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The Watchman and Southron . ..- - '>?"*?? Entered at the Postoffice at Sum ter, S. C? as Second Class Scatter. Mrs. J. E. G,r* aam and daughter , of Rock Hill are visiting Mrs. Julian Bradfor?"on E. Liberty St. " Mr. Howard Jones of the Univer sity of South Carolina is in Sumter ? to. spend the Thanksgiving holidays. ? Mrs. j oel D. Charles of Greenville is visiting her sister, Mrs.-J. B. Fol v sotn on Haynsworth St. Mr. T/B. Jenkins, of Richmond, Ind:, is a visitor m Sumter. - Mr. SvK. Rowland returned this morning from Atlanta where he has left his little daughter, Annie, for another stay of ten days-, under Dr. Hbke. Little Annie.underwent an operation on her feet several weeks ago under this Atlanta spe cialist -and has since that time been getting along very nicely and was able to return home for a short stay. Miss Augusta Rembert , pf Co karxibia will be the visitor of Mrs. Abbott on Washington street for t several days..' < Messrs. J. Et Stoudemire, W. J. Crowson, Jr., George C. ..Warren and J. D. Shirer left today for the f lower part of the state on a duck hunt. x > * A party composed of Mr, and Mrs. C. F. Korn, Dr.. EL. A. Mood, Dr. D. W. Green, and Messrs. R. A. Bradham, T. B. Jenkins and C. T. Hagan has gone to Waccamaw Club, near Georgetown^ on a deer and duck hunt. \ Mrs. Samuel. R. Carter of-Astie land, Ya., and Mrs. Henrv H. Cov ington of Norfolk, Va?, are visiting their father Colonel R. D. Lee' or. - Warren Street. A Town Without Church or Jail. ?Davenport, Iowa, Nov.' 18. ? There-are two institutions that WalcjFtt, -Iowa, the richest town per capita "ri Iowa, prides itself in not possessing. These are churches and Ja?s. ' In its religious belief s,' Walcott is unique. For. more thart 50 years the. town has been Without &r\ ^ church. It oiice had a Jail, but -v like its only church established $5 j years ago and which existed but a ;" ; few years, it was put in; the dis card. VnxHe the jail building stfn stands, there is no vestiage of a church edifice. But there-are no locks, to the jail and its hinges have trotted o?f. It is never Used. ? * "We are free thinkers and be lieve rn. free AT?ierics?i citizenship seveil days a week. We do hot need preachers to dictate to us. " We are . better Off without them;?" states 3faycr Strohbeen in expressing Waleott's lack of churches. ' Mayor Stroh been states that ^SSe any ' denominaticci - has the privilege of establishing ' a church Ita Walcott, the people simply will fcct "patronize them. They would &ave*ntpty pews and empty collec ISon baskets every Sunday. ; *'We are getting along Very well "'ff~ iill|lllilT~ TiTUrb better than with 'Churches. We like to be let alone. ?3Fhere is no more peaceful or law *hiding. town m the whole United ?States than Walcott. Wby should v^snt churches. They bring! strife aid dissensions?we want ^peaee arid quietude," commented the town's popular mayor. If s no secret how Walcott resi dents, spend their Sabbath. *^hows and dances are our principal Sun day amusement," says Mayor Strbh been. '''Then in summer we enjoy baseball and automobileTriding." - In -case of weddings, most of the couples corrre to. Davenport and look \ip.a justice. In very rare in sta^^^. minister, of the gospel is Most of the funerals In the town are conducted by Johannes Kroeg er, who delivers the oration in eith er German or English, as the mourners desire. Mr. Kroeger pos sesses no church affiliations or re ligious beliefs. In other words he is \ a-pastor without a creed. Baptisms! are. unknown in the town. In'a business and commercial way, Walcott is a thriving town. It has two banks with combined de ^bsifs of over $1,500,000. This is a remarkable showing ' when it is considered that the population of theJToWn is but 384. It has a con ^drlschobl second to none in 3h?s part of the state. lleeV'htly the citizens erected a fme public ?auditorium. Here chau t?Uquas and musical entertainments are held on weekdays, and dances on Sundays. ,-? Approaching Wedding. Of interest to friends in Sumter of M[r. Chan riing Carter cf Atlanta i is the announcement of his ap- j proachirig marriage to Miss Mary Sue Nelms of Royston, Ga. Mr. Carter has worked -for a number of years at the Palmetto Insurance ?Company 5ti Columbia, leaving that 'place for Atlanta where he: is now associated with the Royal Insurance Company. Mr. Carter was a member of the One Hundred and Eighteenth in fantry of "the famous Thirtieth di vision-, and won the distinguished service cross and was -deed for gal lantry under fire in rendering aid to the Wounded. -? ? ? The assurance of the ' establish ment of a canning factory will be good "news to some farmers at least. Mr. Henry J. Harby stated yes terday that the cannery is a cer tainty, all the proposed capital stock of twenty thousand dollars having been subscribed. The cannery will Tord a cash market for a large uantity "of fruit and vegetables ?at can be grown in this county, id cash markets are the things .ost needed. ? ? ?