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The Watchman and Sexthron Entered at the Posten! ce at Sum-1 tcr, S. as Second Class Matter, j PERSONAL.' -1- j Mrs. J. Emmerson McCurray of { Greenville is. the visitor of her sis- j ten? Mrs. J. B. Folsom of the city, j Dr. S. P. Wells of Holly Hill, S. j C was a. visitor Monday night of Mr. H. W. Cuttino. Mrs. J. P. Mellette has returned ! from Laurens, S. C. where she been j visiting her daughter. Mrs. Wiilard Courtright - left Tuesday for Savannah. Ga., where she is to spend the Christmas holi days with her relatives. Messrs. L. D. Jennings, S. A. Har viij, G. A. Lemmon, J. P. Booth, Stanyarne Burrows, J. B. Britton. 3. F. Bland, I. M. Truluck and E. E. Rembert, members of the Per manent . Roads Commission for Sumter county, met. with the State Highway Department in Co- | liimbia Tuesday. Mr. H. A. Shaver, plant superin tendent of the Sumter Canning Co., is at present located in the office of TIarby & Co., Liberty Court. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. SiddalL Jr., h?ve returned to Sumter from their wedding trip to Florida. They will be at home to their friends at No 14 Harby avenue. "Messrs. C. H. Wilson, J. A. Mq Knight, Jack Moses, D. C. Me9 Knight James Cuttino, R. D. Bpps. and Dr. H. L. Timmons of Colum bia, forming a hunting party, left for the Santee river swamps this morning on a three day hunting trip. Mrs. C. C. Heidt returned to her home in the city this afternoon after a visit of several days to her mother in Darlington, S. C. f: Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Simmotis spent the day in the city on business. Mr. B. F. Scott is in the city for seVeral days. Mr. J. W. Efird, of New York, resident buyer for the Efird chain spent today in the city. Mrs. Jake Harvin has been call ed to the bedside of her sister, Miss Mary Harvin, at Gaffney. Miss Har vin is reported as not doing well since the recent operation under gone for appendicitis. Mrs, J. Carlisle Bradham of L.'aiming is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Jake Harvin. /Messrs. M. S. Boykin and D. C. Heath left Thursday mornmg for Brocks. S. C, on a short hunting trip. ?Rev. E. L. McCoy and family arrived in Sumter by motor today and are to make their home at No. 2 Church street Rev. McCoy has been appointed Presiding Elder of the .Sumter district and comes- to Sumter from the Central Methodist church in Florence. Rev. D. M. McLeod and family Jeft today for Marion where Rev. McLeod will be in charge of the ?arion station of the Methodist j church. * : ? ? ? ? ? ' * Insurance Announcement Concern ing Ex-service 3fcri. The time limit for reinstating m stTrance for men without physical disability upon the payment of only two months* premium expires Jan r?ry 1, 1S22. In all cases a phy-! sical examination for reinstate ment is necessary. Any disabled man whose disabil l^ity is- clearly shown to be the result ^ .of service may reinstate his insur ance by the payment of all prem iums due from the time of lapsa tion plus 5 per cent interest on the premiums due compounded annual **" Premiums on government in surance, both term and converted, will be accepted at th^ District I Office of U. S. Veterans* Bureau, i which for this district is located at ? Atlanta, Ga. Mail should be ad- j dressed to the proper district office, j attention Cashier, Insurance Prem- j rams Section. -e~c~ Trap Shooting on 21st. There is to be trap shooting at j home of Mr. Robert Reaves in Clar- j endon county on 21st inst, at] which some tv\ o dozen turkeys j will be shot off in regular old time marksmanship. The members pf Sumter Gun club and others are cordially invited to participate. The sportsmen of that immediate sec tion hold an annual turkey shoot, and the shoot this December prom fses to be better than any they have had for years. The ladies of the local church so cieties, Harmony Presbyterian church will serve dinner on the grounds for convenience of shoot ers. -? 1 ?- . I Has Narrow Escape. Cheraw, Dec. 14.?At 11:30 this morning., as Sol Taylor, colored, was driving a mule and wagon across the Seaboard railroad tracks i at the Second street crossing, he j was c&ught by passenger train No. 1. The train was two hours be- J hind time andyhit the team, killing the mule instantly and breaking the shafts and one wheel of the wagon, but giving Taylor only a severe shake-up. ? . Knock Car Over. Tork, Dec. 14.?As yet there Is I no clue to the identity of the two j jrhite men, who driving a high pow ered touring car toward Yorkville Friday morning, knocked Mrs. Crawford Dunlap. compulsory school.