The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 22, 1918, Image 7
tip flBUUjjinan m Southron.
Matter.
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PKltSOXAL.
Mr. C. K Ktuhh* apmt Sunday In
Rennettavllie ua the ?liest of Hon.
Jubn L. McLaurin.
Mr. C. K. Htubtm. In company with
hut mothgev-Mra U C. Htubba, left
tbta morning for lak? Junaluaka, N.
G Mr. Stubba expect to return to
I** city within the net few days.
Mm. B. Honey and d ughters Edna
and K?lber Marlon, *ave gone to
Wrightss ille Beuch and >ther points in
North Carolina, Id sp<nd sometime
with relative?, I
Maj. W. 8. Brand, of'Aaguata. Or.,
who recently received ui tppointmeni
In the Engineers und w|| proceed to
l*rance In the near future, spent Hun
day In the city with bit mother, Mrs
tf A Hrand
Mn.. E. S. Booth and children
this morning for Saludu n'. r.
Lieut Norman Chander Is In tna
city.
Mr. Archie Hlchardani epent Sun?
day in the city.
Lieut. Irving Rlchardion, now sta?
tioned at Fort Hancock, Aigusta, (ia.,
I? In the city visiting hit parents.
Mrs. Mary B. Warna leaves this
evening tor Fortress Monra, Va., toi I
spend sometime.
Mr. and Mrs. It P. Glt?aple, of i
F.fflnghain, H C , are vIsitingdtM Ko.sa I
Jenkins on Warren street.
Mrs. Lula Atkinson has Pad vert a 1
card from her eon, RdwardAtklnson
announcing his eufe arrival leraeas. 1
Dr <leo. W l>lek receiv4 a card t
this morning -announcing thi safe ar- ?
rival overseas of his son, Seit. Noble I
Die*. t
Mlaa Arial Lebby has :one to a
Brooklleld, Conn., to attend anummer
eebool of vocal mude. She 111 prob-1 a
ably be away until Septembr.
Miaa Alma Bradley, of Catden Is| tl
visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. M Hradey p
on Hampton Ave. g
Mr. W. M. DeLorme, Jr., left f?r tl
Charleston last night to enlit In th u
navy. ei
Mr. J. P. Booth. Jr , left 1st nigh M<
for Austin, Texas, to enter tie avta rll
tlon eorpa. i{
Mr. Vernon Baldwin has ? turned pi
borne after spending several teeka Inw
Hot Springs, Ark.
Mlue Mary Ball his returned to her,v
home in Charleston after sever*.) days' p,
visit to Mrs. (h<> I> rihore. |h
Mlflaee Mamie ( handler, Batah Till
und Mamie McCollum went to Colum?
bia Tuesday lo attend the Epworth
League Conference wblch was In ses?
sion from the tilth ^6 10th.
Mr. 8. K. Rowland has gone to Ha
cine. Wia., on a business trip.
Mrs C. W. McC.row has Rone on a
abort visit to her parents. Mr. and
Mn. Ell Jackson, at Elloree, who eel
abrate the nftleth anniversary of tbeli
marriage this week.
Mlaa Irene Plowden. of Clarendon
county, who haa recently finished a
eouree at Winthrop, is vltUttng Misses
eJane and Eugenia Miller.
Mlaa Frances Hmhh returned Tues?
day from Virginia, where she haa
been at college.
KIXIN?; WHKVT PRICKS.
locrease In Kn ight I tales Necessitates
Readjustment of Prices.
