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Salvation Army Drive Plans Perfected Committees Appointed, and ? Mass Meeting With Sacred } Concert Sunday Afternoon Chairman A. C. Phelps stated this morning- that every arrangement for the mass meeting Sunday afternoon has been perfected, and that he is very- grateful for the enthusiastic co operation being accorded him by the citizens of Sumter county in their de termination to put us over the top in a few minutes Sunday afternoon. A very substantial amount has already been subscribed*, and contributions are continuing-to reach Mr. W. I. White head, treasurer, by every mail from all over the county. Therefore, the committee feels almost confident that the call for subscriptions Sunday af-| ternoon will bring forth a great deal I more than Sumter county's quota, and that this will prove one drive that will be entirely over with in less time than any ever requested of us. The jRedpath Chautauqua people who are working so hard with the committee in arranging a sacred con cert Sunday afternoon advised Mr. j Phelps this morning that each and! every member of their organization are volunteering their services in ev ery possible way in connection with the Salvation Army Work. Sumter county is fortunate in having next Sunday afternoon some of the best artists on the Chautauqua program, including Mme. Lens kit whose repu tation is known to every music lover in the country. In addition to her selections, the members of the Har vesters Company, each and every one of them will apear on the platform, so there is absolutely no doubt of the concert being enjoyed by the large crowd that will attend. A full pro gram of the sacred concert will be published in Saturday's Item, and the committee respectfully urges that as many as possible send in their con tributions to the drive Friday and Saturday, so that the call for sub scriptions Sunday afternoon can be limited to a very few minutes, and the afternoon devoted entirely to en joying splendid musical program thai the Redpath Chautauqua artists have so kindly volunteered to render. I Salvation Army I Committees Appointed i ... . jFor the Drive Sunday After j noon in Chautauqua Tent. i Concert at 5 O'clock i _ j The following- gentlemen have I kindly offered their services to the ! Salvation Army Home Service Drive, i and are earnestly requested to re ; port at the Chautauqua tent at A o'clock Sunday afternoon. Soldiers committee, who will act as ushers: Mr. Kirk Edens. Dalzell. Mr. Daniei Eenoir. Horatio. Mr. Tom Moore. Hagood. Mr. Leland Emanuel. Borden. Mr. J. P. Witherspoon, Mayesville. Mr. Stanyarne Burrows. Oswego. Mr. Bertie Phelps. Pocalla. Mr. Ernest Bradford. Sumter. Mr. Julian Roach. Sumter. Mr. Wade Brice. Sumter. Mr. William Singleton. Sumter. Mr. L. C. Bryan. Sumter. Mr. Eli Parker. Sumter. ? Civilian committee, assisting in the drive: Messrs. Sam Chandler. John Mc Knight, Claude Hurst. ?Alfred Bryan. Irvin Ryttenberg, W. P. Rivers. E. M. Hall. We wish to express our genuine thanks to these gentlemen for their kindness in consenting to assist us in our work. A. C. PHELPS. Chairman. W. 1. WHITEHEAD. Treas. Sumter County Salvation Army Home j Service Fund. Winthrop Examinations. The annual entrance and scholar ship examinations for" Winthrop Col lege will be held July 4th and 5th at the Court House, under the supervis ion of Superintendent of Education Haynsworth. Those who expect to take this examination should file their applications at an early date. St. Johns. Ma> 15.?United States naval dirigible C-5 passed over the is land at St. Pierre at 1.30 this morn ing, eastern time. The weather off the southern coast of Newfoundland this morning is line and as there is no wind the airship is expected to arrive in a few hours. SHIRT WAISTS A tempting display of dainty SILK and Voil waists now awaits your inspection al this store. MIDDY SUITS in white and colors Fancy Skirts An array of fancy skirts in pleasing pat- v terns for wear with seperate blouses. Also . a variety of cool and comfortable wash ' skirts. WHITE SLIPPERS Canvass Oxfords and Pumps Shaw & McColhim Mercantile Company i f ] ."f "Always First With the Latest" Claims to Fiume House and Sonnino in Confer ence Paris. May 12.?a conference be tween Baron Sonnino; Italian foreign minister and Col. E. M. House