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?e^Watchihan and Southron Published Wednesday and Satur day by Osteen Publishing Company, Sumter, Si C. , Terms: :. $2.00 per annum?m advance. Advertisements: ?W. Square, first insertion _.$1.00 Zlvery 'subsequent'insertion .50 . Contracts for" three months or iQpger"will be made at reduced j&tes. . ? Aril communications Which sub serve private interests will oe charged for' as>x advertisements. Obituaries', and tributes of re /'fgpect will be charged for. ~"'Th^' 'Sumter Watchman was. founded in iSud and the True ^utliron in 1866. The Watchman iyad; Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of ix>th of the old papers, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium jfr Sumter. , ?ATIOX1KG JOBS. ss Under an ideal Economic system, all of the people would be employ ed all the time. - As matters stand, "tfeat seems impossible except at the vtrry peak of prosperity. In dull 2Jmes it is plainly a question of em ploying some of the people all of time or all of the people some "of the time. "' The termer method has usually rprevailed. As many workmen as /jKe're needed have been kept on ' pay roll through the depression jriod, while their less fortunate tren idled^and ran into debt ?or starved. ? This , has bf-en admittedly, a rat hen barbarous process. "Even"! .-xurti for' himself, and the Devil; ;|?ke-. the hindmost." may be the ?^SfcWOf the park, but it is not a very Tihi'h ideal for a civilized society. ^E&ice the present dulness started, ihVxe have been notable cases of Jsfc-rtmen in certain industries or Tories voluntarily dividing up M - /their nS&rk, to give every man an -e*yual chance. Secretary \ Hoover now proposed to apply thej 4*?fmeipieM:o industry generally, in - ? ' ??-?V ier to carry labor through this ill period with as little suffering possible... s It looks like a sensible thing to do. in lieu of any really construc ?isxTi'1. pia-n that would provide ade quate work, for everybody wanting Jrt^and'give year-round employ r men; to men in the ? "seasonal" trades.- We shall get to that some _ . ??? ? + ? '?? ROADS OR BATTLESHIPS. : T&e. Denver Post is urging the! Construction by the government of j two highways, one from New Tork \ io San Francisco and the other j Ifom Canada to the Gulf. The idea j to have them built under the di- j >n of army engineers. . I i - And while they are building they j Should build three other roads: . One- skirting the coast from Maine i to Miami, Fla., another from Brit- ! Columbia to San Diego, Cal,, j id-the third from Florida to the tcific coast. And-how could the country af-j >rd to undertake such expensive j as at this time? W_-l^ the ?ost points out that those roads, well routed and constructed as * solidly, as any in the world, could be -feuik for the price of four modern battleships. The country seems to have plenty of money for Taujeships. Or at least, congress, like legislative bodies in other countries, seems to think so. It looks like a choice between battle ships and roads. The . battleships will be obsolete io-iO .or 15 years. The roads, says the? Post, "will last forever." The particular pavement that might be iaalit now would not last forever, hut the route would, and once done, t&e. paving would be renewed as opcasfon demanded, at a cos?, easi ly taken care of by the added real ^ estate values along the way. The rise in those same values would sooner or later pay the original c?Jrt; too, in increased taxes. %?*t&e project just now would give employment to hundreds of thou sands of idle men and utilize large quantities of building material, thus "Tiding over a hard winter and stim ulating business revival. It doesn't %ound foolish at all. THAT STUPID PRACTICE. *i ^'Why should children in these days have to take music lessons? They plod along and waste so much time, when it is so much easier to bin- records to put on the YIc .trola." Because for a person of no cul ^-frure to listen to Victrola records is mere sensuous pleasure, deadening *tp the powers. Whereas learning j to play an instrument is education and development of the most, con ^^ntrated kind?education of mind ^fn*d muscle, co-ordination of intel- \ lect and emotion. The homely vir tues of patience and perseverance j ftre cultivated. Keen observation i - . -- i is necessary, the mental poise of ; producing even rhythms. SfcjJ??,-through this or any other j form of severe discipline, one has acquired culture, which is to say the mental, development which en- ; abies one to do as well, as to enjoy, to create as weil as to copy, to ! \vork usefully and to live beautiful-; ly, then listening to good music, on j victrola or otherwise, is partaking of the highest spiritual enjoyment. It is life-giving. Too many people try to get en- : joyment without discipline. This proves brief, satiating, restless. Dis cipline trains the body and opens up the soul. . . ? g?