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- '{Entered at the "Postomce at Sumter, S. C, as Second-class Matter. PERSONAL. Mr. and Mrs. John Moran and three children are visiting: in -town. Misses Annie "teckie, Margaret Kim hall and Leslie Treakle -ami Mr. Stet y.er motored over from Kock Hill and Spent Sunday w?n ?ne-iatter's s-ster, "fers. Frank Jove on E. Calhoun Streek . " Misses Lalla Lee and Harriet Lu cius, "of Elliot, are visiting Mrs. Shepherd Nash on Church street today ~ Mr. John T. Green, Jr., has returned from WOflford College where his class, 1919, held a reunion last week. ^ 'yh Sugbson Green will arrive home from Wofford this afternoon. : Mrs. T. Hal Clark entertained last pnight in honor of the new Presbyter 'ian College boys in town. Mrs. Abe "Weinberg J*s entertaining " this afternoon in honor of Miss Natal ie Norman. Mr. E. N. Beard/ editor of the Georgetown It em-Index,, is a visitor in town today. Mesdames Cecil Wilson and-Ed Pitts ... have returned from an extended visit vto their sisters in Havana, Cuba, and Jacksonville, Fla. ir '/. Dr." Geoitge W. Dick had the misfor tune this morning to break his wrisfe "While cranking his Ford car. It is only ejslight facture but very pa'nful. His many friends hope that D.. Dick will soon recover. Miss Marie Hammett has returned home from Columbia, where she has - been in the hospital for a week. Mrs. S. A. Murray is visiting the fam ily of Mr. Edmund Murray on North Main street. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Williams and; Mi?s Martha Williams left Tuesday; morning, for. Hendersonville, . going; j through in their car., Mr. Williams: will return .this week, but Mrs. WilT-J iams and Miss "Martha will spend sev- i eral months at their summer home in] Hendersonville. Miss Frances Smith, who has been ! visiting in Georgetown, has' returned, j accompanied" by her cousin, Miss El-; Jen Smith, who is ber truest for a week j or more. Mr.,and Mrs./C. L. Stubbs left to-j ' day for Lexington, Va,. to attend the' commencement exercises of Washing- j ton and Lee . University. Their son, j 2&&c, will graduate this year. . ; Mr. and Mrs. Rob. Burkett, Julian ' Burkett, Mrs. A. C. Thompson and ' Xxussie Thompson -motored to Dillon ^Friday morning to- sepnd the week end with Dr. and Mrs. D. M. Michaux. Miss Thelma Bultman left today tq : at:end the commencement exercises at! Hood College. Miss Constance Bult , man, who has been in" school there, 'will return home with her this wek. - Mrs. Heyw,ard Oemler of Savannah is spending a few days with Mrs. W. Lee Morrison.'. Miss Reba*Spann left Tuesday to spend the summer with Miss Martha jWHliams in Hendersonville. _Miss Emma.. Reynolds has returned home after a wek"s visit to Florence. Misses Jeanette White and Dorita Moise are spending.the day in Colum bia. Mr. William W?lfe, of Manning; was zi visitor. in town yesterday. Mrs. S. W. Benson and Miss JBridgett Gallagher are spending some time in Baltimore and Annapolis. ~V*Mlsses Vermeile Pitts; and Mattie Henderson of. Hartsville, left this" ^morning for Charleston to attend ,the Citadel -dance?. ?-;-? Ltetter From Bishopville. _m Mr. Editor: After the rains of last; week, evrything is.refreshed and thej crops are growing off rfinely. The i ar- j mers have their crops in good condi- j tion for growing, and are busy apply ing fertilizers around corn and cotton, planting late corn, setting out pota-. toes and gathering their oats and wheat, both, of which are very good. The city schools closed last week with the usual exercises. Nearly all ;. of the same teachers wore reelected for another.. "3?ear. There' are about 400 -pupils attending the two schools. AIJ" of qur ydung foil's who have * been off at the differed: colleges are at home for the summer. , Mr. Jim English hadf-" all his old soldier friends, with a.-few* others, to dine at his home last Thursday in celebration of his seventy-second -birthday. Mrs. Genie Smith, his -daughter, provided a sumptuous three course dinner, ^ which was most beau tifully served, and which we thor-^ oughly enjoyed. Mr. English is a' ?most successful chicken raiser. He has between 300 and 400 Rhode Island .. reds of the finest grade, this year's crop. _?' The contract for paving our streets was let out last week, and the con tractors will begin work as soon as the material arrives. Our Baptist friends have decided to put a pipe organ into their church, which will be a great improvemnt. The McLieod Drug Co. are laying the foundation for a new dr*g