The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 22, 1922, Page PAGE 3, Image 3

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Watchman and So?thron Entered at the Postoffice at Sum t ter, S. C, as Second-Class Matter. : ? PERSONAL. - Mr. and Mrs. Anthony White of New York are in the city visiting: his^ sister, Miss Mary White. Mr. Ojscar Holst of Charleston is i business visitor in Sumter today. Mrs. Alex. Reynolds and Miss Alma Register of Savannah, Ga., &re the visitors of Mrs. R. E. Wilder in the city. Miss Frances Smith and Mrs. D. Green are spending the day in tmbia. Mr. T. H. Tatura left for Flor ence this morning to attend che Innera! services of Mr. P. A. Will ?ox. Mrs. F. S. Xance Is visiting Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Crrow in Hartsville. Judge S. W. G. Shipp left last j night for his home in Florence. j Dr. Rogers S. Siddall of the \ Jofens-Hopkins Hospital in Balti more, is a visitor of his parents in the city for a short while. Mrs. Solomon Blatt of Bannwell wiil arrive in the. city this after noon, to visit her father. Miss- Holly Brown has returned to her home in the city from New York where she has been a rtodent at Columbia University. While en route to Sumter, Miss Brown stopped in Union. S. C to take part in the Arthur-Wanna maker wedding. Mrs. E. S. McManus has returned . home after a week's stay at the bed ?do of her sister, Mrs. John E. Solves who is very ill at her home near Lancaster. Mr. W. B. McCutchen left Sat arday morning for his home in Wisacky after spending some time n Sumter. Mr. John Pace of Charlotte, NT. 2.y is the visitor of his cousin, Mrs. j E. S. McManus of Sumter. Miss Eddie -Sweet of Scranton, 5. C, spent Friday night in Sum ter while en route to Winnsboro, , 5. A j Miss Ethel Parier of Elloree, S. j is the guest for the week-end j if Misses Ida and Beula Cuttino ci j their home on Church St. i Miss Mary Brunson of Florence ; -s spending the week-end with Vfiss Reese Chandler at her home hi Washington St. ?Miss Mary King of Wilmington, N. C, is visiting her brother Mr. J. Lem King on Purdy street. Messrs. E. C. Dunn and Mr.. Don ild; Broadweil went to Aiken yea- j ^erday to attend the marriage- ol' ?iss Mabel Platt and Mr. E. T ?r?adweil at noon today. Mr. and Mrs. 3> M. Allen, Sr? md son, R. D. Allen are spending ?ome time in Palm Beach and Mi- ? lmLFla. - Mr. J. L. Pritchard left Monday; morning for Charleston on a bust- j less trip after spending the week- j ?nd in Sumter. . ,. j; I ilr. Harold Moise left Saturday j >n'a visit of several days in New! STork city. I ; itr. M. W. Seabrook left Mon- j lay morning for Columbia on legal business. ? ?? . Secretary E. L Reardon, of the j Chamber oi Commerce, is attend-; Bjr a meeting in Qolumbia of citi- i ?ns interested in the dairying in iustry. This meething has been irranged by the International Har ?ester Company. ? Among those attending, the Jweet-Cain wedding in Winnsboro. ?.*C, were: Messrs. Scott Dwight md Jamison Cain, Mrs. W. O. Cain, Jr., and Mr. H. L. McCoy of Sum er; Mr. R. B. Cain of the faculty >f-the Bailey Military Institute in Jreenwood; Miss Ruth Cain of Jreenwood and MLsi. Eddie Sweet *t Scranton, S. C. ?? ? ? >egion Club Rooms Established in Bryan's Hall. The Sumter Post of the American ^ejgion has arranged for the estab ishing of its club rooms perma lently in Bryan's Hall. This is a ?it of news of gladdening nature to .11 Legion members and friends fthe Legion, in that now a regu ir meeting place of the post has een established and also in addi ton to this the members are to ave a. place where they may meet a?h other informally and a place /here they can invite their friends occasionally and. enjoy an after oon or evening in reading club lit - rature or the playing of games or i the enjoyment of music possibly, 'he request of the Legion comes ow to its friends?and we hope it nly has friends?that anyone hav ig almost anything that they can >are, a piece of furniture (in the uthouse perhaps), rugs, pictures, ;c., would, certain ly be high r appreciated just at this me. Almost anything can be used i making the club rooms attractive ritt comfortable. Get in touch ith Mr. Zach Darr or with Mr. eorge D. Levy if you are able to nd something that you think can e used. Many thanks. "And. by the way. do not forget ne big dance which is to be given i Bryan's Hall by the American egion on the night of the 23rd Thursday night). The Newman tusical Organisation of New York ity are to be the dispensers of the Lizstc for the occasion. This is to e the biggest and best dance of ie season, remember. eath of Miss Minnie Lee Mcrri mon. Miss Minnie Lee Merrimon. the 5ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. 