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The Bicycle Races ;PM*1 Speedsters Pull Off Big eat Wednesday Afternoon : The bicycle races held yesterday afternoon under the auspices of the bicycle dealers of the city were' at Jii tided by a large crowd and great |i;iv;_Interest and enthusiasm v.as mani ?&Med by all. The race course was la id oft ?:on Washm g t on. Ca I h oun, S; ? - lern, Liberty back .to Washington a: ?e corner of the school square, and the~ spectators were lined up on the .square ? so that they had a full view '"Of the stare and finish. Excellent time iS made in all the events and some -The contests were close and the jshes exciting. ?zxe mile, free for all?Sholar. first; ;c??d, Irving Rotenberg; third, Ed ?:ward Buck. Time 10 minutes,. 8 sec onds. One mill. free, for all?Sholar, first; r:Buck. second; Cato, third. ;;'":_?. ?ne'-snhs for under 14--Robert Bultmacv first; Dan Vogel, second; Albert Docker, third. '.Root race, 220 yard dash?Harold >rme. first; Colclough Die;:, see t; Eugene Lewis, third. Time 1 mhiute, 2? seconds JPoot race, 100 yard dash?Burk et t, ;-^rst;; Charles Cuttino, second; Edens, .third. : I^ts-Lowranee. ?On "Wednesday evening at the home rSJrs. W. H, Ingram was solemnized the marriage of her niece, Miss Adele ?Pitts"to Dr. Clement Lacy Lowranee. /bf'Mcoresville, X. C. The entire, lower rioor was thrown to. the guests. ^JTosr before the ceremony. Misses i.Carita Randle and Maggie Mage Seale sang "Calm is the Night," 'The Gar den of Your Hear:,*' and "O Lovely I .Ivighi," accompanied by Miss Ethel ,~ >. Green on the piano, and Mrs. R. J. Alexander on the violin. Preceding the maids, came Misses Caroline Dick, Sara Edmunds, Ma rie Nash and Termelle Pitts, who r carried pink ribbons, which formed an aisle through the rear drawing room. The bridal party entered to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding, ? ' march in following order: Misses So phia Brunsen, Moiiie Bowman, Esther, Clarke Edmonia Garrett, of Laurens; ] Heese Chandler and Clara Jordan, of j '?Bennettsyille, who took their places on opposite sides of the altar. Then ..came Mrs. Philip Gaillard, sister of : the bride, as matron of honor, and following her came the bride on the arm of her brother. Mr. James Pitts, of Charleston. The groom entered - from the reception hall with his best i ? best man, Mr. Clary Lowranee, of I .. Mooresviile, X. C, and met the bride j ;';at the altar, where the beautiful ring j ?~ ceremony was performed by the Rev. ? " Father Hahoney, of , St, Anne's I Church. The bride was charming in her : girlish beauty Her gown was fashion ;. ed. of Duchess satin and silver cloth, draped with georgette and silver an? ? pearl iace. The court train was - 'caught with pearl and rhinestone or naments, and embroidered . in seed pearls. The veil was held by a coro net of orange blosoms. Her bouquet was a shower of white sweetpeas ; and bride's roses. The matron of honor wore a dainty gown of white organdie, and carried a 'basket of pink buds and fern. Vi-gfThe maids were gowned in airy Vogue costumes of pink organdie /with ~sashes en train, and carried long handled baskets, tied with pink tulle, and filled with pink Killarney buds, and fern. One-half of the ceremony room was raised and upon this platform the bri dal party assembled. Here the back - ground was formed by a large triple mirror, banked with fern and South ern smilax. Throughout the house; numbers of baskets filled with pink rcses and fern, were used as decora tion. Punch was served from the rear . drawing room and side porch, by Misses Rose Cheyne and Margaret Williford. The bridal cake was cut! in the gift rooom, where were display- j ed many handsome gifts, which at tested the popularity of the young oouple. The bride's book was presid ed over by Miss Elizabeth White. A delicious ice ocurse. with mints and cake, was served by a bevy of young girls. Mrs. Lowranee. who is a daughter of Mrs. Adele Kennedy Pitts, is a ^graduate of Winthrop College, and for the past three years has taught in the Sumter city schools. Dr. Lowranee Is- connected with DeLorme's Drue ' Store of this city. It is a source of much pleasure to her many friends that her mariage will not take her from Sumter. The happy couple left for a visit tc northern points. Pisgah News and Views. Pisgah. June 2 5.?Light showers ;fell here yesterday which relieved the crops some but we need a heavy rain. Corn is not at all promising. Worms and bugs have played havoc w?th v.. ?wo the crop will be light with the best of seasons from now on. Cotton is away off of last year. Blight, root lice and other things are on.it. The crop will