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(S[nstifeasFor Disabled Soldiers GjaeeayiUe Chamber of Com l iiecce Asks Help For Men at Camp Sevier ? vThe ttreenville Chamber /of Com- ] merce has requested the Sumter; Chamber of Qoxnmerce to collect j ISS'. as Sumter's contribution to-1 weirds- giving every one of the 55" | djsafc/ied service men of the World j at the Vnked States Public j Hospital at Camp Sevier, j a Christmas present. " ? Manager Samuel O'Qu inn ; aid 'Secretary Reardon have agreed j t?- *ecve as a committee to receive; /any- money contributed for tliis: purpose by any citizen of; ?&4htffer or Sumter county, and if j 'tiiere.is any money in excess of] ihe $23 asked for. City Manager fc'^uinn will deposit this excess tc I : ti?ft credit . of the committee in j charge ?< of the -annual Christmas j :twCftf*-the poor. This is a small | >ask of any community to appreciation of the sacri- j taaie by more than a half j id heroes who are far away jfcj^WE hoane and loved ones. ' fciire are the Sumter commit-j tarnen that Sumter will gladly j o^afe up to the^scratch in this! ?*M?en*aye attempt to show, at! ?5eittft m a small measure our love I *5&;vAtfr 'gratitude to those who; 'j?Cfr?iead; and now suffer for their j country's ? sake?that, these two \ ^?niKeeinen are going to leave 1 : l&^i&atter of contributions entire ??; 4*. a "volunteer gift and all who; Mish - to contribute are asked to j i^ive their money with or sena j ASfefir' checks to either Messr*. j '<Jr%uinn ?r Reardon, at City Hall | btuHiing . or Chlmber of Com- i ^aetce. "Every subscriber's name; bev sent to the ladies commit- | ^^'ef'-Greenville who will see that disabled veterans know who |(|K??j?i?hed the. wherewithal!- to ..fSt^"-''theA'-. that their state and .^tiafety remembers them on Christ- \ ^laSfei &Jy. ..1921. The committee ? if?ii' accept any, amount, however ; Vfekll ;tt may be, and will not turn I any .?arge contribution1*, for i j# harming any one's feelings. ^oO.owifiS copy of the -Green Chamber of Commerce letter Sumter Chamber of Com -.19 pab?shed in part for-in i o?-the public: other civic organizations, | ^planning a 'Merry Chistmas* I ierfiye. hundred and fifty dis- ; /service men al the United i "Public Health "Service Hos- ? trWho are at Camp Sevier. i ^afbfc. heroes represent many- j !A<- large number being from j viexnty, therefore, we are .'.ye1*,to join hands with us i^ those boys a thought of j s jiianned to give each boy a alued at not less than two j t'.such as. flashlights, knives, I sjeniefs, candy, and other ap Lte ^ifts. This money will be in tiie-hands of a commit -Greenville ladies by the' tville Chamber of Commerce, L- these.. ladies have agreed to^ jofte It economically and wisely in .^^?j^par?fioo of the Christmas 'Wmp&t each man., We will see $SpJt .each package is given the "?j?a* of the contributors. Please nave your city's check by iS^rnber l&th, if possible. r "Yours truly, ;VGreenville "Chamber . of Com merce, ^by; R. Timmpns, Secre WATS0N MAKES r MORE CHARGES : '..Washington, Dec. 6?Further cfcarges of irregularity in the con ff?kt, <>t <?qnor raids in Savannah ?w&3h were 'filed today by Senator Watson against General Prohibi jufcttr Aigen* Henson are to be inves-j $$&ted- by- the International Rev Sirtie iRsuvesau, Commissioner Blair announced. X 'J ' /?- ? ! ??i oo Sweet Potato Syrup Rc v > % sawed at Georgia Plant. :^K^Fork is progressing favorably in j f^nectlon. with the development ? ' commercial possibilities of k ^yrtreet-potato syrup, under t^e j recti?h- ef, the Bureau of Chem- i ?fitty of the United States depart- \ it of agriculture. A method of j a> satisfactory syrup from j . _>hi$ and cull sweet potatoes I ^?s'worked out some time ago in Chelaboratories at Washington. A <jtaaU experimental plant was erect- | at. Fitzgerald, Ga., last spring. ! ^^re' S,W3b gallons were made and later distributed among syrup j ?Annfacturers. confestioners. bak-J 4f?^r; Wholesale jobbers, extension ?ctbrs, and others likely to be in ?stej? "in ^the project. Certain ti?riges' in the process to improve ^e^?ua'lity and flavor of the syrup j?vev'been made. The plant at Serahi is being equipped with onaj machinery to embody Crange? and operations are resumed. jif/j^e^^ebrhmercial possibilities of /new isyrup have not yet been '/deter?iined, but the local peo verj' enthusiastic about the ^?ftj|i?Ct. -Sweet potato syrup is of ?