The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 01, 1920, Image 2
A New Style Body
on an impr
This new Mitchell "sets a new
stride, and* everyone who knows
our latest offering concedes it.
Here is a great triumph of Mit
chell engineers and designers. Their
harmonious effort brings a match
less ear at a moderate price?de
tails of style not found elsewhere,
betterment in materials, and above
all, sincerity of purpose in construe-'
tion.
Mitchell introduces to car de
sign a logical advancement.
AH tendencies of recent years, as
vou know, have been toward motive
lines. Yet many* awkward lines
remained.
Someone hs to conceive the fi
nal step?to I^mg the radiator in
to harmony wtin other body lines.
It alone remained straight up-and
down.
It has been Mitchell's opportun
ity to introduce this inevitable
is
feature?and the result must be
seen to be appreciated fully?-ior
it appeals not only to the eye,, but
to one's sense of logical propor
tions of a swift-moving object,
like -an automobile.
Some will say that this is a mi
nor thinj*?that it is not radically
different.
That is true. In this new Mit
chell, we do not offer tne freakish,
nor something to appeal to passing
fancy. VPh?t is offered is a basic
development, just like the slanting
of the windshield, just like the
many other items which make to
day's cars so different from those
of five years ago. 1
We want you to see this new
car and pass judgment. We want
you to observe its new lines. And
to examine its superb finish. Then
we know that you'll agree that this
new Mitchell offers aiore for your
money.
I ANCHOR MOTOR CO.
WE HAVE CARS IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
STATE DISTRIBUTORS
F. W. Boring, Maj. J. W. Bradford, Salesmen.
212-214 W. Liberty St. SUMTER, S. C.
- -- ? - - t.^,-. -y -
Conn? y Board Meeting
. A., special meeting of the County
/ ' Board of Commissioners was held or.
April 24th, with all members present,
to consider the small pox epidemic
that is prevalent in some sections of,
- the county, and to transact such oth
er business as might -be broujht be
'fore the board.
A tetter was read .from Comptroller
General Osborne stating that, as di
rected by an act of the last session of
"'the legislature, he . would have imtde j
'd'urfng the year a complete audit of
-the books of all counties of the state
and that his accountant would visit
Sumter county in due course. In view i
of this official audit by a State offi
cial it was decided to abandon the
plan to have the books of the county
audited by a certified accountant.
The publication of the county
monthly report of the board was dis
cussed but no action was taken, pend
ing the opinion of the county attor
ney, which has been; asked for.
Chairman McLaurin stated that Dr. I
Bragg Anthony had informed him
that. the1 funds provided last year for
public health work among the color
ed people of- the county have been
^cbatcsted and %asked that the board
provide funds for the continuation of
the work. Action was deferred. The
clerk was directed to write Dr. An
thony asking for a statement of the
agreement under which she has been,
carrying on this work, the terms? and
conditions of said agreement; with
whom made and by whom the funds
were provided.
A letter from the County Medical
Sbciety recommending county-wide
vaccination as the surest means of
preventing the spread of smallpox
was read. A telegram from State
Health Officer Dr." Hayne expressing
regret. that he could not attend the
meeting of the board as requested
was read.
Dr. M. L. Parier, who had been de
legated by the State Department of
Health to take charge of the small
pox situation in the county was pres
ent and conferred with the board. Dr.
Parier stated that ho had vaccinat
ed 941 persons in this community and
that' in his opinion the only means
by which general vaccination could
be brought about was to secure the
co-operation of all the physicians in
the county, each one vaccinating the
people of his community. It was
agreed that 25 cents per person would
foe a fair price for vaccination, it
was decided to delegate the authority
to- deal with the smallpox situation
to the County Medical Society. "
Mrs. Stroupe, County Health Sur
vey Nurse, was present and the mat
ter of her duties and status in rela
tion to-the State Health Department
was discussed. It was decided that
she should work in co-operation with
State Child Welfare work.
A letter from County Superintend
ent Haynsworth in reference to the
work of the County Health Survey
Nurse was read. The statements con
tained in the letter were discussed.
