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f f ?-'?? - '-r--*-:-*T MEETING OF LITERARY CLITB The annual meeting of the Wo man's Literary Club was held on Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs- S. H.. Edmunds. A large num ber of the members were in at tendance. The officers made t> ? reports of jhe year's work and Mrs. R. B. Fur man as president, ad dressed the meetings, reviewing the work of the club and suggesting an outline for the coming year. Mrs. Furmap has held th. club up to a very high standard of work and the.programs have been of un usual interest. Under her. leadership the follow ing oi?TC*?rs were elected for the en suing year. Mrs. W- Percy Smith, president: Mrs. Jane Strother, vice president,- Mrs. E. S, Lesense. secre-' tary and treasurer. After the busi .. i^es ?meeting Mrs. Edmunds. en tertained the Club at tea. The wide spacious rooms making a love ly., picture, the. dowers all spoke of the coming of spring?bemg. daf fodils and jonquils in immense bowls and jardiniers.' The club has a firm hold upon its members.and year after year they gather ta read and . study in. a delightful atmos phere of pleasant companionship - over their congenial work. . ? ? ? , On House Breaking and Larceny Charge. Ed Solomon,, colored, is bemg held for trial during the% next court term on the charge of house breaking and,larceny.. The store of Grant L?rick, a negro operating a business in Shannontown, was lately entered and robbed of a con siderable^ amount of. goods consist ing of tobacco, matches; dry goods,' canned goods, etc. On information obtained, the house of a negro, named Robert Keith was searched by-the rural officers and goods found hidden. Robert 'Keith stat ed that he had gotten the goods from Ed Solomon. Tbe house of Ed Solomon was next placed on tne visiting list of the officers who. located a considerable amount of goods that were positively identi fied as being from the. stock of goods of the store operated by Grdnt L?rick. The negro Ed Sol omon said triat ho had just recent ly moved t6 this house and that he had ho idea that these goods were hidden in the- loft of the house. ? ? ? ?? Hagood Xews and Views. Renabert,, March 9.?We are not' inclined to believe the good but the evil report, against One we dis like. . It is a. sorry house whose head plays second fiddle. A man is the head, but woman is;.. she.l-X^?ck. sea/,, :u*ns- -the; head withersoever she wills. If you think there is no wheat In the country, peep into the mill house at Dinkins and see it piled. G. L. Lenoir is a splendid farm er; that means he is near, thor oughgoing, int^Uigenr. His small grain is peautiful. The acreage of small grain here is more considerable than last year's and looks well. Whether Otor people can get fertilizer for it fs the. question. ? . All"the farm work is at a stand still, due to the continued wet Weather. It i? time to plant corn but not a.furrow has been run. Some, of our folks are trying trucking. Some will plant Irish potatoes, a number will try sweet potatoes. There is some moonshine, home brew or other stuff in these dig gings. Why can not the authori ties run down the criminals as the constables used to? When one is convicted, be he big or little bug. he ought to serve a term on the chaingang. The movies are In disrepute but evidently they do not feel it. What, shall the. harvest of the next generation be? We are moving some. Our older boys, seventy, etc. can remember when the round dance was an out rage. Sam Jones said it was hugging sot to music. What v.culd he say of the new set ? "Might as well be out of the world as to* be out of fashion." A decent body would prefer to be out of the world than follow some of its fashions. Do. you know times are tight? Many are finding it difficult to get bread to eat. One maa in our community is a real Godsend to the colored people here, giving them work and enabling them to live. I refer to S. W. All-m. Given, a strong character and personality in the class room with a will to do, and the a _.bunt ?.;f good that teacher does i*_ great. One of my old pupils. Guv Dow Ian, a man, dropped by last Sun day. "Ha^bod." ? ? ? Two classes of people have fires: those who have no insurance, and those who are accused by the neighbors of burning it f-?r the in surance. - ? ? ? - Somehow, the CortVrcee re minds us of Paul's lament that when he would do good, evil was ever present with him. They say insects cost the world a billion dollars a year. And bis estimate doesn't include the ravag es of the humbug. - ? ? ? Another excellent business policy is the one that makes the consum er the beneficiary of tb<- whole saler's reductions. Peggy Joyce is writing a book on "My Husbands," which probably will tell all about their wife. The only fool like an old fool is a young one. I j SPARTANBURG VICTORIOUS Sumter "Yw Suffers Season's Defeat in Basketball at Hands of Fast Quintett From "City of Success" In'a same of basketball played Iin the