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WILSON OB KAISER ? ISSUE CLEARLY DRAWN I.Y | ^ SOUTH CAROLINA. President's. Rebuke to Blease Read by Benet and Pollotjk?stirring Ad dresses Made. Pickens, Aug. 16.?The message America or the Fatherland. Woodrowl Wilson or the kaiser of Germany, was brought to oU'J or more voters here! today. It was at Pickens one year! ago that Blease made one of his most] violent anti-war speeches, four months j after this country had entered the] struggle. Here he was most bitter j in his denunciation of President Wii- j son, declaring he was not afraid of ?sident Wilson and "if anybody ,'t like it, darn them, let them lump it." It was at Pickens also that he characterised President Wilson as "a climatized Yankee," and the State Council of Defense as "a council of liars." The rebuke from President Wilson, published in this morning'sx papers, was read to the audience today by both Senator Benct and W. P. Pollock and created a profound impression. The name of Thomas H. Peoples was called out by the chairman today when beginning the program. "You may call, Mr. Chairman, with a meg aphone, but I guarantee Tom Peoples is coming no closer to this meeting "than Columbia," Mr. Benet said. Mr. Benet had been approached by many ^people asking that he let up on the war issue for political ex pediency. The war was an issue and the only issue. The challenge would be answered by any man with a son in, France or a service Hag on his He challenged any Candida:? ww> said the war was not an issue in this campaign to- come to the cam paign meetings and debate the issue. The Charleston American had no right to speak for the loyal demo crats of South Carolina. >.Ir. Peoples was letting it speak lor him. and "that paper is fighting me and Pollock and Dial and every other candidate that is fighting for Wilson." Senator Benet got much applause .when he said he wanted the bovsto make a "job of it" m France at the earliest possible mo ment and get home. Ke wanted to send them every gun, cannon and man necessary to. "clean up the Hun and come home." Five million men in arms one year is more to be desir ed than 1,000,000 in arms five years, he said, and the audience applaud ed his utterance with enthusiasm. "W. P. Poilock said Blease's record would follow the ex-governor Iis.e Banquo's ghost. Had South Carolina elected Blease to the United States senate four years ago, this State would have contributed one to the little band of wilful men, as Blease him self had said he would have fought "Wiison and congress on the war is sue. Referring to the truth spread ing--crusade, which Blease had com _ jmended to the Charleston American, Mr. Pollock"saicf'he \<"?s'"also spread ing the truth. It was his misfortune to have known Blease 25 years. He had been in college with him, in the legislature with him and had the fur ther disgrace to have him governor oi the State. He would have ben dis tinctly pleased to have met Please on the stump this summer. "But it has been too blamed hot to run Blease r down," he said, reminding his hear ers-* that when the campaign party was in the west side of the State, Please was in the east side, and v.ii.'i in the northern half, Biease was in the southern half. The only thins he had seen of "Little Tom Peeples'1 after the first day's campaign meet ing in Florence was a "pale photo graph" in the newspapers. X. B. Dial thanked (.Jod that he was an American citizen and Democrat, but made no direct reference to the Wilson letter relative to Blease. Thv Laurens candidate pledged if elected to do all in his power to continue the enlargement of the Charleston navy until it is second to none in the Unit ed States. Concerning this Mr. Dia! said: "As a general proposition I do not believe in the government's spend ing money lavishly and unnecessarily in public buildings. There'an- cer t^fcn public works, however, the de mands for which are self-evident. Of this number might be cited the navy yard at Charleston. It is a tribute to the wisdom and foresight of the late Senator Tillman that he saw the ne cessity for preparing this agency for government defense even in times o:' peace. It is all the more