The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 29, 1917, Image 4
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Published Wednesday and Saturday
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OSTtlN PlItLlslIlNG COMPA1T1
SUMTE Ii, S. C.
Terms:
$ i M> per annum?In advance.
Advert btciuenta.
One Square first insertion .. ..$1.00
Every subsequent insertion.60
Contracts for three months, or
longer will be made at reduced rates.
All communications which sub?
serve private Inte-ests will be charged
for ss advertisements.
Obituaries and tributes of respect
will be charged for.
The Sumter Watchman was found
In 1150 and the True Southron in
IS**. Tho Wub humn and Southron
now has tha combined circulation and
Influence of both of the old papers
and is manlfeetly the best advertising
medium in Sumter.
The Charleston American ha*
Anally been denied socond class mail
privileges on account of its pro-Oer
msn sympathies and un-American at?
titude. The only surprising thing Is
that The American waa not called to
account long ago.
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The Garner's Ferry road to Colum?
bia, which the Stave Highway Com?
mission has not recommended, seems
to be the obstacle that threatens to
prevent the cooperation of Sumter
county In the bridging of Ihe Santee
and opening a State highway to Char?
leston and tho western part of the
8tate. Without the financial assist?
ance of the State Highway Commis?
sion the Garner's Ferry crossing Is
an Impossibility and it would be fol?
ly for Sumter county to undertake
to build and maintain a road through
the swamp to the ferry. A bridge at
Oarner's Ferry von Id be desirable.
but It Is not n?.the bridge
at Ptnckney's landing would be worth
a great desl more to this section of
the State than the Garner s Ferry
crossing.
see
The annual report of Mltses Mary
Lemmon and Annie Keels. Home
Demonstration Agents for Sumter
County shows what th?y have done
In the line of educational and eco?
nomical work during the past year.
Every woman, every taxpayer and
cltlsen of Sumter county should read
this report and then, after carefully
considering It. decide whether or not?
the work of these two sealous work- |
ers for the bettermen of educational
and industrial conditions in the ru?
ral dfetrlcts of Sumter county is ,
worth f I .?"??? 0) a year. The work will ;
coot $2.500, next year, but the Fed- j
eral government will pay $1,040 of j
that amount. <
PROPOSED FOR JVDGESH1P. i
Cot Edward Melver's Friends Urge ,
Him to Run. {
Chersw. Dee. 24.?In vlsw of \
Judge Thomas H. Spain's continued ,
Illness and in view of the further ^
If act that other attorneys of the Fourth ,
fts-d/clal Circuit are announcing their (
Hdidaeles for the Judgeshlp. th
Wmds of Col. Edward Mclver, of ,
Kheraw. are urging him to allow his ,
name to be used as a candidate to
succeed Judge Spain before the next ,
session of the general assemblv.
Col. Mclver has been a member of
the bar for a number of years, and
during the past several years has
served ss special Judge In different
sections of the State under appoint?
ment of the chief Justice. Ills ser?
vices as special Judge have been most
satisfactory and the people In the
counties where he has served and the
miMlc generally throughout th
State will be Interested to learn thai
Col Mclver has taken the matter un?
der serious consideration. Ho expect*:
to ro i. b ji d> < i>don as to whether or
not he will allow his name to be pre?
sented to the general assembly within
the next few days.
^IT/.F I.KH OR STIIX.
OutHt Taken und Man Arrested In
Chewier Me Id County.
Pageland, Dec. 26.?Monday even
Ing J. Q. Grant, deputy sheriff, and
T \N'. Greiory. constable, seized a
30 gallon still and about a gallon
and a half of whiskey on Lynche**
River( In the upper part of Chester?
field county, and arrested W. m
Rushing. The still Is said to hnv
been In operation the day before and
It la thought that the output was sohl
largely to citizens of North Carolina.
Rushing furnished $500 cash bond.
COAL FOR HOL'TII CAROLINA.
Wsshlngton. Dec. 24.?Formal or?
ders to coal o|?erators In several m it
by States were issued by tho fuel
administration today to pfSMfMO im?
mediate shipments to meet the acute
conditions In several towns In Souih
Carolina. The operators were recent?
ly requested to SAM for the Smith
Carolina situation. but shipment*
have not been of sufficient volume t??
relieve the shortage In certain sec?
tions of the State.
