The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 02, 1919, Image 4
Wilson Says Farewell
? Speaks at Formal Dinner Given
in His Honor by Poincaire
Paris. June 26 (By the Associated
Press).?President Poincare tonight
gave a dinner to President Wilson and
all the delegates to the peace con
ference. Mrs. Wilson accompanied
the president.
"I thank you most sincerely for the
words that you have uttered," Presi
dent Wilson in responding to an ad
dress of M. Poincare said. "I can not
pretend, sir, that the prospect of going
home is not a very delightful one but
I can say with the greatest sincerity
that the prospect of leaving France is
very painful to me.
\: "I have received a peculiarly gen
erous welcome here, and iL has been
.V pleasing for me to feel that that wel
, come was intended not so much for
myself as for the people whom I rep
resent.
"I feel that my stay here, sir, has
enlightened both my heart and my
mind. ? It has enabled me personally j
. to sev- the evidence of the suffering!
and sacrifices of France. It has en-!
abled me to come into personal touch
with the leaders of the French peo
ple and through the medium of inter
course with them to understand bet
? ter.
"Sometimes the work of the confer
ence has seemed to go very slowly \
indeed. Sometimes it has seemed as
if there were unnecessary obstacles
tejagreeraentr but as the weeks have!
-lengthened I have seemed to see the
profit that came out of that.- Quick
' conclusions would net have produced
thai intimate knowledge of each oth
er's mmd which I think has come out
t;3v4i$ these daily conferences.
"The she months have been srx
months which-'have woven new fibres
of connection between the hearts of
cur people. And something more than
friendship and intimate sympathy has
come out of this intercourse.
"We have finished the. formulation
of the peace,, but we have begun a
plan of cooperation which I believe
will broaden and strengthen. . . . We
shall continue to be eoworkers in
tasks which, because they are com
mon, will weave out of our sentiments
a -common conception of duty and
? common conception of the rights
of men of every race and of every
clime. If it be true that that has been
accomplished, it is a very great thing.
"As I go away from these scenes
I think I shall realize that I have
been present at one of the most vital
things that has happened in the his
tory of nations. Nations have jformed
contracts, with each other before, but
they never have formed partnerships.
They have associated themselves tern- j
porarily, but they have never before!
associated themselves permanently.
"The wrong that was done in the
waging of this war was a great wrong,
but it wakened the world to a great
BBoral necessity of seeing that it was
? necessary that men should band them
selves together in order that such a
wrong: should never be perpetrated
again.
"Merely to beat a nation that
wrong once is not enough. There must
follow the warning to all other na
" tions that would do like things that!
they in turn will be vanquished and
shamed if they attempt a dishonor
able purpose.
"You can see, therefore, sir, with
what deep feelings those of us who
must now for a little while turn away
from France, shall leave your shores,
and though the ocean is broad it will
seem very narow in the future. It
will-be easier to understand each oth
* or than.it ever was- bejfore.jinJUWstSV
the confident intercourse of coopera
tion the understanding will be
?strengthened into action and action
will itself educate alike our purpose
and our thought.
"So, ?r, in saying good-bye to
France I'm only saying a sort of phy
sical good-bye, not a spiritual good
bye. I shall retain in my heart al
ways the warm feelings which the
generous treatment of this great peo
ple has generated in my heart. And
I wish in my turn, sir, to propose, as
you have proposed, the continued and
increasing friendship of the two na
tions, the safety and prosperity of
France, the closer and closer com
munion of free peoples and the
strengthening of every influence which
instructs the mind and purpose of hu
manity."
John A. Leach
Dies at Denver
Was Founder Brotherhood Lo
comotive Firemen and
En gin em en
. Denver. June 27.?John A. Leach
? 7? yea,rs of age, founder of the Broth- j
erhood of Locomotive Firemen and I
Enginemen died here last night of
plurisy.
War Veterans Protested,
Returned Soldiers Refused to!
Hear LaFollette Speak
Asbury, X. J., June 26.?Unit, d
States Senator Robert M. LaFollette.
of Wisconsin has been withdrawn as a
speaker at a concert to be given by i
Anna Case Cooper, a singer in the
Ocean Grove auditorium on July .". \
it was announced h*-re today 5? Hur >J j
managing director of a musieal bo- :
reau which teased the building Re- [
turned war veterans protested, basing!
their objections, they said, on the i
Senator's attitude before the United !
