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I mmnm ?t the PootoAe* ? ?unter, & ?U *? Second CbM? Mauer. PERSONAL. - Mrs. H. J. Harby and her grand sons, Henry and Robert Shelor, have gone to Pawley's Island for the sum mer. Mr. Harold Moise is at home from Atlanta where he has been attending the School of Technology. Mrs. G. E. Smith, of Houston, Texas. is ?n a visit to her sister. Mrs. L. I. Parrott. Mr. Ralph Flowers, of Georgia Tech. arrived in the city this morning lo spend the summer months. Maj. Bernard Manning arrived in the city today after nearly a year's ser vice in France "and with the Army of Occupation. ; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Huger left Tues day for their summer home in Hen dersonville. N. C. They were ac companied by Mrs.- Sewell. . First Lieut.. George D. Levy of the 81st Division spent yesterday in the city. He will receive his discharge at Camp Jackson next week and will return 'home to resume the practice of law. - .First Lieut. J. Pringle Brunson of the 81st Division was in the city to day. He arrived at Camp Jackson from overseas several days ago and is at home on a fifteen day furlough before being discharged. Franz Teicher, of the 81st Division has received his discharge and return ed home last night. Cap*. W. L. ^McCutchen has receiv ed his discharge and is at home again. / ?Mr.. H. C. Bland left Sunday on a business trip to Detroit where he ex pect* to spend several" days. Mr. Bland states that he is taking the trip with the object of trying to hurry shfpments on cars that he has ord* rs for and has not been able to till. Mrs. Robert C,. Gujley, of Brook haven, m Miss... who has been visiting Mrsi Hey ward Crowson on Salem Avenue, left last evening . for Johns town, Pa." Lieut. J. D. Pendleton, of the Avia tion Corps, is in the city for a few days. Lieut. George .D. Levy and Sergt. Waverly Levy, of the 81st Division, j have received their discharges and are at home again. Lieut. S. Y. Dinkins. who has been stationed, in Texas for several months, i? at home for a few days stay before proceeding overseas. Married. ? Mr. R. F. Haynsworth and Missj Elizabeth Brown were married at the i home of Mrs. O. -L. Yates Saturday i afternoon at 5 o'clock, Rev. J. P. Marion performing the ceremony. Only the immediate family and a few friends were present _,_ Baseball This ? Summer. -- . Everything looks good for the pros pects .of a good baseball team in Sum ter^-this summer. Practice has already been started with sixteen men out for the. team. The team will be captain ed by Bob Hornsby an exTSouth Atlan tic' League man. Tdie first game has already been schedured with Florence on the Fourth of July. The game will be called, in the morning at 11 o'clock on. ajecount of .the auto races in the ? afternoon. Games are being arranged with Charleston. Georgetown. Dar lington, Columbia and other teams, j Anybody that is interested in the team canv see them in action every after noon at the ball park at six o'clock. Entertains for Mrs. Stuckey. (Washington- Post. June 19.) Mrs. Kincheloe. wife of Represent ative David H. Kincheloe. entertained yesterday at luncheon in honor of her ihouse guest, Mrs. Henry Morti mer Stuckey, of Sumter. S. C. Other ?tfests at the luncheon were Mrs. A. B. Rouse, Mrs. J. Campbell Cantrill. Mrs. Joseph Thompson, Mrs. Charles J^Sell, Mr. Albert Barkley and Mrs. C. C. Givens. of. Madisonville. Ky. Last evening was made a gala occa sion by a delightful niitslcale Mrs. Stuckey. who is an accomplished pianist, was quite-the center of inter est in two groups of MacDowell ^>i ano numbers. Earl Carba uh was heard in several songs. Miss Helen Gerrer and Chester La Follette both contributed violin numbers, with Miss Margaret Ripy accompanying and last, but not least, the hostess ga.ye Several whistling improvisations. Dr. and Mrs. Stuckey will leave tomor row for their Southern borne. IJjjj Auto ltacc*n .July 4 (fa. ', For the *>ast few weeks- the Summer Race Track Association has had. a large number of men at work on the