Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?EV?DA ?S '"GOLDEN STATE* Pr*x fteperts, It It Net at AU im. probable She May Become . ;1 {#V ' Thus Known. . ,llf\ ?? * When they began to dig out sliver by the ton from the Comstock group of mines, Nevada lost its original name of "the Sagebrush State," and Became known to the whole world as the ^Silver Stated / Bot recent developments in the IX* vide district seem to indicate another change of name, for they do say that the gold is so thick just a little under the surface that the owners of the mines refuse to dig lest they be ruined $gr the excess profits tax. They just take out a shovelful from time to t$me to pay living expenses, and sit tight over the . hole where they took It out till they need a iittle more. Possibly, also, these mine owners are influenced by patriotism, as not wish ing to disturb values by flooding the world .with gold and thus adding to the economic confusion. California j has hitherto taken pride in calling it- j self the Gciden state, but even in Ne- j vada they are getting ready to de-: m?nd the belt and title and say they i are going to get it. j 'And with all due allowance for new- j born enthusiasm and for the pic turesque way in which prosperous falners are wont. to express them selves, if a tenth of what is claimed Jfc true^rand it may be?we may ex- j jtect the people of Nevada to change j tram the most loyal of silverites te the most determined and irrecondlr Sole gold bugs. Circumstances do al ter cases. That they have found a lot Qt gold is certain?Sioux Fails Press. EN AVIATION WAS NEW ? benjamin Franklin Evidently Had Expectations of Its Value, Though * Venturing No Predictions. ' - Somebody has been Quite naturally fftninded, by events in the air, of trhitt Benjamin Franklin said to Con /iorcet about aeronautics 136 years *?o, In Paris. The French capital ?&s' just then much interested in the Walloon ascensions of the Montgolfier brothers, perhaps even more excited, the smaller scale of the times, modern cities, over the actual of the Atlantic, and wher iirer men came together the future possibilities of ballooning made an immediate topic of conversation. Con ?^reet, meeting Franklin, asked him n he thought an aeronaut would ever be"??We to steer his balloon. "The thing is in its infancy," said Frank \'J fin. **It is necessary to wait." "But what Is the ^ood of It?" demanded a doubting Thomas. "What useful nur pose will it serve?* "Gentlemen," re -<: piled Franklin, "it is a child just >' bom; let us wait to judge it until its ., education is completed." And eren aow the education is far from fin ished. Was Big Railroad Project The summer brings the semicente* ?ary of the opening of the Mt Wash ington railway, which, 50 years ago, distinguished the White mountain re gion of New England by making it the location for the first important moun tain railroad In the country. Remark able railroading to high altitudes has since been accomplished, but the climb of some 6^200 feet to the summit of the highest ot the White mountains was then regarded almost as an achieve ment of the impossible. And it did, for that matter, immediately make Mt. Washington possible to many a tour ist who would have spent his life at the bottom rather than try then to climb to the top on foot |, Tribute to Porridge. A wonderful oid man is Mr. James Nlc?L who has just celebrated his one hundredth birthday in the Kent ish village where he lives, and is still going strong. Mr. Nico!, who is a Scot, was born in Tullibody, Clack mannanshire, and joined the Seventy fourth Highlanders during the reign Of William IV, later taking part in suppressing the Indian mutiny. He can do the Highland fling even yet, Ire says, and claims that the recipe for long life Is porridge when one is young. He -did not know the taste of meat or tea till he was over seven teen. Mr. Nicol married his second wife when he was ninety-three. ? Not Her Honey. : I .was expecting a call on the tele phone from my wife at eleven o'clock one morning. Exactly at trat hour my bell jingled, and. taking down the receiver, I said: "Hello r The response came: "Is that you. White?" VThis is your honey, sweetheart," was my reply. a In icy tones came: "You've got your nerve. Wait tiU I see your wife." . i Bang went the receiver. I recognized the voice as that of my wife's chum.?Chicago Tribune. Lithuanian Exports. ^ Lithuania Is shaking off the grip of German economic control. First of its products to be freed will be its lum ber, which Germany controlled to her own great profit. Lithuania exported about 300.000. 