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The Watchman and Southron I Published Wednesday and Satrjr . day by Csteen Publishing Company, Sumte*. S. C. Terms: $SJ&- per annum?hi advance. Advertisements: One Square, ..first insertion ..$1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 Contracts for three months or anger will be made at reduced Ali communications which sub serve private interests will je ""charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of re spect" Will be charged for. The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1350 and the True r Southron in 1SS6. The Watchman .ami Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of both- of the old papers, and is man ifesi$p*'the best advertising medium in" Sumter. _ XJ2AGTE AND MONROE DOC TRINE. I . 4 It was probably inevit ble that tne League of Nations and the IIMonroe Doctrine should come into ! conflict .sooner or alter. No "re- j giocai understanding," whether in j -America or Asia or Europe, can be - wholly consistent with an un derstanding which seeks to cover the world. It was hardV expected, .tftousrh, that a case in point would a?*pear so quickly. > The issue is raised by the appeal cf Bolivia to* the League fcr the revision, of its ^904 treaty with Ciile, and in particular the adjudi- j cat-Son of the c ?vnership of the dis- ! puted provinces of Tacna and Ari- j t.\U. .Bolivia has long been eager ; W have this question, re-opened, for j ,provirvces are very rich, and ? *ae> hopes to gain from a fair set- i tJement. Chile ha> always been! e Olrespondir.g!y re 1 u o t a n t. . The League Assembly Is frankly i embarrassed . by the appeal, and j wcaW. like to shelve the whole bus- j iness, for the-present at least. The; . league still hopes that the United ! States will come in, and wants to j avoid even the shadow of o .Tense. It j kiK^ws^hat any . sort of European ! intervention in the affairs of this j hemisphere, even at the solicita- i tion of ^sovereign American repub- ' Los, is sure to be *i sore point with ! th^s country. The situation is com- j jdieated. by thef?opposition of Chile! t-^Shaving the .League handle the j jmatter, and Chile's unexpected ap j;eal to the Monroe Doctrine. The League Assembly would ob- j \ iously prefer to have the United i :j?ia?es-do the adjudicating. But I ?tSi?* objects to that, too. If the United States were in the League, it might be easy enough to meet such a situation. The League ?.vould presumably hand the eon-\ trove.rsyt,over to uAele Sam to set tle* under the League's sanction. As matters stand, there may be a i'lot.-, of trouble along this line, ne- I " cessitating a new and m< .e definite ! statement of the Monroe Doctrine j before long, so that the League, the [ United States and the Latin-'Ameri- \ can republics all know precisely j .where they stand. And then all j will be well?if everybody acquies- ! COS. ? ? ? ? "KEEP IT IX CIRCULATION'/ "The Alpen a (Mich.) News, in paying - its bills recently, has been j sending with its checks a slip | bearing the above caption, under' which is the following-statement: | '.The usual custom of holding up j bills until the tenth of the month j ties.up large sums of money which j at this time could be used to good ad-vantage. The News will so far I as,. possible hereafter pay all in voices as soon as they are presented and audited. If the plan appeals to you, give it a trial." Itvis a plan which ought to rec- j ommend itself instantly, in any j city, without argument. Nearly \ everybody in recent years has got | into the habit of delaying payment more or less. Firms and individ- ; uals seem to expect longer credit than they used to, and often de- ; mandli.t as if it were a right. The \ result, obvious enough to anyone who thinks the matter over, is to I slow .up business all around. It is : cash and liquid credit that turn the j wheels of industry and commerce. The faster money moves, the faster : business moves. ?- ? j . There is particular need of such .acceleration just now, as the Al- j pena paper suggests. Nothing would j da more to revive business activity I and prosperity than, the prompt- ; est possible payment of bills by ; everybody. It is a heroic thing to start this reform alone, as the News appears to be doing. For success, it needs j general co-operation. The example, j however, is infectious. The chances are that any business institution which adopts this policy and at the ; same time gives it sufficient pub licity will soon profit itself, in the response of its own customers and in the general improvement in the community. Prompt payment of obligations is bread cast upon ?he ! waters. i COTTON: Cotton in the first year of the war, when the foreign market was i cut off," went begging at 10 cents j a pound. On the crest of the war , boom "*t rose