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CJjt ^fartlftwi ant) .Scutbroii >?>??** M tfcs PotoSaoe at Hamlcr, 8. C m Heooad CUm Mai tor. '?i - ... PERSONAL. M IM .lohn I. Mi Uiurin. Mrs T. Ii MrUiurin. Miss M.n y M? l*iurin, Mis* Grace Jonen and Mrs. C E. SUgh, ?wife of (. apt C. F. Sligh. Fnitcd States Army, of Hcnuettsville, accom? panied lion John L. McLauiin ami attended the meeting Monday night. Mrs. Altamont Moses and Miss . mida Moses have returned from < harleston M i a Madge, i in trude and I >a?s\ Pops of Florence spent the week-end with Mrs, J. D. Shlrer. Mr. V'ernle Watts, of Camp J.u V son. spent Sunday with his parents oear Mayesvlllc. Mrs. l.. Strauss has received a let? ter from her son, la? nt Herbert Mor? ris, announcing his safe arrival in France. Mr. hclmai Wadtord has received a postcard from his brother, Thomas Wadford. saying: "The ship on which I sailed has arrived safely orrrseaa." Miss Jaunita Dohrmann is visiting friends In Florence. Miss Alice Martin, Assistant Home Demonstration Agent, was called to her home In GrenvlUe county Satur? day by the Illness of her mother. Mrs. Henry Harby. Mrs. J. J. Wil? liams, Mrs. H. M. Stuckey, Mrs. R. S. Hood and Mrs. i Irving Kyttenberg have gone to Aiken to attend the State Feder Uion of Clubs which is meeting th*re this week Mr. T. W. Pace has received a card from his son, A. S. Pace, saying that he arrived safely over seas Mrs A ml ri mi Moses has gone to Washington on a visit to her son. Mr. < I a re m on t Moses. Mr. Moses, who has been in the office of the de? partment of signal service for some tune, leaves Monday for Camp Mead where he goes into military service. Cap*, and Mrs. It. F. Humph, ot Macon, Ga., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Rivers on Warren Street Miss Fannie Da\ld. of Columbia, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. R. L. Butts on Salem Ave. Notice. The Democratic Clubs of Sumtei County are hereby called to meet at their respective places of meeting on Saturday. April 27th, 1918. at such convenient hours as the officers of the clubs may designate, except that in the city of Sumter, the clubs of the said City of Sumter shall meet Fri? day afternoon, April 2t>th, 1918, not earlier than six o'clock P. M. on said day. Said clubs shall re-organize, by tin election of officers, executive commlt teemen, and delegates to the County Contention, which will meet In the Court House for Sumter county, on Monday, the Cth day of May, 1918, at twelve o'clock noon. Each club is en? titled to a delegate to the convention for every twenty-live mombers or ma? turity part thereof, based upon the \ote at the last primary. The Club ofllcers are re'iuested t<? give this notice all possible publicity, that a ful\ meeting of the clubs may be had JOHN H CIdFTON, County Chairman. II. G. osteen. Secretary, ?a ? * UM SAM',?Choice baled hay and oat straw. Heavy seed oats for feed. Corn in shuck. Choice hams, side* and shoulders from youn*.,' thiiftv hou's, ? ii i <?< l and smoked just right With our own Hour and meats and feeds we aro nevertho lasjs observing all the food regula MsjSJI Wh\ lax the railroads when ter food supplies can be obtain? ed st home? Help feed our sol? dom and Allies by buying home products. We havo bought bonds to the limit Have you? E W l>ibhs. Plnelnnd & Egypt Farms, Mayesvllle. S. C. Wi; II \\\\?In atSjQl in our ware? houses In Sumter. tobacco, corr and garden and cotton fertilizer AI Phie-ph ite < all or writ* us for prices Southern Riol.nap1 Co. l'hone 89. tX>R SALK?F. o. H cars. Camp Jackson, stable manure; very little strnw. car h? id l ?ts only. Chetnl eal and Fertilizer value rated very high by Clemson college. A. A. Strauss. Sumter. S. C. Geo. H. Hurst, Urttrtrtw Hi Embilmer frtispt Attantln to Day and Night Call? At I 0. CRAIG Old Stand. N.lMaln r*honen: METEOR AT BPARTANUUUG. ?UM nil Pi til Visitor that Startled Slimier Folks Was Seen at Spai tan burg Also. Spnrtunhurg, April 18,?One of tin IBOlt remarkable meteoric phenomena Of whieh local scientists have any reo? Ord hurst over this county this even? ing at S.;tn o'clock and was witness? ed hy the soldiers at Camp Wads worth. Although it was yet daylight, the illumination in the heavens cast .?hadows of every object. The shadows of electrical wires overhead were sud? denly outlined on the pavement, and I rOO glow Blled thC heavens. Those who looked up saw hanging a little to the southeast in the center of the sky. g floating white cloud, as II a shrapnel shell had burst, and the smoke remained stationary. Three minute- after the bright flash there came the sound of three dis? tinct explosions. Many said it was a signal sent up from camp, perhaps a star shell they arc trying out, and many of the soldiers accepted that ex? planation. At the oflice of the signal corps it was said that no such thing had been undertaken, and that the cloud was teo light to have been <au ed by an explosion