000 cubic feet of timber annually through the port of Memel by the Riv er Nlemen. Germany's control of tie Nlemen river has been ended. Lithuania will therefore come for ward as a world trader as soon as her independence is recognized. She is ah Mftdy planning the purchase of metal, machinery and foodstuffs In America. FOR BEAUTY, NOT PLUMBING French Chateau Owner Had A met* icans Remove Modem Improve* . meats They Had installed. ;-Jh In our anxiety to get results la France we were often, tactless from a French point of view. This cause of irritatioa was exaggerated by our gen eral ignorance of the language. I won der if the American schools, after this, will teach us speakiag French instead of the book French they taught in my generation? And we ran into certain Freach peculiarities which we fouad it hard to understand. For example, early in our war a fine old chateau near Bordeaux was leased for a headquarters. By the terms of the lease we were to leave everything exactly as we found It The chateau in its four or five hundred years of existence had never known sanitary plumbing; the owners bathed in wash basins or rubber tubs. Ex pecting to stay a long time we in stalled, by permission, drains, bath tubs, toilets, a water-heating system. When, last January, we eaded the lease aad moved out the officer who conducted the business offered to leave the plumbing where it was, since its removal would cost i as much as it was worth. The French owner refused. "We had to take out our plumbing. What he wanted from that chateau was not sanitation, but venerable beauty, and the sense that he d'^elt in the same identical home a~ r ancestor of the tenth generation back. The American finds it hard to under stand such a point of view; and he Is a bit brusque in expressing his opinion thereon.?Will Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post FLYERS TO HUNT OUTLAWS Cotton Plantations Planted in Defiance of Authority Seen Easily From the Air." The department of agriculture has adapted the airplane to its needs, and plans to have a large fleet of ma chines to serve the farmer, lumberman and orchardist^ during the next six months,' according to aa announcement from Washington recently, says the San Francisco Chronicle. The ma chines will be used to find forest fires, map-oat forest and other surveys and to act as detectives to find outlaw cotton planters in Texas, Arizona and southern California. Lieutenant Compere at Ellington a year ago investigated the cotton situ ation. Owing to danger of an inva sion of pink bollworm from Mexico It was necessary to create restricted safety zones where no cotton could be grown. Certain outlaw planters in land surrounded by heavy forests have defied the government and planted in these districts, which are difficult to find. The young Californian took a camera with him, cruised over the for ests at a 7,000-foot altitude, and snapped seven outlaw fields. The fields were destroyed. Compere has been released from service and will soon return to California to organize the agricultural aviation scout work on this coast Find a Moth Exterminator. Experiments of the bureau of ento mology, United States department of agriculture, ?have demonstrated that naphthalene is uniformly effective In protecting woolens from clothes moth Infection and la killing all stages of the insect A red cedar chest readily killed all adult moths and showed con siderable killing effect upon young larvae. It did not prevent the hatch ing of eggs, but killed all the result ing larvae almost immediately. Red cedar chips and shavings, while not en tirely effective la keeping the adult moths from layiag eggs on the flannel treated, appeared to protect it from appreciable damage when used lib erally.?Des Moines Register. Trench Mortar Regiment The wartime organization of trench mortar batteries with the divisions is to be abandoned in favor of a single trench mortar regiment, which will be organized as a part of the army artil lery to be assigned for duty by the army commander. Trench guns re sulted from stabilized trench war fare, and the divisional batteries lost ! their usefulness excepting under spe cial conditions when the allied attack turned the warfare into an open strug gle. For that reason, the trench mor tar units of all divisions were among i the first to be sent home. Submarine Not Yet Perfect I " In spite of the fact that the British ! have some steam-driven 2,700-ton sub marines capable of a surface speed of from 23 to 25 knots, the submarine as a weapon of war is too slow and too blind when it is submerged to be considered a serious weapon of naval warfare. When it can see electrically to a distance of ten to fifteen miles while it is submerged so deeply as to be invisible to the air scout, and when it can steam 20 knots submersed it i will dominate the naval situation, says i Scientific American. Rival of the X-Ray. A physician has contrived a simple camera that seems to rival the X-ray in a limited field. Into a light-proof box, containing the member to be ex amined, he admits light from a tung sten lamp, filtered to pass only red rays. Passing through the hand or foot the red light strikes, at the bot tom of the