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A TRIPLE VICTORY The Sumter Boys Win a Threefold Victory It has been a source of intense gratification to those who are in terested in the Sumter boys at col lege to learn of the threefold vic tory won by four of our beys at the Presbyterian - College 'of South GaroISna. 'Several; months ago :a contest in debating open to all the members of the freshman class was ftetd to - determine the four fresh men that would represent the Pres byterian College in an inter-colle giate debate. Four boys were se lected from .Sumter. This was the first victory for Sumter. Two of these boys were placed on the af firmative'side of the question to represent their institution in the inter-colregiate debate. The af firmative wob. This was the see* ond victory- for Sumter. The other two boys were placed on the nega tive * side- c-?.-the question and the negative -won. This was the third victory for Sumter.' The question debated was "Shall the United States ilold the Philippine Islands Permanently ?" The boys who rep resented their college were Frank Clarke. Henry - -McLauriu. Harrel Whildea, and Vivian Weldon. The whoie of Sumter will unite with the high school in extending to' these four boys most cordial con-i gratulations. -!-? ? ? Truck Smpmeats. Truck shipments from Sum*f.r! county are beginning to move, and ] the representative of the American] Fruit .Growers, Inc., the marketing j .organization that has contracted to j distribute the produce of the Sum-j ter County Truck Growers' Asso- j ciation, asks that farmers who} have truck ready for shipment no tify him at least one day in advance of the day they expect to have shipments ready to move. By hav- j ins: this information he will be able. to sell the truck oh a f. o." b. Sum ter basis. If he Is not informed until the day of shipment the truck must be ~sold ion basis of f. o. b. point^cf-de?very. " ? Henry Walters Weds Mrs. Pern- j Jbroke Joses. . .WiImington, April 11. ? An- j nouncement-has been made of the] marriage in New York this morn ing of Henry - Waiters', chairman of the "Board of Directors of the Atlantic Coast Lme, and Mrs. Pera-; broke Jones, of this city. They sailed foT~Euro*pe immediately af ter thd-marriagei;; ? ? ? ? 6 Early Morning Fire. j A single story dwelling house; j situated on Hauser-.street, the prop erty of Mr. E; X. Witherspoon and being occupied by Mr. M. " M. Weatherbee* was very badly dam aged by a frre occurring at about SiS** o'clock Thursday morning; Almost the entire roof of the House was abalze when the fire was seen by a negro man and the sleeping family within the house awakened tiy him. ' - feood work was - done" by the j Hiembers' of the fire de part merit j fcnd good results obtained from the j use of the two streams of water j with pump pressure from the wa- j ter pump on the big truck. The j entire roof of the house- was burn- j ed off -and the- walls badly dam-j aged. The house and its furnish- j ings were partially covered by in* suraaee. o ? o Rural School Deciaimcrs Contest Held The declamation contest of" the one and two teacher schools of the county were held Friday afternoon at the Girls' High School building; This contest, which was the third annual contest of these schools, was declared to her? been a very good success, some of the speeches pre^ sented being very fine indeed and showing much preparation on the parts of the contesting pupils. Following are the winners of the prizes: Intermediate Girls: 1st. Gladys White of Singleton j school. j 2nd. Hope Williams, of the j Stateburg school. Intermediate Boys: 1st. Orrie Avln, of the Ardis | school. 2nd. Engene Peterson, of the | Jordan school. High Grade schools: Girls: 1st. Mary Hugh White, Single to? school. 2nd. Blanche Rodgers, ci the Lee school. Boys: 1st. John Frank Williams. Jr., of the Stateburg school. ja ,ttg % Mr. H. C. Bland has returned | from Augusta, Ga...-where he went! to visit Fruitland Nurseries, and J while there purchased a number of i azalias for his garden. He say? \ he saw many thousand beautiful ; azalias in bloom in the gardens of I the Fruitland Nurseries, azalias i having been a specialty there since j the ownership of- the t?te P. J. j Berksman. j - ? ? ?! Green peas are already begin-! ning to come in and- are being handled through the Ameri Fruit Growers' Association by the j Sumter Truck Growers' Associa- j tion. This body is daily receiving! inquiries from New York and oth er points regarding the prospects of j shipments of vegetables, fruit, etc. j ? < n The dog ordinance is in effect and stray dogs are in the outlaw j class. ? ? ? Almost time for the humorists trite some more bathinsr-suit jokes, j ?$i?