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i town m e SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION For This District Will Be Heid in the Wedgefield Bap tist Chnrch Next Smrfay The District Sunday school con vention v?>ll he held in the Wedge Seld Baptist church- Sunday after noon, April SO. from 2 to 4:45. This ! is a smufltaneotis. state-wide caxa -3??ge io which all of the Christians -ami Sunday school, workers are in vited, and are expected to attend. All are invited and all are wel come. A banner will be awarded to the Sunday school that has the larg ? esr number pre:<ent in proportion tc the distance travelled, 20 per sons traveling 10 miles being equal to 40-persons traovehng five miles! ' each. ? - ^ . I ? The^fcHowing program will prove j Very interesting to ail who may at tend: 2:04 p. ra.?Song service. , devotional exercises. 2": 30 p. m.?"How to build up our Sunday schools." 2:50 p. m.?"How to become a Better Teacher." 3:10 p. m.?Song by the chil dren. 3:3 5 p. xn.?Song by the conven tion?everybody sings. 3:20 p. m.? Messages from Christian leaders of our state. (Head by District President). Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, president j ^Fnrmaii University^ president Gen- j era! Board Baptist State Co a veil- 1 tion. ? Dr. Sobers. Truesdale, pastor) Main Street Methodist church, Co-j him bin. ' { Dr. A. D. P. Gilmour, pastor thet First Presbyterian church, Spartan-1 burg. j Rev. W. II. K. Pendleton, chair- i "man Board of Religious Education, I J2piscopal church in S. C. Rev. H. K. Biack, president Luth eran Synod of S. C. Dr. R. C. Grier, president Erskin [ .-College ^A. R. P. Church), Due i West. Rev. W> H. Brunsen, president j Christian Church Convention of S. i Te. ??. f 3:30 p. m.?A message f rom j the governor of South Carolina. 3;&i> p. m.?A message from the Resident of the United States. *:40?Song. 2:45 p. m.?"Christian Coopera-j tion, the principal upon which Dr. i Carlisle and Dr. Furman founded ; our Association." 4:15?Song, -f ~."2>? p. m.?The superintend- j ent ttnd His Work.". {General dis- | cussion each . superintendent pres- | ?nt is invited to take part.) j H 4:4*t p. m.?Announcement of f the State*. Sunday School Conven- t tion, Columbia, June 20-21-22.,' Award of banner to Sunday school f with best representation. Select j time said place of next meeting. i Mr. L. D. Jennings has purchased ? * bull and three registered Guern sey-heifers from R. AL Cooper, of ^Wisacky and A. B. James, of Darl- | ington. as the foundation stock; of the-Guernsey herd that* he plans! to establish. He will purchase fifty: additional Guernsey cows for his) dairy herd at once. ? ? ? chautauqua orator * selects vital imc Op. Hufcer W. Hurt to Speak en - "The New Industrial Day." \flUJi-Knowrt Lecturer Will Set Forth >ractical Principles of Individual ftrid Collective Living. "The New Industrial Day" will be - the subject of a challenging lecture to be gl ren at the doming Redpatn Chaut2B<itia by Dr. Huber* W. Hart, scholar, writer and orator. JRils is a lecture wfeleh sets forth powerft&y and eoiu'iiicingly^ practical prmeipt? of individual and collective living. ? ^or twenty yesrs Doctor Hurt has been speaking to audiences in this DR. HUBER W. HURT country and abroad. He will be one jo fthe headllner lecturers cf the Chau tauqua. ^Doctor Hurt is a true orator. A thor ough master of his subject, be makes his ideas stand forth vivid and real to his-hearers. ^During the war he was chief of the Educational Division of the Foreign Press Bureau of the Committee on Public Information. It - i > l ^ ! ml 'i _ _ _ ,! ? _-? ? .; SURVEY OF OUR COUNTY President Moses7 of Young Men's Business League Calls j Attention to Valuable Publication Editor Daily Item: I ? Please allow me space to call; attention to the Economic and So cial Survey of Sumter county that; is. now b ing prepared. The work is being done by two of j our. own men at the University,. Ralph Ramsey of Wedgefield and I Aaron. Green of Sunrter. When! completed it will be a .valuable j presentation of various phases, of ! Sumter county life, activities, or ganizations and industries. . To make the work complete and the information accurate these gentlemen have written to ,various parties in Sumter asking of them j facts and figures along their par- j ticalar lines. Mr. Ramsey was in | Sumter Thursday in\ connection with this matter, and he told me that he had had very few replies to the letters he had written. I re spectfully, urge everyone who has had a letter from either of these gentlemen asking for information! to answer it without, further delay; ! the work is being licked into shape for publication, and