box, a photographic plate highly sensitized with an eosin solu tion. An exposure of one-haif second I makes the shadow picture.?Popular I Mechanics Magazins. BLUBBER A DELICIOUS VIAND Said to Be of Immensely Pleasant Ta3te, When Eaten Raw From ^? m , ???,. the Seal, i f|ffp It has always been a mystery to me why the word "blubber" should carry such a disagreeable connotation to mil lions of people, though not one in a million has ever tasted it, writes Vil hjalmur Stefansson in Harper's. I am often asked what seal meat tastes like and am driven to saying that it tastes like seal meat, for it does not resemble any commonly known type of meat But neither does mutton resemble any meat known to me, and still mutton is good eating, and, so is seal. But the fat is much easier to describe. When the blubber is eaten raw, as we commonly eat it by prefer ence, it has a flavor very similar to that of fresh cow's cream, but when boiled it closely resembles the fat of mutton. For that reason Mr. Wilkins, who came from the Sheep district of Australia, was that member of our whole expedition who most readily fell into the eating of the seal fat In general most men refrain from tasting blubber because it is named blubber, until they become so fat hun gry that they are eventually driven to trying it and when they try it, to their surprise they invariably find it so de licious that, if not restrained, they overeat and, as is well known, overeat ing any form of fat causes nausea and other distressing symptoms. After one or two experiences of this- sort I am now careful never to allow a man to eat all the blubber he wants the first time he tries it, for if he gets sick he is almost certain to blame the seal and not his own gluttony. NEED NOT TRANSFER GERMS Disease Will Not Be Transmitted ? if Soiled Hands Are Kept Away From Mouth, <? It is glaringly obvious that the bit ing of fi::ger nails, the moistening of fingers in turning the pagej of a book, and similar half-conscious acts greatly enhance the opportunities for planting undesirable germs where they can mul tiply," says the Journal of the Ameri can Medical Association. "On the fingers they may be harmless; trans ferred to the mouth they have a wide field for development "The soiling of the hands is impos sible to avoid altogether, but the swal lowing of germs from one's own soiled hands is largely under individual con trol. "It may fairly be assumed that the most useful - safeguards against this form of disease transmission are to be found in such practices as hand wash ing and in refraining from using the tongue or the lips as a moistening-pad, rather than in hysterical attempts at avoidance of all hand contaminatiou. Children are best protected through the inculcation of similar desirable habits at an early age. In a word, some degree of hand-contamination is unavoidable; but the transference of the contaminating germs to the mouth ts largely under individual control and is subject to the powerful influence of early-formed habit" First in the Field. The mild surprise with which one occasionally notes the name of a for eign city , on a penny box of matches purchased in the United States may before long include boxes of matches bearing the far-away name of Dairen, Manchuria. The world's appetite for matches is apparently insatiable. An American company has been studying Manchuria and Siberia from the match manufacturing point of view, but so has a large Japanese concern, and this concern, it now seems, will be first in the field at Dairen,. the chief Man churian port. But then if Japan were not first in the field in Manchuria, where would she be first in the field? Dodging Shop. They struck up a conversation in the /hotel lobby and finally one man sug I gested a trip to the movies. The other politely declined. "Don't you want to see Viola Vam ! pire?" I "Nope." "Xor Yorick Hamm in* his latest comedy?" j "Nope." "What's the matter, my friend? Aren't you interested in the various stars?" "Not this evening. Fm an astrono mer taking a night off." Probably Dogfish. Blank had had a day off, and when he returned to the office the following morning his pals wanted to know why he looked so disgruntled. "Everything went wrong!" grumbled Blank. "How was that?" one asked. "Kver go fishing with a girl?" "Once." "Did she protest against hurting the fish?" "No. She said she was sure they were perfectly happy, because they were all wagging their tails."?Lon don Tit-Bits. One at a Time. I We attended a country wedding and j at the conclusion of the ceremony j v. ere astonished to see the bride start j on the honeymoon alone. When asked ; the reason the bridegroom explained j that both couldn't be away at the j same time as there would be no one to feed the stock and he would take his trip down, the river shooting ducks when the bride came back.o-Chlcaga prominent nurse j passes away; Sumter Nurses Saddened at! Death of Miss Sophie Pal mer in New York _ i South Carolina nurses are saddened] jovsr the death of Miss Sophie ??! i [Palmer, editor in chic- of the Arr-.'