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Sunday School Festival Sunday. Schoote_of Sumter to Unite in Children's Entertian ment As"?"part of the wide-spread child welfare movement which has recently \ been inaugurated throughout the civ iii&eollwrorJd* the Sunday Schools of AmeVica have determined to hold a Children's Week, each State selecting; -tiie time best, suited to its needs. '^oVth^ CatOlitta has chosen the j week beginning April 27th and end- j ing May 4th~. and Sumter will, of; ^egjorse, do her part. ? w JPhe ministers of the city have i agreed to "preach on an appropriatej vstr5jfect," ahd the superintendents and teachers are urged to make every ef fort to secure better attendance and I ? to increase their enrollment in all j departments. i Cto the afternoon of May 1st from j 6 to 7 o'clock, all*children of Sumter' ander ten. years of age are invited by! ^^fe^Em^tS^SChobls of Sumter to an! entertainment on the'Graded School; Square. A fine time is promised to! . aU. the little., folks of the Primary: 3rid 'Beginners' classes, and even the j children on the Cradle Roll who are t able to walk about are asked to come j and JOih in the fun. Ministers and superintendents arc ; asked to repeat this invitation at ev ery service on Sunday. /* If"trie Wehther is not suitable fori an Outdoor celebration the gymnasium! at the Girls' High School will be used, j .It "is hoped that six hundred or ' more little guests will attend, and if j this'entertainment proves a success: "one" for the older children will be! helcflater. ! The movement will be financed by; the Sunday Schools, and the expenses: will be small. Mr. P. G. Bowman has; this "matter in charge. *s The program for the coming en-J . tert?lnment is as follows: ^Drop Handkerchief?Little Sally j . Walker and others. i Circle Games?Sunday ?School, Teache rs h'elping. Stories?By Miss McCattley. Miss ^Dorothy Phelps, Miss Esther Clark. Mrs. Rumph, Mi's. Green and Miss j Anderson. j: America, Keep the Home Fires Bujraiirig and others. j1 Sdngs?Miss Truitt, directing. |'. March?Sunday School Teachers | helping. Refreshments. Fortunes?Told by Mrs. Thayer. All white children in the city ten j years, or under, are cordially invited.!' All ministers, Sunday School sup- rin- : < fenaents and teachers are invited. 1 The ministers of,the city are asked, to make an announcement of this en-{< tertalnmeht at the prayer meeting j 1 _ services tonight. ' j < Victory Loan ( Proclamation i Governor Cooper Calls on People Of State to Buy Bonds Wi 'i i Colum bia, A p rtt 22.?G o v< ? r n or | Cooper today issued a -proclamation j calling upon the citizens * of South^ C?r?iiha to support the Victory Lib-j ?erty Loan Campaign which will be; launched Monday and the war sav ings movement already under way. (ybyernor Cooper's proclamation fol low-:"' J "Whereas, our own South Carolina boys have attracted to their native! State the respect and admiration of the world because out of the 43 med-1 "als awarded by corgress and the pres- | fdent. seven were given to South Car-1 olm&tns-; and the military authorities' of Great Britain ^ave the highest hon- j ors to our sons?fighting for us; and . "Whereat, this, war for the preser-j vation Of American institutions and; the Liberty of the individual citizen j has^ been won. but has not yet been ; paid fW: and j ?. ^'"Whereas, the government of thej jjfttt^i States, has incured heavy ob-j liglations! In the conduct of the war. j arid: '^reatt expenditures will be neces sary to meet postwar conditions: now! therefore. j -Robert A. Cooper. Governor of ; So^urh Carolina, do earnestly urge thej 'p?fi$ie of . South Carolina to subscribe to 'and in every way within their j powerv to aid the Victory Liberty j Loan, and that they invest to the full [ extent of their individual means so j that, the government of the United j fetates may be able to meet its obli- j "gat^nis." ROBERT A. COOPEB. I Governor of South Carolina.! ?'