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The Watchman and Southron j Published "Wednesday and Satur- j day by Ostcen Publishing Company, Sumter, S. C. Terms: $2.00 per annum?in advance. Advertisements: One Square, first insertion ?.$1.00 Every subsequent insertion __ .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub serve private interests will oe charged for as advertisements. -?? Obituaries and tributes of re spect will he charged f?r. The Sumter Watchman waa founded in- and the True Southron in 1S?6. The Watchman and -Southron now has the com bined circulation and influence of both of the old papers, and is man ifestly the best advertising medium i:i Sumter: THE WELL-DKESSKD WOMAN, ? Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart, to j whom one writer refers as "prob-: abiy^our; best dressed best seller," j has been shopping m Xew York \ and sends out a few ideas on j dress to her interested sisters farj and : near. Among them are these observations: ?^The keynote of this 'year's thes is femininity, and they are more'covering than Ihey were last j ?year. '_? " ' ' i "Jift Woman over 30 should wearj riie knee-length skirt, for the ma- \ lute leg is not beautiful. "Wearing knickerbockers in the city seems to me an affectation, not the ideal of dress. "A woman is well-dressed when she can stand the sharpest scru tiny, but nobody turns to look." Mrs. Rinehart herself is the farthest possible remove from the d ideas of frowsiness and ill taste in the artistic or literary* wo man. Also she is possessed of line common sense, and what she says about clothes safely may be massed; along as good advice. Her hint about the short skirt rves especial notice, not alone front the standpoint of comeliness. Years should bring dignity. Dignity in dress tends to promote the qual ity in the wearer, and this in turn tends to inspire respect in the , young: "Why is the Flapper always Sapping about ? " somebody asked a little' while ago. Someone else replied promptly, "Probably she is out flapping ? after her mother." Mrs. JRinehart,. has.. .sounded the same^npte, only, in a different key. TSE GOVER>"ING POWER, 1*What we should have," says William G. McAdoo, "is a large body of intelligent citizens who are rioit affiliated w-ith any party, and w?o could hold^the balance of power. Such citizens would be American first, and their check upon the big parties would be most valuable." j "That is .exactly what we have, Mr. McAdoo, contemplating . the "intolerant-partisan basis on which our government functions," seems 10'overlook this" rather obvious fatt.; It may be readily granted that American governmental procedure j tends to become intolerantly par- i tissn, on both sides, no matter' which party is in power. But it is also true that there is a great and growing body of citizens who. while believing in the American system of party government, dis approve of partisan extremes and .register their disapproval when ever there seems to be good rea- I . * ' j son for rt. It is this body of independent or j semi-independent voters that dc- j cides elections. If it did not ex- \ ist, one party would stay in power I indefinitely. It makes the see-saw of power which is so characteristic of American politics. And as the j fluctuating elections of recent ! years prove, it is numbered in mil- j lions. These millions with minds j and wills of their own. hold tho j "balance of power" and are them selves the real governing power,! more and-more respected and fear- j ed by party politicians. ? ? ? LABORATORY MAGIC. .Scientists in the University of! Chicago have succeeded in break- ] injg down one element of matter [ aild. turning it into another. By ! using a powerful electric current..! to .create a temperature hotter than j the ?res of the sun, they have j changed the metal tungsten?used.j for the hlaments of electric light j bulbs?into helium. The latter is the gas used in recent years ?