of the American peace delegation, regarding Italy's claims to Fiume and the Ad driatic coast, and a meeting of the council of four at which the notes presented by the German peace del egation concerning prisoners of war and labor were turned over to experts for investigation and the completion of the task of defining the new Aus trian boundaries represented the en tire activities in peace conference cir cles in Paris .Monday. The result of the conversation be tween Baron Sonnino and Colonel House has not been made public. Meantime dispatches from Rome in dicate that the Italian population again is becoming restive after hav ing learned that the report of last week that Italy's claims to Fiume h oi been settled was erroneous. Added to this irritation is diss?tis-j faction because Italy was not men-j tioned as one of the parties to the j proposed Anglo-Franco American al liance; the question of the division of Austria's merchant marine; the treaty provision with Germany that the three principal powers are- suffi cient to ratify the treaty and other similar matters in which the Italians feel they have been slighted. "While the Austrian delegations are well on their way to St. (b-rmamo on-Lave, there to be informed of the conditions for peace which are to be imposed upon their country by the al lied and associated powers, the Ger mans at Versailles are still bushy < n gaged in examining the peace treaty. In addition to the six minor members of the delegation who left Versailles for Berlin late last week, two of the more prominent members, Herren Geisbergs and Landsberg, have gone to Germany, evidently with the pur pose of conferring with the* German government From Germany comes reports of continued dissatisfaction over th? terms which Germany has been told she must meet in. order to obtain peace. Reiteration thai it will be im possible to carry out the provisions are to be heard ev< rywhere. Great demonstrations of protests have been held in Berlin. Breslau and other cities. Xo less a person than Freiderich Ebert. president of Germany, has an nounced that ho is standing on Pres ident Wilson's 14 points for peace. Ebert alluded to the peace treaty as a "monstrous document" which, he said, holds no precedent in determi nation complete to annihilate van quished peoples. German government troops are still Ha good Xows and Views. Much of the wheat in our com munity is failing badly on account o! rust. Oats are looking well. Jusl a little rainy weather would put many of our farmers- oadly in the grass. The Roy Scouts of Columbia will be with us again this year under tin same management as of last year. Rev. W. L. Wait will address the Bothesun (Methodist > congregation at ? 1'. M. in behalf of the centenary movement. Rev. .Innres - Russe-', of Chester, widely, favorably known, well be loved, is expected to preach at Bo thesda church in the afternoon of the fourth Sabboth of this month at T, P. M. This announcement is made thus early that his many friends may know and attend. Tiie health of Mrs. II. C. Bethea is not at all good. People in the habit of going off at tangent, are non compos mentis. Old Miss Ann Archy is both crazy and devilish. She has a big family, and they make a lot of noise, and arc never good citizens. The stands of corn ami cotton are quite fair this year. Many of our farmers failed to sell their seed. Some used them for fer tilizer, others sold at a sacrifice and others traded for meal and hulls. The price of cotton Improves slow ly, a lot of it is being held for bet ter prices. It is costing more to produce it than in ail the history of its culture. a short, crop or an equi noctial gale would spell disaster to the farmer, and both would be ru inous. ''Hagood.5' Rembert, Mav 12. __._ Tribute of Respect. At a meeting of the Vestry of the Church of the Holy Cross, Stateburg. May Tili. 1910, this committee was appointed to take cognizance of the passing from our midst into tin higher life of our friend and brother. William James Re s. la- it therefore resolvedt 1st: That in his death our church and community have sustained an I irreparable loss. As lay reader he Served faithfully for a number of years until failing health forced him to resign. As a member of the Vestry, as Secretary and Treasurer, and as Junior War j den. his duties were discharged wit:: zeal and interest. Closely identified with this Parish through his entire iifc he fostered and cherished only those things that were lovely 'and ??: good report. 