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Ute W?tchfti?n aiid SToatnron Watered at tbe Postoffice at Sum ter, S. C as Second Class Matter. PERSONAL^ V Mrs. J. H. Johnson and daugh ter left this morning for Bra den x town, Fia., where Mrs. Johnson will join her husband to make their fu ture home. Mr. Johnson.;has been engaged in Sumter as an. architect for some time. Miss Hannah Montgomery of .BishopviHe is the visitor of Miss Pauline. Haynsworth of Warren St. . Judge T. E. Richardson has re turned from Chattanooga where he has been attending the United Confederate Veterans Reunion. Miss 3feile Montgomery is visit ing Mrs; C. H. Wilson in the city. Mr. Est es Dudley of Danville, Va., is spending a few days with his brother Mr. O. W. Dudley, Jr. Mrs. M. P. Cordes left this morn ing for Newety, S. C, where she w?l spend several- weeks. Mrs. H. W.^ Meadows, of Savan nah, Ga:, i3 visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Shelley on Wright St. v Mr. E, T. White and Mr. D. G. F. Bultman are. motoring through the country tonight to Columbia where they will attend the federal court ?this week. Misses Sizie Andrews and Janie Smith, of BishopviHe, were the guests of Miss Blanch Smith over Sunday. ~ v ?? 3Cr. aiM Mrs. J. Ashbey Dick of Woodrow left on Friday for Nas . sawadoxi Va., where they will make ^eir. borne in future. ?Miss \Sfarian Coker, of Timmons ville, is visiting Mrs. Gus Senders m North Washington -St. ?Governor R. A: Cooper spent iday in Sumter. Miss Emmie May Marsh of Rich it Va., . left this morning to it-^relatives in Bishopvlle after having spent a few days in Sumter . with her uncle. Mr. P. M, Parrott. Miis^Marie McDougal t>f Colum - Is the visitor of Miss L?tte Fol ^ on Galhoun Street... Mr. Norman Andrews cf-.Qswego returned to Charleston where ne :s j&ending the Charleston Medical >llege after having spent-the ?eefe end at his home. Mrs. George H. Hurst is visiting her.son, Mr. Cregg Hurst.in.Ashe X. C. M3s!ses ?Caroline Richardson and "erinelle Pitts spent the. week, end Summerton With Mr. and Mrs. S. Richardson. Mr. T. B. Sy ns has returned to the city after having spent. the we^k end at his home in Columbia. -~* ; Engagement Announced Mrs. M. D. t?errtr3r announces the engagement of her daughter Aleane j?yrtle tc Hugh Lawson Palmer. The wedding will be solemnized in mber. ?-?'? ? ? -? Death. ? Mr, -Wesley M. Broadway, of Tindal; died at .5 o'clock Friday ^o^aing at Tourney Hospital after ?^^Timess^or^hjy a few" days du ration. Mr. Broadway was in his , fortyrseVenth^yearv He i^' survived by his wife and one child, in. ad dition to these he ieaves his father. Mr.. J. W. Broadway of that section who Is considered one of thef old est living residents of the county, being how in his ninty-third year, three sisters,. Mrs. Louise Taylor, of Columbia, Mrs. Julia Harvin, and Miss Ellen Broadway of Tindal, and soiie brother, Mr. R. H. Broadway. The-funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock And the body interred at the family busing grounds at Tindal. COTTON MARKET ?Etr Y?8K GGTTQN. Ystdya Open High Low Close Close ...i3.S0 18.25 18.15 ?8.20 18.60 .18.70 18.75 i&08 18.15 18.50 .1835 r8.40 f7.75 17.78 18.10 _17.95 17^5 17.27 17.32 17.60 Deeeataer-18.92 18.95 18.30 18.31 18.79 Spots 4J?down; middling 18.75. WEW ORLEANS COTTON. - Ystdya Open Hi'gh Low Close Close J?neary ?18.40 ,18.51 17.80 17.85 18.25 March 18.29 ?2.35 17.68 17.67^ 18.10 JUS .r?_17.8C 17.88 17.27 17.27 17.67 July d_._17.32 1734 16.82 16,85 17.26 ?e_?mber _ 18.40 18.40 17,75 17.75 18.18 Spots 25 down; middling IS.50. LJVTPOOL COTT0M. January .... _? _.. __ ._ - 11.88 Marek'_. 11.66 Max ~ __ '? . -. 11.55 Jofr._: ? ?_ H.30 Ottober ....-. _..-. 10.42 December ...._. 1K98 . Tone quiet. . ? >. Sales 7,000, American 5,500. Middling 12.09; Good middling 12.94. COTTOR LETTER. (Furnished by MacDoweli & Co.) Xew Orleans, Oct. 31.?As yet the market feel*-, the want of stmrnlating Influence of a better spot' demand, but as higher prices are anticipated eventually, perhaps sooner than* generally expected the re vJvai la the trade demand wilt likley pick up soon. The danger of further railroad labor troubles has been removed by a ruling of the United States labor board prohibiting railroad strikes In the future. Uneasiness over the possibility of Cer ittasry defaulting on ner next reparation payment due November 15th has been set aside by the allies agreeing to accept pay ment in goods and raw materials, the de liveries of wbleb are said to exceed al ready 30e.000.000 goid marks v_.lue, the amount due on 15fl_. New gland textile news is encourag ing more business of late and a satis factory distribution is reported from the jobbing centers of the north and west, sales exceeding placements at this time one year ago. r The financial condition of the country continues to grow bettor, the reserve of the Fedral, Reserve B?.nk continuing to pcrease. promising a still lower redis count rate !n the future. The metal markets are in better shape, the ouput of mills increasing, with pros P?0 J,?T * -further expansion from now OB*whlle t?ad to harden. . *?