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MUST SAVE? G^'SOPTNE. f 3'ate Fuel Administrator Warns Au tomobillsts That -joy Riding on Sunday Must be Discontinued. Anderson, Sept. 13.?A general ob servance of the. government's reques* for^gasless Sundays is strongly, urge" by B. SB- Gossett, federal fuel actmin Istrfttor for South Carolina. Mr. Gos sett today addresed a letter on this subject to ali - fuel committeemet throughout the Sate. The letter fol lows: ~v*I desire to again call your atten tion to the request of the Fuel Ad ministration that .the use of auto mobiles on Sundays be discontinued except for very limited purposes ?J?fceimportance, of this .request can Bi^ be over estimated^ V There is now ?n. hand only, about . one month's Stapyly of gagolineTn the entire, coun try and it is absolutely necessary ;tha* this limited supply he conserved both fa** the purpose ;o? supplying ou: armies and for the purpose #of car rying on the necessary business and interests of 3 this, country. . v A ?short age in either case.vwould ^erioush cripple ouje efforts to .win the war.. :^-$t is eniy another striking, illustra tion of the patriotism of the Ameri can; people that they have to such ar> extent complied - with the request of'the Fuel Administration. Self, de nial upon request and as a patriotic #uty,ls practfeed by the American people where it could only; be ac complishec by-force in Germany. ? It :is especial ly gratifying to find that in most-of out-larger eiries, where the;-necessity for' c?nserv?tior is'fully "v1 uir?erst?odi^ Observance o this request; has been almost' univer It 1s 'aiser> grar:?ying that ' the ?g&at.Vmajority of people in Soutn s^at'blina have proved themselves sc patriotic as to comply with the re quest without murmuring. Unfortu *?teiy,vhdWever, a : great many peo ple* either 'from lack.c^Tpatriptisni or because*.'of-?? lack, of kitowiedge as .to.. .tSfe 'real- necessity:; foM jphtsea^'mg the j request, have ^seen fit ? i$| bjnore ft \ Numerous " complaints " zdmie to thit^ ??e^of Iby riding <m SuhdaV- yl asky tfeef-ore; that you call upon all nip- , rri^ipar and rural policemen, sheriff? ??ad>constables* to cooperafe in pro-; eViring for yo? the": .nuhiber? and; names of owners of cars being oper atenF on Sunday and that you pre-j serve these to be forwarded to this: Office for investigation when re quested- so to do. It ' may. become -^?eess?ry to publish these names, if iSere -are those" "Who still- persist in unnecessary riding on Sundayv" It Is: ^^jfHRl tfctt p?blic'sentiment" and pub $j& ?*?3emnatibh' wildes sufficient rfc. ?^t^^BWp *3o> the < practice without! rVferer drastic measures -being taken; The request Is not intended : to pre-; vent physicians and - surgeons fron: usnig ibefir cars in making necessary ^ofessioii?l - visits 01* Sunday where 'the>ca?s 3?re only used %or7 rhij^'pur po^;-nor-^rom 'preventing the use^ d' aut?mjobi$es tor ?ffend?nee" upon clriireh^ who hav> jfi^ther^aieans of -transportation: arid '"^ho live tat too greatdistance/ tr Vt^Se*hf;'*thehr churches by>. walking:, &aJy- kj'i&e rare?lF ^msta^ceW .how ever, is: there any justification for the use of atn-omobiles :fdr church ' at> tendance in. cities, especially . where street cars are run, or in the Country where oihe'r vehicles may 'be used' It would-be well for those who find it necessary to use* their cars for the a\bove specifiedv purposes to use some placard showing^ to the "public for what^ purpose the cars are beinp riln, and stating that they are only rtnr fof'such a 'purpose./ I have such c?n??ente in ': the * patriotism* of "the people of' this State'in their symp?-. thy;fo'r the -boys* who are-fighting our battles across the sea, -that I am con .il^nt the request;will' be universally o^etved as ;soOh as"W is fully under etobd. * We iranst; meet all "demands for^Self ^denial^with the trve \Amer iTc^n'.-ispirVci;l*r ea hzin g'' ^h^c ? however much of our selfnS&'pIe?sure we may be called" upon to "forego, it is noth ing' as' 'compared- with the sacrifice which our boys in the army are mak gp? : ' - B. B. Gossett, Federal Fuel Administrator for South Carolina. ! 2 f - *i A Recovery. 1 Browirn-^Is*-^^ brother, who was sd deaf, any. better?^ Bridget-^"Sure* he'll be. ap right in the- morning.** Brown?"Tou don't say so?" Bridget? ^es.