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The Wattimiait and Southron Entered at the Postoffice atlSum teiv S. C, as Second Class Matter. PERSONAL. Mrs. Alexander Mcfver, who has been visiting her son. Mr."W. W. Mclver on Liberty street,, has re " turned to her home in Charleston. ? Messrs. Willie Reams, Bill Plowden and Dr. E. P. DuRant returned to Sumter last night from the Georgetown section of the state where they have been enjoy ing a deer hunt. The hunting party was successful in killing three deer. Mr. Plowden landed his first buck during this hunt. Miss Ina Carte, of the. Marion city schools, will spend thq week end with Mrs. E. S. Booth.V Miss Carte formerly taught domestic science in the local school. Mr. Frank M. Mikell, of Atlanta, I was in the city yesterday on busi nesc Messrs. P. K. Beach, 3f arionj Pate ?nd J. G. Davis left this morn ing for Columbia on business. Miss Adell Kirkland left- for . Charleston this morning where she will visit Mrs. D. M. Burns. Mr. 33. L. Witherspoon has. gone to Cleveland, Ohio to attend the convention of Casket Manufactur ers* Association of America. Mr. A. K. Sanders, superintend ent of the State Penitentiary "spent I .Saturday in the city. -Mr. L A. Ryttenberg left this morning in his car for a trip through North Carolina in interest of the Sumter Brick Works. Mr. Howard ?Jones of the Uni versity of South Carolina is in town for a few, days. /The following left Sumter Sun-! day night in special Pullman via i "Atlantic Coast Line and Atlanta for i Chattanooga, Tenn., to attend, the j United Confederate Veterans' con- { 'vention: Messrs. G. W. . Mahoney, i Robep. M. Mahoney, James E. i Brunson* R. M.. Josey, A. D. Be- .' thea. Judge Thos. EC Richardson,! Misses Hallie Lesesne, Dessie Les- ; esne and Clelia Terrx. Hon. C. J. Jackson of Horatio was in Sumter on business today. Messrs. Cyril Schwartz *%nd;>*Jack Skinner spent a short while' in Florer.ce this, week end. . ^ Mr. E. H. Forrester left tffchis mtorning for , Charleston after j spending a while in the city. . Rev. B. L. Knight passed ; through the. city this morning while en route to Columbia to at tend the State Fair. Mr. Knight has made some entries^in-, the poultry department of th^, Fair. He - was unusually lucky withJus show ing of last year and came out with the first psize in a numberof fairs. Mrs, J. J. Williams and Miss Bessie Hcod left this morning for Columbia. \ ? Miss; -Irene Bryan in company with Miss Dorothy Carson of Sum mertcn, will leave tonight for Tamp?, Fla., where Miss Bryan will spend the remainder of the -"'inter, j Mrs. W. J. McKay. (By an Old Neighbor). . Saleri Black River, Oct. 20.? | Today flalem Black River church? | itlife O'i Brick Church, witnessed the last act in the drama of a use ful life. Sixty-three years ago with in its sacred walls SaUie Knox, the\ Infants daughter of the late Hamil ton and Nancy Reid Witherspoon vwas baptized by Rev. G. C. Gregg, < who was the pastor^ Twenty years later Miss Sailie Knox Witherspoon was married to the young pastor, Revl Wilson James McKay. For twenty-seven years she was the pastor's wife and a faithful teacher in the' Sunday school. For seven- j teen years she was a worker in the j Sumter church mission society. j On the old plantation she was! the friend and helper of r 11 the negroes. Her faithful ministra tion saved many a life among " them, and eased many a sick bed. Not many of our noble southern j women, even in the days of slav ery, were more of an angel of j mercy in the humble cabins than j Mrs. McKay. And '.he carried the ; same loving desire to minister to those in need to her Sumter home. Today friends and relatives from several counties met at the old! church of her early life and ma- j ture womanhood to pay the last j sad tribute of love and respect. ! Many of the mourners} were the old ,' family negroes an?f the young ones j who have grown up since she moved away. ' And the white friends gave way that the negroes might help fill the grave. \ The services were conducted by her pastor, Dr. Marion, of the Sum ter church, assisted by Rev. W. H. Workman, who succeeded her late husband, Dr. McKay, as pastor of Salem (B. R.) church. The floral offerings banked the grave in a mass of b e a u t y j and fragrance that was worthy of | the life she lived. "You may j break, you may shatter the vase ; if you will; but the scent of! the rose will linger there still." j And the fragrance* of her life will j be a sweet memory in many lives 'for many years. E. W. DA BBS. j ' Funeral for Sergeant Alfred J. i Bradford. The body of Sargeant Alfred J. Bradford, who died in France while in the service of the United States arrived in Sumter this morn- I ing from Washington. D. C. The ! funeral services were held Sunday \ afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and! the