to 40 cents, and high I i er. Then,, with a bumper crop and j hard times, it dropped almost to I 10 cents again, with no proportion ! ate drop in production and hying costs. Naturally that spelled ca lamity to the cotton belt and the whole south, and aggravated na tional depression. Now, with cot ton selling around 20 cents, which is somewhere near what it is real ly worth, growers are rejoicing and the whole south feels the stimulus in reviving business activity, while the northern states are favorably affected by it. It is a. curious thing that a short crop should bring better times. We have become accustomed to the economic dictum that prosperity is necessarily based on plentiful pro duction. There is not. howtver, any necessary contradiction. It is to be observed that there is no real shortage of cotton, ^ev en million bales means a short crop, but there is enough hold-over from last year to bring, the total up to the average yield and up to the world's normal requirements. All that has happened, therefore, is a restoration of a normal price for this great staple, which will save its producers from ruin with out inflicting any necessary hard ship on consumers. The south seems likely to gain a half billion dollars, or more from the market rise. The cotton-users of the world can easily absorb that, if it is passed on to them without extortionate increase. Indeed, so little comparatively has the cost of raw "cotton to do with the price of most manufactured cotton cloth that there is said to be small rea son, in most cases, why this rise which means salvation . to the south should affect the retail price at all. TOO MUCH REGULATION. As the most basic means of meet ing the crisis brought about by the ravages of the boll weevil the farmers, of Sumter county are be ing urged by the experts of Clem son College and the Department of Agriculture to adopt a new farm ing programme. One of the most important items in this programme is that every farmer acquire two cows to each one horse farm that he operates and go actively into the dairy business. The bankers and business men of this city, in co-operation with the farmers, are - using their most energetic efforts to develop a 'market for the dairy products of the entire coimty by the establishment of a creamery in Sumter. According to reports, made to the mass meeting of tarm- j ers on Monday, the establishment of a creamery of sufficient ca pacity to take care of all the cream that may be produced in the coun ty is. reasonably assured, nearly all j the necessary capital having been pledged. This was most encourag ing and gave rise to the hope that the farmers of the county, being guaranteed a market for their milk and cream, would go into the bus- j iness of dairying. But the, enthusiasm that was growing has been chilled and the prospect of. developing a dairying j industry is not as bright as it was a few days ago. Like a dash o? cold water came the drastic and complicated rules and regulations promuglated by the Sumter Board of Health. If these rules and reg ulations are enforced to the letter not one farmer out of a prospective j hundred will even consider buying ! dairy cows. To comply with all oi ! the restrictions and regulations set j forth by the Board of Health is an I impossibility for the vast majority [ of cotton farmers, whose interest I is sought to be enlisted. If the Board of >. Health desires to kill outright at its very inception a movement that promised to help revolutionize the farming system of Sumter county and save the farm era from the financial ruin that is : certain under boll weevil condi tions, unless money producing crops can be found to take the i place of cotton, it has only to for- j mulate and enforce burdensome and drastic regulations and restric- i tions covering the production and marketing of dairy products. To ' ensure a pure and sanitary supply! of milk for the people of Sumter it is not necessary that the local Board of Health undertake to pre scribe the architecture and loca tion of cow barns and milking houses. All that is essential is that the Board of Health establish a standard of purity of milk and by frequent tests by the Health Offi cer ascertain whether or. not the dairymen are keeping their milk up to the standard. Those who fail to produce pure and sanitary milk can be penalized by the revo cation of their permit to sell milk in the city. The people are not in I terested in the size and style of the I cow barn. What they want is pure : milk. Unless there is an elaborate j system of. inspection and espionage ; there is no guarantee that the cow barns and milk houses that con form to the specifications of the Board of Health are kept clean and sanitary. What is needed is milk inspection and milk testing to de termine its purty. Sumter county confronts a con