1 >. Epps, ied Friday night at Connelly prings, X. C. Her bod., arrived n the afternoon train from olumbia on Sunday, and the fun gal was held on Monday morn ig at eleven o'clock at the rosi ence of Mr. lt. D. Epps. Burial t the Sumter cemetery. It would take six hours to read ie minutes of a woman's dub. \ Even while scrapping the others, ncle Sam will be careful to re tin the leadership. FIRE VISITS C. L. STRAUSS CO. Damage to Building Estimat ed $1,000 and to Stock About $300 The place of business conducted by Mr. C. L. Strauss. Xo. ?J Dugan street, was visited by a fire which was discovered shortly after six o'clock Friday. It is said that the fire might have been burning for some time prior to its dis covery by the policeman on duty. The damage to the building, which is the property of Messrs. Mike Goldberg and William Berg, is estimated as being about one thousand dollars. The stock dam ages can be covered by about $300. These losses are covered by insur ance. Mr. Mike Goldberg had six bales of cotton stored in the build ing and these were considerably damaged. Xo insurance was car ried on the cotton. The death toll of the fire consisted of about fifty j chtckns and one pet squirrel, which was smothered by the thick smoke. , The origin of the fire is unknown. Mr. Straui has moved next door; and will continue his business as j usual. COURT BEGINS SECOND WEEK Peter Davis is Acquitted On! Murder Charge i - The court of general sessions con-! vened at 10 o'clock Monday morn- j ing for its second week of the ] spring term, with Judge S. YV. G. Shipp. of Florence, presiding. The case of the State vs. Peter! Davis, colored, indicted for the ! murder of Aaron Sumter, colored. \ was tried and disposed of during the morning session of. the court, j The testimony against Peter Davis i was not found sufficient to warrant his conviction and a verdict of not j guilty was returned by the jury.! Peter Davis is alleged to have been the negro who shct Aaron Sumter at about 1 o'clock on the night of j October 31, 1921, at the home of: Aaron Sumter. For nine days Aaron Sumter lingered with a bullet j wound in his brain but finally died j on November 9, 1921. According to the testimony of Lavinia Sum-1 ter. the wife of Aaron Sumter. the \ voice of Peter Davis was recognized by her at the time of the shooting, j This was the only evidence obtain able against Peter Davis and this evidence proved to be rather of an uncertain nature. "TRADE AT HOME" - CAMPAIGN TO START j A move will be made this week toward the remedying of the send- | ing out of Sumter county money that could just as well buy Sum-; tea* products. Nearly every house-; hold in Sumter uses corn meal once' or oftener a day. and there's a lot j of corn in Sumter county that could be turned into meal. When you walk into the grocery store, how ever, and buy some meal you do not get Sumter county meal; you get meal that has been shipped in rrom some of the more western states. If you wish Sumter county meal you have to engage it from some of your country friends to be brought in at a future date, and as this is a good deal more trouble than buying from the store, you or der the meal over the phone, and in time the money you pay the store for it leaves Sumter county. Of hams and other cured meats, dilto. A group of the Young Men's Business League has been studying this subject and will go to work on it this week. First they are to canvass the grocers to see which of them will handle Sumter county products, putting up the same in regular packages just as handy to the buyers as are those from off: which products they will carry