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PKKSONAI . I 'i nnd Mrs Fred N ? h irr visit Mm A. U Nash Mr W t? Levy of Camp Jackson ks? in town yesterday. Mr. A A. Brenrley. of St. Charles, wet In town today. Mr ltob*rt Zeltler of Maron, Oa.. le spending some time with Or. mid Mrs, O. R Rarringer. Mrs. G. W. Kraker 1? entertaining her mother, Mrs. E. Constlne of Wllfcesrnanro, Pa. Mtss Minnie Green, a niece of Mr. Jno. T. Oreen. who Is attending sehool at Flora Mardonnld college at Med Springs, N. C. Is In tho Colum? bia hospital to be operated on by Ih- Chrerry, for appendicitis. Lieut. W. H. Bowman and wife are In tha city on a short visit to their ps rents Mrs P. O. Bowman has returned from a visit to Yorktown where she ?pent sometime with her son. Mr. Maurice Bundle has been elect ed president of the freshman class at Clem son College. Miss Alpha Rsrnum Is at home from Atlanta on a visit to her parents Mr. J If Pendleton spent Sunday In the city en route to Richmond ? , spsad a three day furlo igh with hU i parents. He haa completed the pre < bmlaary course of training* for the i Aviation Corps' at Georgia Tech and | will now go to one of the aviation i camps to learn to fly. VJest Wendell Devi, of Csmp Jack soe. Is st home on a six day furlough Mr. R. D. Merrlmon died at the Tuomey Hospital Saturday night af- i ter an IIIh-hm .r (,nh u tew daw. hav? ing entered the hospital for treatment ; on Thursday. Mr. Merrlmon bad : been a resident of Sumter for about four years and waa a valued employe of Cfretanell A Co. The funeral ser vn ea were held at 4 o clock Monday afemocn and the interment waa at ; th? cemeUry. Death. Dr. Henry Y. DuBose. one of th boot known cltlrens of Sumter county died suddenly and unexpectedly at htti hosao Boar Dulh.se Cross- ltoudi Bandsy afternoon. Dr. DuBose hat1 ben an invalid for a number of years Having be?*n stricken v. Ith pnralysis | >ghteh Incapacitated blm from th. acHve practica of bis profeaslon. sr or eight years ago. In his prime Dr Du Boso bad an extensive practice and wu a leader in his community In all matters of* public Interest The funeral services were held a Hebron Preabyterlan church at I o'clock Monday afternoon. I>entb. ?Vom The Dally Item. Oct. 27. Mrs. Kula Sims, after an illness of two weeks, died at the Tuomey Mos pita! this morning at 5.30. Mm Sims leaves a husband, Mr. W. C. Sin*, and nine children, the youngent an Infant of two weeks. ?Hie funeral service and interment will be st Providence Baptist church grindsy morning at 11 o'clock. .fours - Hogers. Miss Minnie Ruth Jones and Mr Ryan C. Hogers were quietly married St the* ountry home of the bride's psrents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Dargnn Jeaaea or Thursday afternoon at 5..'10. Ths ceremony was impressively perform d by the Rev. Win. Hayns worth In the presence of the imme? diate family and a few Intimate frtotuts. The house was tastetully decorated with lei ad und pink Kllarny roses, this color scheme being carried cut through*.ut the bouae. After the ceremony refreshment! were aarved In the dining room which sas beautifully decorated, and softly Illuminated by pink shared randlos. The bride wss charmingly dresited In a traveling suit of broadcloth with list and shoes to ma n The i loom Is a popular traveling salesman, well known throughout the State The happy young couple left on the evening into for Washington and other polnte moth. HL'WTFIt COTT<?* M AUK KT. P. O. BOWMAN, cotton Buysr. (Corrected dairy at It o'clock Noon ) Good Middling 2? i t Strtrt Middling 2? 5-8. Middling It 1-1. Btrlct lx>w Middling 2? 1-4. Low Middling 2ft 8-4. *r*vf Tom iwktton mark hp open Hsgn liovf does ?II ose Tse'dys Dec. . .28.16 27.22 28 58 28 70 17 2M Jan . . 28.45 28.68 28.88 28.00 28.87 Hew York spots, 27.bl. TEUTON DRIVE CHECKED. _?i_ ITALIANS HlCAVELY Ml ETING IHWEHEI L (.1.1*.MAN AD? VANCE Nevertheless the hall in Army In In Precarious MlutiUen and There Is Mim Ii I nenstness In Entente Coun? tries. The powerful Teuton advance Ii being kept In cheek by Italian forces which are faithfully fining their duty. Home otMciully announced. London advices aay that Htepa have ahead\ been taken to relieve Italians, pre Humably the Italians' own reserves of the threatened front. England and France are reported to be taking steps to aid the shatter? ed Italian forces-, but in what forn. they will aid them fcs not disclosed The French cabinet met last night if. an effort to decide what could be done. Wher Gen. Cadoina will mal;? a ittand is not yet clear, but two po sitions are capable of defense. The Teutons are within nine miles ot I'dme, Cadorna's headquarters. The railroad running north and south through i'dme might be selected us the new line, but it is probable he ?rill make a stand at Tagllament? river. 