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FOR DRi BRUNSON PastorofCrrace Baptist Pleas antly Surprised by Con gregation Monday evening: the members of Dr. John A. Brunson's church g?.thr ered in the Sunday school building as a surprise party for Dr. Bran son. A large number of his mem ber's were "present and an 'enjoyable program was carried out. making an evening of pleasure to all w"ho were present. Dr. Brunson was presented with a purse of $25.and a beautiful birthday cake. Miss Pauline Haynsworth presented Drl Branson with a "beautiful bouquet of American Beauty roses. Dr. Brunson expressed the opinion that it was one - occasion in his life where "he was unahJe to talk, but that his appreciation of the honor given him was in no way marred by this lack of speech. Ehr. Sophia Brunson gave a read ing; of -a sermon delivered by an old plantation exh otter which was very, entertaining. 'Between the numbers of the pro gram the audience joined in singing some of the old Southern melodies accompanied by Mrs. McKnight on the piano. . ' -j " The ladies served delicious re-! freshments during the program and ! after general conversation and dis- j cussion benediction was pronounced-! by Dr. Thayer and' the party Vent! to their homes feeling better for j the. friendly meeting and enter tainment of the evening. The program was as follows: Piano Solo?Miss Marguerite Mc Leod. Vocal-Solo?Miss Thelma Turner. Keadings-T-Miss" Sophia Brunson. j Vocal Solo?Mr. McCarthy, Reading?Mrs. Robert "Warren. Vocal duet?-Mrs. J/A. McKnight, and Miss Thelma Turner. Reading?Negro Sermon?Dr. Sophia Brunson: Violin Solo?Master J. C. Cooper, j The song composed and sung by j Mr. McCarthy is published below 1 by request of the members of thej congregation:. We'saiher tonight as a tolien of! ' love', '." i To honor ? servant of Jesus above.' Example of godliness .his life has j - -"been;' " : j To point unto heaven the pathway J of men. . j Chorus: Altho many years have passed by i his way, His"heart is as tender as tho 'twere j a. day. 32*0' girt of God's love keeps stead fast to the end. This teacher, this leader ajid friend. May the years that the coming to morrow may bring, Keep the joy in his heart and his ' "tengue ever sing 1 The glories' of . heaven and crea tion's Godi A shepherd to lead where the an gels have trod. John A. Brunson, we honor the good you have done, The pattern you've set as a child of ] God's Son, And the prayer of your ftock is that j you may long be, Spared years more to lead men to j eternity. Aac Small Fire and Two False Alarm?. The members of the fire depart ment have answered during Monday and Tuesday, two false alarms ana 'm one alarm catling the department " to aid in putting out a' tiny shingle fire. This latter alarm was sent m j at 11^45 Tuesday morning. The j very dimunitive blaze on the roef * of the house at the corner of Lib erty street and Salem avenue, Was put out in short order after the j arrival of the trucks. The dam- j age done to this house, which was | being occupied by a negro named ? George Robinson, was practically nothing. The fire seems to have caught from a spark upon the roof. I Phone calls to the fire station,! ^onc at 6:45 Monday evening and! the other coming in at 8:15 Tues-j day morning, sent the trucks with j all speed on one occasion to i Broad street and out to the gas i plant on the next trip. The report I that the home of Mr. E. L. Ducom ? on Broad street was on fire, prbv- j cd after the answering of the j r alarm and upon investigation, to j be false and the billy foundation for the fire fright was based on the burning of a bird's n?st in the 5 neighborhood by a little boy. Th?? noticing by a lady unfamiliar with j this event, of the periodical com-j bustion' of excess air and gas from j one of the stacks of the gas plant j gave the trucks their run to the gas I plant end of town on Tuesday; morning. The gas plant was found to be in perfect order, functioning j very properly and nothing being! found in the slightest degree amiss. The Gamecock Strutters, a dance j organization whose membership is j composed strictly of the younger: dancing set of the city, gave a very splendid dance last evening in ; Bryan's hall. The music was fur- ; nishei by Miss Kate Williams, at j piano, and Messrs. Marion Fox-! worth, violin; Zack Darr, drums' and Robert Buitman. saxophone. The dance was strictly chaperoned : and the best of order maintained. ?The young folks reported a most: highly enjoyable evening. The new solid tires for Seagrave Truck No. 1 have arrived and will today be put on. This truck, while ? answering .a fire call several weeks ago. ran off one of its rear ties, dis'-aparitating temporarily the. truck. ft wiM immediately after the replacement of this tire be <tgain in line for duty. ??NTt ?S RIGHTS OF WOMEN 1 DEMOCRATS Justice Goihraji4 Readers Opin ion Tkat Women May Par- j ticipate in Club Meetings | ?rfr? Columbia,. April 1$?The women: Of South Carolina may participate j in the Democratic club meetings j and elections this month, accord- j ing to an opinion rendered for the . League of Women Voters today by j Associate Justice Cothran of the j supreme court. The opinion war prepared for Mrs. C. Y. Fcamer, j chairman of the legislative commit- j tee of the league. .The opinion of Justice Cothran i holds that the women must sit in j the DL;:iocratic club meetings, that j f-they can participate in "the elec- j tion of delegates to the county j conventisn, and that they can be j elected as delegates, lie also holds ! that the women must enroll on the < club books if they are to vole in j the primaries. ?