States entered the war.
jCloud B urst at Roanoke j
Traffic Badly Tied Up. Tracks j
and Bridges Washed Away
Roanoke, June 27.?Railroad traf
fic was' badly tied up here today as a |
result cf the cloud burst a few miles j
northeast of here last night. The |
Norfolk and Western tracks and-;
bridges were washed aw~y. Approxi- j
mately twenty miles of road were af
fected.
Lynching in Mississippi j
John Hartfield, Confessed Rapist
Hanged and Body Burned
Ellisville. Miss.. June 26.?Trailed
for ten days through thr e south Mis
sissippi counfies by posses, whi- in
cluded several hundred members of
his own race, John Hartfield. negro,
confessed assailant of an Ellisville
young woman, was captured, desper
ately wounded, near Collins at day
break this morning, rushed by auto
j mobile to the scene of his crime,
hanged to a tree and then burned to
ashes. His victim witnessed the lynch
ing.
j While negroes took no part in th?
j actual lynching of Hartfield, posse
leaders freely admitted they rendered
valuable assistance during the chase,
knowing when they enlisted that it
j was intended to lynch the fugitive
? when he was captured. Many of them
i witnessed the execution.
The lynching was conducted in u
manner which the authorities charac- j
terized as "orderly.-' Guarded by a|
committee of citizens of Ellisville. |
Hartfield, was taken first to the office |
[of Dr. A. J. Carter, who, after exam-j
lining of his gunshot wounds received
j when the fugitive made his fight
j against capture, declared the negro
j could not live more than 24 hours. In
the meantime a group of silent men
wSre piling crossties and brush in a
depression in the ground near the I
railroad trestle. There was no shout-!
ing.
The victim of Hartfield's crime wafj
escorted into the physician's office af-!
ter the wounds" had been examined.;
j She positively identified him as her j
assailant. When she left the negro!
said to the committee, 'You have the j
right man." |
The World's Greatest Nitrate Plant
at Muscle Shoals
The Muscle Shoals nitrate plant is
a monument to the chemical, engi
neering, contracting and munufaci
uring and laboring forces of the
country. For it should be remember
ed that an army aggregating in the
total 50,000 workmen .had to be
gathered; a small city had to be
built to house this multitude; that
millions of tons of materials and
equipment for the construction and
operation of the plant had to be pur
chased?in some cases manufactured,
transported, assembled and erected
under war conditions. The construc
tion this nitrate plant is right
fully considered one of the w-orld's
greatest engineering achievements.
Its construction and time of initial
operation exceeded all expectations.
In less than 12 months after the firsf
person on construction work reached
the site, located about two and one- j
half miles from the nearest town and
occupied by cotton and corn field, 90
per cent of the mammoth plant had
been completed, and in eight months
and eight days after the ground was
broken for the plant proper the first
nitrjate- produced in continuous
operation was turned out. NOt oniy
is the operation of tb? plant a suc
cess, but it is found that ammonium
nitrate can be produced there at a
cost less than half of the standard
fixed price formerly paid by the Gov
ernment. Compared with the old |
prices for making ammonium hi- !
tr?te, the savings thus made would I
have paid for the entire plant in about
one and one-half years of operation.
Since the signing of the armistice
prevented the plant going into full
operation, the question now is, what
disposition will the Government make
of it? Unlike other strictly munition
making plants, the Muscle Shoah;
plant can be utilized for peace pur
poses by making fertilizer materials.
It operates under the cyanamid pro
cess, which has been a commercial
success for years. Its operation can
make American farmers independent
of Chilean nitrates, as far-seeing men
are now trying to do in the case of
freeing America from the domination
of German potash.
Good Bye to
Correspondents
President Wilson Received News
paper Men To-day
Paris, June 27.?President Wilson
received the American correspondents
at the Htoel de Crillon this afternoon
and said his goodbyes to them.
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Mariage Licenses.
The following marriage licenses
have been issued since June 16th.
