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inanai?Sfliit^raiL Psb?sJjed Wednesday and Saturday v ?BY? OSTIIIIN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. C. I. Terms: $l.b? per annum?in advance. Advertisements. Oae^Sfcuare first insertion .. ..$1.0< Srery subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. ? JQI communications which sub -?serve private interests will be charged for &s advertisements. ? .Obituaries and tributes of respee Will be charged for. . X^Phe Sumter Watchman was found & 1S50 and the True Southron it The Watchman and Souttro. cow has the combined circulation ant Influence of both of the old papers and is manifestly the best advertism Bgugya^rjp jn_j>ujnjer^ ?-1 Red Cross Work. To The Ladies: Mrs. W: D. Boykin phoned me Mon day morning and requested that I Cbhie around to the work room to see how many ladies were helping her, afiWt thet-e was one. She says this has tteen the condition for seme time; in fact even officers of the respective days, do not attend. She said they have not as yet made up as much as ohe^-third of the October allotment - I. fully realize for the past three or four weeks that there has been a great deal of influenza in Sumter, many of the ladies have been sick, and a great many others nursing the sick, anil could not help with these surgi cal'dressings, but I understand ths influenza is about over, and those who Were sick are about recovered, and -those who are out ought to help with tins work. If the ladies now slack up with this work and do not continue the strug-i .gie, they will place themselves in the -saipe position as the Turks, Bulgar ians and Austrians who have fallen. . dota.?n their job. The army need's more surgical dressings now than it ? has evfer heeded, because the fighting has been exceedingly severe since the l$th of July and on the Western front it is still going on and thereJ are a great many wounded soldiers) Who need these dressings. Will the ladies of Sumter fail at this critical moment to do everything in their power to furnish these surgical dress ings as rapidly as possible, in order that the lives of our wounded sol diers may be saved? I certainly hope and expect that : Mrs. Boykin on Friday morning and every morning thereafter, as long as there is work to do, will find the work room full of ladies who are wil ling, and anxious to help, r There will be a lecture to the la dies who are interested in this work at the. surgical dressings room Thurs . Say afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, which meeting will be addressed by Mr. Ba ker along the line of the necessity of tills work. L'. D. Jennings. Bark Corner News. Dark Corner, Nov. 5.?I will at tempt to write another line for the ?^-^*atchman and Southron this morn ing. There is not much news in this neck^ of the woods. Only sickness. The "nu has been with us for the last three weeks and very- few houses have escaped it. But there has been but cale death anywhere near here. Mrs. Jv^. Don? Geddings, formerly of this place died near Pinewood last Sat tfrjaa^y. She was a daughter of the .l?fce Joe M. Ardis of this corner. She is 'Survived by her husband, three litilfe 'girls, a mother, three sisters aneL two brothers to mourn her death. Farmers have been retarded in the gathering of their crops on ac count of so much sickness. ? Mr. Blanding Ardis had to shut down his ginnery and grist mill on accdunt of the flu as he and all of his family and his ginners were down at pne time with it. All of Joe John stons family, consisting of ten, have been laid up with the flu. Some of them the second time, but all seem to be a little better at this writing. Old Hard Times has had it and is yet suffering with it. ? Mr. Jack N. Ardis, who moved from here to Lena, Hampton County, last winter, has moved back, and expects to live at Elmhill, the old home of Dry Joe. The Sunday school and prayer meeting at Eiwell's Caapel has be<m shut down for the last four weeks. Hope it will be so it can open up next Sunday. ? I saw that I aud J. E. Johnston were to manage the federal election at Bloomhill today, but neither of us was able to attend. I hated it that I was not able as I have managed sc long. But I guess I will never man age-any more elections at Bloomhill. as i will move into Privateer after this year is out I expect, and will leave the Dark Corner forever. Hard Times. The books