not near come uj.. to last year. - Other crops, which mature in the fali, we hope will be all o. k. I What wheat was planted is ve good. Wish some one would come here and thresh it for us. It would l^gjr them and help us. No watermelons on the 4th. The ladies will have their day at 'Pisgah church Saturday. ? Ordination of deacons will rak e at Mizpah church Sunday. O news but hard work and hi:: ices for labor. Rev. Liles preached a strong ser at Pisgah church Sunday which he went for the president oj the liquor question. f He handled him without globes. mrv^i, Fashions and fine dr^ssim^rf^rrs f. .vpset the minds of some p< opie in their attempt to improve on nauire. The prettiest girl is the on" who sweefe and pleasant greetings $nd as sociation makes people a'dfnlr? <'J'>: love her whether she is finely dressed or not. Makes no difference. The protracted meeting at Pisgah ?"-ch will be hell the last of July. Community Cotton Warehouse State Warehouse Commissioner Urges That Cotton Be Pro tected Against Damage j - I Columbia. Juno 2:>.?Fully alive to ! protection State Warehouses afford against loss on their cotton by wea ther damage or by fire, a number of farmers are planning to build plan tation or community . warehouses ; which will be taken in the State sys tem. W. G. Smith, State Warehouse Commissioner, who is anxious to see j enough warehouses built and put in the State warehouse system to take I care of at least an additional 500. juOO bales cotton, said yesterday that j he- would send from his office in Col ?uihbia the necessary plans and speci fications free of charge to farmers who would build warehouses this summer to be units in the State sys tem. According to one estimate, "coun try damage" alone cost the farmers of South Carolina $14,175.000 on the j 1018 crop of cotton. For this sum. the State's entire 1318 crop could have been housed for over 15 months in th< State Warehouse system had ware houses iDeen available. Commissioner Smith said yester day that there was no "red tape" [about getting a properly built ware house into the State system. "First, build the warehouse", said I Commissioner Smith "Then apply for its admission into the State system. Then the ,State Warehouse Commis sioner win lease the warehouse for $1.00 a year and issue to the owner or owners a license to operate it as ? a unit in the State system on pay- j meat of a fee of $2.00. Nest the law ; authorizes the commissioner to name j a suitable person as warehousemar. and to bond him for from $1,0CO to. $5.000, according to the size of the ! warehouse. As soon as the ware- j house is ready for business the Com missioner keeps its contents fully cov ered by insurance against fire. The warehouseman issues receipts for each bale of cotton stored, which receipts after beihg recorded in the Commis sioner's office and sealed with the State seal, are negotiable as security for loans at all banks." A cotton warehouse with a capae' ty of 200 to 50? bales can be built at a cost of a little over a dollar a bale and a 1.000 bale warehouse can be built for less than a' doilar a bale, if farmers will adopt Commissioner Smith's suggestion and use their field hands on the construction during wet ..^ells. % The fire underwriters have laid down the following directions for warehouse building which must be followed: For a warehouse to hold 500 bales, the building must be 100 feet long by 45 feet wide by il feet high at the eaves. The roof may be of composition material S or metal, the sides and ends of boards or metal and the floor of cement or dirt. There must be one door in 3ach end of th> building and three on each side (for a 500 bale warehouse). "No smoking" signs must be displayed and a barrel of water and two buckets provided for each 100 bales of cotton to b stored. No cotton can be stored in the warehouse until four days after it i ginned. Railroad Bill Postponed Inter-State Committee Side Tracks Poindexter Measure Washington, June 26.?The house judiciary committee voted today to split the prohibition legislation into three parts with the enforcement of wartime prohibition separate and dis tinct from the others which relate to constitutional prohibition and the manufacture of industrial' alcohol. Jury List. The following jurors have been drawn for the first week of court, July 7th: S. F. Stoudemire, D. E. Williams, E. W. Wilson, M. R. Jackson, - H. R. McLeod. IX G. F. Baltman, J. W: .Montgomery. K. P. Moses. A. H. .Sanders, W. T. Player, W. Y. Yeadon, Ralph Loyhs, W. H. Cut.lino, Jr. O. B. Nettles, C. B. Huggins, S. L. Roddy, William Kerg, E. F. Miller, R. C. Wactor, J. M. Chandler. J. W. McKiever, W. W. McKagen. E. T. McCohum, J. M. Brogdon, J. B. .Bai:er. C. M. Burkett. S. ?. Cii?ard. M. B. Co.