18 miles from Udlne, which ot? ters a better- natural position, it ?enis to be the plan of the Teuton? ;o drive a wedge between the Italian >n the Carso front and those in tht nountains northwest of Udlnc Jradlsco now looms up as an Im? portant point and should the Jtaliam ose it their retreat from the Cars* a ill become Inevitable and difficult. Petrograd announces without ex ? I.in it!? ? ii th it the Germans hav< nucuated the Werder peninsula wher. bey recently landed troops. hTe Paris statement says the Ger nans attacked on the Verdun fron near Chuumewood. They gained 'noting In the advanced French po lition*. but the French retook mg i)f the ground In a counter attic) \ German retirement between Warm? :???, and Dixmude in Belgium, thu> eliminating the Ypres silent Is ex pected. LIBERTY LOAN TOTALS. So More Ulli be Issued 1 ??til Novom Washington, Oct. 29.?Not until November 1st will the treasury an? nounce any more Liberty loan sub icription totals. The bunks are tab Jlatlng the enormous amouuts of sub icriptlons received during the lust tew lays. A FINE STPAHT. From the Daily Item, Oct. 27. Mr. B. W. Brogdon, Jr., of Concore made the tlrst report in t\ie Fooi Pledge Campaign this morning. He had charge of one section of tht Concord district, of which Mr. Hob ert Jones Is captain-manager, whicl had been thorough y organized foi work this week, before the campaign was postponed. Mr. Brogdon decided that it was not necessary to postpone the campaign in his district, so he go' to work and made a thorough can vass of his section, visiting ever> house in It. His report, handed In at the headquarters this morning, show? ed a perfect score. There are forty househoulders In h.s section of the Concord district, all were visited and the head of each of the forty famille: signed a pledge card. Mr. Brogdon made a clean up and it is to be hoped that every worker in the campaign i ?'\t week will do equally as well. Mr. A. M. London, also a lleuten c.nt In the Food Pledge Campaign In the Concord district, handed in I complete report from his* section. He nade a clean up, visiting each and every family In his section. Thirty uix families were called on and thirty three pledgo cards were signed. Three of ituis.. called on refused to sli?n the pledge cards. Their reuson for refus a I were noted and will go In with the report to Washington. New Organisation for Siimter? Busi < >n Tuesday evening some of the business women of tho city met at the Y. M. C. A. for the purpose of forming a Business Women's Club One of the purposes of the club will be to cooperate with the girls and women who will be forced to ta.<. the places of the men In the business world and to help those who have al ready entered this held. One of the features- of the MOOt lugs will be community singing, un? der the supervision of Miss Kva Kell er. From time to time this club will he tddressed by ihcn prominent In business affairs. All wage earning i Iris and wo? men are eligible to membership, ami are urged to attend the next meetin i. on Tuesday evening. Oct. 30th, In tin I 1111es" parlor of the Y. M. 0. A. R?V, Baxter IfoLsndon is conduc? ing ;i revival mooting at Dal/ell. tin first service being held Sunday. men and guns are tier 1st, ness Women's Club. FOB Fjggj SERVICE lkit over national giaRDs. HBH go to J hance, Skeletonized mm Will Im* Uted to Form Reserve fOf rVrshlng's Fight Washington, net. II.?Officers and men left In National Guard regi? ments which have been severely drawn upon to till up the organization will have their chance at the front. It was disclosed today that the war de? partment plana to use all these skele? tonized units to form a reserve in France from which General Fershing may draw to keep his fighting forces always at full strength. Secretary Baker and General Bliss, chief of staff, explained