The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 19, 1918, Image 4
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llff. The Watchman and Southron
now has the combined circulation and
influence of both of the old papera,
and la manifestly the best advertising
medium in Sumter.
Mr. Lever has formally announced
bis withdrawal from th? contest for
Senator Ttllman's aeat In the United
Mates senate, ami in explanation of
this action, following so shortly on the
heels of his positive assertion that he
waa in the race to the finish and would
meet all comers on every stump in
South Carolina, makes public several
letters that paused between President
Wilson and himself. Mr. Lever's brief
statement and the accompanying let?
ters have been published and those in?
terested in politics are familiar with
their contents. Mr. Lever's good rec?
ord and long service as the represen?
tative of this district, his long con?
tinued popularity with the people of
the district supplementing his en?
dorsement by President Wilson as a
useful and well nigh indispensable
member of the House, n ay servo to
bring about his re-election. He may
be re-elected, but there in no certainty
about it. In deference to the implied
wish of President Wilson, a majority
of the voters of the district may over?
look the circumstances of Mr. lever's
excursion into the senatorial arena
and his exit there'rom, but the pres?
ident's endorsement is the only thlm:
that will save him from defeat?if it
does it. If Mr. Lever had been am?
bitious only for aervice und had been
content to remain in the House, he
would huve had practical y a life-ten?
ure on the Job as Representative of
the Seventh district, but the fact that
a senatorial bee has been buzzing in
hia bonnet for several years, and was
ready to swarm at the first propitious
moment, has caused numerous gen?
tlemen who have political ambitlonr
to get their plans In shape to succeed
him ?h"n he went up higher or out
of official life via !*e primary route.
Mr. Lever thought the hour hud
struck for him to move over into the
Senate and those other gentlemen
made haste to enter the race for th'
House Mr. laWSf hopes, by virtue
of President Wilson's recommenda?
tion, to retain the place he has held
so long, and, If things so turn out, he
will not be the loser; but the gentle?
men who were induced to become
candidates for Congress h\ Mr Lever'*
announcement for the Senate, will be
left out |n the cold. Some of them
do not take kindly to this sort of In
and out. on and off. politics and now
say that they will not step aside to
aive \|. i: i tee SsUL Thev will
put it up to the people of the district
to aay who shall represent them in
?ngreas, and IT thev want Mr. I .ever,
it Is for them t.. - . . n t he\ do not
think Mr. I*ever Is Indispensable and
prefer a row gaSS they will fcaVN tie
liberty of choice between several
The situation is unusual and peculiar,
and there are m> pie,,.huts or rec
orda on whe h Is base an opinion .<
to UM ultimate result, but it Is safe
to predict that If McLcod, Cobb'and
Tliniuorinan remain in th? race Mr.
Lever will not have a walk over.
??Itcmembrr the land! ania."
Remember also our boy heroes are
Muffering. sacrificing, bleeding and
many are ~ylng roi Sumter county
men. women, boys and girls. So ev?
erybody ahould get the ' Swat | the
Kaiaer Se><
To the Women of Sumter County:
The women of Sumtei county can
do a big work Tor the brave heroes
who are making the "supreme aacrl
llce" in order that we may remain fiee
people, and women and girls continu?
each In her own ge*/09<tagg right--an
uncrowned Amerban queen." You
will never be German slaves hecuu-c
theM. ?-<>\ ?? nr.- pi e\ .-ntini; th it ? o,
June 21st. National Merchants' Wa<
Savings Investment Day. with a few
exceptions, every place of business- in
this county, selling anything at all
h??s signed an agreement to invest
their entire day's cash sales In War
Savings Stampf?. Kvery nickel pur
chane stands for a bullet to shoot into
a baby killing German brute s heart.
It is now up to Sumter county's
Homen. and Sumter counts's girls too
each one, to volunteer to advcrtls*
Merchants' War Saving* Invest no ml
Day. and to sc.- that your neighbor
buy every necessary commodity on
that day In order to help provide
? m1. guns, ammunition, medical at
Tentlon. clothes. recreation, and ev
.- thing our detenders need to de
I. n i , ou It i. Hack up the boys
Home Demonstration Work
ANNIE KEELS, Demonstrator
ALICE MARTIN, Assistant
Rembert, June is, l u 18.
Yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock,
the Hembcrl Home Demonstration
club met at the High school. The
BMOtlnfl was called to order by the
president, Mrs. D S. Vlnson. The
secretary. Mrs. W. C. Harllee, is at
Winthrop College, taking advantage
of the Home Demonstration short
001 rue.
