The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 12, 1917, Image 2
lMTMHor hciiolahkhips Am:
AWARDED.
ol Huml District* Win Good
off Awards Through
. MMnor.
Cotueabka, Sept. ?.?Award of so hoi
arables at Winthrop College were an?
nounced yesterday from the otTice of
John B. Sweartngen, State superin?
tendent of education There were 34 2
applicants for the scholarships and
146 others simultaneously took the
entrance examinations Approximately
three-fourths of those taking the ex
a art nations dropped below the pass?
ing grade. There were only 46 vacan?
cies and II of theae went to young
woman Irving In rural communities.
Those to whom the scholarships were
awarded ware:
Abbeville?Pauline Cllnkscales and
Florence Alvys Henry.
Alken?Clara Catherine Atwood.
Anderson?A Iva Loutae Hodges.
Barewell?Julia Emma Halford.
Beaufort?Mary H. Kyaerllng and
Bessie Levin.
Berkeley?Helen Budloff.
Charleston?Rote Jenklnaf Susie E
Jervey and Martha S. Moore.
Cheater?Luclte Ferguson.
Clarendon?Beulah Ruth Johnson
and Garland McCutchen. /
Dillon?Mary Tart.
EdgaAeld?Willi? Sullivan Peak.
Fatrfleld Minnie Lee SSlglcr and
Marion Klrkland. 1
Florence?Florence Augusta Law?
rence and Myrtle Creola Humphry.
Ueorgetown?Julia Ada Cornell and
Lola Carrawey.
GreenvUle?Peail Walker.
Hampton?Jeast? Louise Simmons.
Horry?LuTa 8weet.
ICerahaw?Bthel M. Bruce.
Newberry?Lev In Is Klnard.
Oraogeburc?Annie Arnette Hol?
lo way
Picken? Ma Lou Hunter.
Richtend?Paulino Toney.
Spartan bur|r?Miry Crow. Neolu
Dilti and Buly C. Waiden.
Sumter?Klla Pauline Workman
and Louise R GedAlnirs.
Tort?Isabel Gordon and Emma
Hoya.
rVom the fltato at Large?Annie
Lee Pnrksdalc Uurcns; Auguata Wal?
ton. GreenvtSuaun Ellen Willis.
Oreavltle; Virginia Shanklln. Bich?
land; Mary Alice 1'osier. Anderson.
Carolina P. Rlchanlaon. 8umter; Har?
riet Watson. Laureiis; Virginia Gray.
Laurans: Louise Bailey. Greenville.
Tho trueteeo rscommended that
State scholarships now held by the
following students be extended an
other seaelon.
Alken?Ruth <juartlcbuum and
Mavjr Ona Denny.
Anderson?Pan Bailey. 8. Bertha
Dunlap. Clr.ra Purd.ne. Emma Idelle
Greer aad Margaret Atta way.
Bamberg?Stella Lancaster and
Paulis Cook
Barnwcll?Julia C. Barclay and S.
Kathleen Jen kin*.
Berkeley?Este! I e Dcllay.
Charleston?Annie M. Jenkins.
Eleanor Mifchell and Maude Turbe
?Ills.
Cherokee?tJlllan Klrby.
Cheater?8aruh Julia Kce.
Chesterfield? Gertrude H ut ell and
Fresll Houser.
Clarendon Josephine Felder.
Collet, m?Marie dcTrcvllle an?;
Nora Goodwin.
Darlington ? Saille Flynn Hart. M
Ethel Byrd and Marie E. Ted h r
Dlflon?Annie Mae Allen.
Dorchoetrr? Harriet Graham.
Edgefleld-'-Janlce Morgan.
Florence ? isla Iviwhon.
flreonvlllo - Ix>la James. Nnn Mar
t!n. Planche Sloan. Nettle Grcsham
T Christine Holland.
Greenwood -Besste Hart Edwards
Mary Prownlee Rice and Mary Ola
Boberta.
Merry?Mettle Stanley Nance.
Jasper?Amrlen Benton.
Kershaw?Olga N. Rush.
I*ncaat*r?Mary Kirk.