1
CoUimbla. June 19.?The attention
of wheat growers In South Carolina
la called to the following MCtfffM
'?elved by William Klltott. State foo
administrator, from Herbert Hoover
federal food administrator, undn dato
or June i i.tii
"The advance in frelKht rates o i
June 34tb will In Judice to the farm
era necessitate un advam-e in the priee
of wheat at th. principal Mississippi
Valley and Eastern terminals a i? w
e*nla per huah**l. Th< id> inee will
l.e worked out so as to equalize gg
far aa may be possible the loss thai
the farmer would otherwise Im an
through the Increase In, rates. I ??
t ilia of rate advance will prol.ahly not
lie known until June ''f>. at which eWts
We are aauembling a committee of 11 11
experta to consider what actual ad
v ma' In price Ih ni'c?'M*in In onmpen
sat loa It la lm|>oasltde to com pb" e
so. h a plan for a f??w days after tin
above date. It is ?u intention so far
as the peculiar eh , of the i it.
advance enables us to do no t<? WW?k
out a plan that will leave the fiuimM
In the same lntrln*l po i?h-n that h>
waa In before thaf late "
Married.
Miss Mary Rlixaheth While "' I
Oeorge Edward fleet bam were mar
? t Ml this morning bv Father
\| -honey Mr and Mrs Reitham left
immediately after fie ceremony foi
the North
It Is aafe bet that UM first Amerl
i iwords to become popular In
France will be gtetWUggjVf <??'?
werde.
CHIEAT PATRIOTIC RALLY.
COUNTY COUNCIL OF DEFKNh
The Fourth or July Will be Celebrat?
ed by Slimier County with Appro?
priate ( ore moid es, Parados, Pa
iriotle Addresses ami a Ranket Pie
Res' Dinner and Rarhcruc for Every?
body.
The suggestion made by the Nation?
al Food Administration that each and
every community in the United States
hold a celebration on July Fourth that !
Oignni/otlon Endorses War Savin
Mumps Campaign and Calls Up
People of County to Hedge Timm
aclvcs to Buy Full Ouotu.
The Sumter County Council of U
fanes met at 11 o'clock Tuesday in t
Chamber of Commerce with a repr
sentative, but not a full attendan<
There were also a large number of tl
member! of the Women's Coun
will inspire the people to a renewed
appreciation of the blessings of liberty
and freedom of opportunity that the
American people have enjoyed for
more thun a hundred years in a gi-eat?
er degree than ever enjoyed by any
other people, has met with immediate
response in Sumter county. Arrange?
ments are already under way with the
greatest possible energy and enthus?
iasm to make the Ciame Cock county
celebration the biggest thing of the
kind in the State of South Carolina.
The lead has been taken by the Coun?
ty Council of Defense and Chairman
A. C. Phelps was selected at the meet?
ing of the Council Tuesday to act as
chairman of the central committee
with authority to do all things neces?
sary to make the celebration a suc?
cess. The central committee has been
appo. nted and Chairman Phelps has
nlreaJy formulated plans and a ten?
tative programme and things are
beginning to move.
Former dovernor John C. Sheppard
of Falgetiold has accepted an inv.lta
.ion to deliver the Fourth of July ad
Iress, the Invitation having been sent
dm by wire yesterday afternoon im
nediutely after the Council of lic?
ense had decided to hold the celebra
ion on a big male in securing Gov.
meppaid the committee has gone a
ong way toward making the celebra
len a real loo per cent, patriotic
Pot.
The Colored Council of Defense is
Iso at work on the arrangements for
celebration by the colored people of
he county, so that there will be two
rogrammes ami two patriotic rallies
oing on here on the same day and all
rie people of the county, white and
lack, will pay homage to Independ
uco Day. The programmes will be
) arranged that there will be no con
let, eiich event being separate and
latino and each coming in appro?
bate place. The full programme
111 be published within a few da>s.
One of the great events of the da\
III be % part of the programme of the
Dlored Council of Defense celebra
Dn. ITiey are organizing a greet
torus made up of the choirs and beol
ngers of all the colored ohurcht
the iounty. and to number not less
an live hundred and perhaps a
ousaml voices, to give a great Llher
t Day Jubilee Song Service at the
?gjnty Fair <;rounds at 5 o'clock in
tffiofternoon. The programme of
sgs will consist entirely of old fa
nlar hymns and spirituals that are
s?< by the negroes in their churches
ai Snooting! throughout the South
Pnj a chorus of live hundred to :
th*and voices the concert will 1m
ttn u>hi unhjue and greatest event of
theind ever held in the State. Tin
conrt will be held for the benelit of
the >iored Red Cross Auxiliary ol
Sune county and a small admission
will > charged. Those who hav?
nevrieard genuine negro music or
have^ard only a few singing at a
time ive one of the greatest treats
of th lives ahead of them on tin
aften n of July 4th. The concert
will b;enerally advertised and it is
expect that there will be a large at
tendanfrom all of this section of the
State.
