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IWH Bt ttot FoftUiftoi ?? Sems?, * mn Seooftd Ota Mfttter. PERSONAL. Mrs. Lawrence Carson is visitin Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Spann. Miss Helena Bultman let today fo.* Winthrop. -Mr. Raphael Bowman left on Tuesday for Belmont. N. C. where he will attend college this winter. Miss Molly Bowman has gone to Ashevllle, N. C, where she will at tend St. Genevieve's school. - Mr. J. P. Booth, Jr., of the aviation service, who has been stationed aT Austin, Texas, is at home on fur lough. Mrs. Lilian Poole and daughter Elizabeth, of Jacksonville, Pia., are visiting Mrs. Charles McFaddin on W Liberty Street. Mr. H. G. Osteen is attending the meeting of the S. C. Press Associa tion this week at Gaffney. Miss Nettie Powell and Miss Eliza beth Murray left this morning for Camp Jos. E. Johnstone, Jackson ville, Fla., where they will enter the base hospital in the Red Cross ser vice. :-:Mlss Kathleen Parham left thi-c morning, for. Greenwood where she wift enter "Lander College. R. I*. Wright Dead. ; Mr. Robert Lee Wright died at his home on W. Liberty street about 2 a. m. Thursday, after an illness' of several months. " Mr. Wright was born' in Jefferson county,'Ga., Jan. 1*0." vgSSr, and was "near 57 yean ?hi, his " lather being Henry G fright and his mother Susan E ?3ejikins.- lie came %o Siunter over 3* ^ars ajp, and has lived in this ^ft -and" county since. He ' married "Mh^ Lieila, Edwards of this city, by wkeni seven children; two "daughters #ve " sons, . were born, all of wb^jsm are Irving. His wife died a few firtfr? ago, and he is survived by one brother Oply, Mr. A. R Wright, ol S??2erWftle, Ga. ''t^T?' 1 Wright has been connected with the business of Mr. H. J. Harby since the beginning and was a mem n e* of the'firm- of Harby & Co. at the tjme of his death. He was a man off5 $"he business Qualities. He had treeii a member of the city council hut" was not a man who aspired to public office? Grand Rally for 4th Liberty Loan. ' ?-!? A mass meeting will be held at the Opera House at 11 a. m., September 27,- when the following program will be carried out: t.. Exercises opened with grayer by Rev. J. A. Branson. ?bifft concert by Military Band from Camn Jackson. Address by French officer. sSpnj^ selections by the famous Cafeip- Jackson quartette. Address by ex-Governor Sheppard. Song selections by military quar tette. L?bery Loan drive headed by L. D. JenningsX ,< "Sae committee on entertainment is composed of the following: A. C. Pfeelps, S. H. ^Edmunds, Neill O'Don ae9,'-?i D. Jennings. Please watch the space donated by the banks of Sumter. A full page in The Item tomorrow. Something of importance to the ladies. "Send Off" For Nurses. A most interesting "send off" was given on Wednesday night at the home of Mrs. Porter on Baker Street to. .Misses Marion Nettie Powell and Elizabeth Murray, by the members of tlie Sumter Nurses' Association. These, two of our most efficient nurses, have answered the call of their country and "left for Camp Jo - seph E- Johnston, Jackson vile, Fla., "Thursday morning. There they will be joined by Mrs. Helen McKay, an other of the nurses of whom Sumter is justly proud. All honor to these young woman who are making such sacrifices. They carry with them' the heart feit prayers of our entire com xntemty for Almighty God's tenderest care and keeping. Miss Harvin, of the Army Camp, WaynesviJle, N .C, where recupera tives from gas attack are brought, was a guest of the Association as were also Misses Obenschain and Hud son of Camp Alice Tubercular Home. The menu of fried chicken- and all that goes with it seems to have touched the spot, if one is to judge by the many remarks made by the large concourse assembled at the sta- j tion to say good-bye and God bless you. Sumter at Ciemson. Sumter county is well represented at Ciemson this session by many promising young men. The following young men left on Tuesday morning to resume their studies at Ciemson College: Hugh Ryan. Wade Ramsey. Louis Pitts, Richard Wells. Robert Mellette, Odil Cain, Frank