Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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aseeie? at :? iHwtd?ce sc Punier. R c? *a ttoouAd CteM Man?. personal. B. B. Phelps, who has just return ed from France with the 30th Divis ion, and is now stationed at Camp Jackson, spent Sunday in the city with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Phelps. Mr. jand Mrs. G. Pierson Dick and child, of Birmingham. Ala., arc visit ing Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Dick. Mrs. Martha C. Smith, who has been spending the winter in Florida, has returned to Sumter. Mrs. J. Z. Hearon left last night for Atlanta to attend the Grand Op er^" there this week. Mrs. D D. Moise and Mrs. Nina Sol ouipns are attending the Grand Opera in "Atlanta. MFs. Walter Harby. who has been dmnsr relief work near Society Hill, is yiteitmg In the. city. Miss- Armida Moses, who has been attending the General U. D. C. Con vention in Louisville. K>\. returned Saturday night, and this week is at tending the State convention which is meeting in Darlington. Mrst W. S. Reynolds left for Fair burn, Ga_.% last night to be with her j sister. Mrs. J. D. Joye who is very | ill with influenza. Mrs. Hugh Fraser. of Charleston, and little daughter, are visiting Mrs. J. M. Dicic. Miss Janie Mikell is spending two w*eks -with relatives on Edisto Is land. ? Mrs. H. J. Harby. Mrs. W. B. Lynam and Miss Alice Moses are attending the Grand [ Opera in Atlanta. Miss Hallie Floyd who has been nurshrfc her sister. Mrs. Stackhouse, at Rocky Mount, has returned to Sumter. Rev. F. A. Murphy, of Spartanburg. j ? is in the city. ?Mrs. B. O. Bristow, of Darlington.! is visiting at Dr. J. Z. Hearon's. Mrs. JE. C- Chewning of Beaverdam. Va., is visiting her. brother, Mr. E. R. Murray. :0u North Main St. . . .The^Trenches Brought to Sumter. ..... County Chairman Henry P. Moses has received by telegraph official as . surance that the 30th Division Spe cial . the government's war trophy train; now touring South Carolina, will : arrive at Sumter at 2.50 P. M. on Wednesday. April 30th. and leave at I P. M. on the same day. This train will carry and exhibit ob jects, of the greatest interest in con nection with the war. It will of fer a chance to see specimens of all ] the agencies of modern wafare. can- , non, mortars, bombs, torpedoes, etc.. j all of the latest type. All of the ar- ] t.icles:exhibited have been in actual use ] at the., front,, either by the armies of , the ail'ies or by those of Germany. , Engines of war used on the. sea will be shown as w-ell as those used on land. There will be short but very \ interesting speeches by soldiers ac- j cojnpanyihg the train. No admission t of .any sort is charged for the priv- ( ilegje^ef seeing all that the train con- < . taras. Theypresence of this train will give dh 'opportunity, which will never be repeated, for those who had no active part in the'war to form a real concep tion, of .the gigantic and terrible in strumentalities with which it was carried on by both sides. No one who ylives within a day's journey of Sum ter I should fail to be on hand at the time it arrives. It is running on gov ernment schedule and will get here promptly at the hour stated. No News From Turkey London. April 23.?The rumor that a soviet government had been set up in Turkey, which attracted much at tention here yesterday has not been cohlfrmed and is now treated with incredulity. It was declared that Odessa, where the news originated, is in Bolshevik hands, and that British warships ;at Constantinople, with -wireless plants, might have been ex pected to report the fact, if the ru mor was. true, but nothing has bven heard from the fleet. : ^-~-:? Mandatory of Armenia _ { Wridon, March 18?"V\> ask Amer ica sVmply^T?? assume a burden, to perform a service to humanity." says Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford! Uim-ersrty, in a statement advocating i that the United States accept a man-j. daie of the League of Nations to ad minister and protect Armenia. '.'Armenia has been saved from the Turks and Kurds after suffering one of the most awful persecutions known to history." adds Professor .Murray. "A remnant of the Armenians still alive can be reconstituted into a na tion; but they will be too weak aud disorganized to maintain in depend- : ence or internal order, unless they are helped and protected by sonn <?ther nation. "The protecting nation mhst be very strong, absolutely disinterested, known jitd trusted by Armenians, and r.ot already overburdened by other duties ei??iewhere. There is no nation in the world except America which satisfies these four conditions. "If America will accept trm man date the Armenians can still be saved as a people; If America refuses, one more great region of the world is in danger of slipping into anarchy." Death. James Melton Osteen. a son of Mr. J. G. Osteen. of Privateer, died on Friday April 18th. at Fort Oglethorpe. Ga.. after only twenty-four hours' illness. He