body interred in the city ceme- ! tery. Sergeant Bradford died at a hos pital in France of pneumonia while j he was serving in the United States : army. The funeral services will be in charge of Rev. j. p. Marion. Those serving as pall hearers are Messrs. William Raffield, Alva Bur- i kett, Pitts Bradford, Ed Bradford. | Louis Bryan, James Bryan, Ed Seale and Marion Hurst. ^f the bed bug had a different ; way of getting his living, we might j not consider hi msuch a disi epu- ! table member of society. Death of M. M. Platt Prominent Citizen - of Sumter Dies Suddenly ? Mr. Marion M. Platt, one of Sum tor's best known citizens and busi ness men, was found by his wife at about 8 o'clock Saturday lying dead upon the bath room floor in his home on X. Church St. Mr. Platt was seemingly in very good health and his sudden death comes as a very distinct shock to his family and all of his friends and assoeiates. Friday morning Mr. Platt spent in the discharge of his busi ness as usual in his office in the City National Bank building, while in the afternoon, he, in company with an insurance representative of Philadelphia, made a business trip to Columbia through the country in Mr. Platt's automobile. ^They left Columbia on the return trip to Sumter about 10 o'clock that *ight and Mr. Platt complained to his companion that he was chilled. The wind shield of the automobile was broken and Mr. Platt was dressed in a summer suit and with out his overcoat. Several mishaps occurred to the automobile which delayed the arrival of the car in Sumter until about 2 a. m. : Mr. Platt put his friend out at the Claremont Hotel and with the ex ception of being veFy cold, was in the best of spirits when he bade his companion goodbye and went to his home. When Mrs. Platt found her hus band she immediately telephoned to the nearest physician and to the family physician and also to her brother-in-law, Dr. M. L. Parier, of Wedgefield. The physicians were soon at the home but nothing could be done. Mr. Platt was apparently in the act of dressing when his end came. Mr. Platt was the son of the late Rev. J. B.- Platt of the _Methodist conference and Mrs. Celestia Platt. He was born at Rdigeville, S. C, on the 24th of December, 1886. He was a student of Clemson College and later went into business in Co lumbia. He was married to Miss Lucile V. Gasque, of Marion, on De cember 23, 1916, after having mov ed to Sumter in 1915 and begun his thriving business as general agent for the Philadelphia Life Insurance Company. Mr. Platt had only one brother, the. late Mr. Virgil C. Platt, at:one time in business here, and two sisters, Mrs. W. F. Benton who died in the year 1919 ard Mrs. M. Lu Parier of Wedgefield, who is now. the. only living member of the family. ,The_ deceased leaves his wife and two small children, .little Dorothy, aged 3 year's" and Marion who is under the age of two years. He also leaves one aunt, Mrs. J. E. Williams of Holly Hill. ' The funeral services will be held from the residence at 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning. An inquest was held Saturday, the finding of which was that: "M. M. Platt died suddenly at his residence in Sumter on the 22nd day of October, 1921 and upon the testimony of physicians who exam ined the body and knew or heard of the family history of deceased, we believe that death was due to some form of heart disease. Sign ed: Geo. L. Richer, Foreman; R. D. Graham, R. A. Bradham, F. B. Creech, A. L. Jackson, C. D. Brunk. t Bishopville Xev/s Notes. Bishopville. Oct. 22.?Our town is very quiet and business is very dull. If cotton does not improve in price I look for still greater de cline in business. The cotton fields are black and the ginneries are idle most of the time. The farmers are ready to put in their crops of small grain, but the ground is so dry and hard, they have to wait for rain, in order to do successful work. I fear numbers of our farmers will not be able to turn under their cotton land, as it requires extra labor, and the farmers are not able to meet this extra expense. Taxes have become a burden and the load falls heaviest on the man in moderate circumstances, who has to bear this burden at a sacri fice. Mr. J. S. Corbett has been quite sick but is able to be at his business again. The new depot is nearly complet ed, and is quite an improvement on the one that was burned about one year ago. Mr. Jim Skinner does not im prove any. Has to be kept under the influence of anodynes all the time. Roper for Nation al Chairman Columbia, Oct. 21.?Considerable interest attaches throughout the state to the proposal to elect Dan iel C. Roper, former United States commissioner of internal revenue, chairman of the Democratic nat ional committee, at the meeting to be held soon for the purpose of reorganization. Mr. Roper is a