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The Watchman and Southron i" . ' ' = ] - ? Sett red at the Postoffice at Suin ter, S. C ae Second Class Matter. ?PERSONAL. Misses. Ethel Bateman, Mildred Brunsen and Cornelia White are among the Sumter Winthrop Col girls who spent the Thanks giving holidays at their homes in tb** city. $?ss Annie Churchill spent the Thanksgiving holidays -with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. R. S. Chureh flirbn W. Hampton Ave. . Mjss Ethel Bynura of Columbia College, Columbia, is spending 5hjaaksgivmg with her parents in the city. Mr. Stanley Weinberg of the Cit adel is at home on a shorst visit. - Messrs. Robert Te~.ms, Robert ' ahd Arthur Beaumont, of Florence, formerly of Sumter, are spending a few days in Sumter. 2 ^Ti*. and Mrs. A- A. Team and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Shupe and children \ ^Columbia are the visitors of Mrs. W. P. Carr on Hampton Ave. Mi^s Alpha Barnum of Colum bia is at home to spend several 8 ?-*ilr. Ansley 'Tales'of Charleston is a .visitor in Sumter. ? .. Mr. Ralph Flowers of Georgia !??$h spent a short while at his home in Sumter while returning to rAt^ata from Columbia where; he expired: the annual Thanksgiving '??^^^-?$&dei footbaH game. Janet Ligon of Orangeburg is visiting Miss Mary Knight in the, city, '."&.T. C. J. Croghan of the dep?rt naeist-bf agriculture. Washington, a fotsner resident of Sumter, is a visi tor o? Mr. and Mrs, G. W. Reardon la^tJse-.ciry. ? ' >; MrsV'Katherine xCurry returned to Suznter yesterday after spending j&everal - days with relatives, and mends in St. Stephens, S. C. . jlmong those of Sumter attend ijjg .the fair at Bishop viile today are Mfcasrs. J. J. Whflden, W. T. Brown, J. Williams? c farm demon .agent; E. L Reardon, sec ot?'. the Chamber of Com and S. O'Quinn, City M?n Je?nette White of Winthrop .spent Thanksgiving with in Sumter. ?Borothy Burns who has been at Esteli; S. C, is spend did&y with her parents of Xouise Bendy, of Dunn, N. irisxtrag Miss Margaret Shaw street, ^. ^ j _ ry Shaw, who is school at Dunn, N. C, left /for Davidson, N. C, sding Thanksgiving at , her the! city, srt T>eLorme is.at home for iksgiving- holidays. " /Frances Smith, left Tues ii: for a short visit to rela ??2^-/- fri.ends at/' Georgetown ^jgtrji^stojj. Rv w9u Xapsley of Richmond, ^ .lias ? been a, recent., visitor in and " Mrs. J. "G. Ferguson? Thanksgiving in Florence, ?JFerguswi returning to Sumter^ r^ morni^^asdrMrs. Ferguson re ^?lning, .on?? longer visit to .her >:' 'parents in that city/ ' ]fp?- Miss Bugenia Fr?ser of Virginia, i >^ visiting ; relatives in the- counly. 5V .Mr. and Mrs.- Hubert Josey "of Orangeburg are visiting Mr. ^d : Mrs. iL G. Brown on Hampton :' 'Aye, \.'Kxa.'I*. I. Muldrow is visiting her ?on in Manning, Mr. Hugh Plowden, . aiud^orof f.?arendon county. :Mr.'.R.'Mv Jon?.s, member of the' '?^b^ard of coBimissioners of electio?, :^pe?'t. the day in Sumter. ?>flr..W, X:-Blackwell, of Marion the- week-in in the -city%rifc? Ip^ad? antd- relatives. r< ^?/Jfr. and/Mrs, Joe Auld of Co~ram-v y'i$Bi spent lite week-end in the city :^yi?h relatiyes. M%&r. . Cecil Brearley passed ^IferCFU^ Sumter this morning while ^torz^ng to his studies at the t Presbyterian. Theological Seminary at CoJfcrarMa after.spending Thanks giving holidays at his home in^St. ^Charles, S. .C. r 3fe,> Abe Lawsor. left this morn ' "".his oSGrhome in Union.-Mr. Sj^just recently recovered ?tjfom a serious illness and an op ?raKttos. for appendicitis. Wfr. -I* E. Kirven left this riiorn a shprt'stay in Darlington. RoV'/L.. Kurst of Chester returned, to her home last after visiting Miss Mary Belle : ( at her.' home on Chestnut ??1 ./ffe^eet' ? . '-"?v Miss Augusta:.Rembert returned :to Columbia last night after a short v&it in Sumter. and Wcs. Hell Nelson' and H W. Folsom returned to last night from a week-end trip to Summerton. Pearl and Susie Lanier returned to school at St. Jo -*ei>ir> Academy after spending ?