REG?IxATING THE USE OF COAL V* _____ Government Promulgates Strict, ft c Rules to ^Conserve Fuel ? ?J -- .?Chicago, Nov. 6.?New restrictions on the use of soft coal' were announc ed today, th*- sixth day of the miners ^trike^ In- some localities orders were more drastic than during the war hut' the general situation showed little change. While production in West Virginia and Colorado was reported increased since yesterday there was no notice able change in the ranks of the 425, OftO? striking miners. Appeals for coal to prevent distress in many towns of Kansas and Ala bama were sent to State and railroad officials. Bunkering of foreign owned 'vessels at American ports was ordered stop ped by the central coal committee of the railroad "administration at Wash ington. .-The. committee also authorizes reg ional directors of railroads to suspend such; train service as^r.ight not be re-j garded as absolutely necessary but let it b?r known that no general curtai?-j . mervt was planned. ?, Sixty-si:: uains were annulled by the\ Chicigo and Northwestern and the-Chicago. Milwaukee ?& St. Paul railroads. Indiana's public service commission took the most?drastic action in the domestic field- It decreed lightless streets, discontinuance of electric sign service, coal, gas for heating and other advisable restrictions of service l?y public utilities with less than two weeks' supply of coal. One. independent steel mill in Pitts burgh was handicapped for coal. Counsel for the miners filed a pe tition in the Indianapolis federal court for fhe dissolution of the government's temporary injunction against the stride. The railroad, administration's coal distribution system under fuel ad ministration regulations was an nounced to be in full operation today. In Chicago the coal committees of the.Northwestern and Central Wes tern railroad regions announced re moval of ail restrictions on coaL ship ments for federal, State, county and municipal public utilities, daily news papers and a few"similar classifications throughout the country. The order applied to coal already taken chatrre of in transit and that to be mined, ami was designed to meet press-ng necessities such as freeing coal cars for mines'Still in operation. The suspension of trains, the ma jority of them suburban and , local passenger runs, made an idle crew for each train annulled. Of the six runs eliminated, 14 directly affected Chi cago. s -Other railroads \w^re expected to cut their schedules within 12.hours. Small cities and towns of Kansas reported nearly emtpy coal bins with the prospect of closing light and water plants. A similar situation prevailed in "Nebraskar where some schools were * on the point of closing. Wrest Virginia operators reported 44 mines in union districts in operation at the rate of SO.Oao.OOO tons a year or about two-thirds of normal. A slight increase in production also was reported by Colorado operators while those in New Mexico said but half the miners were on strike. In Colorado the miners upon whom eviction' notices" had been served by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company today were removing their belongings from the company houses in the Trinidad and Walsenburg camps. PRESIDENT DIS CUSSES TREATY * Washington, Nov. 0.?The presider-.t told Senator Hitchcock he was entire ly satisfied with any reservations th? supporters of the treaty might feel v justified in accepting provided they didn't nullify the league of nations covenant and were designed for the purpose of interpreting the terms of ? the treaty. President Wilson agreed that no compromise would be offered unless deadlocks were reached on the resolution of ratification. Washington, Nov. 6.?Senator Hitchcock, administration leader in the senate treaty fight was summoned to the White House today by the president to discuss the program of reservations now under consideration in the senate. , TO BOUND UP VIOLATORS. Commission to Be Appointed to Draft I/tet of' Germans Charged with Vio lation. Paris, Nov. 0.?The supreme coun cil today decided to appoint a commis sion -to draft the finn) Iis? of indivi l uals charged with violations of laws whom German". n>ust surrender for trial. PUBLIC NOTICE. .-Notice is "hereby given that the Compulsory School Law will go into effect for &fc_mter county for all white rural schools. Monday. November 17. All children between tbo ag?s of eight ^nd fourteen will be required to at tend school, unless" providentially pre vented. An excuse in writing, stat ing cause of absence, must be rend ered to the teacher. For ;?ll colored schools running four months or Toss, j the law will take effect with the open-' mg of the school. By order of the Sutnter County Trustees' Association. J. M. Kolb, President, j J. H. Haynsw?rth, Secty. Atlanta, Nov. C.?Three men are dead, two are dying and several oth ers are seriously injured as the re sult of a fire which partially destroy ed the Wilson Hotel in the business district early today; The property toss is small. Between _T> and 3" per sons wen- in the building :?i the time "o? i reports received this morning by offi cials. A 'previous message said that two men ' declared to - be members of the le?gue had been sized by a mob and ta&eh from town. THE SUMTER COT T?N P?TF?RM Southern Railway Still Refuses to Rebuild its Platform The United States Railroad Admin istration has reversed' its decision re quiring the Souther:. Railway Com pany to erect a cotton platform at Sumter as evidenced by the following letter from Hon. E. D. Smith, United States senator. The Sumter Chamber of Commerce had the matter up with the railroad administration through Senators Smith and Dial and the ad ministration ordered, the Southern to erect their portion of the cotton weigh ing platform destroyed by lire last spring. This brings up the matter under a new phase and the matter will have to be fought all over again as it seems that the Southern Railway is as de termined now as it has always been that it will not spend a cent of money or do anything eTte to cooperate with the Atlantic Coast Line, the Snmter Cotton Compress Company, and the cotton weighers, buyers and cotton sellers in providing weighing and convenient cotton shipping facilities; at Sumter. . * The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company went ahead and reconstruct ed its portion of the burned cotton platform as did- the Sumter Cotton Warehouse Company, and just why the Southern. Railway Company will n,ot do anything to help Sumter in this matter is .a mystery, unless this is a continuation of that company's /policy rot to hurt itself in any way doing any hing, to accommodate its customers on its short branch line Entering this city. yTr. E. L Reardon. Sumter. S. C. My Dear Mr. Reardon: Although I was informed by Mr. Chambers that the platform at Sumter would be re built by the Southern Railroad, it seems at the time that he told me this that he was under the impres sion that the Southern owned the land on which it was desired the platform^should be built. Mr. "Tyler, of the Division of Oper ations, informed me that by reason of the fact that the land was not. owned by the Southern it would be impossible for the Southern to con struct this platform. I took the mat ter up then with Mr. Chambers with the result as I thought, that the plat form would be rebuilt. He informed me that it would be rebuilt. Since then, he has found out that it will ho impossible to get the Southern to re construct the platform for* the above reasons. His concluding paragraph is as fol lows: "I am sorry that the situation is such that in this case I cannot be as helpful to you as in the case of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, where it was the property of that line." Regretting very much that condi tions are such that Sumter will not be able to obtain this platform from the Southern Railroad. I am. Yours very truly. E. D. Smith. Washington, Nov. 4. Death. Mr. R. .1. Davis, of the Drogdon sec tion, died at 11 o'clock this morning, at the age of 72 years. He is surviv ed by two sons and three daughters. The funeral services will be held at Graham church at 11 o'clock Sun dy morning. National Week of Prayer The local Y. M. C. A. plans (f thos'p in charge thai the voung men of Sumter county will attend. Card of Thanks. [ I wan', to (drink the good people of I Sumter and vicinity for the many kind attentions shown me during tlie fun eral of my. father, Mr. John Wil liams Taylor, and for she many beau tiful floral offerings. Tin s.- attentions i are appreciated the more when i real tee t'.ai wo have been living out ??! your Strife for more than thirty years and pie almost strangers in y>iir e >on Mr?. olshovik report, through C!e; man sources, says thai more than sis hundred of the onej thousand inmates of Kresty prison in.' Petrograd have died of starvation. I WOMAN'S MISSION ARY CONVENTION Successful and Interesting An ' nual Session Closed Last Night Thursday was the final day of the Baptist Woman's Missionary Union convention, so far as fin- delegates are concerned. However, several of of the officers of the organization will remain in the city this morning- in an eiiort tc complete their work. The services yesterday afternoon were well attended and was presided over by Mrs. Baxter Hays, who also conducted the devotional exercises. Several committees of nie organization made their annual reports, which were duiy received and filed. After these committees-had report ed the remainder of the afternoon was taken up by miscellaneous maters, such as the election of delegates to the Southern Baptist convention, the passing of resolutions, the appoint ment of messengers and other mis cellaneous matters. Last night the church was well fill ed, hut was not packed as on the pre vious night. Dr. John A. Brunson, pastor of Grace Baptist church, con ducted the devotional exercises and presided. A very inspiring and in teresting address was delivered by Rev. W. M. Whitesides of Spartan burg. A very elaborate programme of mu sic was given lor this occasion and was greatly enjoyed. The big feature of the entire' con vention was the address made by Dr. C. C. Colcman, pastor of the Citadel Souare'Baptist church, Charleston. Dr. Coleman chose for the subject of his address "Millions for the Master." He ?