2nd; Resolved. Tina; we desire to record our appreciation of his ser vices, his high ideals, the pureness i>;' his character, and Iiis churchman-1 ship. 3rd. Resolved. That we tender our sympathy to his bereaved family, praying that all comfort may be giv en i hem in their sorrow. Ith. Resolved. That a copy of these resolutions '??? preserved in thei church records and thai a page in our i Vestry book be set apart ami inscrib- j ed io his ne-niory. j Mb: Resolved, That a copy of the! above preamble and resolutions be sent to Iiis family, am! in further tribute '<<> his memory be published in The Diocese. The Xews and Cour ier ami the Watchman ami Southron. W. L. SA FX DE RS. J. S. MOORE. 11. G. RICHARDSON; :3i*?rd aft<T the radical elements. They, have seized Leipsic, one of the last strongholds of the Sparta cans. A ?stale of seigc has been proclaimed ?? ! there. ' j Early .Tune has hern tentatively chosen to start withdrawal of Amer-i ican troops from Russia. ! Recognition of Korea as an inde (pendent state and the liberation o-.* i the country from Japan has been re quested of the peace conference in ! Paris. Paris, May 1'2 (By the Associated 'Press).?President Wilson spent some time today with the American com missioners who have been considering i the various phases of the peace treaty, lit was pointed out that there are so j [many points of similarity between the [Austrian and German treaties that an 'enormous amount of time would be saved by preparing the document re lating to Austria at once, i The Greatest Builder Construction of Army Canton-j merits Broke all Records Washington. May 14.? Even in i America "the greatest builder of the] past." no feat of construction has j ever approached that involved in the completion in !>0 days of 10 canton-j ments for the national army and 16 tent cities for the national guard, says the official war "material" history made public today by the war depart ment. Tlie task involved the erection and equipment <>:' cities capable of accommodating 40.000 persons each..! with ail the requisite water, lighting.] sewerage, hospital and heating utili-j ties, and in addition the preparationJ of the strictly military, features, suelrj as parade grounds and rifle and ar- j tillery ranges. The creature comforts enjoyed by the American soldier of LD17 is con trasted with those afforded the man of '6 L--6.5. Substantial barracks, heated by steam or stoves, took th< place of tents: chemically pure water repined that secured from thr> cas ual spring or stream; scientific laun dries cared for the national army recruit's clothing, and Seid bakeries gave him the modern successor to the ashy hoecake. Lumber used in the cantonments alone, the report says, was equiva-j ent to a board-walk 12 inches wide; and one inch thick "'to the moon and half way bacfc" while the nails of one popular sizi- would ?girdle the earth "1 1-2 times." The race between the contractors to complete the cantonments ih the time for the initial draft is eloquently described, the build* r of Gamp Toy ^or, Louisville, Ky? ? winning by narrow 'margin. The cantonments oc cupied 67,741 acres of land, which cost an average $3.93 per acre, and the contractors' profits were given as less than 2 1 -2 per cent of the gross cost of construction. Expenditures for the cantonments represented 7" pet cent of the total for the Panama Canal, hut the time consumed was less than IP) days agninst. 1<? years for the canal. Sup plementary building projects under taken by the department aggregated a much larger project than the can tonments and included enormous storehouses, factories for various pur poses, proving grounds, army posts, embarkation facilities, docks, maga zines, railroads, aviation ^elds and hospitals. "On November 11, 19IS." the re port says, "the construction division was conducting 535 operations in 442 localities, involving an expenditure of ! $1.0.00.000.000. These touched every Slate but one." As the construction crews develop ed teamwork, remarkable instances of speed were reported. Precautions Laken io assist the contractors includ ed the detail of a disbursing officer on the spot ""with the check book