&oksgiving at their home in v|0^mfteau./:. p~3tZ5ss Mary Belle Burgess and her I '< Mrs. R. It. Hurst spent csgivisg-in Columbia. Jo^ Watson of Atlanta, has! < a visitor in Sumter for several \ < Miss Caroline Richardson return- : < last night from Manning wher^e , < spent several days. I i Messrs. Perry Moses and T. B. Caudle left last night on a business "trip of several days in Philadelphia !1 -and New York. |< ? ? ? ?? ? A Buick automobile, being driven ' Oene Moses, executed a severe 1 ' ???d at the corner of Calhoun and "Church streets last night at about eieves s?clock. The car was com- ' "5ng djii^J Calhoun street in an ?as^i?f --direction but attempted ''io'ttt^?ith at Church. The car -eompMe^y left the street, turning '~&mo&:axbvtnd,? and staying put or, tway to the sidewalk near j riTHjfljf*' I 111T Both the front, and ? rheeiz on the. left hand side of r were broken, - !D Pure Iron peas ahd cow peas. ;. Booth & Mc Bank Closed Merchants and Planters Bank at Mayesville Closed by Directors The Merchants' and Planters' Bank at Mayesville, S. C., was clos ed Monday by its directors. State Bank Examiner Craig will arrive in .Mayesville on next Wed nesday, November 30th, to audit the accounts. Death. Mrs. Esther Mollie Green, wife of Mr. Moses Green, died at the fam ily home on Church St., Monday ^norning, after a long illness, aged fifty-seven years. The funeral ser vices were held from the resi dence on Church street at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Green had been a resident of Sumter for the past thirty-seven years*- she with her husband, hav ing come to this city from their birthplace in Russian Poland soon after their marriage and have made their home here ever since. She was a woman of the highest type, a good wife and a devoted mother. She is survived by her husband, four sons, Messrs. Harry, Leon, Al ya and Aaron Green and one daughter, Mrs. Solomon Blott, of BarnwelL Farming Program Schedule of Crops Recom mended For Boll Weevil Conditions After careful consideration, the following schedule of crops for an average -one-horse crop has been agreed upon, and is recommended for use under boll weevil conditions. ? It is intended, of course, that each individual farmer shall make' such minor changes as the needs of his farm require. The number of acres of the given crops and the number of cows, rows and poultry, should be multiplied by the number :of acres in your farm. The acreage and estimated average return, and the num ber of livestock per one horse farm is as follows: 5 to 6 acres of cotton, estimated value (5 acres.. -. ..$250.00 ?6 acres of corn, with velvet beans, at $35. _ 210.00 5 to 6 acres of oats and wheat, (1 acre wheat) followed by peavine hay, at $30.00._180,00 .1 acre sweet potatoes..'100;00 1 acre Irish potatoes, followed by peanuts 100.00 [ 1 acre snap beans,- fol lowed by peanuts 120.00 I .1 acre in sorghum, su [.. gar cane and similar crops _:_ 50.00 ,^2 acres in tobacco, or . ; , some substitute money * crop .200.00 And live stock as fol lows: 1 cow, increased., to "two as soon-as feed isx available, estimated value of milk and cream, one cow 150.00 1 sow and pigs V?_100.00 Fiock of poultry, 20 to 25 ._. 40.00 Estimated total yield per one horse farm, under .?this plan _$1,500.00 f_ Death. Mr. George W. Reardon died it 9 o'clock Saturday morning at his lome on Reardon avenue after a ;ong illness, due to the infirmities )f advanced age. \ A friend contributes the follow ing biographical facts and perconal :ribute to Mr. Reardon: George W. Reardon was born in bounty Kerry, Ireland, 80 years igo. He came to America at the ige cf 10 years, settling in Law- | ?ence, Mass., with his father, moth er and several brothers. He came ;o Sumter as a young man 60 years igo. He served in the Army of the Confederacy. He was for a nurrfber jf . years one of the leaders in eite rnd county in official and politi cal activities. He was Intendent of Sumter for two terms and a warden >f the town for eight years. He svas Clerk of Court for twelve rears; prior to 1876. and postmas :er for four years. He served in several other capacities as a feder al appointee. Mr. Reardon during tiis sixty years residence in this city took an unusual interest in public affairs, even after retiring from active business as a merchant ?tnd from public office he carried into his declining - years a love of tiis adopted country and in his county and city an abiding interest, tie stood for the best of education ii facilities, good roads and streets md for progress and patriotism. He >vas a devout member and officer 5f Saint Anne's Roman Catholic church of Sumter. His entire life svas one of upright and honorable Christian example, and he number ed his friends by the thousands. He is survived by his wife Mrs. Alice, I. Reardon and two daughters. Mrs, John W. McKeiver, of Sum ter, and Mrs. Eugene Fagan of j Chicago, two sons George W. Reardon, Jr., of Baltimore and E. j L Reardon of Sumter, and numer eras grandsons and grand daught- j ers. A sad feature of this good man's death is that as he was dying the news came that the husband of his daughter in Chicago, Mrs. Eugene Fagan. who was Miss Katy Reardon, had died this morning. The