* An acre of land in wheat will be -orth something next spring, while idle acre will bring in nothing, few barrels of home raised flour the store room will be" preferable a* carload m the merchants' i warehouse. < n? * ? The postcard, deli.1 ired after 41 irsi shows Hays succeeds where] other postmasters failed/ - | City C??hcH Meeting Peoples Bank Selected as De pository of City Fund?? j Bond Issue Proposed The regular meeting of "Council was held in the Council Chamber Tuesday night, and there were pres- J ent Mayor Jennings and Council- | men McCalmm arid Raffield. The; mlhutcs of the regular meeting of j November 8th were *read and ap- i proved. The matter of building an ab- j b?t?ir was again taken, up with Mr. j Tisdale, chairman of the Board of Health, and Dr. Browning, Health Officer, who submitted tentative plans, specifications and. probable cost of a plant which would suit the requirements of the city, and after some discussion. Mayor Jennings suggested that an architeet be en gaged at once* to draw up neces sary plans for the building, which suggestion was concurred in by Councilman McCallum, and while Councilman Raffield Is not opposed to the building of an abbatoir, he was m favor x>f deferring further progress to that end until after the first of January next when the financial condition of the city could better be determined. Dr. Brown ing was instructed, to get in touch with an architect and have the plans drawn up at once. Li'^son Conyers, who formerly conducted a restaurant on Man ning Avenue, appeared before Council stating that after having paid the license the first of the year to conduct such restaurant, he sold the business to another party who also took over the license, Conyers to be reimbursed "in tnonthly in stallments. The transfer was made on May 2nd. Subsequently, former Collector McKefver informed Tin dal, the purchaser, that the busi ness could not be continued under the license of Conyers, and a sec ond license was bought. After dis cussion Council agreed to refund one-half of the license to Conyers, while Mayor Jennings was in "fa vor of refunding two-thirds of the amount, the business having been operated by "Conyers bnty four, months. Council further agreed that in future, should a mercantile busi ness on which the 'license'-has been paid change hands, such license can also be transferred by making application to the Clerk & Treasur er who will malee the necessary en dorsement thereon. Council further discussed the law in reference to children driv ing automobiles Within the incor porate limits of the. city. Mr. Raffield was In favor of amending the law to read 14 years instead j of 15 years old, and to issue no 'permits to anyone under the age 'of 14 years. Mayor "Jennings and Councilman McCallum was in fa vor of "allowing the ordinance to stand at lo years, and permits is sued to only such children whose written applications are passed up on by Council, and who can furnish positive proof of their efficiency to drive.an automobile within the city limits. All permits heretofore issued by the Mayor are 'hereby re voked. Council authorized ? refund of $33.60 to the members of the fire ?department who purchased a. siren signal for the fire truck by personal subscription. By recommendation of Bupt. W. W. McKagen, Council directed and authorized the purchase of 16 au tomatic syphons for 'flushing sew evs, the order to be given to a local concern managed by Mr. R. B. Bel ser. In response to a letter under date of Nov. 2nd, which was addressed to an of the banking Institution's of the City, a reply was received by the Clerk from each of the banks and read to Council, and after carefully considering the matter, the Clerk was directed to depos't all of the city's reeeipts of everv nature (exclusive of sinking funds/ in the Peoples Bank, this arrange ment to be effective at once and to be continued indefinitely. Councilman Raffield stated that he offered the same objections as stated at a former meeting of Coun cil; the necessity had not arisen at the time the letters were written and that he believed a conference with the banks, when the necessity did arise, would result in the ne cessary arrangements being made. Councilman Raffield moved that a request "be made to the delega ! tion to the General Assembly to j pass the enabling act at the next ! meeting of the Legislature to allow | ! a vote on not less than $150,000.00 [or more than $200.000.00 in bonds j ? to be issued to take care of the dif- j I ference between the bond Issue of I I $350,000.00 for the Electric Light j plant and the amount actually ex- i j pended in the erection of such a ; j plant; these bonds to bear interest j not to exceed 6 per cent. Mayor [ Jennings suggested that the eh j abling act be papsed to vote on j bonds for $250,000.00. and Council j requested that he prepare such an act and request the delegation to I pass it. j After discussing other routine matters, Council adjourned. City Court. Monday was a rushing day in the I city court. At the end of the hour's i session held by Jtidge Harby the j sum of ?217 was at the disposal of I the city* These were the wages of j law breakings during Saturday, j Sunday and a portion of Monday, j The cases tried consisted of various ' charges, vagrancy, drunkenness. ; disorderly conduct, petit larceny, j gambling, reckless driving, etc. Nu i merous forfeitures of bonds saved j further pains arid trouble in quite ; a lot of the cases. --i-^i-? I Turkeys appear to be quite ; plentiful this year, but there has i been no standard price, sellers ask i ing all the way from 18 cents a pou^ to. thirty-five. The prevail ing price has been twenty cents and most ^of. those who have turke3rs for saie seem satisfied that twenty cents a pound is a fair price. The Sumter Tobacco Market Manager C. 0. Watts of Farmers' Warehouse Work ing For Next Season's Crop M,r. CO. Watts, the manager of j the Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse ! . on Bast Liberty street was in Sum- i ter last Tuesday and had quite aj conference regarding the building ! up of the Sumter tobacco market [ for 1922 with E. I. Reardon, secre- ! tary of the Sumter County Chamber of Commerce, Mr. G. A. Lemmon. president of the Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse Company, and Mr. S. L. Roddey, president of the Young Men's Business League of Sumter. The first thing Mr. Watts did w is to arrange with DeLorme's Phar macy to sell tobacco seed at a rea sonable cost to farmers, but Mr. Watts also hopes that if any other seed dealers desire to sell tobacco seed they will do so as there has been an agreement between tobac co warehousemen of South Caro lina that there will be no more free distribution of tobacco seed. The Sumter County Chamber of Com merce served widespread notice last fall and spring that farmers j had better save seed, not only for their own use, but because local farmers who did save seed, could sell hundreds of pounds of tobacco seed to those who did not save seed. DeLorme's Pharmacy will give preference to local farmers who have seed to sell, paying a reason- | able market price for same for as i much seed as he needs. It is pre- i sinned that other local seed deal ers interested will do the same j thing. The Sumter County Chamber of j Commerce and the Young Men's j Business League of Sumter have j arranged to work together to do j what these organizations can do to j build up a bigger tobacco market in \ Sumter and with the cooperation of ? Mr. Watts, and the advantageous ! prestage given Sumter's market by our large and modern tobacco stem- j mery, "together with the assistance j of Sumter's banks and other busi- j ness establishments, inducing their \ customers to plant limited acreages j of tobacco on every farm where j conditions and laoor are suitable J for tobacco cultivation, proper bar- \ vesting, and curing, it is hoped that a large acreage of tobacco will j be planted as a' partial substitute for cotton as a cash erv.>. I>earh. I Mr. George Nesbit Collier died Tuesday at ?6 a. in. at Camp Alice after having been in ill health for several years. Mr. Col j lier was of Elloree, S. C, and has ! worked as 'a druggist for a number I of years in Charleston and other towns in South Carolina. Mr. Col tier was 30 years of age. He is survived by his wife, four small children his mother and father, i Mr. and Mrs. George M. Collier of j Elloree, and two brothers, Mr. J. T. j Collier of Pinewood and Mr. L. M.) Collier of Sumter. Mr. Qollier was j a member of the Masonic order, the i W. O-. W. and the Knights of Py 'thias. His body Will' be carried to Elloree on the train leaving Sumter at 0:30 tonight and the funeral ser vices held at Santee Baptist church, near Elloree, on Wednes day afternoon. - ? + o Common Pleas Court. The Court of Common Pleas con- I vened for its second week's session j of this term on Monday. Pro- ? gress in the dispatch