Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?{p lEaScfstait ai? jlraijjroiL PuJfllshed Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? OSXEE3T PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTKK, S. C. Terms: w $1.50 per annum?In advance. Advertisements. One Square first insertion .. ..$1.00 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will be charged Xor as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect Will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was fourte en in 1850 and the True Southron m X866. The Watchman and Southron now has the combined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is manifestly the best advertising medium in * Sumter. PEANUTS FOR MESOPOTAMIA. The Mesopotamians are going to be come peanut-growers, much to their own good. For many years they haw used peanuts for food, parching them or making them into sweetmeats. They have had to import all they used, however. A year ago the enterprising British planted peanuts on a small plot of ground?only a tenth of an acre? near the ancient city of Bagdad. This planting grew, bore fruit, Mesopotoam ian connoisseurs are delighted with the quality of peanut produced. From now on the peanut industry, is going to thrive in that land. There is a ready and eager market, for a large crop at home, and any surplus can be exported to less fortunate places. Another reason why peanut culture is going to be of value is the former absence of any oil seeds. Very few oil yieldmg plants have ever been raised in Mesopotamia. Peanut oil will be a welcome product. A few years ago Americans would have been astonished to hear of the humble peanut being treated with ?such honor and serious consideration. This particular member of the bean J family was long looked upon as aj frivolous edible closely associated I with amusement parks, circuses and j bail games, and occasionally offered j to the animals behind the '"don't feed or molest' signs. War changed all that. The peanut became a very serious foodstuff in deed. Peanut oil and peanut butter became mainstays of the national diet And as a luxury the salted pea nut ranked almost as high as the aris tocratic almond. Villa seems to be an incarnation of the Mexican jumping bean. MUSIC FOR THE PARKS. / The city council of Seattle, Wash., is about to appropriate $10,000 addi tional for the employment by the park board of good bands to furnish free summer concerts to the people. Says one champion of the proposed ordinance: '"The vast majority of the people go to the city parks. We should provide real music for them. It will cost little in proportion to thq pleasure it will give. We economized on music during the war, but the war is over, and this is victory year.- Let us celebrate a bit." It is an excellent way to celebrate. The value of music in the scheme of life, its influence for good and hap piness and recreation, have steadily advanced in people's understanding during recent years. Community sing ing helped to win the war. . Com munity listening to good music?clas sic as weli as popular?will help to insure the fruits of victory. Parks and playgrounds, the public library and the park band pr orches tra are all factors in a free, happy, normal community life. They" can"all be supported and enjoyed, this year with greater freedom and satisfaction than ever before, because they help to express our joy in victory year. THE FAMILY PARTY. Xo satisfactory reason has e\ er been given for having family parties. I Relatives are queer. They are. hard I to get along with. The sharp eyes j and tongue of Cousin Lemuel's wife I play havoc with the quivering sensi- i j tiveness of sweet Aunt Jane, of hesi- j tant, seventeen-year-old Sally. Youth ? is so quickly bored with the tales of j eld. It is work to prepare the table for so many people. There are innumer able dishes to be done next morning.! Everyone has sacrificed something?j bit of work or recreation, business' trip, reading or rest?because, "since Cousin Sarah is going to all that trou- i ble, it seems a pity not to do all we J i, ' can to make it a success. The men gather in a corner andt smoke and discuss: The iniquity and ? greatness of the president; the dull-1 ness of business, and overwork due to i prosperity; the difficulty of meeting the payroll, makes of automobiles and the tires thereof. (Xo one has to' own a car to get in on this?the lessi one has driven, the more he knows.) } The women form a circle, after the | workers have stacked the dishes and! j joined the shirkers who have been j talking1 crochet. They discuss: How ; to get rid of ants; the terrible exj>eri | ence they once had with