*1 ***** ** the possibility, if not prob ability of exhaustion of stwks of raw eotton, paritcularly of the better grades s*d staples in the south before the expir auon of the present season, evidence is not lacking. ? Nevertheless, there are those who pro f!f?to tef?nned. entertaining the opinion that market will proiably con tinue u> decline and on this theory con ? t^1 v^rket short whereas there l*^the **robafcmty of a revolution in market when least expected that mav recover all the late decline in a single According to returns to clement and Curtis our Chicago, correspondents the in <??ited crop is only G,621,eoO bales with indications of &3 per cent having been picked. All things considered the general busi ness financial and political situation ap pears w be gradually improving. Double Header Football Game Sumter High Wins Game from Summerton But Loses to Lake City 4 On the local gridiron at the fair i grounds Friday afternoon; a feat j was staged which was decidedly unique in the annsfls of football of the Sumter High school, when the Gamecocks met teams from the I Summerton school and from Lake ? City in a doubleheader game of j football. Sumter's three teams i were brought into action against their double opponents. The game j was so arranged that it opened With the Sumter High school "All | Americans" team arrayed against the Summerton team. One half of this game was completed and then the whole of the game with Lake City was sandwiched in between the halves of the Sumter-Summer ton game. The score results of the game are Sumter (All Ameri cands and Secoiids) 13;; Summer ton, 7; Sumter (Varsity), 6; Lake City, 7. Time: Summerton game: 12; 12; 6;6. Lake City: 10; 10; 10; 10. Officials, b^th games: Referee, John 3. Duffier Davidson; Umpire, Gifford Shaw, Wake Forest; Head Linesman, BiU Winn; Timer, Ray Blanding. Cocches, Sumter, W. H. Dargan; Summerton, Phillip^ Lake Ciyt, R. H. Sams. Sumter-Snmmerton. Referee's whistle at 3:30 calls teams on the grid. Summefton to Sumter. Sumter gains first downs' with ease. Deamon Lyon makes gain. Rivers gains on end run. Sumter held for three downs and kicks out on fourth. Summerton soon loses ball on free fumble. Riv ers, Captain, of . "All Americans" lunges hall over the line for a touchdown^ Bultman kicks goal. Sumter kicks ball to Summerton. Burgess of Summerton gets loose and carries ball 60 yards upfield. Richardson eases across the line for Summerton's single touchdown. McKnight kicks goal. Summerton to Sumter. Quarter ends in tie score 7-7. Second Quarter. Quarter opens with ball on 40 yard line and in Summerton's pos session. Summerton gains first downs. Sumter tightens down and holds Summerton for downs. Sum ter gains first downs. Lyons and Bultman make good gains on end runs. Free fumble but Sumter re covers ball. Short gains and Sum ter looses ball on fumble, i Sum merton resorts to pass work. Owens intercepts Summerton's -pass and makes a gain for Sumter. Sumter i gets the habit and tries forward j pass. Sumter tries three successive ! passes and finally loses ball to Sum merton. End of half.- Neither team scored in this quarter. Lineup: Sumter, Rivers, Bryan, Green j Dixon, Lyonj Blanton (ex cuse my dust*) BUM, .Wilder, Bruner, Witherspoon, B u I tm a n and Owens. Summerton: Davis, H., Davis, B., Nimmer, Burgess, Watt, Joseph, Peter, Joseph, Phillip, Richburg, MeKnight, Richardson, Tisdale. x Sumter-Lake City. Sumter High's varsity takes field against the Lake City club. Sumter to Lake City.- Lake City shows snappy fight. Is penalized 5 yards, two men in motion. Off side. Lake City makes steady gain. Lake City pulls fake play of 1911 variety but gets by with it and pushes Ask iris, R., across the goal line for the first touchdown. Epps kicks goal for Lake City. Lake City to Sumter. Sumter gains first downs on hard fought line plunges. Sum ter makes good gain on a forward pass to Wheeler. Referee's whistle I sounds for end of first quarter. ! Sumter's ball on 18 yard line. ' Quarter-decidedly Lake City's al though Sumter's chances for scor ing end of quarter were looking' bright. Sumter, 0; Lake City, 7. Second Quarter. Sumter loses ball to Lake City on free fumble. Lake City gains 15 yards around end. Lake City tries forward pass. Is intercept ed by good work of Blanding for Sumter. Crombe of Sumter cuts down Lake City's second trial of a pass. Blanding gets in battle and makes good tackle behind the line. Lake City kicks out. Sumter re ceives ball and brings it to the cen ter of the field. Sumter gains steadily by short distances and makes thirty yards. Ball is placed on 20 yard line. Blanding at tempts drop kick on fourth down but fails to get the ball between the goal post. Half ends with ball in Lake City's possession. Third Quarter. Lake City kicks to Sumter. Ball is received by Wheeler, who makes