gymnasium of the Y. M. C. A. Friday night the local "Y" team .went down, before superior speed j demonstrated by the. championship j team of the Spartanburg Y. M. C. \A.. by the score of 43 to 3*5. And Jtnus at the termination of the game [ which proved to be a brilliant ex hibition of basketball and also one <of the hardest fought throughout of ail games ever witnessed on the i home floor, the record of the Sum Iter "Y" team was marred and a jvictory chalked Against this proud ? team. Although outweigh ted and (at:a disadvantage by the unaccus tomed smallness of this court, the light and fast Spartanburg quintet in bursts of speed, skill, and con sistent team work outplayed and outgeneraled Sumter's team, thus ? meriting their victory. Sumter by. i5i:eer hard ,work managed to win! J the. lead for the first time during ithe early part of the second period jof the .game and just at this pe j riod their chances .of taking the j ; gamo hazily appeared to view for j la. short 'lime. Spartanburg, show-; ! irg a far greater experience in the j iba^et ball world, soon, however,: jpuPf.d together and., caused the! ; abandonment, of. Sumter's hope of j |a victory.. Shining m the limelight ' was the work of Hecklin,.ior Spar j tanburg. The best work for Sumter j j was done by Pitts and McKnight. Lineup: j Sumter 35 Position Spar. 43 McKnight 10, Harris 12 Pitts 17 Heckiin 17 Burns C C. "Vogel 14 'Shaw 2 Howard Sholar Oeland Substitutions: Sumter?Heidt for Shaw. Referee: Van Metre, of Columbia. Jury Prawn The following names have been drawn to serve as members of the jury during the first ^week's ses sion of the court of common pleas which convenec in Sumter on Mon day, March 27, 1922, for a term of two weeks. Judge S. W. C. I Shipp will preside. V. G. Xelsan, R. F. D. Sum ter. James Pagan, Sumter W. B. Cooper, Mayesvilje, George M. Fox worth, city. J. L. Sibert. city, j W. O. McCoy. Sumter^ R/ 3, S. F. Studemire, city, W. G. Moore, Olanta, Leroy Wells, Ti'ndals, S. C. Seymour, Sumter, R. 1. D. .7. Brad ham, Sumter, R. 4, R. F. ifcLellan, city, W.M." Gay land, Sumter R. A, C. B. Huggins, city, I J. M. Lawrence, city, J. F. Ho'oge, Tindals, J. S. Griffin, Sumter, R. 2, W. W. McKagen, city, Richardson Sanders, city, G. L. Broadway, Sumter, R. 2, J. C. Pate, City, J. M. Werrz, Sumter, R. 5, W. R. DuBose, Jr., Oswego, J. L. Bradham, Sumter, C. L. Tisdale, city, (\ C. Beck, city, R. K. Wilder, city, A. B. Cabbage, Sumter, R. 2, S. F. Kennedy, city, Alva Stuckey. Palzell, R. 1, George G. Tweed, city, C. C. Kavanaugh, city, K. W. Brunson, Sumter, R. 1, F. B. Creech, city, J.'P. Brogdon, Sumter. R. 1, J. A. Middleton, Sumter, R. 3, m) m> ? Famous Phonograph Star Here Soon. Thousands, yes millions no doubt , have heard the phonograph rec I ords produced by Ada .lones, but j few have had the opportunity now j offered the music lovers of not only I hearing her voice, but actually see 1 ing her in person. Probably no ! singer before the public has such ; superb technique at her control. ; while her range of voice and ease of expression are a constant de i light. Miss Jones brings with her a brilliant company of lyceum ar ; tists. which includes Miss Mabel H. I Loomis, soprano. Not only is \Miss I Loomis a soloist, but also an ac ! com pan ist of rare ability, and ?n j semble player of merit, possessing j that sympathetic understanding j which is so necessary to make "two ; instruments controlled as by one ? thought." No concert 's complete ! without the modern entertainer, ; and .Miss .ion?-*; has one in Arm ! strong, known as "the man of mystery.*' Ills feats of magic and ? amusing anecdotes and stories are always enjoyed. Beth Hamilton is ; of the younger school of violinists. Her work the past season places her in th<- front rank. She wins ; her audience with her personal charm ami great musical gift, a j woman who probably sang songs to more English speaking people than any other woman in the I world. vFheth< : Ada Jones' im t personation be that of a darky ! ma id. a "fresh* sales lady, a cowboy [girl, a country damsel. Mrs. Flan | nag&n or an Irish Colleen, a bow ! ery tough girl, a newsboy or a [? gr?'ndmorher, it is a perfect one of its kind. To ,,U phonograph : lovers this is a rare treat to hear [and see Ada Joins and her own ' com pa ny. Ada Jones and her company will appear here on March 17th under the auspices of the Civic League. On the sea of matrimony there are too many changes of the tied. COTTON MARKETING MEETING _ |C. 0. Moser Speaks in Stead I of Dr. Poe Who is Too 111 to Fill Engagement Sum tor County ',.egan its "Sign . Up" week Saturday with a splendid : mooting held at the Court House at eleven o'clock at which j was present a 1 a r g e and I representative audience, made up ! of farmers and of business men j from all over the county. Dr. Clarence Poe, of Raleigh, N. jC. editor of the Progressive Farm icr. was scheduled to have made the {address at this meeting but was j unavoidably prevented owing