>y the i United States government to inflate balloons. It is very light^and non iuflamable. it has been found exr istirrg only in certain southern gas wciis. Did nature make it the same way the Chicago chemists have done? Now that it is known assuredly that man can "crack" an atom and resolve it into something else, hope j isAexpressed again that some way j may"be discovered to tap the "atom- [ ic force" of the universe. It is held : by modern scientists that in every: atom of matter there is potential ] energy inconceivably great, so that j we might run our factories or trains } or airplanes with but a little wa ter or air if we only knew how to! extract the bottled power of the oxygen, hydrogen or nitrogen. Man will probably find out the secret, but not yet a while. For man seems to discover "whatever he needs to know just about when be | is ready for it, and not before. T.here is probably a Providence j or Law that governs such matters, j Suppose that a section of weak, j selfish, warring humanity nowadays { obtained the secret of illimitable mechanical power. What would the discoverers do with it? Use it. perhaps, to tyrannize over the rest of humanity. Or possibly wreck the race, or destroy the earth. Moral ruin, at least, would almost surely result, even if a fair dis tribution were made of the benefits, \ when the race was suddenly freed j from the need, of its usual labor, j and had all its habits and stand- j ards changed over night. It is better to have all changes, even j changes for the better, come slow- j ly, so that they can be assimilated j .as they come. Given a few hun dred or a few thousand more years, perhaps .we may safely hitch our ?vagons' to ah atom. IMPROVING j COTTON SEED! As conditions now exist in many parts of the cotton belt, farmers find it next to impossible to main tain superior staple for more than two or three years. The principal reason for this is the general cus tom of growing a number of va rieties in the same locality and ginning the crop at public gins where it is almost certain that seed will be mixed. Modern ginning equipment has increased this dim- i culty. There is also mixing by) flying insects when different varie-, Upz are grown" in adjacent fields | and in the same field as a result of j mixing of seed at the public gins, j The premum that is paid for cot- i ton of uniform quality and length' of fiber,, says Department Circular j 205. Mixing of Cotton Seed by Mod- J em Ginning Equipment, just issued 1 by the United States Department of1 Agriculture, more than pays for the trouble of keeping seed stock pure. Modern gras as commonly operated mix the seed to the extent of about ?6 ? per cent in the first J bale run through following the ginning of another variety.' The seed from the second and even the third bale receives some admixture The only way to get pure seed at the gin when ginning is done in the ordinary manner is to, keep it from going through the conveyors and to clean the rest of the equipment thoroughly, collecting the seed un- I der the gin stands and sacking it at j once. The most practical way of main-! taining pure seed supplies, says the ; circular; is for farmers to unite j upon a Single variety, so that only ] one kind of seed will be handled] at the gin. If it is not possible to agree upon any one variety, it is! still possible for farmers and gin- j ;ners to co-operate to prevent seed j becoming mixed at the' gin! One j day a week "may be devoted to j ginning selected stock, after clean-j ing out the flues, feeders and; cleaners, dropping the seed roll, | and cleaning o?t the roll box. The seed should not be?all?wed to pass through the Conveyors, which can not be cleaned thoroughly, but should be collected on the clean floor or on a canvas spread on the j floor. If special days can not be j arranged for, it may be possible to ] store the seed cotton and hold it j for ginning after the rush season j is over. But the most effective j method for avoiding mixing and j the resulting deterioration of cotton is the organization of one-variety ! communities. The value of such | communities has already been dem- j Castrated in the Salt River Valley ? of Arizona, where the Prima va-1 riety of Egyptian cotton is grown j exclusively. The circular may be obtained by j addressing* the ' Department of Ag riculture at AVaslfington, D. C. Advised to Beware of Matrimonial Advertisements. Vienna. March 1 (Associated j Press Correspondence') ? Vienna : girls are being warned not to be misled by marriage advertisements from America. Half dozen alleged I cases of deception that are cited by j Der Morgan which asserts they arc ! "but a few out of hundreds" in ] which Austrian women have gone j to America to marry. One case described is that of a daughter of a "high official" who | answered an advertisement in a Vienna paper stating that an en gineer in Chicago desired to wed a pretty educated Viennese- [n, Ger man the word engineer always mean a professional title and is never applied to mechanics. When she arrived she found the man was a metal worker. He soon lost his job and the girl's parents had CO sacrifice even their house hold goods to send her money ti> re turn. Another instance is reeked in Which the advertisement contained the phrase "Ah American (dark) wishes to mrrry. etc." The i res pective groom was a negro. Usually, says the paper, the ad vertisements describe the man as earning so many million crowns ;t month which the woman ?nds to mean virtually nothing in Ameri can standards. Wouldn't it be awwful if married life was as bad as they say it is'.' "When nature makes an artistic temperament, she should take tin precaution of leaving off the trig ger finger. Demonstrations in Weevil Control "Can cotton be grown profitably under boll weevil conditions?" is a question that is not only of vital im portance to the f? rufen l?ui also to the entire industrial and commer cial life ot the south. In the opinion of those who have given the subject careful1 investigation, it is the leading problem' before that section today. The presence of the boll, weevil is a factor that must be reckoned .with in all future" cotton production, as it in every probability has come to stay. This means, that in order to grow cot ton, the grower must adopt a new course of procedure as respects Iiis methods of culture, and acquaint' himself with, and put into practice j measures of weevil control, if he is to make a crop. How to grow cotton Under wee vil conditions has been well work-! ed out. The bureau of entomology ! of the United States department of j agriculture has been studying and j investigating the life history and J habits of the boll weevil ever since the insect c.-rosseel the Rio Grande! river from Mexico in IS92. In thej meantime, careful research and ex periments have been made with the ! view of determining what methods | of control, both direct and indirect, j can be used most economically and j effectively. While no device or j method has been found to entirely exterminate the weevil, the depart- ; ment authorities have demonstrate ed beyond a doubt, that the appli- j cation of Calcium Arscnate. proper- j Iy applied, will keep the insect in j check long enough to allow the j cotton plant to develop a full set j of bolls. There are those who believe that the measures of control as recom mended and demonstrated by the [department of agriculture, are thej best that have been proposed. As an expression of confidence in the j practicability of these methods of weevil control, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Geo. H. McFadden | & Bro.-; Savannah. Ga., S. M. Bui- I Iy & Son. Savannah. (la., cotton 1 factors. Citizens & Southern Bank. : Savannah, and the Barrett Cotton I Company, Augusta. Ga., in con- j junction with The Southern Cotton ! Oil Company and the Virginia- j Carolina Chemical Company, who i initiated the undertaking, have j jointly subscribed to a fund to be ; used in carrying out such demon- I strations on cotton farms. ? I In accordance with" the arranged , program, it is proposed to conduct I demonstrations at approximately' i forty-two points adjacent to the i j mill and factory points of The j j Southern Cotton Oil Company and , j the Virginia-Carolina Chemical j - Company in the states of North j j Cai-olina. South Carolina. Georgia i I and Alabama. In all, demonstra- j tions will be carried out on some- | ! thing like three hundred farms in, j the '"otton belt. At each of these ' j locations six or eight farms will be j I selected on which Calcium Arse ! natc dusting operations w ill be con- ! j ducted and specific directions given j the grower in regard to the prep-] j aration of the land, fertilization. | planting, cultivating the crop and! the application of Calcium Arse-j nato. each step taken to be in line i with the proved experience of the i I Delta Laboratory of the United i States department of agriculture. ? At <.ach point where a demon-i stration is conducted, some individ-j I ual employee of the Southern Cot-! ! ton Oil company or the Virginia Carolina Chemical company fa I miliar with and qualified to do