in stock, and what quantities they will be willing to ->rder. Having this data in hand the group will then consult with the county dem onstrator or some others well post ed on the products of the county and will find out who has for sale the articles wanted. The next step will then be jrettin^r the buyer and the seller together so that the ar ticles can be transferred from the farm to the shelves of the grocery. The public has a mighty import ant part to play in this effort of saving money; the part the public has to play is to build up the sen timent for home goods. If you call for Sumter county meal or Sumter county hams, your grocer will have them in stock, not the first time maybe; if the call is from enough people, and is insistent enough, it certainly will be answer ed If the buyers however do not help, do not ask for the home goods, or refuse to buy them af ter the grocer has put them in stock, the effort is bound to fail. In the long rr.4 it is up to the public. The group from the league hnv insr this work in hand is composed of Ceo. C. Wa-ren. captain: and J. A McKnight. H. E. Parker. J. 7.. Hearon. C. J. Lenvmon. James Cuttino. If. L. McCoy. F. M. Cain and H. O. Frown. Platt-Broad well Alken. Feb. 20?Miss Mabel Platt of this city and Mr. ?dgar T. Broadwell of Sumter. S. C. were married at noon today in the Epis copal church Rev. .!. E. Rideout. the rector performing the cere mony. Immediately after the cere mony Mr. and Mrs. Broadwell left for Florida where they will spend a week. They will return to Sum ter about March 1st. The marriage was a quiet affair, but was witnessed by a number of the friends of the young couple. When Uncle Joe Cannon leaves Congress they will loose another i.ig gun. TO ASSIST WITH INCOME TAX RETURNS Two Deputies to Be in Sumter From March 8 until 15 A communication from the In ternal Revenue Service of th< treas ry department, at Columbia, has been received in the ojiioc of the clerk of court in which it is stated that two deputies are to be in Sumter on March 8, 9, 10, 11. 13. 14 and 15 for the purpose of assisting tax payers in preparing their Federal Individual Income Tax returns for the year 1!?21. Therefore, in view of the fact that these men are to be in this community on the above dates, it is suggested that advantage be taken of this opportunity for the tiling of income tax returns with the as sistance of a Government Oflicer. WHERE CHARITY IS NEEDED Red Cross Reports Several Deserving Cases A white family of eleven lost all their belongings in a fire last sum mer, none of the loss being covered by insurance, and because of low wages they have been unable to gel together enough bed covering to keep them warm during tin- cold weather. A colored man and woman with their eight small children are living in a two-room house in Shannon town with only two beds for the ten persons. Neither the man nor woman can get steady work, and are unable to buy more beds or bed ding. A colored man out in the coun try lost his little home by fire a few weeks ago. and he and his wife and five children, the oldest s years of age. are, staying tempor arily with the wife's parents. Their greatest need at present is for beds6 and bed covering. If anyone who can help these families by giving sheets, pillow cases, blankets, quilts, etc. will phone the Red Cross office, 51S, the articles will be called for. Cliiokon Brooder Contest. Farmingdale. X. Y.. Feh. in.? (By the. Associated Press).?The exclusive young flapper section at the State Institute of Applied Ag riculture was till aflutter with ex citement today. There was much artful cocking of heads and preen ing of fine feathers. For in some .way the news had gotten aboul that before nightfall all the good flappers, just budding into hen hood, were to get beautiful young husbands, with delightful back grounds of wealth and social po sition. The fact, savoring of Asia, that the brides-to-be had never seen their future husbands dhln.'r seem to bother the flappers. Nor did the fact that each was to si-are her husband with lit others. Mono gamy still is unknown in the world of White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds and Ply motu h Rocks. Today's weddings mark the sec ond stage of a three-year-egg-lay ing and poultry breeding contest being conducted by B. A. Ahrens, head of the institute's poultry de partment. During the last year, D00 pullets from all parts of the East have been devoting their energies sole ly to egg laying, and have establish ed enviable records for themselves. The contestants entered by poultry raisers for the experiment-contest laid 131?.477 eggs in the year, or an average of 1.52.11 per pullet. A single comb White Leghorn owned by F. J. Loveland. of New York carried off first prize with 2*'<2 eggs. Mr. Loveland's White Leghorn pen also carried off the pen prize with a total of 3.78t) ? ggs. There were 107 pullets out of the 900-entered, that produced or more eggs. The second, or breeding phase of the contest, which starts with today's matings. "will continue through March. April and May, each bride being allotted .?? setting of 1" eggs. Tiic he.ns will not be permitted to hatch their own fami lies, however, this detail being at tended to in incubators. Next fall. L'i'i pullets from each pen?one from each hen's brood :is far as possible?will be selected and placed in the pens their parents occupied. Tests as to their skill as layers and parents, conducted during the following season, will conclude the contest. The objects of the contest, which is supported by a $15.000 appro priation of the legislature and by fees from entrants, are: To encourage selection of stock ami a closer study of tin- physical characteristics which determine a bird's producing and breeding abil ity. To furnish, each poultry raiser with an accurate record of eggs produced and the breeding ability of each hen entered. To return to the farm at the end of each year some registered birds with their records of performance which may be used in establishing a definite ;md successful method of breeding. And to demonstrate to poultry raisers the methods and | ra?-Tires in breeding and management that w ill lead to higher prodc-t ion a i .| greater profits; Mexican Murderer Released on I Sowl Mexico <'ity. Feb. 1.?Gener;i1 Jaclnto P.. Trevino, former secre tary of Commerce and industry, who several months ago was arrested charged with tin- murder of Gen eral Jos.- Alessio Robl< s, h is Ihm n released on Si" 'um h<?nd Rots r,f public office for private purposes. :ii e used LARGER AND BETTER CREAMERY Get Together Meeting of Sum ter County Dairymen Held This Morning A '?gel together" meeting of rhe men of Sumter county interested in the dairying business of the county was held .Monday morning in the Chamber of Commerce hall and was ?attended by sonn- forty citizens. Va rious phases of the dairying in dustry were discussed and its possi blities taken up. which in the end led to tin- forming of a $20,000 I dairying corporation for the pur j pose of establishing "A No. 1" 'creamery in Sumter. .>2.*oio of this stock was subscribed for at the meeting of tin* morning and a com mittee was appointed to get the re mainder of the stock taken. It is fell that no -real difficulties will be 'met with in the making of this new crea mery a "go.** COMMON SCHOOLS GET LESS MONEY Governor Cooper Has Com pilation Made to Compare 1921 Appropriations With House 1922 Rill Columbia, Feb. 19.?Governor Cooper yesterday while discussing the general appropriation bill as passed by the house, particularly that section applicable to the de partment of education and the common schools, declined to make a reply to the assertion made on the floor of the house that the in stitutions of higher learning had received a cut of 2~> per cent, be low their authorized expenditures for 1921, while the department of education was reduced only 3 per cent. His refusal to make a public statement was on the ground of his disinclination of entering into a con troversy. However, he did have his Office prepare the following tables of figures: University of South < "arolina. appropria tion, 1921 _$ 242.S55.00 Appropriation bill. 1922 249.902.70 The Citadel, appropria tion. 1921 (exclusive of buildings) _ 152,315.00 Appropriation bill. 1022 "(exclusive of build ings) . 