-'???'*?' . Declamat ion Contest. Monday afternoon the . annual i contest was held to determine the ! selection of the speaker to repre sent the Sumter High school at | Columbia and at Clinton. In ad- j dition to this, four speakers were j elected for commencement. The j judges unanimously declared this! to be one of the most interesting! I and hardest fought contests that j j had been held at the high school.) i After a long * process of elimina-J ; tion the following speakers were j ! chosen to represent the-school: at} I the Tfniversity and at Clinton: Wil- \ I liam Brody; to speak at commence- j ment, Marion Foxworth, Louh;! Lyons, Sandy Owens, and Harry I Shaw. ::- '. ? ?? - " ' Winthrop Daughters Elect Officers Plan Story Hour. Last Friday afternoon at the Girl's High school, the Winthrop Daughters met for the annual elec tion of officers. Mrs. Frank Mc Leod was unanimously chosen pres ident. Mrs. Hal Harby, vice-presi dent; Mrs. Harry Parker, secretary and treasurer; Miss Anna Bryan, j gleaner.' Plans' were also com- j pleted for a story hour for the chil- | dren next Friday afternoon at five o'clock at'the Washington sVrect school. For the children fortunate j enough to secure tickets a real treat is in store, as the most charm ing and original entertainers will be" on the program. There will also be a committee to receive the children and maintain crder before the program begins. Tickets are j being sold by the school children at ten cents each, the proceeds to j go to the Winthrop alumnae asso- j ciatibn. Since only a'limit*j rmmV] ber of children can be cared for at} one time be sure, to get your tick-1 ets early in the week before the j supply is exhausted. ..j Cburcn of ttply Cwtf?rter Holds i Easter Election?Delegates Nametl for Diocesan Council. The Easter election was held at the Church of the Holy ComforUr: ? on last evening. . Monday, April | and the following mep elected toj office: Mark Reynolds, Senior]; Warden and Ernest Field, junior i Warden. ?.Iessrs. W- Percy Smith, j H. L. Tisdale. Baynard Yeadon. J. j' H. Myers. William M. Reynolds, j George Bultman and Marion W. j Seabrook were elected as vestry- . men. i The following men were named j as delegates to attend the Dio-! cesan Council which meets in Char- | Ieston in May next: Messrs. Mark I Reynold:-*. Ernest Field, W. W.1 Rees and W. Percy Smith; alter-j nates are Messrs. George D. Shore, j Sr., J. II. Myers, H. L. Tisdale, and i C. S. Anderson. ? m '.tm ? - Report for March. j On March 1st there were 140 : cases on file in the Red Cross of- j1 fice, S3 being ex-service men, 1 be ing the family of a man still in the j service, and 56 civilian families, j During the month 9 more ex-ser-j vice men applied for assistance in j Cling ch-ums for compensation, j insurance, etc., with the govern- i ment, and 9 more civilian families I asked for help of various kinds.! malring a total of 130 families dealt with in March. Two hundred fifty seven visits j were made throughout town and I county, and 101 interviews were! held in the Red Cross office during ! the month, exclusive of visits made j by volunteers. The financial report of the Home I Service Section for March i:s as fol lows: Office expenses.$2.00 j Car expenses. 7.10 ; Direct relief to needv families 71.88 Total . _.$81."4 One dollar was refunded on a previous loan. H BL BN WH E E LB 11. Secretary, Red Cross Home Ser vice. The Red Cross Home Service class will meet Wednesday after noon at the library, at 4::P?. Dr. Sojphia Branson will be the lectur er of the afternoon. The executive committee of the Red Cross will meet at :?" Wed nesday .afternoon in the office of Mr. L. D. Jennings. Reports are coming in that the boll weevils are out and stirring about to get busy on the growing cot'on as soon as it gets above ground. The road contractors are making gpod progress on hard surfaced highways that are being con structed on the roads leading out <>f Sumter. MA JGR BRISTOW; WITH FLORENCE INFIRMARY NOW Veteran Surgeon of War and Big Hospitals- Comes to Florence (Florence Times). Major Walter J. Bristow lias accepted the position of chief of s'taTf of the Florence Infirmary and has assunmd his duties. He re signed his position in the army to come to Florence with the infirm ary. During his years of medical experience. Major Bristow has oc cupied some of the biggest po sitions in the medical