great life Insurance companies In the country arc ex? pected to meet Secretary McAdoo and other cabinet members here tomorrow to consider plans for insuring the lives of men in the naval and military ser? vice. The administration is determined that the lives of soldiers, sailors end marines shall lie insured. It is prob? able that the insurance men will be asked for expert advice on the plans presented by the commerce depart? ment two weeks ago to the council of national defense. | Under the proposal the government would insure the men in service for I limited amounts in case ol death, in? jury Of capture?I system similar to that imposed upon owners in the mer? chant marine. In addition to this men would bo permitted to take further insurance. Buch ? plan, if accepted, probably would sound the knell of the pension system. The total amount of money paid in pensions growing out of the Civil war, In which 2,200,oti0 federal fighters were engaged, has approached $.-,.?1(01,000.(?00. Officials point out that assuming the United States sent the same number of men into the present war and was forced to pay the ex? treme liability for all of them $5, 000,000,000 would allow nearly $2, 200 for each man. In the plans sub? mitted to the defense . ouneil, the ? extreme liability of $4,000 was sug- " pested. In the merchant marine death benefits range from $1,500 to $5,000. NOT TOO LARGE NOR TOO SMALL This Bank is not TOO BIG, nor TOO LITTLE It is VAG ENOUGH to give confidence and assurance to its customer?. It is SMALL ENOUGH to give careful attention to YOUK affaire. YOUR little account will not be neglected. And no mattet how LARGE your account, we can take J care of It. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK United States, County and City Depository The Oldest Banking Institution in the County i ?? -? ?? ?? Independence Day July 4th Liberty is our national heritage. Our forefathers sacrificed ;tll to its cause. For 141 years it has been the birth? right of our people. The time once more is here when America is in arms maintaining the fundamental rights of man. On July 4th, the day on which we celebrate the birth of our nation? A Legal Holiday ?let us pledge anew to each other "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor" that this "govern? ment of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." The National Bank of Sumter. Banking By Mail A pleasing feature of this bank is the rapid growth of its out-of town business. Every mail brings us deposits from dis? tant customers. We give particular attention to this class of business. 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