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i^t flbdrgoni an? *out^roii P**MS?he<d Wednesday aiu! Saturda\ _ _?BY? OI1IEN PUBLISHING COMPAM Sl'MTKK, 9. C. Terms: ?1.50 per nn it um?in advance. Advertisement*. Oae Square first insertion .. ..$1.0?' Every subsequent insertion.&o Contracts for three months, o: longer wlli be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private Interests will be Charge?; for as advsrtlsexnents. Obituaries and tributes of respecci will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found c*. la 1160 and the True 8outhron in 1?99. The Watchman and Southron sow has the combined circulation and inituence of both or the old paper*, and la manifestly the best advertisinr medium In Sumter HOGS! HOGS* HOGS! Three BaetJ ? alle l to the public at? tention by the Department of Agri? culture deserve the widest publicity end the gravest attention. First, the 1 tment says that for the fiscal year ending lune 30 its rec ords show a decrease of approximate- j ly half a million In the number of, ^ boss slaughter* .) |? ihe I'nlted States. L Second, the I >? partinent points out ; j th*t the decrease In pork production | for the fiscal year ending June 30,1 1917. was even.greater than the de-|( in the SUSSbef of hofrst nlaught I ered would imlt.ate; the hogs killed Jn the fl?cal year ending June I0| 1917. being lighter In weight than those killed Jo the lineal year ending June 30. 1916. Third, the department announces that according to the report of Its bu? reau of crop estimates the total num? ber of stock hogs on the farms of the I'nlted States for September 1. 1917. was 90.218.000. as compared with 96.i4ri.eoo the year before, a de? crease of 6.427.090. It thus appears that at a time when . ^ the most vital national Interests re? quire a maximum production of pork the number of hogs is actually on the decline. It Is a serious situation, and what makes it especially ugly is that there la no excuse for It. Hogs offer the quickest and surest means of increas? ing the nation's meat supply. They ean be raised everywhere and In mos: places at a fine profit. It la Just as important to rnise them as It is if build ships with which to transport our soldiers to France and keep them supplied. Of course the country must look IS the farmers If the hog population It to grow as It should; but there are thousands of others who can help. In every town In South Carolina it should be the aim of the householder in 1919 to raise at least one hog and if possible two. If that is done gener? ally the results will be amacing.? News snd Courier. If the Sumter City Council and Board of Health realized the neces? sity of Increasing the meat supply of the residents of this town they ?fould tmmedttaely repeal the ordinance pro? hibiting the keeping of hogs In the city. A thousand or more hogs could he raised in Sumter during the next year at a minimum expense and with? out endangering the health of the community. Many cities larger than Sumter have recently repealed anti hog ordinances and prescribed ref? lations under which hogs may he kept Why cannot Sumter follow this wise example'* HKB < BOSS ft M>. sumter County Council of lVfensc Bed ( row Fund Collections. Perry Moses Phelps.Sl.O'j s B. Richardson. 1.0o| L. B. Windham. I.*H , Coleeted by Miss LMisabcth China and Mis. W. II. Bow? man : W. J. Kenney. 100 F.dward Dlek. IM Sam Folk. LOO R. V. Joye. 1.00 H. C McCaskell . loo Marlon LuKant. 1 (?'? Tom Hoyle. 1.H A. W. Moaeley. 1.00 Previously reported.1 : "" Total to date.M4.M Married. Mr William Jackson Yleldii | an nounces the m tn iage of his daughter Lillian Olivia to \i r O ilther Pierson Piek on Tuesday. Bee. 1Mb. I tit, Itlrmlngham, Ala At home after .Ian 1st. no High? land avenue. Birmingham. Mr. and Mrs. DM9) are SjrpSCJtOi to arrive In Sumter Sunday to spend the holidays with Mr Lick's parents. Mr g?d Mi I D M Lick. Miss Viola Lenbow and Mit T. M owens of this city were quietly mar ried at the home of the bride's par? ents. No HI church street. The secstaeay itai perfermef i>v Ree? ? S Trtiesdale. pastor of the bride The young couple left immedltaely f.?r Columbia, where they will make their home for awhile. SANTEE RIVER BRIDGES. si \ti: HIGHWAY commission KF.COMMKXl>S S1TFS i Oil STRKTVRFS. Oncluiir or ( list From Federal AM? ICeskleiitM of Counties Ikmcllted to Provide Other Hair?Wido Amu Connected by Proposed State lloads. Columbia. Dee. 20. -The State Tilth* way commission will recommend to the United States department of an r.culiure that two steel bridges be constructed over the Santeo River on proposed State highways to be con? structed fron? Charleston into the In? terior portions of the State. One of the proposed bridge sites is at Lan?