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C{j? Madman aii3 5aa%oiL Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTJEK, S. C. Terms: f 1.50 pew annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$1.00 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will be charged lor as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found In 1850 and the True Southron m 1X6 6. 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._ ROBERT A. COOPER. Short Sketch of Our Next Governor. Laurens, Aug. 28.?Robert A. Coop er who has been nominated for gov ernor of South Carolina, is 44 years of age, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A- Cooper, both deceased. The Coop er family lived in Waterloo town ship, engaged in farming. As a boy Mr. Cooper attended the public schools of his community a few months each year. When he reach ed his 20th year Mr. Cooper arrang ed to attend the Jones High School in Greenwood county^ going one year. This school at that time was taught by W. P. Culbertson of Laurens coun ty. At the end of the year Mr. Coop er took the county teachers' exami nation and obtained a certificate to teach in the public schools and for about two years he taught in Lau rens and Greenville counties. Deciding to take up?the study of It j law, Mr. Cooper came to Laurens in ] .189 7 and read law in the office of the iate John L. M. Irby. In a few! j months he was admitted to the bar j j and entered upon the practice of his I J chosen profession. In 1899 he was ! appointed magistrate for Laurens. In | j 1900 he was elected to 1 e legislature] I and was reelected in . <02. In 1905 I I he was elected solicitor of the new! j Eighth circuit and for 12 years he I j filled the office of prosecuting at- j \ torney with conspicuous ability and j courage. With an ambition to be of j j larger public service to his State, Mr.! j Cooper entered the race for govern-1 lor in 1914, receiving a handsome) vote, and incidentally laying the j j foundation for success which has j crowned his aspirations at the end j of the third race for the high office j for governor. "Mr. Cooper is the first Laurens county citizen to be elected to the governorship, though the late Chief i Justice William D. Simpson, as lieu-1 tenant governor, succeeded to the of j fice when Hampton was elected to the United States senate. Mr. Cooper, richly endowed with natural gifts, has nevertheless been and is a student, a liberal and broad minded thinker, and withal an amia- j j ble, companionable man. He is j a member of the Baptist church and t for several years has been a member of- the board of deacons of the First j Church at Laurens. In all public j matters, county, State and nation, i i Mr. Cooper has ever been ready to j j render unselfish service, and for years : he had been looked upon as a lead.- : i er in this section. He is interested in ! j farming and has given much time ] and means to the promotion of differ- j ent enterprises of the city, with some j of which he is officially connected, j In 1914 Mr. Cooper lost his wife, who was before marriage Miss Mamie \ Machen of Princeton, this county. A j little daughter, now ten years old, survives the mother. Last November j Mr. Cooper married Miss Dorcas j Calmes, a native Laurens girl who j had fpent several years in Columbia, j ' ?r/ w ! NAT B. tffSXu Brief Sketch of South Carolina's Next Senator. I-aurens. Aaig. 2S.?Nathanial Barksdale Dial, nominated in Tues day's primary for United States sen ate for the term beginning- March 4, 1919, was reared on the farm five miles west of the city, being a son of the late Capt. Albert Dial, farmer and banker and one of the leading citizens of the county. The senator nominated was educated in the pub lic schools of the county and town, i graduated from Vanderbilt University i and the law school of the University j of Virginia. At Vanderbilt he was a, classmate of Senator Oscar W. Un- ' derwood, of Alabama, Senator Dun-: can U. Fletcher of Florida and Jas. C. Reynolds, now associate justice of' the United States supreme court. As a lawyer Mr. Dial-,, has been aj hard worker and has been connected ' with many leading ca%es! However, best work has bee ;?ong industrial lines as a promoter and builder, and no man in the upper part of the State has contributed more to the sum to tal of prosperity along these lines th/in has N. B. Dial. He is president of the Enterprise National bank which he organized about 15 years ago, and he is connected officially with many other 'enterprises of the city, being at the head of one of the bonded warehouses of ' the city, the first one to be built in' this part of { the State. I i. j He was the pioneer in the develop- j ment of the Ware Shoals water pow- j er on Saluda River, and that splen- ] did manufacturing plant and model j mill town was made possible by his i initiative and many years of strug-1 gle and hard work. i ! Mr. Dial has been honored by h:s; town and county people, having serv-. ed a~ mayor of the city and having i represented the county as State ex- j ecutive committeeman, and frequent-1 ly placed on the convention delega-1 ticm. While Cleveland was President Mr. .Dial was :ofCere d .a consulship, but declined 'the honor he was not financially able to assume the post at the time. In 1912 Mr. Dial entered the sen atorial race against Senator Tillman and W. J. Talbert and received very fine vote. Not daunted by the failure of his first effort, he determined to enter the 