121,419.2G In the appropriation act of r.'l'l will be found some extraordi nary items, such as eduoationa 1 equipment, SlS.l 34.93 (the bill this year has $1,375 for this purpose): equipment, S9.16S.0S: lands 1 and structures, $2..".mi. y.*hioh, t if conducted, contend ed the governor. will show practically no re ductions from 1!'21 for operating the college propt r. Cienison college, appro priation. 1921 _ 226,147.15 .?Vp-p r o p r i a t i on bill. 1922. 242.S62.S5 Winthrop college, ap priation. 1921 _ 39S.694.60 Appropriation bill. 1922 *>42,S?2.S." School for the Deaf and 1 dind, appropriations, 1921 (exclusive of buildings). 77,333.33 Appropriation bill, 1922 7S.120.0C State Medic:'1 college, appropria t ions. 1 !>2 1, (exclusive of build ings ) . . _ _ .._ 75.117.5fl Appropriation act_ S4,955.00 State ("idored college, appropriat ions. 1921 63.005.21 Appropriation bill, IU22 67,650.0( Educational department. approprialions. L92J 1.529.S20.0C Appropriation bill. 5V22 .. .. 1.1S0.700.0C Reduction department <>f education .. __$333.130.00 The governor pointed out, how ever. t!;;it the appropriation foi 1 '<-'J. inebidctl StiO.ooO Cor btilidinjc? which had been deducted from tin items for institutions of highei learning. According to the figures prepar ed under the governor's method there was a slight increase in the appropiations for the colleges, and a material decrease in the money authorized for the common schools and the department of education. It could be inferred from the gov ernor's conversation .'at if the state at any time fails to appro priate sufficient money for all 61 its education needs it would be a fallacious policy. Windows art? Washed From Suspended Tramoar A tramoar to carry window wash ers is a now safety device install ed in a factory recently erected in Cleveland Ohio. As described in i'< pular Science Monthly for March a light carrier car is swung on two wire ropes from :t rail running en tirely around the building, undoi the eaves. Ty. small w inches en able '!:? plat form to be raised oi lowered ;.. ;:nv <p sin d length, and two trolley rollers supported by the .';:il perm;) the cage t<> i>e moved t!o... wrnd.iw to window. There are 'iomi windows in the building, and they may be cleaned 1 v three men in twelve- days with the assistance of this oquipmemt. :it .?? .-..st of si 72. S". Without the use of the car. it would be neeessnr\ KING GEORGE'S PRES ENT TO PRINCESS MARY London. Feb. Lit. -Kmg George*? principal v\ ??? Id: gift to Princes: Mar) i- :: handsome piece of j?-w ? h \ a lr? ad\ pi csonted. 66(! quickly relieves a cold.? Advel Ii en.eilt. court adjourns until monday I -(? Adjournment as Mark of Re spect to P. A. Wilcox. Ranzie Perry Case Dis posed of The court of general sessions nd j journed at the close of the after i noon session of Thursday to stand j adjourned until 10 o'clock Monday '.morning, .ludg?' S. W. G. Shipp and the members of the Sumter . bar were appraised during the I morning session, of the death of j Mr. P. A. Willcox, a prominent lawyer of the state, and upon a mo \ tion made by Solicitor F. A. Mc ? Leod, the court adjourned as a I mark of respect to Mr. Willcox. i who is of Florence. I flood progress has been made by j the court since its convening in I Sumter Monday for Its spring term, j Many cases have been tried and disposed of so that it is now ex pected that the docket will be pret ty rn-arly cleared during tin* court session of next week: The Brad ford ease will in all probabiltiy not lie taken up for trial during this : term of the court, owing to the 'sickness of Attorney M. L. Smith. I who has been engaged to assist , wit h t he case. The case of the state vs. Source Brown was finished yesterday. A verdict of guilty of manslaughter j was brought in by the jury after they had been in tlie jury rooms hut a very few minutes. The sen ? fence of the court was deferred i pending the hearing of a motion ! for a new trial. It is understood .that the motion for new trial will rest on the grounds of a lack of j-a proper consideration of the case I on the part of the jury. Case of the state vs. Renzie Per ry, indicted for murder, was next ; taken up by the aurt. This is an old case, having been tried twice in 'this court and once in the supreme ; court. The case dates as far back ? as 1914, and lias passed terms ' of court. The court permitted j Perry to enter a pica of guilty of ? manslaughter and he was sentenc ed to a term of two years. During ? the tlrsr trial. Ranzie and his nioth ; er wer?