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ms % ptatt|fliaa ai? Soni|toB. Published Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTKK, S. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisenicn ts. One Square first insertion ..$1.00 Every subsequent insertion.. .. .5U Contracts for three months, or 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 lor. The Sumter Watchman was found ,_In 1850 and the True Southron 1566. The Watchman and Southro now has the combined circulation an< influence of both of the old paper*, and is manifestly the best adverus.:. medium in Sumter. Chamber of Commerce Notes. lion. Myron T. Ilorrick, former ambassador to France, and chair man of the National Finance Com mittee of the War Camp Community Service for the War .aid Navy De partment, and Dr. ? H. N. Snyder. ot ;-'2airtanburg. State chairman of the same service for South Carolina, have appointed Secretary E. J. Reardon. of the Sumter Chamber of Conimr-rce as a member of the State executive comittee for the War Camp Com munity Service division of the big First United War Work Financial campaign in November. Mr. John Wood, managing secre tary of the Roanoke, Va.. Chamber of Commerce, formerly secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, at Roca\ Hill, and Greenville, S. C, has been selected as field secretary of the War Camp Community Service for th: States of Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia, and he has his South Carolina organization headquarters in Spartanburg Cham ber of Commerce. [ A conference of the South Carolina committee of the War Camp Com munity Service, with Mr. Wood, will be held in Columbia tomorrow to ar range county organizations for the big November drive. Sumter about one year ago sub scribed one thousand dollars for the War Camp Community Service Rec reation Fund which funds are used for doing for our soldiers outside o: the' cantonments about what the War Y. M. C. A. does ir the camps. Mr. C. G. Rowland was the Sumter chairman of the Chamber of Com merce committee that raised 'hi? money. Opening or the City Public School-. The public schools of the city opened Monday with an unusually large number of pupils in attend ance. It is especially gratifying to note the number of pupils in the high school. In spite of the labor conditions and the high prices that service everywhere demands there ^ar^jnore boys in the Sumter High 1?ohool>than at any time Tn its history. Full statistics will be given later. ' ? 1 ? TO PROHIBIT UNNECESSARY BUILDING. I Explanation of the Rule and the ! Reason Therefor, by the Saudi I Carolina state Council of Defense. I Columbia. Sept. 17.?Unnecessary building in times iikc these is re garded as waste. There is neither the labor nor the material to spare. State and County Councils of Defense are asking banks to limit their loans for unnecessary building. The War Indutries Board has placed in the hands of the Councils of Defense throughout the country the problem of stopping all unneces sary building where the construction totals S2.500 or more, i The War Industries Hoard, in 6th | cr word?, has asked the State Coun cils of Defense to act as its rep resent j atives in passing upon proposed con struction. The plan has been adopt : ed because of the imperative .neces sity of conserving labor, material and .'capital for war purposes. I Persons interested in a construc tion project must hereafter apply ; with a full statement of facts under; ; oath, to the State Council of Defense ; for a construction permit. Local, representatives of the Defense Cou- . rail will investigate the necessity of. the proposed construction and trans-, mit their recommendations to th.\ State Council to review. The action j of the State Council is to be forward ed to the Xon-War Construction. Section Of the Priorities Division of] the War Industries Board. In case-C where th^ Defense Council decider; against the projected construction * the person concerned will be directly j ntified. j The War Industries Board will in form all persons applying directly ir. it that they must "first take up ihoi> projects with the appropriate lcca!l representatives of the St'ite Council; of Defense. Persons interested in construction projects against which j a. State Council of Defense has role'rM can appeal to the War Industriell Board, but in such rases the Board will attach ^reat imoortancc to