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8UMTER TOBACCO MARKET OUTLOOK Big Stemmery of China American Tobacco Trading Company Ready For Busi ness Soon The Immense steam drying ma chine of the China-American To bacco and Trading company, op erators of the large and modern baceo tsemmery in Sumter, has v??en installed and tested out dur ^ig the last two'days. Everything .?worked "as smooth as grease," as o?ie of the- machinists sard. The big electric freight elevator, large hydraulic press, the 120-horse power boiler and the several sets of punrps, scales, and thousands of feet Of piping in the plant are very interesting to see. This plant is now ready for steam drying tobacco. Tht- many benches, tables and* other stem-j ffiing furniture will be in place in a few days. Arrangements for: transporting tobacco by fast motor | triick service from nearby tobac co markets,are being made. As soon as tobacco begins coming in throughout the southern tobacco [markets the. Sumter Stemmery I company will present a very busy scene, with hundreds of carloads; of tobacco being received for "or-1 dering," as they call the process 1 of steam drying and stemming. I and with hundreds of cai loads for " export and domestic consumption, going out monthly. Sumter will have the most modern and largest ? 'tobacco stemmery in South Caro-; Tina, perhaps in the south, open in time lor the 1921 market. The Sumter stemmery will mean in creased prices for tobacco over heretofore average prices, because a tobacco market with the con venient stemming and drying facil ities, like Sumter will enjoy from now on. gives "buyers an oppor tunity to save money in the cost of handling and grading tobac co on the warehouse floor, all of SllTM CASH AND CARRY "WE SELL 'EM CHEAP?U TOTE 'EM FOR PICNIC PARTIES And campers. Come in and let us furnish you the supply of good things to take with you. 1 , v - , i this being hereauer aone by ma chinery and expert graders at! the Sumter stemmery. and the further fact that no damp tobacco! will have to be shipped to the fac I tories or to stemmeries for dry-j ins: and stemming, all of this nec essary work being done from now on right in Sumter will enable the buyers on the two Sumter ware- j ?houses to pay the highest possible ?market prices with no discount for probable damages by heating in transportation, and because freight to other points where stemmeries heretofore took care of Sumter market tobacco will be saved and what is saved the buy- j ers of tobacco, will go in large part to the sellers oftobacco. _\bout one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars have been put into this Sumter plant in site, buildings and machinery, and when the cost of the furniture for Stemming, hogshead factory and storing sheds are added what will be left of a two hundred thou sand dollar bill wouldn't be enough to buy a suit of B. V. D.'s at a bargain Sale. The two Sumter tobaccc ware houses are in fine shape for the opening of the 1921 tobacco mar ket season. ? Mr. C. O. Watts, the lessee of the Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse Company's warehouses on East! Liberty street, and Mr. W. T. Harnsberger. lessee and manager of the Peoples'* Tobacco , Ware house company on Magnolia street are getting ready for a big tobacco selling season, and in a few days ? they will be here with a full force of advertisers, and will scour the country for business. As usual, every year the expert liar or knocker, men paid to lie on competitive tobaco markets by some ?. warehousemen, are on the job circulating all kinds of lies about every tobacco market, ex cept the tobacco warehousemen i who pay the expert liars to lie. It I has been widely circulated in a j spirit of envy because of Sumter's fine tobacco warehousemen of ex- j perience and honesty,. and be- j cause vof Sumter's big tobacco j stemmery, giving Sumter a big ad vantage as a tobacco market, that none of the big tobacco companies will be on the Sumter warehouse ' We Are Building Them Better Than Ever Before Today, more than ever, Goodyear Tires for passenger cars offer the utmost in economy and satisfaction. Improvement after improvement has been effected in them in the past few months. Our cHncherffpe Cords, for example, are now made larger, with thicker tread and stronger carcass and bead* Our larger size Cords, our fabric tires, and our inner tubes, too, are ^bigger, stronger, more durable than before. You can get Go?dyears, now, from your nearest Goodyear Service Station Dealer? The Goodyear Tire & rubber Company Offices Throughout the World Tobacco ??''