a good gain. Blanding finds a hole and makes headway for Sumter. Sumter gains first downs. Attempt ed forward pass is thrown out of bounds. Blanding makes a 15 yard gain. Wheeler takes ball over the goal line for Sumter's touchdown. Blanding falls to kick goal, the ball striking one of the goal posts. Sum ter to Lake City. Lake City held j for three downs and kicks out. Sumter makes steady gains. Cover ing good ground. Sumter tries pass which is intercepted. Wheeler makes gain for Sumter. Sumter gains her downs by a series of short passes. Sumter loses ideal chance to score when they lose ball to, Lake City by an attempted for ward pass. Epps, Lake City's cap i tain, takes ball for good gain. End j of third quarter. Sumter had a lit I tie of the rub in this quarter. They I gained steadily. Fourth Quarter. Lake City's ball. First in ten. Lake City held for three downs and kicks out. Wheeler signals for safety catch but is tackled after having received the ball. Lake City is penalized 15 yards. Kirvin M. makes a good gain for Sumter. Wheeler places ball within scoring distance. Sumter is penalized 15 yards for holding. Lake City tightens down and holds Sumter for downs. Lake City makes good gain. Gains downs. A free fum ble but Lake City recovers the ball. Attempts a forward pass. Gains their downs again. Refer ee's whistle announces the end of the game. Ball about the center of the field. Score, Sumter 6: Lake City, 7. Blanding and Wheeler were probably the best ground gainers and best on defensive work for Sumter. Kirvin. M. showed up strong for Sumter in line. Epps, and Ask ins were probably the stars for Lake City. Lake City found it easy to gain around Sumter's ends in criss-cross plays due to the fact that the ends doubled back into the back field. This was probably the cause of the loss of the game for Sumter. Lake City has quite a husky team and are somewhat ex perienced in the football school. They showed up well yesterday and evidenced good coaching and much practice in their plays. Sumter Position Lake City Crome.QB _. ..Epps Wheeler_,.FB_Dudley Blanding ..RH.Askins Shaw_LH_Trenchard Kirvin, M. ._ -_C __ ..Askins D. Witherspoon_LE_ .Stewart ? Hodge.RE._ Eaddy Flake.RT_Whitlock Dick_LG .__O'Conner Brunson, F. __ RG .McFadden Brunson, A. __ __LT_Webster Sumter and Summerton Back on Field. Summerton kicks ball to Sumter., Sumter makes small gains. Sum merton gets ball but Sumter soon recovers it. Quarter ends after an uneventful six minutes. . Last Quarter. Quarter opens with ball in Sum ter's possession. Sumter gains on j forward pass. Owens for Sumter makes a good gain. Sumter again makes gain on forward pass. Bult man to Hodge. Sumter tries pass but is incomplete. Hodge, for Sum ter's seconds, gets loose and lands ball safely over the goal line for a touchdown. Bultman fails to kick goal for Sumter. Sumter kicks to Summerton. Sumter tries pass work but fails. Burgess makes a } long gain around end. Summerton gains bail from Sumter's forward pass. They take it up field on short gain. End of game is announced by referee's whistle. Score Sumter, 13; Summerton, 7. The "All Americans" and "Seconds" receive the laurels of the Occasion. . . Team for Sumter playing in sec ond naif of game: Pitts, center; Hodge, D., right guard; Kolb, left gu?rd; Wilder, left tackle; Dwyer, right tackle; Hodge, J., right end; Witherspoon, J., left end; Owens, right half; Bl?nton, left half; Lyons, quarter; Bultman, full back. - m m? m Jury List. List of jurors drawn to serve in the court of common pleas which convenes November 14th: M. W. Cato, Borden. A. T. Haynsworth, Sumter, R. 5. B. C. DuPre. Rembert. J. J. Britton, Sumter, R. 1. Willis . D. Ryan, Wedgefield. F. O. Jennings, Sumter, R. 3. J. E. M. Hodge, Sumter, R. 2. Geo. D. Shore. Sr.; City. M. Goldberg, City. C. B. ^Yeadon, City. E. R. Taylor, City. *R. E. Rembert, Rembert. ] H. C. Tucker, City. A. L. Ardis, Sumter, R. 2. J W. M. Gaylard, Dalzell. : J. N. Brown, Mayesville. E. T. McCollum, City. C. S. James, Rembert. T. J. Kirven, Jr., Sumter, R. 5. W. D. Vinson, Rembert. Elijah Sanders, Dalzell, R. 1. G. A. Lemmon, City. W. D. Carnes, City. Isaac Strauss, City. R. G. Scarborough, City. F. W. Andrews, Oswego.. R. Wade Brice, Wedgefield. W. Y. Spann, City. S. W. Hawkins, Rembert. Thomas E. Brogdon, Manning, R. 1. B. A. Siddall, City. J. K. Jennings, Sumter, R. 4. E. T. Cummings, Oswego. S. J. White, Sumter, R. 1. A. B. Brad ham, City. Edgar Skinner, City. - Officers Elected in Masonic Bodies. At a meeting held at the Masonic Templejast night of Beulah Chap ter No. 25 and Seymour Council No. 15 the following officers were elected to serve during the ensuing year: Beulah Chapter. High Priest?W. I. Whitehead. King?B. Walsh. Scribe?R. M. Jones. Principal Sojourner?Rev. J. B. Walker. Captain of The Host?N. L. Par ier. Royal Arch Captain?W. O. Sta le y Treasurer?Abe Ryttenberg. Secretary?J. C. Pate. Master of the First Veil?W. A. Hurst. ! Master of the Second