*. Germany Accepts Conditions; _ i Will Send Delegates With Full! Powers to Negotiate Paris. April 21 (By the Associated j Press)?Germany has notified the' allies that she accepts all the allied: conditions respecting the Versailles; peace congress. This official an nouncement was made tonight. - jGermany will send the following delegates to the Versailles congress! with- full powers to negotiate. Count von Brockd?rff-Rantzau, for eign minister; Herr Landsberg, sec retary for publicity, art and litera-J ture; Dr. Theodore Melchoir. general manager of the Warburg Bank: Herr Leinhert. president ... the Prussian assembly and of the national soviet congress; Herr Geisberg, min ister of iwsts and telgraphs. and Herr Schleching. ?In all the German party will num ber 75. The arrival of the delegates can not be expected before April 2*. Revised Casualty List American Army Had 33,887 Kill ed in Action in France Washington. April 23.?Revised casualty totals announced today by the war department placed the total ?fea-?Ir.Mt "the army arid- marine corps at 7"..." 14 of which S3.8S7 were killed in action* ! Labor Bureau and Employment Station Discharged Soldiers Seeking Jobs and Those Needing Laborers Should Register i ! _ H. A. Wo?dard. colored farm dem onstration agent for Sumter county. j-'Is conducting a labor bureau and em ployment station, under government ; auspices, to assist discharged colored [soldiers in obtaining employment and i at the same time supply laborers to farmers and others who need farm hands or other labor. He has al ready placed a number of farm ? hands and if those who want work and those who need hands will reg ister with him he will be able to car ry on the work more successfully. His address is H. A. Woodard. Farm Demonstration Agent, Postoth'ee Pox 100, Sumter, S. C. : ,U. D. C. Convention Daughters of Confederacy Meet in Darlington j - Darlington. April 22.?The annual! State convention, U. D. C. met in tie-! auditorium of St. John's high school i this evening. The convention was to have been held in Darlington la?- j fall, but the meeting was postponed on account of the influenza epidemic. The time for the convention was happily chosen as weather conditions are now ideal and at no season of the year is Darlington more beauti ful. There are in attendance upon the . convention many distinguished guests, men and women, whom Dar lington is pb-ased-to entertain and ?o hear. Among the speakers at ila session this evening were Dr. K. W. Sikes president of Goker College, a; ' Hartsv-ifie. The president general.) .Miss M. P. Poppenheim of Charles-j ton. was expected to arrive in thej city tonight. About 100 delegates are! here, besides numerous other visitors. The meetings of the convention arc being held in tin- morning in the high school auditorium and in the after noon and evening in the auditorium of the grammar school. Music for t-" convention is being furnished by tie-; Darlington Music Club. One of the most delightful social events of the convention in the inti j Cipation of all. will be the reception which will beffield at the home of j Mr. and Mrs. Bright Williamson I Thursday evening from 6.20 to S ? o'clock. Elaborate preparations are )oing made for the event. At the meeting this evening ad-j lresses of welcome were made on the \ ^?art of the city, the civic League ami j >ther organizations, together with j -espouses. Cotton For German Mills; Economic Council to Consider j Proposals Today - I Paris, April 21.?The supremo ceo-] nomic council will meet tomorrow to . consider proposals to grant a lim ited supply of raw materials, no tably cotton, to Germany to enable the factories there to st/rt work and to relieve the unemployment which is said to be at tlx- bottom of much of] the disorder in Germany. The coun cil, it is said, also will revise regu-j; lalions* for German exports required/ to pay for food imports ami prob- \ ably will dfceuss the new economic situation created by the slackening of the stockade regulations applied to Germany's neutral neighbors. After April 25, goods and comino-f dities. may be shipped to the neutral] countries adjoining Germany virtual-! ly without restriction, the neutrals j themselves assuming responsibility! against the reexport of prohibited! wahres to Germany. The "black list" j rationing and allied control regula tions will be abolished from that date. "Shipments may be made freely after ; April 21, from the Cnited States aud associated countries when consigned to neutral control organizations stielt as the Netherlands ? Overseas Trust and the Swiss and the Society of Sur veillance without the necessity of! cabling 'application.'