dition in the existing crisis, not a theory, and the Board of Health will be wise to forego some of the theoretical ideals of the dairy in j dustry and stick to the bare essen I tials. Thomas-Young. I Mayesville, Sept. 14.?An event ! of much interest to a wide circle of i friends in North and South Caro lina was the marriage of Miss Mat tie Lee Thomas to Gilbert Flowers Young on September 1. at 6 o'clock in the Presbyterian church, which was beautiful in its simple decora tions of green and white. Promptly at the appointed hour Miss Maud Turbeville of Lake City, gowned in a lovely blue crepe de chine with bat of blue and white, took her place on the rostrum and sang in a sweet voice "To day" and "It is Not Because Your Heart is Mine," accompanied by Miss Emma Mayes on the piano. To the sweet strains of Lohen grin's Wedding March, played on the violin by Dr. W. G. Thomas j with Miss Mayes at the piano the j bridal party enteied. first the ush ers coming down opposite isles, H. H. Brunsen of Orangeburg and Sam Dinkins of Sumter, C. D. Coop er, Jr.A and R. L. Grier, Jr.. fol lowed by the bridesmaids, Misses Fannie Atkins of Brooklyn. N. Y.. and Sophie Dabbs in dainty pink organdy dresses and hats, carrying shepherd crooks tied with pink tulle. The maid of honor. Miss Mary Louise Witherspoon, in yel low chiffon dress and hat with an armful of golden glow, came down the center isle, followed by little Bulah DesChamps in fluffy white organdy carrying the ring on a small silver tray. The two flower j girls, Elizabeth Thomas and Amelia. DesChamps in pink organdy scat tered rose petals In the path of the bride who, in a midnight blue coat suit with brown accessories, carry ing an arm bouquet of, white as ters and asparagus fern, entered on the arm of her father, H. L. Thomas; the groom and his broth ! er Cecil Young of Dalzell, entering from the rear of the church, met her at the altar where her pastor. Rev. R. L. Grier, Sr., in an impres sive and beautiful manner made the two man and wife. Miss Mayes and Dr. Thomas softly played j Schubert's Serenade during the ceremony and Mendelssohn's wed l ding march as the bridal party left j the church. The bride and groom ? leaving immediately by automobile ! for Sumter where they took a train ? for a short trip. Mrs. Young is the eldest .daugh j ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Thomas j and is a beautiful and accomplish ed young woman being a gradu I ate of Winthrop College of the i class of 1920. Mr. Young is a j graduate of Clemson and possesses sterling qualities of character and is a successful teacher, holding a responsible positioif in the Orange burg High School. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas entertained j the bridal party at their home the j ! night before'the wedding. An ice ; course was served and the lovely wedding gifts of cut glass silver. ; china, several gold coins and gener ous checks were displayed. Liquor Runner Killed South Carolina Man Shot by Officers in Georgia Waynesboro, Ga. Sept. 14.?A. P. Peake. an alleged liquor runner of Columbia S. C, was instantly kill ed near here tonight in an exchange of shots with a sheriff's posse when Peake and his companion, L. C. Miller of Lexington, S. C, attempt ed to evade a blockade set by offi cers on the Dixie highway from Sa vannah. The automobile escaped, but offi cers pursuing located it two miles from the blockade. Miller surren dered and told the officers of Peake's death. Peake was found in the car, shot through the head. Officers allege that several cases of liquor were found in the car and Miller is being held in the Burke county jail on charges of violating the federal prohibition laws. A coroner's inquest was held over Peake's body and a verdict found that the dead man came to his death "while resisting arrest for the illegal transportation of li quor.'' Alex Peake is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Peake living at 1425 Taylor street. Mr. Peake was in formed of his son's death last night and the body will be brought to Columbia for interment. Alex Peake was about 25 years of age and was well known. He is surviv ed by his widow, father, mother and several brothers and sisters. ? o ? Greenwood. S. C. Sept. 13.? Beaten into insensibility by two negroes who escaped. H. Johns and wife, agred couple living at Vaugh anville. are in a serious condition, man not expected to live. Rob bery the motive. London. Sept. ?The attempt to overthrow soviet rule has been discovered following the arrest of members of the Russian famine re lief committee, says a dispatch from Moscow. Letters : howing that the conspiracy is widespread are reported to have been found in the possesion of the relief work ers. - ? ? o Russellville, Ala.. Sept. 13. Seven buildings in the center of the business district were destroyed by fire today with the loss of a hun dred thousand dollars. j Clean Up Campaign ?"