important now that the .country is engaged i: War, and will come out cf it with a avy that even for maintenance will x the capacity of all her navy rards. Charkson is situated geo graphically so as t<> become one of the leading ports of the* South and the navy yard there should be main tained to tin- highest degree <?;' ef ficiency. If elected to the Crate: States s< nate it wii! be my desire and purpose to make the navy yard Charleston second to non; in tin United States." I SENATOR GALLINGER I>EA1). Veteran Senator, From New Elamp shire Died Today. Franklin. X. If.. Aug 17.?United States Senator-Jacob II. tJaliinger. died in a hospital here early today His* death is attributed to arterio sclerosis. Mrs. Ralph Gallinger, the widow of tin- senator's son. who was killed in an accident >? veral year; ago, was at the -bedside. Senator < >a! linger was in poor health when h came to summer home near here and a few days at?o.his condition became worse and necessitated his removal the hospital. About 200 negro laborers fron. Nassau have already arrived ? i ? hmr leston. the vanguard for ".??*;?? >>. more being recruited in the ! Mid. West Indies foi employment und' Mason and Hafcger, gover> newi tractors building port !? . North Charleston. The ;. fron -Nassau are husky and intelligent speaking English fluently and ecu? tc?> ?" to hard - work. They special quarters ai the works witl shower baths and otlu-r comforts*, and are said to be well pleased with the oppoi tunny to earn high wages. A3 AMEKICAX FIGHT. Account of the Fight at Xivray?Ger mans Lost as Many Men as Were l acing Them. With the American Troops in France, .June 29 (Correspondence of The Associated Press).?Though the American troops have had three en gagements in the Toul sector during the past three months men in tin.- di vision say ?'there has been just eiu right." The big raid on Apremont in April they call *'ti:e Apremont affair;" they I refer to the attack on Seicheprey, ten days later as "the Seicheprey thing;" hut the morning of June 16 at Xivray. they say "there was a light." This distinction does no wrohg to the defenders of Apremont s and Seicheprey. The men did their besL there, and that best was as good as ; could be expected under the circum stances, but their liest then was not so good as their best at Xivray. That is tile significance given to the dis tinction by French officers. They say that it was at Xivray the men hold ing th< sector showed the y ht?.d learn ed how to do what mUsi he done in the front line. Xivray has a smiiiar meaning to the Germans in that sector it' the evi dence ol* prisoners may ho trusted. The men captured there show increas ed respect tor the fighting qualities o the Americans and betray a deeper : awe of the American machine gun. tl is no disparagement of in work the ordinary rille did there to say that the quick-firers decided the. issue. Two eomp-nies of infantry. ? without dugouts to shelter them held I their grounds on the right of the po Isition through a heavy artillery prep j aration and kept the enemy .from i bringing up reinforcements chrough I out the light. Meanwhile, in center at Xivray and on the left, the ma chine gunners -.'id the rest. The enemy's plan according to pris oners, was to force the village, de i stroy the defence works; make the j place untenable and take prisoners ; The eitert was well organized and I might have succeeded but ' for the work of the t;u;^t-:;rers. Si:: hundred men advanced to th< attack in no less than a dozen differ ent columns, led by two hundred pick ed Bavarian storming . troops.' They came up on the right Hank-, on the I left and on the center under cover i of smoke, making a dark night still darker. They crept up the ravines and slipped through the hollows. The sharp ears of sentries alone prevent i ed a total Surprise. ! Their guns laid down a heavy box ! barrage that prevented tit" reinforc ' ing of the front line. One platoon ! ice. by Lieut. Doan. from Maine, got (through the first curtain of lire. Doan ; even wont through the second with ! some volunteers, but that was all th i help that could be sent to the 225 j men that were hol dir g the line at ! tacked. They were only