Veil?S. Y. ! Dinkins. Master of the Third Veil?A. M. i Currie. Steward?Jno. S. Kennedy. Seymour Council. Illustrious Master?Dr. M. L. Parier. Deputy Master?W. I. White ! head. P. C. of W?S. Y. Dinkins. Treasurer?W. Y. Yeadon. Recorder?J. C. Pate. Captain of the Guard?H. W. Sholar. Council Commander?W. O. Sta ley. Steward?W. A. Hurst. Sentinel?Jno. S. Kennedy. Chaplain?Rev. E. W. Reynolds. News of Dalzell. Dalzell, Oct. 28.?The house of Mr. Joe Langston, with all the contents was destroyed last night by fire. The fire occurred between eleven and twelve o'cIock. The writer has not heard whether there was any insurance on same. A mad dog was killed by a col ored man near the Dalzell graded school this week. The dog seem ed to be making his way to the school yard. Very fortunately he was killed before doing any dam age among the children. -? m* m> - We can beat the swords into plowshares, but what can we do with the swivel-chair officer's spurs? Spectacular Pageant Staged for Fair Parade For Sumter County Schools at Fair on Novem ber 18th Sumter' and Sumter county are not dead while somewhat financial ly embarrassed like the balance of the country, they are still very ?-Mich alive and flapping their wings and crowing over what a good place Sumter county is to live in and what a great thing it is j to be allowed to live in the old '?Gamecock County of Sumter." We do not allow every kind of people J to live here?they must be desir able, progressive, law-abiding, pub- ! lie spirited and patriotic or they drift away. The spectacular and j sensational Pageant of Progress j Parade being staged for Sumter j county school day, Friday, Novem- | ber ISth, the fourth day of the 1921 Sumter county fair will be no funeral procession?but will show what Sumter and Sumter county have to be proud of. The entire county is invited to partici pate, to get in the big moving pic ture film to be taken of this parade which film will be exhibited, re gardless of expense in practically every moving picture theatre in the United States and in Europe. Through the courtesy of Dr. S. H. Edmunds, city superintendent of education, ' the Sumter city schools "have been already entered, with the Sumter high school mili tary battalion, in full dress parade; Dr. J. H. Haynsworth, county su perintendent of education has ex pressed his cordial approval of the rural schools of this county par ticipating in this parade; every school is invited. Miss Caro Tru luck has entered the numerous home demonstration, canning, poul try, sewing, cooking and other wo men's and girls' clubs; the Rex and Lyric theatres, Mr. White, manag er, which will supply the motion picture camera has announced that these two theatres will put in two magnificent commercial floats; it is a foregone conclusion that City | Manager Samuel O'Quinn, and the | mayor and city council will allow the entire fire department, police ! force, and other departments of j the city government to be in the I big parade. Every civic, patriotic, ; commercial, fraternal, labor, offi | cial body or organization invited f to take part. Every branch of bus-' | iness in Sumter and Sumter county [ is urged to be represented in the procession of progress. Put in your commercial floats, if you don't care to have an elaborately deco rated float just put in your deliv ery wagons and trucks with your firm's name shown in big banners; fill your trucks and your automo biles with pretty women and girls; put the babies in the front part of the vehicle; show your boys and girls; fill up trucks with baled hay, cotton, and other agricultural pro ducts, manufactured products, [ mercantile displays, shop craft i work; just show and advertise your j business, just help to make this a i big procession of progress and I'pleasure for your county. Use any plan you like to adver tise your business and to advertise Sumter and Sumter county's ad vantages, resources, progress, in telligence, and Sumter county's fu ture. Several thousand school chil dren, and several hundred teachers and hundreds of club women and club girls will lead the procession if the plans of the committee pre prevail. Hundreds of automobiles are j wanted for this procession. Deco ! rated or not decorated, just fill ! them up with good looking women ? and pretty girls. ! A better baby parade section "Raised in Sumter County" would be a great thing for this pageant of progress and pleasure. Every mem ber of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce and every stockholder in the Sumter t. ">unty Fair Associa tion will work with other agencies to make this a huge success. Now and from now on is the accepted time for being optimistic regardless of business conditions, you have to live, and you might as well be as happy as h'..manly pos l sible while you are living because i you -do not know what youj will be J up against when you are dead. You 1 live but once. I A grouch and a grouchy person are no good to any , community. Pitch in and help pull. Don't