Council present.
The first and most important ma
ter taken up was the War Savin
Stamps campaign. Mr. II. A. Most
county chairman of the War Savini
Committee made a brief statemei
smphaslilng the necessity of Burnt*
county and South Carolina taking t
the War Savings Stamp eampail
with earnestness and energy, an
then offered the following resolutloi
which was adopted by unanimoi
vote:
Whereas, This is War Savings wee
all over the United States, and
Whereas, Our government has call
ed upon the people of Sumter count
to pledge and to buy during the yea
11)18 $161,110.00 worth of War Saving
Itamps, and
Whereas, South Carolina now OCCU
pies the unenviable position of th
foot of the column, therefore
He it Resolved, That we, the mem
bers of the Council of Defense cal
upon all the people of Sumter count;
to do their utmost to meet this call 0
the government, and to give thei
pledge for the purchase Of stamp
during the balance of the year, am
further
Bs It Resolved, That we the soldier:
at home heed this call from the com
mander in-chief to do our best to sup
port the boys in France, and further
lie it Resolved, That we pledge oi.i
help in the work of spreading tin
word of War Savings among all tin
people so that all will know what b
expected of us and what the re
sponse must he.
chairman Phelps read a circular let
ter from the National Council of In?
tense recommending that every com
munity take steps to celebrate tin
Fourth Of July with appropriate cere
monies. The matter was discussed a'
some length, the concensus of opin
ton that the Fourth should he observ
ed in the manner suggested. It wai
linally agreed that the celebratioi
should be left entirely In the hands o:
a committee of ten, of which Capt
Phelps should l>e the chairman, with
full power to arrange programme.
The lahOr situation and other mat
ters were discussed informally,
An appropriation of $l!T. was an
thorlsed to assist the Colored Council
of Defense in paying the expenses ol
tlndr Fourth of July celebration.
The finance committee was directed
to pay necessary expenses of the com?
mittee on Fourth of July celebration.
A letter from State Chairman D. H
Coker in reference to the appoint
menl Of committees to look after tie
interests of farmers who are draftee*
for military service was read by th>
chairman, who was directed to ap
point any additional committees need
ed to assist the committee horetofor
appointed to safeguard the Interest
of men called into servi. e.
Itcd Cross Notes.
From,e Henenhalcy school a|
Dalzell I come a contribution of
$20 for i local Red Cross chapter.
This schi jH to be congratulated on
the splen contribution it has sent
In.
JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION,
Chairman Phelps Names Central
Committee and Calls Meeting.
Those v have finished Red do
garments | please return to head?
quarters, this is impossible, phone
\2'2, and 0Of the'motor corps girls
will call fojem.
Tlie list buyeiH of War Savings
Stamps will? published as soon as
possible. 1 lint will be printed in
sections M l not convenient to give
so much sp in the paper on on
day.
The following ladies and gentlemen
have been appointed by Chairman A
C, Phelps of the County Council o:
Defense as the Central Committee for
tin- Sumter County 4th of July cele
bratlon. This committee is called to
meet at Sumter Chamber of Com
meres ai ?'> o'clock, sharp tomorrow
evening. Thursday. June 20th, for dls
USSlOn of important preliminary plan:
or the celebration,
central Committee?H, Q. Osteen,
j, McUaurin, Jr., L i>. Jennings, P.
Bowman, B. I. Reardon, Mrs. Nina
Solomons, Mrs. H. M. Stuckey. Mrs
Horace llarby. Mrs. B. 11. Moses, Mr
Alston Btubba
Numerous other committees are be
Inf selected and their names will b<
published shortly.