one to thre* ! hut they fought in a way to surprise I and dismay the six hundred Germans. One machine gun section in the vil lage was reduced to two men, Mbn fort Wyckoff and John Flynn. Thei: gun jammed and Flynn kept tb-i Ger mans off with his revolver whip Wyckoff *^>t the quick-firer going again. They held their ground to th . end. Two other men. unable to gci , a sieht at the Germans from theii trench climbed the parapet and stoo< . there erect firing their automatic: from the shoulder. Two infantrymei ' crawled out of a shell to get a bettei ,! aim. ~i The Germans had lest a third o rt their 6?.0 men when growing dayligh' impaired the effectiveness of then i smoke screen and they began to re tire. The fifty-odd un wounded Am er icans left out of i23 went over th*. ' top after them. ' Two hundred is a conservative es 'j timate of the German losses for out J j men buried forty-seven of tie.'*:'? c: jthe field and there were more corpse: ,\ m the tall grna.< facing the position ' out of reach. Thus the Gerrnam 'lost nearly as. many men as they hat ? j facing them during the fight. One of the heroes c1* the day was a cook who had been dismissec from the :;<>vy:c> on account of Iocs*. habits with respect to drink. Whor i.- ber he was possessed of an astonish |ing amoimi of nerseverance. lie hac j Coiled all eff a*ts of the officers to put j him out of the division. Ke left om j'-criment to appear in another. Hi ! passed from one company to anoth Jer until he had readied the last one. | If he was thrown out of that it was all lover with Iii.-, soldiering. tie wa ! one of tiic volunteers that went I through both barrages .'Tel he stave ! j through the fight giving first aid to ; the wounded up '??)? the sharpest fir* i from th- assailants. FRAXKFORT B?-MSEI) BY AL LIES. eGoi-maiis fviiled and Wounded an<: Buildings Damaged from A-iied Bombs. ; Geneva. Aug. 1".?An ?.*fic>al dis ;'-h received here frora i'rank fort, I '; niai.y. says that Monday morning fat o'clock thai city v..!.- attacked by 1 ? 2 ? iy aviators, who drope d t!'' bombs, kiillr.^ ; j persons a?rd injur ia e .!"?."?.? ht-:'S. Reports from Ek>sel assert thai the casualties \vere far more numerous. These say a bomb <\ li j;: the crowded rCaiserstrasse. " aim: inany p< rspix and-stopping the si -e<n car:, th t an other fell in .the middle of th large station and several in it- vicinity., while tw?> more fell in the barracks and still another hear Goethe's h ms". whkh was undamaged: Tie- l?ra?e1 dispatch saVs the aerial attack has met f.?????d t|;.- ?. ? reign ing ia the Rhine towns. Ford Plant Taken Over. St. Louis, At:g. 1?k-- Tier assem bling plant, service station and of tines of the St. Louts braue:- e' the Ford Motor l.':ii..]vi;v h; Ve beep ???!?: on over -y the government tor the ? ?: ? ? " ? n stones high and eov< ring hruf :? fit block, wiii be used as a warehouse. Th" more some people try ????:? plain the mv.< they get into hoi wa WAR SAVING SATMP FIGURES. What Has Been Pledged and Bought in This County and How it Stands in Relation to Oilier Counties. The War Savings ofiice has caught the habit from the war office and has been sending out questionnaires. Tin- various county chairmen have had to work out figures and prob lems and give answers beside to thirty-four questions, some of which call for a simple yes or no. but oth ?rs call for an essay. When tnese go in from all about the brain trust in the savings office* will ? see what the actual worker.: all about think of the proceedings, the weak points ami the strong points, what is practical and what is not. . Through August fifteenth Sumter County pledged to buy $366,95Li.,|;; worth of War Savings Stamps at. the maturity value which would call for only about S5 per cent of the sum in actual cash. There a re 7..".;:* pledges, j and of these 2,! 7S whites pledged for $252,5LL0C, while colored peo ple pledged for SI14.6-12-.00. The average pledge for the whites was for and the average pledge for the colored people was for ??>-?".! 