store be tween the Bishopville Bank and J. B. Kelly's new brick store, in which they will continue their drug business. Our pastor. Mr. Dibble, is in high favor with his people, and draws large congregations at every service. Mr. J. E. Scott and family visited friends in Cheraw and Chesterfield ?ast week. - Land on the outskirts of town was recently sold for $1,200 per acre. Cost ly dirt, eh? H. W. Scott. The Dark Ages. The dark ages was a period of aboui ?ix hundred years in European history .commencing with the fall of the west em Roman empire (476 A D.) an? continuing until the close of the elev1 enth c;Jtury (1100 A. D.) The dart ages tjomprised the first two-thirdJ of the middle, ages and were character !zed by extreme intellectual apathj and gross religious superstition. Th< sway of the church was universal, an? learning was at its lowest ebb.?Kan fas City Star. A Well-Bred Cow. furnish the nutrients she must have for maximum production; that is, a ra tion may contain the proper propor tions of . protein and carbohydrates and still be so butty that she cannot handle it. She therefore should have some grain even though the roughage in itself is a balanced ration. ? FIRST-GRADE MILK i The five essentials for produc- a i tion of first-grade milk are: J1 (1) Healthy cows and men, <t> (2) clean cows and men, (3) ?# ? clean-cans and'pails, (4) covered , ? milking pafls, (5)- cooling milk J j j 9 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit or. ? I ? below within an hour after pro- * f ? duction and "holding it as low as ? \ 2 possible until delivered. 2 j lt.....* LACK OF ICE AT CREAMERIES f One Concern Turned Back to Farmers j $2,700 Worth of Food Products Many Other Losses. ??? CFrom the United ? Slates Department of Agriculture.) V -1 One large creamery, which buys about 350,000 gallons of sweet milk | and cream per year, returned' to farm- | ers last year nearly $2,700 worth of these food products on account of lack of proper care which caused souring, Churning and off flavors. The records of another plant "snow that nearly 50,000 gallons of sour milk were received in one year. Insufficient cooling caused most of j these losses, which are duplicated i many times all over the country during j the heated season. TREATING COWS FOR (GARGET Afflicted Animals Should Be Milked Regularly?Hands of Milker Should Be Washed. i Cows that are subject to garget j ! should be milked regularly and clean, j In some cases it may be advisable to I milk offener than twice a day. The hands of the milker should be washed i after milking a cow that is affected with garget before milking another | cow, to prevent carrying the germs, j The practice of milking out an af- j fee ted cow on the ground is a bad one j for the germs are spread in this way j to other cowa. , I D?NT FEED ROUGHAGE ALONE j Leguminous Hays, Such as Alfalfa, j Clover, Soy Bean or Cowpea Hay Are Favored. ^ ! (Prepared by the TJ^'.ted States Depart ! - ment of A^: .culture.) i The best kind of dry roughage to be fed to the dairy cow, in connection with corn silage x>r 'roots, are leguminous hays, such as alfalfa, red, crimson, or alsike clover and soy bean or cowpea hay. While corn silage is an excellent feed, it is not a balanced one, as it does not contain sufficient protein and ! mineral matter to meet fully the re quirements of the cow. The legumi nous hays, in addition to being very i palatable, have a tendency to correct j this deficiency. They are also one of I the best and cheapest' sources of pro- j I tein. One or more of these hays can ! j be grown on any farm, and in addition j j\o their "value for-feeding purposes, i they improve the soil in t which they ! are grown. Hay from Canada field i peas, s^own with oats to prevent the i peas from lodging, also makes an ex j celleat roughage. ! Com stover, coarse hay, etc., also j find a good market through the dairy i cow. This^ class of roughage is low ] in protein, however, and when it is : used the grain must be richer in pro* i tein. No positive rule can be laid down as to the quantity of dry roughage that shculd be fed, but about 6 to 12 I pounds a day for each cow, in addition fco silage, will be found to be satisfac tory in most cases. When the dry roughage is of poor quality, such as j ?coarse, weedy hay or a poor "grade of j cornsialks, a large portion can often j be given to advantage, allowing the cow to pick out the best and using the rejected part for bedding. With this quantity of dry roughage the cow will take, according to her size, from 2o to 50 pounds of silage. This may be con sidered as a guide for feeding to apply when the roughage is grown on the farm. W^ben everything has to be pur chased, it is often more economical to limit the quantity of roughage fed and increase the grain ration. While a cow's stomach is large and her whole digestive system is especial ly designed to utilize coarse feeds, there is a limit to the bulk that she can take. This limit is below the quantity of roughage that it would require to BROW ROT IN PR?lt. V ?