- both tried for th-> murder I of the father of Ranzie. The moth er was acquitted and Ranzie given ja life sentence. The r?A" reached ( its final disposition on fhursday. The sentence in the case of Da vid Burrows who was convicted of I housebreakihg and larceny, which was temporarily suspended until a mental examination of the defend ant was made, was a term of one year. The mental examination made i by the county physician showed the negro to have the average mental ity of a sound mind. j incomes'of~ ! 5 citizens Aggregate Gross Revenue Reaches $65,090,572 i _ Washington. Feb.* if' ? Five citi [zens of the United''States reported Jan aggregate gross'.revenue in 1919 ? of $G3,0?0,'r>72, according to an of ficial report issued by the Treas ury department! Deductions of i $14.405.673 were allowed, bringing [the net income to $50,624.$99 on .which the government collected i $33.30]?0S5, or l>5.77 per cent. ' The analysis of the income of these five taxpayers, made by the treasury, showed that less than ; $75.000 came from wages and sal varies, none from-" business: $20.000 from partnership and personal ser vice corporations; $11.000.000 from sale of real estate, stocks, bonds, [etc.: $121.000 from rents and royal j ties: $46.000.000 from dividends; *ii.7 13,000 from interest and invest j men: income and the balance about j $380,000 from interest on govern ! ment securities not entirely exempt from taxation. "FERTILIZING COTTON UNDER HOLL WEEVIL CONDITIONS ) Ck-mson College. Feb. 17.? iSince from this time on growing ? cotton in South Carolina will have to he in com pet i; ion with the boll weevil, and since the kind, quan tity and conditions in the use of fertilizer will play important purl I in growing cotton in the presence of the boll weevil, the extension ser ? vice has issued extension circular "Fertilizing Cotton under Roll [Weevil Conditions." for the purpose I of guiding farmers in the use of j fertilizers according lo the results [of experiments and the experience I of the most successful farmers who have been growing cotton profitably in boll weevil territory. The circular contains brief dis !cussion of cotton soils with rofer i once to those best suited for cut [ ton under boll weevil conditions, and gives information regarding ni trogenous fertilizers, mineral ferti lizers, home mixing, etc. A table showing recommended fertilizer mixtures for cot ton under boll wee vil conditions giyes in compact 1 form the kinds ami amounts oi the I different ingredients for tin- dif ferent types o! soils. Tlie ? irculai is of course for free i I distribution to ;i!l citizens of the I slat.- who desire it and may be had I from the county agents or frorn the [extension service. Clenison College*. ? S. (*. i.i;r. cures Chills and Fever.? Adverl isement. - Free speech-: Che wonderful privilege enjoyed bj all good and [honest men who agree with rbe majority. I Amusement taxes are not am us . ing. i Things might be worse Tin .sword i n't rait led now. even i; tto ?statesmen are. SAVE YOUR I FRUIT TREES Onlv a Short Time Remains: * in Which Spraying and Pruning May Be Done The last . all for caring for your fr?h tree's. The time for spraying with lime sulphur solution, one gal-| Ion of the lime sulphur to nine of j water is rapidly passing. Procras-j tination is tho thief of time. Do i not wait longer? fn ;i few days the gentle south winds will begin to blow, and buds of the fruit trees will begin to swell arid vou '? will wake up and find your peach j ; trees beginning to bloom and i; will! I be Km late for the dormant spray. Do not think for a moment that yon can have good fruit without taking care of your trees. So ninny peo ple tell me thai grandfather used] in have good fruit and he5 did not do all these things we are doing now. That is true, and we used to grow cotton without having to wor ry