^attendance officer for York j County and her car into a ditch on | the Sharon road between Sharon and Turkey Creek bridge Friday morning. Although Mrs. Dunlap was pinned under the wreckage The car which was badly damaged of her machine she was uninjured. ' now undergoing repairs in a e at Sharon. Confiscation by Soviet Decree. Moscow. Nov. 7.?A recent soviet -ecree which has been published ?ieclares that the furniture of all persons who have left Moscow is the property of the soviet and is only temporarily entruste^Co the persons occupying rooms here the furniture is placed. ( Furman Alumni Meet Furman Club of Sumter and Clarendon Counties Formed at Meeting Last Night The Furman Club of Sumter and Clarendon counties was organized I here Monday night at a meeting'of j former students and graduates of j Furman University, held in the j rooms of the Chamber of Com- j merce. Officers elcc^jd to serve the j organization are as follows: Presi dent, R. L. Mcl.eod; vice president, H. C. Haynsworth; secretary-treas urer, A. D. Rodgers. Executive committeemen: A. D. Rodgers, I chairman: J. H. Scarborough, Sum merton; D. L. Cuttino, Sumter: Rev. D. L. Hill, PaxvTlIe; Rev. J. A. Easley, Manning. Organization of the club follow ed" the appearance at the meet ing of L. M. Glenn, secretary of the Furman University Alumni Associa tion, who explained to those pres ent the association's plan for or ganizing Furman men throughout the state into local clubs. Other aims and oojects of the Alumni Association's program were ex plained by the Secretary. j There are more than thirty form- j er students and graduates of Fur man living in Sumter and approxi-! mately a score residents in Claren don county. Efforts will be made to enlist all of these as members of the Sumter-CIarendon club. Sum- j ter county is represented in the j student body c c Furnfan- this year by a dozen young men. The club formed last night plans to hold another meeting and a ban quet in the near future. Organization of Sumter Canning Co. An organization stockholders' meeting of the Sumter Canning Co.,x was held at 4 o'clock Mon day afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce hall. This, the final organization meeting, was well at tended by leading business men of the city and prominent farmers of the county, all of whom [ resent being actively interested in making the project a successful realization. The corporation, which is to be known as "The Sumte.* Canning Company" was yesterday perma nently Organized with the capital stock of $30,000. The pres?nt list of stockholders consist of about fifty name's. A board of directors was elected comprising the following names of seven stockholders: Messrs. R. A. Bradham, Willie Shaw, E. M. Hall, J. J. Brennan, D. G. P. Bultman, IT. A. Shaver and H. J. Harby. The officers elected from this board are the following: H. J. Harby, president; R. A. Brad ham, vice president; E. M. Hall, secretary and treasurer, and H. A. Shaver, plant superintendent. Mr. Shaver is of Roanoke, Ta. For the last three years he has worked in the canning business in Georgia and in Florida, and the company feels fortunafe in the engagement of the services of Mr. Shaver as superin tendent of the. Sumter plant. The Sumter Canning plant is to haVe capacity of from 25,000 to 30,000 cans per day and will em ploy the services of seventy-five people. Contracts for the planting of some 1,200 acres in produce have been arranged. The four crops to be handled by the pl?nt this year are to be spinch, beans, to matoes and* sweet potatoes.. AX'CTAL REPORT Of Frank A. McLeod, Solicitor of Third Circuit for Sumter County for Year Ending Dec. 31, 1921. Assault with intent to ravish, 1 guilty; 1 not guilty; total 2. Assault with intent to kill, and aggravated assault and battery, 10 guilty 7 1 not guilty; total 11. Breach of trust, 1 guilty: total 1. Forgery. 2 guilty; total 2. Highway robbery, 3 guilty; to tal 3. Housebreaking and larceny, 20 guilty; 1 not guilty: total 21. Larceny of bicycle, 4 guilty; to tal 4. Grand larceny, 17 guilty; 1 not guilty; toial 18. Larceny of live stock, 1 guilty; total f. ? Manslaughter. 4 guilty; total 4. Murder, 1 guilty; 1 not guilty; to tal 2. Receiving stolen goods, 2 guilty; total 2. Maintaining bawdy house, 2 guilty: total 2. Adultery, 1 guilty: total 1. .Violation of prohibition law, 12 guilty: 4 not guilty; total 16. Violation of check law, 1 guilty total 1. Privily stealing from' person ("pick pocket). 2 guilty: total 2. Totals, 84 guilty; 8 not guiltv: to tal &2. Total cases __._ f(2 Guilty. 