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ij and Saturday SHIXG fcOMPAXY & O. inn*?in advance, its. insertoin __$1.00 tent insertion_ .50 r three months or long at reduced rates, ?communications which subserve lie interests will be charged for a<*freW isements* ^Obituaries and tribute* of respect Will be charged for. The Samter Watchman was found ed in 18>0.and the True Southron in 1856; The Watchman and Southron fcoY, has the combined circulation and mfiuenee of both of the old papers, \n& is- manifestly the beat advertising medium itf Sumter, g i i ?? ? XXTS OR CROOKS. Congressman Bland of Indiana, complained on the floor of the house the" Mother day that he had been try ing, itf vain for several months to get a, light track for the Bureau of Mines. That bureau is a branch of the United States government. The government, he says, has thousands Of trucks of the kind desired, stand ins idle, and -admits it, The govern ment, also admits the desirability of providing a truck for the Bureau of 2JJm.es. But "there is some red tape or something in the way, so that -there is no power on earth that can get one of these trucks assinged tb a station.*' It is the same old story of a red tape bureaucracy, repeated a thou sand times daring1 the war and since. The. growrnmehtal departments, sup posedly organized for efficient service, nave grown so unwieldy thai so sim ple a matter as the transfer of a bit of property from one department ?r bureau, to another is almost im possible: Always there are promises cf Reformation, but little comes of 1& famili?r and irritating bit of in efficiency along, this line is found in ! the case of "farmers* bulletins" is sued by the Department of Agricul- ] tare. Some of these pamphlets are j sold for five or 10 cents a piece. The most convenient and obvious way to ionrard such a small sum is by en closing stamps with the order. But win the government accept its own stamps? It wilt not. The citizen de^ring one of those pamphlets is obliged to send a certified check or a registered letter ov a postal order for that nickel or dime. It is impossible, apparently, for the government of the United States to axtaxLge so simple a thing as the ad justment of accounts between the ?posioif.ee department, on one hand and the department of agriculture or the government printing office qn *he other, and any criticism is* met With the polite' but reproving re minder that "stamps are not mon ey.". Suppose a private business op crated that wayr JEWSOX'S OWX CREATXOX. Yt is amusing to hear a man like fEMison deriding the modern youth: for his* lack of minute Information,' for it is Edison and all the goodly company of scientists and inventors who have made the modern youth -what he is. v .Every invention -which helps to '^c?ver distance speedily, to transfer information promptly and easily, to make sources of reference plentiful and accessible, to render labor less difficult or make diversion easier, lifts- from the shoulders of man one more^ reason for personal effort. Why; should" any man, college-bred or oth erwise; painfully acquire and cum ber h~5s brain with'a thousand loose facts, any one of which science has made accessible to him in a . few minutes or hours? How can any youth be expected to devote his life solely to the pursuit Of dry facts when a phonograph in every parlor and a picture machine on every corner and an automobile to every 10 inhabitants invite him to frivolity, and he knows that he can afford the time to be frivolous be cause a thousand inventors have made it possible for him to catch up quickly with his business? Such youth may be a bugbear to the- inventor responsible for it. but to., all the. rest of mankind it is the hope of the world. Front it will Spring, in spito of disgruntled genius, the Edlsons. the Teslas. the Curies and the Bells of a coming genera tion. BRITAIN SEES IT THROUGH. There has been very general scep ticism over the trial of German war criminals which is about to begin in Leipsie, Germany. Thu situation is cleared considerably by the infor mation that two British lawyers are to be on hand for the proceedings*. ?Their presencY will make it infinite ly more difficult for ger:nany to con duct a farcical' or unsatisfactory trial. Sir Ernest Pollock* Efigllsh Solici ts General, and Stfr. Ellis Hume H?fii*<fi?^ TZ* .Cr? wlU hew* tfe* ?eie gatiorv. They will .take with them a number of witnesses who will give evidence additional to that brought out. in the Bow Street proceedings in London. Insistence on the German fulfillment of this obligation was in cluded in the ultimatum, and al though the trials will be conducted by German officials the English dele gation will be there to see that justice is done. These trials have been too long delayed. There is danger that time might obliterate, to some extent, the memory of what kind of warfare Germany waxed, and at some far. future date some nation, encouraged by that forgetfulness, might repeat such horrors. It is well the trials are at hand. It is well that Great Britain is to be present. Britain has a fashion of see ing things through. PRICES ALMOST CUT TS HALF. On the first of this month, accord ing to Bradstreet's index* thera was recorded a general price decline of 48 per cent from the high level of the boom period. That is to say, the peak prices, on an average, had been