The board requested a statement from
the Nurse and also from the chairman
of the' '-card of trustees of the Os
ytego sc?ooi district in reference to
I the matters complained Qf, viz: Tho
j closing of the Oswego school during
the influenza outbreak this year.
i state cotton
'meeting held
I / _
I South Carolina Division7 Ameri
can Cotton Association
! ??- i "
Columbia, April 26?The semi-an
j nual meeting of the South Carolina
Division of the American Cotton As
sociation will be held in Columbia at
Craven Hall on Wednesday, May 5,
at noon. As this is to be a very im
! portant meeting of the association it
j is urged that every county in the
State be fully represented. All mem
bers of the association are urged to
attend the meetings in their counties
j prior to the convention. ' ~ . "
j The May 5 convention will take up
j three matters for thorough discus
i sion. according to an announcement
!? by R. M. Mixson, . president. These
j will be warehousing, finances and or
; ganization.
j -The South Carolina division is anx
j ious to have sufficinet warehouses in
j the State to take care of the 1920
j crop and will- bend every energy to
j this end? according to officials of th?j
.'association.
J Plans are under way to further per
j feet the organization in the State.
; Membership campaigns will be con
j ducted in every county in an effort to
j secure as members those merchants,
farmers, bankers, business and pro
fessional men who have not yet join
ed the association.
A special effort will be made to en
rol the women of the State into the
J Tanks of the Association. The Amerl
;can Cotton Association at its meeting j
j in Montgomery voted to admit the j
women into the convention on the j
I same basis as men. One of the j
j speakers at the May 5 convention in j
Columbia will be Mrs. Cora D. Mathis.
of Alabama, a large and successful
woman farmer, who thrilled the]
Montgomery convention. Mrs. Mathis
is very enthusiastic over the American j
j Cotton Association,
j Each county chairman in the State
j is urged by President Mixson to see
! that his county is represented by a j
j large delegation at the meeting.
canada bidding
for tourists
Toronto, April 29?Summer resi
dents of Ontario, whether residents of
(Canada or the United States.^raay im
? port liquor the same as permanent re
j sidehts, according to a ruling of the
I license commission.
! The police are looking for several
j smart young negroes who have been
stealing clothing by pretending to be
messengers for pressing clubs. They
call at houses and ask for suits and
that'is the last the owner hears of
the suits. One boy has been arrested
and it is said others are wanted for
the same offense.
(John F. Clark & Co.)
[ New Orleans, April 29?It was a
I dull day with prices averaging-slightly.
I below yesterdays final. There was no
I aggressiveness either way and it look
! ed as though most longs and shorts'
had been eliminated, on the recent
; wide swing. Liverpool appeared, to be
I a seller .and4 trade interests, buyers!
I The map was clear and the forecast
; was for continued fair weather. Ebe
I ports were 27,000 bales. JPrivate ad
\ vices from Southeast Alabama said
there would be a large increase in the
acreage in that section because of 40
I cent cotton. Some further .down-turn
j looks probabel if the weather keeps
favorable.
NEW YORK COTTON.
Yes'td'ys
Open High Low Close Close
May .. 40.3* 40AS 40.10 ' itiHQ 40.35
Duly .. 38.20 38-;48 3S.07 33,28 3^.35
Oct. . . 35.05 35.30 35.00 35.32 35.31
Dec. .. 34.10 34.55 34.00 34.48 34.28
Jan .. 33.63 33.94 33.63 33:90 33.82
Mar .. 8^^85 33.15 32.80 33.07 33.02
NEW ORLEANS. COTTON
' ? "? .Yes'td'y?
Open High Low Close Close
May .. 39.22 39;30 '39.08 39,30 89.22 |
July . . 38.25 38,30 37.90 3S.17 -3S.17 !
Oct* .. 34.95 35.23 34/77 35.08 35.04
Dec. .. 34.00 34.30 33.88 34.17-34.15
Jan. .. 33.29 33.53 33.28 33.55 83.50
Mar .. 32.90 32.58 32.S5 32.85 32.70
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Close:
No quotations received.
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
CORN? ,. ? : ?
High Low Close
May. 1.74 1.-73% 1.72 Vj
July.1.65 1.61% 1.62%
OATS:
High Low Close
May.99% .9S^ .99.%'
July ..88^. .87- .87%
LARD:
Higii Low Close
May .... .. 19.72 19.50 19.62
July. 20.47 20.35 20.40
RIBS: ?