><$xe>3><g><$><$x3x^^ Memorial Services Held for Col. Lee The Court of Common Pleas sus pended at 5 o'clock Thursday after noon, its regular session, and the hour from five until six o'clock was set aside for the observance of a memorial service in memory of Colonel Richard D. Lee, for a I number of years, a member of, and j president of the Sumter Bar Asso- j ci*?vion. The meeting was presid-! e 1 over by Judge S. W. G. Shipp. | The foITowing memorial and res olutions were presented by E. C. Haynsworth, Esq.: Col. Bichard Dozier Lee, who had been in failing health for several years and critically ill for more than a month, died at two j o'clock/ Friday morning, January 20, 1922, at his home on Warren street, Sumter, S. C Col. Lee about four years ago on account of infirmity of health sev ered his connection with the firm of Lee & 3Ioise, of which he had been senior member for more than twenty years and with which he had been associated since 1872 when he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in this city. He was the senior member of the Sumter Bar Asso ciation until his retirement from active practice. For a quarter Of a "century Col.. Lee was the admitted leader of the ! Sumter bar and was of counsel in J a majority of the important cases both criminal and civil that were on the calendar of the Court of 1 General Sessions and Common Pleas" during that time. He was a man of untiring energy, a hard student and Of great force and de termination of ota?raeter, and these (jualities, supplementing a keen, logical and trained intellect, and a memory that was encyclopedic in its! exactness, his success as a lawyer and business man is easily account ed for, ? Riciard Dozier Lee was born August 5, 1850, son of Col. George W. and Susan Lee. He attended South Carolina College in 1867 and 1868. read law and was admitted to the bar in 1872 and began his practice at Sumter. He served for four years as a member of the house of representatives from Sumter. He was also a prominent leader of the Democratic party for many years being a member of the state executive committee, State constitutional convention in 1895. a presidential elector in 1900 and president of the Democratic Elec toral-College in 1901." As soon as he commenced the practice of law, he gave evidence of the qualities which earned him so large a measure of- success in his j later career. He was a man of] commanding presence and of very j forcible style of delivery and logi- j pal method of thought. He was j Messed with an unusually fine mem- j pjy and his command of case law, j is well as of the principles of the] text books was marked. He was one of th~ few lawyers i Who -was successful ir> all branches Of the work of the profession. Dur b9? a. large part of his career he took a leading position in the practice: befoie the juries and was equally forcible and successful in the presentation of causes befoie the courts. " As the practice of the j law developed along the line of business and financiering, he show- J ed equal facility in adapting him- j self to that department of endeav- i or* without abating his interest in! the more intellectual part of hisj work. His fine memory made him one! of the most accurate of lawyers and i businessmen in alt departments of his work. Any matter undertak-i en by him was prosecuted with the j utmost vigor and ?eal and he sei- ! 36m-lest ? case which he undertook to -prosecute or defend. Success crowned his labors. As a citizen, he showed the live liest interest in all matters relat ing to the public welfare, giving tinstintingiy of his time and liberal- I ly of his money. While never a j politician, he was profoundly in-1 terested in the political develop-! raent of his state, as well as its j development in all other lines. He was a man of wide reading and had acquired to an unusual degree a 1 knowledge of the history of his own j state. Be It" Resolved: That in the deat hof Col. Richard D. Lee, the Bar of Sumter and of the State has i sustained a loss of one of its most j able advocates, a lawyer of exten siye learning, who was an orna- j mcnt to his profession and whose I place cannot soon be fdled and I whose career should stimulate the aspirants to legal fame to greater j effort. That the community has lost a loyal and patriotic citizen, j who was always watchful of the i welfare of the city, county and I state, and a loyal friend and cham pion of southern rights, institu- j tions and traditions. That this memorial be spread on the minutes of the court, publish- | ed in the Sumter newspapers and ; a copy thereof be forwarded by the j Clerk of the Court to t he family of the deceased. i That as a furthci mark of re- : spect to the memory of thp de- j ceased that upon conclusion of the j exercises that the court do stand ] adjourned. MARK REYNOLDS. EDGAR C. FLA YXS