The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 25, 1918, Image 4
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Washington, Dec. 21.?Fair Mon
day; rain about Tuesday, generally
?air second half of week, with nearly
normal temperatures, is predicted
for coming week in the Southeastern
States.
CHRISTMAS.
The whole world is a Christmas tree,
And stars its many'candles be.
Oh sing a carol joyfully,
And welcome Merry Christmas!
? At last, after four dreary years
wherein a world torn by war laid aside
all thought of feast days save by the
slightest possible celebration to pre
serve their memory, we may truly
welcome Christmas and make it a
merry one.
Christmas always has been essen
tially the children's day, because as
Dickens says, "The Great Founder of
it was a child Himself." One reason
why this Christmas seems unusually
deserving of celebration is that the
worlr is once more safe for children,
a place where our little ones may
walk unafraid, sure of their heritage
of happiness.
In a world unsafe for children
there can be no joy, and that is one :
Of the principal reasons why what 1
should have been the gladdest sea
son of the year struck so heavily on <
human hearts during the war. Now ]
the war is over, and peace is here, the J
kind of peace the angels sang about
and we have the good hope that it is -
here to stay. ? .
. The city made sacred by our Sa- <
viof's birth is once more in Chris- "
tian hands. This, like the Star which
shone in the East so long ago, seems t
a,.happy omen that we stand on the :
threshold of a new day wherein the c
horrors of oppression and war shall ,
have no place. 1
Since the first Christmas there was ]
never such a one in all the history (
of that blessed day. It is more than ]
eyer right that we should _how our j
Joy by observing all the sweet old ]
customs, that we should give where *
we love^ share where we pity, make *
our homes beatuiful as never before, (
and sing the carols with a surety of ]
joy unmatched since that first morn- i
ing when the angels sang over Judea. 1
SAFE AND SANE BAR ROOMS. | ]
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A New York philanthropist who
chooses to remain nameless has pro-"
vided a fund for turning bar room?
into clubs for men and boys. Several
saloons which have recently gone out
of business have already been reor
ganized on the new basis.
L-ittle is done to change the rooms.
The bar is still in evidence, though
anything sold across it is strictly non
intoxicant. Pool and billiard tables
-.re in full operation, also checkers
and other games. Athletic stunts of
all sorts, including boxing bouts, pro
ceed under the direction of a teacher
of athletics. Places formerly the
scenes of drunken revelry are now
gathering places where from seventy
to a hundred happy, interested boys
and men can be found nightly, harm
ing neither themselves nor anyone
else.
So successful is the experiment that
its founder promises to keep on in
definitely in his work of love. The sa
loons cannot close too fast for hirn.
The community center idea is not a
new one, neither is the boys' club,
but it is principally the choosing of
the former saloon as the scene of op
erations which merits attention. Any
saloon, be it tho uptown cafe with its
lights and elegance of appointment
or the river-side dive, dingy and for
bidding, was located definitely with
reference to its accessibility. One
reason why so many saloons flourish
is that there are so many saloons
righ handy. The individual seeking
either the stimulus of liquor or of the
society of his kind never has far to
go. It is this same element of acces
sibility which operates especially to
ward the success of these clubs as so
cial centers.
It has been claimed as a point in its
defence more than once {hat the .sa
loon is the poor man's club, and here
we have the same gathering place for
the same old gang, but with its fangs
drawn. Sought because it is handy
and a familiar haunt, and because vis
itors are permitted the pleasures they
really enjoy and understand, provid
ed they behave themselves, many r.
place known for years as a public
menace is becoming a center cf clean
social life.
HASTY SPAIN.
Spain is coming on. Prince Ratibor
the German ambassador has been ex
pelled, and the Spanish ambassador
to Germany has been ordered home
in disgrace. Both these dignitaries
are part and parcel of an organization
for Germanizing Spain.
It took Spain a long time to come
to it. She has been more thoroughly
steeped in German propaganda than
any other nation except perhaps Hol
land, though she was ostensibly quite
neutral.