will be com-! pleted early in May. The Young Men's Bus in ess j League recently decided that it J would undertake to raise funds necessary for the printing and cir culation of this work when it is completed. vThe League was im-1 pressed with the importance of the! work, and realized the necessity} for the facts presented by it being] driven hoiie to our people. For; instance we think the figures of the I balance sheet on food products for ] the,county worth the cost of the whole venture?one item shows j that this county is short for its j own consumption 400.??O fowls. ! Another shows that we could j raise here and eat here 400,000 j pounds of butter more than we do- j This is not going into . the^ j facts; it is only to urge all who j have not answered letters received from Mr. Ramsey or Mr. Green to answer them now; the information asked for is needed. HERBERT A. MOSES, President Young .Men's Business League. ?V? i.. Marriage License Record Marriage licenses have been' is sued to the following colored coup les: Willie Carter and Charlotte Prin gle, of Mayesville. Willie Goodmen and Rosa Mitch ell of Wedgefield. Daniel Mackey and . Lou Bell Kinly of Pine wood. James Lewis and Patsey Dennis, of. Sumter. James Grant and Susan Hayns worth of Dalzell. Henry Pack and Mary M. Boyd j of Pine.*oo<L Joseph Green and Florence Ben- J jam in of Mayesville. Robert Roberson and Malvenia j Ramsey of Sumter. Isaac Alston and Louise Gamble of Rem belt. Farmers' Club Reorganized. The Farmers' club at Second j Mill wa:s reorganized last Satur- ( day, April 22nd. Mr. R. C. Wactor j was elected president; R. B. Din-' kins, vice president; J. L Brad-' ford, secretary and Jas. Din kins, | executive committeemaxi. LXelegate j to county convention, P. Mi Pitts I antl rL 5. Mellette. -? Poultry Calendar. April is.one of the best growing! months of the year for chicks. Dust I all hens and chicks with good in sect powder. Pay particular at-! tention to head lice that may bo I on baby chicks. Provide chick size charcoal and ground bone or! meat scraps in the mash hopper; j feed when practical. Sour milk j should be fed constantly. It is a! frood supplement for meat scraps, j Furnish plenty of green food fori chicks. Watch for crows, cars, hawks, etc. Clean summer quar- ; ters at once. Spray house to kill vermin. Make spring cleaning in :, poultry yard. -? m m Xotioe. ? - ? Troop Xo. h Boy Scouts, needs; a scout master. Who in Sumter of the young, men interested in the: boys of Sumter will volunteer for tliis post of honor, for indeed it means a post .of honor to the young man who fills the job? What greater service can any one do lhan to help the boyhood of our com munity to a broad strong man hood? We want to see who among the young men of the city will be the first to volunteer, and thus Lu the first on the roll of honor. The Rotary Club of Sumter is going to put its moral support and efforts behind the Boy Scouts. Send in your name to A. C. PHELPS, L. C. MOLSE. PERRY PAR ROTT. Special Rotary Committee. The City School Bo ?rd has pur chased the Mellctt property adjoin ing the Roys' High School on the west und a lot from J. M. Harby, on the north for the purpose of en larging the school grounds. -? ? ? The reinforced concrete bridge and new fill at Green Swamp on the Stateburg ro?d arc nearing comple tion. -m ? ? Xow is the time to plant velvet beans. Roll weevils do not eat beans but cows and hogs thrive on them. CHAUTAUQUA SEASON NEAR Wendell L. McConky, Advance Representative of the Red path Bureau is in the City Mr., Wendell L. McConky, rep resentative of the Redpath Chau tauqua, arrived in the city today and will remain until the opening of the big seven day Oha utauci.ua, beginning here May fith. Mr. Mc Conkey will work with the Y. M. R. A? Board which is the local committee that-.has charge of the Chautauq.ua in Sumter. It is. only a short time now un til Chautauqua opens here and ev eryone is urged to purchase season tickets now in order that the Y. M. C. A. may get their drive started. There are eight splendid attractions scheduled to appear here during the seven days that the Chautau qua will be in the city, and a sea son ticket admits to all programs. The Chautauqua will be held on the same grounds as last year and no war'tax will be collected as the revenue department of the gov ernment has taken off the tax on the Redpath Chautauqua because of the splendid work the Redpath is doing as a community builder and educator. From the newspaper reports from preceding towns on the circuit it is evident that the program of the Redpath Bureau this year is the best that has ever been present ed. The Chautauqua season has ar