7. Generally speaking however, only one person in every six pledged at all rind what the county has pledged all together is less than half of what it was asked to pledge, about 43 per cent of the whole. The way money has been spent in Sumter in the last twelve months show that it^is more plentiful than ever before. Nearly every line of business or of work has prospered, from day labor to the head of the three thousand acre farm or the half million dollar corporation. The few*people who cannot work ac tively and live on the income from a ijxed source, elderly women and men or those incapacitated?these are ac tually worse off than they were befor< times were so prosperous, for then i investments bring less as a ru'e and j commodities are higher. These arc j il:e exceptions, for business has bee:: rood, work has been remunerative and spend ings have been lavish Second hand $500 automobiles hav?; seht in this county for $750.00. Bu with War Savings Stamps the people will not promise to buy. nor will the-, buy as will the people of other coun ties. Through June fifteenth whet the War Savings campaign started it the whole nation Sumtsr stood lit! i in this State. The other counties j woke up to what War Savings wen ("and began buying stamps. Week b: i week cs the reports-*have been issue< j Sumter has slid a little lower dowi i the column until for the last report j-the week of August 3rd, she hat I reached 24th place, more counties be ing above her than below her. Thi; county in the second division a.m. scents to be headed for the cellar. Soldier's Letter. J The, following letter, from over ? seas has been sent us for publica tion: , ' France, July 14, 191S. I "ear Mama: Only a few minute ago I finished reading your letter dat ed June ] 7th and was glad to see yoi were feeling better and intended go j ing to the Colclough's and othe ? I places for a visit for I Know you wii j enjoy it. I notice what you said about re ceivin?: the allotment, you should gc ? it for the month of December fo it was taken out of my pay. so by tit ? 'a'-h of June you should have gotte: .'t for seven months and sister $10 pe ? ma-nth for the san e length of time*, i also received tin- photo of you to and was glad to get it arid will kee; i it with me; think they are good; I Tod;:y is the great French nutionn holiday, as you know, the day th .jBastite was stormed and the first be ginning of the Republic so all o , France is in gala attire and her there was a eel- oration in the village . speeches by the French and Araeri > '-ms and the interpreter translate* both, then music by an America: band and athletic exercises. The town is now filled with a. ne\ bunch of American soldiers, so we d1 not have things to ourselves as here ?tofore, but as we are old timers and h j a separate camp we have more lib j erty than the new bunch, and tines new men stand around with ope: u.hs taking in any tales oar boy tell them and some wonderful one are told, and we pose as veterans an? treat these "'rookies"' with contempt Last Saturday evening there was : in vi!!.- 're near here and a nam J her of us vent ovo- to help fight it. j was sorry to see th< homes burned seven in number, and of course th< stables ami barns, for they are al built together; but it was amusing t< the way these people do things 't was typical of a moving picture o a ?:!??? in the extreme rural districts ihey had nothing but hand pumps ! One of these was near the lire am! i : had a re weir that will hold abou i 5-0 gallons of water built around it ? and water was brought in buckets am i poured in the pump and then pump j ed oh the fire ; si a number of tie j water passers in ;.. dim were wo met and they would gel to mbcine, am forget to pass the buckets, so ydt would see a bunch oi buckets setfinj ;n the ground half way to the ptimi and tlie pim-p sLoppoVl tor want o water, end behind the building, there war a pump worked by eigh and standing by was an ea b-?. *."nr a d. it:i] to keep time, bu t/a pe a -.tot thirsty so some ore. brought : bottle of wine and ever? one stopped Lo drink the wine. \\\ tried to help but could not do m-:cl good in the chaos, bat after so ' >ni the {ire struck an <???:;.i thick wall fh? If it- had been left i ? . . Into the '?: a cpuifi have I c< a p_ui out hours '>??? 1: is still pleasant weather h re the days are not hot ?'