Mr. W T. oefUj of the firm of
MOOVS tiros, ggfj an,i managers of
(tie Sumter Warehouse, ha;
ai Heed la they and thi warehouet
|| now open I ii,. reeOlpt of tobat
OO, The date opening sale will
be announced r
11
Hi'MTER COTTON MAItKWf
tCorrected dally at 12 ?? ? lock Noor
P. O. BOWMAN. Cottou Puter.
lined Middling S6 1*4.
Strut Middling 30,
Middling. II 8-4,
Strict i.ow Middling II 1-4,
Led road i> waiter Rowlant
and two OthOI ?im men are ju .i
tack from an Sftand trip from
Long Island, N'^'ork. driving Ful
Inn trucks for lAnehor Auto
Trink Co. The^,j? a qyfog nml
pfc iasn< trip Th<Vh drove a truck
and <>n each truclotn(,r truck, un
assembled, w waned, so that the
four duvb'jg^ujrj ?ight trucks.
juh
i ?ct
i lee
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET
Yes'd>?
Opea nigh Low Close ChsM
It.10 :??. so 2t;.i4 10.73 11.25
11 f,o Lit.|Q 14.4fi 24.82 11 I ?
1 1.09 84.44 2 1.08 v. I 11 2 I 0 .
?Uhserlbe to Tho Dally item,
ige p,ir week, dsllvsrsd
Onl;
<.l oiu.K RILL TlafMERMAN,
Islington, S. C.
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS.
CHAMBER OF COMStERCE NOT
Statement Relative to Market
(?rain for Tanners.
Mr. J. If, Brogdon, manager
the Union Brokerage Company
Numter, requests the Sumter Chaml
of Commerce to correct a stateim
published in this paper last Saturt
about the alleged refusal of his co
pany to purchase and resell corn a
oats for farmers. Mr. Brogdon s:
that he did eay that his compa
would not touch grain of any ki
unless the farmers would put it up
merchantable and marketable eha]
graded, and in standard weight sad
Manager Brogdon further says tl'
when corn was selling for $2.00 a
$2.2& per bushel his company tried
get the farmers to let the Union Br
kerage Company handle their gra
but that the farmers, or moat
them, wanted $3.00 a bushel ai
thought they would get that price f
corn. Now corn is selling for 1l.s& p
bushel, many farmers find weevils
their corn and they are anxious
sell but there is practically no mark
for corn or oats. His company is ther
fore not in the market, Just now f
either corn or oats.
The Union Brokerage compai
has disposed of considerable corn me
lor the farmers, and can handle
limited amount of meal yet.
In this connection it might be mei
tioned that .1. F. Blanche, assistai
marketing agent, United States depar
Rl#nt ol agriculture, Orangeburg, |
C, phoned the Sunder Chamber <
Commerce this morning that he ca
dispose of a great deal, and possibl
all of the surplus, good white millin
corn In Sumter county, sJbd som
oats, provided the farmers havin
grain for sale will send him sample:
and quote prices, further agreeing t
grade, and to sack in mercantable an
marketable shape.
The farmers should communicat
directly witli Mr. Blanche.
Orangcburg farmers formed a co
operative marketing association Ilk
the Sumter county farmers did fo
telling cotton. Sumter farmers wouh
not organize for cooperative Bellini
it grain. They said there was no us
tor this organization.
Owing to the fact that there are :
Treat many meetings being held at tin
'hamber of Commerce these til ios, a
many as live and six a day very often
iml as there have been conflicts o
hours of meetings several times, al
committees and organizations cmlllni
neetlnga at this place are icquest ft
o phone the secretary of the Cham
>er in advance so that meeting can b?
isted and no other meeting: schedule*
tor the same hour. The Chamber ol
'ommerce ia glad to have ever.,
tublic body or committee meet at Itl
rooms, and this is why this request >.
nade to accommodate the publl
bodies and war committees.
RED CROSS NOTES.
surgical Dressings Department.