to j sickness in his family and also his jown illness. The wording of the \ telegram sent by Dr. Poe to the ; farmers meeting in Cheraw yester ? day was as follows: "Distressed to j advise that in addition to having j all three children sick have myself ! contracted influenza and am now j ?n bed in spite of all plans, there? I fore impossible to get to Sumter to j morrow. Maybe you eah get Dr. j Taylor, to express tc? Sumter people j my profound .disappointment." A ! telegram was sent to Dr. Poe this ! morning from Sumter expressing j the heartfelt sympathy of the Sum j ter people and the hope for a > speedy recovery. j Mr. J. Frank "Williams, County I Farm Demonstration Agent, acted j as-chairman of the meeting. Mr. : R. C. Hamer, Chairman of the cam | paign Committee made a few re ; marks before the meeting and in ! troduced Mr. C. O. Moser, Secre ! tary of the American Cotton Grow j ors' Exchange, and also Secretary j of the Texas Marketing Association ! with headquarters in Dallas, Texas. I Mr. Hamer expressed his regret I that Dr. Poe was unable to be j present at the meeting but stated I that he felt that the Sumter people ! were fortunate at having vhe op ; portunity of hearing Mr. Moser, j who would be able to.give bis.audi jence the benefit of his.many years j experience in the cotton business, j Mr. Moser, Secretary of the Ameri can Cotton Growers' Exchange., fche overhead organization ;Of the vari ous statewide cooperative associa tions, has assisted actively in the campaigns in the various states for the formation o fthese associations. ?He was the principal speaker of jthe meeting and delivered a truly j splendid and strong, addrses,' .provv jing himself to be a thorough mas j ter of his subject and the possessor ] of a veritable storehouse of tangible j knowledge of the subject, and in ; addition an excellent amount bf j first hand experience in this busi j ness... .. -. , Mr., Moser stated that, he had j been in Georgia for the past few j weeks assisting in the campaign in jthat state and he brought the word ithar the quota in that state.was al j ready assured. Although the cam | paign -does ,not close un^il. March ?3K victory is already.in sight and i the. workers are now trying to see j how far-they car go beyond the j quota. Mr. Moser predicted that ! they would probably exceed the .'quota by 100,000 bales. ! One of the most interesting fea i tu res of Mr. Moser's address was Ihis description of the operations of ! the Texas and Oklahoma associa I tions. which are already function jing, having been organized in the 'spring of 1921 and they are I handling the 1921 crop. The state I ment that the members of the asso : eiation have received an average of from two to three cents a pound i more for their cotton than non j members have received was "made Iny the speaker and he then pro ceeded to show This had been pos sible. The mills, he; said; were willing to pay more for cotton when I they could buy it in large quantities i and in the grades they wish. They ! can afford to do it because in being able to buy it in large lots from j one party they eliminate a lot of 1 their overhead. ! Mr. Moser stressed three im port i ant features of the contract, as fol ! lows: "First, the long-time legal ! ly binding contract. This insures jthe members sticking and assures j the association'that it "will have cot ! ton to sell over a period of years [thereby enabling it to.establish sat isfactory trade relations and justify ! adequate arrangements for fransac ; ting the business, j "Second/the 100 per cent com j p.ulsory pool. In the pool all the j product is handled for sale in i even-running lots according to qual ity and variety. All growers de j livering the same grade and the I same kind of. cotton receive, exact | ly the same price. Every member j receives the average price at which jthe product of that kind and qual j ity is sold. This makes possible j orderly marketing throughout the jyear in accordance with demands [of the market and tends to elimi j nate speculation. ; "Third, the non-profit, non-stock : feature and the exclusive grower membership. This {stires a com plei.- harmony of interest, abso llute fairness and equality in the ? handling of the business of each ?member and it is a guarantee ! against outside interests ever gair i ing control of the organization and I exploiting it for their own gain!" Mr. Moser laid particular stress on tin- type of men who had been j chosen as officers of the associa tions already organized. In each !state the very be? armers and business men to be iound had oeen elected. Mr. Moser said that while a. farmer might allow prejudices and political whims to influence his vote in a political election, he would never allow it t oinfluence him in i business manner. . They always seek tin- very best men t<? be found. There is not a hank or big corpora tion in tin- states of North Carolina. Texas or Oklahoma whose board of directors are more outstanding