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CL, M BSJOOSSfl (liM Matte?. fBggg"!BH!^MPl- ..II. .... ??? PERSONAL. Mr. Wilton Wallace, who was re? cently graduated from Wofford Col? lege, la at home for a ?hott visit \l< has accepted a position In Spa i tan - burg beginning July 1st. Sergt. J. F. Mason .of f. S. Kngi neers' Depot. Norfolk, Va., on fur? lough. Is visiting his aunt. Mrs. G. J. Myers, on Sumter St. Mra Sallie K. Allen, of Wilmington. N. C. is visiting her brother. Mr. 11. W. Bholar. Mi? May W. Ball of Charleston is vimting Mra. Geo. D. Shore. Dr. Matt Moore and Ml an Elise Moore, of Charleston, apent the day in the alt) Mian Maggie Hull, of Arkansas, is the guest of Mra. itoaa Jenkins. I *v. Charles Kerrlson, of Varnville. la a vlaitor in the city for several days, and in the guest of Mrs. M. S Nelson, on Church Street. Dr. I M Israelson, the optome? trist, left this morning for Baltimore and New York by motor route. He win return about the 15th of July. Mr. and Mrs. L. 8. Lindler, Mr. and Mra. Roy W. Couser, Miss Virginia Galloway and Mlaa Unnette Lindler motored over to Camp Jackson Sun? day and spent the day with Harry Lindl.m and Flryan Shafer of Madison, N. C. Dr. 8. H. Edmunds left thla morn? ing for Winthrop College where he will serve as a member of the faculty of the State Summer School. WINTHROP COLLEGE SERVICE. Doom of Inniitutlon Have Not Itccn Cloned Tills Year. The doom of Winthrop have not been cloned this year. As soon as the college proper closed its seaslon, a short course was offered to the Coun? ty Demonstration women und the prize winning girla. There are about five hundred in attendance. Upon the i losing of this course. Winthrop will open her doors to tho Summer School on June 18th. The office force i Is now intensely busy answering va? rious calls, assigning rooms, etc. A record-breaking attendance is expect- I ed. Hence. President Johnson started some time ago to meet these demands by securing the strongest possible faculty and by adding many new i ?urses to this summer's session. There will be offered special cou s 's for the club women, courses in Par- I liamentary l4iw, Surgical Dressing, etc. Every demand of home and | school, far.n and oMlce will be met. County Superintendents of Educa? tion will hold conferences on vital sub? jects. June 24-29. Courses are offered for high school i principals and teachers, teacher* wishing SOtlegc credits, and all those wishing to keep to abreast with the times. Rest, recreation, and entertainment are given prominent places. The swimming pool. bowling alleys, ten nln courts. gameM. musical companies, educational moving pictures, the Devereux Players, etc., are some of the attractions. Teachers' certificates are renewed upon examination and regular at? tendance. Safe Overseas. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. l^enolr of Ho ratio, this county, have Just received a card from their two sons. 1). and S P. Leiioii. telling of their safe ar? rival ovgyssai Mr, ami mis. benotr are Justly proud of their boys, for soon after war was declared, they vol? unteered their SOfVlCOS to their conn try. neither being of draft age, and both holding responsible positions. 1 bc> enlisted in the Sumt'-i Q lards of Charleston, but this Company was soon transfer! ed and became u part of| the 105th ammunition train. poth of these boys are well known in this county and throughout the state, being prominent In college and athletn circles. >nd then many friends will be glad to know of their safe ar? rival overseas. SSSBSBB Public Notice. Notice ,s hereby given of I school election to bo MM M shlioh Bohooj District No. 20. Thursday. June L'Tth. between the houts of 7 o'clock A M and 4 o'clock IV M . ??t th? Pleasant Urov* Mcbool gOSJM fOt Hi* puiposc of voting an extra levy of I mills foi -' hooi pgjt poses. Only (juallftrd electors showing rOf> 1st ration certificates and tax receipts md who pr ? Uber real estate or per sonal property t i\ m iv be allowed to vote, by law. The trustee will act as nianageis fly order of tho Sumici Count \ llosrd of Kducatlon W. W. CUNNINGHAM. Chalrmnn iehool District No, M CALLED FOR service. Names of Colored mm Culled to Ro |M?rt at the Court House on The Morning or June 20th, HUM at 9 A. M. In Time to Take the Morning Truln. _ Jesse Brown, William