-he wijs .arrested yesterday and gett his;h?iato^*ii^ : ? '. '+f r' Famou? Library; The librj^r o^Athe KoBse of Lords coatains about- &0,(XX>: vc4urQesr aad they are fret out in a luxurious suite ?r> rooms.' Tbe library Is particularly Ttch in-historical works and memoirs, s&d Ineludes one of the ?nest collec tion of law books in London as beSts the needs of the Peers. Why Solitude It Desirable. Soljifade & tEe :cnief iugporT of the ?ffectlbtii; Tt wbuld^^e'lmpqsslMe to your fellow man if you ?hew you Derer get'away from hiik-^-From th?A?aitic. y . ? ; . yr injah Up to Date. Little Benny was roo&ing at a pic ture e* El>jah g'Ofbl? i& heaven in a a&?fidt ?^fif^. ^ointfeg- fo the halo ebput the propheW* head. Benny; ex J^&e?i';' ^ee-; ^iiafi. heV' carry mk ia^textra. .?re.H.. 1 Sif r-K ~-: . Comfort in Rat'* Companionship. ?nee 'Iii a great prison a prisoner showed iae'a '-gray :rat' that he bad made ?friends*with and; had trained tu peedme 'comparatively fearless. ' As .^nibbled at ttb^~ piece of bread that Le held in his band he said' with' a tvhimsical smile: "It's pleasant to bat* a little creature for a friend that doesn't .care or doesn't even know whether1' you're a prisoner or not and likes you just because you've bad a chance to show a little kindness."?Ex ^B?KEBt?SC:??<3"E >|EET1X^. Home Demonstration Club Holds In teresting Session. The first regular meeting of the re cently organized Baker School Home Demonstration Club, and the Baker School Rural Health Association was ield Friday, September 13th with ! a splendid attendance of patriotic and ?ublic spirited men. women,* boys and girls of that school district. More than ordinary ; interest was manifested in rural health work and home economics, and it looks a; :houghthe good people of that sec tion are wideawake to the im >ortance of plantihgT and conserving food and increasing the phyisical and moral efficiency of the man and wo iian power to help our soldiers and our government to Win the war and :t the same time get ready for the .'arly appr?a m of the cotton boll weevil. Miss Alice J. Martin, home demon stration agent in charge of this home demonstration club interestingly lec tured on the proper diet for : babies nd other children, and the c?re of ?hilk and protection of foods* for nothers'and infants, proper diets for >o*th,'ahd^ she then proceeded tc orepare and"cook before the audience Certain baby foods and "explained thV easons for the proper preparation ind protection of the dietary foods nd explained the evil effects on ba ie"s of improper nourishment for aothers and-babies. ~S Mrs. E. W.r D?bbs lecturec! on the .are of the'sick : to prevent the ipread of"'" communicable diseases nd demonstrated the correct; and lPrto-date methods of nursing sick people by the manner in which pa tients should be handled and bathed -nd the time and labor saving meth ods to be adopted in the sick room md how to prepare a patient's bed, how to "keep the room sanitary, and the patient comfortable and at the ?ame time pr?tedt "the h?rseand thV :$mfly.fr6m becoming infected. ;" Mrs. Dabbs ' "Im^asized the hu najne and economic yalue/of a.coun ty* "health" survey"' and twelve monthf :ampa.i^n of education, and request ed her audience ' to" contribute to ' wattts 'the""raising ?f the two thou sand and five hundred dollars neces sary for this survey, and referred to he public spirited efforts of the col >red citizens of this county in rais ing among themselves six hundred lollars for this public health survey. She hoped that the time is nelar when .he rural districts of this county, hke other counties, and. like the city of Sumfer," will " ave" a* public "trained nurse to help the poor' people in at ?lending to their sick ones. t>r. X *H.' Haynsworth,, county su perintendent of education heartily j endorsed the home . deraon.stration. and " the" Rural Health Association of j that community? He xcongratultaed the people ot I that school district for their. interest J in home "economics and improve ment of rural, sanitary ' conditions "said, that the S?mter County "Board of Education Stands ready" to; 'back ?p financially and otlierwise'th^jo'ihe iempnstrati'?h .c^i^^t, '^at;school. Wij.l organize *? 