the ! work, has been selected, and wiH i be detached from his regular du ties to such extent as may he nec- j 1 essary to supervise and direct the; demonstration locally, and to this; end an organization as to person- ! nel, methods and machinery has; been perfected. The general direction of the^ work will be under the supervision] of Dr. A. E. Grantham, director. I of the Agricultural Service Bureau j of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical i - Company and Dr. T. F. Bargeron of: the Southern Cotton Oil Company, j Dr. Grantham is an expert agroh-j omist. and was for many years con nectcd with two of the state agri j cultural colleges und experiment j stations, before entering the ser- ; vices of the Virginia-Carolina' Chemical Company. Th<- supervision of the expert- j i nvents that are to be locally con-j ducted will !>e in charge of Mr. A.' (*. Fishburne, manager of 'thej Sumter branch of the Southern j Cotton Oil company. According to j the present plans, eight farms nearby Sumter are to be chosen on] [which to conduct the experiments.. Each farmer operating these par ticular farms is lo have accurately! [.laid off two adjacent five acre] ; plots of land planted in cotton. The! I Southern Cotton Ooil company is' ;to furnish the one mule dusting machine and the calcium arscnate] necessary for the dusting of cachj one of the designated five acrci I plots. The farmer is to follow the' I dusting directions and furnish the! j mule and the labor for the dust j ing operations. The farmer may 'use any other method of lighting! the weevil that tie may wish, oth-' er than the poisoning, on the other j I five acre plot. The real test of the I efficiency of the application of the , 'calcium arscnate will be conclu sively demonstrated at the end of (the cotton season by the final count; of the number ot bales produced from the total rorty acres that; have received the poisoning treat-: ment as compared by the yield <>i? tained from the other forty acres j not having been dusted. "Tobacco Governor Ousted" ?; Mexican headline. .Made ft hot] for him. h iiiTi.-: take a lot of practice to enable the n:otor.mnn to start the j ear just in time to deposit the fat j lady in your lap. o- ?? -O France says she will pay us when ??he can. This isn't soon enough. Too much rest iv causing unrest. To-day's Best Jokes and Stories Apparently there is still enough moisture to sprout wild oats. A "financial wizard'' is nothing remarkable. He simply offers something for nothing ami let's nature take its course. Romance: "He married the rieh girl and the gossips lived happily ever afterward." Tim suckers may l>e born at t he rate of one a minute?, but they are shorn in gross. lots. Why blame Morse? When you turn n cat in a room where there's a fish why blame the cat? The roil of vamp victims indi cates that the age of indiscretion is anything above sixty. Getting rich quick would be rath er pleasant if penitentiary life wasn't so darned confining. Work diligently and be honorable., and when you are dead the world < will ask: "How much did hol leave?" j Let's see. how was it they ex plained business depression before the word "psychological" was in vented ? A cynic is one who supposes that many crazy people escape locking up because they arc in the major ity. Even those "farmers" who have ! no acquaintance with real dirt will 1 have before they get through with i politics. ????? There seems to be a close affinity I between a peal of laughter and a ; banana peel. "Diners take the place of strik I ing waiters"?headline. It's noth I ing new- Diners arc inured to 'waiting. How trivial world problems seem when we reflect that soon we shall hear the crack of the bat against a fast one. 'Twas ever thus. The Lord planted a garden in Eden, and it wasn't long before Adam noticed a chicken on the premises. _______ i Advocates-of the one-wife the ory will bo glad to learn that mat rimony .is no longer a harem- 1 scarem business in Turkey. Cape Codders are proverbial for J their calm demeanor and economi-j cal language under all eircum stances. ? ? ?? \ ? ? 1 Hi Brown, a fisherman, was out i in his dory visiting his lobster pots, j when a Sailbodt filled with summer residents capsized. He rowed up to the craft and, addressing its late i occupants, who were clinging to the I keel shrieking for aid, indicated his boat hospitably and asked: ".Mornin'. everybody. Hadn't ye I better get in?"