|' neau's Crossing, which is about :M> : miles east of Lanes, and the other ' Pinckney s Crossing, which ll in the:' neighborhood of 2a miles east of Orange'mrg and St. Matthews. The es? timated cost of the former is $ 173,30a and that of the latter $154,370. The federal government will provide one I all of this necessary amount, contin? gent upon the other half being provid? ed by residents of the counties dircet I, 1 benefited. M i Speeiticatlons call for Hteel structure \l SSfOSS the river portions three- feet'j rbove the WatOS, ereosoted pile tree- ? ' Iis across the necessary waterway.- 1 n swamps and earth embankments ' ibout four feet hijrh. which is above 1 he average high water level. * The highway over Lanneau's Ferry . 1 nill open much needed highway fron? 11 Charleston up through Oeorgetown v ?ounty. providing an excellent outlet 1' rom Marion, llorry and adjacent ter ilory into Charleston. The route into Or tngeburg opens up nother territory, through which a nrge volume of traffic will pass to- j I Sard the coast from Orangeburg. 1H 'larendon, Calhoun and adjacent ter- ! * _ i itory. Tlie road will also provide an 11 m mediate connecting link with the '1 outh western portions of the State, 'he resolution of approval reads: * Whereas, the county officials of the v ounttea adjacent to the Sant.ee River fc SQSJOStOd this department to have 1 urvt-ys made of several proposed t TGssingB of the said Santee River, fi urveys have been made at Pinckney's < binding, Murray's Ferry and Lan* |< .call's, and the following information t -laained from said surveys, to wit: J Pliukney's Lauding. i iwamp on north side . . . 9,000 Klver. 580 ; < KranUn on south side . . 000 Total distance.10.1 SO feet. I Murray's Ferry. Swamp on north side. . 5,300 |< .iver. 400 rwatnn on south side . . 19,550 Total distance. 25,250 feet Lannau's Ferry, twamp on north side . . 5,000 Uver. 680 Iwamp on south side . . 800 Total distance. 6,380 feet. 11st iron to No. 1. Itased on steel bridge over river, and ??-eosoted pile trestles over swamp Vom high ground to high ground. Rroe fSc4 above highest known wa? ll r. PlnckneCs will cost .. $339,270 Murray's will cost.. . . 705.800 Ijanneau's will cowt . . . 310,560 L st I mate No. 2. IJased on steel bridge across rive: and heart pine pile trestle, untreated, from high ground to high ground, three feet above highest known water. Pint kney's will cost . ? . .$221,480 Murray's will cost . . . . 54 4,240 I?anneau's will cost . . . . 264.S:'.'? INtlmatc No. |, Bsssd on steel bridge over river three ft et above behest known wa? it r. OfOOSJOtCd pile trestles across i.Mary waterways In swamps and earth snihankmsnl averaging aboui foui foot hiKh. which win be above average higir water. Plnckney'f win cool ?..?$114,470 Murray's will cost .. .. 141,110 Lannsaii'i win cost .. .. 173,500 And. whereas, the commission has gone Into said estimates carefully, i* has decided that while estimate No. 1 V/OUM be the most desirable, at tin lantS time the expense connected with I he crossing based on this estimate is prohibitive; Therefore be it resolved. That tIn? state highway commission approves SI federal aid projeets the two cross? ings of the said Santee ?liver. one at I Incknoy*! I?inding. and the Other at 1 snnoau'l Fen v. based on estimate No 3. for each of these propose' erosongs, and will recommend their approval to the lulled States depart? ment of agriculture, provided, the eeunties Interested can finance then p-.wportlsnate part of the cost. A qttSrl Of oysters b estimated to eojual in nourlshmenl ihroo-Qtiortom of a pound of beef and no waste tci be calculated In the buying. Front the time of the spawning season, two fi in are rOVtrod lO produce a l ull grown oyster, WHAT IS IT WORTH ? HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK to m: biscon;t|m'ED IN* sl'MTKR COVNTV. Hoard of County C ommissioiiers Adopt Resolution Opposing Appro? priation for This Department of educational Work on the (.round That it is Not Worth Fifteen Hun? dred Dollars a Year io County. The following letter from Senator It. D. BpPfl to Miss Mary Lemrnon, Home Demonstration Agent for Sum lor county, Is self-explanatory, ami 11 there Is anything else to be said Oil he subject the patrons of the rural lehoola of the county are the ones to my it. If the opinion of the mem jers of the County Board of Commit lionets?that the Home Demonstra ion work is not worth what it costs he county - is correct, the patrons of he rural schools are In a position to ;r.ow it, since this work has been car it (1 on in and for the benefit of the 'Ural