of the busi- j ness before this court is at about j its usual pace. In the case of Wal ter J. Jenningsv vs. Walker D. Hines, Director General of the A. C. L. Railroad, the case resulted in a mistrial. Xo agreement could be reached by the jury which remain ed in the jury rooms in deliberation from 5 o'clock Friday evening until j 9:30, Saturday morning. A verdict for the defendant was | found by the jury in the case of ! W. P. Barrett vs. C. W. Smith. Case now being tried:: R. F. Bradley vs. A. C. L. R. R. Co., and I H. F. Capell vs. A. C. L. R. R. Co., j these two cases being tried togcth- j er by consent. The suit is over j certain demurrage charges. - ? ? * Marriage License Record Marriage licenses have been is sued to the following colored couples: j Henry Garey and Cornelia Bow den of Stateburg. Doctor Manning of Sumter and Martha Allen of Tindal. Eddie Bradford and Aline Mit I chell of Sumter. Ernest Hudson of Mayesville and I Margaret Williams of Sumter^ ? . Josekiak Wilder and Fannie Lewis of Sumter. j t Ed Grant and Essie Robertson of Sumter. Hfllard Singleton and Mary Mc ; Rea of Sumter. Dan Tindal and Josephine Mar i shall of Mayesville. James Dow and Lula Brewer of Stateburg. William Hayward and Mary Dirikins of Rembert. Augustus Cooper and Martha Murray of Sumter. Jackson Charles and Addie j Adams of Pinewood. Mbultrie Westori and Ella Mc Duffie of Wedgefield. Shatter Dickey and Addie May : Lofory of Shiloh. Eugene Coleman and Gertrude 1 McBeth of Sumter. ; Alex Browie and Maggie Mat- I ; hews of Sumter. Willie Jones and Essie Paterson i of Mayesville. Henry Jenkins and Rosa Bland- ' ing of Dalzell. Harry Green and Harry Ashley Of Sumter. Henry Coleman and Jesie Boyd of Sumter. Simpson Bradford and Annie ' Galloway of Sumter. A little liquor now and then seems to get the best of men. Card From Chair man O'Quinn Expression- of Appreciation For Cooperation of All Who Took Part in Fair Week Parade In behalf of the committee charg ed with the pleasant duty of for mation of the Pageant of Progress ?Parade of last Friday, November 18 th, which was such a great suc cess and pleasure, and which did so much to reflect credit on and advertise our city and county, will you permit me to express the thanks of the people of Sumter county to those who by their parti cipation made this long to be re membered event such a great suc cess. It is to be regretted that circum stances beyond our control prevent ed us securing the names of the numerous individual and organiza tion units of this procession of progress?but I desire "to thank every man, woman, boy and girl, and every firm and corporation for their splendid exhibition of city and county civic pride, and to thank our police force and fire depart ment also. To .ne thousands of school chil dren and hundreds ''of teachers, from the city and rural schools, and the numerous ladies and girls of the rural clubs, I would tender our sincerest thanks and expres sions of gratitude for the magnifi cent public spirit they manifested. I would feel that I am remiss in my duty if I did not also express our thanks to the many thousands of citizens from Sumter and ad joining counties who showed their appreciation of the public spirit of the thousands in the parade by coming out to see and to applaud the patriotic participants of the procession of progress. I have heard many citizens say, and I heartily concur in thier opin ion, that the Pagenant of Progress Parade should be* an annual even*, of our county fair, and I will take the liberty of suggesting that we start at an early date to arrange for the 1922 Pageant of Progress Parade, make it bigger, and if humanly possible, make it better than last week's parade, but human ingenuity will be taxed to its limit to exceed the artistic ability dis played by the 1921 Pageant of Progress Parade. S. O. O'QUIXX. General Chairman. . Meeting of Women's Council. There was a meeting of the Wo man's Council held in Sumter at the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, November 17th at 3 p. m. We were glad to have with us Mrs. Campbell, Miss Atkinson and Mrs. Plowden of the State execu tive force; Mr. Levy, Mr. Roddey, Mr. Plowden, of the Young Men's Business League; also Miss Oben chain; also Mrs. Dabbs. President of council askt&d Mrs. Plowden to give a talk on the object of the meeting and what the country wo men were trying to do. She responded with a very inter esting talk, saying that the state demonstration force and our coun ty agent were ready to help and encourage the county women to co operate in their marketing and now we need the cooperation of the merchant and the business men of