White.
John P. Booth. Jr., and Hassie P'ar- I
rott.
George Cantslon and Mattie Wehl?.
John M. Kenney and Marie S.
Doyle.
R. F. Haynsworth and Elizabeth |
L. Brown.
Henry Spradley and Nettie Boyd.
Richard E. Horn. Jr.. and Lriiie E
j Gregg.
P. J Gallagher ana Miriam Mellene.
C. L. Lowrance and Adele Pitts.
< Colored.
John Williams and Minnie Mabel
j Dick.
! Phackney F rasier and Charlotte;
! McCoy.
John Eigs and Bertha Sharps.
Istah Davis andSusanna Frierson.
Henry Hughes and Alice Moray.
James Price and Margeret Conyers. J
Pam Green and Isabella Robertson.)
Robert Pattern and Bertha Mc-;
Bride. i
Josiah Spann and Fannie Fletcher.;
Thos. Hines and Inez Charles.
Geo. Bradford and Mary Huggins j
Marion Clarks and Sarah Jone?
Dannie Chandler and Carrie Mc-!
Donald.
Gregg-Home.
Miss Lillisr Gregg and Mr. Richard
Carter Home were married at the
home of Mrs. C>lie m. Gregg, the
bride's grandmother, on Washington
street, Tuesday morning, June 24th,
at b o'clock. Rev. J. P. Marion official- |
ing. Only the immediate family j
were present at the ceremony. Mr.
and M"s. Home left immediately after;
the c.remony on a bridal trip io Den-,
ver, Colorado, after which they will'
ho at home af Beaufort, S. C. I
Real Estate Transfers!
Concord Township*
May S?Martha L. Lee, et al. to K. i
L. Brown, 20 acres, $1 and other con- 1
siderations.
June 10?Estelle Anderson, et al.
to J. A. Frierson. 30 8-10 acres, $5 and
1 other considerations,
i June 10?Estel!" Anderson & Mary
J. Frierson. to J. A. Frierson, 50 acres,
$5 and other considerations.
Maycsvile Township,
j June 3 6?Estelle McElveen to W.
rW. and Walker T. Green, 212 acres,,
j$2? and other considerations.
Manchester Township.
May 1")?O, J. C. Lose to Sam Ned:
Walters. 35 acres, $300.
May 15?O. j. C. Kosh to Wallace!
j Johnson. 4 7 1-2 acres. $4 75.
May 19?Charlton DuRant to An-?
jdriana Myers. 19 9-10 acres, $248.75.
Middlcton Township,
j June 13? C. G. Rowland to Mrs. K.[
H: Weinberg. 2 acres, $2.200.
Privateer Township.
June 23?T. lt. Kolb, et al., to J. j
j M. Griffin, 47 acres, $1,680.
Providence Township.
May 5?W. J. Seaies to L. E. Wood.!
i 3 acres, $135.
May 17?Lucius Atkins to Len j
j Niehol, 40 acres, $2,4 00.
May 30?R. W. Westbery to Price
James. 57 1-4 acres, $4,966.25.
! June 9?The Master to A. S. Merri
mon and Isaac Strauss, 51 3-10 acres, j
$1,200.
June 16?The Master to Cherry and
Sarah Carter, 4 acres, $50.
Rafting Creek.
May l?Martha C. Swett to Sandy
Holiday, Jr., 35 acres, $1,000.
May 1?W. C. Rogers to Dr. S. F. |
Erasington, 309 1-4 acres, $4,329.50. J
May 22-J. E. Rembert to Nonie i
S. Rembert, 296 acres, $10,000.
June 7?The Master to Shuhley;
Geddings. 20 1-2 acres. $590.
Rafting: Creek.
June 3?C. C. Beck to J. L. Gillis,
1 lot in town, $100.
June 3?Beatrice O. Einstein to
Author Einstein, et al., 2 lots in town.
51?.
Juno 11?The Rembert Co., to T. J.
Brown. 1 lot in town, $380.
June 11?The Rembert Co., to J.
Edwin Rembert, 1 lot in town, $1.
250.
June 12?A. K. Sanders, et al., to
Millie O. Sanders. 39 1-2 acres, $5
per acre.