race track getting it in shape for the big races to be held here on July 4th ( and they now report that everything . ts about in readiness. Since the as | sociation took over the track this ? spring something like *.">.UO0 has l een spent on improvements to the track and grounds and they believe that when the present work is finished Sumter will have without question i % the best mile track for automobil'* j . racing in the southeast. Recently a large crew of men under tin- super vision of an engineer have rebuilt and graded the track with banked curves which will allow an unlimited amount of speed impossible on the jjat track. The new grand stand is now complet ed and the entire mounds have been enclosed with a high board fence. The races to be held on July fourth will include a fifty mile race which will ' no doubt prove more thrilling and furnish more excitement than any race ever witnessed in this section. If the weather is favorable the largest crowd that has ever attended races here is looked for. Superintendent S. H. Edmunds left for Winthrop. College Monday to deliver a series of five lectures, lie had fully intended to be at Winthrop for six weeks; but President Johnson consented to reduce the time from six weeks to one week. ? The Price Of Gasoline Comparison of Prices in South Carolina Towns -_ j Editor Daily item: ! Some days ago! started out.on an j inquiry into the price of gasoline at j various points. It has taken some lit tie time to get in the replies, and sev eral points have not responded at all. ? The price then in Sumter was 30c a j gallon: Friday one dealer hen- cut his j price to 28 i-2c, and at this writing, j noon Saturday, it looks as if there will ; be further cutting by the various deal ers, or that there will be a restora tion to the 30c point. 1 am giving the list below, and the ' gasoline users can draw their own conclusions, and take action if they care to. and if they can. I am only pointing out that the SCfc towus are a little group in this immediate vicinity. The prices as given me are: J Aiken. 29c. , Anderson 29c. .Bishopville 30c. Cam den 30 c. i Charleston 27c. Cheraw 28 and 30c. Chester 28c. Columbia 2Sc. Darlington. 28, 29 and 30c. Florence 28c. ?Greenwood 29c. ^ Manning 28c. Orangeburg 28c. Pinewood 30c. Rock Hill 28 and 2S l-2c. Spartanburg 27 l-2c. Yours. H. A. Moses, ' Secretary Sumter Auto Association. MR. LEVER HANDS OFF. Has No Voice in Selection of Post master. To the Editor: Since the resignation of Dr. Dick as postmaster at Sumter. I am receiving a great many lettei's in the interest of persons who desire the appointment to this place. T take this opportunity of saying this vacancy will be filled through the civil service examiantion, and that I have absolutely nothing what ever to do with the appointment. The only thing the postoffiCe department calls upon me to make any statement about whatever, is with reference toj the character and bona fide residence of those who have become eligible fori appointment through the examination. I cannot make this statement too em phatic. If I had the responsibility of appointment. I would exercise it, but there is absolutely nothing that I can do in behalf of any of the various ap plicants for the postmastership at the various places in the district where there are vacanices except, I repeat, to testify as to their character and res idence. A. F. Lever. Washington, D. C. June 20, 3 919. Executivje Order. Hereafter when a vacancy occurs in the position of postmaster of any office of the first, second or third class as the result of death, resigna tion, removal, or. on the recommen dation of the First Assistant Postmas er General, approved by the Postmas ter General, to the effect that the ef ficiency or needs of the service re quires that a change shall be made, the Postmaster General shall certify the- fact to the Commission which shall forthwith hold an open compe titive examination to test the fitness of applicants to fill usuch vacancy, and when such examination has been held and the papers