cotton farmers of Sumter county should join the Co-opera tive Cotton Marketing Association and the tobacco growers should join the Tobacco Co-operative Market ing Association. These associations are now in process of organization, ; artd when they are in operation the '! farmers who are on the outside will be out of luck. Morris College Loses Game : - Colored College at Orangeburg Scores Two Touchdowns in Interesting Game In one of the most interesting football games of the season which was played on the athletic field of j Morris college Thursday afternoon between that college and State Col lege of Orangeburg, State College was the victor by a score of 14 to 0.' This game was a very creditable exhibition and a great deal of praise is due the team turned out by Mor ris College as this is the first year that this school has attempted to j put a team in the field and this was their second game. The team was made up of green material entire ly, only one man having played be fore. Coach Pinson deserves great praise for the showing made as he only had, five weeks in which to mold his team into shape. There was quite a goodly number of spec tators present at the game and the interest manifested was at all times I at a high ebb. St. Joseph Academy Thanksgiving Entertainment. On Tuesday evening, in the as sembly hall, the boarding pupils assisted by a few of the day stu dents presented a pleasing pro gramme in honor of the directress of the Academy. The hall was artistically and tastefully decorated with smilax and ferns and the stage was draped in red, white and blue. All of the numbers with the ex ception of a reading on St. Cecilia by Miss Marie Bultman were char acteristic of Thanksgiving. The play, "What Happened to the Turkey," by the Juniors elicit ed much laughter. The following is the programme: Welcome Address?Maggie Ed wards. Reading, "St. Cecilia"?Miss Ma- 1 rie L. Bultman. Recitation, "WThat Mamma Said," ?Mary Bailey. Recitation, "Dolly's Lesson"? MozeUe Wilson., Thanksgiving Hymn?The Young' Ladies. (Piano, Miss Mary Sue Tindall) Recitation, "Thanksgiving Day" ?Miss Edna Maurer. Music, "Melody of Love"?Miss Mary Sue Tindall. Play, "What' Happened to the Turkey"?The Juniors. Chorus, "Whittier's Corn Song." Music, "Shower of Rubies," J. Prosiner?Miss Andrena Moran. Play,' "Make Believe Puritans." Characters, Mother, Miss Susie La nier; Bessie, Miss Marie L. Bult man; Jqsie, Miss Mary Sue Tin dall; Clara, Miss Audrey Schwerin; Tom, Miss Pearl Barry. Music, "Chapel in the Hills"? Miss Mabel Crcmbe! ~ Thankful for the Flag ? The Academy. - ? o ? ? ' ' Xunnamaker-Goldsmith. A wedding of unus.jal interest to j the friends of the contracting par- j ties was that which took place at S o'clock Thanksgiving morning at the hcme of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Xunnamaker, when their oldest daughter, George Bonnetta, -was united in marriftge to t Charles Horner Goldsmith of Greenville, S. C. The Rev. J. B. Derrick, pastor of the bride offi ciated, using the beautiful ring ceremony of the Lutheran church. In the living room where the marriage took place, the decora- j1 tions consisted of smilax, Spanish 1 moss and chrysanthemums. In one ' corner of the room in front of a green background had beert arrang ed an arbor of smilax, with an arched front artistically draped with moss and outlined with hun dreds of white chrysanthemums, i while yellow chrysanthemums studded the background of ferns and smilax. Under this beautiful arch, in the presence of relatives 1 of the contracting parties with doz- j ens of pink tapers winking know ingly, this happy couple plighted their troth. The guests were then invited into I the dining room where an ele- j ; gant wedding breakfast was served, j1 The bride wore a brown creation : ! with accessories to match. Mrs. Goldsmith is a trained nurse, having graduated from Ro per Hospital two years ago. Her sweet disposition has won for her i many friends who regret that her marriage takes her away from I them, but they shower her with 1 love and best wishes in her future i home. , ' Mr. Goldsmith is prominent in ? the business circles of Greenville, and is assistant cashier of the ; Woodside National Bank of that city. * The pretty display of cut glass, silver and numerous other presents ' including a substantial check from < the groom's mother attests the \ popularity of this couple. ; The bride and groom left on the ' 9:30 train for Charleston. Savan nah and other points on their hon- ' eymoon after which they will be at home to their friends at 434 Bun- < combe Street, Greenville, S. C. j ? Death. Mrs. John R. Brunson died at ;, her home at 3 o'clock Friday j morning, following an illness of two weeks with phenumonia. ; She was in her 5 9th year and died on the day of her 41st wedding : Anniversary. The funeral will be held at the Zoar burying ground at 10:30 Sat- i urday morning. Surviving her are her husband and eleven children, six girls and ' five boys. Before her marriage she was Miss Susan E. Mitchel. She was a loving wife and a devoted mother. To guide pilots flying on the Par- < is to London route, the French Gov ernment is placing captive balloons in certain positions at a height of about a mile. Camden Wins (Jame From Sumter High Visitors Score Four Touch downs on Local School Team in Thanksgiving Game In the Thanksgiving football game played at the fair grounds at noon yesterday, between the j high school teams of Camden and Sumter, the visitors inflicted a 28 to 0 score defeat upon the local high school team. Sumter's school team was incapable of competing with the speed shown by the Camden* squad, and in spite of all that could be done was apparently absolutely powerless to prevent the j making of the four touchdowns by Camden. The starting of the game bid fair .to be at least interesting, neither of teams gaining their first downs and being forced to resort to the toeing of the ball. Hall, of Camden, however, soon put the quietus on this procedure of ball transference when he got through Sumter's en tire squad after receiving Sumter's punt. Hall was tackled by Wright, safety man for Sumter, on the 8 yard line after he had brought the ball '75 yards upfield. Camden's completed forward pass Kirkland to Hayes landed the first touchdown of the game and in a way gave an index then to the victorious team. Kirkland kicked goal each of his four out of four cha~.?es. The second quarter of the game was the only one in wh .ch no seore was made. Hale landed Camden's second touchdown in the third quarter and Kirkiand and Rhame each got credit for one touchdown during the fourth quarter. Sum ter played hopeful during sparce intervals but Camden has the de cided edge on the Sumter team. Sumter's men probably doing the j best work were Rivers, Wheeler, Kirvin and Wright. Witherspoon was substituted for Wheeler in third quarter. ? Camden Position Sumter Kirkland _. __ __ _. ..Wheeler FuUback. Haynes __ ._ _. __ Blanding j Right Half. Hall. Wright Left Half Whitaker -- _.Crombe Quarter Back Burnett_.Kirvin. M. ! Center Mills-.Pitts Right Guard DuBose -. .. .. .. Dick Left Guard Rush.-.Dwyer Left Tackle Schlosburg __ ._ _J ._ Brunson Right Tackle * Evans._.Rivers Left End Boykin.Kirvin, C." ? . Right End Substitutes: Camden: Rhame, Wopten, Fouts, Lollis and McKam. j Officials: Burns, Referee; Cobb> j Camden, Umpire; Spann, Head Linesman; and Brown,-Time. Cotton in Sumter County Total Ginnings to November 14th 17,791 There was an error in the cotton ginners' report ror Sumter county issued by the censua bureau, for ginnings as of November 14th. The published report credited Sumter county with more than 18,000 bales. The correct figures are 17,791 bales. This report compares with 41,649 for the same date 1920. The re port this year includes cotton gin ned in the Pinewood section which was included in Clarendon county in. 1920. The Pinewood section ginned approximately 2,000 bales this year, therefore a correct com parison for Sumter county on this basis of last year would be 15,791 compared with 41,649. Residence and Store Destroyed by Fire. A single story dwelling house and adjoining store building situated on the corner of Dingle street and Salem Avenue was destroyed by fire Saturday morning. The build ings were the property of Mr. R. L. Scurry, the store being occupied by Mr. Tom Jones who was oper ating a small meat market. The lire was discovered by Mr. Scurry'at about 2:30 a. m., when he was awakened by the falling of a portion of the roof of the house. The entire roof was even then ablaze. Mr. Scurry says* that by the time he had succeeded in awakening his family that one means of escaping from the house was blocked by the flames and that he was forced to go around through the hallway and out by the back door. One of the little boys was the last to be gotten of the house and this little fellow narrowly es caped being burned. The burning buildings were too far gone to be redeemed from the flames after the arrival of the fire department but the house of Mr. J. B. White, next door to the resi dence of Mr. Scurry, was saved. The roof of Mr. White's house had caught but the flames were soon extinguished. Two lines of hose