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Published Wednesday and Sa tarda _?BY? OSXEEN PUBlaSJHENG COMPAXj SCMTER, S. C. Terms: fl.50 per annum?in advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion . .$1.0< Every subsequent insertion.5< Contracts for three months, 01 longer will be made at reduced rates AR communications which sub serve private interests will be chargei for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respec will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found ed in 1850 and the True Southron ir 2566. The Watchman and Soutiror now has the combined circulation anc influence of both of the old papers and is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. Clothes for Belgians. Soon the frosts will be failing ir Flanders, snows will begin, and the blasts of winter w?ll sweep through ill-fashioned huts left bleak and cold by scarcity of fuel. That is why all America must hurry to send its old clothes to Belgium. The Belgians will freeze if they do not get clothes from America this fall. It is true that clothing is getting scarce ov#!r here, comparatively "speaking, and it is harder than ever for a family to invest in new cloth ing this fall. Therefore, for many people, last year's outfit must be made to serve. Moreover, repeated calls for old clothes for the Belgians have come before and have taken a large part of the country's stock of such things. Nevertheless, the call is one that goes so deeply into the hear: of every man and woman that some way will be found to answer it. The Red Cross is beginning now to collect bundles of clothing to send to the war-stricken people to whom civilization owes so large a debt. It would he fine if every American home that has enough itself should give to the Eelgians not only its cast-off garmSents, but some of the things it had intended for those in its own household to wear this winter. This would surely be but a small sacrifice to make for those from whose far greater sacrifices America has bene fited so much.?Charleston Post. Hagood News and Views. The little devils are more to be dreaded than the big ones. When the hawk comes on my premises and I get half a chance I make an end ' of him, but the Texas flea and his tribe come not with observation, and before you know it he is a great army that defies* extermination. The good housewife knows this and tries to guard against his appearance but she does not always seem to know about * the other. When a man tells me, as a reason ?Ji'cfpT changing his church affilv.'^ns that he has just gone back to what his fathers were I feel like replying. *?^My ancestors may have been carmi- j b?ls for aught I know and I am con- j scious of such a trend in my nature hut I just am not going back." Mr. Sylvester Allen is slowly re . covering. He has had a most pain ful time of it. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Freeman took a. trip to Charlotte this Week. Is that old chicken eating sow a necessary evil? Why do you keep her then. Poor as a snake almost, the has eaten more than her value in poultry. What was that you said when i^^mu^ff^Touu^ithis morning she 'had jus: BPmi.de a br<c-^fast of your fine ten dollar rooste^w^gverything is grist ?that comes to hernW^?pd she is no respecter of chickens. "*'OS?K.TV'hh it. what was it you said? YouA'e beer, pouring the corn to her but her ribs show yet. You've not sworn perni^ju/ but you've declared by all that's go"*?3 ? and bad that just as soon as that sow will do for pork you will kill her. Bud let me whisper a thing in your ' ear. The corn that old sow will hid. under those ribs before she'll do to kill if put in a heap would surpris; you. Meanwhile you hate her; gri+ your teeth at her in very vexation and i>he, if she things anything, has con cluded by the way you slop and corn her that you love her, that she's a great pet. You have it in you for her, and she has the chickens in her. amcng them that ten dollar rooster. One bright morning you go to slop her and to consider if she is in condition to kill when lo, she lies stretched out cold and stiff, choked on a chicken bone. This is a sore evil grievous to be borne but grin and endure it. I fear very few peas will be gath ered here this year. Folks have gone wild over cotton. Our hay crop is a bit short, some of it too short to cut. By mowing ou^ corn fields we may get roughage enough. "Hagood." Rembert, Sept. 28. If the campaign to increase the wheat acreage of Sumter county is to succeed it should be pressed vigor ously during the next thirty days The farmer who does not make his arrangements to get in his wheat crop cn time will find difficulty, not only in getting the land prepared hut in obtaining seed. It goes without baying that the wheat acreage of Sumte county this winter should he at leas' double what it was last year, and if this increased acreage is not plant ed, Sumter county farmers will no1, be doing what the government has re quested of them. Every farmer should have sufficient wheat planted to produce, in an average season, suf ficient flour to supply the needs o the farm and a surplus besides to fur nish the non-productive resident o -the county. The food administratior has called upon the South to pro duce all the flour it requires to feed the entire population of the South so as to make no demands next yea? on the West. To comply with this re quest every farmer in the South must plant more wheat than ever before and no patriotic clti/.en will take th< position that he can buy flour cheap er than he can raise it. I- is not n question of the comparative profit ir growing tobacco or cotton in prefer ence to wheat, but of contributing one's share to winning the war. STATEMENT Of the Ownership, Management, Cir culation, Etc., Required by the Act of Angust 24, 1912. i Of the Watchman and Southron, published at Sumter, S. C, semi-week ly, for October 1, 19IS. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Sumter. Before me, a notary public in and for the State and County aforesaid, personally appeared H. G. Osteen, who, being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the manager of the Sumter Daily Item and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date, shown in the above caption, requir ed by the Act of August 24, 1912, em bodied in Section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses i of -the publisher, editor, managing ! editor, and business managers are: Publisher, Csteen Publishing Co. Sumter, S. C. Editor, H. G. Osteen, Sumter, S. C Managing Editor,, EL. G. Osteen Sumter, S. C. Business Manager, H. G. Osteen, Sumter, S. C. 2. That the owners are: Osteen Publishing Company, Inc., C. P. Osteen, N. G. Osteen, H. G. Csteen, X. G. Osteen, Jr., Moneta Osteen, Lee & Moise, I. C. Strauss, Levi Bros.. C. M. Kurst, Abe Ret tenberg, Njeil O'Donnell, R. L. Ed munds, H. L. Scarborough, R. I. Manning, Pooth Live Stock Co. All of Sumter, S. C. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security hold ers owning or holding 1 per cent, or more of total amount of bonds, ra.-'rt gages, or other securities are People's Building & Loan Associa tion of Sumter, S. C. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the own ers, stockholders, and security hold ers, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company luit also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustees or in any other fiduciary re lation, the name of the person or cor poration for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders xnd iic-curity holders who do not ap pear upon the books cf the company is trustees, hold stock' and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has :io reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said steck, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publica tion sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date is (Tins information is fequirsd from daily publication^ only.) J H. G. OSTEEN. Manager, and subscribed before me day of October, 1918. C. W. HICKS, (Seal) Notary Public. S. C. (My commission expires at pleasure of the Governor.) American Casualty List. Washington, Oct. 1.?The follow ing casualties are reported by the Commanding General of the Ameri can Expeditionary Forces: Xihed in action. 163 Missing in action. 83 Wounded severely. 92~> Died from wounds. 109 Died from accident and other causes. 1 Wounded, degree undetermined 5 Wounded slightly. . i Died from disease. -6 Prisoners. r Total.1.33C Jacob Prioleau, Charleston, killed. Agraham E. Wells, Cottageville, S. C, wounded severely. Paul J. Ross, Pelzer. S. C, wound ed severely. Jesse P. Connelly, Chappelle, S. C. wounded severely. Washington. Oct. 2.?The follow ing casualties are reported by the Commanding General of the Ameri can Expeditionary Forees: Milled in action. IS' Missing in action .. .. . . .. 73 Wounded severely. 693 Died from wounds. 76 Died from aeroplane accident 1 Died from accident and other causes.? .. 13 Died of disease. ?,?> Wounded, degree undetermined 6 Prisoners. S " Total.1 <>;>(? John Henry Copeland. Effingham, S. C. died of diseasv. Lieuts. Jim R. Anderson; Piedmont, S. C. Willie X. Arnold. Roebuck. S. C. Corporal Hen ry Ballard, Spartanburg, S. c.. were wounded severely. Calces for Soldiers. Seventy thousand cakes for train ing camps and Y. M. C. A. canto ns are hi invt made weekly at the "V ' bakery in Northampton, England. Washington, Oct. 3.?Unexpected delays in printing the master list of the seventeen thousand order num bers drawn Monday has prevented copies being started to ail distrio' draft boards. It is stated that all ?Sts will be in the mail tomorrow. GAINS MAGE BY BARTKELOT. CONQUEST OF ST. THIERRY MASSIF COMPLETED. Position Along Aisne-Marn Canal Threatened) by French Denomina tion. With the French Army in France. Oct. 1. 2 p. m. (By the Associated Press).?General.Eerthelot's forces in the course of the night and this morn ing completed their conquest of St. Thriery massif, northwest of Rheims, occupying Poullion and taking the fort of St. Thierry. The French now dominate the piain to the east and threaten the German positions all along the Aisne-Marne Canal from Betheny to the north and including the fort of Brimont, where were post ed the guns that accomplished the greater part of the destruction of Rheims. The French lines were pushed slightly northward towards Betheny The conquest of the important po sitions around St. Thierry and the ad ! vance of General Gouraud's men in j the region of St. Marie-a-Py, in the Champagne, increases the gravity of the situation for the German forces holding the heights to the east of Rheims. Further slight advances by both Gouraud and Berthelct in those re gions will make of the Rheims salient another pocket from which the Ger mans will find an exit with difficulty. Fighting continued during the night in the suburbs of St Quentin. The Germans were frying to repair the breach made there in the Hindenburg line by organization of a defense of the Croisat canal where they have massed a great number of machine guns to prevent the French troops from crossing. The Germas are expected to make a desperate defense in that section in order to facilitate their retirement to a secondary position behind the Hin denburg line. In the Champagne the enemy also is doubling his efforts to hold off Gen eral Gouraud's forces on the line of rvi'onthois-Orfeuii-Liry. The heights here are cut by steep cl;ffs and deep ravines and studded with clumps of