-,. . . SHOES FITTED BY X-RAY. i . ?. . j The very modern shpe man does not tr*.st to moral suasion to con- j vinee his customer that a shoe Is j too large or too small. He takes the j customer back to the X-ray ma-! chine and shows him a picture of .j his feet: in the shoes. The result is ! i ihat a customer usually leaves the store with a pair of- shoes that fit ? his feet instead of .his pride or his j imagination. The customer. , looking down into the machine, sees with startl- j ing clearness the outlines of the j bones of his feet and the dark ; shadow.of the shoes about them.! The salesman can see the picture j also, and there can be no argument ? as to whether the shoes do or do not cramp any part of the feet. The ; picture, flattering, or not, is the j truthful record of photography. It is strange that civilized hu- i manity, so sensible in the main, j and so impatient of suffering in the I rest of the body, has been so idiotic ; about its feet. j 3>AXGEROUS BLI'FFIXG. * ? '_ ? Talk of a railroad ( strike may j properly be discounted. Even the j vote of the railroad unions.in fa- j vor of striking: may he discounted. | The railroad men surely have more j sense than to go on strike just now. j If not, their leaders have more | sense than to order a strike. But i w"hy, them the strike vote ? It is plausibly explained that j this vote is merely a weapon plac ed by the men in .their leaders' hands, to use in the game of nego tiation with the railroads and the j Railroad Labor Board. . \ , That, however, is a dangerous! weapon to flourish at this time,j whether loaded or not. It fpsters} industrial controversy when the great need is for industrial under-^ standing and co-operation. A real i transportation strike would upset j the whole system of industry just when it is getting nicely started again.' The~mere threat of a strike ] Is unsettling; it tends to lessen con- j ftdence and retard revival. Such action is bad for the rail< road union?, too, because it invites charges of inconsistency and bad faith. The 12 per cent wage cut which the men are opposing was made by the ^Railroad. Labor Board which represents the United States government, and which was pro vided by,legislation urged by the] railroad men themselves. Every- j body knows, moreover, that the j high wages of last year were scaled to meet the cost of living, and that the cost of living has fallen, now more than 12 per cent. ^ Chicago Boy Hangs Himself Chicago, Oct. t>?The finding of the body of Edward Kraus, aged 14, hanging in the basement of his home gave the poliie the second case of its kind to work on in less than a week. -? ? ? - Sheriff and Mask ed Men Fight Durant, Okla;, Ocl 7.?Several i shots were exchanged-5 by a sheriff's party and a band of nine masked i white robed men in a pasture near I this city last night. The robed men lied. The sheriff said he be- j lieved none were wounded. ? ? ? The best thing about a girl is | your arm. -? ? ?r ? The best cure for smoking is a j cheap cigar. ; There are only two kinds of men, i wise and otherwise. - Stingy people readily give you a ! piece of their minds. The price of rubber is $5 and costs if you rubber too long. -? - One thing yen have that ie hard ? to get is* a phone number. m A t) ' Fall dances are another evidence j that the nut gathering season is here. Chicago is planning the biggest zoo in the world. Chicago needs it. 1 I'oor dressmakers have a ripping time. * An ounce of work is worth a pound of shirk. Xo wedding ever went off with out a "hitch." In the United States more than 1 155.0o0.000 telegraphic messages are transmitted each year. The first Greek offensive was garlic. Mr. Hodges Harps ?n the Lawyers Propaganda.- For ..New; Farm ers' Movement After the i Manner of Ben Tillman Seems to Lack Punch Editor Sumter Item: i I wonder what the lawyers, as well as others, think as to why I wrote that lawyer lambasting ar- j tiele to the press some days ago. i Xo doubt, the average politician j will say: Hodges wants to get in | politics. Well, such is not the case. ! I have never run for office and ; certainly never expect to. so forget ; abobit that charge. Some might! say that it must have been from prejujdice and enmity against the \ lawyers; that charge is untrue, as the most of the layers I know are : powerful clever gentlemen and j great friends of mine. The preacher tells us, you have ; got to tell a man about his sins' and show him how mean he is be fore you can convert him. I want to tell you lawyers of the state, ; who have been running the affairs j of state for the past ten or twelve j