'domestic"**" "sciertei"*' class, and the teachers will agree to teach, under Miss Martin's supervision, do mestic science in that school. He too advocated education / of . the masses In preventing sickness and the spread of communicable diseases. Thought hygiene should "be taught the 'rural people ?s well as city. . Mrs. H. W. Beall, who presided in the absence of the president, Mrs. Tesse McLeod, delivered a very in structive talk showings, the. progress that Baker School has made in recent years from "a little fourteen by six teen foot, unsanitary, uncomfortable, and uninspiring and "poorly equipped and poorly financed one-teacher com munity school to a modern and cred itable school building with two teachers and much additional equip ment. Mrs. BeaTl referred feelingly to the support given" this school and other rural schools in their home demon stration and domestic science clubs -and in many other ways by the Sum mer Chamber of * Commerce; and its managing ' secretary, and thanked Messrs. D. D. Moise and S. L. Kras nbff ' for h?vihg . presented Baker Senool home demonstration club with a splendid three burner Oil stove and other necessary cooking equipment to help the Club get started. Mr. E. W. Dabbs spoke of the ne cessity of the people of the rural dis tricts waking up and dofng something to do away with unnecessary sickness and the. spreadVof communicable dis eases. He said that there is a deplor able and criminally neglectful condi tion of affairs in the rural districts which causes the loss of hundreds of lives annually, causes much suffering and the loss absolutely unnecessar ily of many thousands of dollars, all due to pure carelessness, indifference neglect, and mostly to ignorance of the proper methods of preventing the introduction and the spread of com municable diseases. He also endors ed the county health survey and hoped that the white people will no! allow their colored fellow citizens to go alone the effort to secure the five thousand dollars offered for this sur vey and educational campaign by the State, and tin* International Health' boa rds. Secretary E. I. Keardon. of th< Sumter Chamber of Commerce dis cussed the county fair for 1918 and the value of community organization for bettering public health, educa tional, and agricultural conditions. A domestic science room was built at Baker school when the present building was erected, but was used last Friday for the first time aftei years of uselesr-ness. The speaker pointed out that community organiza tion would have had this home dem onstration club years ago. After th? meeting Ice cream and cake wert served by the ladies and girls of th? school and very much enjoyed. Reliable reports received toda; were to the effect that buyers u Bishopville were paying only 30 cent.* for cotton. At the same time Sum ter buyers were paying 32 cents. otice to Under order of the goverSnient'.'publishers nie not permitted to send newspapers to subscribers who have not paid their sub scriptions in advance. This order* goes into effect October 1st and We are'required to discontinue all papers sent to subscribers who are :irt arrears. This or?lfer is mandatory and no exceptions can be mads. Therefore, on October 1st all papers will be dis continued for which the subscription has .not been paid up to or beyond October 1st. The date to which the subscription has been paid is indicated oh the label of each individual 'subscriber, and every subscriber is requested to inspect the 'label'*on "his"paper, and ascertain the date of his subscription expiration. ' If anyone finds that he is in arrears he is asked to promptly remit in payment of the amount clue for subscription "arid for one year in advance at the rate of One Dollar and Fifty.cents ($1.50) per year. > We do not wish to discontinue a single subscriber, and we ask that each and every one will remit by mail or call at the office and settle the account due for past subscription and make payment for. a year in advance, ,as required by the Government order. Many of our subscribers ? have been' in our mailing list for almost a life-time and haye paid their subscription at their convenience, sometimes the* payments being made af intervals of several years, but the k Government has forbidden this prac tice, which has been mutually agreeable, and we are now forc ed to put our subscription list on ? strictly cash in advance ba sis. We hope that our readers will cooperate with us in carry ing our the order and that we shall not have to discontinue any of our subscribers. '.*' /-].'? The country is generally more prosperous and money is more pentiful than ever before, consequently it will be no hardship for any of our subscribers to 'pay the amount due us. We have carried the accounts of hundred^ of; subscribers year after year, in hard tim^s, when money was "scarce, and now that we are re quired to enforce the cash in advance rule, we feel assured that our readers will reciprocate by naming settlement before Oc tober 1st. . 