world, lie was in surgical work during the entire World War: and, after re turning to this country from the European battle front, he was sur geon in chief at Camp Jackson, at Columbia. More recently, he has been with the Walter Reed general hospital in Washington, D. C, from which he comes to Florence. Darlington is Major Bristow's home. His wife was Miss Melton, daughter of the president-elect of the University of South Carolina. She is with him. They will make their home at 19 West Cheyes. Medical men of Florence con sider their city fortunate in having brought here such an asset to the profession. Major Bristow ranks among the first in medicine and surgery. The many friends of Ma jor and Mrs. Bristow, both in Flor ence and Darlington, are glad to sec him back here. Major Bristow has many friends in Sumter as he located here for the practice of his profession im mediately after he had completed his medical course and remained until he entered the army during the world war. ** ? -V <# m ?*?? Shower for Brkle-Elcet. The lirst of a series of prenttptial affairs to be given; for Miss Eliza beth Osteen, bride-elect, was a shower given by Miss Vermeile Pitts on Tuesday afternoon. Heart dice was the game of the afternoon and at the end of the game Mrs. Hugh Brown received a prize for highest score,, a dainty powder puff. The, bride-to-be was pre sented with a huge basket and each lovely gift was contained in a mammoth, Easter egg. Miss Pitts presented Miss Osteen with an ex quisite piece of lingerie for her trousseau and Mrs. Jack Skinner, a recent bride, also received a du plicate piece of lingerie. Delicious refreshments were serv ed. . " ? Those present were: Misses Elizabeth Osteen, Grace Reynolds, Emmie and Esther Osteen, Modi* Bowman, Nancy Booth. Ellen Vir ginia Stuckey. Caroline Richard son. Mildred Brunson and Mary Belle Eurgess: Mesdames Edwin Broad well. Jack Skinne-, Fred Xigels, Hugh Brown, and Ormsby; Blanding. ... Program For Story Hour. The telling of stories in such a | way as tp appeal .to the child's j imagination is ah art of which few! ire master. The Winthrop Daugh :ers consider themselves most for :unate in being ahl'c to announce j m their program for next Friday a j lumber of those who are real mas? j .ers of their art of entertainment. Stories will be told by Mesdames j Herbert Moses, L. J. Marsh. Billie I Bynum, Robert Plowden and Misses \ Marie Duke and Abbie Bryan. Reel- j ;atiom> will be given by Misses So- : Miia Brunson and Anna Bryan, j some one will be-on the grounds! before time for the stories, to play ? jamcs with the children who come \ ;arly. The program will begin at i five o'clock Friday afternoon at j :he Washington street school. The I jhildrcn who come are assured of ; i delightfully .-"happy afternoon. ilagocd's News and Views. Remberi. April 10.?The finest j >ats we have .seen are those of S. I W. Allen fertilized by direction of i Mr. Booth with soda and potash, ' .he bulk potash. We had been :old potash was of no good to small j :rain. We hear of destitution. What is neant by the word? That the vife can sit down seven days in the i kV.eek or loll around the fish pond .vhen she might wash, scour or do j )ther lighter work, while the hus- i jand gets to work at the early (?) ! lour of vS a. m. A lot of it is just :hat kind of stuff which is a mis- | riomer. The county at last hit the road | "rom Dinkins* Milt to Sumter a] ick and a promise and made it j passable. A ditch needs to be cut j ind piped across it just above Jim ? McCaa's and unless this is done :he lirst big rain will render the : road impassable again, we fear. "All signs fail in dry weather." [ have noticed that even when the i :mv "fairly humps" in coughing j ts Pinkney Dinkins used to say it ; does not rain. Every bootlegger, every maker of] illicit booze, every one in anywise guilty of breaking that good law ought, upon conviction to serve on the gang or in the penitentiary. A price ought to be pin on the head with the making ol" booze. Their aim seems to be to make prohibi tion a. farce, and there is some ap pearance of success in it. Why are not creamery routes established in the country? We milk two cows, the Spencers two or three. G. H. Lenoir could milk four. Others could do as well or better than the best of de above in our community and . ? a route could be established here if some one would interest themselves. Some one asks "why do you n<>t get out "ilagood?" Because 1 have u.) conveyance. 1 may go around anyway and see what can be done. "J lagood." Renibert. April 1". -? ? ? Trying to keep up with the neighbors j- a fine w get b* hind. SUMTER'S QUOTA OVERSUBSCRIBED $1,162.75 Raised For the Carrying On of Work of the Salvation Army The Salvation Army Drive for a ! maintenance fund was carried "over the top" on Wednesday with I a total of $1,162.75. Tue following is an itemized Statement of the amount received: Ward 1. Mrs. L. W. Jenkins, chairman. $4S.S0; Ward 2. .Mrs. Al ston SUtbhs, .chairman. $244.60: . Ward Mrs. 1). 