?Harper's: Hugill: "Have you any board money?" ! Slickum: "Xaw. It's paper."?j Tid Bits, i "Say. how about that fifty you owe me?" "By golly, you know I almost for got that, and I haven't the money or a check with me. I'll make a note of it though." "Fine: Make it for 30 days at S per cent."?London Mail. One night Sandy told his sweet- j heart that he "likct" her 'awfu' j weel." She simply responded "du- j to." The mxt day Sandy asked hi.~. father what "ditto" means. "Dae yc sac that cabbage, Sandy ?*' "Yes." i "And due ye sac that ither anc j that it's just the same?" "Ves." . ! "Wool, that's ditto." i "I'll ne'er marry a girl that calls j me a cabbage head.".said Sandy.- ! And he didn't.?Comments. ? ! "You werij carrying an advertise- i meut Cor a 'four-piece parlor set.' J I notice you hove changed it to read 'five-piece set.' How is that?" j "Why, my little boy broke a leg ! off from one of the chairs."?Retail Ledger. "What can v.e do to improve the j morals in this place?" asked one shimmer of another. "Well, wo might make them take out these baby-grand pianos and put in upright ones."?The Etude. .Mrs. Next do or: Your daughter is different from most girls. Sim's so sweetly unsophisticated. .Mrs. simo Pure: Site's all <>f, that. Why. she thinks a R. V. I>. j is a university degree!?-fudge. "Is there an undertaker j.n this,' grcal town of yours you speak of so j highly?" "Xot now. There was one. but ' as nobody ever died he quit and j begun running a repair shop for the '? Centenarian Motorcycle Club."? Change. Pretty Niece (blushing): "Auntie, what would you do if you learned I that a young man was secretly in quiring about your ability as a ? cook?" Wise Aunt: ??! should immedi ately make secret inquiries as io his ability to provide things to cook, j my dear." -R?ston Transcript. ICxercising makes <>n.' _mt along j o.??!! ? exercising discretion. - Xote to brides: The husbands] 1 ej\ i? soon grows cold if he is kept in hot water. ENTIRE NAVY MAY BE SENT TOPACIFIC Washington, March 22.?Radi cal reductions in the navy discuss ed by house appropriations com mittee members may result in na val abandonment of Atlantic wu ters and concentration of the fleet in the Pacific, some officials believe. The navy department has made no plans, so far as known, as to steps to be. taken should congress order a reduction of enlisted per sonnel to 65,000, as understood to be the plan of the house appro priations subcommittee. Careful studies have been made, however, of the number of major craft it would bo possible to keep in com mission even with reduced comple ments of that bassi. These studies are said to have shown that not more than twelve battleships, or two-thirds of the naval limitation treaty strength of the fleet could be operated and pro vided with the destroyers and other auxiliary craft necessary for work ing out fleet problems and keeping I the navy afloat in trim for war. The I belief of some officers that consoli | dation of the floating navy into a j single fleet in the Pacific would re sult from so radical a cut in size ;arises from their conviction that |it would he impossible to give nec '< essary war trainingf otherwise, i Should the fleet remain divided into six battleship organizations, it was said its fighting efficiency could not j be maintained There' is every reason to expect, ! these officers believe, that if the j navy is reduced to a one-fieet basis, j that fleet would be stationed in the I Pacific, because American overseas ; interests lie very largely in those waters. It was sufficiently indi cated, i: was added, by the calling of'the recent Washington naval and Far Eastern conferences, to make it obvious that it is the policy of the government to keep a substan tial naval force in Pacific w-aters. j What the effect of a transfer of , the7whole navy afloat to the Pacific 1 might have on the Atlantic shore j establishment was not as clearly in j dicated, it was said, although it was j apparent that it would not be nec I essary to maintain all of the six At i Iantie coast navy yards and other bases and stations designed only to serve the fleet. From a strategic point of view, many naval officials regard the Norfolk naval base .as the only one essential even with the fleet in the Pacific. It would be