?? : Bureau of War Risk Insur ance Seeks to Locate Every Ex-Service Man Entitled j to Aid American Legion, Sumter Post. No. 15. Sumter, S. C, ; Editor Dairy Item: N Please note the enclose i letter ; from the Treasury department, i The Clean-up Squad referred to j in this letter will he in Sumter on i September 28th, 29th and 30th, I and will have headquarters in my I office, and it will be very greatly appreciated if you can give such i publicity-to this matter as will en ; able the disabled ex-soldiers to de ; rive the benefit that the gqvern j ment is desirous of giving them. Thanking you for giving such space as you an spare to this mat ter, I am. Very trulv vours. j " * " GEO. D. LEVY, 1 Commander Sumter i'ost, Ameri ] can Legion, j Sumter, Sept. 14. Clean-up Campaign. On Monday morning, July 25, j 1921, a conference was held in this ! office, at which was present your i State Commander, Maj. Mahon, : Mr. Graham cf the local post of' j Greenville, S. C, Mr. Hopkins, manager of the Southern Division j of the American Red Cross, a I representative of the United States j Public Health Service, a represen i tative of the Bureau of War Risk ! Insurance and a representative of I the Federal Board, for the purpose I of inaugurating a Clean-up Cam i paign for the Bureau of War Risk Insurance throughout the state of South Carolina. j The purpose of this campaign is j to fully advise all ex-service per { sons of their rights under the War j Risk Insurance act, and the Vo ; bational Rehabilitation act, to as : sist disabled exservice persons in ! securing compensation, medical i treatment and hospital care, to in i form and assist all claimants re j garding procedure necessary in i filing claim for compensation and ; insurance, to assist those whose ? claims fdr compensation are pend ! ing in securing final action, where j additional evidence is necessary to connect disability with the service, ; or other data requested by the Bu . reau of War Risk Insurance and ? the Federal Board, and to provide j for immediate physical examina tions where necessary' and furnish ! hospitalization if urgent, also to as sist men in filing claim for Federal Board training and advise appli cants as to how to proceed in ap pealing their cases for training. The plan of work will be con ducted in the following manner: The state has been divided into 'seventeen sub-divisions (see iten | ar-^attached) which sub-divisions ; will be visited by an advance man j j who will prepare and lay the : ground for the Clean-up Squad which will consist of a medical ex j aminer. a compensation and insur ! ance claim examiner, a representa I tive of the American Red Cross, i a representative of the Federal i I Board, and a representative of the j American Legion. Taking the itinerary hereto at- ' j tached as a basis, the American j j Red CroSs and the American Le- I j gion will immediately begin prelim i inary advance work, arranging for j the space, clerical work, publicity,* I hotel reservations and also en | deavor to lay the ground work for I permanent function of some organ- ! j ization to carry on the work built j up during this campaign. ; The Clean-up Squad will arrive i at the centers on the dates given, i : being preceded by about one week j j by the advance man who will com- j ! plete all final arrangements follow- j ; ing the American Legion and 1 \ American Red Cross, and insure j : that a proper meeting place is I secured and that proper represen- I 1 tation of the ex-service men in this j I center, is obtained. The Clean-up Squad will be in ? charge of the representative of the i ; Bureau of War Risk Insurance and i j will be supplied with transporta | tion and meal requests and lodging i requests, which will be issued to j the ex-service men so that they j will have transportation to return to their various homes and obtain ! meals and lodging while in the city j during the time the Clean-up Squad is* there. The local office of the Federal Board in the state of South Caro lina will be instructed to have a representative to with this Sqqad, which will keep with the squad the Federal Board representative all i through the intinerary. Greenville, S. C, is the designat i ed headquarters for the campaign, J j with Maj. Mahon, your state com- i I mander designated as Clean-up I i Campaign manager for the state of ; ! South Carolina. Post liaison should ! be made between your post and the j American Red Cross, working in I South Carolina to operate so that | I there will be harmony and no du- I ! plication of work or misdirected I ; effort. The publicity director for the i 'American Red Cross, Atlanta, Ga.. j will supervise general publicity on I behalf of the Red Cross, Mr. Legare j Davis