Jaekson. Harry Green. Charles Wilson, Jaek? son E. Rogers, Flmorc Pay ton, Har? old Wright, Samuel Paek. Mark Plehai dson, Nathaniel James, Mose Jameson, Isadore DcLarge, Maek Sharp, Fred Clarkson, Daniel Mc Lalne. John Wesley Willis. William Benjamin, James Maek, James F. James, Velva Reames, Henry Porter Lewis Kornau, Herman McBride, Olh Weathers, Hays Miller, William Moore, Fvander Dicks, Karl Kirkland. Marlon Arthur, Emmett Conyers, Ju nlus Conyers, Joseph Montgomery, Fdward Seale, Talmage Tindal, Mar? cus Moore. Rowland Windham, Ma? lichin Johnson, Jim Thomas, Boss Dwyer, David 10. Dowry. Sidney Brad ley, Johnnie Wilder, James F. Pugh. Elliot McCray, Frank DeKaine, Ma llchia Preston. Charlie Butler, Hen? ry Vaughn, Henjamln Davis, Luther Davis, Daniel W. Johnson, Sidney Bryant. Fred Harris, Gabriel Richard? son. Eugene Anderson, Davis McFad den, Lucius R. Evans, Moses Nelson. Eddie Sanders. James DuRant, Moul trle James, Sam Clyborn, Hammle Charles, David Ray. Cever Pinckney, Luther Hart, Ulysses G. Grant, John Felder, Josiah Lewis, Eugene Seale, Grady Gilmore, John Pringle. Elijah Jenkins, Clifton Windham, Sam Wright, John Embly, Abraham Nel <on, Eugene Wilson, Manning Davis, Clifton Wilson, Warren Ramsey. Westberry Long, John Godfrey, Gil? bert Miller. Lucius Ray, Willie Pino. Clinton Gordon, James Harris, Rich? ard Scymore, John Moses, A. M. Wright, Frank Gadsden, Emanuel C. James, Charlie Windham, Scrlven Ricks, Willie Johnson. White men called for military duty to report on June lath, Hi 18, at 9 A, M : Walter W. Moore. Dalzell. Allie M. Geddings. Sumter, R .F. D. Vo. 2. Harry F. Jackson, Sumter, R. F. >. No. 2. Mabry E. Graham. Olanta. Mathew B. Mims, Lynchburg, R. F. ). No. 1. Willie E. Hudson, Shlloh. George D. Wilson, Sumter. Porter Rivers, Dal/.ell. R. F. D. 1. Kdwanl Joseph Benenhaley. Sum er, R. F. D. 3. Eaaw Benenhaley. Dalzell. Beechcr B. Jackson, Sumter, R. F. >. No. I, John K. Bradford, Jr., 716 E. Clay <t., Richmond. Va. .Merchants' Stamp Day. The following additional places of ?uslness have agreed to Invest their ntnt cash sales in War Savings stamps on June 21st, Merchants' War Savings Investment day: Crios Wltherspoon, Sumter. Dixie Electric Co., Sumter. Joe Frlorson, Concord township. J. L Gillla. Rembert. T. J. Brown, Rembert. Vinson Mercantile Co., Rembert. Brown Mercantile Co., Rembert. H. D. Tindal, Tindal. The War Savings Committee again ?quests that every business establish? ment will secure numbers of the beau !lful War Savings Stamps posters from ither Mr. H. A. Mose?, chairman of War Savings, or from tho Sumter 'hamber of Commerce. And tho com? mittee further says 'do please be pro? gressive enough to take down all of the old circus and carnival posters, MUM ??f them six months old, and also remove all of the now useless Liberty Loan and Red Cross drive posters from your windows." Substitute fresh and artistic W. S S. posters for old posters. Men bants' War Savings Investment day is going to prove the biggest event in the commercial history of Sumter. It is the best advertised event Sum? ter ever had. t >ne thousand men, women, boys and girls of the white (,!<?? and 160 members of the white Council of Defense have been appoint ? d members of the Sumter Chambei of COtnmOrOC "Put It Over the Top" committee for Merchants' War Sav Inn Da.\. and I letter has been mail? ed to euch Of the one thousand mem - : . i of this big committee and Conn tv Council of Defense, urging them to advertise this big patriotic event. Hundreds of Sumter county's pa? triotic colored men. women, boys and ftrll are also serving as an auxili nv eommlttOC tO thi white committee of one thousand, and the Sumter County Colored Council of Defence is at work also whooping tip Mefehittits' War Bovings Investment Day. Letters from colored soldier bOJ in Prance have boon received by rel atlvei and the\ are getting along well tmoni them are Pnvate Marion An dreww. son of R M Andrews, of Sum ten nnm Henri Oswald Durant, am many Other*, from Sutntei cotintv. CITY COUNCIL MEETING. Several .Matters of Local Interest con? sidered. At a regular meeting of city Coun eil hold June 11th there were pres? ent .Mayor Jennings and Couneilnien j Rowland and Uooth. Messrs. R, 1>. Epps, 13. Walsh and C. M. Hurst appeared before council I as a committee from the Sumter