were used in connection with the pump on Truck No. 1, and a very I < t;ood water pressure was obtained j ] from the hydrant on the corner of ( Salem and Oakland Avenues. < The property <<f Mr. Scurry was ! ( valued at $8,000. insurance was j i carried covering $5,000 losses. j< Backward, turn backward, O, Time in your flight, and teach all the nations why they shouldn't fight. Some people say. "Give us this lay our daily bread." and then sit down to wait for it. The moon is reported 12 miles ahead of schedule and so are other high things. Robert Quillen's Confession Well Known Newspaper Man Says He Will Work For the Lord Hereafter One of the most unusual state ments that ever appeared in a newspaper is the following from a recent issue of the Fountain Inn Tribune, published at Fountain Inn. in Greenville county, Whose editor. Robert Quillen is the author of "Small Town Talk" in the Sat urday Evening Post: "Of all hard' jobs in the world, that of making a public confession is the hardest. But if it is the o^ly square thing to do, it must be CLne. This, therefore, is an open letter to the young fellows of Foun tain Inn?the 'good fellows' the fel lows I love and loaf with at times ?the fellows I have taken drinks with and fellowshipped with. "All this while I have been a member of the church?just that and'nothing more. And when my conscience bothered me about tak ing a drink when I could get it. 11 said to myself: "Why, I am a lib eral supporter of the church; I pay the tithe; I am a gentleman and a man of intelligence; there's no harm in my taking a drink, when I want it, for I can handle it." "I said* that, but I was a liar. And while posing as a church mem ber and a follower of Christ and yet reserving the right to take a drink at my pleasure I was consid erably lower down than a snake's belly. "This is a bitter dose to swallow, fellows, but I had it coming to me. And if my conduct has led any of you to believe that a man can re tain his honor while carrying water on both shoulders, I want to make it clear that it's an impossibility. "I'm through. Tn\ 34 years of age, and have never struck a lick ror my Lord." From now on I am His, to use as He thinks best and I'll stick to Him if it costs me every thing I have and every friend I have. "I'm ashamed, fellows. Forgive I me for not having been square. "Robert Quillen." ? ? ? -- Treasure Hunting Many- Stories of Hidden j ^Wealth in South Sea Islands Papeete, Tahiti, Oct. 11.? (By Mail)?The year 1921 has been the open season for treasure hunting in the islands. Every month <ir so a .report that the vast ; treasure (alleged to have been buried some Sixty .years ago) on. the Island of Pinaki had at last been located, has induced a new company of ad venturous - Papeete capitalists to equip"a fresh expedition only to ret?rn? wi^-n^thing^<mqre than a goodly coat of sunburn and back aching from the strenuous exer cise of digging for weeks in the blistering coral sand.^r ' Then, early in.~the year, fame the yacht "Genesee" from N:?w York in search" of a grea^ treasure of goj^said to have been left on the island of Tupai-M?nu, in the jfifesterict Societies, by the German Pacific squadron. when they were fleeing from,the pursuing British and Japanese fleets in lHl-r Much real estate on Tupal-Mam; flew ;n to the firmament, on that occasion, under the action of good* charges pf dynamite; but the "Gene*ee" sail ed away leaving the treasure to b-j discovered by a' future explorer. And now there is the story of a new treasure. The -ta'^ is, that about fifty years.ago a Chilian, .vir mip deposited on the island of Moorea (the island close by Ta hiti) a treasure of gold belonging to the Chilian government ?jf that Lime?as a measure to keep it fron falling into the hands of a flrong revolutionary party. / The revolu :ion must have been successful; for none returned to take away the ?old. the story runs. Years after cvard. however, the Protestant mis sionary at Moorea received a letter from a priest in Chile enclosing an >utline drawing easily recognized as the outline of the mount-.in peaks about Opunohy Bay in Moorea, \ isking for information of the loca tion of the island so represented, ind stating that he had knowledge Df a treasure buried there* The missionary having visions of iin ?oldly adventurers corrupting his flock decided to tear up tr.2 letter md drawing w!