became ill on Thursday and (lied the following afternoon. The body arrived in Sumter Wednesday accompanied by an escort from the camp and was taken to Bethel church where the funeral services were held. The deceased had been in Camp only about a month, having enlisted in re sponse to the call of the government for 50.000 volunteers to take the place of men now in service overseas. I Colored Fair Association Negroes of Sumter County Or ganize Company With $20,000 t Capital to Hold County Fair At a meeting: hold Monday by a number representative colored farm ers the preliminary steps looking to jward the organization of the Sumter County Colored Fair Association were taken, and the movement to establish the fair association on a firm basis is well under way. It was decided to organize a company with a capital stock of twenty thousand dollars and ! those present subscribed for two thou sand dollars worth of the stock. The following officers were elected: Pres ident. Seymour Howard: Treasurer. Thomas Wright; Secretary, H. A. "Woodard. At the meeting to welcome home the colored soldiers Mayor Jennings in his address referred to the desirabil ity of the negv??s of Sumter county Organizing a county fair association and suggested that they take up the matter at once. It was in couse | quenee of this suggestion that the pre i liminary steps were taken yesterday. At the meeting held in the after-1 I noon to consider the county fair prop- ! osition an address was delivered by I Dr. Robert S. Wilkerson. president of: I the Colored Stale College and Direc- j ! tor of Agricultural agents. He also , I strongly urged the colored farmers to j I organize a fair association and to put \ their best efforts into making it a : success. Sunday School j Convention I _ i State Association Will Hold j Annual Meeting in Florence j _ i Spartanburg. April 21.?The execu- j tive officers of the South Carolina] Sunday School Association issued to- j day the following official call for the j forty-second annual State Sunday! School Convention: "The Sunday School workers of all i denominations are hereby called to | meet at Florence. June 3, 4, 5 in the! forty-second annual State Convention! of the South Carolina Sunday School \ Association. "The problem of reconstruction h-', primarily and fundamentally the task of religious education. As the great-! est existing agency for popular re ligious education, the Sunday School;, must meet this supreme task of the.h new day. "We, therefore, call upon all per- h ?tons in South Carolina who are inter-1 , ested in the Sunday school, in relig- j . Ious education, and in the moral and I, religious ideals-of our State to attend ! ; this convention. The attendance isM lot limited to officially appointed rep- j , resentatiyes, but all who register pyiil be accepted as delegates. "Information concerning the con- j ( mention can be secured from J. 13. j , liken. General Chairman. Commit-i ? ,ee of Arangemenls. Florence, s. C. > >r R. D. Webb. General Secretary, j , Nparlanburg. S. C." {^ W. E. Willis. jc President. ; { M. F. Ansel. i , First Vice President, j j John D. CappeTmann. [? Second Vice President, j t W. H. K. Pendlclon. { ? Chairman. Executive Committee ! i _? ? ??_ i 1 -,-? ; ! Colored Field Day. . - i \ The Field Day and County Com- | 1 m-mcement of the colored schools oi i * Sumter county will take place this Friday, April 2'r?th. At 11 o'clock theP schools according to districts will form ! a line in front of Shiloh Baptist i\ church on Washington Street and | march to the Court Hp use by way of : Washington and Calhoun streets. At \ the Court House on the steps facing | ( Harvin street Rev. J. P. Marion o! ?1 the First Presbyterian church will | address the children. Also Mr. E. I. ! Reardon and Dr. J. H. Haynsworth. . county superintendent will have some thing *o say. After the exercise:; a" ] the Court House the litte? will form j and the march will be down Main { street to Dingle, to Shiloh where there ? will be an intermission for lunch j Promptly at 2 P. M. the commence- j mcnt exercises will be held in the j church (Shiloh >. All ore most cor-j dialiy invited to attend. There will bej 8 to finish the Cth literary grade and' the corresponding work of the count j J course, and be awarded certificates of; promotion. The address to the class, will be delivered by Prof. C. A. Law- ? son. principal of Lincoln City Schools. Mr. S. J. McDonald will award the; certificates. Mr. Wcstberry and others' will make talks. We hope the oxer- j cises will be of great benefit to tin Children, especially of the rural dis I tricts where most of the people live. [ We realize if the children are not ! cared for. Christian character and in dustry instilled in them there will be] no future race. The work will be 'on exhibition at the demonstration I rooms on the corner of Dingle street land Salem avenue, and it will remain: |on exhibition at least a week. All are' j most cordially invited to attend c | : crcises