rived; let us all get behind and push the Sumter Chautauqua and make it the biggest and finest Chautauqua we have ever had. Concert by Music Club. The public is cordially invited io attend the opening evening re ception and concert by the mem bers of the Woman's Afternoon Music Club. Those who are not interested in clubs, believe them to be a selfish body of women pur suing their own pleasure. But such is not the case, they arc a band of artistic workers for some cause, which will benefit the community in which they live. This music club is one of the 25 federated music clubs, repre senting 6(M musicians in this state, who are using their in fluence: for good music. They are one.of the hundreds of music clubs in the National Association of Mu sic, who are trying to make "America musical." The president of this-club is the state chairman of music. A few excerpts from her interesting re port: at the federation last week in Columbia may give you a better idea of the wide scope of the ca tirities of music clubs: "The combined efforts of all the clubs have crystallized into an in sistent demand for better trained teachers "and . supervisors,' for the promotion of good school music, for the giving of equal credit for equal effort, and for the creation of a higher appreciation of the ennobling art of music. The efforts of the chairman have directed toward organizing the first music- teachers* association in the slate: On March 17th in Columbia, 100 musicians gathered and 75 charter members were enrolled. At this time there was a meet ing of the music 1 directors of the colleges for the purpose of fixing the uniform music requirements for college entrance. This necessitates a high school standard which will eventually work out in the giving of credits for the study of music thereby en abling a pupil to graduate in mu sic at college after a four years' course. The chairman asks your co-operation for the suppression of jazz music at dances and moving theaters, substitute beautiful mel odies with puivr rhythm, and work ro make "popular music good, and good music popular." There has been many requests for informa tion about South Carolina com posers. After much research, few of any note could be found. Lily Strickland of Anderson being the most famous. In order to stimulate our mu sicians to greater effort in compo sition Mrs. Leroy Springs of Lan caster has offered, a gold medal for the best song and Mrs. Merrit of Sr. Marthews, a medal for the best pjano composition submitted by a South Carolinian at the next fed eration meeting." Following, is the programme: Piano duet. Overture to Wil liam Tell, Rossini?Miss McLeod and Mrs. Hearon. Quartette, Bendemeer's Stream, J. Sherwood?Mesdames Lee, Mc Knight, Misses Haynsworth and Smith. i Violin solo, (a) "Perpetual Mo tion,"?B?hm: (b) "Consolation," I Baldwin?Mrs. R. J. Alexander, i Piano. Staccato Ehude Rain. P. A. 1 Yon?Mrs. Stuckey. i Voice. "The Wren." J. Benedict ! ?Mrs. Lee. i Reading, My Win Countree, E. M urn ford? Miss Brunson. Quartette, "Neath the Autumn Moon," F. Vanderpool?Mesdames Lee, Dillard, MoKnight, Miss ' Smith. j Voice, (a) "Sin^ On." Lugi Den iza; (I)) "Carolina." Words by M. F. Nicklif; music by Mrs. H. M. Stuckey. Presented for the first !tame on the Fin*" Arts Night pro gram at the Stare Federation of Woman's Clubs, Columbia, April Sich. 1S2.2. Chorus, (a) Love Song; (b) Farewell, B. Nevin. Judge T. K. Richardson is now paying off these pensions. Receipts have been seni fro mthe office of the Comptroller Ceneral in Colum bia which must he signed by the pensioner or some responsible per son in of the pensioner, stat ing that the person entitled to the pension h;is net income of less tban ?> 1 ,oaft per annum. Sometimes we think it is bette; to be able i<? ran like Paddock than to fight like Dempsey. i _\_ RED CROSS HOME ... SERVICE Case Xo. Seven. Family of si:: children in country: no mother to look after them; need clothing ; and shoes. : Roy of fifteen needs suit of clothes and pair of shoes. Xo. 7. Girl of twelve needs all kinds of clothing, shoes, size 5 1-2. Boy of ten needs suit of clothes. Girl of six needs shoes, size 12. Boy of three and a half needs ; wash suis. These chid ren are anxious to go to school and to Sunday school; as soon as they are properly clothed. Anyone having these articles to j give will confer a favor on these needy children by making the ar ticles to Miss. Wheeler at the court house, or by phoning her, Phone I 518. and she will call for anything that can be donated. _m m 9 Sumter Civic League. ! The regular meeting of the ' league was held on Monday after ' noon, April 24. It is to be regret ! ted that with a membership