Sumter. Mr. Roddey spoke in behalf of the Young Men's Business League, saying that they were ready to do all that they could to help the mar keting problem. Mr. Levy discussed the question of best 'size containers and best seals to be used, also the stand ardizing of products by the county agent, in order that the preserves, jellies, etc. might be handled by the merchants. Mrs. Campbell told us of the state market program that had been worked out by the State force at Winthrop college. Showing how the women of the county can make a very good amount by using up the surplus vegetables, etc., at home. Some of the salable goods being as follows:: Dixie Bergo, Plum Jelly, Blackberry jam and artichoke relish. These canned things will be sold through the South Carolina Home , Producers' Association. Miss Atkinson.talked on poultry raising and the profit in it. Also the sad need of more poultry in the south. Committees were appointed as follows:: Legislative committee?Mrs. Pa gan, Mrs. Haynsworth, Mrs. Dabbs. Marketing Committe e?Mrs. Weinberg, Mrs. Leavell, Mrs. E. W. Dabbs, Jr., President. Mrs. James Pagan, Secretary. COTTON MARKET NEW YORK COTTON. ? Ystdys Open High Low Close Close January ... 18.02 18.50 ?7.95 18.47 17.85 March .17.97 ?8.46 ?7.90 18.38 17.76 May .17.70 18.18 17.66 18.14 ?7.55 Jufy .17.30 17.70 17.27 17.70 i7.15 October . ..16.40 16.40 16.35 16.7? 16.28 December ,.18.15 18.52 17.97 18.47 18.97 Spots 50 up: middling 18.90. NEW ORLEANS COTTON. Ystdys Open High Low Clos<; Close January ... 17.55 17.98 17.49 17.91 17.43 March 17.52 18.01 17.5? 17.95 17.41 May .17.30 17.73 17.23 17.67 17.16 July ?6.93 ?7.32 16.88 ?7.28 16.73 October . 16.05 16.38 16.00 15.83 December 17.40 17.82 17.35 17.74 17.24 Spots 2." up: middling 17.7^.. ' IVEPOOL COTTON. January. 11.47 March. ?1.86 May . ?1.26 July . 11.12 October . 10.47 December 11.53 Tone steady: sales s.oon : middling 11.72: good middling 1-.?">-. President Harding's home town went Democratic, but it would seem to stand to reason that he couldn't find plncos for all of them.?De troit News. State Cotton Association Farmers of Sumter County Urged to Attend Annual Meeting The Sumter Chamber of Com merce has been requested by Pres? ident R. C. Hamer, of the South Carolina division of the American Cotton Association to do everything possible to have every farmer in Sumter county attend the annual meeting of this association in Co lumbia, at noon on Wednesday, De cember 7th in Craven Hall, on Washington street. Mr. Hamer writes in part as fol lows: "It is our plan to have at this meeting some prominent planters fron; other states who have dealt with the boll weevil situation in the past successfully. These planters will tell us how they solved the boll weevil problems and will ad vise us as to the best course to pur sue next year. You can easily see that it will be a meeting that will be of vital- im portance to every farmer in South Carolina, one that no farmer in the state can afford to miss. We are making arrangements to care for the biggest crowd of farmers that ever attended in Columbia for a convention. Will you not kindly advertise this meeting in your county papers and urge every farmer in your county to attend. I would suggest that you appoint delegates from every town j ship and put their names in the pa pers next week, urging them to at j tend." In compliance with the above re I quest the Chamber of Commerce ! has appointed the following dele I gates to represent Sumter county j ?but it should be understood that j every farmer in Sumter county will j be welcome whether he attends as ! a delegate or not. It is impossible j to appoint every farmer in Sumter ! county as a delegate?but every J farmer in Sumter county is appoint ed as a committeeman to advertise I this meeting and get as many of his i fellow citizens as possible to at ! tend this meeting. ! Delegates appointed by Sumter ! County Chamber of Commerce: Sumter Twonship. j J. H. Myers. Willie Shaw, T. J. j Kirvin, G. A. L- mmon, J. C. Dun i bar, W. A. Bowman, L. D. Jen j nings, B. M. Oliver, M. M. Brown, W. D. McLeod. L. E. Reames, P. M. I Pitts, J. K. McElveen, H. J. Harby, I W. T. Brown. Willie Reames. J. M. j Fogle, W. R. Wells, J. K. Jennings, i S. Itly Wilson, R. B. Belser. R. E. i Evans, J. W. Odom, J. R. Terry, J. ! H. DuRant, W. S. Currey, D. D. j Moise.. S. K. Nash, J. T. Glasscock, ! John Wilson, R. A. Bradham, I Mitch Levi, J. J. Whilden, A. C. ' Phelps. Mayosville Township. L E. W. Dabbs, L. C. Tisdale, J. F. j Bland. R. J. Mayes, Jr., J. A. Boy | kin, R. H. Gamble, J. M. Shaw, J. i H. Wilson, E. W. Dabbs, Jr., J. E. ; Price, Robert Muldrow, P. M. Til | ler, J. Rembert Mayes, C. E. Mayes, S. O. Matthews. Rafting Creek Township. R. E. Atkinson, C. M. Emanuel. ; Julian Sanders, E. E. Rembert, R. M. Hildebrand, Dr. M. S. Kirk, J. IA-. Reames, J. L. GiDis, T. M. ; Rogers. J. L. Jackson, T. P. I Sanders, Silvester Allen, C. E. j Sanders, Ben Myers, C. W. San j ders. oliddfcton Township. ? Dr. M. L. Parier, E. E. Aycock. j A. E. Aycock, Whilden Nettles, J. j R. Ball, \V. H. Ramsey. John J. J Geddings. H. M. McLaurin, Sam ? Weinberg, J. B. Ryan, R. W. Brice, ! Wade Brice. -? Manchester Township. Miller Coulter, F. M. Coulter, B. T. Kolb, E. R. Williams. Shiloh Township. Isadore 'M. Truluck, W. W* Green. A. II. Truluck, W. D. Tru I luck. E. T. Minis. M. McClam, J. C. McElveen, T. J. Keels, Gamble Moore. S. J. Minis, T. R. McElveen, T. E. Mims, J. C. Truluck. Concord Township. P. L. Jones, J. J. Britton, G. W. I Mahoney, J. B. Britton, Hazel J Brunsen, J. L. Brogdon. Joel Davis, I S. J. White. C. W. Brunson, W. J. ! Lawrence, D. L. Smith, T. B. Brun i son, Johh Childress. W. T. Brog I don. J. C. Brogdon, Jno. I. Brogdon. * Statoburs Township, j C. J. Jackson. J. Frank Williams j J. L. Friers?n, L. E. L'eve?, George Mabry. W. L. Saundcrs, S. W. Gil lospie, X. B. Murray. R. M. Moore W. M. Lcnoir, Guy Nelson, John J Dargan. S. Y. Tupper, \V. S Thompson. Privateer Townshi p. S. A. Harvih, H. D. Tindal, J. M. Kolb. M. Jackson. S. D. Cain, W. E, Kolb, S. D. Richardson, T. E. Hodge, II. H. Wells, B. R. Barkley A. P. Hinson. George Nettles, R. B, Furman, W. G. Pierson. Providence Township. Stanyarne Burroughs, T. S. Du Lose, Jr.. W. C. Folk. Dr. Bush McLaughlin, Paul Bowman, Por eher Gaillard, M. L. Moore, A. C. Burroughs. R. L. Burkett, S. F. Moore, B. F. Ardi's, E. E. Doby, J. B. Raffield, H. T. Edens. Fulton and Calvary Townships. C. B. Kolb, J. R. Kolb, Cammio Broadway. H. B. Richardson, D. R. Lide. H. L. Baxley, R. S. Des Champs, J. R. Griffin, T. B. Mims, E. A. Felder, R. C. Richardson, George Tindal. J). L. Tindal. O. D. Marvin. J. H. Barwiek, R. F. Ep person. <? ? ? Mr. Edgar Skinner today an nounces his candidacy for the House of representatives to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna tion of Hon. Davis D. Moise. Mr. E. W. Dabbs. Jr.. has also formal ly announced his candidacy and it is rumored that Mr. S. K. Nash will be a candidate. A few days ago it was reported that thf friends of Mr. R. J. Bland were trying to induce him to enter the race, but there have been no fur ther reports. i? ? ? The arms parley is like a para chute: much will depend on bow it opens.?Boston Herald. Baku, Russia's Great Oil Field! - Will Cease to Produce in Six j Months More ! Baku. Azerbaijan Oct. 28 (By ; a Staff Correspondent of The Asso | ciated Press).?Within six months j the oil fields, lying within a few miles of this city and once count- j j ed among the richest petroleum I wells in the world, will have c?as j ed to produce, according to expert j opinion, unless new machinery and : better and more workmen are ob j tained. j This condition is acutely realiz- j ! ed by the local Azerbaijan govern- j I ment which is controlled by Mos- J ; cow. * If the oil is not forthcom I ing, this will mean the stopping of i the oil-burning steamers of ihn Caspian Sea, several hundred in number, the 1,000 or more tug boats and steamers of the Volga, still in repair and the oil-burning locomotives of the entire railway system of greater Russia. * Efforts are being made to obtain machinery', possibly from the j United States, by M. Serabrovsky. a I trained engineer and now general j director of the oil fields, and also to : induce workmen to work. * The pre-war production averaged annually about 18,000,000,000 ! pounds of crude petroleum, and ! this year it will run about 5,000, 000,0000 at best. There have been but a few new wells this year and the old ones function slowly. The opening up of the pipe line to Ba tum for foreign export is out of the question, as there is not enough oil and Russia consumes much of the present supply, herself. The general cause given for this condition is described by- compet ent oil engineers, long on the field, as the "gangrene" of Soviet control. "Whatever the Communists touch seems to go to rot", declared one engineer. "It seems likely a fa tality and the worst of it is that no amount of new machinery here will remedy the situation. New ma chinery would be broken up by in competent workmen just as the old machinery has been". This is a rather gloomy view taken by an anti-Bolshevik. The ! oil fields began to slow down four \ years ago. The present Moscow I rule has severely suffered from the sins of its predecessors