WORTH, DAVIS D. MOISE. After fitting tributes had been j made by Messrs. Mark Reynolds. ; D. D. Moise. R. D. Epps. Judge R. O. Purdy and Judge s. W. G. Shipp, the court ordered the adop tion of the resolutions and that ' they be entered upon the minutes j of the court. Court was then ad journed in honor of Col. Lee. until 9:30 o'clock Friday morning. ? ? ? Our idea of a lying contest is two : strangers talking, one a golfer and! the other a fisdierman. DEMOCRATIC CLUB MEETINGS Precinct Clubs Have Been Called to Meet on Saturday, April 2n2d, tp Reorganize and Elect Delegates to County Convention A call has been issued by H. G. . Ostecn, secretary of the County | Democratic executive committee, ; for the precinct clubs of Sumvei county to meet on Saturday, April 22nd. to reorganize and elect del egates to the county convention. The call was issued by Secretary Osteen, County Chairman John H. Clifton having died since the last j campaign and his place not hav- , ing filled, thus leaving the secre- j tary as the only oflicial of the com- j mittee. The clubs elect one delegate for I each twenty-five members or ma jority part thereof, and the mem bership is based on the voting strength of the respective clubs in the last primary election. The vote cast at each of the i clubs in the first primary 1920 is j shown in the following table, which is published for the information, and guidance of the clubs in the election of delegates to the county j convention: i Ward 1.- S3 j Ward 2.-. 3X2 I Ward 3._. 104 j Ward 4 ______. t>7 1 Concord __ __- 15C i Dalzell -.- 73i DuBose_ 33 j Earle.- - 52 Farmers __________- 35} Hagood. 34 J Manchester ______ _.__ 6 Mayesville __.___-_--_- 40 Oswego _.-______ 28 ! Pisgah._ 1-0'j Pleasant Grove._- :>5 i Privateer -_ - 104 ! Rafting Creek. 30 I Salem. - _.__ IT Stateburg >_ __.? 20j Shiloh._. 1!) ' Taylors _-.- 40 j Trinity.- 31) Wedgefield _. __ 47, __oar\_ _ -_: -- LI- 55 ! ' 1 * ? ? ' \ 'q '+ i' i MAYESVILLE ... , NEWS NOTES Baseball Season Opens With; Game Between Mayesville and Bishopville Team Mayesville, April 14!?Mr. and | Mrs. J. F. Bland are visiting friends I in Charleston this week. Mrs. C. E. King returned home Thursday from the Columbia Hos pital where she went for treatment. Mrs. D. A. Berry, Sr., of Tatum. S. C, is visiting her son and daugh- \ ter. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Berry, Jr. j Miss Frances Beasley. teacher Of j the fifth and sixth grades, with her] class Thursday afternoon enjoyed j a 'ffice camp supper on Black i River. Mrr. Howard W. Cooper is con-: ?e%npla?ing a visit back to her childhood home. Germany. She ex pects to leave for New York very soon and join some of her people I there to take a steamer. Mrs. Gilbert Fryer from Carth age, N. C, is a visitor at Mrs. D. A. | Berry's home this week. Mayesville and Bishopville boys had a very interesting game' Tues day on the Mayesville diamond, score 8 and 3 in favor home boys, j The small boys go to Wisacky to j play today. Pisgah News and Views. Pisgah. April 11.?The big rain j last Wednesday night knocked all j farming operations up for the bal ance of the week. Cotton planting is going on this week. Most of the people managed in some shape or form to get a little guano and the farmers will try it again this year' Some have cotton up. Corn is | coming up very well. A good acreage is planted. The fall oats look fine and will | be ready to cut the last of May. j Mr. J. T. Dennis is the only man j about here planting tobacco. He is \ planting it quite extensively. Gardens are fine. People arc j facing cabbage.. On the whole the j agricultural prospect is better than last year. Dysentery has broken out. Many j have it. A conference of the Kershaw j Association met at First Baptist church at Camden yesterday. Dr. C. E. Berts of Columbia was present and made a fine address. Pisgah church has changed the 4th Sunday afternoon preaching from 4 p. m. to 8 p. m., same day. j This was done in order for the pas- 1 tor to supply another church in , Darlington county. Mr. Ii. L. Montague and family spent the day here a few days ago with relatives. Mr. R. K. Wilder and family! and Mr. Louie Rhame and family ; motored up Sunday afternoon and j spent several hours with the writer. | Fish Fry Given-in Honor of Judge Shipp. Quite an enjoyable time was ex perienced at the chicken stew and i fish fry given at Cain's Mill on Friday night by the members of the j Sumter Bar Association and the officials of the Court House in hon-' or of Judge S. W. G. Shipp. of Florence, presiding judge of this session of the Court of Common Pleas. It is stated that there was aj good attendance, almost all of the members of the Bar Association and most of the Court House offi cials being present. The menu, which consisted of an abundance of fried fish and genuine McKagen j chicken stew, was most highly palatable and the after supper hour, spenl in conversation and in j friendly jesi over the smoke of the] good cigars, all went towards' making the occasion a most l.'t'h lv pleasing and memorable one. You must gei at the bottom of things it' you want (?