Lauren??Mary F. Burton. Julin
Owena and Mattte ! > ?? Kiddle
Ijm> Mary Livingston Perrin.
Lexington?Susie k] Ixnvn and
Florence F. Lyles.
'Harten-- Ethel Emma Mace am
Nell Jonra.
Marlboro?Sara Sherill and Eulab
K Eanterltng.
MrCormlek?Ethel Strohi.
hfaWherry - 8u?an F. iJingford and
Grace Seaae.
Oeonee- Grace '/Vatson T'eard nn<*
Ultian Ethel Martin.
Orangehurg Winnie Duv? 1M
wards. Annl* Berths PoinMofi Ine?
Pauline Oalphtn snd Viola C. Hard
aer.
Picken*?Mary if. VTyntt.
Rlrhliind - Velm i I r?rrIs IT Cold
sn Prooka. Kathleen M ir- haut and
Helen Cheatham.
Snliida Annie I<aura Mavnaid and
Lua Mae Sawyer.
Spartanburt ?Mel I<ee Daniel, !*?lla
M Prince. Both Smith nnd LOllfl
Mae Tomllnaon.
Sumter Ente Blnaon
I'nlon- Fln**le Wllburn
Wllllamahurr Knn Taddv. r
w??nn Eaddv nnd Emma Llfrage.
York?Christine Holler and Edna
T.owranca.
<>ne of the scholarships, endowed
by Dr. Olli Wyllo of Now York, has
been awarded to Miss Boulah i.
Johnson of Inman, Spartanhurg coun?
ty. Mlaa Johnson made the highest
trade of all applicants taking the
competitive examination July 6.
TO CONTROL GOLD EXPORT.
l*re*ldoht Wilson Orders Embargo
Effective September 10.
Washington, Sept. 7.?President
Wilson tonight placed an embargo,
effective September 10, on the expor?
tation of coin, bullion and currency.
At the same time he authorized the
secretary of the treasury to license
such sxportatlons, where in the opin?
ion of the Federal Reserve Board,
they are not harmful to tho public
interest.
The effect of the embargo which
applies to all nations, will be to plac >
absolute control over gold exports In
the bonds of Secretary McAdoo and
the Federal Reserve Board. Officials
believe that the measure will go far
toward conserving the huge store of
gold accumulated In this country
since beginning of the war, a store
which recently has- been drawn upon
rather heavily by Japan, Mexico and
Spain.
Strict adhesion to the embargo U
regarded as unlikely and undesirable.
Curtailment, however, of the free
movement of gold to the Orient ap?
pears probable. For some time past
treasury and reserve board officials
have viewed with some concern the
tendency of gold to flow away from
the United States.
NO SECOND DRAFT SOON.
Crowder Say* President Is Not Con?
sidering Stich Move.
Washington, M-pt. 7.?Provost
Marshal General Crowder, in issuing
new rulings concerning the oxcution
of the selective draft law, today re
Iterated that no date had been set for
I second call for men for the national
irmy, and that so far as known no
iecond call is contemplated by|Prcsl
ient Wilson.
Killings issued today provide that a
-eglstrant whose order liability doe;,
not permit of his being selected for
the first quota cannot, even at hi?
own request, ho advanced and sent
s/itb that quota.
The acceptance of substitutes for '
men selected for military duty is pro?
nlbitcd and local boards are instruct
sd not to consider claims of a reg?
istrant from the army, navy or marine 1
corps at the expiration of enystment '
or for some physical disability since
corrected.
Another ruling Is that registrants
may In certain circumstances be ex?
empted or discharged to enable them
to continue In non-military pursuits
but sfter they are selected for mili?
tary service they may not be assigned
to non-military service. ,
The office of the Trl-County Cotton
Marketing Association was opened or.