num I bering over two hundred, only ! thirteen ladies attended this\ very j important meeting. The election of Mrs. Horace Har i by as president, at a special meet ! ing was unanimously endorsed. In ! accepting, Mrs. Harby remarked ! that her reluctance to again assume : the office, which entails a great i deal of work, was due entirely to ! the utter lack of interest shown j by the majority of the members. ; Her decision to retain the office i for only a few months unless the ! members show more interest .should be giv?n serious thought by rail Civic League meni bers. t We cannot expect our president ? to work- with enthusiasm, unless i she has proper co-operation. Mrs. John Wilxon. delegate to j the South' Carolina Federntion of j Women's clubs brought in a very 'interesting reporr of the various unusual activities of other civic clubs. It was decided to hold the an jnual May Festival on Thursday, ? May 18. The following committees ? were appointed: Refreshment* Committee ? Mrs. j Mrs. Will Brunson, chairman: Mrs. j Graham Moses, Mrs. H. J. Harby, ! Mrs. Warren Moise, Mrs Agnes Bo | gin, Mrs, Ferd Levi, Mrs. Ed. Pitts, j Mrs. W. R. Phillips, Mrs. Eugene Moses. Mrs. John Green and C. L. Wray. Coffee?Mrs. R. C. Richardson, j chairman; Mesdames Henry Span?, j KershawT Skinner, Jack Skinner, ? Misses Vermelle Pitts, Caroline j Richardson. j Grab Bag and Fish Pond?Mrs. J Morse, chairman: Mesdames Gurh j rie, B. D. Hodges, Gaston Phares. Fraser Dick, j Folk Dances?Miss Bessie Mcars, j chairman. j Maypole Dance?Mrs. Raymon ! Schwartz and Mrs. Courtright, I chairmen. List of little girls will j be published later, j Ice Cream?Mrs. Barnum, chair j man; Mesdames W. L. Brunson, j Geo. Epperson,. R. W. Andrews, j Miss Oliie May Barnum, Mrs. 1 Maurer. j Cake Booth?Mrs. Mitchell Levi, chairman; Mesdames W. D, Boy kin, R. S. Hood, R. C. Williams, ! Wendell Levi. Candy Booth ? Mrs. Herbert jMoses, chairman; Mesdames A. S. j Merrimon, Ashleigh Mood, Miss Armida Moses. Parade?Miss Hannah Kristian son, chairman. The Business Girls' League Com j mittee, other committees and sub J committees will be appointed by I the president on her return from j Charleston and the list published j later. Lily M. Levi, Chairman of Publicity. Plans are being made for the 'organizing of a baseball club I among the local insurance agents j of the city. It is stated that there j Is some very good talent among the j local agents and that a very K?:od j team should be gotten up. The J agents' team is being backed by j Messrs. J. J. Riley. Hugh G. Brown ? and W. E.. Moore. Challenges will j early be issued to all similarly i formed leagues and some red hot j ball games will probably be ar j ranged to help pass away some of the hot summer afternoons. The Sumter County Board of j honor at its recent session, divided , the money for the Confederate ! Pensions into four elasses. First, j the sum of $50 was allotted for the j funeral expense of Confederate j Veterans who have died since, last ; May, leaving no widows. In goini; lover the roll there were found to I be seventeen old Veterans in thiti [Class. The other classes were: I Class A. Those in this class were 'awarded $$5.54 each: those in Class B were awarded $42.7S and ! those in Class C were awarded the ? sum of $21.40 each. The dairying industry can be made the foundation of prosperity in Sumter county and the first es sentials for the success of dairying are an adequate supply of home. grown cattle feeds and permanent pastures. The farmer who plam io go into the dairying industry .should plant heavily of velvet beans and hay and prepare for wintei and summer pastures. The dairying experts say that carpet grass is the best summer pasture for this state affording better grazing ami a larg er season than any other grass, be ing superior to Bermuda. Carpel grass flourishes on land that is tot low and wet for ordinary crops and can be planted on rough or cut over land without other prepara tion than cutting down the lov, brush thai would shade the grass Delinquent taxpayers have unti; May 3lst to pay state and count} lux*-.