84 Not guilty. $ Store at Brogdon Entered. The store of W. T. Brogdon & Son, handling general merchandise, was broken into and robbed Mon day night by robbers, who consid erably plundered and disarranged the entire stock and finally escaped with about $15 in cash and an un known amount of goods. The letters in the postoffiee de partment of the '/ore showed con siderable handli.:^. all mail pouch es being opened and all mail par cels being broken into. Nothing, however, was found missing in this department. The robhers found an entrance into the store by the breaking in of back door. Every drawer and locked compartment in the store ffas opened and ransacked by the thieves who seemed to have spent fio^.o timp in the store with its entire stock at their mercy. No clues were left from whieh a work ing kno-wledjre or apprehension of the robbers seems possible. With so many autos. it is no longer a joke when the chicken crosses the road. Farm Product Corporation Formed $20,000 Organization To Be Ready For Business on De cember Fifteenth Last spring the Chamber of Com berce appointed a committee con sisting of R. B. Belsen chairman: E. S. Booth and J. Frank Williams for the purpose of organizing a produce corporation for Sumter county with $20,000 or more capi tal stock. The corporation has been oiganized and is to be known as the "Carolina Farm Products Corporation." The company will be open for business on Decemoer 15th with its haedquarters at the Farmers' Tobacco Warehouse on Liberty street. Mr. J. C. Bryan has been elected as manager. Any farmer who wants to seL products may see Mr. Bryan or fret In touch with the Sumter Chamber of Commerce. The farmers all over our county are now protected in the fostering of the new industries of planting and handling farm products. The Carolina Farm Products Company states that they h?,ve the ready money for produce or can arrange for its immediate sale. Wheat is to be sold to the wheat merchants, creamery products are to be han dled by the Sumter Creamery Co., the organization of the Sumter Canning Co. has created a demand for certain crops of farm produce, and rtow comes the Carolina Farm Products Co. to take care of the re maining produce raised by the farmers. STATE TAX CONFER ENCE IN COLUMBIA Columbia, Dec. 14.?A resolution endorsing the passage of constitu tional changes in the tax system of the state, and laws to provide a gasoline tax and occup?aion tax, an increased corporation license tax, and an income tax, introduced by Mayor Karvley of Greenville, was adopted at the ?px conference held here today. It was the sense of the meeting that there must be some relief for the tax situation, and that new sources of revenue are necessary. There was some demand for a re duction of the tax levy to the pre war basis. Additional revenue from other sources would be taking a step backward and wuold cripple state institutions. There were about a hundred rep resentative citizens, including sev eral women, from various parts of the state present. August Kohn acted as temporary presiding offi cer. Several members of the state tax commission were invited to at tend and furnish certain informa tion regarding the tax situation in the state. -? o o-. Scout Meeting. ! The Boy Scouts of .Troop One met Tuesday night for their regu lar weekly meeting. The meeting was held in the scout room at the I Y. M. C. A., and was very well at ! tended. By a request from Mr. j P. G. Bowman, chairman for the i Christmas poor fund, the scouts ! of this troop pledged themselves to \ deliver the Christmas packages f fixed by the committees from the various churches of the city. Showing a phase of/ the good work that is being done by the scouts in some of our larger cities of the United States, it may be well to use the following quotation which is from the pen of Herbert Corey, a well-known New York correspondent. Thit tribute paid the scouts was occasioned by the superb manner in which they handled the crowds at the Kansas City American Legion convention which was held in Kansas City several weeks ago. The clipping follotvs: "Of course the police helped, but the scouts did it. Time after time the crowds broke through the po lice lines. A policeman cannot use his club, and he cannot be in more than one place at a time. Under such conditions his authority is worth about five cents in Polish marks. The scouts got out their ropes and held the crowd. Hang ed if I know how they did it. In front of the reviewing stand I could see their slender little bodies swaying back and forth against the pressure of 'thousands, hands clasped in hand to make a dyke against the flood, faces pale with the effort, but holding." ? ? ? Meeting Woman's Afternoon Music Club. The regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Afternoon Music club war; held in the auditorium of the Girls' High school building Monday afternoon, December 12th, at four o'clock. Mrs. Cashion. lender. After- a short business session, the ! following program was rendered: Current Events?Miss Brunson. Piano duet?Quartet From Ra goletta?Englemann?Mesdamos J. j A. McKnight and Cashion. ! Paper?Operas, Aida. Uagoletta, ; Merry Wives of Windsor ? Mrs. Wendell M. Lev! Piano Solo?Overture ? Merry Wives of Windsor?Hikolai?Mrs ; H. M. Stuckey. I Paper?Guiseppe Verdi ? Mrs. Morse. Vocal Solo?Brown Eyes?The resa del Riego?Miss 1'. Hayns worth. The club then adjourned to meet tlie seeoiHl Monday in January. Mrs. Mitchell Levi, Corresponding Secretarv. - The Salvation Army is helping solve the woman problem in Eng land by sending young women from