almost exactly cut In half. Or, look ing at the situation from the other end, the Bradstreet report showed that prices stood, on May 1. only 13 per cent above the highest pre-war level of 1912. And since May 1. prices have settled down a little fur ther. Doesn't that give one a grand and glorious feeling? To think that for only $1.13, or possibly a cent or two less, you can buy as much of the ne cessaries of life as you could for $1 before the war! '?But,'" every reader will reply in stante*, "you can't."' And the sad fact has to be admitted. - The figures quoted above do not lie, but they are wholesale prices, the prices paid by dealers, not the prices paid by consumers. The ultimate purchaser knows only too well that very few commodities reflect the big drop referred to, as far as ho is con- ' cerned> and that many commodities are stiil near the peak. It comes back to the same old story ?the story of the retailer who eith er refuses to take his loss on high priced stock, or who, if he has profi-. teerifig tendencies, holds out for boom profits in a slump period and hopes to continue those profits in definitely. The actual or intentional profiteers, no doubt, are a minority, but they have enough influence to retard the natural subsidence of prices, to arouse public indignation against re tailers in general who do not deserve it, and by checking deflation to hold back business revival. The quicker they take their loss?where there is any loss to take?and start the new j deal, the better it will be. for every - j body, including themselves. Timely Remark* From Mr. 3Ioise. Editor Daily Item: I desire to publish through the col umns of your paper a short article and hope that the views imparted may as sist in bringing to the readers of your paper a feeling of more optimism than has been generally exhibited for the. last few months. I attended with a great deal of* pleasure the meeting last evening at Pocalla Springs where the good people of Sumter and the surrounding county extended to the boosters of Greenville a well-planned and satisfactory reception. I believe that this meeting will do a great deal of good in every way and especially from a standpoint of better acquaint ance and cooperation among the peo ple of the state, as the conditions which have confronted, and are now confronting the entire people of the South are conditions that are not lo cal, but are general and cannot be solved by mere talk, and certainly not by such pessimistic feeling as have been exhibited for some months past by a great many people. For the past few years the entire i people have been spoiled by condi tions that were not normal and it is well that these conditions have been changed, even though temporarily it involves a hardship on our enure country. It has been a common feel ing and was possibly gotten from an old adage that the world owes every man a living. This unfortunately is not the ease. The world is good to its people, but the only way that a living can be obtained is by hard work and saving and the sooner the people learn this, the better off the country will be and the sooner conservative prosperity will again come. There are a great many problems i to be solved, but we have a great i many able men among us to handle I rhem. If there is a man, woman or child who feels that the temporary 'depression which has come over this country will destroy our existence and j demolish our enterprises and that [there is no remedy for it. then that ? person, whoever they may be has no j confidence in tins grand old country lot" ours, and should seek some other I pla<-e of residence than in the T*nit?.d ! States. ; There have been some failures in |onr community which we regret and no doubt could not have been avoided jand it fas up to these people, as well j a* the balance of. us. to wipe off the I slate, to put our shoulders to the ! wheel, to raise bur heads and open our i eyes and ears and begin again if [necessary for I believe that there are just an many opportunities today as ever before and 1 believe the fvtwre will bring more opportunities us the live wide-awake man than it has in the past. ~VV|e have all been nit and it would be hard t?r find what bust mess or which individual has been hit the hardest. The fanner who is now holding his cotton and'having to nay a high rate of interest is naturally crippled, l>u( even with that, the i farmer is probably more fortunate than a great many of us in other walks of life far he has food and other necessities with which to sustain life even though he has no ready cash. The merchants, real estate dealers, and in fact .-very business and individ ual has been forced to take his loss because of a falling market and it is 'therefore my opinion thai it will be necessary before any readjustment can be counted on and any substantial! improvement reached that the farm-j ers as well as the other business men take their loss marking it off and fi gure to make it back in the future. j I do not believe there is any better ? place in the world to live than in South Carolina and 1 do not believe 1 there is any better city to live in than Sumter and when I hear a man say that South Carolina is a poor state or {section or that Sumter is a poor town 1 think of the salesman who was nev er satisfied with the territoy assigned to him, but was always wanting" to change on account of a temporary boom in some other place and after making the move from one territory to another several limes trying to fol low the boom he finally returned to his home town feeding that he could get substantial business by pegging j along in the same territory than he; could get by making moves on account j of temporal*:.