men than the officers of the cotton cooperative marketing associations in those states. The Texas farmers are delighted with the results being obtained through the organization in their j state. The same is true Of the bankers and business men. Nathan j Adams, one of the largest bankers in that stale and in the south, de Iclared in a.statement given out last I week that the cooperative market | ing of cotton was the hope of the !south. j Gratification at the splendid pro gress being made in South Carolina [was expressed by Mr. Moser, who expressed the hope that this state would line up with its sister states and sell its "cotton cooperatively, marketing it in an orderly manner and not dumping it on the market. At the close of the address by Mr. Moser a survey was taken of the audience and it was very grati fying to find that the majority of all present had already signed the contracts. A number present ex pressed their 'willingness to sign up immediately, and there were j none present who were eligible to isign that expressed themselves as ! being opposed or unwilling to isign jlhe contract. The minimum quota i of bales of cotton has been fixed for South Carolina at 400.000 bales. All neighboring counties of the state are enthusiastic and it is ex pected that Sumter is not going to j be very far behind when it comes to their total number of subscribed bales. There were many present in the audience this morning'whe expressed their willingness, to see personally as many, farmers as pos sible and interest them in the pro position. Also assisting in this campaign over the state are: Mr. Harold C. Booker, Secretary of the South Carolina Marketing Association, and 2yir. Alfred Scarborough of the organization .committee. These workers for! the association left j Sumter for Bishopville where 'they j held a meeting this afternoon. j SUMTER HIGH L LOST GAME IN CHARLESTON j Charleston* March lL-^The old jcage game was partly ushered out I last night with a double victory 'for Charleston when Bethel defeat ted the Savannah Juniors 25 to 20, j and the Bantams pearly tripled i Sumter's score, ^4 to 12?. Both j games were fast 'and clean* and the j speed .of all four aggregations, was i noticeable. All players deserve 'much credit and both Savannah ' and Sumter should feel proud of \ their teams. Naturally "home j folks" are proud of the Charles i ton athletes. j. The first game was a thriller. I From, the start the two teams I matched scores every other minute. .'The .first half ended l4-i4. The i Methodists came back, boosted by {.Coach Morse in the second half, 1 and was the first to open fire at ! the ring. Savannah so m regis tered and took the lead, holding it [;until the last two minutes. Bethel j started good follow work and won ?the game in the last sixty seconds. ; Every local lad did well. Sanders j tallied fifteen points. Moorer, at j guard, rung three from field. Sires, jLaTorre and Burns, with Shuler land Oliver, made up their lack of j goals by timely shots. Dawson, i for the Juniors, scored one-half of j the points for the visitors; Pee j pies, at forward, duplicated the j captain's work. The guards and i Gordon, for the Georgia boys, did ,' well. j. The fireworks did not start so j soon in the second game as was i expected. High school did not get; ! under way except by spurts and j only counted eighteen points in the j first twenty minutes. All the' Ban ; tarns played well. All five regu | lars, while not exactly right, played ! a classy style of ball. The follow I shots were especially good. The j visitors were a scrapy bunch, j They never once stopped their of j fensive work and held the Garnet j and Gold squad down by much \ aggressive work. Wright did best j for the Sumter boys.' Wright is ja good player and, although hurt I early in the second half, remained j in the game until he had to retire. jHe made eight of the twelve j points. The balance of the team played well and put up .stiff oppo sition against a far superior team. The large crowd enjoyed the j games and in spite of the bad weather the fans came out to see the Bantam and Bethel aggrega tions. Summary of games: Charleston (84) P Sumter (12) jHuneken, G.4.Crombe Forward. j Weeks, T. 20-..Bryan, 4 Forward. [Weeks, G. 4_Wright S Center. llupeken, F. .Wray Guard. Drowota 2 _.Blanding Guard. Substitutes. Kilpafrick for G. jHuneken, Long (4) for G. Weeks. j Johnson for Drowota, Dwyer for j Crombe. Green for Bryan. 