/ > - ? : ? J ? ?; 'V Save Your Peaches and Plums From \ This Destructive Disease. Clemson College.?Brown rot of peach and plum is one of the most I widespread and ^destructive diseases j of fruit that we have to contend with i In many cases the entire crop is de- j stroyed just as the; fruit begins to I ripen. Practically every orchard in | South Carolina is infected with it and , while it is widespread and very de- J structive, it is at the same tinve easy to control,. according to Director H. | W. Barre, of the South Carolina Ex- I periment Station, by spraying with lime-sulfur. There are numerous commercial brands of lime-sulfur on the market | and some of these have been tested j by careful experimenters and found | to te very satisfactory. The ordinary commercial lime-sulfur solution has been used at the rate of oheJ part to eighty parts of water j with fair success. This mixture j will control brown rot. Some times, however, and under certain conditions of temperature and humid ity, it destroys a certain percentage of the foliage. The safest and best mixture to use is the home-made self boiled lime-sulfur mixture, made as follows: Use 8 lbs. of fresh quick j lime and 8 lbs. of sulfur (flour )to 5v- j gals, of water. Make this up by piae Ing the eight pounds of fresh lime in j a tub or barrel and add just enough water to slake it. An excess of water | seems to drown the lime and retards i the slaving process. As soon as the j lime begins to crumble apart and a violent boiling is set up, add eight | pounds of sulfur and stir in thorough- j ly, adding enough water to keep any j part of the mixture from becoming dry j or-burning.. Keep this well stirrea i and allow the boiling to continue for^ 5'to 10-minutes. Special care should; be exercised at this time to keep any; part of. the mixture from becoming dry. Bnough water should be added in-fact, so that the paste is thii> enough to be ~asily stirred. After the boiling has continued 5 to 10 minutes enough water sholud be added to cool the mixture. ' The trees should be sprayed two to ! three weeks after the shucks drop, \ and again at intervals of from two to four weeks until the fruit begins to ripen. / OAT SMUT. Easy Control Measures Prevent Great] Loss. Clemson College.?Oat Smut is Hit* most widespread and destructive dis ease of small grain. It frequently oc curs as a serious disease wherever oats are grown if proper control meas ures are not practiced. This disease alone reduces the production of oats in this State by at least 10 per cent, and in some fields there are losses ar high as 50 per cent, which can easily be prevented by inexpensive seed treatment, says J. L. Seal, Extension Service plant pathologist. ? This disease i3 caused by a fun.2fus which grows within the the tissues of the plant. The spores germinate about the same time that the young oat plants come up, and the filaments of the fungus remain alive in the oat plants without apparently causing any serious damage until the plant* begin to head in the spring. It then con- j Centrates its efforts in the oat .heads, and fills up the places where the grains should form with th? black,] sooty masses of its spores. As these masses of spores^broak ntf they are scattered by the wind to all parts of the field. Many of them lodge on healthy heads of ?ats in the field., while others are infested in the thresh ing operation; bu* *n both cases the spores remain alive on the grain until planted in the fail. Seed for planting should not be saved from fields that show over 2 to 5 per cent of. smutted heads, arid. in that case the seed should be treated. Even .if a field is practically free of smuts and there are smutty fields, near it, the seed should be treated. In fact, the material for seed treat ment is so inexpensive that there is no reason why all grain seed to be planted should not be treated before hand. If there is a neighbor in your com munity who treated his oat seed last fall, compare your field with his and see