The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 11, 1921, Image 2

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^t|maRai?^mtf|raiL Wednesday and Saturday ?BY? PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTER, S. O. Terms: per annum?in advance. Advertisements. paare, first insertoin_$1.00 subsequent insertion_ .50 Ctrccts fox? three months or long fill be made at reduced rates, til communications which subserve rate interests will be charged for advertisements. rOhituarieo and tributes of respect il fce^cbarged for. The Sumter Watchman was found in 1*50 and the T> Southron in 1886. The Watchma^ and Southron Sow has the combined circulation-and mfiuehce of both of the old papers, \nd is manifestly the best advertising medium in Sumter. TOE SfcASS MKETIXG. To those who expected the mass meeting- Thursday afternoon to solve all the problems that fret and bur den business, finance and agricul ture, and to forthwith evolve scheme to relieve all distress, to provide mon ey and credit for all who need one or both and to usher in a new era of profiteering prosperity for everybodv. the occasion was a distinct disap pointment. As was to have been rea sonably anticipated no one was pre pared to offer a guaranteed plan to advance the price of cotton to forty eents; or to show a way to paying debt* without producing or selling something to raise the necessary money. The' mass meeting did not, -in fact, accomplish a single definite object, save to demonstrate that there i is the will among a large number of j the people of the town and county 'C.j get ^>gether to do something to pro- j mote better conditions. Where there is the will to do a thing attainment is jrtain. T&erefore we fee! encourag by the gathering together of so ly representative' citizens in the terest of the public welfare, and de spite the paucity of tangible results, the meeting accomplished good. It :s tfie 'Starting point for future confer- i enees/that will i**ad to well consid ered and practical undertakings. In the course of the adresses b.^ the speakers on the program there were a number of encouraging and helpful suggestions, but, with the ex ception of Mr. It. B. Belser, none of them indicated a plan for making .practical use of the ideas advanced. Mr. Belser outlined a definite plan for creating an organization to buv; and sell staple products that the farms of Sumter county are capable of growing profitably. Thir; plan is briefiy set out in an article, prepared by Mr. Belser, and published in an other column. The signing, of the Wateree bridge contract by "the Richland County Board vof Commissioners Friday oil the strength of "a resolution by the Sumter county delegation abso lutely guaranteeing the money for the construction of the approaches on the Sumter side of the river" insures the early beginning of work on the bridge at Garner's ferry. Sumter county has appropriated $37.500 and Richland county a like amount to supplement a federal approriation of $75.000 for the" construction of the bridge. The approaches to the bridge on either side of the river will have to be paid for.either by the counties or by indi vidual citizens. The money for the approaches on the Sumter side?con sisting of about four miles of cause way, three bridges across creeks and a number of smaller bridges and cul verts?will be contributed by citi zens, and the county board will not be called on for an appropriation for Jthisr purpose. The estimated tost of the approaches on the Sumter side is $25,000, which amount a number of interested citizens have pledged themselves to raise. The approaches on the Richland side will not be as ?extensive and the cost will not be {Treat. It is said that the bridge will tbe comple%d within twelve months from the time work is started, and :t is planned to have the approacnes completed within the same period. T<>\ make the road practicable for regu lar traffic considerable work will In required on the Garner's ferry road ?between the Statcburg road ami tin ?dge. of the river swamp. It is the "presumption that the work on this! section of the highway will he done by : the chain gang. There are two ex-j tensive beds of the best grad?- of gravel on this section cf the road, and j jt will be a comparatively easy and 'not very expensive undertaking to 'make the two or three miles* from Stateburg to the swamp into a first elass hard surface roadway. MUiTlDKIiOls MOONSHINE. ! ??