East Liberty Street this morning with
Mr. G. T. Brooks lm ' charge. Mr
Brooks Is an expert cotton classer In
the service of the Bureau of Market
of the Department of Agriculture and
has been detailed for the season op
the Sumter market. Mr. J. H. Hlggin
botham, Field Agent of the Bureau o
Markets Is here temporarily asslstln*;
Mr. Brooks in getting the Marketing
Association started. Considerable
cotton was taken to the office today to
be graded and the association head?
quarters has taken on a business-like'
appearance. This marketing associa?
tion is the biggest and most importan*
thing that has ever been started by
the farmers of this section of the Stat
and If cotton farmers will unite In Its
support end make use of the service
that It offers them they will make
more money out of their cotton and
build up the best and biggest market
In the State. The marketing associa?
tion la a cooperative enterprise by
farmers for farmers and Its primary
purpoae Is to help the farmers finan?
cially, but while they are helping
themselves they will be helping this
market. The association will stand?
ardise grades and cotton will be sold
strictly on grades, so that the man
who haa good cotton will get all It Is
worth, while those who do not handb
their cotton . carefully and produc
poor cotton will pay the penalty. Am'
what la more Important the associa?
tion will be the means of enabling th
farmers to sell direct to milla In large
lota by pooling their cotton. Tin
farmer who does not unite with, sup
port ami avail himself of the services
of the cotton grader will be standing
In his own light. The association can
be made to revolutionize the market?
ing of cotton In this section of the
State?but It all depends upon the
cooperation of the farmers.
A letter from Mr. It. D, Epps says
that all the Sumter men at Fort <>gh
thorpe are hard nt work and gettinv
along well. All of them are In the In
fantry, except Dnbba and DcsChamp
who are In the field artillery, lie Nfl P
also, that there are more than twelv?
hundred Pennsvlvnnlnns In the cam
and that moat of the agon in the com
pany with him are Pennsylvanlans.
NEVV MODEL Mil PLANES.'
Now German Machines My at Altitude
or Thirteen Thousand UnH While
on Attack.
Paris. Sept. 6.?The Gotha air?
planes with which the Germans havc;
been bombarding England, arc motor-1
planes fitted with two motors develop
Inf 430 horse power and with two
tractor propellers, according to Geor?
gs Bprade, the French aviation ex?
pert. They carry three persons?the
Pilot, a bomb thrower and a machine i
gun operator. All can serve the quick
flrera if they are attacked, as there
are three of these gums carried.
M. Sprade, who has been watching
the machines at the front, says that
these machines, passing at an alti?
tude of 13.000 feet on the attack, can
return at an altitude of 20,000 feet
without their bombs, their super-corn
pressed motors giving them full power
at great heights.
X EG HOES IN TTOP MAJORITY.
Far Outnumber White Men Drafted
for Army.
Columbia. Sept.\ 7.?A far greater
number of negroea than whites have
been certified for service in the nat?
ional army from this State up on the
present, according to incomplete rec?
ords being compiled by the ? Adjutant
General's office- Major John D
Frost, Assistant Adjutant General
has- been compiling this list for some
time, but many* of the local boards are
slow to send in the desired informa
tion. Incomplete lists from eighteen
local districts show a total of 67?
White men certified and 921 negroes.
Lists compiled separately for white
men and negroes so far are as fol?
lows:
White. Negro.
Abbeville . 46 63
Anderson No. 1 .... 39 35
Anderson No. 3 .... 23 39
Beaufort. 13 105
Cglhourt . 21 97
Chesterfield. 20
Dorchester. 49 112
Edgefleld. 5 20
Oreenville No. 1 .... 68 29
Georgetown. 11 33
L?nens. 39 140
McCormick. 7 4
Vewberry. 9 28
Dconee. 2? 17
Orangeburg. 33 122
Pick ens. 19 53
Spartanburg No. 9 1
3partanburg No. 2 . . 39 33
Total.578 911
Corrected Mortality.
Some time ago tho Herald noted
that the Impression apparently s<
prevalent among the friends of Ameri
can soldiers that a large proportion
of the American expeditionary force.*
cannot look forward to a safe returi
home was entirely unsupported by th?
actual experiences of the war and ut
terly unjustified by the official statis?
tics'. The French, who have suffere.
the most, have a mortality of scarce
ly' more than 1 1-4 per cent, for tin
six months of strenuous fighting from
January to July of the present year
But the whole story of the flghtinj
in the west of lOurope shows nior
favorable results even than that. Th
statistics carefully collected from olfi
cial sources show a mortality for all
the allies on the western front of no
more than 11 per 1,000 of those en
gaged. This figure includes also thosi
who died subsequently, somctiihes ev
en long after, from buttle wounds.