bedbugs; the greed and iniquity of landlords; the greed and destructiveness of ten ants; the cost of food; the narrow skirts; the suspicions of Arabella that the laundress is making off with the handkerchiefs." Nobody has a very good time. No body says anything interesting, help ful, worth saying or worth listening to. Everybody is relieved when the party breaks up. Yet, deep down, everyone has a vague warming, a little outflow of af fection for the family as a whole and for its individuals. There is some thing about the honieiy hospitality, something about the meeting of the clan that comforts that curious object, i the human heart. Cannot somebody "reconstruct'' the j family party? Cannot some genius\ assume that relatives are people, with \ real ideas, real interests, real things to talk about, real gifts to share? So soon will childhood be youth, youth maturity, old age silent: THE WET FINGER HABIT Have they the wet finger habit in your shop or household ? For instance?a certain little bak ery is clean, the girls wear spotless dreses, their hands and faces are im maculate, the baked stuff is carefully protected under glass show cases, but every time one of those girls start's to wrap up a loaf of bread or a doz en fried cakes, she wets her finger and thumb in her mouth to make it easier to pick up the wrapping paper! The corner of the paper which has receiv ed this purely personal touch may or! may not rest directly against the j bread. That is as fate wills. The same thing happens often at the grocery a>nd meat market, nor are the food purveyors the only ones guilty of this most unpleasant and un sanitary habit. The bundle clerk at the dry goods store may have the} red flannel rag around her neck, pro claiming a sore throat; but she, too, would not think of grudging a few germs to any customer, and so the tcnsilitis spreads, and no one knows v,hy. j Or it may be the child in school j who wets his finger before he turns j the page of the supplementary read- { sr. or the frequenter of the library! who does the some thing to the libra- ' ry book, or that dear companion *of j many of our firesides who loves his j fame of bridge, but-always wets his j thumb before he deals the cards. There is little need to dwell on the i I subject. It is one of the small, insani- J tary tricks which set at odds all the i larger preventive measures, but it is J a habit which can and should be cor- ! i rected wherever noticed. Thousands of undesirable aliens are tr. be deported within the next few months. Some of them have been ac- j quired recently, others have been kept in storage waiting for transpor tation facilities. We don't know where J they're going but they're on their way. j * * * The Kaiser had irt'-r "od writing his autobiography but h left Germany [ so hurriedly he left all his notes be- ; hind. The black sheep meant to pull i the wool over people's eyes, but left j his tales behind him. * * * After all is the Soviet form of gov- j ernment so bad? ft permits the recall ! of-an unsatisfactory legislator after'j two weeks trial. Consider our congress and think it over. * * * New Jersey has strong reasons for opposing prohibition, and the strong- j est of th^se is applejack. * * * I The main trouble with the average congressman is that he thinks talk is work. NERVES 'ON EDGE"? Sumter People Will Find Encourage: ment in the Statement of a Sumter Resident. Are you weak, nervous, depressed? Feel dull, shaky, tired? Are your kidneys working rightV Nervousness often hints at kidney weakness? Kidneys that fail to filter the blood. Poisons gather and harm the nerves. Kidney weakness causes many ills? Backache, dizziness, headacJies, lack of flesh. Don't neglect kidney trouble. There is danger in delay. Use Doan's Kidney Pills. Follow the example of this Sumter resident. Mrs. B. P. Cuttino, 100 Blanding Street, says: "Six years ago I had in flammation of the bladder and I was in bed with severe backaches and headaches. 1 was in bad shape and my nerves were unstrung. I tried dif ferent things to get relief, but didn't secure any benefit until I used Doan's Kidney Pills. Two Poxes of Doan's cured me and I haven't been bother ed since." Price 6f'c. at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mrs. Cuttino had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, X. V.??Advi. (GSj I Robert M. Cooper Dies in Baltimore ?