^Moonshine" whiskey used to haw ft rather poetical association, it has yet, m the minds of some northern tipplers who sadly compare the ^bootleg" stuff they get with what they have heard of "pure" whiskey made under the open sky among fouthern hills. From the Cordele, Gau. Dispatch comes disillusionment: "The mar. who will mk<- a drink of 'moonshine' liquor whoso making he did no. superintendend himself ciir? > little about his term of years on this planet. "The writer of these lines in the good year 1 looked into the dead faces of three men. every one of them luaus of families, who gave their lives to wildcat liquor. "These three dead men. their funer als and Mowers, their widows and or phans, and the toil of mothers an'l the little ones they left to struggle on in the world?all these frightful things are preaching more powerful ser m?>ns against moonshine liquor than any eloquence of prohibition lectur ers we have known and heard in j years."' ! In what state?one almost feels i ? j like saying, in what community?can J this sad story not be duplicated'.' [Homo brew, wood alcohol and d?n !ly j concoctions of a hundred kinds hav< i taken a heavy toll in the last yeai or two, and are taking it still. Even Canada, which many Americans mis takenly regard as a sort of alcoholic paradise, and which is now nearly all legally dry as this country, tells the same story. A Canadian news paper remarked lately that "so far as the ordinary citizen is concerned, there is no pure whiskey in the world now." As knowledge of this fact spreads, it has indeed, more effect than preaching. Observers say that late ly there are signs of a diminution in drinking, and in bootlegging. Tak ing a drink furtively is not so much of a joke any more, since it has so often proved to he tragedy. Respect for prohibition is gaining, less from con scientious observance than from th - fear of death. PISGAJI NATIONAL FOREST. Not all the national parks are lo cated in the west, although Ameri cans are more familiar with such names as the Yellowstone and Yoso niite and others of the western chain than with those in the east. Recenly a bronze tablet honoring the founder was set up at entrance to Pisgah National Forest. This loveh forest is located in the mountains o! western North Carolina. It was orig inally established on private lands in 1801. The United States govern ment acquired it in 1914. The area of the forest is about 93.31ns acres, nearly all mountainous. Recause tin public-spirited individual who plant ed for the future understood the val ue of constructive forestry, there has never been any exploitation within its precincts. (riant oaks, tulip trees, poplars, chestnuts, balsams and oth er native North Carolina trees are all to be found there: The native deer, bear and buffalo are protected.' The public is discovering the Pis gah Forest. Every year finds an in- i creasing number of happy travelers enjoying its lovely scenery and natur al glories. There is already a well built motor road which makes the ascent *>f Pisgah mountain a com paratively easy matter, and other roads are to he constructed. The vacation season is almost at hand. iCitizens who wish to try some thing- different this year could not do better than investigate the opportuni ties for wholesome, happy outings in the nation's parks and forests. Mr. Dabbs on Mass Meeting "Editor Daily Item: Please permit me the use of your columns to make sime comments on the meeting of Thursday afternoon. I heartily endorsed your editorial of the 4th. and hoped that those who called the meeting would present a constructive program upon which we could all unite: and I attended the meeting when so sick that 1 ought to have been in bed. to give by my pres ence indorsement to every plan that promised results. I approved much that was said by the different speak-j ers. hut was disappointed that out of it all no plan was offered except that of Mayor Jennings to sell good roads bonds. Still in the spirit of the' admirable key-note speech of Super-! intendent Edmunds, 1 would not of fer a word of criticism but for the untactful (to say the hast of it) ef fort of Mr. Jennings to browbeat his fellow-member-; of the Hard-Surface Road Commission through a resolu tion, adopted by a body of citizens that were called together for another purpost?and to do so when half or more of the citizens had left the hall. If Chairman Jennings was really sin