^^est to*candy makers, blenders, Ubakers, and also appeals to le^as'a fe-ble syrup. If the cost *%t .production can be kept surh ^^ritly low, sweet potato syrup will probably prevent the waste of large $iantitfes of sweet potatoes which Unsuitable for market. I AH tobacco growers who wish tj> join the South Carolina Tobacco ?fowers' Cooperative Tobacco Mar tttfng Association are requested to . ?3 their names to the Secretary <$t^h> Chamber of Commerce. E. I. Reardon. who will forward to them t?e. necessary blank membership application forms. V ?. .. ? ? ? Nations didn't leam to play their cards face up until they were hard ?|Fhiie* hew dances may not iroad'en the feet thev often thicken (He. head. "The Woman Rice Planter" ?Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Pringle, Noted Author at Georgetown Georgetown, Dec.. 5.?News was received from Plantersviile early today that Mrs. Elizabeth W. AH \ ston Pringle had passed away at j the plantation home, "Chicora Wood," on the Pee Dee river at j >1:30 o'clock this morning. She was j I XG years of age. Her brother, Charles Petigru Allsten, of Wind sor plantation on Black River was at the bedside, as was Mrs. G. G. j Ford, whq, for the past few weeks has been her constant companion, ministering lovingly to her needs. Mrs. Pringle, whose extraordinary personality has carried her to fame j and influence far beyond the bor- 1 ders of her native county, has been I I a power for good during many long \ years in the community in which j I she lived an-d worked so faithfully! i and courageously. On the death of ; her distinguished husband, John J Julius Pringle, shs assumed the ! arduous management of extensive 1 rice planting interest?, which she j carried on against heavy odds in i the period following the Cenfeder* I ate war. In her book, "A Woman I Rice Planter," written under the ! pen name, of "Patience Penning j ton," Mrs. Pringle vividly portray ; ed the incidents that made up her I own life on the plantation. She i has recently completed another I book Of reminiscences, ready fpr .the publisher, which she had heped to see in print before she died. Realizing that the end was near, \ Mrs. Pringle sent Friday for her j i pastor, the Rev. J. E. H. Galbraith. j I and Bishop Guerry who chanced i j to be here in attendance on the ! bicentennial of Prince George par \ ish, visited her Saturday. Mrs. Pringle was one of the re | gents of the Mount Vernon asso ' ciation and only recently returned I from that shrine on the banks of the Potomac, where as usual she j was the center of affectionate soli citude and regard on the part of j her associates. She died, at the j \ scene of her life's labors in the I beautiful home overlooking the riv er, etuietly and peacefully. She was j a true and devoted Christian, a ; communicant of Prince Frederick's i church and in that parish her help j and influence has been of inesti | mabic value. The funeral services j ! were held Monday afternoon at 4. o'clock at the Church of Prince Frederick's, conducted by the rec tor, the Rev. J. E. H. Galbraith. The remains, were brought to Georgetown and rest in the Prince George Winyah ? church Monday night and Tuesday morning will be taken to Tuxbury station on the Seaboard Air Lir.e railroad, from whence they will be cenveyed to j Magnolia cemetery, where the in i terment will take place, Bishop I Guerry conducting the services. Better Mail Service i The Public Can Do Much To i ? ... Insure GGod Service j The Sumter Chamber of Com i merce has been requested to assist I in the campaign for quicker and more efficient dispatching of mail by urging all patrons of the Sum ter postoffice. the business and pro I fessional establishments in par j ticular, to mail their letters early I and often as possible each day, and ; to put as many letters in the post ! office as possible ewry day and j mail them there as early as pos ! sible. Putting of thousands of letters in j the pcrtoffice. or mail boxes by j many business houses late? in the j evening or mailing many letters :on the trains interferes seripusuly j with the rapid dispatch of mail in I several ways and unnecessarily 1 hastens the work of mail clerks in J the postorfice and on the mail ! trains. Quick dispatch, without er | rorr; in transmission is the real ob j ject in seeking the cooperation of I the public. If letters are mailed in the Sum 1 ter postoffice during the day there I is ample time to work up these Izi : ters and to distribute th-.m in pack> | ages for the hundreds of cities and ! towns to which they are addressed. ! If thousands are mailed late in the i evening there is congestion and j missing of trains. This relieves the railway postal clerks of the trouble : of working tins mail over and tie ling the thousands of letters for ; hundreds of different cities