*hout dispatching the answer. Nothing more was heard of the iffair until a month ago when a stranger arrived in the island bear ng charts and drawings which, be claimed, would lead him to the treasure. Report from Moorea state tn.it, xt the place indicated on his ch^rt. m digging down, he cam-t upon a concrete slab and great was iJie ex citement until the slab w??s broken through and a cavity, about three ! eet in depth, was disclosed contain- j ng absolutely nothing. The seek- j f?r is. however, hopeful and is hard j nt work digging and sounding in the valleys about the bay. All Trades Represented. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 19.? \ Daughters of bankers, farmers, j clergymen, horseshoers. doctors, j fish dealers, plumbers and paint- j ?rs, are included among the stu?- j ?ents at Radcliffe college. A re sent "parents' census" developed the fact that 151 trades and profes dons were represented by the . fathers of the young women. In addition mothers were found to be ' ?ngaged in 14 professions or occu pations. ^ ^ # Notice was received that the j nomination of Mr. T. S. Boar for ! p03tmaster was confirmed by the ! senate on the 17th of this month, rhere is only some slight formali ties of a. bonding arrangement be ing made before Mr. Dear receives his commission. Capt. F. W. Wagener | Passes Away Head of Charleston Wholesale j Business and Proprietor of j the Pine Forest Inn _ \ Charleston, Nov. 26. ? Capt. I Frederick W. Wagener, for many years head of the important whole sale grocery establishment of F. W. Wagener & Co., died yesterday morning at his residence, Broad and Orange streets. Although he had been critically ill for more than a veek the end came suddenly. His funeral services will be held to- j morrow, the time and place to be announced. During the War Between the States he was lieutenant, and later captain, of the German Artillery, serving in the Confederate army for four years and four months, receiv ing his parole, which is in the cor nerstone of the memorial to the survivors of Charleston companies, adjacent to Bethany Cemetery. I.i the earlier part of the war he serv ed under his distinguished brother, Gen. John A. Wagener, who was elected mayor of Charleston in 1871, and who died in Walhalla August 27, 1875. ?? Capt. Wagener was born near Bremerhaven, Germany. October 29, 1832, his eighty-ninth birthday anniversary having been quietly ob served less than a month ago. Un til quite recently Capt.*'Wagener was unusuaUy active for his years and was on duty in his East Bay office practically every day, dis playing a marked interest in the affairs of F. W. Wagener & Co. He was looking forward to the re opening of the Pine Forest Inn, ?Summerville, of which for more than twenty years he was pro prietor. At the age of sixteen years, in 1848, Capt. Wagener came to Charleston by way of New York, his brother. Gen. Wagener, being already in business here. After be ing a clerk in a business establish ment for some time he became owner of his own retail business, which prospered until the outbreak of the War Bewteen the States, when ? Capt. Wagener went into service of the Confederacy with the German Artillery, the record of which iri that conflict was high. After the war he returned to Charleston, having been paroled, and began the upbuilding of the concern latterly known as F. W. Wagener & Co., one of the chief wholesale establishments in the south. For forty-three years his nephew, Mr. Julius D. Koster, was closely associated with him in the business from 1877 to his death, about eighteen months ago. Although for many years active in the business and civic life of Charleston, Capt. Wagener never offered for political office, though several times he was pressed to be come a candidate- for mayor, and he never held place on any of the city boards or commissions, holding that he wanted to take his* part in the community's affairs, but that he. did not care to hold any political office. . ? - ? ? ? Chinese Province Make Place Too Kot for Governor. Peking, Oct. 20?(By maiT)? Opposition by the people of the province of Anhwei to their new Civil Governor has caused that offi cial to go into sudden retirement af ter only three days in office, ac cording to official reports received in Peking from the capital of the province. , Objection of the Anhwei people to the new Governor, one Li Shao-. chen, was due to his great age and the fact that Li has,- in the past,' been connected with the pro-Jap-' anese Anfu party. So the students, gentry and merchants of" Anhwei arranged for a reception committee which was to give LKa warm wel come on his arrival at Anking on September 20. Li, however, got advance word of the welcome that was being plan ned for him and so travelled to An king, the provincial capital, on a gunboat. He was landed at a point below the town with a strong body- 1 guard and, entering the city ? through a little used gate, reached | his official residence while the "re ception committee" was still wait ing at the regular landing stage and wondering why he didn't arrive. It is learned here, however, that the reception for Governor, or ex Governor, Li was postponed, but not cancelled, and that on Septem ber 23 the aged official departed , for places unknown because the!' reins of government in Anhwei got v too hot for him to handle. < Peking is now looking for anoth- < er Civil Governor to send to An-|} king, and this time, it is said, thej< Government will first consult the M people of Anhwei. !