pull backwards, if you do some of those pushing forward might run over and trample you under foot. Keep going, and adonc for your motto "Let's Go". J Observance of Armistice Day. Regarding celebration of Armis tice Day in Sumter and suspending business, Secretary Reardon of the Chamber of Commerce said today ! that the agreements for signatures : of the business establishments to close on November 11th in honor of Armistice Day are ready for cir culation. Just as soon as Mayor L. D. Jennings publishes the proc lamation of City Council prociaim I ing November 11th a holiday in Sumter these agreements will be signed up. Numbers of business men <are asking why these agree ments have not been presented to them?they want to close and to honor Armistice Day. The Sumter high schools have a splendid pro gram of exercises ready for the oc casion to which the entire county of Suiter is invited. Sumter will fittingly celebrate Armistice Day this year. There is a general de sire on the part of Sumter and Sumter county citizens to do so. Th*? boys who fought and those who died, those who fought and died "over there" and those who served and died at home and those who were disappointed in the op portunity to go abroad, all are re membered, all loved, and all will be remembered in Sumter and Sum ter county on Armistice Day?and as long as the world lasts. When a man begins to wonder how he would look in a tall silk hat. he is said to have a political bee. Taxation and Good Roads "Hagood" Bethea Would Re turn to Good Old Days When Road Hands Were Called Out Editor Daily Item: In the days just after the "good stealing" (I was about to say ? "when the country was fiat," but j conscious it never was so fiat as now I desist) when through helical misrule, corruption, extravagance the government was badly in debt with an empty treasury, J. Monroe Johnson, afterwards solicitor on that district was elected county commissioner, and although the salary was but three hundred dol lars he greatly exerted himself to give us good roads and to run the county at a minimum of expense. My father was a road overseer, and j Mr. Johnson addressed him, as I suppose he did every other over seer a letter to economize in every possible way, and when it could be done to built puncheon bridges. He djso published an article to that effect in the county papers. We had good roads. The law then was that every male past a certain age was liable to road duty twelve days, but were required to work only so long as was necessary to put roads In good shape. When I came to this county the same law was in effect, but some of the roads were positively miser able. This was particularly the case with the old Charleston road across little and big Rafting Creeks. By my own request I was made overseer and the work we did in those swamps in one year stood several. For the sake of economy, good roads, reduction of taxes for one I would the old law be put in force again. > j I am no calamity howler when I say this country was never in such straights, not even in recon struction days, for then with ev- j erything under fence even the j poorest could have a hog or cow. | TDeer were plentiful and the table j I of the average farmer was seldom j without fresh meat of the choicest kind. Today there are scores un able to meet expenses let alone to ^pay taxes. Xot a few, because of inability t omeet obligations have lost thousands of dollars. A land lord living in this country had his farm, a fine property, returned to him while others in various places have acres for which they will not realize a cent of rent, the tenant where they made advances to him being unable to cancel that debt. This is the situation in the first year of the boll weevil's ap pearance. What may we expect next year? f Down in south Georgia where the government has advanced mon ey on farm property it is having to pay the taxes on it. But here we are increasing taxation to get money to build roads to give em ployment to the idle. If that is not the limit of stupidity what is? It is said in its defense that it will turn money loose in the country? "Very true, but where does it come from? It is borrowed. It is proposed to put up a can- ! ning factory in Sumter; will its promoters borrow the money to do it, giving gilt edge security. Hard ly, but every dollar's worth of prop i erty in Sumter county is to be tax ed to build roads over which for some time it appears little will pass but big touring cars. The advo cates of this stuff are painting the black horse white, but however white they may make him he is a black horse still, a Trojan horse at that we fear. By all means let j us have good roads, but do not j paralyze the country to do it. "Hagood." ! Rembert, Oct. 26. m m w j Death of Mr. W. M. Broadway. j Tindal, Oct. 31.?The many friends of Mr. W. M. Broadway were very sadly surprised to learn j I of his death, which occurred at the hospital in Sumter. early Friday morning. October 2Sth. On Sun day