th* i negative decision e,f the Defense j Council. . The ability of the War Industrie? Board to enforce this whole plar. ; rests upon the fact that it controls, priorities and has also secured fror: j *he manufacturers of building mater ials a pledge not to supply materials; for projects which are not nutfc-j prized under the regulations of th'-: War Industries Board. The State Council of Defence v-\v j ? w.co a sriall committee on Propos-j eo Crnsirr.cti"n. tha personnel o*' which is yet to be announced. Al-j ready four building projects in dif ferent parts of South Carolina have been referred tc the State Council of Defense for approval. American Artillery too Muc h for Ger mans. With Americans in Lorraine. Sept IS. 2.30 p. m.?The German infantry altempted an attack on the American lines west of Moselle- on Tuesda-* evening, but were driven back by American artillery fire. SAVE PEACH STOXES. They Arc Xccdcd for Vsc in Gas Masks. Every citizen <>'?' South Caroina lias ;ni opportunity to ;:i<l the government i:i it- light again*? Prussianisni: , A great campaign has been launched to pr< cure materials with which to com ? tat German poison gas. On-, of Che essentials in the gas mask designed ?-.'> protect American soldiers from poison gas Is ca-*bon. As the qualitv of tin* carbon determines in a large measure the efficiency of the gas mask, it is important that every ei fert he made to procure those mate rials from which the best carbon can be procured. There is a serious shortage of the best law materials and iho coopera tion of all citizens is urged so thai the best raw materials can l?e secur ed. Belcjv is a list cf fruit pits and nut shells to be collected. Most of the?? materials are now j.:olr.g to waste. When it is realized that these wasie materials will save the lives of American soldier:-, every effort should be made to sec th i* no more go to waste. The ppopl ? of South Carolina ar> urged to tave the folowing for the use of the army: Peach stones or pits, apricci pit?, prune pits, plum pits, olive pit ;, date seeds cherry pits:. i 'i ::;'ii nut shells and the shells of riekny nuts, walnuts and butter nuis. All. pits and stones should be care fully dried in an oven oi in the sun before delivery. . The Conservation & Reclamation Division at Camp Wads worth. S. C has been instructed l>y the Quarter - "-?'yl'T (.'eneral's ofHce to rollect aii pits and stones going to waste in the camp. The division desires the coop eration of the people of South Caroli na, in the campaign. Pits and stones from the above named fruits which are sen: to the Conservation & Re elrmation Division will be forwarded to the gas defense school for use. Unfortunately there is not a fund available for paying the express or parcel pest charge on the pits and stones. Patriotic citizens are urged to send the pits and stones from fruits to the Conservation & Recla mation Division. Camp Wadsworth. S; C., postage prepaid. It is hopjki to collect several thousand pounds of these materials in the State. NO SEPARATE PEACE. Eclghim Will Rofn.se Offer of Separate Peace With Germany. Paris. Sept. 18.?The Belgian gov ernment after consultation with' tha Allies, according to the Petit P?risien. '??as d*e;ded to refuse without elabora tion the reported offer of a separate peace made by Germany. " : I _ - ? fi '- . . Providence Favored Americans. With Americans in Lorraine, Sept. IS. 2.00 P. M.?The German''aviator? attacked what they supposed to.be ar. America^ position in the region west of Vadiere last night.. Mists anjiJow clouds, however, prevented- tne-Tier mahs finding their targets. KXSSLY SV l VEHS KEICX <:V TVM TOR. Wholesale Murder?Outside World Can Have Xo True Ccjurcption ol Actual Condition Prevailing. Washingt ort. Sc-;>t. .' 7.? ia formation -? at hint: ihe State department today from neutral count: y threw new iisrh v. ?k ? situ ?ii?n in Centra! Russia, where a rc?*:n (?;' terror conducted by the Bolshevik: h. a made tin* positlo: Ox th populace tragic :a th extreme and :?? endangering ?:'ti-;;?ns o;* th entente peweas v.'ho have been un able o leave the country. Declaring that tin- outside world c n not have a true conception of the actual condition, the dispatches said ' that since May the Bolshevik ha ! made a campaign of wholesale mur der. Many person.-, have been shot 'without trial for politicj>l views which ! they .