1?. Kelly, ehair ' man, .$$0.45; Ward 4. Mrs. E. II. Moses, chairman. $41.35: Tag Day. Miss Hanna Kristianson in charge. ! $03.00: Woman's Auxiliary Presby ; terian church. $10: Ladies' Aid So ciety First Baptist church, $10; Business Woman's Team. Mis-* : Hanna Kristianson,. $68.50 and ; Mrsl E. J. Kcrrick. $22.30: Phila ? thea Class First Baptist church, ! S?: committee for railroad em j ployees, C. M. Brand. F. H. : Thorne. S. W. Walker. W. M. Bar j field, E. P. Pitts, George Bultman. ; $8.35: Law Range and Court I House, B. C. Wallace, $19^00: Mills ' and manufacturers committee, R. j L. McLeod and Edgar Skinner, ; $17.30: W. 1. White! cad and F. W. ! Chandler. $55.50; S. L. Roddey and j S. Y. Dinkins. Palmetto Fire Insur | ance company, $38.75; G. W. ! Hutchinson. City National Bank j Building. $39.00: E. T. White. |.$3S;$?; It. C. Belser, $23.50; L. E. i Wood. $10.50: J, C, Pate, $24^25; 'A. M. Currie. $1$.50; Men's Organ 1 ized Bible class Presbyterian church !$36.?O: Sumter Shrine Club. $15; j Knights of Pythias. $1<?; American j Legion. $10: Claremont Lodge No. j 64, A. F. M. $10: Knights of Co i lumbus, $5; Fidelis Class First Bap | tist church, $5: Beginners' Endeav or Societies No. 1 and No. 2, $4; ; Rotary club, $10: miscellaneous ! donations $47.00; J. M. Kolb, Sum | tor. R. F. D. No. 2, $5; E. T. jMims. Shiloh. $10: W. W. Green, 1 Shiloh, $3: Mrs. R. L\ Dunlap, I York. S. C, $5. The woman's committee under ': the chairmanship of Mrs. S. C. Ba ! ker brought in $589.00 of the t amount subscribed. John B. Duffle, general chair j man says: "It is very gratifying i that Sumter with its usual gener j osity in sustaining all meritorious i philanthropies has oversubscribed j the $1.000.00 asked for by the Sal i vat ion Army. I wish to take this j opportunity to thank every cou ! tributor and all of the workers j who made the success of this drive j possible. It was only through their i splendid co-operation that the goal [ was reached and such excellent j . results obtained." j Headquarters Office in Columbia Heard From. ; Editor Daily Item: : It seems from the eon.munica- '? tioms I have had from Mr. John j B. Duffie, general chairman of the > Salvation Army maintenance drive, that Sumter county will contribute ! its quota of One Thousand Dol- j lars. This is indeed a very great i success and the money collected : will be of very great help to the Salvation Army. The people of the j county are a very kind and chart- j table people. I am sure had it not I been for your efforts and the kind- j ness of your staff to the campaign ! it would not have met with such j great success. Miss Roman informs J me that each article which she I has requested you to publish has j been published in full. The suc cess in campaigns depends largely I upon the co-operation ai d the . assistance of the newspaper and we hope that you will give your- j self a great share of the credit of j success of the campaign. I will appreciate it it very much j if you will, through the columns : of your valuable paper, express to I the people of Sumter county the j sincere thanks of the Salvation Army. As soon as 1 can I hope to come | to Sumter on a short visit and I shall be glad to call in to see you. i Thanking you for the very kind ; and unselfish services which you have rendered, I am, Yours very truly. Adjutant J. V. Breazeale, Officer in Charge of Columbia Zone. ' An additional subscription to the , Salvation Army Fund for the amount of $13.75 increases the to tal amount raised in Sumter county* for this worthy cause to the tidy | sum of $1.176.50. This latter sub-; scription, which reached the Rem office too late to be recorded in | the article elsewhere found in this ! issue, came from Mr. W. D. Mc- J Leod. chairman of Oswego. Improvement Fund For Cemetery >. - Editor Daily Item: It is a very great pleasure that I : ask you to inform those who are interested in our cemetery that ex tensive improvements are being: made, claying the driveways and! putting in water. At :i meeting of lot owners some j weeks ago. the following ladies were requested to form soliciting' Committees in each ward of tin city to solicit subscriptions to pay j for these Improvements. Ward !. Mrs. J. M? Baker. Ward 2. Mrs. K. D. Graham. \Vard ::. .Mrs. L. N. Ligon. Ward I. Mrs. C. C Brown. These ladies request me to s;<> that they will start out Monday on this work, and we hope everyone wiii contribute liberally. They uan: ; to raise $6.000, and iL can be dorn if everyone will do his and her part, If you will ;.'<? ?'iit there .'md s?