Stateburg.
May l?The Master to Lewis Taylor
and John Sumter, 1 acre, $100.
June 5?R. C. Williams to S. N. and
G. W. Bradford, as trustees, 150 acres,
$9,000.
Shiloh.
June 16?E. R. Player, et al.. to W.
[W. Green, 1-2 acre, $60.
June 16?W. W. Green, to Walker
1T. Green and Estelle McElveen, 100
acres, $20 and other considerations.
I June 16?W. W. Green and Es
! teile McElveen to Walker T. Green,
3 50 acres, S20 and other considera
tions.
? .June 16?Walker T. Green and Es
tehle McElveen to W. W. Green, 142
acres, $20 and other considerations.
June 16.?W. W. and Walker T.
Green to Estelle McElveen. 25f acres.
$20 and other considerations.
Sutmer Township.
May 2?R. W. Westberry to Ranger
Joe, lot in town, $650.
May 3?C. M. Boykin to J. C. Rog
ers, et al.. trustees, 1-2. acre, $5 and
other considerations.
May 7?Realty Development Co.. to
Willie Holland, 1 lot in town, $325.
May .13?T. B. and R. J. Kennedy
to J. E. Kennedy. 3 lots in town, $L
200.
May 14?Asa Jane Singleton to Wil
liam Singleton, 1 1-2 acres, $5 and oth
er considerations.
May -20?Leila N. Ligon to J. N.
Martin, 2 lots in town, $150.
May 23?W. A. Jordon to I. C.
Strauss, 37 acres, $1,250.
May 24?I. C. Strauss to Maria
Wilson, 3 lots in town. $375.
May 15?Realty Development Co.,
to Wallace Reese, 1 lot in town, $900.
May 20?W. H. Shingler to Mrs. A.
B. Cuttino, 1-2 acre, $5 and other con
siderations.
May 24?Mrs. Estelle D' A. Levi to
Ben Rembert, 51 1-4 acres. $6,500.
May 5?The Master to Davis D.
Moise, 1 lot in town, $75.
May 27?Mary A. DuRant to Clem
ent H. Brunson,' 1 acre, $300.
May 27?Broad Street Lodge No.
7097 to Joint Stock Lodge No. 434, 3
lot. $5.
June 7?Claremont Land Co.. to
Walter Gregg, 2 lots in town. $500.
June 7?Archie China to A. D
Harby, 400 acres, $700 and interest.
June 7.?A. D. Harby to Davis D.
Moise, 4 00 acres, $700 and interest.
June 10-W. O. Bradford to Per
ry Moses. 53 65-100 acres. $10.600.
June 10?City National Bank te
Elma Witherspoon. ] lot, $300.
June 12?The Master to Claremom
Land Co., 117 acres, $1,000.
June 14 ?Pery Moses to Claremont
Land Co.. 2 lots. $5.
June 14?Waltsr G. Gregg to Per
ry Moses. 2 lots, $175.
Sumter City.
May ?.?Mary Alice Seales to Dr. F
K. Holman. 1 lot and 1 house. $7.
COu.
May 3 3?Mary Eiiza .Sanders to Th>
Progressive Realty Co.. '1 lots, $100
and other considerations.
May 5?R. O. Purdy to Hal W. Har
by. i lot. $2.-100.
May 5?McCallum Realty Co. and
il. P. Moses to Knight Bros.. 1 lot. 1
house. $2,400.
May 6?Ceo. E. Rollins to J. J
Brennen. 1 lot. 1 hons<.-. $3,700.
May 7?Edith G. Middleton t<
Mildred iL Llanehard 1 lot, l house
$4,000.
May 8--Annie \y. Earle to H. J
McLaurin, Jr.. 1 lot. $1,500.
May 9?J. T. Nunnery to John E
Workman. 1 lot, 1 house. SI.175.
May 10?I. C. Strauss and D. D j
Moise, E'"rs. to John and Ma^tci j
Blackwell, 1 lot. $4 5o.
May 10?W. H Patterson to Ralpr
Hill. 3 lot. $800.
May 12?Harby & Co., to Julia ?
Valentine. 1 lot. 1750.