-assort. The acrrassination ci .Moses Critsky, head of ihe commission I against the counter-revolution and ; the attempt cn tin- life of Premier ' Lenine were direct results or' this con. dition of tyranny, said the advices. Desides the 300 persons who wore ; shot in connection wit!: the death of ! T'ritsky. a large nun;' er of other per | sens are held for execution in the i nvent'that further attempts are mad? kon the life of the Bolshevik leaders. I A genera! search Is being made of [the home:-- in Moscow of the well to j do and of former officers in. an effort I tr secure any shred of evidence upon wh;ch to make arrests, said the di : patches. The prisons are filled to ! oversowing and executions continue daily. In many cases, it was said. ;<.nter.ccs are passed upon the slight ' grounds that the accused might be dangerous to TJolshevik power. In ad dition irresponsible and vengeful gangs are v- nting on innocent per sons their desperation ever th" daily declining power of the Bolshevik. All newspapers in M >seow except ! the Bolshevik organs have been sus i pended since July il, the dispatehe add. ; Allied Citizens Said to Bo in Danger. ,' Washington. Sept. "7.?Information j reaches] the State department today from a neutral country that allied citizens in central Russia are in d:>n ; gor. The position of the Russian. ! populace was described as tragic in I the extreme. Five hundred person? ! wgre shot in conneetion with the as sassination of CJritski. Holsheviki cab i inet minister, the message raid. A ! large number of other pe-sons are I held for execution in the event fur ther attempts on the lives of the j'ol sheviki leaders are made INLAND WATE! I v. \ V. A System of Deep '-er. Level Canals on Atlantic Coast Recommended. Washington. Sept. IS.?A system of government-owned deep sea level ca nals from Massachusetts to the At lantic States has been recommended in a report .submitted to th:? senate trday J ; Secretary Rcdfiold in re unions a resolution adopted last July. TEN .LIVES LOST. EigiK Girls, a Boy and Man Perish in Maines Destroying Button Factory at Newark. Xcwark, X. J., Sept. 17.? Trapped In a cloak room on the top floor) eight girls, ;i boy and a man perished here today in a fire which destroyed the plant of the American Button Company. Another girl was killed when, seeking to escape from the (James she leaped from a window. >"me oilier girls were injured, several probably fatally. At 2 o'clock the factory hummed with the industry!:of more than 300 young women engaged in making buttons for army and navy uniforms. At $.30 the building was ;l flame swept ruin, the top iloor of which formed a tonib for workers who h,:d been driven into the cloak- room by flames and smoke. At i.'?'?') the fire was vir tually extinguished and the task of indentifying victims begun. The girls on the lower floors es caped by jumping and going down the lire escapes. Most of the dead and injured were working at the top of the building. Their bodies were found nuddied together, burned beyond rec ognition. Only through trinkets and bits of scorched attire were they iden tified. AMBASSADOR TO EXGLAXD. Jno. W. Davis of \V. Va.. Appointed? He Also (iocs to -Berne for Confer ence on Treatment of Prisoners. i -. Washington, Sept. 18.?John W. Davis, of West Virginia, solicitor gen eral of the United States has beer, selected by the president to succeed Walter Hin es Page as ambassador to Great Britain. The announcement today disclor.ed the fact that Davis has safely arrived in Switzerland where he is to.head the American delegation at Berne in a conference between the American and German missions on the treatment and exchange, of prisoners of war. BRITISH C&PTCXKE ANOTHER VI I. LAGE. Germans in Sight Attack at Mouevres Push the British Back Slightly. fjtondon. Sept. IS.?The British at tacked this morning northwest of St. Quentin. it is officially announced to day. Gen. Haig reported the capture of the village of Kolnon. .3 inilos no -thwest of St. Quentin. A German attack last night at Mouevres; under heavy artillery pro tection resulted in the British being pushed to western outskirts of the village. ?