schools exclusively, if the pa rons of the rural schools have found ho work beneficial, and if they be ieve that its discontinuance would be i hardship and detract from the ef lelency of the rural schools, they ihOUld make their views known to hi County Commissioners before the egislaturs meets. It is of course, a natter about which there may be an j tonest difference of opinion. The tailed states Bureau of Education nd the directors of the extension .'ork of the Department of Agricul ure believe it to be a valuable and ecessary work and each year con ress has appropriated larger and irgtr amounts to extend the work?it eilig assumed that all well informed t rsons know that the Home Demon nation work is supported in part by Yderal appropriations to supplement he state and County appropriations, 'he County Board of Commissioners re of the opinion that the work done y Misses Mary Lemrnon and Annie Tells during the past year Is- not rorth $1.500. The County Board may e correct and those who think other? wise may be wrong. The patrons of he rural schools, the members of the ills' canning clubs and the members >f the women's domestic science lube throughout Sumter county are he persons best qualified to , as Udgmsnt upon the correctness or r correctness of the attitude of the hunter County Hoard of Commission TS. Senator Epps' letter is as follows: -tisM Mary Lemmoni sumter, s. c. Dear Miss LtUlmOn: Your letter j ame duly to hand, and the content:; hereof noted. Today, the County loard asked Mr. Moise and me to ome before them for the annual dis ussion of ways and means for 19 IS, nd much to my surprise, the first hing they did was to read to us a res? olution thoy had passed, asking th it he tomato and home demopstration kork be discontinued in the county, t soeni8 that the county has had to pend five thousand dollars this year hovo the income, and next year this mount will have to he made up, and. lso a like amount to prevent a short ge for next year. This will mak ? iccessary an extra tax levy of ten housand dollars. Then the Hoard nd the City Council have gone into his county home for Indigent suffer iTg of tuberculosis, and will have to ?ave at least three thousand dollars ?xtra for that. On account of their recotnmenda Ion, 1 do not think It will be possible :o get the delgaion in the house to igree to an appropriation for this nor; for 191S. J am very sorry o this, but i have tailed the mattet Dver with Mr. D. D. Moise. and I am writing this letter with his consent. 1 urn enclosing a copy of this letter, and asb lhat you mail it to Miss Parrott. The new county board take tb same view of the lack of necessity for the continuation of this work thai the old board did. and they should very properly have weight given t< their judgment about such matters At the beginning of the year. 1 told the board that I wished .them i> carefully observe this work during 'he year, and to let us know if w should continue it. Tins was don when they asked that it be discon tinned at the beginning Of the year They say that they cannot see whj the people should have to be taught and urged to do this work for sucb an obviously necessary purpose. Ii other words, they think the peoph without any Instructors will put u nearly as much stuffs as they woul1 do with instructors, and the differ enee is not worth fifteen hundred dollars to the county. When you and Miss I'arrott had nv meet with you the other day, I prom Ised to sec Mr. Moise, und having done so. and having received this un expected recommendation from tin County Board. I have to ask tlv.it yo' do not use the paper which I prOVlt lonally tlgned. i suppose thai th< only way to convince Iht people as t> whether or not this work is wortl the money, is to let them do without i for awhile. Very respectfully, R. D. Bpps. December IS, 1917. MOIIK IKMiS NEEDED. County l>efnonstrs>tor J, Frank Wil? liams .Makes Important ami Timely Suggestions. This is one year thai every farmer should kill enough meat to supply lus own farm and to make arrange? ments to increase the number that he wiii ralSS another year. Prices on the farm of everything that a farmer pro? duces look good, but sugar looks bet? ter to some farmers at presont than twenty-nine cents for cotton, and there are a number of products that dire likely to be unobtainable for money another year. I think that it would bo wise for every farmer to increase the number oi' hogs on his own farm necessary to not only supply the needs of his own family but those of his laborers and a small SUrplUl beside to help out our friends in town who are feeling ihc scarcity and high prices of pro? visions very keenly. In the