-, back and forth! across the. Atlantic. ' " I Easter Election. At the annual meeting of the con-1 gregation of the* Church of the Holy Comforter held in the church on Monday evening, the 21st of April, the following gentlemen were elected to the vestry: Wardens: Messrs. Mark Reynolds, Ernest Field. Vestrymen: Messrs. 11. L. Tisdale.j Jos. Palmer, C. S. Anderson, t \ B. Yeadon. W. W. Pees. VY*. Percy Smith.] Ii. G. Osteen. Tiie delegates elected to represent ; this parish at lie- l?9th annual meet-} ing of the Council of the Protestant] Episcopal Church of this diocese.! scheduled to be held in Prince! George's Church. Georgetown, on the second Tuesday, being the 13 th Uu> of May. 1919, are as follows: Messrs. W. Percy Smith. Ernest j Field. EL L. Tisdale. C. S. Anderson.! Alternates: Messrs. 11. G. Osteen. j Mark Reynolds. W. W. Rees. NOTICE Tin- eommiitee on the picnic dinner: to he hehl on April 28th, asks that \ every one will remember not to bring j food that hits to be eaten with a fork and knit--, and so a regular menu that any one can choose from has ? >?-en selected: Hm. fried chicken, roast low!, roast turkey, stuffed e.u^s. hard boiled eggs, sandwiches of ail kinds, biscuits, pickles, tdon't forget 'he pickles), bread, cakes, pies. Any and all of tle-se are good and can be handled weli. Each and every one. is expected to bring a box or a basket of lunch. Will each lady on this committee bring a few Rowers for the tables, .lust bring them in :i fr?h jar. Aunes M. F-fogin. Chairman of Committee. I City Council Meeting' Police to Stand Regular Exami nations. Board of Health i Request Enactment of Milk Ordinance ! ( ?ty Council met in regular session I Tuesday night. 22nd instant, with all I menioers present. I .1. P. Commander presented a re quest for permission to erect a wood en frame corrugated iron-clad building; Jon the China lot on South Main Street, {south of the old Hotel Sumter. Ac- , ftion was deferred. H. C. Haynsworth presented claim! j for reimbursement of cos! of clean- ; ring out ditch on Commerce and Cal-! : noun streets. Action deferred. j ft. E: Wilde r. Chief of Fire Depart-] ment. recommended necessary repairs'; ion rirc department headquarters the' I purchase of supplies for the quarters ' of firemen and the purchase <>f rub ! ber coats and hoots. The rccom ! mendations were approved and , j Councilman Booth ami Chief Wilder i were authorized to have the repairs I made and to purchase the supplies I and equipment needed. I Property owners ori North Purdy j Street tiled a petition for the construe- j tion of a sewer line on Purdy street ! north of Calhoun. The matter was re- i ferred to W. W. McKagen to ascertain probable cost of requested extension, report to be made at next Council m.eeting.. , , ., . . . ? J. Hf. fl.Mi'v submitted bid on re- j pairs i" roof of City Hall ami inter-{ ior of Opera House for $2<?7."?U. Th?* j was accepted. Pt OTTTiruy ami A. A [T?Wc~l1 riled] petition for extension of water main < <>n Broad Street beyond city limits.! The request was refused, but Council' agreed to permit petitioners to make! the extension at their own expense-! and connecl with city water main,; they to pay the regular rales for wa-j ter used City Clerk rthame was directed tv obtain places on an incenerator fori the disposal of city garbage. FI. U Tisdale; Secretary of the j Board of Health. iilc<l :i request for] the enactment of an ordinance for- ? bidding the sale of milk within the I city except from cows that have been j properly and regularly tested and' found to be free from tuberculosis. Tiie matter will be investigated and ; taken up for consideration ;it the next. Council meeting. Recorder I-fwrby was requested t<> ! instruci the members of the* police force as to their duties and powers and to require the police to stand j regular quarterly examinations. the result of the same to be reported to i Council by the Recorder. J. M. Barwick was elected First; Sergeant of the police force at a sal-! ary <>f sno a month. A resolution was adopted directing, ihr"clerk to increase the insurance on the City Hall property S?.'