Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I GAMP roung Men tc Course at m Jh. 31.?Several Metiers from R. O. least, several hun National Guards regular army: ?us posts of the lent will come, the summer for at Camp gag j to plans an war department; rp Jackson head-: 'There will be three Schools, each V> last -' _ A j c. training camp will b|m> young men from >fteses with military ^school will start on L will continue till the I Guard school will id there will be about jSfrom various parts of ; in attendance. Plans being worked out by actor-inspector for - and by the office of iL if?> these two schools, msive training to Ithere will be a school a six weeks course training:. This> fifty or sixty offi iparts of the South EID l&F NAME No Steps fame In -President ivent his ^the Geor Biot, it wad Roday. :NBURG S.gain Complete By Motormen >';'^ar?sp&g, April 1.?The city [iitoji&ik?car 'system was completely tied ^t>p* bV. striking- motormen a.nd con ductors . this morning. The men lelalni discrimination against union -men. and demand a-wage increase. PEACE WITHOUT A TREATY Republican Committee Reports Resolution Declaring War I With Germany at End Washington, April 1.?The Repub lican, resolution., declaring a state of peace between the United States and Germany, was reported by . the House foreign affairs committee today by a strict party vote of twelve*to six. ? ???? - ? 'DELAWARE RE JECTS SUFFRAGE ?ower House of Legislature Re :< fuses to Ratify Amendment By Large Majority ;>Dover, April 1.?Ratification of the federal suffrage amendment was de feated in the lower house of the Dela ware legislature today by a vote of 26 to i. . Th? **Y" Dining Room. * The basement floor of the Y. M. C. A., in which the bowling alley was formerly located, has been complete ly remodeiedi and converted into a dining room, which will fill a long felt want in this city for a quiet and well conducted cafe- where regular meals or lunches can be obtained by residents, and by visitors and shoppers in the city. The dining room is well equipped and neatly furnished and is spotless and attractive in appearance. It. is being: conducted by Mrs. R. W. Beaty and Mrs. Laura Lebby, and the fare will be the best the market af fords and the cooking service will be ajj near like that to be found in a re fined home as possible to be attained. The dining room opened this morning ai.d the patronage today indicated that it will be popular with the pub lic, especially with* the ladies. I FOR SALE Choice cotton seed of all va rities; Cleveland Big Boll, Cov-| ington Toole, Gillespie Special. Registered Duroc Pigs. Rhode Island Red Eggs for setting. Oceola Velvet Beans. * WANTED You to see us before purchas ing or disposing of your farm products. Apply SUMTER FARM PRODUCTS COMPANY No. 3 East Liberty Street ?r STRIKE AT ROANOKE Six Thousand Workmen Walk] Out of Norfolk and West ern Shops Roanoke( Va.. March 31.?6,000 organized workers in the Roanoke! shops of the Norfolk & Western Rail way voted to strike at noon today in sympathy with the clerks who walk ed, out after the company refused to discharge two non-union workers ac cused by the clerks of insulting^ wo man employee. * REAL WAR IN IRELAND Large Force of Armed Men At tack Skibbereen Barracks Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, Maroth 31?Over one hundred armed men attacked the police barracks at Durrus with rifles and petrol bombs yesterday. A portion of the building was destroyed and two policemen wounded before the attack was re pulsed. PEANUT INDUSTRY Columbia Business Men Organ ize Mill to Manufacture Peanut Oil j Columbia, March 31.?What prom } ises to be the beginning of a new in j dustry for South Carolina is being I made this week, with the prelimin I ary work started on the Columbia Peanut* Oil Mill, to be located just south of ihis city. The company is capitalized at $50,000 and is backed by one of the biggest banks of Colum bia. It owns a five-acre tract on the Southern Railway and proposes to start operation in the summer. The plant will be completed by June. There will be two buildings con structed immediately, a warehouse and a mill. From this beginning the company proposes to increase its plant until it will handle all the pea nuts the farmers