Mr and Mrs. M. F. Pope, of Co?
lumbia spent Xmas da'' with MM
Nell McKagnn.
HUNS WANT PEACE.
AI NTKIAX IXnUOQII MIMSTLU
SA\S rilKY ARK RESOLVED
TO EM) WAR.
Desire Peace on Terms Equally dusi
to All Heiligerem*, Without ABU HI
tlon or I in lem nit les? Want Gunran
tees Prom Allies of R-ussia.
Petrograd. Wednesday, Dec. If,
The central powers solemnly tied an
it to be their resolve to Immodia,. i
i
sign terms which will terminate tin*
war on conditions equally just to all
belligerents. Count Czernln. the Aus
tro-German foreign minister, told the
peace conference at Breat-Litovsk
yesterday. The central powers also]
favor a general peace without forci?
ble annexations or indemnities. They
could not bind themselves to such
terms without a guarantee that Rus
sia's allies would recognize them
and carry them out honestly toward
the central powers. Count Czerni i
declared that tho central powers be?
lieved the basic principles uttered by
the Russian delegates could be used
as the basis for such peace.
llagood News and Views.
Don't you like to get out and visit
around. It is profitable as well a?
pleasant to see what the other felldSv
Is doing and how he does it. Don't be
such a slave to your business as to be
in bondage every day, and above all
never allow your business to run you
but you run it. What a whole lot o.
rolks need is to get away from the
affairs and cares of life for a time
leave these behind and take a rest.
That is not exactly what the writer
did last Wednesday, December 2G
when he ran down to Latta. At Flor?
ence I saw a thing it seems I could
be looking at yet. You know it is
not unpleasant to look at a pretty wo?
man and when that pretty woman is
busy, actually busy doing lovely
things. It Is so much easier. Well that
is what I saw at Florence, only it
was not one but a score or more. I
knitting, knitting, knitting, quietly, 1
steadily, almost without pause or 1
break. Knitting sweaters for our sol- i
dler boys. A great big lump got In
my throat and I felt proud I was an
American because that made mo akin <
to them. i
Down at Latta I met a farmer, a
little, old dried up fellow that made I
Bfty bushels of wheat per acre. Had 1
heard of it( before I went there over t
in Columbia. When I met him 1 <
Inquired about it and this is the way f
It was done. Four hundred pounds of <
meal and acid, half and half was <
broadcast on good strong upland, J
hen ploughed In. Then one bushed I
ind one peck of wheat, the best seed f
obtainable from the mountains oi 1
Virginia was disked and harrowed In <.
ill done early in October of last
rear. In March an application oi I
three hundred pounds of soda. All t
this on one acre, and he had several 0
ficres. They did not always do I
things that way. Far back so 'ti> I
?aid there was a mill In that country t
that ground very slow. A custom- I
sr complained that he could eat the t
meal as fast as it came. "Yes but 1
how long could you do that?' 'asked I
the miller. "Until I starved." 1
Say, you know that feftow down i
there about Sumter who Is frettin--'
abOIlt who will attend his funeral.' t
Ills brother lives In Dillon county. <
Tl.e busiest man in all the country i- 1
there too; at loaat i left him there, i
What Is he so busy about? Trying \
to do things different from the rest, y
Small grain has suffered much from
the recent severe cold.
The Hour mill at Dinklns Is busy i
all the time these days. Bight now i
there are four hundred bushels on
hand to be ground and more con?
stantly coming In.
lira, S.im Shirer Is slowly recover?
ing.
Mrs. H. C. Bethea is suffering with
severe eoid.
Miss Courtney Atkinson is at I
home for the holidays.
There is quite a lot of sickness ii
our community, resultant from tin
i ? eent hard weather.
"Hagood."
Rembert, Dec. 24.
IIrx AI 11 FLEET DEFEATED.
Eleven F.nomy Machines Brought to
the (.round.