Cemetery Association asking that the city would extend the water mains to the cemeteries so that these could make connections with a view to fur? nishing water to lot owners. Mem? bers of the committee stated that they thought there was a very gen? eral demand among citizens that this should be done. They stated that the Association expected to pay for the water used. This committee also sta: ed that the Association desired very much to put down sand-clay road? ways in the cemetery and stated thai they would appreciate very much any help that council could give them in that line. The attention of council was called to the fact that as far back is HOI the city limits had been ex? it tided to take in all the cemeteries under an ordinance based on a State aw which permitted this done so as io give police and sanitary protection. ? 'ouncil promised to give these re luests consideration and to do what X could toward meeting them. The minutes of May 14th and th ? 29th were read and approved. Mr. c. M. Brand, Trainmaster of he Atlantic Coast Lino appeared be lore council with a request that hi: company be allowed to use planking between intersection of tracks in pav ing Manning Avenue street crossin" under the agreement it had recently made with the city to pave this crossing with brick and which had been already modified by council al lowing them to pave between th tracks with planking. He submitte and filed with the city blue prin diowing just where this plankinr would be used. Council granted Ulli cquest with the understanding tha this planking would at all times b kept in good repair. The police report for month of Ma> Aral read and ordered filed. This re? port showed as follows: Arrests, 91. Days earned, 150. Cash fines, $039.53. Days in cash, 30. Total. $069.53. City Clerk reported that return: from the election held this date fo three members of the City Board o Education showed that each received thirty-four votes, the entire numbe ast. After canvassing the return: Council declared W. Percy Smitl elected to fill the term ending 1034; M. Lovi, the term ending 19 30 am Dr. J. A. Mood, the term ending 1938. 1-ietter was read from the Unite* States food administration regardin; the utilization of garbage and was rc cived as information. Manager Shuler reported that th ? ighting system on Caldwell stree". was getting in bad shape owing t< water getting into and remaining ii the conduits. lie stated that tbi ?oemed to be the result of defective work in the installation. The matte: was referred to himself and Council man Booth lor investigation and re port. A letter was received from Mr. W .1. Scale asking for'a street light on Chestnut Street. This was referred to Manager Shuler for investigation ami ? eport. A letter was read from Mr. Jo< Sparks, special field agent War Sav? ings Stamp State organization ask? ing that council appropriate mono\ for having signs and banners placed at advantageous points. Council do-, cllnod this request on the ground that it thought this matter waa al? ready pretty well advertised by pos? ters. Letter from Pat B. T^eonard was read offering the city One Hundred Dollars for a lot situated on Turkey Crook, containing three and seven tenths acres more or los<*. formerly used for garbage disposal and orig? inally purchased from Capt. B. G. Pierson. The matter was referred to Manager Shuler for report. Application was received from Cy Williams, who is blind, to be allow er to sell soda water, pindars. etc front his house at 209 BeO street so as to endeavor to make a living Chief Sumter reported favorably <>. the eharacter Of this party and the n quest was grantsd, City Manager reported that defect:: j were developing in Ihe brick paving lately laid by the Georgia Engineer? ing Company. He was directed t< write these people ami ask that they send a man here at once to look ovet the paving. The elerk and treasurer was direct ed to refund to the v. m. c. a. 1107.30, the total amount paid by it to \v a Weatherly for cement side walk laid in front of their property on West Liberty street and charge thorn back with two-thirds of this I amount under the abutting property arrangement, making payment for .same run over a period of twenty yours, With interest added. Council also authorized settlement of past assessments due by association