-r what is being done, yon will bo prompted to help to the extent ofj your :i bility. BespocJ fully, Bnrtow Walsh. Pres; Assn. CLEAN-UP BY j BOY SCOUTS Competitive Campaign Stag ed Last Week Nets a Large Amount of Tin Cans As a result of the clean-up cam : paign put on among I'm- Boy j Scouts last week two large Indiana [trucks were required to haul the i tin cans which the hoys had col lected to the dumping ground's, j Two full truck leads of cans were ?collected ami some idea of the j number may be gained if you will stop and think how many one of these large trucks will hold. In awarding the prizes the cans of . each boy were measured in gar bage cans. One boy had twenty | two garbage cans full, another I seventeen and the next in line [ had fifteen. i j The first prize., a three months' i free pass to the Ilex theatre went to ?1. C. Cooper, .Jr., the second, a j two months' pass, to Finlay Wil | liams, third, a one month's pass, : to Klwin Turner, fourth a fielder's ? glove, to Ycrnon Yates: fifth, base I ball and rule book, to Sam Harby; i sixth, Sluggel bat, to Sammy Har | ris, seventh, a two weeks' pass to j the theatre, to Wm. Bryan: eighth, j a knife, to Horace Harby, ninth, j a; knife, to David Reeves. ! ' ? ' ?,T ?'?~ . ! Meeting of The Executive Commit tee of The American Legion. The executive committee of the i American Legion Auxiliary held a {meeting in the American Legion j hall on Monday afternoon at -t I o'clock. At this meeting, it was ! decided to hold Auxiliary meeting's i every third Monday in the month, providing this day is convenient to the majority of the members. In I harmony with this decision, there j will be a meeting of the entire i membership of the American Le gion Auxiliary on the third Mon day in May. Miss Irene Bryan was appointed publicity chairman and has since I consented to serve. A committee, consisting of Mrs. IM. B. Warren, Miss Cora Dutlie, 'and Miss Eleanor Richardson, was appointed to cooperate with the ?American Legion and other organ izations in arranging an appropri ate celebration of Memorial Day, May 10. i The report of the Membership ! Committee Chairman showed that j there were stiil many mothers and j sisters eligible for membership I whose names do not appdar on the [ roll of the American Legion Auxil i iary. It is hoped that all these I will avail themselves of the privi j lege of membership and will join , now while the Auxiliary is in its [formative period so that they may I have full voice in saying what Sumter's post shall stand for. If ! the only reason a person is inel | ligible is because her son or broth I er is not a member of the Ameri can Legion Post here or elsewhere, ? this matter can very easily be ar ranged. The members of Post l? right here in Sumter will gladly welcome any ex-soldier to mem- J bership in the American Legion | or see that his membership is j transferred to any post he desires. | The American Legion is our boys | at home annd we who "kept the; Home Fires Burning" when they I were far away should not let any 1 suffer because they are home again. We backed them up when they ! were "over there," can we do less when they are "over here?" ? ? ? . Summary of Work Disposed of bj j Common Plea* Court. - I During the recent session of thej Court of Common Pleas which con- J vened here on Monday. March L'7, j for its spring term, fa period of j three weeks) a review of the ros-j ter of cases, on which appeared a ? total of 108 cases, shows that there j were IL' actual jury cases tried. Of: that number of cases tried o of the] cases were mistrials, verdicts were j found in favor of the plaintiff in seven, ef the cases and - verdicts | found for the defendant. Of thej \t rdicts for the plaintiffs, U>uv were i damage' suits. Five of the oases on ? calendar were stricken off as end-, cd. settled out .>f the court or as discontinued. 151 is the cumber of eases t<> be carried over until the next term of court. This court: ?"?as scheduled to run in Sumter "or a full three weeks term but, owing to the en bam- session of the: Supreme Court in_ Columbia on j April 10th and 11th. at which all! circuit judges were required to at- j tend, the court was suspended dur- j ing these two days in order that i Judge S. W. <b Shipp. Presiding" Judge, might attend ibis session. | Upon calendar _ for the term! there were 1 3S cases, many of these being cases that had been conclud ed except for the final order con-; firming the master's report on sale, j .*54 of these cases were concluded I and marked ended. Orders werej taken in Itj other cases. The num ber of cases carried over on this calendar is now i"l cases. There were found upon calendar :!. !'T cases ;?!! of which were disposed of j with the exception of 1 4. The Sumie.- fTh;h school base-' hall team were auain victors in a j game of baseball, having returned: Tuesday night from Bishopville j with the laurels. Sumter scored! ten runs against the Bishopville High school tean. and held this lean: scoreless. With the one ex ception of tlo- defeat chalked! against Sumter by the strong Lake City team, the High school club of this year has made n truly! enviable record for the season's work. Sumter is to play I.amar on Friday afternoon of this week.! .Vow thai the < reamery is assur ed the next thing is to establish y sufijoit-ni number of dairy herds to supply the cream to keep tin plan i run nil,;; a: full capacity. Sumter county needs .?t least a thousand more dairj cows just a~ >bon .is i in- farmers are prepared ... eaiv !???? tlieii. properly ami pro iln, . :.! honn all i he !'