about boll weevils. There was) a time when we did not have blight! or wilr in our gardens and fields,' numerous other pests thai now lesi our ingenuity and ability to grow crops in spite ot the new handi caps. There have been planted in I Sumter county this year around j forty thousand peach trees. I pre-j diet that one-fourth of these trees i will never amount to anything. I have ordered around six thousand ? trees for finite a number of differ [ent people and in every instance, I j have made them promise to at I least look after the borers around the roots of the trees and to spray ing to keep the scale from killing the trees. If all the farmers in Sumter county were like a few I know, you ! would not hear so much about , these hard times. There are a number of fanners in the county who arc always ready to purchase something especially if they can se cure a bargain in price. Peach trees today are costly at a cent j apiece if they are not taken care of. i In fact you ear.not afford to plant ?them out if they were given to you, if you are going to neglect them. You would not secure enough fruit to pay for the rent of the land on [which they stand. On the other hand 1 know of orchards contain ing no more than an acre in Sum ter county from which peaches amounting to six hundred dollars in value have been sold in a single year, beside all of the delicious fruit consumed by the family and friends of the family. P There is a supply of lime sulphur .solution at prescht in Sumter. The merchants do not care to stock up too heavily and two weeks from j now the stock may be exhausted 'and no chance to secure more. So get your solution ?and get, busy. 'See that all Of the borers that have not already been removed are !gouged out. prune off. ail diseased limbs and open up Lite .center of irees so sunshine can color up ?and give flavor to your fruit, then en Joy the fruits of your labor next summer, while the improvident nun is grumbling and growling ;about limes being differeni from what*they were during the days past and gone. J. FRANK WILLIAMS, County Agent. HORSES TRAPPED IN INDIANA FIRE; One Hundred Burn at State' Fair Building. Three Horse- i I men Slightly Burned Indianapolis. Ind., Feb. ]'.>. The' large brick horse barn at the Indi- j ana state fair grounds here and | about 100 valuable horses wore burned early today, causing a loss estimated at $200,000. Three horsemen also were burned, two ol them seriously, in attempting to rescue the animals. According to Assistant Fire Chief j Hoy I the tire started from an oil i !stove, and .as the loft was filled with j hay and straw tin- flames spread rapidly, trapping the animals nnd sleeping hostlers in the burning i structure. The' slate roof on the I barn is believed to have saved the I large eollisum just across the road ! from serious damage, j Harvey ia^'.y. owner of Lord j Busby, n valuable pacer, which I was burned to death, narrowly es caped after being seriously burned ; when trapped in the stall with his j horse. Fifteen hundred dollars in : currency which he is said to have had with him was burned also. A I horse which Frank .Myers was trying to rescue became panic 'stricken and fell on him, pinnin . I My< rs to the floor and ho was ser - I ously bruned and trampled bofoi i freeing himself. Edward Wor . j another horseman, was sligh : I burned. ! The dead horses are sad to n j I elude f>0 of the -"7 sent here fr >n Camp Knox for use of Batteries i and several polo ponies. Cov. Ws , ren T. MeCray's ri ng horse. "Tj j ! Croat Rose." a $15.000 mare r* \ Icently purchased by Thomas D. j iTaggart and several show horses J j owned by Ron McDonald. Grand 'circuit race driver. The horses: that escaped -named the northwest j (section of the city and a number: j had not been rounded up tonight, i Rub-My-Tism for Rheumatism. Advertisement. COTTON MARKET NEW YORK COTTON. Yestdya Opes High Lew Close Close I March _ . 18.25 18.54 18.24 13.44 18.18; i May .18.10 18.28 17.99 18.16 17.97 1 iju.y .17.55 17.78 17.47 17.65 17.45' !0ct.17.00 17.24 16.96 17.16 16.97 j ! Dec. 16.36 17.10 16.83 16.85 I S'Hits i'> up, IS.7.". - NEW ORLEANS COTTON. Yestdys j Open Hijrh Low Close Close ; March _ .17.15 17.23 16.91 17.07 16.92] I May .17.11 17.30 17.00 17.14 56.95 July .17.00 17.17 16.37 17.02 16.82 Oct.16.46 I6.S0 16.30 16.46 16.32 J j Spots ->.s up, 17. 