and j towns, and gives the mailing clerks j in the Sumter postoffice time and j [opportunity to do their work with i more accuracy and insure the 1 prompt delivery of every letter to J the addressee at the proper desti- ] . nation. If you want your letters ! I to go off on the first train, say the 1 afternoon trains, then put them in j early as you can in the day and ! do not wait until night to deposit. I them in a mail box after the even- ! j ing mail box collection has been I ! made or after the evening or after noon trains have departed. Drop in your letters as you go to dinner; if you have a number ready for i mailing?don't hold letters that j could so off on the afternoon or: i evening trains until late at night. Early mailing of Christmas pack- j ages, plainly and correctly ad- 1 dressed, with th<> names of the senders also legibly written there on, with their street and house number er lt. f. d. address will in sure delivery in time for Christmas, and will at the same time relieve a terrible burden on the overwork ed postoffice forces and mail car riers. - ! A man often takes a Kivl for an angel because she dresses like one. j This disarming means a good deal if a square deal: if not, a new deal. That philosopher who says all hu man creatures have their ups and downs doesnt know much about taxes. Building Up An Industry j Young Men's Business League j Doing Effective Work For Creamery Some weeks ago there was a j conference between a committee: from the Young Men's Business; League and the officials of the Sumter Creamery Company. As a result of the publicity that follow ed, the creamery has had offered j to it a considerably larger quantity of cream than it was getting be- j fore, and it is taking all that is offered. The creamery, however, is not getting near the amount that it can handle and it is calling for more and more cream. The League is working again to call to the at tention of all owners of cows the fact that the creamery is in the market for cream and will be glad to buy. The creamery is now selling j around 400 pounds of butter each j week. A little figuring will show how much money is being kept at home that used to go out for this eatable. It can sell mdre, and more money can be kept at home. When it makes enough to supply the home demand and also to send but- i ter off, then there will not only be j a prevention . of outgo, but there will be new money coming in: something very much needed these days. , Th? League would like to have all the help it can get in upbuild ing the cream and butter market, and t'o that end asks the aid of all: mention to the farm owners and to other milk- producers that the creamery will buy their cream. -0 jap Who Won the War? (Hartford, Conn. Courant.) Who won the war .' It begins to ! look as though Germany had won j it. after all, and that she has some ! mighty potent allies here at home, j If the pace is kept up two years I longer, she will have captured the ! markets of the world?those of (America included. .list how long I she can keep on paying her work j men in currency that is internat ' ionally worthless and underselling ! the rest of the world in their own I markets nobody knows. The facts are that she is doing it, and that's : the answer. Those persons m-ys ! teriously referred to as "the great I American .banking interests" tell I us we must shut up shop and buy I German manufactured goods, so j that Germany may pay her in j demnity. Beaten on the battlefield, j our foes win in the marketplace! Free trade England has *no il :' lusions on the subject. The British are a practical people: they wor ship no economic fetiches. In an swer to the German invasion they have promptly put a protective j tariff upon about 6,000 individual ? articles, with rates ranging from j 50 to 200 per cent, higher than i those in the Underwood bill. As j Senator McLean told the Demo ! cratic senators the other day, j "Great Britain has taken this ac ; tion for a purpose. She has taken j it in order to save her industrial i Hfe. and she knows when her in ! dustrial life is at stake. Whether I we know when ours is at stake, I do not know, but it is time we did ; know." Why talk vaguely about "other i nations" when the American valu t ation plan of the Fordr.cy tariff bill I is assailed? Everybody knows just who is meant. Everybody knows \ that America*? shelves are being I flooded with German made goods, j with the "Made in Germany" left j off. Everybody knows that our j factories are on short time, and ! our workmen walking- the streets, j But what everybody does not know ? yet, is that Germany and