.A?- ftv Weliave in stock flues made up and can fill orders for any size ham. Our flues are built by expert metal workers, so are properly constructed. We can furnish also extra joints, elbows, tees, etc. Thermometers, Paris Green, Arsenate Lead, and Calcium Ar senate at lowest prices. See our Dusting Machines for $14.00. Call or write us for prices. Dar ant Hardware Co. U-13 N. Main Phone 62 floors. The same lies are being circulated about other tebaesc markets. Every one of the ? big tobacco companies of the worid will be on the Sumter -market this summer, and the China-American Tobacco and Trading company, operators of the Sumter stemthery are in the market for twenty mil lion pounds of tobacco. The more tobacco this biggest of exporting companies can buy on the Sumter market the better it will suit them, as they will hare freight on Sumter purchased tobacco and will give the tobacco sellers on Sumter's market the advantage of money saved in freight and haul ing. BASEBALL ALL THE GO IN MAYESVILLE Victory Over Bishopville in a Close Game?Per sonal and Local Items Mayesville, June 21.?Mayes ville won good game of ball this afternoon from Bishopville. Score 3 to 1, on the Bishopville diamond The features of the game were the pitching of Nunnamaker and good batting of Mayesville, when hits meant runs. Batteries: Mayesville, Xunna maker and Davis; Bishopville. Flowers, Carnes and McCutcheon. The farmers have had a good rain and crops are looking good, j where before the corn was turn-j ing yellow from want of rain and cotton is now growing fast with the warm nights. We have been without telephone service for the last week, on ac count of the highway department cutting out the roadway through the swamp near here, tearing down all wires and it will be a week longer before we can have wires back in shape'for use. The telegraph company is being rushed by the phone wires being down. Mr. A. F. Ragan. A. C. L. oper ator, spent Sunday at ' Nichols with his best girl. Hope he enjoy ed the day and had a good time.1 which we know he did. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Harbeck, of Milwaukee. Wis.. are visiting Mrs. W. G. Thomas Mr and Mrs. M B Reid. of Fitz-' gerald. Ga.. also Misses Helen and ; Louise Reid. of Fitzgerald. Ga.. i and Miss Rebecca Reir of St. Louis ? Mo., are visiting Mrs. W. G. Thorn- j as. Look out for tomorrow's game. Bishopville vs. Mayesville. on the | latter's diamond. They are pick- | ing the best that can be had for this game. SWEET POTATO \ MARKET PLANS First Anual Report of the j South Carolina Sweet Potato Marketing Association Columbia, June 21.?Advance in formation from the Annual Report of the South Carolina Sweet Po tato Association for the year 1920-21 brings some very interest ing information for the farmers in J the State of marketing operations under a modified ^'California Plan". I The Association operated seven j pools the members receiving the f following returns: : No. 1 Stock (crated) $1.24 per crate No. 2 Stock (crated) $0.92 Der crate ! No. 1 Stock (bulk) $1.79 per 100 j pounds. No. 2 Stock (bulk) $1.39 per 100 pounds. "No Grade" (bulk) $1.56 per 100 pounds. A late pool netted $1.00 per bushel for No. 1 Stock. Prices all net F. O. B. curing house. On about one-third of the ship ments made by the Association j overcharges of freight were made.; Claims have been made against the railroads, and . are being pushed,) and as f#st as%* coll^cteldW remit tances wil be made to members. In this connection it was found that South Carolina was being discrim inated against In freight rates; This matter has been adjusted and will not handicap the shippers the coming season. The Association has worked with the railroads on the subject of containers with the result that only crates will be used to market the next crop. The crate measures 12x12x18 3-4 inside