When she saw what was really go
ing on in the way of ridding the world
of unnecessary incubuses like Ger
many, Spain decided to do a little de
incubusing herself. It is to be hoped,
however, that that fierce and easily
aroused Castilian temper will not lead
Spain to declaring war cn Germany
right now and keeping everybody
waiting at the peace table until the
food gets cold.
The world is not only safe now for
democracy, but as tue Atlanta Con
stitution remarks, it is safe for hos
pitals, orphanages, old women's
homes, asylums and churches.
Letter From Verdun.
The following letter from Private
EL H. Sanders to his mother, Mrs. C.
W. Sanders, Hagoodr under date of
November 2Gth, has just been receiv
ed.
Verdun Sector.
Dear Mother:
Now that the censorship is a thing
Df the past, I will drop you some littie
news that I have had to keep quiet
heretofore.
On July 14th, last I left Camp
Meade, Md., went to Philadelphia and
boarded the Haverford, a.i English
liner, and arrived at Halifax, N. S..
on the 18th. After a three days lay
off in the Halifax harbor, we con
tinued the voyage and July the 31st
,ve disemarked at Liverpool, Eng
and. We had some exciting times off
:he Irish coast when we were chased
>v two submarines, finally after a
cattle royal, a well placed depth bomb
"rom the '?Northland," one of the
hips in our convoy, we sank a subma
?ine. A few minutes later one of our
rubmarine chasers sunk another one.
At Liverpool we went in a rest
:amp, "Knotty Ash." for three days.
Then we went by rail to Bamsey to
mother rest camp for a couple o;
lays. From Ramsey we hiked to {
Jouth Hampton (about 9 miles) and
;ot aboard the St. George and after
ibout five hours of an awful rough
rip, we ciossed the English chan
tel and landed* at La Harte. Camped
l day or two 'here, then rode in box
:ars for four days and came to Mont
tforillion. hiked from there to a lit
le French village. St. Leomer, pitched
mp tents and had a pleasant littie
amp for 5 weeks. From St. Leomer
ve came on box cars to Lacourtine.
here we went in brick barracks. Af
er a couple of days at Lacourtine I
eft the company and went to Dour
>une and attended an auto school for
. month. Was then sent back to my
?ompany at Lacourtine and in a
:oup of weeks we were loaded on
>ox c.">.rs and sent to the front. Ar
rived at Dougris, in three days, un
oaded the train at night, in the rain:
;lept in an old house that was all
;hot up and the next day we slung
)acks and hiked for about nine miles
Stayed there for a couple of days and
eft about 5 o'clock one evening,
valked. until 5 o'clock next morning,
[magine how I felt after such a hike
cvith a heavy pack on my back.
I saw some awful action in the
three days I have been here before
the armistice. Frit#was shelling the
very hill where cur dugouts were. I
was on guard for gas one night, and
never in my life shafl I forget that
night. Uncle Sam was sending over
a barrage for our doughboys to go j
over the top: they were to go over at!
5 o'clock the next morning. You could
hear the awful roar of machine guns,
etc. Our boys put Fritz on the run
all right, but believe me, it cost some
price. God knows what a dough boy
(infantryman) has to go through. I
happened to be working on the road
right by the first aid hospital, and
every few minutes an ambulance
would roll by loaded with wounded.
6ome with arms and legs shot off.
War is all Sherman said it is. I don't
see to save my life how a human be
ing can survive even for a month up
here, when every where you look you
can see enormous shell splinters from
high explosives. schrapnel. hand
grenades and gas shells and many
other things to destroy life. Every
thing is quiet and pleasant up here
now though. Now and then you can
h'-r.r our engineers shooting off a
German "dud" (an unexploded shell)
The weather has cleared off and it
hasn't rained since the firing ceased.
The Germans sure had this sector
well fortified: tHey had millions of
barbed wire entanglements and miles
of tunnels and dugouts under the hills.
1 am at present in a pretty goo<
shanty with a good stove. Am ex
pecting to leave in a day or two but
haven't the least, idea when I am go
ing, but if rumors are true, will 'oo
home before many moons. Have lot-;
to tell when T eome.
Your devoted son,
"TIop."
Co F. 3'?4th Am. Train. A. E. F..