The subject of the meeting was the
preservation of vegetables by fer?
mentation and Malting. This mothod
was discussed and demonstrated un?
der three different heads, viz: (1)
fermentation with dry salting; (2)
fermentation in brine; (3) salting
without fermentation. L'nder the first
he.id the first steps of making cabbage
into sauer kraut were shown; then a
finished Jar of kraut was opened and
tasted by the members present. Un?
der the second head, fermentation in
brine. beet* were preserved. It was
clearly brought out that salting with?
out fermentation is one of the mot
feasible methods for preserving corn.
He I >\v are the directions.
Salted Corn?Husk the ears of corn
and remove the silk. Cook in boilim
water for about 10 minutes to set th
milk. Cut off the corn from the col.
with a sharp knife.. Weigh the corn
and packed In layers with 1-4 lt.;
weight of tine salt. Before preparing
< orn for the table, soak In water over
night.
After the demonstration tho clnl
members filled out the monthly re?
tort blanks. There were eighteen la?
dies and girls present.
The Dethcl Homo Demonstration
Club held Its regular monthly meet?
ing at Bethel school house on Wed?
nesday afternoon at 5.30, June 5th
with MIsh Alice Martin presiding.
An interesting demonstration was
given in making of sauer kraut and
the preservation of other vegetables
hy the dry salting method. This is not
? new method, having come down to
us from ancient times, but by its sim?
plicity appeals to the busy housewife
in thou days of food conservation. Af?
ter a general discussion of ways and
means of interesting a greater num?
ber of women in the work of the Olub
and in securing a large attendance
the meeting was adjourned.
Mrs. H. 13. Furman,
Secretary Bethel Homo Demonstra?
tion Club.
On May 14th the Salem Home Dem?
onstration club met at the home oi
Mrs. A. J. Pringle. Owing to the in?
clement weather many were unable tc
attend. But those that came enjoyed
the program very much.
First there was a reading by Mrs.
Pringle, the article was on Mr. lloov
er'n early life and proved very in?
structive and interesting. It brought
out many of the hardships Mr. Hoov?
er went through when a young man
The next was two solos by giro
Terry. These were just line.
Then Miss Martin gave us a talk
on food values, ami we adjourned 00
the kitchen for a practical demonstra?
tion. AftOf we had all sampled the
or earned cabbage our hoot em Invitee!
us out to tin- porch and gave UM ?'?
delightful lunch o .
The me<tmg aojourned to RlOel
again with Mrs. K W. Dabbs on Jut ?
1 Ith at ti . I (.'? lock.
V. V. Warren. Secty.
RgfOBOi of Carnegie Library for May.
New mom bora II?
I"i eviousl> reported, I If,
Total membership. ISL\
Hooks lent in May. Til.
Previously reported. I.'Mm;.
Total AUmbOr books lent, 4.7SS.
Financial ICoport.
Hui.'l membership, $1.00.
Fines, |1 14
Total. 11,14.
M. QraOO Handle.
Librarian
who an standing, with their llVOI
between you and Gorman slavery.
gpreed tin- news: The business men
are flotni o big thing and you con h< Igj
them pnt it "over the lop."
Wo don't omni you to buy o cent'
worth unnecessarily. Bui ore do wan
every oroman to onllat In this bli arm)
to oee that Bumter county's allot
metit o*1 $t ft a. tog in w. s. s. goei
"over the lop" like our bovi are dolni
it in Fr.inee tor your honor. liber'\
and safety. Won't you all serve a
I OOmmlttee Of one to gel the higges
? >h sales ever known in this count)
'on June j ist for the preservation o
human liberty, and unsullied world
wiiir democracy. I know that you
will.
yours truly.
i? w Cuttlno, Chairman
R t McUollom,
s L Kraanoff,
c. j. Dwyer,
William Hultman.
Pumter Phamher ol Commerce MI*ut
it Over the Top Committee."
FOURTH OF .ILLY CKLKUHA
TION.
Negroes of Slimier ( onlity Plan Dig
Patriotic llally.
In compliance with the request o:
the United State? food administration
that there he big patriotic 4th of July
celebration* by the negroes through?
out the country, Mr. (I. A. Lemmon
the Bumter county food administrator
called a meeting at Chamber of Com?
merce last Saturday, which was at
tended by about Afty-flve members of
the Bumter County Colored Council
of Defense, and other leading colored
men of Sumter and Sumter county.