0 + ^ .; When the ^ods wish to make an ass of a man, they just give him | ja little authority and let Nature j taice its course. . - #m? m j "Be diplomatic in Africa." urges] ja missionary. Won't cannibals eat j anything that agrees with them? -^rfrr- I Hint to stout men: A divorce* j suit always makes . a man seem I very small. ; ? ? ? Men b ai n from hard experience, j sand next time they wilt nave sense; [enough in time of war to prepare ! for peace. It isn't probable, however, that j business will get on its feet while, j the ii et remain eoid. One reason why the train al i ways heats the flivver i<? the cross-] ling is because the engineer knows ! the flivver can't kno^k him off tin It rack. - Man: A small particle of in telligence entirely surrounded by I habits. Buildings won't go up where prices are. DAIRY MEETING AT STATE FARM I ... I ' _ i Notwithstanding the.exceedingly j unfavorable weather Friday the I dairy, meeting at the DeSaussure i state farm, near Hag'ood. was well [attended, there being present be ! tween thirty and forty farmers of ! that section of. the county. The [meeting was held in the farm su j perintendent'S residence, the sitting room and dining room being thrown together to accommodate 'the crowd. There,; seated around [a comfortable, fire, the farmers of jHagood and Rembert section heard j one phase of the ''.how* to beat/the ; boll weevil" prbplem discussed by j experts of the United States depart ment of agriculture, and Clemson j College and the International Har ; yester Company. Mr. C. Sbhmoike, who is in 'charge of the dairy extension work i of this district,, opened the meet J ing with a general discussion of the dairying industry and the pos | sibil'ities of that line of work in this j section. His'talk was along prae j tical lines entirely. He particular } ly stressed the fact that this section ] had incomparable advantages over i what is now considered the dairy j section of the northwest and mid dle west in climate, ability to pro I duce pasturage and feed stuff and j proximity to the greatest consum 1 ing markets of the United States, J all of which tended to make dairy ing here more profitable than in 1 other sections, even though the I products are sold for the same ! prices. The investment in barns i and other buildings need not be as ! great as those of the northwestern j dairymen, the climate permits all I the year round pasturage, the soil ; arid climate affords a greater va j riety of cow food, and the differ ence in freights alone will repre sent a profit on the products, if the j business grows beyond the capae ; ify of the local markets to absorb ! the output. Hut for years to come, unless there is an unprece dented development of the dairy I ing industry, the home market will i take the output of the creamer ; ies of the state. Another fact that j he stressed is that to make dairy - | ing profitable the cows muse be i used first of all as the market for j the pasturage, the legumes and : grains grown on the farm. No J dairyman can produce butterfat at j a profit if the feed dealer is his ; source of supply for cow food. He j asked if the farmers did not think 'that they could compete with the ! northwestern dairymen in produc ing butterfat, if they grew their j own velvet beans and cotton seed j meal, ; which the northwestern .' dariymen have to buy in the south j and ship a thousand miles? Mr. j Schmolke also discussed the type ! of cows that should be kept and I the care and attention that they ! should receive. ' The most import j ant item is to have' cows that pay ] for their feed and a little more, j There are many herds that contain j a Large percentage of cows that do j not nay their own board and eat ! up in addition all the profit that .the productive cows farn. The dairyman'must know' which cows are producing a profit and which i are no.t There must be ho guess j work, the milk must be weighed j'arid tested for butter fat, and then j the non-profit producing cows must j be weeded out. In developing ' a J herd.it is .important that a bull of j an established butter-producing j Strain be secured and; then the ser j'tection of producers must be close j ly attended to, for all the calves ] from a good bull will-not be but I tor producers?some of them will \ throw back to their scrub maternal j ancestors. He also touched on sep j aration of cream and shipment to creameries, the utilization of the skim milk as a hog and poultry food. ! Following Mr. Schmolke, pas (tur.es and pasture grasses were 1 discussed by Mr. Jeffords of the j department of agriculture. He j spoke of the ordinary forage crops [now grown in this section, and the j native and well established grasses, j For certain types of land in this i section he stated that'. Carpet grass alone or in combination with les ? pedeza is superior to all others, i for the reason that it has a longer j growing season than bermuda and I will stand closer grazing and main ham ? larger number of cattle to ? the acre. He also advised that pasturage should be supplemented ;with ensilage in the winter j months, and made the positive ''statement that a silo is one of the i most profitable investments that a I dairyman could make. I Mr. Abbott, of Columbia, state j representative of the International j Harvester company, gave a general talk on farming in the south under boll weevil conditions, and gave I from his experience and observa tion in other states the story of I 'the development of dairying as a i profitable