South Carolinian. He was a recent visitor in Columbia but had noth ing to say regarding the proposal to elect him chairman of the com mittee. However, it is said that Mr. Roper has given assurances that if his services are wanted, he will offer them to his party. It is not yet announced when the national committee will meet, but it will probably be at an early date. It is stated that Chairman George White, of Ohio, is desirous of retiring, and it is stated also that no Democrat of national standing could better organize a big committee of the kind. Tin aim is to start now preparations for the next presidential election. At the same time, it is proposed to have the committee help the party as far as possible in congressional elections next fall. Mr. Roper is from Laurens. He was appointed first assistant post master general shortly after Pres ident Wilson took office, and later was made head of the internal rev enue office, where he served ad mirably in national finances dur ing tlie warn period. Adjournament of Court Court Technically Held Open Until November 14th. Ver- | diet Reached by Jury in Jones Cases After 18 Hours Deadlock The case of the State vs. Wilds Jones charged with murder was ; placed in the hands of the jury Saturday afternoon at 6:45 at the j termination of the attorney's argu ments of the case for State and I defendant and the jury had been charged as to their duty by his honor Judge T. J. Mauldin. After remaining in the jury rooms in de liberation for a period of IS hours, j which included the whole of Sat urday night, the jury notified the ; court at 12:45 Sunday afternoon thg,t they had reached a verdict. In the presence of the defendant, in open court the verdict of "guilty of manslaughter, with recommenda tion to mercy'' was read. Notice of | a motion for a new trial was im- j mediately given by the attorneys j for the defense. This motion will I be heard at the November term of i court, together with the motion for J a new trial in the case of J. C. Wal- j lace, who was found guilty by the ' jury on the charge of an attempted \ criminal assault upon a young girl. After a consultation with the at torneys for the State and defense and by consent of Judge Mauldin ! it was agreed that the criminal court would not adjourn sine die. but should be held open until the j return of Judge T. J. Mauldin on ! the 14th day of November. Upon that date or some subsequent date j the motion for a new trial in the j Wallace case and in the Jones case j would be heard. Should the mo- j tion for a new trial, in either! case be overruled, the defendants will then be sentenced. This agree- ! ment took the form of a written , contract and was signed by the j prosecuting attorney, the counsel j for the defense and also by the de- j fendants themselves. These two cases, namely, the J. C. Wallace ease and the case of j Willis Jones, were by far the most I important of all cases which were j tried during this session of the ! Court of General Session. Both of j these cases were hard fought throughout and lamost every min Ute detail was thrashed out as1 thoroughly as was legally possible. : Much public interest was mani- ; fested during the trial of these | cases, the court room being filled most of the time with a large aud- ? ience. j The Willis Jones case was taken | up early on Wednesday morning and occupied the entire time of the j court until the case was placed in- j to the hands of the jury late Satur- j day afternoon. Willis Jones, it is j remembered, was tried for the mur der of his school mate, John Scott, j The murder was committed at a rural school a few miles west of Sumter and was committeed on the \ 8th day of September. 1920. Mr. Elisaa B. Hodge is Shot by Nc-) gvo. Mr. Elisha B. Hodge of the Pri- , vateer section living near Tindal, I was shot late Saturday afternoon at I his home by Marion Rose, one of J his negro farm hands. Mr. Hodge I was immediately brought to Sum | ter and was placed in the Tourney I Hospital where he is receiving ev | ery attention. So far as could be j learned today the negro who did I the shooting is yet at large al though every at*empt has been i made by the rural officers to ef | feet his capture. J It seems that the negro return fed with Mr. Hodges' mules at a I later hour than were his instruc tions from Mr. Hodge and that there were some words exchanged between the negro and Mr*. Hodge, who happened to have been at the ! lot at the time. Mr. Hodge had i turned his back upon the negro and was walking off when the ne ! gro opened lire upon him. It is said j that 5 shots were fired by negro, t of which Mr. Hodge was hit by two. : One shot hit a finger of his left hand while the other bullet enter ed the chest of Mr. ilodge just un der his right arm. This bullet it is thought penetrated the Inn*,' j and the bullet