dimensions. The Association is working to per fect plans to purchase crates for its members for use the coming year and thus make a considerable saving of money. Most of the last vSeason's ship ments were marketed in the South Western and Middle Western States, and it is interesting to note the large number of cars shipped to Southern points. The market south of the Ohio River has by no means reached the saturation point and invites persistent selling efforts. The potatoes marketed were grown in five counties located in the Southwestern corner 'of the State. This .year's experience leaves no doubts about the absolute necessi ty for ?'curing" all potatoes for shipment, and having the ware houses filled and the doors closed before the first frost. The benefits of true cooperation have ben made clear by the ope rations in California-, Minnesota, Florida, to mention the prominent examples, and it is the aim of the Association to reap like benefits for the growers of South Caro lina. These benefits are: More money for the grower; Establish ing the standard pack; Develop ing markets: Advantageous pur chasing of supplies; Effective han dling of complaints and claims; Educating the consuming public; Increasing the value of farm lands; Making busines methods available to all members. The Season has given to the men who would make the sweet potato a cash crop in the State a clear vision of the difficulties be fore them to be met and overcome, and this is half the" battle. The Association has secured the best price possible for an unknown article (the Porto Rico variety) and this in a market of sharp com petition from the better fcnown "Nancy Hall' artd the well known ?Big Stem Jersey", and the Irish potato. ' jPRt'SIBExT BACKS I SHIPPING BOARD Approve Plan to Settle Large Financial Claims Washington. June 22.?President Harding; has approved a sugges tion of the shipping board that set tlement of approximately $3,000, 000 in claims against the board be placed in th ehands of a board of three arbitrators to be appoint ed by the President, it was ah buard. Heretofore the shipping board has acted in the capacity of both defendant and judge in "the mat ter of the claims, Chairman Lasker explained. Most of the claims have result ed from cancellation of contracts by the board, one of them being for $20,000,000 and others ranging from $8,000,000 downward. Some of them were plainly too high, Chairman Lasker said, adding that delayed settlement had caused ; them to mount. The members of the arbitration board would consist of a lawyer, an auditor and a technical man, all 1 "of national standing and reputa tion." The agreement of the Hamburg American line with the Harrirnan interests to reopen the trade for merly controlled by Germany has the approval of the individual mem bers of the board, Mr. Lasker fur ther announced today, no action with regard to alle eating shipping board vessels to the Harrirnan in terests to reestablish the routes has yet been taken by the board, he said. - ? ? ?? Gompers Opposed by Lewis for President JOTLN L. LEWIS ! Der.v*r. fcol., .lime 21.?The supporters of Samuel Gompers and John Lewis are working at top j speed lining up votes for the pres- j idency of the American Feo>ra- j tion of Labor. The election will be held Friday. You can probably find some one j to mow your lawn provided you | give him a helper to push the mow-! er while he sits in the shade and, hoses the job.?Augusta Herald. ! 0 m m One always feels safe when rid-; ing in the auto of a friend who is an insurance agent after he has persuaded you to take out a policy in his company.?Toledo Blade. -? ? ?? Bicvcle tires from $1.75 up at Hatfield & Cato, E. Liberty WANT COLUMN One Cent a Word WANTED?You to know we have just received shipment of West inghouse and Bobbins and My ers fans. Lynam Electric Co. WANTED?Two furnished or un furnished .rooms. prefer wes tern part of city. Roms, care Item. WANTED?Clerk, experienced in dry goods and ready-to-wear. Applv Box 44H. Georgetown. S. C. LOST LOST?Small red collie bitch, an swers to the name of "Baby." Had tan leather collar with no name. Reward. G. L. Jackson, care Texas Company. FOR SALE FOR SALE?One Go-cart in good condition. Phone S6S. FOR