if there is not money saved by such a practice. STEM-END ROT OF WATER MELON. Clemson College.?This disease is comparatively new, but it causes a serious loss of melons in transit. There was a loss of 2,500 carloads of melons shipped from the southeast ern states last summer, due entirely to this disease. It is seldom found in the field and the shipper is often as tonished that 40 to 60 per cent of his melons rotted in transit, when at the time of shipping they are apparently in good condition. The stem-end rot fungus is common on ripe or dying vegetation in and around melon fields, especially on cotton and corn stalks and old melon vines. These become covered with black fruiting bodies sf the fungus in which countless spores aretjorne and from which they are scattered by thp wind. When a melon is cut from the vine, a drop of sap exudes from the cut : tern and provides ideal conditions ior infection. The knives and hands of workmen are often carriers o' in fection, and thus perfectly healthy melor.s m?.y become diseased. A goods stockman must be a sir cessful producer of feeds. Railroad Strike Settled \. ? ? ? --.: i jSeveraTOld Men Taken Back But | Many~Places Filled by New Clerks Aoording to information given the j Item this morning the strike of the! I railroad clerks in Sumter has been ) (settled. Vice, president, Wood of the J t brotherhood \s said to have announced! [that the strike was off and that "every I thing had . been settled. There, wcrej 116 places'vacated by the. strikers and j j according to one of the officials, ten j jof those places have ben filled by out- j j side men and six of the strikers taken i I back. . Three places were filled in the; I freight yards and two in the baggage.] j room by out side men. This announ- j cement is good news to the people of: i Sumter as much inconvenience ha:*; been .caused by the recent strike. Death of Mr. Hat field Mrl J. J. ? Hat field died at his home; just out of the city, about H::>0 o'clock; Thursday afternoon June 3rd. aged ">.S,! after an illness of about five months. \ He was treated by several of SUmter'si most skil.^d physicians and had every attention that loving relatives and i friends con. Id give. The^juneral services .jvcre held at j fcfive o^bek Friday afternoon by his i pastor, Dr. Jno. A . Bnmson. of Grace ; jHaptist -church, at New Hope, near! ' Rimbert, of which he was for years a j j consistent member and deacon. j The deceased was a son of the late j ! W. Hatfield and spent the greater j part of his life in Sumter county. He is survived by his wife, who was; before her marriage, Miss Ella Carp, als<,< of Sumter county, and five ! daughters and one son. His children ! j are: Mrs. W. F. Baker. Misses Eva, jLi-lian and Emily Hatfield, and J. J. j [Jr.. all of Sumter and Mrs. W. BE. Hat-j [.field. ? of Korden, also five brothers: ! i.\ic5 -.r. G- W. and D. A., of Borden J." IW. and T. H. of Camden,and B. -Vi j :of Sumter, and two sisters:'"Mrs. " B. !R. Katfield^of Spring. F*ill. and Mrs..| ; Jno. S. Kennedy, of this city. L The funeral services were attended I by a large concourse of relatives and !frierds, and the beautiful floral offer-; j-ings showed the high esteem in which: i he was held. Am%ng the most beautiful Of these < Terings one was from the l ! graduating class of the Sumter High School, of which his son,was a mem-j ! ber "until the deceased became too ill jiGi- hisrs'on to attend school. . ' ; The "pall bearers were Messrs. W. F. Flake. JL C. Haynesworth, Cal. Rob-: je^rirson, \V. R. Weils, C. L. Baker and J.- R. Lackey. j Fear Not to Reform. , Confucius says, if the superior ? :an be not grave nr~his conduct, he will not be respected, nor, will his learn ing be solid. Be ruled by fidelity and sincerity. Have not a friend inferior to yourself. If you err, fear not to re form.?Chinese Classics, translated by Rev. David- Collie. Mass Meeting to Con- j sider W?teree Bridgef Citizens of Sunner County Call- L ed to Meet June 15 For j Discussion / ? r~~.? A number of Suniter county citizens having expressed opinions 'differing widely wi,lh the Sumter County Bonn! of 'Commissioners as to the advisability, at this time of that Board undertaking., without ;i public hearing By^the tax payers of this county, .the expenditure j of about $65,OUo for the-purpose of j co-operating with Riehland eount\ I and the State Highway Commission rn i the construction of a bridge . across j the Wateree river and approximately! four miles of causeway on the Sum mer county side of said