cere in wanting an expression of opinion of the people of Sumter coun ty 021 i he controversy between himself rind the other members of the Board of which he is chairman, why did he insist on tin indorsement by about 100 citizens, and refuse my suggestion of a referendum when the County Court is voted on'.' Neither would be bind ing on the Commission- but I am sure the Commission ?rould give more weight to a referendum vote than to the resolutions of a handful oi citizens (and make no reflections on the quality "f the citizens who vo ted with Mr. Jennings) who were largely influenced by the special pleadings of Mr. Jennings and Mi. Reiser. We all want good roads. Put I am sure I voice the sentimeni of .-. majority of the voters of Sumter County when say that in any matter of business and sound public policy. 1 will take every time without ques tion, the united judgment of Messrs. J. I*. Booth. U. A. Lemmon, J. M. Tuluck, .1. P. Bland, Stanyarne Bur rows. E. E. Rembert. S. A. Harvin. and J. P. Britton in preference to that of Mr. L. D. Jennings. Having been voted down by his own comniis sion, it was in cxceedinglv bad taste for him to us.- the occasion of ja meeting caller] for another purpose i i?> try to create sentimeni thai would j enable him t<> over-ride, his enl ! leagues. Of course he justifies it on the grounds that the sale of $l.G<?o. 000 worth of bonds would get the people of t-he county on "Easy Street", j Maybe so! l'.ut Loo much borrowing I it what is the touble now. When j Mr. Jennings wants to carry his point, j he never considers the consequences. I In his zeal to. whip hi rseolleujrues to j his way of thinking, he was willing to kill all the good of tin- meeting up to the time he took the floor. Ho made $1.0000.000 of borrowed money overshadow every suggestion of self help and the development of a better system of farming and marketing, that had gone, before, i .Just suppose -Mr. "William Kolb. j speaking for the Privateer road, ami j myself, speaking for the Turbeville short-cut, had made these two ) -ads the question of the hour, had taken as much time, and had tried to brow heat the County. Board, as Mr. Jen nings did his colleagues: it would have been most inappropriate. But we could have secured the same in dorsement that Mr. Jennings gor j for his proposition if we bad been as, persistent. And in proportion to cost, these two roads are just as im-j portant to Suniter County and City: as the 12] miles of Hard Surface roads: and can be built yithout add ing to the tax burden of the county. But we went there for another pur-, pose. j Mr. Wallace informed me just after; the meeting that he issues more than! 12,000 tax receipts. That means; about 12.GOO tax payers. There arc 2,000 automobiles and trucks in the' county. That means less than 1800 j auto and truck owners. So that 10.-' 000 or more taxpayers will reap none j of the auto savings that Mr. Belserj figures. > When these bonds were voted, cot-; ton was from 41 cents to ?1.10 ,perj pound. Xow it is 5 cents to 15 cents.; and mightly little above 10 cents. The: preceding tobacco crop was sold for a fine price. ) Taxes the year before were not bur-, densome. Last fall they had about doubled. Many a bale of cotton has' been sacrificed in the past two weeks] to get money to pay taxes; and Mr., Wallace informs me there will be: about 1500 tax executions after the! 15th. j The legislature appropriated morei money than ever before. The office: holders are determined to keep up] salaries, and are about as well or-' ganized as Union Labor. It is now. proposed to add several more office j holders in Sumter County, in a Conn-; ty Court with salaries fixed to fit the! IL C. L., as it appears to the office- | holding fraternity. I think. Mr. Editor, the tactics of Thursday after-.' noon spells the defeat of the county ' court if the people generally turn out to vote. But if the country vo-j ters leave it to the city ; Sumter. it will probably carry, for the cost of the court, will be paid by all tax-' payers, and the money will bo spent j in Sumter. The great savings of the! County Court will only inure to the! litigants of the county, who are. I presume, even in less proportion to the taxpavers than are the auto own ers - ! 