\, J. W. Odom. H. T. Goodwin. S. R. Smoak, R. H. Gamble. J. F. Tisdale. S.\W. Colerider, T. E. Gaillard. H. C Tucker. Salvation Army's Needs. There is but one thing th?* Salva tion Army needs from Sumtf-r at this tim*>. Ju<t send a check for your sub scription to th^ir Home Service Fiind. The treasurer. W. I. Whitehead. will be very glad to receive y. ;; cli ck. His address is simply Sumter. S. C. Lumber is advancing in price, in stead of d.-ciining as prospective hous< builders have been hoping, and the outloook for an extensive building campaign is not encouraging. The road to Pocalla is needing a little attention to get rid of the bumps. Krasiioii Finds Bad Roads Description of Highways in the ; Great West .Chicago, Juno 21.?There is an old i saying ?'that every place is good where we are not," and this is true in every respect, even applicable to good roads. When 1 was home, I wished 1 was hi Michigan; Ohio, Indiana or any 'old State, where 1 ?i?uid hitch dp my jgasoiiiivhTie and skid on smooth pav I ed roads to any old pis>-e I took a fancy to ml-:*' myself and fear no trou ble. Well I have tried some of these Western thoroughfaresrand oh. Mama! I wished 1 was back hone' in good old S.viuh Carolina. These West In diana and East Michigan roads are simply fierce, and J would not wish my worst enemy to have to use them often. The route from Detroit to Chicago <;n ;j straight lin?' is the , worst. 1 have seen yet, oven the road iron: Su niter to Sardinia is a boule vard in comparison. While our loads are sandy and ;heayy, these roads are hard and choppy and twisty ami bumpy so that .you get attacks of seasickness. cramps, dizziness and convulsive hunger at one and the sa me time. Just imagine you are traveling over a railroad bed where there are no rails, only crossties on the edge of winding ravine, where some one dumped several carloads of frozen wa termelons on the road and you will get a descriptive idea of these roses. And while there are several stre t on es of excellent paved roads on this. route, at least 50 per cent of the en tire rcuie belongs to the first cate gory. The best continuous srretches on ray entire trio so tar- are: Wash ington to Baltimore 4 0 miles; Roches ter 'to Buffalo. 40 miles; Buffalo to Ein-.h-s,' mile- and Toledo to De troit. 61 miles. All the balance of my route we have not traveled more than 2j0 miles at a stretch of con tinuous perfect roads, as they are working on all the roads and we had to make continuous detours on ac count of the main roads being recon structed, it being all cut up by the army heavy convoys. While I.was greatly disappointed in the condition of the roads, I have en joyed passing through some fine grain fields, where wheat, barley, rye and corn grow profusely and we could see waving fields for miles and miles, which are so beautifui to look at. The thing that struck me so im pressively is that there is very little grass in the* grain fields: by looking through the grain stalks as far as you can see there is- only black soil with very seldom a blade of grass between. The stalks are thick and healthy, and the corn fields also are different from ours. They are plant ed close, about f> to 12 inches apart and are very regular, looks lilie set out by a machine and spaced out by 1 * " \ I diagram. Spring wheat and corn iook "very small compared with oars, as ! they have later seasons. The tallest j j corn stalks r have seen this week i {would not measure IS inches. Winter] j oats and wheat do not seem to me to ; i grow taller than ours but they seem 1 j to me, be tter fruited and larger grain, j ? Chicago, like, any other large city, j j is full of life and push and rush and [racket, and differs nothing from other] [cilies in a business aspect, so that j 1 what f wrote about New York will ! apply io Chicago. But the layout of; (the city and the traffic arrangements' i are quite different. Almost the en-j i tire business, wholesale, retail and! I manufacturing is confined in one i I section known as the "Loop," compris- ! j.ing 400 blocks or about 1 1-4 mtte> square in the center of the city. Here j I are all of the hotels, theatres, depart- \ j ment stores, banks, wholesaler-houses.: j etc. In this loop every train, elevated j trains-, and street cars entering and! going to any part of ih<- citjf or the"! world, pass within this space. Mad i-1 j son Avenue and State street are the j "center of the city and ;ire the divid [ing lines east. west, north and south. \ The streets are square and are divided 1 ?'; blocks to th?