itself has been found by X-Ray examination as being I located in the middle of the back j not far from the surface. Should no unknown complica tions set in, the chances for the re j covery of Mr. Hodge ar<_- fairly I good. m* m> m? Suggestive Reading. . You will hoar it said that such ; and such a magazine prints sugges tive stories, meaning that they j present corrupting ideas in an at j tractive dress. But there is a sug j gestiveness also of quite a differ I ent sort?the suggestiveness that ! quickens the reader's sense of duty, stimulates ambition, gives courage to face adversity, fortifies against I yielding easily to temptation. It j is this better kind of suggestiveness j that yon will find on almost every page of The Youth's Companion. I Which of these two kinds of sug | gestiveness would you wish to have I exert an influence in vour family j life? I The 52 issues of 1922 will be crowded with serial stories, short stories, editorials, poetry, facts and \ fun. Subscribe now and receive: i 1. The Youth's Companion? issues in 1 922. 2. All the remaining issues of j 1 !'2 !. The Companion Home Calen dar for 1 !?L'L'. All for $2.50. 4. Or include McCall's Maga zine, tin- monthly authority on fashions. Both publications, only $3.00. i I THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, 'Commonwealth Ave. & St. Paul St.. Boston, Mass. New subscriptions received at f this office. -? ? ? j The man who makes money bet i ting against his own success cer , tainly doesn't earn it. Armistice Day Movement .Started for Obser vance of Holiday in Sumter Sumter has boon criticised very severely in the psat because we did not observe Armistice Day by closing up our stores and other business places on that date, No -Vember 11th. Now the fact is that no one took the lead to observe Armistice Day in Sumter or to close our places of business?it was not that Sumter did not wish to honor the day and to honor the heroes of the world war. living and dead. It just didn't appear to be peculiarly anybody's business to start the ball to rolling to suitably observe Ar mistice Day in Sumter. Secretary Reardon has been re quested in take steps to have the , day observed this year, and to see that a signed agreement is execut- j ed among the business concerns to ' close up. He will take the matter j up this week and appoint commit- j tees to circulate closing up agree- j ments. Armistice Day should be observ ed all over Sumter county. There are none who were in Sumter on November 11th, lfUS, who will ever forget how much the signing of the armistcic meant to humanity. They will never forget how thousands of men. women, boys and girls from all over this and adjoining coun ties went wild with joy, how laugh ter and tears of joy mingled to gether, how the throngs of citi zens crowded together and rejoic ed, and there are many other things about that never to be for gotten, day we will think of for years. We have not forgotten how many hundreds of men and women were made gloriously happy over the news that their boys would come home again. And there were many sad hearts thinking of their loved ones who would% never come home again. But thise who were grieved and heart sore were also happy that other men's and women's boys and brothers would come home. So it will be no difficult task to I get Sumter's business concerns to ' honor Armistice Day?just start the j agreements to circulating and the job is done?all over but the hol lering. How to Run a Cannery Successful Canner of Oconee County to Address Meeting All who are interested in a can ning factory or canning factories on individual farms are invited to attend a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce to hear J. A. Jones from Bickens county, tell how he operates a canning plant on his farm and cans vegetables for his neighbors. Mr. Jones has been suc cessfully operating a canning plant for several years, and knows the canning business. How it can be run to make money and how a plant may be run at a loss. J. Frank Williams, County Agent. ? ? m Y. M. C. A. Campaign The figures were -confused in Friday's report. Total subscribed was $5.873.00, of which $1,876.60 was cash, not the latter amount added. Total subscriptions now are $6,583.00, about $5,000 short of what is actually needed, and the committee feels hopeful. At the meeting last evening it was agreed that it would be well to give the people a condensed state ment of the financial status of the association, which is as follows: There is due to the Equi table Life Assurance Society balance on the building debt _$16,500.00 Due in notes for the banks. 4,730.00 Current bills, including money for repairs nec essary.- 1,730.00 Total debt.