of registration are in bac shape and something should be done to correct the glaring errors that were brought to light when citizens pre sented themselves at the polls today to cast their ballots. As a result o: these errors a number of citizens were deprived of the privilege of voting. For instance the following citizen? duly registered in Ward 2 were not allowed to vote during the few min utes the writer was at the polls: J. C. Cooper?his name was entered on the book as C. C. Cooper; W. R. Par ker, entered as M. R. Parker; J. K. White, name not on the book. The managers stated that they had to re fuse to let Capt. A. C. Phelps vote be cause his name was entered as A. C Phillips. All of these men produced registration certificates bearing serial numbers and signed by all of the su pervisors of registration, but the names entered on the book with the corresponding numbers did not cor respond with the names and initials on the certificates. How many more errors of a similar nature a thorough checking of the books would show, it is impossible to estimate. The grand jury or somebody?if there is any cne with the authority?should investigate the books of registration and see th:>< they are purged of these unexcusabU erors. Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY . Mr. J. Young Todd CHas Taker Cliarge of Sumter Young Men'; Christian Association. The announcement was made sev eral weeks ago that Mr. J. Younj I Tcdd had been elected Secretary o; j the Sumter Y. M. C A., and woulc enter upon the discharge of his du ties in the near future. Circum stances prevented Mr. Young coming to Sumter as soon as then anticipat ed, but he arrived several days age; and is now in charge and energeti cally at work trying to get things in shape and to lay the foundation fo the winter's programme. Mr. Tode said today that it was too soon t< make any announcements as to hi j plans, for he had not had time to be j come familiar with the local situatio: and to arrive at an inteligent under standing of the paramount needs, o the work in Sumter. He is, however ,_<?rgetically at work and expects, tr have a definite programme arrang ed in the near future. Mr. Todd brings to the work ir Sumter the experience gained by sev en years active connection with T M. C. A. work in Chicago a"hd De oMines, going into the War Work o the Association from the latter place Since last January he has been sta tioned at Camp Jackson, except for r part of the time he was detailed fo: Y. M. C. A. recruiting work for the overseas sendee. Mr. Todd is a na tive of Abbeville county and attend ed Erskin College and Clemson, and subsequently having decided to go int' the Y. M. C. A. work attended the Y M. C. A. college at Chicago. For several years he was connected witl the association work in Chicago and then went to Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Todd is married and his wife and two children will come to Sum ter in the near future. NUT SHELLS NEEDED. A Call to Members of Boys' Corn and Pig Clubs. Dear Club Member: You are already rendering a splendid service to your country ir. the production of corn, wheat and other crops; also pigs and calves, ivhich is so necessary to the material prosperity of our country, and to the (Vinning of the war. Now comes an other appeal for service. The Gas Defense Division of the United States army is very anxious in deed "to obtain all shells of black wal nuts, butter nuts, hickory nuts and seeds of such stone fruits as peaches, cherries, prunes, etc., for the purpose 5f making charcoal to be used in gas masks for our soldiers. You can add another important ser vice to our country by collecting such stones and seeds as are wanted by the gas defense division of the United States army, and turn them Dver to your local branch of the Red Cross for shipment. In performing this duty you will be engaged in no small matter, as you may be saving the lives of many of our gallant sol diers (perhaps your own brother or some otjier near relative) in protect ing them from the deadly fumes of j the enemy's gas shells. I am confident that you will re spond to this call as heartily as you have to *hose in the past, remember ing that you are performing a most patriotic work. Yours for the success of our army, L. L. BAKER, Supervising Agent of Boys' Clubj Work. Bishopville, Nov. 5. American Casualty List. Washington, Nov. 5.?The follow ing casualties are reported by the commanding general of the American Expeditionary Forces: KiHed in action. 