-? Prominent Lee County Farmer Passes Away News was received here late Sun day evening of the death in ;i hospital in Baltimore of Roberl M. Cooper of Wisacky, this ?ftemoon. Mr. Cooper had not been well for the past few months and two weeks ago wenl to Baltimore for treatment but neither family nor friends realized that his end was near. Mr. Cooper was one of the promi- ( nent, progressive fanners of the State | and a hiprh minded man of the old school who had the respect of all who j knew him. He was born in 1S53 near his present home in Wisacky, then in Sumter county. This section became j a part of Lee when that eon my was formed in recent years, [n 1875 Mr. ' Cooper was graduated from the Uni- | versify of Virginia, in civil and min-, ing engineering. He was offered a j professorship in the University of Ala bama, but the death of his father. George W. Cooper, called him t?? his j home and there he remained to look 1 after the family estate. He married j Miss Netta Shaw, the daughter ? the I late Judge Shaw, who died many years ago. Mr. Cooper took a prominent part in the public life of Lee and Sumter counties but never would accept ofuce | in cither. No was a member of Gov. j Manning's staff. He often went to [ Washington to represent the South! Carolina farmers in conferences with ! the president and secretary of agri culture. He is survived by one son.! Robert M. Cooper of Wisacky. four! daughters. Mrs. F. C. Manning of;, Newark. Mrs. Clarence Miller of ' Waynesvillc. X. C Mrs. Brookman I Wilkinson of Montgomery, Ala., and j Miss Netta Cooper of Wisacky. All of his family were with him at the endj except Mrs. Miller, who was in Wi sacky with Mrs. R. M. Cooper. Jr. The body is expected to leave Bal timore Monday evening and arrive at Maycsville at 11 a. m. Tuesday. The funeral will be at Old Prick Church and the interment will be with his an cestors in the historic burying ground there. The Value of the Collar. The Item: I note in the Item of July 3rd you quote from the Ration's Business for July something about the disappear ing dollar and 1 would like to ask if you do not think it is very pessimis tic to reflect on the American dollar as we used to sneer about the Mexi-j ran dollar which actually bad a great- ! er intrinsic value than our own dol lar. Cold and ra'ver are coined by the Am er i ca a o v e r nment as the-'j standard of value am! 7 think should i be as sacredly upheld as the Pag. J j can remember this kind of propaganda I coming out from Xew York as far j back as 1906, claiming then that a dollar was or.iy worth 50c. or had a purchasing power of only 50c. i sec | them claiming the same thing now. j What is these fellows standard of value? I can remember when corn in the west was only 15c per bushel and meat Cc per pound, and 1 can re member when i; was worth 50c. ?1.00 and $1.-50 with everything else in pro-' portion. Lands, goods and houses go up and down and if mon y is not tlmir standard of value, what is? If i recall corectly, it wa.s Lenine Trotsky who said thai it wa.s his am bition and intention to destroy the j value of money and it would appear! that he is making quite a. success in i his own country when ib>^ meat for food is selling at fabulous prices. It docs look like such propaganda won!;1, sot go in this country. Our govern ment has stamped and issued gold and silver coin as the standard of val ue which has an intrinsic value but is very little used. Caper which is ab solutely worthless only as a medium Ox exchange is used instead. We bay* the beat, money system in the" world and i: is greatly improved by the Fed-I eral Reserve Banks and'l think it is a reflection on tlu- Federal Rcserv? i -Banks to assert that oar dollar is ?nl\ i worth 50c. I for one would like to] see it cut out. E. L, Witherspoon. I -j Of course, it will b<- a good thing ?o have political leaders debate thai peace treaty all over everywhere, lur to think that they're going ^o do it 5hst when so many citizens were set tling down for ,-i nice, restful sum merl 11/11 4?k TP i 3^ COTTON II FE?I?Ii EKUIR If you have cotton to sell, see us, it will pay you. If you have fertilizer or fertilizer ir.ateriao to buy it will pay you to see us before you buy, Ca^h or approved co-htcraL S West Liberty Street Tractor Demons: ratson. One of the biggest farm tractor demonstrations ever put on in the Southern States will be held in Sumter on July !7th and lSth under the 631 cial direction of the farm extension department of Clemson College, with Prof. I). W. Watfcins, assistant direc tor of farm extension of Clemson College directing. The demonstration is intended to be State-wide in character, and every farmer in South Carolina is cordially invited to be present Experts from Clemson College, will he here to give lectures and otherwise demonstrate tlic advisability of tractor uses on South Carolina farms. In addition to the Clemson experts there will be ex pert mechanics and, other tractor ports representing ten or more trac tor manufacturers and agencies who will furnish all kinds of valuable in formation for the farmers. Mr. .!. Fran> Williams. Farm Demonstrator for Sumte:- count;,' has !