industry in place of J cotton. He made a plain prac i tical talk that applied to present i local conditions and illustrated the 'often made statement that the j southern farmer can make a living and prosper without being depend ent on cotton. At the conclusion of the talks, a cream separation demonstration was given, the milk being furnish i ed by the state farm and the sepa rator by r.he International Harves ter Company. Mr. Schmolke dem onstrated the method of testing for ! butter fat. 1 After the demonstration the visi tors from Sumter and Columbia (were entertained at dinner by the I superintendent of the farm, i The meeting was held at the in stance of Mr. A. K. Sanders, super [ intendeni of the State Peniten tiary and be came over from Co-j jlumbia for the meeting. He is greatly interested in the dairying ' industry and plans to build up a j dairy herd at the "farm as rapidly ] las possible. The farm now has! [about three hundred cattle, many i of ili*- cows being grade Jerseys. I Guernseys and Holsteins. At the head of the herd there art- two registered Holstein bulls. ? m '<m ! Most of the time-killing is done j ! t.v seconds. First-class men don't j i loaf. 1 COTTON MARKETING ? CAMPAIGN ! Stores Will Close I Tuesday, , March 21st and Business Men Will Assist in Clean Up Day - Saturday interested planters ?started the circulation of an agroe j meht by business houses that they ?would close on the 21st ant would ; devote the day to helping secure signatures in the matter of the co operative marketing of cot'.on. The committee did not have time to fin ish Saturday afternoon- and two committees from the Business Men's League canvassed the remainder of j the territory this morning.. The I agreement and the signatures are j published below. As in all such cases some, parties j are out when called upon, and so j their names do not. appear in this 1 list. All such who wilt'join in the j movement will confer a favor on I'the management of the campaign j if they will send in their names j for publication. j Recognizing the very great im | portance of the success of the Co j operative Marketing Association j to the very' life of all business, as ! well as to that of the farmer, we i the undersigned bankers, mer chants and business men of the city of Sumter agree to close our places of business on Tuesday, March 21st and to give our services toward placing the matter before such, cot ton planters as may not ftp to that i'time have'' joined the said asso ciation with the view to inducing I them to do so. ! Geo, II. Hurst & Sons, ?' ? ; M. B. Handle, ]' Bryans, Inc. ! The Cherry Co., from 10 to 3. i D. J. Chandler Clothing Co., I C. .fc Dwyer, j M. Goldberg, L. Alpert. j Spann's Cash Grocery, j Harby & Co., inc. l.ynnm Electric f*o. j J: H. Beaman. ] W. H. Folsom. j H. L. Tisdaie. B. O. Br?dwell. j H. 9. Smith. I Geo. Hashim. i G. C. Cooper, i Stubbs Brothers, j #: E. Thayer. ! B. C. Wallace, Mclavail! & Zeaffler Fur. Co. j J. B. Folsom.. j B. Kirschner, J W. B. Burns'& Sons, j Bultman Shoe Co. j W. M. Folsom Co. j Bucker & Bultman, M. Green. George Nofal,' ' C. M. Phifer, I W. B. Boyle Co. ! E. W. Vogel, E. Schadaf'essi, j W. L. Lester, .' The. Sumter Dry Goods Co. J Da Rant Hardware Co. 1 Sumter Clothing Co. \ Cash Dry I Goods Co. j Shaw & McCollum Merc. Co. ! Schwartz Bros/, (If all close.) j H; C. Bland :(It all close.) } McCollum Eros. 1 Joseph M. Chandler; | W. R. Phillips, p'Donriell Dry Goods Co. S If en ry. Pi Moses Co. I W. H. Shelley & Son. j Ben Slovis "(If all close.) j V. Gazes, j The/Misses Wilkes, W. E. j\toore, ** j McCallnm-Realty Co. * Harper's Grocery, i W. O. Courtwright Co. i The Toadies' Shop, i S. H. Kress & Co. j Lucas & VanAuken, j Sumter Gas & Power Co. j Hi ley & Co. Peoples' Mercantile Co. I Jno. D. Lemmon. - ? m ? Weather Reports by Wireless t Columbia,-March- 10~The' U. S. Weather Bureau has further ex j tended to general forecast service 1 in the interest of aviation and ma j rine interests. j In' June 1921, the broadcasting j of weather information from the i great radio station at Arlington, j Va? was begun. The country was ; then divided into 13 zones, and any radio station of sufficient pow i er cart intercept the information J according to instructions issued by ! the Weather Bureau, copies of Which are available at the Columbia i office. The number of zones has been j increased to 14, and includes the j whole of the Pacific coast region, j The broadcasting service of fore ] casts, warnings, and weather re j ports will be rendered from the i San Francisco naval radio station I beginning March 15, 1922. The ! morning bulletin will be broadcast I at noon, 7."