night previous to his death ho j had an attack of vomiting blood. ! His family physician was called in ! and gave him medicine to remedy the cause of the bleeding but it j did not do so. Early Tuesday morn ing the doctor was again called in and an operation was decided on. Mr. Broadway was secretary and general manager 18 years .or his; father-in-law, Mr. T. E. Hodge, of Tindal. He was a member of Prov idence church and was 4S years old. The funeral services were con | ducted by his pastor, Rev. J. 3. Bobb, at Mr. T. E. Hodge's resi dence, where Mr. Broadway -had made his home since he began working for Mr. Hodge. He was buried at the family cem etery on his father's place. A large number of friends attended the funeral and covered his last rest ing place with beautiful flowers, a silent memento of their love and affection. The pall bears were- Messrs. Geo. D. Betts, H. D. Tindal. Carl B. Pack, A. E. Elliott. Harmon I*. Hodge and J. E. McDaniel. He is survived by his wife and little sixteen months old son. ! Thomas Wesley. Also his father, Mr. J. W. Broadway, three sisters, ! Mrs. Julia Harvin. Miss Ellen Broadway of Tindal, and Mrs. .7. W. Taylor of Columbia. Also by one brother, Richard H. Broadway, of Tindal. Davis-Brown. A wedding which holds interest for the friends in Sumter of Miss Willie Davis who at one time was a resident here, was solemnized in Walhalla on October 16th, at which time Miss Davis became the bride Of Mr. Loyd Brown. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Brown left for Atlanta to spend their honeymoon at the termina tion of which they will be at home to their friends at Walhalla. S. C. We shall not be surprised if the Prohibition party adopts the boot jack as its party emblem. Conference Oft Gas Rates City Council and Officers of the Sumter Gas and Power Company Discuss the Problem A special meeting of City Coun cil was held Friday afternoon for the purpose of conferring with representatives of the Sumter Gas and Pt vVf .- Company in respect to the r.-v: ion of rates. This i leeting was the direct re sult of "ve suggestion thrown out in Mayor Jennings' last open letter on the gas rate situation, intimating that a possible basis for the settle ment of the controversy over rates might be found in a modification of the franchise, so that the City Council would have authority to fix the rate, even below the mini mum rate provided in the fran chise, in the event that, in future years, during the life of the fran chise, the earnings of the Gas Company should become excessive in proportion to the investment. All members of City Council were present and the Gas Company was represented by President L. I. Pol litt and Mr. Francis T. Homer, of Baltimore. President of the South ern Gas and Electric Company, which corporation is interested in the Sumter Gas and Power Com pany, and Mr. R. O. Purdy. The whole question in issue was discussed in an informal manner. No definite decision or agree ment was reached as to rates, but Mr. Homer and Mr. Pollitt, speak ink for the Gas Company, express ed a willingness to enter into a reciprocal agreement with City Council, under which the rates shall be regulated throughout the fran chise period by City Council, the only condition being that the rate shall be sufficient to yield the com pany operating expenses, a reason able depreciation and replacement charge and a fair interest on the investment. The discussion cov ered various phases of the legal and other question involved in a modi fication of the franchise. As a starting point it was agreed that an audit should be made by a certi fied accountant, to be named by City Council, to determine the ac tual capital invested in the Sumter Gas and Power Company, the cost of operation, what would be a rea sonable charge to cover deprecia tions and what would be a fair re turn on the investment. From this it will be possible for City Council in conference with the gas company officers, to agree upon a fair and reasonable rate for gas. The Audit will be made as quick ly as possible and a final settle ment of the gas rate question will follow. In the meantime the gas company will continue to give ser vice as usual. ?? ? #ri"-?- ? County Faii; Publicity Secretary Reardon Announces Department Heads The department of publicity of the Sumter County Fair desires to direct special attention to the fol lowing important departments in which attractive premiums aggre gating thousands of dollars are of fered for hundreds of different kinds of exhibits, and to an nounce that premium lists will be gladly mailed to all interested prospective exhibitors on applica tion fo the Sumter County Cham j ber of Commerce or to the super l intendents of departments herein j mentioned: I Boys' Corn Club Department?J. Frank Williams, Supt. Boys' P'g Club Department?J. Frank Williams, Supt. Field Crop Department?S. J. White, Supt. A. P. Hinson, Asst. Supt. Household Department ? Mrs. John R. Sumter, Supt. Fancy Work