>: en advised by Professor Watkins that there will be probably ten tractor concerns repre sc mod here, some with two or more makes of tractors, so that by the time* the demonstration occurs it is prob able that fifteen or more makes of farm tractors will have been entered. V\ large tract of smooth and cleared land has been obtained at the grounds of the Sumter Automobile Association just outside the city limits for the demonstra' ion. Agent Williams and the Sumter County Chamber of Commerce have joined forces to thore*ighIy advertise this event, and iliej busily engag ed sending out hunureds of letters and thousands of advertising pam phlets about it. and they confidently expect hundreds of farmers from ad joining counties as well as thousands from Sumter county to be present. The Sumter Comity Chamber of Commerce joins Agent Williams in ex tending a most cordial invitatio!! to all of the farim rs of South Carolina Lo visit Sumter for this Important and instructive demonstration; and ir goes without saying that the farm exten sion department of Clemson naturatiy '.'??sires every farmer; who possibly can. to attend this demonstration. The big Sumter business men's an nual booster trip of July l?th to Sar dinia Xew Zion. Turbevile; ShilOh. tnd Trinity sections of Sumter and Clarendon counties will be utilized by County Agent Williams to advertise the tractor demonstration. It may be necessary yet to march to Berlin. And the doughboys would enjoy it. Criminal Cur, Criminal court < morning with Judgi this circuit presldi; unusually heavy; as ber of nrurdcr c use nvened here this j John S. Wilson of j i The flocket is ? j here arc a mini- J to be tried. Art? Prussia: militarism is thoroughly eliminated, might be Well to follow Secrets Bane's sugg< stion and mobilize again the Flu. w. Henry Ford is his war profits, ness. Tin n the go to levy such h< a: oeopie can affors * * going to IC S2 VS ?ernme v incO: i? in. won rnor no v 19 Hi Uli i x? TT - t ? I1 irnsmns? All rolls devclojpcd 10c; packs 20c up; prints 2 L-2c-4c-5c; enlarging 35c up. Specialists?we do nothing but kodak finishing. All work guar anteed to please. Eastman Kodaks, Films, Supplies. Columbia Photo Finishing Co., till Taylor Street, Colombia. S. C. Joseph T. Myers. \?-ws was received Saturday by Mrs. !a Myers of the death of her son, Thomas, on July the 4th at Fort a Colorado. The deceased was ir.ty years old and .had served in navy as electrician for two years, leaves ;i mother ai d three sisters, Jumell and Rena, one brother, Myers of Chicago. Th3 funeral will be held at the cemetery as soon as the body arrives. The dale will be given later. j WANTED?To haul your tobacco to i Sam;..r. Any quantity. For rates : _ Phone 372?J. Parrish Dray Line. FOll SALE?Or wilj trade for dry cattle several Jersey heifers. *or young cows with young calves. E. W Dabbs. Mayesvillc, S. C. II. 1. BCEIHVES AND SUPPLIES?I have lately received a few Georgia made hives and fijames?S and 10'frame size. Also on hand sections and foundation for comb honey. ' N. G. _Csteen, 320 W. Hampton Ave. ?&ESWAX WANTED?Any Quantity " large or small Am pa3'ing best cash price. See me if you have, anv. N". G. Osteeti ?^?wcB n>reuw*i?a ^.j.-xo*zzr~-ttarf.JMV&JBtS. BBBBWWBM88B iffliMiiiiiiiar m- :? -mi km ?1 esigns Pi ??A.-- '\ 3HERE is a wealth of beauty in the new designs of jewelry that have made their appear ance this year. Everj'thing points to superior quality and better work manship? in New Jewelry ?[ We are re-stocking with the best to be had. Careful buyers wi? find here an assortment pleasing to the eye ana in harmony with the times. The reputation ci this store as the foremost exponent of new ideas will be maintained. IfeiliTnMffl I hi.-v-iiSijl'!;.!;'-:; JiU ""?"^" - 55SB8EB G. Go COOPER JEWELER Sumter, S. C. E?BE Oar Offering Consists of w ssiger sack bagging I 3-4 to 3 lbs. New Jute Bagging 2 to 3 lbs. New Arrow Ties standard weight To those who h^ve accounts with us we will make the price pay able October the 1st ? g We are not attempting to predict what the market will do* but it has already advanced more ihm a eeid per yard since we made our contracts, and those who should be in a position to know tell us we may look for much higher prices. No guarantee accompanies ou? sales, We want our friends to exercise their ow:o judgment which Is as good as ours, We will guarantee that our prices are a* : . - as First Class Goods Can Be Bought At.