the Unit ; ed States are now on a practical , free-trade basis. Why? Because i her marks are worth next to noth I ing and our tariff is levied upon a ; mark-valuation. Such a tariff is j next to no tariff at all. The ?mer j ican valuation plan would substi j tute the dollar-valuation for the ! mark-valuation. The Simon-pure ; free traders were driven to cover in this country years ago by the re morseless logic of facts. They now masquerade in a depreciated for I eign currency and try to slip in at j the side door. Come out into the ; open, gentlemen! I During the war people blew out I their checks and talked bravely \ about boycotting German goods [when the war was over. They ; now pocket their profits and give j Germany the place of commercial honor. 'Tis the jingle of the guinea! Because of the grotesque I variations in exchange rates, Ger I many enjoys practically free-trade with us, Italy pays a small duty, France more, England a respec table amount, and Switzerland practically in full. We are now living under a tariff, preferential in favor of Germany. The Ameri can valuation plan would treat all nations alike. It operates just like a specific duty. It is synonomous with a square deal. Our local contemporary chides us gently for adopting the slogan. "America First," and delicately suggests that Uncle Sam 'cannot hog tho wealth of the world' and warns him that, if he tries it, he "should eventually suffer the fate that commonly comes to hogs." We are duly reproved. Down must come our colors. but it hurts mightily to be told to hoist in their stead the slogan, "Germany First. Balfour, the English diplomat, is unmarried, so we don't know how he learned his trade. -? ?? -?? As the wartime offenders are say ing i?. President Harding. "We b<>g your pardon, sir." Bcnjamirf Franklin got his start ns a writer Knocking the styles we claim we want back. lf a reduction of taxes is the main object sought, why noi scrap a few of our merchant ships as well? Develop Hog Industry Many Counties Do Not Pro duce Enough Meat For Rural Population Clemson College. Dec. 2.? Twenty-seven counties in South Carolina are not producing suffici ent pork to feed even their rural population, according to the animal husbandrymeh of Clemson College, who are urging the conservative development of the hp.g industry in this statG. as farm conditions will justify, as the meat bill is one of the biggest items in the grocery bill of the average South Carolina fam ily. Four hogs averaging 150 pounds each will supply pork for the average family of five. The farm should produce this pork supply. All feeds for hogs, save pessiMy a little taxkage, should be home grown. It takes approximately ten bushels of corn and sixty pounds of tankage to produce a 150-pound pig. If the average family requires four hogs, then it will take forty b.ushcls of corn and 240 pounds of tankage to produce these hogs. If buttermilk, soy bean pasture, rape pasture, or corn and velvet bean pasture is available, it will not be necessary to buy tankage. A splen did way to fatten hogs is to turn them on corn and velvet beans and let the hogs do the harvesting. Good Pastures Help Greatly. Good pastures are absolutely necessary for economical pork pro duction in South Carolina, and it has been thoroughly -demonstrated that good pastures will save about two-fifths of the g-raiy. ration. One or twer acres of rape or rye for winter lecture, and access to Ber muda pasture for summer, will pro duce sufficient grazing for a brood sow and her litter. Sows are usually' bred so that they will farrow in March and Sep tember, allowing 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days for the gestation period. It is important to use only purebred boars, as this is the most economi cal way of improving the herd. Other facts and suggestions about the growing of livestock on the self supporting farm may be found in Extension Bulletin 4S. "Farming under Boll Weevil Condiitons", which may be had from county agents or from the Extension Ser vice, Clemson College. S. C. Presbyterian Progressive Program i _ j December promises to be a busy month with the Presbyterians in this community who are .carrying ' out the Presbyterian Progressive I Program. The month nas been [ set aside for Christian education, (.ministerial relief and a campaign j for enlisting tithers. By tithers is j meant those who give one-tenth ! or more of their income to the church. Last year, over 13,000 members were reported as tithers. The campaign will be conducted by the Laymen's Missionary Move ment during the week of Decemb i er 11-18. There are a