124 Died of wounds. 75 Died from accident and other causes. 5 Died of disease. 108 Wounded severely. .. 210 Wounded, degree undetermined 257 Wounded slightly. . .'.. 484 | Missing in action. .. 44 i Prisoner. 1 Total. 1,30$ The following casualties are report ed from South Carolina: Died of dis ease. Luther Butler, Manning; Johnnie Waiters, Davis Station; Henry T. Brown, Camden: Leo K. Farrow. Fountain Inn; Wm. McNeal, Kershaw: j John Montgomery, Greeleyville. j Wounded severely: Augustus Hen-; derson, Abbeville: Craig W. Rocko-j holt, Charleston: Arthur Teager. j Laurens. Wounded, degree undeter- j mined, Ben Oliver, Eupawville. Died j of wounds, Vernon Grant, Midway. ] Washington. Nov. 7.?The follow ing casualties are reported by the commanding general of the Ameri can Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action. 250 Died of wounds. 160 Died from accident and other causes . S Died from airplane accident. ... 1 Died of disease. 241 (Wounded severely. IIS [Wounded, degree undetermined 111 j Wounded slightly. Vib I Missing in action .. 123 I Prisoners. 3 j Total. 1183 ; Thefcasualties reported from South Carolina are as follows: Killed in action: John H. Griffin, j White Stone; James D. Evans. Bish ! opville; Died of disease, Albert Thom Ias, Trenton; Orvil S. Williams. Rteed J man: Dennie Wise, Monetta; Harry j Sparks. Parksville; Ward R. j Knight. Lancaster; Abraham Felder, Rembery; Archie L Joiner, Pelion: ! Wri. McClary, Kingstree; Sterling (Moore. Greenville; Sam Reese, Corn : well. Missing in action.. Louis Bol r?, ; Charleston; Present for duty, pre | viously reported missing. Claude S. ? Bagwell, Belton. Death. Mr. D. M. Bidding has received j news of the death on October 1 7 o: I his nephew. .Tamos Douglas Blanding. 'second son of Judge J. M. Blanding. oi j Corsicana, Texas, and of his brother ! in-law. Rev. T. Luther Harmon, o: j Vaiden, Miss., on November 2. Both i died from the effects of influenza. c THE PAY OF TEACHEKS. State Board of Education Says They Should* be Paid for Time Schools Were Closed. Please publish the following com munication from the State Board oi Education. The Sumter Count} Board of Education endorses it. I: should be of interest to all concern ed. J. H. Haynsworth, Co. 'Supt. of Education The State Board of' Education ha: pist issued the following address: To the Trustees, Patrons, and Pupil; of the Public Schools of South Carolina: Any teacher who had begun actual work and whose class room v/as closed by the influenza quarantine c. the State Board of Health is entitle*, to full pay for the period of his or he: enforced inactivity. "II. Any teacher under contract to open school, but who was pre vented from doing so by the quar antine of the State Board of Health is entitled to equitable pay for the pe riod of his or her enforced inactiv ity." "'HI. Any school or school district participating in State funds will no: forfeit its right to State nd if the trustees pay salaries in full for th< time covered by the influenza quaran tin e. "The above items are earnestly commended to the careful considera tion of the trustees throughout tlu State. "To the teachers, the members o. the State Board of Education desire to say that they have great confidence in the professional devotion and con scientiousness of the teachers of tht State and they believe that the teachers will gladly give of their thai and efforts to enable the pupils it have as good an opportunity thi: year as they have ever had to ge; what is their due. To this end thi Beard believes that the teachers wir. gie..dly eliminate holidays, curtail ihi Christmas vacation, and prolong :o a greater or less degree the session ncx> spring. "The Board urgently calls upon the parents and pupils cheerfully to co op^rtae in every way, to make an in tensive drive, to reduce to a minimun* the number of diversions and distrac tions, and, by steaming up in all edu cational endeavors, thus to make ur in great measure most of the valuable time that has been lost. "To the colleges the State Boarc of Education w" hes to express it. realization of t.ie inadvisability o. lowering any of the standards o. admission. They are already too low But certainly in making their ratingi for this year it will not be just to giv? undue emphasis to