1 want to congratulate Messrs. '? Booth and Harvin for standing up for their position in the face of the1 audience that was against them. I! wish all the board could have been present. I also want to congratulate j Sumter county on having a board j that is looking after our best inter ests. Federal Land Bank Bonds are: being sold at 5 per cent or 5 1-2 per] cent interest, and they are no better! than Sumter county road bonds. I left the hall to take Mr. Young to the train, and did not know until J j saw the paper aft-.r the above was; written that Mr. Belser was author ized to organize a produce company, j E. W. DA BBS. [ May Tib, 1921 Reunion of Veterans j - j Camden. May 7.?May IS and 19] members of the South Carolina J>ivi-; sion. U. C. Y., will pitch their tents in Camden, the old city in the heart' of Dixie, of Revolutionary and ante-.1 bellum fame. Camden is ready to' receive them. i At a recent meeting of the central j committee all sub-committees report-, ed "ready." and when it was estimat ed that there would be aproximately .i:h> veterans present the reply was. "Lot them come: each shall receive a warm welcome and the best that Camden has to offer." All veterans, sponsors, maids and matrons, chape rons, and offic ial guests are to be en tertained. The only regret is that limited hotel accommodations prevent the people, saying to everybody, "Come in and make merry at our ex pense." The three largest hotels are closed, anl this shuts off an avenue of entertainment which will be greatly missed in this emergency. The program is to be full and at tractive, including good speakers, mu sic, dancing, community singing and j fiddling around camp fires. If the coining reunion is not the I most successful and delightful in the history of the division it will not be the fault of the people of Camden. for they are working together in unity and looking forward with the bright est anticipation and greatest pleasure to the occasion, it is declared. Cincinnati. May !?. -The railroad situation was discussed tod.ij b* the executive council of the American Federation of Labor which is at tempting to -levis- program that, will aid in tie.- sohlt?.!!' of tie- trans portation situation. The report of '.!)?? council to the annual convention of the Federation a: Denver in June will show what steps have been tak en to secure the enactment of legis lation providing for government ow nership and den.rn tie control of the railway systems. Havana. May y. President-elect Zayas has announced that as soon as he takes office he will probably:Qnfcn negotiations with the Cnited Stated for a commercial treaty. WEEKLY MARKETGRAM. I*. S. Bureau of Markets , For Week Ended May' ?">. Grant. Prices trended upward during week idue to "<n"] export demand, light of ferings, strong cash market and i small wheat stocks Chicago available idelivcr\ Mav contracts with price i :level loo low to attrnej shipments from ouiside points. Tie- only decline [was <m the 4t.h as result heavy li quidation easli wheat by Kansas pro jducei"s account upturn and belief by [some interests that prices sufficiently [high. Ingles report shows unfavor able crop conditions Oklahoma. Keen [demand cash wheat seaboard. Oats [damage reports Oklahoma and Iowa. In Chicago cash market Xo. 2 red j winter wheat $1.52, No. hard ?1.57, 'No. :! mixed corn tie--. N<>. 3 yellow [corn GOc, No. :; white oats :;7e. For ilhe week Chicago .May wheat up , K'-c at $3.44 ?-S. .May corn 2c at J 51? :'.-4c. Chicago July wheat up j !) at $1.15, July corn lie at 6-2 "?c. j Minneapolis July wheat up 9 l-4c at ?$1.23 :i-Se; Kansas City July lie at if!.OS; Winnipeg July 10c at $1.45%. Fruits and Vegetables. Sacked round white potatoes down 10c pei 1"') lbs. at northern shipping points, closing CO to 70c. Chicago carlot market at season's low point T'i to .s.'.c. Florida No. 1 Spaulding Rose up $1.25 per double head Parrel Chicago, at $9 to *'.*.2r>; up 50c New York at ss to $$.25. Texas sacked Pliss Triumphs down $3 to $1.25 leu- 1 ifii lbs. Kansas <'iiy at $4 to *4.2.": St. Louis ?4 to $4.50. ("old stora.ee Baldwin apples up about 50c per bid. in city wholesab markets. New York ,\ 2U stock mostly $6.50 to S7 per hid. N >rth western Extra Fancy Winesaps uoar ly steady Chicago, medium to large sizes $2.7.") to $3.25, small sizes to $2.50. Sacked yellow onions slow and steady in eastern city wholesale markets at 7."?c to $1.25 per 10<> lbs., few cold storage $1.75 to $'2 New York. Texas yellow Bermudas down $1.10 to $2 per standard crate No. 1 and 2 stock, commercial pack, high est prices prevailing in eastern mar kets; shipping stations down lo to 1 ."