r< ady" so that material could be paid on delivery, and so that special equip ment could be obtained at a fair rent ;i and ;i steady flow of building mar terials be insured. The last feature finally necessitated the sending of sol diers into the forest to cut logs and piles and to load them on railroad cars which were guarded by soldiers to their destination. When a shortage of sieves threat ened the health of the new army, of neers o:' the construction division were sent to the factories to speed up pro duction with the result that the army "obtained 15.000 in 3 months al though that number is a year's out put of the industry." Fire prevention at the various army projects was so efficient that the per capita loss was only 56 cents compared wiih the civilian rate of $2.42. 1 World Faces Menace Senator Underwood Issues Warning* of Bolsheviki Mobile, Ala., May 14?Senator Os car W. Underwood, in an address be fore the annual* State Convention of the United Confederate veterans,.said that while peace had been restored ?> far as the forces of the former Kaiser are concerned, the menace of j Bolshevism confronts the world. ??While the war will he brought officially to a close." said the sena tor, ?"none know better than you the meaning- of the reconstruction. 'We shall not have it in America, but it is the problem that our neighbors-' face across the seas. . ?"There are two pillars of civiliza tion. Remove or destroy one of theni land the whole structure must come crashing down. One or them is res spect for property. The other is the family. "In Russia both columns have been destroyed. Both property and wo men have been nationalized. Russia is in the grip of Bolshevism. Ger many is threatened. The rest of Eu rope is imperilled so long as the red flag waves in Russia. "And soldiers of-the Confederacy, there are threats in our own land. It was from an American city. that, the promoters of ? Bolshevism , went forth into Russia. In our West, wie have the I. W. W. Certain cities have. been attempting the soviet govern ment. Berne. May 15.?An isolated 'band' of Russian prisoners of war, under' the command of Spartacan leaders, were overwhelmed by- Wurttemfeurgr; troops near Graefelfing, Bavaria, ac cording to newspaper reports. They were court martialed and seventy-two men with the leaders were shot near Lochausen. it is said. Paris, April G.?President Poin care in opening an exhibition of paintings by Pierre Gourdault, read the citation which the artist" had won at the front and briefly recounted how he had died in action, then sus pended the cross of the Legion of Honor on the portrait of the painter, painted by Gourdault himself, which was among the works exhibited. The artist's wife, herself a talented ar tist, was present. Washington. May 15.?The .comp troller of the currency today issued a call for a report on the condition of all national banks at the close of business Monday, May 12. * ; Oiling the Wheels. v 5fo one can afford to let another perr son exceed them in politeness, and there is nothing in the world that will oil the wheels of life like the lubri cant of courtesy. Try it in your aafly. life and see. No one will chide yon for not being in good form, even if you should slip in a few obscure terms. For in this busy age each one is an arbiter of fashion oneself. It would De a refreshing thing to introduce a few of the oid-fashioned variety of social amenities?at least it would bd re/reshing to the elders of . some of the boys aud girls of the period.?Ex change._ i i 1_;i U?H fell JH purchase. 3 |; Mii4 or" rAe Quality and Design E #??t goes fo ma^e Home Beautiful" Tastily selected furnishings add a charm and comfort to the home that an unlimited amount of money spent haphazard cannot We have furniture appropriat for the cozy bungalow * 0 n ~J ?r ^6 ^lansio^, anc* W*H be ?la(* to asf>*st y?u in choosing i I j? I ^|ff||| tne ^^nd most appropriate for the room you wish to fur- j L^oib IlL^F n P! nfs& Beautiful bed room and dining room suits in pe- j riod designs. ? \* Fl" F?? J f y k f?r ml Porch Rockers, of rock maple. Arcen ami natural finish?$4.00 to Si}.00 i n 1 * Id u m WA m ft Iff ij S ?;; Sciifl ^ 11 gjjj ig Screen doors and windows. A good screen door complete $3.00; Jennings - Gainey Furniture Company Home of -The Xcw Edis< Sellers Kitchen Cabine.ts&&*^