E. I. Reardon, assistant county food
administrator addressed the meeting,
explaining the objects of the celebra?
tion, read the requests and suggested
program from the United States food
administration and from William El?
liott, federal food administrator for
South Carolina.
The response was enthusiastic, pa?
triotic and inspiring as several of tie
Itt ding colored men spoke eloquently
along the lines that this is "our war,'
and the colored race, as one speaker
said, "Is in it" to the last ditch, the
last dollar and the last negro to lick
the kaiser to a frazzle.
One speaker said he thought that
the contributions of the colored peo?
ple of this county to the Rod Crosi
fund, and their purchases of Liberty
Loan bonds, and War Savings stamp- j
and reports Of colored patriotic meet?
ings should be given more publicity
us indicating the patriotism of the j
colored race in Sumter county, and)
that recognition by full publication
would do a lot to encourage the nc-'
groes to further acts of patriotism.
liev. A. j. Andrews of Sumter was!
Sleeted chairman and Dr. L. Bragg
Anthony, secretary of the meeting,
and later made permanent chairman
and secretary of the 4th of July cele?
bration.
it was decided to try to secure d
company of colored soldiers from
CamD Jackson to march in the big
parade, and also to try to get one oi
more colored lieutenants from thai
camp to address the crowds.
An effort will be made to raise suf
f f ?
tlcient money to have a llrst class ban i
for the parade and the big patriotic
meeting also.
It is hoped to have out of door con?
ference s lor farmers, Sunday schoo
teachers, women's clubs, exhibits o
food, vegetables, live slock, etc. Am
booths for W. S. S., United States La
bor Exchange, and Rod Cross contri
buttons on the picnic grounds.
A song service on a large scale witl
a choir of one thousand voices is a
contemplated feature of the occasion
The program has not been complet?
ed as yet. but is being shaped up by
a ?special committee. If the detach?
ment of eolored soldiers can be se?
cured the soldiers will be entertained
in the homes of the leading colore<
citizens of this city. All stands fo
d'inks and refreshments will be re
quired to donate a certain pcrcentag
of the proceeds to the Red Cross.
The following committees were ap |
pointed: Committee on entertatnmen
of soldiers, speakers and securing th
band: Rev. j. j. stark. D. d., chair?
man; Rev, F. C. Perry, Dr. C. w
UlrnlC, Dr. C. W. Maxwell. R. \Y
West berry. State Colored Council 0
Defense chairman! Rev. l. w. Wil
Hams, Uev. j. w. Moultrie.
Committee on arrangements, placi
or any other necessity: ES. EC. Jones.
chairman; Dr. L. Bragg Anthony, ES
A'. <;regn. j. R. Mitchell, Beymou:
Howard. Crank Martin, Rev, <',. W
BplVey, Rev. /Curie Holmes, liev. Q, B
Tilman, Rev. ES. w. Due, Rev. i\ E
Ca piers, P. 11, Burner, Rev. A. It
Howard. Rov, R B. Curry,
Finance committee on funds for e\
penseai S. J. McDonald, chairman
Rev, It. H. Curry. Seymour Howard
John Mat tin. Rev. C. If, Progdon.
ALL TIRED OUT.
Hundreds More in BumtOr i? >- the
Same Plight.
Tired all the time;
Weary and worn out night and day;
I Hack aclu s; head SChOS,
Your kidneys are probably weaken
I
led.
i You should help them at their work
Lei one who knows tell you how.
Mrs. a. n. Bklnner, 208 w. Oakland
*\e.. sumter. says: "i certainly can
ivcommend Doan's Kidney Pills. I
hud kidney trouble and i was subject
?o headaches and dissy spells. Some
limes 1 had to hold on to something
for tear i would fall over. Tire 1
spells often came over me and i
would feel languid and sleepy. \p
kidneys acted irregularly and worried
me a great deal. i knew i would hav
to gei something) When i heard ol
Doan's Kidney Pill??, i fc"' some. Tw
boxes of Doan's cure.i no of all He
trouble and i think Ihey are splendid."
prlee 60c, <"'t :<ll dealers. Don't
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Doan's Kidney Pills toe same tha
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DEBS MAKES DISLOYAL SPEECH.
Socialist MttkCfl Speech in Ohio Deny?
ing He Mad Repudiated Opposition
to War Measures.
Canton, Ohio, Juno 16.? Eugene V.
Debs, three times socialist candidate
for the presidency of the United Slates
addressed the closing session of a
three days' convention of the Social?
ists of Ohio here today. Emphatical?
ly denying that he had repudiated the
party's St. Louis platform, which
pledgee opposition to conscription and
Liberty bonds. Debs is quoted as de?
claring tile Socialists must stand more
firmly than ever tor their principles.