$23,000.00 The directors of the association I decided to raise one-half of this amount for the following reason: [There was due last June on the mortgage debt, $1,500 which the in surance company is ! holding over. There will be due Dec. 1st on the same account $1.000 and a few months later $1, 500, making total to be raised for this purpose. _4,000.00 ! Tint notes due must be paid _ .. ._ 4,750.00 ' The current bills and re pairs _? ._ ._ 1,750.00 ! Amount for one year's in i t crest on the whole debt_ _ 1,000.00 Total..$11,500.00 j The item of $4,750 notes is an J accumulation of deficits from time I to time, which the management believes will not continue as the ; local expenses have been very j greatly reduced, and if the asso 1 ciation is put on its feet now it can j be maintained by the income from j rents and membership fees. The committee has agreed^to keep this I matter before the people and con ! tinue to beg for help until the necessary amount is raised. If you have not given a helping hand please do so; if you have made a subscription and feel that yon ran do more, follow the dic tates of your better self. You get no dividend in dollars and cents from this investment, but your investment will continue to pay dividends in that which is far better long after you have passed away. Let every citizen of Sumter feel that this debt is as much his or hers, as it is a debt of the asso ciation. Tie- committee will nn-et Mon day evening at 8 o'clock at which time we hotte to have the entire amount, but to do this you must help. ? ? o Thousands of moths specializing on women's clothes have starved. The School of Methods Program For Three Days,! October 28, 29. 30 i '?Stories and Story-telling"' will be the theme of Mrs. S. X. Burts j of Spartanburg for three after noons during the School of Meth ods. October 28th. 29th, 30th. On Friday and Saturday, October 28th, and 20th, Mrs. Buns' work will be j for teachers and parents of chil dren, on Sunday she will conduct a story hour for the children of Sumter at the Christian church. The sessions of the School of Methods will begin Saturday at 3:30 p. m. The program for Fri day and Saturday is as follows: 3:30 p. m. Devotional?Rev. E. W. Reynolds (Friday), Rev. J. P. Derrick (Saturday). 3:45. Studies in the Life of Paul. ?Mr. Palmer. 4:15. Stories and Story-telling ?Mrs. Burts. 4:35. Roll Call and Award of Attendance Banner. 4:40. Principles of Religious ' Education?Dr. Honline. 5:30. Departmental Conferen ces. Beginners and Primary?Mrs. Palmer. Junior?Mrs. Burts. Young People?Mr. Palmer. Adult and Administrative?Dr. ! Honline. G:3o. Social Hour and Supper, (sandwiches and coffee served at 1 the church). 7:30. Devotional?Rev. W. E. Thayer (Friday), Rev. J. B. Walk er (Saturday). 7:45. Address ? (Friday), Dr. j John W. Frazer. (Saturday) Mr. Palmer. S:30. Principles of Religious i Education. Dr. Honline. The School of Methods is held under the auspices of the Sumter j County Sunday School Association and the South Carolina Sunday i School Association. The special I committee in charge is as follows: ! Rev. D. S. MacDoiyxld. T. C. Mc Knight, Bartow Walsh, Dr. S. H. ! Edmunds, and Miss Abbie Bryan. j County Fair Notes Messrs. J. Frank Williams, S. J. j White. A. E. Gregg, J. J. Whilden. j ? and E. I. Reardon. who attended I the Tri-County Fair at Andrews, S. j C, week before last found that a ! number of mercantile concerns, in cluding dry goods and groceries, men's and boys' clothing and shoes, j millinery, agricultural implements, j grain and seed concerns, hardware, ' bakeries, and other lines of busi ness had very fine displays. Why can not the Sumter mer chants do likewise at Sumter coun ty's 1921 fair? Hundreds of ladies all over Sumter county, and adjoin ing counties, and many farmers besides are hard at work arrang- 1 ing community booths, individual farm displays, rural school ex hibits, and getting up household ex hibits of canned, preserved and pickled commodities, working to get in hundreds of hogs, poultry, and cattle, mules and horses, and other exhibits of "made, raised or grow.n in Sumter county" products. All this by public spirited men, boys and girls in the rural sections to help make our county fair a credit to our county and worth something as an educational and co-operative institution. This proves that the good peo ple of the rural districts are not "down in the mouth," or suffering from "cold feet" despite adverse conditions of living, and that they are determined to pull together and get out of the temporary "hard times" rut. Therefore it would seem that j Sumter's business establishments ! can afford to join forces with the enterprising people of the rural dis tricts in showing that the city of Sumter is just as optimsitic of good j times coming again. The first ! county fair held in the Farmers' } Tobacco Warehouse on East Lib I erty street in November, 1916, con ! tained numbers of splendid displays by Sumter's mercantile concerns j and co.'