< Large Educational Program in the J Philippines. < ? Manila. P. I., Sept. 30 (By Mail* < ?The director of education for the J Philippine Islands, Luther B. Bew- , ley. has prepared an estimate < which will be placed before the;J coming session of the legislation in October, asking for an appropria tidn of $4,2f>(KOO0 for the public j schools in 1922. This sum added to the allotment i of $4.000,000 covering a period of five years, makes a total of $S,250.- \ 000 asked for public education in 1922, exclusive of the appropria- j tion for the University of the Phil- j ippines and its provincial colleges, j Director Bewely says it is desir- j ed to employ more American I teachers, to increase the salaries of! j Filipino teachers, to establish more special schools and to construct ad ditional school buildings. ? ? ? The court of common pleas ad journed shortly before noon this morning after its second week's ses sion. The < ase of Clifton Fay vs. the A. C. L R. R. Co.,, which was placed in the hands of the jury yes terday resulted in a mistrial. The jury remained in deliberation from 5:30 yesterday afternoon until 9:30 this morning with no apparent pos sibility of reaching agreement. Momentous Colorado River Conference Over 3,000 Organizations To| Be Represented at River- I side, CaL I Riverside, CaL, Nov. 24?One of the most momentous Colorado River conferences ever held, inter- j national in its scope, will open here j December 8 for a three day session j under auspices of the League of the ? Southwest. Over three thousand organizations in Arizona, Califor- j nia, Colorado, Nevada. New Mex ico, Utah, Oklahoma and Texas will j be represented and governors of all above states have promised to at- \ tend, according to Arnold Kr?ck--j man, secretary of the league. Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, has provisionally ac cepted an invitation to participate, and O. C. Merrill, of the Federal Power Commission will speak. Albert B.' Fall, secretary of the interior, and Arthur P. Davis, sec retary of the reclamation service have signified their intention to at tend. Canada will be represented by > Sir Adam Beck of the Hydro-Elec- j trie Corporation of Ontario, Cana- I da, the public power development on Niagara Falls which furnishes j light and power to almost three ; hundred communities. President Obregon of Mexico has been invit I ed to send representatives, and the [ governor of Sonora and Lower Cal \ ifornia, Mexican states, have been ! invited. The Water Power League of I America will be represented by its j I secretary, Frederick L. Long, of | New York. The power industry will be represented by Samuel In sull, president' of the Common wealth, Edison and Peoples' Gas Company of Chicago. The American Mining Congress has organized a delegation com posed of W. J. Loring, San Fran cisco; Bukeley Wells, Denver; R. S. Billings, Kingman, Ariz.; George Dern, Salt Lake City, and Govern or Emmet D. Boyle, Reno, Nevada. The St. Louis Chamber of Com merce will send a delegation rep resenting the Mississippi Valley, and the Chicago Chamber of Com merce will send a delegation from the Great Lakes region. Other or ganizations of prominence to send delegates include the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the National Agricultural Society, the Farm Bureau' Federation," the Farmers' Educational and Coop erative Union; the Farmers' Nat ional Congress, the National Board of- Farm Organizations, the Nat ional Civic Federation, the Ameri can Society of Civil Engineers, the f National Economic League, the; National Electric Light Association, the American Institute of Electri- j cal Engineers, the United Engineer- ? ing Society, the National Associa- i tion of Manufacturers, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the 1 Mining and Metallurgical Society, the American Institute of Mining Engineers and other organizations. ? ? ? Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 24.?A world's record in gunnery was. es tablished by the. gun crew of turret No. 4 of the IT. S. S. New Mexico, in practice off the harbor here, ac-. cording to officers of the flagship. In short range director practice five shots were fired from three four teen-inch guns of the turret No. 4 in | one minute and 38 seconds, all di rector hits at 6,000 yards. The pre- j vious record was one minute and 42 seconds. Another- shining example of marksmanship was seventeen out of twenty direct hits at 6,000 yards. Lieutenant Lyle Morgan is com mander of the record gun crew and Ensign Atherton McCombray, sec ond in command. ? According to the law, the sum of $500 has been deposited with the clerk of court defray the neces sary expenses connected with the proposed survey and cost of. elec tion'in the matter of the 35 square miles of territory recently voted into Sumter county and now want ing to go back into Clarendon county. French Fall Fashions Black Retains Supremacy Over Colors?Corsets Still in Discard Paris, Nov. 23.?Black remains supreme in the fashion world of Paris. Despite a severe onslaught by advocates of cojor, the supreme council of style has been forced, to retain the conventional black as the dominant motif of all fall and winter modes and there is every in dication that colors, except in mi nor trimming effects, will not be able to challenge black until late spring. Adopted at a time when econ omy was the guiding idea of-all feminine purchases, black has come; to be regarded as the moat becom ing color. French women say it alone in lending itself to striking^ effects. Dressmakers quietly gathered tSM gether before fall and winter mod4H| els were given to the world. shdsg] tacitly agreed that colors shouldl? have a chance. The adoption of black was hurting them financial-^ ly. One black gown, carefully se-^;" lected, took the place of two or three dresses of different colors. But the French women who are? indicators of the newest develop-.? ments in style, said a very emphatic W "No." The demand this fall was J, for black and the big dressmakers J bowed to the inevitable. Crepi* 4 Morrocan, velvetine. and perllaine \ are the most popular materials. The corset makers however have been slightly more successful in their efforts to bring the corset back into its own. Dressmakers are insisting that corsets are now \ necessary- to give' the "uncprseted look." This propaganda has suc ceeded in some instances but most French women, having fought and won their freedom, are loath in the language of a famous French ac tress, "to jail their bodies again." There are four definite features of the fall and winter modes: a very long waist line, longer circular ? skirts with full sides, eccentric sleeves of gay colors and the fa- " mous Bateau neck line. ?rick red has been used exten sively as trimming and some green steel ornaments for hats, purses, dresses and even shoes are the newest thing in novelties. Door knobs and nail head effects are used in making girdles. In**1 the case of shoes the usual order of things has been reversed and the smartest shoes in Paris are "knick erbocker' shoes, with large .steel buckles. ? a These shoes look -more Hke American shoes than anything ever before worn by French women, al though the French last is retained. The short stubby toe has disappear ed in stylish French footwear. Black again dominates in bats, felt being the best liked materials. Crowns are. much higher and the fall hats are so big that they in terfere with dancing. Smaller hats - will be worn with fur coats later in the season. Circular earrings, usuaUy a cir cle of jet or ebony within a larger circle, are worn by the best dressed women this fall.'- Novelty shops cannot make them fast enough. Some wo nie?, wear very large ones, almost canibalistic in effect. Gay color has:its only opportun ity in evening gowns for young girls. These are made in the brightest of colors but the evening dresses worn by their mothers and older relatives arc black. The Em pire period has given the inspira tion for the youthful evening dress es this year, making wearers look like venerated ancestors. The skirts are large, fuU with hips ex tended. The friends of Judge Thomas E. Richardson are rejoiced by the news of his continued improvement and hope that he wlil soon be able to leave the hospital where he has been confined for several weeks and be about his work'again. Each female salmon yields ap proximately 3,500 eggs each year. ? The National Bank of South Carolina ; OFSUMTER,S. C. ? ? 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