here. It is feared there will be much difficulty in buying new machinery I this winter, though the Azerbaijan ! government has a commercial mis j sion at Constantinople that may go I to the United States to get capital I or credits for the machinery, i The labor situation is much more j clear. Russia is denuded of her best thinkers, imperialists and Com munists, and likewise of her train ed workers. In the oil fields where are needed 50,000 men, there are j now possibly half that-number, and few of them trained, and employ ers say even these are disinclined to work. Before the war there were 125 private companies here, and each with a managing director, and now the work of all these directors fajls on the shoulders of a few men. The workmen get one and a half I pounds of black bread per day and soup, with neither butter nor meat and'a pay of 3,000 rubles (five to ten cents) per month. *.>'hich is just the price of a pound of bread. New workmen are being brought in from among the troops of Gen eral Wrangel in Constantinople and also from the famine zones, but with it all there seems no way to keep the men satisfied, or proper ly fed. ! "Black Town'r, as is called the oil refining and delivery district, presents a sad sight as compared to the old days. The buildings of the Nobel refinery, the most impor tant of the companies, represented, are going to ruin. Makeshifts are j the rule everywhere. ; When the Moscow Soviet toc.k ! over the Azerbaijan republic a year and a half ago by buying up i:s officials and sending in the 11th Red army, it expected to get oil for nothing. ? ? ? Brown's Oldest Graduate In Good Health at 99 Years Providence. R. L, Nov. 21.? Brown University lays claim to hav ing the oldest graduate of any American college. John Hunt, of j Springfield, O.. 90 years old on Oc tober 17, was graduated from Brown in 1842, nearly two decades before the Civil War began. He was born in Lowell, Mass. During his undergraduate course j at Brown, which then consisted oT ? four buildings, tuition was $21 a j term and board $1.25 o week. He j has been pastor of eight differem. ! Baptist churches, five in 'Neu j Hampshire, one in Vermont, one ic j Massachusetts, and one in Ohio He was married twice and had one ; son. lie has survived his entire i family. John Hunt is in good health mentally and physically. He at tributed his great age to heredity. His mother lived to be well over a century old and he expects to du plicate this record. Game of all kinds is said to be more abundant this year than for many seasons. Partridges and duck are exceptionally plentiful every where. ? ? ? The reason the fathers made this a great country was because they didn't s:t about and whine for somebody to do something. When a man s:iy> he wishes to consult his wife about it. he means tbat ho wishes to urct his wife's in structions, ? coTTON 25 CENTS PER POUND! F. O. B. Columbia. S. C, in ex change for tuition. Act quick. Bowen's Business College, Co lumbia. S. C. ' Meeting of the American Legion Officers Elected. Sumter Post To Have Club Rooms. Formation of Woman's j Auxiliary At a mooting of the Sumter Post. | American Legion, held Monday night at the office of Epps & Levy, I Law Range, there was a full post i membership pv< sent. Officers for | the ensuing year were elected j which are the following: Post Commander, Joe S. Chandler; vice ; Commander. J. H. Forbes; Adju tant. Zach K. Darr: Historian. W. H. Bowman: Veterans' Bureau Of-' ficer, Dr. W. E. Mills. It was decided that club rooms ? be established in Sumter for the use j ancl enjoyment of the Legion mem- ! bers. It was also decided that a ladies' ; auxiliary of the American Legion be established in Sumter. Mr. ; John B. Dulfie was appointed as chairman of a committee which is j to make all necessary preliminary investigations towards th,e forma tion of such a body. The ladies elgible to membership are compos ed of the mothers, daughters, sis ters and wives of ex-serv":e men. This matter is to be takeu up by the chairman with the State Adju- i tant in Columbia and the organ- j ization will be formed at an early j date. ? Comments by "Hagood'? Bethen Mr. Editor: One week ago today I attended a meeting in Opera House. It .ad been well advertised but attendance did not measure up to expectations. Although matters of grave import ance were under discussion: Co operative Marketing and Co-ope j rative Farming. Out on the street i heard a reason given for slender ; attendance disappointment. Years j ! ago how many the books did not j'say. a boy, keeping sheep, in order j I to have some fun cried, wolf! wolf! j I wolf! with the result that the j j whole