(? at so to '.)Uo carloads f. o. b. ship ping point acceptance. Tennessee Klondike strawberries 30 to 35e quart 'oasis New York. Klondikes in 24-quart crates $3.2."> to $4.2.*) per crate carloads f. o. b. cash track Arkansas points: <'.'>.;>0 to f. o. b. Tennessee stations. Wauchula Section, Florida reports growers receiving 7 ",c to Si each for small size Tom Watson watermelons, wagonlcads cash to growers. Cotton. Spot cotton prices advanced 3s points the past week, closing at 11.53 . per lb. New York .May futures up .' points at L2.6$C. Hay. Market continues weak with prices j somewhat lower in several markets. { Receipts light and demand very lim- j ited. No. l timothy quoted -May 4. { New York'. $30,: Chicago $22, Ciu- j cinnati .>2<k Atlanta $2i>. Memphis i $20.50: No. 1 alfalfa, Kansas City $23. Memphis $2*>.30, .Atlanta No. l prairie, iVIinneapol's $16.50, I Chicago SI 7, Kansas City $13.75. Feed. Snot prices for mill feed firm in Centra 1 and northwest but weak in south and east. Demand very light. Linseed meal and gluten feed lower. Cottonseed meal held firmly at higher prices. Alfalfa meal and hominy feed weak. Spring bran quoted May 4. Philadelphia $24.50. Chicago 519. Cincinnati $29. SO. New York $34.12: Minneapolis .5It!; standard middlings, Philadelphia *:M. Chicago $IS. Min neapolis $1">: linseed meal; Minne apolis $29. New York S-"7. Kansa** City $31; gluten feed. Chicago $26.50. Cincinnati ?29.SO; New York $34.12; cottonseed meal. Memphis At lanta $26.50. Dairy Products. Butter markets unsettled; price tendency downward, during week. Trading not normal, otherwise ton'; of market would be firmer as there has been' temporary shortage some grades. Declines due to desire of trade to keep stocks moving in an ticipation of usual increased spring ! production, (.'losing prices. 92 score: 1 New York 36T/?e; Chicago 3d1-; Philadelphia and Posten I Cheese markets slow and business I not up to expectations following Monday's decline on Plymouth, Wis consin cheese exchange. Prices on (most styles about Ic lower than a 'week ago. Undertone of markets {somewhat unsettled although there is ; more general feeling that prices are} about as low as they will go for the [present. Prices Wisconsin ptimary j : markets: Daisies 14*<?e: Dou'rile 1 Daisies and Longhorns Nc; Voting | \ Americas l 1 3 -4 c. Live Slock and Meals, j Chicago hog prices underwent prac- 1 t if ?ally no change the past week. Fat 1 lambs firm to -'<<? higher: feeding lambs, yearlings and fat ewes gener ? all\ steady. Beef steers and butcher cows and heifers up 25c to 30c; feed- j ; er steers 15c to L'-e. May .'. Chicago j prices: Hogs, bulk of sales, ss.iu to ?$S.55; medium and good beef steer.* .*7..''0 to $S.75: butcher cows and I heifers $5 to $S:75: feeder steers 1 $6.7"? to $S.3r?: light and medium ! [weight veal calves $S to $10; fat i lambs $9.23 to $11.25: feeding iambs $7 to *s.50: yearlings $S to $9.5o; i fat ewes $5.73 t<> $7.25. Storkers and feeder shipments-, j j from It important] markets during [the week ending April lV? were: Cat- 1 (tie and calves 46.6S5; hogs 7.o'.j0; ! 1 sheep ll.'ts.'.. j With the exception of lamb and '? (mutton eastern wholesale fresh meat j prices were generally lower. Beef declined 30 c to $3; veal $1; pork ! loins $ I to s:: per 100 lbs: land, steady to $! higher: mutton up $1 to 1 !$"_'. May .*. prices good grade meats: j Beef $3(i lo SIC.".<?: veal ? 17 to $39; [ laupb y20 1.0 $24: moi ion $3(5 to $1S; j [llgt^r^ifrli loins' $"23 to $25; .heavy ' 'loins Sltf to $20. I Bridge Contract Signed Friday County Commissioners Approve Wateree Project j (Columbia State) j All differences between the Rich-' land permanent loads corn mission1 and the county commissions were ironed out yesterday and the eon iva.fi for the Wateree bridge was signed and given its final approval! by iii?