years that you have created all j kinds of rows among the people; | great enmity and strife have been ; engendered, and it looked at times: as if the old ship of state was j about shot to pieces. Frightful po- ; litical excitement among all classes j of people does great harm and es- ; pecially, among our farming class, j We want protection, peace and iaw j enforcement and no foolishness j about it. We want you lawyers to'! go on and run the courts that they! may not be the laughing stock of all the people. There are thou sands and thousands of dollars of j the peoples' money wasted around these court houses that there is no ' necessity for. AH kinds of con- ' fusing laws are put on the books 1 that are totally unnecessary. Any commonplace business man recog- j nizes that there is no business; management going on around the court house. You often train a man in the science of law, and he knows nothing about the science of economics. This kind of lawyer i has no right to be vested with the ; power of imposing millions of dol- j Iars in taxes on the people, and as long as the people persist in elect- ! ing such men to make and execute ! these laws, we are going to have j bitter strife and confusion, in state j affairs, and gross incompetence in | law administration. There is a, vast difference, be-: tween a demagogue haranguer and ! the speech of a statesman. Any i back alley anarchist can tire some j parts of almost any audience to ! the destruction point; but I don't i believe that there is a decent law- ! yer in the state that stands for such i rotten statesmanship. However, j they have such men as these in the j profession and some of them run j for office and get elected, and then i you have the devil to play. An educated rascal is a dangerous man i to put in authority over the peo pie; When the wicked rule, the t people mourn. Then comes echoing down the ages, a denunciatory ! message from one "who spake as j man never spake:" you will find ! it--in St. Luke 11-40. And he said, /??Woe unto you also, ye lawyers, j for ye laden men with burdens j grievous to be borne, and ye your- i selves touch not these burdens with one of your fingers." Look all over South Carolina, today, and see I how true is the foregoing deelara- j lion. The great tax burden has j been shifted, by our lawyer states- j man from the ? ich and profit-pro ducing class to the backs of the : poor devils residing in the boll ? weevil district which is all over South Carolina. There is no high- i er law ever revealed to man than j that quoted above. If we be brave, ! intelligent and self-respecting men ! and women, we will never allow : again the state's chief executive to : be a lawyer, and the general as- ; sembly to be dominated by lawyers, j It must not. and cannot be done. Men and women of South Carolina j living on the farms, do you re spect yourselves? Do you love = your children? I know you do. ' Then in God's name, arise in your manhood and womanhood and be come a unit, thereby saving our- | selves from the scheming, manipu- j lating lawyer politician. There is no doubt in my mind, , that a year before the elections ; come off that the entire state tick- j ets will have already been fixed and, not by farmers either. Turn your eyes to Washington for a few minutes, and what a ; ghastly nation-wide picture; let the j demagogues curse Woodrow Wil- j son as much as they please; but up j to the time of the November elec- \ tions last year, there was not a man or woman in the . United j States, who wanted a job, but who j had it and at their own price too. I The government now says that : there are .?ix million forced idle people in this country today. Gomp- ! ers, the great labor leader, says they are losing twenty-seven mil lion dollars per day. A Ropubli- ' can congress means to shift the cost of the great war, from the rich to the laboring man bv way i of a sales tax and property tax. : Who has ever seen cotton in the south sell under a Republican ad ministration nt 40 cents? Wood row Wilson certainly did not make anyone hold their cotton and sell it "for ten cents. All of you know ? why cotton has gone up recently; j because the south as made half ; n crop. The trusts and money pow- i ers have their hired lawyers in congress, looking after their inter ests, and the result to date, is six million idle men and millions of crying women and children, who are needing bread. May God have mercy on the lawyer demagogues in this state who have continuous ly cursed Woodrow Wilson. 1 hope that every weekly news paper in the state may copy this article. Help me arouse tin- people j to actio-), j hope that the farmers all over South Carolina, will write their views on the subject to the1 press. My fellow farmers, this is no time to Kit in the sulks, this is the time for action and unity. If you don't agree with me. say so. and. if you agree with me. say so. We must do something, and do it now. C. P. HODGES. Brownsville. S. C, Oct. ?5. ? -?