of this State car raise. L M. Mauldin, O. P. Loyal, L. S Covin and B. H. Bostiek are the pro moters. These men and officials of the Department of Agriculture are enthusiastic over the possibilities tha" they say lie in the development of the peanut industry at this time when the boll weevil is making inadvisable the exclusive growing of cotton. They state that the peanut industry can be made to mean as much for South Carolina and the Southeast as it doe* for some other sections of the coun try. The new company proposes to make oil from peanuts, the oil to be used for a number of purposes, some what as cotton seed oil is used. REVOLUTION SE RIOUS IN TURKEY Entire Country Aflame With Civil War Paris, March 31.?Revolution's have broken' out all over Turkey except in Constantinople, the Pester Lloyd, of Budapest says .according to a Basle" dispatch to the Fournior agency here. FRANCE BLOCKS TROOP MOVEMENT Request of Germany to Send Troops to Ruhr District Denied Paris, March 31?The German re quest to be allowed to send troops to the Buhr district in the neutral zone, near the German border, has been denied by France. RURAL SCHOOL I PRIZES AWARDED Twenty-Seven Awarded $40.00 Each for Improvements Columbia, March 31.?Twenty seven schools of the State have been award led the $40.00 prizes awarded by the South Carolina School Improvement Association for the year ending March 1. Three schools awarded prizes {for improvements to building and j equipment are in Anderson county, iMayfield, Bethany and Airy Springs; J two are in Lexington, Edisto and Cen terville; three are in Spartanburg, Rock Hill, Cherokee Springs and Pop lar Springs, and there are others scat j teringly in various counties. : $154.496. Of this amount $18.059 made by the twenty-seven schools is The total value of improvements was raised by school improvement as sociations. Thirty-six schools won prizes of $10 each for community prizes for health and sanitary im service; twenty-three schools won $10 provements. In this competition the Dalcho school in Dillon won a major prize of $50.00. FIGHTING RE SUMED AT WESEEL Rebellious German Workmen Renew Their Atlack on Government The Hague. March 31?The rebell ious German workmen have resumed the attack on Wesel, according to a dispatch to the Neiuwe Courant of Rotterdam. Hamm, in Westphalia, and several other places are reported plundered, and a general strike has been proclaimed in Essen, advices say:, and are being carried out in full fore ? NATIONAL MOVIE CENSORSHIP Methodist Conference Plans foi Christian Board of Cen sors Knoxville, Tenn.,- Men. 31?The Hoi j ston Conference of the Methodist Church has decided to present to. the ! General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Des Moints, in May, a memorial for a Christian board of censorship of moving , pic tures. All Protestant churches will be asked to co-operate. WHOLE FAMILY IS SLAUGHTERED Mother and Five Children Found With Throats Cut Elk City, Okla., March 31?Five children and their mother. Mrs. Elmer Co wart, were found dead, with their throats cut and heads crushed in a tent in which they lived, near here to day. A bloody axe and razor were found nearby. [GOVERNOR WAR I FIELD IS DEAD ! Former Chief Executive of Maryland Passes Away Baltimore, March 31.?Edwin tVar field, governor of Maryland from 1904 to 1903. died here today, aged 72. He ! was1 ill three months. THE AURORA IN TEE SKIES A Scientific Explanation of What Causes It Philadelphia, March 30.?The earth was passim; through the outer con f fines of the corona or exterior enve j lope of the sun on the night of March i 22 when the inhabitants of the north j em portion of the United States wit i nessr d the great aurora in the skies, j says Professor Monroe B. Snyder, di rector of the Philadelphia Observa tory. The astronomer declared in a state ment to the Associated Press that the "universal force of radioaction" on the sun "hurled the final atoms' of an explosion, namely, electrified hydro gen and probably helium, straight to earth." Professor Snyder's observations fol low: ??The recent aurora is a fine indica tion of the explosive atomic disin tegration which takes place at the surface of the sun and is responsible j for its prominences, spots, and co