large num ber of .these associations organiz ed, and where there is no organ ization, the pastors have been re quested to make the presentation ' of the cause. The Presbyterian Church is 'stressing the .needs for Christian I education, and has urged the or I ganization of a committee in each j church to secure at least one ! member who will take a pledge for life work for the church. In this connection, there has been established a student's loan fund, which has been most successful in aiding those vvho arc unable to secure a higher education other wise. The receipts for the general funds for Christian education and ; ministerial relief last year were j nearly $2150,000. Pastors will also be requested to point out the -duty of the t church in caring for aged minis [ ters and needy widows and or phans of deceased ministers. Re ceipts for the endowment fund for ministerial relief last year amounted to nearly $70,000. in 1 which is included the gift of the Graham Building in Jacksonville. Florida. The committee in charge of this work has arranged to issue life a.onunity. bonds which furnish an attractive form of investment. On Preparing Land For Cotton. Clemson College, Dec. 6.? Answering a question asked frequ ently by farmers nowadays. Prof. C. P. Blackwell, agronomist, makes I the following brief suggestions on preparing land for cotton. The best method for preparing land for cotton under boll weevil conditions is to plow under the stalks as soon as this year's crop has removed. This will aid materially in controlling the boll weevil, especially if a large plow with a weed chain or weed hook is used to turn under old stalks completely. Then plant rye. or rye and vetch, as a cover crop, which should be pfowed under in the spring early enough to give the ground time to settle considerably well before cotton planting time. Under no circumstances is it ad visable to burn cotton stalks. Burn ing is an extremely bad practice because it destroys large quantities of organic matter, and organic mat ter is one of the best things and most needed things in our soils. Just as good results will be obtain ed by plowing under the stalks so far as the boll weevil is concerned, and much better results so far a* building up the fertility of the land is concerned. Lincoln School Petition. The committee of the honorable Board of Education concerning the petition which was sent io them to relieve the congested condition in Lincoln Graded school. They stal ed that they regret very much thai ii is impossible to give us any re lief at all this year. (Signed) C. W. Maxwell, Chairman. P.e thankful you don't have to hove your picture made 365 days a year like Harding. More Stringent Bank Laws ______ The Attorney General Will Make Recommendation to Next Legislature Columbia, Dec. 5.?More strin ! ge,nt state banking laws, with heavy i penalties for violations, are to be ! recommended to the 3 022 legisla \ ture, which convenes in January, ! by Attorney General Sam M. Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe made public to j day the recommendations he will make to the legislature. Mr. Wolfe will also recommend j the creation of the office of chief I detective, to be an adjunct of the (attorney general's office, and to be j charged with the apprehension of I criminals. This would be the se I cret service branch of the state's I department of justice, j In a statement already prepared j for the legslature. Mr. Wolfe re fers to seven bank failures :n the state in the past year, four of the banks being regarded as among the strongest financial institutions of the state. He makes his recom mendations' in order to avert such I failures in future, the attorney gen-! era 1 says. j Mr. Wolfe will ask the legisla | ture to prohibit, by statute, any j state bank to lend at any time, to j persons or corporations, an amount ' in excess of ten per cent of its cap j ital stock and surplus. He will also ask laws to prohibit any state bank from issuing a cer tificate of deposit, except upon the receipt of the actual deposit of cash, to the face value of the de j posit certificate. [ The attorney general will further ] ask that it be made a legal require j ment for all state banks to main j tain a reserve balance in cash at all j times, amounting to not less than j seven per cent of its demands de f posits and not less than three per ! cent of its time and savings de j posits. j Further the attorney 'jeneral j would have it made legal for the ! state bank examiner to "investi | gate and ascertain the actual value i of any collateral security, liens, j mortgages, warehouse receipts