the plan to? day to live New England governors, who went to the department to in? quire what was to he done with the seven New England infantry regi? ments and other units not included in the Twenty-sixth Division. The governors were MeCall of Mas sachusetta; Milliken of Maine; Keys of New Hampshire, Graham of Vermont and Holcomhe of Conneticut. Each of these States has National Guard units which were srtipped of men to fill up to war strength regiments as? signed to the Twenty-sixth Division. Famous regiments, like the Fifth and Sixth Masaehusetts, were reduced by the process to mere handfuls of nven The aggregate of officers and men in the seven regiments left over after the Twenty-sixth had been expand? ed to the European standard gti ap? proximately 2,300, although the pro? portion of officers was pract:?alp, large enough for a division of 27,000 General Bliss explained that ali these officers would retain their rank when they became part of Genera) Pvtthing*! depot units. In view of the rejection of tho vol unteer plan, the governors did not carry out their purpose of suggesting that Colonel Roosevelt he asked t' head the campaign for volunteers. It was revealed during the confer? ence that the present European stand ard organization of the army is in tended only for the duration of th'. war. RAILWAY clerks STRIKE. From The Dally Item. Oct 27. All the office and yard clerks savt two, employed by the Atlantic Coas: Line in the local freight station and yards struck this morning at 14 o'clock. The strike was the result o the refusal of the Atlantic Const Lin to permit Its clerks to join the Train men's Brotherhood and to recogniz the Brotherhood. Some weeks ag< the clerks were notified ihr.t if the\ joined the Brotherhood they would Ik discharged and some time later en deavored to induco them to sign at agreement not to join that organiza tlon. It is also stated that one rep resentatlve of the A. C. Lk told then, that the objeclon tot he Trainmen': Brotherhood was that it is* a brand o fthe I. W. W. These statement. In reference to the cause of the striki were made by R. W. Smith, o! Richmond, Va., who arrived in tnt city last nicht and called the strikt this morning. He also stated that th? striking clerks have made no de mauds for increased wages or other demands, hut are striking solely to vindicate their right to organize. The. will not return to work until theit right to become members of tht brotherhood is admitted by the rail road officials, nor will any of then resume work unless evory one of th< strikers is restored to the same po sitlon he held before the walk out. The walkout was entirely peaceabh and no disturbance or friction is an tlclpated. The work at the StatlOl and in the yard is going on fairl. well, under the circumstances. The officials were probably prepared foi the walkimt, as there have been slm ilar strikes within the past few wcekr at practically all other railroad cen? ters in the Stute. STRIKE NtKT SERIOUS. Walkout of Clerks Huh Not Crippled Service. The strike of office and yard clerks of the Atlantic Coast Line on Saturday has not crippled the set vice at the local freight station, and business is going on us usual. Thet' were 1 f? clerks employed in the loca freight station and yards and Olli) five of them joined the Strike Satur day morning, the other ten remain lug loyal to the companv and on theii Jobs. There lues hcen no change in the situation since Saturday, the fivt who struck are still striking and the other fan are still at work. The strik SN have made no demands on tin company for Increased wages or shorter hours and no conference! with the officials has heen ackud. N'olht??Und OtOS Workers. ThS Red Cross headquarters ha* i uxt received t large shipment ol wool which workers can obtain on application. HUm CONFERENCE STEEL WORKERS CALLED TO MEET. Three Hundred Thousand Workmen Needed to Cany Out I rogram Plan nii by BmuNI. Washington, Oct. 26.?With a View to speeding up tho government's great steel building program, now ad? mittedly about 20 ships behind, Rear Admiral Capps, general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, to? night called upon every steel ship? builder on the Atlantic coast to meet in Washington Monday with reprc , sentatives of the fleet corporation, the department of labor, the