.tributt t! largely to the gen eva! sue ?? s:: attending, first at tempt I..' .in:;/ lair which was i;.. rg< ? into a permanent county fair a. sociat ion. The ladies of Bethel school dis trict, in r*riva*eer township, are I report* d busily enga;-fd in can vassing their-"territory getting a I prize winning s< hol a:id commun ity booth for tin- i:>21 Curat r county fair. This mak- s fiv.% large and splendid community bo.?ths j assured, besides the L:g tu! county home demonstration booth containing all kinds of exhibits from all over this county. Bethel is famous for county fair exhibits, and for being a progressive school district. Georgetown. Berkeley, and Wli liamsburg counties, combined into the Tri-County Fair had eight i splendid community booths at their I fair week before last. j Sumter county will have five and j possibly more community booths. I Sumter county is only one county, ! but it is some county, believe me. Mrs 11, D. Bruns? n and Mrs. C. I W. Brunson of Concord township were in Sumter last Saturday con ferring with Miss Truluck abou the big Concord school and com munity booth for the 1921 Sumter county fair. Concord will have two school and community booths, one from tin- big Concord school and a booth from Graham and Lawrences combined schools. Loth of these booths are going to be "humdingers" and some commun ity will have t(, travel fast to keep up with, the Concord ladies, and boys ami girls, not to mention tile men folks who will lie ther* to lndp Concord win a prize The General Sumter Home Demonstration club booth is shap ing up in line style and the ladies of Stateburg township are putting in much time to carry home the first prize. When Stateburg town ship gets to moving there is '"some speed" behind the motion. The real Chinese puzzle is China. ?Arkansas Gazette. Saturday's Foot Ball Games Erskine Defeats ' Citadel? Davidson Victor Over Wofford Davidson. X. C, Ort. 22.?Slaugh tering Wofford by a score of 87 to 0. Davidson did not even exert her self here this afternoon: in fact, the scrubs played more than half the game and scored better than the first string men. While the quarters wore for the regulation 15 minutes. Coach Cray stopped the game in the final period after it had I gone 11 minutes, at the request of the visitors. Everything Davidson tried was ( successful, from forward passes to line and end runs. They scored al- i most at will and had great success j in kicking goals. Erskine Star Scores Two Touch downs. Charleston. Oct. 22.?Because I the Bulldogs could not stop Phil lips today, Erskine defeated the ! Citadel, 13 to fj. with a large! crowd of fans on hand at Hamp t?n park to enjoy a closely con- j tested game of football. Phillips starred on the offensive and de fensive in a measure rarely seen j here and did all of Erskine's scor- i ing on two flashy runs, while his ! tiger-like tackling was largely in- j strumental in stopping the Citadel backs. The touchdows resulted from j unexpected plays. Erskine pressed j Citadel hard throughout the battle but the Bulldogs fought back to the last moment on fairly even terms. Phillips startled the crowd in the" very opening of the game with his 95 yard run down the field after he had received the kickoff. ! He tore through the whole. Citadel j team for a touchdown. He kicked goal. After that Phillips could not score until the last period, when, with the score 7 to G. he intercepted a forward pass sent in the air by ! Kollock and ran 30 yards for an- | other touchdown, but failed to kick j goal, making the score 13 to 6. Citadel's lone, touchdown occur- ! red in the second period, through i quick work by Antley. Citadel had ! pounded down the field to hear j Erskine's gaol, and then lost the ball. Erskine was forced to kick, and Antley burst through the visi- ! tor's line and, blocking the ball, j fell on it behind the goal post for a j touchdown. Xo goal was kicked. Citadel outplayed Erskine in aerial work, two spectacular gains being made. Kollock to Frost, and j one from O'Shaughnessy to Sim- j mons. Xeither team could make | consistent gains through the line. j Near the end of the game in the ! final quarter, after Citadel's aerial ! attack. Phillips punted 40 yards j and Thompson recovered the ball j which was fumbled by a Bulldog, i Erskine failed to span the 12 yards j left and lost the ball on downs, j Citadel was advancing mainly by \ the forward pass route when the j period ended. - \ Clinton Easy for Carolina. Columbia. Oct. 22.?Coach Stew art of Clemsoh, saw the University j of South Carolina, who meets his protoges in the annual Fair week classic next Thursday, trounce the Presbyterian College, 4 8 to 0. The Blue Stockings fought gamely against the heavier Gamecock team, but were outclassed. Snipes, who went in as a substitute, played