retained, it was said, no matter what was done with the navy afloat. a?c it would be needed to care for the ships should any emergency recall them to the At lantic. The fate of other yards or j stations would be largely a matter j for congress to decide on economic I grounds, it was added, as it seemed probable the navy itself would lose ; interest in them if" its activities I wer? centered around a combined I fleet in the Pacific. Bulgaria Has Compulsory Labor Law. Sofia. March 4 (Correspondence of Associated Press)?Even King (Boris' two sisters, the Princess Eudoxic and Xadejda will be oblig ed to contribute their share of work to the Bulgarian state under the new compulsory labor which required all wo men up to 30 years of age to give at least ten days of their time every year in useful work to the community. This ruling has been made by the stern peasant Premier. Alexander Stamboulisky, the most powerful man in Bulgaria and maker and breaker of kings. Bulgarian women, said the pre mier, will be compelled to make garments and bed linen for hos pitals, contribute useful labor to orphanages and asylums, help to care for the poor and so on. Girls under 2U years old will be obliged for a period of three months in each year to study domestic sci ence and the useful arts so that they may become more productive factors to society and contribute to the common good. Premier Stamboulisky says that one of the causes of Bulgaria's rapid recovery from the war is the work done for the state by what is called here the volunteer labor army. He estimates the value of its work at 380,000,000 levas (nom inally worth, about 10 cents each.) "The volunteer army has been an entire success." said M. Stam boulisky. "It has built roads, streets. waterways, bridges, ca nals, warehouses, sehoolhouses and sanitary systems. It has drained swamps, tilled the land and plant ed trees." The premier pointed out that Bulgaria now has a law prohibiting the sale of liquor at bars unless the voters decide they want it. "You see." he said, "we are following somewhat in the path of you Americans In regard to pro hibition. Some day Bulgaria may be completely dry. ' When it's six blocks to the drug store?daughter gets exercise. If changing clothes wasn't neces sary some people would forget where they live. _ WANT HI >?To buy pair of mules, not over seven years old and weighing about 1,200 pounds. Parties offering mules must have them in city lot in rear of opera House Saturday. April 8th tit 12 o'clock, s. O'Quinn. City Manager. _ WANTEIV--To buy pure Guernsey or Jersey milk cow. fresh in milk. Nothing under ten quarts con sidered. Write P. F. Patton, care Item Office. Sumter, S. C. WANTED?To take orders at m> home to make hats. It' interest ed, <::t 11 870?L. Mrs. C. W. Mc (Irew. corner Magnolia and Myr tle streets. KILLS HIMSELF IN STATE ASYLUM George Ashe, of York County, Uses Rope and Belt Columbia. March _2.?George Ashe. a young man about thirty : years of agre from York, committed ; suicide at the State Hospital for the ; Insane last night. Ashe. according ; to J. Blakely Scott, coroner for I Riehland County, tied his belt and a window cord together, threw a I noose around his neck and hanged I himself from a ceiling radiator j heating pipe. He was discovered i suspended early this morning in his j room by a hospital attendant, j Coroner Scott said that Ashe : i has made several unsuccessful at tempts to commit suicide and has ', been an inmate in the hospital be i cause of this particular mania pre ? viously. Recently, said the coroner. ; he found that he was becoming ; nmlaneholy and asked to be taken : back into the hospital for his own . protection. REFUSES A WRIT ! OF PROHIBITION I Greenville. March 21?In an or i der issued this afternoon, Associ ; ate Justice Thomas P. Cothran. of I the South Carolina Supreme Court, i refused an application for a writ j of prohibition, against J- C. Mc I Cain and others: restraining them from proceeding with the arbitra | tfon of the Columbia, South Caro J lina, street railway strike, under I the terms of the Gerald act passed ; at the recent session of the Gen | eral Assembly. Mr. McCain was ! appointed arbitrator under the act, j The effect of the decision, it is un j derstood here, is ro permit the ar I bitration to go forward as required j by the act. The application for ; tlie writ of