191S campaign and laid his j plans to this end. Quartermaster Corps Xecds Stenog raphers. i Washington, Aug. 2S.?The Quar- | termaster Corps, which supplies the soldiers with food and clothing and: which has charge of seeing that they; get their pay, needs a large number; of competent stenographers. Capt. j W. R. Robinson of the Organization J Branch, Methods Control Division, j announced today. Any stenographer! who can qualify will be given $1,100 j a year to start'with increase to 200 at the end of three months. Aj few stenographers, with special qual ifications, who can take dictation at not less than 120 words a minute and who have had some secreterial expe rience have been engaged at $125 a month and there is room for more of this type. Those who wish to qualify for these positions may obtain information at every postoffice in the country, even in the smallest community. Ap plications should be made to tho lo cal representative of the National Civil Service Commission with head Guarters at the local posoffice Capt. Robinson said: "Living conditions in Washington are more satisfactory than for some time past, and it is apparent that the situation will improve. Work has| been started on enormous govern ment dormitories to house 2,400 peo ple and the Shipping Board has re cently moved some 2,500 employes away from Washington. The result has been that the room situation has been eased off a little and will, un I doubtedly, be better in a short time, as the new domitories are completed. :?he cost of living- in Washington is j atiout tne same as it is in Chicago or ! any ether city of that size. Satisfac i tory room and board can be secured j for not to exceed $5.") or S?O a month. Additional expense will, of course, vary with the inclinations of the in j dividual." The Baby-Saver in London. London, July 25 (Correspondence I of The Associated Press)?The man reputed to'be the ^world's most suc ! cessful baby-saver has come to Lon ; don to save lives for the British em pire and thereby replenish war's rav j ages. He is Dr. Truby King, found ; er of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Heii Ith of Women and Chil dren, an organization that has re duced the infantile dc-ath rate in New Zealand from p.bout S5 in 1,000 to 48. The New Zealand government has lent him for a year to the moth er country to teach women here how to care for their young. "Every mother," he says, "ought to be told the full extent of maternal responsibility and privilege. The i child may well ask of his mother? when he comes to know what makes or mars a human being more than any other factor of life: 'Did you give ; me the milk which the good God gave ! with every mother, or did you rob me ! of my birthright.' " I It is not, according to Dr. King, ; the poor and ignorant who fail most j in parental duties. He adds: "The burden of bearing children is for the most part, taken up by peo } pie who have the least means, and in a large proportion of cases, they set an example as regards natural nurs ing and personal care?in two words, complete motherhood?which is so often shirked by those of ample means and leisure. Civilized nations are recruiting their populations from parents who, relatively speaking, have failed in the battle of life .from one cause or another, and not from those who have succeeded." ?U.UTKK COTTON MAll?^ iCorrected dahy At 12 o'clock Noou J P. G. BOWMAN. Cotton Bum. Good Middling 33 J.-2. Strict Middling 33 1-4. Middling 33. "' ' \] Strict Low Middling 31 1-2. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET Open High Low Close Close Yes'dys Get . . 35.30 35.64 34.90 35.00 35.25 Dec . .34.95 35.22 34,30 34.55 34.80 Jan. . 34.85 35.05 34.10 34.35 34.50 Illicit Distillation: in Ireland. Dublin, July 25 .(Correspondence of the Associated Press)?The tax on whiskey, which has risen from ten to thirty shillings a gallon, has great ly stimulated illicit: distillation in. Ireland, and there has been a great addition to the number of cases of potheen-making reported to the po lice. This has always been a secret hillside industry in Ireland. EMfrit is extending to the towns. IiWRe country districts barley steepeer in sacks in a bog-hole .and malted on the barn floor is the material used. Dr. f-.nd Mrs. J. G. DeLorme and children have gone to Murrell's In let. Good Crops in Ireland. Dublin, July 25 (Correspondence I of the Associated Press)?A bumper j harvest is anticipated'in Ireland , this i year. At the end of May the right ! amount of rain came at the proper time, and all the food crops are re i ported Ito be exceptionally promis I ing. Winter wheat, oats, barley onJ j rye are all doing excellently. Pota toes will be particularly good. The numbers of live stock have been well kept up and it was a favorable lambing season. Flax is poor, and as it has been extensively, grown to pro vide Belfast with linen for airplanes this is a disappointment. RETURNS PRIMARY ELECTION?SUMTER COUNTY VOTES RECEIVED BY CANDIDATES FOR COUNTY OFFICES AND CONGRESS-AUGUST 27,1918 S' "Sumter?Ward 1. ' Sumter?Ward 2 Sumter?Ward 3 Sumter?Ward 4 Borden . Concord Dalzell DuBose ?arle? Farmers - Hagood Manchester Mayesville Oswego Pisgah Pleasant Grove Privateer Rafting Creek Reids . Salem Stateburg Shiloh Taylors Trinity Wedgefield Zoar Soldiers' Vote RETURNS PRIMARY ELECTION?SUMTER COUNTY VOTES RECEIVED BY CANDIDATES FOR UNITED STATES SENATE AND STATE OFFICES-AUGUST 27,1918. 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