- county board. Actual work: '?a the structure will begin next week*, it was announced lasi night. ; Due to the failure of certain par-1 ties to guarantee the funds for the approaches to the bridge the con-' tract had no; been approved by the, commissioners until yesterday when! S. B. McMaster brought in a resolu tion from the Sumter delegation ab-j soiutely guaranteeing the money forj the approaches to the Sumter end of] the bridge. After this was present- j od to the commissioners the contract' was- given the John Hancock of the< county board members. The commissioners also passed a! resolution agreeing to let the high-: way commission go ahead with thej ling of the Piedmont Highway from near Ballentine to'Hilton. Some de fay had been expected due to a rul ing that the state department had! to deal with the permanent roads] commission. This was straightened! out and the contract for the road will! be carried out, it was announced last night. The Winthrop Pageant; "The Making of South Carolina"^ Spectacular Success flock Hill. May 6.?Never in the \ history of Pock Hill has there been! such a gathering of Carolinians as j that assembled here this afternoon [ or th?' historical pageant. "The j Making of South Carolina.*' present-, ed at. Winthrop College. From every] nook and corner of the Palmetto 1 state, and from many parts of North Carolina, they came to get a glimpse j >f the historical scenes so ably por rayed by the students of the college. Between seven and ten thousand pep jde were assembled on tie- rear ! ?ompus, where the performance uasj given. j The campus made an ideal setting .'or the performance, in a depression j was the stage, while on the slopes: ?airrounding, tier upon tier of seats! had been erected, affording to every | person an excellent view. The grassy j nillside not covered with seats afford- j ?d ample space for the hundreds who came too late to gel reserved seats, j At the last minute an additional sec-j lion of the seats was provided, al- j hough only provision was made for 1.000 seats innre than was at first contemplated. It was a spectacle that i will long be remembered. [? More than 1.400 students of the college arid of Cue training school j, participated in the performnace and j. each character was faithfully por- ! craved, every costume having been I designed after a careful study of thej, customs and styles of the exact pe riod from which the scone was tak en. Tin- performer- showed, too. tiiat they laid been close students of the history of their Commonwealth and that they were familiar with ail the ; characters of the many periods or epochs front the time of the earliest! settlers. By their acting and by their oral parts they instructed the multi tude in a striking and entertaining manner. \Yvcr iiave so many people, it :s believed, been so thoroughly drilled in a State history as was the- pageant I audience. Even a ib-tailed description of the performance would be wholly inade- J ? piate. It needs only be said that the | presentation of the eleven episo-l more than surpassed ih.- expectat'ons of those who know the reputation of Winthrop students for giving tie- ? j In "The Making o:' South Carolina' '.lie student body adds another and a . well deserved laurel to the wreath of fame already placed by appro- j ciative public over the institution \ many declared. j _! NEW TORR COTTON. La si j Worth Open High Low Close Close : Jan. . . . 1-T..15 1 1.15 I 1.02 14.00 14.08 Moh. . .14.40 14.40 14.30 11.00 11.35 1 May. ..12.To C.'.TI 12.110 12.71 1.-2.6.-? I I uly. . . 1 3.20 13.20 1 3.03 1 3.1 1 1 3.1 3 ; <?ct.. -. 13.73 12.73 I ::.?;*? l ::.(;?; I3.G!) j I)e<-.. . .14.07 l l.es 13.1?5 13.11a 1!.'?1 ; Spots unchanged. iL'.'.)".. NEW ORLEANS COTTON. Last j \!onth Open High Low Close Close Jan.. .. 13.-0 I Meli.. .13.S4 13.91 13.S4 13.91 May. . .12.30 12.40 12.30 L2.39 12.:17' July. . .12.75 ", l'.s t u.in; 12.79 1J.77 j Oct.. ..13.35 13.3-7 13.1 S l13.2? | Deo.. ..13.54 13.59 13.54 13.50 13.49 Spots uncha nged, 1 1 .SS. LIVERPOOL COTTON. .January. S.69 ; March. M.T7 ? May. X.OSi .July. S.33 October. S.57 December . . S.67 Mr. 1 >. It. Stack. Court Stenogra pher of this circuit, has moved his headquarters to Sumter from Colum bia His office is on the second floor Of the court liOUSe. Washington. May 9.?The com pie- ! tion of government nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals. Ala., was urged on j President Harding as the abandon-, inc-ni of the project would be serious blow not only to the south but to the i union's industrial prosperitv in gen-; oral. I Starke. Pia.. May 9.?-Sam Balling er. a negro who several weeks ago1 shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Ben-! nett, near La w ley. was taken from j the Iw-'a&ford county jail shortly ai- I ter midnight and lynched. 