High Low Close
May. 17.60 17.40 IT.-'.O I
July. lrt.50 18.50 18.45
HARDING
LEADS WOOD
Columbus. Ohio, April 28?Senator'
Harding has a lead of 10.000 voles |
over General Wood in the Ohio presi- j
dential primary returns.
Lynchburg, Va., April 29?John
Williams, a negro, charged with the
murder of police-detective Mann and
brought here from Ohio has been
identified by Sheriff Willie, of Green
ville, S. C, as the man wanted for
killing two policemen there.
I SOUTH CARO
! LtNA ROADS !
|Mr. E. W. Dobbs Comments On
j Conditions Found In Trip
I Across State
Salem, (Black River), April 26.?
I The writer recently went by auto to
j Tryon, X. Ci, and returned by anoth
er route. Some observations of roads
and crops may be of interest to read
ers of the Item.'"
! We had fairly good roads, better
ithan expected, to the Richland coun
jty line. Right at the sign post we
I struck a'series of bumps and holes
I that-were very- frequent until w<
1 reached the paved streets of Columbia.
:Goin0 oixt of Columbia the road was
better than going in; and for fifteen
or twenty miles we made good speed
?then for five or six miles about
Chapin ar -1 Little Mountain it was
fearful-7iiv danger, of sticking, but
sprmg-break'ig and car-wrecking
I holes and- bumps.
j .The roads/improved toward Pros
pertiy?but %%\ miles from Newberry
'a spring broke on a comparatively
Jgood stretch of road?due in all prob
ability to the shocks further back. It
took Z % hours to. get on our way |
from'Newberry, but we had fair roads I
to Laurens . We were told not to go j
by Whitmires to Union?would get|
stuck about Whitmires. At Laurens;
we were directed to go by Watts' Mills
direct to Spartanburg. Some miles
out of Laurens we overtook two cars
-that were stuck, but with a loss of
only abput: a half hour for them "to get
o*irt of bur way we pulied through.
At Watts* Mills we wn*e told the
direct road to Spartanburg was im
.passable by reason of heavy rains two
days before, so det?ured by Wellford
road?hard but iough. until we en
tered ihe. ,Greenville-Spartanburg
highway-several miles north of -Well
;ford. This highway was fine to Spar
tanburg, Spartanburg to Tryon good
road except we were told to detour
and by doing so got into the. worst
hole of the entire trip?tore off spare
tire and rear bumper and would have
been stuck if we had hesitated for
a second. Learned in Tryon that we
should have gone to Greenville from
Laurens and that there is a better
"road from Greenville to Tryon than
from Spartanburg to Tryon. After
several days of mountain roa^s about
Tryon started for home. Kept to the
main road coming out of Tryon and
found only one bad place?the one
we avoided going up, Pacolet river
and it was not anything like as bad as
the detour. Coming out of Spartan
?burg we came the National Highway
to Blaeksburg.? except ten miles of
'bad road about Cowpens it is a splen
did road. - At Blaeksburg we turned
to Tork. Fair road to King's creek
and on this side for two miles. Again
we were told Union road was bad and
to , de tour. This put us several miles
off our course and over the worst road
of the whole trip. When we got back
into- the main road we found we had
*rone five or six miles out of our way
and that the main road was good all
the way where we had been told to
avoid it.
Soon we struck the Kings Mountain
York road and found, some, fairly
good. From York to Chester by mak
ing .! detour to the west of the direct
road to avoid where they have plow
ed up the old Macademized road, the
road was fair. In Oester some of
the streets were torn up and being
rebuilt and we lost time for repairs.
From Chester to this side of Black
stock the road was fine. Theu>fair. to
j Simpson and fine to Ridgeway. From
Ridgeway to Camden through Dog
town the road'was good. We made
better time on this 30 miles than any
part of the trip. 1 i? hours fiat for
30 miles and stopped three times to
have interesting talks with -men -work
ing by the road. This is a fine, but
undeveloped country. So much better
soil tham the Cam den-Columbia road
that one cannot realize they , are so
near. . : :. ?
I Any system of good roads that does
not provide for the Camden-Ridge
; way- road will be a serious^ mistake.
I From this section to. the.mountain?
[Camden, Ridgeway, Winsboro, Chest
er, York and Blacksburg and Kings
j Mountain is the most direct way. And
I the roads are better than by Colum
bia and Xewberry.