-, with penalty. On June 1st the tax books will be closed an< County Treasurer Wallace will be gin writing up executions. If they have n<> coal strike iu th? next world it will be heaven. OUR HIGH SCHOOL IN THE CONTESTS _ i Miss Lillian Burket Wins In dividual Cup. William Brody in Finals In thp contests*of declamation ; there were fifty-two schools repre : semed from all sections of the state. I The preliminary contests were held j in the afternoon at 3:30, and from this list of fifty-two"representatives : ten were selected to declaim in the i finals. William Brody representing i the Sumter high school was select i ed as one of the ten, and while he j did not win a medal he reflected ; credit upon the high school. These j ten final places are very much cov ! eted by the representatives from all over the state, and it is singular ; and gratifying that while there j were only ten of these p'aces tlyee ' of them were won by Mayesville, j Bishopviljo and Sumter. j In the typewriting contest the j team from Sumter made an excel j lent showing. The school was rep ; resented by ?Iiss Lillian Burkett, j Miss Helen Cuttino. and Miss Cath ! erine MoKagen. The cup for the j team was won by Columbia, while j Miss Lillian .Burkett carried off i with ease the individual cup. The cups offered for the type j writing department have been the i cause of considerable inspiration j to the students of this department, and the work that the whole class has been doing this spring has 1 been unusually good. The commercial department of ; the Columbia high school was re j sponsible for this first contest and i the. high school league thought so j well of it that they have taken it over and it will henceforth be a j regular part of the inter-school i contests which are held each year. I i Xesro Receives Wound on Hand From Unknown Party. Si Belser, the negro truck driver j of the City Meat Market, was the recipient of a bullet wound on the j knuckle of one of his hands when j he was fired upon at about 10 'o'clock on last Saturday?night by ! three unknown men but whom, j however, the negro believes to have [ been white men. The negro boy j stated that he was on Corbett j street delivering packages at that j hour and that he was hailed by i three men, who opened fire un ; provocated upon him immediately i at his stopping of the Ford truck ! which he was driving. Three shots ! were fired at the negro from pistols, j and one of the bullets fired struck j the negro on the hand, inflicting ! a slight wound. According to' the i negro's story, the men then made i their escape. The negro was unable I to identify any of the men. Xegro House Burned Sunday Morning. j Answering a fire alarm coming in j at 3:20 o'clock on Sunday morning, j the fire department found work to i be.done in the putting out of the ; flames of a burning negro house j on Edwards street. It is seated {that the roof was falling in on the ! occupants of the house even before they became aware that the house was on fire. The house was com pletely destroyed, being already too far gone to be saved before the sending in of the fire alarm. j - ? * ' Ba n?i act of Fur man Club - j Furman Club of Sumter and Clar endon Counties are to have a ban quet. Alumni and former students of Furman university will have a i get together banquet at the Clare ! mont Hotel. Wednesday evening, j May 3rd, at 8:30. Every' former j student of Furman is cordially in I vited. Alumni secretary Meli Glenn j wil be present, to gether with j Speedy Speer, of Furman football j fame. If you ever attended Fur i man, get in touch with R. L. Mc j Leod of A. D. Rogers and make ar | rangements to be on hand. Mothers* Club. I At the meeting of the Mothers' I Club held on April 20, at the ' C*iris* High School building, the'fol Ilowing program was carried out: "How The Parent May Help the ; Teacher."?Miss McCduley. I 'The Shopherd-Towner Ril!." ? i Mrs. YV. P. Middleton. I "The Question Box" in ( barge of i Mrs. L. J. Marsh. ! The Mothers' Club is to hold a j child's health conference at the ! First Tloptist Sunday school house, I May 23rd. 24th, 25th and 26th, (from 3 o'clock to 5:30 p. m. daily. ! The cooperation of all the physicians and several dentists is secured. All white children from 1 to 0 years of age who attend will re ceive physical examination free of i charge. A record sheet of the examina [tioh and instruction to the mother I will be given. The examination will include: Weight, height, dimension of beads, ', chest, abdomen. Examination of ear. eyes. nose, throat, teeth, j heart, lungs and general condition I will be made. j A complete urine analysis with record of same will be given to all I who bring specimen for analysis-. July Shaw Gives Self Up. July Shaw, the husband of the [negro woman who was found dead ! on the floor of her home, x<>. l?; IS. Harvi'n street, on the morning of Aprli 27th, gave himself up foi arrest at the police headquarters I on Saturday nigh.t The negre had been working at Alcolu. lit was placed in jail immediately and ?will be held for trial for the criminal negligence and ill treat ment of his wife, whose death in all probability was occasioned by i bis lack of attention. .\ man who pays as he goes nevei has to stop. Ii is all righi !