j whatsoever, "held as security for ? any loans." ; Also the attorney general would ; have the state law require that j where state bank lends money to j any officer or director of the bank. ? the consent of the board of direc ! tors in writing be made a part of j the note. The attorney general will also j recommend that all public monies j deposited by county or state offi j cials be made trust funds anel a I preferred claim against the bank, j in the event of liquidation. I The attorney general would also ! empower the state bank examiner I to swear out warrants against ! bank officials or employes violat j Lng any of laws regulating state j banks. ! STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT TO MEET i - Columbia, Dec, 7.?The state highway department will meet in Columbia next Tuesday. Routine matters will be handled. The Rich land county highway commission and legislative delegation will go before the state commission to ask for more federal aid for the new system of roads being con structed in this county. The coun ty voted two million dollars worth of bonds. It has received fifty thousand in federal aid. The dele gation and the highway commis sion desire to get more, if it is avail able, and this must be done right away, if the aid is to be forthcom ing, for when the roads now be ing constructed aro completed, fed eral aid will not then be available. Unless more federal aid can be se cured, the entire roa.d program planned cannot be carried out. Richland county is paving all its main highways with hard-surface construction. ? ? o Christmas Conceit ISth. The McLeod-Wesley Bible Cla.--T of Trinity Methodist church has arranged with the best music talent in the city under the direction of Miss Louise Siddall to give a Christmas Concert in the church on the night of the ISth. There will be no admission charged but a silver offering will be taken up. This promises to eclipse anything ever attempted by local talent and from the talk heard on the street the church will be filled to the doors. Marriage License Record. Marriage licenses have bpen is sued to the following: Colored? Sam Ragin and Effie Conyers of Wedgefield. Tom Shuler and Mrs. Annie Campbell of Sumter. James Choice and Rosa Singleton of Horatio. Rev. J. Madison Cornell of Bethlehem, Bonn., and Luella Pet erson of Shiloh. John Dwyer and Rosa Lee Wa ters of Sumter. More Alford and Josephine Fr? ser of Sumter. George Geddings and Fannie Smith of Stateburg. Gary White and Liza Scott of Lynchburg. Dennis Myers, Jr., and Louise Yates of Camden. Hannabal Frasier of Alcolu and Bertha V. Gregg of Sumter. o- o ?> "Winter may come and winter may go, but skirts get shorter for ever. Society, Screen, Stage Mrs. Lydig Hoyi astounded New York society when she renouhcec a social career for the movies. She played in one film and then astbundec movie circles by deserting the screen. New the "why" comes out She is soon to be seen in a staire play. Bri<* Gen George W. r?ead and Mrs. Read have announced the en* ffaiement of their daughter. .Miss Margaret, to James Frederic St. David Maxwell Murphy, of Canada. Miss Read is*a social favorite in ^ash, ington, D. C j RECEPTIONS FOR MISS HOOD The Misses Williams Entertain. Misses Louise and Martha Wil liams were joint hostesess at a charming bridge party. Thursday afternoon, given in honor of Miss Bessie* Hood. Mrs. Pringle Brunson scored highest and received the prize, a : useful bridge score pad. while Mrs. ; L. II. Deas received the consolation. ' which proved to be a box of Ccty's ', face powder. Miss Hood was the recipient of I an exquisite piece of lingerie, given ; as an honor guest prize. Those enjoying the Misses Wil I Hams' hospitality were: Misses ; Bessie Hood. Grace Reynolds, Te i resa Chandler, Carolina Richard - j son. Elizabeth Ostcen, Vermelle i Pitts. Theo. Gregg. Mary Knight, ; Isidore Teicher, Mesdames Ray Fowler, L. H. Deas_Gus Sanders, j Graham Bowman. ?"'Pringle Brun ! son, J. Z. Ileaion. M. S. Boykin. ; Lucy Boykin, Paul Aughtrey, Rube I Skinner, E. S. Booth, Lilly Dorn, i and Robert Plowden. Mies. Earle Rowland Entertains. i On Friday afternoon the home \ of Mrs. C. G. Rowland, on Broad I street was a scene of loveliness, j when she and Mrs. Earle Rowland i entertained with a brilliant recep : tion in honor of Miss Bes3ie Hood, j bride-elect. The two front parlors, ! hall and dining room were beauti ; fully decorated with pot plants, yellow and white chrysanthemums, and yellow and white burning tapers. The guests were received at the j door by Mrs. Walter Mims, an aunt j of the bride-elect, and Mrs. George I