France.
' The members of Trinity Junior Ep
I worth League will give a Christmas
I play, "Two Journeys to Bethlehem"
' on Sunday evening, December 2S. at G
i O'clock in the Sunday school room of
[Trinity Methodist church. A special
: offering will he taken. The public is
cordially invited.
Columbus. Dec. 21.?An appeal to
i Secretary Baker for the release at
? once of a.t least two hundred Ohio
: physicians from the army to aid in
: combatting the influenza epidemic in
? vcm) sections was made in telegram
; today by the Ohio State Medical As
j sociation.
Cotton Seed Situation
Mr. E. W. Dabbs Makes Report
on Results of Price Fixing
By War Industries Board.
To the Farmers of the State:
Col. Claffey ana myself, the farm
er members of the Cotton Seed Com
mittee of the South Carolina. Fool
Administration desire to make the
following statement for your infor
mation. Beginnina* with the confer
ence in May in Charlotte one or both
of us have attended every meeting
held by the Food Administration to
regulate ginning and cotton seed. We
have from the first meeting in Char
lotte to the last meeting held in Co
lumbia yesterday protested against
the iniquities of the rules promulgat
ed by the Food Administration, and
have endeavored to secure absolutely
if air rules, or what we urged in the
beginning, free trade in cotton seed
and its products. But as a war meas
ure we cheerfully did all in our pow
er to enable the growers to cooper
ate in the paramount issue?the win
i ning of the war?and submitted as
gracefully as we could to rules that
we clearly shewed to the Food Ad
ministration and the crushers were
unjust. In some of our contentions
Mr. Elliott and the crushers agreed
with us, but the rules were fixed by
Mr. Koover and appeals did not dp
any good. To ben in with we con
tended ".hat if a scale of prices was to
be fixed it should be a sliding one, be
ginning with say $55.00 cr $60.00 for
green seed in August and advancing
five or three dollars per ton each
month as the seed dried out until a
maximum price of $$0.00 was reached
in January, and on to the end of the
season1, starting at $55.00 for August
seed. Cr starting at $60.00 for Aug
ust seed and advancing three dollars
per month to $72.00 for February, and
on to the end of the season.
Either one of these scales would
have worked no injustice to any one
and would have prevented the conges-,
tion that has caused all the unrest
and more or less losses to both mills
and farmers. Losses to mills with
green seed at $60 00 and $72.00 and
losses to the farmers and dealers who
have tried to cooperate by holding
back seed to keep from glutting- the
mills. We have seen the price twice
changed by the Food Administration
against the farmers, once in lowering
seed $1.00 per ton and then in ad
vancing meal two dollars per ton. At i
the meeting yesterday we were grati
fied to hear the mill representatives
state that all of their difficulties were
due to shortage of labor?that labor
conditions were improving?that they
want to, crush our seed and that if
we are patient all the seed will be
taken. But they warned us that if
the government refused to take the
short linters they have made exclu
sively for munitions, there would be
no market for such linters and that
would entail a cut of $6.00 per ton on
seed. My opinion of this is that
such a cut would not be justifiable,
for they can now go back to cutting
riornral l?nters that yield 90 to 110
pounds per ten of seed and are worth
for commercial purposes 7c to 10c per
pound or about 1-4 to 1-3 of the price
of cotton. So that the mills only
stand to lose on the munition linters
that the government may not take now
in their hands, which would be so
small a part of their year's work that
it could be absorbed in their profits.
And instead of loss would simply show
that the mills did not make quite so
much profit as they would have other- '
wise made. Eut we do not beliere the
gove rnment can in good morals, con
science, or equity threaten to close
down mills if they do not cut 14."
pounds of linters from each ton of
seed?thereby causing them to have
to add many expensive delinting gins
to their outfit?thereby causing then;
to manufacture a product that has
no commercial value except for pow
der making, and refuse to take all
they had made up to the time they
are notified to make no more.