past the producer has been at the mercy of the middle man and financier, but at present the tables are turned and It Is up to the producer to show his magnanimity in this crisis. Our city friends are charging the farmers with being unmerciful in this fuel crisis. If the farmers could have foreseen this shortage of coal they \\ ould have prepared for it and have cat wood last summer, when the days were long and when the weather \?. as favorable for work out of doors. The demand for wood has arisen since this bitter cold weather and sleet has boon on the ground and it is only the most needy laborers who will cut wood at any price. I^ibor is very scarce and getting very high. It is going to ho a difficult proposition for Sumter county to produce a maximum crop this next year and a still more difficult proposition to produce maxi? mum crops, ns labor is drawn upon by draft for the army and by induce? ment of higher wages to go into mu? nition plants and other manufacturing enterprises, year after next if the war is still in progress. White men and women and boys and girls are going to have to per? form labor on the farms and do a fcreat many things that they have not been accustomed to doing if we are to make Sumtor county self support? ing and do our bit to furnish our part of the supplies for our army. Next year every boy and girl on the farm should have some special things to do on his or her own initiative. It would be a good thing for every boy and girl to have a pig and see what they could make out of it. Whether or not farmers- will in? crease the number of hogs they will keep another year depends in a large measure upon what they receive for those they have for sale at present. Farmers have been feeding two dol? lar and two dollar and a-half corn to hogs and they are entitled to double or more than they have been securing for them or else they have lost by keeping the hogs and not selling their corn. Cooperative marketing is al? ways best and if all who have as many as four or five head of hogs for sale will communicate witli me 1 will see if 1 cannot arrange a day for tollecting them at one point and have buyers to come and purchase them ?is they were purchased at Darlington Snd Florence last year. Please state ?ize of hogs in writing me. J. Frank Williams. County Agent, R. 8, Sumter, S. C. COLGATE COMPANY INDICTED. Big Soap Manufacturers Mauled into Federal Court Charged With Price Fi ging. Norfolk, Va.. Pee. 19, An Indict? ment charging unlawful monopoly 111 d restraint of trade was returned t< day in the United States court, East? ern District of Virginia, against Col? gate & Company, whose home Offices are In Jersey City. The indictment. Il ? lswerable at this term of court. The defendants, manufacturers of soaps, perfumes and other toilet ar? il ICS, arc charged with fixing whole? sale ami retail prices for their pro? ducts and of enforcing the schedule ?y a refusal to sell to dealers who de lined to be bound by any agreement 'or a fixed price schedule. The indict* r.ent charges such action is a viola? tion of the federal act approved July .'. 1890, and constitutes unlawful prac? tices In restraint and monopoly of trade and suppression of competition. The case is said to have resulted rom the defendants refusal to sell tbelr products to certain Norfolk dealers who declined to be bound bj i price fixing agreement and who had cut prices on certain of the com ?any's products. Unfits Shannon and his wife Mat Lie and William Waddell are prison? ers at the Richtend county jail await? ing a preliminary hearing on the charge of counterfeiting. FARM BOND PURCHASE. senate Would Buy Farm Loan Se? curities, but House Falls to Act. Washington, Dec is.?The admin-. Istration bill authorising the secretary o the treasury to purchase $100, i 000,000 of farm loan bonds during the next fiscal year was adopted by the senate today without a record vote after it had been amended so as to eliminate a similar purchase next! year. Immediately after the vot? the bill was sent over to the house with a i view to action there before the holi-1 day adjournment. After some discus? sion the house postponed considera? tion until January 3. Chairman Class of the banking committee, announced that the senat? had adjourned and that inasmuch Uf it would be impossible to enact the bill into law until the holiday recess, it would he futile to attempt action tonight. In view of what he called the lack of comprehension on the part Of those opposing it. Representatives* Lenroot, Snell ant1 others opposed immediate considera? tion on the ground that the measure was too important to pass without proper discussion. Mr. Snell