7.,. IF YOUR PAPER IS NOT PAID UP TO OCTOBER 1ST IT WILL BE DISCONTINUED ON" THAT DATE. THIS IS A GOV ERNMENT ORLj:R AND CANNOT EE DISOBEYED. ? . OSTEEN PUBLISHING CO., . ? ?' ' . H. G. OSTEEN, Manager. Chamber of Commerce Working In I The Interest'of County Fair. The Sumter Chamber - of Com merce is planning for a farmers' in stitute during the 1918 fair of the Sumter County Fair Association, at which agricultural, fertilizer, grain,, garden, home demonstration, live-r stock and poultry experts will discuss changes in farm methods to prepare Cor the inevitable early approach of the . Mexican cotton boll weevil; Misses Keels and Martin, home dem* onstration agents and J. Frank Wil liams, farm demonstration agent, ;are working: hard to have their clubs and the farmers and their families make1 a good showing. The-. 19M Sumter county fair, is recognized by {he commercial organ/-] ization a&- the potential; time- andr op portunity for the farmers, - merchants; .real . .estate - dealers; farm machitjj^ dealers, antomobile, :dealers,' land: renting, farmers, and the manufac turers to get together for speeding up preparations for the coming of. the boll weeyih Rural and city schools; and city home demonstration clubs should join together, in this great ef fort .for the bigges> of all the 1918 war winning Sumter County fair and boll weevil fight. It is recognized by the Chamber of Commerce that notwithstanding Sum ter county has been forced by tear, conditions to do many things in farm diversification that are absolutely- es sential in boll weevil infected terri tory, . nevertheless this -county is- a good ways behind the times in i be ing ready ? for the unexpected early j approach of the boll weevil, and ex- j trabrdinary preparations must -be i made, organization of the agricultur al, livestock, banking and commercial interests, and very close and cooper ative, speedy organization must be effected because Sumter county is just outside , of the quarantined of j "closed" territory alreadyN infected or| within the zone so close to the boll I weevil that the closed" territory will' soon be "quarantined", territory by I virtue of the early infection, by this cotton pest. The farmers of this county can do nothing better than to have on' ex- j hibition at the 1918 fair the greatest ! amount:} of field products, improved varieties of hogs, beef and dairy cat-; j tie, poultry, and farm machinery,, j dealers can do a lot of good also "by' exhibiting their latest, their very la1-' test time, labor, and money saving I machinery to educate the farmers.! With thousands of farm, laborers j and young men being called to'the j colors, and labor getting scarcer and j higher ?ach month, the farmers are being confronted with labor probL 1 lems that must be solved, and solved j in a greater hurry than heretofore!, I and growing cotton under boll wee tvil c?hdli?ns with scarcely any la j bor will be simply impossible as a I profitable crop. j Getting together and discussing the j many phases of agricultural activi ; ties, exhibiting farm and field pro j ducts, investigating methods of othei i farmers, etc., will be more success i fully accomplished in a few days at :a county fair and among the largest gathering of farmers, bankers, trier j chants, live stock raisers,' and other ! interested men and women than at ?any other gathering of people, at any j time in the county. Every man, woman, boy and girl in this county should consider it a patriotic duty to help make the 1918 i county fair a great success, and ev | cry .community in this county should be represented by a combination ag ' ricultural, home demonstration, can ning and tomato and domestic science : booth showing the progress and the patriotism of each community and ' ; community school and club. - Individual agricultural farm ex ' hibits showing field' garden, pre ? Ueiving. canning, drying, and other I conservation methods will be of im ? mense value as educational features in preparation of the boll weevil. ' j The Sumter County Farmers' Uii ion should take the lead in making '?'the agricultural and livestock ex . j hibits the best ever shown at ap> 'previous county fair. The gkspHhe saving request"x>f the fuel administration -was more gen erally observed by Sumter motorists yesterday than on previous Sundays. The police took down the numbers of a few more than fifty cars that ap-. peared^to be used for pleasure, while on the previous two Sundays there were more than a hundred car num bers noted each day. , There were very few cars to be seen during the morning, a' few more in the after noon,- but at night, after darkness threw its concealing shroud over the c-frlh, quite a flock of cars, bat-like, were observed flitting through the track streets and out into the country. Some of these night riders were so patriotic and were so careful not to set a bad example to their neighbors that they Vere' running with their icar lights cut out, so that the num bers could not be identified. If the police iiad been able to patrol all the de streets arid had ?been '. equippe.3 with search lights to illuminate the" 'ear-ends'.of the cars of the pleasure .