--r-, Lieut. David W. Loring Killed. telegram Monday afternoon an Captain Geo. W. Loring received a nouncing that his son. Lieut. David Worth Loring died from wounds re ceived in action on August 24th. Lieu .. Loring enlisted as a private in Wilmington, N. C., where he had liv ed for several years, and won his commission as lieutenant after he went to France. SOLDIERS KILLED IX-TRAIN" WRECK. Twenty-live Re}H>rtcd to Have Met Deatlj With Thirty Injured in Mis souri. Springfield, .Mo.. Sept.. 17.?Twenty tive soldiers are rej>orted killed an.' :jc others injured in a headr-on col lision lx-tween a troop train and a St. Louis & San Francisco freight train one mile east of Marshfield, Mo., tonight. The injured were carried into a rear coach of the troop train where they were given first aid until the !ar rival of a relief train from Spring field, y A guard was immediately thrown out around the track and no one al lowed to approach. No information as to where the troops were from or their destination was available. The a.e; d and injured are being brought 10 Springfield on the relief tram which is expected to arrive here at 12.30 o'clock. T ill MI) PRIMARY TCKSDAY. Ci?icc of Comptroller Genera! to Be Filled. Columbia, Sept. IS.?A third pri mary lor LiiC election of a comptroller ;;? r*< ral was ordered for n"xt Tues day. September 21, by the State Dem ocratic executive committee yester day. The iwo candidates te be voted for are Rut. L. Osborne, Columbia, preis en.' cornntjjqller general, appointed to nil out the unescpired term of the late Carltun W. Sawyer, and E. C. Elmore of . Pickens county. In the second primary Mr. El-more received 2^,218 vote?, Air Osborne ?2.5$<5 and Jaaies" A. Summersett of Columbia, a third candidate, 20,280. . 'r' Several petitions were read to the committee yeserday asking that th ' oificc be fiiled at the general election November 5. One oi these was from Dillon county and another from Aik cn. Lack of funds with which to meet election expenses and unwilling ness of election managers to conduct another primary were cited as reasons to justify such action, if ^he commit tee could so determine. A petition was aiso received from Charleston, asking that precincts in that city be consolidated. The committee also re garded this, as contrary to primary election rules. The following were declared the nominees of the /second primary: each having received a clear majority in the respective races: . T'rited States senator?W. P. Pol le ek. Che raw. Attorney general?Sam Wolfe. An derson. Railroad, commissioner?H. H. Ar ne id. Spartan burg. Commissioner of agriculture ?B. Karris, Pendleton. ? The following was declared *'* be . the official vote: United States senate: Peoples 30, 044. Pollock 49,020. Attorney general: Sapp 2t-^f2, \y,a.e 4 ".078. Railroad eomr'>i-_~:^rfer: Arnold 44.078, Richardson .?,.",652 Commissioner of ? agriculture: Oar-" rison 37.0(18. Karri?. A 1.300 G?RBY YOSifi PABSELS il ?HELP THE? RED CROSS ! ' Leadership Has Become a Habit With Schwartz's'' BUY M MM STIIPS ? ?BACK OUR BOYS AT? THE FRONT WE ANNOUNCE AN EXHIBIT EXTRAORDINARY OF THE i iff L W ITS, COATS S riff il i f 1 2 A Col f ollectian of S uits an oals Suoi aS ffW W(ilil< 1 Ii ? V- rv." h i |l<f piraSt.re of s< it < Ki t> ivuh m va iet.v of slyhs - ;ct. { ?:e* . Sk'l lulJy t \U ri'd anil ? a highly ualtyp?. K ^rifess of y.-ur ;?*r i cular figure?slim, average, medium or Mouf. you will Iii d am rile ,s. i<r.ti<.n in just the style of Si its yo s pr fer. Prices, $25 with easy steps up to $125.00. 01!!? Si] M ?S3 01 !!i;3 Sfinpf] Women's Frocks of Silks, G r-eUe. ^ertf. JS?iin, Crep - (ie Ciiian?! J rx'v. St> c p~ tivatirigthey simply <? mm-ind ><>ur undivided atuntijo. Ma :\ ??| th.sd materials v. ill not he ob*h!:g lafi r, which emphasizes fh^ importwee of e-ariy eiedion. Prices, $15 up to $69.50 CTDUirc IV T\IV MCACIlDr AC MID Clirrrcc The Demard m tr.e f'resent Is ttr Service ar>d Stye, and fiy Senrlse is Meaet the Amount of Wear a Garmsnr Will Bve, WHICH IS jHCVHjL fj lilt NtAjUKt Ur UuK jl'ttLJJ?ibt HAi?REO ITS VALUE. TO THE WEARER. quality?YOU ARt SAFE V/KcN YOU BUT AT SCHWARTZ'S. Autumn's Millinery Modes H^re Asserts t< Charm Anew! THE M'AV SWEATERS ABE HERE THE NEW CXliEEWEAR arc Ucrc THE L\ ( AMfliljE Corsets arc Bore THE XEW BLOUSES ARE HERE. THE XJS\V GLOVES ARE HERE. TBE NEW KIMOXAS ARE OEBI THE NEW BOSIEBV ABE BEBE. TB XEW SKIRTS ARE HERE. And so on down with Everything to Wear, for what is it you can't find a< _? I/aily ?he <fi>p?:iy chanj>*s. N\ m arrivals adding to I he d< -Hit hi <;! a.. i?sortin? ni now ..j its veiy zenith. From such K?mous e>:^ners.as **G-AC?h,:' "HvK; v' ?liV \ SHAW," "M(X H,Etc, Etc. f