with? out penalty as these were held up pending this adjustment. Mayor reported that he had obtain? ed a copy of the late ordinance pass? ed by the City of Columbia against vagrancy and recommended that our laws on the subject be amended by the incorporation of certain features contained in this ordinance giving the police wider powers. He was asked to prepare an ordinance in conform? ity with his recommendation and sub? mit. Council made further examination of license applications for the year taking exception to returns in sever? al instances. Council then adjourned. Hagood News and Views. Telling the other fellow what to do is an easy matter. Doing it yourself is a different proposition. No man knows how the shoe pinch? 's like the man who wears it. Some folks would like to manage other folks business but If they did the others would soon have no business. Have you ever seen folks who would sell their money trees and rent others as a paying business? I have. After all it is will that counts In the battle of life. Our people have found it difficult o get their grain harvested. The Hoy Scouts of Camden, those splendid youths who were here last .ear, have come and gone. They were ander the same able management ot r. K. Trotter. Esq. On the 18th the Boy Scouts of Co umbia come in to remain till the 2nd )f July. Dinkins Mill or Dakewood as it is called is quite popular as a pleas? ure resort. So soon as these are gone ve expect a company of young ladies o be here camping. We are beginning to need rain. Corn .vllts considerably and melons arc ailing. Gardens among us are very ordinary owing to dry weather. Mrs. Palmer McClellan of McClel lanville, is at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Spencer. Mrs, Alex McCabe, of Washington, ). C, is on a visit to her mother, Mrs. I*. R. Moody. Mrs. Edwin Kerrison, of Charleston, vho has been spending sometime with >er parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Le loir, has gone to Camden, Miss Marguerite Lsnolr, just grad? uated from Winthrop, has been offer d and has accepted work in Laneas er. so we understand. Bince beginning this letter rain has ome ,wc hope suillcient to meet notsture. Letter be a kicker than do nothing, v vigorous kicker makes things live y. Does It make a difference o;i vhich side your bread is buttered? 'ome people think so. Soul effects soul through the body. V word, a look, a grasp of the hand hrills the being. Cotton is looking well and is gener? illy clean. Word comes that Mrs. W. J. Spen er and her little daughter Lolla are ick. Nothing serious we hope. Owing to the continued dry weather many people have few potatoes set out. Mrs. J. S. Jackson of Hagood, S. C.. returning from Winthrop, where she ?ook a training curse, stopped ovei i few days With her aunt, Miss Lizzie lilbort, at Kershaw, s. C. Manly W. Bariield of your city ran op to see us tho other day. Carrie Wright, colored, wife o: rhOS. B, Wright, died at the Infirm iry where she had gone for treat nent last Wednesday, and was burled it the Rafting Creek colored Baptist church, Sunday, the whole country? side turning out to the funeral. She was a useful woman, doing her par: n life faithfully and cheerfully. Tom has doubtless felt the shock keenly, although her early death was unex? pected, because she ever proved a true helpmeet and companionable Wife to him. She will be greatly miss? ed In her church and among her peo? ple. Mi. James Freeman, of Camp Jack son, is visiting his brother, W. J. Free man. The dasher In the <>hl fashioned burn as it moves up and down sa\> 'Come butter. come butter, conn butter." Ants enter king's houses and some other things, as we know to our sor row are in Unexpected places. W> once tried to sleep In ;i bed of fleas Hagood. Rembert, June 17. As the present conditions hav< made it necessary for women to taki thC places Of men. them is a great cr demand for educated women in note varied lines than ever before Dr, Charles Foster Smith of tin University Of Wisconsin will lecture 111 'the morning nnd evening1 of the open ' Ing day, June 18th. WAR STAMP MEETING. .Mass Meeting Held Sunday After? noon in Open House?Address by Dr. Lee Davis Ijodge, President of Limestone College?Lieut. James Hlaiidiug Dick, Presli From Service in French Trenches, Also Speaks. The mass meeting