trees and thickets furnishing excellent positions for defense. The!?e positions are being fiercely defended the Ger mans retiring only step by step and multiplying their counterattacks at all points where the French troops advance. General Gouraud's men this morn ing burst through <i very deep line of wire defenses v: h of Orfeuil and Liry and took a. .formidable position by assault. In the wooded valley of the Aisne cast of Liry and northeast of Boucon ville. which had been transformed into a series of centers of resistance, a very hard struggle took place, end ing in the occupation of the most im portant position by General-Gouraud's men, who at the same time took :i great amount of booty. The fighting extended farther east where the Germans had flooded the region south Of Challerange. Here the French troops, advancing with the same intrepidity as they have shown, throughout this battle, took the farm of Joyceax and the railroad station at Autrey. Condeles-Autrey north of Binnerville also fell into the hands'of the French after sharp fight ing. Cotton Market I ??????ob????? 11 'Corrected dahy si VI o cJoon Noo P. Q. BOWMAN. Cotton Bxnvf Good Middling 32 1-4. Strict Middling 32. Middling 31 3-4. Strict Low Middling 29 3-4. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Open High Low Close Close Yes'dys Oct . . 33.00 33.70 32.50 32~.70 33.10 Dec . .32.70 32:70 32.25 32.2S 32.80 Jan . . 32.30 32.44 32.02 32.09 32.6T> AMERICAN OUTPOST RELIEVED. British Headquarters in France Oct. 2 (Reuter).?The contingent of Americans, who had been holding out since Sunday in a far advanced po sition between Cambrai and St. Quen tin against greatly superior enemy numbers, have been rescued. In our attacks around Vendhuile yesterday we were able to light through and relievo this party num bering some hundreds, who, having taken up their position Sunday night, were surrounded by the Germans early Monday. Notwithstanding that they were op- j posed by such .superior numbers and only possessed the ammunition and | rations which they themselves were carrying, the Americans made a magnificent resistance and the ground was strewn with German dead. Sow Wood's High-Grade Seed Wheat For Best and Most Productive Crops. Our Virginia-Grown Seed Wheats are superior for the South?make larger yields and better quality of grain. Write for "WOOD'S CROP SPE CIAL" giving prices and information about SEED WHEAT, SEED OATS, SEED RYE, BARLEY and all other Seeds for Fall Sowing. T. W. Wood & Sons Seedsmen. Richmond, Va. Plant WHITE PEARL AND BER MUDA ONION SETS for profita ble crops, both for home use and market. Write for "Wood's Crop Special," giving prices. LETTER FROM FRANCE. Statebarg Boy Tells of r>perience on Front Line. France, Aug. 8. Dear H. Received your last letter, last week. I expect by this time you have gotten my order, signed by the C. O. of the company, but now I hear it is changed so that the C. O. cf the regiment has to sign the order, so I doubt if you will be able to get it through, so I will let it drop for the present. "We have certainly been having a time for the last month; it seems like six. Guess you saw by the papers what started on July 14th. The divis ion was right in the middle of things, and has been ever since, and it is some life, for over a week we all had to live in the ground. Each man had a hole dug several feet dc.eo, and it was a funny looking camp. The Boche had stripped the country of ail furniture, etc., but pulled out in such a hurry that most of it was left and of course the fellows gathered all this into camp. You "could see fellows sitting in old upholstered chairs with their feet on heavy carv ed tables that some French family had used for years. One fellow even had in old feather bed, and bedstead over his dugout, so that when the shelling started all he had to do was to crawl over the edge, and in the dugout. The company has had pretty good luck so far. I was unlucky enough to get hit by a piece of shrapnel. It was a painful surprise, but luckily it ivas almost spent. I didn't go to t5r~ hospital, but I was pretty sere and stiff for several days. The fellows have all kinds of sou venirs, watches, pistols knives, iron grosses, etc. If I had any way I could >end you a helmet, there are dozens hrown around camp. August 16th. Am finishing this af :er we have moved back from the ine. I am mighty thankful to get oack o. k It was the hardest kind of warfare, and I never realized how :rue Sherman's definition of it was. Parts of it seem iike a nightmare. For two days we were in the line with he infantry, and advanced about five kilometers, and there were times tvhen t thought my chances of ever eaving France were pretty slim. But it is over now for a while. A.t least j eve are headed that way for sever- i xl weeks, any way I hope. Three days ago 24 men out of then company were given leave to go to|j Paris and I was lucky enough to be j me cf them. It was only for 48 ii lours, and through a hold up in myj )ass. I barely had 24, so of course did | :ot have time to look up Bishop Mc-ji ?ormack. Now that we are back of he line I will try and write oftener. i Your Affectionate brother, F. K. Bull. Co. A. 117th Reg. Engineers. ???^??^???? There was a great crowd in town \ Fhursday to see the circus. The street j j vere thronged until at certain points he congestion was uncomfortable. It j vas estimated that there were from if teen hundred to two thousand au- ! omobiles on the streets and the . ?rowd numbered way up in the thou ands. ' _ RECEIVED TO-DAY * * * * * * * ? ?5? In this lot are all the latest numbers. Come in and hear the great War Songs, Rags, Jazz and Band Music. Ask to see the SONORA Machine. 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