.'OO. Thej bill for the city's share for the t support of Camp Alice was approved and ordered paid. Under the terms.! of the agreement with the C^untfjM Board oL' Commissioners Che city pays] one-half the cost of ?. ihaintainingj <111 r i * Alice. the county and individ-j nals citizens have borne the expeirsc: of construction and equipment. The city has paid on account of Camp' Alice during: the past nine months' the total amount of $.1,399.50. \ A Proclamation Whereas i: lias been determined by the white citizens of So-mter County.: in mass meeting assembled, to have a reception on Monday. April 2Sth, j for the white boys of Sumter county j who have been in the service of ihe-j United States during the world war,] and Whereas the committee, which was appointed by said meeting to make'] the arrangements for the reception, j have spared no effort in trying to J make this an occasion long to. he re memberer1., and for such purpose they have ! viih-d a vvy instructive,, at tractive and interesting program, and: Whereas it is desired to give all "the citizens of the county an oppor tunity to attend this meeting, .and do honor to the buys who have, in the j providence of God, been permitted to ? return, now. therefore 1. L. I>. Jennings, as Mayor of the: City of Sumter. do declare and pro-: claim that Monday. April 2$, 1919.1 should be observed by all of the! City of Sumter as a holiday. .*. ? . ., . L. P. JENNINGS. I Mayor of the City of Sumter.; Red Crow* Conference. AI a meeting- of the Red Cross Home service Committee last week , ?he. following members-of the Committee were elected to attend .the Red Cross Conference in Florence, .S. C, May Nth, 9th and 10th: Mr. Horace Har by. Chairman: Mrs. Ferd Levi, Miss Mamie Chandler, Executive .Secretary. This will be a conference of the Eastern counties of South Carolina. The counties in this district are: Chesterfield, 'Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon. Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Lee. Marion, Marlboro. Sumlcr, Wil liamsbUig. . The topics to be considered wilf be: Our Program During Demobilization? Home Service in Families; Organiza tion of Sections; Compensation; Vo cational Training; Home Service and . Child Welfare: The Future of Home Service, and others. Competent speakers will be pres ent from the Division Headquarters* but the effective work of the confer ence will be done at the."Hound Ta ble" Meetings," of which there will be four. A specially interesting fe ature will be a class for Home Ser vice Secretaries, conducted by Miss Ada. S. Wool folk. Assistant Director of the Department of Civilian Relief, Southern Division, American Red' Cross. This is quite a privilege for Home Service Workers and a large at tendance is expected at the Confer-, ence. ? Real'zo how easy it is to save bv: buyimr Thirft. Stam ps. \ ON A County wide Basket Picnic, in honor of the return ed white soldiers and sailors of every branch of of the service, who served at home or abroad. Every family invited to participate and bring a Basket of "Good Things To Eat," which should be delivered to the Serving; Committee of Ladies on the City School Square by eleven o'clock, Monday morning, April 28th* PROGRAMME 10 A, M.?Big Military Parade forms. * 11:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M.?Speeches by selected Orator^ Music through out the day and night by a Camp Jackson Military Band. 2 P. M?County Wide Basket Picnic. 3:30 P. M. to 6:00 P. M?Demonstrations by Terrible Engine of Death and Destruction, a Genuine War Tank, that participated in the war and operated by veterans who ope rated these machines in Battle Over Seas. Baseball during the afternoon between picked Nines, one from among returned service men. . . .t . i; . .. : 3 to 11 P. M. at Academy of Music?The Wonderful and Thrilling Motion Picture. "The Price of Peace" taken by the U. S. Government on the Battle fields of France and showing actual battle scenes. ^ f , ; 9 P. M.?Grand Open Air Dance on Washington Street between Hampton and Liberty . participated in by everybody. Buildings beautifully decorated. All business to be suspended in Sumter, and throughout the County so get ready and be with the crowd rejoicing, and spread th "Glad Tidings". I Everything absolutely FREE except the Base Ball Game and that Free to Service Men. E. S. BOOTH, Gen. Chairman ??-."-ii ?_ * ^^Sif", r"