><>? General Session Court to Open Fall Term Begins Session Tuesday, Judge T. J. Mauld in to Preside The court of general sessions convenes Tuesday for its fall term The scheduled date for the open- | ing of this court was October 10th. , but owing to an en banc session of. the state supreme court which is j being held in Columbia today and at which all circuit judges must j be present. Judge J. T. Mauldin, who is to preside over this court, was detained in Columbia. There are seventeen prisoners in the county jail awaiting trial at this j court session and a number of cases j which were left qver from the roster of the last session. Probab- j ly among the most interesting cases which are to be continued in this court is the trial of Edgar Bradley i for the murder on Christmas day Of W. F. Outlaw. The shooting j taking place at Mr. Outlaw's home. ; Attorneys for state, Solicitor F. A. McLeod and McLeod & Dennis of Bishopville. Attorneys for defense, I Clifton and Wood and -M. L. Smith. j The other case of interest is the ; trial of Willis Jones for the murder of a young Scott boy. the affair I having taken place at a school; house. State, Solicitor McLeod and L. D. Jennings: counsel for defense, j Clifton and Wood, D. D. Moise and H. D. Moise. What the Boll Weevil Has Done. The New York Evening Post sug gests that while the ravages of the boll weevil this year have exceeded those of any previous season and the pest now covers virtually the entire cotton area; nevertheless "there is no reason to believe that; these facts point to a permanent cotton shortage." In support of this view The Evening Post, in its j excellent column "Business Today." j says: "The State of Texas, which I produced from a fourth to a third : of the total crop, has been afflicted j with the weevil in some sections : for about thirty years' and most of the coton-growing area has suffered from it for about twenty years. Yet this State (Texas) has ! produced larger crops with the j weevils infesting the whole of this | area than it was able to raise before I their appearance." The Evening Post is mistaken. I It is true that last year Texas grew j approximately 4.2o0,0o0 bales of i cotton, one of four largest crops i in the history of the State, but for j five or six years the average crop I in Texas has been smaller by some- j thing like a million bales than the average crop ten years ago or ' thereabouts. In 1!)11 Texas grew 4.110.000 bales: in 1012 4.650,000 1 bales in 1013 3.770.000 bales, in | 1014 4,300,000 bales. Then the crop dropped to around 3.000.000 in ; 1A14 3.500.000 in 19115. 3.000.000 in ? 1017, 2,600.000 in 1918, 2,060,000 in 1919. The acreage in Texas has not varied greatly d?rftig thtfs period. A study of the figures for Ala- 1 hama and Georgia show very strikingly the effects of the boll weevil on cotton production. In ' Alabama ten years ago the . ap was averaging above 1.500.000 bales a year. It dropped to 1.000, 000 bales in 1015. to half a million bales in 1916. to around 750.000 bales in 1018 and 1910. to 660.000 bales in 1020 and the forecast for this year is 468.000 bales. In Georgia the cotton crop has I been cut from 2.720.000 bales in i 1014 to 1.400.00 bales in 1020. with the Government forecast for this year at 722.000 bales. Of cou7'se. as *he New York Evening Post says, the weevils are ; worse some years than others and this is an especially bad year: nev ertheless as the weevil has made j its way across the cotton belt it has steadily reduced the size of the j American cotton crop. The reduc- ] ed use of commercial fertilizer : has been a factor also in reducing | the cotton yield but the main re sponsibility rests upon the weevil. ; It seems clear for example that the Size of the the Alabama crop has ! been permanent ly cut by approx- ; irrfately a million bales and the j same thing is true as to Georgia: | indeed the cut in Georgia may be j well over a million. Good judges in South Carolina are of the opin- | ion that the crop in this State will never again reach a million bales. ] unless happily the boll weevil is | exterminated. The forecast for I South Carolina this year is 004.000 \ bales as against 1.530.000 bales last j year. 1.400.000 hales in 1010 and 1.580.0(10 hales in 1918. For the five years 1910-1914 the average cotton production in Amer ica was 13.643.000 bales. The world was consumins about 20.000.000 j bales a year and the world produc tion was a little over 21.000.000 j b ales. During the past five years ! the crop in America has been under i 