> ut> up. COMMON PLEAS COURT ADJOURNS Jury Unable to Agree in Blair Case. Judge Shipp Spends Saturday in Healing Motions No agreement was able to be reached by the members of the jury in the case of J. V. Bair. Amdr. vs. The Lime Cola Bottling company. The jury remained in deliberation from shortly afternoon on Friday until S:?,0 o'clock in the evening after which time the case was de clared to have resulted in a mis trial. This was a case for dam ages arising from the death of a young boy who was killed some months ago when one of the big trucks of the Lime Cola company turned turtle in a ditch in the Rocky Bluff swamps. Judge S. W. G. Shipp spent! Saturday morning in the hearing: of various motions and in the at tending to of matters of equity. The Court of Common Pleas adjourns sine die with the adjorn-l ment of Saturday afternoon. Easter Music in St. Anne's Church, j The programme of Easier mu sic rendered Sunday in St. Anne's Catholic church was as follows: High Mass. 10:30 A. M. "Hacc Dies." Hammerei. Processional, Batiste. "Vidi Aouani." Witzka. 2nd Mass in E flat by Will M. S. j Brown. "Kyrie Eleison." Brown. "Gloria," Brown. "Regina Coeli," (offertory) Dc Merlier. "Sanctus." Brown. "Benedictus," Brown. "Agnus Dei," Brown. "Praise Ye the Father,*' Gounod.1 Steams' Musical Vespers, 8 P. M. ? "Dominc," Stearns. "Dixit Dominus," Stearns. "Laudate Pueri." Stearns. "Laudate Dominium," Stearns. "Haec Dies," Hammerei. "Magnificat," Stearns. "Regina Coeli," Werner. "O Salutaris," Porcher. "Tantum' Ergo," Millard. - "Praise Ye the Father." Gounod, j World's Famous Concert Organist To Be in Sumter Dr. Minor C. Baldwin, a solo concert organist of international fame and reputation, will be in Sumter on Monday and Tuesda3r, April 24th and 25th, and will on those evenings give organ concerts at the Trinity Methodist church. The announcement of the appear- '; ance of Dr. Baldwin in Sumter I should be received is a most dls-j tinctive treat in store for everyone, j for this celebrated musician has j been welcomed in numerous for- j eign countries and has delighted j countless audiences with his won derful concerts. Dr. Minor has played before audiences in London, Belgium, Switzerland, France 'and the British West Indies. He hasj also been the solo organist for the' following American Expositions: j Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia,! Charleston. Pan-American. Omaha j and also at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Bald win will come to Sumter from St. Petersburg, Fla., where he has, spent several months resting. Concert tickets will be sold by i ladies of the Methodist church, and I only tickets limited to the seating j capacity of the church will be sold. Death. Francis Marion Moise, Jr.. the j four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. ! F. M. Moise died at a little before seven o'clock on Saturday night I The funeral services were held from the residence. No. 12 Park Avenue j at 4:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Rev. J. P. Marion having charge of the service. Allan A. Gilbert, Esq., of Chica go, past master of Dearborn Lodge A. F. and A. M.T of that, city, and iditor of the Dearborn Masonic Bul letin, will deliver a lecture after the conferring of degrees at the special communication of Clare mont Lodge Tuesday evening. Mr. Gilbert is a native of Sumter. a son of the late Rev. Allan A. Gilbert, for many years one of the proprie tors and editor of the old Sumter Watchman prior to and immedately following the War Betwen the States. He has made his home in Chicago since early manhood and has visited only a few times since leaving here as a young man. One swallow does not make a summer, nor does the destruction of on" Bi^ I Jay still makes a drought. ? ? ? The prohibition law will never be thoroughly effective until it is backed up by public sentiment. So loti? as public sentiment is indif ferent and a large element of self styled respectible, law-abiding cit izens buy all the liquor the moon shiners make and think it "smart" to evade the law. there will b^ plenty of law breakers to operate stills for the money there is to be made out of this sort of criminal ity. The Sumter Canning Company made its initial run on Friday, put ting up between two and three hundred cans of spinach. Every thing worked splendidly at the plant and everyone connected with the company feel very much en couraged at the showing made during thetesi run. The work is t<> be begun in earnest during the next Week. Lots of them have bought bath ing suns, bin haven't had a ehanco to have their pictures made yet. Why it**; spend more on public works and less <>n public workers? And in the case of the merchant marine, it is subside or subsidy. Vladivostok's Arrested Development "On the eight-day trip from Moscow she had told fellow pas sengers on the trans-Siberian rail way of an Englishman who was disappointed because he spent ten days in New York and had not seen an Indian. "Just before alighting at the terminal city of the longest railroad in the world she inquired. 