?-.. <I required. ROTARY CLUB' MEETING _- ? President S. H. Edmunds to \ Be Sent to Annual Conven tion at Los Angeles in June as Representative - i The weekly meet ing and luncheon I of the Sumter Rotary Club at the i j Claremont Hotel Tuesday was at-1 : tended by all the members save a i few who were unavoidably absent ; from the city, or prevented from ! j being, present by illness or oilier' j causes. The meeting was as usual, ;a successful and enjoyable affair, ? and the routine business was quick- I \ ly disposed of. Talks were made ' \ on timely subjects by several mem- j bers. _ j The annual convention of-Rotary! Clubs will be held this year at Los, Angeles, California, and several! j letters from Los Angeles Rotar i ians. relative to the convention ! were read. A number of Sumter! I Rotarians are planning to attend* the convention and there is great j I interest in the meeting to be held | j in Los Angeles. On motion of Perry j j Moses President S. H. Edmunds I was unanimously selected as the representative of the Sumter club ? j and he will be sent to Los Ange- 1 ; les as iJumtcr's official representa-! i tive. , j H. N. Edmunds, Esq., of Co-: lumbia and Cadet Albert Phelp:*, i I of the Citadel were guests at the: j luncheon. I j Mrs. Dorn and Mrs. Huger Give Party. Among the affairs of the week j j was the beautiful party on Tuesday morning given by Mrs. L?he Dorn I ! and Mrs. c. Huger at the home of j j the latter on Washington St. The j ! roonrs were adorned with a wealth ; j of roses and old fashioned garden J ' flowers and tables were set for the \ \ following players: Mesdames Prin- j gle Brunson, Raymond P"owler, I Horace Harby. Leon Scott, Sam j Fleming, Riley Bradham. H. D. j Barnett, Ray Schwartz. Andi'ew j .lackson. C. J. Dwyer. Henry With-! erspoon, Newton Brunson. Jas.! Guthrie, Dillard. A. T. Heath. Warren Burgess. Abe Rettenberg, j Ferd Levi, Isaac Strauss, Ben! Hodges, Ansley Harby. Frank Me- j Leod. Ashleigh Mood and Miss Theo Gregg. Mrs. C. J. Dwyer scored highest \ and won the prize, an exquisite handpainted card table cover, ? while Mrs. Raymond Fowler drew the consolation, a dainty handker chief/ After the games a frozen salad course was served. Amount Raised in Sumter For Sal- j vation Arcuy Now Totals $1, 183.75. - With an additional subscription j of $6.00 from the Primary Chris-.1 tian Endeavor Society of the Pres- j byterian Church, the sum total of! the money raised in Sumter county \ for the home and maintenance' fund of th<? Salvation Army has now reached $1.1S3.7.">. This very creditable showing made by this county came as a result of the most carefully outlined and exe cuted campaign extending over! several week's and which was aid ed by the hearty co-operation of! numerous public spirited citizens j throughout the entire county, ! whose aid in this work was indis- j pensible. The executive commit- [ tee of the Sumter county organi- j zation was composed of: John B.! Duffic. general chairman; S. L. < Roddey, vice-chairman; W. Y. i Yeadon, treasurer: Mrs. S. C. Ba kcr, chairman Woman's Committee ; and Mis:- Marguerite Roman, of Co lumbia, acting most capably as I campaign secretary. The itemized j statement of the various amounts | received was published in previous i editions of this paper. With the following corrections the list! should stand completed: Commit- \ tee for Railroad Employees, C. M. 1 Brand. F. H. Thome. S. W. Walk er. W. M Barfield. E. P. Pitts and I George Bultraan, $84.33; Mills and! Manufacturers Committee. R. L.; McLeod and Edgar Skinner, $27.30 and the Woman's Auxiliary of the | Presbyterian rfiurph, $13. - ? *m ? Tasmania And Australia at Out Sydney. N. S. W.. March 7.? j (By Mail)?The possibility of a re-j quest by Tasmania for secession from the Australian commonwealth j was indicated today at a gathering which assembled to bid farewell to j the retiring governor. Sir William j Allardyce. following continued ; complaints by Tasmania of the un fair treatment she is receiving j from the commonwealth. T. Murdock. M. L. C. declared that unless there were radical alter- j ations in Tasmania's financial rela- j tions with the Commonwealth. His Excellency would probably find a deputation requesting the imper ial authorities at London for re- ; lief. He said that the common-; wealth is drawing about 3,000,000 j pounds yearly from Tasmania, j < which was compelled to share the ' cost of all federal public works on j the mainland, which did not bene fit her. and that she received,. ? hardly anything worth mention-j ing" in return. - ? ? ?? The time for payment of state and county taxes, with penalty expires May 3lst. Since the lo^i^ lature extended the time compara-j lively little money has been re-j ceived by Treasurer Wallace, and, :ts ;i result the schools are suffer- < in:; for lack of funds. fp to this date only about sixty-five per cent of the taxes due for