Kolb. F. M. Dwight. Mauriee Randle, Mims Pitts, John Parker. The following left today (the 19th) for Ciemson College to enter the freshman dase: Richard Dwight Mansfield Ryan, Edison Wright. Hai ry Hood. Bnick Car Stolen. The Sumter Automobile Association has been notified that a light Buick Six, 1917 model, motor number 313, 624 has been stolen from W. H. Moore, Greenville. Chief Of Police Sumter and Sher iff Bradford have been notified by the local Association and have been ask ed to be t>n the lookout for it. Help ing to find lost cars is one of the ser vices the automobile association doe* for its zaember* ?. .' ? AGAINST COTTON TAX. AMENDMENT TO WAIi TAX DILI FOR TAX OF $3 A BALK. South Carolina Congressmen to VoU Today Against Amendment o! Pennsylvania Reprcscnative. J Washington, Sept. IS.?All mem bers of the South Carolina delegation in the house except Representative Itagsdale. will be present tomorrow tf. vote against an amendment to th< war tax bill to be offered by on gresman Moore of Pennsylvania, tax ing cotton $3 a bale. Mr. Ragsdah may also be here in time as a tele gram uring the importance of hii presence was sent him today by Con pressman Stevenson. This amend ment while it may be defeated is ex pected to bring on a spirited fight. It is Mr. Moore's contention that since much money has been spent ir the South on military camps and can tonments that the people in that sec tion should not object to this extr tax on their cotton. The Souther; members will stubbornly oppose it especially in view of the fact that i price may soon be fixed for raw cot ton. war work campaign convex ?; tion. ! Prominent Leaders of Seven Organ izations Hold Enthusiastic Meeting ? in Columbia. r * Special to Daily Item. Columbia. Sept. 19.?All religious beliefs of South Carolina crystalized themselves into one gigantic unit t< raise one million dollars for wrar Work, at the united war work cam paign convention held here yesterday and today. Over five hundred dele gates representing the seven organ izations agiliated by request of Presi dent Wilson, are in attendance. A notable feature o^ the convention was an address by Gypsy Smith, British T. M. C. A. worker, who related hi: experiences among soldiers in France and called on the South Carolina peo ple to come together to iorm a great machine to raise funds to make their religions active in service to those who are laying their lives on the al tar of freedom. Other speakers be fore the convention included Gov Manning and leaders in the seven participating organizations. Miss Katie Boyd George, English Y. W. C. A. worker, Goudon Spriggs of Australia, Capt. George Dingle, o: the Canadian army and others ad dressed the rieeting. The closing meetings today were turned over U campaign experts who instructed workers in organization of district county and city units and discussion of plans for holding district meetings throughout the State. The United War Work campaign will be con ducted throughout the country the week of November 11 to 18. The di rection of the South Carolian cam paign will be in charge of a. A. Protzman, and other well known war campaign directors. aerial gunnery. Absolutely Necessary for Aviators to Be Accurate Shots. Somewhere in France, Aug. 25 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?Accurate machine-gun fire is the chief requirement of the suc cessful combat aviator, allied aviation experts agree. Fortunately for the allies that is one department in which their aviators excel. It is interesting to note the pro gress made in the weapons used by aviators. At the opening of hostilities airplanes were used mainly for ob servation work. Their pilots were armed generally with carbines, and sometimes only with an automatic re volver. Then came the fighting air plane and the single and double ma chine gun. But these newer nd more deadly weapons are useless unless properly aimed, and this is no small task a<; the pilot must aim hot his gun, but his whole machine. lie must use his airplane as a gun mount. It is eas\ ^to conjure some of the pilot's ditfieu! ties