'Is there much danger from wolves in Vlad ivostok ?' "Not only is there about as much danger of meeting a wolf in Vlad ivostok as there would be of en countering a mountain lion in San Francisco; but there are other like nesses between these port cities, especially if the Vladivostok of just before the war be compared with the San Francisco of its earli er. Barbary Coast days," according to a bulletin from the Washington, D. C. headquarters of the Nation al Geographic Society. Compared to San Francisco "The city of the Golden Horn is younger than our city of the Gold en Gate, having been founded in 3 800. Had its normal develop ment not been interrupted by the war. its hinterland beset by Soviet forces, unsettled by rapid changes of government and now reported to be left without any because of the attacking Chita troops, Vlad ivostok might soon have rivalled our own coast city in population and beauty. '"Living is extremely dear,' said j the Baedeker of 1912: and of the j Vladivostok of 1922 it might be j said with equal truth that human | life is very cheap. The city war ranted a Bret Harte's attention for its bizarre and colorful atmos phere during war times, but for the variety of peoples who made up its transitory population it out did any earlier experiences of our j own fit)ntier towns. Normally it has fewer than ETO.OOO people; by j 3 918 its residents numbered nearly \ 200.000. The influx was made up of human gradations between typhus victims and American mil lionaires. Huge piles of war mate rial were massed there before the revolution came?acres of auto mobiles, mountains of car wheels, and square miles of barbed wire. Contrasts Arc Extreme "Even in ordinary times Vladi vastok is a city of extreme con- j trasts, as might be expected of a place where Chinaman and Russian compete, where east literally meets west. Alighting at the European looking station, from one of the most luxurious trains of any con tinent (191$ was the last year you ! could have done that) you saw t jailers, automobiles., droshkies carriages and jinrikishas. Russians. Japanese, Chinese and Koreans predominated, with many Euro peans, occasional Americans and Africans. "A tongue of hilly land thrust out into a land-lockod bay consti tutes the site of 'The Mistress of the East.' The architecture main- j tains the European note struck by the station: which makes the pres ence of Oriental people, convey- j anccs and customs all the more < exotic. You no sooner accustomed ! yourself to the dreary routine of; bazaar buying, flourishing lotteries, and Babel of tongues than you en countered the more familiar tele graph office, motion picture the ater, museum, club and university. Y*ou may dodge a European racing car. under an American electric light, and run plump into a coolie burden bearer despite the warning ( cries of a Russian policeman. The j 'Golden Horn' restaurant was tho rendezvous of bon vivants of the . world. Breaks All Civic Rules "Small wonder living was ex- , tremely dear in the old days and ' is an acute problem now. since the '. city subsisted fomerly on supplies from China and Japan, Europe and even America. Its growth seems due to some inexplicable exception that proves the rule that a city, to succeed, should be self-sustaining, interchange products with the I country around it. be thrifty, culti-^ vate civic consciousness, be well j governed, and possess some racial, cultural, or patriotic unity. It owed its commerce to the fact that it was the most nearly ice-free port j of Siberia, by which virtue it be-j came the terminus of the trans- j Siberian railway, and to the mili tary and naval establishments maintained by the government of the Tsar. "Now its patron government has disappeared, its railway has been { cut into units by the national en- j titles along: its course, and Bol- j shevisra iooms as an economic as; well as a passenger barrier along J the far-flung rail ribbon that once; extended some 7,000 miles to Cal- j ais. "In the way of exports, in its: palmiest days, it had nothing more \ important to give the world than sea-cabbage, trcpang and a fungus } gathered from