the time element. For this year the colleges will have te judge more largely than here fore by results; and the schools, by inten siveness and enthusiasm, will have tc compensate ?s much as possible foi the time that was lost in conforming to the requirements of a quarantine that was in harmony with the de- j mands of wisdom and necessity." War Savings Stamps on Sale on the Streets. The sale of war savings stamps or the streets was interrupted by the epidemic of influenza, and for sever al weeks there was no street sale until last Tuesday. Mrs. Flaum opened up her table again then, and made good sales. The chairman of war savings says that he hopes and expects that all the tables will be go ing again on Saturday, and from then on regularly. The year has but eight more weeks to run, and Sumter county is $200. 000 behind in purchases the amount pledged, and that was not half of what was asked for. There will have to be some very heavy buying for the remainder of the month for the peo ple to show that they are living up to their promises. Marshall Foch Fund. Previously acknowledged -$100.00 A. A. Strauss. 1-00 Mrs. A. A. Strauss. 1.00 W. B. Upshur.1.00 Dr. C -T. Lemmon. 1.00 S. H. Edmunds. . ? ? 1.00 Miss Sophia Brunson . 1.00 Et. W. Westberry. 1.00 H. L?. Witherspoon. 1.00 Mrs. H. L. Witherspoon .. 1.00 Mrs. M- B. Teicher. l.OjO Miss Ammie Teicher. 1.00 Miss Marie Teicher .. ?. 1.00 MI^s Tsadore Teicher. 1.00 Miss Franceska Teicher .. .. l.fD $114.00 We Grind Lenses, examine the eyes scientifically and fit eye glasses perfectly. Let us work for you. We have all prescriptions on file. Broken lenses replac ed promptly. Graduate Opto metrist and Optician in charge. . A. Thompson, 1 * .PEWELE OPTOMETRIST. WAR WORK CAMPAIGN. Chamber of Commerce Organization Working at High J'ressure to Get it Started. The Sumter Chamber of Commerce resembled the advertising car of Ringling Brothers' Circus during- the past week with thousands of large and medium sized, but beautiful and c?-tistic lithographs, hundreds of bundles of different kinds of litera ture, pledge cards, folders, and other j advertising matter for the big first United War Work Campaign which begins next Sunday afternoon at 3 .o'clock at the Academy of Ivlusic in this city, and throughout Sumter county. Chairman of the county Campaign W. B. Upshur was on hand with the smile thta won't come off, and getting a lot of motion out of the organization machinery, j A force of the boy scouts and bc j sides a number of gentlemen and j ' local and visiting Y. M. C. A. secre-1 ! taries were busily engaged assorting j the mass of advertising matter, while Chamber of Commerce stenographers! and the secretary were writing or1 mimeographing, folding, and address-1 ing thousands of letters to be mailed out to white and colored citizens over this county, making, hundreds of cop ies 01 committee lists and instruc tions, and doing other necessary pre liminary work to get the machinery in good running order for a success ful campaign. Many meetings were held in the rooms of the commercia. organizations, two meetings going on at one time one day. and white meet ings and colored meetings conferring with general chairman, city chair man, township and school district; chairman and with hundreds of sub- j committees of both races over the en- | tire county. It looks like next week's cam paign is going to be the most spec tacular yet democratic campaign pulled off since the United States started in to turn the trick of mak ing the kaiser quit his job and mak ing the Huns surrender according to; President Wilson's ideas of admitting j that they are licked to a frazzle. Messrs. A. C. Phelps and E. 1.1 Reardon, the chairmen in charge of j the colored section of the United j War Work campaign for Sumter! county, have put in a very busy week] organizing the colored people of the county. Several meetings of town ship chairmen have been held, thou sands of circulars, lithographs, and hundreds of letters and many bundles of United War Work Campaign liter ature have been mailed out. It is hoped that numbers of meet ings at colored churches will be held j next Sunday and during next week. Rev. A. J. Andrews. R. W. Westberry, Dr. J. J. Stark, Rev. I. D. Davis, Dr. L. Bragg Anthony, of Sumter have manifested great interest in the per- j fection of the county organiaztion nd are working hard to have the en tire county thoroughly organized by ext Sunday. ' The following township commit tees have been so far named ann 1 notified, and the chairmen and vice chairmen have ' bieen" requested ? to II meet with Chairmen ? Phelps and Reardon at 3.30 o'clock Friday after noon, November 8th for final instruc p tions and to recedve pledge cards: H City of Sumter. c Ward No. 1?J. W. Nelson, Chair 9 man; Mrs. Sallie Bacoat, Vice Chair fiman; Sam Franklin, Rev. D. W. \\ Witherspoon. I Ward No. 2?