May 13?H. M. Murray to Lou Ide
Wheeler. $250.
May 23?Archie China, et al., tc
L. Alpert. 1 lot. 1 house. $25.000.
May 15?H. D. Barnett, et al.. tr
Rosa B. DesChamps. 1 lot. $5 ane
other considerations. ;
May Iii?Harby & Co., to D. P.
Pendergrass, 1 lot, $750.
May 17?J. J. Whilden to H. C.
Bland, 1 lot, $5,458.
June 17?City National Bank to G.
K. and D. E. Colden, 2 lots,m2 houses,
$3,500.
May 17?Henrietta Bellingsha to S.
E. Miller, 1 lot, 2 houses. $750.
I May jy?McCallum Realty Co., to
j T. J. Geddings. 1 lot, 1 house, $1.100.1
May 20?City National Bank to J. I
|H. Jr., and M. O. H. Schwerin, 1 lot,!
1 house, $3.100. j
' May 20?George Robinson to Wil
liam Keels. 1 lot, $850.
May 21?Christopher Atkinson to R.
B. Belser, 1 lot. 1 house, $5 and oth
er considerations.
May 21?The Master to M. K. Mc
Leod, 1 lot, 1 house, $2.500.
May 21?J. K. Crbsswell to Geo. L.
McLeod. 1 lot. 1 house, $1,800.
May 22?Gwynne B. Pitts to Julian
D." Wilder, 1 lot, 1 house, $6,500.
Ma3r 23?A. J. Ard to L. B. Rhame,
1 lot, ?750.
May 23?J. A. Jr.. and M. O'H. I
Schwerin to H. S. and Ola G. Wad-1
dell. 1 lot, 1 house, $6,50-0.
May 24?R. Dozier Lee to S. R.
Young, 1 lot. 1 house, $4,000.
May 24?R. B. Belser to Chi'isto
pher. Atkinson, 1 lot, 1 house, $5 and
other considerations.
May 26?Mrs. Sudie Huff to Ray
mon Schwartz, 1 lot. $1,000.
May 26?Charlotte E. Moses to B.
D. Reed, 1 lot, 1 house, $3,500.
May 28?McCallum Realty Co., to
S. L. Roper, 1 lot, $275.
May 28?Janie W. McCoilum to
Wm. Haldwin, 1 lot, 1 house, 81,000.
May 31?Eugene Forshee to. S. C.
Roper, 1 lot, $375.
May 28?Louise B. Stubbs to G. C. J
Cooper, 1 lot, 1 house, $3,500.
May 28?W. B. Sampson to Janie!
W. McCollum,-l lot, $1,100.
May 30?Janie W. McCallum to B.
E. Roberts, 1 lot. $1,275.
May 31?W. B. Colclough to'Geo.
D. Shore, Jr., 3 lots, $5,000.
May 31?Angel Chicola to J. K. '
Crosswell, 1 lot, $106. i'
May 31?C. L. Tisdale to R. C.
Bradham, 1 lot, $1,000.
May 31?C. L. Tisdale to R. C.
Bradham, 1 lot, $200.
June 2?J. K. Crosswell to E. L.
Calhoun, 1 lot. 1 house, $7,500.
June 2?J. K. Crosswell to J. D.
Harper and Burke Watson, 1 lot, 1
house. $14,468.
, June 2?W. O. Courtwright to D.
R. Plowden, 1 lot, 1 house, $5,000.
June 3?A. D. Harby to J. M.
Harby, 1 lot, 1 house, $11,000.
June 4?A. G. Jennings to Bartow
Walsh, 1 lot, $5.
June 5?W. M. White to J. D.
Dusenbury and R. W. Walter, 1 lot, 4
houses, $2,000.
June 5?E. W. McCallum to Com
mercial Co., 1 lot, $1,050.
June 5?D. G. F. Bultman,' Ex. to
Peoples' Tobacco Warehouse Co., I
lot, $4,500.
June 6?D. C. Shaw to G. W. Shaw,
2 lots, $1,000.
, June 6?J. K. Crosswell to D. D.
Moise, 1 lot, 1 house. $20,575.
June 6?R. E. Wilder to A. D.