that island oui to the British eol onies to marry farmers. As a rale, the steps saved in the kitchens are wasted in the living room when the phonograph is star ted. ? o*>? It will be a hard winter for tho man whose wife has cold feet. i ? ! Paul Kilgo Killed - Young Laurens Man Crushed: Beneath Car - Newberry, Doc. 12.?Paul Kilgo,! j of Laureris, met death near this; city last night when the high-pow- j ; ercd car which he was driving was I . wrecked, crushing him beneath its i i weight. Kilgo was driving alone [ j when the accident occurred and j I there was no eye-witness to the j I tragedy. Surroundings and the con- j I ditions of the road, however, show- j ed that the wreck was the result of j the right rear wheel giving away i as the car turned a curve in the j i road. The breaking of the wheel ; ! threw the car across the road and j jit turned over at least two times.) j Kilgo was crushed in the first turn ; I and was found lying directly be- ! 1 hind the car and to the right side j of the road. Ihe car was found a ; complete wreck. -*~o~? Junior Rod Cross in the School. When the children of America responded so valiantly to the Red Cross call for war work it was at j once evident that a tremendous amount of energy and resourceful ness had been discovered. Thus the Junior Red Cross came into be ing and soon millions of children were weaving into their daily round of school and home life the golden thread of Junior Red Cross motto. "I serve." In this way our children have come to realize thoroughly the joy. of uselfish ser vice. Health and happiness always go hand in hand. In working for the happiness of children the Juniors flrld themselves working for the mental and physical well-being of boys and sirls bbth near at hand J and in distant countries. In this j way is developed a lively sense of j j civic responsibility. For, after all, j a good citizen is only one who in- j j telligently takes his part, working; ? shoulder to shoulder with his neigh ? bors, for the common good of all. Youth is filled with enthusiasm j to do things. Each little child in ' Sumter county would enjoy lending j a helping hand if given the oppor tunity. Now the Junior Red Cross j is knocking at the door of each and j ! every school in Sumter county to ! j offer this opportunity. Application j j blanks have been mailed to each j ! school, and as chairman for Sumter j county,, I am confident of one hun- ! ' dred per cent membership for the j ? Junior Red Cross. Heretofore, to become a member j of this organization required a fee ! of twenty-five cents, but, realizing j the general financial strain, this j j year only fifty cents per class ] j room is asked, which amount en- j j titles the class room to a yearly j j subscription to the Junior Red j ? Cross News. Then the service but- j tons are rewarded to the children \ by their teachers, as they perform; I the. required duties, j Already the city schools have en- | i rolled and have done excellent i 'work. As a suggestion to teachers : who would like to know just what ? 1 their schools might do, I shall tell \ you some of the activities in the \ I city schools. At the Washington j ? street school the little children i [.were asked to bring the day be ! fore Thanksgiving their pennies,! j nickels, and dimes for member- \ j ship, also to bring something real- | j ly substantial for the poor, an ap- j I pie, an orange, a potato or any- ! J thing. When they marched into j the school house on that morning. ! their little faces were radiant?not j because they had paid the very j small amount for membership, but I I because they had the supreme j ! satisfaction of knowing they were i . helping somebody who needed; , help. As one little boy expressed j I it, the center of the main hall look- j exl like a "cash and carry" store. ! Canned goods, loaves of bread. | meat, potatoes, fruit, rice, sugar, j coffee, grits, meal, vegetables, old j clothes were put into baskets and j taken to the poor right here in our j own midst. Can you imagine the \ j feelings of one mother in town i ! who had just started to serve to her' ; little children a Thanksgiving din- j : ner of dry corn bread and molasses ; ; when she was presented with a ' basket containing bread, preserves, j j potatoes, canned goods, fruit, etc., ! j from the Washington Street Junior [ I Red Cross Society. Besides these \ \ charitable acts, these ltitle tots, j feeling themselves real citizens of j i Sumter county, wished to do their j j part in raising the amount allotted j : their county in the Christmas fund ' j for disabled soldiers, so they re- j sponded with a check for five dol- ' I lars. The boys and girls at the Hamp- | j ton street school are supporting an I I orphan at the Rescue Home in Co- | j lumbia. In order to raise money j for this purpose, they have a Red I Cross garden adjoining their school j from which they sell their pro ! duce. Think of the many lessons i besides the service value of a dol I iar this teaches them. They arc also making Xmas boxes for the or- j ; phans. The girls at the high school are ! busy each making a new garment j for a box which they will donate to i , charity. I Later on L shall be able to tell ; you many more interesting things about other schools in our county.! for 1 know each school will re- j spend to this great Call. ! Dr. L. Bragg Anthony is organ-; ? izing the colored schools of the! j county and so far bos done excel- '? tent work among her people. For the .Junior [ted Cross I vvanl i t;> solicit the good will and co-op i erat ion of every person in the coun- ; ty. .Mrs. J. Pringle Brun son. ? Chairman . -O?cs?