handling this feature of the \ work. The publicity from the dis trict office will be handled by Mr. J .fas. L. Nicholson, assistant district j vocational officer. Federal Board j for Vocational Education, who will be responsible for organization in j general and cooperation, in addi tion to publicity handled from the ? district office. The movement of the Clean-up Squad will be controlled by the district office under Mr. Harry A. VVallerstein. campaign manager. This squad will be required to make daily reports to tne district office ;tt the close of the day. transmit- 1 ting all eases handled during the day, at tic elo.se of each day. It is requested that you make J special contact with your state j commander, .Maj. .Mahon. Green-* ville, S. G. and obtain the neces->| sary information in connection with your part of the work from him. It is the desire of all to make this Clean-up Campaign a success throughout the state of South Car I olina and in order to d'? .so. we must have the support and co-oper ation of all benevolent organiza tions throughout the state. We are positive of your cooperation, but wish to ask that you use your in fluence throughout your section in obtaining the cooperation of other organizations that will be of value to us in this campaign. Yours very truly. Harry A. Wallerstein, Bureau of War Risk Insurance Campaign Manager, by .Jas. L. Nicholson. Assistant District Vo cational Officer Cooperation. CGHON MARKET ?? , ? NEW YORK COTTON". Ystdys Open High Low Close Close January . 19.35 19.77 19.35 19.45 19.85 March .19.28 19.65 19.25 19.35 19.75 May .19.18 19.45 19.02 19.15 19.55 October .19.40 19.75 19.30 19.30 19.90 ! December .19.70 19.95 19.49 IS.52 20.10 Spots 50 off: middling 19.70. NEW ORLEANS COTTON Ystdv?* ! ? Open High Low Close Close January ...19.10 19.43 19.00 19. ?6 19.61 March .18.90 19.28 18.73 19.00 19.47 May .18.65 19.13 18.62 18.80 19.20 October . .19.25 I9.4J 19.00 19.15 19.62 December .19.30 19.59 19.20 19.33 19.80 Spots 2."i off: middling 19.:"0. LIVERPOOL COTTON January . 12.90 March . 12.58 May . 12.31 ! July . 12.05 October . 13.2'. December . 13.12 Sales 17,900. Receipts, none. Middling 13.24. Good middling 14.20. COTTON LETTER. (Furnished by JIacDowcll & Co). New Orleans, Sept. 1"?.?The market as sumed a reactionary tendency today in the face of te continuance of a large spot de mand in Liverpool and the south and less favorable accounts, especially from the east ern half of the belt. While there has oeen some subsiding of speculation lately the fundamental fea tures of the situation appear to be getting stronger due to reports of further heavy deterioration <.n crop since the last gov ernment estimate and because of consump tion increasing and promising to expand in the future. The dourth and heat has occasioned fur ther deterioration in excess of normal east of the Mississippi river. Weevil continue destructive in that large area. West of the Mississippi the recent cloudburst in Texas did considerable dam-ge to the crop while weevil worms and routh in other sections of the southwest are reported to have inflicted further damage Reliable advices from the interior are to effect that there is very little of a middle crop and practically no top crop at all, stating that the crop will be gathered early, in some instances with, the first picking, weather permitting. If evidences is required to support the claim that trade in textiles is expanding the world over, the following exports ot raw cotton from the United States for month of August compared with corre sponding month last year, and the fact that American mills consumed 4tJ7.000 bales of lint last month against 410.000 dur ing July, should suffice : Exports to Great Britain .69,-000 against 44,000. Exports to France 33,000 against O.ouO. Exports to Italy 21.000 against 9,000; Exports to Germanv 132,000 against 40, 000. Exports to Japan 130.000 against 1,000. All other countries H0,000 against 38, 000. Total 49.">,000 against 145,000. Since Soptmtber 1st exports from Amer ica to Europe have continue to run far ahead of last yaer. Spinners of the world will likely take about one hundred thousand bales "lore of American cotton than they took this week last year when their takings were only 147.000 bales. We still entertain a favorable opinion of market for the present and distant fu ture recommending cuying particularly on depressions of importance. Religious Education at Wof f ord College Prof A. M. Travwick to Be at Head of New Department York, Sept. 13.?With Prof. A. M. Traywick, A. B. B. D., in charge, I a Department of Religious Educa- j tion has been established at Wof ford College, Spartanburg. accord ing to announcement received I here and will begin its work at the : approaching term of that well known college. In a leaflet bearing on the new i