> Meridian time, with a ! wave length of 4,650 meters, and j the evening bulletin, at 10:30 p. m. ! witli a wave length of 1,90$ me ! ters. This information will doubt ! less be interchanged far out in the I Pacific and along the coast or j shore line. j This service is made possible by 1 close cooperation hef>een the of J rtce of ccmmunciaticns and the j weather bureau, and rapid disse j mination of upper air observations i made by the weather bureau and ? the war and navy departments ! will become effective. As the great I continental area of Europe and j Asia are only irregularly organized I in the matter of general weather ! information the United States thus j becomes the pioneer in the dis I semination of information that is : so essential in tin- navigation of the ! air and so important to the great marine industries. Richard H. Sullivan. Meteorologist nnd Section Direc tor. If must be a great consolation to China t?> know that those who are frisking her pockets are friends. ? ? ? ? Two pints 'make one quart: two quarts make one party: one party makes four first-class funerals. Early .Tum- Peas of Quality. - i Tin- very finest quality peas at j the present tim*> are neither, j I strictly speaking, dwarfs, nor are they tall. They are intermediate and while they may be grown as dwarfs and without brushing, they ; bear better when given the sup ? port of low brush or a narrow \ ; strip of chicken wire. These are I the Gradus and Laxten types of ? pea, which vary from 30 inches to. ' almost four feet, according 10 va- | ! riety. All do better with support, j although commonly grown as \ dwarfs. They give a heavier yield j when held upright, j Of the very early peas of the j wrinkled type, which is much j superior to the earliest smodth ! seeded type, Little Marvel still I holds a high place among the real ly dwan' peas, the vines being on | ly about eighteen inches. It ma ; Tit-res in eight Weeks and is very ! hardy and of the finest quality. A ! little earlier is Market Surprise, j Alaska and Maud S., smooths'eeded I peas, still remain the earliest of all, ! of good quality if taken very young. ! but not equaled to the wrinkled j varieties, which are not so hardy j and canr.-ot be planted or cropped so early. ; It is possible with the variety j of oeas now on the market to plan I a good succession planting, starting [with Alaska, Surprise, Little Marvel. ! Gradus, Laxtonian and Thomas j Laxton. However, it is better to depend : upon a suceessional planting a j week or ten days apart, as the i season may be such as to bring the j orbppins: 01" Afferent peas too close /together at maturinty if planted at ; the same time. i The planting of pe?s in double rows, six inches apart, these double ; rows to be three feet apart, is j about right for the more dwarf va j riet ies, but. if the more vigorous I growing dwarfs are to be planted they will need at least four feet , between the rows unless they are ' given brush or wire. [ The round seeded peas can' go into the ground as soon as it can i be dug. but it is \ best to wait a j week or two for the wrinkled I varieties.to be on the safe side. The peas should not be planted j this year in the same position that j they occupied last year. . Neither i should they be placed in ground i occupied the. previous season by ; beans for the l>est results. A gar .; dener should study his garden plan ' each year with an eye to moving I the peas and beans across the gar fden. so that they will not occupy the sariie space in succeeding years, j Of course, heavy fertilizing part ly makes up for the exhausting of i the- soil, hut .it cannot wholly do so. I These two vegetables take more i out - of the soil than the others j and it is more necessary to see that I they rotate. t Bishopville News Notes. j ?7 j ffishopviiie, "March to.?The ?n i eessarit rains have put a stop to all j farm work. The farmers are haul j ing their fertilizers and putting ; soda to tfieir small grain. Not withstanding the unfavorable ! weather; the farmers are well ad I vanoed in preparation for another ?crop. Most of the ditch banks and j fence rows have been cleaned off ! and ditches cleaned out. About ?three-fourths of a cotton crop will I be planted. Oats and wheat crops j are. looking fine, and large crops ! of same have been planted. The gardens will be late, owing to the j fact that the ground has been too. j wet to plant. ? The Presbyterian minister has j returned with his family and are ! established in his new home. An : Informal reception was given Mrs. jMcIver and her attractive daugh ter at the home of Mrs. J. \V. ! Thomas last Tuesday. Refresh ? ments were served and a musical ? program was enjoyed throughout, j the afternoon. j The court of general sessions; .'convened her?- last Monday. Judge] j Shipp presiding. The court was ; soon organized. In his charge toj j the grand jury the judge made it j very plain to them what were the I duties required of them. The court' ? completed its work in three days. The repairs on the Methodist; ! church are about completed. Ow j ing to the condition of the church, only the communion service was 'celebrated last Sunday, i Mr. (b-o. II. Reid, one of the old est citizens of our town and vet j eran of the civil war, has been very ! ill with lumbago, and acute indi tgestion. We an- glad to report he ? is much better and hopes to bei i i out giigain next week. His wife.i I who is very feeble, has been suffer^ ' i ing from tin- effects of the scratch i of a dog on her and. which has j given her a great deal of trouble.! : Mr. and Mrs. C. 11. Scott of j Auburn, X. v.. have been on ai ; visit to Mi\ .1. K. Scott. Mrs.' Scott is ;i near relative of Mrs. J.