13. LIVERPOOL COTTiN. I January . . '.. 9.69 I March . 10.22 May .. 10.25 July . 10.20 : October. . 9.86 : December . 9.74 ! Sales 20.000. Middling .o.4s: Good Mid dling u:i3. -? ? o ' GGG cures Bilious Fever.?a.nver ' tisement. Times may get so bad soon a man will have to blame things on his wife. ? ? # Rub-My-Tism, a pain killer.? Advertisement. Sweet-Cain. ?* r _ . i ' . *' Miss Bertha Sweet and Mr. Fran cis M. Cain, of Sumter were o.uiet Iy married at the. home of the bride at Winr.sboro, S. C, Sunday afternoon. February 19th, at 3 o'clock, the Rev. Mr. A. E. Holer of the Winnsboro Methodist church performing the ceremony. Only the immediate members of both families were present. Mendels sohn's wedding march was played by Miss Kddie Sweet, of- Scranton, S. C. a sister of the bride. Immediately after the ceremony the young couple left by motor for Edgefield, S. C, on a visit of sev eral days to Mrs. E. S. Reeves. They will return ;o Sumter during the latter part of this week a.nd will be at home to their friends at the residence of Mrs. John R. Hayns worth, So. 17 E. Calhoun street. Mr. and Mrs. Cain are both well known in Sumter as both have made their homes here forthe past several y< ars. The bride is a grad uate of the Tourney Hospital Train ing school. Tlie groom has been connected with the National Bank of Sumter as teller for the past two years. The young couple, have the best wishes of numerous friends f ?r a long and happy life. ' ' Maycsville Xeus Notes Mayesville, Feb. 18.?Miss Elsie CVilkes, a graduate of the Bowman Business College has accepted, a po sition as stenographer with the Bennett Hedgepatti Co., at Clio, S.' c. Mr. C. K. Wingate of the South Carolina University is at home spending a few days this week. Rev. Ray Riddle Uid wife, with his mother-in-law, Mrs. R. A. Chandler, Sr.. spent the week end in our city at Mrs. Chandler's for mer home. Miss Ruth Taylor of the A. C. L. yard office, Sumter. S. C, is home this week with the flu, but is bet ter and expects to return first' 'Of" next week. On account of the rough weafher the prayer meeting was not held \V( mi nesday night. Mr. Frankle E. Dukes of the A. ? C. L. of Wadesboro, N. C, is a visitor at the Keenan Hotel, with his cousin. Frances Dukes, this week. OGG cures Malarial Fever.?Ad vertisement. Richmond, Feb. 17.?Judge Rich ardson, it is announced, has order ed the empanelling Monday of :i special grand jury to investigate the Lexington hotel, tire where there were twelve persons to lose their lives in an early morning fire. To break a cold take 6GG.?Ad vertisement. Hunting Profiteers in Vienna. Vienna. Jan. 28.?In ^ a^;^ff<i'& to check tiie wild profiteering prev alent here j ?> the ; goyrrrjment has asked the public to report refusal of merchants to sell goods,, those withholding or concealing stock "or unjustifiably increasing .prices? ? ? Charges may he brought by simp ly mailing them through the post, thus avoiding the red tape of per j sonal appearance: j To prevent a cold take 6C$.? I Advertisement. Cooperative Marketing: Means Prosperity To: The raisin growers, prune growers, and citrus fruit growers of California. The apple growers of Oregon, Ohio and Wisconsin. The citrus fruit growers, and truck growers of Florida. The tobacco growers have organized to sell coopera tively. The wheat and corn growers of the Middle West are organizing to sell cooperatively. The cotton growers of Texas and Oklahoma, and the . staple cotton growers of Mississippi and Arizona are sell ing cooperatively today, and in addition to these, North Carolina, and Arkansas are organized to sell 1922 cotton. South Carolin:!, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee are organizing. Sumter county cotton growers, do you want more money for cotton? Join the South Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association. Canvassers in each community. Con tracts can be secured from Chamber of Commerce. Phone 200. 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