-ad we have p use blankets at nlght> With love for both of you. ?. our a? i?">>n ? P- son. C-ampany 22rd Cm'ei. -rs Weather Ncxj Werk. Washington: Aug. 17.?Show ?: with normal temperatures or below is i;a- forecast for the s.oitln e -t.-i i State's lor the coming week. MOM KS FOB SOMHEBS. ' Government Planning t:> Make Land Available as Farms for Kcturning Soldiers. Washington, Aug 15.?When tlm soldiei of 1S'>5 laid down his anus to lake up a civil occupation, he turned : westward to a matchless public do 1 main which-he helped to develop into the worldfs richest Tafias and cities. The government was aide to point the i way to a method by which the return ed soldier was able to turn Iiis talents .or a livelihood, and the government now is laying the ground work to have similar land available when the great war ends and the millions 01' American soldiers return to civil lie-. While the vast domain that awaited the civil war veteran can nest be du plicated for those who return from ? the European battle fields, there arc I millions of acres which can. be made ? available with proper legislation and I subsequent development, and which., according to the present plans, will be offered to the returning soldier ?with' ample time to pay for the cost of development if he desires to accept ! i* ? Congress will be asked for legisla I lien to make this land available, ae ' .-ording to the present plans of Secre tary Lane and Congressional leaders. I Secretary Lane has announced that it will be the policy of the depart m nt of the interior to ask for legis lation by which arid lands or the w st, cut over lands of the Northwest. : and swamp lands in the middle west j and the South, can be reclaimed and the soldier given a preferred status in ? its allotment. Bills a>-e now before ;i congress on that subject, and the plan -now is to weld into an administration bill a measure embracing Secretary ? ; Line's ideas, the legislation to be patterned after a bill now before the ? house public Lands committee by Rep : resentative Smith of Idaho. The amount of swamp and cut ' over kinds is extensive, reports fron: '. the department of the interior indi : cate, but Just how extensive is not ? known! It is estimated that approxi ? mutely 60,000,000 acres of swamp and ? overflow land can be made availabl? ' ; for farming. Some of it has passer into private ownership. It lies chief!} in Florida, in the states along th* - Atlantic and Gulf coasts, in the Mis sissippi delta, and in Missouri, Indi Hana, Michigan, Minnesota. Wiscon 1 ] sin and 'California. 31 Jf is estimated that of the cut-ovei ; and Icaged-off land there is approxi ?Vmately 20u.000.0oa acres suitable foi 1 {agricultural development. A Iargei :; percentage of this land: is now in pri vate ownership, and it is shown tha' ? failure to develop it is due largely t< "; inadequate methods of approach, say: ' Secretary Lane. Unless a new poiie: of development is worked out in co operation between the United States the states and the individual owners a greater part of it will remain un settled and uncultivated. The lane lies chiefly in Washington and Ore ~ gon, Virgyt-ia, North Carolina an* South Carina, Georgia, Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi, Louisiana an< g Texas. Other than the planning, the de velopment should be by the returne? j soldier, according to Secretary Lane' . j views. ' [ "The dam or the irrigation projec should be built by him." Mr. Lan says. "The canals, the ditches, th [ breaking of the land and the build j ing of the houses, should, under prop er direction, be his occupation. H should be allowed to make his ow: home, cared for while he is doing il and given an interest in the land fo 1 which he can pay through a long pe riod of years, perhaps thirty or fort; ' j years. ^ ; "So that the soldier on his rerun would have an opportunity to make : : home for himself, to build a horn .. with money which we would ad l y vance attd which he would repay, am tor the payment wc would have a: abundant security." British Bombing Elective. London. Aug. 1 <>.?One of the mas 0 significant features of the aeria - j bombing offensive of the British is th a ; loud response it has elicited from th - German people, say British newspa g j pers. r! The bombing of England brough s; no complaint, but only renewed res gjolution from the British people; ye 1 I Germany, suffering from the first pre j liminary pangs of the British attacks ilat once began to cry out against it _ : and protest upon protest is pourim ] . into the German authorities from th populace of the different areas at g . tacked. ?i This means thai 'lie British bomb jjirar offensive is effective, that far . reaching oestruction has-been cans e<7 to railway junctions and factor ti les, and that the German claim tha ? British raids have accomplished noth i f ing serious ha v? b*en untrue. t, Details of the damage caused b: the British raids can easily be sup 1 : pressed by the German censorship - but the voice of the German peopl cannot permanently be stifled, and i j ]?.; asserted t]i<.>e is ;:bya 1 ant photo i graphic and captured documentary : evidence that their fears are basd : upon real execution done. A Pointer. ;: fjon. John L. McLaurin of .Marl ?: hero and <'oi. W. j. Talbert of Edge :Ield, two of the pioneer leaders of th Beferrn party in lids State; Dr. Olii ? wyer of Georgetown, another ar il dent former Bleuso supporter am ! prominent reform leader, Messrs. \V :! a. Stuckey. M. ;;. McCutehen; B i '-Frank tCelley. Esq.; and many other: . over the State, all prominent in th? j ':>;'' !-m party, say B7ea.sc lias gon? . (? ;? limit, and they no longer en Ic.rse him. : vVe will simply state thai in repud iating Blease. these ? ? have hoi repudiated their reform principles abut are just as earnest and zeaJou> reformers new as they have prove* themselves i..* loyal and trip \meriean citizens, tic! won "1 stain [or even a taini of disloyalty. Bisk OpriHe X'indicai or. [[<-. who pokes his nose in*.' every thing will occasionally poke ,t betweer ii thumb and forefinger. A SHORTAGE OF SALT. NOTICE. ood Administration Advises Dealers Primary Election *e> Be Held Tuesday, to Obtain Supplies at Once. August 27th, 1918. T suggest that you advise dealers in soli i:i your territory to place their orders ra ngem Notice is hereby given that a Dem ocratic Primary Election will bo held er salt now and make ar-j'in the several clubs, established by or nts to get their supply of this der of the Democratic Executive Com u :xt winter moved as The St;iL<>s Admin has written me that in the Southeastern and spring was o shortage of coal ft salt. and which to l the commodity early as possible; istration Division the salt shortage , States last wintei ! casibned by the ! the manufacture oi i ! shortage oi cars in I shipments of this commodity. This j letter says that the same conditions arc likdy to be in effect this winter, j Therefore: dealer's in salt should b i urged to place their orders either at or at least far enou requirements to ; hipmcnt. Yours very, truly. William Elliott, 'ood Administrator for South Caro lina. Columbia. Aug. 14. - j Stat< this time of their delay in rn ahead -ticipate CANNON'S LONG SERVICE. Cncle doc Seeks Re-election Twenty-fourth Term. for Washington, Aug. 15.?If the voters of the eighteenth Illinois, district elect "Uncle Joe" Cannon tor a. twenty second term in ^congress next Novem ber, he will have equaled a record achieved by only one other in point of congressional service. Already the former speaker lias out-served al! other present and former members of the House for long -service in thai body. The late William Boyd Alli son, former representative ami late; senator from Iowa, held a record in congress with forty-four years ser vice in both houses. Mr. Cannon's record is for service in the house alone. One more term would complete a service of forty four years. Were it not for an affah in ISrb. when the Democrats took con trol of the house, fed lowing passage of the McKinley tariff law, and an other incident of 1912, when the Pro gressive split the Republican vote. Mr. Cannon's service would have been for twenty-four terms continuous (forty-eight years). As it is he began his service in IS73 and has served since with the exception of the two terms mentioned. Besides Mr. Cannon and the late Senator Allison, Justin Morrill o.' Vermont, kite