and to see the industrial work. ! A list will be published of the [giver of the prizes and those receiy-j iing the same. We regret that the j rooms cannot be open during the ? j commencement exercises, but will be [open Friday morning from s to l-U.S?j fand after the exercises that afternoon I until 10 at night. After that'every i j morning until M o'clock and after [ noon from ~> to '.?. L. Bragg Anthony. M. [>.. County Supervisor. -. Easter Egg Hunt. j The Faster egg hunt given by tin/ 'ladies of St. Anne's Catholic Church 1 yesterday afternoon was quite a suc j .;ess both socially and . financially. I Quitr j number of children attended ? and ha, a fine time'hunting the eggs. .'The marked eggs were found by Wil liam Bryan, and Virginia Moses who j were awarded the prizes, a box of Candy and a box of silk handkerchiefs. Cake., ice cream, and candy were sold and a nice sum realized for the Al tar Society. ? How Major Mannihg Died Deed for Which He Was Award ed Posthumously the D. S. C. ! Washington. April 111.?Mrs. Ail i Ham Sinklcr Manning, of this city lias received an official communica l lion from tfic adjutant general, dated i April which says that his office j has been notified by the commanding ; general of the American expedition ary forces that, the latter has award i cd posthumously a distinguished .-<.r ! vice cross to her husband. Major j William Sinklcr Manning. 316th In fantry, for "extraordinary heroism in action" near Verdun. France. Xov:-m-| ber 6. 1018. Major Manning was a resident of | Washington, having been engaged inj newspaper work here for a number of years, tic was one of six sons of] former Governor Maiming of South Carolina, all in military service, and served, on the Mexican border with a South Carolina regiment. Mrs. Man ning was Miss Barbara Br?die, a granddaughter of the late Alexander Shepherd, former Governor of the District, and Mrs. Shepherd, who .now resides in the National Capital. The communication states ?hat. leading Iiis command in the face of heavy artillery and machine gun lire. Major Manning displayed remarkable bravery and coolness in reorganizing his battalion after severe losses had j been inflicted on it by the enemy. By continuous encouragement and daring he directed operations to the successful gaining of his objective. During these operations he was in stantly killed by a machine gun bul let. Letters written by Lieut. Col. J. H. Steinum n and Ca.pt. C. E. Clock of the 316th Infantry give the following de tails: On the morning of. November ?3 the third battalion of the 310th Infan try. 70th division, was located in the Meuse some three miles north of the village of Brabant and fdnrtceeh miles north of Verdun. The troops had been battered and worn from clays of fighting, and were more or less disorganized by a night of heav; shelling. The morning was cold and foggy and the German artillery was l.irtng continuously, seemingly from nowhere. The battalion was formed for the issault. but the troops showed rcluc :ance to cross through the heavy oar age. Major Manning ran in front ol the line, in a hail of shells and ma mine gun bullets: exhorted tin- men ts he passed up and down in front cl hem and greatly encouraged then: >y his fearless bearing and ufter a is ?Ogard of personal safety, and so in mired them that, when waving hi. ?ane he called: ""Let's go. boys." and ed them, the foremost man in tin marge, they drove on and carrieo heir objective. This primarily was the taking oi 'Hill 3?.S." the pivot on which turn 'd a whole corps movement from a ibrthcrn axis toward the east and ?eyond the Meuse. Shortly after the assault started ia.ior Manning was almost instantly illed by a machine gun bullet, which anie out of the fog and hit him ii he throat. It was a heroic death, cading troops for an assault in tic ace of a determined resistance l^ he enemy. After their major fell the he.men could no longer be stopped, fill 37s was freed of the Germans; ?y the day's assault and was occupied >y troops of the 310th Infantry. After the battle Major Manning tras buried with four other officers ei lis regiment and about fifty more rallant soldiers not far from wher< hey fell in a little cemetery on th< rcntle slope of a hill about two unU:> vest of the little village of RevilW. lonte eighteen miles north of Verdun. Cotton Exports Taxed surcharge of Twenty-five Cents a Hundred Placed on Ship ments From Southern Ports "Washington. April 23;?A STircha.rgf of twenty-five e*mts per hundred poujids on cotton shipped from Atlan tic and Gulf ports to Liverpool and London was established by the Ship ping Board today, in lieu of demur rage, on account of serious delays in unloading at English ports. Woodrow School Closing. Providence. April 22.?Tin- closing exercises of the Woodrow Graded School are to be held at the school house at o'clock Friday evening, followed by a barbecue and chicken supper. Tim proceeds to go t?? I he improvement of the school. Every body is invited to come. Death. A telegram was received today an nouncing the death of Mrs. Edward Colistine at her home in Wilkesbarre. Pa. Mrs. Colistine was the mother o; Mrs. <"<. W. Kraker of this city. Mrs. Rebecca Green Duncan liede very unexpectedly Easter morning atY the residence of her brother. John T.jr Green of Sumter. Mrs. Duncan bad] been unwell and was in a very! weakened condition as a result of an] attack of influenza which she ha during the winter, .lust a few weeks! ago he;- husband. Rev. Waddy T. Duncan, died in Fountain lira tvhe.