river. - . And the officers of " the Sumterj [County Chamber of Commerce having! , been requested by a number of repre sentative taxpayers of Sumter county to take the necessary steps to s-?e .that j this important proposition is submit- ? i ted to the taxpayers of Sumter county j ! for -their approval or disapproval, to gether with such information as to j probable cost of construction and fu- j ' ture maintenance of this causeway j | and bridge. ! And as the Sumter County Chamber: j of Commerce has been designated ?sj I the recognized organization, repre- | senting the -entire city and^county of! ' Sumter, and representing the citizens! I of every* profession, Calling and bugi- I ; ness interests, ? ' j j Therefore, in order {"hat the citizens | I of Sumter county may have ftill and; [ free opportunity to investigate ami dis-1 cuss this matter?that is <hU citizens] ! who may be for or against this, propo-j I sitioa?therefore a mass meeting of I ! the citizens' of Sumter county will be . j held at 6 o'clock .Tuesday "evening, J ! June 15th. 2 920. at the court house* in the city of Sumter for this purpose, and every, citizen who is interested/ in ; this matter is requested and hereby ("invited to attend said meeting., f -The Sumter County Chamber of : Commerce takes the liberty of. sug ^resting: to all persons int?pjSJ^ und against this proposi?d;?ri<^ngj^i^ the Waleree river'.,, that; vmilee^^P jvil! lie. the time and the. press their opinions and to-vote;tipdn^ any' measures 'which may be adopted 3 by this meeting. Those who are--3jot^S sufficiently interested; one way or 'an-M other. "ntfll diave only themselves ? bjs-.m?e if the matter is not settled:top their satisfaction should they, be not'; sufficiently interested to attend"" this^i meeting/ which unless the Sumterit* County' Board of Commissioners def3 cide to throw the matter Open for pn&?^ lie decision, will in all probability the only public hearihg-^that will -;Jje|"? granted, as it appears that the ,Sw&|^ ter County ^Board Of' Commissioners^ have already, in the exercise of thei&| official powers, entered into a cpn^i tract with Richland coun'ty and vthe :1 State Highway Commission to fina^c^:^ and to construct this" causewaj1- and *; the: bridge connected therewith. i E; S. "BOOTH, .- ^^ President Sumter County:Chamber of>| Commerce. . ? E. I. REARDON,. r-' > ? ' ; . Manager-Secretary. ? . -:- ? ? - '-?-? DEATH Mrs. Rena Rose Davis, wife of Wilbur Davis of this city, died, at.^tfcd:% McLeod Infirmary, at Florence,von;/ Tuesday night the 8th mst.,-of-pnen-v monia following an operation ,;5for;v appendicitis. The funeral', and -inte^Sl ment was at the family burying' groifift-^ near Cartersville,: at 5 o'clock- this^ af-v ternoon. Mrs. Davis was a sister?^ Mrs. Edmund Murray of this;< She leaves her 'husband and children. Opportunity Gone. . " r While talking to a caller one day % was annoyed by th"e"^lnterrnpt^?.:ffl|l my four-year-old daughter who "wa#;^ trying to tell something, exciting. -^jM reminded her that.it was impolite to.^ interrupt me and went on..'with nry^f story.. When I had finished I tui&edgj to - her, saying; "Now; Louise, .';Whs0k.{| did you-want to teil" me?"' ;.She-?g swered disconsolately: "I've IbS&JmyJ jsay now."?Exchange. / .JZfM r I AM GLAD TO PE I Glad to Try AnySiing "Three years ago my system "was in a terribly run down con dition and I was .broken cut'all over my body. I began to be wor-.S ried about my condition and I' was glad to pry anything which would reiieve jri<*V Peruna w?? recommended to rae as a .fine blocd remedy and tonic, and I 1 scon found that it was ?worthy p ef prsi.nr. 'A few bottles changed my condition materially and in a 3 short time \I was all over my j tvoabic. I owe n:y restoration to 2 health and strength to Peruna. ^ I am. giad to endorse it." S Sold Everywhere 5 Was M a Rim J}ovm ?Kiss Ricka Leopold, 2S8 Layco . St., iJenasha, Sec'y Liederkranfis. "Miss LeopolirlSv letter opposit#*ccaveys in no ^xn^ certain wajr the .? gratitu4e*%Bfiei feels for/Peruna.' J Liquid and 'Tablet >J"e^m. THE BRYAN CLOTHING CO. 5 ' IS 1 -V : W m II IS We are a new firm with newideas^for instance, we Reasonable pricey isrft that new in Sumter? We leave it to yoli to say. J ? This week we are offering a lot of boys' genuine Cool Cloth pants at $2.00. They wash nicely and wear well. ? * ? ?,*-*' ? ? - ?? Also boys' union suits, good quality at 90 cents. We will be the real Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx in Sumter. THE BR YAN CLOTHING CO.