12.0(1(1.11(10 hales and a surplus has, accumulated only because world consumption has been greatly re duced. With the boll weevil active throughout the entire cotton belt, and with the buying power of the j world improved, so thai consump tion would approximate the pre war figures, there would he a cot ton shortage of very considerable proportions and one which i: would i?e difficult to make good. Bank Messen ger Robbed j ________ i c < St. Louis. Oct. 10.?The negro ; messenger of the Grand Avenue , Bank uu* held up by two men, who escaped with his satchel, contain ing over seventeen thousand dol lars in cash and fifty-one thousand in non-negotiable paper, on a crowded street ? ar. i County Fair News Pinewood and- Bethel Schools Will Have Booths at Fair The ninety-five square miles of territory in and around Pinewood recently annexed from Clarendon to Sumter county will, participate actively and enthusiastically in the 1-921 Sumter county fair, November] 15th to ISth. .Mrs. H. L. Eaxley. of Pinewood. i has written Secretary Reardon 1 that Pinewood graded and high | school, and Pinewood and the an nexed vicinity will put in a com munity and school booth. Instead | of the usual annual community fair i this section o four county will join | with Sumter county in making our, fair the kind of a county fair it | ought to and is going to be. Pinewood has a modern five- 1 teacher graded and high school and the principal and teachers are: going to throw the weight of their ! influence in with the ladies and ; gentlemen, and hundreds of school : children to get up ? booth that will | make Sumter county additionally | proud of having been able to se cure this progressive new terri- j tory with such intelligent, prosper- ! ous, and public-spirited citizens.1 This makes three community and I school booths guaranteed for this ; fall's fair?with good prospects of j at least two more. Bethel school home demonstra- : tion club had a largely attended and very interesting monthly meet ing last Thursday at which about thirty ladies and girls of Bethel j school with the three lady teachers ; attended. The question of Bethel school j district having a booth at the 1921 j county fair was discussed. Mr. J. \ M. Kolb, chairman of the school j trustees board, and Mr. E. I. Rear don were permitted to say a thing | or two about the booth proposition, j Both urged that Bethel again be- j come a very important part of the j county fair as this community has j been at past fairs. Mr. Kolb ex- J pressed the hope that this school j district will put in a booth, and of- j fered his services to do anything in ! his power to assist the ladies, and i guaranteed assistance from other 1 gentlemen of the district. Miss j Garo Truluek. home demonstration ! agent also urged participation in ; this year's county fair. Mrs. Wm. ; Haynsworth. Mrs. J. M. Kolb. Mrs. George Nettles, and the lady teach ers said they are willing to do their part. Finally a committee of ladies t and gentlemen were named to cap- ! - vas the school district to .see what jJ can be done, and to report .at an- j other meeting. Mrs. Francis Y>. Kline, of Win throp College, state agent in charge j of community and club marketing, j and Miss Anne Campbell, of Win- ? throp College, state agent in charge J of household management were ( present and discussed interestingly various phazes of thrift, eonserva- j tion, and means of marketing sur- ! plus home produced articles of food. Miss Truluek also discussed ? club marketing and other phases , of home demonstration activities. The presence of Mrs. Kline and'i Miss Campbell, the two specialists j of Winthrop College was much en- : joyed by the local ladies who gain-1 ed much valuable information from 1 the discussions incidental to home ! economies and marketing. The i Sumter County Fair Association is j very anxious to have Bethel com- i munity and school district continue their interest in our county fairs. In fact the cooperation of every i school district in the county is de- I sired, and it looks as though the j ladies and gentlemen of our rural j districts are going to do their part j with the city of Sumter people, and '? all pull together for a bigger and ; better county fair?and to get our j entire county organized for crop ? diversification, intelligent market- j ing, and producing and buying at home everything possible. - Draws Long Sentence; _ i h?e Imprisonment for James j Ammons ? ? Marion, Oct. ~>.?The court sen- j tenced James Ammons, convicted ! accomplice of Mrs. Lizzie Jones, ; who killed her husband, to life im- ! prisonment today. Attorneys for I the defendant have appealed to the j supreme court. Sentence was not j passed on James Ammons yester- | day as his attorneys asked to argue j the