held Sunday af? ternoon in the Opera House for the purpose of inaugurating the War Sav? ings Stamp campaign in Sumter coun? ty to secure pledges for a total of 1850,000?the amount assigned this county as its quota?was not as well attended as expected by the commit? tee to which has been assigned the arduous duty of putting Sumter coun? ty over the top in the biggest and most important task that has thus far been put up to the people of Sumter as their duty in helping to win the war. The audience did not till the auditorium and the empty seats made all who were present feel that some? thing essential was lacking?not only the bodily presence of those who re? mained away, but the spirit that makes great undertakings possible. If Sumter is to put the War Savings Stamps campaign on the list of big things successfully achieved all our people must get together and pull to? gether with enthusiasm and determi? nation. The war insofar as America is concerned has not started yet and the people of America have not begun to feel the stress and sacrifice that they must feel and make if they do their full duty as citizens. When a meet? ing, such as was held Sunday after? noon, is in progress joy rides and af ernoon naps are not in order. If the Germans were marching on Sumter and if the roar of their guns were heard in the distance, the only things standing between this community and heir atrocities, there would be quite i different attitude on the part of th? joy riders and the afternoon sleepers, as well as those who have concien ious objections to holding such meet? ings on Sunday. There are nearly a nillion of American men who Sunday ifternoon, were standing between Sumter and the Huns just as surely ind truly as if they were at Charleston >r Dingle's Mill. These men are fight ing our battle and their bodies are >ur shields and our salvation. If hey were not In France and if we do 10t send more millions just like them, f those of us who do not or cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with them m the battle front, fail to do our full luty In furnishing the support they need In money, then their sacrifice .vi 11 be in vain, they will be over? blown and trampled down by the nemy and after that our time of real uttering will be upon us. If all he people could feel the realities ot lie situation there would be no empt\ teats at any meeting called for a pa? triotic purpose, and no Urging woub >c needed to persuade or induce every nan, woman and child to do to the utmost the duty that rests upon thosi \ho stay at home. There is no us* 11 singing about keeping the home ires burning, if we do not have the spirit that inspires us to toil, sacrifice ind the full performance of duty. Tin luty of the present hour is to make he War Savings Stamps campaign a success, and it cannot be made uccess unless the people get togeth? er and put all their energy and en .huslasm behind the movement. Apart from the empty seats, the neeting was a great success, those who were present were interested and ?nthusiast ic, and the addresses were imong the most eloquent and inspir ng that have been delivered at any ot he patriotic meetings held in Sumter The mee ting was called to order b> Mr. H. A. Moses.. War Savings Stamps hairman for Sumter county shortl) ifter 4 o'clock and the exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. D. M. Mc? Leod. After a song by Mr. Daughtry Lieut. James Blending Dick was intro lined. Lieut. Dick, who is a son ot Mr. L. W. Dick and a grandson of the Itae Col. J. 1). Blending, has just re turned from France after six months" tervice In the trenches and is at pres? ent stationed at Camp Jackson as an instructor. He told of the spirit that miniates the French people from oldest to the youngest, of their cheer? ful sacrifice and the indexible de erminatlon to light on until victor) Is won and their country is once mort tafe. He said that only the very old neu. the very young boys and the vro men are at home and they are doing the work that maintains the army. All men capable of bearing arms are in uniform and there is no thought o: turrender or making a peace dictated by the Germans. France Is conso ?rated to the war for vietory and in he end. with the support of England and America Prance will be set free Lieut. Dick touched but lightly upon