We were very much impressed with
two! things in connection / with the
farming: the fact that thousands of
acres of cotton land had not even had
the stalks cut and that the small
grain crop about Spavtanburg was sc
niueh more advanced than ours down
here. While we have- been for two
weeks without rain there have been
several floods of rain about Spartan
burg and east and -west o f it. -We saw
many acres^oo wet to plow. -We saw
many acres being plowed and.-plant
ed too wet; the,, soil turning in slick,
wet furrows and cotton being planted
among the elods, .- ? - -??
But there is some mighty good
farming, being done. We Were partic
ularly pleased with Some we saw
about Goldvillc, Reidyille, Spartan
! b?rg, Gaffney and up to the moun
tains toward Tryon.
York has the prettiest homes anc
yards of any town we passed through
and is right up to Sumter in this re
spect.
Sumter is ahead of them all in th<
paved streets, and in -the advertise
j ments of its merchants along .th(
I roads leading into it.
Tryon is the prettiest mountair
home town we have seen and is peo
pled by good folk from -everywhere
I that have been attracted by its all th<
j year, good climate. - Its . graces can
? not be surpassed by California noi
J Sunny Italy.
E. W. Dabbs.
PAWN SHOP
IS ROBBED
j . Detroit, April 29-?Two armed mer
I etnered a pawn shop,' held up th<
clerk, and escaped with diamonds saic
to be valued at $18,000.
DESERTIONS FROM
\Ca?#A$ZA ARMY
Sonora Revolutionists Encour
aged by Reports from
Federal Army
j Auga Prieta. Sonora, April 27.?-Re
j ports of defections of Carranza troops
j encourage'Sonora officials in the plans
! against invasion. Many federalists ar?
isaid to have joined Villa;
MEMORIAL DAY
? IN FRANCE
Paris. April. 2-7?Memorial Day ex
rercises will he held at American cem
j eteries by the Paris Post of the Amer
j ican Legion.
i_\
SIMS MADE M0NS
STROtiS CHARGES
\ Admiral McRean Condemns
Statements Made by Coin-v
' m?nder of Fleet
j Washington April .27?Rear Admir*
? j al McKean said the' charges by Ad
' jmiral Shns that delays by the Navy
U Department had prolonged the war
t |:and cost a half million liveM were
' monstrous. ' -:?
SUGAR CONFER
Department of Justice and Re
;! 1 Ahers Fail to Agree
[! Washington, Ap?il 27?Conference^
. j between sugar refiners and Depart
r ment of Justice -officials on sugar
prices and ^supplies ended suddenly
. j.today. ? No statement -. as . to what
j transpired haq. bee^r made.
!;JAP GARRISON
I Detachment of Guards in Si
\\ Washingtoh, AprH 'M?Japanese
[ j guards, in>the district of Nikola Ev^sk,
' [ Siberia, an? believed to have been^tn
\ i hihilatej?. and - Several / hundred Jap
, i anege residents massacred,; according
iioan official Japanese statement made :
j public by the State-- Department.
WAGES ADVANCED
i ? 'TN NEW JERSEY
?4 ???.-..
i' Camden, April 27?The. New jersey
i J Public. Service Railroad Company has
I! announced:an increase of ten.per ce^^
i in the wages of 5 ad men. r r1
f
Selling Land By
Our Own Modern
Auction Methods
100 Trained
Experts at
Your Serviee
The subdvision of large land holdings > multi
plies the possible number of buyers. Develop
ment lends attractiveness. Expert advertising
compels attention. OUR MODERN AUCTION
METHOD gives competition full sway?gets high
est returns.
These are the features of our service?service
that creates" large Remands and fills them to the
satisfaction of all concerned! There is a right
way and a wrong way to do everything:' Years
of constant effort-r-years of experience, have
proven our auction method the RIGHT WAY TO
SELL LAND. \
No matter if your farm is rented for 1920, we
can seit it for you NOW. '
We handle city, suburban and farm properties
?farm lands especially:- ' V ;
Write us today. Let us tell you of our "Seller
Purchaser-Tenant" plan*.
Realty Co. .
''The Xame:That Justifies Your Confidence*' v
.. .
OFFICES:
Petersburg, Va., and Greenville, N. C.
Reference: Any person for whom we have sold.
BANK REFERENCES:
Any Bank in Petersburg, Va., or Greenville, N. C.