Mr. J. J. Lawton stated that the
mills have had a committee :n Wash
ington wrestling with this problem
for two weeks cr more. That the
war industries board made them a
proposition to pay them $3.00 per ton
for all seed on hand which would
have let -:hem out. but would have
left the holders of unsold seed to
I carry the bag?that crushers from
I other States were in favor of accept
ing same, but the South Carolina
members of the committee turned it
down flat because of the grave in
justice that it would do to the grow
ers who have not sold seed and to
the dealers who on the faith of the
fixed price by the governmo'nt have
been unable to sell because of the
congestion.
The crushers deserve to be com
mended for taking this loyal position
in the int? rest of the growers. The
pity of the whole matter is that th
growers do not take enough interest
in their own wonderful crop, cotton
|and cotton seed, to keep their repre
sentatives on the job of seeing that
(justice is clone them. The small help
that Col. Claffey and I have been able
I to render has been made poss*)ilo by
[the.food administration putting us on
{the cotton seed committee, and pay
ling our expenses to attend these
'four er five meetings this fall. But
we have no means to make investiga
tions nor to present our side of this
greal question to the business world.
I nor before the war industries board
and other governmental agencies
that have so much to do with the suc
cessful running of our own business.
We secured the modification of the
ginning charges that keep the farm
er from paying for bagging and ties.
I as excess weight.
We secured the privilege of farm
:<?:?*?? - a i:Kr,? together t-> get car
rates on seed, either as gin seed or
wagon seed, if they would deliver
twenty tons in ten days. Mr. Acree
I told me nt Hie meeting thai Darling
ton farmers have done th:s. I have
heard of no others that hav? d ?no so.
[In fact Col. plaffey's strongest indict
[ment of the crushers was that they
? have not carried out either the letter
or the spirit of their agreement with
the farmers through the food admin
istration, in that they have discrimin
ated against car load seed both as car
seed and as twenty ions delivered in
ten days at the mills. The mills de-1
jnicd this, and presented figures to
j'prvoe their nedial. but my own ob
servation, and complaints that have
' been made to mc show that there has
been enough of it to create a power
ful spirit of resentment against the
mills.
We further secured for farmers the
privilege of hauling seed to the mil's
land securing the car rate plus the
I freight charges from the nearest s'.a
j tion. So far as I have been able to
j learn this has never been available
because the mills would sj.y: "We.
are crowded and can not take your
seed now." Of course rhey are
crowded because by being the only
place seed could be sold cotton for
many miles around was ginned
at the oil mill ginnery.*
And local gins. the very
ones the food administration slated
it was trying to protect in the interest
<>f the farmers, have run half time
and had not much to do then. The
very ones the food administration
was protecting in making a wagon
price of seed three dollars per ton
less than car rate, it did not protect
them because they had to get out
of the market when they filled up
their seed houses and could not sell
seed?Why? Because oil mills were
getting more than their daily crush
at their own gins.
I have contended all along that if
a mill cot.ld pay $71.00 or SI2.00 for
car seed with an average freight
charge of $2.00, and the cost of un
loading with occasional demurrage
charges that it could pay at h ast the I
same pric<- for gin or wagon seed un- i
loaded into their storage rooms with- !
out charge That the food adminis- j
iration and the crushers have recog- j
nized the equity of this without agree
ing to it is proved by the allowance j
of car rates plus freight under cer
tain conditions of distance for wagon J
seed when twenty tons would be de- i
livered in ten days. The fact that j
mills got gin and wagon seed at $5.00
per ton less than car lots together
with the fiat price for all the season J
has caused all the trouble.
Tn conclusion Col. Fitzsimmons. the
genial nestor of the cotton seed oil
business stated in an eloquent speech
in Charlotte that he "thanked God
when the food administration took
over the business." I called his atten
tion to that statement in Columbia
yesterday. He said: "I repeat }t.
From last December to November 11
I slept better than I have ever done
since I have been in the oil business.
I knew I had an assured profit, and
it made no difference to me what
prices were. Mr. Justice who came
?from Washington to have our views
on the continuance of seed regulation
for the balance of this season said to
me at its close:. "I heartily agree with
vou that governmental control has not i
helped the farmers."