case for new trial. Mi s'. Lizzie Jones poisoned her ? husband last December with strychnine and after admitting her guilt, stated that James Ammons, her alleged lover, had induced ?her j to commit the crime. Ammons will i be taken to the penitentiary to await the decision of the supreme ! court in Iiis case. Solicitor L. M. Gasque has recom mended that Mrs. Jones, who upon j entering a plea of manslaughter J was sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary be committed to j the state hospital for the insane. j She was sent there recently for ob servation and it was found that she ? possessed the mentality of a child of seven or eight years old. it is stated. - ? ? ? Reports are coming in from sec- | tions of the county that a number j of farmers have finished picking \ cotton and have already cut the stalks and plowed them under. : This is the approved method of h making a winning fight against the boll weevil and if all the cotton planters will co-operate in plowing i under the stalks the number of weevils that will be left to attack j the cotton next spring will be ma- . terially reduced. Every farmer who owns his land should as a mat ter of self protection, plow under h the stalks, and every land owner who rents to others should require the tenants to plow under the cot ton as early as possible. Movie people seem to spend honey-moons in divorce courts. "The [J. S. nickel is 7."> per cent copper."?News item. Now what is a copper worth ? ? Me-o-my, how you'll take to a pipe?and R A f Before you're a day older you want to let the idea slip under your hat that this is the open season to start something with a joy'us jimniy pipe-?and some Prince Albert! Because, a pipe packed with Prince Albert satisfies a man as he was never satis lied before?and keeps him satisfied! And, you can prove# it! Why ? P. A.'s flavor and fragrance and coolness and its freedom from bite and parch (cut out by our exclusive pat ented process) are a reve lation to the man who never could get acquainted with a pipe! P. A. has made a pipe a thing of joy to four men where one was smoked before! Ever roil up a cigarette with Prince Albert? Man, man ? but you've got-a party coming your way! Talk about a cigarette smoke; we tell you it's a peach! Prince Albert is sold in tqppy red. bags, tidy red tins, handsome pozir.d and half jx end tin Uumldors and in the pound crystal glas* ii u rn id or wit h sponge moistener . top. Copyright 1921 by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v Wlxtnton-Sa lem, the national joy smoke VlcLendon to Atlanta 3egan Meeting There Sunday ?W?1 Go to Brooklyn (Pee Dee Advocate, Bennettsville.) Rev. B. F. McLendon was at lome last week after closing a i^reat meeting at Spencer, X. C. He left Friday night ror Atlanta, Ga.. :o begin a four weeks' meeting Lhere Sunday. Mr. McLendon will, in the near future hold meetings at Tarboro, \\ <_'.: Brooklyn, X. Y., and Fort Worth, Texas. Improving the Mail Service. vXews and Courier). Postmaster General Hays has is sued new instructions to all postal employes throughout the United Slates directing them to exercise extraordinary diligence in expedi ting the handling of newspapers distributed to subscribers through the mails, and making it plain that every employe on the postal pay roll is expected to understand that in this matter the postmaster gen eral means business. In taking this action Postmaster General Hays brings out that he is acting not simply in the inter est of the newspapers but that his first thought is for the newspaper reader. "A newspaper." he says, "is preeminently a thing that a man wants when he wants it. If he cannot have it when he wants it he does not want it at all. It is up to us to see that he gets his favorite newspaper promptly." Mr. Hays will remove a large part of the irritation which has been so general against the postomce de partment for years past if he can accomplish the laudable reform which he has thus undertaken in the delivery of newspapers. The News and Courier has reason to know that Mr. Hays is in earnest and that he lias already made pro gress in this matter. Several weeks ago this newspaper printed a paragraph commenting on the non-delivery of New York newspa pers to subscribers in Charleston L>n Sunday. The matter was brought to the attention of Mr. Hays, he is sued instructions that the trouble should be corrected, and it is a pleasure to state that it has been i-orrected. Mr. Hays is trying to run the postorlice as a business institution. He is undertaking to improve the morale of the service and to make the service itself the best that can be had. The effects of his efforts are already becoming evident. Former Sumter Girl to Wed. (Marion Star). R?