-ej he was pastor of the Fountain Inn j charge. Mrs. Duncan had come lo Sumter for a visit to her brother. She was sick but not thought to be! in immediate danger. She passed; quietly away in the early hours of. Easter morning. Mis. Duncan was a cultured. Intel j ligent lady and had the love and re spect of a large circle of friends. Sh was the daughter of the late Dr. lle:i ry D. Green. She leaves three chil dren. Waddy T.. a student at the i Di versity of South Carolina: Lallu C. a student at Lander: and Rebecca All st on. ; Her body was taken ?<. Fountain Inn] and buried beside that of her hns-1 band. jBishopville Auto Races Tremendous Crowd in Attend anc and the Races Were Fast and Thrilling Exhibitions of Daring Driving?Only One Accident The automobile races hold at the Bishopville race track Monday were attended by onn of the largest crowds that has ever assembled to witness an event of this kind iv this section of the State. The weath? ? was idea! and the people earne from far and near to see how fast cars could be driven on a half-mile track. With one exception there was nothing to mar the pleas ure of the occasion and but for the unfortunate accident in which Willie Wiles was injured there would not be a single regret felt by any one. In tin- first event, the one mile race, Wil lie Wiles, the well known Columbia auto racer. Was seriously injured? how sei'iously is not yet known, as Io was t?'kcn at once to the hospital in Colui bia and nothing has been heard concerning his condition today. The j accident occurred as he was making j the turn on the first lap from a Hying start. His car skidded on the turn j and turned over three times. Hej was thrown from the car on \ the third revolution and when j picked up was bleeding from the ears and bbth shoulders and one arm ? appeared to be broken. His brother j who was in the car acting as me- I chanieian.-was thrown from the car as it skidded and was not seriously hurt, j The races resulted as follows: one Mile Race?Won by .1. I>. Be- j theat, driving Hudson: t?ne J.2I; prize] cup. Five cars entered. Five Mile Race?First. .1. D. Bethea. driving Hudson: prize. $50: second. Jess Reynolds, driving Oakland; prize S2">. Five cars entered. Ten Mile Race?First. .J. I). Bethea.j hiving Hudson, prize $"?": second, J. i f. Bunn. driving Abbott-Detroit, j prize $10. Four cars entered. Twenty Mile Racf?First, J. L). Be- | thea. driving Hudson. prize $150; j Second. J. T. Bunn. driving Abbott- : Detroit prize $70. Three cars enter- ! id. The Race Dance which was held | ast evening was attended by mow j ban a hundred couples, and tliere i ivcre in addition a lar ge crowd of j spectators. It was a most enjoyable j i.nd successful social pvent. .. . . -?-:-:- ; I New National Guard | EV?r Department Authorizes ReConstitution of State Militia ! Washington. April 23.?The recon itruction of the National Guard was LCtually started today when the war lepartmenl authorized the organiza-' ion of seven regiments and one extra ?attalion of infantry, one squadron of lavalry and eighteen companies of ?oast artillery. The troops are to j >e raised in New York, Ohio, New | 'erscy and Orgeon. ? I The Coming Celebration I A Solemn Day To Be Followed I By a Big Day in Which AH I Must Take Part i Ii must not be forgotten by anyone that Sum tor is celebrating the re turn of those soldiers and sailors who so far have come back; and that Sum j ter too is to hold memorial services I for the memory of those who never wilfvcome back. The whole county is ! counted on to take part on these two occasions. The TlianUsgiviug and Memorial Service? are to !><? at four on Sunday afternoon on the School Square, jt I will be short, about an hour in a [length. There will be prayers, a few j [hymns, a roll call of the dead in ser vice from this county, and a talk by J Rev. J. S. Lyons, chaplain of the 118th Infantry. Mr. Lyons was not a I back-of-thc-liiic man: he was wound-! cd in action. Every one is asked toj i see to it that the name of any rela- j [live or friend who fell in service, or I who died in camp, is handed in for J the roll call. Monday, the 28th, is the groait bigj day. The returned service men are to parade. There is to be a talk or two. There will be here a fine mili tary band. A tank, a real tank, the j kind of tank that smashed the Ger man barbwire lines is to be here. The moving picture. "The Price of Peace." that is showing under government auspices is to be