1 Sumter Post T. P. A. Hold Annual Banquet Large Number of Members En joy Pocalla Fish Fry The members of Post fiG" of the Travelers Protective Association met at the V. M. C. A. Building at G !?? Pi'iday :ir;?l motored t<> Pocalla where it had been decided the annual banquet of this so '?iviy would be held. The abundant menu, inclusive of the '"Crawford Special*' fish stew, fried fish, corn l?ones. rice, coffee, and budwoiser. was spread out in appetizinz array on the two long tables of the new dining room addition, before the fifty-two possessors of fish fry appetites' and honorable members of thm associa tion. Tlx- blessing was asked by Dr. Thayer. Chaplin of the Post. For some time 1 hereafter the entire gathering was comparatively qt:eit, insofaras speech was concerned, and so it might be well to make it your guess that they were otherwise occupied just at that particular time. And they were for their undivided attention was de voted to the sumptuous spread befoie them. The statement was made by one member present that this was the mos splendid gathering of T. P. A. mem bers that he had ever seen on a simi lar occasion. Several short impromptu after dinn< r speeches were heard from dif ferent Post members r- td the state-, ment made by Mr. 3L I.. Scarborough, president o: the Post, that the Sumter post would go lo the T. P. A. State Convention which is to be held in Gaffney on May 12th and 13th with the 100 per cent inicrease in its mem bership. Arrangements were made by Mr. George Warren, Secretary of tin Post, for the sending of the full number of delegates allowed at the State Convention which number is thirteen. Mr. L. I. Parrot added to what Mr. Warren had stated and stressed the importance of Sumter's full representation. . He stated that Mr. H. L. Scarborough had given his consent to his eanidancy for president of the State Division and that his elec tion to this office was almost assur ed. AH members who are to attend this convention are to meet at the Clerk of Court's office in the Court House on Monday afternoon at 6:30 o'clock, at which time ail final plans and arrangements will be made. Still Taken by Sheriff and Officers Two More Negro Moonshiners Arrested and Placed in Jail Joseph Richardson and John Har ris, two negro men of the Borden neighborhood, were arrested on Fri day afternoon by Deputy Sheriff H. (;. McKagen. Rural Officers Boy kin and Newman and Mr. Jim Beams of Rembort. on the charge of making whiskey. The arrest was made at about o'clock- in the afternoon af ter catching both of these negroes with undeniable evidence aga' ;t rlom. They were both living on the Emanuel place at Horden. A small still was found in each of th^se negro's houses and about 75 gallons of mash was destroyed by the offi eers. The men were brought to Sumter and placed in the countv jail here. Engagements Announced Ridge [Springs, .May 7?Mr. and .Mrs. Charlton Brown LaFitte of Ridge Springs announce the engage ment of their only daughter. Mary Eliza, to Thomas V'ardene Walsh, Jr., of Sumter. the marriage to take place in June. Spartanburg. May 7?Mrs. W. C. Cooke entertained at an elaborate tea Wodnesdaj afternoon at her home on Peronneau street, the affair given to announce the engagement of her sister." Miss Carrie Duncan Burnett, to William B. Ellis of Green ville. Small Roof Fire This Morning Several of the small chemical tanks on tin- trucks were used this morning in putting out a small tire en the roof of the residence occu pied by Mr. Robert Bradford, No. 213 N. Washington street. Only a few kveeks ago the lire department) v.as called to extinguish a sin ilar fire on the roof of this hous . The fires must have been occasioned by de fective lines. The lire this morning occurred at about 11.15. The trucks arrived on the sc? ne promptly af ter their alarm summons and the fire men did their work quickly with the chemical. The "no parking of auto mobiles within the block law" was strictly carried out this morning by the operation of the police, so that the work of the firemen was unim peded by the blocking of their right of. way. Greenville. May 7.?Wm. Thomp son, negro, allegeq '.. hayo shot ami fatally wounded City Policeman George Purroughs last night, was cap tured by a posse of officers and citi zens about three miles cast of the city, aft'd r an exchange of shots in which one . f the pursuers wa- siight Iv woifl ted. Thompson. o'licials here stated, confessed to the attack upon Policeman Burroughs. You Will Save Money by Purchasing YOUR TOBACCO FLUES At The Sumter Roofing & Sheet Metal Works Office and Works 11 Council St.