decayed wood for j all of which China was its princi- j pal customer. Trepang is the dried body of the holo'thurian, more i commonly known as the sea slug, j more appealing to the curiosity than to the palate of the occidental. For this snail-like creature can throw off. when frightened, its j vital organs-digestive, respiratory! and reproductive?and replace! j them all within a few weeks. Na-j [ ture here seems to hold that two i can live more easily, if not more cheaply, than one. When the sea slug l..'conies too hungry for com fort it divides in two parts and each, developing rapidly into com plete units, goes on a search for food." The paperhanger is finding rooms j for improvement. What Every Woman Knows. A diplomat is a fellow who al ways remembers a woman's birth day and forget^ her aste.?Fi?vette I Michoacan: A State You May not Have Met Michoacan. March 1922?Xo, the printer didn't make a mistake. There's another one. But it hap pens to be a state in Mexico in stead of in the United States: and it is hotter both climatically and temperamentally that the Wol verine State. In a bulletin issued from its Washington. D. C. headquarters the Xational Geographic Society tells about Mexico's "Michigan." where revolutionary disturbances have broken out recently. Keirt His Boots On "Michoacan is not very well j known to the outside world," says; the bulletin, "chiefly because under! the present railroad development! the state is not on the road to any place. If you go into Michoacan j you go because that is your destina- j tion. Many modern forces which j have molded other parts of Mexi-! co, have not, thereiore. made them selves felt very strongly in Michoa can. A number of its quiet little towns of eight to ten thousand souls, descendants of early Span ish settlers, are the centers of con servatism. But paradoxically, the state as a whole has always been a veritable revolutionary cauldron, for its large Indian population seems to inherit its combativeness I of ancestors who were never con- j n tiered by the Aztecs. Like a few European nobles who may wear their hats in the presence of their king, the old chief of the Michoa-j can natives alone has the right to stalk into the presence of Montezu- i ma with his boots on. "Hidalgo, wiio in 1810 started! the revolution against Spain which j resulted finally in the formation j of the Mexican Republic, first rais ed his standard in Michoacan, and after his execution Morelos. a native of the same state, continued to keep the fight alive. During this j early period Michoacan was ? the 'Valley Forge' of the Mexican rev olution. Morella, the capital of Michoacan, is named after this lo cal as well as national hero?one of the few towns of prominence nam ed after a man born within it. The original name was discarded ai. few years after Morelo's death. Coast-Li iic "Without a Port. Michoacan has a coast-line of 100 miles on the Pacific but not a single port. The situation in Cen tral America is directly reversed here. In Central America the Pa cific coast is the region of devel opment, heavy population and cul ture; Michoacan's Pacific coast is largely waste land very sparsely settled. A relatively few miles in land the Sierra Madre mountains form a great rampart from the Pa cific, and among these mountains and on the plateau inland is cen tred the life of the state. "The mountainous portion of Mi choacan is the Switzerland of Mex ico, a region abounding in scenic beauty unsurpassed elsewhere in the republic. There are high mountains, deep valleys, and the most beautiful lakes in Mexico, j Forming part of the western boun-! clary of the state is Lake Chapala, j the largest body of fresh water 30 th of Lake Michigan and north of Lake Xicaragua: It is to this hill-encircled, forest-rimmed lake that many of the wild ducks and j ?eese are winging their way when j their southward flight apprises j the people of the Michigan of the north that winter is approaching. Tens of thousands of these fowls ire killed on Lake Chapala every ivinter. but apparently without j materially reducing their numbers. J City Known for Its Candies. "Because of the great variety of J its products Michoacan might al- j most sfand alone. It is the great- ? est cereal growing state of the re public, and in addition is a heavy producer of coffee to drink with che cereals, sugar to sweeten the coffee, fruits for a side dish, va lilla with which to flavor the family desserts, wines to top off with, and tobacco with which to make the af- j ter-dinner cigar. Even the cabi net woods with which to make ! landsome dinner-tables ?rp nr0duc- \ ?.d in abundance. And sweet-meats | for the drawing room are not lack- j Lng. Morelia is known all over I Mexico, even by those whose | knowledge of its rich historical