contend? ed that he land banks were tending towards insolvency and that it was a bad precedent for the Vnited State*? to take bonds from a corporation that OOUld not sell them. The .senate amendment to limit th? purchase of farm loan t>onds by the secretary of treasury to the present lineal year was introduced by Senator Weeks who declared that the farm loan board should stand warned that congress will not continue to pro? vide money in emergencies like the present. Another amendment intro? duced by the Massachusetts senator and adopted, provides that until all bonds bought by the secretary have been redeemed, no loans from treas? ury funds In addition to those al? ready approved shall be made by the farm loan hanks except for the pur? pose of increasing food products. Council of Defense. For the supj>ort of the Sumter County Council of Defense Secretary Reardon reports the following from citizens of Privateer township, collect? ed by Mr. H. D. Titidal, $25.00. Pre? viously reported by publication. $97.60. Total to date, $122.60. ' The Sumter County Council of De? fense is particularly anxious for Sumter County to make a bi? showing in the Christmas drive to secure ten million new members at $1.00 each for the Red Cross organisation. The members of the county council are urged to push the collections* in their respective communities, and send names and money to E. I. Reardon, Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Sumter. All citizens of this county are urged to assist the local council of defense in swelling the Sumter County Christmas membership of the American Red Cross organization. Women, as a rule, don't marry men for their money, but they are always wishing they had.?Oaffney Ledger. IRISH AHE LOYAL AMERICANS. Strongest Chicago organization Dc c la res KfTort to Embarrass Allies Must Not bo Tolerated. Chicago. Dec. 18 ?a declaration, upholding the Irish parliamentary P?rty and charging that any Irish-, man or organization who seeks to em barrass any of the allied powers in the conduct of the war is committing an act of open host ity to the United States. was adopted tonight by the Dish Fellowship Club here, the larg? est Irish organization in the city. It was directed to Joh- R. Redmond and ?nnounced the forwarding of $10.000 B the first instalhvent of a fund to >e collected in America in support of he party. The declaration of principles will '>e submitted to all I rish organizations )f the United Stat?s and is expected Jltlmatsly to be fo warded to Ireland is the concrete expression of support >f the people of It sh blood in Amer? ica of the war. "There is not a single honest and genuine Irish-Ame, ican who does not -tand behind the president and the American government in its policy. "The Irish people have now t? choose between the enmity and the friendship of the Cnited States and loyal as we have always been, to the cause of Irish liberty, we must tell the Irish people that we will not, we Can not retain sympathy for an Ire? land that makes .var on our beloved country and our sons." SEARCH TRAINS FOR LIQUOR. Passengers From Florida to West Virginia Arrested. Columbia, Dec. 19.?W. E. Marple left his home in West Virgina to visit his father hi Florida, and Just before he made r< ady to return home it is alleged he purchased five quarts of whiskey to take back to a dry country. He arrived in Columbia yesterday, and constables saw his va? lise with much concern. He was charged with violating the federal laws but claimed he did not know it. He was very muc.i disturbed over his predicament and asked for a speedy hearing. He was taken I efore the federal commissioner ano given a hearing. His bond was fixei at $200. Marple said that officers covered the train he was on from end to end. SHOULD HOLD HOGS. Food Administrai on Soys Market Is Glu ted. Washington. Dev. 18.?The food ad? ministration tocav counselled farmers to hold back the Ir hogs, because the Chicago market is glutted with more pork than the yackers can handle. Largely because ?f congested trans? portation facilities. Washington, Pec. 19.?Southern \ commercial travelers entered a strong 1 protest against t; e proposed increase i oi interchangeable mileage rates from two to two and a-quarter cents on : Southeastern r. ilroads, when the road's application was heard today by the Interstate Commission. WERE YOU LUCKY ? We mailed on Thursday, several hundred checks to our Chrismas Savings Fund depositors. If you were not fortu? nate enough to receive one, come in at once, join our 1918 Club and be prepared for Christmas in 1918. The National Bank of Sumter. J. P. ?ooth. Pres. DJDJMoise. Vice Pres. W. J. Crowson. Jr.. Cashier.