* conditions that might; exist elsewhere. > In conclusion. I hope that Sumter I county will foilowr- Greenville's ex ample and will send its citizens out from time to time with a view of get- j ting in closer touch with the people of the state and with what is being; done in other counties of the state. 1} believe that after the people in Sum-; ter county have traveled over other sections They will be glad to return to j Sumter county to live for the balance; of their lives and will feel that we! have the best location there is on thej ' face of the globe. | We hope that the Sumter Stemmeryl wili bring to Sumter business from the i .vurrounding counties which will bej beneficial to us and that it will en^ courage the planting of more tobac co in this county. I am now, with others, looking into the practicability of building and installing machinery: for the curing of sweet potatoes to be; shipped to northern markets and from the information we have been able to gather so far it loks like a practical proposition and one that would bring to the farmers of Sumter county and of South Carolina a very fine oppor tunity for making money out of a crop that is easy to raise and which can be raised in enormous quantities and I hope to l>e able with my associ ates to give the people of Sumter county more definite information in a short time relative to these plans. We cannot turn bac k, and as was told by one of ttie speakers last even ing about the men watching a heavy rain which h.ad come up and walking out- on the porch one said to the other j '"Do you think it will clear up" and the other replied '"It always has", i That is my attitude and feeling in the matter. These depressions havej come on the people periodically and the cause of the present depression cannot be entirely taken off thej shoulders of the people. There may j be other causes, but if the money] that was made during good times hadj been conservatively handled, we would have been able to pass over the pres ent condition without very little in .convenience. While, as I have said; before, it is a dear lesson, it will bej worth more to our people in dollars j and cents than can be estimated and | when this depression has passed and I business again resumes its normal I course. I do not believe, regardless of*! how prosperous the people might he-1 I come, that they will squander their j 'earnings again with this lesson inj ; mind. ! Let us all from this time on speak j the good news that condition-; are ? improvirg. let us talk wuth optimism to all with whom we come in contact, let us put our shoulders to the wheel and work diligently, not for a few hours a day, but continuously, and i very soon, the wheels of progress will again turn and we will begin to feel the joy of success through our own efforts and be a. belter people for having so lived. Pessimism does no one any good, it no; only incapacitates the man him- | (self, but it incapacitates everyone with] ! whom he comes in contact. Lets push) aside the dark clouds and very soon | the sun will shine through upon all j [ of us. E. W. MJOISE. I Bodies of Soldiers Arrive. I Columbia, May is.?The bodies of j thirty-one soldiers who died lighting 'the Hun reached Columbia today for distribution to their homes in the southeast, fourteen of them arc- of South Carolina heroes, one of wdio was a captain, James H. Holmes, Jr., of Charleston. The South Carolinians are: Wil- j hams Stewart, Great Falls; James T. ! Lloyd. Greenville; Clarence F. Cow an. Langley; Faul E. P.agsdalo, Pel- ! zer; Finest C. Jones. Pickens; Boyce L. Gowan, Spartan burg; James A. Epps and William M. Mobley. Union; Clyde Tomlison, Manning; Julius A. Mood. Summerton; Johnnie McFad den, Sardinia; Fritz Williams. Xeescs; i Broad us Davis, Woodruc; Claude A. ! Stephenson. Anderson; Percy X. j j Gunter, Patesburg: Vemon X. Jones. , ; Branehville; Capt. .fames H. Holmes, Jr.. Charleston: Walter A. Campbell, i ! ("bester. Warning Sent Mexican President. f ?*- I : Mexico City. May is.?"Beware1 of the fate of Francisco Madero. who j failed to heed solicitations to change his policy and fell." was the warning 'sent to President Obrcgon by Liber als constitutional members oi the chamber of deputies and the .senate [sent a warning and made pointed : charges against two members of the cabinet who had attempted u> cnuse I dissatisfaction against, the Obrcgon'j administration. It was signed by one hundred and thirty-eight deputies and several senators. Two cabinet of ficers were charged with attempts to uae their offices to propagate 'radical- i ism. . ? HEALTH ARTICLE By L. A. Riser, M. J)., in Charge, Department of Rural Sanita tion and County Health work, S. C. Board of Health For :i long time wo have accepted the theory that the country was -healthier than the city and city people thought they might maintain their healthy condition by making yearly excursions to the country Cor their va cations. This was a natural supposition for in the country we have plenty of fresh air and sunlight and fewer persons