SALE?Will sacrifice for immediate sule my modern bungalow, furnished or unfur nished, located at 111 W. Cal houn street. Call before one o'clock or phone 709J. FOR SALE?A few tons Nitrate of soda for cash. Deliver Tues day of Wednesday. Booth Boyle Live Stock Co. FOR SALE?Mixed peas. Have a few bushels left. Phone 1062. C. L. Strauss. FOR SALE?A Ford touring h&v with starter, new tires. Hassler shock absorbers, in perfect con dition. Best of reasons for selling. Box 434, City. FOR SALE?Cow peas, Irons. Brabhams. clays and mixed. J. J. Brennan. Sumter. S. C. FOR SALE?Collard plants and Salvia. Late tomato plants now ready for putting out. some blight proof. At 3 20 Hampton Ave. Phone No. 2. FOR RENT FOR RENT?Two or three un furnished rooms at 216 N. Main street. Phone 33. BUSINES NOTICES SUMTKR CREAMERY BUTT EH ?Now 50c lb. Visit the Cream ery Lunch. OUR HABITS MAKE US. ? Sow an act, and you reap a kabit, Sow a kabit and you reap a character, Sow a character and you reap a destiny. WATCH YOUR STEP. Once you open a bank acount you k?^e m&de a stat. Tkis bank will-pay you to save. CITY NATIONAL BANK _ ? _ _ ? ? "MONEY?To lend on improved citv property in amounts not less than one thousand dollars or more than ten thousand. Epps & Levy, Attorneys._ NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS? We have a telephone, the num ber is 113. We are now taking all suits, cleaning: and pressing Palm Beach suits and ladies' suits included for 50c. Club, rates, 3 suits. .$1.00. Jennings & Revil, laundrying and Press ins Club, No. 9 W. Hampton Ave. C. S. CURTIS, agent for J. Van Lindlay Nursery. Phone 5 9G for catalogue. Fruit. Pecans, Shade and Ornamental trees. Evergreens, Shrubbery, Ber ries and Grapes. Beautify your front yard and cemetery lot. CRYSTAL" gasoline reduced to -4 cents per gallon. Headquar ters for Havoline Oils. Clare mont Filling Station. CIVIL S E R VIC E?Exa m i na t i o n s for clerks for postal mail ser vice and government depart ments. Men. women, over 17. $120 month. Experience un*. necessary. For free particulars, write J. C. Leonard (former Civil Service examiner). 1 ISO Equitable Bldg.. Washington, D. C. ALL?Phone orders will be given prompt attention bv phoning The Ladies' Shop. 190. Mrs. Reisker, face and hair special ist. Also manicuring. WOOD. WOOD?I am handling the output of the Sumter Hard wood Co.. and can furnish you stove wood at a price that will pay you to cook with wood again. Use this wood and savo money, j. p. Commander. KODAKERS?Correct developing means better pictures. Send your kodak films to us and get the best. Columbia Studio. 1423 Main Street. Columbia. S. C. Write for price Lst. PRICES CUT?A year ago stove wood sold for ten dollars a cord,.my price today is four doi lars. Put your wood* stove in ser vice again and save money, j. P. Commander. Very few of the neighbor's chil dren grow up to. be hanged in spite of what you think of them.?Hous ton Chronicle. Can't some ?manufact?rer give a straw hat -a boomerang shape, so it will come back when' it blows off??Greenville, ,-S. C: Piedmont. *^a- <a? >?? ???-;?.- ?w THE CITADEL The Military College of South Carolina Charleston. & C. ; Ranked as "Distinguished Military College"*by the'War De partment. Vacant Scholarships. Offers a four year course in liberal arts, with electives in civil engineering, sciences, and modern languages. One vacant scholarship from Sumter County will be filled by competitive examination on July 8th, 1921. For information and application blanks, apply to ' / County Superintendent of Education or Col. 0. J. Bond, Superintendent Strike Witk Your Full Force I f f When you hit you want to hit hard. Get Savings habit. |Save your money, and when < the time comes y ou will be ready for it with cap ital and character. You can strike with full i il if force. SUMTER TRUST CO. I. C. STRAUSS, Pres. R. L. EDMUNDS, Sec. and Tread ifg mm p; 111 II : . er? ?'. It attracts especially those who are inclined to look for beauty corn feed with comfort and economy. Tiiis is evidenced by the astonishing number cf women who own and drive Dodge Brothers 4 Door Sedan, Th? gasoline consumption is unusually low *" ? Tue tire mileage is unusually high J.B.McCOLLUM Sumter, S. C.