department Prof. Traywick says I among other things: The general purpose of this de- ! partment - f instruction is three- j fold: (1) to train college men to think of religion and the church j with the same accuracy and thor- ! oughness that they give science j arid other facts of human activity; <2) to study the fundamental prin- j ciples of religion and the methods of teaching religion; (3) to assist j men in acquiring the right motive ; and spirit for leadership/ana ser vice in the organized church. Both church and college reoog nisse the need of definite religious education not alone for ministers j and missionaries, but equally for 1 laymen who believe that religion should be the controlling influence j in the world of human affairs. Re- < sponding to an insistent, demand. ; religious education in the church and in the college is rapidly gath- i ering sentiment, creating litera ture, and erecting standards of ef ficiency, by means of which the combined forces of right living are j to he more surely matched with the world's needs. The church col lege recognizes its definite func- j tion in this work, and is offering j its resources and equipment to as sist students to find in the church their largest opportunity of intelli gent interest and activity. This department will seek to co operate with the other departments of instruction with the purpose to qualify students for active support and leadership of religious educa tion in their home churches and | communities. A total of twenty four semester hours is offered, und the student who completes the full work offered in these courses will be entitled to a certificate of gradu ation in Religious Education. Irish WfflAttend Inverness Conference Dublin. Sept. 1 1.?The Pail Eire ann today unanimouslv approved the reply to the recent prop? sals of Lloyd Ceorge regarding Irish peace 1 negotiations and will appoint plen ipotentiaries to the conference at Inverness. Now it is lb." bootleggers who have adopted that stirrir.? Amer ican cry: '*Don*l give up the ship!" Burlington News. Letter From Tryon Mr. Dabbs Writes of Weather and Other Matters of Interest Tryon,:Sept.' 10.?In my last let ' ter I wrote that the backbone of i summer was broken. I was mistak en. The-cool spell lasted only a few days, and we had the worst hut spell of the season during the : last four or five days of August . and first six days of September. I spent from Tuesday until Saturday in Sumter county with the ther mometer about 98. Although it ; was hot up here when I returned Saturday and staid hot until Wed | nesday. 7') to 86 degrees at this ? altitude is paradise compared with I 90 to 98 in the low country. I For two days now 7?? is as high j as the thermometer has gone. We are needing rain very much and have to be careful to conserve wa ter as I see several of the cities and ! towns up this way have to do. Fri ! day from C> to 7 in th- evening we ? had line showers, and we were in j the clouds all night. But we need a ! good season to effectively break the ' drought. Autumn colors are show i ing prematurely and owing to the drought some trees will be bare | before the leaves properly color. * Judging by the sorghum patches : and cane mills more syrup per fam ? ily is made here in the mountains I than in our section.^Wednesday we ! saw one of the noted apple orch i ards of Saluda, ate of the splendid fruit, and drank cider made the : day before. The owner is author j ity on fine apples and his orchard is the best cultivated and cared for : trac tof land that I have seen in the mountains. On the high land I the trees are lojaded to the break ; ing point, 25 bushels to the tree, j but in the hollows in spite of the j smudges he kept going the j last cold spell of spring killed all ? the fruit. Then the hail of 11th j of May seemed to have hit every j apple. Otherwise fancy apples j have bad scars ? and blemishes ' from the haii. He grows clover be : tween the trees only plowing once every four years to renew the clov er, and sprays five times to control fungus and insect damage. His packing house and grading j tables are well worth seeing. With ! all of the completeness of his ar rangements. Mr. Corwith is presi [ dent of the Polk County Farmers' i Marketing association and told >ne j 'hat the association on a bigger I scale can do all this grading and i packing better and cheaper than j he can. Then only choice fruit j will be put on the market in at | tractive packages, the culls going ! to cider and vinegar. This does ] not mean that individual growers [ may shake or thresh their fruit i from the trees and then expect I choice fruit to be made by grad j ing: the same care will have to be j given to picking and handling?but j it means that expert graders and packers and expert salesmen Willi I do for the whole community what