to a given urea. Facts recently brought tout by surveyors made in the coun Ities do not bear out this theory*. These j reports show deaths from typhoi 1 and I malaria to be muc h higher in the country than in the city. This is brought about by lack of sanitation, poorly heated and poorly ventilated school buildings, lack <>t' medical at tention, polutted water and. last but ! not least, lack of health supervision in the rural district. An educational [campaign is necessary to change [these conditions and thus reduce thej death rate in the country below that of the city where it properly belongs. In the city we have health laws and the City man is forced to obey these! laws. In small towns we too often have these laws which are not ? n-< forced, and in the country we have no laws and no power to enforce tin m j if we had. In the city each citizen is made to understand that his standard of Iiv-j ing must be such as to come under] the law and at the same rime he is made to understand that he is not ; only responsible for own health and that of his family, but the health of j his neighbor also. A man in the country who lives a mile or more from his nearest neighbor can do as he pleases with his property. His stable may not be cleaned out but once a year: his hog pen filthy and smelling to high heaven: his well with an un safe top which allows the surface wa ter to drain in; his closet open to flies and chickens and his child with contagious disease allowed to run at will. It does not occur to him that he is the cause of the spread of dis ease not only to his neighbor in the country but too often to the citizens of his nearest town. He may have a case of typhoid fever at his home and through the sale of milk in town may spared many eases of typhoid fever , ihere. The farmer bads such an inde pendent existence. He is lord of all he surveys, and this sort of thing has gone on so long, it is hard to convince him that he owes certain duties to his neighbors and friends and to so ciety at large. We have all been so busy preaching good habits and good, health to city folks and making laws' for them, we have failed to make the farmer realize his responsibility. Now we are waking up to th;s fact and feel the need of some law en forcement in the country. Progressive farmers in all our counties in South Carolina are behind the movement. '"Better Health for Farm Homes and Communities". The department of rural sanitation of the State Board of Health, by the permis sion and aid of your local paper is going to get out an article each month on Better Health. The object of this department is to establish a full I time county health department in! every county in South Carolina and J stand ready to cooperate with any county beginning this work. Xo coun ty that does n<>t protect the health and lives of its citizens is truly pro gressive. It is just as important to know how much is lost to a county! each year by preventable disease as it is to know how much is lost by the boll weevil or the cattle tick. Columbia High Defeats Sumter. Columbia. May IS.?-Columbia "Hi" defeated Sumter Hi" here yesterday afternoon 4 to 3. The game was one of the best exhibitions of high sc hool baseball ever played in Columbia. Sumter got iw-> runs in the first in hing' on walks and errors. Bradley i hit a three bagger in Columbia's half of the second and scored on a wild throw. Hedgepath for Colum bia hit a home run in Columbia's half of tite fourth, tying the score. Columbia scored again in the eighth. Sumter came back in its half of the ninth, tying the score by an error in the infield. Columbia rallied hi its part of the ninth, get ting two singles. Shillito brought in the winning run with a. single over second. The game was hard fought with plenty of "pep" on both sides, as it had a bearing on the state cham pionship, which is to be ' played off in the next week or two. Etheredge pitcher for Columbia, was strong in the pinches. lie allowed only two 9oatC*h hits and fanned 12 men. Hedgepath for Columbia on short furnished the fielding features. He successfully fielded ten chances with out an error. Seay played his usual good game on first. Amend Cotton Measure Washington. May 18.?Representa tive Stevenson of South Carolina in troduced to the house today an amendment to the cotton futures a. . under which :i buyer on the cot ton exchange would have the right to select one-half his purchase in any of the legal grades desired by him. and the exchanges would have the right to deliver the other bail* in any of the grades they might select. The amendment differs from the Dial amendment only in that the lat ter stipulates that the Payer and seller must select their halves on the cotton from two of the ten grades. Mr. Stevenson states that the rep resentatives from .Mississippi. Louis iana and Oklahoma, where low grade cotton is produced, have found no fault with either his or the Dial amendment They defeated the com er amendment lust year because o1 their belief that if would eliminate a market for low grad* cotton. PRISON REFORM Noteworthy Address by Thomas Mott Osborne, of New York The need of a common-sense sys tem in prisons so that men will tome out better than when they went in was the keynote of the address of Thomas Mott Osborne before the j 131st annual council of the diocese! of South Carolina Tuesday evening. The