^Harby, et la., 1 lot, $7.00.
June 6?C. L. Tisdale to A. D.
Harby. 12 lots, $4,400.
June 6?D. C. Shaw to A. D. Harby,
2 lots, $3,000.
June 10?Bartow Walsh to A. D.
Harby, 1 lot, $1,300.
Junp 7?-Harby & Co., to "Susan
Jones. 2 lot. $850.
June 7?Geo. E. Bruner, Jr., to T.
R. Erowder, 1 lot, 1 house, $1,700.
June 7?Claremont Land Co., to
Powell P. Johnson. 1 lot, $100;
June 7?--Samuel Richards to Ella
Bryant, 1 lot, $5.
June 9?Eldria Turner to Loura
Wishow, 1 lot, $100.
June 11?J. K. Crosswell to C. F.
Whitten, 1 lot. 1 house, $12,000.
June 11?Mary Hodge to Mrs. M. L.
Smith and Mary S. Mathis, 1 lot, 1
house, $2,500.
June 13?R. C. Bradham to W. E.
Bynum, 1 lot, $1,700.
June 13?W. E. Bynum to Geo. D.
Shore. Jr., 1 lot, $850.
June 13?Perry Moses and D. D.
Moise to William Berg, 1 lot, 1 house,
$35,000.
lius Sutton, 1 lot, $500.
lius Sulton, 1 lot, $500.
June 16?E. C. Hayns worth to Mary
A. Spears, 1 lot, $500.
The Bolshevists are Those Who Have
Nothing
Ufa, Russia, April 2S (Via Vladi
vostok, May 10)?There are about
700,000 Bashkirs (Mohammedans of
mixed Finnish and Tartar descent;
living in Perm. Ufa, Viatka and Oren
burg governments. They are for the
most part landowners, small or great
and for that reason are opposed to
Bolshevism, so far at least as the tat
ter's land distribution p.ogram is con
jerned. Otherwise there is little dif
ference between the Mussulman and
the Russian in his attitude toward i
Bolshevism.
The Mussulman is opposed to Bol
shevism also regarding its policy to
vard religion. The mass of the Mus
sulman population is extremely re
ligious and believes that questions of
religion are its own affairs. The mer
hants, like the Russian merchant?,
are against Bolshevism. The peasant
who owns no land favors it.
Abraham Ahktiamov, a Social Dem
ocrat (Menshevik), of Ufa. a member
.if the first Constituent Assembly, a
Mussulman attorney and a man of
exceptional intelligence, quotes Lenine,
;hn Bolshevik Premier, as saying that
to every Bolshevik are attarhed
"thirty-nine scoundreds and sixty
fools."
Ahktiamov does not believe in im
possibility of a world-wide social
revolution because '"America doesn't
smell like it France is not ready for
t; England will buy off its promoter:
jp.d Germany is too weak."
The Koichak government, he said,
!g an irnperfect nucleus of govern
ment which in the present state of
tttairs must be recognized."
Washington. June 1'7.? President
Wilsen has advised the "senate through
he State department that he is con
sidering sending another commission
to Poland for the purpose of investi
gating Jewish massacres. He said
decision would be reached after a .
conference with Hugh Gibson. Amer
ican minister tc Poland. <
Paper Swears
Vengeance
Pan-German Zeitung Says Ger
man Honor Buried
Berlin, June 28 (By the Associated
Press)?The Pan-German Deutsch
Zeitung- prints the following across
its front page:
"German honor today will be car
ried to its grave in the Hall of Mir
rors, in which the glorious year of
3871, the German empire was resur
rected in all its former splendor. Lest
we forget. In restless labor the Ger
man people will again strive to at
tain that place among the nations of
the world to which it is entitled. Then
vengeance for the disgrace of 1919."
The Tageblatt says:
"The German people ' reject *he
treaty which its delegates are signing
today, and it does not believe for a
single moment it will endure. De
spite the fact that it is written on
parchment, it remains a scrap of pa
'per, because it is a mockery of all the
laws of reason and morals, and the
most disgraceful exhibits in the mu
seum of civilization."