as- j sociations is somewhat lazy, be- j cause of an especially toothsome! concoction of candied quinces." \ Phelps-Jackson. - Miss Mamie Phelps and Mr. G. j L. Jackson were quietly married at j 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon by Rev. J. G. Ferguson, pastor of the j Broad Street Methodist church, j Miss Phelps is the daughter of Mrs. E. A. Phelps who lives at Xo. 10 i Corbett St. Mr. Jackson is engag-! with the Texas Oil Company in j the capacity of traveling sales- j man. The young couple left Sum- j ter immediately after the ceremony i for Columbia. From Columbia j they will go to Charleston and to i Florida on their wedding trip after j which they will make their home ; in Sumter. - Dog Ordnance to Be Strictly En-1 forced. It was the statement at the po- j pllce department Monday morning that the strictest possible enforce- i ment would be made of the ordi- | nance against the allowing of dogs to run at large about the \ streets of the eity without' muz- j des. A dog catcher is to be put on immediately and all stray unmuz- ; Kled dogs taken up as soon as found. If you value your dog. he should be supplied at once with a proper muzzle or be kept closely confined. This ordinance provides for the advertising of the dog tak en up for three days and after the : expiration of a period of live days, the unclaimed dog is then put to death. ? o~? A women has been given -SI in a ? nach of promise suit. Evidently her promise wasn't worth much. m ^ * Also Wreckers. Soul mat's often turn out to be skippers-. ? St. Joseph Gazette. The world's most famous dry battery. Used where group of individual cells is needed. Fahnestock Sprint Clip Binding Posts at no extra charge Columbia Dry Bat teries work better , and last longer ? ?for tells and buzzers i - - for thermostats j ?for gas engines ?for ignition on. the ^ Ford while starting ?for dry battery light ing in doset, ccilar, garret, barn, etc. Columbia Dry Batteries are universally used because? They cost so little, are so easy to ob* tain, arc so powerful, and last so long. That's why they ?_ce used everywhere for every battery need. It's why dealers all around you carry Columbias to meet your demands?electricians, hardware stores, general stores, auto supply shops, garages, implement dealers. For doorbells, buzzers, heat regulators, alarms, etc.; for gas engine and tractor ignition; for quick starting ignition on non-self-starting Fords; for every pur pose, always?insist upon Columbia. ? KS a? ?.A*j Character Training in Public Schools. AVIATORS ARE KILT/RD Capt. Little and iergt. Johnson Fafl Dallas. April 16.?Capt. G. S. Washington. April 1.?The right solution of the problem of de mocracy "can only come through j Little and Sorgt. James L. Johnson, the school" according to a plan for i army flyers' from Kelly Field, San a "better developed character j Antonio, were krlled here today, training in the public schools" for j when the airplane in which they which a prize of $20,000 has been ! were flying" went into a nose dive awarded under the auspices of the I at a height of about 100 feet and Character Education Institution. I fell. The winning plan was prepared by Officers'.at Love Field, who are the following research committee ? investigating the accident believe in Iowa: Prof. D. Starbuck of [ Capt. Little was politing the ma Iowa State University, chairman; H. | chine. Tile Occident occurred near E. Blackmar, superintendent of a private landing field and it is be public Schools, Ottumwa: C. D. Col-i lieved the aviators intended to grove, president of Upper Iowa | make a landing when the plane University, Fayette; Prof. F. D. j dropped to the ground. Cram and Prof. A. C. Fuller of -? m ? Teachers' College, Cedar Falls: ! ARTHUR GRIFFITH Prof. E. Horn of Iowa State Uni- j ' CARRIES OUT PLAN versity: F. H. Huskill, former su- I ?; perintendent of schools at Water- j Addresses",Crowd Unde -otection loo; Prof. Herbert Martin of Drake' Regular Trc.?,, University, Des Moines: Prof. J. London^ April 16.?A dispatch to the press association from Carrick on-Shannon, says Arthur Griffith, guarded by armored cars and Free State troops, today addressed a D. Stoops of G'rinnell College, Grin nelL The competition was conducted between committees of nine ap pointed by a committee of 'selection ! which in turn was appointed by the ! 