| I E. Scott. Tin y left WednesdH> for Cheraw to visit relatives there. I Mrs. L. 1!. Jennings has gone*] I to a hospital in Columbia f< j t reatment. j Mr. Will-.- Reed, \\h<* \\:is un-j fortunate in having his automobile] [sales room badly damaged by lire j j sometime ago, is hav ing tin- dain- j : age repaired. I the health of tin- town'is fairly : good. ? * X.) doubt the world nil' applaud] when the -^irls b-t "thejr hair-fcrowj lout. Samson brought down the i house v hen his hair got long again, i America's Garden of Fireworks "The waking into activity of Mo'urif? Redoubt hi Alaska just re ported by wireless and cable serves to remind people of the United states that in the Alaska peninsu la and the Aleutian Islands, which sweep from it almost to Asia, they possess orr- of most extensive and most active volcanic regions on the face of the earth." says a bulletin issued from the Washington, D. Cc; headquarters of the National Geo graphie Society. ??Redoubt is not remote from the settled portions of Alaska," con tinues the bulletin, "but rises close to the western shore of Cook In let, at ih<- head of which is Anchor age, an important port on the .Alas Ira railroad recently constructed by i ? ?*... I the Federal government. This i mountain and a companion peak, , Iliamna, are conspicuous landmarks : for ships which steam up Cook In , let. They are almost perfect cones land with Their snow-covered eap? : serve well as American versions of j the famous Fujiyama of Japan. Re doubt, forms, so far as i< now known ! the landward end of the long Cham ; of volcanoes which stretch to the i southwest ward along the Aleutian ' Islands for more than 120(? miles, 1 and which have been spouting Tire i at intervals for hundreds of thou I sands of years. I Mountains that "Blow Their Heads Off j "Although Redoubt, passive for ! nearly 2-0 years, is showing only clouds of steam, those who have I observed volcanoes of the Alaskan i chain are not reassured., for these i volcanoes have a disconcerting way I of 'blowing their heads.off with little warning. Katmai. 200 miles i to the south, which is one Of. the I chain that had long been dormant, : exploded suddenly in fj)12r consti tuting one of the dozen greatest j eruptions of historic times. A j scientific expedition sent to the : crater by the National Geographic I Society found that two cubic miles j of material had been blown from i this previously passive mountain, j It was while, making a study of I Katmai that the Society's expedi ; tion found that . unique - natural j phenomenon, 'The Valley of Ten J Thousand Smokes.' Augustine ; Mountain, in Cook Inlet, less than 100 miles from Redoubt, and long j noted for its perfect eone, blew I its lop off' suddenly in-, -1SS3 leav : ing only a jagged stump. The i whole Alaskan volcanic chain is a I unit of volcanic action, and it is ? always problematical where the ! next outburst will occur. , Chance to Solve Stubborn Prob lems . "To scientists one of the signifi I cant fetures in connection with the I existence of the extensive volcanic ; region in Alaska is the fact that it ? is situated where in the future at j least' it will be easily accessible for I study. And there is much room I for the study of volcanoes. Al I though volcanism was probably j one of the first of Nature's spectac | ular phenomena to thrill man it I presents one of the few obvious ; problems about -which science has 1 no satisfactory hypothesis. Just \ where heat come sfrom which melts i stone, why it is concentrated with j in definite areas, from whafedepths the molten material rises and why it rises?these are some .of the problems about which there has been much speculation buJfciin re gard to which few satstfactiory ; theories exist.' / " -f "Tell-tale fossils * i nd' types' of ! rock show that the mountains of I the Alaskan, peninsula.;.and the j Aleutian Islands are ofd?r than. ? either "the Himalayas'"?!- the .Alps, j systems which are practically with f oiit volcanoes. It does nofTfollow, I however, that voleaitic activity ac i companies age. for the Appal?chi j ans. among the oldest mountains of {?the earth, have no volcanoes." Princess Olga of Greece-Behove), 19, is reported engaged to Crown Prince- <&rteti?hv Fr^erick-$f Den mark, 23. '?China to Build a New ?Navy." While other nations are *?aking junk oui of their batt**lship'aChina i? making battleships out **of her junks.?Southern Lumberman . A wholesale cut in retail' or;ces will come when we get a vtail cut in wholesale prices. "Back to the farm" is'the way too many are standing.