no-,-ting was held at the Prcsby-; teriah church to accommodate the large crowd, the use <>f the building having been offered the council by the pastor. Rev. J. 1'. Marion, and the session of the church. In introducing tin- speaker Bishop Guerry. the presiding officer, said that Mr. Osborne had done Pis* great work because he had taken the po sition that men in orison are not brutes but our brothers. The bishop also asserted that Mr. Osborne had more real heart-to-heart friends than any man in America. Mr. Osborne declared that he was not interested in prison reform from sentimential re asons, pointing out that he had been a plain business man for twenty years after leaving college, then entered politics and became may or of his native city. Auburn. X. V. It was when he wsa appointed on a hoard "f commissioners on prison re form that In- became interested in prison conditions and decided to enter [Sing Sing prison as a full-fledged in ! mate for a week's stay, in order to become acquanted with the convicts j in their daily life and as one of their i number. Afterward, as warden of the [great penitentiary a; Ossining. X. Y.. I he was aide to institute the reforms {that he had fouivl to be imperative for the well being of the inmates, but only after overcoming much opposi tion. He said he was led to take up the work because he looked upon the mat ter of treatment of criminals as a great unsolved problem of society. That it is a problem crying for oarn-j est consideration is shown, he said, by the fact that TO or more per cent of the inmates of prisons have served at ; least one. previous term. Their- is noj indication in that, he declared, that I prison methods turn bad citizens into1 good. i Showing the enormous cost of crime I fo the country in dollars, Mr. Osborne; stated that the average number of confined criminals each year is 4!)(>.-! 000, entailing a proportionate num-i (her of prison officials and guards. ISuch a condition nuts all citizens in j dange r, and the shadow of the prison is on every city and State," he de-1 clared. The theory that the criminal belongs ; to an exclusive class, quite different from other human beings, has been 'exploded. Mr, Osborne declared. From his own contact with criminals and j [from tests made by an English phy sician, it has been found that there are no 'physical criminals'' or "mental criminals." in the sense that the com mission of a crime is the result of a peculiar physical or mental consti tution. As a matter of fact, he said, it has been his experience and that ; of others, that the average of intelli I genceo fpcrsons inside a prison is: I higher than that of the persons out-1 side. It is the consiceneo, not the mind, of the criminal that is undeveloped, bej asserted, and a "moral hospital" is the j aspect that prisons should strive for, nit her than to continue as places strictly of punishment. The indeter minate sentence is the best method, he holds, for it is coming to be real ized, that the theory that the pun ishment should be made to fit the [crime, and nut vice versa is correct.. It is practically impossible for pres-j ent methods to reform a criminal, asj they have the ine vitable result of mak ing a man worse, seneling him bae-k j into the world with a spirit of revenge against society. He pointed out thatj in many eases a criminal tendency is the result of environment and asso-j ciates. j A large part of Mr. Osborne's ad dress was a relation of some of the j many incidents that had marked his, close association with convicts, inci dents that reflected the rules govern-j ing the management of convicts in j prisons of the olel type- and showed! how the criminals react to the condi.-j tionsA Other incidents indicated howl they responded to his system, a sys-; te-m reposing confidence?n theun andi giving them a chance- to prove that I they are amendable te> correction wise-j ly administered. The liberty allowed! the convicts at a road camp in the State of Xew York was described. | and how their loyality to the- method; prevented the-m from taking aelvant-j age of it. He gave concrete instances showing1 that a criminal can be reformed and j make a good citiz*i of himself when he returns to the outside world. The] first name of one of them was "John nie," and he re-ad a letter that he had! received from Johnnie, telling how In-j was making good in the world, be-] sides supporting his wife and two' children. j Mr. Osborne pointed out tin- almost! general indifference that is shown by the wardens of tin- prisons to the method that lie instituted at Sing Sing, where it has been working sucea-ss-, fully for six years. His system is call-j ed the Mutual Welfare- League, and it is also in operation at four other prisons in the county, including that! at Paris Island, hi this State. Phe nomenal success has been achieved by j ii at the naval prison at Portsmouth.) X. H. Out of a total of more than) tf.000 prisoners, only eight have es-: caped. and no guards have been em ployed during the period of two years, j The only guard service employed is that supplied by the- men themselves,j after the- manner of a military sys-1 tent. In the past at a tim<- when there) were only 170 prisoners, the guards had numbered ISO. There is undoubtedly a strong loy alty among crooks, to themselves and to a system that re-poses trust in them and loyalty is