when the gun mount is manoeuv ring and traveling twice as fast as' any express train, while its target is in similar action. Nor is that all the difference be tween aerial and ground gunnery. On the ground, ammunition is pract :al ly unlimited. In an airplane, every ounce of weight counts, and ammu nition is therefore strictly limited. The greater, consequently, is the need for accuracy in shooting. It is important th\t no ammunition shall be carried which is not absolute ly reliable and all is selected and tested. Guns are rigorously inspect ed, for a jam at a critical moment might prove fatal. In training, on the other hand, ammunit:on is care fully selected for its badness; the ob ject being, by means of frequent ? n jams, to make the clearing of a stc.. 1 *ge automatically simple to the pil ot. The successful air fighter must be a good pilot; but even the most bril liant trick flyer, the "stunter" who can throw his machine about in the aii- and make it a supremely difficult target for his adversary, is nevertbe less incoinpletely equipped as a light er unless he can combine brilliant flying with brilliant gunnery. Foeh's rule that "off<-nee is the best defence*' applies even more in the air than on land, ami it is by following that rule that the allied fighters have won their ascendancy over the Germans. Recently before a crowd of 1,500 people, assembled for a Labor Day celebration at Erwin, Tennessee, Miss Sallie Wannamaker, well known in Sumter as a musician of ability, pre sided at the piano, and rendered a program of solo numbers of a pa triotic charaeP-r that met with an en thusiastic reception. Later on dor ing the program, an orchestrA which she helped to organize and of which she is pianist, took a leading part in completing the celebration of the hol iday by acting as accompanist for I community singing and other enter tainment. Miss Wannamaker i spending the summer months in Er win, Cotton Market I Corrected dahy ?t 12 o'clock Noon. P. G. BOWMAN. Cotton Buy*.'. Good Middling 'M 1-2. Strict Middling 31 1-4. Middling 31. Strict Low Middling 29. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Open nigh Low Close Close Yes'dys Oct . . 32.70 32.99 32.41 32.43 32.85 Dec . . 32.20 3^.31 31.75 31.78 32.25 Jan . . .12.05 32.18 31.52 31.60 32.05 How Much Per Pound Did it Cost to Raise This Cotton? (Special to Dallas News.) Coleman, Texas, Sept. 9.?We have, for the last year, gone through one of the severest drouths ever known in this part of the country. For many years Coleman county has held her own, as a farming and stock raising county; in fact, this county has com pared favorably with the best farming belt of Texas. Where, as a rule, many hundx-eds of thousand bushels of grain are thrashed, not one btlshel has been thrashed this year. The same may be said of cotton. The county has produced as high as 64,u00 bales of cotton in one year, but in all prob ability 100 bales will cover the pro duct for this year. Some rains have fallen in spots, but a general soaking is necessary, so that farmers can sow their fall grain. The county is prac tically rid of all live stock, which had to be moved for pasturage or ship ped to market. What few stock are left are dependent on fall oats and wheat grazing for pasturage. We would like to call the atten tion of Mr. Barney Baruch of thi War Purchasing Board to the above and ask him if he feels like a price should be fixed on the above cotton in order to prevent the producers of same from getting too much for it. This county is only a fair sample of j an area nearly as large a? +he State of Arkansas in the State of as. where2 every bale of cotton grown has cost the. producers $10 per pound to pro duce it. We shall go further. If the entire crop of the South of the 1918 planting is sold at $200.00 per bale, including seed (and much of it will bring high er prices), and each farmer was paid $5.00 per acre rent for the land, rent for bis teams, pay for himself, wife and children at the same wages paid unskilled labor in any Northern city the cotton crop would not pay all who have produced