American Federation of Labor and the navy department. The principal question to be dis? cussed is that of labor and an effort will be made to outline some plan to attract men to the shipyards, which need about 804,000 more workmen to carry through the work undertaken and projected. Chairman Hurley of the shipping board said every angle of the trade would be discussed and that the con? ference would have a very! important bearing on the progress of the W0|)< to be done for tho government. While the building program now is about 2n ships behind the schedule, Mr. Hurley said he was in no way discouraged. Discussing the reorganization oi the administrative personnel of the Emergency Fleet. Corporation, Chair? man Hurley said Hear Admiral Capp^ had been "doing a man's- job in pro? tecting the government's interests,' and in addition handling a vas. amount of business detail which now is to be turned over to assistants tc be chosen from the engineering, busi? ness and other fields. This will en? able the admiral to concentrate hi: time and efforts on the building pro? gram. EFFICIENT RAILWAY SERVICE Hailroad War Board Striving to He lievc Sugar Shortage. ? Washington, Oct. 25.?Fairfax Har? rison, chah man of the Railroads War Board, authorizes the following The railroads are doing their bit t< relieve the sugar shortage. Tele grams just received from the Sun set Central, Texas & Pacific, ami other railroads in the sugar cane bei state that a sufficient number o empty cars are available tbrougl Louisiana and other eane-growing ter ritory to handle the entire cane crop Hundreds of cars have also bee: moved into the Northwest to protec: the sugar beet crop which is ahead moving. An adequate supply of cars is als on hand to move the Northwest po tato crop. In Texas the railroads are bendiiu every energy to protect the cattle men from loss of live stock. Becau.s of the drought thousands of heads o cattle were moved from Eastern Tex as last week into more fertile pas tures and hundreds of stock cars an now being rushed into the southwest em part of the State in order to mak possible a similar movement of ca' tie there. In its efforts to get empty freigb cars into the districts where the; are most needed, the Railroads' Wa Board acting through the Cpmmls ision on'car Service has moved 156. 850 empty cars from one railroad U another irrespective of ownershii since the first day of May. The or ders for these cars since Septembe 1st number 8,905. The lines V which empties have been sent thi month and the number of cars us signed to each are as follows: New York Central, 1,000 cars. Louisville & Nashville. 1,100 cars. Canadian Pacific, 1,000 cars. San Antonio & Arkansas Pass, 15< cars. Gulf Coast Lines, 310 cars. Louisiana & Arkansas, 08 cars. Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company, 17 cars. Grand Trunk, 580 cars. Norfolk Southern, 650 cars. Atlantic Coast Line, 1,500 cars. Southern Railway, 260 cars. St. Louis Southwestern, 400 cars. Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeast em, 200 cars. Mobile & Ohio, 300 cars-. Seaboard Air Line, 300 cars. IN Paso A Southwestern, 200 oar Pittsburgh m Lake Erie. 500 ears. Meridian K emphis, 150 ears. Tennesse Central, 100 ears. Red River & Gulf, 1<?0 cars. Sunset Central, 100 tars. Suuiter Defeats Camden. The Sumtcr high BOhOOl footbaU team defeated the Camden high school yesterday on the latter grounds by a SOOTS of 27 to 0. Four toUChdOWIM and three goals from touchdown show the net score. Sunder ?cored 21 points in the tirst halft bu; Camden braced up and Ottered still opposition in the last half, only %*\ points being scored by the Gamecock All of the ffumtor boys played well. ANOTHER GERMAN i IX)T FNGIX El RI D BY VON LUXBUItG WHILE IN ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. , News Coming from Rio Janeiro Creates Great Sensation in B" mos AlreH. Buenos Aires, Oct. 28.?A sensation has been occasioned here by the pub? lication of a dispatch from Rio Janeiro ass-crting that the Riazilian foreign minister has made known Ihaf translation of dispatches sent by Count von Luxburg, through th? mo* dium of the'Swedish legation, while the count was German minister to Argentina, has revealed a project for a German invasion of Southern Bra? zil. The newspapers here demand thai the government