the basis of good citi zenship, lie saieb Appealing for inter-j lest and sympathy for the men in the prisons, he- pointed out that it was Cain, the first criminal, who asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" ami he Iben referred to the significance of the story of the thief on the cross. After Mr. Osfoorne bad spoken a, resolution introduced b.v Bishop Fin lay was unanimously adopted ex pressing to the speaker trie "deep ap preciation of the service he has ren dered to us in the clear and power ful presentation of this very vital subject." An offering was then tak en for the benefit of the Prisoners* Welfare League. Annual State Short Course. The annual state short course for home demonstration ciub members I will be held at Winthrop college on j.June 3-9 inclusive. Five women and I five girls are selected from the va rious home demonstration clubs of each county as delegate.'-- to this short course. These member* are selected ion account of their good work and j leadership in their communities. 1 Fully 4 00 women and *rirls are ex ' peeted to be present *o enjoy the .'many demonstrations aid lectures, j The general theme of the program ?this year will be '-Live at Home" and j ".Make Money at Home." Included in j this program will be the utilization i of home products botfc as a means j of sustenance and of making money j at home. Prominent demonstrators land lecturers from all parts of the j south will handle these sepjects. The I state home demonstration force in cooperation with Winthrop college, is sparing neither time nor expense to ! make the short course interesting and j profitable to ail who at end. A special feature for *he girls in attendance will be the daily health ! program, in charge of Miss Martha I Dinwiddie of the United. States bu i reau of education. The supervised j recreation will also be an important I part oi" the course and will be in I charge of a trained physical director. Indications are that the 1321 Home ! Demonstration short course will be i the nest that has ever been held in I the state. ' , ; Sumter County Delegates to Short Course. j The following girls have been awarded scholarships to the "Wln I. throp short course on rc-oords made ! last year: Names, pounds of toma toes raised, cost of production and I profit follow: I Inez Huggins, 1.424 pounds, $17.70, I $7i'.S4. Alma Huggins, 672 pound's, $11.30, $30. ! Sallie Gardner, 876 ponnds, $19.73. ?61.06. I Sara Stahord. 37 chici Sns hatched, 25 chickens raised. Mamie DuBose. 26 chickens hatch ed. 21 chickens raised. There were some better records made than some of the above but were not eligible to trii on account of previous one or age. Mame Du Bose cannot go since she has stopped club work. Tillie Brice will go in her , place. ; The women delegates will be pub lished later. CARO TTtUL/UCK, County Home Demonstration Agent. Sumter County Woman's Council. On Saturday afternoon, May 14th, the Sumter County Woman's Council was organized in the office of the dem onstration agent. This council is com posed of the officers and other inter ested members of the Home Demon stration Clubs of the county and may include other interested club women. The purposes of the council were given by Miss Truluck as follows: 1. To assist the county agent in planning work and in meeting the needs of tho county, communities, and clubs. 2. To promote the economic and social welfare of the county especial ly as related to home and community life in the county. 3. To encourage spec dizod indus tries for purpose of developing specific resources in the county. 4. To develop leadership in the community. 5. To foster friendly relation be ween urban communities. Mr. It. It. Belser discussed woman's part in present crisis. He said that recent statistics showed that $13,000, 000 was paid out each year for can ned goods brought into South Caro lina. That for dairy, poultry, and canned fruit and vegetable products we send out of our state about $23, 000.000 a year. He also said that the local market that is now under con sideration might be able to take care 1 of woman's products. The following officers were elected: Mrs. E. W. Dabbs, Jr.. Pres. Mrs. Wm. Haynsw?rth, Vice-Pres. Mrs. .lames Pagan, Sec. and Treas. It was decided to hold the next meeting in June when we hope to have a larger number present and form ulate some definite plans. RcrgdoU's Counsel Held for Contempt, i ______ I Washington. May IS.?Harry Wein berger, of New York, the counsel for I Ci over Bergdoll. in the court martial proceedings, was ordere'; to appear before the bar of the house of Rpre ! sentatives today for contempt, after refusing to testify before the investi gating committee regarding the fees j paid him by Bergdoll s mother; Boston, May is.?James A. Dun can, of Columbia. S. C. a teacher at Harvard university, was sentenced to day to serve three months in jail for assault with a knife on a negro policeman. He appealed, and was re leased on $1,000 bond. Columbia. May 19.?The Cohannet Mills, of Fingerville, in Spartanburg county, have been granted authority by the secretary of state to increase their capital stock from $100,000 to $200,000. B. B. Gossett of Spartan uirg, is president of this company. You Will Save Money by Purchasing; 1 YOUR TOBACCO FLUES At The Sumter Roofing & Sheet Metal Works Office and Works 11 Council St. Phone 1074