- mile, ivory fourth j street has a car line, and the num bers run in hundreds to the block, so that ever}' block sta rts with 100 eon isecutively so thai if you want 4400 j East or West you have to go either way 4 4 blocks or 2 1-2 miles. Then j they have a system of boulevards] ? throughout the city, so that you trav-. el, I am told, 160 miles continuously; ] through asphalt paved parkways | 'reaching any part of ihe city. These ; parkways are all linked with ail ; parks and all places of interest asi we'd as business. No wa ons or trucks | ; are allowed on these paiKways. Trav-j : el en These parkways have the right [ [of way at ail times except on inter-: jsecting parkways where traffic is reg-! ; ulated by a police traffic squad, and I : where the travel is very heavy there \ j are traffic policemen on the cross-1 i ings. The regulations are 2 whistles j i for -East and West and one for South] J and North, so I got myself in Dutch; l before I learned the correct signals; | {they let me off however by producing j ! credentials that I am neither Dutch I inor Turk, but I know better now. . There are so many things and i j places of interest in Chicago that I , I would like to describe, and as I have I j no typewriter at my disposal, and as j ; I have regard for your typesetter for! ! reading hand writing, I feel that i I justice demands I should not do it | j until better opportunities present j j themselves.- , J The Museum of Arts, the zoological! gardens. arzoo*(not zaozoo). the Chi-j j cago stock yards and trade exchanges, 1 ;are difficult to describe. These must! ' be seen in order to understand it. j ! Since leaving New York State we j ; have traveled through dry lands so I you can imagine what we have done j ; when we got among the wets once i j more. You should have seen us j j painting the town red. all filled up! j with Bevo and other explosives. But) 'how you expect us to be satisfied! when we have but on*- more day in j this town, ;md I see from the papers Chicago has only about thr*>e million I gallons of thrist-quenching ;in<l hell I leading liquor s, and Jh.- folks- here have nine more days at their disposal. So we decided to leave in time and avoid seeing the great agony th;it con fronts the population. One poor fellow told me he is going to quit drinking after the firs! of j Juiy, unless congress changes their ! minds and repeals the war time pro hibition, as he can not afford to go in i an airplane to Canada ur Mexico at I the rate of $1.00 a minute which is ! the passenger rate now. 1 compliment i ed him for his sober decision and [unshed him good luck. ! Tomorrow I am going to ?doosc | heart to attend the Supreme Lodge ! Convention and Tuesday morning I ram starting for home, Mooseheart is 4 0 miles fromo Chi | eng. near the town of Batavia on the :Fox River, where over 700 children I of the Moose, who are left helpless, are taken care of. Here they are ed ucated and given college training and maintained free of charge until they become self-sustaining, details which 1 will describe later on after I see all the arangernents myself. You will please send me The Item up to and including next Friday, to ! Atlanta. Ga., after that day no mail j will reach me until T get home where j I will feel more at home. Respectfully, S. L. Krasnoff. _ Sunday School Workers. Spartanburg, June 23.?R. D. i Webb, general secretary of the South Carolina Sunday School Association, \ and Horace L. Bomar, president of j the State Association, and a member of the International Executive Com | mdttee, will be in Cleveland, Ohio, on ; June 24 and 25-attending an import ; ant meeting of the Executive Com i mittee of the International Sunday School Association. From Cleveland, Mr. Webb will go to Lake Geneva, ;.Wis., where he will attend a confer ence of the employed workers of the various State, provincial and Interna tional Associations, which is followed j by a ten days' training school. Mr. Webb has the distinction of being the first South Carolinian to graduate from this training schoool, this being his fourth year. The International Training School for Sunday Sehool workers, which is in session from July 4 to 14, is regarded as the high est authority on Sunday School work. South Carolina will have several rep resentatives at this school this year. Miss Cora Holland, Children's Di vision Superintendent, and Miss lone Alverson, Office Assistant, of the State Association, expect to go to Colum bus. Ohio, on June 24, to attend the Oententary Celebration, remaining in Columbus for several days. From Co lumbus, they will go to the employed officers' conference, and training school at Lake Geneva. Miss Polly j Alverson. of