prohibition was made I by the Columbia Railway, Gas and ! Electric Company, which operates i the street cars. During the course of his opinion j Judge Cothran says, "There is an I other consideration that moves me; I it is a matter of exceedingly great i importance to the public, that some i adjustment of the differences be | tween the parties be arrived at. I Even if the act be unconstitutional j an award by interested men of in I telligence and fairness may so ap ! peal to the patriotism, humanity \ and sense of justice of the parties j as to form the basis of an amicable j settlement -of the matters in con ! troversy. The situation distress j ing to the operatives, inconvenient j and irritating to the public and i unprofitable and to be regretted : by the company, may be relieved by j an immediate and calm invest iga : tion: it cannot be relieved by obsti nacy on either side, nor by protract ed' litigation." j Belgians Seeking Mexican Trade. Mexico City. March 6 (Corres-! : pondence Associated Press)?Four; 1 representatves of Belgian manu-l j facturers are touring Mexico to i arrange for exchanges of Mexican ? raw materials for Belgian finished j ' products. Professor Rouma of' Brussels heads the party and is j j accompanied by Marcel Jottard, I representing iron and steel manu facturers: Engineer Leduc who represents metal- goods ? manufac turers and Felix Guillon represent ing textile factories. Tie who laughs* last laughs; least. BATTLE WITH NEW CHARTERS BOOZE MAKERS! GRANTED One Man Killed in Fight Be- Sumter Canning Company Has tween Officer and Moon- j Been Incorporated shiners " _ ? Columbia. .March 23.?Charter -,, ,. , u ->o i .-has been granted by the secretary Mae on. Oa.. March 22.?I- <-d<-ra.I . . , , .. - T,. ' . . ., _ , prohibition officers working under ^ b cctr,c Maid I the personal direetion of W. IL |(iy,. "'', 5 V ^ ^apltaliZ^ iHahr. agent in charge of the mid- at S*** ^ Robei^>rt^ Idle Georgia district, engaged in a! l?'^ent and treasurer. R MV, [pitched battle with alleged moon-1^^'T I>roSldent; * I shiners in Emanuol county late to.!H. Hacslopp.is secretary - . I day- Ed. F. Newberrv. formerly ! ?c Sumter Cannmg Co.. of Sum, i chief of detective* in Macon. and[tcr- was also bartered. The c?p ! now a member of the federal raid-:ital is *:^<>- J Harfoy is |injr forces, was shot three timesI President: R. A. Bradham is vice 1 and is being brought here. He will! President: E. M. Hall is secretary^ recover, according to reports pre- ;and ?easttrer and H.- A. Shaver is ceding him. '? manager. P. Harwick. 40. alleged moon-j The-National Business-Builders, shiner, was taken to a hospital at:01' Charleston, is a corporation, Swainsboro where he died at C, I chartered by the secretary .of state, o'clock tonight. with capital of $500. B. H. Pear Accord in g to the federal officers, \ aon is president;- K. Blank is sec - they were divided into two groups ' retary and treasurer. x The corn while searching for stills, one 1 Pan>* 'handle advertising. . group being almost upon two big j * .* ? copper stills, when the other group; TO Q|?l?TOTT^lT V engaged in the gun light. Thev j AO OlJlVlVUOlJ A were a half mile apart j ? WOUNDED Hahr and E. C. Pearce, who ( ? - :- . ? ? - . were at the still, rushed to the aia XT- _ ? w^". of Newberry and E. E. Nelson, who j r*egreSS Says White . Man were engaged in the pitched battle. ? Tried to Enter Home c They found Harwick helpless on j Greenville, March' 22.?M. B.. the ground and Newberry wound-j Hoard, young white man ahOJt 25 ed. The latter was rushed to-a j years of age, is in a critical condf doctor in Adrian and Barwick was j tion in the: city hospital as; a re sent to Swainsboro. j suit of a bullet wound alleged t? Returning to the scene the offi-j have been inflicted by Lucile Trns cers found that tne still had been ; ley, a ncgrcss. IS years old at carried away in a wagon. They! her home about 1 o'clock today, followed the wagon tracks to a! The womau, who is in the county creek and recovered .two stills) jail awaitmg the- outcome of thcv from the stream and 12 barrels of j man's injuries, oeclares that the. beer and a considerable amount of j white man approached her on sev manufactured whiskey, all of j eral occasions ajad that today in which was destroyed. company-with another man, he at-. ? ? ? i tempted to force his- way into her One reason why husbands don't; home and that aiter warmng.