Fatal Occurrence
T. J. Cornwell of Chester Shoots
Himself While Handling Gun
Chester, June 26.?T. J. Cornwell,
deputy clerk of court, shot himself this
morning and died' instantly. Nobody
saw the occurrence but friends think
that he was loading or oiling his pistol
when the weapon was accidentally dis
charged. The bullet entered the
heart. Mr. Cornwell was an exceed
ingly capable and painstaking official
and will be greatly missed.
Mrs. A. G. Rembert Dead
Was Daughter of The Late
Bishop W. W. Duncan
Spartanburg, June 26.?-The funer
al services of Mrs. Alice Duncan Rem
bert, wife of Dr. Arthur Gaiilard
Rembert, professor of Greek and Bi
bie at Wofford College, who passed
away at her home at an early hour
yesterday morning, were held this
morning at the late residence of the
deceased on North Church street. In
terment was in ' Oakwood Cemetery
Dr. John W. Fraser, pastor of the
Central Methodist Church, conducted
the services.
Mrs. Rembert was a daughter of
the late Bishop W. W. Duncan.
All-American COngres of Women Suf
fragists Proposed.
New York, June 24.?An alf Amer
ican congress of women "suffragists Is
proposed by Alicia Morean, president
of the National Womehs' Union of the
Argentine.* Her proposal has been re
ceived- here by Mrs- Carrie Chapman
Catt, president of the international
Woman Suffrage Association.
Mrs. Catt has not yet acted upon
the suggestion but it is announced that
she soon will do sc. Slgnora Morean
proposes that a Pan-American Con
ference be held in Buenos Aires i:.i
July, 1921 for the study of the civil
and political status of women.
"It is proposed," says Signora Mc
rean, "that we concentrate our ener
gies' on a general movement through
out the Americas in behalf of our
ideals, 'being confident that the co
operation of the delegates of the vari -
ous countrk-s Will encourage the flfs
cusion of the different problems
raised relating to the position 6t
women and will be the means cf
bringing forward suggestions for the
ultimate solution of such difficulties.
"We hope that our sisters in the
United States of America will give
us their active support; the world
wide prestige won by the part they
have played in this movement and
the result attained makes them stand
out as an example among the demo
cratic institutions, and will be a sure
sign of ultimate success of our work."
Behind this conference, adds Sig
nora Morean, looms a larger hope of
a Pan-American organization, "which
would stimulate mutual help among
the all feminist associations."
To Improve Serbian Transportation.
Saloniki, May 10 (By Mail).?With
American railway material arriving
and American army engineers in the
Balkans there is now a prospect that
railway conditions is the Near East
may soon be bettered. Heretofore the
work of rebuilding the thousands of
dynamited bridges and of repairing
the hundreds of miles of twisted, up
torn track in Serbia has progressed
slowly.
Serbian railroad engineers have been
handicapped by lack of labor and
material. At present it is a matter of
from ten to fifteen days to cross Ser
bia from Saloniki to Belgrade. If
one link of the motor truck service
breaks down because of washed out
roads or floods carrying away bridges
the whole work of the American Red
Cross, the American Food Famine
Commission and the Serbian Relief!
Fund workers is held up and a through
journey to Belgrade or Saloniki across
country may require from fifteen days
to a month.
American importers, however,*
should not figure on transporting
freight overland through Serbia at
i his time. Railroads probably will
not be regularly running until early J
in 1920. Belgrade is best reached via
Trieste and Fiume rather than from
Saloniki.
American shippers will find the
harbors and docks- at Piraeus
(Athens), in Greece, at Saloniki and
Constantinople crowded with
freight. Lighterage is difficult to ob
tain. Conditions are better at Constan
tinople- than at Pireaus and Saloniki.
At both these latter ports the traffic
snari is almost in a hopeless state.
At Piraeus thousands of tons of
Newfoundland codfish which were rot
ting on the docks have been thrown
into the ocean to make room for
more urgent freight. With, the Greek
army still in the field there is a
great shortage of labor throughout
Greece*
The next time
you buy calomel
ask for
calomel tablets that ?i*
siausealess, safe and *ure.