representative and sen ator, is among the former members who saw long service in congress. Mr. Merrill served forty-three years con tinuously as a representative and la ter as a senator. Mr. Cannon's first term was in the forty-third congress. He was firs' elected speaker in the fifty-eighth j congress and re-elected in the fifty ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first sessions Ice Order. Eu mittee for Sumter county, at the fol lowing places on Tuesday, August 27th for nominating candidates for United States Senate. Congressman, and county ofiicers. pursuant to the Constitution and' Rules of the par;y and in accordance with the Acts of the General Assembly of the State, regulating Primary Elections, and that the second primary, if one shall be necessary, will be held on Septem ber 10th. The following named persons have been designated and appointed as managers and clerks of the primary elections to be held by the Democratic T>:iity for Sumter county, August 27th and September 10th: Ward 1 ? lt. C. Richardson. A. S. Rowell, L. W. Jenkins; J. M. Fogle, clerk. Ward 2?Horace Harby. E. W. Witherspocn, J. B. Baker; A. S. Mer rimon, clerk. Ward .1?J. A. Raffield, John S. Kennedy, P. P. Finn; H. A. Moses, clerk. Ward i?IT. L. Withcrspoon. A. H. Wilder, J. P. Commander; Chas. W. MeCraw, clerk. Borden?G. W. Hatfield, P. B. Emanuel, Luther Wilson; C. M. Emanuel, clerk. Concord?C. W. Brunson, E. M. Eulton, B. W. -Brogdon; D. L. Smith, clerk. Dalzel!?E. P. Scarborough. A. P. Vinson, J. S. 1? oik; S. F. Moore, clerk. Du Pose?R. J. Yates, DuBose Fr? ser. Stanyarne Burrows; M. R. Rivers, clerk. Earle?J. EL Broadway, Harry Hodge, D. L. McDaniel; William E. .Moore, clerk. Farmers?R. B. Dinkins, W. O. Bradford. A. L. Ardis; Marion Mc Le d, clerk. i Hagood?B. F. Myers, Wr. H: Free man. C. E. Sanders; L. rW. Myers, clerk. Manchester?F. M. Coulter, E. R. Williams, D. W. Allsbrooks; Robert Christmas, clerk. Ma.yesville?J. W. Spencer, Robert Muldrow, W. B. Cooper; R. J. Mayes, Sr., clerk. v Oswego?W. D. McLeod, M. H. An drews, C. W. Gates; F. W. Andrews, clerk. Pisgah?J. E. DuPre, G. W. El Elniore, Lern Baker; Leon Stuckey, clerk. Pleasant Grove?J. L Kirhy, Jesse McElveen, Wiley Bake?, Hovey Keels, clerk. Privateer?R. B. Cain, A. P. Hin son, P. B. Harvin; II. H. Wells, clerk. Rafting Creek?J. Hawkins, S. W. Young, T. J. Brown; J. II. Mc Leod, clerk. Reids?Robert Ardis, Jr., B. T. Kolb; J. H. McLeod, clerk. s Salem?Duncan Jones, O. B. Tis dale, A. J. Pringle; H. .D. Warren, clerk. Stateburg?Nelson B. Murray, G. V. Nelson, John L. J/. ierson; Jas. G. Simons, clerk. f , Sihloh?W. W. Green, J. W. Play er, J. F. Player; H. C. Player, clerk. Taylors?A. H. Truluck, N. McNeill, W. G. Moore; I. M. Truluck, clerk. Trinity?T. J. Keels, G. W. John son, J. A. Minis; J. T. Dennis, clerk. Wedgefield?H. D. Cain, J. G. Strange, R. Wade Brice; W. H. Ram sey, clerk. Zoar?J. A. Blackwell, Jake I. Progdon, W. J. Lawrence, Jr.; S. J. White, clerk. One of the managers for each club will call upon the undersigned for the box for his club, tickets, etc., and will qualify on or before August 26th, lylS. The secretaries of the several c'ubs will call for the original club book of enrollment and deliver the Patriotic Play Week. same to the managers of the election. As this is Children's Year, a special The polls will open at S o'clock A. effort is being made by the Woman's M. and remain open until 4 P. M. Committee of the Council of Nation- August 27th, 191$, whereupon the al Defense, to do as much as is pos- managers will proceed to count the siblc for the children. A special votes and after tabulating the result committee has been organized known shall certify the same and forward as the Child Welfare Committee, ami the bailot boxes containing the poll under the supervision of this com- list, ballots, and ali other papers, ex mittee a Patriotic iMay Week has been cept the club book, by one of their planned for the first part of Septem- number to the County Chairman, ber. within thirty-six hours after the close Recreation is a means of relieving of the polls. The managers shall re the nervous tension of war, of keep- turn the original roll book to the see ing