j i no indvidual can do for himself, j When an expert such as Mr. Cor- 1 with is in. his line, sees that his ' well organized system can be im proved, it is surely time for the average farmer and fruit grower to surrender his boasted so-called : independence and fall into line for i co-operative marketing. These remarks apply to cotton i farme rs and tobacco farmers e.3 i well as t o truckers and fruit grow- J ers. I am glad to be up here among j these Polk county farmers who are putting into practice what I tried i to get Sumter county farmers to ' do 12 years ago. If it takes the! boll weevil to bring our farmers of j Sumter county to intelligent mar- j keting, as. well as diversification j and rotation of crops, it is not merely "a blessing in disguise," but a blessing in the open that can be j seen and appreciated by all men. I know some of my readers' j "mouths will water" when they j read about the cider, so I will ex- j plain: I asked particularly how! Mr. Corwith sold cider without run- : ning afoul of the prohibition statutes: He said he sold cider only up to four days old, then it was left to turn to vinegar. That the authorities had agreed that up to four days it does not intoxicate. So the only way my good friends who still have a hankering for the cup that intoxicates could secure it, would be to buy the sweet cider and let it stand some days longer. Well, our household is breaking! up: One has gone to Riner, Va., to j teach high school English and his- | tory. Another leaves Monday for! Xew Haven, Conn., to take a year's; course in physical culture, and two others will soon go to the Univer- ! shy of South Carolina, one as ai sophomore and the other as pro- t fessor of English. Then we old folk will gather the loose ends of housekeeping, the nuts and late ap ples, and hike us back to the pine lands, the good neighbors and the j "hog and hominy" of home. We ! hope to take one or *wo side trips before going home when the house- i hold is small enough to shut up. take lunch, and wander away ; wherever the spirit moves, feasting ; our eyes oti the glories of the autumn tints, filling our lungs with j the pure air of the mountains and j storing in our memories scenes that' will make easier some dreary work hours of the future. E. W. DABBS. ! ? ? ? Xashville. Sept. 13.?Noah W. Cooper, the lawyer exponent of the] Sunday blue law, has announced [ to the Tennessee democracy his candidacy for the Cnited States senate. With the advance in the price of cotton there should be an im provement In th ; matter of paying long standing debts. It is more important that honest debts be paid than that many new things be purchased. Syracuse, Sept. 13.?(? ten thou- ? sand dollar purse is the prize for which noted trotters will compete in the Empire State for 2 1-2 trot .... ... t ting championship, bringing to gether Jeanette! Rankin, the lead ing money winning trotter of the year, (Trey- Worthy and Hetty Tay lor, and four others. ; San Antonio Flood Forty-Seven' Bodies Recover ed?Estimated Death List Stands at 250 to 300 San Antonio. Sept. 11.?The list ; of .mown dead from the flood of ? early Saturday was 47 late today. The dead and missing are estimat I ed at approximately 200 by offi- ; i ciais engaged in recovering the ; I bodies while Police Commissioner 1 ; Phil Wright estimated that it might j rearh 300. Many residents con ; sid> r these figures high. ! The property loss is placed at i j $5,000,000 by some business men : and those in charge of reelama- ! ! tioi: work. Estimates both lower \ i and higher also are heard. While ' : it has been declared that possibly ' ! the majority of the estimated dead j I floated down the streams, the j j searchers believe that as the j wreckage and driftwood is cleared j away others will be found. I "he efforts of the rescuers today ; i were confined principally to recov- j j ering bodies, work of rescuing the ! j marooned having been completed ! yesterday. The fact that most of the bodies j recovered have been fully clothed I showed that the victims either were j ; warned or heard the approaching j j rush, of water in time to make prep j arc tions to leave. { The city proper has been crip j pled day from the flood. There ! i have been no lights nor street car ! j service because of no electric pow- | I er. Water has been running in the j me ins in a few portions of the city j j and the pressure is weak at these ; j places. City officials said late, to- \ ! day that the water pressure would : i be turned on before tomorrow and j j it is thought electric current also ; \ will be available tomorrow. City building inspector, John L. I Richter, estimated the damage ts : buildings at approximately $700.