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Cjjt gSatcgmait m? Smrfjjtun. Published WedE.esday and Saturday ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTEK, C. Temas: f i.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Sq are first insertion .. ..?1.00 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or v longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found ?uIb 1850 and the True Southron m 1566. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. Pisgah News and Views. % Pisgah, Aug; 19.?The rain Thurs day night broke, to some extent the terrible heat that has hung over this section for about .wo weeks. News from North Carolina says the apples were cooked on the trees and fac tories closed on account of the hot weather. Fodder pulling is now go ing on. The corn crop is very good, but the cotton got the black eye from the hot dry weather and the crop will be short. Red spiders are to be seen and have injured the crop. Picking will commence in a few days and the tug of war will be felt. Hands are scarce and the price will be high. Whether the crop can all be gather ed remains to be seen. Mr. Marion Reames and family bf Georgia are visiting his mother, Mrs. J. M. 'Reames of Rembert. He is a pleasant young man. and has many friends here who are always glad to see him. Miss Genora Williams of Rose ville is visiting Miss Van Ray Ken ney. A new gin company has been or- ? ganized here to gin cotton. It will be , ready by September 1st and the pub-1 lie can rest assured that honest, square dealings will be for all, for the men in the company are all o. k. It is located on the Columbia road near the old Levi Burkett place. The company will enlarge thir plant next year so as to thresh grain and grind. A protracted meeting will com mence at Swift Creek church next Sunday and go on for days. Rev. Benson will aid the pastor. The editor 'of this paper knows knows how nice the ladies of Rem bert can cook and prepare fine meals. It is so all through this country, then where does the work of the., demon stration agent come in? I am under the impression that the ladies know more than the agents do in many cases. * The political agony will, soon be over. Then we will have the lull af ter the storm. Notes From Egypt. Egypt, Aug. 22.?There's been a long silence from our "burg;" owing to the correspondent being with Uncle Sam. Miss Eva Mae Broughton returned to her home in Union on Tuesday af ter spending a couple of weeks w-zh Misses Mae and Almena Weldon. Mr: J. K. Richbourg spent Tuesday in Bish.opville. Mr. LeRoy White, with his friend, Mr. John Cunningham of Camden, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. White. A card was received from Privates E. O. and T. B. White on Monday stating their safe arrival oversea. Miss Katherine Hague of Hartsville is spending some time with the Misses Weldon. Mrs. Sam Newman, of Mayesville, spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. W. T. McLeod recently. Mr. J. C. McLeod and family spent last week-end at the home of Mr: Hiram Nettles of Lugoff. Miss Cora Raines of Abbeville, is visiting Mrs, J. R. McLeod. A peanut boiling was given at Mrs. W. Weldbn's on Friday even ing in honor of the visiting la'des and was. much enjoyed by the young folks of the community. This is one of the most quiet cam paign years that has ever been known in our immediate vicinity. Dr. E. M. Carson spent yesterday j in Egypt. Messrs. Darby and Eugene Mc-! F?chern, of Woodrow, were visitors in our "burg" recently. Mrs. S. W. Hogue and little daugh-! ter.-'of Camden, are on an extended visit to the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. White. Mrs. M. E. Wilson with her chil dren Hosea and Mary, spent yester day at this place. Mr. B. J. Grier of Sumer is visiting at his brother's, Mr. T. M. Grier's. Mrs. S. A. White spent last week in Egypt. Last but not least, our crops are beautiful and a big yield is expected. BRITISH SHIP TORPEDOEIL V-Boats Still Operating OJT Our Coast. Atlantic Port, Aug. 2?, ?British steamer Diomed was torpedoed and sunk off the Atlantic coast. More than a hundred of the crew, many of them Chinese and some severely wounded were rescued and brought here by another British steamer. A Swedish steamer arriving to day reported that it was held up by a submarine yesterday morning, but aftter a parley was permitted to pro ceed. County Chairman John H. Clifton, as required by the rules of the Demo cratic party, has mailed ballots an1' return envelopes to all men in the army and navy, who are entitled to vote in Sumter county, whose address es appear on the club books, so'that they may vote in the primary next Tuesday. The man who has sold cotton at or below thirty cents for future delivery will regret his action before he is many weeks older, according to pres ent indications. j DRAFT M PASSED. !oNI*Y TWO NEGATIVE VOTES ( AST OX FINAL PASSAGE. Congressional Leaders Believe That Measure May l>o Keady tor Signa ture of President Late This Week ?Only Minor Change