<? hit a fly while ht i- down. The flowers thai (doom in tlu spring are watercress. COW TALK BT C. \V. SCTTMOLKF. Profit in Milk Production I The daiiy cow is one of the most useful animals knwon and yet she J is more abused than any other j animal. It" we want the mule and horse i to work we have to feed them i and feed them well. The automo j bile needs so much oil and gas ? to make it do a certain amount of i work. Take its fuel away from it j and it will not. work. But the pa j tient. useful, old cow is often ex pected to work without the neces sary fuel wherewith to keep her animal heat up. restore waste tis sue and help build up her gody, and finally from which, to produce milk. The neglectful farmer usually blames the cow or the factory buy ing his product, because he does i not make any profit, never himself, for not supplying the cow with the necessary food ingredients from which t omanufacture milk eco i nomieally. Economical milk production is j the secret of successful dairying land to be able to produce milk iand butter fat economically the foL ! lowing conditions are absolutely es ! sential: I L High producing cows. These j need not necessarily be registered. I pure bred animals. Many good .' grades of heavy milk strains can ! be obtained at reasonable prices or i can be bred from ordinary cows if j sires from high record dams are . used for breeding, i 2. Liberal rations composed of ?all the necessary ingredients in such j proportions as are required in the 1 production of milk must be fed ! regularly. Z. Succulent feeds are neces sary. Either green feeds such as [silage, rye, bar'ey, oats, vetches, jmilht, toosinthe should be bbtain lable in large quantities. These are ! cheap and easy to grow. 4. Regular and careful milking, 'irregular and incomplete milking Will tend to dry up a cow in a very I short time. 5. Plenty of clean, cold water. 6. Shelter from' severe cold or extreme heat. The. milch cow is a j highly nervous animal and is very ; susceptible to climatic changes. Ex I posure to. either severe cold or ex \ cessive heat will always have a j harmful effect upon the milk flow I of the cow. ! 7. Oentle treatment. For the j same reason as above cows should ! never be hurried or treated rough ly. Anyone who is impatient with j cows and does no: treat them gen j tly has no business to expect them j to show him a profit at the end of ?the month. 8. All feeds Should be grown; I on the farm and as little as possi j ble of it purchased. . Xo one can j expect to pay high prices for bought1 food's and expect to produce milk I economically. The cost of produc ing a gallon of milk or a pound; j of butter fat will depend on how j I the above conditions are observ- \ ! ed. j The Sumter Creamery has just placed an order for approximately !?9.000 worth of dairy machinery! j with the Creamery- Package Manu | fact tiring Company of Chicago, and i they have also entered into an i agreement with the owners of th* j fine, spacious and well constructed J building in which was formerly j housed the. Chandler-Harmon Mot or Company, to lease the building i for several years, j zThis building will be entirely re : modeled to suit the requirements I of the work to be done, and when completed, Sumter will have one of the best equipped creameries and market milk plants in the state of South Carolina. Only the most upto date machin j ery has been purchased, and the la i test up to date scientific methods i will be employed in the handling j and manufacture of the various I products it is intended to handle, j Sumter will have service in this I line of commodities second to none ? The general management of the j business will be in the capable ] hands of Mr. C. W. Schmolke, who i comes to Sumter from the Exten ; sion Service of Clemson College, ; and who previous to that time was ; assisting in the work of lecturing ? in dairying in the Iowa State Uni ; versify, where at the same time he j was taking post graduate work. For I several years Mr. Schmolke was in : the Extension Service of the Union ! of South Africa as dairy specialist ? and in that same country he also I had eight years of commercial I dairying, having within that time j promoted three dairy companies. ; and erected and managed large ; creameries and cheese factories i successfully. ; With Mr. Schmolke will be asso ciated as plant superintendent. Mr. i 1. R. Davidson, who is a graduate I from "the Iowa State College. Mr. Davidson comes well equipped to , the Sumter Creamery, having had a training at the besi dairy school : in the United States and also sev eral years of experience in dairy manufacture and commercial dairy ing. The rest of the staff are all re liable trustworthy members who have the' interest of the public at heart and who will render nothing but the best service. With such a biulding, such ma chinery and such management the public of Sumter will have a cream ery and milk dairy of which they can he proud. Marriage License Record. A marriage license has been is sued in the office of the Clerk of Court to Mr. C. L. Johnson and Miss Ora Lee JOnes, both of this city. ?o ?? ? ? lie ouldn't sleep for six years'' reads an advertisement. Six years is .?'