The gauze lias come. And now ha:
oome a chance for surgical dressings
workers to really "rally around the
flag" and finish the allotment in ten
lays instead of thirty. it can be
lone, if every one feels that it is up
to her as an indivdual to send our
lune allotment off on the thirtieth,
?omplete. Are you going to help?
The workroom will reopen tomorrow
(.Friday) with the same hours: 9.30
A. M. to 1 P. M. and 1 P. M. to 7 P.
M. Make every hour count.
The Sumter Light Infantry Re
serves have arranged with Supt. Ed
munds to secure the use of the High
School Battalion guns for training
pending the receipt of their arms fron?
the government, The guns will b<
used in drill tomorrow night and every
member of the company Is expected
lo be present, and at all regulai
drills. Captain Phelps states thai
hereafter no excuse will be aogepted
from men who are absent from drib
unless made in writing, excuse to be
acceptable to the commanding officer
WE H?Vfe IN STOCK In our ware
houses In Bumter Nitrate of Bods,
Mixed QoodS, Meal. Acid and Lime
Kindly call or write us for irlcei
Southern Brokerage Co,
|,KFT?My place at St Paul. 8. C
Sunday night, my boy, Crandisoi
Wallle ami Harry Riley, ridliig m>
hay mare mule. Hoys'* ar.es 13 ana
I i years. Wallle wearing brown
checked suit. Rlley wearing dar.
blue suit. Any Information as t"
whereabouts of boys or mule wit'
he greatly appreciated by Jl u
Wallle, st. Paul, s. C. Phone Char
lie Mason. Bt Paul,
FOR SALK F. O. B. ears. Citinv
JackSon, stable manure; very tilth
straw. Car load hds only. CBjuml
cal and Fertilizer value rated ver>
high by niemson eoliege. A4 A
Strauss. Snmter. S. C.
Mild,I its' i I '.RTIKH'ATI S?Cag b
obtained at Item ?Mibe at refton
able prices in lots uf 100 or mug*.
Fair Trice last for Week June 11-11
Prices on nearly all 'standard good
are going down and ought to he cheap
Commodity. Wholesi
Plain flour.ft MS to IS.
Self rising Hour.$12.00 to 1B.C
Corn meal.$4.00 to 4.4
Grits.$r,.oo to $5.1
Oat meal.$3.90 to 3.9
Blue rose rice.$9.00 to $9.
Second head rice.$8.00 to 8.
Sugar.$8.20, 100 I
Dl ied beans.
Lard?pure.27 l
Lard?Compound..14 l-4c 6
Evaporated milk (both si^es $3.2.r> t<
Evaporated Milk.5.00 to 6.;
Canned Corn No. 2 . . . .$1.76 to $1.:
Canned Corn No. 2.Let
Canned Tomatoes No. 3.
Canned Peas No. 2.$2.2:
Canned Pork and beans No. 2..1.75
Cheese.28c
Cutter.
Hams .
11;.con.
Consumers should take steps to
Bee if they get correct weights and
measure. Mistakes are liable to oc?
cur in weights or measures.
There is a well defined commercial
and legal, as well as a moral differ?
ence between "liquid" measure and
"dry" measure.
Commodities which should be sold
by "dry" measure must not be sold in
"liquid" measure tin cups or cans.
Consumers should demand of every
dealer, and from producers from the
country that Standard measure and
standard weight be given every time
D?LMEN, GERMAN PRISON TOWN.
The Place Where More Than IM
American < Kilians and Soldiers
are interned.
Washington, June 19.?The Nation?
al Geographic Society issues the fol?
lowing war geography bulletin on
Duhnen, the German prison-camp
town where a larger number of Amer?
ican Civilians and soldiers are intern?
ed than In any Other TeUtOfl camp,
uccording to information furnished
the United states stute department
by the Spanish embassy, through the
letter's legation In Switzerland:
"The town of D?lmen, where more
than 100 American prisoners of war
are being held by the Hermans, is a
small Prussian city of 7,.r>00 inhabi?
tants, situated in the province of West?
phalia, 17 miles southwest of Munster,
the provincial capital, and about CO |
miles in an airline north of Cologne.