Ricker. The receiving line, com j posed of Mrs. C. G. Rowland, Mrs. I Earle Rowland, Mrs. R. S. Hood, ! Miss Bessie Hood and Mrs. Lucy S. j Boykin, stood within the left par lor and the cards were received by the little niece of the bride-elect, ; Miss Gussie Williams. Mrs. Robt. Bland and Mrs. Robt. Plowden invited the guests to and from the opposite parlor where they were served delightful punch by Mesdames Paul Aughtry and j Edward McCallum. In the dining room?which was j decorated in yellow and white al i so, the guests were served an ice j course with blanched nuts and I mints, by Mesdames Edward i Wright, John Green, and Leila ! Mayes. About two hundred guests i called during the afternoon, j Miss Hood, the niece of Mrs. C. ! G. Rowland, and Mr. William De I Saussure Boykin will be married ! on Wednesday, the fourteenth of j December. - Mrs. Edward Wright Entertains. j Miss Bessie Hood, bride-elect of Decemher 14th was again guest of honor at a delightful morning par ty last Wednesday, given by Mrs. Edward Wright, at the home of her mother, Mrs. R. J. Bland. Eight tables were artistically ar ranged"" in the two front parlors for j progressive hearts dice. The bride to-be table was marked with a ? dainty bride. After several inter j esting progressions it was found that Mrs. Davis Moise was the holder of the highest score and was graciously presented with a bunch of beautiful carnations. Miss Hood was presented with an asparagus fern in an attractive jardiniere, as a guest of honor's prize. A delicious salad course with coffee and mints and almonds in dainty baskets' were served by Mrs. Wright. She being assisted by her mother. Mrs. R. J. Bland, Mes dames H. C. Bland, Dillard and j Tracy McCallum. ! Christmas Poor Funds Meeting At 3:30 o'clock next Sunday af ternoon, at the Opera House, the mass meeting of the citizens of j Sumter will be held, when the cus tomary fund for the poor of our i community will be subscribed. Each and every Sunday school of the city of Sumter reguarly. every year, have a special voluntary offering, which is tendered at this meeting. Sunday's mass meeting will no doubt be very largely attended, and the committee in charge has ar ranged a splendid program. The best voices of our city will lend their efforts in this most praise worthy cause, and will unquestion 1 ably afford real pleasures to the ? audience. Several appropriate talks j will bo made, and it is to be hoped j every man, woman and child of the : community will attend the meet : ing without fail. Mr. Ryttenberg ! has kindly tendered use of the i opera, house to the committee, and J if the weather is cool, the building j will be properly heated. Don't miss this meeting. Mail Robber Shot Savannah. Dec. S.?A Marine i mail guard shot a negro who was j robbing an express car on the At ; lamic Coast Line train near bore '? last night, according to reports. De tails are lacking. ?? ? ? "After Christmas, what?" asks [a trade journal. See dad: he knows. Auto lights and not driver? ! should be lit after dark. Dr. Bishop says exercise will kill all germs. The trouble is ir. get ting the little things to exercise. -??o ? Yellow perils and red perils and ??r?nge and green contests need not , disturb a world tho: is determined to act white. -o ? ? - Looks like international com-; plications have set in. -? ? -? The move we see of "practical ' jokers, the more we thank God for ' being an idealist. - Tf you must bet on the races, put vonr money on the white race. Maybe we could get a battleship for a park ornament. Tarbcs: Birthplace of Foch. Washington; Dec. 5.?The visit to I America of Marshal Foch inciden ; tally lends interest to his native ?city, Tarbes. i:i the south of France. This town which is des | tined to be a shrine of France henceforth already ha? contributed in other ways to the military pro wess of that country, according to a bulletin from the Washington. D. C. headquarters of the National ; Geographic Society. ' Honored by a conspicuous statue . and by the name of one of its prin cipal streets is Dominique Jean Larrey, who introduced the 'flying ,' ?eld hospitals,' adopted and de ; vclopcd by Napoleon, the genesis \ of the modern ambulance. More ; recently it has been a center for ' the breeding of the famous Pyren | can horses, an Anglo-Arabian j breed, valued primarily for their : light cavalry use. It also has an : important arsenal., In Sight of Pyrenees. : ' Tarbes is a place of scarcely i more than 25,0u0 people, a little j less than a handled miles south : west of Toulouse, from which the ! majestic Pyrenees are plainly vis j Ibie. Standing out