here, and the ad mission price to see this picture is; nothing at all. The biggest part of Monday how ever, is the basket picnic, and that is where everyone is to come in. The soldier and sailor boys are to be the guests of honor: every one else is to he host. Bring a basket and the family: the rest of the crowd will do! the rest. It is to be the biggest day! Sum ter county has yet seen. \VA XTKi)?A BVGLER. The committee in charge of the; Thanksgiving and Memorial Services' to be held Sunday would like very! touch to have a bugler from among! the returned service men to blow taps that afternoon. A part of the program j is a Roll Call of the Dead, which will j be. reading the names of all from! Sumier county who died in service,! whether at home from disease or on the battlefield- After this roll is! railed taps js to be sounded, and it | will add much to the occasion if it can! be done by a service man in uniform.; The speaker of the evening is to bej the Rev. J. S. Lyons, chaplain of the; 118th Infantry of .the Thirtieth Di vision, who was himself wounded inj battle. Any bugler who will volunteer j his services will confer a favor on the committee if he will see Mr. Herbert i A. Moses about this. The committee in charge of ihe ex-1 crciscs for Monday 28th are bard at | work making all arrangements for the] day. which is to be a general holiday! in Sumter county. The returned ser vice men are to be the guests at a county-wide basket picnic in which the whole of the county-i?. in vi ted Xo participate. i Spartacan Republics ? Bolshevism Does Not Obtain Lasting Power in Germany I Berlin. Jan. 29 (Correspondence-of j The Associated Press)?Various Spair i tacan republics which from fJmeHo [ time were established in Germany ! were short lived with exception of the j "Socialist Republic of Brunswick." I which even after the election through j out Germany continued to defy *the central government in every possible manner.and did not hesitate to iiiSP.it Ithe most exalted members of Ihe Ber lin cabinet. One Berlin paper referred to the new state as "The Fools Re public of Brunswick." j t Th?* President of Brunswick is nam ed Merges. He left his apprenticeship to a tailor and has made an u^cei-fafn living as a "bushelrmrv'. His **;i?e still retains her position as an usher in^a Brunswick theatre, and is quoted' by her neighbors as having said, "None of my husbands plans ever lasted very long, and it will be the same with this one. so I am keeping my job." .V The vice-president- of Brunswick4:is a juggler who was appearing daily in a cabaret before the establishment^of the "republic". The Minister of. Educa tion is a woman natned FaSshauer whp was once a domestic servant and later employed -as a charwoman by a wo man's club. She then became a laun d ress. '. The office of police president is held by a locksmith who it is ?aid objected to taking the place because he had no fatih in its permanency and . who. cotnd only be induced to accept it af ter his employer had promised to re cmploy him if he wanted it. The government of Brunswick, which holds power only by armed force, and which is opposed by an overwhelming majority of the people, as proved by the result of the Nation al Assembly elections has organized a national guard and marine division. These men received 14 marks daify and "found." This sum is soon to be increased to seventeen marks. Large numbers of the unemployed joined the divisions because of the high pay. Quantities of ammunitions were col lected in the Grand Ducal palace, add the Spartacan rulers seemed determ ined to defend their position by forco of arms. . ; All citizens who can do so are leav ing the city. Brunswick is issuing floods of paper money which the-peas ants refuse to accept and which js worthless outside the boundaries of the state. ... Newspapers are punished, by .fims or orders suspending pubJication:.'if they offend through articles, which displease the Spartacans. while tHe Spartacan organ, the Volks, Freund, alone enjoys untrameled liberty. Free dom of speech is prohibited at all non partisan meetings. Two million men were sent . to France and their mission was suc cessful. More than one million men are still in France and must be brought home. The government needs your assistance. - B?y--^'4ets*y -iafcirty Bonds and Far Savings Stamps.. -j Jennings - Blanding Live S Headquarters for HORSES :-: MULES :-: BUGGIES -- ; X ft %: Big line of Farm Implements ,->' ' ?' ??* ? ?:? - ..._?- . .-? s - "-n. j . 5 ?-? * ?"."?.''7 * 7 * / ^ We Have Just Taken the Agency for McCormack REAPERS HINDERS *???>??* ? - v.. ? I \ ? . ? ? J MOWERS RAKES OLIVER Famous Chilled PLOWS HARROWS CULTIVATORS REAPERS BINDERS MOWERS v X H. 1 . RAKES We have a solid carload of Oliver Cultivators on the way, and will give a special demonstration as soon as tfrey arrive. Watch for date of demonstration and be sure to attend. You will find it interesting and worth your time. Pearsons Old Stand 117 East Hampton Ave. Phorie 377