The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 31, 1917, Image 5
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
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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 ?
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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