^eekirig hight-riding patriots the list of'numbers forwarded: to the fuel ad aiinlstrator would have been much 'bngef than it was. ..It is to be re gretted that the few who are obsti nately disregarding the- request of the *uel administrator to^ abstain from Measure riding on Sunday cannot be Vroperly dealt with', for the result of their refusal to assist in conserving ?asoline will have* the result of the forcing the government to adopt Irastic measures and those who are ?.>atriotically doing their duty will suffer along with the slackers. i The labor situation is steadily growing : worse in the county, the I high prices paid for cotton picking j and all other classes of labor having (accentuated and intensified the situa tion rather than inducing the work ers to put in full time and to make i unusual efforts to harvest the crops land get the essential work done pfomptry. From all sections of Sum ter and adjoining counties come re ports that comparatively few farm la borers,' cotton pickers, ginnery hands etc., are putting in full time and that on many farms little cotton has been picked. Som'e gins are shut down for lack of hands and conditions are rap idly going from bad to worse. Admitted the Truth. Naomi was la* the habit of crying when'failing ? whether hurting herself or: flofr,* andT would "waft' for 'someone to cbme ana pick Her up. One day she fell down *and fc^|an whimpering/ But her mamma,' not;; thinking' 'her' badly feiert, waited to''see what1 she woifld do. Naomi looked around and,' see lag no one condng, said, "On, shucks, I 4snvt bort anyway, Pse dett fuasin'." Does It Seem Fair? About half/of the discontent in this world arises from the circumstance thatmeii ca'rinot collect the living they jhink the world owes them without putting in about eight good hours of toll a rlay.-?Houston Post Hani; Watch at Night The care of the- watch tft night or when it Is'not In use Is an Important Item, concerning which the United States Bure?bi of Standards states: ?At night or when tbe watch is not in use it is desirable to leave the watch la tbe same position as during the day, and preferably in some place where It will not be subject to any great tern perature cmanf;e." t v-. - i > -" Education, It Is, no doubt, a very laudable ef fort, in modena teaching, to render as Imucb as possible of what the young I are required to learn easy and Interest ling. But when this principle Is pushed jtb the length of not requiring them to j (earn anything but what has boon made easy and interesting, one of the chief dbjeets of education Is saerilVe'l- - lohn Stuart 4U1L PAGE "DOC" DENMAN?BIG BINGO HAS TOOTHACHE A DEXTAL OPERATION IX RIXGLIX(JVILLE. if? How would you like to be a dentist j nc-r of relieving a patient in pain, to an elephant? Next to being an ele-1 In Performing this operation Den i_ v. ? u ,i ? ^ i man scorns the forcep methods His ohant who is badly in need of a den-i.^. . . . " ^v'";.?' I treatment is merely an evolution of list there is said to be nothing more : lhe good old-fashioned scheme taught exciting. Unlike the requirements of! by our grandmothers, whereby one those gentlemen who cater to the j end of a string is fastened about aches and ills of human beings, th?r j the objectionable tooth and the otn pachyderm operator requires no j or end tied to a flat iron. The evo? great knowledge of jaw surgery, [f he j lution consists of using a strand of be one with a strong right arm, in-; cable in lieu of twine and a couple domitable courage and a supply of'of husky assistants to yank the same, cast iron instruments, he need nev- j When the free end of the strand .has er bother his head about the State j been properly attached to the "snag/' Board of Dental Examiners. George ! Denman gives a signal with his incan Denman is such, a man. Therefore he ? descent lamp much after the fash is the keeper of the block, tackle