-.i-: can Journal of Xu ;, and or;^ of! the foremost authorises on this pro-! fession in America. Miss Palmer iwA been at the head of this well known nursing journal since its fountf.Uicn years ago and had . become widely known by members of the profession all over the country. Headquarters o: the paper have been in Roehosrer. X. Y., for some time and it was there that Miss Palmer passed aw:i ,-. Miss Palmer was well knwon by the young- women engaged in nursing in South Carolina, having been the sues, of honor at the annual conyetii :-.n c? .the South ? Carolina Nurse s Associa jtion at Charleston several years ago. ! Columbia nurses recall with a great 'deal of pleasure Miss Palmer's visit to this State and are deeply grieved :u her death. Miss Palmer was a moving ! spirit among the nurses and had j worked untiringly to put the profes I sion on its present high plane and her I labor had never been directed in the j wrong direction. ! end of reunion ! Officers Elected at . Afternoon I Session?Invitation of Cam | den Accepted I The 1920 Reunion of the Confeder ate Veterans of South Carolina came j to' an end with the reception and' dance in the Peoples' Tobacco Ware house last, night, which was attended ??by the veterans and approximately two thousand Sututor people. The dance j was opened with the grand march 'which was led by Gen. Clark and MKs ! Henrietta Boylcin, the sponsor of the I division. j A large number of the veterans par ? ticipated in the dance and appeared to i derive as much pleasure from it as any I of the younger folks. This morning the veterans departed for their homes with the God-speed of their hosts, who had thoroughly enjoyed the hon or and privilege of entertaining them. At the afternoon session the elec tion of officers was held. Gen. Oin.rk j declined re-election, but as a token of j esteem he was elected honorary com i mander for life of the South Carolina : Division. j Gen. A. C. Reed, of Anderson, hith erto commander of the Second brig j ade was elected, without opposition, commander of the South Carolina dt ! vision. His place was filled by the election of Col. P. A. McDavid, of j Greenville. Col. W. II. Cely was j nominated but declined to run. Gen. a. Fuller JLyon, of Columbia, was un animously reclccted to succeed him self as commander of the First brig ! ade. The committee elected to serve with ! Col. W. D. McLaurin, state pension j commissioner, was: First district. Gen. i ('. I. Walker; second. J. Ii. Murray; j third. W. V. Fair; fourth. G. M. | Hanna.; fifth, James W. Lyles; sixth. 1 J. D. Montgomery; seventh, Gen. W. iA. Clark. The cordial invitation from Camden for the 1921 reunion to be held in that ?city was unanimously accepted, j amidst much enthusiasm. : republican I gets job j President Wilson Names Mem ber of Federal Reserve Eoard Washington, May 7?Edward Platt, a Republican Representative in Con gress from New York, has been select ed by President Wilson for member ship on the Federal Reserve Board. pensions for preachers St. Louis. May 7?Plans for a cam paign to create a permanent fund for the support of superannuated minis ters are being considered by the gen eral council of the Southern Metho dist church conference board of fin ance, which is in session dierc. Notice of Ejection. The following citizens have been appointed to serve as managers of the flection to be held on May 11th, 1920, at the voting precincts named below to decide the question of whether two ;ind one-hair million dollars ($2,500, j 000.00) bonds shall be issued and the proceeds derived therefrom to be used in the construction of permanent. ! hard surfaced.roads foivthe County of .Sam tor: I The noils will open at 8 a. m. and j close at 4 p. m. 1 Sumter Court House. Ward No. 1 ? At City Hall: . Managers J. H. Darr, i Ben Mitchell, Leslie Drown; J. J. J Brennan, clerk. j Sumter. Court House. Ward No. 2? ; At Sumter Livestock Company, North j Main ? street: Managers L. R. Jen j nings, J. M. Fogie. John S. Richard json; Shepard Nash, clerk. Sumter Court House. Ward No. 2? I At W. H. Shelley and Son's store: I Managers J. A. Calhoun, W. EL Shelly, ; C. S. Curtis; Hamp Boykin, clerk, j Sumter Court House. Ward No. 4? At W. B. Boyle Company's Hardware store: Managers T. W. Face. W. L. Branson, John E. Duffie; G. K. Cald er, clerk. j Mayesville Township?at Mayes jviile, S. C: Managers F. A. Stuckey, jW. B. Cooper. J. Rombert Mayes. Concord Township?At Brunsen'? ; Mil!: Managers R. M. Jones, G. W. j Mahoney, T. B. Brunson. I Middleton Township?At Wedgc : field, S. C: Managers W. H. Ramsey, jj. J. Geddings, E. E. Aycock. I Privateer Township?At Privateer - Station: Managers S. D. Cain, I-L H. ?Wells, A. P. Hinson. - Shiloh Township?At Shiloh; S. C: ! Managers