<> long to sleep anyway. Xo man is as honest aa he thinks others should be. 1 MASTERS' SALE HELD AT NOON j City Lots and Several Parcels of Land in County Sold at Public Outcry The following- lots in the city and tracts of hind in the county were sold at public outcry at noon Mon day, the May sales day. at the } Court House grounds, under the or i der of E. C. Haynsworth. Master, j Mr. L. B. H. Darr acted as auction 'eer: i Kein vs. Stukes, 120 acres in county to Raymon Schwartz, at- I torney, $100. . j Southern Life & Trust Co., vs. C. I Wi Hicks, et al, 2 lots in Pinewood to W. M. Levi, attorney, siOO; and j lot in Sumter. $350. Blanding & Lawson, 3 lots in city, H. C. Haynsworth, attorney, I $100. ? j Reynolds & Manning, individual [ interest in 2 tracts in county, M. ! Reynolds, $100; lot in city, M. I Reynolds, attorney, ?1.00. McDonald & Thompson, lot in county, M. J. Frederick, attorney, $ 7 5. Red Cross Notes. Cases 5. and C. The call for shoes for these children has not yet been answered. Some gifts were received under these calls, but there were several who were in want: there is still needed three pair of shoes, 'size four, and three pair size five. Case 8. A family asks for a kitchen safe to keep the flies away from the food. Although appre ciating the necessity of being san itary this family Is unable to pur chase such a safe. Case 0. A family in town is in need of much; the girls, aged 11,1 122 and 14 all need clothes, and the' father, a medium sized man is inj 1 need of a pair of trousers. The; man is working, but he has six children to support and his earn-i ings are not great enough to buy all the necessary clothing needed. Anyone who will give any of the above needed articles will please phone Miss Wheeler, secretary of the Red Cross, Phone 518, and she will call for them. Sweden Proposes im-port ant Change in Posta! Dejiartment Stockholm. April 4.?A postal checking account system whereby the Swedish postoffice department will l>c enabled to do a limited commercial banking business is proposed in a bill recently submit ted to the Riksdag and sponsored by Anders Oerae, Minister of Com munications. The bill also provides that the present postal savings de partment he merged with the post c''tee service., '. Under the proposed system, which is meeting some opposition from the banking interests of the country, small depositors in the reorganized postal savings hanks could draw their own checks in stead of buying postal money or ders. This system Minister Oerne contends, would effect a saving in the salaries of officials and money order clerks and other. expenses. He declares that less than one third of the clerical force now re quired could handle the work under the new arrangement. Minister Oerne states that the j proposed postal checking system ? will be of incalculable value to j small depositors and especially to ; people in rural communities where; there are no banking facilities. ? ? <? / Your Right Hand is Speedier Than ! Left. New York. April 26.?The fin-j gers of your right hand are quicker' and more accurate than those of! your left. The ring finger of your lift handj shows a bu.'si of speed whenever it. can work with the forefinger o.fj your right hand: and ii slows down noticeably when it must team with the middle finger of your left hand. Two fingers working together are faster than one going alone. And a combination of two fingers on opposite hands is faster than two fingers on the same hand. Practice, while it increases the speed of all fingers, tends to in crease the rate of the slow ones more than the fast ones, thus over-j coming the handiop of the ones j that lag" naturally. These facts about the workings of j your hiutds have been conclusively \ demonstrated recently by a series; of tests conducted at the Carnegie; Institute of Technology by Esther; L. Gatewood and described in the; May issue of Popular Science Monthly. In 70,000 individual experiments with adults at the Carnegie Insti tute, in which the speed of finger; reactions to visual stimuli was ac-] curarely measured, the average ro action time was found to be 400 : sigmas. or four tenths of a second, j The scientific tests of finger re- j actions were made possible by de-! velopment of an elaborate electrica! ; apparatus. Russia's Exports and Imports. Moscow, April 1.?Russian ex-j ports for January this year amount ed to $1.250,000. according to re Cent announcement, the goods be- j ing made up chiefly of oil pro-! ducts, tlax, hemp and furs. The shipments went mostly to England, Latvia and Esthonia, a small part being sent to America. The imports of Russia for Jan uary amounted to SS.710 tons, val ued at $11.400.000, this being ex clusive of the food taken into the ; country by the several relief or ^a nizations. The imports show an increase of j nearly six times as compared with i January. 