sent up from the earth. A short while after th< explosion reports came from many nearby towns of the same experience, showing that it had been witnessed thirty and forty miles from Spartan burg. Authorities of local colleges Bay it was a remarkable meteor. A MARVELOUS METEOR, Yesterday afternoon just after the sun dropped below the western hori? zon, and while it was still bright day | marvelojs meteroic display was seen in the western sky by a large numbei of people. A very large meteor flash ed aerotfl the heavens and exploded producii g a lleecy cloud, in which ap? peared t. long bar of vivid light, with a large ball of light at each end. The illumina.lon became gradually diffus? ed, taking on weird and eccentric forms, variously described by those who saw the phenomenon as snakes, letters and signs. These forms grad? ually disappeared but for many min? utes there was an unusual glow ir the heavens. Many persons were ter? rified by the occurrence and it wai hard to convince them that it was only a falling star of exceptional size They attribute to the incident v. mystical significance and saw it in a portent and a warning, needing only a Daniel to give the interpreta? tion thereof. Will Cool Meat Free for tanners - The Sumter Lighting Co., through Us manager, Mr. E. Ii. Moses, has m nouneed to the Sumter Chamber oi Commerce that it will cool meat foi all farmers in this county in reason? able quantities for home consumption only, up to May lath, free of charg? in order to encourage the home rais ing and curing of meats. This gener? ous offer on the part of the Sumtei Lighting Company is made to the farmer In the ?rue spirit ~f patriotism for the purpose of enabling him to eure? his own meat for future use. rather thin carry it over, as live stock to another season at great expense, 01 be forced to kill it and place it on the market for immediate use, because of a lack of facilities for chilling. iEvery farmer who has hogs re. d) for slaughter should avail himself Ol this offer to provide his own meat througho it the year by taking advan tage of this free cooling to be follow? ed by the process of curing which Mr. C. W. Suber of Columbia has found to be entirely satisfactory. Asked >y Mr. Ceo. L. Baker of Co lumbia a >out the result of the moat he had cooled Mr. Suber and: "I have just examined my meat piece by piece and so far as I have been able to see? the condition of it is all that could be desired. It was thoroughly chilled and cut up in the usual way, wl en i put it in a barr el ol brine, stron . enough to goal an agg, i left it li this condition for three days. At lb end ol t) is time I look the meal OUl anel wiped it off thoroughly with ? dry elOth and made a nOW brine Into which l pul it where it will remain for Ihree weeks, at the expiration <? tii.it lime- I v ill take it mit ami \\ pe it dry and .smoke it or treat it with "liquid smoke" as suits* urn bed it the tune and when dr> will be ieub for use." Mr. Suber further sto I consider it a fortunate thing thai this cooling offer was mach? me for otherwise I would have been obliged to put it on the local market, slnci the risk e?f losing it to say nothing Ol feeding tin- hogs for another yeni would have been loo great an expense to undertake, As it is I have my own meal and lard fof another year and will not have lo buy it on the open market." Tim chamber of Commerce real l/en I he great need of Increasing our meat stipplv and is encouraging bY every means In its power, Ihe farm er in lake advantage of this frei COOlIng of meat as ;i help tow a d v\ inning ihe* war. I i so* Where Your Money WE are now^uilding more naval and merchant ships than we have constructed in the last generation. ?</ lp > We are building a vast fleet of air plaines, and enormous supplies of ar? tillery, motor trucks, machine guns, rifles and ammunition. We are feeding, clothing and training an army of a million men, and preparing for a mil? lion more. We have loaned billions of dollars to our allies to be spent in the United States. From the shipyards of the Pacific to those of the Atlantic; on our farms and in our mines, mills and factories in every State in the Union; back of the firing lines in France, where men are training, camps are being erected and railroads built, billions upon billions are being expended for labor, for trans? portation, for materials and supplies of every description. The mind can hardly conceive the sums of money required for our war preparations. Yet these ex? penditures are absolutely essential. We must win the war quickly if possible; we must carry it on for years if necessary. We must do the job with American thoroughness, let the cost be what it may. 11 m 'V -T ' Remember, when you invest in your Liberty Bonds, that there is immediate, urgent, imperative need for every dollar you can spare. This Space Paid for and Contributed bv SUnTER TALKING MACHINE COMPANY, 26 North Main Street Sumter, South Carolina