Medicinal virtac? retain
ed and improved. Sold
only in sealed package*,
Price 35*^ v< jgg
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More Germans ort Vf??r
Five Trains Leave Ifort ?gfe
thorpe for Charleston
Chattanooga, June 29.?Five spe
cial trains carrying German and Aus
trian aliens will leave Fort Ogtethprpe
tomorrow morning for Charleston, 8.
C, where the* former prisoner
be placed aboard ship for transporter
tion overseas. .'
There will be about 1,800 aliens in
the party, composed of both isaiicr*
of interned enemy vessels and'r-ctvjlT
ians. This is the second contingent
to be started for their native;lana>
in the last few days, and it ia*^ ex
pected that the remainder vt&L f?ftaw
at once.
' The 1918 Cotton Crop.
Washington, dune 2tf.-^ccording to
a bulletin entitled "Cotton .Production
in the United States: 1918," just is
sued by the Bureau of the Census, the
American cottoii crop of lBIS-^-lS;
040,532 -equivalent 500-p?urid bales,
gross weight?was somewhat great
er than the crops of the preceding
three years, b?t was less' than';ttios$
grown in the years 1911 to 1^14 fad'
was also below the averages for the
last five years and the last ten^ari
?12,423,917 bales and 12,728,576
bales, respectively. The' production
In all the cottdn States except ^flfe*aMk
Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Florida
showed increases as compared ? with
the preceding year.' The'greatest ab
solute increase?333,047. balesiT or 26$
per cent?appears for S^outh' felrolina,
and the -greatest proportional in
crease 33;867 bales, or 15-5.8 per
cent?for Arizona. The greatest ab
solute decrease?428,817 bales, or 13/7
per cent?is shown for T?xas/and the
greatest proportionai decre?se^?882,
195 bales, or 39.9 per ceht-i-^for Okla
homa.
During the nine-months persoft end
ed April 30, 1919, the production S?f
linters amounted to 876,930 equfvaieht
?50(V-pounfl bales. This is less- than
the production during the correspond^
ing period for either of the preceding,
two years, but is greater than the to
tal production for any year prior to
1915.
Last year's sea island cotton crap,
152,208 running bales, is the smallest
shown for any year since 189$, .the
earliest year covered by the -bureau's
ginning reports. This type of cotton
however, represents only a vtry small
fraction of the total, the proportion in '
1918 being less than one-half of one
per cent. All the sea island c "tt?n
grown in the United States is produc
ed in Florida, Georgia, and South Car*
olina. " . ;' '
Cotton is grown to a greater or l?tt
extent in 17 States, hut the' combined
product of Texas, Georgia, South-?C*ro
lina, and Mississippi?the only Stafee
which produced more than a million,
bales each in 1918?represented more
than five-eighths?68.2 per cent-^of
the total crop of that year. Texas
alone produced 2,696,561 bales, or 22,4
per cent; Georgia, 2,122,405 bales, or
17.6 per cent; South Carolina, 1,569,
918 bales, or 13 per cent; and Missis
sippi, 1,226,051 bales, or 10.2 percent
The only two counties that produc
ed more than 100,000 bales each from
the growth of 1918 were Bolivar, in
Mississippi, with 124,936 bales, and
Orangeb?rg, in South Carolina,; with
110,718 bales.
An Educational Opportunity.
An excellent chance is being*offer
ed to the boys and girls of this coun
ty by the Carolina Farmer and Stock
man to attend college next fall. The
Carolina Farmer and Stockman is the
only farm paper published" in this
State and carries all the news und ed
itorials of interest to the farmer and
bmineaa man.
It has the cooperation of the T>e
j partment of Agriculture and Clemson
I College and is serving the farmers of
[the State. They have 75 scholarships
j in various colleges of the State and
I are offering these to young men and
j young women ' for getting anibscrip
tions to their paper.
There are many a boy or girl in the
county who would like to earn their
way through college this next year
and here is their chance to do so at
the expense of someone else. Note
their advertisement in this issue and
write them for particulars.
The crying need of South Carolina
is education and we hope that a large
number of young men or women in
this county will win these free schol
arships.
There is no chance of Sumter Coun
ty making as much cotton this year
as lost. The acreage is le?9, the fer
tilizer less and the crop is not as
promising as it was this date last sum
med