publish the Luxbunr dispatches or else authorize their publication by a foreign government. (The dispatches were sent to Washington for translation and tin "foreign government" evidently is the United States.) The Argentine government is beim; criticised for its silence. It was reported unofficially las. February that bands of armed Ger? mans, presumably sailors interned in Argentina, had crossed the Bragtlian border. Carreira De Kreitas, a Bra Kilian ex-deputy at that time, de< nounced operations carried on in J Sojuthern Brazil, where there is a large German element in connection with the Hamburg colonization com pany. It waa reported that the torn pany purposed to cokmize a section ol Southern Brazil, admitting only Ger- j mans. In April it was reported thai Germans in Southern Brazilian States were concentrating and that a Ger? man insurrection was being planned. BANKS TAKE CERTIFICATES. Nearly Four Hundred Million Alrendv Subscribed. Washington, Oat 29.?The third day's (subscription to the government:a offering of short time certificates of indebtedness amounted to one hundred and thirty million, bringing the total to three hundred and ninety-live mil? lion. CA1*TUREI) BY U-BOAT. Small American Sailing ship Aban? doned by Crew When Attacked. London, Oct. 29.?The American sailing ship* Fannie Prescott of 40-i tons gross was attacked by a subma? rine and taken in tow by the subma? rine after being abandoned by the crew. Ex-Czar Nicholas has good reason ' to hope that the powers that be in Russia have plenty to do, for, if they chance upon idle moments-, they arc likely to begin planning something to do to him.?Charleston Post. COLD WAVE CG HING. Etoeatag Toaoperatsrai a? For Soutu ns Georgia Predicted. Washington, Oct. 2i>.?With tho thermometer twelve below zero in Wyoming and the coldest on record in Colorado, a cold wave warning, in eluding Georgia and no?thern Florida by Tuesday night, has been issued by the weather bureau. IS IT "JlVr A COLD"? Bunter People Should A"k Thcmaelveg This Question. Don't say: "it's just a cold.* It may turn into backache* rheu matic aches, achy joints Or other serious sickness tti&t comes from win!; kidn ys. Colds are due to con*.' ?stion. Congestion makes the kidneys over? work to filter the blood Colds often leave the kidneys weak. First brOOk the cold; Then use Doan's Kidney Pills to avert the kidney dang? rs. Let this Sumter resilent tell you about them. Ii. J. Loniface, iron moulder, Hd Kendrick Street, sa s: "Heavy lifting brought on kidney trouble and my back became so stilt ind lame that I could hardly stoop. X had dizzy headaches and. the kicc iey secretion* annoyed me by pnssin ; too freely. The least cold I nought settled on my kidneys and made- me worse. When I read about Doan's Kidney Pills, I tried them and they removed all signs of the trouble." Price 60c, at all uealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get l Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that I Mr. Boniface had. yoster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, H. Y. (*0) _J AUCTION SALE?Hagood, S. C, No? vember 3, 11 o'clock. Will begin promptly. Valuable land and lots; also 25 head of fine beef cattle, hogs, mules and horses; also 113 acres of land between Rembert and H?rdens. A Lrtss band will furnish the music. Sale rain or shine. WANTED?Party to bale 200 tons hay, with power ba: ?r, at once. J. H. Myers. Phone 5 ,02. FOU SALE?Registered Aberdeen Angus bull, four years old, tubercu? lar tested, without fault or blemish C. P. Ostcen, Sumter, S. C. P Geo. H. Hurst, Undertaker ml EOlOjS. Prompt Attention to Day und Night nails. At D. J. CRAIQ Oil Stand. ? Main. Phones: J&Zt I For AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE See WALLACE & MOSES 122 S. Main Street Phone 577 We make a specialty of it?Have one of the Best Policies and Best Kates. P. B? Is that Bam of Valuable Com and C ;ton Seed INSUKED ? '??????????????????MM ? ???????? ? ?????? * ? ? ?? M ? ?? Have Your Plumbing Done - - in n-'-? J -? ???-,-^.^^^ By Experienced Workmen in a Sanitary Manner. 1 sell and install Septic Tanks, Gasoline and Kero? sine oil Engines, Pumps, etc. Electric lights And Plumbing for country homes a specialty, (.'et an es? timate from me before awarding your work. A. J. ARD Phone 420 24 E. Liberty Street