a magnificent game. The lad show ed fleetness of foot, he punted ex- j cellently and played a great game j on both offensive and defensive. ! Beik and Holland also did some j good work for the Garnet and Black. J. K. Wilson and Pearce j played well for the visitors. Caro- I lina started things early, getting two touchdowns in the first five ! minutes of play. The Prsehyteri? I ans got the ball in Carolina's ter [ ritory several times, but could not I put the necessary punch in the \ game to carry the pigskin over. Clemson and Fui*man Game. Clemson College, Oct. 22.?The j Clemson-Furman game on Manly ' Field yesterday ended 0-0. The j game was witnessed by six thou i sand people and was intensely in ! teresting during the whole game i oecause of the closely matched I teams. It looked as though the j Tiger bunch couldn't get started ! in the first half, but in the last ! quarter the Tigers had the ball on j the Furman seven yard line and j nothing but a fumble saved the j purple and white a defeat. Rhame in Furman's backfield was the greatest ground gainer. ? While Tmanule. from Sumter, in Ciemson's backfield was on the job as usual and Harmon, a last year's Columbia high player, starred for Clemson, being the fastest man on the team. On Riggs field this afternoon the Tiger reserves battled the Tech re j serves but were defeated 7 to 0. This was one of the snappiest games of the season and the Georgians only won through their much heavier weight. Turnipseed and Dotterer starred for the purple and gold. On m-xt Thursday the Tigers j are scheduled Lo get revenge on Carolina for the 3 to 0 defeat J which she got at the fair last year. ' Tin- Tiger gang expect to pull ev ery feather from the Gamecock's i tail so a snappy game, is prom ] ised. W. R. Wells and J. L. Harvin ? leave Monday for the fair in Co ? lumbia, where they will assist in I the demonstration of farm man agement and soils and dairying. The demonstrations which Clemson I puts up at the state fair this year i will probably be the most complete so far. There will he things of in j terest to everybody. j Revival services are being held I this week at Salem Eiaptist church. Morning services at 10.30 and evening services at 7::iu p. m. Dr. liuekholtz is doing the preaching, with Rev. Robert Barksdale lead ing the singing and Prof. John Land rum :it the piano. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Pee Dee Bridge j American Troops Controversy! To Leave Germany Columbia. Oct. 24.?The answer j Exchange of Ratification- of of the state highway department to f the Pee Dee bridge commission of ; statements made by it regarding j the discarded plans for the erection : of a state highway bridge over the j Pee Dee near Mars Bluff, has been i made public by Governor Cooper, j &l TerRls of ratification of the The statement, in the nature of a ; C? m.alies with Germany and report to the governor, not only i :Xugtria have been sent forward to shows that the state highway de- ! Peace Treaties Will Be ? Signal to Act Washington, Oct. 21.?The form partment did all it could to get the Pee Dee bridge located where j the Pee Dee bridge commission i wanted it, but that certain state- j ments were made regarding the ; highway department's plans which ; were not correct. As a result of I the controversy between the state highway commission and the Pee Dee bridge commission the Pee Dee commission last week reject ed the possibility of state and fed eral aid for the bridge and a toll bridge is to be erected, by private capital instead. The state highway commission report to Governor Cooper shows that plans for a bridge were drawn and approved by government engi neers, to be located at a point two and a half miles above the Mars Bluff ferry. This plan was a])- j proved by the Pee Dee bridge com mission, and a contract was let for the construction. The work had started, when charges were made that the estimates were hundreds of thousands of dollars out of line and that a high-water bridge Berlin and Vienna, it was announc ed today. As soon as these formal exchanges have been completed with the former enemy powers it is expected that immediate steps will be taken to set up diplomatic machinery and resume full normal j relations with those governments-. American troops will begin mov I ing out of Germany immediately i upon the exchange of the ratifica ! tions of the German treaty, it ?was ! added. The movement, it was said, i will be normal but slow and will ; begin in approximately two weeks. The withdrawal of the troops, it i was said, had been delayed because I their presence in Germany had i proved to be far from obnoxious ; and even desirable to the govertf | ment and people of Germany. There are now approximately 15, i 000 American forces on the Rhine. A proclamation of peace will be issued upon completion of ex change of ratification, it was stat ed. It had been felt in some quar ters that the formal proclamation would be necessary because of the peace resolution adopted by con could be erected at Mars Bluff fer ry for hundreds of thousands of ?