Made. Washington, Aug. 24.?The new I man power bill extending the selec tive draft to,-all men between the ages of IS and 45 years was passed by the house tonight with only mi | nor changes in the original draft of the war department. On the first roll call only two neg ative vctes were cast?by Representa tive Loudon of New York, the Social ist, and Representative Gordon of Ohio, Democrat. The final vote was announced as 338 to 2. The final vote was preceded by three days debate during which the chief contention was an amendment to defer^the calling of youths from 18 j to 20 years until older men had been summoned. A final effort was made by Chairman Dent today to place IS year old boys in a deferred class, but a motion to recommit the bill to the military affairs committee with in structions to incorporate that amend ment was lost 191 to 146. The bill now goes to the senate where leaders tonight predicted its j passage early next week under a plan to substitute the house bill for the! measure favorably reported by the j military committee of that body and thus expedite its final enactment. Con- j gressional leaders hope to send the j measure to the president by the latter i part of next week. Th senate soon "after convening unexpectedly abandoned plans for al vote today and adjourned until Mon day. An attempt in the house to insert a work or fight amendment by which those exempted from service on occu pational grounds would be required to remain at their civil tasks, failed, 52 to 91. The amendment was directed against strikes and was characterized by officials of the American Federation of Labor as conscription of labor. The house today reversed its ac tion of yesterday in voting to include j members of congress in the draft. By i a rising vote of S9 to 143, it defeated an amendment by Representative Gregg of Texas which would make members of congress, State legislators' I and federal and State executive o'ffi- j ! cials liable to draft. / i [ An amendment by Representative j Smith of New York, to exempt police j [officers in cities of more than 500.000 1 population and designed to relieve the situation in New York where a short age of police officers is said to be threatened, was defeated. An amendment by Representative Treadway of Massachusetts which was adopted provides for the appoint ment of special examiners in local con scription districts for the examina tion of men placed in deferred clas sification as means of further comb ,ing the deferred classes for addition Lai men for active service. / Chairman Dent of the house mil itary committee read a letter today j from Secretary Baker, in which the [ latter set forth his objections to the I McKenzie amendment, which was de- i feated, which provided for delaying j the call of youths from IS to 20. Mr. i Baker said he believd the amend ment would seriously impair the abil ity of the war department to get the men in accordance with the military program. j FIRE AT OCALA. | _, j Costly Home of R. S. Hall Destroyed, j Qcala, Fla., Aug. 26.?The home oi j R. S. Hall, a wealthy citizen, was de stroyed by fire this morning. Loss is estimated at fifty thousand. Of the more than 23,000 miles of railways in the United Kingdom about 10,000 miles are single track lines. WOMEN'S WOES. Sumter Women are Finding Relief al Last. It does seem that women have j ! more .than a fair share of the aches and pains that afflict humanity; they must "keep up," must attend to j duties in spite of constantly aching I backs, or headaches, dizzy spells, j bearing-down pains; they must stoop ! over, when to stoop means torture, j They must walk and bend and work j with racking pains and many aches! tioni kidney ills. Keeping the kid-! neys well has spared thousands of women much misery. Read of a rem- ! edy for kidneys only that is endorsed by people you know, j Mrs. Joseph Newman, 2OS S. Coun cil street, Sumter, says: "Two years ago I had a slight attack of kidney trouble. My back gave out on me and I had bad headaches. I felt bad ly all over and dizzy spells often an noyed me. I knew Doan's Kidney Pills were good, as they had been highly recommended to me, so 1 bought some at Mitchell's Drug Store. Before long, Doan's had cured me of all the trouble." Price COc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mrs. Newman had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo. N. Y.?Advt. 54 Rotristration Notice. The County Board of Registration will be in their office at the Com House, continuously from July 1st f' August 21st, excepting July 4th. for :h<- purpose of re gistering all qualified voters of the county of Sumter. as tb law requires. T. D. iHJBOSE. J. M. N. WTLDER J A. REAMES. Supervisors of Registration i LUXEMBURG. How That Little Country Suffers Vn dcr German Domination Amsterdam. Aug. 23.?A recent semi-official statement published in Germany describing Luxemburg as a "German town" has attracted atten tion again to the bitter lot of the people of Luxemburg, whose Princess vainly apealed to the Germans to spare