Spartanburg, will ac company them. At the recent State Convention held in Florence. Mr. George R. I Kdester. representing the churches of j Greenvill* as well as the business in I terests of that ,city, invited the 1920 I State ccnve:)tion to meet in (ire<-n ? vilie. This invitation was c-nthusias I tically accepted, and the date for the '; convention is announced as May J, 5, j 6, T.tL'O. Plans are on foot , to make i ibis - bigger and better convention i than any yet-held in the State. There ! were :L feu- people at the State Con j vention who attended the first State [Convention, which was held in (Jreen ViUe forty-two year:; ago. j It is announced by the State Asso-. ciation that Prof. ?d. F. Montgomery, j of Kingstree, has been secured'as > j field worker for the State Associa tion during the summer months, Prof. Montgomery is teacher of English, at j Kingstree. lie is a graduate of .the Presbyterian College at Clinton. For six years he has been a teacher o? 'teen age classes, is a Boy Scout lead er, and is considered' a very eificie'nt Sunday School worker. He will-bas sist the two State field secretaries in ! attending county and district meet ; ings, and helping in Institutes and Conferences. Beginning on the 17th of July, prac tically all of the County Sunday School j Conventions have been scheduled for j the summer and fall. The following i county conventions will be . held in ?July: Cherokee, Newberry, Abbeville, j McCormick, Edgefield, Saluda, Les ; ington, Sumter, Chesterfield, Kershaw ?' J and Lancaster. During August it is i expected that county conventions will i be held in the following counties: j Chester^' Fairfield, Spartanburg, TJh j ion, Orangeburg, Bamberg, Green | ville, Laurens, and Oconee. Harold Simpson, six years old, a ' son of Mrs. N. Simpson, was seriously hurt yesterday, being run over .by a truck owned by Ducker, & Bultman. The driver of the truck was in no wise (to blame for the accident. He was delivering goods for his employers and when he stopped to take a package into a house three or four boys, Har-' old Simpson among them, got on the fender. When he came out he made the boys get off and then when around the truck, cranked up and . started off. As he did so he feit the truck run over something. He stopped^the truck immediately and found that-the back wheel had run over the boy, who was unconscious. It is. the suppo sition that he attempted to jump into the fender as the truck started'and fell under the wheel. The child was taken to the hospital by the driver and as soon as he could ' be identified his mother was notified. j At first it was feared he was fatally injured, but today it is thought that j he will recover, as his condition is j a.uite satisfactory. I A part of the park should be set j aside for a play ground including a I baseball diamond for the small boys of the town. Landscape art, winding walks, shrubbery and fountains, ' are beautiful and pleasant to look upon, but a baseball diamond will look bet I ter to the. average boy. j [ON, ALLOW A SEVERAL HUNDRED POUND ROCK TO BE TIED TO YOUR CAR? OF COURSE NOT! But when you buy at ran dom, any sort of Motor Oil, I vou give the power in your ''A motor just c&cat the sarne )J "knock out7' blow, as if you had a weight dragging on be hind. The perpetual power of your car, its pulling erlieiency, its "pep" lo get up and step. <?e psn^s upon the way you take isre or ii; and that care in <&q main is CORRECT LU BRICATION. When your engine L<j*ks, knocks, loses power, and easily overheats, ten times cut of mi?t, there is a deposit ing of destructive elements in the oil being forced through the lubricating channels c: the oiling system, getting back into the oil case, and thence redistributed, until the bear ings and pistons and combustion chambers begin to cake up with carbon. Tken you have a badly overheated engine. Ordinary oils can not stand the test of heat, which the fast working of the motor runs up to from 200 to 1?00 degrees F, Ordinary oils break down under this terrible temperature, and leaves your engine and motor and their intricate, clcse-working parts at the mercy of expansion; and the reaction of this sort of doings w:E shortly leave your motor in the "rattle-trap" c!ac~. Play safe, and not only buy the best oil->GREEN *LAG" Oil, but the proper body and consistency for your particular car. The following well-known and reliable dealers in this county are exclusive agents for "GREEN FLAG" MOTOR OIL, and will guarantee its quality, and the coirect body for your car. It will pay you to DRIVE OUT OF YOUR WAY io get this very superior Motor Oil and accent no substitutes. T FILLING STATION