-Jwm, stay at home more is because the J she fired once, house seems so empty with the j wife gone. o # ? One way to improve the silent drama would be to silence the me- . chanical devices used to provide Many a house lacks paint bo cause daughter and the auto -don't, j music for the show ? ? ? -? ?? The latest Hollywood crime is Brokeu_ .promises are ^hard^ta the way they put out comedies. 'mend. . ANNOUNCEMENT i After having been greatly inconvenienced for the past two months as a result of the fire, we are now prepared to serve you promptly and efficiently; Watches, Clocks and Jewelry repaired by an expert. Let us overhaul that watch or clock that is out of commission^ or not working satisfactorily. We'll put years of service in it and the cost wiil be small. Our Optical Department is under the personal supervision of Mr. Cooper who is a registered Optometrist, he, having successfully practiced Optometry for the past 12 years. We have recently added modern equipment to our examination room which greatly facilitates the service we arc able "to render. Eyes carefully examined, and glasses fitted. Broken lenses duplicated in our own shop on short notice.' Satisfaction Guaranteed. Cooper's Jewelry and Optical Store UNITED WE STICK: DIVIDED WE ARE STUCK WE HAVE DECIDED TO STICK. W. A. Alston. R. E. Atkinson. F. W. Andrews. A. L. Ardis. S. W. Allan. J. R. Atkinson. R. B. Belser, N. L. Srou-qhton. R. L. Burkette. H. D. Branson. R. K. Brown. M. M. Brown. J. H. Burke. A. C. Burrows. E. S. Booth. J. D. BlackwcH. Stanyarna Burrows. E. S. Brown. R. A. Bradham. Jas. C. ssryan. J. P. Boo-.n. Henry Benenhalcy. W. F. Baker. T. B. Brunson. Jr. J. R. Ball. W. T. Brogdon. A. M. Brogdon. J. C. Brogdon. H. B. Barkley, p. K. Bowman. P. E. Brunsen, j. J. Britten. F. P. Bradtord. H. H. Brunson. B. W. Brogdon. Sr. S. S. Brunson. C. W. Brunson. j. A. Blackwell. John I. Brogdon, J. B. Brrtton. Cain Farm. A. B. Cabbage. I. i. Coleman. T. H. Clarke. T. M. Croswell. Tbss. Collier. J. H. Chandler. S. Cherry. E. B. Colclough. E. W. Dabbs. J. C. Dunbar. F. .Vi. Dwight, t. W. Dabbs. lr.. J. T. Dennis. W. E. Dick. R. A. Dennis. j. R. Doilard. L. C Durant. j. H. Durant. W. R. DuBose. M. S. Davis. B. W. DesChamps. G. E. DuBosc. Joel Davis. R. S. DesCbamps. T. E. Edens. H. T. Edens, H. C Edens. John L. Frierson, J. A. Frierson. J. M. Fogle. S. D. Fr?ser. S. W. Gardner. S. W. GiWespie. S. P. 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D. MeLeod. B. R. McElveen. J. C. McEtveen. W. D. MoLeod. S. M. McCoy, M. McClam. B. McLaughlin. R. McEtoeea. T. M. MeLeod, R. E. Newman. G. A. Nettles. F. A. Newman. J. D. Newman. L. J. Newman. Sam Newman. B. M. Oliver. J. B. Osteen. F. A. Osteen. M. t. Parier. S. 0. Plowden. R. 0. Purdy. A. C. Phelps. S. W. Pringle. C. L. Player. Robert Perry, A. J. Pringle. T. H. Parker. J. R. Prescott. M. V. Plowden. E. E. Rembert. y A. Reams, W. S. Reams. y H. Rc ferns on, J. H. Ryaav W. H. Ramsey. Marion Rivers. A. R. Rollins. J. E. Sanders, A. F. Smith. is. L. S*nitlK Leon Stuckey. K. L. Scarborough, A. H. Sanders. J. W. .Stockey. Willie Shaw. W. L. Sauadvs. "?v. J. Sanders. B. Sinsictofi. W. S. Thompson. W. D, Tisdale. S. W. Truluck. W. ?. Truluck. J. R. Terry. E. A. Terry. S. Y. Tapper. K. S. -Tapper. M. E. Truluck. t. M. Tnstock. Seo. Tmdal. H. Truitman. H. D. Tindal. A. C. Thompson. S. I. Thaw es, W. S. Tisdale. D. t. TiPdal. y Frank Williams. T. C. Watson. S. L Wilson, j J. WhHdon. V.. C. Williams. L. L. Wbitc. R. W. Westberry. J. T. Witherspoon. Hugh Wr?erspoou, 9. J. White. S. F. Weeks. S. Weinberg. 8 F. Wilder, B. R. White, r -. J. W. Washington. F. M. Weatheriy. Ratler WJrite. E. Ar Wtatberly. S. W. Young. C. W. Toung. J. F. Yarborougb. G. M.. Zeigler, L. D. Welsh. S. N. Welsh. Brother Farmer: Will you stick with us, or will you continue to be stuck? Ahe above contracts are actually in the office. If you have signed, and your name is not in the above list take the matter up with the County Directory Chant j>er of Commerce. atL CINVASSERS ARE REQUESTED TO SEND IN ALL CONTRACTS IN THEIR POSSESSION IMMEDIATELY. Over Seventeen Thousand Bales in the Office. We want not less than TWENTY THOUSAND. Who will put us over? THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, THE SUMTER TRUST CO. NATIONAL BANK OF S. C. CITY NATIONAL BANK,