it. In the face of this appalling fact, we have men in Congress and vin the department like Mr. Baruch seeking to limit the meager profits coming to those who have toiled in the cotton fields this year, when only 25 per cent of that product is used in this coun try. Isn't it amazing that any class of people should be so short-sightee? is to want to rob the cotton planter, or at least limit his niggardly profit? to build up and enrich foreign coun-i tries, who buy our cotton, say at 30c j per pound and sell it back in thread or mercerized cotton goods, etc.. at j $5.00 per pound? Then, too, don't! overlook the heart-breaking years in | which the cotton planters of th South took 4c to 8c for their cotton. We are quite sure that those wh seek to linvft the price of that which |4 costs so '*?": iy to propagate have not j well considered this question. Th' ? cotton States of America must be de- j pended on to clothe the world, and j tor all exports of cotton we draw gold from all the world and keep the bal-M ances of trade in our favor. That j balance will shrink or expand as the i price of cotton shrinks or expands, j Do we want to keep that balance j healthy and the eotton growers hap- J py and prosperous. Or do we want to i stabilize eotton prices, impoverish th* j producer and make the fortune of j alien spinners? Ponder this question seriously. Manchester, Eng. Aug. 25?Re markable profits have been made in ?he Lancashire cotton industry since the beginning of the year, despite j j the shortage of raw material from theL United States, and the compulsory j j stoppage of machinery. Fifteen spinning concerns publish accounts whose total profits for th-c half year ended June last, amount to $S9f..l2? against $209,7^0 in the si?. months ending December. 1917. As a result of the good trade reports, share prices have steadily advanced and the capital appreciation since the beginning of the year for the fifteen companies is over twenty per cent. FERTILIZER FOR SALE -We ar< going to sell all the Meal, Acid, j Lime and mixed goods in stock j here for immediate ' shipment, a' \ bargain prices. Please call us be- ; fore stock sold out. Southern Bro- j kerage Co. Phone No. 89. j FOR SALI'?In settlement McBrido j estate I offer 1,000 acres Jaquep lands, tracts 47 to It; acres, well j located in famous Pudding Swamp; tobacco section. The four 1917 j pri::e corn clubs boys of Sumter ] and Clarendon counties live one to eight miles away and grow ??? to i 90 bushels on same type soil. A : nearby tract of similar unimproved * land was paid for out of last year's: crop. Prices right and terms rea-! sonable. E. W. Dabbs, Trustee. I Mayegville. S. C._ REESWAX WANTED -Any quantity large or small. Am paying best cash price. See me if you have any. X. ?:. Ostcen. _ FOR SALE?F. O. B. cars, Camp j Jackson, stable manure; very little straw. Car load lots only. Chend cal and Fertilizer value rated very high by Clemson eollege. A. A Strauss, Sumter. S. C. MILLERS' CERTIFICATES?Can b obtained at Item Office at reason able prices in lots of 100 or more. 5& ?3 IRS OU can save wisely or unwisely. True economy consists in buying the best. We are giving I; slow a iist of the best Cloth Ing and Shoes produced in this country. It v/iil pay you well to buy from this list. Hart Shaffner and Marx Clothes and Overcoats, Dryefus & Lang Cl thes, American Boy Clothes and Overcoats, Dubbelbilt Boys'- Clothes, Ford Overcoats, Paragon Pants. Knox Hats. Schoeble Hals, Ma I lory Hats, 4$ ostonian Shoes, ates Street Shirts, Lion Shirts, ynee Blou ses for Boys, M?nsing Unc ierwear, Wright Health Underwear, Varsitv Undc rwear, Wayne Knit Hose, Woven rig'hi Hose, . True Shape Hose. Kaiser Cravats, Altman Cravats, Hansen Gloves, Carter's High Back Overalls, .intree Tranks, Sags and Suit Cases. q We are proud of these lines and we offer them to the trading public with the utmost confidence that thev will rfford the greatest satisfaction. if i 11 ?' ??? .-.1 ? 's ??* e.. ivt . j? <y v & i l R ft $ 1 1 i i ? P I?11111 ? ? g $ f P* ? VJ f \ # ih The Ho r:e ci Hart Schaffner <i IVlarx Clothes