The Holland border town of Winter
swyk lies about 2a miles to the west.
' There is little of interest scenical
> or historically about D?lmen. It
merely one of the many small i
towns on the railroad which runs
fr?m Hamburg to Cologne by way of
Bremen and Munster. Many Ameri?
cans have probably passed through it ;
traveling on the famous Lloyd's Kx-'
press, which carried through coaches]
from Hamburg to Genoa daily from
December to April before the outbreak
of the war, but doubtless none eVei
took note of it.
"The only point of interest of which
Geo. H. Hurst,
Undertaker and Embalmer
Prompt Attentin to Day and
Night Calls
At I. D. L'RAIG Old-Stand. N. Main
Phones:
Fruit
Now is the time to do yt
the place to bu
1 Quart
2 Quart
? ? ?
? ? ?
O'Donnell I
i or within the next two weeks after
merchants have disposed of stock on
hand. The wholesale and retail prices,
are as follows:
lie Retail.
40, 24 basis $l.t>0 to $1.80 241b sx.
0 24 basis $1.60 to 1.80 21 lb. sx.
0 96-lb sack 6 to 5 l-2c lb.
6 96 lb. sack 5 1-2 to 6 l-2c lb.
5 3C-20 oz. 13c to 16c per package
50 lOo lb. 10c to 12c per lb.
IS IM lb. 9c to lie per lb.
lb. bag 9.20 lb. loose. Sacks and car?
tons l-2c higher.
16c lb. 25c qt. liquid measure,
lie 30 to 32 l-2c
o-lb. tub 27 to 29c
i 3.SO case 6 1-4 to 7c (small)
15 caso 12 1-2 to 15c ( large.)
16 17 1-2 to 20c
to 1.85 15 to 17 l-2c.
20c to 22 l-2c
i 22 1-2 to 25c
to 1.90 17 1-2 to 20c
32 1-2 to 35e
65 to 60c
33 to 36c
30 to 32 l-2c
and promptly report failures to the
chief of police or to the price inter?
preting board composed of the fol?
lowing citizens of Sumter:
Abe Ryttenberg, representing the
wholesale dealers.
D. C. F. Bull man. representing the
; retail dealers.
Mrs. I. A. Rytteiberg, representing
j the consumers.
j Mrs. EL G. Osteen, Mrs. E. H. Moses,
; statisticians.
B. I. Reardon, assistant county food
* administrator, chairman, Sumter Price
Interpreting Board, U. S. Food Admin
i istration.
the town can boast is a chateau be?
longing to the Duke of Croy-Dulmen.
The nearby city of Munster with its
90,000 inhabitants, is of great historic
interest, however. Jt was here that
the Anabaptists, under the fanatical
leadership of John Leyden, com?
mitted so many excesses during the
reformation, and in commemoration
of those days then? now hang from
the tower of the Church of St. Lam?
bert three iron cages in which the
bodies of John and two of his asso?
ciates were exposed in 1536, after they
had suffered cruel torture and execu?
tion in the market place."
The tobacco season will open in thet
near future and those who have good
crops are sure of high prices. The
tobacco crop has been somewhat dam?
aged by the recent hot weather and
the yield will not be as heavy per
acre as anticipated.
A prophet wouldn't be without
honor in his own country if he didn't
i
act so much like an ordinary mortal.
Candidate's Cards.
For Congress.
I hereby announce myself as a can?
didate for re-election to Congress
from the 7th Congressional District,
subject to the rules and regulations of
the Democratic party.
A. F. LEVER.
Thos. G. McLeod, Bishopville, S. C,
candidate for member of Congress,
Seventh District.
For Solicitor.
I hereby announce that I am a
?andidate for the office of Solicitor for
the Third Circuit, subject to the ac
ion of the Democratic Primary.
FRANK A. Al'LEOD.
)ur canning and this is
y your Jars.
80c per dozen
$1.00 per dozen