-? Tuesday afternoon tiie fire de partment answered a lire alarm which was rung in at about .":20 ' o'clock. The big chemical equip? j mem < ? r? the Reo truck was used, l and the flames on the roof of the house, x<i. * i r, s. Sumter street; were early smothered. The house : is the property of Mr. Jim Xicholes i of the i incpri.il <'ofc. .\*(? great amount of damage was done by the j fire. J Meeting at Pisgah Campaign to Beat the Boll Weevil Under Auspices of Committee of Progress At Pisgah .School in Rafting Creek School District Xo. 25 a splendid meeting was held last night as th^ first of a series of meetings under the auspices of the Sumter County Committee of Pro gress to discuss the program of di versified farming under boll weevil conditions. About twenty-five farmers and several ladies were present. Mr. J. E. DePre presided and introduced the speakers. Mr. J. C. Bryan, the manager of the Carolina Farm Products Corporation which opens its doors for business at the Farm ers' Tobacco Warehouse on East Liberty street tomorrow, December 15th, was the first speaker and he interestingly told of the object of his corporation and urged the farmers to patronize same, also tell ing them of the methods pursued by farmers in other boll weevil in fested sections to supplant cotton with more profitable and perma nent prosperity crops. Secretary E. I. Reardon was re quested to cover several subjects and he occupied about forty min iates time and told of the canning factory just, organized and the de rails of the organization of this en terprise end how the stock is to be raised and paid for. kinds of truck necessary and ? prices to be paid. He invited those present to be come stockholders. He then guar anteed the farmers that ample mar keting and manufacturing and shipping facilities will be in Sum ter from now on to buy and sell farm products of the county?there being the long established Sumter Roller Mills to grind the wheat and the corn, the Sumter Crcamery company wanting now six hundred pounds of Jnitter fat daily for man- i ufacturing butter, the Carolina! Farm Products corporation ready to buy all farm produce except cot> ton and tobacco, and there are oth er marketing and brokerage con cerns in Sumter ready to buy farm | products. The farmers of Sumter! county, he said, no longer have the j excuse that there are no markets i in Sumter for their roducts other j than cotton. He urged every farm-; er to produce at least enough j wheat to make flour for his fam- ; ily and his farm hands, to in- j crease the oat and corn crop, and to i follow the program of diversifica- i tion primarily suggested by the j Sumter County ChaAber of Com-; merce. and Clemsoflf college, now j the program of the Sumter County Committee of Progress. He gave out the gratifying infor mation that plans are on foot with practically assured success of Sum ter having a sweet potato curing and storage plant with forty thou sand bushels capacity to start with, but advised that community or in dividual farm, sweet potato curing: and storage houses be erected over this county?the potatoes for mar-1 ket to he sold through the Carolina Farm Products* Corporation and the South Carolina Sweet Potato Growers' Association. He urged growing of sweet potatoes .vith due regard to standardization of va- J ri'ety and quality, and called for a township school district branch of the Sumter County Committee of Progress in every township or; school district. He urged that lo- i cal farm products be given pref-1 erence by merchants and consum- | ers, and local merchants patronized by farmers. Mr. J. L. Gillis of Rembert, a prominent farmer and merchant was then called on and enthusiasti- j cally endorsed everything said by Messrs. Bryan and Reardon. es pecially the suggestion about com munity sweet potato curing and storage houses, and said he was! going to organize one or more in | Rembert and Rafting Creek town ship if he could get the co-opera tion of his fellow farmers of that section. Mr. Gillis also urged buy- j ing at home, from the farmer and from the borne merchant and man ufacturer, and was for community or township organization to put into practice diversified methods of farnnng and Cor ce-operative mar keting. Chairman DuPre t a en thanked the three speakers for coming to Pisgah to help start a program of crop diversification and promised that the Sumter Roller Mills will have to operate more than one-third time next year to grind wheat from his section, and said that his township and school district are in lino with the Com ntittee of Progress and with ihe Sumter County Chamber of Com merce, and with the Young Men's Business League of Sumter in their commendable efforts to organize our county for overcoming boll weevil troubles. 