country side turned out. Th3 I next day he repeated it with a j smaller crowd. The third day the j wolf came and he cried out in I earnestness and terror but no one i came. Certain, men were adver i I tised on uncertainty to make ad j dresses, but failed to appear. I un I derstand this has happened more j than once before. I know more j than one man who came from re mote corners of the county just to hear those talks. What is said above is, not despar ! agement of addresses, we heard, j Messrs. Scarborough, McLeod. i Jennings and Strauss. By all means ; let co-operative marketing and ! farming be stressed and let our j people do these things which i means their salvation. Let the can I nery business, the creamery and j such industries be discussed and . understood. "Hagood" Bethea. j Rembert. S. C. I The responsibilty for the failure j of Dr. Clarence Poe and Dr. W. W. t Long to attend the meeting does i not rest upon Mr. J. Frank Wil i liams, county demonstration agent j who advertised the meeting. He \ was instructed to do so by the Dis ! trict Agent at the request of the ; officers of South Carolina Cotton ; Association. Xo one in Sumter \ knew that Drs. Pee and Long i would not be here until just be j.^Qre the meeting assembled. Dim Your Lij Chief Barwick Takes Experi mental Night Ride in City Chief J. M. Barwick states that recently he has had occasion to do a great deal of automobile riding in the night and that'he has used the opportunity offered in making experiments with the light dim ming apparatus on his car In view of its psycologieal effect and reac tion upon the drivers Of oncoming vehicles similarly lighted and equip ped. He says that 'every time he met an auto with its lights aflare that he reached d*own and worked his dimming outfit. In each case he received an almost instantaneous response by the lights of the ap proaching auto becoming dim. He states that his observation is, that each driver is evidently waiting for the other fellow to dim first. A compliment was passed by the chief upon the bigness of his subjects, the Sumter citizens; and he says that they are for the most part very willing and strong On hearty, co-operation. Try it yourself, he says, don't wait on the other Mr. Man to dim first. The results will surprise you says chief. Another thing?in all regular and real cities it is a strict law that all lights be dimmed on the white ways. This comes as a request for Sumter. You don't need the/^fjiir lights on the well lighted streets so why not save the electricity and keep the light excess out of th% other fellow's eyes. ? .r v ?">?.. ?.: A Smart Criminal. - Shanghai, Oct. 14 (By Mail).? Amos E. Norman, who was .an An.erican soldier in the 15th In fantry at Tientsin, has proved hins self the most dramatic figure of recent criminal annals in China an4 after holding the-interest of for eigners generally in .China for a.per riod of thirty days'ne has been taken in charge by the army au thorities and is to face court -mar tial. ? ez Norman was arrested as a ?dej serter in Shanghai last spring and escaped from his captors by leapL ing from a second story window. It was then found thatuafter he had quit the army he had retained his own name and has been able to -ob? tain a position in the Chinese ?H??, toms service. He was arrested again in August and in the first week of September with a com panion* Kenry Muncie, wlio - was also being held as a deserter -from the 15th infantry Tap carried ?at.'5* sensational escape from the . Amer ican prison after he " had dashed ammonia into the face of hissjail er. Muncie was arrested' "shortly after the two escaped, but Norman remained in hiding and when_ a Russian girl with whom he .was in fatuated was arrestedTas an accom. plice in the prison break, he made a remarkable effort to shield har from the blame by means of dauy letters that were a??dressed. to the authorities through a -newspaper.. K was through these letters that the police of the International Settle ment at length were ,able~to ferret out his hiding jplace. Of course the rest-'of ns, if xete owned the mines, would make Coal cheap even if we ha? to-operate at a loss. Miners ought tcr dig in for the winter. . -? ? V' ? ? At any rate, two.can get a di vorce as cheaply as"one. . .... - - ^.^A Barbecue and Old Time Hot Supper i ? >>%?*? At the Home of R. E. Atkinson, J DINKINS MILL, \ Monday Night, November 28th, For Benefit of Bethesda Methodist Chttrdi. THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED. 'j A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss. Neither does a rolling dollar. 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