rona. Our -discovery of the magni tude and precise atomic order of the explosion of the chemical elements in the sun, and in the stars generally, leads to conceptions of the aurora and the accompanying magnetic and elec tric storms, which are beyond any doubt as to their validity. "During the hours of Monday night, last, the earth was, in a very true sense, and to the delight of us all, passing through the outer confines of the solar corona. The same uni versal force of radioaction which dis integrates the atoms in stupendous localized Krakatoas. or Mont Pelees, on the sun, and produces the hydro also hurled the final atoms of that gen of the coronal streamers, then . explosion, namely, electrified hydro gen, and probably helium, straight to the earth. . "Only within about a month of the equinox, vernal, or autumnal, is the ^arth in an orbital position to be thus successfully, bombarded. The moving electric hydrogen is, of course, an electric current, and is therefore car ried toward the poles of the earth and around them by the earth's magnetic forces. The fascinating colors of-the aurora are due to the changing elec tric excitation of the hydrogen and / other gases. The theory of Vegard, ! the Swedish physicist, which has ex plained the wonderful curtained au roras as due to hydrogen particles, of positive electric charge, is now shown to be unquestionably true, in that it is but a logical result of the explosive eruption of the electric hy drogen from the sun. "The well-known delay, or lag in time, between- the solar eruption and the appearance of the magnetic storm, and accompanying aurora, on the earth, of about 45 hours, is due to the time taKen for the hydrogen atoms to travel from the sun to the earth. The rate of travel is about 575 miles per second, or somewhat in excess of the rate of the upward movement of the gasses in some of the great solar prominnccs. , "The numerous and complex de tails of the auroral phenomena are found thus to receive, for the first time, reasonable explanation. Addi tional confirmation of this explanation is given by the fact that our discov-! cries also prove that all the elemen tal atoms, so wonderfully explosiv?? in j the stars, ar*> structural products of hydrogen " HOME RULE BILL HAS BEEN PASSED House of Commons Passes Irish j Bill to Second Reading London. March 31.?The House of ! Commons passed to second reading the Irish Home Rule bill today. Sumter is still building up. There are a good many houses going up all over town, so Sumter's population must be increasing. A Good Kastor Window. The Easter Shoe Display in tin windows of The Sumter Dry Good." Co. ought to impress shoppers tha this must be a very attractive ?fep?'rt ment with them, and so it is.?&i$v. ?mm > THE CONFEDER- ! ATE REUNION Secretary Reardon Calls On People of Sumter I And now the time has arrived. iA right upon us, when the hospitable ?men and women of Sumter must "come across," make good, and show that Sumter wants and intends to honor the gallant Confederate veter ans of South Carolina, and that Sum ter men and Sumter women will gladly, and appreciatively open their homes to the honorabl/e and honored visitors, on May 5 and 6. Sumter wo men took the lead, through the Dick Anderson Chapter of United Daugh ters of the Confederacy, of Sumter, in seeing that the city council and the Sumter County Chamber of Com merce, representing Sumter and Sum ter I county, invited the", veterans to meet in Sumter for their an nual convention and re-union. Therefore, it behooves every man, and every woman in Sumter to stand individual sponsor to Sumter's hos pitality and to back up the commit tee on homes, headed by Miss Armida Moses, president of Dick Anderson Chapter, U. D. C, and Dr. W. L. Mc Cutchen, commander of Camp James D. Blapding, Sons of Confederate Vet erans of Sumter. This committee on securing homes for our visitors, ap proximately ?OO. with many other and distinguished guests, such as speak ers, male and female, sponsors, maids of horfor. a ad-a big- band, "aggregat ing- possibly 600 visitors, is composed quite appropriately and wisely of j "Daughters and Sons of Confederate j Veterans." ! Those numerous visitors must be i entertained in our homes as guests, j and as guests, invited, welcome