In spite of another prevalent im
presslon to the contrary, carefull
fostered in some quarters, the mortal
Ity of recent months is not only no
higher than it was at tho beginning o
the war but much lower. It was th
first million men from France and th
first hundred thousand from Englnn
who had to bear the brunt of Genna
preparedness and their own compara
tivc unreadiness. Tho lesson of wa
has been learned. The mortality o
British and French forces now is not
much more than one-fifth what it wt
at the Marne and in Flanders. ? Nc
York Herald.
Their Reputation.
I'. G. Wodehouse, the English hu?
morist, said at an ant! pact flat lunch
eon in New York:
"My dear friends. I am in heart>
wympathy with the sergeant who was
burying a heap of German dead takei
from the debris of a Zeppelin thai
had murdered a hundred women and
babies.
"Sergeant." whispered a private
saluting, "one of these here G er mat
corpses dont' want to he buried. B
says he ain't dead."
"Bury him anyway," said the irr?
itant firmly. "These Germans an
such liars you can't believe a won
they say."?Washington star.
Happily Married.
Mrs. Quack en boas ? Am yo' riaugh
tah Happily mar'd. Slsfah Saug?
Mrs. Sagg She sho' is! Uns
gOOdneas, she's done got a husham
dnt's skeered to death of her' Wo
man's Home Companion.
EXAMINATIONS CONCLUDED.
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Sixty-seven Mori Fall to Appear for
Physical Test?Believed Sulllcicm
Number of Men Obtained.
Tho second day of physical exami?
nations under the second call for men
?f the national army saw a small per?
centage of rejections, running abou
twenty per cent. Eighty-two men ap?
peared before tho examining physi?
cians. Out of the 2 25 men summon?
ed sixty-seven have so far failed to
answer the call and appear for ex?
amination. These men will automati?
cally be drafted into the army.
Tho general belief is that sufficient
men have appeared, passed the physi?
cal examination, and will be accepted
to IUI out the number needed to sup?
ply the first quota. The local board
will go into exemption claims next
week. Ahout seventy-five men will be
selected out of the number examined
yesterday and today. The list of those
accepted and rejected today is as fol?
lows:
Accepted.
F. F. Telcher,
J. S. B?rgin,
Drane C. Pritchard,
Julius M. Keels,
R. A. Johnson,
Ollie B. Belk. \'
Lern B. Parker,
L. S. Proctor,
Robert Cantey,
Hugh Franklin,
S. Y. Tupper.
W. P. Brazell,
Archie Plowdcn,
Edgar Reese,
Simmons Preshlo.
Arthur Wheeler,
Junius Nedd,
Archie Gordon,
James Brigman,
Segar Scriven,
Chapcll McFnddln,
Walker Wilson,
Herbert Pitts,
Mack Galloway,
Robert Richardson,
Norrie Reese,
Raney Perry,
Robert Perry,
Horace Hill ups,
Walter Pierson,
Henry Snow,
Sam M. Dlgge,
Isaiah Johnson,
Henry Johnson,
Charley Stokes,
Thomas Weathers,
Lev! Monroe,
Johnson Scriven,
Peter Boney,
David Champion,
Moses McKnight,
Richard Sumter,
Morris Holland,
Bamsey Brown,
Joseph Woods,
Lucius Spann,
Isham Mitchell,
A. A. Wells,
Joe Lewis,
Walter Ford,
James W. Dixon,
David Hasty,
Douglas Gallachat,
Melvin Prescott,
James E. McQuilla,
Hubert Sanders,
John Caldwell,
Willie Bethune,
Wm. Henry Green.
Rejected.
Ellison Evans,
Charlie E. Owens,
Rollin Barkley,
Albert Leddingham,
Henry Ferguson,
May Murray, Jr.,
O. Q. Dorn.
William Plowdcn.