in connection there with have been rated .the said Com mission shall certify the result thereof to the Postmaster General who shall submit to the President the name of the highest qualified eligible for ap pointment to filt such vacancy unless it is established that the character or residence of such applicant disquali fies him for appointment. No person who has passed his sixty-fifth birthday shall be given the examination herein provided for. (Signed) Woodrow Wilson. Dated March 31, 1-917. { Cotton Afeirket LOCAL. P. G- BOWMAN. Cotton Bb/er. (Corrected Daily at 12 o'clock Noon). Good Middling 31.75. Strict Middling 31.23. Middling 30.75. Strict Low Middling 2?:.50: N!?W YORK COTTON MARRFT. Yes'td'y? Open High Low .Close Ch}*? July . . 32.50 32J<7 32.25 32.7.0 32.25 Oct . . zzao n-i.u? :;2.t2 za.o:; Dec . . 32.-J8 32.70 3.1.9,5 32.33 .32.00. Walking On Hot Stones Papeete, Island of Tahiti. May 13. (By Mail)?Walking over stones heat ???; white hot is..the recent-experieyce of an English newspaper correspond ent who makes his home here. He emerged without injury or the slight-1 est trace of fire, on shoes br ciothes and said he felt no discomfort what ever. He participated in the cere mony of ''passing through fire." or j "I'miti" as it is called by the Tahiti I an*. Whatever trick there may b<- in I performing this ceremonial is a. sec i ret religiously h?dd by a small clan of natives on the island of Raiatca. A large pit is dug in which arc ? placed huge, dry logs of wood oven laid with a thick layer of large river j stones. The fire then is kindled and j made to burn fiercely until the stones become white hot. Native priests, or I wizards descend into the pit. urn with I standing the faet that the intense [heat radiating from it keeps the on lookers at a distance, and walk bare footed over the heated stones invi Iting those who have tie- courag" to 1 follow them. Many theories have been advanced as to why the naked feet of tin- na tives are not scorched but no satis factory explanation of the, phenom enon yet has been advanced. The Englishman wore shoes. Returns from Texas ; . -, Dr. John A. Rice Lectured in Dallas Preachers' Assembly Dr. John A. Rice has returned froi i Dallas. Texas. when- ho gave a I course of fourteen lectures to a com bined Preachers' Assembly and S:r.? day School Training School, at the Southern Methodist University. There were a hundred and seventy-five j preachers from thirteen Annual Con j ferences as far west as California land a hundred and fifty Sunday School j \vorkers in attendance. Jt was the greatest assembly of the kind that ,'ever met in the church. A hundred j and fifty certificates of graduation in ? as many courses were awarded. ! The doetor tuet a good many old friends and had a great trip. He was given a tentative invitation to go to the Pacific coast next year for simi'ar work. He is. announced to preach-at l the University of Chicago August 10th. jXext Sunday lie is to address an aud j ience expected to number ten thou ! sand at the great Centenary in Co lumbus, Ohio. He has done more of this kind of work than any other pastor in the South for twenty years. While he never neglects his pastoral duties, he somehow finds or makes time to help the great outside. He is a prodigious worker, neyer idle, never trifiingly employed. Lee County Court. Bishopville, June 19.?-Promptly at 10 o'clock Clerk of Court Singleta.ry called court last. Monday, but as Judge Wilson did not get here until 11 o'clock, he adjourned the court till 11 o'clock. The train was on time and by 11.15 court had convened and So licitor McLeod made no delay in handing 10 to 12 new bills to the clerk teethe grand jury to act on. The jury then retired and by . h o'clock Monday afternoon had acred on all. cases handed- them, and rather remarkable, a true bill was found in every case. They also handed in their court report and Judge Wilson com- j plimcnted them for the prompt dk-?