-v. and Mrs. Walter I. Herbert lave announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Frances Herbert, to Mr. Herbert H. Les ter, of Bogalusa, La., the wed Hng to take place early in Novem ber. Miss Herbert is a young woman }f many charms and accomplish ments and the people of Marion Lvill be greatly interested in her ap proaching marriage. Miss Herbert was a resident of Sumter several years ago at which :ime her father w;.'s the presiding ?Ider of tiie Methodist church. Sumter district. Sim has quite a lumber of friends in this city who ivill manifest interest at the an louncemeni of her engagement. -? ? *? *e early hours Sunday morning, md Sunday another resident re ported his cat- had been taken and jsed Sunday night, News of County Fair will be a. "follow up" baby contest J and health clinic. Complete rec - j drds will be kept of the physical The Baby SllOW Will Be a ! condition of every baby examined ; during the 1021 fair, and the baby Four-Day Event j making: the greatest improvement _ I during the time between the two It has been decided by Miss An- | fai? ^ yarded ten dollars ; as a prize for his or her enterprise tonio Gibson, superintendent of the j in becoming a bctter baby?physi better baby contest and health j cally. any- how. So that all babies clinic during the Sumter County had better sit up and take notice Fair to make this very interesting | ?nd read carefully county fair and important event a four-day in- j notes;hn-The Daily Item, stead of-a three day-- contest as | In-order .to make this health originally intended, so that during cHnic as scientifically and practical the hours of 10 a. rn. to 2 p. m. j lY ?s possible of value to the babies November 15th, 16th. 17th and 1 contesting the bureau of education lSth. at the fair grounds the baby i of the-department of the interior, contest will be held. ; an(* the bureau of child hygiene of This baby contest is going to be j Washington and the better babies an event of more than ordinary ; bureau of-:: the Woman's Home ! importance to Sumter county be- j Companion; of New York City, have cause it gives to the mother of ev- j been requested by Miss Gibson to j erv babv a splendid opportunity to I ofior suggestions and to furnish Ht I learn from physical examinations, ! erature regarding baby contests weights, measurements, etc., ? and health clinics. Better babies I wthether her little on is in a normal! for Smuter county is the objejct of ! or near normal condition of j the contest and clinic. ! physique, or whether there are any j For the further information of I physical defects that can and ought ] mothers :the following about the i to be remedied before it is too late, ages oftvthe babies allowed to en No entrance fees or other charges! ter this-contest is again given: will be made. Of course the competitive fea tures of the contest as to the near From one month to one year old, first prize,* $3 0; second prize, $5.00. From one to two years old, first est physically perfect baby will j I>riz*? S^O*-second prize, $5.00. ! arouse a great deal of interest, and From two years to thirty-seven the--prizes and honors to be won are | months^fiEst prize, $10; second I arousing much interest. The Sum- j prize, ?5. ter County Fair Association invites j ? ? ? every baby in Sumter county in 1 WaHaee Granted Bail. accordance with age limits below | ?? - mentioned to come in and contest j J. C. Wallace was released from for these prizes and at the same f the county jail Saturday afternoon time receive the benefits of expert I shortly* after Associate Justice T. physical examinations by a number j B. Fr?ser1 had signed the order for of medical experts and specialists, his release. The amount of Wal During the 1922 Sumter County I lace's Ixmd was fixed at the sum Fair there will be another and what ! of :?2.&uu. 1 I I I The National Eank of South Cardina OF SUMTER, S. C. The Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY Cubital $300,000 Surplus and Profits $280,000 STRONG AND PROGRESSIVA Give us the Pleasure of Serving YOU ' % The Bank With the Chime Clock. <! i tS> C. G. ROWLAND, Pres. EARLE ROWLAND, Cashie? f I ! A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss* Neither does a rolling dollar. Interest is what you want, that is what makes your dollar grow. You have probably saved money and ;have It invested in good securities, if not you certainly should-have it in the bank. Shot bag and stocking banking is unsafe. We not only take care of your money for you but pay you a liberal interest as well. Procrastination may mean a loss to you. It's far better to be safe than sorry. A Satisfied Customer is our Most Dependable Asset. FIRST NATIONAL BANK SUMTER, S. C. NE1LL O'DO NN ELL ARCHIE CHINA O. L. YATES President Vice President. Cashier