Borne. Dec. 27.?Eleven Austro
German airplanes were brought down
by the Brltslh and Italian flyers in gn
atrial hattlo which was developed
when the Teutons made an unsueeess
ful attempt to bomb Trevlso, slxte m
miles north of Venice, according to
tho war olilce.
A Suggestion.
if you contemplate giving your kid
a toy hank for < I 'in istmas present
don't do it. Bid instead start him oil
with thrift stamps. Then he can see
his money grOW and there Will be no
temptation to be robbing the bank
for a few pennies to spend now and
then iVllmlngtOD Dispatch. ,
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Home Demonstration Work
MARY LEMMOrV, DenDns'iator
ANNIE KEELS, Assistant
Report of Home DemoMtrtloii Worn
in sumitr County*
Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen
.\ as the most successful year in ih
history (?t Home Deraonetratlon Work
In Sumter county. The work began
here llVS years ago. At iirst an agent
was- employed for nine months t?>
carry on Tomato Club work for girls
and to supervise rural schools. At
the end of the iirst year it was eeen
that the Tomato club work alone
would require tbe entire time of the
agent. The second and third years,
the agent was employed for ten
months. In 1910. an assistant agent
was found necessary to carry on the i
work. Sumter county was the second
county In the State to put on an as?
sistant county home demonstration
agent. The work had grown to such
an extent that one agent could not
meet the demands of the people. It
would have taken three or four
agent! this year to give demonstra?
tions and instructions requested.
However, the two agents met the de?
mands as well as time would per?
mit.
The home demonstration work Is
carried on through homo demonstra?
tion clubs for women, domestic sci?
ence classes and girls' canning clubs
In the home demonstration clubs- a
definite programme is carried Ott
pach month. These programmes are
prepared by experts from Winthrop
College and the United States Depart?
ment of Agriculture.
During the past year, we have tak?
en up at monthy meetings the fol?
lowing subjects: Curing of meats,
?ookery of fruits and ? vegetable-,
lome and community sanitation.
iome nursing, canning and preserv
ng of fruits and vegetables, conser- i
ration of grape products, breads us
ng wheat flour substitutes, and plan
ling three meals a day.
There are 332 women enrolled in
[tome demonstration clubs. Thes<?
dubs are in the following continuit?
ies: Wedgefield, Bethel, Concord. I
Providence. Shiloh. Trinity, Hagood j
tembert, Salem, Oswego. Dalzell and),
mmter. Graham, General Sumte.
chool and Mayesvillc have asked for!
dubs. Demonstrations have been
riven In the Graham and Stateburg
?( on m unities. There are 115 girls
nrolled in canning clubs: 34 firs*, j
ear, 25 second, 20 third, and 361
ourth year. These clubs are in th
ollowing communities: Oswego. Pa- j
;er school, Trinity, Pleasant Grove, j
Hanta. Route No. 1, liembert, Ila
ood, Wedgefield, Bethel, Concord
nd Dalzell. These clubs not on!
an tomatoes and beans from their
wn plots, but also conserve the sur- j
dus fruits and vegetables from tin
iome garden and orchards. Domes
Ic science equipments have been in- ,
tailed In nine schools. Two hun?
ted and six girls from Bethl.il
i
Tvedgenoid, Concord, Providence,
tembert, Dalsell, Oswego, Bhlloh an
"rinity have; been taught bread mak
ng.
Sumter county has been very for
unate in having every specialist thai
ame to the BtAte to visit the count
>r. Lund from Washington gave to
l crowded audience Of < diy women .
lemonst ration In drying fruits and
egstablee. Miss Wessllng, from the
lureau of Chemistry. Washington
rave demonstration break makin .
islng wheat Hour substitutes, before
in audience of eighty-two country
iris and as many city women as the
lomesttc science room of the Girl's
High school building could accoinmo
late. Miss Gladys Smith, of Win?
throp College also gave a demon
ItratlOn using wheat Hour Substitut.
Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, of Winthrop
Cpllege, gave to five hundred women
of Sumter a practical talk on gar?
dening. The agenl had Dr. L. A. Ris?
er, State director of rural sanitation,
to eome to the county last spring, an I
glVS twelve illustrated lectures on
home and community sanitation an :
personal hygiene.