and [ ion of a brakeman waving a lantern, drilling machinery with the Ringling j the pullers pull, the "Doc" dodges Brothers' Circus, due to arrive here, j and the tooth flies through the air. elephants and all, Thursday, October It is said the Ringling Brothers' 3. j elephants excel as entertainers this In examining cavernous mouths for | year, executing feats never before at possible ills. -Denman uses a big hand j tempted. Three great bands of them mirror and a 500-watt incandescent j appear in the main tent immediate globe attached to a wire which leads from one of the circus dynamo wag ons. Now and then he has actually filled a cavity with cement, but ex traction is the more popular man Pisgah News and Views. Pisgah, Sept. 16.?Cotton will soon be all open which shows a short crop. It is being picked as fast as possible. Seventy-five' cents per hundred is paid in this section. In other places one dollar''per hundred is paid.. I think that will be the general price! second, but if the State 'Committee ly after the curtain has fallen on the last scene of "In Days of. Old,", the. gorgeous spectacle of. romance and_ chivalry which is the big feature of ' the circus program. ? - . when they could use" thefr~^i.*-- ft is so with the gins. They are ail.? broken down or so badly out of re pair that they can't run much. Sev eral have bought new niachinen-y but . can't get it delivered. ' ' It will cost about the same to h?ve a third prim'ary as it- dia^tb^^.'st&h* soon. If a cotton picker could be in vented it would soon be picked if it could pick faster than the five finger machines. But I don't believe that as long as there are poor people de pending on picking for a living in the fall that there will ever be a ma chine invented to pick cotton. The best talent available, backed by plenty of money has failed to perfect, i cotton picker. Brains that have ac complished wonders in inventions like wireless telegraphy and other great and complicated inventions have sig nally failed and it looks like provi- j dential hindrance. Much could be picked by white people if they would, 'out many are too lazy and others feel it is a disgrace to be seen work ing in the field. I know of several young ladies who stand at the top of ill that pertains to sweet industrial womanhood, who pick cotton. They are educated and don't feel it any disgrace to pick cotton. No more than the college girls of the north who go west to help in the wheat harvest. A man can depend on such girls for wives when trouble and hardships come to all in various ways. A quantity of fine syrup is being made in this section. Many have enough and to spare. It surely is difficult to get wheat ground. It stays at the mills for weeks and people have to buy flour send Osborne and Elmore to the gen-, eral election they will go as inde pendents for they are not the nomi nees of the party. Such an adt . would be a bad precedent and would, open the door for future independ ents. Better have the primary arid^. preserve the party machinery. . (When there are only two candi dates there is nothing to be decided by a primary that would not have the same effect in the general election.) Painting Point*. When preparing paint reuiembet ? .hat better results-are obtainable from tseveral applications of thin paint than from heavier coats. Of counjerr.Jt takes longer to do the" workhf Paint But on In thin coats and allowed * to ,. dry, lasts much longer and wfll not ' flake oft as is often the case when , heaviei coats are applied. Wheti/vefcy . . fine results are wanted rub down each ';oftt after it has thoroughly-dried. ,.' ? ?-??i- r 1 - Just Like Grown-Up?. Three little girls were playing school, but each wanted * tb fce ? t?* teacher. One little girrsal?: will settle this quarrel?I will be teacher : I myself." . ;' ' : ; .\\:;3 \\ it 'HP. ?1*5S POSITIVELY COMING IN ALL ITS ENTIRETY GALA CIRCUS DAY THURSDAY O BIGGEST CIR CUS EVtR^iN SUMTER iU?r ltl? BROTHER? WORI ff$ iNVLlfMI 6RE?TEST -SHOWS AND MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE OF romance??" chivalry INliP ?fAPACEfo OF ALL ZOOS HERDS QF elephant %Ltq?s 80 COMPANIES AND 5tf?ERR BIGGEST ?KCDC^ .ON ? ? evE-.k - PRECEDING THE FIRST PARADE AT 10 A. M. ? -: ?? OOORSOPEN AT I A 7 P. M. PERFORMANCES BEGIN AT 2 4 * P. M. ONE TICKET ADJVHTS TO EVERYTHING_CHILDREN UNDER- It YEARS HALF PR1CR y Downtown ticket ofiice Cirens Day at SIBEKT'S DRUG STORK. 8 S. MAIN ST. Admission Tickets and reserved seats on sale at exactly same as charged at Circus* Grounds.