the service's, hardships and elangers of the' soldiers at the> front?just here' and there was a hint, a suggestion that indicated what he and others like him have experienced In the' past si\ oi e i^ht months while' the American forces in Fiance wa re finding them selves ami taking up their share of tin burden Of making the wenhl safe fo humanity. He> saiel that the* men in Prance arc not worried about them eelves, that the only worry they have is the thought that the folks at home may be worrying needlessly about them. They are as well cared for as the circumstances permit and they are doing their duty cheerfully and glad? ly, feeling that it is a real duty and necessary to the safety of their coun? try and the dear ones left at home. Dr. Lee Da^ ia Lodge, President of Limestone College, Gaffney, is one of the best known platform orators of the .State and that he has not before addressed a Sumter audience has been our loss. His address was eloquent and inspiring and without making invidious comparisons it is safe to say that no speaker we have had here to discuss the issues of the war has pre? sented the subject in so comprehen? sive and so instructive a manner, or with so much sincerity and feeling, but at the same time lightened with touches of humor. It was a speech worthy of the theme and those who were absent missed a rare treat. A solo by ifr. Gilling, a brief state? ment relative to the War Savings Stamps campaign by Mr. Moses, and the meeting was turned over to Mayor Jennings to line up the pledges. Mr. fennings made a few preliminary re? marks and then got down to business The total amount of pledges obtained was a few hundred less than $80,000, which added to pledges previously se? cured bringB Ihe total for the county up to about $150,000 thus far. The county is expected to pledge this week a total of $860,000, so it is evi? dent that the committees in charge of the campaign have a strenuous week ahead of them. Following the meeting in the Opera House a meeting of colored people was held at Lincoln School. Ad Iresses were made by Mayor Jennings md others. Pledges totaling $3,200 rere obtained, supplementing pledges secured at a meeting at the same place ast week for about the same amount. The negroes are buying stamps most iberally in proportion to their means md the indications are that they will lo their full share toward raising the luota of the county. -* SUMTER OOTTON MARKES, Corrected dally at 12 o'clock Noon.) P. O. BOWMAN. Cotton Buyer. C.ood Middling 30. Strict Middling 29 3-4. Middling 29 1-2. Strict Low Middling 27. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. YeeMyg Open High Low Cloee Close .July . . 26.50 26.73 26.46 26.49 26.35 )ct . .24.70 24.83 24.49 24.53 24.70 Dec . . 24.43 24.45 24.15 24.18 24.42 GEORGE HELL TIMMERMAN, Lexington, S. C. CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS. Candidate's Cards. i _ For Congress. I hereby announce myself as a can? didate for re-election to Congress rom the Tth Congressional District, ubject to the rules and regulations of he Democratic party. A. F. LEVER. Thos. G. McLcod, Blshopvtlle, S. C. candidate for member of Congress, Seventh District. I hereby announce myself a candi late for Congress from the Seventh 'ongreasional District, uubject to the ules of the Democratic party. WADE HAMPTON COBB. For Solicitor. I hereby ai nounce that I am a andidate for the office of Solicitor for '.he Third Circuit, subject to the ac ion of the Democratic Primary. FRANK A. M'LEOD. W. O. W. BIG NIGHT?Wednesday. June 19th. Hon. W. H. Broom. Head Consu and Hon. W. M. Bobo. state Manager, will be with us. A service Hag will be unfurled, con? taining 50 stars, showing we have f>U members in the service. Mr. Broom will make the address. We have ten candidates for introduc? tion and we want every member of the order ta be present. R 8. Hood, Clerk. WE HAVE IN STOCK?In our ware? houses in Sumter Nitrate of Soda. Mixed OOOde, Meal. Acid and Dime. Kindly call or write us for prices. Southern Brokerage Co. FOR SALE?F. O. B. care. Camp Jackson, stable manure; very little straw. Car load lots only. Chemi? cal and Fertilizer value rated very high by Clemson college. A. A. Strauss, Sumter, S. C. Mild.Fits' CERTIFICATES?Can be obtained at Item Office at reason? able prices in lots of 100 or more.