The county home demonstration
agents worked with the county coun?
cil of defenss In then- campaigns and
meetings for extraordinary produc?
tion and conservation of food last
uprlng. We distributed 7,000 papers
of Karden seed; 2,860 bulletins of
canning', preserving and pickling: 076
on bread making, using wheat sub?
stitutes; 766. (?n bread making in th*
home; 1,780 on home gardening an
600 on how to select food.
One of the most enjoyable feature;
of the work for girls is the annual
oounty short course, EBlghty-two
girls attending this course lust sum?
mer were entertained In Bumter i I;
homes. Instructions were given
them in gardening, canning add
bread making. After the girKi
course, the iflty women were given
three days Instruction In conning,
Three mem ben of the girl's elul *
were given seholui ships to (Imitate
short course for girls at Wintliorp
College last ?ummer. Two women
club members were given schol n
ships to State short COUrsc for wo
men at Winthrop College.
Ten of tin- home demonstration
club.-; had exhibits :it county fair.
Wedgefleld winning the first ]>riz<-.
$.'0.00; Bethel, the second, $30.oo
Bnmtcr, the third, $20.00; Dalzell, |
Hi" fourth, $10.00. In the Wedge
Held booth, 88 varieties of vegetables
from winter gardens, 26 varieties of
corn meal products. 12 home mad?;
conveniences and 1" meat Substitut?
were exhibited. Bethel showed
varieties of fresh vegetables. 21 corn I
products and 15 meat substitutes.
All booths brought out the conserve
lion of perishables, and many the
conservation of meat and wheat.
Among the labor saving devices
installed In the homes were thin
flreless cookera, fifteen Icelese refrlge
rators, twelve ironing boards, six
wheel trays and two kitchen cabi?
nets,
Number of met tings- held .... 682
Estimated attendance . mom
In 1912 Winhrop college and th*
United states Department of Agricul?
ture put $75.00 in the work In tl
county. In that year, the lirst year
of the work in Sumter county, ninety
six girls hi the tomato (dubs, valued
their canned tomatoes. vog? tables and i
fruits at $1,085.00. in 1!>17, aevei
hundred and fifty-three girls and wo?
men In our Clubs reported 103.500 j
quarts of fruits and vegetables-, val?
ued at $34.050.00.
Next year the government and Win?
throp College have planned to give
one thousand and forty ($1,040.00)1
dollars.
Respectfully submitted.
AXXIK O. KEELS,
Assistant County Agent. Home Dem?
onstration Work.
MARY. A. LEMMON,
County Home Demonstration Agent.,
Sumter. S. C, Dec. ?4.
_
The Rembert Home Demonstration I
I
Club met at the school house on
Thursday, December 6, at 4 o'clock. '
with is members present,
The subject of meeting was "Plan?
ning Three Meals a Day." On the
blackboard the various common foods
were divided into five classes, viz:
foods rich in mineral, protein, fat.
Itarchi and sugar. The foods (beef,
mutton, pork, veal, sugar, and wheat)
Which the people are requested to us
economically, were written In re 1 I
?halk. , ]
The agent gave a talk on meal- I
planning With the view of insuring;;
i_ l BBgg
iin- proper diet, and effecting eco?
nomy; and showed a display of i*0
caloric portions of some common
foods.
The club ?will meet the hrst Thurs?
day In February; no m sting will '.?<?
beld In January as the agents will
spend (hat month at Winthrop Col?
lege.
Rembert, Dec. 20.
Tin- Dalsell Home Demonstration
Club met at the school house or
Thursday, Xov? mber L'2.
The demonstration was given by
the assistant agent, Miss Keels, and
was enjoyed by all present.
Mrs, Doby resigned as president of
of the c lub and Mrs. H. W. Hood was
elected In her place. The names of
two raw member! were added to the
roll, increasing the membership to 29.
This club won $10 on its booth at
the county fair, one of the most at?
tractive displays In this booth was an
exhibit of tomatoes, beans and
peaches In tin cans. These were put
up by Miss Ethel Ardls, a tomato
club girl who canned S10 quarts last
summer. ^
Miss Camilla Parker won a brace?
let watch which was offered by Sum?
te r Loan Co.. for the best exhibit of
breads.