(Rev. D. P. Pender-1 [?grass, Chairman.; Caesar Bennett.! ? Vice Chairman; Mrs. Juiia Byrd, J.! j}A. Valenine, Nelson Shaw. [I Ward 3?S. J. McDonald, Chair | man; E. K. .Tortes, Vice Chairman: j A. ft. Donnally, J. C. Prioleau, C. 'A. j Lawson, R. W. Westberry, Mrs. C. A. j Lawson. Mrs. Pearl Spears, Miss M. j E. Glover, Rev. J. W. Murph, M. J. j Frederick, Mrs. Alma Boykin. Ward 4?Rev. J. W. Moultrie. Chairman; Rev. I. D. Davis, Vice Chairman; W. B. Durant, Rev. E. W. Dix, Rev. J. P. Foster, Rev. J. Mc Kensie Harrison, Miss Helen Usher, Miss Mattie Walters, E. A. Walters. j Miss Nannie Davis, Mrs. Edna Davis. [Miss Louise Lowery, Mrs. Annie San-j 1 dors. Mrs. N. V. Glover, Mrs. A. J. j Johnson. Mayesville Township?Rev. A. R. I Howard, Chairman; Rev. M. J. Sum ter, A. B. Stuckey, Miss Emma Wil- j son. Rev. J. P. Crawford, C. W.! Price, Rev. S- M. Sampson, E. G. j Green, Mrs. H. L. Johnson. Miss! ?Sallie Lowry, Mayesville; Sander?;! I Cain. Shiloh. I Rafting Creek Township?T. B. tWright, Chairman, Hagood; R. W. I Watts. Vice Chairman, Horatio; Ed gar Dinkins. Hagood: E. M. Skinner. Rimbert: Mrs. Victoria Rabb, Rem- j bert; Mrs. Lottie Atkinson, Horatio; Mrs. Florence Dicks. Horatio, Nelson I Boykin, E. W. Wilson, Mrs. Belle :Jvendrick, Rembert. Manchester Township?J. R. Mitch ell, Chairman, Wedgefield; Rev. G. B. i Clark, vice chairman, Wedgefield;; Mrs. Susan Richardson, Wedgefield;! Mrs. Martha Allen. Wedgef:eld; Mrs. Brooks Rogin, Wedgefield. Middleton Township?R. H. Rich ardson, Wedgefield; Rev. D. J. Na thaniel, Sumter, R. 2; Rev. A. W. Erierson, Wedgefield; E. D.. DeLong, j Wedgefield; G. Lee Winn. Wedgefield;! S. M. Green, Wedgefield. Shiloh Township?Rev. G. B. Till-j man, Shiloh, Chairman; B. J. Miller,] Vice Chairman; Rev. J. McHarris,; Shiloh; Wess Lemmon, Olanta; Bent ley Woods, Lynchburg; Farmer Green, Lynchburg; Mrs. Chanty Keels, Shilh; Mrs. G. B. Tillman, Shi loh. Concord Township?E. W. Gregg, Chairman, Sumter, R. 1; J. A. Frier son, Vice Chairman, Sumter, R. 1; Robert Grantham, Sumter. R. 1; John Smith, Sumter, R. 1; Rev. G. J. Hamilton, Sumter, R. 1; Dr. I. W. Williams, Sumter, R. i; Mrs. Jane j Williams, Sumter, R. 1; Miss C. E. ; Manony. Sumter, R. 1; Rev. J. A. [j Manony, Sumter, R. 1. P Providence Township?F. M. Mar- i tin, Chairman, Dalzeil; Seymour J Howard, Vice Chairman. Daize?: f =%5he Rev. M. J. Jackson, . Dalzell; Miss Mary E. Hill, Dalzellr-Richard Reach, Dalzell; John Washington, Dalzell; Rev. Theodore Diggs, Dalzell. I Privateer Township?Rev. C. F. 1 Brogdon, Sumter. R. 2. This com ! mittee will be completed later. . A. ! B. Brunson, Malichia Singleton. j Stateburg Township?Rev. R. B. ?Curry, Chairman; Rev. C. E. Hunter, j Vice Chmn.; Mrs. Hattie D. Taylor, Rev. G. W. Spivey, Rev. O. A. Parker, Ransom Wright, Mrs. Emma Green. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED ITORS. Estate of Miss Musidora I. Cblclougli, Deceased. All persons having demands of any sort against said estate will present jthem duly attested, and all in any way indebted to said estate will please settle with Mrs. Gertrude E. Richardson, Qualified Executrix. Oswego P. O., S. C.? R. F. D. 1, Box rs. Sumter, S. C, Oct. 22, 1918. -fr it All Depends. "How late shall you remain at your summer cottage this year?" "Ask the cook."?Boston Transcript. TTER. THAN A CURE FOR Spanish. lr\fl\ienz&. PREVENT IT? Notice to The Public: An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure. Save yourself and your family from the rav ages of this dread disease. Avoid crowds! Get plenty of fresh air and ex ercise! Keep the bowels moving natur ally! Keep cheerful! Thousands are protecting them selves against Spanish In fluenza and keeping them selves well and happy, they say, with DR.SXO Nature's Great Preventative Get some right away?always have it in the house. Siold by Good Druggists Every where. SIBERT'S DRUG STORE. 1IMERES* AND SERGES. i and other nobby models.