and i honored should be received an en i tertained. That Sumter's men and j women will rally to the committee. ; and prove loyal and hospitable no one ! for a moment doubts. But time is j short, there is a great deal of work J ahead for this committee and every j man or woman who wil voluntarily ? notify either of the committees in ad | van.ce that homes will be provided ! will greatly facilitate the work of the j committee. Entertaining the 1920 convention j and re-union of the South Carolina ! Division of Confederate Veterans is I a big job, but one which the average ?Sumter and Sumter county man and woman glories and finds much pride and muct pleasure in. But this will prove an occasion in which united and practically unanimous co-opera tion must absolutely prevail from now until the convention and re'unior are matters of history. Already much work has been ac complished in prelimianry planning but Sumter and Sumter county, as 1 Governor R. A. Cooper remarked a few days ago, "are never satisfied t< do as well as any other city or coun ty, but must forsooth, and does, al ways do better than any other cpuntj or city as a general . proposition.' ' Now, therefore- be It kr^rtyn of at men,, and- particularly known; - of all women, that what .^verftor Cooper, [said about Sumter Sumter coun ty must be and must ring true. The reputation of the Governor of South: Carolina and the reputation of Sum ter arid Sumter county are at stake. Upon the publisl spirited women of ? j Sumter and Sumter county will pe-: I culiarly devolve a great deal of the! j efforts and hospitality of this greaf j occasion so full of sentiment, history* j love, and admiration, because the wo j men of the Confederacy * made tha j civilization and :glory of theSouth [world wide and famous, and their/ I daughters and their sons, .and grand-* j daughters and grandsons"'in the Great Gamecock County?Sumter, named; after General Thomas Sumter "the; Revolutionary Gamecock'V-must and: ; will see to it that Sumter, county fain-: ' ed as the home of several notable war ; chieftains, does its full duty in the, ? appropriate reception, honoring, andk ' enteretainment of the South Caroling 1 j Confederate veterans. Therefore, the local executive coxri 5 mittee realizes and has acknowledged I that wir?out the co-operation of th* women of Sumter and Sumter county,, ? the worrifen who must entertain and , care for, house, feed and honor the ? gallant did veterans, our first Sum*; t ter county Conferedate conventions^ > and re-uhion will not and cannot be - what it ought to be. The men w3g|: - of course, do their full duty, but tKis r event is peculiarly and most assured ' ly the women's opportunity and. the II women's, de^ht^? ;y , Easter Apparel Clothing; for Young Men and Men Who Stay Young, and like good, well fitting clothes. They have an air that appeals to every eye. Whenever a man has an important business or social af fair, he is particular about his clothes. The latest thing in Neckwear for Men and Young Men. Also the latest models in Hats. A nice and complete line from which you may select. The latest styles in Straws, Felts and Panamas. The new styles in Shirts fdr Summer. A nice line of Silks and Madras. It gives us great pleasure in showing them to you. x - The Largest Stock In Eastern Carolina to Select From, D. J. Chandler Clothing Co. HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES LUMBER Lumber Flooring Ceiling, Siding, Casing, Mouldings, Framing Lumber, lied Cedar Shingles. Pine and Cypress Shingles. Hardware, Paints, Oils Brick, #| ?# Locks, Cement, AJWAIVllIlg Nails, Plaster, Crates,"'" Fire Biick, Jk M m ? 1 Saws, Fire Clay. MatCHO!?^ Sewer Pipe. Hummers, Stove Flue, Door Hangers, Metal and Composition Shingles,Terra Cotta Thimbles Carpenter's Tools, Doors, Sash and Blinds, Mortar Colors and Stains Paint Brushes. Porch Columns and Ballasters, Water Proofing Mineral. Paints and Oils, Beaver Board, Corrugated Metal Roofing, Inside Decorations, 4 ? Valley Tin and Ridge Roll, Ashetos and Composition Roofing. Calsomines and Cold Water Paints, WTRE FENCING, IRON AND WOOD POSTS EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE Booth & McLeod, Inc. SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA