?|e WS&fysm sab J*mtt|rmi pBPflBftnfl Wednesday and Saturday . ?BY? GSEBSar PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMXER, s. a i Terms: tl?O per annum?in advance. Advertisements. One SJquare first insertion .. . .$1.00 ?very subsequent insertion.. >. .50 Cor tracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will he charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect JFilL be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was found ed *nri85D and the True Southron in 1*66. 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. . PUBLIC MARKET PRICES. Many cities which maintain public markets to help cheapen food are g?hding that those markets are not serving their purpose, because tne dealers persist in charging as much as retail grocers and meat stores out side! -This is, of course, unjust and even absurd. In some cases the market stalls are provided rent free. Rents, -Jn aW event, are always placed far :Jffirer^ than ordinary store rent, for the special purpose of enabling the dealers to sell cheaply. The market dealers, moreover, have no delivery system to maintain, and no telephone and other services to pay for. There is -an implied understanding that the public will receive, in lower prices, the benefit of the market ac commodation furnished the dealers by the city, with. an additional saving earned by going to the market and carrying away their purchases. _-" Jf things sue not sold cheaper at public .markets, why pay the taxes-to Tri?? ? those markets, and why go to the extra trouble of patronizing t?em? The same principle applies, in 3pm ? degree, to the sale of eggs, fruit, vege tables and other country produce at farmhouses?a method that has be come common since the automobile came into general use. It is found generally that the farmers charge about as much for their goods as the city dealers/despite the fact that they are paying no store' rent and other commercial expenses. Since the purchaser himself pays all the ex pense, why should he not get the pro duce at the sam e price the farmer or gardener or poultry raiser would charge the middlemen buying from him, plus whatever slight amount is justified by selling* in smaller quanti ties? FOOD COSTS AND STOOCK MARKET. assertions of food manufac taat they are not at all re Ible for burdensome prices would be more convincing if it were not forj xhe 'tell-tale testimony of the stock market. Almost without exception, the stock ffif- corporations engaged in making] or handling foodstuffs and drinks has] goner Up lately. There seems to have been more of a boom in them than in almost any other line of securities. The market, price of securities is a pretty good barometer. When there is "a boom in any line, it means that that line is making more money than i osnai. There is no question that the food industry in general has been making a great deal of money. And however the men interested may justify their profits to themselves, they will have great difiiculty in justifying them toj the public on whom the burden falls. TtHE "NEXT WAR.". "As conditions now exist," says Gen eral Bernhardi, in an article written for an American newspaper, "there is danger that in one way or another we will withdraw from our obliga tions. Then a new war will be a ne cessity." He explains that the allies, through the peace treaty, have sought to make it: impossible for Germany to wage war in the future, and the treaty will achieve exactly the contrary." He finds that the clause obligating Germany to surrender the men respon sible for the war and its crimes is ab surd, and blandly announces that "he who would pronounce it good to give up" the Kaiser and the leaders would dig his own grave." !The only reproach the Kaiser de serves, he says, is "for having begun the war too late." He pronounces it "an utter mistake to believe that progress of humanity is possible in eternal peace." "He represents his country as mere ly playing "possum." "Possibly the German nation will for ? while con tent itself with the position to Which the late war relegated it, but it is a grave error to believe that will be possible in the long run." He is certain that "the late war conceals in itself a new war," that the conditions imposed on Germany will; result, at no distant time, in a ' vio lent reaction." War may delay a lit tle, "but come it will." Here is the same old spirit Ger man militarism, flaunting itself fla grant and unashamed. The war, ac cording to this view, was not a crime meriting punishment and atonement, but merely a great game which Ger many, through some miscalculation or other, happened to lose. Sooner or later, the Germans must try again, and with a great victory wipe out the disgrace and inconvenience resulting from their present failure. It does not matter at all that they have accepted the Allies' terms. They do not intend to abide by them one minute longer than they are compel led to by superior force. Let the Al lies weaken or cease watching, or let the Germans grow strong enough to feel self-confident once more, and this treaty, like its predecessors, will be but another scrap of paper. It is really a good turn that Bern hardi and his robber brethren do the world in making such frank an nouncements. It helps to put and keep the Allies on their guard. MAJ. PATRICK DREW DEAD Barnwell, Aug. 9.?Major Patrick Drew, one of the best known traveling salesmen in South Carolina, and for many years prominent in the South Carolina National Guard, died at his home here early this morning. The funeral services will be held at the Catholic church at Barnwell at neon today and the interment 'will follow in the Episcopal churchyard. Recently, while in Asheville, Major Drew became unwell and was advised to go home, so he returned to Barn well. For the last week he had been very ill. Major Drew travelled for the Crad dock-Terry Shoe Company of Lynch burg, Va., and as their representative made a splendid record, his sales al ways ranking among the best in the Souti-^rn States. He was a man of wide acquaintance and the announce ment of his death will bring sorrow to many friends in ail sections of South Carolina. When the South Carolina National Guard was mobilized for duty on the Mexican border Major Drew came to Styx, but his health was such that he rwas not among those sent to Texas. He was for years active in the militia and his official record is an enviable One. Major Drew was born in Ireland ??0 years ago, coming to the United States when a young man. He lived in Barnwell many years ago, but re moved his residence from here for a while, during which time he resided in Columbia. About eight years ago he returned to Barnwell. ? He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Sophie Vogel, of Barnwell. EXECUTIVE COM MITTEE MEETING Managers Appointed for the Special Congressional Primary The County Democratic Executive Committee met in the Court House at noon Saturday with a sufficient num ber of members present to arrange for the primary election ordered by the State Committee to nominate a candidate for Congress from the Sev enth District. Managers were ap pointed to serve at each of the clubs at the primary election on August ?26th and on September 9th, in the event that a second primary shall be necessary. A resolution was adopted request ing County Chairman John H. Clifton to take up with the State Chairman the matter of affording oppor jnity of enrollment to the young men who have become of age since the last pri mary and also to the men who were in the army and were not enrolled last year. It was the sense of the meeting that these men should be permitted to enroll and thus be given the right to vote in this primary, v The status of club members who have removed from one club district to another since the last primary was also discussed, and it was the sense ef the committee that these men should be permitted to transfer from the club in which they were enrolled for the 1918 primary to the club of the district in which they now reside, and that they be permitted to vote at the club of the district in which they have established residence since the last primary. A resolution was adopted urging all Democrats to vote in the primary and that every one ' who votes in the pri mary make it his business to cast his ballot in the general election. This is most important for the preservation of the integrity of the party, as there is a threat of an independent candi date at this election. All Democrats who have not obtained registration certificates since July 1st, 1918, are reminded that certificates issued prior to that date are void and that they will not be permitted to vote in the general election unless they have cer tificates issued since July, 19IS. On motion of Mr. H. L. Scarborough a resolution was adopted that: The President and Secretary of each club be urged to appoint a committee of three or more whose duty it shall be to see that every Democrat within their club district registers on the first Monday in September, which is the last opportunity for rfgistration be fore the general election. The act of the last session of the legislature applying the Australian ballot system to all clubs having an enrolled membership of fifty or more members was brought to the atten tion of committeemen present. At !h" last primary the system was applic able to incorporated towns only, but hereafter it will be enforced in all clubs having fifty or more members. Chairman Clifton was requested to draft a circular letter to the presi dents of all clubs setting out briefly i but explicitly the rules and regula tions of the Australian system as ap plied to the primary. The question of providing funds fori the expenses of the primary was dis cussed at some length. The commit tee has only a small balance left from the last campaign, and as the county committees are not permitted by the party rules to levy assessments upon congressional candidates, this being the prerogative of the State Commit tee, there is no source from which funds may be drawn, except voluntary contributions from members of the party. Chairman Clifton was request ed to communicate with the State Committee and ascertain rwhat part of the expenses of the primary that body would pay. It was also decided that each member of the County Ex ecutive Committtee would undertake to raise funds from among his club members to assist in defraying ri expenses of the primary. Mr. Clifton, as the representative of Ward 2 Club, guaranteed to raise $50 which would be the equivalent of ten cents per capita for the club membership. Mr. Scarborough, also, said he would guarantee to raise a fund from Ward 1 Club. If the other clubs do like wise the financial problem will be solved. NOTICE Primary Election to be Held Tuesday, August 26th, 1919. Notice is hereby given that a Dem ocratic Primary Election will be held in the several clubs, established by or der of the Democratic Executive Com mittee for Sumter County at the fol lowing places on Tuesday, August 26th for nominating a candidate for Congressman, pursuant to the Consti tution and rules of the party and in accordance with the Acts of the Gen eral Assembly of the State, regulating Primary Elections and that the second primary, if one shall be necessary, will be held on September 9th, 1919. The following named persons have been designated and appointed as managers and clerks of the primary/ elections to be held by the Democratic party for Sumter county, August 26th and September 9 th: Ward 1?L. W. Jenkins, J. Leslie ! Brown, A. E. Gregg; J. M. Fogle, clerk. Ward 2?W. J. O'Neal. J. B. Baker, Marion W. Seabrooke; L. E. Wood, clerk. Ward 3?Henry P. Moses, J. P. Booth, Jr., P. P. Finn; ~J. R. Wells, clerk. Ward 4?E. I. Reardon, Major Shel ley, T. B. Kennedy; W. L. Brunson, dark. Borden?G. W. Hatfield, C. M. Emanuel, Carl Emanuel. Concord?J. P. Gordon, H.: D. Brun son, J. P. Brogdon; Albert Brogdon, clerk. Dalzell?P. K. Bowman, M. L. Moore, H. C. Edens; S. P. Gaillard, clerk. DuBose?M. Dorn, M. R. Rivers, T. J. DuBose; R. J. Yates, clerk. Earle ? Harry Hodge, Haskell Broadway. L. A. McDaniel; J. C. Cooper, clerk Farmers?R. C. Wactor, W. W. Mellen, J. C. Dawkins; A. L. Ardis. clerk. ;Hagood?B. F. Myers, A. H. Saun ders, B. Moody; Julian Saunders, clerk. Manchester?M. A. Coulter, E. ft. Willimas, D. W. Aisbrooks; F M. Coulter, clerk. Mayesville?E. B. Muldrow, Joseph Witherspoon, J. W. Spencer; F. A. Stuckey, clerk. Oswego?J. F. Moore, A. S. Brown. Eugene Cummings; M. W. Andrews, clerk. Pisgah?J. E. Dupre, J. T. Watson.) Lern Baker; Leon Stuckey, clerk. Pleasant Grove?C. L. Player, J. Wilie Baker, J. R. Goodman, H. T. Goodman, clerk. Privateer?A. P. Hinson, J. M. Jack son, G. A. Nettles; J. A. Kolb, clerk. Rafting Creek?J. A. Reams, S. W. Young, J. E. Brown; J. L. McLeod, clerk. Reids?B. F. Kolb, Blanding Ardis, Geo. Geddings; Horace Avin, clerk. Salem?O. B. Tisdale, A. J. Pringle, J. B. Warren; J. H. Wilson, clerk. Stateburg?N. B. Murray, G. V. Nel son, J. F. Frierson; James Simons, clerk. Shiloh?W. W. Green, Silas W. Tru Iuck, S. W. Coker; S. B. McElveen, clerk. Taylors?A. H. Truluck, N. M. Mc Neal, J. E. Truluck; John T. Truluck. clerk. Trinity?S. J. Mims, T. E. Mims, T. J. Keels; Shafter Keels, clerk. Wedgefield?E. E. Aycock. J. J. Geddings. Jerome Weinberg; Albert E. Aycock, Jr., clerk. Zoar?J. B. Britton, Harry Davis, P. L. Jones; R. G. Jones, clerk. One of the managers for each club wil call upon the undersigned for the box for his club, tickets, etc., and will quailfy on or before August 25th. 1919. The secretaries of the several clubs 'will deliver the original club book of enrollment to the managers of the election. The polls will open at 8 o'clock a. m. and remain open sn til 4 p. m.. Ang. 26. 1919. whereupon the managers will proceed to count the votes and after tabulating the result shall certify the same and forward the ballot boxes containing the poll list, ballots and all other papers, ex cept the club book, by one of their number to the County Chairman, within thirty-six hours after the close of the polls. The managers shall re turn the original roll book to the sec retary of the club immediately after the declaration of the result of the balloting, or as soon thereafter as pos-j sible. The managers shall adminis ter to all persons offering to vote the j oath required by the party rules and j shall arrange a table, desk or other j place upon which the ballot box jshaJl be placed, so as to enable each j voter to deposit the ballot without j interference, hindrance, crowding or confusion. The County Committee will meet at 12 o'clock noon on August L'sth 1919. to tabulate thS pounds for an average of about twenty-six (2<*?) cents. This is a better average price than that of any previous day on which sales were made. At the Banner Warehouse total of 36,260 pounds w^re sold for the aver age of twenty-six cents. The prices of the local markets are growing better daily as Friday's sales will indicate. Today the houses are cleaning up. preparatory to the heavy sales ex pected on next sales day. GLENN SPRINGS IS REVISITED One of the Old Habitues P.e turns After Many Years Glenn Springs, August 6, 1919. j For the information of prospective visitors to this groat health resort I advise the buying of railroad tickets to White Stone?not to Spartanburg. The mail for this place comes and goes via White Stone, and autos for passengers meet trains twice a day. The charge for a passenger from Whjte Stone to Glenns is one dollar? the distance is about seven miles. The distance from Spartanburg is In or 16 miles and the charge, I am told is anything a passenger will pay: Have heard of charges from $3 to $8. But on the contrary I heard a chauffeur who seemed to prefer to go to Soar tanburg, agree to take two passengers from here to Spartanburg for $1.25 each. At present I hear that the hotel and also the principal boarding'house are both overflowed. But the people go as well as come every day. and those who are willing to double up until theyNcan do better can no doubt get in. I have been here about a week but have seen few if any of the familiar faces of ten or more years ago. How ever, all have the old Glenn Spring's habit of being sociable. All talk with out waiting for introductions. The price of land and condition of cotton crop about here are the leading topics. Land does not seem to be so high as in our vicinity, but I have not heard of much on the market Thanks to the attention of Mr. T. G. McLeod and Dr. X. Y. Afford. I have enjoyed a number of auto drives around the country, and if what I have seen is indicative of the balance of the Spartanburg farms, I would judge that so far from there being, a reduc tion of cotton acreage, there must have been an increase, even the ter races, that I have always seen cov ered with grass and weeds all, or nearly all, have a row of cotton and it is the finest looking cotton in the* field. All the cotton I have seen is of fine growth and flourishing appear ance, in weed, but the general obser vation is that it has very little fruit. However, the people here say ther/e is time yet to make a good August crop, yet they admit that the crop is later than usual. The county chain gangs are work ing the roads leading to this place, a work that was, and is yet, much needed. Many of the visitors have commented on the fact that all the gangs we have seen are composed entirely of white men. several <">f the members being almost boys. To see them swinging picks and shoveling vlay in the broiling sun naturally aroused our sympathy. I did not find out where the negro convicts are ;if they have any, and I presume they have. Since writing this I have in quired, and was told that the negroes are in separate gangs. One gentle man said he saw a gang of all ne- i groes. The water has the same old taste and effect but the place does not have the old time appearance. The walks from the hotel to the spring are noi kept up. except on the principal one The others are rough from washes and grown up with weeds, while the ground in front of the hotel is grown up with tall grass and has no appear ance of attention. From the numbe of demijohns, full and empty, that I see passing