l?21 have been paid. The oiJie.ts of Dick Anderson j Chapter, L~. I). C. are working on their plans for the annual Me morial Day exercises on May 10th. -? ? ? The old-fashioned woman who :s< it l" wish she could drown her , i . h e : daughter who shoot? , PLANT OF SUMTER CANNING' COM PANY OPERA TING NICELY The plant machinery of the Sumter Canning company is func-1 tioning splendidly and the 10'-. employees of the plant are being kept busy with the handling of the fairly large crop of spinach fur- j nished by the farmers of the conn- . ty. Everyone connected with the Sumter Canning company have be come very enthusiastic indeed with the excellent beginning made in . the actual handling of the first \ crop of supplied produce. The full > capacity of the present machinery j and equipment of the plant is ap- ' proxiniateiy 20,000 cans per day. ! The plant is not as yet being work- | ed to this capacity but it is rapidly i approachina capacity output. It is expected that 1<>,000 cans of j spinach will be turned out during the working hours of today. GREAT SUNDAY CONVENTION Sixteenth International Con-' vent ion to Re Held in Kansas City Kansas City, Mo., April 17.-? Amalgamation of the International Sunday School Association and the Sunday School Council of Religious Education will be celebrated at the Sixteenth International Sunday School Convention here June 21 27. The convention will be attend- : ed by Sunday school officer.;, teachers and. pupils from all parts of the United States and Canada. The general theme of the gath- j ering will be "Building Together" through the home, the church, the i community, North America, the world field, reorganization, relig ious education and evangelism. The golden anniversary of the introduc tion of uniform Sunday school les sons will be observed, and a special night will be devoted to the work of the World's Sunday School As sociation. The convention prayer is being written by Bishop Charlie H. Brer..* of Buffalo, Protestant Episcopal bishop for western New York, and the convention hymn by Dr. Ralph Welles Keller of Chicago. Presi dent W. O. Thompson of Ohio State University, Columbus, O., is chair man of the convention committee. Among numerous speakers will be Miss Margaret Slattery, Sunday school writer ard lecturer, Boston; Hugh S. Magill of the National Ed- j ucation Association, Washington, j D. C: Wayne B. Wheeler of thej National Anti-Saloon League, j Washington. D. C: Dr. Marion j Lawrence, consulting general sec retary of the International Sunday School Association. Chicago: Dr. W. W. Charters, professor of edu cational research at Carnegie In stitute of Technology, Pittsburgh: ; and Governor Arthur M. Hyde, of'; Missouri. A convention exhibit i= being prepared. - Methodist to Divide Missions _ Hot Springs. Ark.. April 18.?A j plan for dividing the Board of Mis sions into a Eoard of Home Mis- ! sions and a Board of Foreign Mis sions will be before the general conference of the Methodist Epis- j copal Church South which meets here May 2 and according to j Bishop John M. Moore, of Nash- : ville, the Bishops have expressed themselves as favorable to the ; change. Bishop Moore said the plan was j agreed on by a commission which was authorized by the last general conference. The . commission, he said, was of the opinion that home j missions could not receive in the j Board of Missions as now con- j istituted the consideration and em phasis which the needs of the home field warranted. "The fact tha*. bur work in the nine foreign fields of China, Japan, \ Korea. Manchuria, Africa. Europe, I Brazil, Cuba and Mexico has grown to such proportions that it demands the full time and atten- t tion of a great board and the fact that the work of home missions 1 has become tremendously urgent ' have brought the commission to | declare for two boards." Bishop Moore 'said. Bishop Moore said the commis sion was of the opinion that home ! missions should stand alone "until I it comes to itself in politics, move- j meats and methods of administra tion, and then at the end of one or tvvu quadrienniums the two boards could come together on an equal basis and constitute one i board with two distinct but allied : departments." The Woman's Missionary Coun cil, would not be affected by the proposed change. Bishop Moore said, because the council had al ways had a department Of home missions and a department of for eign missions. -? ? ? CHARGED WITH LARCENY New York. April IS.?Henry M. Peers. 41, member of the bank- . rupt cotton brokerage firm of. Henry M. Peers & Co.. today was held in $5.000 bail to await action by the grand jury on a charge of larceny of $10.000 from the firm of Oliver & Houghtan. cotton brok ers. .John I-'. Oliver. one <>f the com plainants, testified before Magis trate Simpson that, when he ask-j ed Peers what had become of the Me nmi he had giver, him for the purchase of stock, the broker re plied: ?