Department?Mrs. j J. T. China, Supt. Floral Department?Mrs. W. D. Boykin, Supt. Fine Art Department ??. Home Demonstration Depart ment composing Girls' Home Dem onstration, Cooking Club members, Poultry Club exhibits, Canning sec tion, Gardening section, Dairy pro duct section, cakes, candies, breads, clothing section, remodeled gar ments, sweing club exhibits, wo men's home demonstration exhibits ?Miss Caro Truluck, Superintend ent of the entire Home Demonstra tion Departments. Mercantile and Banking, Profes sional displays, no prizes?P. G. Bowman, Supt. Poultry Department exhibits?A. H. Wilder, Supt. Swine Department exhibits?A. L. Ardis, Supt. Cattle Department?J. J. Whil den. Supt. Horse and Mule Department ex hibits?W. T. Brown, Supt. Manufacturers' and Mechanical I Department. Athletic Department contests, I November ISth?C. S. Hutchinson, i Supt. Better Baby Contest and Health i Clinic, November 15th to 18th, four days, from 1 ? a. m. to 1 p. m.? Miss Antonio Gibson, general su perintendent. Department of Publicity and Amusements?E. I. Reardon, Man ager. Every one is invited and urged to exhibit anything of interest in any of the competitive depart ments as indicated by the prem ium lists. Mr. B. C. Wallace has notified the Fair Association that he will have a mercantile exhibit of select ed farm seeds of every kind adap table to use in this territory. Mr. Wallace is an enthusiastic county fair supporter. He believes in farmers', merchants', manufactur ers' and all who have anything to sell or exhibit participating in the annual county fair. Marriage Licenses A marriage license has been is sued to Mr. A. A. Shumaker and Miss Mary A. Graham both of Sumter. Class Prejudice Unpatriotic J. J. Cantey of Summerton Criticses Proposed Farmers' Movement Much has been said in the news papers of late, with respect to the j assumed necessity of a farmer Gov I ernor of South Carolina, and I am i satisfied that any such suggestion [should be repudiated by all, the j good people of the State. Any set j of men who would ai :-mble them j selves together for the sole purpose j of electing a physician as Governor, for no other reason than that the candidate was a physician, would ; be untrue to all sound principles j of citizenship and a menace to good j government. An?y set of men who j would unite upc some newspaper ! editor as a candidate for Governor. ; solely because said candidate was a ! newspaper editor, withoi . any re- j gard. to the personal fitness of said | newspaper editor to serve all the ; people, should be nipped in the bud and promptly repudiated by all j decent people. Any set of men who j would rally politically to the sup port cf some attorney for Governor of South Carolina, simply because j j said attorney was an attorney, i j should not be allowed to vote in any State, which makes any pre- i j tense at civilization. Therefore, it would appear the j moral duty of every citizen, who { has the good and integrity of his i State at heart, and who would like j to see a better era of citizenship and economic development in South Carolina, condemn in no uncertain terms the ignorant cry of dema gogues, who would make the fact that some man is a farmer, the sole test of fitness ror the Govern orship of this great state. There should be only two tests j applied to any candidate for the I office of Governor or any mother of fice, the first test, being whether ' the candidate intelligently compre- j hends that no man has a moral right to offer himself for any office, unless he is sufficiently intelligent ' to render valuable service to the State, and the second test, being whether the candidate is sufficient ly intelligent to comprehend that the interest of every man, woman, and child in South Carolina, wheth er farmer, lawyer, doctor, news- j paper editor, blacksmith, or what! not. is identical. Every man, woman and child in j this State is deeply interested in the maintenance of a good and sound j price for farm products, including cotton, corn and other crops, and j the prosperity of every industry in the State, whether newspaper, cot ton mill, lawyer, doctor, is more or less dependent on a good price for these farm products, and it is cruel j and the symptom of dense ignor ance to teach the people that only the farmers are interested good price for farm products, and there fore the necessity of a farmer for Governor. It is absolutely necessary to the happiness of all the people of the State that good roads be maintain ed, that the rivers and the streams be bridged for the convenience of all the people, and the interest of] the farmer and the lawyer and the j doctor and the newspaper editor | along this line, are absolutely iden tical, the interest of neither being greater or less than the other, and if this proposition be true, why in the name of comon sense, all this ignorant hue and cry of the neces sity of a farmer for Governor. All the people of South Carolina, whether farmers or lawyers or blacksmiths, are