1921. The bulk of the im j ports came from Germany with ! England next, then Latvia, the ! United States and Esthonia in the j order named. '?There will be no unemployed by 1 fall." says a banker. This is great ; news for the college seniors. Clareac^ M ^ Mar winning ?6th annual ^toirlcac Marathon in Bee ton. His record-breaking ?me was 2 hours 18 minutes 10 seconds. ..Ho fc'on the event in 1912. ) Wiretess Vision Will Soon lie as Common as ijciephone. Says Telsa New York. April 26.?"It will soon be possible to, see as well as to hear by means of electricity." This is tlie startling statement of Nikola Telsa.' noted electrical engineer and discoverer, writing on the future of wireless in the May issue of Popular Science Monthly. "Television." Telsa declares, "will be employed as generally as tele phoning. As one listens to a voice at the other end; of the line, he will also see every expression cf the speaker's face, j "It will be possible to see as well as to hear either by the wireless telephone or oveiyrhe. regular wire circuits. There will be no Jimit to the distance of such trai.jmin sio":, so that we shall be able to talk to a person in any part of the j world and watch his face at the I same time. "In a general way the instrument used for televism will closely re semble the mechanism of the hu man eye. "The radio transmission of sound I will also-be developed in the future far beyond, the present system. It will be possible nor only for any l>erson with a station to listen in, but also to transmit at the; same time to every othej; station. I have already accomplished this in my experiments." English Minister JVoald Fine, Non Attendance of Churches. London, April 7.?The alterna tive of going to church on. Sunday or paying a fine is suggested by the Rev. Robert Form an Horton, one of England's most, noted noncon formist ministers, as a means of raising sufficient revenue "to run the country without plunging it into bankruptcy." Such legislation, he declares, would net ?80,000,000 a j year. ... ! * Dr. Horton's suggestion is said to be based on a &w passed in the reign of Edward VI, when anyone absenting himself . from church "without lawful or reasonable ex cuse" was fined orie shilling. The law was repealed, but rerenacted and rigidly enforet?sarf subsequent reigns. j The 50 or more churches in the ; square mile around the Bank of j England contained full congrega tions in those days, bat few per sons enter them on . weekdays now j except American tourists, and the Sunday congregations, Dr. Horton declares, "do not; exceed a baker's dozen."" The Bishop of London has even gone so far as to suggest that some of them- be demolished and the valuable sites sold to pro vide fu*ods with which" churches could be built in other parts of the city. This suggestion brought a de lude of complaints upon the bish Oj>. but si range to say, they were not from persons identified, with church, affairs. Almost without ex ception they came from financiers, who maintained that the sight of these old church *s served a very" good purpose in softening the hearts of "money-mad crowds" who gazed upon them as they har ried by. ! Russian Reds Send Trainload of Presents ta Turks. Constantinople. April 1. ? The Russian red army has just sent a train-load of presents*to .-members of ilie Turkish Nationalist army who participated with the Rus sians in the revolutionary cam paigns in the Caucasus when the governments of seVeral; small state ; there were overt brown by Russian Soviets. The presents consisted of several thousands of small sacks made of red material and containing sugar, chocolate and cigarettes. Each package bore 'ie inscription, "presented by the red soldiers />f red Russia to their valiant friends, the soldiers of Turkey." They were presented by the Bolshevik Minis ter at Angora to hte Turkish Nat ionalist War Minister, Kiazim Pasha. : On reading the news from other ! countries it looks as it' we had all the freedom in the world.