T. R. Littlejohn,
Edward Seale,
Thomas Goodman,
Willie Kirby,
J. W. Dow.
Henry Canty,
T. C. DuBoso,
Alec Bennett,
Aleck Dargan,
Henry L. York,
Henry Johnson,
Julius Johnson,
John Burgess.
WEALTHY WIDOW MVRRERED.
Chicago Coroner Believes Woman Was
Killed on Joy Ride.
Chicago, Sept. 7.?The post mortem
examination of the body of Mrs. Maim
A. King, the widow of James (\ King
the late Chicago millionaire. whose
death resulted from a bullet wound
near Concord. N. C. August 2!Hh. in?
dicates that she was murdered, in the
opinion of Coroner Hoffman. The
Concord coroner's jury brought in a
verdict of accident, She took an au?
tomobile trip With flaaton Means, Al
fr??d Means and A. S. Hlnghann She
nnd her death after alighting at the
spring to get a drink.
State Warehouse Commissioner
Smith advises farmers to hohl their
cotton until the market become
steady, as tho decline is evidently du
to speculation and the rush of new
cotton to the market. This opinion
may bo some consolation to those
who refused to sell old col l on whon
the market price was up to 26 cents.
SEIZE X KITH Ali VESSELS.
Vnltcd States Xecds More Ocean Going;
Tonnage and Would he Within
Rights.
Washington, Sept. ('..?Shortage of
ocean going tonnage may cause the
United States to seize some 400,000
tons of neutral shipping now in
American ports. Dutch and other
Scandinavian ships which are loaded
with foodstuffs may be required, it was
stated today, to discharge their car?
goes and go to Australia and Java for
wheat and sugar.
International law officials point out,
gives belligerents the right to com?
mandeer neutral ships whenever the
emergencies of war require it. Dutch
ships of 300,000 tonnage and other
Scandinavian vessels of one-third that
tonnage have lain in American ports
loaded with foodstuffs ever since the
export control act was put into oper?
ation,
Suicide *n Laurens. S
Gray Court, Sept. 6.?J. Milam Hel
lams and wife were found dead in
their home this morning with a bullet
hole in the head of each. The tragedy
is thought to have occurred yester?
day afternoon. Mr. Hellams was about
tig years old and a Confederate veter?
an. He was a farmer of Sullivan's
Township, Laurens County. Up to a
late hour today no cause could bo
found for the killing. f
Second Lieuts. O. L. Sanders and
W. W. Jones have been assigned to
Co. L (Sumter Light Infantry), 2d S.
C. Inf. at Camp Sevier, Greenville.
They are Training Camp officers wh >
recently received commissions.
Eveivthinq in the Building Line
All Kinds o! Feed
BOOTH & McLEOD, Inc.
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A checking-account with a bank is a great
convenience; not only to the business and profes?
sional man. but to the farmer as well. More peo?
ple Would keep such accounts if they knew just
how to go about it. We gladly assist those who
need help in getting started.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
The Oldest Banking Institution in the County
True Greatness
Is the result oi: steady, consistfeftt
effort.
Determination and perscvercilfc?
are essential to success.
A growing Savings Account is a
powerful aid to progress.
It develops efficiency, encourag
thrift and promoted self-reli?
ance.
Set yourself on the right roa J
by opening an account here to?
day. One dollar will do it.
The National Bank
of Sumter.
SUMTER, S. C.
The National Bank Of South Carolin!
C G. ROWLAND. President.
F. E. HINNANT. Cashier
CAPITAL $ 200.000.00
SURPLUS & PROFITS 182,000.00
RESOURCES 1,150,000.00
W. P. BURN'S
R. J. BLAND
j. K. CROtWELL
CtO. F.tPPLRSON
C G POWLANO
ISAAC SCHWAMlZ
GE > O.SHORE
J. F. BLANO
C. T. MASON
W I. WcKAY
DIRECTOR ;
THOMAS WUS0N
KAKK REYNOLDS
Ml I CHI LL LEVI
J. I. OH IT TOM. Jr.
R. O. PURQY
JOHN WILSON
t. D SCHW-tRTZ
W. W. ROW ANJ
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