- j I 000. He said that no large build- i j ings have been damaged perma- J i nently and that none is in a dan- j ! gerous condition. Hardly any of | i the damaged businesses carried < j flood insurance either on the build- ! : ings or stock. j Precautions to prevent an epi- j ! d^mic are being taken. A check by | j D. D. Harrigan. city engineer, show- i j ed that 13 of the 27 bridges span- i : ning the San Antonio river are vir- j I tually undamaged. At first it was \ I thought all but four were damaged | I but with the removal of debris and i ! driftwood today, it was found that! ! 13 still are safe and sound. Only j j one bridge was washed away. The rapidity with which the wa- j ter receded after the rains stopped j is accounted for by the city being at the head waters of the three j [ streams. i A rigid restricted area was roped i i off today an 1 guarded by policemen i i and soldiers from Fort Sam Hous* ? j ten. The Red Cross and other similar ' organizations opened relief head- j quarters yesterday and all last night: and today bread was passed out to i the hungry and clothes ^iven other, sufferers. ? There was limited telephone serv- ? j ice today. Small automobiles were ? I backed up to the dynamos, rear j j wheels jacked up and belts put oven i the rims for power. r j i City officials estimate that the total effect of the >od will not be j cleared up for a month. Part of the business district will: resume its natural course, .omor- ; row, however, merchants in various < parts of the citw displaying signs today that they would resume i business. - Topics For Disarm ament Conference; Washington. Sept. . 14.?The j .imerican Government has sent to j .he governments of all the powers | invited to participate in the dis- i armament conference a list of top- j res suggested for discussion. . Storm Reported. Washington, Sept. 14.?A dis-1 ' urbance of considerable intensity) southwest of Bermuda and moving j northward, was reported tonight by the weather bureau. The dis turbance is attended by shifting, gales. Hotel Rates what Lower R< State Inspector W< Says Some Proprietc * Show Inclination to R< duce Rates Columbia. Sept. Az.-?A no worthy inclination on the part ?' hotel proprietors in some sectioj of the state during the past sever; months to reduce their rates to t public in proportion to the gen al dec-line in other lines, 'is ported by State Hotel Inspector^. M. Woodward, who stated today that .he is pleased to note the re ductions. However, he said fuj *her,ihat many of the hostelry proprietors are staying close ? 'their flush-time prices. Mj, Woodward me n t i o n e% j changes in hotel prices especially4n Eatesburg. Johnston, Saluda, Greenville, Charleston and Spar tan burg. He referred especially to dining room charges. Some of tfce hotels of the state, Mr. WoodwaM said, did not greatly advance theju* prices during the war period, a*fd are therefore not in line for bjfe reductions. A meeting of the "Greeters,"% hotel men's organization, and rep resentatives of the traveling m?? was recently held in Florence, but no immediate peace treaty wj$s sighed, Mr. Woodward says. I| -?- I Peaches Help in Sumter County^ -? C Clemson College. Sept; 12.?Tlfe experience of H. C. McCaskill, ^, Sumter County farmer, wtth peaches shows what a side cafh crop w'ill do when properly handlea andbsliows that peaches will do well on " well selected land in that pajt j of. the state. With a failing cot- J ton' crop and the price of cotton bf low. cost of production, ,-?ia:. Mc Caskill says that his orchard^ the only i'hing that saved him in"V920 and that it has helped very mwr- ? ially.this year, he having sold over ^ $1.00(i 'Worth of peaches, in 1920 and over $500 worth in 1921. This in face, of the fact that Mr. MtcCa* kill threatened to cut down the - trees two years ago when he came^J into possession of the farm and^ was persuaded with difficulty by. County Agent J. F. Williams to , leave .them. ji Mr. Williams had assisted the^ij form er j owner in planting the or-: chard as a demonstration, and he' is particularly pleased that the orchard has "demonstrated" in a most gratifying way. The fruit is. - marketed locally at very little ex-' pense; or trouble, since the place is; within a few miles of Sumter and _ most of the sales were made to . people who drove out and bought atcthe orchard.' . ( 4 Many Sumter County :farmera are considering growing peaches oh a limited scale, and with careful selection of suitable land and va- - rreties and proper attention to. * trees, there is ^Q?]&j\t-<&Man&Jtej^ success. Attention Confederate Veterans! You . are hereby notified to at- . tend a meeting of Camp. Dick An-' 1 derson, Saturday 17th inst. 11 afc m.nat..Court House to name deleV gates, to annual reunion of Con-" federate A'eterans at Chattanooga^ Tt-iui.,, October 25th-27th. W. O. CAIN, E> .Scott Carson, Commander.. Adjutant. 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