I judge that considerable water is being sold in that shape, but the bottling plant that the Simpsons had seems to have been discarded. Capt. Jack Lancaster is still on his old job with hot and cold baths, but the old 25 cent service isv now 75 cents. X. G. O. DELIGHTFUL DANCE AT ARMORY HALL Large Number of Out of Town Guests Friday night at Armory Hall was held one of the most delightful danees of the season. The rain had helped re make it more comfortable than usual. A large crowd was present, many of whom were visitors in the city. Some of the out of town visitors at the dance were: Misses Rhetta Heath, Harriet Patterson. Margaret Thorn ton and Julia Riser, and Messrs. Vau dy Brown. Owen Riley, Hugh James, and Davender Bethea. Dancing was enjoyed by the young people from ten to three. St. Johns. N. F.. Aug. 11.?The Brit ish battleship Renew, which is bring ing the prince of Wales, was sighted this morning as it entered Conception Bay. Washington, Aug. 11.-In a let ter to the railroad brotherhoods Sen-j ator Pomerene declared that the! Plumb plan is worse than socialism, i and predicted that the American peo-, pie would never approve it. "HAGOOD GOES ^TRAVELING A national highway does not signify that it is a fine road else the one from Cam den to Cheraw would be splendid. Of course the recent rains had put all our roads in bad shape but we found on our trip to St. Pauls,N. C, the other day, roads much better than the one above mentioned. The dam in Thomp-? son's Creek swamp just this side of Cheraw had been brokenvand was un- . der repair. Pee Dee had been on a . rampage and put things in bad shape generally. Generally speaking all the ? roads in Marlboro County were fairly . good and most of those in Scotland and Robeson Counties, X. C. Return- ?. ing. we came by way of Darlington^nd Bishopville where the roads were ex cellent except near to Heriot's Cross Roads on to Providence, where they in -' some places were almost impassable.. . the worst roads we have" seen any where are in Sumter County. Our country is on unparalleled devel opment. Take Kershaw county out to. the northeast, a section of country as unpromising as most, unless it be Ches terfield, and here we found crops ofj. I corn and cotton almost on par with I the best in Sumter county. Chester? | field astonished us almost ?>eyond I measure for we had never dreamed such crops could be grown there as we found some equal to the best we. saw anywhere. Of course the crops_/ in Marlboro were fine as were those in. North Carolina. Did you know con-; jsiderable tobacco is grown in Chester-: I field, some in Kershaw, plenty in Marl- > boro. We saw very little corn in Marl boro. ' The poorest cotton' we saw any-, where was in "Lee County. The cheapest land we found was in Chesterfield, at twenty-five and thirty dollars. All the rest was going from fifty to three hundred and that in the. country, not suburban land. Crops were more badly damaged by the recent floods in Lee and Sum ter counties. Every where business was brisk. . : Mrs. H. C. Bethea is again able to be up. ' The youngest son of Mr. and Mrs..' S. W. Alien is quite delicate. Miss Margaret Lenoir at home for a few days wtih her parernts, has gone to Clemson. The Y. W. C. A. at Camdgn are camping at Dinkin's Mill. The successful politician is a ju dicious straddler. Also he is an ex- . pert at trenching. This does 'not mean that he hugs the old ruts but that he follows the way that gives fewest jolts to the people. As long as white folks stay in their places, negroes are apt to stay in theirs. "HAGOOD." Rembert, S. C, August 7, 1919.. Cotton Market LOCAL. ! P. G. BOWMAN, Cotton Buft*. (Corrected Daily at 12 o'clock Noon). Good Middling 31 1-2. Strict Middling 31. Middling 30 1-2. Strict. Low Middling 28 1-2. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Yes'td'y? Open High Low Close Close Oct. ...32.08 32.15 31.20 31.42 32.12 Dec. ...32.38 32.38 31.45 31.65 32.28 Mch ...32.28 32.35 31.38 31.54 32.16" "Chas Fairchild & Co." NEW ORLEANS. Jan. ...- 31.78 31.T3 31.17 31.69 Mch. ...-31.SS 31.12 31.12 31.75 Oct. ...32.00 32.07 31.08 31.13 31.72 Dec. ...32.00 32.03 31.04 31.11 31.76 Frank H. Barrett. New York, Aug. S.?Four men were arrested here today charged with criminal anarchy, after a raid by po lice and secret service agents FOR CONGRESS I hereby announce myself a candi date for Congress to succeed A. F. Lever, resigned; and I pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary. GEORGE BELL TTMMERMAN. 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