2?7d ln Shs? WIthout "^rrup executive committee of the Insti tution. The chairman of the win ning committee receives $4,000; | each of the other eight collabora tors, $2.000. tion. There was an exchange of firing j between the opposing forces this I morning the dispatch adds, and it s reported' one Republican was The winning plan proposes wavs! ^iIIed and ahother Republican and and means designed to obtain ! ? civili^ Were sli-htly vound greater moral results from the reg- ; ed- <rt/ ular studies rather than a moral: ? i program to be added to the cur- \ ^blin, April 16.?Sligo, where riculuin. I -^-rthur G?ffith* was to make a "The right organization of the j speech today, is isolated from Dub school can alone go far toward lin- Neither telephone-nor tele solving the character training prob- ; ^raI)h lines are working. lems.'V says the plan. "To feel the j ? ? """" collective judgment of one's oeers is 1 Jack Montague Power, who has the heart of moral impulse." it, madc a national reputation as an continues, citing cases where school evangelist, and whose meetings re discipline was exercised bv the! ccntly in Broad Street Met'n group will rather than through the ; odist church. Richmond, Ya.. pro mere authontv of the teacher. "Ai nounced the most enthusutstic to be modicum of student participation ; heId in Kf<*mc-nd in many years, (in -school government) is a sav- is spending a few days in Sum ing grace if It assures a feelin of membership in the school com munity and sets free pent up pow ers that are wanting an avenue of expression. The problems under taken (by student government) should be man's size." One chapter presents three rat ing scales for measuring improve ment in character. The Character Education Insti tution has just been reincorporated. According to its certificate of in ter. his boyhood home, where his father was presiding elder about SO years ago. John, as we knew him. made a short talk to Business men at Y* M. C. A. Sunday af ternoon on brotherly love. Appalling Conditions in Armenia. (ExtracH:< of letter from Thomas Mills, of "Mevr York City, dated Erivan. February 20th): "Two days traveling about and ' observing generally the conditions corporation it aims to include j of thc P^??*? Jn the city of Eri maintenance of itself as an endow- van> Armenia, has been more than sufficient to convince a field man. ed national institution with a spe cial faculty for the development of character education of children and youth, under the control and leadership of professional educa tors. The membership is limited to the chairman of the institution, the chief executive officers of education of the several states, ^the United States Commissioner of Educa tion. :i member ot" the staff of the Federal Bureau of education, des ignated by the commissioner, the secretary of the National Education Association, the chairman of the di vision of anthropology and psy chology of the national research council, the secretary of the nation al congress of mothers, the dean of a school of education within the District of Columbia or vicin ity, the superintendent of public schools, of the District of Oolum bai. and a member of the staff of (he public schools of the District of Columbia, and the present life directors of the national institution for moral instruction, the parent organization of the institution. Marriage License Record. A marriage license has been is sued in the off ire of the Clerk of Court t<> Mr. G. 1.. Jackson and Miss Mamie Phelps, both <>f this city. long familiar with relief work, that it is not disease which is kill fhg off the inhabitants of Erivan? it is plain hunger, starvation and exposure. "Outside one of the Near East Relief's soup kitchens I saw shiver ing in the. cold and snow hundreds of -starving t-nildren who cried bit terly from hunger and exposure. They kept coming in from every where all day. presenting a heart rending picture in their scanty rags and shoeless feet. Thc impending end to many of their short lives was plainly written in their glassy and staring eyes. "All possible relief is given to those applying at the Near East Relief soup kitchen, and a bowl of soup or boiled grits is given out to each child until the kettles are empty. Dreadful as it may seem, it is absolutely necessary to turn away many unfed owing to lack of supplies. "The number of orphans keep* increasing to such an extent that the Near Fast cannot hope to prop erly care for all and many are dy ing every day ir Erivan. Fifteen victims of starvation were remov ed from the central district of thy city yesterday." Send yMur contributions to Mrs. Louise B. St abbs, chairman. Xear East Relief! Sumter, S. C. A man will smoke ei.cht cigars in one evening and then blame his indisposition next day on one ripe olive which he ate for dinner. What's in a name. Because a man'*' name is Dodge is no sign that la- is an expert at sidestepping trouble.- < 'hioauo Post. A woman can't dress for comfort md style at the same time. Low high. ? hoes are lower, bul still This Cel. Xutt who is conducting" tin- Florida drive is getting back well at T:ie bootleggers who have been making jokes about his name. ?Charleston News and Courier.