*1 speculated and lost it." Counsel for Peers told the Court . his client, had only followed eus Lom in the use of Oliver s money, 1 rawing the reply that "custom Joes not make law." i NAVY ROW \ IN HOUSE '?Ate_ 'Bid: Navy" Supporter is Charged With Backing Dotfn Whole Question is How Many Officer: Says Chairman Kelley Washington. Aprl IS.?Decision of 'ibig navy" men, on the heels ol their victory for a bigger enlisted force, not *p offer amendments to the i:?23 naval bill providing money increase's for. shore station activi ties, provoked a bitter row in the house today, in ;he course of which Chairman Kelley charged "they had backed down, expecting the senate to complete the job." ! Starting unexpectedly, it raged for an hour or more and drew ? many into the fray. The "good j faith" of those who had changed I their plan at the eleventh hour was , o.uestioned by Chairman Kelley and j Representative Mondell, the ' Re ; publican leader, and quickly resent j ed by those who had put through ? j the amendment increasing the per sonnel from 67,000 to S6,00th' ; Ready with proposals, one call ing for $6,000,000 additional for (?the bureau of construction and rc j pair, and another for $2,000,000 for ! the bureau of engineers, the forces opposed to the eommittee measure agreed to let the bill sail along as framed. Then all at once the storm broke. It came while the house j was considering the item, provid I ing commissions in the navy for [only 200 of the 541 members of the j j first year class at Annapolis. Pcnd ! ing was a proposal to commission j all. .. .. ' I "This discussion," said Chair ( man Kelley, "simply illustrates that ! everybody wants disarmament in j the abstract, but not in the con crete." j Declaring the "cat was out of the bag," he shouted to the house that f the whole question at issue cir l clod around the number of officers J and then charged that the navy j department, in insisting or an m j creased personnel wanted to put 200 additional destroyers in com mission. "They hoped, to get these destroy ers at the other end of the capi : tol," he exclaimed. "The carcass is in plain view now. More de stroyers mean more repair work. The men who wanted more money for the navy^yards- have marched right up to th^ place where they could fake it but/ Then backed away, sayingf *ddn't lets go any fur ther; lets let the senate do it? Navy Oa?ses Earthquake Scores Los Angeles, Calif., April IS.? Weather conditions are responsible for target practice, of tht Pacific Fleet off the' Southern California coast -being occasionally mistaken for earthquake shocks, according to a report made to the Chamber of Commerce of this city by Dr. Ford A. Carpenter, head of the meteorological bureauof the chamber. Dr. Carpenter cited cases of Jan uary 17 and March 23 last when vibrations caused by big gun fire rartled houses many miles inland and resulted in reports of "earth quakes" from widely scattered lo calities. ? ? , . "It is a well known fact." the re port continued, "that sound coming from some ''point may be heard is also va-ri^bfe/* The wind- direc tion plays a *ih,ost important part in this. If the*sdund-emitting body is in the direction from which the wind is coming, .the sound may be heard more distinctly. It cap be seen readily ' that sound waves travelling in the opposite direction from which the wind is blowing or against the wind, will be broken up" and deflected. "The weather conditions dur ing the evenings of January 17 and Marcii 23 were practically the same. At both times an area of low pressure was central over Ne vada and Utah, with an area of high pressure off the -California coast. Under these conditions Southern California would experi ence southerly winds shifting to westerly by way of southwesterly. ?The liting took place near Catalina Island, which would give the ships a position practically due south of Los .Angeles. The greift atmospheric, waves traveling with the wind would be carried great distances. Had there been a north erly wind the shoe': would prob ably have been unnoticed. "With . gun firing at sea. the waves are in the air. but with an earthquake the waves are sent out from some disturbance under 'the surface of the earth and a vibra tion oi the ground i-esults. The gun firing shocks rattle windows and doors but there is no vibra- > tion. The effect is more like a high wind. "As tiie navy seems to have chosen Southern California waters ior battle practice and uirget iirmg of the ships, we are likely to have recurrences of t'.ese shocks from time to time." ? m ? Farmers report that the oat ??end wheat crops are looking fine and that the weather conditions have been favorable for small grain. The :nan who has a good wheat crop this year is lucky. Why not a law making boot leggers print the antidote on the bottle? In making a movie, they take, one drawn-out kiss and hunt for a plot ?0 precede it. This bandit who robbed three landlords knew where to find the money. U is better to bo bored than lone ly. . When you see "Statute of Lib erty" it's probably a misprint. An ex-toper would tell you it*s bound, to he.