her little country in the early, days of the German incursion into Belgium. For four years now. the citizens of Luxemburg have lived isolated under the yoke of German military domi nation. Three, thousand Luxemburg ers have escaped into France" and joined the French army. It is true that Luxemburg has not faced, as Belgium and Serbia have, the devastation brought, in defensive fighting on her own soil, but war has come by air, and just as it has been unnecessary "for the Entente airmen to bomb German billets in Belgian and French towns, so they have fre I quently had occasion to bomb Lux emburg, and with deadly effect. German propagandists in Luxem burg, as in Belgium, have constantly attempted to rouse hostility to the Entente by exploiting these air raids, but their efforts have proved unsuc cessful, and the people of Luxemburg persist,- despite all propaganda, in re garding the German invader as the real culprit, recognizing clearly that Luxemburg is raided only because the German army is there. The Luxemburg Parliament and government have lodged protests at Berlin against the action of the Ger man army in placing anti-aircraft guns around the city of Luxemburg. SUBMARINE SUNK BY PATROL. Passenger Steamship Attacked But Survives. Toulon, Aug. 23.?The British pas senger steamship Bandy, while on a voyage between Malta and Sicily, was torpedoed by a German submarine and although the explosion tore a gaping wound in her starboard side the vessel succeede in reaching the harbor here today. The u-boat which fired the torpedo was attacked by patrol boats escort ing the Bandy and was sunk-. Six of the submarine's crew, numbering 60 officers and men. were saved, includ ing the first mate. The admirable conduct, of the crew of the Bandy was responsible for the safety of all the passengers. Two men were wounded when the torpedo ex ploded. The mate of the submarine*' when hoisted aboard a destroyer attempted to commit suicide. He appeared to be insane and made wandering state ments about the loss of his - subma rine. He said the lost u-boat had tor oedoed the Ounard liner Lusitania and had destroyed an aggregate of 600, 000 tons of other Allied shipping. -M Available shipping registers do not list the British steamship Barndy and she probably 'is a new vessel. Ad vices from London August 30 sa'.d that Lieut. Commander Schwieger. who commanded the submarine which sank the Lusitania. had been killerl when the u-boat of which he was in command struck a mine in the North Sea. Railway Travel Curtailed. London, July 25 (Correspondence of the Associated Press) The recent curtailment of railway traveling fa cilities is making itself increasingly felt at the big London stations where during the week-end long lines o' travelers form at the booking office hours before trains are scheduled to start. No extra trains are being put on for the holidays and-as'ticket offices are closed as soon as the seating capacity of the train is full, hundreds are left waiting. On one Lancashire railway tickets for popular seaside resorts have to be purchased two weeks in advance. Potato Production iu England. London, July 25 (Correspondence of the Associated Press) The 191S po tato crop in Victoria gardens in front of Buckingham Palace promises to be a great success. The potatoes are in beds which until 1917 were* devot ed to flowers on hoth sides of The Mall where it reaches the Palace grounds entrance. King George and Queen Mary both have taken much interest in them. The Queen recently inspected the "potato patch" with John Robert dynes, parliamentary secretary of the ministry of food, who had been a guest at the Palace. Registration Notice. On the following dates, the Board of Registration will visit these sever al townships of Sumter county, for the puipose of registering all quali fied electors who have not already reg istered: Providence. September 3rd. Stateburg, September 4th. Middleton, September 5th. Manchester. September 6th. Privateer; September tUh. Concord, September 10th. Shi!oh, September 11th. Mayesville, September 12th. Rafting Creek, September mth. The books of registration will be opened according to the above sched ule, from nine o'clock in the morning, until six o'clock in the afternoon, at the usual voting places in the town ships herein designated. T. I). DUBOSE. J. M. X. WILDER. J. A. RE AMES. Supervisors of Registration. A prize for the best bulb digging machine has been offered by a Dutch bulb culture society. Ceylon produces nearly every pre cious stone known except diamonds, emeralds, opals and torquoise, BOMB AIR UA1DING. ; How Good Work is Done by the Avia tion Service. - i j Behind British Lines in France. July U." (Correspondence of The As jsociated Press)?The British aviation j j communique frequently contains a brief line to record that "direct hits] I we<e obtained upon an enemy dump i at" some point behind the German j lines. This colorless announcement i may seem to the reader in America I nothing more than the record of a I dull piece of routine, but