-: patch of business^ - The first case called was that of J. W. Arrants against John Truesdalej and his brother for assault and battery : with intent to kill. The whole, of: Monday and until 1 o'clock Tuesday was taken up in the trial of this cas<- j and hearing arguments. It was hotly j contested by both sides. Mr. J. II. [ Clifton of Sumter assisted the solici-! tor in the prosecution, while, the de- i fense was ably represented by McLeod j and Dennis and B. Frank'Kelly, Esq. Just before recess for dinner, the; judge concluded his charge ? to the j jury and they went in the room. The j jury could not agree and made a mis- j trial. It is the only case tried, but several cases have been disposed. State vs. Jessie Benjamin, use of j mule withoutyconsent of owner. Plead ! guilty, two month?. Two or three minor cases of mis- ! demeanor are on docket for trial. Jessie 'Benjamin,/ grand larcieny. j Plead guilty. One year to begin at ! expiration of first sentence. | . Mansel Perkins, assault and battery! of high and aggravated nature. Plead guilty. $75 or ?> months. George Wesley. Malicious mischief. Plead guilty. 6 months at hard la- j bor. The case of the State agaiiv;t j Beattie Wilson for murder is on trial j for killing a colored man, 1 Charlie! Groom, his brother-in-law. Tatum. I Jennings & Dusenbury, and L. D. j Jennings of Sumter assisted the So- j licitor. and McLeod & Dennis and B-j F. Kelley represented defendant. t Another murder- case is set for j Thursday. Isabel Navey, colored. f<?. j killing a negro man. - , Presentment of Grand Jury. To the Honorable John S. Wilson, j Presiding Judge The Grand Jury beg leave respect fully to report: That we have passed upon all bills | handed to us by the Socilitor and re : | turned the same to the court with our i finding endorsed thereon. Our committees on Court House, j Jail, Good Roads, etc., will make j their report at the next term of court. It has been reported to us that some J of tb?* magistrates are not complying with the law in filing with the clerk i ; of court their criminal papers thus idelaying the court and grand jury. W<* recommend that the Court House sewerage be connected with the I town sewerage. We thank your Honor for the clealr aud full explanation of the law. etel We also thank your Honor and other j court-officials for courtesies extended I to us. Respectfully submitted, ? ^ J. D. Hill. June 10. i!ii;?.v Foreman: Wealthy New Yorker, Who Owns an Orange Grove at Palmetto, Fia., Declares Dreco the Best Medi cine He Ever Took j "1 have suffered for i 7> years from I kidney trouble, lazy' liver, dyspepsia, nervousness and rheumatism." staled ; Mr. T. Root of Now York and Pal j tnetto. I*'la. "I thought the Florida [climate would do me good so invested in an orange grove, and now spend the winter months here. ? When I cane- down this season i I heard every one talking about the new 'medicine. Dreco, and the wonders it was doing. I bought a l>ottlo and il u I the greatest medicine I ever encma Itered. It went right after my trou bles, and I .am feeling heiter than I I'have iu a long time. I am going n 1 ?kv some Dreco back to New Vork w'r.h me for fear I cannot get it :he>-e" j Dreco acts upon ilw vital organs >nd restores them to healthy action. It is soon noticed that the food digests better without the gas forming. The liver gets active, the kidneys become regular and the bowels normal. Sleep becomes full and. refreshing and the whole system feels rejuvenated. Dreco is highly recommended in Sumter by Sibcrt's Drug Store.?Advt. I Unpopular in Germany .-?. .m American Officers Who Are Dis liked By the Civilians j Coblenz, May .7, (Correspondence j of The Associa ted Press.)