* a very forceful and capable speak er and truly delighted the audience on '/this "occasion as on all others. The convention has been a great success, due laregly to the warm co operaion of the people of the city with the authorities in charge of the convention. Most of the delegates left this morning for their various homes all over the State, although some de parted on Thursday afternoon and night. HUNTING PRESERVE Sumter Men Purchase Large Tract Near Georgetown Messrs. R. Dozier Lee, J..B. Britton. R. A. Brad ham and Dr. J. A. Mood recently spent several days at Dr. Mood's summer home at Murrel's In let, and while there purchased a tract of between six and seven thous and acres of land that is situated be tween the Atlantic' ocean and Wac camaw river. These gentlemen expect to make a hunting preserve out of this prop erty. Tho property also has tremen dous' possibilities of development into a stock ranch and farming proposi tion. .There a over two thousand acres of rice Ian' on this property and the possibilities of reclaiming this land are also excellent; Dr. Mood has just returned from Washington where he has secured the aid of the Secretary of Agriculture in the reclaiming of this large rice field. ?. This property also has several beautiful large old homes which ar? expected to serve as club houses. It appears as if this will develop into something of great value not only to the new owners of this land but also to the people at large. Dr. II. A. Mood is also interested in this property. ; * *?" SPORTING NOTES The game of football at the Pee Dee fair between Sumter and Florence on Friday resulted in the defeat of (he Game Cocks by th<- score of :;i to G. At the beginning it looked like a Game Cock day when Sumter made the only touchdown recorded against the. Florence eleven in the past two seasons within four minutes of play. Sump-r kicked off to Florence ami then held the Gate City lads for downs causing the ball to be Sumter*s. Immediately Sumter scored their only touchdown of the game und the only one sgainst Florence in two seasons. Several of the local boys were forced out of the game on account of inju ries and it was against the substitutes that Florence piled up their five touchdowns. The local lads are in hopes of securaig a return game hers in a few days. Tin- game wo.s witnessed by about 2.000 spectators. For the On nie Cocks the playing qtRay and Lobby in the line and Burns in tin- b?'ckfield were best on defense while.Wright at >-n0 was best on offense. Brunson. Wal- j tors and E. Jones Were best for Flor ence on offense and defense. Florence reiied on straight foot ball for their scoring while Sumter used the pass frequently. Welcfc-Brice. Mil's Mary.'Bell Welch, of Sumter.! arid Mr. Marion M. Brice. of Wedge- ! hold, were united in- marriage on Thursday afternoon a.i r..30 o'clock, atj the Salem Baptist parsonage. Rev. B. j W. Reynolds officiating. Uhr/ he;*rtiesi j_r<-??n Marriage Licenses. [switch about three-fourths of a mile Colored?Richard Rembert. Sum-?fron, the statiom Only the engine, ter and Raphael Vaughn, Sjumter. j which was $7 was derailed through ?-jthe carelessness of some employee. No Columbus. Ohio, Nov. 6.?Actual re- i one was hurt, due to the presence of turns reported from sixty-four out I mind of the engineer who immedi of eighty-eight counties show that the j ately applied the brakes in time to wets are lending on all four prohibi-{prevent the coaches from being do tion proposals.^submitted Tuesday tou#uled. .The -eugine suffered the 'Jiiio tvete'fs" ? -:-' 'fsiigiii :fk&$&z& %& some lyfeni^mi' Land [f you have firms or city property for sale, write us. We will sbaividc axid sell your property AT ACTION: qukrfciy^id profitably for you, Faoa h?h Per Specially?Terrilory ?idimite Nin&y-Ssvcn TLc:::r.m! Sk; Hundredcjtd Eighty-Ei?nt acres of Farm * ^nAn^nti^ to1 over FIVE MILLION DOLLARS sold in YYii. Vfrfic fbr b06Meticf->-nd^rsea?ci^; ii.?if iAfor; mation about oar auction, methods. * m^^^^^^i ^^^^ NEILL O'DONNdRLL? President O. L. YATES, Cashier Sumter vs. New York Money was quoted in New York yesterday at 12 per cent, while in Sumter it was going begging at prac tically half that rate. What a delight ful change. No more need for Wall Street. Every strict in Sumter might be justly named Wall Street. May it always be so. If you need any money come and see us. The First National Bank sumter,sc. Z ?V i Hie lata! Bank of South Carolina Of Sumter, S. C. Resources 52,250,000 Strong^and Progressive r The Most Painstaking SltflVICE, with COURTESY. Give us the Pleasure of Serving YOU. , i - * > * j C. G. ROWLAND. President EAKLE BOWLAND. Asst. Cashier H. Jj. McCoy r W. % Yeadon . We have secured a lot of Leap's Prolific Seed Wheat, grown in the valley of Virginia. This is an excellent seed wheat, and we strongly advise our friends not to plant wheat from seed raised in this County last year on account of the poor quality grown. You can place your .orders with us and they will be taken care of in the order received. The price will be $3.50 per bushel, which is about cost. Fight the boll weevil, plant enough wheat to feed the family and then some. MILLS L oot of Sumter Street.