Debs, after paying tribute; to the
Socialists who have gone to jail for
the sake of their principles, praises
I. \\\ W. members, referred to the
BolaheVikl as comrades and is said to
have charged that the purposes of the
allies in the war are the same as
those of the central powers?plunder.
A crisis in America, similar to that
which placed the Bolsheviki in power,
was predicted by Debs.
During Debs' speech federal opera?
tives seized and held for investigation
55 young Sccialists who could not
ahOW draft classification cards.
May Face F?deral Court.
Cleveland, June 16.?United States
District Attorney Wetz said tonight
that if Eugene V. Debs is correctly re?
ported as declaring at today's Social?
ist convention in Canton that the aim
of the allies in this war is plunder, In;
will bring the matter before the fed?
eral grand jury here tomorrow for
violation of the espionage act.
WAR STAMPS PLEDGES.
Providence and Bethel Privateer Do
Well.
A mass meeting was held at Provi?
dence schooi house Friday evening.
The meeting was addressed by Messrs.
L. E. Wood and lt. S. Hood, after
Which pledges were called lor and
those below were collected. Mr
James T. Brogdon is director lor this
district:
W. M. I {roadway.$ 100.00 j
J. T. Brogdon. 1,000.00
Dick Brown. 10.00
Mrs. c. W. Cuttlno . 1,000.00
Mrs. Mary H. Davis . 20.00
J. E. Galloway. 25.00
Dorothy Hodge. 25.00
J. A. Hodge. 25.00
T. E. Hodge. 1,000.00
J. C. Ingram. 50.00
Ella J. Jones. 1,000.00
Wm. K. Moore. 25.On
Mrs. W. E. Moore. 25.00
D. L. McDanlel. 15.00
Wm. A. McDanlel . 100.00
R. s. McLeod. 100.00
\v. M. McLeod. 25.00
Bernice c. Oateon. loo.ou
Pinekney Ostcen. 26.<?(?
c. c. Richardson. 25.00
.1. p. Richardson. 100.00
II. G. Stone. 100.00
II, Diane Tindal. 1,000.00
$5,010.0?
The following pledges have been
tiled with the War Savings commit?
tee Mrs. it. Bi Purman, District Di?
rector:
Dwight Coin, Jr. 625.00
W. <>. Cain. 26.00
McMillan Cain. 26.00
Richard Cain. 15.00
Robert Cain. 25.00
Ruth Cain. 50.00
s. d. Cain . 20a.an
(Catherine Purman . 25.00
R. d. Purman. 1,000.00
Lula Harvin. 25.0a
P. B, Harvin . 500.00
A. Harvin. 1,000.00
Wm. Haynaworth. 200.00
B, B. Jackson. 25.00
Carrie Lee .Jackson. 26.00
Gladys .Jackson. 25.00
J. M. Jackson. 500.00
L. M. Jackson. 100.00
M. R. Jackson. 50.00
R, F. Jackson. 50.00
(.'has. ?, Kolb. 25.00
E. C, Kolb. 2 5.00
.1. M. Kolb. l.Oao.Oi)
J. A. Kolb. 100.00
P. F. Kolb. 25.00
R, J. Kolb. 100.00
W. E, Kolb. 200.00
Mrs. W. B. Kolb. 25.00
Carl Nettles. 25.00
O. A. Nettles. 500.00
H. w. Prltohard. 100
Warren Prltchard . 25.00
flgr rr -
f W'' * 16,050.00
The short skirts reveal some thimrs
pleasing to the man who wants bu
little here below.
Gen. H. Hurst,
Undertaker and Embalmer
Prompt Atte.itin to Day and
Night Calls
IAt I. D. CRAIG Old-Stand. N Main
Phones:, SftSS,,
Teach Children to
Beware of Fl?e
?5
Explain to them how flies are hatched
in filth. How, after crawling cround
in outhouses, privies, manure piles
and over dead animals and decayed
matter, they cc me into the home
and wipe their nasty feet on the
family food, leaving a trail of dis?
ease germs everywhere.
Flies Cause Infantile Paralysis,
Typhoid and Other Fevers
The best doctors in L".:o world will
tell you that flies are the cause of
a great deal cf sickness, especially
summer complaint, irfantilo paraly?
sis, dysentery, typhoid and other
fevers. Don't let flies brins sick?
ness into your home.