The club will meet hereafter on
Thursday before the 4th Sunday of
the month at :> p. m.
ITALIANS REGAIN GROUND.
Desperate Battle Lasted All Day
Monday.
Home. Dec. 25.?In a desperate bat?
tle which lasted all day yesterday the
Italians fought their way back to the
positions frorfl which they were
forced the previous day ou the Asiago
plateau under a Austro-Gcrman at?
tack, according to today's war office
statement. Some guns and numerous
machine guns which had been aban?
doned by the Italians in their retire?
ment were recaptured when the old
positions were rcoccupied.
GERMANS PROTRACTING NEGO?
TIATIONS.
Their Sincerity Again Questioned by
Their Opponents.
Washington, Dec. 27.?Conditions
surrounding Czernin's proposals
for a basis of peace has caused of?
ficials here to feel apprehension for
their sincerity and there is a dispo
sit ion to feel that the object of Ger
man representatives to ?simply pro
tracting negotiations as long as pos
Bible.
FORD TO l ISIT CR ARLESTON.
Likely to Urge Charleston as a Log:
ceJ Por* for War Uses.
Washington, Doc. 24.?It is' bein*
brought out more clearly at Washing?
ton every day hat a mistake has been
made by the government in not hav?
ing proceeded more promptly to the
utilization of Charleston and othe/
Houth Atlantic ports for the shipment
of war supplies and provisions as
well as for manufacture and storage.
The congestion which now exists ..t
New York ari l other Northeastern ^
ports a us \on j, ago predicted.
lienry Fort!, the great automobile
builder whose specialty Is standardiza?
tion and rapid output, is signalizing
bis connectiOA with the shipping
board by em pi as/.ing the possibilities
of the Southeastern seaboard as the
-eeiion for launching standardized
steel merchant ships to overcome the
submarine obstacle to peace. Mr.
Ford will start: next week on a tour
of the Southeastern ports, including
Charleston, wl ose advantages for the
purpose in mir d have not escaped his
attention.
Mr. Ford boieves that if his ideas
are followed, the United States can
turn out several merchant ships a
day. After his tour he will lay his
plans definitely before the shipping
board. There is no intention; of
course, to interfere with the progress
of work already underway, most of
which is now understood to be pro?
ceeding satisfactorily.
PLANS FOR FOOD SURVEY.
schedules Have Recn Mailed to Every
1 Food Dealer.
Washington. Dec. 25.?Plans for
making the nation-wide war emer?
gency food survey are well under
way. the bureau of markets announc?
ed today, schedules having been mail
dto every fool dealer, manufacturer
and holder of supplies in more than
family lots.
The survey will cover more than
100 different foods and returns must
?how the stock8 on hand next De?
cember 31, and the same day last
year, with estimates of quantities in
transit outwa'd by freight and ex
ress cn the last day of the month.
Washington, Dec. 27.-?The wooden
hipbuilding program is pictured as
tlmost a complete failure by Rear
Admiral Powles. assistant general
nanager of the emergency fleet cor?
poration, testtJying before the senato
;ommittee od;.y. /
FERTILIZERS FOR 1918
The New Year is approaching and a great
many of our friends are considering their fer?
tilizer requirements for the next year's crops.
It is our pleasure to announce that we are
fully prepared to meet their requirements with
anything in the fertilizer line except Potash, of
which we have only a limited quantity.
Fertilizers are high, but not in proportion to
cotton and other farm products. They are
cheaper in comparison with the price of cotton
1 than when it sold at 10 cents.
Order Your Goods Early
. Whether you buy from us or not, our advice
is to get your orders in early, for it is our can?
did opinion that those who delay may be un?
able to get their goods in time for the planting
season. Everyone who reads the papers, knows
the railroad situation now and the difficulty
in getting goods, and we might be permitted to
ask, what do you think it will be when the
fertilizer movement starts?
If you have room in which to house your
fertilizers, get them in before the first of the
year,
; But Be Sure And Get Our PriGes Before Buying
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