?The two I most unpopular American officers j among the Germans in Coblenz are |-Major George Cockreii, assistant pro [vost marshal, and Captain ThexiOre ?i F. Kieker, in charge of the billeting office which must furnish acc?iho Idations for something like " eleven j hundred officers and thousands of j soldiers. ? Major Cockreil, whose home is in St. Paul, is in command of more than twelve hundred military police and five to twenty or more Germans pass through his office every day on their j way to jail. So among the civilians who buy stolen American food and who try 'to sell cognac, to American [soldiers and commit other acts con trary to army regulations Major Cockreil is a most unpopular man. j Sometimes he receives threatening notes and also letters in German with skull and cross bones at the bottom of the page but they do not frighten* him in the least. It's all a part of the (job. the major says. Captain Fieker. who lived in Chi cago before he went to war. has been going about Coblenz for five months selecting coice billet^ for generals ajid others and for soldiers too. And so most all the civilians in Coblenz have had a glimpse of Captain. Fieger from time to time and they do not like hirn one- bit. Many of them tell him so. in a nice way of course, each time he comes around. . I Every house in the city has been listqd in Captein Fieker's office, and he knows j?.,st how many members there are* in each family and when there is a spare bedroom or two handy j he takes it over for a general, a col ! onel. a major, a captain or a lieuten ! ant. according to the furnishings and I the location of the home. Being un- j j popular-is-incidental, to the duties of j ! the billeting officer. But the work ap- j pears to agree with him. .Since he! came to Germany with the Army of j Occupation Captain 'Fieker has gained ten pounds. . . I Bicycle Races. Bo you remember the bicycle racing in the good old days. The bicycle and bicycle racing is coming back with all the thrill and excite ment they used to furnish. . If you don't believe it be on hand Wednes day afternoon at 4.30 at the ''Green,'' ! corner Liberty and Washington rtreets. The names of those wishing to en ter any of the races should be left at Mikel. Sneeden. Phares Co.. Tisdale & Sumter or the Y. M. C A. The first tobacco was sold at Lynch burg on Friday, the 20th. two loads being sold by Puddin Swamp farmers. UXn'E^RSlTV OF SOUTH CAROLINA Entrance Examinations. Entrance examinations to the University of South Carolina will be hold Joy the County Superintendent of I Education at the County Court Bouse. Vvk\n.y. July 11. 1919 at 9 a. in. Entrance examinations will also be held at the University. September 17 and. 18, 1919. The University offers varied courses of study in science, literature, history, law and business. The expenses ape moderate ami many opportunities for self support are offered. A large number of scholarships are available. } Military training compulsory for j Yreshmen and sophomores. Reserve Officers' Training Corps. For full particulars write to PBESIDENT W. S. CURREL.L. University of South Carolina, Co lumbia, S. C. HAPPY WOMEN. Plenty of Them in Sumter. and Good Reason for It. Wouldn't any woman be happy, After years of backache suffering. \ .- . i Days, of misery, night? of unrest, j The distress of urinary troubles, | When she finds freedom, j Many readers will profit by the fol j lowing. Mrs. A. Hancock, 103 Blinding St., J Sumter. says: "Last year I had a.! slight attack of kidney troubie and there was a bad pain through the j small of my back. My bead 'ached. my nerves were all unstrung and dizr I zy 3pells bothered me. Black specks I floated before my eyes most of the time and blurred my sight. My kid jaeys acted irregularly ami I knew lj ! would have to do sonietliriijEr. Filial-I i lv 1 bought a box of Doan's Ivrdney j . ^ f . . v,.., Pills and used them. Dean's acted like magic and after I find finished {the box, the trouble disappeared. 1.1 j haven't been bothered ?in?-e and d j ; gives me great pleasure to recom- J mend Doan's." Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't simply ask for n kidney remedy ^<-t j i Doau's Kidnev Pills?the same that] - Xa. :? ? Mrs. Hancock had. Eoster-Milburn ; ? ; "' "? "" I Co.. iMfffrs.. Buffalo, N. v.?Advt. Si j :_ i. .)