interested in the maintenance of good health and good schools throughout the State, and the interest of the farmer child and the lawyer child and the blacksmith child are one and the same, there are^no laws of health or hygiene which have special ap plication to the children of farm ers, and the children of lawyers and newspaper editors have mumps and measles just like the children of the farmers, and if this be true, whence cometh the* braying of the ass in the wilderness for the elec tion of some farmer as the Gov ernor of the State. "Whether Jesus be regarded as merely a great .philosopher, oc as.a God. it must be admitted the phil osophy of Jesus is responsible for the freedom of the slave, for pro hibition, for the uplift of -woman and constitutional governmenton the-face of the earth, and therefore every good citizen of the State has the same interest in "the mainten ance of Christianity, whether he be farmer, preaeher, lawyer-or- what not, and the farmers dojKtt.&PPe&r-] to have any specfal'or monopolistic interest in the great subject of Christianity, and if this proposition be conceded, I am satisfied that the intelligent, Christian people, of this State will repudiate any effort to elect a. farmer as the next Gov ernor of South Carolina, simply be cause said farmer happens to be a farmer, and offers no evidence V>f. fitness, or fails to comprehend the sacred and immutable principle . that the moral and economic in- ' terest of all men are one and the same. ITours truly, J. J. Cantey. -*^~e-?; County Fair Notes. The part the Sumter mercan tile, manufacturing, banking, and professional establishments will take in the Sumter County Fair, November 15th to 18th, is a very important matter in the opinion of the Sumter County Fair Associa tion and the Sumter County Cham ber of Commerce in showing how much interest the citizens of the. county seat, Sumter, manifest in our annual county fair. Many hundreds of public spirited men and women, and boys and girls of the rural districts* and many Sumter women are working hard to make our 1921 fair the kind of a fair Sumter and Sumtfci; county can and should have. ^ A number of business conce: have already secured space. But is hoped that there will not be single empty space at this year' county fair. This is a good way to advertise and. to get new customers who have never been in, possibly hundreds who have never hea-" of your piace of business either. You ' will meet hundreds face to face,' have time to talk with them and to. get better acquainted with pros- / pective customers. Some of Sumter's business estab- ' lishments are already advertising our County Fair in their advertising spaces in the papers with the op portunities offered.by these firms for consumers to save much mon ey by buying now while prices are at their lowest levels, with an up ward trend for the future. If you. ^ can just convince the public thatN they have now the best opportun ity to get more for their money, than they will later on and if you advertise, show what wo?r flrra has. help to get a crowd of peo ple to attend our fair, your firm Will have splendid opportunities to in duce people to purchase n?W while prices are at their low levels: ? ? ?-- . Public Notice. Notice is hereby given that-ithe, Compulsory School Attendance period for session 1921-22 will begin in Sumter county, on the first" day^ of November. All children?be tween the ages of 8 and 14 years of ; age are required to attend school during this period of four months. In District No. 17 (City7-of Sum-' ter) the attend "T.ce is required for the full term of school. Penalty for violation of this law: Minimum fine of $5.60 (five) or imprisonment of five days for e?cb_ offense. C. S. Hutchinson, Attendance Officer. The supervisors of Registration will be their office in the Cc House Monday, November 7th for the purpose of issuing certificates to qualified electors who may ap ply. All men and women who are ? not registered should obtain a cer tificate and be ready to vote in.the. next election. ? ? ?? ? Don't forget to register -Nov.-- 7. NOTICE?We are fully , with press machinery, etc., to your cleaning and pressing, a our prices are reasonable. Gr* us your work. Phone 113, 9 W. Hampton Ave. Revill & M< Daniel. A Rolling Stone Gathers No Mo ss. 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 2a 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 yr i but pay you A liberal intermit as well. Procrastination may mean a loss to you. It's far better to be safe than sorry. - -g^a&^?ggi A Satisfied Customer is our Most Dependable Asset. FIRST NATIONAL BANK SUMTER, S. Oi NE1LL O'DOXXELL ARCHIE CHINA O. L. YATES President Vice President Cashier The National Bank of South Carolina OF SUMTER, S. C. The Most Painstaking SERVICE with COURTESY Capita! $306,000 Surplus and Profit? 9180,060 STRONG AND PROGRESSIV? Give us the Pleasure of Serving YOU The Bank With the Chime Clock. C. G. ROWLAND, Pre?. HARLE ROWLAND, Cashier