The meeting unanimously agreed
that it would be disastrous to farmers j
.and seed dealers to remove restric
tions before the end of this season, j
and passed a resolution to that ef
fect. But I am sure all the farmers
present agreed to my sentiment :"As
a war measure we stood it?but nev
er more."
I do not know that Col. Claffey and
I will have anything more to do with
the seed situation officially. The j
above tells you what we have tried i
to do. We have none but the kindest!
feelings for the crushers, ginners. and |
seed buyers we have met on the com- j
mittee. And we found Mr. Elliott the
staunch friend of the farmers, cour-1
teous and firm for the right. But in
spite of it all the crushers were too
strong with the powers that be, and
have had the advantage in every deal.
Fe patient, stand firm for the prices
now fixed. The world needs the oif
and all the other by-products. If the
?-.rice of seed changes, it will be to go
higher, as it should for those who have
Taken care of them until they are
needed.
Bu were all restrictions removed
now the effort to unload by dealers
A-ho have bought all they can store
would cause a disastrous slump.
E. W. Dabbs.
Mayesville, Dec. IS.
* Since this was written the Sumter
oil mill had two days ginning at a
time, cotton going there from from
15 to 20 miles away.
Farmers Should Cut Out Shingle
Roofs.
A special bulletin on fire-preven
tion and lire-lighting on the farm.
Farmers' Bulletin No. 004. issued re
cently by the United States, Depart
ment of Agriculture, states that "from
a fire-protection standpoint it is un
fortunate that nearly all farm build
ings are covered with shingle roofs.
A dry shingle roof is one of the most
inflammable things imaginable."
James R. Young, State Insurance
Commissioner and Fire Marshal of
Xorth Carolina, urges farmers when
a new building is being constructed or
a new roof is being put on an old one.
to consider the use of fireproof roof
ing.
"With the growing scarcity and
high price of lumber, fireproof sub
stitutes for shingle's are becoming
more numerous and available. When
shingles are exposed to the weather
Cor a short time they take on o. rough,
fuzzy appearance, due to the fibers on
the surface becoming loosened. The
sun from without and the heat from
within the building combine to ex
tract every trace of moisture from
them. If the cinder or spark happens
to strike the roof, the roughened sur
face tends to hold it there, and it is
likely to set the roof on fire before
it goes out."?The Progressive Farm
er.
How They Celebrated in London.
Manchester. Nov. IS (Correspond
ence)? Describing the celebration of
peace in London the Guardian's Lon
lon correspondent writes:
"Another incident was that a very
large plain American officer, with two
short plain American officers, march
ed up from Trafalgar Square to Lei
cester Square kissing every girl they
met. the leader shouting. 'Next
please.' Before they got to the square
they had a following of a dozen un
it tesed girls drawing their attention to
the fact."
The language of the American Red
Cross is universal.
Red Cross muses soothe the pains
of our fighting men.
The Next War
-
A Learned Japanese Official
j Thinks the Colored Racial
Question More Important
Than Wilson's Four
teen Points.
i
i -
i Tokio, Nov. 20 (Correspondence of
i the Associated Press):?Belief that
I the next war will be the outcome of
jrace prejudices is expressed by Yukio
j Ozaki, formerly Minister of Justice,
i and a leading member of the Consti
| tutional Party. Mr. Ozaki said that in
j his opinion, the colored races which
steadily were developing their civili
zation would demand finally the same
treatment as the white races, and that
the result would be an armed col
lision.
Mr. Ozaki recommended that at
the Peace Conference. Japan aeting
on behalf of all the Asiatic races
should introduce the racial and popu
lation questions for consideration, and
if possible, secure a solution.
In a country like Japan where the
population is increasing with alarm
ing rapidity, he said it was but nat
ural that surplus population should
try to obtain an outlet even by resort- !
ing to arms. From Japan's standpoint,
said Mr. Okaki, the racial population
questions were more important than
President Wiison's "Fourteen Points"
as laid down for a basis of Germany's
surrender. These racial questions, he
said, concerned the future of millions
of souls in Asia.
Mr. Ozaki warned the Japanese not
to develop the German system of State
organization which in the present
war had proved to be a mere machine
for destroying civilization ana for
trampling under foot the rights of
ether nations and peoples.