^!? bUt.^ Resident's thought dollars less than the Pee Dee span j was to cost. Bridge engineers from Georgia i and North Carolina were called in to examine the job, the report shows, and an engineer came from Washington for the same purpose. The reports of all three confirmed the position of the state highway department. Later a thorough in vestigation was made by an engi neer from the bureau of roads at Washington, and he found that a bridge could be built as planned by the highway engineers for less than $400,000, while a bridge at Mars Bluff ferry, the last point se lected by the Pee Dee commis sion, could be built, up to the same specifications, for $441,327. The United States department estimat ed that the low-water bridge could be built, at the Mars Bluff ferry, for between $165,000 and .*175,000. The highway commission tells Gov. Cooper that it "used every ef fort to secure the consent of the government to participate in a bridge nearer the ferry, but these efforts were unsuccessful." "The department desires you to know that the charges which were made to the effect that its estimates were hundreds of thousands of dol lars out of the way, and that the on-the question, it was added, was that by issuing a proclamation aH I legal technicalities would-be com plied with. The announcement that the troops on the Rhine would begin moving homeward in about two weeks was in line with the ex-' * ! pressed belief that the ratification exchanges ~would be complete by that time. Meanwhile army trans ports, some of which are already in contiguous waters, will be plac ed in readiness to bear the Amer ican soldiers across the Atlantic. Government officials plainly are proud of the record made by the American troops, one declaring that their "influence has been manifestly good." Praise also was given the commanders of the troops who were described as having handled admirably many situations of a potential controversial nature. Parliamentary action is yet to be completed by Hungary on the peace treaty which*-was also ratified by the United States senate this week. When that is done, formal ratifica tions will also be exchanged - with that government. ' COTTON MARKET Open 18.00 .17.85 High 18.41 18.23 17.75 17.30 18.55 cost of a high water bridge at the point of selected by its engineers ' January would be hundreds of thousands j JJJJ11 \'7 5( of dollars more than the cost of a j August . ....17.04 high-water bridge at the ferry October ...18.00 proper, have been shown by com- pSSft,-*" ??e^ Petent outside authorities, includ ing two of the government's prin cipal bridge engineers, to have been without foundation." Thus concludes the report to the gov ernor. NEW YORK COTTON. Ystdya Low Close Close 17.86 17.70 17.35 16.90 18.00 18.10 19?. 18.27 18.-1-1 17.67 17.27 18.00 18.55 18.11 18.00 17.S7 17.15 18.15 18.20 Storm Warning Out ; January .. .17.60 j March .17.38 ! May .17.00 'July .16.40 : October .17.50 j.December ..17.60 KIEW ORLEANS COTTON. Yatdys Op:- High Low Close Close 17.53 17.34 16.84 16.40 17.50 17.55 18.12 17.83 17.39 16.88 17.79 18.16 Spots unchanged, 11.73. 17.99 17.75 17.31 16.83 17.85 18.07 17.77 17.55 17.85 16.60 17.68 17.38 Washington, Oct. 23.?The cen ter of a tropical storm approaching j Yucatan channel and continuing to move northward was reported by ! the weather bureau in a bulletin j warning issued at 10.30 a. m. to- I day. The bureau said the storm j was "attended by dangerous gales j street ear is it is warmer and winds of hurricane force, and LIVEPOOL COTTON. j January .?I 1.48 ,? ; March ._. 1IJ32 ; May . _.I. U22i - 1 July._ :i.04 I September._ 16.72 " ! October.. .IL87 ., ; December . 11.53 One nice thing about a crowded that it was dangerous for vessels in Yucatan channel and southeast Gulf of Mexico." The northward advance of the i tropical storm, the bureau report- { ed, "will be attended by rains with- j In the next 24 to 36 hours,in the South Atlantic and East Gulf ! states, probably extending north ward over Tennessee and North Carolina on Tuesday." Storm warnings remain display ed on the extreme south Florida coast. NOTICE?We are fully equipped with press machinery, etc., to do your cleaning and pressing, and our prices are reasonable. Gfcre. us your work. . Phone 113, No. 0 W. Hampton Ave. Revill & Mc Daniel. ; '* FOR SALE?About two thousand stalks of ribbon cane for seed at 5c a stalk. Parties wishing to buy must come for it before killing frost. J. B. Warren, May es vi lie, S. C. The National Bank of South Carolina OF SUMTER, S. C. 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