....? i j BEEHIVES AND SUPPLIES?I have! lately received a few Georgia made I I hives and frames?8 and 10 frame] size. Also on hand sections and \ foundation for comb honey. X. G. : Ostcen, '''-'0 W. Hampton Ave. [BEESWAX WANTED-Any quantity j large' or small Am paying ben' i cash price. See .me if you have "J cy Hour Kodak Finishing All rolls developed IOC: pricks 12<?c up: prints 2 l-2c-4c-5c: enlarging : 35c up. Specialists?we do Ho thins but kodak finishing. All work guar anteed to please. Eastman Kodaks, j Films, Supplies. Columbia Photo Finishing Co., lilt Taylor Street, Columbia, S. C. Storks and Omens Superstitious Dutch Interpret Action of Amorengen Storks nonappea'rance of the mal? - stork after the winter-abseht? with the'i&s^ appearance of the ersfcr?uJe /Emperor .' ' f rom Germany after'the ,war. , The> fnst wooers of the widowejjl female % stork are likened to the various par _ {lies which tried to fill the place 'Of.,'.-;v Amerongen. Mm- if. < Core~pondence |tIie former imperial ruder and were re- ; , . , . - - , i jected.--The persevering male-stork,, is Associated Eress.-- -The people., ag thp emblem of the German-. ol AmcronSem *,M! fashioned in the*-| ~ple determined to become their . ; own rulers. The last fight of the1; ' male storks is said to represent the struggle of the German nation to shake off BolshevikL The ejection of; $ the eggs from the nest is assumed to ? . Imcan the casting out of;.alixthat of Th. of Am ideas, have been givvm recently what they regard as a token <?f the future of German.-. Two storks every year make (heir riest on a tower of Amerongen Castle, where the former ; German Emperor is staying. This year the fem?le storlcj, t0 the old imperial system of , ^returned alone and built her ncs;. - , ^ the happy outcome of con- \ [ Soon came three male storks but all .j ^ Ufe & the nest is look. were beaten off with violent peeking*.1 on as u Qf the happy fo..? ? two days later a lone male stork ar- L . ? _ ? '<$> ... .... . . ture of Germany. rived and he too was accorded a hos- . ..: , ;? tile reception. However, he .hovered j '?; . " '.. ; 1 about perseveringly and fought off a j " r ... O r.- - .- .; ?:? '? ?^'?'10 fourth. The combat was watched with fVPoyfioT T fixxr intens- interest by the occu-j l*idriidl MdV pants of the castle, among them the j two Hohenzollems. Next day the male '_ s stork shared the nest with the fe- j Copenhagen. June -20.^M?r^S^ male on the nest, from which the eggs I . .:*v> t?&% had been ejected. The two birds ap- j mus been Proclaimed in the entire zone peared quite happy. ' I of Hamburg harbor as the^ result. of Superstitious villagers compare the I increased raids on fopd.depots r\.j-"g^ Who Sell 'Green Flag' Motor Oil in This County They're right tfup-to-the-mmate" in everything they do, and tbatV why they're agents for "GREEN FLAG" MOTOR OIL. I have been using "GREEN FLAG" MOTOR OIL for more than a year, and nothing ?Ise, and more than that, Hi drive ten mile* out or my way if itY necessary, to get it. I found their ad* vertasing honest. Now Vm doing ?omo "honest advert^in*" for "GREEN FLAG" , myself, by telling yon boys where yo-j ein "g*t it"? i Claremont Filling Station 0 oooooooooooooooooooooo?i ! JULY 1ST ? ? O WILL SEE A BIG DROP IN NITRATE 0 ? OF SODA t ?j o ' o O If you can use any for shipment after July 1st it will ? O be to your interest to see us. Many farmers used Ni- ;^ O tr?te last year as late as the end of July and they found ? that it paid them. Q; o o 0 OTONNELL ft COMPANY ? 4. * 4. i of Sumter Capital._._ 3209.000.?O Surplus and Profits. 207,000.00 The amount or surplus set aside Xor U?o pnotectlon of iPcppsltoic? estab lishes this institution, as he strongest bank In this section of this State. YOVll ACCOUNT INVJSED-rr v. t;. BOW J/.NO, Pfcsid? *t. f'K MINN ANT. QssWar.v m r ? ?" ,J -?""" ? NEIUj ca'DONN^'-J'. Prcstdenl O. If. YATES, Cashier A Satisfied Customer ??r . Is the best nss^t that any Me^"-; '] cautile or Banking Institution oa^ Im^scks. If your Banking arransqj,. mentH u?'** not pcrf?:ctly "satisfactory J come hi anil Tell Us Tour Trouble* And if we caii help you, be assured I bat it will be our pleasure to do ?0. ?V?J ? ^ Uli ? SUMTER, S. C. x I m