On the question of Japan's occu
pation of the German South Sea Is
lands, Mr. Ozaki declared that the
United States should dismantle her
forts in the Philippines and Hawaii,
and that this would be more import
ant for Japan than the taking over
of the South Sea Islands.
French mosses and Demobilization.
Paris, Dec. 20.?French soldiers to
the number of 1,400.000 were killed
during the war. according to a state
ment by the Socialist Deputy Lucien
Verlin in the chamber of deputies
this afternoon during the interpella
tion of the government on demobili
zation.,
Deputy Verlin asked that the sol
diers be returned to the soil and the
factories without delay and continued:
"I betray no secret when I say that
the problem of demobilization pre
sents itself thus: We have mobilized
0,000,000 men. We have had about
1,400,000 killed, while SOO.OOO recov
ered from wounds. We are goiyg to
demobilize 1,200,000 reserves, terri
torials and heads of families."
Masaryk Enters Prague.
Paris. Saturday, Dec. 21 (Havas).?
Prof. Thomas G. Masaryk, the presi
dent of the newly formed republic of
Czeeho Slavonia has made his solemn
entry into Prague, according' to ad
vices received here today from that
city.
The Wealth Survey.
Every citizen of this city and of the
county of Sumter who reads the cor
respondence from Washington, pub
lished in this issue of this paper
entitled "Lever Takes Step for Rural
Health." and covering official statistics
in connection with his argument in
his bill, just introduced, providing
.$250.000 for 1010, and that much ad
ditional each year until $1,000,000.00
annually are appropriated for rural
health work, will be convinced of the
necessity of rural sanitary surveys
and other rural health work.
Students of social and economic
problems will find much food for
thouht in this article, and especial
ly in Mr. Lever's arguments in sup
port of his bill. Congressman Lover
argues that good health and sanitary
surroundings, and modern agricul
tural methods go hand in hand.
. If Sumter county puts up $3,300 for
the county health survey, and Mr.
Lever's bill passes both houses of con
gress, there is every reason to believe
that the United States government will
put up $3.300 additional to match
our $3,300. The United States and
the Stale government now have some
thing more than $6,500 up for the
county health survey and rural visit
ing nurse in this county, if we raise
$3.300, and are ready to begin work
early in January 1010. We stand a
splendid chance, as before said, of
getting additional financial aid from
the federal government, if we do our
part in: nediately in putting up the
money already covered, two to one
by the State and national govern
ments for immediate service.
Read th Washington letter in this
issue of tuis paper if you want infor
mation about the value and necessity
for rural sanitary work.
The Sumter County Council of De
fense meets at H o'elock next Satur
day morning. December 2.Sth. at Sum
ter Chamber of Commerce. Every
member is request) d to attend and to
be prompt as there is much business
to be transacted of county wide im
portance.
Railroad and express freight ban- ]
dlers have apparently taken a-solemn
oath that no illicit liquor ship
ments shall pass through then: hands.
Trunks and suit cases containing a
quart or more of liquor are expertly
opened, the liquor removed and noth
ing else disturbed, and the owner dis
covers his sad loss only when the
trunk is unpacked. Xo baggage is
>at*e from the booze hounds, for they
can smell out a quart of old bourbon
even when buried in the midst of lin
gerie. But sometimes they make a '
mistake, or. perhaps, it is not a mis
take, only an excess of caution in
guarding against any liquid ship
ment passing uneensored. But be
that as it may. one booze-hound was
disappointed when he busted open
the ease and ripped off the cartons of
a shipment of ink in quart bottles.
The owner of the ink is thankful that
he did not break the bottles and spil'
the ink, in his chagrin.
A. J. Wingate And
His Wife Praise Dreco
Prominent Farmer Living on
Route Two, Sumter, S. C. and
His Wife Have Tried the New
Root and Herb Medicine and
Recommend It to Their
Friends.
'"My wife often had choking spells
and her heart would beat very fast
and made her uneasy," said Mr. A. J.
Wingate of Route 2, Sumter, S. C.
'"I myself suffered from stomach
disorder and indigestion and my sleep
was badly broken so that when I got
up of mornings I was about as worn
out as when I went to bed the night
before.
"Both of us have tested out the
new medicine Dreco and we are glad
to say that it has been a great bene
fit to us both. My wife never has the
heart fiutterings nor ?the choking
spells any more and my stomach
troubles are all gone. I sleep so well
now that I find'it hard to roll out in
the morning when the time comes.
Dreco is grand medicine and we are
both recommending it to our friends
and neighbors."
Dreco is made from the juices, and
extracts of many 'different roots,
herbs, barks and berries which act on
the vital organs in a most pleasant
and positive manner. It relieves con
stipation, restores the kidneys to full
action, arouses a sluggish liver, in
duces sound sleep, quiets the nerves,
builds up the whole system and puri
fies the blood. Rheumatism, ca
tarrh and other diseases have been
known to respond quickly to the Dre
co treatment.
Most all good drug stores now sell
Dreco but it is specially recommend
ed in Sumter by Sibert's Drug Store.?
Advt.
A Skin Game
Old Country Negro RoBbed By
Two Fly-Coons.
A very pathetic tale is that of Dave
Jones, an old colored man from St
(marl es, who was the unfortunate los
er this morning of $65, this amount
having been taken from him. by two
other negroes who seemed skilled in
the game. Dave had just reached
Sumter and was walking up Harvin
Street when he and his companion,
who later turned out to be an accom
plice, noticed another negro pick up a
pocket book. The finder claimed that
the pocket book contained a hundred
dollar bill and offered to divide it
with the two other negroes if they
would not mention the fact. The latter
agreed and the three proceeded to the
outskirts of the city where the divis
ion was to take place.
Since the large bill evidently had
to be changed before his share would
be forthcoming, Dave offered his roll,
consisting of $65, in order to expedite-;
matters. The two negroes who made
the haul, left for the house of a friend
who lived nearby in order to obtain
the amount necessary to make the
change. They have been gone ever
since. Dave is still hoping for the re
covery of his money.
In The Police Court.
Though things around the police
court are usually quiet, quite a num
ber of cases came up before Record
er Harby this morning. As a result
of these cases, several dollars were
added to the city's treasury.
Jno. Richardson had been caught
by Policeman DuRant while he was
engaged in an interesting game in the
Silver Moon Cafe, an establishment
operated on West Liberty street. John
plead guilty and had to pay a fine of
$5. Lewis McFadden, colored, who
was also interested in the game, fail
ed to put in his appearance this
morning at court and as a conse
quence, forfeited his bond of $10. '
Maggie Wilder, charged with petty
larceny, forfeited her bond of $5.00,
when she failed to be on hand to
plead to the charge.
Senior Porter augmented the city's
finances by $10 by staying away from
court when he had been notified to be
on hand, having been charged with
petty larceny.
Mr. C. F. Ketr.er, who is an apple
lealer. was charged with doing busi
ness without a license. His case was
lismissed when he agreed to take out
the necessary license immediately.
FOll SALE?Registered Duroc Jer
seys. 1 male, weight 600 pounds;
1 sow. weight 300 pounds, 2 gilts,
weight 135 pounds each. Dr. A. J.
P.-nnock. R. F. D. 3._
( ARM LAND FOR SALE?In Sumter
Lee and Clarendon counties. C. P.
Osteen. Sumter, S. C.
7 PER CEXT XEW MEAL?For
prompt shipment; also blood, high
grade tankage, potash, acid phos.
ground phos. rock and ground lime
stone. Call or write us for prices.
Southern Brokerage Co., Sumter,
_S. C.__
?EESWAX WAXTEP?Any quantity
large or small Am paying best
cash price. Sec me if you have
any. X. d. Osteen._
"OR SALE?F. O. B. cars, Camp
Jackson, stable manure; very little
straw. Car load lots only. Chemi'
cal and Fertilizer value rated very
high by Clemson college. A. A.
Strauss, Sumter, S. C.
Qeo. H. Hurst,
Undertaker and Emfaalmer
Prompt Attentin to Or and
Night Calls
At j. 0. CRA1G Old Stand, N. Main
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