the sanity and balance which tire retary of the club immediately after essential now. Play for children is the declaration of the result of the o:? cially urgent in order to keep balloting, or as soon thereafter as pos in-m es protected as may be under siblc. The managers shall adminis disturbed conditions inevitable when tor to all persons offering to vote the a nation is at war. The increase o. vote required by the party rules, and juvenile delinquency reported in Eu- shall arrange a table, elesk, or other ropean countries since the war testi- place upon which the banlot boxes des to the need in every warring coun- shall be placed, so as to enable each ty to gruard the children's leisure b\ vo*er to deposit his ballot without giving" them wholesome play and in- interference, hindrance, crowding or teresting, worth while activities. confusion. The ballot boxes must be The committee has planned a sum- marked in a suitable manner so as to ea r of play and useful leisure time designate in which box the respec activities, culminating in the autumn tire tickets tire to be placed, in a Patriotic Play Week which wlil The County Committee will meet afford everyone and every organiza- ;it twelve o'clock noon on August tion an opportunity to show what 29th, J91S to tabulate the returns, has been done to make the children's (p.riarc the resut of the primary, and vacation time happier and healthier. tor such 01}HM. business as may come Important work in conserving food u ^ ^ committcc for our allies is beiiig done by me hoys and girls in tin- War Gardens Candidates are again reminded that of the United States Bureau of Eduea- they mart Hie with the Clerk of tjen and in canning. Exhibits of tie-. * buri of Sumter county, at the end werk will, it is expected, be held in of the campaign and before the elec connection with. Patriotic Play Week tion an itemized, verified statement of in order to make tin- week an exhibit all campaign expenses. ! of ail that the children are doing Under the law the County Chair I with their vacation to show what man is directed to send to each enlist I they .-ire doing to help win the war ed man who is absent from the coun I b.\ raising ami saving food as well as ty a county and a state ticket with in how ilny art- keeping themselves structions for same to be prepared "tit." And on.- of ;Ie- chief aims of and returned, to the County Chairman ay Week must be to make thejand same to be counted by the County that they a;-.- serving Democartic Executive Committee, and ten they arc increas- j added to the results of the primary ? i strength, an.I that j election to be held August 27th. It has been impossible to ascertain the The Sumter Lighting Co.. Mr. gene Moses, Manager, City. Dear Sir: Until further notice you will upon receipt of this discontinue the delivery of any and all ice to dealers in soft drinks, ice cream or to drug stores* or bottlers of soft -1 rinks in the city of Sumter or else where. This is to take effect imme tely. and you will please notify each of your various dealers to this effect. Anyone using ice for these purposes will be subject to. tl e usual penalty. You will limit your sales to fifty pounds to each family. Please give preference to hospitals people, and meat markets of town as far as possible. G. A. Lernmon, Food Administrator for Sumter Coun ty. August 16th, 1916. sick in and out llZt the b children their conntrj v ing their physi keeping themse :t and cneerful :s ]. sunvn :il III ?rvic ?en !Ot 1C. iotic !'!: mmunit; ?r long cad of ie who! Week will show what has been doing all hildren. and < demonstra s effort will ned no in a done. Play ally i eu te p:ig< lb. T-" .V W r the e weel. >umme be sun dedi i m country al! tba: or tbis purpose a oek Pageant has a red through the America. lias 1 'a - been Dra present address of a number of the enlisted men from Sumter county, which renders it impossible to for ward tickets as prescribed by law. If friends or relatives promptly send the address oi" soldiers or sailors in ser vice eligible to vote in any of the clubs of Sumter county the County Chairman will be able to forward tickets to them as provided. JOHN II. CLIFTON. County Chairman.