boldly from the ? principal range is the Pic du Midi ; do Bigorre, bare and precipitous ; and rugged. The strength of the ' nills is in the people of the depart - I ment of the Hautes, of which j Tarbes is capital. "This region is the home of the i Basques, speaking a language j whose origin is a puzzle to schol ars, and possessing a Spartan char ! acter which has given rise to the ! saying .'Every Basque a noble.' Dr. j Edwin A. (irosvenor in 'The Races i of Europe' notes that Marshal Foch j is a typical Br .;que and recalls that I Ignatius Loyola, founder fo the i Jesuit Order, was a Basque. One ? brother of the Allied Generalissimo is a Jesuit priest. ?Town a Miniature Venice. "Tarbes is a miniature Venice. It I is situated on the Adour and chan ; nels have been cut into all parts j of the town through which flow j the waters of this stream. Phy I sically the location is important be ! cause from it radiate three valleys, j those of> Lourdes. Arreau and I Bigorre. The plains about the city ! are fertile and verdant Agricul ? turc and cattle raising are carried I on. Beyond them are forests were wolves, bears and boars may yet be found, t "One traveler called Tarbes the most truly Pyrene&n town of the j plain.' A landscape gardener who j directed the arboreal and floral ar j rangements of Versailles gave to j this native town the Jardin Massey, j a 3 3-acre tract, long before modern j city planning made parks a mu ; nicipal necessity. Herein is a mu ? seum and a cloister which has a ! bust of Theophile Gautier, remind ! er of another famous native son I of Tarbes. \ Parks, Gardens and Running Wa ter. j "As one surveys the industrial , establishments of Tarbes, its tan neries, and mills and tile works, and ; its arsenal, he notes that they are j not permitted . to mar the beauty j of its major 'garden* and many j lesser parks, its houses with fruit j trees and flowers growing about j them, and becomes conscious of the j never ceasing murmur of its many j artificial rivulets. Then he realizes j why a Frenchman was called upon j when George Washington conceived i the ideal of a beautiful capital city t for this republic. j "Its fairs are noted. Its market ? days present a never-to-be-for j gotten picture. In the Place i Maubourguet are tree-shaded { booths, "where women from coun j tryside sell produce and poultry, j and the splashing fountains and ? statuary that form the setting for j the scene do not seem incongruous, i Another square, given over to auc j tions /of horses, is shaded by tall i plane trees. "Tarbes lacks the architectural j treasures of the towns of northern i France. Its ancient cathedral suf | fers from heaviness and a mixture j of style. The only remaining part j of the castle of the Counts of Bi '; gorre is a tower which latterly has ; been converted into a prison, j "Turba. some miles away from I the present-day Tarbes, was capi ! tal of a Roman state, and the I bishopric of Tarbes appears as ! early as the fifth century. It ap \ pears in later history as a sufferer ! from the religious wars in the six \ teenth century, and the scene of a I victory by Wellington, over the French, in IS 14." Christmas Fund Fcr Disabled Sol diers. I \ Secretary E. L Reardon says ; that Mrs. D. C. Shaw of No. 27 Broad street certainly read the ar ticle in yesterday's Daily Item about j the twenty-five dollar fund being rased to assist in giving a suitable : Christmas present to each of the ? five hundred and fifty disabled j World War veterans at the United States public health service hos I pital a: Camp Sevier. Greenville, S. C., because Mrs. Shaw wrote a let ter to the secretary last night and enclosed her cheek for five dollars. The Sumter committee appreciates this spirit cf appreciation of the sacrifices and suffering of the bora who gave up their health and were maimed for life fighting or serving for their country. Miss Caro Truluck, of Sumter. Mr. Samuel O'Quinn. and Mrs. F. j I. Reardon have contributed one doliar each so that eight dollars of the twenty-five asked for by the Greenville Chamber of Commerce are, in hand. Messrs. 0'?iuinn and Reardon cf the Sumter committee hope to get Sumter's twenty-five dollars off not later than the even ing of December ?th as the com mittee cf Greenville ladies who will have charge of spending the monov contributed from throughout this state?and who will purchase and arrange every Christmas box, want :o start preparing the box?es on December 10th, and must know by that date how much money they are going to haw. Nickel coin is composed of an alloy containing three parts of copper to one of nickel.