0 ? o Death. Miss Laura Gillespie died Wed-j nesday at 5 o'clock at Tourney j Hospital. Miss Gillespie was in her se\ enty-third year. The funeral services were held; Wednesday at 4 o'clock at the | home of her sister. Mrs. RosarJen-| kins. No. 12 Warren St.. with whom I Miss Gillespie has been living for a number of years. The interment took place at tin- city cemetery. -o ? ? PERU MOBILIZES HER TROOPS Buenos Aires. Dec. 15.? Peru has decreed the mobilization of nearly i four hundred officers and over) . !? von thousand troops and is send- j ing seven regiments to Tacna ! province, says a dispatch to La Xacion. Washington. Dec. 15. ? Peruvian Ambassador. Pezet. denied the re- ! ports of iviu mobilizing troops! a gS i.nst * 'h :!<?. -? m ?> There's s<> much bad in the best! <f us. and so much good in the. ivorst of us. thai it hardly be-: aooves any <-f us to try to reform! he r< st of us. City Council Meeting! _ Sumter County Fair Associa-; tion Makes Proposition to Lease Land at Water Works Council Chamber. Dec. 13. 1921. j The regular meeting of Council ! sras held in the council chamber; jh date above, and there were pres ents Mayor Jennings and Council- j man McCaUum, the other mem-I ber of Council. Mr. Raffield,* ab-1 sent from the city. The minutes of the regular meet- j ing of November 22nd, and special i meeting of Dec. 6th were read and j approved. Messrs. W. T. Brown and P. O. j Bowman, representing the County Fair Asosciation were present with : a view towards making a lease for the tract of land owned by the j city, adjacent to the water works plant, lor use of the County Fair : Association for future fairs. It was stated that the grounds on | W. Liberty street were entirely too i small and it was impossible to j bring to Sumter but few attractions I on that account. It is the purpose! of the Fair Association to build! a race track, a field suitable for j foot ball and base ball, and ad ditional exhibition buildings, giv- j ing to Sumter county the possibili- j ty of one of the best county fairs j that is held in the state. Both i Mayor Jennings and Com cilman McCaUum favored making the' lease, but on account of" the ab- j sence of Councilman Raffield. no! definite conclusions were reached I and the matter was deferred for a ! subsequent meeting when all! members of council were present, j Councilman McCaUum stated \ that lie had been requested by Mr. I R. A. Bradham, vice president of j the canning factory which will be j located in Sumter in the very near j future, to make application for the j usual five year exemption from j taxation. On account of the ab- j sence of Mr. Raffield. and the in- \ ability of Mr.'Bradham to be pres- | ent. the matter was deferred for i a subsequent meeting. Mrs. Julia Lester Dillon, land scape architect of the city, was ; present and informed council of j her work in connection with the care of the trees of the city; she presented a street map of the city { on which is shown the location of every tree, and offered her recom- j mendations as-to the removal of; some and the further planting of j many where needed. Council au thorized the purchase of 500 trees j in accordance with Mrs. Dillon's recommendations, the purchase to be made and the trees set out at j once. The clerk read reports from the J police department and the civic i league nurse for the month of j November, and reports from the city physician for the months of October and November, all of| which were received as informa- j tion. In connection with the delivery of current to the motors of the Southern Cotton Oil Co., a letter from these people was received by City Manager O'Quinn requesting that they be re-imbursed in the1 amount of S34.S4, being the cost I of wire, etc., that was necessary to j be run from the poles on S. Main j street to their buildings claiming I that this expense should be borne ! by the city. After further inves tigation by Mr. Doughty, the man ager of the light plant, he'recom mended that such expense be as sumed by the city, and council ordered same paid. % Invoices of J. L. Oliver's Son and! W. E. Dunn, both of Cairo. Ga., in ! connection with the burial expenses j of George Duncan, a former em ployee of the city who was electro cuted while in the discharge of his duty, was ordered paid by council, the total amount being $78.00. ? Messrs. Forshee and Cashior.. representing