the deed it self is different from its record. -American airmen attached to the British squadrons have long since found out that the business of bombing "dumps" often is exciting and spectacular work. Moreover, the importance of its effect upon enemy plans and Operation? can hardly be i exaggerated. A well-aimed hit on a store of German ammunition may de stroy the work of many months in' the munition factories, and cripple numerous batteries for many long days. A British airman. Lieut. W. A Barnes, has given The Associated Press the following account of a re cent 58-minute raid on a German dump as characteristic of this form of activity: "On this particular bight there was not enough moonlight for a long raid, so the target given us was a Ger nian ammunition dump. We welcom ed the change, for, naturally, the strain of long distance raids into Germany, night after night, becomes a bit wearing. Dumps are of course, situated as near as possible to the fiiring line; and so mean short raids. "Dumps are by no means easy tar gets to find at night, for they are sel dom situated near any definite land marks, and are usually well camou flaged. By the study of maps and photographs, however, we had pretty well located the position of this one. and started out on the raid with high hopes of success. "We flew almost due east from the aerodrome. At the end of the fifty minutes, we could just make out the line of sheds. This was good; but we let out a parachute flare to light up the ground, and make sure we were over the target. This promptly dis pelled all doubts, for the Hun searchlights opened up at once, and a hail of machine, gun bullets leaped up from the ground. Anti-aircraft guns had been firing for some time, but the shells were bursting well above us. and giving no trouble. "The parachute flare proved a real friend, because both searchlights and machine guns concentrated upon it, giving us just sufficient time to dive .swiftly, release our bombs, switch on the engine, and start climbing. "When we turned to observe results, we witnessed the finest firework dis play I ever saw. Ammunition was cracking off at record speed, dense clouds of smoke were rising, and highly colored flames were leaping a hundred feet and more from the ground.. "We watched this pleasing exhibi tion for some minutes, until the cough of an 'Archie' burst near by to remind us that we were still over Hunland. and so turned and steered for home. "The whole job occupied exactly 5$ minutes; but it must have cost Ger many hundreds of man-power hours in munitions works?there was still some fire; there at noon next day? and. saved our French Allies a good many casualties, for. as it happens, that big dump, we learned. was* to serve a bit of front facing French troops." v GERMANY THREATENS SPAIN. Vigorous Protest Against Proposal to Seize Interned Ships. Amsterdam Aug. 24.?Germany has energetically protested against de clared intention of Spain to replace sunken Spanish tonnage by interned German ships, according to a Berlin official statement. EIGHT THOUSAND PRISONERS. ! British Make Big Gains of Huns inj I Three Days. Paris, Aug. 24.?In the three days ending Friday the British captured eight thousand prisoners, three thou sand of these being taken Friday, says Petit Journal. Tear Gas Causes Passengers to Weep. Brighton. England. July 1!?.?Sev eral hundred passengers on the sta tion waiting for trains yesterday were observed to be weeping bitterly, for quite an hour. The cause was even tually found to be from two pints of "tear gas" which had lea'ted from a carboy and which had permeated the atmosphere of the whole station. Wood's Seeds Crimson Clover Increases crop produc tion, improves the land and makes an excellent grazing and forage crop. WOOD'S FALL CATALOG Just Issued Tells All About Crimson Clover, Alfalfa, Fulghum Oats, Abbruzzi Rye and a!! other Farm and Garden Seeds FOR I ALL SOWING. Catalog mailed free. Write for it, and prices of any Seeds re quired. _ I T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen - Richmond, Va. ?_-_ <> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? NOTICE! Red Cross Subscribers Some of you have not paid the first in stallment of your subscription, and now the second is past due. Why not save the Treasurer a lot of work by sending in a check right now. R. L. Edmunds, Treasurer. The Sumter Trust Co. New Residents of SUMTER The population of our. city is constantly being added to by new people moving here, attracted by our excellent railway facilities, attractive homes, well paved streets and the general air of hospitality - ex tended to strangers by the citizens of the town. , To these new-comers we extend a most cordial invitation to become one of our depositors. Our bank is one of the largest and strongest in this section of the State, having resources of nearly fourteen hun dred thousand dollars and our constant desire to show each customer every possible courtesy: and accommodation. 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