RED DEVIL LYE
KILLS FLIES
Keep a can of RED DEVIL LYE in your out-house and sprinkle it on
the filth freely, once or twice a week. It consumes tbi tilth, destroys
the fly eggs and prevents odors and sickness.
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llino IMac l.ncr.Miiac.
tation in office," Impudently puts it
into actual practice!
Richard I. Manning holds the office! Honestly now, isn't it downright
ot governor and apparently some of] moan ot a governor to break the
our friende and contemporaries ore time-honored rules of the political
gams In that rude, blundering way?
pained because on that account ho has I.... , ^ ,
W by not blindfold him and back him
not abdicated as a citizen, it ?earnsL., t? tm, mlre thvn tnt,M. him whelh.
that recently he expressed an opinion vv or m) ;n the race for the senate or
about the senatorial contest, which we for a third TERM, so that he might
almost suspect was the exercise of an j be shown?what would come to him
Individual and private ri^ht. That it in the primaries? Can not something
has caused anguish and suffering and he done? Wh t is to become of the
bitter railings brings to The State, professional politicians if the game is
too, some sense of pain, howbsit it is I to be mured, fruit rated; demoraliz?
er no concern to us whom Mr. Man- ed, busted by such men as Manning,
nlng supports for senator. DoubtlessI who do not and will not stand like
there arc those who will he Influenced the daughters of the horse leach in
by the governor, some men will vote cesaantly crying "More!"
for Senator Tlllman because Mr. Matt- Beyond all doubt. Manning is tho
ning is disposed favorably to Mr. , poorest politician we have with us.
Lever and some will vote for Mr. lb. nee these tears.?Columbia State.
Lever on that account. There are men, -'
so destitute of Independence that they Early Cotton blooms.
vote against any candidate that The; -
State supports- they are the only In additln to the first cotton bloom
men in South Carolina whose politi- j of the season sent to this office last
enl action The State controls. week bj Mr. tV. J. Stafford and men
The Important consideration this tioned heretofore, early bloom's have
t
year is to elect to the senate a Cttisen j been received from the following:
whose faith In the righteousness ol Mr. J. Ashby Hodge of Ttndal sends
the war Is above suspicion and j bloom under date of llth. The bloom
against whose loyalty to the president| was taken from a held of Cleveland
and the congress N<> QUESTION j uig Boll planted on April 4th.
MARK is set. Whatever, the bick- Mr. A. G. lirown, of Pittewood,sends
orings ami wranglings, the people ofja bloom found In the held of Hooth &
South Carolina in overwhelmingI Ross on 16th.
numbers WILL SEE that THAT IS \lr. x. J. Jackson brought in a
DONE. THEY WILL STAND BYI bloom on the 17th which was taken
THEIR hoys. .from a sixty acre held of Toole cot
- ton planted the last week of March.
To be Mire, Mr. Manning is subject r* n Hammond, colored, of Tindal,
to criticism. He is taking an Improp- senl In a bloom on the 17th.
er advantage ile isn't running for a Reports from all sections are that
Tili 111 > TERM. He Isn't running for] cotton Is smaller than normal at this
United States senator before gettingIdote but is In :i healthy eondition,
out of the governor's office. He Isn't |we|| cultivated and growing nicely,
holding himself up as the om- man to | ,.:.(l.]y cotton ^ ..ilIlv show
save the people! He isn't trying to
bog everything In sight or smell In j
the way of an Office or a reward.
What is to be done with a man lik*
that a mere, plain man content to Oh, Carranaa sent a cabas (on the
attend t?. his business, to work for kaiser's birthday) gram
his country so diligently as hardly]To the kaiser there at Pott-- (that's a
half a dosen others are working for German place) dam,
it in these stressful times ?who asks Ami it said. "Look out for
blooms this week.
Parenthetically Speaking.
(that's my northern
Sam.
For he's coming after you!"
Uncle
neighbor)
no favors, seeks no new salaries or
honors of any kind. There are people
who can't understand him?he is a
spectacle so uncommon, no novel, so J
extraordinary In South Carolina. All Then the kaiser waved his iron (as tho
that the politicians and their organ.:- papers have it) hand,
can do is to "cuss" about him and And he danced a little sara- (that's
call him names ?he not being a per- Turkish tango) band,
petual candidate but, rather, a mere And he said: "I'm safe In Bell- (in the
man who has never called himself German sea) goland.
"Reformer" and, not preaching the Bui 1 thank m> friend Carranza.
sublime "Reform" principle of 'To- ?Chicago Tribune.
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