the Dixie Electric & Power company were present in the interest of the firm in collect ing the account due by the city which was being held up on ac count of a prior claim against Forshee & Co. Council directed that the account in excess of the claim be paid as soon as such bills were properly approved. Council then adjourned. Tax Return Notice, 1922. I will attend in person or by deputy at the following named places, and on the dates given, for, the purpose of receiving tax re turns for fiscal year, 1922. Reurns should he made on all personal property, real estate, polls, roads and dogs. Privateer. Tuesday. Jan. 10. Pinewood Wednesday, Jan. 11. Levi Siding. Thursday. Jan 12. Wedgefield, Friday. Jan. 13. Chtremont. Tuesday, Jan. 17. Hagood. Wednesday. Jan. IS. Rembert, Thursday. Jan. 19. Dalzell, Friday, Jan. 20. Brogdon. Tuesday. J.tn. 24. Pleasant Grove. Wednesday, Jan. 25. Shiloh. Thursday. Jan. 20. Norwood Cross Roads. Friday. Jan. 27. Mayesville. Tuesday, Jan. 31. My office will be open from January 1 to February 20. R. E. WILDER. Countv Auditor. -? Christmas Railroad Rates. Reduced passenger fares for the Christmas holiday season will be put in effect by the Southern Rail way system, tickets between all points on the system being sold on the basis of fare and one-half for the round trip. This was the basis j which applied prior to the world war. Tickets will be sold at the re duced rates oh December 22nd. i 23rd. 24th und 2J>lh with January \ as the final return limit. .Marriage License Record. A marriage license has been is used to Mr. W. D. Boykin and Miss Bessie Flood, of Sumter. Income Tax tax on carpets, rugs, trunks, va , Uses, purses, fans, etc., from 10 XVeSTUlatlOnS j per cent-> on sales price in. excess _ I of specified amounts to 5 per .cent. of sales price in excess of specified I amounts. The tax on parcel post packages is eliminated effective January 1, j 1922. The new act provides that no j taxpayer shall be subjected to un necessary examinations or investi gallons, and only one inspection of his books of accounts shall be made i for each taxable year, unless the ? taxpayer requests otherwise, or 1 the Comissioner notifies the tax Collector of Internal Revenue! Bradley Issues Statement For Information of Public Columbia, Dec. 14.?The follow ing is issued by Acting Collector of Internal Revenue. W. R. Bradley, District of South Carolina: Enactment of new revenue leg islation has brought to the offices ?ayer in v,'nti:ig that an Motional of collectors of internal revenue a | "WCtam is necessary, flood of inquiries regarding various provisions. The Revenue Act of i The period for filing returns on the calendar year basis is from January 1 to March 15th. 1922. 1921 became effective November.. 23. 1921. -unless otherwise pro- j This year' as last' tne tax may be vided for". To avoid error in the preparation j of their returns and later difficul- ! paid in full at the time of filing the return or in four equal install ments, due on or before March 15th, June 15th, September . 15th and December 15th. Copies of the Revenue Act may be had by application to this office. ? o o . Deer Hunt and Dinner. ties with the bureau of internal j revenue, taxpayers are advised to J carefully note the changes and j when they become effective. The excess profits tax is repealed as of January 1, 1922. The rates for 1921 are unchanged. The surtax rates for the calendar i year 1921 are unchanged, and | range from 1 per cent, on the j amount of net income $5,000 and $6,000 to 65 per cent. On the amount of net income in ex- } cess of $1,000,000. For the calen dar year 1922 the surtax rates range from 1 per cent, on the amount of net income between ?6,000 and $10.000 to 50 per cem. ; on the amount by which the net j income exceeds $200,000. The exemption allowed for a de- j pendent is increased from $200 to j $400. Married persons living with husband or wife and heads of fam- ; ilies are allowed a personal ex- | emption of $2,500 (instead of $2,- , 0?0), unless the net income is in excess of $5,000, in which case the personal exemption is only $2, 000. The act provides "that in nc case shall a reduction of the per sonal exemption from $2,500 tc $2,000 operate to incr "se the tax which would be payable if the ex emption were $2,500 by more than the amount of the net income in excess of $5.000. This is to over come the disparity in the case of] Rftnbert> Dec. n.-Today, Sun two taxpayers, on* of whom >s just: Deceinber n, closed the pas A deer hunt, enjoyed by Mr. J. S. Young of Darlington, Engineer E. P. Youngblood of Sumter, Messrs. i Hampton, Ramsey. Troublef.eld, I Battles and ethers of Wedgcfield ; and a party of gentlemen from I Laurens and Rock Hill, took place I in Wateree River swamp Monday, : December 12. '? Mr. Young owns two very fine ; deer dogs. When the men had been 1 placed on the stands the dogs were I tur c? loose and in a short while j; iped six deer. Messrs. Ramsey arc: Troublefield were the lucky j spo tsmen, each killing a line young br -c. After the hunt was over the ! < itlemen from Laurens and Rock I :! 