V/. W. Green, I. U. Tomlin I son, T. R._ McElveen. Manchester Township?At Bloom 'Hill: Managers B. T. Koib, F;J M. : Coulter, E. R. Wililams. I Stateburg Township?At Stateburg, : S. C: Managers Nelson Murray, Guy j Nelson. Richard Richardson, i BuBosc?At DuBose Siding: Maoi j agers T. S. DuBose, Jr., M. R. Riveys, j Russell I^ee. ! Providence Township?At Dalzcll, j S. C: Managers M. L. Moore, Alex j Burroughs, Adam Smith, j Oswego?At Oswego. S. C: Man I agers E. C. Brown, S. M. McCoy, B. ; M. Oliver. j Rafting Creek Township^? At jRembert, S. C: Managers J. L. Gil ? Iis. T. J. Brown, C. W. Sanders. j State registration certificates and j tax receipts showing payment of all j taxes assessable against voter preced I ing tas year will bo required of every [voter. I One of the managers for each vot j ing precinct will call for the ballol j box, tickets, poll lists, oaths of office I and registration books on Saturday I May Sth, and the same will be deiiv ! cred to him by E. I. Reardon. at Sum ! ter Chamber of Commerce. The man ;'ager calling for these will have the j oath of office administered to him anc ; he will he duly authorized to adminis ter the oath to the other two man [-agcrs. Each board of election man ? agers will elect their own clerk, whe i must also be duly sworn. The polls i shall b~ cpened at S a. fn., and shall close at 4 o'clock p. m. The managers of each precinct, at the close of the polls, shall publicly open and count the ballots in each box, and recbrd the result on the rec ords furnished therefor, and certify j over the signatures of the three man I agers and the clerk, the results of said election at each voting precinct, and make returns of such results to the Sumter County Permanent Road Cora I mission, together ..with the ballot I boxes carefully locked and scaled as I provided by law, and shall also return the books of registration within three days to the Sumter County Bermanent Road Commission. The name of ev ery voU-r shall be recorded on the poll lists provided for this purpose, and the lists returned in the ballots boxes to the commission. L. D. JENNINGS, Chairman. G. A. LEMMON, STANYARNE BURROWS & A. IIARV7N, J. P. IJOOTH, J. R. BRlTTON. ? J. F. BLAND. Members of Sumter County Perman ent Road Commission. Death. Mrs. Margaret C. Gregg died at the Sumter Hospital Monday night. May 3rd, after an illness of several weeks. The funeral services were conducted by Rov. J. B. Marion Tuesday after noon at 4:30 o'clock, and the inter ment was at the Sumter Cemetery. Candidates' Cards. For Sheriff. I hereby announce myself a r.U'dir date for the office of Sheriff- ;n Ihe ap proaching Primary elections of the Democratic party in Sumter County, subject to the rules governing sucil elections. C. M HURST. Sumter, .May 4th, 1920. I announce myself a candidate foir the office- of Sheriff of Sumter County, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. SAM NEWMAN. :? For Treasurer. Coming before the voters with more than twenty years actual experience in accounting I announce myself a can didate for the office of County Trease urer, and I promise loyalty and sup pert and to abide by the rules gov^ erm'ng the Democratic party, also ef ficient service if elected. MOSES. J. MOORE. Present incumbent 3rd Magisterial District. Notice To The Public Hereafter warrants for claims filed against the County in any* month will !be payable; the Board having approyw icd, upon the 10th of ?ueoeeding (month. This is done to facilitate the ; orderly handling of the business of the j effice. ! Ey order of the* County Board of : Commissioners. j D. M. BLANDING, Clerk to Board. j-? ? ENTIRE HOUSE MOVED ??- i T \ The people of Sumter having 'shown a marked interest in the un dertaking of Harry A. Boggs, C. E., [in moving the house of B. D. Hodges, ion West Calhoun Street, intact, to the lot adjoining, will be glad to learn ' that this work has been successfully [completed. The main feature of the i work being: The moving of the ! house intact, that is without dismem ; bering in any way or taking down the ; chimneys. This was accomplished by j the use of trucks and iron rails. The work was held up for some time due lo ihe shortage of labor and mate rials; however, once the track VraA laid and the trucks placed, it was but [a matter of a very short time before : the house was moved as desired. This ? firm is to move one of the largest : houses in Sumter, {he old ToUittey ; house, in a similar manner within the j next few weeks. POST PASSES' i THE BUCK - I Washington. May 7-^-Assistant Sees j rotary of Labor Post in defending his official conduct before the house rules [committee declared that Commission er-General of Immigration Caminetti' had delayed action in deportations by withholding cases so that he might compile authorized and lawful niem oran da recommending final action. 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