11 invited the entire pavty to dine. I th them at their camp at Hood's i -.\kc where they have been hunt ing and fishing for a week or ten 'i ys. The dinner was. prepared by ie colored man in charge and con sted of stewed fish, <*ried ham. ; i -q, biscuit, corn bread, cake and . t ceffee. To say we did justice i . that diner is putting it mildly. Ilngood's News and Comment. within the lower $2,000 exemption and the other just within the high- | er $2,500 exemption. Single persons, and married per- i sons not living with -husband or I wife, are allowed an exemption of $1,000. Non-resident aliens are al- . lowed a single personal exemption ( of $1,000. Persons having gross incomes tor 1921 of $5,000 or over are required to make a return, re gardless of the amount of net in come. Provision is made for the repeal torate of Rev. Mark Gary Arant.to i the people of Bethesda M. 13. church and community to whom he was much endeared. All of them will, wc believe, bid him a hearty ? God speed in his new field of labor. ; The bazaar at Rembert Friday, ; December 9th, was cuite'a success, j One cake rallied, brought thirty j dollars. The total net receipts, we : hear, r.ere one hundred and twen ty-five dollars. The affair was for j the benefit of the Episcopal church. We want to say here and now as of January 1, 1922 of the tax that the town 0j Marion and the on stockholders of a personal ser- M?thodist church there are fortu vice corporation as such. After j nate in the assignment of Dr. D. M. that date such corporations are to ; McLeod. a scholar, logician, reason be taxed in the same manner as j er> prcacner of rhe word. His is a other corporations. j meaty gospel, and he never appears The income tax on corporations for the calendar year 1922 and thereafter is increased from 10 to 12 1-2 per cent. The $2,000 ex emption heretofore allowed corpor ations is to be granted to those cor porations whose nef income is $25, 000 or less. with unbeaten oil. Plain, unpreten tious, unassuming, .as a man he ; carries everywhere because he is a j man. We met the new presiding ejder I for Sumter district, Dr. McCoy, j whose last pastorate was Florence, ; and sav to the Methodist saints Many persons are under the im-|that we believe they have a -safe,", pression that the taxes on ice : sane mam a strong preacher. -. .. cream, soft drinks, etc , monthly j piease announce that Dr. Jno. A. returns of which are required, have Brunson of Sumter will preach at been repealed with the enactment j tne Hign Hills Baptist church Sun of the new act. These taxes re- ; aay> December ISth at 3 p. m.* main in force until the end of the i Goody, goody, its hog-killing. calendar year 1921. 'time. * "Hagood.!' No change is made in the tax; ? ^ ? on admission, except that after ! Pittsburgh. Kans.. Dec. 13.?The' January 1, 1922 there will be no | militant women marchers or the - tax where admission is 10c or less. ; (.0al fields went into action before day and stopped" miners, from working at three mines. Several motor cars were wrecked in moles and several persons were injured. Effective January 1, 1922 the fol lowing taxes are also abolished: on j musical instruments. sporting j goods, chewing gum. portable electric fans, thermos bottles, fur articles, pleasure boats and pleas ure canoes, (unless sold for more j than 3100), toilet articles, medi- I eines and numerous articles of an- ! pareL On and after January 1. 1922. the j tax on various works of art is re- j duced from 10 per cent, to 5 per j cent., the tax on candy from 5 j The paths of glory lead but to per cent, to 3 per cent, and the I grave international complications. Cock ran. Ga. Dec. 13.?U. H. Patrick, former cashier of the Cit izens' Bank here, was given, sen-; tences aggregating from twenty two or thirty-eight years, following' his plea of guilty to four counts of embezzlement and three of felony. ? ii <? <> it <> The National Bank of South Carolina OF SUMTER, S. C. The Most Patnstasrfn* SERVICE with OOUKTEST Capita? $300.000 Surplus cad Pr?><h? $280.000 STRONG AND PROGRESSIV? Give xtm the Pleasare of Serving YOU The Bank With the Chime Clock. C. G. ROWLAND, Pre*. EARLH ROWLAND. Cashier TIME FOR CHRISTMA3~S~HOPPING Let us suggest an answer to that all-important question "What shall I give the children?" A savings account in this Bank, where the young people's accounts are especially welcomed. An account may be opened for any amount de sired?from $1.00 up. And there never was a gift that had greater possibilities for permanence and usefulness. Here's a gift that will be appreciated more and more every year?give them a savings account. FIRST NATIONAL BANK SUMTER, S. C. NEILL OTK)NNELL ARCHIE CHINA O. L. YATES President Vice President Cashier.